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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-03
DRUGS. MEDICINES. &c.

GlLORAL.THYMOL PR0PHYLAC-
TIC AND DlsINFECTANT
should be used In all sick rooms cleanse the apart
ment and prevent the spread of contagious disease.
Its odOr Is pleasant, aud its power in destroying
noxious germs remarkable. Sprlnkled on hot
shovel, IL reaches every spot I'm the room.
Prepared by j. BLAIR, Druggist,
au27 corner OF Broad ard Niuth streets.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-03
~ SYCLE BROTHERS.

Our assortment of GOODS this fail IS the arsest
and most complete we have ever had, h,y,n, re-
ceiyed upwarisOf
ONE HUNDRED CASES
during the past week and are still receiving gods
daily, consisting In part as follows
CAsHMERES in all shades,
DRESS GOODS,
SILKS, FLANNELs,
BLANKETS, aud DOMEsTICs, e..
CALICOES reduced from Us. 10 &C..
CANTON FLANNEL reduced from Joe. a. 9c.;
GoOD.QUALITY WOOL FLANNEL At l2.c;
10 cases BLEACHFD COTIONat t., very cheap;
5 eases BLEACHED COTTON al IOc., equal 10
Wamsutta
25 pieces BLACK CASHMERE at 2jc.;
10 pieces COLORED CASHMERE At 33tr.;
BLANKETS, CAs>MEREs. and CARPETS At
less than last years prices;
SILKS cheaper than ever.
The public are invited 10 examine these good, bee
fore purchasing elsewhere. feeling confident That VIC
can sell cheaper than any other house Ia the city.
SYCLE BROTHERS,
au 29.eod 81 Broad street.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-03
INsVKANCE COMPANIES.

THE LlFE-INSURANCE COMPANY
OF VIRGINIA
PRINCIPAL OFFICE, No. o TENTH sTRIkf
Invites attention - rates, the nou-f0rieting t-
ture Of - policies us method Of securing them, sud
It's resources. which more Than i've times grea-
or ia prOnoriiOn 20 us liabilities. Than these OF any
OF the largest companies IA the Tinted states.
Its nOiieies have asays been tncOnteslbis' except
70 No nai fraud after three years; and " h1s pt'd
out N my thousands II dollars without litigation Of
DELAY. ,,,,.,
The reserve for every policy issued Ia Richmond
Is invested IN Richmond. ,,
Premium, may be paid annually, semtanb"Alp'
quarterly, or monthly. ,,t.,,.
The Company mas fast establi .hed Prudential %
gnrisl-Fund Buresu. insuring Tor small sums VIII
weekly premium, gu hyes OF 2ersOns Hoiu y" \"
sixty.nye " ars OF age and OF either SEX
RESIDENT DIRECTORS;
T. WILLIAM PEMBERToN, ID. o. DAVIS,
j III. GAHRISGroN, y. u, fLLhth
4 4 rIRRINGroS T.. W. PlCkRELL.
SAMUEL %. PAUL. Pre;iient
j. ". PEGRAM, Secretary.
DIR. ISAIAH II. WHITE, Medical Examiner
au 27-lm --
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-03

Having sod our entire bu,lno,s-,tocA, hNinre''
aud good. wiil-to Mr.. Henry :. HUrZLtk' "e
would cordially recommend him to our treni' ava
the public, assuring them II the best attention.
Thanking the puDic Tor past fayor', We are 30
specially, Mrs. r III IILth,
anal HUIZLER BROTHERS.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-03
SIMMER RESORTS.

T'HE WARM SPRINGS,
i BATH COUNTY, VA,
WILL BE KEPT OPEN UNTIL THE FIRST OF
NOVEMBER,
or later II desired. Persons desiring to remain In
the mountains until late in the season will hnd III
comfortable home. JOHN l.. RTBANK,
au lO-Im Proprietor.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-03
au2O.cca
RIcnMoND, Va August 81 lsso.r

RICHMOND, Va August 81, lssO.r
nj TO THE PUBLIC.-tIayIng pur-
chased the business lately conduct d by Nr'. p
UrrzLEu and Messrs. HUTZLER BROTHERS
MILLINERY. DREsS-TRIMMlNGS, MOTIONS,
Gel shall continue the same Al the old stand an
der the Grm.name ~ HUTZLEE BROIHtRs'
where shall entcayor T. please my many irtnd
and The public generally A. well, aud even bciief'
than In the past. A call i. solicited. Respectfully,
HENRY :. MULLER,
525 Broad street
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-03

Our assortment of GOODS this fall IS the ARREST
md most complete we have ever had, having re-
'eiyed upwards of
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28
Bonaparte and Poverty.

A curious letter, said TO have been written
by Napoleon 1. to his father, when the future
Emperor was mere child and a pupil at the
military school at Brienne, has just been
published in France. 1t is dated April 5,
1881, and runs thus: Father, if you or my
protectors can not afford me the means of
living more honorably in this house, bring
me back home at once. / am tired Of pro-
claiming my indulgence, and of seeing the
sneers of insolent scholars, whom nothing
but their fortune elevates above me, but
there is not one who is not hundred pixies
below the noble sentiments which
animate me. Is your son to remain
the laughing-stock of a few paltoquets,
who, vain of their own means of
enjoyment, insult.me by smiling at my pri-
vations2 If you are unable to. afford me any
improvement of my position here, take me
away from Brienne, and put me into some
mechanical position. From this offer you
may Judge of my despair. Please believe
that my letter has not been dictated by the
vain desire of indulging in expensive amuse-
ments, which / have no taste for. L only
want to be able to show that have the means
of procuring them like my companions.
Your respectful and affectionate son,
BoNAPARTE."
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28
THE Two-THIRDs RULE
science.

In the year 1882 the first Democratic Ma
tional Convention was held In Baltimore
General Jackson was then nominated for
the second term, and the two-thirds rule was
then adopted, and has been adopted by every
succeeding Democratic Convention. In
1885, Martin Van Buren, was nominated at
Baltimore, when the rule was adopted that
two-thirds of the whole number of votes
should be necessary to nomination, or to
decide any question connected with a
nomination. In 1910, Mr.. Van Buren, was
unanimously nominated, but, owing to the
number of candidates for Vice President no
nomination by the Convention for Vice
President was made. In 1874, Mr. Polk was
nominated after stormy session OF three
days. Polk receiving 233 votes, Cass, %, and
Van Buren,, 2. In 1913, General Cass was
nominated by the two thirds rule on the
fourth ballot, though he received a majority
on both the second and third ballots. Gen
eral Pierce was nominated in Baltimore by
the two-thirds rule on the forty-ninth ballot
In 1856 Mr.. Buchanan was nominated at Gin
cinnati, and the bsllotings show that the
AuAC WIS III lOT ne was nCJ
declared nominated until the seventeenth
ballot was declared, though he received a
majority on the sixth, tenth, thirteenth
fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth ballots
In 1850 both of the Democratic Conventions
adopted the two thirds rule which nominal
ed Douglas and Breckenridge. In 1864 Nc
Clellan was nominated on the first ballot, re-
ceiving 2O21E votes, all others receiving 2s1z.
In 1868 Governor Seymour was unanimously
nominated receiving 81 votes. In 1872 Mr..
Greeley was nominated on the first ballot
receiving $50 votes. In 1876 Mr.. Tilden
was nominated on the second ballot,
receiving 534 votes, and all others 2O4
votes Thus it will be seen that from 1882
to 1876, the two thirds rule prevailed, but
at the st. Louis Convention the following
resolution was adopted by vote OF 379 for
to 359 against:
Resolved, That 1t be recommended to future
National Democratic Conventions, as the
sense of the Democracy here in Convention
assem- bled, that the so-called two-thirds rule
be abolished as unwise and unnecessary, and
that the states be requested to instruct their
delegates to the National Democratic COnven-
ton to be held in 1880 whether 1t be desirable
10 continue the two-thirds rule longer In
force in the National Convention, and that
the National Committee insert such request
in their call for the Convention.
The indications are that the two-thiIds
rule will he continued.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28
The Scales and the Sword.

Prof. Won lhering of the University If GOettingen
All the law in the world has been obtained
by strife. Every principle of law which
man obtains had first to be wrung by force
from those who denied it; and every legal
right--the legal rights of whole nation as
we'll as those of dividuals-supposesa con-
tinual readiness to assert ii and defend it.
The law is not mere theory, but living
force And hence it is that Justice, which in
one hand holds the scales in which she
weighs the right, carries in the other the
sword with which she executes it. The
sword without the scales is brute force, the
scales without the sword is the impotence of
law. The scales and the sword belong to-
gether, and the state of the law is perfect
only where the power with which Justice
CARRIES the sword is equaled by the skill
with which she holds the scales.
Law is an uninterrupted labor, and not Of
the State power only, but of the entire peo-
ple The entire life of the law embraced in
one glance, presents us with the same spec
tacle of restless striving and working of a
whole nation, afforded by its activity in the
domain of economic and intellectual pro-
duction Every individual placed in posi-
ton in which he is compelled to defend his
legal rights takes part in this work of the
nation, and contributes his mite toward the
realization of the idea of law on earth.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28

there for many a day, but time
and duty to the living have
assuaged their anguish, and they are
patient. If other gloom passed over this
household it left no sign, and believe that
there is not in all this land another home so
busy, so CHEEKY, so attractive and peaceful
as this. am afraid to say how many girls
it holds, all winsome, and all quite untram-
meled by the cant and superstition that
dwarf and crook so many women's lives
They adore their mother, with whom 1t is
standing pleasantly that she can not drive
them out for half day because they are
so fond of her. Dear hearth She some
times forgets that she is worthy of her girls
alteration.
can not resist this tempting opportunity
to betray one of the closely guarded secrets
of that happy home, but the truth is, the
mother has somehow always managed to
keep just a little in advance other children in
the intellectual race. Her heart and brain are
stamped upon all her daughters. now grown
to splendid womanhood-and some OF them
mothers-and she has in her husband lover
as devoted now as when the unbroken ro-
nance of their loves began. He recently
said to me with kindling face, 1--WE have
been married more than forty years, and,
old egotist that / am, think my wife is an
angel now. 1t is an inexpressible satisfac-
ton to me to be able truthfully to say
that in that long lapse of years no shadow
of misunderstanding has disturbed the
current of our affection. / say this proudly
perhaps, but not less humbly and gratefully
had dying experience few days ago
don't start in that incredulous way; it's a
fact and out of that experience came WON
derlul confirmation of the belief have long
cherished; that an old fellow may do chiv-
alrous and lover like act as " II as those who
mink they menopolize all the romance.
was visiting a friend when a sudden stroke
(I'm told it was apoplexy) felled me. A
physician was at hand, fortunately in a mo-
ment, and did that which saved my life l
| remember that when he came he said that
| could not live ten minutes. Believe me, my
| only thought in what / then had, no doubt,
was my dying hour, ran through the little
| remnant of my mind In the form of most
anxious wish that they would break the news
/ my death to my wife gently"
| Could there be more touching or convinc-
| ing proof of supreme unselfshness? That
is the key in which all the exquisite music
the divine harmonies, of that house are sung
The only Joy which any member of the fam.
| lily reserves for self is that of seeing all the
others happy.
''All this house OF love is peopled fair
| With sweet attendance, that in each part
1 With lovely sights are gentle faces found,
Soft speech and willing service, each one glad
| To gladden., pleased at pleasure, proud 10 obey;
And life doth glide beguiled, like a smooth stream
| Banked by perpetual howrs-"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28
The Maddest Woman.

Probably there have been madden women
than this one was, but we have never seen
one near as mad she seemed to be. She was
going along down street on Thursday when
it was raining, and she had an umbrella, two
packages in yellow papers, anda shOpping-bag
On Biddle street there was place where the
sidewalk had been torn up to allow builders
to haul out clay for cellar. The workmen
had gone in somewhere out of the rain, and
boSs The eay fresh and sticky and
about four inches deep. She hesitated, and
looked back as though she thought it would
be wise to go back a block and go around
the mud, but finally concluded to 60 through
it. Putting her packages under her arms
and holding the umbrella firmly, she stepped
both feet into the clay. That was easy
enough, but when she undertook to remove
one foot the rubber shoe came off She be-
gan to look mad then, but she was not half
rs mad as she got to be in a couple
of minutes. She tried to get her foot back
into the rubber as it stuck in the mud, and
came near tipping over trying TO balance
on one foot, but by jabbing her umbrella
into the mud she saved herself from sitting
down sideways. Then she got both feet into
her overshoes and tried to step. She
couldn't rescue those shoes to save
her. Then she looked around to
see if anybody was looking.
She bent over and took hold of one of the
rubbers with her hand and finally coaxed it
to come along with her foot, but while
she was doing that one of her packages fell
out from under her arm behind. She tried
to turn around to pick it up, but her rubbers
had become fastened in the yielding clay,
and they would not move. ~ his point
she began to get mad. Her warm colored
hair flashed fire, her eyes snapped, her face
turned the color of red wheelbarrow, and
she looked around for man to kill. 1t was
the most awful sight ever witnessed by NOR
tai man. For fully three minutes she stood
there. and then she took her feet out of those
rubbers, picked the muddy things up in her
hands and waded ashore, her delicate CATERS
going into the clay clear up to her shoe
strings When she got on to the plank
walk on Van Buren, street, she wiped her
feet off on the fence, and after looking around
for the author of her ruin for few
minutes she went away, looking back
at every step as though the fate of the per-
son who left that sidewalk open was sealed.
1t is said that woman has been seen for two
nights walking up and down the street, with
mountain howitzer strapped to her back,
looking vainly for game that is out of sea-
son. Well, she had right to be mad.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28
French Households.

Stories of French life, when told by writers
of real experience and sympathy, have often
peculiar delicacy and charm reflected from
the simplicity of French domestic life and
tone of friend ly equality which is so frequent
ly found in the French households. This is
of course most generally applicable to homes
in the Provinces, but it is more or less true of
the whole country. French servants can be
admitted closer to the persons of the heads
of the houses and are treated with more
familiarity, because they are sure of their
own position and do not want to overstep it.
The general tone of the household is, as
rule, easier, more considerable, more good
humored than we are apt to find it elsewhere.
Naughty children are reasoned with rather
than scolded, and in point of fact they are
not often naughty. The mais, mon ami, has
persuasive rather than angered tone with
it. 1t may be only on the surface, but it
gives a pleasant polish to daily life, and
makes it easier to be cheerful and gay.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28
Prophetic Dreams.

When we come to supernatural dreams,
says writer in Temple Bar, we tread on
dangerous ground, and must be cautious;
for skeptics have eyes like the eagle, weapons
of opposition keen and sharp edged, and are
as Jealous and solicitious about the uniformity
of natures law as a lover of his mistress. 1t
must be frankly admitted that powers and
influences of a natural kind may be at work
in producing dreams of which we are igno-
rant, but which may some day be discovered
by the ever Frightening eye of science. But
Professionally, at all events, we must claim
for some dreams higher origin. BY such
dreams as these, great and crushing evils have
been avoided, the innocent spared, and the
guilty detected. Some years ago, 1t is related,
peddler was murdered in the north of Scot
land, and the crime remained for long time
mystery. At length man came forward
and declared that he had had a dream in
which there was shown to him house, and
voice directed him to a spot near the house
where was buried the pack of the murdered
man; and on search being made the pack
was actually found near the spot At first
it was thought that the dreamer was himself
the murderer, but the man who had been &C
cused confessed the crime, and said that the
dreamer knew nothing about it. 1t turned
out afterward that the murderer and the
dreamer had been drinking together for sew
eral days short time after the murder. 1t
has been suggested, as possible solution. that
the murderer allowed statements to escape
him while under the influence of drink which
had been recalled to the other in his dream,
though he had not the slightest remembrance
of them in his sober hours.
A gentleman dreamt his house was on fire,
and the dream made SO vivid an impression
that he Immediately returned, saw it on fire
indeed, and was just in time to save one Of
his children from the flames. A lady dreamt
that IN aged female relative had been muir
dered bya black servant, and this dream
was repeated so often that she repaired to
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28

JOHN SHERMAN went down to New York
the other day to fix up bis boom. aud had
an ovation. He had a reception by the
Sherman Club. There were present Collector
Merritt, Surveyor Graham, Naval officer
Burt, Appraiser ]. Q. Howard, Deputy Sur.
veyor Kibbe, Assistant Appraiser SimonsOn,
Colonel Coster, Pension Agent, and about
$50 other fellows, who, in soms way, suck
Government tests, syndicates, National
Bank pets and pals, hangers on at the Custom
House, deputy msrshals, etc. One fellow
toasted Sherman, and said Long may he
live, and then John made a speech, and it
may be strange. but it is nevertheless true,
that John credited "the Supreme Ruler of the
Universe, who doeth oil things WE'LL" with
a slight share of praise for bringing about
change from industrial death to something
like prosperity. This is the first time that
John Sherman has been willing to give
Jehovah any credit at all for sunshine or
shower and abundant harvests. Hitherto
John and the Republican party have taken
all thecrsdit. John said that 1.-The life of a
public man who does his duty is full OF la
Dor. Of care, and OF responsibility. He is not
always understood, and sometimes he may
die before even his work is remembered.
Therefore must man do that which he
thinks is right, trusting to and receiving the
reward of his own conscience. II bis con-
science tells him he has done the best he
can, that is bis highest reward" Manifestly
Johns Iife-his past record-perplexes him
not little. Some times his Louisiana ex-
PLOTS come up before him-the Louisiana
liars, the thieves. the perjured scoundrels
with whom he traded-Mrs. jerks, Wells
Cassenave. Anderson, the beetle-browed vii
lalns VINO are now quartered upon the Fed
eral Governments because they defied
Heaven and lied like devils for
pay. John Sherman did not die
before his work is remembered. -
John Sherman and his blasphemous work
will never die. His name is as indissolubly
linked With the crime of perjury and fraud
as that of Judas is welded to the betrayal of
Christ. As for conscience, John Sherman
has about as much Of that commodity as a
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28

THE American war ship Constellation. Q
grand old ship of the olden time, after a
tempestuous voyage of twenty days, arrived
safe at her port of destination with Americas
contribution of food and clothing for the
famine scourged people OF Ireland. No
grander spectacle was ever presented for the
contemp lation OF the world. A ship built
for war, for death and carnage goes forth
without her engines OF destruction, to carry
across the ocean food for furnishing people;
furnishing because they are denied the right
to eat the fruits of their toll. England, the
richest Nation of the earth, refusing to pro
vide food for her starving children, is a pic
ture of callousness to be looked for else
where only among barbarIans
'sPhilanthropist and missioner lives on st.
Sends BIbles-to the Pope of Rome, and to the
trOpics-dannell
Prays Cody prayers for Foreign SIN before ner
holy altar,
The while her hands twist at her back for Ire
lands neck a halter!
In foreign lands protects the weak, with treat
ies-or with cannonl
"And turns the dagger In the heart of her
sister on the shannon!
So generous to her foreign foes they praise her
And leaves her Irish subjects one pr1vilege-to
die!
Come, nations of both continents, behold a
Land of Gravesl
Come, Russia. with Siberia! France, bring
your galley slaves!
Come, leering Turk, with dripping knife, re-
freshed In Christian gore!
Bashi-bazouk, hold up your head. Be We
ashamed no more!
o, Empires of a humane world! behold this
Christian nation.
That makes her people psupers and grants
them then-starvationW
But to turn from such a picture to the
Constellation, and the open-handsd geueros-
ity of America helps to restore fsith IN
Christianity, and to believe that the good in
the world will eventually triumph over the
evil
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28

Ex SENATOR BARNUM, Chairman OF the
National Democratic Committee, referring
to the refusal of the Cincinnati Common
Council to grant adequate teleeraphlc facll-
tiles to the hau 10 which the Democratic
Convention is to be held, says tina, he wilt
give the Common Council sufficient time 10
change its decision, but II the Council should
still refuse, he will summon the National
Committee, and different place will be
selected for holding the Convention.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28

FROM every section of the Union comes
q loud, earnest call for relief from the oppres-
sion of so-called protected industries. The
demand is swelling almost into an angry
roar The people are thoroughly in earnest
and they are in no mood to deal leniently
with those who balk their purpose to AGATE,
at least, portion of the excessive burden.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28

CoNKLINe declares against Wsshburne on
any terms, and that probably disposes OF
Wsshburne's candidacy. The Republican
party will not dare risk a candidate against
whom Lord Conkling svows an implacable
hostility. This is q contemplate position
for a party to be in, but it's rather con
temptible party anyhow.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28

brass monkey, and If what that tells him is
his highest reward, then there is not devil
damned who will envy him all the comfort
be may be able to extract from his con
scisnca
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28

SPRING is here. No mistake. There are
swallows and blueblrds. The forest trees are
robing themselves in holiday attire; the
fruit trees are in full bloom, but to place the
fact that spring has come beyond question
the boys have laid away their shoes and are
INDUCING In barefoot luxuries.