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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-05-16
DICHMoND. FREDERICKSBURG

ID I III VI " y -. II hEl'Ehl' hNBt hb
III AND POTOMAC RAILEOAD.-schedule
commencing MAY 10. 1882:
3:44 4. NJ, leaves Byrd-Street station daily; stops
only al Milford and Fredericksburg
500 A. W., leaves Byrd-sirtct station daily le1.
cept Sunday.
500 +. ~, leaves Byrd-s rect station daily.
400 i. NJ. Accommodation for Ashland, loayrz
Broad-strcct station daily leNeep
u:2s 4. NJ. arrives al Ryrd-street station daily.
3:Oi L. NJ, arrives at Byrd-strect station daily
makes no local stops
Gas L. NJ, arrives at Byrd-Stroet station daily
s:34 \. NJ, kccommodsiion. arrives at Broad.
street station daily except sunday
r. T. - MYtRs, General superintendent. my Is
DICUMON AND PETERSBURG
N RAILROAD CON \ \ N.-CommencinF
MONDAY. May 10, 1852. trains Oh tbs road will
LEAVE MANcHEsTER-soUTn
s:I6 +. 81, FAST MAIL, daily. Makes through
connections for savannah. Slope
only nj Petersburg and Chester.
Pullman sleeper between Manchcs.
ter and JAG AsonYlllt.
ll:Jl 4. ". THROUGH MAIL, daily. connect
ing for Raleigh. Charleston, Au.
gusta, AIKEN, savannah, aud JACK
sonviilc stops at Chester Centralia,
and Drcwryt Eua. Pullman sleep
crs between Manchester aud sayan-
nah on this train.
$50 p. VI, FREIGHT, daily. except sunday.
ee'SSo2 u !, NJ sunday excursion
LEAVE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
2I3 4. W.. FAST MAIL. daily. stops only az
Chester. Pullman sleeper on the
train between Jacksonville aud Maui
chester.
9IO Z. NJ, THROUGH MAI. daily. connecting
with Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac railroad for an points Fast
and West: also making connections
with Chesapeake ana OHIO railroad
for all points West. This TAIN
stops at Chester. ocntraliB, and
Drewrys Bluf. Pullman slccpcrs
Tn this train between savannah and
Manchester.
1875 4. VI, FREIGHT. daily. except sunday.
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BRIEFS.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee
will tomorrow consider the Helper bill for
Commissioner TO Mexico aud the Central
and South American Governments, with
the view OF negotiating in regard to the
construction OF railroad from the United
States through these countries.
have reliable information tonight that
II. NJ. T. Hunter Is strongly backed for
tariff commissioner by influential politi-
clans and congressman Of ali parties.
WASHINGTON, May 15.--The Senate to-
day confirmed the nomination Of Roland
WorthiDgton as collector Of the port Of Bos-
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RAILROAD LINES.
u s. 49,.

q 80 s;s;..:.,s! 1919; sZs.s::;i;sys
OPENING OF BON AIR HOTEL
EXCURSION ARRANGEMENT
.FAvoRITE SUMMER RESORT
FOR THE SEASON OF 1882.
RICHMOND AND DANvILLE RATLRoAD.l
PASSENGER DEPARTMENT.
RICHMOND, May Is, 1852.
Commencing SATURDAY, May 20, 1882, BON
AIR HOTEL will open for the summer season. and
the frst Of the usual SEMl-WEEKLY ENCVR-
SlONS will take place on that day unless otherwise
advised. These excursions win thereafter occur
on TUESDAY and FRIDAY Of each week
The uniform rate OF fare for rOund-tTip tickets
on regular passenger or excursion trains will be
25c. Straight fare in each direction, 25c.
Tie usual forms OF cOmmutation tickctS will also
Dc on sale.
For tickets and all information apply e. Their az
Richmond or Manchester stations.
For charter Of special trains call on he under
signed. a. POPE,
my l6 General Passenger Agent.
V'O BALTIMORE FOR $3.50.
TIE YORK-RIvER LINE.
PASSENGER ROUTE
TO BAL TlM0RE AND ALL POINTS NORTH.
RESUMPTION OF PASSENGER SERVICE,
DAILY OEXCEPT Sunday
on AND AFTER MONDAY, MAY Is, 1882, By
TRAINS LEAVING RICHMOND AND DAN
VILE DEPOT. VIRGINIA STREET.
AT 2:45 z. NJ.
Commencing MONDAY, May 5th, the Grst-class
passenger steamers Louisiana HAVANA resume
service daily Except sunday, and one Of them will
leave West Point on arrival OF ~ Richmond train
at ) l.. W. arriving IN Baltimore at 1880 4. b.,
and connecting with all trains nOrthward.
straight tickets to Baltimore. 30
rs
State-Rooms and Bcrihs secured On application
from steamers cabin plans.
For Tickets, Time-Car,s and all informatiO
call on 4. W. CAREER & co. the Ticket Agen
NJ the Richmond and Danyile depot. or The under
signed. PORE
General Passenger and Ticket Agent
nv 10 No. Tenth street.
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ST. LOUIS. May i5:-flour dnii ana y. ..w az
Whe.t cnened lower declined, snd closed higher
aud arm No. z red fall. sl.S2imfi.3ss cash
ei.2cr June. Ccrn Cd. a. 20 I, 7'i.c' GAZE. '.e
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Leave
Rich'nd at.
Arrive at
Bsrkeviiie
Sutherlin's
Danylile...
tir'nsboro'
Raleigh.
SALIENT. q.
Salisbury.
Charlotte.
Spart 'nb'g
tsreenyilic
Atlanta.
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ONLY TWELVE HOURS BETWEEN RICH.
MOND AND BALTIMORE IN EACH
DIRECTION.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
Value Of Disenfectants.

DR.. George M. Stcrnberg, surgeon in
the United States army, has reported
upon the results of experiments he has
made with various disinfectants and
vaccine virus, the conclusion drawn
from which is that chlorine, nitrous
acid nitrogen dioxide), and sulphur
Gus acid Sulphur dioxide), are reliable
disinfectants in tile proportion of one
volume to one hundred volumes of air.
Probably q considerable smaller pro-
portion of these disinfectants would be
efficient in destroying the potency of
thin layers of virus in moist state, or
of virus exposed to the action of the
disinfectant in All atmosphere saturated
with moisture. Experiments with car
bolic acid, on the other hand, ''show
that the popular idea, shared perhaps
by some physicians, that an odor of
carbolic acid in the sick room or foul
privy, is evidence that the place is dis
infected, is entirely fallacious, and, in
fact, that the use of this agent as a
volatile agent is impracticable, because
of the expense of the pure acid and the
enormous quantity required to produce
the desired result"
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08

A novel mode of catching rats is thus
described in the American A;.Yler. The
writer says that person having the pa
tience OF most fishermen can have much
sport in hooking the vermin. The ware
house adjoining his place of business is
infested by these ''file tails,'' and our
friend may be seen in the early spring
and late fall, on an occasional evening
just after dusk, seated at the back win
dow Of his counting room Overlooking
the yard of the warehouse), with an or
binary rod in hand, strong linen line
and spring hook, commonly called a
''sockdolages," balted with a lump of
fresh beef, patiently waiting for bite.
1t does not tarry long nor does it con-
sumo itself to nibbles, but with hungry
snap the bait is seized and the hooks of
the sockdologer impales the rat, when
the excitement commences. A lusty
rat is no mean antagonist at the end of
a plant pole and two feet of line, and
his plunges, twisting and straightaway
dashes are more perplexing to the angler
than the leaps, surges and sulkings of
the gamey trout or bass. The rat is
generally landed after seasonable sport
and killed by blow from bludgeon.
In this connection we may state that
thousands of small hooks are bought by
sugar refiners for rafting purposes. The
hooks are baited with small pieces of
beef on each, and then distributed about
the building. The rats swallow the beef
and hook. The first is digested, the
latter is not death, Of course, results.
The remedy is said to ha infall;bla
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
A Woman With q Big Bouquet,

A dreadful old woman, armed with a
huge bouquet of wild flowers, was fea-
ture of the congregated life on board an
open horse-car at the South end the
other day, says the Boston Journal. The
bouquet was bristling thing, abound
ing in ragged ends of foliage and serried
spikes OF flowers, which stood out in so
many directions that the affair looked
like porcupine that had called in the
service of some good fairy and got itself
turned into q vegetable. When the
woman got aboard the car she knocked
off with her bouquet the hat of q man
who insisted on Keeping the end seat.
and over whose feet she had to stumble,
and after she got herself settled with the
flowers before her, their ends SO bebbed
about and tickled the necks of the pas
sengers on the forward seat that they
struck out wildly, surprising the trouble
to be due to the flies, and then glared
ut the old woman when they discovered
the true facts in the case. And when
the conductor came along to take her
fare she laid the bouquet down beside
her-being like all women in horse cars,
without the remoteSt idea of what she
had done with her ticket-and near
sighted young man who just then got in
sat down upon it, and found therein a
keen-toothed thorn and bunch of wet
moss, and retired to the back platform.
to rub himself furtively and dry OFT in
the sun. And all throu gh the trip every
body was anxious to see what the bou-
quet and accompanying woman would
do next, and a general sign Of relief
went up when they finally left tho car
together.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
Taking All the Starch Out of a Sermon,

Rev. w. Taylor, Of Colfax, Ind, is a
large man, of dignified bearing, and,
when preaching, extremely sensitive to
any disturbance, a slight improperly on
the part of the congregation being quite
sufficient to throw him out of the track.
He had, last year, in connection with
bis passionate, small congregation in
the country, to which he preached semi
occasionally at private house. The
incident here recorded happened at this
place, when a small but select audience
was listening to one of Taylor's really
animated sermons. AS the paeacher
waxed warm he observed some mystic
rious movement among the female gen.
der which attracted his attention away
from the sermon. 1t grew more observ-
able, until he saw the hostess collecting
some live Goals upon shovel and pre-
pars to march with them to IN adjoin-
ing room. 1t was late in the afternoon.
and by some clerical instinct he thought
the old woman was about to prepare
his supper. He couldn't stand that.
''Stop, sister, STOP" said he; II shall
not remain to supper, and you need
not trouble yourself to prepare any for
me.".
II amt goin' to-" said the old lady,
in reply; ''thar's woman here got the
collie, an we're jest bilin' some YARDS
for hcr!''
1t need not be added that all the starch
was very speedily taken out of that SER
mon.-Indianap0Ns Sentinel.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
The Zomalis and Their Land.

Near the northeastern point of Afri-
ca, not far from the Gulf of Alden is a
treeless range of mountains burned by
the hottest suns of the globe and peopled
by q wild migratory race of sinister re-
pute, the Zomalis. Only last year did
a civilized European enter the land to
depart alive. This was NJ. Georges Re-
voil, French traveller, already well
known as an African explorer. He has
given An interesting account Of the To-
malls.
In color they are dark brown, but
with straight hair and remarkable regu-
larity of features. In religion they are
nominally followers of Mahomet, but
have many peculiar superstitions and in
various usages depart from the customs
of the orthodox. Thus their women
take an active part in the affairs Of life
and do not veil the face. At most in
talking with stranger they hold the
open fingers in front Of their mouth, or,
what seems more singular, close the
nose with two fingers.
The garb of the females is graceful,
being q robe thrown around the person,
leaving one arm and one breast free,
and fastened with brooch over the left
shoulder
Their utensils and tools are very much
those of the prehistoric races, and, like
these, they have marked passion for
ornament Their earrings, curiously
enough, are attached not as ours, through
the lower, but through the upper lobe of
the ear.
In family life they are kind, hospita-
BILE to those whom they trust, and re-
markable respectful to the aged and to
idiots and the insane.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
Bruin and the Baby.

Henry Flynn, who resides up in the
hills. near lnskip, CAL, tells the Chico
Record that bear of the cinnamon
species abducted his 3-year-old daugh-
ter, not with any desire to harm the
child, but through q strange kind Of
affection. Mr.. Flynn started one morn
ing to take = horse to pasture, about
two miles from the house, putting his
child upon the horses back, and let her
ride about forty rods from the house,
where he put her down and told her to
run home. Looking back after going a
little farther he saw her playing in the
sand. He soon passed out OF sight and
was gone about an hour, expecting, of
course, that the chitd would return to
the house after playing q few moments.
On returning home he made inquiry
about her of her mother, who said she
had not seen her aud supposed he had
taken her along with him. On going
to the spot where he left her he saw
huge bear tracks in the sand, and ut
once came to the conclusion that the
child had been carried off by the bear.
The family Immediately made search
through the forest. which was grown up
to almost a jungle, nor did they stop
when darkness came on. but remained
in the woods, calling the lost one by her
name. Morning came, and still their
search was fruitless. A couple of gentle
men from below, who are travelling
through the mountains buying stock,
came to the house, and, being informed
of the circumstances, immediately set
out to find her. As they were passing
a swamp, where the underground was
thick, one of them heard her voice He
then called her by name, and told her
to come out of the bushes. She replied
that the bear would not let her. The
men then crept h,ough the brush, and
when near the spot where she and the
bear were, they heard splash in the
water, which the child said was the
bear. On going to her they found her
standing upon a log extending about
half way across a swamp. The bear
had undertaken to cross the swamp on
the log, and being pursued left the child
and got away as rapidly as possible.
She had received some scratches about
the face, arms, and legs, and her
clothes were almost torn from her body;
but the bear had not bitten her to hurt
her, only the marks of his teeth being
found on her back, where, in taking
hold of her clothes to carry her, he had
taken the flesh also. The little one says
the bear would put her down OCCASION
ally to rest, and would put his nose up
to her face, when she would slap him;
and the bear would hang his head by
her side and purr and rub against her
like cat. The men asked her if she
was cold in the night, and she told
them the old bear lay down beside her,
and put his '.arms'' around her and
kept her warm, though she did not like
his long hair. She was taken home to
her parents.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
When Boarding House Forbearance Ceases
to be a Virtue.

''Mr. Whittle,' said an uptown land
lady. s'yOu must get out of my house.
You owe ME for three weeks board,
and it is plain to see that you don't in
tend to pay me.
Madam" replied Mr.. Whittle, edo
not say that l don't intend to pay you.
You may say that have not paid you,
or that l am slow about paying you, but
do not. I repeat, say that I DO not in
tend to pay. Philosophers have failed
when they have attempted to explore
the grand organization Of the human
mind. After days of earnest thought
Socrates failed to discover one mutter-
ed thought Of the man who made his
sandals. Knowing Sock to be q philos-
opher, some of the boys bet him pair
OF brass knucks against q bullfinch that
he couldn't tell us what the sandal-ma-
ker intended to do. Sock took the bet
He locked himself in q room with the
sandal-maker, and for three days he
didn't take his eyes off @the man. At
the end of the third day Sock said:
You intend to make me the best pair
of Sunday sandals in the country
Missed it, exclaimed the man; i in
tend not to make you any more until
you have paid me for the last pair So
you see, madam, that when such phi
losopher as Socrates failed to discover a
mans intentions, it is presumptuous in
you to set yourself up as mind-ex-
plorer."
':Mr. Whittle, l don't care nothing
about your Socks or your stockings, but
l want my money!
Il will withdraw from your home.
stead.
"Well, clear out Them
.'First let me say few words. DIR.
Tanner used to live in New York, didn't
heg'
Eyes, he did"
''And he once boarded at this house,
didn't hc?''
''Yes.''
"And while boarding here he learned
to fast. can fast all around him, for
I've boarded here for several months.
The longer a man boards here the more
capable he is for fasting. He gets into
the habit you know
But he had gone too far. Boarding.
house forbearance had ceased to be a
virtue. If Mr.. Whittle is able to ap.
pear, the case will be tried to-day
Saratoga San.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
The Changing Leaves.

A party Of ladies and gentlemen were
being entertained one day this autumn
at the house of Mr.. Blank, violent
temperance declaimer, of Bangor, Me-,
who was himself suspected in the habit
Of secretly drinking whisky not unfre-
quently.
While he had been called out of the
voom for a few minutes the company
discussed the question why the leaves on
the maple trees about his door should
have turned so bright hue. Nobody
could explain it.
As he came back again Mrs. Q. inno-
Gently asked him if he could tell why
leaves should suddenly change their coll
or from green to bright red. He was
unaware that she was speaking Of his
swn trees, and promptly replied:
1T is because they blush for shame
o the sly drinking habits of their own
OEs."
There was so much of a muchness to
this answer that Mrs Q. could only an
0Wer:
II believe that's so!'
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
How Hnidars Rnild.

In Or Continent, DR.. McCook de-
scribes the wonderful weaving of the
common garden spider, with illustra-
tons, which will please every natural
list.
Some idea of the destruction wrought
in the insect world by the cunningly-
devised snare may be had from the fol-
lowing facts: l have counted nearly $50
insects, small and great, hanging en-
tangled in one orb-web. In one net, in
Paramount Park, l counted thirty-eight
mosquitoes; in another, hung under a
bridge at Ashbury Park, and out of
reach, there must have been two or
three times as many. Greenhead flies
by the legion have been seen in the
webs that fairly enlace the lighthouses
at Atlantic City and Cape May. The
very small spiders prey upon micros-
copic insects, like gnats, and devour
myrids. A glance at the fields, bushes
and trees on dewy morning in Sep
TENDER will reveal an innl,nerable null
titude of webs spread over the land
scape. all occupied by spiders Of vari-
GUS ages, sizes and families, and all
busy destroying the insect pests of man.
Really, the spider is a universal philan-
thropist! She labors increasingly to
check the increase OF 4 horde of tiny in
sect enemies which else would Danish
the human species from parts of the
earth. Nor does She make reprisals of
any sort for all Of this service. She
never attacks. fields, harvests, vineyards
and orchards, like beetles, grass-hop-
pers, and various other insects in the
perfect and larval state; she never for
ages upon the goodies in ladies' kitch-
ems and pantries, like reaches and ants;
she does not torment and attiict by cut
ting, piercing, saving and pumping. by
buzzing, humming and blowing, like
the horrible mosquito and house-hy, to
say nothing Of other less desirable deni-
zens of the chronological kingdom. An
occasional (and doub,fuD ..spider bite''
one does hear of at rare intervals; a
harmless ''cobweb'' here and there in a
Granny or corner of our houses that is
all that can be charged against her.
Yet this useful creature is despised, alb
horred, prosecuted and slain with zest
that is hardly shown against any other
creature, except the snake! What stu
pid ingrates men are at times!
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
A New Version of It.

Bi-Centennial item: When Penn APP
peared to receive his charter he came
into the royal presence in his usual
easy manner, with his hat on and his
hands in his pockets Charles at once
removed his own hat.
"Keep on your hat, young man. said
Penn; ''keep on your hat and people
won't know you're bald.''
lit is the custom of this place." the
King replied, ''for only one person to
remain covered at time.''
''rhen you ought to have more COW
ers," said Penn. ''It's queer custom,
but l don't lay my hat around loose in
a strange house unless lget check for
it. I've travelled, have. ''-B,trdette' S
ICrSiOn.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
Your Last Year Dress.

Last years dresses may be easily
brought info style by arranging pam
nier-draped sash Of satin surah on the
edge Of the basque. The plaits Of last
years basques are taken out, and the
seams are sowed up and bound to the
edges. A snrplice drapery Of surah over
the bosom is added. and the sleeves are
trimmed to match. with a puff at tho
top, if the wearer is slender; q plated
scarf ut the wrist if she be stout. The
large buttons Of last year are replaced
by small round ones, the old button
holes being concealed either by making
the dress lap the other way, or, If that
can not we'll be done. by inserting a
pointed vest, or plastr0n. Fashion
authorities say that great many plas-
irons, or vests, are to be worn, some en-
broidered, some plain, some plated. =
These may be either of the dress mate
rial, or. with band of similar ribbon,
which is more frequent, Of the fabric
used for trimming. A late French
fashion plate shows novel bodice with
plated plastron of the dress goods,
framed in bands of two-inch satin rib
bon, around the neck, and bands and
bows on the sleeves. Ribbon sashes are
fashionable, commencing from the side
seam Of the bodice and tied in front,
and since the favorite arrangement of
these is over a polonaise to simulate the
point of a bodice, it will readily be seen
that in clever hands they may easily be
used to hide a seam when the basque
has been heightened. A very stylish
Paris dress in two fabrics has the bodice
cut like the familiar cuirass, now known
as the jersey basque. In front, this has
narrow pointed vest of green and gold
brocade, the vest of the bodice being of
dark green gr0s grain. At the back,
from the neck down, is laid flat box
plait, with double fold on each. edge,
in a sort of modified Vatican, held fiat
to the very edge of the basque, whence
it opens out over the t0urnure in full
Vatican plait, falling low on the skirt
Of the dress. The edge Of the basque is
finished by deep frin sc in the colors of
the brooade. The skirt is short, with
three plaitings of gros grain at the foot,
and above this is brocade covering the
whole skirt back and front in sort of
straight tunic, slashed and piped on the
lower edge the openings being ten
inches deep, showing gros grain be-
tween. This new model may easily be
applied to renovate a half-worn dress.
An effective mode of trimming skirt
where the material is cut up into many
pieces, is to put single box or side
plating at the foot, and cover the skirt
above that, for the depth of twelve inch
es or more, with alternate perpendicu-
lar box-piaits and puffings, the latter be-
ing shirred across in clusters at intervals
Of four inches.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
A Handicappel Owl.

Mr.. Enos Hartzler, of Roscoe town
ship, Iowa, has noticed an owl flying
about his place for sometime with what
seemed to be chicken in his claws.
Each time the bird was seen it appeared
to be carrying off heavy burden.
Finally, Mr.. Hartzles succeeded in shoot
ing the bird, and found that it had at
some time been caught by one foot in a
steel trap, to which was attached a
chain some eighteen inches in length.
So long had the owl carried this unwel-
come appendage that it was worn per-
fectly smooth. The trap had evidently
been set for rats somewhere, and it's bait
tempting the owl he had carried off trap
and ALL