The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-05-10

many has p<lfcHA9eu the Haiiv"
road from philadelphia to Atlantic Guy
Mr.. Frances scoyille was announced to
deliver d Iecfure at the Criterion Tneatre
sunday evening. but was so appalled, ~
The smalIness Of the number That she re-
tired without delivering her lecture. Inc
money was refunded.
The British steamer Escambia, with 300
chinese for the railway. works, arrived In
,bo british colonies at Victoria on Sunday,
and the ship Adam NJ. Simpson arrived
there Monday with 800 more.
The Democratic Congressional Conyen-
ton OF the Seventh district OF Illinois,
which met at sheIbyville Monday nomi-
mated Hon. William E. English by acclama-
ton. Dir. English Is son Of Hon. W. d.
English.
Additional advices from Japan report
that the United States steamer Alert, which
was run into by japanese war steamer on
April 18th, was on her way from Kobe TO
Yokohama. She was cut down on her star
hoard side TO the water-line, and put back
IN Kobe. No lives were lost in the collision.
An attachment has been obtained by j.
w. NJ. Newlin, representing the Common
wealth OF Pennsylvania, against the estate
OF the late Henry Weld, OF Boston, on
claim for taxes amounting to about $780,
600. An effort to compromise the matter
will be made.
Professor Dare was performing on tight
rope suspended from house-tops across
Broadway, in Flushing, l.. l., Monday,
when the rope gave. way, precipitating him
10 the ground, a distance OF thirty feet. lie
was fatally injured.
Delegates and visitors to the reinion OF
the Army OF the Tennessee, which viii be
held at st. Louis to-day and tomorrow,
are already beginning to arrive. General
o. NJ. Poe and Colonel n. L. Morrow.
aides-de-camp Of General sherman, arrived
Monday morning. General Phil. Sheridan
and General Hancock will attend.
Gustave Pantzar, who sued the Tilly
Foster Iron-Mining Company in the New
York Supreme Court for $4,000, Mon
day recovered q verdict OF $4,000 damages.
He was injured by fall OF earth at the
mines in Putnam county to such an extent
that his leg had to be amputated, and he
brought suit with the result given above.
The Women's Silk-Culture Association
OF the United States, the headquarters OF
which is located in Philadelphia, has given
notice of its willingness to purchase CO.
coons from all parts OF the country. Many
persons in the South and West have raised
cocoons, but have been unable hitherto to
find market for their product.
The Brooklyn Board OF Aldermen on
Monday afternoon passed resolutions favor
ing the removal OF the nayy-yard, as II
would open to private enterprise the valua.
BILE waterfront and large extent OF land
now held by the General Government, and
requesting their representatives in Con-
gress to favor its removal.
A suit has been brought in New York by
A. Orlando Jackson against the Louisiana
State Lottery Company TO recover S17S,O00
being double the amount which the plain
tiff claims to have invested in lottery tick
cts during the last four years. Double tho
amount is sued for as a penalty under {
New York statute.
Mrs. Mary Blessing, aged seventy-twC
years, residing with her son at Hummels
| town, Dauphin county, Pa, on Sunday
locked herself in room, removed all hel
clothes, set them on FIRE, and then threw
herself in the flames. When discovered
she was horribly burned, and died a few
hours afterwards. She was slightly de
mented.
The news OF the signing OF the anti
Chinese bill by the President was received
at San Francisco with much quiet satisfac
ton. The Republican State Central Com
mlttee will fire a salute. Dispatches from
the interior announce great eXutation ovel
| the news. and in number OF interior
cities guns have been fired, and there
were other impromptu demonstrations o.
Joy.
There was general cOngratulatiOn in Gin
cinnati Monday among the supporters o.
the Smith Sunday-cloSing liquor-law ovel
its marked success on Sunday. In the Pc
lice Court, Frank HART, who was arrested
some time ago for violation Of the law
pleaded guilty. The Judge imposed ;
nominal fine, Mr.. Harff agreeing to obey
the law hereafter
Harrisburg, Penn, is filling up will
politicians and delegates to the Republican
State Convention, which meets to-day
Beaver is considered certain to receive The
nomination for Governor. Senator Da
vies, of Bradford, is thought to be in tho
| lead for the Lieutenant-GOyernorship. 1t Il
said that Wolfe will not be a candidate be
fore the Convention, but that he will ofiel
no opposition to Beaver, and will he re
warded by being appointed Attorney
General on Beavers election.
In the Superior Court OF New York Mr.
Albert Operti began an action some time
since against Prang x Co., oil publishers o.
Boston, to recover the sum OF $1,000, OF
fered, as alleged, by the defendants as ;
prize for the best design Of a Christina
card. The plaintiff claims that his dcsigr
won the prize, but that he was defraudet
out OF it. Monday, on motion, the cast
was removed TO the United States court:
on the ground that both the parties TO The
suit were residents OF different States.
A passenger train which left Concord, n
H., at $40 p. NJ. Monday collided with ;
cattle train going south two miles north Of
Ashland. Two men were killed-Willian
II. Abel, OF Laconia, well-known invent
or Of a knitting-machine, and Hiram Jones
drover from Vermont. Abel was in The
baggage.car OF the passenger train ant
Jones on the cattle train. The names Of
the injured, four or five in number, have
not yet been learned. The damage to thu
rolling-stock Is said to be very extensive. =.
In the suit brought by Messrs. Comfy q
Barton against Catherine Lewis, the ac
tress, to prevent her breaking her contrac
with them for the season, and in which al
Injunction was obtained against the defend
ant to restrain her from playing with any
other company than theirs, Judge Truas
on Monday, in the New York Superior
Court, gave decision dissolving the in
junction. The Court also denied motion
to punish her for contempt in playing out
side her contract. The referee, to whom
the case had been sent, reported that thu
plaintiffs had not lived up to the terms o.
the contract.