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This part of the coast is extremely dan
gerots in bad weather, as the numerous
stern posts and skeletons of once buoyant
fabrics that strew the sands testify. Be
fore the life-saving station was established
many lives were lost that might have been
saved but it is close chance at best, and
often the would-be rescued and rescuers
go down together as was the case with the
good ship Dictator, which was wrecked off
this coast in 81. and whose elabor..tely
carved figurehead stands on the board
walk just north of the hotel.
The story of the wreck of the Dictator
was told to me by a weather-bronZed, dry
whiskered fisherman, with many nautical
terms and much chewing of tobacco. 1t
happened On particularly boisterous
night when the sea and the sky were join
ed in wild carousal of sleet and rain and
the distress signals could hardly be seen
from the shore, although the ship lay only
two or three hundred yards out. heavy
sea was running, and the cold was SO in
tense that the life crew were urged by the
assembled fishermen not to make launch,
but the captain of the "wrack," so called
by the narrator, signaled that he was
Masonic" and the captain of the life
crew felt fraternally bound to go to his
aid. which he did
The life boat made its way through the
mountainous surf under the lee of the
vessel, aid with difficulty succeeded in
taking aboard about twenty of the crew,
but in a moment a heavy sea threw the life
poat with Its half frozen burden under the
1t, drowning the two captains, twenty sail
ors and seven of the life savers.
On finishing his story the old mans eyes
wandered across the quiet sands and gen.
tly tumbling surf that spread it's peaceful
mirrors to the morning sky and reflected
the romping legs of little children whose
playful calling could be heard with start
ling distinctness up and down the gleam-
ing shore. to where but few PAGES dis
tant the wild riders of the storm had driv-
ell the gallant Dictator to her death, and
the gloom of wild and wntry night and
strewed the dreary morning sands with
the lifeless bodies of her crew.
TOiIers of the Deep.
There are hundred or more fishermen
who toll at the neighboring nets and who
from their courage and knowledge of the
sen are 4 valuable auxiliary to the regu-
lar life service in time of trouble. The
fisheries are noted on this part of the coast
and the hotels and cottages are supplied
with all manner of sea food right from the
nets. Great quantities of fish are shipped
to the principal cities of the coast, packed
in Ice. At times the catches are so heavy
that many of the fish unfit for use be-
fore they can be gotten out of the pounds.
The principal fish caught are sturgeon in
season, pompano, porgie, rock, Spanish
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bays and rivers that cut into the level
country. loaded with melons, corn and
small vegetables for the Norfolk wharves
for shipment TO the neighboring cities, and
as far north as New York and Boston.
The original soil of this section was NEST
unpromisng to the farmer, but plentiful
application of brains and phosphate has
made it TO blossom and bring forth fruit
and vegetables.
Princess Anne county has also produced
Virginia Beach, and Virginia Beach, in
turn, produces a desire to do nothing at
leisure and TO keep it up as long as you are
within the circle of its wiles.
Virginia Beach is directly OF the ocean
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about eighteen miles from Norfolk. The
rEr by train is made in twenty-five minutes
and the traveller from Washington reaches
here in time for breakfast, dIter good
nights sleep the water. The road was
but recently made standard gauge. The
Vanderbilt interests own the railroad, the
Princess Anne, Virginia Beach and pretty
nearly everyt hing else in sight, except Tie
ocean, the life-saving station and the i'd
der crabs. But such ownership is no
drawba ok, and ii is a kind of satisfaction
bell boys around. spill cigar ashes his
carpets and put your feet up on his porch
raildnd be comfortable.
OId-SchooI Rcspectabiiity.
A quiet and staid old-school respectable
ty pervedes the place and a sort of what
are the wild waves saying pensiveness
tinges the voice of the chief thirst-dis-
courager as he asks you whether you will
take settler or ginger ale with it,
There are no sounds of unseemly reVelry
on the boardwalk, no plehean crowding.
The voice of the dime museum barker and
the mad whirl--of the merry go-round are
not-and IL is well.
We will go to the county fair in season,
for the majesty of the sea is more TO be de-
sired than the fat woman and the multi
tUdinous voices thereof than the vocal
Wreckage of a ten-dollar-a-week Soubrette
in a cOastwise concert hall. And speaking
of singing: Virginia Beach has no NOS
QuitOes. / counted four in the dining
room one evening during land breeze, but
they oil not seem at home, and lacked
spirit. You can sit outdoors all evening
with your only girl for the time BEING
without having your remarks punctured
with There's one on my left shoulder
please Many of the ladies' wear full
dress. and the unbroken wilderness of their
shoulders is alabaster monument to
departed mosquitoes. The absence of the
pests IL due to the enterprise of the Beach
MANAGEMENT in building fume or inle,
from the shore to the lakes of shallow, Still
water inland. on the surface of which the
nc squitoes Matched in swarms. By dig
gtng through several hundred feet of
shifting sand. and after having the work de-
stroyed by storms and high seas, the con-
nection was made, and the lakes kept in
motion by the thrush OF the sea at one end,
which force the water out at the other
some distance up the beach.
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June IL, 1S65-Tennessee declared at
peace.
June %, 1SG3-Blockade raised
July %, 1S65-Grant's last official report.
April :. INSTRUMENTATION that Georgia,
South Carolina. Virginia. North Carolina,
Tennessee, Alabama. Louisiana, Arkansas,
Mississippi ard Florida are tranquil
August 20. lS(ai-Proclamaticn that the
war is at an end and that peace. order.
tranquility and civil authority now exist
In and throughout the whole of the United
States.
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past season was only fair. as the catches
were not large, although they have run as
high as fifty-five sturgeon at a catch, yield
Ing twenty pounds of roe to each fish.
The Life-Saving Station.
August 1 Is the beginning Of the season
at the life-saving station. and the men al
No. 2 or Sea Tack, station are getting
down to work. The station is about half
a mile up the beach and is a point of in
terest directly after breakfast, when every
body turns out to see the practice with the
life lines and surfboat; and if you desire an
experience you will be permitted to don
cork shirt and go out with the crew on an
ina ginary rescue
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Princess Anne and
Norfolk counties is
IL n d o u b tedly the
most productive IN
the world. Most of
The garden vegeta-
t,ies that are con-
sumed in Washing
ION and Baltimore
are raised by the
Norfolk truckers,
whose white-winSed
boats glide in and
out of the numerous
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6SSS obSoi ~ W AOoh
it over, an American
man-of-war of today
or, in truth, a man.
of-war of any ma
ton, for at bottom
they differ but little
sees all the best OF
it. The bluejackets
are aligned before
him, at quarters ON
the spar deck, per-
haps. looking as II
butter would not
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The Wonderfully Named.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
"Gudg'' has gone to Pan-a-ma,
Hodge to Honaycomb;
Baddes some good Office straddles;
HOuk Is still at home.
Podger, he Of Tennessee,
Has his faith renewed;
SQunker hopes he'll learn the ropes,
But Eothing comes 10 DoOd.
Wupples. Supplies, SKUNK and Swing
Bowler, FOWLER. Jang-
II they don't get anything
Mack" can go nnd hang!
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During a talk with Capt. Thomas of the
beach fisheries / learned that In season
that g. from March to June-genuine
caviare Is made here. sent to New York
and shipped abroad, where oil Is added to
II. and 1t is then sent back with the i'm
ported label, much improved by its sea
voyage.
The salt used In preserving comes from
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What He Hadn't Tried.

From the Yonkers Statesman.
She-"Who was it that said There's no
such word as fail?'"
who never tried to open a car window, I
suppose"
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WITHIN EASY REACH
Virginia Beach Has Many Other At
fractions as Well,
INCLUDING ABSENCE OF MOSQUITOES
A Morning Visit to the Big Life
Saving Station.
TALES OF THE STORMY SEA

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
VIRGINIA BEACH. August ~. 1897.
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wsHE CIVILIAN WHO
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ened by an attack of indigestion or bilious
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1t is the most thoroughly scientific and
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The Chronology of Events.

The end of war, like its beginning, is
not made by a single act. 1t can not be
marked by single date. It is a progress
i've action and can only be fairly repre-
scented by several dates. In the case Of
the civil war the dates which are of chief
importance in its end are the following:
April 8. 1S66-Surrender of Lee.
April 26, 1S65-Surrender Of Johnston.
April %, 1665-Muster out began.
Maya, 1665-Surrender of Taylor.
May l1-lS. 1S65-Last battle, Palmetto
ranch.
May %, 1s65-surrender Of Kirby Smith.
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goes aboard, to look
1t over an American
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-10-07
sANGTfLLY5s VIEWS.

Gen. Julio Sanguilly, who was arr
rAste3 In Cuba, tried, convicted, par
doned ahd released at the request OF
the United States government, said a
few days ago, discussing The Spanish
criGiE:
. Il do not believe the formation by
SagaSta 6t liberal cabinet will have
any effect on the Ssban insurgents.
The Cubans have gone too far to ac-
cept autonomy. They are in a Better
condition now to fight TO the end for
Sbsolnte freedom than ever before.
Why accept sstepemy when freedom
is at hand? Sagasta knows as well as
anybody that the Cuban tiltimatum
on the offer of autonomy will be ab'
solute and unconditional freedom.
There will be no halfway measures.
I thought President Mckinley would
do something for Cuba. and l still
think he will do Something for the
struggling country. He has already
caused much CONSERVATION among the
conservatives, and whatever he has
done in the matter of his communica-
tfott given to Minister Woodford, it
has Certainly given an incentive to-
wards the f0fthstioR of liberal min
iStry"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-10-07
LEvYING TRIBUTE,
willy Scheme of a. Colored Preacher
and Politician,

willy Scheme of a. Colored Preacher
and Politician
Felix f. Sims, a colored Baptist
preacher and politician, postmaster at
Thebes, Liberty county, Ca, was ar
rested the past week by Deputy Mar
shall White on n warrant sworn out
before United States Commissioner j..
f. Lewis, charging him with using
the mails for fraudulent purposes.
Sims has been writing to number
of fourth-class postmasters In the
First Congressional district, and as
the representative of certain repub-
lican committee, of which w. H..
Styles, former representative from
Liberty, and others, are members, has
demanded tribute from them, in ex-
change for which the aforesaid post
masters were to receive the endorse
ment of this committee, which, 1t was
said, would insure their appointments.
Without this endorsement they were
informed that they could not hold
their jobs. These postmasters were
assessed all the way from $40 to $50,
one of them having bought the en-
dorsement of the committee for the
latter amount.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-10-07
ATLANTA OBJECTS.

In view Of the fact that the rigid
quarantine being enforced against Al
lanta by Alabama and Mississippi Is
proving a great hardship to the people
of both those States, the Chamber OF
Commerce Of Atlanta has adopted 4
resolution reciting the fact that AT
lanta is a perfectly healthy city, and
that no yellow fever exists here, and
calling upon the city, State and ma
tional authority to use their influence
in having the quarantine modined 10
reasonable requirements.
President Neal, of the Chamber or
Commerce. has addressed a letter to
Governor Johnston. Of Alabama IN
viting his cooperation in accomplish
ing this result.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-10-07
SPANISH CABINET RESIGNS.
Withdrawal Accepted by the Queen. Who
Will Summon Sagasta.

The Spanish cabinet has resigned.
The queen has accep.ed the cabinets
resignation, but has asked General Az
carraga to continue in oIice until i
solution of the crisis is found. Her
majesty will summon the leaders os
the various parties and the presidents
Of the chamb4 g TO consult Al - in"
situation, S9nor Sagastl mas beel
telegraphed for, and it is believed that
the liberal leader will be asked to
form n cabinet.
The ministry whose resignation has
Just been announced was constituted
as follows
Prime minister and minister for war
General Marcelo de Azcarraga.
Minister for foreign affairs-The
Duke of Tetuah.
Minister of marine-Kear Admiral
Den jose NJ. Beranger.
Minister Of finance-Don Juan Ma
fatt6 Reverter.
Minister Of commerce and agricui-
ture-Don Aureliafi9 Linares Rives.
Minister for the colohiss-Don To
mas Castellano.
Minister for the home department.
Don Fernando Cos-GHyon. ,J,
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-10-07

j. NJ. Moore and Charles Rich, want
ed at Marshall, n. c., where they are
under sentence to be hanged for bur-
glary, which is a capital offense In
that State, If committed after mid
night, were captured in Montana last
week and will be taken back to North
Carolina to pay the penalty of their
crime 81 e.i4 i.4le s.Aps' st
Several hunters found the body Of
Peb Falls, a notorious white woman,
dangling at the end of the rope, fas-
tened to the limb of tree, In Rock
ingham county, Virginia, last week.
When discovered the body was in the
first stage Of decomposition. 1t Is sup
posed that the woman was hanged by
negroes, who had been her compan-
Ions lately.
Macon, Ca, is in the midst of the
greatest religious revival she has ever
known. An immense tent capable Of
holding 5000 people has been spread
on the English lot opposite the city
hail. and night after night It is crowd
ed with people drawn thither to hear
the preaching Of DR.. II. NJ. Wharton
of Baltimore, who is conducting the
revival.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-10-07
CRUELTY I'd WOMEN
And Outrage on Americans Charged
Against Dictator Barrios.

ASdhoS DiNhdkol bdbbAOSs
The steamer San Blas arrived from
Central American ports the past week
with authentic details of the revolu-
ton in Guatemala: Barrios, needing
money, applied to Don Juan Apricio,
well-known capitalist through the
medium Of Gen. Rogue Morales, who
is noted for his cruelty. Knowing
that the loan would mean his financial
ruin, Apricio hesitated, and was taken
promptly to the castle and. strung up
by the thumbs tbob refusal to de-
cede to the demands made upon him,
Apricio was lashed until he tainted
from the torture, and still being obdu-
rate when he recovered from his lost
senses, Morales cursed and shot him
dead. His mant friends, hd#e4ef,
had their revenge shortly afterward,
for when the city of Quegaltenago
was taken General Morales was shot
without the courtesy Of trial.
Grave accusations of cruelty to wo-
men, the wives and daughters of men
who had iolbed The tesolbtiohlsts. are
made against Dictator Barrios.
The San Bias brought party of
fourteen Americans up from the scene
of the revolution, all of whom say 1t
will be a long time before. peace Is
agairi RESTORED. they stAte that Amer
leans are thrown into Jail on the very
slightest provocation, upon the ground
that they are plotting against Barrios.
Even the stars and stripes were not
allowed to float over their residences.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-10-07
Bradstreet's Shows Increased Ac-
tivity in Many Lines.
STANDSTILL IN GULF STATES.
The Volume of Trade, as a Whole, Exceeds
the Record Of ISo2-Wheat and Corn
Decline Slightly In Price-Mant Indus
tiles Increase Working Force,
tsssx =

Bradstreet's trade review for the
past week says:
General trade Is marked by increased
bcti7ity III wool, hides, iron and steel
and their manufactured pf5aucts, but
business in the quarantined districts
remains at standstill, and at all ex-
cept a few northwestern distributing
eenters in spring wheat States, where
bdsihAss Is relatively most active,
there is a check to the deRffIf for dry
goods, hats and clothing. Favorabla
reports come from section extending
from Knoxville to st. Paul and from
OMAHA TO Milwaukee. The tendency
is to increase estimates for The wheat
crop and increase the probable yield
of cotton.
The price movement shows a long
list Of unchanged quotations this
week, including ifot snd steel staples,
wool, hides, print cloths, lumber, naI8'
copper, pork, beef. coffee and sugar.
Increases are confined TO nominal
advance for anthracite coal, % cents
Tor tessemet pig iron, fractional gains
for leaf tobacco, naval stottsi butter,
lard and another advance for woofen
goods. Potatoes have reacted from
the extremely high prices at the west
and cotton is off further. Lead is low
81, rs afs corn. oats and -four, in SYM
pathy with wheat, Which, dropped 2
cents on Bradstreet's reported fr,
crease of nearly 100000 bushels n
the worlds visible stocks.
Wheat (f1our included as wheaO ex-
ports from both coasts of the United
States and Montreal this week slight
ly exceed those ot last, week, the total
aggregates 1924, 246 bhshefs against
5,SOS.S25 bushels last week, f,215,254
in the week a year ago, 2'6l3,soo
bushels in 1895, 3,243, 100 bushels in
1894, and 3,1S9,OOO bushels in 1893.
C5-t exports show considerable
falling off, the total heipg S'los.6ol
bushels against 4,O22,00O bushels last
week, 3,165,00O bushels year ago.
1.3S3,754 bushels in 1895, $4,000 bush
els in 1894 and $4,000 bushels in
1899.
The total number Of business fail
ures Id the United States for nine
months reported By, bradstrees's is
1888, d decrease Of 13 per cent fHo*l
the corresponding total last year; but
6 per cent more than IN 1894 and IL
Der cent fewer than in the correspond
ing period OF 1898: This years fan
ing corporations, firms and individual
report S11S,6S4, 900 liabilities, a total
of 80 per cent smaller than one year
ago, about 6 per cent larger than IN
nine months of 1895 and of 1894 and
Ga per cent less than in the CORE
sponding period of 1903. The rate OF
failures in proportion to the number
In business is decreasing. With ref
erence to liabilities the falling off is
noticeably rapid.
Business failures throughout the
Dominion of Canada amounted to
15O1 for the past nine months fail-
ing off as compared with last year o,
i5O. or less than 10 per cent. Total
liabilities are $1O.653,OOO this year,
against s12, 2,219,o00 last year.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-10-07
TAMMANY'S TICKET.

The Democratic convention Thurs
day nominated the following cand
dates for Offices in Greater New YORK:
Mayor-Robert A. Van Wyck OIL
Manhattan.
ComptroIler-Bird s. Coler of Brook
lyn.
President of the council--Jacop nup'
pert, Jr., Of Manhattan.
The platform makes no reference %
the Chicago platform, w. J. Bryan or
free silver 1t favors home rule ana
repeal Of the Raines law and other re-
strlctions on personal liberty and ds-
mands dollar gas and municipal own
ership Of franchises,
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-10-07
INLAND SEA.


The Largest and Deepest on the Con
tinent May Be Forming.
A dispatch from Tucson, Arlz.' says
that passengers who came IN on the
belated California train state that the
cause of the delay were floods in the
Salton basin. 1t was the rumored he-
lief that the waters of the Gulf of Cal
ifornia had broken over the sandoaF
which separates the Gulf from the
basin. If this should prove to be true
Southern California will have the lar
gest inland sea on the continent, some
places more than 800 feet deep, and a
rise would come up through the tnli
10 a point opposite Yuma to por1 OF
the inland sea. In the meantime many
10 les of the Southern Pacific wo"id
be submerged.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-10-07
SOUTH CAROLINA'S DISPENSARY
LAW.

Notifications have been sent to each
state constable conveying the inteli-
gence of their decapitation, and order
ing that they shall turn over TO the
State the arms which have in many
cases done such deadly work. Gov
ernor Ellerbe said he had not notified
the Charleston people of his action in
removing the metropolitan police. All
that the law required was that the
proclamation be published at the State
capital. That he had done. Dispen-
sary Commissioner Vance declines to
exnress an opinion as to what effect
the removal OF liquor constables will
have on his business