The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-02-14
Brief News Items.

Tire Paper-Makers' Association OF New
York has decided, IL the consent of so per
cent. of the manufacturers OF light aud
heavy wrappiug-paper is obtained, 10 re-
quest all mills in the State to shut down for
three months from April L.
The exports. exclusive of specie, from
the port OF New York for the week which
ended Tuesday were S5,773,340, against
$G, 157 ,092 for the corresponding week last
year. The total exports since January 1st
to date are S39, S46,666, against $40, POS, 023
last year.
The Duke of Abercorn has thirteen
| titles, each of which represents separate
peerage; the Marquis OF Butte has fifteen !;
the Dukes OF Argyle and Baccleugh have
each sixteen; the Duke OF Hamilton sew
enteen; and the Duke Of Athol, with
twenty-three, stands top of the tree.
George Davidson, chief clerk OF the SUBJ
sistence department OF the United States
army, stationed at Chicago under CommiS-
sary Michael p. Smith in 1879 and 1880,
was arrested on Tuesday morning on q
charge OF embezzling $4,000 during the
years named. Davidson confessed his guilt,
and was held in bail at $500 for trial.
Trouble is in preparation for England in
India. The new ruler Of Hyderabad,
a practically independent but always
| friendly State, is not yet eighteen, and is
an impassive voluptuary; the new premier
| is not twenty, and naughty aud indiscreet,
while the always turbulent mobiles have al
ready begun TO fight among themselves.
The Mayor OF Jersey City on Saturday
married an Italian couple giving their
names as Count Francisco st. Angelo and
Madeline Nell. The bride was peasant
girl who worked in the lovers vineyard,
and the Count meeting her during a visit
| to his estate proposed marriage to her. So
much opposition was raised by the Counts
aristocratic friends and connections that
the pair fed to this country to be married.
At banquet given in Paris to the lead
ing members Of the Scientific Press, M. de
Lcsseps stated that the scheme for creating
La sea In the desert OF Sahara would shortly
be realized. NJ. Roudaire, the French
| photographer, who conceived the project
OF cutting through the dunes which sepa-
rate the Mediterranean sea from the desert.
in order to transform the arid sands into
fertile country, is about to start for Tunis,
armed with the necessary firman from the
Sultan to begin operations.
The well-known Red Lion public house,
In Fetter lane, London, Is being demolish-
ed to make way for improvements. That
ancient tap has since been everything by
turns and nothing long. 1t has done duty
rs a hotel, q warehouse, registry Office, q
church, a chapel, synagogue, meeting
house, an Odd-Fellows' hall. Masonic
lodge, Buffalo lodge, sponging-house. a
private lodging-house, wherein two I'M
lucky men, Chatterton and Savage, lived for
a time, and has seen its last days as an eat
ing-house.
An American spiritualist named Bastian
gave aseance At the Imperial Palace, Vienna.
Tuesday at the invitation OF the Crown
Prince Rudolph and the Archduke John,
Bastian summoned the spirits from room
adjoining that In which The exhibition was
given. whereupon o tall figure in mourn.
ing appeared before the awe.stricken spec
tators. Suddenly the Grown Prince
pulled string closing secret door, when
the spirit, who was Bastian himself, made
frantic but vain Efforts TO escape amid the
laughter Of the assembiage.
The number Of British subjects entitled
10 wear a ribbon or badge OF the Queens
giving IL about 1000, all told. OF the Gar
ter there are 80 knights, 81 English and
q foreign; Of the Thistle, 81; OF the
Order Of ii. Patrick, Is; OF the Bath, 81
Graud Crosses, 70 English and 10 foreign;
203 knights commanders, and 028 com
panions and officers, making total OF
!, 223 members OF the order; OF the Star OF |
IN 4 IA fbore tvn,a OF knighfe ord c.xz.,.,,