The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-08-18
miscellaneous Items.

The Boston Advertiser approves Of the
proposa OF the New York journal OF Com
fnerce for the President to send for the
Vice President add notify him officially OF
his own present disability, and request him
TO act as his substitute until the crisis OF bis
illness was passed. The Advertiser says :
Sc IL would require no law for an act so
reasonable IL would be ratified by the
general consent OF the country"
On Saturday last a monster man-eater
shark was captured at Cape May. Mr.. j.
Fl. Sluppen was fishing at the end Of the
Congress Hall pier, when he felt tremen-
dous tug at his line, and with assistance the
shark was secured by means OF ropes at
tsched to bis head and tail. He was twelve
feet long, and his mouth, with its triple rows
OF teeth. was large enough to take In
mans bead. .-l> .
The Newport fox hunt on Monday was
not we'll attended. Less than dozen per-
sons were In at the death, which occurred
after a chase Of forty five minutes over stlfi
country. The brush was awarded to Center
Hitchcock, OF New York, and the pads TO
Lisyd 8. Bryce and Stanley Mortimer, both
OF New York. Several OF the riders were
thrown.
The New York Commercial Bulletin es-
timstes that the total wheat and -four
available this year for export from the At
lsutic ports will be 54,000,00O bushels, as
against 100 ,OO0, 900 last year. This will
make difference Of revenue TO the trunk
lines from transportation OF about 10000
900.
The ceremony OF the investiture OF the
pallium recently conferred upon Arch
bishop Seghers, of Oregon, took place in the
cathedral at Portland, Oregon, Tues
day. PontifcS high mass was cele-
brated by Right Rev. A. Junger. Bishop Of
Nesquslly, and the sermon was preached
by Bishop Bromdel.
Boston Herald: "Nothing is more dis
gushing In society than to see women affect
public devotion TO their husbands which
| is only public; and perhaps there is no
phase OF married life that Is more closely
watched. People cannot act well In public
part which they are not in the habit OF
acting at home"
Colonel II. G. Corbiu, who was one OF
General Garfeld's comrades 10 the late wsr,
saws that the Presidents stomach ALWAYS
was very weak. During the war, when the
President was in perfect health, living on
camp fare without uneasiness, be could not
pass q dead and decaying body without
turning deathly sick. -..
No action more expressive OF sympathy
and tender feeling toward the sick Presi'
dent has been manifested than that shown
| by General Hancock yesterday in refusing
| to make an examination OF the fortihcAtions
along the New England coast while tbs
nations patient was In such critical con
dition.
Young men who send their wives back Il
their parents TO be supported will be dis
gusled to learn that Judge Donohue, OF New
| York, refused TO release such husband
from arrest yesterday on the ground that ht
wa, not deserving OF any mercy.
Mark Ransom Walker. of Newark, N. J..
| is the oldest living native American horse
Jockey and trainer. He Is eighty.two year.
old. He was born In Dover, near Boston
and rode runniug-horses in races over sey
enty years ago.
| Reviewing the pamphlet laws OF Penn
sylyanja, the Wilkesbarre Record says
"Tbe General Assembly OF 1881 will e
down In history as the least useful and mos
L uSoPioCN Va ~hJ 1880 A~o wv
sat in the Commonwealth"
The people who are so busily engaged
| Ia finding fault with the course pursued b.
the Presidents physicians may not know
1t, but they are playing into the hands o
the assassin, and are providing evidence
for his defence.
The Dardsnelle Independent ArtansiaT
thus bcwails: always and meaDs for thu
suppression OF murder demand the chic
thought Of every statesman and the seriou
consideration OF every citizen In Arkansas
The New York Hour recommends tina
General Grant be run for alderman, nov
that he has become q resident OF New York
and promises q second term at the City Hal
II be behaves himself during bis first.
A Connecticut COW. pastured somewhere
IN Mlddletown, recently swallowed pieet
Of wire used In baling hay, and II was found
twisted around one OF her ribs.
Miss Annie Louise Cary. II 10 rumored. 1,
the atfisnced Of wealthy gentleman OF New
York.
y In q letter TO Aaricuifural.C Commissioner
LoEing, Mr.. Edward Atkinson, Of Boston,