The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-07-18
SOUTHERN SOCIETY'S REGRETS
Suitable action on The Death Of Francis
R. RiYeS Taken.
HEBREWpAUpER lNNIGRANTSRETURNED
A Chinese Leper Discovered-wr. Blaine
Paws no Attention 90 Everyday Mat
ters-New York News
NEW YORK BUREAU, RICHMOND TINES

New YORK BUREAU, RICHMOND iIMhS'
July H. 1891. }
The Southern Society met this afternoon
and took suitable action Of regret at the death
~ Francis X. Rives number Of them will
90 IN New Hamburg tomorrow and attend
the funeral.
The North American Transport Company is
The name of a new corporation Just organized
bva number OF steamship men in this vicinity
In connection with number OF English
ship-owners and the Norfolk and Western
railroad.
THAT MICRO POLICEMAN.
Wiley @. Overflow Brooklyn's colored po-
Iceman. was assigned to-day TO special duty
in the district where the negro population IS
thickest. The colored man will be allowed
10 sleep at home. Since Overton waa first
appointed about year ago on Captain Camp
bells staff there have been difficulties with
the white policemen, who objected 10 sleep
ing in the same dormitory with Overton.
This was overcome, but the new assignment
will give general satisfaction
ALL QUIET AT HAITI
The schooner Nahum Chaplin, which left
Cape Haitian on July 9Th, arrived IN port TINS
morning Captain Avery reported that every
thing was quiet as pertained 10 warfare IN
Haiti when he left, but that there was immi-
nent danger Of All uprising.
TIE TOUR OF SERVICE.
Admiral Walker and Commander Miller, on
board the Chicago, have agreed upon re-
yised programme of the tour OF service 70
be performed on the Squadron OF Evolution
by the naval battalion the latter part of tins
month The revised programme II IS under
stood, makes provision for a naval display IN
the North nver and the bay on the afternoon
and evening of the 2lst and 2Sd Instants.
HEBREW PAUPERs RETURNED.
Thrty-one Russian Hebrew pauper immi-
grants were ordered 10 be returned u the
ports from whence they came from the Barge
Office to-day This is the greatest number
ever sent back in any one day since the Barge
Office was opened. Twenty three arrived on
the steamer Maasdam from Rotterdam, five
ON the CrcaSsia from Glasgow, and three on
a Netherland line steamer.
The health officers to-day discovered 81
Chinese leper who had been washing clothes
in an East-side Laundry for the past six
months. He came here from San Francisco
last year.
AIR. BLAINE KNEW NOTHING OF IT.
A Bar Harbor, Me-, special says a cores
pondent of the Commercial Advertiser en-
deayored to see Secretary Blaine to-day about
the seizure of seven American fishing boats
Yesterday at Passamaquoddy waters by the
Dominion cruiser Dream. Emmons Blaine
answered for his father, saying: MT Blame
knows nothing about the matter; has not
heard of it. He pays no attention TO ordi-
nary, every day matters"
GEORGIA CAN'T HAVE BEREsFoRD YET.
Walter s. Beresford will not be called upon
30 stand trial in Georgia for having swindled
Lawyer Hamilton out of $1,000. Although
Justices Truax and Cullen of the Supreme
Court and Judge Lacombe of the United
States decided that Beresford should be taken
back, Sheriff Jake Moore, upon whose war
rant he was arrested returned TO Rome yes
terday morning without prisoner. Beres-
ford is in the IOmbs 10 await trial on charge
of grand larceny committed IN tins State
The grand Jury indicted him on the complaint
made on behalf Of Richard X. Fox, who says
that he cashed check for 500 given by
BeresfOrd on an English bank with which
Beresford had no account.
lawyer Wade yesterday limited that Beres-
fords friends would paw all claims against
him to stay proceedings If it were possible to
effect an arrangement.
wR. GRACE & co. SUED.
Guillermo Bogardus, Of Lima, Peru, has
filed bill of complaint in the United States
Circuit Court against William Il. Grace X Co
in which he demands that the firm pay him
$72,022. so, with interest from November 80
1880. He had a claim of 500 O3O against Peru
he says, and he put it in the hands of Grace
n Co to collect. They didn't collect it, he
saws, and finally he sold them the claim for 90
per cent He got one-half Of this. $24. 007.50
cash, and he hasn't received the other half
Now he says he has been informed that in
1888 the firm had $40 $50 belonging 10 Peru
that could be applied toward paying the debt
and that they put the money to the credit of
&c. Walter which is his cable name He
has also been informed, he says, that in 1886
the firm, in an account rendered to Peru
charged up the whole amount Of the claim
1896. 030) against the Republic. Because of
ha a MAJ ~
stand, and he demands that the firm turn
over to him the cas-, $50, and render an account
for all the moneys received from Peru that
might be applied to paying the rest of the
debt.
PREcAUTIoN AGAINST YELLOW FEVER.
IL is as precaution against the approach Of
yellow fever that the health Office of this port
has issued the order that all vessels from in
fected ports shall be quarantned for inspec-
ton. Assuredly, there is danger in the YES
sells that are constantly arriving here from
Havana. Vera Cruz, Tampico, Rio do Janeiro |
and Para, and II IS OF the utmost importance |
that New York should be guarded against this
danger The owners and captains Of vessels |
from these ports do not like TO be subjected |
TO the delay and expense that may be involved |
III the inspection here but nevertheless the |
city must be protected.
BAD EGG INDEED, THIS
1t is not generally supposed that there is |
anything especially dangerous about bad |
egg IN the process of boiling but q swollen. |
closed. and discoored eye and an abraded |
nose, half hidden behind patch OF sticking |
plaster are the evidences that Mrs. Jane Toler |
OF High Bridge carries about with her to show |
that an egg IN an advanced stage of decompo |
ssitlon is highly explosive under the action of |
boiling water
IL was an unpretentlous market egg valued |
at the rate OF - cents a dozen, that she put |
into the kettle on Wednesday. Exactly three |
minutes later she was about TO take it out |
when 1t exploded, she says, like dynamite |
cartridge, blew the kettle OF the stove dashed |
the Id and volume of boiling water on her |
face and laid her senseless on the kitchen
moor. She was aroused by the peculiarly pun
gent odor that filed the apartment and made
her SICK. She says she won't eat another egg |
GoRED TO DEATH BY BULL.
President Rensselaer, l. Goldsmith, Of the |
Southold Savings Bank. Southold, l.. l.. who |
was gored by an Attorney bull on his stock |
farm near Peconio, died al his home in Peco-
aic yesterday afternoon.