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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-02-05
GrAL ESTATE Ar PRIVATE SALE.
DWELLINGS FOR SALE PRl.Ta
~ VATELY. LIZ

BRICK. No, 11G south Fourth street; seven
rooms: Kitchen, TWO rO5ms. : 600.
BRICK. No. los south Cherry; three rooms.
$500. Long payments-siX, twelve, eighteen, ana
NICE NEW FRAME HOUSE on Laurel street,
near "; Andrew, chuIcn; four rooms and kitchen.
5000.
kitchen. 5000.
BRICK. Clay street opposite -. Mars chui oh :;
five rooms ana nj 20 lot: gas and water. sl.SOO.
BRICK. No. 92I west Gay siX rooms; water
and gas. $1,000.
BRICK, No. 3I4 west Cary street: eight rooms !;
water aud gas $4,000. on five years credit.
NICE BRICK HOUSE. west Main STR ct. near
Monroe PARK; eighI rooms $4,000, three years
cTedii FRANK ID hill & CO.,
Real Estate Agents.
fe . At l10S Main street.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-02-05

WE HAVE FOR SALE PRIVATELY
w the following REAL ESTATE: $50 FEET
RIVER FRONT (Old sugar refinery in Rocketls
81 FEET on Franklin between second and Third
streets: TWO SMALL BRICK DWELLINGS,
eight rooms each. with all modern improvement ts.
the north side of Cary between Madison and Bcyi-
dere streets.
TERMS TO suit purchasers.
CAMPBELL & SCHO0LCRAFT.
"a slim l1O4 Main street.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-02-05
BY j. Thompson Brown.
Real Estate Ageut and AuctlOne5r,
lI13 east Main street.

SALE OF HOUSE AND
/ Lot on FIFTEENTH STREET BETWEEN
CLAY AND LEIGH STREEIS.-By yirure Of a
deei of Trust dated 23d August. S76. recorded in
Richmond ChaucerN Court. ID. u. l0S r.. page a ,
executed by d.. Rose 10 The under signed trustees.
and whcrca, default has been made In The payment
of the obligation secured and being required 50 TO
%. we viii sell on the premises. on FRIDAY, Fcb-
ruary 6. 1850. 10 , o'clock +. NJ. The following
REAL PRO. ERTY: That LOT of LAND. with
all the Improvements thereon, on tie western line
Of Fifteenth between Clay and Leigh streets 'front.'
ing % feet more or les. ana running back hetwte
parallel line, 1O0 feet. more or less.
TERMS: C'sh as 10 exp nse, Of sale and S3l2.3f ;
and the balance such terms IS Will be announced
BY said VI. Rose or trustees at sale.
II. &. G.. HARTMAN,
JULIUS SrRACS,
j. THOMPSON BBOWN,
Trustees.
j. THOMPSON BROWN. Aucioneer. jl 2S
BY Frank J. Sampson.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-02-05
DEPARTURES OF STEAMERS.

EOR NEW YORK. 1.-THE old ~ SSfg
L Dominion Steamship Company's sSS tsx-ti
steamship WYANOKE. Captain Couch, will 50 II
FRIDAY, February 9Th, az IL O'CLOCK Vi.
Freight received until O'Clock \. VI.
Through bills of ladlng signed and goods for
warded with dispatch 10 all points north, south, east
aud west: also, TO foreign ports.
Passenger accommodations unsurpassed.
Cabin fare TO New York. SI2; Iouud-trip tickets
t24. Steerage, So and So.
For freight or passage. apply 70
q. W. ALLEN q 90. AGENTS.
fe AIT ComDany's Wharf. Rockets.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-02-05
vyGGD AID e}spAb.

C1Y7S HALF CORD PINE WOOD
DIs - GOOD. SEASONED PINE WOOD. for
cash at the above rates. ". :. PiLCHER.
f. i-lw next Express Office.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-02-05
Fog REM.

DOR RENT, FOUR-STORY BRICK -
Il DWELLING: ten ROOMS. kitchen. and AL al
Improvements: No. 3l2 north Twelfth street., be-
tween Broad and Marshall 4 desir BILE residence,
In good palr. aud very c0nycLicnt TOR business.
Rent low aud POSSESSION at once.
f.4 81 ROBERT i. LYME.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-02-05

By Frank }. sampson.
Real Estate Agent. AuclionCcr. and Notary Public,
Ctlcc come: Hut and Ninth street,
Manchester. Va.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-02-05

CT on HALF COkD-GOOD, SEA
,Cl.OO sONED OAK WOOD Tor cash at the
above rates is t. be had OF w :. PlI%HER.
IL 4-lw next LXprcs, office.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-02-05
DRIVATE SALE.

nor SALE, \ VALUABLE GRAZING
A. FARM IN FAUQUlER COuNTI-WoOD-
STOCK FARM-abOut Two miles from Narrtnton
Junction. |; consists Of about 5l5 \, RES OF
BLUEGRASS RED SOIL, mostly nov IN grass and
IS classed as one Of the best grazing IN the
STATE.
The DWELLING is large, and, with other I'M
nrovcmenrs. is nearly new. and well afapted a. Il
GrSt.class ZONE. In Il most deliehlfll ana ht2lthy
ne. hbOrhOOd. For particulars address
GEORGE Y. WORTHlNGTON,
Catietls Staten, Fauquier county, Va
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-02-05

GtOAL AND WOOD-NOW Is THE
~ TIMF.-Good PINE WOOD. $3.50 per cori:
OAK. 81 aud $3.50 per cord; sPLGNT LUMP,
$40; HhlL. 81 %; best DhiGHTHOPE. $3.50.
-. aud "a 80 per 1000 pound, SOFT COKE and
ENGINE COAL. all grades, At lowest prices; AN
THRACITE Of al sizes and hrst-cl1sS az summer
prices. orders promptly fitted at either yard-7Os
Broad or Cary between Niuetccuh and 1weniicth.
tol 4. T.. PAGE.
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SCHEDULE or TRAINS TAXING Euf.
SUNDAY. NOVEMBER lG.Is79.

Leave Richmond at
Arrive % BurkcylIl'
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-12-11
A Pittsburgh Accomplishment.

DID you ever see a Pittsburgher get
a flake Of SCOT off his face? He never
rubs it off To rub off n flake of SCOT
discloses the stranger. 1t also leaves a
streak of black, half an inch wide, in
place of the flake of SCOT as big as a
three-cent piece. This is not an i'm
provement. The Pittsburgher 10 the
manner born blows it off He is an
adept in the art. If the flake nestles on
his nose, he protrudes his under lip.
gives one vigorous Whit, and the OBJ
noxious Pittsburgh snowflake leaves
his face without a mark. If it lights on
either cheek. the mouth is puckered and
stretched around in the direction of the
smut, with the unerring accuracy of a
garden hoe. 1t is astonishing what al
most inaccessible portions OF the face
and head can be reached by a native
burgher in this way l have seen one
who could puff black flake off the
back of his neck. Sometimes the
beauty-spot will nestle close in behind
the left ear, where it is apparently
secure from blow as calm center.
But the native simply gives it puff
clear around his head, from left to
right; the current passes over the left
ear, caroms on the right and comes
back and picks up the wanderer and
blows him away. They puff these
sable flakes in any position, as easily as
weekly paper puts the summer circus.
-Burdette, in Burlington Ha,okeye.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-12-11

was possessed of more properties than
had ever been credited to it, and that
fortune was in store for the man who
could secure it in any quantity. He
suggested the idea that the oil could be
obtained in paving quantities by sink
ing a well. He was laughed at as a
lunatic by the Pennsylvanians. Re-
turning TO New Haven he succeeded in
interesting some capitalists in the novel
theory, and in organizing the Seneca
Oil Company. of which he was appoint
ed manager. In the spring OF 1859 he
commenced sinking well on Watson's
fiat. at spot about a mile below Titus
vile. The move was considered
so ridiculous that it was only
with the greatest difficulty that
he could hire assistance in the work.
He finally secured the services of an old
his two sons. The boring of the first
petroleum well was begun on the LIST OF
july, 1859. When the three men quit
work ut shutdown on the 29th of August
they had drilled TO depth of sixty-nine
feet six inches The elder Smith was
first at the hole the following morning,
and to his establishment it was filled
with oil. A barrel of it was dipped out
in a few minutes, and the news of Col
onel Drake sanity ran like wild-fire up
Oil Creek Valley. The discovery was
flashed over the country, and then be-
gan the ever-memorable oil excitement,
which made and beggared men before
it subsidized. To-day the oil region is
honey-combed with wells, the supply of
petroleum far exceeds the demand, and
farmers who own no oil stock are
skimming from the same creeks over
which old Nat Carey labored hundreds
of gallons of the stuff which is running
to waste.
Colonel Drake continued his opera
tons in petroleum until 1864, when,
broken in health and ruined in pocket,
although at one time he had amassed a
princely fortune, he abandoned the oil
fields. In 1873 the State granted him a
pension of 81 800 year, payable to his
wife in the event of her surviving him.
He settled in New Bethlehem. where he
spent the last years of his life, con-
firmed invalid. His co-pioneer, Smith,
still lives in Butler County, Pa, desti-
tute. and with large family on his
hands. a statue to Colonel brakes
memory is to be erected on the new Oil
Exchange now being built in Titusville.
N Y. Times.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-12-11
Slaughter With the Bullet,

ORDINARILY, when butchering-day
arrives, the fatted swine are driven
from their pen into the yard. Here
one is caugh. at the first attempt (pos-
sibly), and after much tusseling is
this the herd becomes wild; much chas-
ing, tumbling and Juggling Il trust no
swearing) is INDUCED in, and finally,
after human strength has been expend-
ed that might have gone far toward
saving a cord of wood, the doomed an
imai, half dead with fright. with heated
blood coursing in his veins, has his
throat torn open with bungling in
plement, and thrust here and there,
often in vain search for the vital cur
rent. My dear sir. plead with you. in
the name of humanity, in the spirit of
civilization, to avoid this torture of
helpless, unoffending creatures by
shooting them. A small ball from
rifle or revolver will cause instantane-
Gus ipsensibility, after which the bleed
ing may be accomplished without les
sening your self-respect. The shooting
will cause no emotion in the herd-it
does not realize that any killing has
been done. In slaughtering cattle l
have seen inexperienced men strike the
head of the victim with an ak three or
four times, breaking the horn before
striking the correct spot. This is OUT
right murder, and would disgrace a
savage. l have seen the heaviest
beeves killed without pain by bullet
no larger than pea. In shooting with
a pistol the weapon should be placed
within foot of the spot to be struck
(the forehead. just above the eyes, un-
less the shooter is an expert Charles
a. Green, in n. y Tribune.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-12-11

DR. HAWKES., Professor of Physiology
in the Hahnemann Medical College,
read an interesting paper the other
afternoon before the WOmen's Physio-
logical Institute. in the lecture-room of
the Chicago Athenaum, on FOOD and
Digestion. After some interesting re-
marks on the chemical composition of
food and the process of mastication and
digestion. the Professor enumerated as
the chief cause of indigestion the pecu-
liarly-American stomachic vice of
hurried eating. Good. perfect di-
gestion might be said to be almost
unknown to the average American.
What with rapid eating. lack of
sufficient sleep, and want of rest, nature
had no adequate provision for such ex-
traordinary expenditure of nervous
force. Ordinarily some men swallowed
as much in ten minutes as it would re-
quire three-fourths of an hour to eat.
and the result was not only that they
ate too much, but the food which they
took into their stomacls was unphysio-
logically masticated, and the stomach
given duty to perform which proper
ly belonged to the organs of mastica-
ton. These unnatural drafts on natures
forces must, unless checked, tell sooner
or later on the general health. The
boiling of food was almost universal in
this country, and second to no other
cause in producing indigestion. The
use of liquids during meal was all
wrong, for the reason that it tended to
a disuse of the organs of mastication,
while plenty of liquid before and after
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-12-11
LUMP Of CARBON.

TELL me. lump OF Carbon, burning
iurid in the glowing crate,
While thy Eame- rise twisting, turning,
Quench in me this curious yearning,
Ages pas: elucdnte.
Tell me Of the time when. waving
High nl,nve the primal world.
Thou. "a giant palIn-tree, lifting
Thy proud head above the shifting
III the s;orm-cloud's lightning hurled,
While the tropic sea. hot having.
Round their roots its pillows curied.
Tell me, did the Mammoth, straving
Near that mighty trunk of yours,
On the yeriure stop and Craze.
Which thy ample base displays.
Or his weary limbs down laying,
Sleep away the tardy hourss
Perchnnce some monstruos Saurian, sliding.
wsfdiei mp the neighboring strand,
Or lcapi into its peighboring sea
With something of agility.
Though nil ungainly on the land;
While near your roots. in bloo1-stained Tray,
Nav b. two lch.byc beasts colliding,
Bit and fought their lives away.
Tell me- Ancient Palm-corpse, was there
In that world of yours primeval
Aught OF man I'm perfect shapes
Was there go0ir and was there evil!
Was II manT OF was IL ape?
Tell me- lump of Carbon. burning
Lurid in the glowing CRATE.
Lies there In each human face
Something of the monkeys tracer
Tell me. have We lost a linki
Stir thy coaly brain and think,
While thy red flames rise and sink,
Ages past slucidate.
Chambers Journal
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-12-11
The First Oil.Well.

The death of Colonel Z. L. Drake,
the first man to sink well in Pennsyl-
vania in search of oil. and the pioneer
in the petroleum business Of that State.
is announced rs having occurred in
New Bethlehem. Pa, on Monday last
Like the majority of the early opera
tors in oil, he made a fortune, lost it,
and in his declining wears found him.
self in poverty. Unlike many of the
same class. however, he was not re-
duced 10 ebject want, for the State of
Pennsylvania, recognizing the benefits
which she had derived from his inge-
nuity and enterprise, granted him a
pension, which has been the support
of himself and family now for several
years.
1t was by the merest accident that
Colonel brakes attention was first di-
rected To the value of petroleum, in
1858. Half century before that date
old Nat Carey had peddled the pecu-
liar oil which was skinned IN small
quantities from the waters of Oil Creek,
and had paraded its virtues as a pur-
gative and liniment. He called it Sem
eca OIL, from the fact that Red Jacket,
the Seneca Chief. had impaired to the
whites the secret Of its powers. Its
fame as medicinal agent was purely
local. when Carey, with yials of the
stuff, plodded from hamlet to hamlet
and established demand for it that
brought him no small profit. An at
tempt by General Franklin to Introduce
this great natural medicine to a
A.tt la..r bot ls.tn I.1
trously, the Baltimore merchant to
whom wagon-load of il was consigned
dumping il into the Chesapeake Bay,
unable 10 endure the odor which it
sent forth, and unwilling TO believe that
his Southern customers could accus-
tom themselves 20 the remedy, no mat
ter what the nature of their ailments
Northern patients, however, took more
kindly TO ii, but among them even it was
known more as liniment than as a
medicine.
For several wears. until 1858, firm
in this city, Evelith & Bissell. had re-
ceived from Titusyille. Pa. about a gal
Ion of this oil a day, which, mixed with
other ingredients, they sold as the then
celebrated Mustang Liniment. Their
supply of oil was gathered in the very
primitive method of dipping blankets
In spring permeated with the article
and wringing them into pans. This
spring was owned by the firm. and when
they were unable to meet their indebt-
edness TO persons in New Haven,
Conn, the latter took the Ttusvillc
property in payment This was in
1858. Colonel Drake was then a con-
ductor on the New York Il New Haven
Railroad. whose shrewdness had already
attracted the attention of the owners of
the newly-acquired property. They
sent him to PENNSYLVANIA to perfect
their title 10 it. He became satisfied
from his observation that Seneca Oil
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-12-11
A HoLsrEN peasant. uninstrueted in

A HoLsTEIN peasant. uninstructed in
microscopical research. and not pos
sessing the requisite instruments of
precision, has devised for himself a new
test for discovering the presence of
trichine in pork. When he killed pig
he was careful TO send a portion of it
a ham or sausage-to his pastor, and
then waited the consequences for four
teen days. If his pastor remained
healthy. then he felt perfectly easy in
his mind and well assured that his pig
fulfilled the requisite conditions of
soundness of food, and he proceeded to
dispose of it accordingly in his own
family. This ingenious method of re-
search has not been considered satisfac-
tory by the district physician.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-12-11

words of St. Paul? For if the woman
be not covered. let her also be shorn;
but if it be sin for woman to be shorn
or shaver, let her be covered. Notes
and Queries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-14
g. f. SlLI on ANERICAN RAILROADS. md
NEUSPAPERS.

From an H,icrccC h The san Francisco ChFoH,clc
" consider that American railroad ItNeulh- -
now so wonderfully comfortable that the NEON
vcnieuccs Lave been brought down 20 theT m!nl-
mum. IL all the more remarkable because lne
change for the better has been wrought III 80 Su"l'
q time. for when last IN America iuulIuE tie 'lI'
of the war the carriages were low ana stully' 'hS
apologies for secpug-cars lui OF dft aud heeS ana
EVERYTHING calculated 10 make ones life on the rdll-
way as miserable riding rail. In the hotel-car
which brought us from Chicago 20 Onaha we Nes5
az comfortable as though rcadlng tne Sehtiluenlal
Journey m tAe best LONDON ciu0-Iooms iNse'u, -
making practical journey some thousands OF ihHcs
LONG. Inis side of Omaha we have oeen nearly Is
comfortable but. IN point OF attendance ana accou-
mediation. The Union Pacific has q slight advantage
Cv.r ths Central. Besides" continued NJ. Sala,
conf lrrfinliv. "a c0iOred gentleman, WIth bur
lesque musical leanlngs, although lie would GER
party, would Lot be my choice lor railway az
Compared with the European railways, how do
oh. to The unreasonable advantage Of those Of
Amcrirar replied Mr Sla. " II would be Impos-
s. ble 20 make the journey we have mace loi @dn
trii-.r would be impossible to make such tr'p IN
Europe wi Lout being Argued ihQ Uttg H''r'c.'
ness, whilst now We feel tH1i uaJh VIII i'H't na
q, ujmbc and lively rs could be expected % Two
people WHO nave only an uncertain number OF years
In, entrance of a ncwsboy turned the couyorsa-
ton upon newspapers Asked DIS opinion upon
A,.erie.u Journals. Mr.. S4ia SAID Ia Their mdn'
ncr of -uccWc-ly presenting HcWs-tH't J., iA L e
cp.fouZ.,g OK uiJimIOoL-t ne American pay
ale far ahead of the English, but they seem I'D tt1
the element a sohdlty- Upidity II you VIII !
have noticed an almost cntil. absence of ,whdt We
,ll heavy leaders winch In England arc all
,..,.,.-ful To dive You au illustrator OK What l
csr. interesting because of the result reached ana
mo-. ds aaiugIn my experience: You know Tempe
Bar tual Wretchcd old obstruction To- tiert-s''' i9
bean removed Oar paper. The LoHd0a pa"y iclc-
r,tpb made % solemn covenant with me that once
1.rith was 10 write leader against the Old Bar
tp.il n WAS taken down. lcOnOCia,tl as TINS poo
orpdiGg was and conservative as We English p~opie
ar. this ,tcut attack on chrrisneu Dut l"c"-
ycuicut neuer; ct pass times attained It's result,
aud Flee -St ls n)T clear
h Anterior this monthly attack made in heavy.
sober cilnc. would. presume. De without the least
,f.cf for her, h "a thing i, 90 b. written I'D or
down n must be down pungcntly and at once TO
convince you of the y3lnc Place upon American
journals AIS newspapers, can assure You Lhat "ui-
inc Tins last absence from England l have not
thourht ii worth while To- look 40 an English paper
because have trt sure that all the information IL
WAS necessary f,r me to gain could be gathered from
the American daily publications.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-14

ton and daughtcr.in-aw Of General SUMTER one Oh
our hravest revolutionary commanders, about whose
yaor and heroism ills eXpletive to speak since MS
name is written in The history of his country along
with those of Washington, Marion. Green ana
Others which po5terity will not LET die.
The strarge vicissiudcs of ms SumteTs nc arc
romantic m the extreme Being the daughter OF
French lady maid of honor 20 Marie Ant0lnette
Sine was separated from her mother during the revG-
luton which aethruned the King and caused roy al
ISIS 20 rs prcciplately. Nine. Delago her inoiher'
only escaped with Der life. and r. infant daughter
Mrs sumter was conveyed by aithinl hulse 10
New-York. About the Child's person were smhl
chain Of gold and monogram these t9geIher WIN
her infant wardrobe ard the known hdciliy OF hei
nurse, established her identity.
Aaron Burr becoming cognzmt OF inc l"r, :,
adopted Natalie aud educated her along WIN MS
accomplished but Inflated daughter, hrs. ASTON.
Aud here we would pay deserved Tribute 10 bat' ;
noble conduct towards Natalie Delag0, the lost
daughter Of a French noble. who but for ms gen
erous care, might have persisted III foreign laho,
despite the faithtulness OF her devoted nurse ana
the vain agony IF her bcreayed mother. But Ma,
talIc grew no to wOmannOOd n most beautiful aud
accomplished GIRL when Nine. DoanQo claimed her
child and the latter was put on board q vessel
bound Tor French port. Colonel Thomas sumter,
only son at the old Game Cock" General sumter,
CHANGED To be q fellow passenger with the young
LADY and seeing her there became her devoted al
Inirer He followed her TO Paris. obtained the con-
sent Of Nine. Deago 10 their union, married her
and brought her to her home IN the SOUTH sue
lived and died beloved and hOBored as only Wy
tuons and higll-t0ncd women can be-