The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-25
Goldsmith Maid has won So, 900 in purses

Goldsmith Maid has Won 81, 900 in purses
this season. @.T& S<<tS
j. T.Passmore, deputy sheriff OF Raleigh,
N. c., shot by escaping prisoners, has since
died from his wounds. 80.
An, unfortunate Brooklyn woman ina
gines that her neiShbors are blowing souls
she has complained to the police about the
noise they make. 49, ~
A London police officer recently informed
a magistrate that he found the prisoner,
whose case was under consideration, z" sit
ting on q step In state Of incapability and
singing beautiful song" The magistrate
noticed the incongrllity OF the accusation.
elbows that, he inquired, "singing .
beautiful song ndt,incapable p. What was
he incapable OF ?" 'Incapableo OF walking"
replied the officer. -. -r.s II ,.,@.|
Here is a conversation which took place
before the great painting OF t'Rizpah y in
the Centennial Art Gallery: I" What does
that great big picture represent with them
men hanging up, and that woman fighting
that bird 2" ;" Good gracious, what does it
mean? Oh, know. now. It's the Goddess
Of Liberty with the American eagle hang
ing the rebels!{ Tsit not so set down in the
book ?'"'-Boston Globe. TX
A four-year-old boy, son OF Mason Sage.
OF West marlborough, Vt, was lost in the
woods last week, and had play spell with
two black bears. They came up to him as
he sat on the grass in an open glade and
smelt of him. He patted them on their
heads, thinking that they were, dogs, and
then they walked away into the forest.
Their footprints disclosed that they were
the "dogs" the boy told about encounter
ing. se4,g n. :. z.';E'r .g
Here is a Chinese joke. The Celestial
Empire quotes the statement from an Anne
rican paper: In the Chinese department
Of the exhibition an enamelled-bronzed
soup-bowl is shown, which is, 900 years
old, and there are, Upward OF 400 articles OF
cbinaware which were manufactured i, 1000
years ago y; and then adds, with quiet
irony, :" Possibly the family OF the Noahs
took. pot-luck out OF the bowl while they
were in the ark e e. s IN -: - 81
Mail advices from Northumberland coun-
ty, Va, state that the pungies.W hite Foam,
John A. Thomas, and Isaac NJ Smith, and
the aschooners Meteor and Regulator are
ashore in CockrelIs creek, at the mouth OF
the Great Wicomico river, Northumberland
county, Va. These five vessels went ashore
during the storm OF Sunday night, lLth IN
slant. Some, it is said, are loaded with
valuable cargoes, and all are represented as
in great distress. They are clear up on the
beach, and one is in q corn-tield. The aid
of revenue cutteris asked.
1t is said that the artists Of France do not
present a high intellectual type, nor are
there many fine, thoughtful heads among
them, save the Hon.like front Of Cabane
land the intensely poetic expression OF the
noble features of Munkacsy. But, then,
they show no wild, unkempt Boards in .
state OF delirium; no outrageously queer
costumes; and the practice Of kissing each
tional reign of M. Jules Simon, who kissed
every one Of the, new-made knights and
.prizemen. They are not young. The age
OF successful artists In France makes ftsei1
almost painfully felt 'whereVe Ell they. are as,
sembled together. 1I' a Z u. !. y. e
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