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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-04-20

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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-04-20

BY Geo. L. Crawford & Co,
Real Estate Agents and Aucuoneers,
No 1905 Bank street.
TNRUSTEES SALE OF DESIRABLE
j FRAME DWELLING, NO. %i
MOORE STREET, BETWEEN Ora
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-04-20
AUCTION SALES.--FUTURE DAYS.
TRUSTEES SALE

BY ". a. McCurdy,
Real Estate Auctlonecr.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-04-20

By c. l.. a. II. /. Denoon.
Real Estate Agents and Auctioneers.
sol Main street.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-04-20

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BY Chewing & Rose,

RTSTEES AUCTION SALE OF THE
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-04-20

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Commissioner in Chancery.
JUDGE EDMUND WADDlLL, pa

y THE CHANCERY COURT OF IhE
L CITY OF RICHMOND.
Polk Miller who sues. &c. Complainant
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-04-20

And At O'CLOCK 7. NJ. tho VA
CANT LOT fronting about O5x130 feet on
east side of Twenty-frst street. between
Broad and Grace streets. its northern line
being distant 100 feet south from Broad
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-04-20
IIngh Antrim. 2. q.

- THE c.4ANCFRY COURT OF THE
cfTY or RICHMOND.
r. l.. Franklin.
The herald., 1897-02-07
Caught In the Act

New York.-The lives of over 100 per-
sons, comprising the twenty families
who live in a five-story double-decker
tenement We're endangered Saturday
night when a fire started at the bottom
of a shaft which had been soaked with
oil.
Just after 9 o'clock two tenants went
to the cellar to clean their bicycles. AS
they went down the stairs they noticed
a bright light which came from the dl-
rection of the elevator shaft. They then
saw that there was fire and that
Adolph Meyer, who lives on the second
floor of the house, was standing over the
flame and tanning it.
The man was so busily engaged that
he did not notice the approach or the
two men. Not only was the woodwork
burning, but a quantity of rags ana pa
per, which, like the wood, had peen
saturated with oil, was also burning.
Never was arrested and the fire extin-
guished
An examination by the police showed
that the woodwork Of the shaft had been
saturated, and policeman found at the
bottom of the shaft a bottle which had
contained the coal oil that had been
used.
Meyer, who is a cook, had his furni-
ture insured for $500. Incendiary fires
in tenement houses have been frequent
lately. y.-Chicago Times Herald.
The herald., 1897-02-07
English. French, Americans

"John Bull is complacent before the
picture of his ancient victory in freedom
cause. his prosperous family in every
cline and his hopes of peaceful progress
to the end of time.
Jonathan is rightly proud of his past,
that began ten years ago. and whlcn mas
certainly astounded us all, and he ex-
ults in a future of vastness that mas IL
limitable room to expand in prairie sea
peopled by sanguine fancy
.',rhe Frenchman exults in France as
a brilliant light, though it is more often
a beacon to warn us off than pharos
to show a safe harbor; nay, worse, 1t is
a firework of dangerous sparks and loud
explosions, but still he is glad that you
must look at it. and you cannot but
hear it's noise and cannot tell what 1t Will
end in.
John looks from height and is proud !;
Jonathan looks to height and is proud; /;
while monsieur makes all of US look at
his capers and he, too, is proud as the
enfant terrible of the world.-J. A. Nc
Gregor's Cruise of the Rob Roy.
The herald., 1897-02-07
Church doer, Chase . Thief

Charles Moysand boldly snatched a
woman's pocketbook on Sunday, just as
many people were passing from church.
Then he ran, pursued by a crowd but
remorseless fate in the shape of cable
train bore down on him, and. in frantic
leap to escape being crushed beneath the
wheels, he fell and dropped the pocket
book.
Fifty people by this time were in hot
pursuit of MaySord and as the fugitive
regained his feet after his escape from
the cable train and started to run, hue
ard cry was raised ard staid-looking
men in solid black dropped their prayer
books to join in the chase.
For the time being the pocketbook
grabber had about the best following of
any one in Chicago. Moysano was
good sprinter. and he set a lively pace
but the eminently respectable crowd
that followed him was not at all slow,
and by the time Wabash avenue was
reached it had overtaken him.
Moysand turned and tried to dash
through the crowd, but man In blue
suit put his hand against his shoulder
and then Strengthened his arm out with
a quick motion. Moysand's neck hap
pened to be right in line, and when he
felt the blow he tumbled over and the
chase was ended.
Before he could rise Detectives Nc
Weeney and Mangus, who We're in the
throng which pursued the fugitive, had
seized him and placed him under arrest.
The prisoner was locked up. he Is -
years old and is known to the ponce,
they say. as a pickpocket.
The name of the woman from whom
Moysand grabbed the pocketbook is not
known. Az soon as her property was
handed back to her she Disappeared
Chicago Tribune
The herald., 1897-02-07
NOTED FEMININE FIGHTERS ON THE FIELD HONOR

to Paris, leaving him to fird some one
else to nurse his wound.
In Paris she entered the opera and at
tanned great celebrity, both by her tai
ent and eccentricities. An actor named
Dumeny displeased her one day and she
lay in wait for him in the Place des Vic
torres. Being unsuccessful in provok-
ing him to fight, she tore his watch and
snuff box from him and carried them off
as the spoils of war. Another actor she
forced to beg her pardon on his knees
before the entire company.
one night at mask bah al the Royal
Palace she was disguised as a man. and
paid violent and Unmstakable atten-
tions of one Of the ladies' of the court.
Three gentlemen provoked a combat
with her on this account. and she fought
them one after another killing them all,
after which relying on the impunity
which she enjoyed. owing to her high
protectors, She returned to the ball room
ard amused herself until daYbreak
one of the few cases on record Of Eng
lish women as duelists is that of bat
tie between Lady Almeria Braddock and
Mrs, EiphnStone, both of them lead
erS in London society at the end of the
elghteeth century. The quarrel arose
over some criticisms which Mrs Elpl-
instone made concerning Lady Brad
dock. History says that these referred
10 tne latter age.
AT any rate Lady BvadGock felt NOR
tally wounded. and, following the fash
ion of her masculine friends, sent chal-
lenge to Mrs. Elphinstone. The latter
did not care to carry the dispute to such
g degree, but some of her friends in
sisted on her accepting They told her
she could select pistols, and there would
be no possible chance of either being hit.
The duel was fought in Hyde Park in
September OF 1892, with pistols at ten
yards As was predicted, the ladies fired
neither was hit. although a bullet passed
through the hat of Lady Almera. This
quite unnerVed the latter, but infused
tremendous confidence in the heart of
Mrs. Elphinstone, who demanded that
the duel be continued with swords. To
her surprise Lady Almeria accepted, and
before the new duel had lasted two min
utes the titled fighter succeeded in stab
bing her antagonist through the arm.
That ended the affair.
fighting contemporary Of the Chev-
aliere d dEon was Nine. de Chasteau-
Gay, who, having been offended by one
of her male friends. challenged him Fl
was borne wounded from the field after
tho d"n' which followed Nine Cha eteau-
The herald., 1897-02-07

and mixed plentfully in the constant
broils which marked those long and
boiSterous marches.
She came from England, France and
Germany by the thousand and figured
prominently in the outrages which blot
ted the pathways Of the blooGspilling
crusaders. In some of the crusades there
were as many as 5000 of the amazons.
and naturally they didn't get on very
We'll together, their rows invariably
ending by recourse TO arms, Ii fact,
they fought so much among themselves
that the leaders of the subsequent cru
saders forbade their joining the army.
but this edict was futile. Disguised as
men, and with proficiency in arms
equal to the average warrior they easily
passed Oft as the masculine article and
continued to kill the Saracen and each
other until the last Of the crusaders.
MANY FRENCH FIGHTERS.
The French woman has always taken
frort rank in the matter of duels Ita!-
ian ana Spanish women have often set
ted disputes with the sword; Austrian
and English women figure lightly in the
history OF the duel and the instances of
American women who resorted to the
neldl or honor are extremely rare
One of the few instances of the latter
kind occurred in France only eleven
years ago. A French woman named
Mime. Astla de Nalsayre considered her.
self insulted by some utterance of an
American girl named Genevieve Shelley.
The French woman demanded satigfac-
tion on the field of honor, and the Amer
ican girl, who had lived in France from
her babyhood, saw nothing, particularly
strange in the idea of feminine duel
80 she accepted. Seconds. a. surgeon
and the principals journeyed to the field
OF waterloo where the duel was fought
with swords Both were clever fencers
but Nine. de Valsayre was the most ex-
perienced and succeeded in wounding
her antagonist in the sword arm. This
satisfied the injured honor of the COM
batants and the duel ended.
The most noted woman duelist was
mysterious creature named Charles
Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Tamo-
thee d'Eon whose mixture of masculine
and feminine names was quite consist
ent with her mode of life. One-half of
the time she passed Is man and the
other half as woman. So successfully
did she impersonate the masculine that
after her death countless disputes arose
over her sex, and some historians Of
todnv still throw Se''ht ~ tHo -,"t+~"
The herald., 1897-02-07
"A Century Ago There We're
Many Tremendous Fighters
DEADLY WITH THE SWORD
Fearless and SkillfuI on the Field OF
Honor
Mile. De Maupln Left . bsIi to right Ihres
Men-kiIled Them and Then Re-
turned to the Dance

Two women of Vienna, prominent fig
ures in the upper crust of the under
world, fought a duel the other
day, according to brief cable dis
patch, one receiving a wound in the neck.
slightly more formidable than pin
scratch, and the other escaping with
nothing more serious than profuse at
tack of fright and perspiration
Some innocents might imagine the
dueling woman to be an end of-the-cen-
tury product a far-reaching growth OF
the feminine desire to ape masculinity
in all things But as far as the duello is
concerned the woman OF today is an
immeasurable distance behind her sis
ter of a century or two ago. In fact, the
further back one goes into the duskiness
Of the past the more prevalent the duel
ing woman becomes.
In the time Of the crusaders, particu-
larly in the eleventh and twelfth CEN
turtles, the fighting woman was as preva-
lent as bad debts are today. Clad in
mail and armed with sword and lance
she accompanied her warrior husband,
brother or sweetheart TO the Holy Land
The herald., 1897-02-07

Gays sister, Mime. LG Douze, went
further yet She fought her own hus-
band on the field of honor. 1t seems the
poor man and she could not agree on
some matter, and, after furious quar-
rel, she challenged him to a duel, and
wounded
The herald., 1897-02-07
One Folly OF the Very Rich

One of the queer features of our COM
plicated civilization Is the way the very
rich, in their foolish efforts to get richer
or their makeshift attempts to avoid
giving up what they have no moral right
to, are hurrying along the socialism
that they profess to be so fearful about
VI a ~tfn~d Conn. Courant
The herald., 1897-02-07
r1oderu Marrlage . 10 Mode

From what we gather we presume
that the proper caper is something like
this A spooning at Newport, thinking
in autumn, an engagement In january
ard "a wedding in June-ohat IS TO say,
three months of attention. three months
of reflection, three months of alteration
and three months of preparation-New
York Journal.
The herald., 1897-02-07

lane bid Santa goodbye, adieu to the
nymps. and then left the room TO pre-
mare for dreamland as the next mori,
would be her last stay in the realm OF
fancy. ,,,. ,ho.
he was never able to find the rest oil the
story They left him wishing that some
dav thew. too, might visit the realm of
fancy,
The herald., 1897-02-07
KILLED THREE, THEN DANCED

Another French woman who earned
undying fame as duelist, was the cele-
brated Mile. de Maupin, immortalized
by Theophile Gautier. She was reck
oned the most expert fencer of her time
and the famous duelsts thought twice
before provoking a quarrel with her She
was an actress in Paris, but she fell in
love with a fencing master and followed
him to Marseilles. There they disagreed,
fought with swords and she returned
The herald., 1897-02-07
But when everything Is considered 1t

but Wneu everything - conSiuSFeu ~
seems that she was a woman, and .,
beautiful woman, too. She was a con-
temporary of the wicked Nine. Pompa-
dour and Nine. Du Barry. who helped
King Louis XIV to rule France. The
times were propitious for an adventur-
Gus person like the Chevaliere d'Eon,
and it seems that she made the most of
her opportunities She was a favorite
of the king and in many diplomatic ne
cessities performed extraordinary serv-
ices, at one time wheeGling out state
secrets as a beautiful and fascinating
woman, at another time bullying as
deadly fighting man.
In woman's garb d. Eon was ambassa-
dress to the court of the Empress Eliz-
abeth of Russia from 1T55 to 1850. and Ia
ter, as a man, was ambassador to Eng
land.
The Chevaliere's face was handsome
and the voice high pitched. When dressed
in feminine attire she was as handsome
a woman as any in the courts of Eu-
rope, and as man, in the silk and satin
bravery of those picturesque times, there
was not a noble among all the courtiers
who could drink deeper or throw dice
for higher stakes than the Chevaliere.
No mans hand more readily sought
the hilt of his sword than did d'Eon's.
She was one of the best sword wielders
of the epoch. and was noted and much
feared duelst. She had notable en-
counter with the Chevaler de ST
Georges one bright summers day in the
Place Royale-a favorite spot and was
wounded in her sword arm. AS soon as
she was recovered from her hurt she
again picked quarrel with her former
adversary and ran him through the
heart
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-01-17
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Popular Daily Excursions to Chicago
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DISSOLUTION Of Partnership.

Notice is hereby given that the firm
heretofore known as Cation 4 Robinson
has this day Dissolved partnership by
mutual consent. Mr.. Cation will collect
all money due and pay all bills.
MI. John Cation viii continue the
business as proprietor.
JOHN CATION.
RICHARD ROBINSON.
do I'm
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-01-17
D. G. KitZmeyer.

HAS, after a vacation of three
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Of the business a, the old
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He promises to furnish a good
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4>peT cent interest paid on
time deposits.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-03-26

The Nantucket Jail stories which have
been current courtroom topics for the
last century have been entirely eclipsed
by recent stories concerning the conyicts
of the Barnstable Jail Mr. L. G. Knapp
who is supposed to be serving five
years sentence for stealing national
bank funds, was recently seen in the
streets in prison gaTb giving the wife
of the jailer, Mrs. G.. H. Cash, bicycle
lessons. Mrs. Cash is IS years old and
has a daughter aged is, and the convict
is said to occupy a place Of congenial
companionship in the jailer's family.
Another convict, named Lewis Rogers,
was recently allowed to take COW to
Yarmouth and back while the sun was
bright and the air invigorating for a
pleasant walk.
There is another prisoner a Portuguese
named Joe, who is there on a complaint
Of Portuguese girl named Rosa, and her
story is that Joe promised to marry her
while he was serving out previous
sentence in the Jail, and that she often
met Joe outside the Jail. 1t is pitiful
story because when Joe got out Of Jail
he married another girl, after borrow
ing $50 from Rosa. And all this in
Barnstable town, where the Jail is. The
stories Of Nantucket's easy going Jail
pale into insignificance in comparison
with our continental neighbor. Nan
tucket Inquirer and Mirror.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-03-26

symptoms were accompanied by
severe pains in the head. | took sew
eral kinds of medicines recommended
for catarrh, and used various local ap-
plications, but the disease had become
so deep-seated that they had no effect
whatever. | was alarmed at my con-
dition, as l knew this disease invari-
ably descended to the lungs, ending
IN consumption. was induced TO take
S. S. S. (Swift's Specifc). and after two
months l was perfectly we'll, and
have never felt any effects of The
disease since"
S. S. S. is the only blood remedy
which it is impossible to initiate. There
is a substitute for most of them, for
they are all alike-ccntain the same
ingredients, and are made in the same
manner. But there is no substitute
for s. s. $, as it is in every way diff
ferent from every other blood remedy
offered to the public. 1t is natures own
remedy, being made from roots and
herbs gathered from the forests, and
contains not a particle of mercury,
potash or other drug. 1t is not drug
store remedy, and not single ingredi-
eut can be obtained from chemists
shop. 5. S. 5. (Swift's Specific) is the
only blood remedy which is guaran-
TODD to he
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-03-26
EXPANDED METAL.
Steel Lace WOxk Is Now Used In Concrete
Wall. and Partitions.


The old building matCrials--bricks,
mortar and timber-weTe found in many
WAYS unsuitable for tall erections (of
the steel skeletoned skyscraper type),
and new combinations of iron and con-
crete were adopted, giving the greatest
amount Of strength with least weight,
and enabling the builders to occupy the
smallest amount of wall space, give the
greatest amount of window space, and
economic space inside by lighter floors
and inner walls, a two inch thick inner
wall of concrete and steel. for instance,
being as strong as the old nine inch wall
of brick.
The latest improvement in this science
of construction is that known as the ex-
banded metal system. The words sex
panded metal" do not fully explain
themselves TO the reader who has not
seen the material. The word expand"
must be understood in the dictionary
sense of TO open out, to stretch, to
spread. A sheet of steel of any thickness
up to quarter of an inch, and any
length or width, say Q or feet i'll length
and OF feet in width, is put into the
expanding machine, a remarkable de-
vice which constitutes the patent. II Is
then punched through with rows Of Sits
covering the whole surface Of the sheet,
with width Of II quarter or half an
inch, and each slit is separated length.
wise from the next slit on the line by
perhaps an inch Of steel.
The machine then stretches the slitted
steel widthwise perhaps TO six times its
original width, and when it leaves the
machine itrcpresents, roughly speaking,
a six foot square piece OF steel lace work
with diamond shaped meshes. In the
process Of stretching the steel lace work,
corresponding with cotton threads in an
ordinary lace curtain, is turned ON edge
to an angle Of 40 degrees, thus greatly
increasing its bearing strength and firm
ness. The process Of using this ex-
banded steel is TO imbed il i'll concrete
in similar way to the old system of
iron rods, but the steel network, being
many times stronger than the iron rods
or any other system, less concrete may
be used to effect the required strength
As compared with concrete alone, the
use of this expanded steel adds to It's
strength from eight to ten times over.
The importance Of this multiplied
strength and less weight in the case Of
hoorings, for instance, for tall erections,
such as the many storied buildings in
America or elsewhere, or those recent
ercctions called Eiffel towers, and espe-
cially dock warehouses, whose floors and
walls have TO bear enormous weights,
cannot be exaggerated. Another advan-
tage Of this expanded steel system is
that the whole flooring, nomattor what
size, is practically one solid slab Of con-
crete covering the whole floor and bind
ing the outer and inner walls, and If
the outer walls are also built on the
new system the entire building would
be knit together so as to form com
plcte block, imponehable to wind, water
or fire. Manchester England News.