The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-04-29
Brief News Items.

The entire debt OF Nantucket, Mass,
has Just been paid of by some unknown
beneiactOr
As Mr.. Jay GOuld's income is estimated
to be - minute, statiStican says that hC
lost Sl3j by the change from solar &c
standard time.
\ peripatetic evangelist il travelling
about Connecticut with pot OF blue paint
and brush painting pious eXhortation,
on rocks and fences.
IN insane man named Max Michael,
aged forty years. living at 9lj LithgOw
street, Philadelphia. Sunday night set fire
to the bed in which he and his One-year-
Old child were lying. and both were burned
to death.
Charles Dun. miner. was found on the
roadside near Bradford. Pa, Sunday morn
inc with his skull crushed. by his side
was baseball bat covered with blood.
lie was last seen about 10 O'Clock Satur-
day night with party OF miners. All had
been drinking.
Adviccs from Western Texas are 10 the
effect that cattle are suffering and large
number, dying for want OF water and
grass. the drought having been very severe
in that section. MyTads OF catcrpilarS
have also appeared and are destroying all
kinds OF vegetation.
Two Anarchists have made confession,
in which they give the details OF the plot
10 blow up the statue OF Germania at
Niederwald. They say that a quantity Of
dynamite was placed in Il drain-pipe I'M
deIneath the monument. Moisture alone
prevented an explosion.
sunday night the interior walls Of IA
twO-stOry building on Smithtield street,
Pittsburgh, occupied by Mrs. Joseph Wag-
ner asa cigar-stOre and dwelling. fell in.
burying two children, Albert and Edward,
AGED respectively sixteen and six years.
Edward was fatally injured. Albert was
badly bruised and cut, but will recover.
William Carroll. AGED sixteen, attempted
to Jump of a moving freight train, on
which he had been stealing ride, at Row
ellsburg, W. Va, Saturday night, fell I'M
der the cars. and was cut in two. His re-
mains were sent to his home in Grafton,
where his father and mother live. Carroll
had been i'm the habit OF stealing rides on
trains for some time.
At Wilkesbarre, Pa, Saturday, Frede-
rick Wagner went into an clubhouse and
struck match to light his pipe, when Il
terrific explosion Of gas took place, de-
molishing the house, blowing him several
feet from the spot and burning his body In
frightfu manner. The cause OF the eX'
plosion was crack in the earth leading
down to Gas deposits in the mine below.
A cable dispatch has been received at
Harvard College Observatory from the
European astronomical centre at Kicl,
Prussia, announcing the discovery Of an
asteroid no. 23G) by Palisa 1t Vienna. It's
position on April 10th ut Al. AS, Green
wich mean time, was: Right ascension,
18Th. 43.5s.; declinatiOn south, 80, 2lm.
As. daily motion IN right ascension, As;
in declination north, Gun. Ii Is OF the twelfth
magnitude.
A Madrid telegram says: by the break
ing OF "A railroad bridge near Cuidad-Real
Sunday morning a tram Of passenger cars
was precipltated into the river. Twenty
persons are reported killed and twenty re-
ceiyed severe injuries. The fact that one
Of the supports Of the bridge was after
wards found to have been cut through
leads to the belief that the disaster was the
result Of malicious work.
John W. Brayley. OF Evanston, Ills,
who arrived i'm Buffalo few days ago, was
arrested for attempting suicide. Brayley
showed signs OF lunacy, and gradually be-
came worse. and sunday he was taken to
the State insane asylum a raylng maniac.
In his rational moments he told what led
him 10 wish to destroy his life. Some
weeks ago he left his home because the pa
rents OF Young lady Of Evanston, with
whom ne was In love, refused to permit
his addresses. His uncle purchased him q
ticket to philadelphia, where he had
friends. hoping to cure him Of his infatua-
ton. While being taken TO the asylum
BrayIey piteousIy mOaned, "oh, where is
she yD The physicians consider his case