Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-11-22
Telcgraphic Tersitics.


Dock Almon killed Jordan Chambers in
Carroll county Ga, Monday night.
Application has been made for n re-
ceiver for w. III. Laird, grocer, Atlanta,
Ga.
The Haitien warship Dessalines has cap
tured an armed rebel steamer OF st.
Thomas.
. G. T. Osborn was appointed receiver
last night for John Miller, book ana sta-
tiOnery dealer. Atlanta, Ga.
There were two cases OF yellow-fever
at Brunswick yesterday, both of whites,
and three patients were discharged.
A store and eight dwellings were burned
in JOnesville, a suburb OF birmingham,
Ala, yesterday, the total loss being about
$4,000, and the insurance about $1,000.
Mr. Thurston. the Hawaiian Minister at
Washington, last evening gave out long
statement in reply to the report OF Mr..
Blount. which he says contains many
inaccuracies.
At yesterdays opening Of the French
Chamber OF Deputies NJ. Casimir Perier,
president of the Chamber, made a short
speech congratulating France upon the
Franco-Russian alliance.
The British Government intends TO post
pone consideration of the poOr-law classes
of the parish councils bill until the next
session Of Parliament, in order TO be able
to prorogue Parliament December 18th
to reassemble in February.
A. E. Hampton. president, and +. p.
Davis, treasurer, OF the Colored Agri-
cultural and Mechanical Association,
Columbia, $. c., were arrested yesterday.
charged with breach OF trust and obtain
ing money under false pretenses, the
amount involved being about $500
Yesterday morning about 8 O'Clock a
fire broke out In the Masonic and Odd.
Fellows building, Starkeyille; Miss, and
in less than three hours that building ana
Watts's opera-house, together with the
Lee storehouse and its contents, were
destroyed. Loss, about 100000, Insurance,
$4,000.
Matt Thurmond. a farmer, OF Jackson
county. Ca was found dying IN Athehs,
the head and robbed. The jury found
that he was killed by man named
Saxon, and that Matt Black was an ac-
cessory. Saxon is i'm jail. Black has dis
appeared.
A stranger registered at the Marshall
House Savannah, Ca, as William White:
Denver. COL was found dead In his bed
yesterday. He was out of funds, ana Is
supposed to have taken poison. The name
White is believed to have been assumed,
and the suicide Is thought to William
Barnes, OF Norwich, y. y.
Colonel James b. Simpson. dallas, Tex.
has been arrested on nine indictments
by the grand jury, charging him with em-
bezzling nearly $4,000 from the Scottish
American Land Mortgage Company Linn
tied. Ills bail was placed at SVO. Charles
+. Balance was arrested on four lndict-
ments charging him with the embeZzle-
ment of more than $1,000. Bail, $1,000
A beautiful "chrysanthemum tea was
given last evening by the young ladies'
OF St. Johns Circle OF Kings Daughters
at the residence OF Captain William n;
Curtis corner of Twenty-ninth and
Franklin streets. Although the weather
was very inclement. the attendance was
good. There was some delightful music,
and the young ladies served dainty
yiands TO those present The parlors ana
hall were tastefully decorated with/Vari-
hued chrysanthemums.
A regular battle is said 10 have occurred
Monday I'm the mountains near the line
between Greenvile and Spartanburg coun-
ties South Carolina. which began when
the owners OF a blockade whiskey-wagon
and a couple of State dispensary officers
who had tried to seize IL came together.
man named Harris: from North Caro-
lima. was shot through the heart and in
stantly killed Henry Fisher, one of the
dspensary officers, was found dead with
a bullet through his breast, and several
others were wounded. three seriously.