The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-12-03
CHICAGO has 1000 Scotch citizens,

Chicago has 1000 Scotch citizens.
Louis Ulbach has the largest salary of all
editors in Paris-80, 900 francs.
The workingmen's party in England has
not elected member Of Parliament.
All the postoffice clerks in Cleveland are
females.
Large quantities Of oranges are shipped
from Tampa, Fla, by every steamer.
Canada has lO4, 43S Sunday school scho-
lars.
Massachusetts, has 49G congregational
churches.
The Cincinnati journals estimate the po-
pulation Of that city at about 100000.
Four brothers in New Hampshire were
lately christened Europe, Asia, Africa, and
America.
The wife of Bishop Lee, Of the Episco-
pal diocese of Delaware, died few days
ago.
New Lisbon, Ohio, offers $4,000 to any
manufacturing company that will locate its
works there.
The manufacture of cotton in Switzer-
land employs 100000 spindles, l5,400
spinners, and $4,000 other operatives.
Black tights and black silk stockings
form the regulation evening dress at the
French court at Compeigne.
Snow fell TO the depth of eight inches in
Shoreham, VT, on Saturday, while in Corn
wall, which lies adjoining, the farmers
were blowing.
A colored man has been admitted as
student of law to the University of Mlchi-
gan, at Ambiber-the first instance Of the
kind in that State.
Jesse Thompson has been arrested at
Vicksburg, charged with the murder of
General IIindman, he having confessed to a
negro that he did the deed, though he now
denies it.
In excavsting for the foundation Of the
dome Of the new State-house at Springfield,
H., recently, the workmen struck bed Of
coal eighteen inches in thickness at depth
of about fifteen or eighteen feet below the
surface.
1t is reported that General Grant has sold
his residence on l street to Mayor Bowen
for forty thousand dollars, aud this will put
to rest the rumor about which society /"
seemed to be agitated, that Mrs. Grant
would not occupy the White House.
Colonel Robert Withers, who served
through the war in the Confederate army,
was shot three times Saturday, and killed,
at Hendersonville, on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, by man named Sam
Dox;e. The dispute arose about the load
ing of freight car. Not our Colonel K. e.
In reply to request to describe the
Gulf stream, an applicant for teachers
position in one of our cities wrote 4" The
Gulf stream is branch Of the Atlantic
ocean, and fire and smoke issue from it,
and is situated east Of Florida"
Norman L. Johnston, of New York, was
stabbed in the side by his wife, Eliza john
ston, on Monday, while the two were quar-
relling, Mrs. Johnston being intoxicated at
the time. She Immediately disappeared.
Johnston is still living, but is severely
wounded.
A subscription paper for religious objects
was handed to Jealous church member,
when he remarked Well, can give five
dollars and not feel it.'' Them" said the
solicitor, "give ten and feel it." The point
was seen at once, and the money was forth
coming.
It is understood in Washington that At
torney-G eneral Evarts considers the prac-
,ice of compromising internal revenue
frauds as entirely illegal, and that, in con-
sequence, Mr.. Rollins is to be notified that
he must in future submit all such cases to
Secretary McCulloch or the Attorncy-Ge-
neral.
The bee-raisers in the vicinity of Louis
vile. for q circuit of twenty-five miles,
were recently startled by the discovery thGt
their bees had all simultaneously dccarnrc',
going no one knew whittier. The mTftery
IS still unsolved. The deserted hives were
all full of honey, containing from sixty 10
seventy-fve pounds each.
A correspondent of the Pail NG4 GaScHc,
writing from Florence, says that Garlbaldl,
having been bitterly reproachcd by MoTz,nl
and others with the failure of the Roman
resurrection last year, through his impa-
tience and precipitation, has Determined 10
leave Caprera and come TO America. DO
mestic troubles, it is also said, have some
thing to do with this resolution.
It has been the general opinion that
bondsmen endorsing contracts with the Ex-
ecutivs Departments in Washington were
never called upon to make good their sure
,;aa in case of default. The Postottice De-
nartment. however, during the past year
inst;tuted 800 suits for deficits due the
United States, and obtained 27S Judgments.
Neu York TRIBUNE.
Short dresses are good things for the
sboemakers and bad for the doctors. The
ladies buy and wear better shoes, and the
doctors report a noticeable decline in dis
eases among women coming from damp,
cold feet. When long garments prevailed,
women were very careless in this respect,
often wearing thin and broken shoes, and
this, together with the dampness always
clinging to their long skirts, brought on III,
ness, which not unfrequently terminated
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