The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-04-15

| OlNClNSATl, Aprll ll.-A physician vi
Goshen, thirty miles from here, named
Hanker, sixty years old, committed sui
eide yesterday because his children OPP
| posed his marrying again. He bequeathed
mis- watch and carriage to the widow he
| had intended to lead to the altar, and re-
quested that he be buried in his proposed
| bridal garb.
1t is now said to be very doubtful whe-
Their Surratt will be tried at the present
| term of the District Court, as the Attor-
ney- General wishes the trial postponed.
| It is even rumored that it is questionable
| whether there is sufficiency of legal evil
dcnce to sustain the accusation against
| Surratt.
| The contest of Stewart against Phelps
| for the seat in Congress as representative
of the Third Maryland district has been
terminated by the withdrawal of Stewart,
| who renounces his claims and offers to
| refund the expenses incurred by Phelps,
who has been the occupant of the seat
during the contest.
The officer who killed the burglar Mon
zani in Williamsburg some time ago is re-
ceiving numerous oyations at the hands OF
the citizens of his district. The manager
of an opera house gave him benefit last
| night, and handsome testimonial will be
presented to him next Tuesday.
Returns of the Maryland election Of
Wednesday last so far received foot up a
majority OF $500 "for convention" The
majority, it is probable, will be increased
by St. Mary's, Charles, and Calvert coun-
| ties.
Ten boys, aged from eight to sixteen,
were sentenced to thirty days imprison-
mcnt on Tuesday at Jamaica, Long Island
for having stoned an organ grinder while
peacefully following his vocation. Yester.
day the organ-grinder died in Brooklyn of
his injuries.
We learn that F. N. Watkins and Will
liam r. Berkeley, Esqs., land perhaps
others) have been invited by the colored
people of our town to address them or
Friday night, and have promptly agreed to
do so.-FarmuiUe Journal.
The lower House of the New Jersey lie
gislature refused to strike the worC
"white" from the State Constitution yes
terday by vote of thirty-ive to twenty
thereby cutting off negroes in the State
from the right of franchise.
Polly Haskins, of Camden, Ohio, claims
to be lis years old, and as nobody in the
ueighborhOod can, of their own recollection
contradict Polly, she gets whatever credit
may attach to the attainment of that age
World.
Democratic papers in Connecticut say
that Colfax and Deming were so sure o
Deming's return to Congress that Colfa>
promised to "leave hole" for him in thu
Military Committee. The hole is left
Deming being beaten.-World.
Jack Hamilton has gone to Texas as re
gister of bankruptcy, and but for the prof
that there is in loyalty of such strong
stomach as his, Jack Hamilton would have
been the first man in Texas he would have
to register.-WOrld.
An abandoned woman in Chicago, wht
was discarded by her neighbors on accoun
of her bad character, murdered little
girl on Tuesday and attempted to murder
another, as means Of retaliation.
| An insane man, giving his name a.
Isaiah Butler, was confined in the jail o
Rockbridge county one day last week
supposed to be from Sackett's Harbor
New York.
The Baltimore Gazette publishes {
startling statement to the effect tina
DR.. Mudd is suffering as a prisoner at thu
Dry Tortugas under the sentence ola cour
which believed him innocent.
Judge Walker has addressed the citi
zens of Dalton, Ga, urging an immediate
concession to the requirements of the mill
tary bill.
AT. Stewards store, on Broadway, Ne,
York, is to be enlarged during the summe
to six times its present size, when it wi
cover an acre and quarter of ground.