The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-08-07
NORFOLK VIRGINIAN: FRIDAY. AUGUsr Z, 1896

and this year there ia the same success.
Register of Deeds Rogers. who has had
All obstinate case. iS recovering
Governor Carr is Informed That Nat
Moore. a white man. vino cut his vife's
throat with pocket knife In WAYNE
county. in a Mt OF Jealously has escaped.
Two white men. Murray and Floyd Him
nant. who saw the murder are in iail.
They had been fugitives from justice
for Il nameless crime.
The revised list OF Confederate pen-
sioners In about sixty counties have
been received at the office OF the State
Auditor.
One hundred gold standard Democrat Is
met nj Ntwberne Tuesday night and or
Eanized. There axe good many per-
sons who predict a split in the party.
Newspapers which say the sentiment is
all one way-in favor OF fusion-make n
great error.
The State weather report for July at
this station shows that the highest tenn
peraturc was 9S. the lowest G3 The
mean was so. which is two degrees above
the mean temperature of duly for len
years past. The rainfall was 5.23 inches.
while the average is 30. Rain is much
nef ded now.
August l3 the monument at Windsor
to tho Confederate dead cf Rertie county
Will be unveiled. Senator w. r. Bate. of
Tennessee. will deliver the address. His
father was a native of lSert!c county.
Tie county sent 100 soldiers To the war.
The monument IS 10 feet high and cost
81 900. An original psem Will he read by
John II. Taylor. bRs'd on an incident at
Gettysburg. where Col. T.. w. Ryrd of
Berthe, went into the Federal lines and
brought out his iiag Five thousand
people will attend the unveiing Con-
gresham Woodard, i. d. Winston ana
Thomas w. Mason Will also deliver ad-
dresses.
Senator Buffers paper says to-day In
It's leading editorial:
AT this moment there Is no denying
| the fact that there Is chaos i'm matters
Political 1T is almost wholly due to the
sudden and unexpected aomersault of
pHe Democratic party by which that
party would have II appear thai II has
ieRoumced the policy It has advocated
and practiced for thirty years. ana that
now II cspOus the policy and DrinclDles
OF the Peoples party. The Peoples par
ty. being intensely in earnest. and un-
quesiionably honest In the advocacy of
lis principles. Is anxious TO align itself
with any reinforcement which promises
8ld in putting these principles in opcra-
ton; but il fears and dls;Ius,s The prom
ises Of a party which for some years past
has been notable FOR It's violent opposition
to those principles and It's brutal abuse
OF uhe Peoples party (which forced these
issues TO the front and nourlshed them
INTO VNail'y mat promises long life.
..,,,
iEie convention al ST Louis showed
.hat the ieeple party was ready TO join
!oIces with vhe democratic party, oi
tid' part OF Inc Democratic party.
nhici declared iof some OF the funda-
mental principles Of the Peoples party
| by nominating the man put forward by
ne democratic party as the represe nta-
i've oil thsse PRINCIPLES. If Democrats
were reasonably Just this Is as muon OF
a concession as they would ever think
OF asking. ,But TO speak pl2inly and
polhtecly' me Peoples party does not
eNpect me democrats to act in a broad
spita oi 1uStlet ana equity. The Peoples