The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-08-29

A lot Of German sparrows have been inn
ported for the parks i'll Washington.
Ex-Governor f. III. Picrpoint, Of West Vir-
ginia, is in New York.
a church organ at SchuyervilIe, N. Y, is
run by water.
Louis Napoleon goes to Bagnor for sea-
bathing.
A japanese woman runs barber shop in
San Francisco.
About 100000 arrive Mt Salt Lake every
week in the shape of silver bullion.
Joseph d. Broughton, an old Baltimore
| shipmaster, died suddenly at FredGrlckS.
burg, Va, OIL Saturday night last.
Bret Harte's new play is entitled Gan
American Comedy" 1t will be brought out
at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York.
General Glasgow, United States Consul at
| IIavrc. has just married an American widow
| in Paris. The wedding was Il fine affair.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is an invctcrate card
player, and has won some thousands of dol-
lars at Saratoga, it is sud, during this season.
Munton Marble, of the World it is sud. is
| in so feeble Il state of health rs TO preclude
| I'LL hope of his recovery.
The Italian Government is eXerting itself
| to stop the traffic in lurdy-Surdy and tam
| BOURNE children.
Fifteen theatres and other places of public
amusement have been closed i'll Paris on ac-
count of the hot weather.
The income of three English insurance
companies in the United States for ISL was
| Sj,5SG.SSj.
The Dublin bakers have given over their
| strike. and ill their accustomed rolls i'll
peace.
Mr.. Berghs heart ought to be full of hap
piues> over the rccei pt of nearly nine thou.
sand dollars, donations, of late.
4 block OF marble weighing 10000 pounds
| has been taken from quarry ut Ro%rrsrllir,
| Tenn.
More rain fell in Boston in one hour last
week than duril" the whole of the inOnth OF
| August. $50.
y Tennessee paper records the marriage
Of Il hoy of sixteen to girl thrcc years
younger.
Charles Hamlin. bloody home guard and
son of Senator Hamlin, is one OF the Maine
Igners to call for Grant :" soldiers con-
vention.
| Mrs Harriet BceclIer Stowe has written Il
letter against Greeley, saying against him,
l.owcvcr, nothinga is bad ~ she said OF Lord
! Byron.
William Tells chapel, at Uri, Switzerland,
is in such rlliuolls condition that the alten-
ton of the authorities has been called to it,
and steps will be taken TO rebuild it.
Nicc-PreSidcnt Colf;'x has given up his
house NJ Washington, and proposes gather.
ing his hollsehcd gods about him III South
! Bend, Ind.
Rev. John CULVER. u. d., Of Galcsbur"
Ill.,, has received Il call TO the paStoratc OF
the First Presbyterian church, Dinylamton,
lN.l.
All Foy and Miss Que, two Celestial lovers
OF California. who wished to return to the
| Occidental land but couldn't, took poison and
died in each others arms.
The Memphis dog-kilers are doing thcil
work 81 thoroughly that ii is difficult TO hire
Il sufficient number of dravS to haul off the
dead CANNES.
On Tuesday last gentle Dubuque damscl
entered Il saloon, kicked over u EtbiP, HTcW !
revolver Oh the bartender, and led her
father out by the ear.
Grant papers "going under new manage;
ment," and coming out for Greeley and
Brown, is one of the notable features OF the
Campaign
Newly frightened door.plates and bell
handles, and babies at the front windows,
are evidences that many families are return
ing to the city.
4 man ut Worcester, Mass, lately had his
twin sons aged eighteen years, sent to the
House of Correction because they were
stubborn and disobcdient."
Boston lamentS that while peaches arc sold
for fifteen cents basket in New York the
same amount OF money will only purchase
three in the modern Athens.
The Cincinnati papers are eNulting over
tlc achievements of Joe Lyle. Il little Gin
cinmt boy, who stole 100000 the other day
at Utica, n. \.