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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-10-19

DINNER. S-Sapper
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with ". & A. X. k. tor Chattanooga, Nashville,
aud all points West. Connects with A. 4 w r.
H. H. for Mobile. Montgomery. New orleana
aud all points southwest.
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press $50 +. N.
sor tickets, Pullman reservations, Sc.. apply
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Transfer Company's. 90l cast Nam street. ana
company'- ONCE, $50 east Main street
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-10-19
BY stevens i Co.
Real Estate Agents.
- north Eleventh street.

VETILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUU-
w TON the desirable
sTOCK.BRIOh TWO-STORY-AND-BA BASEMENT
HOUSE No. 1907 west Cary street.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18Th, At , Z. NJ.
At the request Of tho owner We viii offer for sale
ut public auction Oh tOe promises, the above de-
scrbed property Tie house contains : rooms
with all modern improvements. The lot fronts
20 feet on Cary street and extends back i43
feet 10 an alley. This IS a desirable piece o.
property and can be bought cheap. Chose to
the new market In a rapidly improving locality.
JAMES Ii CkBNsHAM,
o. 10 Auctloneer.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-10-19

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The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-08-16

ONGOS" ON"" OVOAy kNS0AOA OOAOOnAoESO
ment will be given to the establish
ment of such parity? And If this be
fair to presume, why is it that when
the price of silver rises in the market
and spproximstes a little nearer
to parity with gold, that the secre-
tsry of the treasury declines to buY9
Is not the hypocrisy of the pretense
apparent from this fact alone? Can
it be truly said in the face of this
fact, that this Is the reason why these
treasury notes are redeemed in gold?
Are there still fools who will believe
these statements of the president
with these facts before them?
But I wish to say a word before /
close this letter, concerning the in
fldences brought to bear for the re-
peal of the Sherman law. I sat in
the gallery of the United States sem
ate during the reading of the presi-
dents message and the proceedings
Immediately following it. The presi-
dent of the senate announced the
first order of business the reception
of memorials and petitions, and
mountain of petitions soon cumbered
the clerks desk relating to the legis-
lation for which congress had been
called together. The great bulk of
these petitions asked for the repeal
of the Sherman law. Where did they
come from? They came from bank
ers' associations, from boards of trade
and from corporate organizations.
Every petition that came from the
agricultural and producing classes
asked for the restoration of silver to
it's former position under the consti-
tuition as money metal. This suffi-
GENTLY indicates the line of division
among the people upon the question.
1t shows that the dealer in money
and the speculator upon the products
of other mems labor, are the mon who
ask for the repeal of this law. Let
there be no mistake IN this matter.
The masses of the people srenot ask
ing for this repeal. It is the same
class that IS now clamoring for this
legislation that secretly conspired for
the demonstration of silver in 1871
'72'73. And why do they ask it?
Simply because it is the only barrier
that exists day to save silver from
total demonetization, and therefore
the only thing in the way of the es-
tablishment of an absolute gold stand
ard IN the United States. The presi-
dent makes the hypocritical plea that
this repeal is for the benefit of the la
borer and the producer. Why then
are not lsborers and producers ask
ing for it? Why do the associated
banks and the boards of trade-the
gamblers in the products of others
toil-manifest 80 lively an interest in
the matter? Are these fellows noted
for their deep interest in the welfare
and prosperity of the producing
masses? Away with such nonsense;
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-08-16

II
unconditional repeal Of the Sherman
law, and no fooling about it. He
wants no compromise whatever. The
president stands with the repeal Of
the Sherman law in one hand, and
the government patronage IN the
other, and he practically says to
democratic members Of congress mo
repeal, no patronage; take your
choice"
1t is needless to say that the ap-
pesrance of MIR. Carlisle and his mes
sage created something of a sensation
among the faithful. What the out
come will be, the future alone can de-
termine; but whatever it may be, il is
safe to say that the gall displayed by
the administration in the attempt to
bulldoze congress into absolute &C.
quiescence to the will of a dictator is
without precedent in the history OF
the country.
TEXAS WITHOUT MONEY TO HARVEST.
HoUsToN, TEX, August 9.-The greatest
alarm and anxiety is manifest in Texas,
which produces an immense percentage OF
the cotton crop of the world. Every in
dustry is dependent on it's movement.
Railways are cutting down forces, cur
rency is selling at premium Of $33 on the
thousand, and money to handle the crop is
impossible TO obtain.
The people are alarmed at the expressions
of their representatives in congress, and are
more Immediately interested in seeing
President Cleveland's recommendations
carried out than in free coinage. Unless
immediate relief is furnished, theTepresent-
stives will be held responsible. Business is
stagnant, and money generally congestsd.
The above dispatch appeared in
the Post this morning, August 10.
Similar dispatches have appeared
from other sections of the south.
There is nothing to indicate the su-
thcrity for them.
Two things are clear from these
dispatches. The first is that the
bankers and merchants, and all par
ties concerned in the necessary move
ment of the cotton crop, feel the
necessity of immediate relief of the
money stringeucy, and realize the
impossibility of moving the crop
without 1t. The second is that the
authors of the dispatches have abso-
lutely no conception of the causes of
the money stringency or the meas
ures necessary to relieve il. The
dispatch says that the people of
Texas "sre more immediately inter-
ested in seeing President CIevelapd's
recommendations carried out than in
free coinage" The question now
arises, if President Cleveland's recon-
mendations were carried out how
would they relieve the money strin-
gency? Has he recommended any
scheme to put more money in circula-
tion? If so, what is it? Let some Of
these advocates of President Clsve-
lands recommendations" arise aud
tell us what he has proposed that
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-08-16

QuC beyond all doubt or mistake the
intention and the ability of the gov
ernment to fulfill its pecunisry obliga-
tions in money universally recognized
by all civilized countries" That is
to say, in plain English, this country
should at once and without delay
adopt the single gold standard and
let that end the matter. This is the
administration program. II is found,
however, that there are so many sill
yer men here that this program is not
certain of success; and the gold-bugs,
ever on the alert, are prepared to
push another compromise when they
find their strength insufficient (if
such should be the csse) to carry out
the original scheme. They will agree
to some kind of coinage bill pro-
vided 1t shall change the ratio from
16 to / to 20 or more to l; and the
great danger DOW is that many silver
men will agree to this compromise.
The great decline in the commercial
price of silver has closed the SILVER
mines and thrown thousands of men
out of employment. That the mining
regions are in a desperate condition
as a result of this enforced idleness
of the miners, there can be no doubt,
and that the fnanciers of the east
will avail themselves of all the ad-
vantages growing out of this condi-
tion to force q compromise, should it
become necessary, there is likewise
no doubt. Anything to defeat the
restoration of silver to the position
it occupied prior to 1873 will go with
the gold-bug element.
/ can readily see how the large sill
yer miners who may be influenced
somewhat by selfish motives, might
be led to agree to some kind of a
compromise that would admit of the
opening of the large mines, and still
would not afford sufficient encourage
ment to open the small ones. This
would afford opportunity for a COM
bination of the large mine owners,
and would remove the competition of
small ones, especially so long as sill
YER is treated as a commodity to any
extent. But how any representative
of an agricultural district can ever
consent to any proposition of this
kind is beyond comprehension. The
decline of silver resulting from dis
eliminating legislation against it has
carried every agricultural product
down with it; and the proposition to
now increase the amount of silver in
the dollar to compensate for this de-
cline in the commercial price of the
metal, Is simply proposition to make
the decline in the price of agricultural
products perpetual.
Every Peoples party platform, ma
tional, state, congressional district or
county, since the beginning of this
contest, has declared not only for free
and unlimited coinage, but for coinage
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-08-16

A. ID. 1SUiO In COIN or Gne e6AnOBru VAiue OF
the United States ON said July IA, 1870.
1t will be seen from the above that
it is only the unsdultersted cussed-
ness of our secretaries of the treasury
that now prevents the payment of gov
ernment bonds IN silver, and il we
should ever elect a Peoples admins
tratlon and secure a secretary who
would be disposed to pay these obli-
cations according to contract, he
could do so. But how would 1t be
should the ratio be changed? Should
the amount of silver in the dollar be
changed, even though changed by an
increase, it would not be "of the stand
ard of July IA, 1870" and the legal
obligation toreceive it IN redemption
Of the bonds would be removed.
Aside from rendering perpetual the
universal decline of values consequent
upon the decline Of silver, we have
here, therefore, another very impor-
tant reason for the rejection of any
change of ratio whatever.
The contest of the Peoples party
upon this as upon all other questions
is based upon principle. 1t is not
simply for the benefit Of a few silver
miners or OF any particular section of
the country. tits q contest for more
money, which would benefit all Sec
tions of the country alike. In some
places we have been successful, if the
election of our candidates means sue
cess. This depends upon whether
the men elected are true to the plat
form upon which they stood before
election. II they are not true they
should and will be treated as traitors
to their constituents. This contest
has become altogether too serious to
permit our principles to be sold out
with impunlty, and because we have
elected men to Office does not IMPLY
that we shall sustain them if they
prove recreant to their trust. Men
who do this are the worst enemies we
have and deserve to be treated as
such. I shall watch the vote of every
man elected upon our ticket, and /
give notice now that the man who be-
trays mis- party in this congress will
be branded as he deserves, 1t matters
not who he may be. This is not made
as a threat, but is simply the state
ment of plain matter of fact. We
cannot afford to continue a contest
only to be betrayed after we have
won the battle, and unless l mistake
the temper of the people the man
who shall betraY them now will meet
a warm reception when he returns to
his constituents.
THE PRESIDENT COMMANDS.
There was something of a sensation
in the democratic caucus which met
in the naval committee room this
morning. Representatives of the
party had assembled for the purpose
of considering their differences upon
Tho oil -abooph,Dcp o;1uo, c,,osk;o0 or1
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-08-16
THE SILVER DEBATE.

The great silver fight is on; and
the character which it is destined to
assume is beginning to appear. The
president, in his message, simply de-
mands the repeal of the so-called
Sherman law, and that such other
Legislative action be taken "as may
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-12-21

Year,

Hymn OF the New Year.
New life and light! new rapture and new
joys!
New hopes, though all these fail, to light
my days.
Oh, tax, my hearts delight in these thy
gifts;
Ny thanks and praise, o Lord! my
thanks and praise!
Dusty the way has been, and long and
dark;
Even now scarce can hope, for hope be-
trays.
o faithiess heart, to him who cares for
thee,
Give now thy thanks and praise! thy
thanks and praise!
Surely the sun will shine throughout the
land
Surely her miracles will work the spring;
Life stands revealed where all seemed
drear and dead.
o heart! my hearth thou mayst give
thanks and sing.
Sing and rejoice! Ever give thanks and
sing!
Life rulesI Death is not, though it
seem to be!
Love sleeps mott God Is an eternal king!
His thought shall reach even to my
heart and me!
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-12-21
White Slave Mart. In Finland.

regular slave mart still exists In many
country districts of Finland. Once year
such paupers, aged people, and lunatics as
cannot support themselves are put up to pub
lie auction and conslgned to those people
who will board them at the lowest price offer
cd by the parish authorities. The helpless
people are made to work as much as possible
by the owners, who have the right to chast!se
them, and who are usually most inhuman In
their treatment OF the wretchcd lunntics.
Tho aged folk are physically unable to per-
form much hard work, but the lunatics.
though mentally dcrangcd, arc often bodily
capable of undergoing great deal of strain.
Consequently the farmer shows little mercy
toward them, harnesses them TO his plows
and thrashes them with his whip as II they
were oxen, while the piteous appeals and
driveling maundorings OF the idiots do not
tend to soften the blows.-1'earson's Weekly.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-12-21

Pete, seeing the other fellow had q
full hand, promptly threw up his,
while Hank dcftly relieved him OF his
firearms.
"'Taint worth fighting about, any
how" said Pete, carelessly. "Therc
amt pound of ore in the hull claim. !"
"Oh, come Off" said Hank. "How
about all that ore you shipped last
summcr?'
"That was out OF pocket l struck
which petercd out mighty quick; but il
you don't believe me I'll go in the hole
and show you," and, taking candle,
Pete started in the tunnel, Hank fol-
lowing, but keeping his hand within
easy reach of his gun.
a. The breast of the tunnel was soon
reached and Pete, holding his candle
up before it, said: "Thcre now, what
did tell yer? It's nuthin' but dead
roclS.''
Hank tool, his candle and carefully
examined the breast, roof and sides,
but not trace of mineral could be
seen.
you're welcome to her." said Pete;
"I've blown in al the money want
to; you can have blast Mt her now, IL
you want to-"
Hank did not reply, but appeared to
be lost in thought. Finally he said:
"Hold my candle minute, Pete" and,
taking up his pick in both hands, he
struck the breast heavy blow, and
the rock and mud with which Pete had
plastered it to fool curious and unwel-
come visitors fell away, exposing n
vein of glittering white metal:
Almost at the same instant there
was dcafening report, and Hank fell
to the ground with a bullet through
his heart.
Pete, with smoking revolver in his
hand, which he had snatchcd from
Hanks belt ns he struck the blow,
stood over him with grim smile as
he muttcred 'Another accident"
But rctribution was close at hand.
The reverberations of the shot had
hardly died away among the neighbor-
ing peaks when II rock, which had long
been loose, started by the sudden
shock, fell from the roof, bringing
tons of earth with it, and Pete and his
third victim were crushed into u shape
less mass. &
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-12-21
The Doctor. story.

Canon MacColl quotes remarkable
case related to him by physician who
had been pupil of Sir Charles Bell,
the eminent author Of "The Bridge
water Treatise on Hand.' Sir Charles
used to tell the following story to his
class: "A surgeon who went over the
field of Waterloo after the battle found
a man lying with his scalp cut off by a
saber-stroke. He picked up the scalp,
and finding the man breathing but un-
conscious, he ordered him to be placed
among the wounded, clapping at the
same time the severed scalp on his
head, in order that it might be buried
with him, for he did not expect that
the poor man would recover. The fol-
lowing day, however, he found the
man conscious and the scalp adhering
to his head, but with the ends re-
versed, for the surgeon, thinking the
man was dying, took no pains to fix the
scalp properly. The man recovered,
but had to wear his scalp wrong end
forward. ."-Lonlon Mctrs.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-12-21
ALeap Year Christmas.

Frederick Charles Bunting had been
Amanda Dusenbcrry's shadow for three
years, to the exclusion of other young
men who would have been attracted by
the maiden's charms had Frederick
Charles unrelnitting attentions left
them any opportunity. lie was ut the
Dusenberry home two or three even
ings week and all Of Sunday after
noon. This being the case, it was no
wonder that he had the field to him
self and that other young men thought
it useless to look in that direction.
But the two were not engaged.
There was nothing in the way of it ex-
cept Frederick Charles inability to ask
Amanda to marry him. He was not n
coward in other respects, but he
dreaded to put the question, and
Amanda showed no indication of help
ing him. Her idea was that if girl
was not worth proposing to she wns
not worth having.
When the present year Of grace ar
rived, being leap year, the ditfidcnt
young man cherished the hope that his
charmer would exercise a woman's
prerogative, which comes every quad
renium, and propose to him. But up
to the date of the incident about to be
narrated, the hopes of Frederick
Charles had been disappointed.
l. The two were sitting before the fire
in the Dusenberry parlor one Thurs
day night in the middle of December,
when the girl remarked: "How rapidly
time is flying! 1t will soon be Christ
mas"
"Yes,'' he replied, ''and it will be
leap year Christmas, too. BY the way,
leap year will soon be gone"
$50 it WILL" replied the girl, de-
murely.
What would you like me to give
you this leap year Christmas?" asked
the young man.
"Why, Fred, I'd like you to give
me"
"speak out Amanda! Don't be
afraid,' replied Bunting, who began
to get courageous with the idea that
at last he had about brought her to
the point of asking that he give him
self as Christmas gift.
"I-I-I hardly like to-
And the girl hung her head.
Don't be afraid! I'll give you any,
thing you ask for" he declared in n
great burst of generosity.
well, then, Fred, wish you would
give me"
"Out with it. Don't be backward, y
he said, impaticntly. "Give you what
my dear?"
"Give me chance to see something
Of some other young men besides your
SELF
WurvAN HEypy St,,.r,,,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-12-21
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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-12-21
Sixteen word. FMr Photo. for Ono

The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail-
way has made an arrangement with a first
class publishing house to furnish series OF
beautiful Worlds Fair pictures, of largo
size, Mt tile nominal cost to the purchaser OF
only ten cents for n portfolio of sixteen Illus
trations. Nothing SO handsome In regard to
the Worlds Fair has yet been published.
The series would be worth at least twelve
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able to furnish thee works of art for only
ten cents.
Remit your money TO George II. Heafrord,
General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Milwau-
kee & St. Paul Railway, at Chicago, ILL.,, and
this pictures will be sent promptly 10 any
specified address. They will make hand
tome holiday gift.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-12-21

pete was in his high humor. He
had ''buched the tiger" successfully to-
night, and had quite enough ahead to
work his claim in Corkscrew Gulch.
True, he had not done his assessment
work this year, and by law anybody
could Jump the clone STAR that
very day ut midnight. But Pete was
not the man to be fooled with, us he
already had two graves to his credit in
Doc. Turner's ranch (the name applied
to the cemetery in honor of local doc
tori, which contained the bodies of two
'ttenderfect'' who had differed" with
him and were accidentally shot. So
the Inhabitants of Galensville con-
cluded that he was a safe man to let
alone, and he laughed at the idea that
anybody would be so foolish as to "com-
init suicide" as he termed it, by at
tempting to jump his claim.
The old year had but few minutes
to live when Hank tied up his horse
among the tall, snow-laden pine trees
near the "Lone STAR" and, loosening
the thongs which fastened pick to
his horses saddle, and transferring a
couple of sticks of dynamite and
some candles from his saddle-bag to
his pockets, shouldered the pick and
slowly mounted the tortuous trail
He had long awaited this moment.
Four years ago he had owned the
Lone Star himself, but sickness came
and he could not work his assessment,
and when he had returned to the pros
pect and found Pete, armed to
the teeth, in possession, he had
accepted his hard luck with a
good grace, but had "laid'' for Pete
yer since. But now at last his oppor-
tunity had come, and he determined to
regain his property and defend it at the
risk of his life if necessary.
The tunnel was soon reached, and the
moonlight, streaming against its black
mouth, easily disclosed to his eyes
Pete's location stake.
He looked at his watch. 1t marked
exactly midnight.
Reaching down, he fiercely wrenched
the stake from the ground and flung it
far from him down the mountain.
He then lit candle and, finding a
board, quickly sharpcned one end of it,
and, smoothing off the broad end, wrote
his location notice on it-rechristeninp
the claim the bright Hopes"-and
planted the stake firmly in the ground.
Thinking he would go into the tun-
mel and "see how she looked" he took
up his candle and pick and started in.
Just as he did so he thought he
heard whistle. He stopped and lis
tened; some one was coming up the
trail whistling softly. Quickly dousing
the light, he crouched behind a big
boulder just at the mouth of the tun-
mel and drew his revolver.
A few minutes later Pete stepped in
view. with weeks supplies in sack
slung over his shoulder.
Before he could put his burden down
Hank suddenly rose up before him with
the muzzle of his pistol almost touch
ing the others face.
"Hands up!" he cried, 'I've got the
drop on yer now"