The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-09

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holism-and wen bet on It, NorTistoua
| Herald.
A general court. martial will convene at
Fort Davis, Texas, on Thursday, September
18th. at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, to try Second
| Lieutenant II. o. Fiinper lcolored). Of the
Tenth cavalry, charged with the embeZZle-
ment OF s1,700 OF Government funds.
CAPTAIN j. Add. Patterson, OF Charlottes.
| vile, has been rendered the appointment OF
| Adiutant.G General Of the First Virginia ori-
gade by Brigadier. General Fitzhush Lee
In the Georgia Senate there are twenty
four farmers, fifteen lawyers, i've doctors,
one merchant, one school-teacher, ana one
steam saw-miII proprietor.
A number OF colored children were on
Monday refused admission to the pubic
schools OF Springfield, Ohio. The matter Is
TO be carried to the courts.
In Lewiston, Maine, last Saturday night,
at a critical point In the balcony scene,
| where Juliet, after an impassloned CONVEX
sation with Romeo, disappearing for a mo-
ment az the call Of her nurse, reappeaTed,
and calling In thrilling accents, I" Romeo ]
Romeolv a coarse voice in the gallery
| pepetra;ed the suspense by shouting, He's
corniv The house could not restrain lis
Sense of The ludicrous, and burst into
! laughter despite its painful inappropriate
ness.
He came TO bid her goodbye and found
her weeping. "Cheer up, darliDg," ne
said, tenderIg, feeling for her eyes with his
pocket handkerchief. "Cheer up; I'm
| only going to be absent for a week" "But
| can't cheer up" sobbed the disconsolate
| maiden, with a fresh yank at her %tear-pump.
/" Poor little Gyp got into a fight with
another dog to-day aud he's nearly cheWed
up"
It has been left for a Western man 10 sug-
| gest the grimmest method OF finding where
the bullet Is in the Presidents body. 1t Is
to have the "bulidog" revolver loaded by
the sam gunsmith who loaded 1t Tor Gul'
teau. with the same charge OF powder
and ball; place Guiteau 10 position, and
| shoot him Just as be shot the President and
then cut for the ball.
A new fact In regard to melons has come
TO light. 1t IS said that il a melon be var
| uisbed it will retain all its good qualities
| for an indefinite time. A person who tried
| this method OF preservation says that al
| Christmas, when the melon was cut, the
melons flavor and sweetness were equal TO
those OF a fresh melon.
"Fritz" Emmett played in st. Louis last
week, and the Kansas City Times Is wicked
enough to say GAS the telegraph reported
him sober, II may be supposed that the In
diguant citizens demanded their money
back and left the theatre in a body. IL will
not do for Mr.. Emmett TO trample upon the
traditions"
Gujteau could never sleep at proper hours
Cursed With abnormal activity, his nerve;
were always on the qui vive. Could he
have had the soothing benefit OF DR.. Ben
SONS Celery and Chamomile Pills hi;
wretched brains would not have ragged with
improper iancies.
II the coming American poet can't find in
spiration In the Presidents ride for 9
national poem to beat out OF sight Buchanan
Read, Longfellow, Browning, and all the
other poets who have writteR OF rides, then
the coming poet isn't worth his salt.-Phu'
0deiphid Press.
"Waiter," said he, examining bis reed
bird critically, al should judge from the
bill that this was an English sparrow
He finished, and was banded bis check.
After a glance, he remarked, "Waiter,
was wrong. Judging from the bill, that
was q Pompeiian nightingale"
ASt. Locis paper says: "Deacon Richard
Smith, OF the Cincinnati G0zette, who pro
baby admires a whiskey sour as much as
any man Of his size in America, remarked
In his paper yesterday, Water is never
sufficiently appreciated until it becomes
scarce"
Eighteen convictions for drunkenness ID
Portland in one day, and Neal Dow out In
Indiana trying TO persuade the Hoosiers Il
adopt prohibition, which works like
charm in Maine, are among contemporane
, Gus temperance items.
William Crawford, of Matamoras, ate on
hundred and fifty clans on a wager th,
other day. He won the bet, but the stak,
was not sufficient to purchase a monument
OF which he now stands in pressing need.
There are only six ne Rspapers published
In Iceland, and copies OF these are luggeC
around by the editor and traded for drie'
meat and frozen whiskey. Detroit Ere
Press.
The salary OF the mayor OF Swansea ha
been increased from 1900 to so, 900 tn
present year, 80 that he may give a suitabl
reception tc the Prince and Princess o
Wales when they visit the town In October
There does not seem to be much left il
Washington except malaria, Guitesu, ant
George Q. Gorham. The public is %entiIcl.
willing to see those three Gght II out amonl
themselves Ner York Tribune.
The Washington Republican saws: I
Captain HowEate will call at this Office h
will hear Of something TO bis disadvantage
Senator Lamar has taken the stump il
Mississippi, and will continue speakiuI
until The election In November. He Ia
tends TO visit every part OF the State.
Mary Anderson begins her theatrical sea
son this year Ia Troy, hut she will not pla,
La Grande Helene.
1t was General Garfield who said: "N,
Republican should touch any party tainte,
with reputation" 4t
The average French family is three. lhI
sversge English i've, and the average lrisl
seven.
HDRsF0aD's ACID PH0sPHArE for ner
yOrs debility, enfeebled digegtion, etc
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