The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-12-09
THURSDAY, DECEMBER ., 1897.
EIGHT PAGES.

The Democrats have gained in Bos-
tons registration.
Trains now run between New York
/; and Chicago in twenty hours.
! Hon. Tom Watson rises to inquire
4 what Marion Butler has done with the
populist party2"
q The people of the United States have
4 been known to reverse themselves be-
K twiSt Novembers
Information comes that both New
York and New Jersey will shortly con-
4 slider measures looking to the prohibit
tlon of football games.
Tile Senate Committee on Rules on
Monday Instructed the sergeant-at-arms
to enforce the rules against the sale OF
Nqwor In the Senate wing OF the Cap
btol.
& IF Dlngley himself doesn't talk for his
bill, ne can't -eNpectpthe National Treas
ury to speak for it., owing to a late lack
Of shest development observes the Phil
4 adelphln Times.
The Baltimore News thinks that Mr..
{ DinSley ought not to feel especially bad
4FSer belaS overlooked In the message
lie vii! set ha share of attention before
( Congress .ad!ourns.
Isccretaly Wilson of the Department
cf Agriculture. has recently issued a
\; brochure explaining tine difference be-
awssn nunra"ms and toadstool. This
i is Interesting TO say the least.
ks THE spanish governments has sent
atrS.snsto search the region between the
4ni,6v!nceA cf Valencia and Casiellon and
#the. district ,around Morella where the
SCarlist agitation IS most active.
L Mr.. whitney expected Mr.. Low TO be
.elesled Mayor. This Is usually what
s happens to a good man like Mr.. Whit
I ney who goes away from home TO hear
J the news, says the Washington Post.
Hayti talks as large as most small
4 fellows do when they think the other
fellow Is too big to jump on them with
B out exciting popular indignation and
& bringing somebody to their rescue. OBJ
serves an exchange
+ The Atchison Globe announces that
When you see man and his wife on
4 the streets together on week day they
are either going no attend the funeral
4 of a relative. or are on their way to
have their pictures taken.
tea Let US not nllsrepresert Governor
Pingree. says the. Coulter Journal. Per-
haps he only bought that lake of boiling
b asphalt TO make sure of proper provision
for the, diabollcal plutocrats in case Bob
! Ingersoll's theories should be correct.
New England capital has erected a
q cotton goods mill Of $4,000 spindles at
Cordoya Alabama, which is said to
have been fortunate enough to have sold
It's entire production for five years to
come for expectation to China. remarks
Z the Philadelphia Record.
81 5iIsl tsss, III "a
The geographical features of Porto
Rico are such that Its natives cannot
carry on a revolution with as much
55jieffect as the Cubans, but the Globe
Il Democrat Of ST. Louis thinks there is
no doubt that the smaller island is ready
e. TO revolt at the earliest opportunity.
Sa Congressman Hepburn, an Iowa Re-
publican. says 1t would never do to adopt
the currency reform schemes suggested
by. those who would begin by retiring
the greenbacks. ''pHhy,,'he says, 'lf we
s. ahould pass a law on these lines at this
session Iowa would not return a single
81 Republic Congressman next fall and
4 che Republicans would lose a Senator
from that State