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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-05-27

persons indebted to the
IN estate Of Mrs. Sarah Il. Bigganl, deceased.
IRE requested to settle the same without delay,
and all persons having claims against said estate
are requested to present them TO e. ID. NEWBUhF,
No. lol8 Main street, for pay ment. - y,
r. Il. P0ITIAUX,,
Administrator Of Sarah K. Biggam, deceased.
lay e-.Eat lgs i ".. Ta II, ]. 1.
Middletown transcript., 1870-04-02
Selett poetrp.
THE DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE.

Oh, memories of the green and pleasant places,
Where happy birds their wood-notes' twitted
Oh, love that lit the dear familiar faces,
We buried long ago
From barren heights their sweetness we remem-
ber,
And backward gaze with wistful, yearning
eyes,
AS hearts regret mid snow drifts of December,
The summers sunny skies.
Glad hours that seemed their rainbow tints to
borrow
From some ilumined page of fairy lore;
Bright days that never lacked bright tomorrow;
Days that return no more.
Fair gardens with their many-blossomed alleys,
And red-ripe roses breathing out perfume;
Dim violet hooks in green sequestered valleys,
Empurpled o'er with bloom.
Sunsets that lighted up the Observation-Disclosures
Turning their dusky glooms to shmmering
gold;
Moonlight that on the rivers fern-fringed reaches
Streamed, white-rayed, silvery cod
Der moorlands bleak we wander weary-hearted,
Through many tangled wild and thorny
maZe
Remembering as in dreams, the days departed,
The bygone happy days.
Middletown transcript., 1870-04-02

Field Pea, is very striking. A correspon-
dent of the Southern Planter made some
years ago the following statement; II ap-
piled plaster to the poorest parts of my
pea-fallow at the rate of half bushel to
the acre. The peas had about six or eight
leaves at the time the application was
made. In few weeks the vines were o.
deeper green, and were much more four
ishing than those adjacent without plaster.
The whole field was fallowed and put into
wheat, and the result was about four times
as much wheat where the plaster was used.
1t is not well that fertilizer whose good
effects have been so we'll tested should go
out of fashion, or be rejected anywhere
without trial.
Middletown transcript., 1870-04-02

THE MAN WHO BouGHr HIMSELF.
Springfield Illinois. Republican, tells the
following good one Am amusing affair
happened lately between a coal dealer and
purchaser. The latter was very anxious
that the former did not cheat him, so he
(the purchaser) inspected the weighing of
the coal himself, and felt perfectly satisfied
that he got full allowance.
However, while the coal was weighing.
the driver Of the team could not help laugh
ing, aware at the time the purchaser was
particular about his full weight of coal
The purchaser, noticing the laughter Of
the driver, asked him, when he received
the coal. what it was all about, so the
driver told him.
Why" when your coal was weighing.
you were standing on the scales, and were
weighed with it."
"Is it possible? Why. weigh nearly
two hundred pounds!"
"Well, SIR" said the driver. "you
have been Sold"
"Yes," was the reply. land / have
bought myself"
Middletown transcript., 1870-04-02

To CoNsuMprWEs EvERYwHERE.-A
correspondent of a Georgia paper writes
as follows:
Having seen much suffering from con-
sumption, and knowing that thousands of
dollars are yearly spent by invalids tray
cling for their health, and on medicines
and physicians, we propose simple recipe
by which patients may become their own
physicians, and if not too far gone, will
guarantee perfect cure, if made and reg
ularly taken according to directions.
The ingredients are hoarhound, mullen
and molasses, ingredients that are within
the reach of all, the mullen growing wild
in every field, the hoarhound in every gar
den, and the molasses can be had at any
grocery. The directions for making are
to take a large handful of hoarhound
and boil as strong tea as can possibly be
made. Take up and then boil an equal
amount of MULLEN in the same way. Take
teacupful each of MULLEN and hoarhound f;
then add a cupful of molasses and stew to
a syrup-the quicker the better. Take a
teaspoonful three times day. 1t is not
best to make more than quart at time,
as the fresher it is the better effect will be
produced"
Middletown transcript., 1870-04-02
THE TOMATO AND ITS CULTURE.

At late meeting of the American In-
stitute Farmers Club, Mr.. j. Payne
Lowe. of Little Falls, N. Y gave paper
on this plant Other fruits of the garden,
he said, had been long in reaching their
present perfection whereas tho tomato
has been comparatively short time under
cultivation. Experience has satisfied him
that it is most susceptible of improvement.
Then why grow coarse, unsightly, spongy,
ill-favored tomatoes when, by attending
to few simple but important things, the
finest qualities may be had? Seed from
fruit which ripens earliest will produce the
earliest next season, and if. properly
grown, and from the best variety, will
give the desirable qualities of earliness.
productiveness, size, solidity, fewness of
seeds, beauty of form, thinness of skin,
delicacy of favor. and richness of color
that is wanted is few inches of rather
light, rich soil the box in the sunshine
in a warm, well ventilated room, the box
covered with glass to counteract the dry
ness of the atmosphere and plants once
growing must receive no check from want
of care. A few plants well grown will be
worth far more than any number of those
crowded to suffocation in dealers hot beds.
In the neighborhood of New York the
seed may be germinated Gin small boxes)
about the middle of February or the be-
ginning of March. Frequent transplant
ing is very desirable. Begin to do so
when the plants are two or three inches
high. Let them not be put in the open
ground till all danger of frost is passed,
unless they are protected. In transplant
ing, let the soil be well watered, so that a
ball of earth may go with each plant, thus
preventing the growth of the plant from
being checked. A uniform warm temper
ature is desirable, but the plants must not
be kept SO hot as to grow sckly. They
need all the light they can get. and as
much fresh air as they can stand Let
them have light, rather than heavy. and
rich, but not over-rich soil; and. if on
the southeastern exposure of a hillside,
all the better, They should not stand less
than four feet apart. Keep the soil fria-
BILE let no weeds grow; hoe early and
often. For late crop. SOW in Spring.
The plants in place will grow till frost
comes, and longer, if protected. Cut out
suckers shorten the vines, and nutrition
will flow to fruit instead of making fibre
nor will there be loss of fruit, for most of
it grows near the ground. and the vines
thus pruned will produce larger fruit.
Middletown transcript., 1870-04-02
APRIL 1870

put forth that day, and some rather hard
stories. AS it drew near midnight of the
day in which we committed poor Peter to
the deep, I was somewhat surprised to see
first one and then another of the watch on
deck, come shambling aft, and pretend to
be looking for something, while at the
same time they managed to get as near the
taffrail as they could, and a. couple of them
made an excuse to come over to the wealth
er side, and ask me some questions about
California, pretending that they had an
argument and wanted me to decide.
But while they spoke, l noticed they
cast sidelong glances aloft to the top, and
were scarcely conscious of what they were
saying, and understanding the matter at
once, 1 laughed, and said
"Well boys if you are afraid of Peters
ghost, have no objection to your staying
aft, until the time is past for him to appear,
but / don't think he will do you any
harm"
At this there was volley of protesta-
tions, that they were not afraid of Peters
ghost, nor the ghost of anybody else. but
even while they were assuring me that they
were uUG dlTdlu VI uiu
foot" himself, the door of the house flew
open, and the. watch below came bundling
out, and rushed aft in body SO hastily,
that their panic was at once communicated
to those on deck, and they all flew aft,
throwing each other down, and tumbling
one over another in most ludicrous man
ner. They finally brought up at the taf-
frail, but not before making such noise,
as brought the "old man" and second
mate on deck.
explained, and the old man" went
below smiling grimly. while the second
mate staid up on deck to see the fun, as
he phrased it, when Peters ghost should
appear.
1t was poor fun for the men and fancy
most of them felt Toms queer sensation
of "soft cool wind blowing through their
hair" Among the others l could see the
black face of the ships cook, with his eyes
open, the most terrified of all.
I could not help laughing, but said moth
ing, for remembering my own sensations
the night before, felt that I was in
glass house myself, and it would scarcely
become me to throw stones.
AS the bell struck eight all eyes were
fixed on the top, and though for fifteen
minutes not glance wavered, nothing ap-
peared, and | sent the watch to their beds,
with the comforting assurance. that what
Tom saw, was Peters ghost, going aloft
to heaven, and although the Iris was. a
sweet little craft, he was not fool enough
to come down to keep his watch on her
deck
They went below quieted, but I have
no doubt but that Peters ghost has form
ed the subject of many yarn when our
crew was scattered into other ships, and
have no doubt, but that any of them would
take any amount of oaths to the effect
that Tom really saw the ghost of I" Peter
the Swede."
As for me say nothing, but if Tom
dill see something, and it was not the
ghost of "Peter the Swede"-
What was it?
Middletown transcript., 1870-04-02

THE Two SoRoGaINsEs.-An Irishman
who had been absent for some time on a
fishing excursion. met one of his friends
who inquired of him what luck he had
had. "Oh," he replied "we had a
most Elegant time entirely" "Who
were of your party?" asked his friend
There were five of u.s." was his answer.
b" There was myself, one; the two Scrog-
ginses, two; Terry Toole, three; Jim
Kasin, four There were five of U.S.
There was Terry Toole, one; myself, two ;
the two Scrogginses, three; and Jim Ka-
sin, four. There were certainly five of us.
There was Jim Kasin, one; Terry Toole,
two; myself, three; and the two Scrog-
ginses, four. It is very strange that |
cant remember who the fifth man was !!
There was myself, one; Jim Kasin, two
the two scrogginses, three; and Terry
Toole, four; and may the divil fly away
with me if / can recollect who the fifth
man wasp
Middletown transcript., 1870-04-02

Cur THIS Our,-Mr. Daniel Crigler, of
the Natural Bridge, gave the Lexington
Gazette fine remedy for certain disease
in fruit trees. He had half dozen apple
trees with the bitter rot The fruit fell
off before it was ripe. By boring into the
body of the tree with an augur and filing
the cavity with spirits of turpentine and
tightly plugging the orifce, his fruit never
failed to ripen finely. One pint will do
for six trees.
Middletown transcript., 1870-04-02

CHEERFuLNEss.-Try for single day, I
beseech you, to preserve yourself in an
easy and cheerful frame Of mind. Then
compare the day in which you have rooted
out the weed of dissatisfaction with that
on which you have allowed it to grow up;
and you will find your heart open to every
good motive, your life strengthened, and
your breast armed with panoply against
every trick of fate.
Middletown transcript., 1870-04-02

who's there?' said Robinson, one
cold winter night. disturbed in his repose
by some one knocking at the street door -
+" A FRIEND" was the answer. What do
you want?" "Want to stay here all
night" "Well stay there, : was the be.
neyolent reply.
Middletown transcript., 1870-04-02
Hats and Caps.


To the Democratic Voters Of Neto Castle Co.
FELLOW CITIZENS :--At the earnest solicitation
of my friends again offer myself as a candidate
for the nomination of Coroner of New Castle Co.
and am thankful to my friends for the support
they gave me at the last nomination election, and
pledge myself to abide the decision of the party
RICHARD GROVES,
Delaware City, Feb. 5-tn
Middletown transcript., 1870-04-02

DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes says that
widows who cry easy are the first ones to
marry again. There is nothing like wet
weather for transplanting.
Middletown transcript., 1870-04-02
THE vAPoR COOKING STOVE.

No Wood, no Coal, no Store Pipe, no
Ashes, no Dirt, no Wood Bores, no
Coal Sc,atle, no Kindttng Wood,
Middletown transcript., 1870-04-02

Virginia boasts Of four-year girl with
q heavy beard and moustache,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-25
An Awful St0ry.

There was once an awful little girl
who had an awful way of saying "aw-
full" to everything. She lived i'm an
awful house, i'm an awful street, i'm an
awful village, which was an awful dis
ts nee from any other awful place. She
went to an awful school, where she had
an awful teacher, who gave her awful
les sons out of awful books. Every day
she was so awful hungry that she eat
an awful amount of food, so that she
looked awful healthy. Her hat was
awful small, and her feet were awful
large. She went to an a fful church
and her minister was an awful preach
er. When she took an awful walk she
climbed awful hills, and when she got
awful tired she sat down under an aw-
full tree to rest herself In summer she
found the weather awful hot, and i'm
winter awful cold. When it didn't rain
there was an awful drought, and when
the awful drought was over there was
an awful rain So that this awful giri
was all the time i'm an awful state, q ID
if she don't get over saying lawful"
about everything, am afraid she will,
by and by, come to an awful end.-Es-
cI0n0e.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-25
Word Puzzle.

There is one word Of only five letters,
and if you take away two of them ten
will remain. What word is that IL
is often. If you take away o i, ten will
remain.
There is word of five letters, and il
you take away two of them six will re-
main. What is it? Sixty. Take away
ty, six will remain.
Here is a puzzle: Take away my first
letter, take away my second letter,
take away all my letters, and am al
ways the same. Can you guets thatc
You are right; it is the mail-carrier.
There is one word which, IL YOU
change the place of Ole of its letters,
means exactly opposite rom what II
united. Place the i after the {, aud it
becomes united.
Can you tell NE what letter it is that
has never been used but tw ice i'm Amer
ich? 1t is O.; it is used only twice In
America.
Can you tell me when there was only
two vowels? 1t was i'm the days q
Noah, before you and were born-in
the days of no a, before and were
born.
Can you tell me when 1t Is that
blacksmith raises row i'm the alpha
bet? 1t is when he makes q poke : and
shove !, Ia poker and shovel
Perhaps you can tell why hare Is
easier to catch than an heiress? IL ID
because an heiress has an !, and hare
has none.
Now let me hear whether you can
spell the fate of all earthly things with
two letters? L will tell you'd 4, do.
cay.l
| suppose you have often heard, or
can guess, how to spell mousetrap I'm
three letters? You are right. Il IL
cat
Can you tell a man in on word that
he took late breakfast? This Is the
way-attenuate tat ten you ate.)
Can you tell me what word is always
pronounced faster 10y adding two letters
to it? 1t is the word fast; add er to il,
and it faster.
What is the word of one syllable
which ifyou take away two letters from
it will become word of two syllabses?
You must try and guess that, for IL h
my last puzzle. 1t is plague; take
away pl, and it becomes ague.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-25

DRUNKEN FISH, Recently the pro-
prietors of distillery at Milford. Ohio,
not having enough hogs in their pens
to drink their slOp, turned it into the
Miami. Forthwith the sober inhabi-
tants of this beautiful river, that per-
haps never tasted anything stronger
than its own health-giving fluid, We're
seized with a desire to go OH one grand
bender" By the time the fluid
reached Plainville, TIE whole river pre-
sented a scene of the widest revelry
among the fish. Bass, salmon and
white perch We'd with each other i'm all
of ridiculous gymnastics. They ap-
peared i'm shoals upon the top of the
water, swan to the shore and jumped
upon the dry land, and in their drunk
en- spree greatly initiated the ridiculous
performances of higher order of ami
mails. A wagon load was caught while
in this tipsy condition and sold i'm the
market. An old gentleman, who for
sixty years has lived i'm the locality,
says this is not the first time of such an
occurrence.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-25
"WhO Made the Brides 2"

a little three-year old was consider.
ably excited the other day by seeing the
cat kill a mouse. The next day she
asked her mother suddenly:
Who made the brides"
"God made them my child"
Who feeds the brides, mammal"
"God feeds them"
+" Mamma, who made the mice, she
continued.
"God made them"
The little one was thoughtful mo-
ment, and then asked energetically:
"Does God keep cat ?"
The mother told her she would tell
her all about it when she got older, bat
for the present she had better go play
with her India-rubber doll.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-25

THREE eaterprising lads who live i'm
Trenton, n. j., and whose ages range
from u to 10 year !, have hit on a rath-
er novel winter amusement. They
have miniature telegraph wire stretch
ed over the tops Of the houses and con-
Meeting their homes. All the appara-
tus il of their own construction, and
though quite rude it still works a6lmi-
rably. In this way they are virtually
in each others company though miles
apart, and amuse themselves tiiscuss-
ing the news of the day and cracking
their Juvenile jokes, while each h seat
ed by his own fireside.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-25
Cosmetics and Perfumery.

A mixture of lemon juice, rose wa
ter, and borax, will remove freckles
and sunburn. After the harm of sun
burn is done, linen cloths, wet with a
solution of bOrAx, i'm rose water, will
allay the smart and remove the high
color. To improve the skin of the
hands, wash them with soap, in tepid
water before going to bed rub them
with glycerine, cold cream or almond
oil, and put ON a pair of old white
gloves, loose at the wrist. Persons
staying where soft water is not to be
had for bathing, should use teaspoon
fui Of liquid ammonia to a basin Of wa
tefLit will he perfectly soft. = ,
There is no better hair-wash than a
teaspoonful of ammonia to basin of
water--it cleanses the scalp. Itshould
be used, or some sort of wash given the
hair once o week, and the hair thor
ougfly dred before putting il up. As
curling tongs are so much used i'm the
present style of dressing hair, it is well
to know that slightly oiiing the locks
with glycerine, in which salts of am
M onia are dissolved, at the rate of half
an ounce of salts to a pint of oil, per-
fumed, will aid in dressing the hair
without leaving it greasy, and will pre-
vent the heat from injuring the hair
The ammonia, well rubbed in, is the
best stimulant known for hair, and will
prevent it from falling out. 10
To those young ladies who DRINK
champagne, and eat cologne on loal
sugar to make their eyes bright, and
eat chalk to make their faces white,
and use vermillion salve to redden
their lips, and drink vinegar to make
them thin, l would say that the use OF
powdered charcoal, taken i'm spoonful
doses three times day, and a cold bath
in the morning will produce better eff.
fects as to heishtening beauty than any
of these dangerous practices. Especi-
ally, the effect of charcoal is to render
the complexion pure and brilliant.
AS to perfumes, ladies should under
stand that only low taste tolerates the
. use of the mixed popular odors, such as
Water Lilly, Night-Blooming Cereus
Bouquet des Antilles, anda dozen 9th,
ers which are vague scents that dry on
the handkerchief, leaving a base o
musk. Each lady should choose some
refined and refreshing perfume, such a!
the new tea and coffee odors, preparet
for the toilet. Parma violet, jasmine
rose, sandal wood, carnation, 1.-THE mos
delightful next to otto of roses or Tn
real English boquet, which breathe
chiefly Of migncnette, and approprlao
ii and no other to her use.-N T. Ir'
bnne.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-25
gaetrg. q1sn0


The following exquisite poem from LoIp
BYRON to his sister, will be read with renew.
ed interest becanse'ofl Mrs. Stoves slander.
GUS article:
Though the day of my destiny over .sH
And the star OF my faith hath declined,
Tx ss sG nus TSss maSs 10 sSSS
Though thy soul with my grief was acquain.
1t sSrank not 10 share it with me.
And the love which my spirit hath planted
1t never hath found but In thee. ST'T'eG
Then when nature around meis smiIinp,F
Inc tasS smlle winch answers TO mnie,
Because II reminds me of thine;
And when the winds are at war with 1he
As their breasts believe in with me. ~ Z I
Iftheir pillows excite an emotion, a.,
1t is that they bear me from thee.
Though the rock of my last hope is shivered,
And its fragments are sunk in its waves .
Though feel that my soul is deliverd, = +.
To pain-it shall not be a slave. - 4
There Is many pang to pursue me;
'TpheX ma may erush, but they snai NOV n" eoi'-
They may torture. but not subdue me
IT'S of thee that think, not OF them
. Though human thou didst not deceive me;
Though woman thou dldst not forsake;
Though loved, thou forbeaiest 10 grieye me !;
Though slandered, thou never couidst
shake; .,,.~
) Though parted, it was not 10 fiy; 1sIfs
Thoush wafchful, IL was not to defame Inc,
Nor mute, that the world might belle.
Yet blame not the world, nor despise Il,
Nor the war of rhe many with one -
Ifmy soul was not fitted TO prize it,
Twas folly not sooner to shun;
And IL dearly that error has cost me,
And more than 1 once could forsee,
have found, that Whatever 1t lost me
1t could not deprive me Of thee. sE"t
From the wreck of the past which hath per-
ished,
Thus much at leastma recall,
IL has taught me that what most cherished
Deserved to be dearest of all.
In the desert q fountain is sprlnging,
In the wild waste there still is tree,
And bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-25
What She Died OF.

\ mother, who had with her little
daughter, was examining the figure Of
q horse OH tombstone, and wonder
ing what OH earth il was an emblem
of. There was nothing to explain 1t In
the inscription. Mamma" said the
little one, as they moved away. 81
shouldn't wonder if she died Of the
ui1hf-D mare"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-25

gave her away,) it is difficult to say
which of the two she most loved and
honored. Both lived in perfect accord
and friendship long enough to see the
happiness of their darling, and to nurse
her children upon their knees.