The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-10-30


A school for colored preachers has been
organized at Lexington, ky., under the
auspices of the Christian Church.
The best colored talent of the country
will be enlisted in its behalf Boston Adrer-
tiser.
What is the I" best color" for talent?''l
A Miss ANY Wilkinson, ofBenton county,
Ind. has been sent TO the insane asylum,
she having lost her reason from the eXces-
Siye use Of tobacco.
Mrs. e. A. Stevens, of Hoboken, has given
the handsome sum of 900 to Princeton
College, to endow that institution with
mathematical professorship.
The extensive nut and spike factory of C.
S. Tibbetts Sc Co., at Warsaw, Ind, was
burned on Wednesday night. Loss, S3S, 0G0 !;
insurance, $4,000.
According to the HebreC National, of
London, there are six millions Of Jews In
the world, one half of them living in Eu-
rope, and allowing only $50, 900 in all Ame-
RIGA.
The Washington correspondent of the
Charleston 6. c. NelCS states that it is more
than probable that President Grant will
visit Charleston, Augusta, and Mobile, be-
fore Congress conYenes.
Ex-senator Yulee is now president of the
Florida railroad, and rs such oilers to give
eligible sites for the erection of school
houses wherever they may be needed along
the line of the road. ..s..g
Negotiations are in progress for the con-
solidation of the Nashville and Northern
railroad with the Iron Mountain road, in
Missouri. The object of the consolidation
lie to oil frpIpht N 0rO
through from st. Louis to Nashville without
change.
Father Hyacinthe, it appears, following
the example Of his Protestant friend Henry
Ward Beecher, is about to enter the field OF
journalism. He proposes to publish in
Paris newspaper to be entitled lie ChrE-
ten, which shall be both religious and po-
litical, OF rather secular, in its character.
A decided Improvement in theatre con-
struction has been introduced in Munich.
The orchestra has been lowered three feet,
bringing the heads of the performers and
their instruments below the level of the
stage, so that the view Of the spectators is
entirely uninterrupted. Other leading thea
tres in Europe will follow the example,
which has already been copied at Booths
Theatre, in New York. -...i ...-..i - RI.
IunluCaIlOu Is Inc OllQe now lppueUCO
a process Of bread-making recently Disco
vered and patented in France. This me-
thod dispenses with the grinding Of the
wheat, and, it is asserted, will produce 100
pounds of bread from 100 pounds of grain
while by the old plan of using flour only
112 pounds of bread are produced from the
100 pounds Of wheat. The new kind OF
bread is said also to be of better quality than
the old, as the gluten is not decomposed and
lost by the heat of grinding. The new mode
Of fermentation, it is also asserted, contri-
butes greatly to the whiteness Of the bread
GA most estimable lady, who for many
years has ornamented society by her grace
and accomplishments - in New Orleans, has
been deserted by her husband, an ex-colo.
mel of the Union army. The New Orleans
Times says: "Quite recently he invited the
lady and her children out to walk, and
stopping casually on corner, asked them
to wait there a few minutes until he re.
Joined them. Muchito the surprise of all,
an hour passed without his returning
Fearing some calamity, the lady started
home. There. to her horror, the servants
Informed her the man had put'his trunks in
an express wagon and started off. The house
had been Stripped of every article OF value
Plate, Jewelly, and even the casket con.
tanning her diamonds, were gone a note
CURLY informed the distracted woman heI
deceiver had suddenly been called away
and now the fact is developed that he has .
Wife and four children in the North :" 10