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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-10
Every One

Second Hand plnn0s.
See the lot At ". Il. Ramos 4 Co.'S.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-10
General Notes.

Mr Powderly did not have time yester-
day to prepare bis letter setting forth The
position and sentiment OF the order on the
soeiatequaiiiy question, but expects 20 have
Il ready and give IL out iof publication to-
MORROW.
The Convention hiss Dow been In session
q week, aud bet little other work than or.
ganizing has been accomplished, and but
little viii be done IA the next two DAYS.
Mr.. Powderly Is still Of the opinion that the
Assembly can complete IL. labors In two
weeks session.
IL Is not known what amendments 10 the
Constitution are proposed by the commit
toe which submitted report on tina, sub.
isci yesterday, but IL i generally believed
that one tbing suggested Is that the basis OF
Representation be changed. Al present
enc delegate represents 1000 members,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-10
FALL G00DSI FALL GOODS.
immense ,IIJ1r0I nj
THALHfMER BROTHERS.

nave extremely busy lune week
DRESS GOODS
IN the ina are rs aIe
made.
BEAD TRIMMINGS. CIMPS AND ORNAMENT.
opa BLACK AND ColORED wedapay
CARPETS RUGS MlGGEN OIL-lL0lh ilD lMlHN
being money swhee weore laa'
Give call on CAPEPEIs We WI them Tor
BLANKETS. COMFORTS. AND SPREADS
riseo Wig
WRAPS WRAPS
~. Do
city, Our styles selected the greatest aud
"A 4 n adeca g seen Ourh
we excel biei n
and commodous CLOAK DEPARTMENT.
THHLH/NER BROT/IERG.
FIFTH AND BROAD STREETS
&C
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-10
The Insurance scheme.

4 special committee was appointed to IN.
yc,ticate The relief Insurance scheme 81 The
PENNSYLVANIA and Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Companies. This matter has ere
ated much interest throughout TIE country
during the past year. II seems that these
companies require an Of their employees to
insure their livCs, and hold back certain
amount Of their salaries each month to
make the payments on their policies. II Is
said that TIC employees object TO this mode
al insurance
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-10
bOaE az the JAIL.

4 Dispatch man called at the city ial late
Yesterday afternoon 10 see CluyeriuS, and
was met in the Office Of the prison by De.
puty-Sergeant Macon.
Tel me something about the prisoner.
said the visitor.
He is all right" MIR. Macon replied. ~
see no change in him. lie is as self-pos.
scs>cd aS ever"
bud you tell bin this morning that he wa.
wanted at the Hastings Court.
How lid he behave;
Wei, his counsel, Mr.. Bcy. Crump. had
Just left; hut when ! went into hi. cell
and told bin that ] was going 10 take him
before the Judge Of the Hastings Court,
who would pass sentence of death upon
him and name the day for his execution.
his face changed color, but failed 10 de-
teet any indication OF his giving away.
For amonient only he was little nervous
not more so, however, than was.
Did YOU offer him any stimulanlsy
Yes, before leaving for the court offered
him toddy.
Did he drink il,
No. When offered il TO him he smiled
pleasantly. and coIuteously remarked:
"No, think do not care for any,
Has any stimuant ever been given him
since bis confinement in jail?
II has been frequently offered him, but
have never known him 10 take any.
Who has been TO see him to-day
Only his counsel. : am expecting his
brother, Willie Cluyerius, every moment.
Did Cluyerius have anything 10 say go.
ing TO and coming from ID oOurt-roomy
Oh, he was ~ usual. He talked about
things-spOke Of the Knights
OF Labor and about the behavior OF 80 on
The color-line.
Does he talk muchi
With the keepers Of the prison he chats
! good deal.
DO many people call 10 see himy
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-14
The Morning News, Payday

The discussion going on in Philadel-
phia whether Monday should not be
made the payday for employees who are
paid each week, instead OF Saturday, is
attracting considerable attention. Sstur-
day is not good payday, because by the
time the workingman gets home with his
wages it is often too late for his wife TO
make purchases for Sunday and the COM
ing week. II she attempts it she finds the
stores crowded, and if the goods are to be
sent home she has to remain up till late
in the night TO receive them. And then,
Saturday night the children have
to be looked after, their clothes laid out
for Sunday and in fact hundreds Of little
things must be done that makes Satur-
day very busy day. Another reason
against Saturday as a payday is that
wage earners are more likely to waste
their money IN saloons on Saturday nights
than they would be on any other night in
the week, because they do not have to
work the following day. Because of the
day in which to get sober a great deal OF
drinking is done on Saturday night.
Workingmen, however, are not the only
persons who waste their money on Satur-
day night, some employers do the same
thing. Monday, as a pay day, is open
to many objections. 1t appears, though
it is not so in fact, that there is a long
delay; that payment is not prompt, and,
hence, there is liable to be a little dissat-
isfaction. For is years the payday in
the MORNING NEWS establishment. which
now has a payroll OF from 81, SEQ TO S., 900
week, haS been Friday. And all
the employees are paid of in the
afternoon Of that day. Those who
have families thus have an opportunity OF
making their purchases before the close
OF the week ana Saturday night is free
from care and anxiety. Friday night is
not night for frolicking. Saturday morn.
ing everybody is at work az usual. The
housewife can take her time m making
purchases. The worry OF waiting for the
weekly earnings until late Saturday night
and the fear that Sunday will not be pro.
vided for are unknown where Friday is
the pay day.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-14
PERSONAL.

THE WIFE of Senator Jones, OF Arkansas, is
seriously i'll at the capital
MRS. WHITNEY is wearing light mourning
for her grandmother. Mrs. Perry.
MGR. CAPEL has been invited to fill the no
siton of British Chaplain at Boulogne.
THE Bigelow family reunion will occur on
June at Lake Qulnsigamond, Worcester,
Macs.
CHIEF ARTHUR, Of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers. has held that position for
| ten years.
CHARLES BENJAMIN, the Salem lawyer who
! ia TO become editor Of the Boston P0st, is a
brother of the recent Minister TO Persia.
WALT WHITMAN VIII lecture on his memo
ries Of Abraham incoln on Wednesday after
noon Al the Chestnut Street Opera House,
Philadelphia.
II. b. Mcdowell. son of the late Gen. Irwin
Mcdowell, Is passing three months in the
gloom Of a San Francisco jail, Mr. Mcdowell
IA editor Of the In0teSide and libeed some
body.
IT Is SAID that while Mrs. Mackey had a
box at the Paris Grand Opera her ioge was al
way noted for the strict silence therein main
tanned during every public performance. This
was due to The example set by the hostess.
WAS NOT America originally colonized bv
COnyiCts2 said the sarcastic Lady Holland to
p famous American. "Ye-. madam re-
plea the undaunted Westerner. "some con-
yicts named, Nassa" ther ladyshp's family
nance.
GAIT, JAMEs b. EAps arrived in New
Orleans Saturday. Capt. Eads some weeks
ago came 60 Townsville. Ca, for the benefit
Of his health, which had been impaired by
his severe laOOrs His visit 10 the plny
woods OF Georgia was attended with the best
results, and Capt. Eads returned ~ New
Orleans with restored health.
JUSTICE or PEACE ANowsGI. OF the
province OF PORN, in Russia, while holding
court was twice interrupted 0y his VIE, once
with the announcement that dinner WAS
ready, and again that the SOUP was getting
cold, wherCupOn he fined her three rOubles
for disturbing the dignity Of his court, and
then paid the money from his own pocket.
THE OLDEST student In Yale College is Porter
sherman. OF the senior class, who Is back, after
Mr. sherman occupies the same room In
house on High street that he did just twenty
years ago. He IL conspicuous figure about
the college and looks more like one Of the old
professors than a student. He halls now from
Kansas.
The WATERFOWL Times is responsible for the
statement that Paddy RYAN the slugger has
a double who travels with him, and person
atcs him in barrooms and on occasions OF con-
VITALITY. while the real Paddy sleeps and
rests, and keeps himself in that prime condi-
tion which he hopes viii one day result in his
knocking out John l.. sullivan, who has no
doubt 10 drink and smoke for him.
LoNG JOHN WENTWORTH, IA he lie called.
who has now become stout John also. kent
himself secluded on his recent 7ist birthday
IN Chicago, 20 tho surprise OF his host OF
friends and acquaintance. He seems TO be
superstitious on some point. one of them
being that his list year involved crisis In
his destiny, and that n he would safely pass
1.-THE would live 20 be 90. Since then he has
been radiant.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-14
Negro Whisky PeddIcrs.

United States District Judge Speer, in
his charge to the grand jury on Monday.
discouraged the finding OF indictments
against negroes charged with retailing
Intoxicating liquors without a license,
except in cases where persistent dis
position to violate the law is shown.
The reasons which he gave for this adj
vice to the grand jury are that it is eX-
pensive to bring witnesses hundreds of
miles; that the United States Court is not
Police Court; that the Federal law is
not especially intended to reach the class
of offenders referred to, and that such
offenders are liable to be prosecuted in
the State Courts, and ought to be prose-
cuted there, if anywhere.
While it is true that the prosecution of
| little whisky cases is rather expensive
ana not very dignified business for a
| United States Court to engage in, never
| theless, If the law making power has
made the retailing of intoxicating liquor
without license an ofense, even though
the offender has no saloon, and carries his
whisky in Jug from plantation to plan
tatiOn, and from one holiday gathering
to another, and has given the Federal
Courts jurisdiction of the oh'ense, it seems
as If the courts ought to take cognizance
of such cases and enforce the law.
The enforcement of the law against
the whisky peddlers is not so much de-
sired because of any particular feeling
that their offense is one that ought to be
punished as to check practice that may
grow into a great evil, and be pro-
ductiVe Of very grave results. If
these whisky peddlers are permitted to
carry whisky into the cabins of the ne
groes with impunity it will not be long
before negro labor win become demoral-
lied and worthless and the negroes will
| become more degraded than they are.
The enforcement of the law, therefore,
is desired for the benefit of the planters
and the negroes, and not particularly that
the negro whisky peddler may be pun
ished
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-14
A Contest Not a Fight.

The representations OF the press about
a revival of personalIsm in Georgia poll
ties in the event Gen. Gordon is a eandi-
date for the Governorship, are doubtless
erroneous. A campaign Of abuse, and an
opening Of old wounds, could do no good
and might do a great deal Of harm. 1t
would seem that the several excellent and
able gentlemen who are candidates for the
guberpatorial nomination might well af-
torG to make the race on their own merits,
and to discountenance all attempts on the
part of their friends to make personal at
tacks on other candidates, who are per-
haps their equals in character, position
and ability.
The people OF Georgia have had enough
experience in long and bitter political
campaigns TO do them for a generation.
Some OF the heartburnings engendered by
the personalities OF comparatively recent
campaigns in this State have not yet
| healed, but, fortunately, most Of those
who were interested directly or indirectly
IN those campaigns have determined to
forgive and forget, and they do not wan t
the old wounds reopened, especially as
tHC lcppeuluR Is unnecessary ana can
| serve no good purpose.
No doubt there are those in the State
who would be delighted to participate in
q campaign of elimination and recrimina-
ton and personal abuse, but, fortunately,
the number Of such is incOnsiderable.
Charges that can only be bolstered up by
a process of ratiocination, that can only
convince those who wish to be convinced,
and which cannot be sustained by evil
dence, will probably not figure to any con-
siderable extent in this summers cam.
paign in Georgia.
There is probably not a prominent man
whose name has been mentioned in con-
nection with the GOvernorship whose
enemies cannot say something against
him, if they are not very scrupulOus, and
every one of the gentlemen is believed to
possess a character that is above re-
proach. Every citizen may have pre-
ference, founded upon his opinion, as to the
ability and availability of the candidates,
as well as on personal considerations.
But he who first commences a bitter
personal fight Will doubtless have reason
to regret his course before the campaign
| is over
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-14
BRIGHT BITS.

A PETITION is being circulated in Massa-
chusetts IN favor of law making 1t the duty
public school teachers to teach their pupils
TO be Kind to the lower Misunderstanding.
A CHICAGO MAN, who has recently returned
from Europe, was asked what he thought Of
Rome.
"WeH, "he replied, Rome is a fair sizedltown.
but couldn't help but think when | was
there that she had seen her best days. Spec
tator.
BCXOM WIDOW tatevenng partyl-"Do you
understand the language OF flowers, DR.. Crus-
DR.. Crusty (an old bacheor) mo ma'am."
widow Iou don't know if yellow means
jealousy?"
DR.. Crusty-"NO, ma'am. Yellow means
biliousness. '-Neao York Sun,
A BARBER who had been called in to shave
gentleman who had just died said, as he be-
gan operations, "DO de razor hurt yo', sah?"
Then he tried TO sell his customer a bottle of
hair elixir, and as he removed the towel at the
finish shouted, "NeXtn and he didn't mean
anything wrong either. Simply force OF
habit. Dynamite wouldn't get some men
out of a rut.-HdrDeT'S Bds9r.
81 WITNESSED a case of dire distress to-
day. said the doctor. 4 was called upon 10
visit poor woman in Blind alley, down at
the North end; she was actually starving to
death.hadn't eaten morsel for almost
week"
Fenderson-Oh. that's awfuuv foolish. Won
know. It's all right to observe Lent, but not
so blamed rigidly as that, you know Boston
EGnscrjDt.
COUNTRY MINISTER TO farmer)-You and
your good wife, Mr.. Hayseed, dou't get in for
Sunday services as often as [ would like to
see you.
Mr.. Hayseed-I was goin' to hitch up an
drive in las Sabbath. but it rained. What
did you preach about?
Mnister-My text was, Feed my lambs"
l attempted
Mr.. Hayseed-Is that so? I'd like to have
heerd that sermon. Just at this season Of the
year farmer what keeps sheep can't know
| too mach bout feedin' lambs.-A net5caR
FGFmer.
800 you divine youah faw in hand this
spwing, TOoler?"
COZ cawse do. What's the use of having
| faw IN hand il you don't divine it. eh?"
Il don't know, I'm shuah. What the dooce
is the use of having faw in hand, anyhow"
Why, my deah boy, it's lots of frst-cla VS.
fun having the girls suppllcate you faw a
wide, and having youah photograph taken on
the box don't chew know, IN all yOuah spring
tOggawv."
But isn't it howible dangawous?"
Not bit. | only wan over six people
yeah, and not one OF them died eithaw."-
PhHddelphia Nelos.
''MR. FEATHERLY," said B )bhy at the din
ner table, ''what Is an average?"
IAN average?"
"Yes. Pa says you come to see sister twice
a week on an average"
Featherly was very much amused. After ex-
planning to Bobby the meaning Of the word.
he said:
81 suppose you thought it was some kind of
a carriage. B0bby2"
If Thought perhaps it might be a bicycle,
but knew IL couldn't be carriage. because
ma say you're too mean to hire"
Bobby" Interrupted his mother. evil You
have another piece of pie?'-Nrlo York sun.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-14
The New Minister to Siam.


/ met Col. Jake Child, our new Minister to
Siam, as he flew through the city to his Rlch-
mond home. Happy 1 never saw the waXen-
faced schOOlboy starting for picnic so SHIN
ing with joy. Col. Child's ambition is fulfilled.
Transformed from a newspaper dradge to
sinecure at an Oriental court; s.. 600 per an
mum, in a country where it is worth 100000,
instead of the uncertain emoluments OF a
weekly newspaper in the interior of Missouri
why should Col. Child not be hapDy2 And he
tells me that he intends to make the Amerl-
can eagle scream in the Orient, and leave
long trail behind him that will last the STA
mese for a century. He Is familiar to his
friends as wearing huge pair of spectacles.
Before starting for san Francisco to embark
for his mission he will clasp the bridge OF his
nose with pair of artistic gold trimmed eye
glasses, Col. Child will correspond regularly
with his paper, the Richmond Consero1tor
and open branch Office in Siam if the outlook
IS favorable He will be remembered as the
author of the well-known poem, ION Being
Presented with Flax of Whisky"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-14
A Threatened Loss of business

A Threatened Loss of Business.
The change of gauge on Southern
railroads, which, it is expected, will be
made in July next, will bring about some
important changes in the lumber business
in the South. Southern lumber now
reaches the Northern markets by sea. 1t
IS transported from the mills to the near
est ports, and sent by sailing vessels to
the Northern distributing points.
This way of getting lumber from the
producer TO the consumer is rather
slow. 1t has to be handled seve-
raj times-once at the mills, once,
and sometimes twice, at the port OF
shipment, generally twice at the port of
its destination, and, finally, once at the
place of consumption. 1t has to be in
sured against the dangers Of the sea, and
frequent landings often cause consider
able breakags. Another drawback TO
shipments by sea is the long time required
for lumber to reach the Northern markets
after it has been shipped.
Very little lumber has gone North by
rail for the reason that Southern roads
having different gauge from the North
ern roads, it is rather troublesome and
somewhat expensive to change the trucks.
Southern lumbermen say, however, That
when the gauge of the Southern roads is
changed they will be able to ship lumber
without breaking the bulk direct from
their mills in Georgia, Florida or any other
Southern State 10 any point IN the coun-
try, and that the difference between the
cost OF rail and water transportation will
be more than overcome by the saving
that will be effected in insurance, ham
ding and breakage.
While much OF the lumber will continue
TO be shipped by sea, there is no doubt
that great deal Of 1t will not seek the
seaboard for transportation TO market
when it can be transported as cheap
ly and much more quickly by Irail,
and Southern lumber ports are bound
to suffer a considerable loss OF business.
Other kinds Of business, however, will
doubtless take the place OF whatever part
Of the lumber business that may be lost to
them.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-14

FTo@ yAe Nel0 YORK. World De7a.1
Gen. Logan last Friday evening, in a speech
before the Young Republican Club of Wash
lngton, declared ''that all the present trouble
IN the business Of the country, and all the dis
satisfaction among the labOrng classes. we're
directly traceable to the fact that the Demo-
cratic party controlled the reins of govern
ment." IL would be puerile to enter upon a
Of demagogism. There is one good thing about
TINS style of argument, however. 1t opens the
door TO an unlimited amount of campaign ma
terial. IL might be st ted that the Democratic
party Is responsible for the loss of the Oregon,
the death of Jumbo and the last eclipse Of the
sun. If Republican Senators are reduced to
tkis sort Of thing, what can be expected from
the smaller fryf
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-14
ApriI.
Fronl a. Neao York 81

r rom me y en- IOFN GUN
When April comes, melOdious frogs
Resume their concerts on the logs;
The fisher tries cunning bout
or skill against the dappled trout,
And labOrs hard to draw him out;
The biuebrds trlll their tumty- tums
When April comes.
When April comes, the budding trees,
Bright springs divinest prophecies,
Fiirt cOyy with the errant breeze;
All mature smiles, but man must sneeze !;
The pores Of all his being fill
With dubious draughts Of sarsaparin;
Take qunine till his mazard huns
When April comes.
When April comes, the violets blow,
Emblanketed beneath the snow;
The tramp comes out, and exc the crow;
The COW rejects the arid cud,
And dreams OF grass beneath the mud;
The bear leaves sucking of his thumbs
When April comes.
When April comes, with soaking feet
The m aidens greet the crOcus sweet.
The hOusemald joys, the pealeT's beat.
The pulses of the Weakened spring
= re felt and heard in everything;
Within her depths of dewy eyes
The lOveliest laughter Turks and lies
And she lies, too; for they, by gosh,
Who, save with ulster and gOlOsh,
Confront the mud, the wind, the slosh,
Are meet to be maniac's chums
When April comes.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-14
An Actor who Guys the Play

From the Nelo York Tribune
"Ned'' ThOrne, the actor. has the reputa-
ton OF "guying' every piece with which he
Is connected, Shrewd managers who know
his lrrepressible flow of humOr stIpulate in
his engagements that he shall forfeit all claims
on them if he guys" the play. He told me
Yesterday, as l was chatting with him and
BILLY" Florence at the Fifth Avenue hotel
that Manager McVicker, of Chicago, made
such stipulation with him when an attempt
was made to bring out a dramatiZation of
Fenimore COOper's "Spy" at Chicago. Thorne
says that the worst guy he ever made was the
result. 'Ihe play was horrible, abominable,"
he SAID to me. land the houses were worse
than the play. was cast for Harvey Birch"
the spy. had sOlemnly promised McVicEer
that wouldn't guy the piece, but l had put
in provsO, which was that | light take
the bride off when L should see disgust
written on his own face. This
night Mack sat in the box. The play runs
along until the spy comes out on bridge,
from whose height he stops to hurl defiance at
speech, and then he runs of, while a British
officer comes on and shouts: a hundred dol
lars for the spy When had made my eter-
nal defiance | looked down on q beggarly
audience and ! saw In McVicker's face the ut
ter disgust he felt at the poverty of the PLAY
and the greater poverty of the receipts.
When the officer shouted out his offer OF a re-
ward said to myself. Now is your time and
| r1shee on at the left entrance, and throwing
piece OF paper MP at him, yelled back: It's
yours, manuscript and all the parts. You
might have got 1t for half the money The
audience didn't catch on. But Old McVicker.
bless his old soul. l thought he would die
a-laughing. The play came of the next
nlphtH