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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-12-31
THE RICHMOND DIsPAroH THURSDAY, DECEMBER 81 1891
RAILROAD MUST PAY.
DECISION or COUNTY COMMISSION
eRs INVOLVING $4,000.
Thee Buildings Damaged by Fire-peath
Of q Teiesrsph opcrater--oov. Hollis
Acknowledgements nccosd.
,so,c,,l ,elerram % tho Dispa.oh.l

Especial telegram 70 tho Dispason.l
RALrrsH. N. G, December so.-The coun-
ty commissioners here to-day continued
the investigation into the important mat
ter of the liability OF the Raleigh and Gas
ton railway TO taxation, over $4,000 being
involved. The commissioners decided
that the roads charter does not exempt It
and that tho road should paw taxes on
property which they valued at si.72f'oOO.
ExEnPr.
They decided that tho LouisburR branch
road and some rolling stock and other
minor property were exempt Under the
charter. srhe railway gave notice OF up;
neal 10 the Superior Court and Informed
Tho board that when the court hxed tne
amot1nt Of taxes legally due the road would
nav Il eheerfully. This clty's CLAIM Tor
taxes hinges upon this ease.
Bishop Lyinaa has the grip, but 10 not III
bed.
pIArH or JoES BRAGG.
John bragg. son of the late Governor
praro and well known and hayiIg many
relatives in Virginia and North Carolina
died to- night at his home, at M,lmingtOn'
where he was Associated Press operator.
He was suffering from grip, and last night
took an overdose of morphine. IL was I'M
possible TO rally him.
A SMALL FIRE.
Att o'clock this morning FIRE broke out
| in BODYBUILDING on north Market street
here. and was caused by stove near q
wall of resinous planks. The lire when
| discovered had worked its way upwards
and then right and left. 1t damaged three
buildings, all owned by the estate OF the
| late n. V. Denton, to the extent OF about
| $3.50.
EXCELLENT. WORK.
There are now 200 visitors who act under
the direction of the State Board OF Public
| Charities and inspect the various penal
| and charitable institutions. PRESIDENT
| Duffy, Of the board, says the visitors nave
nearly all sent in their reports and have
| done some excellent work,
Governor Holt will deliver an address to
| the negroes here January 1st at tier cele-
| bration of "EInancipation~day" upon spe-
cal invitation. For years this has been
the custom of the Democratic Governors.
The making of 7OO.000.OO0 cigarettes. at
Durham during the present year very far
exceeds any record yet made as to their
manufacture.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-12-31
JoSEs-NTCHEyER.

This evening near here Mr.. j. Wiley Jones
and Miss Lucy Kitchener, members OF old and
well-known county families, we're married.
Many Raleigh people went out to attend the
marriage.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-12-31
Ladies; Plush Jackets.

Ladies' Seal Plush Jackets, trimmed with
genuine mink, reduced from $50 to $50.
Ladies' Seal Plugh Jackets, trimmed Win
beaver, reduced from $40 10 s1e.75.
Ladies' Seal Plush Jackets, trimmed with
watet-mink, reduced from Gao to sl9.75, and
from s35 10 s1T75.
Ladies' Seal Plush Jackets, trimmed with
genuine Astrachan, reduced from $50 10 s1A7e,
and from s35 to sl7.75.
Ladies' Seal Plush Jackets. trimmed with
krimmer, reduced from s35 10 s17.75, aud from
$50 to s14.75.
Ladies' Seal Plush Jackets. reduced from $50
TO sI7.75. from $50 to si4.75. and from $50 to
s1l.75.
Ladies' ssal Plush saoques reduced from s4o
To s24, from $40 TO 1887, and from s2s to
1887.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-12-31
Two Weddings at Raleigh.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dist

Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
RALEIoH, N. c., December 30.-At 10
o'clock this morning at Christ church
here Dr. Kemp p. Bachelor, Of Baltimore,
formerly OF Raleigh, and Miss Fereoe Dewey,
daughter OF 8r. Frank Dewey, were married.
The wedding was fashionable one, and among
the attendants were young people widely known
In society Rev. Dr. Marshall. the rector. per-
formed the ceremony, and Mr.. and Mrs. Batche-
Tor left on morning train for Baltimore. The
groom is a son Of Hon. Joseph Bachelor, OF Ra-
laty
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PERSONAL.

Mr.. W. w. Kitchen. son of Hon. W. II.
Kitchen, spent the holidays at his old
home here. He returned yesterday 10
Roxboro', where he enjoys a fine law prac-
tice.
Miss julia Brewer, daughter of President
Brewer. of the MurfreesborO' Chowan
Baptist Institute, is visiting her relatives
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-12-31
LEXINGTON PResByTeRY MEETS.
The Eikins Proposition for q Male School
Accspted-New Baptist Pastor.

Acospted-New Baptist Pastor.
Especial telegram to tho Dispatch.I
STAUNros, Va, December 3o.-A called
meeting of the Lexington Pres6ytery
was held at the First Presbyterian
church in this city to-day. Among the
members present were Revs. j. n. Vande-
yenter, p. Fletcher A. n. Hamilton, l.. b.
Johnston, Frank Brooke, l.. X. Glasgow,
and Elders Charles Grattan, w. IL. Moor
man, and T. c. Morton.
Rev. p. Fletcher opened the meeting
with prayer, the Rev. ]. N. Vandeventer
taking the chair as moderator, with Rev.
i. b. Johnston acting secretary. One OF
the principal objects of this called meet
ing was to receive the report of commit
tee appointed by the presbytery at its last
stated session, which was to consider the
proposition of certain capitalists TO con-
tribute largely towards the establishment
OF a Presbyteriah male school Of Elkins,
w. Va. Twenty thousand dollars IN money
and large tract of land adjacent to that
town are offered. provided the Lexington
Presbytery devotes $4,000 to the same Cd
ject.
RECOMMENDED ACCEPTANCE.
The committee, speaking through Rev.
Mr.. Brooke, recommended that the offer
be accepted, and that committees be APP
pointed TO solicit subscriptions. The plan
IS regarded as easily feasible, and the
presbytery will carry it through.
Elder Charles Grattan opposed the &C.
ceptance OF the committees report. as he
was doubtful OF the success of sectarIan
schools except in the case OF the higher
, colleges, but finally the presbytery re-
solved TO accept the proposition from the
Elkins capitalists.
The Rev. w. ]. e. Cox. the new pastor
OF the Baptist church of this city, arrived
with his family this morning from Mays
| vile, Ky. MIR. Cox was met at the train
by large delegation from his new congre.
| CATION. The installation Of the new pas
tor will take place Friday.
Julius. Switzer, of the Arm OF Lewis
Cohen Il Co, died here to-day of pneu-
monia. He leaves widow and two chill
| dren.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-12-31
ChiLdren's Jackets.
Children'S CIoakS.

Children's CIO0kS.
4-YEAR SIZE.
81 Cloaks reduced to S2.25.
So Cloaks reduc sd 10 S30s.
S3 Cloaks reduced 70 e1.70.
6-YEAR SIZE.
"a Cloaks reduced 10 1925.
90 Cloaks reduced 10 s3.0S.
$3.50 Cloahs reduced to s5.0S.
s10 Cloaks reduced TO S6.ps.
$3.50 Cloaks reduced 10 e5.9S.
sl4 Cloaks reduced to 1915.
els Cloaks reduced TO @l0.
S-YEAB SIZE.
s450 Cloaks reduced to s2.9S.
60 Cloaks reduced to 1897.
$3.50 Cloaks reduced 70 S475.
90 CIoaks reduced TO 1915.
$40 Cloaks reduced 10 S6.45.
Ella Cloaks reduced 20 1910.
1925 Cloaks reduced TO $1,000.
I0-YEAR SIZE.
"a Cloaks reduced to s2.25.
$3.50 Cloaks reduced to Sass.
SO Cloaks reduced TO 1887.
$3.50 Cloaks reduced to $500.
sl0 Cloaks reduced TO $685..
Sl4 Cloaks reduced to 1906.
sI6 Cloaks reduced TO s10.75.
12-YEAR SIZE.
"a Cloaks reduced to 1926.
e. Cloaks reduced TO s2.95.
60 Cloaks reduced TO $3.50.
$3.50 Cloaks reduced TO 1885.
$3.50 Cloaks reduced to S7.75.
ais Clohks reduced 10 S13.
I4-YEAR SIZE.
sl4 C!oaks reduced 70 1915.
$40 Cloaks reduced TO $1,000.
ego Cloaks reduced to s14.
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THE LAST
GRAND MARK-DOVN
.CLOAES AND WRAPS.
PRICES CGT WITHOUT MERCY.

Every CLOAK, WRAP, JACKET, or NEW
MARKET In the house for ladies, misses, and
children reduced In price that means lose to us
Of thouss ndsof dollars. II you ever expect to
need wrap OF any kind take advantage OF this
last greas mark-down at your earliest oppor-
tunity, for such prices as these don't come but
once In q lifetime.
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ADVERTISING RATES
ulfe txnts oafkea

Reading notices in reading.msitcr type, nVe
iircs or less. e.; in nonpareil loaded, zoe.
Card Of rates for moro space furnished on ap-
'piication.
The Lamar register., 1891-12-05
The Railway Mail Service.

James f. White, superintendent of
the railway mail service, has submitted
his annual report to the second assistant
postmaster general 1t shows that at the
close of the fiscal year the mails were car
ried on l59,5lS miles of railroad in the
United States. Postal clerks were en-
ployed in the distribution of the mails on
l4O, "a miles. The total number of cars
under control of the department. is 9, 9Sl.
AT the close of the fiscal year under re-
view there were 1,Osg railway postofice
lines in operation, in which postal clerks
were employed in the separation and dis
tribution of the mails. There were also
81 steamboat lines. A total of 5,565 clerks
were at work on those lines. There were
added during the year 4, 73O65 miles of new
service, making an increase of 3O6 per
cent. The lines upon which service was
performed by postal clerks show an in
crease of 3, ,1T2,62 miles, or 2.3l per cent.
There are 6,O32 clerks on the rolls, being
an increase of 1876 men or s.s6 per cent,
while the record of annual mileages shows
an increase of d,Tl3, S37 miles, or 8 per cent.
in distance travelled in the performance of
duty, and Sos, SIS, ,463 pieces, or SO per cent.
in the quantity Of mail matter distributed.
Mr.. White recommends the enactment of
law providing for the retirement of all
permanent railway postal clerks on one
third or one-halt pay, who have been inca
pacitated for further work by reason of
age, or injuries received while in the dis
charge of official duties, etc. The fund
out of which the clerks so retired is to be
created by Withholding sum equal to one
half Of l per cent per anuum of the salary
Of each clerk.
The Lamar register., 1891-12-05
Railroads are Liable.

The question of responsibility on
the part of railroads in cases of injury to
persons riding on pass was settled on
the lst by the New York Court OF Appeals
in the case of Ira Hunter, respondent
against the New York, Lake Erie s. W est
ern Railroad Company, appellant on sp-
peal for Judgment from the general term,
second department, Affirming a Judgment
for sea. 555 in favor Of plaintiff.
The action was brought to recover for
injuries received while riding on train Of
defendants cars in May, lsSs. The de
fendant sought to avoid liability by alleg-
ing that plaintiff was riding on pass, and
that its servants were not guilty of negli-
gence. The Court of Appeals holds that
the decision of the general term awarding
damages should be sustained, and this
practically decides the question that rail
roads are liable Cor accidents to pass
holders.
The Lamar register., 1891-12-05
Mexican Stock Thieves.

One of the most desperate and no
torious gang OF bandits ever in Mexico has
been operating in lampico and ueighbor-
hood for the past seyerrl months. The
sufferers in nearly every instance at
the hands of this lawless gang have been
Americans. One contractor named Thomas
Heron, formerly Of Denver, Colorado,
who has been employed on the ietties, is a
loser of forty y-fve valuable mules, which
the thieves drove of one night recently.
Governor Prieto was appealed TO few
weeks ago TO render assistance in stopping
these depredations, and upon his authority
detectives are engaged in working on the
case. They have already discovered that
prominent government authorities are
members OF the band, and that they are
owners of steamers plying between Tam
pico and other coast points which are used
TO ship the stolen stock
The Lamar register., 1891-12-05

THERE is no dodging the fact that
the indiscriminate slaughter of birds
for their plumage is responsible for
the alarming increase of injurious in
sects. Never in the history of the
farm and garden have the farmer and
gardener been compelled to fight such
= variety and such a quantity of in
sect pests as they are now compelled
to fight! Insecticides have become
almost as necessary to the growth OF
grain and vegetable products and OF
ruit as seed and the ha rrow.
The Lamar register., 1891-12-05
New York's Vote.

The state board of canvassers has
completed the canvass Of the returns 70,
state officers. The official fignres show
that Roswell P. Flower received So. 50.
votes and Jacob Sloat Fasset 533, g55 votes
Flowers plurality, IS, q39. William F.
Sheehan, Democratic candidate for lieu
tenantgovernor ran about 5000 behind
Flower. His plurality over John w
Vrooman, his opponent is a, 43O FranE
Rice, Democratic candidate for secretary
of state, is elected by IS, 15S plurality over
Eugene F. O'Conner. He ran nearly 10,
900 behind the head of the ticket The
average plurality for the Democratic state
ticket was 43, 5O7. Joseph Bruce, Prohi
bition candidate for governor, got &c. 6.sy
votes. He ran behind the other Prohi
6ltlonists on the state ticket by about
1000 The Socialist Labor candidate.
averaged about l., 600 votes
The Lamar register., 1891-12-05
Post Office Salaries.

The annual report of First Assistant
Postmaster General Whitfield, on the sub.
iect OF salaries and allowances, will show
that the adjustment Of presidential post
masters salaries, in effect July /, 1891, re.
suited in i2S offices being assigned to the
first class, coz to the second class, and
2,245 to the third class, making a total OF
2,e34 presidential Offices July l, 1891. This
was net increase of 12 first class. 5s
second class, and 1ss third class offices,
the aggregate amount of presidential sala
ries being s5,047, 200, or an increase OF
S4S4 200, or "a per cent. as compared with
the same item for 1890. The aggregate ex
penditure for compensation to postmaster,
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891.
amounted to sl4, 526, 999,
The Lamar register., 1891-12-05
Attempt to Kin Or. John Han.

As DIR. John Hall. pa.tor Of the
Fifth Avenue PresbyteriGn church, In New
York, was passing from the church TO the
parsonage adjoining, lust after the close OF
the morning service lat Sunday, a man
named John Rzth, a German S5 year. old
stepped from behind wagon on the opposite
side Of the avenue, and cred three shots
in quick succession at the reverend gentle
man as he was ascending the steps of his
residence. The nrst shot struck the stone
steps OF the doctors house, the second
perforated one Of the glass panels Of the
front door and the third hAttelsd itself
against the side Of the house.
The shooter coolly put the pistol, : Eve.
cham bered revolver Of the pattern known
as THE Young America, p in his pocket
while Mr.. A. E. Dick, a member of DR..
Halls church, and the sexton jumped upou
him and held him until the arrival of an
officer
He made no resistance whatever and
was led away to the Fifth street station
house and locked up. Shortly afterward
DIR. Hall went 70 the police station and
preferred complaint against the prisoner.
Rath is heavy, well-built man, with
whlskers and moustache, well dressed and
has the appearance Of well to-do busi-
ness man He gave his business as that
OF real estate agent A great crowd was
present when the shooting occurred and
for awhile the most intense excitement
prevailed.
About fifty people followed the oficer TO
the station and saw that the prisoner was
safely landed behind the bars. Itvas an
eminenty respectable crowd, composed
mostly Of church going people, many of
whom were members of DR.. Halls church.
hence there was no riot, attempt at rescue,
nor threats of lynching.
?he prisoner was evidently not in his
right mind. He muttered abouta a con.
spiracy which he imagined existed again..
hlHi' and papers found on his person
showed the bias of his imagination. There
We're two OF these documents, one in man.
uscript and the other printed hut bo,h
were substantially the same
The Lamar register., 1891-12-05

II h comforting to know upon the
authority OF Sir Joseph Fayrer, the
eminent English physician and scion
sist that preventative medicine has
made great progress in this century
and promises, If it cannot exterminate
zymotic disease it can make the soil
upon which its seed is sown so inhos-
pitable as to render it sterile. Roughly
speaking, it has been ascertained that
of all the mortality In civilized COM
munities within the temperate zone a
quarter is caused by preventabls dis
sase
The Lamar register., 1891-12-05
A FORMIDABLE CRUISER.
Launching of the New York at PhiIa-
delphia.

Launching OF the New York at Phila-
delphia.
The United States armored cruiser
New York was launched Wednesday after
noon from the yard of the Cramp Ship
Building Company, in the presence Of
Is, 900 people, among whom were the sec
retaries of the navy, treasury and interior
departments, United States senators, con
gressmen, high naval officials and repre-
sentative business men and professional
men from all parts of the country.
When the New York is finished she will
be the most formidable cruiser that has
ever fioated the stars and stripes, and she
is the largest and most powerful engine
steamship ever bnilt outside of European
ship yards If the designs of her builders
are fulfilled there is nothing afioat to-day
of her class that will be able to steam from
her or engage with her with any great
hopes of victory.
The New York, though not exactly q
sister Of the Maine and Texas, recently
launched at Brooklyn and Norfolk navy
yards respectively, has many features in
common with these vessels. She will
carry battery of six eightinch breech
loading rifles, twelve four-inch rapid fir
ing guns, eight six Founders, four gattling
guns and six torpedo tubes. Two of the
eight-inch guns will be mounted on bar
bette forward on the upper deck, and two
in a similar barbette aft, while the remain
ing two will be carried in broadside amid.
ships and the upper deck
The Lamar register., 1891-12-05

WE are foremost in inventive, con-
structive and mechanical industries.
In the finer departments of design and
decoration we are far behind the ma
tions in Europe that have manual com
bined with literary instruction in their
popular schools; and in the higher
grades of all our industries demand
ing trained hands and knowledge Of
design we were in the beginning, and
to considerable degree still are de-
pendent on European races for think
ers and executants. Had manual
training been regular part of the
common school instruction of the
country the last fifty years the position
OF our arts and crafts would be far
more advanced and native designers
and skilled artisans would have taken
and handed down to their children the
high and profitable places so long held
by foreigners.
The Lamar register., 1891-12-05
have no sympathy with the cry


many critics of our charits BILE
institutions that too much is done for
the inmates, and that our almshouses
are crowded because they offer tempt
ing retreats for the vicious and lazy,
If we must err in the conduct of our
charitable and reformatory institutions
and while they represent so serious
a problem to the best minds the world
over 1t is likely we shall not get right
at once-let us by all means err en- the
side of generosity and humanitarian
ism. None but q morbid sense will
fear that we shall be imposed upon to
any great extent The life OF an in
stitution at its best is necessarily hard
and barren of these features, which
make less material comforts endurable
and far more desirable, 1t is stern ne
cessity rather than desire we are con-
vinced, that sends the majority to our
public houses of refuge.
The Lamar register., 1891-12-05
How Chinese Assassins wors.

A dispatch from Shanghai says:
The northern rebels arc steadily ParsuiHg
their n area IN a soatheriy dirrctioa 2ad
the Caiaese troops appear uuwillHs or uH-
able 70 stop their career Tae rebels have
captured the important wall city Of Leo.
Yang, and compelled the Inhabitants 70
furnish them with abundant supplies IL
IS act reported that ARy serious oltrsEcs
were committed there ant This goes 10
coaGTIa prevalent Impression that he AoR.
EuIiAE insurgents Erv not merely preaa-
tory bzHd, but have : definite Gcssgz in
the undertaking Tbe posseRstuz q Leo
Yang gives the robcis eoairol of Sz crtez-
siye trade both in laad and villa TIE Euli
Of Leo ToaE Troops arc beiEg hurried
from Pcsiu 70 oppose The ro5e, AGy@zcc-
Horrible details have bccz resolved Of
the massacre q the Belgian missioEzrios
and native Christians a. IeA1yA Nzd Sea
CHI By the Culuese The CErlstlzGs were
attacked without uzEaiHE and s.4 En
chance 70 escape The rioters nrst sSised
tie nuns, all Of whom were subjected 70
indiEniJies aad outrage before being 70
lieye4 by death A Belgian priest was
Drained al blow The rrzds thea .eiIod
the body and tore out the ioague and hs&r'
aAd buraod them. The aAtlys Chrisiisas
were treated cvca more horribly.
They were NOT permitted 70 die swift
death- The miserczai, seized TIE wrptchsi
converts, VITO had Ted in vain 70 the mis-
sion, and subjected thea 10 fearful tor.
tures- Their childrea were seized aud some
backed 70 pieces zHd others roasted alive
before the eyes of theiT A<unIzsd pzrcats
Thea the parents were taken zld treated
with a cruelty thai oaIy Chinese under,
stant. After suffering various toTfGres,
such IS still lived were sIAaFhserea-
The mAudArlus seem 70 either have sGr
orcd the rioters or 70 have teen oyencoms
b. fear Instead Of attempting 70 sap
press their yto.eace or protesting against
IL they welcomed the RardcrcTs, red
handed from the slaughter AHd spread =
feast and held fete IN their honor. II
would be hard 70 deplc; the feelings Of
Europeans In Shanghai aud other.plzoes 81
the relation Of these horrors. They are not
angry sIuplyr they are furious and ther,
is an universal demand from AL foreign.
ers for punishment that will bring the
Chinese TO their senses SAd impress. a
never ODE forgotten lcss0n
The Lamar register., 1891-12-05

The real result of a general muster
ing out of the armies of Europe would
be that some of them would cause an
additional production in agriculture,
which would be the purchasing power
of an additional consumption for the
products of mines, mills and textile
factories; others would go into mining,
and with the increased production of
that industry purchase more of the
products of agriculture, mills and tex
tile factories; and SO on through the
whole round of industries The result
must, under normal conditions be in
creased production, with equally In
creased consumption, in addition to the
relief of the people from an immense
load Of taxation.