The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-02

Edwin Booth afiH contiHues III Ep oOA
health.
Maxinailian's coachman In Mexico now
drives a soap-cart In Wareha11l. MASS.
ES.Secrctary Bristow requires hat made
to order, his head being too big Tor the usuai
sizes. 81
Larkin G. Meade, the stone-cutter, known
through his caricature OF the late President
Lincoln, is cousin OF Governor hayes.
The Rev. Miss Ada C.. Bowles has been
selected by the Pennsylvania universities
Convention to preach the sermon ut its next
meeting in 1877.
Count Il. de Cambray Digny ana Baron
George III. Levi, OF Italy, arrived from Eu.
rope in the steamship Bothnia, and are 1T
| the Hoffman House.
Sultan Murad's physician Is in :. qtFs1l-
Diary. His patient threatens to run him
through with pair Of scissors IL iiquer Is
not Forthcoming, and the ministers Teinino
i,Sm that the Bosphorns is deep, ara the
Sultan's spree must bc checked at 'once.
WWhat," said some one who happened 10
be chatting with NJ. Theirs, "wlat qua !ne
victories and eonquests OF Napoleon Dr,ns
about.s The little man replied proudiSo
&C. They brought about my History OF tse
Consulate and the Empire"
Secretary Robson Will take a party 'o1
distinguished inasyiduaas on ay,leasure teA-
cuIsion to Port Royal 5. e, aoout Inc ISL
of October on the UEited states steamer
Is;sa,atch. 1t is attended to hold naVa re-
lyiesy at Port Royal about tlMt time, to last
foe or six weeks, which wall be ona bril-
liant and magnificent scale.
! The general condition .of Commodore
Vanderbilt was alncifaHSed yesterday,
though there can be no doubt that he is
lrraduslly getting weaker. A number OF
Visitors called during the&lay, but tie only
1.-TWO aaloweA tosee him were DR.. Deems and
Mr.. Samuel Hand, Of Alabama. Dr. Deems
remained during the entire afternoon and
tepenSng.--Ne,o Korkt Herald, 31st.
Maggie Mitchell owns q number Of cot.
taces and farms at Long Branch. The one
IN which she 'dwells was built bg Edwin
Booth, and in its large parlor he was mar.
lied. 1T il profusely ornamenteG within
, with paintings, statuaTy, rare and costly
|, welumes, and especially with quaint and
!, beautitui. articles Of Japanese manufacture
! Among aler bookstis one Of thethrec copies
: led BouGclFs 1893 edition OF Shakespeare
,, Ehuce volume, containing 100 steel plates,
and valued at several hundred doMars.
q I'm Eeechcr's audience Sunday were Vice
: President Candidate Wheeler and Repre-
. sentative Hendee Mrs. Beechgr entered
q 1.-the roaen before her husband. The appa-
: rent Disparity of age between them grows
, more marked every year. Last year she
Hooked old enough to be his mother. This
: ycar, w5th her sneNy hair, coloNess face,
, scanned with fine wrinkles, andNery old eX-
preston, she would passwithout much diff.
iculty r. his grandmother. Beecher, on the
other l.snd. seems to have grown positively
. Younger since last wear. Hei ruddy, bright
and 1IrthfM OF eye, and his voice has all
: the ring and melody OF his best dastS. The
slight but continuous vibration OF t.ie head,
sndieating incipient palsy, noticed when he
: was in the pulpit last year, seems to have
vanished, or ut any rate was not observable
from nav seat. His sermon, or discourse,
G was upon experimentation the text "EXcept
$ man be born again." and was intended to
show that the new birth was not a convul-
S size. instantaneous affair, but was slow,
C progressive development. It abounded in
e {" ,.3ints.'' foreibe, eloquent, pathetic. hui
c morous, including in the letter some semi
= irreyercnt. k.ughter-cempelling bits OF
minsiery OF some kinds OF A" revival" con-
, yerts. Probably nine-te4rths OF Beecherf
4 audience were occupied throughout the SER
| mon with the question, " Is he guilty." ana
: probably all came to the conclusion that il
he is, lac carries it of wonderfully White
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