Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-11-22

! anu Miss Matuef ~ the Union Squhfe,
| young lady named Blanca tackled the
character at the Academy Of Music last
evening and got much the worse Of the
encounter. The sole qualification OF
Blanca is that she happened to be born
at Verona, but being born in stable
does not make one horse, and the
same principle applies to Verona and
Juliet. The debutanfe was supported
by amateurs, who conyulsed the small
audience with laughter. An innovation
was a song by Juliet during the balcony
scene. "Love Not" would have been
an appropriate selection, but Bianca's
voice was so weak that nobody could
tell what she was trying to sing.
sTEEPLE- CHASING.
The swindlers and blacklegs Of the
turf have given steeple-chasing and
hurdle-racing black eye on the regu-
lar tracks around New York, and now
the gilded youth Of the metropolis are
going in enthusiastically for the dan
gerous sport. The Rockaway Steeple-
Chase Association, an awfully swell lot
Of young men, have already come out
with an unusually heavy programme
for their spring meeting at Cedarhurst,
on Long Island. The "star" events
Of the meeting will be the Cedarhurst
grand national purse Of $4,000 and the
Queens-county hurdle purse Of $4,000.
None Of the jumps will be less than
three feet six inches high, and the
water-jump will be fourteen feet wide.
ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY.
The Ladies' Orchestral Society, which
was proposed last spring by the Misses
Hewitt, daughters Of Congressman
Hewitt, has been inaugurated, and the
following ladies have been elected as
officers Of the Society President Miss
Sarah c. Hewitt; Treasurer, Miss
Frances Johnston and Secretary, Miss
Eleanor G.. Hewitt. The Society is
composed entirely Of ladies who are all
amateurs, and play on violins, violas,
yioloncellos. and double BASES, and has
a professional leader for its conductor.
Saturday Of each week is set apart for
rehearsals, which will take place from
/ o'clock to p. NJ. A fine Of fifteen
cents will be imposed each time men,
Der is late or absent. A fund, con-
tributed to by the annual dues Of each
member of five dollars, will be used to
buy music.
\ SMALLPOX SCARE.
The fashionable residents Of Thirty
eighth street were thrown into state
Of alarm few days ago, owing to the
discovery that well-known family had
been Frustrated with smallpox, and
were being cared for at their home.
The influence Of the head Of the house
was sufficient to keep the health officers
quiet, and no placard marks the house,
which is among the most elegant in
that part Of the city.
1t seems that one member of the
family was travelling and became ex-
posed to the dread disease, but was not
taken sick until he reached home. lie
communicated the contagion TO others
Of the family and four are now on sick
beds. Members Of Fifth and Madison
avenue families living near, and who
have been accustomed to pass through
Thirty eighth street, now give it
a wide berth. The family have
always entertained great deal,
and their society friends have lived for
a week in great distress for fear they
may have been exposed when calling
there just previous to the outbreak Of
smallpox. The case so far has escaped
the vigilance Of the press. The many
isolated cases Of smallpox heretofore
reported have been confined to the
poorer classes and uncleanly districts,
and are promptly carried off to the city
institutions.