Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-07-25
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Edwin Booth has promised to reappear al an
early day in the next theatrical season.
Miss Mary Preston of East Homer, n. l., was
killed last week by A pet bear which she ap-
preached TO feed. =,
A boy picked up a sixpound lump OF gold
lately, while fishing on creek near new VIZ
gina, Ia. He won't take = ,bOO Tor MS treasuIe'
and he won't tell where he found It. Ihe excle-
ment there is intense.
A terrible epidemic is raging among the cattle
In Arkansas. The disease also attacks horses,
sheep and hogs, and the farmers are seriously
alarmed at the prospect of losing their stock'
The st. Johnsbury Caledopian says that num-
Der of men Of the 9Th Vermont regiment met
their surgeon, DR.. Gllett, at Essex junction some
nights ago, after they were paid on ana as
charged, and entering the car where ne was seat
ed, pelted him severely with eggs and then pitch'
ed him out Of window.
The Emperor Macmillan has given contracts TO
Americans for telegraph lines from the United
States through both the eastern and western Sec
tions of the country, and is Offering great induce
ments TO capitalists 10 work the rich and exhaust
less mines with which Mexico abounds.
The Union State Convention of New Jersey
convened last Thursday, at Trenton. General
Fitzpatrick presided. Resolutions were adopted
endorsing the Administration; rejoicing over the
end of the war; thanking the soldiers, sailors ana
foreigners, who had sustained the Government
and pledging the State to adopt the Constitutional
amendment A resolution in faror Of negro SUI
.frage tvas tabled Marcus L. Ward was nomina'
ted for Governor
Thos. Helst one of the Oldest cltizens Of Wiu-
chester Va, died on the 18th inst.
Mr.. Thornton, of England, lately died and left
Sl0000000 to his nephews.
Horace Lucket. an old citizen Of Loudoun
county, Va, Is dead.
John Sheets, who formerly kept hotel in
Clarksburg, West Virginia, hung himself until
dead ON the 18th instant
The Leesburg (Va.) Washinsto1ian says the
Hon r. Y. Conrad is named for candidate Tor
Congress in that district.
The London IndeI, the Confederate organ, has
finally suspended after surviving the Contederaey
for @ few months.
Hon. R. s. Fay, of Boston, fell dead in the
street in Liverpool recently, just as he was about
TO sail for home.
G. W. Butts, Union" candidate for the Second
Congressional District Of virginia, has sued the
Philadelphia Inquirer for stating that In late In.
terview W tn P, esideut johnson he had requested
military interference In the election In order to
secure his own return.
Two trains collided on the Mobile and Mont
gomery rail DAD last week. Thee cars were
smashed. Five negroes aad several passengers
were killed.
Last Friday evening two young women, named
Catherine Craig and Mary Coleman, were drown
ed while bathing at Quincy, Massachusetts,
They were residents Of that town.
A terrible ARRAY occurred a. barbecue In De-
soto county, Mississippi on Saturday week. An
attack was made on one James c. Brown by ten
men, which resulted In the death Of Brown and
Miss Collins, aud the wounding of Browns wife,
a man named Mcclure, and one of the attacking
party.