Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-03-19
Rricf News Items.

Erfcf news items.
England will propose to the Suez
canal commissioners that the canal be
an absolutely neutral waterway.
The Irish Conservatives in Parlia-
ment repudiate Sir Stafford Northcote' S
leadership, and will form a separate
wing.
Spain is excited over an attack by
Morocco tribes on flag Of truce, in
which a number Of Spanish officials
were wounded.
Postmaster W. Il. Rich, of Camden,
Me-, has resigned, giving as his reason
that the Office should be filled by some
one in accord with the Administration.
The Maryland University graduated
- young men in medicine and 80 in
dental surgery. Fifteen of the former
and Is Of the latter were from Nir-
ginia.
A counterfeit 500 gold piece Of the
date 1880 made its appearance in Bos-
ton Tuesday. 1t is made almost en-
tirely Of lead from cast Of the genu-
inc coin, and is battery gilded.
4 dispatch to the London Daily TeIe-
graph from AmbukOl says that Arabs
report that Olivier Pain has recently
passed near Debheh. Boats are pa
trolling the river on the lookout for
him.
Mrs. Powers has presented to Eman-
ucl Reformed Episcopal church, Phils-
delphia. the deeds and rnsurance-poli-
cies, aggregating s35, 900, which her
late busban6-Thomas II. Powers
held against the church.
General Edward Wood has been COM
missioned by Governor Wilson adju-
tant-general and er-of.cio State libra
rian of West Virginia. General Wood
was acknowledgement under Governor
Matthews from 1877 to 1881.
4 dispatch to the Louisville Courier
Journal says Stewart Cumgardner, a
deputy sheriff, was shot dead from an
ambush, four miles from MOreheal,
Tuesday evening. II is said he sided
with the Martin faction in their recent
trouble with the Tolliyers, which caused
so much excitement in Rowan county.
The Rhode Island Senate Tuesday
cOncurred with the House in proposing
a constitutional amendment prohibiting
the manufacture and sale Of intoxicating
liquors to be used as a beverage, and
the Senate passed resolution proposing
an amendment to the Constitution which
shall give to every woman the right to
vote under the same conditions as men.
Gordon W. Burnham. the venerable
millionaire. is lying seriously i'll from
pneumonia at his residence. on Fifth
avenue. New York, and his death is
almost hourly expected. He was to
have been married next Saturday to
Miss Kate Sanborn, the authOrcsS and
lecturer. 1t is rumored that Mr.. Burn
ham has settled SO, 900 on Miss San
born.
The Supreme Court Of Indiana Tues
day. through Judge ROthrock, affirmed
the conStitutionality of the prohibition
law. The opinion is sweeping. conclu-
sive. and complete. 1t sustains the va
lidity Of injunctiOns to abate the nui-
sance which exists as saloons, and in
every particular maintains the provi-
siOnS Of the act as it stands to-day on
the statute-books of the State.
Muse Finley. under sentence to be
hung in Floyd county, Ky, for murder,
has been removed TO Catlettsburg for
safe keeping until the day of execution.
This is to prevent his being released by
his friends, who have made one unsuc-
cessful attempt. If he is executed he
will be the first man hung by law in
Floyd county, though thirty murders
have been committed there since the
war.
There is still excitement over the in
fernal machine sent TO Miss Fisher, the
English nurse at the Philadelphia
almshouse. Professor Wormsley has
analysed the fluid in the bottles and
found the contents to be a solution of
asphalt in oil Of turpcntinc, being sim
ply asphaltum yarnish or some similar
preparation. The mixture, he AYERS,
contains no matter whatever that in it,
self is explosive. If the object Of the
sender Of the package was arson. the
mixture, if fired, was well adapted for
that purpose, it being inhammable and
difficult to extinguish when ignited.
The recent fatal duel at Dunkirk. Ire
land, between an officer and civilian
has given rise to dispute with tragic
ending in Paris. A former cavalry Off
Ger. named Antoine Sacripenti and
Charles Bailleul, wood-turner, en-
gagged in such an excited discussion upon
NJ. Dekeirel's conduct in holding Lieu
tenant Chapius's sword, and then run
ming him through, that they came to
blows, and had TO be turned out of the
wine-shop in which the argument was
being held. once in the street Sacri-
penti drew butchers knife from under
his coat and stabbed Bailleul to the
heart.
II is said that party OF crooks ex-
perienced in coinage have put in circu-
lation in Boston silver half-dollars
which have never passed through the
! ni'ed States mint. They are idcnti-