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Nine. Hauk Sues Colonel MapIeson.

In Supreme Court, Chambers, New
York, on Tuesday, Judge Barrett granted
an order Of attachment against the pro-
perty OF Colonel James III. Mapleson on the
ground Of his non-residence. The suit in
which the order was granted is brought by
Miss Minnie IIauk, and is based on u judy
ment rendered in her favor and against
the defendant in an English court for
Sl,l77.12.
A Herald reporter endeayored 10 see
Colonel Mapleson and Miss Iiauk Tuesday
night, but was unsuccessful, the former
being absent and the prima donna having
started westward. In the place OF the Col
onel was his son, Mr.. Charles Mapleson,
and his fathers representative protested
ignorance OF the claim when spoken To 10y
a Herald reporter last evening. my
father" he said, "has paid Nile. Min
ME Hauk every dollar due her up
to the present time, and for the life
of me | cannot understand where
her claim comes in. IL may be that the
amount asked for Is due her by my brother,
Henry Mapleson, who had her under en-
eaeement two seasons ago on the other
side. There was some trouble, l believe,
but the cause l do not perfectly under
stand. fancy, however, IL was the result
OF jealousy, for you know my brother Is
married TO prima donna, and he certainly
took every advantage To push her forward
when opportunity offered, probably to the
discomfort OF her rival. Nep York Her.
aid of yesterday.
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DANVILLE.
ORGANIZING COMPLIMENTARY-AM MEMORIAL
WINDOW SMALL INCOME-ANOTHER BAT
TIE.
Correspondence OF the RIchmond Dispatch.l

RGANTZING-COMPLIMEN MEMORIAL
WINDOW SMALL INCOME-ANOTHER Bat
TIE.
Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.l
APRIL 90, 1882.
The city having been divided into wards,
the Republicans mo longer Coaiitionists)
are organizing for work i'm the several
wards. The voters in each ward are TO
choose committeeman, and the committee
men will dictate the movements OF the
voters. No move made by the Democrats.
The Grays have given complimentary
serenade to Mr.. j. Allen Patton, their lieu
tenant. on the score OF his recent marriage.
On the same round they serenaded at Ma
jor Suthcrlin's Lieutenant-C Colonel i. l..
smith, OF the Third Virginia volunteers.
A member OF the Halifax bar, who was
here yesterday, says that Judge Ford, OF
the Circuit Court, while on the bench at
Halifax Courthouse was treated with the
utmost respect, and when OF the bench
was masc TO feel that the lawyers did not
remember that he was lifted to the bench
from political considerations.
Surgeon Thomas A. Cunningham, Of the
United States army, whose quarters are
now at Mount Vernon barracks. about
i0fty miles from Mobile. l. now on 4 WISH
TO his father and relatives and friends in
this county.
The memorial window which is to be
placed over the door OF the new Presbyte-
rian church is round in shape, and is seven
feet four inches in diameter. IL cost in
Philadelphia about 1920, and had to be
brought here on flat at a cost Of $40.
On this window is a portrait OF Rev. DR..
Plumer, who commenced his career here.
and was, | am told, the founder Of the
Danville Presbyterian church.
One Of the tobacco dealers reports to the
commissioner OF the revenue IN income
during last year OF $4,000.
Two large eagles were seen engaged in a
battle yesterday evening high up in the air
over the city. After some wonderful eX-
hibitions OF wing-power, each irving to
strike the other, the battle ended i'm flight
and pursuit down the river. ALPHA.
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DIED FROM HIS INJURIEs-sTORE ROBBED
DEATH OF An OLD CITIzEN-COLD WEATHER,
ETC.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.I
DIANA MILLS, April a, 1882.
Mr.. Wren, who was so severely injured
by a blast near New Canton, rs reported
last week, has since died from the injuries
received. He was "A worthy, industrious
citizen, and a valuable manager on the
railroad. He leaves wife and two chill
dren and many friends TO lament his I'M
timely death.
Mr.. j. h. Williams's store at Gravel Hill
was robbed on last Friday night. Several
parties are supposed to have had hand in
the robbery, only one Of whom has been
found out TO certainty. He is a negro
boy named Logan, and has made his es-
cape. Between thirty and. forty dollars
worth Of goods were stolen, and about the
same amount OF money. Nearly all the
goods and all the money were recovered
the next day.
Mr.. John Ayres, one OF the Oldest citi-
zens OF our county (being upwards Of
eighty, died at his residence near Gold
Hill last week. Through long life he was
in every respect a worthy, honorable man,
and highly esteemed by all who knew him.
The cold weather continues. Last night
we had a very severe frost, which has killed
the early potatoes that had come up. We
had ice again this morning, and very high
winds lately have made the cold weather
more disagreeable. The mountains appear
to BE covered with snow.
Judge Hall is decidedly opposed to grant
ing license by the County Court for the
sale of intoxicating liquor. Several appli-
cations were made last court-day, and ac-
ton was postponed until the last OF the
month. Ill.
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The Secret Telephone.
SENDING CONVERSATIONS OVER THE WIRES
SECTInN9

'Ht'bfN'' 'O4'' EhSallONS OVER THE WIRES IN
SECTIONS.
Mention was made yesterday OF the fact
that the articles OF incorporation Of the Ma
tlonal Secret Telephone Company had been
filed in Albany, n. Y, Monday, together
with the proposed capital, shares OF stock.
names OF incorporators, etc. The COM
pany, which has not yet been fully orga-
nlzed, was incorporated TO manufacture
and put in operation telephone invented
by Professor j. Harris Rogers, OF Wash
lngton. The telephone is called the "se-
cret Telephone" because when two persons
are talking no one else, although he may
be on the same line, can listen to the
conversation. Instead OF using a straight
line, circuit Is formed. so that
the two extreme ends OF the wire meet.
The ends of the wire where cut at box or
station, after leaving the electrodes, come
IN contact with commutator, which l. I'm
the shape OF a revolving wheel turned by
electricity. The wheel il divided into
four opposite segments, two OF which are
OF mental and two Of non-conducting
material, such as glass. In this manner,
when one end Of the wire il I'm contact
with the conductor, the other is i'm contact
with the nOn-cOnductor. The wheel d-
yides the conversation phonetically, and
sends the sounds alternately first i'm one
direction on the circuit and then in the
other. Thus there may be dozen boxes
on the line, but from the ones not
in direct communication only half Of
the conversation can be caught. and then
it would be simply uninteliglble noise.
The alphabet, it is said, cannot be spoken
in the telephone so that it can be under
stood on ore half OF the circuit alone. and
the wheel, it is claimed. secures secrecy.
The secret telephone is about one half the
size Of the Bell telephone. A carbon dia-
phragm is used i'm the transmitter instead
OF metal one, as in the ordinary telephone.
and III the receiver common horseshoe
magnet is used instead OF the vibrating
aImature. The inventor claims great adj
yantages for his instrument over the ordi-
nary telephone. Instead OF being slis-
pended, the electrodes float i'm mercury,
which gives distinctness i'm sound and ena-
bles the telephone TO be operated at long
distances. There are many other minor
differences between the "secret" and the
common telephone, but the advantages
urged are the secrecy and the superiority
in transmission. In an experiment i'm
Washington conversation i'm a low tone at
distance OF % feet from the transmitter
was heard plainly two and one-half miles
away. The promoters say that the COM
pany will be organized in thirty days. and
that it will be ready to put up lines in sixty
days. They propose to construct line
from New York to Albany, and thence to
Buffalo, but will establish plants in all the
principal cities the same as the other tele-
phone companies.
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Touu Folk md Country Folk.

"Those.whom God hath joined together let no man
put asunder.i
The town folk cannot afford for two rea-
sons-the one financial, the other moral
and social-to let the State Agricultural
Society go into dissolution. Why, this loss
to the hotel and saloon-keepers, the rail-
roads, the wholesale and retail merchants OF
the city, from this failure to hold our an
nual fair, would more than pay the in-
debtedness Of the Society, and fully relieve
ID from its embarrassment. Again, this
coming together Of city and country pco-
ole goes far to remove the prejudices against
the city and to cultivate friendly ana ira
ternal feeling between all the sections. III
has sometimes happened country belle cap
lures city beau, or Uice versa. we can't
afford to lose these opportunities. "keep
warm the eXtremities" is-a sound financial
maxim for the metropolis. Should we for
lack Of propernourishment allow our coun-
try cow to 60 dry, we may experience lack
OF milk and butter at our city tables. Let the
city give aid to the extent Of $4,000 and 1t
will prove economy i'm the end.
Again The country folk cannot afford to
give up these reunions. The men gain
wisdom and more expanded ideas when
ocean, mountain, and valley come together
in one harmonious commingling; and the
wives and daughters OF the country, since
the war compelled to closer confinement
TO household duties and drudgery, always
look forward to this one meeting OF relaXa-
ton and of opportunity for city sights and
city purchases. Now, i'll view OF these facts,
which none will dispute, il each OF the
hinety-nine counties OF the State will do
nate the sum Of $3.50 by subscription, a
mere trifle per capita, the aggregate will
more than pay the Society's debt, and leave
the city appropriation and the proceeds Of
the sale Of the present grounds, with the
aid rendered by the railroads, ample to
purchase and equip suitable grounds Access
sible by steam. Cannot citizen in each
county be found 10 make this elfOrty IL
may be done on one cOmt-day. | know
the country syery poor, but the smallest and
the poorest county i'm the State can do this
little, and ii loiHpdy. With such men at the
helm as Wickham, Beverly, Watkins. and
holland, aided by Glasgow, Davenport,
Davis, and boswell rs an Executive Com
mittee, surely we may hope that plan will
be digested TO preserve this organization,
so useful and so identified with the inter-
ests of all classes and OF all sections.
HOPEFUL.
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virginia News.

Mr.. George l.. Simpson died suddenly at
his home, in Petersburg, on Tuesday night.
Snipe and woodcock, Il is said, were
never more plentiful in Accomac than
now. Sportsmen about Onancock have
reaped a rich harvest OF these delicious
birds. In some instances they were said
to rise in large flocks.
bridge spanning the canal near the
Georgetown aqueduct fell recently, pre-
cipliating &. b. Brown. Turner Harding,
and three mules, the team OF boat, into
the canal. All were rescued more or less
bruised.
The Pintsch buoy which is being tested
on the Potomac, and which the company,
In New York, is trying to get the Govern
ment to adopt, burns brightly day and
night. The light Is visible for eight miles,
and is fed from a gas reservoior, which
lasts sixty days without refiling.
On Tuesday afternoon a personal alterca-
ton occurred i'm Danyille between Messrs.
+. G. Scruggs and J. r. Organ, two young
citizens, in front Of the Arlington. Upon
the exchange Of blows pistols were drawn
by each gentleman, but friends standing
by interposed and separated them. They
were arrested, and upon examination fined
for breach OF the peace and for carrying
concealed. weapons.
II was stated Monday that Captain Ben
ton Chinn, who had been removed from his
position as United States postal clerk by
the Malone influence because OF his Stall
wait Republicanism, had been rendered a
position on the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road. Captain 5. +. Chapman, a minister
OF the Baptist Church. who was also re-
moved from his position ~ postal clerk
because he could not be induced to unite
Win the Dlahoneitcs in their efforts to dis
honor his State, has, ii is understood, re-
ceiyed llattering call to a Baptist church
in Virginia, which it is highly probable he
will accept.-Aierdndria Gazette.
SLETGHING ~ APRL.-Mr. j. G. Clarke,
mail agent on the Manassas division OF the
Virginia Midland railway. sends word to-
day from The Plains, in Fauquier county,
that the mail from Middlcburg was
brought to that point this morning in two
horse sleigh, the snow being Of sufficient
depth to induce travel by that method
Alexandria Gazette.
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The James-Rivcr Free Bridge.

RICHMOND, Va, April 20, 1882.
To the Editor Of the Dispatch:
1t is 10 be hoped that the miserable squab-
bic between Richmond and Manchester
about whose business il Is to keep the
James-river bridge in repair will be settled
at once and thus end the uncertain status Of
the bridge. III it is to be made a tolI-bridge-
or, il the city, like the State, wants to get
rid of improbable and idle property--le 1t
be known, and purchasers will be found
who will either buy and keep il in order or
will build another bridge. And purchaser
can be found without going to Wall street.
Al this time to eXtorf money from the I'M
fortunate Richmond and Petersburg Rail
road Company with which TO repair the
bridge would be placing the Council Of
the city I'm shameful attitude.
Many persons whose business is being
hindered by the eyer-recurrng talk OF
closing the bridge would like to see The
question OF whose business il is to keep the
bridge In repair settled finally, and want
the issue made now; and they highly COM
mend the action OF the bridge commission
ers in "the heroic method" OF closing the
bridge on the LIST day OF May, and only re-
greet that IL is not closed to-day, and for
that reason do not desire TO have one dol
lar extorted from the railroad company, rs
the same trouble that has so often occurred
would again come up next year, when per-
haps there would be no burned-out rail-
road company TO come to the rescue. Let
the issue be made, and the question be set
tied finally and forever, whether the bridge
Is to be free or toll bridge, or whether a
purchaser Is desired, or II it Is TO remain
forever closed. RICHMOND.
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ORANGE COUNTY.
TION-wEATBER-CROP AND COURT
ITEMS.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND COURT
ITEMS.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
APRIL %, 1882.
Instead OF eighty cattle, Mr.. William q.
Crenshaw has lost only five or six head in
a herd OF two hundred and sixty. | cross
examined the gentleman who reported the
former loss, and the report came so direct
and through such a credible witness that
was made to believe the " lie with circum-
stance" doubt il there are eighty cattle
on any other farm than " Hawfield" in the
county, and only about Mr.. CrenshaW
could such story have been told.
We had a rain, hail, and snow-storm on
Sunday, and merino lambs were quite UNI
der the weather. Ice formed yesterday and
this morning.
There Is no longer any doubt but that the
preceding cold snap did the forward wheat
much and permanent harm. Much Of il Is
falling, and appears to be quite dead at the
ground. IL is too soon TO say how much
harm the prevailing spell has done, but the
mercury has not fallen as low by 100 as in
the former one.
The local-optionists made opposition in
court Yesterday to granting liquor-llcenses.
The Court granted q few only in different
parts of the county, and continued the
bulk OF the applications till the next term
to give the public opportunity to show II
there is substantial opposition to the issu-
ing of licenses.
General Wickham was at court attending
TO some tax matters OF the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway Company. DENNIS.
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CAYRE's PLAsTERJACKET SHIRTS,
made by the
BICgFoRD KNITTING COMPANY.
A double supply received aud FOR SALE AT
MANUFACTURERS PRICES.
J. BLAIR, Druggist,
NH 20 corner Broad and Ninth stre<ta.
HEALTH Is WEALTH.

DIR. q. G. VESTS NERVE AND BRAIN
TREATMENT; a specific for HystertA, Dlxri-
ness, Commissions. Nervous Headache, Mea-
ture Old Age, caused BY over.exertfon, cx.
cess, OF oyerwork OF the brain, which leads %
misery, decay, aud death. Ono box will cure re-
nient. One dollar box, or six boxes for ave dol
isrs-sens by mail prepaid on recefpa OF price. We
guarantee SIX boxes ~ care ANY case, Wih each
Will I'VE dollars, we win send the purchaser oar
Mntten Guarantee 70 return TIE money n the treat
mSnt docs aok eleet cure. Guarantees issued 81
fetAu agcnts, nichmoed, We. Urders 81 nsu III
receive proupt atfenttOn. nay le-Sa,Iu&1h4y
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Heroic Rescue of Wouid-Be Suicide.

A heroic rescue was effected at Niagara
Falls recently OF an attempted suicide by a
backman named Metcali. Charlotte O'Neil,
of Buffalo, 4 girl aged fourteen, jumped
over the elf near the falls and lodged IN a
projecting tree about thirty feet from the
top. The only way OF rescuing her was
for some one 10 go down over the elm, a
most hazardous undertaking, there being a
sheer decent OF over 300 feet, with jagged
rocks at the bottom. The hackman Met
calf volunteered to do it. The driving
lines Of several teams that were standing
by were tied together and fastened under
his shoulders. on reaching the girl he
took the lines and fastened them in SINH
lar manner, and she was hauled up only
slightly injured. Metcalf followed after
the lines were let down again. Temporary
insanity was given by Miss O'Neill as the
cause OF her attempted rash act.
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PAGE COUNTY.
SUDDEN DEATH OF A PROMINENT cITIZEN-yA-
RIOUs NEWS ITEMS.

SUDDEN DEATH OF A PROMINENT CfflZEN-NA-
RIOUs NEWS ITEMS.
CORRESPONDENCE OF the Richmond Dispatch.l
LuRAY, April %, 1882.
The community was shocked last night
by hearing OF the death OF p. b. Borst,
ESQ, well-known citizen OF our State.
Judge Bird was holding court in one OF the
rooms Of the Rust House, with Giles Cook,
Esq, Giles Cook, Jr., Smith turner, >. l..
Menefee. III. J. Smoot, the deceased, and
other lawyers in attendance. Mr.. Borst
had lust finished making speech when he
had stroke Of apopleXy, and instantly eX-
PRED. The physicians found LIE extinct
upon an examination about i've minutes
after. MIR. Borst is well known as one OF
the projectors Of the Shenandoah Valley
railroad and as president oil the Baltimore
and Western, besides being active IN other
railroad and mining enterprises.
The tannery OF Deford u Co., OF balti-
more. will soon be worked 10 It's i'iii capa-
city OF twelve hundred hides per week.
A smelling furnace is soon 10 DE DUN by
the Luray Mining and Manufacturing Com
pany at Rileyyille. This Is an enterprise
In which Congressman Hariner' vi REM
sylyania, IL interested.
Sunday we had continuous ia'i OF snow
for nearly SIX hours, covering the ground
and trees. The wheat Is injured little,
and the fruit very severely.
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LOUISVILLE, KY, April 25.-Officer Gus
Rosenberg shot and killed A. Il. Fielder
near First and Jefferson streets this eve
ming. Some time since Fielder was i'm
dicted on some petty charge, and, sup
posing the officer was his accuser, began
qllarrellng with him. Fielder struck Ro-
senberg, who then attempted to arrest him.
Fielder broke away, ran into his house,
ana the officer started for help. He had
gone but short distance when he discov-
cred Fielder at his heels with a Ratchet.
The officer ran into the middle Of the street,
followed by his assalant. and he then
turned and fired two shots. one Of which
passed through FieIder's head, killing him
instantly. Rosenberg gave himself up and
was admitted to bail.
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SIGNALS on THE P0ToAAc.-General %.
T.. Babcock, inspector and engineer OF the
Fifth Potomac river district, has placed a
fogbell at Fort Washington light. The
bell at Smiths Point light, mouth OF the
Potomac, has been elevated 80 as 10 he
heard at II greater distance, part OF the
building having deadened The sound IN the
former position OF the bell. The sound Is
now clear OF all Instructions. A number
Of boat-hoisters OF an approved pattern.
requiring only one mans labor to raise the
boat, have been placed on all the screw-pile
lighthouses in the Fifth district Aierdn-
drjd Gazette,
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For the Dispatch.
COftOn.GrOWing i'm Virginia.

| doubt whether the advice TO the farm
ers of our State to extend the cultivation
of cotton is wise. Ii seems almost impOs-
sible TO improve lands where cotton and
tobacco are raised III tobacco is raised
few lots get all the manure, and the rest OF
the farm goes down. Ii cotton is the crop,
grasses and stock are neglected. In fact.
grasses are considered an enemy TO cotton,
and clean lands the great deSiderdtlm.
The history of southern farms has been
that the wearing-out process has been the
rule, and the seeking OF new lands in
Arkansas, Texas, &c, the result. III i
true that commercial fertilizers are quite
extensively used on cotton, but no grasses
follow. and no permanent improvement
is effected. In trip last fall from Richmond
TO Atlanta we scarcely saw any grass lands;
only here and there around some dwelling
a small plot might be seen. Even on the
rich bottoms of the Roanoke no grasses or
stock were visible, whereas thousands
ought TO be found here grazing on rich
grasses. rs on the fertile lands and meadows
OF Holland. The consequence OF all this II
that nothing but few scrubby stock are
seen all through the section alluded 10. No
permanent Improvement can be effected
in the lands OF a country without grasses
and stock, and its permanent prosperity
may generally be estimated by the number
OF stock and quantity OF grass raised. The
railroads receive good remuneration for
transporting cotton, but the lands do not
improve. and few merchants in the vii
lagos along the railroads get support by
handling cotton. That the South may sue
cessflIlly raise the grasses. at least rs lar
south as Georgia, has been demonstrated by
Mr.. c. w. Howard, OF Georgia, in his
" Manual on Grasses" We believe IN the
truth OF the old Belgian proverb:
"NO grass, no cattle:
No cattle, no manure;
No manure, no grass
THOMAS POLLARD.
p. S.-Let the farmers OF Virginia. be-
sides grasses and stock, think OF raising
more grapes and apples, and particularly
syrup from sorghum. Let them get few
Nos. Of "Colman's Rural World" 81.
Louis, and sec what the farmers in Mis-
souri, and other western States are doing in
the production OF syrup. Nearly one
whole page OF this large paper is devoted
to sorghum and its products. I. L.
HENRICo, April ~, 1882.
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RALEIGH, n. G., April 25.-The Nor
mons, who are working in the western part
Of this State, are also devoting their aiten-
ton TO making converts i'm the eastern cou,i-
ties. There are several Mormon elders, "a
they call themselves, holding secret meet
ings in Pitt and other counties, and they
are making converts, but not rapidly. As
soon rs converts are made they are bap-
TIED and sent to Utah. Several families
have Just departed for that Territory, and
considerable excitement prevails. II is pro-
bable that efforts will be made to drive the
Mormon teachers from the State.