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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-05
Further Texas Legislation.

AUSTIN. TEN, october 4.-The Legis-
iat,,re passed a hill this morning prevent
ing delinquent taxpayers from pleading
The statute of limitation
sale OF public-school lands under the de-
tached-section act. -,
The Legislature will adjourn sine die
Monday al noon.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-05
urokc "A PIute-6iass Window.

nurinn the excitement caused by The
f,e Isst night some one, supposedly with
imr,-iarious irNent broke ons of the
n'ate-glass windows Of the store OF
Messrs. julius kraker * Son, on on NAN
S,reots II is not thought that an en-
trance to the store was effected. The glass
nv broken. but IL Is supposed that
the miscreant was frightened of after
he had done TINS
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-05
At WASHINGTON CITY.
An Enthusiastic Eeccption-Militnr
on HnBd-Itincrary.

WASHINGTON. -. c.. October 1.-THE
old Liberty Bell Of "7G'' arrived in Wash
lnGton to-day from Philadelphia en- route
20 the Atlanta exposition. and was given
an enthusiastic reception. At l2:S the
special trail. bearing The bell ana It's
guardians ran into the Pennsylvania
railroad station, and WAS greeted by
military Companies. patriotic organiza-
tions. representatives of the DlstIict
Government. and Board of Trade. ana a
large number Of citizens. The WaSh1iihs-
ton Iight-lnfantry Corps ana the hlth,
School cadets headed by the nlted
States Marine Band, had marched down
Pennsylvania avenue TO the ialiioai 80
ton shortly before the arrival OF the
train and during the stay OF the DeN
In this city acted as its guard of honor.
At the station were assembled the )ls-
trict commissioners. committee IRON
the Board Of Trade. the sons on .,d,3 the
Revolution. and Sons of the American
Revolution. and reception committee
As Mayor Warwick stepped To- the pla.-
form he was greeted by Prcsldcnt hOss'
OF the Board Of District Commlssiohers'
who delivered an address OF welcome.
The Mayor responded briefly. ana after
the reception party had been given
chance to view the bell. the Philadei-
mia contingent and their hosts We're
driven to the rooms Of the Board OF
Trade where luncheon was served.
The car containing the bell was s"itchcd
to siding. and for the brief period II
remained in Washington NdS Ni'"'' ~
crowds Of people. .o,
on its journey to Atlanta. II VIII alIlne
~ Lynchbprg at 2:30 +. NJ to,m9fr31Wy.
and will leave that city AT @.33 J. NJ
will arrive at Roanoke at Jlo !. NJ.
-;unday-Leave Roanoke at s. arrive
Bristol. Tenn. 230 =. NJ. eastern. and
80 y NJ. central time; leave bristol
central timel =. NJ: arrive Johnson
Cttv Tenn. 2.i0 Z. NJ: leave iO2 +. NJ.
arrive Knoxville =. NJ Monday-Leave
Knoxville A. NJ. arrive Athens $50 \.
VI. leave $40 A NJ. arrive CHATTANOOGA
II 20 4 NJ TuesdaV-Leave Chattdnoosa
g. NJ arrive Rome. Ga, lOi1 y. NJ.
leave 1865 4 NJ arrive Atlanta i. NJ.
stops for not more than 10 minutes
will be- made at NottOWaV Courthouse,
CreWe. Farmvile. Rcdfold city. Chris.
tiansburg. East Radfor1. Wythevile, ana
Glade Springs. Va. Grccneville, Morris
town. Loudoun. and Cleveland, Tenn,
and Dalton. Ga.
O,ations in Pennsylvania.
CHESTER. PA october 4.-After
leaving philadelphia. the Liberty Ben
and its escort met with an ovation at
,r,rv uOint From almost every house
along the line OF the railroad the ma
,icull culDr~ were displayed. ana from
every factory n shrill salute was sounded
with the steam Whistles as the train sptd
--tet-
Dcin,vnr" DcmOnstration.
.NINGTDN. DEL. October i
Though nC4~ly al of the city officials
wore ou' cf town Wilmington gave the
Liberty Bell and its escort rousing
reception
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-05

QUINCY, ILL. october 4.-Mayor Stein
bach, in response to a petition from bust
ress-meu, this evening issued call for
mass-meeting of citizens. TO be held Tues
day evening to express sympathy for
me Cuban TeVolutiOnists.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-05
THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY
For the COtton-stntes and Intcrnas
ttonai Exposition. Atlanta, Ga.
The Only Line Enterina the Exposi.
-GrOunds.

Round trip tickets viii be sold from
Richmond as follows:
Daily, until December IL. 1855. inclusive.
with fnal limit January Z. 1896. Ss3.%.
Daily. until December IS. 1875. Inclusive.
with final limit twenty Coz days from dvs
Of sale. siI.o5.
on Tuesdays and Thursdays Of each
week, until December "a. 1895. inclusive.
with final limit ten uo) days from date OF
sale. ti2.p.
Correspondingiy low rates from all other
sta,ions. For additional information and
FOR sleeping car reservations apply 70 tick.
et agents or at passenger Once. go east
Main street. J. G. HORTON.
City Passenger Agent
ora papers for ssis ~ shs DHpasca
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-05

cARRoLLTON. MO. October 4-To-tiay
was the date set for the execution OF
the Taylor brothers. for the murder of
The Meeks family. but Judge Rucker
crauted a stay OF execution. pending an
sppesl 10 the Supreme Court The appeal
Vii rot be heard before next April.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-05
For General Debility.
rse HorsfOrd's Acid Phosphate.

Dr. II. ID. Fairex. New Orleans. La.
says: II have almost universally seen
good effects produced by IL I'm diseases OF
the male organs OF generation. general
debility. and pulmonary diseases"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-05
Peaches! Peaches!

I will offer to-day a carload Of Fancy
White Heath and Soft Peaches, direct
from the mountains OF Maryland. which
I will sell low. Come early and get the
best Also. fine lot OF Ounces. Pears.
and Grapes. at No. ga north sixth.
GEORGE B. BULL
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-05
Arrest for Embesxiemcnt.

CHICAGO. ILL. October i.-Ilarry j.
L. Martin. receiving teller OF the Com
arrest this afternoon on the charge OF
smhezziement.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-05

WIINUNGTON. DEL. October l.
Though uC4~ly all of the city officials
wore ou' cf town. Wilmington gave the
Liberty Bell and its escort rousing
aNtLnn
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-05

old papers Tor sais ~ ths D'soasca
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-05
COTTON-sTATEs EXPOSITION.

y. =. hOk kION.
city Passenger Agent.
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FILINGS AT FREE SILVER.

-. They say a fellow in Henry ceun- ty, Mo, is so cranky on the silver ques- ton that he digs up all the golden rods and marigolds, raises white corn and won't speak to his wife because she has golden hair. is forever denouncing the gold cure, won't keep the Golden Rule, and doesn't want to enter the golden gates.-EYanston (Wyo.) News-Reg. ister.
 Bland's silver lecture in Savan- nah did not cause a Kafr boom in the tickets thereof, nor the cornering of the same on the local ticket exchange, only one being sold or called for, and that transaction had the effect of stop ping the performance. The speaker would not lecture to an audience of one, and he proceeded to shake the dust of South Carolina from his goloshes like 2 Missouri pelican shaking the dew from it's outspread wings. The interest in silver theories or theorists down there appear to be in a state of compar. ative languor from which even so strik- ing a figure as that of Bland could not arouse it.-N. |. Tribune.
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very often these are found impractica. ble. Great Britain makes it rule that her navy shall equal the combinei strength of the two powers next in naval rank to herself This obliges her to be perpetually building. The result is that huge vested interests hare grown up around the naval industries. The expenditures must justify them. selves by a constant resort to new mod. els and recent inventions. Hence theex. traordinary experimental activity of the British naval establishment This activity leads to general impression that an immense amount of formidabIe work is being accomplished, when as a matter of fact, most of this labor is found to have been superfuous.
 Another characteristic of the British navy is it's air of mystery The outside world is supposed to know nothing about what is going on. The impress sion is sedulously conveyed that the se- crets are simply terrible, and that Eng land could blow up the whole earth by simply touching a button. But no evi- denee has yet advanced that these hor- rible things really exist.
 In word, the British navy is vast and formidable institution. It can
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EARLY HISTORY OF CAST STEEL
How the Secret Of It's Manufacture Was
 geteaIed to tie World.

How the Secret Of Its Manufacture Was
 Revealed to tie World.
 The history of cast steel presents a curious instance Of manufacturing secret stealthily obtained under the cloak of an appeal to philanthropy The main distinction between iron and steel, ns most people know. is that the latter contains carbon. The one is converted into the other by being heated for a considerable time in contact with pow dered charcoal in an iron box Now steel thus made is unequal. The middle of a bar is more earbonized than the ends, and the surface more than the center. 1t is, therefore. unreliable. Neverthe- less, before the invention of cast steel there was nothing better. In 1730 there lived in Attercliffe, near Sheffield,
 watchmaIer named Huntsman. He became dissatisfied with the watch- springs in use, and set himself to the task of making them homogeneous. If" thought he, T can melt piece of steel and cast it into an ingot it's com position should be the same through out" He succeeded. His steel soon be- came famous. Huntsman's ingots for fine work were in universal demand. He did not call them cast steel.
 That was his secret. About TITO q large manufactory of this peculiar steel was established at Attercliffe The process was wrapped in secrecy by everyone within reach. True and faith ful men were hired, the work divided and subdiyided, large wages paid, and stringent oaths administered. It did not avail. One midwinter's night, as the tall chimneys of the Attereliffe steel works belched forth, traveller knocked at the gate. It was bitter cold, the snow fell fast and the wind howled across the moat. The stranger, ap- parently plowman or agricultural 1aborer seekingsshelter from the storm, awakened no suspicion. Scanning the wayfarer closely, and moved by motives of humanity the foreman granted his request and let him in.
 Feigning to be worn out with cold and fatigue, the poor fellow sank upon the floor and soon appeared to be asleep. That, however, was far from his inten- 'iohS. he cioScu HIS eyes apparently only. He saw workmen cut bars of steel into bits and place them in erucibles in q furnace. The fire was urged to it's ex- treme power until the steel was melted. Clothed in wet rags to protect them selves from the heat, the workmen drew out the glowing mold. Mir. Huntsman's factory had nothing more to be dis closed. The making of cast steel had been covered.--Inventiye Age.
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the entire naval supply brancb :, public service. The matter wac 1 ' sz up as usual. Ss'
 Another source of trouble in th.s ish navy is the favoritism alleosss " practised in promotion. The n;s, ns incompetence of young com,na ss''s31 W who stranded H. NJ. s. Howa 'aas as coast of Spain is still remembered - ly enough all attempts to corr. 0' tial this youth proved abortiye ass ss was given another big ship. The sua n crawled miserably home and has n0s on the sick list ever since. No se Sep naval officer has much confidence s''0e : sg ship. 'S
 It must be admitted, howeve, :. Britain boasts some vessels tba4 4a' really models of their class. The ss ss conspicuous of these is the raal uOs floated Dreadnaught. It is unaessa that certain novel eontriyancas- -4s'0a 2 been introduced into her eon;n- ''a'' that may open the eyes of the naSa, S,l'sa' perts of the world should she ans' ss ss in action. Much curiosity has bess sass { pressed by American naval officers ' ' this subject, but so far it has rens;. ungratified. Any secrets which a a exist on the subject of her armara a are well kept indeed. Our own sea ,lss d. profess to have little concern regardis the Dreadnaught. She has affroo. no particular attention, but we may ~ ' her in American waters any day IT., Y understood that she may be ordered . Venezuela.
 It seems to be overlooked that ,b much-talked-of additions to the Brltis navy during recent years are larosl experimental. That is. they are co' structed for the sole purpose of testi1 new theories in naval armament :,
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themselves. For it has been known during the past five years and fiercely disputed about that jobbery and cor ruption are rife throughout the ad- miralty, and that the huge armed craft now the boast of Britain are in one or two well-known cases terrible only to the eye. To what extent incompetence and greed have sapped the vitals of the sea-faring strength of our kindred time alone can tell. But that serious concern exists on the subject is we'll known fact in London.
 The trouble dates back to the ad- miralty scandals of five years ago. It was alleged at that time, and MT. Cham- berlain was one of the loudest denun- ciators, that the navy seemed to exist for the sole purpose of yielding profit to certain favored firms of ship build
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naval engagement is caused by strikes. So greedy are the British contractors that they force down wages to mini mum and seem to have no concern for the safety of their country As a re- suit, skilled labor has drifted away from the mighty dockyards to foreign countries. The Clyde and Glasgow are to-day the scenes of fierce strikes, and all attempts to settle them have been fruitless. The British cabinet even lately brought pressure to bear upon the iron masters owing to the fact that numerous vessels are nearing compile. tion, and that it is highly important that they be afloat with as little delay as possible. But it was all to no pur- pose, and the men are still out.
 There is one vessel, launched Janu ary 31 last, upon which the whole
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ontlawry of Silver.

The congress" which sat in Omaha tie other day impudently declared that there has been an ''outlawry of silver" What do the persons making the ale. gation mean by it? There is to-day in the Nhited States more silver money than gold money, and every one of the silver dollars is a legal tender for the payment of debts, both those due to the government and to individuals. The silver dollars are so plentiful that many millions of them are locked up in the national treasury because the people do not want to handle them in eircula- tion, and every one of these dollars is maintained by law at a purehaing pow CT double the intrinsic value of the coin. There is trice as much legal ten der silver money in the United States to-day as there was before the ecrime of 1S73' was committed. Not much "outlawry of silver" under such condi- tions. and no one who is not either kltaye or a fool would commit himself to the assertion that silver is outlawed in the United States.-C Chicago Tribune
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naval establishment looks with pride. It is H. NJ. s. Majestic. She took the water at Portsmouth and in less than a week there was trouble. As usual, the contractors had been at their old trick of substitution. Two of the great guns turned out to be absolutely unmanage. able. The makers declared tbat the difficulty was due entirely to the in- competence of the officers, but the lat ter angrily denied this. Finally an in- vestigation was ordered, and the result is still awaited with interest.
 The same state of things exists all along the line. The trouble appears to grow out of the existence of ring which has managed to crowd out all competition in the awarding of con tracts. Some hot heads even go the
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CTS and various companies formed fer the sole purpose of making money out of munitions of war On this subject Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Bt., k. C. B., the bravest vice admiral in the British service, and the man who was commander in chief of the Mediterra- mean station a few months ago. has ut. tered many warnings. He was exam. ined by parliamentary commission last year and pronounced the naval sup ply service utterly rotten. It even ap- peared that the projeetiles supplied for the famous and unlucky Camperdown were wretchedly deficient in strength and stinted in caliber. The after bar bette on the Camperdown was tenn porarily disabled because the contract. ors in their greed had substituted an
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cases of incompetency and corruption is that of H. NJ. s. Magnificent. That boat was long in course of construction in Chatham backyard and gave the ad- miralty no end of trouble. The first row grew out of the discovery of sub stitutions in her armor plates. The great London firms which have the ear of the naval office relied upon their in fuence to hush up the matter, and the truth has never fully come out. But if the judgment of the earl of Clanwilliam be good for anything the ship will have not one-half the effectiveness in action claimed for her. She is ''side heavy" and largely the product of cheap and unskilled labor brought into requisl- tion during a strike.
 In fact, half the trouble occasioned during tho construction of England's
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MEN WORSE THAN APES.
RevoitinE Customs of some of the AfrIcai
 Tribes.

RevoitinE Customs of some of the African
 Tribes.
 The cannibalism of the black secret society known as the Human Leopards, in the country near Sierra Leone. dis closed by the recent trial, brings forci- bly, before us the difference between the East African and the West African hab- it's of eating human flesh. The Sherbro cannibals wayIaid and killed their vic tins and afterward feasted on their flesh. The cannibalism of the east coast is of a very different kind. Tue flesh of the old people-the grandfather and grandmother of family-is dried and mixed with condiments and q por- tion of this is offered, with dim sort of sacramental meaning, to travellers whc become guests of the family. To re- fuse 1t would be deadly insult. To ae- cept it is passport to the privileged position of a friend of the house. Many of our travellers in East Africa have eaten thus saeramentally of the an- cestors of some dark-slsinned potentate
 The cannibalism of the west coast IS, as has just been seen, of a morehorrible kind. The SherbFo case seems to be connected with fetichism, the worst de- velopments of which are peculiar to that country: but there is d hideouslv genuine appetite for fresh human flesh still existing among the negroes cf West Africa. This cannibalism mani- fests itself in a refinement of gluttony which has it's mild analogy in the tastes of Europeans Young boys are brought from the dark interior, kept in pens, fattened upon bananas and finally killed and baked. To these Thyestean feasts come not only the savage chiefs of the interior. but also. it is whispereS, black merchants from the coast Men who appear at their places of business in English territory in sbroadcloth aa,l tall hats, who ape the manners of their white masters, are said to disappear an- nually into the interior, where, we are told. they might be seen, in naked saw agery, taking part in the banquets on plump boys, in which they delight. Be this as it may, somehow the native of the west coast and it's Hinterland ls unlike che East or South African native in the deep-lying savagery and the ex- traordinary facility for returning to it which are his leading and very unpleas- ant characteristics. The subject claims the attention of the anthropologist, and certainly suggests a curious reason for questioning the relationship of the black man and the ape or the gorilla. seeing that the race of monkeys seems to be singnlarly free from anything like cannihalism. Y London Saturday Re- view.
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BRITAIN'S J0BBED NAVY.
Ships Deemed Formidable Pro-
 nounced Rotten Tubs.
The Venezuelan War Prob1em-England May Not Have Naval Strength Enough to Spare from Her Cor
 rupted Armament.
COPYRIGHT. 1895

It is simply amazing to note the com ments and statements now current on the subject of the British navy. That this Venezuelan business has given a tremendous importance to England's naval armament goes without saying. But the superiority claimed for our cousins across the sea amuses even
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wreak terrible destruction. But the notion that it is invincible is silly 1t is we'll known to be honeycombed with corruption. 1t lacks freedom from IT, ritable and incompetent control. h appearance it is as formidable as was Robinson Crusoe when he went about his island armed to the teeth. But in action there is good reason to believe that surprises await it and the world.
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length of charging thatmembers of the admiralty board are secret members oi the firms who do most Of the naval snsiness- Be this as it may, there have seeh many and fierce contentious on
 ene suf5ect. Mr. LaboRchere us late as last session of parliament introduced
 a oali for t'2 complete investigation of
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The sixtv-odd democratic men

....The sINty-odd democratic mem hcrs of the house who put Mr. Crisp in nomination for speaker, after his anti democratic speech for free silver-a q gratnitous last-ditch effort for . bad lost eause-stnlified the national plat form of their party and did what little their feeble folly could do to handicap democracy in the presidential race.- N. Y. World
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4 FeIiow Feeiinc

If dere is any invention dat l have . profound respeck fur,r said Meander' ing Mike, tits de founting pen"
 ''Whut's de reason ?" inquired Ploo- ding Pete.
 'Dey never work" = Washington Star.
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SENATOR MILLS BLINDNESS.
His Scheme for Putting the Currency on
 n Silver Basis.


 Silver Basis.
 Senator Mills, of Texas, has repeated ly demonstrated his courage and inde- pendence, as when, some months ago, he came out strongly against the free coinage of silver, but his mastery of the questions involved in this proposition seems not to have been complete. He has astonished the friends of sound money by introducing in the senate a bill which. among other propositions that are safe enough, provides that, when the gold reserve shall fall below $f0o,o0 ,000, the secretary of the treas ury ''shall' redeem the notes issued under the act "in silver" Of course such action by the government would immediately destroy the parity of gold md silver and put the currency of the country on silver basis. That man who realizes the terrible consequences of free coinage should not also per ceive the equally disastrous effects of this policy is amazing. But it is en- couraging to find that the press of his state is doing it's best to open the sen ator's eyes. The Austin Statesman, the democratic newspaper at.the capital of Texas, says of the scheme:
 If the plan of Mir. Mills was adopted, all the evils contemplated by the coin age Of free silver at sixteen to one would be precipitated upon us. If the Mills financial bill became law we would, as if by magic, presto, change fall from gold to a silver standard Mir Mills bill is quite as dangerous as the broadest platform of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one" IN. '. Post.
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alloy for the specified metal. Itis upon these huge cannon that the navy ab- soiuteiy relies for the effective opera ton of naval campaigns, and already three on three different men-of-war nave htd to be entirely oyerhauled and 'N
 Perhaps the most typical of thsse