The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-03-12
ylricf News Etcrns.

\ home for the aged and inilrm coiored
poor i TO De opened in Baltimore.
In the Maryland Senate on Friday Senate
bill 70 mark the boundary line between
Maryland and Virginia was passed.
senator Edmunds stil has the refusal OF
the associate juGgeship. but in the event OF
hi, dccination the President has already
another candidate.
In Baltimore on Friday Mr.. JosiaS Pen
nington, q retired siOck-broker. committed
suicide 1t hi- residence, on Franklin street,
by shooting himself through the brain.
The new detective force of Philadelphia
was assigned 10 duty on Friday morning.
Mayor King states iha' he will not give any
hearing 90 thu discharged Officials.
Richard II. Cornwall. the deiaulting
clerk oi the Fourth \ ttional Bank Of New
York city, now at bis home at Plaintield,
\. j., l. reported by hi, physicians TO be
suffering from Inflammation OF the bowels.
His neighhors arc OF the opinion that his
illness j, q sham.
Some malicious, person inserted in an
afternoon plpcr an advertisement that
Cyrus ". Field required fifty Workingmcn
at his house Friday might. Two hundred
surrounded his house, and the police had
10 be called upon e. disperse them.
AZ the regular monthly meeting Of the
Tammany General Committee held Friday
night a resolution was adopted calling
upon Congress 10 afford some relief TO the
sufferers 10y The floods along the Mississippi
river.
Max Maretzck. director OF the Cincinnati
College oi Music, has abruptly severed his
connection with the college without resig-
nation. claiming that The terms Of his con-
tract have been violated by the college ar-
thoritics. lie left for New York yesterday.
AT the Baltimore" coal-mines. near
WilkcsbaTe. Pa. owned by the Delaware
and Hudson Canal Company, two acres OF
ground suddenly dropped down on Fri
day afternoon into the abandoned eXcava-
tions below. No one was injured, but peo-
pie whose houses arc located near 10 the
yaWning gap are moving away.
Mr.. Wilson PothcnbeTgcr, OF Emans,
Pa, while walking on the track OF the East
Pennsylvania railroad got his foot fast be-
tween the rails OF the switch, and was un-
able 10 eXtricate it. Fortunately his cries
for help were heard by some men in the
ncighborhood, aud an approaching train
was stopped before II reached him.
Special dispatches TO Chicago say that
nothing has been heard from Deputy Mar
shall Healy, who is held prisoner amons
the haIf-breeGs on Mix river, since IN,
Gotta, and his friends are anxious for hi
safety. He got word Of his condition [,
them by smuggling a dispatch through b,
the aid Of AN old friend who was c.unpin;
with them.
Dispatches from Quincy and Monmouth
ILL.,, and Watertown and Madison, Wis.
and also from different points in Iowa ant
Minnesota. indicate that 4 genuine biz
zard from the north prevailed Throughout
the NoFthwes! on Thursday night. Tn
accompanying snow drifted badly, ant
travel Is generally impeded. a heavy an,
very unusual snow-storm prevailed alon
the line OF the Texas Pacific railway, il
Western Texas, on "Wednesday. At Abb
lene The snow was six inches deep.
james Redmond, OF Philadelphia. con
fidenee operator, was arrested In New
York Friday CHARGED with violating Tn
postal laws. Ills plan OF operation was Il
secure printed letter-heads Of promnen
firms and use the same in correspondence
with manufacturers, Offering 10 buy pro
ducts on thirty days time. His last vic
tim was william Gerald, Of Rhode Island
from whom he obtained about 500 wort
Of yarn, which he sold at far below tn
market price.