The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-08-15


Thorn, who keeps the American bar and
restaurant IN Paris, Is said 10 have made
ZOO in the hast three years.
Charles Louis, brother TO the Emperor of
Austria, will marry next fall the youngest
daughter of Ferdinand III.
1t is stated that the Kaiser Franz Grenadier
Band carried home about 100000 a. their
share of the receipts of the ron'crts they
gave in America.
Potter Plmei's new hotel in Chicago is
TO he eight stories high, anu vii! contain
eight hundred and fifty rooms.
There will be M immense grape crop a:
the West this season. In Kansas only two
cents pound is expected for the best fruit.
Ncw-faahioned earrings are made Of plain
gold, cut in the shape OF square, upon
which raised monograms arc engraved.
They are very unique.
Rev. Dr.. Eurnpss, of Philadelphia has had
sole charge of church longer than any
other Unitarian minister in the United
States. lie was settled in 1926.
General Tom Thumb has yacht, and like
wise a yuchting~sl which required almost Il
of the craft are. not mentioned.
Worth. the celebrated lnalr drcSSnaker OF
Paris, has published card i'll which nc de-
nie> the. report that he lEls or is about to
open Il branch establishment in New York.
The balance OF trade is disturbed in Will
mington, \. C., by the fact that Watrrmclons
ARE only three cents apiece, while cholera
mixture is halt i dollar bottle.
Nilsson'- husband accommodated HIM
SELF from the Catholic Church by being mar
ried in all Episcopal sanctuary. Nilsson her.
self is a Lutheran.
Mr. Henry Phillips, who was hunting
companion Of the Immortal Crockett. died ut
his home, hear Troy, Dbion county. Tenn,
last week, aged .eishty-siN.
The highest salary paid in the British
Cabinet is that Of the Lord Chanc nlOr-!itly
thousand dollars year. Mr. Gladstonc's
pay as First Lord of the Treasury is just
one half.
Fish are so thick in Clear Lake, Califar-
MIA, that a veracious citizen says: at is
only necessary to wade in and choose your
fish, the difficulty being which fish to
choose" y
In Augusta, Ca last Sunday, h minister
preached, by request, before the "Brother-
hood of Locomotive Engineers" His pain
fully suggestive text was, "This year thou
shalt die.
Sugar-nakiug from melons is the last she
ceSSful experiment in California. The sugar
is said to he very fine and melons plenty, 50
they are having g sweet thing" of it out
there.
The parents of Colonel Ellsworth, who
was killed at Alexandria, Va, in May, 1861,
it is said, have Started plan for luising mo-
ncy to build him a monument. 1t is to be
procured by subscriptions.
The celebrated Military Library of Metz
the Prlssian staff. 1t consists of about forty
are of extreme rarity, also OF precious MSS.
and drawings.
The Sioux, are very obseTvant. One OF
Spotted Tails followers, who speaks little
English, seeing one'of the servant girls of
the hotel take Off her chignon, exclaimed:
Chow! White woman raise her own scalp!
Indian no good here !"
a good, innocent Philadelphian thinks
that news boys should be more honest. He
paid four cents for a paper because the boy
cried I" Batte-iH North Carolina! Horace
Greeley wounded in the leg" and there was
no such thing i'll 1t.
A New England advertiser wants "a wo-
man who fears the Lord and weighs 200
pounds" and the editor OF the paper re-
marks that ''the experience of most men il
that woman who weighs 200 pounds rarely
fears the Lord or anybody else"
Gilmore has at last become the owner of
the Coliseum. Thirty thousand dollars is
the figure, in cash, ms the committee hap
pened to-oWe Mr.. Gilmore considerable. He
proposes to give three-dollar-a-head concerts;
so the big thing in music is not for month,
but for all time.
A witty son or St. Patrick was in charge of
a ferryboat. 4 lady passenger, being fright
ened by the waves, asked him: !" Are people
ever lost by this boat ~ He give her the
encouraging reply: e Not often, ma'ams; we
generally find them nfterHard by dragging