Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-04-16
Brief News items.

Queen Victoria will return to Eng
land from the Continent on May ID.
Cardinal Manning, in Difference to
the Catholic bishops, has decided not
to visit Rome this spring.
A meeting of 10000 Catholics
was held in Bombay on Monday to
take action in support Of the hierarchi-
cal claims of Portugal.
The officers of the Shenandoah Valley
railroad positively deny the statements
that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company is to buy that property. A
Philadelphia telegram says: They say
that in order to acquire the property
the Baltimore and Ohio would have to
purchase 100000 of the Shenandoah
Valley frst-mortgage bonds, and that il
already has a line down the Shenandoah
Valley from HarrisOnburg to LeXing-
ton.
The United States signal-cOrps sta
ton at Chincoteague reports as follows ::
The schooner j. p. Hart, Captain James
Pruitt, from Tangier sound, bound to
Chincoteague with a cargo Of oysters,
encountered heavy gales off the latter
place Monday evening, and had jib-
boom, bowsprit, and some rigging torn
away. The life-saving crews from Asso-
league and Wallop's island rendered
great assistance to the schooner when
in a dangerous condition. No lives
were lost.
General Sir Gerald Graham in his re-
pert to-day to the home government
says that the road between Suakim and
point eight miles west Of HandOub is
now in a condition TO make work on the
Suakim-Berber railway easy. Conveys
90 daily to Handoub undisturbed. Os-
man Digna, General Graham says, is
TRYING to collect followers for the pur-
pose of compelling the desert tribes to
furnish him with supplies. The per-
centage of sick in the entire British
force is reported by General Graham to
be but 4.
A dispatch from General Ricci, COM
mander of the Italian expedition on the
Red sea. states that the Egyptian garri-
sons of Senheit, Amadib, and Ghary,
which have been beleaguered for many
months by hostile Arabs, have escaped
and reached Massowah, where they are
safe under the protection Of the Italian
flag. The refugees brought with them
hundreds Of their women and children.
Shortly before their escape the garri-
sons of Ghary and Senheit made com
bined Sortie, in which they killed a
thousand Of the enemy and captured
several hundred head Of cattle.
A Utica On. " special says: A Ger
man named Humpf, residing at Danube,
Herkimer county, Monday night cut
his wife's throat while she, with her
four-day-old baby, was in bed. lie
then saturated the bed with kerosene
and set it on fire. Neighbors saw the
flames and extinguished them, rescuing
the wife in a critical condition. Humpi
was found in the garnet with his throat
cut, but alive. He attacked the party
savagely with an axe, but before he
could injure any Of them he fell dead
Humpf was insane, and was to have
been brought to the Utica Asylum OIL
Tuesday.
Among the deeds to be cited in evil
dence in land title in the Court o
Princess Anne county, Nd, is one from
a citizen Of Somerset county to Queer
Anne in 1905, conveying piece of lane
on which to build a church. The sitt
Of this church now lies under the waters
of the Manokin river, the river having
encroached so much since that day OF
the land. The church was built o
brick, and the bricks Of it are said nov
to be lying at the bottom Of the rive
at the spot where it was built. TIL
stone steps of the church are now tn
steps at the residence of well-knowl
gentleman Of the county. The sui
grows out Of the location and appro
nr;af;on of certain ovster lots