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Year: 1877

RICHMOND, September %, 1877.


Editors Dispatch: The death Of Lille
Bennett mentioned in your paper yesterday
reminds me Of the necessity Of "work-
house !" in this city. have more than once
years ago) brought this subject. to the no.
tice OF the Council, and much observation
has further convinced me OF the necessity Of
such an institution.


There are some people who become so de-
praved that they are beyond reclamation
unless under constant restraint. They be-
come so ,reak, morally, that they are com
pletely lost to seli-control. OF this there is
no question One of the means Of reform
ing such persons is to put them to work and
keep them at it. A workhouse is the only
place where this can be done. was pass
ing the almshouse some days ago, and saw
a hundred persons at supper using their
knives and forks with, deXterty and vigor,
and could not but think what mistake 1t
was to keep these people year after year In
idleness who had hands able to work, and
who would be more content II at work.


The mere weakness of the legs or back
does not necessitate weakness OF the hands
and arms, and with these almost any man or
woman may earn enough to supply 1000 ana
raiment. am satisfied that one half OF the
lHIldlcS VI tuC SnOtksC udSA thS
OF our Jail can be made to earn their bread,
and should do it.


Land near Richmond can be bought very
low at present. and the foundation OF q
workhouse could be commenced on an
economical plan that would grow and be-
come blessing to our city, the taxpayer
especially. The present colored insane
asylum would be good place to begin this
enterprise. The land is highly improved,
and, from the report some year or two ago,
il almost supported the inmates. The cost
OF feeding was q few cents (siX think) per
day. while the cost to the city at the aims
house is, suppose. fully twenty cents per
day. The asylum will be transferred to
Petersburg soon, suppose.


hope the Council will appoint a COM
mittee to look into this subject, and will
promise to furnish facts that will satisfy any
reasonable man that one Of the greatest
needs OF this city is q workhouse."
Whose heart has not ached at the sight OF
little boys with 4" ball and chain at work
on our streets, who should be learning some
useful trade In a workhouse? They are
exposed to shame in the daytime, and at
night to the debauchery of hardened crimi-
nails. Can Richmond afford to rear such
brood in her midst? Is it human thus to
treat her weak and helpless children? Let
conscience answer the question.


Yours, a. b. Z.
Year: 1877

The Street Work.-The work OF street
improvement Is being vigorously pushed
forward. When the work at present pro
iected is completed the committee will
doubtless give attention to the Hull-street
sidewalk. There are no less than nine very
bad places on the west side OF this street
between the canal and Bridge avenue.
Year: 1877

DON'T forget to attend the Ladies' Fair Of Leigh
Street Baptist church, corner Twenty-sixth and
Broad streets, on Monday night. The Amateur Band
have consented TO be hand to play for the ladies',
as 1t is the opening night of the Fair. All that will
attend will hear some good music.
Year: 1877

From s'A Bed of Boughs," by John Burroughs !;


Scribner for Noyemberi


Not the least of the charm of camping
out is your campfire at night. What
an artist What pictures are boldly
thrown or family outlined upon the
canvas of the nightl Every object, every
attitude of your companion is striking
and memorable. You see effects and
groups every moment that you would
give money to be enable to carry away
with you in enduring form. How the
shadows leap, and skulk, and hover
about Light and darkness are in per-
petual tilt and warfare, with first the
one unhorsed, then the other. The
friendly and cheering fire, whataequaint-
ance we make with it! We had almost
forgotten there was such an element, we
had so long known only its dark off
spring, heat. Now we see the wild
beauty uncaged and note its manner and
temper. How surely it creates its own
draft and sets the currents going, as
force and enthusiasm always will 1t
carves itself chimney out of the fluid
and houseless air. A friend, a minister
ing angel in subsection; fiend, fury,
monster, ready to devour the world, if
ungoverned. By day it burrows in the
ashes and sleeps; at night it comes forth
and sits upon its throne of rude logs,
and rules the camp sovereign queen.


Near camp stood a tall, ragged yellow
birch, its partially cast-off bark hanging
in crisp sheets or dense rolls.


That tree needs the barber" said
o-J Il Ioyo N oo1 fror,, liz
tonight"


So after dark he touched match into
it and we saw the flames creep up and
wax in fury until the whole tree and its
main branches stood wrapped in heets
of roaring fame. 1t was wild and
striking spectacle, and must have ad-
vertised our camp to every nocturnal
creature in the forest.


What does the camper think about
when lounging around the fire at night
Not much-Of the sport of the day, of
the big fish he lost and might have
saved, of the distant settlement, of to-
morrow's plans. An owl hoots off in
the mountain and he thinks of him; If
a wolf were to howl or a panther to
scream he would think of him the rest
of the night Is it Is, things flicker
and hover through his mind, and he
hardly knows whether it is the past OF
the present that possesses him. Certain
it is he feels the hush and solitude OF
the great forest, and whether he will OF
not all his musings are in some way cast
upon the huge background of the night
Unless he is an old camper-out there will
be an under-current of dread or hall
fear. My companion said he could not
help but feel all the time that there
ought to be sentinel out there pacing
up and down. One seems to require less
sleep in the woods, as if the ground and
the untempered air rested and refreshed
him sooner. The balsam and the hemlock
heal his aches very quickly. If one is
awakened often during the night, as he
invariably is, he does not feel that sedi
ment of sleep in his mind next day that
he does when the same interruption oc
ours at home; the boughs have drawn
it all out of him.
Year: 1877

The employment of torpedoes in naval
warfare, which has SO far been very dis
astrous to several Turkish vessels in the
Black Sea during the present war, is not
to be regarded as merely experimental
and hastily adopted, Overtwo years ago
the Gar, who looks after such matters
himself, witnesseda series Of experiments
with new species of torpedo which were
unostentatiously made at Cronstadt, the
port OF ST. Petersburg. After he had be-
come assured of the complete success,
from their instant and destructive opera
tions, of the torpedoes, the Gar ordered
that d torpedo cops should be formed at
CrOnstadt, and the manufacture of the
deadly mechanism be quietly proceeded
with. Originally, this corps consisted of
20 officers aud 40 picked men, who were
to be instructed in the making as well as
the management of torpedoes Last year
the numerical strength Of this body was
largely increased, and some of its most
efficient members are now attached to
the naval service in the Danube, where
they certainly have done good service IN
the war. 1t may here be added, that the
British Admiralty has now under con
sideIatiun the propriety Of adopting the
| torpedo as an Instrument of naval war
fare, and Of employing little fleet o
small and rapid steamers III connection
with their use. 1t is anticipated that tn,
leViathan iron-clads which were intended
to have an armament Of eighty and {
! hundred-ton cannon are getting out o
favor in Europe. The cost Of one ofthes'
ranges from two ami half to three million
dollars, and they have hitherto beel
chiefly remarkable for arrangements il


necessary to return to haI Dor for repair
after they have been at sea for a shol
time on trial trips. Armored gunboats c
moderate and manageable size will prot


ably be the war ships Of the future, all


that at no distant day.
Year: 1877

Many officers ard soldiers great y
disuug uished themselves during the
The execution of this brilliant move
meat but the youngest son of the
Grand Duke Nicholas did so in a par
ticularly brilliant manner.
Year: 1877

Hayes is elected at last' and we hope that we shall never hear the Democratic Party talk reform again. They have spent more money in their foolish investi- gation of the election, than has ever. been stolen or ever would be. K.
Year: 1877

1t has been demonstrated that at
certain intervals, when food is re-
ceived into the stomach, gastric
juice is secreted to digest it, and that
no more gastric juice is secrcted than
is required for the digestion Of the
proper quantity Of food.


1t person eat twice or thrice a
day, at regular periods, the gastric
Juice is secreted by the stomach to
digest the food it has received. 1t,
while the food is being digested,
more TODD is introduced into the
st, mach, digestion, in relation to the
food already in the stomach, is ar
rested. For instance: A person
takes, in the morning, a piece of
bread and several potatoes; now, it
will take about three hours for the
stomach to dispose Of the TO ID
Suppose the person, about an hour
after eating this food, takes piece
OF bread and an apple or two; what
would happen? The digestion that
was going on in the stomach would
Immediately stop, and not be resum-
ed until the food that was received
last was brought into the condition
Of the first. Suppose he took food
every hour, what would be the con-
sequence? The stomach would be-
come prematurely worn out and
could do nothing pertectly-worklng
all the time without rest. But if the
person possessed good constitution
and large amount of vital power,
he would not feel ut first this drain
upon the system, but sooner or later,
he would have to pay the penalty of
outraged nature. For / stance: A
person may have a large capital in
bank; he can live upon the interest
very well, but he draws upon his
capital. lie does not feel this drain
at first, because he has SO large y
bank account; but if he keeps on he
will become, sooner or later, il bank
rupt. Some persons have an enor-
nous amount of vitality-yood con
stitu,ions. 1t is said of these per-
sons that nothing hurts them; they
can eat and drink anything with i'm
punity. This is fatal mistake; see
how many years Of lite they are cut
ting off by such foolishness. If such
persons live to the age of 10 or 80,
they might have reached the age OF
100 or more years by better dietetic
habits.
Year: 1877

An exchange says: sit is Il mans
own fault if he is unhappy with his
wife, nine cases out of ten. 1t is 4
very exceptional woman who will
not be all she can to an attentive
hush nj, and still u more exception.
able one who will not be very disa-
greeable if she finds herself willtully
neglected. 1t would be very easy to
hate man, who, having bound a
woman to him, made no effort to
make her happy; hard not to love
one who was constant and tender;
and when u woman loves she always
strives to please.


The great men of this world have
often been wretched in their domes-
tic relations, while mean and com
mon bave been exceedingly happy.
The reason is very plain. Absorbed
in themselves, those who desire the
worlds applause were careless of
the little world ut home; while those
who had none Of this egotism struve
to keep the hearts that were their
own, and were happy in their tender
ness.


No woman will love man the
better for being renowned or promi-
lent. Though he be first among
men, she will only be proudar, not
tonder; and if she loses him through
his renown, as is often the case, she
will not even be proud. But give
her love, appreciation, kindness, and
there is no sacrifice she would not
make for his content and comfort
The man who loves her well is her
hero and her king. No less a hero
to her though he is not one to any
other; no less king though his on
ly kingdom is her heart and home"
Year: 1877

point having a fine, clear day, an ex


cellent set of angles to all the surround
ing points were obtained. From here
the party marched across the country
in a southwesterly direction to the
range bordering Green river basin on
the west, where two more points were
occupied. Along the foot hills in this
portion of the journey the party found
great quantity of game, such as elk,
deer, mountain sheep, and antelope;
also, they occasionally came across a
camp of Shoshone Indians, hunting,
but they were in no way disposed to
molest the party. At this point the
party came into the old Lander road,
which they followed for long distance,
and made station on a high point
just west of the Carbon gold mine,
where the party by chance met another
division of the survey in charge of Mr..
G.. R. Bechler, on their way to supply
station. Reports from Mr.. Bechler's
party indicated the best of success. The
party continued their march south and
east by way of Bear lake, where they
intend to measure check base, and
then carry the work as far south as
Ogden, Utah, and Evanston, at which
points the work will be connected with
that of the 10th parallel.
Year: 1877

ond Judicial District the State of Nevada in and for
the county of Ormsby. Roger Crow plaintiff, j. L.
Clegg and Florence Clegg and A. w Pray, defendants
Action brought in the District Court of the Second Judicial
District of the of Nevada in and for the county
Ormsby and the complaint filed in said county of Omsby
in the office of the Clerk of said District CourThe State
of Nevada sends greeting L. Cegg and Florence Cegg
and A. w Pray, defendants: You hereby required
appear in action brought against you by the above
named plaintiff in the District Court of the Second Judicial
Omsby and to the complaint filed therein "a COPY
of which accompanies this summons within ten days lex
elusive of the day of service after the service you
this summons-f served within this county, served
of this county but in this district within twenty DAYS
otherwise within forty days-Or judgment by default will


taken against you The said action is brought
close certain mortgage executed by defendants J. L.
and Florence Clegg to said plaintiff on lot No. Q in
block No six (6) in Rice Peters addition to the city of
Carson in Ornsby county, Nevada; which said mortgage
given to secure the payment of prOmissOry
made by defendants j. L. and Florence Cegg on the goth
day of May A. D. 1875, to plaintiff for the of six
hundred dollars and interest thereon at three @ per
per month all i'll gold coin Of the United States And
plaintiff decree of foreclosure of said mortgage and
that the moraged premises be decreed be sold and the
proceeds applied to the payment of COSTS attorneys fees
taxes, insurance and the principal and interest on
said note in gold coin of the United States and ii found
insufficient that Judgment be docketed against the prop
erty of defendants L. and Florence Cegg for any bal
ance found remaining due plaintiff All of which is more
fully forth in plaintiffs complaint file in office
And YOU are hereby notified that if fail appear and
answer the said complaint, above required the said
plaintiff will apply to the Court fer the relief demanded


Given under my hand and the seal of the District


Court of the Second Judicial District of the State


Lo of Nevada in and for the county of Ornlsby this
** oath day of August, in the year of Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy seven,


au25.law6w ALFRED HELM, Clerk.
Year: 1877

II 20 es~~1 -:cz---l- ~
of his calling. Yet nothing ismore COM
mon than to hear men finding fault con-
stantly with their particular business,
and deeming themselves unfortunate be-
cause fastened to it by the necessity of
a livelihood. In this spirit men fret,
and laboriously destroy all their comfort
IN the work or they change their busi-
ness, and go on miserably shifting from
one thing to another, till the grave or
the poor house gives them fast grip.
But while man occasionally fails in
life because he is not in the place fitted
for his peculiar talents, it happens ten
times oftener that failure results from
neglect and even contempt of an honest
business. A man should put his heart
into everything he does. There is not
a profession that has not its peculiar
cares and vexations. No man will es-
cape annoyance by changing business.
No mechanical business is altogether
agreeable.


Commerce. in its endless varieties, is
affected, like all other pursuits, with
trials, unwelcome duties, and spirit-tir-
ing necessities. 1t is the very wanton
ness of folly for man to search out the
frets and burdens of his calling. and
give his mind every day to considera-
tion of them. They belong to human
life. They are inevitable. Brooding
them only gives them strength. On the
other hand, man has power given him
to shed beauty and pleasure upon the
homeliest toll. if he is wise. Let man
adopt his business and identify it with
his life, and cover it with pleasant asso-
Citations. Heart varnish will cover up
innumerable evils and defects. Look al
the good things Accept your lot as a
man does piece of rugged ground, and
begin to get out the rocks and roots, to
deepen and mellow the soil, to enrich
and plant it. There is something in the
most forbidding occupation around which
a man may twine pleasant fancies-out
of which he may develop an hones
pride.
Year: 1877

DIDN'T STAND THE TESLA young
man read in the Ledger, few days ago,
that if you wanted to find out if the wo-
man you have selected for your future
spouse has a good temper, you ought to
take occasion to step on her dress, or
snap the sticks of her fan, or in some
way annoy or discompose her. III" said
the great authority who presided over
the column of advice, ''if she betrays no
sign of ill temper she will prove mod
Ell wife" Accordingly the young man
seized an opportunity when his sweet
heart was rugged in her most killing ar
ray to step on her trail, and pulling out
about three yards of gathers, with rip
like peal of thunder, exposing about
three-quarters of the. framework that
makes her dress stick out behind. But,
instead of meeting the accident with
perfect equanimity she turned around
and jabbed her parasol into his eye,
called him lunk-headed leper, and ask
ed him why he didn' 'twear his feet side
ways. He expressed himself as thank
full that he didn't marry the girl before
finding out what sort of temper she
had.
Year: 1877

The following upon the hotel business
is from the correspondent of the Glens
Falls Messenger:


We are told that hotel as board
ing place only is financial failure that
hotel cannot be sustained by the Ia
bles alone. and that bar is a financial
necessity. Ihold that the bars IN oar
public houses make the boarding depart
maemts a financial failure aoherevsr this
IS the case. A bar is to hotel what a
wart is to mans hand, or a wen to his
neck-a mere excresence. a false growth,
nuisance, a stencil, hindrance to true
growth. Abolish the sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors, take away the bars from. our
hotels, and the numb,r of public houses
keeping boarders would be decreased 95
per cent. This would narrow the busi-
ness of keeping boarders and entertain
ing the travelling public to paying ba-
SIS AS it is now, ninety-nine one hund-
redths of men who keep hotels have for
their prime object the sale of rum; or,
rather, the emphasis of their business is
put on rum selling, and the result is
that we have from fifty to seventy-fve
places in our village where a man can
get glass of whisky-his meals, and a
place to sleep as secondary considera-
tion. If he only wants whisky he can
have his choice out of one hundred and
seventy-fve places. Separate the busi-
ness of boarding men from the business
of making them drunk or teaching them
to gamble, and the very legitimate busi-
essfr Rsf Of Qkgt keesRs9s as We'll as any other business
Do away with the financial ruin and So
cial corruption wrought by rum, and
honesty and integrity would make mon
ey more plenty, and prices of everything
would come up into realm of living
profit. Force men or institutions into
false relations and unlawful conditions,
and friction is sure to come somewhere.
BE sure your SIN will find you out,
here as well as hereafter. Selling rum
in connection with any business will in
jure it, no matter how you fix it. Let
your grocer and clothier sell whisky, and
see how soon their business of supplying
human needs will be swamped by the
business of pampering to human passions.
Year: 1877

A printer sat in his Office chair, his
hAnte r-e-~ r,~t-I l II L.: ~zs.s si--s,,sa
bare; and his face looked weary and
worn with care. While sadly thinking
of business debt, old Morpheus slowly
round him crept, and before he knew it
he soundly slept and sleeping, be
dreamed that he was dead from trouble
and toll his spirit had fed, and not even
a COW bell tolled for the peaceful rest of
his cowhide sole. AS he wandered among
the shades, that smoke and scorch in
lower hades. he shortly observed an iron
door that creaking swung on hinges ajar,
but the entrance was closed with a red
hot bar, and satan himself stood peeping
out. and watching for travellers therea-
bout, and thus to the passing printer
spoke


Come in, my dear. it shall cost you
nothing, and never fear; this is the
| place where | cook the ones who never
pay their subscription sums for though
in life they may escape, they will find
when they're dead it is too late | will
show you the place where | melt them
thin with red-hot chains and scraps Of
tin, and also where comb their heads
with broken glass and melted lead, and
if of refreshments they only think, there
is boiling water for them to drink
there the red-hot grindstone to grind
down his nose, and red-hot rings to veal
on his toes, and if they mention they
don't like fire, I'll sew up their mouths
with red-hot wire and then, dear sir
you should see them squirm, while
roll them over and cook to turn"


With these last words the printer
awoke, and thought it all a practica
joke. but still at times so real did i
seem, that he cannot believe it was all ;
dream and often he thinks with ;
chuckle and grin, of the fate of thos,
who save their tin, and never pay th,
printer.
Year: 1877

A little elbow leans upon your knee,


Your tired knee, that has so much TO bear:
A chd's dear eyes are looking lovingly


From underneath thatch OF tangled hair.
Perhaps you do net heed the velvet touch


or warm, moist fingers, folding yours so tight;
You do not prize the blessing over-much,


You almost are too tired to pray tonight
But is IL blessedness? d? A year ago


did not see it as | do to-day
We are so dun and thankless and too slow
To catch the sunshine till it slips away.
And now it seems surprising strange to me.
That, while wore the badge of motherhood.
I did not kiss more Oft and tenderly


The little child that brought me only good
And II, some night when you sit down to rest.
You miss this elbow from youI tired knee
This restless, curling head from of your breast.
This lispng tongue that chatters constantly;
II from your own the dimpled hands had clasped
And ne'er would nestle in your palm again;
If the white feet into their grave had tripped,
could not blame you for your heartache theni
wonder so that mothers ever fret


Al little children clinging to their gowns:
Or that the footprints when the days are wet,
Are ever black enough TO make them frown.
II / could end little muddy boot,


Or cap. or josLot. Is. Sh~--Ns- a~~--,
If could kiss a rosy restless foot.


And hear its patter in my home once more.
II / could mend broken cart to-day


Tomorrow make kite to reach the sky
There is no woman in Gods world could say
She was more blissfully content than
But ah the dainty pillow next my own


Is never rumpled by a shining head;
My singing brdling from the nest is flown:
The little boy used to kiss s dead
Year: 1877

A farmer of York, Pa, recently set a
trap to catch cunning fox which had
been annoying him considerably by its
midnight visits among the poultry. AT
fourteen successive visits to it he found
the trap sprung, stick of wood between
its jaws, and the bait eaten up. The cir
cumstance, so often repeated, surprised
him. There were no other tracks to be
seen but his own and those of the fox,
and what sprang the trap was a ques
tion that puzzled him sorely. By con.
tinuing to rebait his trap he hoped tc
catch the author of the mischief On the
fifteenth night he found fine old fox
hung to it by the nose, and in his mouth
was stick of wood