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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
DEATH OF SENATOR enNNErr.
The Political Complexion OF the Maryland
Senate Depends on His SUCCESSOR

The Political Complexion OF the Maryland
Senate Depends on His Successor.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 13 "A special to the
Sun from Westminster, Md, announces
the sudden death Tonight of Senator
elect Plnckney j. Bennett. of Carroll
county. At the late election Mr. Ben
nett WAS reelected for q third term as
Democrat. Governor Brown will be-
called upon to order special election
and on that election depends the politi
cal complexion of the next senate of
Maryland.
With Mr.. Benefits vote that BODY
stood fourteen Democrats and twelve
Republicans. Should the Republicans
elect successor TO Mr.. Bennett the
senate would be tie, with Senator
Bruce, OF Baltimore, acting in harmony
with the Republicans upon reform mat.
ters and uniting with them in confirm
Ing the Republican governors nomina-
lions. Should the Democrats win the
situation will remain the same ss prior
to MIR. Benefits death.
The regular Democrats had expected,
because of their control of the senate,
to prevent many changes proposed in
the registration, election and other
laws of the ate as we'll as to Offset
many of tho Republican governors
nominations. The election in Carroll
Will therefore be very lively.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
Southern Surgical Association.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-The South
ern Surgical Association resumed It's
session here TO day with papers by Doc Z.
tors Davis, Of Birmingham, Ala, Will
son. OF Sherman, Tex, johnson and
Long, OF Richmond, Va, Westm ORE
land, Of Atlanta, Fenger, of Chicago,
Soucbon, of New Orleans, Wyeth, Of
New York city. McMurtry, Of Louia-
Vile, Collock, of Cheraw, S. G., Henry,
OF Chester, s. c., and Jelks. of Hot
Springs, Ark. President Tiffany read
MS snnual report, showing the salts.
factory progress made by the assocs-
tion
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
AItgeld and Party at savannah

SAVANNAH. Ca, Nov. 13-Governor
Altgeld. OF Illinois and staff, Mayor
S"ifs, OF Chicago, with large party OF
prominent mon OF that city, escorted by
the First regiment Of Illinois, arrived
here at dnybreak. The local military
met the Waiting companies and escorted
them to tho seyeral armories. The
civilians were mes by Mayor Myers and
q committee. who escorted them to the
steamship Nacoochoe. While the YES
sci was moving down the river speeches
OF welcome and responses wore made.
This afternoon the visiting and local
military persded.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
ROANOKE VA THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER a. 1895

r. L. Wingheld, G. w. Jones, Thomas
n. johnson and w. F. Davis made
.neir reports,passed approved examins.
lions on the cause OF study and in char
acter and were continued on trial.
what local preachers are elected
aeacons?" The following ministers
having the necessary qualifications
We[e elected 10 local deacons orders:
~ y: w. Reed. L. G. Shearer and John P.
Inc conference then adjourned until
olnng; The annual sermon was
preached Tonight by Rev. D. A. Coke
Smith. no
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
Charges Against Foreman Howa.t.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-Secretary
Herbert has received through reports Of
the international Association OF Ma.
chinists charges against Foreman How
att OF the Brooklyn navy yard and n
numbar of subordinate officials in the
machinery department. touching the
treatment OF workmen and disposition
OF government property. The Secretary
oecilnes to make public the charges or
to say what he intends to do in the
matter, save that he Is giving 1t his
PERSONAL consid erst
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
Oorbett Give. NIaher the Rel,

ST Louis, Nov. IA special to the
Kepubiic from Dallas. Tex, says: Will
Liam A. Brady has telegraphed to Dan
a Stuart for j. j. Cor bett saying: Cor
nett surrenders championship and belt
70 Maher, and will back Maher for $40. =
600 against Fitzsimmons." The tele-
gram was forwarded to Stusrt at Ell
paso, who last evening cent the follow
ing reply to his Dallas representative:
rel! Brady that Corbett had better
win that belt before he disposes of Il -
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
Presbyterian Foreign missions.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Nov. 13.-Tbe
executive committee for foreign mis-
sions of the Presbyterian Church South
met in this city and decided to send 20
Oorea as a missionary kev. W. B Har-
rison, of Mays Lick, KY, and to China.
Miss Jane M. Rice, of Lauravll'", Fla.
and Miss Ellen Emerson, of F,eGericks,
burp Va
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
Justinable Homicide.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. l5.-George
Phillips was to-day acquitted of the
charge OF killing William Mitchell. q
negro. Phillips, who was cable car
gfipman, crushed Mitchell's brains out
with an iron rod because the latter
would not move his feet from q car seat.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
Troops to BIO Held in readiness.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-At the re-
quest OF the Interior Department., Gem.
eral Wheaton, commanding the DEPART
ment OF Colorado, has been instructed
to hold troop OF cavalry in readiness
to dispa CHI, il necessary, to the scene of
the killing OF two Indians on the South.
ern L "a agency, Colorado.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
Wanted the President,s P,o,oo,,,,

WASHINGTON, Nov. IA man giving
his name as Thurman Htllyer and his
home as in Missouri, was taken In
charge by the police st the White House
to-day and his sanity will be ipouired
into. He said he was being chased bv a
swordfish and desired the P.esid
protection.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
A New PARTY Talked or

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov. IA BIr-
mingham, Ala, special to the Banner
says: Three hundred Populists, dis.
affected Democrats and Republicans
held conference here to day. Hon. J.
G. Sibley, of Pennsylvania, made a
warm silver speech and was loudly
cheered. 1t is possible q new party
to be known as the Free Silver Honest
Elections party will be organized.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
Russia VIII Not Accent,

BERLIN, November ia dispatch
from Constantinople to the Frankfurter
Zeitung says that tho Russian ambas.
sndor to Turkey, M. De Nelidoff, de-
clares that Russia would not accept the
mandate OF the powers to pacity Ar.
menia.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
Call For the annual Conven,,,,n

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Nov. ls-Presi-
dent Mcbride, OF the Americ an Fedora
tion OF Labor, has sent out the csll for
the fifteenth annual convention OF the
federation, which will be held In Madi-
son Square Garden, New York. begin
ming December 8
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
Tho Invitation Accented.

WASHINGTON, Nov. Secretary
Norbert has accepted an invitation to
attend the banquet OF the New York
chamber OF commerce on the 10th in
slant.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
Armenian Teaohera x,IIed

BERLIN. Nov. IA dispa ch to the
Cologne Gazstte from Constantinople
SAYS that all the Armenian Christian
teachers In the Treblzond and Erzeroum
districts have been killed,
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
They Have Returned.

WASHINGTON, Nov. IA President
Cleveland and Secretary Herbert re-
turned here at 7:a0 O'Clock this morning
f;om New York.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14

THE United States Government re-
ports show Royal Baking Powder su-
perior TO all others.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
DOCTORS AND LAWYERS,

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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
THE WEATHER.

1 IHN WEATHTH.
FL Forecast for Virginia: The weather
- VIII probably continue fair during
"'no day. but with increasing oIoudiness;
easteriy winds and slightly warmer by
-
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-01
The Enormous Sun, Arcturus.

If the earth were situated midway be-
tween the sun and Arcturus, it would
receive 1913 times as much light from
that star as it would from the sun. 1t
is quite probable, moreover, that the
heat of Arcturus exceeds the solar heat
in the same ratio, for the spectroscope
shows that, although Arcturus is sur
rounded with a cloak Of metallic vapors
proportionately far more extensive than
the suns, yet, smothered as the great
star seems in some respects to be, it
rivals Sirius itself in the intensity Of its
radiant energy.
If we suppose the radiation of Arctu
rus to be the same per unit of surface as
the sun S, it follows that Arcturus ex
ceeds the sun about 375,000 times in
volume, and that its diameter is no less
than $3.50, 600 miles. Imagine the
earth and the other planets constituting
the solar system removed to Arcturus
and set revolving around it in orbits of
the same forms and sizes as those in
which they circle about the sun. Poor
Mercury For that little planet it would
indeed be jump from the frying pan
into the fire, because, as it rushed to
perhelion, Mercury would plunge more
than $500, 600 miles beneath the sur
face of the giant star. Venus and the
earth would perhaps melt like snow
flakes at the mouth Of "a furnace. Even
far away Neptune, the remotest member
of the system, would be bathed i'll torrid
heat. Popular Science Monthly.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-01

2" stops FOR passengers on signal toconductor
~ daily, except Sunday.
r. H. Nicholas, Superintendent.
Cape Charles, Va.
h. i. Cooke, Gen'l Freight and Pas
senger Agent, Norfolk, Va.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-01

The true carp, who occupies the proud
position Of head of the family, is but a
naturalized alien in our British waters.
BY origin he is q Chinaman. and he still
abounds i'll his wild condition among the
mighty rivers of the Flowery Land. The
human Chinaman, however, has been
noted from all time for his strict atten
ton to the main chance He doesn't let
the grass grow under his feet and never
allows q good thing to escape him. So
many centuries since he domesticated
the carp and passed it on by transport
to his friends and neighbors At an
early date the oriental stranger was nat
uralized in Germany, and in the days
of James l it arrived in England.
Its diffusion by human hands is facil
itated by the fact that it can live for
many weeks at time out Of water, es
pecially if packed in moist leaves or
damp linen. This is common peculiar
ity Of pond haunting fishes, for ponds
are always liable to dry up in summer,
and the fish which inhabit them have
therefore learned from ancestral expert
ence to bury themselves in the mud
while the drought lasts, and to do as
best they may without a supply of wa
ter. In fact, existing species of pond
fish are the descendants of the survivors
which have thus managed to escape the
droughts of ages.-Cornhill Magazine
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-01
LETTER WRITING.
The Art Lost One to the Present Day
Scribblers of Hasty Notes.

The Art Lost One to the Present Day
Scribblers of Hasty Notes.
Every one knows, of course, that the
actual number of letters passing through
the mails of every civilized country is
greater, rather than less, year by year.
But every one also feels that these let
tiers are no longer letters, in the tue
sense, at all They are anplified tele-
grams, bald and bare statements of fact,
and they have the loose and disjointed
and careless phraseology of the tele-
graphic message. That sense of the fit
expression, the graceful concept; that
feeling for the lucid and connected ex-
position Of the ideas, for the balance Of
the parts, of n letter, for its compost
ton, in short-the very term is pre-
Adamite to the end Of the century ear
that used to preoccupy the best letter
writers of another generation have gone
from our present day scribblers of hasty
notes, as though such musty things had
never been.
The only people who compose" their
letters now are cultivated old ladies.
Their college bred granddaughter, in-
tellectually armed and Professionally
equipped, exhibit productions in that
line, of which, for the most part, it
might be said, as Henry James re-
marked of the notes of invitation of the
London society woman, that they have
nothing in common with the epistolary
art but the postage stamp.
1t may be held that such an accom-
plishment is not, after all, Of the great
est value. But behind it there is an in
stinct, deep seated in the race, that a
widespread habit of careless writing af-
fects very directly the thinking of a peo-
pie. And this one cannot but believe to
be the case. 1t takes no intellect to put
plain facts into honest, self respecting
phrases But it takes self restraint and
attentiveness, and these lead in time to
disciplined and coherent way of look
ing at life-"The Point Of View" in
Scribner's.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-01
a Typical Commencement Gov !.

The material used for this particular
gown was white muslin, embroidered
at far intervals with tiny pinbead dot,
and ON the smooth background Il cluster
of forgetmenots. The skirt was made
with the usual flare and finished with
three narrow rutfles that had for their
heading half inch wide band formed
entirely of tiny blue forgetmenots The
bodice was simple draped one, its high
collar being covered by stock Of pale
blue ribbon with bunch of forgetme-
nots on each side of the front in rosette
fashion. The full pulled sleeves shaped
in at the wrist and had as their edge
finish band of forgetmenots like that
on the skirt. The waist ribbon was
inch wide forgetmenot blue satin, fin
ished with rosettes Of the forgetmenots
Ladies' Home Journal.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-01
Tho Turtles Annual Visit.

4 land turtle that without fail for 26
years has regularly appeared at the
home of Michael Mackey, at Parker
Ford, Chester county, came to time Il
few days ago aud was being proudly ex-
hibited around Pottstown by Mr.. Mac
key yesterday. That gentleman asserts
that there can be no mistaking his tur
tie, as the initials of his name are en-
blazoned on its shell. He says that its
training has been SO well developed at
his home that at the sound of the dinner
bell it comes into the dining room to
receive its allotment Of food. 1t stays
around the Maclley premises until Sep
TENDER and then goes off to its winter
Quarters.-Philadelphia Times.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-01
A NEW TEST FOR GEMS.
diamonds, Rubies and Sapphires Are sloa1
ed to Prove Their Gcnuineness.

ed to Prove Their Gcnuineness.
An accurate scientific method has ut
last been discovered whereby precious
stones may be distinguished from the
fraudulent gems which are now so nu-
merously manufactured i'll the labora-
tories Of Paris and other continental
cities. This is by testing them for their
specific gravity, but not by the scales
occasionally used for large stones and
which, however delicate, arc unreliable.
The new means of detection of bogus
gems is simple and ingenious and is
likely to be widely adopted in the jew
clrv trade. 1t is the chemist who has
added this knowledge to tho lapidary S
art. Several liquids have been discover
cd which are more than So times as
dense as water, and i'll which therefore
the amethyst, the beryl and other light
stones will actually float
The most useful of these liquids is
methylene iodide, which has specific
gravity of 33, and in which the tour
maline readily floats. Moreover, it is
not corrosive or in any way dangerous.
Il being impossible for tho lapidary to
prepare number Of liquids each hay
ing the specific gravity of a different
gem stone, the methylene iodide is cas-
lily diluted by adding benzine to it.
Each drop Of benzine added makes the
liquid less dense, and SO it may be used
TO separate the tourmaline and all the
: lighter gem stones from each other.
Ii it is doubtful whether n certain
gem be an aQuamarine or n chrysoberyl,
all that is necessary is to place it i'll a
tube of the liquid together with small
fragment of true aquamarine to serve as
an index If it be a clrysoberyl, which
has specific gravity of 3. 6, it will sink
like lead. If it be IN aquamarine, which
has specific gravity of 81, it will
float If the liquid be then stirred and
diluted until the index fragment is ex-
actly suspended, the gem also will
neither float nor sink, but will remain
poised beside it. This method may be
adopted with all of the lighter stones.
But for heavier gems like the car
buncle, the jargoon, the sapphire, the
ruby, the spinal, the topaz and the dia-
mond different liquid is necessary.
This has lately been discovered by the
Dutch mineralogist Retgers. He has
found Il colorless solid compound which
melts at a temperature far below that
of boiling water TO clear liquid five
times as dense us water and therefore
sufficiently dense to float any known
precious stone. This compound is the
double nitrate of silver and thallium
Its most remarkable property is that
it will mix in any desired proportion
with warm water, so that by dilution
the specific gravity may be easily re-
duced. This fused mass may be reduced
in density by adding water drop by drop
so as to suspend i'll succession carbuncle,
sapphire, ruby and diamond.
These tests of precious stones may DO
made i'll a few minutes and are abso-
lutely reliable, as all stones of the same
nature have the same specific gravity.
None of the bogus rubies or diamonds
have the same weight as those they arc
made to initiate New York World.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-01

rreign, ana passengers receivec f,r all poin;a
on tic n. Y, Phila. and Norfolk, Wlcomlco and
PocOmoke 4. Il. daily, Delaware, Maryland and
Ylrginie. Railroads.
Positively 10 freight received after 90 p, m
and must be prepaid TO all points, eXcep;
on the n. Y. Phlla. and Norfolk Railroad.
Willard Thomson, B. l.. Fleming,
Genl Manager. Gcn'l Frt. Il Pass Agt.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-01
Didn't Want Real Food.

Theater Manager-You say you object
to having real food on the table i'll the
banquet scene, Mr.. Greesepayrt: Why.
the rest Of the company are delighted
with it!
Mr. Greesepaynt-Yes, but my part
requires me to rise from the table after
q couple of mouthfuls and say Il can
not eat tonight strange dread comes
over me. Twill seek the quiet of yonder
apartment for time -
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-01
Steamer POCO1IOKE.
CAPT. HEWARD.

SLonMer POEVMOkE,
CAPT. HEWARD.
tuesday and Friday for Crsleld, Tang lerIsland
Finney' ,0nancock, Shelltown Pitts Wharf De.
dar HALL, Rchobotn, Powell's, Pocomoke City,
Mattoponl, and Snow HILL RETURNING
Mondays and Thursday. leaves Snow Hill Q
q. NJ. Mattaponi G45, Pocomoee City g. Powell =
$3.50, Rehoboth 9, Cedar Hall $3.50, Pitts wharf
10, Shelltown 1913. Onanccox 2:30 p. M, Fin
ney's 8. Taugier Island $50.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-01
SUMMER SCHEDULE ~n,
OF THE AssEsg:= .se
Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic
Railway Company

Until further notice. Will run their steamers az
follows, twcather permltting,l leaving South St
wharf at $50 0'clock y. IN.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-01

In Wales glass rings have been found.
They We're commonly called "snake
stones" from the popular notion that
they were produced by snakes, but they
were, in fact, rings used by the Druids
as a charm with which to impose upon
the superstitious. Boston Herald.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-01

9EENIHCF IANW IEN,
CAPT. W. W. MATTHEWS.
Mondays and Thursdays for Ford's. Crsneld,
Flnncys 0aancOcH, Ohesconnessex, Hunting
Crock and Mossongo. RETURNING leave
Messongo, Wednesdays and Saturdays, c q. N.
HuniIsg Greek $50, and Chesconncssex Ii;3j
onancock $3.50 and Flnncys 3 p. IL.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-01
=. 7 7. PARKS & CO.,
Parksley, Va.
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IS-sA-
HAITI DISSTON.
Race record 2:32l.-over Cape
Charles track.

Race record 2:32i.-over Cape
Charles track.
Will stand at Wachapreague,
Va, and at the Fair Grounds,
near Keller, for the Spring sea-
son, commencing on March 18th
and ending July LIST.
His terms will be as follows:
$25 to insure a live born colt,
SD. 50 for the season, So for one
single service. The fee for the
season will be due on August
LIST, 1895, the fee for single ser
vice will be for cash.
Remarks
".Ham" is not only u speedy
horse, but has proven himself
to possess wonderful stamina,
which is essential to every race
horse when in competition with
a field of good ones. He has
been entered in eight races, has
been the first winner seven times
and second once, then he was
matched against horses from
four different cities, he being
the only Eastern Shore horse in
the contest. He took two heats
in the race and drove the fastest
horse out in the last heat,
scarcely one-half length behind,
trotting the sixth heat on the
outside Of Cape Charles track in
1881.
A. S. KELLAM.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-01

BREED YOUR COWS 10 the thorough
bred Jersey, at 1872 East Douglas
Z.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-01
NOTED DOGS IN HISTORY.
The Ancient Greeks Were Fond of Mans
Canine Friend.

Nothing is truer than the old saying
NAT person who loves dogs and flow
ers can always be trusted. The man,
woman or child who cherishes an af
lection for cat or dog is certain to
have a large streak of kindness in his
or her nature.
According To- a writer in Golden DAYS
there have appeared in history num-
Der of famous dogs. The memory of
1.-The dog of Marathon" lives with the
memory OF the Greek heroes who fell
with il in that famous battle against
the Persian hosts. The Greeks raised
statues of their dogs. Socrates swore
by his dogs, and Alexander the Great
honored his by building city with
magnificent temples, which he dedicat-
ed to their memory. There was dog
named Softer, so noted among the Cor
inthians for his fidelity that he was
voted silver collar, on which was the
inscription: ''Corinth's Defender and
Deliverer."
Plutarch mentions a sagacious dog
that King Pyrrhus found beside the
murdered body OF his master After
ward it sprang iercely upon two of the
kings soldiers, pointing them out as
his murderers A monument was built
over the remains of the dog owned by
Xantippus, the father of Pericles. De-
MED admission upon his masters ship,
he swan alongside Of it from Athens 10
Salamis, and fell dead of exhaustion at
the feet Of Xantippus the moment he
stepped ashore.
Homer erected a beautiful memorial
to Argos, the dog owned by Ulysses
not out of marble, but in q verse that is
more enduring. When Ulysses, after
his long wanderings, returned TO his
home, disguised as beggar, his dog,
then twenty years old and blind, was
the first to recognize him.
De Montdidier, an officer under
Charles V. of France, was murdered.
His dog met Macaire, brother officer,
and sprang at his throat. The king
suspected that Nacaire was the murder
err, and ordered dog and man to do bat
tie. The man was allowed club and
shield and the dog cask, into which
he might retreat when hard pressed.
The dog fastened his teeth into his an
tagonist's throat. and Macaire confessed
his guilt, and was executed.