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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-08

Washington Is maddened with The
greed for money. That criminal, mon
strous surplus, is working every form OF
corruption in the public disbursements
The money j. raised by maintaining war
These revenues are arranged
10 maintain mouopolics, and the mon
opolists, rather than surrender their hold
ings. do not care what becomes OF The
money. Here is the misery OF it, The
South will assent to The monstrous pea.
sion bill. but while it gives the Northern
States the annual eighty millions 1t j.
not in human nature that for their W
section the Southern leaders VIII not
exact some return.
The return comes in public buildings
and Improvements of rivers and haI.
bors. Of the public buildings We sh'i
speak again. There is ia that direction
a shameless waste of money. The House
Committee on Rivers and llarhors Is
making the draft of the annual hppro
priation bill" the largest bill ever
brought in" The original estimates
were one hundred and siXty-siX million
dollars. which the Chief Of Engineers cut
down To forty.iOu million dollars. ihi-
IS a vast sum Of money, and il shows the
spirit of money madness which peryade'
Washington when VI recall the modes
bills one Of which Grant refused to carry
out. and the other Arthur endeayored &c
suppress.-N. \. Hcrdla.
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A hit OF

HiG OI ntNbDRNs
Referring again to the claim that New
York gave the Government the North
western territory, we cite the following
facts
The lines Of latitude embracing the
bounds of the first Virginia company OF
1906. included all the frontage OF the At
lantic coast from Immediately below the
the Carolinas to Massachusetts, inclusive
-intermediately between the parallels OF
a point south OF "a degrees and moth Of
As degree OF latitude, was a strip Of con-
tinent left. This was subsequently, oc-
cupied by William Penn and Lord Balti-
more. This first charter granted to
Virginia all the land between TO the
Pacific Ocean. This fact would give 10
Virginia claim to the entire continent.
But meantime the Spaniards and French
came in from the South through Florida,
and through Canada on the North. The
French took from the Indians all the
territory below Canada westward to De
troit and st. Louis. The SpaniaIds
owned louisiana from the Gull to the
Missouri and TO the Pacific. Matters
thus stood until England obtained Canada
by treaty in 1863. The French obtained
louisiana in 1873, but coded it back TO
Spain in 1862. All this, of course, goes to
show that New York and no other State
of the L. 5. C%onfederacy ever owned an
inch OF this vast domain, either by treaty
or conquest until the American Reyolu-
ton came on. During that struggle,
George Rogers Clarke Of Virginia, under
authority Of Virginia, conquered the
Northwest from the English by march
ing into their territory, capturing kaskas
kias. Vim. ennes and other posts, leaving
! rarrisons at these posts, and 50 held II
until the close of the war. When the
preliminaries of peace were under dis
c|ussion, the British Commissioners
claimed the Ohio as their South.
ern boundary, but Virginia de-
INJURED. aud established her claim
to the territory above the Ohio
bv virtue of conquest. The point was
Welded. and the line was put back TO
the lakes and Niagara river. Mr. Ban
croft gives Virginia the entire credit in
/ the following words With $50 men, Viz
ginians, in the service of Virginia, Clarke
captured Vincennes, Kaskaskias, Henry
Hamilton, Governor of Canada, numerous
officers, privates, etc. This Governor
and officers were brought to Chesterfield
Courthouse as captives' Now II New
York had acquired this territory 10y
treaty from the Six Nations, why did she
not claim it after The war? The Six
Nations had no right to grant it. The
Miamis, Illinois, and other tribes of In
dams owned and occupied it. How then
could the Six Nations grant it TO any one
else 70 recapitulate, the SDaniards
and French had occupied and owned by
conquest all This territory before New
York could take care Of itself. The
British took it from the French, and the
Virginians, under George Rogers Clarke,
took and occupied it in ms, and held il
under authority of the Government OF
Virginia until the peace was declared
between the then liberated colonies and
Great Britain.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-08
n.portinr Prince ni.marcK- ,pccche,.

4 member OF the official -~tcuographlc
CORP, of tle rc.cl-tar. lu writing of Bis
marck as 70 speaker. Says 10 is not the
speed with which be- speaks that makes
the reporters task oi taking down bis
words an especially difficult Que. for there
are suifter talkcrs than hc, uut Prince
Bismarck speaks at very unequal rate,
and ms "a rule DO u.s. quickest at those Very
places which are most 90 the point Not
u~uf-equcutly. -co. I. interrupts himself
with Iuicrmtliif. yhfsHce. rut le has
a|p.cuiiar style olL.' ONu NIthllIte uu-
expected turns OF speech. ia addition 10
which he often interweavcs quotations
sometlmesiu foreign languages-with his
remarl~. and occasionally toward the
end OF u sentence, speaks so low AS 10
make him difficult % Doe understo0l at Our
desk. although 10 is 10 the immediate VIZ
entity Of where he stands. And then the
s%tenographer cannot altogether gct md II
the feeling that he is working under the
pressure OBJ the weight and importance Of
what hc is taking down, rs we'll RS under
the consciousness that he is preserving
the words OF the man at whom all Europe
IS looking John =. Jackson in New
York World.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-08
nclic,tcl, rlatterlnr thc "r.c,hl-.

A certain barber boo tbs h.lu.
ha, been ye.,d DO spirit hecau
li, trade seemed ODD % Ear H.' i"
ava, from him. Tie m1nn,ru. D.
He has among his customer l
be-. OF Yale freshmen ol t.r,f
These frlshy youths insist a,
shaved although t.e.r ch.rs r1a}
smooth AS the surface az % f
The barber saw that 30 order % .o..
class VI trade be must convince DO I
had hair on is face, SO Dee bei'ou-Hl
self Of "A scheme He took O. f.I3
razor and honed Sc down tpH te.'
edge This accomplished, be- l
lated the tool that when % "a-
along the smooth flesh 10 made 81
II the points were being f~cralei
barhed Wire fence $500.
lie tried it on the first freshm.a
came IN, and the mar went away
as pleased as if his m0ther-in-la" lai
died The tonsorial artist now l]i
and the freshman goes on his va! TO-
ng.-New Haven News.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-08

Senator ingalls, has been so long posed
by HE party as statesman and orator that
his vanity led him into a dangerous posi-
ton.
He undertook to intlame patriotism
with the torch of hate, and talked OF war
and heroism. The result was a poignant
criticism of his own wal record, which
consisted of a brilliant display of gal
lantry as judge-advocate of Kansas
militia.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-08
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
A BRIEF Summary or YFSTERDI Us
IDEAS on THE NEWS.
Reduction Of Internal
Committee on Trusts The Criminal sur
nlus The Forged Cleveland Letter-Lo-
connective, Iagineers.

The WAYS and Means Committee yca-
terday gave 20 the public the bill for the
reduction. Of the Internal revenue taxes.
It will he found in II columns this
morning. aud a reofme of It's provisions u
given in our Washington dispatches. II
t,kes of about twO-thi ds of the tobacco
tax. according TO the returns of the last
fiscal year, and practically leaves all
tobacco free excep, cigars, cheroots, and
cigarettes. 4 number of chances are
proposed relating to proceeding. n the
courts that have heretofore been the
fruitful source of yexatiJns and often OPP
pressiye abuses. The repeat of the
license tax for retail dealers IN alcohol j.
a perfectly proper and just provision,
and the reduction of the license fee OF
retail tobacco dealers to s. zone half the
present amount IS i%udicious. After this
bill was submitted to the committee by
the majority il was consolidated with tho
tariff bill. and will be 80 repOrted.-N. }.
Times.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-08
Mr.. Clevelands famous letter decliu.

Mr.. Cleyeland's famous letter dec.in-
ing the nomination
"The letter" said Colonel Lamont, lis
a deliberate forgery" He referred to a
cleyerly written document which has
lust appeared in the AbaHy Times pre-.
faced by a double loaded editorial headed
"Win Mr Cleveland Decline The let
ter is dated al the Executive Mansion, j.
signed Grover Cleveland, and purporls
10 be the %latter's withdrawal from the
Presidential race. 1t il ALLEGED To have
been written by the President TO q per
sonal friend and prominent Democrat OF
Albany. In the latter city the communi-
cation did not create a ripple, Tor lis
g~eauineness was at once questioned, but
in Washington, among The large number
of Senators and Representatives who
have received marked copies OF the paper.
the Times and its editor are not SO well
known, and the letter caused some talk
at the Capitol yesterday.
The author of this letter is Th%eOphilus
c. Callicott, a man with an interesting
history. lie first came into prOminenc,
in the New York Legislature IN 1851 on
1855, when the parties were SO evenly
divided, that there were sixty i've Demo.
Gratis and sixty three Republicans. The
parties held their caucuses, and when The
balloting began, the first Republican, Ia
everybody's surprise, voted for Mr. Call
colt, who until that moment was All
obscure Democratic member from King :
county. The next Republican voted thu
same way, and Mr.. CallicOtt was elected
Speaker. The session was stormy ant
full of trouble, but Mr.. Callic0tt kept hi,
seat until its end. Afterwards he wa
/, appointed a collector of internal revenue
and for a deficit in his accounts served d
term in the Albany Penitentiary. When
his term had expired Mr.. Manning gave
him II place on the Albany ArguS, and
having saved ii little money he bought
the Times. He belonged 10 the old
Tweed ring, and has been anti-Tilden
anti Cleveland, and anti.almost every
hing. The letter, is really 70 dig.
nihed and direct as TO be II clever
imitation Of Mr.. Cleyeland'5 style -
Washington Post.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-08

Ingalls, speech would be a good cam
paign document for the Democrats when
supplemented to Ingalls, brilliant var
record rs judge.advocate of a militia
regiment far in the rear.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-08

1t is already clearly apparent that the
Brotherhood Engineers, in departing
from the conservative stand occupied at
the commencement Of the Burlington
strike. made a grave mistake. Already
the weight of public opinion in their
favor is sensibly waning. The railroad
officials are securing men TO run their
trains, and n Judicial decision has jus;
been issued by the Supreme Court OF New
York holding that it is a crimina con
spiracy for workmen II organize Ia
deprive other men of employment. In
view Of the situation, Congress need not
hasten to mix up in the matter.-Balti-
, more Herald.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-08

The wal taxes that bear most heavily
upon the industrial occupations OF the
people, crippling production. restricting
commerce and expressing labor, are The
taxes which should be first lightened OF
removed.-Phiid. Record.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-08

The report Of the Senate Committee
on Trusts is more satisfactory than was
expected from the manner IN winch iis
Investigation of the larger Trusts was
conducted.
1t deduces from even the favorable pre-
sentation Of the Sugar and Standard OH
Trusts by the officers OF these combina-
lions the inevitable conclusion that 1.-THE
public at each end Of the industry-the
producer and the consumer-is and IL in
tended to be, in a certain sense, at the
mercy Of the syndicate, combination, or
Trust
All such combinations are rightly held
hv the committee to be inimical 10 the
pnblic welfare, A. leading 10 the annihi-
iation OF competition" and the arbitrary
fixing of prices. 1t therefore recon
mends that the AitOrney-General pro-
coed against such of the Trusts as are
amenablo to the State law, the Milk Trust
being specially nominated.
This is a practical suggestion. The
charter of combining corporations should
be forfeited, and if there is not law
enough to reach the individual conspira'
tors the Legislature should supply the
lack-N. y. World.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-08

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midas CORAL STRAND.
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Whence Clearing Papers from America
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sped something WhlCn uudccu-lpuleu
eyes would not have seen. He ciapped
his glasses, line double extra power ones,
TO his eyes and stood in a. posture Of scru-
tiny for many moments.
It's "A bark. - says he. still focusing
his gllsse, on the distant object.
\ shalowy substance began To appear
on the horizon. The eye Of the land-man
would have simply noted that something
that sailed was approaching
'-Shc's Noya Scotiau, was the laconic
uttcrance that came from beneath the
binoculars.
Then its the S%trathay, now due, was
the equally lac0uic outcome of Il marine
encyclopedia who stood near.
Pretty soon the bark's sails ioomed up
against the horizon and she came whoop
in along IN a spanking breeze 90 the
lower bay. She WAS the S%trathay, ninety
DAYS from Iudia's coral strand. and She
bore % royal cargo. When Capt. Crqu
hart got his quarantine papers he brought
hi, vessel iu tow Of a tug. her streamers
ny.ns. up To Brooklyn pier, and u long
sea voyage was ended
The Strathay comes from ports whence
clearing pircrs from America are seldom
issued. SHE has been In the dismal and
friertfully hot haroors OF Alipce and
Cochin. ON the Malabar coast, in the
southern part of ludia.
CEYLON5 SPICY BHEEzEs.
She had lain for days getting the spicy
brcezos Of Ceylon at Coiumbo. and the
blood heat rays of the sun. and there tooN
m 1869 barrels of plHmbago. Then in
southern India, whore the man eating
c|rocsolile aU0Und-. and marks turn ou
their bellies and swallow zen at crunch
in. eulp. she found 1000 barrel, Of CO.
commit oil. which will bc evolved into
American soap. and q great quantity oi
the mating that is made from the hbrou5
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~
the redemption of man from sin is
a work worthy of the divine In
~carnation, and Of that divine suf-
ering to which the Incarnation led
and in which it was fulfilled. Why
should that conviction have been
altered, if it had been supposed that
this hierarchy Of angels, instead of
being placed vaguely in the hea-
VEINS, were the fixed inhabitants Of
any of those shining worlds of
which the prophets had spoken as
showing forth the wonderful power
Of God How could any iIlustra-
ton of the utter insignificance of
man have carried the belief in that
insignifcance further than it a
carried by teachers who declared
that call flesh is grass, and all the
goodness thereof is as the flower
Of the field the grass withereth,
the flower fadeth, because The breath
of the Lord blOWeth upon it surely
the people is grass the grass with
ereth, the flower fadeth, but the
word of God shall stand for ever"
1t seems to us that had the Hebrew
teachers Of the first or any previous
century been told that there are in
creation myriads of Planets infinite
ly greater than our world, and posi-
bly, inhabited by beings as much
more exalted than man as their
dweIIing-pIaces are greater, they
would not have been staggered in
the very least. They would have
said that if in such worlds what
corresponds to human sin had taken
p'ace,-which would, of course, be
matter Of pure conjecture they
had no doubt that the mercy of God
would equally have provided some
thing corresponding to human re-
demptiOn but thai. at all events, we
cannot ground any but the most
worthless objection to what we 10
know, on conf actures as to what
we do not know. We do know
what God is, and what sin is, and
what redemption is, and we must
act on what we do know. 10 dis
believe in a revealed spiritual pow
er of which we stand in the greatest
need, only because physical astrono-
mers have suggested that there my
be countless other races needing
the same aid that we need, or even
needing it more, but of the answer
to whose need we can know nothing
because we know nothing about the
real existence Of it, would be as
frivolous as to shut our eyes to the
actual light we have and ignore its
existence, only because we may col
lecture with some FEASIBILITY that
countless other beings III other
worlds need light as much or more
than we do, while We have no alb
solu'e assurance that, if they do
need it, they have it in the same
rich abundance. If the ants in an
ant-hill were capable of du'y and
sin in the sense in which we are
capable of it, why should not they,
too, yearn for and obtain redemp
ton? And to show that we are
, 1888-12-26

OF physical, mental, and moral stature,
there could have been no theology ex-
acf1y of the type Of that which. we
have inherited from them.
While heartily admitting that if
man be nothing but a link in the chain
of natural causes, Christian theology
must be utterly revolutionised,-a
point on which we do not now propose
to dwell,-we venture to differ very
respectfully from Mr.. WILSON, in think
ing, with him and Mr.. Frederic Har-
rison, that heliocenrric astronomy has
in any vital respect altered at all the
validity of the theological conceptions
Of the Jewish and Christian reveIa-
lions. Nay, we would go further,
and say that if our astronomy could
have been known to the Jews, itwould
have decidedly reinforced instead of
undermining, the general teaching of
their inspired books. Indeed, SO far
as the Jewish prophetsm made use of~uch
astronomy as they had, they used it
altogether in the sense in which the
modern agnostics use their h~eliOcen-
trio astronOmy,-lo press upon man
his utter insignifcance in creation.
When Isaiah wants to make his IL
trymen feel that princes are mere
dust, what does he say? God, be
says, drought princes to nothing; he
maketh III judgeso flhe earth as vanity.
Yea, they have not been planted; yea,
they have not been sown ; yea, their
stock hath not takenroot in the enrth;
moreover, he blOweth upon them and
they wither, and whiriwind taketh
them away as stubble. L" whom,
then, will We liken me that | should
be equal9 saith the UOly One. Lift
up your eyes on high; and see who
hath created these, and bripgeth out
their host by number; he caIIeth
them by name !; by the greatness Of
his might, and for that he i strong in
power, not one failelh." When the
author of the Book Of Job, in urging
what another prophet calls "the
Lords controversy" wants to con"
vince Job of his nothingness, what is
his most impressive illustration =
"Oanst thou bind the sweet infuon-
ces of the Pleiades"-[o as the
Revised Version puts it, "Canst thou
bind the cluster of the Pleiades ?'-
or loose the bands of Orion? Canst
thou lead forth the signs of the Zodi-
&C in their seasOn, or canst thou guide
the Bear with her train9 Knowest
thou the ordinances of the heavens?
Canst thou establish the dominion
thereof in the earth ?"-langunge
surely, if ever language could be
used, which suggests that to control
the heavenly bodies implies a force
of far mightier scope and magnitude
than any which is needed only for
our little planet, Or take the prophet
Amos :-"Ye that turn judgement
to NORWOOD, and cast down right
eousness to the earth, seek him that
maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and
turneth the shadow of death into the
morning, hat maketh the day dark
with night,"-a passage which seems
~ ~ &C VNo.Jcu,nrth3y
, 1888-12-26

er than the earth, so are my ways
higher han your ways, and my
thoughts than your thoughts" Clear
ly the higher the heavens had been
known to be from the earth, the more
effective, NOT the less effective for
its purpose, would have been such
language as this. We do not, of
course, imagine for a moment that
the Jewish prophets bad any inkIing
of modern astronomy but this w do
assert, that if they had known it in
all its physical magniicence, they
could hardly have used a%stronm;cal
imagessswith surer effect for the very
purpose for which they did use them,
namely, to make man feel his own
utter lnsignifcance in the presence of
him who, to cite the striking and
almost scientific language Of Isaiah,
had weighed the mountains in
scales, and the hills in a balance"
But we 60 much further, and deny
entirely that if the physics and astro.
nomy of a later age had been familiar
10 the generation which saw the rise
Of Christianity, it would have made
any such difference in The character
of its theology as Mr.. Frederic Har-
IisOn maintains. He Thinks, as we
have seen, that il would have been
impossible to believe IN an Incarnation
and an AtOnemnnt, for the benefit OF
our petty human race, if it had been
known that our world is one of the
mere atoms of the physical universe,
and that for amy III ng we know,
there may he countless multItudes of
worlds far more important and far
more advanced in the story of evoIu-
ton than this little earth. THIS aSser-
ton is the purest and, we believe, the
most g~roundIess of assumptions.
Where DO we find the mind Of the
Christian theoIogian of that early day
better sci forth than in the EpiStle to
the Hebrews, whoever may be the
writer. And what position does he
take up2 He begins by stating that
the Son of God is the heir of all
things, through whom also he made
the worlds" (the r%evisera of our
version think that tthe ages" may per-
haps be the true meaning, instead of
"the worlds, though they adhere to
the old transIation); "who being the
etfulgence of his glory, and the ex-
press image Of his person, and up
holding all things by the wo:d of his
power, when he made publication Of
sins, sat down on the right hand
Of the Majesty on high; having
become so much better than the an
gels, as he hath inherited a more
excellent name than they" And
then he goes OF to argue at length
that whereas the higher spiritual
orders of beings whom the Jews called
angels, and who were God'sministers
though not bound by earthly condI-
lions, all rank beneath the Son of
God, this Son of God nevertheless
manifested himself in thus petty
world of ours to purify us from sin,
and obtain for us the bl6SSedneS
which sin forfeits. OF course, we
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