The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-05-09
Brief News Items.

The Springfield Mass niOn newspaper
establishment mas been sold to Joseph H.
shiplcy, who will ut once take charge Of
the paper in all it, departments.
The Baltimore SIM SAYS another cargo
OF imported Irish potatoes has rotted on
the voyage, reaching this port in nearly a
worthless state.
Forty thousand dollars, the fun amount
needed, has been contributed 10 endow "A
professOrship I'm the Syracuse IN. " Uni
yersity in memory Of the late William Penn
Abbott.
The Baltimore Oratorio Society. which
participated in the grand production of
{" Moses in Egypt" at the New York must
cal festival on Friday night, returned home
by special train sunday.
The waters Of the Assiniborne at Win
nipeg, Man, are still rising. Much OF the
country in the vicinity il submerged, and
fears are entertained for the railway and
other bridges.
Three inches OF snow fell on the POcoiy0
mountains, in Monroe county, Pa, SUNDAY,
and there was considerable fall in
stroudsburg. The growing crops will be
injured.
The will OF the late Mrs. Edwin Booth,
dated October "a. 1881, names her husband
a one II the executors. II leaves her per-
sOnal property 10 her mother, Mrs. Me-
Wicker. and her realty 10 her husband.
\ severe storm, accompanied By thun-
der, lightning, and hail. passed over South
crn Illinois Friday night, doing serious
damage. At Marshall, ILL.,, the creeks
have overlooked and flooded the farms Tor
the fifth time this season.
Ephraim sherman Dmfee. AGED ninety
seven years, died at Oshkosh, Wis. on Fri
day. He was master ~ the Rochester
Lodge Of Masous In 1873. and conferred
the degrees on Morgan, who subsequently
exposed the Mason secrets.
The Missouri Legislature adjourned on
Friday after the approval by the Governor
" the congressional reappOrtiOnment bill,
under which il n thought the Republicans
stand chance Of carrying five out Of the
fourteen districts.
In New York Friday the jury in the ease
Of Richard O'GorInan IS. William II. Arm
out, in which the former contests the right
Of the latter b. the superiOr-Court Judge
ship, failed 10 agree and were discharged.
4 very successful musical convention
was held at Elmira during the past week
under the direction Of DR.. George +. Root,
OF Chicago. 10 attracted the attention Of
musical people throughout that section.
and has been largely attended. The con.
yention closed Friday night with grand
concert.
Transfer men report that the heaviest
business i'm Columbus, Ohio, now Is re-
moving saloon equipments. over thirty
saloons have closed since May list, and II l.
estimated that il the Pond law i. declared
constitutional half u the five hundred ~
looms i'm Columbus will close by june 1T.
OF thirty-twO saloons 1T Corning, on the
Ohio Central road, eleven have already
been closed.
The receipts and expenditures OF tie
New York Music Festival cannot yet be-
given definitely, but one Of the officials
states that they will about balance each
other, the receipts being estimated at -l23,-
900. and the expenditures slightly under
that figure. The rent OF the armOry and
the interior alterations have cost about
ar. 900, the s0loists have cost 900, and
the other eXpenscs-such as music, mnsi-
clans, maintenance. and transportation Of
the various visiting chOruses-haye run nv
the figures 10 close on $4,000.
The Attolney-Gencral, 10 whom was re-
ferred the second petition Of General Fliz,
John Porter, has recommended 10 the Pre-
.ident. in view Of AL the circumstances in
the case. that the continuous part Of th,
sentence u the court-martial disquaIifying
General Porter from any Office under the
Government be rcmittcd. The President
has accordingly issued an order removing
the only legal obstacle 10 congressional az.
ton and exhausted all his powers in tb,
ease under existing laws.