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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-12-06
DICHMOND, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

DICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG
III AND POTOMAC RAILROAD.-schsd.
nile commencing NOVEMBER is, 1855
eastern standard time:
500 A. H., leaves byrd-Street station
daily; stops only at Ashland,
Junction, Milford, and Frede.
ricksburg. Sleeper nom
Jacksonville TO Washington,
ll:o7 A. NJ, leaves Byrd Street sta on dai.
ly except sunday. sleepss
from Charleston ~ Washing.
ton.
$40 p, NJ, leaves Byrd. Street station a.
ly. Sleeper from Jacksouvfk1o
To New York and from Char.
lesion 10 New York.
1929 A. NJ, arrives at Byrd-street station
daily. Sleeper from New York
to Jacksonville and from New
York TO Charleston.
2:sa Z. n, arrives at Byrd-street station
daily; stops at Fredericks-
burg, Milford. and Junction.
Sleeper from washington 70
Charleston and from Wash.
ington To Jacksonville.
eos y. NJ, arrives at Byrd-Street station
daily except Sunday.
ASHLAND TRAINS.
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAYS:
400 +. NJ, accommodation, leaves Broad.
street station; arrives 81 Ash.
land at 8 T.. n.
WV land at SAG +. N.
7:so A. NJ, arrives at Elba: leaves Ash.
land at 6:43 A. NJ.
e:56 A. NJ, accommodation. arrives ~
Broad-Street station leaves
Ashland at . A. NJ.
$50 p. NJ, arrives at Elba leaves Aahland
at5:12P. NJ.
q. A. TAYLOR, General Ticket Agent.
Il. 7. ID. MYERS. General Superintendent.
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ONLY ALL-WATER ROUTE.
JAMES RIVER BY DAYLIGHT.

GREAT TOURIST ROUTE.
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SCENERY.
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X. QUINN TRAVELS FOR THE
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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-08-30
A BAD MOVE.

There is talk of removing U. S.
District Attorney Dixon of Utah,
on partisan grounds. The Demo
Gratis cannot afford to do this.
Dickson has been the first District
Attorney in Utah who has en-
forced the laws of the United
States against polygamy. He is
still pressing the war into the enc
my's strong hold, and one by one
landing the leading polygamists of
Utah in the Penitentiary. Hereto
fore the Mormons have laughed at
the laws Of the United States, but
now they are gnashing their teeth
and wailing. How would it have
looked for some one to rise up and
suggest that Hercules be removed
when he was engaged in the work
of Staying the Hydra with seven
heads. Dixon is the giant with the
club, crushing out Mormonism.
His blows can be heard all over the
country; he is above bride, beyond
fear, and man of splendid ability.
1t would be an easy matter for him
to get million dollars from the
Mormon sack to cease his labor Of
enforcing the law, and there are
plenty of men as honest as he who
would not dare to so fearlessly
grapple with this heretofore inyin-
chile foe. We are astonished that
any man is SO vain as to think that
he could take Dixon's place and
achieve equal results. Yet,
blind greed for Office has prompted
a man named Marshall in Salt
Lake to forward petitions to Wash
ington. urging Dixon's removal and
Marshall's appointment.
We predict that whenever Dixon
is removed it will be red-letter
day and a triumph for the Nor
mons. The Democratic party went |
down when slavery was fastened up
on it, and if it takes up the twin
relic polygamy it is fastening its
own doom again.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-08-30

A German physician, DR.. Will
helm Schmoele, recently set forth
at great length the doctrine that he
who eats lem ons in sufficient album
dance need never die. About the
same time a certain Count Weldeck
gave up the ghost at the advanced
age Of 12O, having discovered the
true eti:rir ritR in horse radish
soaked in lemon JUICE. An English
surgeon has more recently still
published book designed to show
that eternity on a reduced scale is
within the reach, here upon earth,
Of almost any one who will take the
proper precaution to secure it, and
many persons seem nowadays to be
possessed by the idea that it is
their duty to spin out existence to
the term of Methuselah.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-08-30
THE FLY SEASON.
Unknown Author.

Unknown Author.
Oh! Oh! the fly, the beautiful fly,
He 1922. on the wall and he comes
on the sly,
To bother our table and tickle our nose,
But where he does come from nobody
knows.
He is ever present, in sunshine and
gloom,
And the darned little scoundrel -, -:
all over the room.
We try to evade him by window and
screen.
But still those same f1y;;.::. 49,: forever
are seen.
1t is no use a-trying, he will;.::::' =; in
the pie, .....
And everything else however hard you
may try
To cover it up or protect 1t with cover.
You will find when you eat tits fly 49,.
all over.
There's some that will scold and there's
some that will cry,
At the trouble that's caused by the
darned little fly;
But I'm clean out of patience-rve no
patience at all,
And distractedly gaze at those fly 49,:
on the wall.
wish it were Winter and the flies were
all gone,
And the last rose Of Summer was bloom
ting alone
At home in the snow 'twere much bet
ter to be,
Than the flies on the wall and those fly
'.;.'::,:.'; 10 see.
Forgive me, dear reader, for really am
mad,
But those fly ':';.:..::.;'.',' in Summer!
Amt they too bad?
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-08-30
A NUT FOR THE SECOND AID.
VENTISTS.

The Second Adventists who are
now preaching the second coming
of Christ, tell us that the end of
the world will take place in the
present generation.
According to the Oath chapter of
Matthew, Christ made exactly the
same prediction. After leaving
the temple he was asked when the
end of the world should come, as
follows:
Chapter "a, verse 3, reads, "And
as he sat upon the Mount of Olives
his disciples came unto him pri-
vately saying, Tell us, when shall
these things be? And what shall
be the sign of thy coming, and Of
the end Of the acorld9. Christ, in his
reply pictured the dreadful events
which should preface the last day;
the wars and rumors of wars; the
lightning in the East; the darkness
Of the sun and moon, the shaking
Of the powers of Heaven, and the
triumph Of the angels, and closes
his prophecy with these words,
verse 81:
verify, say unto you, this
generation shall not pass, till these
things shall be fulfilled"
Nearly two thousand years have
PASSED away since these words
were uttered, but the world rolls on.
Do the Second Adventists know
more Of the final doom than Christ?
If he was mistaken, as he evidently
was, if the Bible is correct, how
can mortals expect to be closer to
God than the Son of God?
Verse Sc reads: But of the day |
and houE knoweth no man; no, not
the angels of Heaven, but my
Father only"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-08-30
Millard's Juvenile Operetta.
+" MOTHER HUBBARD, ;"

With the following little folks in the
cast under the direction OF Mr.. Meder:
Master Isaac TObriner. Samuel Plat,
ROssie Eeder, Herbert Bicknell, Willie
Wilson, Chris euler. Warren WATSON Jr.,
Arthur Meyers, Gertie Hatch, Amy c..
Meder, Della Tobriner. Lolita Meder,
Mabel Hatch, Fred White, Henry Bur-
lington, John Burlington, Theo. Hofer,
Ralph Bender, Matte Murphy. Theresa
Shrieves, Ella and Lizzie Snyder, Lena
Crabb, Carrie Belknap, BERTHE Belknap,
Theo. Edwards, Susie Dorsey, Lulu
Culp, Edna and Edith Kersey, Levi
Bartine, Bertha Meyers, Alice Keyser,
Belle Spurgeon, May Murray, Veda Nc.
Clure, Ada Dorsey, Jennie Moore. Ethel
II Offer, Katie Schulz, Bessfs Platt, Ida
Plat Sallie Moore and a hoste of
others.
General Admission ........ so cts.
SH11uIChs. %.S Gus
No extra charge for reserved seats Box
sheet open on Thursday, Aug 3lst at Mr..
Tribune Copy.l
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-08-30
JOHN p. MEBER.

The Programme will consist of Solos
and Duets, both for Vocal and Instru-
mental Songs and Dances and the
Comic Acts 1.-The Dandy Coons" and
"The Three Jolly Sailor Boys" To
conclude with
The Portland daily press., 1885-08-01
FOREIGN.
A TumuItuous Scene in the French
Deputies.
Thunder Storms Increasing the Raw
ages of Cholera in Spain.
Farming Grievances Said to be Great
in England.
osman Digna Reported Killed in the
KassaIa Battle.

PARIS, July 31.-In the Madagascar debate
in the Chamber of Deputies, yesterday, NJ.
Clemenceau, replying to ID. Ferry, declared
that a careful examination showed that no
colony yielded advantages in proportion to
the cost of its maintenance. The seeking af-
ter French colonies had been source of loss
to France. NJ. Ferry's theory that it was the
duty OF the superior races to civiliZe the infe-
rlor races was opposed to the rights of man.
Could NJ Ferry define the superior and
inferior" as applied to races? The Ger
mans in 1880 designated the French as
inferior" Were the Chinese inferior to
the French? A forcible colonial extension
policy was madness. 1t was the duty of the
government to secure the safety of France,
not to scatter its forces. (Applause)
NJ. Brisson said that the Cabinet aimed at
uniting the forces of the Republic, and pre-
serving national prosperity. He appealed to
the Chamber to vote the credit and promised
that the government would do its utmost to
arrange that the colonies should cost less and
contribute more than at present.
The credit was then voted 201 to 142.
NJ Clemenceau was frequently interrupted
by shouts and yells from M. Ferry's friends
while the enemies of the late premier sought
to drown their shouts by louder noises At
one point NJ de Cassagnac shook his fist in NJ
Ferry's face and cried out "YOu are an i'm
pudent fellow" De Cassagnac was called to
order and censured by the president Later
in the evening M. Clovis Hughes and an
other deputy were forcibly separated as they
were preparing to fight on the floor of the
Chamber.
The Portland daily press., 1885-08-01
BASE BALL.
GAME TO-DAY.

GAME TO-DAY.
The Queen City club of Bangor will play the
Portlands this afternoon, and good game may be
expected. Riley will probably pitch for the
Queen Citys. Game will be called at O'Clock.
HAvERHILLs 10, PoRTLANDs 2.
An audience of between 800 and 900 assem-
bled at the Portland grounds to witness the sec
ond game with the HaverhiIls this week. The
Portlands had played two brilliant games with
the strong Lawrence club the first Of the week,
not allowing them run, and it was reasonably
certain that the Portlands would win one of the
games with the Haverhills. But alas for those who
placed their confidence, and perhaps little mon
ey on the home team, the Haverhills had the
game from the start. Just before the game COM
menced Munce split his thumb quite badly, and
was obliged to give way to Dugan and several of
the believers in ''signsn remarked that it was
premOnition of disaster; but while we do not be-
ieve in signs, the result certainly was most disas-
trous.
The Haverhills opened the game at bat, but
were shut out, the Portlands scoring one run on
Annis's base hit, a wild throw and sacrifice.
From this inning until the close of the game, the
POrtlands played lstless game, while the Haver-
hills put in strong work both at the bat and in the
field. The Portlands scored their second run in
the fourth inning, Weidel hitting to long right
field for three bases, and coming home on Hol-
lands high hit ball to Foster, after it had settled
in his hands. The Haverhills scored in every in
ming but the 1st, 9Th and 9Th. Of the Portlands'
exhibition it can be said that it was one Of the
most wretched ever seen on the grounds. The
players who have proved the strongestin previous
games were the ones who made the costest er-
rors, Fulmer and Hartnett making errors that
would be miserable for a school boy Thayer
showed himself unable to hold the pitching of
Watson, and his poor throwing to bases was no
ticeabe. Watson seemed to pitch poor game but
at least half of the hits were made off of him after
chances for put-outS were lost. His support was
horrible, and it is not fair to blame Watson, as
many did, of being the cause of defeat. Any
pitcher would have done no better with the same
support. Outside of the fielding the Portlands
could not hit Calvin, only two safe hits being
made in the first eight innings. With such an ex-
hibition, both at the bat and in the field it is a
wonder the Haverhills did not defeat them worse
The hoodlum element was present in force, and
disgusted the audience by their idiotic shouts and
their remarks addressed to the Portlands There
are some persons who think the Portlands should
be able to defeat every club they play with and
really are very much vexed when they lose But
they should remember that all clubs play poorly at
times as witness the Detroit Philadelphia game
last week when the Detroits made % errors and
the Chicago-PrOvidence game, when the latter
club did not get base hit. The P0rtIands were
unfortunate, but we know they can play good ball
and also that they do their best to win. The
score
The Portland daily press., 1885-08-01
FACTS ABOUT THE MEMOIRS.
The Contract and Mrs. Grants Pros
pective Revenue.

The death.of Gen. Grant has caused the
publication in various newspapers of errone-
GUS statements referring to the contract en-
tered into by Gen. Grant and myself" said
Charles L. Webber day or two ago. Zone
of those statements, and one which is un-
just both to the widow of Gen. Grant and to
our firm, was printed in the World. 1t was
to the effect that this firm had paid Gen.
Grant $4,000 for his work, and that the long
sickness which he had undergone had neces-
STATED expending that money, leaving his
widow without any means of support. The
only money that this firm has paid to Gen.
Grant was check for 81, 900 to bind the con-
tract made with him. We have the check in
our possession, indorsed on the back by him.
when the General first began his work. /
called upon him, bearing letter Of introduc-
ton from Mr.. Clemens Mark Twain. On
stating my business to the General he in
formed me that he feared it was too late. /
tnen onered MN S5OOO0 in cash for his work,
ana AFTER 100000 copies had been sold he
was TO receive 80 per cent Of the profits on
the sale OF the book. This offer was refused
and another offer was made to him, the sub
stance OF which is as follows Gen. Grant
was 10 write for us his personal experience
to printthe book and bear all the expense of
placing 1t before the public. In return for
his writings Gen. Grant was to receive 75 per
cent OF the profits on the sales in this coun
Try, and 80 per cent on all sales in foreign
countries. This continues as long as the
book is sold, and will be an inheritance in
the Grant family forever. Attached to the
contract with Gen. Grant is another one in
which the General makes over all of his in
terest to his wife at his death, and under
meath that contract is one signed by us in
which we agree to follow out the wishes of
the General. The revenue to Mrs Grant,
from the sale of her husbands book, will
not be lower than $3.50 600 per year, and may
reach as high as 100000. From all sections
OF this country over 5000 agents are piling
order after order upon us, and as the inter-
est which Gen. Grants sickness has created
Is widespread and the frmness and resOlu-
tlon which he manifested in his book is
known throughout the entire world, the in
come from the book alone will be sufficient
TO place Mrs. Grant in position beyond any
financial want. The last act of Grants life
shows how magnanimOus he was. We wrote
MN letter asking his advice in an attempt
that we intended to make to prosecute the
persons who are Strewing broadcast over the
country books which are purported to have
Deen written by him. He merely wrote that
the public would accept the true state of af-
1alrS II informed. As writer and dictator
Gen. Grant had few equals. His grammati-
cal errors are few, and if you will look over
his manuscript whole pages of matter which
he dictated Will be found without a single al
teratlon or interlineation."
The Portland daily press., 1885-08-01
GENERAL NEWS.

A water famine stills prevails at Ashland,
Pa, and is growing worse every day. Much
excitement prevails there.
Rudolph A. Shotnell, editor Of the Farmer,
Mechanic land Chronicle at Raleigh, N. c.,
died suddenly yesterday morning.
There have been absolutely no new devel-
opments in the Charles river mystery at BOs-
ton.
George Wilson, Charles Davis and Ma
thilde Jones, all cOlored, were executed at
Plaquemine La, yesterday, for the murder
and robbery of Mrs. Henrietta Cole.
The business failures throughout the coun-
try for the last seven days number in the
United States 178, and in Canada 90, against
total of 215 last week.
Valentine Wagner, gentleman, aged 50,
was executed at the Ohio penitentiary at
Columbus, yesterday morning, for the muir
der of his brother-in-law.
Simeon Harris the Chicago attorney, who
has brought libel suits at Cincinnati, Ohio,
aggregating over S1,50O,000, within few
days, has been declared insane by the Pro-
bate Court,
All the men believed to have been in the
fallen mill at Wilmington, Del, have been
accounted for. The list of injured numbers
II, all of whom are now considered out
of danger.
The deficits in the accounts of the late
Henry Connor, assistant cashier of the Man
ufacturers and Traders Bank of Buffalo, n.
u, who died last Friday, aggregates $74, 900.
The soundness of the bank is umimpaired.
An action has been entered by Col. Gil
mour of Starnstead, to compel the South
Eastern Railroad Company to give up pos
session of the Montreal, Portland & Boston
Railroad Company's line now leased by the
former company, ON the ground that the
lease is invalid.
DIR. Theodore Canisus, late United States
consul to the Samoan Islands, who has ar
rived at San Francisco, is the bearer of
letter from King Malistoa of the Samoan
Island to President Cleveland, in which he
congratulates the President on his appoint
ment to rule over all the American people,"
The King sends the President gifts of mats
and other native productions.
The Portland daily press., 1885-08-01
EXCITED MILITIAMEN.
Serious Accidents During a Sham
Battle Near PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA, July31.-At sham battle
yesterday afternoon at Conneaut Lake be-
tween the Fifteenth Regiment Infantry and
Battery B of Pittsburg commanded by Cap
tain Hunt, the infantry attacked the bat
terry in excellent style and were repulsed.
In renewing the attack the infantry men
grew excited and uncomfortable and bore
down steadily into the mouths of the roar
ing cannon. tFhe color company Of the Gov.
ernor's Guard, Erie, Pa, charged the centre
section Of the battery and in the attack the
regimental colors we're shot to pieces and
Corporal Baker, of the color guard, was hit
with gunwad and badly hurt. After the
Kimmel CT the Battery, while attempting to
capture the colors, was shot in the face and
disfgured for life, Adjutant Braden and
Lieutenant Campbell and twelve men of the
Infantry were terribly burned in the face
and injured
The Portland daily press., 1885-08-01

10 We E0tt0f OF the PfeSS.
The article in yesterdays PRESS entitled
Grant and Maine Fishermen" was evident
ly written by somebody who was not there,
for it is full of mistakes
''Mr. L. III. Bailey of Bath" did not take
the party to sail
General Grant and his companions en-
barked at Rockland, not Gin yacht or in
any little craft" but in the United States
revenue cutter.
There was fog but no darkness" and no
hit and miss drifting"
The party was landed in broad day. not
ION one of the lesser islands of that desolate
region" but at North Haven in Fox Island
Thoroughfare, fine, large cultivated island
forming town of itself.
The landing was at commodious, first
class wharf, in an excellent, land-lOcked
harbor, and not on any 'Tocks," and the
sllnple-mlnded fishermen Of the story were
IN TACT about as shrewd practical a set Of men
as one often sees among that long
headed class of fellow citizens. The kitchen
and the fireplace were also mythical. 1t Is
true, as the story states, that the party
among whom were Senators Simon Cameron
and Hamlin and Congressman Burleigh.
6lalne, Hale and others, were entertained by
General Grants stories of the war until n
late hour in the night.
General Grant did not go to Mount Desert
nor Within forty miles of it, and the VOYAGE
ended the next noon at Bangor.
ONE OF THE PART1=
The Portland daily press., 1885-08-01
Foreign Mail Service.

The Postmaster General has directed that
the following changes be made in. the des-
patch of correspondence for foreign coun-
tries, to take effect on the first of August,
viz:
Mails for Cuba heretofore dispatched by sea
from New York, to be forwarded to Key West
Fla, via Tampa, Fla, for dispatch for Key West
to Havana by the steamer which leaves Key West
for Havana every Wednesday and Friday.
Correspondence for NewZealand and Australian
colonies heretofore included in mails made up at
San Francisco for dispatch to these colonies di
rect, to be forwarded exclusively via Great Brit
ain in the mails made up at New York as well as
San Francisco
There being only one dispatch during August
(on the 1st prox.) from San Francisco for China
and Japan, direct correspondence for China,
Japan and East Indies to be also forwarded until
the 20th of August via Great Britain in the mails
made up at New York, as well as San Francisco,
mails made up at New York to contain all the
registered correspondence for the destinations
above named.
Five American steamship companies the Pacific
Mail, Red sd" New York to Venezuelu Clyde
New York to Turks Island, New York, Havana
and Mexico, and the New York and Cuba lines have
declined to carry United States mails after today.
The Portland daily press., 1885-08-01
Drowning Accident at Weld

WELD, July 31.-Josiah Wright and Willie
Buker, son of w. S. Buker, of Weld Upper
Village, were out fishing on Weld pond yes
terday afternoon, when the boat filled with
water, and young Buker, being unable to
swim, was drowned. The body has not been
recovered as yet. He was twenty-five years
The Portland daily press., 1885-08-01
a scouT's RETURN.
Remarks Concerning RieIs Rebellion

New York, July 31.--Mr Mason Mitch
ell, the actor, whose reported death while
in the Northwest, was published in the
newspapers two weeks ago, returned to this
city Wednesday and is stopping at the Un-
ion Square Hotel. Speaking of his two
months service, Mitchell said, Captain
Howard, who had charge of the Gatling
in the service as officers, and we were treated
in the most courteous manner during all the
time we were in the Northwest" When
asked his opinion of Riel Mr.. Mitchell said :
'Riel is coward, and if not kept in jail he
will certainly be killed, for the half-breeds
feel that he has got them into bad scrape
and then tlunked. The best man on Rief's
side was Gabriel Dumont, and he was
brave one. We respected him. By the way,
RiePs captor was an American named Bob
Armstrong
The Portland daily press., 1885-08-01
TERRIBLE sMASHUP.
a Train on the Boston and Lowell
Runs Into a Washout.
An Engineer and Firemen Dead and
Under Their Engine.

ST. JoHNsBURY, July 31.-The worst
smashup that ever happened on the Yer
mont division Of the Boston and Lowell
Railroad took place tonight. A mixed train
with two engines left this place west at 6
ran into washout. The engines went down
one side of the track and the cars on the
other. Six cars went off and one engine was
on top of the other. Both boilers burst
Frank Place, fireman, was caught by the leg
Reed, the engineer, was badly burnt and
scaled about the face, and Fred Lawrence,
engineer and Don Gotta, his fireman, on the
first train is missing. Hanson detached a
passenger car and came back to st. Johns
bury for help, and train with doctors left
at once for the wreck. The relief train soon
returned bringing Reed and Place, who are
seriously but not fatally injured. Nothing
can be found of Lawrence and Gotta and
they are undoubtedly dead on their engines.