The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-01-18
LOCAL MATTERS.
Personals and Briefs.

Rev. Mr.. McCullagh, OF Henderson. KY,
who spoke at the Protestant Episcopal
Sunday-School Union last Sunday after
noon in Grace church. is superintendent Of
the southern department Of the American
Sunday-SchOol Union, instead OF the Amc-
rican Tract Society.
Right Rev. Bishop Keane will deliver a
lecture at Cathedral Hall next Sunday
night under the auspices Of the Knights OF
st. Joseph. The lecture will be free to all,
and the public are invited.
Ii was stated at the Capitol yesterday,
upon what seemed good authority, that Mr..
:. G.. Harrison, member OF the House from
Sussex county, was at his home i'll with
smallpox. Mr.. Harrison made m efiectual
contradiction of this miSchieyous story by
returning to the city yesterday evening in
good health, and bringing his wife with
him. lie was at the caucus last night.
Mr.. W. c. Elam has qualified as Secreta-
nv Of the Commonwealth.
Colonel George A. Martin, the ReadiuSt-
er nominee, Will be elected at this session
but will not 90 into office rs Railroad Com
missioner until April, 1SS3-fiteen months
hence.
There will be a called meeting of the
Common Council at O'Clock this after
noon TO consider an important matter.
MORE MONEY FOR RICHMOND COLLEGE,
Rev. 4. T.. Dickinson returned TO this city
Yesterday from a ten-days' lecturing tour,
during which he has been telling "The
Truth About the South" in New Haven,
Conn.,: in Springfield and North Adams,
Mass; and in Troy and Albany, y. Y. lie
raised in cash and subscriptions for Rich
mond College something over $4,000. Al
the close Of his address in Albany last sun
day two Federal generals General John f.
Rathbone and General Frederic Town
send. the present Acknowledgement OF the
state Of New York; came forward, and each
wrote his name down for Sl00 for Rich
mOnd College. Others followed their eX-
ample, and about 1000 were soon pledged
As indicating the growing good feeling
for the South, we clip from northern
paper the following:
"Rev. DR.. Wayand Hoyt. of Brooklyn,
New York, speaking in the New IOrl;
Ministers Conference, has this TO say OF
Rev. 4. L. Dickinson, ID. d., OF the Re
HqiOUS Herald, Richmond, Va: Il wish
to say here and now that in my judgment
none Of us can rightly estimate the good
that has been done during all the years
since the war by that brother in his visits
10 different sections Of the North, and his
addresses TO our people and his letters TO
his paper revealing to our southern bro-
thren The truth about the North, at the
very time he was giving us the truth about
the South. | feel that this conference
should in some way let him know our ap-
,,rpciotion of his serVicpS -
Personal DIFFICULTY.-ln consequence
Of the published correspondence Mr.. J. V.
Reddy yesterday visited the Office of Pro-
fessor :. ID. Davies, in Goddin'S Hall, and
q hot fight occurred between the two. Ii
is stated on the one hand that Mr.. Reddy
was accompanied by Messrs. n. J. Smith
and James Sweeney. Mr.. Sweeney says
that 30 far rs he is concerned tnis is not so,
hut that being near by and hearing the
struggle he went in. Mr.. Hooper, the law
partner OF Professor Davies, was in the
Office at the time. The struggle, though 4
fierce one. resulted in no considerable iniu-
iy to either. No weapons were used. All
the parties will be before the Police Court
this morning, when the details OF the af-
iair-abOut which those present do not
aeree-may be asccrianed.
SUPREME Court OF APPEALs.-Iiutching~
and ais. rs. Gilmer and ais. Submitted.
Langhorne rs. Walters executor. sub
mitted.
MORTUARY REPORT FOR THE WEEK END
ING JANUARY Il, 1SS2.-CdVSeS Of Death :
ApOpleXy. white; bronchitis, l colored
burns. colored: cerebro-spinal moningi-
It's. white; consumption, ? white, color
ed; conyulsions Gnflntile), 1 white, , col
ored; debility, / cOlored; diphtheria,
white, colored; fever Gypho-malariaD,
colored: gout, / white; heart-disease,
white; hydrOthoraX, colored; infanti-
eide, | c0lored; old age, / white; paIaly-
sis, / white; pneumonia, white, > color
ed softening OF brain, / colored; small
pox, > white. colorcd; unknown, white,
colored. Whole number of deaths in the
city, exclusive OF Still-births, Al. Stdl-
Births: White males, ,; cOlOred male. /
total. 3. Ser and Color: Males, 10 white,
II colored-tOtal, 81; females, ! white,
colored-total, IA. Age: one day TO thirty,
white. ) colOred-tOtal, 6; one month to
six, | white: one year 10 three, ] white, 4
colored-tOtal, ); three years to five, ,
white. colored-tOtal, 81 five years to ten,
/ white, , colored-total, 3; ten years to
twenty, white, 2 colored-total, 8; twen-
ty years to thirty, white, , colored to-
tai, 4: thirty years to forty, colored; for
ty years to lifty, white; fifty years to sixty,
/ white, ! c0lOred-total, 2; sixty years to
seventy, / white. 1 colored-toial, ,; seven
" wears to eighty, white, colored-totail,
2: eighty years to ninety, 2white. COhd.-
ton: Single, 10 white, 10 colored-tota,
26; married, white, cOlored-total, ii /;
widowcrs, 1 colored; widows, | white, !
colOred-total, 2; unknown, l col0red:
Natirity: Richmond, 10; other parts OF
the United States, 20; England, \; Ireland,
!. Locality: Marshall Ward, white; Jei-
fcrson Ward, white, 3 cOlOred-totai, u;
Madison Ward, white; Monroe Ward, 4
white, ? cOl0red-total, 6; Clay WARD, l
white, 3 cOlorcd-total, 4; Jackson ward,
II c0lored; alnlshouse, | colored; small
poX hospitals ] white, 3colored-total, 4.
COMPARATIVE WEEKLY MORTALITY.
-W Week EndiRg--
Jan. Is. Jan. Z, Jan. Z, Jan. ifs