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The Washington critic., 1888-06-25
The washington Monument.
Lafayette square.


Immediately north OF the White House is
tion In Washington that was improved. 1t
contains the equestrian statue of Andrew
jackson, by Clark Mills. Many of It's trees
are old forest monarchs, hundreds of years
old. 1t is In part a specimen OF the old for
NAL landscape gardening so fashionable In
England two hundred years ago, style
that was imported into this country Lag.
ayette Square was, one hundred years ago,
part ef n graveyard that inclosed the
square north, on which st. Johns Church
Is built, and the square east, on which are
situated the Attorney Generals office (for-
merly the Freedman's Bankl the Surgeon
the building formerly used as the United
States Bank), Commodore Decatur's house,
corner Fifteenth and a-half and IL streets,
and the old Club House, near which
Philip Barton Key was killed by Daniel H.
Sickles Member of Congress from New
York. The last bodies from this grave
yard were not removed until 1910.
bt. Johns II. IL. Church.
st. Johns p. E Church, which mas been often
called the State Church because more Presi-
dents have worshiped there than at any
other, stands at the corner of IL and six
teenth streets. IL was built In 1916 and en-
larged In 1890. In II have worshipped Presl
dents Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Ad-
ans Though the latter was Congrega-
tlOnalisD Martin Van Buren,, though he be-
longed TO the Dutch Reformed Church,
Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore
Though the latter was Unitarian) Pierce,
Buchanan and Arthur. Presidents lincoln,
johnson and Grant have also attended Di.
vine services here although not steadily. It's
The Washington critic., 1888-06-25

Westward from the Patent Oilice, across Ninth
street at its intersection with +
street, is tho handsome Masonic
Temple, erected in 1893. This build
ing IS one of the most complete in its ar
rangemeRts of any building consecrated to
Masonic uses In the country.
The Washington critic., 1888-06-25
The NAVAL Observatorx.
The Agricultural Department..

This building Is situated east OF the Monu.
ment. 1t is inclosed by the most beautiful
and glowing flower garden In the country
and the grounds contain the most complete
arboretum probably in the United States.
Attached to this Department are the Exper-
mental Gardens, whose Offices are lmme-
diately west of the main building. The Belt
Line cars go right western wing is the libra
ry and the second past the grounds. On
the first floor of the floor of the centre of the
building devoted to an extensive agrlcultu.
raj museum,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-07-13
Views Of Capitol Politicians.

The Republicans about the Cap
ltol have aroused themselves to
warmer concentrations of the Chi
cago ticket than they seemed in.
clined to express directly after the
nominations were made. As rule
they say now that 1t is a growing
ticket, one that will grow IN popu-
lar favor as the canvass progresses.
With regard to Gen. Harrison's
record on the Chinese question, the
Pacific coast Republicans say that
his reasons for voting against GER
tain bills to restrict Chinese immi-
grafton will not hnrt him; that AT
the time he cast the votes he said
Chinese immigration ought to be
restricted. but he held that the
bills pending contravened proyis.
ions of existing treaties; that as a
constitutional lawyer, Senator Har.
rison voted to sustain his legal
views of the question at issue. -
Washington Star.
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TO our farmer friends.

And would like have the close attention Of farmer
friends particular while state what think will greatly crafty
YOU and that simply this We work and will have our break
er and machinery time furnish genuine article of bur ground
plaster expect buy the lump plaster in large quantities and
Grind it at the mill anyone look at his content and
ground.
We shall have gone considerable expense to fit this and do
because we know it good and will do again wherever
good pure be ad such will guarantee be. AS
THIS WILL BE THE FIRST plaster would pleased have all
will paone by using it, to let know form
idea of what trade secure for this
WE HOPE
this direction and give all the encouragement they II will
help cheaper the Of your phosphate besides being element of
much good at the same time.
@ Having great length tried inform the public general
efforts increase the capacity of the mill well as to add other
and facilities these facts may suffice ample
unavoidable dpponments during the last and
having last gotten everything place and such shape that each
piece machinery will be in place good time for
PLEASURE that expect to keep full supply of
CHOICE FLOUR and FEED WHITE AND YELLOW CORN
MEAL, HOMINY AND GROUND PLASTER all the time AND TO
BE PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF CHOPPING QUICKLY
AND SATISFACTORILY In fact intend to keep and furnish
everything expect get mill and that hand all the
time.
Thanking you your liberal in the past while under dp
pommen and BETTER Ac.
comoDAToNs in the future, may be favored with
continuance of your patronage.
Respectfully yours,
Ednburg Va. L. T. r. E. STONEBURNER.
July 6-3mo.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-07-13
Please give us your attention,

since want show how admirably we are now fixed to furnish
you with tie very best Of flour at any and all times
We would however, apologize first for all the disappointment we
have this year. and you admit that they unavoidable
when say had all the the mill could supply at the time we
began business last August steady increase of trade naturally
threw us back and kept
went work and put entire set of trunkng hoping that
the supply would enable keep but soon found
could ahead determined put another pair of buhrs
which done together with other expensive improvements in the bolt
ing machinery
This work has been very slow all mlwgt work and hence our
inability keep up with the demands of trade We had spared no
pains expense this work. completed we dis
covered chon facilities be very inadequate and we have there
FORE at other heavy expense and after long and tedious work. put IN an
entirely wheel and heavy gearing such will enable US to
grind any mill We think have done all that could do
the demands Of trade and PLEASURE OF
all friends and and the public in general
that fully prepared wait upon all who CONFIDENT ARE
that feel like Offering premium for the first
disappointed after wheat fit grind matter how much he
may how many may have been there before him.
nasmc have increased capacity far beyond de-
mand that will be made upon take pleasure telling what
other improvements hand of which already finished
and ready for immediate use and rest of which will be fully completed
the for their reaches
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-07-13

articles not p oducCd in this coun-
try, is free trade in the popular
and correct understanding OF the
term. 1t was this difference that
distinguished the free trade Mills
bill from Mr.. RandalFS protective
substitute, and it is this distinction
we would have our readers bear III
mind when they hearartful dodgers
protesting that there is not and can
not be any such thing as free trade
in this country. If the tariff reiOr-
mers-sO called-prevail there will
be free trade in wool and a variety
of other articles, and it is knowl
edge of this tact, especially with re-
spect to wool, that is stirring up
California. Michigan, Ohio, Ne"
York, Texas and other states.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-07-13
Shot Down by a Judge.

LOUISVILLE, KY, July 6.-At
Hardinsburg, KY, this morning
County Judge A. NJ. Pulliam shot
and killed James Miller, a well.to.
do-farmer. Miller's brother is
County Clerk, and Miller was a
good deal about the court house,
where both his brother and Judge
Pnlliam had their offices. Pulliam
this morning called Miller into his
office, and presently a number OF
shots were heard. Pulliam came
out and surrendered to the jailer.
A crowd gathered, and found Mil
Ter dead with one shot in the head
and two near the heart. Pnlllam
refuses to talk further than to ad.
NIT that he killed Miller. The
cause, he says, will come out on
the trial. 1t is conJectured that
they quarrelIed over dealings in
TOBACCO. Pulliam's friends believe
that Miller, who was much en-
gagged in litigation, attacked Pull
liam on account of some OF his
rulings.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-07-13
VirQinia and the Tobacco Tax.

The Lynchburg Vrginidn says it
"cannot be disguised that the peo-
pie of the tobacco states are get
ting restive' over the failure of the
Democratic majority in the House
to repeal the tobacco tax.
But it will do these states no
good to get "restive" as long az
they go on voting the Democratic
ticket. Every alternate Monday
when Congress was in session for
three years past Speaker Carlisle
could have repealed the tobacco
tax by nodding his head to any one
of the scores of members ready to
present a resolution for its repeal
which would in the past and would
now command o twO.thirds MAORI
ty. If he had done this three years
ago there would be no surplus in
the Treasury to-day; but it would
have interfered with n Free-trade
revision of the tariff. This may be,
az the Lynchburg Viyg;nian says,
"simply stupid and silly, because
1t is alternating friends" but it is
the Cleveland. Carlisle policy, and
it will be persisted in to the bit
ter end.
There Is but one remedy-voto
the Republican ticket. The Lynch.
burg VirdinidR admits "there is
grave danger that these states may
slip their mOOrings and glide into
the Republican port il affairs re-
main as they are now" The affairs
will "remain as they are" The
Lynchburg VWginian has been talk.
ing that way for three years, and
how much good has it dOnei The
Republican party is the only one
now in favor of the hat.fOOted re-
peal of these taxes and the only
hope OF relief to the tobacco far.
mer is in its revision of taxation =
not IN Speaker Carlisle. The soon.
er North Carolina and Virginia
wake up to this fact, the better.
If they had done 50 two years ago,
another taxed tobacco crop would
not be growing in the Virginia to-
baccO belt.-Philadelphia Press.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-07-13
Killed BY a Spring Gun.

The store of j. II. Smith, on the
western suburbs of Lynchburg,
Va, has been recently repeatedly
robbed, and all efforts to catch the
thief had proved unavailing. Fri
day night Smith fixed spring gun
connecting with the door and re-
tired. Adult 10 p. IN. he heard the
gun 20 of, and upon entering the
store found George Bryce, colored
youth, lying dead on the floor, the
foil charge having passed through
his body. The coroner's jury rem,
dered verdict that the deceased
was killed by a shotgun wound
while breaking into the store
Smith was arrested and taken be
fore magistrate and balled In
$500 to answer an indictment by
the grand jury.
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They Say He Never Said II.

INDIANAPOLIS, July &C e n.
Harrison has received a number OF
letters making inquiry as to the
truth of a charge that in a public
speech delivered some years since
he said that "One dollar day was
enough for any workingman."
This story has been sent all over
the country in one shape or another,
and thousands of postal cards con-
tanning the story have been sent
into this State.
The friends and supporters OF
Gen. Harrison state that it is an
absolute falsehood, and the proprl-
etors of the Journal have placed
in one of the city banks $1,000,
which, that paper states, "will be
paid to any man, woman or child
producing the proof that Gen. Har'
rison eyer uttered any such seuti'
ment." This offer is unlimited as
to time or place.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-07-13

Is not this discussion OF the Mills
bill in the house of representatives
to the exclusion Of other business,
and that the most pressing-the
consideration OF the appropriation
biIls-the dreariest farce ever en-
acted by a legislative body Is it
not worse than farce; does it not
almost amount to a crime On
April II the bill was first taken up
that was more than four months
after the assembling of congress.
The general debate continued about
two weeks then came a pause. On
May % its consideration by sections
under the five minutes rule was
begun, and since that date it has
engaged the attention of the house,
almost without exception, every
day. During all this time only 3f6
OF the 1882 lines of the bill have
been disposed of, so that we are
confronted with the remarkable
achievement that seven months af-
ter the meeting of congress one
fourth part of the measure which
was to have been cOniessedly the
legislative piece de resistance of the
house of representatives has been
considered. Now then, first class
IN arithmetic, attention. If it takes
seven mouths, or three months, 20
dispose of one.iOurth OF revenue
bill in one house, how much time
will be required to pass the entire
bill In that house and then defeat
1t in the other? OF course this ex-
ample must be solved by algebraic
processes, for there is great deal
OF the unknown quantity in It,
inter appeal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-07-13

will ty power We this time work wheat fan
and will have rugged up ample time for that all our friends
and clean their wheat by machinery and save the hard Ia
Dor of turning crank all day long We will have it arranged thar
you will simply have pour the wheat bin on the floor from which
short pair of elevators will carry the floor above and empty
into the fan hopper will then to the floor below in ou ana
into the box the scales be weighed into the sinks may be de-
sired BY this arrangement keep all the dust and trash out OF the
the the labor of lifting the wheat up
into the do this The hosting jack will also run by
power and will be geared so that will carry and all kinds of
grain or heavy articles without labor
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-07-13
DEATH IN THE WHIRLPOOL.

NIAGARA FALLS. July 5.-Robt.
Flack OF Syr9cIsc. n Y, was killed
yesterday in an attempt to nayi-
gate the Niagara whirlpool rapids
in his lle-bOat. Flack went 10
Niagara Falls last week with his
boat to race through the rapids
and whirlpool to lewiston, with
Charles Percy, OF Niagara Falls,
who made a trip through the waters
last year in Il boat of his own con-
structlOn. Flack thought his boat
was safer, and that he could adver-
tise himself and 1t by trial yes
terday. He was confident of sue.
cess. HIS boat VAS open at the
top, being half drcked over. 1t
weighed 700 pounds, and would
have carried half dozen people in
ordinary water. Flack seated him
self in the stern, and was strapped
in by a band around his waist,
holding him fast to the boat. lie
wore a flannel sleeveless SHIRT and
drawers, with white socks and
handkerchief around his neck,
given him by a lady in Oneida,
who wanted II returned as relic.
The start was made from the Old
Maid Of the Mist Landing, on the
American side, just above the Old
suspension Bridge. at precisely 3
p. IN. Big crowds had gathered on
the bluffs on both sides of the river
and on the bridge. Before taking
leave of the bystanders, Flack
said: 81 shall stop twenty minutes
at the whirlpOol-lOng enough for
the reporters to see me-and then
90 on through Fosters Flats IA
wicked place Of water opposite the
DEVILS Hole on to Lewiston. NO
one has ever made that trip, and !
hope | will turn about twenty
some rsaults to prevent anybody
else from copying me- The trip
was a short and fatal one. In two
minutes after the cast of be was in
the midst Of the big waves below
the Cantilever bridge. Once or
twice the craft overturned, but
came right side up again. The
third time she went over aud stayed
bottom up, floating past the
Deveaux College grounds, where
stood Flack's rival, Percy, and
WIN. Stevenson and wife (FIack's
sister,, and little Willie Flack.-
Nothing but the keel was visible
as the boat flOated into the whirl-
pool. Here it drifted about in the
eddies until it came near the shore
when Percy swan out, and, with
the aid of two companions, pulled
the death boat in shore. FIack
was still strapped in his seat, his
face purple with congestion. The
body was taken in charge By the
brOther.ln-law and an undertaken.
Flack was thirty.niue years old, an
Englishman by birth, an engineer
by trade, who had been a soldier,
a sailor and a carpenter. He leaves
wife and five children. Just as
Flack was starting, the president
of the village received letter
from Silas VI. Smith, of Syracuse,
asking him to interfere and prevent
the suicidal attempt, but it was
too late.
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A BIG FIRE AT DANVILLE.
TOBACCO FACTORIES AND STORES
BURNED-LOsS OVER $50, 900.

TOBACCO FACTORIES AND STORES
BURNED-LOsS OVER $4,000.
DANvILLE, VA, July Sire
broke ont at 2.15 o'clock this morn.
ing in the Farmers leaf tobacco
warehouse, situated on the corner
of Union and High streets, operat-
ed by Bedd & Berger, a very large
brick building, well filled with leaf
tobacco, with numerous stores on
the lower floor. The building was
quickly enveloped in flames and
completely destroyed, two men who
were sleeping in the house barely
escaping with their lives. The
flames communicated to Arnett,
Smell & Co.'S mammoth tobocco fac
tory, composed OF two large brick
buildings,On High street, connected
by a bridgeway. They we're total.
| " destroyed, with large stock OF
manufactured tobacco. r. II.
Herndcn & Co. and Strause IL
Raab's tobacco factories also caught
but were saved. The stores on I'm
ion street on the lower floor of the
Farmers leaf tobacco warehouse,
occupied by VIM. Norris, grocer,
ID. s. Tatum, clothler, and Henry
Cooke, undertaken, and three other
rooms occupied az storage rooms
by Redd & Berger, were all destroy
ed. Two unoccupied stores with
boarding.hou above, adjoining
the warehouse, were partially burn
ed and the roofs broken in by fall
ing walls. The warehouse proper
ty belonged to the estate of the late
DR.. Thos. d. Stokes and was val
ned at 100000; we'll insured. Redd
& Berger lose in Leaf tobacco $780,
900; insured for about halt value.
Arnett, Smell & Co. lose on build
ing, fixtures and stock of manufac-
tured tobacco $4,000; insurance
about 800, 200. Other losses reach
$4,000; insurance limited. No
lives we're lost. The fire started
abont the warehouse office, which
was in the centre of the building,
and may have been from the explo-
sion of a coal.oil lamp, though judg'
ing from the rapidity of the fire it
is the opinion that it was a careful
and well.prepared plot of an incen'
diary. During the fire the strong
wind from the west sprang up, and
at one time large blocks of tobacco
factories, warehouses and stores
extending from High to Spring
streets, were seriously threatened
By $3.50 O'Clock the fire was under
control and an hour later all dan
ger was over.
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AN OUTRAGE IN PULASKI.
AN AGED LADY ASSAULTED BY A
NBGRO-THE VILLAIN
LYNCHED.

A special from New River to the
Lynchbnrg VUgiRidR says: A
brutal outrage was committed in
this vicinity yesterday by strange
negro man upon the person of Mrs.
Mldkifl. The negro called at her
house in the forenoon and asked
for something to eat. She gave
him some bread and meat which he
ate out in the yard. He then asked
for some water and followed her
into the house where she went to
get it. There he suddenly clutched
her by the throat and overpowered
her. After accomplishing his pur'
pose he fed 10 the railroad and
took an east-bOundt rain. lnfOrma'
ton of the outrage was telegraphed
to stations along the line and the
brute was arrested at Christians
burg and brought back 10 Chuch-
wood on this next train, where he
was turned over TO Deputy Sheriff
Morgan. Last night a mob OF
twenty-five persons called at Nor
gan'S home and took the negro
away from him by force. They
then carried the miscreant before
his victim for Identification. She,
however, was so frightened and
distraught that she could not posi-
lively identify him. The lynchers
took him out in the woods near by
when they beat him numerically
with sticks bnt finally decided not
to lynch him. They took him back
and turned him over to the deputy
sheriff again.
THIS morning he was taken to
Newbern, where the county court
is in session, and his case, and
also that of his would be lynchers,
committed to a special grand jury,
Our Radford correspondent writ
ing about the same affair says that
negro was a tramp one of party
of ten just out from Pocahontas.-
The other negroes in the party
were found at New River after the
outrage and some of them volun-
tered to go with the officers and
identify the one who had stopped
at Mrs. Midkiff's, which they did
at Bangs's where lie had been
arrested on the information sent by
telegraph.
A later dispatch from Christians
burg says the negro was arrested
at Bangs's depot and taken in the
direction of Radford. This was
the last that has been seen or heard
of him. He never reached Pulaski
county Jail. 1t is said that he was
hanged by a body of men and his
body riddled with bullets and
afterwards sunk in New RIVER
William Jefferson is now serving
twenty years in the penitentiary
for a similar offence committed
near here about two years SINCE
The people thinking justice was too
tardy took this last matter into
their own hands.
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take the whole class in AT once and
hence this bill So ne men sneered
at il; said was simply trying
a buncOmbe gam0 with the soldiers.
But, gentlemen, the general prlncl'
pies of that bill have come 10 stay.
1t has, With slight notifications,
received now the vote, almost unan.
imous, OF the Grand Army of the
Republic. That will he laid before
Congress at its appro ching SEES
sion. What is the principle of it,
Why, it is something like the old
rule we had in the army-as long
as a man was able he marched and
carried his own gun and knapsack,
but when he got hurt or sick, and
fell out, we had an ambulance to
put him m. And that is the prin-
ciple embodied in this bill, that we,
the survivors of the late war, as
long as God gives US strength and
health, will march IN this column
of civil lite, making our own living
aud carrying our own burden /;
but here is a cOmrade falling by
the way, sickness, casualty-not
his own fault-and he has to fall
out; we want the great national
ambulance to take him up.-Speech
at Ddnrilie, Ind., Norember 20, 'S7.
WHAT TO DO WITH THE SURPLUS.
In connection with this surplus
of about one hundred millions a
year there is danger; there are
dangers of prOtilgacy, OF expendl-
ture, and others that require us to
address ourselves promptly and in
diligently to the question OF re-
1uCtiOn OF our revenue. | have
SAID before, az your resolutions say,
would like to have that work
done with reference to some great
questions connected with the use
of revenue, about which | can not
trust my Democratic friends. |
would like to have our coast de.
lenses made secure. would like
to have our navy made respectable,
so that an American naval officer,
as he trod the deck of the ship
bearing the starry banner at its
head in any port throughout the
world, and looked about upon her
equipment and armament, might
feel that she was a match for the
prOudest ship that walked the sea
under any other flag. | would like
to feel that no third.rate power,
aye, no first.rate power, could sail
into our defenseless harbOrs and
lay our great cities under tribute.
| would like to feel that the just
claim OF the survivors of the Union
army OF the war were made secure
and safe. Therefore, have strong
preference that this work of the re.
duction of our revenue, internal
and external, shall be conducted
by Republlcans.-Speech at INDIAN
dpOliS, December 20, 1887.