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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-10-23

AlOtEGr INVU1Ct Oh e'10'e '1I '1*17
r ,dins, Genilcmcn's. Misses, and Children's IN
DE,WEAk ut extr. low prices;
IhiTNDRIED and L NLACNDRlEDS SHIRTS from
50c., 75c aud 5 the best 81 SHIRT in Rich
ruond made Of Hamsutta Cotton and best
Linen ready for use.
Our FLANNEL DEPARTMENT IS c9mplete-
ned. Hue, Gray, aud White Twied Flanncls;
Shaker FIanncIs FROM zoe. 10 81 per yard;
plain Flanncls from 12:c. 10 81 Canton t!an-
Eel from s.. 10 2oc.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28
An Obfuse Man.

She was a stylish young lady of about
eighteen years, and to accommodate a
friend she took the baby out for an air
ing. She was wheeling it up and down
the walk, when an oldish man, very
deaf, came along and inquired for a
certain person supposed to live on that
street. She nearly yelled her head off
trying to answer him, and he looked
around, caught sight Of the baby, and
said: "Nice child, that. 1 suppose
you feel proud OF him" cit isn't
minel'n, she yelled at him. "Boy, eh?
Well, he looks just like you" "Jtisn't
mine" she cried again; but he nodded
his head, and continued: "Twins, Ell ?
Where's.th the other one" Despairing of
making him understand by word of
mouth, she pointed to the baby, at her.
self, and then shook her head. Yes,
yes, 1 see. Tother twin in the house.
Their father is fond of them, of course ?"
She turned the cab and hurried the
other way, but he followed and asked:
DO they kick round much at nights 2"
81 tell you faint minel" she shouted,
looking very red in the face. "I think
you're wrong there" he answered. "Chil-
dren brought up on the bottle are apt to
pine and die" She started on a run for
the gate, but before she had opened it,
he came up and ssked: Have to spank
'em once in a while, 1 suppose She
made about twenty gestures in half a
minute, and he helped the cab through
the gate, and said: "Our children were
all twins, and I'll send my wife down to
give you some advice. You see-"B But she
picked up a fower-pot and flung it at
him. He jumped back, and, as she en-
tered the house, he called out: "Hope
insanity won't break out among the
twins"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28
The PhxsiaIorx of the Liver

The liver is the largest secreting organ in
the human body, and the bile which it Sc
cretes is more liable to vitiation and misdi.
rection from its proper channels than any
other of the animal fluids. Luckily for the
bilious, however, there is an unfailing
source of relief from liver complaint,
namely, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, a med.
icine which for over a quarter of a century
has been achieving thorough cures of the
above mentioned ailments, fever and ague
dyspepsia, bowel complaints, rheumatic
and kidney affections, and disorders inyolv.
ing loss of nervous vigor. 1t is, moreover,
a preventive of malarial disease, and affords
protection to thousands of persons residing
in districts of country where that dire
scourge is prevalent. As a remedy adapted
to the medicinal requirement of families,
it is supremely desirable, and as a means OF
fortifying a debilitated system, it is thor.
oughly to be depended npon.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28
Conquests, Ancient and Modern,


1t must be remembered that the
modern conqueror is, in two respects,
worse off than his Roman predecessor.
The ancient conaueror could impose a
tribute, which the comparative mild
ness of modern notions will scarcely
tolerate, and it was once worth while TO
conquer poor and savage races for the
sake of obtaining slaves, which the civ
ilization Of modern Europe no longer
endures. Thus it appears that the prin-
cipal motives which spurred men on
to war in former times no longer exist,
and that if it is the duty of statesmen
to act solely for the happiness of the
people they govern, it is equally their
interest to avoid wars from which the
mildness of modern manners prevents
them from winning even the miserable
advantages that war, if successful, could
once afford. But the case against war
is still stronger when we consider that
we have already obtained, without she'd
ding a drop of blood, all and more than
all that the most successful war could
possibly give US. We won Canada by a
series of bloody battles, but Australia
we obtained without any battle at all.
We sought in the most imperial way to
make u colonies in North America
our tributaries, and they separated from
us, after inficting upon us defeat and
humiliation unknown to us before. We
supposed that we had lost a great and
irreplaceable dominion but we found
that for all useful purposes we had lost
nothing by the separation; for all pa
cifc uses the United States were still at
our service. So long as vacant lands
in temperate ATTITUDES exist on the
earth we have at our disposal, without
shedding a drop of blood, all that the
most successful war can give us. Just
as we have discovered that any amount
of territory may be acquired without
war, so we have discovered and clearly
proved that wealth beyond the dreams
of avarice may be acquired without
plumber. The way to grow rich is not
to plumber and ruin other people, but
to assist them in becoming rich them
selves. The Roman Empire persisted
because the subjects were unable to en-
dure the weight of taxation. England
fourishes because her peaceful industry
can supply the demands of her Govern.
ment, and yet leave enough in the
hands of her people to stand against the
competition of the world.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28
The Facts About Dickens's Matrimonial
I~rfelicities.

A London correspondent of the
Auburn Advertiser writes: "It will be
gratifying to thousands of Dickens's ad-
mirers in America to know that the
wife of Dickens, and her sister, Miss
Hogarth, are %reconciled and both united
in compiling a memoir of the novelist.
In an interview one evening with George
Cruikshank last December, at his resi-
dence in Hamstead, he told me that the
difference which arose between Dickens
and his wife grew out of her frequer.t
criticisms, and what he thought inter
meddling with his own exclusive crea.
lions, until he insisted upon their living
apart in the same house at Gad's Hill.
This she declined to do, and at once
took up her residence with Mr.. and Mrs.
Cruikshank. His eldest son, siding
with his mother, left also at the same
time. Nj. Cruikshank added, There
was no scandal otherwise connected with
the NATTER Perhaps, in fairness, it
ought to be said that about this time
Dickens had disagreedwith his publish
ers, Bradbury & Evans, about House
hold Words and parted company; and
that Charles Dickens, jr., had married a
daughter of MI. Evans. This may have
had its influence upon the young man
going with his mother"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28

tender notes can be constitutionally issued.
If, therefore, Treasury notes shall be substi-
tuted for the present national bank notes,
it is doubtful if they can be made a legal
tender in payment of all debts. Two kinds
of Treasury notes willthen be in circulation,
one of which will be afull legal tender, and
the other not. Even between national banks,
as is now the case with their own notes, the
full legal tender notes will be of greater
value than the other class, unless they are
both alike, redeemable in gold at the
commercial centers. 1t is believed by
the controller that this proposed
substitution is impracticable, and that
the repeal of the National Bank Act will
result not in an additional issue of Treas
ury notes, but in a restoration OF State sys-
TENS similar to those which were previously
in operation.
In regard to resumption, the Controller
says: "Congress has fixed a day for the
restoration of the specie standard, and the
legislation needed is that which will not
overthrow, but cooperate with the pres
emit well-managed monetary institutions of
the country in accomplishing this result.
When this is done, the present banking sys-
tenn, if then thought desirable, may be
modified without danger to the creditor
or the business and commercial interests
of this great nation"
Then follows a table, showing hat the
amount of reserve held on the LIST of October
last was greater than that required by law.
The Treasury DEPARTMENT. owns $140, O00, 900
coin, which is equal to more than forty per
cent. of the entire issues of lega, tender
notes, and is available for their redemption,
while the banks hold nearly one-third of
the legal tender notes. If therefore, the
banks of the country co operate with the
Treasury, it is impossible that resump-
ton shall fail; but even if the cooperation
should not be universal, it could not affect
the ultimate result, for if any consider
able portion of legal tender notes be ex-
changed for coin at the Treasury and with
drawn from use, the notes will become
scarce, and can be forced into circulation to
supply the requirements of business and
fill the gap. The coin will soon thereafter
be returned to the Treasury in payment of
customs duties, and internal revenue taxes,
and offered in exchange for greenback coin
certificates, which will be more generally
acceptable to the people for the same reason
that notes of the Bank of England and
Bank of France are preferred to coin.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28
Terrlbre Explosion IN . J sb,,,

A terrible coal mine explosion occurred
at the Sullivan Coal Mine, in Sullivan,
Ind, November 81. The explosion was
caused by the ignition of a lamps flames
with gas, and a terrific velocity was added
by the fact of their being eight kegs
Of powder below. There were thirty
men in the mines at the time. The
scene beggars description. There were
thirteen killed outright, eight or ten
wounded, aud many Of the others suffered
SO from suffocation that their lives hung by
a thread. Tom and Sam landlord, two OF the
proprietors, were to be killed. A great
crowd of relatives, consisting mostly of wo-
men, gathered around the ill fated mine,
and their lamentations were pitiful.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28
A Logic.

at is useless to take medicine. 1 shall
feel better tomorrow. Besides, 1 need the
money to get that lovely new hat. My old
one is such a fright, and people will look
more at my bonnet than they will at my
face. I will wait till 1 feel worse before 1
spend any money for medicine" The new
bonnet is purchased and fifty other femi-
nine accessories in the form of ribbons, laces,
brooches, etc. Meanwhile the lady's face
becomes every day paler and thinner, and
her body weaker, until disease has gained
so firm a foothold in her system that the
most thorough, and ofttimes a long and te-
dious course of treatment, is necessary to
restore her to health. Ladies, attend to
your health before you even think of ap.
parel. A fresh, blooming face in a plain
bonnet is much handsomer and far more
attractive to your gentlemen friends, than a
pain-worn, diseased face in the most elab-
crate and elegant hat your milliner could
devise. DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
is everywhere acknowledged to be the
standard remedy for female complaints and
weaknesses. 1t is sold by druggists.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28

DIR. R. V. PIERCE, of Buffalo, N. Y, the
proprietor of DR.. Pierce's Family Medicines,
and also of the Invalids' and Tourists Hotel,
of that city, has recently been elected to
Congress by the very fiattering majority of
nearly 5000. He mas already served his con-
stituency as State Senator, and this renewed
Endorsement signifies that his services have
been highly satisfactory. His extensive
practice in the treatment of Chronic Dis
eases will not, we are informed, be neglected
or suffer in the least when the time arrives
for him to take his seat in Congress, it be-
ing intrusted to his brother and other ex.
perienced medical gentlemen who have long
been associated with the Doctor in the Med
ical Department of his celebrated Worlds
Dispensary and Iuvalids' Hotel. Besides,
as the Forty-sixth Congress does not con-
vene until December, 1879, DR.. Pierce's pa
tients will not lose his personal attention
for some months yet.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28
LEGATION UNITED STATES
"LoNDoN, Nov. 81, 1878, T

any LORD have been instructed by
the President of the United States to tender
to her Majesty's government the sum of
$5,500,000 in gold coin, this being the sum
named by two c%oncurring members of the
Fisheries Commission, lately sitting at Hall.
fax, under authority impaired thereto by
the treaty of Washington, to be paid by the
government of the United States to the
government of her Britannia Majesty. 1
am also instructed by the President to say
that such payment is made upon the
ground that the Government of the United
States desires to place the maintenance of
good faith in the treaties and the security
aud value of arbitration between nations,
above all questions III its relation with her
Britannia Majesty's Government, as with
all other Governments. Under this notice,
the Government of the United States de-
cides.to separate the question of withhold
ing payment from considerations touching
the obligation of this payment, which have
been presented to her Majesty's Govern
ment in correspondence, and which it re-
serves and insists upon.
az am besides instructed by the President
to say that the Government of the United
States deems it of the greatest importance
to the common and friendly interests of the
two Governments, in all future treatment of
any questions relative to North American
fisheries, that her Britannia Maiesty's
Government should be distinctly advised
that the Government of the United States
can not accept the result of the Halifax
Commission as furnishing any just measure
of value of participation by our citizens in
the inshore fisheries of the British pro-
%vinces, and its protest against the actual
payment now made being considered by her
Majesty's Government Is in any sense an
acquiescence in such measure, or as war
ranting any inference to that effect.
al have, etc, JOHN WELSH"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28

Tallahassee, Ga, Nov. 81: The Supreme
Court decides the three precinct returns re-
iected by the Alachua County Can wasting
Board are good and valid, and has issued a
peremptory writ to the board to canvass
them. These precincts gave Bisbee a ma.
jority of 45O, and by their rejection by the
Canvassing Board elected Hull, Democrat.
Bisbee's majority now stands about 200 in
the district.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28

square issue between army officers and the
Interior Department as to management of
Indian affairs, and will, without doubt, lead
to a sharp and prolonged controversy.
Secretary McCrary referred the letter to
Gen. Sherman, who Endorsed a copy of ii
over to Gen. Sheridan, and one to Gen. Glib.
bon, calling upon both to make reply.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28

THOUGH they may obstinately resist the
containing proud flesh, swellings, tumors,
leprous granulations and scrofulous sores
speedily heal under the purifying and
soothing influence of HENRY's CARBoLIo
SALvE, the promptest and most efficient
topical application ever discovered or used.
1t is believed that there is no chronic sore
or eruption that may moi be eradicated by
this Incompatible purifier. Sod by all
druggists,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28

s.....s &c. ...So0,U W ,014
OF United States bonds held by national
banks on November l, 1868, and deposited
with the Treasurer as security for their
circulating notes, nearly three-fourths bring
interest at the rate of six per cent. The
amount of this class of bonds has since been
gradually reduced until it is now less than
one-fourth of all the bonds held, while
nearly one-fourth of the whole amount
bears interest at the rate of four-and-one-
half to four per cent. Only about
one-tfth of the entire issues
of the latter class of bonds is now
held by the national banks. The Controller
defends the national banking system at
length, and argues for its continuance. He
says the funding of six per cent. bonds into
four per cents has made rapid progress
during the last year, and the national
banks have been of great service to the
by negotiating and absorbing a very
considerable part of the new issues.
Should the national bank system con-
tinue, there is no doubt that the
present rapid reduction in the bur-
den of interest will continue also. If the
national bank system is to abolished, and
an additional amount of United States cur
rency is to be issued, all hope of reducing
the rate of interest on the public debt must
be abandoned. 81, 00O 900 yearly may be
saved to the government by funding the
five and six per cent. bonds into four per
cents, while the amount which it is
claimed may be annually saved by the re.
peal of the national banking act, and the
issue of 32O,0O0,O 900 of u%nconvertible
Treasury notes, is S1S, 1000 900 only. With
the issue of this large amount of govern.
ment notes, the funding of the public debt
will be rendered Impossible, for the pledge
of the government will then be violated,
and its credit permanently impaired. Which
is a wiser course, to continue the work of
funding the debt, which has so sue.
cessfully progressed during the present
year, thus saving the greater amount
of interest named, while adding to
the credit of the country, or to at
tempt by repeal of the national bank act
to save the less amount, and at a loss as
we'll of reputation and credit? Is there not
danger that the rttempts to remove any
imaginary evil MY be followed by the in
PRODUCTION of a real and much greater evil?
Success in funding the national debt through
the cooperation of 1000 of the principal
monetary institutions of the country NAV
be assured, but the effects of the issue of q
large amount of ir~redeemable government
currency can not be foretold.
1t is not probable that additional legal
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28
Annual Report of the Controller of the
Currency.

The Controller of the Currency, in his
annual report, shows the total number of
banks and private bankers in the country,
6,546, with an aggregate capital of 1875, 776,.
600, and aggregate deposits of $I,919,954,-
900. During the past year, twenty-eight
banks have been organized, with an author
lied capital of $2,275, 900, to which $685..
800 in circulating notes have been issued.
Fifteen banks failed within this period,
having an aggregate capital of 50, 712, 500,
and forty-one banks, with a total capital of
$5,20O,000, voluntarily discontinued bust
ness.
The total amount of United States taxes
collected from the commencement of the
system to the present time is as follows:
On circulation. $50. us, si7
On 40, 3lS,256
On .5,929. 4SO
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28

The Tri5unes tables on the election in
this State show the following result: Off
cialreturns from all but two counties, with
unofficial returns from those, give to Re-
publicans a plurality of 1856. Republic
can vote, SS9,676; Democratic, S52, 1880:
Greenback, 71,O2O: Prohibition, 1858. The
Democratic plurality of last. year on Secre-
tary of State was II 1000, and on Controller
10000. The total vote this year was 1853
larger than last year, when it was $4,000.
The Greenback vote last year was 20,2S2.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28
A Great Earthquake and a Grasshopper
Famine.

From Panama we learn that a severe
earthquake was feltin Manizelas, Antioquia,
October 9. Twelve houses were de-
stroyed, including the church, hos
pital, the principal school, the city
buildings, and many others. No lives
lost. The damage done will exceed 800, 900.
The Valley of Cauca has suffered fearfully
from grasshoppers. All growing crops have
been completely ruined-sugar cane, corn
and wheat, in the upper portion of the val
ley, and all sorts of grasses, so that cattle
subsist in a hat starving condition. Prices
of provisions of all classes are exorbitant,
and as the sugar estates and large haciendas
have suspended work, the poor are unable
to purchase the necessaries of life. The gov
eminent, with the view oil furnishing means
of support, is pushing the construction of
the Cauca Valley Railroad.
Advices from Chilli state serious riots, re-
sulting in the killing and ~wounding of
eighty people, occurred in Santiago.
Mounted police and cavalry were called
out and made several charges before the
mob dispersed. The trouble originated in
an attempt to lay violent hands upon the
writer of certain articles in relation to
the boundary question, in which he took
grounds favorable to the Argentine Re-
public.
Advices from Salvador state the vol
canoes of Iscales and Santa Ana are in a
state of tremendous activity. On the
latter, from four or five distinct openings
fire, smoke, and ashes are pouring forth in
vast volumes. 1t is not known that these
are distinct, but they are supposed to be
apertures in an old crater of the vol.
cano, which has been silent for some
years. For miles around, ashes are falling,
and the air is filed with smoke, darkening
the day, and making the scene gloomy and
terrifying. The inhabitants in the neigh
boring villages are terribly alarmed, and
many have fed to places of safety.
The intelligence of a severe earthquake
on the southern portion Of. the republic is
FULLY confirmed. The destruction appears
to have been complete. The loss of life and
property is very great.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28

FoR upwards of thirty years Mrs. WIN.
SLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for
children with never-failing success. 1t cor.
reefs acidity of the stomach, relieves wind
collie, regulates the bowels, cures dysentery
and diarrhea, whether arising from teething
or other causes. An old and well.tried
remedy. % cts. q bottle.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28
a Bomb Thro Wn Into a Procession,

During the passage of a procession in
honor of King Humbert's escape, in Flor
ence, Italy, a bomb was thrown among the
corps of veterans and exploded, and two
men were killed and several slightly
wounded.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28

A telegram from Berlin reports a belief
current there that a plot exists for the
assassination Of all sovereigns. 1t is stated
that the Prussian Judges, when examining
Nobeling's case, were led to believe in the
existence of a central organization for this
purpose, and investigations are still going
IN
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28
advance Against Afshan,.t.n.

The British troops made an advance on
the goth November, and occupied Fort Ka-
pion without resistance. The Afghans re-
tired. Fort Kapion, or Kapiyaga, is a sta
ton beyond the frontier, opposite Thai.
I abandonment was anticipated. No re-
sistance is expected until the upper end of
the Kuhrum Valley is reached. The ma
tive tribes in the valley profess good will
toward the British. All the columns were
ordered to cross the frontier on the 21st.
All kilograms detailing the movements or
disposition of the troops have been stopped
by the military authorities. The first troops
crossed in the morning, the Tenth Hussars,
at three o'clock. They found Fort Kapiyaga
abandoned, but three children had been left
there. General Roberts force at once
moved forward on Fort Ahmedishams, five
miles further mp the valley.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28
snicide ora Fnrmer.

Luther Bishop, a wealthy farmer, living
Old Town, not far from Bloomington,
illinois, committed suicide recently by
shooting himself with a revolver. Cause,
mental alteration.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28
British Advance.

The British troops advanced on Khyber
Pass, in Afganistan, November 81, and the
skirmishiug was very lively. A private
telegram received in London reports the
killed and wounded at three hundred.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28

"a SLIGHT Cold" CoUGHs.-Few are
aware of the Importance of checking a
cough or "sLIGHT COLD" which would
yield to a mild remedy, if neglected, often
attacks the lungs. "BroWa's Bronchial
Troches" give sure and almost immediate
relief.