The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-05-31
RICHM0ED, VA.

Richmond combined.
RICHM0 0ED, VA.
THURSDAY MORNING. 81 1e55
LUCRATIVE SIrUATroN-A. S Mansfield. the
agent In Massachusetts, who under the prohibitory
liquor law will purchase and sell liquor 10 the va
fious town agents, who compelled to buy of
him, Will receive a salary of $4,000, or $4,000
per annum more than the salary of the President
OF the United States. The salary is FIVE per cent
on sales
FALL IN FLoUR-Flour has declined in New Or
leans In the past two weeks one dollar and a halfto
too dollars barrel and the indications are that it
will go down still further
TURNING TuE TABLES The Congregation of ST
Louis Church, ia Buffalo, New York, from whom
the sentence Of recommendation was recently re-
moved by Bishop Timon, have refused to accept
the Priest who the Bahop appointed to offciate for
them.
LcGLEslAsTIcAL.-Tbe Rev, G. 3. JGwett late
Professor in AmherL. College, was ordained pss-
tor 0i tue First Cons regational Church. Nashua,
n. H., Thursday afternoon.
siave named Jscinta, belonging 10 one Of tho
hTit families in Caba, died there receatly, q. the
extraordinary age of ia years
Inc tooth OF al animal, weighing three pounds
seven ouaces, was dug up recently In ST. LoQls ,fi-
teen teet oelo" the surface of the earth.
Hon l.. NJ. heItt has made speech at Orange
burg, ;. C., advocating the declaration of ildea
pendenco by Cuba, and her reception Into the
Unlon.
Many Ct the rivers in South Carolina are lie
coming salty great distance up, In consequence OF
the drought, which is fatal to The rice crop
Queen Victoria's birth day was celebrated o.
the English residents of Mobile by splendid
dinner, On Thursday last
The saw mill, with great quantity of lumber.
belonging to Colonel w. A. Carson, on Coope.
river, S. Co. was destroyed by fire on Monday.
"
F. V. Mason, of Virginia. is among the Ameli.
cans at present in Paris.
MeE5Is. McIlhenny and De Rossett, injured few
days Since at Wilmington, N c., by falling from
buggy, have entirely recovered.
The editor OF the Augusta (Ga) Chronicle &
Sentinel, denies from experience, the assertion
that vaccine virus, after passing through the syss
tenn OF negro, is valueess for the white man.
REVOLUTIONARY BELIC.-Messrs Spear, Weston
d Co., of Baltimore, have in their possession the
scale beam used by Lord Cornwallis in his com.
missery department, when encamped at Camden
New Jersey
frNEyYNrT y %
E. King has Issued circular to the members of
the Black River Methodist conference, which
strongly condems the of tobacco by ministers
lie states the fact that at conferences members of
congregations dislike to have ministers addicted
10 that habit in their houses, and says:
90, brethren, Is it true that miniaers protesting
to be examples OF purity and holiness. will in
dulge IN habit so filthy to render 1t necessary to
remove them from christian families ~
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF MURDERER Parks,
he murderer, who Is to be executed at Cleveland,
Ohio, next week, attempted suicide Saturday nigh.
by taking poison. Proper antidotes relieved him
and close watch was kept upon his movements
afterwards.
Samuel M. Beckwith was killed at Utica. New
York, Monday afternoon, by the falling of bell
which he was raising on the Congregational meet
ing house.
Isaac Breckenridge has been arrested In st
Louis, Mo, for entciDg slayes from their owners.
Rev. Mr.. Stowe, Of the Seamen's Church, Bos-
ton, was robbed of Sl75 at hotel in ST. Louis last
week.
FUN IN GEoRGIA-The SandersvilIe Georgian,
speaking of the difficulty there in which one of the
parties got ball in his head and died in FIVE mi
nutes, calls it an unpleasant affay." 1t must have
been TO the gentleman ith the ball in his head.
SCARCITY CT WArER.-The scarcity of water IS
so distressing in New Orleans that desperate fight
occurred there last week between about thirty per-
sons, half of them women, for precedence at a by.
drant which was running.
DISTRESS IN RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALA-The
Advertiser and Gazette, of the 22d instant, con-
tains letter from citizens of Randolph county to
Gov. Winston, of Alabama, which with simple pa.
thOs sets forth that many of their neighbors are
actually starring.
FAITHFUL TO HER PRoMIsE.-A Paris letter no.
tic most singular marriage IN that city recently
Zouave, who lost both fset and hs nds in the seige
OF Sebastopol, with young lady OF some property
The parties had been engaged before the Zouave
left for Sebastopol, and when he returned thus
mutilated, the faithful maiden still
true TO her promise The Emperor and Empress
wers represented at the ceremony, at which time
the Zouave was decorated with the Legion of Hn-
nor and a valuable present made to the bride
THE GEORGE LAW left behind at Aspinwall over
O ne hundred persons, who refused 10 go on board,
owing to the overcrowded state of the vessel, and
these intended to take other OF transport 10
New York via New Orleans or Havana.