The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-22
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deEeTai t0iBt0n - now IN fafM.
jamaica women, according to the latest
news, are wearing hnmming birds.
S Speaking Of Brooklyn politician some
one recently said he is one who loafs and
fishes. 81
Z 1t Is now. said that Thackeray withdrew
from the staff Of Punch rather than consent
to assaults upon Napoleon HI.
A New England skate company is filling
orders for nickel-piated club skates to go to
Germany, and they expect busy season.
General Eli II. Murray, United States
marshal for the district Of Kentucky, has
rendered his resignation to the President.
The Atlanta Times predicts that 80, 900
Georgia colored men will vote for Colquitt
and Tilden. 5s,@s-..s.
Mrs. Sturgis, mother of Lieutenant Stur-
gis, who was killed in the Gustav slaughter;
has become insane from grief. he was her
only son.
An insane stenographer in New Haven
imagines that he is on mission to General
B. +. Butler to discuss matters for the good
Of the Freemasons.
The Boston authorities sent back to Afri-
ca on Monday three. Arabs, recently sent to
this country, and branded in the foreheads
rs criminals by the Cay enne officials
Admiral Porter's truth about the navy,
told to the Naval Committee, costs him
$4,000 Of salary under Secretary Robeson's
furloughing system.
The resignation Of Rev. r. S. Laws rs
pastor Of Mount Zion church, at Arlington,
has been accepted, and q vote of.thanks ten
dered him for his eleven years OF service
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General W. +. Bartlett, Of Massachusetts,
Is said to have remarked lately that he is
''with the Tilden movement heart and
SOUL" and intends to give the reasons for
his faith in an open letter rs soon as his
health will permit. .>..,
President Grant arrived at Long Branch
ct p. NJ. Saturday, and in the evening
drove along the beach behind fast trotter,
and was cordially greeted by the prone
naders and riders on the route.
We learn from private sources that per-
sonal difficulty occurred in Danville, Va,
on Saturday, between w. T. Manning, of
the Ne,oS, and Daniel Dechert, Of the En-
press, in which Manning attempted to cow
hide Dcchert, and was shot, though not
MISUNDERSTANDING Ne,os.
President Grant, as q citizen OF Long
Branch, is said neither to attend the races
nor to know John Chamberlin, though once
concerned with him indirectly in real es-
tate operation, but to have cultivated the
acquaintance OF the ocean extensively, at
which he loves to look by the hour through
the smoke Of his cigar.
Captain P. n. Murphy died near Mobile,
Ala, last week, of apoplexy, whilst taking
a bath. At the breaking ot1t Of the late war
the deceased was first lieutenant command
ing the receiving ship Pennsylvania, at
Norfolk, Va, but resigned and entered the
Confederate service, wherehe was promoted
to the grade of captain in the navy, and
commanded the Selma in the naval engage
ment with Commodore Farragut in Mobile
bay, where he was wounded and taken
prisoner. = -r|..s | --'': .'. .,t
Colonel Constantine Mcguire, now serv-
ing six months sentence in Jail for COM
plicity in the whiskey frauds at st. Louis,
publishes a card, in which he says: 4 II
''When I again have the privilege OF
meeting my fellow-citizens; which will be
before the election, 1 shall have little vim
dicating to do, and may be able to show
that some of,ollr would-be Republican lead.
ers, engaged in preaching moral reform,
ought to have striped suits on, and, with
their heads shaved, serving out term in
the penitentiary."