The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-01-17

| The clipper ship Flora Temple, whose loss,
! with 100 coolies on board, was announced .
day or two since, was built in Baltimore,
| where her commander and some boys on board
| belonged.
| Senator Crittenden was serenaded at the
| Girard House, Philadelphia. Friday night
| Mr.. Conrad, OF La, also made speech on tho
| occasion.
up" is to be sold at Columbus, Ga, on We'd
nesday, with a steam calliope connected there.
with.
A citizen of Petersburg, being unable to
make his gas burn went to ascertain the cause,
and found that a servant man had sucked all
the whiskey out of the meter.
The late John w. Houghton, Of Augusta,
Ga, beg uea thed $50 100 to be held in perpetui-
~ by the Council Of that city, to be applied 70
the support OF a school for the poor.
The citizens of Galveston, Texas, are pro-
pairing to invite the Hon. Edward Everett to
deliver his Grafton on Washington in that
city.
MIR. Francis Gaines, an instructor Of youth.
we'll known in Hardy county, Va, died very
suddenly on the morning of the 10Th ulf.
Capt. James Jenkins has been examined in
Caroline county, Va, for shooting James Tay.
!or, with intent TO kill, and sent on for trial.
ii. G. Knight, printer. was shot recently In
Beaufort, $. O.. by o. T. Canady, bat not dam
gerousIy wounded.
A negro trader named Scruggs was slung-
shotted in his bed on the night OF the sth, and
robbed Of S.7Oo and gold watch.
James MeCieery, Esq, for many years Z
clerk in the Treasury Department, died in
Washington on Saturday.
Mr. j. L. Marye, jr., has been reelected
President Of the Fredericksburg Water Power
Company.
Three hundred and thirty five coolie immt-
grants lately arrived at Demarara from CAL
cutta. Fifty others died on the passage.
The Wheeling tva.) Union says the sale Of
iron ma fac in, ~ss
will probably reach 82,0O0.OOO.
The Opposition in the Pennsylvania IeRis.
lature have nominated Hon. Eli Slifer for
State Treasurer.
The Boston Traveller announces the failure
of Messrs Phillips h Moseiy, hardware deal.
ers with large liabilities.
The steamer Cambridge, which was sunk in
the Mississippi u few days ago, will prove .
total loss.
DIR. Richard II. Thomas, for many wears \
professor in the University Of Mary Iand, died
near Baltimore on Saturday. 80
There is surplus fund OF ten thousand dol.
lars in the treasury Of the Penn nsyIvania Stata
Agricultural Society.
Professor Anderson the "Maeiciau Of the
North" has arrived in San Francisco, nom
Australia. :. :
b. b. Bonner, Esq, late editor and propeis.
tor OF the dreencastie (Pa.) Ledger, died On
the 9th inst.
KY, killed hts wife, child and servant on The
5th inst, and then tried 70 kill himself
Mrs. Dunn, while looking from wtadow Of
her house in Baltimore ON Sunday night wau
shot dead by some person unknowu. - =
Bin the New York market, within few daya.
there have been some private sales Of Tsxas
Indemnity nves ~ 30 per cent.
There was q great missionary demcustration
in the churehes of Washington iast week.
The time Of The rHce won by Exchequsr. at
Sayanaah, on Friday last, was A:ei-4GnL
1t Is apprehended that the bark Thomas Allt.
hone. Of Baltimore. has been lost n ssa-
The steamer bohemian sailed frOm Port
land for Liverpool Oh the 18th.
Robert +. Jamis0n, Of Norf0lf, had ntA peck
ct picked ia Petersb0re. last fftdAy Night
Work was commenced On he 0Tima ara
North Alabama Road On tAe lesh Inst.
Aueuste Droz was killed In New Osaenne a.
the sih inst, by Hermoxene Peri.
e.M. Parker. prominent citiass ef Allaay.
N. r., IL dead. =.
Mr., R<mbrend, Pesls has he<a rSsaoseA 70
health.
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