The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-03

Madame NilSSon'S salary is $4,000 for
each performance.
Prince Bismarck has reduced his weight
from 231 to 19j pounds.
One of Rembrandt's pictures brought
10000 thalers recently in Berlin.
General James ClintOn's descendants are
to hold family retnion in Albany in the
spring.
Ephraim Keyser, the Baltimore sculptor,
has sailed for Rome. lie has many COM
missions.
The Due de Chartres is the leading win
ner on the French turf This year. His
winnings amount to S1j0,000.
Nine. Patti states that there is no truth
in the report that she discovered Welsh
miner on her estate with rich baritone
voice.
Jacob Milliken, veteran Democrat Of
ScarbOTo'. Maine, expects to celebrate his
one-hundredth birthday anniversary on
Friday.
1t is reported in Washington that Mr.
| Walker Blaine will be given a diplomatic
appointment during the present session Of
Congress.
Edward King writes from Paris that the
business OF counterfeitlng paintings OF
distinguished artists is carried on to an
enormous extent in that city.
Senators Allison. Wilson, VOORHEES,. Har-
rlSOn. Plumb, and PendIetOn are natives Of
Ohio. as are thirty-one members of the
present House OF Representative.
Joseph Longworth, who died at Wood
| burn, Gin, innati. on sunday, was the phi
| lanthropis 0f tbe name. His patronage Of
art made him local celebrity years ago.
and OF late his liberal gifts have been fre-
quent.
Miss Fannie VI. BaSby, daughter OF
| Judge Bagby, OF Illinois. has become the
leading woman journalist of the West.
She has been in st. Louis since 1880, at
first as a reporter. but latteriy as editor Of
the Chronicle.
Prince George OF Prussia, the poet of
the HohenzOllern family, has just COM
pleted another play in French entitled
{" Mademoiselle Esther" which is said to
be based on incidents in the life of Nine
| Sarah Bernhardt.
Miss Anna Iron. whose home when a
| -
woman who buckled the sword of General
Houston around that veteran Just before
the battle Of San JlcintO. Her death in
! Bryan, Texas, was an occurrence OF few
days ago.
Prince LOUIS of Battenberg has Just re-
turned to England from visit to his bride
elect at Darmstadt. The marriage OF his
Serene llighness has BEEN postponed till
April, in order that the Queen, who will
90 abroad for the benefit of her health IN
the spring, may be present at the cere-
mony, as well as the Prince and Princess
OF Wales.
Old Captain "Jake" Vanderbilt is the
name Of a member Of that noted family
which is seldom heard. He is brother Of
the dead Commodore, and though now
over fourscore years stil has iull posses
sion of all his faculties. He lives very
comfortably on his staten-Island farm. and
seldom troubles "Billy," rs he calls his
nephew, or any of the other members OF
the family.
Lord Wolseiey recently delivered lee
ture on "Success in Life" lie recon-
mended total abstinence on the ground OF
eXpediency. If. be said. two lads started
together in life, all things being equal.
with the exception OF one drinking and
the other being a teetotaller. it was long
odds on the latter. lie added that on his
Red-Riycr campaign, one OF the hardest he
was ever on, there was no strong liquor,
and there was likewise no sickness and no
need for prison discipline. II drunken
ness could be eliminated. crime in the Eng
lish army, be cOntended, would be practi-
cally at an end.