The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-05-20

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shaved.-ChdrteStOn Mercury.
II is said now that the President VIII &C
cept the invitation extended to HIM by the
Masonic fraternity of Boston to be present
at their coming celebration, and VIII &C
company the two Communicates OF knlghts
Templar from Washington. A revenue
cutter will be placed at their dispose. by
the Treasury Department. Delegations
from the Washington Communicates were
in Baltimore last night to complete ar
rangemcnts with the Templars of that city
for the trip.
A writer in st. Louis paper, who has
recently travelled through the States OF
North and South Carolina, Georgia, and
Alabama. SAYS that deaths from starvation
occur almost daily in the localities which
he visited, and that many more must occur
before the corn crop natures, unless ala
comes from the North. He says the destl-
tuition throughout the South is widespread
and fearful, and relates heart-rending in
cidents of starving people clammoring for
bread.
The Order of the "Grand Army of the
Republic" has been exposed at st. Louis.
The principal object of the society is
stated to be the protection and education
of the families of deceased soldiers; but
as none but Radicals join it, or are per-
mitted to join it, there is no doubt but
that it has become vast voting machine
for the Radical party.
A young gentleman who was at one
time very much smitten with a pretty
little "Friend" said that in his travels
through the West Indies he often felt
some very severe shocks from earthquakes,
but they were not circumstance when
compared with those experienced from this
little earth-quaker.
A party of West Virginia sportsmen re-
Gently spent a day in fox hunting, and at
night left the dogs still running. They ran
into a flock of sheep and killed eighty OF
them. The owners Of the dogs handed
over 5000 and received the carcascs of the
sheep.
Miss Hathaway, of Auburn, Me-, has re-
covered $7S7. so from livery stable keeper
for injuries sustained by being thrown from
a carriage through horse running away.
The Judge held that the livery man was
responsible for hiring an unsafe horse to
lady.
A country squire out in Minnesota mar
rcd couple recently, and a few weeks
attcrward they became weary OF douoie-
blessedness, applied to the squire, and he
unmarried them as quickly as he had pre-
viously united them.
Charles NJ. Barras was called before the
curtain at the end of the performance OF
the BLACK Crook in Cincinnati on Fri
dav night. and made a speech, wherein, OF
conrse. he stated that he had never been
ca much NJ. Barrassed in his life. " ord.
Eiphtv-fve midshipmen will be gradu-
ated at the ensuing examination OF the Ma.
val Academy. Fifty or sixty of them will
he nlaced on the steamship Minnesota, and
scnt on n six months cruise for the pur
pose Of being instructed practically in their
duties.
Selma, Alabama, which was swept by
the Sherman raid two years ago, has risen,
Pbunix-like, from its ashes. Over two
hundred buildings, of all descriptions, have
been erected, ut Il cost Of nearly a million
dollars, and the improvements are SILL
going on.
The New York Herald reports that But
Ter. bv letter, requested an interview with
Miss Surratt, which she agreed to hold in
the presence of Mr.. Bradley, her lawyer;
but Butler declined.
A farmer in Saratoga county has lifted
a barrel containing l45 pounds OF sugar
with his teeth; after which he offered to
bet twenty-five dollars that he could lift
il with twenty eight more pounds added
to it.
A good sort of man in Maine was re-
Gently asked to subscribe for 4 chandelier
for the church. "Now, said he, " what's
the use of chandelier? After you get it
YOU can't get any one to play on it,"
Vast tiocks of pigeons are greatly annoy
ing the farmers in Iowa. They eat up the
wheat and other grain as fast as sown, and
in some cases fields have been planted
third time on this account.
Joseph Neck, or his grandchildren, at
Cincinnati, have just been awarded by the
Court Of Claims, S27, 426lo mail locks fur
nished to the Government forty years ago.
A northern imposter has been swindling
the Georgia negroes out of considerable
money by persuading them that he had the
power to make them citizens and entitled
to vote.
There are now thirteen cotton factories
in operation in Tennessee worth nearly y
million of dollars, and employing over 900
operatives.
DR.. Johnson being once asked whether
he was in the habit Of saying nce-thcr or
ni-ther, very laconically replied, May
thur"
A widow in Erie, Pa, has advertised a
"grand hop" to pay the expenses OF her
husbands funeral.
Accounts from Nice say that Lord
Brougham IS very ill-perhaps past hope.
China never had slave or a feudal sys-
TEN or pauper peasantry.
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