The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-29
Brief News Items.

Count Won Moltke. generaI-In-chief OF
the German army, has been appointed by
the Emperor chancellor OF the Order OF
the Black Eagle.
The Cologne Gazette prints dispatch
from 81. Petersburg stating that three
young ladies attached to the court have
been arrested on charge OF being con-
nected with the Nihilist conspiracy.
Jack Looney, the former hero OF three
prlze-fights-once with Joe Coles and
twice with Joe Coburn-is reporteda as dying
In st. Louis. Though only fifty-three years
old, he has gone through enough to kill q
dozen ordinary men. He has been shot and
stabbed and beaten, and left for dead. He
fought three desperate prize-fghts, and
vanquished several OF the most famous
rough-and-tumble fighters who flourished
during the fast days OF the war. Three
times in seven years has he been given up
to die, but he recovered to bury several OF
the sporting friends who had watched by
his bedside.
Krupp has just taken out q patent on n
flat-headed artillery proiectile. The pointed
prolectlles. as Is well known. are apt to
defect when striking iron plates or water
at certain angles. The new projectile,
slightly taperiug at the butt. will not only
pierce the plates all the more easily, but Is
also calculsted TO hit the iran-clads below
the water-line. In order that the resist
ance Of the air against the flattened head
may not impede the celebrity of the projec-
tile. the latter is provided with pointed
tin cap, filed with grease, which cap drops
off on striking the object, and greasing the
head OF the ball facilitates its entrance.
An illuminated cross has been raised on
the top of the steeple on st. Agatha's Ca
tholic church, in Philadelphia, at a height
OF 1S5 feet. 1t is made entirely OF metal
and glass, twelve feet high by six feet
across the arms. The frame is OF iron,
highly ornamented and gilded, and holds
encased one-quarter-inch pate-glass, ten
inches wide. making the cross to all ap-
peararces glass one with gold edges. In
side the cross a gas-pipe with number OF
burners is connected with a pipe carried
up through the steeple, and the lighting
will be by electricity. This great cross Of
fire will be visible for miles at night. and
during the day will doubtless reflect the
sunlight with brilliant effect.
"a pretty little story is told" says the
Newport correspondent OF the Boston
Journal, "of the Earl and Countess OF
Rosebery, who were here a short time
since. A day or two before their wedding
took place Miss Rothschild asked the young
Earl what he would like for a wedding
present from her. 'Oh,' he replied, 'sup-
pose you give me box Of gloves The
box of gloves was sent enclosed in an ele-
CANT inlaid case. On opening the box the
Earl discovered an envelope addressed TO
him in a well-known hand. He expected
il contained dainty little note. Ii did,
but not the sort of note lie imagined. The
contents of the envelope was check writ
ten out and signed by Miss Rothschild, and
in favor OF the Earl, and was for the mo-
dest little sum Of E200,000."
The Boston advertiser says: The United
States steamer Shenandoah, which is now
awaiting orders to sail. is not likely to re-
ceiye her full complement OF officers, for
nearly every officer who is ordered to her
at once endeavors to be relieved. The sea-
men do not like the prospects Of going
around the Horn in this vessel, and their
feelings are greatly intensified by the ac-
tons Of the officers. II is. OF course, with
out thorough investigation, difficult to say
whether this aversion to going off in this
vessel is due to the proverbial superstition
of seafaring men, or has its origin in tangi-
bic things that could and ought to be rene
died. The sailors claim the vessel is top
heavy, and that they are crowded together
like sheep. Monday the executive officer
OF the ship, Lieutenant Commander Il. B..
Thomas. and Lieutenant Lucen Flynn,
were surveyed by the medical officer, and,
on his report, will probably be relieved
from duty on the ship. They have only
been aboard for about a week, and their
probable removal only makes matters
worse in the minds OF the sailors.