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REAL. estate AT PRIVATE SALE.

NshAA H-AfN - - - 80 --ISc---S--ISE
TOR SALE, NEW BRICK HOUSE,
Il containing eight rooms and all convenlences,
eligibly located in Monroe Ward. 1t was built to
order, and cost the owner S4,10O cash. VIII be
sold for that sum, and only third or one fourth
need be paid down. and on the balance as long time
will be given as is required Address WILLIAM
DISPATCH office. " l3-2t
GREAT ATTRACTION TO THOSE
VI WISHING TO EMBARK IN A PROFITA-
BILE ENTERPRISE-VALUA MILL, FIVE
ICE-HOUSES, AND FIFTEEN ACRES OF LAND
ATTACHED, WITH TWO DWELLINGS SUIT
ABLE FOR SMALL FAMILIES, FOR SALE
At The request of the owner, whose professional en-
gagements do not allow him time to attend to the
property, am authorized to sell that valuable pro-
perry known as STAPLES'S MILL, on the Frcde
rcksburg railroad, within five miles of Richmond
and about the same distance by excellent county
roads. The mill and mll-dam are In excellent or
der. and the mill Is we'll patronized by first-rate
custom. The meal ground at it being unusually popu-
lar with The neighborhood.
TWELVE ACRES OF LAND annexed 10 1t. on
which there are TWO GOOD DIV Filings. suit
able for small families, and FIVE FIRST-RATE
ICE-HOUSES. The pond Is so situated as to freeze
easily, so that the ice-houscs are always annually
filled. The ice alone, If sold on the premises at
wholesale, will pay fine interest the investment,
but sent to the city and retailed will produce far
greater income
The mill, mill-pond and dam, with the miller's
Dwelling will, If desired be sold separate from the
ice-houses.
TERMS: Reasonable.
Now is Il favorable chance for an enterprizing man
to secure a most profitable business, Apply to
W. GODDIN,
jy 1927 Real Estate Auclionecr.
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PRuNTENG-1fOUSES.
PRINTING-HOUSE.
GOOD WORK. LOW PRICES.


GOOD WORK. LOW PRICES.
Having one OF the LARGEST AND BEST
EQUIPPED JOB OFFICES IN TIE SOUTH, con-
bined with skilful mechanical talent, we are rrc-
pared 10 execute promptly, in the very best style
and AT LOW PRICES every description OF
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING
sUcIi AS
BUSINESS CARDS.
vISITING-CARDS.
r'RUFESSIONAL-CARDS.
WEDDlNG-CARDS.
SIloW-CAEnS,
CIRCULARS.
MANlFESTs.
BILLS LADING. .
rECElrTs,
BILL-ilEADS.
LErTER-IIEAp$.
NOTE-lIEADS,
ACCOUNTS SALE.
STATEMENTS.
NOTICES. CHECKS. NOTES.
ENVELOPES,
ARGUMENTS.
HniEES,
sc, &c.
RAILROAD AND STEAMBOAT WORK \
SPECIALITY.
We have all the NEWEST STYLES OF TYPE
and execute work in manner that cannot he SUR
passed.
WcalsO do all kinds OF BINDING and RULING.
Orders from the country promptly filed aud de-
ircred by express or mail.
We will chccrfulIy furnish estimates aad send
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by Richardson & Co.,
Real Estate Agents and AuctioneerS,
lll3 Main street.

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE
i REAL ESTATE ON FOURTH STREET;
CORNER BYRD STREET. in TIE CITY OF
RICHMOND, BY AUCTION.-By virtue of the
provisions of deed of trust, bearing date the 21st
day Of May, SIT, from the granlor therein named
to the undersigned, trustee, duly recorded In the
clerks Office OF The Chanccry Court OF the city of
Richmond, TO secure the payment of the NEGOTIABLE
in the payment OF said note, and being required so
to do BY the holder thereby. shall, us trustee in
said deed. sell by auction, on the premises, on WE'D
NESDAY the 17ih day Of July, 1878. at O'CLOCK
z. NI., the REAL ESTATE described in SAID Decd
consisting of valuable LOT OF LAND, fronting
So feet on the northeast of Fourth aud Byrd
streets and running back between parallel lines $50
feet, with Il valuable FRAME DIV ELLlNG there
on, with basement ano TWO stories above, containing
seven rooms, kitchen, &c.
TERMS: Enough in cash to dcfray the expense Of
executing this trust and to pay off the sum OF
$500, with interest thereon from the 21S. day of
May, 1878; The residue such terms rs. shall he
announced al the time Of sale. Other terms may be
given than those mentioned above.
~ G J, A. RICHARDSON, Trustee.
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WOOD AND COAL,

GOAL AND WOOD.-On hand and con-
" SANITY receiving large stock freshly-mined
ANTHRACITE COAL. all sizes, offering at lowest
prices for cash. WEST VIRGINIA SPLINT ana
ENGINE: also, GLOVER HILL and COKE. PINE
and OAK WOOD. long and sawed, from $3.50 to
$3.50 and 50 per cord. Orders promptly filled 1T
either office. Broad street between Seventh and
Eighth, or Nineteenth and Cary streets.
~ slim G.. II. PAGE.
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nILL-HEADS, $3.50 10 So per ream, i!
ID tho DISPATCH SRlSTlSQ-uQtSEs
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-07-13
BY Francis T. Isbell,

Auct.onccr and Real Estate Agent.
No. 8 Eleventh street, between Main and Bank
streets,
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s. ire,TlIolI,N, "a s.Es..rn.nrc nays.

GALE OF sAL'r-sULPHUR SPRINGS
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Il 00AToSs GENUINEBEN.F FRANK
lsUyOLrNRED-ASHA NTHRACITE COAL
EGG, STOVE, aud CHESTN UT. 4 am prepared to
sell this celebrated coal ut greatly reduced prices
for cash or 90 prompt customers; also, WEST
VIRGINIA. SPLINT, MIDLOTHIAN LUMP, and
CUMBERLAND COAL. Dealers and consumers
viii find it TO their interest to call on me.
WRIT ROBERST,
eel corner Seventeenth and Cary streets e
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-06-12

From the PhiIadelnhia Press. l

From the Philadelphia Press.l
In all countries there are superstitious
people, whose weak minds are affected by
tinct in England Precisely this day fort
night, Queen Victoria drove to the camp
of Aldershot, near London, to review the
first army corps, of whom IA, 600 were
on parade This small sample had to be
taken as representing the army now mus
tering up for Gas may be- military ser
vice in the field. Two circumstances
gave an unpleasant and unfavorable as
pect to this affair, and lowered the spirits
of the croakers. Uusually, Victoria has
been so fortunate in having fine day
when she performs any official act in
public, that ''the queens weather" has
become common expression. This
time, however, it poured down sheets of
rain from daylight to noon, at which
time the thought was entertained of
abandoning the review altogether, but it
went on and fourteen thousand soldiers,
cavalry, artillery and infantry, had to
perform the ordinary manGuvres of
marching and cOuntermarching over a
muddy plain, and getting wet to the skin
while doing this. Finally, after the I'M
fortunate drenched troops had been four
hours on foot, the queen and her party
moved up to flagstaff bearing the ma
tional flag. In her carriage she FORUM
ately escaped the general wetting. As
the troops were marching past her one Of
the lanyards of the flagstaff got foul, and
the royal standard came down with rush
Various efforts were made to raise it; all
without effect, and journal of the day
has recorded, "for the first time in the
history of Aldershot the royal standard
vas wrapped around the flagstaff instead
of floating over the head of royalty"
This gave an air of failure to the whole
Concern, and the queen was evidently an
noyed, if not perplexed. 1t was "a bad
omen" and the London press is IN bad
spirits over it. There was nc opportunity
Of turning this i'll omen to advantage,
like Scipio, who, having stumbled as he
landed near Carthage, exclaimed. Thus,
Apia,, do | embrace thee" or William
of Normandy, who falling with both
hands on the ground-he fell from his
ship on reaching the shore of Pevensey-
cried out, 81 have taken seizin of my
kingdom; the earth of England is in my
two hands" The mishap of the pros
trae banner at Aldershot could not be
covered by any such words in season, so
it pressed on the public mind, to be SUI
perseded, no doubt, within the next
twenty four hours by some new subject
of gussip and surprise.
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WIt and IIumor.

A stare case-A telescope.
Light work-The gas mans.
A robin red breast-Tho Indian.
Truth IS mighty--hard to telL--Kc0-
kuk Constitution.
Short horn--A busted buglc.--lteo.
kuk Constitution
Why is Rhine wine like April
blossoms? Because it comes from tho
German nation.
A shoe dealer in Rochester advor.
tises "the Tilton shoe" 1t must be white
souled.
Wonder if a walllieg match could pro-
duce running fire?-Chioago Times.
The railroad track is like the ship
when you can see the cargo on il.
The train is like a naughty boy
because the switch will change ils
course.
When the spring comes like a lamb,
it is 50 understood the spring welh-
er is here
"The parting gives me pain sighed
the man who was combing his hair for
the first time after a two weeks spree
Cincinnati Post.
Swell: 81 want you to make me %
short coat, without tails or seams In the
back. DO you know what / meaug'
German tailor: "Yaas, yaas, ] know
vat you want. You want q straight
jacket"
A Wisconsin editor illustrated tho
prevailing extravaganza Of people now a.
days by calling attention to the costly
baby carriages in use, while, when he
was a baby, they hauled him by the hair
of the head.
The discouraged collector again pre-
sented that little matter. ''Well,' says
his friend, "you are round again.
eyes, says the fellow with the account
in his hand, "but 1 want to get square.
"What river is Venice on2' (Janet)
Venison is not river, miss; it's a con
lection, and one which, being once
sampled will haunch you with perpetual
desire for more.-Yonkers Gazette.
A man who was noted for his economy
of the truth was once asked if he had
dined. lie replied, 81 have, upon my
honor" The questioner said, 'If you
have dined upon your honor, you must
have had scanty meal"
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Mental Quickness.

tits one of the incidental evils of our
systems of public instructions that they
tendto this. The teacher must have some
standard for his class; ard he is apt to
conclude that because a can easily learn
a Lesson of fifty lines, B, who has had
equa advantages, can learn the same. II
does not follow. Quickness of mental
actioE is often an inheritance, and it is
often cultivated, unconsciously, in early
childhood.
The quickest is not always the best
scholar, as every teacher knows. Ideas,
like money, easily gained are liable to be
easily lost. Nevertheless, quickness is
not inconsistent with good scholarship or
with retensive memory. Some men
possess a marvellous absorbing power.
They gather like sponge. Lord Ma
cauly was . very rapid reader and he had
a very retensive memory. Joseph Cook
draws the honey out of a book as bee
does out of o flower. Sometimes he may
miss the real meaning; but there are few
men who are his equal in either gathering
from literature or preserving and using
what they have GENERALIZATION In
Christian Union,
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Natzhez SUM-

Natzhez SUM-
So Old Rosin the bow" was the favorite
universal song, all around and about here
forty years ago, and it now comes up
again, and is the most popular of all
songs. The same may be said of the
first of the operate songs. "Pm Afoat,"
and of that sweetest of species, if we may
so call it, Listen to the Mocking Bird
-ReveilIe
The name of this song is not cold
Rosin the bow: it is "Old Rossum the
the beau" 1t was written by Col. w. II.
Sparks, formerly of Natchez. We think
he told us he wrote the song whilst
resident of our city. Old ROssum was
somewhat after the Beau Brummel order
and was peculiar friend Of the Colonel.
We met the Colonel at Atlanta last
summer a year agO-we had known him
from the days our earliest childhood
where he was beading at the Kimball
House, with his young, beautiful and
devoted wife. He was something over
eighty years of age, and seemed as active
and lively as though he were but forty.
He met the New York State Press Con
ventiOn at that city, and his remarkable
store of information, anecdotes, life and
vivacity made him quite lion with them.
We believe the Colonel is now residing
ON his plantation in Louisiana. Col. j.
z. Walworth and some others of the elder
citizens of Natchez win remember the
genial and agreeable Col. w. ii. Sparks.
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The SHORT DREss.-" is the shor.
dress really fashionable and can ladies
wear il 20 is a question which comes
from all parts of the country. The great
difficulty about all questions is This
" Yes" or +" No" a kind OF short
dress--what is known as the kiitplaitei
suits fashionable, but only for young
girls and the reason DO is not fashion
able for. older women is because DO IF
ridiculously unfit for them. The suit aE
designed and made in summer beige and
camels hair consists of short, tplai-
ted skirt tied about with "a sash made Of
folds of the material; q cutaway basque
with English collar held by three buttons
or a strap over the chest and exposing Che
vest at the throat and the waist This Is
jaunty and what Is called "cuto tor
young, slender girl, not too tall, and who
knows how 10 carry it OF with lu air ui
what may be called demuro c0Iuoty
But il looks like a costume COTTON up tu
produce stylish little effect, and MOE 900
all like the unobtrusive, adaptable dress
of woman engaged in the serious husl.
ness of life. Still it is of service iu moro
va AAlAA NllNs AA Nh.t" lAa 'HA HtH..|
tournures for girls, il gives them au easy
and convenient walking dress. and BE-
makes it possible for ladies who desire tD
shorten their street dresses, or Go arrange
Il costume for the street which will clear
the ground, TO do So without attracting
attention or sotting locomotives go diroct
opposition 20 prevailing fashions.
If anything could induce women gem
orally to demand neat, decent walking
dress, it would be the shameful fashion
which still obtains among those who wear
long skirts of catching their dress mp
NJ the side and hoistiug it up in such
way rs not only exposes the skirts, hut
the foot and ankle, 10 degree that would
condemn IA short dress at once, aud iIy
stigmatize il as shameless. a useful
dress must grow sometime out of our uo-
cessities in the meantime il Is possible
for each woman 10 work out the problem
for herself, although il would certainly ba
less trouble, and leave her more time and
strength for other things, IL 10 could bo
done for her. JENNIE JuNE.
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Decrease Of PERSONAL vanity

That women embellish their persons
with adornments is natural: nature evil
IDENTIFY intended that they should ru'a
mankind by their graces and attruc-
tons, with which many of them are sI
beautifully provided. But that man
should be led into this weakness beyond
the pale set by the necessity Of looking
clean and neat, and hang about his per-
son needless traps, shows AN inferior
mind.
We are glad TO see that this has COM
menced TO be seen in diplomatic and mill
itary circles, and that the example set by
the leading American statesmen and gen
erals is being followed But what may
be considered as strange is that Russia
has been the first in this respect. Some
Russian generals and senators are knights
of more than thirty orders, and it is these
who affect most 30 wear no ribbons at ALE
The custom Of going out 10 evening par
ties in plain clothes unadOrued is one of
recent birth, but it is growing apace
and now high class Russians no longer
show their stars ut the theatre and no
private parties, as they did ten years ago
At official receptions they have mo-
choice, but must wear all the stars and
crosses they possess, even though their
bosoms resemble jewelers. shop front i'm
consequence. Court etiquette, which b.
eminently conservative, requires to ud
here to all old customs; but tits cheering
to see that common sense prevails, and
that sensible men are beginning to sec
more and more that the wearing of rib
bons and orders is only another form of
the custom Of the savage Indian with bis
war paint and Observation-Disclosures
and Bnilder-.
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BEAUvoIR, HARRISON Co., MISS.
Nav 24th, 1873.

May oath, 1873. :
Hon. o. r. Singleton:
Nj DEAR SIR II have just received yours
OF the 18Th instant with the enclosed copy
OF the Congressional Record containing
your speech in which reference was maue
TO the conference held by Gov. Pettus with
the Congressional delegation OF Mississippi.
mad read the speech previously, and must
apologize to you for not having returned my
thanks for your manly vindicatlon OF my
sell from the charge so often reiterated OF
having melted the people of Mississippi 10
preciptLte secession. My memory accOrds
with your own as to my position IN that
conference, ]. e; that secession should only
ue adopted AS the last resort, and that SIN
gle State could not exercise the right TO
withdraw from the Union without tile most
serious injury to herself even If permitted
peaceable to do so. And that Mississippi ana
south Carolina not being geographlcally
connected, could afford little, II any, sup
port TO each other if they alone should
adopt the remedy of secession. The subject
had in different form been previously pre-
Rented to me, and had been maturely con-
sdered. When, in 1851, the question OF
separate State action or cooperation with
other Southern States was under discussion
IN South Carolina, the late Hon. a L. But
Ter wrote to me for my opinion upon the
point involved, and / replied to him that SO
lar from considering South Carolina bound
by any previous declaration to proceed to the
extremity of separate secession, GnaG
l thought she was rather under obliga-
ton to confer with and conform to the
wishes of her Southern sisters in line situa-
non to her own. So that when, in 1850,
mad Co express an opinion on the same point
In regard to Mississippi, am quite sure that
that 1t was in favor of waiting for the CO.
operation of as many Southern states as
would give dignity 10 the measure and the
physical power to maintain it. For at that
time was one of the few who believed that
secession would inevitably be followed by
War, albeit no one more positively held than
myself that the coercion of State by the
Federal government was the most palpable
violation of the compact of our Union. The
power to do so not having been given in the
constitution, but expressly denied By the
Convention which framed that instrument
My recollection Of the event Of our meet
ing with the Governor was for the purpose
OF confuitation in regard to the message he
would send to the Legislature about to con-
Vene In special session to decide whether or
not Convention should be called for the
purpose of determining whether the State
OF Mississippi should withdraw from the
Onien. and can have no doubt Of the corr
Ssctness Of your statement Of my declaEas
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4" EVERY YEAR. :

The spring has less of brightness
Every year,
Aud the snow a phaStliar vhiteness
Nor do summers flowers ouicken.
Nor autumn's fruitage thfeken
As they once did, for we sicken
Every year.
1t Is growing darker, colder,
Every year.
As the heart and soul grow older,
Every year.
| care not now for dancing.
OR for eyes with passion glancing;
Love Is less and less enhancing
Every year
OF the love and sorrows blended,
Every year;
VI the JOYS of friendship ended,
Every year;
OF the ties that still might bind me
Until time To Death resigned me,
My infirmlties remind me
Every year.
Oh. how sad To look before me,
Every year,
While the cloud grows darker DER me,
Every year;
Where we see the blossoms faded
That to bloom we might have aided,
Ana immortal garlands braided,
Every year.
To the past go more dead faces
Every year;
Come no new ones in their places,
Every year.
Everywhere the sad eyes meet us,
In the evenings dusk they greet Us,
And to come to them entreat us
Every year.
"You are growing old" they tell US,
Every year"
81 on are more alone" they tell us,
every year"
"0 on can win no new affection,
You have only recollection,
Deeper sorrow and detection
Every year"
Thank God; no clouds are shifting,
Every year.
Ger the land to which wG'er drifting
Every year.
No losses there will grieve US,
Nor loving faces leave us,
Nor death of friends bereave us,
Every year.
ALBERT Pike.
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The Law ON Recent Fashions.
Hartford Courant.l

Hartford Courant.l
In an indirect way the Supreme Court
Of Pennsylvania has been called upon to
decide the important question rs to wheth-
er a woman has any legal right to wear
stays. 1t gallantly says she has The
matter found its way into court after this
fashion.
A lady was riding in a horse car, not
crowded perhaps, but containing ladies
enough to cover all seats with their dress
es so that this traveller had to stand up.
The car stopped suddenly, and she fell
over, breaking her kneepan. She sued
for damages. The company claimed con
tributory negligence on her part IN that
she did not take hold of the strap that
is provided for standing passengers. She
set up on the other hand that she could
not reach or hold the strap owing to the
stays which she wore, and that with the
present fashions no lady could do So at
least without Inconvenience and possibly
injury.
The lower court decided that the lady,
in taking hold Of a fellow passengers
hand, had done all that was necessary,
and that, under the circumstances, she
was not obliged to stretch up to the strap.
1t awarded her about So, 900, and the
Supreme Court reviewing the case, de-
clines to interfere. 1t is a question Of
some sociological Importance to know
how this decision would be received by
the sex. At first glance it looks like a
declaration in favor Of woman's rights,
but will scarcely stand analysis as such.
1t amounts really to the official procla-
nation that woman shall remain cramp-
ed, barrelled up, and unable to lift her
arms, and content only with clinging to
some other persons's hand for support.
And this is what modern dress amounts
to? OF corset is.
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RAYMOND REID, Chm'n.
} HAIL Secretary
school Celebrations t Water Val
ley.
Mississippi Central. |

MISSISSIPPI Central.I
The various Sunday Schools of Water
Valley, accompanied by their respective
teachers and superintendents, on Friday of
last week, at 8 80 A. NJ, marched 10 WOOD
Street church. Coffeeville school, under
the supervision of its Superintent. Capt.
John Kelley, accompanied by Mr.. K
Hubert, Mrs. Lizzie Ware, Mr.. and Mrs j.
f. Kelly, arrived in our town on No. l, were
met ofthe depot by the committee of re-
ception and escorted TO Wood Street church.
Capt. f. W. Merlin called the meeting TO or
der, and prayer was offered by Rev. B. +.
Philips. Rev. j. NJ. Boon delivered an
address of welcome, and Capt. Kelly res
pended in a few short but appropriate re-
marks. Col. j. L. Power, of Jackson,
was then introduced to the audience, and
delivered quite a lengthy and able address
on the Sunday School question. At the close
OF the address the various Sunday SCHOOLS
of our city, accompanied by their in
vited guests, formed into procession
and marched to a beautiful grove in front
of the residence of Mr.. Jno. Nj. Shaw. An
ami pie and splendid basket dinner had been
provided by the parents of the Sunday
School pupils of our city. The committee
of arrangements soon had the cloths spread
upon the green grass, and the contents OF the
baskets were soon deposited upon them. In
due time dinner was announced which was
most heartily partaken of s2d enjoyed Dy
al
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The Chicago, ~. Louis and New
Orleans Railroad.

The jackson Railroad, we believe, now
goes by the above name, in connection
with the Illinois Central. 1T forms q
chain Of railroad between Chicago and
New Orleans, 9l2 miles in length. The
st. Louis connection is $50 miles i'm
length. This railroad belongs to a strong
company, who are making great improv-
ments along the whole line, from Cairo
to New Orleans, adding steel rails, re-
newing the cross ties, improving the
bridges, and working it up to the charac-
ter Of first class road in all respects
This road is of vast Importance to New
Orleans.