The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-16

and oppressed" as he formerly did.
"A GEORGIA man received but eleven cents
for three carloads of watermelons. The other
proceeds were required to pay railroad
charges for freight. The Troy Press says he
has joined the Alliance.
When it comes to question OF growth:
the town Of Fairhaven, Washington. is well
up with the procession. Two years ago the
town site was in forest clearing; now the city
has 5000 inhabitants.
The toughest fish yarn yet comes from
North Haven. Me-. where dog-ish is re-
ported to have barked so fercely at bear
cinging TO an oyerbanging limb that the
frightened beast fell into the stream and was
| drowned.
That extraordinary person. Kyrle Below.
alias Higgins ia reported 10 be furious about
the story Of his marriage 10 Cora Potter. But
then he should try 70 remember how conso-
ling 1t must be to Mrs. Higgins TO know that
1t IS not true.
"A second edition Of I'm Darkest Russia"
was issued in London yesterday. IL has made
a sensation by its disclosures of brutality,
and ii contains letter from the Duke OF
Westminster. declaring that the inhumanity
Of the authorities il almost incredible.
Work has been temporarily suspended on
the Worlds Fair buildings in Jackson Park
on account Of differences between Chief-Engi-
neer Gottlieb and Chief-of-C Construction Burn
ham as 70 the proper resisting strength Of
timbers and foundations.
Queen Victoria and the Empress Eugenie
are fast friends and neighborly gossips, and
there Is always tea-cup and a bit OF lnuihn
ready for the Empress should she happen 10
drop in at Windsor and feel inclined to take
her things of and stay for tea.
"A lady bookmaker' has appeared in Eng
land. She is not a novelist. but a trequenter
of race-tracks, where she caters 70 the fash
iOnablo betting element. She dresses IN
fearful and wonderful suit of her own devils
ing" but she is not supposed to be dress re-
former.
Poor grasshopper-e eaten 4" "cOrn-burning.
"mOrtsaged Kansas'-that has excited the
cOmmseration of down East politicians
n crop this year Of grain alone that will net
$4,000, 900 over and above the supplies for
home use Then she has her pigs and chickens
and cattle for pocket money and sealskin
sacks and winter bOnnets.
In France they are again agitating the
subject Of taxing bachelors. In France, as
well as in Japan, they know how 20 make
1.-THE punishment fit the crime" But there
are members Of the other sex who believe
that it il wrong to license bachelors, and argue
That the Government should enter into no
compact with iniquity. They do not believe
in the license of bachelorhOod; they want pro-
hibItion
A delegation of thirteen persons. travel
ing together. arrived at the Hotel Bartholdl
Friday and all registered from Virginia.
They are @ delegation OF friends roaming
about 81 see the sights. and among them arc
j. T. Duke the cigarette manufacturer A. b.
DunWay, leading Baptist minister Of Nor
folk, and DR.. n. +. Owen. one Of the best
known physicians in the South.
TLo ~. cs,vo,o,, o,,or lo
tlement Of Georgia has been al eye-sore, Int
now there is every reason TO believe that il
will not only lose It's unpleasant features, but
that 1t will be place Of Joy and beauty. The
Suwanee Canal Company, which purchased
this property from the State, has perfected
arrangements for the transformation Of mo-
rass and wild into fertile, healthful and in
wiling locality
A private letter received from Mrs. Rob
eTt Louis Stevenson gives n gloomy outlook
for Europeans in Samoa Writing from
Nailuna, near Apia, under date of July 18th,
she SAYS: We live in constant tumuit OF
threatened war and massacre of the whites.
There are no men-Of-war here but one Ger
man ship. and that don't count. IS it only
makes more trouble. | wish our country
would send us a ship
The truth about the nature Of the recep-
ton Of the German Emperor in England is
more than once that the reports Of the wild
enthusiasm accompanying his progress were
largely diplomatic. and now the London
Times IN commenting upon tie essary
excitement over the subject in France and
Russia, says very bluntly. in Heading editorial
that there was no enthusiasm at all.
If Mckinley makes the same campaign he
did last year. says the Wheeling ". Va Re-
gister. Secretary Foster thinks he would be
IL 4faI Itff 70, tn
sand majority. Last year McKnleys mana
gers spent 100000 in his district. There are
tWenty-One Congressional districts in Ohio so
il Mac made the same fight he did last year
he would need 81, 100000. which can hardly be
fried out OF the protected barons IN time.
And, another thing, Ohio now has the secret
ballot law.
"A New Haven young lady writes from Po-
mona, Los Angeles county, Ca, that in the
shade there the mercury was up 70 llS de-
grees on Thursday Of last week. The heat did
not prevent the publication Of the Pomona
Progress however, and tue paper issued on
that day asks its readers. with a GOODNESS IN
surpassed by an early August frost in Itch
field county: How do you like a small dose
of sultry Eastern weather." The same paper
contains an article about the heat of a week
before which in itself is a suggestion that the
Southern California weather ls at least warm
enough to remind Orange-growers Of the Old
haydn time in New England
A Berlin cablegram day before yesterday
announces that Prince Bismarck Is enjoying
himself greatly at Kissingen. adding that he re-
Gently kissed Young lady. HE young ladyln
question desired, 1t appears, 30 kiss his hand,
but the man OF Blut ind kisen was TOO gallant
for that lie seized her and kissed her ruby
hps with all the ardOr OF bis seyenty-six
years ending with a good squeeze by way of
a clincher. The incident Is suggestive. not
simply Of the fact that pretty girls like 70 be
kissed provided the other party is a famous
man and Of discreet age-but OF the more IN
structye truth that kissing pretty girls has been
a fayorite occupation of all great men of
mature age military men being particularly
given to it.
Sales agents of the anthracite coal compa-
MES at their meeting in New Ork Friday,
determined 10 advance circular prices for Sep
tenber fifteen cents per ton. The lst Of Sep
tembor when this circular rs 70 become eTec-
tive. IS only fortnight away, and as yet there
is not sign IN sight that an advance IN prices
could be sustained. asst week the Reading
colieries producing fully one-third Of the
total anthracite output. were ordered closed
down on Friday and Saturday. and this week
the same order was repeated with the add
tloual restriction limiting the work t. nine
hours during the remaining days OF the week.
This Suspension signifies that the demand 10
not rhorling an outlet for tie current pro-
durtion and the supply must be reduced ia
order that present prices may be kept up.
Jerry Simpson has been telling Wash
ington correspondent a great mnny funny
things. and among other anecdotes relates the
f,liovviup. ION "A rarent RAINY d3v Mrs ease