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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-06-12
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAIL.
~ ROAD.-On aud after SUNDAY. May so

CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAIL-
" RUAD.-On aud after SUNDAY. May so
1875, PASSENGER trims will run as foll0ws:
FROM RICHMOND.
Leave Richmond. -. 80. $50 a IL. 9.10P.M
Arrive nj rdonsviIle. 245 I. M. 12:25 A. 1.
Arrive at washington. 1888 Z. N. 6:33 4. N.
Arrive 1t hiriot eSvile. 1:45 z. u. l:24 4. 81.
Arrive at Ly pch"urS 200 y. 4:50 A. u
Arrive At White sulphur. $500 z. III. 1:42 AM
Arrive NJ Hutton. ................ 9:D1 a. ~.
Arrive at ksnawha Fals.........-... l:lU y. %.
arrive III charleston. ..,............ 3:US I. "a.
Arrive at HunLGeton.. ............ 0.30 !. M-
Arrive ut tlccii n III OUU q. Dl.
Train leaving Richmond al $3.50 A. ": -uas faiiy
SUNDAY exrrptpdl stopping Ut all rePhlar statlons
between icnmund and White sulphur.
Train leaving Richmond ~ 9:lOp NJ. runs daily:
stopping ut all Stations between Huntington ana
Allegheny, and at CcviDg on. Hillt 0ro', 5oshen.
Stari,t ph, Greenwood. charlottesville, Gordons-
vile Juuct OIL. ahd edmond.
> ccnm uIvGatlo trein l-aves Richmond Tor eior.
dOusyiIc and all intermediate stations daily lex.
crpt sunday at 4:30 e NJ.
pullman slice pink. car runs on 9:lO l.. d. ualn
between rt bmcnd snd hite Sulphur.
For further information. rates. &C., apply al S20
Main street, or at c0nnny's oinces.
CONWAY X. HOWARD,
Genera Passenger snd Tlcke, AGENT
w. ~. :. DUNN.
my 20 Engineer and Supt 'rinsportItion.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-06-12
RICHMOND LIVESTOCK MARKET.

RE-ANHIBITED.
WHEAT.-Red, 56 bushes.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-04-10

on their bodies and the flies then went
into some quiet corner to have their
dainty meal"
The investigator goes on to describe
how he continued the experiment in Il
variety of localities, and how, in dirty
and bad smelling quarters, he found the
myriads of flies which existed there
literally covered with animalcules
while other flies, captured in bed
rooms or well-ventilated, clean apart
ments, were miserably lean and entirely
free from their prey. Wherever filth eX-
isted, evolving germs which might gen
crate disease, there were the flies, COW
ering themselves with the minute Or
ganisms and greedily devouring the
same.
Mr.. Emerson, while thus proving the
utility of the fly, has added another and
lower link to that curious and necessary
chain of destruction which exists in
animated nature. These infinitesimal
animacules form food for the flies, the flies
for the spiders, the spiders for the birds,
the birds for the quadrupeds, and SO on
up to the last of the series, serving the
same purpose to man. He certainly de-
serves credit for an interesting and novel
investigation and for an intelligent dis
cernment which might even attack the
more difficult task of teaching us the
uses-for nature makes nothing without
some beneficial end-Of the amin alcules
MISUNDERSTANDING american.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-04-10
NO. Is.
Om Roys and girls.
TWO LITTLE FOLK.

UP in the tree boughs wise little bird
Sat chirping, one bright summer day,
-bobbing and twisting his funny brown head,
In step with his riotous lay;
For never was bird-chant
More jolly, triumphant,
More foolishly merry and gay.
d" Twee-deedum," he sang; "sh, how happy
am |,
In this beautiful world to be!
/ wonder who makes it SO green and SO sweet
For poor little bird like me,
And if every newcomer
Has such a bright summer
Twee-dee dunn, tweee-dee-dum, twee-dee?"
Down under the tree-b oughs wee little girl
Sat sobbing that sweet summer day,
A-ruffling and tucking her once pretty face
In most disagreeabIe way;
Though never had maiden
So very grief-iaden
More cause to be happy and gay.
"oh, dearie," she sobbed, "if chocolate
Only grew right up here in the trees!
l never can do as l want to at all
never can eat what please;
can't have but twenty
A day-,ohen there's plenty
No matter how hard / may tease"
"Twee-dee-d dun, twee-dee,' chirped the wise
From his perch in the sycamore-tree;
" How strange in the summer so green and SO
sweet
So solemn maiden to see
A sober, gray maiden,
So very grIef-laden-
Twee-dee-dum, twee-dee-d DUN, twee-dee1
So, merry and happy, the wise little bird
Sang the hours away in the tree;
And still piped the maiden her sorry ooh
dear,
What a stupid old world to mel"
And learned not the lesson
The wonderful lesson
Contained in his simple " Twee-dee."
Rose Graham, M Christian Union.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-04-10
Two IS Sold" Bellies.

A NEW YORK correspondent writes
In Fifth avenue clearinghouse of
great pretension dwells a Mrs. H and
Mrs. E., two airy females who live
for no other purpose than to see other
folks clothes and get new ones for them
selves. A gentleman boarder had bust
ness with very worthy, plain, old fell
low, and for a few weeks had him to
board in the house. Common clothes
and clumsy manners afforded vast amuse-
ment to the two fair ladies. They
te-he-ed and grimaced at almost every
NOV the old man made, till at last the
worthy mans patron thought he'd turn
the tide. He encountered Mrs. H.
and in careless way introduced the
subject, regretting that Mr.. - did not
take more pains with his costume, he
worth in the neighbOrhood of five or six
millions. The bait took. The other
lady asked confederate of the first gen.
tleman if it was really possible Mr.. -
was worth as much, and the party ad-
dressed said he thought large fortunes
were usually overestimated, but he pre-
sumed, were he forced to sell, he would
come out with three or four millions
from his stocks; about his real estate he
knew nothing. That night at dinner the
two ladies were ELUSIVE in their atten-
hC olo pdSSSu
most of the evening in the pri-
vate parlor of one of them, the
most honored of the many guests.
One of the ladies had him out to
ride in her sleigh, and after a few days
poor old MIR. -, who had announced
himself a wldower, was being actually
courted by Mrs. II. Mrs. H. had box
during the Kellogg season at the opera,
and often and often the old Wall street
man was its occupant. When illusions
were made to investments and stocks, in
his simple way he joked, never thinking
their inquiries were made in any other
spirit than that of fun. Alas! this week
Mrs. II. and Mrs. E., sitting at the dinner
table one night, shedding their sweetest
smiles on MIR. Solid Man, happened to
mention they were going to Brooklyn the
next morning. Up speaks the old man:
If you are going up Fulton street you
must stop and buy a bouquet of my
daughter; she keeps a florists shop pretty
near Montague street. Your daughter
keep florist shop?' exclaimed both
ladies. Certainly, am, returned the
Wall street man. After l gave up my
nursery out in Flushing Hannah made
arrangements with my successor to be
furnished with flowers, and she's done a
good business ever since Well, the
whole table laughed. taking in the stu
alton at once. Such pair of discOm-
flied women one seldom sees. They
have driven out every day since and cut
the solid man and his patron dead from
the awful hour when they discovered
how sweetly they had been sold"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-04-10
Hairs Turning to Snakes.

THERE are few boys or girls residing
in the country who have not heard mar
velous stories of horse or COW hairs turn
ing to snakes when thrown into water.
Very likely these wonderful tales of the
metamorphosis of hairs into squirming
reptiles were told them by some fond
mother and Endorsed by all the neigh
bOrs and who but born skeptic could
disbelieve such unquestionable authori-
ties upon all subjects which naturally
attract the attention of inquisitive chill
dren? Fortunately for mankind, a few
do escape from what may be termed a
lifelong subjugation to the tyranny of
errors;" and, though it may cost them
many pang and heartache to see the
idols of their youth dashed to pieces,
one by one, by the remorseless hand of
the scientific Investigator, still the final
results are very much like the eXtrac-
ton of molar by a sk1llful dentist.
The pain may be acute during the brief
operation, but there is always q peculiar
sense of relief which somewhat compen-
safes for ones sufferings. But the ma
jority of mankind do not pass through
any such ordeal. but remain steadfast
and true to the faith of their childhood,
else the hair snakes and similar marvel
Gus productions would have long since
died out, instead of being alive and as
|
This common belief in the transforma-
ton of hairs to snakes has been forcibly
brought to my mind of late by several
paragraphs Oh she subject which have
| appeared in a Western paper, the editor
of which has been sharply criticised by
! some of his readers for doubling the eX-
istence of such productions. OF course
the only facts brought forward on the
part OF those who hold that a hair may
| hpcnmP a fhnir ho1i az
in what somebody else, equally as igno-
rant, had told them Without claiming
to speak as an authority on this subject,
perhaps | may throw out few hints that
| will aid those who are in search of the
truth in regard to the nature and hab-
it's of what are termed chair snakes y
1t is probably unnecessary to add to
what / have already said that hairs dc
no: turn to snakes, no.matter how much
they may wriggle about when thrown
into water. There are, however, several
! species of small black, or very dark, par
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-04-10
Drinking Water.

DIR. HALL is opposed to the immOder-
ate drinking OF water He says:
The longer one puts off drinking water
in the morning, especially in the sum
mer, the less he will require during the
day; if much is drank during the fore
noon the thirst often increases, and a
very unpleasant fullness is observed, in
addition to a metallic taste in the mouth.
The less IA man drinks the better for
him, beyond moderate amount. The
more water man drinks the more
strength he has to eXpend in getting rid
of it, for all the fluid taken into the sys-
tenn must be carried out; and as there is
but little nourishment in water, tea,
coffee, beer and the like, more strength
is expended in carrying them out of the
system than they impart to it. The more
a man drinks the more he must persplre,
either by lungs or through the skin; the
more he perspires the more carbon is
taken from the system; but this car bon
is necessary for nutrition, hence the less
a man is nourished the less strength he
has.
Drinking water largely diminishes the
strength in two ways, and yet many are
under the impression that the more water
swallowed the more thoroughly is the
system washed out" Thus, the less we
drink at meals, the better for us. If the
amount were limited to a single cup of
hot tea or hot milk and water at each
meal, an unreasonable good would re-
suit to all. Many persons have fallen
into the practice of drinking several
glasses of cold water, or several cups of
hot tea or coffee, at meals, out of mere
habit; all such will be greatly benefited
by breaking it up at once; it may be
very well to drink a little at each meal,
and, perhaps, it will be found that in all
cases it is much better to take a single
cup of hot tea at each meal than g lass
Of cold water, however pure.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-04-10
Risen From the Dead.

The Augusta (Me.) Journal of a recent
date tells this marvellous tale:
We have an event to chronicle that
would scarcely be believed were it not
authoritatively vouched for by com
petent witnesses-parties whose testi-
mony cannot well be disputed or set
aside. A young man in the town of
VassalbOro, in this county, was suffer
ing in the last stages of consumption,
the disease which had insidiously and
stealthily brought him to the verge of
the grave. For several weeks he had
been entirely PROSTATE and unable to
speak, even to articulate a syllable. He
became SO oppressed for breath that his
attendants were compelled to raise the
windows in his room, put out the fire, and
resort to every means to obtain fresh air.
One day last week Thursday, we under
standD the young man died. Friendly
hands prepared the poor, emaciated body
for the burial; but just as the attending
friends were arranging the remains for
the casket there appeared unmistakable
evidences of returning life in what had
seemed to them an inanimate mass of
clay. The ear of an attendant was bent
down to the side of the &C dead man. aud
it was discovered that the heart
had begun again its slow and
measured palpitations' the pulse
lnTOUDcu, anu tuC youhS
arose from the death shrouds, opened his
mouth and spoke in clear and distinct
words to those who stood appalled, in the
death chamber. There was no huskiness
in his voice; he appeared lively and act
i've; said he felt not the slightest pain,
but, to use his own language: feel just
as well as l ever did
At his request the neighbors were all
called in, who crowded the house Tor
hours, declaring that The recovery OF the
man was equal to any miracle recorded
in the Scriptures. He told this startled
assemblage of his friends and neiehbOrs
that, as he died, all things seemed dark,
but only for an instant; his eyes sudden
ly opened to a new world, the real
heaven, which had been SO many times
in his thoughts and given him so much
comfort in his last weeks of pain and
sorrow. He stood upon an eminence
which overlooked a vast and beautiful
plain; the magnificent plain stretched
further than his enlarged vision could
penetrate, and he described it in lam
guage which to his mortal auditors
seemed extravagant in the extreme. But
the revived life of the young man was
not to continue long. Before night he
again resigned himself to death. The
body was kept a reasonable length OF
time and buried on Sunday last, the
funeral being largely attended. We
have written out the particulars OF this
remarkable event substantially as we
have heard them, allowing our intefli
gent readers the privilege of drawing
their own differences.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-04-10
Selected sMisreHat,u
SIZE ALWAYS MADE HOME HAPPY

In an old churchvard stood stone,
Weather marked and stained,
The hand of Time had crumbled it,
So only part remained.
Upon one side / could just trace,
"In memory of oar motherm
An cpitaph which spoke of home"
Was chiseled on the other.
I'd gazed on monuments Of fame
High towering to the skies;
I'd seen the sculptured marble stone
Where a great hero lies;
But by this epitaph paused,
And read it DER and DER,
For | had never seen inscribed
Such words as these before.
"She always made home happy" What
A noble record left,
A legacy of memory sweet
To those she left bereft;
And what testimony given
By those who knew her best,
Epgraven on this plain, rude stone
That marked their mothers rest.
It was humble resting place,
know that they were poor,
But they had seen their mother sink
And patiently endure;
They had marked her cheerful spirit,
When bearing, one by one,
Her many burdens up the hill,
Till all ler work was done
So when was stilled her weary head,
Folded her hands SO white,
And she was carried from the home
She'd always made SO bright,
Her children raised a monument
That money could not buy,
As witness of n noble life
Whose record is on high.
A noble life; but written not
In any book of fame:
Among the list of noted ones
None ever saw her name;
For only her own household knew
The yictories slaa-had WON
And none but they could testify
How well her work was done.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-04-10
Longevity.

THE London Times of March 3 has the
following: "Tl inability of the aged
of both sexes to withstand the effects of
the present Indictment weather is show
ing daily in the obituary of the Times,
but particularly so yesterday, the 2d inst,
when the deaths of thirty persons were
recorded whose ages ranged from sew
enty to ninety nine years. There were
Just half score of ladies whose united
ages amounted to $50 years, giving an
average of eighty. seven years and exact
ly six months to each. The following
were their respective ages, viz. /: Eighty,
eighty-two, two at eighty-flve, eighty
seven, three at eIghty-nine, ninety, and
nnety-nine years. There are also half il
score of septuagenarians whose ages
ranged from seventy to sevcnty-nlne.
Their united ages amounted to go years,
giving an average of exactly seventy five
years to each. The same obituary re-
corded the deaths of another half-score
of gentlemen whose united ages amount
ed to 161 years, giving an average OF
more than seventy-siX years to each :;
the Youngest was seventy and the olcest
eighty-four wears of age. The British
.Nedic0t JournaL states that at the last
Prussian census there were found to be
living in Berlin 12,251 persons VINO were
born before the end of the last century
Among them, three men and SIX women
| were ninety-one years old; four men and
nine women, ninety-two years; one man
| and five women, ninety-three years; ten
persons were ninety-four years of age :;
| four women were ninety-siX years ola :;
! two men and two women, ninety-seVen :
one man, ninety-eight; one woman,
! ninety nine, ard another woman, loi.
! OF the persons between ninety and lOG
| years of age, five Were unmarried, HVe
married, tifty-seven widowed and one
| divorced. A widow named Najelsky died
| on the 10th OF February, at kamlonken,
| near Lotion, ut the age of 1o3. She Is
| said TO have been extraordinarily active
| in her hundredth year \ man died
fortnight ago at the age of 105, at Hor-
| zitz in Bohemia"
There are 100000 cats in Great
| Britain and it is estimated that each cat
| kills an average of twenty mice or rats
every year. 1t i, estimated, further, that
every rat or mouse, if it lived, would IN
iure property To the extent of FL sterling
! If all this is true, pussy saves to mat
country every year 500, DOC, 900, and she
might pay OFT the national debt II she
! chose.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-04-10

"A gentleman in San Joaquin County,
Cal, owns flock of 1000 eve sheep,
1 300 OF which had g. 400 lambs this sea
son, thus increasing the flock 120 per
cent. Nearly all of the sheep produced
twins, and twenty of them produced
triplets.
1t is sad to think of tie condition of
the mans soul who says that the more
peevish women there are IN the world
the sooner shall we be able to listen IN
moved to the filing of a saw
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-04-10

An inebriate precipitated himself
downstairs and on striking the landing
reproachfully apostrophized himself
with: If you'd been a-wantin' to come
downstairs why in thunder didn't you
say 50, you wooden headed old fool, an
I'd come with you an showed you the
way"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-04-10

Patient to doctors after consulaa-
ton: Tell me the worst, gentlemen;
am going 10 dep Doctors: We are
divided on that question, sir; but there
is majority OF one that you will live
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-04-10
Play and Study.

OF course all study and no play makes
Jack duh boy. But it is also true that
ali play and no study will make Jack an
ignorant boy. He is wise who knows
how to combine the study which lnvig-
crates the mind with the play that
strengthens the body.
PHYSICIANS tell us that the habitual
exercise of the mind develops the brain,
Just as the arm Of the blacksmith or the
leg of the walker is increased in size by
use. 1t is not brain-work that shortens
life, but laZiness. Sid President
Humphrey, of Amherst College, hard
student, who lived more than four-score
years: - have yet to see the man who
died from the effects of hard study"
Methodical brain work, even If 1t is Sc
we're, Injuries nobody, and it Is conducive
to long life. Kant, a profound German
philosopher. when more than three-score
and ten, gave it as the result of long OBJ
servation that intellectual pursuits
tend to prolong life" Newton, the great
mathematician, lived to the age of
eighty three. Herschel, the astronomer
OF his age, lived more than ninety years,
as did Humboldt, the author of - Cos
mos"
1t is idleness that kills. 1t causes the
body to retain the old, WORKOUT particles
of the system, which would have been
thrown off if the brain and the muscles
had been exercised. These clog up the
body; it grows torpid, the mind becomes
dull and the man dies, or, what is worse,
falls into idiocy-
The simple lesson which these facts
teach is that Il sound mind may be kept
in Il sound body only by the systematic
use of both. Everybody knows how
ravenously hungry lie is after hard study.
He has used up PARTICLES of nutriment
l. L.; - a
"a fresh supply. This is what hunger
means; it is the body's cry for food. Let
Jack both play and study, and he vi l
find that his body quickens the brain
and his brain invisorates the body
YOUTH Companion.
To SECURE A KICKING cow have
! tried every way that | have heard or
| read OF, but have found none so eftectuai
| as the following: | fasten the COW in
| the usual manner in the stall. From the
| front part of her manager to the back OF
the stable is nine feet; | therefore pro-
! cure :. stout, smooth pole, nine feet SIX
| inches long, about three inches in diam
| ..ter bore hole about three feet from the
| floor in the manger, and ht one end OF
the pole in it; take hold of the Other
end and crowd the COW close up to the
side of her stall by pressing il firmly
against her thigh sufficiently high to be
out OF the way of milking, and drop the
end in notch prepared in the right
| place at the back of the stable. w hen
the pole has been fixed i'll its proper
| place it can be replaced with very little
trouble and no risk, "a considerable adj
| vantage when women do the mllklhS-
| Cor. Rttra1 Ne,o Yorker.
An inebriate precipitated himself
| down-sta and on striking the landing
reproachfully apostrophiZed himself
with: If you'd been a-wantin' to come
downs stairs why in thunder didn't you
say 50, you wooden headed old fool, an
| 7 i -1rh ST
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-07-08

pay attention to the latter know ing 5hat the other is easily sup piled. That ] failed to give the name of every publisher and every paper l am not surprised. l en- deayored 10 give the most promi- iient.
 What I now desire to propose is this: Let all those who cah supply any omissions prior to the war, and who can give informa- tion as to the papers published in their respective sections during the war and up to the lst of Jan uary, 1867, the commencement of reconstruction, forward the same to me, and at the next annual meeting of the association I will fill up the missing links, and thus make complete history of the state press from the year 1919, to the 1st of January, 1867. The press of subsequent years can be dealt with hereafter. What say those who have been finding fault; and others who have information on the subject?
 J. N. SMITHEE,
 Pres't Ark. Press Association.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-07-08

TIE CoTToN CRoP.-We clip from the Gazette and produce in to-day's DEMOCRAT an interesting statement, giving an extended re vlew of the prospects of the com ing cotton crop.
 From the statement we may see that the prospect is good and without any unseen disaster to the crop we may look for q large crop and correspondingly low prices. It is certainly q happy thing and a great consolation to know that our planters have al most all made their breadstutt, and that there will be no draw on the proceeds of the cottcn crop for the purchase of flour. And we hope too, in future years, this important principle of producing all our breadstuf at home will be adhered to and followed up.
 Such course is the only deliv- crancc our planters have from bankruptcy and ruin.