The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-06-19

| Rev. Mr.. Bannister. who asked for the
withdrawal of the resolution. related an
anecdotc OF General Robert +. Lee. A one
armed man asked assistance at General
Ices house, which was given. The Cen
! cral. in answer to the question il he knew
the man. replied that "hc was one OF our
old soldiers who fought on the other side"
| Ii is related that few days ago, at St.
| Louis. Il man. his wife, and four children,
tried TO drown themselves together but
were rescued by hoat,nat,. They were
! destitute. and the parents, after deliberate
discussion Of the subject, decided upon
suicide. The Oldest Of the children, a girl
of thirteen, had acqucsccd in that detcrmi-
nation, but the Younger ones did not seem
10 comprehend It.
| 4 woman named Cullen who, according
TO family records. is Die httndrcd and thir-
| weight wears old. was in court at Los
! Angeles. Cal, lately on an application OF
| one of her daughters for letters of guar
| dianShip, the object being to prevent an
other daughter from taking her for exhibit
| ton TO the Centennial. The court made an
order forhidding the old lady's removal
from the county.
Another Baltimore policeman is in trout
bic. Officer Mckcnna. of the Middle dis
trirt. made an assault on girl on
THURSDAY night a> she was goiiig from her
PARENTS home. where she had been spend
ing The evening. to the place where she was
AT service. He has been dismissed from the
force and committed to Jail in default OF
bail TO the amount Of $1,000.
The suit of Solomon S. Skinner, dentist,
against Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, being
| 70 NJ tlrn nf
brought to trial Friday in the Supreme
Court of New York. The reverend defend
ant and his wife We're present. Quite Il
crowd of lawyers and attorneys clerks filled
the room. The only question the jury were
asked was whether any of them belonged to
Plymouth church congregation. The case
WAS dismissed.
4 new poSt-otlcc is established ut Pine
Dale. Botctourt county. Va. on the route
between Zion Hill and Rich Patch. with
Elias Hook * postmaster. The poSt-otfcr
al GladShorough. Carroll county, Va, = IT,
established, with John w. kinzcr as post
master John Il. Baker is appointed post
master at Pennington, Marion county, W.
Va, rice Isaac Il. Lough, resigned
Two men own G0n,000 acres of land in
san JOAQUIN aud Santa Clara valleys, Cali
yearly in taxes. Their names are Lux and
Miller. and they hegau their buSnesS-lives
! in San Francisco rs butchers without any
capital. The land is used as meadows and
pastures.
Before the next presidential election.
which will take place on the same day. No
vrinlcr 9Th. in all the different States in the
Union. seven Of the States will hold cleo
tinnS for State officers. In september Ar
kansas, Vermont. and Maine, and i'll Octo-
Der Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, and
Georgia.
A delegation Of Paris workmcn to visit
the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia,
organized independently OF Government as
sStancc, left Paris Friday night to embark
at liavrc for the United States. The dele
cation includes twcnty-ninc members, rep
rcsenting twenty-five trade corporations.
The counsel for Bclknap maintain that
whilca majority of the Senate can order the
| trial to proceed. there can be no conviction,
as over one third of the senators have de-
clarcd he is not alncnablc on account OF his
resignation, and aSk the dismissal of the
case.
The Miss Harrison who drowned herself
| i'm Columbus. Ga, had been depressed for
some time. and had taken to writing poetry.
| She said she would commit suicide, but no
one believed her. Her body has been found
three miles below the scene OF her death.
The Piedmont South Carolina) cotton
factory, on the Saltlda river, has been com-
pIetrd, and is now in smooth running or
der. One hundred hands are employed.
and the annual consumption Of the raw
material will be about 1000 bales OF cotton.
Mr.. J. W. MuSon, Il well-known citizen
of Winchester, Va, on "Wednesday went
into his cellar on IN crrand, and not return
ing, search was made for him, when he was
found lying on his face dead. The cause OF
his death was apopleNy.
DR.. Schmidt, OF the Athens (Greece) OBJ
seryatory, has recently completed a map OF
the moon, upon which he has been assidu-
ously laboring for the last thirty-four years.
1t contains thirty -four cratcrs and hills, be-
sides $50 riIls and other objects.
Alvices received here from Tabrccza, Il
urge walled city in the province OF Aver
bajan. in North Persia, announce that the
black plague has broken out i'll Persian
koOrdistan.
The National Division of the Sons OF
Temperance of the United States, in session
at Philadclphia on the 10th, elected G. 2.
McCabc, OF Lccsbllrg, Va, most worthy
conductor.
The Byron Memorial Fund now amounts
ia about Sl5. 900. An exhibition OF the Varl-
ouS models for the statue will be given III
the south Kcnsington Museum, III London,
next October.
The London Board of Trade have award
ed to Captain Clifford, of the American
wlalcr Young Phoenix, silver cup III ac-
Acknowledgement of his kindness to the sur
yivors OF the emisrant ship Strathmore.
The latest claimant of share in the estate
of A. II. Stewart says that his name Is ITO
ian, and that he lives in North Caroilha.
lie also sets forth that his grandfather Was
Mr.. Stewards "own uncle"
Commodore Vanderbilt has given three
hundred thousand dollars more to the van
dcrbilt University, at Nashville, making HIS
entire donation one million dollars.
The workshops and carriage-shops at
tached to the Warsaw Railway Station; Ut
st. Petersburg, Russia, were burned Thurs
day. Loss, 100000 roubles.
'rhe statue OF Samuel Adams by Miss An
ME Whitney has been received at Boston
| from Italy, and will be removed to the Cap
| itol at Washington.
The new Sultan of Turkey has six bro
| thers and seven sisters; the latter ali bear
the title sultana, and four Of them are mar
ried, one being the wife OF Mallmoud Pasha.
The Putnam Phalanx, OF Hartford, Conn.,,