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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-26
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SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE TUESDAY.
APRIL %, 1896.
TRAINS LEAVE RIGrHMoND-UNIoN
DEPOT. -o,,
600 a. NJ. Arrives Petersburg 8 81 A. NJ,
Norfolk II % \. NJ stops only
at Petersburg Wayerly and
suffolk va.
9O5 A. NJ, Arrives Petersburg $50 a. NJ.
Weldon las A. NJ. Fayette-
willie 4.3O Z. NJ, Charleston
llI3 p. ~, Savannah $40 =.
NJ. Jacksonville $50 4. NJ,
Port Tampa $50 =. ".
Connects at Wilson with No.
AZ, arriving GoldsbOrO' 1905 J..
NJ, Wilmington 5A5 +. NJ.
Pullman sleeper New York to
2.55 p. NJ. Local, arrives Petersburg 3:ig
T. NJ. Makes all stops
$50 p. NJ, Arrives PeterSsbuTg go ?. Nj,
7.2o p NJ. Arrives Petersburg 500 p. NJ.
Emporia 9lO connects with
A. n ID. for stations between
EmpOria and Lawrencevillel
Weldon 9:i3 T.. a.. Fayette-
willie :07 A. NJ, Charleston 6:z5
a. NJ, Savannah SOC a. III,
Jacksonville $3.50 i. NJ, Port
NElW LIyNE TO MIDDLE
GEORGIA POINrS.-Arriv
Aiken 722 A. NJ. Augusta 3
A. NJ Macon II 4. NJ Allan
Ia l2.i5 +. NJ. pullman Sleep
ers New York 10 Wilmington.
Charleston, Jacksonville. Port
Tampa, Aiken, Augusta. and
Macon.
II so p. NJ. Arrives Petersburg l2.35 a.
NJ, Lynchburg . A. NJ. Roa-
nOke 735 4. NJ, Bristol / 20 p
NJ Pullman Sleeper Richmond
to Lynchburg
1896 A. NJ, Arrives Petersburg 10 \. NJ,
Weldon 2:j5 A. NJ. Henderson
4:0i A. NJ, Raleigh Sill 4. NJ.
Elberton 2.W +. NJ Atlanta
400 L. NJ. Pullman Sleeper
Washington to Atlanta.
TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND.
$40 A. NJ. From Jacksonville. Savannah,
Charleston. Atlanta. Macon.
Augusta, and all points South.
GAO 4. NJ, Atlanta, Athens, Raleigh,
Lynchburg, and the West
s.25 A. NJ, Petersburg Local.
l:O5 A. Nj, Norfolk Suffolk. and Peters
burg.
GAO z. NJ, jacksonville. wanna h,
Charleston, Wilmington, Colds
boro, and all points South.
100 T. NJ, Norfolk, Suffolk. Waverly. and
Petersburg, and Lynchburs.
and the West
500 p NJ, Petersburg Local.
Il. NJ. EMERSON
l. r. KENLY. Traffic Manager.
General Manager.
G S. CAMPBELL.
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VIII Re Held to Testify Here.

W. c. Ellis, the deserter from the
United States army. who was captured
and sentenced to twelve months on Gov
errors Island, Is wanted here to testify
in the Meadors murder case. The Gov
ernor wired the Secretary Of War request
ing that Ellis be held for the authorities
here and yesterday morning he received
a reply stating that his request would be
complied with.
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Wbit-sunday Services.


Sunday was Whit-Sunday. or the
Feast Of Pentecost. and 1t was observed
I'm the Catholic and Episcopal churches
OF this city with great solemnity. At st.
Peters Cathedral pontifcal high mass
was celebrated at 1880 A. NJ. by the Right
Rev. Bishop Van de Nyver. assisted by
five priests. Father De Muynck preached.
In the afternoon at o'clock little chill
dren with quantities OF flowers. marched
in procession around the alsles OF the
church, and covered n beautiful statue or
the Blessed Virgin and the infant Jesus
which was erected in the sanctuary. After
the procession vespers was begun. ana
the choir rendered In very creditable
manner Ieieavs grand vesper music. Coo
cia's beautiful ave Maria" was sung
by Miss Annie d. Kirk. Miss Eva Phi
llps sang the 80 Salutaris," while Misses
Murphy and OConnor, and Messrs.
Canepa and Halloran also sang solos
After vespers members were received into
the Sodality OF the Holy Ghost
The forty hours devotion will com
mence Friday morning at the Cathedral
at the S o'clock mass. and VIII be fol-
lowed by a procession Of the BLESSED
Sacrament. continuing until Sunday night
al o'clock when n sermon VIII be
preached and benediction will be pro-
nounced. owing TO this devotion there
will be no May devotions at o'clock On
Friday and Saturday afternoons. but
benedictlon will be given each night at
o'clock instead.
A PRISON EVANGELIST breaches.
Rev. Thomas Elgar, the prison evan
gelist OF New York state delivered TWO
Interesting actresses at the Young Men
Christian Association Sunday afternoon
one to men. and the other TO boys. MT.
Elear has visited the prisons and reforma-
tories in all the larger cities OF ms
country, and he related many interest
ing incidents which came under his OBJ
sarvation He lamented the fact that
so few Christian men were In charge OF
the penitentiaries and police stations
throughout our land, and that boys OF
a tender age had to be placed under their
care. He said however, he noted WIN
Measure that Major Lynn. Superin:end-
emit of the Virginia PeniteBtiary, which
he visited in the morning, was a most
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-26
. OLD MON
EFyN STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
thAASsNA DAILY LINE
s4zN FOR
NEW YORK.

passengers can leave Richmond DAILY
via Chesapeake and Ohio railway at rs
u. NJ, or RichmOnd and Petersburg rail-
road Norfolk and Western route) 900 a.
NJ. connecting at Norfolk with Old Do
minlon-Line steamer, sailing same eve
ming for New York.
ALL-wATER ROUTE.
Steamship OLD Dominion Leaves Rich
mond every Monday at 500 f. NJ for
New York via James river.
Tickets on sale at Richmond Transfer
Company's, s03 east Main street; Chesa-
peake and Ohio railway and Richmond
company's office. 1912 east Main street.
Rtchmond. Baggage checked through.
FREIGHT
for New York and alb points beyond can
be shipped by airsSS stseaama lT sailing
FRIDAY. 500 p. NJ. Also, by steamer
isa Wing Richmond WEDNESDAY, 500 r
M for Norfolk; connecting with steamer
io Manifest closed one hour before sailing
''i Freight received and forwarded. and
through bills OF lading Issued for all
FROM NEW YORK.
Passengers can leave Daily, except Sun
day, 10 Norfolk or Old Point Comfort,
Connecting with Norfolk and Western
rsiIroad or Chesapeake and Ohio railway
Direct steamers (vla James-R River route),
leave every SATURDAY passenger and
FreIgnt), and Monday freight only.
Sailing from companys pier. No 20,
North river. foot OF Beach street, at 800
p. NJ: Saturday. 400 P. NJ
Freight received and forwarded daily
except Sunday;
For further information apply 70
JOHN +. MAYER. Agent,
l2i2 east Main street,
Richmond, Va
". L Gu'llaudeu. VicePresldent and
M go Mana Nav York an -
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know that they will be greater th">
sand wears hence than they are to-day.
The LONGER they are dead. the more they
are alive In the best. the noblest sense
the greater IL their Potentially In the
world
Truly. there Is an earthly Immortality.
We NAV stand over the mounds beneath
which sleep our own heroes. and tn
noble dead OF any age. to challenge d.
solution. and say, %, grave, where
thy victory'Y'
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v. ST. JOIS, yes.Presldsat and General Manager.
v " ssBER, General Superintendent.
IN. A cLOyEn. ia. NDEps0N.
Tr,n, Eaaasrr. GENERAL Pas,'r AT
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Death" DIR. Kerr concluded, docs not
end the life OF a noble man, nor Is his
Potentially for good buried I'm the grave.
often his life is more potent when ended
than while iis possessor walked among
men. The heroes OF all ages are dead
most Of their graves are unknown. but
has their immortal spirit vanished from
the world? Does the past have no In
naence upon the present? Yea. il has.
Its heroes live In the hearts OF mankind.
They sway us all; they hold us TO truth
and duty: their influence never sleeps,
The truth is. as an actual power over the
destinies OF the race, the dead are more
alive than the living
rs there a man I'm America to-day
who wields as great an influence as that
OF either Washington or jefferson? Is
there any Englishman as powerful In this
nineteenth century as Oliver Cromwellg
Are all the great ones OF the earth as
mighty In our time as ST. Paul. who has
been dead nearly twenty centuries; or
as Moses. whom God buried 800 years
sgoY These men are far greater In the
worlds life now than while they lived
The truth Is they grow In influence with
each advancing century. And Wa all
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-01-30
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How TO Capture a skunk.


Akicitana pronounced il a skunk hole. and
gave me TO understand that the animal was at
home. ] did not doubt his statement, but. to
get at his methods Of reasoning. asked him
how he knew it 10 be "A skunk He answered
by picking mp a hair. That the animal was
in his hole was shown by the frost from his
breath, which had gathered around the mouth
of the hole.
Young skunk being only second TO young
dog as an Indian delicacy, Akicitana said he
would catch the animal
lie took his hatchet and cut sapling
about 10 feet long. He procured a wild
grapevine near by, Of about the same length
After splitting the end of the sapling he pried
the two sides open with his hatchet and placed
one end OF the grapevine in the split, SO that
il held ii open.
Here WAS an improviscd trap. simple and
ingenious. Thrusting the split end down the
hole, he twisted and pushed the sapling until
he was satisfied he had il in proper position.
BE jerkcd ont the grapevine the split ends
sprang together and held the animal securely
BY sloaly pulling out the sapIing-tbe skunk
protesting meanwhile IN his own mild and
peculiar way-he was enabled TO get him TO
fhe mouth OF the hole and end his career with
the hatchet.
Akicltana could with difficulty be made to
understand me when, al the risk Of being con-
sdeTed iastidious. / refused TO allow him TO
put lls skunk inside the deer TO carry
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-01-30
DYNAMITE GUNS.
Six of Them Have Now Been Put in
Position.

Six of Them Have Now Been Put in
Position.
The War Department is informed that the
six pneumatic guns intended for the defense
of New York and San Francisco have been
put in position. three at Sandy Hook and
three at Fort Scott, at the entrance of Golden
Gate. The guns are Of the disappearing
character, and are capable Of hurting 500
pound proiectiles containing the highest
explosives a distance Of two miles. They
are unquestionably the most powerful means
Of defense known to modern science for land
Notifications They lack the terrific velo-
cities and range Of powder guns, but the
blow dealt by one Of their shells is almost
iDcalculable Some officers have contended
that the flight of the projectiles is 50 slow
that they can be watched and lodged by fast
tOpedo boats. but this is not believed to be
true, and in fact it would not be necessary 10
hit ship in order TO seriously harm her. but
the shock experienced from the explosion Of
shell some distance off would be sufficient
60 put most Of vessels men out Of action.
While the Government has accepted only
six Of these guns others are contemplated
for other deienses Two or three viii be
placed 10 guard Washington city, with the
assistance Of steel guns, at old Fort Wash
ington. Several are provided in the plans
for the protection of Baltimore and every
other city which must be defended by land
deienses
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VISITING WAR SCENES
"reminiscences of a United States
Signal Corps Man.
BY A. d. FRANKENBERRY, POINT MARION, PA.

Igot Dick July 81, 1864, at Gainesville, Ga,
of Serg't S. f. Moore, whose term of enlist
ment expired about that time. C0mrade
Moore went home, and / nevar heard of him
till few days since, when l wrote him and
asked of him the history of Dick. In his
letter from Calhoun, H., he says:
In August, 1862, Lieut.. Connolly and
myself drew Dick from the Government
stables at Nashville, Tenn. l rode him
bareback in the race between the armies of
Buell. and Bragg to Louisville, KY, a dis
tance of about 200 miles. At Louisville
received an outfit for myself and Dick.
Then rode Dick TO Crab Orchard, in battle
of Perryville, Cumberland Gap, Glasgow,
Nashville, Tenn, battle of Stone River. back
to Nashville, and again TO Murfreesboro,
Tenn, where he was stolen during my sick
ness and was gone about a month; found DICK
in possession of wagon-master and rec0v-
cred possession. In June, 1868, with Rose
Grams at Hoover's Gap, Tullahoma, and on
down 10 Chattanooga, Tenn, among the
first to enter the city in September; around
the base of Lookout to Wauhatchie and mp
the valley through Stevens Gap to the
battles of Chickamauga, Sept. 10 and 90,
1868; back to ChattanOOga, where Dick and
his master had very slim rations during
the siege. Poor old fellow! Had nothing to
eat but brush, cut, for awhile. L used to
take him over the Tennessee River and up
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Free Postage for Vouchers.

Mr.. J. T. McCleary, of Minnesota, has in
troduced the following bill; which was read
twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid
Pensions, and ordered to be printed
That pensioners of the United States OF
America shall have the privilege of returning,
free of postage, to the respective pension
agents their quarterly pension vouchers; and
to that end United States pension agents be,
and they hereby are, authorized and directed
when sending said vouchers to pensioners to
include Herewith n return penalty envelope,
franked and addressed, for each voucher
required to be returned.
SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect from
and after its passage.
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nd the surroundings all that could be de-

and the surroundings all that could be de-
sired.
We remembered that during the war, in
our thousands of miles of campaigning in
Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia
Virginia, North Carolina, and South Caro-
liua, we only saw three schoolhouses in the
country districts. The people had school
houses In the towns, but in the country dis
tricts the rich had teachers to come to their
homes and teach their children, but the
poor white trash grew up in utter ignor-
ance.
Now al this is changed, as one of the re-
suits OF the war, and in every State of the
Union is system of free schools-free to all
rich and poor, white and black alike 1t is
true the whites and blacks are separated,
but both are educated just alike. So the
seeds of education and religion have taken
root and grown up from our very camps and
battlefields
How it thrills the heart of all true Ameri-
can veterans of the war to see the New South
coming to the front so rapidly and develop
ing her natural resources of mine quarry
and forest; planting schools of learning,
building and filling with people commOdious
meetlng-houses, printing and distributing
daily Tapers, such as Louisville Courier
Journal, Chattanooga Times, Atlanta Con-
shfution, and others, and learning the diff
cult lesson that Northern gentleman is
just as good, brave, courageous, moral, and
intelligent as any other gentleman from any
place on this green earth of ours /; and, above
all, all learning that we are no longer
Yank and Johnny" but are now all
Americans under one glorious flag, and that
flag odd Glory" and ruled by one grand
law, Freedom to al who will do right"
The last Reunion Of members of the Signal
Corps was ON the steps at Mr.. Wards home
in Chattanooga, Sept. 20. The following
persons were present: Capt. Samuel Bach
tell, Columbus, o.; Capt. B. Il. Wood, Albany,
n. Y; Lieut.. VIM. Ware, Glenwood, Fla;
Serg't G. W. ID. Marcy, Boston, Mass; Serg't
James III. Kelly, Albany, n. Y, and the
writer of these notes.
Some had never met each other before :;
others had not since 1864; others had met
at soldier meetings since. 1 had not met
Capt Bachtell since October, 1864, and this
meeting was almost accidental. But soon the
Reunion was at an end, the hands met in an
earnest grasp, the good-bys said, and we
parted, but with the ties of soldier comrade-
ship more firmly bound than ever before.
(Thc end)
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ical points about the city, both Union and
Con nfederate Said this Confederate soldier:
MANY places of interest made memorable
by the Revolutionary war are to-day un-
known, because the actors in their lifetime
did not mark the spots in permanent man
ner; and now we, though many are poor,
are trying to profit by their neglect of duty,
and will mark the important places"
This is worthy of the highest cOmmenda-
ton. Let others in the South follow their
lead. This Confederate, whose name, we
regret has been lost, was an officer of artil-
lery in Longstreet's Corps, and he was on
Lookout Mountain just above the Craven
House when the Indiana battery on Moe
casin Point threw the first shell at Lookout
Point, the shell passing near him, and going
on, burst, killing several men; and, sineu-
larly, Serg't James III. Kelly was on the
signal station on Moccasin Point at the time
Fall of 1869, and assisted to direct the
gunners where to throw their shells and
Comrade Kelly and the Confederate shook
hands and talked in an American way about
the days of war. Said the Confederate to
Comrade Kelly, when told of Kelly's work
and duties:
"Well, thanks, the next shell did not
come near me-"
The guns were elevated to reach the Point
higher up, where the Confederates had their
signal station. After Longstreet's Corps
went back to Lees army, this same officer
was in a rebel fort in Petersburg, Va, that
shelled a fort on our line which replied to
the rebel fort, and our gunners were directed
how and where to fire by Serg't Marcy, who
had charge of the signal work in our fort
and now, more than 30 years afterward, the
three meet in the thr0ng at Atlanta and
talk it over they compare notes of the
past. How strange events come to pass
and how deadly enemies of former days
now meet in peace, and all rejoice that the
war ended as it did
Coming back to Chattanooga in the same
car with us was Gen. Longstreet, now some
70 years old and much broken. All our
party had an introduction to him, but as he
is very deaf conversation could not be kept
up except with the aid of an ear-trumpet.
From the car window we again caught
glimpses of once-familiar spots, and noticed
with hearty satisfaction that in some of the
identical spots where, in 1864 we camped and
fought now stands schoolhouse or a meet
ing-house, and in some places both now
stand. The buildings are neat, comfortable,
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Curious.
rHdrpsrs WsstiVl

We are informed that in Nevada there is a
toboggan slide which starts in an ice palace
up in the mountains and descends into an
orange grove. slide down hill in life does
not usually have such conditions, for the tenn
perature of the world is apt to lower with the
fall.
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Gold in Colorado

Colorado is having the biggest kind of a
mining boom. She expects to get out about
$20, ,0oO, 900 of gold this year, or twice as
much as last year. The Cripple Creek region
is pronounced the richest gold country in the
world, next to the Witwatersrand i'll the
Transyaal
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A Pirates Trophy on Exhibition.

There was exhibited in the Confederate
Relic Room of the Atlanta Exhibition an en-
broidered picture of Abraham Lincoln, made
by the order of the Emperor of China, and
sent by Kim to the President, but captured
on the way by Capt Semmes, in the Alabama.
1t belongs by rights to the Lincoln family,
and its retention by the Semmes family is q
piece of dishonor.
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When all the stock was sold, when the
dark, old adobe storeroom was empty, save
Of the shadows, and when the Captain was
almost in despair, there came a stroke Of
luck such all true lovers deserve For
30 such assembly as had gathered there
could disperse without a fiesta or a dance
All day long there was much explosion of
powder and fighting of chickens back of the
church, feats of borsemanship, feasting and
drinking of sour pulque and fiery mescal
And at night out in the open air, with the
stars and the half-moon looking down, by the
blaze OF score Of torches Oh the hard,
bare ground in front of the stately mission,
the dance was given. Estella was 10 be
there. She, usual, did not attend such
things, and even when she did, took no part.
For she was a Castilian, intended for higher
things, and these were the amusements of
the common people, the halfbreeds and the
Indians. But 10 please the Captain, the
duenna being in attendance and graciously
giving permission, he could have dance
with her. We'll it was the Commandant was
away, or the Captain had never had his
dance.
There she was, radiant as the evening star !;
and as the mandolin, the guitars and the
Violins thrilled out in a sweet wild Mexican
waltz the sweetest and the saddest music
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1867. 1896.
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