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The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Whipped. (search)
Whipped. --Nelson, slave of John Rowe, was arraigned at the Mayor's Court, yesterday, for stealing a carpenter's rule from Edwin Cocke, and being proved guilty, was ordered appropriate punishment.
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway.--$15 reward. (search)
A bad Bargain. --Edward Kendrick appeared before the Mayor yesterday to answer a charge of passing an uncurrent bank note of the denomination of ten dollars upon Edwin Cocke and refusing to redeem the same. It appears that Mr. Kendrick had an old note, bearing date 1824, on the Bank of Hamburg, S. C., and Mr. Cocke, not observing the date, purchased it for five dollars. The Mayor told him if he had any claim against Kendrick he must recover it by civil process; he could do nothing for hibad Bargain. --Edward Kendrick appeared before the Mayor yesterday to answer a charge of passing an uncurrent bank note of the denomination of ten dollars upon Edwin Cocke and refusing to redeem the same. It appears that Mr. Kendrick had an old note, bearing date 1824, on the Bank of Hamburg, S. C., and Mr. Cocke, not observing the date, purchased it for five dollars. The Mayor told him if he had any claim against Kendrick he must recover it by civil process; he could do nothing for him.
The Daily Dispatch: June 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], The hospitals. (search)
rad Fearing, a levanting soldier, was arraigned for trespassing on Jas. M. Horner's lot, and was sent to the Provost Marshal in custody as a deserter.--Robert, slave of Mrs. Francis Orfitt, was ordered to be thrashed for being found in possession of a demijohn of spirits, which it was supposed he had become possessed of in a surreptitious manner.--Jasper, slave of W. W. Crump, absent from his master for a year without leave, was returned to his owner.--James Craney, charged. with robbing Edwin Cocke of $25 while the latter was asleep in James Gann's lumber yard, was sent on for a further examination before the Hustings Court. The attempt was quite audacious; but was foiled by the waking of the subject on whom he proposed to operate.--Ro. Stewart and Franklin Quiun, charged with stealing $500 in C. S. Treasury notes, the property of Mrs. Aun Dobson, were also examined and sent on for further trial.--John McAually, charged with stealing a pocket book, worth $5; a pair of silver specta
The Daily Dispatch: April 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], War news. (search)
nded; the latter four killed and twenty-seven wounded.--Quiet prevailed there on Saturday, when Adjutant Thomas Lewis, of the 38th battalion of Virginia artillery left in charge of Gen. Wessell and staff, together with other Yankee officers, captured at that post. The following is a list of the casualties in the Richmond Fayette Artillery, Lt. Wm. J. Clopton commanding, in the attack on Plymouth, on the 19th inst.: Killed.--Privates Gen. A. Benton, Jno Rourke. Wounded.--Privates Edwin Cocke, severely in left wrist; Richard B. Dowden, slightly in left side; Wm. H. Robinson, slightly in abdomen; Wm. A. Allen, right leg shot off; James Barnes, right foot shot off; Thos. Lilias, severely in left cheek; Washington O. Martin, severely shocked by explosion of caisson. Occasional cannonading was heard yesterday morning in the direction of Ely's ford. A cavalry scouting expedition reports that not a Yankee is to be seen above Fredericksburg or around Falmouth. Grant ha