The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-07-22

Arthur Thursday night.
At meeting OF the window-Qlass makers
held at Saratoga on Thursday tho members
reported that the stocks on hand were very
heavy.
Thursday morning, near Warren, Pa,
two freight trains collided, and James Nc.
Given, conductor, was killed. A brakeman
had his legs crushed and may die.
Another effort was made Thursday morn.
ing at Chester, Pa, TO launch the steamer
Pilgrim, which Is intended for the Old
Colony service. II failed, however, and
the boat Is as fast as ever.
At mass-meeting at Key West, Fla.
Thursday, the statement OF Mr.. Dunn In
the House OF Representatives, July 7th,
that yellow-fever existed there, was de.
noiinccd "a untrue.
Edward Walsh was instantly killed bv I,
fal! OF rock and coal IN No. 2 slope OF the
Susquehanna Coal Company, at Nanticoke.
Pa, Thursday morning. II took several
hours TO recover his body.
Mrs.. DIR. Patterson, OF Baltimore, a guest
at Congress Hall, at Cape May, was taken
very sick Thursday morning as she was
entering the surf to battle, and tainted two
or three times before she could be removed
from the water.
The wife OF John +. Cummings, Of Fall
River, Mass, drowned herslf and child
Thursday morning. Mrs. Cummings had
shown slight symptoms OF insanity for
several years, and it is supposed she COM
mitted the act in an insane freak.
The camp Of the Fifth Maryland regi-
ment at Cape May was invaded by roughs
on Thursday morning. Lieutenant w. A.
Boykin was somewhat injured in the
skirmish that ensued. The roughs were
put TO flight and the ringleader captured.
Richard X. Fox, on behalf OF Tug Will
son, offers to wager $1,000 that John l..
Sullivan cannot knock him out in four
three-minute rounds, the match TO take
place in New York within thirty days. the
winner to take two thirds of the gate-mo-
ney.
The Democratic State Committee OF YER
mont decide there is no foundation for the
charge that Governor Smith and the Cen
trail Vermont railroad management packed
the late Democratic State Convention in IA
vor OF the candidacy OF George Eaton. and
that free passes were issued to effect this
object.
On the 10th OF last December the ship
The0bad, under the command OF n. l..
Warehouse, sailed from Philadelphia,
bound for San Francisco, Cal, with a cargo
OF general merchandise, since which time
nothing has been heard OF her, and she and
her crew OF nineteen men are supposed to
have been lost. She was | 400 tons register.
General Wingatc, of New York, has re-
ceived cablegram asking him to obtain
from the Secretary Of War permission for
the British rifcmen TO wear their uniforms
while in this country. Though not needed,
he will apply TO the Secretary and to Gov
ernor Cornell, in the belief that there may
be some British regulation governing such
request.
The Republican Convention for the Sc
cond North Carolina district, held at Will
son OH Thursday, had disagreemcnts.
by the bulk OF the colored delegates. Hon.
Orlando Hubs, the present representative,
was declared renominated by the chairman
Of the Convention. 1t is stated that both
will run.
Mr.. Richard Douglass Williams, we'll
known young lawyer and solicitor OF
patents, of Baltimore, died July 10Th at
Centrcvillc, Queen Anne's county, Nd, Of
typhoid fever, after an illness of four weeks,
in the thirty-second year Of his age. lie
was Master Of Arts Of the University OF
Virginia, and had afterwards taken the
same degree and Phi. ID. at the University
of Gottingen, in Germany.
A meeting CT graln-men, representing
the produce exchanges Of Boston, New
York, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Detroit,
Chicago, and Baltimore, was held at Tole-
do on Thursday to establish an interna-
tional grade of No. . red wheat. st. Louis
declined to participate. For universal trade
No. 9 wheat is established as red winter
wheat. The grains must be sound and
plump and perfectly clean, and there must
not be more than 10 per cent. OF white.
One Of the refining stills Of the Standard
Oil Company's refinery, at Cavenpoint,
Greenville, n. j., exploded Thursday eve
ming. The burning oil was thrown into an
adjoining still. and that exploded, hurting
an employee a distance Of thirty feet and
fatally injurng him. The flames commu-
nicated with one Of the many large tanks,
and it is feared that several more will
be destroyed. The loss cannot be definite
" ascertained. The estimates vary from
1000 to $4,000.
An action in admiralty was begun on
Thursday in the United States District
Court ut New York by the Providence and
Stonington Steamship Company against the
owners Of the steamship Alhambra for the
recovery of $4,000 damages caused to the
steamer Rhode Island by the collision on
the night OF the 18th instant. a motion
against the Alhambra was issued in the al
ternoon and placed in the hands OF the
United States marshal, and the Alhambra
was seized.
The Mahmoudieh canal, which supplies
Alexandria with water, has been cut by
order OF Arab Pacha, but in such man
ner as to allow the English to erect dam
converting the portion cut of INTO reser-
yoir. which, with the cisterns, will secure
a supply of water for some days. There is
some apprehension Of water famine, and
the inhabitants are leaving for neighboring
villages. Further reports OF massacreS
come in from the interior, and there Is
much alarm at Port Said. 1t is thought
that the Suez canal is not sufficiently pro-
tected.
Hon. j. B. Hall, member Of the Ohio
LEGISLATURE from Hamilton county and
president OF the Home Insurance Com
many, Columbus, and II. n. Henderson,
secretary, were arrested at Columbus on
Thursday. charged with perjury, and re-
leased on bail in the sum Of $1,000 each.
The affidavit was made by the State super
intendent OF Insurance, to whom sworn
statement of the condition OF the company
was made last January, when the assets
were placed at S250,000. An investigation
shows the assets to be only 100000 and
the liabilities $3.50, 200.
Charleston, s. c., has been agltated 1or
some weeks over the death OF MIS- Lough-