The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-01-15
General Rousseau had his fife insured
for & 10 O0O in New YORK;

General Rousseau had his fife insured
for $l0,0 900 in New York.
The first bar Of tin made on the Pacific
coast was recently turned out at Temascal,
San Diego county, Cal.
The Episcopalians in Nebraska have a
missionary in every place which has 500
inhabitants. ~}
The granaries of California are overflow
ing with the surplus product of 10000, 900
bushels of wheat.
General Butler has been engaged to
prosecute Mr.. Bowles, Of the Springfield
Republican, for his editorial remarks about
Mr.. Fisk.
Rev. DR.. Nelson Heal, OF Richmond,
Va, is in the city representing the interests
of the Randolph Macon college, at Ash
land, Va.-Ne,o York Commercial.
In the Senate, Wednesday, Mr.. Corkling
presented the petition of Charles Cattell, of
Williamsburg, Va, for t. removal of his
political disabilities.
The project to connec; y ark with New
York city by ship canal 20 be brought
before the New Jersey l. lature with the
view Of obtaining an act O. incorporation.
The conservation Of Rev. DR.. Doane as
Bishop of the Diocese OF Albany will pro-
badly take place on Tuesday, February 2,
which day is ''tbe Feast Of the Purifca-
ton"
The message of Governor Baker, of In
diana, is about fourteen columns in length,
and the Cincinnati Commercial says that
with little arrangement and classification
it would pass for an encyclopaedia.
A dispatch from Little Rock, Arkansas,
says the opposition to the militia policy is
growing stronger in the Radical ranks, with
promises of wide split in the party on the
subject.
The Reconstruction Committee to-day
agreed that they would report no more bills
for the relief of political disabilities until
the status of the States of Georgia and Mis-
sissippi were decided.-World, 18Th.
In the case Of the two negroes who were
last week found dead in the kitchen Of the
French Minister at Washington, the coro-
ner's Jury have rendered verdict that
they came to their death from strychnine,
either voluntarily taken by them or given
by other persons without their knowledge.
The Pittsburg Commercial says that the
Louisville Courier Journals sensational
story about great subterranean confagra-
ton at the mouth Of the Youghiogheny
river has but slight foundation, the fire
having been burning slowly for years with
out inflicting any loss.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, January 12.-Nel-
son Spellman was arrested in this town to-
day for an attempted rape on Mrs. Eliza
beth Gibbons, an estimable lady, fifty-fve
years old, as she was going to church on
Sunday. Mrs. Gibbons was thrown down
in the snow and seriously injured, but her
screams frightened the villain away.
some portions of New Jersey seem to be
suffering from an invasion by q small army
of quack doctors, and the Hudson County
Medical Society has proposed bill, which
it will present to the Legislature, forbid
ding any person to practice medicine in
that county unless he be alA authorized
practitioner. 1t is also proposed to lay a
heavy fine on those who pretend to dispense
drugs without proper training.
Lewis Lindsey is on the committee on
credentials of the national negro conven-
ton. Langston, of Ohio, said the enemy
of the colored man was to be found in the
North. The negro in the South has his
rights, can vote and hold Office, but in the
North ii is different.
DELEGATES from Virginia Lewis Lindsey
Fields Cook, Edward Nelson, R. Forester
B. F. Grant, Austin Syphax, NJ. Morton
9. B. Stevens, R. D. Beckley, Samuel F
Kelso, aud John Evart. Fields Cook is q
vice president.