The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-07-27

| intend to cast shade over his near future
He looks too we'll to permit a mo mentarj
| gloom to rest upon his sunshine OF me- u
dead he is too near my own time oil lie iol
me to suggest anything OF the kind.
There was quite an excitement here OF
Sunday. which have refrained from com
municatine for fearof being too "EeWsy'
a Gentle boy, OF some twelve years, came
near drowning while balhing in water no
over his head. Getting little frightened
he lost his self-pessesson, and was near be
ING lost. when citizen OF Richmond gal
lantly rushed in and rescued him at TN
critical moment. This citizen was MI
Morgenstern, of Broad street. AS the dan
Ger is over, we may look back and derive
! the pleasure that it affords. NV fellow-citl
zen was dressed in bis usual style OF ele
oance. For aughtI know, he might nave
| had on the pants that were cut from Inc
same piece from which Bismarck,s congress
siona pants were made, and the coat NJ
wore NAV have been made from the fellow
pattern to that which his friend, Lord Bea
consfield, sported in the Grand Council O.
European nations. But our hero hcsltatee
NOT TO saturate his precious drarery Will
saltwater. and leaped herOically in, coming
forth bearing the rescued boy triumphantIy
in safety to the shore, where he was hugget
to The bosom OF his parents.
Indeed. this was for a few minutes quite
an alarming occurrence. Its fortunate ter
nination caused praises TO cluster arount
the rescuer. He became, indeed, a 9 morn
ing star" and is the hero o. the season
1878 at Old Point.
General Tidball, pro tempore commando
If Fortress Monroe, is q true-hearted Vlr
einian-i. G., IN open-heartcd maDlnes:
and sincerity he is every inch Nirginian
and his administration has won him COLDER
opinions. The intelligent people who
gather in summertime at the spacious Hy
eeia Hotel may have their qualification:
somewhat impaired should the government
of the fort be in hands illiberal and rigid
But under General Getty there has been
nothing but kindness and consideration TO-
wards those temporarily sojournipg here
and under General Tidball there has been
a continuation d that civility, considera'
ton. and amenity which are always sure to
mark tue conduct Of a Well-educated officer
and gentleman.
A thing which is OF modern origin is the
new dish Of potato chips" which is rs faI
above the Yankee dish of fried potatoes as
is sheepshead above mullet. 1t may
seem Il small affair, but consider it great
one. Potato-chips" meet my most cor
dial approval. They are excellent and. keep
well. They will do to travel on, and are
admirable as breakfast dish. When | first
saw them I knew that a machine for cut
ting I'D potatoes had been invented. 1t
was impossible to cut them so regularly by
hand. | learn that the machine for slicing
potatoes is manufactured in New York, and
that anybody by buying that can make the
chips and cook them at will. The inventor
will become a millionaire indeed-in fact, a
POtent0tO. ..
jacob Thompson has been here for some
days. He is older than he was forty years
since, and, from accounts, richer. SAC
counts" don't agree as to how he comes to
be so :; and the fact is, people didn't seem
to be warmly attached to jacob; but that
did not appear to distress him.. lie Is evil
IDENTITY quite able to take care OF himself.
and seemed to rest himself with that indie
pendent air which speaks plainly, Let her
rip" There are hard thoughts about Jacob,
but he will settle them ere long by respect
fully referring all unsettled matters to an
administrator. This mode of settlement
will also disentangle vast mountain OF
complication and straighten out world OF
accounts that are very much muddled.
There is pleasure in thinking OF this mode
of settlement OF innumerabic estates run
into embarrassment and confusion mex.
tricable by the war. Even death will be
I. happy deliyerance from this sort OF trou-
BILE, since death only can bring deliver.
ancr.
1t is interesting to examine the large lots
Of fine saltwater table-ti4h that are daily
brought in by fishermen. The veteran Cap
tain Watson is the champion shecpshead
fisherman. He averages about a hundred
pounds day of the finest fish Of that family
and the equally edible porgys. Oysters are
daily served on the table at the hotel, and
people are evidently fond of them, though
cannot understand why. The best things
have their period Of insipidity, and now is
the time when oysters are lnditierently
good. They are hardly ever irredecmably
bad.
We are in the heart OF the oyster-produc-
ing region, where they must be good ii
they are at this time good anywhere. The
oyster interest is grand one, and Virginia
ought to be alive to it. 1t ought TO be G
great reycnue-prodGcing interest, and GER
tainly Virginians should be protected in
deriving the great benefit from it. And
this reminds me that Mr.. Kimberly, OF
this place, owns the wharf at Cberrystone,
and proposes to establish q town there
uuder the name OF Cherryton, which was
the original name given to it,. A railroad is
projected and partly built from New York
to some point in northampton county, and
it is believed Capevile and Cherrystone are
both objective points. The general idea
was to get as near Cape Charles rs possible.
Colonel Kimberly has mapped out very
pretty Cherryton, and il it ever becomes O
town it will he a great place for oysters and
oyster-canning.
An active business is going on here in
sand-moulding. The dear little children
gather about the shore, and with bucket
and spade and trowel pile up and mould the
sand in fantastical shapes. Just before me
there is dilgent little housekeeper who
has moulded a number OF foe cakes, and
she is so tidy that she recasts all that are
ragged. edged, and she is the admired OF all
the little ones who know how good cakes
and wafaes are. am rather put to the
blush by the well shaped sand cakes turned
out by these industrious little workers, and
what is bad for me, [ cannot as readily as
they do recast my cakes, so my readers must
put up with them with ali their misshapen
defects. RAMBLER.
The Fourth District.
BURKEvILLE, VA, July 26, 1878.
10 the Editors of the Dispatch: A word