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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-12-19

FREIGHT.
Freight received daily for Norfolk. Portsmouth :,
Smithheld, and Hampton; Washington, u. G.,
Newberne, Washington, ano Tarboro, Y. G.. and
all points in Eastern Nortf Carolina: also, for East
ern shore OF Virginia, Old Point, and all regular
landings on James river, at LOWEST RATES
and through bills issued l.. u. TATUM,
IL Superintendent.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-12-19
EOR NORFOLK, BALTI-ciLH.i
MORE, THE NORTH, AND REGULAR LAM =
INGS on JAMES RIVER,
ALSO
SMlTHFIELD AND HAMPTON.
GREATLY REDUCED RATES.
THE SPACIOUS AND ELEGANT STEAMER
ARIEL,
carrying United States mail)
T. e. CLIFFORD Commander.
GREATLY REDUCED RATES.

leaves Richmond every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY,
and FRIDAY at 81 A. NJ. for above named places,
connecting AT Portsmouth with the Bay Line same
afternoon, which arrives in Baltimore in full time
TO connect with D A. NJ. rain fol philadelphia,
New York. and BOston. Returning the ARIEL
leaves Norfolk TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SAT-
URDAY at 6 A. NJ arriving here about +. VI.
Fare 10 Norfolk 80
Fare round trim Observation-Disclosures. 80
Fare 10 Baltimore 90
Fare to Philadelphia ......................... %
Fare 10 New lOfk....,.....s....... 80
10 II w
Through tickets on sale on steamer Ariel and al
CARRIERS Agency, S26 Main street. Baggage checked
through.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-12-19

EOR RENT, -.
o20 west Main street: 10 rooms; all cohscs
nieuces: bot aud cold water. bath, &C. 49,
Leish 10 rooms; most convenient location; foou
ntsehbosbood. u.,.,
order low feut 49,. erroprs
SMALLER HutsEe 10 other localities sTOhEs'
WAVEiOCxES, and FACTORY.
" J.THOMPsON BROWN,
Real Estate Agent and Austloneef,
NOR RENT. NEW DETA Z HEDG
E BRICK DWELLING. on Reservoir street ~
betwecn Cumberland and Beverly sifeeis conss,n,
rent low. - fUkMAS - ,saT,s
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-04
HOW TO DEAL WITH RATS.

We clear of our premises of these detest-
able Vermin, writes correspondent of the
Scientific american by making whitewash
yellow with copperas and covering the stones
and rafters in the cellar with it. In every
crevice where a rat may tread we put the
crystals of the copperas, and scatter the
same m the corners of the floor. The re-
suit was q perfect stampede of rats and
mice. Since that time not football of
either rats or mice has been heard about the
house. Every Spring, acoat of yellow wash
is given the cellar, as purifier, as a rat ex-
Termination; and no typhoid, dysentery, or
fever, attacks the family. Many persons
deliberately attract all the rats in the neigh
borhood by leaving fruits and vegetables
uncovered in the cellar, and sometimes even
the soup is left open for their regalement.
Cover up everything eatable in the cellar
and pantry, and you will soon have them
out. These precautions joined to the ser
vice of good cat, will prove as good rat
exterminator as the chemist can provide.
We never allow rats to be poisoned in our
dwelling they are SO liable to die be-
tween the walls and produce much annoy
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-04
A WHOLESALE MURDER.

A family of eight persons was recently
murdered near Barcelona, Spain. A rich
landowner, Fulgenzio A. Bercoznani, had IN
his service workman named Manuel. who.
On arriving at the house for his days work
before daylight, found the doors open, his
wife and maid-serVant dead in their beds,
and the master and mistress of the house,
and their three daughters, aged nineteen,
seventeen, and fifteen, and son, aged nine,
all likewise murdered Another daughter,
aged five, was sleeping quietly beside a
murdered sister, having apparently been
covered by the bed-elothes and unobserved.
The drawers had all been forced, and every
thing turned upside-down. The murders
had apparently been committed with a
Ratchet. Suspicion Immediately fell on
one of the other laborers, swineherd,
named Dominguez, who, with his two sons,
have been arrested.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-04
A GIRLS MIND.

An English writer has made a study of
the mental operations of the minds of I'M
married women, and has reached these con-
illusions cat seventeen the girl thinks
often of love, delights in love songs, fills
Moore's poems with pencil marks, thinks
Byron's face beautiful, eats little in COM
pany. At eighteen, still thinks a great deal
about love; would care nothing for poverty
providing she had sweetheart who adored
her; indeed, would rather be poor than
rich, were she united to the ideal whom she
has not yet met still reads o great deal of
poetry and novels which deal largely with
love and the death of the heroines; pas
sionately fond of children. At nineteen, a
little more critical; finds some of the poetry
that pleased her last year little weak !;
looks about for steadier authors than her old
favor;tes; dances every dance in o bal, and
is not quite so particular as to the men who
are introduced. At twenty, is not sure
whether, after all, it would not be best to be
oh oAo iHuA uf'iiAuS. EN0SOAchuooS, oA0
1irts more uniformly; all her shyness is
gone; and she enjoys her food whether peo-
pie are looking at her or not At twenty
one her belief in old men is strong; she has
lost her prejudices in favor of poverty and
cottages, yet she would not insist upon
money were her IDEAL to present himself.
At twenty-five thinks her youngest sister
rather forward in her manners, particularly
with young men; sometimes suggests to
the youngest sister are merely acts of polite
ness, which people don't want to be literally
interpreted. At twenty three is annoyed if
any one says in her presence that the pallor
of half the girls one meets comes from tight
lacing. At twenty four laces deliberately
for waist, and does not much mind if it be
known finds the company of old men al
ways more agreeable than that of young
men, and is fattered if boys pay her atten
tons. At twenty-five is found behind the
bazaar stalls; initiates the style of the fash
ionable beauty frequently alters the char
acter of her couture and uses great many
different kinds of stuff for her hair. At
twenty-six declares that she hates the idea
of marriage, wonders how girls can volun-
tarily enter state of bondage; marks all
passages in novels In which men are tyrants
and ceases to notice other peoples babes.
At twenty-seven falls in love; about four
months of quiet anguish and despair; sits
late into the night alone in her bed room
is tilted; writes twenty letters in all con-
ceiVable styles-from the passionately scorn-
full to the mild sacrifcial, forgiving, heart
breaking style-none of which are posted /;
destroys the ball room programme on which
he has written his name. -E1change.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-04
Des0latiOn Of Palestine.

The Rev. W. j. Starcey writes to the
London Times of the deplorable condi-
ton of the Holy Land, which he has re
Gently visited. He says:
Nothing can well exceed the desolate-
ness of much of it. Treeless it is for
twenty or thirty miles together, forests
which did exist thirty years ago on
Mount Carmel and Mount Tabor fast
disappearing, rich plains of the finest
garden soil asking to be cultivated, at
best but scratched up few inches deep
| in patches, with no hedges, or boundaries,
mountain terraces natural, or artifcially
formed, ready to be planted with vines,
as the German colonies are doing at the
foot OF Mount Carmel, the villages moth
ing but mud huts; dust, dirt, and squal-
or; the inhabitants with scarce clothing
enough for decency, their houses ovens;
large tracts without a horse, or COW, sheep
or dog; no pretense at roads, except from
Jaffa to Jerusalem, and this like a cart
road over plowed field, the rest, at best
like sheep walks on the Downs of Sussex,
but for the most part like the dry bed
of the most rocky river, where amid
blocks of stone, each makes his way at a
foot pace as best he can, or on smooth,
sloping rocks or over loose stones thrown
from the old walls on either side, which
no one offers finger to remove; nothing
upon wheels, not so much as a barrow,
to be met with in ride of 800 miles.
Everything Is taxed; every fruit tree, so
none now are planted; every cow or
horse, etc.; every vegetable sold out of a
private garden. Every eighth egs
is not taxed but taken by the
government. Nothing like a small
farmhouse is to be found far or
near. If there were, the owner is liable
to have soldiers or revenue officers quar-
tered upon him to be boarded and lodged
at his expense. Tie towns arc filthy in
the extreme. None more so than Jerusa-
lem itself, where, however taxes are lev
led from every house for lightning and
cleaning the steeets, while sprained
ankle or splash into hole Of blacklist
dirt is sure to be the result of a momen-
tary carelessness. Nothing is done for
the good or the improvement of the land
by the government. Not ONLY SO. but
every offer, and / heard Of several made
by private individuals, or by companies,
is at once refused, or refused unless a
bribe be first given to the authorities.
This is picture, I believe, in no way
over-drawn, of that land which was once
FLOWING with milk and honey" What
might 1t not become again, with fair
usage and good g, vernment9 But there
Is no hope tor Palestine while it remains
in the hands of its present rulers. Pales-
tine Is worthless to the Turkish govern
ment. The whole revenue is stated to
amount only to 100000 or 100000
per annum. Capitalized this as five per
cent, and it comes to but four millions
of money. 1t it were six or even ten
millions, what would that be for Europe
to raise for the purchase OF Palestlne9 A
sum sure to be repaid a thousand-fold in
few years time. And what would not
$50, 100000 IN hard cash be to the Turk
ish government att his moment2
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-04
A BENEVOLENT ACTION.

Some days ago, says an English paper a
tender-hearted stranger of well-to-do exter-
ior passing by the broad stone steps of
Warsaw Cathedral, perceived q poorly
dressed woman crouched at their foot, weep
ing loudly and wringing her hands in deep
tribulation. Touched by her evident dis
tress, he stopped and asked what was the
matter.
kind, gracious sir, replied the sobbing
woman, 81 am the most unfortunate crea-
ture in the world. I want to get my baby
christened, but the clergyman demands two
roubles, and have not a single copeck
SIS that al ?" observed the pitifui stran-
ger, take this five rouble note, go straight
to the clergyman, pay him his christening
fee, and bring me out the three roubles
change"
With joyful pronptitude the recipient of
bis bounty entered the church whence she
presently emerged with three silver roubles,
which she handed over to her benefactor,
expressing her heartfelt gratitude for his
timely succor, and her surprise at his APP
parently disinterested kindness
my good woman" answered the philan-
thropist with a beaming smile, ''your aston
ishment is uncalled for. You see, am one
of those people who cannot bear to con-
template the unhappiness of their fellow
creatures. must always see joyous faces
around me. Besides, everybody concerned
In this transaction has profted by it. The
clergyman has got his fee your child will
be christened =; your mind is at ease and I
have derived three good silver roubles from
a benevolent action and-a bad five rouble
note !"
Neither Vice nor Mischief is Matched from
sound eggs,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-04
DEAR FISH.

A French writer declares that the mack.
erel has this in common with good womea
he is loved by all the world Some sew
enty- years ago he was considered q rare
delicacy. The fishing was conducted with
out the least enterprise, and the take was
always small. The smacks, during the soft
Spring months, were often becalmed at sea,
till the fish were spoiled, and when they
did come to land, there was great difficulty
in sending them off by the coach in good
condition. It was natural, therefore, that
they should be looked on in London as rare
fish, and that they should command high
prices. Still, making all these allowances,
we are not prepared to find in the
chronicle of the Annual Register for April
II, 1903, such q statement of prices as the
following gives us: April II. 1S03-For the
first time this season, nine mackerel were
brought to the beach at Brighton, which
were Immediately purchased for the London
market at 6s. Cd. each. On the following
day another boat arrived with twenty-eight
more, which were bought with equal avidity
for the same price. On Thursday, 18th, an
other boat brought ninety-three, which
fetched after the rate of s4O per hundred
Not single mackerel was retailed at Brigh-
ton. All were dispatched to the metropolis.
Six years later we find cod fetching a fabu-
lous price. Robert Southey, in his e Com
monplace Book" ON the authority of the
mackerel report to the City Chamberlain,
mentions that on the 4th of January, 1909,
there were only four Goldfish in Billingsgate
Market, and the competition for them must
have been extraordinarily keen, for they sold
for fourteen guineas, being at the rate of
e3 lbs. I'd. per fish. He does not say how
many salmon found their way to market
that day, but the supply must have been a
small one, as the quoted price was one
guinea per pound.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-04
DIDN'T BELIEVE IN ,ENI.

You've got telephone here, haven't
you &" asked citizen as he yesterday en-
tered an Office On Griswold street in a
seeming great hurry. M.
eyes," was the reply.
swell, / never believed in 'em to any
great extent, but I want to Ter some coal
from yard up the river"
The owner of the Office proceeded to
Zeal, and when he got to the coal dealer,
he said:
Mr.. Blank is here and he wants to know
if you have any soft coal!"
'Yes-5OO TONS" was the answer.
''Well, he wants you to send him up a
ton"
''We'n see him blowed first! He has
owed us bill for over two years!"
'sYum!n muttered the man as he stepped
back.
did they say they'd send it z" asked
the other
'N-o, not exactly"
''What did they say?"
I'll didn't catch it very well. Let me
repeat. Picking up the trumpet again he
stood with it to his ear and asked:
Odd you say you'd send it? ?"
''Not by blamed sight! !" came the re-
Spouse.
''Well," asked the man, as painful pause
ensued.
''WeT," replied the operator, "this line
isn't working very well this morning, ane
you'd better go to the Office four doors be
low The dealer seemed to hear me vel
enough, but don't get hold of his answer
plainly The other instrument is probably
working all right"
''But I shan't bother any one else,
| growled the man. Gas I said before,
never did believe in 'em to any great extent
and now I've lost what little faith I had
Much obliged good day
IF his ear had been at the trumpet hi
faith would have been as big as mountain
Detroit Free Press.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-04

But she never answered me; just
looked at me minute with her white
face, and sobbed and cried again, say
ing
"Oh, is he dead2 Is he dead? Heaven
help me!'
Says L
"You need help"
"My love, my darling!" she cried, "For-
give me-love me! Don't die don
die!
"Marion," says 1, don't be fool If
you want him to live so bad you might
get some water and pour in MS face, or
go for doctor; calm him love and dar-
ling won't cure broken head"
But she didn't seem to hear me. but
said
"Oh, my darling,if you should die"
Just then he opend his eyes, startled
like, and smiled and whispered
"Marion, don't cry,my dear love-"
But she did and he kissed her. Says /
go on, young people; it Is interest
ing"
They laughed, and brother Norton
says
Promise me, my Marion, never to be
so wicked again.
"Brother Norton, you'll have to pray
the rest of your life to get forgiveness for
what she has already done, says l.
sand do you love me?" he says
"Good gracious, spare us,"I hollered.
"Brother Norton, if you have any sympa-
thy for me don't 90 off in that strain
again. You are the biggest fool in our
town-except Marion. Let me congratu-
late you, but oh. don't go off in that aw-
full strain again
Just then there come man with our
horse and uggy, and we was thankful.
Marion Wilbur got to be quiet sort OF
girl, and after while her and our min
lister was married. La, yes! they have
been married ten years, now-happy too.
My boy, Larry, he goes to see Laura,
now; got more sense than she used to
have, thank the Lord. Right good wo-
men, after all their foolishness- them
Wilbur girls.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-04
A SLYtOLD FISH.

A gentleman in the Central Provinces of
India possesses garden in the centre of
which there is huge well-a well more like
a small deep tank than anything else. On a
sunny day, when the water is clear, huge
old fish, more than thirty-ive pounds in
weight, may be seen basking in the sun, or
sleeping in the shade. There is nearly
twenty-five feet of water in the well as a
rule, but in the extreme hot weather it has
been known to sink to four feet. When the
water is very low the owner of the well has
done his best, year after year, to capture the
fish, but he has never been able to effect his
purpose either with line OF net. It appears
that fifteen years ago the fish was hooked,
but somehow, after desperate struggle, he
broke loose, since which time he steadily
refuses the daintiest morsel in the shape of
bait. Once, too, long ago, he was nearly
caught in q net since which time he has
had a curious knaek of suddenly disappearing
whenever the well is about to be dragged
Two years ago the water in the well fell un-
usually low, and the owner determined to
have it emptied, both for the purpose OF
cleansing the well, and also to satisfy his
curiosity as to the hiding place of the fish.
This was found to be a small cave, with a
smaller hole as entrance. Upon the well
being emptied the fish was allowed to re-
main in his ingeniously adopted sanctum,
after having been carefully inspected by the
owner of the place and his friends. The
fish is still to be seen in the well; he is a
great pet, and is easily recognizable because
of his huge size, and by means of remark
able pale yellow scar he bears on his back.
He is lazy, good-natured animal" said
my informant, and only once during the
last six years has been seen in state of ex-
element, and that was when water-snake
invaded his ancient solitary reign, when
there was furious fight, and the water
snake was observed to crawl up the sides OF
the well much quicker than it descended
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-04
AN UNwIsE COURSE.

have nothing to say in favor of smoking,
but man who has acquired this useless
habit seldom has power to discontinue it {;
and the woman who tolerates her husbands
cigar is unwise in Directing to her husbands
pipe Some wives are perpetually railing
against smoking, continually getting at
swords points with every male friend and
relative, and gaining nothing by it but a
grim defiance, which discovers the fact that
In the long run mans win is equally as
strong as q woman's when he once sets upon
subject with the preconceived determine
ton of having his own way. Then there is
the nervous woman who faints at the smell
of tobacco smoke, and can detect smoker
mile off; and the particular creature who
is afraid of the house and the furniture be-
coming impregnated with vapor. These un-
philosophical wives rush to the extremity of
driving the smoker from home to indulge in
his failing for the obnoxious tweed" This
is worse than folly, and is generally the be-
ginning of much unhappiness. Let the
smoker have some cosy little nook to him
self where he can puff as much as he
pleases without being continually tormented
about it until fault-fnding becomes a bore
and dread to him. Let it be sacred to
cigars and meerschaums, spittoons and pipes
of whatever description. It is hard for a
loyal wife to believe that the husband whom
she fancies a tower of strength is really
weaker than his own tobacco-smoke, and
powerless to break the chains of habit but
such is the fact, and she will find it wiser in
the end to let him have his own way at
home, unless she wishes to drive him to the
bar-room or biliard-hall.
In this great theatre of Life it is permitted
to God and the angels to be spectators, but
all men must be actors.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-04
RAISING SUNKEN SHIPS BY BAL
LOOMS.

The interesting experiment of raising a
submerged vessel by means of balloons was
recently made in the Plotzer Lake, near Ber-
lin. The method, which was devised by
Herr Eldner, of Vienna consists in attaching
empty balloons to the vessel and then sud
denly initiating them with carbonic acid gas,
made on the spot by breaking vessel con-
tanning sulphuric acid surrounded with Bull
rich's salt, which is inserted inside the bal
loon. The mixture of these two chemicals
generates the gas, the balloon rises, and
the vessel is raised. In the experiment. in
question, sunken boat, weighing several
hundred weight, was raised, and also five
heavy sand bags, from a depth Of fifty feet
Money in your purse viii credit yall-wis-
dom in your head adorn you; but both In
your necessity viii serve you.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-04
PRESSING ACCORDING TO Law.

The laws of Massachusetts, colony for.
1861 regulated "apparel." Men or wo-
men of mean condition should not take upon
them the garb of gentlemen by wearing
gold and silver lace, or buttons, or pants
at their knees, or to walk in great boots,
or women of the same rank to wear silk or
Tiffny hoods or scarfs, which, though al
lowable 10. persons of greater estates, or
more liberal education, yet we judge it In
tolerable in persons of such Like condition"
Penalty, ten shillings for every offence
against this lawi
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-04
THAT MILLION OF POSTAGE STAMPS

have reasons for believing that there
have been cranky people who have made
the acquisition of 100000 Of postage
stamps condition for the accomplishment
of some vital matter. A legacy may de-
pend uponit. A marriage may depend upon
it. Some old imbecile may have insisted on
having the wall of his bedroom pasted with
], ZOO, 900 of postage stamps. 1t is not per-
haps SO difficult as might be thought to
bring together 1000 900 of used-up stamps
It might, under certain circumstances, even
be worth while to buy a few thousand stamps
to get them stamped. If you have the
waste paper of very busy offices, you will be
greatly helped in the accumulation. Most
people who begin such an accumulation
break down after time. A lady told me
recently that she was saving up her postage
stamps toward million, and I calculated
that it would take her two hundred and fifty
years at the present rate to complete her
task. If you can't complete your own col
lection, you may make yourself helpful in
the matter of helping to complete collec-
tons of luckier people. A million of post
age stamps is possession decidedly worth
the having. It would have its value in the
universal market.-Loaatloa, Society.