The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-04-04

the Charleston COnyent ntiOn.
SURGICAL An interesting and singular
operation was recently performed in New Or
leans, being for the cure OF aneurizm of the
lilac artery. Students Of the college perform
ed it, and not having the French instrument
| turns in pressing their thumbs upon The arte-
ry for 36 hours, when the blood had coagulated
below the point of pressure and the patient
was saved. ttr
| UNIQUE GIFT.-A singular relic has been
| deposited in the Museum at Pesth: ''This be-
ing silver-gilt sickle, enriched with two
hundred and nine precious stones from Hun
| garian mines, presented by Hungarian prince
| TO Mime. Schodel, the national songstress, once
| in London, whose Norma las we think Miss
Pardo recOunted in her book) excited the
liveliest enthusiasm at Pesth in its day.
John A. Washington is preparing to remove
from Mount Vernon to his new estate, about
thirty miles distant. His personal popularity
at home has recently been shown in his elec-
ton (J. g. Rives having previously heen elect.
| ed and declined) rs President of the Potomac
and Piedmont Agricultural Society.
ARRIVED HOME-General Peter Il. Starke,
| the Mississippi Commissioner to Virginia, has
returned, and was in Vicksburg on the 18th -
The Wing says the General is looking in his
usual robust health, and speaks in exalted
terms Of The hospitality Of the people of Vir-
| ginia.
THEATRICAL SUIT.-Messrs. Wheatley and
| Clarke, theatrical managers of Philadelphia.
| have been mulcted in the sum of $500 damages
| to Miss Laura keene for playing the "Ameri-
| can Cousin" without her consent. Neither
party is satisfied with the judgment, and ano.
| ther trial is to be had.
PROFITABLE CRoP.-The Lyons IN. " Re.
| publican says "The weather has not injured
the prospect for good crop of apples. The
psseh crop wa was % spoiled On ,ns night Of DE
cellent. The pear crop is said to be tne mos
profitable of anyone haif-acre last year
yielding over Jonr hundred dollars.
LAW AND LlrERArURK.-The foreign pa
pers report that recently, at Leipsic, a sinKu
lar case OF monOmania led to a most depiOra
bic result DIR. Lindner, n professor Of Theolo
gy OF that town, was tried for the purioinini
of man scripts from the Academical Library
and sentenced to six years penal servitude.
who had travelled a good deal in the Uaitet
States, being asked how hs liked the country
answered: 20 like 20 c0ntree yer mooch
mals ,ee It eez yer fonny. In my contree xsre !,
| zis coHtree zere is Onlee vun soup and vel
many religion! C'est drole!'
FEMALE PuYsIcIANs.-The Penn Medica
University OF Phi. aielphia he'd It's commence
ment on Saturday al Concert Hall. degree
were conferred upon several ladies and gen
I ueIen among tncm Eliza u. AugneS, OIL vlr
ginia, aud W. L. Swope, Of Tennessee.
TRADE or WESTERN AxnlcA.-The com
merce OF Western Africa exceeds in Vaiu
so, ,o0O,OOO annually, and hundreds of vessel
sail along its coast belonging TO almost ever
nation. The great majority of them, however
| belong to British merchants. -fa.
ANOTHER VIcrIM-Jane McNally, VIII
jumped from the fourth story window of tn
tenement house In New York, during the fl
ON the morning of the 2sth ult., died ON Sur
day, at the New York Hospital, from the e
! fects of her injuries.
The MASSACHUSETTS CATTLE EPIDHxfc.-
In the Massachusetts Legislature q cattle com
mittee has been appointed to visit the place
where the epidemic exists. to kill the disease
cattle, and pay the owners from the Stat
treasury.
AMERICANS IN PARIS. the Amer
: cans in Paris about the lst u March were
! w. Briggs aud f. ID. Cunningham, Of Rich
|. mond, aud L. Clark Leftwich, Of Ly ynchbarl
Va. = HA 1A
: CONvicTxD.-Dr. J. Washington William
l alias DIR. Hines, has been convicted at Mem
phis, Tenn, of obtaining goods under fals
prstsnces, and sentenced 70 the psn1teatiar
. for three years. 81 ~ a.s7sll a.f-
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