The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-20

Francis Farrell died in Norfolk, Va, Satur-
day. Insurance, $4,000.
Banton Duncan is blonde, and has aass>aR 9-
man nose and PeruyilaIHH-ra1S
The altafr ccSses of women formed a. new
feature of c;,mp-meetingS this year.
Ladies' dresses will be more deliberately
trimmed than ever this winter.
Cider apples are selling at ten cents a
bushcl, delivered, in parts Of Connecticut.
Webster, the battle-scarred veteran who
says Grant was not drunk at Shiloh, served
his country as quartermaSter.
1t is claimed TINT housc-buiding in Chi
cago is going on at the rate of one house per
hour.
II is stated that the voyage Of the Grand
Duke Alexis has thus far cost his father up
wards of halfa million OF dollars.
Fiyc-eighths of note are as good as the
whole for the purpose of redemption at the
Treasury.
Her Won Thile, pr,issian Minister of For
eign Affairs, has resignedin consequence OF Il
disagreement with Prince Bismarck.
Joshua Burie, for many years foreman OF
the Charleston Is. Co. Mercury, died last
week.
The editor of daily paper IN Madison,
Ind, has been serenaded at night by party
of young women because he has stood up
for woman's rights against all corners.
"Boy, why did you steal those shingles
last Sunday?" because mother needed
some kindling wood, and l didn't want to
split wood on Sunday"
Hartford recently solemnized wedding
in which the united ages of the happy pair
amounted TO only thirty-three years-he be-
Ing eighteen and she fifteen.
Rev. Oscar Clute, Unitarian clergyman,
was nominated at Melville, New Jersey, by
the Democrats and Liberals of the First Dis
trict. 49,. ,..-3
Somehow they won't do right in Ken
lucky. This time it is Mr.. Desprin, Of
Green county. He has gone to walk with
his wife's sister and won't come back.
One hundred thousand dollars have been
subscribed toward home for infirm Episco-
pal clergymen, to be situated near New York
city. s<....-,
Wisconsin papers say that Mrs. Abraham
Lincoln last week left Waukesha, where she
had been spending the summer, for an ex-
tended tour through the West.
The Mikado of Japan has had his photo.
graph taken, q large number OF copies of
which have been bought by his loving SUBJ
jects ut fifty cents each.
An Illinois boy has been bitten six times
by rattlesnakes, with no resultant injuries,
and now de6es the Fates, unless they can
puncturc him with something sharper
tban'a scrpcnt's tOoth.' ;.....
One of the am,lSements at Chicago pic
mic was TO place u silver dollar i'll a dish con-
tanning about an inch OF molasses and let a
squad of boys compete in trying to take out
the piece with their teeth.
Mr.. Brown, of Pittsburgh. learned that his
wile's body had just been found in the river
five miles from her home. "She must have
floated down right lively" was his feeling
remark.
The Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, has
written to the Woman s-Rights Club in vi
emma: Ladies, take my advice and keep
away from politics. There is nothing but
misery init"
Thomas Fleming, Of Brooklyn, went into
a saloon and took Il kiss Of the proprietress,
"kisses were not upon the regI-
lar bill of fare. Result--four months peni-
Tertiary for Thomas.
Mr.. Fliger, at Duluth the other day, asked
Mr.. Williams for twenty-five cents which had
been due nearly year. He was instantly
shot dead. Without meaning any offence to
Mr.. Williams, this really iooks--,well, unrea-
sonable. $50
A man in the upper part Of Rails county,
Mo-, undertookto ride n mule and carry a
scythe one day last week, but found it diff
cult feat. When the operation was over his
mule had "only three feet and little stumpy
tail"
The following rather ambiguous notice ap-
pears in western paper: :" Mr.. L. #. Mack
intosh, of the Pioneer, has concluded to
make an extended visit to the far West, for
The benefit, We understand, Of his wife's
health"