The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-08-09

suit of rooms at Manhattan Deaeh' Oo"''
Island, for the summer
Gloves or no gloves, New York law a"'
thorities are against prize'"e"''"s'
The Southern Dental Association met i"
Baltimore yesterday.
The total valuation oil properly i nU, 100
sessment In Boston amounts W So
2 cain ~ en- oa5 300 on the previous year;
The tax rate has been advanced 10 9io'iV
on the $1,000.
During n heavy rain-storm at scranton
Monday afternoon the house occupied ny
Mr.. O. BOYLE Mt Minooka was struck ny
lightning. A twelve-year-old uaueh,ei
was killed and the house completely de-
stroyed.
Governor Plaisted's letter accepting the
Democratic nomination was published yes
terday. II contains long ana exhaustive
discuss,ou OF the issues OF the campaign.
Tho Governor is confident OF his election.
William Miller, of Sird.in-Hand, Penn,
on Sunday night got on freight traln 10
ride to his home, and, mistaking the pace
In the darkness, Jumped on rs tne trnill
was crossing Mill Creek bridge. lie feii
distance of sixty feet and sustained iatai III
iuries.
Jesse Brown. n colored man, was Killed
nv liobtpinV i'm Waterford, n. T., Monday
afternoon while he was standing IN hem
roost. whittier he had taken refuge from
| the storm.
A mob OF hundred men at midnight on
Monday surrounded the jail at Pomeroy,
Ohio. to get Holmes, the negro charged
with assaulting little girl near Rutland.
When they had nearly broken through the
walls they found that Holmes had been
sent to Columbus for safe-keeping.
On Saturday afternoon young man con-
nected with the United States circus, now
at Maysville, KY, made balloon ascension
seated on trapcZe bar. The balloon
alighted in the Ohio river and the balloonist
was drowned. He was q native OF England.
Two terrific thunder and wind-storms
visited Scranton, Pa, Monday. Trees
were uprooted and houses unroofed Many
cellars were flooded. Considerable dam
age was done to the crops. During the
storm the scafTolding Of the new courthouse
was struck by lightning.
The shipments OF flour, grain, and pro-
visions eastward from Chicago last week
amounted to 1920 tons, OF which the
Baltimore and Ohio carried only 1,6lO
tons. The shipments OF the corresponding
week OF last year amounted to 49,02S tors,
which was then considered unusually light.
CAPTAIN Godfrey. OF the wrecking
schooner Daisy. which arrived at Norfolk
on Monday. reports having found oil Cape
Henry on Saturday bottle containing the
message Ozark Flying Fish about to sink
OF Cape Henry at night. No help in sight.
Last chance gone" Signed "Lyman."
The Tariff Commission is now in New
York. Judge Underwood, OF Georgia;
Mr.. Porter. OF the District OF Columbia;
Mr.. Garlan. Of Illinois; Mr.. Kenna, OF
Louisiana; Mr.. Boteler, OF West Virginia;
John L. Hayes, and Mr.. Amber, OF the
commission, on Monday visited the custom
house and inspected the navy and collect
Or's offices.
A bridge across the Embarras river, on
the Peoria, Decatur and Evansville rail-
road. near Greenup, Ill.,, gave way sunday
evening under freight train and engine,
and eighteen loaded cars went down.
Charles Allen, coppersmith, was killed.
and VI. Il. COntn, the engineer, and George
Forlin. a brakeman. were seriously injured.
The bridge was defective.
One OF the s,mmer-hoUscs on the bluffs
opposite ,Jauch's Hotel. Long Branch, n.
j., was struck by lightning during the
storm Monday afternoon. One end Of the
building was torn of, and four persons
who had sought shelter in 1t were pros
trated-one of them, Police officer John
ConnerS, being seriously injured. He was
unconscious for several hours, and is now
in critical condition.
Henry Zeisc, aged twenty-siX. Of New
York, employed by \. ;. Ellison, manu-
facturer of ladies' dress-trimmings, at
tempted suicide Monday morning by shoot
ing himself twice in the breast. He was
found unconscious on the floor, and beside
| him Law a letter addressed to his employers,
stating that he shot himself on account OF
family troubles. He was taken to the hos
pital where it was believed he would die
Austin Mcnamara, IN old gentleman,
was brought into court at Brooklyn, y.
Y, on Monday from the Queens County
Lunatic Asylum, where he had been con-
fined for four years. lie maintains that he
never was insane, and that his lncarccrd-
| ton was an outrage. He says he quar-
relied with his sons, and they had him sent
to the asylum. No decision has yet been
rendered.
There was an extensive cOntlagratiOn in
| Gardiner, Maine, on Monday evening.
About twenty acres were burned over. All
the manufactures on the lower dam were
swept away. Between 800 and 100 men are
! thrown out OF employment. Some sixty
dwelling-houses were destroyed. The loss
will be upward OF 100000, while the in
surance will not reach half that figure.
A special dispatch from Reading, Pa.
says: "Great excitement prevails in North
Heidelberg township owing to the rapid
spread Of disease that is killing many
cows. over thirty have died during the
past few days on six different farms, and
many new cases are reported. There is a
difference Of opinion as the disease; some
say it is rindcrpest, others pleuro- pneumo-
mia, while others contend that death re-
suited from eating widowed grass. The
matter has been reported to the State au-
thorities. as the local veterinary surgeons
cannot stay the disease"
A special to the Herald, dated San Fran
cisco the 18th instant, says: The Committee
OF Preparation for the knights Templar's
biennial conclaye, to be held here next
year, have perfected arrangements with
rnlroad companies west OF the Missouri
river for round-trip tickets by either route
for S75. Negotiations are pending with
lines east Of Omaha, and the committee
! think round-trip tickets from New York |
and Boston will be 800.