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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-12

Rich Siiver-Pis,ed Ware. Eight-Day
Clocks. Table Cutlery, Brouses. Re.
The sales OF the above goods occur AZ 10
A. NJ. and z. NJ. daily at my auct,on-
rooms. GEORGE W. MAYO. Auctioneer.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-12

In 1850 BRows's BsoscBIAL TRocHrs" wer
introduced and their success as a cure for Colds.
Coughs. Asthma. aud Bronchitis has been ua-
paralleled.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-12

"LEE" GALLERY. Naia AMI Tsnih streets.
Bes. Pictures. card Photographic, toe. for six:
Cabinet Pictures. $40 for twelve. Lovely Pic-
lures. ali sizes Large collection Of Photographs
OF Confederate onlcers. Rotsd scenes. rsli-
~.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-12

when Baty wss sIck, vo gave her Castorfs.
When she WAS chni she cried for CastorfA
When she became Mss, she chung 70 Csssorta.
when she had Children, shs gave thsn caSsorsA
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-12
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.
special Daily Sales

of Fine Silyegware Tea Sets, Waters. Ioe-
Pitchers. Clocks, Bronzes. Tableware ofan
kinds at 1880 A. NJ. aud T. NJ. daily at my
auction-rooms. "a Ninth street.
GEoRaE ". MAYO. Auctioneer.
We advise A. Il. q. Tonic to be used to
build up the system. Did you ever try itS
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-12

known over forty years.) Aiso BiEEs's Bxui-
SION for Throat and Lung Troubles, Debility
Pneumonia. etc. Be sure To ssk for BAxs Ms
All druggists.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-12

Do you wish TO be healthy and strong
Then try the great appetizer A. B. &.
Tonic
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-12
Children Cry for Pitches Castorla.
The New Catalogue

The New Catalogue
containing new testimonials from parties
who have used tho Virginia Arsenic Water
is now ready. We mail 1t on application.
l.. p. RoUTr.
Second and Main streets.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-12
THY LETTER vANTHD.
? the statement had bee

After the statement had been reed Mr..
" I. Hancock moved that it be received.
General Peyton Wise opposed tnis, and
called for the reading OF the letter given to
McCue.
DR.. Patterson said he did not have the
letter. hut he gave rs near as he could its
contents.
General Wise insisted that DR.. Patter-
BOZ. who he said, seemed TO have all the
other papers connected with the case with
him ought also TO produce the original
letter which had led to the calling OF this
meeting. General Wise objected 90 the
part Of DR.. Patterson's statement referring
90 the action of the Trade or It's members
as being influenced 10y political considera-
tions, and 10 show tbat the Trade had
never been biassed by politics be recited
the facts contained in The committees re-
port below connected with Dr. Patterson 6
election a. yice-president.
In other respects General Wise approved
Of the explanation, but 20 this section he
vigorously expressed his opposition.
il was insisted that the original letter
should be produced before any further
progress could be made and the letter.
which was vi tho Patterson tobacco
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-12
oprosrn TO sucH LoXo TINE.

Mr. Roun said tho conditions wore erscry
those contained In the ordinance granting irdu-
chlses 20 the other company, aud ne bHd hot
thought that there would bo a8y question about
considering the matter 81 once. lie ANTICIPATED
that tho Council would confirm its 0-ton In tho
former case. II the other company WAS gwen
twenty-five yoars this Que should bo also.
Mr. Faulkner again a spoke in opposition 10 ths
ordinance ana was in favor OF voting Il down Al
once. "
4lr. Perluo insisted on pCs,ponemcnt ana hls
motion 20 tnis effect was adopted. on his tur-
thor motion tho Council decided 10 hold nhouer
M nling nnXf hrlIaN nlghf.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-12

INFO inc mtnDtISulB u bhb
with a view 10 purglng II OF any VINO
should not be on the roll
MANY EXPRESSIONS.
Major Kovkin. who had not intended
sreat,np 10 the resolutions, said the lnfa-
mons charges that had been circulated
AGAINST the Trade should be repudiated,
snd tho committee thought nothing less
,han this report would do justice to the
Dr. Patterson was willing that the asso;
citation should be yindicatcd. but objected
TO having his name dragged INTO the pa
pcrs in q manner that would do MIN mus
tice. -
rooe vote. and before q DIVISION was
asked the original proposition was called
for.
Mr.. Jones, who said he nominated Dr.
Patterson for the vice presidency, SAID ne
d;d so not knowing that he was Republi-
can Ue moved to strike out the words
.sin f1ll sympathy with the Republican
Major Boykin said this would both de-
stroy tho sense of the sentence ana Eli the
nroof that the association desired 10 gave
That the action OF the oouy was NV f-S'N
diced by politics. A..
The Chair thought the sentiment OF the
Trade should be expressed in no uncertain
tones and said TO strike out TINS entire
clause, as had been proposed py some one
v,o wonld destroy the purpose OF the entire re-
port. 4, tha v;avs "a
the Chair. but 10 pour OIL on the wayes
which were troubled offered .ne ionu% svsin
Ga a substitute for the words wnlcn
nni ~ fnlI sympathy with the political
v;evs vDs - ~ the majority of his associates IN
This Trade Int was elected on account oi
ais high personal character" ....
This was agreed TO. the report - tnus
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-12

In their report tho Committee on Waler sug-
gested a plnn By which Mossnl A. ID. shotweil
Il TO. might b0 given pctter protecuon nom nro
by plsciug tho nre-plug which viii have 70 20
uioyed from the corner OF temme5 e'roct nud
CoWard!n avenue 10 q point nenrer ihoir tan
merry recommended that s0ine plsn be devised
for the protection Of the water-plugs In some
nnrtions Of the city by persons driving on
and of tho sidowalss. Tho committee
stated that the controversy between tho WAter
comoany and Tie city about running
water pipes % certain pubic o1nnng'
vas In the hands ~ the city Attorney. The re-
port was laid over until tho next moetlns' OK
cop, the section about driving against water
pluss which was referred 10 the Mayor with ne
hope Of having the evil corrected.
A large number Of building permits we're
al
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-02-26

The Montana complications are be-
coming more complicated. The SEN
ate being a tie, the Democrats refused
to vote, and the Republican Lieut..
Governor counted them as present, to
make a quorum. Whereupon the
Democratic senators all left the city,
and all got out of the State except
one, who was overtaken by the serg't
alarms, and brought back. With
this senator counted present, the Lieut.
Governor declared quorum, and de-
clared certain appropriation bills to
be passed, which had already been
passed by the Republican house. Then
this lone Democratic senator skipped,
and got out of the State. Now the
eight Democratic senator's are out of
the State, and the eight Republican
senator's are in the senate. The bills
passed by the eight Republican sena-
tors with the Democratic senator pres.
ent, but not voting, will be contested,
and probably vetoed by the Demo
cratic governor. The efforts of the
Republicans to steal Montana have
resulted in confusion worse confused"
State Democrat.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-02-26
Danger of Indirect Taxation.

The danger which turks in a policy
of indirect taxation of the consumer
by imposing duties on what he eats,
drinks or wears, is that its evils are so
indirect and insidious that they. are
not easy of detection and the average
citizen, while grooming under the mis-
cry of hard times and ill-rewarded in
dustry, is unable to detect the cause.
The hand that strikes him down is
hidden in the velvet glove of gross
ly inflated tariff, Such appears to be
the situation in America to-day. An
average tariff tax Of or 10 per cent,
which was deemed sufficient for the
protection of the infant industries
struggling into existence in the dawn
of the century, has insidiously crept
up under the revenue necessities which
were the outgrowth of the civil war,
stimulated and fostered by the rapac-
ity of sundry interested monopolies,
to an average rate of 40 or As per
cent. The competition which is the
only protection against the oppression
of monopolies is shut out the rate
which would defend our industries
against cheap foreign labor and Sc
cure to the producer fair profit, has,
in many instances. been long passed.
Agriculture is PROSTATE, labor in a
constant state of unrest. Railroads,
-four manufactures, the greed of large
cities-in short, the nearest and most
easily discernible of the possible cause
is made the recipient of a blind
public wrath, while the long, why fin
gers of monopoly silently strangles its
victims.-G. E. Cole in Kate Fields
Washington.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-02-26

The plate glass manufacturers get
something over 100 per cent protec-
ton by the tariff, and they are always
clamoring for more, and always ready
to explain to Congress that they will
lose money unless the duty on plate
glass be increased. The following
dispatch from Pittsburg, January 80,
is therefore interesting:
"The profits of the Pittsburgh Plate
Glass company, as shown in the report
submitted to the meeting of the stock
holders, were nearly 81 100000. Reg
ular dividends to the amount of %
per cent were paid during the year,
and yesterday special dividend of
III per cent was declared, making in
round figures $950.000 net profit for
the year 1SS9."-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-02-26
Partisanship May Hurt the Party.

President Harrison has again vio-
lated his pledge that removals from
Office should be made only in the in
terest of the public service. Mr.. Sal
tonstall, collector of customs, in Bos-
ton, was appointed by Mr. Cleveland.
His term expires next May. He has
conducted his Office with great eilicien-
cy and has so carefully observed not
only the letter but the spirit of civil
service reform that scarcely one-fourth
of the Republican employees in the
office have been removed. The prom
inent merchants Of Boston, including
many Republicans, have petitioned
for his retention at least until the end
of his term. The Republican news
papers themselves admitted that there
was none but partisan reason for re-
moving him.
But the spoilsmen were clamorous,
and egged OH Senators Hoar and
Dawes to induce the president to make
the change. He first asked the col
lector to relieve him from the embar
rassment of removing him by sending
in his resignation. To which the col
lector replied, that as he had faithful
ly tried to do his duty, and had not
been guilty of offensive partisanship,
he would not consent to condemn him
self by resigning. The president
therefore removed him.
The Boston papers generally con-
denim his removal, several of the Re-
publican organs included. The Re-
publican papers, of course, do not put
it on the ground of injury to the>pub-
lie service, but hurt to the Republi-
can party, which they say will be
weakened, not strengthened, by this
defiance of public sentiment on the
part of the administration. Detroit
journal.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-02-26
Illinois and Massachusetts, Dollar.

1t appears from a report of the IL
linois Bureau of Statistics that the
value of last years Illinois corn cror
reaches sos, 1927 900. The bureau re-
ports for 1888 put the total private
mortgage Indebtedness of the State
at Sale, $4,000. The corn crop fol
last year would pay off one-eighth o.
this immense debt, but unfortunately
the bureau finds that it costs the State
$68, 100000 to raise and market the
100000 crop. The years work
in corn, rewarded with an abundant
harvest, thus increased the debt by
100000, though in the meantime
taxes, State and federal, have not de
creased, and there has been an ad.
vance in the prices of many common
manufactured articles Of necessity
and convenience.
The dislocation of the normal re.
lations between the price of agrlcul
tural and of manufactured product:
is the result of thirty years of Re.
publicanism. In spite of manifold
inventions in productive machinery
Republican laws keep manufactured
products abnormally high measured
by the standard of price for manu-
features, the price Of all agricultural
products is kept abnormally low
The plutocrats dollar will buy twice
as much for his factory from TIE farm
as the farmers dollar will buy from
the factory. This is the exact situa
ton in Illinois and in every other
State in the Union. Ii is the situa
ton to less extent in some Euro
pean States where the moneyed class.
es are beginning to adopt the plan Of
our Republican party in their struggle
for privileges.
The citizen of Illinois who has O
dollar in his pocket is apt to think
that it is as good as Massachusett;
dollar. He is mistaken if he does
The Massachusetts, dollar will buy
Illinois products at less than cost
The Illinois dollar can buy Mass
nchusetts products only at the price
set by the tarif-a price ranging
from 20 to $50 per cent above cost
and nearly as much above what the
price would be if the value of the
Illinois dollar were not put down as
the Massachusetts, dollar is put up
by Republican enactment.
It is time such plain and incontro.
verted truths were understood, al
least, if not acted ON. IF Illinois is
to be robbed, let il at least console
itself with the satisfaction of know.
ing how it is done. st. Louis Re
public.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-02-26
Another Scheme for Depressing the
Industrious.

One of the proposed schemes of the
protective politicians, to get rid of the
surplus in the U. S. treasury, and to
maintain the present oppressive pro-
tective taxes, is to build powerful
navy. To carry out their plans would
require many hundreds of millions of
dollars, which would have to be rails
ed by taxation on the farmers, me-
chanics, laborers and business men of
the country, in addition to using up
the surplus.
Of late we hear great deal about
the necessity of having powerful
navy to uphold the dignity of this ma
ton, but very little is said about the
laboring millions who toll and slave
for wages not sufficient to support
themselves and families decently, and
who will have to pay the expenses of
this powerful navy and for maintain
ing it.
OF late years several fine cruisers
have been built, and more are being
constructed. A fleet Of the new war
ships is now in European waters
They are sailed from port TO port
Salutes are exchanged between them
and foreign war ships. The officers
are having good time on their free
excursion to foreign countries, and
no doubt, they are filled with feelings
of pride as they exhibit their vessels to
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-02-26

And so wishing to finish this win
ter season with benefit to my
patronizers, I offer all my winter
stock of
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-02-26
A Well Governed State.

Mississippi is State in which the
negro population largely outnumbers
the white-the figures in 1880 stood
100000 to 650,000-but the admins
tration is in the hands of the whites,
and shows economical and progressive
government. Governor Lowry, in
his message to the Legislature, upon
retirement after eight years of con-
tinuous service, points out that since
1885 the valuation of real and per-
sonal property has arisen from s116,-
600, 900 to $l5S, 900, OO0--an increase
of nearly so per cent, The farming
and manufacturing interests have
made great progress, and in cotton
the spindles and looms have more
than trebled since 1880. The school
statistics show remarkable develop.
ment. The attendance has increased
from $4,000 in 1881 to $4,000 in
1889, and the school expenditures
from s6S0,000 to 81, 100000. The
proportion Of all the children in the
State who are enrolled in the schools
is exceptionally high, and the negroes
enjoy their full share of school priv.
ileges, the percentage of colored child
rem to the whole number in school
being almost identical with the per-
centage of colorcd people to the whole
number Of people in the State, which
is nearly 81 per cent-larger than any
other State except South Carolina
More than 800 county school houses
have been erected in two years. Thii
is a demonstration that Mississippi
needs no Federal aid for her schools
An almost exultant tone az TO pro
gress, and il is amply justified by
facts.-Pittsburg Post.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-02-26
Detroit Markets.

The following market quotations
are copied from the Detroit Free
Press.
Apples, $500 to 1915 per Dbl
Butter, 10 to 26 per pound.
Live fowls, Sc TO DC per pound.
Live turkeys, 10c TO lie per pound.
Eggs, 12 to Is cents per dozen.
Flour per barrel, 1925 to $500
Hay, baled, 500 to $1,000 per ton.
Oats per bushel, 24c to 25c.
Onions, ITO to- rs per bushel.
Pork, $1,000 to $l1.O0 per Dbl.
Potatoes, 3S to 55 per bushel.
Wheat, $O.72 to S0.76 per bushe.
The quotations, given by the Free
Press, are mostly Of a wholesale ma
ture. The prices at retail stores must
be somewhat higher.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-02-26

A good many suggestions have been
made for reducing the surplus in the
L. S. treasury, but we believe that
the best way TO reduce it would be to
reduce the national taxes.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-02-26
Detroit, Bay City & Alpena R. r.

The report of the State railroad
commissioner for the year just passed
has been received at this office, and
for which we return thanks to Com
missioner Rich. The report makes a
volumn of 1856 pages, and gives COM
plete information of the business of
all the railroads of Michigan for the
year ending December 31st, 1888.
From said report we extract the fol-
lowing in regard to the railroad run
ming to this city:
Number of stock holders 8. Value
of the stock s1,670.00O. Number of
shares 1900. Total receipts $685.
2sS.3S. The net income after paying
expenses, amounted to S160,432 %,
of which $4,000 was required to
pay the interest on the bonded debt.
The road is really in debt to the
amount of s4,193,545.42, for capital
stock, bonds, and floating debt. The
number Of miles of road operated by
the company were
Miles
Alpcnn TO Algcr 90
Loon lake. from Emery 20 Potts....~........ 26.o5
Mud lake ..... ...... 1874
other branches 5i9I
| -
Total length in mills 0Li3
The earnings of the railroad were {:
From passenger fares, s95,926.l1 T;
from freight, s34l ,960.s4 from ex.
press and baggage, sl,910.l1; from
mails, s9,247.31; from miscellaneous
sources, SO, 235.01.
The road has nine wooden bridges,
two iron bridges, two combination
bridges, and nine wooden trestles.
The entire length Of the bridges is
5,3SS feet. There are II crossings at
grades 81 stations 20 locomotives,
two express and baggage cars, five
way cars, 3S box freight cars, $40
platform cars, and 800 logging cars.
During the year 2O,3o6 railway ties
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-02-26

were used. Number of passengers
carried l2O, 1876, and the average dis
lance Travelled by each passenger was
2S miles. The number of persons
killed was six, and four were injured.
The number Of tons of freight car
ried was rs follows:
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-02-26

The employees are classified as fol.
lows: Baggagemen, 2; brakemen so;
conductors, rs; engineers, 25; fire.
men, %; laborers, 1873; shopmen, 10;
yardmen, l., and others, 20. Total
800.
The following will show what the
eXpenses were for
The Washington critic., 1890-02-24
THE MERIT SYSTEM.

1t ought always to be kept in mind
that, in discussing modes of appoint
ment to the civil service of the Gov
ernment, most of those who advocate
the merit system as being immeasura-
bly, fairer, more satisfactory and more
suitable than the old patronage system,
do not commit themselves to any sup
port of the present Civil Service law or
of its regulations and its administra.
ton.
1t would, indeed, have been strange
if the first legislative attempt in that di-
rection had proved at all points Il sue
cess, and if the law and the system
have been shown TO be crude and de-
fective in many respects, it is only
what might fairly have been expected.
One difficulty with which the Civil
Service law has had to contend from
the beginning-and is now contending
has arisen from the fact that its op-
ponents, the politicians, who regard
the offices simply in the light Of past
election rewards, never gave it a fair
chance. They did not look for the
good that was in it. They only saw
what was bad. They did not want to
see that, by successive amendments and
corrections suggested by experience, it
might develop into a practical and salts
factory system.
But the popular mind takes little in
terest in quibbles about the laws
defects or the jarring of the ma
chinery of its administration 1t takes
the sensible view that the law may be
amended and its administration i'm
proved. The mind Of the people, how
ever, is very clear about one thing, and
that is, that the merit system must be
retained To the Civil Service law be-
longs the credit Of beginning what in
principle is a revolution in the system
of appointments, and it Is a revolution
that will never go backward, Nalla
rcstigia r6tyOrSum.
The thorough amendment Of the law,
indeed, is quite in order, and 1t will,
doubtless, be undertaken at the earliest
opportunity. But even If it should be
The Washington critic., 1890-02-24
ANTIPATHIES

lie MotDe de Mayer delighted in hearing
thunder, but could not bear the sound of
any musical instrument.
Though passionately fond of dog, Henry
H. would faint at the sight of cat; so,
too, would the Duke of Schomberg.
Sealiger, who tells Of his relatives weak
ness, could not endure water cress; Meth .r
he nor Peter of Albano could drink milk.
Emperor Augustus had mortal dread of
thunder, and would retire to vault built
for the purpose at the approach of the
smallest thunder clouds.
Marshal Brezc once shot and kill ii
companion while rabbit hunting, and ever
afterward would faint at the sight of o.
Of those harmless little animals.
Naughelm, the famous Hanovarian
sportsman, slew wild boars by the hun
dreds, hut ran away from a table upon
which there was roasted pig, or tainted if
unable to beat retreat.
The smell of fresh fish threw Erasmus
into a fever, and King Vladisas of Poland
declared that he would rather meet 900
armed foes than be confined in a room with
peck of apples.
Gretry, the composer, and Queen Anne
both abhorred the smell of roses; Favorite,
the Italian poet, and Vincent, the painter,
had similar aversions. Scaliger tells of q
relative of his whom the sight of lily
threw into convulsious.
Pennants, the traveller, had great aver
sion for wigs. History says that he ex-
hausted himself in cursing the mayor of
Chester, England, for wearing one, and
wound up by snatching the Objectionable
head covering and giving the magistrate
quite race.-,St. L0uS RepuJlc.