The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-09-12

\ corner-grocery was burned in indie
ncndcncc, Mo-, the other day, and the local
naner states that the L" tire-fcnd Shreked in
the lurid gale and tossed its livld hair 10
meet the inky pail OF the bending heavens"
Subscribers to libraries are often vcXed at
finding the books they ask for are tout"
They have their own remedy. Let them ask
for one volume at time and they are sure
70 find it 4 tome.-BoSton Post.
General Ulysses Simpson Grant, EXPIRE
sdcnt U. s. A.. Ii. D., D. c. L., Burgess
of Edinburgh, etc. Gracious, We'll hardly
know him when he comes back.-Comnaer-
cial Advertiser.
"The mouth OF the Amazon" said pro-
lessor of geography in Il st. Louis female
seminary, lis the biggest mouth in the
world-prcsent company always except
ed Chicago paper.
If the people of the West are so reso!utely
bent on a cheap circulating medium, why
don't they adopt Confederate money? 1t
NAV not be very loyal sort OF cash, but it
is cheap.-NeW Orleans Times.
II forty or fifty more newspaper CORE
spopdenis tell lis that "Qucbec is quaint
old town." we shall begin to feel pretty
well acquainted with the place.-Boston
Post.
The Turk is less frequently alluded to as
the Sick Man of the East, but the Russian
may safely be considered as the Man Sick
OF the East Worcester Press.
Rhinebeck Gazette: The reign OF the saw
is approaching and the woodpie is smiling
with ioy. while the. fatherless husband is
signing for muscular, tractable boy.
Plevna is Russian for Exchange.
When boy we used to get q good many
PIevna in our pants by sliding down the
cellar door.- Yonk,erS Gazette.
Somebody says: Every failure is step
to success" This will explain why the
oftener some men fail the richer they be-
come.-NorriSto,en Herald.
An Oriental pawnshop has coin 1000
years old. Strange as it may appear, the
man who pawned it is living yet, in full
possession of alrhis faculties.-PreSs.
George Francis Train thinks all the
savings banks will I" bust" up within SIX
weeks. Wonder how he knew we were
going to withdraw our deposits ?-PreSs.
Thirteen is an unlucky number of per-
sons 70 have at Il er-party-particulariy
if there is only enough to go around COM
fortably for Observation-Disclosures.
What with drawbacks on sugars, and
pullbacks on 'iassrs, the Get things OF
this earth would seem to have difficult
time in coming forward A0T'St0pn he
raid.
Audrews's Bazar says that conc Of the
greatest wonders in this word is what be-
comes of all the smart children"
The farmers have got home from camp
meeting, anu are watching chances to sell
TWENTY-FIVE cents worth OF potatoes for
forty Cents.-Rome Sentinel.
The first fall poetry comes in Just in time
| TO kindle the first fall fires lighted to take
the chill off the raw autumnal evenings
Boston Traveller.
A cottage by the sea can now be rented
cheap by persons DESTROYS OF spending the
Christmas holidays away from the noise and
hustle of tic city.-Eachan9e.
The uSmical baby puts its toes in its
mouth in order to make both ends meet
Ne,o Orleans Picayune. -,,
A little miss OF Syracuse, on visit 10 the
country, said she liked cow-milk better
than city. milk. sg.-4
Hampton Pasha, the son, is running for
the lower house Of the Mississippi Legisla.
ture.
A man born to command is different from
one made to order.-Picayune. ...
Euchre-players now say "Shipka" when
they don't wish to order up Graphic.
Shipka means wild rosc-and wild rose
the yells Of the terrible Turks.-E1change.