The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-18
Rrief News Items.

Ninety per cent. OF the Russian people
can neither read nor write.
The Chicago Tribune says that nearly
| half the beer-shops OF Chicago are heavily
mortgaged to the brewers.
Hog cholera continues to prevail in por-
tions OF Grccnbrier, Monroe. Summers,
and Fayettc counties. w. Va. A large
number Of hogs have died from its effects
within the past few weeks.
Troubles are reported to have broken
out in the Khyber territory, India. Alb
dulaner, the most powerful OF the Khyber
chiefs. was shot I'm bloody feud on Mon
day. Since 1879 he had been n steady friend
of England.
There are five astronomical obseryatories
in Rochester, with permanently mounted
| telescopes and equipments, more or less
elaborate, not TO mention a number OF
portable instruments with which good
work is done.
The Marquis of Harrington, British Sec
retarv OF State for War, has decided TO
allow General "Chinese Gordon to re-
tain his commission in the English army.
notwithstanding his engagement for SER
vice in the Congo country. General Cor
don started for Brussels Wednesday. and
will 20 thence to meet Stanley in Africa.
The Berlin correspondent of the Daily
Nelrs saws: prince Bismarck is now in
better health than for many years past. He
begins work at : O'Clock in the morning.
The Princes son, Count Herbert Won Bis
marck. has started for st. Petersburg to
assume his duties in the German Embassy
i'm that city, to which he was transferred
from the German Embassy in London"
Nine. Lucca. saws 4 London paper. j. a
devoted mother. and is pursuing her thea
trical career chiefly to provide handsomely
for her only daughter. Young girl. short
" to enter society. Her husband never
accompanies her to Berlin, where he is
well known in his former capacity as major
of the Second Life-Guards. He is her Sc
cond husband and lives very happily with
the diva. who made his acquaintance
during The French war. when she went TO
the front TO nurse her first husband. also
an officer. then dangerously wounded.
The Chief of the Bureau Of Statistic, re-
ports that during the month OF December
there arrived in the customs districts Of
Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Huron, Min
nesota. New Orleans. New York. PaSsa-
maquOddy, Philadelphia, and San Fran
cisco. 2S.9l6 passengers: of whom %, ,6G
were immigrants, 3.61j citizens OF the
United States returned from abroad. and
1.j35 aliens not intending to remain in the
| United States. The total number OF inn
migrants arriyed in the above-named Gus
toms districts from foreign countries du-
ring the year 1889 was $50, 1876, against
1l2,j44 in 1882.
Around almost the entire island OF Cuba
four elevated coral reef-terraces can be
traced. marking as many ancient coast
| lines. The longest reef-terrace has a
height OF thirty feet. and varies in width
| from few rods to a mi @ /; it was evidently
at comparatively recent period the firing
inc reef OF the shore. Behind this Sec
ond and older terrace OF coral limestone
rises to height OF from 200 to 30 feet.
This is banked by third, the elevation OF
which is 800 feet, and this again by a fourth.
which rises near the Yanuiri river to Il
height probably OF no less than 500 feet
There was sad ending TO an elOpement
of young couple in GlOyersyille, y. Y.
last week. At midnight on Thursday last
the young lover arrived at the house OF Il
wealthy manufacturer, by appointment,
ana carried the daughter away with him in
his cutter. The family were aroused,
however. and the irate father took one OF
his horses from his stable and followed the
runaways. He overlook them about ten
miles from the town. dumped the young
man out into the snow. took seat in the
sleigh beside his daughter, and drove
home. while the young Romeo was com.
PEELED to wend his weary way back through
the snow and wind and darkness.