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FINANCIAL.
ICHMoND STOCK EXCHANGE

MONDAY. February 8, 1883.
sALEs-FRsT BoARD.-9o0 Richmond city 6's
at 114h, 500 do. at I144, 1000 Richmond and
Danyille Railroad debenturcs at 59's; 10 shares
Atlanta and Charlotte Railroad stock ut 60x, 10
do at 6o, 80 do. at 500, 10 do. at 6oa, 20 do. at
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PORT or RICHMOND, FEBRUARY D, 1888.
ARRIVED.
steamer Roanoke, Couch, New York, merclan-
disc and passengers, G.. W. Allen a Co, agents.
steamer Ashland Carr Philadelphia, merchan-
disc. }. W. McCarrick. agent.
SAILED SUNDAY.
Steamer Guyand0tte. Kelly, New York, merchan-
disc and passengers. G. ". Allen & Co.
steamer Pioneer. Plat, Philadelphia, merchah-
disc, j. W. McCarrick, agent.
SAILED YESTERDAY.
steamer ARIEL, Clifford, Norfolk, United States
mail. merchandise, and passengers, l.. Il. Tatuir'
Schooner Three friends, Rigean, Petersburg.
guanO. Curtis & Parker.
schooner Mary and Francis, Leyins Craney
Island, fertilizer, Curtis Parker.
PORT OF NEWPORT NEWS, TEB'Rr 8, 1883.
[By Telegraph
ARRIVED.
steamer Luray, schermerhorn, Norfolk; mer-
chandse and passengers. CHESAPEAKE ana ouip
RailSay Company land sailed on returnl.
steamer Accomac. Delk. merchandise ana pas
sengers, Smithield, Chesapeake ana ONO hsii"ay
Company and saiied on rclninl; -, >o.,.,L
steamer Northampton, McCarrick, Nori0ih,
merchandise and passengers, chesapeake ana on'"
RaiIway company (and sailed on reiurnl.
steamship Woodside, Kirkaldge, Galveston iof
Bremen. put in for coal.
Steamship Monica, Thacker, 6hNeston LOT Dte-
men. put In for coal. ~. -
Steamship Manhattan. stevens. New YORK, mer-
chandse discharged and sailed Tor Noricik
Schooner Msttie r.. Holmes. Pierce Ne" iors'
light, seeking-sailed for Baltimore.
SAILED.
steamshln Victoria, Harrison, and Horton,
Knott, both for Liverpool from Galveston having
schooner Elm City, HetridRe, Boston, coal.
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway compais'
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Mr.. Caleb j. Miller, u. S. N, Norfolk,
Va, says 81 know Browns Iron Bitters
10 be all that is claimed for It,"
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Flour
Flour-we quote: Fine. tS@ta.25; snpernae,
t3.73@t4.25; extra, 96Fg96.26; common nmi-
iy, e5.25@s5.b0j Patent family, vSsoV9$osfo'
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NEw YORK COTTON FUTURES.

NEW YORK, February 5.-Cotion-Nct receipts,
33l bales gross receipts. 3,6!2 bales; fnturte
closed dull: sales. $4,000 bales: February,
sIO.i6Gsi0.I7; March, sl0.23d s10.2i; April.
SlO.37@s10.3s; May. sl0.51@slo.54; june
S10.99: September, 4IO.57MslC.60: October,
AIO.2OmsIO.22; November, sI0.07d$I0l0.
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DLAIR,s CHLoRAL THYMoL PRO.

PHYLACTiC AND DlslSfECrANT has been
used in this city successfully to prevent the
spread Of dlphtheris and searl0,-feyer, and also
to mitigate the severity Of those diseases. IL
mode Of use Is simple, and the oder agreeable.
For sale by druggists. Price, so censss bottle.
Prepared onlyby J.BLAiR, Druggist
de 20 corner Rroad and Ninth streets
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

sfyIATURE ALMANAc-FEBRuARY 8, 1883
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PORT OF NEWPORT NEWS, gEB'RY 8, 1883.
[By Telegraph
DRUGS, MEDICINES. &c.

TRFSU AND RELIABLE VACCINE
VIRUS, POINTS and QUlLLS.
l.. WAGNER, Druggist,
feeots sixth and Broad streets.
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DRAFTS ASTRAL OIL, PURE
i SPERM OIL, CASTOR OIL, LlNsEED OIL
LARD OIL, NATURAL LuBRlcAIlN1 OIL
No. / KEROSENE OIL, &C.. for sale by
fc ti-2ts l.. WAGNER, Druggist.
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BALTIMORE, February 5.-Virginla 6's, eOnsol
81; past due coupons, 593; new lO-4oS Ss'i
new SIS, f94. Bid to-day.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE.

TIE SUPPOSED SUlClDE-sATlsFACTORf SET.
TLEMEST OF A SUIT-THE DISABILITIES
FAR-sUNDAY NOTES MILITARY MOVE
MENT, &C.
tCor,csuoudencc OF the Richmond Dispatch.
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Richmond Qispatths
r,rspAy FEBRUARY 0, 1883.
IYNCHRURG.

x,,y-,r.Ru ApoPTgD--A NEW scHooL-BviLD-
INe-rfTsRARy- NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
fro,r..pouoenee OF che Richmond Dispstch.l
FEBRUARY 3, 1883.
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BALTIMORE, February 5.-Boef-cattle-Nlafkc
slow very best, 55sG63Tc: first class. 4istG5kc.'
medium. 3aM4i.c.: ordinary, 2sC934se:: receipts.
9l5 head: sales, SSl head. Swine-Fair supply
and moderate demand; receipts. $40 head quo
tations Sk@9kc. The receipts OF sheep were
2.75S head; quotations, ACC.
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rVHE OLD SWEDISH DYSPEPSIA
r. s.pts l.. WAGNER. Druggist.
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N Is the surest and most permanent way OF
curing coughs and colds, which lead % pulmonary
diseases it nourishcs and builds up tlie wasted
and weakened system.
PURCELL. LADD & Co,
Wholesale Druggists.
Richmond, Va.
Take no other as substitute. hO
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fair demand; extra family. $3.72@sf; high
grades. S6.25@&6.75. Wheat I'm fair demand aud
firm: No. 9 red winter. Sl.U5MSl,Q1. Corn larry
q mixed, Ace. Oats nominally uncanged Froyi-
slons firm. New mess pork, 1880. Bulk-meats-
Observation-Disclosures, Sc clear lib, Okc.: clear. lie.
Hams-Sugar. cured, lie. Lard steady: choice
kettle-rendered, lee; prime steam, 1 lec. WINS
KEY quiet and unchanged.
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PIE IN NEW YORK.

A large pie manufacturer in New York
says his firms present rate of consumption
Of -four alone is $3.50 pounds daily, repre-
senting at rough estimate $4,000 pies.
The daily receipts are ab, ut 1900. The
firm employees $50 persons, and the weekly
wages bill amounts TO $1,000.
ITO whom do you sell ~ was asked,
"To bakeries, restaurants, hotels, and
lattorly to large number of private iami-
lies We keep sixty six horses constantly
going and our constituency covers New
York City, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Williams
burg, Staten Island, Mount Vernon aud
Bergen Point"
"Do you notice any periodical change in
the public taste for pies?"
Eyes At this season we are run on
largely for mince pies pumpkin and apple.
Tho Saturday preceding Christmas we used
ten tors of mince, and made it oil ourselves.
into this mince We poured the contents OF
fifty casks of wine and 100 barrels of
brandy. You look surprised, but this is a
fact
In addition to this we arc now consum.
ing daily six hogsheads of the best New
Orleans sugar, six tierces of fire dried lard,
$50 pounds to the fierce. We do not use
any steam dried lard at all, as II looses Its
sweetoess Then we consume forty barrels
of green apples, ten barrels Of eggs and four
Of currants day.
In the frut season our daily consump-
ton averages 100 barrels Of huckleberries
and forty crates of blackberries. You see
hat pile Of cases tbere2 Well they contain
10000 cases of apples, specially put up for
our use, averaging twelve gallon cans in a
case. These are for use in April, May and
June"
docs the pumpkin pie hold its own ms
formerly ?"
mo. This good old institution as I
may term it, seems tc be going out of fash
ion. Pumpkin pie is now eaten mostly by
elderly folks. Among the younger ones
cocoanut and custard is taking lis place.
Journal
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DREAMS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE.

At tho regular meeting of the Lime Kiln
Club " the Committee on Dreams, Ghosts and
Astrology submitted its quarterly report,
from which is cleaned the following items !;
To dream of sailing a muddy river and
seeing dog fight on the left hand bank and
camp-meeting on the right signifies that
your amt is soon to use Paris green in place
Of baking powder in tho biscuit.
Ghosts can't be hit with clubs, shot with
bullets, or laid out with slung-shots; where
ghost Is troubling q family and rendering
itself nuisance, a bear.trap set at the back
door will sooner or later bring forth good
fruit.
A person born under an unlucky star
might as well try to find AN honest piece OF
pavement In Chicago as to get ahead fnan-
cially. People born in the full OF the moon
will always be fond Of stewed prunes.
Those born at noon will tacitly encourage
borse-racing. Children born within an hour
Of midnight vii! grow up to make tyrannical
men and cross women.
The report was accepted and adopted, and
then Samuel Shin carefully cooled of the
stove with pail Of water, and the meeting
broke up with Elder Toots snoring like
horse and Just ready to fall back into the
wood box.--Detroit Free Press.
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HANDSOME MEN IN WASHINGTON.

There is not city in the Union, perhaps
not in the world, where, during the season,
us many handsome men may be seen on the
streets as in Washington, writes MARY
Jane" TO the Louisville Courier. Journal.
The women are all handsome enough, but
they don't compare with the men. aud to a
female who is rs utterly opposed to the
principle that there is anything worthy of
commentator in men az I am, the reyela.
ZION was somewhat startling OF course, II
Is easily accounted for by the fact that this
is the great market which draws all the best
in The land, but am surprised that there 10
80 much best. Most of the men are elderly
and gray hair and whiskers, when they are
handsome, just take the cake, and am not
going back on my honest convictions and
speak to the contrary.
Why is it, said Diekey, " most of them
have a careless, happy-go-iucky styls Ghout
them ?'
Don't you really know 2n said I.
mo" said she.
Because" said I, "they are mostly mar.
ried men, aud mostly men whose wives are
from 100 to $500 miles away from them "
~ don't believe it, said she.
"smile on one OF them az IL you were
anxious to get up little Irritation for a
sent" said l, "and see."
But she wouldn't do IL, and could no,
prove my theory, but Pm convinced OF its
accuracy all the same.
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A JAPANESE WEDDING.

Speaking Of q marriage ceremony In
Japan a correspondent OF the San Francisco
Chronicle says 1.-THE bride is taken to the
house Of ths groom in covered chair, white
anterns ore carried in advance and all hei
household goods are borne ahead by thu
invited company. The bridegroom Is in bis
touse to receive his bride. When she enters
he seats her by his side and the friends and
guests are seated In two rows on each side
of them. When all are seated warm sake ID
presented to the young couple by young
boy and girl. These must DO the children
Of parents still living, who are termed in
japanese Mecho ocho, or male and female
butterflies. After partaking OF the loving
cup of sake thoy are led by the butterflies
into another apartment where their bed Is
prepared. Here they drink together to the
cast, which they both repeat Much
happiness for many years to come A
grand bsnqueting time Is then INDUCED in
by the married couple and their guests, sing
ing and dancing, eating and drinking and
general merry making being the order -
the hour. The close of the banquet wiz
nesses the departure of all but tho husband
and wife, who are left alone in the house
this first night Of marriage This Is the
ceremonial part Of the event. The legal
requirement is the registering of the fact on
,he records Of the ken or district where the
husband resides and that be has taken
wife, and registering her name as such.
Gx~k 4 oil ,utf a raa
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mAN-HuNTiNo IN SIBERIA.
rhe Hard Fortune of the Escaped Russia
Convict.

Sorry, indeed, even where death does not
come to put an end to his existence, is the
lot of the convict who has succeeded in es-
Gaping from the mines of Eastern Siberia
Without resources of any kind, he must beg
or rob his way back to Russia. The alter.
native of seeking employment is one which
often has disastrous consequences. The
sonvict of the lowest type regards the Siber.
ban colonist as an inferior, and has saving
which describes him as "blind for three
days after birth" Bat the colonist has his
revenge. He works the superclious convict
like q beast Of burden and gives him as little
rest and as little food as possible. When
wages are demanded the colonist has an
original way Of satisfying his laborer. The
money Is paid without demur but before
the convict can get clear he falls dead, killed
by bullet FROM the gun of his cruel EN-
ployer. This msthod of payment is some.
times carried ont on a large SCALE 1t is
adopted in the case of vagabond laborers,
who, having finished their autumn work III
the fields, return to the neighboring village
to be paid off. The wages are forthcoming,
and the laborers allowed to depart with their
hardly earned money. But they have no
sooner gone than the peasant farmer assem-
bles his neighbora, and, having provided
them with horses and firearms, the whole
party sallies forth in pursuit of the vaca-
bonds. The retiring laborers are speedily
overtaken most are killed on the spot; all
are robbed, the recovered money being
divided between the farmer and his confed-
crates. Tho only respect shown for authol-
ity is the prevalent habit, when robbery has
been the motive of slaughter, of concealing
the dead. The murdered convicts are
usually cut mp and mutilated and the re-
mains buried in out of the way places. This
hunting of the hunchbaek,n as the escaped
,onvicts are often called in derision has
gone on for years, entering so deeply into
the habits of the people that il has escaped
The attention of few travellers through
Siberia. "Where are the men ?n was asked
Of woman left in charge of small village
adjoining the highway. "Gone after the
hnnchbacks,' was the reply Such is the
prevailing decentralization in this respect
that boys have been heard to asd their
sathers to kill yagabonds in order TINT they
may St.. how the fellow will roll on his
hump in some of the governments it is
certain death for convict escaped, or still
under supervision, to be caught returning
rom the mine. Occasionally the soldiers
initiate the colonists in their exploitation of
the vagabond. The Cossack, rs well as the
ordinary colonist, covets cheap labor, and il
in the habit of rewarding with an ounce or
two of lead the convict who declines TO pass
from enc condition of bond slavery to an.
other.-!St. Petersburg letter to tie Londoa
Globe
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INA SLEEPING CAR.

A surgeon is quoted as an authority ON the
question of how to sleep in sleeping car
whether with the head or feet towards the en-.
CINE or the source of motion. He says "In
a majority Of cars the berths are made so
that person is compelled to lie with the
feetin the direction Of the engine. The
position is certainly the safest in case Of
collision, or an extremely rapid stoppage, as
the body goes In the direction motion has
been impaired to II, hence there is less dan
ger of injuriDg by contact the skull and its
contents, while the lower extremities have
flexible joints to neutralize the shock Of
sudden stoppage. am of the opinion. how
ever, that to lie with the head towards the
engine sleep Is produced more rapidly and
with greater certainty, for when You lie with
your feet towards the engine there ia natu-
rally impaired an influx of blood to the brain.
The natural condition offhe brain in sleep
Is to have relatively lsss blood during
sleep than at any other time Nov in riding
with your head directed towards the engine
there is naturally tendency to the part Of
the blood to gravita.e from the brain.
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HE DISPOSED OF THE PUPS.

gentleman OF this city recently became
possessed of litter of mopgrel breed and
of no use to their owner or any other human
being on the face o, the earth. Being o
humane man, he was averse 10 Strengthening
the innocents, and proposed to Captain Jack
Sleeth, of the Silcer Wo,ui, TO take the lot
up the Tennessee and zee IL he could not
give them away to the denizens of that
mysterious region. Captain Jack was at
first loath to bother with them, but finally
told the owner to put them in basket
cover the same with mosquito netting, and
invoice them to some person in Florence,
Ala., at value of S25 each This was
done and the basket OF Pups placed Mt the
foot of the cabin stairway, where they were
surrounded by an adniring throng. Captain
Jack exhibited tbs invoice, and spoke in
glowing terms of tn cir fine breeding and
value Before the boat reached Johnson.
vile every pup in the basket had been stolen
and spirited away by The admirers Of choice
dog flesh on board. The basket was re.
turned to the owner on the return Of the
Silcer Cilud 10 Paducah. Paducah Neps
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vENERATioN OF THE MONKEY.
Honoss Which Certain Eastern People Pay
to Their Remote Ancestors.

Victor Jaequemont estimates that the
Bengal Presidency alone contains sixteen
Hundred monkey asylums, supported chiefly
by the very poorest class of the population.
In the rural districts of Eepaul the hanu.
mans have their sacred groves, and keep
together in troops of fifty or sixty adults,
end in spite of hard times. 'F"se associa-
tons multiply like the mon Ii orders of
medieval Europe; bu. they must all be pro-
vided for, though the natives should have
10 exc ont their crops with the wild rice of
the Jumna swamp jungles.
The strangest part Of the superstition is
that this charity results by no means from a
feeling of benevolence toward animals in
general, but from the exclusive veneration
of II special subdivision of the monkey tribe
An orthodox Hindoo must not willingly take
the life Of the humblest fellow creature, but
he would not move n finger to save starry
ing dog. and has no Hesitation in stimula-
ting beast of burden with O dagger-like
goad and other contrivances that would in
woke the ayenging powers of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Nor would he shrink from extreme measures
in defending his fields from the ravages of
low-caste monkeys. DIR. Allen M k nzie
once saw swarm of excited III ii i run
ming toward an orchard where the shaking
of the branches betrayed the presence of
arboreal marauders. Some of them carried
slings, others clubs and cane spears. But
soon they came back crestfallen "What's
the matter2" inquired the doctor; "did
they get away from your"
"Kapa- Num-" was the laconic reply,
sacred monkeys" Holy balloons thai
must not be interrupted in their little pas
times. They had expected to find a troop
OF common makaqnes, wanderoos or other
profa-a four-handers, and returned on tip
Toe, like Marryats sergeant who went to
arrest an obstreperons drunkard and recog.
nized his commanding officer. Unarmed
Europeans cannot afford to brave these
prejudices Captain Elphinstone's gardener
nearly lost his life for shooting thieyish
hanuman a mob of raging bigots chased
him from street to street till he gave them
slip in Mohammedan suburb, where a
sympathzing Unitarian helped him to es-
cape through the Lack alleys. The inter.
ference of his countrymen would hardly
have saved him, for the crowd increased
from minute to minute, and even women
Joined in the chase and threatened to cure
his impiety with turnip-masher. Popular
Science MONTHLY
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EMPTINESS OF HUMAN AMBITION.

The first time saw Van Buren, writes the
Hermit to the Troy Times was in the Spring
after his defeat in the Presidential CANVASS.
He had felt the crushing nature OF what was
the first great disappointment in his whole
history, and ho had seen the triumphant
Harrison indicted to an office from which
he himself had been excluded by the voice
Of an indignant nation. He was in fact the
worst beaten of all Presidential candidates
up to that day. In the midst of this disap-
pontinent came the news Of tho death of
Harrison after only one month of official
service. The City of New York honored Tia,
occasion by funeral procession of imposing
character, but its most impressive feature
was the defeated candidate. I WAS then
merely boy, but as I gazed on the long
ranks of the military marching in solemn
step to tho wall of dirgcs, and saw all the
deep expressions of public bereavement, l
felt that the most touching lesson was found
in Martin Van Buren, He occupied
barouche, dressed with the American and
British colon bordered with Grape, and by
his side was the British Consul. I thought
then, and have often thought since, of the
emptiness of human ambition az illustrated
" the appearance Of Van Buren, at Har-
rison's funeral. The latter had crushed the
former, and then so suddenly yielded to the
Ail-conquering power Of death.
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neRmupNs CORAL REgFs.

"There's hills and mountains down there,
sir," said an old sailor to me one day as we
were scudding in toward the sound "and
fields and forests, all made of coral OF a
clear day eight or ten miles outside, sir, with
my water-glass, I've seen things as you
could hardly believe II told you. Mighty
big trees, aud places like grass plats and
onion fields, bigger'n any in Bermuda I;
groves like palmettos. and buildin's and
ehrrches--cathedrals believe you call 'em
like they have in London, with heaps of
steeples, and big fish going to meetin 7"
NO fairy tale, now, Captain"
"No, sir; all fact, except bout the meetln'.
Fish hain't got much feelin', specially
sherks, and marays, and gray-snappers, you
know"
The coral reefs ON which the Bermuda
Islands are built extend distance Of from
ten to twenty miles beyond the land west,
north and east, much of the intermediate
space being dotted with islands and darken-
ed by innumerable shoals that are OF endless
torment to sailors. The shores are with
little exception rugged, broken, made mp Of
over-hanging cliffs and peculiar terrace like
layers of rock. In places The ceaseless
action of the waves has made deep caverns,
bored holes, carved fantastic shapes and
made decorations that resemble stucco work.
Sea moss carpets, many of these weird look
ing structures, hang in long wreaths
from escarpment aud cornice, where mer-
maids and mermen can go TO housekeeping
and find all sorts OF beautiful and aesthetic
articles to embellish their interiors. Hermit
crabs scramble awkwardly along the sharp
lodges near the water, looking like criminals
trying to hide, scudding for an untenanted
periwinkle or vacant conch shell when
pressed for time, while here and there in
natural aquara little tanks and bowls of
water in the rocks you can see pretty small
fry that seem to have concluded to drop In
there and rest till the tides comes up again
and enables them to rejoin their songeners
in the deep green sea.