Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-15
Telegraphic Tersities.

No change was reported yesterday IN
the senatorial deadlocks in PennsyiNania
and California.
The Spanish Government denies tnat
the United States have demanded lne IN
tervention of the Cortes In the ra'''oa-
ton of the peace treaty.
John T.. Daley Assistant United States
Attorney for the Eastern District OF
Texas. has resigned. and Frank Lee, OF
!, Paris Tex, has been appointed as MS
| successor.
Robert Lewis was hanged in atlanta
yesterday for the murder OF thaVles
Haynes. on gallows built by Lewis TWO
years ago. wnen ne was eihpioSeu ~ ''o
| jail as workman.
The Madrid Correspondence says tho
Cabinet has advised the Queen Rege'l =
ratify the treaty Of peace with the Oniten
| States without awaiting the reassem-
| bling Of the Cortes.
! The three-masted schooner James w.
| Bigelow. from Jacksonville for ProYi~
dence r. L., has been given up for 1851.
| as she Is over two months out. she car
| ried i'm addition TO her captain, seven or
eight hands.
| The British steamer Collegian. Captain
| owen. from New Orleans for Liverpool.
which recently stranded on the Riding
| Rocks Bahama Banks, has been noated:
| She has sustained but slight damage. ana
| is -relolding the 900 bales Of cotton which
she jettisoned.
The Danish steamship Brattingsberg.
which arrived at Hamburg yesterday
! from Savannah. by way OF Bremen,
| struck and seriously damaged a pier at
| Altoona and sank two barges. The dam
age, II any. sustained 10y the steamship,
has not been reported. !
! A. II. Logic died in a hospital at Char
/ lotte. y. G.. yesterday; lie went 10 Ihar
| lotte I'm 1892 from Bridgeport. Conn.,. and
began farming operations on large
scale Two summers ago his wife dled,
aud he was sent TO an insane asylum. He
; had been a merchant IN New YORK ana
J several New England towns.
The Allan Line steamer Castilian. which
WAS wrecked on Cannot Ledge. n .,
/ Saturday morning, while bound from
/ Portland for Liverpool, via Halifax, mas
! broken. In two just beneath the bridge.
Both ends OF the ship have sagged con-
siderably and salvers are working rapid
" I'm order 10 save everything OF value
before storm comes on.
The British steamship Altai, Funter,
az Norfolk from Jamaica. for New York.
reports sighting the lost mud-dredge Ad-
miral forty-nvc miles southeast of Wia-
ter quarter Light shoal, or ninety-hye
miles southeast by south OFF the Virginia
/ Capes. Monday afternoon. The tug Asher
j. Hudson arrived az Norfolk yesterday
morning. with Captain Cannon aboard.
They had not sighted the dredge. Captain
Cannon Is about broken down. but as
soon as the weather viii permit Will.
again so in search of the Admiral.
Both Emperor William and the EN-.
press Augusta Victoria, besides Barog
Won BuelOw the Foreign Minister, and
other ministers. with their wives. attend,
cd the banquet at Berlin given by 81
Frank Iascelles the British Ambassador,
10 Cecil Rhodes who appears 10 hav9
personally impressed everybody, from thu
Emperor downward. with the exception
OF the extreme Agrarian and Conservative
press, all the newspapers praise him. IL
Is understood that the Rhodcsian schemes
anticipate that Germany Will ultima teiy
possess Walfsch bay, on the coast os
Damaraland, South Africa.