The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-06-26

Mr.. William Weftenbsker, Of Charlottes.
vile, who was some time ago prostrated
Win paralysis, Is considerably improved.
The students Of Professor soutbalps law
class, University Of Virginia, have present.
ed him With beautiful gold headed cane as
testimonial OF their high regard and aaec.
ton.
Garfield and Blaine both are likely 10 be
neid closely to their work during the entire
summer. Although nothing OF decided im.
nornnce Is threatening, nevertheless. the
lie oil the Administration Is destined 10 be
stormy one, and close watching will be
necessary to its entire success.
After thirty years Of exhaustive trial Of
prohibition. liquor.selling In Ohio Is freer
aud more unrestricted than It Is In Ger.
many or France, where It is supposed that
temperance Is unknown.
Some people In the western cyclone re-.
gion have "cyclone holes" or cellars in
the ground, as places Of refuge in high
winds. The cellar has beams over il GOV.
cred with earth, with a window yentilator
and trap-door.
In Portugal widow cannot marry IL she
be over fifty years Of age. Who ever heard
OF widow as old as that p Boston Post.
The Charlottesville Chronicle says: Sena-
tor Wade Hampton, OF South Carolina,
arrived at the Junction yesterday. and will
spend few days with Colonel T. L. Preston.
The world didn't come to 40 end. it's
true; but you must admit that Mr.. Conk.
ling resigntd.-M Mother Shipton.
A remedy for flies is said to be ha.f tea
spoonful OF black pepper IN powder, one
teaspooDiui OF brown sugar, and one tea.
| spoonful OF cream, mixed well together,
and placed In a room on place where they
are troublesome.
Captain Bogardus's feat Of breaking five
hundred glass balls in twenty-five minutes
and fifteen seconds is spoken Of as some.
thing remarkable. Any schoo.boy OF ave.
rage muscular development could with the
| aid OF a shinney.club do it in half that time.
| A special from Holly Springs says /:
"Wyatt Holmes (colored) was hanged With
in three miles OF the court here to-day, in
the presence OF about five thousand specta-
tors. for the murder OF Andrew Scott (col.
ored) in February last. The condemned
man assembled the scafold with a hrm step
and compliment smile. He made a confess
sion Of his crime, and called upon all
present TO meet him in Heaven"
The libel suit brought by Governor Bish-
0p. Of Ohio, against the Cincinnati Gazette
| has ended in a verdict for $500 damages.
The charge against the Governor was that
| he was accessory 10 a conspiracy during
The election excitement OF 1879 to enable
| the Republican ring to overthrow the Dem
Ocratic ma iOrity IN the Police Board OF Gin
cinnat.
| Ellis II. Elias, man noted in New York
for many questionable methods of making
money. died on Wednesday night. lie was
tie protector Of :" dollar" store under the
st. Nicholas Hotel, and failing in that, he
swiudled the green ones BY selling watches
with Milton gold cases and Geneva works.
He was only thirty-five years old, but he had
| made and lost fortune, and died poor.
| The Episcopalians of Jobs,own, the little
| New Jersey village where Pierre Lorillard
keeps his stables, have good reason TO re-
joice over the victory OF Iroquois. Mr..
| Lorilard, it appears, promised that II he
| won the Derby he would build new church
for them, and they say be always keeps his
word.
There is a revival In Washington OF the
report that General Grants abortion OF
| New York as bis future home is with a
view to succeeding ConklIng il ConklIng
can't be elected. The General has l4tterly
talked so much and So unreasonably that
his election would be as problematc as that
Of Conkling himself.
San Antonio, Texas. must be good place
| TO die but not 10 live in. The deaths are
put at 4S per 1000, against Galveston, the
next worst place, which shows so 8. OF
| foreign ports, Acapulco, Mexico, shows the
worst-S 5-and AspiDwall, on the 18th
mus, the next. Havana shows as; New
York, 80 o; New Orleans, 37S.
The Charlotte IN. CO. Observer says: Yes
| terday afternoon Mrs. L. j. Jackson and
her daughter, Miss Julia, left for Lexington,
Va, TO attend the commencement exercises
OF the Virginia Military Institute. 1t is
| their intention to pass the summer months
| 10 visiting the various watering-paces in
Virginia.
Professor Draper says a comet is of such
| subtle consistency that il would probably
| be disspated by the atmosphere before it
reached the earth. The nucleus might pcs.
sibly make little splash when it struck,
| but there is not the faintest danger to be
| apprehended.
Mr.. James r. Keene's race.horse Spend.
thrift arrived at New York on Thursday on
the steamship Greece from London. He
has been in England two years, but has
done no racing. A fOur-year-old and two
blooded yearlings, purchased ia England
for Mr.. Keene, came with Spendthrift.
The Washington Post SAYS: Mr.. Malone
l. in Hcnnnnait,or
diation. A man who can get rid OF more
than $l3,000,000 of a public debt IN two
years by elimination would be a master
Of niquity TO resort to reputation.
A man in New York shot his wife. and a
man in Newark put a bullet in the head OF
his sweetheart, and another in his own. No
cause can be ascertained for either crime
beyond a sudden flash Of jealous temper
and handy weapon.
Hon. Charles James Faulkner, OF Virgil
mia, an alumnus Of Georgetown College,
was present at the recent commencement.
He is remarkably we'll preserved, and would
readily pass for not more than sixty years
Of age.
Edward A. Goodnow, OF Worcester.
Mass, has given $4,000 TO Plymouth
church, III tnat CITY, LOT the pulcudse vi Il
chime OF bells and an organ, as memorials
TO his deceased wife and son.
Mrs. Amanda Potts, OF Lafayette. Ind,
has sued Thomas Menaugh, an old bach. OF
that city, for 100000 for breach OF promise.
II she gets it won't she be a lovely widow !?
We should.
The New York Tribune says: There
seems to be something rotten in North
Carolina when a Government contract call.
ing for $4,000 is stopped by United States
marshal because the work could be done for