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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-13
Chairman Finance Committee.
Office of the City Clerk,
Council Chumhcr.
Portsmouth. Va. Nov. ii. 1885.

PORTSMOUTH, Va, Nov. II, 1885
EALE.D PROPOSALS WILL BE RE
cclvcd until lDAr, Nov. IL. 1919, al
O'Clock y: M, for furnishing the city Of
PORTSMOUTH, VI, with Gno0O BUSii i'll IS
or OSSTEit SHELLS, more or less
Separate proposals will he received for
Proposals TO be accompanied With n bond
Of 500.
The committee reserve the right to re-
ject amy or all proposals.
Proposals 10 be left with the City Clerk.
JOHN j. KING,
mOl2-Jt Cha lrmnn Street Commit trn
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-13

Indications All Point TO This BEING
Tho Largest Week Yet. At
III nm Is This Week
Marvellous Bargains
Arc Pint ON Sale.
Come To-Day.
These prices are for cash 800 High
street.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-13

A big reduction on carpets, rcfrigera-
tors. canopies, and oil cloth for the next
thirty days. Buy now and save money,
at ]. s. Crawford's.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-13
They Arc Renutics.

What? Why our line of mems suits,
which we are selling from 81. so upwards.
For good suit or overcoat for yourself
or boy we are headquarters. Our goods
fit better. look better and are better
than others. LEVY e JACOBS,
200 High street
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Will Celebrate Their First Anniver.

Portsmouth Division. IT, r. Il. of p.
WIZ celebrate their first anniversary
tonight at Pythian Hall with a ban
quot after their meeting
The Nirsinian acknowledges the re-
ceipt OF an invitation TO he present
They will have vocal and instrument
tai music. &c
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-13

mon will be preached by Rev. DIR. a.
Coke Smith. of Norfolk after which the
Holy Communion will be administered
y very brilliant wedding was that to-
night OF Mr.. John Wilder Atkinson and
Miss Elise Williams, daughter of Col
onel Charles a. Williams. The cere-
mony took place at St. I'aul's and Rev
DR.. Hartley Carmichael olliciated.
Many people We're here from New York
and other cities.
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spot Cash nrinss Down Prices.

To-day a good suit costs but SIS. Sc. :;
or 81. Mind you. good suit.
NJ. ROSENBAUM.
ZIG and 11S High street.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-13
Death ola CsriI,I.

Mr. and Mrs. d. T. Dempsey. of 2O2
Fourth street. South Portsmouth,, lost
tielr infant son. David Thomas. at 10
o'clock yesterday morning. The CHILD
was months old
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rhiidren's Suits aud Rccfers,

I'll the newest things known for boys.
Never saw such beauties, for half
what they used to cost-sl.25. So. So and
81. NJ, ROSENRAUM,
l16 and 118 High street.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-13
bicycle Free.

a bicycle free. now running I'm Charles
r. Welton & Co.'S window. Eeverybody
has chance ut II by buying 81 worth
Of goods Call and see it. 332 and 334
High street.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-13

ME GUARANTEE TO SAVE YOU
w MoNlGS-'Chcapcst line Of Pictures
and Frames In the two cities Prices
ON Underwear lower than ever. but quail
ity better. Examine our Blankets before
buying. We promise TO save you money
Goods shown with pleasure
GEO. $. BELL, Agent,
noS-ln 2l5 High street.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-13
Tie RcsuIf for Cnsh

$3.50 for Black Worstcd or CheyIo
suits. It's the lowest notch yet
M.,ROSENBAU UNI.
ll6 and lis High street.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-13
ais Fountain OF Yonth..

An nnccdote of tho historian MlcheleS
newly told but good enough to DO old, con-.
Germs q friend who said to him, 6 How
YOUNG you keep, In spite of your gray
hairs = For n reply tho old alsh Or, wi HON,
90 years CT literary work had not OK bai ist.I
ed turned to his writing table and 10 ut.
ing to the inkstand exclaimed Sc Thsre III
my fountain OF youth r.,
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-13
WOOD AND COAL FOR SALE.

No. Split Oak Wood speciality, both
new and old. The best sheltered Pine
wood in this city at any time, rain or
shine. Also the best grades Of Stove and
Nut Coal at lowest prices at H. 3. VIII
KlNS', 1918 Washington street. Phone
9lS. High street office 309
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D. v. Gaskins, Funeral Director and
Embalmer, Clio Middle street. Ports.
mouth. Va. Residence. 500 Court street.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-13

In some soutEosn localities tho; coloTed
people believe tint IL crow isroa iii old
number of times, fou ather Ill 10 ISsfAS
II even. tho day will t,e Inc.
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JUST ARRIVED.

CAR or NICE APPLES, WINE
AND oTHERs. VEiitY ci Hnhi
Tie E. G. Brooks Comply.
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NOTICE..
Specials for To-day.

Finest New Cleaned Currnnts, 7c per
pound; Finest New lcghorn CItroi, ~ i-2c
per pound; Finest New Layer Figs, ~ lie
per pound: New Mixed Nuts. ~ i-2c per
pound: lIcinz's Rest Apple Butter, l2 Ice
per pound lIainzs Best Peach Butter
lhc per pound; licinz's Best Suucr Eraut
luc.. or pounds Tor 25c. We have Il fun
line of all new fall goods and are offering
many inducements. Come and examine
c. w. IiUDGlNS e co.
500 Crawford street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08

where you get your fill first and pay the
cashier afterward No. indeed The
London business principle. at least this
phase of it. appears to be that a man Is
thief till you have found out that he
is not, and even then that it is as well
to treat him as one, so as to be on the
safe side And here I may say in Pesss-
ing that suspicion and general distrust
of every one appear to be the keynote of
the character of London's lowest class.
A stranger is looked upon as a wolf seek
ing those that he may devour. If he goes
to look for lodgings, the landlady sur
veys him from head to foot in that tim
id, shuddering way which belongs 60
those that have lived their lives in the
midst of 1neaDness, squalor and grind
ing down of soul and spirit A woman
stranger gets no earthly show at all
Half past in the morning is a busy
time for this restaurant Then it is
thronged with workingmen, young and
old, who have to be at their work by s
O'Clock, and who drop in on their way
to get hot cup of coffee and to take q
bite of bread. The business done at this
time is the least paying of the whole
day, for then all the men bring their
own bread along, just as the school lads
do at noon. All that they need is half
penny cup Of coffee, for this is not their
regular breakfast. It is only sort of
temperance cocktail-a physical bracer
of the moral order. Breakfast time for
them is from s to half past 8 O. clock,
when they fill up the place again, with
more paying results for the proprietor.
Quality of the Food.
The order most in vogue at this time
is for a rasher Of bacon, fried egg,
two slices of bread and butter and
large cup of coffee. This comes to five
pence. I must say that the rasher and
egg are delicious for have tried them
They are just as good as what you can
get on the Strand for five times the
price. But the coffee is villainous. Ye
godsl l defy the most expert chemist
alive to give me the small change of it.
1t seems to me to be a sort of blend be-
tween tea that has been overlooked, ink
and suspicion of stale coffee grounds.
The bread, however, was good, but the
butter, which had been spread thinly
over it beforehand with a knife was on
the same plane of excellence with the
coffee. BART KENNEDY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08

SECRETARY HoKE SMITHS Atlanta
Journal, with a considerable apparent
sense of self-g Qualification at having made
a hit, calls attention to the fact that the
silver men in attributing low prices of
farm products to the decentralization of
silver, leave corn out of the reckoning.
1t says if the argument is good as to one
staple crop, it is good as to another. The
Journal man perhaps thought when he
wrote that, that it was a clincher, and
that the people didn't know that corn is
the one staple the price of which is not
fixed in Liverpool. He knew well
enough himself that it is the products
the prices of which are made in Europe
that are affected by the demonstration
of silvsr-especially the products on
which we come in competition with In
dia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08
KANSAS PARAGRAPHS

The Yates Center mandolin club has
begun to roam about nights.
A Yates Center girl reaches the ne
plus ultra when she gets cut flowers
from Fit Scott
The mayor of Paola has vetoed the
anti cigarette ordinance on the ground of
unconstitutionality.
The city park at Paola has been sodded
and one can't cut across any more,
whether they are in a hurry or not
The independence Natural Gas COM
pany offers TO put in street lights for SIG
apiece and 81 month each for care.
The minister who preached at Atchi-
son on IF Christ Came to Atchison,"
reasoned from very improbable premises
The question as to how old a girl
should be before it is improper to elm b
trees is agitating Burlington social cir
cles.
See Ell Dorado and then die. A COW
being led behind a moving wagon
dropped dead in the main street of Ell
Dorado
Ell Dorado is progressive and sensible.
An ordinance imposes a fine of from 81
to $25 for allowing chickens to annoy
your neighbors
Parsons, which was overrun wit h
tramps during the winter, now has none
at all. Tramps don't stop some places
unless they have to.
Miss Jennie Sherman, a Kansas girl,
who has been a missionary at Sangli,
India, lectured last week to the Presby-
terians of Ell Dorado.
The Buffalo Advocate will take all the
pride out of the rich if it is only given a
chance. 1t speaks of a large dealer in
lumber as "lumber magnet"
A Paola man has rented the Miami
county fair grounds for the purpose of
giving monthly county races and Sunday
band concerts and drive dull care away.
A swan measuring feet 10 inches
from tip to tip of its wings was shot near
Caldwell recently and will be stuffed and
placed in the new eating house as an
ornament
Lest his position on the money Ques-
ton be misunderstood, the editor of the
Miami Republican announces that no
one need fear of offending him by offer
ing gold in payment of subscriptions.
Atchison Globe: A highwayman in
Atchison last night held up two girls
and found money in their pocket books.
| They had been earning Lenten money
for their church. The wretch pocketed
it, saying that ne was a heather, and
came under the head of homo missions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08
IN THE KANSAS BURROWS.
Dat fields are getting green.


Thursday, April II, is Arbor Day.
]. S Lehr. of Sedan, will pasture 1000
head of Texas cattle in Butler and Green
wood counties this season.
Much of the stock in Topeka banks is
held by farmers in the vicinity. There
has not been a bank failure here in
many years.
Kingman is to have a new creamery,
and the farmers in that vicinity are look
ing forward to a considerable increase in
their incomes.
Cadmus has grange of 1870 members,
in good working order. 1t operates a CO.
operative store at that place which is
said to be doing prosperous business.
John Laudergin of Eureka fed a
thousand head of Texas steers last win
ter on cotton seed meal He found it
profitable kind of feed.
B. F. Boggs of Anthony raised 5000
bushels of wheat last year. He used
1000 bushels for seed last fall and has
just marketed the remainder at 80 cents
a bushel
Kafir corn is becoming an important
factor in Kansas agriculture. The yield
is not SO large as other corn, but it is al
most q sure crop, as it stands drOuLh
much better than other crops.
Butter and eggs are cheaper in the To-
cal market at Hsddam at the present
than they have been at a similar season
in years past. The former article is sell
ing at 10 cents per pound and the latter
at cents per dozen.
It has been demonstrated that buckle
berries can be successfully grown in
Kansas. The black jack hills and lands
unfit for anything else are said to be best
adapted to their growth. Once started
Al L. - l.
appears that there is no such thing as
waste land in Kansas.
Little attention is given to the cultiva-
ton of cereals in the Kansas valley, near
this city, any more. The market for
vegetables of all kinds has become SO
good that they are the best paying crops
that can be raised on ground within a
distance of eight or ten miles. Many
truck farmers pay in rent more per acre
than could be got out of the land if
planted in corn or wheat Ten dollars
is not an unusual figure. One firm in
the city claims to have paid out $4,000
for vegetables last year and they didn't
buy potatoes.
Potato growers in this vicinity would
doubtless find it to their advantage to
organize a trust as has been done along
the valley this side of Kansas City. The
organization in that locality has been in
operation a number of years and has
proven very satisfactory to its members.
The management keeps informed re.
garding prices, and where the demand is
| greatest They never ship enough to
any one point to glut the market or
lower the price. An average is struck at
the end of the season and each member
receives the same price per bushel for
his crop. Competition is wholly elimin-
of California have adopted the same
| mathod
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08
PEARCE AND PLENTY.
Where the Toilers and the Moilers
Eat in London.
WHERE MEAL CAN BE HAD FOR6 CTS.
The British WOrkfngman at Close
Range-A Place Where All Are sus-


The British WOrkIngman at Close
RRnge-A Place where All Are Sus-
pected.
LONDON, Merch 3O-Pearce's restau-
rant stands on the corner of Waterloo
road and New Cut, in the parish of
Lambeth. It is patronized solely by the
very poor, for this is the southeast part
of this mighty London and is lived in
by scarcely any one save mechanics, Ia
borers and others whose lot it is to
work the life out to keep the life in.
To the right as you go into the res
taurant is a great counter, behind which
the cooking is done and the orders at
tended to. Girls do the cooking, and
two fFowsy looking boys act as walters.
The tables at which the people sit and
eat have marble tops, the reason of
which, / suppose, is because they are
easy to clean. They are set in rows
through high wooden stalls.
All For a Penny.
Here you can get things very cheap.
For penny you can get thick slice Of
bread and butter and a cup of coffee or
tea or cocoa. For threepence you can
get rasher of bacon and an egg. For q
penny you will get grilled herring,
for halfpenoa grilled paddock. a
piece of currant cake is a halfpenny.
Yorkshire pudding is penny. A plate
of roast beef and potatoes is fourpence.
And SO it goes. Sixpence will get you
all you wish to eat. The quality is not
the best in the world, but to the people
that come here quantity is the thing
Hanging above the main door is the
sign, 'fPearce and Plenty 1t is a bad
pun, to be sure but to the heart of the
English from high to low the pun is
very dear. The point is on the face Of
it, SO to speak, and necessarily doesn' t
take long to find out.
Little school lads come here at noon
and get halfpenny cup of tea or coffee
or cocoa, as the case may be, to drink
along with their lunch. Now and then
two of them will share a single cup to-
gether, each drinking from the saucer
in turn. They range from 8 to 10 years
old, and some of their heads hardly
reach to the top of the counter when
they are giving their orders. Their
lunch, which usually consists of cou-
pie of slices of bread and butter, is Civ
en- them by their mothers in the morn
ing before they leave for school. This
is wrapped up in paper and slowed
away in the biggest jacket pocket along
with marbles, string, a peg top and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08

IT has been supposed that the DAYS of
witchcraft are over, and that the people
had reached so advanced a stage of in
telligence and enlig htenment that itwould
not be heard of again at least in the
courts which are popularity supposed to
hold all the wisdom and virtue of the
age. Since the decision rendered last
week by the supreme court of Kansas,
however, in the Thos. Patton murder
case, it would be no surprise any day to
hear that some good Iaw-abiding citizens
had taken one of their neighbors out and
burned him at the stake because he was
bewitching people and causing them to
do things they did not want to do. 1t is
the only logical way to rid the commun-
ity safely of such characters because
might they not cast spell en- the officer
of the law or the judge himself. The su-
preme court has established dang US
precedent in acquitting a man who com
mitted a murder and convicting the man
who is supposed to have told him to do it
It is the beginning of q long series of
similar cases. Hypnotism will be the
favorite plea of murderers hereafter. It
is better than insanity, for that might
send them to the asylum. Since decis-
ions in the lower courts are more FREE
QqeRtly ysadsrsd on pEecedents estab-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08

THE people of Ottawa very sensibly
destroyed the pest house before a2ybody
else could be taken to it, Civilized pso-
pie do not want their friends or relatives
taken from their homes and put in such
q place as the average smallpox hospital
whom they are sick and most in need of
the kindsst attention. They will stand q
quarantine but few communities will
tolerate pest house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08
R,r.. Perer Lies the HEhtskers

The Chicago Herald's Washington cor
respondent says: Mrs. PETER, wife of the
Populist senator, says the newspapers
are real good to her husband, and laughs
heartily at every cartoon of himself that
the senator brings home to her She says
the newspapers make good natured fun
of her husband, but as she knows his rec
ord is clean, the papers can never hurt her
feelings. The PETERS have several scrap
books especially made to hold the news
paper cartoons and preserve them in
good shape. Nr. PETER couldn't be hired
to cut off his often bepictured whiskers,
and if he did start to, Mrs. PETER wouldn't
let him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08

JUDGE WOOD has done the drug stores
good service. There is more profit in
whisky and the same amount of drunk
can be obtained for less money by the
consumer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08

AGAIN judgment has been obtained
against a railroad, this time for the loss
of life. If this precedent shall be
followed and the railroads shall be made
to pay for all the people they kill they
will soon go into bankruptcy.
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lished by the supreme court than on law
and evidence, it is not difficult to see
what will follow this remarkable opinion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08
How We Grew:

Weather indications.
CHICAGO. April 8.-For Kansas: Fair
and cooler tonight; Tuesday fair and
warmer; westerly winds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08

other treasures. They are interesting
little fellows, and it is a pleasure to
study them. You should have seen the
eyes of one of them open with delight
yesterday when I bought him big
piece of currant cake. He told me all
about himself in three minutes between
bites.
The men and big boys that come here
at noon are nearly all covered with the
CRIME and blackness of the eighboring
workshops. Like the school lads, some
of them bring along their own lunches.
All comers have the privilege Of doing
this if they give an order at the coun-
ter however small
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08

Never in the history of Topeka were
pictures sold SO cheap as they are now
being sold at the big unreseryed auction
sale at 706 Kansas avenue. Be sure and
attend this sale
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08
A Deadly NTonotony.

They are a strange, haggard looking
people, these London toilers. The wear
and tear of life in this city of cities
show in their faces. They have that Pc
culiar eager look which belongs to GER
tain habitual jewellers in all great cities
that look which presages the horror
of revolution.
In the restaurant they talk over the
affairs of the workshop and its relation
to themselves-what they are doing, how
they are doing it, how much week
they get and so on. If you say word
to them of America, however, they lis
ten eagerly. They look upon it as de-
sirable land for the workingman, and
they long to go to it. I find that the
fact of their hearing bad reports about
il now and then doesn't bother them at
all. l guess the real cause of the wish
to leave their own country is the deadly
monotony of their lives and the no.
madic instinct which is more or less in
every man.
They are not so big or SO strong look
ing as the average American working
man, nor are they as Intelligent.
There is a statue of Queen Victoria
in this restaurant. Tt is life size and
stands in a niche in the wall off over to
the left. Near it is picture of fisher
maiden looking out wistfully over the
sea, presumably for the return of her
lover. On the walls are temperance and
godly inscriptions such as. use not in
toxicating drinks, - ''Wine is a mock
er, - Trust in the Lord" and so forth.
High up over the counter and nearly
opposite to the thrust in the Lord in
scription is business inscription which
reads, 1--WE give no trust y
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08
No Chances Taken.

1t would be impossible for desper-
ately hungry man to eat a meal in this
restaurant without paying for it. You
pay for your food the instant you get it
right on the nail. No chances are
taken. 1t isn't like it is in America.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08
Totals

SUNDAY; no issue.
The above is a correct report of the issues of
the TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL in the
months of January, 1891, January, 1898, and
January, 1885, and shows a daily average Of
1886, 6,619 and 9,478 for the respective months
named The daily average for the last SIX
months of 1894 was 1852.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08

Editor and Proprietor.
Sworn to and subscribed Feb. IL. 1895
lsEALl z. NJ. COCKRELL,
Clerk of the District Court,
Shawnee COUNTY Kansas.