The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-03-29

The House Postal Commute win soon,
! Il Is said. report favorably bill liking the
rate Of letter postage at three cents an ounce,
or half the present rate.
James J. Clyburn, confined in the Jail Of
Kefshaw, s. G., convicted OF murder ana
respitcd TO April IA, escaped Friday night
and has not since been heard OF.
The wards OF Baltimore have all been re-
arranged. The lines have been so run that
each OF the twenty wards contains nine
precincts, making 100 precincts In all.
Two boys, sons Of William Law, fisher.
man. were drowned while hauling lobster
traps at Newport, X. l., on Monday.
In Baltimore, on Monday, John II.
Davis. colored. was killed by machinery ut
the fertilizer factory Of p. Zell & Sons.
". B. Thayer, jeweller, Of Memphis,
Tenn. made an assignment Monday. Lin
bilities, $4,000; assets nominally $4,000.
Daniel F. Pickering, prominent Repub-
lican leader, ex-sherif and postmaster OF
Elmirn, n. Y, died Monday night from
typhoid-pnelimonia.
A grand concert was given in the Me-
chanics- Institute building at Boston, Mon
doy night, in aid OF the Jewish refugees
from Russia. 1t was attended by 5000
persons, and nettcd about $4,000.
Rumors OF a war between China and ia
pan multiply, although Japan Is making no
preparation. Adviccs from Yokohama to
March 9Th are to the effect that there is q
stagnation OF imports, and purchases for
, this year are less than one tenth the normal
quantity.
For several years Arkansas has been bor-
rowing money for current expenses (the
present outstanding deDts being S115,000),
drawing per cent. on January and July.
In few days the notes will be paid, and
the borrowing stopped.
The owners Of the Pacific Cotton-Mills,
at Lawrence, Mass, have notified those OF
their employees who are not strikers that il
they are in need they can obtain relief by
applying at the company's counting-room.
This is generally accepted as all indication
that the mills will remain closed for q
month.
The steamer Thomas Cornell, south from
Rondout for New York, ran ashore on the
rocks a mile south OF Hampton Point, ten
miles from Poughkeepsie, ut 9:15 o'clock
Monday evening. The John l.. Hasbrouck,
south from Poughkeepsie, went to her res
cue. and her passengers and crew were
saved. The Cornell has gone to pieces.
The loss will be heavy.
William II. Lee, of New York, made an
assignment Monday to Robert o. n. Ford,
giving S12,713 preferences. The schedules
state the liabilities to be S19,274; nominal
assets, S20,330; and actual assets, S9,597.
The liabilities of NIngnin, Guidin e. Co.,
OF New York, are put at S177,007, and
actual assets at SG2,03i. Among the unse-
cured debts are loans from l.. Demonico
amounting to s76,323.
In the Court of Common Pleas, Pbiladel-
phia, on Monday, argument was heard upon
a demurrer by Jonathan Pussy, represent
ing John w. Keely, to the bill in equity re-
Gently filed by the keely Motor Company,
to compel Keely to divulge the secret OF his
motor. It was argued on behalf Of the de-
murrer that the inventor could not be made
to expose that which no one knew but him
self and which was hidden in his own
brain.
A Pittsburgh special from Evansburg,
Crawford county, Pa, says that during q
severe gale Monday afternoon three-st0ry
brick house in course Of erection was
blown down, and William Hunt and Frank
Mcdonald killed, John Houser and VIII
liam Sharle fatally, and five others slightly
injured. a similar accident occurred ut
Pittsburgh yesterday, the wind blowing
down a frame house and fatally injuring
John Atkinson and Patrick Gavin, two
workmen.
A. friend of Mrs. Garfield, in Washing
ton, has recently received a letter from her,
setting forth various annoyances which she
has suffered from the unauthorized pub
fishers OF biographies and portraits OF
General Garfield and his family. The
books written thus early. and without any
knowledge of his papers, are OF course in
accurate and Of no general value; and yet
they as well rs the various portraits which
are in circulation claim to have Mrs. Gar
fields special approval. So far as there is
any foundation whatever for such claims,
they rest simply upon formal and polite
acknowledgements of the receipt OF such
productions.