The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-07-02

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THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1896.
EIGHT PAGES.
The New York gang who went out TO
hear Tillman the other night made a.
monkey of the pitchfork statesman.
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The Providence Journal declares that
nAltgeld stands for pretty nearly every
thing that is demoralizing and danger
GUS in American political life.
An actress in a California Dramatic
Company, Miss Lansing Rowan, has
challenged Champion Corbett to meet
her in scientific sparring match.
Talking of the G. o. p. managers
again reviving the monopoly tariff. it's
quite coincidence for new Chinese
wall to begin at Canton. remarks an
exchange.
In August, it is reported from Madrid
twenty nine steamers will leave Span
fish ports with $4,000 infantry. Other
1900 will be sent from Spain to Cuba
In September.
The Philadelphia Times says that a
Mckinley necktie is on the market
While not limited to any particular So
cial occasions, it would seem to go best
with party collar.
The Hon. Carrot A. Hobart rides n
DiCycle. 10 tn
why the wheelmen of this country
should feel that they are not properly
represented upon the ticket.
What will Minister Breckenridge do
with the gorgeous coat and purple knee
breeches in which he appeared Mt the
coronation? He dares not bring them
back to Arkansas, says the Galveston
News.
HOBART Is expected to make New Jer-
sey Republican, but Senator Smith SAYS:
New Jersey will give its electoral vote
TO the Democratic party, as it has not
failed to do SO, save once, for thirty-
Ave years.
The Montgomery Advertiser says that
affairs in Alabama were so badly mis-
managed by Republican officials that
per cent. obligations were sold at dis
count OF 80 and 40 per cent. The people
mac to lose millions by the operation.
The Boston Herald says that the at
Tempt to make it appear that the tariff
is to be the most exciting issue of the
present campaign is so directly in the
FACE OF facts as to have the aspect OF
oehg not much more than perfunctory.
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The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has
rendered decision which invalidates
the incorporation acts of villages Great
ed since 1858, thus enabling them to
repudiate their debts and hold their
city halls. sewer systems and other i'm
provements without paying for them
The Guatemalan authorities are hold
Ing free American citizen for trivial
defalcation. failing to pay over the in
significant sum of 100000. Where are
our battleships. that our heroic adven-
turers are thus imposed upon by the
measiy foreigners? Let US make the
indemnity several million dollars. says
the Galveston News.
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hatred between Spaniards and Csibans.
.eays: Even should the Spanish govern
ment turn squarely back on its princi-
pies and traditions of centuries and es-
tablish and maintain every reform posi-
Bile in Cuba, this hatred would still be
alive. al least for couple of generations
for 1t is savagely instinct in the blood Of
both peoples.
The Chicago Record says that only
one man ever declined a Vice Presiden.
fial nomination. That was BENJAMIN
Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, who was orr
iEinally named on the straightout Demo-
cratic ticket with Stephen A. Douglas
at the Charleston Convention, in 1860,
AND refused to accept, whereupon Her
;schel v. johnson was substituted by the
National Committee.