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ACROSS THE WATERS.

The disgraceful scenes which have
taken place in this country are too IA
miliar to need any reference here.
The following cable-gram from Italy
will show that the condition is the
same across the water:
ROME. December 1S-A disgraceful
row occurred in the Chamber of Depu-
ties to-day, upon the occasion OF the
discussion of the allowance to be voted
for the use OF the Prince OF Naples,
Grown Prince OF Italy.
In the course of the debate Signor
Costa (Socialist) denounced the pro-
nosal tn grant an allowance to the
Grown Prince, and urged the abolition
of all allowances to the Crown. Con-
tinuinp his speech, he declared that
the monarchy was not only useless,
but dangerous institution: whereup-
on the President OF the Chamber inter-
rupted him and forbade him to speak
further. A frightful uprOar ensued,
deputies jumping over benches and
flving at one another's throats, while
Others exchanged knockdown blows.
The tumult lasted some time. and
when order was restored it was found
that several deputies had been severe
ly handled.
When the Chamber became compar-
atively quiet, the Marquis di Rudini
Prime Minister, attempted to reply to
Signor Costa, but his voice was drown
ed in the shouts and jeers OF the Socl-
alists.
Finally, a bill granting an annual al
lowance of 1 900 900 francs was carried
amid great confusion.
1
The participants in this affair are
all educated and yet cite us case
where more discreditable affair has
ever taken place amidst the wilds o.
Africa, the jungles of India or upon the
rice-plantations of the Southland.
This is the education DR.. CURRY
which you say should entitle an Amer
lean citizen to exercise the elective
franchise. Should we educate the head
or purify the heart? Which i
needed most?
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26

1.-THE best oyster experts that know
of. I" said the captain of an oyster boat,
Judge an oyster by the smell, instead
of by the taste. There is something
about the smell of any oyster that indi-
Gates its condition to me much palmer
than does the taste. People buy them
and eat them probably on account of
their taste So also do they buy tea,
coffee and the various grades of whisky
and brandy for their taste, but all ex-
perts on those things pass upon them
entirely by their smell. The professional
tea faster or whisky faster, so called,
never tastes them, but simply arrives at
their taste by their peculiarities of fla
vor, or, to speak plainly, smell
81 can tell what price q load of cys-
tiers will be rated at when they arrive at
the wharf here by opening up the hold
of the boat and smelling. In eight cases
out Of ten am right. 1t strikes oyster
men as strange when they see persons
going about from boat to boat, as they
lie at the wharf. tasting oysters before
they conclude to buy. Taste is all right
but if they don't smell right they will
never taste right Washington Star.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26
THE MURDER AT NEWPORT NEWS

THE murder at Newport News, Va
of LOUIS CHIcK, colored by J n. b.
COCK. white, was a dastardly crime,
and it is a surprising thing that Judge
BABHAM should have granted bail in
the sum of $l5Oo.Oo.
The lives of our people are consider
ed Of small Importance when the per-
sons who take them belong to the
white race.
No one charges that the colored man
was armed, and it seems doubtful now
chat BocooK has any authority for even
essaying to do what he did.
lie has caused vacancy at 9 hearth
stone. He has bathed relatives in
tears, while he sits within the confines
Of the Jail awaiting ''vindication" at
the hand of Jury of his peers"
We cannot believe that the better
class of white people of the seaport
town endorse the cowardly action of this
young ruffian, this tho1ghtless wretch.
this red handed murderer.
And yet it would seem so in the face
of this nominal bail which has been
demanded. 1t is the forerunner Of only
nominal punishment or an acquittal.
Colored people are great ones" for
carrying their troubles to God, consol-
ing themselves with the thought that
he will bring all things right in his owl
time. And where else can they carry
them? Not to their friends, for they
4 are helpless; not to the courts, fol
5 there the doors are slammed in thei
= faces not to themselves, because TIL
e strain entailed would'be too great ant
vengeance would be wresked upol
them by their oppressors.
BooocK will have no peace @
mind in this world. The mute form c
the man he murdered will haunt hiI
, to his grave. Awake or dreaming, tn
accusing features of his hapless victiI
= Will remind him of the dastardl
crime, and his children. If he ever b
blessed with them, will have the legs
cy of a murderer handed down to thel
n and the generations which are to 70
N low.
l. He gave this colored man no chanC
lie for his life he took mean advantag
<, because he went armed for the pu
pose.
N Colored men who live can take wal
ut ing by the one who is dead. Bett
hang from the gibbet for manly d
fence of ones self than to be sh
- down like cur, and leave sorrowiI
a. friends to bemoan our untimely takiI
off
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26
He ATE AT HEADQUARTERS.

A Hungry Newspaper Reporter who In
vtted Himself to Grants Table.
After the officers at headquarters had
obtained what sleep they could get, they
arose about daylight, feeling that in all
probability they would witness before
night either fight or foot race--a
fight If the armies encountered each
other, foot race TO secure good posi-
tions il the armies remained apart.
General Meade bad started south at
dawn, moving along the Germanna road.
General Grant intended TO remain in his
present camp till Burnside arrived, in
order to give him some directions in per-
son regarding his movements The gen.
eral sat down to the breakfast table aft
er nearly all the staff officers had finish
ed their morning meal While he was
slowly slipping his coffee young news
paper reporter, whose appetite, combin-
ed with his spirit of enterprise, had
gained q substantial victory over his
modesty, slipped up to the table, took q
seat at the farther end and remarked,
''Well, wouldn't mind taking a cup OF
something warm myself if there's no
objection. /" Thereupon seizing coffee
| pot ne poured out full ration OF that
soothing army beverage, and, after help
ing himself to some of the other dishes.
proceeded TO eat breakfast with an appe-
tite which had evidently been stimulated
by long hours of fasting.
The general paid no more attention to
this Occurrences than he would have paid
to the flight of bird across his path.
he scarcely looked at the intruder, did
not utter a word at the time and made
no mention of it afterward. 1t was 9
fair sample of the imperturbability Of
his nature as to trivial matters taking
place about bim-General Horace Por
ter in Century.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26
THE WAY BEFORE Us.

We are often astounded to note the
Antagonism which is awakened among
some Of the educated classes of our
people whenever the subject Of indus
tria. education is preached or the ne
Cessitg for trade instruction recog-
nized.
1t is at once presumed that the indi-
viduals advocating such a-course do so
at the expense of higher education.
We do not so regard it. Any one
visiting cities north as well as south
will note that but a small per cent of
the attendants at our common schools
ever reach the higher educations of
learning.
Some discontinue their Studies from
necessity and others from choice.
What are we to do with the bulk of the
population Are we to train their
hands, or are we to let them lag and
become practically useless members
Of the body polite by having nothing
to do, and not knowing what course t.
pursue
For our part, we favor trade schools
We wish TO see skilled mechanics
farmers, and competent wOrkmen w,
wish to see the educational advantages
utilized in annihilating time and space
and so far as the workman proper il
concerned, in minimizing labor.
We hope to see graduates from Hsr
ward, Yale. Cornell, Brown and othei
institutions of learning, but we arr
even more DESTROYS OF witnessing tn,
labors of q sturdy yeomanry, lined vi
for the support Of these very rnen o
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26
RUSSIAN WOMEN.


Not Long Ago They Were Treated as the
Turkish Women Are
It is curious to think what short
time it is since the emperors Of Russia
treated their womankind in the same
way they are still treated in Turkey.
says a writer in the Montreal Star. In
those days the car chose his wife. from
among his subjects, and she was never
considered his equal. The matters were
arranged in this way-on q certain day
the mobiles brought their young daugh-
ters to be looked at, and she who took
the emperor's fancy was forthwith cho-
sen to be his wife
The princesses were kept with the
same strictness as eastern princesses,
and marriage only changed their place
Of residence, but gave them no more
freedom. They were allowed occasional
~ to be present when guests were ree
ceived, to whom they would hand cup
of wine and then retire to their apart
ments. there being a suit Of rooms at
the north side of the palace reserved es-
pecially for them.
If they were i'll, the room was dark
ened before the doctor was admitted,
aud he was not even allowed to feel
their pulse, and when they drove out
the windows of their carriages had
drawn curtains.
The first czarina who emancipated
herself from this state of slavery, and
so instituted a new and happier era foI
Russian women, was the beautiful Ma
thaIia Nprvochki the second wife IA
Alexis Michaelovitch and the mother OF
Peter the Great. and her first triumph
was when she obtained her husbands
consent to drive with him in an opeI
carriage to the monastery of Troitzky,
proceeding which at the time occasioneS
a great scandal.
/ Naturally, when the Russian princes
began to intermarry with other Euro
pean royal families. they were obliGe'
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26

THE decision of the Senate Commit
tee on Foreign Relations to report IA
vorably the resolution recognizing the
independence of Cuba has produced a
profound sensation in this country,
and has no doubt been regarded with
anger by the Spanish government.
The sentiment in this country at the
present time seems to De in keeping
with the action of the committee re-
ferfed to, but wiser heads are counsel.
ling conservative action.
The Cuban patriots have made a
manly fight for independence, and it is
TO be regretted that some definite way
has not been outlined by which they
may secure at least the same rights OF
combat as are accorded the armed
hosts of Spain.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26

A Russian grand duke, one of the
ozar' s predecessors, was once the guest
os German prince. twas early in the
century In Russia the imperial double
headed eagle is to be seen everywhere
and on everything throughout the en-
pire, stamped, painted, embroidered or
sculptured- At that period the education
of grand dukes was somewhat limited.
This grand duke went out shooting in
Germany and, among other things, shot
large bird. He asked an experienced
huntsman who accompanied him what
the bird was. IAN eagle, your high
ness" was the answer The grand duke
turned on him in an irritated way.
''How can it be an eagle, he asked,
"when it has only one head?"-San
Francisco Argonaut
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26
FoReETFUL Mr.. BILLToPs.
Aud How Claude's Shoes Finally Got to
the Shoemaker

Aud How Claude,s shoes Finally Got to
the Shoemalxer's-
''Forgetful?'' said Mr.. Billtops
''Well, we'll, we'll, L Shouts say sol
haven't any memory at all. If I want
to remember anything, have to make
a memorandum of it, and then twist the
paper around my key ring. or shut it in
my knife, or tie it through the ring Of
my watch. can't remember anything
at all
Mrs. Billtops tried for days. to get
me to take Claude's shoes to the shoe
makers. He'd worn them through on
the soles and put on his best shoes 20
wear while the others were being fixed.
Every day Mrs Billtops would put the
bundle on the table near me as / read
the paper and say:
Now, Ezra, don't forget the shoes.
land 1 would look at them and say
all right, and then forget all about them
and go away without them
lone morning Mrs Billtops said tc
me. Ezra. have put Clande's shoes in
your hat
THAT really did seem like business.
It did really seem as though when
came TO pick mp my hat would take
the bundle out of it and put the hat on
my head. and that them being ready tc
go and having the bundle actually il
my hands. would take it along anC
leave it at the shoemaker's. / laughed
to myself as I thought what a tremen
dously shrewd woman Mrs. BiIltops is
But
II ara as particular as am forgetful
never go out in the morning withou
first brushing my hat. took the bundle
out of my hat and laid it on the table
brushed my hat and
4'Mrs. Billtops looked at me just
little reproachfully that night when
came home, but that was all. Next da,
she took the shoes to tho shoemaker
herself. New York Sun.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26
A BOY AND AN ORANGE.
Laurence Hutton Tells How He succumb-
ed TO = Temptation In mis- Youth.

Laurence Hutton Tells How ne Succumb-
ed TO = Temptation In His Youth
The boy was taught from the earliest
awakening OF his reasoning powers. that
truth was TO be told and TO be respected
and that nothing was moro wicked or
more ungentlemanly than q broken
promise. He learned very early to do as
he was told and not 20 do, under any
consideration, what he had said he would
not do. Upon this last point he was
strictly conscientious, although once,
literally. he beat about the bush +"
His Aunt Margaret. always devoted TO
plants and to flowers, had. ON the back
stoop Of his grandfather house, q little
grove Of orange and lemon trees in pots.
Some enc OF these was usually in fruit
or In flower. and the fruit to the boy
was a great temptation. He was very
fond Of oranges, and it seemed to him
that a homemade" orange. which he
had never tasted, must be much better
than a grocer's orange. ss homemade
cake was certainly preferable even TO
the wonderful cakes made by the pro-
fessional Mrs. Milderberger.
He watched those little green oranges
big and yellow in the sun. He promised
faithfully that he would not pick any,
but he had a notion that some Of them
might drop of. he never shook the trees,
because be said be would not. But he
shook the stoop, and he hung about the
bush, which he was too honest to beat.
One unusually tempting orange, which
he had known from its budhood. finally
overcame him. He did not pick it of.
he did not shake it of. He compromised
with his conscience by lying fiat on his
back and biting off piece of IT. 1t was
not very good action, nor was 1t good
orange and for that reason, perhaps, be
went home Immediately and told on
/ himself. He told his mother He did not
tell his Aunt Margaret
His mother did not seem to be al
much shocked at his conduct as he was
But in her own quGint way she gav'
him to understand that promises wer'
not made to be cracked any more thar
they were made to be broken-that h
had been false TO himself in heart. If no
in deed, and that he must go back ant
make it call right with his Aunt Mar
Raret She did not seem TO be very mucl
shocked either; hes could not tell why
But they punished the boy. They mad
him eat the rest OF the orange.
He lost all subsequent interest in tina
tropical glade. and he has never care'
much for domestic oranges since. 81
Boy Knew" by Laurence Hutton, ii
St Nicholas.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26
TALE OF A RUNAWAY PIG.

His FonLiness For Potato Patches Led Him
Into Trouble
S.' In the old home we once had q funny
little pig. He was generally 20 be seen
In the act of running away. Hardly ever
do / remember seeing his face toward
me. He also had q knack of getting
away from all the other pigs.
The field next the house--the 'thome
FIELD, - as we used to call twas kind
of common for the hogs, cattle and
fowls. The next was potato field, and
the little pig had taken it into his head to
Get into that one. How he got In no one
Sould tell, for the field was we'll fenced
and there was no opening through which
he could enter. How did he get in?
One day watched. BE wandered IN
sort Of unnoticeable way toward D
rerooked old log, across which the fence
had been built.
Suddenly, though closely watching,
lost sight Of my little friend. But before
I had recovered from my surprise ! was
Rstonished to see him in the potato field.
"Well, now, that is very strange"
said. "How did he do it?''
went to the old log, and. 10, it was
hollow. The whole trick became quite
clear to me.
went into the potato field to drive
him out, intending to steer him toward
the end of the log so that he might gel
out the same way he got IN. Here hi
had the best of me entirely. He either
could not or would not see the log and
maintained such All air of ignorance OF
that point that had to give up the tasI
in despair, drive him out by the gat'
and bring him home by long, round
about way,
The next day made up my mind T.
play trick ON him. and / did. Iwen
out very early and moved the log just
little so that both ends would bein tn
''home field.
Then stood at some distance Off an
watched. l never was more amused 4
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26

MRS. T. H. LYBBs of st. Paul, MINI.
has issued an address calling upon the
coIored people of the country to assist
in raising funds for the erection Of a
monument to JOHN Brown.
MRS. LYLEs is the president of the
National John Brown Monument and
Memorial Association Of Women and
there is every indication that her de-
votion to this cause will be crowned
with success.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26
Shocking.

'Ah. new dramar' repeated the
playwright. About how indecent
would you like it?''
"Oh. from 15 to 30 voltsp answered
the manager.
Every we'll. -
People were by no means as easily
shocked as formerly, and art had to
govern itself accordingly. = Detroit
Tribune.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26
The Hellotrope.

The heliotrope is an emblem Of devo-
ton. This idea was probably suggested
by the curious habit presented by this
flower of turning its 4ace toward the
sun. Moore's poetical tines about the
sunfiower turning on hen god where he
sets the same look that she turned when
he rose is not founded onfact The sun
flower is nat a heiotroTe and does not
turn 70 face the sun.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26
Toed's Hollow.

DR.. Cyrus Teed of Chicago. the origi-
nator of queer religion called Koresh,
has evolved a theory of the earth that is
Just as queer. He says that the earth is
an enormous hollow globe. with crust
about 100 miles thick Thus far his the
cry does not differ greatly from that Of
the late Captain Symmes, but he parts
company with the captain in saying
that the human race and all the visible
heavenly bodies are inside Of the earth.
Consequently nobody knows anything
about the outer convex surface OF the
earth. New York Tribune.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26

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NEntered In the Post-omce at Richmond, Va.
a. second GLASS matter
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26

WE learn that Mr.. w. G. COLEMAN
will soon begin the erection of cotton
mill at Concord, N. G, and Will en-
ploy Afro-American operatives. He
has disposed of nearly all of the stock,
amounting to 500, 1000.
This is good news, and Mr.. COLEMAN
has begun his movement along right
linAs
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26

Arditi prints in his "reminiscences a
pleasant little mot of Rossini. When
Nine. Arditi was first presented to him.
the great composer bowed and said,
''Now / know why Arditi composed III
Bacio' ('The Kiss }. Again, when Ar
diti had done Rossini some trifing serv-
ice, the composer was profuse in thanks
and cordially offered him as souvenir
Zone of my wigs. +" which were arrang-
ed on stands on the chiffonier.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26

WE have received the CORNELL UNI
vERsITY REGISTER for 1857. 1t is an
exhaustive production and affords
abundant evidence not only of the va
ried and extended methods of study
but also of the number of students who
have taken advantage of it's liberal ed
vocational advantages.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26
WHITE MEN LYNOHED.
Three Launched Into Eternity-BlOod-
Stained Kentuoky-The Laws Disre-
garded-No Mercy Shown-Three
Lifeless Bodies-Wanted to
See His Mother.

RUssELLvILLE, KY, December, 49,
Dink and Arch Proctor, father and son
we're taken from Jail at O'Clock this
morning. and hanged to a cedar-tree,
just outside the Town, and Bill Proc
tor, another son, was shot and killed
in his cell. A mob of about one hun
dred men broke into the jail about 80
O'Clock this morning, by battering
down the door with sledge hammer
The jailer was forced to give.up the
cell keys. sAA stEf 5.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26

THE county has been living on cred
it since the Democrats have been in
power. and the privilege of paying is
being tenderly handed down to chill
dren who wont be born within five
years from now.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26
Ten Good Things.

There are ten things for which no one
has ever yet been sorry. These are: For
doing good to all for speaking evil to
none; for hearing before Judging; for
thinking before speaking; for holding,
an angry tongue; for being kind to the,
distressed; for asking pardons for all
wrongs; for being patient toward every-
body; for stopping the ears to a tale
bearer for disbelieving most of the i'll
reports. Philadelphia Telegraph.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-26

WE return thanks for the invitation
to attend the marriage of Miss Willie
Marie Gordon to Professor George FL
lery Moore on Wednesday, Dec. 30,
1895 at Monumental Baptist Church,
West Philadelphia, Pa, at 8 O'Clock
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