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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31

Three or per cent. on the time
the bond has TO run IL deducted, and thus
the poor farmer has actually to pay or 10
per cent. per annum, though the transac-
ton. according 10 the bond with its cou-
pons. shows only the legal interest of 9 per
cent The result IL inevitable. Tho farm
cannot support ITS owner and pay this bur-
densomc taxation. and foreclosure must
ensue. The gentleman above referred to
was offered the Virginia agency for one of
these northern companies or associations,
but he considered ITS workings so iniqui-
tous and ruinous to the farmer that he re-
fused the offer, tempting as it was.
We say In all carnestness. let our farm
ers beware: shun the gilded offer to bur-
den your lands with mortgages that must
eventually rob you of them, a. you would
pestilence. Avoid or drive far away the
tempter. Keep your lands untrammeiled
and free and there is . bright day in the
near future for you
Another matter which should claim the
serious consideration Of our farmers at this
time Is better public roads. There is no.
thing which so thoroughly and 80 soon ad-
vertises the poverty Of country as bad
roads, and rice re-sd. We know gentle
man who lost $4,000 sale last week on
account of the bad roads adjacent to his
farm. The purchaser was from the West,
was delighted with the place in all respects,
but said he would not live In country
with such horribly bad roads. We repeat,
farmers Of Virginia, be wary and watchful.
improve your ways, and all will be well.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31
LabOrDay.

Tomorrow will for the first time formal
" be observed in Richmond as the general
and peculiar labor holiday that it is. We
note the beginning of the observance with
pleasure. Richmond is city specially in
terested in all that concerns labor. Her
welfare is inseparably bound up with the
prosperity of her industrial enterprises.
Her industries, indeed, are her very life
blood.
Moreover, the standard of her industrial
classes is as high as that OF any other simi-
lar classes anywhere in the country, or IN
the world for that matter, whatever the
standpoint be from which we regard 1t.
Richmond has rs much pride in the excel
lence Of her white working people as in
any other OF the many clear advantages
she possesses.
All hail, then. the first formal observance
of Labor-day In Richmond. May 1t be the
iorerunner Of many observances in the
future each more imposing than its pre-
decessor. and may 1t be the harbinger Of a
continuance for all time to come OF the
good feeling now existing in this CON-
munity between Labor and Capital.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31

opeued on the nth proximo BY An address
TO the students by Rev. +. II. Harding,
ID. d., of Farmville. DIR. Harding Is an
alumnus of the college and gentleman of
the finest literary taste and ability. There
Il n good prospect that the next session
will be the fullest since the year is60-'6f.
4 large proportion of the old students will
return and the faculty are informed that
the number OF new men will be unusually
large. In view Of this fact the Executive
Committee Of the Board OF Trustees have
authorized the fitting up Of the lecture
rooms in the Memorial Hall now nearing
completion. so rs to secure the rooms here
tofore used for lecture-rooms in the old
building for dormitories. In this way
enough room will be obtained to meet
present demands, and 1t is contemplated
during the next year TO remodel the centre
part Of the old building, which has been
used for chapel, dormitores. and society
halls, and thus furnish room for about fifty
additional students.
The Executive COMMITTEES at their meet
ing this week also rendered an eligible lot
to the committee having in charge the
matter of securing residence for the fam
ily of the late Rev. John W. Dabney,
whose death at Campinas, Brazil. a few
months since has been so sadly felt. Mr..
Dabney was a graduate of the college and
a most useful and successful missionary.
The proposition has been made to name
the streets of the village of Hampden-Sid-
ney now being laid of after the founders
of the college. Among them will be found
some well and extensively known in VIZ
GINA, such as Madison. Henry, Cabell, Car
rington, Watkins. Vensble, Morton, &C.,
&c. II the village should increase into o
town, then the names of the eminent pre-
sidents and professors might be subsi-
died, and we would have Smith, Rice,
Lacy, Hoge, Alexander, Gushing. Maxwell
Green, Atkinson, &C.. &c.. and if it should
become city there will be an Inexhausti-
BILE supply of illustrious names of men
who have gone forth from these venerable
halls. Z.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31
Rla1na,s spacious Reasoning.

Mr.. BLAINE is always specious reasoner
whatever the subject Of the argument he
may have in hand. SO he is plausible In
developing his trade-reciprocity idea, and
SO he seems fair in pretending that the
idea is new, whereas it is as old as the hills
and stolen unblushingly from ths Demo-
cratic economic position of to-day. 1T is
source of wonder TO the unbiased
follower of the once Plumed Knight
in his elaboration of the political
fad he has now taken up that he cannot go
lttlo farther since he almost touches the
Democratic stronghold of tariff for
revenue only in his advance towards free
trade. Possibly it does not occur to MIR.
BLAINE, though it has occurred to other
people, that if the duties on the imports
we make from the countries south of us
were relatively as high az those from other
countries the balance of trade would be
against US with respect to those southern
neiphbors as it is now with respect to Eu-
rope. Asia, and Africa. Mr.. BLAISE's argu-
ment in Maine the other day thus falls to
the ground so far as it depends upon the
policy of protection, since it was made IN
total disregard of the fact we point out.
Reciprocity in trade is most desirable
thing beyond question, and the Demo-
cratic party demands it loudly, but it Is
wholly at variance with the Chinese-wall
Republican policy involved in protection
for projections sake.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31
A Perilons Public Evil.

Now that the district school trustees are
appointing teachers for the coming year
we hope their earnest interest Is awakened
to a perilous public evil in tho Southside
and East Virginia counties at least.
For many years ii has been notorious
fact that large proportion of the negro
teachers in the public schools were active
politicians Of the most obnoxious type
offensive partisans and leaders OF the Radi-
cal party.
It is perfectly competent for the trustees
to check this debauchment of the school
system, and they should see that such per-
version of public education Is discontln-
ued without delay. To ask the white tax
PAYERS of this Commonwealth to support
negro politicians in their midst at salaries
of s25 and $50 per month only to marshal
their race against us at the polls and vote
down their benefnctors is too much for
human nature to endure. The white citi-
zens nav seven tenths of the school-tax,
and by every principle Of reason and
morals have right to see to Its proper
disbursement, and if negro teachers can't
abandon politics let them be turned out
and driven to work or out of the COM
munity and let white teachers take their
places.
The introduction of political tests in the
schools is to be deplored, but surely no
consideration of public welfare can de-
mand the partisan education of hostile
race at the public expense to vote year
after year against the highest interests
and intelligence of the Commonwealth,
and when such aliens as LANosToN are
knocking at the doors of Congress it is
high time we should look to the preserva-
ton of white civilization and white do
| y,iniop
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31
A Boon to Land-Grant Colleges.

The recent congressional appropriation
Of $1,000 for the past year and an add
tional 81. 900 annually until the same shall
reach &25, 900 10 q great boon to the land
grant colleges. 1t has enabled the Virginia
Agricultural and Mechanical College, for
example. TO increase its faculty and to pur-
chase mechanical and other appliances for
tbs better conduct Of the several chairs OF
q technical college. Arrangements also are
bong made. we are informed. to put cleo
trio lights in and TO heat with steam all the
buildings OF the college; and we are glad
70 learn further that . sanitary engineer
hes recommended complete system OF
sewage for the institution. which Is being
carried ont.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31
po,,-rsr prerequisite To Voting.

Tho Mississippi Constitutional Conven.
tion seems 70 have solved the problem OF
a poll.tax prerequisite to voting in pro-
yidinc that the tax shall be levied and col
leoted year before the voting taxes place.
There is thus minimized the danger OF the
wholesale application of fat fried" out
of the northern industrial infants to the
defeat of the plan. Virginia Is in posi-
ton to appreciate the improvement This
State tried the poll-tax method as On aid
in avoiding the rule of ignorance and cor.
ruption. and was made TO feel the force OF
the fiat " above referred to because it was
without the safeguard now adopted oy the
Mississippians. We wish our brethren
luck in their shrewd and altogether iegitI-
mate proposition.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31
ADVICE TO Farmers.

Recently in writing Of Yirginia's bright
outlook We called special attention to
che conditions which make Virginia lands
altogether desirable. and expressed the
opinion that they must necessarily be
sought after. We reiterate that assertion,
and confidently believe that when cut up
into small farms they will readily become
highly productive and paying. But there
ls lurking danger TO our farmers more to
be dreaded than crop failures. destructive
ores. or any known pests. 1t is the mort
rage scheme which has sapped the very
life Of husbandry in the Northwest, and
brought those people to degree Of misery
happily unknown to our farmers. A
man when he is straitened in circum-
stances as a rule finds it hard to
loosen the strings Of the money bags and as
the vernaculsr has it "raise the wind.n
Imagine, then. the temptation for the farm
er when he il actually sought out by GER
tain loan associations and dazzled with
most seductive Offers to advance money
upon his lands. Human nature is weak at
best. but who of US, however intelligent
and strong in purpose, could resist the
temptation Of accepting proffered loan
when money is wsntingf The unusual
edsr Is 80 beguilina. and the exorbitant
interest worked out by the scheme is 50
hidden or sucar-coated, as it were, that the
poor victim even II be be not In actual
went will ind any number Of needs which
bis fancy win paint imperatively pressing
and no VIII gladly sign tho bond that
wiz ultimately and surely rob him Of
house and home. And that we may
not be considered as dealing in an over
drawn and fanoied picture or vague gene.
SAlities. lot us come down TO facts. Are
there then such loan associationsY Do their
workings amount to usury. and are they
% ruinous 20 the farmers who patsonize
thsns Most undoubtedly. A gentleman
81 high standing IN this community, Of
undoubksd veracity, and clever tinsncier.
sscSnfly explained 10 ne their plans Of ope-
rnIien and bic estimate u them. Hand
sope bonds are prepared with coupons a.
t6ehed, ssbsasing per cent. interest. pay
- 1ont- annually. Thsy ofsr loan 90
: 80 - hall " estimated or assessed
800 ne boud Il msds ont for that
116rA hi he farmer does not ~
1g ~ ~ ynlns Of the hond
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31
Mr.. Edmunds's Last Resolution

Iceberg EDMUNDs's proposed resolution
TO the effect that when Congress adjourns
in September it be to meet November 10th
means that the coercive legislation repre-
sented by the force bill is to be proceeded
with if at all possible to the Administra-
ton through its INSCRIPTIONS representa-
tives in the Senate. 1t means that the bayo-
net measure Of the most radical of the
Radicals is not dead, but has only been
scotched, so to speak, by the more
conservative influence of the North aiding
the South in the latter's desperate fight
against the outrageous proposition. 1t Is
the duty of the South and of the South's
representatives everywhere to do what is
possible toward bringing the best senti-
ment Of the North in still further
harmony with the feeling OF this
section as regards the elections bill,
to the end that the infamous measure may
be killed indeed and beyond the hope of
resurrection in any shape or form. As ex-
planned by Radical leaders the bill Is limo
cent as the babe unborn. In reality it is
devilish, destructive, violative of every
constitutional principle, and those who are
most active in advocating it proceed with
the knowledge that this is so.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31
The Oily Angler.
Not P0mGds.
For The Dispstch.

For The Dispstch.
See tho trouter with his flee
Moltled files
What whirl OF rod and reel their presence now
implies
HON tneir varlagations twinkle
In the mellow morning lightl
bow we almost hear the tinkls
OF tho dancing hooks that wrinkle
Crystal waters In their Night
Keeping time. time, time,
In a faintly-echoed chime,
With the deft manipulation OF the fisherman
who plies
Many iies, flies, flies, flies,
Flee, dies, flies
Many frsudful, nimsy, fiuctusting dies
Hear the afler-coming lies
Brazen lies
What copious STOCK OF them the angler can
devise
How they take their fluent flight
From the pis ,atorial wight.
Who, with adamantine cheek,
Can retail them by the week
Quite In time
With the fertile fabrications OF his sire,
In frantic competition with the nctions OF his
sire
Getting hotter. hotter, hotter
TIL the aural portions totter
Az they do when Jane Brown Potter
Generates n terra-cotia
Brand Of frenzy IN a gush Of tragic Ire.
Yet the ear il fully knows,
10y the HltahtLS
And repeating
OF the AnauiEs throes;
Yet the intellect espies,
By tho tension
OF Invention,
How the fables grow In size
By the multiple compoundings and peryersions
that arise,
BY the gasp with which some auditor OCCASION
ally dies,
By the sweeping, sweltering, sgsrming swathe
OF swiftly
Swelling lies
OF the lies, lies. lies, lies.
Lies. lies, lies
OF the lingering. lavish labyrinth OF Hes
WADE WHIPPLg.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31
ON THE TOURNEY FIELD.
The Gallants of Amelia Tilt, Dance, ana
sup-The Queen, Maids of Honor &c.
- So. =, ,No pich, nond Disnatch1
NoTTowAY, August %, 1879

Correspondents OF the hlchmonu Dlspatch'I
NoTTowAY, August 90, $780,.
On Wednesday Tire knlghthood OF Amelia
dedicated the lists of Otterburn to the rites
of the tourney, the chiyalry OF the I al,
gathering upon the tilting-grounds. The
festival of the evening wss attended upon
bv numerous visitors from Richmond ana
AS knight of Woodland" Mr.. Willie
Austin. Of Amelia, carried OF the honors OF
the field and crowned Miss ThyTza IL.
Vaughan, of Amelia, the Queen. OF Love
and Beauty. Miss Vaughan wore her royal
honors with attractive grace and received
the willing homage of all. She. was assisted
in the dance by Miss Edell, Of Richmond ;
Miss Vaughan, of Petersburg. and Miss
Virgins. as Maids Of Honor, led by Mr.:
Jones. OF Nottoway; MIR. Forte Evans, OF
Amelia. and the Knight of Fiye-Forks."
HAPPY AFFAIR.
The bali and supper were managed with
happy taste, and much credit was ACCORDED
the proprietors and entertainers at Otter
burn. Among visiting ladies and gentle
man were Mir. and Mrs. @. Z. Wingo, Mr..
and Mrs. F.. G. Tinsley, Messrs. Hampton
Hoge and Tucker Darlington, of Richmond;
and Mrs. Professor Graham, OF Blacksourg.
with her relative. Miss Mary Southall, OF
Austin.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Thursday was County-Court day, but no
matters Of Importance were transacted.
Nr. Thomas NJ. Miller, of Powhatan, was
ON hand to prosecute the indictments in
the bank litigation, and Judge Mann to
represent the defence, but the causes were
not taken up.
Political waters have not yet been stirred
in Amelia. but there is good reason to sup
pose the negroes thoroughly concluded
and organized in behalf of Langston tor
Congress.
The crops are splendid, and the force
bill is dead so the farmers all wear their
Sunday clothes and happy smiles.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31
A BIG DANVlLlE DEAL.
Two Companies Consolidated Million
Dollars Yaiue I'm Property.
rc...t., avr.,vx IN "a nianatch

Dollars Value I'm Property.
Especial telegram to the Dispatch.l
DAsv1ILE, Va, August 9o.--There was o
big deal here to-day, by which the River
side Cotton-AIills get control OF the Moro
took Mills. The Riverside Company pur-
chases tho Morotock, the owners of the
Morotock taking stock in part payment,
and will remain as stockholders in the new
company 1t is not known what was the
price paid, but the new purchase will give
the Riverside Company. property whose
value is close on to million dollars. The
mills will be operated as usual
THE NEW HOTEL.
. The snbscription-list for the new pala-
tial hotel was passed around, and Messrs.
+. Y. Burton and w. N: Shelton headed
the list with s25.00O each. Several other
subscriptions were received and at least
SEC, 600 has already been raised.
Tobacco during the week has been very
scarce and sales were necessarily very
light. All offerings were greedily taken
up at fine prices.
Hon. w. T. Sutherlin has been i'll for
several days, and yesterday morning his
people were very uneasy about him, but he
Is much better to-day.
MooHE's BAD CASE.
ing around last night in : diueputsbls
part Of the city and WAS relieved Of his
aba adoned woman arrested for the thift
and she will probably 60 to the peni9en.'
tiary for robbery from the person.
STILL IIyu0.
The small coiored boy who was struck
by An engine on the Atlantic and Dsnv;ils
road last night Il still living, though his
his condition u critical.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31
Oxen Drowned In six Inches Of Water.
Hartford Courant

Mr.. Edgar Brewer. of Hockanum, lost q
pair az valuable oxen on Wednesday in I
yery peculiar manner. They we're con.
sidered the finest pair in town. Wednes.
dsv M. Brewers hired boy yoked them "a
a dumn-cart and started to draw some dirt
with them. Around on one side OF the
harm l. 4 small pond, which has about sl1
inchas of water and probably two feet 81
mud AZ component parts. On one side Of
this pond Is 0 sloping bank, quito steep,
And near this the hired boy was compsllsd
fo drive his team. He had filed his carl
and had driven the oxen near to the top d
the incline, when be s A. soms sir!s.
Leaving bis cTsn' ns hsssensd over g
stSsins. begun 70 browse y thssssp RoV'
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31

Ing about. and finally pulled tho wheels
Of the cart over the top OF the incline;
they went down the incline. When they
struck the pond one Of the oxen got stuck
In the mud and fell over head 6rst. The
yoke slipped up on his neck and held his
nose down IA the water 80 that he
drowned in few minutes. The boynowre-
turned and stood watching the other anil
NAL try to FREQ himself without calling any
help. The animal finally stumbled and
fell as his companion had done. and met
the same fate
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31

words in preference to Latin and Greek
derivatives. and can slice of fine dell;
cate arguments with the best OF
them. He is among the Youngest. fore
most men in the House. He has light
moustache. blue eyes, and fair com.
plexion. Mr.. Rogers was born in Berthe
county. n. C., in I345. In 1852 his parentsre-
moved to Mississippi. and in March, 1882
he Joined the Ninth Mississippi Volunteers.
as a private. He served through the war,
He was educated at Centre College. Dan
VILE Ky, and at the University OF Missls-
sippi, oxford. graduating az the latter col;
lege in the class of 1868. he was admitted
TO practice law at Canton, MISS; IN lsoS. IN
1859 he removed TO Fort Smith. where he
has since resided. In 1877 he was elected
Circuit Judge; was reelected in 1873, and
resigned in May, 1882. when he was elected
to the Forty-eighth Congress, and mas sat
in the House ever since.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31

n All # which we recognize tho peculiarly
brilliant and quaint humor Of our es-
teemed friend GEoRox CANNING WILDE.
wbo wa. for nearly half century bril-
liant ornament Of the Richmond press,
Wa consratulate the Press upon the acqui.
s;tion Of such valuable and experienced
iournali,t and we wish our old friend all
tho success and prosperity whicn no SO
richly deserves in his new position.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31
MORRISON VS.. RICHARDSON.
The Libel Suit Ia King William Court
The Cotton Season.


The Cotton Season.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatchl
WEST POINT, Va, August 30, 1890.
The case Of Rev. G. l.. Morrison against
Rev. z. Parker Richardson for libel was
called at King William Courthouse We'd
nesday and has been going on the balance
of the week. There has not been q
case in King William county for number
of wears that has attracted SO much atten-
ton. Colonel William II. Aylett and Mr..
ii. /. Lewis represent the Commonwealth
and Messrs. Isaac Diggs, of West Point;
George Haw, of Hanover; Senator Stubs,
Of Gloucester. and ex-Judge L. j. Chris
tian, of Mathews, the defence. Mr.
Gordon, of Louisa, has also been
employed by one Of Mr.. Richardson's
former churches and sent to assist him in
the suit. The present indications are that
the case will last till Wednesday or Thurs
day of next week. All of the witnesses
have not been heard yet. From the evil
dence in for the defence up to last night
the case appeared to be in it's favor. 1t will
be holly contested and ably argued. The
lawyers on both sides are very much en-
Unused.
EARLY COTTON SEASON.
Mr.. W. T. Madagan. of Messrs. Barber Il
Co., cotton merchants, agent OF New York.
arrived here yesterday. Mr.. Madagan comes
sooner this season than he did last, and the
prospects bid fair for an earlier season and
better trade. One ship Is lying at the wharf
and another is expected any day. 1t Is
thought in railroad circles generally that
much better business will DO done this
season than last.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31
EOR RENT, BRICK DWELL 4,
INGs, &c, ~

No - Park syepue. IL rooms: $50 per year
No. 1890 west Grace street, IL rooms. $50 70,
year.
year. 49,.
M go Floyd street. 70 rooms: $3.50 per year
No. 62s north Eighth street., II rooms, SO g9r
year.
No. 9ll east Leigh street. II rooms; 10 per
No. a south Adams street, 10 rooms $50 per
year.
~ No. Ills west Marshall street. rooms; t,lo
per year.
year.
month.
No. 30is p street, rooms: 50 psr month.
No. l2gz north Second street, rooms % per
month. -
No gsf7 east Main street. LARG & BRICK FAC.
tory 500 per year.
No. II east Main street. STORE and DWELL
ING, s4s1 per yeat.
No IioO Moore street, STORE fl2 per month.
SECOND and THIRD FLOORS on Ieub
street SIS per month.
Also, sEVaRAL HOUSES in the East soi
ives. Knds unfinished. Apply %
CHARLES A. hose,
anal No. n nogth Tenth street
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John Henry Rogers, Of Arkansas.

There are probably no two men in the
House of Representatives who entertain
SO deep-seated hatred and detesta,ion OF
each other az Speaker Thomas b. Reed and
John Henry Rogers. of Arkansas. He is
one of the keenest men on the Democratic
side OF the House. What he says comes
forth in sonorous, square tone, and the
substance Of il is logical, clean-cut,
and compact. He uses Anglo-Saxon