Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-10

Roman emperors. Sometimes these en-
counters occur between prominent ANA
tetr boxers, and last winter the prominent
ornaments Of upper tendon could not M.
pear for several weeks in public In conse.
ouence OF facial damages sustained In one
Of these private encounters. Well. these
men. with more Inherited money than
brains, are trying TO get private match
between Sullivan ard 1Iearld, which Is TO
he regular set-to without any nonsense.
The trouble Il that the encounter might
prove 20 desperate that one OF The combat
ants might be slain-then would bc trou-
BILE which even their position and wealth
could not rescue them from. IL j. slid
that Sullivan wants $4,000 20 be induced
10 consent TO the meeting. promising Tint
he win leave nothing OF thesandy- haired
youth from Nicetown. Pa. IL Is calculated
That $500 could easily be collected for the
purpose from twenty gentlemen; but the
apurehension that serious trouble might
sns,Ic such desperate encounter, causes
many To hesitate about completing the or
rsngements for the meeting. Ore thing
j. certain. the respective admirers OF the
fg0 will never be- satisfied unless sullivan
and Heard eight I. out" and The only
way they can will be in a private room.
LITERARY MOTIFS.
william Black. the English novelist. will
during the next year cOllab0rate with
wcltknown writer Of this city in the pre-
partition OF novel for the American mlr-
kct. The object Of the collaboration l. 70
secure the protection OF copyright IN this
country.
Speaking Of collaboration reminds me
that the Rev. A. Stewart Walsh and the
Rev. T. Dewitt Fhlmage, Of Brooklyn,
have b, en- associated in the aUthorship-O
volume entitled 1.-THE Queen OF the House
Of David" The body Of The work was
written Nv DR.. Walsh, and DR.. Talmlgc
contributes long and eloquent introduce
ton. The book is the outgroHth OF indie
iaiigable research. and is full Of the eyi.
dence' OF profound study. Tue Rev. Dr.
Walsh is one OF the most gifted OF the great
array Of clerical authors.
Julian Hawthorne, the novelist and re-
viewer, who has resided for several years
at Sag IlarbOr, l.. l., will shortly remove to
Moniclair, n j., which II but half an hours
ride IRON New York. The scheme OF
literary weekly in which he and his brother
in.law, Mr. George Parsons Lathr0p, were
interested, has been abandoned for thc pre-
sent.
Tie poem TO be read on the occasion OF
th0 Uuveiling OF the Liberty statue in this
city, will be the work OF the Rev. s. Miller
IIegcman, OF Brooklyn. Mr.. Edmund
Clarence Stedman has promised Il pOeticll
contribution for the occasion, ii anything
occur. to him III time.
Mrs. Burton n. Harrison, the auth0ress,
whose husband was The private secretary Of
jefferson Davis, Is now at work upon
book which she says will be her greatest
literary achievement. Mrs. Harrison /.
small. dainty.looking body with fair com.
pleXIon and a wealth OF reddish golden
hair. She Is not strOng-mindcd, but has
very positive feminine manner. Her figure
/, still girlish, and one can hardly think Of
her rs the mother Of young genilemin OF
seventeen already in Yale. Her home. at
II Lexington avenue, j. very tasteiully de.
corated in two colors-whitc aud gold.