The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-12-28

| For some time negotiations have been
pending at Louisville, XIV, between repre-
sentatiyes OF the Adams aud Scufbern EX-
press Companies and managers q the Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad Company, look
ing TO a settlement OF the difficulties which
have existed between them. A basis OF
agreement has been reached, and IL Is
thought contracts will be signed, and be-
/ fore the week closes the entire business on
| the Louisville and Nashville turned over TO
| Adams and the Southern, and the entire
express machinery Of the railroad company
withdrawn.
| Professor Cohn. Of Breslau, gives as The
results Of experiments with the electric
! light on the ewes Of number OF persons
that letters, spots, and colOrs are perceived
at a much greater distance through the me-
dium of electric light than by day. or gas.
| light. The sensation of yellow was in
creased sixiyfold compared to daylight; Of
red sIXtold, and of green and blue about
twofold. Eyes that could only with diff
Guilty perceive and distinguish cOlors by
daylight or gaslight were much aided by
the electric light. aud the visual perception
was also much strengthened.
n. i. Harwood, the Minneapolis bank
rupt, has been absent from that city since
FRIDAY afternoon, and 1t is believed that he
has gone by circuitous route 10 Join bis
family in New Orleans, and 20 with them
| from there TO Europe. 1t was charged when
Mrs. HARDWOOD left that she secretly took with
/ her considerable part Of the assets OF the
broken house. G. ii. Petit, the assignee,
has no knowledge of Harwood's where
a6Ouls.
! On the 14tb Of October, 1879, Mrs. Alfred
! Carlson, OF Brooklyn. y. Y, sent her little
boy. aged thirteen, on an errand. He never
! returned, and, although search was made
( for him, he was never found. On Thursday
! last she sent her little girl, aged eleven, on
another errand, and she also failed TO re-
turn. 1t is thought both children were kid.
mapped.
John MahOney, tramp, was burned to
death Saturday evening on railroad cinder-
heap at Paterson, n. J. He and another
/ tramp, named Barney Duffy, bad lain down
upon the heap together. Duffy was over
come by the gas, and MahOney, after taking
him to a hospital. went back by himself and
| laid down, and was burned TO death.
There is a general strike Of coal-miners
at Nelsonvile, Shawnee, SiraitSville. and
! Corning. Ohio. OStensibly for the payment
Of wages twice month. The Hooking
/ Valley railway Sunday brought all their en-
zines and cabOOSeS away without coal
/ trains. and they will be kept at Columbus
until the strike ends.
AT a reception IN Chicago Sunday TO the
Norwegian poet BjOrnsen, he mad" a
speech, in the course OF which he said that
over half the people Of Norway were in
favor of a republic, and he prOphesled that
il would not be very long before republic
would be established there.
Christmas eve, during quarrel between
George Talbot, foreman Of the Every Sat
urdnV newspaper, aud William Calender,
in a saloon at the corner OF High and Fayette
streets, Baltimore, the former was stabbed
in the abdomen. and died in about an hour.
Calender was arrested.
The farm belonging TO the estate of John
X. Larne, in Clarke county. Va, 2S4 acres,
has been sold TO Peter McPicrce for SILL
00O-a fraction less than S3S.75 per acre.
Captain J. X. Num- has sold his farm, in
the same county, go acres, to Jacob Roger
for $40 per acre.
Messrs Legru and Levallee have arrived
at Montreal from France, and intend erect
ing five beet-root Sugar-factories in that pro-
vince. the first Of which will be at Bertheer,
|
pounds OF sugar annually.
A petition has been filed in court at Chi
cagO to declare insane Henry Enderis, for
merly Swiss consul at that city. Endefis
disappeared some weeks ago, and since that
time has been wandering about IN de-
menled condition in different parts OF Cam
ada.
The Sixth District Tammany Committee
held a meeting Friday evening, and by a
vote OF 81 to s severed ITS connection with
Tammany Hall. Some OF the speeches were
very severe on Mr.. John Kelly.
John HittsOn. one Of the wealthiest and
best.known catte-men Of the West, was
killed on Saturday at East BiiOu, near Deer
Trail. Colorado, his home. by beng thrown
from carriage by a runaway team.