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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-28
A HARD BLOW.
at Peru, Ind, Wrecks the City FInll and
Does Other Damage. -


Does Other Damage. =
BnAzIr. Ind, June GA cyclone
swept thrc ugh this section Sunday
afternoon, doing much damage, especial
" in this city. terrific wind and
hailstorm accompanied it, The big
tower on the city hall fell with a ter.
rifle crash. completely crushing and
smashing in the main structure.
The pon,.crous bell that weighs ooo
pounds crushed through the building
and fell in the midst of q company who
had taken refuge from the storm. The
city hall was completely wrecked.
Windows and roofs were destroyed,
and for many hours all street cars were
stopped, because of the many trees
that were blown across the tracks.
The damage is immense in neighboring
sections Wheat, corn and trees are
level with the ground.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-28
soldiers rake the Place OF Strikers.

LONDON, June ga special dispatch
to the Times from Lisbon says that c.
600 bakers in that city have gone OH a
strike against municipal regulation
requiring the master bakers to deposit
5000 reis as guarantee that they will
sell bread of proper weight. The
strikers are encamped outside the city
and have assumed menacing attitude.
Soldiers have been employed to bake
bread enough to supply the demands OF
the citizens
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-28
Des Moines Wants It.

DIES MONIES. Ia, June 25.--The Iowa
delegates to the republican, league con-
yention at Denver left in q magnificent
special train over the Rock Island at
l o'clock Saturday. The delegates wiz
put in every moment Of their time after
their arrival in booming Des Moines
for the next national convention.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-28
Drowned In q rish rcnd.

ELwoop. Ind, June 25.-Jos. States,
aged 90. a farm hand employed near
Curtisville, six miles north CT here,
went bathing in q fish pond with some
companions. took cramps and was
drowned His parents reside at Hell
ena, O., and the body was taken there
for burial Saturday. ~
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-28
r,anor pay mads a Legal Holiday.

WASHINGTON, June 23.-Senatc bill to
incorporate the Supreme Lodge of the
Knights of Pythias was reported by
Mr.. Faulkner Dem, w. Va-) from the
committee for the District of Columbia
and was passed Also senate bill maxi
iur the first Monday in September OF
every year Labor Day)a legal hoii-
dav.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-28
Drowned Whilo Swimming.

SUMNER, H., June aa;55.Samnel and
Adam Hickman, aged 10 and Is years
respectively, sons OF Wm. Hickman,
living nine miles north of this city,
were drowned in Emberass river while
bathing Sunday aftern oorl.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-28
Pexas Cotton palace.

Waco, Tex. June 2s.-The corner
stone Of the Texas cotton palace wsas
laid with Masonic ceremonies me
day ,yns observed as d general assssss;g
and an extensive parade took phase. %
which were oil kinds OF cotton 'lcse,i {.
tions and designs The building Will
be completed Septenapes and i,rasi-
dent Cleveland will be inyssed 20
epen II.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-28
or,y .paa !, Drowned.

LoGANspoRT, Ind, june IS. ne on
ly daughter OF Panhandle Baggage
master James Rosenstock, fell In q Sis'
tern Sunday afternoon and was
drowned.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-28
Fr,sco.s cost,y organ.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 2s.-The larg-
est and costliest organ in the United
States, if not in the world, is the gift
Of Edward L. Scarlcs TO Grace Episco-
nal church, and dedicated Friday
night. .
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-28
Drowned at Lafayette,

LAFAYETTE, Ind, June 25.-Jacob
Shields, a harnessmaker, aged forty
and single, was drowned in the Wabash
Sunday morning while bathing.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-28
Arcnn.anop Tache pead.

WINNIPEG, Man, June s2a,-Arca-
bishop Tache suffered a relapse during
the night and died at $50 o'clock Fri-
day morning.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-28
HettIo Green's Capture

EVANSVILLE, Ind, June 2a.-It was
stated here Friday night on reliable
authority that Hettie Green and some
of the stockholders of the Louisville g.
Nashville railroad have secured enough
of the stock of the Evansville s. Terre
Haute, held by the Chicago & East rn
Illinois, to give them the controlling
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-28
Off for African Gold.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 33.-Thc steam
er Santa Clara is being fitted in Cak-
land creek for long trip to the gold
fields of South Africa, and the destina-
ton and object of the voyage of the
vessel is being advertised far and wide,
so thata good list of passengers may
be secured to go with her. She is
billed to leave about July 1, and it is
expected that by that time her cabins
and other accommodations of passen-
gers will all be engaged.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-28

rc,orado .pcI,pr,iss,s.

DEarE,s Col. J.ssac g. Tao ssssts.
convention Of the pear..s -: s-ss:s;1 I
LED TO meet ct iess q S,, :i
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-28
Awomnn for the Electric Chnir

MONTICELLO, N. y, June 23.-Lizzie
Halliday, who was Thursday convicted
of the murder of Mrs. McQu;llan, was
Friday sentenced to dc by electricity
during the week beginning August &.
The condemned woman showed not the
least evidence that she understood
what was going OH in the courtroom,
and exhibited. as she has throughout
her trial and since her Imprisonment,
an appearance of imbecility that has
;,pyracca1 mcDv aS Canllino
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-28
NEW SlEEPERS.
Aluminium, and Hot and Cod Air Mat
trcsscs WEI 20 Used.

Aluminium, and lot and Cod Air Mat
trcsscs WEI 20 Used.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, June :3.-Thc VIII
liams Palace Car Co.. capitalized at
50, 900, 900, will begin the construction
of cars in this city, to compete with
the Pullman and Wagner Co.'S.
There is saving of weight in the Will
liams car of so, 900 pounds. The berths
will be little longer than those in
the Pullman and Wagner cars and
about as wide. The frame work of the
berths will be aluminium, and mat
tresses made Of cloth and rubber, in
f1ated with chilled air in summer md
in the winter warmed air, Will be uacd.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01
4 Comedian's say

III a Joke could be taken seriously, and
II serious thing could be made Joke.
ana by the way, a certain class in
New York do take the majority Of stage
Jokes in the most serious and most cold
biooded manner. the most astounding OF
all April Fools jokes ever perpetrated
would be found. il on the morning OF
"All FOOLS day." the public should stub
It's toe against hat-concealed brick and
ind that under IL lay prosperity. and
that the general depression that has
pervaded the country since last fan
were but a myth, fabric Of air and a
joker's delusion. This joke, think
would not only overshadow Joe Aliller's
historicisms, but would make a bowling
mockery and caricaturc OF the chalk
marked coat, the paper stuffed wallet.
the dog with the can to his tail, but best
OF eli IT would pu; 10 blush the croakers.
tne cuckoos and the mugwump frogs in
the puddle who have been piping their
thin voices Of disaster disease and dis
uess. JAMES T. POWERS.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01
Champion for The Day.

Before stating what jokes seem to me
timely and enjoyable for this April
Fools day, 1 cannot resist the temDta-
ton to say .hat / think the spirit Of the
holiday Itself has always been sinsularly
misunderstood. The day is really to be
deemed a pause in Times serious fight,
when folly could with prcpriety traves;y
wisdom. and set the world smiling. As
1t is, the first Of April has come 10 be
deemed a nuisance. when its observance
is not done away with entirely. April
Fools day is sadly in need OF some one
to champion It, and restore it 10 its
rightful place in the calendar. IL Is not
simply the day on which the boys and
girls may make fools Of their elders
with impunity. | suspect that there was
a time when IT was regarded rightly,
far away as that time seems 10 us now.
Then the old people put aside their serious
looks and grew younger instead or older
If it takes a wise. man 10 be fool,
surely April first is the feast day Of the
sages, when they can act on Shakspeare's
admonition. "mingle a little folly with
your wisdom"
As for those jokes which seem to me
good and appropriate TO the day II
should always be understood that the
element Of surprise IS the essential thins.
Novelty is wit. Jokes must not be cruel
prank. otherwise the day would be given
up to a general hazing Of everybody The
most successful of April Fool jokes would
be to surprise ones friend with change
of character. What a rare Joke II would
be for the confirmed Hliser to bestow a
dowry On tfat Rice Of his who needs
only a little money 10 marry the LAD
OF her choice. If all the cranks would
put aside their hobbies for a Day what
fun II would be for the rest OF us.
This kind Of Joke can be carried out
al mfinitnm. and would never fail 10
be successful Let the tippler lenain So
her to-day. Just as 4 joke. The skin
flint employer can have a lark with his
clerk b. granting that increase Of salary
that has been talked about so long.
Let the clergymen-I say II reverently-
preach a sermon only an hour long to-day
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01

connected in our minds WIN e,np'y and
diapidated pocket-books WIN s.,ne -a''d'
smalI-boy attachments. disrepuaao'e nais
with bricks underneath 'nen.' lohs
streamers harging FROM u,''.-ieruns
coat tails. door bells runs Wy in'islpie
hands, and all the ether dear oid pleas
antries that we know by heart. And We
should probably have had oo,se'y ior
the Prevention of April Foo JohtS long
ago IL IT were not for the pleasure that
children get out OF them.
When q certain boy OF my ieuuaintdnce
on April first, before breakfast informs
rae that somebody is waiting to see me
in the library. not for the wor'd would
/ refuse to- go downstairs ana pretend
extreme surprise at finding nobody there.
Nor would anything induce NE 10 ueciine
the suspic.cus-looking cotton-i'ied piece'
of candy which is shortly after offered
TO me by a snail girl | know. l bite
into it and splutter over 1t regularly
every year. and MIR. Nat GOODWIN 81
Mr.. Francis Wilson would De siad IL
they could raise such a shout oil laughter
as easily and unfai,ii ely.
Apropos OF this train Of thought there
IS little picture OF mine In fuck, pub
lished some years since, when VIII per-
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01

At the beginning OF the twentieth cen.
fury new one Will peb'"'
hasten IL or not. q,
"stll the first step Is 10 find OUT -
even the progressive reformers are re''y
"a inaugurate such plan IL ~ pos,
bile that they cannot yet agree Oh .n'
thing so comprehensive. What oe''Sr
means could be devised than TO prins az
tvpes together and have full anu i'''
discussion. ,. 60.
.sTl.ere VIII be the trade unionists' So
cisi,s,a single tax, railway brothernoous'
American railway union. farmers am
ance women suffragist and Temperance
ncorle. 20 say nothing Of those VINO s'uoy
reforms I'm a philosophical way ana are
not committed to any special ~chooi Vi
thought" q,
Henry y. Lloyd is by no means alone J"
the bel.ef that the present industrldi S''
ten is about 20 pass away ana VIII sooI'
give place TO some more sociaiized ioii'
OF government
"Sun." said one leader. at remains
10 be seen just how definite are the iueas
Of all refor mers on the subject. snouIu
not be surprised at spontaneous BURST
of enthusiasm az the first congress tha'
will show that the people are actually
looking for the new social Democracy
The nationalists and all grades of So
cialists are Joyful over the calling OF
such a conference Even If IL falls OF its
proposeJ object. II will be an Opportuni-
~ for propoganda not TO be missed The
very calling OF the conference is consld-
ored as q great step toward their theor-
les. Still they will have to exercise more
tolerance than they usually do. or the
,ther classes OF reformers may adopt
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01
The TIMEs-RICHMOND. VA. SUNDAY APRIL 1884,

a conspiracy to play an April Fool joke
on come member of the Lambs club.
But I would warn the Lambs club men
Of what was coming. and thus the joke
would be on the conspirators. Now l
would suggest an amplIficatlon OF this
idea to all who may wish to perpetrate
an April Fool joke. Go TO some friend
or other. and say you want to play a
Joke on some third party Then. when you
have decided what the joke is 10
be, warn that third party. Thus you
will fool two fools with one trick
This reminds me of a trick | played on
the first Of April on the late William J.
Florence The comedian was I'm London
at the time. He and a party were dining
at beautifully .mprovised table, when
| sent into him a note i'm a disguised
hand, purporting to be from a woman
who was waiting outside TO interview
him. The temptation TO Florence was
great and it proved the funniest thing
to see how restless he grew and finally
made some lame excuse to go out. When
he returned. / said
where have you been, Billy?"
/ do not remember what he said. but
| recall distinctly. that simple as it may
seem, it was the funniest April Fool
Joke | had enjoyed for long time.
Merrily yours.
MARSHALL L. WILDER.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01

If yer want a good joke on some Of
yer fren's. give dem de razoo. see? OATS
de way dey do in New York on April
Fools gay.
Yer work IL dis way:
Suppose a man owes yer ten dollars
and won't pay yer. Go see him and ask
him for il. He SEES he amt got it. Wipe
de floor wild him and take all de cash
in his pockets and when he kicks, apollo
gize and say yer didn't mean fer ter
hurt limits April Fool. see? Den
yer needn't give him de money back
cause he owes it. yer see2 Course yer
don't want ter try de razoo on anyone
not under yer size, see?
Den yer kin pay Off all yer old grucges
de same way. or if yer hungry and
amt got no money walk inter de restrint,
see and eat all yer kin and say it's
April Fool, see, and run out widcut
payin' notin'.
OATS de racket fer April Fool-de
razoo. STEVE BRODIE.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01
The Bie-S0sed Wan.

people make fun OF a big nose pu, 'ne
hir-nosed people can stand a u'tie W.
ting. for the big nose IS the oniy NJ.
that makes its way throusn the WoH'
with credit TO itself and its possessori'
The little stubby noses may nave plil-
liancy and imagination, put the Dig nos,
the big Roman nose has
rp~ecutive ability and plenty OF H. No
~ oyer heard OF a little-nosed man
,oonnandlng an army, or controlling
~ zoe mercantile or industrial interests.
S,ch nlaces are not given TO little noses.
~ o,,Iy bic noses can fill them. A little
n,,s In a responsible position may be safe.
i,v, will never be enterprising.-ka
CITY Journal.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01
To Iessepthc Devils Fools.

7 am asked for a sentiment concerning
April Fools day. and pause in the whirl
and rush Of a righteous warfare to say
that in my opinion time IS far TOO valuable
and important factor for moment To
be lost in foolish jesting. or senseless
Joking The world especially in these
days. is in far too critical and dangerous
"A position. socially and religiously. TO al
low of a man With average sense-to say
nothing Of those who have ccnsecrafei
brains-to indulge in any other than
profitable and upright intercourse.
1t is a personal relief 10 me TO feel that
I'm our ranks seventeen hundred officers,
and sixteen thousand unpaid local work
ers will be pushing with might and main
of soul an enterprise which rlholds sin
cerity. and the necessity OF lessening
the devils fool.
DARLINGTON BOOTH.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01
4 Dinner That would he NOD he.

April Fool's-day is a good thing. 1t
shows the fool killer where TO hunt for
his game. The fact that the fool killer
is not good shot is no reflection upon
the day As for my own experience with
the receptions practiced upon the inno-
cent upon April Fool's-day, l hardly
think they are of sufficient importance
to warrant my making them public.
They differ i'm no respect from those or
every other suburban resident VINO mas
to commute" on the railways and buy
tickets for nremans' fancy dress balls.
You ask me to state what sort Of an
April fool joke I would pay If | had to
play one. / wish IL understood that |
would not play one unless ! were COM
PEELED to by law, in which event | should
invite the man who framed the law TO
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01

In the press OF other important matters
have not been able TO keep track of a
good April Fool joke. But | cannot see
that or We are to tolerate April Fool
jokes at alD there has been Invented
anything less Objectionable than tho
jokes cf our boyhood. We used TO call
the attention OF grown folks TO purses
and handkerchlefs they had not dropped:
also give away pounds OF candy. which
when bitten into. proved to be sweetened
cotton batting. There was even n bav
who sewed up his father in the bed
clothes over night. Grown people. how
ever cannot be concerned In such trifes.
Indeed, IL seems 90 me that the day is
hardly worthy 0f serious consideration
ana that the practical people OF TODAY
can spend their time far more profitablv
than In desising April Fool Jokes.
JUS, hs same there is no accounting
for tastes, Bus II VIII he hardly worm
ones while 70 NY fooling me this first OF
april A. II. HUMAfEL.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01
WIPE DE FLOOR wID HIM."

dine and give him farcie olives treated
with Paris green. which / would have
him wash down with a wineglassful Of
tobacco sauce under the impression that
he was drinking Chant. In this way |
think ! could convince the world that
! am, in the truest sense Of the word. a
philantropist for as n poet Of my ac-
quaintance has said:
Since first the serpent Eve cajooled
SO that the world was curst.
or all the fools that ever fooled
The April FOOLS the worst"
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01
SONS OF TOLL TO MEET.
4 CONTENTION rU C0SrRIvEA NEW
FORM or oOyERNMENT
Nsv Kind OF Liberty Desired--A Meeting
which win Assemble the Cranks from
the Ends Of the Earth.


The latest development in the cause OF
industrial reform is the call for ma
t.onsl congress 10 be held In chicago
May 1. 1885,. 10 consider the subject OF
Industrial Democracy" in a practical
way.
IL grows out OF the address recently
given by Henry y. Lloyd before the
American Federation Of Labor. AZ that
time he not only gave his usual scholarly
and philosophical analysis OF present con-
ditions. but he pointed out plan which
might lead directly 10 the millennium OF
..Social Democracy. He said: In seven
years. january ]. 1900. the twentieth CEN
fury will open. Let us begin TO max
ready for that next emancipaton-tha'
new liberty which enlargcs Democracy
Let America, the leader OF the hDerues
OF mankind. make The first move ana
let the federation OF trades union oi
fts working people lead America. ven
ture to suggest that the American fe"e-
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01

" MISTER. PLEASE GIVE NE A LIFr. WILL YER?"
instead OF one OF four hours duration. |
ana convinced that the idea would meet
with success
People too old for jokes on April Fools
day? Nonsense. Even the gray heads
can have their joke. The reprobate roue
can 30 10 church this morning. and ex-
plain that IL is all joke on his part
Many man is ashamed TO do a good
thing because IL is so unusual with him
that II would give him unpleass nj prom
inence. But he can do 1t to-day. and es-
cape with the admission that 1t is his
April Fool joke. l am glad the day comes
on Sunday this year.
3. GILLIAN.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01

Miss Kate Field originally intended 70
90 mon the operate stage, and was pu-
~, ~ Manuel Garcia, who taught Jenny
lind Garcia. 1t may be added. Is sun
teaching. though he enters his ninetieh
year this month.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01
The Bachelors Will.

Helen w. Grove. In Life.)
There was a jolly bachelor
Who died at eighty-eisht.
And by his will the good man left
The whole OF his estate
To women who had answered nay.
When asked by him TO wed,
For he declared he owed to them
The happy lie he'd led.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01

The first shipment Of Florida pineap-
pies is promised for April Is. The Maine
idea Is that they are called pineappies
because they do not look like apples and
because they do not grow on pines
Exchange.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01

On November Sd. OF this year the CEN
tenniaI OF the birth Of William Culieh
BRYANT viii be celebrated at Great bar
rington. Mass, where the poet was nia'-
ried and lived for many years.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01

SILICA Coxey Isn't exactly the name
one would pick out as appropriate for
the leader OF great army" We trust
none OF his numerous coadjutors ever
60 50 far as to call him Silly for short.
EXCHANGE
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01

II dosfnt seem hight that the first
Gay OF The month 10 full OF pretty
thinss a. April In. should be inseparably
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01

/ subjOin.
FREDERICK BURR OPPER.
Good Old Fellow-Ah. how it warns
my heart to see them playing their little
innocent tricks on the first Of April
Used to do it myself when | was boy.
But they can't fool me though-Im too
old a bird for that.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-01

am asked TO tell the joke l would
play II knew any one who could be
fooled on this first Of April.
First / would undertake to organize
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-09-12
SALE BY MORTGAGE.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that under
~ and by virtue Of the power contained
10 mortgage made to the undersigned by J.
N. Hearou, dated the twentieth day of June,
A. D., 1890, and recorded in the Office of the
Register of Mesne Conveyance for Sumter
County, State of South Carolioa, on::the thir-
tieth DAY of December, A. D., 1893, in Real
Estate mortgage Book at page 6s, default
having been made 10 the payment OF the debt
secured by said mortgage, will sell at public
auction o: vendue in front of the Court House
for said county in the City of Sumter the lot
of land embraced in said mortgage, on the
6rst day of October, 1884, that being sales
day-between the hours of ii o'clock in the
forenoon and three o'clock in the afternoon.
The said lot of land is described in said
mortgage as ''all that parcel or tract Of land
lying and being and situated in the County
of Sumter, town of Bishopville,. State afore-
said and more fully described as lot con-
tanning nearly one acre Of land with the res
ideuce aud storehouse thereon said lot
fronting on the road leading from Bishopvlle
to DuBose's Bridge and bounded by lands
now or formerly of DR.. R. r. Dennis, A. F.
Cousar and E. H. Frost 4 Co."
Terms Of sale-Cash. Purchaser to pay
for papers.
THOMAS R. McGAHAN,
Septembe. 5, 1894. Mortgagee.