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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-10-25
Fire Record.

DWELLING Destroyed IN NORFOLK COUNTY.
Z 5. Especial telegram to the Dispafch.I ~ i.
NORFOLK; Va, October 24.-While of
breakfast this morning the dwelling Of Mr..
Joseph Conover, on the Sam Wilson farm,
on the Western Branch. caught IRE from
an over-heated stoye-pipe, and was burned
to the ground. The property was insured
for $4,000. Mr.. Conoyer lost nearly all his
furniture, on which there was no insurance.
None OF the out-buidings were injured.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-10-25

A little Hop BITTERs saves big doctor-bills, long
sickness suffering, and perhaps death.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-10-25
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
England.

THE QUESTION OF AN ADVANCE IN IRoN-woRK-
ERS' WAGES.
LONDON, October 24.-An important meet
ing OF the leading firms in the fnished-iron
trade in South Statfordshire and East
Worcestershire was held at Birmin CHAM
yesterday to consider the application for an
immediate advance OF all grades OF opera
tivcs on the ground of the Improvement in
trade. The meeting decided they did not
consider the state OF the trade as iustlfying
the advance. 1t is probable that an arbi-
traitor will be appointed to settle the ques-
tion
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-10-25
EDUCATIONAL.


ASAPLEWOOD INSTITUTE, CON
WI CURDVILLE. PA, chartered by the legls-
la.ure Of Pennsyvanja. t1cnty.onc miles soutswest
Of Philadclp hia. the Philsdephia ana Baltimore
Central railroad. admits both sexes. Thoroughly
iIs bows for college business or for the study o any
OF the professions. Gra'lutes young saMs: lives
little boys thorough home care. an I3.19Mom
SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES,
- PROFESSOR +. y. HhSSELEFF. Prtnspa
(Iste professor at Augusta Female SEMINARY hiss
Vi. d. BALDWIN, ppIucipal, 3U4 east Grace gree, '
bel weet THIRD and Fourth. opens oCIotS;h l.
1879. Youth Of both sexes reeeh ed SPECIAL CLASSES
for CHI! ldrcn from six TO ten years OF a2e. nN
srranped 10 sus an tending schools Of EDglisn
| evening classes FOR young men In Fceseh ana
! German Lang ages theoretically ana pFactcany
taught Send sor circulars 20 3O4 east d-ace see''
oc 10 I'm
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-10-25
BRIDGE BERNED.

NEW ORLEANS, October 24.-About 1000
feet OF the Bay St. Louis bridge, on the New
Orleans and Mobile railroad, was burned
last night. r.. ~....... ....-
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-10-25

FRIDAY, October "a, 1879.
The Number of breaks to-day comprised 81 hogs
heads and tcrces. The offerings at auction on
Change were "A packages: of which number 20
were sold 1T prices ranging from $3.50 70 1877.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-10-25
[Second Dispatch.j

NEW ORLEANS, October 24.-Further par
ticulars show that the Bay st. Louis bridge
caught fire at the draw and burned towards
the town of Bay st. Louis. One thousand
feet of the bridge was burned over, but it
is only partially destroyed. Superintendent
Robinson says the bridge will he repaired in
few days. Meanwhile there will be no in
terruption to travel. Mail and passengers
will be transferred by steamer.
FIRE IN A MINE-STORE.
WILKEsBARRr, PA, October "a. The
mine-store Of NJ. NJ. Spaldins at Plainsville
caught fire this morning, owing to a defec-
tive hue, and was totally destroyed. Loss,
$4,000. Insured for $4,000.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-10-25

IMMATURE ALMANAC-OcToDEE 25, 1879
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-20
ANNIHIL ALTON OF. IUSE rom
HOUSES.

Towards the close of each admins
tration customs Ulcers become more
and more oppressive and the tariff sys-
tenn odiors. Travellers returning from
Europe and Canada say that the
coarseness aud brutality practiced at
custom houses, and especially At New
York, are ALMOST intOlerable. A T,x4n
unaccustOmed TO subj ION TO suspi-
con can only tolerate the search aud
evident kDavery of the sp;es and their
overbesriDg, insulting manner, because
he Is among strangers and in a strange
land. There is a brutal, coarse fellow
at Niagara bridge who ''boards the
train" on the Amtricaa side 10 inspect
valises. He Is thir-vissged Ichabod
Crane and surely a vulgar knsve
and thief. Bat the whole sys-
tenn is wrong in practice.
L. breeds spies and infoimers and de-
tectives the most depraved and hat. :
full of our race, and makes cheats and
thieves OF the people. The whole sys-
tenn should be abolished and the hun
dred thousand men educated by it to
scoundrelism and as spies and inform
ers even as they become schoolmasters
educating the people in vi famous prac-
tices of peIjlry and fraud, should be
forced to obey Gods law and make
their bread by the sweat of their brows.
II the whole population Of the Uaited
States once went abroad and came back
through the Gordon of custom houses,
the tariff system, with all ITS oifen-
sivc, corruptiDg concomitants, would
be annihilated at once. Whenever the
theory that all men of all nations and
races are born free and 'cral, with
EQUAL rights and equally entitled 10
wander over Gods footstool, is accept
ed, these processes of indefensible
selfshness by which one people would
exclude another from Sny division of
the globe must become wholly indie
fensible. But the worlds rulers resort
to the tariff system that they may get
the people, money when they are un-
conscious of payment. The. eforc, #
all went abroad and returned, the ex
isting scheme would become more
odious than direct personal taxation.
and We can only hope that the worlds
migratory habits will soon force its
rulers everywhere to substitute the
simple, cheap and honest mode OF
wrestling wealth from the many By the
few. Then the cost of governing man.
kind will be lessened an hundredfold.
The same men who collect taxes for
States should collect taxes to maintain
the Federal Union.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-20

TILDEN it is thought will make truce
with Tammsny. Kelley will resign or
be deposed, and Tildtn becomes once
more supreme in New York. He thus
holds as he imaglnes. the key to the
presidency. The thirty-six votes of
New York and fifteen of Indiana and
the solid South, can give Tilden the
Presidency. 1t only remains for him
to mollify the $4,000 votes which
Kelly carries In his breeches pocket.
E.lly's followers and those of Tilden
are both frightened. f .ch sees how
1t has III ned the ether, and K=lly
finding himself outlawed even when
he has won victory by cooperating
with Corkling,is ready, the papers say,
for compromise. It will no
doubt be effected. Then the ques-
lion arises, if Tilden hold the vote Of
New York in the hollow of his hand,
whether the Democrats dare nominate
any other candidate than the magician
of Cipher Alley. 10 contest between
Tilden and John Sherman the South
would prefer Tilden; but it would be
Sherman's first love, Eta Pinkstop,
and the bloody shirt That would drive
US into the support Of Tlden. But
even admi,ting that Tilden win over
Tammsny and all differences in New
York be healed, will Hendricks suffer
Indiana to support Tildep, with whom
he refuses to be associated . second
time on the presidential ticket. Bay
ard seems still the only available and
only unobjectionable candidate.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-20
TlHE LAST OF TIHI VI.

Ex-G vernon Br)wn of Missouri, the
referee, las declared the Lie A ssocia-
ion of America utterly in iolvent. Its
abilities exceed i:s assets by more
than 81, GOO, coo. The Louis branch
of the association went into insolvency
some months ago; and thi', we believe
is the last Of series of hollow bricks,
set up in row in 81. Louis sitter the
war, whic bave fall.D one after the
other, each giving it's neighbor It
c9up dc giuce. BIT ;he great moaopo-
lists Of NV York have done the work
for all these institutions. Il was
never their purpose that Little Western
companies should live, and OF all these
there is but one vigorous survivor, and
this modest institution of Milwaukee,
known as the Northwestlru Life. l.
has been honestly aud wisely managed.
l. luckily withdrew most of its agen-
cics from the South before the plsgues
smote the valley of the Mississippi SO
fatally for the fortunes of lite cOmpa-
cIes. One of the great gss-blnwers
of the life assurance organizations is
now modest land agent and lawyer of
Texas. He pumped thUnder into the
Missouri Valley Life, the Columbia
Life, the S.. l. us Life and, finally,
when he had sold one OF two wrecks
like the Carolina Lie and Southern
Life, of Memphis, to the Life Associa-
ton of America, he naturally sought
fresh air on the bouDdless plains of
Western Tex4s, where there Is elbow
room for magu fl 'ent genius. But it
is we'll that this life assurance business
is consigned to New York. LEES
money, by fewer agencies, will be
drawn from the South, to be- invested
in New York alone. In this legislation
of New York, restricting, In this mao
ner, the action f these corporate N :,
Texas and the people of Tsxas should
discover an invaluable lesson, and
NV York should not be 81 fl red to
rob us. New Y,rk law and
New York officials are now actively
employed in arresang and imprlsoniDg
agents of the L .uisians lotteries in
the great city of East. New York
is unwilling to have the money of her
citizens sent South to be invested in q
New Orleans 10 terry scheme. Should
New Orleans and l. ,uisisna ST II II the
money of their peOpl: to be invested
in these New Ylrk lotteries in which
men bet Oh the duration of their
llvesl Should not a S ate which
gives every fam ly an inalIenable home
stead rather indu e inYestments in
these homes rather than in New York
securities for the benefit of New York
But the end comes, and the failure Of
the greatest and best and most honest
Of = estern life assurance corporations
will be of infinite service in putting Q
psriod to the insurance OF lives ia the
= ,uthweat
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-20

LET us waIve the bloody shirt and
refuse, through all time, to recognize
as EQUALS, or as worthy of American
citiz snship, s'the desperadots who cor
troll the Republican party Of Wyan-
dott-, Kansas. and elect themselves to
cfiice by viOlencsn there aud by infs-
nous frauds in New York. We are
quoting from Kansas paper, winch
says that the county Of Wyandotte is
subordinsted TO the purposes Of gang
OF remorseless thieves, of whom the
sheriff and county attorney stand first.
They have an organized scheme Of
stealing farms at tax sales and defy in.
vestigstioD and frighten people out Of
the county who would inquire into
their sets. They knocked down and
best the sudacious lawyer, even in the
courtroom. when he sought to have 9
poor landowner. protected sgsinst he
r1venous tax title-huying and stealing
rms. and The law i SET II naught and
| x.|lele7 onnIpo,sn..
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-20
EDITORS OF To-Day AND OF
YESTERDAY.


We are 10th to question the dietUm
OF as wise and skillful an editor As be
of the Marshall Herald but when be
SAYS after sn experience of 'for,y
years." that 'here are fewer able edI-
tors to-day, North ana S nth than al
any time IN the past, IL Is barely pos-
sib!e that ne is mistaken. He tells
how the brigadiers North and Sort1
ilst sf'er the war rushed to the press
for employment. E CD Of these with
admirals and comno iores soon ran
ashore and wss wrecked or found an
Appomatox and the business OF jour
nalism became property profession or
trade in which they alone succeeded,
who were trained and fitted by
nature end ,inmenis for the avocs-
on. Uoiversali'y if not accuracy of
knowledge was an indispensable pre-
r'q uisite 10 success, and in this II e
briga6iers and ctmmcdores were
grievously wanting. Then, Toe. read.
ers of newspapers cessed TO read
because one, or another person wrote.
The pnbllc learned 10 value or re-
Jet paper for what the
paper itself WAS worth witloct refer
ence to the vicea or virtues of those
writing for it. The burden of personal
greatness thrust upon public tentioD
was too great to be horne and newspa.
pers and not editors won fame and
money. The editor, in fact, finally
disappeared iu the newspaper and per-
sonal journalism was killed by the very
weight of great names which printers
and publishers used for n time with
the vain hope of making m 0neY. The
best papers, the people learned, were
published by those who made their
lurnals and not themselves great. The
man was unseen and lost in the Infinite
multiplicity of his works and while the
brigadier was airing bimself the unseen
praticsl journalist was diffusing the
fame of his newspaper. The personal
journalist went under; the practical
editor made money; the first made
ephemera! notOriety; the second
solid reputation. In practical
good sense, IN literary taste, in the
wise discharge of the multafarious
tasks of Journalism, IN clear, logical,
practical apprehension of public
events, in adapting themselves and
professional habits to the exactions OF
the age in which we live and to chang
ed s)cial facts and forms and modes
of life and cf thinking, the success ul
'urnalist of to-day is the peer in all
things of his antideluvian prototype,
who used his Lewspaper mlinly as an
agency for the distribution uf his own
intellectual photographs among his
readers. The Herald is right # it
mesIs to say that idiots OF the past
age were personally much more col =
spicuous, but reithtr wiser nor more
sklliful or successful than those OF to-
dey,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-20

TIE Indiana papers are full OF lsud-
ations OF Hon. William H. English, a
native OF that Safe. II. Is often
spoken of As candidate for ih- vice
presidencv, and If his name would
serve us better than that Of any other
man in assuring the triumph of the
Democratic presidential ticket in bis
State, by all means let English have
the place. New York is evidently
Democratic. Kelly's and Robinson's
vote together outnumber Conklings by
4s, 600, and We need ozly have recon-
citation and peace in New York and
carry Isdisua In order to mske Dem
ocrstic President in 1880. II Eaglish
can help Bayard. or Hancock, or any
other proper candidate n Iadians more
than any living man. As alleged bJ our
Indiana exchanges. BY all means let us
have a native hoosier 70 sdpplant the
serial wheeling WhseIsr.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-20
sILDRN stiLL ~ rnE FssLD

A private ktser from 5 u'h"iu
gcntlsmsB OF * vllept in'titg g+t c
ana having sccess 10 the bsst sou c,s
of iofoswssioF, sag
am el the rp;ain1 t tar G .vtrror
Til Zen Is nov and Viii ooUiiI Ge .o be
the sirargesh csndlds'e ,he North IN
present. ]; he csnno: cris NV
70 eeDem1cr C EiiiS.s osn. |
Is I1le 70 bsmtnssz Is yAri. Waile nc
10 one Ut tie UssI neu u Ihs Untrd
States, sni al iu.slnXsa' y a: heIn
Democrats W0p;h ike 4 m.ke him
President. the bloody shEt and p'tnts
of caDp<ign nrnsy " -ult defsst biu
20 u cfttsinty. II Il yard halle from
New Yask or Pun tIIahia or | l,nois,
his chances wcu.d DC b. ter than any
mans for the k P.=sideucy; hu,
nalliog from south VI Mason md d X
sons lIne, az d from d very I'm al though
gallant State, w,th The misfortune
of his fasheI's c, u.se during the war,
he would certainty BE- beaten. The
shortcomings OF the father would bs
visited upon tie m by veual r pub
lican pres TO eu, sD * entt tha. IN any
would take one for the Other, and his
defeSt wuu q be IS CERTAIN as the eiec-
non dey came. The Repubiican press
would scare the people OF tse n Irli;
so BADLY that al v no were abe 20 do
so would have paid seI'ries TO uefend
their houses white the; slept. One
would think that after sixteen years
this trash could not b. used with sny
force, but it rsmaiBs y shameful fact.
The leader 10 the STATESMAN of the
eighth Instant is a0 admirable one, and
hits the CAUSES and su hOrs of our late
misforiIncs straight in the face. |
| could name ticket that ". uld win il
the Democracy would unite upon 1t.
| would name Slmuel J T,h:en, OF
New Y Mk, ald Ovid ID "; "f Illi-
nnis. With Lh,s men We caul1 carry
New York AMI Illinois.
If our Correspondent could only
show how TIiGea exp, Cts to win in
New Y Tk. We might accept his opiD-
ions. The South would ,uppOr HIN
as against S Term IN or Biaine. Charges
preferred ag in him are III my, bu. IN
| definite as Lumbe!less. Tney may
have originated with his partisan ene-
mics. The terrible hostility of Tam
many has heightened the esteem in
which Tilden is h.ii by honest psO
pie. We cIu eay this much, and no
more, in his behalf. Bat how it IS ex-
pectsd that Ttiden can be elected
when Tamm ny is able to deprive him
of the vote OF Nv Y rk, r;msIas to
he demonstrated. We propose to go
into the next race t. win, und have
only to win in New York and IN Iud.-
aua or Illinoif, and the victory will be
perfect With these facts before us,
1t is Ieedless TO incur even tee rick OF
iefear. To lose n wv York or hazard
its loss, caunOt be contemplated with
sny drgree of patience by a true
Democrat, and Tildcn must stand
| aside
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-20

The way Of SENATOR B yarl and the
way Of G. q. Grant are as uitf rent Sc
any two other things under tie sun
could possibly be. The Senator and
his wife II turned the other day from a
trip to Europe. The Senator knew
that the most extensive military and
civil preparations had for several days
been IN progress at Wilmington, with
view OF giving him grand reception,
but this he IN m,dest.y avoided by slip.
ping into town In advance Of the day
on which be was expet te to arrive.
II this had been Grant be would have
waited y weak at some way station tc
give the peope time to prepare foI
him. The reception business appears
to be Grants main hold i1st now.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-20
HE STICKS TO HIS TExr.

Gu correspondent, * Y. z. = is
too exacting, perhaps. He asks cate
gorical, and n inierentis', answers to
questions of eternal import. He claims
that the admirable woman, wi os note
we printed, fails TO reply to mis- de-
mand for 'Clrist's own words" in
reference to the sublints, il quiry
that was ever addressed to human
BRAN or heart: Was Christ ..sacr.-
fee" or grand exenp!al" for man
in life ond in deatb2 Are we only to
observe the -match.ess code of morals
He defined, follow in his footsteps aud
''go about doing good" or must
we 'beltece" that He was sacri-
feed for us, in order that
we may escape perdition ? This ngid
exacting correspondent assumes that
Christ is the only proper authority in
this bahalf, and that Peter, John and
Paul are not to be deemed of any
greater oracular force than any Pope
or preacher The words of Jesus, as
reported by his ''interviewers, Math-
en-, Mark, Luke aud John, are asked
for. Very certainly, says Y. Y q.
Jesus became 6 martyr to truth, and
in that sense died for others, but the
question asked, as we understand Y.
Y. s., is, ''did He regard HIS own
sufferIngs and death as in any sense
expiatory r. In reply to the inquiries
and satisfactory note of our correspond
ent, Y Y. z says:
Editors Democratic Statesman:
Your fair corr espondent hardly deals
fairly with my simple questions. ]
hsYe only feared that IN Lne church's
eyes, Paul, q mere man like The rest of
US, had supplanted Christ. Paul, per-
haps, and not Christ, made tae creeds
and confessions of faith. It occurred
to me that If the Savior had intended
to die for the remission of sins, il this
had been his mission, he would have
said 80, and not left the fact to infer-
encep or for Paul and the rest to an
nounce. Therefore, in all earnestness
and good faith, did / ask the simple
question, and request some one to give
me Christ's own words when he said (:
/. That be would die to satisfy the
demands OF the broken law, or to SUI
fer the penalty of our sins, or that the
shedding of HIS blood would wash
away the guilt of human transgression.
Where is the evidence that Christ ever
taught these thingsl
2 What was His N ssion as stated
by HimsellG
Surely il 1 haYe misinterperted
Him the verse and the chap
ter can be found correcting
my apprehension of His mission on
earth, as he himself defined it. To es-
tablish and maiatain churches and
societies and hierarchIes, it Is well
enough to add to the scope OF Chrlst's
mission, and there is perhaps no harm
in il, but Paul was only g mar, and !
have thought it barely possible that
be and other makers up OF crteds had
overdoDe the business. and that after
alI, g ID in man csme upon earth 10
give Us fsultless code Of morals and
teach rs By His philosophy and his
example how tos'ive and how TO die.
He does not cay Himself, as far as !
have been able to discover, that His
righteousness u imputed to NJ, or that
He died in our stead. or that our sins
may be washed away by HIS blood. Il
is . far question ! ask: Give us
Christ's words and not those OF man.
X 7. z.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-20

The States of Mexico nsving CO.
terminous boundaries at the Mojads
mines are greatly enrsged that the cen
tral government has interposed and
created virtually State of II j4ds. I,
results that the Northern States OF
the Republic talk of secediUg. and il
the 5000 Americans now at the mines
take 3 hand in the ensuing col fiict,
Disz will find the pacifcation of the
country most difficult. The railroad
company Of st. Louis and San Fran
cisco is alleged to be engaged in 70
menting popular dissensions in Mexico,
and euriOusly enough 1t may happen
thai in this case the sympsthies of the
Northwest viii be wholly with the Sc
cessionlsis.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-20
fHE sTAFH
Tornan.

fixed mans income for the puroose 4 s
taxation it is 10 be eskopped fran
further irquiry. Tue PROSECUTOR pre-
fer 10 have the case g up entire afftr1
full trial. OF course If the Supren.f
Court decided the case On this deme7-
rer in favor of Tilden, there wonl1 h1
an end of sny further inquiry INTO h't
actual income. On the other hand. l|Ic
prosecution, il they are able to pftetzI
an appeal on the side issue aud their
investigation into the real fncomc c[
the defendant, might obtain ell the a.l-
vantage, speaking politically, Of show
ing what tax Tilden should have pad
by ascertaining his real income dniinf
the years in question. whether the st-
preme Court finaliy decided hat III
government had right 70 bnHR cd
suit.or Ios.
An interviewer from the New York
World has had talk with 0lG<fa6I
Robinson. He says that % fhs s4.,iz
ration Of his term OF serves be WI ~
turn to his home 70 attend to bis busi.
ness, which hiss been sadly neglected
of late; that the late d ght was purely
local one, and he has little doubt that q
with q presidential candidate aecenI s.
able, not TO any section OF the party.
but TO all Of the party, New York. ck17
be carried by the Democrats ia lSSn.
When asked II he favored the olectia1
OF Mr.. Tilder again for the pfesiaent5.
Governor SNinson ieplisd 'rhat
question ~a eare = ansv
now. 1t Fnot the ntcpss slssse. r,'l -
my opinion OF sufficient impoftane1
about it to carry any weight. Mr.. IIs
den Is warm friend ol mine, and
nominated he would have my E0ppoli
as would any other candidate ni
might be chosen by the National Con.
vention; but as to the policy OF non.l
mating MIR. Tilden ! really hsvc 40
opinion to express one way or fh1
other" When asked what he though
of Mr.. Bayard as q candidate,
sponded: "a noble aud pure MAJ.
without stain on his escnicheon.
only hope for his own sake thai he mas
not be nominated, for they would ahuk
him unmercifully. he wenld not e.
cape calumny, and his previous rccoxt
would not avail HIM. The torrent IS
yitupertion would be let loose on hin
as soon as he received the nominaiio6.
He thought the ticket recently sueccsl
ed of Hendricks and Potter would be s
very strong one, but he "wan not nt s'
sure of the policy Of swapping hofsea'
in just that way while crossing
| steani."