The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-03-10

Richmond. Va, has Rosebud Concerts
In which one hundred children sing Tor the
benefit of the orphans.
An editor out in Missouri has got the fiji
tecnth amendment awfully mixed up. He
calls it the Fifteenth bedamdment."
Professor Stafford offers to establish stand
ard time in Chicago for the uHc OF the city
for s. 600 per annum.
The salutatorv of the new editor Of the
Obcrlin (Ohio) Ne,rs is: " We come here
to make money and q readable paper"
Weston, Missouri, people lately hung an
innocent man for horse-stealing, and are
now raising money to get him a gravestone.
Riddle for the skating season (wheu it
ome again.: Why is a fall like the want
Of u letter 7? Because it makes a tumbler
'unbler.
Why does o donkey eat Il thistle? This
tic puzzle you). Because he's an ass.-
Charlottesville E~ntelligcncer.
The Cincinnati Chronicle compositor who
changed the name of the gunboat OncidG
to cone Idea " evidently had the latter on
the brain-Bost0n Transcript.
A Cincinnati Judge has decided that q
blow from q husband to a wife is sufficient
ground for q divorce. How is it when the
wife does the blowing ?-Neu York Demo-
crat.,
Here is @ little girl who will take all the
prizes in some uptown school by-and-bye +:
Ibid I not tell you" said her father, not
10 pick flowers in the conservatory without
leaver' eyes, papa but oil thcee had
leaves.'-Ncp York Post.
Tie Frankfort (Ky.) Teomun of Satur-
day says General Leslie Combs, the Oldest
man in the world, was in tow last week
locking az young and hearty as he did some
$50 years ago, when he first came to this
country with his friend and schoolmate,
Christopher Columbus.
Mrs. Esther Morris, one of the new just
ices Of the peace in Wyoming, is q good
wife, the mother of three sons, and u strong
minded and strong-todied woman. She is
hfty-seyen years old, and writes for the
Revolution, but never lectures. On her
FIRST court day she wore q calico gown,
worsted breakfast shawl, green ribbons on
her hair, and q green neck-tie.
It is related in Harrisburg that Governor
Major General John w. Geary was recently
invited to address the children Of a public
school, and in alluding to W~ashingtou's
birthday, put the following question "Now,
boys, why should we celebrate Washing
ton's birthday any more than mine Yn In
the midst Of profound silence q little fell
low OF the foot Of the class rose and replied 4:
"Because he never told a lie."
The Columbus Journal says: "Hubbell
thinks he could have whipped Curtis, but
he wasn't able to make up his mind whether
to hit him with his right hand or his loft,
and when he tried to gain time in the usual
way, by lodging, Curt. called the previous
question on him, and forced a decision on
the side Of the noes"
an overworked friend of ours recently
took, by advice, q tonic, composed of quiz
nine, s~trychnine, and iron. The quinine
went to his head and made it ache fear
fully; the stryehnine vent to his stomach
and gave him an intense collie. No trace
of the iron has as yet been detected. but
but wa fear it has entered his soul.-Ne,o.
,York Star.
Georgia is now complaining Of cold wea-
ther, and fears that injury has been doae
10 the CROPS.