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OFFICE or CITY CoLLEcTOR,l
RICHMOND. Va, Juno i, 1859. {
TO TAXPAYERS.

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an now ready 10 receive CITY TAXES FOR
TIKI YEAR lss9. il the whole or ono half l. not
paid by tho 30IU lNs lANI per cent. VIII bs
added. and If remainDs unpaid until stPlEM-
Der lsT the Collector IS required 10 collect the
same as tho Law directs.
All males tWeuty-Oue years 81 ace, and all r
Sons male or fenal-) WAC own personal property
are assessed, ard viii please cgll aui settle.
PAVING, PlpE. and SEW LK-CONNkClIOS
BILLS are 10 bo paid IN the sam9 manner -
taxes, and OF the same me-.
COPY from ordinance. chapter u, secii0a1;
al all taxes with which ANY person or any os-
tate OF a dccedcnt - assessed bee not pad before
the lst day q september the Collector shall dis
train, except whore one hat thereof has been
raid under the third section, or except The same
10 suspended by order OF Tho Committee on
Finance. who shall report tho reason therefor 10
the next meeting 81 the City Council"
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=. ~. CUNNINGHAM.
j. lin Collector Of city Taxes.
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70 THE DISPATCH COMPANY.
Rejected communications viii not DO re-
enrnod.
The times., 1889-07-12
A Princes Annoyances.

A prince, like other men, must do
most of his work for himself or it will
be badly done. If he retires for a
short time to the seclusion of some
private estate things go wrong, and
he is quickly summoned back to his
round of snowy and irksome duties.
His head aches, but he must show
himself amiable with everybody. He
is tired of talking, but he must find
something pleasant to say to the doz-
ems of people who, wherever he goes,
are introduced to him. He has seen
enough Of exhibitions to sicken him
for life, but he must appear to take an
Intelligent interest in all these shows,
and cram himself for conversations
about them with specialists. He must
know the exact measure of compli-
ments which are expected by various
eminent artists authors, inventors
and manufacturers.
He must have read, or pretended to
have read, the latest work on military
tactics by this or that distinguished
general, especially if the general be a
foreigner in the service of an allied
power For is he not himself honor
airy colonel in half dozen foreign
regiments, whose uniforms he has to
wear upon occasions, and is it not re-
quired of him as a commander of ar
mics that he should seem to take the
keenest in things military9 Generals
may bore him to desperation; he may
be sick to death of military bands al
ways playing him his national airs :"
his head may split at the roaring of
cannon and the firing of rifles in sham
fights and at the thunder of squad
rons charging imaginary enemies in
mimic warfare; but he must look
cheerful and well pleased. When the
generals have done with him the di-
plomatists come on. To these he must
patter in tongue which is not his own,
and be very careful about every word
he utters, besides keeping up this tone
to the highest pitch of cordiality; for
the ambassador will write every word
down and report it to his government,
and if the prince have forgotten the
right names of different princes and
princesses of the ambassadors court,
this lapse of memory will be set down
against him and may cause n "cold-
ness. Temple Bar
The times., 1889-07-12
DIR. WAGE in Reply to Mrs. Ward.

If Professor Huxley can extend his
study of German theological literature
much beyond Zeiler's "Vortrage" of
"a quarter of u century ago." or
Ritschl's writings of NEARLY forty
years ago." he will not find himself
countenanced by church historians in
Germany in his contempt for the re-
cent contributions of English scholars
to early church history However, it
is the more easy for me to waive all
differences of this nature with Mrs.
Ward, because it is unnecessary for
me to look beyond her article for its
own refutation. Her main conten-
ton, or that at least for which Profes-
sor Huxley appeals to her, seems to
be that it is a mistake to suppose that
the rationalistic movement of Ger
many has been defeated in the sphere
of New Testament criticism, and she
selects more particularly y for her pro-
test a recent statement in The Quar-
terly Review that this criticism, and
particularly the movement led by
Baur, is IAN attack which has failed. !"
The Quarterly Reviewer may be left
to take care of himself; but l would
only ask what is the evidence which
Mrs. Ward adduces to the contrarya
1t may be summed up in two words
prophecy and romance. She does
not adduce any evidence that the Tu-
bingen school, which is the one we
are chiefly concerned with, did not
fail to establish its specific conten-
tons; on the contrary, she says that
history protested" and she goes on
to prophesy the success of other spec
ulations which arose from that pro-
test, concluding with an imaginary
sketch, like that with which Robert
Elsmere" ends, of a 'new Reforma-
ton preparing, struggling into utter
ance and being all around us. 1t is
close upon us-it is prepared by all
the forces of history and mind-its
rise sooner or later is inevitable. F"
This is prophecy, but it is not argu-
ment; and little attention to Mrs
Wards own statements will exhibit q
very different picture. 90 Christianity
and Agnosticism," in Popular Science
Monthly.
The times., 1889-07-12
ANEcDoTE or BRET HARTE.
How His First Story Offended the Proof
Eeatr~r and Was Nearly Rejected.

How His First Story Offended the Proof
Eead~r and Was Nearly. Rejected.
It was, of course, the admirable
story, ''The Luck of Roaring Camp"
that first won fame on both sides of
the Atlantic for Mr.. Bret Harte, made
his fortune, and showed that great
writer had arisen; but the story was
not suffered to appear without a pro-
test. Readers knew that there is no pur-
er writer than this delightful novelist,
who has never penned a line that the
severest moralist would blot; but when
Tho Luck of Roaring Camp" was put
into type the young woman who was
proof reader in the Office of the maga-
zine found something in it which
shocked her dreadfully.
Mr.. Bret Harte was editor of the
magazine for which he wrote the
story Il am not absolutely certain of
the name, and as this anecdote has, /
believe, never been published, l must
not make a mistake in bit of literary
history. He had just been appointed,
and this was one of his earliest contri-
buttons, if not actually the first.
The proprietor and publisher of the
magazine was long way from being
a man of letters, but to him the gentle
proof reader appealed. She could not
very well protest to the editor and au-
thor, so she went to the owner and
told him what dreadful story Mr..
Bret Harte had written; indeed, she
felt it impossible to retain her place if
so shocking a writer was going to keep
on with this sort of thing-dull, vul-
gar, stupid and oh. so improper. The
proprietor read it, and, having no
opinion of his own, went to the editor
and told him how he had wounded the
modesty of the proof reader; to which
Mr.. Bret Harte replied he was very
sorry to wound any ones sensibilities,
but he really did not think the story
was wicked or immoral. If it We're
an improper story, he added, his ina
bility to see it in that light showed
that he was unfit to edit magazine
by reason of his lack of perception,
and if he stayed he must insist on pub
fishing the story.
The proprietor did not know wheth-
er to accept his resignation or not, but
III the end the story was published,
even at the risk-with, indeed, the cer-
tainty of hurting the feeling of the
young woman who read the proofs.
The result amazed that publisher very
much indeed The edition was snap
pod up at once and other editions as
fast as they could be printed. Every
% one was t talking of The; The Luck of OF
Roaring Camp" q revelation in the
art Of story telling. Applications
came from big publishers in New
York and elsewhere offering any terms
Mr.. Bret Harte liked to name foi
more stories like it.
The publisher found that in the edi-
tor whom he had almost let slip
through his fingers he had Il treasure;
his magazine, from barely paying its
way, became a fortune, and he began
to lose faith little in the taste and
Judgment of the young woman who
had read the proofs. Illinois Dramatic
News.
The times., 1889-07-12
English rs She Is Spelled.

Not long ago public spirited teach
er in Kingston school talked for a
short time TO her class of small schol-
ars on the subject of washington, 1"
and then told them to write on their
states what they could remember OF
what she had told them and submit the
compositions to her. One little girl
was quite vexed because her teacher
laughed heartily when she examined
her slate and told her to take the slate
upstairs to Miss -. The. little miss
said:
II did so, and then she laughed, too,
just because / spelled United States
'Younighted States You spells
you, don't it2 and might spells
night, and ed spells the rest of 1t,
and-and"-with pouting lips-''it it
spells United States, and that's the only
wayI know how to make it."-Kings-
ton Freeman.
The times., 1889-07-12
Bulb Raising.

The center of bulb culture in Hol-
land, says Gartenflora, is still in Haar-
lem, as it has been during two centu-
ries and half. Hyacinths are espe-
cially in favor just now, and ground
suitable for their cultivation has sold
for as much as $13, 500 an acre, as
against 81 600 given for land of other
kinds. The expense of cultivation is
placed at about $500 an acre for hya-
cinths and $3.50 for tulips; and it is
noted that artificial manures are never
used. Narcissus is also grown in vast
quantities near HARLEM, chiefly for
expectation to England. Formerly
the export trade in cut flowers was
enormous, one HARLEM firm having
exported in single season 10000
cases; but an agreement was entered
into by a majority of the Dutch flor
lists to abandon the sale of cut flowers
as competing with the interests of pur-
chasers of bulbs. Attempts have been
made to extract the perfume of hya-
cinths, but only with moderate sue
cess, especially fiUA tho commercial
point of view
The times., 1889-07-12
The Parrot and the Bat.

On q sultry evening last week bat
flew into the sitting room of q house
at Scranton, Pa, and dashed against
the parrots cage. 1t struck the cage
awith force enough to drive it between
the wires, and it began to creep
around the bottom of the cage and
aap its injured wings. The parrot was
asleep when the bat flew in, but it got
awake in an instant, and it screeched
and screamed and yelled "Oh myp so
many times that the lady of the house
ran in from the piazza to see what the
trouble was with the family pet. The
moment she entered the room the par
cot told the futtering little creature
TO get out in a very shrill tone, re-
peating the command number of
times. The bat didn't get out, al
though it tried very hard to do so,
and the parrot got mad, bristled up
and divcd from its perch at the puny
intruder For few seconds the par
rot had such a lively tussle in the
bottom of the cage that it upset every
thing and scattered seeds all around
the room, and then it hoped back to
its perch and began to scratch its
throat with its right foot as though it
had been bitten by the bat.
"Graciousl how that hurt" the par
rot yelled, after it had stopped scratch
ing, and smoothed out its wings and
feathers, the bat still wabbling about
and trying to find place to crawl out.
1t couldn't find one, and the parrot
sang out: "I'll fix It'll" and pitched at
the bat again. The little thing squeak
ed and tried to defend itself when the
parrot tackled it, but the ugly bird
used both claws and bill, and it soon
had the bats wings torn into strips.
Then it gave the bat pinch on the
neck, shook it up and down, dropped
it suddenly and hoped to the top of
the cage and shrieked, looking down
at the lying little creature. When the
parrot saw the bat was dead, it looked
at its mistress, jumped from its perch
to its ring and back again, laughed,
and yelled out;
What is it, mother2"
The value of the parrot had doubled
in the estimation of its owner since it
killed tho bat.-Philadelphia North
American
The times., 1889-07-12
Tho Zeal Lord FauntleroY.

Tho popularity of the book and play
which hinge upon the name of an
imaginary Lord Fauntleroy is such
that memories of an actual Lord
Fauntleroy are revived, and The
Pail Mall Gazette gives an inter-
esting account of the man of that
name who convulsed London over O
century ago with q series of forgeries
unheafd of before that time and
scarcely equaled since. Altogether
the titled forger stole something like
$500, ,000-the equivalent of 92, 500, ,00O
today. He was at the head of q bank,
and carried on his operations IL the
boldest manner. His gains were
squandered in riotous living, and he
vent to the scaffold in halo of
''glory" of the sort most dearly priced
by scoundrels of high and low degree.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The times., 1889-07-12
VALUE OF THE DOG IN WAR.
Some of the Uses to Which Our Canine
Friends Are Being Trained.

Friends Are Being Trained.
Veterinary Surgeon Bennett, in his
lecture at the United States institute,
told the interesting and strange story
of the war dog from Roman days
downward. Coming to Christian times
we are reminded of the war dog used
by the Spaniards in America; by the
Earl of Essex in Ireland during the re-
bellion; by the English in the defense
of Tangiers, when dogs saved the
guards from a great ambush of Moors;
of the famous French dog Mustache,
who detected surprise the first night
before Alexandria, who fought at Ma
rengo, saved the standard of his regi-
ment before Austerlitz, and was deco
rated on the battlefield. Then the lee
turer recalled how. after the famous
campaign of Gen. Skobeloff in Asia
Minor, the Russians decided to instruct
dogs as sentinels, and how finally the
Germans took up the question in 1856
and developed it until now dog can
carry back q message from outposts
more quickly than the best mounted
uhlans. There are at least five dis
tinct purposes for which trained dogs
can be used in war:
/. AS auxiliary sentnels to tho outposts and
5entries and TO the advanced. rear and flank
guards in general
2. AS scouts on the march, on reconnaissance.
and patrol duties.
8. AS dispatch bearers, on the march, in camp,
IN action, etc.
d. AS auxiliary ammunition carriers on the
march and in action.
6. Assearchers for the wounded and killed after
an engagement.
Coming to the best kind of dogs for
training, the lecturer had a good word
of course to say for the shepherd dog,
theretrieverand the spaniel, and for the
bloodhound as the dog par excellence
for tracking, for following up the enc
my into the mountains, through jun
gle and forest, and for running down
dakoits and other marauders.
And since the bloodhound scent is
so acute he would require neither to
hear nor see to give warning of the
approach of the foe at night or in
thick covert. In discussion among
some experts and distinguished and
doggy" general officers following
the lecture, it was pointed out
that the bloodhound, in sentry
work or on night marches, could
give warning by his nose alone of
the approach of strange bodies at
a distance of about 800 yards,
under favorable conditions of wind,
and that the bloodhound's steadfast-
ness by night and day in following up
human scent is such that although
crossed by deer and other game he
does not leave the leading scent.
of n. thr o1,,n of
the war dog in carrying ammunition
during action to the front, trained
retriever was shown girdled with his
leather saddle bags capable of carry
ing eighty rounds of the new rifle car
fridge. Altogether the dog appeared
to find considerable favor among the
audience gathered at Whitehall place,
and the general opinion seemed to pre-
vail that if he is ever lucky enough to
find official recognition of the war Of
fee he is destined to play useful part
in the game of our little wars.-Pall
Mall Budget.
The times., 1889-07-12
His Real Name.

Flowers have their book names,
known only by scholars, and their
common names, known by children
and people in general. Something like
this is true also of men and women,
especially in the rural districts.
A stranger in New Hampshire
country town was searching for the
house of friend.
''Can you tell me where Col. Thay-
er lives" he inquired of boy who
was passing by.
Don't know any such man." re-
piled the boy as he passed on; but sud-
denly turning back, he shouted:
"Ye don't mean Bin Thayer, do ye2"
"Yes," said the gentleman.
"Well, he lives right in that there
yaller house, the second to yer left"
explained the grinning boy.-Canners
and Grocers' Gazette.
The times., 1889-07-12
IN WREATHS OF SMOKE.

In wreaths of smoke, blown waywardwisA
Faces Of olden days uprise,
And in his dreamy revery
They haunt the smokers brain, and hs
Breathes for the past regretful sighs.
Memries of maids with azure eyes,
In dewy dells, meath June's soft skies,
Faces that more he'll only see
In wreaths of smoke.
Eheu, eheu! how fast Time files
How youthtime passion droops and dies.
And all the countless visions feel
How worn would all those faces be
Were they not swathed in soft disguise
In wreaths of smoker
Frank Newton Holman
The times., 1889-07-12

living room, 1lxl4, large pantry and china
closet. Second story contains three bed
rooms, 9x10, 10xll and l0xl2; sewing room,
7x9, and three closets
The times., 1889-07-12
Points AbOut Horses.

A horseman says there are certain
marked points in a good horse. "You
can see breadth and fullness between
the ear and eyes. You couldn't hire that
mare to act mean or hurt anybody.
The eye should be full and hazel is a
good color. l like a small, thin ear,
and want a horse to throw his ears
well forward. Look out for a brute
that wants to listen to all the CONVEX
sation going on behind him. The
horse that turns back his ears till they
almost meet at the points, take my
word for it, is sure to do something
wrong. See that straight, elegant
face. A horse with q dishing face is
cowardly, and a cowardly horse is
usually vicious. Then like a square
muzzle, with large nostrils, to let in
plenty of air to the lungs. For the
under side of the head, a good horse
should be well cut under the jowl.
with jawbones broad and wide apart
under the throttle.
80 much for the head" he contin-
ued.
1.-THE next thing is the build of the
animal. Never buy a long legged,
sti!ty horse. Let him have a short,
straight back and a straight rump, and
you've got a gentleman horse. The
withers should be high, and the
shoulders well set back and broad; but
don't get them too deep in the chest.
The fore leg should be short. Give
me a pretty straight hind leg, with a
hook low down, short pastern joints,
and round, mulish foot. There are
all kinds of horses, but the horse that
has these points is almost sure to be
slightly, graceful, good natured and
serviceable. kansas City Journal
The times., 1889-07-12
FIRST FLOOR.

FIRST FLOOR.
sitting room, 12xl5; living room, 1lx14, with
largo pantry and china closet. Second story
contains three bed rooms, 7x12, IL feet
inches x -, and llx14, with three closets.
Daily Republican., 1889-09-16
N. M8gary { Son,
FURNITURE
AND
CARPETS.
B. =. Cor 9Th and Tatnall Ct
AND
SIG TatnaII Street

Our fall line of Carpets
Is now ready for your In
spectlon; never before have
we had the pleasure of show
ing such an assortment. We
have to-day $50 more pat
terms to show than hereto
fore. Our stock comprises
the cheap grades to the best
and we are In a position to
sell lower than you can buy
the same goods in o t h G Z
stores; we say 1t and let you
judge when you see our car
pets and hear our prices. As
the best patterns are hard to
duplicate at the busy season,
you would do well to make
your selection as early d 9
possible. For the economI-,
cal and not over particular
buyer we have q few bar
gains this week 10 odd chairs
in some cases we have them
two or three alike others only
one; as they are all broken
lots we close them at half
price, in Walnut, Oak and
Imitation Walnut with cane
seats. We have also about
two dozen extension tables
to close at a like reduction
in lengths from 6 feet to 10.
We can sell you a good ex.
tension table from So 90 up |
wards. These are bargains |
that should be appreciated
by you and bargains that will |
not soon occur again.
Daily Republican., 1889-09-16

THAT cooperation caE be made
Success has been exemplifed by the
Wilmington Co operative Goa Com
pany, which celebrated its third ami.
versary last Saturday night. Three
years ago this company was formed
by few worklngmen for the purpose
OF obtaining coal at the lowest price,
and it was afterwards decided TO
give all who chose to patronize them
the benefit Of the organization. At
first they had almost insnrmountsble
difficulties to overcome, and for time
1t seemed as though the enterprise
would prove failure. They, how.
ever, persevered and under the care.
ful management Of Mr. Sova the sue
cess has been far beyond their most
Bsnguinc expectations. The company
started with one wagon, which for
some time did not have sufficient work
70 keep it busy all the time. hut by the
commencement Of the second year il
became necessary 10 have another
wagon built, and now, at tie com
mencement oi the third year the de.
mand has grown TO TN extent which
makes third wagon an absolute ne
cesslty.
This has been built by Bullock, and
is now only waiting the finishing
touches before being placed in service.
This company is no longer an expert
menL but an assured success, and
shows what can be accomplished by
working men through co operation. 1t
was not the ipteution, neither is II
now, 10 make large profits; all that is
desired is 10 realize suiiic ent 10 pay
expenses, and about the same interest
the members could realize for their
money If It was placed in a saving in
s.itution, consequently the coal is not
only sold at the lowest rates, but the
company ure now in condition to
regulate the price oil coal In this city.
ii working men can CO cooperate 80 sue
cessiully in one business, We cannot
ace why it cannot be done Just as ad.
vantageously in other ways, as CO.
operation is the only proper and com
mon sense solution Of the great labor
problem.