The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-03-07
III sllsHEo SD,!aIIll.ysss,aMll EWEEKLY.

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SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 1897.
\ 81 GH PAGES.
t{z Now, Major, bring on your prosperity.
4 says the Baltimore Herald.
MS President Cleveland holds war
rant on the United States Treasury for
I an an III balancetof cent
z !S It has been reported, and denied, that
q Chicago minister OF the gospel Is to
y succeed Fitzhugh Lee, ut Havana. s5
VIII Hon Sterling Morton, OF Nebras-
u ka,Ef put his coat tail very near !, the
ground, SO that somebody can step on It,
t t3.a The Lowell (A1ass.) News is responsi-
{ bic for this: The self-propeling fire en-
6 CINE Of Boston makes ten miles an hour
h and. climbs hills.
3i54 fixing George is compelled to choose
ii between an a bdicatlon and licking, he
#FWill doubtless take the licking, says the
L Washington Post
S Chairman Dingley says the new trlf
4 bill&wil be finished by the end of this
SCI session st anu ready to report at once to
y tbs the me next st House In extra session.
$SS! Governor Bradley. sof Kentucky, has
appointed Major A. T. Wood as United
States Senator TO succeed mfr. Black
I burn burn. whose term expired on the Ath
! inst n ...5s4@
Ss,3 The statementis made that the prop
I . erty loss from tornadoes during the last
ten ten years has been five times greater In
4 missouri than In any other Common
wealth. 4f
G8 The Wilson act maimed as It was BY
s:Repu blican and monopoly influences
4 says the New York Times, provides
/ as al'd revenue for the needs OF an
] economical Government
sE An exchange thinks that Senator Till
man man has evidently put his pitchfork
= away In the corner of the barn, because
/ shee'tsr to-day the quietest noisy man In
i either House OF Congress.
5S5s The The subject OF divorce begins to en-
( gage the serious attention of philoso.
! phers or France. In 1SS2-th percentage
81 div was one An 1000. WHITE to.
gay gay It Is twenty-five in 1000. II.
The yearly consumption Of sugar IN
ne ,unlted STATES Is about 2.ooo. coo tons
.olsrEsf 600 600, 900 pounds, which is equiva
4 lent! TENT TO about 60 pounds for every man
{ won WON an an and child in the country.
sS5s The smallest military expedition eve,
4 sent out on a Pacific errand IS at pres.
& ent engaged in completing the survey o,
i me he River Gambia 1T consists OF sin.
\ gle soldier, q corporal OF the Royal En-.
@Eineers.. x
;sEEss3] III, says Lord Salisbury, you vii
keep the unofficial people In order, I vii
4 promise you that the official people vii
never make a war" and yet 1t was Off.
/ Il cial people who fired the first gun on thu
d Christians in Crete.
What we want Is not more revenue, Il
4 IS more economy. Billion dollar Con.
ggresses have gotten US into trouble and
The he's Government should never have reve.
~ 'e. enough to meet reckless, expenses
REMARKS rs .ls the Atlanta Journal.
ssgsa i S. Frances Willard, according tc
Felix Adler, wants to vote "fo1
81 ne sake Of promoting the nationalist.
alonAof business ',, the abolition Of repre-
5sse1lt t,llyeGoyernment. the enactment OF
S:5.roh lbl tory laws and the free coinage
S ll,; sllyeIs. S; S he don't want much.
One OF tongressman sideways New
sI lE:s nl a Ire stiluents wrote to him
the ot herSday3abo a. pension hill kir