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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-10
rRAyELERs PRorECTIvE Assoc,Y.
The Drummer Boys Formulate Plans For
Future Work.

A meeting Of the board Of directors OF
Virginia Division. T. p. A.. was held in
their new rooms, Chamber Of Commerce
building. last night; present Messrs. Jo-
seph Wallerstein. acting president, in the
chair; Jonn y. Culpeper. c. W. Saunders
G. V. Clash, and u. ). Harwood, and
George Gibson. Jr., secretary.
The railroad committee reported fayora-
bly, from the railroads. The committee on
membership gained several new members
and the division bids fair TO be the banner
r. Z. 4. Organization OF the South.
Immediately after the directors meeting,
a committee meeting. composed Of the
following; Messrs. Culpeper, Saunders,
Wallerstein. and Gibson, was held 10 make
the final arrangements for the formal
opening Of the new headquarters, rooms
Nos % and %. Chamber Of Commerce
building, Tuesday, December 18th, at
which time a large number Of the
knights OF the Grip" will be at home
10 spend the holidays.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-10
PrnnrrtY Ira sters.

Richmond: George w. Dobson's trustee
70 Granite Building Company, 81 feet on
north side Duval street, and % feet on
east side Walker street, Sl,4OO
W. r. Hooker and l.. W. Phillips TO
Estel G. Power. II feet on west side
Lombardy street between Floyd and
Grove avenues, subject TO deed Of trust
of N,6i349.
Alexander II. Levy, to George w. God
ward. IL Gia-l2 feet on south side Grace
street, between Eighth and Ninth. 900
j. Il. Stowe, Jr., to e. {. Garrison, same
deed reported from Henrico Court July
p 1893 500.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-10
rHosr CHEERFUL COUPON CASES.
Some OF Them Considered Yesterday In
Judge Hancock's Court.


PETERSBURG. VA. Dec Especial
The coupon cases were completed I'm the
Circuit Court. Judge b. A. Hancock pre-
sn.ng. to-day. Eighty-nine petitions were
neI and four cases under the act known
.s the coupon crusher were disposed OF,
making ninety-three cases in all. They
were an decided I'm favor Of the petition
fr-
After disposing OF the coupon cases.
rrlee Hancock heard argument upon de-
uuTers o. declarations I'm the fire
cases removed 90 this court. from the
circuit Court Of Sussex, IN which the
Norfolk and Western r. r co. is being
sued hv several parties whose lands were
burned over by fires on the first OF
April. 1893 in the neighbOrhoOd Of Wa
very. The main point made and dis
ea-eei before the court was. that the
declarations did not set forth that the
fires (Which were communicated, or sec
oni8rv fres) were the natural and prob
able results OF the first fires started by
The railroad company. and ought reason
ably 20 have been fOreseen by the de
f-adant company The court, taking
This view Of the question, sustained the
dcmurrers upon this point, and gave
leave for the proper amendment Of the
uleadlngs The cases will now go back
t9 the Circuit Court Of Sussex for trial at
q special term expected 10 be held about
February LIST next. The plaintiffs were
represented by Judge j. +. West Of
Sussex and the railroad company by
George s. Bernard. of this city and
Judge ". II. Mann, of Nottoway coun-
o.
Rev. W. G. Starr. u. j.. Of Norfolk the
new pastor Of WashinetOn-Street NJ. T..
church. viii preach hts inaugural SER
mon tomorrow morning To-day Or.
starr made the acquaintance Of a great
many of our citizens and tonight he and
his family We're welcomed by members
~ the church at tho parsonage. The oc-
casiOn was most pleasant one
Rev J. II. M Pollard. of Charleston,
c. win address the cOlOred Young
Nns Christian Association tomorrow
afternoon.
owing 70 the sickness Of the pastor,
Rev r. W. Battle. the pulpit Of the
FIRST Baptist church will be filled to-mor-
row by Rev j. NJ Pitcher, ID. -. Dr.
Battle as already stated i'm this cor
raspondenca is suffering from severe
case Of Ia grippe
The feast of the Girls AID Society Of
Tsbb-Street Presbyterian church was
brought 20 a close last night The feast
was held for the benefit Of Home and
Foreign missions and the net receipts
amounted 90 So.
This afternoon Freddie Drewry aged
about nine years, "a son Of AIR. John
urewry. was seriously and perhaps
Htally shot 10y companion, named Leo
rard Chandler. on Cross street. The
two boys were engaged shooting at
target with an air rifle. and at the
moment that Chandler discharged the
weapon. Drewry ran I'm front Of the
target the BAN striking him in the
spine whore 10 lodged. The injured boy
was attended by three physicians.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-10
The Hastings Court.

In the Hastings Court, before Judge
witt yesterday, Warner Walton alias
J. r. Comb. colorod, was fined S2O for car
rying concealed weapons, and sentenced TO
TWO years imprisonment I'm the penitentia-
~ for committing a forgery Walton IS
the negro who forged the name Of Post
master Russell and passed a check upon
the Watkins Hardware Company. At the
time Of ms arrest ne claimed TO be en-
ployed in the post-oftice department At
Washington.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-10

LYON.-The weh-knowR nurse, ANN
LYON. died at the residence Of her SON
in-law. George r. Coutts 40 north Thir-
tieth street. at 121j a. ". Saturday,
December 9th, in the siSty-hlth year OF
her age.
Her work is finished;
She has gone TO meet her loved ones;
She hath done what she could
The funeral will take place from the
Third Presbyterian church MONDAY ,
December nth. at . o'clock +. VI. Friends
and acquaintance are respectfully IN
vted 70 attend.
LETELLIER.-Died December Q. 1898.
at her residence, 300 west Cary street,
AT A. NJ. Miss MARY LETELL1ER,
i'm the seyenty-fourth year Of her age
Funeral at her residence MONDAY
AFTERNOON, December nth, al j. NJ.
Friends and acquaintances invited TO
attend.
No flowers,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-10
Hornsn Greeier,s HANDWRITING.

Because Of his awful chirography. Mr.
Greeley was a dire sufferer at the hands
Of the compositor and prOof-reader.-
World Herald.
Commenting on the above, tho New
York sun. whose editor. Mr.. Charles A.
Dana. was for years, continually asso-
ciated with Mr.. Greeley. says: This is
a mistake. The very badness Of his hand
writing. and the affection Of the printers
for the old man, made them much more
careful I'm setting up his articles than In
setting up those Of any other writer
Ills proofs were habitually among the
cleanest I'm the Office"
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-10
Mr.. r. N. Parker Shot.

The ambulance was called to the corner
Of sixth ard Broad streets this morning
at 12l5 o'clock TO a white man named
T.. NJ Parker. who had beer accidentally
shot in the hand. He was taken TO r. A.
Mnlers drug store. and the WI und dressed,
after which he was carried 10 his home
on north Fourth street. The wound Is
painful, but not serious. This Is not Mr..
4 NJ Parker II of The Times.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-10
To Select CARPETS.

The subcommittee Of the Committee on
Grounds and Buildings met again in the
Chancery Courtroom yesterday and con-
unued its deliberations as to the selection
OF carpets and linoleum for the various
offices in the new city Hall. The sub-com-
mittee win report TO the general COM
mittee Tuesday evening at o'clock.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-10
From the Military.

The First Regiment armory last night
presented On unusually deserted appear
ance and the scenes OF life and activity OF
the average Saturday evening were want
ing.
A number Of the officers assembled at
their club rooms on Broad street and
spent a quiet evening. II was the date
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-10
THE COMING rxHIBIrIoN.
10 10 Given ~ the Klchrnond Theatre by
the Memb srs OF the Gymnasium.

A grand gymnasium exhibition will be
biFen by the gymnasium members OF the
Young Mems Christian Association al
,he Richmond Theatre next Friday even
Ns' december 18th. under the leadership
OF Professor Anton Schatzel. over 100
.suo eis Wili take part making it one
~ 'he nfst gymnasium displays ever
given IA this city The entertainment
~, wi Debln promptly at Sis =. NJ, and
ted: "' w e~eSu-
"lt l. % Grand march by the differ
~ .sssss CD Bar and bell drill. by
c ,,1 oOy class. led by p. Finney. mus
y. control and grace. o. Glass work
sne boys. parallel bars, mat work
,on BOARD buck. led by Eugene Blan-
~, oeoiss y. Ksesee, Robert Morrt-
ana Willie Parker, self control,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-10
Star Course Entertainment.

The second Star course entertainment
Will be given at the association building
on Friday evening, January 9Th. 1884, Mr..
II. II. Raglan. the celebrated Traveller aud
lecturer, win present his popular lecture
entitled Paris, the Magnificent" illustrat-
ed by superb steteopticon views.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-10
MARRIAGES.

GTNN-QUARLES.- Married. Novem-
Der %. 1898. at the residence Of the brides
mother. 9Ol west Grace street. ACOkS X.
GUM 10 MARY T.. QUARLES.
No cards
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-10
o. 81 valuable Horses.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9.-Horses be-
longing 10 the Undine stables were auc-
toned to-day. Don F'ulano. who beat
Morello and Charmion Thursday. brought
Si.50o; Revolver, $3.50, Tigress. Sl,ST5;
Return, s1.15O: Donohue. $3.50. Five
other horses brought $3.50 each.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-10

AUGUSTA, GA. Dec 9.-The football
game at the Augusta Exposition between
the Georgia State University team. of
Athens. Ca, and the Fulton University
team, South Carolina. resulted in a score
Of % TO in favor Of Georgia
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-10
He Merely Wondered.

The boarder on Cass avenue looked up
appealingly at his landlady. There were
in his face the lines of patient suffering that
dumb driven cattle show when one looks at
them closely, and there was about him that
air of submission married men sometimes
cannot quite conceal. The landlady caught
his eye.
well, what is itP" she asked suspi-
ciously.
He turned the chicken leg over on his
plate meelly and looked at her again.
"Well," she asked, sis there anything the
matter with your victuals"
No" he sighed YEARLY. II was merely
wondering"
Wondering at what2 Amt it clean?"
she asked nervously.
"Quite clean, quite Clean" he said apollo
getically and with encouragement to her.
"Then what are you wondering at?" she
insisted.
II was merely wondering" he said, "if
you intended making an angel of me-"
How do you meanP You don't think
want to poison you. do your"
"Oh, no; but for months and months
you've been feeding me on wings, wings,
nothing but wings, and now that you have
given me this drumstick l merely wonder
if you didn't want me to join the heavenly
choir as one of the musicians" and once
more he sighed and looked at her appeal
ingly.-Detroit Free Press.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-10

For one to be ignorant of the proper use
of novelty is nothing to be ashamed of.
If you are ignorant, you are just n trifle old
fashioned-a season behind time. Frank
innocence and tact will save situation
from awkwardness, and sometimes the
resort to them is thought attractive.
If you are uncertain q new, strange
piece of silver, wait am ,atch your neigh
Dor or your hostess and act accordingly.
Local customs and usages, even in this
travelled age of people and products, make
certain ignorance or innocence very posi-
BILE. a southerner could not be blamed for
not knowing which end of the stalk of
asparagus to eat because it is not a vegeta-
BILE of his latitude. In exchange north
erner could not understand the bur arti.
choke, and in being ignorant he would be
above reproach.
There is certain sign language that OBJ
tains between host and guest, and between
those who sit and those who wait, and its
meaning every we'll bred child learns in the
nursery. In the wonderful ups and downs
in our country the person who sits today at
the finest appointed table may never have
had the advantages of a nursery nor of n
mother who knew what civilization sup
plies to the top ladder people. Such per-
son is in kind of helpless ignorance, and
how to enlighten him is the conundrum of
many.-"Her Point of View"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-10
The Algerian Donkey,

The donkey in Algeria rarely has sad
die He has pad very similar to the pad
on which the bespangled queens of the saw
dust ring dance their short hour to delighted
boys and rustics. The pad has no stirrups
and is so wide as to make seat on it eX-
tremely firing to the uninitiated. The Arab
sits astride or sidewise, and as the pad is
rarely girthed, or at best by slender rope,
it is like walking tight rope or managing
a birch bark canoe TO sit on it until you
''catch on" Between this pad, which serves
equally for loading orriding, and the saddle
of the Spahi there is a vast category of sizes
and styles, ALL however, much too wide. A
pair of stirrups is often improvised by tying
two bags together, putting them across the
pad, turning in one corner and thrusting the
foot into the pocket thus made. The flimsy
pretext for saddle or harness used all over
the east would be cast on the dump by the
poorest American farmer. He would not
risk his bones with it.-Colonel I. A. Dodge
in Harper's.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-10

A Kentuckian, who is patient in a hos
pital in that state, is as blue as new stove
pipe from the top of his head to the bottom
of his feet. His finger nails are blue and
so is his tongue, and altogether he is the
bluest man in America. The doctors say
that the discoloration is caused by nitrate
of silver poisoning Asbridge for years has
been subject to epileptic fits, and took great
quantities of nitrate of silver in order to
ward them off. This was gradually depos-
tied in the skin, and on exposure to light
turned a blackish sort of blue, just as it
does on photographers plate. His face
and hands are darker than the portions Of
his body protected by clothing. His eye
balls look like hard boiled eggs that have
been soaked in a solution of indigo after
the shells We're removed. According to the
medical men it will take good many
years for his cerulean epidermis to bleach
out, and it may never be restored to the
original tint.-Sau Francisco Examiner.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-10

Camphor is the result of evaporating an
essential oil found in two different trees
the Cinnamomum camphora, which grows
in China and Japan, and the Dipterocarpus
camphora of Sumatra and Borneo. From
these two trees it is obtained in very differ
ent manners In the Cinnamomum it ex-
lists in root and branch, stems and leaves,
which are chopped small and put into earth
en- vessels, which are heated. These vessels
are covered with hoods. and rice straw is
placed in them. The camphori is volatalized
and rises. 1t condenses on the straw, from
which it is afterward cleared. In the Dip
terocarpus it is found in the trunk in a SOL
id form, and it is obtained by cutting the
tree down and splitting it open. It's found
in pieces from l to feet long and about as
thick as a mans arm. A moderate sized
tree will yield about 10 pounds of camphor,
a larger one about twice that quantity.
This kind is more highly esteemed than the
other, so that in Japan 200pounds of native
camphor are valued at one pound of the
Bornean. York Telegram.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-10
TREATMENT OF PRISONERS in 1868.
English and Spanish Soldiers Taken In
Battle Horribly Tortured.

Battle Horribly tortured.
In the summer of 1868 eight English mer-
chantmen anchored in the roads at Gibral-
tar. England and France were then Mt war.
A French brig came in after them and
brought up near. At sea, If they could
take her, she would have been n lawful
prize. Spaniards under similar circum
stances had not respected the neutrality of
English harbors The Englishmen were
perhaps in doubt what to do when the Off
GERS of the holy Office came off to the
French ship The sight of the black famil-
lars drove the English wild. Three of them
made dash at the French ship, intending
to sink her. The inquisitors sprang into
their boat and rowed for their lives. The
castle guns opened, and the harbor police
put out to interfere The French ship, how
ever, would have been taken, when unluck-
lily Alvarez de Bacan, with Spanish squad
ron, came around into the straits. Resist
ance was impossible.
The eight English ships were captured
and carried off to Cadiz. The English flag
was trailed under De Bacan's stern. The
crews, 240 men in all, were promptly con-
demned to the galleys. In defense they
could but say that the Frenchman was an
enemy, and moderate punishment would
have sufiiced for a violation of the harbor
| rules which the Spaniards themselves so
| little regarded. But the inquisition was
| memorable, and the men were treated with
| such peculiar brutality that after nine
months 90 only of the 240 were alive.
Ferocty was answered by ferocity Lis
| ten to this: The Cobhams of Cowling cas-
| tie were Protestants by descent. Lord Cob
ham was famous in the Lollard martyr
| ology. Thomas Gotham, one of the family,
had taken to the sea, like many of his
friends. While cruising in the channel he
caught sight of Spaniard on the way from
! Antwerp to Cadiz, with 40 prisoners on
board, consigned, it might be supposed, to
| the inquisition.
They were of course inqusition prison
| ers, for other offenders would have been
dealt with on the spot. Gotham chased
her down into the Bay Of Biscay, took her,
scuttled her and rescued the captives. But
that was not enough. The captain and
crew he sewed up in their own mainsail
and flung them overheard. They were
washed ashore dead, wrapped in their ex-
traordinary winding sheet. Gotham was
called to account for this exploit, but he
does not seem to have been actually pun
ished. In u very short time he was out and
away again at the old work. There were
plenty with him.-Froude in Longman'.
Magazine.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-10
MECCA AS A SHRINE OF CHOLERA.
An Awful Picture of Asiatic Filth and
Reckless Eanaticism.


From 10000 TO 100000 seems to be the or
binary average number of those who visit
Mecca during the festival and who are
present at Mount Arafat on the 9th of Zu'l
Hiiiah. They come from every quarter of
the compassionate by caravan from Syria
and Persia, Turkey and Afghanstan; by
sea from Red sea ports; from Africa, across
the whole width of which many of the
weary pilgrims have walked, and from
every part of the world where the standard
of Islam has been raised.
With no provision for decency or comfort
they camp around or crowd into lodgings
in the sacred city They make excursions,
Chamber up the mountains, spend hours in
the blazing sun, are sickened with rotting
smells arising from the thousands of ami
mails which are sacrificed, crush and stifle
in the Ka'ba, and finally, as If they had not
already run sufficient risk of catching ev-
cry possible complaint, they drink the wa
ter of Xem Fem
This is the well from which Hagar is said
to have drawn water for her son Ishmael,
and the drinking of the water is most holy
rite. The supply, however, is not as great
as could be desired for so large a crowd of
pilgrims, and the manner of dealing with it
at the well goes far to explain the intensity
OF Ule poison anu UHc
which attends any outbreak of cholera
among the Meccan pilgrims.
At a given period the pilgrims stand
| naked in turn at the place appointed. A
| bucket of water is poured over each man.
| He drinks what he can get of it, and the
rest falls back into the holy well. The wa
ter from this well has been analysed by DIR.
FARMLAND, +. r. S., of the Royal College
| of Science, London, wAo describes it as
| fearfully polluted with abominable contain
| nations. Imagine, then, one single mem
| Der of this enormous crowd suffering from
| the early stage of cholera!-to be strug-
Cling, as struggle he would with his last
strength, to get through the holy rite and
to be allowing the choleraic discharges
with which his body would be soiled to be
washed back into this foul we'll
What is to happen to the crowd of pill
grims who close in ON the spot that he has
| left, and who each in turn swallow in rapt
| fervor the fetid draft in which these thou
sands have been washed? Can we wonder,
then, knowing the history of the Broad
street pump, that in 1865 within u few days
of the ceremony, the road leading from
| Mecca was for IL miles thickly strewn with
dead bodies-a holocaust to be added to the
account of perverted religious rites which
has already so deadly recordi-Dr. Ernest
Hart in Popular Science Monthly.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-10

cannot help feeling sneaking kindness

cannot help feeling sneaking kindness
for Charles Lamb, who toiled after tobacco
las some men toll after virtue" II de
sign he said, "to give up smoking, but
have not yet fixed on the equivalent vice"
In his letter to Wordsworth accompanying
his Farewell Ode to Tobacco he says;
Tobacco has been my evening comfort
and my morning curse for these five years.
have had it in my head to do it these two
years, but tobacco stood in its own light
when it gave me headaches that prevented
my singing its praises" So general, how
ever, has the custom become, in spite of
every counterblast, that, with Thackeray,
we need not yet despair of seeing "a bishop
lolling out of the Atheneum with cheroot
in his mouth, or at any rate a pipe stuck in
his shovel hat.-National Review.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-10

The common people of Russia as a rule
speak only their own tongue. A large pro
portion of them cannot read the bewilder-
Ing haracters-Roman, Greek and com
posite-which form their alphabet, and to
help their ignorance the shop walls are
covered over with rudely painted pictures
of articles for sale within. The butchers
shop has picture of meats of all sorts and
shapes; the tailor's walls are covered with
paintings of coats and trousers. The pills
of the apothecary and the vegetables of the
green grocer are advertised by pictures upon
the doors and windows of their stores.-
New York Evening Sun.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-10
Pay More and Get Less.

1t is one of the anomalies of modern hotel
life that the more you pay the less you ex-
pect in return. In the huge caravansaries
of the large American cities, where IA man
pays S75 week for room without board,
he never thinks of asking any service of the
employees without paying literally for it.
He is charged for a fire, for light after
midnight, for the use of the telephone. for
sending out message by an Office boy, for
taking lunch in his room, for corkage on
his own wines and must tip the walters
In country hotel, where he pays So a week,
with board, he can have fire in his room
when he wants it, he can trust the landlord
to send letters and messages, he can smoke
all over the house, he can borrow anything
from gun 10 pair of trousers, he can get
the landlady to mend his torn coat, he can
call for breakfast at 5 o'clock in the morn
ing and get it, and he has to tip nobody
New York Sun.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-10
War Is Very Expensive.

War is very expensive business. Stats
tics of some of the great wars of the past
are as follows The Crimean war cost 81
OOO, 600, 900 and 100000 lives. The Italian
war of 1889 $500, 0OO, 900 and 1900 lives; the
war of the rebellion cost the north $780,
600 900 and the south S2,3OO,OOO,OOO, and to-
gether about $1,000 lives; the Prusso-Aus-
trian war of 1866 cost 1888, 900, 900 and 5000
lives; the Russo-Turkish war, 1925, 0OO, 900
and 250, 900 lives, and the Franco Prussian
war a, 100, OOO, 900 and 10000 lives-New
York Evening Sun.