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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-05-23

ONE HUNDRED DIFFERENT Styles OF BOYS
HATS at Z. WEISIGER & cos.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-05-23

NEW LOT OF HAMBURG EpGISG, ~ and l5c. q
yard, ut LEVY BROTHERS,.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-05-23
I3AI.TlMOR E.

BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE. Ma, 22.--NirGiuia colis"s. sac. We
Virgnia's. 10. Bid to-day.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-05-23
MILLINERY GOODS.

ENTIRELY NE w !-FRENCH -G
II PATTERNS to be still exhibited dur Ynal&
ing this week ut .HRS%S
MADAME Il. DEMELMAN'S
Also, every article In the Millinery line can be had
ut MADAME Is. DEMEIMAN'S
1923 Main street.
TIE LATEST SENSATION,
WILLOW PLUMES, POMPONS FOR SUMMER,
In every fashionable shade
FRENCH FLOWERS, such IN have never before
been exhibited in ibis city. In FANCY GOODS,
real Lace F1chucs, Shawls, Wells, Collars, and Hand
kerchief. Also, full line OF Imitation Laces. Kid
Gloves beautiful, In all colors Jes-such Combs,
Bands, Pins, &C., ut the old-cstnbished house of
MADAME II. DEMELMAN.
N. B.--Country merchants viii find II TO thcirOwn
Interest, desirolS Of purchasing WHOLESALE, by
calling upon mt, rs am convinced, after having
had our prices, you will be satisfied that the above
statement Is correct.
MADAME II. DEMELMAN,
1898 Main street,
mys between Thirteenth aud Fourteenth.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-05-23
RICHMOND TOBACCO MARKET.

THURSDAY, May -. 1918.
The openings for the last two days have been
large. and tolnccos In good order have sold we'll
Nondcscripts AMI common toIGiccos are dull:
L. AI.k
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-27
About Rattlesnakes.

An American correspondent of Cham
bers' Journal furnishes interesting in
formation concerning rattlesnakes:
The bite of the rattlesnake. according
to this observers experience. is neither so
rapidly fatal nor so incurable as most peo-
pie suppose. Of thirty persons bitten by
the rattlesnake, he states that all recov-
cred but one, and he lived twelve days af-
ter the accident. OF the whole thirty,
this was the only case which received sur
gical advice; but whether it was the bite
or the advice that killed the patient we
are not informed.
Whisky the writer regards as a specific
for the bite of the rattlesnake, and relates
numerous instances which illustrate the
wonderful power of this agent when ad-
ministered in sufficient quantity. 1t is
well known to physicians that persons
suffering from diseases attended with Sc
we're pain will often tolerate much larger
doses of opium or other narcotic than
could otherwise be borne. Persons pois-
oncd by the bite of rattlesnake manifest
similar tolerance for immense doses of
whisky, quantities sufficient to make a
well person stupidity drunk, or even to
destroy life, often producing no visible eff
feet upon the sufferer from snake-bite.
Yet, to be of any service to the patient.
oughly drunk before it is safe to suspend
the administration of the remedy. A
quart or more of raw whisky is frequent
ly required to bring about this condition :;
but when once it is attained, no further
danger need be apprehended.
While the rattlesnake is found spread
over large portion of North America, it
is much more abundant in some localities
than in others. Texas probably holds an
infinitely larger proportion of these rep
tiles than any other State in the Union.
The district lying between the Rio Grande
and the Nueces, two streams which flow
in the same direction and some sixty or
seventy miles apart, is desert region, lit
orally swarming with poisonous serpents.
" In SUMNER" says our writer, Zone can
not go fifty yards in this locality without
seeing rattlesnake. In other parts of
the State the moccason is the prevalent
snake; while centipedes, scorpions, tar
rantuas, and aligatOrs infest various To-
calities, and are each terrible scourge."
All writers have hitherto concurred in
saying that rattlesn makes are never met
with at an elevation of more than 5000
feet above sea level. The surveying par
ty of Mr.. Morley killed numbers of them
last year at an elevation of about 5000
feet; it is added, however, that they were
never found so high before. The noun
tain snakes possess more vivid colors than
their brethren of the prairies, and of the
two are more dreaded on account of their
supposed ferocity.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-27
A Lesson on Fishing.

FISHING teaches perseverance. The
man in Punch who on Friday did not
know whether he had had good sport, be-
cause he only began on Wednesday morn
ing, is a caricature, but, like all carica-
lures, has an element of truth in it. To
succeed as fisher, whether of the kingly
salmon or the diminutive gudgeon, an ar
dor is necessary which is not damped by
repeated want of success and he who is
hopeless because he has no sport at first
will never fully appreciate fishing. SO,
too, the tyro who catches the line in rock
or twists it in an apparently inexplicable
manner in tree, soon finds that steady
patience will set him free far sooner than
impetuous vigor or ruthless strength.
The skilled angler does not abuse the
weather or the water in impotent despair,
but makes the most of the resources
which he has, and patiently hopes an i'm
provement therein. Delicacy and gentle
ness are also taught by fishing. Look at
the thin link of gut and slight rod with
which the huge trout or "never-ending
monster of salmon" is to be caught. No
brute force will do there; every struggle
of the prey must be met by judicious yield
| ing on the part of the captor, who watches
carefully every motion, and treats its
weight by giving line, knowing at the
force of the butt is to be unflinchingly ap-
piled. Does not this sort of training have
an effect on tue character? Will not man
educated in fly fishing find developed in
him the tendency to be patient, 10 be per-
seyering, and to know how to.adapt him.
self to circumstances? Whatever be the
fish he is playing, whatever be his line,
will be nor know when to yield and when
to hold fast? But fishing, like hunting,
is solitary.
| The zealot among fishermen will gener-
ally prefer his own company to that Of
| lookers-On, whose advice may worry him
and whose presence may spoil his sport
The salmon-tisher does net make much OF
companion of the gillie who goes with
him, and the trouter does best when alb
solutely alone, and nothing is so apt tc
prove a tyrant and an evil one as the love
of solitude. On the other hand, the fisher
is always under the influence and able tC
admire the beauties of nature. Whether
he be upon the Greyhound loch, or by the
sides of the laughing burn of highland
countries, or prefer the green banks o
Southern rivers, he can enjoy to the full
the many pleasures which existence alon,
presents to those who admire nature. AL
this exercises softening influence on hi
character. Read the works of those wht
wrote on fishing-Scrope, Walton, Davy
as instances. Is there not very gent,
spirit breathing through them? What il
there rude. or coarse. or harsh, in th
true fisher? Is he not light and delicate
and do not his words and actions fall a
softly as his flies ?-Engiish Paper.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-27
"NO Nose Club"

An eccentric gentleman, having taken
a fancy TO see large party of noseless
persons, invited every one thus afflicted,
| whom he met in the streets, to dine Oh a
certain day, at a tavern, where he formed
them into a brotherhood. So he ordered
very plentiful dinner, and told the land
lord who were to be his guests, that he
might be a little prepared for their ap-
pearance. No sooner was the hand of
Covent Garden dial upon the stroke of the
hour prefixed than the no-nose company
began to drop in, asking for Mr.. Cramp-
ton, which was the feigned name of their
host, succeeding one another so fast that
the waiter could scarce show one up
stairs before he had another to conduct
AS the number increased, the surprise
grew the greater among all that were
present, who stared at one another with
such unaccustomed bashfulness and con-
fused oddness, as if every sinner beheld
his own iniquities in the faces of his COM
panions. However, seeing the cloth laid
in extraordinary order, every one was Gu
rious, when once entered, to attend to the
sequel.
At length snorting old fellow, whose
nose was utterly swallowed up by his
cheeks, as.if his head had been troubled
by an earthquake, exclaimed: "Well,
friends, if by chance we should fall to-
gether by the ears, how long might we
all fight before we should have bloody
noses?'
Ads flesh," said another, "now you
talk of noses, | have been looking this
half hour to find one in the company"
"God be praised" said a third, "though
we have no noses, we have every one a
mouth, and that by spreading of the ta-
BILE seems at present to be the most use
ful member"
Wine was called for, and generously
furnished, with the simple restriction CT
the forfeiture of quart if any one should
presume to put his nose in the glass.
This club met every month for whole
Joyous year. when its founder died and
the flat-faced community were unhappily
dissolved.-Rate A. Sanbo'7a in GALAXY for
april.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-27
The Greatest of Hangings.

The greatest hanging that ever occur.
red in the United States took place in
1868 in the town of Mankato, Blue Earth
county, Minnesota, which is situated near
the southern border of the State. In the
previous year a great Indian war had
ragged on the frontier, during which over
seven hundred whites, mostly women and
children, were massacred, and on the de-
feat of the Indians and the end of the war
three hundred and three of the savages
were tried by court-martial for murder
and condemned to death. President Lin
coin interfered, however, to prevent such
a wholesale infliction of the death penalty,
and respited all but thirty-eight, who
were hanged together in the presence of
vast crowd which had assembled from
all directions to witness the execution.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
nrerctaL has recently cOnversed with wit
nesses of the terrible scene, who gave him
a full account of the affair. When the
death warrant was read to the thirty
eight condemned Indians they received
their sentence very coolly. Not fully
comprehending the import of the instru-
ment, at the close of the first paragraph
they gave hearty grunt of approval I;
but as the reading proceeded and they
discovered the drift of the document they
refrained from further manifestations of
appreciation, though they smoked their
pipes composedly to the end. Nearly all
of them maintained stoical demeanor up
to the time of their execution except
when the caps were placed ON their heads.
These caps were made long and looked
like meal sacks, but, being rolled up, only
covered the forehead, allowing their
painted faces to be seen. When they had
been adjusted on a few of the Indians, so
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-27
Mathematical Gratitude.

In 1888 a young mechanic of st. Louis
became ambitious to rise above manual
drudgery by essaying one of the learned
professions and, having a taste for the
healing art, proceeded to supplement- his
mechanical trade with the study of medi-
cine. AS might be inferred from this ten
dency, he was not very efficient work
man in the former vocation. and found II
so difficult to earn enough money thereby
to pay for the completion of his profess
sional design that he must have renounced
the latter at last but for friends gen.
erosity. In his strait he wrote his story
and an appeal for help to benevolent
gentleman of Louisiana, in the same state,
and received in return fifty dollars. This
enabled him to complete his studies and
graduate; and after that he moved into
Northern Iowa to practice. Several years
passed away before fortune favored him
sufficiently to make him feel able to re.
fund the sum, which, while not large in
itself, had been his sole means of escaping
from the workshop, and in the meantime
his benefactor died. The new vocation
however, was his true bent. The early
and protracted struggle for its triumphs
brought golden victory at last, and ther
the doctor was eager to pay his debt. II
the creditor was dead, there must yet bC
some heir, executor, or assign of hi:
living; and the honest debtor could moi
rest until, after long trying, he found {
brother of his old friend in needy circum
stances in St. Louis, and appeared to bt
greatly relieved and satisfied when he go
the receipt" of that thankful gentleman
as a newspaper letter says, for the deb
and interest. With the whole story of thu
affair thus told, the case still seems to b,
one of not unusual mercantile honor
without merit of the heroic celebration
that local journalism appears disposed t.
give it. In the first place, the interes
alone upon the original $50 for fort!
years at per cent. would have beer
nearly $3.50; and since the first sum wa
certainly more a benefaction than loan
and as certainly was the beginning of tn
receivers intimated present wealth, th
now prosperous physicians voluntar,
presentation of such a sum as has beel
named to his generous old benefactor'
aged and needy brother looks rather lik
| the mathematical compulsion of 4 me
chinical kind of mercantile conscienc
than in heroic keeping with many a les
published nobility of gratitude.-N. ]
| Iyn,,JJ
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-27
Railroad Esthetics.

The aesthetics of the railroad form
an interesting subject of reflection. To
any, one who has ever given much thought
to the matter, it must be evident that the
railroad station and the railroad car fur
nlsh the first opportunity for the growth
III America of that great American school
of architecture, of which we have heard
SO much and seen so little. The railroad
station is to commercial people what a
church is to a religious communicative
great center of the local life of the country.
Why should not the station in America be
what the cathedral has been in Europe?
Magnificent arches, noble surfaces for
scul pture and ornamentati)n of all kinds.
What much greater scope for really
native school of architecture than in the
imitation of Gothic churches and Doge's
palaces and Egyptian tombs Such "a
school might be smoky, but it would at
all events be real. The railroad car itself
promises even more than the station.
There we have a clear advantage over
other nations. Europeans and Asiatics
have had their schools of architecture
but they have never combined them with
locomotion. The idea of building seems
TO have been in the past always connected
with the idea of a fixed position. 1t re-
mains for America to give the world ar
chltecture on wheels. There again we
have noble conception; but execution
lags Tar behind. Almost all the cars now
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-27
PrOmiscuOuS Charity.

The statistics of benevolent societies
show that throwing money at sidewalk
beggars is not the only form of "promis-
cuous almsgiving''-that large organiza-
tions have their own ways Of doing ran
dom work. The great need of modern
charities would seem to be sort of " civil
service SYSTEM" AS in politics we see
the necessity of civil administration ma
chine, run" not by the most deafening
orators and trickiest wire-pullcrs, but by
ready reckoners and routine business
men, so there is room apparently for a
new trade, whose masters, journeymen,
and apprentices shall know how to man.
age charities.
Widow Sponge, of blessed memory,
used to have her rent paid by her church,
and her living furnished by other chari
ties. The ice-man in summer, the milk
man the year round, found her reckless
customer; while the two young ladies,
her daughters, Miss Sponge and Miss La
vinia Sponge, swept the streets with trails,
and wore thread-lace wells and Courvoi-
sier gloves. The contributors to the
Sponge fund were kind in heart, heavy
in purse, pitied the fatherless and the
widow in their atfliction, and had no time
to hunt up better objects of beneficence.
A fruitful source of hypocrisy is the prac-
tice of hiring people to attend worship, or
to listen to homily for soup ticket or
other bribe. A methodical beggar might
earn his food, shelter, and clothes through
sheer mental docility and infinite capacity
of enduring sermons.
Save in urgent want, true charity gives
the healthy and strong only an opportu-
nifty to earn their livelihood-a more
grateful gift than soup and garments, un-
less pauperism is ingrained, and the beg
gar confirmed sluggard or sot, in which
case there is the workhouse, asylum,
vagrant act.
Detectives, acting not irresolutely, ig-
norantly, and at random, but with skill,
mutual help, and contribution of knowl-
edge, can gauge the criminal classes and
each member Of them. But the visitor or
superintendent of great charity may
himself be appointed out of charity !;
having broken down in dozen different
employments, he is for that reason
assigned to one requiring great capacity.
Or, his genius may lie in preaching, or
edge OF the world he may be baby. But
so long as societies regard with unques-
tloning satisfaction their prodigious sta
tlstcs OF sums of money, tons of coal,
loaves OF bread, barrels of flour, pounds
OF meat, pairs of shoes, and suits of cloth
ing distributed during the year, so long
their work will confound the sick, help
less, and temporarily destitute with the
lazy and undeserving. In the annual re-
port It makes greater show to distribute
million pounds of bread and three mil
lion cups of tea or tickets for soup, than
to help thousand unfortunate people to
become self-supporting citizens and the
labor for managers is infinitely less. 1t is
because their agents do not take thought
and trouble, that charitable societies be-
come aids to the very evil they are de-
signed to remedy.-Erchanqe
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-27
The New Postal Law.

The new postal law, which is to take
effect on July ], is not the original bill for
the reduction of postage, known as the
Farnsworth bill. This bill failed in the
Senate after having passed the House.
The manner in which the present, or soon
to be postal law was passed was this: An
amendment was added to the Postoflice
Appropriation bill abolishing the franking
privilege and repeating free postage gen
orally. The effect of this law is to abol-
ish the circulation free of postage of news
papers in the county in which they are
published as well as the free exchange OF
newspapers. No other law relating to
gress, ard to think otherwise is mistake
From the first of Julynex the new orfer
Of things will be in force.-N. Y. Graphic
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-27
Tobacco Culture.

ALTHOUGH It is generally understood
that tobaccois one of our staple agricul-
tural products, theFfnpression prevails to
a great extent that the culture of this
plant is limited principally to few of the
Middle States and the cultivated lands
bordering on the Connecticut river. This
is "a great mistake. The large profits at
tending its production under favorable
conditions have attracted the attention of
farmers in all parts of the country, and
led to its cultivation in almost every one
Of the Northern and Western States where
the climate and soil will admit Off plant
ing with reasonable expectations of sue
cess.
The cultivation of tobacco by the New
Englanders on an extensive scale was
only recently begun, but the increase in
the product of their tobacco fields has
been remarkable. In all the New England
States the yield of tobacco from 1910 to
1916 amounted to but 5000 cases. A case
contains from 800 to 400 pounds. At that
time it sold for about six cents a pound.
In 1850 The product of the same States
amounted to about $1,000 cases, while in
1861 it had increased to $4,000 cases, this
product being nearly doubled the follow
ing year. In 1863 the yield was 10000
cases; in 1864 it was SS,000; in 1866 it
was 10000; in 1870 it was $4,000; in 1871
it was 100000; and in 1872 it was 145, 900
cases.
The stock of New England tobacco, old
and new, now on hand is about 900
cases. Of this amount nearly 10000 cases
will be used at home, and the remainder
exported. Last year 1881 cases of seed
leaf were shipped to Bremen alone. Like
the Kentucky, Virginia, and Maryland,
New England tobacco is eagerly sought
in European markets, and especially in
Germany. 1t is highly esteemed abroad,
possessing qualities as wrapper for ci-
gars superior to those found in any other
description of the leaf. This is the great
popularity of New England tobacco, and
it is this which gives it SO high market
value.
Owing to the loss by rot and sweat, to-
gether with the disastrous effects of un.
timely rains, the growth of 1872 cannot be
called a successful crop. In New Eng
land the crop suffered more or less from
pole rot and sweat, and throughout the
entire country tobacco planters are COM
planning of the same misfortunes. But
while the weather was unfavorable for
curing the crop, that which has been
saved uninjured is of quality rarely if
ever equaled. This is especially true OF
Connecticut seed leaf, the color and tex
ture of which is very fine, having, in an
unusual degree, that soft, silky feeling
which is a special characteristic of this
description of tobacco in its finest form.
The following statement of the average
yield of tobacco per acre for 1872 in the
States named, with the price of leaf tobac.
co on December l, is interesting and sug.
gestive:
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-27

1t seems strange at first that there should
be so extensive a demand as there is for
American tobacco in Europe, where it is
cultivated on very extensive scale; but
the reason is found in the fact that the
American plant has qualities which the
European growth does not possess. The
flavor of the American tobacco is much
more powerful than that of any raised
either in Holland, France, or Germany,
in all of which countries tobacco is sta
pie product The tobacco of Germany is
so mild that it may be used continuously
in any form to an extent which would be
likely to result seriously were the Ameri-
can article substituted for it. The essen
tial qualities of our American tobacco,
such as color, texture, and strength, have
established a reputation abroad which
will always insure a constant demand for
the different qualities. The only tobacco
that can compete with our own is that
produced in Cuba and Paraguay.
1t may afford satisfaction to those who
have acquired the very bad habit of using
tobacco to learn that the best produced in
the United States is consumed at home,
and that the most of the damaged and in
ferior leaf is shipped abroad to poison the
inhabitants of less favored countries.