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WOOD AND COAs.

NOR SALE, BY TRAIN-L0AD, CAR
II LOAD. and Cord, SEASONED PINE WOOD.
Brick makers, bakers, retailers, and others sup
pied upon the most reasonable terms Hickory
and Oak Wood. Now Is the time 10 buy. Tele-
phone (330l and postal-card orders promptly al
tended 10. Elba Coal. Yard. Broad aud Pine
an id-2t W. :. PITCHER. Agent.
COAL AND WOOD.-PRICES DOWN.
OBRsT ANTHRACITE. all sizes, from $50 To
BIS. according 20 quantity. PINE WOOD
Long, from "a 20 t4.5o sawed, 500 per hs,i
cord. sPLINT COAL, $3.50. ENGINE GOAL
OF an kinds Lowest prices for bet COAL. sails
faction guaranteed. Tel phone No. l65. once,
1905 Cary street or Broad street opposite Theatre
an n CHARLES VI. PAGE.
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DENTISTH.



~ w. JONES, DENTIST. 49,
". ST1O
OFFICE: No. SO7 FRANKLIN STREET. BETWEEN
EIGHTH AND NINTH.
ELEGANT rooms; uses best materials; gentle.
quick, and thorough work: long experience, and
prices reduced. Uses gas and chlorofOrm In ex'
tracing teeth Sc
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mARIgE kNTELLAGRNCE


sun rises.......... 5:3si HIGH TIDE.
Sun sets.......... 6:42 Morning ........... S<54
Moon rises. 1910 Evening............ 9:I9
pORTOT RICHMOND, APRIL 16, 1854.
ARRIVED.
Schooner Edith Y. Seward, Tall, 0rchila, guaDo,
g. q. Snead.
SAILED.
Steamer Nellie White, Clifford, Norfolk, United
States m "a, IN fchandl-e. M passengers. IL. b
Tatum erintepd"nT
Schooner Ada Ames. Adams, Black Rock ola
Bayonne. ore, stayes. and machinery; vessel, Oar
tbs Parker.
PORT on NETWORKS NEWS, APRIL l6, 1894.
fly telegraph
ARRIVED.
steamer Laray, SchermerhOrn, Norfolk. mer-
chandise and passengers, Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway Company land sailed 90 retnrnl
steamer AccOmac, Deik. merchandise and pas
.FEgers, Smthied, Chesapeake and OHIO Railway
Company land ssied on reiurnl.
steamer Northampton, Mctarrick, Norfolk.
merchandise aud passengers, Chesapeake and ONO
Railway COMPANY trud sa'cd IN returnl.
steamer Richmond, BoaZ. West Point
Schooner A. ID. LaInsOn, Smith, Norfolk.
SAILED.
Schooner NJ. 9. Carroll, Carroll, Philadelphia
coal. Ches tpeake and Ohio Railway Company.
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LOUusVILLE.

IouIsyTLLr, April lB.-Whest, corn, ana cats
srmcr. but net qIotably higher. Provisions qniet.
Mes pork, SI7.25. Bulk-meeis . SHOULDERS
M. 6aK; clear RIB, $3.50; clear sides, ss;Io. ba-
con-shoulaers, e7.37k; clear rio, sv'of.' clear,
so's7I. Other articles unchanged.
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FINANCIAL.

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA,)
OFFICE BOARD SINKING-fUND CohMIssRs, Z
RICHMOND, April o, 1884.
DY DIRECTION OF SECTION 20 OF
ID an act OF the Legislature Of Virginia, APP
proved March 10, 3S4, intended u sct apart
fund for paying the interest on the public debt OF
the state las established by the act approved FEB
ruary Ia, 1882. by monthly accumulation for
thai purIiose. the undersigned. Commissioners Of
out OF the surplus IN the Treasury, ONE HUN
DRIED THOUSAND DOLLARS, FOX THE
MONTH OF APRIL, FOR THE PURCHASE
or THREE-PER-CENTUM BONDS OF THE
STATE, WITH ALL THE MATURED COU-
PONs ATTACHED THERETO; and they here
by advertise that they viii receive offers for the
sale OF such amount of the said thrce-per-centum
dollars VIII enable them 10 purchase. said oilers
may be made up 10 aud Including the 18TH DAY
| OF THE CURRENT MONrh-APRlL. All
such offers shall be made In writing, addressed TO
the Commissioners Of the Sinking-Fund OF Viz
ginia. shall be sealed, aud shall De opened by The
commissioners, or q majority OF them, on The
2OTH DAY OF THE MONTH, AT NOON, In
The presence Of the Governor OF the Common
wealth, or, In the event OF his absence, IN the
presence OF the Secretary Of the Commonwealth.
The bonds offered at the lowest prices shall DC
purchased 10 the extent aforementioned. II the
both Of the month shall fall on sunday or legal
holiday the SAID offers shall be opened on me next
day witch Is not legal holiday: provided, how
ever. that the said commissioners shall have au-
thority 10 reject any and all bids made In pursu-
ance Of this act. or % accept portion OF Inc
bonds that may be offered BY sny party.
FRANK q. RUfFIS,
MORTON MAkYE,
ISAAC x. BARksDALE,
ap lO-td Commissioners sinkins-fund.
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sT. LOUIS

ar, LOUIS, April H. Flour nnchspked. Wh ne,
snsstted and lowsr no. a rea ss,i ana lover
Ssxht6c. cash. 4bsel45kc: May; OA,s arIae!
and slow; $50. cash, S3Sessk May Whiske'
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TIE TOBACCO AMENDMENT.

asked one OF the Morrison men Tonight
what he thought OF the chances OF the
ADOPTION al il in the House. He was not
frank in his reply, but be led me to think
that he had hope that the bill would be
much benefited by an amendment to abol-
ish the tax on tobacco, aud by another to
reduce the tax on fruit brandy, as proposed
in The Democratic House caucus.
The Mineral argus., 1884-05-22
Chief Justice Marshall's Statue.

There was a large gathering in the grounds
of the National capitol at Washington on last
Saturday, to witness the unwilling of a statue of
John Marshall, fourth Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States, and the
most distinguished of all the Chief Justices.
Chief Justice Waite delivered an address. In
closing Mr.. Waite said:
Hardly a day now passes in the court he so
dignitied and adorned without reference to
som decision of his time as establishing a
principle which, from that day to this, has
been accepted as ~undoubted law. He was a
giant among giants, and when, at the end of
his long and emineat career, he laid down his
life, he and those who had 80 ably assisted him
in his great work had a right to say that the
judicial power of the United States had been
carefully preserved and wisely administered,
the nation can never honor him or them too
much for the work they had accomplished. ]
ask you to look upon what is here to represent
at the seat of government, congress and the
bar of the United States, for John Marshall,
the expounder of the constitution.
He turned and at the wave of his hand the
ropes which kept the canvass wells in THEN
places were cut, the wells fiuttered to the ground
and the features and form of the statue were
greeted by elapping of hands by spectators
and outbursts of music by the band. The
statue represents the chief justice as seated in
q chair with the robe of office about his form
and falling down so as to partially cover his
feet One hand is extended as if in the act of
delivering an opinion. The likeness is pro-
nounced excellent
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Nuggets of Foreign News.

In Vienna a Mormon missionary has been
condemned to a six months imprisonment
Rainey, Knox & Co. Jinen manufacturers and
merchants of Glasgow, have suspended, owing
to Dunlap & Twaddels failure.
Entente between Prussia and the Vatican will
be established upon the conformation of the
successor to Cardinal L~edochowski at Posen.
Bishop Lydowski has been nominated to that
Office. Prussia's relations with the Vatican on
other questions are cordial.
Minister Lowell, presiding over an annual
meeting in honor of the poet Wordsworth, in
London, said William Wordsworth should be
placed apart, if not above his contemporary
poets, in the quality of interesting the highest
and purest order of minds, whether judged by
passages or single poems.
The German socialists propose to run sixty
candidates of their party at the approaching
general election for members of the reichstag.
The present alarming depression in all branches
Of manufacturing industries, which has led to
many strikes and much suffering has inclined
many workingmen toward socialism, and es-
pecially that section of the socialists which be-
Iieves in parliamentary agitation rather than in
revolution.
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and open threats Of lynching are made by cii .
Miscellaneous News Notes.


Palmer & Batchildsr's liabilities, Boston, are
SlS3,O0O; nominal assets, s19O,OOo.
Boston's bank presidents gave John Jay
Knox a grand dinner Monday night
Doane & Co, Chicago grocers, have 100, 900
chests of condemned tea dust at San Francisco.
John Forbes must leave the Asbury Metho-
dist church of New York for saying "Amen" too
loud in services. That way of worship is snow
questionable.
Daniel B. Fisher of Leesport, Pa, has made
an assignment Liabilities Sl50,000. Fisher
was reported to be in financial straits for some
time. Assets 100000.
Homer NJ and L. K. Hill, recently of Ohio,
have purchased a controlling interest in the
Helena Mon. } Independent, and will have the
business management of the paper. Col. Wool
folk retires.
Gov. Cleveland has signed the bill to pro
hibit the board of educatian in New York City
from closing the schools to colored children.
The board had voted to close them next Sep
TENDER, but this stops them.
The Generalization at Chicago continues,
and prevailing provision rates are about 1115
cents per 100 pounds. The West Shore was
held responsible for making contracts for
1000 barrels of pork at a Ia cent rate.
The American Congregational union held its
annual meeting in New York Thursday, the
9TH. The total receipts of the year were $685.
377, and expenditures $1l1,5l4, money granted
to 102 churches, and s24,S22 for building par
sOnages.
The Maryland republican convention re-
solved: That Hon. James G. Blaine is the
choice of the Republicans of Maryland, and,
while thus expressing our preference, we
pledge the Republican party of Maryland to
the nominee of the Republican convention
The sixty-eighth annual meeting of the direct
ors of the American Bible society took place
in New York Thursday. the eth. The annual
report showed that during the past year 1857
05l copies of the Bible were distributed in this
country, and 451 164 abroad. The report ap-
peals for more generous contributions to the
fund
John F. Harriet, the property clerk at the New
York police headquarters, testified the other
day that he had in July last, by order of the
police commissioners, destroyed 100000
worth of gambling implements, including six
barrels of ivory chips, six barrels of celluloid
and zone chips, three barrels of cards, twelve
barrels of keno cards, one peck of dice, 300
deal boxes, $50 card boxes, 10 roulette tables,
125 sweat cloths, % hazard boxes, 200lay-outs,
and % keno boxes.
The fifty-ninth annual meeting of the Amer
lean Tract society was held in New York
Sixty-three missionaries the past year visited
156, 225 families, 24,619 of whom were Profess
tants who did not attend evangelical preaching;
1928. were destitute of religious reading and
7,433 were without the word of God. Mission
aries also addressed 4,614 religious meetings
and circulated 1873, 1853 volumes. The donations
and legacies of the year were Sos, 500, which
with sums from other sources makes the total
receipts, including the balance from last year,
$751; 70. The expenditures, including the re-
duction of mortgages to the extent of $4,000
were s354,0 S2.
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THE PITH OF THE NEWS
Washington Gossip.

Mr. Cannon. the controller of the currency,
is expected to assume the duties OF his office
next Monday.
Commissioner Evans issued an order
abrogating the system of collection of matured
taxes on whisky in warehouses by assessment,
and directing collectors Of internal revenue TO
collect such taxes by distraint or by bringing
suit on warehouse bonds. The changes VIII
take effect Aug /.
A motion to set a side the verdict and award
a new trial in the case of Hallett Kilbourn VS.,
Ex-Sergeant-at-Arms Thompson, was argued
Monday. District attorney said he would ad-
wise the government to let a judgment for slO,-
300 stand, and if the verdict was reduced 10
that amount. he would further suggest that no
appeal be taken and the money paid. The
court reserved its decision.
Postohice established: Nebraska-Purdum,
Sioux county. Postmasters Commissioned.
B. Wallbridge, Frankfort, Oak Carl Bauer,
Lesterville, Oak. Ira Dorcas, Tulare, Oak
John I. Rawlings, Mount Pisgah, Iowa; NJ u.
Ledheater, Hamilton, MINI Z. II. Morrow,
Burronett, Wis. New Ofices-G. M. Gilbert,
Dunseith, Rolette county, Oak. Jacob G.
jacobson, Granville, Marshall county, Mimi.
John P. johnson, Valley, Polk county, Mimi
Nominations-William A Pierce, Rhode
Island, Indian Inspector; Joseph II. Speed, Ala
bama. marshal of the United States, Middle
and Southern districts of Alabama.
The testimony of Bateman before the Swain
court of inquiry was of a damaging character,
and unless clearly disproved, viii place the
head of the bureau of military justice in a most
uncomfortable position. In his letter to Secre-
tary Lincoln Swain declared he was a stranger
to Col. Morrow. Bateman swears that he knew
him well enough to lend him money and to take
a hand in the pool arrangement for securing his
pay. OF course Gen. Swain has yet to be
heard, and it is but fair to suppress judgment
until he has presented his side of the case.
The Mineral argus., 1884-05-22
A New raotor in Politics.

The National Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will soon send out a call to prayer, in
view of the presidential campaign, addressed
''To the Christian people of America" fixing
Tuesday, May, %, as the time. Each hour has
a special subject signed, including prayer for
pastors and editors, that they may lead people
away from dead issues and toward that of the
national constitutional amendment prohibiting
the traffic in intoxicating liquors as a
drink; for party leaders, that their platform
may recognize this issue, and their candidate
may be one whose habits shall be an example
to younger men; also, emphatically pray for
Christian voters, that their spiritual concep-
tons may be quickened, their conscience ar
women of their households) represented by
them at the ballot box. The day is to be OBJ
served throughout the nation. Pastors are re-
quested to preach on the Sabbath following on
"God in Government"
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The Criminal Calendar.

Joe Hanna, the convicted murderer, writes
from Jail at White Sulpher Springs to deny
that he was ever a preacher or exhorter.
At Tidoute, Pa, George JENNIE shot and killed
William Ellis, who was on the premises of JENNIE
disputing about a log chain, and had called
JENNIE badapprobious names. The shooter was
arrested.
S. r. Wolf of Georgetown, KY, was arrested at
Lexington, that state, on the charge of forgery
He had forged the name of J.. J. Burgess, cash
ier of the Georgetown National bank, to
checks to the amount of several thousand dol
lars. The bank will lose heavily.
A man representing him self as DR.. F. Won
B~adenfeld, an ex-Catholic priest, born and
educated in Austria, has been swindling Ro-
chester, n. Y. people by getting money in ad-
vance on the strength of strong recommends
tons from the local clergy, and then drinking
whiskey as long as the money lasted.
Ex-Gov. Stanford of California, and Mrs.
Stanford, accompanied by their only son and
child, Leland Stanford, a bright, intelligent boy
of sixteen years, sailed from New, York about
a year ago for a European pleasure trip.
Last week they reached New York, bringing
with them the embalmed body of their child,
who diedin Florence after a three weeks ill
ness of typhoid fever.
In the billiard room of the Windsor hotel
New York, Addison Cammack and Alexander
Taylor, well-lnown Wall street brokers, came
in collision. Taylor, who became somew hat
excited during an argument with Cammack,
told him he vas a wrecker and well known as
such. Csmmack denied this, and Taylor re-
torted by calling him a liar. Cammack sprang
up and struck Taylor on the head with a heavy
gold-headed cane and knocked him down.
The combatants were separated by friends.
The judicial examination of the assassination
of David Schwartz near Salem, Or, seems to
implicate four persons-Mrs. Schwartz, her
son, Joseph Drake, (colored), and William
Henry. The latter has made an alleged con-
fession. Drake was charged with the actual
commission Of the deed, but with the full
knowledge and consent Of the others. Henry
says Mrs. Schwartz told the men her husband
intended 70 kill both on sight, and informed
them when and how he couldbe easily assassin
ated She and her husband separated months
before. The four prisoners are strongly guard
ed Tn feeling against them is very bitter,
The Mineral argus., 1884-05-22

The revival of pugilism in this coun-
try has been too obvious to escape the
notice of anybody who takes interest in
current events. Nearly every day we
read of prize fights, thinly disguised as
boxing matches, where two brutes stand
up and thump each other till one is
knocked out" and is dragged off, bleed
ing, swollen and half dead. No more
vicious or degraded sport can be i'm
agined. 1t lacks even the dignity of the
~gladiatorial combats or of an honest
bull-fight, and should be forbidden as
hurtful in the highest degree to the in
terests of civilized society.
The Mineral argus., 1884-05-22
A Slayer of Jesse James Shoots Himselt

Robert Ford, the slayer of Jesse James, has
received a telegram from Richmond, Mo-, that
his brother Charles committed suicide at the
latter place. He has been in bad health for a
long time, suffering from consumption, and
this together with remorse for his share in the
affair two years ago, is thought to be the cause
of the act. He committed the deed with a six
chambered weapon carrying a32 ball. The shot
penetrated the heart, and death occurred i'm
mediately. He has been respondent for
several days, and the result is not altogether a
surprise to his friends who knew that his trou-
BILE was weighing upon his mind.
On April, 3, 1882, Jesse James, the notorious
railroad robber, was assassinated in his house
at st. Joseph, NO., by the brothers Bob and
Charley Ford, members of the James gang.
The actual deed was done by Bob, who shot
Jesse while the latter was hanging pictures in
his room. The brothers were tried for murder
and convicted, but Immediately pardoned by
Gov. Crittenden.
The Mineral argus., 1884-05-22

The Chicago Journal scouts the idea
that India is to produce at a low price
a sufficient abundance of wheat to sap
ply the demand in Europe, and to de
stroy the European market for Amerf-
can wheat, except at a price which
would be ruinous to the American
wheat-producer. The Journal says that
the farmers of Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Minnesota and Dakota, and of the far
Saskatchewan Valley, may smile in de-
rision at the efforts Of the half-naked,
and ill-fed natives. of India, in the best
of times to become serious rivals in pro-
ducing the staple crop which requires
Intelligence, industry and capital for its
successful cultivation. That a low caste
and yellow native of India can be COM
pete with a western farmer in the pro-
duction of wheat is impossible. There
has been hardly enough, Or no more
than enough, food raised in India dur
ing the last 1000 years to feed the peo-
pie, to say nothing of raising enough to
feed Europe. The productive capacity
of the country has reached its limit and
cannot be increased.
The Mineral argus., 1884-05-22

The case of William McHugh, late
ly hanged at Cincinnati for the murder
of his wife, demonstrates the necessity
of reform in the criminal laws particu-
larly in the matter of granting new tri-
ais. In McHugh's case there never has
been the slightest doubt of his guilt.
That was clear and clearly proved. Yet
the higher courts did all they could to
prevent his being punished for his
crime by granting him two new trials on
technicalities, so that it required three
convictions and the unanimous verdict
of 36 jurors to finally secure his pun
ishInent. In every case the supreme
court granted new trials upon pure
t~echnicalities, mere cobwebs, and it was
not until after the Cincinnati riot that
a writ of error was refused, or he would
have had a fourth trial.
The Mineral argus., 1884-05-22
Record of Casualties.

Joseph J. Asch's fur factory at Norwalk,
Conn, burned. Loss, $4,000.
Mrs. Missouri Wright was killed by chloro-
form at Albany, Ga, recently, taken at a dem
lists.
A St Louis dispatch says that Charles S. Fee,
general passenger agent of the Northern Pacific
railway, who was injured in the accidenton the
Wabasha road Wednesday, the 9th, and who
was thought to be seriously hurt, is very much
better, and will probably be about in a day or
two.
A dispatch from Port Arthur says: On Sun
day afternoon there was a terrible storm on
Michipocoten bay, which resulted in the total
wreck of the steamer Argyle, belonging to Mr..
Rorie Mcclellan, one of the Canadian Pacific
railway contractors. The steamer had left
Sault Ste Marie with a heavy cargo of provis-
ions and other supplies to be used on McLel-
lan's contract.
The west-bound train on the Wabash road
struck a broken rail near Body Station, Ill,
early Wednesday morning. A coach and two
sleepers were overturned andmany passengers
slightly injured and the sleeping car conductor
seriously. The company Immediately sent a
half dozen physicians to the wreck. Some
thirty passengers are more or less injured, but
all excepting twelve were able to proceed on
their journey.
During a big meeting in the Mckinney, Tex.
Methodist colored church, the foundations gave
away and the church was thrown down, lights
e~xtinguished, two lamps exploding, scattering
oil over the people, and one woman was burned
to death. Another had her clothes burned of,
and will die. Several others were badly
burned. A panic prevailed, and the entire
town turned out, thinking G negro uprising
had taken place. Recent rains had Under
mined the foundations.
The Mineral argus., 1884-05-22

A year or two ago Prince Bismarck
promulgated an imperial rescript, in
forming the Reichstag, the popular
body of the Empire, and the people,
that all true political power came from
the Crown, and that their powers were
really nothing more than advisory. Not
a few individuals predicted revolution.
But did not come. Emboldened by
apparent submission or indifference
Bismarck now wants a new Constitu-
ton which will give the throne a per-
manent military budget, and impose a
test oath which will exclude socialists
and the reactionary representatives
generally from the Reichstag. If the
Reichstag does not obedientIy furnish
the required instrument, a congress of
the German princes will be called to
supply it. The denial of representa-
ton involved in these changes, and the
removal from the representative BODY
of any control over the military sup
plies, it would seem, ought to be suf-
icient to bring on a revolution if any
thing would. The people move slow
but predictions are now freely made il
the latter scheme is carried out the re-
cult Will be a popular up rising.
The Mineral argus., 1884-05-22
Il is reported that the Dominion

# is reported that the Dominion
government has shipped a large guam
tity of ammunition to Manitoba, for use
in case of trouble arising out of the
present complications. There does not
seem to be much danger of armed con-
fict at present. The mother country"
holds a pretty firm, though exceedingly
gentle hand over her colonies, and will
only tolerate a certain degree of intes-
tine connection.
The Mineral argus., 1884-05-22
Personal Points.

Vanderbilt rode forty-four miles in sixty six
minutes.
Rev. DR.. Hortsman of Philadelphia, to cure
hay fever, has had a portion of the nasal bones
removed
Miss Whitney, the runaway Detroit girl, was
caught in Toledo. She had married the coach
man, whose name is Neville, and he CLAIMS 10
be a baron.
The Mineral argus., 1884-05-22

Members of Congress are nX1Ou to
get home to look after their own fences.
There are very few 0 fthem who will de-
cline a denomination. All complain
of arduous duties and small pay but
they are willing to endure these things
for the good of the country-perhaps.
The Mineral argus., 1884-05-22
Railroad Rumclings.

The surveyors of the Fargo Southern rail-
way have pitched their tents near Elkton, on
their survey from Big Stone lake to Flandreau,
Oak, and will, no doubt, soon be in ~Flandreau,
as the survey down the Sioux valley is devoid
of any engineering difficulties and the distance
is only sixteen miles.