The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-01-10
Brief News Items.


ments for the one-hundred-and-lii an
niversary of the landing Of Oglethorpe at
Yamacraw Bluff.
At Reading. Pa, on Monday, Daniel
Savior and Aaron Rhoads, country butch
ers, were arrested on the charge OF selling
the meat Of three hogs which were bitten
bv mad-dogs and died of rabies. 1t is
alleged that a number OF persons became
sick after eating the pork.
Thomas Donahue, a respectable farmer
of Wilhamstown, has made personal APP
nication to the authorities for his commit
! III to n mnatic asylum on account OF an
/ Irresistible desire 10 kill some one. Some
vears ago Dnnahue received a blow on the
be1d. from the effects Of which he has never
recovered.
The Troy Times says that the night after
the election OF Garfield, in 1880, bonfire
WAS kndled on the side OF bill, and ii
communicated to bed Of coke coal, and
! has been burning ever since. Efforts have
been made to eXtingtlish the fire. but they
have all failed. and it continues to eat its
way along the VEN Of Natural fuel.
And now Chicagoaus are in dread OF hav-
inc some Patti fraud perpetrated upon
them. Tickets for the next week have
been selling at high prices for every night.
The two evenings she is to appear are not
speeifed. so II would seem to be whole
sale lottery business as to who shall hear
the songstress. Much indignation is cx-
pressed.
| On Sunday morning q school OF whales
was sighted OF southampton, Long Island,
but the fishermen were fearful OF being
overhaued by the authorities for violating
the penal code, and the whales were per-
mitted TO enjoy their Sunday fTolic undis-
turbed. The mutterings OF the fishermen
were heard for hours after the school had
disappeared.
George Pullen, who murdered James
Dunn I'm Trenton, n. j., about six weeks
AGO. has ATTEMPTED to commit suicide in
his cell several times Of late. On Saturday
night he was caught while attempting TO
hang himself. and Monday night he en-
deavored to cut vein in his arm with q
niece OF glass, but was discovered before
his purpose was accomplished.
The trial OF the anarchists commenced
before the Correctional Tribunal at Lyons
Monday. The approaches TO the court
were guarded by troops and gensdarmes
All the prisoners interrogated thus far adj
NIT carving on the Socialist propaganda
bv speeches and writings, but deny the
charge OF conspiracy. They disavow any
completely in the recent explosions in {
restaurant at Chalons.
A Rome telegram says: The resignation
OF Baron Blanc, Secretary-Gcneral OF For
eien Affairs, and formerly Italian Ambas
sador TO Washington, has been finally &c
cepfed, owing TO a divergence OF opinion
on Egyptian affairs. Baron Blanc ten
dered his resignation rs long ago as JUNE
last, because he considered the prepOnder
ance of England IN Egypt the best solution
i'm the interests OF peace and those OF Italy
A ten-year-old' son of Henry Buck. O.
Centreville, Pa. died Monday from expo
sure 70 cold. His father and some friends
started on fishing expedition, and tht
boy, though forbidden, followed the wagon
Oyertaking it four miles from home. h
clung to the axle for several miles, and wa
then discovered. He was half dead will
exhaustion. While the men fshed the DO!
was wrapped in blanket and laid on som'
brush. Later he was found unconscious
and died within twenty-four hours.
A Washington telegram says {: eth
Marquis Of LoIne recently wrote lette
10 Genelai Sherman asking him il II woulC
be safe for his wife, the Princess Louise
TO winter in Charleston. 1t seems from tn
Marouis's letter that the Princess haC
changed her mind about Bermuda, ant
preferred Charleston. General Sherman
promptly replied TO the letter, stating that
in his opinion, there was no safer or mor'
pleasant place in the United States for th'
', Princess to winter than Charleston"
A telegram from Syracuse, n. Y, say
Calvin II. Gilbert, a prominent resident o
that city, died Monday night. Mrs. Gil
bert detected peculiar Odor in the house
and upon going into the sitting-room
found Mr.. Gilbert lying upon the stove
which was red-hot. His clothing wa
nearly burned off, and his flesh was Sc
thoroughly baked that il stuck to the stove
when Mrs. Gilbert removed him TO Il chair
A doctor was called, but lie was extinct
II is the opinion of the physicians that Mr.
Gilbert fell upon the stove in fit, and was
actually burned to death.
The San Francisco Chronicle publishes
an interview with j. n. Flosher, resident
of Alaska Territory, who was present n
the sbelling Of an Indian village by United
| States naval forces. He says the outrage
was committed at the instigation OF the
Northwest Trading Company, which drove
the Indians away from that part of The
country in order that 1t should be left oper
to the company's own operations: The at
tack was not Justified by the action OF the
Indians. and the naval officers were misleo
by the company's agent, Vanderbilt, and
Collector Of Customs w. G.. Morris.
Several days ago we noted the tria
trip Of the Shaw locomotive without
train, On Saturday afternoon fiye-cai
passenger train was taken out OF the Third
and -Berks-Streets depot, Philadelphia, by
their locomotive, with party OF experts
and Others interested in testing the speed
OF the engine on the train. The run was
TO Bound Brook and return. The fastest
time made was on the return from Bound
Brook, when an average speed OF sixty
one miles an hour was maintained for about
ten miles oil level piece OF road to Skill
( man station. Two spurts each OF seventy
mile-per-hour rate were made, according
! TO the time taken by the Reading Railroad
Company's train-dispatchers.
Prospect for Cheap lee Next Summer