The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-17

The Prince OF Wales has Just issued I'M
der his sign-manual his warrant for the
formation of a new lodge Of Freemasons,
10 be called the "GaI!ery Lodge" TINS
lodge is TO be confined exclusively TO
journalists and gallery reporters, and MS
ROYAL Higbness has sanctioned the appoint
.ment Of Mr.. II. Massey as first master, Mr.
f. Bussey as first senior warden, ana Mr.
Thomas Nushell as first junior warden.
The want Of SUCH a privilege has long been
felt.
Some OF the colOred clergy are strong in
their protests against camp-meetings, as
will be seen by our local report OF The First
District Conference OF the African Me,ho-
dist Episcopal Church. II, as one OF them
states, the col0red people OF Mafyia0d
spend one hundred thousand dollars a year
for camp-meetings and excursions to them,
their continuance becomes a serious eeono-
mic question, as well as question oil chu'cn
polity.- Baltimore American.
A mad heifer from the Union stock-Yards
created an excitement in Central Park, New
York, on Thursday, s.by dsshlng among the
nurses with baby carriages, and soaring
horses along the drives. The nimal at last
leaped into the lake. where it was shot by
a policeman. 1t is said that the live stock
brought 10 New York by the railroads are
so badly treated during the passage that
they frequently go mad.
At the Aztec dinner at Wayne, Pa, We'd
nesday evening, General Grant, who pre-.
sided, In presenting a speaker. said: ~ see
before me Colonel Kendrick, who forty
years $50 attempted TO teach me chemistry,
( will cali upon him. With ready wit
Colonel Kendrick retoried, turning to Gen
erai Grant, "By their fruits, gentlemen,
shall you know the tree"
Mary Fields shot George Markum, IN
Scott county, the other day, t1e ball taking
efec near the left nipple and ranging
around under the skin, lodging Just below
the shoulder.b blade. The ball has been eX-
tracted and the wound is not necessarily
dangerous.
The London Standards correspondent at
Paris SAYS: There is but Que opinion about
the performance OF Miss Griswold, the
American prima donna, which Is that shells
the best Marguerite seen since The palmy
days OF Miss Nilsson.
The Fredericksburg NeuS says: Ser
geant John A. Mason, who attempted to
shoot Guiteau, was born near Locust Grove,
Orange couAtv, Virginia, and is well
known IN Fredericksburg, where he has
relatives.
A Lynchburg correspondent says: In
anticipation OF the early completion Of the
Richmond and Allegheny railroad, along its
|eptire length excursions to the Natural
Bridge are beginning to be canyassed.
Rev. James P. Smith, pastor of the Pres.
byterian church at Fredericksburg, has
returned, after having spent the entire
summer ia Europe. He is glad to get back
TO Virginia.
Mrs. Thomas Patterson, Of Baltimore,
was surprised Thursday night by the return
Of her husband, whom she supposed she had
buried fifteen years ago. He is rich now.
And now New HAMPSHIRE has q highway
man whose performances are more dsshing
than anything w. 4. Chandler has yet
done.
Ge0ge G. Hickman has been appointed
gauger Fifth district OF Virginia, aud Au-
gustus Robbins Second district OF North
CarOliRa.
The Washington monument, now go
feet bigb, is stopped Until a supply OF iron
for additional b%oisting apparatas comes to
hand.
GeReral Grant aD< Genera Joseph Il.
Johnston bob-nobbed in the ffiendllest way
at tue date Aztec dirHer at Wayne, Pa.
Ned Lyons, a notorious Scotch cracks.
man, was sentenced ii Windgam, Conn, 10
three years in the State prison for burglary.
Tlse.coal operators 'of Pennsylvania have
yielded to the demanG OF the miuers for an
additional half cent per bushel for mining.
A tsSu has offered On owl in payment OF
six months s~ubseripeson TO the scott Ban
ner. 2lhe editor dcciIGed.
Arrangements for toe trial OF Meson. who
%atteEpted TO kill Gukeau, Will be made at
once bydienersl Hancock.
The Norfolk LedgereS reporter has seen a
saImoa twenty-five inches long which was
caught n .Jlmes river.