The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-21
Brief News Items.

During a storm Sunday at Garden City,
Long Island. flock OF sheep on the A. Il.
Stewart farm were struck by lightning and
forty Of them killed and twenty injured.
The impecunious Duke Of Teck and his
wife receive S25,000 ID year from the Eng
lish Government. and the Queen loans
them the use OF couple OF palaces, and
yet they are continually in debt. The Duke
Is dull cIod, much addicted to gambling
at which he constantly loses. 1t is no Won
der that the Radicals are in rage on the
subject.
Fritz Avis. fifty years old, was struck on
the head by stone in a general fight at 4
picnic of the Dutch M1nuerverein, at
Friedman's Garden. Milwaukee, Sunday,
and probably fatally injured. Charles
Smith and Thomas Johnson are under ar
rest as guilty Of throwing missiles. Great
excitement prevailed ut the time, and the
prisoners narrowly escaped lynching.
A Mobile telegram Of Sunday says: The
engine and tender OF north-bOund pas
senger train on the Mobile and Montgomery
division OF the Louisville and Nashville
railroad went through an open drawbridge
eleven miles from Mobile yesterday after
noon, and the engineer, Edward Brown,
was drowned. The fireman saved himself
by jumping, and the engineer could have
escaped, but he stuck TO his post and sue
ceeded in preventing the train from fol-
lowing the engine through the draw.
Brown was resident OF Montgomery.
The Amer can ship Hagcrstown, Captain
Boyd, of Richmond, Me-, which arrived at
Philadelphia Sunday, forty-iour days from
Antwerp. reports narrowly escaping col
liding with an immense iceberg on the
night Of August I'd, latitude 43o 27/, longi-
tude 500 25/. The iceberg was over two
miles long and three hundred feet high,
and passed within reach OF The crew on
the IIagerstown. Short time afterward
passed a considerable quantity Of drift
wood and kerosene barrels. The IIagers-
town VIII load at this port for San Fran
cisco.
The Chattanooga Times says: james
Doyle and wife, OF Sequatchie Valley, were
i'm the city yesterday. Tbe object OF their
visit TO the city was nothing more or less
than TO see train OF ears. They came
through the country in wagon a distance
OF seyenty-fye mites. Depot-Policeman
DriScol took them in charge, and when the
morning EaSt-TennesSee train came putting
in they were almost beside themselves with
Joy. but were afraid to get near "that 'ar
queer thing" Doyle states that his mother
is eighty.SiX years old and had never been
twenty miles from the house in which she
was born.
Saturday morning a man and woman
registered at the Commercial Hotel, Chi
cagO, as Mr.. Crowley and wife. Not hav-
ing reported for breakfast or dinner Sum-
day, the proprietor OF the hotel ordered
the door OF their room TO be opened, when
both were found lying on the floor uncon-
scious, dressed in their night-clothes. The
window and transOm were closed, and the
gas was escaping in the room. The man
died before the patrol wagon arrived, and
his body was taken TO the morgue. The
woman was removed to the hospital I'M
conscious, and up to late hour at night
could give no account OF herself. The
mans clothes were marked Z" Tracy" 1t
is thought to be a case OF suicide.
A business-frm OF Bremen, which has
purchased Augra Pequema, on the western
coast OF South Africa, has sent a schooner
thther, and will open traffic between their
acquisition and Cape Town. The firm will
also buy strip OF land stretching twelve
miles inland. The entire area of the colony
will be $50 square miles. A section OF the
German press is jubilant over the fact that
the Government will permit the hosting OF
the national flag over the firms purchase.
he seml-Otlicial newspaper, the Post, OF
this city, says that it is convinced that il
the Germans would promote home manu-
features by founding such commercial colo
MES they will not fail to receive the protec-
ton OF the Government.