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LIVESTOCK MARKETS.
RICHMOND LIVESTOCK MARKET.

Report of live stock weighed OH the livestock
scales ut Richmond, Va: for the week ending
Wednesday, March 81, 1S77-viz, 1872 head of beet
cattle. 332 hogs, and LOT sheep:
Beef Cattte.-Sold: Extra to choice ut 54@51fc.
good at 4465c.; medium or good fair quality at Ii
04lsc.; common cattl such cows rough work
oxen, and bulls. ut 3aG3.c. q ID gross
Hogs.-Good to best corn-fcd hogs sold ut 7a@
TIC. medium, 7Gn7lsc. = ID, net.
SheeD.-Good to extra wethers, 6kG6ac.; medium
to good, 5(a54c. 3 d., gross.
Mitch Cotus-From S25 TO S3S per head for fair
to good: extra from $42 To $45.
Teais-From So to $3.50 per head; extra from
10 to $40.
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REV YORK IRON MARKET.

tic of the lnarkc, for Scotch pig, ami nothing done
beyond the small lots required tor prompt use, ami
an unsettled feeling rs TO prices. Sales or 90 tons
Coltncss on private terms, aud 80 tons Egiinton Ut
325. For American Pig there is yet 4 good deal of
rrcglariy TO The marnet and to close out fun lots
made, and II IS understood that business has been
done In this way. Rails the pretty tull purchases
steady prices. -. \ Ill.,
$27.25: Eglinton ut SOB: American ng at $50 for
S35@SSS for Amelic IT works, and steel rails
S49@S5O. Old rails quoted nominaIlyaI 81 0@GS20.
Wrought, scrap, $2G@S27.-JOurnGt or Commerce.
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COMMERCIAL.
CORN AND FLOUR EXCHANGE.
.. RICHMOND. March %, 1877.

CORN AND FLOUR EXCHANGE.
-.. RICHMOND, March %, 1877
OFFERINGS.
WuEAT.-Thite. 100 bushels. Red, Sc bushels
CoRS.-White. 5GS bushels Mired. 2SS bushels
Ielt0tc, CT bushels.
OATS.-62O bushels.
MEAL.-4G bushels. e.
ELACKEYE PEAS.-4 bushels. f'...
SALES. - e.
WIIEAT.-IFhite, 100 bushels very good at 81 GO.
Red, ID bushels very good at Sl.G0; % bushels
good ut $1.56-totll, SO bushels. go.
CORN. -IFhite. 100 bushels good Mt sic: 1S6
bushels very good ut 53c.; 1G2 bushels on private
terms: 20 bushels prime at 55c.; so bushels prime
on private tcrIns-total. 56S bushels. Yetloir, 60
bushels on private terms. Mfred,. $50 bushels
good at 52c.; SIS bushels very good ut 53c.-totai
2SS bushels.
OATs.-22O bushels very good spring at 36c.
MEAL.-4G bushels country boli ed Mt G0c. 49,.
BLACKEYE PEAs.-36 bushels common at Coo.
RF-EXIIiB1TED.
CoRN.-White. so bushels.
OATS.-620 bushels.
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Louisiana.


HOW THE PACKARD SENATE GETS QUORUM.
New ORLEANS, March 22.-The Packard
Senate seated Morelte and General Thomas
c. Anderson in place Of Ducrass and Gar
land, who were declared elected by the Re-
turning Board but are in the Nichols
Senate.
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NEW YORK DRY GOODS MARKET.

l. MARCH 2O.-Splendid weather. made everybody
es II gooG SPIRITS today and the mat5et m woaI
this Influence If the trade had not been 90 very much
surprised At the announced auction sale OF llnnne
Prints; but this was a puzzer. What h may PC
has been decidedly large and its effect has been SO
far beneficial that attention was extended 10 other
goods .....-.f 80! f.,.. .r. y..,. (
From jobbers' hands there has BEEN much freer
movement of general stocks. = -.
In general styles OF cotton goods the movement
has been light, though we believe from the number
Of buyers 10 the market selections are needed, and
that ere long n business of some impolta must
sy The EGF
Or total for the expired portion OF the year Of
The print-cloth market maintains the nominal
quotation OF 4sc time for best 64x64 cStrn cloths,
with nothing doing. For 56x60 the quotation IL &c.
The following is by telegraph from. Providence
Printing-ciofs.dull; prices nom inaIy &c. lower
47sc. for spot; 4GE34c. for future delivery, test,
Prints have been decidedly active TO- day. so far as
rapidily OF movement becomes question. With
the morning came The announcement thai the Anne
rican had reduced their acies TO 7c and shlrtlngs
10 exc. This was met with the announced auction
sale on THURSDAY 22d OF l,Soo cases s pn mn
6.sc., and pinks and robes to To- Next came The Of
conestoga fancies at 6kc. VIII lch SOLD very rapidly
for three hours when the battle was renewed by the
same house Offering the entire stock'0f American
fincies 1T &c aud shlrngs al &C.; and the way the
Phistines did their work Is deserving Of more space
than can devote to the occasion.
The market has given way on one or two things,
and to set the whcel- of business mconstant and
steady motion there shO:ll be no holding back Let
agents revise figures, If they Intend doing se as the
1t IS done the will prices be restored
TO their proper level. The action Of tn-day is bu.
repetition of what occurred year ago, and with
that experience In the minds OF agents. It s desiri
bic that prices be revised az carly possible aud If
any more boad-letring i, TO he done let It be done
quickly. Several jcbbing houscs have special sales
ut &c. ...'... ."..t - 1855
The Coceco prices have been revised as follows {:
Fancics, 7c; robes, 72c. purplc, 7hc. pinks, &C.;
slllrrngs, 6ac. s,'t ..| -. ''.
Dress goods IN all qualities arc sharing in very
fair degree of business. hut like all other fancy goods
certain makes and styles have decided preference
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NEW YORK SUMAC MARKET.

MARCH 2O.-Sumac has but little attention
Foreign quoted at 81 l0@Sl 200, gold, for b. st
Sinia quoted at S65@s70, currGncy.-Journai OF
Commerce. -,s.... ..s-.
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} ANDOLPH & CYCLISTS
4 BOOKSTORE,
1902 AND 1904 MAIN STREET.

Customers will find at the new store the largest
and most varied assortment In the southern States
OF BOOKS in all the departments Of literature. All
goods are sold ut fair prices, but many thousand
volumes are still offered ut about HALF The usual
price. STATIONERY and FANCY GOODS: LIE
GAL, CLERKS, and MERCANTILE BLANKS.
BO0K-BiNDING and BLANK BOOKS to order.
NH l3.d6W L. = - -----
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Flour.

Fine, $3.50: superine.. s6:25@s6.50; extra sll-
| periine 1928 common family. 1918; fancy fam
| ily,$7.756sS.5u. Alarke: steady.
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NEW YORK CA1YI.E MLAlIRiiKEr.

MARCH 2O-Beeres.-Fres arrivals were Al car
loads or 684 head-aii far to prime western cal tie
The demand was urgent, and the market coatlhued
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Ey.Teiegrapii.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK. March 22.-Gold opened at 1Q4E-
Noon.-S Stocks active. irregular, and lower. Money.
Q per cent. Gold, 1O4A. Exchapge-Long, 4S4h;
short, 1861. State bonds dull and steady. Govern
ments strong. o.. ... r.. .s.gH,. l.al-. r'
Erening Money easy at 2@2fp per cent. Sterling
quiet ut 4S4k. Gold firm OF l04AN105. Govern
inenLs active and steady; new SIS, no. States
quiet and nominal. .-.. s...a.f.u. .a. ...r..
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FRANK OsGoOD, ORGANIsT AT
ton given on the PIANO and ORGAN. In HAIR
MOSY and VOCAL MUSIC fStreeter nethodl.
Mr.. OSGOOD Is permitted TO refer TO the foow-
ing gcntlemeD: sria
-. Mr.. o. III. CHALKLEY, ~. EH,
+ <. Us. Colonel w. f.. TANNER,
Mr. i. II. STARKE. rEs',. -.sE =.
AppIications for lessons may be made ut Mr.. wy
ats inisic-soIe. or by letter TO Mr. USG0OD'S
most -ofice address, Box IL. NH 9-lmf
DuL-HEADS, 81 to SIG per .ream, at tie
ESpJCp s,rf,It PRINTING H0TISE
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By Telegraph.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK. March 22.-CottoH dull and 1rregn-
lar; uplauqs, Ike; Orleans, 1lhc.; consolidated
net receipts. 2e,s0Q bales exportsIto Great Bri-
5.733 bales. Flour shade frTner with fair trade,
s aEmeE q eomn aa 30 SaT s59sssso; sosd 70
choice, SO 5000. Wheat-Sprfng ahont steady
with moderate export and limited milling demand !;
winter wheat dull and nominal. Corn kaD4c. lower;
fair trade for ungruded western mixed at 100000;
white aouthern, 66c. Coffee quiet and unchanged
Sugar dull aud unchanged; refined in fair demand
lorleans steady and in fair demand. Rice steady
with moderate inquiry: Caroliua, GIG &c.l Tai
low steady at 7x9Sc. Rosin easier at rt2@32.l0
doing for export; new. sl6.sz4 Lard opened
easier; kettle, $40; prime steam, s9.92A@$10
heavy; cotton, sail and steam, Ne.
ss1i4 hri BALTIMORE. ~ ISL
BALTIMORE, March 22.-Bfour moderately active,
Arm, aad unchanged Wheat firm and quiet: hnsi-,
ness restricted by limited supplies; prices NM
changed. Southern corn quiet and seady; western
dun and STEADY: southern white, 81 D62e.: yellow.
501S@62c.i Oats steady. Rye easier at 72@974e.
Provisions hrmer and higher. Pork, 81 so. Ra-
;can-Shonfders, eAc.: clear ribs, 9kc. Hams, lAlJ
14lc. Lard-Reflned. / uk09l0 one. Coffee un-
chanred. Whiskey frnicr but not higher at $Io8.
Sugar active as oAc. .ss,3 90. $3.50, & 20
.a 80 - LOUISVILLE.
LouIgyILLE, March 22.-Flonr dpn and, nn-
chang Wheat sca-ce and firm mi Uffertises
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TOBACCO MARKETS.
TOBACCO EXCHANGE.

1oDtCSO CASI1faS1c,.
THURSDAY, March %, 1877. (.
The breaks to-day comprised 1873 hogsheads, IS
ticrccs, and 20 boxes The offerings At auction OH
Change were SO packages; OF which number 81
were taken In. and the remainder sold ut prices
ranging from 1850 to $50. ~. -'''. ..'
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BOOKS. STATIONERY. &c. .
DICK'S ENGLISH CLASSICS,
FOR SALE DY
Ut. ELLISON, BOOKSELLER,
l112 Main street,

ll12 Main street,
who will send any of the following. post-paid, 10
any address
This edition Is the CHEAPEST and BEST. 1t has
NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIoNs,a and is printed on good
paper from new clear type, and Is In all respects
the FINEST EDITION in the market for the price.
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LOJIsyLLF.

LouIgyILLE, March 22.-Fianr dpn and nn-
changed. Wheat eca.ce and firm san U1ertlsgs
taken ~ yeaterdsy's prtces.I Corn sasier wa,tst
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JlAI,TTNOR

BALTIMORE. March 22.-Vir1dnia Gs, deferred,
G.; consolidated. 90; second series, 39k. North
Carolina 6's, old, 10; new 9; special tax, g.. Bid
TODAY. #4.-.. .....
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Any Of the above sent, Postpaid, 20 M! auuresS'
mhl4 -'.r. j. T. ELLYSOE.
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FINANCIAL.
FINANCIAL.
ITO J. DAN
S3,000-0ne or Two years interest. quarterly;
S1,0OO-Onc or two years interest, quarterly.
FRANK d. HILL,
','. Real Estate Agent,
mil 22-2t No. HOS Main street.

MONEY TO LEND.
$4,000, $1,000, 5000, $500, and other sums
to lend OH improved UNENCUMBERED REAL
ESTATE IN RICHMOND. '@
s.nE RI CHAFFIS, STAPLES & CO.,
mh 22-3t Tenth and Main streets,
TiOANS
IL NEGOTIATED ON CITY REAL ESTATE.
have inquiries every day from parties 10 borrow
money on real estate. Lenders OF money can be ac-
commodated, whether In small or large amounts.
Great care taken In the preparation OF deeds and
titles examined by competent lawyers
FRANK d. HILL
r. Real Estate Agent and Auciioneer,
fe 24-eodl5t No. HOS Main street.
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Perhaps some induccment may be offered
tue ambitious Chamberlain to step down and
out. Governor. Hampton has telegraphed
his friends here denying the report that he
Lad volunteered to come to Washington.
lie will not come, they Say, unless specially
requested by the President. The only
commissioner to visit Louisiana that has
been agreed upon is Governor j. c..
Brown, OF Tennessee; but it is agreed that
10 senator or member OF Congress shall be
put upon the commission. BY substituting
Wheeler for Hayes in my dispatch Of yester-
day it was bulled SO as to put in Wheeler's
Mouth words uttered by the President. 1t
vas Hayes who said the military at New
Orleans would be Instructed to move with
stifl hand il anybody attempted to change
Inc status quo.
GOVERNOR LETcHEH AND SECRETARY THoMP-
gOS's EPEcTAcLss. 81
Years ago Secretary Thompson was in
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A ClvIL-RIGHTs CASE DECIDED IN THE UNITED
STATES DISTRICT COURT IN Favor OF THE
BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY
AN rSCONSTl1 UTIoNAL ACT.
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FARM LANDS IN MARYLAND.

Professor p. r. Uhler, President of the
Academy of Sciences, is now at work on
geological survey of Maryland. This
work has been only partially complete,
but enough has been accomplished to
prove that the survey will be of inesti-
mable benefit to the State. So far fifty
thousand species of insects have been
found in Maryland. Professor Uhler's
observations on the condition of uncivil-
lied land in the State are perhaps of
most interest in connection with this
survey at the present time, when large
number of workingmen are seeking
homes in the far-off lands. Professor
Uhler says that in Charles and ST.
Mary's Counties, the latter particularly,
there are immense tracts of unculti-
waited and unoccupied land which can
be had for five dollars an acre. All that
is required to make these lands produc-
tive is industry, patience and persever-
ance on the part of those purchasing
them. If properly attended to, the land
could be made as fertile and perhaps
more profitable than that in Kansas or
other Western states, where the grass
hoppers are a continual terror to the
farmer, who knows not when they viii
alight on his field and devastate what it
took years of work to produce. The
lands have not been drained, and con-
sequentiy diseases prevail. A little per-
severance would transform that part of
the State into garden and would richly
reward the industrious farmer. Pro-
fessor Uhler was with the Hayden Geo
logical Expedition in the West, and be-
Iieves that the land in st. Mary's County
is quite as good as that in Kansas or
Colorado.
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A Paris Letter says: Mile. D., q good
and worthy lady, who lived in country
house in the neighborhood Of Columbier,
had dog of special intelligence. he
was of the race Of poodles, which, every
body knows, is remarkably sagacious.
When Mile. d. passed the evening with
ladies of her acquaintance in Columbier,
as often happened, the dog lightened her
home by carrying two little lanterns,
which were fastened on each end OF
stick which he carried in his mouth. II
she went to walk during the day, the
faithful dog carried her work-basket.
On beautiful autumn morning, asMhe.
d. was going by vineyard on her way
back from Columbier, hare sprang out
into the road. The dog set out after
him, forsook his mistress, and sowed 2
part Of the contents of the work-basket
ut every turn in the field. When he
came home with the empty basket, Nile.
d. scolded him well. Wholly ashamed,
with dropping ears and tail, he did not
wait for the end of the lecture, but
scampercd of. Scarcely had halt an
hour passed when he came gayly back,
bringing pair Of shears; then he hur-
ried off again, and brought the Knitting
work; then skein Of thread, and st
evening all the articles which the basket
had contained, except the thimbse, we're
together again.
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THE UNHELCOME NAN.

The exercise of some of our human
sympathies, or of little bit of philos-
ophy, will enable us to endure the
foibles or ill-manners of almost every
class of people with whom we come in
contact. We can easily arm ourselves
against the tale bearer and the untruth-
full; we can be amused with our neigh
boris egotism; can tolerate him who as
sumes to be wiser or more learned than
ourselves; we can take conceit for
exactly what it is worth, and forget in a
moment any ones display of vanity.
But what can we do with the habitual
intruder?
He is a fellow of blunt perceptions
and un-estrained impulses, who pays no
attention to occasion or circumstance
and who never learns to respect the
sacredness of the rights of any man I'M
fortunate enough to have made his ac-
quaintance. He became acquainted by
some means which you probably have
forgotten through lack of interest in the
event, and he follows it up by intro
ducing troops of his own kind whom
you do not wish to know. If you prefer
at any time to be alone, then "you are
the very man he has been looking for"
and he tumbles himself unconcernedly
into your company and starts a converse
ton in which you have not the slightest
interest and with which you do not wish
to be bothered. If you meet casually in
public place, he addresses you loudly
by name, and blurts out some perhaps
well intended but unwelcome allusion to
your business. Should he discover you
in the company of little circle of
chosen friends, he thrusts himself in I'M
invited, breaks the thread of your con-
versation, and opens out on some stupid
topic of his own. He may hope he
"don't intrude," and then take your
sickly but polite ooh, nop' for cordial
welcome, and bore you, until the COM
pany separates in desperation. IF he
meets you in society he assumes a
familiarity you do not care to acknowl-
edge, or he impertinently listens to every
word and watches every attention you
pay to others, in his effort to guage the
extent of your intimacy with them.
Almost every class of Western society
is full Of him. You can guard against
him when his characteristics are we'll
known, but like religion, he is some
thing you have to-experience before you
know.
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Cure for Barbarous Husbands.

A woman who had suffered barbarous
beatings from her husband, went to a
noted wise man of the village to inquire
how she might cure those paroxysms of
violence. The soothsayer heard her
complaint, and after pronouncing some
hard words and using various gesticula-
tons while he filled phial with mys-
tcrious mixture, desired her, whenever
her husband was in passion, to take a
mouthful of the liquor, and keep it in
her mouth for five minutes.
The woman, quite overjoyed at 10
simply a remedy, strickly followed the
counsel which was given her and escaped
the usual chastisements.
The contents of the bottle being at
last expended, she returned to the wise
man, and anxiously begged ia have q
fresh supply of the same liquid.
- You foolish woman" said the sooth-
sayer, there was nothing in the bottle
but brown sugar and wster. Wheny your
husband is in passion, hold ysur
tongue. and, my LIE for it, he will not
lay finger upon you
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-10
THE FIRST NAPOLEON ON PEACE

The First Napoleon was accustomed
to say that if Europe had only allowed
him to work out his will he would have
given it such peace as it had not known
for ages. All the warning dynasties
would have been banished to the quiet
comforts of private life; all the foolish
jealousies of nations and Churches would
have been hushed; all the bad laws ac-
cumulated by stupidity and despotism
would have been swept away to make
room for variations of the Code Ma
poleon: Europe would once more have
known the benefits of Roman peace. :"
But nations do not choose to put their
liberties, their opinions, their interests,
or, it may be, their prejudices, at the
mercy even of the most benevolent
despotism, and the mere fact that Ma
poleon had the power to begin such an
experiment made all Europe feel it
could never be tranquil until he should
be dethroned. Some faint revival of
such fear was seen during the Franco
German war. Although France had
been the aggressor, and Germany was es.
sentially peaceful, it was not comforting
to find any one State so powerful that it
could crush the strongest of its rivals in
a few weeks. Such government might,
if ambitious, turn its arms against
weaker countries, and thus all would be
alarmed for the safety of their land
marks.
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A lady of benevolence anG wealth sent
some delicacies to family where sick
ness and poverty made them very vel
come. The basket in which they were
carried was nice one in its day, but
had been carefully mended in several
places where time and use had made
ravages. The fruit and cakes were
highly priced by the poor invalid, but
one of the family, noticing the repairs
on the basket, exclaimed, "Well, now,
who would think that such rich people
would mend basketp
Just here, doubtless, is the secret of
the wealth of one and the poverty of
the other The rich family had been
brought up to mend the basket, indeed,
to be careful in little things according
to the old homely adage, A stitch in
time saves nine" and the proverb, A
penny saved is penny earned" The
other despised such trifes and neglected
to take the stitch or save the penny.
These times, esteemed SO hard, call
on all to mend the basket, for one can
be as useful and happy when practicing
economies as when INDUCING in lavish
wastefulness. The present prosperity of
France, coming after an expensive war,
is said to be owing to the economical
habits of the people. We are accus-
toned to think of the French as a gay
and extravagant nation, but they have
the tact of making little go great
ways. Cooking in France is almost the
art of making something out of nothing.
A few cold potatoes, an onion, hand
full of sweet herbs, and little Mayo
nais dressing, put together by skillful
hands, make delicious salad for supper,
out of materials that common Amer
can cook would hardly look at The
tasteful French dishes SO much
extolled by our countrymen can, many
of them, be resolved into very simple
and inexpensive Ingredients.
The economies of the kitchen are quite
worthy the attention of our lady house
keepers, even if Bridget scolds and
threatens to leave if her absolute and
often wasetful rule is broken.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-10

WHITEHALL Times: A new canal
towing company is to be organized here
soon with a propelling power that
surpasses the celebrated Kelly motor.
The new motor consists of powerful
wrought-iron attachment extending to
the towpath side of canal boat. A
mule with lively hind heels is then
backed up against the attachment,
when the driver tickles his heels with a
chestnut bur. The result is that good
active mule can tow two canal boats
abreast through the canal, at the rate of
six knots an hour. The mule enjoys the
trip and can do with less oats than by
the old style.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-10

In the Jurisprudence department
of the English Social Science Congress,
lately held at Aberdeen, Scotland, Miss
Burn read a paper on the question
of legislation for women in factories.
She contended that there should be no
legislation about women working in fac
tories; that nothing but pure selfishness
was at the bottom of such legislation,
the selfishness of workingmen who are
trying to drive women out of the labor
market. That such was the case was
illustrated by the fact that no legisla-
ton was proposed for the million female
servants whose hours are longer and
whose work is more severe than many
laboring men have. Miss Burn is wholly
right.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-10

OLD English sections have a tradi-
tional reputation for wit, reaching as
far back, at least, as the grave-digger in
Hamlet" One of this class stood lis
tening one day to street-preacher in
the market-place. The preacher, an I'M
educated man, attempted an oratorical
fight.
"My BRETHREN" he exclaimed, IF
every field in the world was thrown into
one field, what great field that would
bel"
"AhW said the sexton, loud enough
to be heard, "if every iackass in the
world was one iackass, what 2 big jack
ass that nd bep