The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-24
Personal Notes.

Myers, the American circus-man in Paris,
has gone to meet Ian. Rice. LIABILITIES,
$4,000.
Owing to the bad health of her husband,
Mrs. Signiago announces that she has as
sumcd editorial charge of the Grenada
(Miss.) Sentinel.
Now doth the postmaster sadly enclose his
little check in response to Tyner's call, and
sigh, Consistency, thou art JEWELL
An eleven-vear-old son OF Mr.. Butford, II
Boston photographer, has made Il hero OF
himself by jumping into the AnniSquam
river and swimming ashore with drown
ing woman.
Miss Thompson's picture 'Baaclava,'
which has been on exhibition in London for
three months past, has been visited by near
" $4,000 persons. 1t goes now othc coun-
try Tor exhibition.
Mr.. Moody received cheek from il friend
in Greenfield, Mass, as a compensation for
his services there last week. He returned
it. with the request that he might be allowed
to labor in Greenfield for the pleasure it
afforded him.
Wade Hampton, Just before his nomina-
ton, told the Convention "There are men
in this State in whose eyes | possess dis
qualifications OF which l cannot dispossess
myself, and would not ii l could. l mean
my army record"
Mrs. Theodore Moss gave formal
..breakfast " Tuesday at her Long Branch
villa The invitations were issued five Years
ago, but afterwards recalled. Having been
reissued, all the invited guests were present,
and in the meantime there had been added
two unlimited guests-the latest additions
to the Moss family.
DR.. Richardson, an English physician, is
about to found ga new city OF health - on
the south coast OF England. In Hygeiopo-
lis, rs it will be called, will be allowed no
departure from the best established laws of
modern sanitary science.
The young misses at Saratoga and New
port wear the most diminutivc and unreal,
tleccy, and ornamental Of breakfast caps,
and look pretty and fresh in them, too. Eyi-
IDENTIFY the right hand OF the break1ast-cap
designer hath not forgotten its cunning, for
the little caps are too pretty" as the girls
say.
\ gray serge polonaise, made recently for
Il young Chicago lady, had no other trim
ming save buttons, and OF these gross and
Il half. Where all these buttons could be
put would probably be IN unsurmountable
riddle to the masculine mind, but to the SUI
perior feminine their regulating is nothing
comparatively.
Wild Bill was buried in Il full suit of
broadcloth, with his rife beside him. At
the head OF his grave. on the mountain near
Dcadwood, is large stump, on which this
inscription is deeply cut "A brave man !;
the victim OF an assassin-J. &. Hickock
wild Bill, aged forty-eight years; muir
dered by Jack Mccall August =, 1876"
The Bishop of Carlisle recently stated in
the House OF Lords, in the course OF de-
bate on the temperance question, that he
knew girl OF twenty who had been in
prison thirteen times for drunkenness since
1872, and an older woman who in the same
time had been arrested tifty-two times for
the same offence.
The Queen sends Il gift to women who
bring three Wellto-do children or ''trins y
| into the world at birth, and she has Just
sent 60 to Mrs. Caroline Chapman, OF 80
Castle street, st. Martin lane, London, who
gave birth on the 18th ultimo to three living
girls, although, as the children did not sur
vive more than half an hour, the mother was
not entitled to the Queens bounty.
The story that Mr.. George L. Fox, the
pantomimist, had recovered his health and
was about to return to his home is incor-
rect. He Is still an inmate of the Mclean
Asylum, at SomeryiIle, Mass. The Boston
Herald says: '.He has improved somewhat
in physical health, but his mental faculties
remain in such an impaired state that there
is but little hope OF. his recovery, ut least ut