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The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], List of casualties in the recent battles before Richmond . (search)
Japanese Tommy.
--A London letter to the Chicago Journal says:
"The Japanese Ambassadors visited the Exhibition a few days ago, and seemed quite at home in the American department, where they met some persons whom they had before seen in New York.
Mr. Holmes inquired after the health of 'Tommy,' whom you will remember as quite a pet in the United States, and was informed that he was dead; but the announcement was made with bursts of excessive laughter, and it is supposed that that idays ago, and seemed quite at home in the American department, where they met some persons whom they had before seen in New York.
Mr. Holmes inquired after the health of 'Tommy,' whom you will remember as quite a pet in the United States, and was informed that he was dead; but the announcement was made with bursts of excessive laughter, and it is supposed that that individual, owing to some misdemeanor, had shuffled off the mortal coil by the method known in Japan as the 'happy dispatch.'"