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DEPARTURE OF STEAMERS.
sTEAMB0ATeENaJ
COMPANN'S

-
VIRGINIA STEAMBOATSfTiNaI
COMPANYs
JAMES RIVER LINE FOR
NORFOLK, PORTSMOUTH, AND JANIS
RIVER LANDINGS, DIRECT, CONNECTS
AT PORTSMOUTH SANE AFTERNOON
OLD POINT lthc great fashionable winter aud
spring s,nltaruwl, BAL TnIORE, AND
THE NORTH.
ALSO. CONNECTS At NORFOLK WITH
STEAMERS FOR HAMPTON, sMITIIF1ELD,
AND EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA.
JAMES RIVER BY DAYLIGHT.
CHEAPEST ROUTE.
GREATLY REDUCED RATES
FARE TO NORFOLK. T1.5v.
FARE ROUND TRIP. $3.50.
:tEALs, 75c.
ALL TICKETS UNLIMITED.
ONE OF TIRE COMPANY's SPACIOUS AND
ELEGANT DAY sTFAMkks
CITY OF RICHMOND OR ARIEL.
carrying United states MALI
T.. e. CLIFFORD. Commander.
leaves Richmond every MONDAY WEDNESDAY
and FRIDAY nj $3.50 \. VI; for abo'e-named
places connecting NJ Portsmouth with the LAY Line
Tor OldPoint, Baltimore, and tho NORTH. Return
nv the steamer leaves Norfolk Ut A. NJ, arriving
10 Richmond At about Il. NJ. -
Fare 10 baltimore ~
Fare to Philadclp ~
Hare 10 New Ofk...... ~
Fare 10 Boston. II w
Through tickets Oh sale on steamer and ri Car
! ber's Agency. 1000 Main street. Baggage checker
! through.
| sTATEROoMs CAN BE ENGAGED FOR DAY
| OR NIGHT.
FREIGHT.
Freight received daily for Norfolk. Portsmouth.
| SIniihiiold, and Hampton; Washington, ID. g.. !:
| Newbefn, Washington, and Tarboro, \. g., and
| an points IN Eastern North Carolina; also, Tor
Eastern shore of Virginia, Old Point, and all regu-
| lar landings on james river. AT LOWEST RATES,
aud through bills issued. l.. u. TATUM.
nh 10 superintendent
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BALTIMORE

BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE March l6-Vlr2nia 0's, cOns0lr,
CT: second series, 32. past-due coupons, 80 I;
new lO-4O's, 49,.
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Amounted selling days Every TIEsDAi AMI
FRIDAY AZ II VI. and every SUNDAY al
freight for Tuesdays and fridays steamers +,
c.iVcd INA 1870 \. H.: Tor Sundays' steamer vi
3 T.. n. saturday. Freight received daily I'LL .
l.. VI.
Fare. 40. ,.,,.
and the Fast.
For further information. apply %
j. W. MCCARRiCk,
General Southern Agent. Office Rocket.
". l.. CLYDE & CO..
noao ttcneral Agents.
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ST. LOUIS.

ST. LOUIS. March 1G.-F,our about soc. bower.
Wheat opened higher, advances; thsn bross anu
NJ. q red fan. sl.va% sssh. ai."7', \rr''. ftrn
40 &c. lor s.ss w.. sa4i,, voAe. April. Data dull
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RICHMOND. February II, 1882.
,r,tIF FIRM OF GEORGE LEE x

F.A.sAUNDERs, doing business as GEORGE
H''''' - GEORGE LEE,
General Partner,
j.. \. SAUNDERS,
special Partner.
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Tur v,Gon OF YOUTH for the aged ana '""r"

~ 40. ....LLs.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-10-25
THE polsoNiN TOBACCO SMOKE.

A series Of experiments has been recently
conducted by Herr Kissling Of Bremen. with
the view of ascertaining the proportions of
nicotine and other poisonous substances in
the smoke of cigars His paper, in Din
PIERS P0istechnisches JoaynaL gives use
full resume of the work of previous OBJ
servers He specifies ms strongly poisonous
constituents, carbonie oxide, sulphureted
hydrogen, prussic acid, Ticoline bases, and
nicotine. The first three occur, however, in
such small proportion and their volatility is
so great that their share in the action of to-
bacco smoke on the system may be neglect
ed. The picoline bases, too, are present in
comparatively small quantity; SO that the
poisonous character of the smoke may be
almost exclusively attributed TO the large
proportion of nicotine present. Only n
small part of the nicotine in cigar is des-
troyed by the process of smoking, and n rel
atiyely large portion passes of with the
smoke. The proportion of nicotine in the
smoke depends, of course, essentially on the
kind Of tobacco but the relative amount of
nicotine which passes from a cigar into
smoke depends chiefly on how far the cigar
has been smoked, as the nicotine-content OF
the unsmoked part of cigar is in inverse
ratio to the size of this part--t.e, more mic
otine the shorter the part. Evidently, in a
burning cigar, the slowly advancing zone OF
glow drives before it the distillable matters,
so that i'll the yet unburned portion con-
slant accumulation of these takes place. 1t
would appear that in the case of cigars that
are poor in nicotine, more Of this substance
relatively passes into smoke than in the case
of cigars with much nicotine also, that mic.
otine, Notwithstanding Its high boiling point,
has remarkable volatility. --LOndon Time.
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VIRGINIA BARBECUE.

There were FIVE fat mutton, two veal and a
beef fixing fragrantly over the fire all the
morning the sweet SAVIOR sharpening the
appetite, while it added strength to the ap-
plause OF the "old Virginia Niger" who
was listening to the speaking meanwhile. A
deep, wide ditch had been dug some three
or four feet in the ground and filed nearly
with bark aud dry sticks, and set on fire.
At one end of the ditch several large boilers
were filled with the meat and parboiled.
Across the other half of the trench stout
green sticks were placed close together, and
over the live Goals, the smoking embers
having been raked away, was laid the meat,
after having been boiled and gashed through
and through. As ii roasted over the fire
several negro men were constantly busy
with long switch mops sopping gravy of
butter, salt, vinegar and black pepper from
the bowls near by, and saturating the brown
ing meat as fast as it dried. 1t smelled
good, and the crowd of lounging darkeys
watching the process knew it was good, and
longed aud waited. Near by were great
hampers of bread aud cold ham, buckets of
lemonade, and long tables of pine planks
spread under the trees. - Baltimore Sun.
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CONCERNING "oLp MAlDs.n

The term old maid" is rapidly disap
pearing from society. People who are heard
to use that opprobrious epithet can at once
be classed among the ignorant and vulgar.
The fields of labor are now SO much wider
for women that they are more self-respecting,
aud are learning to analyze the realities of
life rather than to judge of things on the
surface, which was the result of the old, mar
row way of educating women. They are
also learning the truth, that unless people
marry for love, and for no ether reason,
marriage results in unhappiness and misery
for both; and unless true congeniality can
be secured as basis for married life, the bet
ter way is to remain single. The day IL 60
ing by when women accept an offer of mar
riage for fear of being called an "old maid"
That kind of VULGAR ridicule from the lips Of
commonplace AMI ignorant people has given
rise to more unhappy marriages than almost
any other cause. Now that women are be-
coming enlightened, the tendency of the
times is teaching them that they need not DO
necessarily passed or laid away upon the
shelf, if they remained unmarried after
reaching the age Of twenty five years. Two
or three years ago the most sought after and
fascinating women in Newport society were
some ladies between thirty and fifty years Of
age. The experience of women Of ednca,
ton and travel, charmingly dressed, has
taught them how to sip life's pleasures viii
tact that put their pin-fsathery sisters
with all the advantages of youth and beauty
10 the shade. Hartford 1isass
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A SWIM FOR LIFE.
Fearful Adventure of n Frontiersman ID
the Rapids oil the Colorado River.

A correspondent writing from Ell Dorado
Canyon, New, says; Another of our old
timers has been swallowed up by the treach-
erous Colorado. Barney Coleman and Ben
lamin Gooch, accompanied by two Indians,
started up the river last Friday morning in a
skih for the purpose of catching driftwood
After reaching point hetween twelve and
fifteen miles up the river HE boat, becoming
unmanageable, was drawn INTO an eddy, and
disappeared in an instant The skif at the
time was near steep cliff of rocks, whose
walls were two hundred feet in height, and
the Indians, observing that the eddy was
about swallowing the boat aud crew jumped
out and chung to the rocks and Goocl en-
deayored to do the same thing after them.
lie secured slight hold to the perpendicu-
lar side of the cliff, chung to it only for u
moment then fell into the water and was
seen no more. Coleman sprang from the
stern of the skiif out into the river and got
beyond the eddy, where he watched for the
appearance of the boat. He had not long to
wait, but it seemed to him ages, when he
caught sight of it, bottom upwards, a few
yards down the river, when he SWAN after
1t, overtaking and clinging to it.
In this condition, for three miles, he went
shooting past rock, blowing through break
ers and whirling about in eddies, when he
came face to face with one of those roaring
rapids and treacherous eddes so numerous
and so dreadful in the Colorado. There was
M lima 70 H.
life and death, and that chance perhaps was
the only one in thousand. The resolution
was formed one moment aud executed the
next. The skiff was in the midst of the
rapids, standing on end; another breaker
and over it went, This was an indescribable
moment to Coleman, whose sole reliance had
deserted him, as he felt himself prisoner in
the hands of death, and though he had scarce
ly known his strength before here was n des-
perate opportunity for his test, and he says
that he felt that he was mere straw at the
mercy of a wave one second aud nm eddy the
next
Here was waged a fierce and protracted
struggle for life between powerful man and
skilful swimmer, weighing 295 pounds, and
first whirlpool and then rapid, whose
force and size and danger can never be real
lied except by the man whose life was
trembling in the balance; but courage and
human strength at last prevailed, and the
brave man swan ON over rapids and through
whirlpools for the distance of three of ~
perilous miles as was probably over won by
man. Who eau imagine his feelings MS he
reached in safety and crawled upon the river
bank, where he lay for some time completely
exhausted2 As soon as he had regained
sufficient strength Coleman set out for the
canyon, and, shoeless and naked, after
tramp of six miles over the barren, rocky
mountains and through deep canyons of
burning sands in the heat of broiling sun,
he arrived, his feet bleeding and fearfully
hcerated by the sharp rocks Pioebe Rec.
ord.
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MISCELLANY.
WHAT THE WORLD READS.
Statistic. Of Newspapers, Paper, Sc


There are published on the globe s4,274
newspapers and periodicals. with total cir
eulation of LOG, 900, 600 copies. Europe
leads with 1857 journals; next follows
North America with u, 400; Asia has 575
South Australia, 661 South America 600
and Africa, 132. OF these periodicals, 49,
800 are printed in the English language
1880 in German; $3.50 in French, and then
come LOGO in Spanish. There are 1920
dailies; 1924 are published three times or
once week, and s,50s appear less FREE
quently.
According to the statistical report of DIR.
Rudel, of Dresden the annual production of
paper in Germany is 244, 800 tons, an amount
which exceeds that of any other country.
Its manufacture is the result of the employ
ment of 1856 watts, 1856 paper mills and so-
900 workmen. There are 260 wood-pulp
establishments, with more than GOO ma
chimes, forty-five straw-cutting factories with
seyenty-five cauldrons, and twenty cellulose
factories with twenty eight cauldrons, all
contributing to the grand result, which en-
ploy $4,000 workinen. Besides these, some
10000 persons are engaged in the collection
of rags and other paper stock, and it will be
seen that this enormous industry supports
about $4,000 persons, aside from those en-
gagged in special branches of paper making,
such as paper hangings, envelopes, colored
papers, &c.
The last volume of Casselrs Popular Shil.
ling Library treats of " English Journalism,
and the Men who Have Made It." Mr..
Charles Pebody being the author. The
work does not lay claim to original research,
but is based upon number of works on the
same subject that have preceded it. The
book is, however, well written and embod-
les great many facts that may not be gen.
orally known. The author is occasionally
led into error, as for example, when ho
states ON page ll9, in connection with tho
history of the Standard, that the Duke of
Newcastle was on one occasion SO struck
with one of the articles against Roman Cath
ole emancipation which appeared in that
journal that he presented the then editor,
DIR. Clifford, with 81, 200. This story has
presumably been copied from Grant, to
whom the author Acknowledges his indebted
ness in the preface. Mr.. Pebody ought,
however, to have been aware that after
Grant had given publicity to this anecdote
in his history, it was eontradicted by DIR.
G.Gord's son, who denied that there WAS
any truth in the stony. A little more caro-
would also have prevented the allusion to
Koenig's partner in London as Rensley.
The name of the famous printer Bensley is
thus mis-spelt three times ON the same page.
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POETRY.
TRIUMPH.


Tfe dawn came in through the bars Uf the
blind
And the winters dawn Is gray
And said: However you cheat your mind,
The hours are flying away
ghost OF dawn, and pale and weak
Has the sun heart, said,
To throw morning flush on the cheek
Whence fairer flush has ded7
AS gray rose-leaf that is fading white
Was the cheek where set my kiss
And on that side OF the bed all night
Death had watched, and on this
kissed her lips, they were half apart,
q Yet they made no answering sign;
Deaths hand was on her failing heart,
And his eye said: She is mine
set my lips on the blue-veined lid
Half-yeiled by her death-damp hair;
And oh, for the violet depths It hid,
And the light longed for there
Faint day and the fainter life awoke,
And the night was oyerpast;
And said; Though never in life you spoke,
Oh, speak with a look aJ last
For the space OF heartbeat fiuttered her breath
AS birds wing spread TO fee;
She turned her weary arms to death,
And the light Of her eyes to me-
H. C. Bunner In the Century
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;. Hush-sh-sh p whispered MARY.

While old Mrs. Bubble smiled, and re-
marked, sagely, that nobody never knew
exactly how things was goin' to turn out"
But, she added, wiping her spectacle
glasses, that chist o. draws certainly did
bring me good lnck. It's paid of the last
of the old mortgage, and laid in stock O.
real black walnut for Abel to work with, and
got new navy-blue cashmere for Mary
And if that amt luck don't know what is"
Helen Fornst Graces.
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INTERESTING JAPANESE FESTIVALS.


One curious custom in vogue is the exhi-
bition of a fish on every house where boy
has been born to the family during the year.
This showing is made during the month of
May, and on tho 9TH of that month there ID
high festival held, the relatives and friends
of the family making it the occasion of pre-
senting gifts and toys suitable for boys, as
well as giving clothing fitting for the little
chap. All sorts of child's gear is to be seen
OH exhibition at this time. and no boy is
neglected The boy is the pride of the
household, the parents testifying their Joy
in feasting all Corners who honor them by
their remembrancess The girl babies are
not forgotten, but they are accorded another
day and separate festival time, this being
the third day of the third month-the 3rd
Of March. Then, instead of the fish floating
as symbol, the doll il to be seen in abun-
dance, and all the toys known to the girl
world are lavishly displayed. There is very
much of pride exhibited on both of these
child festivals, RS the gifts presented are os-
tentatiousfy displayed by the fond parents
for the admiration of their friends. Dimin-
utive suits of armor, tiny swords and bows
and arrows, toy horses, with full suits of
trappings--in fact, every imaginable thing
that goes into the make up of the Japanese
warrior of the olden time are on parade on
the 9TH of May, while the 3rd of March
brings forth all that is representative of the
life and fancies of the feminine gender.
There are many who are not content to
await the full event of the time for the dis
play of the fish emblem, so that during the
latter part of April it is no uncommon thing
to see an immense fish, sometimes two, SO
constructed that it is filled by the breeze,
floating from bamboo pole, herald;ng the
glory that has its lodgment in the house
from which IL is exhibited. Fyaacisco
GlyUnicle. ~
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Heartily recommended,

Don't condemn good thing because
you have been deceived by worthless nos
trums. Parker's Ginger Tonic has cured
many in this section of nervous disorders,
and we commend it heartily to such suf-
ferers .-Neps.
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Gray hairs often cause annoyance
which Parker's Hair Balsam prevents by
restoring the youthful color.
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Leep clear of the man who does not
value his own character.
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A. R G. III. SKILLM4N,
Atf0rneys-at-Law,

SOUTHEAST COR. BRIDGE AND rNT0N SITS,
LAMBERTvILLE, N !.
Collections and all legal business entrusted TO
our care will receive prompt and faithful atten-
tion.
c. A, SKILLMAN, C. II. SKILLMAN,
Couaselloy-ai- Lar. .iaoraey-dt- Lao.
I'M 1874
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Subscribe for THE RECORD.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-03-01

The Western Union Telegraph company
has ordered reduction In the salaries salaries OF
receiving clerks and others occupying
clerical positions in the service 0. tne com
pany. The reduction will take effect March
list, and will range from 10 to 10 per cent.
1t has also been ordered to reduce the force
OF clerks, and several removals VIII take
place. 1t is claimed by the managers that
since the consolidation the force OF clerks
on duty has been found to be larger than
necessary, and that the discharges VIII not
be numerous. Unofficially, however, it is
said that the real cause Of the reduction Is
the inability Of the company 10 earn dvl,
dends upon its present large capital, and
that these economic measures are only the
beginning Of sweeping aud extensive
changes.
It was stated at the executive office yes
terday that the reduction OF pay and dis
charge of hands Is not to extend to super
intendents OF Offices, operators, or line
men, but there is feeling OF uneasines'
among the operators nevertheless.-heu
York Herald.
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NILS PASSED.

House bill No. 1852, to enlarge the pow
ers Of the boards Of supervisors III inc
State. .ho
House bill No. 2IG, TO authorAEe INC
Mayor and Town Council OF Liberty 10
raise money. .., go
House bill No. SOC, TO amend section oS
Of chapter "a OF the Code OF 1873, In regard
TO insurance companies.
House bill No. 1877, to secure 10 'ie ,aN'
payers Of cities and towns the right OF pub
iic.school education for their children.
Senate bill No. 300, TO incorporate me
Massanutten and North Mountain Railway
Company.
House bill No. 1856, to amend and re,
enact section Of chapter 100 OF the Code OF
1879. in relation to fishing for alewiyes.
House bill No. 257. to renew the charter
of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company
House bill No. 30, TO incorporate the
Great Natural Bridge and Tunnel Com
pany. A.,
House bill No. 2l5, to incorporate The
James River and Blackwater Railroad ano
LUMBER Company.
ENGROsSED.
Anumber OF bills were advanced on Tho
calendar by being read second time anc
1 ordered to engrossment, among them the
general lOcal-option bill.
Adjourned.
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Young Doctors.

The following members Of the gradua-
ting class OF 1SSl-'S2, OF the College OF
Physicians and Surgeons, secured the grand
prizes: T.. Van Note, OF Baltimore, the
Cathell gold medal; and Harold ii. Longs
dorf, OF Pennsylvania; w. Page McIn-
tosh, Arkansas; X. Fred. Frost, Ohio; C..
A. Northop, New York; and Eugene T..
Webster, Pennsylvania, the college prizes
and distinctions. The commencement will
take place ut the Academy OF Music to-
morrow night. when 152 students will re-
ceiyc their diplomas. EX-Mayor A. NJ.
Kelley, Of Richmond, Va, will deliver the
address to the graduates.
The commencement OF Maryland Uni.
yersity School OF Medicine will take place
at the Academy OF Music ut noon to-mor-
row "wednesday. The address will be
delivered bv DR.. |. L. Atkinson, of the
faculty OF the college. The examinations
have closed. eighty OF the candidates pass
ing, and there were few failures. The gold
medal was awarded TO j. Mason Hundley,
Of Virginia, who also won the first Milten.
berger prize, the second being awarded 10
ii. B. Hollitield. Hiram Woods, Jr., OF
Baltimore, received honorable mention.
Allen Kerr Bond, Of Baltimore, won the
Charles Cockey surgical prize. Baltimore
Sun, 2SM
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Another Question.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, 4
Enhrunry 81 1890 (

February 81, 1882.
To TIE Editor Of the Dispatch:
Dear Sir.-On the opposite side of this
sheet have copied the contract or certifi-
cate which is usually sent by the Governor
In consideration OF the sum Of IS paid for
same. Can such an obligation be set aside
by the Legislature at willy if so, ought not
the money paid for said appointment be re-
turned TO the notary? | would he glad II
you would publish your views upon the
question. You have made your views upon
the Judges Of the Court Of Appeals so
plain, il seems TO me he who runs may read
ii and be convinced.
lCopy of Certfcate.l
THE COMMONWEALTH OF NIhGISIA-To An
10 Whom Ttess Presents Shall Come, Greet
ting:
70 Know yc that our Governor, in pursuance Of
authority vested In the Executive by law, hath
appointed, and doth hereby commission, A. H., u
notary public tor the county Of -, Ia this State
10 hold The said once Of notary public. and 10 per-
form the duties thereof, rs prescribed by law for
the term OF four gears from the date hereof
~ In testimony whereof. these our letters
t ART sealed with the lesser seal of the Com
fo--Ab} monwcilth and made patent
~ Done az Richmond this 9Th day Of July,
and In the io9!n r yeav o, 'e GomRS"
BY the Governor:
n r. Fonnfieroy,
Secretary OF the Commonwealth.
Surely the live dollars ought TO be re-
turned. As TO the rest, we would say that as
notaries are not constitutional but legisla-
tive officers, they are not protected by the
We would hat they were.