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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-07

RICHMOND, January l. 1879.
MR.. JOHN NJ. MORRIS Is ADMIT
WI TED AS A PARTNER In our firm from this
date DAVENPORT s. MORRIS.
In 1-l0t
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-07

A meeting OF the Common Council was
held yesterday afternoon in the Council
bamber-President Manson in the chair.
Present at rollcail: Messrs. Adams, Chris
tian, Crenshaw, Curtis, Davis, Edwards,
Elicit, EHyson, Gentry, Goddin, Gum,
Hargroye, Higgins, Irwin, King, Mcdowell,
Oliver, Pierce, Phillips, Pollock, Rankin,
Skfnker, tStraus, Talbot, Taylor, and Wood.
8 Mr.. Higgins SAID Mr.. Baker was absent
on aeenunk of sicknaas r..!. .fe-TE +. S.
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THE FATAL ARROW.
By ALlCE CAREY.

Nv father had iRir-hsi. e harvester
4 Cleaned bshind min IN the bf'lsy-lAId'
Ard here b. put ed ose in Iny hama
o cruel, KiIling leaves tno5e TOse-e~Tes were
Hesung TO me little love-lorn lay,
Learned Of some bird snd while his sickle swept
A,husrt the shining stsiss my wild heart Kept
r..,,,, IN. tuna nm with him all ths way.
One time We rested bS a limPid stream
o,er ,bicb the Ioose-toDgued willows whispered
Ar hIs.,ed hour 50 long and long ago,
r, o,,ostb back upon me like a dream.
And there he told me. blushlng soit-ah che
m sne that he could Iove-so young. go fair,
IKE mine the color Of her eyes and hair
4, fooli,h heartl thought that was shell
FuIl flowed his manly beard bis eyes 20 brown,
Made sweet confession With their tender look;
A thousand times kissed him in the brook,
Aeross the hovers-vith bashful eyelids down.
And even yet I cannot hear the stir
OF willows by water but stop,
And down the warm waves all their length drop
Nv empty arms, to find my harvester.
n all his speech there was no word to mend;
Whste er he said, or right or wrong vas best
UatiI at last an arrow pierced my breast,
Tipped with a fatal point he called me friend
still next my heart the fading rose wore,
But all was sad full wen knew, God Wot'
That had been 10 love and he had not,
And in the barley-held cleaned no more
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the potatoes; when boiling hot, drop in
a lew at a time and let them brown; then
lift them out with fork, 20 IS 10 drain
of the fat; set them in the oven to keep
hot. If properly done, they will be
crisp and brown.
OMELEr WITH TOMATOES. Beat up
three or four eggs, with one dessert
spoonful of parsley very finely minced,
and pepper and salt to taste. Put q
piece of butter the size of an egg into a
frying-psn; as soon as it is melted, pour
in the omelet mixture, and, holding the
handle of the psn with one hand, stir
the omelet with the other by means Of
spoon. The moment it begins to set,
stop stirring, but keep on shaking the
pan for a minute or so then, with the
spoon, double up the omelet and keep
shaking the pan until the under side o.
the omelet has become of golden color
Put some stewed tomatoes on hot dist
and lay the omelet on it.
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Drifting Apart.

For one friendship that is destroyed
by q sudden blow, thousands die and
pass away by that slow, sad process
known as drifting apart. The fracture
caused by short, sharp quarrel, harsh
edged as it may be, can often be repaired
by good will and mutual desire, SO that
the friendship shall be recemented and
made as good as new-in all save the
scar; and that never goes. But the
gradual widening of what was at first an
almost microscopic rift can neither be
prevented or mended. You might as
well try to fill up the crater of Mount
Vesuvius with pebbles from Tore del
Greco as to bridge over the constantly
increasing distance between two hearts
that have begun to drift apart. No
method known to ordinary man is of the
mallest avail. You do your best to
seem the same as before. You use the
same words of endearment which habit
has made familiar, and perform the same
little Offices which affection once made
pleasant privileges; but the spirit which
gave them life and meaning has gone
from them, and you are simply galva-
MIXING the dead. At first you are only
conscious of certain wesriness where
you formerly had happiness ; but as time
goes on and knowledge becomes clearer,
this WEAKNESS changes into active disin-
clination, then into repugnance, and
finally to loathing. If you are bound
by such personal conditions as you can
not break, and therefore are forced to
conceal what you feel, your loathing fo1
your circumstances takes on in addition
contempt for yourself, that you are al
belt obliged to be-hypocriticsl and in
sincere. For when you have confessed
to yourself that your terms of endear'
ment are false, your little Offices of what
was once loving friendship only cor
zee that you are bound to perform, ther
you stand face to face with pretense ant
hypocrisy which leave you neither pride
nor self respect.
So must it ever be. We build for eter
nifty, and the frost cracks, the rain rOts
the wind blows down our fragile castl
that looked as if it would stand till tn
crack of doom. We love, and change
come into our lives, our souls, whicl
carry us on to other currents where W
drift away from what was once part Ic
our very selves, and learn to live withou
that which once made all life sweet
Partly by folly, and partly by the fore
= of circumstances which nothing can al
s rest, these great changes come abOu
|, But whether by our own doing or no
: we have one duty that is paramount
5 namely, to be true to ourselves, aL
t brave enough to acknowledge things (
n they sre-te cling while We can, an
y when we can no longer, to confess Il
o irving, and cease to pretend the frien'
It ship which without truth is withol
4 -7lue, and an insult not an honor, Al
J. gu,sc =. Tight.
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FARM AND HOME.
FARM HATS.

There is more profit in small herd
OF STOCK literally fed than in large one
poorly cared fer.
Some Iowa farmers have decided that
fax was the most profitable crop raised
in that state last year.
al have no luck raising fruit" 1t is
good soil, good management, and close
attention that raises any kind of crop.
In the dairy region of New York
there is no trouble in finding girls who
can give lessons on the piano, but there
is an alarming scarcity of milk>msids.
1t is claimed by some that full.blood
black Berkshire must have few white
hairs about his boots, white star on bis
forehead, and the tip of his tail white.
The COWS should be cleansed before
morning milking, then fed the feed
having been prepared, as far as possible,
the previous evening. This, with the
care OF horses, and light feed to the
small stock, should occupy tie time
before breakfast.
To measure round timber, take the
girth in inches at both the large and
small ends; add them, and divide their
sum by two for a maia girth; then
multiply the length in feet by square
of oDe-fourth of the main girth in inches,
divide the product by IA, and the quo
tient will be the contents in cubic feet.
An English farmer, very successful
during ten years in iatteniDg cattle and
sheep, supplied q ration as follows {:
Eight bushels corn soaked in Ten pals Of
water two days, then simmer for an hour,
afterwards mixing with fourteen pounds
coarse, cheap sugar, and comminge with
cut straw, hay or other fodder.
Red clover came from Flanders to
England and from England to the United
States. Its adoption was strongly urged
by Sir Richard Weston in 1645, who saw
it growing near Antwerp in 1914, and
noticed the speed of its growth and how
soon it recovered after moving. In ten
years it had spread through the kingdom
nd made its way TO Ireland.
Every farmer may not be able to reach
the maximum of production, yet he car
make his land produce what he may
need and what an accommodating market
will pay him for, when he has it in excess
Tor home wants. No farmer in the land
however poor his land may he at thu
T outset, has any excuse for not making
J every acre contribute to his own and tn,
general good.
To discourage rats that burrow unde
walls, don't lamp the holes with broker
glass bottles, which merely iDcite then
to dig new holes, but put shovel FIJI
of dry sand over each hole. The rat
soor come up through this, but in dom
80 let half the sand into the burrOW
> which, unlike earth, they cannot eithe
force or carry up again, and by repeatin
L this at every fresh-opened place thei
. runs become quite filed up, and the
7 make I'D YOUR f-undatiOns again.
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home Made Bread.

A correspondent gives practical hint
on the subject of bresI.making, which
may be acceptable to some of our home
baking readers. 1t is well known that
dough, when well kneaded and OF firm
consistence, give a whittier and lighter
bread than under opposite conditions
But the most important point o. all to be
astended to in bread-making, or iH any
other kind of bakery, is the previous
sitting of the hOur through a sieve. 50
that every particle of 1T may be brought
into contact with the oxygen OF the air.
A dough made OF sifted meal mixes bet
ter, with both water and yeast, rises bet
ter and requires far less kneading than
when the -four has not been sitted, and
the bread obtsined from il Is lighter and
in every respect OF superior quality;
TIE longer four may have lain aside
before being used, the more necessary Is
it to subject it to the operation many
a disappointment ana many a IT o.
temper will be spared II the house
vi will only sit the four thoroughly
before preparing the batter i6r TIE
bake oven.
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HOUSEHOLD HELPS.

ROYAL CREAM One quart of milk,
one-third OF box of gelatine, four ia
blespoonfnls of sugar, three eggs, vanilla.
Put the gelatine into the milk, and let it
stand hall an hour. Beat the yolks
well with sugar, and stir into the milk.
Set the kettle into a pan of hot water,
and stir until it begins to thicken like
soft custard.
INDIAN LOAF.-Take one pint of sour
milk, one-hslf pint of sweet milk, one
teacupful of molasses, one-hslf teaspoon
full of butter, two teaspoonfuls of sale~
ratus, one large teaspoonful of salt, three
eggs, one pint of wheat -four, one quart
of yellow Indian meal; bake in a deep
tin basin in an oven of same heat as for
cake, for one and s-half hours.
To CLEAN SILVER, - Housekeepers
sometimes wish to give silver a little
Frightening without going through all
the ceremonies of formal cleaning, and
this can be easily managed by the use OF
q silver cloth. Take two ounces of pow
dered hartshorn, and boil it in a pint OF
water. Dip small squares Of cloth in
the liquid, and hang them up to dry
without wringing.
FRUIT CAKE.-One cupo butter, two
cups of sugar, two-thirds ofs cup ofwarm
water, one half of cup of molssses, three
cups -four, five eggs, one teaspOonful of So
d., one pound rsisins stoned and chopped,
one.half of pound of currants, one-quar-
ter of a pound of citron, one-hslf of a grs-
ted nutmeg, one-hslf of teaspocnful of
cinnamon, one-qusrter of q teaspoonful
OF cloves, and little salt.
STEwEp RABBITs.-Cut the rabbit up
in nice-size pieces, wash well and dry.
Then fry them 8 nice brown. Take two
large onions, slice very thin, fry also, and
dredge with -four. Put all in sauce
pan, with pepper, salt and some good
Stockton water, will. herbs, mixed, car
rots and turnip--but if possible the stock,
as only the onions are served with it.
Let it stew gently two hours; rub down
a piece of butter with little catsup or
hot sauce. Just ten minutes before
serving, stir all together.
SLEEPS HEAD AND TRoITERs.-Get a
head and the feet with the skin and wool
on them; let blacksmith SINCE the wool
on with hot irons, not to bum the skin !;
split the head take the brains, rub them
over head and feet; put them into warm
water two or three hours; then with a
small knife scrape them well and change
the water; theL scrape again; the head
ought to be white if well done; cook
with barley, carrot, parsley and other
herbs and vegetables.
SARATOGA POTATOES Peel and wash
the potatoes and cut them into thin
slices. This msy be done with the slaw-
cutter; lay them in cold water until
wanted tEen take them out and wipe
them ty putting them in a towel and
lightly rubbing them have in frying
pan on the fire suficieLt lard to swim
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iAhS 4 t.i., lc.

The plague is one Of the Oldest things
under the sun. According to Petsvius
it ravaged the whole known world in
767 B. G. In 534 B. @. it made havoc
in Carthage, and the people deploring
the anger Of the gods, offered up
their children as sacrifices. ThucyGides
has lett a graphic description of the
plague which ragged in Athens iu 430 B
O., and which extended over Egypt and
Ethiopia. In the eighteenth year of
the Christian era Rome was depopulated
1t the rate of 10000 daily. Three
centuries and a half later the plague
appeared in Britain, where the living
were not able to bury the dead. There
is little reason to doubt the statement
that 200 persons persisted daily in Lon
don during an epidemic which ragged in
134S, and which prevailed throughout
Europe. In 1478 more persons persisted
in England of pestilence than had died
in fifteen years of continued war. At
various periods OF its history London
has suffered terribly from plague. More
than 10000 persons persisted in 1904,
and more than $4,000 in 1925. But it
was not until 1865 that the city learned
what scourge the plague might become.
A moderate estimate says that So, sos
persons persisted, while other authorities
state the number at 100000. Since that
period England has been tolersbly free
from the plague, hut it has carried off
$4,000 persons in Persia, 100000 in
Egypt, and $4,000 at Msrseilles at one
visitation.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-13
On Noses.

1t is said that the most extraordinary
men ofevery age have been distinguished
by having extraordinary noses. Begin
ming with the ancients, Scipio Nasica
derived his name from his prominent
share of this feature SO did Ovid, sur
named Naso, on which account Pope
represents his fstterers persuading him
that he had Ga nose like Oyid's."
CicerO's nose was distinguished by q
vetch (eicer); Sylla's by profusion of
pimples. This latter made great figure
in those days, and the Athenians, while
he was besieging them, cut number Of
Jokes on it. They compared it to Ga
mulberry, dredged over with meal" "a
We read in Plutarch's Life OF Sylla.
This joke, as many other jocose things
often do, cost the inventors of it very
dearly when the revengeful dictator put
his nose within the city gates. The nose
of Cromwell was well calculated to vie
with that of his Roman prototype, if we
may credit Cleveland, Brkenhesd and
other contemporary writer's. Crom-
wells face" says Birkenhead, wears q
natural tiffany, and his chin may furnish
a rssty coat of mail. His nose is comet
in grain. Certainly it is no human fea-
ture, but the emblem of a mandrake.
And yet this basilisx would king it p'
Napoleon the first was wont to say,
Give me man with plenty of nose
long nose, long head" His best gener.
ais were, as rule, remarkably well pro-
vided in this particular, His own was
exquisitely chiseled, sculp.uresque in
mold, form and expression though,
strangely enough, not one Of his broth
ers had a nose worth looking at. But
the most prominent nose in Europe WAS
Arthur's, Duke Of Wellington and the
Iron Dukes captains-Alglsssy Picton,
Combermere and Hardings-wsre men
al noteworthy in this respect also Sir
Charles Napier, tire eonquyrOr 4 Sc,nde,
vas similarly favored. HI nose was
like the beak OF an cage; 1t was
curved and keen as me bsde OF a
Soy the
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blurred thy beauty, it hath delivered
thee from pride. Set the allowance
against the loss, and thou shalt find no
great loss. He loseth little or nothing
who keepeth the favor of his God, and
the neace and freedom of bis conscience.
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What the Cinnamon Say.
Philadelphia Record.


Up to his elbows in suds, and up to
his eyebrows In soiled linen, bald
psted child of the Orient was found yes
terdsy. A reporter wanted to ask the
Celestial as TO the state of his feelings
regarding the congressional bill which
restricts the immigration of the Chinese
to the land of imitation, influenza and
enterprise. Pigeon English is language
very difficult to master, but when rat
tied off like bobbin it is as difficult to
hold as q mules hind leg. From the
conglomerated compound which the
queue-toyer elected, something like the
following was gathered:
Individually and collectively the Chi
pese now in this country do not care q
continental whether the bill becomes q
law or not. If immigration is stopped,
business will be better for those already
here. In California, where there are
thousands of them, very little money is
made, and many of them are very poor.
Alice samee to Chineyman when he gets
all the cash he wants he will return to
his native cline and live in luxury !;
when John he got nothing to do, he
bummee, just like Melica man.
"Ahp broke in the newsman, has
he also learned the scientific art of bum
ming?"
"Ulee bet. Heap lot Chineymsn in
Xalefonnee; walkee round all day and
bummee, be no good. Keepee him away,
more business; make heap more money,
then 90 book to Chinee alsamee."
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"A pair OF drawers straWs in lemon
ade.-[ Puck. A pair of pants-two
dogs after long chase Philadelphia
Chronicle. A pair of slippers-two eels.
-TAloany Argus. a pair OF shoO's-two
women chasing a hen.--[ Rochester
Democrat.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-13

MANY nan who eels himself great
among little people would find himself
little if he were among great people.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-13

House-cleaniDg Is ike man going
through q tunnel on CARR ri ht. lie
never knows wnen he's through.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-13

The B sion Advertiser frsq.ss that
the same saip is.ely tOok 10 2 fi.r eignt
hundred thuu-aLd gallons a rUn ald
one Missionary H5zyeusl uHt did
they wanl O 90 much mi--iyn4ry.-
1Bui4lo Express.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-13

The wife OF printer in New Haven
has applied for divorce, on the ground
that her husband had no style about
him he wouldn't brace up, had no dash,
cut no figure, had no point, lived to no
rule, was of bad form and make up,
wasn't q man of letters or up to the Pc
riOd, was a poor type of the genus, was
out of quoin, and couldn't impose on
her any longer,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-13

The sehOol-boy manages to be more
perfect in recess" than IN any other ex-
eTcise of the school.
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CHARITY ALLEGORIEEp.

Charity is q naked child giving honey
to a bee without wings. Naked, because
excuseless and simple; child, because
pleasant and comfortable; to bee, be-
cause bee is industrious and deserving
without wings, because wanting and help
less. If thou deuiest to such thou killest q
bee if thou givest to other thsn such
thou preserVest drone.
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ON CONVERSATION.

Clothe not thy language either with
obscurity or sfectstion in the one thou
discoverest too much darkness, and in
the other too much hghtness; he that
speaks from the understanding to the
understanding doth best. Know when
to speak, lest while thou ehOwest wisdom
in not speaking, thou betray thy folly in
too long silence. II thou art fool, thy
silence is wisdom; but if thou art wise,
thy long silence is folly. As too many
words from fools mouth give one that
is wise no room to speak, so too long sis
lence in one that is wise gives a fool OPP
portunity of speaking, and makes thee
in some measure guilty of his folly. To
conclude, if thou be not wise enough to
speak, be at least so wise as to hold thy
peace.
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ON BEARING ADVERSELY.

Hath fortune dealt thee i'll cards, let
wisdom make thee good gamester. In
a fair gale every fool may sail but wise
behavior in storm commends the wis
dom OF a pilot. To bear adversely with
an equal mind is both sign and glory OF
of brave spirit. As there is no worldly
loss without some gain, if thou hast
lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some
trouble with it; il thou art degraded Of
thy honor, thou ait iAewi-e freed lrlm
the stroke of envy; ii sickness hath
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-13
ON LAW AND PHYsIC.

If thou study law aud physic, endeav.
or to know both and to need neither.
Temperate diet, moderate and reasonable
labor, rest and recreation, with Gods
blessing, will save thee from the physi-
clan a peaceful disposition, prudent and
Just behavior, will secure thee from the
law. Yet, if necessity absolutely COM
pei, thou mayest use both D.; they that use
either otherwise than for necessity soon
abuse themselves into weak bodies and
light pulses.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-01

$iSV,oo0 on
The surplus is estimated al 1911, 2s4 This result
was obtained by decree of court reducing the de-
post account 30 per cent. This sealing down was
to be inevitable in 1871 1t was not so far as is
known, the results of mismansgement or misconduct,
but of the general depression Twelve other banks
have had their deposits reduced in the same way,
from 10 to 80 per cent. The reserve, it will be seen,
is very LARGE and the Examiner thinks the ultimate
loss to deposltors will be about 10 per cent.
A noted bank expert from Boston or New York
was called few days since, and in the presence of
the officers of the bank this man. with screw-driver
and small lamp, locked the vault door behind him.
and fastened himself as Barron was all in the space
of two minutes. The following is the supposition
Three days before Barron's ceath the savings bank
in Newport, a neighboring town, suspended. A run
was then expected on the Dexter bank. Barron
knew that if there the bank must suspt nd.
In OF suspension the state bank examiner would
have to make a thorough investigation. Barr ms
Irregularities would then be learned. He could not
face this and so committed suicide. Among his pa
pers were found an insurance policy of several thou
sand dollars made out in the interest of the bank
with the note that if any loss should accrue to the
bank from his management, they could make up
the amour out Of that.
In order to judge of the probability of this theory
it is necessary to recall the circumstances of Mr.
Barron's death.
Mr.. Barron, on leaving home that morning, had
sale that he should not return before o'clock, 1t
was after six O'Clock, when Mrs. Barron, alarmed at
his prolonged absence, requested neighbor to look
for him. 1t was o'clock before he was taken from
the vault in which he lay dying
Mr. Parsons an insurance agent, who had desk
in the savings bank went out at half past fonr leav
ing Mr.. Barron in the bank. The door was locked,
as 1t was holiday and no visitors were expec ed.
The door vas still locked when Mr.. Barron was
found at O'clock and the double doors of the vault
were both locked. Mr. Barfon's keys were missing.
The Dexter national bank is on the same floor with
the savings bank, and the vault, between the two
rooms is occupied IN common, as shown in this dia-
gram:
au;u