The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-08-24
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PAVING HoSoR oS BOTH SiDEs.--Nr u. VI. Kin
month carried ON business in the village OF Dun-
ming bat beeg unfortunate, he made compromise
With his creditors some ten or twelve years ago anu
emigFated to America He was more fortunate IN
his siaptea country; business prospered in his
hands and the arst drsft he made upon his in
creasing store was payment In full, with interest,"
of the balance due, in morals though not IN law,
transaction at the time, about two years ago, aud
we have now 10 add to 1t fitting sequel. Mr. h'n-
mouth Is at present on visit to his native country
for the benefit of his health: and on saturday last
he met his creditors by invitation in the kirkstyie
Inn Cumming 20 dine with them, and receive from
them handsome gold watch aud APPENDICES, IN
Acknowledgement Of his honorable conduct
Ifsvthshire Soland Advertiser, July rs.
THg Ono FALcITIoS--B REsLIS IN CAsADA.-Bres
ln the ohio Treasury piunderer, it seems il lay
ing Off at London Canada. The Detroit Tribune
OF the 18th says:
Gentleman from this city who Was in London.
Canada, on Friday last, saw Bresln the fugitive
tietsuter at that place. lie has his wife with HIM
and they are boarding at Robinson's Hall On the
dav our informant saw him, he participated IN the
usnAI ntcnic afthe Londoners to Port Stanley. lie
seems 10 enjoy himself very much, although sn'-
picious Of persons who make inquiry ioI hlii' ~
onr Informant has causc TO know me iauu'Ii'
Gaze and fay0rs his privacy. Aot"IthSt"I'uihE iIs
immense defaication. he is reported to be seah' Ia
funds.
n~4ypvrvrn SUp1nE.--In Pittsfeld, Mass, on
"wednesday evening" three citizens OF that town
discovered while passing over the W estcIn Kali
roa3 bridge the body Of a stranger hanging from
a. raiI;pr AT the end Of cord about ten feet IN
rsnrth Ihe rope was cut Immediately and the
man dropped some fifteen feet to the railroad track
lie was picked up nsensible hut restoratyes being
applird he recovered sufficiently TO leave for nome
" il singular that neither drop of some ten feet
from the top of the bridge broke his neck, hor Il
fall If fifteen feet TO the track seriously injured
him.
EXTRAORDINARY METEOROLOGICAL. PHESomEyoN.--
A letter from Criklewood, England, OF July w,
states that block Of clear crystalline ice, weighing
nearly twenty-five pounds, was discovered on mon
day in a meadow belonging to a MIR. Warner, M
that neIghooThool ON the day prior storm
passed over tile spot Mezeray, in his History OF
france mentions IA block of the weight Of a hua-
dred pounds that fell durnga thunder storm IN the
year 1910.
TgspssATrRr OF THE Earthly experiments
made during the last year by Professor Smyth. at
Edinburgh. with series of earth-thermOmeters,
irnbedded in the earth at varying depths, 1t was
proved that there was a gradually increasing heat
Of one degree Fahrenheit. for every forty feet ui
depth; so that at Less than two and half miles
would be at boiling heat and at less than one
nuO0red nilIeS ueptIiAh "ouiu NC ast'h' VI
fusion.
SICKNESS IN MlssIssPPI.-The Koseiusko Miss
Chronicle ofthe 18th instant states that an alarming
rnalady partakiug of the most malignant character
of dysenery is prevailing in the southern part OF
Choctaw county, and prov ing very fatal. One gen
tleman buried four of his children in five days; ano
Their buried his wife aud one child IN TWO days
and number of families have lost from one to two
and three members within the last few weeks At
last accounts. the disease was as Nruient as ever
Co. WITH . WOODEN LEG-Tast week Mr.. Rob-;
Wright. farmer. of Burton Lazarus. near Melton
Mowbray had a cow which broke its leg. and which
thew attempted 10 set themselves: but finding they
could not succeed, they sent for Mr. Reynolds. W
terinary surgeon. of Melton Nowbray, who found
II in so bad a strte rs to render amputaton neces
sary. and he has affixed one of timber in its place
which is likely to answer every purpose. III IL tts
tened around the knee joint lay means Of leather
straps, and the beast can Use it.-A~tRgtam Jo';'-
nal.
ARMY MovENENrr-A letter to the Republican,
dated Fort Kearney, eth inst says the 9Th aud loth
regiments Of infantry, and Captain Phelps battery.
had arrived there. Captain Van Welt had gone in
advance on important business. The troops werr
much dissatisfied and the 9Th and 10th regiments
had lost nearly 800 men by desertion
THE P4crFIc WAGON Ro,p-The Interior Depart
ment have alvires from superintendent Magraw,
tof the Fort kearney. South Pass and Honey Lake
road ut Fort Kearncy on the 3lst nit. The party
reached there the previous day travelling on the
trail If Captain AleXandrr's command. on their
to Utah They to leave there the Sd inst
The health of the expedition had been good, with
slight exceptions.-.Ndr.
CHINESE SUGAR CAxE.--The Prairie Beacon saws
Mr.. Baker. of Rochester Mills, H. is trying the
experiment with the new sugar cane on the largest
scale that we have vet heard of He has now -
acres growing On his farm. lie informed us the
other day thas it promised fine crop. lie is build
ing larre mill and procuring large cast-iruu
tanks. to be used in the manufacture Of tn, sap
into moassestlnl sugar. Mr.. Il. quite succts-
fGl in his experiments with the cane last year.
STEAMBOAT STRUcK By LIGuTNyG.-OnNIonday AZ
tcrnoon last. during sudden storm ut Louisville
the steamer ". 4. Eayes struck by lghtuuE
The electric fluid struck the hurricane deck. Just
over the centre of the ladies' cabin SCATTERING a
chandelier into Il thousand fragments, upsetting
four ladies who were in the cabin, knocking the
chairs and tables about and making every soul on
board think that the boat had exploded her boilers.
The lightning was so vivid that the passengers
were blinded for some time, many of them II Ink
ing the boat was enyeloped in a mist.
MIssIssIPPl-The American State central conf
mittee have offered the nomination for Governor
to Hon. Samuel Benton Of Holly Springs, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the declen,ion Of the lIou.
James l.. AlCorn.
Worcestershire American party ofthe fifth dis
trict Of Maryland met in convention of Cumbcr-
land on Thursday, aud nominated the Hon. Hen
ny ". Hoffman for reelectan to Congress
SUICIDE OF 4 FENiLE.-On Tuesday night girl
named Jua SanderSOn nine teen or twenty years of
committed suicide by drowning hersclfn in the Al
legheny river at Pttsburg. 1t is said she had been
se'iuced, and the act was caused by remorse and
grief
VISIT TO TIE UNITED STArEs.-Rev. Frederick Mo-
mol, Of the French Evangelical Church at Paris
editor of the Protestant paper called Archives of
tnTlStluitV in the Nineteenth Irufury will y.
the United States the coming autumn with the
View of spending the winter.
MURDER IN ST. LOUISA young man by the name
OF John Fitzgerald about eighteen years of age
aud member of the st. Louis Tiger Hose Gonna
nv, was killed on Saturday night, 18th inst by a
man named William Kelly, at the Carr Place tb,
instrument with which the deed was committed be-
Ing bowic,knife of rather large dimensions
ELI fHiYER.-rhe Providence f. H. Journal is in
formed that Eli Thayer has bought of the CorIiss
steam Engine Company, seven stean-engiues eouol
to OH horsepower to be used for driving saw and
gfist mills purchased by him and others in West
"rn Virginia.
PosfAL-ln answer Il letter. the general post
ONCE has decided that the sellers price-rnarl on
the fyltaf OF book sent by mail subjects the
whole II letter postage.
REVIVAL or RgtIaov.-An interesting reyival Of
rehsioh mas just been concluded at Jone7borough
church, Brunswick, Va. where the BAPTIST A..
sociatioh has been i'll progress for some ten days
There were about seventy-Iye converts.
SHARP PRAcTICE-The city authorities of Keokuk
Iowa, are searching the hotel registers and when
they find stranger has passed thirty DAYS thers
they charge him two dollars for street improv,
ments.
Lord Napier has accepted an invitation TO be
present at the L. :. Agricultural Socictys fair at
Louisville, September LIST
Mrs. swisshclm, formerly editor of the pittsbur.,
Saturday Nlslt0r, Is now residing at st Ninnd III.