The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-07-25
u-,.r News Items.

The Cricsson's torpcd0-OOat' tnc 10
stroyer. returned TO New York Monday
for supplies. Experiments made IN snootn
water with the torpedo have been satisiac-
tory 10 the engineers In charge. Inc seq,
wortbiness Of fhe craft was fully tested ana
proven.
Commodore N. w. Jeffers died al U3o
O'Clock Monday night, at his residence I'D
Washington. Commodore Jeffers was born
in New Jersey and appointed from ,lias
State. His last detail was to speciai uu.y
in Europe. No arrangements Tor the iui'e'
have yet been made.
Captain Chase, OF the steamer General
Bartlett. off Long Island. Monday, plckeu
up a bottle containing the following +:
Schooner .Smuggler leaking badly. Seine
boats gone. Can't keep ailoat much longer
II this is found, send the news to Glouces-
ter. OF Cape Elizabeth. July 10TH"
A severe storm ragged at Asbury Park. N.
j., Monday afternoon. The wind blew
with great violence. The Madison. Gilsey,
and Howard Houses We're unroofed by the
gale. and six carriages loaded with people
were upset and wrecked. A number OF
tents were blown down at Ocean Grove.
An unknown colored man was blown to
sea in q boat and was drowned.
Panclasite. the new explosive invented
by the chemist Turpin, OF Paris, has an
advantage over some Of its rivals in not
being at all affected by conclusion. This
immunity is secured by its being kept and
transported in two different liquids, which
only yield an explosive power on being
mixed, and this, OF course, need not be
done until the moment when the material
is to be used.
Sousa. the leadx- Qi the Marine Band
saws that he is indtS6tl TO his wife's memo
nv for the arrangement OF the "Pirates
OF Penzance" opera, before Sulliyan's
score was either printed or written. They
went TO see the opera seven consecutive
nights. She remembered the melodies, the
Instrumentation being OF course easy
enough for him. At the end OF the sew.
enth performance he had secured twenty
two out OF the twenty-six numbers. He
kept this arrangement and has used it ever
since.
The terribly emlciated appearance OF an
infant child OF Mrs. Strauss. OF New
York, induced inquiry by the coroner,
who was told by the mother that the child
died from starvation. Mrs. Strauss charges
under oath that while an inmate OF the Sea-
side Nursery, at Cedar Grove, near New
Drop. Staten Island, she and her twin in
fants were denied sufficient food. One OF
the children died and the other is expected
TO die. Mrs. Strauss says the only food
given TO babies at the institution was a cup
ful and a half OF barley water every five
hours.
In Denver, Col, not long since. Charles
Stckney accidentally shot and killed the
wife Of O. II. DeyerauX While firing at a
man named Campan. whom he had accused
OF outraging his wife. Campan had pre-
viously. in order to keep the matter quiet,
given Stickney notes to the value OF
$4,000. Soon after this Campan tool,
legal steps to counteract the legal transfer
OF the property, and before the matter was
settled Stickney killed Campan. and at the
same time killed Mrs. DeverauX, rs stated.
Stckney's attorneys thea began suit against
Campan's estate, which has just ended in
Stickneys favor. Stickney, who was in
Idaho when the decision was rendered. At
once directed his attorneys to turn over the
entire amount to q. II. DeyerauX. the hus-
band OF the woman he had accidentally
killed.