The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-02-22

Yelling public have been helpless victims
hitherto, has Just received n wholesome
check in Pennsylvania, and the example it
is to be hoped will be followed in other
States. We notice that the Pennsylvania
Legislature has passed bill imposing "a
fine of not more than 500 OH any baggage
master or other person whose duty it is to
handle or remove the baggage Of passen-
gers who shall wilfully or recklcssly injure
or destroy such baggage"
Almost panic occurred in Willis opera
house, Washington, on Saturday night, du-
ring the performance, by some one throw
Ing lighted match into n stove in which a
lot of waste paper he'd been placed. Quite
Il smoke WAS accustomed. and cry of fire
was raised. The audience rose en- m0$se,
and were forcing their way pell-mell to the
exits, hut by the efforts Of the police and
others were Quoted in time to prevent any
accident. Several ladies tainted, nn1 it
was fully twenty minutes before the per-
furnance could be continued.
1t Ruckner's Station, Louisa county, Va,
William N. Buckner is appointed postmas-
ter; at Bolling's Landing, Buckingham
county, John n. Brown appointed postmas-
ter ". +. Dickinson postmaster at Ravens
Eye, FluYanna county, rice J. J. Rhodes,
resigned Marion l.. Tutwiler postmaster
at Seven Islands, Fluvanna county, rice
NJ. I. Tutwiler, resigned.
Perhaps it is useless to say anything
about Kerosene accidents. Whatever doubt
exists about the continual production Of
petroleum, there Gun be none about the sup
ply Of fools. In Brooklyn OIL Saturday a
10y was stifed by the fumes of gasoline
the volatile constituent Of petroleun-and
falling into barrel of it was suffocated.-
Nc'n lIcrk Tribune.
kohler s kamcrra, proprietors of the
great lager beer brewery at Guttenburg,
New York, charged with revenue frauds,
have been held to bail in $4,000 each to
await the action of Commissioner Hoff-
man.
y drunken man named Richard Nc
Frank Mountz in Wheeling, West Virginia,
on Saturday. lie was arrested and locked
w, but subsequently escaped and has not
been rccaItured.
Notice has been given by the Albany
IN. " employers that the wages of the
bricklaycrs, plasterers, and stonemasons,
will be reduced on the LIST of March. The
workmcn have resolved to strike.
In the Louisiana Legislature on Satur-
day joint resolution sppropriating $1,000
for the burial of the Confederate dead, i'll
response to q memorial of the Ladies Be-
neyolent Association Of Fredericksburg,
Va, was passed.
Brutal assaults on the Chinese are COM
mon in San Francisco, and there is sensa-
ton report that they are to be massacred by
4 secret organization on or before st.
ratrick's day.
Mrs. Russ, the widow Of the inventor of
the Russ pavement, discovered small PIN
pie near her mouth about two weeks ago,
which she picked with her nail. The nail
poisoned the flesh, modification seton, and
she died few days afterwards.
George ArensbTg, O compositor i'll the
New York Times office, set 2,064 ems, Sa-
turday, solid minion, in an hour. 1t is
said to be fastest type-setting on record.
4 number of American emigrants to
Brazil reached New York Sunday whose
return passage home was paid by the Bra
lillian Government.
Miss Richings, with her English Opera
Troupe, has been singing of late in Indian
apolis, Cincinnati, and Louisville. She is
to essay La Grand Duchess. "--Bgfolo
Commercial.
Ristori don't draw at home. She failed
to fill the house at Florence, and lately
played an engagement at the respectable
secoud-rate theatre called LIE Logic. She
PLAYS about us well as ever, some say, but
hardly draws full houses. ..os
Carefully compiled statistics place the
number Of Chinese Oh the Pacific coast at
$4,000.
During tho storm on Friday night two
houses were destroyed in Philadelphia.
Nobody hurt.
The railroad bridge over the Brazos river
between Hampstead and Brennan, Texas,
has been burned.
Central City, Colorado, offers $4,000 per
year for minister, with q detail of two
constables to protect him.
1t is satisfactory to know that the ice
crop is fine in Alaska quarter of a mile
thick. f&
The Cincinnati Commercial says that up
in the Mac-a-Cheek District of Ohio they
ore talking of Don Piatt for Congress. :,
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has recently been
the guest Of merchant in Liverpool, who
gave splendid banquet in honor Of her.
Captain Zeigler, the State superintendent
of free schools in West Virginia, died Thurs
day. .s-