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Mardi Gras.

New Orleans. La, February Is
1896. For the above occasion the
Cotton Belt Railway will sell round
trip tickets to New Orleans at one
fare. For further information, etc,
call on or address, B. Fl. WILSON,
Agent.
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The Washington Presbytery
reprimanded the Talinageiles for
forcing Rev Adolos Allen to retire
from the First Presby terrain Church
of w ashiBgtOn.
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PROGRAM.
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city Of Santa Fe Court Of Isabella Time,
1l92.
Vocal Solo .-.. Miss Hennie AitheimeI
parasol Dance.
sCEHE II.
Palos farbor. The Departure. Time, August
), 1892
SCENE III.
Columbus Lands in the New World, San Sal
vador, Oct. T., li92.
SCENE ".
Fancy Dance. --...... Future May Bloom
StreeIs OF Barcelona. April "A, 1883. Triumph
ial Procession Of Nations in Honor OF the
Discovery Of the New World.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-02-08

ACE 2-SGENE ].
jamestown 1907 Pocahontas' Solo Dance,
Rescue of Captain Jonn smith
SCENE II.
Alabama Coon. The puritans, IG2f Miles
Standish, John A lden and Priscilla. Indian
ilostilities
SCENE III.
William Penn aud the Quaker Colony
SCENE ~.
Washinston's inaugural Ball, 1859. Court
Dance.
SCENE v.
VAR of Secession. Exhibition drill by
Charming Young Ladies'. Surrender OF
Lee 70 Grant. Appomattox Court House,
April9, 1860.
ACT 3-seENE /.
Uncle Sam Welcomes the Nations and
Flowers Of Independence and Progress l.
Spanish Dancers. 2. Chinese Expulsion
Act. .. American Dancers. 4. English
Peasant Dancers. s. Dutch Dancers q
Invention OF the Telephone. z. Invention
Of the Typewriter.
SCENE H.
Grand Tableaux- Goddess of Liberty Sur
rounded by Nations and Inventions.
Chorus America.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-17
LOST a s5,0OO.OOO FEE
Ana IL Now mu Inmate of IL Lunaiic
Asylum.
(Nev; York Journal.)

In 1892 George w. Wilson ranked
among the ablcst practitioners at the
New York bar. 1t was in November
of that year that he undertook the case
which has robbed him of his reason
and made HIM snc inmate OF Il eel IN
the ward Of incura bles at Blooming
dlle-;he famous Seaman Will contest.
The Seaman heirs who Were not includ-
ed in the will determined in November
1892, to fight more vigorously for the
great fortune they declared should be
theirs. So GilbcTt Shute. as their rep
resentative. consulted Mr.. Wilson and
placed The interests of the heirs in his
hands. Twenty millions of dollars was
the vast sum al stake The heirs Of
fered $5.000.000 OF this 10 SIR. Wilson if
he won the case. From hat day law
yer Wilson was a different man. Grad
ually all other business va, abandoned
by him, and he devoted his time t.
she contest for millions. Il strange fac.
was that he ncve. seemed 20 consids.
the probability of defeat and constant
~ planned what he would do with TIC
81. 600 600.
The most eminent lawyers we've en-
gagged by the beneticiaries of the VII. 70
r"p~Pse''t 'Nnn Nevn~ WIS 49,
tie more desperately contested. Still AIR.
wilson Jaw oniy omens OF vlctoly Step
BY step the case advanced to ;ria!
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-17
Among Our cotton Non.

Texas reports rain; Gear weather and
rising temperature in other PARTS of IN p.
cotton belt.
Bar silver in London advanced I'd
3Okd per ounce.
Spot cotton in Liverpool declined l-S2l
Future contracts declined partially
point.
New York future contracts Chased
quiet, TO ) points decline. Sales. l2i .g03
bales. October. 1.53 to 75i; January.
$50 10 I.S6; May, sos to sos
New Orleans future contract markc .
declined points. January. 7.iS.
The sales of spot cotton in Liverpool
the past week were &C, 600 bales, against
S0,0c0 bales same week last year and
$4,000 bales III 1894.
Receipts at New Orleans for to-day
are estimated at from 10000 to lG. 600
bales, against 1860 bales last year and
22,9i2 bales in 1894.
Norfolk received 43, l64 bales cotton the
past week.
The cotton movement past week hss
been as follows:
Receipts at u. s. ports
Tor week .............. 331 56l 90 4g7
Exports week L. S.
ports ................. l232i7 l522l0
Stock U. s. ports 49,. l,OOS,41s 7Cg.9iO
Receipts for plantation
testiinaieD .......... 3f0,5S2 345,0?S
Brought in sight (est.) i245S2 4O5.2iO
Total crop in sight
teStimated) ......... .2.2l9.12S l.52S,4T7
Lady Isabel Douglas Hamilton. wit;
Ing on behalf OF herself and sisters. has
siGnliied their Willingness to join tho
Hamilton order Of Good Templars In
closed In the letter was "A check for
20 pounds.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-17

ran down like m eight dry clock. Nc
wonder TINT in tho unutterable silence
fun of death bells and the low ticking OF
the grave watch in the walls, the minds of
the prisoners We're focused 60 small and
SO far that they could hear the wheeling of
tho stars and the slow, great march of the
suns through space.
At first It was aberration; then by slow
erosion Of years It became denentia, in
sanity, idiosy. With two mon so consti.
suted tho halter or tho guillotino would
have been more humane.
According to n majority OF crlminolo.
gists, solitary confinement is all right as IA
punishment for refractory prisoners. It
brings them around to tructability, where
any amount OF beating or stringing up by
the thumbs or any form of physical tor
turo will fail. They will seldom hold out
for more than As hours.
But from all that can DO learned neither
Whitehead nor Gallagher was refractory.
Their alteration was taken for simulated
insanity, and in the effort to euro them
their dcmcntia was increased to the stage
of iucurability
Solitary confinement in this country,
except as n means Of punishment for OBJ
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-17
Link by link the chain of evidence of

Link by link the chain OF evidence of
ie.-~I- ."ese received by Mr.. Wilson.
He was warned that he would be at
tacker personally. One day he was
Nothing daunted him, however. He
worked harder than eyer before and
laughed AT. all suggestions of failure.
Al last the case came to trial In the
state supreme court. Though Il dozen
lawyers appeared for the defendants,
Mr.. Wilson scoffed at the idea of as
sstance and fought the battle single
handed. When the evidence was ali in
Mr.. Wilson left the court room with n
smile on his face. but IL was the last
he planned and replanned "a to what
ne would do with the vast fortune
whlcn he would receive. so that the next
day when lie returned 20 the cour; and
learned that the other side had won.
that the fortune he had reckoned uDon
had slipped from his grasp. he uttered
groan and fell TO the ground. He
was driven in Il carriage to his home
where he raved about the 81, 900 900 for
MANY weeks. He wa. never he anne.
man afterwards. Silent and morose.
he brooded over his downfall until his
mind gave way
Not until few weeks ago was il
round necessary to remove the lawyer
10 an insane asylum. After he had
lost the case, bu. before he had BECOME
dangerously insane Wilson told the
boy of the same building
where he had his Office that he would
give him 100000, and every day he ar
rived at his office be begged pardon be-
cause he was unable TO fulfil his prom
lsc. The policeman on hi beat near
ms residence was to get half million.
10 mayor Strong he one ed million
outright. but the mayor declined the
offer. Who ever went to see Wilson M
his Office he promised fortunes. II am
worth S5OOO,000" was what he said. but
to-day he finds himself confined i'm n
padded cell in the Bloomingdale Asylum
aeSHhed 10 end his day behind tLi
bars. Physicians says his d:sea.p is in
durable.
In appearance Mr.. Wilson Is almost
The counterpart of Daniel Webster. to |
whom he bears Il startling resemblance !
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-17

any Of these II is the comiuoucst trouble
that human beings suffer from. II is so
common that nc.tenths of all the sickness
i'll the world IS traccable to it, II is merely
that simple, common thirg-consiipa;ion
There is 10 telling what ii may lead TO, but
it is sure to lead To something bad. Its i'm
mediate effects are unpleasant i'll the OK
treme. II makes people liEtlcs5, gives
them headaches, makes the digestion poor,
causes dizziness, loss OF appetite, loss of
sleep, foul breath and distress after eating
All this merely because Nature has been
imposed upon, and has been refused the
little help she needed
This little help is furnished By Doctor
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. One pill is
gentle laxative and two a mild cathartic.
There are two remarkable things about the
Pellets" One is that they never gripc;
the other tina, they cure permanently
There is no other medicine tina; does cure
permanently. You can take any other
medicine you like, as long as you like, and
quickly, and the chances arc the trouble
will be worse than it was before. This
isn't true of DR.. Picrcc's Pleasant Pellets.
You take them until you get yourself into
perfect working order, aud then You stop.
You don't have TO take any more Pellets )"
unless after while you do something that
derangcs your digestive system again We
are not guessing about these facts. and VIC
don't ask YOU TO take our unsupported word
for ii. Thousands of people have found
that they arc true, aud have testified to
them. Let the druggist who says that some
thing else is jus; as good !" sell that some
thing else to somebody else. Don't let him
tri0e with your health for the sake Of
little more profit TO himself
Worlds Dispcnsary Medical Association,
No. COS Main Street, Buffalo, n. Y.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-17

Centuries ago, PEG
pie used to fear what
they called the pcs
thence. . Black
Death - was the
most terrible thing
in the world to them.
They feared it as
people now fear the
'Ciiolera and Yellow
Fever. And yet
there is a more terri
bic thing than any
of these. There is
Il thing that causes
more misery and
more deaths than
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-17

but their own heart beats and the dull.
echoless thump of their own footsteps, pac-
Ing mp ana down and crossing over and
over again In ceaseless endeavor to get
away from themselves, rapidly wore away
their mental balance
To stop, to DO idle for moment was to
face the horror of IA living tomb. To pause
for M instant was TO calculate-twice :,
are seconds, twice 4 are 8, twice 30 sec.
onds are a minute. 60 minutes an hour,
and so on to days and nights and weeks
and months and years.
No wonder the tortured brain, turning
- this restricted circle. More itself out and
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-17
Homes For Conpiata

AN order known as Pentecost Bands
mas founded home in indianapolis for
.ohvicts Just released from the penitcn.
'Nlry INC men will DO maintained until
work can he procured for them.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-17

me price ranges from $500 to $500.
mere is saving from sac to $500 on
each Ihe styles are perfect; every de-
S!rahie now one is here-Beaver. Ker-
SeE' irish Fric2c. English Homespun,
hourette edects. Two-Toncd. Ample
room ana perfect light on the great sec
ond floor. easily reached by elevator.
Ladies and Children are both provided
for.
Three lots of Ladies' White Wool I'm
dcrwear. CO.. sac. and $780, we'll worth
$1.O0. Sl.25 and sl.50. The coming
styles outlined by the Court Costumers
Of European Capitals. Suggestions of
great value to those who follow fashion.
\ beautiful Illustrated book, 1Oc.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-17
MRS. SIECINDIVER.

Mrs. Mary Sincirdiver was in the po-
lice Court to-day 10 answer for shooting
her huSbandaa few weeks ago. Import
ant witnesses We're absent and the case
went over until newt Wednesday Sin
cindiver was present. He is now nearly
well. Mrs. Sincindiver has been much
improved in her appearance since her
confinement in Jail, where she could
not get liquor.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-17
MRS. a. b. WELLS DEAD.

Mr.. a. Il. Wells. some years ago a
wellto-do tobacconist. died here yester-
day. He had been living a quiet. mod
est life and working on small salary
for several yenrs
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-17
Singular Accident

Mhiie at play in cemetery ut Halifax
girl leaned against u tombstone. bncL ~
which her brother was sitting, and 1t fell
on him, breaking his thigh.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-17
ruER SERVICE


IVE StN IT III ytIIS.
STATE WEATHER SERVICE.
The State Board OF Agriculture has
set on foot a movement looking to
largely improving the State weather
service. II is hoped to be able 10 display
bulletins at all telegraph stations.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-17
WHAT MORE COULD Be DESIRED ?.

Elevated, breezy, cool, healty perfect
drainage, excellent location, good sur
roundngs, boating, salt w-tcr bathing,
fish, oysters, crabs, the Park, beautiful
water front, electric ears, quick and
pleasant transit, six minute service and
iive-cent fare to and from the city. low
prices and easy terms to buyers. Such
is the combination offered to home seek
ers and investors in Norfolk's latest and
prettiest addition-VILLA HEIGHTS.
Map and full information at Office. 4O7
Columbia Building.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-28
RE CAREEUE.

Some things which have happened in New Haven during the last week make 8 word of warning timely It may be easy to start row at a political meet ing. It is not easy to tell what a row once started will lead to. It may lead to the lookup, the hospital or even the grave. Any dweller in New Haven who should get into either of these places as result of row at a political meeting would be sorry, if he could think The best time to think is before hand. Straight and sensible thought then will prevent sorry thinking be- hindhand.
 Be regardful of the great right of free speech and don't do anything to provoke free fight in which others besides those who seek trouble may get
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-28

from which it was rescued by Napo- leon, who forced the nation back to sound money by discarding the vast mass of paper currency as worthless trash.
 The proceedings at Chicago recalled to MT White the history of the French experiments and of it's terrible results The speeches of the Parisian revolu- tionist demagogues came back to him, and reading those made at Chicago by men clamoring for fiat silver and fore shadowing fiat paper, he seemed to hear Martineau demanding the emis- sion of the first 4OO,OOO,OOO Of assignats, and showing that such money is the best, because 1t reposes on the will of the people," It reminded him of Mira beau, who had but six months before declared that fiat money was "a nur- sery of tyranny, corruption and delu- sion; veritable debauch of authority in delirium," but who later advocated the theory he then opposed" He could again hear Prudhomme declaring: "Coin will go on rising until the people have hung a broker" He recalled Couthon's having caused the passage of an edict to punish any person selling paper money at a price less than its face value with Imprisonment for twenty years in chains, and next a law punishing with death those making in vestments abroad" He saw before him those same French demagogues who, when farmers refused to sell their produce for worthless fiat money, carried laws which obliged the farmers under pains and penalties to bring in their grain, the millers to grind it and the merchants to sell it."
 The French financiers tried the ex- pertinent of opposing natural laws and they were badly beaten Could the fiat money men of day succeed any bet ter than they did?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-28
R-GHT.

Do you think it's all right to go to church on wheel?" "Why, yes. They say it's always better to have an ob- jective point Life.
 'fWhy did assume the shape of a serpent when tempted Eve?' repeated the prince of evil. "Oh I wished to be very sure not to put my foot in it." Saying which he lit fresh cigar.-De- troit Tribune.
 The Doleful Bachelor.-"Why, asked the Sweet Young Thing, why do they say that love is of the heart?' "To show said the Doleful Bachelor, Ito show that the brains have nothing to do with t."-Indianapolis Journal
 The Sunday School Teacher-What is meant by the seeds of dissension? Mary Jane Griggs-Please. ma am; they puts 'em in fruit jar and seals em up an if you guesses right you gets a bedroom set or a tandem bisickle-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 A Suggestion.-Old Richfellow (des- perately)-If you refuse me- what is there left for me to do? Sweet Girl We'll, I read the other day about a rich man who made his will in favor of the woman who refused him, and then went out and hung himself.-New York Weekly.
 livery mon," said Denny Dolan, who was parading his knowledge for the benefit of his parents. 'hov foive sinses be roights." ''Yist' replied MT. Dolan;
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-28
FLAT IND FOOL MoNEF.

Perhaps no illustration of the evils of fiat and fool money is more impressive than that furnished by the financiering of French statesmen during the revo- lution. Hon. Andrew D. White in the September Forum gives a graphic ac- count of that financiering, which flood
 ed France with assignats aggregating sS,O60.O00, OOO thus filling the country with fiat paper currency until the de- structfon of business, the abject dis tress of the working classes, and the creation of an aristocracy of stock gamblers and money dealers plunged the country into a slough of misery
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-28

When speaking in his presence John- ny's parents would often spell any word they did, not wish him to hear. This worked very well for a while, but final ly Johnny himself learned to spell, and sprung his accomplishment on his pa rents one day at dinner. Their pastor was dining with them and Johnny, noticing the minister take his third help of short-cake, complacently ob- served Mamma, don't you think the minister is h-og Washington Times.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-28
THE RISE IN WHEAT.

While the Boy Orator and his aiders and abetters are telling the farmers that the .'crime of 1S73'' has demolished the price of wheat and that the price will go lower and lower until that crime is repented of the price of wheat Is rapidly rising. The reasons for the rise are plain. There is a shortage in the worlds supply of wheat. This shortage first became conspicuous about the first of September, when the report of the Hungarian minister of agriculture was made. His reports are always influential in the wheat trade. He estimates the shortage at 1000. GuD bushels-50, ,00O, ,000 in the United States. Since that report was made it's conclu- sions have been substantiated by other reports, including that of our own gov ernment made September 10. There has been an unusually large exporta- tion of wheat and flour from this coun- try during the last month, the markets have been active and the price of wheat has risen so that the value of the wheat in this country has increased about $50, ,OoO, 900.
 This is cheering and it shows that the great law of supply and demand is still in operation. The silver howlers talk and act as if they would repeal that law if the people would only give them chance. Its workings just now are certainly troublesome to them.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-28
FASHION NOTES.
Hats Sliding Forward.

A coming trick in millinery is to tip the hat over the forehead Every one is going to, and in many cases the result will be awful An elderly woman of fat features, for instance, with a hat whose brin seems prepared to slip off the end of her nose, will be sad spec tacle, but what does she care? This tippy wearing of the hat settles the question of hair in front, and will make arranging for the street much easier. The brims of hats will still be laden out of sight with trimming, but the much newer mode which is just ap- bearing now and not to be noticed at all by most folk till next year shows hats trimmed with simplicity, striking but not overloaded Of this sort is the Louis XVI. hat shown here It is of green braided felt and velvet. it's wide brim slightly turned up in front at the edge and narrowing toward the back. The rather high crown is banded at the base and near the top with narrow black velvet. In back against the brim is placed g. spray of mistletoe berries
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-28
Rights of the Citizens of New Haven vs.

Rights of the Citizens of New Haven vs.
 Railroad Rights.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER
 The question of what is to be the re- suit of the agitation for the replace ment of blanks at the Hazel and Ivy street crossings over railroad tracks is now occupying the minds of many res idents of this end of the city, and in order to throw more light on the sub- ject I would ask the use of your valu- able space. The question as it now stands has narrowed down to thisi Are. citizens to be defrauded of the use and protection which these two streets should be and should afford to them simply because the railroad company, in a high handed manner, has said, the railroad belongs to us and we have q right to tear up the blanks at the cross- ings at any time and stop traffic and travel? The citizens of this city claim the railroad company has no such right I will try to show whats the rights of a large number of property owners west of the railroad tracks, be- tween Thompson land Bassett streets, are They are assessed and pay taxes which entitle them to the best of fire protection, but should a fire occur in this large districtthe alarm Is sent in from the nearest box, at the corner of Shelton avenue and Hazel street, just east of the tracks. The engine responds to the call and reports at the box It then has to turn about and go back to Thompson street or continue on to Bas- sett street in order to cross the tracks
 These streets were both opened and accepted by the city long before the blanks were removed by the railroad company, and in my opinion the city has as much right to build stone wall across the railroadF tracks north and south of these two streets as the rail- road company has to tear up blanks and dig ditches at the Hazel and Ivy street crossings.
 THOMAS s. BAILEY,
 Ex-Councilman of the Ninth Ward.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-28

but there's no contintin' some folks The fellys thot runs the sthrate cars ain contint wid their own foive sinses but must be afther the publics foive cintses, too, Washington Star.
 An Economical Darky --Gabe Snod- grass recently applied to the Reverend Whangdoodle Baxter of the Blue Light Tabernacle for some pecuniary assist ance. T jess kain' do hit.' replied Parson Baxter; T has ter sport my pore ole mudder." But yer pore ole mudder says yer dcn' do muffin fer her" Well, den, eff I don do muffin fer my pore ole mudder, whut's de use ob an outsider like you tryin' ter make me shell out t?'-Texas Sitter
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-28
Advertising Rates.

Situations, Wants, Rents and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each fu- sertion. Five cents q word for full week (seven tiues.)
 Display Advertisements-Peri inch, one fn- sertion, 20; each subsequent insertion, 4O centa; one week. S3.20; one month, $l0; one year, $40.
 Obituary notioes in prose or verse. 11 cents per line. Notices of births, Marriages, Deaths and Funerals, 50 cents each. Local notices 16cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers arc limited to their own immedlte business {all matter to be unop- jectionabie), and their contracts do not h. clude Wants, To Let, For SaIe, etc.
 Discounts-On two inches or more one month and over, 10 per cent; on four inches or more. one month and over. l6 per cent