The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-12

Efforts are being made to induce Edwin
Booth to make southern tour.
George Cruikshank is in his seventy
eighth year.
Louisville claims population of one hun-
drel and fifty thousand.
The United States branch mint at Carson,
Nevada, is now ready for operations.
1t is announced in st. Louis that Tom
Allen accepts Jim Mace's challenge to fight
him in Canada or louisiana.
Palmer 4 Co.. carriagc-spring makers, in
Concord, N. H., we're burnt out Sunday.
Loss, 5000; insurance, $l2,500.
The citizens of Corinne, Utah Territory,
have built an adobe church-thc first Chris
tan cdifice in Utah.
Rev. John C. Smith, D. D., pastor of the
Fourth Presbyterian church, Washington,
and the oldest pastor Of tho District, is
lying seriously i'll at his residence.
An inccniiary fire in Memphis, Tenn,
Sunday night destroyed the store Of Carroll
{. Co. IN Front Row. Loss, $4,000; fully
insured.
The cabinet factory Of Alfred Horner in
the northern part Of Philadelphia, was
burned Sunday. Loss, $4,000; partially
insured.
The Gulf or Cuba cable tariff rate has
been reduced, and q further reduction is
contemplated when the West India cable is
finished.
Tie two hundred and fifty Chinese from
San Francisco Tia Pacific railroad, St.
Louis, and the Mississippi railroad, have
passed New Orleans en- route for Texas.
4 northern Methodist Clergyman named
Cooke is reported to have elopcd from New
York with young woman, member of bis
flock, leaving behind his wife and two chill
dTcn. Particulars elsewhere.
General Fremont is out in a letter deny
ing the statements of General Cluseret pre-
judicial to the mode of conducting the sale
of the bonds of the Memphis and Ell Paso
railroad in Paris.
Reuben Crow was assas1inated OF Aber
deem, Tennessee, on Thursday night. A
colorcd man named Burrcll has been Or
rested on suspicion. He duplicates two
white men, who, he says, hired him to COM
NIT the deed.
The Indiana Democratic State Conven-
ton on Saturday passed denunciatory reso-
lutions of Congress for its reconstruction
measures and attempted interference with
the United States Supreme Court; also, re-
solutions favoring the repeal of the present
tariff; declaring that the five-twenty bonds
are payable in greenbacks, and that the ma
tional banks should be abolished denoun-
cling the fifteenth amendment, and opposing
any change.in the naturalization laws.
Professor Blot will begin on Monday to
distribute to the dwellings, of the people
of Brooklyn such food as civilized human
beings ought to eat and be nourished by
of good quality, well-cooked, and ut once
palatab and digestible. A customer or
ders meals by the card, and they are de-
livercd hot and fresh at his door. We
urge all Brooklynites who would diminish
the miseries of housekeeping, while living
long and we'll, to give him fair trial.
Greeley.
That must have been strange scene IN
Madagascar when the Queen had the royal
idols brought and committed to the flames.
She had embraced Christianity, and when
the chapel for divine service was ready, the
disgraced diety, which consisted OF two
pieces of silk with small splinter of wood
in the middle, was taken from his temple
and thrust into n fire. The crowd declared
that, being u god, he would not burn-ye.t,
somehow, " he" was very soon consumed;
and then, with no little pathos, " the peo-
pie, seeing that now they had no gods to
Worship, sent to the Queen to ask what they
wore to worship for the future" The
foundation of their faith had indeed been
greatly shaken. The Queen is to send
| teachers Of Christianity among them, and
Madagascar, one of the "dark places OF
the EARTH" is likely to have turned the last
page of the sanguinary records which have
hitherto formed so large part Of her his
tory.-Ne,o York Times.