The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-09-28

Professor HenninG Jensen, "prestidigita-
| teur,'' while performing at Union Hall, in
Marion, Iowa, Friday evening, was fatally
! injured during one of his feats, which was 10
allow any person to shoot at him with u pistol
loaded with shot or ball 1t appears that the
| tube on the end of the ramrod, which drew
the charge after being rammed down, re-
manned in the pistol, thereby leaving 1T full
| loaded. The Professor was shot in the head,
and cannot survive.
The Inquirer at Gonzales, Texas, says an old
| freedman told his old master that his SABLE
highuess was getting too feeble TO work, and
wanted TO be elected county Judge. But,
said his employer, "you must know the law
Of the land before you can act us Judge; ana
YOU can neither read nor write. son, Well
dat makes no difrance, Mas. J. l wants de
office, and den l wants you for my clerk You
can do all de writin'.'
At the fifty fourth regular auction sale OF
Scranton coal in New York on w Wednesday the
following prices We're realized Lump go % !;
steamboat, 1919; broken, 1892 egg, 81 AZ !;
stove, $4G6; chestnut, S3.9i Elghty-hfe
thousand tons We're disposed OF.
A shooting affair occurred in Amherst on
Tuesday last between Mr.. James Wills and
!. c. Deane, in which the latter was shot IN
the chin but very slightly hurt. military
officer has been Sent to investigate the affair.
LynchJurg SetcS.
Some white men intruded upon colored
picnic party ut Englewood, N. j., several
DAYS ago. A fight ensued, in course OF whlch
one man was severely, and perhaps fatally,
stabbed.
Ills estimated that one tenth of the entire
number of prisoners and soldiers al the Dry
| Tortugas have died Of yellow fever, ana the
plague has now assumeda more iiaAislan
| form.
MIR. Washburne, of Illinois, had long in
| teryiew with General Grant on Thursday.
He is the man who keeps the General stralght
| in his politics.
There were 5GS deaths in New York last
week. and 23l in Brooklyn. One DEAN by
cholera occurred in filthy portion OF New
York.
The steamer Baltic arrived at New York on
Wednesday, from Europe, Win l,loo liiini
grants, and the Denmark with 600 more.
An enterprising firm in Philadelphia has
constructed private telegraph line 10 NE"
York for the especial accommodation OF a few
large business establishments In that city.
The Santa Fe trade over the Plains has be-
come very large. The amount paid Tor frelgnt-
ing on that route last year is estimated AZ %,
000, 900.
The YaZoo Miss Banner announces tha'
Dan Woodbridge, a conservative coioreu nsa,
will be a candidate for Congress IN tha'
district
Earl Russelrs son, now travelling in this
oountry is the smallest man in the House OF
Commons.
It said that domestic affairs are improving
in Chicago-the marriages are pecol@tnS IL
most as numerous as divorces.
The Dispatch says Mrs. Mumford, OF New
Orleans, is kindly cared for by the people OF
Wythevllle.
Alta recent wedding in Scranton, "a, the ,
bride received $50, 900 worth OF presents. Goou
place to get marrled.
A Jacksonville paper is anxious for set
Tiers TO take land in Florida at MY Genus I'LL
acre.
IT is declared that the President has decldeo
TO reopen the Fi:z John Porter case anu ~
rive him 4 new trial.-NutioHdL Repuoncon
General Sickles, it is understood, does not
succeed in bringing his official conduct pelofe
= court of inquiry for examination.
lanes Gordon Bennett, ST., and Max MA
raJgax have kissed and become friends again.
There are fifty miles of police telegraph IN
New York; twenty four in Brooklyn.
Senator Doolittie is expected back from
Europe next month.
Hon. N. p. Banks has gone to Mexico on
short visit
A oo,ored barber in Elmira has made $5o, ooo
| in oil speculations.
Ranbael Semmes is no longer editor OF the
Memphis Bulletin.
New cotton is arriving in Petersburg from
North Carolina
Governor Peirpoint is to speak In PETERS
burg next Tuesday evening.