The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-03-10
Brief News Items.

Women are now eligible for certain p0-
sitions on the Belgian State railroads.
W. II. JostS. q wealthy Ncw-YOrker,
committed suicide Thursday by shooting.
at tae residence OF the American Consul at
Dunfermline.
4 New York telegram Of Yesterday says:
Twelve persons were reported TO the police
to-day as having mySteriously disappeared.
The list includes girl fourteen years old
and woman Of seventy. A general alarm
was sent out to the various precincts for
the missing ones.
In return for the autographs which Sem
tor Tabor so industriously collected, the
thirty-days' Senator gave to each OF his col
leagues unique present. This was an
elaborate aiter-wedding card, bound with
heavy band OF Colorado silver, and cost
ing $3.50 each.
The garrison Of Berlin numbers 17.S13
men: Metz. 14,411; Strashurg. 1865; May
ence, 7,712; Cologne, 7.Gj5; POtsdam.
$3.50. Seventy other towrs have garrisons
over 2,0OO-three Of these being over G,000
and three over 5000 ard there are 2GG
garrisoned with less than 1000. And this
is a peace establishment!
The new town of Naples, in Idaho, on
the Oregon ShOrt-Linc railroad, maint9ins
a iail which is at once cheap and secure.
1t is nothing more or less than deep hole
i'm the ground, -nto which prisoners are
dropped with the gIim warning that The
guards will put bullet through every
head which appears above the edge.
An advertisement Of the late Ncwhall
House, Of Milwaukee, still appears in some
trade Journals ont West, containing the fOl'
lowing recommendations to travellers ::
Patent iirc-cscapes provide means OF exit
from every floor in case OF emergency. The
hotel employes are kcptin constant training
as ire department, and every lloor Is sup
piled with water and hose
Emil Gattstein. hoy fifteen years old,
who has been a constant reader OF the per
nicious stories i'm the pictorial papers for
bows. stole SO belonging 10 society OF
which his widowed mother was treasurer
and abandoned his home in New York on
the 9Th instant. When arrested he had q
blunderbuss, four pistols, and a Scalping-
knife. with which to fight the Indians.
4 Pittsburgh telegram says: John Mono
oaban, who was stabbed by John Ross sat
|
oahan, who was an unoilcnding citizen,
was entirely unprOyoked. He was on his
vay home when Ross accostcd him, in
curing il he was Catholic, and upon be-
inc answered in the negative Ross drew q
long knife and plunged it in Monogahan's
back.
Several men were killed 10y the falling Of
q wall during the burning OF LitteT's drug
store i'm Nashville, Tenn, on Wednesday
night. Thursday the bodies Of Thomas
Womack. a mculder; William Miller, Il
boiler-maker, and John Firth, formerly a
noliceman, were taken from the ruins.
They were saving property in an adjoining
building when crushed by the falling wall.
The work Of setting the stone on Wash
ington's monument will be resumed about
April 1st. The force OF stone-cutters are
now at work cutting the blocks OF marble.
1t will require two seasons more to com
Dlete tlfe shaft, as 2lj feet will have TO be
added. The block from the King OF Siam
is expected TO arrive at New YORK in few
days. The State OF Texas has also pre-
sented block OF native stone, which Will
be forwarded in short time.
An incidental feature in the star-route
case lust come to light is IN assault made
by ex-senator Dorsey on Judge Lilley at
the formers residence. Rerdell, in an in
teryiew, makes another statement regard
ING the Belford check, and accounts for its
being in the latter's possession from the
fact that Beliord was the stakeholder In 4
game Of cards played on a train, and that
Dorsey was one OF the players. Dorsey is
out in n card, in which he acknowledges
the assault, but denies the game OF cards.
A Washington telegram says: A report
is current that short time before the adj
journmcnt OF Congress an attempt was
made by some person unknown 10 assas-
sinaie cX-Secreary Blaine by shooting Into
n carriage in which he was seated while re-
turning from one Of the night sessions at
the Capitol. Mr.. Blaine treats the matter
lightly, and says that the hole through the
window OF the landau in which he rode
was probably made by pebble thrown by
some boy with "dcvPs sling" His
family, however, are said 10 take more
serious view Of the occurrence.
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