The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-05-27
Rrief NaXs Items.

The city OF Duluth, MIMI, is greatly eX-
cited over the discovery OF gold and silver
deposits within its limits. Old miners say
that 1t looks like paying lead.
Ex-Governor Frederick Smyth, Of New
HAMPSHIRE, has just reached home, after
tour of nineteen thousand miles In the Old
World.
Lady Gertrude Douglas. Lady Florence
Dixie's sister, who married baker and
set him up in business, finds that his custom
ers don't pay, and she is going to retire
to the provinces and live quietly. She is
forty and he nineteen.
In Westville. a suburb OF New Haven,
Conn.,, Friday night, Mrs. William Patter
son shot George Harry in the face with a
revolver. Harry then pounded Mrs. Pat
terson with the revolver. They were
neighbors, and quarrelled about their chill
dren.
The Inter- Ocean's Beloit (Wis.) special
says: "During q fierce wind-and-rain
storm Friday number Of live fish, one of
them weighing a pound, dropped in the
business streets, and hail-stones, the
largest four inches in circumference, fell.
Many windows were broken"
John Dillon, the Irish member Of Parlia-
lnent, has returned from London to Naples
with his health much improved. Despite
entreaties he refuses to reenter Parliament
ut present. He will probably visit his broth
er in Colorado in 1884.
The Annapolis Advertiser laments the
local-option law In Anne Arundel in the
following strain: "The patches Of mint
are growing beautifully in this county. 1t
looks splendid in all the gardens Of An
napolis, but, alas alas there's nothing to
mix the vegetable with nor stick TO stir
the compound"
Hannah Bishop, aged seven years, was
shot and dangerously wounded Friday at
Glassboro', n. j., by her uncle, John Press,
fourteen years old, The children were
playing. when the lad pointed an old rife
ut the girl, and, not knowing 1t was loaded,
he pulled the trigger, and the little girl
Was shot in the face. The physicians think
she cannot recover.
Professor Nordenskjold, accompanied by
other scientists, has sailed on board the
Arctic exploring vessel Sophia for Green
land. The Professors VOYAGES have hith-
erto been decidedly more successful and
productive OF scientific, II not practical,
results than those Of other explorers. What
the exact problem Is that the Sophia has
started out to solve is not stated.
A Tombstone "a. IT, telegram Of Friday
says: A Trustworthy man Just arrived here
from q ranch In Sonora says courier from
headquarters has brought news Of an en-.
gagcment between General Crook and a
large body OF Indians near Guacanope, in
the Sierra Madres, last week, in which
thirty hostiles were killed and the rest put
to fight, closely followed by the troops.
Governor Pattison Friday vetoed the
bill passed by the Pennsylvania Leglsla-
ture giving pensions to the surviving vete-
rams OF the Mexican war, and TO the
widows OF soldiers and sailors OF that war.
The Governor. IN his veto message, calls
attention to the fact that similar bills
passed In 1870 and 1851 were vetoed by his
predecessor, and that The obstacles TO exc
cutiye approval contained In those bills
have not been removed by the present one.
The House sustained the veto.