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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-07-01

IVY ANTED on A 200 ACRE FARM,
W we'll improved tax g per acre,
first mortgage of $500 for two years
FRED BTALk. Crewe. Va. 1u5v-5t'
LIMITED NUMBER OF BOARD
y ERS can he accommodated during
the month ~ July AZ the beautiful FISH
FR COTTAGE Virginia Bench. Tho cot
tage is newly built. nicely furnished and
very attractive. Location especially de-
airabIe. S.a-fO0d n speciality. Terms rea-
sOuabfe References exchanged and re-
ouired Address Mrs. -. y. ROBINSON,
SEQ west Grace street. or Mrs. :. II. Boy
kin. 2i6 south Third street. Richmond.
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Security Bank.

Richmond. Va, juno y, lnfl.
II, He DIRECTORS OF THIS BANK
/ have declared their usual somi-an-.
nual dividend Of three per cent free OF
taxes pa. /bln 20 the stockholders an
their banking mouse on and afier July
1st. y. y. BLAIR 'ashler'
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CHARLES ST. JOHN.
Ocean View, Va.
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Virginia state Insurance Company.
Richmond Va, June %. 1897.
~ TNTDFND NDTICE.-THE BOARD
II or DIRECTORS OF THIS COM
PANY have this day declared a semi
annual dividend al per cent free OF taxi.
payable TO stockholders on and after
July ]. 1897 CHAS. Is. WILLIS.
iu27-5t Secretary.
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EOR SALE.
One CHEAP phaeton and set Of harness
in first-class order. Address Cash" care
The Times. Juz5-6l
~ OR SALE AT 4 GREAT SACRIFICE
L an exceptionally fine. gentle, family
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" IVfDEND NOTICE.-THE BOARD
II of Directors of the Richmond. Fred
ericksburg and Potomac Railroad COM
pany have declared n dividend of So per
share on its common stock and dividend
obligations. payable on and after July ].
1897. The transfc. books will be closed
from the POD Of June 10 the t'h of july
1877. j. j. WINSTON,
ju2l-lwk Treasurer.
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BY A. l.. Adanson,
Real Estate Auctioncer,
Manchester. Va.

n, RUsTEEs AUCTION SALE
Il OF THE
FOLLOWING DESIRABLE HOUSES
AND LOTS: Nos. 10 and II SOUTH
SIXTH STREET. AND NOS.
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Gil ESTER, VA.
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prssoLUrIoNs & oorAnrNERsHIP
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Planters National Bank.
Richmond, Va, June %. 1897
THE DIRECTORS OF THIS BANK
l have to-day declared the usual SEMI
annual dividend Of six per cent. on the
capital stock free OF taxi, out Of the
earnings OF the past six months, payable
on and after July l. 1877
RICHARD ii. SMITH.
ju23-10t. Cashier.
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NirTinIa Fire and Marine
Insurance Company
Richmond Va. June %. 1897
" IVIDEND. THE DIRECTORS OF
IL THIS COMPANY have declared
SENI-ANNUAL DIVIDEND OF 4 PER
CENT free Of tax payable on ana after
JULY lST next.
WIN. II. MCCARTHY.
iu2l-2w Secretary.
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Death of Admiral Green.

Rear Admiral Joseph F. Green, L. S. Ne
retired, died at his home in BroOlline,
Mass. Dec. 8. aged 81 years Admiral
Green was born in Maine, and was APP
DO. nted Midshipman from that State IN
November, 1897. He was attached to the
sloou- of war Vandalia of the Brazil Squad
ron, until 1880 He entered the Naval
School at Norfolk. lie was commissioned
Lieutenant Feb. IS, 1888. During the MeXi-
can war he served on the ship of the line
Ohio. of the Pacific Squadron and took
part in all of the important actions on the
Pacific Coast
On Sept Ii, 1855, he received the COM
mission of Commander. He was COM
missioned Captain July is, 1852, command
ing the steam sloop Canandaigua, oil the
South Atlantic Blockading squadron, IN
1s62-6i. He participated in the bomoard-
ment of Fort Wagner.
On July "a, 1867. he received the COM
mission Of Commodore. lie commanded
the Southern Squadron with the Atlantic
fleet in 1901. He was commissioned
Rear Admiral July 13, 1870, and was re-
tired the following year.
The National tribune., 1897-12-16

and he can't drive without it. Les git the
mule loose first.n
They got the mule ont and turned him
around toward the wagons
Now" said Shorty, addressing the team
ster, lyon white-livered son-in-law of \
jackaSs, git back to that wagon as fast YOU
kin 90, If you don't want me to run this
bayonet through you."
There was more straining and prying in the
dreaTy rain and fathomless mud to Get thu
wagons started
Shorty, F." said 81, as they plodded along.
side the road, with a rail on one shoulder and
gun on the other, - really believe that
this is the TOUCHES. day we've had vet.
What dyou spose father and ..other'd say if
they could see us?"
They'd probably say we wuz earnin' our
Sl3 a month, with 800 bounty at the end o.
three years, snapped Shorty. who was in no
mood for irrelevant conversation.
80 the long, arduous day went When
they We're not pulling, pushing, prying, and
Yelling, to get the wagons out of mud-holes.
they were rushing over the cogging plowed
fields to stand Oft the nagging rebel cavalry,
winch seemed to nil the country as full as
the rain, the mud, the rocks and the weep
ing cedars did. As night drew on they came
up to lines of fires where the different divis-
ions were going into line-of- battle along the
banks of Stone River. The mud became
deeper than ever, from the trampling OF tens
of thousands of men and animals. but they
at least did not have the aggrayating rebel
cavalry TO bother them. They found their
division at last in an old cottonield, and
were Instantly surrounded by crowd of
hungry, angry, mon.
Where in blazes have you fellers bin all
day ?" they shouted. - You ought to- va
got up here hours ago. We're about starved"
Go to thunder, you ungrateful whelps."
said 81. You kin git your own wagons up
after this. I'll never help guard another
wagon-train as long as I'm in the army"
To be continued
The National tribune., 1897-12-16

THE Argentinians have been reduced
to the last depths of misery by vista
ton of locusts much worse than this
country has ever known. Railroad
traffic was lately suspended outside
Buenos Ayres, on account of the wheels
slipping around on the masses Of in
sects on the rails. Over large sections
Of the country the insects have eaten up
every green thing, and the inhabitants
are on the point Of starvation. The
only hope that the scientists give is that
The scourge has never been known to
last longer than seven years, and that
they have already had five of it. The
Government is offering rewards for the
collection and destruction of locusts'
eggs, and more than 1000 tons have
already been gathered up.
The National tribune., 1897-12-16
MUSTERED OUT.

PAGE.-At St Charles, Mimi, Leartus
Burt Page, Co. B, 103d Ohio aged %.
Comrade Page was born in Connecticut.
He enlisted in Co. b, L. ). M't'd Rifles, i'm
1861, and served five years. At the break
ing ont of the war he entered the 103d Ohio,
and remained with that regiment until dis
charged in June, 1865. He leaves a widow.
ROSANN.-At Du Quoin, ILL.,, Smith Ro-
Sam, Co. c. Slst Ill. COmrade Rosann was
in the service over three years.
McNEAL.-At st. Louis, Mo-, Capt. VIM.
McNeal Co. A, S1st ILL., Comrade McNeal
entered the service as Second Lieutenant,
and by faithful service earned promotion tn
Captain. He was buried at PickneyvilIe,
H., by his comrades.
McFARLAND.-At Reno, H., of con-
sumption, John Y. Mcfarland, Co. F. 10th
H., aged o. The funeral services were
conducted by Samuel McAdams Post 49,,
of which he was a charter member.
SCOTT.-At Cotton, o., Henry Scott, Co.
d, 1S9th Ohio, aged 81. He was member
of Phil Hendrix Post, POI.
BENNETT.-At Cotton, O., Thomas Ben
nett, Co. f, 18th Ohio. Comrade Bennett
entered the army in May, 1861. and was not
mustered out until August, 1865.
McNAILY.-At Plymouth, Wis, Frank
Ward McNaly, Co. ID, 10Th \. Y, aged 50.
\ widow and six children survive him.
ROSENBACH.-At Waucapana, Neb.. C.
\. ROsenbach, Co. +, Sth Wis, aged o..
C0mrade Rosenbach moved to Nebraska
about 81 years ago, and was member of
OsawatOmie Post, 1I9, Harrington. He was
with the Live Eagle Regiment over four
years.
SMITH.-At Providence, II. l., Nov. Is.
Calvin c. Smith, Co. y, 3Sth Mass, aged
66. Comrade Smith was an hOnored mem
her of Prescott Post, GAR, and held im-
portant offices in several secret societies.
He leaves a widow, four daughters and one
son.
DELONG-At New Dennison. O., o. j.
Delong, Co. f, 161st Ohio, and member of
Flushing Post, GAR. He was buried by
members of Welch Post, 422.
BURLINGTON. At Uhrichsyille, o.,
John o. Burlington, Co. X, 9Sth Ohio. Conn
rade Burlington was a member of WEIGH
Post and the |. o. O. F., both OF which
societies attended the funeral.
DUBRAY.-At Saranac, y. Y, William
| ID Ibray. Co. c, Dist n. Y, and a member of
| j. $ Stone Post. 352.
THUELBY.-At Marquette, Mich, Alfred
Thuelby Sergeant. Co. b, I'd Mich, aged %.
| Comrade Thuelby was born IN England. He
| enlisted in May, 1861, and served until
| NAV, 1864 He was member of MarcelluS
Post 3i3. SAINT Ste. Marie, Mich. A widow
| and one daughter survive him.
CHAPMAN.-At Burlington, Iowa, VIM.
A. Chapman, Co. A, t50th Ill.,, aged -.
Comrade Chapman was Il member OF Mat
| thias Post, 8, which attended his funeral
| i'm a body. He drew pension of Sl2 per
| month. He is survived by five children,
three OF whom are under Is years.
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then I'd join the navy, instead OF paddlin'
round in this dirty glue that they call mud. +"
Never saw such grumbler, Shorty,
said ST cheerily, as he punched the soaked
embers together to start a blaze to boil their
coffee by Last Summer the dust and dry
weather didn't suit you. Do you want to do
your sodierin' in heaven"
"Hurry up with your grub, boys" said
the erly-Sergeant, who came scattering
through the muck of leaves and mud into
which the camping ground had been
trampled 1.-The regiments to move in 10
minutes The 200th Ind. guards wagon
trains to-day. Yesterday Wheelers Cavalry
got in among our wagons and raised thunder
burnt about q mile of EN-"
Shorty grumbled: THAT means a tough
days work pryin' wagons out of the mud,
and restin ourselves between times runnin'
after lot o. skippin' eayOrtin' cavalry that's
about as easy to keteh as half-bushel O.
feas Anything / hate it's rebel cavalry
all tear-around and yell, and when you git
ready to shoot they're on the other side o the
hill
Well, :" said 81, removing slab of sizzling
fat pork from the end of his hammer, laying
it on his bareback, and taking generous
bite. 'we mustn't allow them to take no
wagons away from the 200th Ind, slOsh
around as they may. We want all that grub
| ourselves"
Well, hump yourselves" said the Order
ly-Sergeant, as he spattered on; fall IN
promptly when the assembly blows. Got
plenty o. cartridges?"
Two or three hours later every man in the
200th Ind, wet to the skin, and with enough
| mud Oh him to be assessable as real estate,
+TI u ttxx
old grandmother and whipped his best friend.
He believed that if there was anything under
heavens meaner than Tennessee weather it
was an army mule the teamsters had even
less sense and more cOntrariness than the
mules; the army wagon was disheartening
device of the devil, and Tennessee roads had
been especially contrived by Jeff Davis to
break the hearts of Union soldiers.
The rain came down with steady pelt that
drove right through to the body. The wagon
wheels sank into every mud-hOle and made
| it deeper Prying out the leading ones
seemed only to make it worse for the next
The discouraged mules would settle back in
the breechings, and not pull an ounce at the
most critical moments. The drivers would
become laundering idiots driveling futile
profanity In spite of all the mud the striy-
ing, pushing, pulling prying, lifting, shout
ing 2O0th Ind. gathered up on their hands
and clothes it increased mOmentarily in the
road.
| The train had strung out over a mile or
more of rocky lodges and abysses of mire.
| Around each wagon was squad who felt
deeply injured by the certainty that their
| internal luck had given them the heaviest
wagon the worst mules, and the most eX-
asperating driver in the whole division.
II couldn't we made n dog goneder fool
than that teamster,' said Shorty, laying down
| his rail for minutes rest, If I'd "a had
Thompsons colt before my eyes for pat
tern. That Teller was born added, on Fri
day, in the dark of the moon"
Them mules" dolefully corroborated 81,
scraping an acre, more or less, of red Tennes-
! see soil from his Oyercoat with stick, need
The National tribune., 1897-12-16

6ENAToR GALLINGER made q COM
plant last week Of the number and
character of the private pension bills.
There are now 2,635 of these awaiting
consideration. Everybody feels that
there is entirely too much private pen
sion legislation, but the excess has been
brought about by the cruelty unjust
practices of the Pension Bureau. Tn
able to get their rights before that
Bureau, claimants have been forced TO
seek relief from Congress. The remedy
lies in the hands of Congress. Let it
pass general laws of sufficiently liberal
character and then compel the Pension
Commissioner to carry out those laws
according to their letter and spirit.
Then stop private pension bills alto
gether.
The National tribune., 1897-12-16

First, there was the clamor about the
size of the pension roll. Gen. FL. V.
Boynton led off in this with an article
in the New York Sun on the "Pension
Octopus" which has been copied from
one end of the land to the other. The
gist of his article is that the pension
expenditures now are nearly half Of the
National disbursements. This is not a
startling statement, except to those who
want to be startled. For many years
the payment of interest to the bond
holders was very nearly half of the
total expenditures of the Government.
In 1867 we paid them in interest and
premiums $154,594,940, where the
total expenditure for all other purposes
was but s202,947,733. In other words,
out of every $50 which the Government
paid out that year the bondholders re-
ceived So. In 1870 we paid them
1885, 55 in premiums, and $780,
$50, 1913 in interest, or s145, 232, 053,
where all the other expenditures COM
bined were but s164, 421 ,507. That is, of
every s30.S0 paid out the bondholders
got s14.40, and other people but s16.40
All through the doleful years following
the panic of 1873, when the Govern
ment was retrenching in every direction,
the bondholders were getting over $780,
100000 year in gold for interest alone.
This was paid in gold, too, even at times
when the .greenback dollar was as low
as 37.S cents.
The National tribune., 1897-12-16
PERSONAL.

Comrade c. f. McNall, Co. ~ eth Iowa,
has been appointed Postmaster OF Lebanon.
Kan, through the influence of Senator
LucIen Baker and Judge \. Fl. Ellis
COnrade McNail saw nearly four years SER
vice in The West, ending up with the March
to the Sea. through the CaToIinas and the
Grand Review. He was fer three years
Mayor OF Lebanon, and for nearly 20 years
manager of the Chicago Lumber and Coal
Co. 5 business for Gaylord and Lebanon.
The statue of Gen. John A. Logan.
which is to be set up in Iowa Circle, Wash
ington, ID. c., was cast at Rome last Nom
day, in the presence OF Gen. ". Draper,
Minister TO Italy, and other distinguished
spectators.
COmrade \. III. Barnes, OF the Leaven-
worth Soldiers Home, who served in the
SD Ind, and the Mississippi River FlOtilIa,
got in an argument last Fallas to the stay
ing powers of the old veterans. Finally the
matter took the shape of a bet of a piece
of real estate that he could not walk clear
10 Washington, and make an average of 20
miles day. The preliminaries were rati-
fed and on Oct. 3 he started from the
Home. He stopped at every railroad station
that he passed, and had the time of his
arrival entered upon little pass book by
the agent. He wore his Soldiers Home
uniform, and was greeted and entertained
by the comrades along the way. He was
detained eight days by rain, and lost five
and half by visiting, but in spite of this
he arrived in Washington on time-Dec. 10,
$50 a. m. He averaged over 20 miles a
day, even counting in the thirteen and u
half days that he lost, and was in excel
lent condition when he arrived after his
fifty one and half days walking, through
ali sorts of weather, in an unfaverable
season of the year.
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into Sis startled face" "Knows how to
shoot, too"
81 didn't notice that measly gun come up
there Did you. Shorty?" said ST, trying to
get his heart back out of his mouth, so that
he could speak plainly.
mo, / didn't But it's there all the same
and the fellers with it have blood in their
eyes. Les run over to where the other boys
are Pm private citizen. L don't like so
much public notice"
They joined the squad which was driving
back the rebels who had started out to break
the fence
Presently the cavalry wheeled about and
disappeared in the woods. The rear was
scarcely out of sight, and the 200th Ind. was
Just beginning to feel sense of relief when
there was q sputter of shots and chorus of
yells away off to the extreme left.
Just as | expected erumbled Shorty
"They are jumping the rear of the train
now"
Leaving Co. to watch the head of the
train the rest of the regiment bolted off on
the dOuble-guick for the rear. They did not
get there q moment too soon. Not soon
enough, in fact. AS they came over the crest
| of the hill they saw Co. b, which had been
with the rear, having more than it could
attend to with horde of yelling, galloping
rebels, who filled the little valley Co. BIS
boys were standing up manfully to their work,
and popping away at the rebels from behind
| fences and rocks. but the latter had already
| gotten away from them wagon which had
| been far to the rear, had cut loose the mules
| and run them off, and were pluaderng the
wagon, and trying to start {; fire under it.
The fusilIade which the regiment opened as
the men gained the crest of the hill, put a
| different complexion on the affair The rebels
recognized the force of circumstances, and
| speedily rode back out of range, and then out
of sight As the last of them disappeared over
the hill the wearied regiment dropped down
| all around to rest.
| I'VE can't rest long, boys " said the sympa-
thetic Colonel. We've got to start these
| wagons along"
| Presently he gave the order:
| Go back to your wagons, now, and get
them out as quickly as you can
| 81 and Shorty took a circuit to the left to
| get on some sod which had not been trampled
| into mortar. They heard vOlley of pro-
| family coming from cedar brake still farther
| to the left, and recognized the voice of theiI
teamster They went thither, and found
their man, who had fled from the scene, after
the manner of his race at the first sound OF
| the firing, but had been too scared to fasten
| up his traces when he unhitched his saddle
mule. These had tapped around, as he urged
| his steed forward, and the hooks had c;unht
so firmly into the cedars when he plunge ..itu
the thicket that he was having q desperate
| time getting them loose.
You dumbed, measly coward, " said 81;
" / told you I'd blow your head often you il
| you didn't stay by them mules. l ought to
do it'
Don't, 81, y said Shorty. tile deserves it,
| and We kin do it some other time. But we
need him now in our business He hain't
much OF a head but it's all that he's got,
The National tribune., 1897-12-16

The conditions in ustro-Hungary
are steadily growing worse. All that
stands between the Empire and dismem-
berment is affection and respect for the
kindly old Emperor, who is also King
Of Hungary, King Of Bohemia, and
hereditary ruler of some of the other of
his strangely assorted dominions. He is
now in his 6Sth year, aud has been on
the throne since 1913. Francis
Kossuth, the leader Of the party advo-
eating still more independence for
Hungary, has put out an astonishing
declaration:
ave want" he said, "a separate army
and separate finances. The King of Hun
gary would be Emperor of Austria as a sort
OF supplementary occupation. Vienna is al
ready a suburb of Budapest and in time
Austria will become conglomeration oil
provinces attached TO Hnnga. v"
This means that Hungary viii only
remain in the Empire as its head, a
thing that the Germans and Slavs will
not dream of submitting to- Were il
not for the large property interests the
Germans have ia Bohemia and else
where, they would make haste to with
draw from the Empire and join will
their brethren of the German Empire.
The National tribune., 1897-12-16

The late Mr.. Cleveland thr ashed this
straw most vehemently. lie came into
office with loud fanfare about thou
sands Of neighborhoods having their
well-xnown pension frauds" He turned
the whole power of the Government to
the work of exposing these and making
his words good. He got hundreds of
thousands of dollars from Congress to
make investigations. Everybody was
pressed in to help-the Department of
Justice, the Postmasters, and all who
could contribute in any way. The re-
suit was the most stupendous failure in
the history of the Government. Never
was any body of men so thoroughly vim
Dictated as the pensioners. In no De.
partment of the Governments expendi-
lures is there so little of fraud, SO little
dishonesty as in the pension disburse-
ments.
The following excerpt from the re.
port of the Law Division Of the Pen
sion Bureau for 1896 is full of meaning
1t was made after all of Mr.. Cleveland's
prodigious efforts were in full operation,
and bearing fruit:
The sum of 1882 has been refunded to
The National tribune., 1897-12-16

AT the very most the bondholders
lent the Government s2,3S1, 530,294.
This was lent in greenbacks, which had
an average value during the four years
that the Government was borrowing
heavily of 66.66 cents. Therefore, the
real value of the money the bondholders
lent was but 81, 5S7,6S6,S63. But
though the bondholders lent paper dol
lars worth from 81 cents upward, they
received, when the principal was paid,
gold dollars worth 100 cents. Better
still. their interest was paid all the time
in gold, though a gold dollar was at
times worth S2.S5 in greenbacks. To
put the matter in another way: A man
would lend the Government 500 in
greenbacks worth only $3.50 in gold.
He would get So year interest in gold,
worth S17.10 in greenbacks. That is,
he got over II per cent. interest on his
loan. 1t is impossible to follow all the
intricacies of Treasury bookkeeping and
give the exact figures of the amount
which the bondholders have been re-
paid for that loan of the gold value of
81, 587, $50, 1853, but it can be roundly
stated that they have received over
FIVE BILLION DOLLARS in
principal, interest and premiums, and
still have s585,034,260 of bonds, worth
to-day-Dec. 13-S112.50, or $685.
163,542. That is, they have been paid
back fully s4 for every dollar that they
lent the Government. On the other
hand, the men who volunteered in the
Union army really gave the Govern
ment in sacrificed wages and business
opportunities more money than the
bondholders lent it. They have re-
ceived in the shape of pensions about
s2,000,900,000, or one-third what has
been paid and is owing to the vastly
more fortunate bondholders. They
had a contract with the Government
no less definite and binding thar
that with the bondholder.. 1t wa,
even more so, for ON the soldier!
side he incurred the penalty of being
shot to death if he failed to live up t.
all Of its provisions Yet the bond,
holders were given an inexpressible
preference over the soldiers In the settle.
ment of the Nations obligations to them
The National sinews were strained to tbs
utmost tension to pay off the last cen
that the most liberal Interpretation 0
their contracts would give them They
were hunted up and pressed to TAX,
their money. Death did not operate t.
the least injury of their claims.
The National tribune., 1897-12-16
PENSIONS UNDER FIRE.

The past week was notable for the
general assault on the pension system
all along the line-in Congress and in
the public journals of the country. In
all the ruck of speeches and ponderous
editorials, absolutely nothing new was
brought out, but the old cries were
sounded anew, just as if their falsity
had not been shown so often that the re-
iteration has become tiresome.