The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-11-06

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FRIDAY. NOVEMBER c, 1896.
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EIGHT PAGES.
Mr.. Thomas Watson has been retired.
They say Tom Plat will succeed d.
NSB Hill in the United States Senate.
1.-THE cunning OF the demagogus is
chiefly employed in the disparagement
of others.
Surprising that Mckinley is elected. as
claimed, what is he going to do for
Hanna? asks n contemporary.
Major Mckinley need not bother about
his cabinet, says q Republican exchange.
Why, Mr.. Mark Hanna will attend to
that.
Mark Hanna sent over one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars to Virginia to
NJ be used in the election, but 1t didn't do
much good.
sGEDb az oS iiStDulE ADVANCE says. Inc
result of the election does not at all
shake our firm confidence in the righte-
ousness of the defeated cause" Right.
Helen Keller, the girl Tho is blind and
deaf and who is without the senses OF
smell n taste, has passed the Harvard
examination and will enter the annex
to the university. Radcliffe, at n younger
lR4n On fhorn r,o,t
The Duke of Veragua is not n partisan
OF the Cuban insurgents. If they sue
ceed he will probably lose the pension of
Sav,0O0 q year granted in perpetuity to
and his heirs. which is now
derived from the Cuban revenue.
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Queen Victoria has been Queen of
Great Britain during the administra-
lions of Van Buren,, Harrison, Tyler,
Folk, Taylor. Fillmore, Pierce, Buchan-
an, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes,
Garfield, Arthur, Harrison and Cleve-
land.
Western evangelist %nnounc his
candidacy for chaplain of the next
House of Representatives. which pays
1900 per annum, saying that if he is
elected it will be with the understand
ing on his part that. he is not to re-
ceive a cent for his services.
The Baltimore American is not sorry
that Breckinridge was defeated, ana
says: "Of course, we wanted all the
sound money men in the House of Rep
rssentatives we could get, but somehow
there is general qualification that the
z$ malodorous Breckenridge was not
a elected
correspondent. having called atten-
tion to rumors OF MI. Gladstone's re-
turn to political life, has received the
following reply from the right honora-
Bile gentleman: THE answer to your
" question surely lies in circumstances
know to ail-my age, the condition of
my isight and hearing and my exclusion
3 from Parliament.
The Newsport News Daily Press Is
ITO be congratulated. It has moved to a
a and more commodious home-has
aiscarded hand composition and put in
plant of Mergenthaler typesetting
Chill and has won a success in the
Sxsshort period of ten months that is most
Bra1tfylng. The Virginian wishes 1t con-
1nned success and increased prosperity.
According to the Richmond Dispatch,
Is Sir Arthur Arnold. chairman of the Lon
#acn County Council, in an address made
s. q the opening of a new reading room a
Lew days ago, took a strong stand for
HsSShe reading of newspapers. He said
tha At is @ high privilege to read news
8&papers, for the public Journals. are con-
Il Quoted by men deeply imbued with the
s3sterature Of their own country. and not
#seldsin we'll acquainted with the litera-
$$ureaof other Countries. Sir Arthur
&Ss]so advised his hearers mot to trust
zsSeop7s who say b reading of news
Papess ~ friviious..