The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-21
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IT,, a;aoo $50 100 800.
Hon. All. stephens is well enoaghto eat
corn off the cob. - =, -."Ss'"'..
Mrs. Lincoln remains in the Rocky Noun
tains, in Colorado. 5
Mrs. Ole Bull has reioined her husband
in Norway. = =,
Fifty thousand copies Of Mrs: CrowelPs
"Vials OF Wrath " have been sold.
Proctor Knott is a little fellow, with rosy
cheeks End white moustache.
Governor Hendricks will take an active
part in ! te Indiana canvass.
Martin Van Buren, never forgot man ne
had met, and this is talent belonging also
to Tilden.
Newspapers are deploring the fact that
Theodore Thomas refuses to lose any more
money in giving concerts.
The Sultan continues to have delsrlvnl
trenaeus, and thinks lie sees Ben Butler
coming up the back stairs with bustle on.
Manager Harry Watkins is still adyertls-
ing for talent to appear at the Norfolk opera
House during the fall and winter. -; -.
Queen Isabella, when leaving Paris Tor
Spain, sent 81 900 to the project OF the SEINE
for the poor Of the city.
General w. T. Bartlett, OF Pittsheld,
Mass, has gone to Canada. His health Is
still far from being reGstablished. #
Janauschek will make her first appearance
after her return from Europe at the Boston
Theatre, October 30th, producing three new
pieces-"PhRdra," :: Catharlne u.," ana
"Brunhildc."
A phiIosopbical woman writes to the chi
caro- Times to inquire "Whyis it that Just
at the moment when young man finds out
that his girl will have him he wants to Dack
out OF the engagement:
Mr.. Sol. Smith Russell, the comedian,
who is playing with the Berger family, Is 10
be married next month to q daughter OF
Mr.. William r. Adams ("Oliycr Optics ~
Of Boston.
Commodore Vanderbilt was in May the
patient Of a spirit-medium, who was pald
$500 for the ''laying on OF hands" when
was probably good, sound rubbing, 1of IL
seems to have done him good at the time.
The Rev. William Morley Punshon, the
well-known English Wesleyan clergyman,
intends to devote his next visit to this coun-
try almost wholly to matters connected with
his Church, and will be able to lecture only
q few times.
The ;Vose de cuba states that one OF its
editors has received Il letter from eX-Queen
Isabella, in which she offers to Use her inhu-
cnce with King Alfonso to so secure the
nomination to the Pope OF the brother OF
the late Bishop OF Havana to the vacant
bishopric.
William Winter Jefferson, the infant son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Jefferson, was
christcned in the church at Statford-on-
Avon, where the halowed grave OF Shaks-
peare is, and probably from the font famous
in history. The ceremony was private.
Friday being the forty-sixth birthday OF
the Emperor Francis Joseph, all the sections
in the Austrian department OF the Centen-
NAL Exhibition were deliberately decorated,
and the day was further celebrated by pre-
cession and concert
The widow OF General Custer arrived at
her home at Monroe, Mich, last week. y
number OF friends were at the depot to re-
cciyc her, on seeing whom she gave way to
her emotions and tainted. Several OF the
wives OF those who were slain in the Sioux
massacre accompanied her.
The denial OF the statement that Secretary
Robson has asked the President to accept
his resignation Is regarded as absurd by
those who have tie best opportunity for
knowing. The Secretary has for some time
desired to quit the Cabinet. and has I'M
doubtedly informed the President OF the
fact. So it is stated.
Hon. John T. Harris has published the
following: 81 learn the question has been
asked ii will submit my claims to fairly
constituted convention in the face Of the
combination O. politicians against me. /
answer, Of course L a1iN. never had any
other idea. ! prefer the success Of the Con-
sentative party to that OF individuals"
A letter from New Haven about the ante
cedents of Pierrepont, our wonderful new
Minister to England, concludes with this
snap of a silk lash a: Ills abandonment OF
his true name, his desire to trace his pedi-
gree to some titled parsonage, his neglect OF
old friends and assoc ltes, and his evident
reluctance to recognize his relations, are all
that is generally alleged against him in this
vicinity"
The New York Sun says: Commodore
Vanderbilt. naturally enough, might draw
some encouragement from the visits he has
recently received from Mr.. Charles O'Conor
and Mr.. Thllrlow Weed. Two such aged
men as these, who had stood SO long APP
parcntly so near to deaths door, and had
vet recovered sufficiently to go about visit
ing the sick, afford convincing proof that
the doctors predictions OF speedy dissolu-
ton are not always fulfilled.
Colonel Meacham, who received six bul-
lets when General Candy was killed by the
Modocs, defends the Indians Tor kindness
and hospitality, and insists that Captain
Jack was a martyr to a desire to live as 4
white man. The main cause OF trouble,
SAYS Colonel AIcacham, is that some white
man dcgradeS the wife or daughter OF an In
dian. and, being killed for it, is avenged by
war. ''r "'. -
Rev. DR.. Smoot, pastor OF Presbyterian
church at Bowling Green, Ky, was recently
arraigncd before 4 court on the charge Of
having challenged a man with whom he had
quarrellcd to fight duel. This was the in
depreciation put by the prosecution Oh 4
very fiery letter sent by the clergyman.
The defence claimed that such was not its
meaning. Both sides argued so well that
the jury could not agree-standing seven
for conviction and five for acquittal
The Washington correspondent Of the
Baltimore Sun says: "Another marked i'll
stance OF the purpose OF the Republican
party to force the present campaign to turn
on religious islnS as much as possible is
sAo"n III INC iepupllCaIioH VI Ilc IoUcS
letter to Jefferson Davis in 1864. This let
ter, as may be remembered, was given a
wide circulation at the date OF its issue.
Now it is reproduced us if il fresh contribu-
ton from the Confederate archives. and the
Committee have determined to
send photographic copies OF it all over the
country. a
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