The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-02-04

Burton, the actor, is in Havana, for the benefit
of his daughters health.
A swimming academy is to be erected at phi!a-
deiFhia.
Gas is about to be introduced in the city Of Gal
weston, Texas.
Rev. Dir. Ahiel Abbott, of B,sson, died OH the
18th inst.
Matthew Craig, q young man from Cincinnati
committed suicide in Louisville, last Frisay.
VIM. Spears, of Wheeling, Va. was gsrrottea
aud robbed Of 800 in Cincinnati on Friday nigh t
last
ry, write the correspondents, who mention good
sleighing and much intoxcation there.
The carriage factory of Cox, Cover, Markley &
Co. at Greenvie, s. c.. was burnt ON Friday
night last. Loss $4,000
A grandson of VIM. Penn, has just expired at a
very advanced age, in the hospital Of the bene.o.
lens Colston. at Bristol, England.
Mr. Adolphus Ackernlau, we'll known print
publisher in the Strand London, has committed
suicide.
Charles Cook who killed courtezan named Kate
Burean, in Cincinnat, has been convicted of murs
der in the second degree.
A boy preacher, Williams, aged i years, son
of a railroad porter, is creating sensation In
Wales.
De sauty, that incarnation of the mythical
| submarine telegraph cable, has gone homo to
England to recuperate.
Regis Giguoux has painted magnificent view os
Niagara by moonlight for the private gallery of
Mr. Belmont. of New York. 1t is from tse Amer
ican side.
Hon. W. C. Preston is at present in Abingdon,
Va. friend OF his writes tina. he intends goiE 4
back to Columbia, 5. c., ere long: that his aged
| heart yesrns fer the scenes OF yore.
The steamer Europa, from, New York Wedness
| day for Liverpool, took ont s. passengers and
| sj72, ,463 in specie.
| little one, after undergoing the disagreeabie
| operation of vaccination, exclaimed snow
won't have to be baptised, will -
| Rev. Mr.. Sturgeon having now got his kindueys
in fine condition, has lately discoursed ia Exeter
| Hall, London, on crinoline.
The accident which deprived Prescott, the his
terian, OF his eye'sight, was oceasioaed by blow
from crus; Of bread. thrown at him Gin fun" BY
fellow student at college.
A Biographical Study on the Life aud Works of
| Daniel Webster, the American orator, has been
published in Russia, by Prof. ka,ohenoysky, of
the University of Khardoff.
The christening of the twenty-sixth child of a
happy couple named Wonters, at Lierre, in Bel
GUM. is celebrated 10 the foreign papers Twenty.
two of the children still survive.
At Dubuque, Iowa, lately an old lady kicked 8
boy at whom she became angry, with such force
that shs ruptured blood vessel, and died in a
short time.
STEAMBOAT SoLD.-The steamboat Old Dominion,
el hicuuioous uae pctu puECuhsed uy Messfs. beus
sen Buck, of Baltimore, and will be carried
there in the course OF q few days. She is tow
boat OF the largest class.
A noted character, called the "Fakir of Siva,'
has en- tered the ministry, and gets salary Of 900
year in Iowa, having bestowed on himself the
degree of Doctor of Divinity.
OPPOSITION CALIFORNIA LINE sE-yanderbiit has iu-
stituted an opposition to California, aud adyerts-
es the steamer Northern Light to sail on the 10Th
of March to Aspinwali, connecting ON the Pacific
side with the steamer Uncle Sam.
PAY OF PARLIaMENr.-The Westminster Review
10 in favor of paying Members of Parliament Esot
or fleoo year. They now get nothing, although
there is law which allows them TO exact pay
from their constituents.
THE PARAGUAY EXPEDITION. IT, s. wa,
steamers Westernport, Com. Hunter; Atlanta
Com. Ridgely, and Memphis, Com. Marchaud
completed their eoaling and sailed from Barba
does on the eth December for Paraguay via Per
nambueo.
QUITE THiS.--There is man In Missssippi u
lean that be makes no shadow at All. A rattle
| snake struck at him sixteen times la vain, Ant
thsn retired ia disgsst. He makes all hungry
who lock at him, and whom the children. mse
him in the street they run home crying for bread