Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Louis Post-Dispatch says that the State University of Missouri is wretchedly managed and poorly supported. "Its buildings are unfit for their purposes, the class-rooms are insufficient and badly heated, there is no accommodation worth speaking of for students, and the zeal and energy so creditably shown by all connected with the university - curators, faculty and students - are painfully mocked by the contrast with the ancient, rickety and poverty-stricked quarters in which learning is compelled to house itself. The State of Missouri has been badly advertised abroad for years. In the older days border raids, guerillas and reprisals...
...dispatch from Paris says that Marshal McMahon is seriously...
...possible that a duel will take place between Senator-Elect Riddleberger of Virginia and Page McCarty, the Washington correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch...
...Paris dispatch says: While handling a revolver at Ville d'Avray, yesterday, M. Gambetta shot himself in the hand. The bullet only traversed the flesh, and he is in no danger...
...dispatch from Augusta, Me., says there is no perceptible change in the condition of Hon. Lot M. Morrill...