The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-07-30

trolt, Mich, has been charging the news
bows acknowledgements cents for what they
sell for two cents. Last Friday they rose in
instruction. A mass-meeting was held i'll
an alley, and yelow-haired lad named
Carrot-top struck an attitude and summed
up the case. "You see, fellers, we amt
got no fair show. y cent apiece Is all we
ortcr pay for them papers. and If we br TX
together that's all they kin git. We ANT
no Rothschilds. y 'You bet yer life, /" re-
marked the chairman. GIVE sold -NcorseS
for straight year," said captain Jack"
a melancholy youth with stone-bruise,
"and there amt no money in 'em for me
at a cent-and-a-quarter. for one am goin'
to kick. - so am J." and I" So am l, >
was the chorus Of approval which went up
from dozen threats. And kick they did.
Nearly two hundred OF them assembled at =
O'Clock in front of the office and refused to
buy copy. Two editions were run off the
presses, but there were no BUYERS. When
the third edition came out, 4 lew small boys
sncaked into the office by the back entrance
and made purchases at the old rates, but
they were discovered by their colleagues
outside and compelled to suspend opera
tons. At about O'Clock Il lad with five
copies Of the paper under his arm issued
from the Office under the protection OF two
policemen, and soon many OF the strikers
fell into line and bought their papers at the
old rates. while Carrot-top and his faithful
followers whistled, and ieered. and howled.
Who wouldn't be railroad manager:
"We must have large dividendS!" say
the stockholders. owe must have low
freights !" say the farmers and merchants.
eve must have good wages !" say the
engineers, the conductors, the fremen, and
the brakemen owe must have frequent
trains !" say the travelling public. But all
these things cannot be had, and dividends
have fallen off. Receipts have not met eX-
penSes, and wages were reduced. Business
has decreased, and q reduction OF trains has
followed. Higher prices for hauling pro-
ducts would swell receipts but for one
fact-it would reduce the volume OF bust
ness. And so the railroad managers fail TO
please anybody, and are in danger Of hay
ing their property destroyed as the penalty
for that Naturalization Traveller.
A Newport gentleman has adopted form
OF telephone whose simplicity and cheapness
brings it within the reach OF all who desire
such contrivancc. He has made two TN
drums, one for each end Of the route, which
are connected by a linen string reaching
from his shop to his dwelling.house, distance
OF forty rods. Ordinary conversation OF the
house can be distinctly heard at the shop,
and uice uersa. Music from violin and
other instruments can also he transmitted
without the loss Of single note.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Swander, OF
West Hill, pulled her husbands gun out OF
a closet while she was cleaning house, and
the trigger caught in the sleeve OF an old
coat and the gun WAS discharged in her
hands Fortunately it was loaded, and cop
sequently 40 one was injured, although Sin
children were in the room at the time. Had
the gun been empty the consequences might
have been dreadful. Burlington HaDEeye.
George Francis Train isn't entirely wrong
with regard to Misunderstanding. There is too
much OF it. If you don't believe it stand
by any bar in the city and observe the
hands of men who raise to their lips the
first morning cocktail.-Cincinnati Satur-
day Night
The invention OF an India-rubber fish
worm is announced, and hereafter the
poor, offending sucker and catfish, ike
their hitherto less fortunate brethren, the
trout and the pickerel, are destined to fall
victims TO their misplaced confidence in the
honesty of man-Boston Traveller.
4 Market-street lady purchased a nice
new door-mat the other morning with the
word "Welcome stamped thereon in
glowing letters, and the first to come Along
and plank his number eleven's on it was u
book-agent.- Exchange.
A remarkable book has appeared in Ger
many, entitled: "Of the Rare Art OF Pro-
longing Life till lis Years." Great efforts
are being made to keep this book out OF the
hands Of George Francis Train and Ser
geant Bates No,Tistolcn Herald.
The United States is In the enioymenro OF
Mexican raids, Indian fights, and railroad
rioters.