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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-04
no Canvass.

Rooms STATE DEM. Elk. CON-, /
ALEXANDRIA, VA, Oct. I'd.
Colonel William r. Aylett will speak
at Ashland October Goth, at night I;
Colonel W. NJ. Cabell at Cumberland
October Goth; Hon. R. A. Ayers at
Farmvillc October 10th, at night; Hon.
George c. Cabell at Floyd October 18th,
and Richard S. Thomas at Augusta Oc-
tober Goth. The following appointments
are promulgated:
HOLMES CONRAD.
Buckingham, Monday, October 18th.
Gordonsville (speciaD, Thursday, 0c-
tober 18th.
Mecklenburg, Monday, October 10Th.
Necklenburg Especially, Tuesday, 0c-
tober Goth.
Washington, Monday, October Goth.
Montgomery, Tuesday, October 9th
DIR. S. II. MoFFETT.
Albemarle, Monday, October 5th.
Allegheny, Tuesday, October 9th.
Bath, Tuesday, October 18th.
Warren, Monday, October 10Th.
Nelson, Monday, October Goth.
EPPA HUTTON.
Shenandoah, Monday, October 18th
Clarke, Tuesday, October 18th.
Fairfax, Monday, October 10Th.
Stafford, Wednesday, October 2lst
Page, Monday, October 10Th.
JOHN S. BARBOUR, Chairman.
". w. Scott, Secretary.
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The Democratic candidate for the
lieutenant-governorship, Edward +.
Jones, was brave soldier in the war
of the Union. He was born at Utica,
N. Y, in 1928. While he was an in
FAINT his parents removed to Massachu-
sets, where he received plain but
sound education. His enterprise and
aptitude for business found their earliest
employment in the distillation OF oil
from coal, which uncommon vocation
he was diligently pursuing when the
war broke out. Mr.. Jones was then
colonel of the Sixth regiment of Massa-
chusetts militia. He and his COM
mand responded Immediately to the
need Of the Federal Government,
and their offer Of services was ac-
cepted. 1t was Colonel Jones's regl-
ment which was attacked irf Baltimore
on its way to Washington. His bravery
and determination in rushing his regl-
ment through to Washington in spite OF
all obstacles evoked much admiration,
and President Lincoln personally
thanked him for his patriotic services.
General Jones's early services in the
war were around the capital. When
the term for which his regiment had
volunteered expired he returned to
Massachusetts, and recruited the TWEEN
ty-sixth regiment of volunteers, which
subsequently served in the Gulf De-
psrtment. Before the close of the war
Colonel Jones was brevetted brigadier-
general. He is locally known, there
fore, as General Jones.
In 1865 he took up his residence al
BiDghamton, New York, where he has
resided ever since that time. lie is al
the head of a concern engaged in the
manufacture of scales, and known as
the Jones Scale-Works. His business
has been very successful, and he is the
employer Of large number Of men.
General Jones was a member Of the
Republican party from its beginning
throughout the war, and in subsequent
years up to 1872, when he attended The
Liberal Republican Convention at Gin
cinnati, which nominated Horace Gree
ley for President. He shortly after
became q Democrat, and has beer
continuously identified with thu
party, which has just nominated
him to high Office, from tina
time. In 1874, and again in 1876
he was an unsuccessful candidate fol
Congress. Since his second defeat HI
has not until now been candidate fo
office. He is a member Of post il
the Grand Army of the Republic. A
a citizen Of Binghamton he is eminen
for his liberslity. lie is locally well
known and popular man.
The General is of medium height, i
well preserved and soldierly in bearing
| He is affable and has the pleasing, frank
and open manner Of the military vete
ran.
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motion Of human progress, and was
the example and admiration of all toll
ing amidst manifold encouragement to
relieve, enlighten, and improve the
moral condition Of the poor, ignorant,
and depraved. He was man of ability
and high culture, an aristocrat by
birth, and began public career which
was promising of high honors, but he
preferred to spend the greater part Of
his life in the pursuit of those benevo-
lent activities which will immortalize
his name. His life honors human ma
ture, because it is revelation of the
seli-denial, perpetual sweetness, and
charity which are possible to it.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Earl of
Shaftesbury, was born in London April
%, 1901. He was educated at the
University Of Oxford, where he took
high standing for his scholarship. As
Lord Ashley he sat in the House Of
Commons as the representative of vari-
GUS constituencies until 1851, when he
succeeded his father as Earl Of Shaftes-
bury, with seat in the House of Lords.
While in the House Of Commons he
supported the Governments of Liver
pool and Canning, was Commissioner
of the Board Of Control under the Duke
of Wellington, and Lord of the Ad-
miralty under Sir Robert Peel. When
this great statesman was called to
the premiership the second time,
Lord Ashley refused Office under him
because the Prime Minister would
not support the ten hour bill
which he had in charge. From that
time forward he was Independent in
politics and, as a statesman, devoted
himself chiefly to the amelioration OF
various forms Of suffering. He agitated
for laws reducing the hours of labor; for
improving workshops, factories, and
lodging-houses; for the protection OF
children, and for improving the sanitary
and moral condition of the humber
classes. Seven years before he assumed
his earldom he was chosen president OF
the Ragged-School Union st the time OF
its formation, in 1874, and continued
to hold that position; also that Of presi-
dent of the British and Foreign Bible
Society and Of the Victoria institute,
until the time OF his death. The
noble Earl was influential in the evan
gelical party in the Church Of England,
and assisted many religious and social
organizations by his pen, personal adj
vocacy, and purse. He was oftener 9
chairman of public meetings than proba-
bly, any other man. His activity in adj
vocating the abolition Of slavery was
most remarkable. Wise as well a:
large-hearted. the record Of his benefac.
tions is as creditable to his head as tC
his heart.
lie was conscious when he died, and
his mental faculties were preserved un.
til the last. The death scene was one
Of consummate calmness and beauty.
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The Hard Times

The Republicans in Ohio have raised
rs to hard times the same silly cry
which we have become familiar with in
Virginia. The Cleveland Plain Dealer
deals plainly with the criers--as fol-
lows
THE FACTS AGAINST THEM.-
The endeavor Of the Republican party
leaders to persuade the workingmen
that the ascendency Of the Democratic
party means hard times, little work,
and low wages is not shining success.
The argument is based on the assump-
ton that the workingmen are fools, but
they are not. They are as well in
formed upon the facts IS the Republic
can leaders are and much more capable
Of reasoning clearly to correct conclu-
sions. And they know quite well that
the facts are dead against the Republi-
can claim, for the workingmen are well
aware
That il was when the Republican
party were in full control Of the Gov
eminent that the panic Of 1873 struck
the country, paralyxing business and
producing business depression that
lasted Eve years, causing widespread
bankruptcy and distress.
That the last business depression,
causing hard times, little work, and
low wages, came upon the country be-
fore the Democrats came into power.
That there were more failures In the
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raTson wcoms-The Question Of His
Burfal-piace.

BELLE AIR, PRINCE WILLIAM
COUNTY, Va, Oct. ., 1885.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
In the interest of history ! ask you
to publish this letter, and that the Vir-
GINA and South Carolina press copy:
, In the old family graveyard on this
estate are two graves that are pointed
out to me az tho graves of Parson
Mason Locke Weems and his wife, Fan
ME Ewell Weems, respectively. The
cylopadias, however, and all other au-
thorities agree that Parson Weems died
at Beaufort, S. c., May %, 1925. |
would like to know if any one can in
form me positively whether he was
buried in Beaufort or removed to Belle
Air. The rector Of the Episcopal church
at Beaufort informs me that he can find
no record of his burial and no person
who has heard Of his burial at Beau
fort, though he has seen two persons,
respectively eighty and ninety years
old who knew Weems as the author OF
the Life of Marion" and who ought
to have known Of his burial at that place
if it were fact.
The grave that is pointed out as Mr..
Weems's grave is the one on the south
east corner of the graveyard. This
particular grave was pointed out by
several Of the old people, now deceased,
as the resting-place of this celebrated
author; also by old family servants OF
the Ewell family. When Mrs. Weems
died in Baltimore, about seventeen
wears after her son, Jesse Ewell
Weems (Parson Weems second), brought
her remains by private conveyance
from Baltimore and buried them in
the grave next to the reputed grave oil
her husband. have seen several per-
sons who were at her burial. At the
time of his death 1925 Mr.. Weems
was the executor of the Ewell estate
and virtually the owner ofthis property
He had courted and married here, and
had lived near by at Dumfries, and
probably lived here himself after Mrs.
Ewell's death. This, therefore, wa:
the most natural place for him to be
buried. am inclined to believe thai
his son had his remains brought from
Beaufort by water the winter following
his death.
desire to ascertain definitely hi
| birthplace, which | presume to hav,
been in Maryland, near the Chesapeake
though Johnson's Cyclop@dia gives il
| incorrectly as Dumfries, Va. Any ont
who can shed any light on the above
matters, or who can furnish any in
teresting facts concerning him, will,
! hope, furnish the facts to the under
signed, or publish them himself. What
ever criticisms may be made on hi
style and on his alleged eccentricities
| it is doubtful whether any Amer
| lean writer stirred up the patriotic i'm
pulses of so many youthful breasts il
the first century of our independence
as did Mason Locke Weems, and hi
remains and his reputation should b
duly honored. Respectfully, &C.,
GEORGE c. ROUND,
Minnieville Post Office.
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DON'T KNOW THE COUNTRY.
why the Government Troops are Unable 20
Capture the indians.

why the Government Troops are Unable TO
Capture the Indians
A Washington special says: That a
band Of Indians less than 100 in num-
Der should successfully defy and elude
all the United States troops stationed
in the Department Of Arizona, under
so experienced an officer as General
Crook, is a matter of general surprise
to the public. 1t is explained by
the military authorities that the
mountainous character of the coun-
try in which the Apaches have
been operating seriously interferes
with the rapid movement Of troops in
pursuit, and that the familiarity of the
Indians with the trails and water
pockets Of the mountains gives them
such advantages that they are able to
commit depreciation with impunity and
almost within the sound of the bugles
Of the pursuing cavalry. Persons who
have travelled in the Rocky-mountain
region fully understand the difficulties
that beset travel there, and fully appre-
ciate the value and Importance of gen.
eral knowledge of the trails and water
courses. But the United States troops
are not strangers to the mountains, and
should be as familiar as the Indians
with the topography Of the section in
cluded within their lines, and should be
at all times prepared to successfully
perform that service to which they are
specially assigned. That the troops
have not this knowledge, and that they
do not show efficiency in suppressing
hostile Indians, is painfully apparent
by the numerous murderous raids Of a
few Indians under the leadership OF
Geronimo in Arizona and New Mexico.
A cavalry lieutenant who has been
in the army since 1870, and who has
participated in numerous campaigns
against hostile Indians, furnished your
correspondent with facts coming under
his observation which 60 far toward ex-
planning the causes for the failure of the
troops when in pursuit of hostile In
dians. This officer says the main
cause Of the inefficiency Of the troops
is chargeable to the commanding Of
fcers Of the army. Troops at frontier
posts are not instructed and prac-
ticed in those active military duties
which they are liable to be called upon
to perform at any time. Men are
kept employed in making roads, build
ing adobe houses. altering and repair
ing officer s. quarters, and other me-
chanical duties, instead of being in
structed in the work for which they
were enlisted. When an emergency
arrives these unframed men are the
forces sent out into an unknown coun-
try to hunt and fight warriors remark
able alike for their cunning and brave
ry. Take the cavalry now operating
against Geronimo. Before the out
break the men were without know
ledge and experience in the cavalry SER
vice. Many of them could not ride their
horses, and none of them could perform
the ordinary march Of . day without
breaking down. The horses were sleek
and fat from plenty Of good corn and
oats and standing in idleness in the sta
bles. To expect such horses and men
to overtake hostile Indians in the Rocky
mountains was folly. None knew the
inability Of the cavalry better than the
J Indians. There Was no excuse for such
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An account OF what Captain Morland
calls one Of the most remarkable es-
capes on record appears in the Times Of
India on the 25th Of August. If this
story be true, an Arab seaman, Alb
doola bin Ahmed by name, lived with
out either food or water for eighteen
days and drifted upward of 500 miles in
An empty tank before striking the coast
of Clutch. A large bugla, the Jabree,
owned in Bombay, foundered on the 9th
Of June off Ras-al-Had while on the voy-
age to Muscat. The crew numbered sixty
souls, and there were forty passengers
on board, seven of whom managed to
climb into an empty water-tank that
had been washed off the deck as the
bugla sank amid the whistling of the
wind and the apparition Of men and
spirits in the sea-" Here in this tank
the seven men lived for ten days with
out either food or water; but after
the tenth day one person died daily,
the bodies being flung overheard.
The tank drifted on toward the coast Of
Clutch at the rate Of twenty-eight miles a
day. The sixth man died while within
sight Of land, and the seventh managed
to crawl ashore at Jackao, in Clutch.
He saw PRS 10 saint's) place with a
flag, but it was deserted. "And as
was" he says, "quite naked, | apollo
gizcd myself to the Pr and appropriated
bis flag to cover my loins." He also
found pot of millet, bat this, on &C.
count Of his parched throat, he could
not touch until he had moistened il
with sea-wster. Thus refreshed, he was
able to find human habitation. where
he was kindly treated, and where hi
was laid up for long time with fever
The tank and the corpse were found il
J confirmation Of his story, and the only
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-04
DLEAsANT AND PROFITABLE.

We have already tod you much about
our poys and ChIldrns Department We
can tell you much more. and stu not eS-
harst our subject. II is . pleasant thing for
us to write about. and psotiabls fsr you to
read.
Our Boys and Chiidrep's Department,
always popular in the past, has become
even more ~ OF Iate-popu'ar because OF
the prices At which We sell cur goois; be-
cause Of the variety of siyles we prevent
and because of the carefulness with which
ALI. our goods are made; popular beeause
OF our bright and beautiful sales rooms snd
because OF the convoniences psovided ior
the lady patrons who generally accompany
the little gentlemen. We are no. going 10
add that "gentlems My sslesmen gladly
serve YOU" It IN unnecessary 10 s'ste thas
our salesman are geuilemsnly. II they
were not they couldn't be OUR ssiesmen.
And as regards our willingness to GLADLY
serve YOU" 10 Ia understood that we aro
here 10 do business and the moro you
bother MS the better We Ike Il. For BOYS
suits, Sack or Cutswsy, Children's Suits.
Kilt suits, odd Pants. HAS and Caps etc.
we are headquartsEa
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Learn from the Enemy.

The National Republican is doing
good service for Virginia Democracy.
Its zeal in the cause Of the malignants
so far outruns its discretion that by the
rule of contraries it points cut the re-
sponsibility that rests upon the Vir-
GINA Democrats. In its issue of yes
terday it endorses the position of the
Boston Trareller that "the Virginia
campaign has national significance
and importance greater, indeed, than
the New York campaign" and adds:
"The result in Virginia this year
will go long way toward deciding
whether or not the South shall retain
its Democratic solidity in 1888. If the
Republican party can make breach on
the picket line now, halfa dozen south
ern States can readily be recovered
three years hence"
In other words, the Virginia Repub-
licans are regarded by the national Re-
p,blican party as the advance guard of
the army of northern malignants that
stands ready to rush through the first
breach that may be made in the Demo-
cratic ranks of the South. Our WASH
ington contemporary acknowledges that
the Sd of November will be big with
the fate of the South-haters. The Vir-
GINA contest not only involves the po-
litical life Of WILLIAM MALONE, but
the life Of the Republican party in
the South. 1t will not only
decide whether Virginia but whether
the entire. South shall be subjected to
an invasion of political Goths and Van
dals led by such moral traitors as the
SHERMANs, the BLAINEs, the Lo-
CANS, the REDS, and the HAL
sTEADs. The National Republican
only emphasizes what the leading
papers throughout the South have
recognized, and that is that the Virgins
Democrats are fighting the battle of the
entire South. Nay, more the Repnb
l,can emphasizes the fact that the Vir
ginia Democrats are fighting the battle
Of the whole country. An overwhelm
ing majority for our State and legisla
tive ticket will be bulwarl
against the assaults Of the reaction
lists, who would turn the hand
of the clock back twenty-five years
breed distrust between the races, an
undo all that has been done within tw
decades to make community Of interes
between the two sections an accom-
plished fact. A MALONE victory i
Q Virginia would be to invite hatred
r malice, discord, and misrule to com
q in and run riot in the South. Itwoul
' be TO destroy the confidence of tn
h good and true men Of the North, An
v the result Of this would be to dil
a courage immigration and capital frol
Il seeking the South. Let virginians pol
Il der the words Of the Republican.
a we rout the advance guard Of Radios
d resurrectionists, not only will the who
n army
IN "Fade away IKE phantom shapes forlorn
Is far as the South is concerned, b
10 Virginia will receive the plaudits
=, every patriot in the land.
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Settler.

The Iader-Ippeoi reports Mr.. d.
NJ. EERSARD, one Of the speakers
At the meeting Of the anti-MAHoSE Re-
publicans in Petersburg on Friday night
last, as having made a declaration which,
once the public become possessed o. H.
will infallibIy close JOHN >. WIsEs
mouth on the subject ofths Danville riot'
Mr.. BERNARD is reported as follows
"Mr. Wise and Mr.. Malone don't
believe what they say about the people
Of Virginia being murderers and assas-
sins and the lies they are telling abont
the DAnville riot. In Mr.. Joseph Cars
store. in this city, gentleman heard
Mr.. Wise tell General Boiling that he
(Wise) had told Malone two weeks be-
fore the last election that the bottom
had dropped out Of the Coalition party,
and now he is going about the country
telling the people that the defeat OF the
Republicans in this State was due to
the Danyille riot"
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AnlTI AIRY.

On September ~ 1885. OF diptheria. died
ROBERT TIRNBULL, the only child OF John
and Helen ". jackson. How futile are the
Efforts OF earthly friends To pour upon the
hearts OF the afflicted parents that value
and consolation that will enable them 10
realize that God Goeth all things for the best
ard that will cause them to exc'aim ::
THY " m be done" Blessed be the name
OF the Lord" Little Robert was quite an
amis bic and aflectiOuate little Fellow, ana
the most Intelligent. 10y far, have ever
seen-"a boy who. II he had been dele
gated as the representative OF his species To
one Of the superior worlds, would have sug-
gested grand idea ofthe human race, rs
OF being afliuent I'm intellectual treasure
raised and distinguished In the universe.
when we recall the sympathetic grlet
evinced by every one who attended him IN
his last moments and Immediately there
after, we fancied we saw a purpose OF the
Divine Master to alleviate the sorrow OF the
parents 10y distributing 10 amongst thelr
dear friends. And now TO the beloved pa
rents: When In the loneliness OF their Bit
terness they think OF him as OF their an
cestor, as OF standing in Heavens account
| the Oldest" las OF alluring To brighter
worlds and leading the way may tho
memory OF God good purpose In laying HIS
| hand severely upon Job comfort them and
reconcile them To- them ttat act which
must needs seem very hard. Is. III. VI.
LUSEERURG COURTHOUSE, VA, Septem
boroT 1884
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wise and the Thurman Law.

The Thurman law stood in the way
of his vengeance, and when he took his
seat in Congress he moved to repeal the
law which had shielded the people Of
his State from arbitrary arrest by vii
famous deputy marshals and from trial
and conviction by packed juries.
And now this man is asking the peo-
pie to make him Governor of Virginia.
The attempt to have this law repealed
is the GROWING political sin in Wise's
career: and if he had never maligned
the people Of Danville as assassins mol
characterized the Democrats of Vir.
GINA as ballot-box suffers and shot.
gun politicians, this one act would be
enough to consign him to the shades Of
private life. He can never be Governor
of this proud and ancient Common
wealth.-Aecomack Eastern Virginian
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The Boston Herald says "1nstead
Of beating the air in Massachusetts,
should not Senator HoAR and his SYM
pathizers 90 down South and inform
the colored people how they are abused,
and depict to them the inestimable pri-
vilsge of voting the Republicans back
into the Offices? ?" How can the Herald
he an cruel