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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-03-01

The orator Of the evening, Major j. W.
Daniel, was now introduced, and was re-
.ceived with that fatterlng welcome which
Richmond meeting never fails to accord
him. He announced that, he intended to
draw some parallels between the lawyer
and the doctor, and we'll he did it. His adj
dress was devoted to p consideration OF the
trials and triumphs, troubles and victories,
OF these two professions, and was replete
with apt quotations as to what the aucients
thought Of them. particularly OF the doc
tors. 1t did not lack for humor, nor fail to
touch upon some OF the 7folhes Of the day.
The Majors advice to the young doctors
was rs good as could have been gwen, and
his words OF encouragement were such as
to stimulate them to renewed exertion and
to make them never weary OF well doing or
of patient study or devoted attention.
One OF the many good points made by
Major Daniel had a personal bearing. In
referring to the difficulty young doctors
find in getting practice he, stated that he
could appreciate their position, inasmuch as
he, himself had persistently committed the
offence OF being too young.
After the benediction, adjourned.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-03-01

WANTED, TWO <wOMEN-one for
w COOK, the other for DINING-ROoM. White
- :" -, GEORGE 9. vAsHON & SON.
t-- ,.t.....- No. z Tenth street
fe 2S-3t (Shafer's buildinR).
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DOMESTIC HINTS.
Simmer Mince Pice-Eol1r crac]

Summer Mince Pice.-Four crackers,
one and one-half cups of sugar, one cup
of molasses, one cup of cider, two-thirds
of cup of butter, one cup of chopped
raisins one-half cup of currants, two eggs
well beaten and stirred in, the last thing
spice to the taste.
To Keep Lemons Fresh.-Lemons
may be kept sweet and fresh for weeks
by placing them in clean, tight cask
and covering with water. Keep in cool
place and change the water every other
day. To those living where it is not al
ways convenient to procure fresh lemons
the above is worth remembering.
Remedy for Poison Ivy Dissolve
sugar of lead-a bit the size of a hazel
nut-in half a teacup of sweet milk or
warm water. Apply as warm as can be
easily borne with a soft, linty piece of
linen rag. Three or four applications are
sufficient to effect a cure. If the poison
is on the face nearing the eyes or mouth,
this astringent wash may be constantly
| applied. 1t is marvellous cure, and by
watching closely one can see the fevercd
blisters turn from white to yellow during
the application. This remedy for ivy
poison should prevent great deal of suf-
fering. 1t is well where member of a
family is easily poisoned to keep sugar
OF lead in the house all the time. Let it
| be labeled and kept where it can be
found the moment it is wanted Keep it
well wrapped up, that it may not lose its
| strength,
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Hung to a Pine Tree and HOnOred
with an Epitaph.

lOmaha Herald.l
When we came to Rapid City Oak
everything seemed quiet and peaceful,
but upon the ridge, mile west of the
town, near a large pine tree, were the
bodies of three young men with ghastly.
blackened faces turned upward toward
the clear blue sky, the ropes dangling
from the limbs of the pine tree and the
deep cuts in their necks showing but too
plainly how they died. During the day
(the 29th) two or three men went out
northwest from town to get some logs,
and were surprised, when about four
miles out, by people whom they sup
posed to be Indians, judging by the way
they rode their horses. Being with an
ox-team, the men left it and ran for the
woods, and by taking circuitous route
came into Rapid nearly scared to death.
A party of fifteen well-armed men i'm
mediately started out and found, seven
or eight miles out, three white men
asleep, with four horses picketed near
them. They surrounded them, covered
them with their rifles and awoke them.
They were taken to town, and when ex-
amined confessed that the horses were
stolen at Crook. They were placed in a
log cabin for the night, but about three
o'clock in the morning a band of twenty
vigilants took them out, and when the
people of the town arose there they were
hanging dead, in plain sight of town.
They we're buried last evening. The
following is to be their epitaph:
A J. Allen, Louis Curry, Jas. Hall
Aged 80 years. Aged 90 years. Aged 10 years
HORSE THIEVES, BEWARE.
Here lies the body of Curry, Allen and Hall,
Like other thieves, they had their rise, decline and
fall;
On yon pine tree they hung till dead,
And here they found lonely bed.
Then be little cautious how you gobbe horses up,
For every horse you pick up here adds sorrow tC
your cup:
We're bound to stop this business, or hang you tc
man,
For we've hemp and hands enough in town tt
swing the whole clan.
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The Interior of Africa,

Those who have attained maturity
may recollect seeing upon maps of
Africa a large space in the center indica-
ting land unknown. Of late years ex-
plorers have pierced it's mysteries and
ascertained that this region of great
equatorial lakes is one of the most
populous and fertile on the earth, and
that an immense plateau, among the
mountains crowned with eternal snow.
is watered by the great streams proceed
ing from them, and offers climates fvari-
ious degrees of temperature. This inyit-
ing land is, however, the abode of saw
ages, who are at perpetual war with each
other, and who mutually cause a
destruction of human life, computed at
hundreds of thousands year. At least
four hundred thousand slaves are annu-
ally captured there, for use upon the
continent, or for shipment elsewhere.
The International African Association
headed by the King of the Belgians desire
to commence the civilization of the
country by establishing stations for
scientific observations and for the use
and protection of travellers and branches
of the association have been formedsin
several European countries,
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Get Out of Debt.

IRural New 1orker.l
Advices from nearly every State in the
Union assure us of the excellent condi-
ton of the crops, and of the favorable
prospects for the future. The prices, too,
for farm produce are, as rule, consid-
erably higher than during ordinary
years, in which the harvest has been
equally abundant. A large yield of
cereals and other agricultural products has
generally entailed low prices, in accord
ance with the inevitable laws of supply
and demand. The European war, how
ever, is likely to prevent this customary
effect, during the present year. Of the
supply of grain needed by Great Britain
and other countries which do not raise
enough for self-support, large proper
tion has, in past years, been furnished
by the South of Russia. The ports on
the Black Sea, whence this was exported,
are now blockaded by the Turkish fleet,
and supplies from this source can no
longer reach the customary market.
The demands on this countryar are sure,
therefore, to be much larger than usual,
and however abundant our crops. this
cause will probably keep up prices until
the close of the war. 1t would behighly
unsafe, however, for farmers to speculate
on long continuance of this, and conse-
quently to hold back their produce mex
pectation of higher prices. The tendency
of modern warfare is to brief, vigorous
| campaign or two, and an early peace :;
and Immediately on the cessation of the
present hostilities the prices of our cere-
ais are certain to fall.
The only safe course, therefore, is to
sell at once, at fair figure, and leave to
others the uncertainties and risks of
speculation. By following this wise
practice there is fair prospect that the
financial pressure, under which our farm
ers have been lately groaning, will be
lightened during the present season, and
it is much to be hoped that the lesson in
economy and thrift which necessity has,
in the last few years, forced upon them,
shall not be forgotten on the advent of
better times. Above all things, the first
use every man should make Of returning
prosperity is to get rid of indebtedness.
1t is the boast of the American farmer
that his position is one of the most
independent in the country, but this
vaunt can never be truthfully uttered
by those in debt.
This is the modern form of the Old
Man of the Sea which never allows rest
or comfort to the wretch who trudges
under its weight. Its pressure, too, is
soon likely to grow heavier, on account
OF the contraction of the currency Ger
tain to result from the approaching re
turn to specie payment, and on this
account alone, if on no other, promp
measures should be taken by ever,
sensible man to clear off all forms O
Indebtedness at the earliest possible mo
ment.
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in contact with it, because when bodies
are in actual contact the laws of radiation
are suspended and those of conduction in
tervene. The screen coming in contact
with the plant absorbs heat from the vege-
table body.
Barrels made of pasteboard have been
away of woollens and furs. These are
head, which fits down snugly, is the only
available entrance for the moth, and di
rections are given to paste a layer of
brown paper over this almost invisible
line when the barrel is packed. Sell your
camphor and ruin the drug stores.
The clicking noise caused by the toe of
the hind shoe striking the heel of the fore
shoe when horse is trotting is the effect
of what is known as over-reaching. This
may be prevented by lengthening the toes
of the hind shoes, and shortening those of
the fore ones, enabling the horse to lift
the fore foot little quicker, and slightly
retarding the hind feet; but it is enough
to clear the fore foot. A very small frac-
tion of second, probably hundreth
part of one, will be sufficient gain of time
to prevent the contact.
To persuade cow to give down her
milk against her will is difficult and
sometimes hopeless task. A plan that
has been highly spoken of is to lay a
heavy chain across her back while milk
ing her. 1t is very certain that harsh
ness and impatience will only make mat
ters worse, and that kindness and petting
will. have the best effect. The use OF
milking-tubs might be effective. A poor
COW, free from this vice, is better than the
best COW that is afflicted with it.
If a calico dress is washed carelessly
starched stiff, summed day or two, and
half ironed, it is not a very comely sight
But if quickly dried in the shade, very
thinly and evenly starched, and ironec
on the wrong side so that it will not shine
it will look like new dress for Ions
time. Many pretty blue prints anC
cambrics fade when washed in the usua
way. If they are washed the first tim
in strong salt and water, or water t,
which little beef's gall is added, tn
colors will be set so that they will al
ways be as handsome as at first, and cal
be washed ever after like other colorec
goods
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GLEANINGS FROM THE MUSE.
MY FIRST CLIENT.

John Smith, young attorney, just admitted to the
bar,
Was solemn and sagaeious as-as young attorneys
And frown of deep abstraction held the seizin of
his face
The result Of contemplation of the rule in shelleys
One day in term-tme Mr.. Smith was sitting in the
Court,
When some good men and true of the body Of the
county did on their oath report,
That heretofore, to-wit: upon the second day OF
May,
A. D. Is77 about the hour Of noon, in the county and
state aforesaid, one Joseph Scroggs, late of said
county, did then and there feloniously take,
One bay horse, Of the value oil nifty dollars more OF
less
(The same then and there being of the property goods
and chattels Of one Hezekiah Hess);
Contrary To the statute in such case expressly
And provided and against the peace and dignity of
the state wherein the venue had been laid
The prisoner, Joseph Scroggs, was then arraigned
And plead not guilty, and Of this he threw himself
upon the country at large;
And said Joseph being poor, the Court dld gaclcusy
Mr. smith TO defend him--much on the same princi-
pie that obtains in every charity hospital,
where a young medical student is often set to
rectify serious injury to an organ or JOINT.
The witnesses seemed preiudiced against poor Mr.
And the district attorney made thrilling speech, in
which he told the jury that If they didn't hnd
for the state he reckoned he'd have to walk
their logs
Then Mr. smith arose and made his speech for the de-
Tense,
Wherein he quoted Shakespeare, Blackstone, Chitty,
Archbold, Joaquin Miller, Story, Kent, Tup-
per- Smedes and Marshall, and many other
writers, and everybody said they "neveI
heered sich bust Of eloquence."
And he said: "on his hypothsses, my client must
free;
And: " gain, on his hypothesis, it's morally i'm.
possible that he could be guilty, don't you
see"
And: "Then, on his hypothesis, you really cam
convict
And 20 on, with forty-six more hypothesis upor
none Of which Mr.. Smith ably demonstrated
could Scrog,s be derelict.
But the jury, never stirring from the box wherein
they sat,
Returned a verdict Of guilty" and his hOnol
straightway sentenced ScrOggs to three-yea
term in the penitentiary, and heavy fine ant
the costs on top Of that;
And the prisoner In wild delight, got up and dancet
and sung;
And when they asked him the reason of this strang
behavior, he said; Its because got off 81
easy-for II there'd ha' been a few more o
them darned hypOthesises, should certainl!
have been hungp
--lfioLsuaDaer HOLIDAY Scribner. 1.
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FARM AND HOME BREVITIES
To prevent meat from scorchine in I

TO prevent meat from scorching in the
oven during the roasting process, simply
keep basin or cup of water in the oven
The steam generated not only prevents
scorching, but makes the meat cook
nicer.
The best thing to clean horse with is
broom-corn scrubbing brush. 1t never
can scratch his legs, as the curry-comb of
tin does, while it does more work in the
same time than curry-comb and brush
put together.
Mats and screens intended for the pro-
lection Of plant should never be placed
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Dinner Table Hints.

When taking lady down do not ask
if she is "peckish " or "sharp-set"
Do not say, hope they will give us
good tuck-outp"
When you are seated keep calm, what
ever there is for dinner.
Soup must not be chewed, you must
swallow it whole.
Never hammer with your feet for the
next course or shout " waiterr'
When anythingnice is put on the table,
do not chuckle nor rub your chest.
When the entrees come round, make
free choice, but don't pocket.
Never take more than four helps of
anything.
Do not sponge your gravy with your
bread and squeeze it down your throat
it has an uneducated look.
Never speak with your mouth full :;
first, because its vulgar, and secondly,
because you can't.
If you feel uncomfortable symptoms
arising from repletion you must dissem-
BILE; do not call for brandy and pepper
mint drops.
If your fair neighbor asks what is the
matter with you, hasten to assure her
that it's not catching.
Crack nuts for your hostess-if your
teeth are good.
Do not say "Tm chock fulll" when
dinner is over; it has a foreign air about
it.
Before Joining the ladies wash your
handsin the bowl provided for the pur-
pose; you should not call for soap or
| bath towels.
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DR.. TUT authorizes his agents to refund the money
in every where his Hair Dye fails Perfect salts
faction guaranteed. 1t acts like magic easily ap-
piled, and is perfectly natural Sold by all respect
able Druggists. Is Murray Street, New York.
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CHEW
The Celebrated
MATCHLESS
Wood Tag Plug
TOBACCO.
THE PIONEER TOBACCO COMPANY,
New York, Boston, and Chicago.

PONDS EXTRACT. Used alike by the
medical profession and the people, it holds
a position held by no other medicine in this
country, or, perhaps, the world.
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If you feel dull drowsy debilitated have frequent
headache, mouth tastes badly, poor appetite, and
tongue coated, you suffering from torpid liver
"bilousness, and nothing will cure you speedily
and permanently as to take SIMMONS LIVER REGU-
ATOR or MEDICINE.
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chagrin that never afterward was he
known to send an Aprilfool letter, or to
play a trick on one of his friends.
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DR. RoLF's monkey hung himself in
Milwaukee, because his tail froze off last
winter Darwin should make note of
this event. In former days the uncul-
tured and depraved monkey would not
have hung himself, but spent his time in
coaxing other monkeys to freeze off
their tails.
Light, Well-Raised Biscuits, Bread,
Cakes, and pastry digest easily and conduce
to good health. Good health makes labor of
all kinds easier, and prolongs life. DooLEY's
YEAST POWDER will always make all these
productions light and wholesome. 1t is war
ranted to make better, lighter, sweeter,
more toothsome, and nutritious biscuits,
cake, bread, etc, than any other baking
powder.
AFTER an experience of over twenty-five
years, many leading physicians acknowledge
that the GRAFENBERG MARsHALL's Uterine
CATHoLICoN is the only known certain
remedy for diseases to which women are
subject. The GRAFENBERG VEGETABLE
PILLS, the most popular remedy of the day for
biliousness, headache, liver complaint and
diseases of digestion. Sold by all druggists.
Send for almanacs. Gutenberg Co., New
York.
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WHY is the letter "s' like lamb?
Because it is the beginning of "sheep,'
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STOCK MARKETS.

CINCINNATI Cattle = Common to medium,
81 5Od4 so; good to choice butchers grades, S4 759
55O fair to good shippersS5 25@ 6. Sheep and Lambs
Common to choice sheep, 81 5Od4 25; fair to extra
lambs, s. 25@5 25. Hogs-CommOn, S4 1904 75; fair
to good light 81 sO95; fair to good packing grades,
81 75d4 90; selected butchers, S5@5 10.
Observation-Disclosures are buying slowly. Few
sales made of sheep lambs or hogs, and few offering
NEW YORK.-Beef Catle-Fair beef generally
selling. at S14. Sheep and Lambs-Market firm for
sheep, but quiet and steady for lambs. Common to
good sheep range from &c. to 6c. per h. common to
good lambs from Sc. to 934c.; few choice Jersey
lambs have reached 10c.
WOoL.-In Boston, prices remain firm. Ohio and
Pennsylvania, 47(d4Sc. for No. and EXTRA SOC. fol
choice and Xxx Sic. for choice Pennsylvania double
extra and above; Michigan in fair demand at 43@45c
for No. and extra in Western nothing OF any conse
quence was done; the demand for combng and de
lane quite active at 50 o55c for deaine, and 55@
SIZE for choice combing; pulled scarce and firm
choice grades superne, 44946c.; 32@35c for coarse
and low
In Cincinnati, dealers are paying the following
prices: Unwashed-Fine merino 21@22c.; coars'
clothing, 24(926c.; medium do, 27@29c.; Ions
combing, 32@35c Observation-Disclosures merino
3594Oc.; coarse clothing, 3Od35c medium clothing
35@3Sc. long combing 4O@42c. Tub-washed--Com
mon, 33@35c. good to choice, 35@39c Pulled-Su
perfne, 25G27c.
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EEEr'S r'SSiiIRTS.-OnIy one quaIity-the best.
IN he p's Patent Partly y-made Dress Shirts.
Can ba flushed easily as hemRing handkercnleI
he very best, six for 81.
Keeps Cuptom Shirts made to measure,
The very best, SIX for 3d.
An elegant set of 9 .nuii4e Gold plate Collar and
Sleeve given with ach half Keep Shirts
Keeps Shirts are delivered Free receipt OF price,
In any part the Union-bo express charges 10
Samples with full directions for selfmeasureinehI
Sent Free 10 any address. No stamp required
Deal r.ctiy with the NJ snufactuIer AMI get bottom
Prices. Keep Manufacturing Co.. I65 Mercer D., N j..
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THE MARKETS..

s7@s5 50; family So 5o@6 65; spring s. 75@s 81 extra,
S696 25; superfne, S5@6; low grades, s. 25@4 25.
Rye flour, S494 go Grain-Wheat, 81 l al 35;
corn, 4S@50c.; rye, 60@6Sc.; oats, 3O@41c Hay,
prime to choice timothy, $S@13. Mess pork, S13 75
Ola: Lard, s12@1O%c. Cotton, 1O12@1S19c.
E.-Ffour-Extra, 81 75d5; extra
family, S. 25@6; A No. l, Sc 5O@6 75; fancy, S7@
80 Grain-Wheat, 81 80 al 40; corn, So g55c; rye,
zoe; oats, 43@45c. Hay, S11@12. Mess pork, S14@
IA %. Lard, 1014@10Lc.
INDIANAPOLIS.-Flo -Flour-New process, 50 75@
10 49, fancy IS 75@9 25 family, 81 75@S 25; extra,
Sc 1907 25; low grade So 5Oa5. Grain-Wheat, No.
3 81 30; oats, new, 27d30c.; rye, 50d 55c.; corn,
45@4Sc. Clear rib sides, Sc. shoulders 63c Sugar
cured Hams, 914d10c Lard, prime steam, 9@91sc.
prime kettle, 934a10c. Hogs, 81 70@4 80.
NEW YORK.-Flour-No. 2 and No. 8, S3@4 rs;
superfine State and Western State, SIS 5096;
common to good Western and State, S6(96 SO;
good to choice Western State Sc 35@6 60; common to
choice white wheat Western extra Sc 65a6 So; fancy
white wheat Western, Sc 90@S rs; common to
good extra Ohio, Sc 10@S 25; common to choice St
Louis, S6a10 25; Minnesota patent process extra
good to prime, and choice to double extra, S. 25 a
10 75. Rye Flour, 81 75@525. Grain-Wheat, 81 321!
a 69; rye, 75@7Sc.; corn, 81 66c oats 80 a63c.
Mess pork, new S14 30@14 40. Lard, prime steam
old, 50 45d9 so; choice, new, 50 SOC.
PHILADELPHIA.-Flou - Western superfne
Sc; Western extras, 81; Minnesota extra family
81 1913; Pennsylvania extra family, IS 1893
high grades, S9d10 So Grain-Wheat, new, 81 6t
al 20 Rye, Pennsylvania, 706SOc Corn, yellow
Western, 72@75c. mixed, zoe. Oats, white Western
42@46c.; mixed Western, 42c. Petroleum, refined
13c; crude, in barrels, 1014c.
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A Railway Train Struck by Lightning.

An incident of a recent thunder
storm, as noticed by passenger on
train on the New York Midland Rail
road, is thus described by the Middle
town Press: The train was in the vi
cinity of Walton. The storm was ter
rife. Crash after crash of thunder,
with binding lightning, accompanied
by a deluge of rain and hail, followed
them. At one time the train seemed
to be enveloped in sheet of electrical
fire. A fearful crash preceded, and in
stantly the engine was in volume of
electricity; balls of fire encircled the
driving wheels as they revolved with
lightning rapidity. Engineer Sanford
beheld the phenomenon with wonder
and awe, and supposing that the end of
all things was at hand, involuntarily
shut off the steam. Nearly every per-
son on the train experienced a severe
shock. A large tree by the track was
shattered. The shock lasted but mo-
ment. When satisfied that nothing had
| been injured, the engineer started the
iron horse on with a loud whistle toward
| Norwich.
PERSONS who know something of the
thrift of corns may possibly believe this
story of man who lives at Ridgeville
Indiana: " He was afflicted with erysipe-
las in the face some years ago. Gradually
it settled in his nose, which became
hardened at the point. AT first it felt
like hard pimple. Gradually it de.
veloped into horny substance like &
ROSTERS spur, and finally projected itsell
into a well-defined horn. As it grew il
became annoying from its length, and, tC
curtail its dimensions, he began to whittlt
it down with a sharp knife, and finding i
painless, he continued the whiting
process, keeping the cornuary develop
ment down to perhaps half inch il
length. The man says he presumes that
if he had not whitfield it down, this sin
gular formation would now have beer
about five inches long"
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HOI FARMERS FOR IOWA.

CEND A POSTAL CARD for description and maps
= of I.20G- coo Acres L. r. lands for SAFE on n
r. Terms, by the Iowa H r. Land 20. LIN OlhiatS s
and soil irst-class and adapted to gram, corn ana
grazing: No Grasshoppers. Tickets free TO lahe- 10
buyers from Chicago and return Address d n
CALHOUN, Land Commissioner, 92 Randolph ot-,
ica or Cedar Ranids Iowa.