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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-10-07
WOOD AND COAL.
NEW COAL AND WOODWARD.

NEW COAL AND WOODWARD
The undersigned would Inform the citizens OF
Richmond generally. and those of Oregon Hill and
sidney in particular that he mas removed from his
lately rented premises, corner Main and Brlvld"r e
streets, 10 his own yard, on Belvinere between Main
and Cary streets, where may h. found all kinds OF
COAL and COKE Id large supply OF best GA X
aud PINE WOOD. Having 10 rent 10 pay. he is
enabled to sell FUEL at tower rates than he other.
wise could, aud invites 4 call and examination of
his supply, pleugng every effort to give satistac-
ton FULL WEIGHT and NJ GASURE always
accorded. WILLIAM p. FORD,
No. 3 I9 west Broad and
oc 4.MSThlm Revdare near Main street.
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AbOrttonists Indicted.

TORONTO, October Ga true bill OF muir
der was found against DR.. Davis and Vile lot
abortion.
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MOOD AND COAL FOR OREGON
W HILn AND SJDSEY.-tIaving taken the
yard corutr of Main ard Belvdere streets. formerly
my FRIENDS and the public in that vicinity, would
respectfully inform my friends that they can now
buy ANTHRACITE. COKE, CLOVER HILL, a"d
WEST VIRGINIA SPLtNT coal. OAK and
PINE WOOD, as cheapas can be- bought in the city.
All coal sold hr weight. Saiisiucti"n guaranteed.
WI MCDOWELL. First ard Broad.
Seventh anu Main, Main and Belviderc Streets
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Navigation between Southwest Virgil
min and Mobile Bay.

RoMs, Ga, October 6.-The Convention
for the Improvement of the Coosa river and
the connection of Mobile bay with the Ten.
nessee river by water.rou'e met in this
city o.day. The Convention is largely at
tended BY leading citizans of Alabama, Geor'
ola. and Tennessee. Toe speeches OF TO-
DAYS session demonstrate the practicaollIty
of constructing the route at very small
cost, thereby giving uninterrupted Daylga'
ton for the whole ) ear from Southeast Flr'
ginia to Mobile bay.
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pul.-nEAnS. ~ to $40 per g5a', u ~
~ Ui:xsAL.J x.i4s~-No-4-SS.-~
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u,ss.ne sIafi. Matter.

peovrpsscs. r. l., October 6.--Most Vaiu-
able bank. letters In SATURDAYS mai 20 DUE
ION are missing.
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
PORT OF RICHMOND. OCTOBER 6, 1875.

MINIATURE ALMANAC, OCTOBER z, 1875.
Sun rises.....6.l7 Noon sets. .......-. 1925
SIM sets 5.43 High tide. ......... 1913
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-10-07

4 MOTHER CARGO SUPERB AN
N THRACITE COAL, making my supply large
ard complete, which. with the best KINDS ,r! OF
LUMP COKE. and my unrivalcd WOOD for
cooking ard kindEg IS offered very low at Ninth
ant Cary streets and Basin bank
So 6 j. B. WATKINS.
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GOAL AND WOOD.-Inducemen to
- those IN want OF wlntsr supply OF first class
coal. Anrhriciie from IS, s6.5O 10 t6.75 per
city at f4.75 for twenty-five bushels, or 1915 per
ton Of 600 pounds; Clover Hill from 70 up TO
s5 81 ner ION - c. H. PAGE.
Sc II Nineteenth and Cary streets.
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RICHMOND. FRED'G D POTOMAC X. X. Co..
OFFICE ERNERhL Tenet AGENT ,
RICHMOND. September IL, 1872
OF TRAINS.

=
1875 P. II. leaves Byrd-Street station daily, con.
Meeting with The BALI more and Ohio
andrI;i-due at Camden station, Bait
more at 9:15 p. M.-anO with New
York train t1HRoCGH sLEEPERs
FROM SHEPHERD TO NEW YORK;;
and with New York Night Express
via Baltimore and Potomac railroad
at Washlnp ton: arriving ut Charles
Street station, Baltimore ut 1850 p K.
NJ THROUGH SLEEPER FROM WASfI-
ISGTON TO NEW YORK.
9.20 p. NJ. leaves Byru-:treet station Sundays
excepted. connecting II Washington
with the Baltimore and Potomac and
Baltimore and Oh o railroads.
sos 2. NJ. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN for
Hanover Junction, leaves Broad.St Get
station Sundays eXceptedj.
sam. arrives at Byrt.S treet station fMon-
dayS excepted
l.3op NJ arrives at Byrd.Strca' station daily.
S:37 A. NJ, ACCOMMODATIONS TRAIN srrlt es
at Broad-Street statioa Sundays ex-
cepted).
Parlor-cars on day trains.
Pullman sceDers on night trains.
FgEiGHT TRAINS leave BrOat Street station
on TUESDAY. THURSDAY, aui SATURDAY
NIGHTS FOL all DsInts North and West. and ar.
rive on MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY
MORNINGS. Consjgnces of live stock and perish
able articles. upon giving notice at Cep0t can OBJ
tain freigut at Boulton on preceding evening. ;,
Through bills OF isding and rates given &c all
''t''e'pN' '>''' +. r. d. MYERS,
General superintendent.
G. A. TAYLOR
sel4 General Freight ard Ticket AreD..
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w EST VIRGINIA SPLINT COAL A
w SPECIALITY. Best fuel of all kinds always
on hand at rates cheap the cheapest, for CASH
or to prompt.paying customers: All are hvlteo,
hut especially my old friends, 10 leave their orders
for their winter supply. Orders through the post
Office promptly attended to: l.. X. RElNS,
Agent for The mines.
Office ard yard, Marshall between sixteenth and
.. O i m Seventeenth streets.
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NTOTlCE.-MAsCHEsTER TAX.PAf,;
~ EpS-Iam now ready 10 ieceiye Ihe city ana
ssbool;ax for the year 1875 Al persons pa sYn
the same ~ before lhs Cd 81 N9venhei; ths
,,Ii na nj, led 10 ten ger cent discount on 'he
CITY tux, ., W ~ -, >..a,n.s .r
&C a-lUt 11o@auAS |N! oA $500
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rANNELTON SEMI-CANNEL COAL
Clbe peerless coal open eraies kindles quicker
The market Aulrscite Coal all sizes best qua
Cumberlau Goal, for steam: Quinnimont Coal, Tor
sIeam james River and BellOna Soft Coke.
5. =. LAIHROp.
se1O Seventeenth street aF drawbridgc.
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IyISITIEG- CaRIpsssnfa.. g Al nor so, o
: tha uIarA1Ga fEiaTlss-sots
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NTHRACITE COAL for furnaces, La
II 1rohes. self. feeders. base-burners, and other
stoves; GLOVER I'LL LIME ana Hail.. 10.
! highly recommended; BLACK HATH lump
average, and smiths burns like the Midlothian. and
! is mined on adjacent property. For sale at prices
| TO satisfy dsalers or consumers.
Fourteenth street near Mayo's bridge.
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NOKE-S5 PER LOAD.-Iam selling one
I ] boat Ioa 4 OF LUMP COKE at IS per cIrt-load
because ] fear there may he Jumps among u mai
will pop, but will endeavor 10 pirk out any SUCH H.
every kind Of fuel Per oDs wishing to lay In sup
niles ter winter please give me call.
pieS '0A j. +. COTTRFLL,
orooam corner Cary and Ninth stree Is.
FOUNDRY AND FURNACE COAL.
y,ry suu rtor. Price very low. ANIHHA-
TJrE all siz4s p K. CARRINGTON, corner
Seventeenth and Cary aud 1925 Cary street: an o
rRAY SPLINr COAL.-It has no supe'
ST rIor as n grate coal guarantee II 10 be hard.
ar and that il will turn longer than any otnsl
sniInt coal mined In West Virginia, or mat Is soia
in this market. Itturns up CHAN.
~ r. r. CARRlNGtOS. Sole Agent,
corner Seventeenth ard Gary ana
.,1e 1925 Cary street,
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RICHMOND AND DANyTLLE RAIIgoAD coxp,Y.a
OFFICE MAsTER. OF TRANS. May 80, 1876. z

Engineer and Superintendent transportation.
co q ...fz % -rEst sg.sE "...'a 3 =
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-09-16
Holding Baby An Obliging Farmers
Predicamcnt.

n wellnaturcd looking woman, await.
ing the departure OF the afternoon train ut
ConnellSyllle depot yesterday, was the
temporary object of considerable interest
and not little sympathy by those about
him, through an amusing episode in
which he figured, Contrary to the rules
OF the depot he had quietly seated himself
In the tidy and comfortable watingroOm
allotted Tor the use OF ladies only. and was
calmly cogitating on the crop prospects or
some other theme of equal importance to
himself, for he seemed inteutly wrapped
up IN the communion ot his own thoughts
and apparently had cloScdup the windows
of his soul against the whole outside
world. His pleasantly profound rpverie
was most rudcly and suddenly broken into
and dissipated by the apparition-l like APP
pc,rance of dashing, buNOm woman.
with Il tender bud of humanity resting in
bljSstul sleep in her plump arms She
hurrlcdly asked the goOd-RatUrcd looking
Granger il he would be SO obliging rs 20
hold the tiny morSel of life in dimitv for
uuly "A few minutes, in Orlerth shcmight
look up missing valiSc which should
have been awaiting her al the depot 4 re
ttlsal to grant So tritlng iavsr WAS not
ua'Era. TO the old farmer, who had him
S,,t wife and BARN. at home, and, to say
the least, he was sympathetiCally moved
toward the woman in her dilemma, and SO
he tcndcrly received into his horny hands
the chipping infant and parentally folded
it to his honest heart. There he sat As
CcwnlaCently as any man could well sit
IN the consciousness that he was perform
ing generous act toward tellow-travel-
ey, and the old chap looked nightly well.
pleased, too, rs though he imagined that
all The ladies in the waiting room were
gazing on his wrinkled face and cnvyinc
him the possession of the pretty little
darling. rs a baby holder he got along
remarkably well, soothing the youngster
80 necessary times by suchmcauS Is fathers
OF experience only know how; but rs
The tram Tor AlpSville, Tor which place he
was uckgtcd was nearing ihs time of de
parHr1. the old man was restless and i'm
Vaaca, in wishing fer the speedy return
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-09-16
The Farmers Wealth.

Manure is to the farmer what capita, 10
to the merchant. Without it his labor
will be in vain, his drafts dishonored and
his soul discouraged. A discouraged man
is not good for much. 1t is not every ono
that can afford to buy the trade fertilizers
and these are too often without merit
They are to be purchased with caution and
Judgment. In the matter of manure We
believe almost wholly in home manufact.
ure, and are persuaded there is no branch
of farming entitled to more attention than
this. We can hardly name substance
out of which the earth with its secret
chemistry cannot extract strength and
nourishment The earth needs food as
much as the OK. Rich fields are well fed
The virgin earth MANFRED by the decayinp
vegetation of ages yields fifty bushels Of
wheat to the acre, but man soon exhausts
!! it. We take from the hand of God and
the bosom Of the earth mercies untold, for
which we forget to make returns. In.
gratitude dries up generosity The race
robs the earth and passes on. Sections
which were once prolific are now barren.
This continent, with Eastern immigration.
is once more being skinned We first
sell the forests and then extract from the
first few inches of earth whatever it con.
tains and move on. The duty of return is
seldom present with us. The ashes of
the forest are sent to the merchants to
bleach the calicoes of Fall River and
Manchester
The material for making manure is
| most abundant. Nature cries to us to be
wise in the application of the decaying
things about us. The very weeds Of the
highways can be made available An
old shoe or a big bone will tell in the
orchards for twenty-five years. The wash
tub of the kitchen, if rightly used, is
fountain of nourishment. Some stones,
clays and muck are convertible into food
for the ground. The manure Of we'll
ted animal is worth twice as much as that
of one poorly fed, whose owner perhaps
lays out IN whisky what he should lay
out in fodder Every farm has on and
within itself the powers of recuperation,
and if man will only appropriate these
secrets there will be fewer discouraged
farmers. knowledge and reflection, judy
ment and industry can increase the yield
of farms almost indefinitely. The key
to agricultural improvement in other
countries has been root crops and clover
fed to good stock on the farm; and the
same key will open the door of prosperity
here. Beef and mutton, hides and WOOL
butter and cheese, poultry and eggs, are
always in demand, and, unlike grain
crops, producing them leaves the land
better. Nay, keeping livestock in proper
proportions enables the farm to produce
more and better grain in series of years
than it could do if it were devoted to
nothing but grain culture. Wherever
butter and cheese factories abound the
land becomes much more beautiful and
productive. Is there no lesson in this
fact ~. Y. Witness.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-09-16
4 Good Way to Raise Peach Trees.

The ground where peach trees stand
should not be allowed to ago to grass"
In most instances it will pay to keep the
soil clean and mellow. In case land is I'M
usually fertile it may be better to raise
clover in the peach orchard. At recent
session of Il horticultural meeting at Lam
caster, Ohio, j. j. Fetters read paper
concerning the cultivation of the peach in
which he stated that what pomologsts
need most is practice, with its results noted
with careful and intelligent observation.
In some parts of New jersey, where
peaches grew in abundance few years
ago, the owners of the land donot pretend
to make any efforts to produce them now,
simply because they aver that the bOrers
near the roots of trees make such havoc
that il is folly to attempt to cultivate this
sn,J Of fruit. Healthy and luXuriut
peach trees are easy of propagation and
viii grow in almost any soil; but the best
results as to crop, experience has taught
are obtained on high upland An eleva
ton of thirty feet has sometimes saved the
crop. Let the ground be prepared as for
a crop of corn Select thirty trees one
year from the bud. Fruit OF fine color
will bring the most money. Cultivate a
Gin to bear The cultivation of crops and
trees will keep the ground in fine condi-
ton. In planting cut Oft all side branches,
leaving naked stem three feet high. The
next spring cut Off all side branches, leay-
ing your tree about four feet high, and your
future tree is formed. The next season, or
fourth year, side branches will have set
fruit buds. Cut back all leading branches
I,t.
which keep your trees thlnned out in
the center, allowing no limbs to cross
each other.
Now plant your orchard in strawberries
in rows four feet apart, and let the vines
run and coverthe ground. When they be-
gin to fall, rs they will the third year,
plow them no and SOW to clover. The
second year. whe.. in blossom, pillow the
vines under ana top-dreSs with manure.
Next spring plant to strawberries. The
strawberry requires shade-some varieties
more than others. The peach leaves will
settle down among the plants, and with
the protection of the trees give them ma
lures mulch which is hard to improve
At the same time your peach trees will be
greatly benefited by thi. continuous shall
low cultivation.
The parent insect OF lhe pedeh-uee
borer deposits It's eggs in the tender bark
Just at the surface of the ground. If these
eggs are destroyed there will be no borers
10 iniure the trees. To do this etfectually
let a wash be prepared in July and Au-
gust, consisting OF three parts OF lime and
one of potash or wood I've; remove the
so, carefully from the collar Of the tree
rs deep as the tip of the large surface
roots: with brush apply wash to the col
lar and roots. Leave these parts exposed
ut least one month, then return the earth
around the collar Of the tree and for that
season your trees viii be safe
As general rule borcrs are permitted
towork in the peach trees for two or three
seasons unmolested, whereas the bodies
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-09-16
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

The French preserve grapes all the
year round by coating the clusters with
lime. The punches are picked just be-
fore they are thoroughly ripe, and dipped
in lime water Of the consistency Of thick
cream. They are then hung up to remain.
The lime coating keeps out the air and
checks any tendency to decay. When
wanted for the table they dip the clusters
in warm water to remove the lime.
To keep grapes, take boxes the size
ends to lay Stats on; put in the bottom a
newspaper; have ready dish of hot, scald-
ing wax, and dip the ends of stems in
this; put layer in the box carefully,
then paper, then grapes again, and SO
on till full not more than three layers in a
box; nail up tight; keep in cool,
dry place until cold weather; then place
in dry cellar. Grapes put up in this way
will keep till March .-Paeifc Rural Press.
An Oriental traveller, in the Boston
AdcerttseT, thus tells how to make Turkish
coffee: In copper coffee pot bring water
10 its first full boil. After having ground
the coffee in an ordinary mill screw it
the mild to its finest possible capacity
and regrind the coffee, which becomes al
most dust. To every cup of water add
IA heaping teaspoonful Of this coftee-dust,
thrown dry into the boiling water; take it
a second from the fire, let it come again to
a boil, and repeat the ceremony three
times, and if the coffee be true Mocha it is
nectar fit for the gods 1t must be sweet
ened to the taste whilst on the fire.
However deplorable washing-day may
be to the household land the careful house
mistress er tidy maid has it in her power
greatly to modify its discomforts), to the
garden it is a very bountiful day. Our
hungry and thirsty grape-vines and flow
ers are glad of every drop of wash water,
and will repay every bit of fatigue it may
cost us to give them this fertilizer. If the
sun is shining hot when we go out to dis
pense our favor it is best for US to dig a
slight trench not far from the root of the
plant, and pour the water into it, and COW
er again with the top-soil This makes
the water so further, and at the same time
does not tempt the rootets to the surface
Of the ground.-Erchange.
The Springfield (Mass) Republican
gives the following true rules for farmers
l. Take good papers and read them. 2.
Keep an account of farm operations. 3.
the farm, exposed to snow, rain and heat
f. Repair tools and buildings at proper
time, and do not suffer subsequently three
fold expenditure of time and money. g.
Use money judiciously, and do not attend
auction sales to purchase all kinds of
trumpery because it is cheap. 6. See that
fences are well repaired and cattle not
grazing in the meadows or grain fields or
orchards. 7. Do not refuse to make cor
rect experiments, in small way, of many
new things. 8. Plant fruit trees we'll care
for them, and Of course get good crops.
8, Practice economy by giving stock
shelter during the winter; also good food,
taking out all that is unsound half rotten
or mody. 10. Do not keep tribes Of cats
and snarling dogs around the premises,
who eat more in month than they are
worth in a lifetime.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-09-16
Preparing Stubble Ground for Seeding.

The sooner barley or oat stubble is
plowed after harvesting the better will be
the chance for a good preparation for
wheat. 1t is generally bad policy to wait
until after manure is drawn on the field
before blowing In the first place the
manure benefits the wheat crop more
plowed under, and, secondly, the delay in
blowing gives less opportunity to work
upon the surface and prepare mellow
seed.bed. There is still another reason:
Just after harvest there is considerable
moisture in the stubble, and the ground
also, having been heavily shaded by the
crop, tuvns up moister than it will after
standing in hot August sunshine week
or ten days. We have often seen stubbe
ground which could be easily plowed just
after the crop had been harvested turn so
hard and dry that it made one-half differ
ence in the work, and used up a plow-
point every day Besides this the land
after blowing would not be in so good
condition as if plowed earlier. Where
moist stubhe is turned under the furrow,
perhaps with some young clover ana
young weeds, there is moisture enough TO
cause some fermentation, and this Will
insure the sprouting Of the seed-wheat
almost as we'll as if the land were summer
fallOwed. On the contrary, great loss IS
sometimes found from non growing oil
seed when the land has been plowed only
Il few days before sowing. Last year
especially much wheat failed to come up
from this cause
In blowing early the scattered grain IS
sure to sprout soon enough to allow 1t 10
be cultivated under for manure, thus bene-
fitting rather than injuring the wheat
plant. Scattered grain on stubbles IS
worth more for this purpose than to De
picked up by cattle or hogs, which rarely
get much benefit from such pickings,-
Rural Neic Yorker
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-09-16
How the Fly Breathes.

Insects have no lungs like the vertc
brate animals, nor gills like the moluscs.
The blood Is oxygenized by means of a
complicated series of ATTITUDES ramifying
to Che most delicate organs. We have al.
ready seen them IN the disc of the pro
boscis. where the smaller branches meas.
urc less than the thousaNith part of an
inch in diameter. In the fly these trpcAer,
~ the airtuhcs are called, are easily
studied. The mir is admitted through sey.
cral breathing pores along each sile OF
the body, and thence is distributed 70 the
different organs. going even into Tie wings
and legs. In the thorax il pair of AR
sacks, SO arranged as TO promote, by their
contraction OF expansion, the distribution
of the air. These sacks are large in those
insects capable of rapid and sustained
tlighi, small in al, others This arrange
mcni for the aeration OF the blood does
away, of course, with the necessity of 4
heart. and the comparatively sluggish cir
culatiun of the blood, necessary for pur
poses of nutrition, Is conducted by mum
Der of dorsal vessels. which open into cacl
other from behind and are closed 10y
valves These vessels, contracting. force
Tie blood iorward-the valves closing ans
preventing backward flow. The breath
ing pores, stigmala or spjravics, rs they
are called, are very interesting objects il
the fiY, They are protected at the moutl
hy the intcrlaCiug of arhoreSccat growth
developed from the marsual integumcut
The numerous insect powders, 50 fatal {,
Chinghcs, ilcaS, CockrOaChes and othc
similar pests, operate in quite mcChan
zeal WY either by stopping up at ono
The breathing pores, and thus SN.IotA,n,
It's victims, or getting into the uarhpe IN,
producing a Asal acute hronchili, or gal
looping consumption, y. Moore, a.
Pen ant Pi0B
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-09-16
Destroy the COdlinv Moth Apple.
Worm.

The apple-worm can be destroyed and
he must be or the apple crop will be lost.
Now, at this season of the year, operations
may be begun. Small, immature fruit is
now beginning to fall from the trees and
will continue to do so until late autumn
These apples contain worms and should
be destroyed Immediately. When one
has only few choice trees in his door
yard these wormy apples can be picked
up and ted to the pigs or cooked to de-
stroy the insect In large orchards swine
should be allowed to run, which will eat
up nearly all the punctured fruit as fast as
ii falls. Early in spring is another season
for attacking the worm. At that time the
pests may be caught mapping IN the shape
OF moth rolled up in a cocoon in the
creyices ut the tree, where they have spent
the winter. The killing of these worms
should be made part of every spring
work. The apple-worm or codling-
moth appears first in spring as a miller,
dcpositing its eggs in the calyX or eye o
the young fruit, from which II grub is
hatched which eats into the center Of the
apple For several years past this pest
has been increasing its ravages. In all
quarters, last fall, fruit which appeared
sound and fair to the eye was found per
torated by the worm. Every wormripe
apple that is eaten by livestock usually
contains larva or grub, which, If al
lowed to live until another season, Will
change into q moth-miller that will de
post n great many eggs, the Larvae OF
which will destroy large quantities OF
truit.-A. J. Heraid.