The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-11-06
THE ASSEMBLY DEMOCRATIC,
Notwithstanding the Fact that The Repub-
llCanS Ere Claiming Il.
no NEWS OF The REVOLUTION IN BRAZIL.
Marriage OF Mira. sydney Turner Swan 10 Mf
Elisha Dyer, Resolutions Ioucn-
ing the silver Question.
Nrw YoRE BUREAU. RICHMOND 1IHEs.
1901

NEW YORK BUREAU, ItltHhoNb
Nov. B. 1891.
The Republicans are claiming the Legisia-
ture by these figures: Senate, lsRepublicans,
nDemocrats: Assembly. CO Republicans, 60
Democrats. From Albany however, 1t is
stated that the latest private adyices received
by Governor Hill confirmed his belief that
the Democrats bad secured safe majority in
both branches of the Legislature. Reports
from tho doubtful districts that have reached
the Capitol to-day continue to show that the
Republicans are doing their utmost TO cap
ture the Legislature by fair means or foul.
MARRIAGE or A VIRGINIA BEAUTY.
A special from Newport, Il. l.. announces
the very quiet wedding there to-day Of Mrs.
sydney Turner Swan of Baltimore and Mr.
Elisha Dyer, Jr. Of New York. The cere.
mony was performed by Bishop ozark OF
Rhode Island. one of the Oldest friends OF
the Dyer family There we're only pres,
ent General and Mrs. Dyer. the father ana
mother of the groom. and few other relatives
and very intimate friends. The bride was a
Miss Turner of Virginia, and IS great-grand.
niece OF Mrs Patterson who was the VIE OF
Jerome Bonaparte. She IS an exceedingly
pretty woman and has always been very pop
ulsr.
TIKI BRAZILIAN REVOLT.
At the Brazilian consulate and business
houses in this city that have correspondents
IN Brazil no news of the disturbance was re-
ceived 10. day communication having been
apparently cut of. The Singer Sewing Ma
chine Company to-day received cable dis
patch from its agent in Rio de Janoiro saying;
Congress dissolved. Perfect peace reigning
here"
The various commission houses aud the
members # the Coffee Exchange are equally
in the dark but the fact of the revolution Is
beyond all doubt. That 1t will be very san
culinary one Is improbable. The Brazlllans
are not fighting people. said a mem er Of
the firm Of w. h. Grace n Co, this morning.
"They are not given to fractional squabbes.
IL will be an affair of short duration, and |
do not anticipate much bloodshed.'
RAILROAD EARNINGS.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad re-
ports gross earnings for the fourth week Of
October at S6f5. $50. an increase OF S52 $50,
and for the month at sl937.5s2 AL increase
OF $l4s, 655, The month of October, Chesa-
peake and Ohio, 1857. CAB; increase. sl3l, 700.
THE SILVER COINAGE.
The Chamber Of Commerce met this after
noon and. after the transaction Of preliminary
business, discussed the silver question.
resolution was adopted which asserted that
the law passed by Congress making 1t legal TO
coin 500 900 ounces Of silver per mouth was
against the public welfare. and asked that the
President appoint a committee OF Two t. urge
upon Congress the necessity of modifying the
bill and preventing any additional coinage of
silver.
THE DIR. BRIGGS CASE.
IL was evident yesterday that the Presby-
terry was decidedly opposed to putting DR..
Briggs on trial. although no disposition to
avoid trial was shown by Dir. Briggs and his
friends, and that the motion to dismiss the
case was not in his interest, but in the inter
est OF the New York Presbytery and tho
Church at large. Colonel j. j. McCook said
to-day that the committee would take the
case on appeal to the SYNOD. That body can
either send the case back TO the Presbytery,
or try it itself, or refer it to the General As
sembly for action on account Of the impor-
lance to the Church of the questions involved.