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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-10-26

GROs.GRAIN SILKS AT 35c. heretofore consid-
cred great bargain at 50c.;
GRos.GRA!N SILK at 5Oc4 never oncrod for
less than eCc.;
HEAVY SATIN FINISH at 92c.. $50 quality
soc. BLACK SATINS for 25c.;
81 BLACK sATINs FOR Doe;
So BROCADE VELVETs for $3.50;
a 27.inch MANTILLA SILK VELVET for
sI.75;
Gtc. CALICO for &c;
ec. RIFACHED COTTON for 5sc.;
sl.25BLACK DRFSs GOODS Tor s5c.;
lGc. DRESS GOODS for lCc.;
s2o INDIA SHAWLs fortI2;
s1.5o TUECoMAN CURTAIN MATEEIAL for
75c.;
75c. CURTAIN LACE for 39c.;
sl2BFD-BLANkETS fors7.75;
see. BLACK ALL-wooL CASHMERE for
37.c.;
l9ue. e.GINGHAMS forG.c.;
l--.pch $50 BLACK SILK VELVET for 9jc.
&. Picard a Cies sI.25 TRICOTs for s5c.;
5oc. EMBROIDERED LINEN CAMBRIC
HANDKERCHIEFs FOR 29c.;
800 piece, of SILKS Of various descriptions al
so cents on lie dollar.
l2.c. WOESTED FRINGES for Sc;
2oc. WOEsTED BALL-FRINGE for II &C.;
Tie above lie of goods and prices was taken prom
COUF-N
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-10-26

WRAPS
ELWEAHKETk from IS up;
DOLnAkS in DIAGONAL OTTOMAN, SATIN
SILK. and SILK OTTOMAN froH 81 TO 800;
RUSSIAN CIRCULARS. In this style OF WRAf
.e cannot be undcrsOld. We can give "ou for
$3.50 garment that Is well wn.th sl2. for 50
aWssp that caano; bc duplicated for les than
tl5 in any hoasc In The eityi
LADIES CLOAKs sud SHORT SACKS from
t2.t0 tosiO;
Ne also have a large assortment OF CHILDREN
CLOAKS froia tI.73 70 SIS.
II nin pay Won to examine Our stock before pnr'
ctssiug.
CARPETS.
wsLa,t nr,.g tine Of CARPETS from lihNP ~
lscA,sss 10 the Desi ALL-wooL 3-fLl Tor
eCc<
yAPTsTEY. BRUSSELS. and VELVET CAH-
Pgir, from Joc. 80 81 yard
10 be convinced Of The truth OF
D.& v. MiTTELDORFER.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-10-26

eoc. woRsTED and SILK BALL FRINGE f0r
37.c.;
wAMsUTTA COTTON at sAc.;
1elc. DRESS FLANNEL at 124c.;
50 sEAL-PLUsH for $500;
BEADED PAsSAMENTERIE for t2.25;
~ PAsSAMENTERIE for sl.25;
.2.25 MoUsQUET NRE KID GLOVES FOR
sI.25;
sl.75 MOUSQUETAIRE MD GLOVES for97c.;
zoe. ALL-wooL CASHMERE for s74c.;
$3.50 BERLIN DIAGONAL for ladies' wrap,
tcJats1.75;
1870. A CRETONNEs for g.;
ssc. GRAY BLANKETS for 5oc. pair:
25c. Io-4 TNBLEACIIED snEETING for BE;
25c. ELEACHED SHEETING Tor I7c.;
s25 PORTER CURTAINS forslj;
DC. WHITE FLANNEL for l6'lc.;
9oc. SUPERIOR INGRAM CARPEr for &c;
7sc. TAPESTRY CARPET FOR 55c.;
az SMYRNA RUGS for :7.75;
81 SMYRNA RUGS for s5.25;
s. SMYRNA RUGS for 1850;
1925 SMYRNA RUGS for 75c.
We closed out a manufacturer aud importer Of
FURs And FCK-TGlMNuNG
at about soc. on the dollar.
i.cuous.y out of various departments. aud doe
gain, hat viii De- oftrco the coming week.
BROTHERS. Fourih ana Broad
New-York tribune., 1884-02-02

II was to DO advisory, and TO have some share in
administering eiscipline but the President Of tho
college was to preside at all its meetings, and Its
actions were evidently to.bo limited by the Faculty.
In spite of the fryolies with which they are often
charged, college students as body are strongly
practical. SO indefinite proposition found few to
support it the votes Of the four classes taken,
and were found in every but one to be adverse.
The now system then continued in operation, and
for more than year all consideration of the
Senate Scheme" as il was popularity called, was
dropped The action of the Faculty last spring,
declaring against the further connection OF
Amherst with intercollegiate games, awakened the
students to a sense of the value which such rep
resentative body might possess. At the same time
the majority hesitated to bind themselves TO any
thing indefinite Some feared that tie plan would
initiate an organized spy-system; Others that the
representatives would be simply ignored, except in
cases which tho Fnculty themselves dsliked to
handle Finally at mass-meeting of the college,
a committee was appointed to draw up for the rep
rcsentatve body constitution which should
strictly define the authority TO be eXerted by 1t ahd
by the Faculty. This provided that all cases OF
discipline were to be acted upon by the Senate"
subject only to the veto of the President questions
of college policy. in athletics and similar matters.
were to come under the joint consideration OF the
Faculty and the representatives; In questions reat-
ing To the curriculum the students we're TO have no
voice. Their meetings were to be entirely private
and the President of the college was not TO preside
However satisfactory this plan might be to the
students, it proved too painfully logical for the
higher authorities. and the whole proposition was
promptly rejected by the Faculty. The President
then offered the same terms as before, choosing to
enter upon the plan indefinitely and leave rules and
regulations to the future The Senior class refused
to proceed further but the other classes acquesced
and elected their representatives.
The whole matter was dropped for the remainder
of the college year. but at the opening OF the fall
term, last September the entire body WAS elected
and sanctioned by the students The experiment
has thus after two years of consideration, been
fairly entered apon and its results will be carefully
studied by both parties. The long hesitation of the
students does not indicate great degree OF con-
fdence in the Faculty. 1t may be that this will
come in course of time; otherwise neither this nor
any similar project succeod. Unqucstionably
is the mutual confidence of Faculty and students
which will determine whether the experiment is to
be dismal failure, the signal for revolution i'll
college government.
New-York tribune., 1884-02-02

partisan murders. be spoke for every man IN
the land who is capable of an honest convicuon'
or has the least idea what freedom means n
Coverpment that refuses to suppress such
wrongs has no business to exist. A party or
faction that excuses or shields such crimes, no
matter what other claims it may have, deserves
only defeat and infamy. Ii the senator is mis-
taken. and no such crimes have been commit
ted. the inquiry viii disclose the fact. But he
who votes to suppress the truth and shield the
murderer puts a mark on himself that VIII not
rub of. Twenty years ago Mr.. Seymour ad-
dressed certain rioters as his friends"
Though he should live TO be rs old as Methusa-
leh, the fact would be remembered So it will
be remembered that, as late rs the year 1854,
certain persons mainly Democratic editors and
politicians. including the solid Democratic min
ority in the Senate, resisted the motion to inquire
whether American citizens were Systematically
assassinated because of their opinions, and met
all evidence on the subject with spirit as
fiendish as the crime itself.
For the imported citizens who have not yet
learned what freedom means, there is some ex-
cuse, as there is for the Southern bully, brought
up in an atmosphere of slavery and brutality.
Even the DcmOcIdtlC pditiSdh WIN HAS IO'
these excuses can at least plead that inquiry
may hurt his party and for spirit so dishonor-
able a poor excuse is better than none: But
what can be said when professedly Republican
journal, The Nc,c- York Times, opposes the in
quiry, denOunces the suggestion as folly"
repeats Che stale and cowardly sneer about the
bloody shirt" and says that nothing can be
done about the crimes committedP 1t is, per-
haps, enough to call attention to the fact that
there is one such journal, claiming to bo Repub-
lican, and yet willing to stoop, in helping the
Democratic party, to work which decent North
ern Democrats consider too dirty.
New-York tribune., 1884-02-02
nv,y vopx DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, saTEN PAGES

inclusive was officially reported as averaging
367, ,G6G, ,067 pounds, and NJ. Bonclurcaus state
ment makes tic yield in Louisiana alone for the
six years 1S49-1S54 average 334,43o,oOo
pounds. Thus it cannot be said that the duties
imposed have served to answer the purpose OF
stimulating production. The average net inn
ports of foreign sugar. during the six years
JS50-1S55, after deductlng all exports, were
only 37S,643, ,173 pounds yearly, while the
imports for the last six years have averaged
1,76S, ,642, ,G37 pounds yearly. Thirty years ago
we epra aduced nearly as much as we imported, and
that too under low Democratic tariff OF 30 per
cent. Now. with duties averaging, even under
the new tariff, 49l2 per cent, and under the old
tariff SO per cent in 1883, and 55la per cent in
1882 and 1881, we import more than seven
tiIges as much as We produce. Moreover the
grade of Louisiana sugar is comparatively hlgh,
and on that grade the old duty probably aver
aged over 60 per cent.
The truth is that the duty on sugar has not
been levied or maintained rs n protective duty.
The fact that no duty suilices 10 stimulate the
production. in such measure as to give reasona-
bic prospect that this country may become inde-
pendent of imports, and thus to Justify its
continuance as ameasure of protection has long
been recognized. The Dirty has been retained as
n means of raising voIy large revenue with
little apprecable br- den to consumers. But it
was reduced by the last Republican Congress IN
part because there was no longer need for so
large revenue as had been collected, and in
part because it was higher than most other duties
on articles of general consumption.
1t has been proposed in Congress to abolish
the duty on sugar entirely, thereby making by
one change all the reduction of duty that can
now be reasonably proposed. Bnt this proposal
is little likely to lind favor with the Democratic
majority in the House. Many of the members
who form that majority are free traders, and
they want to cut down duties on manufactured
goods. Many more are indebted to the whiskey
influence for their seats, and they prefer to re-
pea. the tax on whiskey. Besides these there
are the members from Louisiana and other
Southern States in which sugar is. produced.
1t is improbable that these members will fail
to influence their party associates Whether
this duty ought to be wholly repealed, moro
over is a question upon which the Republican
members would by no means agree. To cut of
entirely so important and SO trustworthy
source of revenue, when any general prOstra-
ton of business might cut down imports OF
Injuries and manufactured artclesvery largely,
does not seem a wise or prudent course to many
members who nevertheless regard the sugar
duty as desirable for revenue purposes only.
Others think it important, and with reason, to
maintain the duty as a stimulus to the sorghum
industry. At the rate il is now developing, we
may by continuing judicious protection little
longer find every State in the great cOrn-grOw-
ing belt producing its own sugnr
New-York tribune., 1884-02-02
TEN PAGES.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-A banquet was given at the American
Legation in Paris last evening. - The Minister
of Marine denies that Admiral CouTbet has been re-
pulsed at Bac-Ninh. - Prince Jerome Napoleon
addressed Bonapartist deputatlon. - Bishop
Carl Olof Bjoring is dead. - The absconding
member of z. w. Thomas & Co., Of London, is said
TO have sailed for America
CoNGREss.-The Senate was not in session. -
The debate in the House the Porter bill was
closed, and the bill was passed by vote Of 1S4 to
rs. == A new Conference Committee on the
Greedy relief bill was appointed.
DoMEsTIC.-A gasolene explosion at Alliance,
OHIO, yesterday, wrecked large building and
probably killed eight persons. and hurt several
more. - H. F. Packer, president Of the Lehlgh
Valley Road, died. === The Living skeleton
consents TO his wife's departure. - The Balt-
more and Bremen steamer NumbeIg is aground in
PatapscO River. - The Yale seniors elected
committees yesterday. -= The explosion of a
saw-lnill boiler at Blanchard, Mich. killed three
men and injured three more
CITY AND SUBURBAN. - Testimony before Mr..
Roosevelts committee yesterday showed that Sheriff
Davidson was paid by the city last year Tor carry
ing :, goo prisoners more than be actually conveyed
- The Jury in the FeuaIdent-di Cesnoa case
Went out at noon and were still out at midnight
- The testimony in the Hart-TownSend libel
case was finished. - Mayor Low appointed
heads of the Brooklyn municipal departments.
==- The opponents of Dr. Newman said
that council would be called to ad-
just the church troubles. == Liquor dealers
announced their determination to oppose tho High
License bill. - young man was arrested III
the act Of rObbing lock box in the Post-Ohice.
- The death of women at Laurel Hill was
thought to be due TO arSenical pOsioni =. -
Cold value of the legal tender silver doar tll2l2
grsins,) S.. .S5 cents. == Stocks after being few
erish in the early dealings steadily improved and
closed strong
THE WEATHER-TRIDUNE local observ ations IN
dicate colder, fair or clear weather. Temperature
Yesterday: Highest 39e; lowest, 1SS; average,
30laS
New-York tribune., 1884-02-02
TUF AE1S or ASSIU

A recent dispatch related that an expedition
against the Akas of Assam had recovered from
them two English officials whom they had captured
in one Of their raids Since It was thought worth
while to telegraph this from Calcutta it may be
worth while to state who and what the Akas of
Assam are. The foothills and spurs of the Hima-
layas on tue northern boundary Of India, are in
habited by many s0-called hill-trbes, who are
perhaps aboTieines, but certainly are much less
civilized than the dwelers IN the plains. Many OF
these hill-tribes have from time immemcria! Occu-
pied positions analogous to those of the Scottish
Highland clans up to the eighteenth century. That
is 10 say, they have refused allegiance. to any
of the neighboring pOtentates, have MAIN
tanned savage independence, and have
subsisted principally by forays upon the
lowlands and the lifting" of cattle. The British
Government has for years been Cndeavoring to
quiet these Indian moss-roopers and border rleveTs,
and has succeeded in engaging one tribe, tine Abas,
10 act as sort Of Irregular police to keep the peace
of the border. Hero, too, the resemblance to the
Highlanders is borne out. for similar arrangements
were quite frequently made with border clans, and
their feuds with one another were always taken
advantage of by the Wardens of the Marches when
it was possible to do
The Himalayan hill-tribes are very primitive IN
many respects. They are very fond OF tobacco,
which they chew like Yankees, ana some OF tlem
can only tell the eugth Of a journey or the dis
tance between two places, by estimating the num-
Der Of plugs Of the weed consumed on the way.
The Akas of Assam are among the most incorrg-
blc OF these professional robbers. There are two
clans of them, DESIGNATED respectively TIE
eaters of ofathousandhearths,' and "the thieves who
lurl1 in the cotton field" These suggestive name
no doubt express the character of the Akas quite
faithfully Nj Hunter says that they
are fierce, black, underszed and ill-fed,'
and they are the terror and scourge Of the low
lands. Hitherto only small expeditions have been
sent against them; but since they have grown SO
bold as to kidnap English officials as well as native
cattle. it is probable that their subjugation will
be seriously undertaken before long Among these
people, nevertheless it is possible that interesting
relics of aboriginal tradition and legend might be
found by patient inquiry for there can be no doubt
that the hll-tribes Of the Himalayas claim very
remote antiquity.
New-York tribune., 1884-02-02
Amussmeuis 60 NialJt.

AMERICAN INsIrTUTR-skating Rink
BDou OPERA HoUsE-2 and g." orpheus and Eurydice.'
BRoOKLYN AcADEMY--9--" Redemption"
CAslNo--2 and 81" The Beggar Student"
DALr's THEATRE and s." Seven fw enty Eight
GRAND OPERA RousE--2 and g." Edgcwood Folks"
MADISON SQUARE THE AIRE-2 and s--"Alpine Roses'
NEw PARK THHATRR-S--"That Man" -
NEw-Y York COMEDY TREATRE-2 aud s-"Fun on ine
Bristol"
ErBIo's GARDES-2 and g." Richard III"
STAR THEArRE-2 and s--"Wmtod q Partner
STEINwAY HALL-2-Copcert $500, .,
THEATRE CoNIoUE-s--" Coroelia's Aspirations
UN,oS SQUARE THfkTRE-2 and S-"separati0p
NAIIAcK's TRRATRR-l:30 and s-"Deccpton."
:,D AyFST,E THEATRE-2 and g." One OF the Finest"
5Ta AyySTR THEATRE--2 and s." Connlsion."
I4Tu STREET THEATRE-2 and s." Unser Fritz"
New-York tribune., 1884-02-02
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SrGAR IND THE TARITE.

The duty on sugar does not seem Of clear
utility to some sincere friends Of the protective
system. They ask, in the words of letter re-
Gently received from one of them, "why duty
of two or three cents pound should be levied
a. on so necessary an article, when, notwith-
" standing the years and years 1t has had OF
" such protection, the production of sugar in
this country is to-day hardly larger than it
" was thirty years ago." In point of fact, it is
smaller. The production for the last six years,
with three decidedly good crops, has averaged
only about 23o,OO0,OO0 pounds yearly, the
Louisiana crop having been about 2ls 100000.
But the production in the six Years 1850 la5h
New-York tribune., 1884-02-02

The appointments which Mayor Low OF
Brooklyn has just made will doubtless be crit
icised by extreme partisans; but on the whole
the general tone of public sentiment among
fair minded men will probably be that the
Mayor has discharged difficult and unpleasant
task in a satisfactory manner. He was not
elected as partisan officer, but as a man VINO
would administer municipal affairs without
regard to politics He has lived up to TINS
position in the appointment of an independent
democrat rs City Works Commissioner. In pro-
noting various deputies to be heads OF depart
D,.n+s Mr Low has acted in strict harmony
with the Civil Service principles which he
New-York tribune., 1884-02-02
SHIELDING ASS4SSINS.

1t seems good to Democratic journals to
sneer whenever an American Senator asks
whether American citizens are still murdered
for their opinions. This is in keeping. stream
cannot rise higher than its source. The party
that has reaped the fruits of systematic assas-
sinatiOn could not be expected TO teach through
its organs decent regard for law. for the lives
of citizens, or for the rights which are held
sacred by the Constitution and by those who
are fit to live under it.
The coarse sneer is a betrayal. Men who
do not respect the rights of others are not yet
fit to have rights Of their own. We have been
welcoming TO this country, and to the shelter
and the opportunities of its freedom, some men
who never lad a chance where they were born
to rise above the herd, who had no conception of
freedom except as an escape from the restraint
of force and fear. OF the dignity of self
restraint they knew nothing of their duties as
sharersi in self government less than nothing;
and when some free-bom American citizen is
murdered for voting according to his convic-
tons they may naturally sneer about the out
rage mill.n There are not many of these people,
we trust assuredly they have no sympathy
from intelligent and worthy citizens of foreign
or native birth; but the Democratic party
naturally finds use for large proportion of
them. Men less incapable of the sentiments
natural TO freemen would count ii intoerable
infamy to be compelled to defend political as
sassinatiOns.
When Senator Sherman spoke in the Senate
on Monday, demanding inquiry regarding certain
New-York tribune., 1884-02-02

Is to prevent vessels being destroyed or broksn
down by those giants. tho waves. In this the oil IA
never-failing agent l am certain 1t would pay
both ship-owners and insurance companies wen n
every vessel carried barrel of oil for that purnosa
on voyage from America to Europe or vice vera.
A barrel of oil does not cost as much a. new bpJ.
warks and stanehions, and far les. than shin and
its crew." If foil has this effect, as Captain Olsen
testfes it is surprising that those most Interested
in shipping have not taken steps to advocate or ca
tablish rules looking TO its general use In tepesa
OF hurricanes at sea. 1t Is certainly inexpensive
ascompared with the yearly record of disasters, and
much has already been accomplished by It's use in
quelng the surf at the mouths of harbors. Expert
ments made in Great Britain the past year were
found successful in breaking the force OF the waves
rolling into haIbor, and the experiments made upon
the Massachusetts, coast which proved unfayorable
should no. deter further experiments.
The old saying that Threatened mon live long,
applies particularly to those who are threatened
through the mails. The people who write threat
ening letters are seldom the people who commit
crimes: great deal of the present dynamite dis
turbance in Europe consists of threatening lcttsre
but we can recall no instance Of such mensoes
having been carried into effect. The oonspirators
really to be feared are those who do not say aay-
thing, but reserve all their energies for deeds OF
violence.
New-York tribune., 1884-02-02

and they have emitted lot of statistics, about
the votes which they control and tho amount
of money they can raise, which might frghten
somebody if they were not so plainly intended
to have that effect. We have no doubt but that
most of the Assemblymen and Senators Will
be able to rise superior TO them.
New-York tribune., 1884-02-02

COLLEGE F1CULTIES AND STUDENTS.
The history of American colleges during the last
ten years has been marked by changes in the rela-
tions between faculties and students. The old idea
that the professor is the natural enemy of the pupil
has almost died away; liberal spirit has
replaced it, and has been the occasion of numerous
experiments in college government. One of the
most striking of these has been tried In Amherst
College, but only within a few months has 1t
reached point at which the theory can be fairly
tested The first notice Of such an intention on the
part of the Faculty occurred in the announcement
by President Seelye Of the so-caled % New System"
shortly after the opening of the fall term of 1881
This consisted largely Of a change Of terms withou
any great change of rules. After two Years of
operation, the practical abolition of the obnoxious
marking system is its only noticeable effect.
President seelye added that n still greater change
was contemplated by the Faculty. which, however.
they would not undertake without the approval of
a majority of the four classes The scheme proposed
was the formation OF representative body OF
students to be elected by the several classes four
from the Seniors three from the Juniors, two from
the Sophomores, and one from the Freshmen The
dutiaa nj this bndg Wara left snnlnwhat nndeined