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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-10-11
CHESAPEAKE ANb ONO RAILROAD,l
RICHMOND. VA. juno l, 1877.

Arrive al hVU \. u.
Accommodation train leaves Richmond 'iay tex-
cept Sunday at 400 L. 81. and arrives al Cor
louisville ut 7:4J i. u.
Mail train between Richmond and lIirion runs
daily Except sunday. between Hinton and Hunt
Ington daily, stopping al all regular stations.
Express tram runs i;tlly, stopping al Hanover,
junction. Nocl's. Trevian's Louisa. Gorionsriic,
Charlottesville, SiaUnt0n. Goshen, NlborD', Gov
ington, and all regular stations west % CosiurtOn.
Mail and express trains CONNECT 1t GoidunSviie
for Washington aud the North. and at Charlotes
willie tor LynChhurg and the South.
Express train connects al Cincinnati with trunk
lines for all points in the West. Northwest. and
Southwest. AMI al Richmond with the Richmond
and Danville. AMI Richmond and Pciersbur: trains
for all points South
Sleepiug-cars run on ni"nt-tra!ns.
Mail train arrives at Richmond III $50 i. NJ.
Express rain arrives al Richmond At $50 A. VI.
Accommodation train arrives al Richmond 4:
S:i5 A. NJ.
Through tickets sold aud baggage checked 10 al.
principal points.
For rates, information. &C.. apply nj Company
offices, and at $50 Main street. Kichmonl: W.;
CONWAY X. HOWARD,
General Passenger all, Ticke, Agent
W. VI. s. DUNN,
| leg Engineer and Superintendent
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DISAPPOINTMENT.

+ .-ss.. ~ POSJGON6MCNl'
The aforementioned sale is POSTPONED on ac-
counr of the inciemency of the weather until
THURSDAY, nth October, 1877. At O'CLOCK +.
NJ j. A. RICHARDSON,
10 .s.- ." ' Trustee.
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Tor,sRsyrLls, VA, October 9, 1877.

TonsRsyrLLE, VA, October g. 1917.
Messrs. Cocardia Dc Ealysoa:
s;rs .-Wi,t you do rue the favor OF send
SO ma the address OF the Turkish agent for
nhs.;nin. surgeons to the Turkish army,
Stationed In Washington, D. g., as 1t mas
been advertised in your paperS
rive do not recollect anything about tne
matter, Tell Us when we published the ata-:
yertisement and we may answer the CUES
tion1
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. 1TSTIoY sALEs--Futnrc Days:
: - BY Grnbbs 4 Williams,
Real Estate Agents and Aactionee,H
.,,,-n..th A. roof between; Main and Bank.

f4f74 Real Estate Aeente $50 -, p,nt
a,, Eleventh street between aaain anu De4in- =
1,oMM1ssIoNER's SALE e., o 7, 7 70
Ii is, SQUARES OF LhND IN THE nsy r AZ srG ~
RH uniI " r AIJCTION.-In execution OF decree
" he Court o. Henreo entered sssda sn ns
3 1875 In the case OF Thornton o. aae on TIqE
NV the 9th day OF October, at 4 o'clock +. NJ
SQUARES Nos. and 2, In the plan or post Mayo,
sons estate on the Other, Zach square is poan4ea
by streets fifty feet wide and contains about r0un
ACRES. This land has g nnc southern e1posur'-
ard is wen suited for gardening purposes. CO...
There Ia probably brick-cay on tbis land, as i'm
mediate civ adioins Miss Van LEWIS lots recent y sole
w -, e. @. MINOR, Comm .rssiouer.
GRUDBs s WILLIAMS, Auottoneers.
POsTPONEMENT. .1.,e3
i The above sale is POSTPONED to MONDA1
] 5tl October, at O'clock Z. NJ 49,.
oc 10 GRUBBS & W1LLIt.M Auctioneers.
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t., BY r. B. Taylor,
Real Estate Agent and Auctioncer,
Office opposite the courthouse, Manchester, Va.
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BY W. Godmn'
Rool Estate AuctiDneer,

EoRERT A. PAINE, Salesman.
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REAL ESTATE AT PRIVATE SAEL.

&C 1,2.s,4,6,s,s,1l,13.15&16 >
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d ESIDENCES FOR RENT.

EoR RENT, ANICE BRICK HOUSEG:a
II containing i've rooms. with stable; ana -
ahont one and q half acres OF ground, stlunted on
lakewood avenue, now occupied by Mr.. f. T. Per-
kins The above Is suitablef for dairy, and posses
Sion can be had st once. Apply 70
j. q. MITCHELL, sc r. II. Whitoek's.
corner or Eighteenth and Cary streets. I
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HUNYADI JANOss at7E
apertent natural mineral water, highly recon-
mendedb eminent physicians IN this country and
in Europe. I, ,z:5i. Z. 81
Supply just received. ID Hssi:
For saIe by es;@ $500 81
si. PUncRLL,LADD& CO., Druggists, 5ss
sel7 B2I6 Main street. Richmond.
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TOR RENT, that large and desirable o.
l. RESIDENCE No l Is Nineteenth, between III
Grace aud Franklin streets. with modern improve
ments, and In good order. Rent low. :
JAMES u. TAYLOR & SON. y
Real Estate Agents and Auclioneers
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-22
A Partisan Decision.

We do not know the reasons that may be
offered in defense OF this decision, and they
are OF small consequence when the effect of
the decision is to decree the enforcement of
fraud and the inetfaceableness of infamy.
We now that the State Of Florida has de-
clared the return to be fraudulent and has
used every possible effort to right the wrong.
We know that the Legislature has ordered
a revision of the partisan work of the Cam
vassing Board, and that the highest court of
the State has decreed that the CanVassers
exceeded their powers. We know that it
has been the inVariable rule of the Supreme
Court OF the United States to be governed in
such questions by the decisions Of the State
courts. We know that a tribunal contain
ing five Judges of the Supreme Court has
thrown all this aside, and has given
a purely partisan decision, which must
have been determined upon from
the very organization of the tribunal. 1t is
but q small part of the truth to say that the
Tribunal has not answered the expectations
Of the American people, and has not done
the work assigned to it in the spirit that
the people insisted upon. 1t is not insti-
tuted for the purpose Of setting up a statute
OF limitations, but to do justice; not to pet
tifOg, but to Judge Justly; not to vote for
Hayes or Tilden, out to decide who had
been legally elected. It's members had
been sworn to ''impartislly examine and
consider all questions submitted,' and
there had been no examination and consid-
Grafton, not to speak of lmpartiality. The
decisions have been partisan through
out, and based upon partisan grounds alone.
1t is idle to say that the Democrats voted to-
gether. They could not do otherwise,
when asked to decide that the vote Of a
State may be stolen, and that the State can
have no redress.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-22
Hints on Burning Coal.

A very common mistake is made and
much fuel wasted in the n of re-
plenishing coal fires, both in furnaces
and CRATES. They should be fed with a
little coal at q time, and often; but
servants, to save time and trouble, put
on a great deal at once, the first result
being that almost all the heat is alb
sorbed by the newly put on coal, which
does not give out heat until it has be-
come red hot. Hence, for a while the
room is cold, but when it becomes fair
ly aglow the heat is insufferable. The
time to replenish a coal fire is as O
as the Goals begin to show ashes on
their surface, then put on merely enough
to show a layer of black coal covering
the red. This will soon kindle, and as
there is not much of it, an excess of
heat will not be given out. Many also
put out the fire by stirring the CRATE so
o as fresh coal is put on, thus leav-
ing all the heat in the ashes when it
should be sent to the new supply of
coal. The time to stir the fire is just
when the new coal laid on is pretty well
kindled. This method of managing a
coal fire is troublesome, but it saves
fuel, gives a mor uniform heat, and
prevents the discomforts of alterations
of heat and cold above referred to-
LeUIs'S Rural.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-22

fectant lotion; but it does not touch the
root of the malady, and the process of
fermentation, unarrested, reaches the
third or putroscent stage, which is
adapted to the development OF infusoria,
and leaves the poisoned vine incapable
ct resisting their attacks. This theory
has in its favor the impressive coin
cidence that both the oidium and the
phylloxera, those twin scourges of the
modern vineyard, were totally unknown
in France before the era of close
planting and the employment of fer
tilizing agents.
Whatever the causes or conditions
which may account for the sudden ap-
pearance of the phyloxera, it is plain
enough that its ~extirpation is a matter
of vital consequence to the nation. In
some quarters the ap~prehensions of vine
growers have been reused almost to
panic, and the Academy of Sciences, at
one of its sessions, recommended the
most radical measures, namely, the inn
mediate pulling up of every vine on
which the presence of the insect has
been certified. Such aprecaution would
entail the ruin of q great many proprie-
tors, and a notable falling off in the
wine production of France; yet in the
end it may be taken through despair of
other remedies. At this moment a. bill
is pending in the French Senate, look
ing to the thorough study of the mala-
dy, and clothing the Government with
the power of enforcing appropriate
1t is scarcely an exaggera-
ton to. say that nothing since the
Franco Prussian wal las been fraught
with so much menace to the prosperity
of France as the abrupt invasion of this
insignificant insect; nor has any thing
more urgently imposed prompt, wise, -.
and energetic action.-NeW York Sun.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-22
How q Dutchman Learned Arithmetic.

A Dutchman let his lands to an oil
company last spring, on condition of re-
ceiving one-eighth of the oil produced.
The well proved to be a pretty good
one, and the farmer began to think that
the oil men should give him a better
chance, and ventured to tell them so.
They asked him what he wanted. He
said they ought to give him one-twelfth.
The agreement was finally made, with
the understanding that the Dutchman
was not to tell any one. All went
smooth until the next division day
came, when our friend was early at
hand to see how much better he would
be off under the new bargain. Eleven
barrels were rolled to one side for the
oil men, aud one for him. This did not
suit him. elbows dish?" says he. 81
think I was to get more as before. By
jinks, you make mistake!" The mat
ter was explained to him, that he for
merly got one barrel of every eight, but
it was his own proposition to take n
of every twelve. This revelation took
him aback. He scratched his head,
looked cross, and relieved his swelling
breast of feelings of elf%-reproach by in
dignantly remarking: "Well, dat ish
de first time as aver [ knowed eight was
more as dwelve. "-New York Bventng
Mail.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-22
A Mere Qutrk Of the Law.
New York Herald-Ind.

1t is too true that the Republican party
rests its case on a quirk of law not more re-
spectacle than the pleading Of the statute
Of limitations against a just debt. Whether
the legal point be well taken or not, it is alb
hOrrent to every idea of justice. Our de-
termination to be fair leads us to insert this
authentic statement of the Republican po-
sition from Mr.. StoughtOn's speech: 1.-the
statute of Florida created a Returning
Board, having capacity to certify the num-
Der OF votes cast for Electors, and to certify
who were elected, and il that Board per-
formed its duty, however mistaken, how
ever clouded with error, however (f you
please) tainted by fraud, and did ascertain
and did declare how many votes Tor partic-
lar sets of Electors, had been cast, and did
certify and declare who were the persons
who were elected Electors. that ends all in
Quiry here.' THAT ends all inquiry
here The action of a canvassing board
may be ''mistaken.' it may be ''clouded
with error, - it may even be tainted with
fraud this fraud, if successful, may de-
termine who is to be President of the United
States, and yet it is too sacred to be touched
and lends all inquiry here. '......What
the country expects from the Electoral Com
mission is not protection OF fraud by an in
genious straining Of legal technicalities, but
y declaration Of the trae result in accord
ance with honesty and justice.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-22
The Returning Boards Supreme. {

IA AsceoKhA"S Eo&FUS supreme. 81
[St. Louis Republican-Dem.l
This decision and confirms the
supreme power of Returning Boards. 1t
af1rms and Endorses the ultra Radical doc
ltrine in regard to these ingenious contriy-
ances to nullify the popular verdict. It
gives a certificate prepared by four scoun-
drels more authority than the powers of the
Nation. 1t literally puts the destinies of
the Nation in the grasp of conspirators, and
however vile the conspiracy may be, and
however openly the conspirator may work,
there is no protection for the innocent and no
punishment for the guilty. Nor need we
delude ourselves with the idea that Return
ing Boards will always be confined to the
region ruled by carpet-bags and bayonets.
Hitherto they have been sectional, now
they are national. II a Returning Board In
Florida and Louisiana can turn a majority
into a minority, and have it's action recog-
nized as binding, the same thing may be
done in Connecticut and INDIANA. When
ever a Presidential election promises to be
close, the dominant party in the doubtful
States will see that the Electoral vote of
these States is given to its candidate-no
matter how the popular vote may have
gone. All that Congress and the Constitu-
tion can require is for the certificates to be
made out in proper form; for we know
now, what was not known until last We'd
nesday, that certificates, like charity, can
''coyer a multitude OF sins,' - and that the
Constitution contains neither a scheme of
salvation nor plan Of atOnement.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-22

"A good story is told of a well known
broker, who, on his way home from the
club the other evening, managed to oc-
cupy considerable more than two-thirds
of the sidewalk. In this predicament
he was met by two seedy individuals,
who first relieved him of his watch, and
then tumbled him over in the snow. AS
he lay there shouting for help, two 9TH
er individuals came along and inquired:
"What's the matters '' Why" said
the broker, "here I've-hic-been rob-
bed of my-hic-watch." "Didn't
they take your money!" asked the
strangers. "Don't KNOW" said the
broker, feeling in his breast-pocket for
his wallet. "No, here ;tis-hic-money's
all right" "Well, We'll take that,
them" said the strangers, as they
seized the wallet and disappeared
around the first corner.-Conaercic!
AdpeTtiSer.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-22
ITEMS or INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.


Gen. A. j. Plessonton, originator
and strenuous advocate of the theory
that blue glass, interposed between the
sun and any thing that grows, has a
wonderfully stimulating effect, says that
he has just had a new proof that he is
right. He fell from his carriage in
Philadelphia, where he lives, and Sc
verely injured his shoulder and side.
Physicians gave him no relief but he
was cured by taking sun baths under
blue glass.
Miss Gail Hamilton says gayly that
her experience with free passes has
been of the most short, slender, and
spasmodic kind, but so far as it has ex-
tended it has been one of unalloyed de.
light. at has always seemed a waste"
she says candldly, Ito pay money for
going from place to place, because you
want all your money to spend when
you get There. I have never y~etrefused
a railroad pass, and, Heaven helping
me, | never will"
-Isaw at breakfast yesterday (writes
"Gath ~, Phoebe Cozzens, a slender,
composed, fac girl, just rising the mar
riageable time of life, with exceedingly
rich eyebrows. By much e~loquence
her chin is getting a little pointed. She
is at the Female Suffrage Convention,
and yet is said to teach a Sabbath
school. On the whole, the only suffrag-
ist of that kind | ever saw ~presentable
enough 20 tie to. Lovely woman with the
ballot IN her hands is a spectacle to de-
light the heart. But an old woman
voting with q stealthy presumption
against her husband, or because she
hasn't one, calls forth the Reproduction
of the gods.
indianapolis has a "~grievance ="
against Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, and her
"Polite Society " lecture wasn't well
received there. The Journal says it is
o case of physician, heal myself"
Some years ago a lady of Indianapolis
met Mrs. Howe in Washington, and
was introduced to her. Simply recog-
nizing her, Mrs. Ii. turned rudely away,
and petulantly remarked to her escort,
in French: Will we meVer have done
with these people?n 1t didn't occur to
Mrs. II. that a Western could
possibly understand French. But she
did, and Immediately came to the con
clusion that polite society is not always
polite.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-22

DURING the continuation of the
Moody and Sankey revival in Boston,
one of the newspapers in that city is
publishing extracts from the Bible. The
young man who makes up the head
lines of the paper came out strong the
other day on GA terrible heartrending
disaster. An awful flood and a whole
country submerged. Latest Geographic
news from the scene of the disaster"
CHANGING further down the column, the
reader was startled with an account of
Noah and the flood. Ayoung man who
has been brought up in a Bible-class
now makes up the head-lines.-PhatG-
deIphaG Bulletin. a4%als
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-22
Its Effect ON the Louisiana Case.
PHILADELPHIA Times-Ind.

We regard it as entirely unwarranted,
also, to assume that the decision of the
Florida case will in any measure narrow
the inquiry or foreshadow the decision as
to the Louisiana Vote......Ihe Louisiana
case bristles with legal issues which fairly
present themselves to the Commission for
determination. Florida is not entirely free
from doubt, even on the face of the returns,
for their r~aggedness and Irregularities de-
form the records of nearly every country;
but in Louisiana there is no dispute as to
the fact of the returns, and the majority is
SO large that there must be the most abso-
lutte mandate of q Justly administered law
to warrant their reversal. We do not see
any way clear for the Electoral Tribunal to
count the vote of Louisiana for Tilden, but
it would seem to be a legal impossibility to
count it for Hayes. Hayes has a false and
fraudulent return-a return that is rotten
with both legal and actual fraud, and Tiiden
has no return at all that can avail in this
proceeding. A certificate signed by Mr..
MeEnery as Governor, and lacking all the
formalities demanded by the law, can not
be yitaliZed into a legal return. McEenery
was doubtless elected Governor of Louis
lana, but that question has long since ceas-
ed to be a dispute hat a judicial tribuna
could take notice of in a collateral issue.
The President, the Senate, the House and
the people of Louisiana, have with more or
less distrust and reluctance, recognized
Kellogg as Cover or, and McEnery's Ger.
tificate to the Tilden returns is simply the
certificate of a citizen Of the State, and with
out the semblance of legal authority. But
to count the vote Of Louisiana for Hayes in
wolves the strict legal integrity of the re-
turn by the Board, and who will pretend
that it can be so judicially declared? II
done at all, 1t must be done by some legal
estoppel that only a court could define, for,
with a trace of equity or justice to follow
the law, there could be no. such Judgment.
We regard Louisiana as the embodiment Of
the great dispute, and il it can be counted
for Hayes, it would be a waste OF time to
bubble about Florida and Oregon.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-22
School and Church,

The Reformed Episcopalians are
about to form a Synod of New York.
The city of Indianapolis has so
churches, OF which number the Method
lists claim 20.
The cost per pupil of the Detroit
schools has been, during the past year,
S17.70.
The University of Berlin has this
season 2,490 students the largest num-
Der of its existence.
A calculation has been made of the
average contribution per member in the
leading denominations of this country
for foreign missions. The Methodists
give 43 cent a member, the Presby-
terians a little more, the Baptists a little
less, the Episcopalians 50 cents.
"A committee of distinguished Ro-
mans has been formed to make
preparations to celebrate the
fiftieth anniversary of the elevation of
His Holiness Pope Plus IL. to the dig
nifty of the episcOpate, which event oc.
Cured on the 21st of May, 1927. A dep
utation will be sent to Rome from every
country with presents and offerings.
The Catholic Church is making a
special effort in the South. Ten new
Catholic schools for colored youth have
lately been opened in Georgia, Is in
Alabama, 10 in Mississippi, and rs
in Losisiana. They offer board and tu-
ition to colored young men and women,
and to the poor whites, for 800 a year.
State School Commissioner Smart,
of Ohio, has issued a call for the meet
ing of the National Teachers Associa-
ton at Washington, March 1st, I'd and
Sd. The following subjects have been
arranged for consideration: Organiza-
ton of an educational museum and the
provisions, plans and means for its op-
Grafton; further consideration of plans
for the publication connected with and
growing out of the Centennial; proper
ton of popular educational facilities in
the South; proposed reduction of sala-
ries; relation of the high school to the
public sbhool.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-22
Science and Industry.

In a large iron mandatory in West
ern Pennsylvania all the heat for smelt-
ing is made by gas, which is brought in
pipes from a natural well 10 miles away.
Capt. C.. V. Gardiner, of Deadwood,
D. T., has completed arrangements
whereby smelling works of the most ap-
proved kind will be established in the
Black Hills this summer; capital $780,
900.
The latest use to which paper is put
Is that of a protector of ships bottoms.
Experiments show that when a cement
OF water proof paper is employed, it is
The best and cheapest material for pro-
tecting iron.
The English manufacturers r be-
ginning to use the American watch
making machinery. At Birmingham
the factory of the English Watch Com
pany gives employment to 800 hands
. making watches by machinery after the
Waltham and Elgin originals.
AS an indication of the hard times
IN Germany may be noted the fact that
the 80 largest iron and steel manufacture
ing companies in the country met with q
net loss on last years business of 81, 1885,
wv exclusive of interest and the depre-
cation in the value of property.
At a recent meeting of the Man
GEhester Chamber of Commerce, the
resident stated that exports of Man
o1ester goods to the United States,
winch formerly afforded an excellent
; market, were now nil, and that there
considerable trade in Manchester in
lea.
colorado hopes O o to become in
foependent of the East in the matter of
manufactured iron. There has been q