The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-03-11


| Minister of Finance, expressed himself for
free trade, and advocated an immediate but
gradual reform in the customs by the adop-
ton Of compromise tariff.
Twelve feet of snow on level this win
ter in Canada.
The New York Tribune says Mr.. Wilson,
Of Iowa, is understood to aspire to q place
in the Senate.
1t is said that the Indians Of the plains
| will not take scalps from the heads Of ne
gro soldiers killed in battle.
Among the bills reported to the Michigan
| Legislature is one to prevent the shooting
of any person /" in sport"
It is reported that General schofeld will
retire from the War Department in very
few days.
Spring opened in northern New Hamp-
shire with the thermometer thirty-four de-
grees below zero.
Texas has agreed to pay 500 and to give
forty acres of land to company for every
immigrant it brings into the State.
A company at Lexington, ILL.,, consumes
forty-nine tons of beets daily in the manu-
facture Of sugar.
Concord, N. H., has had eighty-three
days Of uninterrupted sleighing up to last
Monday. Nearly six feet has fallen this
| winter.
Two thousand citizens of Indianapolis
signed the pledge at the beginning of the
| wear, and eleven of them are believed to
have kept it thus far.
| There are $50 American students at the
various German universities, and over 900
male and female American pupils at first
class German boarding schools.
All the bills removing disabilities from
Virginians failed in the last Congress. A
bill with oil the names (scalawags) will be
introduced very soon.
The Louisiana Legislature has passed o
| bill authorizing the licensing of gambling
houses, the price Of the license being fixed
at $4,000.
W. W. Worden, Esq, was admitted Tues
day to practice as an attorney in the United
| States Supreme Court. He is better known
to the readers Of the Dispatch by another
| name. r..
The Danyille Register tells of o negro
well-digger who was buried in q we'll seven
hours by its caying in, and covering him to
the depth Of twenty feet with stones, &C.,
and who was not fatally injured.
In Texas the wheat crop promises well,
and in some parts of the State corn is
rising in price, and is now worth fifty cents
in specie per bushel. A short time since
it could hardly be disposed Of at any
price.
"senator schurz boldly protested
against the appointments for Missouri as
proposed by the President, and for his
trouble received the consoling reply, 81
know the people of Missouri better than
you do."-Baltimaore Gazette.
John C. Breckenridge arrived in Cincin.
natl Saturday, and was the guest of Wash
ington Mclean, Of the Cincinnati Enquirer
until Sunday eve, when he crossed the river
to Covington, KY, to receive the hospitality
of prominent rebel sympathizers there.
The liquor question is agitating England
The Pail Mall Gazette expresses its views
tersely as follows "We fear that the first
step to any sensible reforms in the law re-
lating to the sale Of drink must be the sup
preston Of the temperance reformers.'
An old Indian silver mine has been found
in Indiana. Over one of the furnaces was
found tree that had attained diameter
of fifteen inches, showing the great anti
guilty of the mine. A quantity of fine meta
was found at the bottom Of one Of the fur
naces.
Mr.. Catlin, the prairie traveller, com
municates to Trubner's american and ORR
entail Literary Record the curious state
ment that great river, larger than the
Mississippi" flows under the Rocky Noun
tains! Mr.. Catlin is about to publish the
evidence which he has collected in favor o.
this startling hypothesis. 49,.
John Madner, book-keeper for A. O
Shepard & Co., of Waterford, has been de-
tected in embezzling $1,000 from the firm
He had bought a mill in Canada, and hac
embezzled money on deposit in Canads
bank to pay for it. Heowned up and made
restitution. 1.. No. ).
Joseph Harding, now in his ninety-fftf
year, was made Mason in the old Adam!
Lodge, of Wellfeet, on the Sd of January, il
the year 1900. He is member Of the pre-
sent Adams Lodge, and with propriety Cal
claim the honor of being the oldest living
Mason in the United States.
The Northern Pacific railroad, having
failed to get subsidy from the Govern
ment, now proposes to 60 to work on its Owl
bonds, backed by the original land grant
1t proposes to cut a canal from South Boul
der to Clear Greek, Colorado, OF a cost O
Sl5S,00O. A large number Of new milll
would then be put in operation.
| A dispatch from st. Louis dated the 6tl
says: "The preliminary arrangement
were made this evening for fight between
McCoole and Allen for 81 600 side, will
the stipulation that McCoole cannot whiI
Allen in one hour and half. Fifty dollar
forfeit was put up, and $3.50 more is to b.
nut up on Monday. McCoole insists OF
making the stakes $4,000 or $4,000 q side.'
Did Aristotle crib from Solomon is .
question that agitates Oriental scholars il
Europe. a Jewish tradition says tina
/ Alexander the Great took from the Temple
l at Jerusalem some MSS. Of Solomon e
which MSS, the conqueror is reported t.
have given to Aristotle, who publishes
them as his own and writer in Note
| and Queries asks what foundation there j
for it. 1' TT ,.ss. IS, Ill ~ ars !,
/ CPECIAL NOTICE. am now prepared
1.kC 10 make to oorder all kinds of WAGONS
CARTS. aud DRAYr OF the very best .materia