The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-10-21
9itI1mond @ispattlt,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 81, 1871.
BE- THE CIRCULATION OF THE DIS
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NEWSPAPERS OF THE CITY.


estate transaction Of any magnitude since
the fire was made this morning. Fl. g..
Hinsdale sold to S. B. Bryon forty one feet
In Dearborn Place by eighty-two feet on
Randolph street, In the burnt district, for
500, 900. Mr.. Hinsdale bought the property
q year ago for $4,000. Since the fire 1t Is
worth 100000.
The losses of Cyrus II. Mccormick
amount to $3.50, 900. He will rebuild the
| reaper factory and warehouses ut once.
Judge W. W. Farwell sent communica-
he proposes to erect building on the
! southwest corner Of Market and Washing
| ton streets, with q room In it nincty-leet
square, which he gives to the board rent
| free. The offer was accepted. The build
| ing is TO be completed In forty days.
6trs. Leroy, of 13I Dekoyen street, In
whose barn the fire originated, rronounces
the story false that the fire broke out
owing to the carrying of Kerosene lamp
into the stable. She was in bed and asleep
when the fire commenced.
Six new Steam-fire engines arrived here
last night from New York, to increase the
force Of the Fire Department.
INSURANCE Sw1NDlINd.-A careful csti-
mate Of the insurance companies OF thts
! city gives pretty hopeless prospect for the
citizens insured therein. Fhemcn'S, Win
| uninsured risks on the Lumbermcn'5, a.
sets. 1915 200; losses, between s. ,0OO,OO0
and 81, ,000. 900; State, assets, S2G2 ,OOO
| losses, So, ,000.0 900; Equitable, assets, $l2l,-
| 600 losses, 81 900, 600. These three COM
panies will not pay ten cents on the dollar.
Neac York Tr7bune's Chicago letter.
THE MOLTEN GoLD.-There passed
through Lancaster, Ia. on Monday morn
ing, en- route to the United States Mint in
Philadelphia, two safes taken from the Chi.
cago fire, and containing gold coin which
| had been more or less melted by the g fer
vent heat" One of them weighed LOSS
pounds and the other 900 pounds.
MONEY ENoUGH.-The sum Of five mil
lions, which has been sent by generous
Christendom to Chicago, would yield, il it
were equally divided the sum Of 5000 to each
Of these families. Wisely and economically
administered, it is comfort to think that
this ought to suffice not only to prevent
| suffering, but do great deal toward ma
King the needy comfortable.-Nelo York
Tribune.
LragER R.-There are fully $50 900, 900
feet now 10 the yards Of Chicago, and the
supply will continue to be abundant. Price
three dollars per thousand.
a Busy CITY.-The rush of strangers and
business spectators is great; all the Chi
gago hotels are packed, with five and six in
a room; oil private boarding-houSes are
| filled, and al residences are pretty crowded
by refugees from the other side. Hotel
men are coming in to take turn in the
| new wheel Of fortune, and before long the
place will be one vast caravansary. Street.
cars and stages are beginning to run regu-
larly through the burned streets, and COM
munication is quickly restoring itself
throughout all the divisions.
BRICKS BETTER THAN SToNE.--It is ascer-
tanned that no stone ever used in the busi-
| ness part of the city Is worth Il farthing in
such Il fire. Brick IS the only thing that
comes out whole and is ready to try it
again. The future Chicago will be a city
Of bricks.
So says Horace White, one Of The editors
Of the Chicago Tribune.
"PUss IN THE CoRNER."-Iath a cat
nine livesI That Is the question being
| earnestly debated in all quarters to day. a
| cat has actually been recovered, alive and
squslling, from the desolate ruins of the
| poSt-othcc and custom-house building.
have with these orbS behed that feline
salamander. She still wears her royal vest
ment of fur, and retains her lung-power
and her appetite, both marvclously im-
proved. She had stuck her legs In the
! water and her head in the sewer, whence
she drew air, and probably also Smelt
mice; and when the building collapsed Il
column fell so as to shelter her. A million
dollars in gold had melted into bullion
within twenty feet of her, Worlds Cht-
cUUO letter.