The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-08-31


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The Princess Salm-S,lm has become
Catholic, and has entered 4 convent ut Inn
Spruck, in the Tyro.
An Indiana maiden Of sweet eighteen Of
fcrs TO wager $50 that she Gun walk fOrty-iive
miles ia ten hours.
Maggie Mitchell had IL christening" at
her Ccdag-Avrnur cottage, Long Branch, last
saturday evening.
~. W. Flanagan and family, of Char
lottcsyillc, Va, sailed from New York for
Europe in the steamer Java Oh Wednes-
day.
An immense err has just been broken in
Naples. 1t WIS an extensive commercial
firm of the name Of ESs, whose liabilities
amount to s3,000,CUO.
\ smart shock Of an earthquake was felt at
Stirling, in Scotland, on the 9Th instant
This event is Il very unusual one in that lati-
tlde.
Governor Curtin, of PENNSYLVANIA. is re-
ported as dangerously i'll ut the residence of
his son-in-law. in Brooklyn. His physicians
forbid any one but his nurse seeing him.
The new cotton is just coming in. aud
brings the annual report of worms among
the cotton and bankruptcy among the plant
crS.
Major II. II. Glass has been appointed by
Governor Walker Inspector ut Friends ware
house, in Lynchburg, on the part of the
State.
Melvin Sanford. at Madison, n. j., fatally
Ii FAT Itu. J,,I ,l-
,lcvoring 10 prevent him from beating l'ls
wife.
IL cost MurIny's circus about $500 to settle
with partlc;: who We're injured 10y the break
in. down OF seals at an exhibition in -. Al
buns last week.
William &. Astor inSlnely lancies tn
somebody is incesSantly triin" to rob aud
murder him. Beware, young men, OF hay
ing so, 0On,O 900.
Rev. Henry Fowler, who died Il few days
ago at Auburn, y. Y, was at one time a
proprietor and editor OF the Chicago 1ri-
Gune.
Gilmore is to have tho first $4,000 re-
cciyed from The sale of tickets 10 the grand
concert which is to be given i'll the Coliseum
at Boston, October 10.
Colonel NJ. J. Williams, one Of the pro-
prictorS uftlr M1nl.onrr, Datiy .iirGTf'Str,
and a prominent citizen OF Alabama, died at
Shelby Springs at $ O'Clock Thursday inurn-
Ing, aged tliirty-Seven years.
a fusion of the Liberal Republicans and
Democrats in Little Rock. Ark, has been et-
fcctcd by the State Central Committees. The
elcctnr, ticket which was adopted has on it
no Liberal Republicans.
The band of the British Grcnadiers played
"1'he Star-Spangled Banner" at concert III
Albert Hall soon after their return to Lon
don, and the audience rose and remained
standing during the performance.
MIR. Greeley will leave New York on the
10th of September for another trip down
East, passing through Rhode Island. lie Is
| TO deliver the opening address ut the YER
mont State Fair OH the Goth.
Il want TO know" said creditor, fierce
", "whcn you are going to pay me what you
owe mc!" When Pm going to pay? " ny,
you're pretty fellow! DO you take me tof
a prophet?"
The Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States reports IN actual accession 10
it's communion last year of 24.ll4, being y
larger percentage upon its whole number oi
members than any other church.
C.,tharine Mcdonald, u San Francisco ser
want girl, on being informed that her service;
were no longer required, attacked several
members of the family with q dirk and hef
teeth, biting Ind stabbiDg them one danger
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