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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-25
YtRHNIA Tar,rt

UIIUNUHIf I'f I|'--T-I'- IT
fvHE BOARD OF Dlktt lIhi
4 have this day decll-ft . >lN.-AN,. .h
DIVIDEND OF THREE fEh ihN Co..
tai stock Of 100000, payat.' rI f
JANUARY -. 1880. JoHA .'...t
do 2D.tJa2 secretary ana .f..t.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-25
NOTICE.

The Board OF Directors ot o..
1fOND AND PETERSBURG RAI.t..
COMPANY have declared -.
3 ner cent. on the capital So
company. payable ou and a..
DAY OF JANUARY, l.D. i' DID
of record on the 0th OF J..
after which date the books
viii be closed unit Janmry
". J.. l'H
de lS-tJllI
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-25
THE NEWS GOES HOME.

Two hours later. Darlington was over
in New York at the 81. James Hotel,
and sent this telegram:
NEW YORK, December %. 1se--,
Mrs. r. p. Darlington, No. west Frank
lin street Richmond, Va:
Santa Claus came to us a little late.
arriving this afternoon, but he was
heavily laden. Glory and Damley win the
Carol Handicap and a $1,000 sde-bet. and
wipe out the mortgages. Home to-mor-
row. II. i. CARRINGTON.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-25

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NATIONAL BANK lF SIR ....A
RICHMOND, Va, December %. slt

I'hE BDAhD OF DlkEl TORS DN
\ this bank have declared A lIbEI.sl .r.
PEN CENT, free from tiyr-. ... .f ..,
earnings Of tho Iast SIX months. t..t... ...
and after rue % day ~ lanlary pr.l...
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-25

"All the world loves a lover" and the
announcement Of the engagement of Mr..
Robert Bright, of Williamsburg. TO Mss
Lena Lovett. OF Germantown, has been
a subject OF much interest to the south
ern element here. as well as Philadel-
phans. Miss Lovett IL one Of the beauties
% Germantown. and u great favorite.
AS is the custom here at the North,
flowers and notes Of congratulation galore
have been received by the young couple,
who richly deserve all the good wishes be
slowed upon them. VIRGINIA DARE.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02
FINANCIAL ARBITRATION.
Daddy White Assures Man That He
Is Not Bigger Than n Bank.

Daddy White Assures Man That He
Is Aot Bigger Than Bank.
An angry discussion was taking
place between two colored men on
Bates street, says the Detroit Free
Press, and one of them was about to
lay hands on the other when. Daddy
White came down. Cadillac. square
and stopped to ask what the row
was about.
"Dat man owes me half dollarw
replied one OF the disputants.
81 don't deny it," said the other.
den why don't you pay me?"
"Kase it's too soon"
"H you doan pay dat half dollar
TIE gwine ter smash yer fine"
Hold on, Mister Simpkins-hole
onp' said Daddy, as he stepped
between the pair. Lets see how
dis yere case stands How long has
dis gem'lan owed yo' half dollar?"
"'Bout TO- weeks"
HAS yo' dun axed him for it befo'p'
"No, sah."
"Den yo' hain't got no case and
better stop yo'r noise"
.'Doan he owe me dat money!"
'Of co'se he does; but am yo' a
bigger man dan savin's bankP If
yo' wants dat money yo' gin him
sixty days. motifs an do bizness in n
bizness way. Humph De ideah OF q
white-washin' Guild man sottin' his
self up to be bigger'n a bank wild a
millyon dollars in it,"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02
WILLIAM mad Presence of Mind.

William the Fourth OF England
seemed in momentary dilemma one
day when, at the table with several
officers, he ordered the waiter to
Take away that marine there,
pointing to an empty bottle. "Your
majesty" inquired a colonel of ma
rines, lido you compare an empty
bottle to q member of our branch OF
the service?" YES" replied the mon
arch as IL q sudden thought had
struck him, II mean il has done its
duty once and it is ready to do it
again "-Argonaut
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02
CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME
The Poor Are Said to BE Wonlrously
Kind to Each Othor.

The Poor Are Said to BE Wonirously
Kind to Each othor.
We wonder whether selfishness in
creases or decreases among the poor.
We rather think the former is the
case, and is due first. to an increas-
ing consciousness which aggravates
self-pity into disease; and, secondly.
to the perfectly marvellous develop
ment Of pity for poverty as the most
hopeless OF all misfortunes, says the
Spectator.
Formerly, the lame, the MANNED
and the blind were, as in biblical
times, and in the East still, the
grand objects of charity; but now it
is always the very poor, so that a
hospital may appeal in vain where a
paper describing a streetful of pecu-
mary want will instantly elicit a re-
Spouse. Thepoor are still wondrously
kind to one another, but we fancy
they take aid with less gratitude
and more of sense of right than
they did. Certainly their advocates
demand It for them with much more
of that tone, and with much more
forgetfulness that involuntary char
ity is not virtue at all, but only q
form of submissiveness. to extortion.
"God loveth a cheerful siver"-not
the man who has been slanged by
the evening papers into an unwilling
gift, paid, in fact, as kind of ran
som from obloquy or Importantly.
1t is certain that the bitter dislike
for foreign poverty increases; that
the starving, if they are foreigners
driven here by stress of poverty, are
regarded with angry antipathy. and
that there is more OF demand that
charity should begin and end at
home. The new feeling is partic-
ularly marked in America, where the
asylum of-the-universe" idea, so
long cherished, is now a subject not
only of rebuke but ridicule, and it is
developing itself strongly, also,
among ourselves.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02
USED COINS AS SHOT.
How n Hunter In Ceyion Saved Himself
From n Buffalo.

The buffalo in Ceylon carries his
head in peculiar manner, his horns
thrown back and his nose projecting
on a level with his forehead. thus
securing him from fatal front shot.
This renders him dangerous
enemy, as he will receive any num-
Der OF balls from small gun in the
throat and chest without showing
the least distress. In 1.-The Rifle and
Hound in Ceylon." an account of a
dangerous encounter with this ami
NAL is given. The writer had fired
without killing the buffalo and had
not q single ball left. With q stealthy
step and short grunt the bull adj
vanced upon the man, seemingly
aware of his helplessness.
"Suddenly bright thought
flashed through my mind. Without
taking my eyes off the animal, / put
q double charge of powder down the
right hand barrel. and, tearing off a
piece OF my shirt, l took all the
money from my pouch, six shillings
in six-penny pieces, and two anna
pieces.
Quickly making them into q roll
with the piece of rag, l rammed
them down the barrel. They were
hardly we'll home before the bull
sprang forward. had no time even
to replace the ramrod, and l threw
it in the water, bringing my gun on
full cock at the same instant.
al now had charge in my gun
which, il reserved till he was within
few feet Of the muzzle, would cer-
tainly floor him. The horns were
lowered. their points were on either
side of me, and the muzzle OF the gun
barely touched his forehead when /
pulled the trigger, and three shillings
worth OF small change ratified into
his hard head.
down he went, and rolled over
with the suddenly-checked momen-
tum OF his charge. Away went b
and l as fast as our heels would carry
us through the water and over the
plain, knowing that he was not dead,
only stunned.
There was large fallen tree
about half mile from US, whose
whitened branches, rising high above
the ground, offered tempting asylum.
To this we directed our steps, and
after run of 100 yards we turned
and looked behind us The buffalo
had reg aimed his feet and was follow.
ing US slowly. We now experienced
the difference of feeling between
hunting and being hunted.
by degrees the bulls pace slack
ened and he fell. We were only too
glad TO be able to reduce our speed,
but we had no sooner stopped TO
breathe than he was up again and af-
ter US At length, however, we gained
the tree and beheld him stretched
powerless upon the ground within
200 yards of u.s."
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02

THE reason that confidence men
and swindlers usually aim TO give
the farmer the benefit of their bland
ishments is that so many farmers do
not keep themselves posted as to the
goings and doings OF these gentry.
The victims Of the thread bare and
bald-headed green goods game are
ninety-six per cent farmers. There
is but little sympathy deserved by a
man who is silly enough to go into
that trap. Then signing contracts
with strangers, and afterwards learn
ing that they have signed note for
a large amount, is another old game,
of which the farmer Is almost the
only victim. The farmer himself
opens the gate for these scoundrels
to get at him by being always buy.
ing OF strangers because the latter
promise goods little cheaper than
the well-known reliable dealer In
the neighborhood.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02
NAPOLEON AT PLAY.
Bonaparte "a Supremacy Selfish an
Particularly Vulgar Little Man."

Bonaparte ga Supremacy Selfish and
Particularly Vulgar Little Man."
The diary describing the journey
of Napoleon to st. Helena appears in
the Century. 1t gives. more or less
significant details y, OF Bonaparte's
conversations, and presenting the
exile, says the New York Tribune, as
q supremacy selfish and particularly
vulgar little man. During the first
two months of his detention in the
island he lived in small detached
building near the cottage of a Mr..
Balcombe, who had two young
daughters in their early teens
These young ladies'" says Mr..
Glover, ''in few days became per-
fectly familiar, and the general
seemed highly pleased with their
naivete, particularly with that OF the
younger "a pretty girl, and a most
complete romp when out of the sight
of her father). He occasionally so
completely laid aside his imperial
dignity as to romp with these young
ladies, who during sucn diversions
as blind mans buff, ETC., called
him by the familiar appellaHon oil
Boney; indeed the younger, who ap-
peared his favorite, said anything
and. everything to him her lively
imagination dictated, asking every
possible question, and he answered
without the slightest apparent re.
serve" There is not much trace oil
the grand. gloomy, and peculiar cap
tive about this picture.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02

One OF the United Ste ties consuls
In Belgium in his report comments
upon the fact that in that coun-
try no dog is allowed to be idle, be-
ing as regularly used for beasts OF
draught as horses are here 1t is es-
timated in Belgium that ten dogs
will accomplish as much work as one
horse, and they are even more pow
erful than the horse in proportion to
their weight, as they compute
the load for the average horse at
four times his weight, and for the
single dog ofpair of dogs at six times
his or their weight 1t is estimated
that tho dogs in the United States
ought to earn for the country at
least $3.50. 0eD, 900 annually, and to
do so would BE greatly to their adj
vantage, as their viciousness would
disappear, and the danger from
rabies be greatly lessened. Hitch
them up.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02
A Queer RaInbow superstItIon.

The Kurds and Armenians. whose
many folklore stories and tales of
superstitious fancies far exceed those
Of the gypsies, have some rainbow
beliefs which are, perhaps, not dupli.
Gated in the popular notions OF any
others among the races OF mankind.
They boot at the idea OF its being a
witness to Gods covenant with man
that the earth will no more undergo
the ordeal OF flood, and declare that
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02

No gift should be made without
previous investigation of the reclpi-
emit, and money ought never to be
given to an unidentified beggar on
the street Gifts. so far as possible,
should De given in the form OF OPP
portunities to work. To provide for
numerous exceptions to this rule or
galization is necessary. TO the en-
tirely deserving and destitute in the
winter seasons often the best gift is
coal Next to that, rent Where
food is to be given, to be given un-
cooked and conveyed to the homo Of
the recipient Then the family can
eat it together. and no one member
use 1t for himself alone.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02

WHILE GREAT BRITAIN is extend
ing its rule In Central Africa there
are significant indications that its
colonies in the southern part of that
continent are getting ready to set up
on their own account Mr.. Cecil
Rhodes, who is premier OF the South
African colony, gives plain warning
that the victories gained recently
must be used for the benefit of the
South African colony. II Mr.. Rhodes
continues to maintain this stand an
influential party in England will fa-
vor letting the colony have its inde-
pendence. 1t has never been oil
much commercial advantage, and its
defense has always been very expen-
sive.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02
rhe Gigantic Coliseum.

According to expert calculations
the Coliseum OF Rome seated $1,000
spectators, while 10000 more could
have found standing room. The
external circumference of the
Coliseum as it stands to-day is 1928
feet its long diameter 615 feet. its
short diameter $40 feet. Tho arena
is 279x296 feet and the height of
the building 156 feet There is still
standing four stories OF the original
structure. 1t was in all probability
the largest building of auditorium
arrangement ever known
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02

Nor long ago man was arrested
on the charge of stealing from Chi
cage house a stove in which there
was fire and on which the evening
meal was cooking. The whole out
fit, fire included, was lifted into a
wagon and carted away. Following
in the wake OF this unique theft came
the arrest of another man who had
stolen load Of hay standing in the
streets. Now comes the taking
into custody of two men
charged with stealing forty miles
OF telephone wire. II this de-
sire TO take what does not belong to
one is not checked it will be neces-
sary not only to closely guard the
telephone poles but to keep strict
watch over the post holes.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02

A PLAN is on foot to convert the
Hudson into a salmon river. Per-
haps it can be done, but il done ii
will be contrary to the popular idea
that the salmon delights in clear
water. The Hudson has come to be
30 much OF an open sewer for Troy,
Albany, Poughkeepsie and dozen
other cities along its banks as to
make the ice harvested from its sur
face constant menace to health. lie
II tho idea to transform the salmon
into q sort of marine scavengerP
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02

"It's no USE" said the poet to tho
barber, II will have to get my hair
cut"
''All right Want it pretty shortP"
"Close up. want the job attended
to thoroughly"
''Long hair amt in style any
more" ventured the barber, in an eff
fort to be genial
ut isn't the style l care for. just
a few minutes ago | was introduced
TO a man, and he said Which do you
play, foot ball or the pianeP'"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02

IL was made for the express purpose
of letting the first man and woman
down from heaven, the man securely
fastened to one end of the great
variegated band. the woman at the
other. The end of time. according
to the Kurds. will be ushered in by
the appearance of four rainbows.
which will cross at the zenith, fur
nishing eight passageways for God
and his hosts
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02
TORNADO PROTECTION.
A Scientific Device to Destroy the Fun
mel shaped Cloud.


The "para-tornadoes, or tornado.
destroyer, is the name OF a machine
or contrivance which may we'll take
rank as one of the most ambitious
inventions OF the age. The power of
this new weapon against a terrific
enemy has not been tested yet First,
because il has been scarce O month
since the brain OF its inventor de-
signed it, and, second, because there
have been no tornadoes available in
his locality to destroy.
1t is the invention of Eugene Tur-
pin, man recently released from a
French prison. He says Lieutenant
Findlay, of the United States weather
bureau, confirms Faye, or at least,
he declares that nearly all tornadoes
are formed in the upper layers Of
atmosphere.
The records of the United States
weather bureau show that the tor
nadoes in America always travel
from the southwest to the northeast.
This being established, it is COM
paratively easy to face the enemy,
because you know from just what
direction he will come.
The dangerous extent is only an
eighth OF the points of the compass,
says the Kansas City Journal, that
is, If you protect town on its south
west boundary for one-eighth of it's
circumference it will be tornado
proof.
1t is a well known fact that a water
spout at sea collapses instantly IL q
heavy gun is fred. This is so well
understood that nearly all ships in
tropical ATTITUDES carry a cannon for
this purpose. A tornado on land.
which is phenomenon of the same
nature, can be dissipated in the same
way.
His plan in nutshell, then, is to
establish aerial torpedoes, fixed on
high towers. and. like the electric
| light towers used in some American
cities, and so placed that the explo-
sion can only take place by auto
matte action OF the tornado itself
1.-The apparatus which l have de-
signed, and patented a few days ago,
is SO constructed that a wind of tor
nado intensity will by simple me-
chanical means discharge the power
full explosive with which the maya
zine is loaded.
al am acquainted with explosives
and do not exaggerate when say
that the apparatus which l have in
mind will keep in perfect working
order without attention for about
century. l should use about 200
pounds OF the most powerful explo-
sive in each tower, or pylone. The
explosion would develope an immense
amount OF gas under enormous pres
sure, quite capable Of destroying
any tornado in its vicinity. At the
same time the explosion taking place
120 feet or higher in the air would
do no damage to buildings or other
property lower down.
1.-The number of these towers or
para-tornadoes necessary would de-
pend upon the area or Importance OF
the town or buildings to be protected.
To furnish absolute protection il
would be necessary to place them
from fifty to 100 yards apart-the
minimum width of the path OF a tor
nado-within the dangerous octant.
Take, for instance, town three miles
in diameter. The dangerous octant
would be about a mile along its
southwest border. l would place
sixty para-tornadoes in four rows
along that section of the clrcumfer-
ence That would represent an ex-
pense of about $50, 900.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02

A MND-READER given much to
maunderingfad catalepsyhas gone
to England thkospd the mentality of
Mrs Maybrick. Probably he will
not accomplish much, but he has
really gone, and in this there is q
ray Of comfort
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02

No ONE supposes that the Cana
dian Tory press will stop rejoicing
over the dull times in "the states"
on account OF the terrible restitution
in Manitoba, but those states will
doubtless be given an opportunity to
heap Goals of fire on the heads OF
some of the subjects OF the queen by
contributing to the relief OF the af-
Aicted in and about Winnipeg.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02
Living in the city of Mexico.

House rent is rather higher in
the City of Mexico than in Chi
cago; kerosene is 80 cents a gallon.
tea ST. 20 pound, milk 9 to IL
cents quart. These are the silver
standard prices. a dollar being worth
about two-thirds OF our reckoning.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02

Brown, who has met an old friend
II suppose your SON is quite a young
man now?
Smite-O, yes. he's arrived at
years of discretion. Indeed, he's
going to be married
Brown-Do you call that discre-
tionP--Truth.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02

An old European custom was to
give clock to anyone who could
take an oath that he had strictly
minded his own business and not
meddled with his neigh oor's affairs
for a year and a day.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02
Editor and Prop,

LYING about the weather will not
be so easy hereafter as it has been
in the past Some ingenious person
has invented n self-recording Their
mometer. which makes a mechanical
record every day of the extreme
height and depth of the thermometer
in the course of each twenty-four
houra
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02
Hunting Item.

Nimrod-That, sir, Is one OF the
finest trained dogs in the, United
States.
Farmer-Well, by the way he pants
he looks as II he had become o
strained dog. Texas Siftings
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02

IF you want any illustration Of
machinery as a means OF ethical
culture observe the demeanor of a
large wagon in front Of a grip car
and the same wagon leading pro-
cession full OF profanity with horse
car in the rear.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02
HER DREAM OF MURDER.
MRS. DINAN'S VISION OF THE
KILLING OF DR.. CRONIN.

Before 1t Was K"own That the Unfor-
tunate Physician Had Been Assassin
ated, She Had Nightmare Ia Which
the Victim Appeared.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-12-07
Henry Georges Idea of rloney.

Henry George i'll his recent speech at
Chicago on money said
Money! What is money? Why it is
a mere measure of value and a mere me-
dunn of exchange. 1t has the same office
that poker chips have i'll game of poker
The amount of money Why if we could
increase the amount of money until it had
such proportions as it held at the close of
the revolutionary war or in the Southern
confederacy at the close of the confedera-
ton, when it was said that man had to
take his money to market in a carpet
sack and carry what he brought home in
his pocket, it wouldn't make any differ
ence. And for changes, for mere changes,
always remember this fact that the man
who has wealth can always guard against
any such changes aud take advantage of
them when the poor man cannot"
There is good deal more of similar
loose talk on money in the same speech.
And is this as far as Henry George has
got or the Money Question: What
money is made of, or the amount of
money in circulation is the most incon-
sequential part of what is Familiarity term
ed the Money Question. The control of
money is the kernel of the question. A
private monopoly now controls it and by
the special privileges it enjoys is able to
tax every industry under the sun. 1t was
the boast of one of its apostles, Chauncey
Depew, that twenty men possessed the
power, if they chose to band together for
the purpose, of stopping all business i'll
the country. The New York Tribune
not long ago boosted that the banks had
SO arranged matters that they could pre-
vent the passage by Congress of any law
to which they were unfavorable. This
being true it follows they are able to com
pei the passage of any act they wish for
their ggrandizement. Whoever controls
the money of a country controls the peo-
pie of the country, said Garfield. This
great power to levy tax on the whole peo-
pie, to regulate the price of their products
at will, to make or break whom it pleases,
to build up and tear down at its pleasure,
is the Money Question, not poker chip
and such chaff and dust blown out by the
gold ring newspapers to blind the people.
Henry Georges well-informed followers
ought to feel ashamed-as doubtless they
do-to hear such nonsense uttered by
their apostle. Had the gold money mo-
nopo1y chosen the words for Mr. George
they would have picked the exact ones he
used or words of similar purport. II had
rather be dog and bay the moon than
such Roman"