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The Daily Dispatch: October 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], Earthquake in England. (search)
Earthquake in England. --A strong shock of an earthquake was felt in England on the night of the 5th inst. Doors were broken open, crockery ware broken and clocks, stopped. It extended to Bristol, to Taunton, to Exeter, to Swansea, and to many miles out at sea. In some places a deep rumbling noise was heard. At Nottingham the noise resembled the sound of a heavy carriage approaching. Mr. Charles Dickens describes the sensation he experienced: He says that he was awakened by a violent swaying of his bedstead from side to side, accompanied by a singular heaving motion. It was exactly as if some great beast had been crouching asleep under the bed and was shaking itself and trying to rise. The shock appears to have been felt the most in the midland and west midland counties.
The Daily Dispatch: April 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], One hundred dollars reward. (search)
Dickens on Thackeray — a Graceful and touching tribute. The following tribute to the memory of William Makepeace Thackeray, by Charles Dickens, opens the February number of the Cornhill Magazine: It has been desired by some of the personal friends of the great English writer who established this magazine, that its brief record of his having been stricken from among men should be written by the old comrade and brother in arms who pens these lines, and of whom he often wrote himself, and always with the warmest generosity. I saw him first nearly twenty-eight years ago, when he proposed to become the illustrator of my earliest book. I saw him last shortly before Christmas, at the Athenæum Club, when he told me that he had been in bed three days--that, after three attacks he was troubled with cold shivering "which quite took the power of work out of him"--and that he had it in his mind to try a new remedy which he laughingly described. He was very cheerful, and looked ve
The Daily Dispatch: July 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from New Orleans. (search)
oln," written by Raymond, of the New York Times Giddings, who died here lately, while the Yankee Consul General to Canada, wrote a "History of the Rebellion," which is just out. Gen Scott is understood to be writing a memoir of himself. Charles Dickens's new story, "Our Mutual Friend," has reached seven chapters in the Cornhill Magazine. It is rather dull so far, but gives evidence of a very intricate plot. A number of Dickensque characters have already appeared.--There is a ruffian, of the Bill Sykes species, and a wretched girl, who remind one of Nancy; a queer old city clerk, with a family of grown up head strong daughters; a fashionable family; Silas Wegg, a wooden legged proprietor of an apple stall, (Dickens says: "It gave you the face aches to look at his apples, the stomach-ache to look at his oranges, and the teeth aches to look at his ,") Miss Patterson, an antique the Virginia, and Mr Venus, a time old keeper of a curiosity. shop Dickes has on entrusted his style w
The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
President Wickham, Superintendent Whitcomb, and the Directors of the Virginia Central railroad, passed up, to inspect the western end of the road, Monday night. We learn the hog cholera has been prevailing in the neighborhood of Greenville, in this county. --Staunton Virginian. The New York canals have closed for the season, although navigation is unobstructed. Northern capitalists are establishing loan associations in Virginia. Charles Dickens contemplates a visit to this country during the next spring or summer.
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Joint meeting. (search)
It is announced that Charles Dickens contemplates a visit to this country during the next spring or summer. It was about twenty-five years ago, we think, when Mr. Dickens first did our country the honor of a visit. He dropped in upon us that which the great mass of our people displayed towards Dickens. Some flunkyism there was, as there always will be, but the a return of our confiding affections, but the fault that Dickens found with us in his first speech, and a great many other hat had encircled our hero's brow. But the festivities to Dickens went on all the same, and his progress through the countryveling through sixteen States of the American Union, Mr. Charles Dickens returned to Europe and wrote a book. We expected it, and others of that class of English gentlemen to which Mr. Dickens does not belong either by social position or by that highe equally beautiful sentimentality or Sterne. When Mr. Dickens again visits our country, we hope he will find it more t
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