The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-06-30
Personal, Political, and miscellaneous


The furniture in the New York boarding.
house that bore the reputation Of being
haunted was sold by auction on Monday.
The n0torieiy given to the house attracted
crowd OF buyers, and the secondhand
dealers met with an unexpected COMPETE
ton. Annie McWaters. the servant girl,
who had the most startling interviews with
the ghost, was there, and still persisted that
the house was haunted. A lady among the
bidders lost her pocket.book, and this theft
was laid upon the ghost.
They are having an excitement at Colum.
bus, Ohio, about mixed schools. One CO.
lorcd speaker said: "The law, while IL
cOmpels us TO fulfil all the duties OF citi-
zens, and in the hour OF the country's dan.
ger to risk our lives to throttle treason and
rescue the old flag from the hands OF rebels
and traitors, was so unjust as 10 deprive
cur children OF school facilities equal to
those enjoyed by white children" II is
difficult TO characterize this as 1t deserves.
Senator Dawes wants the Virginia Repub-
licaps to join Malone, as they can do so
without compromising a single principle
for which the Republican party contends.
The honest payment OF honest debts Is not
principle Of the Republican party. IL
was the party OF imitation for fifteen years;
now it is the party Of repudation.-Ne,o
York Express.
Ex-senator Conkling paralyzed the deni-
zens OF the Fhlb.Avenue Hotel, New York.
last Mondgy, by the rapidity OF his move
ments. He rushed up and down stairs,
came near upseiting an umbrella stand, and
behaved In an extraordinary way generally.
The only person who remained calm was
the diamondbestudded hotel clerk.
Because MoIie De Hart was only thIr-
teen her parents forbade her to marry
Bruce Cooper, a young lawyer OF Moore
head, Ky. The couple eloped, but had not
gone many miles before the bridegroom
was sorry for what he had done, advised
the girl TO return home, and committed sui
eide by shooting himself.
The New York Tribune says: We repeat
what we have more than once said already,
that the dispute among the Virginia Re-
publicans over the question OF uniting with
the Malone party is matter which they
ought TO settle among themselves without
calling upon the Administration to inter.
fere.
1t is reported that the largest hog in the
country is Poland-China, four years old
this spring, lately on exhibition at Junction
City, Kansas. His length is feet; girth
OF neck, Gt feet; girth OF chest, "a feet ;
grth OF centre, feet; width across the
hip, 80 inches, and weight, 1882 pounds.
DR.. George b. Loring as Commissioner
OF Agriculture will be severely practical,
as usual, the Boston Traveller says, and
efforts to extract sunbeams from cucum.
bers or blood from turnips, or to make new
moons out Of old cheese, will find no favor
at his hands.
The toy.pistol has commenced Its annual
work OF devastation. Last week boy in
Brooklyn shot himself through the hand
with one OF these instruments OF destruc-
tion, and yesterday another boy was acci.
dentally shot by schoolmate in New
York public school.
The Charlotte Observer SAYS: "Senator
Vance, in imitation OF Vice-Prc ident
Wheeler, the great New York fsheroian,
VIII leave Charlotte Ia day or two for Two
weeks recreation among IT, mounts 2 and
fishing streams Of Watauga."
Sergeant Bates. Who carried the flag
through the South just after the war, fell
from platform while lecturing out West a
few nights ago and broke his leg. After
all. there does seem TO be such thing as
retri5utlon.
A dispatch from st. Louis says the new
anti.gambing law went into effect on Mon.
day, and every gambling house in the city
has closed. We would like 10 bear from
st. Louis on this subject again, say week
hence.
1t is believed in Washington that John II.
Smytbe will be recalled from his post as
United States Minister and Consul. General
10 Liberia, and that Frederic; q. Barba-
does, another colored man, will receive the
appointment.
The Norfolk Virginidn says: The Rev.
DR.. Minnigerode, Of Richmond, former
rector OF Christ church, Norfolk, and one
Of the ablest Episcopallan divines in the
State, spent Sunday in the city with Mrs.
The Lynchburg Virginian says: Track
aying on the Richmond and Allegheny rail-
road Is completed to the lock one mile below
he city. AS soon as the bridge across the
river at Joshua dam is finished the trains
will run up to the city.
The body OF the man found at Kansas
City, Mo-, the other day, has been recog-
lized as that OF Rev. Sidney NJ. Stray, ex-
,eled from the ministry in New York some
months ago. II was case OF suicide by
lrowning.
Colonel Fred. Grant is in Chicago in
lulging Ia his peDchant for loafing in the
Otunda OF the Palmer House. The Texas
abroad, it seems, has not taken full pos.
ession OF his soul.
A fatal disease Is sweeping off the canary
,irds in Ithaca, N. Y. II Is distressiDgly
ingular that nobody has been able to in
-ent a disease that will kill English spar.
ow --Bnrtington Haukeye.
The fact that among the results OF Mon
lay nights storm at the capital was the up
ooting Of thirteen hundred shade-trees is
forcible illustration OF the violence OF the
empest.
A rural member introduced bill at
Albany Monday "for the protection OF pole.
ats, Otherwise known as skunks," which |
% declared to be useful to hop-growers.
There was fight and pistol-shots at
r. L., all because club would
OF admit Cecil b. Brown (coIored). They
lid 1t was for white people only.
Speaker Randall delivered an address
nd George Alfred Townsend delivered
le poem at Dickinson College, Pennsylva-
10.
The Scranton Republican gives an &c
,unt OF q Sham battle there few days 70
commemors the explosion OF the g
rsburg mine.
Goldsmith Maid and FIora Temple were
,th over twenty years Of age before they
ere bred, and both had foals. u