The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-26

Ft1EscaY .....JuNb 20, 1919
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N,,.,v.,xa des,hs occurred In 81. Louis, No.,
last week.
A Az. broke out In Hudson. j.. on Friday.
wsieh drstroy Cd bsldings to the amount Of S2oooo
few drnps Of spirits Of ether VII. when mixed
Win rancid Oh, restore 10 freshness.
The military and Gre composites Of Portland,
Maize, hsvirg refused 70 parade. there TO De no
celebration there 90 the 4th.
Mise Harriet g. Russell has been appointed post..
mistress ct Great Falls, N. H., vice Hon. hicnaro
RUSSELL her father, deceased.
Tue mall for Milford, Ohio, was completely de-
s,royed on Thursday last BY being run over ny .
train Of cars.
AHuo..ri.u named wisenberger, emisra.lng, TO
nionesoss. was robbed OF 5000 few days sinee at
Cincinnati
a, recent land sui, 10 Buffalo. N. Y, senaes
warrior one hundred and one years old a.
Q witness
Aconvension will be held at Saratoga Springs on
the lob ADD 18th OF August next to dt'cuss womans
right Of outrage.
The charter of the Bank of Wilmington, N c,
has been renewed, and the institution will com.
mence operations in . few days.
T. Hayward Thayer, well known In the business
commonly OF Charleston, s. C., died suddenly,
wednesday night.
William St. John Elliott, prominent citizen of
NAtcutZ Mee, oted near fiofcnce, Ala, on I4to
instant, and Major B. McCuly, a well known
citizen of Columbis, S. c., died on the Goth.
Ia the postponed case of the City Hotel, at Hart
ford, Counec,icut Justice WEIGH haaliy decided
that the liquor In hs, tavern was kept for the con-.
venience OF the guests and not for sale.
Captain Thomas R. Mcconnell, native of
Georgia, graduate of the United States Military
School, and distinguished for his gallant conduct
10 the war with Mexico, has accepted q professor
ship In the Georgia Military Institute
There IL an Aloe tree, which blooms once In an
hu dred years, on exhibition at Savannah, Ga. i,
has about one thousand blooms on IT,
The editor Of the Charleston, s. c., Courier
each.
DR.. Munroe the celebrated British physician in
lunatic cases, has himself fallen q victim to the
dreadful malady, and Is dying.
The Nashville (Teuu) Gazette records the fact
that while military funeral procession was going
to the burial ground, the band inadvertently struck
up "Jordan am q hard road to travel"
correspondent of the 81. Louis Republican,
writing from the "Arksnsas Gold Region" states
that he eDtertsins no doubt Of there being insx-
hsustible quantities of gold there. He says that
Jumps have been found on the surface weighing
from one to five dollars.
Bar Iron has been made In Iron county, Utah
Territory, in the puddle furnace direct from the
ore, and of quality good enough to make horse
shoe nails from 1t.
man named Curtis has, for a small wager, un-
dertsken to walk plank 10 st. Louis forty consec-
u.ive hours.
writer In the Lancaster, Pa, Inland Daily
suggests the erection of q monument to Robert
Fulton, the steamboat inventor, 10 the public
square of that city By means of 25 cent subscrip.
ton.
copy of shakespere's plays. the only one
known containing the two leaves which were can
celled 10 As You Like It,, sold for 9163 les at
London suction. An American was the purchaser.
return, published in London, shows that the
number of vessels wreck in the month of May was
90; ia April, 100; March, l49; February, l64 and
10 January, 238-makins a total of 1853 vessels
wrecked during the present year.
Mr. James Sheridan Knowles has written pam
phlet with the object of proving that "the Gospel
attributed TO Matthew" was composed by all the
Apostles together, who employed Matthew a
penman.
CANApA.-The Montreal Herald hints that Hon
Mr.. Hincks 10 to be knighted. Sir McNab to be
created Baronet. The Canadian Regiments to be
raised Immediately. one of them to be- commanded
by Mr.. Rankin, NJ PIP.
NEBRAsKA CITY.-In Nebraska city, there are
already two brick kilus, and immense quantities OF
bricks have been contracted for. A brick house of
large size has been erected there for $3.50.
MAINE LAW Executors SoLp-In Chelsss,
Mass, on Wednesday last two city constables
made a sHzure of bottles supposed to contain sle,
and arrested the owner of the same. After pro.
with their prize they made an examination, and
found the contents to be sweetened water The
prisoners were released and the officers forced to
take the bottles where they got them from.
LUMBER ON THE WAY-Tne Hallowell (Me.)
Gazette says there 10 now descending the Kenne-
bee river greater run of logs than has been seen
thsre before at this season for many years. The
shores for miles and miles are lined with logs.
booms, rats, &c.
IMMENSE REsxRvo1Rs.-In Ohio there are six
nk~l e. a.
main CANALS One of these In Mercer county Ia
celebrated. II contsins II 600 acres nine oussnd
OF which were covered by dense forest. But few
Of these immense reservoirs were cleared of tim
her before being inclosed and filled with water -
No deleterious effects are known to have resulted
qusncs Of the droug : Binenean, IN louis.
iaus, usually ten or r. feet deep, has changed
e .ss ~ The n n a'.S: fine
farmers lay 10 alarge stock of hay from this up
expected source.
EXTRAORDINARY ADVANCE IN REAL EsrArK-
The Newport (R. , Advocate says that real esta,
has never been SO high as during tn q present ses
son. lthas heard Of sale last week. for sl6 OOt
OF q portion OF q piece OF land, Ieavin. $500
worth undisposed of-the whole of which cost tw
years ago, $500.
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION AT sandusky, Ohio
recently, a cotton rag saturated with oil was Isf
on pew OF the Presbyterian church there snl
the next day the rag found ia ashes and ~
pew burning By way of experiment, another rss
saturated with oil was placed there, and In IN 70
hours became too hot to be handled A'e
NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD The car. - =,
road are now running to Mechanics Station De 2
miles west of Raleigh. The whole dis,anca ,o,1
completed from Goldsboro Is 81 IA mile. tn
other end OF the road Is also rapidly progressing.
FUGIrIvEs FROM LABOR The Boston -.
says that Joseph Mexican Churchill. of MiI,os
Macs has been appointed by the Governor ~
Council Commissioner for Norfolk Coun,v s.,
the protection OF persons arrested ~ ,n:,, Iol
last legislature. 30" Vi Inc
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