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IN Indian Legcnd.

The following story selected from an
eastern teacher, may be applicable in all
climes and by all people:
There was once beautiful damscl 1p.
on whom one of the good gcnii wished to
bestow a blessing He led her to the
edge of large field of corn, where he
said to ncr:
:" Daughter, in the field before us the
ears Of corn, in the hands OF those who
pluck them in faith, shall have talisman-
ic virtues, and the virtue shall be in pro-
portion to the size and beauty of the ear
gathered. Thou shalt pass through the
1leld once, and pluck one ear. 1t must be
taken as thou goest forward, and thou
shalt not stop in thy path nor shalt thou
retracc single step in quest of thy
object. Select an ear full and fair and
according to its size and beauty shall be
its value to thee as q talisman'
'The maiden thanked the good genius
and then set forward upon her quest
AS she advanced she saw many cars Of
corn, large, ripe and beautiful, such as
calm judgement fmight have told her
would possess virtues enough; but in her
eagerness to grasp the very bes she lett
these fair ears behind, hoping that she
might find one still fairer At length,
as the day was closing, she reached a
part of the field where the stalks were
shorter and thinner and the ears very
thin. and shrieved. She now regretted
the grand ears she had left behind, and
disdained to pick from the poor show
around her, for here she found not an ear
which bore perfect grain. She went on,
but alas, only to find the stalks more
and more feeble and blighted, until in
the end, as the day was closing, and the
night coming on, she found herself at the
end of the field without having plucked
all ear OF any kind
. No need that the genius should re
buke her tor. her folly. She saw itclearly
when too late, as how many IN all climes
and in all ages, in the evening of life call
sadly and regretfully to mind the thou
sand golden opportunities forever lost
because they We're not plucked in their
season.
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Scdemtns.y abilities.

President Bascom, who presides over
Western college to which young ladies,
as we'll as young men, are admitted, has
recently expressed his warm approval of
the coeducation of the sexes, and has as
serted that girls are better students than
boys, for the reason that they are better
adapted to sedentary pursuits. In other
words, he claims that girls can sit down
more successfully than boys, and that
this fact enables them to surpass the 9TH
er sex in study and in whatever business
or profession involves a large amount of
sitting down. Far be it from us to dis
pute the learned Presidents facts. Doubt
less he knows whereof he affirms, and
we should carefully concede that the
members of the gentler sex are unequaled
in the capacity for sitting down. Still,
the differences which. President Bascom
draws from this fact are not necessarily
true. A person, Of whatever sex, NAV be
able to sit down to an immense extent
and may, nevertheless, be wholly unable
to study. The professional fat man and
fat woman spend the greater part of their.
lives IN the sedentary occupation of being
looked at and pinched by curious people
but they have never, in single instance,
been noted for scholarship. AS for the
theory that because girls are peculiarly
adapted to rocking chairs they should
therefore be admitted to young mems
colleges, there is abundant reason why We
should unhesitatingly reject it.
While girls unquestionably have their
uses in the economy of nature, and pos
sess merits exclusively their own, it may
be boldly asserted that they are totally
unfit to pursue in company with young
men the studies which constitute the
curriculum Of every respectable college.
One of the earliest studies of the Fresh
man year is the art of getting the jani-
tors COW into the fourth story of the dor
mitory. This can be readily mastered by
any young man Of good abilities and hab-
its of industry aud perseverance; but be-
tween girls and cows there is great gulf
fixed. The girl, from her earliest youth,
looks upon the COW as ferocious beast,
prone to keep young ladies in the air in
positions fatal to the proper arrangement
OF the back hair. To suppose three or
four young lady students are capable of
the complicated pushing and pulling nee
essary to induce COW to climb several
flights Of stairs is to suppose that the nat
ural feminine fear Of cows can be eradi-
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Respect for the 4l0ed.
NELSON RITTER.

Some one has truly said, that ':To ridi-
cule old age. is like throwing cold water
in the morning into the bed in which we
must sleep at night" Old people have a
right to demand that they be treated
with respect; but are they not under
great obligations to be pleasant, agree
able, and-as far as possible-cheerful 2
Failing in this, is it any wonder that neg
lect and disrespect sometimes follow?
Old people should be held in reverence
by the young, should especially if there
is anything worthy of reverance about
them; but each man and woman should
see to it, as they grow o:d in ye MS ii at they
do not grow out Of sympathy tor their
children and grandchildren. No person
because he is old, has a right to be selfish,
sullen, and morose.
Said little boy, " Ma, will grandpa go
to heaven?"
''Yes, my son, hope so; but why do
you ask that question:
Because, Ma, if grandpa goes to heav,
en-, / don't want to go there. He would
say, sWhew whew! what is this boy
bothering around here for?''
4 short time since l read a long article
written to show that it was our duty to
love old people. The writer described
her great love for an aged grandfather
and proceeded to give minute descrip-
ton ol him, investing him with SO many
virtues that not to love him-or any other
person such as described-would be an
impossibility. / thought that to love
sucha person would be more of a pleas
ure than a duty. Every neighborhood
has its old person who, although bowed
down with weight Of years. still has
warm heart for the young and a kind
word for the children.
No need for the word "duty'' to cause
such people to be sincerely loved and re-
spected. Again, every neighborhood has
its representative, from whom the chill
dren instinctively spring away. as from a
plague. Persons that little girls are afraid
to meet, whom the boys give wide berth
to, and whom no person desires to encoun-
ter. Even long newspaper article in
which all the changes are based upon
the word 'sduty," will fail to cause such
nnsympathetic people to be respected,
much less loved.
Let us all, therefore, resolve that what.
ever be the number of our years, we will
be true to the right, kind and sympathet-
ic to all, especially toward the weak ones
of earth, whether they be IN their first or
second childhood. Doing this faithfully
we shall be loved and respected all along
the pathway of life. And when the end
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IN -4r;stocrntic spendthritt.

A London correspondent writes: An
advertisement of the sale by auction of
a magnificent mansion and estate in
Harttordshire affords me text fer
story and a sermon. Some years ago when
! was passing a few months at oxford.
two OF three Of the aristocratic under.
graduates were making themselves motor
lous by their silly freaks. such as smash
ing the doors and looking glasses in the
houses IN which they lodged, wrenching
OFT knockers and bell-pulls from the doors
OF the houses in the High street, making
bon-tlres OF pictures and statues in the
great quadrangle of Christ Church. etc.
etc. The ring-leaders of this party was
young man named Mario1ibanks. COM
monty called Marchbanks, the heir to i'm
mense wealth, and inheiriting, among other
sources of income, partnership in the
celebrated banking house of Coutts & Co,
tie was young man Of considerable
ability, but wasted the period of his col
lege career in the amusement of his set.
He and his immediate comrades carried
their horse play too far, and were eventu-
ally expelled in disgrace from the uni
verslty. His escapades did not, however,
materially affect his position in society,
and four years ago he married daughter
of the Duke Of Marlborough. 1t was
hoped that this event would have sobered
nm down, and that, with the splendid ad-
Vantages he possessed. he would have be-
come useful member ofsociety. He pur-
chased the estate I have mentioned. and
on the house alone expended over S6o, 600
making 1t one OF the most elegant man
slons in the kingdom. Everybody, except
his most intimate friends, supposed that
| he was going on all right, when suddenly
came collapse, and he was found to be
many hundreds Of thousands of pounds
worse off than nothing
| Precisely how he has managed, In so
short time, not only to run through his
immense Legitimate fortune, but also to
involve himself hopelcssly in debt, is rot
yet clearly known, but continuous sys
TEN OF gambling and betting, in which
enormous stakes We're involved. appears to
have been at the bottom Of it. Efforts
were made to save him, and prevent the
exposure, but the demands against him
proved so serious that this was found i'm
possible, and it became at last necessary
to effect his torcible withdrawal from the
great banking house. Lady Burdett-
Coutts herself had an interview with him
and generously offered to give him c10o,-
600, If that sum would relieve him from
difficulties. On his replying that i,
would not, she is said TO have offered
two, three, four, and even five hundred
thousand pounds (s2 ,50O,O0O), but he still
affirmed this sum would he nathino IKE
sufficient, and she was sensible cnoorl
to give up the attempt. Of course, hi,
rum is now complete, and he stands be
fore the world the most splendid spcci
men OF his age Of the reckless spendthrft
| need hardly add that he gets very li,tlt
sympathy.
Daily globe., 1878-02-24
Dacidrs -Music PartY.

David Turton was an English flannel
weaver, and, before the advent of the mod
ern factory, worked at the loom in his
own house. But music was his great de-
light. He was good singer, played well
on the violoncello, composed chants and
psalm tunes, ard trained church choirs.
Musical people often invited David to
their houses, for he was "a great favorite
on account of his knowledge of music and
his simple goodness. The following
CHARACTERISTIC account he gives in broad
Yorkshire Of his own behavior at the
party:
81 went t'other day." he said, ito a
great meusic do at ou'd Mr.. AIaudc's. at
'Afficld All. Nah! when l gat theare, a
smart-looking chap o. waiter telled me
| was to goa into t parlour.
''Soa follows efter him down long
passage, till we commed to a big oppen
place like, and then he "Opens doo-ar,
and says to me, Cum I'M
"soa Iwalks in, and there seed t place
Daily globe., 1878-02-24
Dangers of the Telephone.

A young man from Syracuse brought
couple of telephones and a coil of wire
1ope to Rome last week, and in the even
ing he went around to house where a
girl lives, and whistled softly until one of
the upper windows was opened, as he ex-
pected it would be. Then he threw one
of the telephones up in the window and
whispered into the other instrument, Are
you there, darling?" Sharp and clear came
the answer, "Yes, I'm here, ard if you'll
wait TIL get my boots on you'll think
yeu' re elected for the next world by fifty
thousand majority He had hit the
wrong window.--Rome (N. y Sentinel
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were right full O quality, and Mt. Maude

were right full o quality, and Mr.. Maude
comes to me, and SAYS:
Now, David, how are you2"
hiadhn says thenk We
Soa then there comes smart chan Wi,
trayful of cups o tea, and he saws to me.
viii We hey sum-
'Ihenk ye,' says ], I'm none particu-
lar i'"i
why, then, help yer sen, saws he.
eoa taks a cup i my hand, and then
says he. .Weant We hev sum sugar and
cre-am?'
Aye, for sure, says I;soa sugars and
creams it, and then there comee another
chap WI trayful of bread and butter
and cakes like
Says he, will We hev sum-
81 don't mind if do saysI.
We'll, then says he, tax sum WI thy
fingers
''soa holds t cup and sawcer i one
hand, and takes prece of spice-cake i T.
other
Now, then thinks /, how am I ever
sup my tea. I can't team pour it
out into t, sawcer, for boath nv hands is
last But all at once l sees !. plan o.
dom 1t.
Il thowt l could hold t. cake i nv
mouth while l teamed (pouretD t tea
INTO sawccr. and then claps t cup on a
chair while | suppcd my tie a,
but bless ye, t cake war so vary
snort 'crumbling) that it brake off i my
mouth. and tum'led onto t floor, and I
were III bonny taking.
"Howsomever, clapt t cup and t. saw
Ger ont t chair, and kneeled me down on
7 floor. and sammed(picked) il all up as
weel as | could, and then snps up nv
tea as sharp as l could, and gave t cup
and t sawcer to t chap who cumed
round again wi his try.
"'Will We hev some more!' says he.
- Noa, says l, 'noa more, thenk ye.'
For thowt to mysen I had made man
grums tantlcs) enough, and all t quality
at war theare nun ha' thowt me a haw-
hard OVID chap.
Weel, when tea were tinish'd, we cat
to [ meusic' an, then promise ye war
al! reed, an a rare do we had on it.''
Daily globe., 1878-02-24

comes, may it be said of us as saws Sir
Walter Scott. in his vivid description of
''king Rene'':
a mirthful man he was: the SHOWS of 900
Fell. but they did not chill him. Gaiety.
Even in lips closing, touched his teeminp
brain
With such wild visions as the setting sun
Raises in front OF some hoar glacier,
PAINTING the bleak ice with a thousand
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-12-06

The story OF newspaper fraud and Tall
ifra is going the rounds. The Journal IN IN
Question was called che Advocate, Wasissued
in New York, and was the organ OF the
G. eenbackers when the party was bloom
INK, as some o! our readers may know 20
their cost. The representations OF It's pro-
prietor were that during the late campaign
il Preached q circulation OF 7Oo,0eU copies
weekly, That statement is probably huge
exaereration, hut it really did do a thriving
business for while. There was very much
OF lhc " fiat I" idea in its management. which
was perfectly in consonance with the no
tons il preached. 1t was furnished at hrst
for fifty, and then for twenty-five cents per
year, which did not cover the cost OF tue
paper on which it was printed. But Inc
astute owners had another chance ior lneir
remuneration. They proposed to sell sew
iug-machines TO subscribers at mucn-fe-
duced price, but when the money wa SEM
in The machines we're not forthcoming. In
;foct thew were .stiat" machines. There
was also good deal Of borrowing OF money
from g Che friends OF the cause" MIR. Peter
Cooper having been mulcted to the tune OF
several thousands. Since whitening Dlast
blew upon the Greenbackers at the polls,
the Advocate has gradually faded away,
and is now moribund, while letters are pour
Jog in TO know what hes become OF those
sewing-machine>. The organ can scarcely
be resuscita:cd, unless the moneTeG lnna-
tionists, like Mr. Cooper or General Butier,
supply it with life-bloo1 agaia.-Battamore
american.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-12-06
BY Robert u. Lyme,
Real Estate Agent ana Auctioneer,
1912 hIain street.

TRUSTEE'S SALE OF A DESIRABLE
j. DETACHED FRAME I,ouSE;r NTH Ia, HR IEh
BASEMENT, ON TWENTY-FOURTH SIK EE
NEAR. n STREET, AND A SMALL III, Ek lsssnY I
HOUSE ON t:ARR1NGTnM, me NEAR = TMEN yIt,n
SECOND STREET. AT AUCT1ON.-ln execution
of a certain deed Of trust from George =. Iyier,
dared November %, 1877, to the nnders9Eneo, Us
Court, p. b. Ill 4. page 362: and IN Henrlco
County Court, D. D. co. page S3 VIII SCI; upon ,n
the premises. ut public auction. beginning WIN We
property Darlington street being reGr sd 30 sse 10
dcfauIt having been made in The payment ofihe
saline, on WEDNESDAY,; necsmber III d9t 10 a aa,d
O'Clock p NJ. the PROPERTY describcu IN sa'u
deed. The HOUSE oil wcn'y-fourth street mas
brick basement, and contains about six rooms ware,
and an NECESSARY convenlcncts. The lot mas 1Ton
on Twenty-fourth street OF SO feet, and runs PACK
1875 feet 10 fourteen-foot alley the pr1pTrsS ~
Carriu cton street consists of nice FRA ME Ed T.,
MINT of three rooms, and now Yielding ,air Isn,
Lot has a. front OF 22 feet, and runs back 4 sooo
denth. d. -. ,x,,, % INV off
n note of s34O9S, with all interest, &c. thereon :
s o'I."'e "p0t-" r. A. MEAGHER,
Hnr Trustee.
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ny Richardson & Co..
Real Estate Agents and Auctionccrs,
l1l3 Main street.

TRUSTEE'S SALE OF DOUBLE
L FRONT FRAMED DWELLING ON WEST,
MAIN STREET-Dy virtue OF certain deed OF
trust from H. r. Wright anG others bearing date on
the 27lh day of July. 1873. recorded III Richmond
Chancery Court, CLERKS ofncc, IN p: r; log D.:
page 3l7, being requested so 10 DO ny me holder
been made In the payment Of said note will pro
coed 10 sell By auction. on The premises, on THURS
DAY the 18th day Of December. 1878, mt O'CLOCK
?. ~, the PROPERTY described In said deed as
fronting forty feet on the south side Of west Main
street one hundred and tfty-ivc feet east OF Lom-
bard street. and running back within parallel lines
one hundred and sevcnty-nine fect more or less to
alley twenty feet wide, on which there Is lWo-
story double front framed dwelling.
TERMS: Sufficient in cash to pay all expense Of
executing this trust and of note described in said
deed for $500; for any balance of The purchase
money OH such /, rms US may be made known at the
time of sale. n. 81 LEE,
de g Trustee.
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The Beethoven Musicate.-Tbe first mast
Gale OF the Beethoven Association was given
at Odd-Fellows' Hall September 9Th. The
one to be given tonight would, in the r'gu-
lar order, have been The fourteenth, but in
consequence of the Indictment weather and
other unavoidable causes it is in reality the
eleventh. For the occasion the following
attractive programme has been arranged:
/, chorus (thirty voices; 2, duet, Mrs. a.
G. Harding aud Miss Rosa Thomas: 8. glee,
five ladies and FIVE gentlemen; 4, solo,
Mrs. Emmett Gregory; 5, duet, Miss Sue
Thomas and MIR. A. G. Atkinson; s. in
strumental duet, Mrs. Atkinson and Mrs.
Harding; 7. qlartette, Misses Jones and
Belote and Messrs. Morrissette and Owens;
8, duet for piano and harmonica. Miss Mol
lie Vaughan and Mf. w. L. Tedford; 8,
solo, Dir. George L. Richardsou; 10. cho-
rus; IL, solo, Miss Matte Thomas three
years old; II, solo, Mr.. Alonzo Holt. The
excellence OF this programme will doubt
less attract a large and fashionable audi
enCe, -srsr=...
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r. OST. On MAIN STREET go
IL mar Ninth. on wednesday last. aSASgcAa
YELLOW-ANn-WHTrE SETTER DOG; Ieet anu
legs nlarse with yellow spots; name! York,
reward will be p1ii If delivered to me, at the Sen
ate. or at my residence In Manchester.
de 6-2t* l.. X. & HlLES.
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4 'uCrsor ssAI.Es-..ratnre pays.
COMMISSIONERS sAEE{0F LARGl

sSAEEfOF LARGE
W AND VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND IN IN
CUMBERLAND 'CoIJNTY.--Th UNDERSIGNED,
Commissioner appointed by decree Of BucsfnRhnm'
EircftiL Court nc the October term thereon Tor tge
wear the suit or Cyrus Mendenhall rs. WIZ"
lain w, Wilson and others. will sell, on the LreHi-.
sos nt iublic auction. on MONDAY the 6th DAY or
tif fsir IL not on the next tair nay
iIereaffer] aty12 O'Clock ~ I, the TR ACTOR LAND
in cumberland county called Boz, Brook.n con;
N lntny AS A(R ES. situated ON Willis river ana
Bon B.ook creek. The improvements, on same are
yery valuable, cnnststsng or n large and handsome
IN lMED IWELLIh;G and all necessary out.
buildings. The tract has on It large quantity OF
boitonfand and ~ ore OF the best estates IN t,s
narr Of Virginia.. The Commissioner WIN otter mis-
is1id for saeIh two or More parcels, oras Whole
accepting The bid or. Dias wn,cn WIZ ofins tne
TEnns OF SALE eas; and me here's rssia aasr o.
enuaI ipstainents with interest on deferred pay
ments from day Of sale and ute until 1oe
security TO be given for the deferred Payments and
the sa TO be made subject 10 the OF the
t1n,,rr vt. - - :, So, JOHN r. WILSON.
10 Eots,y4w Il, .G. {. .a's1 ~. commissioner.
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The Mortaary Report.-For the month OF
November nine iDterments were reported
in Maury Cemetery. OF this number there
was one white and one colored infant from
Chesterfield, and the remainder OF the
deaths occurred in Manchester. There were
four white females two white males, aud
one colored male. Four OF the deaths oc-
Cured in the First Ward, two In the
Fourth, and one in the Second. The Oldest
person was Mrs. Jane p. Bailey, aged nifty
i've, who died OF cancer; two others were
adults. and four infants. One lnterment-
of a colored female, aged forty-tye, who
died IN the Second Ward-was reported at
Punch's burying- ground; making the total
number Of deaths in the city, as feportedfor
the past month. eight.
Superintendent Perdue reports his re-
ceiprs for the past month as $53, and the ex-
penses incurred as $500.
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MAxcnEsrER AND yicrs NIFTY

rse,,,. srn,a id ~. Isenarkabls Case. -
49, y,as.or ;s determined not 10 he on
Ssss hs nor metropolitan neighborS. lsafi
s ro r,crning City Sefg eant Fitz yer
ia ',i;scayeeed that John Jones. alas john:
Ior;s ai;as Marshall Stevens. bad escaped
.,.,,ns .firs,e during the night. Stevens tas
DO ia ,reueralir called) escaped by burning
mi. . Grace i'm the floor eight by eleven and
! hall inches. The only instrument used
was a small, piece OF wire abont eightihcbes
long. This was heated in the stove, ana
the work must have been tedious. After
burning around the pianks be took them
out, making as neat Job RS II the Drinks
had been saved out. stevens weighs so III
one hundred aud sixty pounds, anu .us
space through which he mace ms eAit we, N'.s
a very small one. After gettinS tue uVae
through, Stevens fastened piece Oh Iops ~, w
a broom. placed The broom across .he
anart,,re and let himself down 10 Inc
fjoor OF the Alert engine-room, from wh,cn
no escaped easily. one of the doors beng
unlocked. The only other prisoner IN the
male department of the Jail was Royall
Haya}l, and he was sound asleep at tue
tjrnp Stevens was under indictment Tor
stealing horse from mrs. Thomas faden,
oud harness from David Jarvis. In Inc cell
occnpied by the accused, he Ind removed
quantity of bricks and plaster, but ~ Is
supposed, fearing detection il escape was
attempted that way. determined q on D! Inc Inc
other plap, Stevens was not locked IN the
cell, because the front room IS considered
the safer OF the two. Since the recent at
tented robberies the police have been
watcbingiu various suspected localities, ana
it il impossible for them to be on duty near
the Jail for any length OF time. sergeant
Fitzgerald elsewhere offers reward 1of Tue
apprehension OF the escaped prisoner.
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The City CoetncR.-The regular semi
monthly meeting OF The City Council will
be held tonight at q O'Clock. The Coun-
Gil has not had meeting since November
Est. There are several matters OF interest
to he considered, and it is important that
every member should be present. Mr..
Gentry, of the First Ward, who has almost
entirely recovered from his late Illness, and
Mr. Gibbs, OF the Second Ward, who gets
abort tolerably well on crutches, have sig
nited their Intention OF being present.
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The Moten Register-Decreased Returns.
In Manchester there are twenty alcoholic
and thirteen malt registers. For The month
OF November The former reported G,G09
drinks-tax, SlG5.27. The malt registers
reported 1928 drinks-taX, S13.l4. Total
tax, SI7S41. For the month OF Octobe:
the same registers reported 1881 alcoholic
drinks-tax, S174.52; and 3.S90 matt
drinks-tax, Sl9.45. Total tax, Sl93.9I.
Decrease for Observation-Disclosures, $3.50;
malt, S6.31; total, $3.50.
The tax for September on nineteen aco-
ho'ic and twelve malt registers was Sl9i.97.
The tax for November, 1877, was the
largest yet reported, and it has been steadily
declining ever since.