The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-12-24

Yesterday morning at l O'Clock the
weather was reported as follows: Boston,
go, clear; Buffalo, go, cloudy; Chi
cago. $50. cloudy; Cleveland, 25o,
cloudy; Cheyenne, 300. clear; Detroit,
go, cloudy; Duluth, $50, clear; La Crosse,
200, cloudy; Madison, 90. cloudy; Mil
waukee, 90, cloudy; New York, 90. clear;
OSwego, 29o, cloudy; st. Louis, 3O0, clear;
Port Huron, 23o, cloudy Saint Paul. 200,
cloudy; Toledo, $40, cloudy; Yankton, 20,
clear.
Secretary Sherman says he shall not re-
greet giving up his position in the Treasury
| Department. "While il has been plea
SAINT" be adds. lit has been laborious and
exacting. / would prefer my old place in
the Senate. 1t suits me well. Besides, the
experience have had in the Treasury will
add to nv usefulness in the Senate"
! Ex-Attorney. General Alderman, who
died at his home. IN Georgia, Wednesday,
was native OF New Hampshire. In 1850
| be removed TO Georgia.
The New York Tribune says that the late
x-Attornev- General Alderman spent three
years OF bis life in Richmond, Va, as a
| teacher.
The Oklahoma colonists have gone into
winter-quarters at Caldwell, Kan., and ex-
press determination to enter the public
| lands Immediately after the first OF the wear.
| Over two hundred new members have joir-
| ed recently, and the merchants OF frontier
towns are subscribing literally In food and
clothing for the support OF the colony.
The Rev. John Powell, for thirty years a
minister OF the United Brethren Church
and an evangelist. has become insane, and
is an inmate Of the Dayton Insane Asylum.
in Ohio. Pecuniary difficulties growing
out of the publication of book and worry
over secret societies, 10 which he was viO-
lently opposed, have unseated his reason.
The first trial Of electric light TO illumi.
nate the Honsac tunnel, in Massachusetts.
was made Wednesday with success. Two
ordinary Brush lamps were used, also
locomotive headlight. The lights were ar
ranged on platiorm-car so as to throw
light in advance equal 10 1000 candles.
Henry Clark and John II. Glass, fugitivcs
from justice in West Virginia, were recent
" captured at Floyd Courthouse, Va.
where they were practicing medicine as
Indian DOCTORS" They have been re-
turned 10 Hinton Jail.
Colonel Charles f. Suttle, formerly Of
Alexandria. but lately removed 10 Rocky
Mount. Franklin county. Va, where he
held the position of agent Of the Virginia
Midland railroad, died at that place Sunday
last of Bright's disease.
William j. Holmes, the publisher, died
Wednesday morning at his residence, IN
Chicago, from carbuDcle on the neck. He
was fifty-six years old, and was widely
known in connection with the publication
OF religious books.
A carload OF silk-worms and eggs. valued
at 81 200, 900. destined for Hayre aud Paris,
has been transported over the Pennsylvania
railroad 10 New York. They are from Chi
ma, and reached California by steamer.
The New York Court OF Appeals Wednes-
day adjourned with clear calendar and for
want OF business. This is the first time
that such an event has transpired since the
organization OF the court.
Mrs. Sarah +. Recd g appointed postmas-
ter at Alum Ridge, Floyd county, Va, utce
ii. ID. Reed, resigned.
RoME. December 23.-It Is stated that In
recent sitting of the Committee on Aboll.
ton Of Forced Currency the Minister OF
F,nsnce announced that Italy bad taken the
initiative 10 proposing the assembling Of
fresh international monetary conference.