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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1002.
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CITY POLITICS.
That Is a. curious conclusion to which the
?Ropubllcan .City Commlttoo has come.
It foresees "tho disintegration of tho
D?mocratie party, -and it will accept as
evidence of good faith a small voto ln
tho next Democratic primary In this city
its tending to show tho sentiment of
voters t? rid themselves of tho present
form of municipal and legislativo govern?
ment." ,
Oh, shrewd and farseelnsr Rtatosment
There never Is anything but a smnll voto
cast when none other than legislative
nominations aro to be made, and In this
Instance this city has not ovon a Senator
?to nominate. True, a Senator has to bo
elected in November, but Mr. Karman,
?who Is a candidate for the position, has no
opposition.
The turn-out In a local primary usually
depends upon tho Interest developed by
tho multiplicity of candidates. Here we
havo seven candidates for the Houso of
Delegates, anil five aro to bo nominated.
City oommltteomen are to bo "elected"
at the samo time, hut that election, we nro
sorry to say, never attracts tho attention
It ought to. Seo how many candidates
Henrlco had, and what a whopping big
vote was polled at tho recent Democratic
primary there. A like sight will bo seen
In this city next year, when municipal
nominations aro lo he made. There tire
some Indications that the Mann liquor law
will bo drawn into tho controversy bore
this year, and that offers tho only pros?
pect for a "fight" that will arouse the
attention of voters.
Our Republican friends propose to tako
things entirely too easily, or olso they
are seeking to lull us luto falso security
with tho purpose of encouraging Indepen?
dent candidates to come out.
To forestall them tho thing for-"Demo?
crats to do is to register at tho regis?
tration -beginning on tho 15th, and to
vote at tho primary and at the general
election later. Tho weather Is getting
cool and a little political exercise will do
most voters good. It can certainly do no
harm, and It will be a fino preparation for
the municipal election year, 1004.
Those who registered last year will not
have to register again this year,
DEGREES OF DRUNKENNESS
The average observer thinks ho can
ver*,? readily toll whon a man ho happens
to meet Is drunk. The average man who
sometimes gets drunk also ls of tho opin?
ion that he can figure out with mathe?
matical certainty when ho i's "pvor seas,"
Both may be right, but tho fact remains
that there ls a great difference of opin?
ion when wo como to consider when a
roan Is really Intoxicated.
The stock argument of tho temperance
lecturer Is that a man Is drunk as soon
as ha swallows one drink; he l'a twioo as
drunk with two, ?nd throe times as drunk
when three draughts of the accursed bov
erago have found lodgment beneath his
hide. A finer lino than this ls soinotlmes
drawn by thos? total abstinence advo?
cates who recosnlze tho fnct whiskey af?
fects diferent persons differently, acr
cording to mental and physical conditions
for -the timo being. This class will con?
tend that If (en'drink.11 will mako a man
drunk, then as soon as ho takes ono drink
he Ib ono-tonth drunk, and by this sim?
ple mathematical table they arrivo at tho
diff?rent degrees of drunkenness,
These divergent views have always left
the question of the lime of absoluto
drunkenness a mutier of doubt In tho
minds of mnny able thinkers and scholars,
but hero comes one Judge Wheeler, win
presides over thu United Stutes court foi
the Vermont circuii, und he settles the
Question Judicially once for all, or, a
least, until the higher court, the Supremi
Court of the laud, shall unsettlo Inn
end his able <>piiil<-,n, which It may do
Judge WhoQler bus recently boon calici
upon In his Judicial capacity, In decldlru
a motion for a new trial, to determini
whether f|r not !V man had been jhtpx'j
c.-ned within the meaning of a Ufo Insur
onco policy, in the application fur whlcl
?he Insured had stated that h? bad neve
been i'n tluit condition, \Va ran give bu
a eyllabua of Ilio case, which in ? ri-iiiuik
able one, for the reason Hint It appears
the man who had secured ? in?, policy an
afterwards died had been In tho Inibii <
drinking w a decree 'that ordinary ob
servers consider excessive.
According to tho evidence, as appeal
by the opinion of Judge "WhEeler, nini,
wltiiessea tostlfled to tho young anan In
leg hilarious ???-i noisy and walking wit
dlitlculty from drinking when out wli
younu people. Thoy also told of his fu:
ftrfvtng and bla iuuijUi?y to ?it up stral?;]
when driving from the ?ame ei?iflo, but
they dimllfled -this on cross-examination
with the admission that they had mvtt
seen hlhi in a condition wi.en he was
ncttinlly imnbto to drive. Some of the wit?
nesses testified to his acting as it crazy
with liquor at timos, nnd a physician told
of finding him In it state of seilte alco?
holism when examining him for commit*
mont to a retreat.
Judge Wheeler then quotes from ? work
of medical Jurisprudence, which claeslfles
Intoxication nie befug of threo gradea. The
first of thes? Is when "tho ldehs are un?
commonly vicious, nnd consequently
ly the empir? of tho understanding over
Ills actions is ho llttlo weakened that
Iho individual perfectly retnlns the con?
sciousness of his external condition, and,
? fact, may bo ?said to be in complete
aossesslon of hla senses." In tho soc
snd degree, he says, "the man has still
tho use of his senses, though they are
remarkably enfeebled, but ho is entirely
beside himself, memory and Judgment
having abandoned him, and ha acts as if
he only lived for tho present, with no idea
if the consequences of his actions nor
Iholr relation to ono anothor." As to the
last degree of intoxication, ho says, "a
man not only loses tho possession of hi's
roason, but his senses are so enfeebled
that he is no longer conscious of his ex?
ternal relations."
Tho Judgo continues that the man wtio
took the Insurance policy ln Ihls particu?
lar case has beon, as tho evidence showed,
many times withi'n -the description ot tho
first degree, and perhaps within thai, ot
the second degree, but never within that
jf the last degree. Ho camo to tho con-'
elusion, from tho whole case, thott the
mernbors of the Jury wore Justified, ln
tho oxorclso of theft? judgment, in de?
ciding that this man had nover been
Intoxicated within tho meaning of his
wa'iV-nVity ?o |ho company when tho
policy was lasttod, and 'that thorcrfore the
Insurance company should pay tho money,
and ho allowed the verdict of the Jury
to Btand.
* THE LABOR QUESTION.
Cotton Is high, but so are wages of
field hands, and lt Is said that the net
profit of planters will bo nothing like
so largo as somo persons have supposed.
It was to bo expected as a matter of
course that the Increased selling price
of tho stnple would bo followed by an
advance ln wages, but tho advance ts
said to be out of proportion to the en?
hanced value of tho product. Howea-er,
that may bo, In some localities cotton
pickers in sufficient numbers are not
to bo obtained, hundreds of negroes hav?
ing abandoned the country and gone to
tho cities and towns, and the working
whlto population Is not numorous enough
to supply the deficiency.
Tho question now much discussed tn.
tho South Is' Whero Is tho labor that is
so sorely needed to be secured.
One suggestion Is that Italian Immi?
grants is brought in in largo bodies; an?
other is that Chinese coolies bo import?
ed. Neither projoot offers any prospoct
or rollof. Congress Is not going to amend
tho Chinese exclusion laws. The entire
Pacifia coast would bo against that propo?
sition, and the labor unions throughout
the country would bo unanimously op?
posed to lt. Besides the southern people
would bo hopping from the frying- pan
into tho fire by swapping the negro for
tlie coolie, and tho coolie would leave .the
plantation just ns soon as he found that
ha could do better ln tho cities than ln
tho country. Again tho Introduction of
another alien race into tho land "would
not bo beneficial. In timo tlio coolio would
liocorno a problem ns difficult to solve as
that now presented by the presenoe of
the negro.
Tho Italian agricultural laborer bas
been tried to somo extent in Louisiana,
nnd in other Statos, but he will not
go to tho cotton plantations unless In?
fluenced by high wages. Ills Ignorance ot
our language and methods of field culti?
vation would bo ngalnst him anyhow,
as It would be against the coolie; but the
Italian has plenty of countrymen in
America,, mnny of tliom well to do, and
theso would help him to bettor employ?
ment than the plantations could offer
him. Ho would naturally soek advanoe
mont, and that would lead him from the
country to the city.
So it soems that tho labor which tho
South will have to depend upon is that
ot Its whites und of such negroes as ar?
content to remain In tho country districts,
supplemented by Immigrants who oan
start In a small way as land owners.
But to get these Immigrants wo must
off or Inducements superior to those
offered by other communities. They will
not coma South merely to help us out of
a holo. And what Is true of the cotton
States is true ot Virginia. Both must have
inducements to offor and must make
them known to Intending settlers.
Tho tide of immigration has been sot
so long, and Is now sot so strougly in
other dlreotlos, the South cannot tap It
successfully except hy extraordinary ot?
forts.
Is the South making sucli efforts? Ih It
other directions, tlie South cannot tap it
do, all Is necosary to be done to got Its
proportion of the million of foreigners
who come to these shores annually?
w?. doubt ir it is,
DEATH OF JUDCJE MINOR.
Tlie Illness of Judgo E. C. Minor, of tho
Law and Equity Court of UiIh city, has
been referred to from timo to time for
seyornl months, yet few will lie pre?
pared to hear of his death, which took
plft.?e at Norwich, fumi., yesterday.
The Judge was a nativo of Henrico and
v.us one ot the many gallant cavalrymen
which that county furnished tho Con?
federacy, In whose Bervloo bo lost al?
arm. After the war, having qualified him
self for the profession, ho entorad upoi
the practice of the law, and soon win
cleeted county judgo, a position tron
whic.ll ho wus ousted when ihe Rend
juntera came into power, but to which h
wns restored when tho Peinocrnla assert
id themselves later on.
When the l/iw and Equity Court wa
established hero ho was the choice c
the bar to fill tho jutlgeshlp thus createc
and their cholee, accepted by tho Oovei
nrr. proved to be a happy one.
Thriugh by no moans an old man, Judg
st Minor liad had long service on the benel
? ?>u. aUu'aU? ?m-naiiOtd thu favor of th
bar ai*! public. Hit? AbllMtei enabled him
to' rtll tho Judicial poaltlon well, and hie
genial end kindly disposition commended
hint to arenerai favor, He wa? highly ap
pteeleted aa.a man and officer, and was
truly worthy of tho widespread levo ho
Inspired,
In tho performance of duty to tho pub.
Ilo and to his family-and friend?, ho es?
tablished hlmseti ?? a aonscientlous and
hl#lt man. Many ihjnge wlii now bo said
lit eulogy of him, but the beet o( ait will
be that ho deserved the proteo ho receives,
In him wns Joined a hoart that would
moit with tenderness where tenderness
was deserved, but which waa as of a oak
where duty required Inflexibility. He was
a Just Judgo, a patrlotio eltlsten, a loving
friend, who waa honored and esteemed ln
life, and In death la lamented in an un?
common degree by a wide circle of good
people,
TH EIJSE^F IT.
Groat numbers of people want to know
"what's the use" of Peary'a new expedi?
tion to tho North Pole. Here ia what he
has to say on that subjecti
"The North Pole ls the last great geo?
graphical prlao the earth hati to offer.
Its attainment will be accepted as tho
sign of man'? final physical cohqueet of
the globo, and It will alwaya stand as
ono of tho great mlleatonea In the world's
history.
"The attainment of the North Pole is,
in my opinion, our manlfeet privil?ge
and duty. Its attainment by another
country would be ln the light of a re?
proach nnd crltloUim.
* "Tho sense of all the foremost geog?
raphers?praotlcal and theoretloal?now
converges upon the Smith Bound, or Amer?
ican route, along -which I have been
working for years past. Other routes
hove been eliminated. If we delay ln pre?
empting this route, somo one else will
stop In and win the prlzo.
"I bollove that my experience, gained
ln yoars of practical work: my special
methods of travel and equipment?the
evolution of years of practical work; my
personal acquaintance with every feature
of my chosen route and region, and my
command of the full resources and utmost
efforts of the entire little tribe of Whale
Sound Hyperboreans, who have lived and
worked with me for years, give substan?
tial reasons for anticipating a successful
outcome to an expedition baaed on the
abovo lines." ?
Peary',*! reasons foi? wanting to find the
North Pole are mainly sentimental. He
might havo givon a very practical reason,
and one that would appeal to humane
people. He might have said that the dls
oovery of the Polo will be a blessing, be-,
cause' It will etop the loss of Ufe Incident
to the search for it.
NOT ENCOURAGING.
Whatever is advisable ln the way of
remedial or corrective currency legisla?
tion?and nothing revolutionary Is ad?
visable under present conditions,?must be
undertaken only from tho standpoint of
tho business community as a whole ; that
Is, of the American body politic as a
whole, Whatever ls done, wo cannot
afford to take any step backward, or to
cast any doubt upon the oertain redemp?
tion In standard coin of every circulating
note.
So said the President In his Labor Day
address, He dealt In generalities, when
the publlo would have been delighted to
hoar from1 him what he thinks is the
prospect for legislation ln the direction
of an elastic currency.
The faot ls that the leaders of the Re?
publican party are greatly divided in
opinion as to what should be done^ and
there Is no probability of early action
thore is no probability of early action.
This tho President knows, but he did not
care to say so.
Tho New York Sun has an article re?
viewing "a remarkable address" on the
relations of Insanity to civilization, de?
livered by Dr. Robort Jones at the an?
nual meeting of the 'British Medical As?
sociation. The aim of tho address was
to demonstrate by statistics that with the
progress of civilization mental break?
down becomes more frequent and more
serious; that, In othor words, the va?
rieties of Insanity nro more ohronlc and
less curable than thoy wore a century
ago. .
The data produced by Dr, Jones show
that, despite the vast progress made ln
the solenoe of preventive modi'clne; de?
spite the Improvement ln respect of tem?
poranee, and desplto tho reduction of the
death rate, and especially of Infant mor?
tality, tho physique ot the British people
has deteriorated. Doaths from cancer
and nervous diseases have increased ma?
terially.
Tho conclusion deducted by the Sun
Is that tho comparative frequency and
gravity ot Insanity In our time "must
bo ascribed to the increasing difficulty
experienced by tho average ihtolleot In
grappling with the complex conditions and
in responding to the intensified stimuli
and enhanced requirements of our modern
civilisations."
According to tho Baltimore Sun, there
are serious questions at Issue between
the Baltrmore and Ohio Railway Company
and Its employoB, Tho grlovanoe com?
mittee representing tho conductors, en?
gineers, flromon and trainmen declares
that the olllclals of tho company have out
tholr wages materially, while, apparently,
granting an Increase ot ? per cent. They
believe that when the committee held tho
conference with the railroad officials ln
January last and the schedule granting
the Increase was adopted, tho officials at
once made it lneffoctlvo nnd lowered tho
actual wages .received by the men from
5 to 10 per ceni, lower than they were
prior to the so-called Increase, This, thoy
any, was accomplished by their constru?
ing a certain section of tho schedule in
suoh a manner ns to out down the actual
salary received by the men from 10 to 15
per cent.
The company, It Is understood, takes a
very different view of the matter,
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The Springfield Republican calls atten?
tion to iho fuct that bonds Issued by the
Confederate government during the civil
war are still held abroad to tho amount of
tl2.%),000 principal and ?32.600,000 |n ar?
rears ol Interest.
Vo woro about to make a motion that
tin, same bo paid, but wo are reminded
that these bonds ?re not yet due. They
rend "Payable two years ufter a ratifica?
tion of a treaty of ponco between the
Confederate States of America and the
United States of America." We have
not beon notified o( tho ratification yet
Mow New Votk Is groaning because Mon?
treal has captured some of Us gra|rt_trnde
S'uno timo ago It mndo a similar how!
a?utnst Now Orleans, Before tU*4 U. ba;
a grleVanee ef?lrist -fiftlUmor? ?id Now
bort New?, Ahd, to help It out, ? *?***
the people o? the etftto io vota one hun?
dred Million.?, of dollars to convert the
Brio Cabal |nt0 waterway ???*?e??"?? to
float ?.????? ' barges Orotit le Now
York. ?. '".
*=a*a:si3 -=_r--==-::t
The proposed change of system of final
examinations iti th? (jubilo schools of this
city haft be?h vory favorably commented
upoti by tho press of Virginia? But It Is
a mistake to euppose that tho matter has
been finally Bottled. No; It lia?? no' boen?
and will n?i 'be'earlier than next Mon?
day. ? ' -'? I,
And now-j^a^'TbV?gRlne ot ?eeeond
crop strawberries. The vlllngo of Bon Ale
over In Chesterfield county beat Jereoy
several week?. Bon Air* seoond orop
berries are ?retting stale, and Farmers
Noel and Whiteworth aro fixing for a
third crop. ' !
Danville ?nd pTtteT'Wsnla oounty are
being seriously threatened ?vlth the llvest
politicai campaign that has been sent up
the pike since the days,whcn the lamented
Bev. Dav?e and Jack Flrinoy mopped
up the earth with Lehlgh and Iiloyd.
Mlee; OtMletTlpro?o??ces her name Gel
lette . and the Duko of Roxburgh? pro?
nounce? It'.'Roxborough. The only plain
part of it seems to be the Rox?Chicago
Record-Herald.
Yes; spelt rooks! __
The President's Syracuse speech/ In
whloh ? he extolled the artists at good
children raising Is believed to have boen
a blow aimed directly at the sixty-year
old head of David Bennett Hill.
It 1? rumored th at Richmond Pearson
Hobson will .attend the Richmond Horse
Show, and there Is no telling how many
Virginia girls he will be engaged to be?
fore the show is ovor.
There are hot times ahoad for the good
people of Pennsylvania. Thero are al
rady seven State tickets In tho field, and
both the big parties are yet to be heard
from.
According to Dr. Btowell, of Worcester,
Mass., hay fever Is eimply summer sun?
shine, and smoked glasses are Its cheap
and effective remedy.
There has been too much record break?
ing this year. Trotting, running, sailing,
autotng, etc, will have no margin to
work on next year,
The Coney Island season will be ex?
tended through the month of Soptember.
The patrons of that resort will nqt give
up Frank Bostock.
The boodlers of" tho Democratic faith
ln Missouri are charging Candidate Folk
with too much "pernicious activity." Just
so.
A mild wl?terls already predloted, but
the coal trust holds firm at last quota?
tions.
Come to think of It: What paper has
published a picture of King Peter of
Servlat
It Is settled now. Dr. Parkhurst testifies
that Mrs. Nation Is not Insane!
The unspeakable Turk seems to be re?
gaining the use of his tongue.
The good old summer time Is entitled to
a rest. Let her have lt.
The Tiuntlng accident season Is coming |
on apace.
Tho cry from Macedonia continues to bo
warlike* <
'With a Comment or Two.
We thought the discussion about white
blackberries was at an end, but hero
comes the Indianapolis Sentinel with tho
statement that a man In Santa Rosa,
Cal., produces a berry "that is whlto as
snow, and so transparent that the seeds
may be" seen inside the ripe fruit. We
pass Montgomery Advertiser.
That's the same old white blackberry
that appeared a month or two ago and
was put out of commission by Virginia
and Alabama spedinone produced by the
Times-Dispatch and the Advertiser. Don't
you recognize lt?
" We are glad to note, ? however, that
the thoughtful people of the North ara
beginning'to understand that their nogro
phlles who raise a furor every time a.
negro flend Is lynched and who religiously
abstain from uttering one word of con?
demnation of his atrocious crime, aro
contributing more than any other agoney
to the frequency of these and.to the fre?
quency of lynchlngs that follow a? jnovl
tably ns tho night follows tha day.-^ew
Orleans State's.
Indeed that Is an enoouraglniff sign.
If Socretary-of-Agriculture Wilson shall
succeed In ridding the country of both
the cotton speculators afld the cotton
worms he will deserve to 'have his name
written high in the hall ot fame.-Coium
bus (Ga.) Bnriuircr-Sun.
Tho speculators are nat hurting the
country just at this writing,
The report sent out from Washington to
the Montgomery Advertiser $???a" 0a> ;
pllcnnt for a position in the Mobile post?
ee? is rejected fronv the ? }?"*"""
he had beon In the ?sho? bi ?mess a?? ?
performed the role of the ?>???R0?"tFnl',?
is likely to attract more -attention tnan
It dosorves.?Mobile Register.
How could It? It's novelty as a nows
ltom entitles lt to a vast deal of atten?
tion.
*
Note.From Mr. William--?
Edltor of The Tlmos-Diepatchi
The letter of Judgo> W* ?? ??.^0.
Governor Montnguo In ?he llmi-s s
patch of to-day requires, I t h Ink. a I" ?
from me. as l was referred to In that
tho Homes letter would ?oUbtlfSa If',
that tlie Governor was leW ."? ?M?
Homos and going all around, him to 1,11
to Mr. Goode Urn attorney <ol'\un... ,, ?
mouwealth. and myself, and thl??. m nm
Judgment, mado It Improper for W >
volunteer any assistance or ?n{?%,B0fol 1
although he believed that ??V ffi
was guilty beyond all doubt, Ho for ""??
this helm? im??, at least as to F y? ir.
the Governor never communloated wmt
mo until I had written to "in,L i,0ot??o
twice telling him tlmt our whole V?0!^
thought the criminal guilty ift,nnJ \"0
tlnionv, und wei^ greatly ?'?r?_ ..??. or
fear that a now* trial might I?1???11
commutation of the sentence?. ??'?6']. '
wrote this 1 did not know but ?ML?""
Governor had called to 1?!?'_??'??? ?
Judge Homes and other?! b('?c_fi[ ?ni ?
known that ho had called to h ? aid ha
tho peoplo of ihls county, M ul?'n/?. th'
trial judge, 1 should, a? a citi '"?,?,?
county, In behalf of puro ? vona>ill001.
been recreant to all the bettor WVifJ*??
of my being had 1 not gone to ?'*_,0G?" ;
, and assumed my part of tbe.nr?7P,?n, .
bllltv, which belongs, to a,P_opei could
hood. No feeling of sensitiveness |-? "
have deterred ine. or made '?ov8lul|a
. from what I conceived to >?j"J.E
I duty when such perilous times wtre wi'-"'
I ** THOMAS N. WiLWAWB.
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%Xttif JtourW?h
Virginia ?ditors.
The optomlstlo t-ort?mouth Star saysi
it ooursto Uso thero le an exceedingly
good opportunity for Deinoorntto success
m the next campaign, but it will not como
tiu-oitgh nny such plan as that suggested
by Senator Morgan. The Domoofaoy will
no slow to adopt any moro crazy lliion
olnl panaceas for the rollef of the eltutv
tlon, wo aro Inclined to think.
The Norfolk Vlrglnlan-Pllot stays! Tho
good pooplo of Clui-so City should oalm
themselves. Tho laws of tho State woro
not made tn punirti innocent men, no mat?
ter what tho crlmo charged against them,
Suppose tho negro should actually estab?
lish his Innocence? We should suppose
the peoplo of Chase City would feel rather
uncomfortable because of tholr action.
The Salem Sentinel observes! Governor
Montague says that he would not accopt
the nomination for tho Vlco-Pro?ldoiicy If
it should bo tendered .him. Our Governor
is Indeed a level-headed man. Ho knows
a political graveyard when ho soes one?
tho Vico-Presldoncy,
The Petersburg Index-Appeal asks this
question: Mr. Bryan accepts the candi?
dacy of Mr. John Clarke, a Oold Demo?
crat, for tho United States Senate for
Ohio. It Is fortunale for Ari". Clarke that
ho was a candidate for tho Senate and not
for the Prosldencv. If nrynn accepts
Clarke, why not Cleveland?
Tho Staunton News disposes of ono
Presidential candidato thus: The people
of the South may very well forgive Gen?
eral Mfles for putting .Toft Davis ln cholns.
and' they should forgive but that does
not signify thoy would like to have him
for Prceldont. As a matter of fact, tho
Southern poonlo are largely lndlfforont
an to Genonnl Mllos, Thoj- are not harbor?
ing any lll-feollng against him, but aro
entirely Ignoring him. So far ns wo can
Judgo thoy do not see that he Has any
special qualifications for President
A Few Foreign Facts.
When a correspondent recently visit?
ed the Venetian homo of Cardinal Sarto,
now Pope Plus, ho found the only orne?
ment to be a pltcure ot a gray-halrcd
peasant woman In fustian dress, the
mother ot tho new head of tho Roman
Catholic Church,
A German is rolling a barrel of wlno
through Switzerland on a wager. Ho bot
that ho could roll It from his town, Wald
klrch-en-Brlsgaw, to Rome. Tho barrol
contains sixty gallons of wlno. Tho Jour?
ney as mapped out will tako him through
Zaro, Munstor, Luzerne, Altorf, St. Goth
ard Pass, Lugano, Como and Milan..
Dr. Nicolas Leon, archaeologist and
ethnologist ot tho . National Museum of
Mexico, has returned to the City ot Mex?
ico after a two weeks' stay In the State
of Coahulla, where ho was making Inves?
tigations of tho recent finds of cities and
animals ot antediluvian timos. "The dis?
coveries made at Pared?n," ho says, ' are
tho most extraordinary that havo over
been made In Moxico, nnd possibly in tho
world."
King Alfonso had a Ilttlo adventure,
rather unusual with sovereigns, recently,
His majesty was walking In the Prado,
whon a htillook broke from a herd that
was being driven, and, tearing away at
full gallop, showed every disposition to
uso Its horns among tho pedestrians and
equipages. Thore was a rogular stam?
pede, but tho king showed his spirit, and,
drawing his revolver, brought the beast
down with two or?threo Bwlftly delivered
shots. .
Tho famous Savoy Theatre In London,
tho ancient homo of the Gilbort and Sulli?
van operetta, has Just been renovatod at
a cost of many thousands of dollars, Mrs.
Carte, tho proprietress, holds out the hope
that W. S. Gilbert may be persuaded-to
come out of his retirement and write tho,
book? of a riew pleco to be brought but on
the scenes of his many triumphs.
Personal and General.
M. Manusheff, Bulgarian minister of
Finance, was drowned Septombor 5th,
whllo bathing In tho river at Buxinograd.
.. William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet, Is
to visit this country next fall for the first
time.
State Senator Edward S. Hamilton, ot
Tacoma, Wash., will probably be a can?
didate for United States senator to suc?
ceed Senator Foster.
Archbishop Farlov has received a beau?
tifully Illuminated address of congratula?
tion from residents of New York city
who came from tho part of Ireland In
which he was horn.
Miss Lola. La Follette, daughter of the
Wisconsin governor, is trying to induce
her parents to consent to a stage careor
for her after her graduation from tho
Stato University.
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago; Governor
Cummins, of Iowa, and Aatorney-Genoral
Mullen, of the same State, are among the
orators who will speak in a large new
drain sower at Des Moines on October
14th. A banquet will bo given in tho
sewer.
?, " ?
North Carolina Sentiment.
Tho Concord Tribune says: Forty-eight
now lawyers have beon turned out to
graze by the Supremo Court of North
Carolina. Wo hopo to hoar of theso forty
olght becoming rich and famous.
The Wilmington Star remarks: Colom?
bia would like to havo us dig the canal
and lot it retain Jurisdiction, hut wo are
not digging expensive dllchos In places
where revolutions aro liable to clutter up
the banks,
The Charlotte News favor? the primary,
It Hays: In spite of the opposition to
tho primary system by tho men who
flmirlshed as a green bay tree under tho
old convonUon system, the Idea of the
primary as the equitable way of asoor
talnlng the populnr will, grows apace,
Virginia has lately adopted It. Bouth
Carolina has long had It. North Caro?
lina pledged It Jn a platform on whloh
delegates were elocted to a convention
that repudiated it. But the people of
tho Old North Slate will bo heard from
again on that subject, Mississippi late?
ly adopted it and now Louisiana wheels
In line.
Thn Greensboro Record remarks: The
people of North Caro,ltna are standing
In tlielr own light that thev do not de?
mand a rigid enforcement of the vagrant
law rilroady on our statute books. Jt In
an effective remedy nnd will do more good
than anything yet devised. Nino-tenths
of the devilment in the country Is caiisod
by Idleness, while laborers oro hard to
got.
filow Freight!;-a Complaint.
Kill tor o fThe T-imoa.CUstiateh!
Sir.?Is mine an Isolated case or am I
tiin? uf a multitude composing the '?pub
On Um tt!i r,t* Tidy li-.l, T sent an order
to ? -Toipoiwibln honro In Chleugo for
certain article:', *??!???"?? I wanted for Im?
mediate use. 1 ilirivterl G:?*?->? to be eont
by trcigiit tn "Tyo IV,'.???' '"-no1: mi tha
?*>oiitiu>rii Railway. Thoy vii e shipped
"ii the "Kana-wha l"'l.-.p;i.tch" v|<i char.
'?' ' ' , t'tic.'lietl "jswuy.ia j'.<?n. ? aaiuia
to the freight agent of the Southern ttail
wuy nt Charlottesvllle asking li tho goids
bud u-cn left at Ilia qtne? or carried to
?Now yorl? tir some other distant part,
i hayo heard, nothing from him. it _,
If 1 am the only victim of this method
"f rallrniui business. I submit, but. It* I am
''"???; "f many, I think It Is a matter lutti
whloh the RiiHm-id Commissioner? should
molt.
n-*'-*.-oi!triiiij-. ? _?,,,
S. C. READ.
Utavei? ?,a?a. y?., ?mit. 8. WS.
Demand
the Cigar with tht
Band that sayi
remo
The Only Cigar
That's the same to^lay, to-morrow, forever.
5c. here, there, everywhere.
The Largest Selling Brand of Cigars In the World.
The ?a???? is the Smoker's Protection,
VIEWS OP JOHN P. BRANCH
How Currency Conditions SI o ild Bo
"Dealt WHh by the Government.
Richmond, Vn., September 9, IBM,
Hon. John W, Daniel,
United States Senator:
Dear Sir,?Apprehension that there
would not be enough money to move tho
crops thly fall has beon so great that It
has been necessary for Secrotary Shaw
to notify tho flnanolal world that he has
flO.000,000 of government receipts so placed
in tho treasury that ho can put It on
deposit with tho national bank? In caso
thero should be a larser demand for
money to movo tho crops this fall than
the banks can supply.
For this; he Ib entitled to all praiso.
Is It not evident that our currency sys?
tem sadly needs revision when It requires
aid ovory fall from tho Treasury Depart?
ment to move the crops? It our system '
In not changed, whoro will the money
come from hereafter should a futuro
Secretary of the Treasury refuso to fur?
nish the necesiary aid, or should , tha
timo come when there will bo no available
surplus in tho treasury, which must somo
day bo the case, It the policy of some of
our prominent law-makers prevails?
Another evidence ot the tnllacy of out
present system Is that frequently during
the fall demand for money the rato of
interest goe?a above twonty per cent, per
annum, and when tho demand is supplied
it goes below two per cent.
It Is very desirable wo should have a
rate of Interest that will fluctuate as lit?
tle as possible, and I see no reason why
a system could not bo Inaugurated by
which the rato? ot Interest would rarely
go below four per cent,.or above six por
cent. per.annum.
I would, therefore, respectfully suggest
tho following modifications to the present
systom:
? The national banks should be authorized
to surrender one-fourth of tholr ?360,000,000
circulation, withdrawing the bonds de?
posited to secure same, and Isi'Uo In Its
stead ton per. cent, .of their total capital,
surplus and undivided profits In now
notes.
The capital, surplus and undivided prof?
ils of the national banks now amounts to
over ?1,200,000,000, and this would there?
fore give us over $ 120,000,000 of new cur?
rency, on which tho government should
receive a tax ot two por cent, per an?
num.
Under this plan the amount of national
bank notes In circulation would bo in?
creased by over $30,000,000. This currency
would contract attor tho crops are moved,
and would bo reissued when the money Is
needed to move the next crops.
There should also be Issued an emer?
gency currency, equal to ton per cent, of
tho $1,200,000,000 capital, surplus and undi?
vided profits' of the national banks, upon
which currency a tax should be charged
as follows: Five per cent, per, annum for
the first ninety days, six per cent, per an?
num for tho noxt ninety days, and seven
per cent, por annum thereafter.
All currency Issued by national banks
should be a first Hen on their assets, and
fchould be guaranteed by tho government.
Tho banks should havo the right to re?
deem or reissue at will all currency se?
cured by deposits of government bonds,
and also to redeem at will all currency
issued, saoured by their ?stete; but they
should not be allowed to reissue same
until ninety days thereafter.
I am of the opinion thore cannot be a
loss, but there will necessarily bo a very
largo profit to tho government from this
asset currency, the payment of whloh tho
government would guarantee,
The Comptroller of tho Currency should
havo tho authority to causo tho redemp?
tion at his will of any or all of tho emer?
gency currency.
Tourn truly,
JOHN P. BRANCH.
I a-.
Feats of Memory,
Editor ?of Tlie Tlmes-Dlspatch:
-..?1*' , ,.011 express the doubt, speaking
editorially that men enn be found who mo
ablo to reproduce tho rolls of their com?
panies from memory,
I claim to bo ablo to do so, and can
also recall who wero captured at Spot?
sylvanla Courthouse and who died In p; Li?
on. I" entered Rappahannock Academy In
18*0. It wau a quasi military school. 1
can give tho nemo of each student, tiio
rooms thoy occupied, who woro room
mat?? and tho classo? to which all who
studied tho languages, belonged,
I havo never attempted lo train my
memory and think of this school only
Incidentally.
I attended the University two sessions
and roomed on McCoy's hill, ? onn give
tho names of thoso studente who roomed
on this hill each sesalon, state who were
room-mates and the principal studios they
pur-mod. -1
Thoro were no boxes in the postoffice
In 1853, and Mr. Wm. WlrtonbaKer, wlic
wns postmaster, after seeing a student
once, ooulcl tell when called, upon whotn?
er there was mall In tho ofllco for him,
always giving tho student's name,
He wftB also librarian and could tell
whoro any book called for wns located.
Theso facts concerning Mr. Wlrtet-bakei
can bo substantiated vy any student o|
JS&2-'53.
?,???. A. MARSHA DIv.
DelaPlano, Va,, Sepjt, 7, 1803.
Remarks About Riqhmond,
liynchburg Advance: So Richmond if
vi dug to have a settling basin at a cost
? if gome ?.100,000 or $1?0,000. The city i? tc
!??> congratulated on the prosi>?ct of get?
thuT v.-utnr the.t will at least bo free fron
mud f.-ynnhburg is still hoping for f
gravity ru'pply of pure water that will noi
need i';ttlliiK.--l'>anvUlo Is still studylrii
the water question, with no solution \i
sight.
Harrlsonhuris Now?: Justice Johr
Crutehllold, Richmond's fnmous J-ollci
Court magistrato, Is in New York, when
a surgical operation is to bo performei
on him. If tho surgeons wield the knlfi
as skilfully an Justice John docs the law
?il will be well.
*.
Fulton Tfotos.
-r?4
Tlie anuonncoment Jn this paper yester?
day that P.ev. DavJd Hepburn, of Balti?
more, hod decided to nccept the call of
tho Pulotn Baptist Church was gratifying
Information to the people of Fulton. Mr.
it. L, Ht.rrlson, secretary of tho commit?
tee, rocelved a letter yesterday and com?
municated the Information to the church
last night. Mr. Hepburn will begin Wa
work October 1st.
Rev. Mr. Hepburn received the C&U,fioro,
tho Fulton Church about six weeks ago
and ?lnco that timo ho has had tho call
under consideration. Tho Fulton congre?
gation, which is ??? of the largest In tho
city, is Jubilant over their euccoss In se?
curing Rev, Mr. Hepburn. For tho past
four months tho church has been without;
a pastor and the committee has been hard
a;t work nnd their efforts have been
crowned with success. The now pastor
will succeed Rov. W. S. Leake. who re
sl'incd four month? ago to become Stato
Missionary.
Rov. Mr. Hepburn will occupy the pul?
pit on Sep'tcmher 20th and will remove his
family hero and begin his work on Octo?
ber the 1st.
Mr. Vornon Butler was taken suddenly
111 on Tuesday while at work and wa?
brought to the residence of his father, on
Nicholson Street. The family physician
was sont for and upon examination lfc
was discovered that he was suffering wit,-?
appendicitis anil was removed to tho
Virginia Hospital, Mr. Butler had recent?
ly recovered from a sovere attack of fever
and his many friends will be surprised te
learn of hi.i recent Illness. ?
Mr. Art'/ur Ryan, cashier of the Vlr?
glnia and North Carolina Wheel Work?
Is able to bo out aftor a spell ot fever,
I jff tho Uheatres
$f-$*'?^f'3^^
"Lighthouse by the Sea," at the Bijou
this week, promises to break the record
In point of attendance. The play Is-the
talk of tho city. It is an interesting molp
dramo.? filled with thrilling situations and
exciting climaxes. The company is an
excellent one. The audiences grow en?
thusiastic, the curtain being, raised from
three to eight times at the close of tho
third act.
The piece will be on the remainder of
the week, with matinees to-da_; and Sat?
urday.
Eva Davnport, of tho "Happy Hooligan"
Company, which plays at the Academy
to-nlght and Friday night, is said to be
ono of tho best women chess players In
tho country. W. H. Plllsbury has fre?
quently played with hor, and recently
confided to a friend that Miss Daven?
port has, on more than one occasion,
forced him to a draw In a queen's gam?
bit game. Miss Davonport hits mude a
decided hit this season In "Happy Hooli?
gan," and will vory likely be greeted by
a fine audience to-nlght.
Tho good old melodramas of twenty
years ago aro on the shelf and some of
tho current ones ought to Join them. "The
Convict's Daughter," that will bo seen
at the Academy Saturday matinee and
night, Is unlike and above commonplaeo
plays of Its class. The plot ln original
and reasonably developed In five actst)
of Intense notion, sensational scones and
scenic realism,
W, E. Nankevllle's perennial success.
"Human Hearts" will pay Its annual visit
to tho Academy Monday night.
"Human Hearts" has always been a
prime favorite here, and thore Is no
doubt that the friends made In .the
past will turn out to give greeting to an
old and tried favorite.
Tho production this season Is entire?
ly new, from a scenic viewpoint, and
tho company contains many of the fav?
orite.?; who havo appeared hero before.
Children at the Park.
Nearly ono hundred as happy folks as
often sees nnd hears came down Main
Street at dark last night on a ntreet car.
It waa tho annual p'enic of the children
who live near the Methodist Institute. The
youngsters were In charge ot Rev. Geo.
?. Wiley and his co-laborers in the mis?
sion work at Nineteenth and Main Streets.
The day was Hpcnt at Forest Hill Park,
where' the merchants and friends of the
mission had sont liberal donations of
good things to eat. The day waa a bright
and happ*v one, Indeed, to many a child
and was voted the best In the four years
thot tho school has beon going t? the
park, ' ?' . _
Mr. Baugh Out.
Hon. W. W. Baugh, of Surry, former
member of the House from Prince George
and Surry, in a candidato for the Demo?
cratic nomination for the lower branch
of the Qoncral AsBombly from that dis?
trict In the primary shortly to bo held.
The other candidates are Judgo Timo?
thy Rives, Dr. W. B. Daniel and Mr. ".
W'. W. Taylor and tho ptlmnry will he
hold- on September 24th. * ;
Tlio friends of Mr. Baugh are claiming
that his progpoets for success are very
bright. ^___I
Cincinnati Tobacconist.
D, C, Collins, of the firm ot W. D. Col?
lins *? Brothi*. large hurley tobacco buy
c:t?. of Cr* e Inni? li, waa a visitor on the
Tobacco Exchange yesterday.
Woodward & Son,
.LUMBER.
KAROWOODS, MAHOGANY,
WHITE PINE, YELLOW PINE.
Rough and Pressed.
Yards Covering Seven Acres.
Main Office?Ninth Su Aron St?.,