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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-12-27

AUGUSTA, December 26.-George Harris
and Wesley Long, both colored, had fight
near this city, in which Harris struck Long
over the head with gun and killed him.
Ellison Damsel (colored) was shot by a
tramp named Hobbs ut Thompson yester-
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-12-27

One Of Edison's associates was busily en-
gagged in The laboratory to-day periecting
an invention that he hopes will supersede
the old system OF telpgraphy. 1t is some
what similar to the old automatic, and pro-
duces fac si1aite Of the original message at
the other end Of the line. On short cir
cunt at the Park it is worked with complete
success, and the inventor ciaims that 1t Will
operate over u wire one thousand miles.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-12-27
STAUNTON.

JUDGE uENDREN's LAST COUEr-DEATH OF A
VENERABLE LADY--GoOD WALK or CEN.
TENAElAN-ISCE%DIAKY FIRE.
tf,,rrpsn.uI,.:,ru al TIr Richmond Dicnsfchl
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-10-17

Il don't know.
Nine, 10, Il. and = o'clock passed.
N o carriage-no news.
At noon the next day the buggy drove
into the yard. Patricia coolly presented
her husband. They had been married
the evening before BY our Pastor at Low
bridge.
so nice and quiet, = said Patricia.
No fuss, no notoriety.
She took her place eoolly at the table.
"You needn't hesitate to take Gage
now, Gertrude. He's dead in love with
you; and, as like Clyde best, I thought
I'd decide the matter without any COM
PEications. =
I think I was dumfounded. But I
found my tongue when Mr.. Redmond
came that evening, and said ayes, =
I give my experience for the benefit
Of others. 1t is dangerous-loaning
ones lover.
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-10-17
Worthless Beauties

Somehow orsother all the famous beau.
ties. known ii history and In modern
newspapers have begun or. ended with 8
loss ofreputation. Between Helen ct
Troy and Mrs. Langtrg there is a long list
Of Greek, Roman, Italian, French, Ger
man, English and other woman famous as
b.auties, not one of whom deserved par
ticle Of the respect due to a good Ameri-
can girl or -matron who keeps out of the
newspapers, as any women can do when
she chooses. Lola Montez was a profes.
sional beauty from Europe who visited
America. Nobody here could discover
her beauty, but it had been worshipped
BY king Of most ancient and heroic lin
age. Mrs. Rousbyswas an English pro.
feszional beauty who had achieved con
quests which made her heroine of the
London society Journal. But she had
little success in America, where prettier
and better women abound. Her beauty
was fatalsto. her character, and j led to
exeesses that killed her at an age when a
really good and beautiful woman ought te
be at her stage Of perfection.
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-10-17

could afford to disregard. sshe certainly
procured the greatest part of Mr.. Fox's
votes for him" said Walpole.
And though the Court party endeav.
ored to deter her by the most iIliberal and
indecent abuse, yet they could not fix the
smallest stain on her virtue. A third
caricature represented her as carrying
the Wing candidate on her shoulders and
the truth Of the insinuation eonsoled her
for its coarseness. The memory of the
Ladies Canvass" as it was called, long
survived its principal actors. With what
effect the Duchess and her friends 'srustled
their silks in the lowest recesses of sin.
and misery" an old elector told Allan
Cunningham nearly 50 years after
Lord, SIR said he, "it was a fine
sight to see. q grand Lady come right
smack up to US with, Master, how dye
do 2 and laugh SO loud and talk SO kind,
and shake US by the hand and say, Give
as your yotes worthy Sir; a .plumper for
the peoples friend, our friend, every
body's friend. And then, Sir, If. we
hVmmed and hawed they would ask us
for our wives and children and, If that
diden't do, they'd think nothing ofa kiss
-ay, dozen Or SO. Kissing was moth
ing to them and it all came so natu-
rally.l" No wonder, comments Cunning.
ham drily, that Fox was successful.
"The victory says Wiugrove Cook,
"was decided By woman y Po-
litical enthusiasm in SO fair form could
not fail to gether converts. The Duchess
appeared frequently at the hustings lin
Covent Garden), and Fox overlook and
al length ION the twenty-third day passed
his competitors. y The Duchess
was fouud irresistible, and Fox's majority
steadily increased. At the close Of the
! poll he stood 235 above Sir Cecil Wrav.z
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-10-17
The queen Of the wings.

~, !; tho a,;nou;tv
A...s -. = t,;a .z,rota. 4I.rha Duchess of
no.a o1...s:..' 49,: !: ;.aaest;a,b1a j. ba, oao.
Ds.o's-.l. :. - = ~ most blao].enar,
s17s ~ 80 aosashr :. o,sIoal5 This
''o'ssa : IT. ra,,+ n.rtv for three
a1os1''1s 49,, ;ag;tr uVast.
3esNs A'.l.''sl'.s ~, j nrato p;t+ con
u'stssssA 80 - .u:1Sa3e,.oa -, snita of
ssl1 49,. n, : = naYoasb;ra and the other
- Dae..e.l e4lsaaaala !
3o,'lel 49, ! - - aaor1a sba went }raely Of
AeLo..5 c,,.1 Il t $ 81. j ,.;tb voters whom
~ 80 80 ae : nns,n far Fox and 10
- s..l,.,..;t ra,,st.bave been i beWildering
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-10-17
Society of the Damned.

A curious institution still exists in
Paris, the Society ofthe Damned. These
damned are dramatic authors, and they
meet once a month and dine. at Brebant's.
Their number has no Fixed limits, only to
be eligible every member must have been
Missed. An eminent dramatist is selected
as Chairman, and holds the post for
three months. His election generally
follows close. on . splendid failure. If.
Ncilhac, IL, Dumas, DR.. NJ. zola aud N.
CFenbaeh have all filed the chair aud
presided at the monthly dinner. These
dinners are given on the last Friday oi
the month and are extraordinarily Lila.
s5ssn4.e
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-10-17
Poetry.
11Er, OPINION OF THE PLAY

10 IHkeit think it's just splendid ]
Won see how speak out my mind,
.n5T think it would be better ifmen did
The same, when they feel SO inclined
7,pt no. you're all dumb as ar oyster,
Van critics who set here and stare,
Y,,t,try a. grave as q monk in his cloister--
vou haven't laughed once, declare.
IN, spro there's been lots that was jolly,
And more tLatsexeiting, you'll own;
Z wby, pity the poor hero's folly
Az though he was some one I'd known ]
And wasn't it grand and heroic
When he shielded that friendless girl Sue?
rv1,ovld have qaickened the pulse Of stole,
But Of course, sir, it couldn't rouse you'll
And then, for the william, De LaRcey-
Now, doesn't he act with dash
qnch art and such dcIicats fancy,
And-did you observe his tnustache?
ue made my very blood tingle
when he threw himself down on his knees
Ia vou knsw fhe'8 married or single -?
Yes. tho villain-there, laugh ifyou please
admit know nothing Of action,
of unities, plot and the rest AZ
Bat the play gives complete satisfaction,
And that is a good enough test.
Yss, I know you will pick it to pieces
In your horrible savage review,
But, for me, its interest increases
Because twill be censured by you'll
should think 'twouId be awfulIy jolly
For the author to make such hits
How he picks all the bubbles of folly
With his sharp little needles ofwitI
/ am sure he is perfectly charming;
Or he never could. write such a play
declare, sir, it's really alarming
To have yon sit staring that wayI
And oh, if Tonly were brighter,
And not such poor little Ounce,
I should so like to meet with the writer,
FOR know [ shonld love him at once.
Yes, should, though yoa think it audacious,
And I'd tell him so, TOO, which is more,
And--you are the author ?-good gracious!
Why didn't yov say 80 before?
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-10-17
Rnlleliell,s Relaxation.

Cardinal Rienelieu, we are told, spent
his hoarIof relaxation in leaping over. the
furniture, and on enc oecasin he was dis
covered jumping with bis servant to try
which could reach the high side Of a wall.
.DeGrammont, knowing the Cardinal to be
jealous Of his powers, offered 70 jump him
for a vager-a proposal which shows the
courage as much as the event showed the
diplomacy of the eourtier The offer was
accepted, but DeGrammont took care
that his leaps should never quite reach
those Of his Eminenee, and thus he lost
few louis, but gained speedy and high
promotion by the favor Of his triumphant
and gratifed opponent.
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-10-17
Groceries. !.
General Forwarders, Freighterg, and
Commission Merchants.

Owning six of largest Mercantile Houses ia Montana being
heaviest shippers in the Territory and having buyers
IN the Eastern Markets, prepared to sell Goods and
furnish general outfits at prices that defy competition
nave the only reproo warehouse Benton having
aetes Tor handling and storing offer superior Inducements
70 parties part OF the Territory desiring ship goods via
Fort Benton We pay the highest price for -
buffalo Robes, Beef Ezides and E2e1tries
OF any description Parties desrou Of purchasing goods will find
elsewhere. = : s7
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-10-17

PROPRIETOR

MAIN STREET Tog7 BENTON, u. =,
We beg to inform our friends and the
public generally, that we are now pre-
pared. to supply families Or others VIII
bread and pastry Of all kinds, which We
t5d,ra,tt 10 be first class. During the
SIMMER se vii also make ICE e'IsE,A y Y
every noralng, which We vii sell Y
any quantity. =
<ssU.2s DEa.rgEESL I'D
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-14
The Terrible GarrOte.

The cable dispatches say Moncasi suf-
fered death by the garrote, but many
in this country do not know how the
Spanish method of execution is con-
Quoted. To those the following de-
scription will be of interest:
An execution by the garrote, although
accredited with being mercifully pain
less, is certainly awful to behold. The
place OF execution in Madrid is access
ible to the public, and the occasion is
of equal interest with day at the bull
ring. Everything connected with this
ceremony of death is viewed with NOR
bid horror by the Spaniards because Of
ancient Oriental prejudices of pollu-
ton. All actually employed in the
operation ars accounted infamous and
lose their caste and purity of blood.
Even the gloomy scaffold on which the
culprit is strangled is usually erected
in the night and by unseen hands. It
rises from the earth like fungus work
of darkness. Execution by hanging
was graciously abolished by Ferdinand
VII. It is certainly more in accordance
with the semi Oriental natures of the
Spanish people, which leads them to
tenderly respect the bowstring. All
that Cervantes, from his sad experience,
pictured prison to be, it is to. day ; ali
that he said of the morbid love Of his
countrymen for the horrible or the
ludicrous is equally true now. The
crowd that assemblies just beyond the
line Of gendarmes go to see how the
criminal will conduct himself. They
sympathize with him if he displays
bravado or courage, and they despise
him on the least symptom of unmanli-
ness. At the fatal hour the culprit ap.
pears, usually clad in coarse, yellow
baize gown-the color in which the
Spanish school of painters robe the spe-
cial object of their contempt, Judas Is
CARROT. The scaffold having been
mounted, the culprit is placed on q
rude seat. His back leans against q
strong, upright post, to which an iron
collar is attached, inclosing his neck,
and so contrived as to be drawn home
by turning powerful screw behind
the post. The arms and legs of the cul-
prit are tightly bound. When all is
ready, the executioner takes the lever
of the screw in both hands, gathers
himself up for powerful muscular
effort, and, at the moment of a precon-
certed signal, draws the iron collar
sight, while an attendant filings black
handkerchief over the face. A convul-
sive pressure of the hands and heav-
ing Of the chest are usually the only
visible signs Of suffering.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-14
An Alleged Funny Man.

Eli Perkins had large audience OF
Boonville on Saturday night, and full
filled one of the expectations he raised,
viz: He began at eight o'clock sharp,
but didn't continue bit sharp. He
said he would continue until some one
requested him to stop, but the audience
took revenge on him, and put their
powers of endurance against his, and
sat with quiet determination to see him
through. He kept up the clatter for
over two hours. and then quit. They
didn't rise ct once /; they waited, and
one of those present, when asked why
they did SO, said that having been prom
ised funny lecture, they thought he
would begin again-on the funny part.
Eli has habit of getting some one to
introduce him. Down in Kentucky q
stranger was solicited to do this service,
because no resident wanted to take such
a responsibility, fearing the vengeance
of a mob. The stranger rose at the
proper time, and said:
Ladies and gentlemen:-At the re-
quest of prominent citizens, 1 have
consented 20 introduce the lecturer of
the evening"" Here Eli rose, but the
gentleman showed him back into his
chair and continued: "This reminds
me of an experience I once had at q
country dance in Indiana. I was a
stranger to nearly all present, as am
here. Imet another young man equally
stranger. He wanted a partner, so did
I. Iagreed to introduce him to lady
if he would do the same service for me,
and carried out my part of the pro-
gramme. I knew his name but I did
not know the name of lady in the
house, so determined to overcome that
difficulty by strategy. I walked him
up in front of young lady and said:
Allow me to introduce you to Mr..
Montgomerie + The young lady bowed
to him, then turned her eyes on me, and
said: IN just allow you to git some
one to introduce you FIRST If the lec-
turer doesn't prove to be all you expect,
I don't want you to blame me, for he is
as great q stranger to me as I am to
you, and don't want you to throw me
out the window, as that crowd in In
diana did, for introducing man with
out first being introduced myself.
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to in
troduce Eli Perkins"
Eli rose amid laughter and applause
and began his lecture, and when he had
finished, after an hour and o half with
out raising laugh, the audience clam
ored for the jntroducer to tell them some
more jokes to supply the defects in Ellis
mournful bore.-Eransrilfe Tribune.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-14
Colored Virtue in Richmond, Va.

The colored population has o great
number of churches here, as in Wash
ington. The Baptist and Methodist
denominations claim most of the ne
groes who are inclined to piety. Six
colored church societies in Richmond
aggregate almost IL, 900 members, and
one church alone has had an increase
Of 1859 members this year. The negro
Sabbath schools are all astonishingly
large and well attended every Sunday
by 500 or 600 members each. The col
ored Baptists far outnumber the sable
Methodists. OF benevolent orders and
associations for half q hundred pur-
poses, the black population has so many
that it seems as if every man, woman
and child not white, in the city, must
be q member of some one or two socie-
ties. Masons and Odd Fellows,
Knights of Damon" whatever that
may beg and True Reformers, are these
humble folk almost without exception.
Colored Temperance societies are very
numerous. and the Fidelity, Friendly,
Charity, Good Will, Social Greeting,
Honesty and Christian Welfare divis-
ions of the grand State order of the
Sons Of Temperance hold very frequent
meetings. The colored population
needs temperance societies, for liquor
does its insiduous work among them
with great effect. Some of the colored
societies have overwhelmingly funny
names, and among them are the Inde-
pendent Order of Chaldeans, the Inde-
pendent Daughters and the Rising Sons
of Messiah, the Silver Star Daughters,
the Sons and Daughters of Ruth, the
Rising Daughters Vineyard, the East
ern Star Daughters, the Pilgrim Trav-
elers. the Daughters of King Solomon
almost as numerous as the old fellows
wives were), the Star of Venus, the
Seven Wise men (which, curiously
enough, has q membership of twenty
three), the Lords Delight, the Living
Council of the Gross, the Seven Won
ders of the World, the Gold Key, the
Undertaker's Union Cheerful name)
the Ruth Tabernacle, the Lily of the
Valley. the Working Sons of Hope, the
Sons and Daughters of Moses, the Sc
cret Sons of Love. the Starlight Club,
the Galileans, and others decidedly too
numerous to mention.-Edpin King in
Boston Journal.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-14
"The WHISTLE AN Old Story Retold.

"You have heard" said q youth to q
maiden who stood beside him as he sat
on acorn-sheaf one evening about quit
ting time; "you have heard, dare
say, of the Danish boys whistle of
wood? would give two dollars and a
half if that Danish boys whistle were
mine."
The maiden had heard of the wonder
full things which could be accomplished
by means of the magic whistle, and,
coloring slightly, said:
"And what would you do with it.,
pray?" while smile played over her
beautiful face, extending clear round
to her ears.
ct would blow it." he answered,
"and then my fair maid would fly to
my side and sit down on the same corn.
sheaf with me, which would make me
extremely happy and make it matter
of supreme indifference to me whether
school kept or not, or how much corn
might be a bushel."
Is that all you wish it for?" ex-
claimed the maid, with q laugh that
started q covey of birds in the next row.
"That may be yours without any
magic, Charley. A favor so slight one
could not find it in ones heart to deny,
you know" and she playfully seated
herself by his side and drummed with
her little heels in the furrow.
81 would blow it again." said the
youth, who had begun to see how mat
tiers were drifting. 81 would blow the
thing again, and the one fair woman
beneath the sun could not resist the
charm, and would lay her fair arm upon
my shoulder"
She smiled-and laid her fair arm
round his neck.
The young man was taken completely
by surprise, but managed to bear up
under it, although, as he confessed to
the writer, it was by all odds the great
est effort of his life.
A young man of his age is never sat-
isfied, but is always reaching out and
grasping after the unattainable, as it
were, and after drinking in for a mo-
ment the nectar of the situation, so to
speak, exclaimed:
"Yet once more would I blow it..
This time would give it the awfullest
blast that was ever heard this side of
the crack of doom, and the music di-
vine would bring me the third time an
unspeakable pleasure. She would lay
her fair cheek to this brown one Of
mine, and her lips stealing past it would
give me kiss, I'm quite sure at least
I hope SO.
The maiden laughed out in her limo
cent glee, just as any other young lady
would do under the same circumstan-
ces, and said {:
"What a fool of yourself with your
whistle you'd make, to be sure! Now
just consider for moment how silly it
would be to sit ON q corn sheaf, like o
knot on log, and crack your cheeks
whistling for-what you might take"
This almost took the young mans
breath. He Immediately reached for
the lovely creature, but. strange to re-
late, did not find her. She had antici-
pated him, and was already breaking
through the cornstalks for home, while
her laughter foated back upon his ears,
reminding him that he an engagement
at home to gnaw file.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-14

THE ELECTRIC LIGHT IN MINEs.-The
London Mining Journal points out that,
aside from its other advantages, the
success of the electric light would solve
most important problem affecting the
lives OF many persons now working in
mines. There appears to be no rea-
son, says the Journal, "why electricity
should not be made applicable for min.
ing instead of lamps, and this would
effect what our mining engineers and
foremost chemists have long been look
ing for. 1t would give the men q light
such as they had never dreamed of,
enabling them to get a much larger
quantity of coal in given time, than it
is possible for them to bring down by
the light of the lamp, which rarely
suffices to make the blackness of the
working places visible. 1t would also
benefit both masters and men, and
greater safety would be insured, for ex-
plosions would be all but impossible,
whilst the miners would be better able
to guard against falls of roof and coal.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-14

DR.. Julius Millingen, who was sue
cessful arch@ologist and discoverer, and
the physician who attended Lord Byron
in his last illness, has just died at Con-
stantinople. He was once in the SER
vice of the Sultan Mahmoud H., and
became physician to the Sultana, mother
Of Abdul Medjid. Millingen was three
times married. His first wife was a
Roman Catholic, from whom he subse-
quently separated while she embraced
Islam and entered the harem of the
Grand Vizier, Kybryslui Mehemed
Pacha. Her son, Frederick Millingen,
became Turk, taking the name of Os-
man Bey, and entered the Turkish army.
Later on he visited several European
cities, giving lectures and writing
pamphlets on Turkish affairs; and
lately, passing to the other extreme, he
has been metamorphosed into Alexei
Andrejivich in Russia, and received
baptism according to the rite of the
Greek Church.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-14

APPLE PuFFs.-One pint of sweet
milk thickened to o stiff batter with
sifted wheat -four, we'll beaten, smooth
and light, add the yolks of two eggs. q
pinch of salt, three thimblefuls OF
cream of tartar, one thimbleful of soda,
scalded then CRATE five or six spicy
apples and mix through the batter,
lastly add the whites OF the eggs
whipped very light with "Dover :
and with clean wet spoon drop here
and there into boiling lard, which has
depth, 30 it will puff up, instead OF
spreading out like pancakes. Serve hot
with sugar.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-14

The compressed gas system in vogue
on the German railroads has been adop-
ted by the English Government for
lighting buoys. The buoy is filled with
gas, the burner at the top is lit, and q
light that no shock or drepching by
water can extinguish is provided that
will burn day and night for thirty.four
days. 1t is thought that with improve.
ments one of those buoys can be made
to show light visible at distance Of
four miles for three months, while the
application Of an electric apparatus ex
tinguishing the lamp at sunrise and re-
lighting it at sunset would give it q
working duration of six months.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-14
NEWSPAPER OFFICES

Bought and sold without any commission. con.
slider 1t of enough advantage to my business to give
any information free (on receipt Of stamp which
may bring buyers and sellers together Information
solicited in regard to enterprises for starting new
papers.
EE-0utsides, Insides, Supplements, &C., furnished
at small advance on the price of blank paper.
Call as above. or address CARLOS WHITE p. O.
box 2s7I San Francisco.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-14

Cars FooT JELLY.-Take two calves
feet add to them one gallon Of water ;
boil them down to one quart strain,
and when cold remove all fat; then add
the whites Of six or eight eggs (well
beaten). half q pound OF sugar and the
Juice Of four lemons mix we'll. Boil
for q minute, constantly stirring then
strain through flannel bag.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-14

ICING FOR Cause.-The whites of two
eggs and nine teaspoonsful of sugar for
each egg. Add one teaspoonful of
sugar at a time, and for each spoonful
beat just five minutes, making 80 min
utes in all. Now, do not hesitate to
try this receipt on account of its tedious
ness. for its beauty will repay you.