The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-05-06

nent surgeons OF NEW iVfn, m
day In the SEVENTEEN year OF BIS age, lie
was one OF the founders OF the behe'ue
Medical College.
Poke Wells. the train-robber, and COOK,
who escaped from the Iowa penltentiary ny
numbering the keeper, were captured on
Thursday by farmer and his son near
Fort Madison, Iowa.
The breach-of-promise suit OF Mrs. Mary
Ann Simms against Thomas Sewell, all OF
Raw Hundred, Talbot county, Md, has
becn settled by compromise between the
parties, Mr.. Scwcll paying to Mrs. simms
$3.50.
The steamship Lord Cough, after an I'M
eyentful VOYAGE OF twelve days, arrived at
her dock at Philadelphia on Thursday az
ternoon. There were nearly eleven hun
dred passengers on board, including the
cabin passengers.
Mrs. Anna Hagan has recovered S400 in
the Superior Court Of New York against
John Carroll and Aaron Hershfield, liquor
sellers. under the civil-damage act, for sell
ing liquor to her husband and getting him
drunk after repeated warnings.
At a sale at the American Horse Ex-
change i'm New York, on Thursday, Purity,
bay mare without white, foaled in 1876
and sired by Middleton, dam Swallow, by
Abdallah Chief, brought $4,000. She has
trotted on half-mile track in 2:2l, and can
trot in 2:1s.
Atlanta is flushed with the consciousness
Of standard time furnished by the National
Observatory at Washington, a thing hith-
erto unknown in that city. She has all
these years been ten minutes ahead OF time,
literally "taking time by the forelock."
At Wilmington, Del. on Thursday, Mi
chael McCluskey, a bricklayer, while re-
moving the props from the inside OF an
oven which he had just completed, was
completely buried by the oven caving in on
him, owing to the foundation settling.
When taken out he was found TO be dead.
The poorness OF the milk in Chicago has
caused an Investigation that shows the
dairy farmers have been feeding their COWS
on sugar-corn meal, consisting Of the resi-
due OF the corn after the extraction OF glu-
cose. 1t produces a large quantity OF poor
milk and is cheap feed.
An oil-train was thrown from the track
bv misplaced switch on The Central rail-
way OF New Jersey between North
Branch and White House, New Jersey,
on Thursday morning. A coal-train pass
ing on the opposite track was also wreck
ed, and both tracks were blocked. The
oil-cars caught fire, and eight OF them
were burned.
The engine and several cars OF freight
train on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
xt~r.af-.1 at Naurall apYiX
Thursday morning. The engineer was
badly burned. and the brakeman is believed
to be seriously injured. The freman's lee
was severely scalded. An open switch was
the cause OF the disaster.
\ complimentary dinner TO John Russell
Young was given in the Philadelphia Union
League House Thursday evening by the
twenty directors. two OF whom were ab-
sent. Nobody else was present. a dis
patch was received from General Grant re-
GREETING that he could not come. Mr..
Young will start for San Francisco to-day
on his way to China.
J. VI. AthcrtOn, prominent distiller OF
Louisville. Ky, who was represented n
saving that lobbyists at Washington OPP
posed the whiskey-bOnd extension bill be-
cause the distillers refused their assistance,
has written a letter to the COlTicr-.jOiuHdi,
i'm which he admits that lobby aid was
offered, but denies that any illegitimate
means were suggested. He declines to
give the names Of those who offered aid.
A number of citizens Of Philadelphia
have presented TO the City Council a petit
ton to lease the passwords for twenty year,
at a rental OF 5000, 900 per annum, charging
81 so per 600 feet, or TO pay Sl,175,00O #
permitted to charge 81 per 200 feet. They
offer also TO purchase the works after
twenty years at S12,000,000. An ordinance
was introduced in the Council providing
for the sale Of the passwords at not les,
than $40, 600.
Before the Milers' Association at Louis
vile, KY, Thursday night, Professor 'rObir
lectured on the subject OF mill explosions
and made experiments showing that flou
under certain conditions is as explosive n
gunpowder. lie said the danger existed
when the air was dry. and that wet-bull
/ thermometer should be kept in mills, anC
when the atmosphere becomes dry to pro
duce an artificial moisture.
The pool-rooms in Long Island City die
a thriving business Thursday. The Police
Board. at their evening meeting, took M
action TO suppress them, and the citizens
threaten that, ii the police fail TO act, they
will appoint a committee TO endeavor tC
secure the removal Of the gamblers by The
grand Jury. At the session OF the BoarC
Of Aldermen last night the request Of the
Police Commissioners for 5000 TO enable
them to hire detectives to secure evidence
to convict the booksellers was. referred t
the law committee.