The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-08-20

family moved OUT. 1ney salu lho pi'1" y
to be too animated and sensational iol Il
quiet, domestic circle. They Wanteia uouoe
where there was more calmness and peace
where they could have more security ~,
| their privacy and pianos. and for their rom
door and shingles, and peace Oh mihu anu
| window-sashes."
Iowa ladies write "priyate" IN The corners
\ of their postal cards.
The popular tune in Massachusetts," Bolt
| Ben"
The children Of the Oneida community
are said to he rcd-haired.
A woman hung herself in Milwaukee be.
cause "whiskey didn't taste like it used to-"
The Recorder of Deeds in philadelphia is
ot work on some rather ugly-lookInS ones OF
| his own.-Bost0n Post.
The Spanish Marshal O'Donnell, on bis
diving bed, when the priest asked him to
forgive his enemies, answered, Enemies
have none shot them all.
loncsome-looking man called at the
Washington Savings Bank, in Savannah, the
other day, and deposited his money, because
he knew "that George would never let his
bank bust"
A lady writer says there is no object in
Nature which approaches in glory peacock
with its tail spread so nearly as young lady
with new pony phacton and parasol on
her whip-handle.
Another rope.walker, Sisnor Ballini, is
roing to cross the Niagara below the falls Oh
a cable, and will eclipse Blondn by finally
Jumping into the river beneath, a distance Of
one hundred and fifty feet.
D. z. has been in London. When his
landady handed him his bill he remarked:
When YOU said extras were included Isup-
Doscd YOU meant included in the bill:' She
nodded, but refused to smile.
Enthusiastic pedestrian: cam / on the
right road for acknowledgements town.
YOU know, my man. You've often heard OF
Shakespeare 20
Rustic: "Ees. Be you he?"
An advertisement in q New York paper
offers, in addition to Il money reward, the
enticing offer of "situation in Jewelry
store in consideration of the return of GER
tain red pocket-book.'
A well-known authoress gives it as an item
Of domestic felicity that the man of the FAM
lis should be absent at least six hours per
day. Bloggs is going to take his six hours
beginning at =. NJ.
Referring to the practice of dischargng
lady clerks from thn public offices when they
get married, Detroit paper thinks it must
be wrong and asks Glow can woman be
expected to support Il husband if she is dis
charged as soon as she gets oneT
Grace Greenwood washed her face at the
Clifton House, and is indignant because she
was charged two dollars for the accommo-
dation. Before she can claim public sympa-
thy she must state how dirty her face was
World.
Lydia Thompson will be married in Lon
don on the 18th instant to Alexander Hen.
derson. for years her business manager, and
sails for this country on the 3lst. Hender.
son goes to Germany for time for the
benefit of his health.
The editor of Hartford religious journal
procIalns that he needs rest, and that his
paper will therefore Ire suspended for two
weeks. What would that tired brother be
likely to do if he had a daily journal on his
hands:
\ physician, on presenting his bill to the
executor of an estate of deceased patient.
asked: 500 you wish to have the bill
sworn:' NO" replied the executor, &" The
death of the deceased is sufficientcvidence
that you attended him professionally"
The mayor of Providence R. l., one Doyle,
is 4 "salary. grabber," and gave the casting
vote in Council this year to increase his own
Day. He now decides that teachers in the
public schools must forfeit One-siXth of their
annual salaries for the July and August Va
cation.
Gerry w. Hazelton, salary-glabber, of
Wisconsin, passed through La Crosse night
before last with his family, dogs, and gun,
on his way to Minnesota for hunt among
the prairie chickens. He takes his 500
month, and takes it straight.
The Judge of the Warren County Iowa)
Circuit has instructed the grand jury to be
ON the on, urc for "scurrious and yitupe.
rous language in the county papers" No
use, Judge, the papers will be apt to print
full particulars of the sum distracted.
We have had man ut work for the last
fifteen days with slate and pencil, and he
estimates that if fifteen thousand American
poets were to be stricken with apopIexy
tomorrow, the newspapers wouldn't have
more than one days rest from red.cyed wO-
men and long.haired young men who want
10 see "themSelves 4" in print.-DetroH Free
Press.
"My experience as Il medical man." says Il
New York physician, "shoWs that bald
headed men are seldom or never drlnkardS
and that, moreover, Il bald.headed man is
seldom found in lunatic asylum" To
which an irreyerent customer replies:
/" Bald-headed men, it may be explained,
seldom drink at their own expense, and
there are public institutions beside lunatic
asy lllms .-Menphis Avalanche.
This, from an Atlanta paper, will bring
tears to many an eye. II relates how Toy,
the engineer, started the first locomotive
on the Atlanta and West Point railroad:
| Ready I" sang the engineer. Then ire
| NOR flashed through Toys arm, ilckered
about his wrist moment, then died upon
| the throttle, and the great engine, obedient
| TO his touch, answered with q little thrill of
| uncasiness, then settled to her work, and,
| flattening her broad nose like sleuth.hound
on the track, flew like bird out into the
darkness.
An eyewitness relates thrilling incident
that occurred the other morning in Lancas-
| ter. Two gentlemen boarders, at the break
| fast table, engaged in discussion on ''Ce-
| sarism," and soon began to punctuate their
remarks by hiDging crockeryware Mt each
others head, and brandishing knives and
forks, and threatening to cause life-blood to
flow. A panic ensued. The landlady ran
out of the honse screaming murder q young
thing purpoftiug to be nineteen years of age
tainted dead away, and had all the paint and