The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-03-09
,,.,er News Items.

pr;t,sh sbip-ow Ders threaten 10
Pr ,'ossela ,iuder foreign flag IL inc pro-
nos, nosed shipping bill becomes a law.
r.,,o, Mon. an eloquent Jesuit, has oeen
rhaned from from Spain for delivering SER
mons offensive TO the royalty.
por,s telegram says a duel with pistois
- ,ongbt nj Grayelle Friday between NJ
Y w anslletier. young Journalist, ana NJ.
yiardot. a yioiinist. Both were severely
wounded.
Minister A. NJ. soteldo. Of Veneznela'
annouuced that the statue OF Bolivar,
Ia aosonted m the city OF New York by the
pp lsSi American States, Is now completed
s Oed will he rendered to the city as soon as
site for 1t has been selee,eu. ihi' ''"'''
is TO be placed In Centrai fark'
The Parnellites are irritated at the re-
,.,aoI ~ the Government to reopen the irish
,ond question. Their intention now Is 10
hanin forthwith a great agitation IN ire
Ind They will make strong appeals 10
.aa irish 10 demand an amendment 10 the
,and act Subscriptions to special iund
sor agitatiye purposes will be opened, ana
~ Michael Dayitt's services will be Sc.
onred conference. Of the leaders VIII
bo held r at Easter to discuss the contem-
plated programme.
The House Committee on Military Ahalrs
Friday directed an adverse report 10 nc
made on a bill allowing certain persons 10
die for treasure on the Government ianu
At West Point. The parties are searching
for the treasure said to have been MA along
tbc Hudson river by the famous Captain
Kidd. They say they have sought TINS
treasure along other points on the Iiudson
river. and recently offered the Govern
ment one fourth Of what they may find Tor
permisslon to dig for it on the West Point
military reservation.
Naval officers on duty in the Ordnance
Bureau OF the Navy Department say tina,
the neutrality-suspicious. bill passed by tne
House Thursday makes no provision fof
the completion OF the guns Tor The new
cruisers. and that unless additional steps
are taken il will soon be necessary to sus-
mend work on them. 1t will require $780,
600 more to finish the guns, and with that
amount OF money at hand, and with the
work progressing as rapidly as possible,
all the guns can probably be completed by
the time the cruisers are done. 1t has been
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Guns can be purchased in Europe. but this
plan, they say, would be lmpractlcable.
Such guns are not kept on hand in Eu-
rope, and il made to order could not be
completed in less than two years.
Advices from South Africa state that the
Beers IN Stela-Land are advancing to at
tack Maukoroane. A battalion has been
ordered from Cape Town. Maukoroane Is
the chief who holds the territory just north
OF Griqua-Land. He does not desire to
have his country incorporated with the
Transvaal, and the new western boundary
OF the Transvaal recently agreed upon be.
tween the Boer delegates TO London and
Earl Derby, colonial Secretary OF State
leaves him outside the Beers supremacy
1t seems from the present dispatch that
certain OF the Beers do not accept the
boundary question as settled beyond the
possibility OF being re6pened, and that the
British are determined to protect the native
chief against the Boer encroachments.