Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-04-09
Brief News Items.

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States Consul at Lyons, has contributed
A portrait of Cardinal Manning to .
Paris art exhibition, which is very high
ly praised.
Tuesday morning David L. Davis was
killed in Montana mines. His wife had
previously lost two husbands by acci-
dents in collieries, one having fallen
down shaft and the other burned to
death.
J. A. Laubaugh. Of Lancaster, Pa,
stakeholder in the Lancaster crema-
tory, who says it is paying business,
has purchased an acre Of land at Spring
City, and will at once begin the cree
ton Of cremstory thereon.
Tuesday John d. Mckee, an oil bro
ker of Pittsburgh, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head. He
had been suffering from inflammatory
rheumatism. and recently met with
heavy reverses in oil speculation.
The English foreign Office has pub
lished the correspondence between Lord
Granville and the Washington authorH
ties for a commercial treaty to control
trade with the West Indies. Secretiry
Frelinghuysen's proposals were rejected
by Great Britain.
According to the London Truth, Miss
Violet Morgan is acting as temporary
master of the Tredegar foxhounds, in
the absence from home Of her father,
Colonel Morgan. NJ. p. The young
lady is an excellent rider, and nothing
stops her.
Edwin Booth, j. II. V. Dunlap. and
others have incorporated the =" Dunlap
Society,"" the object being to bring to-
gether people who are interested in
dramatic literature, especially Ameri-
can, to disseminate the same, and to
collect the portraits and autographs of
distinguished American actors, drama
fists, and managers and artists gene
rally.
Secretary Whitney, in speaking to a
reporter about his action in detaching
officers from their vessels on the Asiatic
station for having their families near
them, said that it did not indicate that
the order forbidding the proximity ofan
officers family would be continued, but
until il was revoked it should be en-
forced. This is an intimatiOn that Sec
rotary Chambers order, which is very
distasteful to naval officers, will not be
in existence a great while.
Joseph BrOadwaters, living seven
miles from Grantsville, Garrett county,
Nd, last week killed one of three gray
wolves which had been playing sad
havoc with the sheep of farmers living
in that section. The animal was very
large and fcrocious, as big as good
sized dog, and weighed about one hun
dred pounds. 1t was captured by a
bait of poisoned meat, and then dis
patched with a revolver and club.
A singular will has been probated at
Jasper, Tenn. An old man died leav-
ing large property in trust, to be used
by the trustees i'll any manner they
deem best to suppress the habit preva-
lent among men Of eating with knives
when forks should be used. The de-
ceased says he has always felt the dis
advantages OF early training in that
respect. lie was in the habit Of re-
proving everybody at hotels or else
where he saw using knives for eating,
and was monomanac on the subject.
Paul Howes is a Georgia drummer.
He was recently travelling in South
Carolina, and. with a fellow traveller,
purchased a thousand-mile ticket. The
conductor refused to allow both Of
them to ride on the ticket. saying that.
while it could be issued to two or more
parties, only one person could ride on
it at time. Mr.. HOwes was put off
the train about four miles from Wades-
borough, and gave notice that he would
sue the road for damages. He en-
plOyed an attorney, but it was not long
before the authorities offered TO COM
promise. The offer was accepted, and
Mr.. Howes came off $1,000 better off.
His walk Of four miles to Wades-
borough Melted him just $3.50 per mile.
Annie Keppel, girl eleven years
old, arrived at New York from Ger
many on Sunday, acting as little
mother in charge of brother and two
sisters aged seven, five, and two
wears. Their mother died in the fader-
land. and she was bound to st. Louis
to join her father. They were provided
with tickets for St. Louis, but il soon
appeared that she had no money to buy
food for the party on the road. She
showed her business-like tact by asking
the loan Of two dollars, for which she
signed a receipt, and promised to send
the money on reaching st. Louis. Thus
provided, the little quartette Of immi-
grants started on their western Jour
ney. The same vessel also landed
Martha Stein, who was on her way to
Milwaukee, Wis, to join her uncle.