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contemporary. As such an apology We
would urge that allowances be made for
the inability Of paper under It's pre-.
sent editorial direction 70 understand
the views Of men whose political con-
sictions are genuine and sincere.
The politicians who turn their
political coats every time that good
wages can DO got FOR doing so
are not we'll qualified TO say what
degree Of courtesy can be extended TO
past opponents by men whose politics
are their own property; but i isneyer-
,heless to be conceded that the violent
partisan for pccuniary motives would
be apt to earn his wages by declaring It
essential TO refuse liberation TO the ex-
leader Of the Confederacy upon q public
occasion when he had declared his hope
for peace and harmony between the
North and SOUTH
Common humanity leads us to suggest
to Mr.. MURAT HALsTEAD that a de-
coction Of tobacco is good thing to
fall back upon after stirring up hor-
nets nest.
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THROUGH THE STATE.
PETERSBURG AND VICINITY.

Cuy Bonds ssssirce- Personal and Other MAT
terra.
Icorespondcnoe fthe Richmond Dlspatch.l
pnrERsBuRo, February 4. 1885.
With the exception Of some 100000
in bonds Of the city which will fall due
this year. and which will be renewed,
the city. by means Of its sinking fund,
established few years ago. will DO
able TO meet and redeem all Of its bonds
as they fall due. The city provides for
very liberal sinking fund, and during
the past few years has retired between
sixty-iivc and scventy-five thousands OF
dollars Of bonds--all that could be
found for sale on the market.
The Richmond morning papers were
delivered here yesterday at 4 o'clock T.
NJ. There is heavy ground-swe'l OF
complaint arising from the hardness OF
the mails as between this city and Rich
mond. So far as correspondence is
concerned, your city is practically as Tar
away as Baltimore or New York.
Major W. X. Gordon, an officer OF
the Virginia and Carolina railroad mar
rowly escaped injuries last night from
runaway team, which he was driving
down Sycamore street. He jumped
from his buggy just before collision
with a water-plug, which separated the
horses from the vehicle.
1t is stated that Mr.. James A. Blick.
who was stricken with paralysis in Ok
ford. n. c., the first of this week, has
SO far improved as to be able to start
home to-day in the custody of friends.
Mr. Blick is widely known and con-
nected here. and the intelligence is re-
ceived here with a great deal of delight.
The remains of Miss Ernestins
Chamberlayne, whose death was an
nounced in this correspondence to-day,
were sent north this afternoon. Many
of our citizens who knew and admired
her accompanied the body to the depot.
1t is reported that several of our cit
liens, one or more of them men of large
means, contemplate an early removal to
Richmond to engage in business. Your
city already boasts of some Of our best
and most energetic people.
The county of Chesterfield yesterday
issued rations to a number of the peo-
pie of Ettrick, who have been rendered
INDECENT by reason of the stoppage of
the cotton-factory there. The proba-
bilty is that unless the factory at Swift
creek soon resumes operations assist
ance may be needed there also.
Intelligence from Charlotte, n. c.,
to-day is to the effect that Mr.. "A.
Mckinney, of this city, who has been
seriously i'll there for some days, is
better. ROBIN ADAIR.
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GREELYMAKES 4 Sta TEMENT.
lie Undertakes 20 set at Rest Some Jhfa.
yorabie RumoTS.

lie Undertakes 20 set at Rest Some Jnfa.
vorabie Rumors.
The Washington Star Of Tuesday
prints an interview with Lieutenant
Greedy, in which that officer denies the
truth of certain injurious statements
made about him in connection with the
proposition to create for him the Office
Of assistant chief signal officer. He
says This time the attack has taken
the shape of publications going to show
that the withdrawal Of the bill in my
favor from Congress was not for the
reason given, but because Of charges
said to have been prepared by Sergeant
Brainerd Of cowardice and inhumanity
on my part during the expedition, and
statements made to the committee that
the diaries Of the men show that | sac
rifced the lives Of my men for food,
&c. j have every reason to believe that
the withdrawal OF the bill was not for
these reasons, but because Of the evil
dent intention of Congress to include
no new business in the appropriation
bills. There has been, however, some
secret influence at work against me,
and | am satisfied that it was the in
tention to use it when it might be OF
the most avail. | do not know from
what source the attacks emanated, but
they have finally assumed such
phase as to enable me to take action
regarding them.
- have to-day written a letter to the
Secretary of War with unmistakable
proofs Of the falsity of these accuse
tons. 1t contains certificate from the
proper authorities that the diaries of the
men contain no such information as
alleged, and Sergeant Brainerd has him
self denied that he has made the charges
as alleged. While | am not at liberty
to give you all the contents, ! am free
tosay that they furnish a complete exone-
ration from the accusations. This is
the last time that | will ever make an
effort TO disprove charges against me ;
but in this instance | felt that | owed
such course to many friends who have
interested themselves in my behalf
AS regards the killing of men, every
body knows that Private Henry, but no
one else, was shot by my orders. In
this connection will say, what | have
not heretofore said, that | have been
officially exonerated by the Secretary
of War from all blame for the execu-
ton Of Henry"
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Interesting Facts.

In a speech made in the House of Re-
representatives. last week Mr.. BLANCH-
ARD, Of Louisiana, made the following
statement
Why. sir, there is within the limits
Of the United States one sixth OF the
worlds entire wealth; and il is fact,
sir, that we as people are increasing
in wealth at the rate Of s2,O00,000 a
day--morc than twice as rapidly as our
nearest rivals, Great Britain and Ger
many, and nearly six times as rapidly
as the greatest of our other rivals. 1t
is further fact, and | call the atten-
ton Of this House and of the country
to il, that We as people to-day are
doing one third of the worlds entire
mining, one fourth Of the worlds en-
tire manufacturing, one fifth of the
worlds entire agriculture, and one sixth
of the worlds entire banking, on
territorial capital of but one eighteenth
Of the worlds land area, and that, too,
but partially reduced to use.'
Truly ours is a goodly land. We ex-
eel not in one thing, but in all.
We add that the United States con-
tains only about one-twenty-ffth OF the
population Of the world.
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Struck a Hornets Nest.

The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette Is
mad. II is not an unusual thing for the
Commercial Gazette 10 get mad, but on
this occasion its paroxysm brought on
consequences that are distressing to be-
hold. Recently it declared that the
Pittsburgh editors, whose car was taken
70 Beauvoir on the occasion Of the re-
csption Of the Liberty bell by Mr.. DA-
WIS, should have insulted their enter
sainers by refusing the latter the privi-
iese Of bringing Mr.. DAVIS into the car,
II also stated that the Pittsburgh Dis
psfek Republican,, in its simple
avowal that the Pittsburgh editors had
acted ~ gentlemen had entered de-
ftnce Of these editors. Our Pitts
bufsh contemporary, after declaring
that nothing was further from its mind
tlAn defence las none was need
ed and that Il merely "pointed out that
~ view which sensible and candid
people take Of the matter is 'sery differ
~ from thAt Of the class which makes
n asntIneais . mattsr Of salary and
bsus IL policies for profit, . adds:
m re were dixpoued "a make any
5ofbncs n Ne matter II would BE- ia
= NJ u askins consideration for our
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AFTER FIFTY YEARS.
A wsmsn conaned Nesriy Half Cspsars
IN an Aimshouse Becomes IN Heiress-

'S*""~@
IN an AImshouse Becomes IN Heiress-
A Hartford Conn., special says A
remarkable case Is in progress in Had
lyme. Conn.,, involving the identifics-
ton Of Nancy Banning, who was sup
posed for half q century to be dead.
Marian Banning died in 1879, leaving
10000. Her two sisters claimed to
be the only heirs, and petitioned
the Probate Court to transfer the
property to them. Pending settle
ment the city authorities of Pough-
keepsic, N. Y, presented to the admin
istrator claim for the support Of Nancy
Banning in the almshouse Of that city
for fifty years. The trial developed
some strange evidence. Superintendent
butcher, Of the Poughkeepsie aims
house, testified that . woman claiming
TO be Nancy Banning had been there
for that period. An aged man named
Soule testified that he found the woman
one bleak March morning in 1889 wan
dering around the town of Dover,
Duchess county, scantily clad and half
crazy. He placed her in the almshouse.
DIsPosING OF A PAUPER.
The connecting link was furnished by
Charles Strong, who testified that in
1899 the contractors for the keeping of
the Connecticut State paupers hired
nim to take Nancy Banning, then a
pauper in the Litchfeld almshouse, out
side the State limits and abandon her.
He did so, and left the woman. then
aged twenty-five years, and partly de-
mented, in the town of Dover. The
almshouse records show that she was
received there in March, 1899, from
Dover, under the description, - Nam
cy Strong, crazy, and residence I'M
known" The evidence of the I'M
fortunate old woman was taken. and,
despite her age and mental intirmi-
ties, she named church. and school
companions of her early life in Hadlyme
and of families by whom she had been
employed up to the time of her mystic
rious disappearance fifty years ago.
The case has been adjourned for fur
Their evidence, and Will probably be
compromised.
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KING WILLIAM.
A Corpse and a Mystery.
Correspondence ofthe Richmond Dispatch.l
SWEET HALL, February 2, 1885.

Correspondence ofthe Richmond Dispatch
SWEET HALL, February 2, 1885.
Recently there arrived at this station
a corpse from Baltimore. Friends were
expected to call for and properly inter
the same. This they failed to do, how
ever; and after the body had remained
at Sweet Hall several days, the railroad
authorities had to order it to be buried
on their own right of way. 1t was bu-
ried this morning.
There was. an anonymous letter re-
ceived at this place about the time the
corpse arrived. 1t said: " Mary has
been sick for a long time, and is now
dead, and it was her last request that
she should be buried in King William"
No name being signed to this letter, it
was impossible to trace it, and as no
one would claim the body or have any
thing to do with it. it had to be buried
as above stated, with nothing to mark
the last reSting-place of human being
save pine bush stuck in the head of
the grave by the section force. There
was a card on the box which read,
MARY Riley" Further than this no.
thing is known. TRAMP.
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The Potomac between this city and
Washington has been blockaded by ice
for several weeks, and the national
capital, though situated on the banks
of magnificent river leading to the
sea. is efIectually shut off from all COM
munication with the other parts of the
country except by land.-Aterandr'a
Gazette.
And the James has not been block
AIDED one day during the whole winter.
The river boats have not missed one
trip. A few degrees of temperature
mark the difference between season
of ice and snow and one of little or no
ice and snow. If the thermometer goes
up 10 81 degrees ice and snow will dis
appear. IL it stands below 80 degrees
the ice and snowswill hold their own.
In the one case the earth wears win
ter garb all the time. In the other a
spring or summer garb. Richmond
generally enjoys the latter.
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New Books.

Mann Secrets Rereoled; or, Ten Years
Behind the Scenes IN Washington
City. BY Washington Journalist.
Price IS cents.
The book seems to be the work of a
nan familiar with the subjects whereof
he writes.
For sale by RANDOLPH d ENGLISH.
Grandpa's Fairies; or, 4 Peep into
the Mysteries Of Nature. BY r. j.
ii. HATcHETT, NJ. ID. Richmond,
Va: The Southern Clinic Print.
1884.
For sale by RANDOLPH & ENGLISH.
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DAN VILE.
Tobacco s.a,i.,ie.-sewer.se ADOPTED.
ELLA.

Tobacco Ssatistics-Sewerage Adopted.
Correspondence ofthe Richmond Dispatch. I
FEBRUARY 3, 1885.
The sales of leaf tobacco for last
month amounted to 5,595,7S3 pounds,
and the average was sl3.13. In Jan
uary Of last year the quantity sold was
2,O6S,Sl6 pounds, and the average
1924. The quantity sold in the last
four months was $500, 72S pounds, and
the averages, respectively, sll.l2,
sll.33, sll.23, and sl3.l3; the guam
tity sold in the same four months in the
preceding year was 7,647,00 pounds,
and the average 1880.
AT a meeting Of the Council yester-
day evening system of sewerage for
the city was unanimously adopted, and
the order made that the work be COM
menced as soon as practicable at seve-
raj points. The work is placed under
the city engineer and the Committee on
Sewerage, and to help on the en-
gineer $500 was added TO his salary for
one year from date. 1t is estimated
that the cost will be about s25, 900,
and 10000 was at once appropriated /;
but the order is that the owners of real
estate along whose lots the sewers run
shall pay one half Of the expenses
Is, each proprietor will pay one fourth.
The citizens sent up no petitions as a
general thing, and but few of them were
present, although they had been by
proclamation invited to attend.
ALPHA.
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Robbed Conr,.House.

A St. Louis telegram says: W. H..
Bender, clerk of the Probate Court, was
going to his office this afternoon from
the German Savings Bank with about
$4,000 which he had drawn. A small
man with heavy moustache followed
him from the bank. and as Mr.. Bender
entered the wide hall of the courthouse
leading to the Probate Court he was
struck from behind with sand-bag in
the hands Of the little man. He fell on
his face unconscious. The sand-bagger
grabbed the money. Ten men saw him,
but were so nonplussed that the thief
disappeared before they recovered their
senses
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DHUss, MEDICINES. 40.

D.. N p. a
THE VERNON TooTH-BRUSII-
PURCELL, LADD & co.
This is the beat brush made, and can be
had of
POLK MILLER & CO..
r. ROBERTS BAKER
J. BLAIR ninth and Broad streets,
II. G. FOKSTMANN.
RI. NJ HARRISON.
II. NJ. SHIELD * CO,
JESSE CHILD.
POMHATAN r.. pUPUI.
f.. L. KIENFS.
\. II. ROBINS. ia 2s
DR. +. G. VESTS NERVE AND
IL BRAIN TREATMENT for sale 10y
BOpEkFR BROTHERS. nruggiSts IA ~
DLAIR'S CHL0RAL THYM0L
Is a powerful germ-destroyer;
It Is the best deodorlzer:
II has pleasant smell;
The manner Of using II Is
simple and convenient:
II wonderfully promotes
the comfort OF sick rooms;
1t should always be used
where there is contagious disease.
For sale by druggists.
Price, 80 cents "A bottle. ia 10
GONSUMPTION.-l have a positive
~ remedy for the above disease; by its
Use thousands of cases OF the worst kind and
of long standing have been cured. Indeed.
80 strong Is my faith in its efficacy that 1
will send TWO BOTTLES FREE. together
with "A NALUABLETR on this dis
ease To any sufferer. GiyecXpreSs and post
Office address. DR.. I. \. SLOCUM,
Isl Pearl street, New York.
de 2-eod6m
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copy Of the registration-books was or
dercd to be made.
Mr.. GaIba ysiden, who Tor several
wears has been connected with the
Hampton Normal School as chief cngi-
nccr. has resigned to accept a like posi-
ton at the Insane Asylum.
Mr.. II. w. Bowery has commenced
remodelling the building purchased for
hotel, and expects to get into his new
quarters some time in march, and II Is
hoped that then this town will have
what it has so long needed, first-ciass
hotel.
The contract Of Mcssrs. Mnllln q
Booker to complete the public-school
buildings is nearly finished. These
improvements add much to the appear
ancc Of our town, besides fnrni 'hing
buildings suitably constructed for school
purposes. W.
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LYNCHBURG.
sprins. Hin Cemetery ACCOMPLISHMENTS o"
Paper, but Alive IN the Flesh.
correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.l
purposes,


Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.l
FEBRUARY 4, 1885.
The recent amateur performance OF
Esmeralda for the benefit of Spring
Hill Cemetery Melted about $3.50. The
Cemetery ssociation has been ihcor-
rorated by Judge Latham, and the work
of improvement is about to commence.
One of the city newspapers killed
two men yesterday who are yet alive,
and in one case your correspondent
came near committing similar act. A
negro named Frank Reid was danger
'ously crushed by the fall of an electric
light pole. and an hour afterwards was
reported dead. He still survives, how
ever. and bids fair to recover. The death
of 0'Donovan Rosa was bulletined
here yesterday, causing much excite
ment. The mistake was not corrected
until midnight.
The excavation for the Government
building is nearly completed, and the
contract for the stone-work will soon
be awarded. The plan of the building
is seriously objected to here, and !
should not be surprised if an effort was
made to have it modified. The plan as
at present drawn contemplates having
the nost-oflice on the second floor.
The question of subscribing s30O,0O0
to the Lynchburg and Southwest rail-
road scheme will be submitted to vote
of the people of this city at the munich
nal election in MAY. BEAUMONT.
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The Baltimore American says: "The
0riole bird will freeze to death if it
tries to fly to Washington on the 4th of
March," Very likely, if the Oriole
bird is Republican. The 4th of March
will be cold day for Republicans.
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CARPETS AND MATTrSGs.
REMNANTS
pST NEW GOODS AND PRETTY
GOODS
AT
THALHIMER BROTHERS.,

During the past week we have opened
many DESIRABLE GOODS suitable for
this season and early spring wear. We have
LOVELY SPRING DRESS FABRICS at
I5c. that are worth 25c.: PLAID DRESS
GOODS. I'm new designs for spring wear at
2jc.; NUNS YELLING and ALABATROSS
for evening wear i'm all the delicate tints.
IN BLACK SILKS We show some eXtraor-
binary good values Having made q rare
purchase. we will give our customers the
benefit this week. We show BLACK
HEAVY GROS-GRAIN SILK at 81 per
yard that Is selling everywhere at $3.50.
our new stock OF HAMBURG. MAIN
SOCK and SWISS EMBROIDERlk.Si is I'M
doubleday the prettiest in this city. and we
are pleased to exhibit them 10 our friends,
our prices are much below last years
figures. We have lovely patterns in SWISS,
HAMBURG, and ORIENTAL ALL-ONER
NETS, which are so much used.
Anentireiy- new stock OF EGYPTIAN and
ORIENTAL LACES, and at prices that VIII
surprise you.
4 new feature In our house is our La
DIES UNDERWEAR DEPARTMENT,
" hich We shall endeaVor to make very at
tractive. Please call and examine our stock.
as we are confident that our prices are lower
and qualities better than any yet seen IN
the city. -
We told you something about WRAPS
last week. We are going to tell you more
this week. We were rs busy In this depart
ment during the past week as we were
during the height OF the season. Now, why
Is this? Simply that our patrons have found
out that we are the only house I'm this city
that has any assortment or stock OF wraps
To show. But the main point IN that o ar
prices are about one half OF what they were
a month ago. We do not stop to consi Ter
the cost Of any garment; but as our OBJ Get
Is not to carry any garment over To n 'Xt
season. you Will readily understand way
this slaughter i'm prices is made.
OurstOck Of SILK PLUSH WRAPS must
be sold and You can buy PLUSH COAT at
Sl5 that sold for S2j. CHILDREN >
WRAPS are almost given away.
our stock OF CARPETS is very large. You
can buy any of them n cost at
TIIALHIMER BROTHERS.
Fifth and Broad streets.
f. l-Su Tu&Th
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BANKER SHEPARD'S son.
Gore 10 he a Cowboy Detective Oh Twenty
Dollars Capital.

Gore 10 he Cowboy Detective Oh Twenty
Dollars Capital.
A Cheyenne special says: Two de-
tectives arrived from the East two days
ago in search of a boy named Shepard,
eleven years old, who ran away from
New York several weeks ago. Mr..
Shepard is a New York banker. and
has offered a reward of $4,000
for the safe return of his son.
The detectives will separate here, one
going to Texas among the cowboys,
and the other, after travelling through
Wyoming. will 90 to Arizona. The
officers state that Fred, the missing
boy, accumulated a library Of sensa-
tional literature. A novel was found
on his desk at school, open at the place
where 4 young cowboy detective UNI
masks his fathers murderer and carycs
him into mincemeat to quick music
while holding the minor villains in
subsection with two reyolyers held
in one hand. Scrawled at the
bottom of the page was the line,
"I'm goin' West to be a cowboy detec-
tive" Frcd's tin savings bank, which
must have contained 500 in dimes and
quarters, was found broken open and
entirely despoilcd of its contents. No
body saw him leave, but in the old way
he went to bed early, on the plea Of a
headache, and then climbed out of the
window. The detectives are urged to
activity by the large reward offered, and
will make a thorough search for the
yOungSter.
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Recently man had leg amputated
in q Washington hospital, and upon
visiting the capital some months after
ward discovered the member preserved
in alcohol. He was shocked, and do
manded it that he might bury it. The
demand was refused, but upon bring
ing suit In replevin the case was decided
in his favor, and he was given possess
sion of his own leg.
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"Mrs. BELvA LOCKWOOD has rival
in Mrs. LAURA DE FORCE GORDON, Of
California, who was admitted to the bar
Of the United States Supreme Court
yesterday" When BELvA and LAURA
are opposed in a case and little remarks
about . last years bonnet and '.imi-
tation lace" are let drop the Supreme
Courtroom viii be as good as circus.
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Tobacco-smokers may again pick up
courage, for the professors at the Jena
University have decided that the weed
may be used in moderate quantities
without injury. In the German army
soldiers in active service are furnished
with smoking-tobacco, because smoking
enables them to endure severer fatigue
upon small nutrition and with greater
alacrity and confidence than would
otherwise be the case.
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DEATHS.


CONWAY.-Died Mt the residence Of her
mother. No. 62l north Ninth street, febru-
airy 4, 1886. Mrs. MARY ]. CONWAY,
daughter OF Mrs. N. J. Thornton. and wife
OF Catlett Conway.
Her funeral win take place at ST. Paul's
church THU RSDAY. February 5th. at
O'Clock u. NJ.
DUKF-Died on Wednesday, February
I. 1855. EDDIE LEWIS DUKE; aged lfteen
months.
Dearest EDDIE. thou hast left us,
We thy loss most deeply feel;
But It's God who hast bereft u.s.
He can all our sorrows heal.
His funeral will take place from the resi-
dence OF his grandfather No. le9 north
Eighteenth street. THIS AFTERNOON at
half past O'Clock. Friends and acquaint-
ances are invited to attend without further
notice.
GUNN.-Died, February 4th. Mt 1:45 A. NJ.
EUDORA H.. beloved wife OF James F.
Gum, Esq, in the forty-eighth year of her
age.
Her funeral will take place THURSDAY
the 9TH instant at r. NJ. from Leigh-Street
Baptist church. Friends OF the family are
invited.