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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-19

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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-19
BY Brown, Shafer s Co,
Real Estate Auctioneers. Ashland, Va.

COMMISSIONERS SALE OF SIEVE
NRAL SMALL FARMS AND VALUABLE MILL
PROPERTY ~ BEAVER DAN NJ iklCI.
HANOVER COUNTY, VA. AT PUBLIC AtC-
TlON.-By virtue OF adecrcc OF the Circuit Court
Of Hanover county, rendered October -. lh,',
In tho suit OF ID. u. Cox. who sues. a., -.
W. X. ThompsOns administrator. &c. the UNI
dersigned. special commissioner thereby az
poinioi. viii proceed 70 soil az puoiic auction 10
the highest bidder. AZ ROcketts MIL, one milo
from Fork Church and four miles from Ferdon
station, on the Chesapeake aud ohio railway, on
FRIDAY, DECEMBER e, iss9,
81 u O'Clock NJ, the ihroe following TRACTS or
LAND, OF which SAID ". X. Thompson died
seized. situated IN Beaver Dam disiric viz:
/. The certain TRACT OF IAND described as
Lot No. , IN = plot maze by b. Is. Pleasant.
county surveyor, adjoining the dover iracl and
he lands " ". o. Day, deceased. ana others,
containing 100 acres.
=. A LOi lying east Of said Lot No contain
vcycd by said Thompson and vito % >. \.
Brown, trustee, 20 secure a deDg duo o y. b.
Denton.
g THE REMAINDER ~ FEE SIMPLE after
the life estate ~ Mrs. Mamie r. Thompson a.
tenant in dower IN Lot No. l upon SAID plot, 81
ACRES, there Is q Brick Dwelling and other
buildings. All these lands arc IN heslthiIl
section and IA q fair state OF cultivation Piot
exhibited az sale.
TERMS: ono fourth cash: tho balance on q
credit OF one and two years for bonds, bearing
interest from day OF "a q. aud titio retained uutn
all the purchase money - paid aud conveyance
ordered 10y The Court nlLLC AHlkM
Special Commissioner.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-19
WE ARE SELLING
HE-NO.

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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-19
VIRGINIA BILLS.

Nearly all the Virginia and North Caro-
lima members in bills introduced to-day
attacked the internal-reyenue duties. The
following are among the bills Of local inte-
rest introduced:
by Mr.. Mise For the removal Of the po-
htical disabilities OF John II. Parker, Of
Chesterfield county for public building
~ west Point. Va. S25, 900; TO regulate the
method OF purchasing tobacco Tor the use
OF the army; for the erection of an eques-
TRAN statue of ex-President TAYLOR: for
the construction Of q road from Richmond
70 the cemetery at Seven Pines.
a, 10y Mr., Venable; For the enlargement of
the public building at Petersburg; for the
erection OF public building at Farmville;
70 repeal the internal tax ON tobacco.
by Mr.. Edmunds For public building
ct Roanoke City to cost 500, 600.
BY Dir. browne: For the establishment
Of lighthouse at the mouth OF Pungo-
tsagne creek: fora light.hou ct the mouth
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-19

The prevailing impression is that
Farmer" Wade, of Missouri, will be APP
pointed chairman of the House Commit
tee on Agriculture. Farmer" Funston,
Of Kansas, who has served on this com
mittee in two Congresses. has been trying
TO get this craftsmanship, but three MEM
beers Of the Kansas delegation who have
served so much longer than Mr.. Funston
will come in for big plums, and. besides,
Farmer" Wade has had to give way 70
Mr. MillikeD, Of Maine, on the Public
Buildings Committee, who will get that
chairmanship.
Mr.. Tucker introduced in the House to-
day bill for the erection of a public
building at Staunton, not to exceed in
cost 1900. Also bill appropriating
81. 900 for for the construction of road
TO the National cemetery near the city Of
Stanton. Also a bill abolishing the tax
on tobacco in all forms
Thomas J. Nottingham and l.. B. White,
Of Norfolk; Professor A. II. Tuttle and
Mrs. ii. b. Tuttle, of the University Of
Virginia; John KATE DR., of Lynchburg;
r. N. Slaughter and Otto Meister and
wife. of Richmond; ". NJ. Tulley, OF Nor.
folk county: and Joseph Saal and wife, OF
Petersburg, ere registered at the 81. James.
Mrs. l.. Z. Hunt, Miss Fannie Hunt. and
Miss Mamie Hunt, of Asheville, N. g., are
At the ST. James.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-19

sol. HAAS, Tr.re N1nager
T. n. h. IhLIJI 4. LIrst Fl.e Pcs
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-21
Justifiable, Legally and Nor ally.

Terrible as the deed was, it seems to
us that every disinterested person must
nqualifedly justify the killing of Judge
Terry by Marshal Maggie. He had been
detailed by the encouragement to
guard and defend Judge Field. The
Judge had been holding court at Los
Angeles and was going to San Fran
cisco to hold court there. In the course
of his journey, and while as much in
the line of duty as if he had been on
the bench, he was assaulted by man
who for third of a century had cher
ished an luminosity against him. His
enemy's hatred had been kinded into
a fierce flame by recent decision of
Judge Field in case in which he was
interested, and by an order of the judge
imprisoning him for murderous con-
duct in court. He had threatened re-
venge. 1t was known that he and his
wife had watched the movements of
Judge Field and had boarded the train
on which the latter was travelling, with
the apparent object of seeking an op-
portunity to assault him. He was
known to be man of murderous pur-
poses and his hands were red with the
blood of fellow-man. He sought out
his victim, deliberately began an as
sault and was preparing to follow it up
when the bullet of United States Of
ficer, acting under the orders of a SUI
perior officer, pierced his heart. His
wife, entering at the instant retribu-
ton had overtaken her husband, was
! found to have a revolver in her pos
session. Possibly her husbands i'm
petuous temper had impelled him tC
provoke the assault in which he in.
tended to slay his victim before the
arrival of his armed consort. 1t is also
alleged that he had knife in his pos
session, but Marshal Nagle's prompt
action defeated his villainous purpose
This weapon, it is believed, Mrs. Terry
secured when she fell upon the body
of her husband 1t can hardly be
charged that Marshal Nagle acted pre-
cipitately. He was sent to protec
Judge Field, and his protection haC
the merit of efficiency and seasonabe
ness. The threatened assault had beer
begun and the assailant was preparing
to follow it up. 1t was his duty to de
fend while defense would avail to saw,
the life he was ordered to guard. Hi
act is defensible in law and justifabl
in morals.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-21
Secretary Proctor on Ciyil-Seryice
Reform.

Secretary Proctor exactly expressed
the attitude of the best part of the re-
publican party as to civil-service reform
in his Washington Post interview. He
said: "Of course the first considera-
ton would be the proper transaction of
public business. | have had no reason
in my administration TO find fault with
the operation of the law. | am be-
lever in the principle of civil-service
reform, but, like all new things, it is
probably not yet perfect" There are
some things in this little speech to
which The Press would like to call the
particular attention of those who think
the offices are fair game for the sake of
all that can be stolen in them, and
those who 90 to the other extreme,
employ steam hammers to crack nuts,
and hold competitive examinations for
the appointment of assistant dump in
spectors. "The first consideration
the proper transaction of the public
business" Provided that is insured
the great masses of the people don't
care what party an oflice-holder belongs
to, and this is a rule that works both
ways. "The principle of civil-service
reform, like all new things, is probably
not yet perfect The republican
party, like Secretary Proctor, believes
in the principle of civil-service re-
form, and, therefore, it is not going to
repeal the Pendleton act simply be-
cause that act, as pioneer measure, is
not perfect Let its faults be pointed
out and cured. Mr.. Pendleton was
not divinely inspired when he drafted
his bill. The civil-service commits
sioners have not been systematically
preserved from error in administering
it. Every such new law is an expert.
ment at first, and is to be amended
when and where it fails TO work we'll in
the hands of sincere enforcing officers
The civil-service act has come to stay
in some shape or other, and the origina
shape would be an unprecedented mira
Gle if it were precisely the right shape
But there will be no repeal. Set thai
down as certain. The country will no
have it, and the slightest move in tina
direction will call out continental cy
clone of popular protests.-N Y. Press
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-21
Our Dangers from Aliens.

In calm review of history, have we
not reason to ask ourselves. What Of
this second century? Shall our child
ren's children see another centennial
commemoration of Washington and the
constitution? | think every thoughtful
man must pronounce such consumma-
ton improbable in the extreme. 1t
seems so to me. To make a truly great
nation and to give perpetuity to its in
stitutions, we are taught by history to
demand (D capable foundation of
race, (2) hereditary system of public
morals, and (3) a spirit of fidelity of
national traditions and of adhesion to
tried and long-established institutions.
The race that gave birth to American
nationality is the only race in human
history that has proved itself capable of
self-government, or of creating and
maintaining free institutions and laws
that cooperate with freedom. But the
reports from Castle Garden alone should
be enough to arouse the American
spirit to demand a radical improvement
of our naturalization laws. Every year,
thousands who can neither write their
names nor speak the language in which
our constitution and our laws are writ
ten become voters. We endow these
with almost immediate power to neu-
tralize the votes of the native born, who
must live four times as long under their
own flag before they can exercise the
franchise of electors. Why an Ameri-
can mother must submit to this dis
elimination against her boys in favor of
the vomit of vessels that give birth to
voters four times as fast, if not already
quite as numerous, seems worthy of
statesmanlike inquiry. Is there ma
tional spirit left among us to assert that
the time has come to govern America
by honest American voters, and to de-
mand that no such prefix as Irish OF
German or Mormon shall be suffered to
qualify the American name? If not
free institutions and popular govern
ment must perish, even here, where
they might flourish forever under the
conditions | have indicated and not
otherwise. Bishop A. Clereland Core
in the august Forum.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-21

at 37,724, 279; in 1870, at 40,S53,0 900,
while the census of 1870 gave the Re
pubIcan's eight states only 1896, lG1
and the aggregate of all the states and
territories only 2S,477 ,951, instead of
40, s53 900 reported by the department
of agriculture for the same year. Here
is a variation of nearly twelve and one
half millions between the census of
1870 and the report of the department
of agriculture for that year. Which is
the more accurate? The census is
wel-organized and thorough-going
enumeration. Its reports are the high
est statistical authority. The reports
the department of agriculture pub
lished were estimates" and very
wild ones, by correspondents without
special training in statistical work.
The statistician of the agricultural de-
partment says: "The estimates prior
to 1870 are erroneous, and we make no
use of them in our Office calculations.
Those for 1867 to 1869 were based
upon the excessive estimates of 1866
prepared by the predecessor of the
present statistician." The Republican,
we assumed, knew these things when
it selected its statistics in its advocacy
of free wool. 1t knew other facts
about the sheep industry which it sup
pressed or perverted to make out its
case against the protective tariff.
Hence we charged it with wickedness
rather than ignorance. The figures it
used have been discarded by the gov
eminent specialists. They were thrown
out by the officials who, under the last
administration, prepared the special
report on wool-a report that did not
90 back of 1876 in its annual exhibit of
the number of sheep in the country.
So the Republican can hardly be blamed
for its unwillingness to go into the de-
tails of the sheep industry in 1867. 1t
could not be expected to furnish the
evidence that would convict itself of a
fraudulent use of cast-off and dis
credited reports. Its selection of states
and statistics was shrewd dodge
The number of sheep in Ohio had de.
clined, it is true, but this was largely
owing to sales and shipments to places
beyond the Mississippi, in anticipation
of the boom that came after the tariff
of 1867. And this was doubtless the
case with some of the other states il
selected But the dodge was most con
spicuous in the effort to show from thu
figures of eight states what had beer
the effect of the wool tariff on tn,
sheep industry in the country at large
The real facts have been so recent,
presented in these columns we neec
not repeat them at this time. When
free-trader goes a woc'ing he invaria
bly, comes home shorn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-21

deavored to make the time pass pleas
antly as well as proftably. The term
closed with reception given by Mr..
Morris at the hall.
The effect of the training received
at this school must be for good, both
upon the teachers and the scholars
under their instruction. One great
need of our common school teachers is
knowledge of teaching as a science.
Many otherwise well qualified for the
work are wholly lacking in this essen
tial element. The time is past, trust,
when any one shall be considered capa-
BILE of teaching a school simply because
he possesses q certain amount of book
knowledge, or, lacking even that, shall
be placed in school because the schol-
ars are young. If our teachers desire
to hold their places, or secure better,
they must carefully prepare themselves
for the work. Our normal schools
should be filled TO their utmost capacity
every term and other schools of special
instruction organized if necessary. The
summer school, if properly conducted,
offers valuable opportunity to those
teachers who are unable for any reason
to take normal course. 1t is not pre-
sumed that they can take the place of
such course, except to certain ex-
tent, but for the purpose for which
they are intended they are invaluable.
| hope the next season will see many
of them in various parts of our state.
We must be dependent upon them TO a
considerable degree until other and
better arrangements are made, with
the same end in view"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-21

death any one who molested his wife
He was with difficulty overpowered.
The court adjudged him guilty of con-
tempt and ordered that he be confined
in Jail six months and his wife for
thirty DAYS. Both were locked up and
since their release have threatened to
be revenged on Judge Field. In con-
sequence of these threats, Attorney
general Miller directed that when the
Judge returned to his circuit a marshal
of the court accompany him for his
protection. In the performance of the
duties of his office, Judge Field was
proceeding from Los Angeles to San
Francisco. On Wednesday morning,
August IA, he and his escort were
breakfasting at Lathrop. Judge Terry
and wife, who were travelling on the
same train-by design, it is alleged
entered the dining-room. Mrs. Terry
directed her husbands attention to the
table where Judge Field was sitting
and returned to the train. Judge Terry
went Immediately to Judge Field and
slapped him in the face. He was pre-
pairing to repeat the blow when the
deputy marshal shot him through the
heart. At this instant Mrs. Terry re-
entered the room, carrying a small
traveling-bag, which was taken from
her and found to contain revolver.
Discovering the fate of her husband
she threw herself upon him and loudly
lamented his death. Meantime, Judge
Field and his guard, Marshal Maggie,
returned to their car. The marshal
was arrested, and subsequently, at the
instance of Mrs. Terry, Judge Field
was placed under arrest. Intense eX-
element prevails in California. 1t was
feared that the Jail at Stockton, the
former home of Terry, where Nagle is
confined, would be broken down and
the marshal lynched, despite the pre-
cautions that have been taken for his
protection.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-21
Those Sheep Statistics.

A correspondent who has been read
ing the Springfield Republicans article,
recently republished by the Repub-
ican's political ally in Vermont, the
argus and Patriot, inquiries why those
papers do not print the figures of the
sheep industry in 1867 on which they
depend to show that the hocks multi
piled like locusts under free trade, but
"went down like grass before prairie
fire" under the tariff of 1867. The
reason probably is the Republican
knows enough but is not honest
enough, while the Argus neither knows
enough nor is honest enough, to give
the facts and figures in detail. We
have covered the whole ground in oui
former articles on this subject, and
there is no occasion to go over it again
1t is true that the agricultural reports
for 1867 show that in the eight states
the Republican selected there were
29,S79,2 72 sheep, and in 1888 29,1S7,
957; that the same reports gave the
aggregate number of sheep in all the
states and territories in 1867 at 80 1856,
1856; in 1868, at 3s,99l ,9l2; in 1869
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-21

are mutitudes who have no homes of
their own, or none worthy of the name.
Many have no domestic ties or family
obligations. Many of the poorer classes
live in tenement houses-squalid, cheer
less, and comfortless abodes, devoid of
nearly everything that makes life en-
durable. Every such community has
its share also of transients, travellers
and strangers. To all of these the sa-
looms offer the most convenient and
often the only place of rendezvous.
Here they may find companionship,
good cheer, and hearty welcome, pro-
vided they patronize the drinking end
of the establishments. 1t may well be
believed that thousands of men become
regular frequenters of the grog shops,
not in the first instance because of an
inordinate appetite for drink, but be-
cause the saloons were the only places
where they we're free to come and 90
and to meet their fellows in social con-
verse. The existence of nine or ten
tn usand saloons in this city can hardly
be accounted for solely on the ground
of the depraved appetites of men. The
true reason for their existence is found
partly III llt ldCl llldi llltiO 10 dDSO-
lutely no other means provided whereby
the multitudes can satisfy those cray
ings for human intercourse which are
as natural to man as the craving for
food and water There are whole
square miles in the most densely popu-
lated regions of this city where stran-
ger or friendless man will not find a
single open door welcoming him in
except the doors of the saloons and
places of evil resort. Unless he is will.
ing to comply with the conditions laid
down in these places and barter away
his manhood and his honor, he mus
walk the streets, shelterless and com
pauionless. This being the situation Of
things, the practical question arises
What shall be done about it? Wha
shall be devised to take the place
of the saloon in the particulars
which have been named? A very sat
isfactorv answer to this question has
been made in England in the establish
ment of e-houses-places which
offer all the attractions of the saloons
minus their evils.-N. Y. Mail dnc
| ErpreSS.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-21

THE supreme court of New Jersey
has decided that a witness can not be
debarred from testifying because he
denies the existence of future state.
The decision is grounded on the point
that the right to testify in ones own
behalf is a civil right, while belief in
God is religious principle, and under
the constitution of New Jersey no one
can be deprived of civil rights because
of his religious principles.