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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27

Oi medicinal agents is gradually
relegatin8 the old-time herbs, pills
draughta and vegetable extracts to the
rear mud bringing into general use the
pleasant and effective liquid laxative,
syrup OF Figs. 10 get the true RENE.
dy see that 1t ls manufactured by the
oailiornia Fig Syrup Co. only. For
sale by ali leading druggists.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27
4 dcvus Killing,


BY SOutHtFu A5sOclAts Press
ST. Lou,s. April pa special Fl ON
Denison, Tex, to the Chrouiclo says
that Ed. Bohnnnon, noted Choctaw
and an officer of the Indian force, was
killed yesterday while srrestinx Jim
jackson near Durgnt, |. I. jackson
was also killed. The weapons were dis
charged almost simultaneously. 3D.
hannon died instantly and jackson
lived only few minutes,
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27
\" called Newspaper laws.
Hy Snr,.ba-,, A.-,.;.i t,

WASniNdroN, Apri 20. - Judge
Thomas, Assistant Attorney. General
for the Postoiiice Department, to day
Issued fraud orders against the Pub
llshers' Collection Agency, which con-
tluues to use the $50 called newspaper
laws to force collections. postmasters
at st. Paul, Pittsburg and Chicago,
where the company has offices, were
notified to stop Its mail matter.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27
Ircnsury EoId.
Hy southern Associatoi Press.

WAsHGSGroy, April 26.-The Tren.
sury gold reserve to-day wns increased.
by SllS,Sil to sol, l1G,25l, 500. OU OF
which came in the ordinary course of
business aud 5349, 900 from the Bel.
mont Morgan syndicate. The ayndl.
cate still owes the Government over
Sl6. 600, 600 on its contract, but it is
said to be still ahead OF the terms of it's
agreement.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27
= New S-utc.
UY Southern AssncIatnI Pr.

N' NUuVHcFu AssocIdtei Press.
DENVER, Col. April 2G.-Califor MIA
orange growers have been given tho
Deneht OF decision by the luter State
Commerce Commlsslo in session here
by the granting of lower rate TO Cali
toruis lines and their connection for
oranges to Atlantic ports than to inter
mediate points. The new rate will
probably pe 90 cents, instead of 90
cents.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
a Stockman Kills His Wife and Physi-
clan and Then Himself
Bv Southern Associated Press

p' southern associated Press.
HoUsToN, Tex, April 2G.-Last night
about O'Clock DR.. j. f. Simmons
family physician, called to see sicL
Guild at the residence of Mrs. Robert
Owen. He had written prescription
and was giving directions as to the
medicine, when Owen entered, aud
without word, put n pistol to Sim
mons breast aud pulled tho trigger.
Dr' simmons staggered back and pulled
his pistol, but fell dead before be could
use 1t.
Owen then shot bis wife and left tho
house. Going to his hotel he blew out
his own brains. Owen was a stock man
ana had been married about eighteen
months. In January hc came here
from New Orleans anu d week 40 o he
ana his wife separated. Mrs. Owen
will recover.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27
Supreme Gn,,rt.

BY SOntHern A5SOcIaIe Pres3.
RIcHMoND, W., April 2G.-In the
Supreme Court OF Appeals to-day the
case of Lagoria against Dozier was
argued by W. W. Old for piaintili in
srrsr and Walter II. Taylor aud ". p.
y. Lsynll for defendants in error and
submitted.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27
sJsi FuII 'Ijtnr.
By Southern Associatol Pre-,

WILKEsBAKRE, Pa. April 2G.-In
consequence of the coal war orders
were yesterday issued to operate all the
colIicries OF the Lebigh and Wilkes.
barre Coal Company on full time. Six
thousand men are affected by the
order,
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27
no settle Goa, S,rlnc.
BY Southern Associated Pros.

P1TrsBURG, April 2G.-Patricll Nc
Bryde, national secretary of the Nine
workers' Union. has written letter,
ID which he pointa out way for setting
the coal miners strike here.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27
EEuy. IsnY, AIN

Choice Michigan Hay in lots to suit
the trade cheap. DIP. REID a Bro,
aplO DAWN 2G9 and 270 Church ST,
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At lrrs. q. Itica.

No. 10t Church street, black satin
ribbons, all widths, and iancy ribbons,
newest styles.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27
At NIr.. n. iSic.,

No. lOi Church street, ladies' Will
find the most complete assortment of
millinery goods.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27
At Washington

Washington. 20 o 0 O4O6-l5 IA 3
Phi!"delphia. OF 0 lIOO- Sl6 0
Batteries: McGill and Buckley and
Cioments; Mercer and McGuire.
AT st. Louis
st. Louis .......o OOOOOO-o q
llttsOurg .......0 o 8 . 0 o. G IL 2
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27

batteries: Hawley and Sugden Brein.
stein and Pietz.
AT Louisvile--No gamo between
Chicago and Louisville: rain.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27
r. A. SAUNDERS.
Second Week sale OF (. S. Jaffr.
On . StncL

You will be surprised this week at
the wouuerfnl low prices on Jaifray 3
stock. Henrietta CLOTH worth 81, now
dOc. Taleta silks from lie mp; China
silks from l9c. up; towels, napkins,
doyIies and damask at wholesale prices
of Inilrhy's
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27
TINE ASKED FOR NICARAGUA
she United States Requests Few
Days From England,
MARINES NOT YET LANDED

The Views of Mr.. Cleveland as Given
by Personal Friend. Mr.. BaYard
Has Undoubtedly Asked Great
Britain For Fifteen Days
Grace Before Using Force
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27

Newest Discovery y"-Ext. teeth nc
pain. y. Y. ID. Rooms, lG2 Msiu.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27

Il II r
Baltimore .......0 0 0O0S 2x-l2 !3 /
brooklyn. L u 3 90 0 U . 4
Batteries-Hotfer and Robinson
Stein and Burrell,
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27

Batteries Wilson. Dalea and RyG
German and Schriver.
At Baltimore
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-27
standing OF ,hc Cimbs.
National League.

At New York
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Southern G.cuS,,.

Batteries: Bailey and Rappold; El
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Lord Rosebery recently visited
Lord Spencer, and during his stay at
tended with his host the parish church
1T Althorp. The preacher seemed to
be inspired by the occasion, for he took
for his text: cart thou he that should
come, or look we for another"
In abandoning the church for lit
erature. Rev. S. z. Crockett, of Stick
1t Minister" fame, follows the example
of a number of clergymen who have
found the pen more congenial and
profitable than the pulpit, among them
George Macdonald and Edward Egg
glestOn.
Henri Rocheforts life of exile in
London is not without it's compensa-
ton. Having an income of $4,000 a
year to spend he is able to main tain a
handsome home in Regent park and to
indulge in works of art and fine horses
He is very hospIta bic and very gener-
Gus. His personal habits are most
temperate, and he is extremely popular
in London.
Stanley J. Weyman, the novelist,
pIdCtlCcu III LOuoOh do d DdI ioNCk Aoi
about ten years and with fair success.
H never really liked his profession,
however, and was poor speaker. Mr..
Weyman writes slowly. He considers
. thousand words day sufficient. He
hunts once a week during the season;
is an unmarried man and lives with his
mother and sister.
-Anson Cory, who lives in Lafayette
county, Mo, probably is one of the
oldest ex-slavcs in the United States.
He was born fifteen miles from Knox
vile. Tenn. in 1888: went to st. Louis
with his master in 1895, thence to Fort
sibley; was present with his master,
bort Hicklin, when the site where
Kansas City, Mo-, now stands was pur.
chased from the Indians. He also &C.
companied his master through the
Mexican war.
John L. Wilson, the new senator
from Washington. will tend to leaven
that august body with fair share OF
what will pass as the antithesis OF
copper bound dignity. Wilson has to
his credit since he became a member Of
the house probably as many trophies
for bringing down the gallery as any
member in it, He is small man, with
a very large voice, that can be heard
distinctly above the din of an uproar
on the floor. Coupled with this voice
he possesses keen sense of the ridicu-
lous and somewhac riotOus DISPOSE
ton.
Abby Smith, the oldest woman in
Connecticut. died recently near Nor
witch, aged 113 years. For more than
100 years she had worked in country
homesteads, faithful house hand, who
toiled as hard as ever a woman could.
1t was not until she was ITO years old
that she ceased to be able to support
herself and do all her household duties
and chores. She was a sprightly, clean
built, cheery-faced, helpful old lady,
who by turns trotted into one house
and then another among "the neigh
bors," Jest ter help EN- on with the
work" and her coming there was al
good as a sunbeam twinkling in at the
windows after dull and cherries
weather.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05
Do You Know

That che Santa Fe route EST Louis and
San Francisco railway is positively
the only line running two daily through
passenger trains from Wichita To 81.
Louis. without change. leaving Wichi-
ia at 1910 a. m. and 1926 p. m. arriv-
ing in St Louis at $50 p. m. and 6 so a.
m. The equipment OF these trains is
first class In every particular. consist
ing of elegant reclining chair cars (sea.s
free and Pullman Palace Drawing
Room Sleepers.
IL you are going beyond So. Louis re-
member that connection with all lines
Cor the east. northeast and southeast Is
made in the magnificent new Grand
Union station. st. Louis. the largest and
handsomest passenger station In the
world.
For sleeping car ber;hs and all infor-
nation relative to rates. routes. etc.
call at Santa Re Route ticket Office. iSs
North Main street. or Douglas Avenue
station. d59-tf
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05
Homeseekers' and Land Excursions Via the
Missouri Pacific Railway

On February II. the Missouri Pacific
railway company Will sell tickets TO
Lake Charles. La. 10 all points In Ar
kansas and Texas 10 Colorado. Utah.
Wyoming. Idaho least OF and includ-
ing Market Lake and Weiser) 10 DEM
ing. New Mexico and TO Phoenix. and
Prescott. Ariz-. at rate of one fare plus
81 for the round trip. OF. March 5.
and April .. same rates will Re made
to all points in Arkansas. Texas ana
to Lake Charles. La Tickets will be
limited TO twenty days after day OF
sale. Stop-over granted ct all points
south OF Coffeyville whsreever tick
cts read over foreign lines .stop-overs
will be governed by local conditions OF
lines over which tickets read For fur
ther particulars call on or address
E. +. BLECKLEY.
p. and T. A. ia North Main
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05

THERE are some communities in which
Solomon would not have been considered
smart.-Ram's Horn.
ciAN perishes, but the things he writes i've
on for countless centuries. What a pity the
newspaper poets wouldn't think of this
Rockland Tribune
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05

Owing to the high price and scarcity
Of apples the Occidental Grocery is sell
ing, this week, oranges by the peck
only 40 centS-good fresh CALIFORNIA;.
Corner Second and Main. 20 1t
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05
HOMESEEKERS EXCURSIONS
VIA
SANTA EE pnrrrr-

Oh March 5. and April . the Santa
Fe Route will sell tickets to Lake
Charles La, and 10 all points In Texas
Except III Paso) at one fare plus s.
for the round trip. ticket limited 20
days from date of sale. For further
particulars call at City Ticket Office
ISIS North Main street. or Douglas avenue
station. TAGG * CARSON,
City Ticket Axentn
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05

Plow's bon-bons, chocolates, creams
and other favorite novelties in candies
fresh and absolutely pure-at Walloce's
Avenue Drug Store, corner Topeka.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05

AN actress appearing in Johnstown, Pa,
recently was referred to by the local press
as a favorite in that city. The paper re-
marked: ''She appeared here just before
the flood" The actress has erased Johns
Town from her map.-Dramatic Mirror.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.

Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrup
should alyaws be used for children
teething- 1t soothes the child. coftens
the gums. allays all pain, cures wind
collie, and is the best remedy for
diarrhoea. Twenty-Five cents a bot
Tie. Used by millions of mothers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05
Jealousy In Gowanus.

Mrs. Mulgrew-I see Mrs. O'Flanni-
gan has q new hood.
Mrs. O'Dooley-Yis; the poor thing
needed somethin' O. the kind to cover
up the bald spots on her head.-Brook-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05

Whitlock's Avenue Meat Market is
famous for the excellence of its fresh
and cured meats and reliShes. POI
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05
Hack Line.

Exchange stables at Orlando and Still
water. We make a specially of carry
ing passengers between these points.
Travelling mems patronage solicited.
SHIVELY, VANWYCK & SHIVELY.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05

THERE is sad difference between a finan-
cial strait and d financial fiush.-GalvestOn
News
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05

~ SHOULD have you know, sir. that l am
Londoner, as / was born in London
But j, sir, was born in Cork, and | am
Corler l'-Boston Globe
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05

Don't drive your horse bare-footed.
Stippich * Lowe viii shoe them in first
class style while you wait. Shop, 323 n.
Main % If
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05

You can get your prescriptions niiesi
at Waliace's drug store at any time OF
the day or night 69-tf
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05
SCHWARTZ BROS.

Notice.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.,
Office of Comptroller of the Currency.
Washington, ID. c., Jan. 10, 1895.
Notice is hereby given to all persons
who may have claims against abe
Wichita National bank OF Wichita"
Kansas, the same NUT be presented to
w. N Ewing, receiver with The legal
proof thereof, within three months
from this date. or they may be disal-
lowed. JAMES II. ECKLES,
Comptroller of the Currency.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05
InOla Block Coal FL %si e, +: j sE'ss

ion delivered. 1t burns like Canon City
makes no clinkers. Telephone 1872 and
193. Yards 541 and 222 West Douglas
avenue.
St~TIN ARTZ RIOS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05
AT THE
TICKETS 80. % AND 10 CENTS

Tickets on sale at 22S North Main
street, Daniels Store: Shaw's Music
Store; Lawrence's Drug Store and
Barnes Music Store.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-27

late civil war, the next greatest blow
TO this ''Cybele of the western waters"
was the lottery, which kept the people
impoverished for a quarter of a cen
fury. Creoles are, naturally. gamblers.
Speculation in cotton and bonds was
too slow for them They must have
lottery, and the country witnessed the
strange travesty upon law OF a state.
by its constitution. legalizing and pro-
tecting a moral wrong. l am told, on
very good authority, that the lottery
realized as profits, from 6tteen 20 TWEEN
- millions OF dollars 4 year. on the
monthly drawings. and from Eve thou
sand 10 ten thousand dollars daily from
the daily drawings About twO-thirds
OF the tickets in the monthly drawings
were sold out u this state. bat The daily
drawings were local. and the octopus
TOOK frC-s' the people this vast amount %
money. daily. FOR a quarter % 4 century;
also including about o1e-third Of the re-
ceipts OF tickets sold IN the monthly
dra wings. y little tivurirg viii show
the amount OF money these people have
poured into the Golfers Of few men.
i Is no wonder that such poverty has
existed among the masses. tha: the u.a-
joritv d. hot pay their taxes. that the
public school fund l. always short, and
lat tle streets are U1pa-ed. The LOT
terry has been virtually dead. for few
years. but really, J. i only sootched.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-27

Of the city, where negroes were placed
another human being with a white
skin This spot is still an object of in
terest to visitors, who are told that the
husband or father generally acted as
master of ceremonies and assisted his
wife or children upon the block to be
sold-separated forever. l have con-
versed with some of the old, infirm ne
groes who recall those days, which now
seem almost incredible for belief. One
seemed 70 take pride in the fact that
he was one of the best niggers in the
city" and was knocked down to Marse
for 81. SEQ in gold, sah," These relics Of
bygone and feudal age are fast disap-
pearlng, and with them their peculiar
idioms, songs and olden time dances,
which, it seems, cannot be transmitted
to the new generation of eolored peo-
pie.
There are no songs like the old
songs" and only those who have lived
in what is called ''de good old days"
can sing those olden-time plantation
songs with that true feeling of sadness
or Of glee that inspired those melodies.
The words were mainly improvised,
and as neither they nor the music
were written they must soon become
,echoes of the past, or rather cease to
live with the passing generation. A
few of these olden-time negroes are
still found in the little shanties or
rooberies on the crooked and narrow
cross streets of the French quarter. An
old negress or a bent-up old man is
seen summing himself at the entrance Of
the dingy, damp court, with head tied
up in the usual red bandana, patting a
foot as he huns an olden-tine melody.
dreaming of the past and sadly wait
ing for de end" death. Around the
corner is a 'canteen," or saloon, fire.
quented by sailors, Italian mafias and
the worst elements Of French and
Spaniards, kept BY an octoroon. Night
" high carnival is held, in the way Of
dancing, drinking, gambling, and occa-
sionally fighting. The cautious tour
ist visits this place accompanied by a
policeman. Then the attraction is
gone. 1t is somewhat singular that
such a place should exist on a street
named for st. Peter, and within two
blocks of the great cathedral with a
palace (of justice) and a prison on
either hand"
Impoverished BY the sale of their
slaves, and the consequences of the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-27

while gambling IS not so general and
open as in the days of the lottery, it
still exists, largely, to the shame of the
authorities, and to the detrinent OF the
impoverished city. Faro banks and
keno for the Americans, and roulette
and vingt-et-un for the CreoleS. There
are also numerous poker rooms" III
both sections of the city, where young
clerks and men of mature age, holding
tiduciary positions, meet and play.
Strangers are lured 10 some of these
places by the shabby genteel Creoles
who Turk around the hotels and saloons
looking for game, as did the ehscaher,
d'ij1duStrde in the corrupt reign Of Louis
XIV.
These chevaliers are mainly the de-
scendants of the French and American
aristocracy, who were impoverished by
the war. They live by gambling, when
there is any gaming going on-and
there always is. They were never
brought up to work, and consider 1t too
late now to begin. They are never SO
happy as when they are able TO pur-
chase a fifty-cent or twenty-fve-cent
dinner at a pension" and, lighting
cigarette, adjourn to the "Absinthe
Corner" an old saloon almost as old as
the city, where they sip the green
liquid, which eventually drives one in
sane.
One block from the "Old Absinthe
Corner" and 10 which the chevaler
d'industrie is a stranger, is the old
cathedral, thronged every Sunday by
visitors. Here is still maintained the
ancient French custom of the church
guardian wearing a red velvet coat,
three-cornered hat crnamented with q
black plume, a silver medal on his
breast, sword, and mace IN his right
hand, which he thumps on the floor oc-
casionally to command silence, or %
awaken the sleepers when the collector
is passing around ]. NJ. SCASLASD-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-27

ana, nKe the IapIeu snake, when you
cut its body in twain, it unites and
comes to life. Tickets are sold at the
cigar stands and in the barber shops in
the american district, and in the can
teens" and restaurants, or pensions,
in the French quarter. OF course, a
man must first be identified" as it is
now unlawful.
While in one of the pensions" of
the French quarter, overheard shah
bv-genteel creole, perhaps descendant
81 one of the emjgres, speak of his luck
Ut the recent drawing. | believed this
to be ''feeler." But drew him into
conversation, end he offered to procure
for me not only ticket in the concern
that was recently driven from this
state, but one also in any of the nuner-
Gus foreign lotteries. So it will be
seen that the vice still hourishes. not
withstanding that the twining ten
tacles of the octopus have held them in
poverty for quarter of a century.
This descending descendant of a proud
family, himself too proud to work,
makes a small commission upon each
ticket he sells. and thus manages to
make a cheap living, at the daily risk
of the jail. There are many of this class
&n the city-wrecks of better life, and
of better days. Il was the vice of gam
bling that made them what they are,
and now they live by tempting and aid
ing others to follow their downward
pace. Creoles are born gamblers"
that is, gambling is with them an in
herent mania, and has existed in some
form among them from the foundation
of the city, and their speculation in
John Laws bubble" boom bonds, TO
the days of the lottery when tickets
were in nearly every show window.
cried out upon the streets by peddlers,
and sold at the market stands with the
vegetables and the fish.
There is not so much of il, now"
said fish vender at the old French
market, ''and the poor people have a
little more to eat. Instead of going
home with light basket and lottery
ticket, they now put the price of that
ticket in the basket. and they live much
better 1t is good thing for all of us
that the lottery was driven away"
concluded the fish man, with a sigh,
evidently thinking of the money he had
lost through this almost universal
''crimping' of the market basket. Butt