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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-04-21

RICHMOND, YORK RIVER AND, HRsPRAKDl
SCHEDULE OF TRAINS,
~ IN EFFECT April. III, 1891
PASSENGER TRAINS.
Arrive daily Except Sunday at l, A. N. Leave
daily except Sunday at 3 r., CONNER tuesday,
THURSDAY, and SATURDAY with passenger
steamers 10 and from Baltimore.
FREIGHT TRAINS.
Leave Richmond daily Excerpt Sunday ats A.
NJ: also, TUESDAY. THURSDAY, aud SATUR.
DAY at I las A. NJ, Connect at West Point with
steamers for altimore. Philadelphia. New York,
Through tickets and bills OF ladIag. with guar.
ante ed rates, issued. ~. UOuGLAS.
spl2 SUPERINTENDENT
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-04-21
RESIGNATION DEMANDED.

WASHINGTON, April 2O.-It is said on good
authority that the Postmaster-General, by
direction OF the President, to-day demanded
the resignation Of Thomas j. Brady, Sec
ond Assistant Postmaster-General.t to take
effect Immediately. The statement is cur
rent tonight that no other course was open
which would secure the speedy severance
OF Mr.. Brady's connection with the Post
Office Department, because OF the Senate
deadlock, which might indefinitely post
pone the confirmation OF his successor.
The facts explanatory OF this summary ac-
ton on the part Of the President and Post
master G eneral will, it is said, be speedily
made public.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-04-21

Certificates Issued payable in sterling at the count
ing-house Of Barring BROTHERS < CO., London
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-04-21
DlCHMOND AND EGHANY
Az RAILROAD.
TRAINS TO AND FROM RICHMOND AND
WIIIIANSON'S

Lave
Richmond,
except sun
days.
Arrive at
Richmond.
Leave
WillIanson's.
Arrive at
William On's.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-04-21
NoMINATIONs BY THE PREsIDENT.

WASHINGTON, April 20.-FOur delega-
tions. aqgregaling sixty persons, from Bal
timore, called on the President to-day to
present the claims OF various candidates Tor
the postmastership in that city. Later III
the day General Tyler, the present incum.
bent, called with two or three friends, and
also had an interview with the President.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-22
Roller Skating at the Capital.

So it happens, writes n Washington
correspondent, that Washington has
more prohcicnts on roller skates to the
square acre than any other city in the
world, and that certain classes of her
population have mannerisms as peculiar
to roller skaters aS are the unconscious
mechanical movements of blacksmith
characteristic and typical with MI his
guild. Wherever there is decliWty, as
on Capitol Hill, roller skaters most do
congro&ote. They go up the incline in
shoals, as it wcrr every individual girl
or boy, or man on women, bending to his
or her work with patient, cheerful
uIacrity. Coming down they pool their
issues, and form in line behind a leader,
who with his coat-tuI in firm grasp of
the boy behind him, Civ ~ momentum to
the whole column, every individual stand
ing Stil and prim ON the rollers, After
getting the liuc in motion the leader
eases up, and standing like the others,
all go whiHHing down the hill. Once
fairly started, there is a letting 60 Of
coat-tails or apron strings or hands and
each SkatermuvCsa aS an Independent, de
tachcd fragment Of the line. Here comes
in the dcIusiye or deceptive feature Of
the scheme, and the unconscious me-
chanical movement that has grown into
mauncrsm. If all goes well, that skim
down Capitol Hill is worth week 5 fun
to any hoy or girl who has the spirit Of
adventure. Those who enjoy coasting
will understand this But in this substi-
tutc for coastiug it is rarely that all does
60 well. II the leader tumblcs, all tum.
bic, or if any one down the line tumbIcs,
all behind him tumble. Every skater
seems to understand this, and they are
SO confident III their expectations of hav-
ing to sit downin the face of II catastrophe,
that they seem always III the act of get
ting ready to sit down. When the
catastrophe comes, or rather on the in.
stant it threatens, every boy or girl sits
down promptly, but easily, with move
mcut that reminds one of the mechanism
Of the conventional stage fall. The ma
lJmty remain in sitting posture until
some boy who has good command of his
legs reaches an upright position and pro
t''AlS w hNNlNN lllt 'tll'lS. Ih'l lItN
glide in subdlcd way to the bottom Of
the hill, scattering as the spirit moves
them. Often some tyro on roller skates
is left to regain his fuCsing himself or
somc boy with a bloody nose, or a
spraincd ankle, or bruised hand, is left
stranded and disconsolate on the curb
stone Nineteen times in every twenty
these combination movements end in dis
appointments, but hour after hour, aud
day after day, herollcr skaters, shutting
their eyes to all disappointments, con.
tiuuc to take the risks.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-22
Worthy Spanish Citizens.

In striking contrast with this refuse Of
past peonage are the Spanish families
of New Mexico. They are cultivated
and intelligent. They have wealth and
the refinement that wealth brings. They
are possessed of a ready perception,
which has given theh a clear understand
ing of the new order, and they have been
the first to take advantage Of it. In
almost every enterprise in the Territory
which calls for enterprise, money and
pluck, the Spanish families are repre-
sented. They are far less provincial
than one would suppose. The sons and
daughters of many of them have been
educated in Europe and the East, and
there is cosmopolitan color in their
manners and methods of thought. They
meet the newcomer on an equality.
They understand that he is necessity
to the growth of the Territory, and they
know that growth means prosperity.
Their intuitions are Castillian, but their
desires are American. In time they will
assimilate with the Republic, which is
but the child Of many nations after all,
and the time is not far away. These
people will do much toward bringing
about the change which Is 30 near at
hand.-Denuer (CoL) Tribune.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-22
Reckless Extravaganza.

At recent dancing-pasty, one of the
events of the season, one OS our lovely
young debutantes was noticed standing
beside n costly upright piano, chatting
with her escort. Supper was in pro-
gress, and at the lady's elbow, on the
top of the piano, was a plate of torrapin.
Presently, another gentleman appeared,
carrying an ice; in the service he had
somewhat soiled his dainty hands; and
in her anxiety to repair the damage, the
fair subject of his deyotions bade him
hold his hands over the terrapin plate,
while she deluged them with the con-
tents of champagne glass that stood
by. Naturally, the liquid carried with
it the greasy contents of the small dish,
and down went the whole mixture into
the delicate machinery of the piano.
Did my lady care? Not whit; she was
only n debutante, but she was true
convert, and she laughed merrily, and
showed her pretty teeth, as if heartily
amused at the devastation. She seemed
even to resent the interference of an
elder lady, who, disguised at the destrnc-
ton, and, perhaps, moved to pity by the
injury being done to the piano, almost
"a thing of life, came to the rescue, and
stopped the sticky stream that was pour
ing relentlessly over the keys and fragils
wires.-PrOgress.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-22
Discriminating Against Authors.

Manuscript is merchandise, aud often
Gocs tO dozen possible purchasers, and
then returns to the author to fill his
waste basket, or lie in his secret drawer
till Lord knows when" But the post
office officials discriminate against this
particular kind of merchandise. Ores,
dry goods, nursery stock and the like
may be sent through the mail for cent
an ounce. 1t makes no difference whether
these commodities have actually been
sold or whether they are sent as samples.
Nearly all sorts of books and other
publications require only half n cent
postage to the ounce, and the rest one
cent. The classes chiefly benefited by
this cheap rate are corporations, such as
mining companies, factories and whole
sale dealers, and the publishers of books,
periodicals, newspapers, novels, pam
phlets, advertising sheets, etc. Now II
the departments Of Government must
discriminate against some class, why
should the wealthy escape and the needy
be oppressed by this discrimination?
After q book or an article is once 10
type, no matter whether it is yet pub
hshed, it has, in degree, changed
ands; it has, in part at least, become
the property of the publishers Then it
goes through the mails to the eproOf-reader,
who may be the author, for half cent
an ounce. The same book or article,
when it belonged wholly to the author
and was still in manuscript cost him
each time he sent it to q publisher six
cents per ounce, and he had to enclose
the same amount in stamps in order to
secure the return of the work if not
accepted. Cor. Springfield Repubti-
pln
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-22
TONOSYLLABLE POEM.

ih,nk not thlt strength lies In the big, round worl
or mat the brief and plain must needs be weak.
t0WhOm can this be true, who once has heard
a. ihc cry for help, the tongue that all men speak,
" Nneh want, or woe, or fear is at the throat
n 30 that each word gasped out Is like shrek
ELeSsed from the sore heart, or strange, wild note
sung ny some fay or hend? There is strength
Which dies II stretched too far or spun too fine,
winch has mere height than breadth, more depth
and length.
Icy but this force OF thought and speech be mine,
>, ANA lie that will may take the sleek fat phrase
Which glows and burns not, though 1t CLEAN and
shine;
Light, but not heat-a fash without blaze.
Nor Is II mere strength that the short word boasts
m IL serves OF more than fight or storm TO tell
Inc roar OF waves that dash on rOCk-bOund coasts
Ihe crash of tall trees when the wild winds swell,
ihe roar OF guns, the groans Of men that die
On bloOd-saned fields. II has voice as well
ror them that far-Oii on their sick beds lie,
For them that weep for them that mourn the
dead,
For them that laugh, and dance and clasp the hand
To joys quick step as well as gre's low tread.
me sweet, plain words we learnt Mt first keep time,
And though the theme be sad or gay, or grand,
WIN each, with all, these may he made to chime,
In thought, or spc!ch, or song, prose, rhyme.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-22
Ihe Rarity Of Healthy Genius.

We acknowledge reluctantly that OF
Nv painters can it be said that they
we're, at the same time, highly educated
IS youths, highly experienced in the
world as young men, highly successful
IN the art they practiced and the friend,
snlps they gained, and highly honored
at the close Of their career for their pic
lures, their teachings and their life.
something, we can not say what, that
belongs to the artist temperament is
generally found to prevent either the
success sought for or the respect that
should accompany it; or, if it makes
snlpwreck Of neither fame nor respect,
yet forms the cause Of disaster still more
latal to happiness, and spreads over re,
putation and honor a shadow of morbid
sadness which admits of little or no al
levlation. Healthy genius may exist,
We believe it has existed, but it is GER
ninly the rarest thing in the world, and
al the conditions of modern life seem to
Do against its development.-Spectator
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-22
A Significant Story.

A wealthy banker in one Of our laIg1
cities, who is noted for his large sub
scriptions to charities, and for his kindly
habits Of private bcnoyolcnce, was
called on by his pastor one evening and
asked to go with him to the help of
man who had attempted suicide
They found the man in II wretchcd
house, in in alley, not far from the
bankers dwelling. The front room was
a cobbler's shop; behind it, on mis-
cradle bed in tho kitchen, lay the poor
shoemaker with gaping cash in his
thront, while his wife and children were
gathered around him.
"We have been without food for
days. said tho woman, when he re-
tnncd cts not my husbands fault.
He is n hard working, sober man. But
he could neither got work, nor pay for
that which he had done. To day he
went for the last timo to collect debt
due him by rich family, but the gen
tlcmm was not at home. My husband
was weak from fasting, and seeing us
starving drove him mad. So it ended
that way" turning to the fainting, mo-
| tonlcss figure on the bed.
The banker, having fed and warmed
the family, hurried home, opened his
desk and took ont a file of little bills.
All his large debts were promptly met
quarterly, but he was apt to be careless
about the accounts for milk, bread, etc. +,
because they were SO petty.
Hn rnuu1 thpra a hill of Michael
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-22
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.
YoUNs men may be too fresh, but eggs

YoUNs men may be too fresh, but eggs
never.
WE have no objection TO mans bor-
rowing trouble; but we want him to keep
it to himself after he has borrowed it.
Bu0atO Courier.
"WoMEN are either thinking about
nothing or else thinking about something
else" This passes for wisdom because ii
was said by Dumas.
SINCE 1866 nine thousand divorces
have been granted in Italy, Milan being
set down for no less than three thousand.
Since 1870 Rome has had six hundred,
An exchange remarks that gout, which
is becoming quite fashionable, will never
affect the editorial profession, as cracker
aud beer lunches never produce so high
toned disease.
WHEN Philadclphians see man with
black eye, bloody nose, and generally
larruppcd appearance, they point to him
and whisper: "Hes statesman. -
Boston Post
A CHURCH never splits on account OF
its numerical strength. 1t is only when
two dcacons can't decide which one is to
boss the sexton that need is found for
another building and minister. detroit
Free Press.
ACcoRDING 70 Professor Swing, "the
coming man will be temperate, chaste,
merciful, Just generous, charitable,
largc.hcartcd, sweet tempered, Christian,
a good ncighbor and faithful citizen"
What nice time the coming woman will
have.
A WRITER in the London Truth says
that the Fifteen puzzle" was worked out
in Hutton's "Recreations in Mathemati-
cal Science" more than fifty years ago
The IIindoos, Chinese, and Egytians
were familiar with the puzzle, the square
of sixteen being cOnseCrated to Jupiter.
A MAN is either n fool or physician Mt
forty, and when he is the latter there is
no physician-in this country at least
who can teach him anything. He
knows somebody's domestic medicine by
heart, and imagines he is suffering from
every disease known to the hooks. In a
medical point of view it is occasionally
not bad thing to be fool.
WHEN a Chinaman dies on the home
ward passage from San Francisco ia
China his remains are embalmed by his
companions, in simple but effective
method. A cash is cut in his neck, and
an artery opened, and about two gallons
of arsenical solution injected into the
veins by means of hand pump. Tho
artery is then tied up and the body
placed in box.
TuE following figures have been pub
lishcd giving, it is said the exact num-
bcr and nationality of soldiers who were
engaged on the Union side in the "lato
unpleasantness:'
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-22
Floral Offerings.

chanced, not thousand years ago,
to be in theater where an artistic was
planting her shapely foot on solid
round of the ladder Of success. She was
poor. For years she had struggled for a
"chance." That's what we all seek.
Give me, says Wharton Baker, ESQ. "a
chance" at the Interior Department, and
I'll show EN-. Give me, says the tyro, u
newspaper chance" and I'll make the
world my slave. Well this girl, after
pawning everything but herself, found q
great, grim wolf standing right in front
of her attic door. The VOLTS name was
Hunger, and made himself uncomfortably
at home with her. Accident-and acct
dent is the moving potentiality nine
times out of ten-secured her "a chance"
in venture. She took the chance with
petty weekly salary and went to work
Her head was hot, her chest was sore,
her arms and legs were thin for want of
food. She strained every nerve all the
time, and made the venture a success.
Tho manager took in money fast The
girl became all the rage. More salary
Not u cent more. Why not? Because
she had contracted for petty price and
managers never break contracts do
they?
But she got applause and flowers?
Flowers?
Yes, and the night of which | speak
(it was Just a week ago in this city, with
her red eyes inhamed with tears because
she hadn't an extra cent in her wallet,
with her heels sore with the rubbing Of
shoes she could not replace, she went
smirking and smiling to the footlights to
take with trembling hand from the
leader of the orchestra two immense
floral tributes, one OF which cost 500
and tho other $25!
What mockeryl
Twenty-Five dollars in money would
have been GOd-send.,
twenty-five dollars in cash would have
bought her the underclothes and the
shoes she literally needed.
Twenty-Five dollars would have enabled
her to get beef, iron and wine, which the
physician had ordered, but which she
hadn't the spare dollar for.
OF course, you won't think / advise the
sending of money instead Of flowers.
That would be an insult quick to he re-
sented. am narrating facts, not ten
dering advice. A few dollars spent in
cut flowers, or even for choice bouquet,
can do NIL the most extreme admirer
should seek to do in public. It's the
thoughtfulness, not the extravaganza,
that produces an impression. If cared
to cause n real lasting happincss-happi-
ness that would start n tear or so Of
gratitude-Td find out quietly and ex-
actly the party's status, and in some
proper and delicate mode send her what
she most needed. There are times when
ton of coal, two suits of flannel under
clothes, bird cage, pair of shoes, a
small box Of tea or three or four tickets
for Turkish bath would do much more
toward warming the inner cookie of a
young woman's heart than hundred
dollars worth of flowers. Send flowers,
toe. Send, however, flowers that can be
gratefully received and easily carried up
the stage. --- HOWdrd'S PhiLddcLphiH
Times Letter.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-22

and on he came, his hounds In full cry.
The way he "got up and got" along that
pike was scene not to be forgotten.
The fuss he made aroused everybody en-
route.
Our crowd consisted OF five, besides
Joe, and we arrived at Mitchellville about
p. m, Joe was there, and as soon as
| had dismounted, he was at my side and
led me up to the door and ratified it so
that the startled Justice opened it at
once, but, upon seeing, as he supposed,
n female closed it to arrange his toilet.
Meantime, the old man and his hounds
could be heard nearing rapidly. whis.
pcred to Joe | wanted to retire around
the corner of the house to arrange my
dress, and he said, excitedly, "Be in a
hurry, the old man will soon be here. !"
| did make haste, for no sooner had / got
around the corner than darted through
q gate. ran down the side Of fence,
crcpt through an opening into n back.
yard, and hid behind an ash-hopper.
When the Justice had got clothes on
he opened the door to tell us to come in,
but, of course, wasn't there, and Joe
was running frantically round the house
looking for his girl, while tho old man
and his dogs were coming nearer every
minute. The Justice came ont and Joe
yelled for his Martha Jane, but she came
not. Then the Justice callcdout: "Don'
be alarmed, madam, come in; you shant
he hurt" and essayed to assist Joe to
find her.
BY this time the old man, his son and
the hounds had charged into town and
wara almost Mt the door, According tC
previous arrangement sham row at once
began between Our boys and the pursu-
crs, and so well was the thing done that
the citizens Gor every man, woman and
child in the village was up pitched in to
prevent what they thought would be
sanguinary afiTay.
The burly Justice, seeing the turn af.
fairs seemed to be taking, and excited
beyond measure, mounted the horse.
block and commanded the peace 50 vo-
ciferoIsly ~ almost to be heard in the
adjoining counties of this State and
Kentucky. This restored quiet our
boys protesting to be law abiding citi-
ncns, The old man also simmcred down,
though he insisted that he had the right
To be little out Of humor at the bows
for robbing him of his gal, and kept lin.
gcring round and "cussin' little ON
the outside.
After the row had been squclchcd, the
women of the village organized a
search for the lost maiden, with view
of shielding her from the wrath Of the
iroto old man
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-22
Ihngl,nme Of l,rngrnnhY.

An ingenious Frcnchman has invented
a game for facilitating the study of ge-
ography by children. This new game,
approved by the Paris Society of Gcog-
raphy, consists of large pIanisphere
map of the globe, accompanied by nu-
mcrous objects representing animals,
plants, flags, costumes, towns and land
scapcs. These objects of painted card
boards stand upright when the small in
scription accompanying them is folded
back they carry, moreover, a number
corresponding to one on the map.
Placing each in its proper position, the
child becomes acquainted with the sub
ject if it he n plant, he knows the
place which produces it and its use I;
il town, he knows its population, its
position, etc. The map is folded, and,
with its various objects. put into box.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-22
A New Cure for SmallpOy.

A Sister Of Charity connected with st.
Joseph's Orphan Asylum, Philadelphia,
has discovered u specific for the preven-
tion aud cure of smallpox. There is
nothing miraculous about the remedy,
like the waters of Knock aud Lourdes,
but it is compound af medicinal sub
stances, the chief of which are digitals
and sulpbate of zinc. The dose is tea
spoonful taken every hour for twelve
hours. Some astonishing cures have
been effected, and nurses who have
never had the disease have watched with
the worst cases without experiencing any
unpleasant effects. The asylum is
crowded daily with visitors armed with
jugs, bottles, pals, cups, pitchers and
every kind of vessel for holding liquids,
and the whole force of Sisters is kept
constantly busy preparing the medicine.
-NcW York Commercial AdUertiser.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-22

A CURIOUS use was made OF the mar.
riage ceremony in Cincinnati the other
day. A young girl having put her in.
fant to death was, at the suggestion of
her lawyer, married to her lover, who
was the only witness against her. The
two being married the State was de-
priyed Of its only evidence.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-22
DGpOt and Station,

Mr.. Richard Grant White says that
the words railway and railroad are
both used, the former generally
in England, aud the latter in this
country; that railway is certainly
right and railroad mcasurably wrong.
"Fora wav is that which guides or directs
n course, or that upon which anything IS
moved or carried. A road is the ground
ridden over But way is road and
road is a way. And railroad is the
ground ridden over, by means of rails to
direct the train. "But," he says, "the
calling of way road is venial of
fense compared with that Of calling
railroad station n depot. A depot is
place where stores and materials are de-
posted for safe keeping. A lonely
shanty, which looks like lodge outside
of garden of cucumbers, staging OF
few planks, on which two or three peO-
pie stand like criminals on n scaffold-to
call such places depots is the hight of
pretentious absurdity. But it is not less
incorrect to give the same name to the
most imposing building which is used
merely as a stopping place for trains and
passengers. There is no justification for
calling such a place depot. " Now
depot is place of deposit, and passon
gers and freight are deposited at a depot.
II it is an objection to call tia ''depot'
because a depot is place where stores
and materials are deposited, the same
objection applies to "station," " because a
station means place where materials
are stored. As matter of fact, how
ever, "station" is growing more an more
into Use.