The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-10-04

moro or less. they are good stock here,
a elsewhere, when jndiciously and hon
cstly managed. Tell jackson 10 hurry up
the Richmond concern, or he'll have oppo-
sition when I return.
A certain patent medicine man here
resident, who has erected turreted bust
ness house, Ia Jayne, out Of the profits
of-his nostrum, o few days ago undertook
the heroic treatment Of case Of cholera
with tablespoonful doses of cholera mix
ture composed mainly of laudanum. A
coroner's inquest held over the body of
the unfortunate the next morning was so
ungencrous as to lay the patients death at
the door of the aforesaid medicine man,
alleging and declaring that the deceased
came to his end from congestion Of the
brain, produced by the administration OF
large doses of narcotic medicine at the
hands of DR.. J. II. McLane. Whereupon,
the Doctor, in a card intended to be excul-
patory, takes exception to the jury's know
ledge of medical Jurisprudence, and fatty
denies that laudanum produces any such
effect. When doctors disagree, thea ,cho
shall decide! If anything farther will
come Of it, know not, but in the me an
time vive la humbug! Humbugs in physic
humbugs in law; humbugs in theology $50
called); humbugs everywhere, as hume
rous as grasshoppcrs in Kansas, and fully
as destructive to every green thing. Hum
bug! humbug! humLug!
One notable place of resort, and worthy
of a more extended notice than can be here
given, is the beautiful retreat three miles
from town known as Shaw's Garden. The
princely fortune of the gentleman whose
name it bears, and his especial delight in
the science of botany, has enabled him to
concentrate within the area of a few acres
a magnificent collection Of the rarcst and
richest productions of the vegetable king
dom. 1t is presumable that the collection
of rare exotics to be found here is not eX-
celled, il equalled, in this country. To
particularize would require the pen of n
Linneus, welded through volume. Suf-
flee it to say that visit to st. Louis and
environs would be incomplete without halt
o day spent luxuriating amid the floral
beauties Of Shaw's Garden, an institution
so munificently endowed and so splendidly
sustained by this true lover of natures
handiwork. As the counterpart to all this
gorgeous array ofnature and art, | noticed
away off in secluded nook of the grounds,
in the dark shade of overhanging cedars, a
splendidly carved mausoleum Of octagonal
shape, erected under the supervision OF
the owner, and designed to receive at no
distant day the mortal remains Of him who
is now the presiding genius and master of
ceremonies at this palace of Flora. May
he long live to impress his visitors with the
sweet urbanity which was conveyed in q
passing remark to the writer as he glidcd
past to look after his numerous employees
in the discharge ofthcir several duties.
As am not in sympathy with the sports
of the turf, shall decline to notice the
whtcwashed enclosure and buildings at
tached, which | saw on my return to the
city, and known as the La Glide race
course. Races over this track were post
poned last week in consequence, not Of the
death of Mckecver, on the Chicago course,
the day before, but because the rains had
rendered the track heavy. May the post
porement be indiiinite.
The time for the opening Of the fairs
mechanical, agricultural, and southern
rclef-draws rapidly near, and with the
primal days of the coming week and the
coming month, will be gathered together
here the usual concomitants of such inSti-
tutions-pickpockets, garroters, shoulder
htters, plugs and pimps, manageries,
monkey shows, negro minstrels, boa con-
strictors-the greatest natural curioSities
in the world, including the smallest woman
and the biggest woman in the world-all
these and more will the st. Louis fairs at
tract hithcr, to turn penny or to steal
penny.
The fairs promise complete success
if one may judge from the enthusiasm
manifested by the managers.
With the subsistence of cholera (onty zoe
cases last week. and the fair attractions
the merchants hope to greet many of their
country customers, who have declined thus
far in the season to risk visit to the city
to make fall purchases.
Not the least interesting item which
am permitted to chronicle in the cOnclu
sion of my letter is that the thirty days
rain has ceased, the mortar beds on tho
cross streets and avenues are rapidly dry
ing up, and the sunshine "tills me with 1
sweet delight which only he vino feels i,
knows" LIGNUM FlT-E.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
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