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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-25
The CLEVELAND CHRISTMAS.
It VIII Be Merry Beyond Question
Baby Ruth's Presents.
(By telegraph 10 the Dispatch.


NV YORK, December 2l.--President-
elect Clsvelands residence, IN ives; Fifty
first street, IS beng decorated with Christ
mas greens. Wreaths have been placed at
each window. and the dainty little draw
inp-roOm is trimmed with mlstletOe. pine
boughs. and evergreen. 1t Is intended by
MIR. aud Mrs. Cleveland to observe Sunday
as Chrlstmas-Day. They will partake Of a
splendid turkey sent by an admlrlns Long
Island farmer.
Already enough toys and other gifts TO
stock o store have poured IN tor Baby
Ruth. There are enough dolls alone for
dozen children. while of iumpug-i jacks.
iacks-ln-the-boX, and other playthlngs
there are almost too many 10 count. Tho
receipt of presents tor Ruth Keeps the
butler and maid busy nearly ali daY. lt
has been suggested that the gifts be placed
upon little Chrlstmas-tree and that Baby
Ruth's boy and girl friends be invited 10
witness the display. The tree had not ar
rived this morning.
Unless the plans are changed Mrs. Cleye-
land will leave for her visit 10 her mother,
i'm Buffalo, Wednesday or Thursday next.
Her daughter IS to accompany her. During
her absence the PresIdent-elect Will make
preparations Tor removing to Lakewood
for the winter. Ii was said to-day by an
intimate friend of Mr.. Clevelands that be
would probably not 90 TO his Lakewood
cottage before January 10th. Mrs. Cleye-
land will JOIN him there on or about that
date. The cottage Is almost ready for
their reception. The Clevelands will re-
main at the " Little White House until
they 60 70 Washington in March.
THE PREsIDENT-ELECr GAINED!
New YORK. December 2L-Rev. Father
Kessell, of the Church of the Holy Re-
deemer. State-Senator George L. Roesch.
and Henry w. Wolf waited upon Presl-
dent-elect Cleveland AZ his residence
at 10 A. NJ. to-day, and without
formality presented him With a beau,
tlful gold-beaded cane, which had
been voJed 70 hun as the most popular
presidential candidate at far held by
Father Kessers congregation some time
previous to the election. President Cleye-
land responded gracefully, and after an
exchange OF Merry Chrlstmases the
President-elect entered his carriage and
drove to his onice in the Mills Building.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-25
1mnroved Postal Facilities.


We read with pleasure the following
statement of the New York Tribune of
Wednesday:
arrangements were completed yesterday by
he Postmaster-Ge nerel for the establishment
Ia tube service between the posi-onices IN this
.lty and Brooklyn. The motive power Is to be
electrical The tube service Will DO introduced
by private company as an experiment, but
here can be little doubt regarding its success.
The amount OF time saved in transferring mails
across the East river will be great"
We recently copied FROM one of our ex-
changes the statement that the mails be-
tween Paris and Berlin. q distance of ESQ
miles, are transmitted through pneumatic
tubes in q few hours. No other country
ought to be allowed to take the lead OF
the United States in such matters. The
cost of transmitting the mails through
tubes would at first seem to be compare
lively heavy, but let the plan be put into
general operation. and the people will have
the tube-service, let it cost what it may.
The more tube-service there Is the less the
cost as compared with the present service.
DR.. j. Il. DoDs once said that lightning Is
the tardy messenger that follows IN the
wake of the thunderbolt. So railroad
train is a tardy messenger that follows at
long distance the "plunger in the tube.
1t is not mere experiment that Post
master General WANAMAKER is making. He
knows that the scheme is practicable, and
is, we suppose. preparing to ascertain the
cost OF the new service. Tubes ought to
be laid down between every two cities OF
ANY size in the Union. Postal reforms
must always be IN order.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-25
Christmas Horns.

There are two horns to the Christmas
dilemma. but both can be avoided. There
is no more sense in a well-grown youth
torturing the neigh 5orhood with lusty and
protracted blasts from tn horn than IN
his elder taking Christmas by too
free indulgence IN liquor.
In one case the offender finds his pleas
urs in making many Others miserable.
In the other he enjoys his horn only to pay
the penalty tomorrow.
We do not hope to be able to prevent all
excuses in either direction; but we know
that Il decade ago Christmas was sob
served" in Richmond with q degree OF
frollcsomeness on the streets which com
PEELED the newspapers TO speak out boldly
against those who thus outraged propriety
and public opinion, and that ever since,
with q few individual exceptions, there has
been little occasion for complaint.
Every man has right to enjoy him
self after his own fashion. but no one
possesses legal or moral right TO mako
himself happy at the expense Of Others. or
at the cost of the community's good name.
The pleas that "boys will be boys" and
that christmas comes but once year
will, of course. be urged In abatement of
extreme judgment, and they should DO &C
cepted for all that they are worth; but
they cannot avail to cover all the sins Of
the season.
Observation, however, leads US to be-
lieve that there has been steady improve
ment in Christmas observance here and
elsewhere for years past. There IS less in
toxication than formerly: less noise, and
less disregard of the comfort OF quiet peo-
pie.
II happens that this year Christmas falls
on Sunday-which very strongly empha-
sizes the religious aspect of it-but it will
be hard to restrain until tomorrow those
who are eager for frolic. And yet we hope
that O serious effort will be made in that
direction. Certainly not the least dis
turbance of public worship should be per-
mitted, and we take it for granted that the
police have orders to deal very summarlly
with those who offend in this respect.
Richmond is just as good and orderly a
place as there 10 in the world We have no
doubt on this point, and few years ago
when the New York Sun made a compsri-
son of the morals of great cities, as shown
in police and court statistics, Richmond
had the post of honor; but as 1t is day
for sermons we, too. choose TO sermOnlze
a little, and perhaps the community
will be none the worse for it.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-25
rHE RIoHMoNp D1spAroH--sUNDAY, DECEMBER %, 1882

trymen. The New York Sun saysthat an
honest revision of the pension-list on the
most liberal principles which should de-
termine pension legislation would proba-
bly, cut down the annual expenditure for
pensions to twenty-five millions or less"
But even il it would probably cost the
country as much to purge tho pension
rolls as to pay the pensions as they now
stand recorded, yet even in that case the
purging should goo Crime must not DO
allowed to succeed in its efforts to rob the
National Treasury.
But how 10 the pension-roll to be purgedI
There will be- no insuperable difficulties TO
overcome If Congress will do It's duty.
There is money enough involved in the
matter to justify an early examination o.
the roll of pensioners In the interest of the
millions of voters who do not receive PEN
sions. One city like Boston, or New
York. or Philadelphia, would probably
afford such evidences OF fraud and " ILL
desert as would cause all the people to
favor O thorough examination into the
pension wrongs under which the country
is grooming,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-25
What the Brussels Conference Did.

What the Brussels Conference Did.
The price of silver certificates in New
York seems not TO have been affected in
any degree by the temporary adjournment
of the Brussels Conference. Possibly the
wise fnanciers of that conference con-
cluded, as to the bimetallists, "to let
them down easily, and so left room for
the friends of the white metal TO hope that
something will be done upon the re-
assembling Of the conference next spring.
10 quote a phrase often used IN 1869 IN
speaking of the new movement" tho
Brussels conference has done a great
deal Of good" The utterances of its
members on one side and the other as TO
the feasibility and desirabllity of estab
fishing a double standard of values have
shed much light upon the subjects which
the conference was called to discuss. We
might soy that some of these subjects
were discussed extensively .; but we
will not. seeing that it seems to be next to
impossible TO discuss such subjects ex-
haustively. 1t may be said that whatever
was good in the proceedings was old, and
whatever was new was bad. We do not
concur IN this opinion. The man who
said of THOMAS BABEGToN MAcAULAY. Il
wish was as sure of one thing ss Ton
MAcAULAY is of everything" described
accurately the state of mind that obtained
among the monometallists of Europe be-
fore the assembling of the conference. We
cannot but hope and believe that some
impression has been made upon the
monometallist financiers of the conference
by the able papers which they have had
the privilege of hearing and reading. 1t
is impossible for reasoning men TO listen 10
the arguments of the bimetallists without
coming to the conclusion that the silver
problem has two sides to 1t.
We shall welcome homo the American
delegates who took part in the conference.
They have begun good work. Let Us
hope that they will yet find a way to end
it with credit 10 themselves and great
benefit to the whole world.
Mr.. Foster, Secretary of the Treasury,
as reported in the DISPATCH Of Wednesday.
fully concurs in what "a said in this article,
which was written before We had read
what he says on the subject.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-25
New Gold Dlggings.

Soon after the discovery of gold in Cali
fornla silver became so much more valua-
BILE than gold Q6 10 ~ that Congress
passed law providing for the debase-
ment of the silver coins as means OF
keeping supply of silver coins in this
country. The greatest gold excitement
that has existed since 1919" IS now re
ported to have taken possession of the
minds OF the people of all the region that
can be reached by the way of Durango
and Dolores. Nuggets of gold weighing
from ten to fifteen ounces have been
picked up by numbers of persons, and one
man has been known 70 get fortune in a
day. Naturally there is rush to the
placer.
But what would happen if the expe-
rience of 1850 in California were TO be re-
peated in our gold States What if We
should have TO protect" gold by law
as we protected silver by lawl If the gold
is to be found in abundance the silver
mines OF that region may be deserted.
However. we await further adyices. The
possibilities that open up before us are
countless.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-25
The Pens .on.List Of III Desert.

"When things get to the worst they be-
gin TO improve" Gays the old adage. We
hope that this saying will prove to be true
in the case of the army pensiou-list OF the
United States Government For years the
evil has had al unchecked growth. owing
to the fact-frst, that no congressman
seemed TO be willing to risk his popularity
in an attempt to keep the people from
being robbed, and second, that no man of
either of the two great parties deemed it
his duty to injure his own party in what
effort to reform the penaon-list. But
better condition of things now exists. Mr..
CLEvELASD's exercise of the veto power in
the case of pension bills, and the discussions
which have resulted therefrom, show that
There is life" in the people yet. HIS tri-
umphant reelection to the office of Presi-
dent under the circumstances which sur
rounded him is a guarantee TO all good
citizens that the voters of this country are
not in favor of being robbed 20 pension
unworthy veterans nor any other class
of men who do not need nor deserve TO be
supported by the government. All Europe
might well gaze with astonishment upon
the spectacle of an army of 9oO,O "vete-
rams 300, 900 soldiers of the Grand
Army of the Republic "-borne upon the
pension-rolls nearly thirty years after the
war IN which these veterans figured
had come to an end. When we in this
country talk about the standing armies
which European nations keep always on
foot we forget that our immense pension
roll c. OF ill-desert." says MIR. CLEvELAND)
testifes that our standing army is 50 large
that We ought forever to hold our peace on
the subject of such armies.
One of our exchanges says that the
Grand Army Of the Republic would lend a
helping hand to any party that would un-
dertake the work of revising the pension
list. Well, SO much the better. Let no
mans name be left on the roll Who is not
clearly entitled TO the bounty Of his coun.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-25
The Michigan Case.

The report In yesterdays papers con-
cerning the Michigan electors OF Presi-
dent and vice-Presideut OF the United
States was worthy of publication only be-
cause the best of newspapers are often
compelled to notice reports known to be
unworthy of credence. for the reason that
the public have heard of these reports
through sensational papers. and therefore
Trustworthy papers are necessitated to con-
tradict them.
The reader will recollect that the Michi-
gan Legislature last winter passed law
providing that the electors of President
and Yice-President should be chosen ny
districts. This law ran the gauntlet OF
the lower courts and was finally adjudged
TO be constitutional by the Supreme Court
of the United States. Yet IN the face OF
these facts the telegraph tells US that, as
there is no higher court to appeal to, the
Republicans intend to have the law in
question repealed and the electors OF
President unseated," whatever unseat-
ed" may mean in this connection. And
this notwithstanding that the results OF
the district elections in Michigan have al
ready been lawfully ascertained and pub
lished.
The Constitution Of the United States
provides that the electors in each State
shall be chosen as may be provided by the
Legislature thereof. That simple state
ment ought to be the end OF argument on
this question. But in addition to the fact
that the CLEVELAND electors were chosen
under a law which had been pronounced
constitutional by the highest court in the
land is the fact that the votes for Presi-
dent and Vice-President of the United
States are to be csnvassed by the two
houses of Congress IN joint meeting as
sem bled. 1t will be for that joint conven-
ton to decide whether the votes OF the
electors chosen in Michigan last month
shall be counted or not. The House OF
Representatives is Democratic by two
thirds vote and will not sit still and see
the electors of sovereign State defrauded
out of their right to vote.
If the Michigan Legislature repeats the
law providing that electors of President
and Vice President shall BIO chosen by dis
tricts that law will hereafter have no force.
But such repeal can have no retroactive
operation. 1t will take effect only in cleo
tions hereafter TO be held.
The questions which have been raised
this year as to the manner of choosing presi-
dental electors will no doubt have the
effect of causing renewed agitation of the
question of so amending the Federal Con-
sttution as to provide that the Presi-
dent shall be chosen by the people them
selves. There is q strong feeling in favor
of removing the barrier which the Consti-
tuition has erected between the voters and
the candidates for President.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-25
THE HOLIDAY PROPER
MONDAY WILL BE OBSERVED IN NOR
eoLK-BUSlNeSS SuSPENDS.
Elaborate Musical PROGRAMMES In tho
Churcbes-Generai Lees Birthdayto
he Observed by q Campfire.

rCorrsspondsnce Of the Richmond Dispstch.i
NORFOLK. December 2.-The Cotton Ex-
change closed to-day and the observance
Of the year fairly commenced, tho streets
being thronged in evsry direction with
city and country shoppers and workmen
and Others on their Saturday halliday.
Monday will be observed as the holiday
proper, when ell business will be suspend
ed. though tomorrow will be the festival
in tho churches, for which very elaborate
programmes have been arranged. The po-
lice-patrol wagon seems to DO doing good
business picking up DRINKS"
REPAIRING THE CONCORD.
The report on the survey of the United
States steamer Concord has been received
at the naVy-yard, and the work OF repair
ing her Will commence on Tuesday. The
equipment department has been putting IN
her electric plant for week. Seventy
five of the crew of the Concord went
North last night on two weeks leave 20
spend Christmas al their homes.
Mr. Andrew J. Denby, an old and we'll
known citizen OF Norfolk county, died at
his home. at Sewells Point, day or two
ago, at IL years OF age.
HANDSOME CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
The Cotton. Exchange members present.
ed Mr.. Norman Bell, the secretary, with a
purse of 500 IN gold yesterday and pres
euts for all the assistants At the exchange.
Pocahontas Council, Royal Arcanum.
will give q tin celebration on the llth OF
January IN honor of Mr. Thomas ii. Bell,
the efficient secretary of the council Tor
the past ten years.
IN FOR REPAIRS.
The dismasted rum-and- molasses.laden
schooner Chatsuquau, from Demerara, mas
been towed into this port and VIII dis
charge her cargo and he repaired here.
Plckett-Bucnanan Camp Will observe
General Lees birthday with campfire at
the Academy of Music, and the Commit
tee Of Arrangements IS already at WORK.
FIRsr WHITE sHAD.
The first white shad of the season are
now in market from Florida waters.
The public night schools are being we'll
attended this winter. One OF the white
schools has forty pupils. There are Two
white and one cJlored schools. ,Ihe pubic
niOht school in Portsmouth ran one wlntor
and proved failure for want Of attend
ance. There's high school IN that city,
however, and none IN Norfolk.
KNIFE-sLAsHEa JAILED.
Henry Sutton is IN Jail for giving Will
liam Capeheart a terrible siashing with a
iack-knife, something like dozen cuts
being on his body. and his condition Is
critical.
Observation-Disclosures w. f. Kane and Mas
ter-Coppersmitn W. J. OConnor, Of the
Atlantic and Danvlile railroad, nave gone
TO Harper's Ferry for two weeks.
MCARBICK's SUPPER.
Captain James W. McCarrick gave an
oyster-supper on board the steamer Ariel
last night IN honor Of 4lr. T.. K. Barney, OF
Homewood, Va.
Naval Constructor +. I. Bowles is home
from New York. and with him his relative.
DIR. BOYles of Springfield, Mass.
The Portsmouth Basket " orks has made
several shipments OF crates and berry ba--
ket5 TO Australia this year.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-25
SUNDAY DECEMBER "a. 1892.
THE FEATURES or TO-DAYS PAPER.

TIE DISPATCHES CHRISTMAS WISHES Foh
SOME OF ITS OLD READERS-A Whole
Page Of Unique Personals.
STORY OF A PICTURE, BY DISPATCH
MANA Passing-Strsnge Christmas-Eye
Adventure in an Old Mansion In Richmond.
CHRISTMAS LESsoNS-Famous Divines Tell
What Is Taught by the Holidays-A Timely
Symposium.
AN OLD VIRGINIA CHRISTMAS-A Charming
Story Of the Season by Mrs Burton Harri-
son-Scenes in an Old Virginia Mansion in
the Year 1861.
THE OLD CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW
(scene-An OLD Virginia Plantation) by Mar
garet J. Preston Che Grandmother Speaks.
A CONFEDERATE CHRISTMAS-A Doctors
miniscences-Ingenious Devices TO Fill the
Chidren's Stockings.
THE CRITICS ERRORS" Upland" Examined
by an Adm.rer OF Percy Greg-A Strong
Light Thrown on the Points Discussed.
THE TRINKET sToCK-The Record OF this
Famous English Setter and Offspring
Champion Glostsr Antevolo, Miss Ruby,
Lora, and sam X. Gladstone, &C.
QUERIES AND ANSwRRs-The Sword General
Lee Wore at the snrrender-The Table on
which tho Terms OF the Surrender were
Drawn Up, &c.
EDITORS BOOK TABLE-The Library Of
American Literature-New Stories by Mrs.
Burton Harrison, Stockton, Rcbecca Harding
Davis, Stevenson, and Others.
HUNTIN' TO DE wAHi Polk Miller Contrasts
the Sport OF That Day and This-Eicld Exer-
else Good for the Lungs.
TIE CITY OF MEXlCo-Reception OF the BY
sienic Congress by President Diaz-AssOcla-
tons, Legends, and Dynasties Of Guada-
loupe
WINTER FASHIONS-Frocks for Street wear
are Invariably Fur-Trimmed - Fetching
Shapes in the Millinery Of the Day.
THE CHAMBERLAIN H0TEL-Philadelphian
Estimating the Cost and Time Necessary for
Its Completion.
INTERVIEW WITH CAPTAIN WIsR-He
Thinks Crisp VIII Be Reelected Speaker
and That National Quarantine Bill win
Probably Be Introduced in Congress.
MUSIC IN MANCHESTER-The ProgramnIesto
Be Rendered in the Churches There To-
Day-Charles HendersOn's Injuries Quite
Serious.
TO OBSERVE TWO DAYs-Richmond viii
Have IN Old-Time Christmas, with Joyous
Music and Fine Sermons To-Day and Noise
and Hurrahing Tomorrow.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-25
DR.. McGlynn's Restoration.
fBy telegraph TO tho Dispatch. J

NEW YORK. December A.-Archbishop
Corrigan this morning gave out the follow
ing written statement respecting DR.. Me-
Glynn's case The Archbishop has learn
ed with great pleasure the good news pub
lished in this mornings papers of the re-
turn of DIR. MoGlynn TO the communion
OF the Church. At the proper time-I will
not say when-I will express TO the most
reverend Delegate Apostolic my thankful
ness for the good ofices his Excellency has
rendered IN the promises
A reporter afterward had personal in
tervIew with the Archbishop and asked
him if DR.. McGlynn would he assigned to
his old parish of st. Stephens. The Arch
bishop said - must decline 10 say any
thing further than is contained in the
written statement given to the press"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-25
County Roads.
The Cincinnati Commercial SAYS

The Cincinnati Commercial says:
"Governor Flower, OF New York, follows ex-
Governor Hill in tho policy OF urging the I'M
portsnce Of good country roads. Tho Now York
idea Is practical. II proposes, TO begin with. a
system Of lne highways connecting county seats
or the larger towns. Improved side roads are 70
como afterwards"
The RICHMOND DISPATCH proposed and
advocated years ago what our Cincinnati
contemporary styles the New York idea
1t is true, the DIsPATcH's theory has not
been reduced to practice. We are wiling,
however, for anybody to have all the
credit % 1.-THE New York idea" who will
give Virginia good roads. These are what
she most needs just now. Money properly
and judiciously expended in improving
our highways will surely be returned to
our pockets in one way and another. Nay,
good county roads will enhance thu prices
of our lands more than railroads have ever
enhanced them.