The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-13
Brief Items News.

GnoW-drifts fifteen feet deep are repoTteu
from the neighborhood OF Ottawa, Canada.
Emperor William drove out Sunday for
the first time since his late indisposition.
Mr.. Garrett positively denies that the
new Atlantic cable project has been ADAM
doned.
The subscriptions in Philadelphia to the
fund for the relief OF the sufferers by the
floods in Germany amountto 100000 marks.
Saturday night a savings bank at WYan-
dotte, Mich, was entered by burglars and
robbed OF $500 In coin and number Of
bonds.
Walcott the quail-eater couldn't stand
success. Saturday night he was found by
the police OF New York so drunk in the
streets that he had to be taken in.
The Florida ship-can1l scheme has been
completely shelyed for the present by the
refusal of the State Senate to grant the
franchises asked for by the corporators.
NJ. Damala Sarah Bernbardts husband)
will retire from the stage. He is arranging
for the formation Of foreign legion to
serve in Africa.
August Gerhardy was attacked on the
streets Sunday night by highwayman. and
he drew pistol and fired at his asSailant,
killing him Instantly. The robbers name
Is Antonini KorzensH.
Peter Ryan, aged about sixty years, who
bears a rather hard character, murdered
his wife in st. Louis Saturday night by
smofherine her with bed-clothing. lie ac-
knowledges the crime, but gives no reason
for its commission.
A Dublin telegram says: a servant OF
Mr.. Marcus Lynch, deputy lieutenant OF
Barna, County Galway, was shot in the
hand from behind q wall Sunday while he
was embarrassing a horse, after having
brought Mr.. Lynch's family home from
church. The person who fired the shot
escaped.
In New York on Saturday afternoon the
chess tournament between Captain Mac
kenzie and William Steinitz. the English
champion, was resumed. The game lasted
over seven hours. There were siXty-eight
moves, and the resignation OF Mackenzie
was forced by his opponent. This was the
fourth game OF the series OF six, three OF
which have been won by Steinitz.
FRIDAY evening J. A. Doran, OF Barton
county. Mo-, deliberately shot and killed
his father-in-law, VI. NJ. Smith. The pro-
vocation was the refusal on the part OF
Smith to give up to the custody OF DOran q
little daughter of the latter who had been
living with her grandfather for some time.
Doran had previously driven his wife back
to her fathers house by a systematic course
of cruty.
al Of Low
saws: A warrant was issued last night for
the arrest of Adelne Hamilton (cOlored),
charged by Samuel Adams (also cOlored)
with having about two weeks ago, while
left in charge OF his one-year-old son, de-
Iiberately burned the soleS OF the child's
feet so terribly by holding them to hot
stove that the injuries resulted in death.
The family, not realizing the seriousness OF
the burns, and beng poor, did not summon
q physician until noon on Thursday. Gan
creme had set in, and the child died that
day at O'Clock in the afternoon. The case
was not made public until last night. The
accused was captured this morning.
Frank II. Norton occupies column and
half in the Herald in attempting to prove
that light causes the aXial rotation OF plan
cts. Some idea of his theory may be found
| from inc lollON iUB cAlIdti - dNNtlt tndt
the cause of the motion Of the planets
around their several axes is light-lght
considered rs true force, and, as | believe
IL to be, indeed, the primum mobile, to
which all other forces are subordinate.
The method OF its operation is by attraction
eXerted upon the water on the surface OF
the sphere, and by which it draws the
hemisphere over, thus causing its rotation.
The reason why the moon rotates at the
rate OF 10 miles an hour instead Of at the
rate Of 80, az it should, is because it is an
exhausted planet, nearly, if not entirely,
! devoid OF Water,v