The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-10-19

Mr.. Case soys that nothing under $780,
600 would tempt him TO sell Jay-Eye-see.
A conflict between Portuguese peasants
and troops at Dominic, Portugal, has
been reported. The disturbance arose
through the female population OF the VII.
lage insisting that the body OF dead wo-
man should he buried In a church instead
OF in a cemetery. Quiet has been restored.
The Figaro publishes a narrative Of a
French officer Of the particulars OF mas
sacre OF natives at Hue by French sailors.
The story relates that after the natives had
ceased to resist they were driven from the
burning village unarmed and were then
shot down in piles. the Frenchmen after
wards numbering those who had been
wounded.
Thirty Mormon missionaries left Salt
Lake city Wednesday in Pullman palace
car bound for the East. Apostle Cannon
1T the last conference announced that elders
going on missions invariably travelled
without purse or scrip. This palace-car
luxury is regarded by saint and sinner as
a new departure. George Q. Cannon and
Delegate Game accompanied the mission
aries.
A glass dish filled with shells was on
manteLshelf in the home Of Joseph
HAYNES, OF South Parsonsfield, Ne. When
lightning struck the building it threw this
dish across the room without cracking 1t
or losing a shell, struck gun, tearing the
stock into pieces, then passed into the sit
ting-roOm, where the family were, and
took q square out Of the plastering. but in
iured no one.
Connecticut's Board Of Health is investi-
eating a poisonous wood from Panama
termed cokoboIa. 1t takes a brilliant pol
ish. and is much used for knife-handles
and ornamentation, but il poisons the men
who work it. Children playing in its saw
dust have had their feet poisoned, and at a
large factory in Elm street, Bridgeport.
chickens have died after eating the dust
that had settled on the grass.
Count Won Streunsee. the unfortunate
Danish reformer, who Succumbed to an
aristocraiic plot in 1872, left some docu-
ments which. being hidden liz a box, es-
capped the notice OF his enemies. tits now
reported that these documents will be Off
cally examined in Copenhagen and pub
lished next year by royal desire, il the
Reichstag votes the necessary sum. The
documents are expected TO throw light on
the drama OF 1872.
The walters OF Rome have been loudly
protesting against the employment OF wo-
men i'm the restaurants and beer shops.
They have published Il protest. which is
hawked about the street. One evening re-
Gently a newSboy entered cafe in the Pr
azza Colonna. and, forgetting that it was
one of the strongholds OF the fair attend
ants, began crying out ''the protest" The
outraged walters rose in anger. and one
young woman seized the
luckless youth by the hair and dragged
him along the piazza.
August Siegert. the German painter,
whose death was announced Yesterday,
was born at Neuwied May 3, 1920. He
studied at Dusseldorf, and produced some
historical and genre pictures; among
others, " Count Eberhardt Of Wurtemberg
seated by the Body OF his Son." suggest
ed by Ubland's ballad; "The Entrance OF
Luther Into Worms" "Joachim l.,
Elector OF Brandenburg, Rendering JUS
tioe TO a Merchant Plundered 10y One Of
the Electoral Suite -; "Frederic Defend
ing his Son, Pressed by the Imperial Sol
diers y; "The Emperor MaXimilian Hold
Ing Ladder for Albert Durer," and
% The Return OF the Trumpet"