The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-23

The King of Bavaria visited Wagner's
tomb alone at midnight on Monday. He re-
NAMED quarter Of an hour.
Mrs. Mix, living near Ocala. Fla, was
burned to death on Monday night by her
clothing accidentally taking fire.
Ismail, the ex-Khedive, is going TO live
in England. He has purchased Caen
Towers, Highgate, q luxurious mansion
with twelve acres Of ground, for S45O,000.
The London Mail says it learns that the
first letter OF coincidence received by Miss
Burke after the murder of her brother
(Under-Secretary Burke was from James
Carey.
The husband Of Mrs. MacRae, who died
ut Montreal Tuesday OF drink, told the cor
oner that he could give the corpse to
the medical faculty for dissection, as he did
not want it.
A slight-built, fair-haired Englishman
registered Tuesday night at the Grant Ho-
tel, New York. rs Z. q. Brown. Wedncs-
day he was found in his room dead, with
bullet-hole in his forehead.
While Arthur McShane was returning
home from ball in company with his sis
ter, i'm New York, early Wednesday morn
ing. he was shot in the back by an I'M
known man and seriously wounded.
While a political convention was being
held in hall at East Hastings, Ont, on
Tuesday night, the floor gave way and 100
people fell through. No one was killed,
but large number were more or less in
iured.
The Prince OF Wales will open the new
ROYAL College OF Music at Kensington in
Nav next. The funds are said 10 be suffi-
cient for the establishment of fifty scholar
ships, which will be thrown open to public
competition. -
A Newburgh On. " telegram Of yestor-
day says: Andrew j. Hennion. florist,
sat down on a bed to-day and blew his face
to pieces with double-barrelled gun, pull
ing the trigger with his feet. A few hours
before he seemed to be in good spirits, but
he was in financial trouble.
A telegram from Gloucester, Mass, says
Wiggins's prediction OF a terrible storm
from March 9th to 18th has deferred num-
Der OF captains and crews returned
Georges Banks men) from making the next
trip, which would bring them on the
Banks at the time OF the storm. The wo-
men are urging the men to stay at home,
and ii is feared that the idleness will be-
gOtllt ktutidf NlilblS tut btOlktS lntIl, anu
the best time in the season for good catch
will be lost.
On Monday evening Mrs. Augustus Ro-
berts, living at Tilghmanton, Md, attempt
cd suicide by swallowing a pin. She also
had prepared quantity Of broken glass
that she purposed swallowing, but in
which she was prevented by members OF
the family, who gained knowledge of her
intentions. The motive that prompted the
rash intentions, and the painful death that
would have followed the diet OF glass. Ia
not known. The effects which the pin
will produce have not yet developed.
Rev. Henry Tucker Lee, rector of the
Episcopal church at Berlin, Md, died
suddenly at his home in that town
Saturday. The Baltimore Sun says: Mr..
Lee was q native Of Winchester, Va, and O
graduate Of the Virginia Military Institute.
lie had charge OF churches at several points
in the South, and afterwards served for
Church, Baltimore. Mr.. Lee was q man OF
fine literature culture and highly esteemed
wherever known.
The defalcation OF Donald Smith Peddie,
D the venerable Scotchmau who fled from
Edinburgh last June, after swindiing the
Dissenting Ministers Friend Society and
other organizations, and who was thought
10 have gone TO Philadelphia, died, and
been inferred In the Potter's field, Is much
larger than was ut first supposed. A letter
received by the British consul at Philatlel-
phia states that the fugitive was defaulter
In the sum OF sl29,7OO. No satisfactory
evidence Of the identity OF the fugitive
with the occupant Of the pauper's grave
has yet been received by the British an-
fherities.
The new English appropriated war-ship
ConVAeror is fast approaching completion
at the Chatham yard. She recently made a
trial ~ her engines In the local waters.
The Csnqueror Is turret-ship and ram Of
600 tons, and is fitted with engines Of
1900 horsepower. Her armor Is Of steel,
and some Of the plates are fourteen inches
thick. IL " believed that these plates
would be alyte 10 resist the most powerful
guns. save, perhaps, those recently on trial
at spexia. When finished she will have
cost over 0l,50O,00O. The estimated cost
of tAs hull alone was sl,s7o,ooo !