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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-24
sATURpAY, JuNE 1a. 1se1.

cAlJhDAl, JUNE 10. 1881,
at O'clock, p. NJ, this fine James river farm,
tain PARCEL OR TRACT OF LAND, together
with al the buildings and improvements there-
on, rights, ways, and appurtenances thereto be-
longing, lying and being In the county OF Pow
hatan, State Of Virginia, known as " Belmead'
containing 1,640 ACRES, moro or less, bounded
on the north by James river, on the east by
Deep creek, on the south by tho public road
known as the River road. and on the west by the
properly OF Eanes, Scott. and others, and was
inherited by said John b. Cooke from his father,
General Philip St. George Cooke.
The buildings on this estate are said 70 be the
most costly IN Virginia. The late General p. 81.
George Cooke IA said TO have spent $4,000 in
the construction Of the dwelling, the most costly
on any farm in Virginia, which Is located on a
commanding hill that overlooks the valley OF the
james for miles, with the James-Rlyer division
OF the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad IN full view
for long distance, and the depot, Rock Castle,
tust across the river from the farm, Is reached
by rope ferry. The outbuildings are many
and costly, OF stone and frame, covered with
slate. There Is also two-story stone mill on
the property
For city gentleman or any man Of means no
farm In Virginia presents finer field for safe
investment, and Tor stock-farm II Ia a first-cass
Investment. To merchant desiring an elegant
homo" Belmeadn Is unsurpassed located in a sec
ton proverblal for health and the view Is beauti
ful beyond expression.
Title "a beyond a question.
TERMS; Cash to cover expenses Of sale and
debts due as follows: S447.12, with interest
from November 30, 1889, and s15,35112 with
interest from May 30. 1890, and the balance on
terms 10 be announced at the time Of sale.
Parties desiring to attend this sale can leave
Richmond on the morning train and return In
the evening. II. B. CHAFFIN,
Sole Acting Trustee.
X r. CHLFFTN & Co, Auctioneers. myo
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AUCTION sALEs---Future DayS c,>o,
BY James II. Crenshaw,
Real Estate Agent and Auctioneer.
No. IL north Eleventh street.
TRUsTEE's SALE


No. IL north Eleventh street.
TRUSTEES SALE !. liz.
VALUABLE FARM OF 3o7 ACRES or LAND,
KNOWN AS sHRUBBERY HILL"
IN HANOVER COUNTY ABOUT TWENTY
MILES NORTH OF RICHMOND.
ON THE LOUISA COURTHOUSE ROAD.
THE LARGE DOUBLE Two-sToRY BRICK
DWELLING OF TWELVE ROOMS AND
sLATE-CoyERED ROOF ON
THIS LAND ALONE
COST $4,000.
BY virtue OF deed OF trust from Henry Willis
and wife 20 the undersigned trustee, dated I'D
day Of August, 1873, and recorded In Hanover
County Court Clerks o1lce, default having been
made in the payment Of debt thereby secured
and having been requested by the beneficiary,
viii sell by public auction, In Ashland, Hanover
county, Va, In front OF Mr.. ID. B. Coxs store, on
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1891,
at 8 O'Clock P. NJ, the above-described PRO-
PERTY, bounded on the west and north by land
formerly owned by Nathaniel c. Crenshaw, de-
ceased, on the east by Louisa Courthouse read,
and the south by South Anna river, formerly the
farm and residence u Nathaniel c. Crenshaw,
deceased, and regarded as one OF the best farms
In Hanover county.
TERMS OF SALE: Cash enough to defrsy ex-
penses Of sale and TO pay g., 500 (balance due on
a bond and interest thereon from August ],
1850; the balance on q credit Of twelve months,
with interest added and evidenced by note ana
secured by a deed Of trust on the property. More
liberal terms may be announced by consent OF
parties Interested on day OF sale.
For further Information apply to
JAMES II. CRENSHAW,
my l7-2Ot Trustee and Auctioneer.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-24
IMMEDIATELY AT L E. THE
Il above sale we will sell that
BEAUTIFUL LOT

Just opposite, fronting 70 feet by $50 feet deep,
with rear and side alleys, on very easy and libe-
raj terms. Large enough 10 build THREE
HOUSES on 1T.
my22 j. THOMPSON BROWN & co.
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by George s. Vashon & Son,
Real Estate Auctioneers.

by George s. Vashon & Son,
Real Estate Auctioneers
TRUSTEES SALE OF LOT 81 9-12x
4 100 FEET TO AN ALLEY, WITH FRAME
DWELLING THEREON, No 90 WEST CANAL
STREET, CONTAINING SEVEN RooMS.-By
virtue Of q deed OF trust executed 10 the UNDER
signed. of record In the Clerks Office Of the
Chancery Court Of the city Of Richmond, In
Deed-Book 1876 b, page SO, to secure the pay
ment of a debt therein described DEFAULT having
been made in the payment thereof, / will, being
thereto required by the beneficiary OF said deed,
proceed 70 sell at public auction, on the prem
THURSDAY, MAY 2s, 1891,
NJ o'clock p. NJ, the PROPERTY above de-
scribed ,-. -,
TERMS: Cash as 20 $3.50 and the expenses OF
this .ale: remainder upon such terms as will
be announced az sale.
The above sale will be made subject to prior
lien 10 be announced at sale.
''0'' GEORGE S. VASHON, JR.,
my % Trustee.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-24

BY virtue Of deed OF trust from John D. Cooke
and wife, dated May 80, 1887, recorded in Pow
hatan County Court In Deadlock 90, pages 252,
2o3, and 254, 10 X. Is. Chafin and Lewis Booker,
trustees, tho undersigned viii sell (Nr. Lewis
Booker declining 20 aci' by public auction. at
pOWhatan CourfhOusa- an
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TRUsTEES Sale OF A LOT o.
i LAND, WITH TIE Do. ls ygs ~ ~
WN2siIISGToy srREETs.-By virtue d : deed
Of trust from wflber c. Bland % mo unass 6 ~
-, a. trusteos. dated 2ptn september, 1ty0. 70
corded In she Clerks once Of Henrico Counsy
Court, Deed Book 132 A. psge $40. 70 ssc9rs ~
naxment Of q certain sum OF money, de!sou
eyine beon fnaAe Ia the payment thereof, ws
viii. being required 90 70 do, sell % sucs'on, %
shs premises, on
At a o'clock p. H.. the PROPERTY ~ above %
Gated. 80
sale. You will DO fully repaid By purchas'n9 tne
property, and thereby catch future increase "
TERMs Cash AZ to s702.3s and expensss o
sale the residue as may 10 named ~ the W.
Of sale. Better terms mar be nad dcs'Fsc'
EDWARD \. ROek,
JOSEPH w. THOMAS,
GEORGES vAsaoN, ia
CHEWING 4 ROSE, Auctioneen. my -
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AUCTION SALES.--FUTURE Days.
BY X. 3. Chaf1n q Co,
Real Estate Auctioneers,
No. I north Tenth street
TRUSTEES AUCTION SALE

TRUSTEES AUCTION SALE
OF THAT
MAGNIFICENT JAMEs-RIvER ESTATE
KNOWN AS BELMEAD,
LOCATED IN PowHATAN COUNTY, VA,
ABOUT FORTY MILES FROM RICHMOND,
CONTAINING 1910 ACRES, MORE OR LESS,
WITH SPLENDID DWELLING AND OTHER
BUILDINGS,
WHICH ORIGINALLY COST ABOUT $4,000.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-24
BY Apperson 8 Co,

COMMISSIONERS hONG GRE
~ Dit AUCTION SALE OF THAT BEAUTI-
Full AND VALUABLE HIGH AND DRY LOT OF
LAND ON THE WEST SIDE OF WASHINGTON
BETWEEN CARY AND BEYE RLEY STREETS
In execution Of the hereinafter named decree, as
special commissioners therein named for the
purpose we will sell by auction, on the premises,
at O'clock u. NJ, on
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-24
627, 629, 631 TWENTY-S SECOND
STREET.
BYE. A. Catlin,
Real Estate Auctioneer.

A UCTION SALE OF THREE NEW
N FRAME DWELLINGS
CONTAINING SIX ROOMS EACH,
ON LOTS EXTENDING THROUGH FROM
TWENTY-sECoND STREET TO
CONCURRENCE STREET.
Al request Of the owner l will sell, on the pre-
misses, on
TUESDAY, Mayo, 1891,
NJ q o'clock p. NJ, the DETACHED TW0-sT0kT
FRAME DWELLING No. G27 and the DOUBLE
TENEMENT FRAME d WELlINGS Nos. 629 aid
t;3I north Twenty-second street. Each OF these
houses contains six rooms, and are on lots ~
feet front, extending back lao feet TO Concur,
renee street. This property is all now occuPleu
by the choicest tenants, is convenient 70 DIs-
~. ,rovxtn0 values, and will always command
s,oSd tenants at good rentals-al OF which COM
Sine TO make It a choice place for investment
E. A. CATLIN,
OF TN ca. Sn6Tu4t AHctioneer.
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MCCUE PROPERTY
INTO BUILDING LOTS, AND THUS LISA
SALE FROM FIRST HANDS.

BY virtue OF a decree hereinafter referred 10
we, as commissioners Of the court, acting IN
conjunction with Mrs. McCue, who owns the dwell
ing and part of the land IN the plan OF Nayer-
ley" will sell by auction, on the promises, on
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DEREMPTORY,

Il. B. CHLFrIN & Co, Aucy
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-22
Women Under the Law,

"Dowry." sometimes called the widows
encumbrance, means, generally, a certain
estate OF the wife in the lands of her hus-
band, but has been held to cover share in
personal property as well. A dover" is
usually one-third share OF the real estate
after the debts are paid. while ''curtesy"
is the income for life of the husband of one
half the wife's whole estate, often superior
TO the claims Of the creditors.
The inequality Of giving the husband
one-haf OF the whole estate, and the wife
one-thtrd Of the real estate, is most unjust,
for the wife, more frequently than the hus-
band, needs the greater support. There is
an old saying, NO one can tell how rich a
man Is until his estate Is settled" Tn
fortunately it often happens the estate is
so covered with debts that when they are
paid there Is little left 70 be divided by
three, while a wife's property is usually
unencumbered This law was so mani
testify unjust that within the past few years
several states have had it altered and made
Che division equal. so that the widow. As
well As the widower. takes one-half OF the
entire estate
New York allows the widow a home
stead to the value of $1,000 The widow
may remain in the husbands house forty
days without paying rent. The widow is
entitled TO burial in the cemetery lot. but
cannot claim ownership 20 that property
unless so specially stated in the will A
widow Is given six months 70 choose be
tween the provisions made by the viii or
her dowry right. This should be carefully
considered 1t is a short time in which To
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-22
Cery ImprobabIo.

"In carly days" remarked Mr.. Barnard,
"an old fellow named Bennett came to
Butte county from Kentucky, and when
was boy often heard him tell with all
earnestness story that he believed to be
true. He said that when young man he
lived in Virginia, and as stores were scarce
it was customary for farmers to cut scythe
handles from the woods. They would select
a very crooked sapling and trim it up TO
suit their purpose. By some misfortune
he broke a scythe handle and went in search
of new one. At last he found little,
weakly tree that was crooked, and in few
minutes had cut it down and trimmed it
up When trimmed it was so crooked that
it refused TO lie still, and began to roll end
over end.
Bennett tried to stop IT, but it eluded
him and passed out of sight. Twenty
years later he emigrated to Kentucky, and
while out in the woods one day he heard q
peculiar noise in the underbrush near him.
Going in the direction from which it came
he discovered the scythe handle, worn
down to one-fourth its original size, still
rolling. Il had crossed the Allegheny
mountains and was on its way toward the
Mississippi river. The old man protested
to the day of his death that the story was
absolutely true, and would grow angry if
any one doubted it. San Francisco Call
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-22
A Powerful Microscope.

Charles x. Dalton, instrument maker,
says: "R B. Tolles, of Boston, now dead,
was the greatest maker of microscope lenses
the world has ever seen. He once made an
object glass that magnifed 800 times. It
was the first and only one ever constructed,
and was made as the result of long con
troversy with other microscopists in regard
TO the possibility of resolving what was
known as Nobert's nineteenth band.
"Nobert was Frenchman, who by
mechanical appliances ruled On glass
parallel lines at the rate of about 1OO, 600 to
the inch. No microscope lens then made
was sufficiently powerful to count these
lines Mr.. Tolles, as a result of statements
made during the controversy, started to
make an objective that should magnify
$500 times. This he succeeded in doing
somewhere about 1874. This objective was
one-seventy-ffth of an inch in diameter,
and is about as large as the hole made in o
sheet of paper by the point of very fine
needle. This lens was afterward sold for
$500 to Major Woodward, in the govern
ment employ at Washington, but his bill
was not allowed by the auditor, and the
lens was taken off his hands by one DR..
Hartman. In turn he sold it to DR..
Ephraim Cutter, in whose possession it
now is.
Detectives that magnify 5000 times are
rare, and it is a powerful microscope"
that magnifes even $500 times. These
are necessary in psychological research,
and in testing blood corpuscles to deter
mine, for instance, whether they are of
human blood or not.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-22

The public has been taught the dangers
of bad drinking water, so that the neces-
sity for pure water is well understood. To
meet the demand innumerabie filters have
been invented, but as yet no filter has been
presented to the public which has all the
merits Of being cheap, simple and prac-
ticable. The great difficulty is that, where
as at first the filter clears the water, it soon
becomes filled with impurities which con-
taminate all the water poured through
To obviate this difficulty it is suggested
to use prepared or absorbent cotton, and
place a handful in large glass or tin fun
mel. The cotton must be packed down
tightly so that the water cannot pass
through too easily. Then the funnel is
filled with water. which soon begins to run
through. This water is collected in
pitcher, which, when filed, should be
placed in an ice box to be cooled, as ice is
so often impure that its use IL not always
safe. The cotton should be changed every
few hours, otherwise the impurities will
work through.
1t is true that after 1t is thoroughly wet
the cotton will not retain ell the disease
germs, but it will retain the majority of
them, so that the water will be practically
harmless. All dirt or other matter will be
completely separated and retained in the
cotton, hence the cotton must be often re-
newed. The cotton is very cheap, and
large funnel of glass or tin can be pro-
cured for few cents, SO that any one can
have pure water at minimum cost by this
methoGs-New York Mail and Express.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-22
Roman London.

II is impossible to determine exactly the
site Of the London forum; it is only prob
able that there must have been one We
may, however, infer from evidence too de-
tailed and minute TO enter upon here, that
the forum stood upon the Oldest part of
Roman London. viz, south OF Cornhill
and east of the Mansion House. 1t is By
no means certain that there was forum.
But an inscribed tile seems 70 show that
the seat of government ofthe province was
at London. Those, however, who consider
the latter Importance of Roman London
can hardly believe that il had no public
buildings AT first sn insignificant town,
although port OF some trade. for more
than two centuries il controlled the exports
and imports of the entire island. It's
wharves were filled with animation, its
harbor with ships of burden. All the
authorities point to London as a center o.
commercial activlty.-Wa4ter Besant IL
EArnASA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-22
Bic Stcrea.

You speak Of the granite mass guarried
by the Bodwell Granite company at YinaI
Haven as the largest ever quarried. 1t
may be the largest granite mass ever quar-
ried, but at Baaibec, in Syria, the traveller
sees at the quarry nearly ready to be
moved from the pillars that support it a
stone Il by IA by 10 feet, containing IL, 922
cubic feet, whereas the Vinai Haven stone,
If the size at the base continued TO the top,
would contain but II 500 cubic feet And
this stone has waited for more than a
thousand years There are four stones
nearly as large, which have been trans
ported a mile or more and put into the
foundations Of the Temple OF the Sun.
The ancients did know how to handle big
stones, and we have no; yet quite reached
their standard of size-Exchange
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-22
The Depth Of Meanness.

When l met my friend A. Code the other
afternoon he had curiously disguised ex-
preston upon his face, quite unusual with
that ordinarily light hearted and merry
young man.
"Well, what's the trouble nowi" queried
in my kindest tone.
'Troublel Do you remember my Uncle
Grated?"
"Why, yes. Delightful old gentleman. I"
delightful Why, he's the blim, blum,
blamed meanest man that ever had an iu-
growing toe nail while wandering through
this vale of tears"
"Wherefore;"
"He's just dead. When he was in poor
health once he made me his sole heir Gave
me all he had in the world, 8, 500 in cold
cash"
you oughtn't to kick, he"-
wait There was one proviso. I was
to pay him $500 year as long as he lived"
EYES"
"Well, talk about mean men, that old
skinf;int went and lived just five years."
and young Colde hurried along toward an
undertaker's establishment to look on the
bargain counter for a coffin.-New York
Herald
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-22
NllI!lzgEEagle
THE aLLOTTI> g AGENTS.

Mr.. T. F. McMechan returned from
business trip through the Oklahoma and
Indian territories, yesterday. He was
down as lar south as Fort Sill, /. T.. and
On his return stopped at Darlington, the
agency for the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
tribes of Indians. While there he had
brief interview with Senator Kelly, who IS
one of the allotting agents for the above
named Indians Mr.. Kelley said they
would start on a tour through the reser-
walton the next day and would visit every
Indian village therein, which would re-
auire week or ten days to complete the
trip. The first payment will be made
about the time they return from their
tour. The allotters carry the EAGLE Win
them as an omen of good success, and say
they cannot get along without it.
The crops all through both territories
Mr.. McMechan says, are splendid. Corn
he speaks of as being exceedingly fine, and
the wheat as par excellent. The farmers
of southern Oklahoma have planted
large acreage of cotton and the prospects
for first class crop are good.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-22
MILLIONS FOR A THRONE.
The Real Power Behind the King IN Bal.
garia Is Young Russian.


garia Is Young Russian.
| If the prince is playing king in Bulgaria
because he loves the sense Of power-and II
! is exceedingly difficult to believe that he
can have any other motive-it is still true
| that Stambolof is manager and holds the
box Office, and that he is e.Sely to change
| the 'star" whenever it pleases his fancy.
| provided, of course, the Bulgarian audi
ences still come to the play. In other
| words, provided the various factions strug-
Cling to get control do not break up the
| theater and throw the company and the
properties into the street.
1t is also equally true that NJ. Stefan
Stamboloff is today by far the most COM
handing personality in his country.
| Never a soldier, and always a politician.
with only three years schooling at Odessa.
he became when hardly grown Russian
correspondent, and for some years there
after Russian agent. Rising rapidly by
his own force of character, he was appoint
ed a regent by Alexander when he abdi-
Gated, and now when only thrty-six years
of age occupies more of the nervous atten-
ton Of the governments Of eastern Europe
than any other one man west of the Bos-
porus.
Stamboloff's plan for governing was
simple and to the point. 1t called for five
millions of rubles and king. Who this
king might be, or where he should hail
from, was a matter of detail Anybody
but Russian or q Turk would do. And
so numerous offers were made in q conf
Dental way to various gentlemen who
thought they had an especial, divine gift
for reigning, and who lacked the opportun-
ity only because of the depleted condition
of their bank accounts. At last fond and
ambitious mother and an obliging son with
an almost unlimited reserve fund-un-
limited for the ordinary needs of life-took
the bait.
arrangement, for it was well known that
the young princes uncle, the Duke of
Saxe-Coburg, did what he could to prevent
the final agreement, he being an older and
wiser diplomat, and having had long and
varied experience in the ups and downs of
several see-saw governments. Among
other things the duke boldly stated that it
was only question of money with the Bull
garian, regents and that Ferdinand would
leave the throne when his guldens were
gone, as Alexander had left, to whom the
Bulgarian government then owed 3. 0O0, 600
of francs. If, however, the statement of
reliable Bulgarians is to be taken, a very
considerable portion of Ferdinand's private
estate (variously estimated at one-half to
all of it, has already been absorbed.-F.
Hopkinson Smith in Century.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-22
Derivation of Hurrah.

One familiar English word of ours
Hurrah"-says Sara Orne Jewett in hel
Interesting work on the Normans, is said
10 date from Rolls reign. "Rou," the
Frenchmen called our Rolf, and there was
a law that if man was in danger himself,
or caught his enemy doing any damage, he
could raise the cry 'Ha RoI" and so in,
,oke justice in Duke Rolls name At the
.pund of the cry everybody was bound on
NE instant to give chase to the offender,
md whoever failed to respond to the cry OF
'Ha Rour' must pay heavy fine to Rolf
himself. Thus began the old English fash.
ion of 'hue and cry" as well as our custom
of shouting 'Hurrah" when we are pleased
and excited.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-22
A Cnnanron1iSA.

There is a familiar story. said 70 have Its
basis in truth. which tells of al impecuni-
Gus debtor upon whom persistent dunning
had not the slightest effect As last re-
sort the creditor sought personal inter
view, and in consideration Of prompt pay
ment offered TO throw of half the debt
Every we'll" sssented the debtor; and not
10 be outdone in generosity, I'll THROW Of
the other half!"-Exchange