The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-15
Personal Notes.

Abraham Neff, well-known merchant OF
New Market, Va, is dead.
Dan Rice says that pig has more acute
hearing than any other animal except Il
horse.
General Leopold Blumenbcrg died at 8
O'Clock Saturday at his residence, 81 north
Exeter street, Baltimore, in the tiftieth year
Of his age.
Robert Cauthorn, Il printer by trade, an d
formerly mayor and postmaster at Lynch
burg, dicd in Washington Saturday, aged
siNty-Sevcn.
J. Sclla Martin, i colored prominent Re-
publican politician, was found insenSible in
his room, in New Orleans, on Friday morn
ing, and soon aiterward died, from the
effects OF an overdose OF laudanum,
Mr.. E. II. Knight, for the past five years
4 principal examiner in the Patent Office,
and lately the Superintendent OF the Patent
Office exhibit at the Centennial Exhibition,
has been dismissed from those positions.
On Monday last, at Trinity Cathedral,
Omaha, Lieutenant Marian, OF the Fourth
infantry, was married to Miss Anna Burn
ham, daughter OF Colonel Burnham, Judge
Advocate OF the Military Department OF the
Platte, formerly OF Richmond.
General Sturgis, colonel OF Clusters old
regiment, sends the Herald a four-column
letter in reply to accusations made against
him and his military record by newspapers
and correspondents in various parts OF the
country, His letter is dated "St. LOUIS
Barracks, August 5, 1876" ....
,., Samuel Kerr, the Speakers son, arrived
from his home, in New Albany, en- Toate 10
Rockbridgc Alum Springs, having been tel
egraphed for by his mother. There were
serious apprehensions ut washington sun
day that Speaker Kerr cannot survive many
days.
\ correspondent who lately saw the EN-
press Eugene says she has broken sadly III
the last year or two, and has loSt nearly
every restigc OF her beauty. she has
grown very stout, dyes her HAIR, ana covers
her face with powder, while the slislit iainG-
ness which she used to dlsslmlllate 50 ski
fully has become very apparent IN her gut
Thomas Cox, u 'longshoreman IN New
Orleans, has saved eleven persons from
drowning during the last two years. Ills
latest exploit was the rescue OF q woman
and two bows who had been upset i'll skitt
some distance from the shore, and was Ell
fected at the imminent peril OF his life. Inc
local papers refer to him as ''hero oil the
HoUlCSO ~ PS'
A Cambridge man shows that the jew
Cohen, who becomes 3Iirah's brother in
George Eliots "Daniel Deronda,,' is. pro
badly a study OF real Cohn OF whom
George Eliot's husband, G.. II. LeWes,
speaks as a member OF club which met in
London thirty years ago. He says OF him !:
ellie was hard to him, as to all OF us; but
he was content to earn miserable pittancc
by handicraft and keep his soul serene"
In the Charleston Is CO. Neaos and Co't-
rier OF Saturday there is a fnely-wrltten
editorial defending Captain F.: w. Dawson
from the assaults OF Colonel Z. Is. -Rhett,
Jr., editor Of the Journal OF Commerce, and
giving the public rigorous il not pleasant
picture OF Rhett's character, 1t was cyl
IDENTIFY written by Captain Dawson. Mr..
James r. Trueheart, formerly editor OF the
State Journal, is Colonel Rhett's associate
editor. ,Alpersonal difficulty between DaW-
| son and Rhctt may be expected at any time.
Their disagreement grew out OF State poll
| tics.