The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-01-02

the week these gentlemen have been Visit-
| inc the law courts, libraries, sc. the
arrangement FOR jurors attracted most their
| sttention. The room 10 where the Jurymen
| rat;re 10 consider their verdict is 80 tittea
up that each Juror can withdraw to sort OF
| reserved seat TO commune with nus oon
acience. Before him is . desk, with TWO
| printed slips of paper, having "a. . oi :, l&
space left to write in the word mguiny' es
anoS auiity,"ns he believes. ne pu,s tnls
,a ~ In a sors Of urn. When all the
tickets are deposited, the foreman collects
them. adds mp the result, and on entering
.ho so,rt announces to the registrar the
decision Of the majority.
rs IMPROVEMENT OF PARIS.
Dnrine the years 1867 and 1863 Baron
Hsussmann and his merry men knocked
down .1,764 houses, representing mean
value each Of zoo, 000f., or total Of 1885,
0e0; 0aaf. Some 1856 new houses have to
pay the expenses Of these demolitlons oy
an increased rent. Hence how the poor
are improved ont Of the city, and whyTso
| many !" marble halls /" are deserted. FRO,
pr;etors Of new houses are penny wise and
nound foolish--sooner than let them at
rational rent, they prefer to keep them idle !;
| some for one or two years. AS house taxes
are only levied when premises are occupied,
landlords foolishly think they do not suffer
hy having q house louer for o year 30;
but this is the fact and the rule.
THE HUSBAND MURDERERs.
The Msrseilles widows have been trans
| norted for life, except one, who was SEN
fenced to twenty years. imprisonment. Inc
widow Gabriel's mother and cousin were
acquitted; but Joye, the seller OF the pol
sons, and Lambert, his accomphce, we're
| transported for life. So ends this strange,
eventful history. 80 5." ~"
49,: TEE PARIS PRESS.
It seems to be q necessity with Partisan
journalism that to keep the old as well as
to attract the new subscribers newspapers
must hold out some prize. Oranges and
alarm-clocks have had their day, but the
newest thing out is to present yearly sub
scribers with itchen-range, veloclpede,
or a concertina. Some go in for bon bons,
and others for silk nufflers the principle
being that the object presented is the equl-
yalent in value to the subscription. In
deed. It would look as if monster houses,
selling a spkc;aliie, start 8 journal the bet
ter to buff its sale. Che eye is positively
fatigued with looking at big posters and
little handbills touching new journals that
are to appear, or old ones to be transform
ed. Tomorrow the "Free Press" will
make it's dsbut-rather an anachronism just
now. > 49,. .,,r-ra p
CHRISTMAS.
The evidences of approaching Christmas
are becoming plain even in Paris, where IL
is not observed as a festival, but where fat
geese. Christmas trees, holly, &c., leave no
doubt of the time drawing nigh. goose
fair has lust closed. at Strssbourg, where
birds with aldermanic flyers have ruled as
high as eighty francs. The season has
opened among the English and American
colonists, and promises to be very gay. In.
deed, Paris is very full this winter OF
strangers, the Spanish " emigration" largely
contributing to the influx.
A FIRE IN THE TUILERIEs.
During the week fire broke out in the
Tuileries, and the fact spread rapidly over
Paris, hundreds flying in cabs to see the
sight, for it is not every day palace is in
flames. But it was the chimney only of a
storeroom that caught fire, and was put out
very quickly. The cause is unknown, but
it is not the less singular no one can ex-
plain its origin-Greek fire cannot even &C
count for it. Likely it was done advisedly:
it was nearly worth doing to see the efficient
ARRANGEMENTS executed in the twinkling of
an eye, by the military, for keeping the peo-
pie back-a hint not to be lost sight of
should the crowd be as disorderly as that in
February, ls4S.
THE THEATRES.
The theatres are bringing out their pan
tomimes-a kind of satire on the years
events, generally well got up and witty
but wanting Attic flavor, as political events
cannot be touched upon and the new law
on private life hedges with divinity the
marked points or eccentricities of public
men. Paris must ever have its lion
tanner" and Mr.. Cooper has supplied
Batty's vacancy. He has already come 10
grief with his pets-an accident which mis-
his exchequer at the same time. MlSS
Multen-which is East Lynne dramatlzed-
has sent Dickens's Abinse {" No Thorough
fare') abyssward indeed. The whole CITY
runs to see it, and to cry-an expression Oh
pathos rare with French ladies. E1-lsa-
bella the Second was spectator, ana pos
s;hlv shed more tears than she did Tor the
loss If the crown of Leon and CASTLE. At
Comniagne the piece was acted during the
.west and nroduced several moist eyes
the Empress being visibly affected.
-, .SscrppgTNgFEss-FATAL ACCIDENT.
+ There is pause just now in the number
of udreadful murders" and smoking
sn;eides.n However, the following may
act as a sswarning voice =: A young STU
sent. eighteen, lived with his widowed
mother in an attic, in the Boulevard Males
herbes; in a neighboring attic lived
nretty ,milliner, which cruel irony calls a
I. R;rd of, Paradise" from the elevation Of
their dwelling places, eyed seventeen. The
two lovers connected their windows by
thread. and go "exchanged notes." One
evening at dusk the poor student undertook
the perilous task Of walking along the roof
10 visit Juliet--a few steps taken, and Ro-
mao was picked up in the street, lifeless
mass Of mangled flesh.
astas~I hne ROSSINI.
II is said London firm has offered
Madame Rossini $4,000 francs for her
husbands eighty posthumous compositions.
vELoCIPEDEs.
It i, intended during the winter to hold
weekly races with velocipedes in the Bots
de Boulogne. The skating club will offer
silver cup to the yelocipedists for run on
| the lake should circumstances prove propi
tious. Indeed, these vehicles are becoming
as numerous as cabs, and are got up re-
gardless Of expense some are furnished
with ready reokoners to calculate the dis
lance gone over. One go-a-head school pro-
prietor has mounted all his pupils with
these machines, and can be seen daily