The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-23

l.hnred for thirteen years. In Davenport,
Iowa. and then Went west with the mohey
sine had saved, in order to preempt ana o.
cupy in her own right l6o acres OF ianu.
she selected o ,enartcr.section IN Osoorne
county. Kansas, built house, and iaid OUT
her farm. In letter to her former mistress
she says: ssThere is spring on my lana
and q ROCK quarry. No more need ! say.
& No foot OF land do possess, A pilgrim ID
the wilderness My plants are doing nicely.
,eaneciaIlv my raspberry plants. think tnaI
when get my home fixed up all riSnt
will have the garden spot OF the Worid.
like the country, and think 1t is Just nea ui
f,l. T want to build house for you" ,ihe
name of this heroine Of the kitchen ano lug
hackwoods Is Lizzie Fuller. She puts "eaA-
linps OF either sex to the blush.
It seems little odd that Disraeil' now 50
famous and occupying position SO eNa''e .';,
sbould have written this passage III MS
earlier doys: ..NIind is fine thing, i
,von,t dcny It; and mine was once as Iuil
=, nrifie and hope as an infant empire. But
sybere are now my deeds and aspirations.
and where the fame dreamed OF when q
hoyp I find the world Just slipping through
INV fingers, and cannot grasp the fewer err it
II falls. quit an earth where none VII
ever miss me save those whose Dioou 10.
nnires no laurels to make them love l,t
memory. NV life has been biunder anu
blank. and ali ends by my adding one more
sight ghost to the shado"y realm "a i''''
precocity."
OK lawyer took exception the other day
90 nv den,nciation OF lawyers, because L
c.,Iej them the blood-suckers OF the COM
ra,ritr. rApplause and cries OF They're
nothing else.'l Now, am going 10 add 10
that and call them the garroters OF the COM
munity. A lawyer in Boston garroted he
when I was a beardless boy here thLteen
wears. ago. am going to hunt that lnfer-
mi VILLAIN to the other end OF creation. ne
is living in the city OF Boston to-day.
Kearneys Boston speech.
Roebling, the engineer who devised the
BROOKLYN bridge, estimated the OUTSIDE cost
at So, 0OO, 900. Over S10,00O.0O0 have pee ?i,
snent ,lpou it already, and much more VIII
be necessary to finish it.-Butdto CONNER
c;nI Advertiser. There has been great
deal of wire-pulling about that bridge any
how. and it is believed that it will always
keep people in suspense.-Desrow fTee
Press.
Sir Walter Scott gave. on August IA, 1925,
to Maria Edgeworth, the penholder WIN
which he had written the "Heart OF Mldio-
THAN "-all his novels, in fact, up 10 tiat
time. Its present possessor is DR.. Butler,
of Harrow. The MSS. OF the g Black
Dwarf" "Peyerll Of the Peak" "Nood-
stock,'' and the "FortuneS OF Nigel" are
all owned by Mr.. John Ruskin.
K, Bohemian who is always on the
lookout for chance to borrow = francs TILL
next Tuesday, presents himself at the door
Of a rich acquaintance. "My master doesn't
receive to-day" says the servant. That's
all right. I don't want him to receive;
want him to give. Tell him the Shah OF
Persia wants to see m."-PariS paper.
"If,v advertised a philosophical victim,
"the person who took my overcoat, was
influenced by the weather, then all IS sc,
rene: but il he did SO from commercial
I am ready to enter into
financial negotiations for its return. ,>-Neu
Hauen Register. ~ H..
Yesterday flour advanced from five to ten
cents a barrel Nelo York Mat. You
might have known that it would. flour al
five cents q barrel is so eXtravagantiy 10"
that no really fashionable person wouia ever
eat it ct that price. -Courler.J journal.
A New York man has made straight
hmm or fourteen feet and thrce-uuarlel
incbes-,he papers say for wager, but ne
must have bad political office ahead Of
him.-Ne,o Orleans Picayune.
He said he rather guessed he knew how
to sail boat. But the gentle zephyrs ina
kiss the wayeIets over his Watery grave
mournfuIly whisper: He luffed not wise
ly."-Puclc.
There are very few men SO brilliant tba
they must be looked at through smoked
GLASS. Picdy,tne. ,-