The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-12-01
Brief News Items.

\ wcll-known banker in Bucharest has
been murdered.
Nj. Thomas Rifle. Of the firm OF G.. :.
Griffith d CO., OF Baltimore. died on We'd
ncsday Of heart-discase.
The bIaryland oyster commissioners find
everywhere in the Oystcr-beds deterioaied
CONDITION.
ON "Wednesday the City Court OF Balti-
more awarded Mrs. Annctta Worden, an
old cOlorcd woman, 81, 900 damages against
the city for broken leg.
Mrs. Minty Manshp, the wife OF Charles
Manship, Of Milton, Del. committed sui
eide Tuesday by hanging herself.
George Smith received a verdict Of 5lo,-
600 against the New York Central railroad
nj Buffalo. y. y, on Wednesday for IN
iuries received last July.
The Attorncy-Gcneral Of New York has
rendered an opinion that the charter OF the
New York Liie-lnsuance Company is per-
pctual.
Colonel Edward d. Blake. graduate of
West Point i'm the class of 1917. and who
served IN the Mexican aud Confederate
war, died IN Charleston on Wednesday,
The Vermont Legislature adjourned on
wednesday morning. The bill making
the enforcement OF the liquor law more
stringent wa, killeJm the Senate.
The Montreal Corn Exchange A>socla-
ton has resolved 10 petition the Dominion
Government for free canals and he gem
cral free navigation Of rivers and lakes.
Bond, to the amount OF sl.C60, 900 were
presented 10 the sub-trcasury in New York
ON "wednesday by one savings bank under
saturdays call for extended IS hitherto
uncalled.
Charlie, i. Foster, OF Foster, Richardson
| & Co., New York commission merchants,
mysteriously disappeared Tuesday, ana
has not been heard from since. He was
sixty years old, and had complained Of
| head troubles.
The law prohibiting the sale OF lottery
tckets has become dead letter in Chi
cgeo. as the business is being openly con-
ducted and freely advertised by circulars
and signs. Some OF the men frankly con-
fe>, that they pay larger sums for illegal
protection.
The colored man Charles Shaw who l.
! TO be hung on January 18Th, In tue Dlstrlct
| of Columbia. for the murder OF his sister,
Ann Carter, has made formal confession
confirming his confession made to the
police before the trial. He says that he
| struck hi, sister on the back OF the head
Win stone because she doubted his
word. He denies that lie robbed her.
The Allan Steamship Company have
entered an action in the Nice-Admiralty
CONT at Halifax, y. :, for ten thousand
nounds damages, civil and maritime,
a@oinst the steamer Clanden, from New
Orleans for Bremen, which ran into the
Polynesian at the wharf on Monday last.
James :. Pike. writer and politician,
ev-I-nited States minister 10 tue Hague,
and formerly associate editor OF the New
VorL JriJune. died on Wednesday IN
calais. Maine. He was on his way IRON
Rohbinston, hi, home, TO the South, where
he proposed to spend the WINTER
wine merchant Of New York, Fred
erick Wagner, has been missing since AN
cust 3lst last. ON that day ne lelt LOT cal'
ifornia on business trip. Al'er leaving
kansas City all trace was lost oil MN. l.
i supposed that he became suddehi! ue
ranged. and is at present IN some instltu
ton.
4 dispatch from Troy, n. Y, dated NO
; vember 10Th, says that some eNcltemeh
was created at Granville last week by TIT
arrest Of Isaac W. Thompson and William
Welch. charged with stealing turkey, from
farmer. The evidence against them ap
. neared conclusive, and they were sent L
: iail for three months. 1t has Just leakc'
out that other persons stole the turkeys "a a
! a Joke, and Judge Wait has ordered Tn
! prisoners to be released. The jokers mad
! a full confession, and will not be punished
| Mr.. Lorin Blodget has published q repl
I 10 General Walker, eN-superintehdeht o
D the census. in which he relterates u
I charge that the census was not proper!
a taken in Philadelphia. lie says that !.
; known to every intelligent officer OF th
/ census that il was the deliberate purPose, .
! the superintendent to ignore the ,aell' II
n Of the cities and to take all the Leading u
i. dustries through class Of special , agent
:. each Of which had an unlimited priviles
n 10 srcrd money. md m expectation !
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