The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-08-03

| The Boston IeTQtG says: - Editorial cA
cursions in New England are getting played
out, but the form is still kept up by inter
ested individuals who want little free
travel and free entertainment. The last one
was fair specimen. It was the excursion
OF the Maine Association, and forty-nint
persons participated. OF these two were
men connected with the daily press of tho
State, and twelve connected with the weekly
press. Then there were three newspaper
men from Massachusetts, and two from New
HAMPSHIRE. One weekly religious news
paper in the State was represented by five
persons. Five persons were connected with
the iob-printing business. There Were
twenty-four women, not one of whom is q
contributor to the press. And this gang
has been travelling to Moosehead lake and
elsewhere as the press Of Maine"
A writer in the Providence Journal has
been looking into the use made OF circula-
ting libraries In that city. One woman
takes out books "because," she says, "it
looks well to see new books lying around"
She never opens the books. Another wo-
man frankly explained her motive as fol-
lows: go no, I don't read the books; that
would be too tiresome. just look over
the beginning till find who the characters
are, and then turn to. the end to see how
they come out. Then il anybody asks ME
about the hook, say: 80 yes, 1've seen
it,; and tell how it, ended, and SO get the
credit OF being quite literary" ..-. @'
A plain countryman entered bank in
this city and made deposit Of $4,000. One
of the officers asked him "what he intended
to do with so much money" "Oh," he re-
piled, EtI am doing this for my wife, and
am determined to keep on working and add
ing to the amount until, when die, she
will he real manageable widow" Now,
if that man does not ill the bill OF disin-
terestcd husband, then let any one produce
a better ple.-Macon Telegraph
SWEET CHALYBEATE SPRINGS, July co.
In the baths here one feels the gas arising
all around him, and cannot better express
the feeling after one comes out than by
using the expression OF one colored bath
keeper: "Now, boss, you has de glow o. de
barth in yer very marrer-bones. You has
been intirely manipulated. De action is
complete on de magnesium O. de skin, am
your internal improvements is exactly car
bombed. ''-Baltimor Bulletin.
The Russian army is very scantily sup
piled with bands, the men marching to the
music of their own song. We should think
that when man had been compelled to lis
ten to Russian song he would want to
fight somebody, If he had to walk one hum
dred miles to find the man.-E1chan9e.
We unhesitatingly pronounce the rumor
that the clereymen are about to strike and
burn the churches a malignant falsehood.
But there is a reticence Of open talk, and q
gloomy and threatening wagging OF heads
among the doctors, which is ominous OF
danger to the drugstores. -DetroH Post.
1t was little embarrassing, to be sure'
says the Wilmington Commercial, for the
peach-men when they met to denounce the
railroad for not carrying their fruit more
cheaply to find it doubtful whether or not
the mob would let the road carry it at any
price.
A man from Pittsburgh was in the city
Yesterday. But be was mantully ashamed,
and lied about it, and swore he was from a
town in the tar district Of North Carolina.
When the citizens learned how he felt about
it they got together and raised a purse for
him and voted him q silver medal.-EJ-
change.
According to an English law, while two
persons may plan conspiracy ut least three
are required to create riot Cincinnati /
Gazette. We didn't know that . riot could
be created according to any law.-Boston
Post.
There are more things 'twixt heaven and
earth than are dreamed OF in our philoso-
ply. Therefore we may never know why
the small boy had rather hold up his pants
with his hands than wear suspenders.- M
City Derrick.
+. We would like to ask the railroad man.
ayers and their striking employees one ques-
ton on a subject In which we all feel COM
mon interest. Was Farragut really lashed
to the mast ?-Haaokeye. .,...
"Whom do you want to see in Paw
tucket? " inquired Mr.. Lester. "Be iabers,"
was the quick reply, 81 want to see mesef
there the most Of anybody"
What has made these railroad firemen so
bloodthirsty? Before they left their posi-
tons they were tender men.-PhilQdetphia
Bulletin.
Hamburger has tried cast-iron pavement,
and finds it durable, comparatively dustless,
and not as noisy as stone.
A convict discharged from the Ohio peni-
Tertiary publishes card thanking the war
den for his 'funiform courtesy"