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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-07-30
MR.. BARBoUR's SPEECH.

EfHfiC men ~ me tOntChNCH'
lt becomes my duty as chairman OF the
State Committc TO call this body-composed
Of the representative men OF the virginia
nemocracy--to order. But before proceed
ing with the task | beg To submit some brief
remarks Tor your consideration.
For the first time since 1866 lcheeTSl the
Democrats of the nation have elected their
President aEd the Executive departments
mt Washington are rilled wish the men OF
their choice. The powers OF the Federal
Government viii be no longer administer
I'd for the oppression OF our people ana
our rights and Liberties Will now re-
ceiVe that protection and recognition 10
which We are entitled under the Constltu-
ton and laws OF the land. Applause.
Not only do We realize the operation or
these important facts, but there Is every
reason To indicate that the advent OF the
National Democratic party 10 power VIII
be continuous and permanent. The Dem
ocTats have control and possession OF tue
Government. and have come to stay! The
wise and prudent man who now directs the
operations OF the Government VIII. IN my
Judgment. meet all the requirements ot MS
position. and give full and iust satisfaction
| IN the discharge Of The duties of his hign
office. lie will give us honest government,
reduce expenditures. and tighten the bur
deDs OF tsxation. and. IN word. VIII re-
stone the Government OF our falneis
| know that u ere has been some COM
plant about the tarcinesS OF the Admin
lstfation in making removals from Office
aud That the battle-cry OF the last cam
paign, To "turn the rSscals out, has not
! been fully executed. About tins my
| fIitnds We mut exercise s0ne foTbesr-
ance and patience. Ii win all come
! around in due couIse and order The
Demoefatic administration has been In
pOMer but n few months. A great deal
had TO be done; the 1oveTEment had 10 b.
! put uIon a btNStGck and 20 take n new de-
puTlufe. Important questions ionching the
intensls OF dirty eight : ts;es and ma n
OOzen Territories bad to uc considered. Con
tmCts inN diving miill0Ls 0f dollars had tn
! b. isnGe ana ilauds 20 a puInei oIs extent
| e. be unTsitlItd aud aIf.riid The POI teal
lgac chineIh ot tiis ssi country could nos oe
A tered aithiu sh.s liulied time.
EcIa sentative men OF tiic south have
been called To 'iio cotncli board. ana No
~ N!rgiria surrey hate ma r"hf ip cpT.
tain NisU Kuch iaru a. hHYari. l. aIsr.
! AID Lai.ald aie L.einheis VI Lie cdJ.aet
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-07-30

While the band played Hon. John s.
Barbour came forward, at II O'Clock,
and was received with yellS of ap-
plause. which lasted for some time. He
stood awhile, bOwing to the great body
Of representative men before him. lie
then addressed the Convention, as fol-
lows
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-07-30

Dir. Stuart, Of Alexandria, opposed
the admission Of more delegates than
were allowed by the State Committee.
The report of the committee was
adopted.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-07-30

CONTINUED on FOURTH rAos.I
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-08-02
The GirIy Girl.

or all peoples on earth there are none who
individually are so ohock full of enthusiasm
and wild, Maynard devotion to everything
and every body-dogs included the gi,ly
girl. -" q "' wv
She Is fresh, vigorous, aud Is the patentss
of the exprassiops'" swf,lly aweet - and
perfectly lapely." Adverse criticism has
no more elect on her than "Bloom of
Youth y ON three ply brunette's skin.
II rolls of without mark, like water from
ducks back. She could not be- so fresh
and playful were It not thus.
Let hergo on mashing bugs with her grace.
fnl amble aud number four shoes.
strip the world OF its grly girls. aud you
make even Shaw's garden bowling wilder.
ness. We cannot do without her. At least
the dry goods cross-barred muslin men could
no. very we'll.
II Is she who rises ON the first spring day,
when damp iog hangs over cucumber beds.
and the snakes haven't Thought of waking
up-and, gripping her hair, -dops her last
years leftover picnic gown, a little
shriveled and stubborn in the ruiiles, and
goes about the town, vision which makes
the ashman come ont TO clean the alleys,
and a colony of tom tits 10 begin house keep
ing in the parks.
How should people ever feel convinced
that it Is time to seal up ilrsplaoes opd bury
their goloshes in tho cellar il this ardent
creature DID got, Thus equipped in airy gar,
menls, sally forth in her graduating swiss
II II seems q little cold on the shady side,
she adds her mitts and puts in her earrings
Wy chewing gum shs keeps up circulation,
and stands In tho sun, or within sight OF
another eirly girl whom she hates warmly,
and then she can't take cold to save her life.
II the other girl has on sash bought this
year she goes home in a fever.
This Is the kind of girl who eats all the
pickles ON an excursion, dances every sci, -
wades In apond for some unwary water
lilies, yet Is never the worse for IT, So
much for youth and good digestion.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-08-02
Dissee,inw an Elephant.


1t will be remembered that week or ten
days ago an elephant named Albert de-
vsloped an ugly and pugnacious disposition
at Keene, N. H., where the managerie with
which he was travelling was located, aud
killed his keeper. He had been ugly aud
treacherous on previous occasions, and IL
was not considered safe 10 permit him to live
longer. An account of his execution by q
detachment OF the Hsene Life Guards has
also been published. by order of Mr.. Bar
nun the authorities Of the Smithsonian In
stituts were notified that the execution was
to take place, and that they could have the
carcass II they desired it. Accordingly
Messrs. Houidan and Lncas, OF the National
Museum, were despatched TO Keene, where
they arrived last Tuesday afternoon.
Through the aid of City Marshal Il. r. Locke
and Chief Engineer George Wheslook, they
secured the services Of Mr.. j. +. Ksrwin, a
we'll known local knight of the butcher knife
and cleavsr. and two other experts, aud on
Wednesday morning began the work of dis
secting the enormous pachyderm. The head
aud trunk were first removed, aud then the
hide was taken OF in two pieces. being
split on the back and belly. The hide was
in many places IN inch and quarter thick
aad the work required nearly three hours.
in the afternoon the skeleton was dissected,
and every bone was saved intact. The firing
party CONSISTED OF twenty nine men, twelve
Of whom fired at the heart and seventeen at
the head. During the autopsy, so to speak
six bullets were found in the heart, and they
had all been aattensd. IN the evening
those Of spicurean tastes dinsd on elephant
steak at the Cheshire House, and 1t is re.
ported that many who did not know what
they were eating pronounced the steak un-
usually hne in flavor, bat bit tough. The
hide weighed ! ,043 pounds, and the skele.
ton l ,445 pounds The beast alive weighed
about 1000 pounds, was supposed to be
thirty years old, aud was valued at $1,000
The preserved portion was safely shipped TO
Washington on Thursday, and Messrs.
Ilouidan and Lucas consider that they have
secured an unusually perfect specimen for
the National Museum. About 500 Keenites
Witnessed the dissection with great interest.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-08-02

will wipe out the past and restore confidence.
IL makes the heart sick TO see the heartless,
beastly ferocity with which women trample
down women and punish victims no worse
than their prosecutors.
After all, when one finds the cause and
the remedy, one is as bopelessly HELPLESS as
before. To lift civilization out Of It's pau
perism Is 10 adopt the most unpopular
feature Of the so called communism, and that
the governing element will recognize when 1t
cannot help ITSELF and not before.
Well, TO return to the excitement of the
hour, is IL not drawing rather strong on
credulity TO assert that the publication or
the consequent excitement has anything to
do with virtuous Indignation These peo-
pie have lived all their lives III this sort of
iniquity and lived on in calm Indifference,
and now on a showing of but small part of
the sin and misery they all go wild. OF the
thousands on thousands Of wretched orea.
lures, painted starvation and Haunting crime,
there Is not one but at one time was an in
nocent girl and had In her the making of a
loving wife and mother. What matters how
they fell There they are, great multi.
tnde Of Gods purest and loveliest work,
Stunned by the good and trampled under by
the wicked, and after all these generations
of selfish Indifference why start mp now
The trne motive puts humanity on lower
level than the beastly crime charged.
Dnxu p,,rr
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-08-02
A GALLANT ADMIRAL.
He Cast the Heads of Thirteen Moors
Into n Tub of Pickle.

| London Telegraph
new war ship was recently launched in
England, which was named after John Ben
bow, famous admiral of two centuries ago.
lie was descended from an accent Shropshire
family, which was reduced in fortune by its
staunch and loyal adhesion TO the cause OF
Charles /. His father, Col. John Benbow,
died when the iuture admiral was very
young, leaving no other provision for the
boy than that indicated by the words that
he was bred to the sea-" Before thirty he
became master and part owner of the Ben
bow frgate, employed in the Mediterranean
trade, in which he would doubtless have ac.
quired comfortable fortune had not acct
| dent brought him into the royal navy. In
1856 he was attacked, upon his passage to
Cadi2, by Sallee rover, against whom,
though fearfully overmatched, he defended
| his ship with heroic bravery. Although
the Moors boarded him, they were quickly
beaten ont of the ship with the loss Of thirteen
men, whose heads Capt. Benbow ordered TO
he cnt off and thrown into Tub of pork
pickle. When he arrived at Cadiz he went
ashore and directed his negro servant to fol
low him with the heads of the Moors in a
sack. Scarcely had he landed when the
revenue officers inquired what he had got in
that sack. "Salt provisions for my own
use," CURLY replied the gallant tar. The
custom house officials demanded to see them,
but Capt. Benhow refused. He was then
informed that the magistrates were sit
ting, and that he would have to 60 before
them. He was treated with great civility. and
told that, as the salt provisions were Of no
consequence, he could not object to show
them. Cesar" exclaimed the stern old
sailor, turning TO his servant, "throw them
on the table, they are very much at the
service Of these gentlemen, II they like to
partake Of them" The .Spaniards were 80
struck at the sight of the Moors' heads, and
by the narrative of the action In which their
former owners fell, that report of the cir.
cnmstances was despatched to the Court at
Madrid, where Charles IL, then King Of
Spain, invited Capt. Benbow to pay him a
visit. His Catholic Majesty sent the gallant
Englishman on his way with a letter ad.
dressed to King James II of England in its
bearers favor. On arriving in London
Benbow was appointed TO commission
in the royal navy, and the story of his
action in the Mediterranean became so popu-
lar in the rough times prevailing in this and
every other country two centuries since that
the Moor's Head" and the "Saracen's
Head " soon became a favorite sign for pub
lie houses scattered throughout the length
and breadth of the islands. Such is the first
of the inspiring memories recalled by "old
Benbow's" name, which typifies the init
mate and cordial connection which has al
ways subsisted- never more than at this
moment-between the royal and the mercan-
tile navies of " the mistress of the seas.'
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-08-02
SOL. HAAS, Traaic Manaaar
GREAT PENNSYLVANIA RoUTR

10 THE NORTH, VEST, AND SOUTHWEST
soESEsf k FEfssssFs 5SEk Il lsdB
sstS aaa si4ee from corner
nr soi r',sonrg and the West Chicago Limited Es
ssss Z, paiase sleeping Cara AZ aso a. M daily
Win VIII Sleeping Cars from Harrisburg 10 cinenpsi,
ana n hoei car to st. Louis daily, except saiarav
Chicago and cneinnati @ Alta9aa to chisaso
With sleeping Cars washington to chisaso aa any,
rlsburg WIN Western kxp erneev mi, az liar,
siespsfs Tor Cleveland and 81. Louis Pacine ES.
through seeo es'y .Gs rshs,g and the wes Win
BALTlMokE AND ToroMAc RAILROAD.
sasgs. ri 10 'aI nv a Rochester, buffalo, NJ.
rssss Ssrs 1aallngton q Rosssssie saturday, VIM
nor %,lliamspor Lock Haven. and Emlra. at $50
For New YORK and l,r iSs Hast, =. Is. s so,,a
apd u ann i aan nigs,s on Sunday $50 ~
Limited Express OF Pullman par,or Gar.
M ia asil NIX. except 2 , sunday. "'' :"
meet =. Jersey CRY WIN boats Of srootsn Anu ss
double isrrSss araes sse Ne TO Fulton avoiding
FOR phiiadelpea,s 10 ssoand II IN. 400 4 q, ana
and 10 D. M AND nSn u * 3n Sunday, $50 M,
FOR baltimore aaS rs saO $40. sS6' II 'iu a. NJ
On sunday, shc 800 and lib si aa "a, lss,
~ Y. W., AND iy.lo night ''''
daily, except sunday. ~" v W.
IF. For ANNAPOLIS, S.ss a m, and isos and ..ss n !.
dsily. except Sunday. on SUNDAY Il, nj ''-' -
| AtE AANDhiA AND FRkDRRIcksnIIRa RAIf.
m WAf p ANp ALEXANDRIA, AND wAsaINtsfoN
For Aiexaadra, 400, TOO, ss, no., and On 4,
no, ssS, 10 ~ 500 and l,9s p M bn sanas,
!" e sp' s XXX, aad li;oi a M and 500 y. N.
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| usiiy, and 40 p, N, daily except sunday ~
Iransleaye Alexandria Tor MasLinqtnn. e.os. 4. 40
o'uv' aud lolva u, 400, ass, b.10. Tue aud II sj
2 IN. ana iflV mldnig N ,le pr Aonday1 On H,,a
I IAN n, a Sw ano lvio H. svs and lls6 p NJ al
Tekets and Information At the oues aorihsas,
tae1 =, ihieehth sIfevi and reunsy aniass tnue
Aha the station, where orders can be LEFT luf lIa
easeaking OF baggage TO destination from loles aud
cHARIKs Il. rU6n, General Manager.
ID. Il. WOOD. General raAssngsl Agspt
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-08-02
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The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-08-02
Attorney Morgan browns Luck Cashsd.
INaahuilIa nnnnnr Lima na !,

II nas been ascertained that Morgan Brown attor.
he,-al-laS OF this CITY, aud formerly clerk OF See
relary OF stale Allison the lucky holder OF one
nlth ticket NO. 81 JOG, which drew Sl5OOOO IN the
Louisiana state Lottery. The money has been col.
iseteu ana y now on deposit in the First National
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-08-02
Trauelers' Guide.
TIKI VIRGINIA MIDLAND RAILWAY.
fhk SHORT LINZ TO THESOUTH AND sOIJTU
WEST

TIKI VIRGINIA MIDLAND RAILWAY.
Tdk SHORT LINZ TO THESOUTH AND SOIJTu
WEST.
schedule In eject July o. lSS5
- !. a. M.ILyncAbuIg Mail, daily, except SUNDAY IA
.ocai stal!ooH connecting at Lynchbur0 wiIh Ron
roadA "''" " eo'eto Hai.-
Ills q. m.-NKw ORLEANS FAST MAIL-Ds,,,
aAinS Cove connecti0nBS South and Southwest DaiIv
Sn,cspt SUNDAY, withC. and q. Railway: Pullms1
sleeping bunet Cars FROM New York and Washina-
toato Auanta. Pullman Sleeping Cars from Wash
ing,on 10 New Orleans without Change az cars
su aar S rarSr Cars from Washington to White
go IA R m:mlOuIsyILLE FAST LINE, daily. viz
Cnskiol'esylle, Huntington, and Lexington. To- Cia
siaaa! Loaxville, and all Western points faiman
SiSeping cars, washington to Louisville.
lnso y. m-SOUTHERN MAIL AND 1xPRFss
daily, 70 AL points South and Southwest via nas
vuie anu charlotte. Pullman Sleeping Oars fror.
Washinglon, via Danville, Charlotte. atlanta ami
montgomery, TO Selma. rarlor car Montgomery Ia
new uOrleans; also from Washington via Char;olf
Manassas Division Train leaves washington AT a /,
z; ~; laily except Sunday warrenton irains cave
wSSs s IL y 10 q. IN. and b.4s p. M daily,
FM t,sSsS anu all Information inauire al com .
pays once, 6Oi Pennsylvania avenue Trains IA -.
from Baltimore and Potomac Station.
n. SLAUGHTER, Gen. Pass. Agent.
on, N. MACDANlEL, Agent
Sul4. HAAS,T ManaQar -"
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-09-21
IF THE BOYS who on Friday evening

If THE BOYS who on Friday evening
caught kitten At Seventh and Walnut
stree %, placed it in a box, covering it
with hay and then setting FIRE to the
hay roasted the poor kitten to death, do
not deserve to be visited with the Sc
verest rigors OF the law, we do not
know the use Of law. Such case of
heartless cruelty il, we are glad 10 say,
but seldom heard OF, and we hope that
Walter Hayes, E-q the attorney for
the Society for the Prevention of Cruel
ty to Animals, will leave no stone I'M
turned until these boys are arrested
and sent to the Ferris Reform School,
lift be open in time, and ifnot let them
have taste of prison life under Sheriff
Ford.
Right here, 1t is In order to ask wha,
kind of training must boys have a
home who would be guilty OF such /;
cruel piece OF punishment We ma.
have boys who are pickpo ,kets an
thieves boys who though in their teen
may have become prehaturel
drunk ards and boys who caunot spea
a dozen words without using tie gros
est profanity, but for the sake of h
mainly we hope We have but few your
tends who gloat their eyes and tt
their hands in glee over the witheriI
fortunes OF kitten they wilfully bu
to death.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-09-21
The Co.l Price Imposition.

As usual about the time when peo-
pie want to lay in their Winters coal
there is rise in prices as a result OF a
com bination between the coal and rail-
road companies. This is disreputable
practice and one that should speedily
be put an end TO II the people had any
way Of putting an end to II. Bot the
people are entirely at the mercy of these
monopolies and they have no other re-
dress than to pay the prices charged. We
are not laying the fault upon our local
dealers, for they cannot help them
selves. To tell the truth they are but
the agents Of these great monopclies,
with the option only to leave the BUSH
ness. II they do not sell at stipulated
prices. When we were up In the coal
regions one day last week we were In.
formed of the immense wealth OF the
coal companies and OF some OF the rail
road companies that commenced i'm
portant lines of communication. Thii
Immense wealth of course was mad
from coal mining and coal trsnspor Ia
ton. Labor has been ground down Il
earth that these companies might be
come rich, and the people at large ar
compelled every year about the D~iud
OF September to pay a trihnfse OF 20
25 cents more ton fsp.<coal to the mil
,r.r.Gompanies ardr probably about til
"a "a xiss1ue railroad company tba
transports it.
However many railroad compaui'
disagree about the charges of freight d
almost everything but coal, there seen
to be no trouble whatever In combiDiI
every year in the prices for carryir
coal. Next Spring, when the whit
is over and the people do not ne'
much coal for the Summer, these CO
mining and coal carrying compani
will be lowering the price Of coal agai
1t Is an imposition upon The public, n
one that will be controlled and regal
ted by legislation some day when t
people get tired Of being victims
monopolies that have no souls.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-09-21
Hot w ater.

This evening Miss Alice Harrison
will appear at the Opera House in her
new musical comedy entitled Hot
Water" This play is put on the stage
ia the very best manner, and the scenery
for three complete stage changes-in the
three acts of the comedy-was painted
especially for it by M. Fried, Of Vienna
and has taken three months to completes
The many mechanical contrivances
that tend TO show how humorous 1
catastrophe can become, when we view
the laughable side of it, and the multi
tude of properties, were gotten up by
| the we'll known Gale, of London. Tn,
music was composed expressly for thu
comedy by Woolson Morse, one Of tn
authors of the play !; aud last, thousl
far from least. the company of artist
that Mr.. Leavitt has surrounded Mis-
| Alice Harrison with-who, by the way
IL the bright particular star of the ot
casion-is indeed notable one, cru
prlsing as it does many of the bet
names known in the comedy world {
the drama
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-09-21

NEVER in the history of the Repub-
lican party OF New York, since the war,
has there been so much uncertainty in
regard to who will be the Republican
candidate for Governor of that State.
The Republican State Convention meets
tomorrow, and there is absolutely no
ground on which to form an opinion as
to who will be nominated, 80 completely
has the campaign been left to the will
OF the people. The principal names
canvassed for the nomination are James
d. Warren, Joseph w. Drexel, Judge
Noah Davis, Ira Davenport, VIM. II.
Seward and Secretary of State w. b.
Carr. There ia q feeling of confidence
amongst Republicans that no matter
which OF these gentlemen is uomin ated
he will be elected, the Republicans hav-
ing learned in the late Presidential cleo
ton that only by thorough union and
a sinking OF all minor differences, can
they succeed.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-09-21

The caption we have used was the
expression of o lady--we call her q lady
because she WAS dressed like one-com-
ing In Delaware avenue last evening
with o lighted cigar in her mouth,
in company with young man also
smoking cigar. The expression was
to call attention to the fact that she was
smoking cigar, something that she
knew was out of the usual course OF
lady like conduct. 1t Is not for us to
say that a lady, ifshe be lady, has
not as good right to smoke cigar, a
merschapm or a clay pipe, aud to chew
and squirt tobacco juice over the pave
ment, upon the carpet or wherever she
pleases, as a man has, hut as man
who does those things in ladies, society
Is hardly considered gentleman, we
cannot see how a female who does those
things In the presence of gentlemen, can
be q lady, especially when she nnsexes
herself 80 far as to tell gentlemen aud
ladies' she meets upon the street and
|'does not know, we take the cake.
Well, to make use Of the expression,
they did take the cake Ladies
WuUu sue hCCOSSu ioit noha"SN sh'''
she s.igmatized her sex by proclamine
her slavish degradation but gloried III
lit. Even the young man who was
her companion recognized her dsSrsds-
ton and was silent with shame. 1t Ii
said that in some countries IL Il
fashionable for ladies to smoke. fit
Is, it is a fashion that can well be dis
pensed with in Wilmington, ant
gentlemen could well afford to curtai
for the good and comfort of society
Men may smoke, but we do not believe
they look favorably upon smoking
wives and upon ladies they seek ii
marriage.
We doubt even if the gentleman es
cort OK the lady who was smoking las
night on the avenue and wanted Il
know of passers by, If they did no
take the cake" would under An!
circumstances marry her, or If he dlt
1t would soon be folio wed by either de
sertion or divorce Certainly no mai
in his right senses would marry tn
girl who would defy decent publ
opinion and smoke cigars on publ
thoroughfare and glory in her action.