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Year: 1869

An IMPORTANT JoINT Stock COMPANY
VIRGINIA STEAM SUGAR REFINERY.---In
1859 Mr.. Charles Yancey Morriss, u Virgi-
MIA gentleman of capital and great energy
and public spirit, erected on large lot in
the lower part of this city, and abutting
upon James river, all the necessary build
ings for first-class steam sugar refinery.
These large, massive, and imposing build
ings, with the handsome and substantial
wharves for the accommodation of vessels
or steamers of the largest size, constitute
one of the most imposing architectural fea-
lures of the portion of the city where they
stand.


And the enterprise of Mr.. Morriss,
although regarded as uncertain and hazard
Gus at the time of its inception, has proved
eminently successful. The sugars of his
refinery have acquired wide and general
popularity, and have the whole South for
market; ard arc in such demand as to defy
the efforts of the proprietors to supply the
orders of the trade. Entering the field
against the old and well-known establish
ments of New York and Baltimore, by the
employment of the best and most expe-
rienced workmen Mr.. Morriss has won for
our city the reputation of manufacturing
sugars as fine and good as any which were
ever refined in this country. The success
Of this enterprise, we are informed, has
been so great as to induce its proprietors
and a number of our leading men of busi-
ness to issue prospectus for the fcrma-
ton of joint stock company; which will
greatly increase the capacity for production
of the Richmond Sugar Refinery by in
crcasing its capital. AS similar course
has resulted most benefcially to other lead
ing manufacturing establishments of this
city, we sincerely hope that the efforts which
arc being made to increase the capital of
this most important branch of business will
be successful.


As capitalists who may desire to become
stockholders in the company will inform
themselves Of the probable results of their
investments in its stock, We need not enter
into the minute details of the prospectus.
But as this company is to be formed upon
the basis of the large and valuable capital
of an old and successful establishment,
it comes highly recommended to public
favor.


This, like every other prosperous manu-
featuring establishment in Richmond, adds
largely to the prosperity of every class,
grade, vocation, and profession, in our
city. With each addition to the capital Of
our leading manufacturing establishments
the prosperity of our city is placed upon q
more enduring footing, and secured be-
yond the risks and uncertainties of trade
and commerce.


Those who may wish to examine into the
condition Of this enterprise, and to obtain
the minute information which may be de-
sirablc to subscribers, can make the neces-
sary inquiries Mt the office of the Virginia
Steam Sugar Refinery, in this city.
Year: 1869

ANOTHER ANECDoTE OF COLONEL AU-
GUsT.-Here is another witticism Of the late
Colonel T. P. August. 1t is from the Pc
tersburg hde1:


being at Malvern Hill in command Of
q Virginia regiment, he was severely
wounded in the leg early in the engagement.
He had shortly before been nominated to a
seat in the Confederate Congress, but had
not determined to accept it. As he was
being assisted from the field, moving with
great pain and difficulty, he was met by a
friend who anxiously inquired, " Where
are you going, Colonel?'' His eye twinkled
as he promptly responded, Going to stump
it for Congress, my boy"
Year: 1869

The work before us is simple. We do
not ask sympathy. All that we desire is
Justice. The aim and end of al the labor
movements now convulsing the fairest por-
tions of the civilized world is to secure to
the producer the results of his labors, or q
proper exchange therefor. At present those
Year: 1869

Too SHARP BY HALF.-An enterprising
business man Of this city runs two branches Of
trade, to wit: grocery and fish market
The grocery he runs himself the fish market
by deputy, and every night the latter makes
returns Of the proceeds of the day business to
the proprietor.


A day or two since the grocer found in his
fish market returns a counterfeit five dollar
bill. He didn't like to lose it, and he didn't
quite want to take the chances of trying to pass
it. So he called an old darkey who was hang
ing about the premises, and said to him:


Sam, here S five dollar bill that's little
doubtful. If you will take it and pass it, Ill
give you a dollar out of the change"


Every well, said Sam, and he took the
bill and went off. Later in the day he return
ed, having accomplished the feat, and handed
over four dollars in good money to the grocer.
That night the grocer, in counting over the
cash returns from his fish market, was more
surprised than delighted to find the identical
five in the pile.


look here" said he, sharply, to his mar
ket clerk, "here's counterfeit bill who did
you take it Of? Didn't you know it was bad p


The clerk took it and looked at it for o mo-
ment.


"Oh! yes" said he, 81 remember now
I took it of Sam, the darkey. thought il
was little doubtful, and wasn't going to take
it but he said he got it Of you, SO | thought
it was all right
Year: 1869

If there is any one thing more than another
your American born citizen ofthe age OF elgh- |
teen and upward feels himself competent to do, |
without note of preparation or any study, it is
to edit newspaper. Take the men as they
come, upon the streets, and offer each one the
position of editor, and nine out of ten will ex-
press a regret that his other engagements pre-
vent his acceptance Of your tempting offer.
The tenth man will probably suggest that, not
being able to read and write, probably he had
better not try. Poor fellow, he is SO ignorant
as not to know that few editors read, and a yet
more limited number can write.


The temptation rendered by the oracular
"we" of the editorial column draws many to the
chair who would shine at a work bench. And,
as if this were not enough, the money made by
the successful of to-day lures on unencumbcred
incompetents to try their hands at the same
business. And yet the failure does not come,
in majority of instances, as much from bad edit
ing as from bad publishing. For one coupe.
tent publisher we can find 6fty-yes, hundred
editors. There is no business that calls so
much for economy, tact, enterprise, industry.
Of all the successful journals know OF, l can
not count one that does not owe its success to


the publisher while, on the other hand, no end


of brilliant writer's have made failures by not


having the business man at the back.


My first lesson in this matter came while en-.


gagged with Hon. Edward Marshall in printing


the Volunteer, campaign paper, for warm


ly contested election, in Hamilton county. We


labored hard, and we thought with great sue
cess. We were witty, learned, argumentativ'
and amusing We were, however, chagrined t.


discover that our brilliancy seemed lost on Gin


cinnati. There was no echo-no excitement
no recognition of our efforts; we assailed Oul
f opponents with sarcasm, irony, Latin ant
down right abuse, that made the editorial corp
+ of the Volunteer look to their pistols Ye


there was no response. What was most re
markable so few seemed to have the paper
+ The paper was certainly not well distributed
9 We made ourselves committee of two on il
vestigation, and proceeding to the printin
: house, found to our intense disgust, nearly a
+ of two weeks edition piled up in back room
t and our publisher on a monthly spree, drum
y as Bacehus
Year: 1869

THE Coal REGIoNs.-The Anthracite Coal
regions, now so much talked of in connection
with the miners strikes, include about all of
this variety of coal in the United States It is
405 square miles, and 107 lie within the limits
of Luzerne County. The total amount raised
in the whole State down to 1860 was over
eighty three millions of tons, of which Luzerne
furnished twenty-nine millions. The first COM
pany for mining coal was in 1892 and it was
five years before they shipped to Philadelphia,
and this venture consisted of thirty tons. The
city authorities conseHted to take it, and tried
to burn it under the boilers of the engines at
the water works, but it put the fire out. The
balance was broken up and used in place Of
gravel over the sidewalks, and only the black
smiths near the mines used the coal for home
use. The happy discovery was made by a
tavern keeper, Jesse Fell, of Wilkesbarre, who
concluded a good draft was alone necessary to
make it burn, and he built CRATE of green
hickory saplings, placed it in a large Fireplace
in his bar-room, filled it with broken coal and
put dry wood under the CRATE and set it on fire
the flames spreading through the coal, it wa'
soon ignited, and before the wooden CRATE bar
were consumed the success was proved anC
hundreds of people focked to the old taverI
to witness the discovery.
Year: 1869

WAY OF THE WoRLD.-Faith and friendship
are seldom truly tried but in extremes. To
find friends when we have no need of them,
and to want them when we have, are both alike
easy and common. In prosperity who will not
profess to love man in adversity how few
will show that they do it. When we are hap
py in the springtime of abundance and the ris-
ing food of plenty, then the world will be our
servants; then all will flock about us with ben
ded bodies and protesting tongues. But when
these pleasing waters begin to ebb, when ouI
wealth begins to leave us, when the waves OF
adversely begins to gather around us, then men
look upon us from distance, and those who
before bent the supple hinges of the knee be-
fore us, that thrift might follow fawning, look
coldly upon US. This is the way with the
world. Our fortunes and ourselves are SC
closely linked that we know not what is the
cause of the love we find. When these two
part company it will soon be apparent to which
affection will cling.
Year: 1869

THE SECRET OF SNUBBING.-Yo You go to call
on somebody, and are shown into drawing
room, where the lady of the house is sitting
with other visitors, engaged in conversation.
At your entrance chill seems to fall on the
company one person takes up a newspaper,
another photograph book, and so on, while
the lady of the house enters with you into a
discussion on the weather. She, perhaps, tries
TO make the others join in, but they only re
spond in monosyllables. You, of course, take
an early opportunity of going away, and hardly
have you left the room than you hear the buzz
of voices and sounds of mirth rising behind
you. Y ou feel decidedly 'snubbed, and why?
Because these people were all intimate with
each other, and, not knowing you, they deem
ed it suitable to behave as though there were
some good reason why they never could or
should know you, as if 10 secret bond to each
not to admit stranger into their fellowship.
Yet, ten to one, if you met any of them under
other circumstances they would be charmed to
make your acquaintance, and you would find
them very pleasant. 1t is simply that they
formed for the time being ''clique," and you
were an outsider. Clique" is indeed, in sober
earnest, the bane of society.
Year: 1869

The theory on which evening parties are con-
structed seems to imply the existence OF an
amazing faculty for amusement. We appar-
emily consider it sufficient to cram into room
twice as many people as it will comfortably hold
to make them all happy. We love each other
so much that we cant pack too tight. BY
squeezing number of apples into press we
can produce cider; and it is apparently be
lieved that in a sufficiently crowded mass Of
humanity, raised to the proper temperature,
there takes place kind of social fermentation,
possessing a certain spiritually intoxicating
influence. There is so much brOtherly love, L
suppose, permeating our constitutions, that it
only requires pressure to bring it out. And
therefore it may be from some peculiar moral
peIversiOn that in my case, and some others
which know, the fermentation somehow takes
place the wrong way; it all tuInS sour and
besides detesting the gentleman who stands on
my toes, and the other one whose bOny frame
work is imprinted in my back, L suffer from a
general misanthropy on such occasions, and
receive awful revelations OF the depths of hu-
man folly. That some persons are happy Is
perhaps probable; flirtations for example, may
take place at evening parties, as they certainly
do in shipwrecks, in hospitals, in the interior
of omnibuses, and other scenes OF almost uni
versal misery; but when l look round, with
! the conventional compromise between a scrOw
and simper, | fancy that | catch many an
swering symptoms of disgust on the faces Of
! fellow sufferers The true final cause of even
ing parties it may be urged is not pleasure
but business; they are frequented as the Stock
Exchange is frequented, with view to ulteriO
profit, rather than with any expectation of i'm
mediate returns in the shape of amusement
They are the markets at which we extend oul
social connections; and, perhaps, if Mr.. Mil
be- right, do little in the way OF slave-d dealing
That people should hypocritically continue t
express pleasure in attending them, if melan
choly, is only in accordance with our usua


practice in social grievances. We could no
get on without little lying and so long a


music is not add ed to the other torments pro
vided, / am ready to bear my part of the sui


fering with such stolid indifference as ca


command.
Year: 1869

A CANINE SAILoR.-A schooner hailing
from Clayton, now in port, has, to complete
It's complement, huge Newfoundland dog,
belonging to the Captain, which has sailed with
his master for the last six years. During a
storm, he mounts the cabin and exhibits the
utmost pleasure in watching the tumbling
white-caps as they dash around the vessel, and
when the men are making sail, the canine will
seize the rope and endeavor to bear hand.
He has twice been lost overheard, once of
Cleveland, when he swan two miles into port
remained stray dog for month, and was
found by the Captain on the deck when next
he visited that place. The crew have taught
him various tricks. one of which is to ring the
fog bell, which he will do with as much regu
larity as any man he will, also, with his paws
and teeth tie what is called the hard knot,
and will hold the painter of the small boat
alongside for an hour at time. -Dctroi
(Ihich.) Free Press.
Year: 1869

The telegraphis making progress--it is being
introduced into private houses in the West In
connection with little box which contains
lettered dial with steel pointer revolving and
stopping at the letters Of the message. 1t Is
much used for calling in the services OF the
nhvsician.
Year: 1869

A kind physician, living near Boston. wish
ing to sooth the last hours of poor woman
whom he was attending, asked her if there was
anything that he could do for her before she
died.


The poor soul, looking up, replied


doctor, l have always thought that /
should like to have glass butter dish before
7 died I"
Year: 1869

The chances in the world of woman with
large purse and small brain, are excellent.
Ditto man. 1t is as natural to worship money
as it is to seek shelter in a shower. We all
talk against it, think it the cause of vast evil
w,nder reo le car e such fools as 20 desire it.
and then make gigantic life effort to get it.
The truth is money is power. We all like it.
With it men are something under most any
circumstances.
Year: 1869

The far-famed Dexter was few days ago
driven by Mr.. Bonner on the Prospective Fair
Grounds in Brooklyn, making the extraordina-
ry time Of mile in 2 23&c This is said to be
the fastest time ever made to a road wagon.
Two years ago Dexter trotted mile in pub
lie race in 2. "a to skeleton wagon but on this
last occasion he carried nearly hundred pounds
more than on the former, proving that he is not
losing any of his powers.
Year: 1869

People are content to walk for life In the rut
made by their predecessors, long after it has
become so deep that they cannot see to the
right or left. This keeps, them in Ignorance
and darkness, but it saves them the trouble Of
thinking or acting themselves,
Year: 1869

In the town of s., in this State
lived some years ago couple who had
got tired OF the jars and troubles OF
welded life, and mutually resolved to
end them. But being rather short oi
this worlds goods, they hardly felt like
paying out the money necessary to OBJ
tain a divorce. So they went to the
old gentleman who joined them in
the bonds Of matrimOny some years
ago, and desired him to unite
the knor. The worthy old Squire
scratched his head, aud thought mo
ment, and told them that there was nc
way but to go to court. But hold,
says he, a. have it. You promised tc
live together and be true to each other
until death should you part. Come out
into the yard" Then seizing cat that
sat in the doorway, he directed John to
take her 10y the tail and Jane by the
head, and to pull apart. Then lifting q
sharp AK. he SAID, Now, death doth
you part" The Ak fell, and the couple
were divorced,
Year: 1869

The Virginia City, Nevada, Enterprise
says: A few days since we copied an
item from the Carson Appeal in regard
to killing fish with Giant powder. Yes
terday we had a conversation with a
gentleman who had some experience at
this kind of fishing. He says that
while stopping at the Warm Springs,
near Genoa. last week, he several times
went out with parties of gentlemen to
blast trout out of the Carson. The way
they practice. this new mode of fishing
Is as follows:


They take q cartridge of Giant pow
tder weighing about quarter of pound,
insert into it piece of fuse, properly
capped, about six inches in length, then
lighting the fuse the cartridge is thrown
into any deep hole supposed to contain
trout or other fish. After the cartridge
has been thrown into the water, smoke
and bubbles Of gas are seen to rise to
the surface, then in few seconds comes
the eXplosion-a dull, heavy report.
The surface of the water is seen to bulge
up and the ground can be felt to shake
for fifteen or twenty feet from the water.


Immediately after the explosion all
the fish that happen to be within cir
Gle OF twenty five or thirty feet of the
spot where the cartridge fell, come to
the surface either killed outright or so
badly stunned that it is some minutes
before they recover. Our informant
says that with two cartridges he saw
over fifty pounds of fish killed, count
ing trout, white fish and clubs. In
places after blast, the whole sur
face of the water. would be GOV.
cred with minnows from one to three
or four inches in length. At Elke they
are practicing the same style of
fishing only that out there they tie the
cartridge to the end of long pole and
thrust it into the water, holding it un-
til the explosion occurs. This is the
most destructive mode of fishing we
have ever heard Oft is a regular
wholesale slaughter of great and small.
good and bad. Should the practice
gain ground it will be necessary for the
Legislature 80 put stop to it by an act
making it criminal offence to fish with
Giant powder. Parties have already
been talking of trying this blasting
process in Lake Tahoe, where, by using
large cartridges, they expect to bring
up hundreds of trout at single shot.
Year: 1869

GENERAL CAssIUs NJ. CLAY, late United
States Minister to Rnssia has returned
home all unheralded and unrecepted.
No vast concourse of his fellow citizens
met him on tho shores of his native
country to welcome his return. He has
retired to the obscurity of his Ken
lucky home. The coldness and neglect
shown him since teach him the insta.
bility of political nctoriety; but CLAY
is not the an to learn by such lesson.
We shall probably hear Of him as soon
as a political campaign opens.
Year: 1869

tfT6Ul inc DakOIhldh'J


Your readers are more or less familiar
with the name of Two Bear, the greatest
Iadian chief in this portion of the coun-
try, of the Yanktou band Of Dakotas.
His party met with great disaster a
short time since. They were out on a
huAt and camped at the head of Knife
river. All day preceding that night on
which misfortune came upon them, they
said the air was full of smoke, but, being
calm day could not tell the direction
from W lich it came. About midnight a
brisk breeze sprahg up, and before they
could get out of their tepees the fire was
down upon them. 1t is scarcely possi-
BILE to describe the scene of confusion
that followed or the suffering endured.


The fire eonsuIaed sixty tepees, and
burned over sixty of the Indians, besides
many of their ponies. Nine Indians
have died, and there is band of forty
tepees out on the prairie that have not
been heard from since the fire. Most OF
the badly burned, also the ponies were
left with this band. Their provisions
and blankets, in many cases, were en-
tirely consumed, and their sutterlngs In
consequence sye great.


Two Bear Says the fire was worse
than his tight.with General Sully out at
the White Hill. If the suffering was
confined to the warriors alone it would
not be so bad, but it extended to women
and children. saw one baby with its
left hand nearly burned to a crisp, the
fingers were barued off to the second
joints, and the stubs or fingers were
drawn back. Tho little thing could not
have been more than eight months old;
its face and head were also badly burn
ed. 1t was crying bitterly, the mother
mourning most pitifully. The sight was
truly distressing.


Two Bear has gone to the Grand River
Agency to see if he cannot get some
thing for tepees, as the weather is
quite cold, having frozen to the depth
of an inch on barrels of water standing
ont door
Year: 1869

A cotemporary asks US whether we are
in favor of "an indefinite postponement
of specie payments" Indefinite post
ponement' 'Tis an indefinite question.
We are in favor of the postponement of
resumption until resumption can be
etfective-until we can have esumptien
that shall be substantial and not delu-
sive, a permanent reality and not a
cheat. We don't want resumption for
the sake of another suspension. This
might bouy up the spectators and cap
ltalists but it would sink tho people
Louisville Courier.
Year: 1869

A sick lady in New Haven was re.
Gently given TWO prescriptions, one for
liniment, tho principal ingredients OF
which were aconite (poisoD) ard chlo
roform, and the other for tonic, to be
taken in water. By some error the lady
took the liniment internally, and rub,
bed the tonic on the outside. She felt
queer and strange atterward, but some
how struggled against these feelings
and finally got better of her complaint
She was so thankful for her recovery
that, like the good Samaritan, she re.
commended the mixture to all her sick
neighbors, one Of whom tried it with
nearly fatal results.
Year: 1869

The New York Express notices as a
"bad trait of character" of the detective
police of that city, "the teracity with
which they insist upon the conviction
of a man whom they have arrested by
mistake and know to be guiltless OF
crime even by intent. Rather than be
accounted capable of making blunder
they would put the NEST respectable
citizens among US, if they had blundered
in taking hold of him for thief into
the deepest dungeon of Sing Sing for
life"