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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-10-30
STEAMBOATS,.
old DOMINION STEAMSHIP CON
~ PANY.


Oh DOMINION FAN STEAMSHIP '0A
TRf.wEEKLY LINE FOR NEW YORK:
+ rS StsaTer' rtI f@sf hicV WE'D.
~ NEsbAY and FRIDAY at s
HEM i. NJ Manifest closed one
D%sAN hour before sailing time.
Ss+SI'N> Steamers leave .Sew YORK
Tor Richmond EVERY MON
DAY, "WEDNESDAY and SAT.
IsRDAY nj 3 +. NJ, arriving In Richmond
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY
passeneer Accommodations unsurpassed.
cdhin fare to New York Qncludlng
meals and BERTH via James river I'M
pl route. tickets. limited to thirty -
days after tgte of issue. ....,...'.' ~ "
Storage fare. with subsistence 49, . "
Steerage fare, without subsistence ohio ,"
burg rSr railroad tickets limited 10 four . M
po DAYS frio tickets. limited to ifteen
d II,yset. can be obtained at Richmond
Transfer Company 9ol east Nam S'reetj
P Petersburs depots, and at the company's
Office, 1901 east Main street, and "hart'
hf Freieht received daily until p. NJ.
passsngers leaving Richmond on MON.
DAYS WEDNESDAYS. THURSDAYS and
SATURDAYS by the tnesdpe IKE anu onio
railway VIA Newport News) nj a ";
ard by Richmond and Petersburg raiiroso
same DAYS. at A. NJ. will make connec-
ton at Norfolk with steamers leaving those
days
No. 1901 Main street ana
iy1o-tf Company's Wharf, Rocsetts
VIRGINIA STEAMBOAT CoMPANY'S
Y JAMES EIN Ek lane for the seasnore.
cheapest and mcst pleasant route 10 Nor
folk, Portsmouth. Newport News, Clare.
mont aud James river landings. Connec.
tIons: AT NEWPORT NEWS and NORFOLK
for OLD POINT, HAMPTON and
smIthaeld. Va, Washington. y. O., Bald.
more. philadelphia aud New York. James
river BY daylight. Great tourist line.
jamestown, Dutch Gap and war scenery.
Rates less than half charged by rail. Fare
to Portsmouth and Norfolk, $l.oo; Nyo
round trip: 81 second las, Leayes Rich s
F FEipAY VA al 4. II. isIREET CAhs 90
DiRECTLY 10 STEAMERS WHARF for
abOye-named places. Through tickets on
sale ON steamer and az CARRIERS Agency,
No 9Ol Main street. Baggage checked
through. State-rooms engaged for day or
night -, -.
oIna: also for Eastern Shore OF Virginia
and all regular landings on the James ana
| Rappahannock rivers, az LOWEST RATES,
| and through bills Issued.
LUCIEN Il. TATUM, vice-presldent,
No 1f17 Main street and Rocketts.
| Irvin Weisiger, Freight and Passenger Asens.
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some such title as this, THE Curse Of
Oglethorpe Manor"
light Turn up the light little higher.
good Caesar, and let the band play some
thing lively.
LrE IN LoNELYvILLE
Even as we look a simple lad comes
that way, with the ungainly gait OF those
poor creatures who are not full witted.
He drops an awkward salutation as he
passes on his way TO some boyish scheme
of woodcraft. He wears square skull
cap and white oyeralls. and seems gro
tesquely In keeping with the tumble down
place, as IL perchauce he were a part OF
the imaginary curse After him comes
sore-eyed man, who looks as II he. too.
represented a part OF the general dilapi-
dation. And then silence falls upon
the scene, broken only by the whisper
ing OF the dry autumn leaves and the
murmur OF the distant brook. until one
feels 2 sense Of loneliness and begins to
look about for other signs Of life.
A little further on. little deeper In the
wood. one comes upon a clothes-line full
OF clothes. This familiar evidence OF life
is a positive relief. and a small boy bang
ing away on a boys small apology for
a drum for the first time in his life Is a
source OF positive pleasure to nervous
man.
HUMPTY DUMPTY HAD FALL.
As for the ruins, they are all about
you. Building after building tumbling
down and long since gone to rack and
ruin. Brick walls and raftered roofs all
playing the same game Of Humpty Dump
~ who had the great fall.
Here is the old blast furnace. ire
largest and most important building OF
the lot. Yonder are the walls of the file
factory where John Roach learned ms
trade. How many Years have passed
since the braZen tongue In the peilry
called the workmen TO their cruciples
Many Of them are wrecks and runs 100
many have been scattered all over the
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-10-30

At last you VIII come to a quaint old
white washed gate with the trout brook
on your RIGHT and the marks Of the an
chorages of a dam long since swept away
and the place where once stood some sort
of a mill. Lift up the latch and walk
in. DO not be afraid. The pilgrims have
been coming here for years and no one
objects TO their coming. Here and there
ahead Of you you see battered and
weather beaten sign, the letters almost
undecipherable-
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.A,,.t.pa.A RICnMO,D AMI
NORFOLK STEAMSHIP CONTAIN,
Announced sailing days every InESDAl
and FRIDAY at p and every SUNDAY
az 2 A. N; Frels ca,y aoI nntiI sailing hours.
Enr sundays steamer I'll T.. NJ. saturday
freight received daily tili L. NJ.
Fare 10 philadelphia. 49,. 49,. .S6.U0
For further Information apply 20
f'' 4. ". McCAkklCk.
General Southern Agent,
Office, Rockets
w. p. CLYDE & CO.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-10-30


SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST.
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT OCT. 8. 1892.
LEAVE RICHMOND:
TRAIN No. II, $40 A. "
- OUTHERN EXPKESS daily for Danvliie'
- Greensboro, Winston-Salem. Connects
al Keysylle for Clarksyllle, Oxford, Hen
derson, Durham and Raleigh Through cOach
Richmond to Raleigh, Salisbury, As Si
Vile, Hot Springs Charlotte, COLUMBIA
Aiken, Augusta, Atlanta, Birmingham Mont
gomery New Orleans, Texas and California.
Pullman palace sleeping-car Rchmond 70
Danvile and Danyilir to Asheyille and hCt
Springs; also Danvie TO Atlanta:
TRAIN No. Q, 300 L. VI.
II Asst MAIL, daily, for ali points oouIh
II and Southwest. Connects at DanVlue
with Pullman sleeper for Augusta ana Az
lanta nj Greensboro for Durham, kalelgh,
&c Connects at Salisbury for Asheyllle ana
Western North Carolina stations. Wasnlns'
ten ard Southwest Vestibule Limited SOUTH
bound. leaves Danyille $50 a. NJ
TRAIN No. II. 500 =. VI;
A MELIA ACCOMMODATIONS, dally eA,
n cept Sunday fer Amelia Courthouse anu
- 'e' -"' al ARRIVE Ar RICHMOND;
Train No. 10, 6:lS A. NJ; No. 10, $50 r.
NJ; No. IS S:45 A. NJ.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-10-30

A TLANrIC COAST LINE
RICHMOND AND PETERSBURG RAIL
ROAD TINE TABLE.
Commencing SUNDAY, OCT. 8. 1892, at
. A NJ. trains on this road will run as fol-
""S' TRAINS SOUTHWARK.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-10-30

OF Ocean county. I'm the State Of New Jer-
sey. / will show you rs pretty DIT on
ruins as ever tempted painter brush
set In as fine bit Of rural landscape as
you would wish to see in England or any
other land. and as pretty dancing trouc
stream as man ever put fly over
Not a wild mountain scene, let me tell
YOU for that is not the way Of Southern
New Jersey; but something fine ard roll
ing and fun Of life and spirit, with the
ocean only five miles away, and TIE pine
trees all around you, and climate which
falls like velvet or the lungs If they be
at all weak-for the air is tempered here
10 the shorn lungs-and nature cries ma
hal at the idea of people running away
to Florida or dashing out to Colorado
FOR breath Of ozone when you can get
II so pure and soft right al our doors.
AIaire is Just about betwiXt and be-
tween places various and several 1t IS
five miles from Manasqlan, ana llNe
from Lakew God, and five from Sea Girt,
and five from Point Pleasant. Good
roads. though trihe sandy, invite your
wheels from any one of these points.
You may drive as fast as you wish you
are not likely 10 run over any one.
branch Of the Pennsylvania railroad
also runs near by, and every once in
while train stops at Allaire station
ond the little fiat. Allaire mailbag IS
tossed on or OH, and the HdI agent NSOdl
route. / wonderO, station agent, hagman
and general factotum looks the passen-
gers over and the passengers look at
him And then the train moves off again
I'm a great hurry, as if il wondered why
At had stopped at such a very dead and
alive crossing. But branch road trains
are very accommodating, and once in
while there is a passenger for Allaire.
But l don't advise you 10 take any
trains You viii miss the pretuest Kind
Of a drive if you do, and if you happen
20 strike a picturesque South Jerseyman
for driver you will hear many things
which you never heard before and be
very wise on the subjects Of fish, cram
berries. Indian corn, mortgages and
other crops indigenous to the SOIL
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-10-30

Ho, Traveller, take BEEcHAA's Pills with
WIN
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-10-30

SHORTEST AND QUICKEST ROUTE
SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-10-30

ID edmond, FREDERICKSBURG AND
III POTOMAC NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. COM
nIencing APRIL %, 1892. Eastern stand
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SCHEDULE IN EFFECT OCT. 8, lS9.
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General Passenger Agent
General Office. Roanoke. Va.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-01-16
Negotiating WIN a Capitalist.

There were six Of them, all news
boys, when he joined them. He was
a boot black, and his kit hung from
his shoulder.
"Hullo, jimmy" was the greeting
one sent him, without giving him
more than a glance, for they were
pitching pennies, and Kingdoms were
at stake.
eye kin come in mex trow, JIM
ME, this ones nearly trowed, Swip-
esey next. He's winnin' de Doodle
to-day"
Jimmy was silent and gloomy.
"Ain't you comm in, Jimmy?
Come in and beat Swipesey's luck.
He's de winner, he is"
''No," said Jimmy. sullenlY.
"What's de matter? Hain't yer got
de stuff"
mot red"
cts de yaller shoes what de dudes
wears, Jimmy. Even de old ones put
'em on now. Yill haf ter change your
business. See?
Jimmy said nothing, but gave a
contemptuous look at pair Of rus
set shoes hurrying along. He watched
invincible ''Swipesey rake in de
DOODLE" for time.
Say, Swipes," he said fercely,
'lend me couple, will YEP"
Cant do it," said the heartless
capitalist, gathering up six pennies;
''spoil me luck, Wait till de luck
changes"
The luck did not change, and pres
emily two Of the players trotted of
to realize some cash on their stock Of
papers. When they came back,
Jimmy looked as if he could commit
highway robbery,
"Say, Swipes," he said, "I'll fight
We ter see whether We len me five. II
lick yer, We len; if | git licked, ye
don't"
eye kin do me, Jimmy. | got
sore knuckle on me right-me fightin'
hand"
"I'll fight two of youse. Take de
kid wild ye."
''De kid amt no good at flghtin'.
Danny licked him wild one hand"
tLemme see de knuckle."
Swipsey showed the injured hand.
Smashed it on de Eyetalian what
tried ter do me out of a cent" he
said.
'Say, Swipes," said Jimmy, des-
perately, 'I'll fight We wild one hand"
''I'd hurt me knuckle," and again
he picked up his copper for the
pitching had never stopped.
''I'll put me left in me pocket
81 won't fight We, answered Swip-
sey; because, Jimmy, We know l kin
do We. Didn't lick We when ye eat
me bauana?"
Jimmy couldn't answer that. While
he stood there, searching his brains
for further caioleries, he saw a man
whose boots had rusty look
"Shine, sir?" And then the won
derful change!
Say, Hi be wild We in a minute"
cried Jimmy, and, three minutes
later, there were seven in the game.
ME luck is broke said Swipsev-
New York Tribune.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-01-16
.poLL. WHEN NOT PRETTY.
How Parrots Are Brought By Steamer
from Mexico aud Cuba.

How Parrots Are Brought by steamer
from Mexico aud Cuba.
One of the Ward line steamers ar
rived here last week with the largest
number of parrots on board ever
brought to this city, says the New
York Recorder. They were the prop
erty of a set of spectators who fairly
plunged" in parrots, and who counted
on making big thing out Of the i'm
portation.
At Tampico shipment was made
OF 500 birds. OF course they had to
be kept on deck, and matters
promised to be lively. When Havana
was reached 900 more parrots were
hoisted on board. The clamor be-
came awful No parrot could be in
duced to sleep after 4 o'clock in the
morning and they held succession
of Indignation meetings till night, in
PRODUCING into their debates few OF
the unparliamentary expressions in
dulged in by the rudelY awakened
passengers.
The birds were nearly all very young
and not in full plumage. The natives
of Mexico are green, with yellow
heads, and the Cuban birds quite
throw them in the shade with their
white heads, red necks. and green and
blue bodies. In spite of this grandeur
the Havana Spectator only valued
his gaudy stock at couple of dollars
apiece, while the men from Mexico
counted theirs at 81 or 50.
The poor little things were scarcely
able to eat and the attendants of the
Mexican birds spent all day and part
of the night administering masses of
crackers soaked in milk and water,
opening their bills and fairly cram
ming the food down their Threats.
The Others were less fortunate;
their dinner was poked into the boxes,
and they ate it or not, as they were
able, and in consequence nearly half
of them died Several days from
forty to fifty soft little green bodies
were thrown overheard. By the time
New York was reached they wero
sufficiently thinned out to make their
survivors comfortable.
The boxes in which parrots are
transported arc rough wooden affairs
six feet by two feet high and deep,
the front and back covered with wire
netting, and long, rough perch in
serted. In most cases the birds are
packed in as tightly as animals in a
cattle-car, and numbers of them never
succeed in getting down to the food
cups. For some mysterious reason no
water given them, except that which
moistens the crackers and it Is
really case of survival Of the titest,
only a very robust bird living through
these days and nights of torture.
Then it is very bedragged and di-
lapidated, tall-featherless object that
is presented to the inspectors gaze,
and it takes fully fortnight to re-
store the smoothness of plumage and
vivacity of disposition which is the
stock in trade Of a parrot.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-01-16

An article by Mr.. Dryden in the last
Proceedings of the British Geological
Society says that the days of the giraffe
are numbered. A few years ago herd
of seventy or eighty of them were often
met in variou, parts of Africa. Mr..
Dryden says that nineteen giraffsS are
now large herd. They have been
hunted so mercilessly, both by natives
and foreign sportsmen, that they are
rapidly becoming extinct.
This intelligent African King Khans
has, however, taken the giraffe under
his protection and hopes to save it from
determination. lie has forbidden the
hunting of the giraffe in his large do
main, and in this way he hopes they will
multiply in his country. 1t is an inter.
esting fact that Russia has preserved the
European bison from extinction by setting
apart forest of Lithuania for them aud
permitting no one to molest them.
Recent explorers in Southwest Africa
say that the fauna has changed greatly
during the last thirty or forty years.
DIR. Henry Schlichter, in paper he read
before the British Association few
weeks ago, says that antelopes, lions,
buffaloes, rhinoceroses, giraffes and Other
large animals which were met with il
abundance when the country was first
explored are no longer to be found in
any part of Southwest Africa on account
of their ceaseless slaughter by European
hunters, as well as by the natives since
the latter have possessed breach loading
guns. The most important among these
animals, the elephant, has wholly dis
appeared from this part of Africa, except
in the neighborhood of Like Ngami.
Anderson, one of the early explorer;
of this region, said that 1900 poun Is Of
ivory could be bought at Lake Ngami
for musket. According to Livingstone,
in three years not less than 900 elephants
were killed near the little Z>ng, River
alone. How much their number has dit
minishel is shown by the very small
ivory export from Walfish Bay, which
amounts to about 1900 pounds per an.
mum, while in 1875 it was as high as
81 900 pounds. The various kinds OF
animals would doubtless increase again
if some protective measures were taken in
their behalf, but there are not many
Kahmus among the important men oil
! Africa who have sul1ic.ent foresight to
endeavor, in the interests of their own
people, to prevent the determination Of
these valuable animals.-St L2uis r.
| 0MbIic.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-01-16

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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-01-16
THESE JAPS ARE cHINAMEN.


How Two Clever Monso itans Bettered
Their Condition In Life.
When John Chinaman plays al
diately that his play will smack with
boldness, rare righteousness and
originality and very frequently a
touch of humor astounding, says
writer in the New York Heard.
AS a detective once put it, "a
Chinaman will rush in where angels
fear to tread and get out unscathed
aud smiling"
On One Hundred and Twenty
fifth street, Harlem, however, there
are two Cinnamon that lead the van
But little over year ago they
were handwriting but presumably
poorly paid proprietors of Chinese
laundry in San Francisco They jab-
bered over their financial status and
their future prospects for while, af-
ter which happier expression lin
gered on their faces and they moved
with jauntier step. Eurekal was
what they wanted to eXclaim, but
they couldn't, SO they simply looked
it and let it go at that.
But they sold out their laundry,
bought two tickets for New York
City, had their 'pig-tails" shaved off,
bought two japanese wigs, two suits
of Mclean" clothes and stock of
japanese goods and bric-a-brac, and
when they stepped OIL the cars at the
Grand Central depot, conservativcly
speaking, they were changed Celes-
tfals
In place of two Cinnamon used to
drudgery and all night work and
cheap, loose Chinese blOuScs and
trousers, they had certain air of
japanese refinement about them that
was interesting. After a short time
in this city they secured store on
One Hundred and Twenty fifth street,
moved in their stock of japanese Or
naments and are now dong thriving
business.
| stepped in to see them yesterday,
and they still possess the wigs and
every appearance of prosperity.
They dress in dark eololed Amer
lean style clothes. and with seduc-
tive smile greet all who wish to enter
the bazaar ana inspect the oddities
therein displayed.
If you glance at their craniumS you
cannot help noting the wigs. Per-
haps you will wonder at them and
wonder if all Japs wear wigs, but if
you have mingled much, or are ac-
quainted with the willy ways of Mon
golians, you will say to yourself,
why, these laps are Chinamen!"
and your wopderment will change to
vulgar curiosity and q quiet smile.
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AC>E +:
His Habit. BETRAYED Him.

A theft has just been brought home
TO man by means of an egg. Some
days ago NJ. Douet, pottery manufact-
prer, living in the Rue Goudon, Paris.
was diSagreeably surprised on return
tng from the theater with his family
to find that his house had been ram
sacked, almost all the furniture de-
stroyed and sum 6,O00f. in gold and
notes stolen. The next morning he
put NJ, Siadoux, Commissary of Police,
IN possession of these facts, who there
upon proceeded to thespo and opened
an inquiry. In the course Of his
search Inc found n broken egg, from
which the white only appeared to
nave been sucked. He brought the
circumstance to the notice of NJ.
lDouet, who then remembered that a
carter named Delbars whom he had
dismissed for dirty habits, was ac-
eustomed to eat eggs in that way.
They arrested him along with his
brother When questioned as to how
they had spent their time on the
night of the robbery, they were EN-.
harraS5ed, and finally confessed that
they had broken into NJ. Douet's house
Tor motives Of revenge. Gahgnani
Messenger.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-01-16
CURIOUS FACTS.
A snail has 80, 900 teeth.

A snail has 80, 1000 teeth.
Spiders usually live two or three
years.
A coal black deer was recently seen
by party OF hunters in the woods OF
Maine.
White deer, which was once extremely
rare. are now said to be plentiful in east
ern Maine.
A prominent Indianapolis Qnd.) bus:-
ness man has two cats that are better
retrievers than most dogs
Each year about $50, 900 is expended
in sprinkling the asphalt paved streets OF
London, England. with sand to prevent
the horses from slipping.
A valuable find of skeletons belonging
to the fourth dynasty was recently made
in Egypt. This is the earliest k,aown
date of Egyptian remains.
Chess was played BY the Chinese 10
years before the Christian era, and p,oba-
bly, long before that, for the ancient
Persians are supposed to have knoi1n it.
The Hindoos have a cocoanut festival
every year at the end of the monsoon.
During the festival athletic contests take
place and wandering Ministries recite their
tales aud poems.
Esop's fables were not written By
their author. They were related and
handed down until the fourteenth cen
fury, when they were collected and pub
lished by a monk.
A cribo snake is one of the interesting
pets at the Central Park (New York;,
menagerie. 1t has taste for devouring
other snakes and it is feared by them all,
even the poisonous.
| Acorns are priced as an article o.; diet
/ among some tribes of Indians. They are
pounded into meal, which is mixed with
water and kneaded into dough for baking
in the style of hoeca&e.
An enormous crab Of the Malay Islands
I lives upon the fruit of the coconut which
it secures by climbing the tree. 1t breaks
the nuts either by hauling them down or
by beating against the rocks.
On the old Boston and New Haven
turnpike, in the southern part of New
London County, Conn, is ain old mile
stone, notched and mossgrown, that was
set there by Benjamin Franklin.
A number of the mining companies
operating in the Black Hills, South DA-
kota, have adopted a system of aggrega-
ting their shipment of ore, aud sending
to the smelling works in Illinois long
| train of loaded cars of ore drawn by two
locomotives, and each car decorated and
marked with the name of the mine from
which it came.
The first iron mined in this country is
generally supposed to have been in
| Saugus, Mass, about 1913. Iron ore
and smelte1 iron have Just been found in
North Beverly. This puzzles the coolest
inhabitant," as no person living ever
knew that iron existed there. The
smelling must have been done at an early
date, very possibly before 1913 as there
were settlements there as early as 1910.
The female wasp spends the winter in
torpid condition, and when spli lg
arrives she hunts up some sort of shell
tered spot appropriate for nest. Having
selected the retreat, she proceeds to lay
within the formation of a home. For
this object earth will not serve her turn
The substance of which tue walls and
chambers of the house are to be composed
must be none other than the finest paper,
made of wood pulp, mixed with sort of
sizing, worked to a paste and finely
spread into sheets.