The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-01-24
brief News Items.

Brief News Items.
The population Of Chicago, according TO
the latest statistics, IL about $50, 0O0-an IN
crease OF $4,000 since the census OF 1880
was taken.
Brevet Major-General Silas Casey died
Sunday at his residence, No. i5j south Ok
ford street, Brooklyn, aged seventy-ilve
years. He was a native Of Rhode Island.
Rose Arey, aged twenty-nine, residing at
1922 Chadwick street, Philadelphia, who
was burned Saturday night by the upset
ting Of coal-oil lamp, died Sunday eve
ming.
Michael ROurke, who murdered Maher
and his daughter on Friday night at Cum
minsville, Ont, has been captured and
lodged in Jail. He confessed his guilt.
A broken axle on car Of freight train
caused an accident on the Pennsylvania
railroad near Paoli, Pa, Sunday evening.
The ears were thrown across both tracks,
and travel was delayed for several hours.
Nobody was hurt.
A tract Of land containing l12 acres, at
West Park, Long Island, belonging to
General Casey, brOther-in-law OF General
Grant, will be sold tomorrow to satisfy
mortgage held by Thomas NJ. COnklin. l..
s. Grant, Jr., has mortgage for $4,000 on
the same property.
A large meeting Of Jews was held IN
Birmingham, England, Sunday, and pc
tition drawn up asking the Gar to protect
the Jews in Russia. The petition will be
sent throughout Europe and America for
signatures.
The will OF the late Nathaniel ID. Higgins,
the New York millionaire, was filed on
Saturday in the surrogate office. He leaves
his estate to be divided among his children
and relatives, and bequeaths $4,000 to the
charitable institutions in New York city.
District Grand Lodge No. ,, B'nai Birth,
met at Louisville Sunday for threc-days'
session, with full representations present
from Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri,
and Colorado. Reports were read during
the day, and banquet was given at night.
A delegation Of prominent residents OF
Dakota passed. through Chicago Sunday for
Washington to urge the admission OF the
southern half OF Dakota ~ a state. All po-
itical parties and opinions are represented
in the delegation, which numbers seventy
five persons.
Since the publication OF the latest report
OF President Elliott, sufficient money to
endow a new professorship in the Harvard
School has been presented to the Uniyer-
sity, and il is understood that the new po-
sition will be filed by Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr. The amount is said to be
100000.
l. IA. ro,,r. - Co,,,,,o,, plooc Nou
York. decision was rendered Saturday
granting verdict Of $4,000 i'm favor OF
William II. MarstOn against Jay Gould.
Marston claimed that he had formed 4 part
nership with Gould to buy and sell Eric
stock. the latter to supply the capital and
take four fifthS Of the profits. Marston
claimed that he never received his share OF
the profits.
James Smith, laborer at Clymers stone
quarry. near Bowers's 81 ton. Berks
county. Pa, on Saturday lighted fuse and
failed To get out OF the way before the fire
reached the charge OF powder His body
was torn into fragments, and his legs and
arms were thrown a considerable distance
from the quarry.
Secretary FrcIinghuysen has received a
dispatch from Mr.. Hoffman, Charge 1t NJ
flares at st. Petersburg, advising him that
the message from the Secretary OF the Navy
to Engineer Melville concerning the search
for the missing boats OF the Jeanette had
been forwarded; also, that Master Danen-
haucr and eight men are on their way to
Irkutsk.
Two corpOrations-on called the Ameri-
can Quick Transit Company, which has its
HEADQUARTERS at Boston, and the Interna-
tional transportation Company. which has
its headquarters at ChicagO-are, accord
ing to the Boston Herdid, about to build a
number of steamships and run them from
ports on the south Atlantic coast TO Euro
pean ports. also from Pacific ports to China
and Japan.
Mr.. EnOch Pratt has written commune
cation to the Mayor and City Council oi
Baltimore rendering 10 the city a free
circulating library, to be known A. "Thc
Pratt Free Library OF Baltimore" He
proposes to build and equip the library,
on Mulberry street, nj a cost Of S22j,000,
and then to pay to the city SS33.333,3 3},
on the conditiontha the city shall establish
an annuity Of $4,000 for the support Of
the library.