The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-08-06

The story may not be true, in spite OF lts
inherent probability, but it is said that not
long since a resident Of Niagara Falls fell
off The bridge to Goat Island and was IN.
stautly swept to the brink Of the awful gull
below. There he managed to get bold OF a
rock. and held on for half an hour.
svmpathlzing crowd rushed into the house
and grounds near by, where the mans WlIe
was historically watching the struggles OF
her unfortunate husband, as that spot AZ
| forded the best view whereupon, from the
| force OF habit, the distracted woman lmme.
diately revived sufficiently to charge and
collect a dollar apiece from the crowd for
the privilege OF viewing the catastrophe
from her premises.
Intelligence has been received at the Cape
OF Good Hope. from DR.. Stewart and his
party at Livingstonia, on Lake NyasSa, up
TO the end of February, 1877. The health
OF the party has been fairly good, and al
ready 'Lyinestonia is becoming nm anti
slavery centre, numbers OF fugitiveS coming
into the Settlement for protection, and being
fed there daily in exchange for work at
house-building, on roads, or in the fields.
In the middle Of February the first tusk OF
ivory was brought into the settlement and
bought for G13. Mr.. Henderson established
the Blantyre mission-statlon at the head OF
the navigation of the river Shire. 5000 feet
above the sea, in 1876.
A dispatch from Newport on the oath in.
slant says: "The polo-players are having
a serious time. No game was played yes
terday on account OF the softness OF the
TURF And this dismal intelligence follows
right on the heels of the Pittsburgh and
Reading riots. Depressing news comes to
us from all over the country. But perhaps
it never occurred to those polo-players that
the turf was not too soft to saw wood
Norristo1on Herald.
A pigeon foraging for food in Austin,
Cal, devoured so many grasshoppers that
when it had finished its meal and essayed
TO f1y to its cote it found itself in the con-
dition Of Mark Twain's jumping frog OF
Calaveras-weighted to the ground. 1t was
so heavy with grasshoppers that It's wings
were powerless to raise its body from the
ground.
The Commonwealth says that at the Pa
vilion, Revere Beach, the other evening. a
thirsty individual, tramping the corridors
round and round to find the bar, eH-
claimed: 1T 'pears to me there's the most
piazza and the least rum here OF any house
on the BEACH /! " ,....... ...~... .a.
Greenbacks are at eleven per cent. pre-
MUM over gold dust in the Black Hills.
But we wouldn't have here state OF society
in which we wanted tue most portable,
easily secreted kind Of money, for the sake
of having greeubacks at a premium, for all
the gold dust Of the Black Hills.
This is the season of the year when the
humblest of us can hold up our heads with
the purse-proud aristocrat, mop our eyes
with bedraggled and sick-looking hand.
kerchief, and lay claim to the bay-fever.-
BrooAviNe Jefersonion. "
The Worcester Press says: He was not
exactly victim OF sunstroke; but, as he
had been kicked out OF basement in an
emphatic and fat-footed manner he pre-
ferred to allude to the circumstance as q
coup de Sole-heel. ,r
The sound OF the reaper is heard in the
land, and fragments OF farnl-hands are daily
gathered up from the yellow fields and car
ried to the house for Identification and in
torment. -Haackeyeten. --:. -,...
Now that the strike is virtually over let
the American people resume their custom
ary intellectual avocation, and see who can
write the most words. on q postal-card.
HGa1teyetem. ..... ...
What is the difference between Lake Su.
perior and sailor who slips off log? Give
it up2 One is an unsalted sea, and the
other-oh, of course you know now-an
unseated salt.-PacE.