The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-19
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sTuESDAY SEP,Th "a ~, lssso
pssssosaai rsses.
AIR. ID. 81 Chanfrau hss for nine success
Ssive years opened SEASON az the Boston |
Theatre. ' :isy \ 49, SO ',{ .
wagner has, erected L tomb in the garden
attached DO his Wills at Bayreutti, IN y hIcb,
he wishes TO be butfeds a.
tss.ssA : article by Mrs. harriet Beecher Stowe
an the Spsrssaal Scientist indicates her com
version to Spirit IS
The new Sultan OF Turkey ia very igno-
rant, He and his brother had innumerable,1
professors, but nothing could overcome
their idieness. At; - s
a very pleasant reunion took place at
Guys Hotel, Baltimore, on Saturday eve
ming, the occasion being complimentary
dinner rendered by his army and navy
friends to Colonel Charles G. Long, OF the
Egyptian army, but native OF Maryland.
All OF the New York papers are demand
ing that Bret Harte shall publish tue names
OF the critics who asked Tor money 1or 4
praise OF his play; and because MT; har5e
does not respond promptly y Is strongly
intimated that he has been telling cowardly
falsehoods. $500, =, go r.,c
The new fashion In Brooklyn Is said to be
10 call pastor at . very high salary, nomi-
nally, with the understanding that he IS 10
remit o certain portion OF 1t. LIN this was
the congregation gets credit for more than
il does, and the pastor Tor more than he IS
worth. ,o,y
Mr.. B. L. Farieon, the English author, Is
snendine his summer holiday with Joseph
Jefferson in Scotland. There IS a probabGty!
that the author OF g Grif,o Blade o.
1 Grass, :, &C., may visit America in the all-
tumn. SO he writes to . friend IA New
Z York. Farieon is now engaged fon his
Christmas story. 's Use ga S 81 IS;
Lille White, who had been reported as
& attempting to commit suicide, has caru in
the virginia City Chroaicle saying: while
fully realizing the vanIties OF this Wcrld,
arm In no hurry for another, as it might be
case Of getting out Of the frying-pan into
: the fire. !" =. s.. &C.,. s7.Et..@a
The following reference to the matTimo-.
NAL purposes Of Mr. Tilden appears in the
Louisiana State Register: 'tfThe lady that
Mr.. Tilden proposes to marry is the widow
OF Captain David Fl. Todd, who during the
war was the commander Of Libby Prison.
He died in Huntsville, Ala, about 1859"
The Chambersburg Pa.) Vakey Spirit
SAYS: g DON Cameron takes his profound
knowledge Of Indian affairs by inheritance.
!. The Winnebago tribe captured and adopted
his father when a young man, but he ran
away and brought q great many slndaan III
fairs with him, which he deposited Tor
safe keeping in the Middletown Bank
Lord Albemarle speaks OF dining one day
al Lord John Russelps, the invitation being
TO meet Mrs. Beecher Stowe. He says !:
!. 50 We seyerally did our best to ainuse the
authoress. depend upon it, whispered
Lady Grey to me after dinner, we shall all
be down in the next book So we were.
For my own part, am well satisfied with
the figure cut in Sunny Memories
In the cool OF evening during the bathing
! season at Brighton, England, a man with
reddish complexion, very heavy moustache
and eyebrows, tight-ftting blue-body coat.
and an expression Of stolidity on his face
that some might take for grimness, rode ont
regularly on q stout chestnut hunter. This
was the Earl OF Cardigan, who led the
charge OF the Six Hundred ut Balaklaya,
as he spurred his horse, i" Here
goes the last Of the Cardigans."
IS Governor Chamberlain (RadieaD, of South
Carolina, recently explained the fact OF his
having appointed white men only on the
Centennial commission by saying that he
i had done SO after consultation with General
Hawley and other friends, who thought
such course expedient in view OF the feel
ing in the State against mixed commits
i, sion, and Of the fact that the whites alone
had anything exhibited ut Philadelphia, and
he was anxious to have South Carolina
represented there. aaA rE@'.f'
II Moody and Sankey, the evangelists, are
{. now at Mr.. Moody's home in Mortified,
Mass. They held revival services at Brattle-
boro' and Mortified Sunday. They begin
their fall work in Chicago October 1st.
A large building, seating 5000 people, has
been erected in the centre Of that city for the
meetings. Mr.. George G. Needham, the
Irish evangelist, accompanied by Mr.. Steb-
bins, the singer, OF Boston, begin series
OF meetings in the West at the same time.
2 The last surviving native OF Tasmania is
dead 1t was the Queen, Lidgiwidgi Tan
caninni, called Lalla-Rookh by the white
population. Tasmania, or the Island OF
Van Dieman, which became in 1903 an Eng
lish colony, had in 1915 native population
Of 5000; in 1S47 there were only forty
five left, and now the last Of the race is dead.
Lalla-Roo had been married five times,
and each time to king. She lived ct Ho-
bart Town, in the house 81 the Government
Inspector, and received q small pension.
She was seventy-three years old, and died
OF paralysis. -
There was recently, and still is, an old
gentleman in Maine who had four sons and
one daughter, and in the same neighbor.
hood was another old gentleman, who had
3 one son and four daughters, making ten
sons and daughters In all. And what did
these two old rascals do but turn right in
and from time to time get up five weddings,
the four sons and one daughter Of the one
marrying the four daughters and one son of
the other, The spectacle OF five married
couples and but two mothers-in-law eX-
nihSts n state of heatitlIde that Ia rarely
seldom" to be seen in this weary, wooden
4 Werid. -Gosrier.J Journal. t. .,.-,r.s..-~
-. IS. A BRILLIANT NEWPORT WEDDING.-One
OF the most fashionable and brilliant we'd
dings that has ever been seen in Newport
occurred on Thursday, when Miss Louise,
f3sunhfor Of William K Travnrs uas mar