The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-05-28

h' no-'on tUUffWTftfT~ Union. on
Friday, resolved not 90 insure buildings
through or over which eIeciric-lighl Wires
pass except after inspection and issue OF
certificate BY the Union.
Colonel Charles n. Reed. counsel for
Gniteau, arrived In Boston ON Friday
morning for the purpose Of consulting
with eminent lawyers there on the final
steps which he proposes to take 10 save his
client.
One hundred and ffty-six members Of
the Free-Trade Club partook Of q banquet
Friday night at Delmonico's. Everett T..
Wheeler presided.
Mrs. Noble Croff died at Waterbury,
W., from the effects Of tumor which.
when removed, was found TO weigh eighty
pounds.
The will OF Ralph Waldo Emerson con-
tains no public bequests, but gives the
property 10 his wife and children. James
Eliot Cabot il appointed literary executor.
To net In cooperation with Mr. Emerson
children. T.. W. Emerson and w. n.
Forbes are appointed executors of the
will.
An internal machine, containing pow.
der and fuse. was found on the porch Of
the office of the IyecLdy NGcs 1T Warrens-
burgh, Y. Y. An attempt had been made
10 fire the fuse. An inscription on the ma
chine warned the editor 10 leave the town.
He had offended some by the utierance Of
temperance principles.
4 fight. according 10 the ules ~ the
London prize ring, at catch Weight-. for
~ 900. has been arranged between BRYAN
Campbell and Tom Walling. in West Vir-
gina, within 100 miles Of Pittsburgh.
The fight j. 10 take place within fifty hours
from noon Of June 2Gth next, and either
party falling 10 appear shall forfeit the
stakes.
John Woods, the English thief who re-
lieYcd the messenger Of the New York Me-
chanics National Bank Of 5000 in notes.
drafts, &c., on tie 9Th instant. while the
latter was entering the German Exchange
Bank, pleaded guilty Friday In the Gene
raj Sessions Court Of New York. and was
sentenced TO the state prison for four and
half years.
The expected stop IN all the iron-works
at Wheeling, on about the Isl prOximo. has
stimulated the inquiries for goods. espe-
cially nails, and the orders have noticeably
increased. Stocks left on hand win be
| Hight and in some eases no stocks atall will
remain. Higher prices are expected alter
June LIST. The manufacturer think a pro-
longed suspension Of operations quite pro-
| hablc.
William Bond. merchant u Wynnton.
Ga, committed suicide on Tuesday last by
stabbing himself in the presence oi hi.
wife In -plte Of her efforts 10 prevent the
rash net. He had been INDUCING in drink
and. by invitation OF a friend. had been
spending several days in the country in or
der 10 wcan him from his evil habit.
He leaves a wife and twO interesting chill
drcn.
The ho0ms on the Muskegon river. which
have been closed for nearly two months by
reason of the strike. thus keeping the many
mills at Muskegon, Mich. idle also, were re-.
opened on Monday morning by crews I'm.
der the protection Of pinkerton's men
Some u the strikers have joined the new
arrival, and are at work. Threats have beer
made by armed strikers 10 attack the mei
who have one 20 work.
4 fully-attended meeting Of the credit
Ors Of the Providence Tool Company wa
held 1t Providence on Thursday. The ere
ditors' committee presented its report
giving an inventory ~ the property Of IN,
corporation, amounting 20 -, 500. II
and showing an indebtedness Of Sl,l1T,
1896. They recommended an extension o
three years under irustoeship. The com
mttee was authorized 10 operate the work,
in their discretion until three trustee. ar,
appointed.
Richard Retler farmer II Moore cOtm
| -, y. G., went 10 the mill with a load %
corn on Thursday, taking his two sons will
him. One boy fell asleep and was smother
ed by the bags falling upon him. While th'
| father was eXtricating him, the other boy
who had leapcd out of the wagon in
| fright. was kicked by the horse aud in
stantly killed. The father, nearly crazeo
with grief, returned home with the bodies
Of his two sons on the wagon.
The American Library Association. IN
! session az Cincinnati, has selected Buffalo
| for their next annual meeting in August
1883. II was resolved that the plan for d
| congressional library. adopted By the Joint
committee Of Congress, embOdie. prnci-
! pies u construction now regarded A. faulty
by the whole library profession, and pro.
test was entered against the erection Of thu
building upon these principles.
The Jury in the case u Franklin Horton
against AlgcrnOn :. sullivan, public adj
mini,trator Of New York county, which
was tIied in the Kings County q. T..
Court on Friday. returned a verdict in IN,
yOr II the plaintiff for s2l,Oo0. The sui
was for the recovery VI the value 81 dia.
mond, stolen from the plaintiffs store and
| traced 10 the possession Of John -. Grady
who died intestaie his property passing
into the hands Of Mr. sullivan ~ public
administrator.
At Louisville. ny. on Friday, the frs
race, three quarters II mile, was won bS
Robert Bruce-time. l:l54; the second. 4
miles, by John Happy. Boulevard second
time, 2:ll: the third. one mile, by Check.
mate, Runnymede sec0nd-time. 1872; ID,
fourth. I miles, by Brlmbaletta-time,l :ji
the mile being run in l:40g; the nth. mile
heats, by Monogram. in two straight heats
| time. l:i34 and l:l3; the sixth, handicap
steeple chase ls miles, by Guy, Miss MAI