The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-10-06
Brsef News Items.

The prisoners in the Jail in Gonzales
Texas. have their own code oil laws an
set Of officers An offender was recent
sentenced 10 endure five lashes- He hire
negro 10 be his substitute. paying hir
five cents.
The priests and prominent laymen of In
Roman Catholic Church in chicago hay
presented Archbishop Fecban wfth purs
OF IS, 900. The Arch bishop leaves Sunda
for Rome, and he is expected TO be absen
until May next.
Desperate efforts continue to be made t.
smuggle opium INTO San Francisco. Fifty
six cases were libelled yesterday by District
Attorney Hieborn. II Is alleged that the
were frauduleutly imported on the last trlI
OF the Oceanic.
Ten warriors, five squaws, and four pa
pooses OF the Omaha tribe have sailed
from New York for France. They are un
der contract 10 give exhibitions in riding
shooting, dancing, etc, receiving $50 pei
month and expenses. Yellow Smoke, oEC
OF the braves, Is seventy years old.
Thursday was Tennessee day at tho
Louisville Exposition. Governor Bate and
staff and large number OF other TenneS
seeans were present The day was very
rainy. but 1900 persons passed the turn.
stiles. A banquet was rendered Governor
Bate and party.
Two thirds of the cattle-raising IN
Wyoming and Montana Is in English
hands. 1t costs SO to raise three-yoar-
old, and the animal il then worth $40. The
more cattle man owns the smaller the
cost OF raising and caring for each animal.
NJ a IL "a lfe
lands.
The New York Chamber OF Commerce
met Thursday and appointed a committee
10 prepare and submit to it such amend
mehts TO existing laws which regulate as
signments in bankruptcy as will prohibit
any and all preferences, and which will
place all creditors upon the same basis in
the distribution OF the assets OF any bank
rupt.
A Providence telegram says: Tonight
Thursday, while firemen were exercising
with the skinner truck, the ladders OF
which were thrown up TO height OF ninety
feet, two fremen were within five feet of
the top when the ladders careened and
finally broke. One man, Alexander Nc
Donald, was killed by the fall. The other
came down with the wreckage, but was not
seriously hurt. The truck has once before
fallen and collapsed.
The New Orleans Times Democrat has
advices that six colored hands Quarrelled
and fought over game OF cards with one
Ned Bradfield near Providence Station,
Natchitoches parish, Thursday, the quar-
rel finally resulting in the six colored men
roasting Bradfield over fire so badly that
he died. The same gang was accused OF
killing = sectlon-boss few days before,
but WIS discharged for want OF proof.
A Dundee telegram says: The whaling
steamer Polynia, which has arrived here
from Davis's Straits, reports that the ma
tives at Saunders Island stated that they
saw five men at Etah, in Smiths Sound,
north OF B3fiin's bay, early in the year,
who belonged TO large expedition further
TO the north, which was believed to be that
OF Lieutenant Greedy.
One Of the natives met at Saunders Island
was very intelligent man, and spoke some
English He stated that his brothers saw
five men living at Etah Tor Etab), q fishing
station south OF LittletOn Island, on the
east side OF Smiths Sound. They were all
i'm good health. The leader was tall. ro-
bust man. The captain OF the Polynia be-
iieyes the party was sent out by Lieutenant
Greedy TO meet the steamer ProteuS, which
was then on the way to Smiths Sound.