The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-01-19
Brief News Items.


permission to practice in Austria.
A dozen people in Hartford, Ct, have
formed an anti-yaccination society.
Georgia must expect heavy smallpox
season. as Governor Stephens has arranged
for State vaccination farm.
The people OF Clare Spring. Georgia,
complain that the inmates OF the Deal ana
Dumb Asylum located at that point are
being starved out by the managers oil that
institution.
George Darwin, son OF the late Charles
X. Darwin. the evolutionist, has been
elected professor OF astronomy ana eN-
perimental philosophy in Cambridge Uni
versity, England.
4 dispatch from st. Helena, Cal, says
that j. O'Rourke shot four times and FATALLY
wounded his wife Wednesday morning.
Her recovery Is deemed impossible. Ihe
cause of the tragedy was the fear on his
part that his wife would expose his former
intimaeies with women.
Three commercial travellers-two in the
grocery and one in the drug line-iroIl
Winnipeg were ,aught in a blizzard while
driving across n prairie. and could not
escape from il. They put up for day and
a night in friendly bay-stack. and con-
sumcd all their samples, including the
drugs.
G.. c. Corey was arrested Wednesday
night by the police Of 81. Johns, y. b.. i'll
the act OF exchanging 5000 worth OF base
money for $50. The parcel containing the
alleged money was opened, and found to
contain neither notes nor coin. but 10 be
stuffed with wallpaper and weighted with
sheet-lead.
In the Connecticut House Wednesday
| bills were introduced TO allow women to
vote on school matters; to compel hotel
keepers TO provide ropes in rooms for es-
cape from fires and that ballots shall he on
white cardboard provided 10y the state,
and that nothing shall be printed on either
side except the names Of candidates.
\ Tamaqua telegram says "Last Mon
dav a thrce-vear-old daughter OF Oliver
Wengel, Of this place, who, with num-
| Der OF other children, was playing in the
| kitchen, discovered bottle containing di-
| luted hartshorn on the cupboard. She
| drank tablespoonful, and was soon taken
sick and died Wednesday night in great
agony"
A convention composed Of thirty or more
| gentlemen from various sections OF Missis-
| Sippi met af Jackson Wednesday TO con-
| slider the cultivation Of iute. with view
of bringing the matter before the agricul-
/ tural public. Commissioners were appoint
/ ed 10 secure jute-seed from the Agrlcul-
tural Bureau at Washington, TO be dis
! tributcd by the last OF March.
At an agricultural gathering at Ladens-
/ burg. Germany. some interesting expert
mentS were made in the use oil electricity
| instead OF steam FOR the threshing Of wheat.
| The space reserved for machines was lit
up electrically, and ut the same time was
utilized the current to drive an ordinary
threshing-machine. The cylinder attained
speed OF l 400 revolutions per minute.
It is said that 10000 houses, 1900 per-
sons, and 10000 hectares OF land and pro-
perty suffered damage in Prussia alone by
| the autumn floods. and the damage by the
| December floods has been nearly as great.
Ir the Bayrische Rheinplatz 1000 houses
were swept away and 1000 persons rem
dercd homeless. Hessen and other dis
tricts along the rivers suffered the same
calamity.
Miss Xerelda Garrison, whose mysterious
abduction Occasioned sensation in St.
Louis some days ago, has been brought
East by her uncle, o. l.. Garrison. by the
advice of the family physician, TO he placed
in an asylum for the treatment OF nervous
diseases. A card signed by her doctors
says that the young lady is deficient in the
development OF her mental faculties, and
at times Is irresponsible for her actions.
On the night Of the 18th a horrible crime
occurred at the house OF John Patterson,
in Banks county. Ga. Joe Patterson re-
! tired with his wife, and soon after screams
were heard in their room. FOrcible en-
| trance into the room was made, when the
woman was found with her throat and
breast fearfully gashod. In the excitement
Patterson escaped. No exclamation has
| been given. The woman will die.
The Pennsylvania Society to Protect
| Children from Cruelty is doing a good
work. Its fifth annual report shows that
during the year Just closed 924 complaints
were received, involving the custody OF
| Pip children; 322 arrests were made. and
| 131 children provided for by the society.
! During the first year Of the sOciety's exist
ence the complaints reached 212; there
were IS arrests, and 13l children were
cared for. Since the organization OF the
society it has had 9.j7G children under lts
care, removed 1924 from the custody OF
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