The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-21
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ceased. Miss Susan b. Anthony and MIS-.
Iucv stone Blackwell will receive s2O,oO0
each as the representative woman SUI
fragists. and II Is said they VIII use ihc
money in advancing the cause.
An Alexandria telegram says: Oh the
persons arrested in connection WIN lnc
murder OF Professor Palmer and party,
five have been sentenced TO death and the
others to from three to fifteen years I'M
prisonment.
Some Maine officers attempted to seize
carload OF beer in Portllnd the other day,
but o locomotive came along and carried
Eeer and officers together to Portsmouth,
n. H., fifty miles away, where II Is not I'M
lawful to hold beer for sale. II is not re-
lated how the officers got back to Portland.
The municipality Of Rome has placed q
memorial tablet in the house which Samuel
+. b. Morse inhabited there in 1880. The
Syndic has informed the American Minis
! ter that the unwilling Of the tablet VIII be
deferred until the wishes OF the American
colony in regard to the ceremony are made
known.
Charges are made by the New York
Herald that the public revenues OF that city
are diminished by enormous sums-some-
times amounting to SG,000,0OO in year
by the fraudulent evasion OF taxation. II
Il charged that go.betweens use false atli-
davits and bogus notaries as part OF their
methods.
The Joint resolution rendering the thanks
of Congress TO Chei-Engineer George W..
Melville describes his brave and meriIo,,
rious conduct I'm the Arctic regions, and
1 4t.o 1anf N
rank and pay TO that Of chief engineer,
with relative rank Of commander IN the
navy. to take rank next after Chief Engi-
neer Andrew j. Kiersted.
James Paxton, OF Knoxville. Tenn, IN
express messenger on the Norfolk and
Western railroad, who was arrested some
weeks ago oh the charge Of attempting to
rob the Adams Express Company OF bag
of gold by dropping il in the tunnel at
| Lynchburg, committed suicide in Texas
| last week.
General indignation il manifested on nc
count Of the Dircctor-GencraI Of the Gu
ban Treasury endeayoring upon his own
responsibility to collect the taxes now due
for the third three-monthly term Of the
fiscal year, with an enormous increase
upon the lawful rates. The taxpayers
have refused to pay. All the papers con-
denim the action.
Eight men were overcome 10y black
damp on Saturday while descending coal
shaft near Maccan, Cumberland county, \.
S. One OF the number recovered his senses
and gave an alarm. when party o. vOlun-
teerS went below and found two OF the
men, named Patten and Wilson, dead.
/ I'M of
the number, named Burrows, died subse-
quenty.
The members OF the assay commission
made a roassay Friday i'm Philadelphia OF
gold piece representing q delivery OF
10000 in good eagletS made at the New
Orleans mint in January, 1882, and found
that it was out of the tolerance allowed by
law-being the 10000 below the standard
in fineness. The divergence from the
standard makes no practical difference in
the value OF the coins, but the commission
will report the fact to the President.
A Mozambique telegram says: The
French steamer Eloise recently sailed from
NOss-Be to IbO to ship laborers. The ma
tiveJ became alarmed, aud assembled under
arms TO prevent the French from making
contracts. The Portuguese military inter
vened, but the natives resisted, and were
routed only after having lost seyenty-iiye
killed and wounded. The Eloise returned
to Nossi-Be without having accomplished
its object.
Some astounding disclosures have been
made in New York Of frauds upon the
revenue. During the scarcity OF potatoes
last year the cargo Of the steamship Crest
was reported rs damaged TO the extent OF
30 per cent. This entry was subsequently
distracted, and the damage allowance was
raised TO 100 Per cent. and the cargo adj
mitted free of duty. The proof is now at
hand that the potatoes were perfectly sound
and sold at full prices. Other charges Of
fraud are being investigated.
A remarkable thief has been caught in
Chicago. He is young, handsome, well
educated, very, gentlemanly, and wonder
fully audacious. He lived several months
at the larger hotels. dressed in such an OK
IRENE OF the fashion as to attract attention,
and paid his bills promptly; and all the
money was obtained by sneak-theving in
the rooms of ielow-guests. In one in
stance he took bag containing negotiable
bonds worth $4,000. When caught at last
by Waterman he drew pistol and at
tempted to escape by murder.
A dispatch to the Galveston NecS from
Bracket, Texas, says: "Twelye miles dis
tant from here four small children OF
Michael Mcdonald, one Of the Oldest set
tiers, were burned in their beds Saturday
night from the explosion Of lamp left
burning by the mother for the return OF
four daughters who were mt ball. The
! father was also absent. The mother escaped
with her infant babe, but could not rescue
the other children, who were burned to n
crisp"
The Baltimore Sun OF yesterday says:
General Jubal A. Early will arrive in Bal
timore from Lynchburg, Va, this after
noon, and 90 10 the residence OF General
Bradley Il. Johnson, where he will remain
during his stay in the city. On Wednes-
day evening n reception viii be given Gen.
eral Early by the officers OF the Society OF
the Army and Navy Of the Confederate
States in Maryland and the Association Of
the Maryland Line, and on Thursday eve
ming General Early will deliver his address
on "Jackson's Campaign Against Pope in
August, 1862, and the Second Battle OF Ma
nassas," at the Concert Hall OF the Acad-
envy OF Music, under the auspices OF the
Association OF the Maryland Line.
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