The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-12-27

AAe weatN@s yesecxuay, Was eoois eiear and fro
~. and the wind as keen as sasbefs faxor4-ce,
tainiy grand Improvement on the previous day
Faed--P Smith WAS fined by the Msyor is,r :
olating city ordnance last Saturday nieht. -
Dickens received over $4,000 for RIeak Hou..
Mr.. Neafe has gone to perform ct New Orleans
Mayor Barbee, Of Louisville, KY, has reslEne
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Thecoal exported from Great Britain last .vea
amounted to 467, 799 tons. fs.s ,.ssas iesrs.g.
julia Dean Hsyne is playing in Nashville, Ten
| The theatres Of New York were decorated win
everercens on Christmas night as111 s.
Among the numerous costly Christmas present;
made IN Philadelphia, was ono Of $500 bibls. sFp
| The novel Of Jane Eyre has been dramatfzed
and produced at Brussels. -~
Ground was broke for the Capitsi Of Kansss "A
LecomPton, on the 24sh ult Il l. to cost $50 GO.
Col John Sommsich, q hungarian exile. fIiod A.
Jacksonville Florida, on the eth inst si'f4s
The legislature Of Florida adjourned sine die
| below zero at Chicago :
The Columbia crexas) Demoerat hoists the name
Of Franklin Pierce for next President
Miss Annette Ince and the two sisters of El;x.
| Logan are playing together at Memphis, Tenn. :
Hon stephen A. Douglas left Terra Haute. Ind.
iof Nasnin&ton, on tne 10th inst. E-..s e-s -
Leonora daughter of the Hon Mike Walsh,
| died suddenly in New York, Sunday. y
The shock of an earthquake was felt At French
Mountain, N. Y, on the 18th inst = p 715 q
| P.F De Grand, one Of the oldest brokers in
Boston, died Sunday night = :.
$4,000. -'-- ----o- ''''''' e''s'
Clarence A. Seward, son Of the Senator. made
neat speech at the Plymouth dinner table. -
Victor Hugo is shortly expected at Madrid, and
house there has already been taken for him
In Boston, fifteen out of the last sixteen consecu.
tive Sundays have been rainy and disagreeable.
| There are fifty-fve male and forty female pa
tients in the Hopkinsville, Ky, Lunatic Asylum.
| Burlington, Iowa. was to have been lighted with
gas on Christmas eve for the first time o5 -
There was snow at Knoxville, Greenville and
Spartansburg s. c., on Wednesday. y
Six vessels were cleared recently from Belfast,
Ireland, with potatoes for England and Wales. :
The steamboat trade at Cincinnati has constantly
decreased since the year 1852 In 1853 the number
of arrivals was ,113 in le55, 2,5s5.
The aggregate assessed valuation of property in
New Orleans this year is $a46s6o less than in the
year 1854.
The explosion of locomotive at Camak, Ga, on
the llth, was distinctly heard distance of twenty
Hon. Hiram Bell, formerly member Of Congress
| from Ohio, died on the 2ist in Drake county Of
that State. s:afsN4 1 5i,e ,sEs =
Col Lehmanowski, an old soldier of the Napo.
leon wars, is ecturing in New Albany, Ind, before
the Mokuna Society. sz.llv-sti ',ss.s ~
lamation, requesting that the Sd day of January
next he ohssrved as . day Of hankssiving .
~ Van Patten, music teacher. committed sui
eide in Warrington, on Monday morning BY blew
ing his brains out.
A man down east snores so loud that he has "a
1 SIeeD In the next street n vvak
Edward Fitzpatrick, of Poughkeepsis, n Y, on
1 Wednesday, died of lockjaw, occasioned by the
| extraction of tooth. II
The Covinston Kyl Journal says that Thos N
Arnold, member of the bar at that place. il about
becoming Christian minister.
The anniversary of the Landing Of the Pil
grims was celebrated by the New England Soce-
ty, of Charleston, s. c. on Saturday. q
! The Deserct News says that beautifully white,
fine and silky cotton has been raised at Santa Cla-
ra, in Utah, which Yirginian says is as good as
| A few days ago a man was convicted Of murder
In the first degree at Louisville Ky, being the first
| white man who has been convicted Of capital of.
fence in that city for twenty years. Z.
s. NJ. Booth, abolition editor of the Wisconsin
Free Democrat, has assigned over his property,
but says he shall pay al his debts except the fines
imposed upon him for aiding in running off slaves
| Dr. IVES late Episcopal bishop Of North Caro-
| lima, and now . member of the Roman Catholic
church, is to deliver series of lectures in Pha-
delphia next week.
R. G. Watson, one Of the oldest and most substan.
tial citizens of New Madrid county, Missouri was
murdered by bis son and three other men on the
night of the 10Th inst. ra 5la
i Gen. Shields, in response to an invitation from
the Shields Guard of Chicago to be present at their
| annual bail, writing from Fairbault Rice county,
Minnesota states that il is impossible for him to
/ sttap Hvyh0 iue md bein0 oypp ov.