The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-05-16
THE DEAD.
Brief News Items.

A driven well at Paatka, Fla. 2O7 feet
deep, passed through III feet of rock. 80
feet of shells, and the rest sand and clay.
1t gives $50 gallons Of water per hour, and
throws it to a height of 80 feet.
A party of Dutch emigrants, men, wo-
men, and children, Thirty in NUMBER
Just on from Holland, reached Tallahassee,
Fla, few days since with a view OF set
tlement. They are mostly agriculturists,
and desire TO secure small homes near that
city.
The case OF Fitzgerald and others. ac-
cused OF being Invincibles and OF con-
spIracy to murder landlords and others,
was continued Wednesday at Tubbercurry.
County Sligo. The police confirmed the
testimony given by the informers, TO the
effect that the prisoners had been accus-
toned to meet in place where firearms
were found.
A flower has been discovered in South
America which, ii is stated, is only visible
when the wind is blowing. The shrub
belongs to the cactus family, and is about
three feet high, with a crook at the top,
giving it the appearance OF black hickory
cane. When the wind blows a number OF
beautiful flowers protrude from little Jumps
on the stalk.
The Pail Mall Gazette saws that it Is be-
lieyed in weli-informed quarters that the
proposed Egyptian conference will never
meet, A British prOtectorate, IL declares,
is imperative. 1t advises The immediate
sending OF the Right Hon. George j. Go
shen TO take charge OF affairs at Cairo,
in order Ito save England from disgrace
and Egypt from ruin"
Near the Landy depot, in the Plain st.
Denis, France, one railway Is carried over
another. Wednesday night, owing to an er-
ror OF q pointman, freight train on the
upper road ran into a siding and was pre-
cipitated upon the line beneath at the very
moment when the express to Boulogne was
passing that point. The engine-driver Of
the Boulogne train was killed, and thirty
one passengers were injured.
Mr.. Henry Case, Of Oil City, Pa,
has Just completed the smallest loco
motive ever made, 1t being but eight
inches long and weighing but pound
and half. Three years have been
devoted to its construction. There are $50
screws in the engine. The steam-gauge is
but quarter OF an inch in diameter; the
pump throws but one drop Of water every
stroke the check valves in the pump are
one sixteenth of an inch in diameter; the
headlight is only half an inch in width,
seven eighths OF an inch in height, and
three eighths Of an inch long. The fire is
kindled by using gill of alcohol, which
runs the engine for half an hour.
An Altoona (Pa.) telegram OF the 14th
saws: A boiler IN the shops OF n. c. Penn
sylvania Railroad Company at Ninth ave-
nue. and Twelfth street exploded this after
noon, instantly killing Hayden O'Hara.
one OF the fremen, and badly injuring
Matt Ehinger, another fireman. Five
Others In the building were wounded, but
the extent Of their injuries Is not known.
The entire building. 70 by 200 feet, was
totally DESTROYED, and the windows in the
shops Immediately opposite, where hum
dreds OF men were working, were broken.
George Sanduras, an invalid residing oppo-
site the boiler-house, was struck on the
head by piece OF iron and seriously in
iured. 1t Is reported that he has since
died. Two little girls on the street were
down by dying dfbris and slight
" injured. Hundreds OF men are busy
the wreck, as one OF the firemen
Is supposed to be buried underneath the
dfbriS.