The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-05-31


Mr.. William westenbaker, the venerable
librarian Of the University, IL conyaIcscIpe.
Rev. j. w. Bledsoe, OF Richmond, will de.
liver the annual sermon, and Rev. j. Il.
hawthorne, OF Richmond, the commence
ment address, before the GordonsvilIc Fe.
male Institute. Eppa Huniou, Jr., will de-
liver the address AZ Warrenton on memorial
day. Senator Malone on Friday drew bis
pay TO date, Sl,250. A. s. Mauzy, OF the
Staunton Spectator, who has been ill, Is
recovering. Msjor Robert II. Kinney,
Formerly OF Augusta, died the other day
at bis home, in Kentucky. He served
in the Mexican war. Bishop WhiuIe con.
hrmed number OF persons. old aud young.
at Halifax Courthouse on Tuesday. Judge
Staples, OF the Court OF Appeals, will de.
liver the address before the Marion Fee
male Seminary to-day. General Jubal A.
Early has gone 10 New Orleans. The Con.
seryative Committee OF Lynchburg has con.
graduated its people on the great triumph
OF Thursday. Alexander Mcdonald. editor
OF the Lvnchburg Neus. says the Templar
=, Onion In Richmond Is bound to be frsngbt
with political benefit. Ii. johnson Barbour
Is on visit TO Judge John Gilmer, at Pitt.
sylysnia Courthouse. DIR. G. ". Bagby has
been ruslicaiing in the Valley. William T.
Hardy, OF BOtetouri, Is dead; aged
seveniy.six. He was one OF the
pioneers Of the James. River Improvement.
John L. Mitchell (colored), recently mem.
Der o. The Washington police force, has
been arrested for an outrage on his own
daughter. aged fourteen. Bishop Simpson
has sailed for Europe. Stewart KEEL.
lam has been appointed postmaster at
Pungoteagne, Accomac. Rev. J. Il. Flz-
patrick, OF Virginia, is to occupy the pulpit
OF the Church OF Our Redeemer reformed
EpiscopaD at Baltimore for The next three
months. Rev. j. William Jones preach
ed Sunday at West Point. Justice
stanley Mathews has delivered his first
opinion and 1t was against that great mo.
nopoly the STANDARD Oil Company. The
Chicago police raided a gambling.house and
The prisoners gave their names as Conkling,
Malone, Beecher. Tildep, &c. Henry
Graft, young German, drank quart
and pint of whiskey on a wager in
Chicago saloon, and in few minutes
after dropped 10 the floor dead. John
Shaver is on Trial at Montreal for steal
inc tombstones from graveyard. Owen
Wister, who took part in the Greek play at
Harvard, is n grandson OF Fanny Eemble.
Senator SewelI has sprained his ankle.
Alexander Stephens addressed the Stephens
Fire Company at Augusta on the 26h.
Mary Anderson has been offered an engage
ment at Drury Lane Theatre, London, but
she will not 90 TO England for year to
come. The Rev. Lewis a. Anderson, who
died in Kansas on Thursday, was native
OF Greenbrier county, and was once pastor
OF Grace-Street Baptist church of this
city. A citizen OF Richmond who has Just
returned from Western New York says
the opposition to Conkliug is very bitter.
When Messrs. Conkline, Arthur, and Plat
returned from Albany to New York
tue New York Times says they found
they had ceased TO be lions. Its Albany
CORES pendent declares that tEeir retreat
from the State capital was caused by their
complete defeat. Simon Cameron is deeply
concerned about the future OF the Republic
can party. ASsemblymen Donoho and
Cohen Democrats having said they would
not attend the Democratic caucus last night
at Albany, the New York Express declared
money had been used. Chanfiau is 10
build Il fine theatre in New York. The
Wythevile Enterprise nominates Connally
f. Trigg for Lieutenant. Governor. Hon.
J. Ii. MCGOWAN, OF Michigan. delivered the
Federal memorial address at Leesburg yes
terday. Winston Pullen shot William Hale
in Bedford county last week about warrant
trying. They were both colored, and Hale
is not expected TO recover. Tom Lee, of
North Carolina, is to be appointed United
States marshal for New Mexico. Lord Claude
Hamilton commenced the session Of the
House OF Commons by abusing Gladstone
like a fishwoman and wound up by calling
John Bright a liar. Anna Bishop, aged
seventy, is singing in Boston. All
Paris is laughing because Lord Sbrews-
bury, aged twenty, is madly in love
with Mrs. Murray, aged thirty and
married. He does not look over sixteen.