The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-06-19
Letter RIP.

sick naval officer, when at home, is not entitled
to duty pay.
Dumas has begun his novel of the Mobicans .
Paris, in the Mosquetaire. 's
Counterfeit $40 bills on the State Bank of Ohio
are in circulation in the South. 90. o.. ~ -"
The direct taxes in Austria are about to be rails
ed 25 per cent -. .-..... .
A good natured husband, dozen children and
happy home, are womans rights
Opal, topaz, and garnet stones have been found
in Burke county, S. G. 5i
Mrs Robert Kirkland died very suddenly, in Bal
timore, on Tuesday.
The Exchange Hotel at Louisville, KY. sustain
ed 81 900 damage by fire Sunday.
A company of young men for Nebraska is form,
ing at Westminster Nd
The Artesian WE'LL now being dug at Henderson.
Ky, has reached the depth of seven hundred and
fifty feet.
"A Commercial Company called the "Japan Trad
ing Company, is talked of in New York civ; cap.
ital one million of dollars.
Another barrier to the liberty of commerce has
just been thrown by new Danish law, making
trade with Iceland free to all nations. e
Mr. lsham Williams, of Madison county Ga, was
stung by wasp and died in ten minutes after Our
first record of death from such cause.
The wife of Theodore Post, residing at Slauter.
dam, Bergencounty, N. Y, committed suicide on
Thursday
young fellow was sent to to the chain gang, in
Wheeling Tuesday, for bathing in the river
within the city limits in day light.
The cable for the Mediterranean electric tele-
graph has Just been completed 10 England II is
ITO miles in length and weighs about 300 tors
Atthe commencement Of the American Revolu.
ton the field artillery of this country consisted OF
four pieces, two OF which belonged to Massachu-
sets.
NOT IN "JoE MILLER."-An honest Dutchnan,
on being asked how often he shaved, replied, Dree
dimes aweek effery tay put Soontay-ten shalt
efery tay." -a
Rev. DIR. Dahill, noted Catholic prelste in Ire
land is to visit the United States in October hav
ing been rendered, it is said free passage by the
owners of several packet ships.
PRArsEwoRTHY ExERTIoNs.-The ladies in Lyons,
Iowa, by needlework and assidous labor, have
earned money enough to buy a bell for the school
house in that iourishing town and they now pro-
pose earning school library.
Matt Wards laundress, a young negro girl OF
nineteen years, passed through Detroit on the un-
derground railroad, on the 9th, and was landed
in Canada.
p1yNcu,s DEsIsrrIos OF HEALTIL-An indis
pensable requisite for business as well as anuse.
ment which young men spend the greater part OF
their money in damaging, and the old men the
greater part of their wealth 10 repairing.
The Established Church of England has, within
the last twenty years. WitnOut thc HestseaaC0 Va
the State built two Thousand churches, at q cost OF
e5, 500 900 or s27,000,00O. - e
On Saturdsy evening last, at Pomfret, Conn, Mr..
Grennell, brother OF Moses and Heney Grenneii,
committed suicide by hanging himselfin a barn.--
tits difficult to account for the act lie was man
very much respected. rzas s
A GRAND cRAsH-At noon, on Wednesday, two
old three. story houses in Second street, Phiiade
pbja. felI by which workman was badly injured.
The fall was caused by undermining the lower
stories. a# fa
MARI r. wARD-This notorious individual, find
ing the rest OF the world too hot tor him, has gone
TO the Hot Springs 'of Arkansas to cool himself
The only steamer he could find 10 carry him down
the river, was the "R. J. Ward called after and
in part owned by his father. His health Is said 10
be very bad, and we do not wonder At it,
Max Maretzek has engaged to sing 10 opera in
New York during the approaching season the fol
lowing vacalists: Gaetanini Brambilla, prima doh
ma assoluta: d'ornay. contralso; Gslvani, tenor
Graziani, baritone, Msrini, bass and many others
to arrive by the next steamer. Esas 8 .
A MAGSIFIcEsr SrEAaxx, named the City o
Philadelphia. has been launched 1t Glasgow. 6h,
measures about 900 tons y built Of iron, asd
intended to replace the Chy Of Glaseow. She vii
| sail from Liverpool for tbia country on the god
July. - ~ sa8 ~ - sssg. - :.