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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-27

OFFICE CITY FIRE INSURANCE CoMPASY.l
RICHMOND, VA. January IL, 1879.
T,HE REGULAR ANNUAL MEETING
i OF THE. STOCKHOLDERS OF THIS COM
PANY will DC held ut the Office of The company on
the 2STII JANUARY, 1879, at ~ NJ.
I, 14-t,Ja2S K. b. MEADE. Secretary.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-27

225 pieces DRESS GOODS OF every description
and style from &c. 10 76c.;
DRESS GOODS ut Ice. worth 25c.; ut zoe. worth
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-27

BLACK ALpACAs. CREPE CLOTHS, VEIL.
GRAPES, and Wells ut very low prices. Give
al
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-27

ALIoWDOL CAsHMEREs at CSC. worth 81:
COLORED SILKS and SATlNS very cheap 10 CLOS
Them ont.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-27

Joint resolution recognizing tile value OF
religious instruction In the peuttentiary;
ia amend section ID OF an net entltleu 4, an
acs 10 ylroyide for the division OF sehool as
trIcty into districts, and for the apno,ni,
me,lt Of school directors, approved ha 'li'1
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-14
Choir OF Congregation.
DR.. Holland in Scrihner.s

Dr' HOllaHu III SCrlDuerS.
For ourselves, we are very much afraid
of the movement towards congregational
music. The tendency thus far has been to
depreciate not only the quality of the
music, in the churches, but the importance
of it, and to make public worship very
much less attractive to the great world
which it is the church's duty and policy to
attract and to influence,
The churches are full, as a rule, where
the music is excellent. This fact may
not be very fattering to preachers, but II
is fact, and it is quite legitimate ques-
ton whether church has a right to sur
render any attraction that will give it a
hold upon the attention of the world
especially if that attraction is an eevating
one, and in the direct line of Christian
influence.
Congregational singing Is we'll enough
in its place and proportions, but very little
of the inspiration of music comes through
it. 1t is, indeed, more of torture, than a
pleasure to many musical and devout
people. The ideal arrangement, as it
seems to us, is first class quartette made
up Of soloists, who take prominent part
in the public service, with single choral
in each service given to the congregation
to sing. In this way the two Offices in
public religious assemblies seem to be Sc.
cured more surely and satisfactorily than
in any other.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-14
THE GIRL WHO WANTS TO MARRY.
Always "LookinR a Little Farther"
New York Times.l

New York Times.
If man has right to marry, why has
not womani If man may ask wo-
man to become his wife, why may not a
woman suggest to a man how lovely it
would be to become her husbandi But
nay. Society, by Its usage which Is
stronger than written law, says that such
proceeding Is Objectionable, and that
lovely women must not practice 1t. We
bow to the dictate of society's usage, and
the woman who rebels against 1t is voted
rude, forward and unwomanly. And yet
the honest desire for companion and
partner for life is implanted in the femi-
nine heart as deeply as In that of the man.
1t does not find expression in the same
manner.
The woman who has reached maturity
without ever having had desire to marry,
is either mentally or physically imperfect,
or else is, as it were, a wooden doll, or a
partially animated piece Of wax work.
She may pride herself on what she thinks
is her excessive modesty, but her ardent
sister, who honestly longs tor real ana
live man to be her comfort Tor lite is Just
as modest, and quite as sensible. 1t is not
always the case that the longing OF the
girl who wants 10 marry assumes the form
of outward and verbal expression.
There are thousands of bashful fellows
who have had on their tongues the prop
ositions they would fain have uttered, but
were frightened oy the rear mat the glrls
would refuse men, when at tne very tilne
the dear creatures were hoPhg ana iorNg-
ing Tor these same inolvlauals 10 give
them an opportunity TO accept !,
But there are at least thousano ana
one ways IN which glrl may with pro.
prlety communica!e 10 almost any oright
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-14
A Very Singular Incident.


Not long ago there was an old man in
Louisville who died several years on the
western side of three-score and ten, He
was an upright, church-going, influential
citizen, a successful business man and the
father Of bright and happy family Of
children. A short time before his death
he became involved in some unfortunate
business venture, by which he lost nearly
all of his property. After he died it was
naturally supposed that he had left his
family penniless. What must have been
their surprise when they found that he
had left will in which the following
clause appeared: .
"And | do give and bequeath to my
dearly beloved children, Margaret and
Augusta, the sum of ,562, now in the
Bank, of Louisville, the same being a
sum of money which l accumulated in
this manner Fifty years ago, when
first started in business, instead Of giving
aims to any of the numerous young men
dicants who came into my Office daily,
determined to lay aside twenty-five cents
every day. as kind of sinking fund, the
whole Of which / made vow to give tt
the first beggar under fifteen years of agt
who had the originality to come to m'
and tell me any other story than that on'
which begins with my mother is sick
and my little brothers and sisters is cryin
for somep'n feat etc. To this day hav,
never had an opportunity of giving thi
money away, and through the daily ad
ditions and judicious investments it ha
grown to the sum above named.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-14
The Condition of Women.
Westminster Review.]


The ages of animal passion, of muscu-
lar supremacy, Of conflict with wild ami
mails, of barbarian wars-in short, the
ages of physical prowess, when the only
ordeal was one of muscle-belong indis-
putably to man. The subservien Of
woman was one of the conditions of
progress in those rude phases of hu-
man existence. But it does not follow
that this will always be the case.
1t is a generally recognized principle
that the stepping-stones of one genera
tion are likely to become the stumbling
blocks of a succeeding one; and Mr.
Spencer even uses the argument Of pre-
sumptive evidence against opinions which
have arisen in a barbarous age. Legouve
says The protracted subjection Of wo-
man proves but one thing-that the
w,Hrld so far has had more need of the
dominant qualities Of man, and that her
hour has net yet come. We have no
reason to conclude from this fact that it
will not come"
And he fofssifes his position with the
following striking illustration: GLOW
many centuries did it take to produce
this simple maxim of common sense, 'Aii
men are equal before the law% The
tardy advent of an idea, so far from prov
ing its usefulness and falacy, is often an
argument in favor Of its grandeur. The
principles of liberty, charity, fraternity
are all modern principles" ." 1t remains
for these principles to become still fur
ther modefnized by their extension to
women as a part of the human family.
Their co-existence, with certain curious
"survivals" from the ages Of muscle, sup.
plies striking example of the remar ka-
Bile tolerance of the average human mind
for incongruous ideas, provided these
ideas have been associated for sufficient
length of time. In England, until the
reign of William and Mary, women were
refused the benefit of clergy, and in the
time of Henry VIII. an English Parlia-
ment prohibited the reading Of the New
Testament in English by women and 9th
ers # low estate. The male Mohamme.
dan to-day Indignantly rejects the idea
that his female companion, as well as
himself, may have soul.
Among the Hindoos women are still
excluded from the advantages of reading
and writing, and with a few exceptions
the higher institutions of learning are
everywhere still monopclized by the more
muscular sex. That these facts, gath.
cred from widely separated ages and
countries, harmonize in spirit and princi
pie, thus revealing a common origin
scarcely needs to be pointed out; the law'
of heredity and descent are therein con
spicuously illustrated and, as betweel
men and women, the age of muscle still
exists.-T Westminster Review.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-14
His Recommend.
Detroit Free Press I


Some time since a Detroit merchant
was in want of clerk, and he advertised
the fact. Among the numerous applicants
who sent In recommendations was young
man who had shortly before received a
letter from the old man Blank, to the ef-
feet that any further visits to his house on
the part of the young man could not be
permitted, and that "Mary,s" future hus-
band was already selected. In his haste
and excitement he forwarded this note in
place of a recominendation from a mer-
camille bouse, and ei tIlscovering his mis-
take, hk called Upon the merchant to
secure NE missive.
"Ah' said the merchant, as the young
man entered, "you can begin here tomor-
row. l was about to write you"
"That-that letter." began the young
man, but the merchant interrupted:
"Best recommend in the world Old
Blank and have been enemies for forty
six years. Amy one he is down on al
ways employ, in order to aggravate him.
Come right along. I'll give you posi-
ton In the front of the store, where the
old curmudgeon must see you every time
he passes, and if you want to make up
faces at him I'll pay all costsp
Thus are we able to furnish another H.
lustration that sunshine may come out of
the depths of despair.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-14
1T DOESN'T PAY.


1t doesn't pay to take advantage of an
others necessities. 1t is done, however,
constantly, and by men who pride them
selves on their shrewdness. Causeur
knows case in point. A well-known
businessman in Boston wanted certain
work done. 1t required special profess.
sional skill which but few ever attain.
But he tonnd it in young man who pos
sessed it in high degree, who was great
ly in need of work, and consented TO work
for very small pay. The employer
chuckled. The young man went to work
and worked on definite plan. He put
the very best skill he had into his work.
His employers Customers were delighted.
ihey not only liked what lie did, brtt
the% liked it so well that they would have
no other. Again the employer chuckled.
His business was growing in proportion
and in profit
One day the young man asked for high
er pay. His employer said he couldn't af-
ford it. The young man knew that that
was lie, but he didn't say so. He kept
on working, doing better and better
Again his employer chuckled, not alone
over his gains, but over the fact that he
had, as he thought, deceived the young
man. His confidence in his own sagacity
had rude awakening one morning wher
he learned that his "dupe" had set up ir
business for himself The customer
who liked his work would have no other
The employer has not been able TO finc
any one who can just match it at an,
price, and his business is going steadil,
down. 1t doesn't pay to be too shrewd
You may buy things for less than the.
are worth for long time, but the baianc
has got to be paid in the end.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-14
The Moncy-makins ncnuilens.


There is family living in Chicago'
known as the McMullen brothers. who
have achieved more or less notoriety in,
various schemes of local interest Several
of these gentlemen are now reaching out
for National fame and National gains
bv means of a monster excursion which
they are organizing to meet and welcome
General Grant on his arrival at San
Francisco. Plainly stated, the Messrs..
McMullen, more or less of them, intend
to use General Grant for a money-making
purpose Of their own, without so much
as saying "by your leave" The fact
that promiscuous crowd which
they will gather by the usual half-fare
dodge may be, and probably will be, very
offensive to Gen. Grant; the fact that the
organization of such an expedition will
be miseonstrued by Gen. Grants op-
ponents; the fact that Gen. Grant as a
private citizen, is entitled to the privl--
iege of coming home from his trip around
the world in a quiet way and without
molestation from gang Of half-fare ex-
cursionists- these obvious conditions
are matters of the utmost indifference TO
the Messrs. McMullen, to whom the pros.
pective profits of the excursion are OF
more account than any considerations OF
propriety.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-14
Mrs. Emerson Gives Ralph Waldo A
Piece of Her Mind.

One evening, when pA Wal9 =, p,o
erson was engaged In preparing h,s ,an,
lecture, Mrs. Emerson, who ha. th..
ment fattened her finger VIII de ,rv ;,o to
drive a nail with the smt ,o.l,: ;s
thrust her head into his stuc l.. ~. s,;d.
"See here, sir! want dron ~
everlasting pen of yours for a minute or
two, at least and go dc ..', ., ..o roo.r,,
and get a mackeral for L"aa1. 9,stn
Wy 80, t:P'iou Mr.. Emerson, look
my up iioui MS rk; "mv dear, can't
~ g.. - dat:' ~ 81 ~ am billed in dozen
pa p"I - ~ inT LIZ G. u as lecture on Memory
anu AS.,'ot ~ iH,i' itaii ~ iished yet"
1act,,rnis '+ ~ rat you call your internal
"a 49, .,ar.,. Aid Mrs Emerson, sharply.
.,,.a ny py' ptnIay you are to deliver lee
meekly. my 'o'e' ''tN -'i' -1i''e' 'o''
Won Gnn. do " ever go out of the house that
yoTr bC Il forget to put on your hat or
3Io;r,e Iots, and you never take letter OF
nn,,r ,,,,lr to mail that you don't carry 1t in
I,o Ia,H pocket for six months or year un,
~ ~ j happen to find it sooner. During
u past thirty days you have carried out
# this house and forgot to bring back nc
less than seventy five or eighty umbrellas
and you know yourself the last time you
n went to church you took out your false
= teeth because, as you said, they hurt youl
10 corns, and came away and left them II
l. IL the seat. say you are a nice man to talk
le to a cultured audience on Memory ane
- - if you don't trot right off to the grocery
II III expose you before you are twenty-foul
ot hours older"
lie Mr. Emerson started on a jump for th'
a. grocery, and when he got there he coult
e, not for the life of him recollect what HI
a had come for.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-14
TRAMPs AS HUSBANDS.
Not Always the Most Reliable.
Westfield (Mass.) Letter.

Nestnelu (Mass) Leuter.
Within a few months, and within ra-
dius of nine miles from here, three or four
widows comfortably we'll off have mar
ried chaps that came tramping along.
One of these husbands is now in Jail for
threatening the lives Of his wife and
mother-in-law His favorite form of a
musement was to place the women folks
in chairs side by side, and, after poking
loaded gun into their faces, to fire it Oft at
a target just above their heads. Five
weeks ago respectable and well-connect-
ed woman in this town, whose husband
died less than two years ago, leaving her
a nice little home and $4,000 in cash, fell
in love with young tramp who came TO
her door, and though twenty years his
senior she married him. Since then her
house has been a rendezvous for nearly
all the tramps who come along, and aPpar-
emily the good news is being sapidly
spread among the fraternity. A few days
ago the woman appeared with a badly
bruised face and damaged eyes, and her
friends had her tramp husband arrested
for assault The trial was most ltldi.
crous affair, for, while the wife admitted
that "Iohnnie" not only was the cause of
her disfgurment, but had soundly thrashedl
her at least twice week during their brief
honeymoon, she declared that she loved
him dearly, and that he only whipped her
when he was mad because she wouldn't
at first asking, give him money, or buy
him horse and carriage. The man said
that he didn't think that he thrashed his
wife above once a week, and that he loved
her dearly. Upon this followed a very
dramatic scene, the woman rushing into
her husbands aiSns and mingled her tears
and kisses with his ditto, and both fell on
their knees before Judge Lewis to beg
his mercy Judge Lewis told them, q
want no such nonsense here" and fined
the man $685. which the woman paid
and few minutes later they were seer
lovingly riding toward their "-a'"f''
home.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-14
How to Train the AIemory.

Your memory Is bad, perhaps, but I cam
tell you two secrets that will cure tha
worst memory. One Of them is to read
a subject when interested. The other b,
to not only read, but think. When you
have read a paragraph or a page, stop
close the book and try to remember tina
ideas on the page, and not only call them
vaguely to your mind, but put them IN
words and speak them out. Faithfully
follow these two rules, and you have tho
golden keys of knowledge. Besides mat
tentive reading, there are other things In
furious to the memory. One is the habit
Of skimming over newspapers, items of
news, smart remarks, bits of information,
political reflections, fashion notes, so that
all is a confused jumble, never to be
thought Of again, thus diligently cult.
waiting habit of careless reading hard ta
break. Another is the reading Of trashy
novels
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-14
lace, and jet and gold passementerie me-

lace, and jet and gold passementerie me-
lallions.
Some of the new black fringes are so
light In weight, and made of such ex-
tremely narrow tape or ribbon, that they
pass by the name of shavings, and give
a sound not unlike that of shavings as
they are drawn across the hand. They
trim effectively, and are much used on
summer wraps and parts Of summer
dresses.
The Greek fashion of wearing a brace
let on the upper part of the arm, and
bands on the head, is in vogue. These
bands are strikingly becoming to hand
some heads and faces which approach
the classical in outline. For evening
wear, strings of pearls, or coins of verit-
able Grecian stamp, fall over the fringe
on the forehead.
The buntngs this season are in several
varieties. The old favorite canvas-woven
stuff is called African bunting. The
soft variety, so much like old mousseline
delaine, is termed Plevna bunting; while
French bunting is reproduction of the
same goods and of the old challies.
They wear well and make up hand
somely.
The following is from Andrews Bazaar:
A rustic bridegroom was complimented
by one of his acquaintances on the
charming appearance of his bride "She
has the most lovely color | have ever
seen," remarked the friend. "Yes, it
ought to be good" pensively replied the
groom; "she paid 81 for just little bit
Of it in a saucer"
Deep killed flounces are rendered more
dressed by the addition of a soutache
gaIloon, or perhaps one of Oriental colors,
laid perpendicularly along each plait
just inside the edge. Sometimes the
plaits are lined with contrasting color,
which peeps out when the plaits are
scattered and not pressed down very
close. O."
Fayette County, (Ky.) has beautiful
young lady of sixteen, who is equal to
DR.. Carver in rife shooting. With an
old-fashioned squirrel rifle she recently
shot two blackbirds out of the top of a
tree and two owls in the head. AS an
exhibition of her skill she centered the
mark six times in succession at the dis
tance of sixty yards.
The baby Princess of Saxe-Meining is
singuiarly gifted with living ancestors.
She has two great -grandfathers, the Ger
man Emperor and Duke Bernard, of
Saxe-Meiningen. As for great-grand-
mothers, the fortunate little girl has
four, the Empress Augusta, now sixty
eight years old; Queen Victoria, who is
sixty: Princess Mary Anne of the Neth-
erIands, the maternal grandmother of
the baby's father, and lady of sixty
nine; and the Duchess Mary of Sake
Meiningen, his paternal grandmother.
The little Princess has, moreover, her
two grandfathers living, but only one
grandmother, the Crown Princess of Ger
many. .'
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-14
"BAD BGGs.Y
4 Very Significant Term In It's Place.

A story is going the rounds, recalling
an incident In the history of Lincoln, in
which he greatly annoyed Sumner, of
Massachusetts,. 1t is said that an active
abolitionist had been appointed by Mr..
Lincoln to be secretary of one of the ter
ritories, upon the recommendation of Mr..
Sumner. The man turned out to be dis
honest, and that fact was reported to Mr..
Sumner, who, incredulous, went to see
the president. Mr.. Lincoln laid the proofs
of the mans dishonesty before Mr.. Sum-
ner, assuring him that the man was un-
doubtedly "a bad egg" Mr.. Sumner was
obliged to admit the force of the evidence,
but he said: "Why, can't tell his friends
that he is "a bad egg" "Oh, yes" said
Mr.. Lincoln, "that expresses it exactly.
You tell them that say their man is a
bad egg" The classical senator from
Massachusetts, could not persuade the
president to select from the vocabulary
any other term. "Bad egg" filled the bill,
and Lincoln knew it. lie understood the
full scope of the appellation. "Bad egg"
expressed to a nicely the real character OF
the dishonest secretary, and Mr.. Sumner
had to get down from his classical stills
and say to his friends that the man whose
interests he had sought to advance was a
"bad egg"
1t might be we'll if society would take
into consideration more carefully this
"bad egg" business. 1t will be discovered
"bad egg" looks very much like good
egg. Experts detect them readily, but un-
less they are scrutinized with great deal
OF care they are liable to get into the best
regulated families, places Of trust and
honor, and the result is always mischief
sorrow, and disgrace and thousand other
ills which will at once be suggested to
those who will examine the subject.
When person arrives at that point in
the career of his delinquencies, that he is
deserving of the epithet "bad egg" he is
"goner," beyond reformation by any of
the ordinary appliances known to law,
science or benevolence. 1t is time
thrown away to attempt the reformation
of "bad egg" If liar the "bad egg"
individual will continue to lie. There is
nothing to "tie to-" If the "bad egg" is
a thief he will continue to steal. Send
him to prison for the crime and, when he
has suffered the penalties of the law, he
is still "bad egg" and will steal again,
rather than pursue an honest life.
The bad eggs of society are essentially
corrupt aud vicious. Externally, they
may appear all right, but beneath the shell
they are corrupt. Nor does 1t matter
where you find "bad egg" nor, indeed
what civil, military, or religious distinc.
tons are conferred upon them, the "bad
egg" characteristics will sooner or later
crop out. In the church. hypocrites; ir
battle, towards; in places of trust, dis
honest; as superiors, cruel; as Interiors
sycophants; as friends, treacherous every.
where "bad eggs"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-14
Honor the Scissors.

Some people, ignorant of what good
editing is, imagine the getting up of Ie-
lected matter to be the easiest work in the
world to do, whereas it is the incest work
that is done on paper If they see the
editor with scissors in his hand they are
sure to say: "Eh that's the way you get
up original matter eh'' accompanying
their new and witty questions with an
idiotic wink or smile. The facts are, that
the interest, the variety. and usefulness of
paper depend in no small degree upon
its selected matter, and few men are capa-
Bile of the position who would not them
selves be able to write many of the articles
they select. A sensible editor desires
considerable selected matter because he
knows that one mind cannot make 90
good paper as five or six.-INewspapsr
Union. -