The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-04


profit last year Of SJJp,Ooo.
nro m nearly 81 400, 900 worth OF gold
Queen Victoria invites guests 70 ofeak'
fast at o'clock 7. NJ.
The brcakwater at Duluth, Mlhh'' Is 10
he $500 feet long.
Abolish countess keeps mountain ho1el
in New York state.
Now Orleans has been healthy ana thc
weather comfortable OF iatc.
hose mandatory in Opclika, Ala.,
turns out 1 800 dozen per week.
Drawin. and quartcrlng for treason mas
inst been abolished in England.
The German paper in Burlington, Iowa,
so,ts the Prussian flag over its Office.
CONGRESSMAN Brockway, of Connect,
cut, died last week.
Tbcre arc forty->lX churches in San fran-
cisco. The grandest building is the jewish
synagogue.
Tho yicksburc Herald says the genuine
cotton worm has made its appearance
around there.
Mr.. Papan, of the French Humanitarian
So,.ietv. is i'm Southwest Missouri looking
for land upon which to COLOMBO two thou
sand French families.
Some cruel wretch in Elkhart county,
Indiana, cut of the ears OF twcnty-thrcc
horses in one ncighborhood on the night OF
the I'D.
The Germans of Springfield, Illinois, gave
the net proceeds of their Fourtll-ot-July
celebration $50 to the Home Of the Friend,
less in that city.
The Democrats of the fourteenth Ohio
district have nominated Lyman Il. Crilch-
field as their candidate for Congress.
General George w. Morgan has he en- re-
nominated for Congress by reclamation by
the Democrats of the thirteenth Ohio dis
trict.
A fire in Syracuse, New York, Tuesday
considerably damaged the stores OF Town.
send, Grant Il Co., hardware dealers; Ro-
bert Davis, bookseller; Michael Tobin,
tobacconist Moore & Johnson, hattcrs;
and several others. Loss, $4,000; fully in
Surcd.
The Democrats of Clarion county, Penn
sylvania, have blazoned the following po-
itical creed upon their banner eve be-
liCYc this to he Il white mans Government,
formed by white men for the benefit of
white men anu lnelr pOSlcTltS loIcfcI anu
so believing, we are opposed to the fifteenth
amendment, which was conceived in in
iuuity and adopted by force at the point Of
the bayonet, in opposition to the wishes of
the DcOplc and In violation of the Constitll-
ton not only of the State Of Pennsylvania
but of the United States"
R. Shelton Mackenzie, in his life of Dick
ems, now nearly ready, will endcavor to es-
tablish that, as he says in letter to friend
in this city, " there never was no such per-
son AS Charles Dickens" Mr.. Mackenzie
saws the real name Of the distinguished all-
thor was Charles John Houghmandichc.
His volume, to be published by Mcssrs.
Lippincott. will comprise Il chapter or two
of personal rccollcctions of Dickens, be-
sides other interesting material never before
published relative to his antecedentS and
character. Tribune.
The Iuka (MississippD Gazette Of the 9th
rltimo saws: "Presidcnt Jefferson Davis
passed M this road few days ago on his
way to Europe for his family. We have
some reasons to believe that he has been
invited by crowned head TO come to that
country and engage in certain war now
going on. If Mr.. Davis were to do tins,
thousands Of Confederate soldiers would
follow him. jeff. Davis to-day stands higher
in the estimation of the virtuols and brave
than any man In America. We hope lie
NAV be made Il marshal of France