The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-12-30
Brief News Items.

The Vulcan steel-works in ST. Louis will
shut down early next month.
The newspapers continue 10 print ru-
mors that the Khedive of Egypt contem-
plates abdicating his throne.
The Argentine Governments is about to
issue four million national dollars TO adj
vance public instruction In the Provinces,
aud for the building Of three hundred
schools.
A Toronto man died OF SMALLPOX twen-
ty-SiX years ago. and last week his grand
child slept upon the same bed and took the
disease. The doctor says the germs Of the
disease were there all that time.
In the vault OF the California State Trea-
sury is acknowledgements sword, OF
which hilt and scabbard are gold. 1t was
presented by the State OF Illinois to Col
onel James Collins for bravery in the
Mexican war.
Two hundred German emierants who
recently went to America, according TO the
81. James Gazette, returned TO Berlin the
other day utterly disappointed in their ex-
pectations Of things on the other side OF
the Atlantic.
1t is asserted that there is 4 one-legged
Confederate soldier in Georgia who has
never drawn any State pension because all
OF his command were killed, and there is
no one to certify to his having been in the
army.
The first volume OF the official docu-
mentS from the Vatican archives at Rome
in reference To Luther and the reformation
have been published, and can now be pur-
chased by any one DESTROYS OF so doing.
Being official documents their first publ
cation is in the Latin language.
The oxford private theatricals, In which
Shylock was performed by company Of
ladies and university men, are a sign OF
the times. Ten years ago such a disaster
as undergraduates acting by permission Of
the Vice Chancellor would have evoked
Cabinet council.
Private advices from Turkestan state
that the Grand Duke Nicholas, feeling I'M
happy in his place OF confinement, attempt
ed to flee 10 India on horseback, but was
overtaken and brought back. Soon after
the accession Of the present Car, his ne
phew. the Grand Duke Nicholas was BAN
ished TO Turkestan for political offences.
C.. II. Dean. who had served an imprison-
ment in the Western Pennsylvania peni
Tertiary for burglary, was about TO go
free, with considerable money-the fruits
of honest labor-when he was rearrested
on 4 requisition from New York to answer
for robbery committed at Ithica The
shock almost Frustrated him, and he wept
like q child.
While Sadie Wickersham, Newlin town.
ship. Chester county, aged fifteen years,
was playing with another girl, bulldog
which generally accompanied the latter
seemed to think that his mistress needed
protection. and savagely attacked Miss
Sadie, tearing her flesh in several places.
The girl might have been killed If some
schoolboys had not driven the dog away
with stones and clubs.
The Standards correspondent at Cairo
saws a telegram from Khartoum reports that
Ell Mahd's troops are advancing upon
Dongola and SEMINAR in two bodies.
Another dispatch from Khartoum says /:
San Arab from FL Obeid reports that Ell
Mahdi has gone to attack SEMINAR. and that
he intends afterward 10 attack Khartoum,
and then consolidate his forces and march
northward."