The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-01-25
Rrief News Items.

Oscar Wilde has at length sent his eX-
,lapation and apology for giving Baltimore
he go-by. II is most aesthetic in being
ETHEREAL, with a gauZy
exture of the Adam-and-Eye age. He
ecture in Baltimore tomorrow evening.
William Gardiner died OF hydrophobia
n Philadelphia on Monday from the bite OF
cur received three months ago.
Carl HENDERSON, Of Bremerlehe, Ger
many, aged twenty-four, prosperous
In New York, with a good
,ank account and no known trouble, hung
himself Monday morning in the same man.
Ter, at the:.same hour and day OF the year.
MS father did in the old country five years
lgo.
Rev. Mr.. Lotus, injured in the Thorn
ON disaster, on the Baltimore and Ohio
-ailroad, is said to be crippled for life.
There were twenty-three deaths from
smallpox in Philadelphia last week-an in
crease OF fourteen as compared with the
week.
Robert Quinn slipped on the ice in Jer-
,ey City Monday, and, striking the back OF
his head on the sidewalk, was instantly
killed.
Meetings were held Monday night at va
rious points in the West to denOunce po-
Iygamy and MormOnism. At Chicago the
chief addresses were delivered by Schuyler
Colfax and John Wentworth.
Thomas Morris, William NJ. Hopkins,
and William W. Davis, miners in the No. /
slope of the Susquehanna Coal Company at
Nanticoke, Pa, were found dead In one oil
the gangways Monday afternoon. They
had been sutfocated by gas while at work.
Judge Barrett. Of the New York Supreme
Court, has refused TO vacate the order OF
arrest or reduce the bail Of the defendants
in the case of Minnie Cummings Us. Della
Murphy and William b. Dewes. Miss
Cummings claims $4,000 for illegal arrest
md false imprisonment.
At Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday, Henry
and Willie CleeT, infant sons OF working
people. were burned TO death in the shanty
in which they lived. Their father was at
work and their mother was ut aneighbor's.
The door had been fastened. The father
has disappeared.
L
last that Theodore IIecker, aged thirty, had
been missing from his home in Philadelphia
since January 18th, on which evening he
parted with number OF friends. Monday
his body was found floating in the
Delaware at Race-street wharf.
The cornerstone OF the new Cotton EX-
change building on the northwest corner
Of Carondolet and Grayier streets, New
Orleans, was laid Monday. Governor Nc
Emery delivered IN address. The new
building will cost S350,0O0.
Forty-one new cases OF smallpox in
and twenty-one in Allegheny
City were reported to the Board Of Health
for Sunday and Monday. Nineteen deaths
from the disease occurred in Allegheny
City last week.
George y. Wheelock, OF Stamford,
Conn.,, New York agent OF the Great West
ern Dispatch Transportation Company,
dropped dead Monday morning at the
Grand Central depot, New York, as he was
about to go down town. He was about
fifty years old.
An express train on the Pennsylvania
railroad ran into freight train on Monday
last, at Mineral Point, some ten miles from
Pittsburgh. The engine OF the passenger
train and several freight-cars were badly
wrecked, and the engineer and fireman
were both seriously wounded, but there
were no fatal casualties.
The Convention OF the National Wo-
mans Suffrage Association was opened in
Philadelphia Monday evening, at st.
Georges Hall. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady STAN
ton presided. Addresses were made by
Rev. Frederick A. Ilinckley. Of Rhode
Island, and Mrs. Matilda j. Gage, of New
York. The Convention will continue its
session to-day.
The pews OF the Brooklyn Tabernacle
were rented at auction Monday night for
the first time in the history OF the church.
About $50 pews were rented, for which the
fixed valuation is SIC, 796, and the amount
Of premiums bid was SS,622. The first
choice was secured for $40 by one of the
trustees.
In the suit of the Peoples Bank of New
York against the Mechanics National Bank OF
Newark, N. j., in which an attachment was
procured against the property OF the de.
PENDANT in New York, a motion was made
some time ago in the Supreme Court on the
part OF the receiver of the defendant to va
cate the attachment. The court has granted
the motion.
The sale of the Atlas Refining Company
and the Buffalo and Rock City Pipeline
Company to the Standard Oil Company i:
announced to have taken place. The con.
=, do l. 10. 10,
to 100000. The rate Of pumping oil from
Rock City TO Buffalo has been advanced
from ~ TO Is cents per barrel, and the sale
Of these two corporations to the Standard
virtually ends all opposition that that com
pany has in Western New York.
A bill passed the Mississippi Senate on
Monday authorizing the Governor TO Offer
reward for the apprehension Of the MUIR
derer OF General Tucker. The bill TO pre-
vent and punish prize-fghting in the State
az passed provides for n fine OF $1,000 and
Imprisonment not less than one year in a
county Jail for the principals, and impri-
sonment and fine of half that time and
amount for the seconds and shareholders,
and if death results, penalties now pre-
scribed by law will be enforced.
In recent case in Philadelphia Judge
Biddle took occasion to pay his respects to
the tendency Of sentimentalism on the sub
iect OF crime, which he declared Is gradual
ly putting justice on the defensive. In the
trial now going on at Washington, be said,
a stranger might suppose that the Judge,
the District Attorney, or perhaps the Presi-
dent Of the United States, was being tried.
+" lie certainly never would imagine that II
was Guiteau."
When the SKIN Is parched and freckled
by strong northwest winds, and the face
becomes dry and scaly, il can be restored
to smoothness and good color by DIR. Ben
sons Skin Cure. A perfect remedy fol-
itching and yexatious PIN
pies.