davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
TO SUCCEED PLUMB.
Tx-Congressman Perkins Appointed
Quilted States Senator from Kansas.
rp. ,oto,-c.b 20 tto pranaton

my W tAio biobot~h'f
TOPEKA, KANSAS. January 1.-Governor
Humphrey this evening appointed ex-Con-
gresham Perkins a United States senator,
To fill Senator Plumb's unexplred term.
Bishop w. Perkins was born In Rochester,
Lorraine county, Ohio, October Is, lSil; received
a common school education, with short
attendance at Knox Academy, Galesbnrgh,
Illinois: read law az OTTAWA, Illinois;
was admitted TO tho bar there In
1857, and began 10 practice; served
in the Federal army during tho war, being ad-
;utant Of the Sixteenth United States colored
infantry for some time; was county attorney IN
1869 and probate Judge ia 1870, and again in
1872. In February, 1873, no was appointed
Judge Of the Eleventh Kansas district and
was later elected 10 hll the unexpred
torn; Was reelected in November, 1873, and
again IN November, 1873. holding the office al
most ten years; was elected 10 the Forty eighth
Congress rs cOngressnan-a i-lafge ana 70 the
Forty-nlnth, Fiftieth, and fiity-irst Congresses,
but was defeated for the Fiity-second the pres
eni) Congress by rmers'-Allisnce man.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
Almost "a Great Conflagration.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA, January Ia fire
this morning destroyed the three-story
brick building corner Of Nineteenth street
and Third avenue. 1t threatened at one
time TO become q great con1agration.
Loss. $4,000. The principal losers are !;
DR.. j. K. Smith, building, S25,000, IN
surance $4,000; j. X. f. Jackson, build
ing, $4,000, no insurance. Charles Vince
lock q Son, $4,000. no insurance; DR.. Do
zier, s. 600. fully insured; W. 5. Smith d
Co.. architects, $4,000, no insurance; Dan.
Bandman. saloon. 5000, insurance $4,000;
=. NJ Mcclure, saloon, $500. insurance
$4,000; j. X. Hochstadter, $4,000, in-
eurance 100000.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
MANY Houses Burned.

10y IeIeBfHpH 70 Vno UIsPaTVU'I
ST. LOUIS, Mo. January IA Ere at llar-
din Mo-, destroyed twenty-five buAiness-hOuses
ana dwellings to-day. Loss, $4,000; insurance
little or nothing.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
nnain,s New lariff.

MADRID. January 1.-The new Spanish
tariff was promulgated to-day. 1t contains
little not slready known. The Govern
meut will no longer recognize the favored
nation clause ana the Ministry Is absolute
IL debarred from making the slightest con-
cessions on the alcohol duty. Inc Tree
traders DECLARE that several OF the new du-
ties are prOhibitIye.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
DEATHS.

LETT.-Died. January 1, 1884,. after q
short illness. of diphtheria. at the resi-
dence of her parents. sol north Twenty
fifth street, BEULAH CHILDREi, only
child OF Samuel G.. and S. Belle Lett;
aged six years and eleven months.
1ntermrnt was made at lakewood ceme-
terry Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
wHITLOCK. Died. at his residence, in
Hanover county, December 3ist. ut Z.
NJ. FRANCIS T. WHITLOCk, in the
seventy-eghth year of his age.
The funeral will take place TO-DAY.
January I'd. from his late residence, at IL
A. NJ. Friends invited TO attend.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
Fire Mt CIsrksviile, Tenn.

NASHVILLE. Tim. January la special
from Clarksyille. Tenn, says the fire there
about 2.3O o'clock this morning was not nearly
80 disast Gus AZ first reported. The three
story brick building Of NJ. J.. Myerss notion and
general store, known "The Fair" tbs old
Planters HOTEL occupied 10y several c0lored
families, and McGhee Brothers, dry goods, wero
burned out At ono time it was thought several
blocks would certainly go, and Nashville was
telegraphed 20 for aid, but the fire was soon I'M
der control and the request was withdrawn. Loss
and insurance not given. Ofigin OF the ire not
Lpn
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
AGAIN MARAUDlNG.
Chinese Outlaws Committing Depreda-
lions In Spite of Recent Punishment.

(ByAnglo-Amerlcan cable to the Dispatch.l
LONDON. January IA dispatch from
Shanghai received to-day states that. not
withstanding the punishment recently in
ficted by the imperial troops upon the
Mongolian outlaws who committed so
many deprcdations in Manchuria lswless
bands are again maraudIng IN the
northeastern part of China. Il is reported
that these bands have DESTROYED q
number of the temples In that section OF
China, but no religious or political I'M
portance attaches to the movement, when
u thus termed IN lieu of better word to
describe the lawlessness. 1t is believed
that it is not a preconcerted rising against
the Chinese authorities. In fact the
despatch of to-day says that the matter Is
partly due to agrarian troubles.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
Nationality of Immigrants.
lliY telagIanh 10 the Dispatch.l

NKw York. January 1.-The principal Ia
tonsllty of last years immigrants las
lish Hebrews. Italians arrived IN greater
numbers tSan ever before, aud next came
HungariAns, Germans, Scandinavians, and
British. Not including yesterday the num-
Der OF arrives at this port for the year has
been 4ii,o1o, compared with 32t 1853 for
1880.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
Making . Long story SHORE.

Husband: What splendid dinner you
have tonight.
Wife (complacently): Yes, dear,
Thought Il would please you.
Husband: What kind Of dress are you
thinking Of gettingi
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
ex-coNGRessMAN WARD DEAD.
He Had Taken the Bi-cnlorids Treatment,
But Fell from Grace.
[By telegraph TO the Dispatch.I

by toIcgraph 70 Inc DIspatcb.I
IIpIASAPoLIs, IND. January Lex Con-
gresham Thomas h. Ward died at Plain
field, Ind. at an early hour this morning:
Mr.. Ward several months ago returned
from Dwight. where he had taken the BIZ
chloride treatment. About two wee Ks ago
be became respondent and resumed his
old habits. Tuesday morning he went to
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
War Imminent in Samoa.

SIDNEY. N. S. W.. January l.--Adyices
have been received from Samoa to the
effect that another native war is imminent.
Two hundred Of King Malietoa's warriors
are said 70 be advancing upon the village
OF Luna with the object Of expelllng
Mat aafalte insurgents
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02

tLHel
Cholly You seem all broken up. old
Ohoily: What u the mattshf
Chsppie: / don't know, am suab, but
my man ssys no thinksi am IN love.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02

TIE WEATHER IN RICHMOND YEsrERDAY
was clear, pleasant, and slightly warmer.
At midnight the.skies were cloudy and
the indications pointed to falling weather
for to-day.
Range of the thermometer at the 'front.'
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
MiuIug pimouI,y se,t,ea.

lBy Anglo-American cable 10 tho pspsten.l
LONDON, Eng, January The South
Wales mining conference to-day satisfac.
riiy settled the sliding scale difficulty, and
work will be resumed Immediately.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
gIN A. ORAL
ADJUSTMENT
The VIRGINIA DEBT.
NOTICE.

Holders Of obligations OF the State Of Virginia,
may avail themselves Of tho benefits 70 bs de-
rived under the agreement, OF May ~. 1880. and
the "Pian and Proposition OF November 20
1900, lodging with the Central Trust Compsny
Of New York, upon payment Of per cent ana
depositing such obligations With either OF tho de-
positsries named In eaii agreement On OK BE-
FORE JANUARY Is, 1892.
After the said date additional deposits WIZ
only be received upon such terms "a may thea
be decided upon by the committee.
For tho Committee.
&. 5. ELLIS, Secretary.
NEW YORK. December 20 1891. ia 2-N
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02

EAm YoUD COUGH by using DR.. D. Jeyne's
Expectorsnt, sure and helpful medicine
for al Throat and Lung aiIments. and :
curative for Asthma
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
MARRIAGES.

KUHN-KENDLER Married. on De-
csmber 3lst, OF 1870 west Leigh, Mr.. ED
WA RID f. KUHN to Miss LULA KENO
LER both OF this city,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
The weather.
fBy Telegraph TO the Drspstch.I

Iby f5ISsfhpn % inc D1spascnsi
wAsiirSaros, d. c.. January L.
| piln Forecast for virginia: Rain To-
~ morrow slightly warmer, south
winds.
For North Carolina: Rain; stationary
temperature: south winds; clearing In
South Carolina.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02

Yice-president and Mrs. Morton received
from y 10 z O'Clock. aud their list of call
eys embraced nearly AL the officials who
had previously visited the White House.
Receptions were also held by the ladies Of
tho families Of ali The Cabinet officers. "a IS
the usual custom. but Mr.. Crisp. the wife
OF the Speaker. did not receive, owing TO
fne illness of her husband.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02

Asthmatic patients praise DR.. Bull'a
Cough Syrup. II always gives them in.
slant relief.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
A DULL DAY IN FREDERICKSBURG.
The Steamer Essex Reported Aground
The Monument 90 Mrs. Cox.

icorfesp ndonce OF the Richmond Dlspstih.l
faEDfmcKsBt no, Va, January 1.-The
lia day Of the new year was not generally
.sasfyod here 10. dag except BY ell public
s..afef aud lae national bank. The colored
s,v.e as - their usual custom, phiaded
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02

BosSsKS s ASp z s0 "a H D|ess,s SF '
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
A QUIET MARRIAGE At HAMPTON.
Mr.. Haw WEEDS "iss CummIng-A Col
ored Man Struck by an Engine.

ored Man struck by an Engine.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatcb.l
HAMrroS, Va, January IA quiet but
very pretty marriage took place at 2:30 J..
NJ. Yesterday NJ the residence OF Mr.. ".
]. A. Cumming. in West End. The con-
tracing parties were Miss Mamie A. Cum
ming. sister Of the gentleman named, and
Mr.. Joseph II. Haw, formerly OF Hanover
county. The rooms were made very dark
by heavy curtains, and the subdued light
OF the many handsome lamps added much
90 the beauty Of the scene. The ceremony
was performed hy Rev. ". J. Walker. Of
tho PRESBYTERIAN church. under an arch Of
evergreons. Misses Layinia {. Peek and
Nora AshmOre we're the maids Of honor,
and Mcssrs. II. s. and S. q. Cumming
acted as usheTs.
TIE BRIDES COSTUME.
The bride was attired in white silk elabO-
rately trimmed and bore in her hand SUI
perb bouquet Of white rosebuds. At the
conclusion of the ceremony the bridal
party, with the invited guests. repaired TO
the dining-room. where a sumptuOus re-
past awaited them, to which full justice was
done. At 1915 Mr.. and Mrs. Haw lett for
the Chesapeake and ONO depot etrO,te TO
Richmond.
The presents were numerous. costly,
handsome, and useful. consisting OF deli
cate china, silver articles. handsome en-
cravings. luxurious chairs. &C., &c.
Mr.. and Mrs. Haw VIII return in about
ten days and take up their residence III
West End.
As the Chesapeake and Ohio train was
coming in this morning a colOred man at
tempted 10 cross the track immediately IN
front of the engine. lie WAS struck and
hurled into a marsh Dear by. Friends
went TO his assistance, and 1t was found
that he had sustained serious injuries, one
shoulder and several ribs bong broken.
His name is James DAVIS. and he was con-
fined in the lunatic asylum some tine ago.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02
THE FIRE FlEND.
Losses Yesterday by CONGREGATIONS Great
and small.

IHY teIegrhpn 70 Ibo UIspaIcH'I
ToRoSTo. ONT, January IA fire last
night destroyed the building occupied by
4. q. Foster 4 Co.. Wholesale carpets and
furniture dealers supplies. The loss Is
SIS, 900, almost entirely on the stock.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02

CHARLESTON. S. c.. January New
Years day was celebrated here By parade OF
all the colored Masonic lodges and Of the colored
troops under the command OF Brigadier-Genoral
Ga nnal
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02

Extract from the records
Tesfe: 1'Aomds Eleft, Secretary Associs-
ton Of Army Of Northern Virginia.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-02

~ all from member Of the Chambey Of
Deputies, who u. Of course. supporter OF
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-15

streams TO the top floors Of the highest
buildings with power enough 10 carry
from their feet and render unconscious
the man who receives its full weight.
The improvement of the steam Gre
engine has kept pGce with the growth
of cities, even with the fancy of man
running to those towering structures
that are the wonder even of their build
ers. One of the most conspicuous of the
contrivanccs designed to meet the up
ward tendency of buildings is the
water tower" o stove pipe sort of ar.
rangement that can be run up section
upon section until the necessary height
is reached, when the upper end, which
is bent like the elbow of stove pipe,
is turned into the windows OF the burn
ing building and the water poured upon
the fire in a stream as thick as mans
leg One great trouble in tho use of
this has been that on account of the
failure to always direct it in the proper
course the damage from the tremen-
dous flow of water has been entirely
out of proportion to the effect upon the
fire, Even with the steam engine and
the lesser hose, and the greater econ
omy in the distribution of the water, il
happens in the majority of cases that
the damage by water is greater than
that by fire.
The objection to the excessive use Of
water was one that chemistry was
called upon to remove. Starting with
the principle that it was the atmos-
pheric oxygen that fed the flame exper.
iments came to be made at extinguish.
ing fires by excluding the oxygen from
the flame. The first attempt resulted
in complicated continuance called a
''fire annihilator." This was an ar
rangement of iron cylinders holding
water. The cylinders were heated by
pouring sulphuric acid upon a compo
sition of chlorate of potash and
sugar. The steam generated was
forced upon composition of charcoal,
inter and gypsum, and the gas thereby
generated was turned upon the fire. II
was complicated contrivance. yet ef
fective. But soon there came simpler
invention that has held the palm for
now nearly a quarter of century
This is a cylinder holding solution Of
bi-carbonate of soda. At the top of the
cylinder is bottle OF commercial acid.
held in place by rod running from the
stopper through the top Of the cylinder.
When this rod is pulled up the bottle re-
verses and the acid is poured into the
solution. Immediately carbonic acid
gas is generated in such volume that
the cylinders have to be made capable
of resisting a pressure of as much as
400 pounds to the square inch. The gas
is discharged through the hose with the
water and coming in contact with the
flame acts as one of the most effective
extinguishers known. They are made
of all sizes, from the little thing upon
the merchants shelf ready at hand
for incipient blazes. TO the great
double cylinder carriage that thunders
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-15

Down on South Broadway, standing
beside stairway which leads upstairs
to the office of an electro medical COM
pany, there stands lite glass case in
which is displayed the life-size figure of
n human leg from the thigh down
The other day two very well-drcssed
young men were standing in front Of
the case Two or three other people
were staring over their shoulders to SEQ
what it was made the noise.
Finally one young man said to the
other, very solemnly:
"Gn five minutes the leg will begin to
move"
His companion looked at him very
wisely, purscd his lips and nodded his
head. Then they both walked away.
The other people stood in front OF the
case for half an hour waiting for the
leg to move. Suddenly a thought seemed
to strike one of them Then the same
thought occurred TO another member of
the group and so, one by one. they
silently moved away N. Y. World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-15
The Limit of spaced.

English engineers who have watched
the gradual development of the speed
of railway trains in this country believe
that the limit, with the present rails
and rolling stock, has nearly been
reached. They say that as matters
stand it would seem that it is easier to
construct motive power which will pro-
pei, or rather drag, vehicles at start.
ling pace than TO design vehicles that
will keep on the track or be uninjured
BY the heat generated, but it is quite
possible that some form OF rail and
wheel may yet be designed which Will
permit of a higher rate of speed than
has been achieved yet. Whether the
solution will lie in the adoption of the
sliding railway type or in an immense
increase of wheel diameter, depth of
fiangc or other device is uncertain. =
Chicago Post
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-15
Rivers of Red Water.

Among the noteworthy things DIR
Oscar LEM saw when he Travelled
through Morocco awhile ago were two
little rivers that once year, at the
time of the greatest heat, are filed with
red water 1t is supposed the color
comes either from a strata of red clay
through which the streams may pass, OF
from myriads of little red organisms
Another curious stream was largo
creek with waters almost as salt as
those of the ocean. This creek comes
from great beds of salt, of which il
carries off a very considerable quantity
in solution. In the org season the creek
bed is exposed and is found to be Gov
cred with a thick incrustation OF salt
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-15

FIRST PRACTICAL STEAM FIRE ENGINE.
cities he has been in peril from fire, and
his best skill has been required to
guard against it. In the very early his
tory of England and France preventa-
tive measures were resorted to, and
laws were passed for the management
of fires during the day, and the curfew
bell was rung at eight o'clock in the
evening for their extinguishment. The
great care used in the enforcement of
these regulations made those countries
most free from fires, but in Germany,
in spite of similar laws, heavy losses
were suffered, until necessity became
the mother of invention.
The discovery of some mechanical
contrivance for the better extinguishing
of fires than by the bucket brigade had
been one of the quests of mankind from
the time of ancient Rome, when Appel
lodorus applied the OK gut through
which water was forced by compress
ing and expanding large bag attached
to the rude those" This was followed
by syringes of various devices. Some
one in Germany conceived the idea of
making the syringe stationary in a tub
and converting it into force pump.
Then the whole continuance was made
portable by being set on a sled The
tub was kept filled by the bucket bril-
gade. These improvements on the Ro-
man syringe, that converted it into a
portable engine, was a product of the
Ingenuity of the sixteenth century. At
FIRST it was drawn from place to place
by men; then the rope for that purpose
was detached and horse power was sub
stituted for man.
In tracing the evolution of the fire
engine we must now cross the channel.
At the close of the sixteenth century
the farthest England had advanced,
Notwithstanding the activity on the
continent, was to the use of the ''hand
squirt" or syringe, and this clumsy and
slow apparatus had been so enlarged in
the hope of increasing it's effectiveness
as to require three men to handle it,
and then it only threw three or four
quarts of water at each discharge. But
England took up with Germany's sled
engine and pu: wheels to it and attached
the leather hose and suction pipe, both
of which were invented in Amsterdam
toward the close of the seventeenth
century.
From this developed the modern hand
engine, but it took two centuries to bring
it to the excellence of many of those
used in those towns throughout the
country that recognize the necessity
of such provision against fire but can
not afford the steam engine with or
without horses.
1t is difficult to see how much i'm
provemcnt can be made upon the steam
fre-engines now in use in the large
cities that can afford paid fire depart
ments The system of extinguishing
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-15
THE HUMBUe OF PROVERBS.
They May he Terse and Witty. But Are
Not Practical to Modern City Life.

They May he Terse and witty. But Are
Not Practical to Modern City Life.
A proverb has been defined as the
wisdom of many and the wit of one"
Into many proverbs are packed pithy
suggestions as to conduct and general
lied experiences of mankind They
are sarcastic, hortative, minatory,
mirth-provoking but they are not wiser
than the people who make them.
Hence, many Of them, some OF the most
widely current, are arrant humbugs. II
they were once true to experience.
under certain conditions, they are true
no longer To say this is fiat contra
dicton of the well-known proverb,
Nobody is wiser than everybody"
But even that is one of the humbugs.
1t not infrequently happens that sin
gle man is wiser than his whole genera
ton. Such men become first the lead
ers, then the martyrs, of their age, but
are the saints and heroes of the ages
which follow.
As fragrant instance Of proverbial
unwisdom and humbug, take the dis
itch which has been dinned into the ears
OIL uf1ntllODcreQ generations OF CnlIQfcD.
Early TO bed, and early TO rise.
Makes man healthy, wealthy, and wise"
This is terse and witty generalization
of the experience Of a pastoral commu-
nifty, where to get on in the world it
was necessary to work in the fiekls
from "sun-up to shutdown" 1t has no
application whatever to town life. The
wealthy and wise men of town are men
who work late and rise late; and as to
health, it is notorious that no part of
our population so suffers from all man
ner of diseases as farmers and their
families. Yet how many have been de-
prived of their natural sleep by SUI
perstition, begot of this wretched
rhyme, that early rising is conducive to
health. II is only in recent years that
people have had the courage to take
the sleep which nature demands. The
man who did so a generation ago was
called "lazy"-the most intolerable of
all epithets. Franklin even aimed a
proverb at him: MEN need five hours
sleep, women six, children and fools
seven" Nowadays the man who takes
less than eight is the fool.
Take som: of the maxims intoxicating
shrewd business policy. "A penny
saved is penny earned" has ruined
many a man who could not persuade
himself to spend mc1ey with judcious
lavishness in enlarging his business.
The penny saved was so large in his
eyes that it hid the dollar lost by his
foolish economy. out of debt, out of
danger" and BETTER go TO bed supper
less than rise in debt, are precious
pair which have brought many TO the
poorhouse. Debt is the only salvation
of many man. No debt rccklessly in
Cured by extravagant living beyond
his means, but debt incurred in the pur-
chasing of home or the establishing
of business Where would modern
commercial affairs be but for credit?
But credit means debt; for If trusts
b, b must owe A. Debt makes many a
man careful and saving who would
spend all he gets if he had no pressing
obligations TO meet. SO he is forced, as
1t were. in spite OF himself, TO provide
for sickness and old age. N. Y. Tx
Hminer.