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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-17

Old apple brandy III store for sale by JOHN NJ
IIG9iNs.
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LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
England.


LONDON, September l6.-The London jour
mails this morning rejoice over the conclusion
of the Alabama Claims controversy, and eX-
press the hope that a foundation has been
laid for permanent good understanding be-
tween the two nations, now that ull neces-
s,lry PREPARATION has been made to America.
The Standard, however, thinks the tribunal
should have awarded damages only for the
depredations of the Alabama.
II IL asserted that the Gar of Russia will
demand the abrogation of the treaty of Paris
for the purpose Of cooperating with Austria
and Prussia.
Belgium.
BRUSSELS, September IG.--The Ncrd, a
newspaper published in this city in the ill.,
terest Of the Russian Government, categorl-
cally denies the report that the Gar will de-
mand the abrogation of the treaty of Paris
as consideration for the cooperation of Rus
sia with Austria ind Prussia.
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BY Grubbs & Williams.
Auctioneers and Real Estate Agents,
Eleventh street between Main ami Bank.

Eleventh street between hiaih anu o"''H.
V,HAT MOST DESIRABLE BRICK RE
l. SLuBNCE, No. 3oi MAIN STREET. F ~, BE
TWEEN THIRD AND FOURTH SIkEEJS :,
Also 4 BCILDISG LOT ADJOINING, At
AGCTIONBy request Of the eXsG,triM , 2t Inc m,e
In" premises on THURSDAY the 10Th dry Of seq
tembcr. at o'clock T. NJ; the LATE e., kEsi iisrn
don. II has three stories above the basement. COLI
tans ten rooms, besides kitchen with four rooIls
gas and wafer. baths. and nj modern ccnvchences
also a brick stable and carriage-house. y.
The LOT fronts feet and runs back about 100 fcet
to u wide alley. g..
This dwelling was erected hy the late owner for
his own use, IL admirail. arranged ana Thoroughly
well built and the sItaiion Is one OF the best III the
city for n professional or business man.
After which will he sold a Beautiful BbiLDiNG
LOT adjoining tie dwelling on the west; size About
% Ivy ca feet ,,,.
TERMS: Dnc-fourth cash: balance ut six, twelve.
and eighteen months, with interest, and secured
~ "-e GRURBS & WILLIAMS.
col, AuctioneerS.
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srAafaNE asTExl IaHENe.E.
TpOET, OF RIcHMcND. SEPTEMBER 10, 1872,

SEPTEMBER Il. is1e.,
n rssex -. ...,5.,.. sSal Moon n ses.as.i 5ae
N sets 6ofi HIgf, tide. -. i:s3
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By Robertson 4 Bronaugh.
Real Estate Agents and Auctiunrrs,
Manchester, Va.
BY Moody < Royal.
Real Estate Agents and Auctioneer.
Office corner of Seventh aud Hull streets,
Manchester, Va.

E'OR SALE PRIVATELY, a nice FARM,
4 thirteen miles from Manchester, containing
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES. near Oh
ccrIrt-hO,is,. II lGs frame dwelling AMI al
t;mImr,d and the lrllarce IN cultivation The soil
is good. and in good heart: also. good peach
and apple orchard. The dwelling cost $4,000 since
the war. 4 portion Of this land Is low-Sroilnds.
Price. g.. 500. Terms easy.
Several FARMS lying near Manchester, contain.
Ing from FORTY to TWO HUNDRED AGRES, az
mentS, on liberal terms.
au 90 MOcD1 " Rol ALL.
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pa, By Hiii & Godtiin.
Resl Estate Agents and AucfioDcrrs'
No. lI0s Main street.

yrXCHa NGE. SALE. AND My.GnS3
Il cry sTABLE:-HoRsEss; ,5 A ~ M
Infi IL Want OF GOOD STOCK Al e IN"
PRICiS AND ACCOMM0DATlNGTt ha, We
would Invite them to ieak at our =, ,h,r,y
NILES and IRON twenty 10 thirty HohS.'T'
are reee s 'ns "'ise''' ''0''' s TURNER { CO.,
Davis o.d stS ., +.
P.S-Thrce pats large No. Bnohssr
fyouily) and several pairs Ahrth H',,nEeS GO.
nm 2I-lm ttN.,.s' -
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ctEWING-MACHINES OF ALL KINDS
- REPAIRED.-A tlle late Improvements. put
on the OLD - SL0AT ELLIPTIC SEWlNG-MA-
CHINE, Our advice to owners of the SLOA1
ELLIPTIC Is to not sacrifice them for Yankee hum
hing machines GEORGE i. SLOtT,
Successor to
10 "a SLOtT & hDDlSGTnS.
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WANTED, the citizens of Richmond ana
w our country friends especially TO know Una, NJ
vr have hist received splendid assortment OF
SToTES md HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
which we will sell as low az they can be bought IN
the city. >., ,.,,,rr ,poN u-opx
l i r. MOUNTCASTLE f.. IH. co..,
IO3 Broad street, between First ana Second.
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OILS.


BRILLIANT AND ECONOMICAL LIG II I
COMBINED WITH ABSOLUTE SAFETY!
For sale bv PURCELL, LADD & CO..
au2e Druggists, &C., Richmond
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TOR PHILADEL l. PHI A 4EEfA
L The steamer J. W. EVERMAN usF1 - -
will receive freight for the above port I'LL Nun
DAY the 18th instant at l2 o'clock
Freight taken for all parts Of PtnnSyIvanla. view
Jersey and Dra ware also for Norfolk. Boston, ana
New Orleans. ri low rates. Passage 10 Phlladcl'
''' W. L. PORTER. Agent
CO ,c1 No 242j Dock street.
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EOR NORFOLK, WILLIAMS-e.tfTslsH11aJ
L BURG, AND REGULAR LAND a fsasssnaasss
INGs on JAMES RlVER.-The fast and colnno-
dous steamer PALISADE, Captain CIARLES
resume her trips AUGUST 27TII. leaving RlGnInnnu
for tue above points every TUESDAY, THURS
DAY and SATURDAY at a. NJ. ,,,,,
wharf. .,,
Freight received daily Sundays cSscrtcdll;
freiIfr forwarItd with dispatch. Train leaves City
Point for Petersburg on arrival Of steamer.
an "a D III. ROGERS. Agent.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.


SEWING-NACHINES.
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WANTS.

VIZ ANTED, FOUR GENTLEMEN, TWO
h,s,rss. having from Sl.jOo to $4,000 per year.
d ntsa'',,s r' ms Address =. VI. W.,
"" o nv Or " post-ohiCc Richmond, Va.
WANTED, by Il young lady Of Virginia
w the SITUATJuNOFT TEACHER In private are
family Young children preferred Can 1eacn tne
and Instrumental. Address "a. b." care Coloici
Hin Carter, city Point post-oaice Prince George
county. w.. or inquire of G. &. MlNO hirnm,oH"
Va. &c lL-u,.Sr-- ----
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-04
Japanese Self. Identification.

OF the Japanese at Washington the
Capital says: ':They have a promiscu-
GUS way of mixing up their rooms, and
the only place they can positively he
found IS in the elevator: Whenever =
Jap is missed at the Arlington or
Wormley's he is sure to. be found in
the elevator. And, then tile registering
OF their names makes Mills fairly yell
with rage and anguish when he comes
to make out their bills. IOne has to
remember: that these names are trans
lated, or rather the sound is caught
and transferred to our letters, SO that
every ear gives different name. After
the Jap is registered he, takes q COPY
OF the name and puts it in his pocket:
when, therefore, his bill is presented
he gets out search-warrant on himself
to find that written name, because the
pockets of the ancient civilization diff
fereds entirely from those of the more
modern, so that the poor Jap has first
to find his pocket, and generally begins
down about the heels, feeling his way
up, and exploring all sorts of openings
until he hits the recess, which he ex-
amines and then goes in. search of
another. When at last, the slip Of pa-
per is found, he falls into a brown
study-that looks very much like jaun.
dice-to know whether he really did get
the article charged against him. The
clerks, however, have simplified the
matter. When any one of the Embassy
at a hotel takes drink it is charged to
each one of them; sometimes all o1
them pay for that one drink, some.
times only half, but generally the
drink is paid for" ..,..
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-04

The Whipping.POst in England.

, Two years ago the House of Commons
introduced and passed q measure pro-
viding for corporal punishment BY tho
common hangman in cases of garroting
and robberies, with violence, from the
person. An account of the prisoners
hogged has just been issued. Only the
initials of the convicts are given, with
the nature, reason, and amount of the
punishment, the persons by whom it
was ordered, and those by whom it was
witnessed. 1u the seven years covered
by the return, 5,614 foggings were nd.
ministered in England and Wales. Tie
great instrument is still the birch, and
boys are its chief subjects. Most of
the boys thus birched were over ten
years Of age the majority seem to be
between II and II. There are, however,
considerable number at eight and
nine about a couple of dozen at seven
years of age, and one small incorrigible
who stands in the catalogue as only
four-which we are inclined to hope is
Il misprint for II. He is down as hav.
ing been sentenced ut the Marylebone
police court in April last, and as hav-
ing received ten stripes with the birch.
The more formidable instrument of
punishment is, of course, only used for
older criminals. The "cat y appears
to be used in about one case in fift,
In 17S cases it had been administered
under the powers OF tho act Of 1864. II
is a noteworthy fact that since garrot-
ers have been sentenced to floggings
tho offence has almost disappeared
from the criminal records of England.
.i BURNT luyn-lntt4rs :" il tho lutaa1
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Ask MY Wife.

A correspondent tells the following
in the Albany Argus:
Riding horseback just at night,
through the woods in Saginaw county,
Michigan, came into q clearing in the
midst of which stood q log house, it's
owner sitting in the open door smoking
a pipe: Stopping my horse before linn
the following conversation ensued:
Good evening, sir" saidL
"Good evening"
"Can get a glass of milk of you to
drink e. =
"Well' I don't know. Ask tho old
By this time the wife was standing
by his side.
While drinking it I asked:
"Think We are going to have a
storm 2"
"Well, I: really don't know. Ask
the woman-she can tell"
81 guess we shall get one right
away" said the wife.
Again I asked.
Chow much land have you got clear.
cd here?"
"Well, 1 really don't know. Ask the
old wOman-she knows"
"About nineteen acres" said she,
again answering.
just then O. troop of children came
running and shouting around the cor
ner of the shanty.
"All those your cl,ildrens" said I.
Don't know. Ask the old woman-
she knows"
didn't wait to hear her reply, but
drew rein and left Immediately.
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Jim Fisk's First Composition.

From McAlptnes Life and Times Of James Fish, Jr.
One of his copy books, used when he
was; about twelve years of age, is still
preserved by his stepmother at her
home in Brattleboro, Vermont, and to
say yithat it is q literary curiosity is to
do meagre Justice to one of the most
original of all the written results of
school boy labor ever examined by the
critic, Hardly page but shows the
antipathy Of the boy to everything like
set forms, and hardly line but bears
evidence of his natural contempt for
uniformity: The little book contains
three or four rcompositors, one of which,
entitled, Apiece about the Dog" is
as unique as anything ever penned. by
Artemus Ward. The young writer says
in his Piece ." (which had evidentl "
been originally written '.Peace W:
A Dog is an animal with fore legs
because he is a quadrooped. like
large dogs best because they can run
further and fight better, than little dogs
and they can cetch rabbits. A big dog
amt worth much without hes got good
breed into him. Then had drather
hev little one. They can also drag
sleds some has been learned to cary
sticks and baskets and seterer. The
bulldog is the best fighting dog because
most, likely he was made for that pur-
pus. A terrier goes mostly for rats,
but they car also fight. I think the
newfoundland is the noblist dog he
saves children from drowndlng, and
they are sagasious. This is all for the
present. ... j..
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as much us it cost him, and for thou
sand times more than any sane man
would think it was worth"
Half an hour afterwards I called ut
the Squire's again. Mr.. Twist had just
gone out with his money.
There he is now," said Simpkins,
just bound off," .:&
looked out the window, and saw,
t the door of tho inn, on the opposite
side OF the way, tall man, in bottle
green coat, with bright glaring but
tons, just mounting horse. l recog-
nizcd tho man?
''Who is that man2" asked; he
tons 7"
.'That," said simpbins, "ia Mr.. John
Twist"
In q moment more the man in the
bottle-grcen coat had ridden away, with
his heavy sadtlle-bngs behind him and
buttone,l up within that coat ! beheld
my reverend gnest It rushed upon
mo that the Rev. Paul Meckmore and
John Twist was one and the same per-
sou! And this was not al that flashed
upon.me! ,,,.
"A icW NayS NltoiWaru tOOk my
humps of white metal to mon who was
versed in sucll matters, and asked him
what they were. He took the largest
lump and tested it, and said:
Pewter2''
I asked him if pewter was ever dug
out of the earth i'll that shape.
"Well, " said he, "seeing that pew.
ter is an alloy of tin and led, it couldn't
be very we'll dug up, unless somebody
had gone and buried it beforehand.
/ Touching further explanations on
my "Twist lot " I will not speak. I
will only add that I have an old stock
ing with half dozen Jumps of pewter
in it j.; and I never look upon it but I am
forced to acknowledge that dreams are
sometimes very strange and wonderful
things. 49,:
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llcOn,buStible Wood.

1t is fact worthy of general notice
that wood may be rendered, without
great labor or expense, nearly as capa-
ble of resisting fire as brick or stone.
This is done by soaking the dried lum
ber short time in solution of soluble
glass, a silicate OF soda or potash, after
which it is immersed in limo water, by
which the silicate of ssdais decomposed
and the pores of the wood filled with Il
silicate of lime. The substance is fire.
proof and cannot he dissolved in water,
and its presence and effect in the fibre
OF the wood arc, therefore, permanent.
Soluble glass is readily obtained, be-
ing already largely usedfor various pur.
poses in this country. There is pa
tent upon the process, and it can there
fore lie used by any builder or lumber
dealer.
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Anatomy Of q Piano. Forte.

A writer has taken the trouble to give
the actual material used in constructing
a piano-torte' In every instrument
there are fifteen kinds of wood, viz:
pine, maple, spruce, cherry, walnut,
whitewood, apple, basswood and birch,
all of viii III are Indigenous; and ma
hogany, ebony, holly, cedar, beech and
rosewood, from Honduras, Ceylon,
England, South America and Germany.
In this combination, elasticity, strength,
pliability, toughness, resonance, light
ness, durability and beauty IRE indi-
vidual qualities, and the general result
is voice. There, are also used of the
metals, iron, steel, brass, white metal,
gun metal and lead. There are in the
same instrument of seven and half
octaves, when completed, 214 strings,
making total length of 7S7 feet Of
steel wire, and 500 feet of white Cover
ing wire Such piano will weigh
from 900 to 1000 pounds, and will last,
with constant use (not abuse } Is or
20 years.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-04

Union Of the Central American States.
The pact of the Central American
Union, composed of the states of Costa
Rica, Honduras, Guatcmala and Sal
vador, signed on the 18th. of February,
contains an engagement to preserve in
tact the autonomy and integrity of the
Central American territory; that other
than republican form of government
shall never be established; that dis
putes between members be settled by
the mediation of others; that rebellion
in either country is treason against all {;
that the duration of the Presidential
term in all the republics be uniform,
without immediate reelection that no
one; can be q. slave, within the
Central American territory, and
a Central American becom-
ing an owner of slaves in another
country loses nationality and protection
of the laws that citizens of either re-
public require the rights of citizenship
in all others by the mere expression Of
a wish before any government author
ity, and that the right of asylum il rec
ogRized for. emigrants or political :ex-
lies from any part of the world. The
construction Of telegraphs and national
highways, the establishment of mail
steamers and the excavation Of the in-
teroceanic canal through Nicaragua,
and a national congress, which meets
May II, at La Union, in Salvador, are
provided for, and the death penalty for
political crimes is abolished. : Nicara-
qua has not signed the pact, but is ex.
pected to do So. =
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Greek Brigands.

A letter from Athens in the Maeade-
burg Gazette says that the Greek capi-
tai is now almost blockaded by Greek
brigands. )" No one dares to 90 a
thousand PAGES out of the town without
an escort, and even then the undertake
ing is very dangerous one, for the
and in bushes, SO that the whole of the
escort might he shot down before their
hiding place could be discovered. The
Chief Of these brigands is q man named
Spanos, who has been notorious for his
daring deeds during the past thirty
years, and it may be said that he holds
the destinies of Greece in his hands,
for no progress is possible SO long as
the present state Of things exists. The
insecurity of property prevents the de-
velopment of agriculture. No one dares.
t. invest capital in land whose produce
is sure to be annexed by the brieands.
Nearly every day bands of peas.
who have been compelled by the brig
ands to furnish them with proyisions
ETC.; and, as the lives Of these unfortu-
nate people are threatened when they
do not comply with such acquisitions,
the government only Furnishes them
If they neglect to give information to
the authorities. Half of the Greek
army has been in pursuit of Spanos for
months but he and his band, which
consists of only seventeen, are still
close to Athens, and it is even rumored
that he has, on several occasions, en-
tered the city with the object of captur.
ing some high parsonage, whom he
would afterward 1iberate only on the
condition of his being given large
ransom and free pardon. The nature
OF the territory, and the proximity of
the Turkish frontier causes great diff. /.
cuities to the troops, and they fre-
quentiy pass hidden oaverns and the
thick bushes which cover the. noun
tains, without guessing that the brig
ands are in their immediate vicinity.
The shepherds and the peasants are
obliged, for their own security, to warn
the brigands of the approach of. the
troops on such occasions. This is done
according to well-developed plan:
they either throw stones with hero
glyphics upon them in places agreed
upon beforehand, or lay down sticks on
which they cut certain marks. # a
military detachment enters a village to
make inquiries about the brigands, the
peasants take their sticks and begin
cutting marks upon them, in the first
place to record the subject of the con-
versation, and next to enable the brig.
ands--some of whom are generally
posted on a hill in the vicinity with ex-
cellent field -glasses-to observe what
is going on. "
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The Watch S,yindIeYS.

i The New York Evening Post in an
article about the!Eliases, says: "Some
time ago Elias H. Elias bought at a
dry goods auction nine cases Of pop1ins
and silks. He sent samples of the
goods, accompanied by litographed cir
c'llars, to over one thousand retail dry
goods dealers, principally in the West
ern states and territories, Offering the
goods in moderate quantities at less
than one half the regular wholesale
rates. The circulars were signed
Gould Stuart & Co. Commission
Merchants, and numerous remittances
were received from duped merchants,
who arc still waiting for their chcap
goods"
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"WEDNESDAY, March 27.-HousE:-No
1usneas Of importanca WA frausacfed in tho uo.o.

WEDNEsDAY, March 27.-HoUsE.-No
business Of importance was transacted in the House.
THURSDAY, March 28.-SENArE.-The
bin to repeal the duty on tea and coffee occupied the
attention Of the Senate until late hour. The amend
ment adding to the bin the FREQ list Of the Senate
tafth bill was ooncurEed in. Various amendments
were offered and rejected. The question was then
taken on the amendment made in committee add.
ing the second section of the tariff hi reducing the
duties on cotton wooens, silks, iron, esrthenware,
g,aeswsre B. C. een per cent, and It was ooneurred
strike from the section manufactures of silk now
subject to duty of Per cont, which was agreed to
mye:ss ~ nays q. This lesves the duty unchanged.
The third section Of the tariff bill was added Mr.
Hsmn said that the whole Of the tariff bill reported
from the Finance Committee had now been sdonted
except exc tns tst section nd be moved that that
Of the tes and coffee bin now under consideration.
Lost. ME-. Trumbun moved the same amendment
offered by Mr.. Hanlin, emitting the paragraph re-
fed his amendment to provide all internal taxes on
by section lid Of the Internal revenue law Of June
~, 1oS4; except the taxes upon banks and bankers,
and al axee by stamps, such - relate to spirits
fermented liquors, snun, tobacco, &C., be repealed
said repeal to take effect tho first Of January. 1870
i, Lnis amendment vas carried, and the bill passed
Boreman, Hamlin, Frelinshuysen and Scott in tht
negative. Il now goes to the House for concurrencI
N t1e smendments which include substantially th,
tariff bill reported by the Senate Finance Commit
tee and the whole reduction of the internal tax in
voived IN II. SCOTS amendment, nrst section, pro
y1ding sor free te. and coffee. on motion Of Mr.
ment to the Chicago relief bill, exempting lumbe
from the operations Of the sct. Adjourned.
THURSDAY, March 28.-HousE. Mr.,
Dawes, from tho Committee Of Ways and Means, re-
ported back the Chicago relief bill, and intimatei
that he would allow IN amendment to be offered ex
emptine lumber from its operations. Mr.. Farwel
offered that amendment, which was agreed to, and
tne Senass ameAdncnt, - thus modified, was con
adjournment.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-04
Sale Ofa Interest in Jaw (sOull.

The N. Y. Sun of Friday saws:
" Yesterday Mr.. J.. H. Conner sold to
Butld Doble third share in the famous
yonng trotter, who nstonished the trot-
ting world at Buffalo last August, by
his wonderful speed. The price paid
was $lO,0 600, and it is supposed that the
pnrcl. Q was made for Mr.. II. N.
Smith. the owner Of Goldsmith Muitl.
This horse was bought after his race ut
buffalo by Mr.. George G. Hall, of tho
Erie Railroad, for 10000. One-third
belonged to him.. another to Mr.. jay
Gou''' ;1nd the third to the. late Col.
Fisk