The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-07-20

Brief News Items.
Since the ycllow-fever season set in sixty
four ship captains have died OF the disease
ut Cuban ports.
beautiful memorial TO the sculptor
Rinehart has been unveiled in Greenmount
cemetery, Baltimore.
Willie O'Brien, aged ten years, died in
Pottsyille, Pa, Tuesday from lockjaw
caused by toy-pistol wound.
Wilbur Bethard, brother Of the man who
wanted TO shoot Griiteau In the courtroom
at washington, was run over by the cars
ut Elmwood, Ohio, on the Toledo railroad,
Tuesday morning, and killed.
Cholera is increasing in and about Toxic
and Yokohama, Japan. The ravages are
not confined to the poorer classes. several
high officials having been attacked. The
daughter OF Prince Arisugawa, the Empe.
ror's uncle, died after brief illness.
The boss BARRIERS OF Philadelphia at a
large meeting Monday night adopted a re-
solution to open hereafter on Sunday. 1t
was also decided to take steps to collect a
large fund from among the members to use
in defending members from prosecution,
and to nominate trustees to have charge OF
the fund.
Further conference on Monday between
the Cincinnati boilcr-makers and their en-
ployers resulted in an agreement to end
the strike, and work was resumed on Tues
day in all the yards at an advance OF 10
per cent. on the former wages. The strike
began june I'd.
The will OF the late William X. Garrison
was filed in New York on Tuesday. The
house on Fifth avenue is left to his wife,
and the rest Of the estate i'm trust, the in
come to his wife until the youngest child is
twenty-one, when the whole is to be divided
equally between the widow and children.
The Elmwood store, at Providence. II.
l., part OF the Sprague estate, was sold at
auction by Trustee Chaflee on Tuesday, to-
gether with $4,000 square feet Of land, TO
ID. i. Longstreet for sixty-fve cents per
square foot. Fifteen thousand square feet
OF land in the rear was bid in by Mr.. Long
street at twenty-siX cents.
a two-year-old child OF Melvin Smith, Il
wealthy gentleman OF Montreal, was alb
Quoted Monday night. A note was left on
the child's pillow demanding 100000 in
gold as Il ransom, and threatening the MUIR
der OF the child in case OF refusal. The
lost child was found alone on a doorstep
in that city Tuesday night by Mr.. Shaw, an
auctioneer, and restored TO its parents.
On Tuesday in the corridor OF the court
house at Floyd, La, David j. Norwood
attempted 10 cane ". }. Polk. Failing to
do this, he drew pistol TO shoot Polk,
who also pulled out similar weapon.
Both men fired simultaneously. Polk was
killed, and Norwood severely wounded.
The aflray grew out OF lawsuit. The
two men were prominent planters.
A dispatch from MatamOraS, Mexico,
says that band of fifty revolutionists, un-
der the leadership Of EmilanO Daniel and
town Of Tonala Chiapas. They released
all the prisoners in the Jail, and armed
them. Captain Santa Anna Guzman, at
the head OF eighty gendarmeS, charged the
revolutionists, who retreated. leaving scye-
raj killed and wounded behind them.
A black frock coat was found floating on
the wafer near College Point, Long Island,
on Monday, and in one OF the pockets was
pocket-book with the name OF Robert
Leibert stamped upon it. There was also
a letter from Max Ilulmann, OF Hampstead,
to Leibcrt. 1t is supposed that Leibert
has fallen overheard and been drowned, or
has committed suicide.
The tariff commissioners met at Long
Branch yesterday. Amongst the members
OF the commission now there are Judge j.
w. III. Underwood, of Georgia, ID. f.:
kenner, of Louisiana. and X. =. Porter,
who is also secretary TO the commission,
and c. +. Rainey, sergeant-at-arlnS. The
meetings OF the commissioners are being
held in the sea cottage OF the West End
Hotel.
The Brooklyn police on Tuesday morn
ing found man on the street who was de-
ranged. lie proved to be George H..
Roeder, who until recently was the editor
and proprietor OF the EastOn Express, at
Easton, Pa. His father was formerly Gov
ernor Of Kansas. Mr.. Reeder had been on
to Brooklyn to visitbis brother-in-law. Mr..
Davenport. He had been in ill health for
some time.
The Old Dominion Steamship Company
has begun five actions in admiralty in the
United States District Court for New York
against j. II. Gilmore, for amounts aggre-
eating 81, ,24.S2, for freightage for carrying
in their vessels from Norfolk 23S.2SO pounds
of lumber. The lumber is now at Con-
stantine's yard. New York, and United
States Marshal Knox reports that 1t Is I'M
der seizure by the sheriff.
4 sail-boat was found bottom up Tues
dav morning in the Hudson river, near
Milton. In the boat were quantity OF
clothing and letters signed Eleanor j. and
Maggie, addressed to Thomas j. Neasam,
Uoboken. Other letters found show Nea-
sam to be secretary OF the Equitable Social
Club, OF Hoboken. The boat was at Pough-
keepsie Monday night with two men in it,
and it is supposed that both have been
drowned.
A Wilmington dispatch to the Philadel-
phia Evening Telegraph says Il man named
James Blair has been lodged in jail at Elk-
ton. Md. for attempting to murder his SIS
ter in the Eighth district OF Cecil county.
According to this dispatch, Blair made a
plot with two tramps to kill his sister, who
keeps a store, and rob it of sum OF money.
He was TO enter her bedroom and smother
her in her sleep while the tramps robbed
the place. The attempt, the dispatch states,
was made, but the woman escaped after
fearful struggle and gave the alarm. The
tramps have not been arrested.
A New York Judges Name Forged.
James Crafty, OF New York, presented at
the office OF the Belt railroad a letter OF re-
e.ox....,o, Jof;n,, hoarinp thp name of Judge