The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-04-06
Rr,cf News Items.

Newark. ". j.. Tuesday, adopted resolu-
ton approving President Arthur's veto OF
/ the Chinese bill.
James House was killed by milestone
burst at vanee's mill, Vance's station,
Ala, saturday. The miller and two others
were seriously wounded.
The petition In favor OF the pardon OF
Sergeant Mason preparing in New YORK
for presentation TO tho President Is now a
mile long, and the number OF names Is ap-
preaching half million.
The British bark Kilyen brought report
! 10 San Francisco from the ship Susan Gil
more TO the effect that the latter saw about
March 9Th an iron shin burning in latitude
| 80 north. longitude 100 west.
The election in Chicago Tuesday passed
of quietly. The contest was local one,
and had no political significance. As near
as can he determined, the Democrats ear
ried the city, and elected IL, and possibly
~, out Of Is aldermen.
Walter Malley, James Malley, Jr., and
Blanche Douglas were before the Superior
Court, New Haven, Conn.,. Tuesday, and
pleaded not guilty TO the charge ef muir
dering Jennie Cramer. The trial will not
| take place Immediately.
The American shipJolin Bryce. seventy
six days from Liverpool, with cargo OF
Peruvian guano and wheat, and which was
supposed to have'becn lost, arrived at Nor
folk Tuesday. She reports that she had
heavy gales for six weeks, and had to 90 TO
the eastward Of the Western Islands.
Among the cabin passengers on the
steamship Lord Cough, which sailed from
Philadelphia Tuesday for Liverpool. were
Joseph BrIlmpton, the great Grimsley
forger, aud Scott, the English detective,
who came over to secure Brumpton's ex-
tradition.
The will OF Henry W. Longfellow makes
no public requests, and after naming seye-
raj small sums TO be given TO relatives it
gives the balance of his property to his
children. Richard II. Dana, Jr., the ex-
ecutor named in the will, being dead. the
poets son Ernest will be made admins
traitor.
A schedule was fled on Tuesday in the
Court of Common Pleas OF New York for
the benefit of the creditors OF Edward and
| Adelaide Owen. of the firm OF Edward
Owen e. Co., wholesale llquor-dealers, Of
y Ill -
1866; nominal assets, S1l2-249; and actual
assets s2s,91s.
A syndicate OF Philadelphia capitalists
has purchased the Fermenich Sugar-Re-
finery property, at Buffalo, and will Ope-
rate il under "a stock company, the charter
of which has Just been secured under the
New Jersey laws. The capital is 81, 500,-
O0O-3O. 900 shares at $50 per share-all of
which has been subscribed.
Mrs. Mary Smith was killed on Monday
near Benwood station, on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, while walking on the
track. She was carrying dinner to her son,
who was employed at the rOlling-mill. and
stepped from one track to avoid train,
only to fall under the wheels of another
engine that she had not noticed.
Mrs. Ellen McFall, aged twenty-five, was
shot and MORALLY wounded Tuesday after
noon at 22j east Twenty-sixth street, New
York, by her husband, John McFall, u
painter. The couple separated three months
ago on account OF the husbands drinking
habits, and have since lived apart. She
was nursing her baby when her husband
came i'm and shot her twice, both bullets
taking effect in the back OF her head. She
was taken TO the hospital IN low condl-
ton. The police are looking for the hus-
band.
Eugene 7. Beecher, nephew of the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, WAS arrested
Tuesday in New York upon IN order
granted by the Supreme Court year ago
in civil suit. Horatio 6. Angle, the
plaintiff, charges that he gave Beecher and
Buel Il. Hitchcock mining stocks valued at
$4,000 for tract OF land in Arkansas, and
that he subsequently discovered the land
never belonged to them. In default of
$4,000 bail Beecher was committed to Lud-
low-Strect Jail.
At the coroner's inquest in Philadelphia
Tuesday over the remains OF EliZette NJ.
Grant, q lunatic, whose death, il was
charged, was occasioned by improper treat
ment at DR.. Livingston's private insane
asylum, DIR. J. &. Lee, the corOner's ply
stefan, testified that he made the autopsy
and found no external marks OF violence.
lie concluded that death resulted from con-
gestion of the brain. The jury found that
Miss Grants death was not caused by i'm
proper treatment, but their verdict con-
dennis the practice OF admitting insane
persons to private asylums without due
process of law.