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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-03
Grain aud Cotton Exchange.
RICHMOND. Va. October .. 1889.


OFFERINGS.
Wheat AS bushels.
Corn 200 bushels.
Oais-3 300 bushels.
Rve-300 bushels.
SALES REPORTED TO SECRETARY.
Wheat 49, Mixed. 500 bushels very
good at ssc.: do. GOO bushels very
good on private terms. Shortberry,
2GG bushels prime on private terms
do. 10 bushels very good al ssc.
do. 20 bushels very good at So do.
GG bushels fair at Soc. do. 10 bushels
fair at 49,: do. 35 bushels common at
75c.: do. % bushels common at zee.
Total sales Of wheat .S9l bushels.
COTTON REPORT.
Market firm.
Misunderstanding. lC5c.; low
middling, l0le.; good ordinary
9tc.
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Repor.cd by John l.. Williams 4 ION
oankers and brokers. No. I'LL Main street
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EASTERN LrNArlc AsYlUM, }
WILLIAMSBURG, VA, :
July 10, 1889 )
HAVING USED NOLAN
l iDlNE for several years in
the treatment Of uterine dis
cases and as a general tonic,
! must cordially recommend it
for use in such cases.
las. d. NONCURE, NJ. d.,
Superintendent
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WHAT CURES ?
Assn Medicine OF GENUINE MERIT we place
HUMNICUTT'S
RHEUMATIC CURE

Aelinst the world ios ail Impurities ol The
i,o,i and disease. oi thc Kidneys and skin.
Itlsabsoiutciy an nmiin.o cure for kheu-
niatism u all iis forms.
Medo NOT rcf.rto people ia some remote
and inaccessible place. but give you the tes-
t,monv # your nionds and neishhofs. Here
is ihe proc:
LEE CAMP SOLDIERS ilpMF,
NlcUN0Nu. VA. NoNtmher = 1853
Jla..nieag lIe4icine CempanV
ssufs.--ome ci-ht years ago was az,
ta.f..f ,,Ifh -cfafica. ana suffered Tor stNeiiil
DAVIS at 80 time the moss h4DhiHlns pun. ~
o. nfiuuod gettiHz worse, altA"ush ir'tlFl hs
fit0 host medical treatment and using ann, l
e..... remedy that WIS suggested uhNlS
on 10 bad off and suffered 30 much wa, ui''
4hietonffend 10 auy business ana Went l.
.l,.. ..nLiflr.f Homcn a short ume Hltfl
7 t,'I..a There. ifi reading The Atlanta 'onsrt-
t, -.w your III NNlClll', Ntiil
sr,'rIg gl-ftf" alVrr iscd AND 80 hiShit
Recommended by -ens oi AtianlH litl
af.rct Y.fu e. 90 yOu Tor some ithn III l'N
dtv, rec.iv ci three bottles. CON ih'H''0
fli.iru ia ns soon as receive q, ana p'l"i. ''',
,.ffIr had been used i,lt us Dthchi'.
took the otncs tw4 i1ii' ana s,aic.it -,
feif Main. ASceftl' Iug that TINS 'ni.-f
,%rtn<Ty fI-HEf .fAIlrA ana klltl
NATl~N WIS tor sa.. Nf CIV tN- MiNNl.
D lourhf one bottle .ie and used lnit' ana
sine. then feel Ike q new man, Wllhyul .
r.iu. from that urbearabie disease, :, IA
fffN and rlrcfiulA icc.lnmehn u q" u"
eliiefed with ~ciatlci OF rheumatism "s
i-i' f.. ". NGERFORD.
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RICHMOND. VA. October 2. 1889.
FIRST BOARD.

100 Richmond city SIS at 1914.
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Bid. Asked
Tinted States Al 8 Il. & c.. 1857 ....~
United States 4 5 K. & C.-. IL ...'"
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CnMuI~-fONfH ~ANnf OFFICE.
t.oDurs HALL. f.lNi.t ti.'t Lfifl A"n
EANk ~fIIfli.
prflui0Nu. VA. september !. l--'.
~ THE CIRCUIT COURT OF HEN
4 RHO. ...
.. Archer. vino Sues. Ac .........'onl 'ainini
against a..
Iohu il. Uuilncr ard Mary DIS vic. j. W.
southwark. admir- of 'lNi-'Au w. iH."t-
morton deceased. g.fln.iHn 1hf1enni
ton. Marshall lnrlgmrr DH, 4. d. ll'ut-
norton Edward IIr uiupitOn- o. '->f
Jhfo1m0rfon. aui Ai.ill n.s Wlln. ii'i ~.
defendants.
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PRE- STON B r. LNV n,
FINE ART FU RNIl y Icn-
No. 18 Governor street.
DRUGS. MEDICINES. &c.

IN Is wonderful that from the bosom OF
Mother Frrth flows streams Tor ihe h'"h"e
OF her cmldren.-~. \ q. T.
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Hay-No. Timothy. per Ton. SlLVO
10 S;4.J0:No. >. $500 to Sl3.JO:mlxed.
SO to SIP: Virginia clover, so TO 81.
Baled Oats-Sil TO SD.
Shucks-Balcd. - 90 Coz.
Straw Compressed. 100 pounds 40
10 42c: loose, pressed. large bales. - 10
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couent. rt,nr. pIasier. he.

Cement Union. per barrel, sl.53.
Rosendale. sl.3j To- $40; James River,
81 % to $50
Lime-Rocklau1. per barrel. Sll0 10
Sf.15: Anchor, - OJ: Ryertcn. eluo'
s.: Virginia lines. 9jc. Co 81
Plsster-Lump. rE ground. sou
10 -: Calcinel plaster. ~. $50 t0 -li).
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Iron-American refined ola Domin
ion bar. per pound for standard sizes
. 1-iOc. English and American sheet
81 20 Dec. Swedes hammered, ) TO ae
hoop. to 4 G..
Nalls-Old Dominion standard sizn
g. -; steel. - -.
Walker horse-shoes. 50, mules. -.
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Lumber White oak. per l.oO0. $40 &c
SIS: yellow pine. framing timber. ~ e
SO per | 900: boards. > IS TO SO; p)piai
West Virginia, No I, $50; No. 3, 81
u, -1f
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IL il evident that snakes Nplhtllh'e ~
come very familiar in Georgia. An Atlanta
Constitution special says that last Monday
,lr. James O'Bricn. Of Darien. that state
while going 10 his home was caught III Tue
rain. and became pretty well soaked, when
he arrived AZ his livery stable. lie AT one.
proceeded 70 his room for the purpose .,
changing his clothing. AMER selecting an
necessary articles. with the exception ui
pair Of socks. he pulled open the bottom
drawer of the bureau. expecting ~
lind them there. but 10 his great astoni-h
meni. upon opening box III when ~
1 usually kept his tics. he found collcd 'h'l'l'
| A snake about twcntTsiN inches long. IN,
/ in opening the box touched tn" snak' WIZ
his hand, and was so heightened fell BACK
ward, knocking over chairs ana c'ei''hihi
movable. and with three backward som
crsaults. was safely through two doors an'
ont of harms way. one OF the hired me
killed the snake, and Jim again entered IN
room, but could not be- induced to touc'
even the hcm Of the counterpart. but IN
m, stery Is. how did the snake ma its wa
INTO the dIaw,I, and into the boA'
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Flour-Richmond patent roller
family, $3.50 to S5: fancy family - to
sJ.25: family. "a 30 90 $40: city extra.
- - to 81: city superfinc. $500 70
- 30: CITY fine. 500 to 80.
Meal-City, per bushel, 31c: country
Telegram-herald., 1889-05-03
ABOUT ACTORS.


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Telegram-herald., 1889-05-03
A BELT LINE.
The scheme 81 Belt fine of Railroads
Around the sity N"t Practicable

The scheme 81 Belt fine of Railroads
Around the .its >"t Practicable
The scheme 81 cxtsnine tle Reed S
Lake spur oi tie D.. J.. Il \. Railroad
t. JOIN tho H.. OH. 4 ~, and tAus
mako a complete railroad circnt
around the e.ty. doc, aot appear T. be
one that IS koiy 10 he realized VCry
soon, and s not one that would. at
present. be- Of any practical benefit,
either L. ihe city or tic railroads. c1-
cept. perhaps. the T.. q II. a al. Sew
era. 81 tne most pract cad railroad mon
81 the c.ty w,fc a-ked % express tnoi
opinions ou tne subject yesterday. and
they agreed, - "a man. that j would hc
many wears before >uc. "A schtnl, poul0'
j.. carried olt. ~ld ttsy. "lhc trans
ter az the railroads here is not large
enough t1 warrant such a belt. ln Che
ca-o THIS business is something tre-
mcraous. and uolalfoa4 could attend
10 lt- own Transferring without Tie All
ot TIE transfer grcui around t1c c.iy,
while lDig each road gal cas- 3 do Us
own Transferring.
''The D.. o.. li.N VI. wolia rat bc par
tculal.y benefited as to Eht traffic.
because they A4tc q junction With the
g.. j.. 81 ] au1 i.c &. Il u. VI. roads,
which, gives fNff4 aI tse transfer taCii-
ii.es necessary tat t tney Ni-lto hrng
tl,.r passenger tr4f- 80 t.c iWon
depot = would .D.e tH'n little and
hc % convenience - f.D pun.C. lut d
nUli not he necessary o. hu.i tuc
proposed luc fDi tu4t purpose.
81 BE- ..i,l 80 -HII a A.. It IIII| would llr
Telegram-herald., 1889-05-03

Colonel Allison, for many years 4
scout ant interpreter employed by the
Government. viii lecture ON "Ihc
Little Big Horn, or Custer Last Rally
at Hartman's Lecture room this even
ing, under the auspices of Custer Post.
The lecture VIII hc decidedly interest
ng one.
Telegram-herald., 1889-05-03

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'i5ii''A men on Us I'''i' "''" We
found It IN most dcpioraule condi-
Telegram-herald., 1889-05-03

Having taken one-half the
contents OK the first bottle, the
pain IN ankle ioints was gone.
] could place my foot upon
the floor
Telegram-herald., 1889-05-03
Throw Away the Clutches.

~" '"~ WV ~ 'N'S'sS
''In the month of August
last | was attacked with
hfonmotory Rheumatism
In its worst form. Physi-
clans we're in vain.
T. Joo months
was experimental upon,
unSuccessfuily, by several. |
dismi- Sed them all with my
blessings () and determined
to
Experiment upon mOsst
For a season.
after having tried aad applied an specifics.
I.AI Dl- .t -t5Hu 1. lI-atInItl.
hAt We're ever imagined or described.
LAtrrn1I. iIfNf.Ai. at- ml-nt add.
lui iral.
commenced using paine's
Celery Compound, without,
if. sInfe-..I f. t. necessary amount II faith
lt.r ASA -fi. ri nu,I4rt s..l.
10 assist the cure. At this
period ] could move about on
crutches
U'f >re> f9eefv
Having taken one-half the
contents OF the first bottle, the
pain IN ankle iOints was gone.
cOnld place my foot upOn
Telegram-herald., 1889-05-03

Ladies' hose selling ut l23 cents, worth
20 cents, PAIR At I. j. Nichols.
Telegram-herald., 1889-05-03

TO assist the cure. At this
period could move about on
crutches
Telegram-herald., 1889-05-03

was experimental upon,
unSuccessfuily, by several. |
dismi, sed them all with my
blessings (D and determined
to
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-12-13

over US which only years can give. A gen.
tleman once asked Prof. Goodwin Smith:
why can not we have as beautiful lawns
in America as you have in England:'
"You can, but you must treat them as we
have done in England was the professors
prompt reply.
..How is tnat:"
prepare your ground, seed it with lawn
grass, sprinkle it, roll it and now it-fOr
three hundred years." answered the pro-
fessOr.
But the Americans are q rapid people,
and they show q considerable a~lacrisy in
following out the injunction of the apostle
to TRY all things" If they Will only re-
member, at the same time, the latter part
of the advice, "and hold fast to that which
is good" this Angsomania may amount 70
something after all. ALLAN FoRMAN.
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-12-13

canism is by no means creditable to US as a
nation. This very sense of our apparent in
f~eriOrity impels the best Of Us to unseemly
Dragging. We tell the foreigner that the
finest hotels in the world are in FIagler's
famous group of palaces at st. Augustine,
in Florida; that there is not a business
building in all Europe which can compare
to those in New York, Chicago or ever in
the smaller American cities. He looks at
the evidences before him and draws his
own conclusions.
l do not think I ever witnessed q
more painful sight than one day in
the train going from Nice to Monte Carlo.
There were an American and an English
man in the compartment with me and they
were discussing the Samoan question. The
American was explaining how we should
''insist' upon Germany doing this, that
and the other. Just then We passed the
harbor Of Vile Franche, where the SQUAD
ron OF the Mediterranean is conferred.
There were about twenty men-of-war there
French. Italian, Spanish, Russian, En-
glish and German They were all fine
ships, mounting great guns in iron turrets:
the three German vessels were simply
floating fortresses of steel. / never saw
any thing On the water which conveyed a
greater idea Of strength and possible de-
s:ructIve power. OF al one side wa a dis
sipated-lookinR old tub-the Enterprise, I
think-fying the American flag. The En-
g%lishman just cast his eye over the group
and 'insistl" The contrast was
too apparent and my fellow ountryman
collapsed like q pricked balloon. II did not
feel q bit good when I saw the stars and
stripes" he cOnfided to me as we climbed
the terrace up from the railway station.
IF they will insist upon flying our flag in
foreign waters I wish to goodness they'd
put something under it 8 o that we wouldn't
look like anation Of darned fools.n
But to skip back from Europe to New
York. The tide Of travel is setting home
wards, and New York has broken out in an
eruption of English clothes. There Is little
difficulty in spotting an English suit on
sight. As . rule, it Il made Of better ma
terials and does not 1t 50 well as the home
made articles. That 1t is cheaper gees with
out sayinR. Imean the average suit. The
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-12-13

swell ta,lcrS in London and ia ~. y1-d
use the same goods. bavc the same tit and
Charge about the same prices, but the great
majority Of men do not go To the swell
tai.ors. either in London or here. In Nev
York the average cost Of q good suit, made
by u good tailor, Is fifty dollars; in LOuiOu
us twenty-fvc-or about Cue-haif- Collars,
criis and neckwear run in about the same
proportion, and, c~uriouSly enough, the
now.Ing atrocities of pattern and color
Which we see IN the shops here marked,
--latest English STYLE" we don't see in
LOHdon at all.
Inc prevalent American idea Of English
styles seems 10 be something calculated to
knock the eyes out Of the beho.lcr. The
louder the suit the more English it is con
sidered. i see young fellows on Broadway
every day dressed in Il fashion which would
constitute q show ON Regent street, and vet
their Irish or German tailor assures them
that they are arrayed in the latest English
fashion. The fact is that the average Young
Englishman has a sense of the eternal
fitness of things not exhibited by his c!s-at;
lantic imitator. The three-inch checks in
colors SO loud that they would discount a
brass band are reserved for country or sea
side wear. In the city the dark sack or cut
away IrOcA Win hSH1 uouStrS IL inc rue,
and a plain white silk four in-hand is the cor
rect thing in ncckwear. The Only men who
sport loud suits IN London are the "'Arrys,"
the grocers' clerks and Diapers assistants,
and they only exhibit their wondrous finery
on Sunday or a ''bank 'oliday at'Appy Am
stead" The ambition of seven out of every
ten of our young New Workers seems to be
to initiate the English, and their method of
accomplishing that purpose Is by making
themselves look as much like fools rs pos
sible. Nature having given them a good
start in that direction they are sometimes
surprisingly successful
The British BARNARD. by the way, IS an
institution which has never taken root in
our American soil. An enterprising Eli
glishman who kept a bar-room under
Waliack's Theater tried the experiment a
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-12-13

Allan Percival in this connection, and do
not consider that Miriam might repeat it
with the outlines of two graves rising to
the beck of memory, to b utter exclusion
of all late gifts of affection.
The ..twenty-four hours" areabout ended.
Miriam is sleeping now, tranquil and pale;
the fever has burned itself out and she re-
mains. The physician says: 'She will
wake after a little, sane, conscious Of every
thing, but very weak" not douot MN
In the least. She lies ~motlonless and color.
less Is tho dead, and I believe him-
Last night l watched with her Alone. MIS-.
Courtney, being nearly exhausted went e
lie down and take her much-reeoe9 iest'
leaving me, - ! desired. alone with Miriam
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-12-13
TRIPLES.
g They Mako Perfection, and Perfection Il
No Triflo.p

I" They Mako Perfection, and Perfection L
I No Tri1e."
'Tri1es light as air" are sometimes quit
as suggestive as the most weighty facts. A
| colored ~soap-bubble, blown from q clay pipe
! gave to DR.. Young the idea that led to hi.
discovery of the law Of the interference o.
light. Another "snappcr-up of uncOnsiderel
t~rifles" was the philosopher who saw in the
fall of an apple the law which bids q teal
"trickle from its source,' and ''guides the
planets in their course"
Because I have neglected nothing" an
swered P0ussin, when asked why he stoOC
so high among Italian painters. The rule
which guided him was the simple one thai
% many persons know and so few heed
whatever is worth doing at all is worth
doing we'll"
Those who "despise the day of small
things" are themselves overlooked in the
day when attentive workers are rewarded.
"But these are trifles," said a visitor to
whom Michael Angelo had explained that
since his previous visit no had retOuched
the statue, polishing that part, s~ofteninG
this feature, and bringing out that muscle
ut may be So" replied the sculptor, 'bui
trifes make perfection, and perfection is nc
trife."
Samuel Smiles tells US, in his "Self.
Helps" that q Holsters shell suggested to
James Watt the form of the iron pipe by
which he carried water along the unequal
bed Of the river Clyde. Brunei noticed how
q ship-worm perforated the wood, and from
the observation learned how to excavate
the Thames tunnel
Thousands Of men had seen steam issu-
inc from tho anOnf NJ a fea kettle wifhOut
seeing that nature was trying to attract at
tention to the fact that drops Of water e Z
panGed by heat would give man a power
equal to millions Of horses. She waited for
an observer until circumstances put the
Marquis OF Worcester in the tower, where
he had nothing better TO do than to watch Q
vessel containing hot water. She blew on
tic cover before his eyes, and he, attracted
by the tribe mused upon it, till the idea Of
steam power was revealed.
Then nature waited for some one to de-
velop the idea and apply 1t to practical pur-
poses. Savary, Newcomer aud others tried
their "'prentice haud,'' but one day q mas
ter workman, whose trade Of making mathe-
NAUTICAL instruments had trained him to OBJ
serve trifles, was called upon to repair q
model Of Newcomers engine. James Watt
came, saw and conquered-for he developed
the modern steam-engine.
Mr. Smiles begins his chapter on the
"close observation Of ii:tle things with this
quotation from the Latin: Opportunity has
hair in front, behind she is bald; if you
seiz> her by the forelock you may hold Der.
bus :: suffered to escape, not Jupiter Elm
self can catch her sgain."-Youth's Con-
panion.
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-12-13

few years ago OF importing 4 half o dozen
long-limbed, freSh-cOmp.CxiOned British
damsels, with the laudable intention of hav-
ing q genuine British pub for the benefit
Of Angiomaniacal New Workers.. But the
scheme did not work. The average Amer,
ican %fre1uenter Of bar rooms has not ~
waited the same kim of idiocy affecteh -
his British prototype. In an American bar
room the patrons swear ard tell objection
able stories between drinks, while in En-
gland the British youth occupy the inter
walls in the process of getting fuddled in
staring fatuOusly at h BARNARD. The i'm
ported bar-maids interfered with the com
fort Of the patrons of the place, for a man
has to get pretty low down in the scale be-
fore he can tak any comfort in swearing
in the presence Of a woman, and then the
bar-maid can't mix drinks. Her vast and
comprehensive ignoranceo Of the composition
Of cocktails ''fizzes," punches and
other palate-soothing but misunderstanding
connections of the American liquor juggler
would do credit to the presiden, of at. a
Ii. lodge. As q consequence there is little
or no temptation to drink to excess.
There are many points where we in New
York might to advantage initiate London
fashions and methods. We might, for ex-
ample, introduce a decent cab system. la
London one can catch a hanson On any cor
ncr and ride two miles for n quarter. In
New York the chances are that you Will
have to walk several blocks TO find 4 cab
and then walk several miles in order TO
earn money enough to pay for it. Bat why
go into comparisons? Our AnCiomanIacs
heretofore initiated English foib,es
and, rs might be expected In the case Of
of their shallow mentality, have
ignored the valuable lessons which we might
learn from our British cousins. This sea
son England has been visited, en- route to
Paris, by q greater number of really scnsi-
bic Americans than ever before, and the
fact that they are thinking about what they
have seen, and that it forms a subject for
proves that the seeds Of a
more useful Anglomania have taken root.
we are a young country as yet, and in
many things England has an advantage
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-12-13

her firm and Cat refusal was moro pro
nounced perhaps this time than before ]
went to England, 50 knew enough not T.
touch on that. Ionly.said: eyes, know;
bu: you ought to cheer up for the sake Of
your friends"
"Friends," she repeated. with Q ghost Of
smile lingering around her F~ersece mouth.
~ have such IN array! Patty and you.''
| Then she paused, and Q PARKWAY look came
into her eyes and Q faint color Hinged her
| cheek. She was thinking of Allan, ] be-
lievec, but ! kept judiciously quiet. We
| should get around to that by and by, il ]
| did not fail, by easy, pleasant stages.
After q moment she looked up with such
q wistful, yearning look IN the dark eyes,
but she did not say "Allan." No, she SAID
''Of course I have Peggy and Ancil. who
are good and true in their way; bu' they
are-only Peggy and Auci, afte- ell; not
| companions"
"Miriam," I said, rather euthorita:iveIJ'
for me, "you are not speaking Of whom yor
are thinking at all, nor have you even mec.
toned the one's name whom you desire
yeru much to see. Why not be candid with
me, deara Ihave doce all in my power to
rende: you happy"
A wild, frightened look flashed wei her
features, and I was afraid I had said too
much. 'sNever mind,"I added, apologetic-
ally, II only had q fancy"
She shot . questioning glance at me, and
9 faint Hush.again overspread her counte-
nance. Then in swift transition she was
again in tears. II had q friend" she be-
gan, as II confessing a fault, lone whom I
think q great deal of, but I have lost all
trace Of him, and I do not know now where
he is." The tears dropped down UNDECIDED
low, and she was crying like . child. II
should write to him, but l have lost the i'd
dress I did have" she added, after the first
paroxysm Of grief had subsidized.
"Would you like . letter from him, Airi-
amt" I asked, with q great joy Juggling at
my heart-strin9S. ! felt like Tennyson's
hero, 50 'C!ose on to the promised good"
only the ''good" belonged to some q else.
"Oh! yes" she answered, . hopeful light