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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-06-30
urs,SESs MEN IN POLITICS.

With lis usual sledge-hammer common
sense. and in his accustomed nervous, con-
else and direct style, Mr. Cleveland, in his
speech before the Commercial Club, Of Provi-
dence. Il. J.. Saturday nieht-publishedin our
teleeraphic columns Sunday morning
spoke some very wholesome truths TO bust
ness men concerning the duty Of their taking
an active interest in politics. He told them
that they are too often apt to neglect this
duty unless they are DESTROYS of securing
special legislation to forward individual or
particular interests, and the consequences
were pernicious in the extreme. Theresult was
that rs q rule. the conduct of political affairs.
both local and general, We're left to profess
sional ward politicians and wire-pulers who
care nothing for the public welfare, but only
seek to advance their own selfish ends, and
this is why there is such frequent complaints
everywhere of inefiiciency in public Office
and maladmuistration in municipal and other
governments
There is no denying the truth Of Mr.. Cleye-
lands words Nothing Is more common than
for business men o. declare that politics Is
not in their line and that they have no time
TO listen to anything of the sort. and yet when
trouble comes, from no source do more
bitter complaints arise than from them. The
ex-President Is. therefore, as clearly and un-
mistakeably in the right as he usually ID
when he urges upon business men and all good
citizens generally TO reform themselves in this
respect He tells them what they cannot
gainsay when he says that all intelligent men
in every community should lend their earnest
efforts to the promotion of good government,
and that otherwise they have no right to find
fault when they feel themselves suffering
from the incompetency, carelessness, or cor
ruption OF officials permitted by their apathy
to occupy places of trust, honor and response
bility. lie expresses only u plain, practical
truth when he says that business men. as
well as men of other occupations and callings
have a duty 10 perform return for the bless
ings they en- oy under free government, and
tins duty should be rendered willingly and
Loyalty. with 40 other hope of reward than
that Of the consciousness of a patriotic obi
CATION worthily fulfilled"
All citizens DESTROYS of promoting the pros
perity and welfare of their respective COM
munities should give heed TO these words Of
wisdom. If they would DO so we would soon
cease TO hear OF frauds aud mafeasances in
Office. and there would no longer be the ne
cessity for the popular upnsings which now
are 80 frequently heard Of when maladminis-
tration of public affairs has reached the point
where patience ceases TO he virtue, and
where apathy and indifference are no longer
safe
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Too Much sentimentalism.



Great improvements have been made m the
last Jew years in the treatment of criminals
confined I'm the American prisons but the
question is whether we have not gone too lar
and are coddling the prisoners 10 much.
4 late publication on what are styled
THE Collegiate and Hotel Prisons OF the
United States points out the extent tOWhlch
the sentimentalists have carried prison
management. and the manner IN winch tie
criminals are now beng coddieu. Three
prisons are selected for criticism. those no
Elmira, ~ y. at Concord. Mass, ana at
Folsom. Cal If the facts stated n regard 10
these are true and they are stated in the
most authoritative manner II would bee we'll
to investigate for the purpose Of determining
whether the criminals are not better treated
than the unfortunate WOrAmen VINO nave
committed ~ crime
At timira the prisoners are provided with
Turkish baths ami given the massage treat
meut. There Is "a military organization with
in the prison. and the cOuyicts actually Dear
titles-are captain, heutenauts and cOrporas.
The have lectures and concerts. are Taught
trades ami are generally as well treated as FAC
tory hands Proficiency in scholarship ~
made ground for early reease and the terms
10 which prisoners are sentenced can Dee r.
duced 10 One-Quarter of their original duration
by q sort of ciyil-serylce examination.
At the California State prison at Folsom
the conyicts are not compelled To work unless
thew wish to. If they work their fare Is i'm
proved. and they get soups. vegetables,
meats. syrups and coffee tea and Gaze and
meat suppers chops and steaks at breakfast
as we'll as supper. with hot rolls, and dinner
worthy OF a good hotel.
is not this going little too far; 50 one
wants 10 revive the crur.te5 and atrocities Of
the old prison system. but the .entimeutalsm
which provides q diet Ike that mentioned,
Turkish baths and Injuries winch a large ma
jority Of honest work ngmen are denied, Is as
great mistake in the other direction.
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the NEVIS SUMMARY.

The Winstons defeated the Richmonds in a
score OF . to 7.-Ball games to-day at Island
PArk-Yarious church notes-Mr William
Marshall diod.-The strikers appeared before
the fire commissioners were fifty-two
deaths in Richmond last week
VIRGINIA
Domestic trouble led to a fight between John
Warrenton, his wife and her father, Mr. William
Francis, in Petersburg. Warrenton and Fran
els were arrestod.-Nancy Bland, a colored
woman of Petersburg, fell dead yesterday.
A bloody and fatal fight took place
near Bowling Green between Addison Mel
son and Kelley Mock, both colored.-
The colored people Of Lynchburg are making
elaborate preparations for the coming of John
Jasper. of sun DO Move" fame.-Ihe resi-
dence Of the Misses Urquhart in Campbell
county, was destroyed by fire Sunday. Profess
sor John Wyatt, of Lynchburg, Is dangerously
m.-A local insurance company was organ
ICED in Danville yesterday George Langwell
white seriously injured Harrison Gerst ,col-
ored) in an alteration in Danville yesterday.
The State Teachers Institute will begin =
three days session in Bedford City tonight.
WASHINGTON.
The fight Of the Knights Of labor against
she Bureau OF ing and Printing IN Wash
ington is progress ing.-Senators Plumb and
Pettigrew think that material N )dihcation Of
Che Mckinley law viii be passed by the next
Congress. Washing Oh Star has pur-
chased the Evening Critic
NEW YORK
The American tobacco Company proposes to
Increase the common stock l23000 shsres.-H.
J.. Huston announced 10 the Cotton Exchange
yesterday that he was unabable 10 keep his en-
gagements.-1he celebrated st. Iernard,
Prince Regent, arrived yesterday from Liver
pool.-Hev. William Ii. Ogden, of Warrens-
burg. n. Y, dropped dead while preaching SUM-
day.--The Knights OF Labor will reopen their
fight on the Third Avenue Surface Railroad
The revolution in Hayti continues
The payments on pension accounts for June
amounted 10 Sil,6e2,OO 900 Tammanys coming
celebration OF Independence Day is fraught
with great political sigRfcance.--It is assert
ed that the Long Branch course will open
afeut July 7th,--The body Of Count Charles
Albert Festetets, who died suddenly IN Jersey
City Thursday, is still in the receiving inn Of
she New York Bay cemetery number Of
Greeks IN New York will give dinner to Prince
George OF Greeoe.--Rev. DR.. f. p. Ierhune
has resigned the pastorate Of the Bedford
avenue Dutch church, OF Brooklyn.
GENERAL.
Judge schenck and his three sons, Of Green's
boro, will be srraigned for their assault upon
Rev. Mr.. Fife. The people Of Raleigh, \. c.,
uphold Judge Schenck The Teachers Assem-
bis at hoorehead City. n. C., has adjourned.-
Inc North Carolina Railroad Commission began
their WORK OF assessing railroads for taxation
al haiei2h yesterday.--E Elaborate preparations
are being made In Raleigh, n. c. for the Fourth
OF July ceieoFatlon.--A meeting Of the Farm
ers' Alliance OF Eastern North Carolina was held
hdoidsboro Saturday, at which collection
was taken for the Davis monument
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Two or three of our farmer friends have re-
Gently written to The TINES complaining OF
the quotations Of grain being published as
nominal" They say that this gives them no
idea of the actual state of the market, and
leaves them entirely ct sea regarding prices.
They desire to know if this state Of affairs
cannot be remedied. The TINES has taken
the trouble 10 investigate this matter, and it
is Tins explained by Mr.. p. A. Sublett. chair
man of the committee on quotations of the
Richmond Grain and Cotton Exchange:
The term nominal" will be used very lit
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It begins TO dawn upon the people of Ohio
that John Sherman Is a rmmer and some
vat oi a political coward. When he requested
to he elected delegate & tho present State
convention his friends supposed he would
push the Foraker crowd aside and assume the
first threat Of a row by the other fellows
fri htened Long John, and be called bis fol-
lowers of Bushnell is chairman of the con-
veution, and the anti-Sherman men are in the
lead at every point. IL will be remembered
that at the Toledo convention four years ago
the Foraker crowd made a 81 ilar onslaught
on Sherman and drove him 10 cover. BE Is
not fighter for himself. He is afraid he
doesn't possess the stuff that made his brother,
Tecumseh famous
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The continued drain of gold % Europe
nearly -6OOl.0OO having been exported last
week and upwards of -oj,Ol0,oOJ since Jauu-
ary lst would. under ordinary circumstan eS.
lead 10 the conclusion that the long expected
parting of the metals had been reached aud
that gold was about % cease Co be money ID the
United States and become commodity. The
expectation of more than twice the yearly
product of American gold Ia less than SIX
months is a thing unheard of IN the financial
history OF this country since the war. hat
a continuation Of tie drain of gold CD Europe
at a like ratio for the remainder of tie year
would create monetary stungency and lend %
financial disturbance and silver basis Tor
American money affairs is scarcely 10 be
doubted.
Many Of our leading business men, however,
expeCt the trade soon 60 set thls way, and tie
cold that has gone abroad t. return IN pay
ment for the American wheat that Europe
must buy 10 feed its population. The estl-
mates OF the wheat shortage N Europe vary
somewhat but the lowest place II ut ~ .0DO.-
600 bushels. ID this estimate is correct the
( nited States must furnish One-hall 81 the te-
felt. or $50. GOO. 900 bushels in round numbers.
which IS nearly jo,OOJ,OOO bushels more than
the average export II American wheat Tor the
mast three wears How this extra wheat at the
advanced price that must be paid for 10 can be
purchased without the return oil the American
gold shipped abroad Is what American tnan-
ciers cannot sec.
The good crop Of wheat in prospect in this
country the lowest estimate placing it az
500 900 bushels. and the certainty that it
will be in demand at good price make the
prospects of the wheat farmers more rosy
than those Of any other class of our citizens.
Railway building Is dull. manuiactoro- are
overstocked with goods and the unsettled
financial condition discourages embarkatOu
in new enterprises When the farmers are
prosperous however. all other business gets "a
boom. and it may be hoped that the t.llers f
the soil arr 10 have a good year. not only ON
their own account but because the prosperity
OF the farmers means the prosperity Of tie
whole community.
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Comments on Current Topics '""'"
Leading Journnis.
fw..h.noion Post

4
Judge MARITIME New forSs eminent criminal
;rdce has set an example which other courts
iii do well 10 emulate A lawyer VINO WAS
s"ngeged in defending n man who nao Plu' al
tass,en his wife 20 death resortcd % VIZ oiue
,;,n,, trick of the defense and had 'he Slsicl oI
sha defendant brought into court ana even q
. .ne so that she could punctuate the proceed
;nas with her sobs. In this instance The IN
,a5ti"n was so plain that Judge MARITIME s9s-
nended the trial and ordered that the
p l'nn'sn be taken from the courtroom.
n is too frequently the case that justice IS
aoeeated by this sort of dramatic whimperlng
IN o1r cIuTt-rooms. 1t is not unnatural that
he relatives and friends of persons who are
on trial for criminal ohenses should oc-
casionally be overcome by their feelings. tut
tbis practice of getting up CRYING match, IN
which the Judge. jurors, attorneys tor the
defense. and the spectators are expected u
participate. has become altogether, 100 COM
mon. The people have come to look on It
as a mere lawyers trick. and there IS a de-
mgnd that it be stopped.
Judge MARITIME is the first TO inaugufate a
reform in this line, and his action Will
probably have the effect Of inspiring other
iudges to put curb on this hypocntlcal
Justice defeating trick.
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Mats Worth Millions.


The most valuable Oriental mats in the
world are owned by the Shah, the sultan
and the Maharaa Of. Bareda. The former
two possess some valued at over e. 50i,0O
each. and the latter one ornamentod with
pearls and diamonds said to be- worth $685.
0OO The largest mat ever manufactured.
however. splendid work OF art, is owned by
the Carlton Club. in London.
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DAVIS MONUMENT.

Now that 50 much public interest is felt as
to the best methods Of raising the large fund
which will be required for the erection Of a
suitable monument to the memory Of Mr..
Davis, it is not inappropriate to remark that
the Southern people would highly approve Of
large State appropriations for this purpose.
When the final burial-place Of Mr.. Davis
body has been selected each Southern State
that has the constitutional power as soon as
its Legislature meets. should set apart as con-
siderable sum as its financial condition vii
permit to swell the volume of the popular col
lections.
The Davis monument fund should amount,
if possible, to half million or even to NIL
lion of dollars There are few persons in the
South, as compared with the great body of its
white population who would not make a
liberal subscription in proportion to their
means to this fund, and if these private sub
scriptions are supplemented by large State
appropriations the fund will be enormous.
The monument itself should he to Mr.
Davis as the leading representative # the
Confederacy. and it would lie highly becom-
ING that the States that belonged 10 the Con-
federacy should furnish in equal proportions
the granite or marble that will be required for
the pedestal
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-06-30

Chicken cholera and pips prevented and
cured by Simmons liver Regulator
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HICKoK'S No. I, III. ID. C., FIG, Ann
CAROLINE sUN-CURED ARE PURE, CLEAN
AND CHOICE suN-CUkED TOBACCOs. TRY
THEM.
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TUESDAY. JUNE 20, 1891.
EIGHT PAGES.
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A SYNDICATE with 81, 900, 900 are about to e1-

A SYNDICATE with 81, 900, 900 are about to ex-
pertinent with cocoanut and sugar-raising on
a H., OOO-acre farm in Florida Ii is only an
experiment, but under any circumstances
Florida will be the gamer. If it succeeds it
will be source Of much wealth TO the State,
while if it fails it will be the means of putting
considerable money In circulation.
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Sun rises............4:,3 Moon rises.-..loA. NJ
sun sct..............1:33 Days length.~iih i0m
PORT OF RICHMOND, JUyE, &c. 1891.
ARRIVED.
Schooner Charles Lawrence. TAYLOR kenne-
bee, .IrllOni lee Company; schooner George
b.. AId .u. Gales. New ork. cement Warner
Moore Il co.. Soho n.f Fannie Brown. Sharrett,
Aow YORK. soda AAsonG Addison
SAILED.
schooner Helen Montague, Adams. Ports
mouth. via orient. J.. b., lyrites aui ple ron
vessel. .ultrH ItfA'f. schooner Johh hc'rn-
Mss. hiesn baltimore, railroad ICES. vessel
Curtis d Parker.
PORT OF WEST POINT, JUNE g, i,l.
ARRIVED.
Steamship Baltimore Baltimore. merchan-
disc and nast,ug T.. stc0m ship DIty OF AT
lanta, Sew York merchandise.
SAILED,
Steamship CITY Of Atlanta, New York, mcr-
chaulisc; s.eamship Baltimore. Baltimore, msr-
cnaut.e ana pas -ensrfa-
PORT OF NEWPORT NEWS. JuNE ~. 1891
ARRIVED.
Schoonors Eva r. Douglass. New York. Nellie
7. Morse, rs. r. Houston. Alice Is. Phillips, King
IN ll'p salem. George y. davenport u. s.
Ogden. Boston, Nl for cos. steamship Ashley,
Pensacola, Co coal AMI aled Tor amsterdam.
SAILED.
Steamship Blueheld. tor Bluedeld
PORT OF LAMBERrS POINT, JUNE29, 1891.
ARRIVED.
American steamship Orion; hargos Storm
King and Neereus schoOners G.. d. Hall John
Paul, Ohm Holland, e.. Vi. Grant.
LOADED.
Sohooners NJ g. Randall New London. F..
RardalI Nc@ Haven; g. ID. Hall Saco. Me-
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XXTANTED- An EXPEhIENCED 81.
w NESS MAN. who is hrsi-ciass BOON
engagement Address BUSINESS. care Car
rler No. 81 l'-'s.
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VXTANTED-B Ats FAST CLAY.
W Pleasant rooms and good fare on moderate
terms Mis-. BkAAION.
ie %S-2t
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IL view Of the controversy between the Lo-
connective works and the machinsts the arti-
Gle from the American Machinist published
in another column. will be read with interest
by all who have followed the discussion Of the
subject in this paper.
There has been no disposition to degrade
or disparage skilled machinst, but rather
10 relieve him of monotonous drudgery
At least that is the way we understand the
matter
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Tur Gordonsville Sun-Herad. in its last IS
sue. makes numerous unguarded allegations
against TIE TIMES in connection with the
news report Of the meeting OF the Richmond
stockholders Of the Gordon Land Company,
recently published in this paper, and prefers
charges of animosty and hostility TO Cor
louisville against us which are so palpably I'M
just that we would pass them by unnoticed
but for the reason that they reflect upon our
prerogatives as a newspaper.
The meeting referred to was composed Of
not less than forty gentlemen who rank among
Richmond's best business men The meeting
was deliberate and formal. A member of The
TINES reportorial staff was in attendance and
heard tie report of the committee read. as
well as the entire state of affairs of the COM
pany discussed. What transpired was accu-
rately reported, without comment, as a matter
of public interest.
THy TINES has frequently referred TO Cor
louisville favorably, as well as to this COM
pany. and has several times published letters
from there booming" the town. 1t has no
policy in the matter, hostile or otherwise. ex-
cept TO furnish its readers with the current
news
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schooner Helen Montague. Adams Ports
mouth. via Orient J.. b., lyrltes aul pig iron
ye.-.I .utsH Parker. schooner john Mctun-
Mss Higgins. Baltimore, railroad ICES. vessel,
Curtis IS Parker.
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RAIDER 81 CO., i23 Sycamore street. Peters
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