The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-03-25

pcar. Admiral q. II. Scott (ret.red) Is
lying at the point Of death at his residence
ii Washington.
scvcn hundred moutlers are on strike
AZ Troy, n. Y. All The moulding shops
but one or two closed yesterday, and 1900
men are thus throwa Gut OF employment.
A flre IN Baltisnsre on Thursday night,
In the warehouse No. 101 German street,
occupied by Il. r. Schultz & Co. and $. l..
STEM L. Co., ceased loss OF about 1000.
The Proctor House, noted summer re-
xucrt nj Keassagc mountain, was burned on
Thursday. together with the out-buildings.
Ioss, s7Ao00; no insurance. The fire was
vaused Is defective chimney.
The steamer Faraday on Thursday COM
pletcd the laying Of the shore-end Of the Sec
ond transatlantic ocean cable OF the Ameri-
can Telegraph and Cable Company. Shewiil
make the splice In midocean In few days.
The first cable is working satisfactorily.
Judge Love, Of Iowa, In a suit against
the American Union Telegraph Company
for neglect in sending a message 10 make
purchases on wheat contracts In Chicago,
decided that rs the laws in Illinois prohibits
option deals, the plaintiff caunot recover
damages.
The police Of Brooklyn are looking for r
man about sixty years old, wcll-dresscd.
and handsome, who, representing himself
~ D brother OF Governor a. III. Colq,itt,
Of Georgia, Is said 10 have yictimlzed one,
and probably number Of friends OF the
Governor.
William Il. Harding, journalist, has
brought an action In the supreme Court Of
New York city against Arthur Chambers.
pugilist. for $4,000 damages for assault.
Judge Lawrence issued an order on Thurs
day for Chambers's arrest, fixing the bail
N 5000.
Captain Mitchell, Of the Maryland oyster
police. reports the capture OF six oyster
vessels for illegal dredging in Little Chop
tank river. Captain Severn, OF the pungy
Petrol, reported 10 Captain Mitchell that
he lost man overheard on Monday, March
18Th, oil Sandy Point.
Tom Sweeney, Of Wolverhampton, Eng
land, and Tom Domaine, of New Haven,
Conn.,, who are matched for prize fight
with hard gloves on March 30th, met, with
ther hackers. in New York on Thursday
and posted the final stakes OF 5000 each.
Sweeney won the choice for fighting
ground.
The three mares. the offspring Of the
celebrated stallion Black Hawk, which were
seized at Philadelphia several weeks ago
by the custom officers for differentiation,
having been inyoiced as brood mares, were
sold on Thursday by United States Marshal
Kerns. The amount realized was 1885,. or
S165 In excess OF the valuation that had
been placed upon them by the owners.
A mass-meeting of citizens, irrespective
Of party, has been called for the evening
Of April 3D. at the Cooper Institute, New
York, to express sentiment upon the i'm
prsonment OF American citizens by for
cign governments without trial. The call
is signed by Mayor Grace, Charles A.
Dana, Oswald Ottendorfer, William Henry
Hurlbert. Hugh Hastings, and many other
leading citizens.
Three men are now busily engaged in |
the United States Assay office. in Wall |
street, New York. packing for shipment TO |
the Philadelphia Mint Sl0,000,0 900 in gold |,
bullion. Shipments are made about twice |
a week, and s5,000,000 il sent at time. |
The bullion, in blocks about the size OF an !
ordinary brick, packed in strong wooden |
boxes. The treasure now being packed
WA received during the past year in the
shape OF foreign gold coin. =
Two insane patients in the poorhouse at
Greensburg, Pa, on Wednesday assaulted
fTofan Paschkor, q Hungarian, who was
also insane, and had beaten him to death !
before any help arrived. The murdercrs |
were Tim Bacon and August Johnston,
and they both admitted the killing, but |
laughed and chartered in their insane glee |
rs IL II was huge joke. Tim Bacon muir
dered hoy IN 1873, in a dispute over a
pound OF sugar, but lately he had been |