The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-08-27


wearing boards more than an inch long.
Hon. Montgomery Blair spoke for Greeley
at Martinsburg, West Va. lust week.
Said conceited young lady: You men are
q cOyct-uS set.
The street lamps in New York each cost
the city $3.50 Il year.
In New York lust week there were nearly
twice is many deaths as births.
Mr.. Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., has left Paris for
Hanover to pursue his collegiate course.
Mr. Forsiedcnboccnstiefel has established
Il foundry at Terrc Haute, Ind.
DR.. Lowell Mason received Il larger copy
right than any other author except Sir Wal
ter Scott.
There are siXty-thrcc advertised letter. in
the Kansas City post-otlicc for Mrs Josephine
l.. Arson.
The Marquis of Butte cannot be induced
to ride on horseback, having superStitious
dread thereof.
\ sufferer at one of the mountain houses
says 1.-the flies come down to breakfast at the
sound of the gong"
Omaha has Il new hotel that cost 100000.
and hopes to find a man soon who will know
how to keep it.
The little New York hoy who persisted in
eating matches has gone where matches are
not made.
Ex-Governor Curtin and family left Liver
pool tor New York OH Thursday. 18th i'll
slant.
Colonel Thomas A. Scott aud the Texas
Pacific party left San Francisco for San Diego
last night.
A large colony of gypsies are rnc'mred on
tie western bank of the Connecticut river Il
short distance above Springfield.
Burglar. are now actively engaged in har-
vesting their crops from the mansions OF the
absent fashionable people III New York.
Fan him with your boots" is said Ivy
those familiar with the subject to be the
latest thing in slang.
Mrs. Alice Carter, of Nashville, aged if
teen years, has pctitioncd for divorce llollI
Samuel Carter.
While laboring under religious excitement
man In JerseyYille. ILL.,, dismtrhed the
church organ WITH Ills iliatchet.
The question, Had st. Paul wife, or was
the great apostle a widower? is being dis
cuSscd in the Baltimore American.
Gcueral Mcclellan was hnbnobhins sa;'lr-
day with brigham Young aHd Other MeI-
mon oliitiuls Ia Utah.. $50
The cross on the Episcopal church nj Mar
tinsburg, West Va, was Knocked on by
lightning on the 23d instant.
John Baptist Dufour, native of France.
died at Gallpolis, Ohio, last week, aged one
hundred and three years, and never bad
been sick a day.
4 barrel of beer exploded in New Ham
burg. Mr.. Jewell, who was rolling 1t into
his cellar, has retired to bis bed with Il tlac'
turcd skull.
Models of all rejected inventions will be
sold next Thursday at the Patent Office in
Washington. Cannon, cradles, and collins
are included.
Rev. DR.. McElhinney, a professor i'll the
Theological Seminary at Gambler, Ohio, is
preparing to remove to Alexandria, Va,
where he has accepted professorship.
Among the ridiculous bets Of the cam
paign is one made by two nien in Salt Lake
City, in which the loser agrees to wear a
Chinese suit of clothes for ninety days.
The following odd advertisement appeared
in Knoxville (renn.) paper: " Wanted,
this day, twenty-five persons to lecture Inc
on morality. Reasonable wages will lie
paid"
In order to keep pace with the progress of
the age, old Father Time is said TO have been
obliged to abandon his scythe and hour-glass
and purchase 4 patent moring-machinc and
steln-winding watch.
A Cincinnati paper boasts that Cincinnati
is the best market for cheap iewelry in the
western country. 1t says one house alone
has sold SSS775, 900 worth in the past year.
The English fruit crop is a complete fail
ure--not only apples, pears, and peaches,
but the smaller fruits and berries. The cold
weather in March destroyed the buds.
The land Of western farm is described
MS being SO wet that the owner hoes his corn
with q diuper and digs his potatoes With .
book and lipe,