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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-07-09
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~. ktAk 81 And
y. .7nuTS 81 OHIO RAILWAY.
EFFECTIVE IuNE y. -

EFFECTIVE JUNE IS i25
IRA IS LEAVE RICHMOND. BROAD
STREET STATION.
$50 A. IL, Daily. with cha.r-car fll
Norfolk, Portsmouth, Ola Point
Newport News, aA- l1ca. SIZE
s:s5 p. NJ. Daiiy with Pullman. for
local stations. Ncwplr N.Hs.
Oh Point Norfolk, and Ports.
mouth connects daily WITH
Oh Dominion steamships .f
1920 \. NJ, Local train with Parlor-car
eNcep, Sunday for Rorc.Ferta
Connects at Gorlonswia fr
Orange. CuWeper. C.ly.ri.u.
Manassas, AleXandr.-. 4ri
Washington, at Union station
Char.O tesVile. for LNnclrurg.
a Basic Tor iagerstowl. g
Stanton for Winchester ami
at Covngton for Virginia Hot
Springs
2l5 p. n. Daily, with Punmans 20 ON.
ciunau Louisville. ana 81.
Louis. stops only 40 important
stations. Connects at C0vin4-
ton. for Va. Hot Spr
Meals served on DIniue-'Nf4.
No. T. Local Tran. except
Sunday, follows above -..l
from G0ri0nsyille t0 Goshen.
$50 L. 81, Accommodation, except oll-
day for CharlottessI
n e. F. y F Pi.8 or to c es,Iaso g g
and Gord0nsyille to Cincinnati
and Louisville. Meals srn
on Dinirg-Cars Connect OBJ
Covington. Va. daily, Tor H.t
Springs.
TRAINS LEAVE EIGHTH-sTRELr
STATION.
$50 A. NJ, Daily for Lynchburg Losing.
ton. Va. aud clifton Posse
Connects 90 hr.'ls. .A.
sunday, for kosney 40 l.
burg. daily With n. anl N. IS.
r., and the southern railway
for SouthWr9f and SCUM %
Bessemcr. except SUNDAY .r
Craig city, and a.. " ,lf.
Forge With No. Tor c.n-
oinnat
500 p. NJ, Except Sunday Local occom-
dalton for Gladstone
TRAINS ARRIVE Ar RICHMOND
BROAD-STREET STATION.
SO A. NJ, Daily. from Cincinnati
t0.l5 a. ~, Daily, from N9..llA aud Oh
Point
s:25 p. ". Daily. from Cincinnati and
60 p. NJ. Daily. rom Norfolk and 90
Point
as p. NJ, Except Sunday. from w. Clf-
ton Forge
TRAINS ARRIVE EIGHT -cltllt
STAT )N.
$50 a. NJ. Exceps sunday from GAG
$40 p. NJ. DAILY. from Lynchburg Les.
ingtOn. Va, and clifton l..bi-
JOHN ID. POTTS
Assistant General Pass niger As
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ALTON HOUSE,

This Popular Summer Resort
OPENED JUNE lST.
address JAMES r. GOODBYE,
Alton Depot, Nelson Comfy va
10 1f-1ru
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aps2 DIVISION Passenger Agent
Msa: !; W HerfsIkaHsstsrn RI.
AiEuzkk}kxL5LaE

SCHEDULE IN EFFECT APRIL 49, 1886
LEAVE RICHMOND, BYRD-srREEr
AGO A NJ. Daily-2icL m0nd and Norfolk
NESTlBULE LIMITED. Sc
cond-elRss tickets not accep ed
on this train
96 A. II. DAILY, THE CHICAGO FIX
PRESS" for Lynchburg, Roa-
noke. Columbus, and Chi
ca6o. Pullman Sleeper, Roa-
nOke TO Columbus: also for
Radford. Bristol, Knoxville
Chattanooga. and intermediate
points.
GsoP.M Daily. for Norfolk. SUFFOLK
ana intermediate stations.
II 80 +. NJ Daily for Lynchburg and
Roanoke. Connects at Roanoke
with Washington and Charfa-
nooga Limited. Pull.-sa Sleep
sTs SS-,.,Ee &c Memphis ana
PULLMAN SLEEPER between RICH.
MOND and LYNCHBU2G, ready for oc-
cupsncy at L, M. alNo. Pullman Sleeper
Petersburg 10 Roanoke.
Trains arrive Richmond from Lynch
burg and the West daily $40 A. NJ, and
Il. NJ From Norfolk and the East II 10
A. 81, and Nestiouled Limited. 100 T.. ~
Oiiee: "a Main street.
Il. ". COURTNEY.
District Passenger Agent.
W. B. BEYILL.
General Passenger Agent.
General Otaces: Roanoke. Va y u
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~ 2-2w

FRIGHT VIEW. OLD POINT COM
F0RT VA. Delightfully."- located; me
lawn: beautifully shaded. s.oplng to
waters edge; water pavilion; broad piaz-
zas; large rooms; excellent table, Iei u.s.
81 a day: so a week Je 11--W
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PHILADELPHIA, RICH 1A
MoND AND NORFOLK -fxRx..
STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

Appointed salllngs days: Every TUES
light.
Freight received daily until F. NJ.
Fare So on Fridays and Sundays
steamer.
For further information apply to
j. w. MCARRICK.
General Southern Agent: Office. Rockets.
w. p CLYDE q co,
myl General Agents. Philadelphia.
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THE BELMONT,

BASIC CITY, VA,
at the Junction Of the NoTi0ik ana 50
arm and Chesapeake and Ohio railways.
Whitewater: invgofating atm0spheI :
fourteen passenger trains daily. FOR iuf-
ther information, addr IS .,-.,r,,
T. NJ. GATHRIGIT,
,,.oov Proprietor
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SIMMER BOARD.

~ THE MOUNTAINS. PLEASANT
society. beautiful scenery, city references.
.,,idress +. NJ. RANDOLPH, Keswick,
Albanarle county, a. Jy f-ol
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
Divorces in Two States.

From the Cleveland Leader.
Justice Russell, of the New York supreme
court. has just rendered a decision in a di-
vorce case which ought to cause consterna-
ton among the many wealthy society wom-
ell who have secured separation from their
husbands in the courts of North Dakota
In this case man whose wife had OBJ
tanned divorce in North Dakota sued for
an absolute divorce on the statutory
ground. Justice Russell granted the decree.
He held in his decision that divorce OBJ
tanned in North Dakota after a residence
of ninety days In that state by the plaintiff
was not valid under the laws of New York
state. Therefore the wife in the case un-
der consideration was held to be still the
legal wife of the husband from whom she
thought she had been divorced. Her living
with another man constituted ground for
absolute divorce for her first husband for
the only cause assigned for separation
in New York.
This decision puts every woman who has
obtained a North Dakota divorce and has
remarked in New York in the position OF
having two husbands and living with one
in an Illegal way. Among those who have
availed themselves of such Dakota divorces
to remarry are: Mrs. James G. Blaine. Jr,
nee Nevins; Mrs. Alphonse Eugene Lam
bert, nee Carey, n niece of William Astor,
and Mrs. Fernando Yznaga, nee Mabel
Wright. The former husbands of these
women can all secure absolute divorces on
statutory grounds under the ruling of
Judge Russell.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
The Cameron Report.

From: the Chicago journal.
There are two passages in the long re-
port on the Cameron resolution to which
special attention should be called. One of
them relates to Cannings recognition of
Greek belligerency in 1895. The Turkish
government complained because the Brit
ish government allowed the Greeks a bel
ligerent character, urging that it appeared
to forget that to subjects In rebellion no
national character could properly belong.
Canning's reply was that "the character of
belligerency was not so much principle
as fact: that certain degree of force
and consistency acquired by any mass of
population engaged in war entitled that
population to be treated as belligerent,"
not only on their own account but in the
interest of all civilized nations.
This dictum of England's greatest foreign
secretary became by degrees principle in
the law of nations and that 1t makes
the way clear for recognizing the belliger-
ency of the Cubans to-day Is apparent from
the description that is given of them by
their enemies. The fact of the rebellion
is so apparent that even the president con-
fesses that two-thirds of the people are
IN revolt. The insurgents control most of
the coast line and all but small part OF
the interior. They have an excellent mil
itary organization and generals who have
outwitted and beaten the Spaniards again
and again. Actual conditions more than
a force and consistency that has crowded
the Spanish troops and people to within
easy distance of a few seaports.
Tho other passage in the report to which
reference has been made is the extract
from, Webster's famous Hulsemann letter
on the subject of Hungary. In that letter
our greatest secretary of state wrote: 1T
is not to be required of neutral powers that
they should await the recognition of the
new government by the parent state.
If the United States had gone so far as
formally to acknowledge the independence
of Hungary, although, as the event proved,
it would have been a precipitate step, and
one from which no benefit would have re-
suited to either party. 1t would not never
theless, have been an act against the law
of nations, provided they took no part in
the contest with Austria
1t is the parent state that President
Cleveland is waiting for, notwithstanding
that Cuba's status is far in advance of
that of Hungary, which was the victim of
allied despotisms. Cuba long ago got be-
yond that condition of affairs in which
recognition might have been regarded as a
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
NOT A COMPULSORY DUTY,

The patriotic voter of Kansas City can
stay away from the polls hereafter If he
wants to. without fear of a $3.50 tax before
his eyes as a result of failure to cast his
ballot The supreme court of the state has
decided that the section of the city char
ter which made this provision is unconsti-
tutionaI. The position taken by the court
is that taxes may be levied either lin money
or in services having a money value, but
that the person who pays cash does
not have TO pay any more or less
than the individual who performs GER
tain services. and vice versa, but that
It is impossible to estimate the cash
value TO the public of a vote The court
declares that 1t is degrading to the fran
chise to associate 1t with the idea of money
value.
The validity of this provision has been
doubted by many able lawyers and the de-
clsion OF the court seems TO be on the side
OF good sense as well as good law. 1t Is
conceded that it is the duty of every citi-
zen TO exercise his right of franchise, but
that 1t is a purely patriotic and not COM
pulsory duty has long been recognized.
Questions are submitted for the citizens
acceptance or rejection by the exercise Of
his choice at the polls. and in the same
way he may choose between different can
didates for public Office. and the fact that
he is allowed to choose implies that he NAV
also refuse to exercise any choice and de-
cline 10 vote. Every good citizen should
and does feel Il concern in the affairs of
state and nation which moves him TO re-
cord his will at the ballot box. but it is
an infringement of HIS personal rights to
make him vote II he does not want to.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
pRoTEcTIoN IN THE SOUTH.

The lumbermen of Georgia, Alabama and
Florida have taken steps to urge upon con-
gress the necessity of imposing stiff pro-
tective duty upon lumber. They are ask
ing a practical return TO the old Mckinley
duties in order to prevent further ruinous
competition from Canada, which has been
made possible by Democratic legislation III
the interest of free trade and the producers
of countries other than our own.' 1t is also
expected that the rice planters of the
South will ask aid from a Republican con-
gress because of burdens placed upon them
by the Democratic party.
This is all well enough. The next con-
gress will undoubtedly consider these ap-
peals. 1t will probably place duty on
lumber high enough to stimulate and fos-
ter the industry in the South as well as in
the North. The Republican party has al
ways legislated in the interest of the whole
country, and under its rule the South pros
pered along with the North and West. 1t
is a fact that the wonderful industrial
progress of the South in recent years was
made possible only by Republican legisla-
ton. The great impetus in mining man
ufacturing numbering and other industries
which are responsible Tor the making of
the New South is the direct outgrowth
of the Republican tariff policy. and if the
people of that section had been more inter-
ested in their own prosperity and less in
perpetuating a solid South for political
purposes there would be no wall now going
up from manufacturers and planters for
assistance At the last election the three
states mentioned gave large pluralities for
Bryan, a free trader Golden would have
delighted to honor. Bryan declared in con-
gress that the protective theory is vicious"
and heartily indorsed the tariff-for-revenue
plank on which he was defeated.
The Democratic party has always been
antagonistic to industrial progress and will
probably continue to be SO. 1t is TO the
Republican party that the country must
look for help in this direction. The South
will get protection and every other assist
ance in developing her great resources, but
1t is more than likely that she will con-
tlnue to roll up majorities for free trade
at each recurring presidential election for
years to come. War and race prejudice,
not business intelligence, controls the bal
lot in most OF the Southern states.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
The HorseIess Carriage.
ON the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
1t has become an axiom that what is de-
sired by the people will usually be at
tained, soonor or later. The idea of a
horseess carriage is not a new one. For
years it has been the ambition of invent
ors to construct one that would be COM
mercially available. The success of elec-
trio traction has stimulated this desire on
the part of inventors until to-day we have
in France, England and the United States
a great number and variety of horseless
carriages, propelled by electricity from
storage batteries. by gasoline and by oil.
Meme of these. however-at least, in this
cCrEtry-has obtained q commercial stand
ing, though in France the oil or hydrocar-
bon motor propelled vehicles promise to
come into quite general employment.
While the ordinary hydrocarbon motor
for road carriages appears to be the most
available, and most cheaply operated, it
is handicapped in being compelled to carry
a supply of water with which to cool its
cylinders when in operation. To obtain a
gas or oil engine that could be operated
without the use of water has been the
guest of inventors of these engines, for it
was seen that if this drawback could be
overcome the horseless carriage of the
future would be realized. -
That this desired end has been at last
accomplished appears altogether probable
from the description of the new hydrocar-
bon motor, invented by a Massachusetts
man, which appeared in the Sunday Her.
ald-which is the first description of the
same ever given to the public. From this
description of the motor and it's working
as given by one of our writers--it would
appear that the inventor had achieved the
| long-sought-for end in the creation of the
Altham motor. If this motor will prove,
| in practice, anything like the efficient eco
| norical and adaptable machine that is
| claimed for it. it will easily revolutionze
many of the stationary, and perhaps most
| of the portable, power producers now in
existence. 1t will make probable the early
| advent of the horseless carriage, and we
| may therefore expect as great revolution
| in the propulsion of ordinary road vehicles
| in the next, as we have seen in street rail-
way propulsion in the past decade.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
The Gerrymunder Must Go.

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
The assurance that Indiana will lead in
abolishing the gerrymander, the most per-
nicious of the partisan politics of other
days, gives comfort and encouragement to
other states that have suffered from these
outrageous attempts to perpetuate party
supremacy. 1t is fitting that Indiana
should blaze the way for the adoption of
constitutional and equitable apportion-
ments, for no state has witnessed such un-
fair methods in the arrangement of leg
islative districts as has the Hooser COM
monwealth. The history of politics in In
diana is a record of everchanging gerry
manders, each of which was subversive of
every principle of popular government and
each of which illustrated the desperate ex-
tremities to which political party will re-
sort in a state where the. strength of the
parties is SO uncertain and so evenly
matched.
But Indiana has bitterly repented of her
political waywardness in this regard and
both parties now promise legislation that
will prevent any partisan or unfair appor-
tionments in the future 1t is true that the
courts have accelerated the movement
toward this conclusion. but that fact does
not detract from the distinct gain to the
people along the line of good government.
Heretofore the arrival of the sixth year.
in which a constitutional apportionment
can be enacted, has been hailed by the
party IN power as q llttlnB time 10 perpe-
trate a new gerrymander. which, to re-
spond to the party exigences of the hour
must be more outrageously unfair than the
| one previously projected by the opposing
party.
The unit of apportionment has changed
in Indiana since the last apportionment,
six years ago. and it now becomes the
duty of the legislature to apportion the
number of senator's and the number of rep
| resentatives as nearly according to popula-
| tion as it is possible to do without divid-
| ing a county. The supreme court of InGi-
ana not long ago decided that it had juris-
diction over apportionments notwithstand-
| ing they affect the constitution of a co-or-
dinate branch of the government. 1t has
| declared that apportionments can only be
made every sixth year and that they must
| conform to the constitutional requirement
| for equal representation.
1t is for these reasons that the committee
appointed by the Republican majority in
| the legislature to arrange an apportion-
| ment must draft a bill that exactly COM
| plies with constitutional provisions in or
| der to have it stand the scrutiny of the
supreme court. The prospect of constitu-
| tional apportionment is highly gratifying
| to the friends of good government. The
| days of the gerrymander a device for
| securing unfair party advantage are num-
bered
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
A RIch Negra.. En.erpri.e.

From the Atlanta Journal.
w. c. Coleman, of Concord, y. c., one
of the wealthiest negroes In the country,
is now promoting an enterprise from which
he expects profitable results for himself
and his race. He proposes to build and
equip mill for the double object or
teaching and giving employment to negroes
cotton mill operatives He has dis
posed of nearly all of the $4,000 worth OF
stock with which the mill will start, and
will begin work on the building in few
weeks.
There is at present no cotton mill in the
United States which has negro operatives
Negroes are employed in a knitting mill
at Columbia, S. c., and there is a plan on
foot TO build a cotton mill in Alabama in
which negro convicts will be worked, but
the experiment at Concord will probably
get under way first Its protector is con-
fident that negroes can be used as cotton
mill operatives, satisfactorily to the mill
owners and greatly to the pecuniary ad-
vantage of the negroes themselves. After
having tried in vain to get some of the
mills already established to change their
class of operatives, so as to give the ne
groes a chance to demonstrate their ability
in this respect. or to obtain the consent
of white mill men 10 build a mill esps-
cially for that purpose, he set about the
task of raising the necessary money to
build a small one among the members OF
his own race, and he has succeeded be-
yond his expectations.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
BRUrALIr1Es NOT ALL ON ONE SIDE.

BRITALIT1ES NOI ALL ON ON1 SADS'
For the sake of fairness it might be well
to remember, while venting our Indignation
at Spanish brutaIities, that the Cubans
themselves are not a race OF innocent
lambs who simply bIeat and die when pur-
sued by the wolves Of CASTLE. The history
of Cuban Instructions is filed with ac-
counts of atrocities perpetrated by the rev.
oIutionists and the barbarism and horror
10 not lie upon one side alone, by any
means.
1t is recounted by Ramon de Ia Sagra' IN
his history of Cuba, that in the insurrec-
lions of 1874 and 1s4S the revolving negroes
and halfbreeds practiced brutailties' not
only upon the Spanish but also upon their
own kind who refused to join them Whlch
have nowhere been equaled unless in the
Indian wars of the United States.
Il might also wisely be remembered by
hotheaded people who are ready to dash
off and Join the insurgents that once upon
a time a band of Americans were aban-
doned to a dreadful fate by the very Gu
bans they had gone to save. In 1851 Mar
ciso Lopez came to the United States and
induced Colonel Crittenden to organize
regiment of 500 men and join the insurgent
cause He sailed away from Florida with
his regiment and landed at Playtas. At the
very first engagement the Cubans deserted
him incontinently and he was captured
and hanged by the Spaniards
Again in the uprising of 1863 led by Man
uel Carlos Cespedes, the barbarities prac-
ticed by the insurgents were fully as hor-
rifying as anything which has attended the
campaign of Weyler. For years this re-
bellion continued, and 1t only finds its
counterpart in the contest of our forefath-
ers with the savages.
OF course there is vast difference be-
tween barbarities when practiced by a
supposedly civilized nation like Spain and
when committed by downtrodden, en-
shaved and maltreated race like the Gu
bans. The fact that civilization exists at
all among the native population of the
island may well be a surprise when the
two centuries through which the Span
iards have kept them in slavery, ignor-
ance and wretchedness are remembered.
But it is not a question of which side
has committed the worst atrocities. If
they were equal in this regard there would
| be all the more reason why the United
| States, the great conservator of peace and
| civilization on the Western continent,
| should step in and force cessation of hos
| tilities' Both sides have been given ample
\ time to adjust their differences through a
| trial of arms, and neither appears to have
reached nearer the goal than it was at the
| start. Our business is to see that this
bushwhacking war, whose every rifle shot
echoes across our dooryard, is brought to
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
THE SPLITTING HAnrr.

The announced purpose of tho board OF
health in Kansas City TO take measures
for abating the splitting nuisance is in the
interest of cleanliness and good health and
should have the active and moral support
of the community. 1t IS the general opin-
ion Of medical practitioners that the pro-
Iniscuous practice OF eNpectorating every
where is productive OF grave evils. being
directly responsible FOR the spread of dis
ease. It is said that about eight out Of
every thousand who thus eNpectorate on
the streets and in public places are the vic
Tins OF tuberculosis. and the sputum of
these victims mingled with the dust. is
blown about by every passing breeze. thus
scattering abroad the deadly germs Other
contagious diseases are communicated in
the same manner, and any reasonable mems
ure that can be taken to mitigate the nuI-
sance IS step in the direction of true
reform.
This universal splitting is simply an UNI
clean habit and is not at all required in
tho economy OF nature. Animals do not
spit and neither do women. Man is the
only splitting animal and the habit seems
20 be growing on him. It is not confined
60 those who use tobacco or chew gum,
but 10 disgustingly general. There is no
place too sacred for the splitter. He spits
IN the church, in the theater, in the street
car, at home and on the street. There is
mo reason for it and the habit should be