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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-03-24
RArLROAD LINES.
RICHMOND AND DANyrLLE RAILROAD Co.(
OrFiCK OF GEN'L PASSENGER AGENT. I
RIcHM0Np. VA. March IL, 1880. }

Ga e 9 q -
nIcsxosD Asp =, DAsy!.Is RAI a"1s, co1]
RICHMOND, VA, March i i, 1880.
ON AND AFTER SUNDAY. MARCH
~ IA. 1880. n FAST PASSENGER TRAIN viii
be run between RICHMOND AND BukkEviLLE,
making close connection at Burkeyine win trains
on The Atlantic. Mississippi and Ohio railroad 70
and from Lynchburg and all points IN the souih'
west.
Y Y:5s r P.I ~. arrive at Rehmcpd e:s7 r. n:
shortest and quickest line. Only i've hours be-
tween Tsr ror IN ama appy H. LESTER
JOHN r.. MACMURDO,,
NH I2-eoi2w General PASSENGER Agent.
RICHMOND. YORK RIVER AND smEs sn,n
SCHEDULE OF TRAINS.
- TAKING EFFECT JANUARY 8, 1880.
PASSENGER TRAINS.
800 p. NJ. Leave Richmond daily EXCEPT sun
day). connecting az West Point on
Tuesday, THURS DAY. and SAT
URDAY with steamers for all Iana-
Tugs on the York river and Tor baiti-
more.
THROUGH FREIGHT TRAINS.
$50 A. MI Leave Richmond daily texcept Sun
1000 A. Ms day., connecting at West POM w,p
steamers for Baltimore on MoNDA1'
TUESDAY, WEDNE sDAG.
THURSDAY, and SATuRDA1
with steamers for New York on
MONDAY. WEDNESDAY, and
FRIDAY; with steamers for Proyi.
dence and Boston on TCEsDAf ano
FRIDAY.
PASSENGER TRAINS.
lO.0e A. NJ. Arrive at Richmond daily (except
Sunday, connecting al West POINT
TUESDAY, THURSDAY, ana SAT-
URDAY with steamers from Baiti-
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-03-24
By Jno. Z. laughter, Jr., Auciioneer,
9l6 Main street.

GRUBBs & WILLIAMS. AuctioDeers.
NH lS-22,2f.26 .29tdids
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-03-24

J.TuoMPsoX BROWN, Auctioneer.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-03-24
RICHMOND. York RIVER AND HEsPEAsEl
VROTGH FREIGHT TRAINS.

IO.0e A, NJ. Arrive at Richmond daily (except
Sunday, connecting at West Point
TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SAT-
URDAY with steamers from Baitl-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-04
FARM NOTES.
Preparing stock for Winter.

"A stitch in time saves nine" is
not more true in mending torn clothes
than in getting farm stock through
the winter. The calf, the colt, the
COW or the sheep that enters upon the
winter In n thrifty condition and in
good flesh, will give the owner bnt
little trouble and can easily he kept
improving during the winter months.
On the other hand, animals that the
storms of winter find in u weak and
cmaciated condition will require con.
slant care and attention, ut u very
considerable expense, IL they survive
at all. Nine.tenths of all the losses
of young stock that occur during the
winter months are animals that were
in low flesh ut the beginning of cold
weather. The fat and hearty steer,
COW, sheep or colt will toss its head
in the exuberance OF health and
strength, bidding defiance to the
coolest weather, while the lean weak.
ling stands with arched back and
dropping head shivering In the fence.
Nothing affords more perfect attrac.
ton from cold weather and hard
storms than robust health and u good
supply of fat: and when to these two
conditions we and artificial shelter
and abundance Of good food and water
we have all that is required to insure
the economical wintering of stock.
IL low condition as well storms
and cold must be combatted. the
watchfulneSS rs well as the expense
must be doubled.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-04
Inexpensive Happiness.

Helen Hunt writes: "The most
perfect home ever saw was in a little
house, into the sweet incense of it's
fires went no costly things. A thou.
sand dOllarsa year served for a year 8
living Of father, mother and three
children. But the mother was the
creator .of home; her relation with
her children have ever seen; even q
dull and common place man was lift.
ell up and enabled to Ito good work
for souls by the atmosphere which
this woman created; every inmate of
the house involuntarily looked into
her face for the keynote of the day;
and it always rang clear. For from
the rosebud or clover leaf which, in
spite of her hard house.work, she al.
ways found time to put by our plates
ut breakfast, down to the story she
had to he read in the evening. there
was no intermission to her influence.
She has always been my ideal of a
mother, wife and home.maker. If to
her quick brain, loving heart and ex.
quisite face had been added the APP
pliances Of wealth and the enlarge.
ments of wider culture. hers would
have been the ideal home. sit was,
1t was the best have ever seen."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-04
To The Ladies.

The newest hosiery is in solid. dark
colors.
The richest ribbons represent Cob
elm tapestry or the genuine old cloth
of gold.
Drcssy apons Of lace and fine or
Candle are revived for evening home
toilets.
Tiny muffs with Il nosegay on them
will he thing to wear with evening
wraps.
The demi.train does not yet appear,
Dresses are either quite short or with
very long trains.
"A Paris writer says there are to.
day 500 American girls studying the
opera in Europe.
\ new color has been invented. II
is called '.renyon," and its shade is
very luminous, particularly by gas
light.
When Miss Alice Liddell-the orig.
inal Alice in Wonderland was
married the other day, she wore
among her ornaments Il horseshoe Of
pearls, the gift of Prince Leopold.
New hosiery Cor evening wear is of
soft silk, in twenty-five different
shades. An especial novelty has
vertical stripes, blue and peach BIOS
som, cardinal and old gold being some
OF the contrasts in color.
Mr.. William II. Vanderbilt has
purchased i'm Vienna q boudiOr set of
Austrian brentwood furniture, which
is said to be duplicate of the one
made for the Emperor and exhibited
at the last Paris Exposition.
Some very sensible overcloaks are
reported from abroad. They have
capes springing from the shoulder.
and they protect the dress entirely.
The clOaks resemble an enlarged dol
man, and they are lined with blue,
almond. gray, cardinal and black.
The newest mania among fashion
able woman, married and unmarried
alike, is TO make their bedrooms beau
tiful. The lately acquired taste for
decoration is taking that turn just
now to the utter neglect of parlors
and other apartments.
Men are q good deal like hymns.
There are shOrt-metre men. sharp,
blunt and hasty; there are long.me-
ire men, mercurial, fervent, and III
spring; and there are eights-and.
sevens men, gentle. genial. and de.
lightful. There are many too who
are peculiar-metrcs.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-04
II Woke Him Up.

a farmer who had been to market
in Philadelphia fell asleep while he
was driving home. His horses knew
the road, and Travelled safely until
they reached the railroad crossing at
Bcliry. A train was approaching, and
although the engineer, who saw the
market wagon. blew his whistle, ap'
piled the break and rang his bell, he
was unable either to stop the train oil
to arouse the sleeping farmer. The
horses were already across the track
when the collision occurred, the cow
catcher of the engine striking the
wagon. tearing off the running geal
and throwing the hind axle and wheels
about thirty feet to the side OF thu
road. One wheel was wrecked, while
the other was not injured. The wagon
was turned upside down, and thu
horses, breaking loose, ran Il consider
able distance before they were caught
The farmer awoke. He was thrown
out hut not much injured. AS III
gathered himself up and stared il
bewilderment Mt the wreck, his frs
exclamation was: "What smashed
that wagon up that way =
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-04
The Boys Thought.

One of the curious products of this
country Is the sedate, stiff.rimmed
father who does not love to read, and
who, keeping his children within
doors during the long evenings, tells
them to "set and think" To their
impatient inquiries, "What shall we
do?" he invariably replies in q hard,
discouraging tone. +" Cant you set and
think ?" The children of that man
are likely to become sour. dry. hard
and morose. Their minds become
air-slaked and lacking in spirit. Ont
evening q little boy who had been sit
ting for an hour in the presence o.
his silent father, who had commanded
him to "think," said, " Father, wha
are you thinking Of 7" "The day
when I was wild; and, my younl
man, what are You thinking of =
g The days when / shall be Wild"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-04
The Ingenious Druggist.

The druggists apprentice during
his masters absence became again
v0luble to the customer. Said the
apprentice, half In sOliloquy and half
in narrative: 1.-The drug business il
terrific. These porous plasters. The
old man has national reputation for
them. lie makes 'em out of out sun
bonnets and glue --cuts up the sun
bonnets and smears on the glue-and
when you get one Of his plasters on
your back it Is there for life. There's
a man comes in here most every day
to swear at the old man because he
put on one Of our plasters for q lame
back in lS4S, time Of the Mexican
war, and as he couldn't get it off, the
skin grew over it like the bark of u
tree, you know. That plaster has
worked further and further in, until
now 1t has gone into his lungs, and 1t
pulls at his left lung In a way to set
him crazy. He Is very remarkable
chemist-the old man. do believe
he could make paregOric out Of UNI.
brellas, and boil down an illustrated
weekly paper into altar of roses. He
has the blamedest ingenuity. You
wouldn't believe"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-04
Where Banging Began.
columbia Is. c. Rerister.l

lSoiuIiDih u. VI heKlstef.I
1t has been a subject of wonder.
ment to us where our pretty girls got
the notion from of c0mbing their
front hair down over their fOreheads
and cutting off the end 80 rs to make
the inch and u half of hair which
they keep hanging down nearly to
their eyebrows. and which is irresist.
IDLY associated in our mind with an
imperfectly sheared mules tail. The
mystery was solved to our satisfac.
ton last night as we dropped into DIR.
Jackson's. The doctor received from
New Zealand yesterday among quite
u variety of ferns and moses, and
other curiosities from that semi.bar.
barons land, the pictures of two
MaOri-the natives of that country
Il boy and u girl and the latter had
her back hair all looped upon the top
of her head and struck through with
white tipped turkey feathers, and the
front was hauled down in front. the
ends mingling with the eyebrows.
So it is from the New Zealand savag.
es, and not from the American In.
dian squaw, ladies, that you copy the
fashion. "Nuff said,"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-04
Minnesota News.

Over 200 sheep were lost in the
vicinity of Worthington by the storm
of the 18th.
An Ohio farmer claims that his
own experience has proved that six
CotswOld sheep will not consume
more food than one COW.
John Burgess of 10 Davis, has
made this fall 1000 gallons of Amber
Cane syrup. He has made as high as
100 gallons in ten hOurs.-WeHs Ad.
rOcdte.
Four car loads of young cattle were
brought here from Wisconsin, the
first Of the week, which is quite q
change in proceeding for this part of
the country.-Madeiia Times.
Frank Shaubut has disposed of his
hotel property ut Mountain Lake, his
successor being c. p. Mckenzie. Mr..
Shaubut and his wife passed through
st. James last week, enroute for st.
Paul, which place will be their home
in the future. ST. James Journal.
Eighteen or twenty cars of men
and teams came down this week from
points in Dakota where they have
been at work Oh railroads. Sixteen
car loads were transferred to the NJ.
& st. L. road and went down into
Iowa to work on that road, and the
others went on to Wisconsin.-Wase.
ca Herald.
This years wheat crop of the big
Dalrymple farm in Dakota foots up
432 900 bushels-about 900 carloads,
or fOrty-fve train loads of twenty
cars per train. This immense crop
will 60 to the seabord by way Of the
lakes, through Canada and the Erie
canal, and is expected to net sixty
cents per bushel at the farm.
David Brown brought into this Of.
flee last week the greatest curiosity
that we have seen. which Is nothing
more nor less than a cabbage stalk
with head on each end, and the
third head sprouting. There are
very few roots on the stock, as the
place where the roots should be is oe.
cupled by one of the heads, and the
head which is forming.--St. Peter
Tribune.
The Ortonvillc Herald says: We
hear of farmers in this vicinity who
have bnrnt their bedsteads and the
floors Of their houses during the cold
weather and II was not for want Of
money to buy fuel with because there
was no wood to be had. We hope
this question will be kept before the
public until the railroad company
provides wood and coal.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-04
AN AWFUL MISTAKE.
What Isefell u Young Man While on the
Way to Visit His Girl

Rocklnnd Courier.
A Rockland young man until quite
recently was counting u fat girl ut the
North End and has progressed very
fayOrably with his suit. One even.
ing last week he dressed up in his
best clothes. carefully cOmbed his
hair. and started out to make his tri.
weekly visit to his fair one, who was
waiting in the parlor with iOnd eXpec.
tation in her heart and cold in her
head superinduced by the iluctuating
weather. This was, us you might say i.
the prOl0uge to the tragedy. 1t APP.
pears, moreover, that the fat girls
fathcr--who is worth many thousand
dollars in good. sensible bonds, and as
Il consequence Is an object of the
young mans tender regard had for
several nights previous been the vic.
tim Of some unknown miSCreant who
had raided on his hen pen with dis.
astrous effect. Sick Of such foolish.
ness, he prepared u CHASTITY retributi0n
for the fowl Williams, and to this end
had filled a big garden syringe with
about u gallon OF ancient beef brine.
seasoned with garlic and favored with
assafGtida, and was lying In ambush
behind u box. where he could sweep
every approach to the hennery. The
Young man, who is pretty well nc.
quainted with the whole family,
thought he would surprise his girl by
entering the house Unexpectedly by
the back way. This Is the sitIlatiOn:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-04
Two Patriarchal Apple Trees.

In Skowhegan, Me-, are two russell
apple trees the oldest was planted in
1862. The tree is seven feet from the
ground to the branches, five in num-
Der, all of which are very large and
average thirty.ilve feet in length.
covering space of ground sixty.twO
feet in diameter. In these branches
a playhouse for children has been
built for half century or more.
Anywhere from the ground to the
branches it measures thirteen and n
half feet. The tree is more than
four and Il half feet in diameter, and
1t has been Il good bearer-frOm
twenty-five to thirty-fve bushels of
apples have been picked from it each
year. But the frost and rain have
made Il seam in the branches, and
recently one Of them has broken, but
the other four are green and bring
forth their fruit in due season. The
other tree, forty.eight years younger,
Is u sprOut of the old tree. 1t stands
thirty-two feet from the old tree, and
bears the same kind of apples, is
three feet in diameter. and perfect in
every way.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-04
Peasant Homes In Germany.
From the Independent


But. even when remembering all
the faults Of the Fatherland. an
American can scarce help plying the
emigrants when he sees the pretty,
home.like houses they give up for the
miserable shanties that await them
in the West. In middle and south.
ern Germany the isolated farmhouse
Is the exception. Here the traveller
is seldom. il ever, oppressed with
utter desolation. the grinding lowli.
ness of peasant farm.life. The
owners of adjoining farms build their
houses in group, and then 20 off to
cultivate their outlying land. Some
work-days may thus he lost, but
many u social evening is gained
Then the home in itself is far pleas.
anter than our ordinary farm houses.
The buildings, with their tiled or
matched roofs, are picturesque, and
they always have an appearance OF
cleanliness and thrift. Every window
this is a characteristic of all Ger.
man homes, high and low Is neatly
curtained and decorated with plants
and flowers. The little dOOr.yards
are nicely if not tastefully, laid out
and planted. A German front yard
is q miracle. 1t is exquisitely neat
fresh and cosy but to the extreme
Dutchy, rs we would say. BE 1t bui
ten feet square, it is laid out in many
precise little plots, and filed to over
flowing with well trimmed and various
gaudy flowers, has quaint ornament
or two, and then a silver ball usually
beams its effulgence upon the whole
from its lofty pedestal. The striking
contrast that the unkempt western
farm. house and garden forms with
all this none but those who have seer
both can realize. But, though tht
emigrants may miss their pretty
homes, they will find the new wOrlt
far ahead of the old in many partic'
ulars.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-04
rFrom the Paper world.)

the successful novelties int
whlcny Straw paper is worked up is the
cork and Corrugated paper, made by q
firm over in Brooklyn, near the navy
yard. The cork and corrugated paper
consists of straw paper or board, on
which is placed granu.ated cork, the
cork being fastened to the surface Of
the strawboard by heavy sizing.
Substitute cork for sand as you look
ut sand paper, and you will have an
idea of the appearance OF coik paper.
The article is corrugated as desired.
1t is used largely as a packing for q
great variety Of bottled merchandise.
being substituted for straw. The
manufacturers buy their straw paper
in from fifty to seventy.five ton lots.
Another important use for strawbOard
has been developed in the last few
years in the manufacture here OF
round paper boxes, the popularity Of
which Is that the heads or covers are
Of one piece. instead Of consisting OF
= disc and rim, such rs Is seen for In.
stance in the ordinary pill.box cover.
The covers and bottoms. being OF the
same form. are made by the same
and with great rapidity and
accuracy. The body of the box Is cut
from paper tubes rolled for the pur-
pose, OF any desired size; the heads
md bottoms are adjusted and the box
s complete.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-04

Peck's SIN says there has been
great Improvement made in the sand.
witches furnished In Chicago in the
last ten years. In 1870 it was Gus.
tomary to encase the sandwiches In
pressed sole leather. The leather
was prepared by a process only known
to Prussian and the bread and ham
were put in by hydraulic pressure,
and the hole soldered up. About
four years ago the Prussian who had
the secret said something nnkind to
pitcher Of base ball club, and the
pitcher took up one of the sandwiches
and pitched 1t curved at the Prussians
eye. His funeral was quite largely
attended. considering that he was q
man who was retiring, and who made
few acquaintances. But the secret
Of making the soles and uppers Of
railroad sandwiches died with him.
1t was about this time that cor.
rugated iron shutters were invented,
and that material was at once utilized
to make lids Of sandwiches, while I'M.
der jaw of the appetite destroying
substance was made of common build,
ing paper, the whole vanished with
] meats foot oil and kiln dried In 9
lime kiln.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-04
That's My Boy.


Zig blue eyes with rOgiiiSh twinkle,
Dimplrs ever running riot
Busy tongue that's never quiet
Furchcna fair, with nc'rr "A wrinkle:
Clistcr.ug hair Of sunny hue;
Nose u little snub, 'tis true
That's my boy
Never ending. still beginning
i'IcErts full of dirt and crumbs
Crazy over horns and drums:
Nois, In all things ever winning:
iiragving he Of "Jim" Is master,
While run for white court plaster
That's my hoy
81 /. gUcs-'somr pain, some pleasure,
Wondering 'lwiNi tear and smile.
WIN IL be thus ull the while
joy AMI grief In equal mcasurcI
shall cry, In bitter sorrow,
In some dread, fai~Otf Tomorrow,
That's my boy
All. Uo, no . Mothers eyes look far ahct'
Nud mine s"r, with tender pride,
by q gray haired woman'S Side,
Dnc whom, nov TINT years have sped.
Brave, set gentle, j. hcr stay;
bnu Of whom she'll proudly say
That's my boy
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D c
80

a is the hennery; ) Is the old man
and e the syringe; Il Is the young man
lightly turning to thoughts of love a,
well as the corner of the fence; IL
the house itself, painted brown; and
! Is the fat girl sitting by the piano
and singing Father, dear father,
come homc;" gggg is the gathering
darkness.
Gayly up the back yard the young
man comes, Silently in ambush the
old man lies. Cheerily the fat girl
MARBLES. Quiet but awful is the
syringe. In the uncertain light of
early evening the old man sees a fig.
IRE stealthily drawing near his
guarded pen. With hated breath he
waits the onslaught. The syringe
sounds its dreadful ''wh-s-s-h.-p,"
and its deadly contents few through
the air like a wild and mad avenger.
A yell that tore the azure robe of
night, fairly knocked the fat girl offthe
piano stool, and cmdled the old man =
blood, followed the discharge, and
when the neighb0rs rushed in, under
the impression that the Blaine boom
had burst right in the neighbOrhoOd,
they found the unfortunate young
man paving madly around on the
ground, and screaming out awful
Mexican words terrible to hear, while
the old man lowered over the scene
with the syringe in his hands, looking
like an animated figure escaped from
an allegory. Sympathizing arms bore
the young man into the house, after
their owners had stopped their nos.
trils with cotton, and it required the
combined efforts of the fat girl and
eight friends 10 bring him too, and ii
was some hours before he was able to
fairly enquire il the meteor hit any.
body else when it struck. That night
beneath the darksome shade of the
cypress tree. whose thick branches
the struggling mOOnbeams vainly
strove to pierce, an old mans totter.
ing form rested upon spade, and
silently viewed q new made grave.
He had just buried the syringe.
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Her words tore my heart.


She said that it had long grieved
her to see my love--fOr she had seen
1t in my eyes. She could never love
me but rs u very dear friend, and
thought | had best try and forget her
or at least remember her rs Il slight
friend,
My eyes grew dim my bosom
heaved-l bowed my head upon my
hand. and was silent. Kate said II
was painful to prolong the converse
ton. and we had better part. took
her hand again in mine. and told hei
that had not anticipated II refusal
from her; but since ] had been mis-.
taken. we would never meet again.
Gaod-5y,
And | covered my face with my
hands.
Kate rose and left me, disappear.
ing in the slrnbrry. and heard her
sobbing. The sun was fast sinking
TO rest. even H. it is now. My hopes
were dead and they ar" dead still.
The sun Is gone, and / am still
standing ont under the century-Oak.
| am surrounded by darkncss-the
darkness Of despair. My life is all
ono eternal shade. have no light
to cheer me. My future is clouded.
But even as that glorons orb will rise
again tomorrow morn with redOubled
hrilliancy, will not the darkness of
my life be cleared away! Surely the
light of my existence has not been
cXtinguished forever.
No! After Il brief period of dark.
ness. that sun will rise again with re.
newed and youthful vigor. and will
rekindle the lights which have cheer.
ed me in life and | will he rs happy
us before.
] am cheerful again, and rctrace
my steps To the Barony.
My day-dream is ended!