Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-06-22
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l hihtEIiLAHBEub ikeISs -.
4 iittie orphan boy Id sylvestte was recently
eaten by bears.
A large mob completely destroyed house o
IN repute in Brooklyn N. Y.
A Kentucky barbecue is to be given 70 en !I,
mans soldiers on the 4th prox., near Louls'lle
Wilmington, N. C., papers say street fights be
| tween negsoes and soldiers are OF oaily occur
| renee.
Hardly cotton field is to be seen at the south
| All is corn.
A hotel is to be built at Bull Run.
The Duke de Morny's pictures sold in Paris fOI
sl62 600.
telescope Just up in the Paris Observatory
cost 500 OU0-the largest in the world.
A child four years old died from iutoxication at
Preston, England.
Prof Morse has given $4,000 to found course
of scientific lectures in New York.
recent two column editorial in the London
Post against hanging Jef. Davis, is said TO nave
been written by Lord PAlmerston.
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton Is undergoing the
| operations Of Partisan aurist for deafness.
Thirty children on board the ship B. s. KIM
| ball, which arrived in New York from Hamburg
last week, died on the passage.
Seven men who were convicted by military
commission, in Washington, for engraving Con-
federate treasury note plates, were released from
the Old Capitol on Saturday, on condition that
they leave the country Immediately.
Five hundred dogs have been drowned at the
New York city dog pound so far this season
Three or four thousand are Usually drowned IN
summer. bounty Of fifty cents Is PAID lor
dogs, and one man brought In one day iorty'ohe
dogs getting $40. 80 therefor.
Jockeys At the Paris races are splendidly
dressed in garnet and blue silk, with gold badges
A gentleman, while walking the streets at Des
MoinS Iowa, during a thunder storm the other
evening, had one of his eyes completely destroy
ed by lightning, without other injury.
We read that Miss MULCH, the we'll known
noyelist-author Of John Halifax" and other
stories-has become the wife of Mr. Craig, Of
Glasgow, \ gentleman much younger than her
self, and possessed of but one leg.
The Halifax Unionist trusts that the retrench.
ment policy of the Washington Government will
incluce the dismissal Of the staff OF flying spies
hitherto kept in Canada whose chief duty has
been to invent stories Of imaginary raids and
similar cSnards.
John G. Nicolay, late Private Secretary to Mr..
Lincoln, and now Consul at Paris, was married
TO Miss Bates, Of Pttsheld, Pike county, ILL.,, last
week.
Rossini's Barbiere" has lately been given in
London by Adellna Patti, Mario and Ronconl /;
Il
representatives Of the characters Of Rosins, Al.
maviva and Figaro have existed within the mem
| DRY Of the present generation"
Several great historical personsges have re-
Gently been introduced in the mimic life Of the
European stage. At Geneva play has been
produced In which Calvin figures. At Vienna
| another drama has been added, in which Pitt
Fox and George III. are characters. At Turin, a
new play introduces Struensee, II unhappy
| lover OF the beautiful young Queen OF Denmark
the sister Of George Ill
The track of the Norfolk and Petersburg Rail
road is being rapidly relsid. Between suffolk
i and Norfolk il is intact between Blackwatel
/ and Iyor the track is only overturned, and be-
/ tween Petersburg and lyOr about three miles oil
the track has TO be laid aud some trestework has
i 70 be built
The n. Y. Journal Of Commerce regrets that
there is a manifest display of belligerent feeling
among some citizens ag ainst Others on the ground
| of religious belief. That will be the next trou
BILE.
A French mason named Gulbaut, father OF Il Vt
children, recently blew out his brains in thi:
strange manner He filed long apothecaryi
viol with gunpowder and introduced the closed
/ end into his mouth he then applied Lighted
i match 10 the open part and the powder exploded
| His head was blown TO pieces in dreadful man
| ner.
Two Indian Chiefs-Two Face and Black Foot
| who have committed many murders and Other
outrages on the frontier, were hung at Fort Lara
ME, Dacotah Territory, last month. While the
/ hangman was placing the moose around thell
necks, they said in their Indian tongue Micah
| washta" meaning, am brave"
| The Albany Evening Journal stigmatizes the
/ treatment of Davis and Clay as foolish and bru
tai, and calls on the President 10 direct such q
/ course Of treatment in future as Americans need
not blush to see recorded in history.
1t is stated that official returns in the War De.
| partment show that the deaths in the army dur.
ing the entire period of the war; so Ger as heard
| from with estimates made from returns not YET
/ handed in, will reached an aggregate Of three
| hundred and twenty thousand men. II is estma.
ted officially, that the ordinary mortality in time
/ of peace for the number ofmen in the field would
| be 1900, which deducted from the total Just
/ named would leave the extraordinary mortality
2S5 900. The loss on both sides in dead end per.
manently disabled is placed by careful authori.
ties at about 100000.
In the French Corps Legislatif recently NJ.
| CARRIER Pages, in making q speech upon the
budget, ms de an innocent allusiOn TO this coun.
| try by eXclaiming Look st what is being done
by the admirable repu bile of the United StSnss.
| At these words, according to the official report,
| of the debate in the Moniteur, the speaker wal
stopped short by ironicSl laughs and loud inter
pellatiOns. Baron Jerome David sprang to his
/ feet and exclaimed America You talk TO us OF
| America a country where eminent men are pub.
licly charged with the gravest charges, and then
| Judged with closed doors" This burst Of the
aristocratic Deputy was followed by cheers and
| confusion, and then, n. GARNER Pages, resuminG
the thread OF his argument, and without referring
/ TO the Interpolation Of N. David, spoke Of the
disbanding of the army Of the United States al
| soon a. the war was over as . magnificent evi
dence not only of economy, but Of the cheap anG
safe working Of the system Of self. government