The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-03-02
Rrtef News Items.

In answer TO a screnade from some OF her
countrymen in Chicago the other night,
Nine. Nilsson sang familiar Swedish bal
lad, creating great enthusiasm.
The eldest daughter of Engineer Mel
vile has been taken from her mother and
sent to school selected by her father, in
accordance with the decision OF the court.
Three cars of the Dakota train on the
Chicago and Northwestern railroad were
ditched near PaIaiin, H., Wednesday.
one child was killed and about fifty pas
sengers were wounded.
A basket Of oranges carried by steam.
ship passenger from Havana was examined
at the New York custom-house Wednes-
day. and found to contain $500 packages OF
cigarettes and 400 cigars.
William Davidson, member OF the Ar
kansas Legislature for Sharp county, while
intoxicated, jumped into the river early
Wednesday morning and was drowned
| The body was not recovered. Both houses
adjourned in respect 10 his memory.
A Loughrea Qreland) telegram says
"The distress among the people here is
alarming. Crowds Of persons are besieg-
ing the houses of the priests clamoring for
food. The town commissioners have been
hurriedly convened TO take measures to-
wards relieving the wants OF the people"
Prominent Germans Of Philadelphia are
planning for the proper celebration IN Oc-
tober next of the arrival Of German settlers
in PENNSYLVANIA. A colony OF Germans,
under the celebrated Pastorius, reached
Philadelphia about year after Penn had
established that city. They took up their
quarters north of that city, and not long
afterwards established Germantown.
The Department OF State has received
information that the MalagaSsy ENJOYS
sailed for this country on the 10Th in the
National steamer Spain. The gentlemen
comprising the embassy are Rayoninahi-
triniariyo lj vtra, o. ID. p, Minister for
Foreign Affairs, head Of the embassy, and
Ramaniraka IA ytra, D. ID. p, member OF
her Majesty's Priyy Council, ambassador.
A dispatch from Nashville, Tenn. TO the
81 Louis Globe Democrat says: A woman
who gave her name as Mrs. Elolse Won
Rubens. of Baltimore, arrived in this city
several days ago and advertised for pupils
for n fine art institute and beneficiary bu-
reau. She rented rooms for year, fur
nisbed them handsomely, took number OF
pupils. who paid an initiation fee of $40,
and disappeared Monday, leaving num-
Der of creditors unpaid.
It Is stated that MIR. Gladstone in his in-
teryiew Tuesday with President Greyy and
NJ. Challemel-Iacour, Minister OF Foreign
Affairs, appeared to be desirous to bring
about an end OF the present tension be-
tween France and England. ii is believed
that fresh negotiations relative TO Egypt
are impending, not, as hitherto, on the ba-
sis of q condomini,0m, but on an arrange
mcnt that will place France in more ia
yorable position than she now occupies.
In a recent case in which two young men
were on trial before Judge IIigley, Of Gin
cinnati, for accomplishing the ruin OF two
girls who had accompanied them to ball,
the Judge, after expressing his regret that
there was no law In Ohio under which the
offenders could bc punished, advised the
mothers of the girls to have their sons or
husbands force the men to marry their vic
tins by the moral suasion that q cowhide
or a pistol exercises, or take the law in
their own hands and give the despoilers the
soundest thrashing they ever had in'their
lives.