Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-06-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

hIte Bnl, eight years OF age residing win
I her parents, in Milton, Berks county, had both
| legs cut % by train Of cnH few days ago.
Serious charges of late dlshonorable admins.
tration Of the Interior Department will bs invss'
tigated by the next Congress.
An Irish paper tells as that " deaf man, named
Tai, was ruu over by passenger train and killed.
He was injured in = similar way about year
| ago."
The Queen DoWager OF Holland having quar-
relied with her husband, By her late will cut him
OF with q shilling, her daughter securing the
! "plunder."
The marriage ceremonies of the young Maha-
rejah Of Puttiallah have at last come to an end.
The bridal trOusAeGu cost his highness the pretty
| little SUN Of hfty-six lAkhs, or E5OO,0OO.
Great issues sometimes result from small be.
/ gnnings The fist time Lord PAlmefston put up
for o seat In Parliament was in 1876, at Horsham.
He received one vote
The Prince Of Wales regularly appears 10 his
seat in the House of Peers, and recently voted,
TOR the first time, in favor OF the bill for the ut
| ilization Of sewerage.
The birthday Of the Princess Helena Of Eng
| land, who is nineteen years old, was celebrated
last month at Windsor by . tea.pArty given to
the girls of Queens School at which the Queen
| aud royal family were present.
A new literary venture Is TO be added TO the
numerous publications which have Of late sought
the public favor. The "Argosy" Is to number
among its writen Mr.. Charles Reade, Miss Dinah
! Muloch cad some Of the temple Bar" wri
tiers.
The Meridian Clarion" charges that General
Craxton's cavalry wGntonly burned the splendid
library and lyceum of the State University Of
Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The building was saved
but its valuable contents were destroyed. Gen.
Craxton has been censured for the act by General
McCOok.
A female BloBdin" at Vienna was knee.ing en-
9 rope seventy feet high, when some idiots began
tightening it below. This caused jerk she
lost her balance, and fell head foremost on q Ia.
BILE. Her head was not in the slightest degree
injured but she broke leg and arm.
The people OF RavGnna are in q state of great
enthusiasm, because they have found the coffin
containing the bones Of their great poet. A
chapel, situated behind Dante's tomb, was being
pulled down when the workmen came upon the
coffin, with Latin inscriptions dated 1910.
Prince Napoleon's sting il 10 be quickly shown.
He has ANNOUNCED that he has volume on the
stocks of the history Of the Bonaparte family, in
which he will doubtless make some unpleasant
disclosures, and demand Of the world to be look
ed upon as the zeal representative of the family.
A gentleman in New Haven, who, before tile
war, owned q brick building on Main street in
Richmond, which was occupied below a. q store,
and above as a dwelling house, was then offered
$4,000 for the premises, but asked $1,000 At
the great fire In Richmond this building was
burned down. On going TO Richmond, recently,
he sold the ground 10 an Irish baker for the sum
OF tl6OOO In gold. ....
In recent military debate in the House Of
Commons, an amusing instance was related of
the arstocralic arrogance with which her Males
tvs household troops looked down upon the
working bees OF the service. A guardsman,
writing TO q guardsman, cautioned his CORES
pOndent against censuriDg his brother officers
" in the presence Of shopkeepers and officers of
the line"
Roman Catholic gentlemen in Yorkshire,
England, Squire Waterton, died from the effects
Of an accident on Friday. His son was in Rome,
and was with the Pope when the Geographic mes
sage announcing the accident was delivered
His Holiness lelegraphic bis benediction TO
Wakefield. This is the first time we have
heard OF the telegraph being used for such q
purpose.
Apprehensions of an extensive Indian war In
upper Arkansas, are entertained by the people of
that region. Senator Doollttle has written 70 the
Secretary of the Interior, stating that nearly
seven thousand warriors are banded together to
make war on the expWed settlements. He be-
lieves however, that peace can he made with the
chiefs if justice Is done them, and asks for au
thority TO offer to indemnify them for their losses
az Land Creek.
An accident occurred on one of the English
railroads recently, and several pers jns were
killed. A young nOblsman was seen raining
about in search of his valet, whom he feared was
among the victims. Presently one Of the guards
came up and said to him " My lord, we have
found your servant, but lie is cut in two."-
Then" said the titled fop, with a regular Dun.
drsary drawl, "be gwood enough to see In what
half he has got the key of my carpet bag"
Mr.. Davis is described as having lost his ap.
petite and his sleep. Somebody who saw him re-
Gently reports him sitting in his bed, his brow
furrowed his cheeks sunken, his eyes listless ga.
zng on the blank walls Of his cell. Ais nerves
are gone; he stars at the slightest noise like 4
ievered child; his physical organism is Frustrated
almost beyond recuperatiOn. His physicians,
after consultation, imposed absolute charnel house
quiet In his easement and n)w the guards Of the
prisoner pace his cell in slippers, that their foot
i. Ills may not give sound. The prisoner never
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