The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-06-20

railroad, has been at work along the line Of
the Central railroad, and on Friday arrested
Clarence Wells, assistant postmaster ut Mid
vile, No. 0, Central railroad, on the charge
of opening letters anu appropriating their
contents, ETC." He was brought to this city
Yesterday and lodged in Jail to await an ex-
animation before United States Commits
sioner 4. n. Wilson tomorrow. MIR. Frey
seems to be making it hot for the " crooked.
agents and 'postmasters, and we trust he will
succeed in bringing them all up with around
turn.-Savdnndh telegram.
Miss Rose Eytinge, a well-known actress,
and wife Of George II. Butler, editor OF the
New York Arcadian, attempted to commit
suicide in Milwaukee, Wis.,, on "Wednesday
last, by taking laudanum, but through the
prompt intervention of physicians her life
was saved, although she protested her de-
sire to die. The Milwaukee Sentinel says
it is thought that family troubles induced
Miss Eytinge to thus try to end her life.
At the meeting of the Association of
Medical Superintendent OF the Insane, held
in Philadelphia last week, paper by DR.. r.
L. Baldwin, of Virginia, on the subject of
granting leave of absence to patients OF in
sane asylums, was discussed and laid on the
iourned to meet at st. Louis on the last
Tuesday of next May.
At st. Johns, in the province Of Quebec,
the entire business portion OF the town was
destroyed by fire Sunday, involving loss
OF about S1,500,000. One lady was burned
| to death and others received severe injuries.
Seventeen buildings were burned at Lum-
berton, N. c., on Friday night; loss, $4,000.
! The Great Western ferry-boat Union, at
Port Union, Michigan, was burned the same
night; loss, 100000.
Deputy Sheriff Smith, Of Dawson county,
| Neb., in company with another man, at
| tempted to arrest one Howell on Saturday,
when upon entering the house Howell shot,
| instantly killing Smith and seriously wound
ing Smiths companion. Howell was taken
from Plum Creek Jail and hung by mob.
Rudolph Blumenbcrg has been arrested
| in san Francisco by United States officers
on a warrant from Washington, in which
he is charged with obtaining $4,000 OF Dis
! trict of Columbia bonds under false pre-
| fences. He has been kept in private Gus
todv for two DAYS. His bail has been fixed
ut $40, 900, which he is not able to obtain.
An old building in St. Louis, occupied as
boarding-house, fell Sunday morning at )
O'Clock. and was entirely demolished. Sew
entcen inmates. including two women and
an infant, were buried in the RUNS, four
of whom were considerably injured, but
the remainder escaped with slight bruises.
General Alfred Terry writes General
| Sheridan from camp on the Little Missouri,
Nav 3Oth rid Bismarck June 10th. that he
| had found no Indians as yet, nor any signs
of them, contrary to the predictions OF
scouts and guides. His command has had
much hard work building roads and bridges.
The health OF the troops was good.
William McGegon was sent to the peni-
Tertiary from New York Oh Saturday for
one month for turning his hunchback son,
aged eighteen, and his daughter, aged seven,
out of home at midnight because their earn
ings dissatisfied him.
On Saturday terms of agreement were
signed at Baltimore for the proposed wrcst-
| ling match between Thebaud Bauer. cham
pion and Wilhelm Hcygstcr, OF Baltimore,
| for $50 aside, to take place in that city be-
| fore the 9TH instant, at the Academy OF
Music or FOrd's Opera-1louse.
The London Times, in its account Of the
fire in Templeton's woollen factory at Ayr,
Scotland, on Friday last, by which twenty
| four women were burned to death, says the
oyerseer, who also lost his life, locked the
door or the room in which the women were
at work, thinking the alarm Of fire was
! false.
The Car has cordially accepted in invita-
ton for an interview with the Emperor OF
| Austria at the Castle of Reichstadt. The
Car will arrive at Reichstadt on the oath
instant and depart on the 10Th. Count An
Grassy is expected to accompany the Empe-
ror Francis Joseph on the occasion.
The London correspondent OF the Daily
| Ne,rs at Berlin says: Some scandal has
been caused here by news that the German
minister at Washington has charged some
members of the German Commission to the
PHILADELPHIA Exhibition with corrupt prac-
tees, and requested their immediate re-
moval.
An attempt was made Friday night to
burn the Catholic church at HontZdale, Pa.
This is the same church in which contrac-
for was killed and thirty persons injured on
sunday week by the fall of the gallery and
| floor.
At Beacon Park Course; Boston, on Sat
urduy, Peralto, the Mexican horseman, rode
one hundred and ten miles in four hours,
| fifty minutes and forty-ivc seconds, using
twenty mustangs. ......
| A dispatch to the London Standard from
Constantinople reports that Turkish fieet,
consisting Of eight tirst-class vessels, VIII
sail thence for Crete within week on an
| important mission. .n ..n .. =.
, At O. meeting OF representative citizens
of Nashville, Saturday, resolutions were
adopted expressing gratitude to Commo-
dore Vanderbilt for his donation of 81 ,00O,-
| 600 FOR the establishment of q university.
Thomas Carrigan, virginian, while being
lowered into a water-supply shaft In Baltl-
more county, Md, Saturday, met his death.
The bucket-rope broke, and he fell dis
lance of 100 feet. -'..,-s
John r. Lucas, merchant Of Giles county,
Va, who has been in Jail in Baltimore seve-
| raj weeks charged with attempting to pass a
ten-dollar counterfeit bill, gave bail satur-
day to appear for trial -. IT,.
The nolice made descent on the Olympic
Theatre. Brooklyn, Sunday night, and
closed II. preventing the performance OF the
q Can-Can,o which had been advertised.
THE Prince OF Wales viii try to get over
TO the Centennial. Ii he can conveniently
| make the necessary arrangements he WIZ
| arrive early in August.
T.. Charles Brent, the Louisville forger, held
~ london for, .extradition, has been re-
leased. It was ease much like WINDOWS.
! Turks in Bosnia are said to have unfurled
the green flag for q holy war against tie
Christians.
D In a recent address to female candidates