The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-02-01
An ice-house and o kitchen were burned

fortunes followed. -Ne,o York correspond
ence Chicago Journal. p.
An ice-house and o kitchen were burned
at Campbell Courthouse last Saturday.
The California State Assembly on satur-
day rejected the fifteenth amendment by q
vote of ffty-one to eight.
Leferts Bergen, farmer, was robbed by
three highwaymen, on Friday night, at
Hyde Park, Long Island, of some $4,000.
The latest boon to the French peo-
ple-The Empress's baboon.-New York
Leader.
Two men and woman fell into the water
while climbing the ladder to schooner at
Brooklyn IN. " dock-yard Saturday
evening, and all were drowned.
James R. Henry has sued the Chicago
City railway, damages $4,000, for eject
ing him from car in violent manner
after he had paid his fare.
The tobacco warehouse of Christian Pop
per, at St. Louis, was damaged by fire on
Thursday to the extent of 1000 or $685.
900; mostly covered by insurance.
J. j. Ramsey, q wcll-known citizen of
Memphis, was murdered near Cherokee,
Miss, on the 2Sth of January by negro,
who cut Mr.. Ramsey's throat.
The old Patriot buildings, in Montpelier,
VT, occupied chiefly as stores, was de-
stroyed by fire Saturday morning by the
I.upsetting of kerosene lamp.
Plumbago, SO long supposed to be min
eral, has been found to be really the debris
or shells of an extinct race OF minute in
sects.-Adolph OH.
The Democratic soldiers of Brooklyn,
New York, have organized a society called
the Grand Army of the Constitution. Gen
eral Koseloy is commander, and seventeen
other generals are among the members.
A gentleman in st. Louis prays for d.
vorce on account of his wife's numerous fast
days. 1t isn't usually the fast days, but
rather the fast nights that cause such
troubles World.
| William Brunt, formerly president Of the
Board of Registration, under the RECONSTRUCT
ton acts, at Savannah, was assassinated
on Friday night at q railroad station be-
tween Savannah and Thomasville.
Gonzalo Castimon, the Cuban editor who
came over to Key West to fight duel with
an editor, found his man at the hotel and
had an alteration with him. Castimon
vas arrested, and a duel spoiled.
Country Clergyman Ito northern farmer,
new style): Shall We see you at church
next Sunday?"
Northern Farmer IN. S.: eyes, I'll
90, or send q hand"
A collision occurred on the Erie railroad
Saturday afternoon, just west Of the Ber-
gen tunnel, between passenger and On oil
train. George Wannaker, carpenter, was
killed, and two other persons were slightly
injured.
Eleven prisoners escaped Saturday from
Camden IN. J.) Jail by removing bar
from the door of the corridor where they
were permitted for time to be. Two had
been convicted of burglary, and were about
to be removed to the State prison at Tren-
ton.
The late elections in Paris added one
good pun to the literature of Wit. I" Pour
qai Uotez-uous ?" asked one elector Of
another. /" Pour Raspail," was the reply.
Now Raspail has made fortune by selling
preparation Of camphor as panacea ;
so the second elector rojoined, Pour Ras-
pail Qu'en Jercz-rous 2" (Camphrez-
voas y
A Maine editor estimates that a foot of
snow would be worth s30,OOO,0 900 to New
England. Millions of feet of logs, he says,
ore lying in the forests Of Maine and New
Hampshire awaiting the fall of enough
snow to enable them to be hauled to
market. The oxen and teams recently en-
ployed in the work are eating their heads
oil in the stables teamsters are idle; and
the owners of the lumber are troubled to
get money enough to meet the actual ex-
pcnses of living.
"The Republican party" said philo-
sophical Scion the other day, is made up
of many elements that were discordant in
themselves, but harmonized over the dan
ger that threatened the whole Government.
It reminds mo of the crowd of men, wo-
men, children, animals, and vehicles, on @
ferry boat. SO long rs they are on the
stream they keep together. When the boat
touches land they all separate, each going
his own way, q stranger to the others"
A writer in the Evangelical Messenger
estimates the amount spent yearly in the
United States for intoxicating drinks ut
nearly n billion and half of dollars. He
shows that this sum would build fifty thou
sand churches and parsonages and supply
minister to each would support twenty
thousand home missionaries furnish every
man, woman, and child, in the country with
copy of the Bible; would build high
school wherever there is post-oihce, and
do multitudes of other things to elevate and
bless the race.
A Christian Union Convention has just
been held in Portsmouth, Ohio, composed Of
delegates from the adjacent counties. Rev:
DR.. Burr, the Episcopal minister, delivered
the address Of welcome. Phe sessions were
characterized by perfect unity and spirit
Of deep deYotion. A writer, in describing
the meeting, says that, since the dsy OF
Pentecost, no assembly ever received o more
| plenary baptism of the Holy Ghost. Pres
byterians, Baptists, Episcopalians, German
Reformed, German Methodist, and other
denominations, spsks the language Of Go,
J mean az The Spirit gave them gtteys1ee,