The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-01-28

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TUESDAY. JANUARY IS. 1896.
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4 The Beers are said to have sold their
3 rights in the South African gold mines
4 Originally for SSOo,o0o which are now
worth sSOo,O0o,o00.
The latest story at Washington about
\ Cuba Is that the President will recon-
4 mend the purchase of the island, says
the Courier-Journal.
Austin's salary as Englands laureate
i is $3.50 year. This about 4 dollar a day.
and en- exchange says that he is over
{ paid Perhaps he is.
n II Turkey concludes TO roost on the
back of the Russian bear. the Chicago
\ News thints she = wake up some
morrtag to find haia.. on the inside OF
the bear.
Al Asking $4,000 ounces OF gold from the
King Of Ashantet was modest for Eng
land, Usually she calculates wealth by
3the pound, remarks the Philadelphia
Times.
The Isle of Sheppey, according TO the
/ correspondent of Il London contempt
Srary, stands in serious danger of dis
appearing altogether. It is being grad
ually washed away by the sea.
a A rumor prevails in Baltimore that
! the fishing steamer j w. Hawkins,
which lay idle in that harbor for some
time. has gone on q filibustering eXpe-
gdition to aid the Cuban revolutionists.
What the country seems to need now.
says the Boston Herald. is a man like
Daniel Webster, who in one Of his eo-
fquent moods. once offered to put his
hand down into his own pocket and pay
the national debt.
Is The administration does not see its
way clear as yet to any recognition OF
! the Cuban insurgents. They have estab-
slished no form of government and, have
Sno ports which they can control, says
\ the Brooklyn Eagle.
A Chicago paper threatens to print the
gnames of the people who go to hea,
SYvette Guilbert. If it does that, lots OF
people will go just for the sake of get.
ting their names in the paper, remark.
h the Philadelphia Ledger.
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seomes and bombards New York we trus
1.-THE excursion boats will refrain from
giving offense by getting In the course
I'VE must avoid even the appearance o.
snnfairness, says the Detroit Tribune
.s The Buffalo Courier says that a wo
man living in New York bought a goosc
i for her last Sundays dinner. In the
B course OF preparing it for the oven a
q diamond flirted out Of it's gizzard. It /.
gsrpposed that the bird was descen.
3 uant OF the goose that laid the golden
s5segg.
The Charleston News and Courier Is
b making making war on big hats at the theatre
ss:lsltSShays says. Ihere are good many peo.
.HSp 2le IN charleston who have paid from
ssShISsuurto iiVe dollars for seats a the thea
s@fre tonight. 1t would be outrageous II
ssg heir pleasure should be spoiled by any
s :s.1sstl ladies wearing big hats tonight
i thstiiie newspapers are telling that q
Il Caribou clergyman last Sunday. motto.
that the choir seats were unoccp.
ieu when the time for beginning the
sgeTvicse arrived, arose and remark
NJ. gee all the singers are absent this
81 morning Let the congregation rise
End sing. Praise God. from Whom Al
50 Blessings Flow"
The Washington Times says that or
Ss zig homeward voyage Gen. Camno.
i<es with him the satisfaction Of knou.
that however much political onnor
fsIniEm may have injured him win N.
n SGrssent minister. his course as Govnrno,
KERN Cuba and commander-,n-cbiaf ha
sEsse cordial approval of the large ma ior
81 the better class of Spanish nao
j s. b island.