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


&. w. Raw, aged fifty-five, OF Assump-
tion parish, La, committed suicide at New
Orleans Wednesday by shooting himself
through the head. The cause is unknown.
A terrific explosion occurred on Tuesday
at the fireworks-factory OF Senior Meyrn, IN
Amacueca, Mexico. Meyra and four other
members Of his family were burned to
death, and number Of persons were badly
| injured.
The Rev. Mr.. Hamilton recently accepted
call TO Boston from Norwalk, Mass, and
took with him q fine Maltese cat. Mr..
Hamilton liked the modern Athens, but the
cat apparently did not. for be walked all the
way back TO Norwalk, a distance OF $50
miles.
Wednesday the lower house Of the New
Jersey Legislature passed n bill making
four men out Of jury Of six and nine men
ont Of n iury OF twelve competent to rem
der verdict. A bill was also passed re-
healing the statute which makes labor
strikes unlawful.
The mission OF Mr. Les DerDier, OF Bos-
ton. to Florida, has proved successful. Ihe
Legislature OF this State accepts the invita-
tion to send delegates TO the New England
1
Fair in September OF next year, and appro-
PIRATES $4,000 TO carry it out.
A few davs ago several bodies were
stolen from ST. Marie de Maunoir. Mop-
treal. An attempt was made to irighten
students into giving up the bodies, but
without success. Then money was offered
as an inducement, and two OF the bodies
were handed over for $50 ransom.
.. Walcott. the New York quail-eater. inn
nroyes daily. He ate his twenty-fOurth
brace Tuesday as though he really relished
them, finishing in the quick time OF seven
minutes He afterwards confessed TO hay-
inc hurried on account OF the clouds OF
tobacco-smoke and also TO settle bets as TO
the time two quails could be eaten in.
A meeting OF the Channel Tunnel Rail-
way Company Wednesday approved the
bill and instructed the directors TO endea-
yor TO obtain the consent OF Parliament to
the enterprise This is a rival scheme to
that of Sir Edward Watkin, which pro-
yides that the exit OF the tunnel shall be
three and half miles inland from Dover.
Thousands of people, says Quebec tel
egram. attended Wednesday the sham fight
ON the plains Of Abraham, where Battery
| a.
heights over again, storming the old
French forts. The carnival closed We'd
nesday night with grand torchlight pro-
cession, in which all the snow-shoe clubs
OF the city took part.
Franklin Pierce. claiming to be a physi-
clan, is held in $4,000 bail at Worcester,
Mass, for manslaughter in causing the
death OF Mrs. Barna Bernis, of Oakdale.
He treated her for internal erysipelas by
bathing her in kerosene and rolling her up
in bandages saturated with that oil. The
woman was literally blistered and skinned
alive, and died after week OF suffering.
Mrs. Langtry in passing through Mobile,
being asked how she had enjoyed her trip
TO the South. replied: II have enjoyed it
much more than the journey through the
northern States. The fact is" she added,
81 have been treated with more considera-
tion here. More like the lady believe |
am" She says she noticed the change as
soon as she reached Memphis.
The HeraldS Irkutsk correspondent te-
legraphs that Ensign Hunt, with the jean
pette men, left Tuesday 0he 30th) for
the United States ria Orenburg. 1t is inn
posslblc TO calculate when Lieutenant Har-
her and Master SchutZe can proceed home
with tue bodies Of De Long and his COM
panions. 1t depends upon how quick the
caskets can arrive at 1rkutsk, where Har-
ber will be with the bodies by April.
London Life says: The FIRST Jewish
marriage which has taken place in Madrid
since the expulsion of the Jews from Spain
two centuries ago was celebrated a few
days since. The BRIDE, who was welded
to her first cousin, is daughter to Mir.
Jones, foreign merchant long established
in the Spanish capital. More than fifty
persons, including members OF the very
best society in Madrid, were present at the
ceremony, and Rabbi Hermann Salzedo
travelled expressly from France to cele-
brate the marriage.
The examination in the case OF James
Mace and Herbert Sade, the pugilistS,
charged with getting up boxing match,
came off in New York Wednesday. After
hearing the testimony Of Police-lnspector
Thorne and Mace AS to the definition OF a
sparring contest, the judge said that it was
very important that the matter should be
settled, but that his decision would not set
tie it. lie then held the prisoners In 5000
bail each for trial, and paroled them to the
care OF their counsel. who said he would
serve writ OF certiorari yesterday.