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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-03

TREASURY ACCoUSTs-0FFICIALsI IN ARREARS
LONG LIST OF PUBLIC DEBToRs-THE
MARYLAND AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
QUOTAS, &c.
WASHINGTON, August 1.-The statement
prepared by the Treasury Department show
Ing the names OF those in arrears to the Gov
ernment since 1890, with the amounts
claimed, exhibits such an array Of figures as
to make the head swim in contemplating
them. Already accountants have been set
to work to extract such items from the state
ment as will help to make up campaign
documents. As the statement extends Dack
for more than forty years, there IS to DC
found in it material which can be turned 10
the advantage OF either political party 10
suit the views of those for whom it is made
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-03
OVER 4 MILLION

The largest single defal alton Is that OF
the celebrated Samuel Swartout, collector OF
the port OF New York, in 1929. Mr.. swart-
outs Indebtedness to the United States is
put down at $l,205,035. Here is nice
chance for Secretary Chandler to bring his
compound intercs: calculations into play, as
lie did in the cascoi the Indian trust funds.
Bv this method he might he enabled to &c t
out IL Republican campaign document and
prove that Swartout stole enough to pay the
whole public debt at the present time.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-03

FT FANS! FANS! y large variety OF
PALM-LEAF, JAPIANESE, SILK, CHINESE,
and LINEN FANS;
au1 LEVY BROTHERS.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-03
WOOD ARD COAL.

4 NTHRACITE COAL.-Fire hundred
N tons best quality Rcd-Ash Egg, Stove, Az
Ing to secure their winter supplies will avail them.
selves of this opportunity. West Virginia spaa!
Coal and Oak and Pine Wood delivered a, loves
rates for cash. WRIT ROBERTS.
au2 corner Seventeenth and Cary streets.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-03
DRY GOODS.
NEW AND CHEAP DRY GOODS
JUST OPENED AT
JULIUS MEYERS, 600 BROAD STREET.

90 pieces soFT-FINIsH CAMBRIA, equal to Lopa
dale, at 1910:
90 pieces excellent CAMBRIA 4: SIC. worth lot:
cases more of that splendid yard-%i#
BLEACHED COTTON at s1;c.-regular l'F'
goods: , ,
so dozen LADIES' WHITE COTTON HOSE thrr:
pairs for 25c., worth 124c. pair; 49,.
Beautiful EARLY FALL PRINTS at % 10 Of
HEAVY-CORDED PIQIIES reduced 10 lOc.;
Extra wide COTTON DIAPER a. sl.2o wor'i
1915; 49, -, .r,-o,. ,.,o
A new assortment of TWO-BCITOS MI
GLOVES at 50c.: .
Ncw-style BUSTLES NJ 40c., 5Qc.. 75c., y, All
lots OF other cheap goods, at ,.,,,,.,
jy29-eod JULIUS hEl hhH'
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-03

ne7- SPECIAL AUCTION NOTICE.
The attention OF the grocery trade Is asked to our
sale THIS MORNING Mt IL o'clock OK "a
EASTERN HERRIEGS.
To which will be added
LIVERPOOL FINE SALT,
REFINED SUGARS,
SYRUP, COFFEE, BACON, &C.
DAVENPORT & MORRIS,
Alt Seventeenth and Dock streets.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-03

GO SA CENT? E MEMS 6Ea
.DC. w. CENTENNIAL BUCKLEH4,5I
LOW-OUARTERS reduced to $3.50; Ladies.
Misses and Children's, Mems, Youths, and Boys
SHOES. Also, TRUNKS and SATCHELS at extra
ordinary low prices, in consequence OF the ateness
of the season, ut MAYS SHOE EMPORIUN,
au2 GOT Broad street.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILRoAD,)
AGENTS OFFICE.
RICHMOND, VA, August 3, lo76.}
NOTICE TO MERCHANTS.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-03

The largest dedication OF any military
officer appears to be that OF Payma>ter
Hodge, which is put down ut S442,5Is. Con
Mcguire, the particular friend OF President
Grant, is debited with the nice little plum
OF S154,5 87, which he " sailed down" while
collector Of internal revenue. The interest
on this amount ought to contribute to make
his stay in the Missouri penitentiary some
what more enjoyable. We find our old
friend General Schenck in this list. Robert
has not yet returned TO the Government a
balance of $4,000 on account OF secrct-ser-
vice money which was put into his hands
during the war. James W. Bullock, OF
Frecdmen's Bureau fame, owes the United
States S16,456. Henry d. Cooke occupies
q prominent place in the list. The Govern
ment would like to have returned $4,000
entrusted to him as treasurer Of the Ma
tiona! Soldiers and Sailors Home, and
Sl77,500 us treasurer for the House OF Cor
rcction and for the Boys Reform School Of
the District.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-03

RICHMOND. August 3, 1876
HNHE MEMBERS OF SYRACUSE hIM
/ LODGE, No. s, KNIGHTS OF PY-ETaSA
THIAS are requested to assemble promptlyIsl Qlel
THIS EVENING. at their Castle Hall, at SEstfNH
O'Clock, for the transaction of bust ESSSS
ness Of great Importance. BY order of the Gin
G. C. WILLIAM +. CREE,
3-ltH X of X. and S. pro TEN.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-03

r LINEN CARRIAGE ROBES OR
DISTERs in great variety at prices to suit every
body at (au II LEVY BROTHERS..
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-03
ylpEcrA.I.Ll. nerfCEs.

NT COLGATE'S TOILET sOAFs and
TOILET WATER. Also, C0LGATE'S STERLleG
IIUNDRY SOAP. the pest in use: Elk cakes l0r
25c. COLGATE's HANDKERCHIIEi lI E GSIJEhS
HAAMoCKsl HA1fsiOCKs! HAMMOCKs:
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-03
GOOD AND GLORIOUS NEWS.
STILL ANOTHER CHANCE


TO SECURE BARGAINS.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-03

DoRDENTOWN FEMALE COLLEs
Ia EJ~An excellent school IN o cfsrntpgt!t
ton. Send for catalogue. Key. WILLIITo
DnWEN. "A. n, President. an a-dlfnra
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-03
CARPET-BAGUER5' GRAB.

Hundreds Of pages OF the statement are
taken up with the figures showing the
amount OF dcfalcations OF Government otii-
GERS. In the years of the war and the years
succeeding there are dcfalcations by the
thousands, tens OF thousands, and hundreds
of thousands. The carpct-bag Federal Off
Gals in all the southern States, as might be
expected, contribute most handsomely to
swell the columns. 1t was rather an insig-
nlicant fellow who, holding any OF the
principal customs or internal revenue posi-
lions, could not bag his $4,000. The car
pct-ha. postmaster had not such fine oppor-
tuniticS as the internal revenue and GUS
toms officials, but they did the best they
could with their opportunities, and helped
themselves to all the stray hundreds that
were lying around.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-16
Silver In Circulation.
Washington Dispatch, New York Times.l

washington Dispatch, New York Times
Silver dimes and quarters are likely to
jingle in the pockets of the people at
some indefinite time not far in the future.
A week ago the use of silver coin seemed
as far off as ever. Since then the idea
has taken hold upon the people that sill
yer, in comparison with greenbacks, is
of slightly less value, the value of gold
being taken as a standard in both cases.
The infatiOnists have come to under
stand this fact, and are beginning to
clamor for the issue of silver. They
want the cheapest currency, and the only
danger is that they may carry their zeal
too far, and insist on coming silver
enough to redeem the geenbacks and
pay off the national debt. There is not
little fear that the next financial bug
aboo will be the scheme to make silver a
legal tender for all amounts, and thus
demonetize" gold. Mr.. Holman de-
mands the issue of the coins on hand.
His reason is, for wonder, good and
sound one. He wants these coins to 60
into circulation in order to save the ex-
pense of printing fractional notes to re-
place those that are worn out and USE
less. He says, in substance, if coins are
worth less than notes, what is the use of
boarding them in the Treasury and paying
interest on the bonds with which they
were produced, and in addition paying
for printing the notes, which would be
unnecessary If the coins were used /? His
first object is to cut down the appropria-
tions for the Printing Bureau. There is
thought by some to be sinister motive
in this movement of the infationists in
behalf of the silver currency. They per-
haps think there may be a rise in the
price of gold, which will sweep away the
coin that may be in circulation, and
then they would cry out that the resump-
tion act was failure. If there is any
such latent hope, it will do no harm, for
there is no probability whatever that
gold will ever again reach a rate that
can make the purchase of coins with
greenbacks for remelting a profitable
speculation. In the opinion of some
officers whose judgment in such
matters has been heretofore vindi.
Gated, the natural operations oi
trade and commerce must in a twelve.
month, and probably much sooner, re-
duce the premium on gold to five pei
cent. at most. The predictions of Mr.
Lindeman, Director of the Mint, in re.
gard to the prospective cheapening ol
silver, have been verified in n most re-
markable manner. Silver bullion il
now about seven cents an ounce lower
than three months ago. The issue ol
silver coins will probably have the effec,
to stop the fall of the price of bullion
but it is not likely to be much higher fol
long time, If ever. The favorable con.
ditionsare sure not to be reversed, and the
Secretary of the Treasury can not much
longer Withstand the demand that the
experiment be tried. If the policy ol
replacing fractional currency with silver
is begun, the mints will be run at theiI
full capacity, and within year the las
of the dirty paper change" money viii
have disappeared.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-16
Chinese HabitatiOns.

Eastern architects may get some hints
of things to follow or avoid, from q de-
scription which the Virginia City Chron-
icle gives of the structures erected by the
Cinnamon in that city: Between fights
the Chinaman is an industrious animal.
Just now he is turning his energies to
building, and, like his fighting, some of
it is contrary to law, and also sho cking
to correct architectural taste. Ga the
northwest corner of l and Union streets
John has created a marvellous affair. 1t
is quite out far enough to occupy third
of the roadway. The front elevation
(height five feet) is composed of odds
and ends of stone picked up in the neigh
boihood. The one window is formed
from three oil cans-two upright and the
other laid across the top. The roof of
this edi6ce--which has a frontage of
about twenty five feet and depth of
thirty o. more-wOuld make hand
some playground for a school, as it is
perfectly Hat, and composed of earth.
The interior, which the reporter folded
himself up to enter, is divided into nu-
merous little dens and one spacious sa-
loon, with earthen floor and one oil-can
window. The place is shortly to be
opened as a restaurant, provided the po-
lice do not interfere-which they should
do. The idea of utilizing old oil cans
for building material has been eagerly
seized by other Celestials, and the con.
sequence is, numerous fire-proof shanties
are spriuging up. The cans, filled with
earth, and piled one upon another,
make solid wall, and no bullet can pen.
citrate them-not slight consideration
these times. Underground residences
are also popular. A big, square hole is
dug into the hillside, covered in with
sticks, straw, and an occasional plank.
The door is naturally furnished by the
eastern slope. Although such trifes as
light and air are left out of cOnsidera'
ton, the bomb proof character of the
underground structure has charm fol
the Chinese inhabitant. The only draw.
back to such house is the probability
that on some rainy night an enemy may
take it into his shaven head to dig Q
trench and direct the water of the street
down the chimney"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-16
NUMBER 46.
The Hen Question.

The Danbury Ne,os, in speaking of
this important subject, sagaciously re-
marks: In our last issue we republished
from an agricultural journal an article
on feed for hens We would like to say
here that il is the duty of journalists to
publish all such information, however
pertinent it may or may not be. That's
the reason we printed the piece in quts-
ton. We don't know whether the writer
knew what he was about when he brought
forth the article. and we don't care. There
was no choice with us. We submissively
appropriated it, just as we do all those m at
ters which pertain to the house and farm
department.. But what We started out
to do was to protest against recipes
for making hens lay more eggs than ma
ture designed they should. Not day
passes but somebody comes forward with
a system or diet which he has tested to
his entire satisfaction, and which is
adapted. to every breed and temper of
hen in existence. One man gives his
fowls on Is alone, and finds that they lay
fourth more eggs than they did when
he fed them exclusively on corn. This
statement fires up somebody to explain
really was until he got TO feeding his
flock corn alone. Heretofore he had
dosed them with oats. Here's decided
fix, apparently buG the next week the
owner Of couple Of hens in Kalamazoo
modestly states in a card, that years Of
careful experimenting has demonstrated
beyond all cayil that oats and corn
equally mixed will fire up the ambition
OF any hen on the face of the earth. So
they 60 on in the matter Of food. Then
there is the man who advises lime and
oyster shells to prevent the hens from
laying soft-shelled eggs. AS hen lays
about two such eggs in the course of
year, q couple dollars worth Of lime
judiciously fed to her will prevent the
loss, and be money we'll expended. Then
there is the man who advocates better
ventilation. Hens are very sore on the
subject of ventilation, as you may have
noticed. Another recommends an air
tight roosting place, and still another ad-
vises shutting up the fowls all the time,
and is Immediately confronted by poul
terer who says that if they are not al
lowed to run loose, you can't get eggs
out of them any way. These things are
what give agricultural journals their va
riety. But we protest against them. If
any one understands hens business bet
ter than the hen herself we are prepared
to listen to him, but until such phe-
nomenon ap )ears we unqualif ifedly refuse
to repuhlisn reu recipes, A hens stom-
ach is an appalling mystery. Men who
can translate the elegies of the most bar
barous of ancient nations and give you
the weight 10 an ounce of a square mile
of atmosphere, precipitately back down
from the analysis of a hens stomach.
An animal that can take down whole
dishcloth at one gulp, and regret that it
wasn't roll of ;air carpet, is not to be
told hat it sha eat.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-16

daughter-in.law, whose charming char
acter was daily astonishing her more and
more. They are old now, and the elder
lady has passed away; and the young
generation are grown up to manly sons
and beautiful daughters, being loved and
wooed and won in their turn but none
of them are happier with their lovers
than Ellen is with Sir Evan; and in the
spring he neverappears before her on any
morning without a bouquet of primroses,
which she places In her belt as she had
done long ago to those he had first given
her. The family all know the story !;
and they have heard how cbagrined the
naughty Margaret was when she learned
who she had refused to dance with at the
wedding by the river side, and whose
flowers she had broken so rudely and cast
to the winds; and the most valued paint
ing in the castle is the fair Ellen in her
white dress and blue ribbons, and sunny,
rippling, golden-brown hair, with ten
der look, halfglad, halfregretful, gather
ing into her bouquet the broken prim-
roses, and hazel-eyed, handsome gypsy
gazing at her with passionate admiration.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-16
Glass.

The discovery of glass was no doubt in
the first instance accidental. Whether
credit is given to the statement OF Pliny
in regard to its origin or not, it is
scarcely conceivable that in the manu-.
facture of pottery, and some other arts
known from the earliest periods, the ma,
terials of which glass is composed should
not have come together, and have been
fused so as to become glass. His account
is that glass was discovered by mariners,
who, compelled to seek the shore as a
refuge from severe tempest, discovered
glass in the ashes of a fire with which
they had cooked their food. Whether
this event ever happened or net, 1t Is
quite certain that it might have hap
pened, as the sand of many beaches,
with the ashes Of some kind of fuel,
would, when fused together, inevitably
form glass, as will be seen upon consid-
Grafton of its composition.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-16
Origin OF the Baunscheidt Cure.

Twas on a pleasant day, some fifteen
years ago, that an architect by the name
of Baunscheidt was sitting near an open
window in his house, in the little village
of Endenich, on the Kreuzberg, near
Bonn. The gout in his arm ceased its
twinges for while, and he fell asleep.
When he woke up it was to find that a
cloud of gnats had settled on theexposed
limb. He brushed them away, and that
was the end of the matter until few
hours afterward an eruption appeared,
which after some time disappeared, and
with it the whole, or part, of the pain
from which Mr.. B. had been suffering.
Our gouty architect, being of an inves-
tigating turn of mind, set himself to
work to discover, if might be, the con-
nection between the gnats and the cure,
and the result was small and curious
instrument somewhat resembling an air
gun, by means of which twenty-four
needles are shot into the skin of the
patient, after which the oil of ants is
applied, an eruption takes place and ne
is cured, according to the inventor, OF
pretty much any one OF the usual mortal
ailments.
A New York physician went to see the
ingenious architect at his home on the
Kreuzberg, when he told him the tale
here told to you. Baunscheidts "Leb
enwebker," il it does not cure anything
has been found effective in the hands Of
several American physicians in many
stubborn cases of rheumatism and neu
ralgia.-Scribner' Magazine.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-16

IT is not easy to explain why it is 60,
yet, nevertheless, so often is the practice
of some apparent foolish piece of super
stition followed by remarkable results,
that the vulgar are confirmed in their
ignorant beliefs. Thus a young man
last week, after seeing the new moon
over his left shoulder and meeting three
gray horses, picked up horseshoe, which
he took home and treasured carefully as
an omen of good luck. Next day man
borrowed FIVE dollars of him; the day
after he got letter from the firm which
employs him saying that they would
not want his services after the 1st prox.,
and in the evening a fat girl with a
mustache and game.eye proposed to
him, and told him all about her big
brother, who has been in Nevada for
seven years, and how the jury, with
out leaving the box, acquitted him of
blowing off the top of the head of a young
man who had looked things he did not
subsequently speak. And now that
young mau thinks that Cato, Brutus,
Provost Paradol and Judas Maccabeus
are the most exemplary characters Of
history.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-16
LINES ON LEAP-YEAR.

Hark hear sound OF croakipg;
Frogs, In one attempt at joking
Joining all their voices, say,
Thisis leap-year. Jump away
"Leap, ye various deer and stays,
Chamois, on Helvetian crags
Leap, ye goats, upon Welsh mountains,
Leap, ye cataracts and fountains.
Leap, all monkeys and balloons,
Squirrels, 'possums and raccoons,
Antelopes, gazellcs and gnus,
Catamounts and kangaroos.
" Leopards, leap all you like fun,
Lions, tigers, every one
Panthers, pumas, and jaguars,
Leap-if but against your bars.
Horses, carrying men to hounds,
Leap all intervening bounds,
Fences, hedges, brooks, aud dykes,
Gates, and pailiDgs crowned with spikes.
Steed, careering In the racs
Ger the fiat or steeple chase,
Leap, without q baulk or check,
Lest your rider risk his neck.
"Leap, ye salmon, ard ye trout,
From the purling streams leap out
Leap, ye grasshoppers and fieas
Hop and skip, ye mites in cheese:
"Yah, ye toads and tritons all,
Nevis and slOw-worms, creep and crawl
Slug and snail and spider too.
Leap-year's not the year for you !"
London Punch.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-16
INSTANTANEOUS BLEACHING FLUID

INSTANTANEOUS BLEACHING FLUID
In 81 pints of water heated to 100 de-
grees or 212 degrees Fahrenheit, are in
troduced successfully mother Of pearl, "a
ounces; indigo, 0.75 grains; cochineal,
O.75 grains; chloride of lime, 15O grains |;
soda crystals, $50 grains; potash. 15O
grains. Boil for half an hour, and the
preparation is ready for use. The in
ventor, M. Boiselier, says: "The mother
of-pearl gives softness, luster, suppleness,
ETC., and. gives to hemp the feeling OF
cashmere the indigo gives slight
azure tint, the cochineal adds brightness,
the chloride affects the bleaching, the
soda washes and brushes, and the potash
removes all grease"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-16

AN exchange asked, What will NOR
tify young man of the period more
than to attempt TO remove his overcoat
in church and pull his dress coat down
over his shoulders, revealing the fact
that he has on a dickey over a striped
shirtT We should think the young
mans modification would be more in
tense il the removal of his coat were to
reveal the fact that he had on dickey
over no shirt at all.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-16

WHEN man jams his head against
beam in the cellar, no one comes in to
sympathize with him. We don't know
that he tells the sorrow TO outsiders.
But when womdn's line of clothes
comes down in the mud "a clothes line
never falls when there isn't any mud)
the whole neighborhood is shaken to its
very center, and every woman within a
quarter of a mile of the disaster comes
rushing in TO condole with the unfor-
tunate sister, and nothing else is talked
of by them for week after. This is one
thing which makes 20 many men down
on female sufiIage.-Danbury Ne,os,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-16

A FEW weeks ago, in Paris, country
man, with his wife, was witnessing a
piece, at the fourth act of which there
was a storm. Az the second thunder
clap the wife pushed her husband, saying:
Il was expecting this, for / have felt
the storm in my limbs all the last week. /"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-16
BIrROsT, THE RAINBOW BRIDGE.
BY LAURA WINTHROP JOHNSON.

When the immortals stood In light
First, on the archway OF the skies,
The Home OF sevenfold glory bright,
All thrilling with sweet surprise,
They triurphed In that shining place
Balder the beautiful, and Frey,
Aud all OF Assard's stately race,
Newborn, and radiant from on high.
But their strong brother, who had gone
Perforce, through storm and cloud, and wrath,
Before them walked the bridge alone,
And proved his way the quicker path.
Thus there are those who lightly tread
Untired upon the rainbow bridge:
While airs Of heaven play round the head
Serene they mount Its fairy ridge.
Others there are who, lost and blind,
Struggle in mist, and maze, and dark
And all they love and long Tor, ind,
Without path or guiding spark,
Yet sooner reach the cleaning goal
Than they who freely mount aloft,
Where color warns the happy soul,
In rays concentric, pulses soft
Take courage, then, ye sons OF strength,
Who fain must struggle night and day
Copquering, ye gain your peace at length
The dark way is the shorter way.
-Scribner for March.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-16

A SCHOOL inspector, while visiting a
school, said: "Now, children, who loves
all meng' The question was hardly put
before little girl, not four years old,
answered, call women"