The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-10

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THE EEEIINgs EsEIItI ls OF "A NAN, COY JED TO DIE
2, =. +. Z. sooN-fHE CASE or iuLE DICE. ~.
ag6,foand guilkyro othe1 1fnurtef OF Alexl
aiider Burke thef executed by 'hang Ding ION
Tuesday the 23d Of January; Instant Che
scahold will be erected In the open field in
the Valley near the brick apd not far
from the Chesapeaks and 0fdo Railroad
6h0ps.i: :e t9ib lgEK 1r3t9Efia;tt III
yRiddiek, was. fireman and Burke Cloth
c9lore1 cook on the tug boat Grace Meade.
diek, moved byr all Did anindosity, combined
with! !affresh' difficulty with Burke about
breakfast gotta musktt which kept on
board and shot Burke -dead,s Riddick de.
clared at the, time, and to o reporter OF this
paper as late. as yesterday, that the shoot
ing was accidental; that Burke was his
best friend, :an d. that NO one lamsnts his
death so much as he,does.3 The iuryadidn't
take, that view Of the case; nor was it rea-
sonable. The evidence, on the contrary,
went to SHOW that the shooting was delibe-
rate and thesWeapon Well aimed. MI
aiRiddick does not seem to be intelligent;
on. the contrary, he looks and talks like
very, ignorant creature; yet there can be no
doubt he had sense enough to know the
enormity and consequences Of the crime he
was committing, for on the pretence OF goi
ing forfatdootor he attempted to escape.
For some time after, his conviction he SEEM
ed to be quite indifferent as to; his fate, but
Is Just little more concerned, though he
talks about his end without emotion.
He! said yesterday that he did not feel
ready to die in his present state, and that he
wanted to see, the preachers. Rev. Mt.
Harris has been to, see him, and has en-
ance. Riddick said that he was. born In
Louisiana; and came here three Or four years
after the warI with his mother, swho! was
Yirginian-born. He did not know his age,
:ind had no very sharply defined ideas about
the future state. The prisoner, when asked
what hope he had Of having his sentence
commuted, said he-had -none. There is
petition beforeG the Governor asking Glenn
ency, but it was not faVoTabiy endOrsediby
Judge Guigon, and is not likely to prove OF
lin many respects Riddick acts and talks
like Hildrey Page. The unconcerned and
hali;interested way in which Riddick talks
about his near approach to death is some
thing wonderful to white men. Riddick
can discuss the whole matter with complete
,aonchalance, and you may watch as close as
you please and you cannot discern the
slightest tremor in his voice, the least un-
steadiness of his eyes, or the faintest twitch-
ing OF the muscles OF his face. 1t isn't
stoicism. It seems more like inability to
grasp the fearful import Of a sentence of
death. -2,e is; 1.t Z"
THE THEATRE-CHEsNEY WOLD.-The
house was again full last night to see Ma
dame Janauschek's famous performance Of
two wldely-diferent characters In the same
play. The dramatization Of Bleak House is
very artistic, and the situations are forcible
and expressive, but the strength of the
work is in the individuality OF the charac-
ters and the plot. The symphony, which
runs like refrain through all the scenes,
is we'll attuned to the story, and intensi-
fies the effect; the shadow of the tragedy
is felt from the opening scenes, and
the interest in the proud, ambitious woman
OF the world, held in the tolls by the cruel
old Tulkinghorr, is deep and absorbing
throughout. The supporting actors all did
their parts we'll, and there was o natural
ness about the whole performance that made
it look like picture cut out OF everyday
life. The change from Lady Dedlock to
Hortense, the French maid, is wonderful;
the one is stately and constrained, the other
impulsive and piquant; but the contrast
is nothing to the exquisite acting and imi-
tation of the French woman's broken Eng
lish., Madame Janauschek, like all great
artists, holds nature for the true and only
model, and hence her tones and by-play are
so striking. AT times she elected q round
Of applause for mere dumb show, without a
single syllable spoken t'' a'.'i'-5' - -
The first scene with Esther, and the
scene between Hortense, Bucket, and Sir
Leicester, were among the best OF the play,
but there was nothing Indifferent in the
whole performance. ..
Tonight Mary Stuart will be performed.
It,is Q gran d.play, and affords Madame JAN
auschek full scope for her best efforts. She
won her first, applause in this country when
playing this part in German at the Academy
in New York. while Ristori played it at the
French THEATRE now the Lyceum.
The Theatre was very uncomfortable last
night, particularly when the curtain was
up and the draft from the stage pierced the
audience. Many persons complained that
they suffered severely from the cold. Hay
ing ever shown towards the manager q
kindly disposition, he should readily per-
ceiye that we speak Of this matter with no
fault-inding spirit but. from ajstern sense
Of duty to the public, and with the conyic-
tion that additional heating apparatus IS
essential to the success which he wishes to
secure for his efforts to pleasel"si @S@ 80