The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-02-14
Rricf News Items.

Five new cases of smallpox were re-
ported i'm Baltimore on Sunday.
Frank Mayo, the actor, played Hamlet
in Baltimore, at the Academy OF Music, last
night.
Egan and Fox, two ambitious Troy
brusers, are anxious TO get on fight Win
Sullivan. They will first fight each other,
and the winner will then challenge the
champion.
George Allen. cashier OF the savannah,
Florida md Western Railway Company, is
reported to be a defaulter for about $4,000,
and has disappeared.
Gcrmanico Rocco, aged thirty-fye, an
Italian, was fatally shot III the head in New
York sunday night by John Semalli, in the
formers apartments. Semalli was arrested.
An ordinary days business on Change
in Chicago is the sale OF about 100000
bushels OF grain. On Saturday the sales
amounted to nearly 3O,O00,O00 bushels.
Eleven prisoners escaped from the Mon
roe romty Jail at Rochester, y. L., Sunday
afternoon by digging 4 hole through the
wall. -Four have been recaptured.
4 fire, supposed TO be Of incendiary
origin. occurred in a billiard-Saloon at
Bath, Y, Y, Sunday, and Daniel Beck, oc-
cupying apartments above the saloon, was
suilocated.
4 fire i'm the residence OF DIR. Charles f..
Simmons, No. 742 Lexington avenue, New
York, Sunday night, caused damage OF
$, 900 TO furniture and $4,000 to the build
ing.
General William Macrae, a prominent
railroad man. lately superintendent OF the
Western and Atlantic railroad, died sud-
denly at Augusta, Ga, Saturday, from con-
gestion OF the lungs.
On sunday morning, at his residence
near Union Bridge, Carroll county, Mr.
/ Eliakim G. Penrose, q merchant Of Balti
more. and one of the Oldest members OF th'
Corn and Flour EeXchange, died, in th'
sixty-ifth year Of his age.
The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES perform
ance OF ''Patience z at the Standard Thea
tire will be given on Thursday evening, thu
10th instant. There is no indication tina
the opera might not be continued indefi
nitely. Whenever "Patience" is with
drawn, Claude Duval," which has beel
rehearsed, will be presented by the SAM
company.
Considerable excitement was caused a
Portland, Oregon, Saturday, by testimon.
given by two women before the grand iur.
that John n. Brown, q well-to-do-farmef
whose body was recently found in the rive
weighted with stones, lad been murdere'
in the bagnio OF Carrie Bradley by one @
, her tools in revenge for having caused he
arrest ON the charge OF keeping house @
ill-repute.
A call for meeting OF the New Yor
Grcenback State Committee has been issue
by its chairman, Mr.. George u. Jones, I
take into consideration the call Tor a III
tional convention recently issued Dy coi'
mel Jesse Harper, chairman OF The Nalion
Committee. The purpose OF the propose
I convention is to protest against the reiun'
ing Of the national debt into long pon'
and the recbartering OF the national bank
The New York committee will meet al u
, Sturteyant House, New York city, feDr'
q airy 22d.
: The New York papers announce IN
/. ground will soon be broken at Thlriy-siN
|. Street and Broadway, in that city, for ne
\ theatre, of which Mr.. John s. Clarke Is TO
q the manager, Edwin Booth being the una
!. cial alder Of the enterprise. The theat
: Is 10 be Of moderate dimensions, win w
q galleries. and the stage will be iittcd
4 with all the latest Improvements ana q
!, vices in machinery. Plans have De
:. drawn, and work will soon be commence
4 II Is expected that the new theatre WIZ
4 completed by the middle OF October. !, \
y seating capacity OF the auditorium "
q said, will be 1900.