The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-22
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Indiana has 3.737 church edilcies, val
ned at Sl2.555, 900. She pays her ministers
81 37,337
Queen Victoria is now able 10 take short
walks, but she cannot stand upon her feet
longer than few minutes at time. Her
heath otherwise is unaffected.
The Nationalist meeting ut Boyle, County
| Roscommon, Ireland. Sunday, was at
tended by five thousand persons. The
meeting was addressed by Messrs. O'Brien
and Kenny, members OF Parliament.
A riot broke out at EnniskiIlen, County
! Farmauagh, Ireland, on Saturday. A body
OF police charged the mob, and was assailed
/ by the Nationalist with volley OF stones.
! The Orangemen also stoned the police, and
afterwards stoned the Catholic schools.
The doctors attending two children OF
| Lcgrand Strong, OF Amsterdam, New
York, who are suffering from dipbtheria,
declare that they contracted the disease
/ from doll. formerly the plaything Of 4
sister who recently died OF dIphtheria.
The chair which was used by her Royal
Highness Princess Louise at the opening
aud closing OF Parliament. during her res
dence in Canada, has been shipped to her
ROYAL Highness Us SOurenr OF her So
iourn in the Dominion.
Germany is rapidly increasing her beet
root culture. Ninety new factories were
started last year. and nearly As many more
1 are in course OF construction. Beet-rOOt
sugar from France and Germany will soon
be coming in competition with the Louis
lana cane-sugar, in spite OF the tariff.
In Philadelphia Friday the jury in the
suit OF George X. Duncan against the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, to recov-
er damages for injuries to the plaintiffs
property by the construction OF the ele-
waited railroad, returned verdict award
ing $4,000 damages to plaintiff
Fred. G.. Pile, brakeman, while I'M
coupling cars Sunday at Shreveport, La,
on the New Orleans Pacific railroad, got Il
! foot fastened in frog. and, being unable
to release il. was killed by the ears backing
on him. He leaves wife and two chill
drcn
In New York Friday Martin w. Culby.
q clerk IN one Of the uptown branches OF
the pOst-oflice. was sentenced by Judge
Benedict TO three months Imprisonment in
Ludlow-Street Jail for careleSsness and
neglect OF duty. by which large number
Of letters entrusted to his care were never
| transmitted.
Daniel Reiff, n Pennsylvania railroad
conductor, on the route between Philadel-
phia and Washington, was arrested Friday
ir Philadelphia upon the charge OF embez-
Zling tickets and with conspiriDg with
others TO defraud the company. He waived
a hearing and entered $1,000 bail to appear
at court.
At Miles City, Montana, Saturday attach
ments TO the amount OF $40, 600 were levied
on the stock OF the general store OF &. W.
Savage IL Sons, making total OF $4,000,
now levied, and representing little more
than half the firms liabilities, according to
the statement recently made to the creditors
in It. Paul. 1t Is said other attachments
will follow soon.
The German screw corvette Olga, ten
guns and $40 men, commanded by Captain
Baron Won Seckendortf, arrived in Bermuda
on the 18th instant. The Olga has been
cruising IN South American and West In
dia waters, and has on board Prince Helm
rich, OF Prussia, second son OF the Crown
Prince OF Germany and Prussia. She will
proceed on the 23d instant for the Western
Islands, and will thence go to Germany.
One Of the wild ideas OF the famous
French writer BalZac was TO open grO-
Gerry. store on the Boulevard dies Italiens,
put up the sign "Honore de Balzac.'
dress himself in a blouse and serve his
customers, and have Gautier to roast the
coffee, Gerard de Nerval to sell mustard.
and George Sand to take the cash. This,
he said, would set all Paris agog, custom
ers would flock in by thousands, and he
would make an enormous fortune.
In the mint at San Francisco there are
fifty women employed at a salary OF 1910
per day. The hours are from O'Clock in
the morning until in the afternoon, with
the exception OF Saturday, when work
ends IT 2 Their business Is TO weigh the
gold and silver after it has been rolled,
annealed. cut and washed, and they are
known as adjusters. Each piece should
weigh 412t grains for silver dollar to be
up to the standard, slight discrepancy
being allowed on either side. II coin is
found TO be outside the limit it Is returned
by the adiuster; il inside, Is condemned
and must be remelted; II too heavy II Is
fled to ITS proper weight.
In the archives of the Patent Office in
Washington, the models OF sewing-ma-
chimes and their parts are numbered by
the thousands. The Oldest label which ap-
pears upon any of them is dated February
81, 1912. The inscription Is "P. James
Greenough, Washington, ID. e.. machine
for sewing straight seams" The instrll-
ment itself looks like n small section OF
elevated railway, and it turns with hand
crank. II does notappear how II could ever
sew "seam.2 The next one was patented
December, q, lS43, Ivy G.. w. Corliss, who
calls 1t on the label g sewing engine" II
is an enormous thing, and in some respect:
bears a sug gestion OF the Corllss engine
which ran the machinery at the Centennial
exhibition.
The Roman Catholic Cathedral at West
minister is 10 be commenced forthwith. II
Is to form the centre OF vast quadrangle
comprising the site Of the Tothill-teld'
prison. recently purchased for fl15,OOt
from the MiddIesex magistrates, and q sit,
adjoining, long in possession OF Carolina
Manning. As frontage, 10 this vas
square, houses are to be built In archi
tectural keeping with the building, and o
i, n character TO adorn the ncighborhood
The Cathedral itself, which Is to cost some
thing like half a million. Is to be $40 feet IL
length and $50 feet i'm width. Westminste
Abbey Is 5l1 feet In length by 203 fee
across the transepts. The plans OF tn
new Cathedral are borrowed from Ger
l nj at A,