The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-07-18

| quarter end ing June Both, were 174 155 barrels
The mayor of PainesviIe, Ohio was whipped BY
aparty of rowdies on the evening of the 4th inst.
"Aone" Is the name of a pos.cfice established II
Rockbridge county, J. H. Kirkpatrick, postmaster
| Potatoes are selling in Indianapolis at 81 pei
| bushel.
Eight hundred ladies In Texas are connected
with the Social Degree of the Temple of Honor, q
| stringent temperance organization.
Ex-Governor Foota, formerly of Mississippi has
joned the American party, 1t ia said. in California
Bargamo, the birth place of Donize eti has ere CT
| ed monument to that composer.
Mr.. G v Brooke was, at last accounts, perform.
Ing in Melbourne, Australia.
The health of Havana by the last arrival, con,in
ued good, although the yellow fever was proving
| fatal at many paris OF the island.
NRwsPAPER POSTAGE IN CAsADA-The entl
abolition of newspaper postage took effect In Can
ada the Sd inst.
The Bloomington dn) Flag says ehat Captain
Scott has 900 acres of corn under cuiivation OF
| his farm at Peoria Junction.
| Madame Ruthkai Kossub, sister OF the Hunga
ran exile IL at Saratoga, and offers for sale choice
| laces.
Stocking, who was charged with arson robbery
and murder, has been tried 10 Lafayette, Ind aud
found guilty of murder 10 the first degree.
MAKING DISTINCTION. the celebration o
the F Fourth 10 Huntsville, Ala. one gun was fired
GRAPE RoT.-Some of the Cincinnati vineya ard
affected with the diIease called the rot. Why
not try the new remedy discovered In Germany ,oi
dipping the branches In a solution of gea,ine.
The RosE.-Prof. Agassis remarks, that no fos-
sis OF the rose have ever yet been discovered by
geoogiss. He tn inks the creation of the plant was
coevsl with that of man.
Mr.. Sims Reeves, the eminent English tenor 10
playing Henry Bertram TO Miss Cushman's Meg
Merrilies In Guy Mann eting," at the Heymark ke,
Theatre, London. At the same theatre, Miss Eau.
cit is creating sensation as R0salind
Bedini, last month, presented to the Pope Mrs.
F., II. Pepdletop. of Waships ston, and Mrs M l..
arr. the daughter of the lamented Senator Linn,
OF Missouri.
Charles A. Spencer aud Professor A. K Eaton,
of Canastota, New York, are now engaged in man
uiacturing the rst Equatorial Telescope ever made
IN this country.
The corner stone of a new Homeopathic College
was laid in Cleveland, Ohio. last Thursday A
department tor female students is to be attached to
the institution.
FRUITFUL.-The Troy Times Is informed by one
of the Census Marshalls, that during his perigrin
arions he discovereds married lady, aged 81 yesrs
who had toue children, the eldest OF whom boast
ad six summers. "Make hay while the shinesr'
What brilliant example 10 the rising genera ion!
Wool A fleece weighing % l-2 pounds, was
recently sheared from marioo sheep at wbury,
Ohio. Another from the same flock, yielded q
fleece weighing 18 pounds.
THE Big TYPE One of the singers failed TO ap.
pear at the late opera In New York and the paper
announce that 1t was because he was "indisposed'
on account of the small type In which his name ap
peared In the programme.
REJOICING There 10 great rejoicing at St Lou.
10 on the occasion of the opening of the Ohio and
Mississippi railway, by which means st. Louis 10
connected with the cities of the East by direct
line OF railway The ST Louis lntelligencer, of the
ON, contains nearly page 10 relation 10 the open
Ing ceremonies of the road.
TExAs DEBT AT the next eubernatorial cleo
Ilon 10 Iexas, the question OF accepting the act OF
Congress on the Texas Debt Bile will be before
the people, who are TO write their tickets for"
or sgain" the acceptance OF the ac..
BRIsroL BILL.-Great exertiors are making to
pet pardon Tor Bristol Bill, now Ia bonds In the
vermont State Prison, the venerable Wiiiiam-h
Is over sixty years-having adopted the "pious
onnse, pretending 10 have experienced a change
OF heart 10 order that he may experience change
of place.
CHsLERA IN EGYpr.- Benz. F. Angel. Esq, our
late Consul 10 Honolulu In letter to the Roches
Ter Daily Union, dated Cairo, Egypt, May 26lb.
sys tneIe were, at the date of his ieter about leo
oes'hs dsy OF cholera In Cairo; and shout doz-
On oy ths plague. The cholera raging mora
isariuhy than at any Time since 1850.
fosr OFFICE DKPARrMERr-By a regulation o.
tue r"st Once Department, all unpaid nepspopers,
pamphlets. and other printed matter, mailed IN any
iore,gn country, and received at any post efce 10
.ne oorfd States. which msy be refused. or eau
not os oeiivered ss addressed, must be ned
ene Impairment a. dead matter In the same man
TOT sho under the same general regulations - aps
piy 70 the return of dead let ers, and should be
addressed to the Third Assistant Postrpsster Ge
eral.