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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-11-19

MASONIC NOTICE.-The mem. g.
IxE beers of RICHMOND RANDOLPH Xxx
LODGiE. No 10. A. +. and A. M. will aticnd/ w
a called meeting of the lodge at ST. Adams
HALL. corner OF Third and Main streets, on Sun
DAY MORNING. 9Th instant, ut O'Clock. to nay
the last. sad tribute Of respect TO our deceased bro
Their. JOHN c. PAGE. Jr. Members of sister lodgcs
and transient Nasons In good standing are invited
TO unito with us. By order of the ". NJ.
WILLIAM J. RlDDICk,
mn 17-otx Secretary.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-11-19

We have Just received an extra large lot of
CtOAKS, ut bottom prices, to suit everybody.
SHAWLS In great variety. FURS for ladies' and
children 1T various prices.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-12-22

named Riffenspire, near Kenton; finan-
cial troubles. w. w. Learned, Bos-
ton drummer, at acknowledgements
james Allen, at Burger. John A.
Long, at Danvillc. II. III. Mcdonald,
at Observation-Disclosures Car
ter, aged so, at East Saginaw. G. F.
Weber, at Detroit; jealousy.-Fritz
Zomheimer, at Wheeling, West Va. :;
George S. Parsons, conductor on the
Texas and Pacific Railroad, at Kauf-
man, Texas; Edward A. Manice, a
wealthy lawyer, New York City.
Shooting accidents: Benjamin
Parkinson shot and killed himself in Ad-
ans County, Ind; Monroe Vickers,
aged 10, was shot and killed by his
brother while hunting near Elwood,
Ind: Sam Parkison, Jr., aged 81, shot
and killed himself at Muncie, Ind;
Thomas johnson shot and killed him
self while cleaning gun, near billiard,
o.; Walter Van Lennen, aged Is, shot
and killed himself with a pistol, at
Evart, Mich; Thos. Crawford, aged II,
was killed by the discharge of gun
while placing it in wagon, at
Richland, Mich; Charles Waymoth,
was killed by the accidental
discharge of gun which he was carry
ing down stairs, at Frankfort, KY; Ar
thur S. Thompson, of Nashua, n. H.,
was killed by companion while gun
ming, near Bradford, Conn. Augustus
Fitch, aged l6, was killed by his BROTH
er's gun while the two We're hunting,
near Waterford, Conn; DIR. j. G. De
Wolf was killed by the discharge of his
gun, at Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-12-22
Haps and NIishaps.

"A boy named Streck, aged about
IA, was fatally injured by the bursting
of grindstone in the cutlery works at
Canton, Ohio.
Lizzie Kloepper, aged Il, daughter
OF Henry kloepper,o Fort Wayne, Ind,
was fatally injured by falling into ket-
tie of scalding water.
Emma, aged l. daughter of Wright
Lancaster, of Richmond, Ind, stepped
backward into an open cellar-way at
her fathers residence, and struck upon
her head on the lower step. A large
metallic ornament upon her hair ribbon
was forced into her skull, causing a Sc
rious, and probably fatal, wound.
The family of William McGlothlin,
living on East Fork, BOYD County, Nv,
went TO neighbours, leaving no one but
a child or years old at the house.
The door of the structure, as is the case
frequently, opens outward, and is fas-
tened by long lateh-string The child,
in playing about the door, in some way
got the string looped over its head, and,
pushing the heavy door open, it was
swung out over the high doorstep, and
when the family returned the little one
was hanging by the lateh-string dead.
Recent suicides: Ohio-Mrs. Jane
Bohnert, near Tifiin; insanity. John
Reifenstein, farmer, near Ada; financial
troubles. Philip Leber, farmer, aged
%, AZ Hunts Corners, near Sandusky:
insanity. VIM. Rylestine, aged 50, near
Dunkirk; insanity. Miss Sadie Mccall,
aged so, daughter of Rev. IL. Mccall,
at Malvern; insanity. A young man
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-12-22

its own weight of boiling fat. This
compound is wonderfully compact, and
a very small quantity is enough for a
meal.
AT the Exposition in Paris next
year special jury viii be appointed to
investigate the several recent electrical
inventions which may be presented for
competition. The most sanguine ex-
pectations are entertained in France of
the complete victory of electric light
over the old-fashioned gas illumination,
which it is predicted viii soon be alto
gether abolished and superseded by the
better and cheaper product of modern
science.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-12-22
hospitality is dazzling.

Russian hospitality is dazzling.
The entertainments which are given by
the richest mobiles in St. Petersburg ex-
eel any thing that can be seen else
where, because nowhere else can people
afford to spend SO much upon show.
The rich elsewhere have claims upon
their fortunes, and spend a good deal in
improving their estates; but Russian
draws all he can from his land, and
gives back little or nothing. He dis
burses prodigally for wines, music, dia-
monds, and rich dresses for his wife; he
keeps an immense retinue of servants;
CANDLES largely, whatever may be his
age or profession; and the surplus of
his income goes to defray journeys to
Paris, Nice, and the German watering
places, where he seems to set his am
bition ON enriching hotel keepers.
Recent returns show that the prac-
tee OF cigarette smoking has of late years
increased enormously in France. CT
garettes were first made in the French
Government manufactures in 1918. In
1869 enough tobacco was used to make
100000 cigarettes, and the manufac-
ture was confined to one establishment,
that of GrOs-Caillon. At the present
time cigarettes are made at seven manu-
factories, in Paris, Bordeaux, Marseilles,
Nancy, Nantes and Toulouse,
and 1000 workmen are employed in
their fabrication. Altogether, there are
eighteen manufactures of tobacco in
France, 351 depots, and 40, 21O licensed
shops for its sale. The receipts last
year amounted to 100000, 900 francs,
Paris alone spending 100000 francs
n this kind of smoking.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-12-22

Religious exercises have been pro.
hibited in the New Haven public schools.
There are upwards of 10000 Sun
day-schools in the United States, with
about 6 GOO, 900 scholars.
The Chinese students in our East
ern colleges wear petticoats, which are
strikingly feminine in appearance.
The Rev. Thomas Vim, of Henry,
ILL.,, is about to sail for Japan, in the
interest of Presbyterian missions.
The Boston School Committee has
adopted an order authorizing the Com
mittee on Night Schools to organize a
Latin school for girls in that city.
The salaries of the Philadelphia
school-teachers have been reduced 10
per cent. Municipal reformers generally
commence with the schools.
The Germans of New Haven have
petitioned the Board OF Education for
separate school, where their children
may be taught English, so that they may
be able to attend the public schools.
The Seventh-Day Baptists are pros
ecuting missions in Europe with consid-
cradle success They have lately organ
lied Il church of Is members in Haar-
lem, Holland, and have other congrega-
tons in France, Italy, Switzerland,
Prussia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and
Great Britain.
Miss 1nez White, of Delaware, o. |
who graduated in the class of rs at the |
Ohio Wesleyan Woman's College, is |
now following a classical course in the |
Ohio Wesleyan University. the two in
stitutions having been united last Sep
tember. The Woman's journal brags |
that Miss White cooks, washes dishes,
makes beds, sews, and scrubs for an en-
ire household, and has no difficulty in
keeping up with her classmates.
The Episcopal prayer-book has
been translated into the Sioux language.
An edition has been printed interleaved
with the English. The Sioux language
s mellitluous, and well suited to pur-
poses of devotion. The responsive serv-
ce of the Episcopal Church is well re-
,eived by those of the Sioux who gather
ior worship, although the men do not
'ery heartily unite in the responses. The
'quaws make good the lack of service
If the male Indians, and are heard very
distinctly.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-12-22

There are 70 glass-furnaces in Pitts
burg and its vicinity, so of which are
now in operation.
A Christmas beef. weighing 5,l15
pounds, goes from Kenton County,
Kentucky, TO the Cincinnati market.
The pineapple flavor furnished to
ice creams and candies is reported as
produced from butyric ether or acetate
of butyle, both produced from coal tar.
"A Stoekbridge, Wis, Indian far
mer planted eight quarts of old dent
corn last spring, and harvested crop
OF 500 bushels of sound corn from the
same
"A. Cole, of Oconto, Wis, raised
from / pumpkin seed this year, %
pumpkins, aggregating also pounds in
weight, the largest one weighing 2l0
pounds.
kangaroo hides are an important
article OF export from Australia. They
make the most pliable leather that is
known, admirably fitted for bcot-legs,
gloves and riding-whips.
The largest number OF bushels aver
aged per acre in corn in any county in
Illinois is given TO Schuyler, which is
90, while the smallest number is given
to Mason County, and drops down to 20.
The English manufacturers seem to
have given up all hope of ever again be-
ing able to supply the American mar
ket with their goods, and have become
thoroughly indifferent about our re-
quirements.
A scientific man in Detroit is at
work on an idea which, if successful, |
will prove important. He believes that |
IS deaf mutes are SO sensitive in feeling, |
they can be taught to communicate with |
each other by means of the telephone,
whose vibrations may be perceptlble to
their delicate sense of touch. He has
not yet thoroughly developed his plan,
but is sanguine OF success.
-Pcmmican, the favorite food in the
coolest parts of British American, is
made of buffalo meat and fat. The
meat is thoroughly dried in thin slices,
and then pounded almost to powder
with clubs or stones. 1t is next put in
% bags of buffalo hide, and mixed with
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-12-22

Jules Ferry, the French Republican
leader, is said to be threatened with in.
sanity from the excessive use of hair
dye.
"A confidential clerk of the Roths-
childs, in. Paris, lately absconded, after
robbing his employers of over $500, 900.
The money had been nearly all lost in
stock speculations. rs
Papa Wrangel, as the Berlin gamins
called the old General to his face, per
sisted to the last in living on a sofa in
full uniform instead of going to bed,
saying that soldier must always hold
himself in readiness to wait upon his
sovereign.
"A disabled veteran named Zilius
lately discharged from the German
army, applied for pension. On being
told that he was not entitled to one, he
shot himself in the presence of the En-
peror as he was leaving his palace. He
did not succeed in killing himself.
The British Government has con-
tracted with the owners of the Bell tele-
phone for its use as a part of the British
Geographic system, and the German
telegraphic department is organizing
telephone communication for distances
not exceeding so miles.
Prince Bismarck likes to find every
thing in his study in disorder and gen
eral topsy-turviness, just as he left it
bottles, mugs, cigars, and cigar-boxes,
odd gloves, books, pamphlets, papers,
letters, spurs, stray antiques, swords,
hand-mirrors, pistols, tiddle-strings,
fiutes--these are all articles he wants to
put his hand on at short notice, and see
lying around loose on the tables, floor
and sofas. Whenever he discovers any
signs that his wife or the servants have
been trying to set things to rights ter
rible row is raised.
The Duke of Norfolk. who was lately
married TO Lady Flora Hastings, gave
his bride pearl necklace once owned
and worn by Queen Mary, of Scotland. |
The bridegroom is Premier Duke and |
Earl-Marshal of England, |
and By virtue of the latter rank attends /,
all great court ceremonials with his
baton. He is not only
the head of the English peerage, but the
leader of the English Roman
laity. The new Duchess is a
convert to that faith.
The German Emperor made last
month his annual visit to his hunting
seat of konigswusterhausen with large
party of guests. 1t has long been the
custom here for all the company to as
,emble after supper, during which the
finest horn music from Berlin is PLAYED
n the great hall on the second story.
This is decorated with splendid trophies
If the Emperor's prowess as sports
nan, and here, seated on the queer old
'hairs, and before the oaken table which
'erved the same purpose 200 years ago,
he merry company holds smoking
College, using long Dutch clay pipes,
md drinks beer out of quaint old Delft
mugs.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-12-22

w Mttier VIII DE ~ next month";
Kate Field has been giving her lee
ture on Charles Dickens in London
with success.
The Harpers paid Longfellow 49,,
600 for keramos," which is about SIC
line.
Mrs. Elizabeth f. Elicit was not a
genius, hut she made 100000 through
her writings.
The London Society of Compost
tors have library ofloyer 900 volumes,
which are circulated among the men,
bers.
VIII Carleton, author of "Farm
Ballads is lecturing in the Eastern
States, and is favorably spoken of by
the press of that section.
DR.. Edward Hammond Clarke, the
author of the book :. Sex in Education"
died In Boston ON the I'd. He was grad
uated from Harvard College in 1871,
was formerly Professor Of Materia Med
lea nj the Harvard Medical School, and,
at the time of his death, was an over
seer of Harvard College
DR.. De Nilliers, who is preparing
for publication by engraving and pho
Biography fac-simile edition of Guten-
berg's Bible, has discovered i'm the
course of his researches Gutenberg's
signature on the back Of letter of in
diligence dated l454. An exact fac
simile is being prepared, and it viii be
printed with a pamphlet tracing its his
tory and giving many particulars in re-
gard TO the origin of printing.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-12-22
Odds and Ends.


A SWEET thing in combs-Honey.
Went off with a flea in his ear-The
man who attended the dog-show
-"Oh, mammal" said little one,
"Ieat so much it spoils my appetite"
One of the greatest wonders in this
worlds what becomes of all the smart
children.
Where should lady 90 for hus-
band? To Gentleman's Furnishing
Store, of course.
When girl begins to take an in
terest in the arrangement of young
mans necktie, it is an infallible sign Of
something more serious than sisterly re-
gard.
Take an old jug, knock off the hap
die, spatter with several kinds of paint,
and you have something equal to the
glory of Pompeii and a good deal more
convenient. keramic-kereet. - Free
Press.
Woman consumes sc buttons on
her single pair of kid-gloves, whereas
man buttons his suspenders with a
shingle-nail. And yet folks will ask,
Button, button-who's got the but
tOn?"
"A teacher, after reading to her
scholars story of generous child,
asked them what generosity was. One
little boy raised his hand and said, 81
know; it's giving to others what you
don't want yourself"
The Japanese never swear; they
have no word corresponding to our
popular damn; their strongest epithet is
s. bacca," which means fool or beast.
We know of some people who wouldn't
survive week in Japan.-Boston Globe.
Madam is talking with friend
her child listening. Madam-Imagine,
my dear, the distress l am in this sum-
mer. l lost my hair. Child Gnter-
no! mamma, 1 know
where the hair is you wear; saw it in
drawer this morning.
"A San Francisco four-year old was
observed making queer movements with
MS elbow. His aunt asked what he was
toing. Crooking my elbow" said
precocious. 'But what are you crook
ng your elbow for, Johnny?'' "'Cause
want to Diet nice little strawberry on
ny nose" "But that won't make q
Johnny" "Yes it will,
or the cook says papa wouldn't have
he big strawberry on his nose if he
lidn't crook his elbow SO often"
Some headlines from paper pub
lshed for boys: 90 Free and Easy Ned"
Upton Blue, or the Jockeys Mis-
ion;" COrkey, or the Tricks and
rravels of a Supe;" "Bob Short, or
)ne of Our Boys; :" adjective Dan, or
he Irish Ferret;'' "That Boy of Ours,
# Tom on His Muscle;" The Chem
st's Murderer" "The Suspicious
Wife," "a Terrible Secret" If the
american boy is not gradually drifting
nto hopeless idiocy, it is from no lack
4 enterprise on the part of publishers.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-12-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Whittier will be 20 next MOI
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-03-29
The PeOpling of America.

Prof. Grote's theory on the original
peopling OF America, as stated in recent
papers, is that the original inhabitants
came from Asia by way of the north dur
ing the latter part of the miocene Or ear
ler part of the piocene, and that this
tertiary population spread to the south
along the mountainous backbone of the
two Americas that, on the advent of the
glacial epoch, the people then living in
the extreme north were modified by the
change in climate and were brought
down by the ice and followed it back
again to the arctic circle, and that the
present representatives of glacial man
are the Esquinaux. Through study
of migrations Prof. Grote comes to the
conclusion that the ice must have acted
as barrier to further communication be-
tween the two continents Of Asia and
North America, and consequently that
the civilizations of Central America and
of the mound builders are Indigenous.
Grote concludes that the theory Of an
accidental migration from Asia during
the quaternary cannot be supported in
view of recentl y-ascertained facts. In
letter dated Feb II, 1877, Capt. E. L.
Berthoud (of the School of Mines at
Golden, Col.), who has studied the ge-
ology and archaeology of the West
since 1859, writes that Grote's theory
"solves many knotty points in the an
Equities and prehistoric vestiges of Col
orado.' Capt. Berthoud believes, from
his observations, that man existed in the
Rocky mountain region prior to the de-
post Of gold in the Colorado mountain
slopes, creek, bar, and placer diggings,
about latitude 80 deg. 80 min. to IL
deg. north. Capt. Berthoud has not
only found flint tools and chips in the
gold-bearing glacial drift, with remains
of fossil elephants, but also in the drift
OF older date below this gold-bearing
drift. Flint tools have been also found
in company with estuary shells of not
later age than older pliocene as deter
mined by Prof. Conrad. -Populor Sci
eace Monthy for April.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-03-29
A Man Who Never Told a Lie.

Yesterday afternoon an old oil man,
with crude petroleum dripping from his
clothes and legs inclosed in thigh boots,
entered the Derrick office and asked:
"Want an item?
tive got the dumdest item you ever
heard tell on. / struck an lie well on
my lease Monday, an she flowed stream
OF lie 100 feet high straight up for half
an hour. Then she kinder died down.
ceased working. One Of my drillers was
standing over the hole, when she sud-
denly spurted agin, and, blast my eyes,
if it didn't take that driller right up with
it. The stream was powerful one, you
see, an he went up 100 feet. You've
seen those little balls as dance about on
top of those little squirting fountains,
such as they have in the cities? Yes,
waal that's the way this ere thing acted,
an there's that air driller right up on
top of that hundred fut column of crude
lie, an he's dancin' about like chaff in a
tanning mill. What do you think of
that un?'
Chow long has been up there?''
About four days and four nights -
He must be very hungry by this time.
Doesn't he come down to get something
to eat %
"Why we 'uns just put plate of hash
IN this ere stream OF lie, and it takes it
up to him, you see. An it's mighty
handy, as he finds his victuals already
creased, and he doesn't need any butter 81
but he must have frozen to death be-
fore this time"
"Why, man, we've sent him up on the
same stream bed and bedding, small
stove and wood, an we're gong to build
him small house, an then he can live
there as comfortable as o prince"
His face was as innocent of deceit as
a piece of tanned leather, and when he
asked to have his name put down as a
dead-head subscriber for the information
he had given, we didn't have the heart
to hurt his feelings by refusing. Oil
Cjty Derrick.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-03-29
Extra Session of Congress.

The extra session of the Forty-fifth
Congress is to commence on Monday the
4th of June, at noon, and it is expected
that it will terminate it's labors before
Independence day. There have been
quite number of these extra sessions
in years past, of the following duration ::
March 4 to Sept. 90, 1889; May Is to
July 10, 1897; May % to June %, 1909;
May "a to Aug. 2, 1873 Sept. to Oct.
16, 1887 May 81 to Sept. Is, 1841 !;
Aug. q to Aug. 30, 1856; July4 to July
II, 1861 and number Of other adj
journment summer sessions during the
war. Earnest attempts will be made by
prominent Democrats and Republicans
to confne the business of the session to
the Army Appropriation bill. But there
were many meritorious measures and a
goody number of jobs left Enacted
upon by the last Congress as legacy to
this Congress, and there will also be a
desire on the part of some Congressman
to put themselves on record by ventilat-
ing their views SO it may be difficult to
keep the brakes down, and, if the legis-
lative machine ever gets running, it
will be difficult even for the broiling hot
sunshine of July to drive the Solons
homeWard.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-03-29

sOne might go on through the long
range of incidental arguments such as
Lighted streets, well-kept sidewalks, win
ter snow-plows, and good drainage, and
a wholesome pride in a tidy, cosy village,
until even the most close-fsted of all our
class would confess that the extra cost
would bring full value in return, and
until he would recognize the fact that
the attractions of such home as the
village would make possible would be
likely to insure his being succeeded In
his wholesome trade by the brightest and
best of his sons-a result that would
be worth more than all it would cost.
"But my purpose has been only to
suggest scheme which seems to me en-
tirely, even though remotely, practical
BILE, and in which I hope for the SYM
pathy and help of the country-bound
farmers wives and daughters scheme
which promises what seems the easiest,
if not the only, relief for the dullness
and desolation of living which make
American farming loathsome to SO many
who ought to glory in it's pursuit, but
who now are only bound to it by COM
handing necessity"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-03-29
Costly journalism.

At the close of the war the New York
Herald enlarged it's corps. Correspond
ents were sent through every State in
the South, and the changed condition of
affairs was written up. Then Stanley,
with corps Of assistants, went with the
Anglo-Abyssinian expedition, and the
English journals credited the young
American journalist with the first news
of the most decisive victory of that war.
Upon Stanley's return, the Livingstone
expedition was sent out, and Living
stone, supposed to be dead, was discov-
cred in the heart of Africa. It is said
that this expedition, in all ways, cost the
Herald $500 a day for the eleven months
that it lasted. Stanley is now away on
an expedition even more costly than this
one.
After the battle of Sadowa, young Mr..
Bennett had the King of Prussia speech
cabled entire to New York at a cost of
81, 900 in gold, for one single dispatch.
The Geographic account of the last Ok
ford-C Cambridge boat-race cost $1,000,
and cable dispatches during the Franco
Prussian war frequently went above
S., 900 per day.
Almost every portion of the news Of
the Herald is sent to it by wire. It
publishes the very fewest of letters. It
receives by wire daily an average of four
columns from Washington, and of one
and half columns each from London
and Paris. To cover these three points
must cost for Geographic tolls alone near
81, 900 per day.-Ne1O York Letter.