The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-06-19
Brief News Items.

tan servants Is revived in the Government
OF Kieff.
II is asserted that British capital to the
extent OF thirty millions went into "yo-
ming and Texas last year.
John Furber is the champion sheep-shear-
er i'm Wisconsin, his age taken into .conslu-
Grafton. lie is but fourteen years old,
vet in one day last week he SHARED four
teen sheen without assistance, catching
tbe animals himself. The next day he
sheared twenty, another boy aiding him by
catching the sheep.
James Washington Sheahan, one OF the
most widelv.known journalists in the West,
and for many years leading editorial VIII
ter on the Chicago Tribune. died in that
city Sunday, after lingering illness. His
ai,ment was extreme nervous prostratlon
and general giving way OF the vital func-
tions.
To keep an appointment to be married,
George Warrell, Of Rapid City, Minn., swan
the flood-swollen Spring creek with rope
around his body, and with the help OF men
on the bank drew his clothes and two sad
dies Zone for the lady) over on raft. The
horses were then flowed over with the rope.
The procession then formed again and
moved on to the brides residence.
Captain Kelly, Of the steam whlIer Lu-
cretia, arrived at San Francisco Friday
from the Arctic ocean. He reports that
mutiny occurred on board ms vessel in the
Arctic, and during the fight that fol-
lowed he shot the IIngleadcr, James Mad
den. The remainder of the crew then sub
mitted. Captain Kelly also reports that
the weather has been the seyerest for many
years. The ice extends as far south as st.
Paul.
A heroic bronze statue Of General Lafay-
cite. designed by Mr.. j. Q. n. Ward, the
well-known sculptor, has been completed
In Philadelphia. 1t is to be erected at Bur
lington College. W.. on the 10Th instant,
an institution said to have been founded
by Lafayette in 1925. The statue is eight
feet six inches in height, and weighs l,S00
pounds. II represents the distinguished
General in the simple costume OF an Amer
lean gentleman Of less than one hundred
years ago.
Adyces from Sierra Leone state that
Chief Gbpowe again made raid upon the
British settlement in Sherbro. and that
British expedition was sent out against
him in consequence, which succeeded in
capturing and burning four more of his
stOckaded towns, including one which was
garrsoned by 1900 warriors. The British
sustained no loss Of men, owing to the ef-
fective Use Of the battery on board OF her
Maiesty's gunbOat Rocket. GbpOwe fled,
and reward has been offered for his cap
ture, which is expected to occur shortly.
4 special from Greensburg, KY, says:
{. During a school exhibition at SULPHUR
Well, Metcalfe county, Marshal Henry
Beauchamp asked j. Ii. Winfrey and j.
Price to desist from making Il disturbance.
Winfrey and Price opened fire on Beau
champ, who returned it. NJ. Farlane, by
stander. was shot dead. Beauchamp was
mortaly wounded, q Miss PhillipOt was
struck in the check, anda colored man who
lived at Sulphur Well has not been seen
since, and is supposed TO be dead in the
bushes. where he hid. Winfrey escaped.
but Price is said to be badly wounded.
No arrests were made"
While a number OF students Of Ruther-
ford College were bathing in stream near
Lenoir, 5. c., not long since, G.. o. Floyd
approached too near the shoals, when he
slipped and fell on the rocks, whose steep
ness hurled HIM down the slope over a
precipice Of fifteen feet, and dropped him
on narrow ledge OF solid rock, from
which he fell over another in a pool OF
water below-ovcr 300 feet from where he
started. To see him dashing over the
rocks in his perilous condition almost para
lived his comrades above: but their eX-
citemcnt was Gained on seeing him scram-
bling ont of the water and proceeding to
reioin them with scarcely an injury.
Philip G. Garrett. Commissioner of Pub
lie Charities in Pennsylvania, has found
woeful disorder in the Jail and almShouse
OF Cumberland county, almost riyalling
Massachusetts Tewksbury. There is no at
tempt TO compel habits Of cleanliness
among inmates, and practically no separa-
ton OF the sexes. Men and women have
separate cells, Of course, but during the
day they associate promiscuously without
hindrance. OF the 125 almShouse inmates
so are in the hospital, and shockiDgly ne
elected. \ rough drImkard has charge OF
men and women alike; there are no nurses;
medical attendance is comprised in three
visits Il week from physician outside, and
there is no separation OF diseases.
An old cOlored woman living in Warsaw,
Mo- His III III pOSStNNIDu II llnti udui-
Kerchief, the flax of which was spun and
the weaving done by the grandmother OF
Uncle Jack AttkiSsoD, who died long years
ago. On the handkerchief the following
inscription is found in plain, bold letters
John Sanders was born May 4, 100;
Betsy Sanders was born January 4, 1862
Nancy Sanders was born July %, 1865;
George Sanders was born March II, 1868:
James Attkisson was born May Z, 1860"
The ancestors OF the old colored woman
were the property OF the Sanders family i'm
ante-belnm days, and this handkerchief is
sacredly preserved 10y her as a relic OF the
family in which she lived as Il slave.
General Crook says, in regard to the dis
position TO be made OF the surrendered hos
tiles, that the placing Of many men Indians
upon reservation is a matter Of greater
consequence than people imagine. II they
can be put upon the San Carlos reservation
a thousand suspicious eyes will constantly
watch them, and the danger OF another out
break will be less than il they were allowed
preservation by themselves. When in idle
ness they might hatch out mischief and
deylltry. "The axiom" said the Ger
eral, "that ii costs less to feed Indians than
TO fight them, is incontroyertible. Another
axiom is that we must fight all the Indians
we swindle. II they cannot get corn, they
will get cartridges"