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POTOMAC RIVER ROUTE.

BEGINNING Tuesday. May 10Th, steamers
Potomac aud sue will leave Pier .. Light
Street. Baltimore, every Tuesday, Thursday
aud Saturday. at +. NJ. for Alexandria and
Washington. calling at all of the usual land
ings. Returning will leave eth Street Wharf,
Washington. at 4 =. NJ, Tuesday, Thursday
and Sunday, going as far as LeOnardtown on
these evenings. Will leave Leonardtown AT
Ga. NJ. Kinsale at l2:O p. NJ, Miler's ats Z.
NJ, Grason's ats Z VI. and BacOns at p. NJ,
MOnday. "Wednesday and Friday, arriving in
Baltimore early the following morning.
Freight received daily In Baltimore.
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NORFOLK ROUTE.

VIII leave Tappahannock for Norfolk at IL
m. moon Friday stopping at all landings.
Will leave Norfolk at d p. m. Saturday for
Tappahannock, calling at ali landings.
No freight received for outgoing steamers
after p. m, on sailing DAYS.
Freight received for all stations on Po-
tomac, Fredericksburg q Piedmont K. K.
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The Emperor and Empress of Ger.
many, have an IN Gle who was a plain
DIR. Estmarsch uutil the other day.
when the Kaiser insisted on ennobling
him. DIR. Esmarsch is well-known in
the United States, where he spent
some time with his wife, a sister Of
the father Of the Empress. The King
and Queen Of Wurtenburg have like.
wise Plebeian- born doctor as kins-
man, their first cousin, the Royal
Princess Pauline, Of Wurtenberg, hav.
ing married DR.. William, who is in
practice at Breslau.
Emperor Francis Joseph comprises
among his near and dear cousins the
Counts and Oountesses Of Merau who
are the issue of bona-fde, but NOR
ganatic marriage between his uncle,
Archduke John, and the daughter of a
village postmaster. One Of the cousins
Of the Ozar, the Grand Duke Nicholas
Nicolaiewich, was authorized by the
late Emperor to contract a marriage
with the widow of rich tea merchant
at Moscow on condition that she con-
time to style herself Madame" and
to bear the name Of her first husband
The reigning family of Spain have
scores of untitled but wholly legitimate
relatives, each of the royal Princesses.
sisters Of that King Francis. who is the
husband Of old Queen Isabella, having
married either mobiles or commoners
One, in fact, became the wife Of a
humble Madrid journalist named Guel
y Rente, who, previous to coming to
Madrid, had been an errand boy in u
store at Havana. Then, too, there are
all the numerous children and grand
children Of the mother Of old Queen lisa.
bella of Spain by her second marriage
with the Guardsman Munoz.
King Humbert has. in the same way,
a. non.royal kinsfolk, the progeny OF
his father, Victor Emmanuel, by the
latter's second marriage with the game
keepers daughter Rosina, while his
mother. law, the old Duchess of
Genoa, his aunt, had several children
by her second husband, the Marquis
Rapollo, the eldest child. in fact, being
born ak weeks after her marriage. For
this marriage she was exiled.
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subsequently, at Marseilles, King
Oscar visited the grand-nephews and
grand-nieces of his grandmother. The
latter was Marseilles girl of the name
OF Desiree DIARY, and before becoming
the wife of Marshal Bernadotte, re.
jected an offer Of marriage from the
first Napoleon. Her father was q Mar
settles stock broker, but the Olsry
family have gone down somewhat in
the world, as its representatives today
consist Of a retail grocer and of taylor,
both Of whom, with their families,
were invited by King Oscar to dine
with him at his hotel, and we're adj
dressed as cousins by the monarch.
Old Queen Desiree was still alive in
the early sixties. She was a dainty
little woman, very frail in appearance,
but most charming in conversation and
possessing magnificent eyes. Her mar
ried life is said to have been very IN
happy, as her husband, besides being
exceedingly tickle, appeared to forget
his own peasant origin, since he was
always reproaching her with her
plebeian birth.
Among Queen VictOria's relatives
who are commoners are the sons and
the daughters of her first cousin, the
Duke Of Cambridge. He contracted q
morganatic marriage with an actress,
Miss Fairweather. and while the union
was valid from an ecclesiastical point
OF view, IL was never officially sane
toned by the crown. SO that the Duke
Of Oambridge's children have no titles,
and bear the family name Of Fitzgeorge.
OF course, do not take into account
the large illegitimate families of King
William ", the Queens uncle One
Of the great-gran dsons Of this King,
Mr.. Aubrey Fitzclarence. is an usher
in.waiting to her majesty. but. unlike
the Fitzgeorges, is never treated as a
relative.
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TRAINS FOR OLD POINT AND
NORFOLK.

Additional Trains leave UusWtII = H'aHV
$40 p. NJ, except sundays for Richmond
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Freight received daily at Pier .. Light
Street.
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June Is, 1859 No. o. NO. !. NO.
Kr-Sun Daily. DAILY {.

Time marked daily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars on Nos. and
for Cincinnati and Louisville.
ParlOr Car on No , to ROnceNerte.
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Connections At Fredericksburg with Il. r.
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Orange with Southern and Chesapeake q
Ohio K. X.
The only line TO the ChanceloTville and
Wilderness BAttlehelds.
Eastern Standard Time Daily eIceptSun-
day. W. h. RICHARDS, Gen Manager
'Train No. leaves Orange the 4th Monday
in each month at 3 p. III.
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at baltimore, Md
STEPH ENsON 4 BRO, Agents,
at Washington. ID. {
KEY COMPTON, Agent,
at Norfolk, Va
W. ID. SCOTT, Agent,
AT Fredericksburg. Va.
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Railroads..
Potomac, Fredericksburg
ANDPIEDMONT RAILROAD
Schedule for 1895

Schedule for 1895.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

the national committee will probably
be called in October or November, after
Senator Jones returns from Europe, at
which the question will be discussed.
Some members are said to be in favor
of calling the convention as early as
February. The advocates of the early
convention declare it will be highly ad-
vantageous to adopt a platform as soon
as possible in order to perfect, the dem
ocratic organization and bring together
the various elements of the party. 1t
is urged on the other hand, however,
that it will be impossible for the ad-
ministration to end the war in the
Philippines as early as February-that
it will be better on every account to
wait until May or June and see what
happens. This sentiment probably will
prevail
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

the stock yards in open competition for
hand fed and choice western beef cat
tie: August 10, 1897, prime cattle. live
weight, $3.50, average s4.15, making the
prime dead meat cost $3.50, or nearly
eight cents per pound to produce. The
butcher paid less for it. August TO-
1898, prime stock fetched $5.25; average
good heifers brought $3.50. This made
prime dressed beef cost $3.50, or 81
cents per pound landed. August TO-
1899, prime beef cattle sold for $500;
average good, s5.25, making the carcass
of prime cost, landed, $9.25, or ga cents
per pound. If the stockgrowers are de-
irving the benefit Montana people will
eat their beefsteaks with composure;
but it is greatly to be feared that the
Armours and other middlemen will SO
manipulate things as to realize most of
the profits, as usual.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
THE GRAVE DANGER OF
A FRENCH REVOLUTION

public is shallow fabric, and that self
impartiality. quiet and order is not pos
sible unless the people have once more
felt the force of monarchy.
President Loubet was welcomed as
strong man. and it must be admitted
the belief that he would prove strong
enough to triumph over the passionate
nation. But the old-time prejudices
and systems are in vogue, and actively
asserting themselves. Even a strong
president is impotent to prevent the
travesty-in France called Justice
being itself travestied, and the entire
police force of Paris has not proved
strong enough to take three or four men
from an ordinary dwelling house. The
French people follow current events
closely; they have eloquent agitators
who do not fail to point out these latest
elements of governmental weakness,
and the Strong" government of Lubet
is growing in the public contempt that
presages change. And what will that
change be? Here in the United States,
where the. acme of self-government
has been attained, and where the peo-
pie IONe anu respect TepuDllCdn 11lSll-
buttons, regard for French self-govern-
ment cannot and does not obtain. Lib
erty with peace, order and quiet, we
esteem a precious possession and are
ready to assist in securing to an OPP
pressed people; but liberty with. riot,
disorder and frequent revolutions is less
desirable than monarchy, and does not
elicit our sympathy.
France needs a man who can write
before the nation a very large Il" She
needs such a man to lay firm hold OF
the reins of government, to bring order
out of chaos, to subjugate the public
passions and prejudices, to teach the
people that liberty is not license: that
republican government is merely
I means to insure equal rights and JUS
tice, and to force the army to become
subordinate to the nation. When
France has learned these lessons, and
has come to know the blessings and
the uses of liberty as understood in re-
publics, she will be competent for self
government. Until she learns them the
world will look through the meager
makeshift of government and see
riot. anarchy, communism and ma
tional disorder smouldering, while they
accumulate force, before letting them
selves loose in a land that should be
one of the choicest spots on the
globe.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
Transplanting Nerves.

The transplanting of skin has been
frequently reported lately, but the
grating of nerves seems a step further
in surgical progress. A man who suf-
fered severe injury to the wrist from a
circular saw lost sensibility in the
hand. Five months after about an inch
and a half of the sciatic nerve of a
young bloodhound was attached to the
end of the median nerve and a similar
operation performed upon the ulnar
nerve. In three months sensibility was
almost complete throughout the hand.
In the American Journal of Medical
Sciences 20 cases of nerve transporta-
ton are reported.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

F it be true that American citizens
are supplying arms and ammuni-
ton to Aguinaldo, it denotes a state
of affairs with which even the most
radical of Atkinsonians can have no
sympathy. American manufacturers of
war supplies who sell their wares to
Aguinaldo may seek to justify their
course on the ground that patriotism
has nothing to do with business"
Such proposition will not be tolerated
by any right-thinking man. 1t is a
business that is disreputable and even
despicable, and the war department
will be remiss in its duty II it does not
probe the matter to the bottom and
make an example of the Americans
who are thus sacrificing every princi-
pie of loyalty and patriotism to private
gain. Whatever may be thought of the
Justice of the war against the Filipinos,
secretly to aid and abet them is trea-
son-and rank treason at that.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
From the Baltimore american.

From the Baltimore american.
These are crucial days in France, and
the promise is that before long the
whole Fabric of French self-government
VIII be placed on trial. The conviction
is gaining ground that the nation is
living over smouldering revolutionary
volcano, whose early eruption is not
improbable. The mutterings and dis
content, the open i-government
manifestations during the last four
years, are having their effect. The in
cessant agitation over the Dreyfus case,
eliminating in the farce at Rennes: the
weakness shown by the government in
its attempt to arrest M. Guerin; the dis
senson and discord that have been
aroused by ordinations and re-
examinations, had but a small outcrop-
ping in Sundays riot, when Paris had
the days of the commune brought WV
idly to its mind. These events, taken
as whole, must be indicative of some
thing. The full purpose is not yet re-
vealed, but it cannot be wrong to accept
what has transpired as a fairly accu-
rate indication of public sentiment.
So accepted, the events very clearly
show discomfort with the government
and a revolutionary tendency that
threatens to knock out the last props
of republican institutions. To-day it
seems positive that the republic rests
on no firmer foundation than it did a
quarter of a century ago, when it was
raised into being. The emotional, ex-
citable, passionate French nature will
NOT be restrained. 1t refuses to settle
down to the business of caring for in
dividual well-being and preserving an
unruffied exterior through government
tai changes. Such a thing as the ma
ton going about its business-as hap
pens here-calmly and with the conf
dent feeling that, though woe betides,
the nation will survive and the individ-
ual continue to exist, is unknown in
France. There the most trivial details
of government call for the most violent
demonstrations. 1t matters not what
the question, every man feels it his duty
to fly into a passion, to arm himself
and array himself, with his fellows. in
armed support of his convictions. The
attempt by the police to, arrest M.
Guerin caused the Sunday riot in Paris;
the decision in the Dreyfus case--it
matters not what it is-will call for
rioting throughout all France, and the
reassembling of the chamber of denu-
ties will occasion protracted interpella-
ton on the Dreyfus affair. These hap
penings force the opinion that the re-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
Meat Is High.

Z = the stockgrowers of Montana are
not prospecting this year it is not be-
cause the price Of meat is not high
enough. The rise in the wholesale price
has been gradual and steady for more
than two years. In the East it is at
tributed to a general shortage of live
stock for slaughter purposes and the in
creased cost of producing stabilized beef
because of the increased price of feed
The National Provisioner makes a COM
parison of the market for beef cattle on
the hoof a. Chicago and Kansas City
for August 10, 1897, 1898 and 1899. It
shows that the following top and aver
age prices were paid by the packers at
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

u to the character and habits of
the Filipinos, you can get any
! kind of a report you please.
According to some of the returning vol
unteers they are dirty and aespica-
BILE lot. According to others, they 81 e
gentlemen and scholars. The truth
doubtless lies between the two eX-
tremes. There are various grades of
Filipinos-as there are of Americans.
Between the Yale graduate and the
Georgia Cracker" there is a great gulf;
and between the highest and lowest
classes of Filipinos the difference may
be almost as great. The educated,
prosperous Filipino is described as "a
misunderstanding subject" He is said
to be immaculate in his white dress
and white shoes. He is "as neat as
possible about his personal appear
ance." His features show refinement,
and when he speaks of moves, it is
with the grace of the Castilian." Flip
mos of this class, of course, are eXcep-
lions to the rule. There are not many
of them But the fact that there are
some Filipinos of high grade of IN
telligence and decency shows the pos
sibilites.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

~ UITS for damages alleged to have
~ been caused by forcible kissing
~ have been common enough in
the country, but now comes Miss Alice
die of Pittsburg with the unique legal
proposition that one David Campbell
owes her $4,000 for having Rugged her
with too much violence and vivacity.
That Miss die consented to be Rugged
by Mr.. Campbell is admitted. but that
she ever agreed that he should hug her
to the extent of breaking two of her
ribs is denied. Miss Dile's previous ex-
perience, if any. as a huggee, is not set
forth in the complaint, but it is reason
able to suppose that it was not out of
the common. She never has had two
ribs broken in this way before. She
had no reason to expect when she per-
mitted Mr.. Campbell to put his arm
around her waist that he would make
such a horribly bad break. As for Mr..
Campbell he can only set up the defense
that he underestimate the strength of
his affection and of his good right arm.
1t is likely to go hard with him before
a Jury. If he gets out of it without pay
ing heavy damages, it will be by an
other tight squeeze.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
Civic Federation of Chicago
is ambitious. 1t aims to be

~HE Civic Federation of Chicago
is ambitious. 1t aims to be
something more than a debating
society. 1t has called a conference to
be held in Chicago beginning Septem-
Der 10 on trusts and combinations, their
uses and abuses. 1t is desired that all
sides to the great problem of trusts
shall be represented, and with that end
in view the organizers and promoters
of trusts as well as labor leaders have
been invited. The Federation's COM
mittee of arrangements discovered that
there is very little data on the sub
jeCt upon which to base intelligent ac-
ton. II has therefore sent out blanks
to twenty thousand trust combinations,
labor unions, travelling mems organiZa-
tons, wholesale merchants associations
and the like, asking for data and opin-
ions. Blanks have been sent also to
lawyers, bankers, contractors, hotel
prOprietOrs and architects. The data
thus obtained ought to be of consid-
erab BILE educational value.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
- HIS man Labor, whom the Drey-
fus case is making famous, ap-

~ HIS man Labor, whom the Drey-
fus case is making famous, ap-
pears to be a Frenchman of the
right sort of stuff. He is 80 years old,
possesses a superb constitution, has in
domitable energy and is practically tire
less. After he took the Dreyfus case
he threw himself into it heart and
soul, abandoning all other practice.
lola says of him: THE cause we are
fighting owes almost everything to the
gigantic energies of NJ. Labor. This
Labori, who is gathering the first har-
vest of manhood, who knows neither
fatigue nor fear, is a tall, deep-chested
fellow with voice that rallies a re-
treating regiment. He has turned the
defense into an accusation" Labor
is all right. Success to him. France
has not utterly gone to the dogs when
it can produce a lawyer like Labori, a
soldier like Picquart and champion
of justice like lola.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
Pando's Exclusive Information.

From the Boston Transcript.
General Pando says it was lucky for
the United States that the war with Spain
did not last a month longer. Perhaps it
was, for by its cessation we were saved
the expense of building more barracks
for Spanish prisoners. With the Spanish
navy reduced to a single squadron. one
Spanish army prisoners and the balance
of SPANS troops in Cuba hopelessly
penned up in the island what Spain could
hope for must be a secret which General
Pando keeps to himself.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
~O-DAY an election will be held

~ O-DAY an election will be held
in the Eighth congressional
district of Missouri to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Rep
resentatiVe Bland. In 1896 Mr.. Bland
received 24.6O5 votes against 1854 cast
for his republican competitor and 1,467
cast for the populist candidate. This
election may in some respects be con-
sidered an event of national importance
To what extent if any, local questions
figure in the election we have no means
of knowing. All that the country at
large knows lis that the militarism and
Imperialism of President Nick nley
have been made an issue. Naturally
therefore the election will attract wide
attention.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

From the Washington Times.
The experts of the marine hospital SER
vice have Investigated Sanarellps yellow
fever germ and declare it to be there and
all right. But the Facilitating specialists
of the army medical corps decline to have
1t that way. Surgeon General Sternberg
says that the buglet caught by the ma
rines is nothing but hog cholera, and he
gets positively profane when he de-
nounces it as no better than 'patho-
genie saphrophyte,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

HE democratic national COM
mittee is said to be considering
the advisability of holding the
democratic national convention next
year two or three months earlier than
has been the custom. A meeting of
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

From the Columbus. O., Press.
1t inspires something like contempt TO
read in the columns of some of our repub
lican contemporaries bitter criticisms of
General Otis in one column and fulsome
praise of President Mckinley in another.
These boss-ridden organs have not the
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
Handicapped by His Socks.

From the Nebraska State Union.
Jerry Simpson allows that he is going
to run for United States senator down in
Kansas. But since Jerry put on socks
he hasn't been able to run fast enough
for anything to catch it. He didn't know
when he was well off.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

New York Gees Tribune Building.
Chicago Office-469 The Rookery.
The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency
Eastern Representatives.
Washington Bureau-1,415 G ST., N W.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

A Honolulu attorney is on his way
to Washington to ask the supreme
court for a decision whether the
Hawaiian islands are under the United
States constitution or not. The Ha-