The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-01-21

Brief Nows Items.
The Maryland Bible Society issued 2,5ss
volumes last December.
Forty-six new cases Of smallpox were
reported In Baltimore Friday.
Tho Confederate Society OF Maryland
has elected General Bradley T. johnson
president.
The corporation OF San Francisco Is out
OF funds, and 1t Is charged that there has
been rsscality in the management OF the
street department.
Some OF the Republican papers are hor-
rifed because Governor Stoneman, OF Cali
fornis, has appointed an ex-C0nfederate
acknowledgement Of the State militia.
Thursday, Edward A. Wood, secretary
OF the New York Mining Stock Exchange,
was knocked out Of his chair in bis office
and robbed Of S406 in bank-notes.
In the case OF Weber Us. Colonel Abnerr
Taylor, for damages for the seduction OF
the plaintiffs wife, at Chicago, the Jury on
Friday returned verdict awarding Weber
one cent damages.
Anson Harrington, who was injured al
the explosion In the OperaHouse, Milwau-
kee, Thursday night, died Friday. Albert
Seymore cannot recover. The other three
injured are doing well and will recover.
The strike among the ice-cutters on the
Hudson river has ended. In most cases
the proprietors acceded to the demands OF
the laborers. Some held out, and the men
resumed work at the old wages.
The Key City block, at Moorhead, MIMI,
which cost $4,000, was burned Friday.
There were some forty persons living In
the block, but all managed to get out
safely, though many had narrow escapes.
In Trenton, N. j., on Friday, Daniel
Dunlsvey, seventy years OF age, was struck
BIZ one OF the city railway horse-cars and
thrown under the wheels OF wagon. one
wbee. passed over Dunlavey's head, Kill
ing him instantly.
James Curran, who resides near Mine
vile, Essex county, n. Y, was found on
Thursday by his wife frozen stiff within
sight OF his house. The night previous,
after drinking freely, be had started to
walk home and sank down in the snow.
II is reported that a gift Of S25O,O00 has
been made by the citizens OF Cambridge,
Mass, to Harvard College, to be used in
erecting new dormitories, in which the
rent OF each room shall not exceed $50 a
year.
The Chief OF Che Bureau OF Statistics re-
ports that the total value Of the exports OF
domestic provisions, tallOw, and dairy pro-
ducts during the twelve months ended De-
cember 81, 1882, was s96,0H, 423, against
S133,332, AIT during the year 1881.
Arthur Scholield, eighty-three years old,
q resident OF Boston, was found dead in
his room on Friday at the st. Stephens Ho-
tel, New York. II is supposed that his
death is due to asphyxia from inhaling
Illuminating gas.
Friday, Judges Lowell and Nelson, Of
the United States Circuit Court Of Boston,
granted the injunction prayed for by Theo-
dore Thomas, OF New York, which re-
strains Joseph G.. Lennon from performing
the sacred tr;logy known rs Gounod's
" Redemption" in Boston.
In the Sussex county az. j. fail is a
haunted cell, which all night long is trod
by spirit with heavy tread, as of cavalry
boots. A prisoner who lately occupied
the cell was discovered throwing Goals at
the ghost, which he could hear but could
not see, and all the cells inmates have been
disturbed by the same sound.
Thcvevo!ution at Oruro, Bolivia, against
the Campero Government has been sup
pressed. A band OF negroes and choices
have committed six murders in Callao and
the ne;ghborhood within the past week.
The Chilians are Furnishing the cuiprits
with summary death, and are actively en-
gagged IN suppresslng these outrages.
The annual report Of the New York Gus
tom-hOlse shows the tonnage receipts for
1882 TO be 1886 i5, divided among 6,327
sailing vessels and 9j1 steam vessels. OF
the sailing vessels 1904 were American,
9, 46i British, Gil Norwegian, $50 German.
and 2Gi Italian. or the steam vessels
America had 1G2, Great Britain b43, Ger
many II, and Italy
The Cincinnati express tram on the New
York Central railroad going east on Friday
morning dashed into the rear Of freight
train or the main track at East Syracuse.
Harry Stemp and Harvey Emmons, brake
men, were injured. but not fatally. No
passengers were hurt. The damage to
rolling stock and freight is considerable.
The switch-teEder was asleep at his post.
The Executive Committee of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, at meeting in
New Yorl, on Friday, in view OF the diff
Guilty Of identifying the stock, the transfer
Of which is prohibited by an injunction
granted by the New York Superior Court
in the Williams case, adopted resolution
closing the transfer books until the morn
ing Of the 25th instant. The Williams case
is set for hearing on the oath instant.
Quite sensation occurred at Fleetwood,
Pa. on Friday. Samuel III. Rothermel,
with force OF twenty-five men, tore up
the large iron-ore wharf, three hundred
feet long, which is being rebuilt in that
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