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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-08-28

THE WEATHER To.DAY.-Thep probabilities
are that the weather to-day ,oill be cloudy
and rainy.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-08-28

NEW SUPPLY OF SHETLAND sHAwLs at
STCLE BROTHERS..
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-08-28

CONCORD GRAPES. .-PIZZISI has fine lot Of thI
delicious fruit
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SpECBa.a NOTICES,

H RICHMOND CHORAL ASSOCIA-
TloN.-There will tc a called meeting OF the
blCHMoND CHORAL ASSOCIATION In the
basement 81 Pine-Strcet Baptist church on MON
DAY + tESlNG, August 30th. at o'clock.
The ACTIVE members are earnestly requested 10
aitc nd, as business Of importance will be trans
acted.
BY order OF tho President.
I au2S-2,* l.. II. JENKINS, Secretary.
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r3s- SPECIAL NOTICE.-A very large
stock of FALL. GOODS has Just been opened Mt
SYCLh EROrHEks', 422 Broad street: amongst
which you VIII 6nd
200 pieces NEW CALICOES. Ut all prices;
200 pieces COLORtD ALPACAC ut 2Cc. worth
soc. per yard: =
200 p,ecrs DOUBLE-WlDTH ALPACAS at
soc. worth fully 40c. per yard;
Call at once aid supply yourself at
Nm 2S SYCLE BROTHERS.
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/. l.. PRICE * co.
LAST hNn HEST CHANCE OF TIE SEASON.
A1l,Llts L,Nk Al.LI'ST

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Har'E-;E3r", 4r. il l. reduced:
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49, }f..f" su~I:
i.>:-,. = - LADIES SKlHTs, from IL 10 80:
hi,t' b. WHllr. aud COtuEtD HUMMER
NltNL>, LlNAN SUITS. GRkNADINE
>HANi~.
81. t'1rG "a bargains In sumner goods
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BgSpNEsS WANTS.

-
wv TANTFD. CONSIGNMENTS OF
w LIVE STOCK. FRESH FISH, Z
APPLES. POTATOES. ONIONS,
CABBAGE. CHICKENS, EGGS,
BUTTER, and COUNTRY PRODUCE
of every description, 70 be disposed OF prFabe OF
at aurt.on to the highest bidder. ro
Huyipg fitted up room especially for tbe AuC-
TIOE BUSINESS In rear Of my store, am now
pre pared To- take care of and handle all kiuds o'
LIVE Stock, FRESH FISH, FRUITS, VEGETABLES,
and perlshabIe goods Of every description ana WIN
De pleased to serve my friends and the public gene
a,i a5.4I j. r. HOCKADAY.
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THE WEATHER YESTERDAY was rainy anC
disagreeable.
The true northerner., 1875-06-11
The Baptism of the Bulls.

The Pal Mall Gazette says: "The
opening OF a bridge at Aries han been
the occasion Of an extraordinary popular
diversion. known as the Baptism of the
Bulls. Near the town is an immense
plain called the Camargue, where multi
tudes of cattle usually Craze in peace.
During great public festivals, however,
a large amphitheater is formed of carts
and hurdles, which serve to define the
half-circle. A straight line is then drawn
with plow between the extremities of
the curve, and this open space is toward
the CAmargue. A number of bulls are
then driven into the arena so formed.
They instantly endeavor to leave it and
return to their pasture, but they are
stopped by body of horsemen armed
with tridents. A few, however, manage
to break through the line, and then
comes the real excitement of the day.
The plow-mark is guarded by men on
foot, who meet the fugitive bulls, seize
them by the horns, throw them down,
and apply the branding iron to each from
among those bearing the names of the
cattle owners of the Csmargue. AS,
however, branding the bull is considered
great honor, the handsomest specta-
tress of the sports is led forward to give
the unfortunate animal his fiery bap-
tism.' Such is the scene with which the
opening of the bridge of Aries was cele-
brated the other day. The men liked it,
the women liked it, and it is to be hoped
that the bulls liked it too"
The true northerner., 1875-06-11
Sound Sleep.

Sound sleep is essential to good health.
1t is impossible to restore and recuper-
ate .the system, exhausted by labor and
activity, without this perfect repose.
Sleep has great deal to do with the
disposition and temper. A sound sleeper
is seldom unduly disturbed by trihes
while wakeful, restless person is apt to
be irritable.
A great deal has been written about
the advantages of curtailing the hours of
repose, and of sleeping but little. We
are inclined to think that there is room
for doubt whether the benefits of closely
limiting the time given to rest have not
been exaggerated. Active persons, of
nervous temperament, can hardly get too
much sleep. We know very well that
the saving of two or three hours day
from slumber, is, in one sense, equiva-
lent to considerable prolongation Of
human life, and we are no advocates of
Incidence but the fact still remains that
sleep may be so much abridged as to
leave the system incapable of as much
effective work in two hours as might be
performed in a better condition in one.
-NeaD York Ledger.
The true northerner., 1875-06-11
The GOOseberry.

The goeseberry aint vegatabel, nor
one ov the arbs, natralists tells us so,
and what natralist don't know he aint
afraid to guess at. They gro on short
bushes and theze bushes are az full ov
prickers az paper ov pins.
For hot sass, or to bid a pi out ov, the
gooseberry stands hi, but oh, Lord how
it dua take the sugar to quiet them.
Naturally the goosebery is sourer than
stsp-mother, and to eat green un,
right off from the bush, would make a
goat skream, and run home, for dear
life.
This funny fruit grows not only on q
bush that IL full ov thistles, but they are
full of teeth themselfs all over, like q
chestnut burr.
What on earth so many prickers are
good for has allwuss been stumbling
biloxi to science.
Why they are called gooseberrys IL
minded goose won't tuch one emmy
quicker than they would live frog, and
the goose generally stands reddy to eat
ennything they kin grab.
Man liz finite kritter, and the prickers
on q gooseberry, like ten thousand other
things, hay bothered him to explain, but
nstur don't do ennything for the sake ov
joke, and when we cum to be larnt in
all things, we shall diskover that thare
aint one too few, nor one too mutch
pricker on the gooseberry.
The more we kno, the less we doubt.
One thing we do know. Man sprung
from the monkey, and hope the wize
folks won't stop now, but keep on, and
prove sam more.-JOsh Billings.
The true northerner., 1875-06-11

ON my breakfast table. For myself,
personally, / care but little about it,
though if l were capable of uttering such
nonsense as is here put into my mouth,
it is high time that, instead of being a
member of this House, were a member
Of some lunatic asylum. 1t is for the
dignity of this House that / feel con-
cerned; for if honorable members were
capable of listening to such nonsense,
supposing me capable of giving express
ion to it, it were much more appropriate
to Gull this a theater for the performance
of farces, than place for the legisla-
tive deliberations of the representatives
OF the nation.
1t was proposed by some members to
call the printers of the different papers
in which the speech appeared to the ban
of the House, for breach of privilege,
but the matter was eventually allowed
to drop. Mr.. Wilberforce himself was
in favor of this course. He treated the
matter in playful manner, to the great
qualification of the House.
The true northerner., 1875-06-11

The early settlers of the middle West
ern States found their beautiful valleys
and prairies abundantly stocked with ma
tive game. Bear and deer were TO DE
found in plenty, and various species OF
the gsllinaceous birds nativeto the couh-
try might be raised at any time IN five
minutes walk. The vast area OF unin-
habited country left those untamed deal
zens of the forest and prairie the safest
refuge from the attack of man, and to
these secure solitudes they gradually
Withdrew, as their enemy pressed them
more and more closely. The ratio OF sup
ply to demand, as far rs bird and beast
were concerned, was 80 great that no
man troubled himself about the snght
inroads which his own hands might
make. All this, in many portions OF the
West, was scarcely fifty years ago, IN
others less than half that time. but
now the relation of cleared and occupied
to uncleared land is reversed. The de
stroyers of the native game have multi
piled on every hand, and the places once
q refuge from human havoc are refuge
no longer. The earth fattens, prosperity
increases, but the native denizens of the
country are dropping farther and still
| farther, till we shall soon know OF them
only through their recorded scientific
descriptions or the graphic tales OF some
aged pioneer.
With certain classes of our game ami
mails this result is not only unavoidable
but desirable. The bear, the wolf and
the species of the cat tribe which were
| - mako
nightly raids on the sheep-fold and pig
sty have had their day and are gone.
But there is large number of the game
birds of the West-the quail, the pheas-
ant (or PARTRIDGE and varieties OF the
grouse, which seem by nature especially
fitted for semi-civilized life, and which
seem to delight in not too intimate
companionship with man. These beauti-
full birds are not only an ornament to
any mans land, but are wholly the
farmers friends, since the little grain
they consume is more than paid for by
the destruction of insects and the seeds
of noxious weeds.
The various States, through their game
laws, are protecting, to the best of their
Judgment, the breeding seasons of these
birds, and our sportsmen throughout the
country are lending their influence to
the enforcement of these laws. But the
motives of the sportsmen are somewhat
selfish in their character, since they look
to the law merely as an ally which shall
preserve their shooting pleasures as long
as possible. The farmer, however, has
more disinterested motives for the pro
lection and preservation of game, and
especially the birds, and it is very large
ly to the farmer that we must look fol-
the successful carrying out of the laws
which are enacted for this purpose. A
very little care and attention to this
matter will be repaid hundred fold.
Will not our farmers who have not al.
ready done so give it their careful con-
sideration.
The true northerner., 1875-06-11
Permanent Effects OF Strong Drink

In the Herald Of Health is an article
from which we clip the following, as
showing the evils of intemperance in q
new light, adding another novel and
startling argument to the many already
advanced, against the use of intoxicating
liquors
"The history of four generations of
family, as sketched by M. Morel, dis
tinguished french writer, is full of in
structions on the matter. It is as fol-
lows:
First generation. The father was
an habitual drunkard, and was killed in
public-house brawl.
"Second generation. The son in
herited his fathers habits, which gave
rise to attacks of mania, terminating in
paralysis and death.
"Third generation. The grandson
son was strictly sober, but was full of
hypochondrica1 and imaginary fears of
persecution, ETC., and had homicidal
tendencies.
" Fourth generation. The fourth in
descent had very limited intelligence, and
had an attack of madness when sixteen
years old terminating in stupidity nearly
to idiocy. With him the
family will probably become extinct.
And thus we perceive the persistence of
the taint, in the fact that generation
OF absolute temperance will not avert the
fatal ISSUE"
The true northerner., 1875-06-11
A Shark Attacks a Bark.

The Auckland (New Zealand) Star
relates: During the last trip of the
Eliza McPhoe from this port to Catln
river, and when off Cape Saunders, q
large shark, attracted by porpoise
hanging over the vessels stern, followed
the vessel over 26 miles. Those on board
endeavored to secure the shark with har-
poons, with which it was struck three
times, but each time got away. The LAST
time he became infuriated, went away a
quarter of mile, turned, and ran at the
vessel with all its strength, striking her
on the port bow with such force that
Cbeing only in ballast trim) she keeeled
over. The shark at the time seemed
stunned, but, a breeze springing up,
those on board were not able to catch
him. Capt. Patterson says the shark
was 25 feet in length and feet in diam
eter."
The true northerner., 1875-06-11
To Prevent Cruelty to Animals.

Eight hours should be days work
on a dog-churn, the dog to be allowed
one day in the week to himself. Let
every dog have his day.
Life-preservers for Newfoundland
dogs, to guard against sudden cramps.
A fine for imposing bogus watches on
watch-dogs. The watch dogs honest
bark has often been raised against the
swindle.
Protection of ants from their nephews
and nieces.
Cushioned toad-tools would be highly
appreciated by toads after "hop."
Punish boys who frighten the frogs
and make them Jump. Sudden shocks
are sometimes fatal to nervous organi-
zation.
Encourage trout to write poetry. We
have seen some beautiful trout lines ere
now.
Rostr1ms in the ocean for whales to
"spout" from. This is a want long felt,
and the whales pout about it.
Abolish mosquito bars. They make
mosquitoes irregular about their meals.
Introduce the German language into
our schools of fish.
Pockethandkerchiefs for crocodiles TO
wipe away their tears.
A school in accounts for adders, who
also multiply rapidly.
Encourage the cultivation of plum
trees for the comfort of that fastidious
epicure, the curculio, who can feed upon
nothing else.
Badges for hawks, 80 we can tell one
from hernshaw.
The true northerner., 1875-06-11
A Smoking Sin.

A story telling clergyman relates the
following anecdote of one of our dis
tinguished Brooklyn Baptist clergymen
which the late Apostle Trask would
enjoy:
A few weeks ago the Doctor was exam
lining candidates for admission to the
church, and among them was delicate,
sweet-faced boy, OF some sixteen years of
age, whose eyes as he arose to speak
were bathed i'll tears.
"And are you striving to love, serve,
and follow the Lord Jesus 2" asked the
minister.
"Yes sir, but my sins are great, "
meekly returned the young applicant
But Jesus will forgive them all. He
can wash you clean," said the doctor,
sncouragingly.
"There is one sin," said the boy,
that have struggled hard against. 1
am free from it now, but am afraid that
God will never forgive me-" and the lit
tie fellow sobbed aloud.
"What is it, my boyl Let rs know
what it is God will forgive anything,
if you are truly penitent and lead bet
ter life. No matter how grievous this
sin may be he will forgive you. Now
what is it Z"
"S-s-mo-o-king," sobbed the
boy.
Now as the doctor is an inveterate
smoker, say rather burner of cigars, said
the gentleman relating the story, he was
considerably taken aback, especially as
he noticed several in the congregation
laughing. But putting on grave look
he said to the sobbing applicant: Yes,
yes, smoking is bad for boys, but God
will forgive you, trust"
The true northerner., 1875-06-11
A COMICAL NEWSPAPER HOAX.

The following is taken from "Grant's
History of the Newspaper Press :"
About the same time as that to which 1
have been referring-the beginning of
the last century-the debate, which was
on the question of the employment of
English laborers, being one evening un-
usually dull, Morgan O'Sullivan, re-
porter of that period, who had short
time before been imported from Tip
perary, said to the only other reporter in
the gallery at the time that he felt very
drowsy, and that he would be after taking
little bit of nap if he would tell him,
when he awoke, anything which might
The true northerner., 1875-06-11
SOMEBODY'S Lowers.
BIZ ALICE CARY.

Too mock by half was he who came
A-wooing me one morn.
For he thought so littls OF himself
learned TO Share his scorn-
At night had a suitor. vain
As the vsinest in the land;
Almost no seemed to eondescend
In ths offer Of his hand.
In one who pressed his suit, missed
Courage and manly pride;
And how could / think Of such one
As leader and guids?t
And then there came Q worshippcr,
With such undoubting trust,
That when be knott he seemed not worth
Upraising from the dust.
The next was never in the wrong,
Was not too smooth nor rough;
so faultless and 70 good was he,
That that was fault enough.
But one, tho last of all who came.
know not how TO paint;
No angel do seem to him
He scarcely calls Inc saint,
He hath such sins and weaknesses
As mortal man befall;
He hath thousand faults, and yet
/ love him with them all.
He never asked me yea nor nay.
Nor knslt TO me one hour
But he took my heart and holds my heart
With a lovers tender power.
And bow, IA needs must, and say,
In proud humility,
Loves might is right, and yield at Last
To manhood's royalty.
The true northerner., 1875-06-11

BOXING THE EARs.-The drum of the
ear is as thin as thin paper, and is
stretched like a curtain between the air
outside and that within ; and thus, hav-
ing to support it, and being extremely
delicate, a slap with the hand on the side
of the face, made with the force which
sudden and violent anger gives it, has in
multitudes .of cases ruptlred this deli
cate membrane, resulting in the affliction
of deafness for life. AS the right hand
is almost always used, it is the left ear
which is stricken this aids in account
ing for the fact that the left ear is more
frequently affected with deafness than
the right.
The true northerner., 1875-06-11
Wit and HumOr,

HOSTILE furniture-Armed chairs.
Music by handle-A street organ.
WILL music bars need license
A SWEET chapter-Jennysis.
WAYS that are Unlghted streets.
WHO is the greatest terriferl Echo
answers fire
TITLE for fve-cent savings bank
The st. Nickel-us.
A DYING miser in New York said to his
weeping family: MY friends, what
troubles me most is that am forced to
give back my soul to God"
SAMSON pulled down house by hing
ging couple Of pillars, but he knew
that in the pillars was the place to find
all the down he wanted.
1t is the sagacious remark of keen
observer that you can generally tell
newly married couple Mt the dinner table
by the indignation of the groom when
fly alights on the brides butter.
He held the old shirt up by the neck
before discarding it forever, but he wasn't
mourning for the garment. He only
said thusly "I wish 1 had all the drinks
again that have gone through tha. old
neckband !"
THE old man is pretty well along in
his dotage when he plants eggs, sets
hen on early potatoes, and poles five
hundred cabbage plants, declaring all
the time that he is just as full of vigor
as he ever was.
PRRKNs, the American, who married
Queen Isabella's niece, has been i'm
prisoned and ordered to pay a large sum
on account of failure to pay his board
bills. Another warning to infatuated
American sovereigns who marry beneath
their rank.
IT was II o'clock at night when Mr..
Berger, of Macon, Ga., discovered col
ored parson in his stable untying horse,
and the preacher only observed, "Jess
what said all the time, Mastah Berger,
your hoss Is bay, sure enuff, and dat
'spute between me an Brudder Jackson
is settled"
The champion misquoter of the world
is on the East Brady (Pa. Independent.
He attributes President Lincoln's last
words, "with malice toward none, with
charity to all, " to the Bible. Thus you
may see what comes of letting boys go
fishing on Sunday instead of going to
Sunday-school.
A MOTHERS heart naturally swells with
pride at the evidence of budding am
bition in her boy as he returns from the
circus and tells her enthusiastically that
he's changed his mind and guesses he
won't be a minister. But when he
comes to say his prayers that night and
begins in this style
Now lay me down to sleep
pray to have a horse to keep,
she quietly curls him over her knee and
takes some of the ambition out of him.
The literary critic of the Chicago Inter
Ocean eloquently remarks, GAS we read
this work we can almost hear the whirr
and ping of the laundering cannon" I'm
doubtedly the young gentleman got his
military education on the Home Guard.
Whi-r and ping of the laundering can
non is very good for laundering ass.
Times.
JIM TAYNoR, of Terre Haute, had been
telling his wife for three years that he
was going to lick one Ike Bascom, and
one afternoon when Jim went home look
ing rs though he had been run through
n tannery, she observed "You licked
him a pile, didn't you, you old blow
hard 7" and Jim went out and crawled
into the haymow to think.
The true northerner., 1875-06-11

Oa Mary, 20 and bring the spoilers here,
And bring the spoilers here,
And bring the spoilers here,
To spell match for me.
Her fAce pale With many doubt and fear,
But ssdder home came she.
For aIa.iam and Master have come in their best,
And Miss in the garb of her confidence dressed.
They stay not for study, they wait not for call,
But come like the rushing Of doves TO the hall.
They stumble ON eager, "s-a-g-r-e":
They walk into office with " 80 for a ''c";
A. Pursunded that sobriquet goes with "u,"
And giving "superlatiye over to two.
You know Joe?
Shoi Joe Baker,
Who spelled II an aker.N
Say, stranger, you know,
He amt slow
But the miser'ble hoss
Spelled things all across
Az true you live
BE l-e-i believe,
And beguile
Just like "gile.'
Oh Joe!
II the stern speller thinks he spells,
Or il the dictionary knows
Hs knows not what old Webster tells,
- Probosss" does not stand Tor nose.
"a Pthisikp and stix" to me are dear,
Receive and 'greve" are still the same,
aUnmoyeable" 10y - dase" or "quear,"
And one TO me are fame and " clame."
zssle stood up there all alone,
His hands was in his pockets;
The crstur larfed, he might ha known
Heh git sot down on "lochts."
Rut some folks be as bold az brass,
Twas Huldy that got redder
To hear him spell for parsing pass
And ''scythe y To mow tho medder!
sl,s up and took a turn herself.
s'Conciet cut her down early,
1Dolivercnce " laid her on the shelf,
And she bust on ''nurly."
II Is the parsons daughter,
And she does spell so queer, so queer,
would were beside her
To whisper in her ear
Aud tell her " MacCarony's' wrong,
And "rythm is not right in song.
wcnld not be "alpackers
About her dainty " waste"
Nor feel the 'curius " ecstisy"
With which l once "embrased" "
That damsel Of "bewiching mean,"
Lii up by blazing paraphene."
SO fallen 40 lost the fame withdrawn
Which once she wore,
Why did sho leave us here to " morn"
And then "deploar"?
kcvile her not the language hath
trap for all;
And he who speleth "rath for wrath
Must surely fall.
Than spoil not reverence with an "a,"
Nor - dun for dumb;
But turn aside your gaze and say
Her thyme hath come.
F.r.wenl oh farewell to thee, Webster az
Wooster "
For madness is fast creeping over my brain
I spell ehanticlser and the boys call it rooster,
On when will the spelling-book leave us agaiI
Far down in the sunless retreat of cellar
III hide me from syllables swarming like flies;
wretched, unfortunate, miss-maddened speller,
Who cares not straw for the costliest prize.
Burn up my old school-books to-day, if you love IN
Drown Webster and Worcester deep in the we'll
And W-ise on the knocker 10 silent above me:
Theirs nobody here that can read, write or spell
--fadependent
The true northerner., 1875-06-11
SPELLED DOWN.
An Ode for the Time.

by ROSE TERRY COOKE.