The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-04-24

Miss Bette w. Egeleston is appointed
postmaster az Centennial, Monroe county.
w. Va, cice b. Il. Wickline, resigned.
William T.. woodward IL appointed post
master mt Five-Milcs, Mason county, w.
Va, rice M. G. Scott, resigned. Theodore
V. Coleman il appointed postmaster at
Monongalia, w. Va, rice George Brook
over. declined. A special service Is es-
tablished at Hlcks's Mills. Prince Georges
county. Nd, from Patuxent. Star service
Is discontinued from Leatherwood TO Leaks
vile, Va; service from Shady Grove TO
Bro<vilIe, Va, is increased TO six times a
week.
A dispatch from Panama says: "Maior
Robert IL. Carter, inspector OF customs at
this port, died OF fever on the morning OF
the eth instant. lie was about sixty-tye
years old. and member OF one OF the old
est families Of Virginia. He served Ia the
Confederate army on the staff OF General
Lee. The mineralogist aud geologist, j. X.
Nj. Irbv. Bachelor Of Science in the LYNCH
burg College (il OF Virginia, died on board
the steamer CoQuimbo on her last voyage
south. He was on his way 10 Chill TO eX-
plore the mineral fields Of that country"
The Page Courier makes the following
startling statement There is man living
in this county who has been married twen-
weight wears, and who is the father OF
fourteen children, who told us the other
day that he had never kissed his wife or
one OF his children. He is tifty-twO years
old, and assured us solemnly that he had
never kissed anybody in his life. viii
some of our readers tell us what ought to
be done with hims
N sv
about 600 hands employed in grading the
Clifton Forge and Buchanan railroad. The
route has been changed from the east TO the
west bank of Jackson river at Clifton Forge,
and work suspended on the old location.
1t is expected the grading will be completed
| by the 1st OF July.
James p. Carpenter. OF Grove Hill, Page
county, q popular merchant, committed
suicide Thursday by hanging himself In the
loft ever his store. Mr.. Carpenter had car
ried on business at Grove Hill for about ten
years. He had been depressed in spirits
| for some time. ii is said. on account OF
love matter.
The Norfolk Landmark understands that
two large ships have been chartered by the
Virginia and Tennessee Airline TO be
loaded for Liverpool with cotton from
Memphis direct. Seven thousand bales
will arrive at Norfolk in very few days 10
be loaded by that line.
The Greenbrier Nv. Ea.) Independent re-
ports that Colonel J. Alexander Mon.some'
nv has rendered his resi9 uation as teller OF
the Bank OF Lewisburg, and has accepted
more lucrative position as civil engineer on
the Richmond and Allegheny railroad.
The Senate Of Massachusetts has passed
an act TO prohibit the erection OF screens in
bar-rooms. Henceforth tire drinking men
OF Massachusetts must face the sun and The
stouer glare of their passing felow-cit
zens, or they must not drink at all.
Rev. DIR. J. Il. Hawthorne, OF Richmond
will deliver a lecture in the First Baptis
church OF Lynchburg on Monday nlgh
next.
A meeting of tie voters Of Orange |:
called to meet at the Courthouse April 26tl
THAT being court.dsy) to appoint delegates
to the Richmond Convention.
Senator Riddlebergef's gas-works are
now in order, and he will soon commence
the publication OF the ReddiuSter.