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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-20

R.y SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
corner Main and Sixth streetsl.-Rev. W. w.
LASDEUH, the pastor, Will preach at IL A. NJ.
and J.. NJ. u
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rsy- CTAy.sTREET METHODIST

CHURCH Clay and Adams streetsl Key Il. II.
RAWLINGS, Pastor.--Preaching by the fasIor ga
sunday AZ III o'clock A. NJ, and NJ 40 Z: VI.
nv Biahop J. C. CRANBERRY. Sunday school NJ
9:45 A. ". Usual WEDSEsDAY-NIGHr services
AZ 7:45. Strangers ami visitors are cordially IN
yited 10 attend these services. seats iree' .o-
lite ushers In attendance.
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sS- CTAy-STRFET BAPTIsT

CHURCH corner Clay and Graham streets)-
Rev. :. G. CLOPrOS, Pastor.-Sunday school o A.
NJ Worship at IL A. NJ. and Z. NJ. Prayer
meeting WEDNESDAY at II. NJ. Young mems
meeting SATURDAY at 3 p. NJ. Is
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-20
,sy- rprFNDs MEETING FOR

Divine worship EVERY SABBATH MORsrSG NJ IL
o'clD,k seats are free, and all are weicoine.
Westinghouse Clay street above First. services
also at : O'Clock on WEDNESDAY EFESiS". 70
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-20
rs,y- ALLrSAINTS CHURCH (Msdi'

aon s,reet near Grace)-Rev. Y. BOWMAN,
Rector. Morning service AZ u o'clock. Evening
service at 3 O'Clock. Sunday school al Wv
A NJ.
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rrr p1cHMOND NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., FEBRUARY ~ 1877
RELIGIOUS SERVICES.

rar MONUMENTAL CHURCH
Thirteenth and Brosd.--Rey. JONI D. NEWTON,
Rector. services IL A. N. and i. h' ses's
free. Welcome 20 all
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-20
N.Y. ST pAUEsCHURCH.

Divine service every SUNDAY.
Morning prayer IL o'clock
Evening prayer, O'Clock. s, =,
Holy Communion nrst and thru eunoa's vi
each month after morning prayer.
Tho public are cordially invited to all ser-
vicqa.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-20

nd- FULTON BAPTIST CHURCH.
Rev. PHRCy q. Ersox will preach Of IL A. NJ.
and ~ =. NJ: also. sermon TO mon ana boys
only ~ 4 p. n.
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nv OI.D-MARK Ell
pRESBYTE-

RIAN CHURCH-Rey. J.. b. TCRsBUlL, Pastor.
Preaching SUNDAY IL 4. NJ. and r. VI. sun
day school $3.50 A. NJ. Gospel services WEDNEs-
DAYSPM Is
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-20
Fsys FIRST

FyS- FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Broad and Twelfth streetsl.-Rev. DR.. GEORGE
COOPER, pastor, will preach al II A. NJ. and y.
NJ. Bible school az 9'l5 A. Nj. Is
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-20
49, THE FyANGELICAL AL

LANCE viii meet at the Young Mems Christlsn
Association sixth and Main streets) MoNpA'
NIgur February 22d. ut O'Clock. MI mem.
bers requested TO be present. new iAin.
iIrvvy viii address the meeting In the interest
OF the American sabbath Union. Public Invited
W -" W. E. HATCHER, President.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-20
WANTS rRKE DELIVERY.
THE NEW MILITARY TACTICS.
Light Infantry Growing Fiji
observation-disclosures to the Charter.

Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
ALEXANDRIA. February l0.-Ihe Alexan-
dria Light Infantry. Company +. Ihrd
Virginia Volunteers. are now hard az Work
on the new extended order drill, and are
randy nearing state Of efficiency in II,
like that they attained in the drill 10y the
old tactics of Upton. The Alexandra
Light Infantry has just been reorganiZed,
and has a great many new recruits IN u.
During the absence of Its captain. senator
Mushbach. in Richmond, the company ~
under the command of its senior heu-
tenant, Samuel l.. Monroe.
DISAPPOINTMENT.
There is much disappointment felt by
those persons who own land on the
Virginia side Of the Potomac, opposite the
District Of Columbia. 10y the re-enactment
of the fishing law, which prohibits all
fishing In the Potomac within the District
of Columbia. except with hook and line.
The owners of the shores think IT unjust
that they are not allowed 10 tish on their
| own property.
MORE AUTHORITY WANTED.
The Legislature will be asked to amend
| the charter of this city so as 10 give the
| Mayor the power 10 suspend and remove
notice officers and 20 give the City Council
| the power to consolidate and abolish
| offices and TO create now ones when ne
| cessary.
The drafts Of the proposed amendments
are now being drawn up by the city attor-
ney and Will at once be sent TO the Guys
representative IN the Legislature, with
| the request that il be acted ON at once.
Mr.. Fairfax Minor, q well-knOwn citizen
| of Fairfax county. but who for some time
past has been living here. died at his home,
on upper King street, yesterday.
The report that Mrs. Cornwall. the
keeper of the almshouse, was going 10 re-
sign and move to Washington. Is denied
| by Mrs. Cornwall.
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BLAZERS AND Jpgrrl

Tor early spring. They o.afr ...
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tne light shades ~ gray arf f..
Particular attention BE- l..l .. 'I
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and TO our lino of Ligh' anf r..
JACKETS In all ins nov .'.rsstttt. r
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fore has 20 enc quality gr.l.t d..
low prices.
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Commissioner John 7. Laokey Dead.

INpENItlE V E117
LEXINGTON. Va, February l9.-John L.
Lackey, commissioner Of Revenue for the kerrs-
Greek District and a prominent farmer, died at
his home, near Lexington, yesterday.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-20
n,y- WFsT.yIEW RAPTIST

CHURCH Corner Cary and Meadow streets)-
Rev. w. p. HINES, Pastor.-Preaching at III A.
NJ. and 7:4o r. NJ. every Sunday. sunday-school
al $3.50. Prayer-meeting every WEDNESDAY
EVENING a. 7:15. Young Mems prayer-meeting
every MONDAY at 7:45. Cordial welcome To all
u
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-20

UPTOWN OFFICE 433 EAST BROAD
STREET.
MANCHESTER OFFICE 1926 HULL STREET.
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corner Pickett and yenablel-R. ii. PIT, ID. D.,
Pastor.-Sunday school az $3.50 A. NJ. Preach
ing at III A. NJ. and s:l5 p. n. Seats free. All
welcome. 10
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-20
re1- SEVENTH.STREET CHRIS

TIAN CHURCH-JABEZ HALL, Pastor
Preaching a. Il 4. N. ana S =. VI. sunday sch oil
$3.50 M. Young Peoples Society OF Christian
EndeayOr at 7:lJ 7. ".
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WOODWARD & LO7HROP.
TEMPLE
GOODS
STORE,
Corner Broad and Adams Streets.
Corner Broad and Adams Streets.

MONDAY, February o2d. being WASHIN . :
Tons BIRTHDAY, OUR STOKE Will bE
CLOSED Al O'CLOCK NOON. We wln tnnh. !.
our patrons to do their shopping oeiofo "H"'
hour.
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From beginning to end, the remedy is DR..
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most potent blood cleanser, strength-restorer,
and hesh-builder known to medical science.
and blood faint, all yield to it, For Weak
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-20

the
progress OF Con-
su IN ption. It's
cured, too, il it's
taken in time
What is needed
Is the one unfail-
ing remedy for
Scrofula in all its
forms-for one Of
those forms lung
scrofula) Is Con-
sumption.
purffu unur
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nnyFOURTH. STREET BAPTIST
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CHURCH

CHURCH-Rey. IL. i. WILLIAMS, Pastor
Preaching at IL A. NJ. and p. N. Sunday
school AT 9l4 A. 81. Is
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WASH DRESS GOODS

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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-12
statesmen who don't meet their views
and pocketbOoks.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.


PRESlD NFIAL ELECTIONS.
Out of all this thought and discussion
of our clumsy mode of selecting the
president and vice president, there
promises to come some change within a
few years. After the average voter has
come to understand the reason that
underlieS the present electoral college.
his common sense sweeps aside as
wrong any system which permits man
to be chosen to the chief magistracy who
is the choice of less than a majority or
plurality of the voters of the nation. Il
don't care about your state sovereignty;
it is not right that the man who gets the
most votes should be defeated" IS his
summary disposal of the matter.
But if the autonomy of the state is to
be preserved III elections Of president,
there is room for improvement within
that limit. There is no good reason
why the electoral vote of the state
should be cast as unit. 1t ignores
what there is growing tendency to
recognize, the rights of the minority.
On national questions involved i'll such
an election the minority party Ill any
state should count somewhere and
somehow.
The plan of Mr.. SPRINGER, which has
been embodied with some changes III
the bill of Mr.. ENLoE, of the house
committee on elections, provides that
the vote shall be cast directly for the
candidates instead of for electors. 1t
abolshes the college, bnt gives to the
state its electoral votes as now. Each
candidate receives that proportion OF
the electoral vote of the state which the
vote for him bears to the total vote of
the state. Applying this method TO this
state, with its 261, $50 votes for presi-
dent, Mr.. HARRIsoN's 122,736 votes
would entitle him to Al Of the nine
electoral votes of the state. MI.
CLEVELAND would have 81 of them,
Mr.. WEAVER l. and Mr.. BIDwELI %.
The plan has much to commend it. Ply
otal states would disappear. Their pow
er in conventions would vanish. Minor
tiles would be conserved. instead OF
being lost and ineffective as now. The
Republican minority in Texas would re-
inforce the majority in Maine, while the
Democratic fraction in Minnesota would
go to swell the total elsewhere. 1t
would diminish, if not obliterate, the
use of Doodle in close states. 1t would
remove that apathy which keeps so
many voters in minority parties from
the polls, because their vote. if cast,
will not count. The plan is worth dis
cussion. out of which Will come some
improvement on our cumbersome and
antiquated way of selecting the nations
chief
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-12
GoTHAM's SCHEME.

Chicago views with alarm the present
energetic efforts of the Consolidation
League of New York and Brooklyn.
At one fell swoop Gotham contemplates
putting the Windy City hopelessly in
the rear in the race for municipal SUI
premacy. With New York and Brooklyn
merged into one vast metropolis. Chi
cago might take in all the rest of Cook
county and slice out of Indiana with
out getting within hailing distance of
first hon0rs.
The Consolidation league is evidently
very much in earnest. 1t is organized in
every election district in Brooklyn. and
is securing reams. and reams of sigma
lures to petition to the legislature in
favor of the unification of New
York and Brooklyn. If success at
tends the cause, the result will
be city which will make even
London look to its laurelS. while
Chicago swOons with grief and mortifi-
cation.
Chicago will. however, have the coll
ISOLATION of knowing that if it is beaten
at its own game of annexation nobody
can say it failed to play the cards for
all they were worth. 1t has annexed
everything in sight in the shape of a
house, and several leagues of prairie
land where it thinks houses may be
built some day. And we will say this
much for Chicago: If Brooklyn had
been across the bridge from Chicago in
stead of from New York. it would have
been gone-up Brooklyn long, long ago.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-12
GOULD II.

Jay Gould is dead Long live George!
Boston Herald.
His son George, who will succeed him
in the management of his properties,
was we'll schooled in the business by
the master.-Binghamto Republican.
Gould has not been active in Wall
street for some years. For two years
past the practical management of his
affairs has been in the hands of his son
George. Charleston News and Courier.
His money will go to found great
plutocratic family. His sons can be
trusted to conserve and increase It.
Buffalo Express.
The wealth of Mr.. Gould is varlously
estimated all the way from $50,000,000 to
$3.50, 1000. He leaves behind him sons
who are supposed to have capacity to
keep what their father acquired.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
The management of his great estate
will doubtless devolve upon his son
George, who is a conservative business
man; who has been carefully trained for
the position he is now to occupy, and
who thoroughly understands his fathers
affairs, and is. therefore. qualified to adj
minister them with Observation-Disclosures
mond Dispatch.
Jay Gould has gone. but his colossal
fortune remains. Naked he came into
the world and naked he departs. Could
gold will continue to play its part in the
cOuntry'S finances, although the master
hand has ceased to direct il. If not his
son George, then somebody else will
handle his millions. Saratoga Springs
SaratOgan.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-12

independent Briton is wont to observe
toward the institution of royalty. Poor
little Collars and Cuffs was them heir
presumptIve to the British throne, after
his dear old granddame and his giddy
papa should have shuffled off the mortal
coil. But the sickIy young fellow was
himself the first to shuttle, and Wales
second son. Prince George, became pros
pective sovereign of Great Britain. And
now, less than a year after the lament
able taking off of Collars and
Cuffs, it is reported that the af-
ficted Princess MAY of Teck has
dried her tears and cast her smiles upon
Prince GEORGE. The loyal British sub
ject is again stopping over in his delight
at this second prospective 'genooine love
match' in the royal family. For, OF
course, it is genuine. Just as genuine
as that other one was, Or would have
been had not death INTERVIEWED. Lit IS
the most natural thing in the world for
the Princess MAY to fall violently in
love with her lamented fiance's brother,
particularly as that brother inherits
other important rights and privileges
from the deceased.
It's great thing, is love; the ''great-
est thing i'll the world" DRUNMoND
tells us. No wonder the romantic Brit
ish public is transported with delight
when it thinks it sees Cupid batting his
wings in the light that beats about a
throne.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-12

courage in bearing the evils their own
pranks bring upon them, as well as
honorable prOmptneSs in trying to re-
pair those evils. Such story is that of
''The Sign of the White Swan; q Tale of
Old Pennsylvania" by Olivier @. Will
son. Estes d Lauriat, Boston; D. ID.
Merrill, st. Paul.
.'Zigzag Journeys on the Mississippi,
From the Site of the Worlds Fair to
the Tomb of Columbus" by Hezekiah
Butterworth, editor Of the Youths
Companion. This is the fourteenth an
nual volume of the famousZigZag series,
whose sales have exceeded $4,000 vol
umeS and which is read wherever the
English language is spoken. The au-
thor very appropriately in this Column
bian year, sends his young yoyagers
through the country connected with our
early history. and the volume is full OF
Columbus stories and the historic
places visited. The trip is made down
the famous Mississippi river across the
Gulf of Mexico to Havana. Like the
other volumes of the series it is very
fully and we'll illustrated. Estes Il
Lauriat, publishers, Boston. ID. d..
Merrill, st. Paul.
"Fhree VaSSar Girls in the Holy
Land" by Elizabeth w. Champuey.
The welcome volume, which yearly
takes our friends, the Vassar girls, on
their summer travelling tour, this year
embodieS most interesting story, inter
woven with bits of Eastern life, historic
incidents, and accounts of travel from
Egypt and the mouth of the Nile
through Palestine to Jerusalem, COM
bining one of those thoroughly instruct
i've and entertaining volumes OF travel
and history for which the author is
noted. 1t contains an abundance of
clever Illustrations. by well known
artists and its entire makeup is such as
to endear it to the heart of the book
loving girl. Estes IL Lauriat, publishers,
Boston. ID. ID. Merrill. st. Paul.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-12
BOOKS RECEIVED.

Hospitality in Town and Country" by the
author or Social Etiquette OF New York.
Maggie Bradfords Fair by Joanna ii.
Matthews. illustrated by W. st. John Harper
From Frederick A. Stokes company, New
York. D. D. Merrill company.
''Nobodys Fault" by Mary Angela Dick
ems. Peter Feuelon Collier publisher. 5!3
West Thirteenth street, New YORK. ID. D.
Merrill company.
barbara Dering," sequel to The Quick
or the Dead?" by Amelie RIyes. j. b. Llppln-
colt company, Philadelphia ST. Paul, D. D.
Merrill company.
IAN Excellent Knave. by j. Fitzgerald
Malloy. author of How Came lie Dead. "
National Book company, New York St.
Paul, d. D. Merrill company.
intellectual Pursuits, or Culture by Self
Help" By Robert Waters Worthinglon COM
pany, New York. st. Paul, d. b. Merrill COM
pany.
king. Billy uf BaIlarat' and other stories.
by Morley Roberts. Rand, McNally q Co.,
New York.
'Columbias Courtship," by Walter Crane.
L. Prang 4 Co.. Boston.
From Estes IL Lauriat publishers. Boston.
we have Ruby and Ruthy,' by Winnie e..
PAUL, author of prince Dimple and His
Everyday Doings''
AT the Sign OF the White Swan" Tale
of O1d Pennsylvania, by oliver l.. Wilson.
Three Vassar Girls in the Holy Lands, by
Elizabeth W. Champney.
'.Zlg-Zag Journeys on the Mississippi" by
Hezekah Butterwerth. For sale by ID. ID.
Merrill. ST. Paul.
The Black Carnation,' a Riddle. by Fer
gus Hume, author of The Mystery of a Han
som Cab" National Book company, New
York; D. ID. Merrill, ST. Paul
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-12
AT THE RACES.
Written for the Globe.l

Do remember, ah can e'er forget
That day in bright and cool September!
1t seems to me there fingers yet
A glowing spark of the deathleSs ember
Of enthusiasm that was kindled in my swell
ing breast,
When first learned twas Planned to spend
the rest
OF that bright and glorious day at Morris
Park
Morris Park Oh, magic name to sports
man dear!
Where lives the man within whose breast q
spark
Is klndled not when it falleth on his ear?
From clty's heat and city's slums we rolled
away,
Glad and joyful thus to spend glad and
joyful day.
Forgetful alike of business, power or place !;
(What man cares for aught else if he can but
attend a raceD
Presently there arose before our enraptured
eyes
That noble grand stand, with turrets to the
Peopled with a vast and mighty throng.
Anxiously awaiting the bugler's thrilling
song.
Nor long was patience tried. nor long had
they to wait;
For presently there emerged from yonder
stable gate
Two of the noblest animals that ever trod
the sod:
God.
Diana of the turf the falrest of them all,
La Tosca
Proud as a queen who surveys an empire all
her own.
She walked before and gazed upon that
throng, with bead thrown
High in the free and open air, as though she
would contemplate
The vast multitude that presently would join
TO celebrate
The victory that either she or Raeeland
would achieve.
But come! the race is on; the distance, l be-
lieve,
Was just mile-enough to test the strength
OF horse or filly: but fear the length
OF narrative grows tedious. They are at the
post!
Not much tine was lost here; or. at the
Only moment or two; and then the starter S
flag fell,
And from that impetuous host there rose a
deafening yell:
''They are off, and off they were, with Race
land in the lead:
And for while it looked as though La Tosca
would need
A longer stride. q fleeter foot, stronger
limb,
If she would pass Raceland, or cen come UP
They are at the quarter; tbs Raceland still by
a length;
And twas thought signs were seen of Tosca's
fading strength.
They are at the three quarters, and still ii
was just the same,
And some men swore they saw La Tosea run
ming lame.
Now, with lightning speed, they've turned
into the stretch;
La Tosca's pace is auiekened. as though
/ she'd die or catch
| Raceland (that bag OF bones) ere the race
was through.
| With Raceland's jockey-both whip and
| spur; oh, how they flew.
But he'd set the pace, and his strength was
spent;
| The farther down the stretch they came. the
faster that filly went.
And when she passed Il length ahead beneath
the wire
There arose shout that am sure ascendel
higher
Than Gotham's prayers on most occasions.
| And, what is hetter than all I've told in this
simple rhyme.
La Tosca ran this wonderful race in record
time.
-SPoETsMAN.