The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-05-07
salt. Opium Is LETT as at present. The bill
Is likely TO be reported.
PRPQnNlI NEr,o tr,,.n

Is likely TO be reported.
Personal NEws ITEMS.
Major jed. Hotchkiss is here. lie says the
Richmond and Southwestern Railroad Com.
pany win bring ten millions into Virginia.
Mr.. Peter Mayo, Of Richmond, and wife are
here. The Indian Committee CT the House
to-day appoisted General Hooker, of Mis-.
sissippi, to examine. the newspaper state.
mests that white men are invading the In.
dian country. predicted iu my dispatches
last night that bill would be introduced in
the Senate to-day for the payment OF deputy
marshsls. Mr.. Bayard this afternoon intro.
duced it. and il provides, as the vetoed Sec
ton OF the deficiency bill did, that they
shall be selected from both parties and be
OF good moral character. II went
TO the Judiciary Committee and will be re.
ported without delay. Senator Hamln has
gone to Annapolis aud may not return 10
the Senate again this session. The report
Is that Republican senators were not pleased
with Mr.. Blaine's Kellogg speech, in which
he charged that the seating Of Kellogg and
Butler was the result OF an arrangement.
The Blaine men are pleased at hearing o;
more West Virginia counties, including
Monroe, that have instructed for their
favorite.
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
A telegram to Senator Bruce says Missis.
sppi sends six Grant and four Blaine and
Sherman delegates to Chicago. The reports
do not come in favorable for third term
from the conventions which met to-day.
The Order OF Mechanics paraded to-day
in honor OF their Grand Lodge, now in ses.
sion here.
Lieutenant Doane and fifteen United
States cavalrymen are ordered here to 20 on
the Uowgate polar expedition.
The House was occupied all day with the
post-office appropriation bill.
Representative Coffroth, of Pennsylvania,
says Randall can carry his State.
One hundred and fifty thousand herring:
were caught in the Potomac above George.
town yesterday, and it was not good day
for behring's either.
The North Presbyterian church, OF thi:
city, is stirred up because Mr.. Ransdell, the
pastor, has married a Catholic lady. The
majority, however, stand by him.
A convention OF doctors and pharmacists,
who want the pharmacopia revised, is in
session here.
Mr.. Charles Page, of Richmond, was here
this afternoon.
Associated Press Reports by telegraph 10 the Dis.
patch.l
THE TARIFF BILL.
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 6.-The Ways
and Means Committee voted to-day to strike
out the sugar question from the tariff bill
now under consideration and report it TO
| the House in the form Of an independent
! bill. The committee nearly completed the
bill this morning, and will meet again on
Saturday for its final adoption.
The WAYS and Means Committee contin.
ued the consideration OF Mr.. fuckers tariff
bill, and. with some notifications, adopted
the greater part OF it. The committee adj
iourned till Saturday, when the remaining
articles OF the bill will be disposed of
These include wOod-pulp, upon which the
bill! proposes TO place duty Of 10 per cent,
jute butts, SO per ton all other tibres and
/ fibrous materials for tile manufacture OF
paper, $40 per ton.
ILLICIT DIsTILLERIES DESTROYED IN WEST
| VIRGINIA.
WASHINGTON, May 6.-The revenue agent
at Atkinson telegraphs from Charleston, w
Va, that deputy collectors have in recent
raid in sumner, Raleigh, and Mcdowell
counties destroyed Illicit distilleries,
copper stills, 80 mash-tubs, and 1000 gal
Ions Of mash. They arrested four distillers
but one got away.
| NOMINATION.
WASHINGTON, May 6.-The President has
sent TO the Senate the nomination Of Charles
f. Robinson as collector OF customs for tht
district OF Albemarle, n. c.