Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-03-18

Rrief News Ifcnss-
Large coal deposits have been dis
covered in the heart Of Mexico.
A herd of cattle near Para, ILL.,, are
afflicted with rinderpest. Five animals
have died and thirty are now down with
the disease.
Mrs. Mary Ann Borer was burned to
death in her residence at Shelby, Ohio.
Her husband was lying sick in bed in
another room and unable to 60 to her
assistance.
The death of Elizabeth Weeks, a CO.
lored woman, at the age Of one hun
dred and seven years, was reported AZ
the Bureau Of Vital Statistics in New
York Monday.
j. d. Chickering, clerk of the lie
Flore County Miss Circuit Court,
while out hunting on the 18th instant
was caught in a hail-storm. and was so
severely injured by hail that he died be-
fore reaching home.
A dispatch from Irkutsk states that
the Polar scientific expedition under
Baron Toll and DR.. Bunge is snow and
ice-bound near Tundren. Ii is feared
that most of the members of the eSpe-
dition have persisted.
1t is said that during the last twenty
years there has been taken from the
Sierra forests on Lake Tahoe and the
Truckee basin timber amounting IN
value to $50, 1000. 900, and paid for at
the Virginia New mines.
Fay s. Wilder, of Cincinnati, was
drowned in the Halifax river between
Rock Ledge and Datoona, Fla, on the
9th instant. His yacht was upset in
squat, and he was drowned in attempt
ing TO swim ashore. His son was
picked up by steamer.
Edward Yard, arrested at Boulogne,
France. several months ago, charged
with embezzling 100000 from the
estate of the late Charles G.. Shaw, OF
New York, of which he was agent, ar
rived in that city Monday on the steam
ship Normandie in charge of de-
tectives.
The instruction in Cochin China is
spreading. The Annamites have cap
tured a, town seven miles from Sal
gon and maSsacred the inhabitants.
The French have asked for 10000 re-
Inducements in Tonquin, and Admiral
Courbet calls for 1000 more to hold
FOrmoSa.
Mr.. Gladstone has recommended
Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant Of Ire
land. TO the Queen as deserving to have
conferred upon him some signal mark
of royal appreciation for the conSpicu-
Gus ability he has displayed in the man
agement Of her AIajcsty's affairs in
Ireland.
Charles Colborn. engineer in the judi
son & Nipple flouring-mills at Water
ford, Pa. met with a terrible death
Monday. a stoppage in the machinery
led the foreman to make an inyestiga-
ton. when it was found that the en-
gincer had been caught in "A pulley and
crushed into a shapeleSs mass. The
deceased was thirty-nine years old and
leaves family.
Frank Crowther, a boy. was tried in
Philadelphia Monday for shooting and
killing Harry +. Thompson, sixteen
years old, on February lSt. Although
it was shown that CrOwther had snapped
the pistol four times before it went off.
the jury believed Crowthcr, who said
he didn't know it was loaded. and ac-
quilted him. The judge rcprimanded
the jury and held Crowther in s 600
bail to keep the peace for one year.
-Four more persons have been arrested
as accompliceS Of Xcbehr Pacha in his
treason against the Khedive. The Bri-
fish dispatch boat Iris has sailed for
Malta. having Zebehr Pacha and two of
his sons on board. The compromising
documents which led to the arrest Of
Zebehr Pacha and his sons consisted Of
letters. and were found by General
Brackenbury among the rebel effects
which fell into his hands. Lord WolSe-
ley recommended the arrest.
DR.. Armenius Vambery. professor of
oriental languages in the University of
PeSth, asserts that Penjdeh and the
whole country between the Henri Rood
and IIerat is now. and has been fer at
least three centuries. an integral part
of Afehanistan. Professor Vambery is
the greatest living author of standard
literature upon the countries and peo-
piles directly affected by the present
Russian advance. and spent the time
between 1860 and 1854 travelling among
them as a deryiSh.