The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-09-29
PERsoSAI.-Dr. Charles s. Britain has
gone to Quinnimont, W. Va, to spend

PERS0SAL.-Dr. Charles 5. BrlLCan nus
gone to Quinnimont, W. Va, to spend a
month.
General James A. Walker, the Conserva-
tive candidate for Lieutenant Governor, and
author OF the expression Compulsory ad-
iustment is theit--repudiation highway rob-
berry," is expected to arrive here from
Staunton to-day.
Attorney General Field and Hon. John
Amber Smith are in the city.
Professor n. B. Clapp is back from Eu-
rope.
Henry Watkins, colored citizen, yester-
day found relief from pecuniary pressure
by filing the usual petition with Register
Tom Atkins, and was in due form adiudged
bankrupt. ...... .m
Now that Miss Genevieve Rogers has left
us, everybody wants to see her as Maud
Muller and Bona. She left us too soon. But
she will come again. II she doesn't some
OF her admirers will 90 where she is. Any
way, the railroads will lose nothing.
Country schooi-teachers may take cour-
age. The State officials are waking up.
Maybe, after all, they will find out Gf they
try) that the State can borrow money in
Richmond.
Captain Daniel w. Bohonon has written
an g In Memoriam" poem on Rev. DR.. j.
A. Duncan.
DR.. George w. Bagby, of the State Ii
brary, is enjoying the luXuries OF Amelia
county, and finds that his appetite is almost
equal to the occasion.
All the young gentlemen OF taste not in
love with Maud Muller are enwrapt by Miss
Winnie Ream's Miriam, now on exhibition
at the State Library. ..-.
It is announced that Mr.. Joseph j. Eng
lish will probably soon resign his place in
the City Council.
A $3.50 case occupied the attention OF
the Police Justice for an hour yesterday
during the trial of the civil docket. The
counsel talked so eloquently (and continu-
alv) that at one time the numerous lawyers
in waiting for their cases to come up re-
solved to raise pony-purse and pay Oft the
claim, but when they were required to hand
over the money the scheme suddenly COL
lapsed.
Mr.. johnson, OF Culpeper, the manufac-
turer of the Mofett liquor-register, is ex-
pected in the city to-day. Auditor Taylor
proposes to call his attention to communi-
cations in regard to the working OF the
machines. 1t was never claimed that the
registers were pretty. 1t is now said that
the spring which furnishes the power to
strike the gong is not strong; also that the
wheels frequently get tangled up, and that
the dials will not then move. There is
something the matter. 1t is that the wheels
and dials don't work, OF that the drinkers
arc not doing their duty to this glorious old
Commonwealth, o. that the bar-tenders often
forget to turn the crank.
About ten gentlemen here are known to
entertain the design OF running for the Le-
gislaturc, but only two have been bold
enough to publicly announce themselves.
The statistics prove that one in three Of the
members Of the last House are returned, or
at least renominated.
This weeks Baltim0rean contains life
like picture Of the late Rev. James A. Dun
can, D. D., with an interesting sketch OF his
life and services as a minister.
Mr.. Thomas Potts, Of this city, sailed from
New York for Ireland two days since in the
steamship Scythia.
Among the visitors to the Tobacco EX-
change Yesterday were A. Zuricaldey, New
York; B. B. Vaughan, Jr., Petersburg; T.
E. Barksdale, Halifax, N. S.; j. Fl. Brans-
ford, Cumberland; andT. r. Gillian, Buck
ingham.
The veteran organ OF the Church, the
stubborn Democrat, and the friend or the
South, who was twice confined in prison
during the war for his sympathy with the
Confederacy, Henry Erben, Esq, OF New
York, is in the city, stopping at the EX-
change Hotel. Mr.. Erben has built twenty
three organs in this city.
Manchester has fine collection OF fossils.
So has Richmond.