The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-05-07
An active man in sn agricultural societ
in South Carolina is DR.. Turnipseed.

An active man in sn agricultural society
in South Carolina is DR.. Turnipseed.
The works of the Cane Fibre Company
were destroyed in Wilmington, N. G., We'd
nssday. LOSS, $40,
The Valley Viyginian says staunton is
growing. A number Of handsome stores
and dwellings are looming up"
Colonel william 7. Lundy, 9 prominent
and much-esteemed citizen of Greens7ille
county, died ut his residence at Hicksford
on Tuesday.
The total amount of internal revenue re-
ceip.s for the ten mouths ending April 80
weIe $ll5,552, 375 33. For the month of
April the receipts were $l2,0 54 ,04l.lo.
In Chicago on Tuesday two grab thieves
stole S., 1000 worth Of diamonds from o jew
elry store, and succeeded in getting away
with ther plumber.
In the steamer Baltimore, which left
Baltimore for Bremen on Wednesday, we're
H. A. Phillips, John T, Koehler, Jacob
Lisfeld, and William Euker-sll of Rich
mond, Va.
We have the high authory of the Newark
Journal, edited by one Of the most distin-
| guished men Of New Jersey, to the effect
that the money Of Mr. Borie, the present
| Secretary Of the Navy, largely aided in the
establishment Of the Observation-Disclosures
| Inteligences.
Secretary Boutwell, has been urged to sell
more gold than his limit OF one million dol
lars per week would allow, in order that
the premium may be kept down, but he re-
| plies that under no circumstances will he
sllow the Government to be drawn into
competition with spectators in gold.
The Quakers have got the contract for
doing the Indians. The Valley Spirit says:
"lmagine one Of these drsb- colored gentry
| persuading Q brute Sioux from lifting his
| lair by saying, Friend Spotted Tail,
thee must not Irvine thy fingers SO lovingly
around my scalp look
Chaloner, the youth who shot Ensign
Whitaker in Quebec, Canada, for seducing
his sister, has been acquitted of the charge
of murder. Demonstrations Of applause
were suppressed inside the courtroom, but
on tho outside the lad was loudly cheered.
At Davenport, Iowa, On Monday, q young
man named George Clayton, while out ri
ding with q young lady, took q pistol from
his pocket, and while handling it carelessly
it was discharged, the ball entering his
head, inhicting q wound which caused his
death in a few hours.
Horace Edda, q shoemaker, aged So years,
q resident Of %Etuyvesant Falls, New York,
committed suicide on Wednesday by jump
ing q distance of so feet from the bridge at
that place. His body vas horribly man
glei BY the rocks.
We are informed that Mr.. Francis
Crosby, an old gentleman se%venty-nine
years Of age, intends to make an overland
trip from San Francisco to New York on
foot, starting from the plaza on the 18th OF
May next.-San Francisco Chronicle, april
q.
John Whitney, supposed by rc-y to
have been one Of those who di.Pcecd OF
Morgan, the Masonic spostate, did in
Chicago on the I'd, aged se~venty-foCr. AT
the time of the Morgan excitement Whitney
was several times incarcerated IT Jel. on
suspicion.
Among the full graduates at the recent
commencement Of the Southern Naptist
Theological Seminary we observe the
names Of two Yirginians-Mr. d. Q. ToWn-
send, Of this city, and Mr.. Luther Broad.
dus, son OF Rev. Andrew Broaddus, Jr., OF
Caroline county.
Virgins is "death" on a compromise
bait o hook with that single word and she
cannot resist g nibble. Blu, having, in her
| assem- BLEED council, made the compromise,
we presume there is but one thing TO do
~pow-beatt the Underwood ~abomination, and
take o little comfort in the feet that the OPP
pressed South ie made the irresponsible in
| sstrument to force negro suffrage on the un-
wiling North Clarke doHrter.