The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-04-03
Brief News Items.

Mr.. Gladstone will 60 to the south of
France to spend the Easter recess.
Herbert Spencer's health is failing, and
he has been advised to take long trim
abroad. He will 90 to Australia and New
Zealand.
The Berlin Official Gazette says that Mn
lister Sargent, expecting to receive letters
OF recall, entered an application for leave
OF absence.
An Atlanta telegram says: Measles has
broken out in the jail here, and during
last night and to-day four United States
prisoners have died. The balance, about
seventy in number, will be DISCHARGED to-
morrow on suspended sentences. There
are twenty-nine cases in the hospital.
At the meeting of inventors shortly to
take place in Cincinnati. the first patent
ever issued in the United States will be ex-
hibited. 1t is dated New York, July 81,
1890, and is signed by George Washing
ton, President; Edmund Randolph. At
torney-General. and Thomas Jefferson,
Secretary.
Passenger-trains on the Lehigb Valley
railroad Tuesday night and this morning
had to run through Wyoming Valley, be-
tween Mauch Chunk and Wilkesbarre
mountain. with the greatest care, on ac-
count Of dense volumes OF smoke that came
from forest fires In that region. and almost
blinded the engineers and flremen.
Harry Eichelberger, an employe of the
National Transit Company, Bradford, Pa,
while engaged Tuesday afternoon i'm re-
pairing the roof Of an iron tank contain
ing $4,000 barrels OF oil, fell in and was
suffocated by the oil. He was thirty years
old. living at Allegheny, N. y, and leaves
a wife and four children.
Cheap newspapers have faded out IN
Cincinnati. The Ne,oS was started as a
two-cent. paper, but il soon united with
the Journal aud advanced TO three cents,
but il has now enlarged to a qualto, and is
sold ut Eve cents. The two-cent. Chicago
Ne,oS Is now the only successful cheap
ournai west of Pittsburgh.
Some unknown person Tuesday night
approached the window of Mr.. George
Heider's residence, In East Washington,
and fired q pistol through a window into
the sitting-room, where Mr.. Heider was
sitting. The ball passed between him and
lamp by which he was reading. He Is a
well-to-do grocer. No cause is assigned
for the act.
The Vienna official police report, Just
published, states that the assaSsins Kan.
merer and Schumacher acted under orders
issued by the Central Committee OF Ansr-
chists at New York, Of which Herr Most
is the head. The prisoners are suspected
OF having attempted the murder OF a chem.
lst at Strassburg and Il meney-changer at
Stuttgart.
William A. Hail.. ex-ehief clerk OF the
comptroller's Office at Newark, Yesterday
retracted his plea Of not guilty and pleaded
non pnH 10 Two indictments for embez-
cling taxes paid TO him in 1878 and 1879.
lie VIII be sentenced on Friday. There
are yet five indictments for forgery
and three for embezzlemeat--agai him,
which will be disposed OF then.
The British troops have sailed from
siakim for Suez. The British ministry Is
still In doubt as 10 It's policy In the Soudau,
and has ordered = report as to the FEAST
bility OF the Berber route for another ex-
petition 10 relieve Khartoum; also, II a
gunboat hotilia can be man9uyred adj
yantageously on the Upper Nile. Much Is
hoped from the mission OF Admiral Hew-
EFT 10 the King OF Abyssinia. In the mean
time the people Of Khartoum are crying |
for aid.