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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-07-26

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Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23
PIucky Miss GriSwold.

How Bret Harte's Niece Finally secased
 the First Prize at the Paris Conserva-
 toire and Made a Brilliant Debut as
 Ophelia.
 Paris Correspondent of the New York worldI
 The new American prima donna, who has come out during my absence from Paris, has a wonderful voice, soprano-aigu, but her voice is not the subject of this letter. There is something far more wonderful in her sud den rise from the obscurity of musical stu dent life to the highest place in her profes- sion. She is now singing Ophel1a in Am broise Thomas opera of Hamlet" and is to sing Gretchen in Gounod's Faust" Need say more flor there is nothing harder in modern opera than these two parts. The mere fact that Miss Griswold is doing them, then, may be considered conclusive as to the qualities of her voice. But the qualities that interest me more in her are those of her strong character, her energy, persistence and courage. Young as she is her history might form the opening chapter of new Plutarch of women.
 Family misfortunss, I believe, led Miss Griswold to think of the operatic stage Her father had been wealthy, but there came time when those he left behind him had to provide for themselves. She came straight to Paris with her mother entered at the Con servatoire and for years went steadily through the hard work there by which na- ture's gift of voice is turned into arts mas terpiece-a prima donna for the opera The daily life at the Conservatoire is in itself no mean trial for person reared in luxury. There is poor provision of everything except of good teaching. The class rooms are bare and miserable. There is no ventilation; it is a forcing house for sick headache The French are ready to welcome foreigners to this uni versity of the lyric and dramatic arts, but to tell the plain truth, they do not like to see the foreigners come out first. They would rather have them take the smaller prizes, and form sort of setting for the gem of native genius. Miss Griswold, however, showed a very strong determination to be the gem and not the setting; and there came 8 time in one of the periodical competitions when they had to decide either to give her the first prize or to commit an act of favoritism for the benefit of French girl They decided for the act of favoritism, and Miss Griswold who, as the phrase goes, had sung the head of her rival, was offered an inferior award She would not take it. The whole Conserva- toire was in amazement; the thing went beyond the walls to the boulevards, and Paris settled down with complacent smile to see the TOW. What would become of this audacious young American ''mees" who had bearded the very examiners on whose favor
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23
William Walter Phelps.


 The new United States Minister to the Court of Vienna has arrived in our city, where he has been from the very first most cordial 1y welcomed The very honorable antece- dents of MT. William Walter Phelps, who now makes his debut in diplomatic career, are of nature to assure him very advanta- tageous place in our best society The suc- cess that has attended MT. Phelps in the diff ferent careers in which he has been distin- gnished in his own country, is a guarantee that he will not fail to succeed in Vienna 8 diplomat and member of society. MT Phelps received part of his education in Europe. Armed with profound judicial knowledge and gifted with remarkable talent for oratory, he soon became one of the most celebrated lawyers in his native city of New York. How evrr, he did not remain in the law, leaving 1t for active political life. He distinguished himself no less in Congress and soon acquired the reputation of a statesman of great sagaci- ty. His integrity and loyalty still farther in creased his fame. But MT. Phelps did not remain very long in Congress. The state of his health and a number of financial affairs, which he directed with much skill and profit for all, made him leave politics to give his time to those great enterprises in which Americans are conspicuous. Among the nu- merous societies at the head of which he has been placed, we cite the following The Western railroad, the International and Great Northern railroad of Texas, the Second Ma tional bank and the United States Trust Com Dany.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23
Saturday Morning. July B, 1ssI.-
cONKLING,s DEFEAT.

MT. Elbridge G. Lapham was elected at Albany yesterday United States Senator,
 and the wearied and disgusted American peo-
 pie are glad of it. Mir. Lapham and Mir.
 Miller are not the best men for Senators
 there are in New York, but they will perhaps
 do their State and country as much good in
 the Senate as would Messrs. Conkling and
 Platt. At all events it is good thing that
 the squabble which has been going on so long and so disgracefully is over.
 It is also good thing that MT. Conkling has been beaten in this contest and beaten so thoroughly. He did not get an election for himself or for Platt, and those who were elected are none of his. He stands, or rather lies, before the country to-day, just as he and others who aspire to ''boss'' free people ought to stand, or lie. He cannot rightly blame anybody but himself for the position he occupies He att tempted to usurp the right of the President to nominate such officers as he saw fit. He tried to bulldoze his fellow Senators into SUD- porting him in this unwarrantabIe proceed ing. He deserted his party in the Senate in order to carry out his selfish scheme for im- pressing the President and the people of the United States with his own immense import ance. He led, or drove, the Vice President of the United States to Albany, in order that the Vice President might do for him the work of pothouse politician. He has begged and fattered and stormed, and his assistants have begged and fattered and storAed for him. But he has failed and failed utterly. It has been shown that much of the talk about his personal power" was bosh. It has been shown that he has not the political acumen with which it was the fash ion to credit him, for he did not know the Legislature of his own State. And it has been shown that he has forfeited all claim to further extra consideration on the part of the Republican party.
 MT. Conkling's fate contains many warn ings, one of which is against undertaking the good sense and independence. of the rank and file of the Republican party. The Republi- can voters of New York who are not mem bers of the Legislature have had much to do with his defeat. They had become tired of being (" "bossed," and declined to help him to continue fight which they felt he never should have begun. Other sbosses," or those who aspire to become such, can learn valuable lesson from the attitude of the peo- pie of New York, and, for that matter, of the whole country, toward MT. Conkling during the fight which has ended so disas- trously for him.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23
A RemarknbIe Cure.

A year ago Eugene Williamson of Boston county, Kan, swallowed quantity of con- centrated lye, which completely closed up the oesophagus He was taken to Cincinnati for treatment, but the most skilful physiciahs there gave the case up and stated that the boys death was but matter of time-until he should starve to death. The poor boy was wasted to skeleton almost, and it was pitiable and painful sight to witness the child's frantic craving for food and his per sistent attempts to swallow it. He was liter ally starving. He would grasp the spoon or the vessel containing milk or other liquid nourishment, succeed in introducing the food down until it reached the esophagus, when, unable to penetrate further, it would return, The poor boy is plucky and untiring, how ever, and this made the case seem only more painful to his anxious friends. The suffer CTS grandmother possesses certain healing powers, and she determIned to treat the lad Through the grandmother's efforts the boy was at last enabled to swallow, and is to- day, as healthy and bright as any.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23
The Insect Population.

In 1S49 Alexander von Humboldt estimat- ed the number of species of insects pre- served in collections at between 150, GOO and 10000, Europe alone being represented by more than three times as many species of insects as of phanerogamous plants Ten years ago Dr. Gerstacker estimated the num- Der of species of insects to be 225. 600, five times as many the known species of all other classes of animals together. If we assume that there exist in the whole world only three times as many insects as there are phanerogamous plants-the latest esti- nation of which approaches 225, ,00O-we ar- rive at the startling sum of about 75O, ,OOO. Bewildering as this estimate appears, it is probably too low. The oak alone gives shel- ter and support to 450 species of insects, and the pine to more than POO and one moth alone has 8 different species of parasites Without going further in our calculations we may safely assert that if the number of species of all other classes of animals should be doubled by new discoveries (which is rather improbable for some classes and i'm possible for the vertebrates), the number of species of insects would, be more than five times that of all other animals taken to- Oathar
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23
Patriotism on a Peak.
ThunherbOlts Tear Down the Stars and stripes on Independence Day.
 flake City Dispatch to Denver News.l


 flake City Dispatch to Denver News.l
 At 12 o'clock yesterday twenty. three per sons, including three ladies and two little girls from Lake City, with citizens of the capital of Ouray and others from the Cimar- ron gold mining camp, assembled on Uncom- pahgre Peak to celebrate Independence day and raise a twenty four foot flag which, with pole thirty-fve feet high, had been provided by Colonel Irvine, of the Cimar- ron. Immediately after the flag was raised dense rain-cloud. mingled with hail, enveloped the peak, accompanied by high winds. At 1 o'clock MT. Ripley of The Ouray Times was about to begin reading the Declaration, when the flag seemed likely to tear the pole out of the pyramid of rocks on which it was planted, and J. F. Singleton and Colonel Irvine at tempted to haul it down. At this instant the pole we struck by lightning and Singleton was prostrated. Col Irvine WAS made very sick but was not knocked over. No one else was hurt by this stroke, but the company was appalled,. Singleton screamed with pain and begged for water. He was rubbed and recovered suffi- eiently to be borne down to the pack train and thence to the Cimarron camp. He was not dangerously injured. About five min- utes after the first stroke another att tempt was made to get the flag down, the gale then being severe, the hail furious and the cloud dense. Mir Harbottle of the SiL- ger World, seized the lanyard to cut it, and while in the act another and severer bolt struck the staff, shivering the top and spend
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23

Thrilling. Story, i'm w hich Oysters, stfn-
 garees, a Dog and Two Men Also Fig
 ure.
 From the San Francisco ChronicIe.1
 Peter Winant, the oysterman, tells a story of a mud shark which may explain the acci dent which a bather recently met with at Santa Cruz. MT. Winant was at his oyster beds, near San Pablo, recently, and the tide being unusually low some stingarees were left stranded. Mr. Winant and his brother went out to dispatch the stingarees, which are the pirates of the oyster beds, and while so engaged heard their dog barking furiously out in the mud. On watch. ing the dog they saw that he was having hvely fight with some kind of fish that had been left in shallow pool by the receding tide. The dog was not @ cowardly animal by any means, but the fish was nevertheless too much for him. Every time the bog bounded at the fish the latter rose to meet him, and after several minutes had been spent in these gymnas tic performances the dog seemed satisfied and drew off to safe distance Mir. Winant and his brother, having on long rubber boots. waded out to the fish and found that it was a specimen of what the oysterman calls the mud shark, a squat and vicious fish about three feet long and shaped somewhat like dog fish. but much more powerful and active. It was the first one that MT. Winant had OVO4 ooCn d1 SuCA G1OSo ana ne pro- ceeded to poke it fearlessly with stick The he touched the shark it bounded out of the pool and snapped at the stick. Con sidering the desperate fight which the shark had just conducted against the dog who was sitting some distance off in a very dilapi- lated condition, it's activity and ferocity rather astonished the oystermen. In the attempt to kill the shark MT. Winant's broth er incautiously placed his right hand within few feet of the fish, which again sprane ID and seized him. burying it's long teeth in 1is flesh and holding on with bulldog ferooi- y. MT. Winant hastily proceeded to cut he sharks throat, when the fish loosed ts hold and seized the oysterman by the other hand. After a lively tussle the shark vas killed. Mir. Winant states that he never aw such an exhibition of ferocity, and hinks that from the disposition shown by he shark it would attack anything that night attract it's attention in the water. The fish seemed to be a veritable marine bulldog of the most vicious kind
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23


 A muzzle over dogs mouth acts as a sus- bender to his pants Ph5ladelplti1 Chronicle Herald
 One inventor wanted to cool the Presidents room by decorating it with friezes.-Pzila- deZphia Bulletin.
 When it comes to descending a ladder the bravest of us generally back down.-Phiza- delp7aiG Chronicle -He7aLd.
 Explode gunpowder in your bedroom if you want to drive away flies and mosquitoes A twenty-five pound keg will do.-Detroit Faee Press.
 On Coney Island veranda the other day three hundred or more Brooklyn gentlemen were promenading with as many Brooklyn ladies when some wag yelled, Hook out your wife's coming" Thirteen couples con- tinued the promenade. The others slid around the back way and took the first train home.
 An amusing story is told of alady, a Roman Catholic, who, in her last illness, promised to leave sum of money for charitable uses When she was dying she begged the priest to come nearer to the bedside, and gasped out -Fve-given-you-"- Stay. said the priest, anxious to have many witnesses as possible to the expected statement, q will call in the family" and opening the door he beckoned them all in. ''Pve given you," repeated the old lady, with increasing difficulty, "given-you -a-great deal of
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23

plan, chiefly on the ground of expense, and it was ultimately dropped Other proposals were subseq uently made from time to time and in 1878 Hamburg engineer, Herr Dahlstrom, published pamphlet strongly
 advocating the establishment of waterway
 between the two seas as matter of interna-
 tional interest, and suggesting that the work
 should be undertaken by joint-stock com
 pany subsidized by the government. The
 state of the money market at this time was
 not favorable to the establishment of com
 pany for the purpose but the matter has
 now seriously been taken up by private
 financiers, and second pamphlet has been
 issued by Herr Dahlstrom suggesting that the
 canal should proceed from Brunsbuttel to
 Holteneau. in the Baltic, and estimating it's
 cost at 90, 00O, 900 marks.
 The reports of the consuls published by the
 State department are for the most part inter esting and instructive, and in the last
 pamphlet published there is much to repay
 the reader for his attention. There are also
 some things in it not very pleasant to read
 Previous to 1860 the United States success
 AAPObSO 4OI bAC uI1o LIdO0 MT. Fish, consul at Tunis, now reports that of
 1,961 vessels engaged in that trade last year not one was American furthermore, that no American commercial interest was represent ed at that point. To the present generation of Tunisians our flag is absolutely unknown From Consul Scruggs, of Canton, we learn that not an American vessel has been seen in that port for three months In the previous quarter there was only one really American visitor. The decline of our shipping in Canton only keeps pace with that at other Chinese ports, Shanghai not excepted According to Consul Sprague at Gibraltar, only one American sailing vessel (and no steamer) delivered cargo at that port in the first quarter of 1881, though five others 1 touched there. While this country is praeti cally counted out of the Gibr altar trade, the 1 British steamers entering that port in the ! same quarter numbered 933, and about 300 | more steamers represented other nationali 1 ties. Consul Sprague mentions the arrival ! of five British steamers with full cargoes of | refined petroleum from Philadelphia and New l York, after an average passage of eighteen 1 days, the freight rates being less than those l usually paid on petroleum by sailing vessels. 1 At this rate it will not be long before our flag 1 disappears entirely from the ocean highways l
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

carriers in the streets of German and Austri- an cities are reported. The feasibility of this species of robbery seems to have been brought to the attention of the criminally in- clined by the attempts previously made and published, and the postal regulation requir- ing carriers to go armed with revolyers does not appear to operate as sufficient deter rent. The idea of giving carriers only ordi- nary letters to distribute and requiring the persons addressed to call at the postofice for such as are valuable has been suggested and fig finding favor
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23
ELECTED.

Why doth the little busy B Of all the letters that ws c Only employ each shining hour In gathering honey all the day From every opening flower? Why doth not A as busy B, Or c or D or F or E? Why should it B that only B, The only letter next to c, Must busy Bee?
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23
Price Four Cents.

ing it's force along the lanyard and into the base of the pyramid, hurling large stones from 1t over the precipice, which is part conducted by the rope struck Mir. Har
 bottle in the right arm, burning his fingers and temporarily disabling the arm A panic now ensued and the entire party fled down over the slide rock and soon to the base. No other injury was done. The party was suc- cessful only in the one act of raising the flag upon the highest peak in the United States.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23

The temperance movement in the southern States is remarkable one, and 8 genuine surprise to most people, who have had no idea that there was any special interest in temperance work there. In North Carolina there is great temperance revival. Thirty thousand citizens of Georgia have signed petition asking the Legislature to submit the question of the sale of intoxicating liquors to the people. Two hundred delegates from thirty-seven counties attended the Mississip- pi prohibitory convention, Wednesday, and adopted resolutions asking the next Legisla- ture to submit to the people an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the liquor traffic.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23
9otrnal a1t6 Courier.

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY
 HARRINGTON & CO.,, No. 400 State Street, Courier Building.
 JOHN B. oARRINaToN. EDWARD T. HARRINGTON. JOHN B. oARRINaToN,
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23

The new oil region discovered in AIlegany county, New York, is around the village of Richburg, about six miles from the Pennsyl- vania line. The country has none of the surface indications of oil territory which are familiar to expert operators. It IS rich and beautiful agricultural district, and no known Coil belt" extends in that direction. The wells are shallower than in other oil dist jets, the drilling is easy, and the wells all flow. It is therefore believed that oil can be ob- tained more cheaply than elsewhere. At present it is in the excited and tumuItuous condition incident to the discoy- cry of a new and abundant source of wealth. For farms that would have been sold for fifty dollars an acre, a few months ago, ten times as much is now offered in vain Wells are being sunk everywhere; gaunt derricks, sheds and heaps of earth and rock deform the land scape. Stores and banks are projected, and hotels, livery stables, boarding houses and dram shops are going up.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23

A Portland correspondent of ths Boston 1TG0et5eT writes: 'sHere in the home of pro- hlbition, where the Maine liquor law origina- ted, can be had liquor of all kinds and in any quantity. It is estimated that there are in the limits of this city over two hundred places where liquor can be bought. The clubs have it, the hotels keep it, the drug stores sell it; the lunch rooms dispense it. and the grog shops retail large quantities of it. It is even kept on draught, bold have the sellers become. A year ago it was with much difficulty that glass of beer could be ob- tained. Still the initiated could find it. Now, anyone can get any and all he pleases to call for. And how did the change come about {? It resulted from the action of the temper ance men, who were not satisfied with the efficient work of the Republican sher- ifs who enforced the law so thorough ly as to virtually stop the traffic. They must have change, and hence bolted the Republican nomination for sheriff, and sisted the Democrats and Greenbackers to elect theirs And it was distinctly under stood by the supporters of the Fusion candi- date that the law, if enforced at all, should be done very sparingly. It has resulted just as it was planned, for it is now free rum, or nearly so, and the temperance men. have themselves to thank for it." If this is true the Prohibitionists of Portland are not much wiser than the Prohibitionists of Connecti- cut, who have usually done what they could to help the Democrats
 One of the many gigantic projects which are now engaging the attention of engineers and capitalists is the construction of canal between the North Sea and the Baltic, first suggested after the conclusion of the Danish war. According to the original plan, as drawn by the Prussian government engineer Lentze, in 1865, the canal was to run from St. Margarethen, on the Lower Elbe, to Eek ernforde, on the Baltic and the cost was estimated at s4, 900, GOO marks It was after wards decided that, in order to make the can. al more valuable from a strategical point of view, it should dsbouch in the Bay of Kiel, and the extra expense of doing this was esti- mated by Lentze at 30, ,00o, GOO marks. Var ious objections, however, were made to the
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23
Shaking Hand with a Shark.

A Thrilling Story, i'm which Oysters. stin- garees, q Dog and Two Men Also Fig
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23
NBW METHOD
FOR REED ORGANS.

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Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-23

How Bret Harte's Niece Finally secased the First Prize at the Paris Conserva- toire and Made Brilliant Debut as OnheIia,
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