The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-07-19

lightning striking the winding gear at the
TOP ~ the shaft. SIX hundred yards OF
the Dit have been explored up to this morn.
ing and seventeen bodies recovered. II
VIII probably be some days before all can
De recovered, rs about one hundred yards
OF the pit have fallen in.
DISASTROUS WEATHER IN ENGLAND.
LoyD0H, July 1.-THE weather through.
out the week has been unusually adverse
to business and agriculture, and in some
parts OF the country even disastrous. 1t Is
still hot snd sultry, with frequent thunder
storms. Parts Of Leicestershire. Noting.
hamshire, Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, and
Berkshire are submerged by the overflow
OF rivers. Railway traffic Is impeded, and
The crops, especially hay, are ruined. Some
lives have been lost by the foods.
British Victory over Asfatic Mu-
tfneern.
LONDON, July I7.-Tbe viceroy OF India
telegraphs that In the engagement between
George Burrows's force and the infantry
who deserted from Shere Ali, the British
appointed Wall, OF Candahar, the loss Of
the mutineers was forty or fifty. The
British loss was one killed and two wound.
ed. The guns and wagons taken BY the
mutineers were brought back TO camp
Ayoob Khan, the aspirant to The ameership,
IL probably at Lar, two marches from
Grisbk.
Election Riots I'm Perm mbuce.
LONDON, July IA dispatch from Rio
bon to-day. says: "Election riots have oc.
Cured at Victoria. in the Province OF Per-
nambuco. in which the military fred on
the people and killed twenty. including
Baron Escada. Many were wounded"
French Jesuits In Spain.
MADRID, July 17.-French Jesuits have
purchased the palace OF Ocha, near Burg0s,
for 121, 600 francs. The Council OF State
have not yet delivered an opinion upon the
question OF the residence Of foreign Jes-
uts in Spain. Several members OF the Or
der have left for the PHILIPPINE Islands.
The Geneva Exiles.
PARIS, July 17.-Ten OF the Geneva ex-
lies have published an address denouncing
the opportunists 40 the cause OF their pun
ishment, and urging continued efforts for
the establishment OF socialist republic.
ROchefort Against Gambetta.
Mr.. Henri Rochefort's paper, the In
TRANSPARENT, begins with an assured circu-
lalion OF forty thousand daily, and doubt
less double that number will be sold. NJ.
Rochefort declai es any compromise between
him and N. Gambetta impossible. He is
ready to return to exile tomorrow rather
than shrink from his duty. He says the
existing Chamber OF Deputies is entitled 10
no respect, because it has abdlcated its
functions and has surrendered its authority
to Gambetta. Genoese Caesars may be us
dangerous as Roman C9sars. All true Re-
publicans should unite TO nip this danger
GUS orator in the bud.
Gambefta's Dinner.
NJ. Gambetta gave dinner last night to
the officers who came TO Paris to receive
the flags. He visits Cherbourg on August
9th, where grand banquet in bis honor
will be given by the municipality, to which
three hundred mayors have been invited.
There will also he grand naval review. a
Venetian tste, and Examinations Of the har-
Dor.
An Ex.Priest Married.
The Mayor OF Cannes Yesterday married
an ex.prlest named NJ. Bruery. aged ninety
three years. and convert to Professionalism,
to Mile. Vernet, Protestant, aged thirty
three.