The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-10-18


only apology for it IS that he has been sud-
denly stricken down with grief on learning
of the death of his uncle, Mr.. James Lick,
OF California, to whom he was most tender
Iy attached. Dear, dear Uncle James, thou
vert mild and lovely. What is home with
out our Uncle James Huntington Ha,ok-
eye.
We don't know how long General New
ton, chief-engipeer OF the Hell-Gate i'm
proYement, has been married, but it must
be some time. When q newspaper inter-
viewer asked him If he did not apprehend
danger from his proximity to the prepara-
ton Of the explosives, he said: "No; Ifeel
easier here than do Mt home. "-Ddn5ury
Ne.rs.
Let Us feel glad, says the Fulton Times,
tides are going out Of fashion, il is reported;
and II 1t be true-if we are to sink into a
rocking chair after this without tearing 3
lace dog from the back Of it, or settle down
on sofa and not feel yellow worsted farm
house humping up against the end OF our
spinal column-then an evenings tete-d-tete
will seem as odd as man with his moustache
shaved of.
The Bellows Falls correspondent OF the
Brattleboro' Record thus mingles sentiment
and business: CHOW much OF life thus lived
oyer again How precious the thought OF
love SO abiding, hearts so true and constant!
Too swiftly glided the hours away Inc
town boasts q quarry Of soap-stone OF ex-
eellent quality, some time, 1t 10 hoped, 10
become source OF revenue"
"The Free Press remarks in large letters,
We've Got EN- We should think it had
from the general wildness OF its perform
ances. Let it for few days reduce the
- ota tanprInp
off to pure cold water, and 1t will not be
troubled with 'em' any more. "-Detroit
Press.
An elderly darby was inquiring OF po-
hceman IL he knew anything OF his son
Pete. The policeman replied that tnere was
a young darky in the lookup for breaking
ND prayer-meeting with an aXe-handle.
oDat's him." exclaimed the oyerjoyed pa
rent. she told me he was gwine to muse
hissen."
An intelligent German. now travelling in
America, writes from the Centennial to one
Of his home Journals that 'Fthe Americans
waste more than they eat" 1t is painfully
evident that the writer never stood back
and looked ut q platoon Of native Americans
walk up to the bar and desolate the free
lunch table.-Haaekeye.
The other day when we wrote: "She
took dose Of poison to assuage her grlef,"
the lame compositor from the southwest
made it read: "To sausage her grief" and
wanted his pay raised.-Detroit Free Press.
Perhaps he thought that expression more
meat than the other one.-Bulletin.
As the trial of breach-oi-promise suit
was about to begin in San Francisco Juror
arose and asked to be excused because he
was engaged to be married, and conse-
ouently his mind was not free from bias.
He was excused.
It is not generally known, but the editor
OF this journal once took music-lessons on
the piano. He finds melancholy pleasure
to this dayi going to the cemetery and sit
ting on the graves OF the family who lived
next door, and thinking Of their viyacity.-
Danbtsry Neaos.
That an authors work is the mirror OF his
mind is position that has led to very false
conclusions. II Satan himself were to
write book it would be in praise OF virtue,
because the good would purchase it for use
and the bad for ostentation. Cotton.
On Saturday last eleven Centennial visit
Ors were in O Broadway car, and were |
highly indignant because the conductor de- I
clfned to wait in front Of the Continental |
Hotel while they went in to see il they
could be accommodated.
The indianapolis Journal announces that
the Indiana Republicans are not dismayed
or discouraged. We are glad OF it. The
situation seems to demand something OF |
that sort. -Brooklya Aryus.
Those who, from the desire OF our per-
lection, have the keenest eye for our faults
generally compensate for it by taking o
higher view Of our merits than we deserve.
y. p. Boyes.
pity the man who can travel from Dan
to Beersheba and cry, "Tis all barren!"
And 80 it is, and so is all the world to him
who will not cultivate the fruits it Offers
Sterne.
The more enlarged is our own mind the
greater number we discover OF men OF
Your commonplace people see
no difference between one man and another.
Pasehai.
charms we find In their conversation than
from those they find in ours.-Lord Gre
piite. .lts,9 r..
The public wishes itself to be managed
like woman--one must say nothing to it
but what It likes to hear.-Goefhe.
THE State OF Colorado must be afflicted
with lumbago. Its back counties are 80
weak.-Ho,ukeye.
There is no greater punishment than that
OF being abandoned to ones sef.-Pas-
quier Quesnet.
Provision Is the foundation Of hospitality,
and thrift the fuel Of magnifeence.- Sir r..
Sidney.
3 No mans religion ever survives his
morals. South. 5s
Neither great poverty nor great riches
VIII hear reason. Yielding.
il ID no use running; to set ont betimes /