The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-07-12

The Providence journal says: As 10 the
maiarial fevers which have OF late appeared
in western Massachusetts, as we'll as In Con-
aec9icut aud other places where they have
not been known for long time In their as.
pect Of last year, President Chsdbourne, OF
Williams College, an expert In chemistry,
saws that whereas he used 10 teach without
hesitation or mIsgivipg that the malariaI
poison producing Intermittent fever was the
result OF vegetable d, composition, especially
he decomposition caused BY stirring soils
itch in organic materials and exposing them
% heat and moisture. be now thinks he was
wrong; aud he avows that, having discard
ed the old theories, he has no new ones 10
offer.
The Highland Recorder says: We have a
hard.hearted man in our county. He
has buried several fathers and mothers and
sisters, cousins and aunts innumerable,
passed through the late cruel war, and
waded knee. deep in the blood OF hi, CON-
TadeS, and was never known TO shed tear
until on Tuesday last, when the 5. Ii. e..
offered for sale an old still which bad been q
family heirloom from time immemorial. 1t
was touching to see tears fall thick and fast
down his manly cheek.
An unknown man. thirty-fve years Of
age, five feet seven in height, with dark
hair and sandy mouslaehe, committed sui
eide In Mount Morris Park, New York, on
Saturday. There was nothing on his per-
son to indicate his name, and about S2l and
watch and chain in his pocket. A moment
before be made a CHEEKY remark about The
weather to policeman, who was close by
when two shots were fred by the suicide.
The Lynchburg Virginidn says: The
champion baseball club OF Richmond,
which defeated the Olympics, Of this city,
in Richmond on the 4th instant, will play
a match game with the Oily mpics in this city
at an early day. II is expected that the
game will come off about The 10Th Of this
month. The Olympics take their defeat
very calmly, and speak Of the Richmond
moe ia the highest terms.
They have a debating club at Cubat, Ark
Last Wednesday night the subject Of debate
at this club was the "Rise and FAN OF the
Nation" One Neyler, being worsted in ar
gument by debater named HerOd, became
quite angry, and attacked Herod with a
knife, iofllcting seventeen wounds, some OF
which are rather serious. NeyIer has not
yet been arrested.
The declaration was made in the Legisla-
ture yesterday that the State OF Georgia is
TO be regarded and managed as CONNER
cal house or firm. We freely confess the
idea never occurred TO us before. For one
thing, commercial houses have no legiSla-
lures TO fret and worry them.-Attdnta
Constitution.
Au old friend of the family escribes Lu-
cretia Rudolph, in the days when young
James A. Garfield came a-wooing, as
" graceful, sweet, amable, retiring, with a
disposition as lovely as star-lit sky" OF
this good stuff consuming sorrow has made
a heroine.
A society paper says that in New York
city crying at weddings has gone out OF
fashion. We should say it was about time.
The fashion Oblilerated some OF the color
from the rosiest cheeks and caused much
uncOmiOrtabeness thereby. NOriStOon
Herald.
An aesthetic observer says pink and white
glass make more attractive luncheon dis
play than silver or dec grated porcelain.
The average lunch fend, however, does not
stand on the display of dishes 50 long as the
quantity of hash, liver, and beans is ample.
Neio Orleans Picdyune.
L u
mers are so mad at the comet getting within
the range Of naked vision before they saw
it that they are singing, Refrain, audacious
star =" Sang " Pinafore " TO it, eh That
explains why it has been getting away at
the rate of. 200, 900 miles a day.
Adelna Patti is reported to have told the
London correspondent of the New York
Herald that she wanted The Americans TO
understand that she did not desire to visit
America for money. Il WISH" she said,
:" to visit the home OF my youth while my
voice is still at its best"
One OF the wealthy ladies who occupied
a seaside cottage last summer had box
made for her jewelry in imitation OF Bible.
While absent one day some one entered her
house and carried off her silyerware, but
her box OF iewelry was undisturbed. Even
q rObber won't steal Bible.
Long Bill, of Nevada, says Of Samuel Mark
Clemens Twain: "Well, no; can't say
Sam. was very popular with the boys here,
though he did cabin with me. He kinder
had way Of forgetting the boys who staktd
him that didn't wash we'll"
The Boston Post says the fact that Gui-
teau succeeGed in beating" almost every
boarding bouSe keeper IN washington eA-
pOdes the insanity theory, because man
must have all bis wits about him 10 accom-
plisb that feat"
The Hampton MOnit0r says: A gentle
man from Yorktown informs us that the
new wnarves in contemplation at Yorktown
have not yet been commenced. The pro-
ieciors find difficulty in getting wOrkmen.
The Opera House is ready for roofing.