The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-09
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

WAsuIS GToS, January Slew R.
Luckey, formerly private secretary to the
President, has be en- nominated as Secretary
OF Utah. .,-s ...
The committee of the House which has
been investigating the recent election in
Florida returned here this morning. The
committee will not hold meeting for few
DAYS. 1t is said that Representative Wood
burn, one of the Republican members OF
the committee, will unite in a report with
the Democrats that the Tilden and Hen
bricks electors honestly carried the State.
Mr.. Dunnell, the other Republican member
of the committee, had his pocket-book
stolen while in the State, and is therefore
Of the opinion that no matter how the cleo
ton went there are thieves in Florida.
Mr.. R. T. Merrick presided at the Demo-
cratic mass Getting. w. w. Corcoran was
among the forty vice-presidents.
+. S. Winslow, clerk in the cash-room OF
the Treasury, has been arrested as impli-
Gated in the recent robbery Of the package
for Chicago bank.
Charles Dimon testified that he had placed
Sc, 900 to the credit Of Laid & Bush, Salem,
Oregon, on the 9th Of September; that he
paid drafts from them-one payable to the
order OF A. Z. Cronin. He knew nothing
beyond the mere business transaction. He
will produce the books to show to whose
order the money was paid.
Parker and Krippel, Cronin's electors,
have arrived and will be examined to-mor-
row.
Nothing reliable is known regarding the
movements OF intentions Of MeSSrs May
and Bennett.
It is barely possible that May and Ben
nett fought in Maryland or in Virginia to-
day. They have eluded all trace. H. d. '-
It is hardly necessary to say that the two
columns in the National Republican under
the caption democratic Banquet in Fer
nando Woods House us fiction through
out. Representative Hill, of Georgia, is
mischievously, possibly maIiciously, quoted.
There was no formal dinner, and Nh. Hill
was not Mr.. Woods guest Saturday.
THE RUSSIAN MINISTER AND RUSSIAN FLEET AT
CHARLESTON.
CHARLESTON, January s.-The Russian
Minister, n. Shisker, accompanied by Rear
rived here by rail from Washington this
morning and took quarters at the Charles:
ton Hotel. About 8 a. M. the Russian
corvette Bogtyre hove in sight off the bar
and was boarded by ,pilot-boat which
! brought her commander, Captain Jchofrof,
and six officers to the city, where they had
| an interview with the Russian Minister. ~,
| The corvette has p guns, $50 men, and
| 20 officers. Three. other vessels OF the Rus
sian feet are expected -morroW--namely,
the frigate Suetlane, 8 guns the corvette
Askad, s guns, and the dispatch-boat
Cruiser, 3 guns. The 2Suetlane is COM
manded by the Grand Duke Alexis in per-
son, whom the Russian Minister expects to
meet here tomorrow. s}2s { = : ...'f -,
The Bogtyre is forty-fwo days from Car
thagena, Spain, having made most of the
passage Under canvas. She now lies ail-
chored abouta mile outside the bar. The
fleet stops here for coal and provisions ;
after obtaining which it goes 10 Port Royal,
in which harbor. it will remain until the
winter weather is sufficiently moderated to
enable it to go to New York. fNs
THE, NEW YORK TIoN---BENNETT RE-;
| PORTED WOUNDED. lJs NJ: Z
NEW YORK, January s.-A report is pub
lished that Bennett has been wounded in q
duel with May; but the gentleman who is
stated TO have gotta dispatch to that effect
says he has not received any such telegram.
Laier.-There Is q discredited report that
Bennett and May fought near Rouse's
Point, in Canada, and That Bennett was
slightly hurt. The parties seemto have
eluded the vigilance Of the police and g re
porters. 5ss:,tit:. {
| STRIKE OF PcTTEnYMkN. t2..' !: ], Il,
| TRENTON, N. j., January Z. Some tive
thousand potterymen are on q strike against
| a reduction OF wages.