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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-04-15
LYNCMBURG CONVENTION.
) LAST DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
ArPoINT MRNT OF DELEGATES TO CINcIN.
1 MATT, MEMBERS OF STATE COMMITTEE,
AND ELECTORS AT LARGE.
from the Lynchburg News OF yesterday.I

From the Lynchburg News OF yesterday
The members of the Convention, and those
unfortunate folks who earn precarious
living oy wearing out lead pencils and stay
ing out until daylight, or later, slowly and
sadly tiled into the room, and the house was
hnaiiy called TO order by Peter j. Carter, the
temporary chairman, who, on Thursday
morning just before daylight, left the stand
10 disgust, and intimated in vigorous Eng.
fish that he didn't care continental whether
the show went on or not.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-04-15
DayEDENGs.

~ CrrTcr GRASIrR ISsJRASGE. C0MPAEY,l
i - 80 ICHMoNp, april IL, 1875 u
nHE RDaRD OF DIRECTORS OF
II sTHTs COMPANY have declared = DIVIDEND OF
three per cent 70 tiie ~
sIIer the 18th instant, m m "a s.cra,arv
Is APP tai p s y VI
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-04-15
BOOKS, STATIONERY, sc.
IMPROVED CRoQUET.
RANDOLPH & ENGLISH

8 . RANDOLPH & ENGLISH
1918 Main street, have full assortment Of GRO
QUIET at $3.50. 50, 1926, $4,s4.50, s5.25, So
and ii. so. Some with the Rubber Cap Mallers.
Also, VEXfLLO, the improved Crcqust, At IS
and $3.50.
BOOKS OF INSTRUCTION for sale separate at
16s.. ap 15.d&w
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-04-15
pErERsB

coNFIRMATIoN By BfsHop WHITTLE-sgHe
REcToas AND yEsTRrEs Or Peters.
BURG TO TAKE ACTION IN RESP ECr
no BISHOP oHks's MEMoRY-THE
TEMPERANCE cAUsE-THg
CITY COUNCIL AND Il
NEW LiCENsE, DO,
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-04-15
E,sICHale,iSI PsrEEsBt7
s ! oApssodrAAY 3,
RICHMOND 10 PETERSBURG, AND sErynas
FOE riFFy CENTS, 81

The SUNDAY ExsUaSIoN TlsAfNg besMtea
Richmond mao Pefersins1, and petersbnrk ma
Richmond, Will run reRnlariy until lufSfaef dOseas
81 FIFTY GENTS FOB TIE EOuEU TEsE Na1x
tickets are purchased from The agent
3 ap A. SH AW. sspersHfcndelts "
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-04-15

RICHMOND, YORK RIVER AND CAEsAPEAKE1.
nG RAILROAD COMPANY, I
OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT,
RICHMOND, VA, March 10, 1876 j
GREAT REDUCTION.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09

the hard-shell squashes, which endure
longer, though they succumb before
spring.
Most people have an idea that
place where fruit and vegetables are
stored for winter must be dark, and
consequently cellars are lighted barely
enough to enable one to grope around
and avoid accidents. Very commonly,
however, to penetrate the recesseS of
these subterranean rooms, or caves,
with any safety or comfort, light is
needed.
But the notion that light tends to
produce or hasten the decay of fruits
or vegetables is not sustained by, the
experiments of scientific men, nor by
the experience Of provident house
holders. The air of cellars, or of any
other rooms, cannot be kent pure and
healthful unless light is admitted. But
admit that fruits and vegetables are
better preserved where light is absent,
how easy to place them in barrels and
boxes, or other receptacles from which
light may be excluded, yet the room in
which they are kept be made light,
airy and cool.
Cellars may be constructed above
ground to possess all the requisite con-
ditions for the perfect preservation of
fruits and vegetables. They may have
light, wholesome air, low temperature
sufficient to prevent decay, and free
dom from dampness. Air in motion,
accompanied with dampness, will pro-
duce decay rapidly.
In cellars beneath a dwelling we are
obliged to admit air to drive out the
damp, and this causes the rapid decay
Of everything in the cellar of perish
able nature. In cellars above ground
there is less dampness and less
necessity consequently to admit cur
rents of air.-DetT0jt Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09
Cellars.

THESE are generally poisonous and
abominable sink-holes, without con-
venience, without light, filled with
damp, impure air, that you want to
get out of as soon as possible. The
stagnant, damp air is unfriendly to life
and health, and will soon spoil tender
fruits. Even apples, with well pro-
tected cells and juices, cannot resist
the poisonous influence Of the airs of
most cellars. More tender fruits, such
as pears, grapes and peaches, and of
vegetables like sweet potatoes.
squashes, caulifiower. asparagus, ETC.,
spoil in a few days; except some of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09
Destruction OF Forests.

THE ancient Greeks used the word
deRdTokopej9a, literally, $ to cut down
the trees to dehote the utter ruin
and devastation of a country. They
We're wise men,, for, by the cutting
down of the forests, more than by any
other cause, many. of the most deTHely-
peopled regions of the Old World have
been reduced to deserts. Palestine.
it, was a land of ri9ulets and foun-
tains, being thereby distinguished from
Egypt. which mus be ''watered by
the foot In the palmy days Of the
Nation this territory, not as large as
the State of Massachusetts,, supported
in plenty population of at least ), 1000
900, where nov not more than 100000
find q scanty, subsistence. Even the
conqueSts of the Assyrians did not
permanently reduce the population,
for under the Roman rule it was still
densely peopled. But during the wars
which followed the revolt under YES
pasian and Titus, the Romans sys-
tematically cut down, not merely the
. fruit trees, but the forests, and in the
course of a few generations the greater
part of the country was reduced to the
almost waterleSs desert which it now
is. The channels of the rivulets still
remain, but they are dry ravines, ex-
cept directly after a rain, when they
become roaring torrents, the only ex-
captions being those streams whose
sources lie high up among the wooded
heights of Lebanon. Greece tells the
same story. In large part of it the
forests which, once. clothed the hill
sides have long been destroyed; the
famous fountains of antiquity now
flow only in song, and rivers of histor-
icals renown are now. but scanty brooks
which child may ford. The African
shores OF, the Mediterranean, long the
gTanary of the Roman Empire, have,
from the same cause, become not
merely uninhabited, but practically
uninhabitable, by any except nomads
wandering from one scanty fountain
to another.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09
Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organ De.
cIared Best at the Centennial.

Medals and diplomas have been so
numerously awarded at the Centennial
in Philadelphia that they indicate moth
ing as to the comparative merits of ex-
hibits. The Judges' Reports alone de-
termine rank in excellence. These I'M
equivocally assign to the Mason &;
Hamlin Organs 1.-THE first rank in the
several requisites of such instru-
ments, which sis as MUCH" says the
New York Tribune, as to say they
are the best reed organs exhibited, in
all important qualities
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09
How Much Clothing is Neces-
Sary?

Sary?
ONE person cannot decide for an
other. The comfort of the Individual
ought to settle the question. But
sometimes the individual has be-
come SO 'demoralized in his or her
instincts with regard to heat and
cold, that the sensations at any hour
are not sufficient guide. When girls
wore loW-necked and short-sleeved
dresses all winter, twenty years ago,
they protested frequently, in the pres
enc9 of brothers dressed in flannel and
broadcloth. that they were quite warm
enough. They would rather die than
complain of their dainty shoes and be
condemned to thicker soles. And die
they did
We must use common sense in the
matter, and that bids us dress accord
ing to the weather-thinner in sum-
mer, thicker in winter. with varying
degrees of thickness OF thinnesS be-
tween. It bids us clOthe our bodies
somewhat equally throughout, not pill
ing too much in one place and leaving
other parts without sufficient pr0tec-
ton A chilly condition Of the body
is always attended with danger. If
the surface of the body is Vnduly ex-
posed to cold, The internal organs
lungs, liver, bowels, or some other or
gan or organs, upon whose action
health depends suffer III consequence.
"Y." complains of not feeling well,
thinks his liver is out of order, and
wonders why, as his eating has been
pretty regular, and not especially I'M
wholesome. o. thinks the dispen-
Sation not very mysterious, for "Y."
dresses without much regard to the
weather. In a hot spell he gets on
just one thin Unlined suit, and
when the weather changes and
fires are necessary at morning and
at night, he still goes out to do his
early work, adding only coat, if any
thing, and leaving his lower limbs
covered with only one thickness OF
cotton or linen. He is chilled, but he
lean stand it, He is not. going to
'Tbaby'' himself. Because it may,
perhaps, be hot for a few hours at
MONDAY, he dresses himself for hot
weather. The blood is chilled, and the
vital force impaired. Sudden expos
ures to severe cold are not more dan
gerous to health than long-continued
chilliness, which thoughtless persons
consider not worth Tninding.
There is about as much danger in
excess of clothing as in deficiency.
Too much warmth debilitates the sys-
tenn. Children should not be kept in
perspiration; this enfeebles the skin
and makes q person '1easy to take
cold" The circulation is quicker in
children than in adults, and they can
keep warm more easily. If they per-
sist in throwing off the bed-clothes at
night, probably they are covered too
warm, though grown persons sleeping
with them may not suffer in the same
way. Little children need more cloth
ing in the daytime than in the night,
Gas compared with grown people,, be
cause they are nearer the floor, often
sitting upon 1T, OF upon low seats,
while their beds are usually as high as
any others The Thermometer shows
a great difference between the tenn
perature of room at the floor and at
three or four or more feet from it, as
warm air rises and cold air sinks
Ane1icda1 AgrjcWlturist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09
An International Potato Exhibit
ton.

WHAT is described as an g Interna-
tional Potato Exhibition for the en-
enlargement of the best methods of
potato culture and diffusion Of i'm
proved varieties was yesterday
opened at the Alexandra Palace. It
was stated that there were over :, 200
dishes of potatoes exhibited, and they
covered six long tables in the concert
hall of the building. We believe this
is only the second year of the show,
which is therefore in it's infancy.
There is scope for Improvement in the
extent and aim of such work. Be
yond doubt the attraction and value of
the work may be considerably in
creased. Looking at the six long TIA
bles loaded with plates of tubers, good
show though they make, they teach
nothing to the mass of the public. All
the specimens were uncoOked, and, be
yond their varying sizes, colors, names
and exhibitors, the Onlooker gathered
nothing Of information. A housekeep-
might take lesson if in, some future
exhibition she could see the relative
merits of the potato, cooked as well as
uncooked; learn that smooth, we'll
grown snOW-fiakeS' are preferable to
rough-skinned "flukes," that red jack
eted kidneys may be excellent baking
potatoes, but that g Kings" are better
for boiling; that certain snOW-balls"
will steam where they will spoil by
boiling. In short, in the purchase or
cooking Of potatoes as much judgment
may be exercised by a knowledge of
the respective external appearances of
the varieties as in the purchase Of an
apple. The present show is decidedly
a success so far as it goes. There are
$50 exhibits, and no fewer than seven
teen classes in which prizes are offered
and were allotted. The highest prize
III "class A." given by the Alexandra
Palace Company, was twelve guineas.
In other classes silver cups valued at
ten guineaS, as well as money prizes Of
less value, were offered. An exhibitor,
announced as of Medium, New Bruins
wick, was successful in carrying off the
first prize in as many as four classes.
With the exception Of this exhibitor
and two others from Scotland, the ex-
hibitOrs were all of the British islands.
and the title Of International is
therefore somewhat of a misnomer.
That it may assume far larger proper
lions, under an executive committee
some of whose names are well known
IN agriculture, may be quite possible,
and it may certainly be made of con-
siderable usefulness. -LO1adon Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09
Something About Glass Eyes.

A NOVEL exhibit in the German Sec
ton of the Exposition Main Building
is large collection of artificial eyes,
representing all sizes and shades, from
the pale blue to the black and gray. A
careful examination fails to discover
any that are green, thus setting at rest
forever the conundrum: "Do you see
any green in my eye?'' For it follows
if there are any green eyes among the
people they would have found their
counterpart in the artificial. Judging
from the large stock of eyes on exhi-
bitiOn, the business must be a good
one in the old world Taking it for
granted that one person in every five
thousand in the Centennial is the pos
SCISSOR of a glass eye, the number thus
far would amount to an army of about
one thousand. rlG
The eyes on exhibition are gotten up
in neat style, and could hardly be dis
tinguiShed from the original when
placed in the socket, We're it not that
they keep up continual stare. They
are made Of light durable material,
and considerable skill has been exem-
pli6ed in their preparation. Eyes are
divided into quite q number of class
es, and among them are laughing ewes.
These generally consist of ight-blue
iris with radiating white lines. and
the iris seems to dance around in the
aqueous fluid. Then there are Ian
guild eyes, piercing eyes, dull, heavy
looking eyes and bright, sparkling eyes,
all of which have their counterpart in
the human race.
As mere piece of mechanism, the
world nowhere furnishes such beau
tiful and complex piece of machinery
IN so small a space as the human eve.
and as an optical instrument it is per-
feet beyond imitation. It is bad
enough when an individual loses both
of these instruments; but there is
comfort in the fact, that when one is
gone, the hand of the optician has
made another, which, while it cannot
give sight, yet it can help to restore
marred beauty. -PhiIGdelphi0 Letter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09

The same story is repeated in mod
ern times, down to our own day, and
all over the world. In Ceylon the
forests have been cut down for coffee
plantations, and more than twenty
years ago the loss of springs and foun-
tains have grown to be threatening
evil When, two centuries ago, the
Spice Islands fell into the hands of the
Dutch, they were clothed with dense
forests of spice-bearing trees. To in
crease the value of the monopoly, the
Dutch set about an indiscriminate de-
struction of the forests, and these
islands were converted into arid deS-
gerts.@ Not many years ago the world
was thrilled by the report of the fam
inc in the Cape de Verd Islands. The
soil there is very light and porous,
and requires constant moisture as a
condition Of fertility. For many years
the increasing lack of humidity was no
ticed. The river SOcorridOs, in Madeira,
down which ship-timber was formerly
foated to the sea, gradually dried up
until it became a mere rill, whose
waters, except at foOd-time, could
hardly be seen along its pebbly bed.
The diminution of moisture was found
to have kept equal pace with the de-
structiOn Of the forests on the noun
tain sides, and the Portuguese Gov
eminent made laws prohibiting the
cutting down Of trees near springs and
river sources. IS But wine culture was
profitable, and the laws were power
less against immediate interest. So
the trees were cut down more and
more; the springs failed, the foun-
tains dried up, and drought
and famine followed. Only a
quarter of a century ago the Danish
island Of Santa Cruz was a garden of
fertility. The hills were covered with
forests, and trees were everywhere
abundant. A person who had formerly
resided there recently revisited the
island, and found third part of it re-
duced to an utter desert. The plant
erS had barred the island of it's forests;
the soil was gradually desiccated; even
the short, copious showers had ceased.
The island of Curacao was, within the
memory Of living men, one of the
most fertile and well-watered spots on
earth; "but now" says Mr.. Hough,
"whole plantations, with their once
beautiful villas and terraced gardens,
are nothing but an arid waste: and
yet; sixty miles away, on the Spanish
Main, the rankest vegetation covers
the hills, and the burdened clouds
shower down abundant blessings"
The United States Commissioner of
Agriculture in 1871 writes: elm Up
per Egypt the rains which eighty
years ago were abundant, have ceased
since the Arabs cut down the trees
along the valley Of the Nile toward
Libya and Arabia A contrary effect
has been produced in Lower. Egypt
from the extensive planting of the
Pasha. In Alexandria and Cairo,
where rain was formerly a rarity, it
has since that period become more fire.
quent. "A. II. Guernsey, in AppIe-
tons Journal for No0em6er.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09

PICCOLIMINI CAKE. to cream
one cup of butter, three cups of sugar,
and the whites of five eggs; then stir
gradually into the mixture the yelks
Of five eggs, four cups of flour, one and
half teaspoonfuls of yeast powder
and one cup of milk. Flavor to the
taste. 81
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09

HoTton s. Hildreth, 225 and 227 State
street, Chicago, are doing the largest furn-
ture trade in the city. Good goods and low
prices have made them the leading house.
4 visit will convince you.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09

The Hebrew congregations of
Chicago, have acted upon the sug-
gestion of the executive committee,
appointed at the New York Conven-
ton in May. AID are perfecting plan
for improving the existing Hebrew
schools. and supplementing them with
a high school for Hebrew and Ger
man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09

MILLIONS of bottles of BURNETT's Coco
AINE have been sold during the last twenty
years, and the public have rendered the ver-
diet that it is the best hair-dressing in the
world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09

PRUssINe's White Wine Vinegar Is guaran
teed pure and free from sulphuric acid.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09

dseN az REWARD for E7tcsSrabSe Case.
o. eeV Dr. j. P. FITLER, being sworn, says: grad
uatd in 1855 Professors chair 1857 have devoted 40
kidney Liver diseases
guarantee FILTERS RIIEUMAC REMEDY Kidney
Liver Pills win refund Tsmphlets Refer
address DR. FITLER
Is Philadelphia MEDICINES AT DRUGGISTS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09

nOCTOR .. w. INGRAHAM, 2O5 SOUTH
~ Clar ST.. Chicago, H., one of Chicago's oldest
and most successful practitioners can be consulted
FREE CHARGE on FEMALE DISEASES; Also
CATARRH, THROAT and LUNG DISEASES CURED.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09
The Signal Service Barometer and Thermometer

WIN detect and indicate correctly change in the weather IA
to - hours in advance farmers SD times
Sent express paid, receipt $500. money
order registered letter. Agents cir
cuar. II. W. POOL CO., s:ss Broadway, New York he
la Pod O. TO Be honorable ard ,sd5BoSoR Daily Traveller
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09
RenOvaI-l5O P pRasas s !

AND WE ADEMR GUARDS
EN>"p OUt of Houses Gold. Rain, Dust and
SEsosy- Carpenters and Others cVt of work send
So Clark Street. Room o. CHICAGO, ILL.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09

Prices EssEg. cvEv,sx,
Profits E.ERGEG IA h
Circulars free. Adj NkAH
dress GEO.F.CRAd EM
SCs Lake Street, ~ M
CHICAGO, ILL. q II
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-02
sURsUM CORDA.
FOR the fashion Of this world pssseth away.

Fold it up and lay it away;
The silken kerchief Of rosy CLEAN;
You thought it would heighten your charms for |
him,
But smiles like kisses oft betray;
Fod it up Ma den and lay it away!
Fold it up. and lay it away,
The delicate veil with its orange bloom;
Roses and l lies shall fade in the gloom
OF the future that waits with ito silent tomb;
Footprints Of care will mark the way
Fold it up Bride and lay it away!
Fold it up, and lay it away,
The golden curl by the baby worn;
Too soon he will reach his manhSod I morn
And newer love than thine be born,
To sun itself in the shining rays
Fold it up. Mother, and lay it away!
The love that has hi. ct o. me exquisite houre;
Thorns there were many; fewer the flowers,
Yet perfumed and glowing as summer showers.
As ready with gladnese and sorrow As tney;
Fold it up, Heart, and Law it away
Fold it MP, and lay it away,
Eacn relic 20 precious OF llncliest .n9ugnLi
Each trif1e 90 priceless with memory Tadght;
Each heart -tirob whose image on paper was
Too sensitive now for light Of the day.
Fold it up, Hand AID lay 1t away!
Fold it up, and lay it away,
The pam, with the love that has given 1t Dirt h.
They equal heirs Of one dn dt ro1iS
Az, all not of God, 10 but common clay
Fold it up Spirit, and lay 1t away!
Fold it up, and lay it away
Dream OF the Maiden, all roseate bright;
Dream of the Bride, in visions 80 white;
Dream of the Mother, ere tears m her sight;
Change is predestns d the world must decay;
Fold it up Soul, and lay 1t away!