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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
RAPIDLY EXTENDING
rbs CRAZE AMONG THE INDIANS
SPREADING NoRThWARD.
sr~ Authoritics Endesvorfns TO Aiiav tho
Esoitement--No Immediate Danger
OF an Uprising.
fly telegraph to the Disps.ch.I

CuIcAso, November pa special
from Mandon says that trusted agents
were sent TO the Sioux reservation three
DAYS ago, and that they have returned
with tho following report which may DO
relied upon; There is no immediate
danger Of On uprising, but if Sitting
Bull concludes that anything is 20 DO
gained by speedy action trouble may be
looked for at once. Sitting Bull would
be arrested and put in irons, but the
Government agents are afraid to do this
los, II prccipitate trouble. he has two
hundred bucks at Grand River, forty
miles from Fort Yates, dancing al the
while. Agent Mclaughlin, OF Standing
Rock, has lost control Of Sitting Bull
and his immediate followers and dare
not treat him harshly. Aii the reports
that come 10y wire from Standing Rock
for Fort Yates are colorcd. There is
only n military wire, and censorship is
exercised over every message.
NO IMMEDIATE TROUBLE ANTICIPATED.
WASHINGTON. ID. c., November o.
Dispatches received al the War Depart
mont this morning from General Miles
ore to the effect that the separation OF
friendly and turbulent Indians is pro-
seeding rapidly at Pine Ridge. General
Brooke, who is watching matters closely
there, anticipates no immediate trouble
and thinks this separation will make
easier the task Of restraining the turbu-
lent Indians from overt acts.
THE CRAZE EXTENDING.
kilograms are also received confrrna-
tory of the reports that the Messiah
craze is rapidly extending in tho north
ana across the Canadian line under the
operations OF Sitting Bull ) emissaries
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23

to lay before the grand jury the Coro-
ner's verdict at the inquest over the body
OF c. II. Hefner, lately killed BY the
railroad bridge. on Waller street.
The Richmond Cleo Club will appear
ut the Theatre here tonight, under the
management of Mr.. James n. Valentine;
The entertainment is for the Colonial
owder-Magazine.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
A FERTILIZER TAX.
THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE
TO DRAFT A NEW LAW.
twenty-five Cents Ton Favorcd-Proba-
Bile Renewal Of the Negro Exodus
The Plan OF the Labor Agents
Especial telegram to tho Dispatch


RALEIGH, n. G., November 22.-To-
day the State Board of Agriculture was
called to meet hero December Sd. 1t
will be most important meeting. The
board will draft law providing for q
tax on each ton OF commercial fertilizers
brought into the State. This is to re-
place the old tax of $500 on each brand.
The sentiment of most OF the members
is in favor of tax of Is cents per ton.
SRw GAME.
Labor agents arrived here to-day and
state that they will be able after all to
take to the far South number OF ne
groes. To do this they will use letters
from negroes who emigrated some time
ago calling upon their relatives in North
Carolina TO come southwark and cast
their lot with them. The agents tell me
they will keep quiet and will not begin
active work until January next.
AN AFTERNOON PAPER.
Thomas r. Jernigan, editor OF the
Intetitgencer, OF this city, will in few
days begin the publication OF an after
noon paper here.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
Elected to "A New ONCE.

ISptcIhI IbItBIHIH 70 t4Io DIsPHIIH.I
FARMvILLE, Va, November 22.-Mr.
J. h. Martin, the accomplished agent Of
the Norfolk and Western railroad al
this place, and who for the past fifteen
years has been serving that company to
its satisfaction and that of the travelling
public, has tonight been elected secre.
tcry and treasurer of the Fsrmville Coal
and Iron Company, and will enter upon
the discharge of the duties incidental to
his new position at once.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
Lenient Toward the Old Man.

Prisoner 81 am an old man, your
Honor-eighty-three on my last birthday.
Be lenient with me, Sir"
The Judge: 81 will. Being eighty
three years old you have not long to live.
therefore make your term as light as
can. Instead OF ten years you 60 up for
life"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
AN EXCEPTIONAL coLoRED MAN.
by Thrift and Industry He Accumulated
One Hundred Thousand Dollars.

by IDrtIt anu ihc
One Hundred Thousand Dollars.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispasch-l
SCOTLAND NECK, n. c., Nov. %, 1890.
A colored boy named j. II. Lewis, and
who lived in this county, joined himself,
at the age of twenty-one, in 1855, TO
company Of Federal soldiers and went
with them to Goldsboro' to cook for
them. Soon they disbanded and he
went TO Boston and apprenticed himself
to merchant tailor. He mastered the
trade in four months and took room
ten feet square in which to begin busl-
ness on his own hook. He did tho cut
ting and hired one woman to help him
sew. He has continued in the business
in Boston until be is now worth more
than hundred thousand dollars.
PURCHASED HIS BIRTHPLACE.
He has recently returned to this county
and bought the farm of 1000 acres on
which he was reared, and Is stocking 1t
and having it put in repair. He does not
live on the farm himself, but lets 1t to
his brother-in-law, a colored man named
Putnam, who drives a pair OF ms fine
horses as you see in the country any
where. The course of Lewis has been
quite remarkable.
PINE PEANUT CROP.
The peanut crop in this section is fine.
II is also excellent in Edgecombe. 1t is
said that it is common thing about
Whittaker's to see little negro boys go
ing into stores with fve-dollar gold
piece-money they have made picking
peanuts. .
Rev. IA. Speight, associate editor OF
the BiJHcai Recorder, preached in the
Baptist church of this place last night.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
DASHED TO DEATH.
MRS. CHARLES A. COOM5S JUMPS
FROM A SlxTH-STORY WINDOW.
She Turns Over and Over IN Her Terrible
Descent-A Horror-stricken Crowd
No Cause Assigned.
rBr Telegraph TO tho pIspatca.l


NEW YORK, November GA fright
full suicide occurred at the Pierrepont
House, the SWEETEST hotel on the heights
Of Brooklyn's most aiistocratic neighbor-
hood, shortly before l o'clock THIS
afternoon. A handsome, richly-dressed
woman leaped from window on the
sixth floor of the hotel and was dashed to
death on the pavement, about leo feet
below. She was Mrs. Charles A.
Coombs, Of No. south Elliott Place,
another Of Brooklyn's swell neighbor-
hoods. She was the wife of the son OF
the newly-elected Congressman OF the
Third district.
THE STORY IN DETAIL.
At 1890 o'clock handsome and fash
ionably-dressed woman went to the hotel
desk and said 81 would like to secure
the highest room in the hotel. i am
troubled with palpitation of the heart
and would like to be away from all ex-
element" She was attired in dark
clothing, and wore rich-looking astra-
chan cape. Her appearance was such
that Manager Case without any hesl-
tation conducted her to a room
on the sixth floor. When he left
her at the room doorl sho asked him to
send up pint-bottle OF wine. He did
so. and few minutes later the bell rang
for the chambermaid. As the chamber
maid entered the door she saw the wo-
man standing in the centre OF the room
with vine-glass ut her lips. One OF
the windows in the room was open to its
full height.
THREW HERSELF OUT.
The chambermaid had barely gotten
inside Of the door when the woman
dashed the wine-glass to the floor, and
without q word rushed to the window
and threw herself headlong out. She
turned over and over in her descent, and
struck with terrific force on the roof OF
an extension TO the hotel, bounded oil,
and landed on q large tlower-urn
standing in front of the hotel. and then
rolled off on to the grating of the cellar
on the inside walk. The frightened
nurse ran screaming out OF the room the
instant the woman took her awful leap,
and her wild cries quickly aroused the
inmates of the house. Two messenger
boys had seen the body come turning
and tumbling down, and their alarm
brought hundreds to the scene to swell
the horror-stricken crowd which poured
out of the hotel. No one appeared &c
know her, and as she had not registered
Manager Case did not know her name
The body was removed to the Adams
Street station-house, and a search Of the
pockets disclosed the name and address
on a bill.
TEMPORARY ALTERATION.
The deceased has been married for thu
past seven years, but lately has suffered
from i'll health, and at the time vas un
doubtedly suffering from a temporary
alteration of the mind.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
BALTIMORE STOCK MARKET.

BALTIMORE, November 22.-Virginia
So, 64a66 Baltimore and Ohio stock,
95a97 Northern Central stock, 66a6S !;
Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore
lists, 90 asked /; consolidated gas bonds,
LOG asked ; do. stock 46sa47.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
GRAIN AND COTTON EXCHANGE.

RICHMOND, November %, 1890.
OFFERINGS.
WHEAT.-972 bushels.
CoRN.-462 bushels.
OATs.-1, 800 bushels.
SALES REPORTED TO SECRETARY.
WHEAT.-Shortberry. 62 bushels prime
at 97c. 800 bushels very good at 95c. /;
10 bushels common at Toe. Total sales
OF wheat, 972 bushels.
CoRS.-White, 302 bushels prime new
on private terms 46 bushels very good
new at 60c. 48 bushels good new at
$50. Total sales of corn. 1886 bushels.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
FLOUR.

We quote: Fine. s2.5Oas2.75; super
fine, 81. 75aS3.25 ; extra, S3.50aS3. 70 |;
family, sias4.50; patent family, coun-
try, 81. 75a55. 20.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
Harsh Punishment.
New York Weekly

Mr.. Scrubs Indignantly: Sir, /
have Just discovered that your ron has
engaged himself to two Of my daughters.
Mr. Grubbs (stupifed): The young
rascal He should be compelled to
marry them both.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
THE CHIEF DANGEROUSLY Ill.
Prospect for n Big acknowledgements
tivity in Business Circles.

Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.l
WELDON. n. G., Nov. %, 1890.
Mr.. ]. II. McGee, of this town, who
for many years was chief of police here,
is dangerously i'll. 1t is not expected
that he wil.liye.
II is said that Weldon is TO have the
largest cotton-factory in the State, and
that work will probably commence on 1t
as soon as the canal is completed.
There is a general hustle in business
circles to-day, and the merchants say
business is better than it has been for
wears. Most of the farmers made good
crops and they spend their money freely.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
MARKET QUOTATIONS
REPORTS FROM ALL GREAT BUSINESS
CENTRES OF THE WORLD.
Prices for Money. Bonds. stocks. orsin'
Tobacco. Cotton, &C.. ssd In Cos
nection Herewith tho wss-
ther Indications.
rBy telegraph to tho pispascn.l

lBy telegraph to tho Dispatcn.l
II WASHINGTON, November a.
IFAIR Forecast for Virginia Fair wea-
Jther till Monday night; slightly
! cooler in Southern Virginia
westerly winds.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
WEST POINTS NEXT OFFICIALS.
Candidates for Mayor and Council Nomi-
mated Last Night.
Especial telegram to the Dlspstch.l

Especial telegram to the Dlspstcn.l
WEST POINT, Va, November o.
The citizens OF West Point held meet
ing tonight for the purpose of noni-
mating a mayor and seven councilmen.
The meeting was called to order at 8
o'clock with DR.. Whiting In the chair
and G. l.. Morrison secretary. After the
Chair announced the purpose OF the
meeting nominations began. After sew
eral ballots Mayor Wilkinson was re-
nominated as candidate for mayor. The
following gentlemen we're nominated as
candidates for councilmen: DR.. Whiting,
II. j. Palmer, ". Il. Chalkley, @. L..
Morrison, VIC. Davis, A. Robinson, and
NJ. Cottrell. After the nominations were
announced the meeting adjourned, all
being pleased with the nominations.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
steamer and Cargo Burned.

New ORLEANS, November 22.-The
steamboat Tributary, with Q Cargo OF
cotton for New Orleans houses, was
burned 10 tho waters edge on Bayou
Terreboune this morning. Lnas heavy.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
MAJOR E. j. HALE BANOUETED.
The Citizens of Fayetteville, ". G.. Honor
the Ex-Consui to Manchester.
rerartaI teie0rarn 70 the Dapatch1

ISItcIH. IuIUkrHIH " W DID
FAYETTEVILLE, n. G., November "a
A banquet was given last night to Major
+. j. Hale, ex-Consul to Manchester,
presided over by Dr. W. c. McDufiie.
The guests were representative men of
Fayetteville, and the menu was the best
from the chef of the Hotel Lafayette,
one of the most sristocratic and swell ho-
tells in North Carolina. The evening
was spent during the serving OF supper
with a succession OF toasts after the In
PRODUCTION of Major Hale, the honored
guest. A toast to the Fayetteville
Observer, responded to byJ. II. Mrover,
one of the editors of that paper. was
unanimously pronounced to have been
the speech Of the occasion.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
Newark's Bsnk-Rua Abased'

NEWARK, n. j., November Z2.|ine
run on the Howard Savings Bank mas
considerably absted this morning, conn
dence being restored. Many depos'tors
ara returning their n0nex.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
COTTON REPORT.

Market steady.
QUOTATIONS.
MIDDLISG, &c.
Low MIDDLNG, SIC.
COOP ORDINARY. SC.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
ARRESTED FOR pEADLYAssAULT.
Frederick Buchanan Captured in Nor
Acknowledging a Mail Robbery.

Special telegram TO the Dlspatch.l
NORFOLK, Va, November GA
Young man named Frederick Buchanan
was arrested here tonight on q telegram
from the Chief of Police of Washington
for assauIting man who will probably
die.
Two post-office inspectors arrived to-
night from Washington to investigate
the Isle of Wight mail robbery.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23

THE WEATHER IN RICHMOND YESTERDAY
was clear and very cool at night.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23

Range OF Thermometer at The IRON
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
NORFOLK PEANUT MARKET.

NOVEMBER 22.-Markct quiet. Re-
ceipts heavy. Sales 10 the factories re-
ported ut quotations. Prime, BIC. eK-
ira prime, 3ic. fancy, 3ic. Spanish,
2a2ic. factory hAnd-picked, 4asc.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
rP,fpnnARY ALIENATION.

The deceased has been married for the
past seven years, but lately has suffered
from i'll health, and at the time vas I'M
doubtedly suffering from a temporary
alteration of the mind.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23
THE RANK STATEMENT.

Mean temperature ..53
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-23

door Of ths Dispatch Office Yesterda,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-09-18

Thousands of cattle have died this sea-
son for lack of grass and water in Ari-
IONA, New Mexico and portions of Colo
RADIO, where a prolonged drought has
occurred.
One of the cheapest and best made
fountains is an ordinary flower pot re-
versed into glazed saucer. Fit cork
into the hole of the pot, fill it with water
and reverse it.
The condition of the corn crop is low
est in the eastern part of the Ohio val
ley and relatively high in the corn states
further west.
There is to be competitive exhibit OF
semi-tropical fruits at the Worlds fair
between California and Florida.
From Emporia, Kan, come reports OF
mammoth procession of farmers or
CARNATIONS headed by the Farmer AL
lance, in which some 10000 persons
Joined.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-09-18
Snarlers.

Ill conditioned dogs do not all go upon
four legs. Most of US have seen snarl-
ing ours upon two. If there is a hate
full biped on the face of the earth it is
your habitual snarler-the man who
has reduced i'll nature to a system, and
practices it methodically at all times
and seasons.
These professors of the snarling art
of course snarl at everybody and every
thing, but their especial targets are
their families. They reverse the chem
istry of the bee. Instead of extracting
honey from the weeds of life, they con-
trive to extract poison out of its honey.
1t has been said that imam never is,
but always to be, blest;" but that's not
the case with the snarler He neither
is nor can be blest. In fact, he won't
be blest; but on the contrary is a curse
to himself and to all who come in con
tact with him.
Oh! the wives that are snarled at
Vain are their efforts to please. Al
their winning ways are met with con
tumely, all their fond words choked il
the utterance with snappish yelps O
anger and contempt.-NewLo rk Led
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-09-18
Deeadence of Bible Illustrations.

Where is the American Bible Illus
traitor? 1t is queer that among a people
in whose life the religious element plays
so important a part no notable Illus
trated edition of the Bible has been
published, with one exception. That
is the illuminated Bible" published
by the Harpers in 1916 1t contained
/ 900 illustrations, 1, 400 of them being
after drawings by John Gadsby Chap
man, an artist noted at the time, but
now quite forgotten. AS examples of
wood engraving especially. many of
the illustrations were excellent. Ex-
cepting this, can recall no other.
mean, of course, Bibles illustrated by
prominent American artists, and not
cheap reprints of the illustrations by
Dore, Bida and other prominent artists
of France, Germany and England.
So far as our painters are concerned
religious art had some votaries in the
40's and SOS, in the days of Chapman
and Thomas p Rossiter Today it has
practically none, if we except the de-
signers of church decorations and
stained glass windows.-Epoch.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-09-18
Gospel Outdoors.

The greatest and most largely at
tended of all the camp meetings are
those at Ocean Grove, n. j.; Mount
ain Lake Park, Md; Pitman Grove,
Pa; Old Orchard Beach, Me-, and
Martha's Vineyard. Thousands con-
gregate at these gatherings, and during
the week or ten days of spiritual wrest-
ling scenes are enacted which it would
be impossible to duplicate anywhere
else in the world. The general man
agement and programme of the meet
ings is pretty much the same all over.
DAYS are set for Holiness Meetings,
at which both men and women take
part, and where remarkable things oc-
cur when the worshipers are under
conviction" and where, be it said,
many receive good impulses which last
as long as their lives. Then there are
the "Children's Days" Young Peo
Piles Meetings, " Business Mems Meet
ings," temperance and Sunday school
meetings or conventions, and "Old
Folks Days" At all of these services
there is a fervor and directness thai
comes from the contact with nature ii
the woods, and grace has full swing
while the meeting lasts.
1t is in the west and south, however
that the typical camp meeting is found
for the east, with its many improve
ments, has obliterated some of the ole
time features. New York Commercial
| Advertiser
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-09-18
A FAMOUS KENTUCKY ROAD.

The Old Turnpike Through Cumberland
Gap and Its Interesting History.
The road l travelled was that great
highway between Kentucky and the
south which at various times within
hundred years has been known as the
Wilderness road, or the Cumberland
road, or the National turnpike, or the
'eKaintuck Hog road" as it was called
bv the mountaineers. 1t is impossible
to come upon this road without paus-
ing or to write of it without tribute.
1t led from Baltimore over the mount
aims of Virginia through the great will
derness by Cumberland gap. Allroads
below Philadelphia converge at this
gap, Just as the buffalo and Indian
trails had earlier converged and just as
many railroads are converging now.
The improvement of this road became
in time the pet scheme of the state gov
ernments of Virginia and Kentucky.
Before the war millions of head OF
stock-horses, hogs, cattle, mules
were driven over it to the southern
markets, and thousands of vehicles,
with families and servants and
trunks, have somehow passed over
it, coming northward over it into Ken
lucky, or going southwark on pleasure
excursions. During the war vast COM
missary stores passed back and forth,
following the movement of armies.
But despite all this, despite all that
- I,1a.~ lo,,o 10 oix-i1iza II cinaa Rnnnp
traced its course in 1870, this honored
historic thoroughfare remains today as
it was in the beginning, with all its
sloughs and sands, its mud and holes,
and jutting lodges of rock and loose
powders and twists and turns and gen
eral total depravity.
1t is not surprising that when the
original Kentuckians were settled on
the bluegrass plateau they sternly set
about the making of good roads and
to this day remain the best road build
ers in America One such road was
enough. They are said to have been
notorious for profanity, those who
came into Kentucky from this side.
Naturally. Many were infidels-there
are roads that make a man lose faith.
1t is known that the more pious com
panies of them, as they Travelled along,
would now and then give up in de-
spair, sit down, raise hymn and have
prayers before they could go further.
Perhaps one of the provocations to
homicide among the mountain people
should be reckoned this road. l have
seen two of the mildest of men, after
riding over it for a few hours, lose
their temper and begin to fight-fght
anything-fight their horses, fight the
flies, fight the cobwebs on their noses
james Lane Allen in Harper's Maya
zine,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-09-18

PLAN FOR PLANTING AN ACRE IN FRUIT.
fruits would require twenty-four trees,
all of which could be placed on less than
three-quarters of an acre of ground,
leaving the remainder of the acre for
the berries and grapes.
Accompanying is diagram showing
how all that is requisite could be plant
ed on an acre without encroaching on
any neighbor, even if the acre was
bounded ON all sides by property belong
ing to others. The plot lies east and
west, and is 16 rods long by 10 rods
wide. The trees marked 1 in rows A
and B on the north side are apple trees,
with one cherry tree, marked in row
B. The cherries are continued in row
G, and three pear trees, marked 3, put
in to complete the row.
The trees in these three rows are two
rods apart and one rod from the bound
airy fences. In the row d are five pear
trees, marked 3; six peach trees, marked
4; two plum trees, marked 5, and two
ounce bushes, marked Gall sixteen and
one-half feet apart in the row. Between
the ounce bushes, in the row, are plant
ed gooseberries, and farther west currant
bushes. Between the rows G and d are
three rows of raspberries, marked E, and
between G and B two rows of black
berries. marked F. If the ground is
kept rich and cultivated the berries will
suffer but little from shade for a dozen
years or more, and for that matter the
portion devoted to apples could also be
used for raspberries if desired.
The open space south of the trees, con-
tanning forty-eight rods of ground, or
nearly one-third of an acre, if rich and
well cared for should produce of the
larger kinds of strawberries, such as
Sharpless, Bubach. Jessie or Downing,
about fifteen bushels; if planted to Cres-
cent, with one-fifth Wilson or Sucker
State as fertilizer, it might produce thir-
ty or thirty-five bushels. The row
marked G across the west end consists
of nineteen grapevines two and one-half
feet from boundary and eight feet apart.
To produce four bushels they must yield
eleven pounds per vine, possibility not
difficult to reach, says a correspondent
in Farm and Fireside, from which our
cut is a reprint