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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01

1t the bsIlot-box BY majority ., the
voters, and now, alter full considers,
ton Of All the difficulties that surround
US, adopted by our people, irrespective
OF party association;
And whereas these persistent ell
forts Of the holders and spectators In
our bonds, which have become the
mere sport Of judicial decisions, may
bring about unseemly conflicts between
the Federal judiciary and State author
tiles, thus engendering secret discon-
duct and open animosities greatly to be
deplored. and directly antagonistic to
the harmony, good order, and kindly
feelings essential to the proper develop
ment OF our social and material inter-
ests, and in their ultimate result sure
to beget in the heart OF the people such
bitter and determined resentment as
may eventuate in the utter reputation
OF all bonds whose holders reject the
settlement offered in the Riddleberger
bill, to the enforcement whereof all
parties now stand solemnly pledged;
And whereas, further, this continued
agitation Of the question involved in
the adjustment Of the State debt keeps
alive divisions among our own people.
and perpetuates dissensions which a
becoming regard to our mutual inter-
ests ard the development of our manu-
featuring and commercial resources i'm
peratively demand should be settled at
once and forever therefore
Resolred, l, That we, citizens and
taxpayers of the city Of Richmond. in
public meeting assembled, at the call
of the president Of the Chamber Of
Commerce, do hereby declare that we
will not pay, or offer to pay, the taxes
assessed upon our property, or the
amounts required Of us for licenses in
our respective business callings, in cOu-
pons on State bonds or in any other me-
dunn than such as is required by the
laws Of the State duly enacted by the
General Assembly.
9. That we do most earnestly request
all good people of every city, town,
and county in the State to adopta simi-
lar course of action, and thus secure to
the Commonwealth revenues in money
sufficient to meet its necessities and
avert the evils with which we are
threatened by what We may fairly and
not unexpectedly term the novel and
startling principles announced as law
by subordinate Federal court, whose
conclusions on this momentous ques-
ton are not only doubted but denied by
lawyers of the highest learning and
ability. but which, nevertheless, it may
require menths or years to have review
ed. and, if erroneous, reversed by that
high tribunal whose final decision the
State must evoke.
3. That mean while we make this APP
peal to the patriotism Of our fellow
citizens, uninAuenced by selfish, politi-
cal, or party considerations, having in
view only the interests and necessities
of our State-our whole State-whose
prosperity and well-being every true
son, we trust and believe, as earnestly
desires to promote, whatever may have
been his position on the issues which
have in the past divided us, whatever
may be his present opinions as to the
causes which have led to this unfortu-
nate complication in our financial
affairs.
The foregoing carries its own CON-
ments.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01
Observation-Disclosures l, 1885.
The independents.

7, his letter to DIR. DEADMoRE'
ouotsd BY us yesterday, MALONE tells
on himself q secret which will or ought
to open the eyes Of the so-called indo-
pendent candidates for the Legislature
who are expecting to receive the MA
HONE vote. He says in effect that ne
would never consent to vote Tor any
Independent candidate for the Legisla-
ture who would not pledge himself to
vo,. for him (MAHoNE) for United
States Senator. DR.. WHITES candi-
d.cy might assist WISE, but that con-
s;derstion was not worth weighing
while MAHoNE's interests were at
stake.
Every Independent Democratic can
did.te in the State now has full notice
that he is mere stool-pigeon to
"rope in =" green Democrats unless he
binds himself to support MALONE Tor
United States Senator. Every such can
didste will be made to believe up to the
last moment that he will receive the
MALONE vote, and thus will be led to
divide the Democratic vote. But son
The last day"-on electromagnetic
Mahoneites will "quietlypm out a can
didate."
What Democrat will allow himself to
be caught by chaff?-to be made to
play the parts of both traitor and fools
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01
Question Answered.
MASCOT POsT-OFFICE, }
KING AND QUEEN Co., VA, :
September "a, 1885. )

MASCOT PosT-OFFICE, }
KING AND QUEEN Co., VA,
September "a, 1885.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
l heard a colored Republican say
few days ago that there was a bill
brought up before the House of Dele
gates last year to the effect that the
school tax of the white people was to
90 to the support Of the white schools
and the tax OF the colored to the color
ed schools; and he said if the Demo-
Gratis had the majority in the next Le-
glslature that they would be sure to
pass that bill, which Of course would
make against the colored schools. Re-
spectfully yours,
WILLIAM j. Brown.
The Legislature has no power to
pass such bill. The Constitution re-
quires the school money to be used
4" for the equal benefit Of all the people
Of the State, the number Of children
white and coloredl between the ages
of five and twenty-one years in each
public-free-school district being the
basis of such division" These are its
own words.
Our correspondent may rest assured
that a Democratic Legislature will never
do aught to damage the public-school
system.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01

bune than Is charged for any other morn
ing newspaper in this city, and be pays
his printers but forty cents per 1000
ems, while all the others pay forty.six
cents. This is Reds protection to
American industry" Is exemplified on
the New York Tribune.
The Tribune being the recognized
official organ of the Republican party,
what confidence, we ask, can the work.
ingmen of this State have in the promi-
SEES Of that party when its official news
paper deliberately violates its princi-
Piles while hypocritically advocating
them?
We, therefore, appeal to you. as we
appealed to Mr.. Blaine and the Ma
tional Republican Committee last year,
TO bring some pressure to bear on Reid
as will compel him to act the part ofan
honest man and make himself square
with the Printers Union. Failing in
this, we ask you to officially. publicly,
and unequivocally repudiate Reds
methods and his Z" rat " Tribune.
We will wait one week for your re-
ply. when, il not satisfactory, we shall
take it for granted that the Republican
party prefers the dishonest tactics Of
Whitelaw Reid TO the votes Of the or
ganized workingmen Of the State OF
New York, and act accordingly.
JAMES NJ. DUNCAN, President.
This Tribune is the MALONE organ
in New York city-the same whose
libels upon the South and whose arti-
cles advocating WIsE's election we
have so often referred to.
The above circular bodies no good
to the Republican party Of New York.
The Typographical Union is backed
up by all the trades unions Of the
State, whose membership numbers
many thousands. These workingmen
have the power to defeat DAVENPORT,
the Republican nominee for Governor
and they will do it unless his party
cuts loose from WHITELAw REID.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01
DOWN BY THE SEA.
AND PORTSMOUTH.

HAPPY Independents Repubiicsrs-Biows-
Left Her Money 20 Her ssrva~is-h's-
herr.
Correspondents 1.-THE Richmond Dispatch.l
NORFOLK. September 30, 1888.
The ticket nominated by the lnde-
pendent Republicans at Providence
Church yesterday afternoon is talked
of enthusiastically by that element to-
dsy-in fact, so enthusiastically that a
leading Independent and the despond-
ing Mahoneite candidate for the Senate
came to blows in discussion at the
courthouse this morning. The lnde-
pendents seem happy over the fact that
they have organized against the Malone
faction, and not that they expect or
hope to win.
A venerable resident Of Portsmouth,
the late Mrs. Mary Ann Brown, was
buried yesterday afternoon, and her
funeral was largely attended by old COL
ored people who were attached to her
family in the days Of slavery and were
owned by the deceased. Mrs. Brown
left no relatives, and in her will she
leaves all her property, amounting to
about slO, 900, to two Of her negro SER
wants, who had lived continually with
her since the war.
Rev. r. NJ. Reese, at present rector
of All Saints church, Baltimore, will
probably be called to the vacant rector
ship OF Trinity church, Portsmouth.
The salary is 81 600 and parsonage.
The total value Of exports from the
Norfolk custom-house during the month
Of September is valued at s45.933.
against s249,5 55 for September Of last
year. showing falling off this year of
s2O3,622.
Weeds jewelry-store, under the
Academy of Music, was robbed last
night. The large French-plate glass of
one of the show-windows was smashed
with heavy stone, and the crashing of
the falling glass onthe pavement awoke
the whole neighborhood. The thief
grabbed what he could and fled before
the police arrived. A man named
Mike McVeigh was arrested on suspi-
cion. G.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01

Our readers will perceive that in
these counties, in which the Malone
managers had the opportunity to COM
NIT all the frauds they desired, they
sviled themselves Of it to the extent OF
increasing their returns more than 30
per cent. rs compared with the vote Of
1888, which was an unusually large
vote.
An increase Of 1850 votes in 1884
over the Republican vote of 1888 /.
And OK. {" now threatens that this in.
crease Of 1889 votes in 1884 shall be
swelled to $500 in 1885. Let the
Democrats Of the Second district be-
ware.
II was the returns from the Second
district which alarmed the Democrats
80 much on the night Of the day Of
in November last. 1t was
those returns, no doubt, upon which
Mr.. WISE based his telegram to the
New York Tribune, Boosting Of . Re-
publican majority 10 Virginia. That
will hardly BE- increased this
'sar.
Nov, isn't It . clear case that WIsE's |
sfsat stands confessed in tho extract ]
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WIN, the Lyuenburg Bankers Say.

Lynchburg Nirgnlan.l
First. They all agree in the opinion
that as long as we are without an ade-
qua te supply of silver currency there
is no danger Of having too much.
Second. AS long as silver commands
a par value in the money market Of the
world there is no danger of its falling
below par.
Third. So long as the country people
prefer silver dollars as a medium of ex-
change there is no reason to apprehend
that they will prefer any other currency
in place of silver.
Fourth. When the time comes that
there shall be a redundancy Of silver,
then the period will have arrived for
reduction Of the silver currency.
Fifth. That if the Government per-
sists in coming 100000 of silver
every month, which is not put into cir
culation, then the Government will
each year accumulate in its vaults sill
yer to the amount OF s24,000,000.
These are the five fundamental pro-
positions announced by our leading
bankers. The results at which they
have arrived may not be startling, but
nobody can deny that they are tenable.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01

Referring once more to the statement
oftheNational Republican that the Com
mon Council ofRichmond ought to know
'sthat the President of the United States
is not his Excellency," we would re-
mind our Washington contemporary
that the first Congress Of the United
States addressed GEORGE WASHING
TON as Ills Ex'cy GEORGE WASH
TNGTOS Esq.,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01

The National Republican says so
distinguished body as the Common
Council of Richmond ought to know
that the President Of the United States
is not L" his Excellency." The Repub-
lican does not seem to know what hap
pened on the 4th of March last. 1t
lives in the record of the twenty years
preceding that date.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01
pEATHs.

CAUTHORN.-Dled September 3Oth. at
$40 O'Clock, at her residence. $50 Brook
avenue, Mrs. MARGARET r.. CAUrHORN.
wife OF W. X. Cauthorn, In the fifty-tOurth
year OF her age.
The funeral will take place at 10 o'clock
on FRIDAY MORNING at the house. 2tt
COLE.-lnstances OF the mournful fact
that the generation OF our fathers Is rapidly
passing away have become sadly frequent TO
the inhabitants OF this old city. Not year
elap.es but We are called on 10 mourn she
death OF some one VINO has watched over
our infancy or trained up our youth, and
scarcely a season Ats by but IL bears of q
life endesred both by the memories or
childhood and the association OF age. The
sad announcement this morning OF the
death OF MRS. COLE. the wife or Mr.. X +.
Cole, one Of our oldest and most estee med
citizens. was received with deep feeling
OF sorrow and sympathy that found ex-
preston no less In the community at large.
that knew aAd loved her for her kindly ma
ture and beautiful character. than the
friends whose privilege II was to come
within the gentle influence OF her private
life. For some months past she had been
suffering from a complication OF disorders
that finally developed into an affection OF
the heart, which was the immediate cause
of her death. She was sixty-one years OF
age. and now a. the close OF long and
beautiful lie adds one more echo to the
sound Of those voices that have been stilled
forever. and another memory to the ten
der light" OF those days that have forever
passed. II. b. 5.
WILLIAMSBURG. VA. Sept. 20. 1855.
MURPHY.-Di yesterday morning. at
twenty minutes TO . O'Clock. at .5l7 east
Marshall street. HANNA MURPHY. In
FAINT child OF Daniel and Ellen 4. Murphy !:
aged eighteen months.
Funeral will take place from her fathers
residence, SIT east Marshall street, at o
o'clock A. NJ. THURSDAY. Friends OF the
family invited to attend.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01
Defeat Confessed.

A Richmond correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette (X.)
writes as follows:
81 have carefully revised the votes
of these districts ever since 1880.
have visited most of them, and pre-
dict that the majorities in them will be
about as follows: The First district
will give Lee 800 majority, the Third
1.5O0, the Fifth 1900, the Sixth 3,lOO,
the Seventh $500, the Eighth 5000. the
Tenth SO0-total, 49, 200. The Second
district will give Wise at least 5000
majority, the Fourth S,5OO-total, A.
500. This would give Wise 800 ma
iority and leave the Ninth district in
doubt. have allowed the very largest
maioritiss that it would seem possible
that General Lee could receive in the
districts have named, and | have uu-
derestimated the msjorities that Wise
should receive in the Second and Fourth
districts. This is more especially true
in the Fourth district. This district
gave Hooper, the Republican candidate
for Congress in 1882, o majority Of l0,-
2l2."
In order TO figure out majority Of
even 500 for WISE in nine districts, the
Republican majority in the Second dis
trict had to be inflated from 5,43i in
1884 to 6,0OO in lSS5-almost enough
to make up the small majority Of 500
which az" claims for WISE in nine
districts. But the truth is that in
1884 the Republican machine was
worked for all it was worth in the
Second district, and BLAINE's major
ity swelled largely beyond what the
Democrats expected it to be, and be-
yond what it ought to have been. Let
the Portsmouth Enterprise, which is
published in the Second district, ex-
plain how it was that LIBBEy received
5,43l majority. We quote
In the counties OF Isle Of Wight,
Princess Anne, Southampton, and Sur
ny the election machinery was in the
hands Of the Democrats, but in the
counties Of Norfolk, Nansemond, Eliza
beth City, and Warwick the Malone
party had everything their own way,
and the following table shows how they
availed themselves Of the opportunity
to swell the returns. The table shows
the comparative Republican votes re-
turned in those two sets Of counties il
1881 and 1884:
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01

JOHN SHERMAN says the vote of
one rebel Democrat in the South counts
far more than the votes of three Re-
publicans in the North" And it is
cold fact that the majority of the peo-
pie Of this country are Of the opinion
that one southern Democrat is worth
three OF SHERMAN's malignants.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01
Look Out


The Mahoneites tell "F. d. NJ" Of
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
whatever they choose to have published
and he tells the readers of that paper.
He
Told the sexton and the sexton tolled the
belr'-
lust where the Mahoneites Of Virginia
say they expect to be buried next No.
yember. Read
at is a fact that such arrangements
are being made to watch the Bourbons
that they will find it more difficult to
perpetrate frauds than ever before.
Particularly will this be the case in
such places as Charlottesville, Halifax
county, Danville, and Pittsylvania
county generally, Southampton, Nor
folk city, Isle Of Wight, Goochland,
Bedford, and other localities which
have been the scenes Of great frauds
and outrages in the past"
Well, that's good joke. Governor
CAMERON has put down his foot on
that falsehood, so far as it alludes to
last years election.
We need hardly call the attention OF
the Democrats Of the counties named
to the false charge thus made against
them. If it were worth while, they
could, we doubt not, diSprove it by
the testimony of the Republican judges
Of elections in those counties. But
the game is not worth the candle.
The Mahoneites, like cartridges, pre-
tend to be wounded when and where
they are not wounded, in order to pro-
tect their own progeny. Look out for
tricks, and never mind words.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01
a==---
Whltelaw Reid Boycotted.

THE TRIBUNE AND THE PRINTERS
PLAIN ISSUE PUT BEFORE THE
REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR Gov
ERNoR.
New York Herald.l
The following letter has been for
warded by the president of Topographic
cal Union No. to the Republican can
didate for Governor Of the State of New
York and to the chairman of the Re-
publican State Committee
HEADQUARTERS TYPOGRAPHICAL)
UNION No. 6, l56 PEARL ST.,
NEW YORK, Sept. rs, 1885.
To Ira Davenport, Republican Nomi-
nee for Governor Of the State Of
New York. and TO the Chairman of
the Republican State Committee:
Gentlemen,-The Republican Ma
tional Convention, at its meeting in
Chicago in June, 1885, adopted the fol-
lowing as portion Of its platform:
"l2. The Republican party, having
its birth in hatred Of slave labor and
a'desire that all men may be truly free
and equal, is unalterably opposed to
placing orr workingmen in competition
with any form of servile labor, whether
at home or abroad"
The recognized official organ Of the
Republican party in the State of New
York was then, and is to-day, the New
York Tribune, Whitelaw Reid editor
and chief proprietor.
While advocating the above princi-
pies of the party in the Tribune, this
man Reid was, and still is, deliberately
violating them in his own establish
ment. He had employed agents to
scour the country in search Of the most
servile laborers he could find, and when
he had gathered sufficient number to-
gether he suddenly marched them into
the Tribune office and turned the print
ers then employed therein--many of
whom had grown gray in the service Of
the noble Horace Greeley, aud some Of
whom were old Union soldiers-into the
street.
lie wilfally and deliberately, and
without one moments notice, broke a
written contract made with our Union,
though according to its terms he had
an option to vacate on thirty days no.
tice.
Though advocating protection to
American industry" IS in the interest
Of the American workingmen, he prac-
tees the freest kind Of free trade 10 his
own establishment-that is, he sells in
the dearest and buys in the cheapest
market. He charges more for the Tri-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01

1t would seem that MURAT HAL
STEAD was humorist as far back as
1868. What could have been funnier
than his proposition that CHASE take
President LINCOLN by the throat and
knock his GINcoLN's) head against
wall?
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01
DIssoLUTIONs & PARrNERsHIps.

KICHNOND, VA, OctOber I. 1855.
DISSOLUTION.-THE BUSINESS
~ heretofore conducted by r. GATH
RIGHT & son Was dissolved by the death
OF the senior partner, Mr.. h. GATHRIGHr,
September 20 1855.
/ will continue the business under the
firm.pame OF h. GATHRlGHT & son, and
hope by a strict attention 10 business 10
merit "a cont inuance OF the kind patronage
SO literally bestowed upon my father.
All parties having claims against the late
firm or that are indebted To same are re
quested to come forward ut once aud settle.
Respectfully, ~. II. GArHRlGHF.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01

The National Republican says /:
" Decentralization of silver cannot be
accomplished until Wall street owns a
Congress and President. And if that
time should ever come the people would
take the Government into their own
hands" What a pity the National
Republican is not as level-headcd upon
politics as it is upon the silver question.
1t does not seem to have occurred
to our contemporary that what it re-
CARDS as financial safeguard has taken
place. The people have taken the Gov
eminent into their own hands for the
first time in years, and rendered it i'm
possible for Wall street to own Pre-
sident and Congress. Aswith the Re-
pnblicon's figures about the alleged
suppression Of the negro vote in the
South it has shown more than it in
tended.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01
We reproduce from the Lvnchbu

We reproduce from the Lynchburg
Fnginidn an amusing article about the
Lynchburg bankers, but we must add
that we read the interviews on which
our contemporary bases its article, and
came to the conclusion that the Lynch
burg bankers were among the most
sensible in the United States.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01

The Cowier-Journal says "Mr.
HALsTEAD is Of southern origin" So
WATTERsoN has Joined the maligners
Of the South. HENNERY, we are
ashamed Of you.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01

Professor ALLEN says: "Man will
undergo many physical changes during
the next 100000 years." Why does
Professor ALLEN want to keep fell
low in constant dread?
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01

Our dearest foe," the Providence
Journal, says Senator HOAR's fu-
ture is before him or behind him." We
think it is behind him-about twenty
five Wars
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01
EXCURSIONS. PIC.SiCS. &c.
I OW RATES TO BALTl- = i1;ga,
II MORE. A~~-sA>-<s-'

The management Of the York River Line.
TO meet the demands upon them have
placed
THE NEW STEAMER BALTIMORE
upon the route, leaving West Point Monday.
"Wednesday, and Friday at =. NJ return
lug. leaving Baltimore Tuesday, Thursday.
and saturday.
Now is the opportunity To have pleasant
sail down the York and up the Chesapeake
see the steamer lighted with electric lights:
partale Of the sumptuous meals. and reach
Baltimore early IN the morning.
FARE TO BALTIMORE. sl.jO.
SPECIAL EXCURSION FOR MONDAY,
WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY THIS WEEK
ON STEAMER BALTIMORE. se27-6t
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01

The old saying opposition is the life
Of business =" has not been sustained in
one instance at least. Since the intro
duction Of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup all
other cough remedies have been dead
stock and the vendors are in despair.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-01

A contemporary asks: SIS there
any blue fishing in Virginia." Oh,
yes; plenty of it. We have sat upon
the river bank all day long and not
gotten a bite.