The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-30
Brief News Items.

Australia has sent another $4,000 to the
Land League treasury.
North Carolina will lew no State tax
next year. The Western North Carolina
Railroad Company will pay into the trea-
sury 100000, which sum will carry the
State government.
In 1881, when the population OF London
was little more than a million and half,
| there were 1858 apprehensions for drunk
enneSs and disorderlv conduct. In 1882,
| with population which had increased TO
1890. 9j2. the apprehensions had fallen to
| q, 296.
The daughter Of Mr.. Collins Burrill. OF
Newport, X. L., last week had n braid of
her hair cut of in public street by an I'M
known assaiant. When she awoke We'd
nesday morning she discovered that her
other braid bad been cut Off and laid by
her side. The girPs father has offered q
reward for the arrest of the perpetralor OF
these outrages.
The newly-elected Council Of Atlantic
City has OccasiOned a rumpus by electing a
| colOred candidate as one of the policemen.
The Council was equally divided on the
appointment, and the Mayor gave the east
ing vote in its favor. -Four of the white
policemen previously appointed have re-
signed. and the affair causes considerable
excitement among the Democrats.
Galveston has vigilance committee that
threatens to make the climate of Texas
warm for gamblers. The gamblers of Dali
las mean time are making as strong a fight
rs has been made by those OF ST. Louis,
Mo-, where they have displaced chief of
police who was not their vasSal. The Dali
las gamblers are demanding change OF
venue, on the plea that they cannot have a
far trial in Dallas county.
Mr.. Pierre Lorillard's imported three
year-Old colt. Saddartha, by Pero Gomez,
dam Pearl, arrived at New York Tuesday
on the steamship England. Saddartha is
d dark bay. with fine eyes and head and
good form. The colt was sold for 1850
guineas when a yearling and promising
racer. but a slight leg difficulty kept him
from the turf. Mr.. Lorillard purchased
him recently for breeding purposes.
Mrs. Christiana Frey, of Philadelphia,
was run over and killed on the Pennsylva-
mia railroad n few days ago. Mrs. Frey
for long time previous to her death sold
tripe, the proceeds of which she was in
the habit of placing in trunk which was
stored in an unused room Of the house,
but it was supposed the trunk contained
only trifling sum. The trunk was opened
Tuesday and found TO contain $f,j61 in
legal tenders, gold, and Government per
cent. bonds. The money will go to three
surviving daughters.
On Fifth avenue, New York. Tuesday,
an electric-light pole was broken Off by q
hack with which horse was running
away, and the wire was severed and fell
into the street. A little later horse
st pped upon the broken wires and re-
ceived violent shock. The horse seemed
to have become entangled in the wires after
falling, and to have become so charged with
electricity that it was unable to get up.
The driver received Il shock from the
horses body in attempting to lift it. and
was thrown violently to the ground.
Finally the electricity was cut off from the
circuit at the supply Office, and the horse
was released. 1t is believed the animal
will due.
Great excitement prevails throughout
Western Montana over rich mineral dis
coVeries in the Cnur Alene mountains.
Prospectors who have returned from that
region state that no mines have ever been
discovered in the history OF the western
States and Territories equal IN richness
and volume to those Of the newly-discov-
cred field. The minerals consist OF silver,
teilurium. and free-milling gold. About
Slp0 man per day is being taken out OF
the rim-rock OF the gulches, while in the
guIches from S2j to $40 per man day is
being PANIED out. The streams where the
find is reported are i'm the northern part OF
Idaho. nearly forty miles from Heron, on
the Northern Pacific railroad. There are
now about 500 persons in camp.