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OLD POINT COMFORT.
A Shark Story and Some Other Stories.
Fort MONROE OLD VIRGINIA,


Fort MONROE, OLD VIRGINIA,
August 12, 1870.
MR. EDITOR: am going to tell you
marvellous shark story 1t is q fact we'll estab-
lished in history that the genuine man.eater
shark makes the waters of old Point Comfort
his headquarters during tho fashionable sea-
son. do not know how to account for this
except that the maneating shark has a rare
taste for fine old Virginia gentlemen, their an
atomy being strongly favored with mint
juleps.
You can believe just as much of this story
as you like, Mr.. Editor shall tell it for the
amusement and instruction of your readers /;
and if they want it verified will refer them
to General Getty, Colonel Lddhall and Major
Randolph, all officers of wel-known ver-
acity
Just now have decided that Phebus shall
have precedence over the shark. Harrison
PhUbus, without the attachment of either
colonel OF judge, runs the great Caravansa ny
here msnamed Hygea Hotel. You must
be acquainted with mine host to appreciate
him in all his parts, PhUbus is rotund, Phe-
bus is festive, Pho bus is poetical His very
appearance suggests roast beef, and plum
pudding "are plenty no more" To go apoint
further, ,Phebus reminds me of Washington Try.
ing's Ready Money Jack. Mine host has sup
piled all the modern inventions to his hotel
has drained it, increased its accommodations,
and improved it wonderfully. And he sets a
table which oven the most fastdious,
| fine old Virginia gentleman of the olden times
would find II difficult to grumble at, The only
| trouble with mine host Is that he can not ac-
commodato comfortably more than fifty
per cent of the persons who would
| like to be guests at his hostelry. In
regard TO the table of the Hygeia, | send you
| breakfast, dinner and supper bills of fare, so
that you can SOC for yourself, Mr. Editor. l
know what good cheer is, and so do you. The
attendance too was good, and the prices mod
crate.
Let mo change all this. Not many days ago
weary and hungry traveller, tall and lean OF
| figure, somewhat bent with age, and coun-
tenance on which care and anxiety were deeply
wrinkled, aud sallow, landed from ono of the
excursion boats and, with small satchel In
ono hand and a somewhat aged green umbrella
under his arm, wendod his way silently and
solemnly toward the pet hotel. Thon he paused
before entering, gazed through his big eyeglass
over the sceno for several minutes, and his
cOuntenance relaxed-even smile invaded IT,
There was that In his mien and manner which
indicated the Vrglnian and he was evidently
happy at finding his feet once more pressing
the sacred soil Of his native State. lie
opened and shut his umbrella two OF
or three times, for the heat was becoming OPP
pressive, and then passed into the Office aud
registered his name. The polite clerks Of
fered 10 relieve him OF his saLchel and UNI
brella, but he said, with an air of sadness,
! mingled with suspicion, that he preferred TO
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ONE of the arguments used out in Ten
nessee in favor of repudiating the State debt
is based upon the assumption that one gem
Grafton has no right or power to incur obli-
cations which shall be binding upon its sue
cessors. The answer TO this Is that future
generations are not prohibited from enjoying
the benefits which are derived from the out
lays of the present. Postmaster General
KEY, in an interview with the Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore American,
explains that the State Capital building,
some Of the railroads and many of the Mac
Adamized county roads in the State were
built, In whole or in part, with the funds
raised by incurring this debt. Now let the
repudiators apply the logic Of the argu-
ment alluded to above, and tear down and
destroy these improvements before coming
generations are permitted to enjoy them. 1t
is certain that if they are not to be held ac-
countable for their share of the debt, they
are not entitled to any participation in the
benefits that may accrue from it.
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his satchol, paid his bill, and bid the festive

his satchol, paid his bill, aud bid the festive
Phoebus n long goodbye.
had almost forgotten 10 mention that the
man with the very red nose and the blue eye,
who our hero was told was brother of Senator
Chandler, was no less person than ono Colonel
Merrewether, of Culpepper Court-Housc, q fine
old Virginia gentleman of the olden times.
The Colonel is in somewhat reduced circum.
stances now. Before the unploasantness he
would think nothing of stalking prime plan
tation Niger on game of cards. Tho gentle
man who sat opposite him, aud who he was told
was common, vulgar Yankee, who ate with his
knife, and wiped his face with his napkin, was
Judge Tilfariona, of Poverty Corners Dinwid'
die County--as fine an old Virginia gentleman
as ever played a card or drained bottle of old
rye. We cannot all be fine old Virginia gen.
tlemen, you know. uYGEIA.
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SOUTHERN DREAD OF JUSTICE.

THE wicked flee when no man pur-
sueth." The Brandon (Miss) misnamed
Republican attempts to justify the late out
rage on Mr.. DIXON, in Yazoo County, by
alluding to the possibility that the honest
white men may be run over, robbed and
plundered by ignorant negroes led by
lawless white men. 1t evidently stands in
fear Of dire retribution, for ii says: When
-" this class of men marched on Vicksburg
and the white men, en mdsse, shouldered
their guns and shot them down, we ap-
proved their action, and so did the whole
press of the State. The people of Yazoo
deserve credit for acting more promptly
than the ViclSsburgers, and putting stop
" to it in time to prevent bloodshed. We
" are sorry the necessity arose, and we know
that political capital will be made out Of it,
but we cannot blame the good people OF
Yazoo for protecting their wives and
children from threatened massacre"
Conscience makes towards of us all
The people of Mississippi, who have for
years been trampling upon the rights and
sacrificing the lives of the negroes
know that just retribution for their
multtudinous outrages upon the colored
race since they were made citizens would
have swept their white prosecutors from the
face of The earth. In Mississippi the colored
race are numerically the strongest, and at
any time have held the power in their own
hands to violently avenge their wrongs, il
they had been so disposed, and the hand ol
justice would have beckoned them to the
work; but respect for the law far above
that evinced by the whites has averted sucf
n cat astrophe. There never has been ris
ing of the blacks in Mississippi or any Other
Southern State to redress their wrongs, though
they have been goaded to desperation by tel
years of cruelty and oppression, and there
probably never will be, for the reason that
their friends at the North and elsewhere
have strongly counseled them to respect
the laws and preserve order. Had there beer
as little regard for law and right ON the par
of colored citizens in the Southern States a
has been evinced by the whites, and they
had resorted to physical force to sustain
their rights and ayenge their wrongs, the
whites would either have fled for safety o
have slept under the sod in company will
the thousands of blacks who have been sac
riced to Democratic hate, That no sucl
fate has yet overcome the whites at tn
hands of the blacks under the dire provo
cations that have been heaped upon them
affords good guarantee that there is not nov
nor ever has been any threatened massacr
of the wives and children of the whites
such as is set up now as pretext for driv
ing the Democratic-Independe into alb
ject retiracy from the political field. Th
Bourbons know that they deserve a fat
which they affect so much to dread. n
other race on the face of the globe woul
have peaceably submitted to the wrong
suffered by the blacks.
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markable about this declaration except that
it Is point-blauk admission Of the in
ability of the Tildenized Democracy to get
q hold upon the people when things are
contented and prosperous. In other words
the old Cipher Ogre admits, like HEN
DRIcK b. WRIGHT, that Democratic sue
cess is the natural outgrowth of calamity
and general depression. We agree to the cor
rcctness of this assumption, and add that
the Democracy is naturally the germ from
which this reproductive outgrowth itseli
proceeds.
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he understood them. Emulating the exam-
pie of the great apostle of Democracy, the
Democrats have no respect for courts, laws
or precedents except when they are in ac-
cord with their own wishes and purposes
In the case presented by Senator RAN
DoLPH, it is evident that he should have q
better knowledge of and more respect fol
the precedents of history, as made by the
Democratic party, that he may become more
consistent Herewith in his political groupings
and meauderings.
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Down South the Democrats have it that
General GRANT has withdrawn from the
contest for the Republican nomination next
year in favor of Secretary SHERMAN. They
don't stop to reason, however, that it would
be impossible for man to withdraw from
o contest into which he has not entered.
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WAR ANNIVERSARIES.
Pertinent Extracts from the Chronology of
the Rebellion.
1861.


AUGUST 14-Jef Davis ordered that all resi-
dents of the Confederacy must acknowledge
the same or leave it within forty days Robert
Muir, of Charleston, cousin of the British Con-
sui at Now Orleans, arrested with reasonable
dispatches Martial law declared in st. Louis
by General Fremont. Var Bulletin and MIS-
sourian at st. Louis suppressed.
1869.
AUGUST 14-D. A. Mahoney, of the Dubuque
Herald, arrested for discouraging enlistments.
President Lincoln gave an audience to q depu-
tation of colored men on the subject of colo
nization, which project he told them he
favored and Congress had provided for. Gen.
eral Pope issued an order restraining unauthor.
lied seizures of private property. General
Breckinridgc complained to General Paine, at
Baton Rouge, of certain acts which he
claimed were not according to the usages of
civilized warfare, and threatened, on their
repetition, 10 raise the black flag.
1868.
AUGUST 14--Rebe raid into Poolsville, Nd;
but little damage DONE Rebels burned the
bridge over the Tennessee at Bridgeport Gen
Gilmore opened his 200.pounder PARROTS upon
Fort Sumter. Colonel Winslow's expedition
against Grenada left Yazoo City. Fight with
guerillas ut New Bloomfield, Galloway County
No.; several of them wounded.
1864.
AUGUST 14-Early's rebel army moved IN
the Shenandoah valley and went into quar-
ters near Winchester. The raid into Mary
land and Pennsylvania involved rebel los:
of nearly $500 men, but they had occasionet
as heavy loss to the Federal forces, and hat
carried of 5000 horses, besides other plunder
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THE Louisville Courier-J Journal quotes the
fact that of the II 100000 acres of land in
California only 100000 are improved, the
balance being held by speculators as prooi
that the Republican party is in favor ol
"feudalsm." The further fact that DR.
GLENN, the Democratic candidate for Gov.
ernor in California, is one of the largest
holders of improved as well as unimproved
land in that State, is not alluded to in this
connection.
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IT is the emphatic opinion of the Massa-
chusetts Democracy that the WIDOW BUT
LER is an improper person. Her raid
against the immoralities, alleged and other
wise, ofthe WIDOW OLIVER did not serve to
change this view on the contrary, it con-
firmed it as another instance of the pot
calling the kettle black.
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AND now HEN-RYE WATTERsoM recon-
mends Cinchona Rubra as new cure for
alcoholism. He ought to know whether it
is new one or not.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-14

THE New York World eats crow rather
gracefully. 1t says:
1--WE are more sorry than surprised to see
that some of the political antagonists of Sena.
tor Conkling, especially within the ranks OF
his own party, have already seized upon the
unfortunate alteration which occurred Friday
last at Narragansett Pier as an opportunity o.
assailing his public influence through his pri
vate character"
The World should lay in full dozen o
handkerchiefs with which to "wipe it,
weeping eyes" over the scandal it made
haste to put ahoat.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-14

HENDRIcK B. WRIGHT's Committee on
KEARNEY, the Yosemite Valley and other
Pacific Slope curiosities has reached San
Francisco; but has done nothing definite
since it was recorded rs seeking for evil
dence of depression in labor among the
Mormons. The sex of the witnesses exam
ined on this point was not stated.
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TILDEN seems to contemplate suicide by
drowning. He proposes to sink personal
considerations, which really are all there is
of him.
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THE Senate Committee on Newport and
Narragansett Pier is very busy watching
the polo games at the former place and
looking for the missing LINCKE at the
latter.
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SPEAKER RANDALL's Committee on Long
Branch is hard at work waiting for some
thing to do.
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I'M USEM ENI,S.
Thorne,s summer Garden.

The delightful Summer Garden is O most attrac-
tive place, especially during the present week The
singing of Miss Comfy the wonderful performances
on the violin by Miss Hadfield and the playing of
the Marine Band form q programme of music
which 1t would be hard to excel.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-14

As a valuable remedy for dyspepsia, sick head
ache, torpid liver and such like diseases we can
recommend Dr. Bulls Baltimore Pills. They are
for sale by all druggists. Price only % cents
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Summer Theatre Comique.
The great bill offered at the Comique meets q re
turn in crowded houses. The show is one which
none should miss.
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Largest Legitimate Morning Cir
cuidtfOn In the District.
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"ON the other hand, ," says Mr.. TILDEN, in
his reported conversation with SPRINGER,
sweet-Scented Sucker of the Sangamon, "if
"the Republicans retain power when this
"tidal wave of prosperity overwhelms the
"country, they are liable TO hold on for half
"a century" There is nothing very re-
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ACCORDING to the vivacious, veracious
and eccentric Mr., SPRINGER, Of Illinois,
THDEN proposes to steal march on the
American people and manage things so as
to have the Democracy ride into power on
the wave of prosperity which he thinks
is coming in this scountry, and which every
body else knows has already begun to
surge, as it were. In other words, the great
Cipher Ogre proposes that the material
prosperity of the people, achieved under
Republican management of our financial
affairs as we'll US through the more direct
agency Of good crops at home and hard
times abroad, shall be fraudulently utilized
to the advantage of himself and his fellow
office-seekers. If this is not bold attempt
to steal the livery of Heaven in which tC
serve the Devil, what is 1t?
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-14

THE Georgia legislature is making an
effort 10 do away with the custom of whole
sale murder in that State by enacting law
which provides that courts must drop all
other business to hasten through any muir
der case that comes before them, and if
there is no court in session the judge must
call session and at once try the accused
Such law as this would be of advantage
all over the country. Two-thirds of the
murderers who escape conviction owe their
good fortune to the fact that delays are not
dangerous, but on the contrary, a great safe
guard which they one and all seek rs the
prominent feature of their defense.
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BULL-DozING within the Democratic
party continues quite vigorously in Missis-
sippi Having driven Mr.. DIXON, of Yazoo
County, into retiracy, giving the Demo-
cratic party uninterrupted sway in that sec.
tion, the Bourbons have extended their
operations into Rankin County, where q
committee of six waited ON Major SUTTON
who had been placed in nomination by the
anti -Bourbonites, and ordered him to with
draw from the canvass and leave the county
The furor is started, and neither Mr., BROWN
nor any other of the original bull-dozinp
crew have the power now to extinguish it
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WASHINGTON, AUGUST IA, 1879.
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Bs~ Communications for publication should BE- bri
plainly tcTfhe1i and only upon one SIDE N me paper
When anonymous heVrN Be Reithcrredd norTeturted.
Rejected manuscripts pW not be preserved nor returned
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SPECIAL NOTICES,

n1Hs NEURALGIA CURED IN ONE MINUTE
W. by Fluid Lightning, Ms hundreds In the city
can tostIly. sold At ConghIlns Drug Store. lAn?0tf
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and you will be astonished. DR.
> Silsbee's External Pile Remedy, gives in
slant relief and is an infailible cure for the
the most wonderful cures of this terrible dis
order. 2D,0OO grateful people that have used
u can testify to the same. samples sent free
TO all sufferers on application Ana esis."
Depot, Box 1916. New York. Sold by ali
first class druggists. ~
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The Fate of a Herd Of Bufalos.

An army officer who recently arrived
in Chicago from the Yellowstone valley
tells a story of what happened to a herd
of buffaloes as they were migrating
southwark. The herd numbered $500
head, and had been driven out Of the
Milk river country by the Indian hunt
ers belonging to Sitting Bulls band.
When they reached the river they ven
tured upon the ice with their custom
airy confidence, coming upon it with a
solid front, and beginning the crossing
with closed ranks. The stream at this
point Was very deep. When the front
file, which was stretched out u quarter
of a mile in length, had nearly gained
the opposite shore, the ice suddenly
gave way under them. Some trappers
who were eyewitness of the scene said
it seemed as if a trench had been open
ed in the ice the whole length of the
column. Some four or five hundred
animals tumbled into the opening all in
Il heap. Others fell in On top of them
and sank out of sight in a twinkling.
BY this time the rotten ice WAS break
ing under the still advancing herd. The
trappers say that in less than a minute
the whole body of buffaloes had been
precipitated into the river. They were
wedged in so thickly that they could do
nothing but struggle for a second and
then disappear beneath the cakes of ice
Of the swift current. Not a beast in
all that mighty herd tried to escape,
but in a solid phalanx they marched to
their fatal bath in the "Big Muddy
In a minute from the time the first ice
broke not a buffalo's head or tail was tc
be seen. Possibly occurrences of this
sort, in ancient tertiary times, helped
to form the remarkable deposits OF
bones found in the old lake beds of the
great west and elsewhere. In these de.
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Queer Tragedy.

A curious tragedy was recently en-
tier. Two Jews, father and son, had
long lived oil bad terms, and at last the
son hired a peasant for twenty-five
pieces of silver, ''to facilitate the de-
parture of the old man from this vale of
tears" On the day fixed for the execu-
ton of the crime the peasant repented,
and, going to the intended victim, con-
fessed all that had passed. The father
made him promise to pretend to his en-
ploy, + that the crime had been commit
ted, and he then went to the Rabbi
Joseph Beer, before whom he laid the
matter. After due deliberation the
rabbi determined to see the son, and to
inform him that his murdered father
had appeared to him in a dream, and
he asked his murderer whether he would
appear before "a terrestrial or celestial
jury. The son, quite overwhelmed,
accordingly formed and consisted of ten
influential parishioners. The father
was placed behind n curtain. The
prisoner having been placed at the bar,
the judges rose, and the rabbi solemnly
Invited the spirit of the dead man to
bring forward his accusation. Hardly
had the son recognized the voice of his
father, when he wa seized with terror
and fell dead. The procurator of the
province, on learning the facts at once
caused the rabbi and other members of
the court to be arrested.
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viRor. loss OF muscular Weakness,
structure, gleet. secondary syphilis, urinary
and kidney complaints. Bright's disease,
removal OF tape worm.
The doctor also prepare the " Harveyan
Quick Cure "Cntarrh Cure
Chill and Mountain Fever Cure, ''and certain
BLOOD Cure;'' price Si.00 each. or six bottles
ior 500. Sold by druggists.
ror free consultation and treatment sent
iree from ohsery alton TO guarantee a cure,
must confidentialiy address or call on
FLATTERY, M. D..
One of the Worlds Ciicumnavigstofs.
TO. box l02, Cheyenne. " yoming. Office
opposite Inter. Ocean Hotel.
1g- Trademark OF his matches Harveyan
observation-disclosures of the celebrated Harvey,
uiseoverer Of tile circulation ofIhe blood.
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Ih Weekly LedIc.
r, "\'Nr -nAr.
rKMS Sa.,u a Ye. {, $3.50 Halt Year
Commercial j . I'rin..aq

.iously executed. Cards OF every shape and
Ind, Bill Heads, Letter and Note Headings,
blhnks OF every kind, Fosters. etc, printed
III short notice. Having n new lot OF Type
aud Presses, we can do handsome work at
low prices.
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posts the earth is literally crowded
with the bones, sometimes chiefly of one
type, sometimes comprising many dis,
tinct species. In the latter case the
victims were probably swept away by
sudden floods, their remains mipgling
confusedly in quiet basins.
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You are all alone here?" asked u
MAI of the clerk IN a Cincinnati cigar
store. Receiving an affirmative ans
wer, he continued: "What would you
do if a thief should grab this box and
run away" The clerk replied that he
would let the rascal escape, rather than
abandon the money drawer to a posi-
BILE raid. Then I'll be going" the
map finally remarked, as he tucked the
box under his coat and hastily departed