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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31
SPORTING GOSSIP.

Teemer, Hamm and Ten Eyck have re-
turned from England Teemer says Beach is
the best sculler in the world.
Pat Killeen, the heavy weight Of Duluth,
Is matched to fight Ed McKeown for 81 900 a
side on Dec 2S, at Minneapolis.
Rotherhill, the stallion just imported by
Mr.. Swigert, of Kentucky, is an own brother
to Petrerch, the sire of The Bard and Miss
Jennings.
1t is stated that Paddy Ryan has refused an
offer from Pat Sheedy Of $500 a week and
expenses to travel with the John L. Sullivan
combination.
OF the 10000 members of the League OF
American Wheelmen New York state gives
1,725; Pennsylvania, 1,4S5: Massachusetts,
l,444; New Jersey, 944, and Ohio, S45.
Hanlan has gone to Canada. He says he
hopes to row his match with Beach in New
South Wales some time in June The stakes
will be S., 900 side, and Beach will allow
Hanlan expenses.
A scheme for memorial to the memory OF
the late Fred Archer has been placed before
tho English public Subscriptions have been
invited for the purpose Of founding at New.
market an institute for the use Of stable boys
apprentices and others employed about train.
ing stables.
Volante, of the Baldwin stable, was the
biggest Santa Anita winner, having $50, 83s
Get down to his credit. During the season
Mr.. Baldwin's horses started in 1875 races, oil
which they won "a, ran second in 81, third In
IS, and unplaced In Is. Their total winningl
In stakes and purses foots up the grand sum
of fQ5 Q56
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31

Captain Greene, in Sribners', ably dis
cusses the necessity for navy and for
coast defences, and shows how peculiarly
exposed we are in having so many cities
on the coast.
He makes list of fifteenAmerican cities
with an aggregate population of nearly
five and a quarter millions-about an
eleventh of our total population-with a
property valuation of over four thousand
millions and an annual product in manu-
features alone Of good deal more than
one thousand millions, all, he remarks
subject to destruction, or to ransom to
avert it, from any first, second or even
third class European power
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31
Best Not to Tell.

"Ah," said the superintendent, land here
is Tommy Goodboy's missionary Offering,
$3.50. That will make some little heather
hearts glad Now tell us how you got this
money, Tommy" eyes, SIR" said
Tommy, speaking up Loudly and distinctly,
like the good boy that he was; part Of It
pa won on Change, some Of it ma won on
q crazy quilt rattle, some Of it sister Laura
won at progressive euchre, 81 brother Bill
won on the horse race, twenty cents got
for marbles won playin' keeps, and the
rest won in grabbag and prize cake at
the church fair" After brief consulta-
ton the brethren decided that they would
send the money on to the heather, but
wouldn't tell them how it was raked in.
There are some things it isn't best even for
the heather to know.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31
WHAT THE YOUNG FOLKS SAY.

Unjust Discrimination-Little Dot Oh,
dear, don't see why people can't be as good
to their children as they are to themselves
Little Dick-What's matter, Dotl use got
an awful toothache." Don't your mamma
have toothache, too?r "No, she's got herself
teeth wot she can take out Omaha World.
He was nobby young man of blue blood
and good financial backing, and as he sat
down in the car he pulled out bis handker-
chief. An odor Of perfume was waited
through the car, and boy sitting beside his
mother suddenly called out: "Say ma, why
can't we buy onions which smell as nice as
that?-Detroit Free Press.
Little Julia is in the habit OF saying
"Amen" to the grace her papa asks at the
table, and she usually says it heartily and
with JUNCTION. But she failed to say it alto
gether at breakfast few mornings ago, and
sat looking gloomily at the table, which had
rather less on it than usual, and nothing that
Julia likes Some one at the table asked
why Julia was silent "Puh," she said with
fine scorn, II don't think I'll say amen for
such breakfast as this-Boston Record"
A middle aged man, whose business keeps
him away from home on all days except sun
day, had occasion TO chastise his eldest boy
one Sabbath about three weeks ago. AS soon
as the shingle seance was over the child ran
crying into the house. "Why, Johnnie, what
is the matterl" asked the mother in alarm.
"That big fellows been licking me" whim-
pered the boy "What fellow do you mean,
Johnniel" "Why that fellow what stays
here every Sunday" replied the urchin, with
gulp-Chcago Herald.
This is an odd conceit of another very little
girl, last Sunday, when it began showing.
A day or two previous mamma had been
making some new pillows and emptying The
old one, which was rare sport for the little
one, inasmuch as she got her dress covered
with the down. Looking out Of the window
at tho falling flakes she said "Oh, mamma,
look at the sky all full Of white specks'
Then in a moment, 81 dess bod has been
making some new pillows. Boston Record.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31
We wish to hear the views of some o

We wish to hear the views of some OF
our enlightened and public-spirited citi-
zens on the subject of the annexation of
Manchester to Richmond.
We do not look down on Manchester,
and have no right to do it, except from a
more exalted position, like Ralfe in the
foretop, and that can be done by the col
ored dude when he parades for Sunday
Irritation with his Dinah on CANDLES
Hill.
Therefore, let the pros and cons be
stated Calmly, and after we hear what the
views on both sides are the Legislature
can see better than if they tackled this
important question in the dark
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31

Mr.. George lectured this week on the
income tax, and he calls it tax on con-
science because it gives the citizen the
opportunity to lie out of his taxes and
discount his liability with system Of
prevarication.
Still this is hardly the theory for the
iahoring men, as it has generally been
held by them that the rich mans revenue
ought to be taxed when it represents
interest on inactive capital.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31

They mourn for the death of Literary Life
who expected it to make success with
the boom impaired to it by Miss Cleve-
land, who came across the sky of Chicago
like transit Of Minerva and passed out
like the huntress Diana firing parting
arrow at the publisher of Literary Life
that went through him and came out on
the other side.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31
A LOYal Heart.

Drug clerk Ito customer)-Twenty grains O.
quininel Yes sir. Shall give you something
to take away the taste Of iti
Customer (eyes bullying with astonishmeno
Take away WHAT
Drug clerk-The taste OF the quinine, SIR.
Customer (solemnly)-Young man, quinine
is bread, butter an pie to me. Itsparents, rela-
tives fren's; it's my washin', ironin', clothin',
and place to sleep in. Take-away-the
taste-of-it! I'm Wabash valley man,
and Tine good mind ter comb we down.
New York SUN
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31
ART AND ARTISTS.

The date for the opening Of the annual ex-
hibition Of tho Pennsylvania Academy Of
Fine Arts has been definitely fixed for the
10th Of March next
Tho works of art belonging to the city Of
Paris, but stored In the Boulevard Morland
fcr lack Of exhibition room, are to have .
palace TO themselves called Muses de- Beaux
Arts de- Paris, which win stand IN the IL
Louvien
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31

Madame Fursch-Madi sings too well to
please some of the American Opera company
people, and they bad begun to fear that she
would become that detestable thing, "star"
performer. So Stage Manager Hook picked
fuss with her at st. Louis, and Theodore
Thomas said Fursch- Madi or he must 60.
Mrs. Thurber, purs-holder for the company,
and friend of Fursch- Madi, said the latter
should sing. She did, and Mr.. Thomas has
not resigned either.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31

Speaker Carlisle says that there will be
NO legislation in Congress to prevent the
accumulation of surplus revenue owing
to the shortness of the session. This
settles the hash of Tariff Reform for the
present.
The Fabian policy, as it is chronically
called, will still prevail in the Democratic
party
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31

The report that there is little hope for
Jake Sharp has melancholy touch of
sadness in it that might touch philan-
thropic heart and cause the tear to start
into the plying eye Of sentiment, except
that he is such an unconscionable thief
and will never look right except in a
striped suit
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31

The death of General Logan having
left a wide chasm in the Republican
prospect for 1883, Don Cameron's friends
rush in the breach to fill it at once with
the big Pennsylvania reverberating
name, and the boom is being prepared to
celebrate the move Anon it will be
banged, and the circumambient air will
be filled with noise.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31

Our ever-sensible neighbour the Lnd'er-
appeal, is wrong about the suggestion fol-
a conference on the debt question being
suggested first by Governor Lee.
1t was mapped out in full in the Re
former long before anyone else gave any
practical draft Of the idea.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31
TURN AND TURN ABOUT.

ffe old man he carried the bod,
His son he got rich in molasses;
The grandson a scholar he grew,
And took the first place in bis classes
a statesman he rose to high rank,
And he left great name and much riches
H. son took to dealing in stocks
And lost everything but his pantaloons.
And thus goes the old whirligig-
The son of this illigant gold 'un
0pent his money In cumming around
Now he carries the hod like the old 'un-
New York Journal
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31
Punishment for Deserters.

Gen. Sheridan, in his annual report just
made public, recommends that habltuai desert
ers from the army be branded with india INK
He thinks some punishment OF that KIND
would speedily check practice which IS pro-
ducing a large number Of professional dc
serters. Leader.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31

THE SPRING TERN OF THE SES-
Il sion 1887 OF tho VIRGINIA AGhICULr
will commence ON MONDAY, JANUARY "a.
1887. Tuition free. Board from - TO 20 per
month, and all other expense6 Ut cost.
There IL O thorough business course in con-
nection with the Agricultural, -hspical, and
Literary features Of this institu
Students received 1t any time -
For circulars and information f.A 4
de4-lawtwsa Bi2 -Sile. ld7.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31

Bulgaria has not found prince, but
she has caused the military manual to
be translated from Russian to the native
Bulgarian language
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31
ton of other farm products that the
agriculturists have made very little
profitsY

agriculturists have made very little
profitss
Tom Ochiltree, the statesman Munchau-
cen from the Lone Star State, says that
he considered Bill Stuart one of the most
brilliant men of all the list OF his dis
tinguished personal friends.
That is a good coordinate to fact, but
the question is, did Colonel Ochiltree
ever see Stuart.
The World finds that English papers
are not sufficiently versed in American
affairs. -.
The London DAILY Nens in half
column of editorial comment on the
McQuade trial confounds the ex-
Alderman with the gallant General James
McOuade, who has long been in his
grave; makes Mr.. Charles Francis
Adams, who died few weeks ago, his
own son by calling him the son of the
former American Minister of the same
name, and creates John keenan, an
alderman.
The Tuxedo Park Club are having
high old time with fashionable carnival
on ice, the lake being hard frozen and
covered with iceboats in which Ladies
and gentlemen scud at the rate of sixty
miles an hour. 1t is rare fun to the par
Elephants and to the lookers-on, but the
iceboat is not as safe as sitting by a
Christmas fire, and three times boats
have upset or run into the open water
A lady in an ceboat is beautiful to be-
hold, but trying to swim in icewater she
is neither mermaid nor belle, and the
only one who enjoys that part OF the
sport is the doctor
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31

Henry George says: eff land were
free to those who want to use it there
would be no glut in the market or cry of
over-production." How happens 1t, then,
that with the land only moderately free
going to those who want 1t at $1.25 an
acre-there has been for two years past q
surplus Of some $4,000, 900 bushels of
wheat carried over, and so full produc-
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31
KEEpsAKes.


-.
Each lover has . keepsake
For the memory OF his love;
Ono has note or . ribbon.
And one curl or glove.
But am rich In keepsakes;
Three notes treasure apart.
There are two, accepting my pressntA
And one, declining my heart.
-Macmillan's Magazine
IF,-5UT.
ffIwere q wee. wee sprite,
OF all my pastimes rare
Twould be my chief delight
To nestle In thy soft hair.
HIwere white, white rose,
How envied would be my ress,
Luled to O sweet repose
On thy gently grading breast
Being neither rose nor elf.
I'll cease my poetical bray,
And content my prosaic self
To rest In some usual way.
Trinity Tablet
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31

ENTERED AT THE PosroFFIcE AS SECOND
GLASS MATTER.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31
SPECIAL AND Personal.

A Hoosier statesman, desiring to boom
his popularity in New York, smilingly
called Gotham the kansas City of the
East"
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31

Liberal commission to agents to solicit
subscriptions.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-18
TIE PEOPLE,s FORUM.
rempleton,s Mission TO Colorado o.

Fort WORTH, TEX, June IL, 1856
Editor GAZETTE: Attorney. General Tenn
pleton returned from Colorado City yes
terday morning, whittier he had gone to
represent the state in the mandamus pro-
ceedings begun by citizen of Mitchell
county to compel the agent Of the state to
sell to the applicant seven sections of
school land under the act OF 1888. The
cause heard was one of number, all de-
pendent upon one principle it being
made by agreement a test of all. The
suits are based upon the theory that
under the provisions OF the act of 1888,
the plaintiffs each have the lawful right
to purchase seven sections Of school
lands, and that they cannot be deprived of
or abridged in the right by any action OF
the land board. Upon this construction
OF the act application was made to the
county surveyors OF Mitchell and Howard
counties, these county officers having
been appointed by the state as its agents
in the sale and lease of these lands for the
purchase of seven sections each. Upon
the refueal of the agents to receive
or recognize the applications, the man
damus proceedings were instituted to
compel the sale. On the part of the de-
fendant--ln effect the state-it was an.
swered that the agents were not officers,
and that, therefore, as against them, the
writ would not lie; that some of the acts
to be performed by them in the matter of
the purchase and sale were to be done By
them In such manner as the land board
might direct; that the land board had
failed to provide the manner, and, by
consequence, the agents were powerless
IN No in tho
Kennedy, before whom the writ was made
returnable, sustained the demurrer inter-
posed by Attorney General Templeton in
behalf of the state. Hon. Geo. W. Smith,
prominent attorney of Colorado City,
was Plaintiff in the case heard, it having
been his Intention to locate colony on
the seven sections of land, to compel the
sale of which was the object of the suit.
The issue Of the suit will postpone to a
future time the location of the G. w.
Smith colony LEN.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-18
Evnnlshsd Hope.
DALLAS Farm and Ranch.

Dallas Farm and Ranch,
When the Dallas Cracker factory com
menced operations we were disposed tC
clap our hands and shout with glee, be
cause OF an added industry another DROP
in the bucket Of our material prosperity,
but elias, alack
"Fair science smiled not ON lie humble birth
And melancholy marked II for her own"
Why or wherefore is beyond our ken,
but truth to tell, the Dallas Cracker fac
tory Is no more. On a prong OF the tri-
une stream, whose pellucid waters lave
our sunbeat shore and assimilate with
our wool and waste, the remains OF our
erewhlle infant industry have merged
their identity, having become the willing
prey Of yoracious rival. Where the
panther lay down the ID. c. f. surren-
dered. Where erst the laugh was on our
side, the contrary IS quite the reverse.
In all things else &c have trlumphed, but
the cracker racket was too much
for us. The partisan Partially for
home enterprise and the proverbial
puolc spirit didn't pan out in the cracker
line. Fort Worth reyels in Fort Worth
crackers, and will have none other
Fort Worth is not great mercantile and
manufacturing center, yet Fort Worth
has not only her own cracker factory, but
ours also. More in sorrow than In
anger VIC say to the Fort, Go it while
vOutre vOunp -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-18
BOGUS BUrrER pRoFENSoRS.

Many people will be impressed by the
announcement that Prof. Morton, presi-
dent OF Stevens Institute of Technology,
and Prof. Chandler Of Columbus Cove, N.
Y, gave their opinions before the senate
committee on agriculture that oleomarga-
rine Is pure and wholesome product,
and should be encouraged. Prof. Chan.
dler regarded oleomargarine as one of the
greatest discoveries of the age A learned
and specialized "professorn is supposed
to be able to settle anything. When,
however, we reflect that anybody can
prefix that title to his pane, and that bar
oers and dancing masters are thus desig-
mated, our confidence in the infallibillty OF
the professional opinion is somewhat
diminished. And when we further re-
member that opinions may be bought
from men who atlix can. Ch." and a long
row of Latin Initials to their names, as n
legal opinion may be had from a LAWYER
favorable to whoever pays for it, we be-
gin to fear that professors are a good
deal like other men, and are not above
making mistakes. Every baking powder
manufacturer in the country has a pro-
lessor OF chemistry in his employ, who
tostines that his particular brand of
powder is pure and wholesome, and all
others are rank poison
Possibly Professors Stevens and Chand-
Ter went before the senate committee
and gave their testimony for pure
love of truth, but 1t is far more
probable that the Interested cleo.
margarine companies paid for their
presence there and their testimony. AS
feed agents of interested parties, their
opinions do not weigh very much. Oleo-
mar arine is not deleterious, but 1t would
be.rash to say that it is pure aud whole
some, or that 1t is one Of the greatest
discoveries of the century for the good
OF humanity.
We have called attention to this matter
to show the activity OF special interests
IN protecting themselves when they are in
danger. The house has already passed
the oleomargarlne bill, and 1t is now be.
fore the senate, The oleomaigariue
manufacturers send half dozen pro
fessors before the committee having
charge OF the bill, who give assurances
that the chemical product OF refuse
stun from slaughtered animals is
pure aud wholesome product when
made up as butter. II they had
been required they would us read
lily have declared that dairy butter
is dangerous substance. The dairy
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-18
DEMOCRACY AND RAILW WAY COR
pORdTTONS.

The senate has declared forfeited sew
eral million acres Of land granted TO the
Northern Pacific Railroad company. The
road was not built in the required time,
and, the conditions Of the grant being
violated, It became void, or yoidable, and
the land viii revert 10 the government,
II the house concurs with the senate. BY
this act many million acres of land will
be restored TO the public domain, for IT
will be precedent In other cases.
The vote on the forfeiture bill is of
especial interest 1t shows how the Re-
publicans and Democrats stand in their
relation to corporations OF those voting
for the forfeiture nine were Republicans
and twenty-five Democrats, while three
Democrats voted against it and sew
enteen Republicans. Twenty-Five Dem
ocratic sena ors were on the side
Of the public in this contest, and only
three against It, Seventeen Republicans
were on the side Of the railroad corpora
ton, and only nine against It. These
figures are worth remembering.
For years there has been going on in
congress a struggle between the corpora
lions and the people over these forfeited
land grants. 1t was not claimed that the
railway corporations had observed the
conditions OF the grants. In many cases
they got possession OF the land and sold
IT. without building mile of the roads
for which the land was given them. Rail-
road attorneys in congress had influence
enough TO defeat legislation to restore
the forfeited grants TO the public. In
recent speech in congress Senator George
said that more land had been given away
to railroads in this country than was con
tained'in the entire German empire. AS
incredible as the statement seems, 1t Is
strictly true. And this does not include
the land granted by states, which have
given probably half as much more. Texas
alone has given about 25,0OO,O0 acres. |
Yet the bene6ciaries of these imperial
gifts have in many cases failed to fulfill
their obligations to the state, and while
refusing to build the roads called for,
still retain the land.
In the contest between the corporations
and congress, as the representative of the
'eople, the Republican senators and
representatives. have invariably arrayed
themselves on the side of the railroads,
While the Democratic members were as
ure to be found Sighting the battle of the
PEOPLE. More has been done in the few
months that Democratic president has
'een at the head of the government to re-
,ain these lands than ever was done by
republican administrations. Democrats
Who are moi entirely pleased with what
heir party has done can compare the
ecords OF the two parties on this ques-
ion and see which is the champion of the
,eople