The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-04-18
Brief News Items.

Mr.. William Calow, one OF the largest
owners in the York River Line Of steamers.
and director in the company, died at his
residence. in Baltimore, on Saturday OF
heart-dscase.
Mrs. Maud J. Young, author Of "The
Flora of Texas" and a work on botany,
died at Houston, Texas, Saturday.
The will of the late Isaac S. Osterbout, OF
Wilkesbarre, Pa, leaves S350,000 for the
establishment Of a free library in that place.
Mrs. Susan y. Yeazie, OF Bangor, Me-,
died on Sunday from the effect OF poison
sent her by the mistake of druggist in
stead of the medicine prescribed.
The heaviest "norther" of the season
has been blowing at Vera Cruz, Mexico,
during the past five days, preventing
steamers landing or leaving. All business
is stopped.
The bodies OF six colored infants have
been discovered on the premises OF col
ored undertaken in Baltimore, which he
had withheld from burial.
The river at New Orleans is stationary.
The back-water in West Baton Rouge fell
three inches Sunday. At Morgan City the
water receded an inch and half.
Reports of the Illinois State Board Of
Agriculture show that there seldom was a
better showing Of winter wheat than on
the LIST Of April.
Henry Clark, OF No. 500 west Twenty
ninth street, New York, fell from the roof
of the tive-story building No. 500 west
Twenty-seventh street on Sunday to the
ground and broke his skull. He died in
stantly.
A spring freshet is reported from Dubu-
que, Iowa, as coming down the Missis-
sippi. All the low-lands are flooded, and
the st. Croix and Black rivers and the
tributaries of the Mississippi above ST..
Paul. MIMI, are much swollen.
The damage TO the growing wheat crop
in Ohio by the recent cold snap has been
greatly exaggerated According to the
latest advices, the crop promises even bet
ter than is indicated in the report from the
Agricultural Department for April.
A freight train parted in the middle
while passing through the Hoosac tunnel
on Sunday, and as the front section APP
preached the mouth OF the tunnel it slowed
up. The rear section came rushing down
grade and struck the front section, causing
a wreck, which blockaded the tunnel for
ten hours. A considerable quantity OF valu-
able freight was destroyed.
At a meeting Of the Philadelphia Central
Union of the Irish National Land League
Sunday afternoon resolutions were adopted
thanking Messrs. Voorhees,, Cox, and Rob
inson, and all others who have rendered aid
to the American citizens now imprisoned
in Ireland.
In his sermon on Sunday Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, in referring to the contro-
yersy in the Sunday-School Association OF
Williamsburg, n. T., in regard to the Sun
day parade in May; said he :" had no sympa-
thy for creed which was used to separate
the Lords children. His children could
talk with Catholic children or with chill
dren OF any other people. They could not
pen the Lords children like sheep, and he
despised any attempt TO do it,
Karl Hecieldt, iourneyman tailor. OF
Hoboken, N. j., told his wife on
Saturday night last that he intended
TO shoot her before morning. She slipped
into another room and barricaded the
door. Heefeldt tried to get into the room
several times during the night, but did mol
succeed. Early in the morning he went &c
n saloon on the lower floor OF the building
in which he lived, drank glass OF whis
key. and, making another unsuccessful at
tempt to get into his wife's room, shot him
self