The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-03-04


1000 minute apiece
:l Speaker Reed thinks Congress will be
S. ready to adjourn by June lst. 1t ought
i% to quit before that time.
No excitement was caused in Washing
isl ton by the announcement of the hostile
81 demonstrations in Spain.
In recent magazine article John
Ia Morley says: There are probably not six
rs II Eng1ishmen over fifty whose lives need
3 to be written OF should be written"
The New York Sun says the Sultan
30 does not wear shoe-brush whiskers as in
sf dicated dn nearly all newspaper pictures.
& but is clean shaver and good-loolsing.
IN ------
It has been proposed to submit to a
s Democratic primary in Nebraska the
Squestion whether the State shall send a
n free-siiver delegation to the Chicago
s Convention.
Windham Thomas Wyndham Qu!n
u Earl OF Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Wis
COUNT g Afount-Earl, Baron Adare OF
III the New York Yacht Club.
issSs Mr.. Labouchere's Truth calls H,ac,l
SssIGthodes THE Man of Blood and Bonds
n OF yBuluwayo." as a mark of his distinc
ssfion In slaughtering the NlatabeIe and
II I'm making stock company of their coun-
tsy.
Ihe fhree-masted schooner Navar!no.
i sugar laden, has arrived at Boston and
" confirms the report that she was boarded
asspy the officers Of Spanish gunboat off
81 the Cuban coast, who searched the vessel
.$fcr deserters.
9ss4SThe Baltimore City Council Wednes.
81 day night passed ordinances taking from
n she Mayor the power Of appointment t.
s public Office and lodging 1t in the Coun
sell. Mayor Hooper says he will vet,
the ordinance
s;sia Captain-General Weyler's deagnatio,
B OF the Cuban insurgents as bandltti will
y only hasten expressions Of sympathy Fl
this country, and cut short Spain's un
e holy rule in the island, remarks tn
q Baltimore Herald.
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While Congress is wondering, says Tn
& washington Star, what ought to be don
s. 20 strengthen our navy, the British ad
b eniralty Is going right ahead with a
Ell thuslastic disregard Of cost that chal
& senges admiration.
Australia has found it impossible I
b ebate the rabbit plague In New Sout,
Wales alone 100000 acres of land hav
been abandoned and 1000. 900 spen,
H The only plan that has any good effec
10 wire netting. and of this $4,000 mile
4 have been used
Ohm q. Carlisle says truly that tn,
issDamocratic party is neither dead nor Il
II y. ready to divide out its assets between
the Populsts and their allies. 1T can
81 not die II 1t stands by its 1oO-year rec
81 s 80 In favor of sound money, and its Cd
position to unnecessary taxation.
;ss Y is ous Judgment that the declaration
81 Sy Congress that the Cuban revolution.
g l ists are entitled to belligerent rights is
y =, declaration justifiable under interna-
'sa aional law. honorable to Congress, well
h merfted by the Cubans, and not ground
@5 q .s offense to Spain, says the New York
a Sun.
Soionei Robert G.. Ingersor has writ.
sS fas e letter to Mr.. John Rusk. of Chi.
Sss ego, IN which he agrees to address the
81: sohgregation OF the Militant Church OF
s ia city the next time he visits the
zssks ss1ern metropolis. He will also be the
s saest OF the Militant Church Club du
~ ssas his stay in the city.