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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16
THE HUNT CLUBS FIRST MEET
Large Field and IA Fine Evening",
Sport-Tbe Races.

The first run Of the season with tb.
Deep Run hounds was held yesterday
The weather was fine and the ATTENDING.
large, and those in the saddle were well
rewarded, as the drag was a success in
every way. No accidents befe.. he
riders, though blind bitches brought Two
TO the ground. The meet was held 40 ta,
clubhouse, and the drag was laid thence
10 Skeletons farm, through Pa.mers. By
Bethlehem church, by Morrison's and
back TO the clubhouse, where retFesa.
ments were served.
Besides the master, DR.. X. L. Trluo,
those in the saddle included Mrs ami
Miss Blacker Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Chris.
tan, Mr.. and Mrs. +. ". Christian Dr.
j. A. White, Messrs. r. Waddey. Robert
Triton, II. |. Marshall, j. T.. Anderson
l.. C. Younger, Jonathan Bryan. Ran.
dolph Holiday. j. r. ]. Anderson. ?. ~
Parker, Jr., +. Deane Meanley Spencer
l.. Carter, J. d. Mathews. Major Pey,oa
Second Virginia Volunteers), and Master
Frank Christian.
The Race Committee, consisting Of
Messrs. j.. r. Anderson, II. c. Bealue
and A. II. Christian, Jr., have prepared
the following programme tor the fourth
annual fall race meeting, which will b
held on December 3, lSsS:
Farmerss Race-half-mile fat race
For horses owned by farmers and tenants
over whose land the club rides, not 70 be
ridden by members OF any hunt club Or
professional riders; catch weights; all en-
tries subject 10 con'nittee OF farmers
appointed by the Race Committee. First
saddle, value $l2; second, bride, value s.;
third, bride, value s..
steeplechase-Open to all horses; about
PIP miles; weight, National Steeplechass
and Hunt Association rules; gentlemen
riders; four to start. Purse Sl25 OF which
$25 to second.
Hacks and Hunters-half-mile fat race
For hacks and hunters owned oy mem
bers any recognized hunt club, gsl-s-
men riders; weight, 10 pounds; -four
start. Purse, $50. OF which SIS 20 second
Deep Run Hunt-Club Steeplechase-
Open only 10 hunters owned by members
Of the club and hunted regularly and
fairly with the Deep Run hounds aboll
21-2 miles; gentlemen riders; weight, ~
ponds; thoroughbreds, 100 pounds iol'
70 start. Purse Sl25, Of which 80 10 me
second and $40 to third.
One-Mile Flat Race-Open 70 all horses.
gentlemen riders; weight for age ana
fifteen pounds added; four 20 start Purse
SlO0. of which SIS TO second.
Two-Mile Hurdle Race-Open 10 Az
horses: gentlemen riders; weight, Ma
tional Steeplechase and Hunt Ass0clailoA
rules; four TO start. Purse SIS. Of wh.,a
SIS to second.
This meeting will be held under ne
sanction and rules Of the National sise-
plechase and Hunt Association. En'Ii'
close at the secretary's Office IAlIslAh
December /, 1898, at z. NJ.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16
THE COCKADE CITY.
The Game Season Opens-Pcrson"i
and General.

PETERSBURG, VA. October B-(Spe-
cial. 1.-The game season opened to-day
and the weather being fine, number Oh
sportsmen went out with their guns and
dogs to try their hand. Partridges are so
abundant this season that they are 10 De
found in almost every field and along
most every country roadside.
The wife of William Chambers, who Is
in Jail in Raleigh, ~ c., awaiting trial
for swindling, arrived in the city last
night and endeavored TO settle for her
husbands operations here and have the
complaints against him withdraw. There
is a warrant out for Chambers for swind-
ling a lady out of SO. which he accom-
plished by slick trick. but the matter
being in the hands of the police the COM
plant could not be withdrawn.
Lieutenant Harvey Plummer, OK Com
pany K, Fourth Virginia Regiment, is IN
the city visiting trends. IL is reported
that Privates Farthing and DeJarnette.
OF the same company, will soon receive
their honorable discharge from the SER
vice and return home.
Mr.. william f. Butcher. OF Washing
ton, formerly and for many years a mer-
chant in Petersburg is here on brief
visit 10 friends.
II has been two weeks to-day since Pc
tersburg has had any street railway ser
vice. The people are becoming accus-
toned to the situation.
The Democrats of Dinwiddie will turn
ont I'm large numbers on Monday court
day) to hear the political speaking.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16
Ca,arrh Cannot BE cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS. AS t49
cannot reach the seat OF the distas-
tarrh Is a blood or constitution dis.e.-,
and i'm order 10 cure IL you must tahe .At-
mai remedies. Hairs Catarrh cure ~
Internally. and acts directly on the o-b
and mucous surfaces. Halls 'a..,.
cure Is not a quack medicine. IL was ~
scribed by one o. .he best pnl
in this country for years ana s o. -
lar prescription 10 rs composed oi N.
hest tones known. combined Win ,lo
best blood purifiers. acting directly on y.
mucous surfaces The perfect c3iiD,-
ton OF the two ingredients Us "ttl 80
duces such wonderful results ie l'i'-'
Catarra. Send for testimonll.s' I.,C
+. ]. CHENEY & co.
PrOprietOrs TOLEDO
Sold by druggists. price loc
Halls family pills are the 60
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16
THE BANKRUPTCY DISTRICTS
They VIII BE Designated and Refe-
rees Selected This week.

Judge Waddill of the United States
Court for the Eastern District OF Vir-
gipia. will tomorrow or next day issue
an order designating the referee districts
in the territory under his jurisdiction
and appointing referees therefor as pro-
vided by the bankruptcy law passed by
Congress at it's last session.
The Judge has about determined how
these districts shall be arranged. and IL
is understood that there will be some
twelve or fifteen OF them. The referees
will be located with special reference 10
the convenience Of members OF the bar
and litigants I'm the counties over which
they have charge. The law leaves ID en-
tirely optional with the Judge how many
districts he shall create, and i'm some
places there have been as many as
twenty designated In a Federal district.
The delay in making the apportionment
and selecting the officers who are 10 ad-
minister the bankruptcy wv has been
due 10 the fac. that the Supreme Court
Of the United States, which was empow
cred 10 adopt forms and rules Of proce-
dure. only met a few days ago. and has
not as yet made public the regulations
which will govern the bankruptcy pro
ceedings Tomorrow is opinion-day In
the Supreme Court. and the matter may
then be disposed Of
Up 10 this time. Colonel William T
Wickham is the only referee appointed
in Judge WaddilPs territory and there
have only been eight petitions Of bank
ruptcy flied i'm the United States Court
here. IL is known however that great
numbers Of cases 7ie ready TO be inSt-
tuted. both i'm Richmond and elsewhere
throughout the state and lawyers Will
hasten TO get their papers IN as soon as
the forms come 10 hand. Judge Waddill
has not yet made ruling as 20 whether
or not the cases that have been filed will
be considered as I'm proper form The
general opinion is that they will be so
considered hut most attorneys prefer 20
wait until they have the forms prescrib-
ed by the Supreme Court.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16
NOT ON THE OFFICIAL R.rIoT
Ticket of New York "Chicago-PIat-
form" Democrats Ruled Out.

ALBANY. n. Y, October 15.-The State
ticket of the Chicago platform Democracy
VIII not go on the official ballot The GER
tiiicate placing this Independent ticket in
the field was received by the Secretary
OF State at IL o'clock last night. and in
examining 1t he found the jurat Of the
notary public on the Ulster county petit
ton defective, and so notified the com
r1ittee. The error was not corrected be-
fore the time for filing expired at mid
night, so that the Secretary of State has
ruled that the whole certificate is de-
fective and It's nominees cannot 20 on
the official ballot.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16

will he the Bermuda OF filibusterins LAM nns
II was reported here to-day .n~s On
case OF small-pox had been dis coset, in
Twenty-seventh street. but car .ruth
vestigation failed TO establish tns as,.
NJ the rumor. The public-scnool .nn ,a
dren are being vaccinated rapidiy' I'm
bv Monday II Is expected that all Oh IT,
will have taken the precaution asaan .S
smallpox ordered by the Scnooi Dull Dull
Those pupils who have not been vacc',
mated will not be permitted to a''ehu
school. u.oa Ca
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroau
having built at Jackson & sharp yalu,
nj Wilmington. a large car-ioat. for me
transportation OF cars between newport
News and Norfolk.
The Atlantic Transportation company,
which is doing such a tremendous coaI
business from Newport News 70 NORTH
err ports. is having built at beilast ioui
new steamships. which will be named, re-
spectiyely. Minneapolis, Minnehaha, MIN
netonka. and Minnewaska.
Mr.. w. ]. Payne. president OF the New,
MORT News and Old Point Railway ana
Electric Company, arrived In the city
from Richmond this morning. His pres
ence at this time is said 10 be IN con-
nection with the deal for the electric
railroad
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16
PRIVATE KENN ACQUITTED.
Ccroner's Jury Reaches It's Conclu-
sion In Short Order

ST LOUIS. MO. October l5.-Private
Charles kenn, Company K, Second Mis-
souri, Volunteers, who shot and knled
Russell Wedney. the negro despoiler of
his home. was acquitted by the Coroners
jury after less than ten minutes delibe-
ration. Last week Kenn came here on
furlough from Jacksonville and found his
wife living with a negro. whom he shot
In self-cefence. Private Kenn will be
held 10 await the action of Colonel John
son. assistant prosecuting attorney. who
will, IT is thought. decline to ask a war
rant for his detention.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16
LAST EVENINGS FIRE.
Coai-House at No. 800 West IRA"
street I'm IA Blaze.

An alarm OF fire was turned IN al eh
o'clock yesterday afternoon from boA
No. 4. calling the department 70 resi-
dence No 800 west Grace street
A coal-house In the rear Of the Ie.-
dence was blazing. but owing 20 ~
prompt response and ready W0ik OF ~
department, was eXtinguished WAe. W.
about damage amounting 10 81 A-a D'-'
done .s
Engine Company No. 8 RESPONDED ~
still alarm about two minutes before ~
general alarm was turned m. Engine
panies Nos 4 and and Truck 40. WV
called out r y
The residence Is owned oy aiH A. r
Donnan. and occupied by Sir a. b
Lancaster.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16
Bears Ravaging Corn.

NORFOLK, VA, october l5.-(Special)
Frank Reid alias Henry Smith, Is neld
here for the next Corporation Court grand
jury. on the chargeO of forging and
uttering two checks of SOS each, parport-
Ing to have been drawn by the CumMer
Lumber Company. large concern, on the
Norfolk National Bank.
Great damage is being done to growing
corn by the ravages OF bears who come
out Of the fastness OF the Dismal Swamp
every autumn Trap guns have been set
100 The big game by residents of Deep
creek
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16

HARDWOOD. IS feet on east side Linden
street. between Main and Cary, $1,000
W. NJ. Justis and wife to John L. j..
Melton. so feet on Broad street, north
east corner Thirty-fourth. subject to deed
of trust for $500. $500.
T. F. Minors Trustee to Mary 5. Boggs'
27 feet on south side Clay street. between
Ninth and Tenth.
Henrico: Christian Bird to Mary A.
Freas. 30 acres about fifteen Eailes below
Richmond, ESQ.
Mary A. Freas TO Francis II. Osborne,
the above pro9a'ty, $3.50.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16
To Decide the Case Thursday.

owing 10 the Illness OF one of The coun-
sci. further hearing OF The case against
r MoreIa. charged with illegally ope-
rating sot-machine viii not be heard
until Thursday The su".her argument
will consume only a sAcrt Time, and
cision at it's conclusion.
None OF the courts were IN session yes
terday. Every day will be busy next
week. as all the dockets are fall
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16
A SURE CURE FOR GROUP.
Twenty-Five Years Constant Use
Without a Failure

The first indication of Group is hoarse-
ness. and In a child subject to Group II
may be taken as surs sign OF the ap-
preach OF an attack. Following this
hoarseness is peculiar rough cough. II
Chalnberlain's Cough Remedy is given Y 8
soon as the child becomes hoarse, or even
after the croupy cough appears. II will
prevent the attack. Ii is used in many
thousands OF homes In this bread lsnd
and never disappoints the anxious
mothers. We have yet TO learn If a sin.
gle instance in which II has not proved
effectual. No other preparation can show
such record-twenty-fve years con-
slant use without a failure.
Zoe l2-W .Sat&6untoc 2pnr)
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16
Senator Mason's Successor.

HEATHSVILLE, VA, October l5.-(Spe-
cial )-Qelegates have been selected from
Northumberland county TO meet in the
Democratic convention. at Warsaw. next
Tuesday, to nominate a successor TO SEN
ator Mason A resolution was passed IN
the county convention endorsing Hon. c.
Harding Walker. but the delegates were
left at liberty in their selection.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16

and the Colored, and old st. Johns Enis-
copal church. Tonight they were enter
tanned aboard the Niagara by a musical
quartette of colored stable boys On Mon
day the Niagara will go to Washington.
and from there will proceed to Charles
ton which Will be reached In time for
the Peace Jubilee.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16
That joyful Feeling,

with the exhharating sense OF renewed
health and strength and internal cleanlI-
ness. which follows the use OF Syrup OF
Figs. Is unknown to the few who have
not progressed beyond the old-time medi-
cines and the cheap substitutes sometimes
offered. but never accepted by the we'll
informed. Buy the genuine. Manufac-
tured by the California Fig Syrp Com
pany.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16
Howard Gould at Hampton.

NEWPORT NEWS. VA, October h.
special)--Howard Gould and his beau
utu' actress bride to-day visited the
points OF interest In and about Hampton.
gong through the National Soldiers
nome. the Normal Institute for Indians
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-16
Property Transfers.

Richmond: Annie Il. and Richard
Evans 10 Emanuel and Harriet Jones.
between st. Paul and ST. Peter. 81.
w. T. Fitzgerald and wife to r. II.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-20
Old Letters vs.. Gossip.

From the New York Tribune.
81 have been looking over old family let
ters all this dreary afternoon" she said,
drawing up a luXuriously stuffed chair cos
lily to the fire and Indicating another to
the man who had dropped in to tea, 'and
it has given me the shivers! I am gladder
than you think that you came in to inter-
rupt me. 1t seems SO strange and weird to
read the words actually penned by those
who are dead and gone, speaking of their
daily human life, with its small interests
and anxieties, all SO insignificant now, and
of their loves and hopes and everyday re-
sponsibilities, so like our own. And under
meath all the general cheerfulness and
lighter vein of correspondence, there is al
ways the minor note of human suffering
illness, disaster, death. I declare. as I sat
alone. hearing only the faint cracking of
the paper as / opened the letters folded
long since by unseen hands, and read of the
old familiar people who have passed out of
my existence into the Silent Land. 1 felt
/, too. was a ghost of the past, standing
on the brink of the great sea whose shores
are covered with the wreckage of human
hopes and ambitions. is life worth the
living?' 1 said to myself, feeling bluer than
indigo.
Just then the maid brought up your card
and said tea was ready. Oh, / cannot tell
you how comfortable and human 1t sound
ed. There are some lovely hot buttered
scenes in the kitchen. Will you ring for
them? Thanks, so much. After all, the
world is a very nice place to be In. Mary,
bring the tea-table close to the fire; and
now. Mr.. Brown. do tell me all the latest
gossip!"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-20
SORROWS OF A HUSBAND.
That May Be Taken as . Les
son by Lovesick Youth
Everywhere.

From the Portland Oregonian.
The British sparrows are very previous
birds, and are now pressing the season by
~pre-empting the hoods of the arc lamps
on the streets. and beginning ~nestbuilding.
A pair were observed working away yester-
day. with the usual energy of the species.
carrying straws and other material for sew
eral hours. Finally it began to rain, and
the lady sparrow came down out of the
which convey the current to the lamp,
called for her husband. He not appearing.
she called again several times in success
sion, each time louder. At last her mate
came flying swiftly, and the pair went up
on the shelf, in the hood, where he received
a curtain lecture.
He was asked why he did not come when
she first called, and was told that If he
did not nave sense enough to come in out
of the rain when he was all In a perspira-
ton and his pores open, he deserved to
take another cold, and have cerebro-spinal-
meningitis, or some other dreadful thing.
He was reminded that he was hardly over
the last cold, and the rheumatic complica-
tons brought on by getting his feet wet,
and that the cash in his scalp received in
his terrible fight with that other sparrow,
who wanted to settle in the hood, had hard
ly healed. and there were sure to be more
fights before they had perfected their title
to ii.
The poor husband could be heard from
time to time e~ndeavoring to demonstrate.
and trying to get in a word edgewise, and
explain that he had been endeavoring to
secure a particularly large and desirable
straw. but, as is usual in such family
rows. he was outclassed and never was in
1t for a moment. Matrimony has its
seamy side, even for a sparrow.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-20
my HUSBAND PUT 1T THERE"
Her Finger or Her Wedding Ring an
Then HersTears-The Finger
Was Saved.

This uredited story is taken just as it
was noted in the book of a reporter yes
terday:
The senior resident at one Of the large
city hospitals last night was complaining
to me that the day had been a dull one,
surgically. He had hardly lapsed into
silence when there came a rap at his
door. In answer to the Doctors invitation
to come in, a head, all hair. except very
shiny eyes and very red nose. was stuck
ny" Please eas doctor. there's an old woman
In the receiving ward. She's got a sprained
finger"
and myself were bending over the left hand
Of an old Irish woman. Mrs. Dougherty by
name. We were paying particular atten-
f s,Sd r rG the A ring h ths bau 5n i AND %a exs e pih1e
to the second joint, the skin was abnormal
ly swollen-due to construction of the ven-
e eap eirediat as t Sy t Doctor 1,ps alt se ms ir'e emo
deavored to push the swelling back Of the
ring or tugged at the ornament the woman
repeating: e! know it hurts. but that ring
must come off or you'll lose your finger"
This sort of thing kept up the better part
of half an hour. Then the senior resident
turned to an attendant: Get me a file,
Jim he said.
The effect was startling, The old woman
} }iaahed. u Her lf0h hands ns' ci Saat[ H err voices eSes
trembled as she almost shouted: mo, you
won't file it off: my dead husband put it
there when we were married"
Other things she shouted, too. My friend
the doctor waited patiently for her to calm
herself. and in the meantime the attendant
returned with the file. Then, as she SUBJ
sided. he said: Il see. 1 see; but you'll lose
your finger if"
A few minutes later my friend and I were
standing motionless. our eyes following the
figure of a weeping woman as she stag
gered out Of the door.
Her fingers saved, anyway" was all the
senior resident said.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-20
CURE FOR INSOMNIA.
Mark Twain Suggests One Which He
Says Has Proved Very
Effective.


In this neurotic age Of ours, when nerv-
Gus trouble seem to have become the pre-
vailing malady of the time. says the Balti-
more Sun, it appears but natural to hear
many persons complaining Of insomnia, or
sleeplessness. For this is a disorder of
nervous origin. chiefly arising, the doctors
tell us, from mental anxiety or overwork,
although these two causes do by no means
exhaust It's p%athogenetic list. AS it Is said
to be lone Of the earliest featureS Of acute
MANIA" insomnia, a disease seldom, If
ever. founda among dull or thoughtless in
d%ividuals. has not i%nfrequently been as
ISOLATED with genius, which Lombroso
B PlaGss WorKegTs' tn e f ia ass ssghs OF mo mao cem.
monty are affected by 1t. Various remedies
are suggested. Few afford relief. 1t is,
therefore, with some satisfaction that we
Of a famous American writer and his in
fallible cure. Unfortunately, we are COM
PEELED to accept it from second hand"
in M Aastga1 Ravi a1s IN his n ef m Saqk e Tw tPhSel 8
fellow passenger. tells that one Of this
genial writer's stories was about a cure
for sleeplessness. from which he suffered.
proved a real remedy: so much so that I
began to like my medicine. The two ounces
Of Scotch grew into five ounces. Then the
trouble began again It was the old story
VI ldhihS " huS VI" Soou shAhS' ~
cut the story short sought another
grammar. I began to read it lying down.
I never got through a single page at a time.
Sleep came along and never gave the gram
mar a chance. Try it. and you will find 1t
a dead certain cure. 1 tried to induce the
late General Grant to adopt it. but I could
not succeed. Otherwise he would not have
died so soon. May I recommend a mix
ture of whisky and German grammar? If
you have not a German grammar in the
house. add an extra tablespoonful Of the
other"