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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-08
THE CAVALIER CUSTER,

The New York papers Of yesterday con.
tain very full accounts OF Clusters death,
and interesting sketches of his life. One ot
the papers says that "the only leader to
compare with him tCusterl in this respect
Iereat brilliancy, dash, romance, and sue
cessl was the great southern leader, j. E. B.
| ctIIart ~
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COMMERCIAL.
CORN AND FLOUR EXCHANGE.

RICHMOND, July 7, 1870
~ OFFERINGS. -.
WHEAT White. 152 bushels new. Red, 1892
bushels new.
Conn., White, 304 bushels.
SALES.
WHEAT.-White, ia bushels prime new at
S1.37h; 10 bushels good new at $3.50; bushels
bushels very good new ut S1.35; 152 bushels good
newat 81 80; &c bushels prime new at 81 40; 100
bushels very good new ut IL SO; so bushels prime
new on private terms-total, 494 bushels.
CoRN.-IYhite, 154 bushels prime at 61c.; LA
bushels very good 1t 60c.; SO bushels common nj
56c.-total, 804 bushels
RE-EXHIBITED.
WHEAT-IVhite, 20 bushels. Red, 284 bushels
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/. cows FeR SALE.

TORs SALE, SEVERAL co w SEEsafs'
II fresh to the pail. With calves. Sold at req,
sonabIe prices, fInt3ttfre ne T.. II. ELLETT,S,
on Narsiisal between Fifth and Sixth streets,
yyT Tow s
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BY Telegraph.
NEW YORK

NEW YORK, July 7.-Noon.-Stocks dull and
steady. Money, 2. Gold, liz. Exchange-Lona,
4ssli; short, 490k. Governments dull and steady.
States dull. steady, and nominal
1854. Gold easy at 1l2@112T. Governments dull
and little better. States quiet and nominrl.
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BALTIMORE.

BALTIMORE, July 7.-Vrginia 6's, deferred, 9
cOnsols, &C.; second SERIES So North Carolina 6's,
old, Il new, IL. Bid to-day.
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CAR OF on BURNT. On Tuesday last, at
Calwell station, a spark from the engine set
fire to q carload Of coal-oil. The engineer
deserves great credit for his GOODNESS and
pluck in nncoupling the car from the other
cars, which were also loaded with oil. The
car and load were entirely consumed, and
the track SO much injured as to delay the
passenger train for several hours. -4Moa''-
tain Herald. 7, .5.. - So t..s
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-08

RICHMOND TOBACCO EXCHANGE.
.','.tl,'. 80 FRIDAY, July a. 1875.
Breaks to-day, 36l hogsheads, Is tierces, and
boxes.
Packages offered ut auction 154, Of which 12e
were sold.
Prices ranged from 1920 to- $40.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-08

y. The wheat, ,oat, barley, and rye crops o.
WISCONSIN promise TO be unusually heavy
this wear. The corn crop will be below tine
average, but is in good condition,
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CHALMERS STICKY FLY-PAPER
~ Just received for sale ~.
my26 .-,s-.sf n, Druggists.
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- - 1900 7'fsr = asigY ~ =
BY TELEGRAPH.
CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS.
THE WAR IN TIE EAST.

southern soldiers fin Northern Homes.
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WHAT cusTER's FRIENDS SAY. &.
WASHINGTON, July 6.-The news OF TIN
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SlOuZA IuClC VIC utlfS pou 11ttlC VI
knowing, but I think there can't be more
than 1000"
REASONS FOR THE CAMPAIGN.
"What were the reasons for this cam
paign?"
"That is something 1 am very anxious
you should say to the Herald, because
want it understood. We are doing this at
the special request OF the Indian Depart
ment. It does not originate with the War
Department at all. You will see on my map
where the Indian reservation is. Our pur-
pose is to drive these Indians, who are OF
the very widest and most savage sort,
down on the reservation. Montana" said
the General, enthusiastically, " is the most
promising of our Territories. 1t is settled by
an intelligent people, among whom are
many old soldiers, and it is the richest and
most promising Of our settlements. These
Indians have been annoying the settlers, and
we are to drive them down on the reserva-
ton. You can say that we will do it now or
eXterminate them"
Speaking Of the character Of the soldiers,
the General said that the officers Of Crooks,
Terry's, and Gibbons armies are the best
Indian fighters in the service. !" General
Crook has had thirty years. experience in
Indian wars, and he suppressed the troubles
in Arizona, Washington Territory, and
Idaho. The Herald is too severe in its criti-
cism to-day"
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cosSEH-sroNE--lM cEHhAo-
tsY'S" \ TOBACCO MARKET-SERrors Ac-
NIES-In r-,Sy1vrnsARr CELEBRATION
G. hS nrsCoUHsE-rERSoNAL AND Po-
T'NSN Ear -,,r WATER SUPPLY OF PETERS
.,rr. N DANGER. ETC.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16
ElectiOneering in Paris.

They do those things different over in
France. A Paris correspondent of the
New York Times writes:
The streets of Paris present very
picturesque appearance at this time, all
the walls being covered with colored
handbills, containing electoral addresses,
or large posters, with the names of the
candidates in fine, bold type. AS have
frequently remarked, here the govern
ment has the monopoly of white paper,
and all other posters must be upon col
ored paper. III. Theirs has chosen blue;
M. Daguin's posters are upon straw-col-
ored paper; M. Godeau has chosen vel
low. The latter is a new candidate who
suddenly appeared yesterday in the ninth
reimbursement, working man, who has
the audacity to enter the field with such
political athletes as Theirs and Daguin.
He gives us about fifty lines in his hand
bills, not word of which indicates to
which parry he belongs, and at the end
says that he shall develop his ideas In
letter which will be left at each door to-
day. do not know, am sure, but |
fancy this to be the candidate put for
ward by the radical reunions. They sent
a summons to NJ. Theirs to appear before
them to be Intercepted upon his polit-
ical faith, and he contemptuously refused
to answer. A committee was then APP
pointed to wait upon him, and he de-
clined to receive or have anything to do
with it. Then letter was addressed to
him to ask if he was in favor of universal
brotherhood and amnesty for the COM
munists, and M. Theirs replied in the
letter of which spoke in my last, say
ing that he was not only strongly opposed
to general amnesty, bat believed it to be
fatal to France at this time. This finished
M. Theirs with the reds. They tried to
get Victor Hugo and Gambetta to run
against him, and, when they refused, it
was resolved that every good radical was
morally bound to drop in blank ballot.
1t is possible, however, that they have
now thought better of this, and resolved
to vote for the new candidate, Godeau.
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The Moral of 1t.
A Washington correspondent writes

A Washington correspondent writes
It is customary to point a moral to
adorn q tale. None need be suggested
in the rehearsal of the dreadful facts of
Secretary Belknap's fall. While there
can be no palliation, no apology, it is
the old, old drama, acted first by Adam
and Eve in the garden, and the excuse
here, as was the excuse in Paradise,
ssThe woman tempted me, and l did
eat" The men who know Belknap best
say he would not do dishonorable act (;
but how can this long chain of dishonor,
of falsehood, be explained9 1t is an old
proverb that women and wine are the
roots of all evil. If all the corruption
and official dishonor in Washington were
analysed in crucible, female extrava-
gance would be found to be one of the
most prominent if not the prevailing ele-
ment. Nearly all the scandals that come
to light have woman somewhere LII
them as motive or a source. Many
sections of Washington society are as
pure and holy as any household that can
be found in the world but the snares of
the evil one are set thickly in society
here, and the unwary who walk into
them sometimes have to go from one
crime to another to get out. Plain hv-
ing is the only safe living here, and, as
Senator Oglesby says: "Don't put on
any style, and people can't say you
stole money to support it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16
Letter Writing.

The number of letters and cards post
ed in the United Kingdom in 1874 was
1,046. 100000, while Germany had $751;
2O4, 474, and France 366, 506, 169. The
disproportion becomes more appreciable
if we compare the proportion of letters
to tie population. While the epistles
of the Britons numbered 1878 to every
member of the population, those of
Germany only amounted to IA, and
those of France to 1912. In the case of
England there are many causes for her
position as the completest letter writer.
Not only has she commercial cores
pondents in happy Ravens under every
sky" but her own sons are scattered to
the four winds. TO her colonial empire
will be sent not only business letters,
but thousands of missives to settlers
from those they have left behind in the
old home. In Italy only 3.8 letters to
each person are written.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16
DeYOured by Swine.

One evening last month an old gentle
man living near Lickskillet, Anderson
county, KY, went to his barn, and is
supposed to have tainted, for his eight
year-old boy going thither shortly after
ward to hunt eggs saw mis- father lying
insensible, and large SOW, weighing
about $50 pounds, voraciously engaged
tearing the flesh from his head and face.
The little fellow attempted to drive her
away, but she made battle. He then
went to the wood pile, and, getting an
ak, returned and heroically assaulted her,
knocking her down and continuing his
blows until she was killed. Some men,
passing by, went into the barn, and, hear
ing the boy account, cut the SOW open
and found in her stomach portions of
the scalp and hair of the unfortunate
man. They carried him to the house,
where, though insensible, he lived until
the next morning, when he died.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16
Encouraging News for Inebrlates.

Over one-half of all the confirmed
drunkards who take refuge in the asylum
at Binghamton are permanently cured
of their morbid appetite. The official
statistics on the subject, which have been
published, cover seven years, and very
large number of cases. This is encourag-
ing news for the slaves of drunkenness.
Many of these slaves are utterly desti-
tute of hope, and look upon themselves
as doomed. They feel that their desires
are unquenchable, that their power of
resistance is wholly gone, and that forcible
restraint would destroy their reason.
But yet it appears that even though their
drunken habit has become chronic, and
has gone to its furthest limit, they have
an even chance of getting over it, and
re-entering the paths of sobriety. There
is not a drunkard who needs to feel him.
self lost, if he has desire to be saved.
-Ne2U York ISaGga.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16
Success of Eads, JettieS.

A telegram from New Orleans says
"The past "a hours have developed re-
markable results at the Eads jetties.
Soundings to-day showed that at a point
1900 feet from the sea, where, on March
4, there were, but ID feet, the channel is
now Is feet deep. Where the river
empties into the sea, the channel IS 20
feet deep, and for width of $50 feet is
Is feet deep. In the sea, 400 feet from
the jetties, there is depth Of 81 feet,
where, on March 4, it was but % feet.
The improvement in the depth of the
channel is wonderful, and the news is
of highly important and cheering
character. Capt. Eads said tonight that
within month he will have channel of
90 feet through the entire length of the
jetties. New Orleans is awakened to the
fact that the jetties promise to be big
success, and everybody is elated at the
speedy prospect of an opening of the
delta to an uninterrupted flow hither of
the commerce of the world.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16
Curious Coincidence.

Fate sometimes allows two lives to
run in singularly close channels. Will
Hams and Belknap were neighbors in
Iowa. Both there were obscure lawyers.
When Williams went to Oregon he left
his legal business in Belknap's care.
Twenty years after the two men found
themselves sitting side by side in the
cabinet. Both were forced out of the
cabinet by the intrigues of their wives.
Another remarkable case exists in the
Senate. ingalls,, of Kansas, and Hitch
cock, of Nebraska, were classmates at
Williams college; on Qatriculation day
they first met, one coming from New
York state, the other from Massachu-
sets. On graduation day, after four
years com banionship, they separated.
One went to the new state of Kansas
the other to the territory of Nebraska,
both young and ambitious. To-day they
are sitting together in the senate cham
Der.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16
MOTHERS FOOL.

. lis plain to me-" said the farmers wife,
" These boys will make their mark in hfe
They never were made to handle a hoe,
And at once to college they ought to go;
Yes, John and Henry-'ts clear to me
Great men in this world are sure to be;
But Tom, he's little above fool
So John and Henry must go to school,"
Now really, wife" quoth farmer Brown,
AS he sat his mug of cider down,
Tom does more work, in day, for me,
Than both of his brothers do in three
Book learnin' will never plant beans nor corn,
Nor hoe potatoes-sure as you're born
Nor mend rood OF broken fence;
For my part, give me common-sense."
But his wife the roost was bound to rule
And SO " the boys were sent to school
While Tom. of course, was left behind,
For his mother said he had no mind.
Five years at school the students spent.
Then each one into business went;
John learned to play the flute and fiddle,
And parted his hair (of course) in the middle
Though his brother looked rather higher than ne,
And hung out his shingle-" H. Brown, NJ. D."
Meanwhile, at home, their brother Tom
Had taken a notion " into his head
Though he said not word, but trimmed his trees,
And hoed his corn and sowed his peas.
But somehow, either by hook or crook
He managed to read full many book.
Well, the war broke out; and Captain Tom
To battle hundred soldiers led;
And when the rebel flag went down
Came marching home as !" General Brown
But he went to work on his farm again,
Planted his corn and sowed his grain,
Repaired the house and broken fence,
And people said he had common sense"
Now, common sense was rather rare,
And the State House needed portion there;
So our family Ounce !" moved into town.
And the people called him " Governor Brown"
And his brothers, who went to the city school,
Came home to live with mothers fool.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16
Understands WOman's Nature.

At the lower end of Woodward avenue
yesterday an old apple woman offered
her fruit to a vessel captain who was
signing over the good times of 1864.
She wanted three cents apiece for her
apples. He gave her pleasant look and
said:
"Well, well. Why, you look as
young as you did ten years ago. Same
bright eyes and red cheeks-same white
teeth"
stake an apple for two cents, cap
tain, she replied.
81 presume you are fifty years old, :"
he continued, "but who'd know it 4?
Lots of ladies at thirty look as old as you
do"
"Take an apple for cert, captain, :"
she answered, smiling like rose.
"Some rich old fellow will come along
some day, searching for buxom wife, =
said the captain, land you won't have to
peddle apples any more"
Here, captain, two for cent, take
two of the biggest!' she exclaimed, and
then ran after him and dropped two more
into his overcoat pocket. Detroit Free
D,.ooo
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16
HARD TIMES.

Hard times have conceive know It;
Retrenchment's in the airi
Advice-they all bestow it =
TO cut down here and there.
Dr,,mmers droop the dun goes on his way;
The little hill ,"-es permlscous, !" as it were
Comes round like musketO's, every day,
And makes man feel like weary cur,
AS he doth down into his pocket feel,
Ard weeps to think how fortune grinds her wheel.
No more sweet cakes and pies devour-
Eliminate such trash
The ukase Of the starVeling hour
ProclainE the reign of hash.
Things have gone to smash
FinancialIy-lt's rash
To deal " oncircumspect" in butter, milk and eggs
We've drunk the cup of plenty-let us take the
dregs
CoEars-you need not burn them,
When worn three days they've been;
Carefully, lovingly turn them,
The grease will not be seen.
But pay Your rent-it's better
To be inside than out it's wetter
Out an Che cold, cold sleet
Than ~ the house; your feet
You caanot warmth the winter-on the street.
LEND your shoes more often
With grease the leather SOFTEN
Let patch, done up quite neat,
Where the overcoat covers the seat,
Be administered to the pants; the hat,
Why, trot out the old one-who cares for that?
Cheap is the rich, white bean,
To feed the Yankee lean,
Who bankers TO be filled.
Rich is the juicy liver!
Can any one object?
Can any one diskiver
A dish of more effect
In making us rekver
From the effects of too much bill for meat
Which we, in great extravaganza, did eat?
Pea soup as steady diet
May not be quite proper
Yet should poor man try it,
IT makes a very good stopper
For children's mouths; it's quite
Hearty-this is no whopper.
Let the noble soup-bone simmer
Five cents pound
Nourishment good deal simmer
Might easily be found
Let no vile prejudice narrow
Exclude such wealth of cartilage and marrow
In these hard times, on Cruel
70 live is not very cruel.
Cruel is good
The kind of food
That chemists say makes bone.
Yet we willing to own
That not ON Cruel alone,
Any more than pine wood,
Or the soft sandstone,
Gan man grow very vigorous
Cheap, but mite too rigorous.
HerrIngs cost lttle-nice
are these, with cheap boiled RICE
For after-dish; these fish,
With potatoes plenty-say five-and-twenty-
Make good meal as any man could wish.
What shall this Yankee nation do-st down
And pine and say, "Tm busted!"
Give up of life and energy the crown
Like some old knight
In some medieval fight,
Who's just been badly sswusted? ?"
No these hard times themselves shall g bust +"
And own that they have got the ''wust."
By strict economy We'll wipe them out .
Our Uncle knows, we trust, what he's about.
Wen work aud save and pillow and reap will
''vigger.n
And thus eliminate the minus !" fgger,"
And solve the problem of our common veal,
And prove the roots OF our equation real.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16

father of his thirteenth child. He had
twenty-five by his first marriage and
eight by the second, of whom twenty
four are still living.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16

The general talk is Dobbins' Electric
Soap (made by Cragin & Co., Philadel-
phia). There never was soap SO highly
and generally praised. It tells a story
of its own merits, that cannot be con-
tradicted. Try it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16
cONTENTMFNT.


IT'S better to be content, you know,
Whether your lot be snow.
The tree of life fruits not for those
Who i'll accept earth's cares and woes.
There's never day the world shall ope
But dawns and sets meath a heavenly hope
There's NJ life from the grandest down,
But is born to die meath possible crown.
There's not failurc-no, not one
That may not blossom beyond the sun!
Accept your lot cOntentment know,
Heaven needs no sun and hath no snow
"Does," says the Austin New
ReveiJle, "was the subject of discus
sion in the Sazerac Lying club last even
ing. A number of marvellous tales were
told about dogs, the most remarkable of
which was about dog belonging to a
member present. He said that one day
while hunting over sagebrush( plain
his dog started coyote which run into
a squirrel-hole. The dog pursued the
coyote into the hole, and In about three
minutes dog and coyote emerged on the
surface of the ground six hundred yards
distant from where they went in. IF a
dog has to travel the same road to heaven
as the rich man, that dog will get there
sure, for it could go through the eye of
cambria needle and never wet hair.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16

A QUEBRc paper states that Mr.. Louis
Bole, farmer Of St. Jean, Port Joll,
has just lost by death his second wife,
who, three years since, made him the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16
Wit and HulmOr.

A REGULAR bear garden-An Ursa-ry.
WHAT keeps Lent longest and best?
An umbrella.
The following advertisement lately APP
peared in an English newspaper: ga
pianoforte to be sold, genuine Broad
wood, by lady about to leave England
in rosewood case on mahogany castors. "
The Brooklyn argus wants an expla-
nation of the phenomenon "that before
the reading of the Bible in our public
schools every morning the female
teachers always get behind the doors
and give their bustles an extra hump -
A CLERGYMAN who was urgently re-
quested to come and pray at the bedside
of dying milkman demurely remarked:
"I'n go, but it isn't any sort of use. I
never kew our Heavenly Father to for
give one of that sort yet.
THEY are going to explode $4,000
pounds of nitro glycerine at Hell Gate
next year, say the New York papers.
It is not wide enough at present to ac-
commodatethe travel from New York and
Brooklyn Detrodt EUera5ng Nea0s.
IHE young men VINO trled 10 lm1UaCe
the gentle sex at the leap year party in
Washington made great many ridicu
lous blunders. One of them warned his
partner against squeezing his hand, and
she called him big BOBBY and no cir,
at all.
THE agent of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company recently received note
from citizen of New JERSEY. which read
thus: "My wife and I are anxious to
have birth on your steamer of the TIL.
Yours, etc." To which he replied:
"Come along, and we will do the best
we can for you. "-NeaO York San.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16

still; and mechanically I crawled up to
the edge of the hole and looked over,
thinking to see his crushed body In a
CHASTITY heap below me.
"No! About fve-and-twenty feet
down, vibrating in sheer space, was sus-
pended my poor friend, at height of at
least fifty feet above the stone flooring
of the nave. He was in the very midst
of the stream of light that poured
through the clerestory windows. In
some way or another he had relieved the
strain upon his hands by getting his leg
over the hook at the end of the rope. |
called to him to hold fast for a while,
and to keep up his courage; but | never
shall forget his despairing eyes, nor the
hoarse agonizing whisper that replied:
I can't hold on I'm numbed Loose
the winch Be quick, for Gods sakey
6 Waiting for no further suggestion,
I rushed back again to the staircase and
found in the darkness, almost by lntul-
ton, the steps which led still upward
and fastened to mount them. Once or
twice, as l painted in the ascent, l re-
member that came to the edge OF
sheer depth, and drew back, scarcely
conscious of the danger. / listened in
tently for any sound from below, but
heard nothing; and at length. in what
must have been an incredibly short
space of time, breathless and gasping,
emerged on Che rough uneven flooring
of the higher story of the tower. Trem-
bling, I crept carefully forward to the
center of the space and found the winch
standing over an opening corresponding
to the one below. eagerly looked
down, and could see that something was
still suspended in the partially obscured
light. I shouted again and again words
of encouragement and hope; but there
was no reply. With sickening thrill I
SET to work to examine the winch, and
found, as I supposed. that the handle
had been entangled in the coils of a
rope, from which had some difficulty
in the darkness in extricating it. But
once released I allowed it to revclve
slowly, until I felt that there was no fur
Their strain upon it. Scarcely, however,