The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-08-14
Odds and Ends.

Mr.. John Moore, a revolutionary soldier,
aged one hundred and one years, died in Mem
phis, Tenn, on the Both ult.
MIR. Flemming, it is said, was recently mar
ried to Miss Chippendale, daughter of Mr..
Chippendale, the actor.
The steamboat Timour, was sunk few
DAYS ago on the Missouri river--loss $4,000:
insurance $4,000.
Phillips fire annihlator extinguished fire
on board barque Pollux, at London from
Buenos Ayres, with cargo of bones and ami
NAL guano.
Henry Shurds, for many years Cashier of
the Bank of Missouri, died at Carondelt, near
st. Louis, on Sunday last.
Archbishop Hughes and Reverend Bishop
Timon left New York, in the steamship Alba
tross, on Monday afternoon, for Halifax.
Jos. WalIinford, aged so years, was thrown
from his horse on Monday last, near Mt. Gilead,
Ky, and killed.
Assumed qualities may catch the fancy of
some, but we must possess those that are good,
to fix the heart.
PROGRESS OF THE AGE.-A company of
american Ethiopian Serenaders," are giving
concerts at Calcutta, India.
Miss Harriet E. Hale, aged about twenty
FIVE years, committed suicide by taking lauda-
mum, at Winslow, Me-, on the Sd inst.
KNorTY PoINT.-Say Jack, can you tell US
whut's the bes, thing TO hold two pieces of
rope together7 81 guess knst."
An lrishman, named Matthew Corcoran,
died OF s,rangulation on Saturday, at Newark
N. Jersey, from piece of meat which be-
came fastened in his throat while eating din
ner.
The ulaa with hair so deeply red that i,
speaks seventeen different languages, and has
reduced Watts Hymns 10 Greek hexameters,
has lately dyed-his crimson locks black.
The Washington physicians say, that vege.
| tables grown during drought, are unhealthy,
often producing cholera m0rbus.
"Come in, Pat, you shall have justice done
you" 'Och it's ust what Pm ateard OF. yer
HONOR said Pat.
Peter Salt, resident of Warren county.
Ohio, was ridden ON Il raj! recently, by his
neighbors, for shamelully abusing his wife,
Right.
On the Dist ult :, as Mrs. Atheliah Smith, wife
of MIR. Moses Smith, Of Hudson, N. H., was
preparing dinner, her clothing caught FIRE and
she was so trightfully burned that she lived
only few hours after.
The lady who had so narrow an escape late.
ly, at Niagara Falls, having boldly ventured
TO the large slab which divides the American
sheet OF water, was no other than the charm
ing and spirited actress, Miss Annie Ions
dale.
Miss Mary Duff, an actress of fine talents,
and extensively known in the principal cities
OF the Union, died at Memphis, Tennessee, ON
the LIST instant. She was in fact the widow of
A. A. Adams, the tragedian, who died some
time ago.
Two fellows, who are ambitious of a name
in the fighting world, have made match for
$50 side, in pugilistic trial for superiority.
They belong to Lowell, where the fight will
come off during the ensuing week
A boy and girl, aged respectively thirteen
and fourteen, were married last week, by one
Of the Justices of The Peace, of Cincinnati.-
The bride and bridegroom were natives Of the
sunny South and bore the appearance of at
least four additional summers.
You measure me by the rod, said a school
boy TO his master. Yes and by the fool too
was the reply, accompanied by a movement
that raised the boy at least an inch.
Sarah A. Griswold, aged 81 years. drowned
herself IN the Connecticut river al Wea,hers.
held, leaving this couplet:
"Don'l give yourselves any concern;
I'm gone never TO return"