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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-11-16

!, The trial Of Rev. George q. Robertson
for drunkenness and leYdness is now going
on before the PresbyteFy NORTH of Louis
vile, Ky,
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-11-16
DOWHATAN STEAMBOATsSE:,. !,
4 COMPANY'S 1890.
TRIWEEKLY LINE


BALTIMORE AND ALL POINTS SOUTH AND
WEST, IN CONNECTION WITH RALTI-
MORE AND OHIO AND NORTH
ERN CENTRAL RAILROADS.
The steamers of this line leave their wharf oil
Rockets every MONDAY NIGHT at O'Clock !;
WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS ut O'Clock
F. NJ.
Freight received every day ZIP to O'Clock p. III
For freight or passage. apply to
&C so-am WILLIAM p. BRETT, Agent.
EOR NORFOLK, WILLIAMSBURG.
A BURG. AND REGULAR LAND-Saslssss.sssesszsSsssu
INGS ON JAMES RIVER.-The fast and comno-
dlous steamer PALISADE, Captain CHARLES MEL
SON, having been thoroughly oyerhauled, Will re-
sumo her trips OCTOBER 14TH. leaving Richmond
DAY, and SATURDAY al % A. NJ.
Passengers for Williamsburg land ut Kings Mill
wharf.
Freight received daily Sundays exeeptedl.
Freight for way-landings must be prepaid. Through
freight forwarded with dispatch. Train leaves City
Point for Petersburg on arrival Of steamer. a4
&C IL y. Fl. ROGERS. Agent.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-11-16

100000. GRAND GIT cor
CERT AND PRESENTATION
p to sheholders of tickctsof
2s5 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES COTTAGE
LOTS
at the new and elegant seaside resort
vUE DE L'EAU,
on Hampton Roads, opposite Fortress Monroe, Va,
together with
$4,000 IN GREENBACKs!
TICKETS ONLY FIVE DOLLARS EACH!

The new, attractive, and beautifully-located
southern seaside watering-place named
yUE DE L'EAU,
on Hampton Roads, nearly opposite Fortress Mon
roe Va, III full view Of that fortress Fort Calhoun,
Chesapeake bay, and james river, with water
view unsurpassed In America, where every luxury
Of sea and land Is obalnable, opened to the pub
lie for tic FIST time the past season, and having
proved success unparalleled in the history Of
side resorts, has induced the stockholders to make
an effort to greatly enlarge Its capacity so to
commodate the great public; to this end they have
determined to offer inducements OF no ordinary
character In the shape of n
GRAND GIFT CONCERT.
by means of which they hope to be able to execute
their public-splritcd and lautiable
undertaking Of making
vUE DE L'EAU
GRAND SEASIDE RESORT OF THE SOUTH,
THE SOLE OBJECT OF THE
AS inducements to the public everywhere to pur-
chase tickets, they propose 10 present rs
CHRISTMAS GIFTS
to the purchasers or Tickets by distribution by lot,
the following magnificent gifts:
Gift, In Greenbacks, 900
5Glfts, In Greenbacks Of 81, 900 each... 5000
20 Gifts, in Greenbacks OF $500 each...... 10000
Is beauurully-located Cottage Lots by the
sea-" 30 by 100 feet at vue de rEau, valued
at $500 each 10000
200 other beautlfully-located Cottage Lots, %
by 1870 feet at yue de rEau, valued at 5000
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ao'Voo
100 Gifts, IN Greenbacks, of *loo each.... 10000
4Ol Gifts, valued 100000
10000 TICKETS, ONLY S. EACH.
The Grand Concert will take place In the
NORFOLK OpERA-HOUsE
ON MONDAY EyENIN
DECEMBER %, 1872,
and will In itself be full consideration fer TIT
price charged for admission tickets.
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TOR PHILADELPHIA.-n#gss

Il The steamer ALLIANCE, Captain zssEEsasssS
PLATT will receive freight for the above port III
MONDAY the 18th instant Mt Il o'clock. -sf 5:z
Freight taken for all parts OF Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, and Delaware, also for Norfolk, Boa-
ton, and New Orleans. ut Iov rates.
Passage TO Philadelphia, including meals and
state-room, SO. w. F. PORTER, Agent,
cfr
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-11-16

FIRE AT HIcEsFoRu.-Last Tuesday night
about u O'Clock some licndish person set
lire 10 the Clubhouse Of Captain ". II.
Bridges. at Hick>lord, Grecn>ville county,
and before anything could he removed the
building, with all lis contents. was destroyed.
Besides the machinery, ~, there were ten
hacj Of cotton il il. Captain Bridges loss
j. ahuul = 800, with 10 iusurancc.-B Burke
rit'.3 Sa0tJupI
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-11-16

Capital. s1o,o6aeoo In gold invested In the United
States ever deposited With Treasurer OF
Virginia, $4,000 In United states bonds. -
Having bcen appointed agents 10 the above rasncd
company We are prepared 20 issue tis stnss
personal property Of all kinds, On he most liberal
terms. ~ ~ = ~ - n - ~ se. O.
Losses eaui.abIy adjusted and promptly raid.
-" DIN. WALkEKG Co,
OCT ~ sg+l.-;,a3 So.l0N sSain street
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-29
FOR SAL F..
OR hONG LEASE

H>HE Young plantation, in Madi.
Il son county, Miss, containing
about $500 acres, about one half OF
which il cleared and Dit for cultiva-
tion.. This plantation is offered for
sale - four or more tracts, each,
half cleared, on such terms, and at
such time, as will enable purchaser
% pay amount of purchase money
from crop, or will give long lease,
at fair rental per acre.
For further information apply to
HUI. L. BRINKLEY,
Memphis, Tenn.
Nov. IL. 1871-tf
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-29
DAMAGED and Unmarketable Cotto
TAlLO RING.

TVNHE undersigned would respectfully In "a
l form his old friends and patrons that III
he is sedulousiy in the pursuit of hi old M
occupation -failOrinR-in all its various
branches, vnd il prepared to furnish gentlemen
with q full suit or single garment 1T the short
est notice. perfect knowledge ot his bushes,
warrants him in the belief that he VII give en-
ire satisfaction to all who may patroi1tze hun
Call at the place indicated by his sign South
side Public Square. mp stairs.
r. Y SCATTER
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-29
UNITED STATES HOTEL,
COR. FULTON, WATER AND PEARL SIS, N. Y

THIS well known favor ito hotel has recently been
! renovated, remodeled and fun shed and ele
tlyhas throughout 1t is kept on the Eur opean plan
ample accommod atiOns for four hundred guest
The location In accessible to all parts of New
York and Brooklvn than any other house in the city
The Broadway stages the hotel every three min
utes beside various lines of street OF which
intersects every other in New York.
II being but two blocks from Fulton Ferry makes
convenient for those wishing to visit the City Of
Churches from this ferry diverge al the principal
Railroad routes in the city Of Brooklyn.
GEO. N. TERRY, Proprietor.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-29
UIn the census Of 1870, the ha,

1In the census Of 1870, the hay
crop If Texas appears as 25O 600 tons.
valued AT 1884. 900. There is only
one State which il inferior in this
respect to Texas-Arkansas. Texas
could supply the world with cheap
hay The production of the United
States is "a 1925, 600 tons. raised on
2S.661 ,3O5 acres, and valued at
4238, 9G9, $50. The leading State il
New York, with 4, 800, 900 tons.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-29

DEMONSTRATION friend DR.. Ken
dali may not approve of it, but, ne
vertheiess, We reproduce the item :
An Iowan, who had toothaehe,
determined to remove it in the In
dian fashion. Accordingly, he bent
down a sarling in the woods. lay
down himself, and attached u stout
cord to his tooth and the sapling.
Then he touched the spring, aud the
next he k new he had jumped over
9 grove of about forty small trees
and was trying to get out of small
pond that he happened to slight in.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-29
Tim AMERICAN CITIZEN
ITEMS.

When you hear man say Life
is but a dream" tread OH his toes.
In Tennessee a hotel keeper is
called "hash- mill boss"
The man who on his wedding day
starts az lieutenant in the family
will never get promoted.
A colt without eyes, and no place
to put eyes, was born in Dubuque,
Iowa, recently,
A scloolboy at Woodstock, VT,
Is years old, is six feet two inches
high, and still growing.
A German writer defines woman
"a being something between a flow
er and an angel.
An asylum for Presbyterian Wild
ows is to be established in Philadel
phia.
They used to call a lady's man a
beau. They call him now a bO-er,
sometimes.
The Chinese, with a good deal of
4uicO SdfCdSm, Cdil CcIcMOuy Ouc
smoke of friendship.
The FIRST Napoleon asked, with
exquisite nOnchalance, +" what is his
tory but q fable agreed upOn?"
In New York recently, burglar
vas caught refreshing himself in
the bath tub of the house he was
r0bbing.
B..rnum's cannil,al from Fiji says
be jabers he'll not stand being star
Ell ut for tin dollars y wake, dye
mOind, nOwf
Women are poor advisers, and so
are men, utIess their jud gment is of
that sort which stands constitution
allx ut the freezing point.
A Missouri paper quietly records
the shooting Of 4 man who was car
~ ing of rope g with q horse at |
tached to the end"
A handful of lint cotton saturated
with lard burned under y hOrse's |
mouth, il is said, will cure the worst
kind OF collie. sFt
".Tbe older the seed the worse
the CROP as the farmer said to "
sssob .wnO was blasting of his an
cestry.
A girl in Wisconsin swallowed
forty percussion caps. Her mother
RETAINED from spanking her for
fear Of All explosion.
A ply stefan stopping at the door
of country apothrcary, inquired
far a pl,arnIac, .p(nia. SiT," said
the apetliecary, II know Of no such
farmer living about these parts"
A friend of ours, who has been
severely scaltled, wishes to publish
an indignant rPmnnSfrance from
his pen against the new book, emit
tied 6. The Beauties OF Burns"
ln'ancient days the precept was
" Know tbyself," in modern times
it las been supplanted by the far
more fashionable maxim, ''Know
thy ncighbOr and everything about
him.
An Illinois editor thus sarcastic
cally speaks of the marriage of a
professional brother in Indiana
g He STEPPED upon the hymeneal
platform, adjusted the fatal moose,
and was swung off into that unsilent
bOnrne whencs. he can never return,
save by the Indianapolis connect ,
ing lines"
4" am AFRAID" said lady to her
husband, "that am going to have
q stiff neck.'
a" Not at all improbable, my dear,7 !
replied her spouse. 81 have seen
strong symptoms OF it ever since
We were married."
A young lady, the other day, in :
the course of lecture, said: Get
young man, and be quick
about it, too. Don't wait for the
hoping that the girls
will turn to angels before you will
tluSf yourself to one Of Them. "A
pretty thing you would be along
side Of an angel, wouldn't you, you
brute?
DENTIsTRY.--Onr friend DR.. Ken
1aiI may not approve of it, but, ne.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-29
GARDEN SEEDS.

1000A PAPEBS LANDRETH'S
lLOUU GARDEN SEEDS,
Fresh and genuine; alse, s Bills Onion
Sets, now for sale by
CASSELL BAUGHN.
Jan. s, Is12!tf
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-04-11
The Birds In Winter,

What do the birds do in winter !?
Many, you know, go South. AS gen.
eral thing, winters cold does not seem to
affect those who stay with us. The truth
is, birds are remarkably we'll guarded
against cold by their thick covering of
down and feathers, and the quick circu-
lation of their blood.
The chickadee is never so lively as in
| clear, cold weather. When the thermo-
meter is three of four degrees below zero,
it shows by its behavior that it is pretty
cold. On such morning l have seen
small flock of them on the sunny side of
a thick hemlock, rather quiet, with ruff
fled feathers, like balls of gray fur, wait
ing with an occasional chirp, for the
suns rays to begin to warm them up;
little sober, perhaps, but ready, if cold
continued, to get used to it.
What do they eat? Our merciful
Father does not leave the earth bare.
There is food enough and to spare. The
seeds of the grasses and taller summer
flowers, and the elders, birches and ma
pies furnish supplies that the cold and
snow does not destroy also the buds of
various trees and shrubs, for the buds do
not first come in the spring, as some peo-
pie think; there are buds all winter;
there are insects, too.
A sunny nook any time during the
winter will show you variety of two
winged flies, and several kinds of spi-
ders, often in great numbers, and as
brisk as ever. Then in the crevices of
the tree bark and dead wood there must
be something nice to be had, Judging
from the activity of the chickadees, gold
crests, and their associates.
In the winter no mischief can be done !;
there is no fruit to steal. Nothing can
be destroyed now except the farmers
enemies; yet the birds keep at work all
the time.
Winter, too, is favorable to sociability
among birds as among people. The
chickadee, the gold-crested wren, the
white-breasted nut-hatch, and the dow
ny wood-pecker form little winter
clique. You do not often see one of the
members without one or more of the
Others
No sound in nature is more CHEEKY
than the calls of little troop of this
kind, echoing through the woods on
still, sunny day in winter-the lively
chatter of the chickadee, the slender
contented pipe of the golden-crests, and
the emphatic, business-like hank of the
nut-hatch, as they drift leisurely along
from tree to tree.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-04-11
MOnOlith Temples.

The largest existing monolith temple
in Egypt. e., temple hewed out OF a
single block of granite-is that OF Tel
el-mai, on the Delta. 1t is 2l feet 8
inches high, l3 feet broad, and IL feet I
inches deep. Large as this structure is,
it was exceeded by that of Amasis,
which was also on the Delta, and which
Herodotus states required three years to
transport, with the aid of 1000 labor
ers, from Elephantine to Sais, distance
ordinarily of twenty days Nilotic navi-
cation. According to the same venera-
BILE authority, third and still larger
monolith temple was the glory of Lato-
ma, city which stood on the western
branch of the Nile, and distant about
twenty miles from its mouth. "The
most wonderful thing" (relates the father
of profane history "that was actually
to be seen about this temple was chap
Ell in the inclosure made of single
stone, the length and height of which
was the same, each wall being forty GU
bits square (sixty feet, and the whole
single block Another block of stone
formed the roof and projected at the
caves to the extent of four cubits.' Ac-
cording to these admeasurements, sup
posing the walls to have been only six
feet thick, and the material granite, as
in all other monoliths, this monument
would weigh 1000 tons, being 76,032
cubic feet, without the cornice, which
was placed on the roof. This cap-stone,
although comparatively of inconsidera-
bic weight-2,4 400 tons, if six feet be
taken for its thickness-displays Won
derful example of the union of skill
and power in its elevation through the
air to the altitude of more than sixty
feet. If any doubt exists respecting
the ability of the ancients to transport
and uplift such enormous masses of
stone as these, it is set at rest by NJ.
Jomard, the celebrated Psychologist,
who gives sketch, in his work on
Egypt, published by the French govern
ment, of a huge block of granite sit
uated almost quarter of mile from
the modern town of Syene, where it was
abandoned for some unknown reason
while on its way from the quarry. 1t
bears numerous traces of instruments in
the work on its surface, as well as evi-
dences of its having been intended for a
colossal statue. NJ. Jomard's dimen-
sions are-the largest 90 2-l0 meters,
and for the body and back 1-2 meters,
or about ~, 81, and 2l English feet,
which, at l3 cubic feet per ton, yield
nearly 2500 tons This block of gran
ite is probably the largest in existence
of which there is indisputable evidence
of its having been moved by sheer man.
ual force.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-04-11
THE STORY-TELLER.
ARNOLD'S WIFE.

1t had caused commotion in aristo-
cratic circles when it was known that
Arnold Morford had married nobody.
my DEAR" said Mrs. Drumo to her
friend and confdant, the stylish Mrs
Cleveland, "she is really nobody. He
picked her up in some out-of-the-way
place where he was spending the sum-
mer, fishing. His sisters are perfectly
wretched about it."
II should think they might be-" was
the sympathizing reply. "A young,
handsome man, with his wealth, posi-
tion, and connections-why, he might
have married in our very first cir
cles !" and Mrs. Cleveland thought of
her daughter Arabellas thin shoulders
and twenty-six summers, and noted the
news upsn her mental tablets as "one
more chance gone"
1t was not likely that SO important a
person as the only son of Morford, of
Morford & Giles, junior partner of that
important firm, nephew of Giles, bach
elor, who would probably leave him all
his money, could marry without creating
some stir in his own social circle; but
when, as Mrs. Cleveland expressed it, he
"sneaked off to some obscure town to
marry a raw country girl he was proba-
bly, ashamed of" society was really in a
fiutter.
1t was understood by sympathizing
friends, that Lucy Clifford and Leonora
Maxwell, the sisters of the bridegroom,
were completely prostrated by their
brothers infatuation and obstinacy, al
though the old gentleman declared he
did x.rh1y hn oh ~
marry as he pleased. There was money
enough to start him in life, if his wife
had not two dresses to wear"
In the meantime the young bride
groom, happy and hopeful, was yet not
entirely oblivious of the probable COM
motion amongst his friends, and keenly
alive to the anger of his fashionable sis
tiers. He had won his little bride-his
wood-violet, as he called her-when
boarding with her widowed mother dur
ing a summer vacation. He loved her
fondly, and he trusted in her love, as she
had yet to learn that he was wealthy.
Yet, deeply in love as he was, Arnold
Morford was slightly troubled. He had
taken his bride to New York, established
her in fashionable hotel, and after
week of quiet happiness, ventured upon
the delicate ground that caused his per-
plexity. Seating himself upon the sofa,
he drew his wife down beside him, and
thus commenced:
"I want to say something to you, Et-
tie, darling, that may hurt your feelings
little. VIII you believe that have
motive for doing so, and forgive me be-
fore speak Z"
"You know I WILL" she said, softly,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-04-11
Old Chestnut Trees on Mount Etna.

Mount Etna is celebrated for the great
age and colossal dimensions of its chest
nut trees for one of the largest and
Oldest trees of the kins in the world is
that on Mount Etna, which is called
Castagno di Cento Cavalli. 1t is said
Jeanne of Arragon, on her road from
Spain to Naples, visited Mount Etna,
attended by her principal nobility, and
being caught in heavy shower, she
and hundred cavaliers took refuge un-
der the branches of this tree, which
completely sheltered them. A century
ago, according to Brydon, this tree
measured 204 feet in circumference near
the ground; but more recent travellers
give only $50 feet as its girth. There
are also two other celebrated chestnuts
on Mount Etna, one called the Castag-
no di Santa Agata, which measures 70
feet in girth, and the other, Castagno
della Nave, which measures 81 feet; the
stems, however, attain no great height,
but soon branch off above the ground
According to DR.. Philippi, the Castanea
vesca does not appear to be wild in any
part of Mount Etna, but always to be
cultivated.-1he Garden.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-04-11
A Nice Point.

During the war, man named Smith
had mule taken from him by the Uni
ted States military authorities for use
in the army. Smith subsequently died,
and his widow made application for pay
ment. Pending the application of the
widow, the guardian of Smiths infant
children intervened, claiming that pay
ment should not be made to the widow,
but should be paid to him as guardian.
The guardians allegation is that after
Smiths wife died (who was the mother
of these infant children), Smith married
again after which Smith died, leaving
this widow, (the applicant above de-
scribed). But it is alleged that when
Smith married this second wife she had
another husband living, and therefore
her marriage to Smith was void. The
guardian consequently claimsth money
on behalf OF the minor children of
Smith. The application, says the Wash
ington Chronicle, is in the Third Audi
tors office, and the clerks there are puz-
cling themselves over the conundrum.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-04-11

and never will forget, that lesson. If
he had gone to the penitentiary his
worst fears would have been realized
When an offender is young, the offence
is first one, and the offender appears
penitent, it is entirely proper for you to
exercise leniency by dismissing the com
plaint; and in the case now before you,
gentlemen, you have been entirely right
in your action"
AS the District Attorney ended his re-
marks there was a round of applause, in
which 1 am very certain every member
of the jury participated. Those who
had been most doubtful of the propriety
of our action were heartily glad that
their doubts were not well founded.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-04-11
What Makes Men.

1t is not the best things-that is, the
things which we call bast-that make
men =; it is not the pleasant things; it is
not the calm experiences of life; it is
ife's rugged experiences, its tempest, its
trials. The discipline of life is here
good and there evil, here trouble and
there joy, here rudeness and there
smoothness, one working with the
other and the alterations of the one
and the other which necessitate adapta-
tions constitute that part of education
which makes a man a man, in distinc-
ton from an animal, which has no edu-
cation. The successful man invariably
bears the mark of the struggles which
he has had to undergo on his brow
Exchange.