The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-07
Rrfef News Items.

1t is reported that the friends OF Archie
Dixon, of Pittsburgh, Pa. who died in
Jail at Toronto, Canada. last week, will in
stitute heavy suit for damages against
the police authorities for having taken
him to Jail instead OF hospital, when
there was no charge against him.
A member Of Boston capitalists have ac-
quired q lease OF the gutta-percha forests
OF Dutch Guiana for term OF thirty-three
years, and have already begun operations
there upon an extensive scale. Their lease
covers 100000 acres, and the quality Of
the gum is said to be equal TO that OF the
best East India product.
p. w. Parkhurst. cashier Of the Clyde
(Ohio) Banking Company, has returned.
+. II. Southland, hardware merchant,
who has made al assignment. and Milford,
Southland Il Co., owe the company about
$4,000. Parkhurst claims that If not
pushed too hard the banking company
will pay every cent it owes. The people
are more hopeful since his return.
Jesse George, OF Hickman county, Tenn.
was the first man in that State who raised
peanuts. He made his first crop before the
war-about 1850. The processes OF plant
ing and ploughing are very different now
from what they were then. The crop in
Tennessee now amounts to about 600, 900
bushels, OF which about two thirds are Of
the white variety.
A Rome dispatch says that Cardinal
Manning has been specially active and gra-
cous in his reception of the American
bishops. 1t is rumored that the Vatican
is displeased at the position taken by the
Cardinal, inasmuch as it is believed that
his views with regard to Reorganization
OF the American episcOpate are at variance
with those OF the Vatican.
The London DAILY Ne,oS Monday morn
ing has the following from its Paris CORE
spondent: at is rumorcd that Princess
Amele, the eldest daughter Of the Comte
de Pals, will shortly be married to the
Grand Duke Alexis, OF Russia. The Cars
advisers favor the union, thinking it will
facilitate the restoration OF the Orleanists
and an alliance between France and Rus
sia."
The window-glass manufacturers at
Bellefonte, Pa, Monday notified the Pitts
burgh manufacturers that they would not
fill an order for glass, as their men threat
ened to strike il more shipments are made.
This is due to an order from the headquar-
tiers OF the wOrkmen. The bottle-glass-
blowers have issued a circular to drug
gists and patent-medcine dealers threat
enlng to "Boycott" them il they buy bot
ties made by uon-union wOrkmen.
One OF those curious and amusing typo
graphical errors which creep into newspa-
pers, despite the diligence OF even the most
lynX-eyed proof-reader, appears In San
Francisco paper. which meant to say that
Judge Thomas exchanged benches with
Judge Scott yesterday" but the cruel
types made it read. "Judge Thomas eX-
changed breeches with Judge Scott yester-
day.
The residents near Tricks Locks, Chess
ter county, Pa, are greatly annoyed by q
new description of flea. introduced by the
Italian laborers on the new railroad. At
the Fairview school a number OF the chill
dren were absent on account OF the ravages
of this flea. They are quite small, almost
invisible to the naked eye, but where they
alight, whether on an arm or a face, they
make their mark, their bite being even
worse than that OF mosquito.
The steamer Sandman, from Quebec,
with the Marquis OF Lorne and Princess
Louise on board. arrived at Liverpool
Monday. The Marquis and the Princess
landed nc noon. They were received, SAYS
cable dispatch, by the Duke OF Albany
and Mayor Radcliffe and escorted to the
| Town Hall. The party were heartily
| cheered by crowds OF people as they passed
through the streets. At the Town Hall
the Marquis and the Princess were pre-
sented with an address from the Mayor
and the corporation OF Liverpool, and
were entertained at luncheon. The Mar
quis, in replying 10 the address OF the
Mayor, warmly eXtolled the Dominion OF
Canada and its people.
The London Standards correspondent
at ST. Petersburg says that i'm an interview
with prominent Russian statesman the
latter pictured the position and prospects
OF the Nihilsts, and said that Vera
Philip0ra, who was recsntly arrested nj
Kharkof, was the actual heal OF the Nj
hilist Executive Committee. She has writ
ten voluminous confession, showing that
she and another woman, who chose the
South OF Russia rs their field of enterprise,
alienated the allegiance OF many army
officers. forty OF whom have been arrested.
The Nihilists are miserably weakened in
men and means, having lost many promi.
nent members in the last two years. The
arrest OF Vera Philipora is the worst blow
OF all. They now regard Vavrotl. who is
In Paris, as their chief, and the campaign
will now be conducted from without. In
Russia the Nihilists are broken up into
widely-scattered groups, each more or less
independent Of the rest. They are driven
to murder and robbery in order to obtain
funds.