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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-12
Town OF SUFFOLK

rectfon by Messrs. Lee Britt and S. p.
Vanders1ice.
The Councilmen present tonight were
Messrs. Holland, McAnge, Ely, Parker.
quincy, Bell. Norfleet and Withers,
Mayor Brewer presiding. They adjourn
ed at $3.50 o'clock.
PURSUING THE CRIMINALS
constable Branch, whose activity lin the
detection and arrest OF criminals Is n
notorious fact, added new laurels to his
detectives badge this morning. He Is
terror 10 evil-deers and never en-
Joys lie more than when following up
4 promising clue. He was engaged last
night In reviewing the Whaleyville ter
ritory, where eleven brandy and store
thieves were taken in Sunday The
!aooTs In that direction were not fruit
less Between the hours OF l and i
o'clock this morning the following per-
sons were arrested Jim Glenn George
Virgins. Babe Powell and Blanche
Pratt. The last two are females, Babe
being the wife of William Powell and
'5lanche Pratt his paramount. The
tharge against the women is receiving
stolen goods. AS an Indication of Pow
nl's idea of justice in the division of
plunder he gave his wife three pounds
IF the stolen -four and Blanche Pratt
fwo barrels. The four alleged thieves
were brought to Suffolk this morning
md placed in jail. The preliminary
hearing will take place on Wednesday,
February 18th. along with their predes-
ccssors in prison. Justice Rawles will
preside.
telegram received In Suffolk to-
night from Constable Branch annuunc-
ed that he Captured another lot of
brandy and peanut thieves near Hol-
land station. The details were not
learned.
PAINFUL ACCIDENT TO MISS
FlNNEY.-Miss EVE Finney, one Of the
owners of Suffolk College and n most
cstimable lady, was last night the vic
tim of serious accident. About 10
O'Clock. when descending n flight of
steps leading from q rear porch, she
missed her footing and fell heavily, the
back OF her head striking q brick \
scalp wound several inches in length
was made, from which the blood flowed
freely She was unconscious for n short
time. but soon rallied. and was to-day
resting as easily as could be expect
ed. DR.. W. w. Murray is the attending
physician.
MARRIAGE ANNOUNCED Mrs.
Caroline q. Fell has issued invitations
10 the marriage of her daughter, Miss
Laura Lee Fell, to MIR. Frank NJ. Rich
on Thursday evening, February 10Th. Mt
O'Clock. y reception will follow, from
$50 TO 10 p. M, at Mrs. Fells resi-
dence, No. /? Morgan street
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IN SECRET SESSION
The Town Council Meet Behind Closed Doors
to Discuss the EI-TrsaSurer's Accounts. .
STILL PURSUING THE CRIMINALS.
Constable RrnncRI Gathers I'm Another
Hatch of Brnndy House and store
ri"Ee Announcements Marriage
License Issued-Personai.

SUFFOLK. VA, Feb. 11.-(SpeciaD-In
the County Court to-day, Judge w, ].
kilby presiding. the civil suit of 1odma y
~ Son vs.. w. G.. Saunders. was heard
me case was an appeal from the deci
sion OF a Magistrate, who gave tn.
piaintiffs a Judgment for S4264 T.. T..
foi!and was counsel for the plaintiffs
and Merritt Briggs was attorney Tfor de.
tense. After testimony and a prolonged
argument the jury retired and found
for the defendant
y iiquor license was granted to l.. v
Parker and r. II. burlington, trading as
parker & burlington. on the extension of
Welions street, near the Norfolk anG
Western intersection.
THE SECRET COUNCIL MEETING.
Tho Town Council. pursuant with a
resolution passed at n. regular meeting
last FRIDAY night. had special score.
session Tonight regarding the investisa
tlon OF the accounts of Major c. w.
wright, eN-TreaSurer of Suffolk The
exact proceedings can not be made pub
lie at present, but l have semi-ofliciai
information to the effect that the session
was called more for q consultation as
TO Methods of future procedure than to
receive IL final report and formulate ac-
ton thereon.
If anything regarding the inyestica
ton is true nothing is better known than
the fact the committee has not yet com
pleted Its labors. which will occupy
| about a month longer. Not one of the
seven years over which the invcstiga
ton will extend has yet been complet ed
| the experts line of action being rathe,
| to take some special items through tn.
entire period than to finish one year al
Il time. The latter were ready with a
| partial report Tonight. The Council
committee 10 whom the investigation
| was entrusted, are Mr.. c. s. =. Holland
DR.. a. w. lIley and Col j. II. Macleary
The work is being done under their li
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NEWPORT NEWS.

tional tax of $50 for each COMPANY he
represents
MIR. Lenz: THAT is awful: am nm.
able 10 express myself il you mean SO
ed
inc Council was then asked To hear
'he insurance men on the subject horor,
passing on the section. The rcuucst VIZ (
s,i"' .eu ana ME- w. j. helms addressed
.ne Couhcii on the subject Mr.. helms
s"iu 'hitt the tax was not commcue,,ra r
WIN me returns from tho bjsincer.
/ mat lheir expenses eat more than hnff az
| lheT PERCENTAGE. and that such y 10 =.
as proposed would take the other b,Ir
Mr. Barrett said the companic. do
MOI OBJECT TO am equitable tax, b,;t eunh
."A would drive the companies ONT
"" u; 10 i!luStra;e by example. helms
I'ios'. VINO represent sixteen ron,r,,ins
would nave to pay III tax ahnnt econ
Whlie The largest firm in Richmnnd a..
not pay but $500 ''"cs
81 ~. utL. Clay said that insu,-,,co
Is IL necessity in this city. since mos. ",
! nc houses are built through Ioan 80,
cations ana they require Insurance T.,
iuer 10 secure themselves. Nov. .hn
. uplcct al the people ought 10 Ja 10 sc,,,.-
lower rn!cs. but they can 49,.
ny ah'aEoni2ing Fhc Insurance co.,
! FUMES; mat he Is in favor of rndu,.i,,.
! t"tSH nnt such cannot be don. u.i,t
;,'S'lc'e,h lire department. and an enri,
! IN bad condition. sine
Mr, J"hes--f would like to know vbo
- ~, w gentleman that the en-
fa'ie IS IN bad condition.
WI. w. j. Nclms said that h. 10,
Ias.nn 10 examine the engine. ami ~.
ItSpohs.h!e t7r what Col. Clov ~
s".". ne upshnt of which. hmw.,.mr
s.enicd to he that The falling hon ,cr,a.
curing IN" storm last wecl, had ini,,r
me ROOF OF tire enCine-housa nrd 49,,
49, mnte' had leaked through on the en-
Continuing Cal Claw soia ga. -,
cream of the insurance h,,.,, tma' me
IS manonoized By foreign cc,,i,,, ,t',''
.Hni resident companies arc MOI al;oy.,.,,
- insure the property Of nnn-rn.il.m,s.
'tlt' 'he pHanerty of the dry-doc,. co.,,
nahN' the brick row known as drv-t,nrI,
houses and The Chesapcafr ana oti"
companies "E nome
Mr.. SCI Miller said If Won a,i.n o..
the home companies bv hlcb t,ya, ~.
toVe'&h companies will insure Tho. nrc.,
erty and the city can't re, q cen,
lax from them. '' -
Mr., l."nz offered an amendment, 20
insert $40 in lieu Of $50. -
hI. =. Peit'ns moved as n srbeti,u.
1,',t ~ s''''i'n De referred back to IN
,Ei,,,liIIge' which Was finally accor,
i, '''' "S vote OF for and 6 agains
after much discussion the sactiop 70
H.i'g !" Inc taxation of liquor dca,.r.
was passed, having been amended in
one particular III
Newport News Iron and Brass Fo,n-
cry changed hands Yesterday. Siarkr
30 c'S X narlirE sold out to Caskcy
,Ot n ~, yr,,
VIII be enlarged ana improved NY NY
NE new M rnnnt ..',.Il
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THE COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Dogs ana Insurance Taxes Sharply
Discussed.


Newport News, va, Feb. lo.-tSpe-
cial0-In the Hastings Court. Judge
Rnrham presiding, the ALLOWING nota-
ltes public qualified: c. IS Nclms T. NJ.
BraXton, ]. a. Massie, and Charles
Shepherd.
Next in order was the qualification
OF attorneys to practice law in the
new court f. S. Robinson. j. u. G..
Brown, J. A. Mnssie j. y. Fields. 4. NJ.
BraXton. N. II. Clark. Y. Il. Williams,
and w. j. helms qualified
J. NJ. Vaughan. Superintendent of the
chain gang. gave bond for the faithful
discharge of his duties, w. +. Ballet be-
coming his surety.
There being no further business be
fore the court il adjourned till 10 a. m.
to-day.
Quiet prevailed in police circles yes
terday, there being no cases worthy of
comment before Justice Brown.
SHlPYARD NOTES.-The St. PAM
arrived al her dock at S am yesterday.
y slight accident, due to the gale. &C.
CURED whilst the tug Wanderer was
putting the st. Paul into the approach
TO the drydock The stern line Sy
which the vessel was made fast TO star
board in order to swing her around
broke. letting her drift forward with
sufficient force that her bow cut about
/.
missing the donkey housc, hut cutting
several pipes connected Herewith.
The gale of yesterday prevented the
ST. Pauls being locked. but she will
so into the dryGocii This morning.
snip Ma?garcthe, II German vessel. &c
lying n. the wharf opposite the 81
Paul.
The new stack for the Louise is cn a
car ready to he hoistcd aboard.
COZ NI'll. NOTES . tbn .,,o.,,,.,
jcurned meeting of the Common Council
Monday night. the consideration Of Tho
license tax was resumed beginning ut
the Sec. &c.
Several sections We're read and passed
without discussion. in the usual routine
way, until the dog tax came up for.
discussion. then il was that the serene
procedure OF the Council became dis
turbed.
The section. as reported from the Ii
censc Committee and read h. thc
Clerk. provided for n tax of 81 on male
dogs, and 81 for females aicssrs. Nc
l.oughlin. Lcnz and Davis spoke in on
position to the tax as read. and Mcysrs.
Jones and Eurcher. the former gentle
man asking Mr.. Nillett TO take the
chair. spoke in favor Of the section ne
reported. An appointment was offered a {
a substitute, reducing the lax 10 81 ON
males and S. on females When tbr
question was called FOR the vote on tho
substitute II resulted In a deadlock. Mir
LenZ said that the Chair was Ont NJ
order; that 1t was not entitled to a vote
excepting In case OF a tie by REFERRING
to the rules II was found that Mr.. Lepz
was wrong and on the second vote tho
amendment was lost. The original was
put and carried. with six dissenting
voices.
After the passage of several more enc.
tons the fire Insurance section came IN
for consideration. which proved tho mos,
exciting question OF the evening Tho
section. ms reported by the committee
read that every fire insurance n.rcnt
shall pay license tax of $50: where two
agents represent tho same company. ann
are not associated as co-partners. they
shall pay license tax Of $50 each. and
every person or firm shall pay an addi-
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. DEEDS RECORDED.-Addie r. and
Richard T. Cross to Robert e. Watson.
one lot near Suffolk, $225: b. F. Doe, of
Marbiehead, Mass, ct. ais. to Noah Co.'S
ten, ten acres of land in Nansemond
county. $9T
THE EVANGELISTS EARNINGS
The girl evangelist Is holding services In
Whaleyvillc this week. at the conclusion
of which she Will leave for South Caro-
lima. For her two weeks services in
Suffolk Rev. S. G. Newsomc pastor of
the Pine Street Baptist Church, paid
her mother, Victoria G. Avery, $73.O5, in
addition to board, railroad fare and all
incidentals.
LICENSE ISSUED.-A nuptial permit
was to-day issued for the marriage of
Miss Novelia S. Darden. daughter of
Col. w. III. Darden. to MIR. John Robert
Darden. of Perquimans county, N. G..
The ceremony will take place at 9:30 q.
m. Wednesday, from the Main Street
Methodist Church.
The SufE2lk Literary Club will meet
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. A. l..
Jones. Main street
Colonel ]. Fl. McLeary and Mr. Geo.
l.. Barton expect to visit Baltimore
Wednesday,
Mr.. w. p. Taylor, n lumber dealer of
winston, n. c.. was in Suffolk to-day.
An entertainment known as "Anita's
Trials" will be presented Friday night
ny local talent for the benefit of the
Presbyterian Church.
me young people EXPECT 10 have an
other hop Thursday night
~ morse owned by Nat. Jordan. coltr-
Ell, to-day became frightened near the
post-oflice, and ran to the Suffolk and
Carolina depot, more than half a mile.
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Continued on Eighth pa,se.)
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Dissolution.

Norfolk, Va, Feb. 8, 1896
The firm of Wrenn, Whiteb,rst e 70
Is this day dissolved by mutual consent
:, BeSinninS hlonday, February 10th, II.
w WHITEHURST will take entire
charge of factory and foundry at cor
nel' OF Chesapeake and Plume streets.
and there conduct on his own account the
notwithstanding and Wholesale business
~ the same time Med l.. WRENN
VIII take charge of Wareroom on Union
count the retail business under the name
and style Of the NORFOLK FARM SUP
PLY COMPANY.
All persons having bills against the
firm Will please present them to Med
u. Wrcnn, who has assumed and will
pay them all aud those who ure indebted
him.
Med. L. WRENN.
fcb9-l0t X. W. WHITEHlIRST
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Notice to the Public.

have accepted n positiu,s Win Ia. Ven
known A!ln ef IL. pAG; & co, Real
fst4e Asehts and GEM Aactioneei >. Il
friends that any Real Estate OF Genera
Auction business intrusted to the firm
or 10 me wiil be promptly and satistac-
torily attended 10.
JAMES Y. LEIGH
Late OF the firm Of Leigh Bros. & Phelps
jaltf
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physicians endorse u. l.. L Ms a spleu-
did combination. and prescribe 1t with
great satisfaction for the care Of all
lorms and stages of Primary. Secondary
The herald., 1896-08-02
A CHALLENGE

| One of the leading and reputable COM
| mercial agencies with an Office in this
! city, has on file an elaborate expose of
| the disturbed and rotten internal affairs
| of pretentious Democratic newspaper,
| edited by an ass who is also a cad The
| report indicates crookedness and in
wolves the misuse of funds-funds not
| belonging to the callow investor The
newspaper has been losing ground for
long time past, and is the victim of fire.
puent changes of control and notorious
| mismanagement.-L Angeles Times.
The foregoing is an editorial COM
ment upon wha It purports to be news. The
Herald yesterday sent a representative
to interview Bradstreets and Dun's, the
recognized commercial agencies of the
United States having offices in Los
Angeles The managers of the local
offices OF both these companies assured
The Herald that they had collated no
matter of the character stated by the
Times touching any newspaper, nor had
they on their books any report or rec
ord bearing out the Times illusions in
any particular.
| So 1t appears that the above extract
from the Times is the leprous distill-
! ment of a morbid and malignant mind,
and was penned by the paw of a coward
| ly cur. 1t will be noted that the hulk
| ing assassin Of character has not the
temerity to mention single name. He
| has neither the physical nor moral cour-
. !,
| should he do so, personal chastisement
would fall upon him swiftly. Come,
valient swashbuckler and tin sodier
| Show your colors by daring to print the
name of the Democratic paper or per-
! son you make reference to.
The herald., 1896-08-02
ECHO M'KINLEY ON MONEY

Mckinley, with Hanna's permission,
has confirmed Pittsburg glass man in
the opinion that the present sound and
Interchangeable condition of our currency
was entirely due to the Republican par
ty. AS Mckinley puts 1t, THE Repub-
lican party stands now, as it always has
stood, for sound and stable currency
etc The pleasing platitudes of politics
slip easily from the practiced tongue of
Mckinley. But this statement of his
passes the point of platitude and goes to
the lie direct The Republican party
came into power in 1861. 1t found then
the country on a coin basis, with gold and
silver at ratio of 16 to l. the lawful and
perfectly satisfactory money of the
people The civil war over slavery
(Which grew out of the same self-seek-
ing political combine that we now have)
put an immediate strain on the finances
of the country. The Republican party
then commenced course of money legis-
lation. Its money has never been for
long stable or satisfactory. The green
back fluctuated in value for nineteen
years, at one time going as low as So
cents on the dollar The national bank
the gold legislation, and, last but not
least, the silver legislation have all been
and are unsatisfactory to large bodies
of the people. The present complex and
admittedly unstable condition of the cur
rencyi entirely the creation of the Re-
publican party. There is no interest in the
country today that does not favor the
amendment of the money laws Of the
United States in one direction or anoth-
er. Greenbackers, silver men and gold
men, all want the laws changed. The
statement of Mckinley, that the Repub-
lcan party, which first attained power in
1861, is the sole author and supporter Of
sound money in this country, is about as
brittle product as the product of the
glass man to whom it was addressed-a
glass man, by the way, twice charged
with betraying his own people.
The fact is that in the whole history
of the United States there never has
been a party whose money legislation
has produced greater dissatisfaction
and been accompanied by larger periods
of f1uctuating values than that of the
Republican party.
The campaign today, and the very &C.
casion of McKinley's public al
fusion to finance, is the COM
plete demonstration that the
American people are not satisfied with
the Republican party currency legisla-
ton.
The herald., 1896-08-02
AN IRREPRESSIBLE REFORM

The history OF this country is replete
with reform movements that have come
and gone. Each one has had its earnest
champions and gathered around its
standard numerous devotees who put
forth their most strenuous efforts for
success. A very few of those reforms
are yet before the people, and are sub
jects of more or less thought and discus
sion. But by far the larger number of
all that sprang into existence since the
close of the war have been relegated to
the quiet shades of fQrgetfulness.
There is, however, one phase of reform
that will not down; it is absolutely ire
pressible, and from its very nature it is
destined to keep very much alive until
it is finally settled and settled right
Whatever else may come and go, the
movement in behalf of tax reform is
here to stay until a better system than
any heretofore prevailing in any poll
teal subdivision of the United States
has been discovered and put in force.
There is a growing sentiment among
nearly all classes of people in opposition
to present methods of collecting public
revenue Facts and statistics innumer-
dpie nave DeelI Drought 10 lISHl SIlOWlIS
how the tax laws of various states and
municipalities bear down upon the
wealth producers-the people who per-
form honorable service in the varied
fields of industry--and at the same time
touch lightly, if at all, the drones and
parasites of society. 1t has also been
proved beyond the shadow of doubt
that there is no such thing as the uni
form taxation of personal property
There never was and there never can be
The herald., 1896-08-02

The gold reserve is now down to $685.
100000, and everything points to fur
Their rapid fall in the near future. The
members and tools and organs of the
money power are breeding q scare
through their false prophecies regard
ing the evils which they say will befall
the country If free coinage Is restored
that may bring on a worse panic than
that of 1893. In many parts of the coun-
try depositors are drawing their funds
out of the banks and storing them away
in safety deposit vaults, and NJ this
keeps up very long there is good reason
to fear that the banks Of New York and
other commercial centers where the Sc
Gurities on loans have deprecated far
below the amounts borrowed, will have
hard work to avoid insolvency, even
through the issue of clearing house GER
tif1cates and certified checks. The
banks of the west are much better off in
this regard at present than those OF abe
east, and If another panic Is forced by
the money power its evil will fall with
especial severity in the great financial
centers of the Atlantic eaboard.-Den-
yer Republican.
The herald., 1896-08-02
INUENDO

Inuendo Is the weapon Of the sneak
and coward. No brave man attacks
another by suggestion. A knowing
wink, a shrug, or II have heard this or
that" or "If so and SO is true then so and
so must be the case" are the assassin
blades of SANDER. Harrison Gray Otis
in the Times has constantly followed
these unmanly methods Of attack.
Sometimes his malice and hate-soaked
soul work by partial descriptions Of
persons or garbled statements of Incl
dents, whereby the public is led to
surmise as to who is attacked without
giving the attacked party any means of
defense. Names have not been given by
Otis in some OF the meanest and most
cowardly attacks he has made on pri-
vate character. Otis is an adept In as
sassinating character. He does 1t in
ambush, crawling through the snake
grass Of inuendo. By the inuendo a
newspaper, like the old-fashioned ma
licious gossip. can turn and twist the
simplest acts into wrong and crime. By
this deadly back door weapon the purest
character and the most upright life can
be spattered and stained with Islander
without the possibility of defense. When
Otis attacks the character and reputa-
ton of ladies in good standing In the
community by sneaking inuendo with
out the mention of a name, he is in his
element. His experience as an officer
in a negro regiment seems to make the
man lean to black methods of attack.
Nothing could be more cowardly than
the attack in Otis paper some time
since on the character of noble lady in
Los Angeles. In the repeated sneaking
and despicable inuendo articles the
Times published, in this, one of its dis
reputable attacks on private character,
no name was published. Who was in
tended was suggested by inuendo or by
whispers from Otis. A lady's reputa-
ton, in her private life, ought to be
sacred, and is sacred to every honest
and brave man. Inuendo and sugges-
ton of wrong are not news; it is malici-
ious SANDER. 1t is the weapon Of a
sneak and coward While Otis has a
newspaper in Los Angeles, the reputa-
ton and standing of no honest man in
business or in private life is safe from
unjust attack. Neither Is the reputa-
ton Of mother or the wife or the
daughter of citizen safe from the
dangerous man.
The herald., 1896-08-02
BEYOND THE PURPLE MOUNTAINS

Beyond the purple mountains
There lies a land, a land most wondrous
fair.
Soft breezes set myriad roses swaying
The birds sing peans of gladness for their
praying.
Come let's away, nor longer here be stay
ing.
There is no night of darkness and despair
Beyond the purple mountains.
over the purple mountains
Into that goodly land we may not 60,
Nor even gaze too long lest, faint with
yearning,
Back to the deserts of this old world
turning,
We have no power to check the hot tears
burning,
And there are tears enough. dear God, we
know,
This side the purple mountains
Laura Creighton.