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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27
BUILDING BooT.

There is q great deal Of building going
ahead in South Boston at present A
large brick storehouse and the Masonic
lodge are now being erected on Nain
street and excavation is being done for
two still larger houses on the same street.
The Edm0ndson Tobacco Companye
large three-story prizery Is nearly COM
pleted and other buildings are contem-
plated. ,.,,
Machinery for the electric-light plant
is arriving aud this great improvement
will, it is thought, soon be IN active
operation.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27

THE GREAT lY:STGRN CHOLERA CJ8E

is the remedy 81 sno-asa.ui.F iaT years 10 tLs
West Introduces East no" tar ths nrsi ume.
Iona JACK Tobacco Is known ihroughor' 10
world. and 20 g. is dissng -isi.ei iaFenor 81
proprietor JOIN Is. CAKloff. ~ ees shat -
says: " For -0ne gl9utos pa; have been u'l1s
The GREAT WESTEicN CHCLkkA CURE 20 pre-
vent cholera Ia nv bo~s, and rltn ne m3st sas5.
factory resultA While ytnrrs il the vicinity r
my plantation havg been usub.qd WIN ms tef.
rible sceurge my log7 nav" lscn entirely trs@
from H. and b. teVe tbs Naelai use o. thb Va
liable medi.lne aiA entirely prevent rholsrA
Ar. EIIAs q. PArAs. 0f Adan1s broAeIs
PAYNE. SAYS: Il flve very fie crickeps, anf
thiak 4 great da4I Of them. Not long ago, Feff
much a. my rerret. the cholera yroke oiit amots
them. All were dloory. Others very ~ 4. ar
some diod. anl thought gotii isd9 81 - iner-
was advised = ufe tns " nal rf.N AhDLhhA
CURE. and d. "a. Tie cdeCt ots alunost nagaiA.
They commeacsd inpsoglag ~ oaco. 80 more
died, and IN two or three dsf- hey we're Al "el
and thrifty. ami not ous has been sics -icce
You arc authouZei % give u my uiost cn9 o.
siast. end0rssfion. and rerlmfDen1 u No.
10th asa preventive snd cure Of chicken cholera
For sale everywhere.
Prico, 20 aad q csnA se-i n any - iress "a
the United states upon rs-eipt Of The prise.
Trade supplied by
FAULKNER 3 CRAfGHlLi
Wholesale Druggists. Lgachtllg, Va
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27
A HISTORIC LETTER.
PRESIDENT JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 10 A
HALIFAX MAN.
The Question OF a southsrn Confsderaey-
Building Boom at South Boston
Political.
,corr..,oDa.rco o, the Richmond Dispatch;
SnIrrH RosroN. April rs, 1857.


South BosroN, April rs, 1888.
Mr. Archibald Glenn, OF this county
was in his day a very prominent man:
He was a graduate Of the University oil
Virginia, and among his college mates
were men who afterwards became Illus
trious in the annals OF their State and
country. One OF his sons, Mr. james
A. Glenn. is one Of our most prominent
citizens. and in looking over his fathers
papers recently he came across the 'oi'
lowing letter from John Quincy Adams,
the sixth President Of the United States.
COPY verbatim from the original
WAsHISoroN, December q. 1888.
archibald Glenn, Esq, Btoomsdarg
Haitian county, va.
Sir,-The letter books OF my father
being at my residence, in Massachusetts.
! am unable TO comply with your request
for his answers 10 certain letters from
Mr.. jefferson published in his works--a
request with which, If made IN terms OF
decent civility, should otherwise cheer
fully comply.
The affirmation in your letter that
"nine teaths Of as here" 81 feel anxious
for Southern Confederscy would he
very alarming il it applied truly to any
considerable portion OF the people.
believe it does not. If 1t does, can
only hope and pray that they may be IN
duced 10 take sounder views OF their
own interest and that Of their country.
| give this early answer TO your letter
because you say it is expected, and IN
consideration of the respectful manner
in which you speak Of my father. 10
any further communication from you,
please not to expect an answer, unless II
may be in my power to do you good:
/ am, with due respect, your fellow
citizen, j. =. ADAMS.
Mr.. Adamss letter was apparently
written with great care, the letters being
very uniform in size and the lines writ
ten upon unruled, gilt-edged linen let
ter paper exactly the same distance
apart. From hls curt manner 1t is ap-
parent that Mr.. Glenn had sent HIM a
pretty singing letter about his political
views One point is particularly interest
ing. and that is the reference 20
"Southern Confederscy," which, Mr..
Glenn wrote, was desired by % nine
tenths" of the people here. Ihls was
TWENTY-FIVE years before the civil war.
Mr.. Adams's reply to that assertion
shows how correctly be had weighed the
results of such a contingency, and ms
denunciation of it seems, in the light OF
after occurrence, to be prophecy.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27
BRTKP COMMENT

"'Philadelphia, eIclaims the Times
Of that place, will be a city some day. u"
Glad to learn that Philadelphia is to stop
meddling with other peoples affairs.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27
THE RAILROADS.

As determined upon, Messrs. Caring
ton & Kelly last Tuesday commenced
work on their contract OF grading the
Lynchburg, Halifax and Durham rail
road between South Boston and Staun-
ton river. They have two forces at work,
one here and the other at Stanton river,
working TO each other.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27
MAuoNE WINS IN HALIFAX.

The Republicans held a meeting last
Monday to elect delegates to the Peters
burg Convention. The following dele
gates were appointed
DR.. J. 4. King, DR.. G.. Il. Gray,
Thomas Battin, II. G. Willard, j. B.
Stovall, H. Clay Harris, G. W. Jackson.
Orange Coleman, Watts Spragins, Lee
Cunningham. Gilbert Gerst u. +. Cal
lOway.
OF the twelve delegates five only are
white. and all are strong Malone men.
A resolution was adopted instructing the
delegates to vote for the unit rule, the
present plan of organization of the par
ty. and for General Malone for State
chairman. PHIL
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27
Patrick Delegates 90 Norfolk.


The Democrats Of Patrick county met
in mass meeting on the oath instant
Hon. S. H. Hoge, county chairman, pre-
siding. The following-nsmed gentle
men were elected as delegates and alter
mates to represent tins county in the
Norfolk Convention on the 10th of May
next: John Staples, s. II. Hoge, W.
W. NOR. John 4. Moor. Thomas G..
Tatum, G. +. Smith, w. ID. Via, Judge
p. W. Shelor, c. P. Nolen, W. W..
spangler, Spencer Boyd, +. p. Spang-
Ter, S. q. Dobyns, ". II. Hartman, 5.
II. Dunkley, W. 3. Rucker, 5. D. Will
liams, s. j. Arlington, and II. c. Clark.
Alternates: William A. Burwell, r. g.
Penn, G. r. Martin, V. p. MOir, G. r.
Martin, Edwin Zentmeyer, George W.
Via. George w. Allen, Samuel Turner,
Jr.. c. II. Ross, G. p. Reynolds, George
Shamblin, L. 5. Nun, Frank Williams,
W. j. Hancock, Fl. c. Light John p.
Williams, R. 7. Waller, Thomas j.
Blackburn, and William Handy.
On motion Colonel Abram Staples
was elected delegate at large from this
county.
On motion Senator A. P. Staples was
requested to act as delegate in said
convention from this county IN the alb
sence Of al: the regular elected dele
gates.
On motion the Richmond papers,
Danville papers, the Henry NeWs, and
Patrick Press were requested TO publish
these proceedings 5, II. HoGE,
Chairman.
s. II. West. Secretary.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27

Peculiar in medicinal merit and won
derful cures-Hood's Sarsaparilla. One
hundred doses one dollar.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27
THE HALL
SHORI-LINR TELEPHONE.

No dangerous electricity. Total cost less than
one fourth the annual rental OF Bell Telephone.
Especially applicable for shOrt-distance lines be-
tween olicos ana factories, warehouses. stores,
mills hotels, etc. ETC., or wherever instant and
reliable inter-communicaton between interme-
diate points Is desired. Agents wanted In every
city.
THE HALL TELEPHONE COMPANY.
Broadway and Aston Place,
ap 25-3t New York city.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27
NONSTIPATION is CAUSED by 4

T 10 NIA
~ torpid liVSr, not enough bile being excreted
from the blood 10 produce natures own cAthsr-
Tic. The treatment OF constipation does not cOn-
sist merely In unloading tho bowels. The modt-
cine must not only act as purssuve, but be a
greater costiyeness To secure a regular habit
OF body. without changing the diet or disorgaui-
zlng the system,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27
HEApouARrERs)
AA4AD = nhA EAf'
AMY oP TUE TINITFT SrIrpa

=
WASHINGTON, ID. c., June q, 1868.
Dear Sherman Your kind favor writ.
ten from New Mexico is received. You
understand my position exactly. 1t is
one 1 would not occupy for any mera
personal consideration. but from the
nature of the contest since the close of
active hostilities i have been forced
into il in spite of myself. I could not
back down without az it seems to
me, leaving the contest for power
for the next four years between
mere trading politicians, the elevation of
whom. no matter which party won,
would lose TO us largely the results OF
the costly war which we have gone
through. Now the Democrats win be
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27
school Building ana Church,Burned.

CONCORD, n. H.. April 25-Tho High-School
building and Unitarian church we're burned this
morning. Loss on school, $4,000; on church,
$4,000.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27
A Letter from Grant.

General Sherman has given to tue
North american ReUtew copy OF a
letter received by him from General
Grant in June, 1868, in which The great
soldier gives his reasons for accepting
the Republican nomination for Presi-
dent. The letter Is historical and in
teresting, and is printed for the first
time. IL is as follows:
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27
HORSES. MULES, COWS, &C.

EOR SALE, A GOOD SAD On
a DIE AND HARNESS HORSE; young <s2A
and OF medium size. Can be sesn at No. 2l9
north Nineteenth street. Address c. &c,
an g7-3ts No. 1909 Main street
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27

We have the Virginia Medical
Monthly for April, LAxDoS b. EDWARDS,
NJ. D., editor and proprietor, Richmond.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27

"My attention. after suffering with constipa-
ton for TWO or three years, was called % SIM
mons Liver Regulator. and, having tried almost
everything else. concluded 70 try H. ilrst took q
wineglassful. and afterwards reduced the doss
% = teaspOonful, as per directions, after each
meal. | found that 10 had done me So much
good that continued II until look two bottles.
Since then have not eIpsrlenced any dirliculty.
! keep II In my house and would not be without
1t, nut have 40 use for II, it having cured me.n-
Gg0RGE w. SINS, Assistant Clerk superior Court.
bib county, ia.
Examine 70 see that you get the genuine. dis
tiuguished from all frauds and limitations by our
red TRADEMARK on front OF wrapper, and on
Co. ap G-F, ,Waw
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27
ANIMPOKrANr NEW LAW-B0oK
N IN press snd soon % be pnbished ~
WEST. JOHNSTON & Co.

WESr. JOHNSTON Co.
COMMISSIONERS IL CEANCERY IN Nlh-
GINA"
by a. MAIDS SAITH.
Of The N0rtelk bar.
comprising digest 81 he statute law governing
com missiOpers la chgscory their powers ava
duties clAssod and arranged In sopArsts paris
and under proper titles. win sxplAoa.ory con.
msnts aud references. torns. aud tables. sni
containing also q Rnsl sxrosiuon Of ne "a"
concerning sofse mSttegs meet frequently PR
soatsd TOR cOls.eeratiSa-as natloe> heartag,
eports, ndueiarlos, legacsss. disir satsSns. 10
terest, annuilies, aceounts, 30, aad viii 70 pub
tished ia the best style. Inc prize viii -
soout 81. WEST. JOHNSTON ~,
spsl 81 Main strooA
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27
Cumberland Democrats.

s. Il. West, Secretary.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27

Captain Campbell, who was shot at 4
o'clock this evening by J. J.. Lee IS
thought to be MORALLY wounded and
will possibly die before morning. i.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-26

day enjoy in every fibre and nerve of
my body. l will not say whether l be-
lieve one way or the other in mental
science, but L most SOlemnly affirm that
was what cured me and restored me to
the health and happiness you see me
enjoying to-day. The method of my
cure was remarkable and was effected
by Miss x. A. Jeffrey, who resided
here year ago but Is now in the East
Her treatment commenced one evening
at O. clock, and was simply and purely
mental. In short time action COM
menced. became deathly sick, and a
fearful constipation of many days
duration was wonderfully relieved.
passed for hours through
MAELSTROM OF MENTAL TORTURE
and agony under her influence, when
finally at about o'clock in the morning
dropped into sound sleep, from which
aWOke i'll a few hours restored to life,
and health, and name, cured of the men
tai miaSma in which dreamed my life
away for fifteen years; saved from the
cursed destiny that seemed to be my
horrible fate to follow, and once more
seeming to feel the sensations of hope
and ambition that had been dead for so
many terrible years in my life. passed
out OF the darkened chamber into the
just winging its beams on the Eastern
horizon; the winds of heaven, laden
with their pure fresh ozone played
upon my face, and flushed my cheek
was in ecstacy. The bonds that had
seemed irrevocably thrown around me
had been cast aside at one fell stroke,
and l, the miserable, despised, and
weak creature, became filled with an
indescribable sense of relief from
bondage more cruel than any prison
bars could bestOw, or tyrant hand con-
fer with relentless hate. l was in
ecstacy. No one can comprehend such
rapture. such divine pleasure as l ex-
perienced that morning unless he too
should pass through such an ordeal. l
positively did not know what to do or
how to contain myself, so l stood upon
the sidewalk there, and flung out my
praises in the morning air to the
heavens above and the earth beneath in
the simple and unaffected sentence
Thank God Pm saved.'"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-26
HOW CALLS ARE MADE.

IOh AALi@S -AINT hADLs
back to their respective places, the
wires attached to them and running
under the board being weighted with
small pieces of lead.
In the Minneapolis telephone eX
change there are two chief operators,
who have separate desks at the opposite
side of the room from the call boards.
On each of these tables is a telephone,
but different in many respects from the
ordinary telephones. The ear piece is
attached to all the wires in the Office
and connected with switches marked l,
2, 3. 4, 5, up to -. The chief operator,
to hear what any operator in the room
is saying over her telephone, simply in
SertS plug in switch No. II, should the
operator answering to that number
be talking. This placing the plug,
opens the circuit between the switch
and the call board bearing the number,
and closes all others, so that the chief
operator can hear all that is said over
the line without the operator or the
subscriber knowing it, as plainly as if
they were talking directly to her. 1t is
the duty of these chief operators to find
out what operators are not attending to
their duty, stop all lally-gagging and
tatfying between operators and outSid-
erS over the wires, and to receive all
protests of poor service and all
reports of wires or telephones
not working. All troubles are re-
ported directly to one of the
four trouble men," as they are called,
whose business it is to look up and rem
edy any and all trouble. No telephone
operator is allowed to receive message
for herself over the wires. All such
messages are sent in to one of the chief
operators. who gives it to the girl for
whom intended. The chief operators at
the Minneapolis exchange are
Miss Lizzi Kelleher and Miss Edna
Benton, both tall, handsome, dark
haired young ladies. Of Miss Kelleher
it is said that she has wonderful mem
DRY, and can tell the names of nearly
every person on every one of the 1900
lines.
Each operator has ten st. Paul wires
OH her call board, all of which she is
obliged to answer should call come
in over any one of them. These ten
wires ara duplicated on every board, and
should call come in the operator who
receives it makes out a ticket of the
name of the person using the wire. Fiji
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-26

emily has never come the thirst for pub
lie office; to him has never come the
longing for popular notoriety, but rather
has he wandered off in the gentIer paths
of the scholar, and 'moosed'' his time
away where pictures were. Wealth
came to him without great effort, and at
an age when he could fully appreciate
and enjoy the artistic sentiment that had
always laid dormant in his being. Nor
were golden ducats ever showered into
more worthy hands for his charity has
been bountiful, and his well-known
taste for art sets an example which
might be followed by other controllers
of vast sums of money out here in the
West. There is no glare in T. b.
Walkers house. everything even to the
light is in a subdued and neutral tint.
The furniture in all the reception cham
bers is heavy and solid looking; the
curtains and draperies are to match.
There is one room, however. which does
not answer to this description: it is
bright and joyous looking from the can
vases that completely cover the
wall; for convenience sake this
lOOm will be called the picture chamber.
The space in this article is entirely in
adequate to do justice to the collection
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-26
HOMES And HOUSES.
The Characteristic Types Of
Homes and Home Life in
Minneapolis.
The Walker Homestead on
Hennepin Avenue and It's
Art Treasures.
The Kindly Manner of T. B.
Walker, Owner of This
Splendid Home.
Sketehy Talk Of House and
Master--A Fitting Type Of
a Happy Home.

1t would be very great blunder in
writing of the residence at the corner of
Hennepin avenue and Eighth street, as
type of a Minneapolis home, not to
closely identify its proprietor with it,
The design of this sketch will therefore
be to associate them intimately together
both the man and the house, for more
than any other master of great wealth
does L. B. Walker make his home the
central place of attraction in his life,
His aim for years has been to beautify
it,nOt so much on the exterior but inside,
where one must enter before he can
fully realize the rich beauty of
the eSthetic tastes of the
proprietor. This house is one of the
most Familiarity known in the city. 1t
cannot be- called a handsome, magnifi-
cent, or a splendid mansion, but, with
its ample lawn of grass sweeping away
from its hOSpitable doors, its light brick
material of With it is built. and which
is pleasant 10 look upon, its many gables
and its long picture gallery in the rear,
it posse SSeS attractions that are all its
own, and that are far more welcome to
many people, than ali the stucco and
gilt and plate glass of modernism"
could ever afford. Its chief charm, as
remarked before, lies in the interior.
There L. B. Walker has let his wealth
run riot and the result is examples
can be found everywhere of the cultured
and reined tastes of the man who is
proud to be a patron of the arts. Such
man is L. B. Walker; to him appar-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-26

call boards, at present fifteen in num-
Der, not counting a new call board,
which has just been put in and is not
yet in general use. These call boards
are numbered l, ., 8, 4, 5, and so on up
to l5,ln regular order. Each board has on
1t, arranged in much the same manner
as on the test board, from IS to
100 holes, all numbered in regular or
der, from 1 up, the hundred figure not
being on, as No. ! answers all calls
over line No. 100; No. 2, all calls over
200, and so on. Each call board is so
arranged that but 10 to 100 subscribers
call any one operator, but she can con-
meet the caller with any one of the
1850 lines. The various wires con-
nected with the numbered holes on the
call board, and the connections are
made with electric plugs, which are in
pairs, and fit into the numbered holes on
the board. The operator sits in front
of the call board, paying strict attention
to the board in front of her. Hanging
from tube over her head is an ear
trumpet, which faStens to her head by
means of small strip of metal. Di-
rectly in front of her lis transmitter
fastened to an upright tube. From
this tranSmitter wire runs, connecting
with the ear trumpet and the 70 or 100
lines whose calls the operator must an
swer. Suppose subscriber No. 1882
wants 995-4. The operator, when drop
4S3 falls, listens while the person ring
ing tells her what he wants. Then she
inserts plug in the hole numbered 4S3,
and places the companion plug in hole
T95 and presses four times ON black
button. This connects the two lines,
4S3 and 795, and rings all the bells ON
line numbered 795. There may be six
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-26

opium user that largely go to disprOve
the accepted theories about the effects
of the drug. The confessions of De
Quincy he characterized as good deal
of nonsense, nor did he believe for a
moment that any one under the in
fiuence
SAW ELYSIAN VISIONS.
or dreamed of scenes in paradise. In
his case all the dreams he passed
through were of baneful nature, the
most often recurring figure being a little
devil, who would perch himself in front
OF him and grin-and grin-and grin
with placidlty and pertinacity that be-
came positive torture in watching.
The happiest minded person after a
short time of indulging, becomes morose
and averse to society. The appetite for
food decreases as rapidly as the inSatiate
appetite for the drug increases. The
popular belief that the sexual passions
are strengthened and become criminal
in their intensity, is a delusion so false
that it hardly needs contradiction,
''For twelve long winters have l suf-
fered the agonies of this cursed vice."
continued Mr.. Allen. II contracted it
in the East, tried to shake it off in Chi
cagO, in st. Louis and in Kansas City,
but could not. l consulted physician time
and again, but to no purpose, and be-
came such fiend that it was nothing
for me to take ninety grains in a day
ninety grains, think of it-thirty in the
morning, thirty at noon, and thirty in
the evening. Just think of it, where
five grains would put you
UNDER THE DAISIES
in less time than you think of. came to
Minneapolis a detected, worn out and
thoroughly shattered man. Look at me
to-day and surely you cannot say such
of me now. That is why, despite of its
billiards and despite of its cold weather,
Minneapolis is heaven to me. came
here lost to the world, and 1 here was
brought back to enjoy life, to be once
more working, useful member of So
ciety, and to live without having to
hate and despise myself every day of
my life. l give the experiences for the
sole reason they may catch the
eye of some unfortunate, suffer-
ing as I did, and point him
perhaps to winning the happiness l to-