The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-08-06
DEBRIS.

ppdition, under LleuteuAps 49,. ,,,..l c,r
ROYAL payy, arrived at Zanzloar, WIN r ~.
RsrtIe Frere. on the admiralty yscns h..
chantress, The expedition was '!tenaeu ~. ~
io;n Or. Livingstone and ASSIST ntm vi .us
S cnn,ntesion of his lahors. the "h'te !iien "
the ns,ty we're Lieutenant Cameron anu
three other officers, and they iett z.ans."aa
in nigh spirits one OF 10 entnus'astn,es U"us
n,,nwa sewing: "Won't this be jolly hunt-
inc excursion" Foo Two Oh tnem " nus
:, roven fatal one. and they have fallen VIC
inns to the dreadful atmosphere Oh tne inte-
rior. The party received news o. Living.
stones death at Unyanyembe, ana after nav
ing secured his body forwarded It to Lauzt-
bar. The following extract from letter
from Lieutenant Cameron will prove IN
teresting:
February 2s.-Here am at last at UJu'.
send my pocketbook with the rough notes
Of ms diary, which now keep IN ado'eioo
to my regular journal. You WIN see Lsat
about Ugaga was In fuss at beihe olnes'
ent from Burton and Spoke, out us1pS Tue
correct variation and not changing my as
tances at all bring me right according to my
sichts. I found stand of Livlngstone's
sextant here, and used it in taking my iuoar,
which am certain is as good Us lunar c4n
be. Ny latitude By ID. X. is degrees 90
minutes 80 seconds; longitude by ~. k.' ~
dagrnes "a minutes 80 seconds latitude by
siobt 4 degrees So minutes seconds; lonSl-
tude by lunar, 80 degrees 0.4 minutes ~
seconds: so for march between two places,
whose shortest distance is $50 miles; and to
do which | am afraid to say how much we
marched. have not been very wrong IN
nv courses and differences. My height
above the sea ! make by two mercurlat ba-
rome,ers 2,439 feet by four anerods, 2, i4O
feet: by seven boiling.pont thermometers,
9. $40 feet. Would you let Sir Bartle Frere
know this, as they are the points when the
ROYAL Geographical Society Is very anxious
IN hear about? would write to it, but am
too busy writing up journals to do so before
The men 60 who take this, and my duplicate
man is not finished. However, intend
sending q mail of my own in few days,
with Dr.. Livingstope's map and journal
from Mikandany, which / find here. The
living is very good here. Fish, eggs, and
milk are cheap. The fish are more like sea
than fresh water fish. The Tanganyika is a
yeritable sea. | will send home Il bottle Of
lake water TO be apaIyZed.
cannot understand, receiving as it does
rivers that flow through salt soil, why the
waters OF the lake should not be salt. l be-
Iieye that it is gradually being filled up. The
Malagarazi and Ruche have formed shoals at
their mouths. and Just before reaching the
mouth of the kuche we crossed over ground
which evidently had not been very long
above water. From all can hear the Lua.
laba uoes into the Albert NyarZa, and if il
does DR.. Livingstone was right about its be.
ing the Nile. l find there is ne good trying
to start on the other side of the lake for two
months, so am going to employ my time in
| cruise around The lake.
BLOOD DRINKERS IN NEW YoRK.-Upon in
| quiry at slauehter.houSes it is found that
| there are nearly two hundred persons in this
city who are in the habit OF drinking blood
| flowing warmly from oxen COWS, fol
strengthening purposes and for the cure Of
| certain diseases. A Mrs. Emily Hunter, OIL
Tbirty-fourth street, is reported to have
spokcn to an inquirer as follows: "ProfeS.
sor Velpeau, of Paris, prescribed blood fol
me- | was consumptlve and Fastening tt
the grave. 1t has prolonged my life fifteen
years. | had the utmost repugnance fol
| it at first, but now half pint o.
hot blood from aforementioned OK is
the greatest luxury of my life. My
sisters baby has so far been preserved
/
know twenty people who drink it in my own
neighborhood to whom have recommended
it. it bus extraordinary effects on some peo
| pie, especially women, but should not be re.
sorted to unless there is absolute weakness
| of the system" On visit of the inquirer
to slaughter-house in Tenth avenue, near
| Forty-second street, be found q delicate
looking woman with a sickly boy holding q
glass to the blood which ran from an OK With
| its throat cut. Botn drank two or three
glasses in turn, and departed with an ap'
pearance of added vigor. One Of the butch
ers was asked whether he ever drank
| blood, and is stated to have re-
| piled to the following effect: "Shurc
an l do now; why not now; faith
am We couldn't tell the difference be-
tween it an milk. It's just as swate, shure !;
and in the winter it's warm and toine. Be-
dad but its stringthenin', Shure. HOuld Gu
an I'll get YET dhrap. It's bess warm-run-
nin' right from The haste" The proprietor
| said: "All last winter we had men, women
and children every morning to drink blood.
| They always imbbe beasts blood, never the
blood of sheep Some Of them vince bit
at first, but when you close your eyes blood
warm from the beasts neck has just the
same taste as warm milk from the cow. We
don't charge for the blood, except when we
sell it TO sugar retners." The blood oil
| beeres is asserted to be more etticacous for
weak lungs than cod liver oil, and to differ
considerably in its constituents from that OF
human beings.-Ne,o York Correspondence
Philadelphia Record.
How He CONCEALED IRA day or two
ago Jones was ipjudiciously "full." Being
painfully aware Of his inebriety, he en-.
deayored to conceal it from the public by
buttoning his coat up very closely, impart-
ing an abnormal stiffness to his knees, and
tripping over his own heels. He stalked up
| to u street-car, walked briskly in just as the
horses started, and instantly tumbled out
again backwards without uubending mus.
Gle. Straightway he recovered the upright,
splashed with mud, and reGntcred, seating
himself beside an acquaintance, making no
sign ofhiS mShap. Presently he turned to this
| Individual and queried: KlizShn?" NO"
He considered moment, and then again
asked: .sOifthetlr,ck "No.' More re.
1ection-sleepily then: Runoyerapres-
pieei" NO" "SpIozhn?" "No."
somuolent cositation. Any acc'ndt?"
"Nat at ALL" He took this piece Of informa-
ton into bis intellectual nav, and, digesting
| it, concluded that he must be drunk, indeed.
| ANXIOUS to cover up the disgraceful fact and
turn the matter of respectfully, be shortly
turned again with The bland observation :
Well it I'd anone that l wondena got
out" He blinked off into an UNCONSCIOUS
state for little while, then "woke up"
with his eyes very wide open, to show every
body that he'd only been thinking. lie rode
on about q mile beyond his street, and was
finally taken home IN hack.
AN AUpEoR MARRYING HIS HERoINE.-In
its first column the London Times, the other
| day recorded the marriage on the 11th of