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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-12
Flour.
RICHMOND TOBACCO MARKET.

Pine. s3.5O64: ex 70, 50 256S5.5O 5uperhae
s4Ms4 SO; common famiY, *5.0O@t6'
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FIRE RECORD.
and Masonic Temple
Burned.

GALVESTON, TEXAS, August IA NeUS
MnOIa special say. a fire there Monday
night consumed a block OF buSiness-houses
and the Masonic Tenn. le. Loss probably
an ng0
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-12

LONDON. August 1.-THE Emperors Of
Austria and Germany met at Iscbl yester-
day. The meeting was very cordial. After
banquet at the imperial villa. the two Em.
perors. with the Empress Of Austria, at.
tended the theatre together.
The Vienna correspondence Of the Times
says the meeting is interpreted by all the
Vienna journals as evidence OF new
conso lidatiOn OF the Austro-German alliance
and rs sign OF the maintenance OF peace.
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Utmost to intercept letters. rendering cota-
mnnIcltion with the garrison very difficult.
IL u possible that an attack is medifated on
Cbaman Choki, as Ayoob Khan Is reported
TO have detached troops who are going in
THAT direction.v
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GORGE NJ. LUMPKIN.
NJ UGGIsT.
No. sol, corner Of Twenty nth and Clay streets
RICHMOND, VA.

MRS. GEORGE NJ. LUMPKIN wishes 10 inform
liz friends and patrons or her late husband that
she rjIl continue IN his name, rs heretofore, The
ORIG business at the above address.
UsyIaf secured the services OF COMPETENT and
high,y.r,vommended assistant, Mr.. W. y PHIL
Lips formerly with Mr.. A. II. Robins she iees con-
ddent In say!gg that the wants OF her customers
will be supplied ~ careful and satisfactory man
uer she pron0ses n keep always on hand
A COMPLEfE ASS. ,RfMENr OF MEDICINES
and such articles as are Usually kept In First Class
Drug storc, and Iespectf,. Wy tohcts The patronage
OF Ter friends aud the public. ~ II 81
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THE GREENviLLE RAILROAD.
The Master Begins Taking Testimony
as 90 the Bids.

COLONEL A. s. BuF0RD. Mr.. 7. NJ. II. TALC0TT,
AND MR.. G. G. M'PBArL on THE srASD--THE
CASE ADJOURNED UNTIL TO-DAY TO AWAIT
THE ARRIVAL OF WITNESSES.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-12
q $4,000 Robbery.

NEW YORK, August 1l.-Dr. T. Edgar
Hunt. OF Glengarden, y. j., was robbed OF
$3j. 900 worth Of the st. Joseph and Denver
City railroad bonds last night by burglars
who broke into his safe. lie was aroused
by the explosion, bm before be could reach
the safe-rOOm the burglars bad disappeared
with their booty. One thousand dollars re-
Mard is nllrred for their aDprebensiOn.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-12
Suicide ola Census Enumeration.


MACON. Mss, August 11.-JObn Il. Buck,
census cnumrrator. committed suicide here
to-day by drowning himself
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DOCK AND JOB WORK NEATLY Xxx
~ EGUTxD AT Tux DlsPATCB. .sStNrINe
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AMELIA.

SEVERAL PEOPLE AT THE COURTHOUSE VISITED
BY THIEVES; ONE CAPTCRED-THE RAINS
AND THE CROPS.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-12

DANyiLLE. August ll.-Mrs. Barker,
widow OF Moses Barker. was arrested at
Malmaison, PutSylyania county, on Mon
day, for infaDticidc. She was committed TO
the county Jail to-day for trial. Her hus-
band died four years ago, leaving her and
three children in desttutiOn.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-12

x.w vopw August ll.-(otton-Nst ieeeip,s.
none: vross. Os6 bales; f.tnres cs,'s a. QUIZ.
saIes, SIS 600 hsles; August, sii;aa@tiasS: NJ.
ss%ssr, tloS7@SiQ p ssnSo SsSss ss
Si0.7S6AlO.75;M March, tio.ee@s'oe"'
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-12
Sitl,mond 1ispatth.
PETERSBURG.

n,,,,psnAy AUGUST 70, 1880
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NASHVILLE, August 1.-THE Democratic
State Convention this morning adopted the
two-thirds rule in voting for candidate for
Governor, and then adjourned until 2
II NJ
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: prpORTED TO SECRETARY.

CORN. white. 72j bushels.
OATS.-26S bushels.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-12

READJUsTER MEETING FOLLOWED BY DEMO.
CRATIC RALLY AND SPEECHES FROM MEssRs.
WILLIAM TERRY, JAMES y. JOHNSON. AND
=. H.. NEwBsBRY-LIEUTENAN GOVERNOR
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-11-18
Cane and Sword.

When Bonaparte first paid court to
Madame de Beauharnais, neither was
rich enough to keepa carriage, and the
young hero, who was deeply in love,
often gave the charming widow his arm
when she went to visit her man of
business, notary named Raguideau.
Madame, who had great oonfdencein
this legal adviser, who was friend as
well, went to see him Immediately after
her engagement to Bonaparte, who, as
usual, accompanied her, but, from mo-
tives of delicacy, did not enter the no.
tary's cabinet, but remained in an ad-
joining room, where several clerks
we're writing.
The door being imperfectly closed,
20 here heard nearly all that was said
during the interview, and especially the
arguments used by Raguideau to deter
Madame de Beauharnais from the mar
riage she acknowledged herself about
to contract.
Mark my words, madame" said the
notary, "you are about to commit q
great folly, of which you will bitterly
repent. Why, this man you are about
to espouse has nothing in the world but
a cape and sword"
Said Josephine: "Bonaparte never
spoke to me OF this, and I had not the
faintest suspicion that he had overheard
Raguideau's contemptuous words. Gan
you, Bourrienne, figure to yourself my
astonishment when, eight years after
on the day of his coronation, as soon as he
was invested with his imperial robes, he
said, Let them go oand seek Raguideau
have him come instantly. have some
thing to say to him."
The notary was promptly brought
and stood much astonished before the
Emperor, who with his peculiar sar
donic smile said to him, Monsieur
have l nothing in the world but caps
and sword?"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-11-18
Italian Postal CuriOsities.

The distribution of letters is, in fact,
one of the weakest points in the ltal-
ian postal system. Except in large
towns the postoffice does not profess to
make any house-to- house distribution
at all, except on the payment of
small fee, generally sou for each
packet delivered to the postman; and
in the large towns the delivery is done
in very careless manner. The post
man rarely takes the trouble to climb
the stairs to the different apartments,
except Just before Christmas, but con
tents himself with leaving all the let
ters for house with a porter, who de-
ivers them whenever he happens to be
going upstairs; if the porter is not in
the way the letters 60 back into the
bag until the next round is made, or are
even sometimes left at a shop near.
No wonder then that letters frequently
miscarry without such willful intention
as the postman showed who was dis
covered one Christmas stufing all his
letters into a sewer grating that he
might get the sooner to his Christmas
dinner. The excuse for non.
delivery is that with houses OF
five or six stories the work is
too hard for the postman; but the
remedy for that is obvious. 1t is only
fair to say that the postoffice does moi
recognize this haphazard distribution
but complaints only remedy the evil fol
time, and somehow ones letters seem
to miscarry more frequently after max
ing them. As a consequence most bust
ness houses pay small fee to the post
Office to have box of their own, into
which all of their letters are put, ant
withdrawn by messenger.
The difficulties put in the way of cash
ing postoffice orders (and also, it may
be added, of obtaining registered let
ters) are most vexatious. You mus
produce some one to identify you wht
is known to the officials, and it is cas-!
to see how difficult this may often be
otherwise a notarial certificate is re
quired, and that is only removing tn,
difficulty a step further.--PaH Mal
| Gasette.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-11-18
ElOquence.

Eloquence in a man is as difficult to
define as fascination in woman. Tt is an
indescribable something which carries
us away captive, we know not why OF
how. And it is almost infinite in vari.
ETY.. Burke was, and is, considered one
of the greatest, if not the greatest, of
English orators; yet the House of Com
mons never adjourned after speech Of
his to enable the members to regain
their mental balance. The House OF
Commons did do that for Sheridan
None will deny to Webster hrst-class
oratorical ability, yet he could never
sweep an audience with him as did
Clay. Burke and Webster will live
forever in print; Sheridan and Clay in
that fond tradition which is quite as
imperishable, if not as satisfactory
Sargent S. Prentiss was probably more
eloquent than either Sheridan or Clay
yet he exists only as dim and fading
memory. 1t is doubtful whether the
very highest order of eloquence can be
preserved in any other way. The sub
tie spirit that pervades it and gives to
it irresistible power evaporates in type
The body is there, but the soul has
fled. So the grandest eloquence may
be said to die with the breath that
carries it to the ear. Domosthenes and
Cicero-we read them with delight, but
what must they have been to those
who heard the words of living fire rush
from the speakers lips.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-11-18
A WOman,s Tactics.

When one woman is jealous Of another,
she rarely attacks her openly but she
instinctively talks great deal about her,
and the general drift of her remarks un-
der such circumstances must be familiar
to every one whose acquaintanceship is
not confined to the male sex. 1t is GER
tain that she will never admit her jeal-
ousy but beyond that there is no say
ing what observations she may make
about her enemy nor will she miss any
opportunity of saying an unkind word
of her. She will generally contrive,
however, that none of her weapons OF
attack shall be so damaging as her praise.
She will allow that her enemy is beaut-
ful-beautiful as tigress-but she will
affirm that she is wicked she will ad-
NIT that she is amusing, but she will de-
clare her to be ll-natured; if she calls
her innocent, she also calls her silly;
and if she praises her as true-hearted
and trustworthy, she stigmatizes her Is
unsympathetic and uninteresting. II
she begins by describing her as clever,
she goes on to hint that she is an inhdel.
If she praises her balls and her parties,
she abuses her for being too fat or toe
thin, or mentions some social failing.
There are plenty of other faults with
which ladies accuse each other behind
their backs, such as inhospitality, idle
ness, having "odd people" TO stay
with them, frequently changing thei
servants, and even telling lies but it i
needless to multiply instances. Sucl
accusations are all alike unkind an'
unjust
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-11-18
Didn't Declare Himself.

When Ralph Waldo Emerson was
travelling in Egypt, with his daughter,
they met an Englishman who did all in
his power to make it pleasant for them,
and, when the time came for their sepa-
ration, said: You may wonder, sir, at
my having overstepped my usual re-
serve so far as to become SO intimate
with you, but it is for the sake Of a
countryman of yours, one bearing the
same name-Emerson- Ralph Waldo
Emerson. He has done me much good,
and hope some time to cross the ocean
to meet him." And Mr.. Emerson never
told him il was himself whom he
sought.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-11-18
A PRAYER IN HELL.
BY q. L. WILSON

The earth and heavens pass away,
And mind and Justice hold full sway;
Within the dwelling place of peace,
Where Joy to Joy, our hopes increase.
Tho wicked pray, oh, such prayerl
Ye rocks and hills, why stand ye therei
Q see that sidel once did piercel
Dread SOUL thou curse, why look so fercei
Hahl twas my shadow frightened me;
All mol mol 'ts a devil see
Hold its the light of Him doth shine
To make my shadow curse divinel
All, but my prayer was late-too latei
But Oh this hatel myself hatel
Ye rocks and hills, shut out the light;
Fall down and crush me out Of sightl
What burnelh in me? Myl What hell
The sungloss purity doth swell
10 flames within my dried-up soull
Why focus light beyond the goal?
My Godl the light shines through the gate;
1 cannot go! I must not waitl
wish not heaven now, but hell,
To burn me upi cannot tell
Where men or devils ever find
greater he'll than cursed mind!
Go backl fly back ye memories past,
Out of eternity so vast!
Most High Ommpotent, pray
Make dead my mindl aud dark my dayl
know Thee who Thou art. Great God;
knew Thee when the earth trodl
Thou mercy of the God, hear
1 hear Thy tones of loving cheer
To those, Thy followers ye hells,
OF which the creed of hades tells,
In heart and heart, thou fiery lake
Swell up, and in thy mercy take
Tie sight of good and God and love,
And place its tottures high abovel
Oh shut out heaven from my sight,
And dro Sn my soul in endless nightl
Where comes not knowledge, dreams, or breath
Nor life; where all is sullen DEATH
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-11-18
Eccentricities of the Olden Time.

Mr.. J. Underwood, who died in 1888,
left $4,000 to his sister on con.
dition of being buried in the following
manner: At the grave-side. six gentle
men, who were appointed to follow him,
sung the last stanza of the twentieth
Ode of the second Book of Horace.
No bell was tolled nor black worn; no
one was invited but these six gentle.
men; and no relation followed the
corpse. The coffin was painted green,
and the deceased was buried with his
clothes on. With him were buried
three copies of Horace, Bentley's Mil.
ton, and a Greek Testament. After
supper, they sang the thirty-frst Ode
of the first Book of Horace, all being In
strict accordance with the will.
A maiden lady who died in 1856 left
the following singular legacies in her
will: "Item-I leave to my dear enter
tanning Jacko "a monkey e10 per an
mum during his natural life. Item To
Shock and Tib "a lap-dog and ca) 95
each for their annual subsistence during
life; but should it happen that Shocl
died before Tib, or lib before Shock
then, and in that case, the survivor to
have the whole.
About ITO, there was living in Lon
don a tradesman who had disposed O
eleven daughters in marriage, with eacE
of whom he gave their weight in half
pence as a fortune. The young ladies
must have been bulky, for the ightes
of them weighed ESQ, 2 shillngs ant
eightpence.
TIE hottest place on earth is Bahrfn
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-11-18
Good HumOr.

Good humor is rightly reckoned Ii
most valuable aid to happy home life.
An equally good and useful faculty is a
sense of humor, or the capacity to have
little fun along with the humdrum
cares and works of life. We all know
how it brightens up things generally to
have lively, witty companion, who
sees the ridiculous points of things,
and can turn an annoyance into an oc-
casion for laughter. 1t does a great
deal better to laugh over some domestic
mishaps than to cry or scold about them.
Many homes and lives are dull because
they are allowed to become too deeply
impressed with sense of the cares and
responsibilities of life to recognize its
bright and especially its mirthful side.
Into such household, good, but dull,
the advent of witty, humorous friend
is like sunshine on a cloudy day.
While it is always oppressive to hear
persons constantly striving to say
witty or funny things it is comfortable,
seeing what brightener little fun
is, to make an effort to make
some at home. 1t is well to turn off an
impatient question sometimes and to
regard it from humorous point of
view, instead of being irritated about it..
"Wife, what is the reason 1 never can
find clean shirt2" exclaimed good,
but rather impatient, husband, after
rummaging all through the wrong draw
er. His wife looked at him steadily for
a moment, half inclined to be provoked I;
then, with comical look, she said, 81
never guess conundrums; give it up"
Then he laughed, and they both
laughed, and she went and got his
shirt, and he felt ashamed of himself
and kissed her; and then she felt hap
py, and so what might have been an oc-
casion for hard words and unkind feel
ings became just the contrary, all
through the little vein of humor that
cropped out to the surface. Some
people have peculiar faculty for Civ
ing humorous turn to things when
they are reproved. 1t does just as well
oftentimes to laugh things off as to
scold them off. Laughter is better than
tears. Let US have little more of it at
home-ScOttiSh An, eTicl7l
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-11-18
A New story Of Lincoln.

Gen. Steel, being the oldest member
in continuous service OF the Indiana
Legislature, was appointed Chairman OF
the committee delegated by the Legls-
lature to meet President Lincoln at the
State line and escort him to Indianapo-
lis. At Lafayette there was an immense
gathering of people to greet the Presl-
dent, and an earnest call by them Tor
speech, q wish which he seemed very re-
luctant to comply with. Finding, how
ever, that he must say something to
quiet the multitude, he related the fol-
lowing He said his situation reminded
him of man out in Illinois, who was
candidate for nomination for an office.
The convention at which the nomina-
ton was to be made was held at town
some miles distant from where the
candidate resided. On the morning OF
the day on which the nomination was to
be made, the candidate hired team to
take him to the scene of his hopes.
The horse proved very slow. The man
pounded and swore, and swore and
pounded, but with his best efforts he
did not get through till after the con-
vention had adjourned and his hopes
were blasted. He returned home in a
frame of mind which you can imagine.
The horse had been hired of the fore
man of the livery stable, and was re-
turned to him.
Our candidate did not waste much OF
his powder on the foreman, but, on his
way home, meeting the owner, he de.
nounced him in the strongest terms for
letting him have such a horse. The
owner said there must be some mistake
about it !; that his horses were all good
travellers, and finally persuaded him to
return to the stable to find out the
trouble. When they got to the stable,
the owner asked the man in charge what
horse he had given the man. 81 gave
him the hearse horse" "Hearse horse
hearse horse |" exclaimed the man.
"Why, if a man should start to fune.
raj with such horse as that, he would
not reach the grave till two weeks after
the resurrection" and, said Mr.. Lin
coin, if make q speech in every towl
L pass through, 1 shall not reach Wash
ington till two weeks after the inaugura
ton, CHICAGO Inter Ocean,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-11-18

TIE hottest place on earth is Bshrin,
on the Persian gull.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-07
DEAD IN THE STREET.
a Corpse Found Sitting on IL Down
Town Doorstep.

Two boys noticed man sitting upon
the steps of a house near Fifth and
cambridge streets about ten o'clock yes
terday morning, apparently asleep.
Upon approaching him they discover
ed that life was extinct, and Fastening
to an officer they told him of the cir
cumstanee, and the body was taken to
the Second district station house. As
no one could identify him the body
was moved to the morgue, where it
now lies.
A barber at Filth and and Bainbridge
said the deceased had been shaved in
his house only short time before he
was found dead, and could only have
been out of the shop few minutes
when death seized him. He appeared
to be about 80 years Of age. was about
five feet six inches in height and wore a
striped alpaca coat, striped linen
pants, figured shirt and laced shoes.
His complexion was dark as we're also
his hair and moustache. 1t is thought
death resulted from heart disease, but
this will be determined at the inquest
this morning by the the testimony of
the physician who made the post
mOrtem examination.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-07
Vaseline, or Petroleum Jelly.

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EXPOSITION. The most valuable family
remedy known for the treatment of
wounds, burns, sores, cuts, skin diseases,
sun-burn, rheumatism, chilblains, Ca
tarrh, hemorrhoids, etc. Also for coughs,
colds, sore throat, Group and diphtheria,
etc. Used and approved by the leading
physicians of Europe and America. The
toilet articles made from pure Vaseline-
such as pomade, cold cream, camphor
ice and toilet soaps-are superior to any
similar ones. COLGATE & Co., Sole Agts.
TRY THEM. Is and so cent sizes of all
our goods. Sold by all druggists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-07
4 WISE LITTLE GIRL.

COME hitler, you madcap darling
| said to my four-year-Old.
Pray what will be done to the bad bad girl
Who will not do as she's told?
Too well you love your own wee way.
While little you love to mind:
But mamma knows what is best for you
And isn't she always kind
So told her of 'Casabianca"
And the fearful burning ship.
Do you think +" said /, such a child as that
His mother would have to whip? ?"
And my heart went out with the story sad
OF this boy so nobly brave.
Who would not dare to disobey.
Even his life to save.
Then her eyes grow bright as the morning.
And they seemed to look me through
Ah-ah, thought |, you understand
The lesson | had IN view.
Now what do you think Of this lad, my love!
Tell all that is in your heart.
!. find, /" she said, she was drefful good,
But he wasn't the least bit smart"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-07
4 BeWildered Husband.

The romance of a yonng Bostonian
who married New York lady last Win
ter is told by a correspondent of the
Chicago Tines. They went abroad for
a bridal trip of six months, and after
their return one of his acquaintance
said to the bridegroom: 'Well, my
dear boy. [ suppose you are delighted
with your pretty wife. You think her
Il radiant goddess, no doubt. Men al
ways do have extravagant notions of
their wives the first year of marriage. y
The Bostonian smiled rather drearily
as he replied '|Well, the fact is, my
wife has rather to many clothes for
every possible occasion, and they are
all of such resplendent pattern that my
time has been taken up in admiring
them. [ have not got really acquainted
with my wife yet. But | dare say that
III the course of Il year or so | shall get
down to the actual woman. Queer
creatures women are amt they?"
If you have summer hotels to burn
prepare to burn them now.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-07
4 Happy Restoration.

can truly say that owe my present existence
and happy restoration to the hopes and joys Of
life, to the use OF Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure, and say to every suffering from any
manner OF kidney, liver or urinary trouble, . U.s..
this remedy and recover" w. u. SANFORD,
Hoitey, ". Y, FtG. %, 1880.