The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-04-05


railway stock is creating quite sensation
! in New York. Last November the stock
/ sold al 70. Two weeks ago. on the pros
peciiye defeat in the Legislature OF the bill
7 recurring the roads TO be run OH a five-cent
fare, 1t sold at 81. On Thursday last, in
consequence OF the unloading OF 10000
/ shares OF Manhattan stock by the Loan and
4 Improvement Company. and of the rumor
since confirmed that the directors OF the
d New York Elevated Company had also sold
their one-half OF the entire amount Of the
issue OF Manhattan stock. il fell 10 26s.
The New York journal of Commerce
says: Recently the glucose syrup made by
treating corn with suIphuric acid after an
improved process has been successfully
D,ed for cheapening and Identifying the or
dDary susar-hOuSe syrup. II could be
bought iOr 80 cents a pound. and thus,
while costing far less than the syrup from
cane sugar. added greatly TO the appearance
Of the mixture. The large refners have
refused to use it, but have sold their own
syiup 10 parties who have added the glucose
and obtained large trade for it all over the
country.
Mayor Lairobe, Of Baltimore, il Is stated,
has decided TO ve'o the ordinance passed by
the Council granting permission to The So
ciety Of the Army and Navy Of the Confed-
crate States TO place a monument to the
Confederate dead on Eutaw Square. Mayor
Latrobe stated that be would deem it bis
duty as well 10 treat in like manner any
j proposition for a monument to the Union
dead upon public property.
When Houston, Texas, was entertaining
Grant, according to the Chicago Times, Il
Young fellow made his way 10 the side OF
the Generals carriage and shouted: Hur.
nb for JEFF. Davis" TIE Generals host
said: You see, General, that IN city like
ours, with reputation Of $4,000, We have
Il least one ID fool" General Grant re-
Piled: Eyes; there are fools all over the
world"
Musical circles will be interesiedin learn
lg That the famous can'atr1ce Nilsson has
DOL lost her voice, as was recently reported
'y The Paris correspondents, and that the
tqually famous tenor Campanini has been
decorated by The King of Italy with the or
or OF the Crown OF Italy," which is SAID
. be The highest distinction that can be
conferred upon an ItalIan in civil life.
A man and his wife and eleven chiidrap,
Toe Oldest Guild eleven years old, arrived al
Alexandria Friday morning over the Vir'
sinia Midland Iailr03d from North Caroline,
Oh Their way TO Kansas CITY, where they
Expect TO locate and help 10 populate tho
waste places OF that State. TIE man was
'0ri!'Iwo AID Tie wife tbiriy.eigh,.
ibe AtlOrney-Genefal Of Indil0a has pub
eh'd an opinion on the proposed constItu-
onaI amendments, Ia which he states that
ID" submitting them TO the people Ia
aeoustitu ional. and that IL will require a
lofity OF AL tho voters TO ratify them,
thot.
mere VIII be convention Of the Demo
S.ae citizens OF Halifax held at The Court
Sss on Monday, April 20, 1880 court
~ s.l O'Clock +. NJ, 10 elect delegates tc
mond. ""''n i"'o'' =" NV"
cae ,eieran Zouayes. OF Elizabeth. n. D.,
g,s..sS .. Madison Drake commanding, are
y, ,ea,g ioyl'i, Yorktown, Va, in Octo.
,es., ISL. They will visit Richmond, Pc.
on th s,s, FRED ricksburg, aud Washington
lOotingn ae chase-sprague Is described as
She b.s - stately and handsome as ever
slnier. e''e INTO genera soc'e'! 'ni'
sere ,h .'sIa Louise Kellogg and her mother
uab ~ ooiy lady guests al the Stanley
:, ''n's' 10 Paris few evenings ago.
Iso.i's scare goes TO Europe 10 June TO per-
1slIsy - ..pfrintend The races In which bis
I" ntefs has been entered.
al kkfsnlI ox-..t.1
}, n. ~ s,Is Kentucky penitentiary 10 serve
49, s'sor q. II. Winston will begin Z
Co.,, w q FIX lectures On astrouon,y Il
'"'lfksbusg April Gu. Z