The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-16
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The Tagbidh says that Wagner has writ
ten an autobiography, OF which three CO.
pies are In existence.
The Baltimore Sun reports the death In
that city OF Captain Il. X. Cooper, the dis
cover Of the guano island in the Carrib-
bean sen.
Wilmington, N. c.. for the first time
since the war, is free from past-due bond
ed debt, and its @ per cent. bonds are In
demand at par by investors.
A st. Johns On. b. telegram says: viii
liam Hughes killed his wife with hatchet
Sunday at Willow Grove, twelve miles
from this city. She was almost decapitated.
Mrs. Matilda Paultsch, a professional
singer. has entered suit against the New
York Central and Hudson-Riycr railroad
for S25, 200 damages for the loss OF foot.
In attempting to board train she missed
her footing, owing to misplaced board,
and the ears passed over her foot, crushing
II.
The Galveston Neus Graham special says
n desperate fight took place four miles from
here Tuesday night In an old log house
between four men, two on side, as to who
should have possession. Shotguns, six
shooters, and q Winchester rifle were used
freely. One man was killed and the others
wounded.
A young man named Ballard, who
robbed his sick and helpless father q few
weeks ago at Des Moines, Iowa, upon be-
ing arrested disclosed the fact that there
was large gang OF robbers engaged In all
kinds OF outlawry in the Northwest. The
leader Of the gang, Knowlton, has proba-
bly, fed.
A Bridgeport telegram says The funeral
Of William ID. Gregory, late secretary oil
the Fairfield Agricultural Society, took
place Tuesday afternoon at Wilton, Conn.
at the same hour, in the same room, his
daughter, Mss Anna Gregory, was mar
ried to Mr George Pike, Of Southport.
Rev. Mr.. Thompson, Of the Congrega-
tional Church, performed both ceremonies.
On Saturday Randolph Gilmore, n mu-
latto, was arrested at Columbia, s. c.,
CHARGED with countcrfeting silver coins
and twenty-dolar gold pieces. Two white
boys named William and Semmes Gilmore,
Of Neal's Shoals, Union county, have also
been arrested. The material for making
the coin is said to have been supplied by
parties in New York, Baltimore, and Phil.
adelphia.
The daughter OF Covington (Ky.)
woman, who was worth 100000, was so
badly treated at home that she went to
Cincinnati and got a living rs a seamstress.
When her mother found out her where
abouts she went TO her employers and babe
them beware OF her. The girl was dis
charged. She sued her mother for SANDER,
and the latter compromised by promising
to settle hall Of her estate upon her daugh-
ter.
A special from Madison, Wis, says ::
" Two weeks ago John Sheffield, 4 disso-
lutte character. living near here, quarrelled
with his family and left them. Tuesday
morning their house was set on fire, and
two Of his daughters, one aged fourteen
years and the other an infant, were burned
to death. Mrs. Sheffield barely escaped in
her night-clothes. Great excitement pre-
walls, as il is the universal belief that Shef-
field set fire to the house."
A dispatch from Poplar Bluff, Mo-, says ::
jacob Vincent, prosperous farmer. was
found dead i'm the woods last Friday, four
miles from bis home, at Campbellton,
Franklin county, Mo. The BODY showed
that the deceased had been shot from his
horse and then Drained with the breech OF
rifle. The theory is that Vincent was
murdered for money, and warrant has
been issued for the arrest OF James VIM
cent, a cousin OF the deceased, and step
son and son-in-law.
The Commissioner OF Internal Revenue
has received Il telegram from Collector
Brayton, reporting the destruction on the
18th instant OF two Illicit stills near Saluda
and Tiger mountains, South Carolina, to-
gether with $500 gallons Of beer, 100 gai-
Ions of siugings, and 90 gallons OF whis-
key; also, the arrest of six persons, inclti-
ding Jim Thompson, one OF the gang who
recently raided the house OF David Howard
because Of his services to the Government
in breaking up Illicit distilleries.