The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-01-11

A Durham Telegram says Dattie tooA
D,acc Tuesday between the Beers and Ma
pocb. The former were driven back.
For,y-nine new eases Of smallpox were
reported In Baltimore Tuesday, ana tne
vaccine physicians are still busily NJ work'
The highest court Of appeal has acqu't-
ted Herr Mommsen OF the charge prefer
red against him OF having slanderedfrince
Bismarck.
Nebraska man took dose OF faris
green because he had lost $50, but imine,
Giately afterward started for doctor ana
offered him 81 900 to save his life.
Some malicious individual, who is termed
the "ialse-alarm fiend," called the New
York Fire Department out eight times on
Monday night, while the streets were CLASSY
with ice.
While Albert Robinson was before po-
lice court i'm San Francisco, attempting 10
cxplain away charge OF vagrancy, he was
handed a check for $500 with which to pay
his passage to England, where fortune OF
100000 awaited him.
Tn Jersey City Wednesday night the
wires OF the Baxter Electric Light Com
pany and the New Jersey Telephone and
Telegraph Company were crossed, ana, as
a consequence, part of the city was in total
darkness for several hours.
II Is authortatively denied that the visit
OF DR.. Schroeder, of Berlin, TO London l.
in consequence OF his having been sum-
moned to attend professionally the Princess
OF Wales, as stated by the VosSiche lei
fu,pq.
A dispatch from Rome says the police
seized two busts OF Oyerdank on two sue
cessive occasions during the unveiling OF
them by Socialists IN room there. In
connection with the seizures there were
twenty-five persons arrested, including the
popular tribune Parboni.
A man who went by the name OF Patrick
O'Reilly, at Albion. y. y, Tuesday, con-
fessed to being one OF the participators in
the murder of Lord Caycndish and Under
Secretary Burke in PhGnix Park, Dublin,
last May. He subsequently retracted. He
is regarded rs lunatic.
Il. A. Cox, q young man OF Buckatunna,
Ala, recently attended 4 parry in that
town and danced until midnight. Then
he requested every one to be seated. He
said his mother wanted him to be Chris
tian. Everything has failed me except
this" he said, and pulling out pistol he
shot himself dead.
Prince Bismarck's appearance in the
Reichstag Tuesday evoked general sympa-
thy. He seemed 10 be very weak and in
much pain. 1t is doubted that he will be
able to attend the sittings Of the ReichStag
more frequently than he has attended them
OF late.
A dispatch from Vienna to the Daily
7eiegraph says: A dyke protecting Il SUI
burb OF Raab broke suddenly Tuesday
afternoon, and the water rushing in,
ploughed up the ground in the cemetery.
Collins aud human remains are drifting
with the current.
Car Alexander III. makes 4 hobby OF
police and military uniforms. He has
the costume OF the st. Petersburg
police three times since his accession, and
examines the minutest details OF
all new styles. sometimes taking hours to
decide upon the pattern OF button.
The drug-clerk, Charles Merger, who
poured out a dose OF aconite by mistake
for whiskey for Policeman Pfisterer, in
northwest Baltimore, Monday night, which
resulted in the pOiceman's death, was dis
charged by the coroner's jury on the ground
that he was not to blame.
Most OF the Nilsson concert tickets in
Chicago were gobbled up at SO each by
spectators, and resold at from So to Sl5
each. The prima donna was sick and did
not ing, and the theatre proprietor can be
hello for only SO seat. Those who bought
from spectators will have to whistle for
the extra money invested.
A dispatch to the London Times from
Cairo SAYS: "The evidence shows COM
petely that the murder OF Professor
Palmer and his party was committed by
the order OF the Governor OF Nahli, SYM
pathizer with Arab Pacha, who Is now n
prisoner at SucZ. The Bedouin sheikh
who undertook TO escort Professor Palmer
and clearly betrayed the party, has died III
the hospital at sucz."
The German Reichstag on Tuesday dis
cussed the importation OF American pork.
Herr Richter said there were no reasons
whatever for the prohibition Of its impor.
tation. The Federal Commissioner stated
that the matter was before the Bundesrath
The discussion was not terminated and no
decision was come TO, but should a prohi-
bition he issued it would be brought to the
Of the Reichstag.
During the progress Of a dance at Mineral
Creek, y. NJ, might or two since, miner
named Red Sullivan became intoxicated
and threatened to kill merchant named
Logan. and started ont presumably fer that
purpose, for, arriving ut Logan's house, he
told him he had come to kill him, and
reached for his pistol, but Logan was too
quick for him, and lodged bullet in Sui
liyan's forehead, killing him instantly.
A Sligo telegram OF the 9th says: Mr..
John O'Brien, who was arraigned for
using intimidating language against land
lords while engaged in establishing
branch Of the Irish National League at
Bantry on December 10th, has been con-
yicted and sentenced TO prison for two
months. EA-Suspects lIOdnett and Gill
booly, who were arraigned on the same
charge, have also been convicted and SEN
fenced, the former to two and the latter to
three months imprisonment.