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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16
The Westmoreiand's Christmas En-
tertainmcnt.

The Westmoreand Club will give its
annual Christmas entertainment on Thurs
day evening. the 18th, between the
hours OF and u o'clock. The invitation
cards issued to members by Secretary j..
Il. Mosby say:
Experience has shown that the enter
tainments i'm the past have been uncom-
fortably crowded, because of the unlimited
invitations Therefore, 1t has been de-
termined by the board that no member
shall invite but one guest, and the in
vitations will be issued by the club only.
You must. therefore. at once forward TO
the secretary Of the club the name and
address Of the gentleman you desire in
vited. Invitations will have TO be pre-
scented at the door. as no others will be
respected"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16

the 18th day OF January. 1877. with the
understanding that the Chamber Is not
bound by any action OF this conference
until the plan there adopted has been
referred back to and approved of by the
Chamber.
There being no further business the
meeting then adjourned.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16

est price. Breaks to-day contained more
fine tObaccos than any previous day this
season. Prices for black wrappers ranged
from l0c. up TO Is lie. with numerous
sales above 12c. Although the weather is
so very bad to-day large numbers OF
wagons have already come in, with more
on the way. So sales will be large again
tomorrow. Bright breaks showed no
change to-day. either in prices or quality.
Wednesday, with first sale at Stonewal.
and second at Planters, at which latter
place lunch will be served buyers.
Mr.. r. l.. Dibrell, of Danville, Va, was
here to-day.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16
a Lady Baker Assigns.

Mrs. Lucy c. Guide. who conducts a
bakery at No. 30 west Marshall street,
filed a deed Of assignment in the office
of the Clerk of the Chancery Court late
yesterday afternoon, naming Mr.. Gilbert
X. Pollock. as trustee. The liabilities are
about 5000. and the creditors are classi-
fed as follows:
First-L. o. Wendenburg, for profess
sional service. 500; employees. such sums
as are due them.
Second-J. y. GUIDE, Sl,s6l.9S; j. W. Blan-
ton, $3.50
Third-All other creditors ratably.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16
The Good Government League Meet

Owing 10 a misunderstanding in the time
and place of meeting, the Good Govern
ment League. which was 10 have met last
night to formulate plans for and perfect
a permanent organization. adjourned over
until some future day which will be an
nounced IN good time Mr.. Nirginius New
ton. chairman Of the Committee on Per-
manent Organization. had ready his re-
port, giving a plan of organization. and
he read it TO the gentlemen present II
was informally discussed. but ii was de-
cided to defer its consideration until a
full meeting of the league could be had.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16
y-op,ou.x Christian Association.

The Board Of Managers Of the Woman's
Christian Association met, as usual. at
No. 700 east Franklin street, on Monday
at noon, Mrs. NJ c. Smith, vice-president,
I'm the chair. Mrs. G.. a. Lyon reported
progress Of an entertainment being got
ten up for the Day Nursery and Free Kin
dergarten, which will take place in
February. It IS hoped the public will
give liberal patronage.
The election OF matron for the Woman's
Christian Association will take place in
January.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16
Increase the Pastors Salary

At a recent meeting Of the Board OF
Stewards Of st. James Methodist church,
IL was decided to add 800 to the salary
of Rev. w. r. Beauchamp for the present
conference year. This action was taken
in appreciation Of the pastors zeal during
the past year. and his untiring labors In
behalf OF his charge.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16
Clear weather Promised To-Day.

The weather maps. issued daily by tho
local section Of the Department OF Agrl-
culture. under the direction OF SIR Ed
ward A. Evans. have been remarkably ac-
curate since their institution. The APP
proach Of wind and storm and rain has
been told with great exactness. and In this
connection ii will be interesting to note
in yesterdays map that the weather will
clear this morning, and be fair this after
noon. The north wind will continue to
depress the mercury.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16
Mr.. burnett Improving.

Mr.. a. W. Burnett railway postal
clerk between West Point and Richmond,
IS now at the Windsor. corner Of Eighth
and Franklin streets. where ne is recov-
ering from an operation. performed by
DR. 4. Sills Daniel. about week since.
Mr.. Burnett has been in the railway-mail-
service for twenty-four years. He now
lives at West Point.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16

Cards. Bnl-Heads. Statements. Letter.
Heads. Note-Heads. Circulars. Handbilis,
Dodgers. etc. printed by the Dispatch
Company at low prices. VIII give you
good work at same prices you pay for
Inferior work. Send MS your orders and
we will guarantee satisfaction in every
particular
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16
GRAIN AND COTTON EXCHANGE.

Richmond, Va, December -, IN15.
Quotations: Wheat-Longberry. IS "a
&c; mixed 81 to CSC; shortberry, 81 to
Sjc.; No. red, % TO CSC. COrn-White Vir-
ginia - to 30c.; No. white corn, % 10
SOC; No. 2 mixed. q ID to 2Sc. Oats-No
2 mixed. q IL 10 PC. No. mixed. 20 1-2 10
dc; winter seed oats, 81 to 36c. Rye, 80
to 4}c,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16
BONDS.
BALTIMORE STOCK MARKET

BALTIMORE, MD, December b.
Virginia 3s, new. % 1-2G74 -; do, Cen
fury bonds. G01-S060 10; Baltimore and
Ohio lJQl6; Gas, stock, 60 81; do, bonds,
Us los.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16

Richmond, Va. December Is. 1896.
No auction sales on Change to-day. and
private 81 les very light.
Revenue collections: Cigars and cigar
cites, s3.54.3J; tobacco, Sl,7S5.9S. Total,
$5.ei733
park loose sales to-day. 1905 pounds,
with 10 lie. at Shockoe Warehouse high
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16
PORT or RICHMOND, DEC. Is, 1886.
ARRIVED.

ARltINED
Steamer Virginia. Porter. Baltimore,
merchandise and passengers; Baltimore
Steam Packet Company.
Steamer Pocahontas, Graves. Norfolk;
merchandise and passengers; Virginia.
Navigation Company.
Schooner Warner Moore. Crockett.
Charleston; phosphate rock; Virginia.
Carolina Chemical Company.
SAILED.
Steamer Virginia. Porter. Baltimore:
merchandise and passengers; Baltimore
Steam Packet Company.
Steamer Winyah, Simmons. Philadel-
phia, merchandise and passengers; J. w.
McCarrick. agent.
PORT OF NEWPORT NEWS. DEC. IS.
OBy telegraph
ARRIVED
Schooner l.. sutton. Portland.
Steamship Oswestry. Bristol.
Steamship Oxfordness, Hueiya
Schooner ID. j.. Poole. Salem.
SAILED.
Steamer Saturn. Boston.
Barge Ringleader. Boston.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16
The DOORS ARE OPEN.
YOU ARE WELCOME.

Office hours . a. vi. to az. vi.
sundays, for the accommodate
non of those who cannot come
Turing the week, . to . l.. Nj.
200 East Main street.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16
rOvDON MONEY MARKET.

LONDON, December b Bar silver,
god. Consols Ill Is for money, and Ill 3-S
for the account.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16

Old papers FOR sale at the Dispatch
Office.
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FINANCIAL.

MONEY TO LOAN
We have several sums OF MONEY NON
on hand that We can place without delay
on RICHMOND CITY REAL. ESTATE.
SUTTON & CO..
de 1881 corner Tenth aud Bank streets
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

MINIATURE ALMANAC. DEC. is, 1896,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-16
RICHMOND TOBACCO MARKET.

Quotations are for bonds maturing IN not
efs than ten years.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-28
ERIE MEDICAL CO., BUEFAL0,n.Y.

that's why-that's the explanation of it
all, father g.;
The dean looked mystifed, so she CON
tiuued.
You know Charlie, don YOU: He's IL
dear, good boy, but too fond of actresses
II think he always liked me II bit, but
we poor girls have no chance against
stage beauties. The young men of the
present day like something lively. Wild
horses would not have dragged Charlie
into cathedral society. But I wasn't go
ing to lose him. g. think l have gotten
even with the Beauties of the English
Stage, ell, father
The dean smiled at her worldiness. He
WAS not sure that he wasn't bit worldly
himself He had been buried so long in
the mustiness of Mudcastle that perhaps
he. too, would have liked to see life
You were the beauty of the English
stage, " he said, slyly, and not without
pride, for he was still Il man.
II am now going to be beauty of the
English church-first in the series of the
illustrated papers. | returned to the old
life ot-day; for. though the stage gave me
husband, it was the church that mar
ried us.
Lady Beaucaster is the patron saint of
all bazars, and even acts for charities She
does not, however, appear in the charac-
ter that made her famous From Lon
don Truth
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-28
NEW CATcHER,s MASK.
May De Thrown Up and Out of the Way
@in When Necessity Demands.

May De Thrown Up and Out of the Way
@aA When Necessity Demands.
Every attendant ut baseball games has
noticed how much a catcher's mask is in
the way when he runs to catch foul
ball. He must first throw the mask off
and then run the chance of stepping OH it
or stumbling over it. Then, when play
is over, there is Il delay while he read
justs his cap and mask. y Hartford,
Conn, genius has invented Il mask which
can he instantly thrown mp and out of
the way, like II visor of il helmet, and NAV
he as readily replaced. The inventor is
William Gray, who long ago conceived
the idea that II mask to protect the
catcher's face would be Il good thing His
idea was then laughed ut by all ball play
erS and others interested in the game, so
he did nothing with it Not long after
that Harvard man invented and put on
the market just such il mask. Now every
catcher wears one when playing up under
the bat Some time later Mr. GRAY in
vented and patented the catcher's pad.
which Is now universally used He is
also the inventor of the Gray telephone
pay station.
His latest invention, the improved
mask, is well protected as to patents. 1t
Is as much of an advance over the old
mask as that was over no covering at all
for the face. The pad frame is held
firmly on the catcher's head by the usual
arrangement of straps. When the
catcher wants To cover his face, he lets il
down and it is held in place by spring.
If foul is popped up in the air, IL touch
of the hand throws the mask instantly up
and back. leaving the catcher's vision free
from interference. The mechanism is of
the simplest kind, there being nothing
to get ont of order
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-28
DRINKS FOR THE SICK.

Drinks properly prepared are quite as
important to the sick room as food.
Especially during the summer season.
and when suffering from febrile condi-
tions. Will the value and advantages of
cooling and refrgerant drinks he appre-
ciated, while mucilaginous demulcent
fluids will be found soothing to irritable
diseases of the alimentary canal and pull
monary and urinary systems.
Imperial drink. --Dissolve from two to
three drachms of cream of tartar in one
quart of boiling water, add the Juice of
one lemon and a little lemon peel and
sweeten with sugar. When cold it NAV
he taken freely as Il cooling drink and
diuretic. y valuable drink in threatened
sunstroke and passive congestion of the
brain.
Lemonade.-Pare thinly the rind of Il
lemon and cut the rind into slices Put
the peel and sliced lemon into Jug with
an ounce of white sugar and pour over
them one pint of boiling water. Cover
the jug closely and digest until cold
Strain or percolate the liquid Citron
may be used instead of lemon and like
wise furnishes a grateful and refreshing
beverage
Milk lemonade. 1.2 pounds,
dissolve iii a quart of boiling water, to-
gether with a half pint of lemon Juice and
l l2 pints of milk. This makes cooling,
agreeable, nOurishing beverage
Linseed tea.-Place in Jug one ounce
of bruised linseed, two drachms of bruised
licorice root, half ounce of white sugar
and two tablcspoonsful of lemon Juice
and pour over them one pint of boiling
water. Cover lightly and digest for three
or four hours near Il fire. Strain through
linen before using This makes mucil-
aginous liquid possessing demulcent
properties and of special value in bron-
chial and urinary affections.
Barley water with white of an egg
Take tablespoonful of coarse barley and
wash well with cold water rejecting the
washings. Then boil for an hour or more
with a punt and Il half of clean water in
Il covered vessel or saucepan Add a
pinch of salt enough sugar to render it
palatable and strain. To four or six
ounces OF barley water thus prepared add
the white of an egg. The value of this
preparation in gastro-intestinal infam-
nation and irritation is not easily over
estimated. In the entero coiitis of very
young infants its exclusive administra-
ton for thirtysix or forty-eight hours
will often relieve when all other measures
have failed.
When patient cannot be raised from
the bed without risk of exhaustion. a
medicine tube or crockery fender should
be used. but the same appliance. or even
one of the same appearance should not
be used for administering both food and
medicine. The patients mouth should he
Kept clean and fresh, as should also all
external surroundings.-Bos Journal.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-28
HOW GENERAL WASHINGTON SCI
\ HITCHING POST.

In the village of Southport Conn. is
preserved piece of cedar post which
Washington helped to set in the ground
at harrington. The story associated
with the post is told by the Rev. \. y.
Lewis, in published address:
lie was out walking with his host
when he came to man who was plant
ing hitching-post in the ground 10y the
roadside. The general said:
My friend can show YOU how TO set
your post so that it will never rot
Taking it in his hands, those great
hands of his, he placed it upside down
and held it while the man filled up the
hole and "tamred" the earth around it,
1t Is we'll known fact that II post set
bottom side up in the ground will not
absorb water. The sap tubes will not
draw when the post is reversed
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-28
BUZzARD'S on THE BAY.

y cuckoo of the legion sat lonesome on
the road:
1t was past the time for Matching. as the
weather signals showed;
But comrade stood beside him as his
feathers blew away
For he was born at Buzzard sat Buz-
Yards on the Bay.
The lonesome cuckoo faltered as he took
his comrades hand,
And he said; line boss silence is hard
to understand;
Is there not IL word or token from the
lone rock far away?
oh, what's the news from Buzzard s.
from Buzzard's on the Bay
And the pale moon she rose slowly, and
calmly she looked down,
But she answered not the question as the
wild winds passed it 'roun';
Yes, calmly on that cuckoo's nest she
shed her silvery ray,
But she brought no news from BuZZard' :
from BuzZard's on the Bay
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-28
VEST POCKETn SODA WATER

y curious apparatus for making soda
water at home Is being shown by an En-
gish concern. The method comprises the
compression Of the liquid carbonic acid
at sixty atmospheres into small steel
pear shaped cartridges about five ighths
OF an inch in diameter at the largest part.
Such cartridge is placed in the mouth
piece attached TO II soda water bottle, and
cap is closed over it. In completing the
closure tiny ebonite plug III one end of
the cartridge or gas drop i punctured
and the gas escapes into the bottle. dis
solving in the water Twelve of these
drops weigh three ounces
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-28
For peach crates go to catogni Bros.
YOUR BOY WON'T LIVE A
MONTH.

So Mr.. Gilman Brown. of "a Mill
street. South Gardner, Mass, was told
by the doctors. His son had lung trouble
following typhoid malaria, and he spent
three hundred and scventy-five dollars
with doctors, who finally gave him up,
saying: Your hoy won't live month. -
He tried Dr Kings New Discovery. and
a few bottles restored him to health and
enabled him to 90 to work a perfectly
well man. He says he owes his present
good health to use of Or Kings New
Discovery. and knows it to he the best in
the world for lung trouble. Trial bot
ties free a. Paul Massie's Pharmacy.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-28

Mrs. Rhode Noah, of this place, was
taken in the night with cramping pains
and the next day diarrhpa set in. She
took half a bottle of blackberry cordial,
but get no relief. She then sent to me
to see if had anything that would help
her. | sent her bottle of Chamberlain 5
Collie. Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy
and the first dose relieved her. Another
of our neighbors had been sick for about
a week and had tried different remedies
for diarrhoea, but kept getting worse.
sent him the same remedy. Only four
doses of it were required to cure him.
He says he owes his recovery To this won
derful remedy. AIRS. Mary Sibley, Sid
ney, Mich. For sale by the Chas. Lyle
Drug Co
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-28
SUPERFLUOUS

The comments made on certain forms
of art by the uninitiated are often origi-
nal and amusing.
y New Hampshire man, who was
spending the day with some city relatives
at a large show estate in the suburbs
OF Boston, looked with strong disapproval
mt the weatherproof plaster statues
which were TO be seen at various points
on the beautifully kept grounds.
Five scarecrows!n he calculated scorn-
fully, five scarecrows on about.two. acres
O plasture landi Ones plentv,''
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-28
HOW TO KEEP WATER COOL ECO
NOAlIC ALLY

This may he rs old as the hills and the
forests prmeval, and all that sort of
thing said Mr.. Goslington, ''but it
wasn't TO me, and that was an economi.
cal way of keeping drinking water cold
without using up the ice in the refrigera-
tor. 1t Is rather a slow way of cooling
the water-it takes three or four hours to
cooi quart bottle thoroughly; but by
keeping two Tor three bottles on the ice all
the time, and putting in new bottle
whenever one is empticd. it is easy to
keep on hand supply of cool water -
New York sun.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-28
SERIOUS MISTAKE.

y song with the title, There's Sigh
in the Heart was sent by "A young man
to young lady but the paper fell into
the hands of the girls father, very I'M
sentimental physician, who exclaimed:
What unscientific rubbish is this
Who ever heard of such n case?''
He wrote on the outside: Mistaken
diagnosis no sigh in the heart. possible
Signs relate almost entirely To the lungs
and diaphgram.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-28
THEY ACTED UPON INSTINCT

According to the Green Bag, an Irish
judge tells the following story of one of
the juries in the south of Ireland. where
he was trying IA case. The usher of the
court proclaimed, with due solemnty,
the usual formula: "Gentlemen of the
jury, take your proper places in the
court whereupon seven of them, in
stinctively walked into The dock
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-28

When Baby was sick; we gave her Castori,i.
When Size was Chiid, she c. ed for Castoria.
When SEE became Miss, she clung to Castoria-
Wben she hal Children. she save them Cast oria.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-28
BIG THINGS AND LITTLE THINGS

Sometimes we hear it said of big men, 3"
said Mr.. Billtops. THAT they are so
thoroughly familiar with the work under
their control that there is no part of it
which they could not themselves perform
but it does not necessarily follow that Il
man who can I do little thing we'll can t
do big things i dare say, for instance,
that there are men who could lay ont a
railroad who couldn't drive spike -
New York sun.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-28
COLD SODA WATER.

Here is variation of the cold soda
water sign; soda water cold as charity. -
New York sun.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-28

her womanhood that any disturbance of this
sensitive organism throws tue whole system
out Of harmony. Female weaknessn
causes nine tenths of all the wretchedness
which women endure. L. can never be per
manently relieved by local treatments.n
That is generally all expensive, embarras
ing, useless make shift. What is needed ia
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription to reach
the innermost sources of the trouble and,
restore health and strength directly to the
internal organs. This stops the weakening
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DR.. Pierce is the Chief Consulting Physician.
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Buffalo, N. Y. He has made ife-study of wo-
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his great work, The Peoples Common Sense
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ton of diseases peculiar to women. Successful
means Of homctreatment are therein suggested
making it unnecessary to employ a physician
or to submit TO his examinations ard the
stereotyped, but generally useless, local treat
ment." Twenty-onc Al one-cent stamps TO
cover cost of mailing only will bring n copy
OF this useful book. Address. Worlds Dis
pensary Medical Association. Buffalo. N. Y.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-12-24
PECULIAR GRATITUDE.

= 3 = "
There was a time, and not so long
ago either, when the Minneapolis
was the favorite Twin CITY
newspaper with the country press.
That was before the Journal INDUCED
in so much gratuitous abuse Of the
country press. Just why the Minneap.
oils Journal should constantly refer to
the country newspapers as the ina
chine press, is not apparent. 3 The
effort of the Journal to create a Mime
apolis machine and to be its most alb
ject slave is well known. Evidently
the disappointed Journal lays the fail
ure of this scheme wholly to the coun-
try press and is correspondingly bitter,
and now, like a querulous and disap-
pointed old woman its every issue
reeks with SANDER and ridicule Of its
country brethren. 1t was the country
press that gave the Journal its stand
ing and popularity in the country, and
this is the reward it is receiving. The
country press should resent it's wrongs,
and it will. Oftonville Herald Star. s..