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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-03-20

For Gcnuthc Rock Alum Lime
lot plastering or withdrawing call at
y. L.. Williams, corner South and
Crawford streets.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-03-20

High street, Portsmouth Insurance
Company's building, next to Craw.
ford's, liz the place to buy shoes cheap
aud good. Cali and sec. l.. g. Long
n Son.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-03-20
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure LIQUID
laxative principles embraced III the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
It's excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; cfiectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fcvcrs
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in soc and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufacturcd by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, YOU will not
accept any substitute il offered.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-03-20
SSSl!b

Wait for Hofheimer's branch store.
22O High street. Famous old stand.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-03-20

Lamps, silk shades, wire frames. doll
carriages. toilet sets. pictures, tables.
rockers and everything else at Craw.
lords Furniture and Carpet House.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-03-20
chicken Ihieye. Around

Some time during Monday night
some one visited the premises of MIR.
Edgar Allen, on Wythe street, and
carried OIL fourteen head of chickens.
These midnight marauders are getting
10 be common. a little warm lead will
have good effect on some of them.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-03-20
HELLO! HELLO!! HELLO! /!
1HF Norfolk ri EpH0NF EXCHANGE

offers communication with over eight
hundred sub crlbers. Are you on the
lst II not can you AFFORD not 10 have
telephone ut your place OF business
And wha1 a comfort aud safeguari it ia
to nave telephone at your resid, nee
Attention IL called to tao LONG DIS
LANCE system OF WIRES, by which
communication i to be had, upon pay
ment OF Il small toll. with Newport News.
Hampton. Chesapeake City. Old Point.
Snholk. Smnthtield, Barretts and Chuck
atnck.
Call on the manager, or send him word
and he will call on you.
j. W CRh WS. Manager.
c. E. McCLUER, District supt. fe2s-ts
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-03-20
And such has been the policy
of the Pioneer of the In
stalment Business
Of Norfolk.
John B.Lougf1ra an.
ses AND .a7 CEvReg STREET.

1t may SAVIOR of bad taste
to sing our own praise, yet
we do so, without fear Of
contradiction, and each year,
as our facilities increase, we
become better able to ac-
commodate our friends and
patrons.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-03-15

The constitutonality and validity of the
income tax law have been under argument
before the United States supreme court at
Washington the past week. The appellant
in the case is a stockholder in a New York
trust company, who claims that he is taxed
twice by the law-as a stockholder in the
company and also upon his remaining indi-
vidual income. Ex-senator Edmunds,
Joseph II. Choate, j. w. Wilson and
Clarence A. Seward are among the distin-
guished counsel in opposition to the law.
The argument of Mr.. Edmunds, delivered
on Monday, was one of his most notable
efforts in points of constitutional law.
Here is so-called statute, said Mr. Edmunds,
81 designate it as such for brevity's sake-that
declares that the officer of the government and
his deputies (for the appointment of which there
is no authority at ALI can compel answers to a
series of questions that invade every private right
| speak of this only as one of the vices that
blOomed in this garden of opportunities present
ed to the last Congress. The law makes the
collector of internal revenue the sole Judge of
whether the taxpayer has complied with the law
and attempts TO deprive him of all recourse TO
judicial appeal" The fundamental question, Mr.
Edmunds held, is whether the final disposition of
these eXactions under the guse of law.ls 10 be de-
cided by the judiciary and the executive officers
of the government.
The New York Sun, which is a violent
enemy of the income tax, pronounces the
speech of Mr.. Edmunds something more
than the argument of great constitutional
lawyer. Standing on the same intellectual
level as that of the judges whom he ad-
dressed "the voice of the patriot and of the
prophet was heard by that tribunal"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-03-15
DEATH OF s. M. WAITE
In Omaha, Neb, Last Friday,

Strange Career and Remarkable
PersOnOlIty---VVreck Of the First Ma
tiOnal BRnk---FIight, Arrest md Inn
prisOnment---Suit Against the Estey
Organ Compnny---PrrsonaI Characters
istics.
Sias NJ. Waite died i'm Omaha. Neb.,
last Friday. The news was received here
Monday in a letter written by Mr.. Waite's
brother-n-law, Truman Buck of that city.
stating that Mr. Waite returned to Omaha
from business visit to New York about a
month ago, suffering from heart disease.
He had previously been weakened by an
attack of grip. His condition was not con
sidered critical until Friday when there
came a stroke of paralysis and death soon
followed. The burial was in Omaha.
The announcement of Mr.. Waile's death
recalls the most sens ttional event in the
history of Brattlehoro, personality which
was absolutely unique, and a train OF events
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-03-15

Massachusetts is interested in, if not
somewhat uneasy over the increase of cot
ton manufacturing in the South. So far
only the lower grades of goods are made,
trained help for making the higher grades
being lacking. A legislative committee is
investigating the matter and has gone to
North Carolina and Georgia for that pur-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-03-15
Gbe Uermunt 99b@ri..
BRATTLEBORO:
FRIDAY, MARCH -, 1895.

The croakers and grumblers are taking
a rest since Congress adjourned, and evil
dences of Frightening business prospects
are seen in reports of manufacturing in
dustries being re0pened in various parts of
the country
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-03-15

Wm. l.. Sachtleben of Alton, Ill.,, is
now on his way to Europe TO try to find
Frank G. LEM of Pittsburg, the bicyclist,
who started two and half years ago to
make trip round the world on his wheel,
and who was last heard of in pass of the
Kurdish mountains in Armenia a year
apO
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-03-15

Hoods Pills cure liver ills billousness, indi-
gestiOn, headache. A pleasant laxative. All
druggists
We recommend Carter's Iron Pills to every
woman who Is weak, nervous and discouraged; ;
particularly those who have thin, pale lips, cold
hands and feet, and those who are without
strength or ambition These are the cases for
which Carter's Iron Pills are specially prepared,
and this class cannot use them without benefit
Valuable for men also. In metal boxes, at 30
cents. Sold by druggists or sent by mail. See
advertisement elsewhere
Smart Weed and Belladnnna, combined with
the other ingredients used In the best porous
plasters, make Carter's Smart Weed aud Bella
donna Backa he Plasters the best in the MARI st.
Price, 21 cents
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-03-15

Col. George T. Childs of st. Albans was
elected the Vermont member of the Repub.
lican national committee to succeed NJ. 5.
Colburn of Manchester, deceased, at a
meeting of the Republican state committee
in Burlington Tuesday Col. Childs is
editor of the St. Albans Messenger, a man
of high personal character, of wide ac-
quaintance and of exceptional ability. The
appointment will give general satisfaction.
Ulysses S. Grant, I'd, the 13-year-old son
of Col. Fred Grant of Chicago, will be a
candidate for appointment to West Point
cadetshp as soon as he reaches his 18th
year, the legal age. 1t is an interesting but
pathetic fact that his distinguished grand
father, while in the last stages of his fatal
illness, wrote letter addressed to the
President of the United States who should
be in Office in 1899, asking for his grand
sons appointment to a cadetship. and then
got Gen. Sherman's endorsement on the APP
plication. The boy is a bright scholar and
greatly interested in military affairs.
Mr.. Sayres OF Texas, chairman of the
House committee on appropriations, claims
that the appropriations of the Fifty-third
Congress will foot up to only 1890, 33S, ,G9l,
while Representative Henderson of Iowa
insists that when everything is added, in
Guiding interest on the new bond issue, the
total will reach Sl,O19, ,OlS. .0j5, and that
even at these figures the pension appropri-
| alton was reduced by over $20,000,OOO 1t
may as well be admitted and remembered.
however, that the amount of money ap-
proprated forms no basis on which to
make up a final judgment of the Fifty
third or any other Congress. The hue and
cry over the Fiftyfirs Congress as "bil-
! lion dollar Congress was utterly dishon-
est. In the first place its appropriations
did not reach billion dollars, and in the
next place the country is growing in popu-
lation and in diversified interests and in
stitutiOus which must be maintained, and
| it is inevitable that the use of the public
money should grow with this growth.
The fight which Thomas c. Platt is
making to maintain his rule as a boss in
| New York city and state is not successful
so far as bringing Mayor Strong to terms
is concerned. The mayor goes right on
making MS appointments and running his
office in his own Independent way, regard
less of Platt's attempted dictation. Plat S
| friends accuse Strong of being an migrate
and a violator of before election pledges,
while Strong stoutly answers that he never
made a promise of any kind except to the
| committee of seventy to support its plat
! form and be a non-partisan mayor, and
| that is what he is trying to do and be-.
! Gov. Morton holds himself neutral, or plays
| the part of a peace-maker, but through the
\ country members Platt can probably control
the legislature far enough to prevent the
enactment of any reform measure which
Mayor Strong would particularly like to
have carried through. What Mr. Platt
has his eye on ultimately, without doubt,
is the control of the New York delegation
in the.neXt Republican national convention.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10
The Income Tax,

The Democratic party certainly
lost its bearings when It passed the
Income Tax. It is Numerically OPP.
posed to the first and fundamental
principal of Democracy, Equal and
exact justice to all,special privileges
to none. 10 tax ons set of men fol
the benefit Of another is not Justice OF
Democracy. Every man has an equal
race in life under our own form of
government, and the rewards to those
who diligently and honestly pursue
their respective vacations, are large
and varied. The object of the tag is
to get in circulation the money hus-
banded by men of wealth, and it
is a process very much like going
around hill to get to the top. The
effect of it is to place premium up
on Incidence, to encourage commun-
ism and all the evils that follow in the
wake of that dread poison in the body
polite. 1t is certainly matter for
regret, but the truth is that we have
a motley populationthc }inevitable
consequence of too loosea democracy
Like the tail end Of an army, the
camp followers, the rultures in hui
man shape. men stepped in vice and
reared in inaolence, they do nothing
themselves but prey upon the results
of the labor of others, cars nothing
about the government. or anything
but themselves. This is to be regret,
ed tits true, but it is condition that
confronts us and one that has confron-
ted every government from the time of
Abraham down. True there are many
men in comfortable circumstances
2hat the income tax does not touch,
and who are broad minded enough
not to desire its operation upon others.
But be thatas it may the income tax is
indirect conflict with spirit ofour In
stitatloas and oftho fundamentalprin-
ciples ofDenocracy. The party that
advocates such injustice may prosper
for time, but its success must nee
essarily be short lived. The pendu
lum will swing haek, just as sure as
darkness follows day We think in
hisinstaace tleD Democratic party east
away one Other anchors, and should
be speeshly replaced BY repeating this
measure. Surely if there ever was
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10
GOssIpPING.

1T last Xmas, with its gayety, has come
and gone, and busin ess has assumed the
even tenor of it's way.
The old year, too, is n thing Of the past
- gone. irreyQcablc gone-with it's joys
and its sorrows to join the mighty cycle
of ages that have passed. &mas was eel:
ebrated with due pomp in the Gap. There
were more than the usual number of GER
mans, receptions and social entertain
ments. Cen and Mrs. r. A. Ayers gave
q delightful german at their home onPop-
lar Hill, which was lead by Mr.. John
PAYNE in his iniinitable style. There was
quite large party present, who were ON
dancing bent, aud had left dull care behind
forgotten for the time beng. The ger
man lasted until o'clock. The ne4t was
at Mr.. and Mrs. John Goodloe's. The
doors of their hospitable mansion were
thrown open and both old and young in
dulged i'll the terpsichorean mysteries
until the early morning hours announced
the break Of day. John forgot for the
moment that he was an aged man, and
We'd with his son Ed. III paying the deyot-
ed to certain Kentucky belle who was
visiting in the Gap at the time. The
young lady in question has returned TO
her home, but loft something behind,
(Which vas mailed to her,I understand to
remind our gay young scions Of Baclas
and Beau Brnnmels that III her thoughts
she was with us still. Poor, of the.
henrf, may pull up stakes and
leave Circumstances Of Kentucky WITH
out y moments warning. Strange it is.
the fascination some fair piece Of Dresden.
China can exert over the steui hearted,
cold blooded, insensible being called man.
The next german. aud one Of the moat
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10
Undoubtedly it will be a great factor

Undoubtedly il will be great factor
in the race.
The Posr has upon numerous oc-
casions spoken in no uncertain serms
against its removal from Wise. We
thought then that tile people of that
ancient village were going to build a
Railroad from Ramsay to the Court
House. We believed they were acting
in good faith. What have they dones
Built road bed and have paid the
contractors about half what is due
them. The truth OF the business is
that the present seat is in one corner
of the county, remote from the great
body Of the people and inaccessible
We believe that the man who is
nominated as Senator, and who re-
ceives the vote of this county vii &c
to the Legislature pledged to use his
best efforts to secure the removal tt
Norton, and unless the road is built
and we are treated to something
more substantial than buster anC
wind, the Posi- will certainly advocate
and use its best efforts TO secure thu
election of tho man who is in favor
of removal. \
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10
Addison for Senator.

We don't like to see Richmond
boys go away from home. but there
is no denying the fact that when they
do so they often do we'll. We note as
apleasing evidence of this fact, the
cali of the Big Stone Gap Posr upon
Mr.. Walter e. Addison to announce
himself as a. candidate for the State
Senate. The Posi- says the speeches
he made in the recent canvass, "won
for him reputation and standing
in the Ninth District Of which any
man might justly feel proud" Dir
Addison is son of E. B. Addison,
Esq, of this city.-Richmond State
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10
The New Year.

With this issue thePosr enters up
on another year, and asks for the
patronage of the people. The pres
ent management of the PosT took
charge Of it, after two men had tried
to steer it through the period of bus
mess, and signally failed. Whilst
it is not by any means gold mine, it
is Of inestimable benefit to Big Stone
Gap, as every paper is TO the town in
which it is published. The PosT has
large subscription list, but it does
not receive the advertising patronage
that it should. One cause of this is
that tile merchants, like everybody
else, have had to economizc and cut
down their expenses. Now that we
are entering upon an era of prosper
| ity, and that business is getting bet
ter we hope to receive liberal share
of advertising patronage. During
the past year the Posi- has barely
paid expenses, but at all times it has
been kept up to high standard
much above any weekly newspaper
published in this section.
The PosT as heretofore intends tc
speak out for what it believes to be
fright and for the best interests of tho
people. 1t may make enemies and
doubtless has made some in the past
but Il conservative newspaper is nc
paper at all. In order to have any
weight, and in order to influence and
mould public opinion it must be pos
tive, and take decided stand upon
the questions of the day. There are
many questions both political and in,
dustrial that will come up for discus.
sion during the year and the
Posr will always be found advocating
what it believes to be for the hest in
terest of the people of Big Stone Gap
and this immediate section.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10

time when it beilooved the party to
stand firm asa rock to her ancient
mornings that time is now. What!
with populism, Coxeyism, mngwump
ism and other "isms" with which the
country is nauseated the only asy Inn
for the patriotic citizen is in the ranks
of democracy.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10

1'HE Water Company of this place
is getting to be a nuisance. 1t is
constantly out of order. and the man
the Glamorgan Co. has here as Supt.
is tlronghly incompetent The PEG
pile are getting very tired of it.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10

l'un Richmond State copies our re-
cent articlesin reference to Mr.. .Addi-
sons candidacy for the State Senate,
under The caption Of Compliment to
q Richmond Boy
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10

7'Hn Duchess Of Marlborough, for
merly Mrs. Hammersley, of New York,
50 we'll and favorable .Enown in Big
Stone Gap. denies the report that
she is to marry Lord William Beres-
ford. s
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10

\ NEW YonK banker asking PreS-
dent Cleveland to remove Secretary
Carlisle, is the latest piece Of impu,
slcncc we have heard of.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10

FnoN present indications Genl.
Watt Hardin will have other oppcsi-
ton for the .Gubernatoriai nomination.
in kentucky, than that Of Cassius N.
CLAW.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10

Ihs Lexow Committee discovered
that there was something rotten in
Denmark. The way the government
tai affairs of New York City have
been carried on for the last ten years
is a disgrace to the good people of
that city.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10

Tue people of Big Stone Gap should
patronize the Electric Light Co.
Mr.. Wilcox. is giving us good SER
vice, better than ever before.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10

II was msdemeanor for any one else TO
do so. with Or without the consent of the
owner. Now, very few people like to shoot
birds with no other company than their
bird dog, aud that accounts fou the iefh-
arsy of our sportsmen. Quail are BIRDS
fe,roe unt,irae as are the seals in the
Bebrinc sea animals fer1de ndturde anu as
such it is we'll settled law that when they
arc on the land of the owner they become
his property. Now the right of private
property is expressly guaranteed by the
constitution, and consequent, this law is
uulla bona and void. | have been very
DESTROYS of testing this law, but don't
think it worth the while.
&x*
Apropos of birds, a few DAYS before
Xmas | went down in the Knoxville
country on shooting bent. The shooting
was not so good as had imagined, and,
consequently, went to Chattanooga and
Memphis to visit friends. Chattanooga
did not impress me very much. 1t is very
much like Pit,sburg. The country around
Chattanooga, however, is full of historic
memories. 1t was around Chattanooga
that Sherman captured Missionary Ridge.
This ridge can be seen for miles and
miles from the car window, and even to q
citizen The strategic advantage of the
ridge is ut once sccp It commands the
entire country for miles. Here, too, the
battle of Lookout Mountain was fought,
Memphis is beautiful city, but very un-
healthy. owing to the amount Of stagnant
water and imperfect drainage system, al
though the latter has been somewhat i'm.
proved Of late. 1t was in 1879, ] believe.
that the terrible epidemic Of yellow fever
broke out, which nearly depopulated the
city. Since then there has been no rcGu-
Jar epidemic, owing to very stringent
quarantine laws, The great father of
waters, the Mississippi, Is n very impos-
ing and noble river. Memphis is situated
on the fourth Chickasaw bluff, 60 feet
above the highest food mark. Beautiful
parks, splendid churches and public
buildings combine TO make Memphis one
Of the most beautiful cities, next to Nash
willie in Tennessee.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10

The Removalaf the Courthouse.
Astlle time for nominating 4 SEN
aior FROM this district draws hear the
question Of the removal Of the Court
aonse looms up in al.s baok.gsopnd,
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10

CSlrEn STATES SENATOR VIM. 4.
FRYE, has been unanimously renomi-
mated by the Maine Legislature.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10

Build the Kentucky road city faith
ers. 1t WILDE worth more than two
railroads to our town.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10

WHEN a scoundrel, in order Il
beat man ont of a dollar, refuses q
take his paper out Of the Office one
week before his subscription expires
he is undoubtedly fast GU the road tc
hi, and we arc iacined to think
that place little too good for him.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10

FoorrAlL and prize fighting should
be done away with. Both are a DIS
grace to civilization.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10

SENATOR Hill and President Cleve-
land have smoked the pipe OF peace,
SO rumor has it.