The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-26

The Police Board of Baltimore is finding
occasion to purge the ranks Of the police
force to a considerable extent. In addition
to the dismissal Of ten Of the men recently,
including three sergeants, for various OF.
fences, theft rs we'll as outlawry being
among the number, they OH Monday dis
missed three other members OF the force, AZ
ter due investigation OF the charges against
them. Among these IS Fitzpatrick, who
some nights ago in a restaurant, while I'm.
der suspension and off duty, engaged in
fight and used pistol. The other men now
dismissed are Kirby and Heard, for viola
ton of rules in leaving the city.
A freight train bound east, that left Greene
river. n. Y, at - O'Clock Monday, ran into
a wash-out one mile east of Point OF Rocks,
and killed Michael McQuinn, engineer;
William Leah, fireman; and machinist
named j. Plunkett, who was on the engine
The men are under the engine, and four.
teen or fifteen freight cars are piled on top
Of the engine.
Before sailing for Europe Mr.. Barry Sui
Ivan, the actor, left with Rev. DR.. McGlynn,
OF New York, a sum OF money for distribu.
ton to various charities in this country. In
accordance with one of the requests OF the
donor DR.. McGlynn forwarded to Mr.. Riley,
president of the New York Fire Depart.
ment, on Monday, check for $500 for the
fremen's fund for widows and orphans.
Edward S. Stokes, the murderer Of jim
| Fisk, since his transfer from Sing-Sing to
| Auburn prison, has been treated like con.
vict. He sleeps in cell, eats prison fare,
and is to be employed as q packerin the col
lar-shop. He entreated the store-keeper not
to compel him to wear an ill-ftting pair Of
striped trousers.
Company G, of the Seventy-fourth regi.
ment, New York National Guard, OF Bufia.
10, numbering fifty men, under the com.
mand of Captain E. II. NJ. Bambery, arrived
at Philadelphia Sunday afternoon. The
Seventy-frst New York regiment arrived
Monday.
lIr. John T. Moore, one OF the original
directors OF the Equitable Life Insurance
Company, of New York, and member OF
the dry goods firm of G. W. IL J. T. Moore,
died on Sunday, in the sixty-third year Of
his age.
A gentleman from California is now in
Chicago negotiating for the purchase OF q
| full-sized canal schooner to take q cargo OF
| black walnut lumber from Chicago to San
Francisco via the st. Lawrence and Cape
Horn.
Mr.. Leonard Case, of Cleveland; Ohio,
has supplemented his recent gift OF build
| ing to the Library Association of that city
by giving a lot OF land valued at $50, 600 to
| the orphan asylum.
1t is currently reported in London that
the Queen has been using her personalsin-
fuence in order to obtain support ito the
cruelty-to-animals bill.
The Brazilian corvette Nietheroy, which
has been in American waters since the EN-
peror's arrival, sailed from New York for
Rio Monday.
Two hundred employees Of Bannister q
Sickenor, shoe manufacturers, OF Newark,
N. j., struck Monday against reauction OF
wages.
Mr.. Thomas Carlyle is visiting relatives
near Dumfries, in Scotland. He is said to
be in excellent health, and to enjoy his ac-
customed walks in the neighborhood.
The Paris papers say that silk and velvet
don't fit the female form close enough, ana
that we are shortly to see our girls clad IN
kid dress bodies.
The election Of Rev. DR.. W. S. Perry as
EplScopal Blsnop VI !oMa haa 49, 80
firmed by majority Of the standing COM
mittees of the diocese Of the United States.
The Hon. Kemp P. Battle, OF Raleigh, has
been elected president Of the University OF
North Carolina, located at Chapel Hill, ana
has entered upon his duties.
M. De Lesseps is anxious to make the ca
nal between the Atlantic and Pacific across
America. Nicaragua is the fayOrite route.
Congressman seelye has accepted the pre-
sidency Of Amherst College. q
There was slight frost q few miles north
OF Port Jeryis on Monday night. | ri