The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-05-08
Solicitor Ware, of the Post office Depart

Solicitor Ware, of the Post office Depart
ment, has lately succeeded in sustaining
in the Canadian courts an injunction pro-
cured by the United States to prevent the
sale of $4,000 worth of postage stamps
which the Florida captured on the mail
steamer Electric Spark during the war.
The stamps were shipped to Liverpool,
where they were bought by private parties
with the intention of selling them in
Canada, but the injunction prevented it.
In St. Louis, last Saturday, while some
Young people were playing in the street,
Lizetta Brinkman threatened, in jest, to
throw something at August Klanke, who
playfully simulated fear, and warned her
not to do it, at the same time taking up and
pointing at the girl an old rusty gun, which,
in moment, was discharged, and the girl
fell corpse.
There are petitions to Congress circula-
ting in Texas for the division of the State
and the erection of the new State of West
Texas. One reason given for it is the 10y
atty of the people in the western section
and the preponderance Of secessionists in
other portions.
Orrin White, precocious youth of nine
wears. who is in Jail at Auburn for setting
fire to the Express stable recently, has a
mania for fires, and confeSSes attempting
at various times the firing of numerous
barns, workshops, and other structures.
A company has been formed in Meriden,
Conn.,, for the manufacture of hats by a
machine which weaves them whole. The
capital stock is $4OO, 900, and it took $751;
600 to buy up the different patents used in
the machine.
The Crown Princess Of Prussia, who is
the daughter Of Queen Victoria, has
telegraphic office in her palace at Berlin,
and converses daily with her mother
through the wires.
1t is said that Rothschild, in revenge for
the wrong done by Prussia to the Frank
fort branch Of his house, will make large
advance to the French Government in case
of war.
A drunken Californian named Casid
shot at and nearly killed John Barker, q
sleeping-c car conductor, at Niagara Falls,
because the latter attempted to eject Casid
on account of his offensive language.
This mot, attributed to Gortschakoff,
shows the German appreciation of the
French Emperor: Bismarck keep Ma
poleon on his legs by boxing his ears, first on
the right side and then on the left"
DIR. ii. C, Cole, of Kokomo, Ind, who, in
October last, shot and killed Charles Allen
for the seduction of his wife, has recently
been tried and acquitted.
The Mobile papers say that in Alabama
the desire to embark to Brazil seems TO be
on the increase, and that . very respect
able colony will leave Mobile in few
weeks for that country.
A deeply interesting series of meetings
have been held in the Methodist Episcopal
Church. South, for the last ten days, re.
smiling in the conversion Of some twenty.
five persons. Charlottesville Chronicle.
Helan Ciecht, of Milwaukee, beat hi'
wife to death in religious controversy
ale proved his doctrine orthodox by apos'
tolic blows and knocks"
A Young lady of seventeen, in Illinois
has achieved local fame BY attacking
midnight burglar with bed-slao ana ciuo'
bing him from the house.
One Of the real Beechers is in Peru
Those who peruse his letters say that oil
Peruvian bark is worse than his brother
Brooklyn bite.-WOrld.
The Petersburg Inder eulogizes the per
fo,mapces Of the Richmond Dramatic AS
ISOLATION at Virginia Hall.
The Black Crook, 1t is said, will soon b
presented in Norfolk.
A cold snap has killed off all the grass
LUppcrs tia. threatened 10 overrun Texas