The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-23
Personal Notes.

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Bricnoli is warbing at Saratoga.
A colored woman is postmistress at Terry,
Miss.
MANY of the Partisan toilets have several
bouuuets-always one 1T the throat ana one
at the pocket.
Miss Emily Schomberg, the Philadelphia
belle. is about to be married. 1t IS SAID that
she has been asked in marriage one hundred
times.
Randolph Rogers, the great sculptor, is
in Washington.
The author OF st. Elmo" is the only
American writer of fiction to whom pub
Usher will pay 5000 for novel on receipt
of the manuscript.
Richard Grant White says that there is
no such thing as sin our midst, ana the
| Boston Journal would like to know where
he would place the pain that makes pare
goric popular beverage among the young.
President Grant attended church at Long
Branch Sunday morning and spent the
| evening at a sacred concert listening 10
| Wagner's music.
Bishop Gibbons, of Richmond, who ar
rived in Baltimore and was the guest Mon
day of Rev. Bernard j. McManus, pastor
| OF ST. Johns Catholic church, went on to
conduct spiritual retreat OF the clergy OF
his diocese at Woodstock, near Baltimore.
The retreat commenced Monday evening,
and will continue one week.
A Maine Universalist minister, adYer-
| Using for lost pocket-book containing
three dollars, said "The person who has
it knows whose it is, because my name Is IN
it. and if honest will return it. II not, he
will, OF course, keep it, and accept my adj
vice to use the money for the purchase OF
stool OF repentance that is charged with ig-
nitble birthstone"
Governor Hendricks, it is stated, does not
intend to remain silent during the canvass.
After short rest at his home he will begin
work.
Henry Riyiere, a wcll-known French dra-
matte writer, commands the frigate La wire.
He writes to friend at Paris: ave sail
tomorrow for Noumca, passing by the WAL
lis Isles, where we are to leave hand-orSan
that the Government has presented to the
Queen"
Disraeli has no children to inherit his
earldom. He is wealthy. Besides his own
fortune, he has received in bequest from
admirers about 100000, and he has for
some time received a pension OF $4,000 4
year from the Government as All eX-mlnlster.
In one Of his novels he calls a peeraSe ga
refuge for incompctcncy, or step toward
| the grave"
A "clerk out Of business" in London,
who had made money by horse-racing, went
into specializing in theatre tickets, lost
| 900 in nine nights, and then blew his
brains out with revolver.
General 3. F. Butler said to Il New York
reporter the other day: ~ don't keep a
yacht for racing purposes merely, but want
to demonstrate that there has been no i'm
provement in naval architecture as applied
to sailing vessels during the past twenty-five
years." He thinks some of the newer yachts
little better than "sailing machines" made
for certain conditions OF wind and water,
and only for these conditions.
Ex-Secretary Gideon Welles is Tilden
man. He thinks the Governors letter "is
the product OF an able mind, statesman,
and politician, who will give us an ener-
getic and capable Administration" He
sees little doubt OF Tilden's election, thinks
Boutwers recommendations about Missis-
sippi "monstrouS," but trusts "we shall be
able to overrun Boutwell,, the devil, and all
their works."
The Pittsburgh Post has positive informa-
ton that Ex-Governor William Allen, OF
Ohio, will support TiIdcn and Hendricks,
all stories to the contrary Notwithstanding ;
but that there is only one contingency that
will call him to the stump, and that is the
appearance of Morton in Ohio during the
campaign. If the chief apostle OF the
bloody shirt takes the stump in Ohio old
Uncle William expresses lively desire to
get after him. ....
Mr.. Disraeli has issued q farewell address
to his constituents, the electors Of BuckinS-
hamshire, by whom he has been returned to
the House OF Commons continuously since
1S47. He says: s'Throushout my public
life have aimed at two chief results. Not
insensible to the principle of progress I
have endeavored to reconcile change with
that respect for tradition which is one OF
the main elements Of our social strength,
aud in international affairs have endeavor-
ed to develop and strengthen the empire,
believing that the combination OF achieve
ment and responsibility elevates the charac-
ter and condition OF the people"