The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-11-05
Brief News Items.
continues favorable. ''''

| VohtinueS favorable.
The crop Of oranges in Jamaica /, very
| iarge. so large that the steamers lcayinI
h.hgston weekly cannot take all the fruit
offered WV = '''
~ Troy, n. Y, the ward committees and
o'hcrs nave discovered on the registry lists
1T, nearly 300 names improperly registered.
ihey Will be stricken off.
An Associated Press dispatch from At
| llita says that Oscar Buckner. a Baltimore
drummer, committed suicide at Griffin,
"a'' Friday by taking morphine.
Jacob Hopkins. aged eight wears. WA,
Kicked by Il mule at Kuriz's screen factory,
shenandoah, Pa, Thursday, and died soon
after from injuries received.
Liba Van Loon, Of Plymouth. Pa. Dem
ocratlc candidate for prothonotary. brought
civil suit Friday against DR.. Henry Hakcs.
OF Wilkesharrc, for libel, fixing damages at
$4,000.
Inc public is warned against $40 cOun-
tericlt Treasury notes, some Of which are in
circulation in New York. The counterfeit
can easily be detected by a close observer.
the work as a rule being very poor, and the
face OF tvery pale.
The original scenery, property, and
dresses OF "Enoch Arden" as played by
the late Edwin Adams, were burned some
years ago in the Academy Of Music at In
dianapOlis. The Ms, both Of the music
and parts, perished in the Park Theatre fire
last Monday.
AT the Convention OF Mechanical Engi-
ncers. in New York, last night, reports
from the committees on gauges and on iron
and steel were read by j. Bancroft Sellers,
OF Philadelphia, and by Professor Thomas
Eeleston, of Columbia College, and were
adopted.
\ petition has been addressed to the Sec
rctary Of the Treasury requesting him TO
make all sugar imported into the United
States from the Sandwich Islands dutiable.
II is claimed that Sandwich Island sugar
does not come within the Hawaiian Island
treaty. The circular has been signed bv
prominent sugar-refncrs o. New York.
Boston, and Philadelphia.
The American Society Of Mechanical En-
ginccrs, in session in New York Thursday,
elected the following officers: Z. d. Lea
Witt, Jr., president; John Fritz, Henry
Morton, aud William Mctcalf, vicc-pres-
dents; Robert W. Hunt. Charles +. Por-
ter, and c. J. II. Woodbury., managers;
and Charles w. Copeland, treasurer.
EX-Prcsident Hayes was introduced at
the Cincinnati Chamber Of Commerce on
Thursday, and made a brief speech, con-
graduating the businessmen OF Cincinnati
on their condition and prospects, and
stating that they were happy in completing
their road to the South Just at the time
when under better influences the differ
cnces between the North and South were
disappearing.
IN the United States District Court at
Providence, X. l., Wednesday. in the case
Of Mary A. ID. Lobdell. Of New Bedford,
rs. the Union-Strcct Railroad Company.
for damages for injuries resulting from col
liSiOn Of hOrSe-cars, the jury rendered
verdict for plaintiff for S6,915. This is the
case in which the defence pleaded that con-
tracts TO carry passenger, on sunday are
void.
An action has been brought by the West
crn Union Telegraph Company and JAY
Gould against the Mutual Union Telegraph
Company to prevent such a disposition Of
the stock Of the Mutual Union as will de-
prive the Western Union Of the influence
III the management ol lllt Mutudl CulpH,
TO which it claims to be entitled as the
owner OF majority Of the stock. Jay
Gould swcars that S427,000 were paid for
these securities.
4 dispatch from Havana says that on the
afternoon Of October 2Sth Captain Amos
Dow. oi the American brig Clyiie, which
arrived at Caibarien October 9th from New
York. left Key Frances, OF Caibaricn, IN a
boat with three casks Of water, taking with
him a colorcd boy belonging to the crew Of
the Clvtic. The boat has been found sunk
opposite LolioS Keys, far from the coast,
and it is believed that Captain Dow and the
bow were drowned. The port authorities
are searching for them.
Louis II. ZeIega d Co.. prominent MEM
bcrs OF the New York Cotton Exchange,
and for the past three years among the
leading bull operators in cotton, sent Word
to the Exchange on Wednesday OF their
inability 10 meet their engagements. The
amount Of liabilities could not be aScer-
famed. but is not thought to be much in
New York. A manager Of the Exchange
said that Zerega had been puzzle for
long time. but that his business was large
" i'm the New England states, and he mas
for wears past been jointly engaged in the
market with Providence parties. lie has
many strong friends who will assist him.