The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-07-08
Rrfef News Items.

The London TtmeS's correspondent at
Dublin revives the report that James Ca
rey, the informer, has left Ireland i'm dis
guise.
Grimley, the aeronaut, who made an
ascension from HoDesdale, Pa, on July
4th, landed on the CatskIll mountains in a
storm. He saws he had ga terrible time"
An alligator appeared in Mill river, Con-
necticut, last night. TWAS three and half
feet long, and is said to be the only live
saurian that has ever been seen in that
river.
The energetic woman did the work Of a
mob at Michigan City, Ind. She dashed
into the saloon in which her husband had
become drunkard, used lamp in lieu of
a club, and smashed every bottle.
A monster lobster in the London Fishe-
ries Exhibition was sent over from
America. 1t measures three feet in length,
and one OF its claws weighs eight pounds,
the total weight being about twenty-eight.
Two colored men from Cairo named
Loudon and johnson engaged IN fight on
n train on the Illinois Central railway on
Thursday, near Golden. Loudon killed
johnson ard then jumped from the train
and escaped.
Twelve soldiers who were confined in
the guard-house at Fort Omaha, en- route
to the Fort Leavenworth military prison.
tore up the floor and tunneled out Friday
night. Three were captured, but the
Others are at large. Their sentences ranged
from two to fifteen years.
In the lard investigation before a com
mittee OF the Chicago Board OF Trade
Friday William Martin, formerly foreman
for Fowler Brothers (who are charged
with adulterating lard), testified that tai
low and beef-bones were mixed with tn,
hog-fat and put into the rendering-tanks
The product was put into tierces and Ia
belled "prime steam lard"
Some days ago young woman in Prov
dence, q suburb OF Scranton, Pa, Will
feeling slightly unwcll visited several fam
lilies. A few days later physician VIII,
had been called In pronounced the youn.
woman's ailment smallpox, and on We'd
nesday four persons at the houses yisite,
were stricken with the disease. All the sicI
reside In the heart Of the town. AIucl
alarm Is felt.
A study OF the religion OF the Think;
Indians OF Arizona has been made by In
Rev. s. Hal Young, who says that II 3
much resembles that Of Christians thu
their conversation Is quite easy. They he
feye In a God who Is trinity in his attri
butes. He Is, first, a universal punisher O
evil and rewarder Of good; second, hol'
spirit OF bene6cence, to whom they prs'
for blessings; and third, mediator in tn
various forms OF lesser diviuities. Bu
many OF the celebrations OF this religion
are savage and grotesque.
A special from Easton, Pa, says Geore,
Werkbciser. aged nineteen. son OF ex-She
uf Werkheiser, had difficulty here or
"Wednesday night with w. II. Harrison. y,
medical student, for throwing fire-cracker,
an the midst OF several ladies with whom
Harrison was spending the evening on the
front step OF the residence OF Mrs. ,Josja
ii. Hetrick. Werkheiser struck Harri.
son on the nose, breaking the bone. Har.
risOn says he returned the blow, but don't
know whether he struck Werkheiser or one
OF his companions, who gathered after the
disturbance started. Werkheiser went
home, and was found by bis mother ut |
O'Clock yesterday morning lying on the
Dortico OF her residence. He was taken
into the house, and died between and O
O'Clock.