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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01
A single TRIAL

conyinces the most skeptical of the efh-
cacy of Schiffmann's Asthma Cure. No
waiting for results. It's action IS lmme-
date. direct. and certain. Sold By al
drueeists, Trial free.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01

You are invited TO compare our stock
and prices with any competitor
SYpSoR a HuxpLxy.
Leaders in Furniture
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01
George r. Ju.tis. Dr.. Found Guilty.

IoptlI1i tbItBf1I1l 70 tuo 17I'P1'F11'I
TAsLEY, Va, March 31.-Tne trial OF George
X. Justis, Jr., charged with attempting an as.
sauit on Annie X DIX. little white glri II
years old. was concluded in Accomac County
Court to-day. Tho Jury rendered verdict OF
guilty ana and nxed the penalty at three years
Ia the penitsntiary. Justis Is about 10 years
old and is well connected.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01
Ia Favor Of Com mercial Brokers.

Ispoc1hl te1cgram 70 mo D1spatousI
NoRFoLK, Va, March 31.-A verdict was rem
dered In tue Corporation Court to-day In favor
OF ths commercial brokers OF the city charged
with doing business without license
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01

WASHINGTON ID. c., March 31.-Dr. William
Writ, OF Westmoreland, passed through the city
today with the remains OF his brother. inc intc
DaDney wirt, who died few days ago In
Efnrlda-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01

Correspondence Of tho Richmcn1 oispatch'i
NORFOLK, Va, March 31.-Mss Pearl Cooke,
visiting friends in Portsmouth, and Mr.. James
Thomas, both OF W zsbingtCn, ID. G., ned 70 south
Mills, n. c., yesterday ami were married. Iney
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01
n..,.v p.uart,nent Chnnge,

w.sy,sarox. d. c., March 3f.--Sccretary Car
,,sle to-day appointed ;. n. Gaines, ms pfissss
eaa,sss,y' Cbief Of The Msiis Division o. the
.sssss,,ry Department at salary OF $1,000. pies
Nichois rssigned,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01
Opers-House Burned.
s,b-rreasury Balancs,

Anderson, ND. March 31.-The Dixie Opera
House was destroyed by fire last night Loss
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01

A column of talk about the Virginia
senatorship. the election of Supreme-Court
Judges, &c, will be one of the features of
to-morrow's 12-page DISPATCH.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01
Don's Gs. caught To-Day.

To-day everybody VIII be "catchlngr every
bcdy sAprtl Fooln and how few are aware that
the cnstom Is Of worry ancient origin. All who
feel suy curiosity ton the subject can look up
H., 4, g. and o. Perhsps they wiz "nee them
selves - otAsrB see tkeu.s e5upnNzs
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01

Tho I" Exposition Universclis Dc fars cuiinalfs
awarded tho highest honors 70 AsocuUsA nrf-
rxss q the most efacacioas stimulans 70 e1clss
the appetite snd TO keep the dsssstivs organs ln
rood order. Ask for the genuine articles mxpu-
fscsured By Dr.. }. @. b. siessrs . soae. and -
ware Of tuitAtions.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01
nnw UNCLE SAN ESCAPED LOSS.

WASHINGTON. March 31.-Treasury Off
cials recall with sa isfactlon, in view OF re-
cent disclosures, that only two weeks ago
the Secretary of the Treasury decided that
the government could not in any way re-
cognize warehouse receipts as being III the
pnryiew of the customs authorities. 1t IS
aow stated that SSOO,OOO of the forged
warehouse receipts are In circulation. and
If the government had recognized them II
would now be partly responsible for them.
Much pressure has recently been brought
TO bear on the Treasury Department to
fhat and
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01

Be satisfied with only the best Refrigera.
tor. The Perfect Keeper sold and recon,s
mended bv SYDSoa 4 HuSpLEy,
Leaders IN Furniture.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01

Carlyle w. Harris. the New York WIFE
murderer. tells the story of his life IN an
illustrated article which will appear IN to-
morrOw's l2.page DISPATCH.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01
MARROW ESCAPE.

Robert Pulliam (colored) stole a check
late this afternoon and had it cashed; The
party casb,ng it. suspecting that all was
not right, pursued Pulliam. The thief ran
TO the river and tried TO cross on the dam,
but when midway sat down with water
nearly up to his neck. A negro who went
TO his help was carried over the falls and
came near losing his life. Pulliam was
finally gotten ashore and landed in the
station-house.
The shipments of plug-tobacco for the
month of March amounted to 5lO,gI3
pOundg
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01

A practical businessman Will make a
suggestion in to-morrow's DISPATCH that
every boy and girl in Richmond will read
with interest.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01
II. W. Ciarksou the Choice.

lSpecial telegram 10 tno DispseohI
MuLBoRo'. Va, March 31.--B. w. Clark
son was elected as the choice for postmas-
ter here to-day by majority of Is over e..
III, Nickel.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01
Old papers for salelat Is cents hundred
at DfsPArcH ONCE.

For Strengthening and clearing the voice ne
.BEowNs BRONCHIAL TEocHEs '-"i have cou-
mendea them 70 friends who were pubic speak-
srs, and tney have proved exsremsly ssrsice-
able.-Rsr. Henry, Ward B>seAsr.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01
THE WHlSKEY foRGERIES.
A. II. sutton, of Louisville. Arrested and
Placed in jail.
lBy telegraph to the Dispatch


LOUISVILLE, Kr., March 3i.--A. II. SUIT
ton, of the wholesale whiskey brokerage
firm of A. Il. Sutton Il Co., who has been
suspected all along of the recently-ex-
posed whiskey forgeries of warehouse re-
ceipts amounting to S225, 900, was tonight
arrested and placed in Jail.
William Beecher. Sutton's confidential
book-keeper. was arrested at the same
time. The warrants were sworn out by j:
W. Nichols, cashier of the Farmers and
Drovers' Bank, which holds $l5, 200 worth
OF the bogus receipts. The charges on
which the arrests were made were forgery
and knowingly uttering forged paper.
The bonds of the prisoners were placed at
$50 900 each, and they were unable to give
them.
Sutton still vigorously denies his guilt
and asserts that if he had been allowed his
liberty for one more day he would have
settled up all his Indebtedness. 1t IS said
Sutton had spent to-day. in tho endeavor
to form q syndicate which would put up
the ready money to pay off all his debts
and hold his property to reimburse them.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01
Electric Sharks.

NEW YORK, March 3I.-sub-Treasury bal
ances: Coin, s73,173,00O; currency, s20,i6S,-
900.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01
maRyLANo,s eowie MURDER.
Four Arrests Of Negroes on suspicion--
No Genuine Clue.
fBy telegraph 70 the Dispatch.l

No Genuine Clue.
tBy telegraph TO the Dispatchl
UpprR MARLBoaouGH, Mp.. March N.--
The reward OF 81 900 offered for the arrest
Of the murderer or murderers OF Nr.
Francis Magruder Bowie on Sunday eve
ming last is crowding this place with de-
tectives. The fourth arrest was made To-
day. II was that OF a boy named James
Alfred Barber, son of Dan Barber. wno
had already been arrested. A man with
whom Dan barber took dinner on sunday
fWilIiam Pinckney) has also been arrested
'tohn Wesley Johnscn completes the four
persops secured. All are colosed people,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01
PERCY RoBlNSoNs BAD FALL.
Pulliam's Desperate Attempt to Escape
Another Mans Close Call.
telegram 70 the DIspatch.

D.SviILr. Va, March 31.-Percy Robin
son, son of Captain w. p. Robinson, while
attempting to slide down baluster on his
back at his fathers house tonight fell
about ten feet, breaking his arm, demoi-
ishing marble-top table, and smashing
hall-lamp to flinders. The table saved him
from a fatal accident.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01
his BIRTHDAY.

=, eis 10 The slst Of March and II is like.
ca' ss the slst anniversary OF the birth OF
,~ousIsssmsn swanson. He is one of the
Sssgesi men who will serve m the nert
-. cl. u handsome, and still single.
,ng' ,.,1, hs& rsason 10 believe that an order
~, r.' soon be Issued transferring the moni-
=" "ssndosts frota the Jsmss YiyeS 10 the
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-01
MORE APPLICATIONS.

N,cie'aTy Hoke Smith appointed Col
ilsi tsli fsisOn. Of Raleigh. Inspector OF
o. .lsl Agencies largely because that gen.
.''iiau is 80 well known 10 him aud bis
.'Liy u North Carolins. Colonel Faison,
4. ."etef, had excellent backing and be IL
tC'l DemoeTat and popular.
~" ". q. Fulton, Of Greyson county,
"; Il Al applicant for Deputy Collector
oi Internal Revenue.
=, hepesen .stive swanson has nominated
bttlanin Morns. son of DR.. w. w. Nor
ne u Henry county, for cadetship at
~, NSyai Academy. and Frank 0rayely, OF
D-nfllle, as alternate.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-10

taken care should be a good, tight, sound
one, big enough to hold him up safely, for
we really had no worse intention than to
give him the greatest fright of
his life, While we bored the
holes we talked. Says one: There
are holes enough Let him 80
down slow and he'll have the better
chance of meeting q shark when he
rounds the point below No answers
another If he floats too long some boat
may pick him up. Put three or four more
in anyway And we went on boring in
the board. Put some in the top to let the
air out says l, else the water won't go
in Right you are, says one of the boys.
We came near forgetting that And we
bored some more holes, while the noble
lieutenant groaned.
"When we came to pick him up and put
the keg between his legs, where we dashed
II safe, he had tainted with fright, but
we soon brought him to by throwing
water in his face and then he seemed to
pull himself together to meet death in
more manly way than we had thought he
could. That he hoped for no mercy was
quite apparent, for he looked up TO heaven
as If in silent prayer and resigned him
self TO his fate without a9struggle. We
fixed the stone to his ankle, so that
it could not come loose and then
lifted him over into the water,
where he hOated so upright as if he
had been standing and only submerged
about to the waist After launching him
we held on, until we had thrust inside
his collar, at the back of his neck, stout
staff, from which fioated above his head
little British flag, upside down, as
signal of distress, with a FOOLS cap,
gaudily painted, fastened above it. The
last thing we did to him was taking the
gag from his mouth. His hands were
left tied. Then, with long, strong pull,
all together, we shot away from him and
darted TO the shore But even after we
got there, we could still hear him, afar off
IN the darkness, bowling 'Help! and
Murder, as he bobbed slowly along with
the tide Knowing he was safe enough
to float to his ship and that the current
was sure to carry him within hailing dis
lance of her, if he was not rescued sooner,
as he most likely wo aid be, we felt no
anxiety about him. He was picked up
before he had gone half mile, wild with
terror, for the hope of life had
come back strong to him and he had
imagined the bored keg was sinking lower
and lower every minute. But when the
men who picked him up found the keg
sound and saw that flag, with the FOOLS
cap all awry like himself they knew him
as the victim of a well deserved Yankee
trick, and nothing more. When the joke
came to be known, as it was all over the
town the next day, not only did the coun-
try grow too hot for the noble lieutenant,
but he was glad to exchange into another
ship to get away from the jibes of his
brother officers
Il never had occasion to look after Mary
again on account of any Britisher l mar
ried her, and a good wife she has been to
me, only now and then her jaw works a
little too timber, as the best women's jaws
sometimes will, and when that happens
can generally settle her by saying Lord
EitZ Eustace '"
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A LORD AFL0AT.
BY J. H. CONNOLLY.
Copyright, 1899

Copyright, 1899
If you know where TO look for him, you
can still find in ancient New York very
old man who continues tomend and make
handlooms.
And you can find, too, in a retired nook
where the iron hoof of progress has
stamped all around it, but not yet uponit,
one of the old-time cottages.
AT the door is a tiny porch with bench
seat against its ratings on each side, and
two wooden steps lead down to the side
walk
In the small porch I found seated one
afternoon when the shade lay on that side
of the street, the little man. His appear
ance was in exquisite harmony with the
quaint, old-fashioned home. His hair was
white and his face had as many wrinkles
as you viii see lines in piece of Chinese
crackle ware, but his skin had n healthy,
rudy tint, his eyes sparkled with vivac-
ity and the sprightly way in which he
moved and gesticulated with his pipe-a
quaint old bowl of red Powhatan clay on
a reed stem-showed there was a great
deal of life in him yet, whatever might be
his age. I easily found a pretext for max
ing his acquaintance, and one day he told
me this story:
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walk and he had his hands turned behind
his back, where we tied them. Then we
lashcd his feet together and so, having
made q neat package of him, carried
him along, soft and easy, down to the
river, where we laid him in the bottom
Of boat we had ready and rowed out to
mid-stream. From the moment l thumped
him until we stopped in the middle of the
river not one of us said word, and the
silence and system Of our proceedings
must have been, Judge, good deal of q
strain on his nerves.
when we laid to, with a couple of
oars just keeping the boats nose up
against the tide we took the cloak from
around his head first warning him that
the man who sat behind him had a big
hammer to smash his skull If ne made
loud noise. But, by the way his teeth
chartered and the huskiness of his voice
when he spoke, it hardly seemed as if he
could have given one good shout then to
have saved his life.
Take my money, my watch, my Jew
els, everything, but spare my life he
stammered in a quavering voice that
sounded almost like crying.
" Your life is all we want saws [ as
savagely as I could-and the boys did me
the credit to say my style was blood
curdling, though | nightly wanted to
laugh. We mean to make a terrible ex-
ample of the Britisher who comes to prac-
his libertine arts on the maids of Green
witch Village.
CIVILIANS; > he exclaimed. MY noble
cousin, the Earl Of Tweedledum'-or
some such name-'will make you suffer
for this outrage
"'Ipn be safe wager ] answered,
that you win never tell him about it,
Then he begged hard for his life. and
swore that he meant the girl no harm,
but we turned deaf ear 10 him, and as
exercising it seemed to strengthen his
voice little too much we gagged him
with a handkerchief and proceeded to
business. While he listened we debated
how we should kill him. Most We're for
cutting his throat, only it would be
likely to bloody the boat, and because of
that wouldn't DO Other ways were dis
cussed, some of them atrocious, and it's a
wonder we could keep straight faces
through it all.
FINALLY it was made up we should put
him aGoat astride big keg, that
just happened to be in the
boat, with a heavy stone, that was her
anchor, slung to his feet to keep him up
right and we would bore a lot of gimlet
holes in the keg, so that it could fiji
slowly with water and go down gradually
under the weight of him and the stone
For that we made our preparations He
could hear us boring the holes only as we
had laid him down he could not see il was
through a bit o. board we were making
them and not III the keg, which we had
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-10
LOSE OR GAIN A DAY.
A Place in the Pacific Where To-day
Becomes Tomorrow or Yesterday.


From the Boston Globe.
A question which has often been asked,
but rarely answered satisfactorily, is
how far one would have to go around the
earth, moving east or west, and suppos-
ing no time lost in transition, before one
would reach the point where to-day
changes into yesterday or tomorrow.
Evidently there must be such point
somewhere, for an hour is lost every tif-
teen degrees one goes to the east and an
hour gained every fifteen degrees one
goes to the west. To put the question in
anyther way, suppose it is one minute
past midnight in Paris on the morning Of
Oct. !, what day is it that same mo-
ment at the antipOdes Of Parisl Is it
Oct. l or Sept 301 Apparently one can
prove that it is either of these days
by making an instantaneous jour
ney half way around the earth
either to the east or to the west, Going
east, at the moment the Paris clock
points to a minute past midnight, it is APP
proximately l o'clock in the morning of
Oct. l at Vienna, 2 O'Clock of the same
day at SebastOpol O'Clock at Astrachan,
4 O'Clock at Bokhara, o'clock at Saigon,
O'Clock at Yokohama, IL o'clock at Pine
Island, and noon at Fortune Island-Oct.
at every point. On the other hand, 60
ing westward one finds that it is 10
o'clock in the evening of Sept. 80 at the
Azores Islands, s o'clock in the evening
at Buenos Ayres, Z O'Clock at New York,
O'Clock at New Orleans, 3:l5 at Mexico
City, o'clock in the afternoon at near
the Aleutian Islands and noon at Fortune
Island-the date being Sept. 30 in each
case. Thus, one has demonstrated that
it is noon of Oct. l and noon of Sept. 30 at
the same place and at the same time.
This would certainly be embarrassing to
so the good people Of Fortune Island, and
in order to avoid such complications and
relieve well-meaning islanders in the
Pacific from mixing up their Saturdays
and Sundays in hopeless fashion an arbi-
tFary line separating today from yester-
day or tomorrow has been agreed upon
by the naYigator5 Of civilized nations.
This line has been drawn to avoid touch
ing land. No one can be exactly sure Of
the moment of passing it, but the line
runs just east of the New Hebrides and
the New Caledonia groups and passes
near the Marion islands and the Carolina
islands Captains of vessels, judging by
the positions Of the islands mentioned,
can fix the date within a few minutes.
Vessels sailing from west TO east, on pass
ing this imaginary line, simply repeat the
day before on their log books which CON
sequently show two days bearing the
same date On the other hand, ships 60
ing in the opposite direction skip the to-
morrow and lose day entirely. In the
first case the sailors get an extra days
pay, in the second case they lose days
pay. The conclusion of the whole matter
is that when Paris clocks Indicate a min
ute past midnight on Oct. it is Oct go
ing east as far as the imaginary line just
indicated while it is Sept. 30 going west
up to the same line.
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their tenants-perhaps because they in
vestigate very rigidly the standing of all
who apply for any of their properties.
One family, which had been compelled to
give an account of itself for half a cent
ury back, goU a very unfavorable impress
sion of the Astors as landlords, and
would not have leased from them had
there been any Thirty-third street res
licences owned Just off FIFTH ayeneue'' by
other landlords. Imagine their astonish-
ment after signing a ten year lease at
s.. 600 year upon the receipt Of a com.
munication when they had occupied the
house six months or so, that the rent had
bv mistake been fixed at 81, 600 a year too
much a due allowance was made and it
turned ont that the Astors wish as rental
only certain percentage upon the value
represented by the cost price OF house
10 them, including taxes-no more, no
less DAVID WECHsLER.
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time, pack his valise and be off for Wash
ington
The regularity of these visits may have
drawn particular attention to Mr..
Quincy's elegance of taste and dress. He
has never been seen twice in New York
with the same suit of clothes on. From
the top of his brand new hat to the soles
of his polished boots there is no shabbi-
ness about him. And his elusiveness of
speech is in strict harmony with his
smooth looks
'Of course, I've no objection to saywhy
came to New York. have come on a
visit"
Thus the New Highlander in answer to
the usual interrogatories.
public business, Mr. Quincy2'
'Well-ah-what do you mean by pub
lie business?'
"Public business as it is understood in
Washington"
30, a good many kinds of business are
understood to be public in Washington.
Fine night, isn't it,"
The only certainty established by MIR
Quincy's visits is that he possesses fifty
suits of clothes and thirty-fve pairs of
boots, and even this circumstance was not
divulged by himself.
That part of the public business intrust-
ed to Mr.. Quincy is also managed with in
finite elaboration The Massachusetts
man does not use printed stationery in his
department. If you receive a letter from
him it viii be headed in beautiful script,
written by hand, department of State,
Washington" Even your address will be
written out in full, nor will the name of
your state be abbreviated. Finally Mr..
Quincy will beg the honor to remain your
obedient servant in the most legible Chi
Biography. This is all strictly in accord
ance with the usages of diplomacy.
BOXING GLOVE CHERIsHERs.
The coming of Charles Mitchell with
championship honors in his minds eye is
matter of interest to more women in
this city than would be imagined. He
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-10
THE WAR on FREE LUNCHES.

menSe amount OF
labor. 7 h a t is
what the saloon
men say, but the
numbers of bust
ness C o II C G r II s
which owe their
existence to the
free lunch are try
ing to effect a
counter combina-
ton, that the in
stitution may be
saved. sit would
throw hundred Of