The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-06-01

TIE DsupHrS OF FRANcs.-A Marvellous story- :
The following statement appeared IN the Londos
Herald, Of May 18th:
| There are stranger things than fiction, even Ia
! nodern times, but people will hardly be prepared
for the startling announcement which was -
serted at q corouer's inquiry held yesterday, 30.
fore Mr.. Wakley, Coroner for West Middlesex, that
the Dauphin of France, the unfortunate son ol
Louis XVI. did DOT, history states, die con the
9th june 1895. 10 the prison ofths Temple, after
miserable conf of three years." but that he
expired In London street cab bat few days since,
and that the deceased upon whom the ipqnest
was being held was no other than that Dauphin.
Louis XvII., of France. Such was the marvellous
story made public yesterday at an inquest held At
the Lord Wellington, University streeAupou per.
son whc,under the name of Augustus Menes has for
some years pas. resided with bis family at IS Uni-
versity street, Totteeham court road, where he
bllowed the avocation Of professor of music. II
appeared that the deceased, who was in bis sevens
ty-nfth year, was suddenly taken Ill when near
nj. own residence, and as medical assistance could
not De Immediately procured, be was conveyed.
Without delay. 10 cab to the Uaiversity College
Hospital close BY, but he dead before arriving
at enat institution, the cause of the death being,
as the post mortem examination distiuctiy proved.
disease OF the heart. Ths jury returned a verdict
accordingly, and 80 far the judicial part of the
proceedings terminated; bus upon figuring
Iur,ner into tho peculiar statements that had bean
made oy the deceaseds family, and the rumors
that have got about in the peigbborhoad, causing
no little excitement, it seems that the deeeaseds
conversation for the last thirty years, when he
hrst made bis family acquainted with .he strange
story has been 10 the effect that he was the Dau-
pbin who Was supposed to have died In the tep,.
Pile, and while tina deceased bore stro ug likeness
in the face to the B,urbon family of France, his
family further asserts that he had cert ain marks
on bis person which the hapiess infant King had
He had always himself desired to keep the matter
secret from the world, but bis family have now
expressed their determination to publish the
whole facts connected with his marvellous
history.
SUICIDES On Friday afternoon john A. Kal.
lock, tailor, of PottsvIs, Pa. sadden ny left the
table on which he was working ana went up stairs,
remsrking to his y ife that be going to load
hi, pistol. Soon after she heard a report, and
goiug up stairs. found her husband dead, with
bis skull badly rhattered and weltering In blood
de was about 80 years of age. and had been for
some time in poor health. man named Nef
committed suicide in Philadelphia on Sunday,
while 1aboring under mentsl alteration
He was single mac, 80 years of age, ba,
ker by occupation. His father found tho corpse
banging by the neck te the back kitchen raf.ers
Fhen he arose In the morning.
FROM VENEzUELA.-Advices from Maracaipo, We.
ntzuela, to May Sth, state that everything was
quiet there. On the 23d April the castle of Ssn