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Fifteen Dollars reward.

Ten Dollars reward.

Runaway in jail.

Runaway in jail.

Notice to our Subscribers.

Send us the news.

Bad Times at the North .

Official report of a Skirmish — Improbable statement of an Indiana Colonel .

The New York dry goods , trade.

Death of Charlotte Bronte 's father.

The blind in Ireland

Destructive fire in Centre Wheeling .

Reconnoissance by rail.

A tragedy in Missouri .

Angel Calderon de la Barca .

The Read shell.

The last Brilliant achievement.

Barbarities in the Northwest .

"War to the Knife ."

North Carolina State Convention .

Economical Independence and Wealth of the South .

The schooner Tropic Wind .

Another Resignation.

Yankee corn on Georgia Lands.

The defences of the Mississippi .

The Piratical fleet.

From Alexandria .

The Engagements at Aquis Creek — a gallant defence — Hishly interesting statements — the results of the achievement.

The Read shell in the fight at Bethel .

A Slap at Gen. McClellan .

Vandalism in Northwest Virginia .

Hessian Villainy.

Attempt to Assassinate.

Five hundred Dollars reward.

Destructive fire.

Mayor's Court , yesterday.

Reported death of a citizen

Hospital at Masons' Hall , 25th street , Church Hill .

Interesting from the Potomac Division .

Desirable thing.

Attention, friends of liberty!

A Sorry spectacle.

Reading matter for the soldiers.

Bowels cut open.

Election of an officer.

Getting better.

Marriage licenses.

[from our Special Correspondent.]

A man cut to pieces by a mowing Machine.

From Petersburg .

The remains of Louis Philippe .

Activity of the slave trade.

Honors to a French author.

Cobb 's Legion .

Man sold for Vageancy.

From Fortress Monroe .

Annexation by England .

Death of a Sister of Charity.

Cavour 's will.

Southern markets.

Wouldn't Unscrew any more.

The French vintage

Queen Victoria .

Death of a celebrated opera singer.

The Queen of Spain .

The Boot and Shoe trade.

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The blind in Ireland

--The report of the Molyneux Asylum for blind women has just been issued. There are 1,000 blind women in Ireland, and nearly as many of the other sex. Dr. Wilde, the oculist, that there is a greater proportion of blind in Ireland than in any other country of Europe, except Norway. It appears from the poor law inquiry now in progress that there are 1,700 blind paupers in the Irish workhouses.

The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. July 2, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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