The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-09

Jennie June says of Bret Harte's new
play, "Two Men OF Sandy Barr {: ats
great fault is want of coherence-it needs
Boucicault to put it together. There is
enough in it to make two good plays
enough OF character, enough OF picturesque,
vivid situation, and enough OF real or indi-
Gated plot. But the latter is so mixed that
it becomes obscure, and the characters are
not all OF them well portrayed. One Of
the heroes, fer example. is 4 diluted
Mayo 'Davy Crockett and the school,
ma'am, intended as foil to the roughness
OF Sandy Bar, is so soft and gentle that she
can hardly speak loud enough to be heard.
The dialogue is generally good, at times
witty, and in passages eloquent There was
general cutlery Mt the !blasphemy' Of the
play, but that arose from its pre-Raphaeli-
tism. Mr.. Harte simply transcribed the Ian
guage used in the regions where the events
are supposefto transpire, but society could
not stand that. A little blasphemy made the
fortune of John Hays Little Breeches,'
and was not objected to in Bret Harte's
California poetry; but in play it is quite
diflerentthing. The Objectionable eXpletives
have been therefore very generally 'cut.'"
In Hungary there is u large fund for pen
sioning teachers WHO have given the best
years of their lives to the service. A teacher
can retire ON half-pay after twenty years
service, three fourths pay after thirty years
service, and those who, by reason OF greater
vitality or general health, continue for forty
years in this branch of their country's SER
vice, receive full pay during the remainder
OF their lives.
The negroes have readily caught the tail
end OF the Republican ticket, and seem
hon lr fp ha1i hot ha
given to them to vote in November is an
order for Wheeler" sewing-machine, to
be delivered as soon as that gentleman gets
his seat in Washington. - Ne,o Orleans
Democrat.
At present the whole constituency in
England and Wales numbers 2,340, 1853 cleo
tors, consisting OF 843,803 in counties, and
1,4S4,s in boroughs, and 12,116 in univer-
sites. In Ireland there are 230, 773 electors,
and in Scotland 295, 420.
1t seems incredible, but there is one town
in Turkey where there are neither bugs nor
fleas; indeed, where such insects cannot
live for.some reason as mysterious as that
which forbids snakes to make Ireland their
habitat. That is Samakof.
An economical woman at East Killingly,
Conn.,, who has been a housekeeper for for
paper of pins. She has used one and the
same needle almost daily for twenty-five
years.
Sir Charles Dixie resides in q large villa
upon the banks OF the Thames. shaded by
venerable and luXuriant oaks. He is waited
upon by thirty footmen, who wear his livery
OF white and gold. He always drives four
in-hand. 49,
In tearing down the fixtures OF the old
Germania Hall, Montrose avenue, Brooklyn,
on Tuesday, the workmen found behind the
money-drawer mouse's nest made OF frac-
tional currency to the amount Of fifty dol
lars.
An Italian was fined twenty shillings or
fourteen days Imprisonment, in London, a
few days since, for playing q street piano |
before the house OF surgeon after being
requested to go away.
The Springfield Republican thinks cit
may not be generally known that Hayes |
poisoned his Uncle Sardis Burchard, after
forging the yenerated mans signature to a
Will bequeathing the estate to his beloved
nephew" So
DIR. +. a. Muhlenberg has been elected to
the Chair Of the Greek Language and Lit
erature Of the University Of Pennsylvania,
formerly occupied by Professor George AL
len, now deceased.
When Mr.. Julian Hawthorne is said to
resemble in literary style his distinguished
father he denies the likeness and resents
the comparison. AT least, 30 the Westmin-
ster Aepielc has heard.
Harry Leslie, q negro minstrel, died OF
heat ap0plexy at Allygark, India, July Sd,
immediately after delivering astump speech,
ha1ts So - Al