The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-01
CREAM OF The PRESS.
NORTHERN WRITERS ON VARIOUS
TOPICS.
The Cable Pool-Jay Gould On Top
Again--A Little Big Man-Degredation
Of Baseball Literature-Free Soap or
DEATH &c.

n Of Baseball Literaturc-Free Soap OF
IN Death-itc.
re A score OF adapters are auarrelng
II over the priority of their respective dra-
q mstizstiOns Of The Quick or the Dead u
- Each one claims his version of the TN
' clean skit TO be the only original. And
r In the midst OF the dispute comes the
i announcement that come California lite.
A rateur has drsmatized the novelette, Of
ION the Verge" story like Miss Rives,
" only more So II will be remembered that
y the authorizes OF "On the Verge" the
: brilliant Miss Lake of San Francisco.
. published letter In reply TO rabid crii-
cism of her work, in which she declared,
4 as did Miss Rives some time ago, that
= the motif OF her story was one of purcs,
/ character. There was deep moral in
ION the Verge" Possibly the reader
couldn't find il. hut 1t was there Just the
: samc-N J. HraM
THE CABLE POoL-The inevitable has
happened. The loud professions of eter
nal independence which heralded the
Mackay- Bennett Cable into existence
have melted away before the burning
heat of heavy balance on the wrong
side Of the ledger, and the Commercial
Cable has gone into a pool" with jay
Gould and the other Corsairs to raise the !
rates OF cablegrams TO the public. SO
endeih another lesson in the great war
upon monopolies:-N Y. World.
LITTLE Bio MAN General Harrison
will not help himself in the estimation Of
intelligent voters by the pneriiles to
which be descends in most of his short
speeches to delegations. Puerile indeed
is his argument that because american
laborers are not seeking better country
than their own, while Immigrants from
other lands are flocking to our shores,
therefore the war tariff is blessing -
Exchange.
The degradation of baseball literature
still goes on. Says Boston contempor-
airy; Kelly hit swipe towards the
milky way, which was kiboshed by How.
Wise landed up dead against Wilmot,
who threw peeler to O'Day, and Da-
rymple sang Home, Sweet Home as Lc
sadly passed away" This may be very
satisfactory TO the man who wrote it, bat
he surely forgot that in its intellectual
application the motto "N0blesse Ojliqe"
should have especial potency among the
literary lights of the Hub-Erclanqe.
DIsCOURAGISG.-The Harrison mana
gers in General Harrison's own State
have been disappointed by The positive
refusal of The Hon. Albert q. Potter TO
run for Governor on the Republican
State ticket
Governor Porter would be a strong
and he would probably help 6
the harrison canvass more than any $
other man the State Convention of next G
week could put up. His nomination @
would help Harrison all the more because I
up to the time of the Chicago Conven- y
lion Mr. Porter was for Gresham Y
". y. Sun. y
FREE SOAP OR DEATH THAT Soap e
Trust evidently would not wash" Ii t
vas not composed of good materials. u
The Mills bill proposes to put soap on o.
he free list, and Higgins OF Brooklyn N
las gone over to the Republicans for fear b,
nc would be ruined by the "pauper" SC
oap OF Europe. Rabbit, on the other CT
iand, who is clearly man of more di
ense and courage, intends 10 establish & OF
house for the sale of American soap in p,
rec trade Engand.-Phila. Record. pc
LIFE BOATs The Local Board of Gu
Jnited States Steamboat Inspectors have in
ssued an order to captains of steamboats, in
hat Is wise and timely. The order reads an
Hereafter no covering of any kind will til
e allowed on lifeboats while the steam wi
RS are under way" 1t would seem be
nrious that lifeboats have been uniyer. ab
ally kept covered with canvas when
ne very essence of their availability il gr
he speed with which they can be made Lar
lady for passengers in time of accident ste
Mr. Randalps condition is unite 90 cal
'vorable as could be expected. He has pIy
zen safely located in the country where II
can have complete rest, and there is tue
'ery reason TO believe that with perfect cai
st he will regain his physical yigor wn
Yer long and patient waiting.-Piila. se'
ines KIT
yer
Tur p,orc pu,
lHE RECENT AND COMING HEAT.-Tbe Ton
ew York Herald prognosticates about sor
e weather in this wise: col
July closes this year with mean tom. az,
nature on the Middle Atlantic seabosrd for
out two and half degrees lower than tim
average. Considering the cool spells hay
the first half of the month. which Get
reatened to break up the summer. the off,
at has been on the whole greater than at !
nld have been expected. II file
II not be safe to prognos,icaie the
,ool August from the character of the wal
tecedent month. The severest heat of r
season has sometimes come in Sen. Ure,
nber, though August and September In an
g locality always have some cool wea. was
'r. Hot spells in these months are stor
en- more trying than those of midsum- .ioi,
n. because the humidity of the atmos. New
ere is greater. The probabilities are is IN
II next month will be as hot az il 1t 1
aally is, and that people who have mi that
trip TO seacOast or mountains ,ilI the
gust will have no reason to regret the his
"y' wan
and
Why DON'T THEY SEND FOR CLEyr. kill