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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-10-20

The conditions which govern foreign
investments Of capital in this country
have come 90 be OF vital interest. II
has been shown that commercial statis-
tics Indicate an actual investment Of
such capital, either permanent In char
acter or temporary and speculative.
amounting TO 800, 900 within the
past six months, and about $3.50, 900. 900
within the past past year. There is not
the least reason 10 doubt that this coun-
try has been saved from serious financial
embarrassment more than once, within
the past few years, by the enormous
reinforcement Of foreign capital. II is
clear, moreover, that this constitutes a
new and important force in American
economy and finance, which requires to
be studied with an attention never given
TO IL thus far.
The primary fact TO be considered is
that capital in this country commands
better returns, in most departments OF
industry, than in other countries. As
water will run down hill, capital will
seek the country which presents the best
opportunities for its use, though il in
constantly hindered from distant Jour
neys by friction Of various sorts--by
want of information, by want of oppor-
X.
or want OF confidence in n foreign gov
eminent or in the prospects of foreign
industries, or by local law rendering in
vestments insecure, or by the expecta-
ton OF new opportunities for employ
ment at home. All these elements of
friction have become greatly lessened
within the past few years. The indus
trial prosperity OF the United States has
developed marvelously. The tidings Of
that development have become more
widely known abroad with each passing
year.
Meanwhile the opportunities for i'm
vestment with profit i'm Europe have
materially diminished. New business is
constantly developed, OF course, as the
population of European countries in
crease, but that increase is very slow
New inventions and devices are brought
into use, there as elsewhere, but not
more than in this country. Here there
is a rapidity of growth which is TO bee
found nowhere else. Capitol i'm the
Old World increase faster than popula-
ton; faster than the demands of the
people for consumption, which are grow
ing, il is true, but very slowly: faster
than the possibilities Of consumption,
because "A people can increase their con-
sumption OF products no faster than
they increase in wages and rewards Of
industry. So il comes TO pass, in the
nature Of things, that the progress of
industries in Europe is piling up every
year new surplus Of capital, for which
in Europe there j. no profitable and safe
employment.
IL will continue 60 low 90 this coun-
try so long as our Protection policy af-
fords profitable and safe employment
for IL here. Tariff Reform.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-10-20
The senate Tarin Hi,I.

The Senate bill in amendment OF that
passed by the House ito reduce taxation
and simplify the laws i'm relation TO col
lection of revenue" will, il passed by
Congress and approved by the President,
do what the original measure was obvi-
ously Intellectual 90 do. IL will reduce
taxation. for IL operates largely against
the direct taxes, and direct taxation
when reduced is reduced, a truism not
always applicable 10 apparent reduction
OF indirect taxation. The thirty millions
or so OF direct taxation removed by the
Senate bill are so many millions surely
taken from sources OF future revenue,
while Of the multitude of petty and
great reductions of import duties on ar
ticles Of general consumption contem-
plated by the Mills bill il could not safe
~ be predicted that Reduction Of revenue
would follow. There is, indeed, proba-
bility that increase OF revenue would
follow the increase OF importation re-
sultant from lower duties. The element
OF certainty OF reduction OF taxation adj
heres TO the Senate bill, and is lacking in
that for which il is substitute.
Nor is the certainty Of reduction OF
revenue confined TO the internal revenue
clause OF the Senate bill. IL is apparent
In the clauses which reduce duties on
imports The additions TO the free list
are for the most part OF raw material,
such as is either not native 10 or scantily
produced by our soil. The evident pur-
pose OF the bill is TO protect home in
dustry while reducing taxation. The
repeal Of the tobacco tax will work both
ways; for IL will increase production
and expectation OF an American product,
and will diminish public revenue. II
will bring European money hither in
exchange for tobacco, and will prevent
S24 900, 600 from passing yearly out Of
the farmers pockets and into the Treas
ury. And IL IL also 10 be expected that
the repeal Of the tax on this article and
on that OF alcohol used in the arts will
stimulate the growth OF small indus
tries The bill may be modified by the
Senate, or IL may be defeated by Demo
Gratis in the House, or vetoed by the
President; but taken as whole IL fairly
represents the thought and purpose OF
the Republican party toward and con-
corning the prime questions of revenue
and protection. IL is before the Senate
and the Republicans are ready for the
question. Infer Ocenu
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-10-20

Gen. sheldon, Ex-Governor of New
Mexico. related the other day that
Gen Grant once said In his hearing.
speaking OF American army officers:
"Gen. Sheridan was always where ex-
pected him to be at any designated
time. He accomplished as much or
more than l expected him to accom-
plish. i tell you, gentlemen. Philip
Henry sheridan Is the ablest military
man now living. and IL this country
should become engaged in a war with
any or several OF the great powers OF
Europe during my time as president
should give him command OF the
armies Of the United States" "While
was governor Of New Mexico" con-
tinued Governor sheldon. "Gen. Sheri-
dan came out and paid our country
there little visit. / told him then
what Grant had said. He laughed
and replied; "Well, when a fellow Is
expected TO be around anywhere he
ought TO be therel''
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-10-20

It is not everyone who is able at
this day TO look back and remember
with distinctness the Inflated expsdi-
ton of Napoleon TO Moscow; to rec
ollect the pillaging Of German viii
lagos by the French soldiery, and the
retreat OF the emreror's troops before
the rigors Of the Russian winter and
the bullets Of the Russian army. Some
people would look at living TO be 100
years as misfortune, but not so Mrs
sarah Rothchild, OF 10 LOOMS street.
She regards her centennial with a
calm happiness, conscious that she is
ready TO go when her Maker calls her.
"God has been good" she says, :" to
have preserved SO unworthy creature
as 1 thus long in the world, 20 let me
see my daughters, and my daughters
daughters, and my daughters daugh-
ters daughters even unto the fourth
generation"
When she was a child those rocking
her cradle must have heard from afar
the echoes OF the revolution which
was drenching France with her best
blood, but no one here could see that
the peaceful Darmstadt village should
one day hear the tramp of the soldiers
OF the man who rose TO the absolute
title OF France on the ruin of the re-
public. Yet such was the case. and
the baby who was then in the cradle
as a young woman cooked rations for
the enemies OF her country who were
quartered In her house.
zone day" she says, "there would
be French soldiers In the town, and
the next day there would be our own
and the Russians. All, those Rus.
slams were terrible fellows, so big rnd
fierce, and such eatersl We were kept
busy day and night cooking potatoes
and cabbage for them. They were
very fond OF sour-krout. Hardly any
of them had ever eaten II before they
came to Darmstadt, and they took a
great fancy TO It. There were as many
as thirty or forty soldiers In our house
at once, and you can imagine that we
were kept busy providing them with
food. And then the French retreated.
But they WOULD have won, / think,
had IL not been for the terrible Rus
ohah va AOI@. Ait huotiAHh
and Germans cane after them, and
drove Thorn over the Rhine. And then
came Waterloo. and then they sent
the little Frenchman with the big
head TO the island--St Helena. And
he died, the Frenchman who conquered
Europe died, while I. the little German
girl who cooked sour-krout for the
Russians, am alive. All mel Per
haps IL Napoleon had eaten sour
krout he might have been victorious
and lived as long as |. Who knowsw
and the prim little Hebrew woman
folds her hands and smiles. She has
seen Goethe and Schiller and she had
attained ner womanhood before der
alte Wilhelm was born. She saw him
crowned and was past middle age
when Victoria assembled the throne OF
England. She was girl OF IL when
Washington died, and was beginning
TO be an old woman when Germany
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-10-20
The Only woman who Wa. x,llea.

Among the many interesting things
concerning the battle of Gettysburg.
published by the daily press during
the recent celebration of its quarter.
centennial, have seen no allusion to
the story Of Jenny Wade, who was the
only woman killed In that conflict
She was a young and very attractive
girl, living in double red brick house
on the Baltimore pike, east OF the
town. On the first day Of the combat.
when the Eleventh corps, under Ma
Jor General O. O. Howard, was forced
back TO Cemetery Hill, and 5000 of
their number were captured in the
street, Jenny was engaged In her
usual household occupations in the
kitchen In the rear Of the dwelling.
aud Confederate bullet penetrated
the front door, traversed the direct
and connecting hall and buried itself
in the poor girls bosom, killing her
instantly. She was engaged to be
married, and her lover was lighting
among the Union troops. BY
strange fatality he was killed, as near
ly as could be ascertained, about the
same time as his sweetheart, neither
OF them. of course, learning aught OF
the death OF the other. The house Ia
still standing. and was conspicuously
decorated with bunting during the re-
union. Washington Capital
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-10-20
The Capitalist Dee. not rare 30 well
nut tho Lnborer Fares BETTER.

In the days OF thirty years ago CAPT.
talists could invest their money at an
average return OF 10 per cent, while un-
skilled laborers received from 90 90 rs
cents day, carpenters from $i.25 90
<i.50 day. and masons from 81. so to
Si.75. Now capitalists cannot hope TO
average over ) per cent, while the un-
skilled laborer gets from 81. % TO $3.50,
the carpenter from 81 TO $3.50, and the
masons from ~ 10 $3.50 day. This in
crease in wages and decrease In profit on
capital have come during the period that
Protective duties have been levied on
imports. DO wage workers want 90 20
back 10 the conditions in which they
were before Protective duties were lev.
led.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-10-20

q storied vale Of Merrimac.
Rejoice through all thy shade and shine,
And, from his ccntury's sleep. call back
A brave aud honorvd SON Of thine.
Unyei his ctllgy between
The living and the dead to-day;
The fathers OF the Old Thirteen
shall witness bear ~ spirits may.
Unseen, unhcard, his gray compccrs,
The shades Of Lee and jefferson:
Wise Franklin, reverend with his years,
And Carroll, Lord OF Carrolltonl
he Thine hcnceforth pride of place
Beyond thy namcsake's over sea,
Where scarce stone il left 10 trace
The Holy House OF Amcsbury.
A proudcr memory fingers round
rhc birthplace of thy true man here
Than that which hMint~ the refuge found
by Arthur's mythic Gwencyere.
The plain, deal table, where he sat
Aud signed nations title deed,
H. dearcr now to fame than that
Which bore the scroll OF Runnymcde.
Long as. on Freedoms natal morn,
shall ring the Independence bells,
Thy children's children yet unborn
Shall hear the tale his image tells.
I'm that great hour Of destiny
Which tried the souls of stnrclicst stock;
Who knew the end alone must bc
A free land or traitor's block.
Amidst those picked and chosen men,
Than his. who here first drew his breath,
No iirner fingers held the pen
That wrote for liberty or death.
Not for their hcarths and homes alone,
But for the world, the deed was done
On all the winds their thought has flown,
Through ali the circuit OF the sun.
We trace its flight 10y broken chains,
BY songs Of grateful labor still.
To-day In all her holy flames,
IL rings the bells OF freed Brazil.
o hills that watched his boyhood's home,
q earth and air that nurSed him. give,
In this memorial scmblance, room
To him who shall its bronze outlive.
And thou, o Land hc loved, rejoice
That, I'm the countless years to come,
Whenever freedom needs "a voice
These scillpturcd lips shall not be dumb
ID e.. WHITTIER in The Independent
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-10-20
Southern Democratic Ideas OF the
Ifulou.

The old fright secession" Lost Cause
sentiment in the South will come TO the
surface in spite Of all the Northern
Democratic efforts 10 keep il down un-
Gil after the election. The deadly hatred
of the indissoluble and perpetual Union
Of the States as a Nation is clearly
shown in the monstrous doctrines set
forth by the Governor OF Virginia. At
the recent unwilling ola monument 10
the Confederate dead az Staunton, Va,
Gov. Ftzhugh Lee, who made his can
vass under the rebel flag, stated his
views OF secession as follows:
| want TO see such monuments as this
all over this Commonwealth. They
teach the youth 90 believe that their
fathers fought for constitutional
right. What was this right The forty
nine men who in 1851 framed our Con-
stitution did not say this Union was in
dissoluble. Had they said SO il would
never have been formed. The most pro-
found iurist OF the North agreed with
those OF the South that there was moth
ing in the Constitution TO prevent any
State from withdrawing from the I'm
ion, and therein lies the secret why JEFF
ferson Davis was never tried for treason.
The people at the North did not want
this question discussed before the courts
They discussed il with arms and they
won.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-10-20
THE CAMP FIRE.


In memory OF Governor Josiah
Bartlett, a signer of the great declara-
ton. read simultaneously on the un-
yelling OF his statue at his birthplace.
Amesbnry Mass, and at the celebra
ton OF the national independence at
Roseland Park, Woodstock, Conn,
July 4, 1888.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-10-20

find under their own flag field OF
limitless advance in the direction OF the
Improvement. the prosperity, aud the
happiness Of man.
Very respectfully yours,
IEyf II MORTOS
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-10-20

o storied vale Of Merrimac.
Rejoice through all thy shade and shine,
And, from his ccntury's sleep. call back
A brave and honorcd SON of thine.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-02-17
Avis Items.
IReported for the Stanton y1sp1

Reported for the Stanton VINDICAToR.
Mr.. M. M. Johnson of Greenville is
saving near here for Mr.. Geo. G. Hawpe,
and is making a fine quality of lum Der.
Mr.. j. M. Bare is prospecting for man
ganese, and will sink a shaft so feet deep.
Mrs. Taliaferro. wife of our popular
postmaster, is at her old home in Abe
marie.
Mr.. Geo. W. Pilson, who resides near
here, attended the Y. M G. A. State Con-
vention at Petersburg last week. He was
a delegate from the Greenville Y. M. G. A.
A few days since Mr.. j. =. Armentrout
decided to dig we'll in his yard so as to
have water more convenient. He had only
gotten 10 feet. when suddenly large
stream of clear water rushed in, coming
from the direction of the house. Mr.. A.
says his father told him that when the
workmen were digging the foundation for
the house, they said they could distinctly
hear the sound of running water beneath
them. 1t has been some thlrty-fOur years
since the house was erected.
The Chair works here are still in -four
ishing condition. They employ from 4 to
6 hands constantly, and then are often be-
hind with orders. Mr.. T. W. Lambert,
the go-ahead proprietor, informs me that
he disposed of four thousand chairs during
1887.
The roads are in a fearful condition.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-02-17
Personal.

MIR. ]. B. Smith of South River is lying
seriously ill from malaria contracted
during visit some weeks since to Rich
mOnd.
Mrs. M. A. Rowan of Lowmoor was in
the city this week.
Among the guests at tea given by Mrs.
Judge Lewis of Richmond to her daugh-
ter. Miss Mary Lewis, was Miss Atkicson
Of Staunton.
At the session of the Virginia M. E.
Conference North. at Berryville last week,
Rev. c. M. Neff was appointed presiding
elder of the Greenprier district, Rev. D.
E. Hill was sent to Augusta and Sheran-
do, and Rev. L. s. Huffar to Highland.
We acknowledge the receipt of very
handsome card of invitation to the Grand
Ball of the Kanawha Rihemen at the st.
Albert Hotel, Charleston, W. Va, Feb.
18th.
The standard" of Chicago, the great
Baptist paper of the Northwest, publishes
full report of the address on "The Pastor
in his StudJ," delivered by Rev. DR.. JAS.
Nelson of Staunton, at Lynchburg, during
the Baptist State Association there.
Speaking of the author of the address, the
standard" editorially says: she is clear
ly himself An example much to the point,
of the pastor III his study"
We learn that the wife of the venerable
Rev. A. A. Eskridge, is lying critically ill
at her residence on Augusta street.
Judge VIM. A. Hudson has purchased
the residence of Gen. John Echols, on
Gospel Hill, for $4,000.
W. j. Nelson, ESQ.,, was in Hagerstown.
Md, on Wednesday morning last, in at
tendance at the marriage of his son. Mr..
Charles F. Nelson of the Staunton bar, to
Miss Laura Sale. daughter of Capt. VIM.
H. Sale, proprietor of Capon Springs. The
young couple left after the ceremony for
trip North.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-02-17
A Railroad TO Staunton Projected.

A large and enthusiastic meeting OF the
citizens of Warrenton and Fauquier coun-
ty was held at Warrenton last Friday, the
object being to organize movement look
ing to the building Of trunk line from
Washiu gton city by Warrenton to Luray
Caverns. Harrisonburg, Stanton Charles
ton, W. Va, and thence to st. Louis. j..
2. Jeffries was called to the chair and
Joseph A. Jeffries secretary. The meet
ing was addressed by several prominent
citizens Of the town and county and by
George Lafayette Bingham. Of Washing
ton city. A committee Of five, consisting
of Messrs. J. 4. Jeffries, A. D. Payne, L.
Z. Smith, Grenville Gaines and II. FL.
Spindle, were appointed to confer with
the various towns and counties through
which the road will pass, seeking co-ops-
rative action with Fauquier in this rail-
road enterprise. There Is much enthusiasm
manifested in that section over the new
road. The route laid off for the new road
is the same urged at meetings held in
Harrisonburg and Staunton half centu-
calities were trying to get the National
road-then about to be built by Congres S.
from Washington to the West-Iocated
through Virginia. The government of
that day, however, adopted another route
through Maryland.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-02-17
MAR TX ETS.
INDICATOR OFFICE,
", Eoh 18th

N. J
There are few changes to note since our last
issue. The county roads have been almost I'M
passable, and but little grain or other pro-
duce has been offered. More activity in
cloverseed than anything else, but no adj
vance in prices. Dealers complain that they
have never had so few orders for 1t at this
season of the year. Much of that now offer
ing is of choice quality. The crop OF .. D.
Coiner, which he sold in Staunton this week,
was about as pretty and as clean as 1t can be
grown Mr. A. S. Lara sold some for Mrs. s.
J. Schumacher, raised on her farm near Fish
ersville, which was also prime and brought
top of the market. There is no crop on which,
the condition of it when it goes to market,
tells more than cloverseed-a fact our better
farmers know and they act accordingly.
Oats are little off in price, notwithstand.
ing that the time for seeding is rapidly APP
preaching. Perhaps the best lot of seed oats
sold in Staunton lately was the crop of our
sterling friend, Michael A. Coiner, Esq,
raised on his farm on Long Meadows. They
were of the 'White Welcome'' variety. MIR.
Coiner thinks it would be better to buy the
"White Welcome" for seed, than to SOW the
old fashion oats as gift.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-02-17
D cath of DIR. E. Loring Turner.

DR.. E. Loring Turner, one of the staff
of teachers at the D.. D. & B. Institution,
died On Wednesday night. the 9th inst, of
pulmonary consumption. He was son of
the well-knOwn deaf mute minister now
engaged in mission work, Rev. Job Turner.
In youth he prepared himself at the Uni
versity of Virginia Medical School for the
practice of medicine, and did for some
years practice it in Virginia and Kentuc
ky, but about ten years ago he gave it up
and took position at the Institution as a
teacher of deaf. mutes, for which he was
exceptionally well qualified. At the politi-
cal change in 1881, he went to Texas and
taught while at the Deaf-Mute Institu-
tion at Austin, but soon returned with
impaired health. He again entered the
Institution here and taught up to a few days
before his death, though for some time
he had been an invalid. His funeral took
place on Friday last the services being
conducted in the Institution chapel by
Rev. DR.. Gardner Of the Methodist
church, of which the deceased was MEM
Der. The services were interpreted to the
deaf mutes by Mr.. Frank B. Yates, one of
the teachers. Among the pall-bearers
were several of the deaf mute pupils of
tie dead teacher.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-02-17
Milton and Dolly Mobiles.

The Opera House will be crowded Mon
day night to see these two favorites in
"From Sire to Son. and it is likely that
the few good seats yet unsold will be taken
to- day. 1t will be one Of the largest and
most fashionable houses that the city has
turned out to see any artists. Staunton
likes this nice and clever couple and she is
determined to show it. Of the new play
tie Omaha "Bee" says:
Mr. Mobiles new play is long step for
ward in his advance as dramatic author,
From Sire to SOM is decidedly Mr..
Mobiles best drama. Dolly Mobiles was
very effective in the dual role of mother
and daughter, and her singing Home,
Sweet Home" with mandolin accompani-
ment was one OF the features of the even
ing Both Mr.. Mobiles and his wife were
repeatedly called before the curtain, an d
at the end of the third act were obliged to
respond twice.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-02-17
ACQUITTED Of Murder.

The third trial of Annie Offner for the
murder of her paramour, Benjamin
Brooks, of Augusta county, has just
ended at Romney, W. Va, with her &C
quittal. Brooks. whose wife and children
then lived in Augusta, was working in
Hampshire county for the girls father,
and ruined her under promise of marriage.
When she discovered he bad wife she
refused to live With him. He swore if she
did not. she should live with no one else,
and continually logged and threatened
her. On Sunday morning, August 1st.
1886, having previously determined to kill
him. and concealed her fathers pistol in
her dress, she mounted her horse and rode
Off to drive home the cows. He soon ap-
peared in her path, as she expected, and
she shot him dead. She then rode home
and told her parents the whole story-of
her disgrace and the murder. All this
was in the evidence. The jury brought in
a verdict of mot guilty."