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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-12-23
DICHMOND AND DANVILLE RAIL.
III ROAD COMPANY.
CONDENSED SCHEDULES
IN EFFECT SUNDAY, OCTOBER IL, 1884

Tram No. so Through passen gerl Stops At al sta.
tions, connecting 10 kcysNilie for all points on II.
and VI. railroad ~ Sutheilin's with Mlton and
sutherlin Narrow-Gaugc railroad for Milfoni Al
Greensboro for all points on salem Branchi al
Salisbury for all points On Western North Caro-
lima railroad; al Atlanta for all points south aud
southwest
Train No. So Through passenger and mall Stops
at sal sbury, Greensboro Reidsyiiic, III "a Point,
Thorn syilic, Lexington, and Concord, between
Danyille and Charlotte, and all Stations betNoch
Ri hmond aud Danville; connecting a, Suher-
Inns with Milton and sutherlin Narrow-Hauge
railroad for Milton; ~ Greens pOrO tor All p0inS
on >aiem Branch aud North carolina division; NJ
Cha lolie with Charlotte, columbia aud Augnqta
railroad for Columbia, Augusta. savannah, and
Strain No. so on Richmond aud Meckienburg
railroad runs daily except sunday.
Trains from the south arrive Al Richmond At 700
A. NJ. and ASS y.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-12-23

ppopERTY THAT wiIL PAY IL TO
fno PER CENT.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-12-23

Ifyou are sick with that terrible sickness. Ner-
vousness, you viii lnd Balm In Giiead" In
Hop Bitteis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10

Liberal help is afforded to intend
ing immigrants by the British colo
MES. Canada reduces the cost of as
sisted passages by 26 per cent, while
the Australian colonies cut off as
much as sc per cent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10
Dangerous Telephones.
New York World.

Mr.. William 1. Findley, the at
torney for the Fire Department, has
his office on the seventh floor of the
Equitable Building on Broadway.
A few days ago he had occasion to
use his telephone. He told the Office
boy to ring up certain number and
the boy raised his hand confdingly
to here he knew the crank OF the
telephone should be.
There was no crank to be seen, and
all that remained of the telephone
were three or four shattered ends of
wire sticking out from the wall.
There amt any telephone here, Mr..
Findiey," the boy exclaimed IN amaze
ment and I guess there's been a
fire."
8 No telephone!' said the attorney
OF the board, and he came out of MS
office and looked at the dismantled
wires
The telephone box was set on hard
white wood. The place where the box
had been was white, but around it
We're black daubs, as though the wood
had been smeared with brush.
Mr.. FlnGley called at the telephone
office and learned that one of the tele-
phone wires had fallen across a fire
alarm wire and caused an explosion
in Mr.. Findley's telephone box and
set fire to the woodwork. The acci-
dent occurred Wednesday night, and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10

was discovered by the telephone com
pany when the wire ceased to work
Men hurried down to the Equitable
Building late at night and extinguish-
ed the fire, which on account of the
noncombustable nature of the wood
gained little headway. The box IL
self had been completely shattered,
and had the accident occurred when
anyone was using the wires death
would have been the probable result.
Are these accidents anyway cOm-
mon?" the clerk in Nr Findley's office
was asked.
''Quite, was the answer. eve
have suits at present pending against
the telephone companies for damages
to frealarm boxes. The cause has
been in most cases the same as here.
When the wires crossed the current
has run down into the alarm box, set
ting fire to the poles and running the
apparatus. No very great amount of
damage was done"
In the afternoon Mr.. Findley went
up on business to the Fire Department
Headquarters. He met Mr.. Ester
brook, the Inspector of Buildings.
'"That must have been quite an ex-
plosion," remarked the Inspector, as
Mr. Findley finished his story.
''It might have resulted seriously >
the attorney replied.
Mr.. EsterbrOok took Mr.. Findley's
arm and led him to the long, room
that comprises his office and those OF
his clerks and stopped before his desk.
''There's where I sit, said Mr.. Ester
brook, pointing to his chair, ''and
there is where the telephone used tO
be-"
Just behind Mr.. Esterbrook's chair
stood a number of very black boards
and few strangling wires that look.
ed very much like those in the at
torney's Office. Mr.. Esterbook produc-
ed telephone box. The inside was
torn into a dozen different parts and
looked as though dynamite had been
exploded in it's center"
'FWell," said the Inspector, "what
do you think of that for an explosion
behind your ear? A little bigger than
yours, [ guess" "
At the headquarters of the Fire De
partment it was said that a great deal
of trouble resulted from the crossing
of telephone wires and fire alarm
wires, and that unless something was
done large fire would some day bt
the result of the meeting of the elec
trio currents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10
CHILDREN OF THE DESERT.
Love, COurtsElfp and Marriage Among
the Rowing Arabs.

The girls have little to do with
selecting their husbands. The men
nearly always fix that up among
themselves. A bold warrior sees a
girl whom he loves in another tribe.
He rides up at night, finds where she
is sleeping, dashes up to her tent,
snatches her up in his arms, puts her
before him on the horse, and dashes
away like the wind. If he happens
to be caught he is shot. IF he is not,
the tribe from which he has stolen the
girl pays him a visit in few days.
The dervish, a priest of the tribe,
joins the hands of the young man
and the girl, and both tribes
join in the merriment. All the
bravest nen steal their wives, but
there are some who do not. Their
method is little different. On a
calm, moonlight highland a moon
light night in the tropics is far more
beautiful than here you may see an
Arab sitting before the tent of his
inamorita, picking stringed instru-
ment something like our banjo, and
singing a song of his own compost
ton. This is his courtship They
talk in poetry, and extemporization
is as easy with them as it was with
Scalds of old. The courtship.. only
lasts a week or two IL the girl is
obstinate he goes elsewhere and seeks
to win another girl by his songs and
music. Sometimes the fathers make
up the match, but always the girl is
the obedient slave. Her religion,
her people, her national instincts, the
traditions of her ancestors, all teach
her to be the slave of her husband.
The power of life and death is in his
hands, and she bows before his opin-
1t is only when the fair-faced Frank
comes, with his glib talk of woman's
higher duties and grander sphere,
with his winning manner, with his
marked respect, SO fattering to
woman's soul, that she leaves her
husband, forsakes the teachings of
her childhood, gives up home and
friends and risk death itself to repose
in his arms. They are as fine riders
as the men, and as fearless. They
side straddle, and can go almost any
distance without fatigue. They are
fine shots, and don't know what per
sonal fear is.
The women of these people are
modest and far more faithful than the
women of civilized life. Indeed, it is
the rarest thing in the world to hear
of conjugal infdelity. The women
mature at II or 12, and are old at 80.
When young they are very beautiful.
They have soft, languishing eyes.
They are passionate in their loves,
but after marriage all their affection
is centered In their husbands. If
woman is found to be untrue to her hus-
band she is instantly killed, together
with the lover. But this seldom hap
pens. It is only when Europeans
visit them are they seduced. Several
of the expedition of which was
member got into trouble with native
girls and had to be sent back home to
save them from the fury of outraged
husbands. They are not given to
jealousy, and though one man may
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10
BRING ON YOUR NAVIES.
a FOur-Fnch Gun which is Calculated
TO Smash the Thunderer at First

New BOrk Sun.

New Bork Sun.
A machine that looked like forty
foot brass pipe mounted on a steel
girder such as lie on the elevated rail
road pillars rested in the center of the
machineshop of the Celamater Iron
Works yesterday. The machine is
the barrel and carriage of the new
four-lnch dynamite pneumatic gun.
which, when completed, IS expected
to sink, on occasion, the largest man
of-War afioat and annihilate its crew.
The gun IS constructed of brass and
steel fitted in the most accurate man
ner at the joints, and capable of sus-
tanning a pressure of 1, 900 pounds to
the square inch. It weighs but ton,
and may be carried by a small gun
BOAT.
The projectile is nothing more nor
Less than dynamite cartridge encased
IN soft metal within a shell Of brass
and fitted with a wooden tail. It
weighs about 100 pounds. The dia-
gram will give an idea of its construc-
ton:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10
SOFT


The soft metal filing protects the
dynamite from ordinary accidents.
But when the projectile, flying at
speed, strikes, head Oh, against a re-
slstlng surface, hard metal pin en-
bedded in the soft metal and not
touching the dynamite is forced into
the illuminate at the head of the
cartridge and discharges the dyna-
mite.
In order that wind currents may
not interfere ia the precision of the
hrlng, the centre of gravity is at x,
near the forward end OF the proiec-
tile. The wooden tail acts as a rud-
der, the wind veering the tail round
and throwing the head into the wind
IN proportion to the strength of the
current, thus maintaining an
absolutely straight course.
'"This gum" said Mr.. Hinsdale, who
i experimenting the construction,
will throw the cartridge three miles
with precision never attained with
gunpowder. An ordinary proiectile
loses power with each yard it travels
from the gun. This cartridge arrives
ready for business, no matter how far
it goes"
Suppose a cartridge landed on the
deck of the Thunderer, what would
happen?"
The gunis constructed with a power
full air chamber capable of storing an
immense force of compressed air.
The gunner ights with telescope sights
with hair lines, and with the pressure
Of finger discharges the compressed
air into the barrel, and starts the pro
jectile on it's flight. The greath
length of the tube is required to econ
omize all the force of the air, which is
less rapid in it's action than gunpow-
der.
THE vessel would be shattered and
sunk by the explosion, and every liv-
ing being upon the deck would be
blown to atoms. Whether any one
below the deck would live to drown
in the sinking vessel I cannot state.
Suppose a shot from the enemy
struck the launch carrying the dyna-
mite cartridges?"
We'll, the boat might be sunk by
the shot, but unless cartridge was
struck so as to explode. The Govern
ment is experimenting at Fort Hamil-
ton with a two-inch gun and some
wonderful execution has been done
The guns may be manufactured in a
well-equipped machine-shop, and cost
but a song in comparison with the
enormous guns turned out by Krupp
and at Woolwich. The same prin-
clple is applicable to field guns to be
used in land engagements. A few
dynamite cartridges exploded in a
brigade would have the effect of a
poWder-naill explosion upon the
troops"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10

Z member of an engineering party
down on the Rio Grande, below Santa
Fe, writes that while going from
Albuquerque to Socorro they often
had to walk along the railroad for a
distance of ten miles, picking up
splintcrs, bits of bark, and chips drop
ped while laying the ties, in order to
get wood enough to build fire. A
very large section of country there is
absolutely destitute of wood of any
kind. Finding whole tie that had
been overlooked, they tied it onto
donkey and carried 1t along and used
it more sparingly than water, which
was also scarce.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10

be the husband of half dozen wives
they seem TO live together in perfect
unity.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-22
Price, 10 Cents

las, r.. H. Norton and w. S. Eberman
in debate. A motion to indefinitely
postpone the motion to reconsider was
finally put and carried by a large ma
jority, and so ended the discussion.
Attention having been called to tho
fact that there are no stock yards at
this point and that it appeared neces>
sary for the convenience of shippers
and the welfare of the town that yards
be built, Messrs. Eberman. Douglas
and Mintie were appointed Il commit
tee to confer with the railroad Off
cials on the subject and to use their
efforts to secure the erection of the
yards. Meeting adjourned. 3
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-22
MONTANA NEWS.

An effort is being made to secure
daily mail service between Benton and
Billings.
tits believedfthat there are not ever
seventy of the pioneers Of 1862 resid-
ing in Montana now. ...
About onehundred lodges. embrac-
ing about fvehmdred Crows, have
been removed to the Big Horn valley,
but for this year the agency at Still
water will remain the head quarters
Of the tribe.
The demurrers against the attach
ment of Geo. r. Newall & Co., and
III. G. Harrison & Co.. of Minneapolis,
and Auerbach, Finch & VanSlyck, at
tacllment suits and other similar suits,
all i'll the cases against G. w. Savage
& Co., of Miles City, were overruled
in the district court at that place.
Hon. w. Y. Pemberton, Of Butte,
who has just returned from the Coeur
d Alene mines, talks discouragingly
of the new diggings and says that
Thompson Falls is full of men who
have not the means to buy a square
meal. There are hundreds of such
unfortunates. Many people are leav-
ing the town disappointed. The trip
to Eagle City is full of hardship and
danger and the real estate excitement.
he says. is all over from one end Of
Pritchard gulch to the other. He
thinks the quartz interest will be good
ia few years.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-22
Northern Pacific oflcial Changes.

a. l.. Stokes has resigned his posi-
tion rs assistant general freight agent
of the Northern Pacific and has taken
the position Of general freight and pas
senger agent of the Oregon Railway
& Navigation company. A. d. Edgar.
lately appointed general eastern agent
of the Northern Pacific at New York,
has been appointed assistant general
freight agent in charge of the Pacific
division. with headquarters at Port :
land. George r. Fetch. recent con-
tracing agent of the road, takes Mr..
Edgar's position at New York. These
changes take effect May lst.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-22
Hoard of Trade.

The board of trade met last evening
with Z. Goughnour. by request, in the
president chair.
The minutes of last meeting were
read and approved. Judge Savage. of
committee OH county division. asked
leave for, and was granted more time
in which to make a report. j. III.
Elder. from committee appointed to
investigate question of preparing a
pamphlet Of statistical and general i'll.
formation, relative to this country. r.
ported adversely. The views Of a
number Of members having been eX-
pressed as to the urgent advisabillty,
Of such advertising matter, and esti-
mates having been furnished rs to the
cost, it was by vote resolved to issue a
pamphlet or folder of descriptive mat
ter for general distribution. a COM
mittee composed of q, j. Douglass.
r.. IL. Norton and w. Ayrauit WAS
elected TO take Charge OF the matter
and given full power to conduct the
work to Il completion. w. S. Eher-
man, from committee OH county
affairs reported progress as to the COM.
mlttee's inspection of county roads III
this vicinity. The motion to recon-
slider the board OF trade resolutions
condemnlng the attempts to secure the
forfeiture Of tile Northern Pacific rail-
road grant was then taken up for dis .
cussion. It provoked lively debate.
+. L. Mintie spoke long and ably in
supported his motion to reconsider
and was seconded by Judge J. A. Saw
age in Il logical argument. The op-
posing side that which objected to
reconsideration Of the resolutions
was upheld ley | Ofsehel, G. ]. Doug;
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-22
Jumping the Crow Reservation.

About Il week ago the erroneous ih-
telligence seems to have been pretty
widely circulated that the western
portion of the Grow reservation had
been segregated. A telegram was re-
ceived in Livingston that was be-
lieved to convey that idea and among
the few to whom it was shown created
some excitement, but further inves-
tigation proved its error. ButdoWn
the valley the idea, wherever OBJ
tanned, seems to have taken strong
hold and certainly produced eminently
practical results. The early part of
last week witnessed nearly fifty outfits
cross upon the Crow reservation and
settle upon eligible locations, princi-
pally in the Deer creek valley and on
the eastern bank of the Boulder. Some
of these enterprising settlers had their
families with them and went with the
evident intention of making an indef-
'inite stay. Doubtless most of them
have learned their error ere this and
are leaving the reservation. The idea
of the opening Of this Indian country
may perhaps have had it's origin in the
fact that the agent tried to induce the
Crows to remove TO the Big Horn
valley and the better to compass their
compliance, circulated the story that
the government had bought the reser-
vatioll- about 500 of the tribe did, in
fact, move, and the whites seem to
have emulated their example by NOV
ing too. But it was too previous.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-22
ClNNABAR's GREETING.

The First Telegram of the Season from the
Park Line Brings Important News.
Special Telegram to the Daily Enterprise.
L<CINNABAR, APRIL %, 1884. Gin
nabar sends spring greeting. Parties
just arrived from Cooke City report
very rich discoveries at that point.
Great excitement prevails there and
people are leaving here bound for the
mines to get share in the new dis
coveries.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-22
Eat and phil.sonny.
[Opie ?. Read in New York Mercury

IOple =. Read III New YORK Mercury.I ? Z
Flesh is materialized philosophy. la.
men are nearly always philosophers.
Dickens challenged the world to point
out mob of fat men, and, although [
was not as well acquainted with Mr..
Dickens as [ SIN with certain active
young fellows who visit me the fist of
every month, yet / agree with him. l
never saw mob of fat men. ] never
saw fat man hung. Once in Ken
lucky fat man was sentenced to be
hanged, but when an appeal to the SUI
preme court was taken, the judges, who
were too heshy to pull on boot COM
fortably, told the condemned man that
he was too fat to be hung with any de-
gree of pleasure. and consequently
gave him palm leaf fan and sent him
to the penitentiary to await q pardon
which was not long in coming. 1t was
afterwards proved that the fat man was
innocent. atslt 49, Y
History shows that all philosol hers
were fat, that is, history proves that
some of them were fat and that others
should have been. Don't understand
me to sav-that great flesh is to be de-.
sired. flesh is more essential to So
ciety than it is to salvation, and we
know that the scriptures inform us that
flesh and blood cannot enter the king
dom of heaven. I do say, though, that
flesh is conduciveto philosophy, for none
but the philosopher can enjoy an excess
If adipose tissue.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-22
Suit Against the Collar Company.

Michael Doran. of st. Paul, has be-
gun suit against S. S. Eaton and Gen.
C. d. Mead. the leading shareholder in
the Collar Mining Company, of Maiden
in this territory, to recover SIS 900, be-
ing the amount paid by plaintiff for
shares of stock IN said company. He
claims to have been induced to buy
the stock by false and fraudulent rep
reservations on the part of defendants.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-22
The Chiial-en's .Dscaey BIRD So
ciety.
Inter Ocean Lfs ga f9

Eighty thousand children in the north
of England form the '.DicLey Bird
Society" They are pledged TO protect
birds, never to DESTROY a nest, aud tt
feed birds in winter. It would not bs
bad organization for this country. tn
combined voice and plumage orr Amer
lean birdssot the woods and fields are
equal 10 any in the world 1t was .
sorry piece of work to import such use-
less yaSfants as English SPAR ows to
take their places.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-04-19
Brief News Items.

The Propaganda has, says Rome tele-
gram completed an account OF the discus
sions OF the American bishops here, which
will be sent 10 every bishop IN America as
y Guide for the forthcoming council at Bal
timore in November next.
The London Times, yesterday, speaking
editorially of the political outlook III Amer
lea. saws: .'At no one time since before
The civil war in America has so little atten-
lion been paid in England to the affairs OF
the United States as during the past -FOUR
months"
The Pee Dee IadeI, published at Marion,
sc. saws: " Accounts from diuereht sec
ii ms of the country report many cases OF
actual suffering, caused by persons DeIhg
unable To- buy bread. There mas Deeh no
wear since the war when provisions nave
been so scarce. There are perhaps nuu-
dreds i'm Marion county to-day VINO cahho'
get enough bread to eat"
The Cunard steamer Aurana ana lhe
Onion steamer Oregon are understood 10
be making an ocean race across Inc Az
Iantic. They both sailed the same day from
Queenstown for New York, the oregon
having start OF three hours. They VIII
be due in New York on Sunday next. Inc
Oregon has already made the run IN seven
DAYS and fifteen hours, and she Is the iaVor-
tie in the betting on the result.
The Interstate sabrescontest which took
place IN Charleston, 5. C., Thursday, under
the anspices of the Charleston Light ORA
goous. was won by the Georgia Hussars,
"a Savannah. the Haskell Rangers, oil James
Island. :. C.. securing second prize. seven
teams III four men each contested. Ihe
vinnin0 team scored 205 out Of maxi
mum OF 240 points.
AT about 10 O'Clock "Wednesday evening"
says Boston telegram, TWO men III q nshl'
open buggy drove on Craigie's bridge ir0n ON
the Boston end, and when ABOUT 10 .ne
middle OF the bridge one OF tne inen W
the buggy and placed something on tnu
horse-car track, and fe-enter,ng .nJ IL!
drove rapidly away toward Dap ;,'. ,"Sf'
A loud explosion followed alu an ~ hoen
CATION showed that an expiosne nae and
placed in a ten-pound powupli e.'" If IL
fired by detoDating cap anu i"'d d,roo,ed
thought that the attempt WAS uiIcpw e,
against one Of the maby horSe-o"' VIM"
pass this point al this hour
The attention OF the Brooklyn nea'.n
aus,,n-,,ios has ,een called 10 the lact tia.
f,so families have been made III, WIN
synntoms Of poisoning, after eating wns'
* pnown as English dairy" cheese
The family OF William III. strong. tne sec
rets,v ~ The detective department al 20
lice headquarters, was inside sick by es ALLIE
the cheese. II was found that Mr.. Bougn'
tln,s FAMILY had also been Affected WIN a
symntoras of poisoning after eating uls
ss,ae cheese, DIR. BARLEY. the chemist =,
the health department. ATE some o. y. anS
was similarly affected. The health poarc
i under the Impression that me poisVn -
a. the colcrlng matter o. fhe cheese.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-04-19

Editor SHAKESPEARE ROMEO REED, OF the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, is telling
his readers what he knows about law. In
view Of recent events, it would appear that
Editor REED is better prepared to tell his
readers what he knows about law,essness.