The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-03-01
Brief News Items.

Two new cases OF smallpox were re-
ported in Baltimore on Monday.
George Scholly was instantly killed on
Monday at the Reading Iron-Works, Read
ing, Pa, while engaged in welding pipe.
James MacWarble, OF Brooklyn, we'll
known billiardist, who has played IN
matches all over the country, has been
missing from his home since the 10Th in
slant, and search is being made for him.
The first through ear from San Francis
co to New Orleans, without breaking bulk,
reached the latter city on Monda; Cid the
Southern Pacific, having been fourteen and
n half days en- route. The freight rate was
| Sl.40 per hundred pounds.
Three hundred Of the Italian immigrants
who arrived at the city OF Mexico a few
DAYS ago are suffering from Il malignant
disease, OF which twenty others died on the
passage. The colony Is being well cared
| for by the Government.
The official count OF Tuesdays vote in
Philadelphia was completed on Monday by
the court. 1t gives Brown Republican
candidate for magistrate) a majority OF $50
over Eisenbrown, the Democratic nominee,
endorsed by the Committee OF One Hun
dred.
In the great New York walking-match
the little Englishman Rowell made on
Monday 100 miles in pa hours. At
O'Clock yesterday morning he lead Hughes
10 miles, Hazeal Is. Sullivan 90, the negro
| Hart %, while the other four in the contest
were considerably behind.
In Phntsville, Conn.,, on Sunday, two
girls, aged seven and nine. and boy aged
thirteen, children Of John Collins, coasted
down hill and on a pond, when the ice
broke, and the little girls were drowned in
sight OF their parents and great crowd.
The boy was with difficulty rescued, but
his life Is despaired OF. The bodies were
recovered.
Henry Wadsworth Longelow began his
sevcnty-siXth year on Monday. The event
was celebrated in Portland, Maine, his ma
tive place, by decorating the public build
ings with flags. In the public schools OF
Cambridge there were anniversary eXer-
cises. and selections from the poets works
were read. There were exercises OF a SINH
lar character in the public schools OF At
| lanta, Ga.
In response to invitations issued by the
| n IL
number OF gentlemen assembled nj the New
Jersey Central depot in New York on
| Monday to participate in trip for the pur-
pose OF inspecting stock cars built upon
"the humanity plan" Much satisfaction
was expressed at the working OF the ears.
Judge Moran OH Monday, in the Circuit
| Court in Chicago. in n suit brought to re-
cover losses in grain transaction against
! firm OF commission-men who handled the
| deal, decided that the broker stands under
the statute in the position OF principal.
| The decision i very important, as il es-
tablshes precedent for future suits that
may arise in transactions on the Board Of
Trade.
Adolph c. PoppenhuScn died at o'clock
Monday morning OF Bright's disease. COM
plcated with heart troubles, at his home,
at College Point, Long Island. He was
president Of lIevenoid Rubber Company,
secretary and treasurer OF the Hibernia
Iron Mining Company, and connected III
various ways with grea. many other en-
terprises. His death is regarded a. 4 Sc
rious loss In GeIman-AmeTican circles.
Archbishop John Il. Purcelis eighty
second birthday was celebrated on Sunday
at ~. Ursula convent. ~ ~. Martins,
Brown county, Ohio. The Archbishop
was taken to the third story in a chair,
where Father Callahan sang mass and IN
exceedingly pleasant letter from Cardinal
McCloskey was read. Many visitors were
there, chiefly from Cincinnati. Presents OF
flowers, in rich and costly designs, sent by
Cincinnati ladies, were numerous. The
Archbishop enjoyed the occasion greatly,
and showed no signs OF fatigue.
General w. G. Rosecrans sends n card to
the press, taking issue with a statement
made by Mr.. Blaine in his memorial adj
dress that when General Garfield assumed
his new duties as chief OF staff OF the
Army of the Cumberland he found various
troubles seriously affecting the value and
efficiency Of that army. He says: Gus
tice to the truth OF history and to the Army
Of the Cumberland requires that should
! declare that | never heard OF such state
: OF things until the statement came from
the lips OF the orator to-day. The distin-
guished gentleman has been wholly misin-
formed"