The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-04-15


Of Appraiser Leach a little en-
larred 10 embrace n general direction of (
The various Departments OF the govern +
ment. and with Corporal Tanner at the f
head Of the Pension Office. our Congress .
would be entirely useless and not even T
ornamental
Appraiser Leach doesn't like some OF T.
the features 81 She present tariff. and he +
ai once orders the duties increased with /
ont consulting the President, Congress. +
Secretary OF the Treasury. or Collector /
and Commissioner Tanner ia issuing /
$4,000 pensions right and loft, and has /
issued an order increasing S2i per month /
pensions for disabled hand or foot 10 $50
per month.-Phihdep1a Tins.
STANLEY N AFHIcA.-EditOr Henry
Lah0uchere, OF London. IS not sure that
the Stanley expedition has not cost more
than il will ever come to. and this is the
opinion that the Constitution ventured 10
express several days ago.
There is no doubt that Mr. Stanley IS
an admirable and picturesque figure IN
the newspapers and in the minds OF those
who have an exaggerated idea Of the i'm
pOriauce OF mere adventure. But every
Thing in life has ITS CommOn-sense side
and when the results of Stanleys recent
Journey are seriously considered II will
DO found that they amount TO nothing
practcal.--Atianm Constitutions
FoR WoMEN's RlGHTs The App1d'
is nroud Of the distinction ID has earned
as an advocate OF equal rights, as ceril-
fed 10 in the card from Mrs. Lide Meri-
wether. which we publish in another
column on his page. individual liberty
and free education for women as Tor
men has been a cardinal creed which we
have, on all possible occasions, pre-
scented for the acceptance OF the voters
Of this and the adjoining states. W iih
minds expanded by education, the free
women and men of the West are setting
convincing examples Of what can be
done under the ircesi of free conditions
Mmph@ AWoH
MAyrrAcTrREns MEETING - The
presidents of Augusta mills have issued
a letter 10 Southern manufacturers, in
wiling them 10 general convention 10
Angusta on She LIT day OF May. The
meeting is proposed Tor mutual benefit
and counsel. and also TO meet the leaders
of the Farmers Alliance TO confer as 20
the quality and price of cotton cloth
needed 10 cover the cotton bales of The
next crop. The manufacturers will also
consult among themselves about thei
best interests. and form closer Organi-
cation for mutual pr0ht and protection -
Augasia Aers
FnrrztNa OUT THE Colonel BR0TH-
Err We await with interest the COM
ments of the Northern Republican press
upon the war declared by the Alabama
white Republicans against their brothers
in black. DO they think 10 right for the
white-sklnncd patriots 90 thus desert the
negro and spurn him from them 49, ctca-
mre whose presence is OdiOus and whose
touch is contamination That IS the yiew
taken hv the white Republicans of Al
ALBANIA, or al least by large and iniiucn.
tial number of them. The EXTREMIST
Southern Democrat never drew $50 broad
line of "respectability' between me-
rroes and whites as these Alabama white
Kepnbican.. Hon Lewis Parsons. an
old.timcr Of loud-smclling memory, de-
oiared that all respectable white Repub-
licans must break away from the negro
and give The people 10 understand that
the Republican party OF Alabama Is not
negro party NaslcWo Amoicrn
Coal PRoDCCTIoN The total produc-
ton OF coal in the world during the year
1888 is put by high authority at 43O,
OOO.O0 tons, of which the United States
produced l30000000 OF the home pro-
duct Pennsylvania is credited with H.
coo coo. or more than One-half Little
coal i. exported from the United Stat
except to anada, which took from It's
last year 3,250,OOO tons The Dominion
leyes TAX OF sixty cents per ton on BIZ
luminous coal, while anthracite, under a
new regulation, Is admitted free -(0u-
Tier.J0ar0G
FcHo or THE -Four HUNDRED. No,
the signs Of the times arc in the dircc-
ton of true Democracy For example.
Ward McAllister wanted the descendants
II those who danced a. the Inaugural
ball century ago 10 lead the dance Al
the great ball 10 be given this year Ii
was very neat idea. A list of names
was prepared and submitted. But II he
had dropped dynamite bomb he could
not have created greater CONSERVATION.
McAilstor was hoist by his own peiard,
was thrown up to the clouds by the in
dignant explosion, and al latest accounts
had not returned TO his abiding place In
"the best society. '-HeraM
The ApIA DlsAsrFR-Th following
brief remarks of the HeraM in is ac-
count of the Apia disaster will satisfy
everybody that the fault was in the
character OF our ships, and not in lack
of adj ily in the officers. "Details of the
Apia disaster, given IN other columns Of
to.Gay's HDa'd, show that everything
was done that could be done to save the
warshlps that were lost. They had all
anchors down and all steam up, their
wards were down and their upper spars
housed, so as To present the least surface
TO the wind. Yet so great was the force
of the wind and sea That every one
dragged and went ashore.
The British ship Calliope alone hid
engines Of sufficient power to force her
way ont 10 sea. After dragging into
other vessels the Calliope, as "a last re-
sort. slipped her cables and steamed out
The American and German ships, being
Of old design and weak engine.power.
were unable even to hold up to their an
chors.
The GREAT American POoH-BAH -
Ii was then that Colonel J. Granville
Leach stepped TO the front and settled
the question by the exercise of the Cod
like gifts that he alone possesses
u raised the rates on worsled,' he
says, because was convinced that il
was right ami proper TO do 81"
Colonel j. Granville Leach is our own
Pooh BAH
People have been in the habit OF
thinking that tariff measures must Origi-
nate with the house of Representatives.
They are mistaken. These really origi-
nate with the Appraiser of Customs at
Philadelphia
fo1onI / Granville each il tho