The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-02-02
v,-s.r xevs items.


There are fifteen living Freemasons VINO 10
were initiated more than severn! 'c"''
ago.
The Newfoundland sealing steamer Bear
was sold Thursday TO the American SoN
eminent for the coming Greely-reliei ex-
nedition. She l. OF the same age ana ION
mage and similar build 10 the lost Proteus.
She leaves st. Johns for New York week
hence.
II Is under consideration at Huntington,
w. Va, the practcability dripping gas from
the new well struck of Warield Jew
weeks ago. The flow Is said 10 be UMPIRE
cedented. The distance from Huntington
10 the WELLS forty miles, and the project Is
believed 10 be very feasible.
The Shakers of Union village, ONO,
have been victimlzed by Lorenzo DOW
Dobbins, from Virginia. lie joined tne
community six months ago, and becoming
an elder. was given charge OF financial
affairs. lie sold of $500 bushels oil corn
and disappeared with the proceeds last
Saturday. He was traced to MiddietoWn'
where he took train.
During the annual bowl-breaking at the
University OF Pennsylvania, In Phiiadei-
phia, Thursday. the students got INTO tne
street and destroyed considerable properly
The police arrested one OF them, and the
others attacked the police with bricks ana
stones. and followed them TO the station.
house. Several pistol-shots were fired ana
bystander was shot in the hand.
In the case OF large land suit lately
tried in the United STATES District Court al
Charleston, w. Va, ii was decided thai
holding land in peaceable possession for ten
wears, and paying taxes on 1t, entitled the
actual occupant TO good title. The de-
c,sion has naturally an important bearing
upon titles to land held nominaly by many
non-residents, generally spectators.
At noon Thursday sleigh with twenty
seven ladies was upset on Crooked Hiil
Montgomery county, Pa. Some OF the
women were thrown down the mountain
side, and others were trampled upon b,
the horses. Mrs. William IIummcl had bel
nose broken and face badly cut; three sus
tanned serious injuries about the head, and
some of the others were badly bruised.
The Cleveland Herald claims that there
are twenty thousand Bohemians In that
city, and that no other city except Chicago
contains so many. They support two
newspapers, one Republican and one De
mocratic, maintain theatre in steady pros
perity, and several churches, and nearly eve
nv head of family who has lived in the city
for any considerable time has n house o
his own.
A San Francisco telegram says: ON th'
opening of the cable road 10 Ocean Bcacl
number of whiskey, hot-coiiee, ant
doughnul-selers. headed by Dennis Kear
ney. settled upon the strip OF land lyine
between the confines OF Golden-Gate Parl
and High alter Mark. They built shan
ties thereon and began plying their trades
to the annoyance OF respectable visitors
Quiet efforts to evict them failed, the squat
tiers claiming they were on United States
| land, beyond city or State authority. Al
an early hour this morning the park com
missioners, with TWENTY-FIVE men and sis
policemen, all armed, proceeded to Hood
lumvlle and quietly laid the town low
Boards and other property were piled int
heaps, awaiting the arrival OF the owners
who. on the alarm being given. rushed t
| the spot, but too late TO prevent demoli
ton. Bloodshed was expected, but no re
sistance was offered.