The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-09-09
Brief News Hens.

In Norway a first-class dinner costs only
twenty-five cents.
1t has been discovered by Boston man
that the human body would float like u
ducks were II not for the legs.
A syndicate of capitalists have COM
pleted the purchase OF large tract Of land
Immediately surrounding the grca: Sho-
shone Falls OF Snake river, Idaho. The
syndicate will build a mammoth hotel, put
a steamer on the river, and endeavor To
make il the Niagara Of the West.
Mass will be sung at st. Johns Cathe-
iral, Milwaukee, to-day for the three hun
bred souls lost on the steamer Lady Elgin,
which went down on Lake Michigan twen-
ty-three years ago. The relatives OF the
lost ones have arranged for Il perpetual an
nual mass for the rep0se OF their souls.
A six-year-od girl in Miamisburg, Ohio.
drowned herself in the canal on Tuesday
because she was compelled TO 20 TO school.
The local chronicler says that she left a
note in her desk making known her des-
perate resolve in tragic language. and tell
ing which bridge she would Jump from.
About year ago 4 manufacturing COM
pany in Willimantic, Ct, gave notice that
after the expiration OF twelve months no
empl0ye would be retained in the mills
who could not read or write. Evening
| schools were established. The few who
neglected TO learn to read and write have
| received notice OF their dismissal.
An underground cable, which has been
| in constant Use in Philadelphia for month
past, is now in satisfactory condition, the
insulation having increased forty per cent.
A new contract for laying three hundred
and twenty wires In another section Of the
city has been signedb by the Western Union
| Company.
Samuel McGwynn, a farmer eighty years
old, while seated with his son under tree
on Sand Mountain, near ScOttsbOro'. Ala,
on Wednesday, the tree was split in two
| by stroke OF lightning, instantly killing
| both gentlemen. The McGwynns were
highly respected farmers in that section
and very wealthy.
In the effort to suppress the smoke nun.
sance in Chicago, the Northwestern Rail.
| road Company has been fined $3.50 on the
evidence that five OF its switching engines
were seen emitting dense clouds Of smoke,
The crusade Of the city officials is particrI-
larIy directed against the railway c0mpa.
MES and owners OF river tugs.
The imports OF dry goods at the port OF
New York for the week ended Yesterday
were S2,55l, 6S2, and the amount marketed
| 3. 531, l56. The total imports since JAN
nary | were SS9,217 ,0S6, against S96. 1885,
T32 for the same period last year. and the
amount marketed 49,, G2O, Gj2.against S9i,-
Sl2. 36I for the same time IN 1882.
There is in san Francisco n shoe manu-
| factory which is owned and managed by a
Chinese firm. The products OF the facto-
ry are said to be as diverse in style. work
mansbip, and price as those Of the Eastern
sbops. About two hundred laborers, Chi
nese and whites. are employed. The goods
produced are sold on the Pacific coast, in
British America, Mexico. the Sandwich Is
lands, China, and Japan.
Some time ago wonderful scheme for
proonging life was announced in Pennsyl-
yania. The process was never fully de-
scribed, but the public was assured that II
was a valuable discovery. The other day
&, iudpe i'm Erie county cruelty nlpped the
nrom,sipg scheme In the bud by reyokne
its charter and annuling the organization.
The ground which he took was that under
cover OF the scheme gigantic national
fraud might be perpetrated.
The rains in the last day or two in the
vicinity OF Laredo, Texas, have caused an
unprecedented rise in the Rio Grande. Al
noon Yesterday the perpendicular rise was
eighteen feet. 1t has since fallen one foot.
Heavy rains fell Yesterday, and lis expect.
ed that greater height will be reached to-
dav. Sheen owners are experimenting q
great loss among their focks by drowning
Numerous washouts are reported on the In
ternational and Texas railroad. Bridges
have been washed away, and railroad
travel is delayed.
CAPTAIN r. F. Francisco, OF the steam.
tug :. Edwin Iawley,' which was run into
and snnk few nights ago by Jay Gould's
Yacht ATLANTA. filed his report In New
York FRIDAY with the local board Of steam.
boat inspectors. He lays the blame on the
master of the yacht. One OF the persons
interested In this collision said he had beer
told Inv a we'll known pilot that Jay Could.
standing order as soon as he went on board
i his Yacht was to let her go Tor all she was
I, worth and TO stop at nothing. 1t was also
stated that the ATLANTA had plenty OF Sc,
room n she had only made use Of Il.