Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-08-07
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| III Is 6stllnateu L0dI lHere are now lUU,UUU
negro soldiers under Government pay.
Lieut. j. P. Jones, of Norwalk, Ohio, CON-
mitted suicide few days since.
Major General Augur yesterday issued an
order disseminating the District of Washing.
| ton.
1t is said that the lady visitors at Sarato-
ga, this summer, patroniZe the faro banks
We are "pl ogressing."
A peach train of twenty eight cars passed
| over the Delaware Railroad one day last
week.
The number of applications for widow IS
pensions already amounts to over one hun
dred thousand, and for invalid pensions to
about seventy-tive thousand.
Secretary McCulloch has decided that all
bonds, Treasury notes and other obligations
of the Government are free from State or
municipal taxation.
A movement is on foot among certain rich
citizens of St. Louis 10 present Gen. Sher-
man with fine house in that city. About
twenty persons, so far, have made subScrip-
tions averaging 81, 900 each.
A convention of deaf mutes will assemble
in Wieting Hall, at Syracuse, New York, at
two O'Clock, P. M. on Wednesday, the 3Oth
of August, and continue during Thursday, to
organize an association.
Mrs. Geer, of Clinton, Wayne county,
Mich, went into her pasture lot on Sunday.
wearing a red shawl, when ferocious bull
attacked her, driving his horns into her
breast and killing her instantly.
An unknown foreigner shot himselfrecent-
ly on a railroad train, just as it entered u
annel near London. When the train emerg-
ed into daylight, his blood and brains were
found scattered over other passengers.
A strange young man in cavalry uniform
went into an unoccupied house at Brighton
on Saturday, put l. rope about his neck,
mounted chair, fastened the rope to a nail
in the wall and kicked away the chair
When found he was dead.
By order of General Candy, two wealthy
beef contractors OF St. Louis, named Aiken
and Morser, have been arrested on charges
of fraud in furnishing beef to the army
They are now under heavy bonds, and will
be sent to New Orleans for trial.
rat hunt was recently held in the sewers
of Paris, where the vermin had taken refuge
from the cold. 7hey were driven by dogs
and yells to a common centre, where in a
large sewer the dogs were let in loose upon
them and 10, 900 killed in forty-tiye hours.
At a picnic at Hawesvllle, Kentucky, on
Monday man named Cheatham drew his
pistol in a quarrel, but instead of firing at
his adversary, the weapon went off acciden-
tally, the ball passing through the heart of
his wife, who was standing near him.
At the Saratoga ball European aristocracy
was represented by the daughter of the Duke
of Newcastle, richly dressed in white, en-
broidered with pale green, with a zouave
jacket, diamond and pearl necklace. The
dress. with her light hair and white counte
nance, made her quite attractice.
DR.. Thomas Bynes, of Hope Church, Ca,
was shot on Thursday by party of six of
his former slaves, who supposed if he was
dead they would get his land His body
was not found until it had been nearly de-
voured by hogs. The negroes have been ar.
rested, and one of them has made confess
sion.
1t Grass Lake, Mich, last Sunday and
Monday, two murders were committed-one
q returned soldier named Short, who was
poisoned by woman with whom he was on
drunk the other citizen named David
Smolk, who was stabbed by Shorts COM
panion, soldier named Thompson.
Major General Benjamin Prentice was ar e.
rested at Quincy, Illinois, on saturday, and
fined five dollars for thrashing a young man
who kept company with his daughter against
the Generals wishes. His son aided his IA
ther in the work, and was fined like
amount.
In the Mexican advices Just to hand it is
announced that Wade Hampton had arrived
in that country with several hundred armed
men. T here are reasons for doubling this,
as about the time these advices were dated
the noted South Carolinian was near Co
lumbia, in that State, where he had written
letter rebutting certain charges that had
been made against him by Gen. Sherman.
A correspondent of the Lewiston Journal
says he overheard the following conversation
between two small urchns: says one, ''Ain't
you got no grandmother ?' "NO." 81 tell
YER" responded the first, ''they're tip-top.
Let yer do as yer please; give yer as much
good stuff as yer can eat, and the more you
sarse EN- the better they like it,"
The flies have driven the United States
Surveyors out of the woods of shawano
county, Wisconsin. These insects are called
land flies, and they gather about the neck as
soon as the sun warns them up out of the
ground, and their bite is painful and poison
Gus, creating considerable sores, and causing
the neck to swell.
1t is estimated that there are about one
hundred thousand Americans in Europe at
this time. Probably there will have been
altogether not less than two hundred thou
sand there IN the course OF this summer
Paris is, OF course, their chief place of re-
sort, but they penetrate into every country
of Europe