Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-10
The Government win not dissolve, hut
VIII reintrod,ice the franchise bill IN Oc-
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Robert Sanders. misersbly dressed
miser. was arrested In SIN Francisco few
Days ago, charged with dlsorderly conduct
In chasing some boys, who hsd annoyed
him. armed with large revolver. Upon
being searched a6i ,J67 In bonds and other
securities and nineteen shares OF gas stock
we're found on his person.
Miss vslhe Case, principal OF the public
school In Sierra, CAL, recently, upon OPEN
ing the stove. IN which there had been no
fire for several days, found II In possession
OF swarm OF bees, which was 81 work
making h0neycomb. The bees had come
down the chimney and pipe, making the
turn Of two elbows before reaching the
stove. Upon being disturbed they attacked
the teacher and pupils and drove them ont
Of the building. They were finally smoked
out.
A Louisville lumber-dealcr went down 10
Franklin. Tenn, recently TO buy IOt OF
"fallen timber" on the MctiaVock firm,
which bad been cut by Gordon Changers
troops during the war rs a protection
against surprise by cavalry from the west
side Of the Harpeih river. After strikin :
a bargain be went out 10 count the logs.
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sticks and at another sixteen. On going
over them again he found only twelve in
the first lot and seventeen in the other.
On making n careful examination he dis
covered one Of the sticks was snake, and
it had changed is position while he was
away.
Dr. George Hay. who has Just concluded
a Ieisurely tour OF Europe, writes TO the
POpulor Science lhont.ly tha1 In taking a
walk through the streets Of Glasgow one is
sure 10 notice from fifty TO one hundred
children in the Irish section between the
ages OF two and thirteen years whose legs
are deformed and distorted in ways which
are remarkable and 10 degrees which
are really hid 'ous. One would think
that the whole juvenile population
was suffering from rachitis or osteO-
malacia. The causes are variously attri-
buted to the water. the air, the change from
corn meal TO wheat bread, the method OF
carrying the children. the mill work. etc,
but DIR. Hay concludes it is owing largely
10 their potato diet and the habits OF the
class they belong to. They live on mud
Goors with leaIiy roofs overhead, never, or
seldom ever, wash. suffer from heat in sum-
mer and cold in winier-in fact, live more
miserable than ANIMALS.
John Bush. a colOred man. has been three
times convicted and sentenced to be hung
for The murder Of Annie Van Meter, the
daughter OF o wealthy farmer, in Fayettc
county, Ky. The crime was committed
four years ago. and the conviction set aside
by the Kentucky Court OF Appeals. His
second trial also resulted in his conviction,
and was set aside by the United States
Court Of Appeals on the ground that the
fury which convicted him bad been select
&c in direct conflict with the amendment
TO the Constitution OF the United States,
which provides that iurIes in criminal
cases must he selected without regard TO
color. His third TRIAL and conviction took
place a short time ago, and the sentence OF
the court was affirmed by the State Court
OF Appeals. Unless Governor Knott in
terfcres. Bush will be hung. The colOre1
people from all parts Of the State have con-
iributed to procure counsel for the ac-
cused.
A Louisville physician has \ pet monkey,
JOckO. which always took great delight in
watching the ladies painting pOwdoring
their f.ces. one Sunday after the family
had gone TO church JockO got can OF
green paint and brush, hoped into the
dressing bureau and painted himself from
head To tail. The doctors vile, who thinks
great deal Of the pet, got q pint OF tur-
pcnline and tried 10 wash the paint of.
He stood the operation herOieally until the
turpentine begsn TO soak into his hide.
Then, with one wild bound and horrible
screech, he sprang about fifteen feet in the
air and struck on the kitchen roof. Then
he scaled the side OF q brick house, up TO
the roof, over chimney tops, along tele-
graph wires. down pole and went tearing
around the block as though pursued by q
cyclone. Returning TO the house he made
war uDOn the Doctor, for whom, by the
way, lac hasn't much love, and before the
contest ended the Doctors hand was badly
lacerated. The Doctor offers 32j TO any
body who will steal the monkey.