Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-27
MIscEIIxyEoUs ITEMS.

Edmonia Lewis the colored sculptor, occupies one
Of Canova's rooms in Rome. o ~
man in Lewiston, Me-, eloped with his wifes SIS
ter His wife recaptured them. -
7 The chateau des FleursAa very naughty place in
Paris-has been destroyed. "
! negro has sued an Indianapolis paper for $4,000
damages for libel.
Forney is said to look very detected and is losing
much stomach. y
The edtorof the Turin Gasette has been killed in
duel.
Grau's opera troupe took $4,000 in "a nights in
Havana.
The ladies in Paris now plate the, heels of their
! boots with gold and silver. n y Z
A man in St. Louis being confined in the "cala-
boose hung himself because the stencil was, as he
said, uncomfortable. -.,..,,,.-....,
Victor Hugo refuses 100000 for his new work,
" Les Travailleurs de Ia Mer" which he intended to
publish in the shape of .feuilletou.
! The person arrested in New York and taken to
Washington on suspicion of being Quantrell, the
guerrilla, turns out to be somebody else and is
to be released from custody. 1.
The Swiss journals complain of the rage for emil
grafton which Is just now manifested in the majority
of the cantons of the confederation. Many are pre-
pairing their departure for America. a -.
New Hampshire man has gone to England to
represent the interest of twelve New Hampshire per-
sons claiming to be heirs of the estate of Robert
Wilson, who died at London eighty years ago, leav-
ing property worth s600O0OO0. - ID Fh'
| Governor Fenton, of New York, has declined to
make requisition on Governor Worth, of North
Carolina for the return Of fugitive from justice,
the ground that he cannot recognize North Carolina
as State in the Union. .r..f
We regret to hear of the death of p d. Lipscomb,
esq.,, formerly of Prince William county, which &C.
CURED on Tuesday evening last at New Glasgow,
in Amherst county. Mr.. Lipscomb was about 50
years Of age.
The Strong divorce suit is likely to be soon before
the Courts again. The counsel for the lady have APP
piled for stay of proceedings and also for alimony
during the time of their progress. No decision has
| yet been rendered on the matter. H...'I.
Major Campbell Wallace, formerly President of
the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, has
been appointed by Governor jenkins of Georgia
Superintendent Of the Western and Atlantic Rail-
road
The Swiss philosophers who took up their residence
the Pass OF st. Theodue last autumn for the pur
pose of making meteorological observations during
the winter, are all well, and though posted at
height of O24l feet, they do not seem to have suf
fered much from cold.
The dead body of Mrs. Mary P Coggeshall, of
Bristol, r. J., was found on farm at Bristol Neck
on Saturday The deceased left her home on the
9th inst for the purpose of visiting sister on
Bristol Neck and it is supposed lost her way and
persisted from cold.
Two suicides have startled the people of Galena,
Ill.,, within few days-one that of Miss Mary Jane
Davis at Elizabeth, by poison, having been seduced
and cruelty abandoned by young man of that
place and the other that of Edgar Croker, recent
ly of the army at White Oak Springs, Wis, from the
effects of intemperanCe
A fortune of Sc, $50 900 lately bequeathed by
an English gentleman to the Oldest member of the
Harrison family in Monmouth County, New Jersy,
and the property falling to one of two cousins who
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both having been born on the same day. they have
sensibly agreed to share the bequest equally.
DIR. Marion Simms, formerly OF Montgomery,
Alabama has won such fame in France and Great
Britain as an accomplished surgeon, that the
French Emperor has conferred upon him the Cross
of the Legion of Honor. He spends his time
between Paris and London, his family residing in
the latter place. 1870
The new iron bridge crossing the Ohio River at
Steubenve, is completed and trains cross regu-
larly This road is called the Great Pan Handle
route and connects with the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad to Pittsburg, and from Harrisburgh to
New York ria the Allentown route. BY this route
there are only two changes of cars between Chica-
60 and New York.
A Corinth correspondent of the New York Times
says that it is estimated that upon the two fields of
Shiloh and COrinth there not less than l2,OOO
Confederate Dead whose bones for the most part lie
bleaching above ground, the rains having washed
away the thin layer of earth with which most were
originally covered The Federal dead were all neat
ly inferred, in the usual way, with head and foot
boards in every instance and, in most cases. were
incosed with wooden palings.