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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-08-14
CINCINNATI.


CINCINNATI, August l3.-Four dull and I'M.
changed. Wheat scarce and firm: for old red ~ oO
90; new unsettled AZ 81 Sl gu, ACCORDING Gn 10
quality Corn ,tirner; he'd hither at aom EnE
dull aud lover: small lots OF c"unrrv At s2i 70 ;
ely held at s2l75: Lard quiet s1mmrr 1s a.
1k meats Whn euies and slesdy Sacon seady and
firm shoulders. Oc.; clear iib-sides. 3aG; clear
sides 1855 Whisky in good demand at iul' prices
ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS. August 13.-Flour..Buyers generally
standing off: little done. Wheat frmtr; NO. req
winter, II. 50@SI.52E bid. Corn dull ana lower
to ell. No. 2 mixed. 69c. Oats unsettled ana
lower: No. 2, 47m47ac. tye quiet AID unchanged .
Pork dull aud lower; offered II ~ sinaiI io.s
Io ears at da aa nomna p nome "tferinx Bacon
quiet AND week shoulders; gag &c; ;s Gear f b,s-
sides: SAG 1876; clear sides, 1870 1876. lis
key firm and unchanged.
CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, August 13.-Flour steady, with fair
demand. Wheat unsettled and LIVER; No l mi
cago spring, &1.30: No. 2, S1.22G l.22a. Corn
quiet and weak al 69%c Oats active ana !o% ", f, AT
demand; lower rates. at $50; 7o@s2O.75: Lara
dun and lower 81 1880 b. S Ssry eInI
sides, 12s:. Wnlskey. Sl.19.
LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, August 13.-Four quiet and I'M IN,
changed. Wheat quiet aud firm ut 81 .4O@Sl.6O:
Corn quiet aud hrm at s5a SSc. Oais quie! ana
uncnanged. Mhiskey, $l.lS. Baggng quiet and
steady.
COMPARATIVE COTTON STATEMENT.
NEW YORK, August l3.-rhe following Is the
comparative cotton statement for the we Net re-
ccipts ut all United States ports, j. 93 bales;
same week last Year, 4,7s5 bales: toLa, 10 GATE,
3.463, Sl9 bales: last year, 3, 765,2O2 bales.
week last year. 5,9lS bales :: totai 70 date.
2.645,S24 bales; TO same date last year 7sy . :
3G6 baIc. stock at all United States ports, %, 56
males same time last year. 14l S26 bales. stock al
ali interior towns, S,l42 bales; same time last
year, zO,790 bales. Al i,iyerpool' 934 wv h;neS
American cotton sfloat for Great Britain, 2l,euo
bales: same time last year, $4,000 bales.
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FARM NOTES.

Seventy-fv thousand tons of fer
tilizers were manufactured in Baltimore
last year. Most of this was sent south
to be used on the cotton crop.
The Patrons of Monroe county, Mich,
received from Louisiana, through q
grange agency, six and half tons of
sugar and large amount of coffee.
English gardeners row gladly pay
four shillings each for toads. They find
them the best and cheapest destroyers
of insects which infest their plants.
The occupants of 600 shanties along
the lines of New York railroads make a
living by planting corn and potatoes
between tho rails and fences. It is said
that 900 acres are cultivated in this
way.
A Kentucky breeder advertises short
horns of UNREASONABLE pedigrees. p"
He has also goodly number of ''seven-
teens" There are cattle descended
1877, which was before the day of herd
books, and the pedigrees are a little
uncertain.
The climate of the United States is
said to be the worst for weeds of any
country in the world, being dry and
hot. The climate of England, on the
other hand, is regarded as the best
adapted to the growth of weeds, being,
moist and cool. Still we beat England
every year in the weed crop.
Mr.. Bergh is needed in Paris, if the
statement be true that certain owners of
leech ponds buy up horses that are too
old to work to feed their leeches. The
horses are staked in the pond up to
their bellies, when the leeches immedi-
ately attach themselves to them and
suck the blood cut of them, which it
| takes one or two days to do.
The London Agricultural Gazette
says: "The most suitable age to wean
lambs, is when they are about ten weeks
old. Some flock masters have given
their opinion in favor OF eight weeks,
but this appears somewhat carly. On
| the other hand, to see lambs following
their mothers, and depending upon
them up to the beginning or middle of
July, is scarcely consistent with the
most approved ideas of stock manage
| ment.
In England there is much interest in
the subject of two year old beef. Some
farmers recommend killing cattle be-
fore they are two years old. They hold
that the gain is the greatest for the feed
consumed when the animals are from
thirteen to eighteen months of age. 1t
must be remembered, however, that
nearly all the stock in England belong
to breeds that mature very early.
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The Secrets OF Philadelphia Butter.

Every one has doubtless heard of the
celebrated Philadelphia butter, the deli
cious flavor of which renders it delicacy
which, in markets outside of its place of
manufacture, brings prices which some
times range as high as dollar pound.
How it is made is told in a new and ex-
cellent little work, recently written by
Mr.. X. A. Willard, editor of the dairy
department of Moore's Rural New
Yorker, and entitled "Willard's Prac-
teal Butter Book" A notice of the
volume will be found elsewhere. On the
subject of Philadelphia butter, we..take
from its pages the following
The celebrated Philadelphia butter
comes mainly from Chester, Lancaster,
and Delaware counties, Pennsylvania
feet, built of stone, with its foundation
set deeply in the hillside, the floor being
about four feet below the level of the
ground at the downhill side. The floor
is of oak, laid on sand or gravel this
is flowed with spring water to the depth
of three inches, and at this height the
flowing water passes out into a tank at
the lower side of the spring house. The
milk, when drawn from the COW, is
strained into deep pans which are set in
the water upon the oaken floor. Raised
platforms or walks are provided in the
room for convenience in handling the
milk. The walls of the spring house are
about ten feet high, and at the top on
each side are windows covered with
wire cloth for ventilation. The depth OF
the milk in the pans is about three
inches, and the flowing water which
surrounds the pans maintains temper
ature of about SO degrees Fab.
The milk is SKINNED after standing
"a hours, and the cream is put into deep
vessels having a capacity of about IL
gallons. It is kept at temperature OF
So degrees to SO degrees, until it &C.
quires a slightly acid taste, when it goes
to the churn. The churn is barrel re-
volving on journal in each head, and
driven by horse power. The churning
occupies about an hour; and after the
buttermilk is drawn of, cold water is
added, and q few turns given the churn,
and the water then drawn of. This ia
repeated until the water as it is drawn
is nearly free from milkiness. The but
ter is worked with butter workers, a
pressed upon il to absorb the moisture
and free it of buttermilk. The cloth is
frequently dipped in cold water and
WIuuB ury uuIluR JIG pioCc5c VI WIp-
ing the butter" It is next sailed at the
rate of an ounce of salt to three pounds
of butter, thoroughly and evenly incor-
porated by means of the butter worker.
It is then removed to a table, where it
is weighed out and put into pound
prints. After this it goes into large tin
trays, and is set in the water to harden,
remaining until next morning, when it
is wrapped in damp cloths and placed
upon shelves, /. s..o,e another, in the
tiu-lined cedar tubs, with ice in the
compartments at the ezds, and then
goes Immediately to marketr. Mating
is drawn over the tub, and it is sur
rounded again by ollcloth SO as to keep
out the hot air and dust, and the but
ter arrives in prime condition, COM
handing from seventy-fve cents to one
dollar per pound.
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"What's the use? It's all the old
wounds and the fever" Then he added,
with sudden tears in his eyes, "God
bless you, good woman, for taking us
in? To morrow 1 draw the pension"
Thus did he identify himself already
with the Swedish maiden.
Mother Bates &c offed loudly at senti-
ment, then paused at the foot of the
staircase to wipe her own eyes on her
bingham apron. Gottlieb was out all
day. When he came back he gave his
hostess fifty-cent bill, with no other
explanation than t. at he obtained
"job" in a warehouse despite his one
arm. Excitement robbed him of all APP
petite for food. He spent second
night with wide eyes fixed on the cell
ing, counting the hours. delirlum creep
ing over his senses. If he could only
last until tomorrow He would last,
even if he crept to the goal on hands
and knees. Desperate resolution made
him face the day; desperate energy
took him. pallid and trembling, to his
post. and brought him back at dusk to
sink down speechless on Mother Bates
pallet. The fire of life only burned in
the sunken eyes. When Christine sat
beside the bed, he was quiet; when she
moved away, n spasm of anxiety dis
torted his features. Billy ran for the
decor; Molly hushed the other chill
dren the baby hid his head in Mother
Bates lap. The doctor was out.
$50 1 went for him." said Billy,
glancing curiously and half nervously
at the sick mau.
The noise of the street reached this
quiet room only in q distant murmur.
A step was heard on the stair. Mother
Bates moved uneasily. Billy, failing to
find one kind of doctor, had chosen an
other, and the difference was not clear
| in his own mind. Mother Bates had
| never received city missionaries with
| favor, and now one was at the door. Her
creed was a crooked yet self-helpful
one. every one must get along the
best they CAM" she said.
He was on the thresholds grave,
slender man, with dark, calm eyes. Ter
rible indeed if he proved a broken reed
How did he divine the very depths OF
human need at a glance? With I'M.
erring tenderness he sought in GottlIeb's
pocket for package of money, guided
| by lock. and gave a ten-dollar bill to
the old woman. Then he bent his cal
to the faltering lips.
| "Use the-money-to send-the child
to her friends-in the west. She
knows the-town."
| Thus the old soldier made his last be
quest, and so, utterly spent in the bat
tie, died. Evening merged into night,
and darkness again yielded to the morn
ing, when Christine Carlen was led
away by the missionary. MIR. Gildwel
knew nothing of the event, and Mothe,
Bates said, grimly. to the good mission
airy.
stav as we are"
| Gottlieb Braun, soldier, laid away in
a nameless grave, lad done what he
could in saving the bloom of young
| life
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THE WEDDING FEE.


One morning, fifty years ago,
When apple trees were white WIN sho"
on fragrant blossoms, and the air
was spell-Sound with the perfume rare,
Upon a farm horse, large and lean,
And lazy with its double load, ,.u
A sur-browned youth and maid were s'eh '"skiAe
along the winding road
Rre were the arches of the skies,
But bluer were that maiden's eyes.
The dewdrops on the grass were orlsL''
Rat brighter was the loving light
That sparkled meath the long-frisged M,
where those bright eyes of blue were hid
Adovn the shoulders brown and bare
Rolled the soft waves of golden hair,
where. almost sirangled with the spray,
The sun, willing sufferer, lay.
II was the fairest sight, ween.
That the young man had ever seen;
Aud with his features all aglow,
The bappy fellow told her so.
And she without the least surprise
Looked on him with those heavenly eyes,
Saw underneath that shade OF tan
The handsome features of q man;
And with joy but rarely known
She drew that dear face to her own,
And by her bridal bonnet hid
cannot tell You what she did!
So on they rode until among
,rhe new born leaves with dewdrops hung,
The parsonage, arrayed in white,
Peers o1t-a more than welcome sight,
Then, with n cloud upon his face,
"what shall we do, he turned TO say.
sShould he refuse to take his pay
From what is in the pillow case?'
And giancing down his eye surveyed
The pillow-case before him laid,
Whose contents, reaching to its hem,
81 Might purchase endless joy for them.
The maiden answers, "a Let us wait.
To borrow trouble where's the need Y
That at the parsons squsaking gate
Hslted the more than willing steed.
Down from the horse the bridegroom sprung:
The iatchless gate behind him swung;
The knocker Of that startled door,
Struck as il never was before,
Brought the whole household plle with friSnt
And there with bushes on his cheek,
SO bashful he could hardly speak,
The farmer met their wondering sight.
The groom goes in, his GRAND tells.
And. as the parson mods, he leans
Far DER the window-sil and yeis, -
ssCome in Ho says he'll take tie beans
Lord How size jumped; With one glad bound,
She ami the bean beg reached the ground,
Then claspTng with each dimpled arm
The precious product of the farm,
She bears it through the open door,
And, down upon the parior floor,
Dumps the hest beans vines ever boie.
All. happy were their songs that dsy
When man and wife they rode away;
But happier this chorus still
which echoed through these woodland scenes;
I" God boss the priest of Whitinsvte,
God bless the man who took the beans"
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Mark Twain's Last Lament.

Mark Twain, in the August Atlantic,
mourns over the diminished length OF
the Mississippi, in this strain:
Therefore, the Mississippi between
Cairo and New Orleans was 1,215 miles
long 176 years ago. 1t was ], 1SO after
the cut off of 1922. It was $40 after
the American bend cut off (some IL or
II years ago.. It has lost 67 miles
since. Consequently its length is only
973 miles at present.
Now, if I wanted to be one of those
ponderous scientific people, and "let
on" to prove what had occurred in the
remote past by what had occurred in a
given time in the recent past. or what
will occur in the far future by what has
occurred in late years, what an opportu-
nifty is here Geology never had such
chance. nor such exact date to argue
from Nor development of species, -
either Glacial epochs are great things,
but they are vngue-vague. Please
observe:
In the space of ITO years the lower
Mississippi has shortened itself 242
miles. That is an average of a trifie
over one mile and a third per year.
Therefore, any calm person, who is not
blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old
Oolitic Silurian period, Just a million
years ago next November, the Lower
Mississippi river was upwards of /, 3GO,-
600 miles long. and stuck ont over the
Gulf of Mexico like fishing rod. And
by the same token any person can see
that TAP years from now the Lower Mis-
sissippi will be only mile and three
quarters long, and Cairo and New Or
leans will have joined their streets to-
gether, and be plodding comfortably
along under single mayor ard mu
tual board of aldermen. There is some
thing fascinating about science. One
gets such wholesale returns out of such
a triflins investment of fact.
ARsENE HoussAYE says "ChivSc, the
DIXIE of Orleans physician was an
original, clever to the last word. lie
never noticed that he was il, being so
anxious alont the health oiothers but
nm Il Low 4, r<,It L.. >>-I
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England's Overlooking Golfers.

The United States has been pouring in
its precious metal until we have got over
three and quarter millions more of it
this year than for the first six months of
last, although the balance of trade in other
commodities is from one to two millions
more against us there now than then
hence, also, the fact that there has been
no corresponding drain for other coun-
tries. Many nations have sent us less
than they are want to do, but on the
other hand many have wanted less. The
gold that has come here has therefore
mostly lain here and we have had full
Golfers when commercial bubbles begin
to burst at home.
AS We limited the other day, this not a
state of affairs likely to last. Not only
are rates for money beginning to rise on
the continent, but they are falling here
below a point at which it can be to any
body's profit to send us gold. 1t is not
unlikely that other peoples trade may
be reviving, as ours begins to recede.
And this makes the situation of our money
market less satisfactory than it superb
cially seems to be. We are just apparent
ly enteringu upon that period of depressed
trade ard cautious contraction of bust
ness from which other countries have
suffered so long. Thanks to the free
dom, and, we may say, looseness with
which the vast credits at the command
of our banking institutions have been
dispensed to all and sundry,:we passed
apparently without seattle through the
time when other countries were in dis
tress. Money was never got so dear as
to destroy the fragile structure on which
our security rested. and it was supposed
that we got off scot free. Such notion
can no longer be entertained and the
numerous failures we have had must
Individually usher in period of
dull trade were it for no other reason
than that they compel banks to stop in
discriminate lending.-LOndOn Times.
WOMEN ON HORSEBACK MAN FASHION.
"A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press writes The best horsewomen
that L have ever met with are the Ha-
waiians. They have no use for the side
saddle, riding with grace and freedom
which cannot be very injurious or inse-
cure. Many of the American and Eng
lish ladies visiting the Sandwich Isl
ands have adopted the Hawaiian fash
ion, and prefer it to the side saddle.
In fac5 it would be difficult matter in
this rough country for IL ~ to keep
her sent and manage her long habit if
she had to ride the usual way.
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WADE BOTTOMS LEGACIES.
The $4,000 He Left the Wido,o of !Stone,oc

The $4,000 He Left the Wido,o of StoncUoH
Jackson.
We published an item yesterday from
the Washington Gazette to the effect
that the legacy of $40, 900 left by Wade
Bolton, of this city, to Stonewall Jack
sons widow, was still held by the exec
utor, and used for speculative purposes.
We have since gathered some facts in
regard to the matter which are of inter
est to the public
Wade Bolton was before the war q
wealthy negro trader, and became in
volved in feud with the Dickens family,
which resulted from first to last in seven
or eight deaths. He expected to go the
same way and did. Therefore he VIZ te
with his own hand very remarkable
will, making various legacies, not for
getting his old family slaves, who still
remained on his plantation. It provided
that certain lawsuits in which he was
engaged should be carried on to the bit
ter end, and cut off all his relatives who
took sides with his enemies or failed to
aid his suits all in their power. Among
other requests was $4,000 to Mrs
General Jackson, to be paid when his
estate should be wound up. He named
an executor, who was not required to
give bond, but was charged with carry.
lily Oub I'LL buc pEOtlSlOLtS VI Ills WILL.
He was killed in Court Square by DR.
Dickens, his old partner, about the year
1869, and soon after that Dr.. Dickens
was killed by unknown parties few
miles from the city. And thus ended
the most bloody and remarkable ven
delta of the southwest. Most of the
particu lars are fresh in the public mind.
Bolton stands statuesquely and gc4m in
Italian marble on an eminence in Elm
wood and his suits go on in the courts.
The Dickens heirs have brought or
rather Continued a very heavy claim
against the Bolton estate. It was de-
cided once in the lower courts, but ap-
pealed by them to the supreme court,
where it is now pending.
The executor, we learn, has paid off
various legacies, some of them large
amounts, far exceeding Mrs. Jacksons.
He paid her S.. 900 on the Goth of Febru-
airy, 1872, but against the advice of the
lawyers retained by the Bolton side.
He also paid the smaller legacies left to
the negroes and to some other persons
in need. It seems that Mrs. jackson
was to be paid when the estate was
wound up. This has not been done and
perhaps will not be for some years.
Memphis Ledger.
Henry K. Bond, of Jefferson, Maine,
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The sensible young man is now living
near Council Bluffs, Iowa. Not long
ego he became involved in a QUAR- eli
with no less than five different men, and
challenged ca; one of them to morta
combat. All accepted, and were on the
ground in time. Then the hero of the
affair said that he wouldn't fight them
all at once, but he would fight the best
man first. The five began discussing
the question of who was the best man,
and got to fighting. They struggled
over the matter for about quarter of
an hour, the champion sitting on log
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A Storm In Switzerland.

A correspondent at Geneva gives an
account, of the terrible storm which
broke over that city at midnight of
Wednesday, the 18th inst. About eight
o'clock few heavy drops of rain began
to fall, and at the same time the whole
circumference of the horizon began to
be fitfully Illuminated by flashes of sheet
lightning, but there was no thunder.
Once only during the entire night was
there one terrific clap of thunder, and
that was when the storm was Just over.
The lightning gradually increased in
intensity and became indeed actually
and without exaggeration continuous.
The entire atmosphere seemed to be an
element of flame, and all this time there
was not the slightest movement of air in
objects lying on the roofs of houses
were caught up and whirled around as
by cyclone. Still there was no move
ment of air in the streets below at mid
night. The tempest came mainly from
the Jura range and from the southwest,
travelling in that direction toward the
basin of Lake Lemon. As it neared the
lake it seemed to spread out into fam
like form, with front sufficiently wide
to embrace the entire city. It did not
last much longer than ten minutes. At
the end of it, Geneva was wrecked az no
army of besiegers could have wrecked it
in the same space of time. The storm
came in the shape of an almost compact
mass of sheet ice, driven horizontally
before the tempest blast. In the first
instant, every gas lamp in the streets,
save here and there one spared by reason
of some protecting roof, was smashed to
atoms and extinguished, but the city
was not in darkness, for the masses of
coagulated hail reflected the blue light
of the lightning in CHASTITY and omi-
nous manner. Windows of manufac-
tories and residences were forced from
their fastenings, besides having all the
glass shivered, and bedrooms and stair
cases and saloons were thus thrown
open to the storm, and in minute or
two were half filled with masses of ice,
far beyond the immediate power of the
inhabitants to remove, for the storm
was marked by the popularity that hail
stones, or ice fragments rather, COM
pacted themselves into solid mass as
soon as they fell on the slope of the left
bank of the river Arne In the suburb of
the city. The tiles of many houses were
absolutely beaten to powder stout par
titions of wooden plank we're pierced by
holes such as might have been made by
musket ball. Three persons were
killed by the falling of farm house in
the immediate vicinity of the city.
Vast quantities of small birds have been
picked up, killed by the storm, and the
bodies of several foxes have been found.
Geneva is surrounded by pleasure gar
dens and vineyards and market gardens,
and these have been destoyed as if a
charge of cavalry had passed over them,
now taken from them as effectually as
if it had been sunk to the bottom of the
sea.
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been whipped by anybody, and wasn't
ready to fight. The challenger walked
off with all the honors, and was proud
and happy.
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A WANT has been felt and expressed
by physicians for a safe and reliable purgative.
Such want is now supplied in Parsons Pur-
qdtipe Pills.
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Low spirits and GIOOminess are the
result of Dyspepsia. DIR. TUFTS Pills promotes di-
gestion and imparts cheerfuness of mind.