The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-03-09
Rrtef News Items.


will probably be generally introduced I'D
New York at an carly day.
Miss Belle Jones, a sixteen-yenr-oid
schoolgirl, Of Flushing, l.. l., asserts that
her teacher compelled her as punishment
10 walk up aud down stairs 1O4 times. lier
teacher denhs u.
Justice Cullen, Of the Kings County
Court. New York. has decided that an able
bodied messenger must deposit h,s fare IN
the box when riding oil boG-tail car, but
that IL must be collected from cripple.
Miss Ida III. Hosmer, three feet tall, and
Robert II. Huzza, three feet six inches ID
height, midgcts, on exhibition III Drooh-
lyn museum, were married WEDNESDAY Oh
the stage OF the museum. The bridegroom
was a widower.
BApEN-BaDEN, March Tt Is stated
that Prince GoI1schakOf's Illness Is due 10
recent attempts to poison him. After Sc
we're vomiting last week the doctors DIS
covered traces OF PHOSPHORUS. The po-
lice are making an investigation.
it is reported that two hundred settlers
recently invaded that part OF the Sioux In
dian reservation which lies east OF the Mis-
souri, river, and put up shanties there, and
that thousands OF other settlers are pre-
parinp TO follow. The intruderS will be
ordered of the reservation.
A life convict named Samuel Ulum has
lust been psrdoned out of the Michigan
State prison, where no has been confined
twenty. nine years for the murder OF man
named Estabrook, in st. Joseph county,
IN 1853. There Is little doubt that Ulum is
entirely innocent of any connection with
the murder.
A TeXarkana special says: y. l.. John
son, q popular young man. WINS shot dead
in The courtroom Of the Miller County
Court house, in the presence OF the judge,
Jurors, attorneys. and spectators, by &. H..
Dixon, sheriff OF that county. The trouble
arose from Dixon's making war on gam
bling institutions, in which johnson was
silently interested.
Although Kansas has for eleven years
had Il c0pital-punishment law, nobody h1s
been banged except by lynchers. Under
the statute person sentenced To death Is
first imprisoned year in the penitenuary,
and if, at the expiration OF that time, the
death-warrant is signed by the Governor,
the execution takes place; but otherwise
the Imprisonment continues.
A dispatch from Lexington, N. c., to the
Philadelphia Press says desperate aflray
took place alter the closing exercises Of q
public school pear that place between four
brothers named Franks and two brothers,
John and Alvin IIedrick. The latter were
beaten with clubs aud stabbed, one Of them
mortaIy. OF the Franks brothers, one
surrendered himself TO the authorities and
| the Others fled.
A. Hox, oil ~
| Invcsaiy, Scotland. having been sent over
by Lord Lornc in the hope that they might
be permanently introduced into the High
lands. At present they are housed in the
Duke OF Argylps pleasantly at Gienary,
and in Stay they will be turned out. Wild
turkeys have also been imported by the
Duke. These have already been set free,
bat it rs too soon yet to judge OF the sue
cess OF the experiment.
A Geneva telegram says The trade be-
tween Germany and Italy is growing so
fast that the st. Gothard Railway Company
is running extra trains. The increase in
| traffic is mostly in coal and iron, in which
articles England has hitherto had praci-
cal monopoly in Italy. Smuggling, how
ever, is increasing more rapidly Than trade.
1t is conducted by gang Of Swiss and
Italians v no, when arrested, pay fines from
common fund. They are aided in their
operations 10y trained dogs.
A Cleveland telegram OF Wednesday
says: 1Nis afternoon William Lyon, fifty
five years old, went to dwelling occupied
by q woman who was divorced from him
five years ago and asked her TO make a
bowl OF soup for him. While she was pre-
pairing to comply with the request he drew
a revolver and shot her in the face intlict-
ing Il severe, perhaps fatal, wound. Then
he put the pistol to his right temple and
fired, killing himself instantly. lie had
been drinking heavily Of late.
The statistical agent OF the Department
OF Agriculture in London reports con-
tinued rains and floods, great injury TO the
wheat crop, and gloomy npprehensions Of
the worst fnilure for years. The area Is re-
duced, and much resolving will be neces-
sary. There is also much alarm at the
spread Of foot-and-mouth disease among
cattle. Local fairs throughout Great Bri-
tian have been closed, and ordels in coun-
Gil prohibit the movement OF farm animals
from Scotland TO Ireland until the 3lst Of
March.
A Dayton, Ohio. telegram says: Nancy
Walden, rretty-ieaturcd German girl,
and Augustus Cannon. a coal-black negro.
We're arrested here Wednesday, when it
was learned that they were an clipping cou-
pie from Greenfield, Ohio. They were
well dressed, and wore jewels worth con-
siderable money. The Young woman is so
deeply infatuated with her lover that she
leaves home Of luxury TO marry him.
They made no secret OF their intentions.
They were held until evening, when it was
learned that both were Of sge. They were
then released. They left here tonight for
Indiana. where the marriage laws are more
lenient. The young woman is Of very
wealthy family.
A New Haven telegram says A sing,,-
lar case OF insanity was developed here
wednesday. a yong man named Temin
complained to tue city attorney that some
body had shot him in the head. and that
"a bone was broken in the back OF his
Skull" He acted irraiionaHy, and was
locked up for disorderIy conduct. In
court he acted so wildly that Judge Shell
don decided to call Professor Moses q.
White, Al, d.. to examine him. He found
a hattened bullet next to the skull. and
when this was removed Temlin became
perfectly national. The physician said the
patient had not been drunk. Temlin
charged William Cowles with having fired
the shot, but this was denied by Cowles.
The case Vas continued until Friday.
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