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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22
Virginia News.

Bendall Harvey & Co.'s tobacco fac
tory at Danville was burned yesterday;
loss $16, 000
A large mass meeting Of the students
of the University was held Thursday to
protest against the performance of I'm
Gle Toms Cabin in Charlottesville.
Mr.. James w. Timberlake, formerly
of Clark county, died last week at the
residence of his sou, j. w. Undertake,
ir.. near Fauquier Springs, aged 50
years.
Major Robert W. Eubank, aged SO
years, died Saturday at his home, on
the York road, near Govanstown, Md,
of heat disease He was born in Ian
caster county.
To the surprise Of his physicians and
friends, Gen. Early yesterday left his
room aud made the circuit of Lynch-
burg on the street-car line despite his
painful accident of Thursday and his
advanced age The old General is ap-
parently good for several years yet.
The papers IN regard to TIE election
of DR. Newton as assistant bishop for
this diocese have been forwarded to the
presiding bishop of the United States.
1t will probably be two months or more
before the papers are returned to Rich
mond. Dir. Newton vii! continue as
rector Of Monumental Church, Rich
mond, until his conservation as Bishop
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22
The Dixie Interstate Fair.

1t is asserted that the South has suf-
fered less from the commercial stagna-
ton than any other section of the coun-
try. But, even if this were not the case
the people of Dixie are exhibiting a
spirit of progressiveness and enterprise
which will soon place them in advance
of the position they held when struck
by the wave of depression Southern
resources certainly do not lack adver,
tising.
One exposition closely follows another.
Only few weeks ago the Atlanta fair
was brought to very successful CON
clusion, and already several others are
in preparation. One of these is the
Dixie Interstate Fair, which is to be held
at Macon, Georgia, in the fall of the
present year. 1t is to last thirty days
and will be chiefly agricultural and in
dustrial. Suitable buildings will be
erected during the summer on a tract
of land embracing 237 acres, and there
is every indication that success will
crown the enterprise.
The South is showing wonderful re-
Operative powers. Without doubt the
great number of complaints about hard
times comes from the North, the South
having evidently determined to ston
complaining and 60 to work. which Is
the most effective remedy known for
such evils as exist.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22
State Baseball League.

The Richmond State says: Mr.. Teddy
Sullivan, of Washington, has been in
Richmond for several days making ar
rangements for the organization of
State baseball league. Mr.. Sullivan
thinks State league can be conducted
profltably in Virginia, but just what
success he has met with is not known.
Captain Parkinson, of the Petersburg
club, says the people in the Cockade
City do not favor a State league, and it
is not thought that Richmond approves
the idea A meeting was called several
weeks ago to consider the imatter but
Mr.. Parkinson was the only delegate
present.
1t is expected that Mr.. Sullivan will
visit the city again in a few days and he
may then be in position to tell some
thing about what he can do.
The leading promoters of the sport of
baseball in Lynchburg are inclined to
think that no attempt to organize
State league will be successful this year
or any time in the near future. Expe>
rience has shown that the public in
Virginia support the amateur games
by teams such as are furnished by our
schools, colleges, universities and local
organizations-with much more enthu-
sasm than they do professional teams.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22
THE WAR ON THE LOTTERY.
Senator -Hoar Introduces a Bill Making
the Federal Statutes More Stringent.

Senator Hoar Introduces a Bill Making
the Federal Statutes More Stringent.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-The attempt
of the Louisiana Lottery Company to
re-stablish itself on United States soil at
an obscure point in the State of Florida
has called attention anew to the Federal
statutes, and with the purpose in view
of making them more binding than
they are Senator Hoar has introduced a
a bill supplementary to all existing leg
islation.
This bill is patterned after the New
York statutes to some extent, and copies
the New York statutory definition of a
''lottery," which, in the case of People
VS.. Noelke, quoted in the 10th American
reports, is held to be sufficient. Under
this New York definition, which Mr..
Hoar copies, the term "lottery," as used
in the Act, means a scheme for the dis
tribution of property by chance among
persons who have paid or agreed to pay
a valuable consideration for the chance,
whether called lottery, rattle, or gift
enterprise, or by some other name.
The second section, which is also taken
partly from the New York penal code,
refers to the possession of or bringing
bringing into the United States of tickets
and extends the present law more rigidly
than before, to mailing, importation,
Interstate commerce. ETC., making the
first offence punishable by find or i'm
prisonment and continued offences by
Incarceration only. 1t is made unlaw
full to import lottery tickets of any kind
and care is taken hat none of the pre-
vious Acts passed in suppression of this
business are repealed.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22
Reaching High.

1t is a fact, not to be overlooked, that
in many Instances the men who are so
often held up as oppressors of the poor
were once members of the same class
which lately reviled them. Andrew
Carnegie was glad to make fifty cents a
day sweeping an office. Peter Cooper
was plain worllingman, but like Cars
negie, worked earnestly and was more
attentive to succeeding in his business
than to the mere acquisition of wealth.
He made himself a master of his calling
not only in it's present aspect. but
gagged it's possibilities. Barnum was
another man who belonged to the mills
lionaire class when he died. His estate,
just divided among his heirs, foots up
four millions. Barnuin was very plain
man. There had been men before him
in the show business, but he saw in it
veloped, and the fortune came with the
development That Chicago million
aire, who bid for all Of the new issue of
bonds to be made by Secretary Car
Isle, began his career as a peanut and
lemonade vender He enlarged the
scope of his business and his fortune
came. There is, therefore, no reason for
any man giving up and crying out that
he is down-trodden. The opportunity
is open to all. Men have succeeded de-
spite the hue and cry about them of bad
laws and favortism in this country
And it will be noticed that these humble
workers who have made such success
were not complainers. We have no
record of their pausing in their work to
to send the country to the ''demnition
bow wows.n Another noticeable fact
about these mems careers is that they
have evinced strong desire for others
to have advantages that were debarred
them in their youth. Thus we find the
older man Barnum, who, as a young
man, had plain education and lived
in early life without any sign OF the
culture that the word implies, devoting
his later day wealth to many purely |
ornamental objects. We find plain old |
Peter Cooper, who as youth was en-
gagged in the stern duty of the daily |
task in his latter years, after his fortune
had come to him, building great art |
school. We find the Office sweeper, and |
day lorborer Carnegie, when his fortune
came to him, building a great music
hall and founding libraries.
These were matter of fact men. They /
had no 'frills on, as the modern slang
phrases a deplorable and disgusting
phase of some mems personalities. We
must infer then that these practical
men have seen that art, literature, and |
real culture are practical benefits and
that they want men to have these ad- |
vantages. In Richmond as in other
cities, of the United States, any man
can, if he chooses, become cultured, if |
he goes at it in the right spirit, as
Carnegie and Cooper went about their
careers. There is always something
higher for man to reach for, and he
does not need money in that pursuit.
He must think for himself and know for
himself, of course And he must have
honesty and industry in his calling and
n his dealings with his fellow men and
le must have his eye on something else
han the almighty dollar.-Pichnao'ad
State.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22
A Boss Behind the Bars.

Six years in Sing Sing was the sentence
pronounced Tuesday by Judge Bartlett
in Brooklyn upon John Y. McKane, the
convicted boss of Grayesend, L. I. The
McKane case furnishes an object-lesson
to both politicians and people. 1t
proves to the former that it may be
dangerous to be too much of a boss, and
it teaches that latter that they can
bring even the most powerful political
offender to book when they are in earn
est about the matter. The people are
the real masters, after all and if they do
not choose to assert their power, the
evils of bad government must be laid to
their own account.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22
SEEKS DELAY.
Counsel for Miss Pollard Protests Against
reinforcement Of the Case.

Postponement Of the Case.
The first skirmish in the famous
breach OF promise suit for $4,000 brought
by Miss Madeline V. Pollard against
Congressman Breckenridge, of Kentucky
took place yesterday in Circuit Court No.
/, where the case is to be tried. The
suit has already been delayed in coming
up for hearing, but notice had been
delayed in coming up for hearing, but
notice-had been rendered that counsel
for Mr. Breckenridge were moving for
further postponment, and this called Mr..
Calderon Carlisle aud Judge jeremiah
Wilson to the court yesterday to enter
vigorous protest Mr.. Phil B. Thomp-
son, assisted by his partner, Mr. Nc
Kenny, in the absence of Mr.. Enoch
Totten appeared for Mr.. Breckenridge.
There was little argument in the court
Mr.. Carlisle stating that he and Judge
Wilson were opposed in the extreme to
any further delay. Judge Bradley said
that he would hear. both sides to-day at
10 o'clock
The suit was filed August 18th, and
has therefore been on the docket over
six months. The counsel for the de-
PENDANT soon afterward put in de-
murrer to the declaration, but that was
overruled by the court the latter part OF
September The case is numbered 956
calendar and will soon be reached.
c4 Il no cd
would come up for trial if there were no
unexpect delays within two weeks.
Meanwhile counsel in the West are
taking the testimony of several witnesses
transpired before Miss Pollard came to
Washington. Public interest in the
case is undated, but little testimony OF
importance was brought out by the
witnesses examined today.
One told about Miss Pollard once
being the bride in mock wedding at
party where all the participants were
considerably intoxicated.
Another witness, John Otolle, farmer
who assisted Miss Pollard.s old lover
Jane Rodes, knew nothing about Rodes
love making, save that the latter tolo
him he was educating a young CIR
named Madeline Pollard, who he in
tended to make his wife when her edu-
cation was completed. He saw letters
to Rhodes from Miss Pollard asking fol
money.
Col. Breckenridge did not arrive here
to day, as it had been reported he would
He is represented by his son and othel
attorneys.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22
EXCITEMENT IN HONOLULU.
A Rumor Of a Threatened Royalist
Attack on Executive Building

A Rumor of a Threatened ROyallSt
Attack on Executive Building.
NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-The Tribune
has dispatch from Honolulu, dated
February s. stating thai Honolulu Was
thrown into intense excitement by re-
ports of threatened royalist attack on
the executive building. The story was
that the royalist had devised plan to,
throw dynamite bombs into the council
chamber while President Dole and as
sistant were holding session. Then
strong armed force would fall upon the
building and take possession at the point
of the bayonet. The moment the roya-
list were in possession word would be
telephoned to Woodhouse, who would
recognize the new government and land
British marines ostensibly to forward
and protect the British interests. Up to
O'Clock no attempt had been made to
carry out the plot.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22
A WOMAN MADE MINISTER
Baltimore Spiritualists Ordain Mrs.
Wolcott as a Regular Pastor.

WOlcOtt as a Regular Pastor.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 19.-Mrs Rachel
Wolcott, a Spiritualist lecturer for a
quarter of century. was ordained last
night regular pastor, with power to
solemnize marriage, visit the dying, and
to counsel the young people when they
want to marry, and to do all things that
regularly ordained pastor OF any other
church can do.n
The ceremony took place at tie regular
meeting hall of the First Spiritualist
Church of Baltimore, in Benson's Hall
opposite the Academy of Music. This
ordination was in keeping with the new
departure of the Spiritualists Of the
United States, to enter upon the condi-
ton of recognized Church.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22
Mahanov Valley Miners Resume.

PoTTsvILLE, Feb. 19.-This morning
all of the collieries of the Mahanoy Val
ley excepting Bear Run and st. Nicholas
resumed work. Among these is Hams
mond Colliery, at Girardville, which be-
longs to the Reading Company, and has
been idle for over month. This
colliery employs over 800 men and boys.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22

The Governor has declined to grant the
application to lady to be a notary
public on the ground that the statute
made notorisos conversions of the peace
and he did not think that ladies were
capable of enforcing the peace-that is,
as contemplated in the law
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22

A bill has passed both Houses of
Congress, and will become law and go
into effect July next, abolishing the
postal notes which have been in use for
the past few years. In place of them
a money order system is substituted by
which money orders can be secured at
rates as low as those now charged by
express companies. For orders not ex-
ceeding So 80 the charge is to be three
cents, and the fee will increase until it is
fifty cents for sums over $75 and under
800. The old notes are not secure as
any one can collect upon them. The
new ones will require Identification,
which may be some bother, but will GER
tainly be safer.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22


At the Saturdays session of the Y.
NJ. G. A. State Convention in Roanoke
the Executive Committee recommended
that $4,000 be raised for this years work,
and personal and association pledges
having been taken, $2,767.57 was sub
scribed. A paper on Something New
About Organized Work in Small Towns
was read by Rev. V. w. Vicar, of Nor
folk. The rest of the afternoon till
nearly five O'Clock was devoted to new
and unfinished business. At night,
after praise service, there was an ex-
cellent address on Railroads Interests
and Railroad Men," by G. [. Hicks, of
the International Committee, after
which there was an exchange of opinions
and experiences by railroad men.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22
WIZ? WAem? Where !?

WHY should you insure life way you
family the profits arising work 3D. Won
gives protection family Sd you are rich gives YOU
good investment - ' y 80 ~
WHEN should you insure NOW
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nsurable. 3d. It certainly Won de1av -
WHERE should insure my
WITH THE EQUITABLE LIFE INSURANCE SOCIETY OF
THE UNITED STATES
1s Because it is the strongest having the surplus
3D. Because 1t IS the largest doing
force than the World id Recau
its policies free from conditions after one
and its losses paid at 4h
maturing show that the holders have realized protection
class The results
other Company. address = -
JOHN R. WEST, Manager Richmond, Va.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22

The revolution in the South, pro-
duced by the result of the war between
the States, seems to be general; nothing
has escaped its effects. Atlanta has
invited the men who burnt it to hold
their next annual meeting there, and
the women suifragists have decided
upon it as the place for theirs. and bill
is before the Virginia legislature provid
ing for the coeducation of the sexes at
the University, and another for women
doctors at the insane asylums, and one
was before it to compel the railroads
and steamboat lines to supply it's mem
boat lines to supply it's members with
free passes, and was only defeated by
four votes. So entirely different is their
new, from their old life, that people
familiar with the conditions that pre-
vailed in the South prior to war, rub
their eyes and pinch themselves to know
whether or not they are dreaming Alex
andria Gazette.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22

Mr. R. H. Cardwell who was recently
elected one of the judges of the Court of
Appeals. will resign his place as Speaker
of the House of Delegates few days be-
give the House the opportunity of
electing' his successor at the present
session. OF course there will be plenty
of candidates for the honor, and the
House has much good material to fill it
creditably.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22

The official reports of the Worlds Fair
are expected to be completed in about
year. They will fill about thirty
octave volumes of six hundred pages
each. The press has long ago told the
whole story and the, people have read it.
There is hardly an urgent necessity
for SO much official reporting, in which
only a very few can take interest.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22

The Henrico democratic committee
has endorsed Mr.. w. Fl. Sands for coun-
ty judge.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22
POLK EaiLLER'S
victory PoultryFood
Makes Hens Lay, y
Cures Cholera and Gapes in Fowls
PRICE rs CENTS. Of Druggists and Merchants
POLK MILLER DRUG co. ,Rechmond, va.

The Liberty Wooden Manufacturing
Company of Bedford City, have Just
secured another government contract
for 1000 broad yards of their fine kerseys
for the army headquarters at Philadel-
phia. They are at present running extra
time on a contract for %, 600 broad
yards, which viii keep the nil busy
until April.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22

- Facial Blemishes, falling hair and sim.
pie baby rashes prevented by Cuticura soap.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-22

Sold throughout the world. POTTER DRUG
About the Blood and skin," mailed free.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29
In an address at the commencement

IN an address at the commencement
exercises lat Pratt institute the other
day, eX-Mayor Hewitt, Of New York,
stated that Figures show conclusive
ly that the progress of the country in
wealth is in the direction Of the great
mass of the people. At no time was
the reward Of political capital so
small or that Of those who labor with
their hands so large" This state
ment will no doubt be denied by pro-
fessional labor agitators and free trade
calamityites who have all along insist
ed that the rich are getting richer
and the poor poorer, but Mr.. Hewitt
asserts that of the considerable wealth
earned by railroads, machinery, etc,
at least S. per cent is paid out in
wages.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29
THE REPUBLICANS AND THE
MONEY QUESTION.

Speaking of the attitude that the
Republicans of Minnesota should take
upon the money question the Red
Wing Republican says that nothing is
be firm and OutSpOken stand. THE
Republican organization, says the Re
publican, loves great part of the ad-
vantage which it now possesses and
the certainty of success that lies be-
fore it to the belief Of the people that
it is the party of honest money. They
will have none of the POpulist doc
trine of the contiscatiOn of property.
They are sick of the Democracy that
has committed itself to free silver, or
the purchase of the product of a few
mountain states, by the whole people,
under compulsiOn of law, at twice its
actual value. They look to the Re-
publican party for an. announcement
of honesty and courage on the money
question, and they must not be disap-
pointed"
1t then comments upon the fact
that while the country may need a
greater volume of currency, it does
not matter how great that volume is
it will be controlled in the same chan
nels it is today, and that it will be
just as hard to get it as it is now.
Now it ought to be made the bust
ness of the Republican party to devise
and adopt monetary system for this
country" continues the Republican,
that should answer to the varying
demands of trade. We ought to have
more money when the demand for it
is active, and less money when the de-
mand slackens: we ought to have a
big supply at the West when the crops
are to be moved, instead of in Wall
street where there is no use for it; we
ought to have currency capable of
expanding and contracting, just as
other things do according to the
market for them. But we shall never
get it by the free coinage of silver,
nor by government issues of gold or
silver or paper or anything else. We
want an elastic money and an. hon est
money at the same time. That is
where Minnesota stands. That is
where the Republican party stands
and the best thought of it's leaders
should be devoted to ascertaining
how this principle may be carried
out"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29
A HEARTLESS CASE.

On Saturday forenoon Miss McCIoud
found little girl wandering on the
street and evidently lost. She took
her to her home, at 319 Hickory
street, and then found the following
note pinned in her hat:
'Please take this girl to some
home, as her parents is ded, and [
have got all l can take care of. She
is 4 years old. From her ant. Her
name is Gustana Piermaker."
The little girl said her name was
Annie Wilcox, but could not tell
where her home was or anything that
would assist in finding her aunt or
other relatives. She is at present at
Mrs. McCloud's.
The little girl is bright and active
She says that she came in on a train
Saturday morning, but don't know
where from. She says that she has
two big brothers, Charles and Frank
Wilcox, and that she came to Manka-
to with a man named Babcock. She
says she was treated so badly at home
that she does not want to go back.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29
TWO DEATHS.

Miss Henrietta Eckhardt died at
1870 o'clock Monday evening at resi-
dence of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Eckhardt, on South Front street.
During the hot weather of a week
ago she drank copiously of ice water,
and Inflammation of the bowels set in,
and after week Of suffering she died.
She was twenty-three years of age, and
graduated from the Normal school a
month ago, being considered by her
teachers one of the most promising
members of the large class. Her pro-
fessional work was especially satisfac-
tory. She had taught IN the towns of
Lime and Decoria. Miss Eckhardt
possessed the friendship and esteem of
all who knew her, and her death is a
source of grief to all these, as well as
a sad affection to the family thus be-
reaved. The funeral will take place
at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon
from the German Lutheran church.