The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-03
Brief News Items.

| The steamship Daphne. which upset ana
sunk when launched on the river Clyde,
has since been raised. The bodies recoy-
cred number los, all OF which have been
identified.
A party Of men, headed by band OF
music, marched through the streets OF
Blissvlle. i. l., at late hour wednesday
night, and burned an efligy Of James Carey,
the informer, which they had carried with
them throughout the line OF march.
At an ice.cream festival in Union, S. c.,
on Saturday, thirty persons were poisoned
! by eating ice-cream that had been prepared
in brass vessel. No deaths have yet oc-
Cured, but SOME OF the victims are in a
very dangerous condition. No criminal
intent is charged against any one. but gross
carelessness, and the matter may undergo
investigation.
Three miraculous cures are reported to
have occurred on the pilgrimage OF Ottowa
people to the shrine OF st. Anne de Beau
pre-. One was of a girl named LavOnia
| Dorion, who had lost the entire use OF one
OF her legs several years ago by accident.
| The other cures ere those OF two children,
six years old, who had never been able to
walk. Father Labelle vouches for these.
The superb Norman Gothic building
known as Ogontz, erected by Jay Cooke
twenty years ago, near Chelten Hills, Pa,
has been transformed into ladies' semina-
~ for the Misses Bonney and Dillaye, here
toiore located in Philadelphia. Mr.. Cooke
has spent 100000 in improving the build
ing, and is furnishing il at cost OF $4,000.
The building contains nearly one hundred
rooms
Bernard G.. Semig, assistant surgeon OF
the United States army, was found dead
Wednesday morning in his room at the Occi-
dental Hotel, San Francisco. Deceased was
lying on the bed with hottie labelled
Poison" by his side. Army officers re-
ject the theory OF suicide, and claim that
death resulted from beart-disease. An au-
topsy will be held. Surgeon Semig had 4
brilliant record. lie lost leg in the Mo-
doe war.
In Hampstead county, Arkansas, few
days ago two white men, Wyatt and Mont
gomery, had row about some land with
Il couple OF cOlored men. One OF the white
men broke the stock Of a shotgun over one
Of the colored mems head. Tuesday a
band OF colored men went to the school
house where Wyatt was teacher and shot
him dead. Great excitement followed,
and at the latest reports both whites and
blacks in the neighborhood were collecting
and arming. but up to this afternoon there
had been no further outbreak.
Mace Jones and Richard Liysey attempt
ed to drive 4 man named Wilson out OF
BrOoklynyile, H., Wednesday evening.
Marshal Green, in protecting Wilson, had
a u,Iarrpl with Homes durjnO which threofs
OF shooting were freely INDUCED in. At
about IL O'Clock Green and Jones again
met. each being armed with shotguns and
revOlyers. Five shots were fired, one OF
which entered Green's groin and produced
death this morning. Jones received two
wounds in the arms and in the head, and
another through the left breast, which is
pronounced fatal.
A special to the Journal from Newport,
VT, says "The express train on the South
eastern railroad from here to Montreal was
derailed three miles from North Troy, and
the whole train was wrecked. Two par
lor ears, one baggage and one passenger
car and new engine were made a COM
plete wreck. One lady from Derby was
fatally injured, and some fourteen Others
were seriously hurt. Fred Pierce, OF STAN
stead, and his servant. were badly hurt.
Some OF the injured were brought to New
port Centre and North Troy. IL IL the
most severe accident OF the kind that has
ever happened in this vicinity. Tomorrow
VIII disclose the full extent OF the disaster.
Everything is being done by the railroad
company for the sufferers. There were
fifty passengers aboard, and IL is a great
wonder that so MANY escapeIc