The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-03-21

Colonel John Il. Rhett has been n0mi-
mated by the Democrats for mayor Of Co
lumbia, 5. c.
A Republican caucus Of the members Of
Congress was held in Washington last
night TO form campaign committee.
The trial Of Alexander Barton for the
embezzlement Of over 100000 from the
Bank OF Fishkill in 1878 was begun yester-
day.
At Lexington, Ky, on Sunday, Aiken 81
Co.'s distiIlery was ignited by the cXplo-
sion OF q lamp and totally destroyed. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The eleventh anniversary OF the organi-
cation OF the Commune in Paris was cclc-
brated i'm New York and philadelphia on
Sunday night by the German section Of the
Socialistic Labor party OF those cities.
The report of snowslide at Genoa, New,
is confirmed. Mr.. and Mrs. Nimrod Bow
en-, Miss Berlin, and q number of Indians,
yariously stated at from seven TO fifteen,
were killed. All the bodies have not yet
been recovered.
The central organization OF the United
Trade and Labor Unions OF New York, at o
meeting in that city Sunday adopted resO-
luton denouncng Minister Lowell for de-
clining TO interfere on behalf OF American
citizens confined in English prisons, and
asking President Arthur TO recall him.
Mrs. Virginia b. Mathews, of New York,
has applied for an order for the appoint
ment Of receiver for the Carolina Central
Railroad Company. The application is to
be heard before Judge Gilmer at Colds
boro', y. c., on the 18th day OF May next.
A fire in the basement OF the five-story
building No. 30 Warren street, New York.
occupied by HARDWOOD & Beckwith. dealers
in toys, caused loss Of about $4,000.
Three locomotives belonging to the New
castle and OIL City Railroad Company were
destroyed at Newcastle, Pa, by the burn
ing OF the cnginc-house.
At convention of Arcldocesan Socie-
ties held in New York Sunday resolutions
were adoItcd calling upon the Legislature
TO pass the bill which provides for the free
dom OF worship in The State institutions.
One Of the objects Of the union OF these
societies Is TO procure the appointment Of
Catholic chaplains ia the army.
A dispatch from Lordsburg. station on
the Southern Pacific railroad about thirty
miles from the ella river, TO Governor
Sheldon, at Santa Fc, New Mexico, reports
that seventy mountain Apaches have gone
on the war-path, and white man named
Michael Council had been killed. General
Mackenzie Immediately dispatched scosts
to ascertain the truth Of the report. and
six companies Of cavalry and two compa-
MES OF infantry were put in readiness TO
take the field If necessary.
The miners OF the Wyoming and Lacka-
wanna districts met ut Pittston, Pa. on
Saturday, formed Union, and named it |
the Miners Protective Organization. Only |
DC delegates were present. The tone OF !
the meeting was conciliatory, and nothing !
was said about Il strike. a resolution was |
adopted expressing sympathy with the Ia |
boring men OF the Pacific coast in their !
opposition TO Chinese immigration, and re- |
questing Hon. j. A. Scranton to give effect |
to their views upon this subject by his vote |
in the House of Representatives.
Isidore Levi, formerly a wholesale !
crockery-dealer i'm New Orleans, who was |
burned out at 81 Magazine street January |
1, 1881, arrested, tried, and acquitted on |
the charge OF arson, has entered suit |
against the Northwestern, National, Liver |
pool and London and Globe, London and |
4,
fish and Mercantile, Metropolitan, and
North German Fire-lnsurance Companies
for $780, 600 damages, on the ground that
said companies Instituted his arrest and
prosecution to avoid payment Of insurance
policies.
A dispatch from Emigrant Gap says that
two sections Of a west-bound passenger
train, which had been delayed there by
SNOW for three days, and west-bound
train which had been stuck in the snow at
Blue Canon for four days, left there on-Sat-
urday afternoon and succeeded in getting
through. East-bound trains reached Emil
grant Gap Saturday forenoon. About GOO
men are working west OF Blue Canon try
Ing TO keep the road open. The storm
ragged furlously saturday night, the snow
drifting badly. A snow-plow is stuck in |
the snow west Of Blue Canon, and another !
blockade seems imminent.