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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-01-29
CR0CRERY. GLASSWARE. DC.

lust RECEIVED, A NICE LINE OF
~ DECORATED CHARACTERISTICS from - un:
also beautiful assortment of TIN TOILET-SETS
from So so up: WIRE MEAT-SAFES. CLOTHES
HAMPERS, DO0R-MATS, and full line OF
GLASSWARE, and CHILDREN'S- CARRIAGES
ROBERT HAROLD,
IL 23-3m SIT Broad and 900 Main street.
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AUcrross SALES. asure bays
By Robert =. Lype. 5s 80
Real Esfnte Agent end Auctionecr,
tS Si5Eef 1912 NafiI strfes. 90

By Robert y. Lyle. = 3sss5e
Real Esfate Agent end Aucti onecr,
1912 Main strees.
COMMISSIONERS SALE
W or A.
vALUABLEAFD Observation-Disclosures
UNIMPROyED BUsINEss-LOT
NEAR TO MAIN STREET, ON THE WEST SIDE
OF THIRTEENTH BETWEEN MAIN
IS, AND. CARY STREETS, ~ "a.
JUST IN REAR OF PUTNEY q WATTS'S SHOE
-.a 80 Z. STORE, s.
at Az CTI o N.
By virtue of decree of the Chancery Court OF
the city OF Richmond pronounced on the i9th day
Of January, 1878, In the suit Of Scott and wife pa
Alvey ct ais, the undersigned special commission
ers named In said decree will offer for sale at public
auction On the 10Th DAY OF JANUARY, 1873,
at o'clock 2. b., on The premises, that valuable
LOT on the west side OF Thirteenth street between
Main aud Cary streets, for many years occupied ny
60 feet on Thirteenth street, and extends back In
parallel lines about SO feet, and Is bounded by an
alley both on its north and south. The central loca
ton of this lot. the very heart of business rem
ders It extremely valuable for commercial purposes
There Is upon tile lot good foundation and large
quantity or BRICKS, which can be utilized to an
advantage. IT,
TERMS One fourth cash: balance at six, twelve,
and eighteen months, with six per cent. interest
ali the purchase-money Is paid and conveyance
W. w. COSBY,
IA % So zs.sse Special Commissioners.
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NEWSPAPERS, &c.
1879 NOW IS THE TIME 1879
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AGENTS FOR THE PUBLISHERS AND THE PUBLIC
for all the Magazines published in this country and
Europe will send any OF the following papers and
magazines to any address tpoSta9e paid on receipt
OF the prices annexed, which are The publishers
lowest rites
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1854 81 sfl BY w. Gcddin. 8:
Heal Estate Agent and Auciioneer,
corner OF Eleventh and Bank streets. Z

.H,RUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE
1 REAL ESTATE ON NINTH STREET BE-
TWEEN MAIN AND FRAEkEIN STh EEIS,
KNOWN ASTHE .tVIRGINIAOPERA.H :
BY virtue or the provisions OF certain oeea o.
trust executed by James D. Browne and VIE, pear
ing date 9th June, 1916, duly recorded In hicn-
1n6nd .Chancery Court in u. B. No. LOO A, page
Si. we shall in execution thereof, being soregured
by The beneficiary in said deed proceed 10 sell ~
miblic auction, on the premises on ~ LAY.
k9th January, 1878, at O'Clock II NJ. tne HEaAt
ESTATE described in said deed, consisting OF iot
Of land from ting SO feet on the west line or MINI
street, between Main aud Franklin streets running
hack 100 feet, upon which stands The YlhGlNiA
,OPER A-HOUSE, also, the lot on the south line ;ot
FRANKLIN between Eighth and Ninth streets, 'front.'
ing 2Ok feet, and running back l07 feGt togetner
with aif the improvements thereon.
This propcrtyl has been for many years known as
the $ VIRGINIA 0PERA-H0USEtnsis O fashiona-
bile place of amusement, and situated IN the very
heart OF tc city, and one of the most
and fashionable cross streets. It is arranged for
stores in front and dwelling above, and between
the two entrances Is broad passage-way leading 10
the hail. -
are authorized by the parties to accept IN heu OF
cash tho following termS-Tlz.: One thlrd cash
balance ut six and twelve months, for negotabie
notes, interest added, secured by deed OF trust.
,.-'"'' 'l.--' g ANDREW PIZZTNI, JR.,
80 ,1,-El5 Trustees.
w GoDDIS Auctioneer. -. Ia IL
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7RArILR0AD nTNEs.
< RAILROAD LINES.
fri tssy EssszssEs1
4 RICHMOND. FRED'G &c POTOMAC r.. e. Co.,}
OFFTCK GENERAL TICKET GENT. ~
RICHMOND. November 8. 1875.
GCHEDULE OF TRAINS I.

~ 8. ~. i y "
On ard after SUNDAY, 18th instant, trains will
run ON this rond rs follows: tit
7:46 A.. leavcs tho Byrd-street station daily tra.
-. cept Sunfayl; due at Washington
49, ut ITO P. NJ: Baltimore af 3:lQ p.
4 81. Philadelphia nc ESQ r. NJ; New
York mt 10:15 z. II. sisls ~
500 r nj. leaves Byrd-Sfreet station daily, arTty.
- ~ " Ing at Washington ut 1:27 a. III. !;
5s, Baltimore at $3.50 "A. NJ: Philadel-
phia nj GAO A. NJ; New York ut 9:35
"a. ar. Through sleeper from Rich
Inond to New YORK; price OF berth, ~.
4:25 p. ID. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, for
Junction. leaves Broad Street station
daily (Sunaays excepted).
BIS 4. III. arrives az Byrc-Street station daily;
leaves New York ut 6:30 the prece-
,s-a .y.sst ding evening; Baltimore Mt 1856 A.
NJ Washington ut 2:47 A. II. 80
HIS p. IL ARRIVES at station daily lex
cept Sunday. Leaves New York at
S.l54A. NJ: Philadelphia at 1905
. p. NJ; Baltimore ut p. NJ; WASH
fngton at6:30 p. NJ.
S:55 A.. NJ. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN arrives
at Broad-Street station daily 'tSun-
Z. T.. d. MYERS,
sa.a1 General Superintendent
G.. A. TAYLOR.
noe General Freight and, Ticket Agent.
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PAPER BOXES.
HORSES. MULES. &c.

TURNER d CO., HAVING. REF
L Il MOVED from their old stand, on Frank. IA
lin street, to their NEW STABLES, No. 1916 east
Franklin street. where they have large 9scomnoda-
to their friends and the public for the liberal patron.
age bestowed upon them for ihe last sx years. and
them to merit continuance Of the same: t5yt
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DEPARTURE OF STEAMERS.

DOR PHILADELPHIA, PRO @FEfs
IL yIDENCE- AND BOSTON.-Steam-ass,zas sss
er AGNES, Captain CARR, will receive freight
for the above ports until TUESDAY the 29th in-
stant Mt To- O'Clock A. ~ .Se+rf,
IL 29-1t W. L. PORTER, Agent. !.
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FO1, RENT.

TOR RENT, THAT NICE DE-Gs
Il TACHED FRAME DWELLING, No. 637 III
north Fifth street, just beyond jackson street The
house contains about seven rooms; gas wafer; &c;
perfect order. The neighborhood Is as good IS any
In the city, and to good tenant the rent will be
made very low. ROBERT b. LYME.
la 2S-9t 1912 Main street
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WANTS.

THO THE PUBLIC am at present out
l. of employment and without means Of obtain
ing a support for my family. have been employed
In PATTERN-MAKlNG, and am DESTROYS Of OBJ
trimming SITUATION either in this line OF as a
CABTSET-MAKER, PRIVATE WATCHMAN. or
anything which can enable me to earn Livelihood.
THE best references can be given as to character.
diligence, and sobriety. Address "W.," care of
Dispatch Office. ~ .flsl.& ia 29-6tN
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w. GoDDIN, Auctioneer. -. Ia IL
The Hickman courier., 1878-09-13
A Days Experience at Memphis.

ICurres pOndeuce Cincinnati COmmercial.i
St. Martin-street is by no means one
which would be selected in ordinary times
as a residence street. 1t IS inhabited prin-
eipally by the lower classes of
whites, negroes and in occasional
blocks by deHlimOnde. The advantages
Of having a French woman, former
resident of New Orleans, as a land
lady, and her assurance that, should be
taken with the prevailing fever, she would
give up her undivided attention, induced
ne TO take up my abode with her at No. %
St. Martin-street.
This morning early "A loud rap on my
door awakened me from a short troubled
sleep-the first had in twenty-four hours
md in response TO my inquiry as to what was
7 Ssirel / was informed by my laudlady that
y khad tTstsdiscovered q house in the I'M
~s 3iate vicinity in which were three col
emen-one dead, the other two deliriOus
i E1afever-and, said the kind-hearted lady,
n Gods sake go for doctor or they
/ VIAL be dead in an hour" Hurrying from
thshouse in quest of a doctor, was some
| wat atstartled by mosns and cries of 4" Oh,
Gsd, oh, God" emanating from 4 small
onek house, No. Is st. Martin-street En-
teHng, / found on the bed little girl, ap-
patently about eight years old, yellow as
god, with lips and hands stained with the
ianl black vomit. AT her side, in the same
bed, was another child, perhaps
TWO years younger, with the
hre Of the terrible fever slowly but surely
consuming her young life, while the mother
half erazed with the agony of her surround
ings, almost exhausted, lay upon the floor
calling upon God to comfort her Leaving
this sad scene of death, and approaching
the commencement of st. Martfn-street (at
Beale-street), colored woman, with blood
shot eyes, disbeveled hair and grief-stricken
appearance, asked: Would massa be so
good as to send the funeral man; her
swo children were dead, and her husband
you'd soon follow" AS | turned the cor
her of St. Martin and Beale, encountered
me of the visitors of the Howard who, with
che bravery that charaeterizes many Of
hem, Immediately accompanied me to the
,iouse No. 32 st. Martin-street, where the
;hree colored men resided. In it we
i9und a sight before which even the bravest
cart would hutter. On pallet, on the
coor, half nude, with eyes protruding wide
rom their sockets, firm-set teeth and
ark CONCEALED blood slowly oozing from
eis nostrils, lay the dead body of Frank
while in a rude bed near by tossed
Ell Wild delirium two mulatto men, one OF
i1hOm, after almost superhuman efforts to
oattle with his approaching dissolution,
ave one loud, long scream grasped at an
Invisible hand, seized it, and quietly passed
cway from earth.
The Hickman courier., 1878-09-13
Father Hyaeinthe and His American

Eruoklyn kaGic-
We have all along wondered n the
ecclesiastical inconsistencies of Father
I Hyaeinthe in abandoning the Church
of Rome, and yet still claiming to be a
I Roman Catholic priest, and quite re-
moved from Professionalism. But we
had no idea that his theological aberra-
tions and isolated position as a priest
could be followed by social embarrass-
ment regarding his marriage. To those
grim and dyspeptic old priests who crit
icised their brothers marriage more
sharply than they had his heresies, the
welded pair sent cards with plying
words upon them With the forgive
ness of Pere and Madame Eoyson J" for
the late Pere had some time before his
marriage released him from his mo-
nastic VOWS, and when that witty, Pom
a 4 s1rfSg s rf'e. f s aid
punishment into his t,IlisS. nc mas h.ls iases
1t would seem that the remark of Pho
Mono is another instance of the proverb
that many true word Is spoken in
Jest" The French Court of Cessation
has Just pronounced the marriage of
another priest, in 1913, to have been
null and void, and since holy orders are
indelible, and "Once a priest, a priest
forever the marriage OF Father and
Mrs. Loyson will be regarded rs lille
gal, and their little sons position Will
be socially unpleasant The law seems
a hard one in the case OF a priest of
good character, who eonscienui0usly be
lieves that marriage is lawful for him.
And it seems the harder in Father Hy-
aeynthe's case, because, as the English
Protestant Bishop of Lincoln publicly
stated, q prelate of the Roman Catho-
lie Church assisted at the marriage" ."
DIR. Christopher Wordsworth, the Bishop
in question, is in hearty sympathy with
Father Hyacinthe, theologically, and
was the only English prelate who at
tended the Old Catholic Conference at
Bonn.
The Hickman courier., 1878-09-13
-NIBER 30.

man that must die. When? =?
Well. .nin6. I don't believe it.
He refine statement. and ! reiter-
Tbeaan llnecls and prays, and
. the do;res. The clergyman fol-
iows q hour after and tho two
Nomerp with me. The vomito
oontiu,'d / make a rather SICK
30 ali cuttlc-fsh and its black
Toroit. ,g.- answered by signs. The
ossistapara end ! swallow some
n,odica,e long watches oi the
nigbt Isv. and I am still alive and
se6.;bio Black vomit jimini Ines
io onaand by daylight it ceases
The mt comes about ten o clock
and i the door by Mrs. Delaney
"Ts ieblct" Sc CALCULATES, and he
forqetprofessiopally quiet tread
and wlSskly to my bed. e..
Eve / have numerous Visit
from ys,s. Yielding 70 the gen
eral ,ssh, L5hysieian has drawn up
ferm .sR9 :. y ! - - 3 : : = :
,<cal m sVho coIfes ffItd ny room
-1loW as 2 otrtTt 1-,sse.s...-hut
am m. l have lost half my weigi
at ! every rib sticks out as Plai
as arel-hoop; every section of m
vert stands ont in bold relief, tlik
a VT, and my legs are like walking
sticbut 1 still live.
R survived the twin events Of
relAnd black vom.t in yellow fevel
anCopose, as soon a. ] get well, {
adMrs, Delaney for my mother
YCll doubtless read a full report O
nv in the leading medical journal,
Ye | am bound 70 ri 10 the SUI
faMerit always wins.
The Hickman courier., 1878-09-13
A Mathematical Prodigy.

Gilbert Miller, lad nine years old,
living at .Keokuk, Ia, has recently
exhibited most remarkable powers in
mathematics, being able to give answers
10 difficult problems with scarcely any
hesitation. He is strong, healthy boy,
not over fond of school, and differs only
in this one respect from children OF his
age. His parents are averse TO any dis
plav of precocity, and will not allow
him to be que-tioned. But enough has
already been elected to show his won
derful faculty. He probably inherlta
this gift from his father, Professor Mil
Ter, of the Keokuk Mercantile College,
who has long made specially of rapid
commercial calculation. We here pre-
sent a few examples given recently TO
the lad as a test. The answers were
forthcoming at once, without any APP
parent effort:
Cube "a. Answer 4O5, ,228.
Multiply 9,s76, by 7l17. Answer
20, ,2S7, 491.
O69.
How many times will clock tick in a
year of 1861 DAYS. Answer-31, ,556, 500.
Find the fifteenth Term Of a geo-
metrical progression-first term ,, ratio
8. Answer-23, ,914 ,S45.
These results were found to be eX-
actly correct. Other questions involv-
ing difficult fractions were also given
and answered, but we cannot repeat
them in type
The Hickman courier., 1878-09-13
A California Incident.

Mary Belle Low, scarcely fourteen
years of age, is a shepherdess, whose
rosy cheeks, sun-burnt face, and grace
full form as she mounts her pony, would
excite the envy of many city bellies.
Some days ago, while looking after her
woolly wards, she discovered a full-grown
wolf of the cayote species, stealthily APP
preaching the flock. She put her horse
to his speed, and the wolf fed. Then
there was a race over the hills and
prairie, neither showing any indication
of fatigue, and finally he was compelled
to consider himself run down" Now
came the "tug of war" The little
maiden unbuckled her bride rein, and
with the ring at the end, and this only,
made good her position as mistress of
the situation, and without alighting
from her saddle, soon disabled her foe
and saved her lambs. Then she started
for the nearest neighbor for assistance,
but found no one at home who could
assist her, save another girl, who
mounted another pony, and, armed only
with dull knife, these two girls were
soon galloping over the prairie to save
the scalp, for which the county pays a
" royalty" " when presented to the proper
officer. When they returned. the prin-
cipal of the Red Riding Hood escapade
had partially recovered, and was NOV
ing off. But one girl threw him down,
and the other cut his throat.
The Hickman courier., 1878-09-13


THE Italians, in their desire to create
a navy, have naturally initiated English
traditions of naval management some
what indiscriminately. Among other
things they have adopted the famous
punishment of mast-heading. The heroes
of Capt. Marryatt's novels appear to
have spent a considerable portion of their
lives at this uncomfortable elevation.
and a panorama of a British fleet at
anchor in the beginning of the century
would have been incomplete without
the introduction of some dozen or so oi
midshipmen tipping the tapering mast
with their persons. Recently an Italian
cadet was mast-headed at Spezia in the
heat of the day, and losing his footing a
he endeavored to descend was killed
The Captain has in consequence beer
severely blamed, though if masthead
ing be prescribed in the articles of war
the system rather than the Captain
would be to blame.
The Hickman courier., 1878-09-13

WORTH, the PARIS man milliner, is
not a FrenchmaD at all, but Protes-
tant EnglishmaI with a Catholic and
Partisan wife, and two sons just out of
College. BIS home is at Suresnes, a
suburb of the gay Capital, Immediately
under TIE guns of. its chief defense,
Fort Mort Valerian, which the Germans
failed to reduce in 1871. Here he plays
the genisl host in an elegant chateau,
Playited in the midstof extensive grounds
wb ich are fenced in by high brick walls
One day and night each year house and
grounds are thrown open to Worth's
employees, the women appearing in
dresses given them from his store, and
each trimmed according to the great
Diliner's directions
The Hickman courier., 1878-09-13

CHATHAM ISLAND is one of the places
where the sun "jumps a day." and is
thus described: Chatham Island, lying
on the coast of New Zealand, in the
South Pacific Ocean, is peculiarly stu
ated, and It'll one of the few inhabitable
points of the globe where the day of the
week changes. 1t is just ON the line of
demarkation between dates. There high
twelve on Sunday, or Sunday noon,
ceases, and instantly Monday meridian
begins. Sunday comes into mans
house on the east side, and becomes
Monday by the time it passes out of the
western door. A man sits down to his
MONDAY dinner on Sunday, and it i.
Monday before he finishes it. There
Saturday is Sunday, and Sunday..is Mon
day, and Monday becomes suddenl,
transferred into Tuesday.
The Hickman courier., 1878-09-13

The London Times prints two columns
OF description of the mechanical dis
play of the United States at the Paris
Exhibition. In the editorial article com
menting thereon, the Times says: "The
pre-eminence of the mechanical genius
of the United States may be admitted,
and is illustrated not for the first time
in the exhibition in Paris The Times,
without pretending to exhaust the whole
secret of the phenomena of the inven-
<ivs- -,seEliEs- aaEass- --he . AtIsurir. tincss Z
reason therefor in the greater efficiency
of labor there, and the increased cost
and difficulty of hiring it. The eondi-
tion of a union rs an economic society
drives its inhabitants toward invention,
aud there, as elsewhere, necessity may
be said to be the mother of il.
The Hickman courier., 1878-09-13

The Irish ballads of " Kathleen Ma
vourneen and " Dermot Astore" are
known wherever the English language
is spoken; have been honored with places
in the selections of Lucca. Patti and the
other opera stars, and at the height of
their popularity had an immense run
in Ireland and England, but very few
people at this day know anything of the
composer of those melodies. Mr. Fred
erick William Nichols Crouch. Professor
of Music, gentleman about sixty years
old, now living at No. 2S2 Chew street.
Baltimore, but formerly of Plymouth.
County of Devon, England, has this
week presented at the British Consulate
in this city, the necessary proofs that he
was the composer of both melodies, and
in regular form has made ont documents
assigning both 10 John Faustone Adams.
of London, for twenty pounds, the songs
TO he copyrighted at Stationer's Hall.
London, which is literary patent office.
Mr.. Crouch saws " kathleen MavOur-
neen was first sung in public July II,
1886, at the Concert Hall Royal Hotel,
Plymouth, England. Miss Susan Hobbs,
in 1910, first sung d" Dermot Astore at
Hanover Square Concert Rooms. Lon
don. The words of both songs were
written by . lady. After being house
Pat6is3iea D. a.i.T. fgE5YFsa Efl,,2ita lR,Giiigg
the melodies are now To become the
property of one individual in the United
Kingdom under the copyright law.
The Hickman courier., 1878-09-13

The correspondent of San Francisco
paper claims to have discovered a new
lake. 1t is larger than Great Salt Lake
and more beautiful than Lake Tahoe
1t is in Nevada and is called Pyramid
Lake, from the pyramidal masses of
mari and limestone which abound in it.
Most of them are worn into fanciful
shapes by the water, and the highest,
Fremont's, less than five hundred feet
has boiling spring issuing from 1t
fifteen feet below the surface. There is
an island in the lake six hundred feet
high and twelve hundred acres in ex-
tent, inhabited by rattlesnakes and
goats, who live on the alfiiaree and the
punches of grass in the ereviees, for the
island is simply a mass of rock. The
lake has no outlet, and its bottom has
never been reached by sounding. The
water is very clear and slightly brackish,
and evaporates about as fast as it flows
in. There are innummerable trout in
it. The shores are bleak and barren.
The Hickman courier., 1878-09-13

TER who helps to ballast with
wisne of our leading magazines,
is disturbed between the ears be-
caure are scarcely any great think
ersS.side of the briny. II is a
ac business, that's a fact, II
nueceAultitudes are ready TO spring
uPwifes like fireworks and say it
dni Our people do think-away
sowSed-rock, too-and no quarter
q lobe can show up buster brains
ths have right here under the glo-
nanner of freedom. And it will
s be that way as long as the most
cite compendium of quack nostrum
asements can only be found in a
rus newspaper with q flavor OF
bne permeating every page.
I Why, bless your life, good sir,
tlntIy will never be entirely bar
rbald-heads until somebody climbs
top peak of intuitive perception
awers the world with a calcium
liaking it clear as a summer morn
ily all this is thus.
The Hickman courier., 1878-09-13

and naintainsby the blood of the Repub-
lean party, bproyed 10 be the cheapest
safest. and mt convenient medium of ex-
change for II people ever adopted, we de-
clare ourself in favor of repeal of the
national bGing law, and substitution
fhefcfor ofle currency issued by govern
meHt, and imand that it be issued in sui
hcient yobe to fully accommodate the
wants Of Einess, and that it be made pay.
able for debts, whether public or pri-
'vate, uni sotherwise specified by contract.
The Hickman courier., 1878-09-13

There has been an interesting CORES
pondence in the London Times az to the
degree of comfort with which men can
live at great heights. Mr.. Webber,
writing from the Grindewald, in Swift
zerland, to Mondays Times, states that
in Thibet he has lived for months To-
gether at height of more than IL. 600
feet above the level OF the sea, and that
the result was as follows: His pulse,
at normal heights only 63 per minute.
seldom fell below 400 per minute during
the whole time he was At that level. His
respiration was often twice as numerous
in the minute as they are at ordinary
levels. A run of l0Oyards would quicken
both pulse and respiration more than a
run of / 900 yards at the sea level. and
the higher the level the greater the diff
Guilty of walking or running fat He
crossed the shoulder Of the Guria Nand-
hata at a height Of some 3, ,dO0 feet and
found the greatest difficulty in petting
his breath quickly enough, had freouen3
and violent headaches, and found fbst
native guides and companion. sufEs-e5
much more even than he did.
The Hickman courier., 1878-09-13

a CInNASIAN's mule walked from a
hillside on TO the roof of a miners
cabin, in Eureka, Nevada, and fell
through, breaking nearly everything
underneath, including one of the miners
arms. The enraged miner Immediately
slew the mule with an ak. The China
man now sues for the loss of the mule,
and the miner sues for the damage to the
cabin and himself