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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-11-03

GALE TO-DAY, COMMENCING AT 10
100 barrels barrels PRIME NoRTHERNPEER Po-
so barrels PRIME NORTHERN EARLY ROSE,
2: -: - POTATOES:
100 bags yIRGfNiA PEA Oh -BLOwPOTAT0ES :;
100 barrels PRIME K. 3. APPLES in prime order !;
l26' boxes WASHINGTON SOAP:
" % barrels PATNA-ycry nice;
y BACON, FISH, CHEESE. &C., &c. -
. Consignmeuts received up TO hour OF sale.
NOS j. r. HOCKADAY, Auclcneer.
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AUssTIGE sal Eas.-,E lslnEe. g ya.ss =:
by Francis a. asbell,
III Real Estate Azentnria '1uctsoneer.
~. o rrfsrenst, street, between bIain and Bank.

VERY VALUABLE ,z s.' sasI.
y ~ BR1oK-oLAY PROPERTY, I" :"
vrru 4 NEAT Dwell ING AND SEcEss
oUr-HoUsEs THEREos''s Is2d1'
BOUNDED BY sEMaEs A i,rt s s FL 97s
II STREETS oNrwosIDEs THEREOF
AND BARNEY AND ALIENSI STREETS oN
. - THE, OTHER TWO SIDES IHEREoEnGr
CONTRASTING ABOUT TWO ACRES
- AIN THE crrpoF sANcHBsrERgo7T
FOR SALE II AUCTION, Nc. =
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TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE, MILLS, &c.-By virtue of
n deed Of trust executed TO me by M. Mct'eEee ana
wife of Person county, N. Co. and rec1st ered In the
REGISTERS books of SAID county. Book W. page 270,
will sell at public auction. on the BID DAY OF NO
VEMBER NEXT, upon the premises, the Following
p.iI.psAIARGE. AND vALUBLE MILL, 40x5o
feet and four stories high. It has two corn-miIls
and two wheat mills driven by one turbine and TWO
oyershot wheels It's, capacity for storing wheat Is
frolo six to seven thousand bushels. There saw
mill cotton gin, miller's house, and workshop at.
1a Sn a NEW sToRERoUsE. eex4o feet. and 10,
connected Herewith, upon which lot there is lunl
ber-horse aud blacksrp ith-shCp.
8, The LAND kDewAlaSihc Woodburn tract, con-
sisting Of some 1900 ACRES. The land is divided
into convenient tracts all well watered and having
due proportion of wood. To each tract but one
there is attached a body OF excellent ow-grounds,
aud upon all but one there are butdings-some of
them very valuable A survey Of each tract will be
exhibited on day Of SALE and the, lands shown, to-
gether with the surveys, to any person making ap
picaton TO the undersigned at any time before the
q. A VALUABLE LIBRARY. -.
=: s. The CROPS oil Coin, Wheat. Tobacco. Fodder,
ELEMENTS Z - I'LL -. =. :
TERMS The real estate upon the terms of one
third cash one third In one year. and third in
two years. with interest ON Inc deferred payments
from The DAY Of sale until paid; and the other pro-
perty and effects for cash. ~ " r 49, = - -
JOHN ". CUNNINGHAM. Trustee.
PERSON COUNTY n. c.. September Is, 1879.
sc 10-w2G&Oc3, &dOc22.llt*. .-.' +.a-
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Leave Richmond at. q.
Arrive AZ iSGrneyille,

4 connects for Milton. y. e..
Y connects for Ashevillc All. AL point 81. "r-,"E
North Carolina daily. EXCEPT Sunday. ,,
=. C.connects for Macon aud all points N S0H''"Ss
Georgia. ,r.
p connects for Jacksonville and all p'".5 IN go
rida. ...l.-..
l. connects for Macon ami all points ~ ~"i'N"u.
Georgia. and ChattauOogl. NEATIh", u '"."'.''-'
AL Texas points. ,,.. rt
VicksburY. ,,..,...
G Connects for Galveston and cIl TeX%; Pom. -
Trains from, the aboya-taHci point HrrhF" ~
Richmond at 4:43 Z. II. ana G:3O A. N. ,,,,v
Trains between Greensboro aEd Sl!'W !u ''-'''
except Sunday. ,, ,.,,.rp,.
lion al Gold boro' with The ". Il ". Il. IL - ANA
from Weldon and Wilmington. .,,,~
Pullman Palace Draw1ug-rr1n ana Scrti's IL
RIM through OF Train No. AZ from Ne" ! ~" o.,
3ichlnon 10 Atlanta and from .Tcgi!'Ho!" 49, w.
snsta and on Train No IL from NJ" J ora anu ''''"
nloni TO Greens bDro'. ,t
Tickets sold 10 all pc!uts sou;h, s"N'i'1'" A--
southwest, and baggage checked through.
No lay-over checks given on local ticSn's.,,,
''' JOHN X. MAJ GURl'h
General IA r>rH.cr NstH-
= v. T.. TALCOTT. General Sm!"rintcnHl ~.
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wood AMs, s)ep AZ,

GOAL AND WOOD.-All sizes tirst-cass
~ ANTHRACITE: COALBQRG EAST-BkNK
kinds Of ENGINE COAL. PINE and OAK WOOD.
Order BIZ telephone from j. WATSON PHILLIPS,
avenue and Marshall street: or Broad street opposite
oc2S C. II. PAGE.
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WILL HAVE OUR REGULAR
j. w auction sale of GROCERIES, S., TO-DAY
at o. O'Clock. s., -
Parties wishing to add to sale will please have their
sG &c" 1" 0e'0t' "'"' r, s: ANDERSON & SON.
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RS. Anderson & Son, .-fa1
General Commission Merchants aud Auctoneers'
...-. ,.,, No!1524 Main street.
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observed one, "that haven't seen a king
yet" "Not at ALL" replied the other;
'you have one in your sleeve and / have
the other three in my boot.'' 81
A Specimen of Turkish j Justice.

Three years ago q young Christian
Maronite in Turkey killed a Mussulman
in hotheaded quarrel. After living ever
since in prison the mother OF the victim
came forward last February and insisted
enhis being put to death. What followed
the Constantinople correspondent of the
Philadelpnia Press thus describes Gas the
CRIME was proven according to local judi
cial forms, she obtained from Midllat
Pasha, the Governor Of Syria, a frman
for the execution, and day was fixed for
the hanging. In vain the notables of all
creeds and races, Mussulmans and Chris
tians, appealed to the old woman to be
merciful, for upon her word depended the
life of the Maronite. They represented
to her that if he did do the deed it might
have been in self-defense; that at any rate
his guilt was not perfectly clear; that he
had already grievously suffered in body
and mind by his imprisonment, and that
the people Of Beyrout did not want acapi-
tai execution in their midst. Neither the
Turkish Ulemas, the Greek and Armenian
Bishops, or the Turkish officials could
soften the heart of this cruel megara.
have the tirmaE for his execution she
said, and his fate is in my hands. Twill
not spare him. In the night of February
9Th, three hours after midnight, he was
taken from his cell and led to the place.
execution. An immense crowd of people
gathered around the scatfold. There took
place scene of the most extraordinary
kind. The woman was told by the execu-
toner that the man. relatives were ready
to pay her any sum in their power if she
would, as custom authorized, allow him
to 60 free on the payment of blood
She shrieked and foamed for vengeance.
For an hour and more she refused to be
merciful, notwithstanding the entreaties
Of the mass Of men, women and children.
In the meanwhile the young man stood
on the gallows with the halter about his
neck, trembling for his life. Finally,
worn out by the prayers of the people,
and tempted to the high figures to which
the relatives of the Maronite had run up
the bid for his life, she consented to &C.
cept 5000 francs as blood-money. The
hangman let 60 his hold of his expected
victim, and handed him over to his rela-
tives, who carried him off amid the accla-
nations of the spectators"
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A Dressy Trick.

GA Boston correspondent of Western
paper says: ''There is certain fashion
able modiste up town who has among her
customers large number of ladies of our
very best society," Carriages are contin-
ually before her door, and such is her
success in business that she is the envy of
the throng of less successful modistes who
Cannot see how she does it!' This is be-
cause they do not understand the double
role she plays. Very many of the large
f1at-tops in which elegant costumes are
sent home come back to the dressmaker a
rev days later; but Of course that is all
fght-changcs are needed. But when
the changes are made, the costumes go
out again to different addresses from the
first ones, and again they come back. In
fact, the principal business done here is
that Of letting costumes for balls. we'd
dings and other affairs. Even black silk
visiting dresses and street suits may be
hired, and are especially made use of by
ladies who are going on visits for few
the business is SO carefully arranged that
nobody finds it out, and even the ladies
who patronize the establishment seldom
see their dresses worn by any one else,
for the madam always keeps strict men,
oranda of the places where the dresses
have been worn, and never lets costume
60 twice into the same circle Of society;
besides such alterations are made every
time dress comes back that it would not
be very easily recognized. Considering
the secrecy which is maintained regarding
this branch of the business done here, It
is rather surprising how the madam ever
secured the large list of patrons whose
names are on her books. Think what
fluttering there would be should these
private books be by any accident made
public.
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CuriOsities of Earth.

{. At the city of Medina, in Italy, and
about four miles around it, wherever the
earth is dug, when the workmen arrive
at a distance of 60 feet, they come to
bed of chalk, which they bore with an
auger, five feet deep. They then with
draw from the pit before the auger is re-
moved, and upon its extraction the
water bursts up through the aperture with
great violence, and quickly fills the new
ly made we'll, which continues full and
is affected neither by rains nor drought.
But what is the most remarkable in this
operation is the layers of earth as we de-
scend. At the depth Of II feet are found
the ruins of an ancient city, paved streets,
houses, floors and different pieces of ma
son work. Under this is found soft,
oozy earth, made up of vegetables, and
at rs feet large trees with the walnutss
still sticking to the stem, and the leaves
and branches in perfect state of preser-
walton. At % feet deep soft chalk is
found, mixed with vast quantity of
shells, and the bed is II feet thick. Tn
der this vegetables are found again ~
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A Relic of the Revolution.

In the little village Of Lockport, Will
county, Illinois, lives one Of the pioneers
of the country who has seen his fourscore
years. Colonel James Wright for almost
half century has lived in the house he
now occupies, and has seen the "wilder-
ness blossom as q rose.' He was born
in the Empire State, and was brought
up on the battlegroundof Saltwater, that
brilliant achievement of American arms
which gave Burgoyne his first check, and
was but the precursor of his downfall
and the surrender of his army. Ill Nh y
Colonel Wright's father, who was a
Revolutionary soldier, owned the land
upon which this memorable battle was
fought, and upon it stood the house in
which the British General Frazes died.
All readers of our Revolutionary history
are familiar with the nameof this gal
liant officer, who though opposed to us to
the bitter end, held it his highest duty to
serve his king. In the battle of Still
water he commanded the left wing Of the
British army, and received his death
wound through the instrumentality of
Benedict Arnold. One, historian thus
describes it: },,1g7's Fl. =, ~
>"Here Arnold did an act unworthy of
the glory of the well-fought battle. He
ordered up twelve of his best riflemen,
and pointing to Frazer, who, on horse
back with brandished sword, was gal
lantly animating his men, he said: See
that officer. Himself is host. Let me
not see him long, The rifemen flew to
their places, and in few moments the
hero was cut down. He was carried
wounded into the house above described.
and gently laid upon the floor where,
with. the sound Of cannon for requim,
his spirit fled amidst the roar of battle
This house stood for years within the
recollection of Colonel Wright, who in
formed the writer that he had often
seen the dark spot beneath the
window where the gallant Briton lay,
while his blood cbbed out, leav-
ing somber stain upon the floor,
that remained while the building stood.
-Amertcnu MontAly.
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thought himself we'll dressed. Only one
thing Waswanting--a hat. Going into
the bathroom, which adjoined his room,
nc foundtta large sponge. Taking the
sponge, he cut slit in it with his razor,
which had been left to him for shaving,
and putting his head into the slit, he had
one OF the finest fur hats that ever was
seen.
"Ah! u said he, "I'm dressed now.''
Then raising his window, he stepped
outside and slid down the water-spout.
with the money he had in his possession
when he came into the institution in the
crown Of his sponge hat. s. .a
Half an hour later Mr.. Coles went up
stairs to converse with his patient, but
behold the bird was flown Ds
SWELL" said Mr. Coles, she must have
gone out naked, and would he i'm
mcdiatcly arrested. I will find him at
the police station" .,t,.r..es<.., 1T "a
But Mr.. Coles, in passing bar-1oom
on his way to the station, heard noise of
great hilarity, and, thinking that he re- Il,
cognized the voice of his patient, dropped
in. .ar!i4fKt
There he was with his dressing-gown
OF coverlit, his sponge hat, and his skin
ught pants, the centre of an admiring
circle, drinking whisky punches and rat
ting of jokes at the rate of twenty min
ute. -.
II give in," said Mr.. Coles. "
"TaAe drink, old fellow" said the
inebriate, with drunken Familiarity.
The offer was declined, and the grotes-
quely clothed patient was induced to re-
turn to the home.
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Matacong.

This island, about which there is a
dispute between the English and. the
French, is described BY 4. Quinet, writ
ing, to, the France, as a little African
Eden, and asserts that as recently as
1955-that is to say twenty-nine wears
after the alleged treaty Of 1s2e-sir
George, Grey made an Important state
ment on the subject. The then proprie-
tor, Of the island, Mr.. Isaacs (whom Mr.
Quinet states. to have been British sub
ject), applied to Her Majesty's Govern
ment for protection and redress, having
sustained outrage and injury in his per-
son and property. Sir George Grey wrote
to him letter, according to NJ. Quinet,
Of which the salient passage ran thus:
II am directed to inform you that the
island of Matacong docs not form part of
British territory, and that yours is not
case in which Her Majesty's Government
can interfere, the island being private
and independent property"
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The Descent of Washington.

The descent of Washington is now a
question Of some historical interest. The
last number of Harper's Magazine con-
tains an article tracing his family back to
Sir John, the brother of Sir William
Washington, who married a sister Of
George Villers, the Duke Of Buckingham.
But this pedigree has been amply refuted
bv Col. Chester. Another article in the
Magazine of American History gives the
pedigree of the Dutch branch of the fami-
", which was established at Rotterdam
about 1850, when the first Washington
came to Virginia. One brother, it seems,
went to Holland, while the other came
TO America, the object of both being the
same, to escape the dangers and perplexi-l
ties Of the civil war in England. The
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THE TOKEN.
BY II. H. sroDDAKD.

BYR. H. sToDDAKD.
Clad in purple, he sat in his palace, G
A powerful king, in the days of old:
They brought him wine in abeautifui chalce,
whose gems were crusted in beaten gold.
"Who hath Jewels like mine 81 demanded s84
The boastful monarch, and straightway then
through his mcn-at-arms, who at once dis
Came one, who looked like the Man of men.
He came in proudly, and held up Jewel, .
Held 1t with both hands over his head; q
Its light was lovely, its light was cruel:
But, cruel or lovely, the light was red q
1t shot out sparkles; it was Glory,
A terrible Splendor, a Heart of Fire; 3.
No one light like it, in song or story,
For who had that had his souls desire!
It's brightness shone over land and ocean, yfa
Far-reaching,-a dazzling, binding light;
Creating wonder and strange devotion,
A sense of Love- and the Sense of Might.
"Who hath jewels like thine? ?" demanded
This Man of men. "Look at my great gem !!
1t grew where the rivers are golden sanded
With others,-it does not compare with
them! .
II say to thee, monarch, it is tokep
OF the Masters that ever on earth remain; ;
And if by chance any part is broken,
1t is nothing less but is whole again"
Thus in Gallo Latin, if your Southey will show
it, ..4
Two hundred and fifty years ago,
Wrote the great de Thou, of an early poet;
But what the meaning, he did not know
know his secret, without his learning; '@r
have OWNED it, by my deep art;
1t IS only dark to the undiscerning-
This parable of the Poets Heart!
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line Of this Dutch family is unbroken, and
the pedigree is authentic. It ends in a
Bavarian Baron Washington, who in 1865,
married Frederick, Duchess of Oldenburg.
a correspondent Of the Springfield Re
publican, who writes on this subject with
much knowledge and spirit, says: lone
thing 's plain enough, through all this
genealogical muddle, that the Virginia.
Washlngtons belonged to the English
gentry, and not, like Franklin's and
shakespeare's ancestors, to the yeomal4
ry." We might have inferred as much
from the grand words and imposing, not
to say pompous, manners of the Father
OF His Country. He was always distin-
gulshed for his aristocratic tastes. +ts
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PUNCH IN PRIVATE LIFE.

Madame Davanne's children liked MOTH
ing better than seeing Punch. Their
fathers business obliged him to spend
the greater part Of the year in Paris, and
they were sent to walk in the Champs
Elysees every day; and whenever it was
neither too cold nor too wet, they pur-
suaded their nurse to let them at least
watch one act Of the drama that so much
delighted them. Little Charles greatest
wish in all the world was to have a
Punch's box Of his own, and spend his
life in playing him.
ut would be such fun,' he said, un-
willingly getting down from the bench
where he had been standing to watch
the performance; zone would see Punch
every day" ~ &>f55 .-*t . -
:'No," said Suzanne, "you would not
see him, for you would be inside; and as
l am your sister, should have to take
the pence from the people who looked on !;
but should think it very stupid to stand
holding out lite saucer to everybody"
One morning the children were sitting
before Punch's house, when, just as Punch
was going to beat his wife, the nurse
looked round for Charles, whom she
give a scream and saw the little boarded
fabric shaking violently. 'sNurse |!
nurse!' he called, "help! Mr.. Punch is
ill.,
The nurse, followed by Suzanne and
her brother Paul, raised the curtain, and
saw poor, lean, sickly man in fainting
fit, and little Charles trying to hold him
in his arms
30 Nurse! he is deadr' cried Charles
she will never play Punch any more.''
"Wait, my dears," said Nurse. 81
must call policeman; could not move
the poor man." .-.4 -y
The policeman came, and carried poor
Mr.. Punch out of the box into the open
air; Suzanne dipped her hands in the
fountain and threw water in his face, and
Nurse put soaked handkerchief over
his temples. He soon opened his eyes.
II was too hungry" he said; II have
eaten nothing since yesterday morning"
"Oh, Nurse" cried Suzanne, ''give him
our luncheon!' And all the children
rummaged in Nurses basket for their
rolls, which they thrust into the poor
mans hand, while Paul said: "Poor Mr..
Punch had no breakfast! How tired
he must be!' ..... n 75 'e,,., s,,. s1sts4er r.,
''Listcn, my dears," said Nurse; ''as I
have you with me cannot take the poor
man home. Perhaps the policeman will
be good enough to call a cab; I will give
him five francs to pay for it and get a
little bread and broth for dinner. I adj
wise you not to eat too much at once, or
too fast, or you will be ill.," d.
"No fear ofthat, ma'am,'' said the poor
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SITKA
The Centre of Once Valuable Commerce Re-
N~i duced to Wreck and Wretchedness.

Correspondence Of the N. Y. Herald.
Sitka was once a proud city, the center
of a valuable commerce, the headquarters
of all that was great in name and fortune
in the Russo-American possessions. In
the zenith of the Remanoff dominion the
Indians were ruled with rod Of iron,
and the death dealing missiles of artillery
and musketry peering through the stock
ade that separated the red man from the
whites were the only reliable guarantees
of peace between the conqurers and the
conquered. Once in the distant past,
when the Indians were in the infancy of
experience with civilization, and before
their physical natures were Frustrated by
corruption, they arose in savage wrath,
and wiped out the Russians in old Arch
angel few miles north of this. With
little else to occupy their mental faculties
the traditionary grandeur of that event
has magnitied from decade to decade,
usually leaving in the Indian mind the i'm
preston that the white man is only superb
or by being in the possession of better
arms Of destruction. The savage does
not forget any event that favors or hatters
him more than do other people, and that
he should indulge in his own Fourth of
July buncombe speeches when under the
exilaratlng potatious of hootchenoo
should not be surprising to this mixed
up community of nationalities called the
citizens Of Stika. During the latter &C.
cupancy of Sitka by the Russians there was
labor for the Russian, the half breed, and
a market for the products of the Indian
chase Whatever its character might
have been, there was bread enough for
the willing worker, and comparative COM
fort. The United States dozen years
ago purchased this whilom Russian pos
session and another class of circumstances
follow in the wake of the change. For a
time portion of the citizens, not all of
them, found more remunerative employ
ment than before, but the distinctive
character Of Sitka's past reliable business
was transferred to the, islands Of St.
George and st. Paul, in Behrring sea, and
the Aleutian islands, westward from here
500 to 1000 miles. Every vestige Of the
Russian American Fur company has de-
parted from Sitka, and the Alaska Com
mercial Fur company, its American sue
cessor, has not now the interest of a dol
lar where once hundreds of thousands
marked the annual tide of commerce
What now remains Of the pleasant past is
the wreck and wretchedness Of impotent
dependence everywhere visible on the
street and in the novels of the unfortun-
ate Russian population who elected to
remain here when Alaska was politically
created a portion of the United States
and Indian population, shorn of native
prowess, weltering by their seashore vii
lage in filthy degradation, while their
earcasses are permeated with irremedial
diseases, contracted from associations
with more favored race. Besides these
there is an English-speaking, nativeAmer-
lean and naturalized American population
ofvarious occupations and callings-
women and children-in all - souls.
This is the Sitka that calls for the armed
protection of the government.
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grass, the cat came out of Mrs. Punch's
basket, and the performance be-
gan, to the children's great delight.
Never had Punch beaten his wife SO we'll,
never had the soldier been more spirited,
nor the cat behaved better After the
performance, Mr.. and Mrs. Punch and
their children dined in the kitchen, and
went home delighted to have gratiticd
those who had been SO kind to them.
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Two California sharps were playing a
game of cards. ut is very singular"