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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-17

GOODS.
am not selling out selling ut cost but am
Offering as large and we-se!ecied a stock or the
above IN entOned goods At ~ low figure ns can be
bought anywhere. | keep fa line or FURSl-
TURE of all descriptions, and the public Will con-
vince themselves of the aforementioned fact by
calling and examining my stock and prices
WILLIAM DATFRON.
1888 Main street.
Mattress Factory and Upholsterins- Rooms Nos
l6 is 20 north Fifteenth street. Jy 27-eod2m
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-17

VEGETINE thoroughly eradicates every Kind Of
humor, and restores the entire system TO healthy
condition.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-17

WE MAKE NO PRETENSIONSh
w IN bc selling ont at cost IN order 70 close "
or change business: but we will guarantee 10
sell FURNITURE OF all kinds at prices ~ low
as any house I'm the city. our stock being fuli ana
couniele i'm Parl,r, Chamber. and Dnlng't Room
Furniture OF all kinds. We Will offer special par
gains in line suits parOr and chinb"r) Tor the next
thirty DAYS. Parties in want OF Furniture or any
kind should not fail to examine our stock before pur-
chasing. l.. GAlltnurhi u SUI.
jy l9-2m 10 Governor S'rec''
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-17

.rvrp,r OF AN EsTIMABLE LAnf-PRos-
.M n,TsD BY HEAT--R0RBERY IN CHESTER
r l,r,I IRMATioN--pRoTRAcrED MEET
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-17

DOR SALE.-Desiring to give myM
II attention TO manufacturing, my large ~
stock of CHAMBER, PARLOR. aud DINING III
ROOM FURNITURE Is now for sale ut inanii-'
facturcrs prices.
over fifteen per cent. saved by purchasing yotn
FITRSITIJRE at ARTHUR ROOSEY'S.
Warcr0uins 1907 Main street.
P.S-PARLOR SUITS or Cotene and other Fine
ITnhoIsery; CHAMBER SUITS OF French Plate
Glass aud Best Finish: SlDEBOARDS, HAT
RACKS, EXTENSlON-TABLES &C.-all OF The
finest make and patterns. ,>,~
EiTREIrtEyE ie28
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-17
COMMERCIAL.
CORN AND FLOUR EXCHANGE.

RICHMUND, AUGUST IU' 1910.
OFFERINGS REPORTED TO SECRETARY.
WuEAT.-IYhite, $40 bushels. Red, 4,472 BUSH
.Is
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27
A Broken Heart.

ONE morning, fortnight ago, hap
pened in at the American Consulate,
and was introduced to a gentleman APP
parently about thirty-six years of age
He was above the middle height and
remarkable handsome, dark and Span
ish looking. saw him only for few
minutes, but he made decided impress
sion on me. l little thought that l
should never see Congressman j. +.
Leonard again. He died last night at
the Hotel TELEGRAPH, of broken heart,
the victim of the old, old story-unre-
Quilted love.
ago he formed the acquaintance of u
young Cuban lady of wealthy family,
and courted her on the promise that he
would yet present her with a career
worthy of her hand. His promotion
was rapid. In short time he rose
from post to post, to be Judge and Con-
gresham. Seeing his future so assured
he came to Havana to lay his honors at
the lady's feet, and to offer her his
heart and hand. While still on board
the steamship Columbus, in this port,
had been awaiting his arrival for deliv-
cry, and in which she advised him not
to land, as she was not disposed to listen
to his overtures.
Of course it was impossible for Mr..
Leonard to remain on shipboard in the
hot harbor. He landed, but only to
find he was cruelty Tilted, and that he
had been in pursuit so long of heart
of stone. His excitement drove him to
his bed. He fell into a morbid condi-
ton, which he vainly endeavored to
conquer. He struggled bravely, but
such was his bitter grief, such the blow
his love and manly dignity had re-
ceived, that he speedily sank into a
state which left him the easy prey of
the first of those many fell diseases of
these ATTITUDES, which are ever hover
ing round, vulture-like, to seize on de-
Ginning human powers. His fate came
in the form of the demon yellow fever
His condition spread about among the
lady's friends, and they were convinced
that his life rested in her hands. They
condemned her conduct, and, it is said
demonstrated with her for it. On the
night before he died the at length con-
science-stricken woman sent messen-
ger to his bedside to state they could
meet this spring in New Orleans, and
matters might be satisfactorily ar
ranged. A sad smile passed over his
face, and in the midst of it might be
seen CLEAN of new life, of triumph,
perhaps something of resentment. 81
do not want that woman he said, bit
terly. 1t was his last effort He was
within reach of his cherished prize
with power-perhaps the latent hope
to seize it, Alas! poor human nature;
the crisis and the complications were
too great He sank after the momen-
tary rally; the delirium resumed its
sway, and he died at one o'clock on the
morning of March 15.-HaUaqa Cor N.
Y. Spirit.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27

said the boy, " that we don't keep no
clearinghouse here! If you want
cheap board you must go around the
corner and three blocks straight on!
Do you propose TO pay in advance?'
As no one came to the door the young
man pulled the bell again.
"T'm telling you that you can't pass
yourself off on us as a grasshopper suf-
ferer" shouted the boy. IF you want
some cold vittles go round to the side
gater'
Four pedestrians had halted on the
other side of the street, and the Young
man looked down on the boy and softly
said:
"Boy, can you catch ten centsp"
eve don't sign no petishuns here for
a national monument to the inventor
of the dish-panr' replied the boy.
"What I'm talking to you is that you
want to 90 round to the cooks door,
The young man wished a wish con.
tanning 413 grains fine that the builder
of those high steps had been dead fol
forty years, but the door didn't open,
and the boy hung right to him, calling
out:
"Hain't | been telling you that you
can't get in there? You may be the
private Waterman on this block, but
you can't 90 around pulling front door.
bells and putting on airs! If have tc
argy much longer call the policer'
"rve got fifty cents here, boy" said
the young man as he turned around.
I otf1 hnv
piled the lad.
But the fifty cents was at home. The
young man searched for it in vain, and
the disguised boy turned to the men
across the street and called out:
{" Isn't it agin the law for fellow tC
be taking "a beeswax impression of q
front door lock in the daytime?"
They started to come over, and the
young man hurried down the steps and
up the street. He gave the boy just
one look 1t was a look in which rail
road collisions and steamboat blow-upS
were equally mixed and then frosted
with a Bogardus-kicker.
"Oh! We kin wink atme and try tc
buy me OFF, growled the boy, "but
these principles of honesty were painted
all over me when l was a baby, anC
they can't be rubbed out nor bought VI
for wealth.
Just then the young lady threw oper
the door and smiled and bowed ant
got as far as: "Why, Fwed!'' wher
! she discovered he wasn't there. The
footman was out and she had waited tt
" fix up" and ''Fwed'' had gone. Sht
backed in and shut the door, and tn,
mean boy got down to finish his In
dian, muttering:
If he couldn't raise fifty cents to re
ward me, how d he ever manage to gi
that gal one O them corsets with hun
dred and ninety bones in it?"-Detroi
Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27
Earl Leitrim's Murder.

The horrible murder of the Earl of
Leitrim and his attendants seems like a
revival of the old contests between
landlord and tenant which for a gener-
alton stained Ireland with blood. The
Earl appears to have been celebrated
as the hardest landlord in Ireland. For
thirty years he has been using the proc
esses of the law in their hardest and
sternest way to add to his estates, which
were enormous. At the time of his
murder eighty-nine of his tenants were
under notice to quit, and he was slain
nearthe cottage of widow whom he had
just turned out of her home. Of course
we cannot excuse nor palliate in the
slightest degree the fearful murder of
this great nobleman; but it must be con-
fessed that he was putting human ma
ture to very severe test in driving
around among the tenantry whom his
greed had made homeless. The prov
erb which is popular in Ireland that
Property has duties as well as rights
was not recognized. by Lord Leitrim.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27
Dogs in the Great Storm.

THE recent storm upon the plains
was, perhaps, the most severe ever
known. On the morning of the storm
two freighters, Mr.. James McDermott
and companion, started from Camp
Robinson for Sidney with their teams.
They soon were lost and became sep
arated, and last Saturday Mr.. Nc
Dermott was found under the following
circumstances: He had wandered for
twelve days, accompanied by two dogs,
without food of any kind, exposed to
the storm day and night, sleeping with
out shelter or covering on the cold
ground, and had wasted away to a mere
skeleton. To add to his sufferings, one
day he saw near him some COW boys, but
was too weak to call loud enough to at
tract their attention, and like ship
wrecked seaman who sees sail APP
proach but before it comes within hail
ing distance bears away again and disap-
pears, he saw them pass from him. On
last Saturday these same COW boys heard
a faint barking or yelping like that of
dogs, and, following the sound, they
came to them. The dogs were re-
duced to skeletons, and scarcely had
strength to stand, being in the last
stages of starvation. The COW boys
threw them some meat, but, instead OF
eating it themselves, they picked it up
in their mouths, got on their trembling
limbs, and tried to carry it to their
master And thus he was found. The
fact that the dogs refused to eat the
meat given them, although they were
dying of starvation, but attempted to
carry it to their famished master, is tes-
titled to by men of unimpeachable ve-
racity.
Mr.. McDermott was carried to sgd
ney, where he is under the care of the
post surgeon, with fair prospects of re-
covering, although badly frozen, while
the dogs have been cared for at a camp
near where they were found. McDer-
mott in his weak state talks constantly
of his dogs, and begs for them to be
brought to his bedside, which wish will
be gratifed soon. Many things con-
nected with the great storm will doubt
less long be remembered, and the
stories told around many a camp fire;
but we predict that the one longest re-
membered and oftenest repeated will
be the story of the two dogs, who,
when dying with hunger, and the food
in their mouths, refused to eat, but
tried to carry it to their starving mas
r.-O1ndbd Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27
The Boy Who Advised.

The architect who plans high front
steps to house is in league with certain
boys who have large and assorted
stock ofmeanness born in their natures.
Proof of this can be found any day in
the week in Detroit, and the latest was
gathered in no later than Saturday
afternoon, A very nice young man,
dressed in the nobbiest style, and sport
ing cane which never cost less than
one dollar, walked up the high front
steps of a. Jefferson avenue mansion
and pulled the door-bell. 1t was plain
enough even to the driver of street.
car that the young man had an affec-
ton for some one in that house, and
that he was about to meet his charmer.
But it wasn't so plain to stub-nosed
boy who was drawing picture of an
Indian warrior on the flagstones with a
piece of indigo. He looked up, quit his
work, and loafing along to the gate he
called out:
"Them air folks don't want any pat
ent tooth-paste today"
The nobby young man gave a sudden
start of surprise, but he instantly real
lied the vastness of the gulf separating
him and that street-boy, and he did not
reply.
"Our folks don't want any clothes
wringers to-day, and you want to hear
men called the boy.
The young man heard him. Several
pedestrians also heard him, and as they
looked up the young man wondered
why no one answered the bell.
I'm telling you fellow up there"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27
The Death Penalty.

AFTER hearing the report of DR.. Will
lam A. Hammond in regard to legisla-
tive action toward the investigation of
the State Asylums for the Insane-in
which the system is spoken of as "the
most barbarous in the civilized world''
the Medico-Legal Society last even
ing listened with interest to a paper by
DIR. John H. Packard, of Philadelphia,
on THE Mode of Infliction of the Death
Penalty" DR.. Packard reasoned that,
just as the physical terror of punish
ment increased, just so much is the
moral effect of the punishment weak
ened, as is proved by, the simultaneous
records in the daily press of executions
and murders. He gave, among other
reasons for opposing the present mode
of capital punishment, that its horrors
excited the humane sentiment of the
community to an inordinate degree,
thereby largely increasing the chances
of acquittal even for the worst crimi-
mails. In Pennsylvania, he said, d" if the
Governor goes out of Office without
signing the death warrant of criminal,
his successors, following the long-es-
tablished custom, neglect to give Off
cldl SdHcllOn 10 Il0 WARRANT, anu Ill one
notable case man sentenced to death
twenty-siX years ago is still unhung."
DR.. Packard suggested that in place
of the rope more humane and decent
means of life-taking be employed. His
choice was the administration of car
bonic oxide in close room in which
the criminal should be placed under
the direction of jury. At the end of
ten minutes fresh air should be adj
mitted into the room, and the same
Jury should view the body and give the
necessary certificate as to death. He
advocated this plan as one presenting
the advantages of economy, humanity
and decency.
Mr.. Riddle, one of the many speakers
who followed DR.. Packard, believed that
if the gallows were dispensed with we
should substitute something more mys-
FERROUS and horrible. "Do away with
the rope as means Of punishment"
he said, "but give us in place of it a
terrible punishment by dead of night,
in secrecy and mystery, and let the
body of the felon be put so far away
that even Satan cannot find it.n-N
Y Sam
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27

He was bent on adding acre to acre,
buying up farm after farm, evicting the
tenants, pulling down the cottages and
laying down the land in grass. That
he had strict legal right to do this no
one can deny; but that he exercised this
right in a cruel and heartless way is
equally undeniable. In this way he had
built up vast estates in Counties Done
gal, Leitrim and Derry; and he had
earned the reputation of having evicted
more tenants than any man in Ireland.
Thoughtful people in Ireland have
long looked with sadness and alarm at
the manner in which great estates grow
and districts become almost depopu-
lated. The sturdy tenantry are declin-
ing rapidly in certain parts of the coun-
try. They are driven to huddle in
squalid misery in the suburbs of the
cities or emigrate. The Green Isle is
thus not only weakened in military
force, but in industrial capacity. This
same change is going on also in Scot
land and England. A large fraction of
Scotland is owned by eleven men. One
noble Earl can drive from his mansion
IOO lillCo w illC oCats anu llCN Cl lSetN Z
his own land. Twelve hundred people
were driven from their homes that a
great deer park might be established.
In England, however, the tenants hold
meetings, they protest, they petition to
Parliament, they write to the Times, the
press discusses their claims, able writers
in the reviews plead their cause, and
refOrmers in Parliament work in their
interest. But in Ireland a fiercer tenn
per prevails. Among the hundreds of
evicted tenants occasionally will be
found one or two who brood over their
sufferings and seek to avenge them by
bloody deeds; and this, as bloodshed is
almost sure to do, rather hurts their
cause than helps it, The danger now
is, that the assassination of Earl Leitrim
will kindle anew the smoldering wrath
of the peasantry, and that there will be
other assassinations to follow swiftly
Baltimore Gazette.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27
" Uncle Tom"

REV. JOSIAH HENSON, immortalized
by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe as a
man from whose life many of the thrill
ing incidents which make up "Uncle
TOMS Cabin were taken, lectured last
evening in the Union African M. L.
Church, Paramount avenue. The church
was filled, and among the audience
were to be seen many white people
seated among the brethren of darker
color. Mr.. Henson, or "Uncle Tom, -
as he has been familiarly called, stands
fully six feet in height, yet, despite his
eighty-five years, he is as erect as the
majority of men at thirty. In appear
ance he is just the ideal patriarchal
Southern negro whom anyone who has
read Mrs Stoves book would picture
in their mind. His hair is tinged with
gray, and the full beard, kept carefully
trimmed, is also tipped with white.
The pathos and humor of the lecture
alternately brought tears and smiles to
the faces of his auditors. The separa-
ton of his mother on the auction-block
from her baby, her vain entreaties to
her purchaser not to tear them apart,
and her appeals to the Great Father for
her boys protection, were described
with a quaint, pathetic eloquence that
produced a marked effect. Many of
his hearers were weeping, and from all
parts of the house coUld be heard such
EXPLANATIONS as "Shamer' The bru-
tai wretchr' a scene which wildly
brought to mind the times when the
abolition of slavery was agitated, and
the sympathetic uprising of the people
and their protest against the great crime
of human bondage. He related his eX-
perience with different masters; how
once he was almost massacred with the
brutal lash, and then exclaimed that
+" half of the barbarity, cruelty and mis-
cry of those dark days had not been told.
No one knows it but God, and on the
Judgment day it will be revealedr'
Still he was thankful for being born,
for he considered he had done what he
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27
Followed by WOmen's Curses.

FREDERICK j. ID. RUMPF, a Well-edu-
Gated and genial German, who had been
successful as broker in this city,
opened bankers and brokers' office
in Newark about fifteen years ago. He
was highly recommended. Many Ger
man mechanics, laborers and servant
girls of Newark deposited their savings
with him and gave him money to send
to their friends in Germany. Some
wealthy firms empowered him to collect
on drafts in the old country, but the
majority of his customers were poor
people. He made money rapidly, and
in afew years purchased property worth
thousands of dollars. His credit was
excellent in banks and other financial
institutions, and he became a popular
member of many German societies. In
1875 and 1876 he lost heavily by specu-
lating in real estate, and early in 1877
he sold his handsome Office and resi-
dence at u Market street and mort
gagged other property. He did not
put the proceeds in the bank. His credit
was injured after this fact became
known.
On the 18th of March, 1877, he alb
seconded with about S15, 900 belonging to
his depositors. A pretty young woman,
Gussie Littrell, who was frequent Wis
itor at his office, disappeared at the
the same time. Rumpf' wife and chill
dren, who were left without funds,
moved to New York. Nothing was left
for the depositors, Rumpf having mort
gagged all his real estate. Some of the
poor women whom Rumpf had defraud-
ed cursed him in one of the meetings of
the depositors, and declared that i'll
luck would follow him.
About six weeks after Rumpf alb
seconded, Samuel Hauser, counsel for
two orphan children who had been
swindled, found Rumpf at Harper's
Ferry, Va. He was managing show
billed as "Spiritualism Exposed, by
Prof. L. S. Willis" Gussie Littrell
was with the party, but she left them
at Baltimore. Rumpf had given her a
seal-skin sacque, rich dresses and Jewels.
He surrendered $4,000 to Mr.. Hauser,
gave up the show business and disap-
peared.
Ten days ago a citizen of Newark
saw Rumpf in Madison, Wis. He had
telescope on a street corner, and made
a scanty living by charging the resi-
dents five cents head for glimpse of
the moon. The curses of the poor Ger
man women he had swindled in New
ark seemed, indeed, to have brought
him i'll luck. After leaving Harper's
Ferry he went to Chicago, where he
lost money in speculation. He then
visited San Francisco expecting to get
money from debtor. The man failed
two days before Rumpfreached the city,
and could not pay dollar. Rumpf
next opened an elegant ice-cream and
confectionery saloon in ST. Louis. He
lost money and had to close the place.
Helost more money in Chicago, and then
purchased a restaurant in Milwaukee,
Wis. This venture was failure, and
he left Milwaukee nearly penniless.
Then he went to Madison, where he
was seen as described above.-N. Y.
San.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27

In Viennese bathrooms girls, when
they do not belong to the uppermost
and Oldest couche Soci0le, are used to
being dropped for partners of better
family. A young gentleman belonging
to the highest set does not think twice
about letting go the arm of young
lady of less blue blood with whom he is
going to dance should he see an oppor-
tunity of waltzing with, say, a daughter
of the Liechensteins or Esterhazys. The
forsaken one might seem disappointed
at losing her cavalier, but not humili-
ated. Being deserted for dancer of
no better position than her own would
be resented as slight In Viennese
society there is no such thing as social
equality There are sets superposed
one above the other. 1t is permissible
for those near the apex to dine at the
house of those down and afterward to
stare in their faces, without saluting
them.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27

now turned to dark red, coursed bv
purple streaks, upon which the sunlight
plays and reproduces the fantastic, fit
ting colors of the ever-changing kaleido-
scope. ..
Nineteen, twenty! .....
The fagellation is complete, the
prisoner unbound, and the twenty or
thirty persons who had witnessed the
carrying into effect of the righteous
sentence crowded around to see the re-
suit of the scourging. Bakers shirt
was handed him, and he quickly passed
it over his head, and so hid from view
the marks of his deep disgrace and the
cause of his deserved suffering.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27

could to alleviate the sufferings of his
people. He did not desire to dwell up
on the dark side of things; rather would
he prefer to look always for the silver
lining of the cloud.
The lecture occupied over an hour in
delivery, yet never, for single minute,
was the attention of the audience dis
tracted from the speaker.-Philadelphia
Press
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27

A SHOEMAKER doesn't mind hard
times. His goods are always soled,
and, however much stock he has, he
can always sell the last.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27

How TO make barrel of flour go a
great way-Send it to the starving Chi
ese.-NorriSt0sCn Herald.