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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-07
Salt Lake Dwellings.
TuUeler

The houses built by the first settlers
were mainly log cabins. Some few OF
these are vet to he found hidden away IN
orchards. The Spanish adobe house OF
dried mud was also favorite, and has
continued so to the present, though in
stead of almost shapeless chunks of mud,
mastered in Mexican fashion, regular I'M
burnt bricks are made by machinery.
These adobes are twice the size OF ordi-
nary bricks. and the wall into which
tney are formed is made twice as tnlck
as one of burned bricks would be. Of
course this material lends itself readily TO
any style of architecture, and many OF
the elaborate buildings as well as cheap
cottages are made of it, the soft gray tint
of the adobe reminding one of the cream
colored walls of Milwaukee. Generally,
however, the adobe is OVERLAND by a
stucco. which is tinted. Low houses
with abundant piazzas are the most COM
mon type in the older part OF the town,
and over these so many vines VIII DE
trained and so much foliage cluster
that one can hardly say of what material
the structure itself is formed Inc
residences more recently built have
more Eastern and conventional aspect,
and some are very imposing; but big or
little old or new, it is rare to and
home not nsconced-almost buried-in
trees and shrubs and climbing plants,
while smooth, rich lawns greet the eye
everywhere in town, in brilliant contrast
to the bleak bare hills towering over
head just without the city. As Dor
flowers no town East or West cultivates
them more universally and assiduously.
Salt Lake city, then, is beautiful
paradise in comparison with the Buffalo
plains or the stony guIches in which the
Great majority Of Rocky Mountain towns
must needs be set
The suburbs, except toward the
rocky uplands nortilward, grade off into
farms quite imperoeptibly, the streets
continuing straight out into country
roads between dense jungles OF sun
flowers glorious walls OF gold edged
with green and touched with innumer-
able dots of msroon- And in
these suburbs you may find some
Of the auaintest{. usOst idyllic
homes. One such, for example, stands
dowrAin the Third ward, The house is
hardly bigger than gDod-sized room,
and is, entered througha queer narrow
cowled doorway. The second story is
hardlw half as large as, the lower one.
leaving slanting roof between, and
picturesque hedge and fence inclose the
whole This would be striking enough
alone far It's shape; but every two weeks
the whole adobe and stucGo' affair is
whitewashed from roof-tCee to- founda-
ton. until it CLEANS liksea fresh snow
bank against the grapevines that creep
around Ito angles, and the poplars and
naples that photograph their bSughs in
shadow upon its spotless sides, But to
set it off the better, the owner paints his
small window sashes bright yellow, his
castings the reddest of red.i and his sllls
and shuttars and door panels vivid green.
If the whole affair had justtbeen' handed
out of Dutch toyshop, itscould not be
more fantastic and childdshly pretty
Ernest Iagers08, IN Harper's.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-07
No Longer a Desert.

One more miracle, says the New York
Sun, has been wrought in the Orient.
The whole length and breadth of the
great Algerian desert. arid and almost
without vegetable life for years is now
mass of living green. Dry, sandy
Sahara is luxuriant, grassy garden.
rich and refreshing as a New England
orchard
Notwithstanding the deliberately for
mulated scientific theories, which ar
ranged for continued dryness in Algeria,
until the reluctant inhabitants were
forced to leave the country or die of
thirst, so dismal an exodus is not likely
to take place at present. Last winter
the rainfall was beyond precedent, so far
as the memory of the ''oldest lnhabitant"
goes, and copious thunderstorms con-
tinued all through the spring months
and even into the summer. Such wet
season was never in Algeria before, and
in consequence this seasons crops will
constitute plentiful abundance person.,
fed The one fear of the farmers Is that
the rain may last throughout the summer
and interfere with their harvests.
Rain in winteris frequent enough in this
naturally dry climate, but is seldom ex-
cessive. The only harm it has done is to
dissolve the raw, dried brick of which
the houses are built. Scores of families
have seen their homes melt under their
very noses without any means of check
ING the destruction. Even the French
garrison lost their barracks and were
compelled to accommodate themselves to
tent life. This soluble Algerian brick,
called ''attob, corresponds exactly with
the adobe of the Mexican and Spanish
Americans. Philologists, in fact, pre-
tend to trace both to a common Arabic
origin.
In support of the theory or fallacy
that the desert is gradually creeping
toward the seacoast is the tact that count
less ruins exist in Tripoli and Tunis,
marking the places where considerable
vegetation once was but now is not. The
truth is, however, that their desertion is
not due to any natural phenomena, but
wholly and entirely to the depredative
invaSions of nomadic Arabs, VINO finally
killed off and drove away all of the un-
fortunate inhabitants of the present
ruins The wells with which the latter
sustained vegetable growth in their
region are now filled with dry sand.
: They could easily be opened again and
made just as servicable as formerly. The
taxes, too, weredreadful enough to dis
courage any race or people, and probably
had some influence upon the depopula-
ton
The constant decrease of the woodland
is dangerous to every interest and should
be legislated against. BY preserving The
timber now standing, by planting more
and by taking advantage. of the sam,
opportunities that have so wonderful,
increased the rainfall in Western NORTH
America, the great desert of Sahar;
could be redeemed fromlts supposed per
petual aridity and become one of tn
greenest, richest gardens in all the earth
California produces figs eight inche
n, rsro,.x.fara
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-07

take into the house aud he put it into
his pocket and forgot IT.
oif we had not been so poor, says
Rose. laughingly, those old clothes
would have been thrown away long ago
and the letter with them. "-Arkansdc
ILL.,
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-07
A Dentists BnI.

SeveraIlof our esteemed. contsmpora-
ries haverrecently made aprodigious fuss
over bill of $1,000, which was pre-
sented by a. prominent losal dentist TO a
Venezuelan general for four days work
upon theateeth of the latter's wife. 1t is
very evident that our esteemed contem-
poraries have but little idea, of the ex-
pense involved in gold mining inv enezu-
elan back teeth, and asa simple act of
justice we publish the fonowing;items. 1t
will be borne In mind that the rules are
those fixed by the college of 0dOntOlo-
gical Ethics, and are in,vogus, through
out the. United States andzlanada:
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-07

Dinaer dishes decorated with verses of
poetry. maxims, conundrams, etc, are
interesting, and furnish the guests some
thing to talk about.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-07

There are now SO, 900 growing trees Ia
Washington. placed at regular intervals
along l25 miles of fine streets.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-07

California produces tigs eight inches
IN circumference.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-19
PARIS.
Giving the Minister Pleasant Sur
prise.
ern men,

Giving the Minister Pleasant Sur
prise.
Special 10 the Gazette.
PARIS, TEX, Oct. is. - The Busy
Bees of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church swarmed In upon the pastor
and his wife at the parsonage last
night, proceeding at once TO work and {,
before leaving large quantity of
honey, in the shape of magnificent
parlor lamp, n marble-top center table,
dress goods and clothing, sacks of flour,
hams, lard, Jars Of fruit by the dozen,
dried fruit, canned goods, apples and
oranges, potatoes, etc, were stored in
the parsonage here for the future sup
ply of Rev. Chas. Manton and
his family. The surprise was
n complete one, IL not having
been whispered loud enough for hum
to hear. He desires, through THE GA
zETTE, to express his high appreciation
of the manifest kindness of his many
friends, and especially for the sponta-
neous expression Of their interest in
him.
The escaped prisoner, Henry viii
liams, stole horse from Bill Moore, at
Moore's springs, lest night and broke
into a house &C Reno, The officers are
right after him with assurance of catch
ing up with him.
Cotton receipts for this week reach
2500 bales, and the price paid
was from 81 20 9i. The continued dry
weather is injuring the staple some
what,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-19
ALvARADo.
Does Any One Want Them!

Does Any One Want Thems
Special 70 the Gazette.
ALvARADo, TEX, Oct. lS.-Two
young men, giving their names as Jim
Roe and JEFF Stephens, were found
hidden in cotton pen by Officers
Best and Mosely last night near the
Missouri Pacific railway. They
were lodged in the calaboose
on suspicion. A pattern of
very fine cashmere goods
was found in their possession, and
from the contradictory and unsatie-
factory account given Of themselves
they are believed to be wanted some
where for violation of the law.
Roe is about % years old, fair com.
plexlon, hazel eyes, dark mustache.
about five feet FIVE inches high, weight
I35.pounds; says he is from I'll Paso,
and would not like for his friends there
TO know that he Lad broken into the
"boose.n
Stephens is between twenty and
twenty-five years old, saliow complex
ion, light hair, blue eyes, beardless,
about FIVE feet eight inches high,
weight about 100 pounds and says he
Is from New Orleans. Both are North
ern men.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-19

They Got the Wrong Man L Cotton
Receipts.

tney OOt lno wrong nan - OOttOn
Receipts.
Special 20 the Gazette.
WACO, Tax, Oct. ls.-The officers
arrested a young man this morning
who was quite lion for awhile, mas
much as It was believed that he was
the notorious Tom p. Varnell, muir
derer OF old man Jonas Land. Crowds
fiocked to see him, and when he was
identified as G. S. Nalley Of Hill coun-
ty, cousin of Varnelps, there wss
much disgust. He had displayed a
revolver and dirk knife, which led TO
his arrest.
John Pancake, who lives ON the line
Of Coryell ard Hamilton counties,
over fifty miles distant from here,
hauled ninety bales Of cotton here by
wagon, arriving to-day. This shows
Waco's reputation as u cotton market.
The receipts to date are over lS,400
bales.
Since this city has resolved TO do Its
own street lighting proposals. TO build
gas.works are pouring In. The cleo
trio light, however, Is most in favor.
On the Goth inst. the Texas q st.
Louis Narrow-Gauge road will put on
double daily passenger trains between
Waco and st. Louis.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-19

,os.ss ssPg'''' a your smoking
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-19
Not Hard to Find.

ANY little boy can show you where
Anderson's gun store is.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-19
Thn Ponrth Installmeht.

WAsmNaToN, oct, ls.-The treasury
department to-day isuued warrant
for $l68, 667 in favor of the president of
the Worlds Industrial and Cotton
Centennial exposition. This is the
fourth installment of 81 600 O0Osappro-
prlated by congress.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-19
BOWIE.


., nos 4 q. Gazette.
IKE TEX, Oct. lS.-Messrs. NJ.
he rls y and II. H. whaIey, candi-
own, ne legislature nominated by
TENN emu league and Democratic con-
. tnsa respectively, addressed the
Tn au'i ste Yesterday.
Saee, lawyer OF Henrietta.
% y ssay 2 our citizens last night
Tested aeleet Of lease law and free
e cls,s ~. =. !. Schneider a Bro, stove
c0en9 ~ usealefs, have made con-
iipcI y Aldltions to their stock
Or T Iauiug fine assortment OF
'ouns ny ny pounds Of wool was ship.
e y 4ss wlthia the last day Of
We, h, court was In regular ses.
'lisn,3 M WIN good docket. A
II y ot'ao. witnesses and lItieants
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-19

lady asked last selling all answered
itt
myesO If o
quick popular opinion that our presidential elections
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-19
FORT WORTH 4 DENVER CITY R'Y

CHANGE OFTIME.
On and after Sep.ember n, 1881, passenger
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-01


deepened to 20 feet It could carry an
amount Of freight greater than that car
ried by all the present railroads In the
United States.
This Is proved IN the following manner /:
II has been shown above that even now
tugboats can carry away 5000 tons I'm one
tow with the present depth. With depth
increased to % feet larger vessels could
be used, and In such manner that
these 5000 tons could leave every ten min
utes, or rs there are $3.50 OF these ten
minutes in year, this multiplied by the
5000 tons gives 400, 100000 tons as the pos
sibility OF the river transportation.
PoOre's Manual states that the number
Of tons transported on all the railroads Of
the United States the past year QSs2) was
800, 490,375 tons.
There are certain cut-offs which would
so materially alter the distance between
Richmond and the mouth Of the river that
freight could be carried by the river al.
most as quickly as by railroad, paradoxical
as that may seem ut first. This Is shown
to Viewpoints News by the railroad Is Is
miles. by the present river route 1t is 101
miles to the Viewpoints News wharves. but
Ntlt I'LL t1C DlODOStu tul-OlS Iliut "
would only be SO miles. The present
steamers OF the Old Dominion Line
average about twelve miles per hour
in coming up, but with the improved
depth steamers could average about
fourteen miles per hour. The railroads
hardly average more than twelve miles per
hour on freight trains. including the dif-
ierent stoppages, and thus it Is shown that
o., &, L. ~, -
about as rapid as the railroad.
In making comparisons between water
and rail systems OF transportation great
error is almost always made. This error is
in neglecting the physical conditions. Ii
has been proved beyond doubt that trans
portation by rail is better where the rival
water transportation is represented by a
small canal Of one or two feet depth, and
whose boats can only travel from two 10
three miles per hour; and on the other
hand no one doubts that water transporta-
ton by the ocean is cheaper than any
method that can be devised on land. The
common point where rail transportation
equals water transportation. and Uice versa,
is a variable one. and seems to be about
where vessels OF 800 tsns can be used and
readily loaded. and Where the water-route
is reasonably free from ice.
The James has already depth that
enables vessels OF 1000 tons to be used,
and rarely ever is closed by ice for a period
longer than ten days. in fact, there are
MANY seasons during which it is not closed
at all. and thus possesses all OF those con-
ditions on account OF which it is impossi-
BILE for railroads ultimately to rival it as a
means OF freight transportation.
With these facts before community, it
seems strange that no very determined
effort has been made to push the work OF
improvement as rapidly as possible. In
stead Of this, the work is dragged along
with yearly money appropriation for con-
structon not much greater than what is
yearly expended by railroads in merely
maintenance OF way.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-01
OUR TOBACCO TRADE.
OFFICERS OF THE TOBACCO TRADE.

f. NJ. Boykin, president; Charles Wat
kins. vice-president; David Bridges. Sec
rotary and treasurer; PeytOn Wise. in
Spector; Il. A. Trice. auctioneer; John
W. Powell, assistant auctioneer and clerk.
Tobacco Statistics.
INSPECTIONS
from October 1, 1892. to September 90,
1888, 1878 hogSheads. 3.44l tierces and
boxes; from October |, 1888, to December
/, 1888, $500 hogsheads, 25l tierceS and
boxes.
DELIVERIES
from October 1, 1882, to September 80
1888, 37,4jS hogsheads, 4,057 ticrces and
boxes; from October /, 1888. TO December
1, 1888, COLL hogsheads, go tierceS and
boxes.
STOCK on HAND
on October I, 1SS3-inspccted. 0,3ji hog
heads, 40 tierces and boxes uninspected,
3.106 hogsheads, IA tierces and boxes
total stock, 12,4G0 hOgsheads, iSi tierces
and boxes.
STOCK on HAND
on November 1, 1888, 1886 hOgShcadS,
iG7 tierces and boxes. On December |,
1888: Inspected. 1884 hOgsheads. 1863
tlerccs and boxes uninSpectcd. 1.4S9
hogshcads, tierces and boxes; total stock,
9.S73 hogsheads, 3GG tierceS and boxes.
Reduction OF stock on hand between De-
tober |, 1888, and December /, 1888, 1851
hogsheadS, lis hogSheads and tierceS.
LOOSE TOBACCO RECEIPTS
from October /, 1881, to September 30,
1882, 2,673.3O9 pounds; from October l..
1892. to September 80. 1888, 1899, 22l
pounds. Increase in the last year, 1l6,9l2
pounds.
LOOSE TOBACCO RECEIPTS
from October |, 1882. 10 December |. 1882.
j3.l20 pounds: from October l, 1888, to
December |, 1888, 49S.l55 pounds. In
crease this year. 445,03j pounds. From
October |. 1888, to December 81, 1888,
,491, 100 pounds. Increase over the same
period last year, 195,575 pounds.
y. B. 1t is expected that tie receipts OF
loose tobacco during tine current tobacco
year will about equal those OF last year. The
quality OF this year, however, i decidedly in
ieriOr TO that OF last year. Indeed it is not too
much to say that the crop EUw being mar
keted, whether dark or bright. Is the worst
ever offered for sale in Virginia. But this
state of things is not indicated by the
prices which now rule, and which are be-
yond the average Of many preceding years.
INSPECTIONS.
From October |, 1888, to December 80,
1888, inclusive, 1893 hogsheads and 273
tIerces and boxes.
Tax Paid OH Tobacco I'm Detail.
The following is statement OF the tax
paid the Government in detail on tobacco,
cigars, and cigarettes in the city Of Rich
mond Second internal-reyenue district)
for the year 1888:
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-01
GRAIN ELEVATOR.

The Grain-Elevator Company was or
ganized and completed in 1882 The fol-
lowing are the directors and officers: L..
L. Bass, president; G. +. Buck, secretary
and manager. Direoors T.. W. McCance,
Williams Q. Wickham. b. s. Fitch, A. S.
Buford, r. 4. Buck, j. p. Branch, l.. L.
Bass. Executive Committee l.. l.. Bass,
4. w. McCance, b. s. Fitch. Capacity,
100000 bushels. In the last twelve months
the company has put in various improve
merts, the principal one being modern
separator and cleaner, with attachments
for blowing grain. Capital stock paid up,
$4,000. Amount OF grain stored in 1883,
909,0l4 bushels, including wheat, corn
oats, and rye. The building Is located at
the corner OF Seventeenth and Washington
streets. Office In Columbia Block, Room
No. IL, second floor.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-01

The total number Of passengers carried
during the year ended September 80, 1888.
was 447.575, and the total distance they
travelled was 2l,976.lS6 miles, showing the
average distance that each passenger trav-
eled was 40 miles. The total number Of
tons Of freight hauled during the same pc
riod was 1861, 27j, and the total number Of
tons hauled one mile was 343,520,6 $40
showing that the average distance each ton
OF freight was hauled was 207 miles. The
following IS table Of comparison OF some
OF the principal articles OF freights, trans
ported
TONNAGE STATEMENT.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-01
The total number Of miles run by pas.

The total number Of miles run by pas
senger trains during the year ending Sep
TENDER 30, 1883, was 1884, 121--an increase
over the previous year Of 1921 miles, or
about 81 per cent. The number OF miles
run by freight trains during the same pc
riod was 2,7S0, 592-an increase over the
previous year OF 392,S57 miles. or about
1Ga per cent. The total number OF loaded
cars hauled one mile was $4,000, 40s, and
the number OF empty ears hauled one mile
was J0.434, 247-total number OF freight
cars hauled one mile, 52,4s3,G5j; average
number OF cars hauled by each freight
train, 10.
The Elizabethtown, Lexington and Big
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-01
chesapeake and Ohio Railway.

The Chesapeake and Ohio railway eX-
tends from Newport's News, Va, to Hunt
ington, West Va, Il distance Of 497 miles,
with branch line from Newport'S News
to Old Point Comfort. Its gross earnings
for the year 1888 will approximate $780,
000-an increase over the earnings OF the
previous year OF about Il per cent. Ope-
rating expenses Including taxes for the
same period approximate S2.G00,OO0, show
ing the net earnings for the year to be
about 81 300. 000-an increase as compared
with the previous year Of nearly rs per
cent.
1t was not possible to get the classified
earnings or expenses for the calendar year,
but the following statement. showing the
earnings and expenses for the year ending
September 80, 1883, as compared with the
year ending September 30, 1882. may be
found interesting:
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-01
HOLIDAY GOODS.
III W. M0ESTA,

III w. MOESTA,
Ill EAST MAIN STREET.
desires TO inform the public in general that he has
all the de.icacies of the season pertaining. TO a
first-cass confectioncry-viz.:
CANDIES. FRENCH and PLAIN made Of the
purest ingredients;
FOREIGN and DOMESTIC FRUITS:
CAKES Of all descriptions-PLAIN and ORNA-
MENTAL;
FRUlT-CAkES specially.
A call Is solicited. de l2-tJal
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-01
INTERNAL REvENUE COLLECTED
FOR THE YEAE 1883.

The following IL statement OF the tota'
collections In the city Of Richmond (sec.
ond internal-revenue districD during the
year 1888:
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-01
COMMERCE..

Exports and Imports for the Year.
The following Is comparative statement
OF the exports and imports for the years
1SS2-1SA3.