The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-07-07
Brief News Items.

The committee on the revision Of the
Old Testament continued its sessions in
New York Thursday. The comparison OF
the work OF the American and English
committees was completed.
Three bushels Of pistols were captured
by the Philadelphia police on Wednesday.
The weapons were mostly found in the
hands OF children, many being OF the
"Climax pattern, which has heretofore
proven so disastrous TO those who used
them.
A mysterious explosion occurred in the
store OF w. & j. Malone, at Troy, n. T.,
Thursday morning. The front and rear
walls were blown out, and the store was
badly shattered. II is thought that case
of powder was purposely ignited with q
view Of destroying the building.
At Matamoras, Pa, Thursday night John
Saunders and John Heater engaged in q
drunken brawl. The latter struck the for
mer blow in the temple, telling him to
the ground. Saunders was picked up in
an unconscious condition ard died about
midnight. Heater has fled into New York
State.
John II. Beasley, who ran for Governor
OF Tennessee on the low-taX ticket. has
filed bill in the Chancery Court at Nash
vile praying for an injunction to restrain
the State Funding Board from funding
what are known as the "railroad" bonds,
which comprise sevenyeighths OF the State
debt.
There is an~anti-white feeling on the
Caughuawaga native reservation, in Cana.
da, which is rs intense against ha breeds
as full.bloOded whites. This feeling is eX-
pected to cause trouble at the eviction OF
John Deer, a half-breed, whosed forced
exit the Indians demand and the Govern
ment comedies.
A Cleveland telegram of the Sd says :
Two balloon ascensions were made yester-
day. Professor King ascended from Mon
umental Park with A. ID. Davis, OF Chica-
60, and Rose Kennedy, OF Springfield, ILL.,,
who were married in the balloon and then
made an aerial bridal trip, going up into the
clouds and safely landing few miles from
this city.
Mrs. Linnamirc, at Harrison, Ohio, while
cleaning the house on wednesday, found
a tin package, which she gave to her nine
year-old son, thinking it was an empty
box. He attempted to pry il open, and, IS
it was torpedo, it exploded with terrible
force, blowing the top OF the boys scalp OIL
and iniuring him so severely that he can
not recover. His face and head are horrl-
bly, mangled.
An agile tourist spent half day climb
ing up the face OF precipice in California
in order to paint his name high on the
rock in huge letters. Then he was inform
ed by the owner Of the property that he
might repeat the feat to scrape OFF the dis
figuring letters or stand a lawsuit for
damages. He could hire nobody to do the
lob, and so made the ascent, but with far
less vim than at first.
A girl with singularly-arched eyebrows
attracted attention, and as her hair was
pulled back hard from her fOrhead, an OBJ
server guessed that the taut skin was re-
sponsible for the pecullarity. "fou're
wrong entirely" said his companion ;
"she's wearing what the girls call 'sur-
prised eyebrows It's done with touch
or two OF black pigment. That going to
be the rage this summer"
A Laredo dispatch to the Galveston
Nelrs relates the particulars OF the aSsassl-
nation Of II. Mias, a prominent Jewish
merchant Of Benevides, last Monday night,
bv a Mexican named Vela. Vela was
standing in booth at a Mexican fair,
when, without warning, he stepped up TO
the merchant, and shielding himself be-
hind bystander, fred from siX-shooter
the fatal ball. A few days previous the
Mexican, while drunk, had been elected
from store by Mas. A reward OF Sl,5OO
has been offered for the capture OF the
murderer.
The Norwegian bark Goldbringa, from
Vera Cruz, arrived at Pensacola quarantine
July 4th, having the evening previous
buried at sea one Of the crew, who died ol
yellow.fever. There was another case on
board at time OF arrival, and the. patient has
since died. The Norwegian bark ING
doms, Werner, also from Vera Cruz, ar
rived on the morning Of the 4th in charge
OF the mate, the captain having died OF yel-
Iow-iever and been buried at sea the day
previous. While en- route there was an
other case on this vessel, and third was
reported subsequent TO arrival. Both YES
sells are rigidly isolated at quarantine.