The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-05-16
Brief News Hens.

The cotton-mlliS at Anniston, Ala, have
just shipped 1000 bales Of goods to China,
and have orders for 600 more.
The heads OF $50 Shinwaoris have been
taken 10 Jellalahad and displayed on the
city's gates by order of the Ameer.
The published reports in regard to Prince
BiSmarck's condition are exaggerated. De-
spite his neuralgia the Prince continues 10
attend to affairs Of state.
Major Wasson. the defauting army pay
master. who pretended to have been rob-
bed, says that he used the money TO help
his father through temporary mercantile
embarrassment, intending to return it.
Rev. Charles T. Steck, late pastor of a
Lutheran church at Pittsburgh, made a
successful d6bW on the stage at Indiana,
Pa, on Saturday night, as Hamlet and
Richeieu. The hail was crowded with the
best people Of the town.
On Saturday night George Butner (col-
ored) was discovered murdered in the
street at Powder Spring, Ga. His wife
was found standing over him with 4
bloody knife in her hand. She has been
held for the murder.
Two small boys in New York succeeded
in rObbing julius Shaak Of his watch few
DAYS since. One snatched his watch while
the other ducked his head and running
between Shaak's legs threw him down and
held him until his companion escaped.
During the time the cable lines between
Cape Town and England have been inter-
rupted there has been a general rising in
BaSutoand. AdviceS from there OF the
10th instant reported that there was fight
ing on all sides. Reports of the 18th, how
ever, stated that quiet had been fairly re-
stored.
A cable message received at Harvard OBJ
seryatory at noon Monday from DR.. krue-
ger, at Kiel, Prussia, announces the dis
covery OF a new asteroid 10y BARELY. Its
position at the time of discovery, May llth,
at 3:45 hours, Greenwich mean time, was
right ascension 14h. ION. 32s., declinatiOn
south, 40 L. 1t is Of the eleventh magni-
tude.
The Cumberland (Md.) Times says ::
Joshua Kimberly, who resides on savage
Mountain, and who has lost the use OF his
lower limbs since a child, crawled five
miles to the railroad and took the train this
morning for Cumberland to see the circus.
He saws he comes down oil the mountain
Twice wear 10 iht NhNhN "hN N'4NN
to attend camp-meeting.'
4 st. Louis telegram SAYS an encounter
occurred i'm the clerks Office Of the Crimi-
nal Court in that city Friday between two
attorneys. Marshall +. Mcdonald and T..
W. Fauntlerov, son Of Judge Fauntleroy Of
the Virginia Court Of Appeals. The gen
tlemen got into an alteration over the trlal
OF case in the Criminal Court, and settled
the matter afterwards by a regular set-to in
the clerks Office. Both came out with
bloody noses and black eyes.
Henry f. Hudson. a spiritualistc writer
and amateur poet, was Yesterday held IN
default of $500 bonds for action Of the
Grand Jury at North Adams, Mass, on a
charge Of robbing Cashier Ingalls's house
of iewelrv, &c. A complete set OF burg
lars tools was found in HudsOn's posses
sion. !. Fred. Metcalf, HudsOn's part
ner- was held in the same amount. Metcalf
l. twentv-four years old, and, with the eX-
cention of nine months, has been in jail
continuously since he was seventeen.
The Galveston Ne,cS'S Winnsboro' spc-
cial saws: 4 terrible tragedy occurred
twelve miles west Of here Saturday night.
William Galbreath was shot five times and
killed bv Charles Darnel. Both left town
on tbe same route. Darnell riding some dis
tance ahead. When near home he waited
for Galbreath. After the deed he went
nuietly TO the house, where he was arrested.
Darncll's wife is a cousin Of Galbreath, at
whose house she has been living. The dead
man is ALLEGED to have been concerned IN
the marital troubles Of his slayer. ne
leaves wife and several small children"
Mrs. Lucien Moss, the daughter OF Ben
ianin Nathan, of New York, who was mys-
/ teriouslv murdered in New York about ten
wears ago, committed suicide saturday al
her residence, in Philadelphia. Her mind
became impaired some years ago, ana she
has twice been an inmate OF an insane
ASYLUM. returning home each time Wnen
her health had improved. The los: OF her
only child was a shock from Which Sh'
never fully recovered, and recently she be-
came habitually melancholic. she took iau'
danum Saturday, and soon died. She wa
a niece Of the wife OF eX-Judge tardezo
Of New York. She was about iorty-hVe
wears old, and in former years was wei
known in society.