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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-03-07

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castt6ia
Shcn she was Child. she cried for Castoria.
When she became Ms she chung to Castorla
When she had Children. she gave hem Castor
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inst received lnrge line OF walking
canes, silver mounted tcrouksl, from
81. % up. Chapman n JakemaD.
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Miss kato Crawford who for many
years was y teacher i'll tho Simmons
school, St Louis. is studying medicine
in Ann Arbor, Mich. Miss Crawford
was tho first colored graduate from tho
Ann Arbor high school
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~ "uu 10, respectively, Opencerlhu
copy books, per dozen, short course,
54; q. s. course, -. Ten per cent.
added Is price to pupils. Transports.
tion not included.
(Signed) 80. Il. CoRsoN,
commissioner.
"Ohio," said the Governor, "has no
State adoption. The districts contract
AMI the statute restricts dealers profits
to 10 per cent. The district pays the
transportation out of tho district school
fund"
HOW IT is IN IOWA.
Coz. &. +. O'EtrraY:
County contract, net: MuGuAeys
Revised, about 10, %, 80, IS, "a.
Barnes Histories. about As and 50.
Spenceriau, about n per dozen. Hand
ling expenses make selling prices little
more.
(Signcd) "HESRY SApIN.
superintendent
Commenting On this telegram, the
Governor said: Iowa has no State
adoption, and no dealer intervenes.
The books are purchased out ola school
fund and sold direct to the pupils Mt
cost"
NEpRAsKA's LAW.
"UOR. Chur{cS O'FcrvuN:
sin reply to yours Text books
ere purchased by the school boards OF
the various districts. All books
purchased by the district boards in the
state arc held as the property Of the
district. and are loaned to the pupils of
the school free OF charge while they are
pursuing course Of study. | hive re-
fnr LOT. -
tendent of Public Instruction for any
additional information he may be able
TO furnished you.
Very truly yours.
'SlLAs A. HoLcoMpE,
Governor"
"Gor. charles 7. O'EcrraU:
your favor of February 4th, nd.
dressed to His Excellency, Gov. ii OF
combe, hos been referred by him to
me. taken pleasure in sending you
under cover the sworn statements of
prices ut which books are furnished to
districts under our present text book
laws. Nour inquiry Is for prices at
which books are sold to patrons. by
the provisions of our statute
books are furnished free to oil pupils
III our public schools. Contracts be
tween school boards and publishers
may run for any time agreed upon, not
to exceed five years. Hoping this in
formation may bo found adequate,
am, with great respect, very truly
yours,
"I. II. ConBErr
state Superintendent Public Instruc
tiOn."
From the sworn statement Of the
al 4 81, 4
IL have taken the prices given In the
schedule, which are upon the basis of
discount of 20 per cent. from the
lowest wholesale list of the American
Book Company. No dealer ntervenes
here either, rs the books are not sold,
but loaned to the pupils"
THE MINNESOTA SITUATION.
GOU. Charics I. O'Et3raH:
Your letter of the ID inst, address
ed to Gov. Nelson, has been referred to
me Tor an answer.
al enclose herewith the book list you
ask for. If there Is anything else i'll
the same limo that | can do for you
please inform me.
"Resuectfully yours.
"W. W. PENDERGAsr,
superintendent Publishing List"
GAS to the above" said the Govern
or, "the prices given in the schedule
are the prices found in the Minnesota
booklist. There are no dealers profits
in Minnesota, as the books are loaned
to the children IN that State, also"
AS TO MONTANA.
The Governor then read the follow.
ing from the Pilot:
Trust prices in the Montana Joy
BILL"
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Mrs. Mary a. Ahrcns was lately ad.
mitted to practice law in tho United
States court i'll Chicago Mrs. Ahrens
might have been admitted some years
ago, but waited until her business re-
Nuircd IL
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SPECIAL SALE
OF
BEST LIMOGES End VIENNA GHIHa IlIA-
RER IND TEA SETS.

We find, on stock taking, that
we nave too many Dinner and
On Sets. and prefe max ing q
hacriiice III ths prices, rather
than carry tho excess CT stock.
We baYo therefore reduced
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CONDITIONS IN OHIO.

CONDITIONS IN OHIO.
The Governor then produced the
following kilograms and letters IN re-
gard to hchool-book prices aud con-
tracts in tho States mentioned, the
opening telegram being from Ohio:
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Il.:s.R'uNs:S.

40. w Fn1IInfr o nEMH Ha o., or
q. I. W-iou arc cruc tlv requested to meet a..
Esllentins's Hell THIS CThursday) EVENING at
70 o pc ok sharp. lmrortau that every member
Stu uld lie present Secret woik OF the ord,r 10 be
tram acted. and imitation.
r. rider oil W. ~. GEORGE y. McCUBBEN.
W. ii. BGowS, Recorder mr.-it
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

IoNEN OIENp a; i per cont. ON lc,Ic,tat, in
vi Norfolk iortsmouih Rerklcy or Norfolk
comfy. J. W. L ; ~, Attorney, 81 |. 1wcmIcrs
block. mt7-lw
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All what avail tho large. gift OF Haven,
"hch droopng heal Ii ana spirits 20
nlniRg
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FOR RENT

TOR RENT Brrk House No Il Chailo,te street,
j SIS q month; six rooms, two halls, water. ,i,.
Apply 10 JOHN u. LOUtdlIAN, 2Uj aud 20
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ROOM FOR RENT.

One or two gentlemen can obtain 4 nicely fnr-
nished room, centrally located, with all modeI
convenience, including BATH gas and heat, with
IN three minutes walk OF the cleo tic line. A. G.
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nor RENT Rooms above 100 Main street Suita-
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WANTED - Special Advertising Cauvassers
W familiar with premium merchantilc trade;
money maker of 1894. Also clever general canvas
GERS on greatest soer OF the day. STANLEY
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WANTED.

NtANTED-Go to 30l church street Norfolk Va
W II you want work OF every kinJ. Orders com
Ing In da ~ for all kinds ui reliable first class hcp
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EiRE INSURANCE AGENT WANTED
j with experience. in every city town .nd
county in the STATE OF Virginia ;or South aud
business IA this tate. Address W : MONTtlIII.
General Manager, Southeastern piyis on, Colnni.
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$4,000, cent o ay S aps@ ov oap r + p%F
SMITH, 9S Main street. mrf-iw
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Sln nO0 -MANrI.D To lend sllolps on
lJV'VuV'VU building and loan plan up5n
improved cal estate sccutuy; easy payment; me-
delay. Addre BllLDING AND LOAN, l.. o.
Box jS Richmond. Va. ,nii-5i
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different the result would have been if
Gordon's Brigade had been upon the
right of Crawford's, prolonging his line
quarter of a mile further to the west,
so as to have struck Pender upon the
flank as he was advancing. There
would have been nothing left of Stone
wall Jackson's army. As it was, they
were so crippled they could not push
their advantage further than the simple
possession of the field, and during the
next day, while there was truce for the
purpose of burying the dead, they with
drew across the Rapidan River.
One of the curiosities of the Confed
crate reports of the battle is the ex-
tremely small losses they report. The
9th Va, which was routed and driven
from the field in disorder, reports only
two killed and very few wounded
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side Of one of the guns. The three
brigades, Campbell's, Taliaferro's, and
Early's were retreating to the rear,
when the shouts from some Federal
soldiers who had not crossed the road,
drew their attention to some fresh troops
advancing. These were the Stonewall
Brigade
AS before explained, these Confed-
crate regiments were coming from the
west, while Crawford's men were moving
south. At the approach of this new
danger, Crawford's Brigade recrossed to
the north side of the road, and there
received the enemy with such volley
that the 9th Va. was broken and re-
treated, while the SD Va. stopped until
Brunchs North Carolina Brigade came
to their assistance. The 9th, I'd, and
4th Va. continued to move forward
until the right of the 9th Va. rested in
the wheatfeld, the line extending north
westerly across the old bushy field into
the woods beyond, when Col. Ronald
sent word to Mai. Williams, command
ing the 9th Va, to fall back and con-
meet his line with the 33d Va, which
was then fighting the remnants of Craw-
ford's Brigade.
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Rich Red Blood

In the body of an adult person there are
about 18 pounds of blood.
The blood has as its most important ele-
ments. small round eorpuscles, red and
white, in proportion of about 800 red to /
white one.
II the number of red corpuscles become
diminished and the white ones increased
the blood is impure, thin, lacking in the
nutrition necessary to sustain the health
and nerve strength of the body.
Then That Tired Feeling, Nervousness,
Scrofula, Salt Rheum, or others of the long
train of ills, according to Il . temperament
and disposition, attack the victim.
The only permanent remedy is found in
reliable blood medicine like Hoods
Sarsaparilla, which acts upon the red cor
puscles, euriehing them and increasing their
number. 1t thus restores the vital fluid to
healthy conditionYexpels all impurity, cures
Nervousness, That Tired Feeling, Scrofula
and all other diseases arising from or pro-
NOTED by low state Of the blood.
That these statements are true we prove
not by our own statements, but by what
thousands of perfectly reliable people say
about Hoods Sarsapariia Read the testi-
monial in the next column from a beloved
Then take
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the garrison surrendered. This was the lasa
battle in which the twins took an active
part and from this they had been excused
on account of their long and faithful servics
and tue fact that their term of enlistmens
lacked only few days of expiration. Bus
Wnen the column began to move, true TO
tnelr instincts, they took their places in tbs
ranks, and were among the first to enter the
WORKS That night they slept on tireopen
ground under q eOverlet of snow. To add
to the misery and suffering of this exposure
one Of them had robbed himself of ovefcoat
and blanket to cover n wounded comrade on
Co. C., whom be had found shivering and
moaning IN an old shed near by. They
marched with their regiment to the capture
Of Wilmington, thence n0rthward across the
State to Rlleigh, the Capital, where theif~
corps joined Sherman after its brilliant cam
paign on the coast
The armies Of Sherman, Scho6eld, and
Terry were now united, and among the
100 900 men who stood to uphold the flag
on the banks OF the Neuse were the twins Of
Co. G.. To this army Johnston surrendered
on the goth Of April, 1866, and on the 10th
day of the following month, after a con-
tinuous service of three years and Two
months from the date of their enlistment.
the twins were honOrably discharged.
Among the thousands of men enlisted,
this is probably the only example OF a "pair
OF twins" so young as these serving in the
same company full three years enliStmens.
during this time one OF both participated
in the following battles and sieges James
Island, POcotaligo, Morris Island, Fort Wag-
ner, Chesterfield Hghts, Proctor's Creek,
Drewry's Bluff, Cold Harbor, and Fort Fisher.
Five times they rounded Cape Hatteras, and
made one trip through the Dismal Swamp
from New Berne, N. c., to Norfolk, Va.
The day of their enlistment was dark and
stormy, stern prophet of what was to follow.
The day Of their discharge the southern sun
looked down from a eloudless sky. The
atmosphere was laden with the fragrance Of
thousands of blossoms, and the Nation was
full of the signs of peace and coming pros
perity.
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CARRIED FROM THE FIELD FOE DEAD.
ing to make some coffee, solid shot from a
rebel battery passed between them, striking
the fire squarely, wiping it out utterly,
never leaving a spark They gathered up
their demolished cups, rekindled the fire,
and finished their meal! On the next day
he was wounded. No soldier can write of
Cold Harbor with any other feelings than
those of sadness and regret-sadness for the
slain, regret that such a fruitless sacrifice
should be made. Let as, therefore, change
direction" and march away from this scene
OF slaughter.
After receiving their wounds one of these
twins was taken to a hospital in Providence,
X. L., the other TO one in Baltimore. AS
soon as able to move, after an uninterrupted
service of two and half years, they received
each a well-earned furlough of so days.
They rejoined their regiment at Chapin's
Farm, Va, just as the expedition under Gen.
A. III. Terry for the capture of Fort Fisher
was starting on its peril0us mission. After
lying out oil night in q heavy snowstorm,
they embarked on board the Tonawando, .
new screw propeller, lacking 200 tons ball
last When off Cape Hatteras terrific
gale overlook the fleet, and it was widely
scattered. For night and a day the TOna-
wando was tossed ON the sea like an empty
cask. No one on board can ever forget that
awful night of confusion and peril. To cap
this climax of fear the vessel sprang leak,
and the men huddled in the hold or be-
tween decks, expecting every moment to go
down. The next day the storm abated, and
she put into Pamlico Sound for coal and re-
pairs. Her jib was gone, and the outer wall
on the starboard side broken off by the
heavy sea that dashed against her. In two
days more the fr0wning battlements of Fort
Fisher loomed up from the narrow peninsu-
la, where the Cape Fear River empties into
the Atlantic Ocean.
A landing was soon effected and the troops
deployed for action On Sunday, the 18th
day of January, at 2 o'clock p. NJ, the works
were assaulted. The soldiers, who, under
cover of q heavy fire of artillery by the
fleet, worked themselves to within 100 yards
of the works, at the word of command
leaped into the fort, where the hand -to-hand
fight within lasted for hours. That night
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Gen. VIM. soor smith.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Please give
n short history of Gen. VIM. Sooy Smith.
Is he living, and where ?-CHAS. L. LADD
Greervilie, Ill.
VIM. Sooy Smith was born in Piclaway
County, o., in 1880, and graduated from
West Point in 1853, sixth in a class of which
James b. Mcpherson was the head. He was
commissioned in the ID u. S. Art, but re-
signed the next year to become an Assistant
Engineer of the Illinois Central Railroad.
He Immediately offered his services to the
Government at the outbreak of the rebellion,
and became Colonel of the 18th Ohio, which
he commanded with conspicuous ability in
the West Virginia campaign. His regiment
was transferred to the Army of the Ohio,
and he commanded the Fourteenth Brigade
distinguished himself and was promoted to
Brigadier-General. He was subsequently
promoted to the command of the Third
Division of he Army Of the Ohio, and after
Perryville was transferred at his own re-
quest TO the Army Of the Tennessee, where
he was placed in command of the First Df-
vision Of the Sixteenth Corps After the
fall of Vicksburg lie became Gen. Grants
Chief Of Cavalry, and made several highly
important raids. He broke down his health
in this service, and had to resign in 1864.
He became farmer, civil engineer, and con-
tractor, and has carried through some very
extensive works in railroad and bridge
building. lie is still alive and vigorous.
Ills home is at Oak Park, near Chicago
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
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near the very spot where be had alone and
single-handed, captured the picket. Twice
he narrowly escaped death while on duty
in the trenches in front of Wagner; once,
by a minie-bail from the rifle of sharp
shooter that killed the man in his front,
struck the top of the sandsRit and rolled
down before him; again, by q nine-inch
shell that fell into the trench, but failed to
explode. No men in the war did Drawer
duty than the men in the trenches in front
of Fort Wagner. Huddled ike sheep in a
narrow defiie, wide enough only to hold a
regiment formed in division column :;
fanked on the right by the sea, that at
high tide came into the trenches; on the left
hy an impossible swamp teeming with rep
tiles; exposed to cross eDfilading and
direct fire from 100 pieces of artillery, with
sharpshooters lurking in every clump of
bushes and behind every sandhill, was an
ordeal sufficient to test the bravest.
Bravely, patiently they did their work
until Wagner was taken, and Sumter,
leveled TO the waters edge, was heap of
ruins!
Some time after the recovery of the
wounded twin the regiment was transferred
to Virginia to take part in the grand move
ment against Richmond. On May z, 1863,
they went into battle at Chesterfield Hights.
In this engagement this one received his
second wound, and was carried off the field
for dead. His rifle was broken in his hand
by flying grape-shot, and three of his ribs
broken. A low fever ensued, and for long
time his life was despaired of; but nature is
gracious to boy, and he lived to fight
again The other continued with his COM
mand, and on May IA with heavy heart
went into the battle at Proct0r's Creek. At
Drewry's Bluff. May Is, the rammer of his
gun was shot out of his hand, his canteen
and haversack were shot off, and a bullet
passed through his cap! At Cold HarboF,
on the night of June 1, while he and a COM
rade named Sloan were seated on either side
of a small fire of twigs and eornstalks try
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ONE OF THE TWINS WAS WOUNDED.
he was feigning for purpose. With SOL
dier to think is to act. Hating the men, he
coolly remarked:
"You cannot 60 to White House. I can
not remain on the road. Now move, or the
stars shall shine on your dead rebel car
cass!n
The gun came to his shoulder and the
man moved.
Long after taps" had sounded the little
fellow reported safely to Col. Hall. This
gentlemanly officer, himself brave soldier,
took him by the hand, called in his brother
officers to see him, ordered his servant to
provide supper for him, and gave him every
evidence of appreciation and respect.
Weary and fatigued, without thought
of having done anything out of the ordinary,
he lay down and slept. He saw no vision
save the pale face of his wounded mate. He
heard no sound save the murmur of the
brook as it rippled over the stones by the
door of his fathers cottage, nestled among
the green hills of far-off Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile the 10th had suffered terrible
loss az q result of the ill-starred attempt to
carry For W,gner by assault, and on his
return the iwIn was detailed as q skirmisher
for the protection of the men engaged in the
construction Of the famous Swamp Angel
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A BucIxing Rroncho.

The annual catslog OF Northerp- grown.
Tested Seeds" issued by the firm OF Eorthsp.
Braslan, Goodwin Co., OF Minneapolis, Mimi,
has spirited chrome on the title page of an
alteration between n cowboy and atbueking ?
broncho. This is exact reproduction, in
col0ring and drawing. Of a picture by the great
Cowboy Artist" G. II. Russell. whose pictures
are in strong demand at big prices all over the
West. This is only beginning of the good
things in the catalog. and is an indication of
the character Of the whole, for the picture is as
true 10 life as the statements which follow are
TO facts and nature. Messrs. Northrup. Braslan
Goodwin Co. have built up an immense bust
ness ty gaining the entire confidence OF their
customers by years Of strictest reliability.
The National tribune., 1895-02-28
Punished Enough Already.

lAeW York World
The Western Judge also knows thing or
two about the game, as is shown by the
following:
So you were playing cards for money!"
said the magistrate, severely.
:" No, SIT; we were playing for chips"
We'll, sir, it's all the same thing You
got yonr chips cashed for money at the end
of the game, suppose2"
:" No, sir"
Nor How's that?D
"At the end of the game 1 didn't have
any chips your Honor"
You're discharged! :" said the Judge
and he snapped it out so quickly that the
Sheriff turned pale.
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"In view of the benefit have had from
Hoods Sarsaparilla wish to give the fol-
lowing testimonial. i have several times
been badly
Poisoned With Creeping Ivy.
As the old school of medicine simply tried
to remove the symptoms instead of the
sources of them, much of the poison was
left in my system to appear in an itching
humor on my body with every violent ex-
ertion in warm weather. At all times there
were more OF less indications of poison in
my blood, up to year ago last winter, when
Large Sores Broke Out
on my body. / then purchased bottle OF
Hoods Sarsaparilla, and after using that
and half OF another bottle, the sores and
humOr disappeared. 1 attended the Christ
ian Endeavor Convention in Montreal and
also visited the Worlds Fair in the hottest
weather Of the summer. Was on the 90 all
the time, but
Had Ne Recurrence
of the burning and itching sensation which
had narred every previous summers outing.
/ have reason, therefore, to be enthusiastic
in my praises of Hoods Sarsaparilla." :"
SAMUEL s. SCHNELI, pastor Free Baptist
Church, Apalachin, n. Z.
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A BOSTON MANS LONGING.
1t Was for Beans, but He Sought in Vain
in Gotham.
Ncw York H'orLdl

[Ncw York World
The New England man in New York who
likes baked beans as they bake them down
East" vainly tries to find them. There are
lots of beans sold IN New York, ard almost
at every turn one sees the sign Boston
Baked Beans" but they are Boston beans in
name only.
Instead of being neither too soft nor too
hard, brown in color, juicy, entirely whole
and full of flavor, as they should ne, they
are white and dry. and are mashed into u
compact mass. There is as much difference
between beans which properly cooked
and the spurious apples and the fresh ripe
fruit plucked from the tree.
A story is related in connection with
baked beans which, although it has never
been proved to be true, is strong testi-
m0nia in favor OF he dish. 1t is to the
effect that Bos;onian. delayed for weeks
in New York on business, weayily sought
place after place In search of his favorte
dish. Invariably he had served up to him
the alleged article, that was To him uneat-
able. Finally he found a restaurant where
be was personally assured ny waiter that
he could have the genuine article. When
The beans came they were Of the stock New
York kind and the Bostonian, in fit of
anger, drew a revolver and shot the waiter
in the arm.
He was arraigned before a justice who
once lived in Boston. who. after he had heard
the tacts III the case, discharged the prisoner
on the ground that he wa- fully justified In
shooting. No matter how ignorant the
justice was of law, he at least knew
beans.o
Another story, which also testifies to the
value of beans, is related ofsome Gloucester
fishermen. The crew OF cossling vessel
spied fishing schooner at a little distance
with the United States flag flying from the
masthead Union down, which is always
signal of distress. The schooner was not ap-
parently disabled, and all her rigging
in ship-shspe order. But, thinking some
thing serious had happened, or at least that
the fishermen had run out of water, the
Captain of the coaster sent boa TO the
schooner to ascertain the trouble. When it
neared the schooner one of the men cried
out:
What's the matter; do you need
water?"
No, we've got plenty of water and pro-
visions" was the reply, " but we have been
out of beans two weeks; we want BEANS"