The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-01

drunk, and appearing at the schools with
ragged breeches and bare legs.
The Art Congress. sitting In Rome, has
| decided to hold an international exhibition
In Rome every four years and national
exhibition every two years in one of the
chief towns OF Italy.
Jesse Harding Pomeroy. the boy ilend,
serving life-sentence at Massachusetts,
State prison for murder, Is preparing.
lengthy statement OF his case, which he In
tends TO present TO Governor Butler as an
application for pardon.
A genuine, old-fashioncd ghost Is keeping
the superstitiols people OF Bcllevernon,
Fayette county, Pa, In state OF constant
excitement. Wilkinson Voice. who first
saw the ghost. ran half way TO Allenport IN
his fright, crying out that he had seen the
devil.
At Glenn's Falls, n. u, Tuesday eye-
ming. Dennis Hickey, a respectable young
man. who was TO have been married yester-
day, while walking upon the street had his
throat cut by some unknown person, who
escaped. The wound reaches from the ear
10 the chin. Hickey may recover. ,Jeal-
ousy Is probably the cause OF the deed.
Thomas c. Brown, a wealthy farmer,
living near Finksburg, Nd. committed
suicide Monday afternoon by shooting him.
self with gun. the muzZlc being placed
I'm his mouth. Mr.. Brown was about fifty
two wears old and unmarried. He WAS
member Of the Legislature in 1874. He
has large circle Of relatives in Carroll and
Baltimore counties.
The plan for strengthening the fortitlca-
ton OF Kiel, devised by General Count
Won Moltke and approved by the En-
pcror, Is for the constructions OF n circle OF
sixteen forts, making the port dock-yard
one OF the strongest in existence, and the
completion of a stragetic railway, establish
Ing uninterrupted communication along
the Baltic coast.
a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS blew up at Mauch
Chunk Tuesday afternoon. John Miller,
engineer. and August Youngblood, brake
man, of Mauch Chunk. and Lewis Cover
and n. Nuss, brakemen, were injured, but
not seriously. There were five men on the
engine at the time, and their escape from
death is almost miraculous. The engine,
which has been on the road for twenty
years, il a complete wreck.
A telegram from Lima saws: The Didrio |
Ofcidie publishes the following from
Paita: a band OF Montoneros to-day |
attacked the town Of Puira, but were re-
pulsed. Many were killed on both sides. |
Juan Seminario and Cholaco Garcia, Mon !
tonero chiefs, We're among the killed. !
MaXamiian Frias's house was burned, his |
brother wounded, and his cousin killed.
The Montoncro leader says that he will |
again attack the town."
A Salt Lake telegram says: Two Of the |
men engaged in the attempted robbery Of |
the Central Pacific train ut MOntello a few
DAYS ago were caught Monday night by |
posse sent out byJ. +. DOoly, Wells, Fargo |
& Co.'s agent here. They began firing III
the posse. but hit no one. They were both
shot, one fatally. They belong TO small
gang having Il rendezvous in Western Utah.
Their camp, with the remainder OF the
thieves in if, is now watched by the officers
while awaiting assistance.
The Darwin memorial subscription has
awakened an enthusiasm in Sweden that
England herself is finding it hard to paral-
lei. No fewer than 1,400 persons have
come forward in that country with sums
from four cents to so. The United
Kingdom Of Great Britain and ireland has
thus far produced only about 600 Subscri-
bers-what the amount OF their suhscrip-
tons il the reports do not say. The Eng
ish committee has received from all
u well a. home the sum
If $4,000.
The Baltimore american says: Mrs.
Charles Farmer, OF Washington, played a
curious trick upon her husband on Mon
lay evening while intoxicated. She sent
~ telegraph to her husband. who is on
DO lrd the Saratoga ut the Brooklyn navy
rard, telling him that his wife was dead,
,ignmg the name Of friend to the mes
sage. She then went home, put Grape on
he door, and retired TO bed. Her neigh
JOrs called in the police, thinking she had
wallowed laudanum, when the real facts
we're discovered.
Workmen are already engaged on the
emoval OF the central tower of PeterbO-
Ough Cathedral. and as very recently sew
raj new cracks OF an alarming character
ave been discovered, the work has been
Undertaken none too soon. Thousands OF !
cOple are reported to have visited the Ca
hcdIal from all parts Of Europe since the
ewS OF the "prOposed demolition " was
ladc public. Reports from the spot said.
hrec weeks ago. that all the preliminary
for the actual work Of demo-
tion were then about completed.
Engineer Melyile's property at Sharon
ILL i, says the Philadelphia Telegraph. !
eing sold out 10y The sheriff. it is said, TO .
ltisiy debts contracted by Mrs. Melville.
he pretty but hearthless home at Sharon ,
ill has been deserted since the litigation
n the possession of the children. Mel !
lie is in Washington, and his wife has the {
nee children with her in West Philadel- (
hia. 1t Is also rumored that Mrs. Mel
Hes lawyer will in very short time
ring action against the two Delaware
)unty physicians upon whose certificate
ne was confined in the NorIistOwn Asy- :
im for false Imprisonment, and that she A
i'll claim heavy damages, and that the
respect is that in shoIt time several
Their suits will be brought by her against
her parties for SANDER and libel. it is &
lid that Engineer Melville will apply for i
divorce in the spring. I
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