The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-02
Brief News Items.

A suit has been begun in Brooklyn by
the father Of james Cassin, a small boy, TO
recover $4,000 damages from Miss Mary
Ames, who spanked the boy last summer
because he called her names.
VILLAIN Brecken, of Troy, N. Y, en-
ployod on a canal-boat. attempted to COM
NIT suicide after being arrested for dis
orderly conduct, because, he said, that he
wanted to hide his shame from MS parents,
who are respectable people.
The Festher LOUD publishes report
that the Orleans princes have sounded Ger
many in reference to their asserting their
claims to the French throne, and that Prince
Bismarck's reply afforded them no hope
that Germany would approve OF such a
course.
A number Of influential Germans, in
Guiding representatives of the brewing in
terests in Rochester, y. Y, assembled
TUESDAY evening and resolved to support
the Democratic State ticket. with the eX-
cepton OF Isaac ii. Maynard, the candi-
date for Secretary OF State.
Orders have been feleGraphed to Senior
Carlos Rivas, the Mexican Governments
special agent in London, to recommence
negotiations with the British bondholders
for the settlement Of the Mexican debt.
His instructions will enable him to over
come the previous obstacles and to arrive
at satisfactory result.
The Cleveland, o., Leader having stated
three nuns OF the order OF st. Vincent de
Paul had decamped. taking with them $780,
600, Bishop Gilm0ur says three sisters have
left st. Joseph's Hospital and returned TO
| their families. There is no truth in the as
sertion that they took money or anything
of value belonging to the Church or soci-
ETY..
A poor woman IN Grand Rapids, Mich,
being left penniless and friendless by her
husbands death last February, was com.
PEELED to let the city bury him. Last week
she paid back TO the director OF the city
poor every cent OF money expended for
her husbands burial. She had earned the
money by hard work, and saved it only by
the most rigid economy.
A Galveston (TeXas) telegram OF yester-
day says: -Four years ago three Mexican
( travellers two women and q many were
ambushed while asleep twenty-five miles
| from Laredo, and the man and one woman
were instantly killed by bullets from
! Winchester rifle. The other woman was
left for dead by her assailant, who plum
dered the camp and escaped across the
Rio Grande river. A month ago c. Chiva-
rio, who had been arrested for horse
theft, was recognized by the survivor as
the murderer, was tried for the crime. and
to-day was found guilty, with the penalty
fixed at death.
A Khartoum dispatch says: " Arabs to
the number OF between $4,000 and 10000
attacked Hicks Pasha's army. Ten thou
sand Arabs, divided into two columns, at
tackled the Egyptian square on two sides,
thus enabling Hicks Pasha to use six thou
sand Remington rifles, Krupp guns, and
Nordenfelt rocket batteries. The Arabs
were only armed with lances. Failing
after some time to reach the square, they
fled. leaving eight thousand dead and all
their women, food. baggage, and animals
behind. Hicks Pasha pursued the main
body Of fugitives, and overlook them at
Melbas, where he found FL Madhi Pasha
with the fugitives and body-guard Of two
thousand cavalry"