Daily Index-Appeal (Newspaper) - March 18, 1887, Petersburg, Virginia DAILY FRIDAY MAECH 18 1887 and 118 COK K P Impartial aud Independent of all parties it the news of thy day unbiased by the inter of political or combinations and Alms to promote greatest good to the greatest number Letters containing solicited attention given to anonymous aud rejected communications not i turned by mall unless Is soul for that purpose ADVERTISING HATES art uniform aud will IB jo instance bo deviated from or notices following immediately after tho tooal wUl charged 25 per over card J other day Insertions will bo charged as every day insertions less 20 per feck 50 per a week 75 per iu local 25 couts per line for each insertion Cuts other than cats 50 per cent over regular rotes No deduction for marriage or death notices discontinued expira ot contract will charged for tlie time at transient rates transient advertisements moist be paid for in advance is resorted of rejecting or modifying it may havo received at the counter if deemed objectionable tor advertising apply only to the of advertisers Advertisements or regular business will be charged in congress wore in tho house of especially trail let the objections that havo been made on i grounds to IS fie verdict of one Imi every facility of knowing whereof he avers for it is no less a person than tho Hon T representative from tlie tenth and who That nt least is desire to thi study of history will j much and Hud their introduction to the i practical work of the science greatly facilitated by reading Mr Is Mr Frederick contri butes an illustrated article of curious several of very SAA congressional district of Georgia In nc A valuable paper of certain appropriations which Mr BARNES for the benefit of his constituency a reception re cently tendered him upon which occasion lie is reported to have that seemed to bo one perpetual and thai he soon found out that the man who scrambled most came out With the light which these frank avowals of the congressman throw upon tho methods for the transaction of business Psychology aud IH furnished by Professor Wesley Mills of Mc Montreal Au account of The Birds of New by Halo n the lower house of the national legisla u re it is to is transferable without thu written consent of the proprietor of this paper SUBSCRIPTION HATES invariably payable tn advance Daily 12 mouths six mouths one month 50 cents Weekly 12 months 12 six months three mouths 50 cents Olio tree copy sent to every club of flve sub tori bera Served by carriers to the subscribers in any part of the city at 15 per week payable weakly Each number of the weekly contains a select carefully prepared scientific and house hold intelligence an agricultural department edited by one of the ablest aud most experi sucod agricultural writers of the south all the news of the and is one of the largest and Lest week lies published iu the United States Entered at the postoffice Petersburg as matter Business letters news correspondence aud telegraphic messages should be addressed Petersburg Vs THE HAS A LARGER CITY AND COUNTRY CIRCULATION THAN ANY DAILY PAPER PUBLISH i N SOUTH SIDE VIRGINIA A TION IN NORTH CAROLINA THAN OTHER DAILY PAPER PUBLISHED IN V K GINIA MAECH IS 1887 ITS too much like running by guess by Such was the ejaculatory comment of an indignant citizen of Mas upon the horrible railroad ac cident near Boston the other day by thirty persons lost thair lives and orer one hundred were more or less seri Viewed in the light of subsequent in this comment proves to hare been only too correct Various sugges tions as to the cause of the accident have been but the examination made on behalf of the Engineering News a publication shows that the de bridge was as ire described it ia our head a rotten The journal referred to obtained frag ments of and submitted these to the inspection of two engineering ex perts upon whose report it bases the fol lowing remarks Those fragments may be said to be absolutely conclusive as to the real difficulty since it ti im possible that there have beu more de parts iu the bridge if it was to stand up at all The parts which first broke were the two hangers which carried the last or most easterly pair of floor beams of the northerly or truss which carried all the load So far as can be judged from outside ap they are made of far from good iron begin with but in addition to that they are of very bud design and most imperfectly welded Tu addition to that again they are both of them badly flawed by old aud breaks at the most strained section there being two distinct breaks of specimen The first has both breaks across the weld the first break being complete and the second inch aud an eighth above all but complete metal merely hanging er by the outside skin This hanger can never have done any work since its original aud now ancient fracture or it would have broken apart long since The second hanger was checked across half of its inside face covered by a sup posed weld fur about half its depth of the ef section and this was clearly where the fracture first began It caused a secondary fracture at the second old break in the hook of the welded cud which cut off a somewhat larger portion of the effective strength of the iron Further on the says It is appal thr tens of cf of general importance are crowded out of sight in the rush for the of others that are of a merely ocal character or affect only private in erests The average voter is very apt to auge his representatives efficiency b the amount of money that the latter ii enabled to have appropriated for the benefit of the and hence the member who can get away vith the most plunder in this congressional grab game is surest of a reelection It is pro not straining the truth to say thai every member of congress is anxious for reelection as often as possible and if his statesmanship be by such mate rial considerations as have been referred to it is hardly to be wondered at that he will scramble most assiduously in order to come out None the less it ought to he humiliating to our pride as a people to think that legislation affecting the welfare of the whole body must give way until the greed or neces sities real or imaginary of the individual have been satisfied bears upon the question of the antiquity of the race of men In aud things Mental Dr William S Stevenson op j the views of some authors who have re garded the two as related Professor Humphry K R S gives an analysis of The Habits aud Family History of from the Ob nervations of fiftytwo individuals of ages ranging from ouo hundred to one hundred aui eight years Tim present number of th Monthly as is lilting takes tho shape to considerable of a memorial number t Professor K L its late senior editor plate portrait of Professor a vivid likeness is accompanied by a sketch o by his sister who was his companion and assistant iu his earlier studies and testimony Is borne in tho editors Table to his persona worth and unselfish devotion to the increase and diffusion of scientific knowledge New York D Company Fift cents a number a year THIS WEEK A THK TODAY OF AN ELEGANT STOCK OF a MOSES of South Carolina is slowly dying in a Massachusetts prison hospital Sic gloria mundi No man living has greater cause to real ize the forcefulness of the words In the midst of life we are in death than ALBS UER czar of Eussia To feel that he is the aim of the assassins weapon at every moment of his existence that that assas sin may lurk among those who surround him daily that there is not a minute in which he may not have to face an end as terrible as that which awaited his father is a strain under which any mind might succumb It is proof of extraordinary nerve that he is able even to preserve ap and it is not at all strange to earn that his composure so far relaxed when he was informed close death to him the other dny that he shed He is indeed a proper object of rity though one cannot but condemn the unreasonable obstinancy with which he sets his face against such reforms in methods of government as will bring the people nearer to the throne ling to of lives which have literally hung by a thread in passing over this bridge during the past eleven In a brief editorial paragraph the morning after this terrible occurrence urged the necessity of a more stringent inspection of trains and The results of the examina tion of the fragments ot the bridge lend a plea which cau aot be overestimated How many bridges either of wood or irou or composite are there with flaws more or less liable to per a like dreadful disaster How many railroad companies are there whose presidents superintendents and chief en can say with from Ihi fre quent We hove none such Is it not time for the passage of laws by every state which make stated tions of roadbeds mid bridges obligatory aud require official reports of such tions to bo with some designated state Steam lighting heating of ear electric Better Weather Service Our Agricultural Editor The 0 Picayune in its weekly issue of the 3rd makes some striking and t seems to ns very just remarks on weather as it has been under stood and as it should be studied and in future While seeming to favor the separation of the weather bureau from the war de and connecting it with the ag branch it speaks of the instru ments still employed in making observa tions as adapted only to the infancy of the science and not at all suited to the present advanced state of It deems them too antiquated for any ex act and very useful deductions as to what the weather may be expected to be or of discovering the causes of the phenomena of the weather and thus put the student in a condition to forecast for a consider able period beforehand the kind of weather to expect Our exchange thinks that there be some other physical cause besides those that have hitherto been most studied namely pressure thermic in fluence prevailing wind that operates to control atmospheric phe numena and thai In It thinks therefore that observers should employ electroscopes in their daily ob servations and thus take note of the in fluence of this agent As to the inad of the older instruments perhaps the thought is not altogether without foun dation It is a matter open to doubt at least believe too that electricity does play a part and a very important part not only in tho of the weather but in the growth of crops Prof Atwater holds to this view we think and others no doubt believe it If we are to havo a weather bureau all it should be well equipped Each ob server should be supplied with the best instruments known to physical science and no doubt it would be well to include electroscopes aud along with the rest doubt not commissioner will do nil in his power to render the ser vice really efficient and to the fanner But w FALLING INTO THE AND LEAP Columbia Sun i When a politician begins to write his remin it is sure sign that he has become oni himself UE GATHERS IN Philadelphia Times Amid tho ruins of tho railway wrecks the cheerful countenance of the shines like an evening star WHAT HIGH DO Philadelphia Record Tho effect of high license would bo to provide for the survival of the aud and not for the preservation of the worst drinking places TUKS TUB RASCALS OCT Baltimore American The appointment of a lady on the Now York of education has already borne its fruit She has brought in a minority report differing from all the men Aud worse than that she is right aud the men are wrong If this sort of thing continues what will become of tho lords of creation DIED this city on the 16th instant GRAY in the 47ihyoarof his age II is funeral will take place from his law resi dence No Harding street THIS Friday HORSING at 10 clock The friends of the family are respectfully in to attend His remains will be conveyed to Hollywood Cemetery Kichmond for interment March 15th PETER G MORGAN IS AUTHOR to collect and receipt for all debts and demands due the estate of the late HARDY JOHNSON All persons having claims against said estate will them to PETER G MOK 214 Bollingbrook street LOUISA JOHNSON mh Hardy Johnson decd RESIDENCE ON HIGH STREET AT AUCTION ON THURSDAY AF MARCH 21 1SS7 AT 5 OCLOCK PURSUANT TO A TRUST DEED William Long and wife to the ind at their T shall on the day and at the hour named offer for sale to the highest bidder the DWELLING AKD LARGE LOT pied by said Long on the north side of High street in the city of Petersburg fronting on said street about 50 FEET and running north to Low street about 300 FEET This property is well known and being on so desirable a street makes it valuable cash balance at 4 S 12 and 1C months purchaser to execute negotiable notes well endorsed carrying interest from lata and retained till paid for or a trust deed if Purchaser to pay for tST Dwelling insured iu the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia ALEXANDER DONNAS Trustee mh 18td T Auctioneer A many arc n Jhe of saying rather its impossible for to fitted in and settle down to 53o prices for cioth iiir made 10 special measure aike view of the mut er and accept it jis one of tie ics of its si mistake matter iat your or can fit you iij readymade clothing tile n slock a assortment cif fine aud grade fabrics to fit just smh nen as yon Our Coals and Vests run as 31 indies measure mr Trousers as SIN indies vaist measure A SAKS A KILT SUITS Iii One Two Piece Arrangements DRY GOODS HOUSE Styles art as OPEN TODAY 300 DOZENS Of OF SCARFS mm AND BOWS WK HATH ALL ALL AND Au RANGING IN PRICE FROM 13C TO HATE THE FOLLOWING FOR OUR PATRONS HOSIERY AB entirely lint of OlK IMPOR TATION and at MUCH than LEADING have ever offered them before In addition to we have a complete Hue of LADIES ENS OF DOMESTIC MANUFACTURE BUT PARTICULARLY 65 DIFFERENT OF FINE IMPORTED AT 23C AND 30C WHICH WK RETAIL AT LADIES HOSE at So lOc and 12e MISSES HOSE at Gc 7c 9c and MENS HOSE at Sc lOc and 12o Compare those prices please with those houses whether cash or credit and see it U to your interest to LOT 2 The Largest Variety of Bonnie Jerseys Would be Cheap at SOc COLLARS ARE NOW OK EXHIBITION SAAL THE LEADER 303 Sycamore Street W T BROWDER Of T H BOISSEAU Of Dinwiddie J T EDMUNDS 0f City HENRY MORRIS Of City Point A WARWICK Of Gin 1 A The lifes Me IN BEHALF OF THE rEANT MONUMENT FUND luff the ainc and just us as their larger Be cause a man is short stout he takes it for granted he cannot Ie fit od unless his clothes urc to or der A a mistake Vo n arms you can tit you from our difficulty Itut vce hat ours is tho only house i his section the country and of few in that carries in stock to fit tile short and tout A SAKS A js safe bridges ami trestles instead of far hand It is a hard to reach tlie farmer the md oil vil lie full of rails ii present of any service to tlie fur tin derailing of j difficulty must first Le in brif thai fur the of the traveller ou e pro Tided by if nary Iu of safeguards it in indeed too by and by and are bulb for tin republican nomina for in and the initials of On of the man if whom they are most arc I O H JUNKS of s in quite is Die to tlie have for If the weather could bo forecast a week iu advance UIMI the could cui the information in time Can this lie done Future must answer If tho of electricity will to solve the problem we say let let daily that be mode along with other from tho fanners and all tie heiji tat can render K If Mr A sii h i it to with Ar in 01 thin by Al 111 wilT Sin up if en Hi in IM Ii liim to n ol the of i of New York us j so Us in Ii win nnd Sun il H M Hull of iu iif ihn Hint vunn within Her uwi to con AK is they can arc apt to hat their immense length of arms and limits they find any thing ready made to fit them iii the skeptical to Tisil our ex amine our fry oil our garments if and tiat if ry tin styles like the they and at prices that agreeably surprise As it is so it is everything we keep have find ts al you can A SAKS AND COMPANY Maip Street rah is PICKLED AND SMOKED 11KKK by ALEX WILSON md IX S N AND Wools N C Ko NIL I erol liy ALEX WILSON loP MALT WHISKEY ALEX WILSON nil is ST IN ii Ii ni iter Ale Mnul Knurl I Whisker lli ily In mid for ur Iu spite of its more or leso complicated char acter me Grand Word Contest just ended lias proven a treat By las on lifted over 3 OUO energetic and workers for The Fund rao tue total previously tlie Grant Committee by the Contribution of a sized check ami in addition divided iJOt among ind happy workers as a reward for their abor and ingenuity now a contest of an oven more popular er than the first a contest iu chool child can engage and stand an equal bance older competitors Every person who iu with gov erning rules sends to the Fund on or before June 15th 18S7 12 50 and the names of the eleven living men in America will be entitled to parti iu the contest The money received will be appropriated as cents will be at once credited to the Grant after ing the legitimate expenses of advertising will be placed in a common fund to tje divided equal ly among the six competitors having the fullest list of the most popular people us indicated hy a majority of all tho lists iu The now con test Is in fact based upon the principles of au election each competitive paper virtually acting In the nature of a ballot and tho six con the greater number of the eleven names to be the most popular by a majority of all tha will be the successful prize papers The magnitude of the prizes will depend on of money received words on the number of competitor The names and contributions of competitors will edged and the of the fund shown from week to week in JUHOK Governing rules in this weeks or circulars mailed on receipt of for copies of paper must ho accompanied bv ten cents Address THE nib 1841 38 New York City has eror aean embracing all Solid Colors and Combinations and at FAR LOWEK PRICKS man else for grade of Our BOUCLE in Black and at defies all competition aa price and All our grades In BOUCLE AND ANU la proportion Ajk for tuat al LOf 3 AN ENTIRELY ASSORTMENT Of KID GLOVES In connection with this department wish to mention that our cost sale reduced the stock to a very low ebb aurt enabled us to 1111 up with DESIRABLE GOODS Many of our prices have been reduced and new styles added among them the LADIES MOURNING EM BROIDERED BACK and also TAN SHADES aud GENTLEMENS BAcili in al tho new LOT 4 We hare been opening for ihq pasi len days a full lins of SPUING among which tbs 3JINCn in Solid and Mixed Colorings a prominent fca turo Ou Tricots are the best make known and full 3G Besides bava Seasonable Dress Goods at in single fold and a special good thing in nil colors and only IBc worth 2i cents auit a No 2 IRON FRONT In Announcing that Their SPRING SPECIAL LITTLE JOB LOT OF CHECKS WORTH DOUBLE TRIMMINGS We are showing a line of beautiful to match all our goods and will open in a day or two a complete lina of colors ia NO VELTY ANU Just the things to trim Woollens With at ram LOlf LOT 5 ALX WILSON i N My J LINK OF COFFEE AM TEA COFFEE reduced to old HOV JAVA COFFEE linn 1JOASTK1 COFFEE excellent 1JOASTKI IJO COFFEE at warranted i to suit i Wo our MIXED j AND TEAS to n the I rity and at tl 3iC 0 tubs fins N Y just and will sold a LS worth OSc MYKK SAAL mh Is 210 Sycamore street EDAM CHEESE i New York nnd County j by i mh 1 ALEX WILSON OF the of the city of Peters th 2lth day of February Eliza K Cole und Sydney C the lat ter n minor by his next friend The Supreme of tli of Chosen and Simon C IN The object of this null is to n np by to collect nnd th share nf tho Simon C umler n of y Order husen on or to said or of Miil And ii by dc l 1 is a of stati it ordered within one of anil ilo Him In o ill this null A I JOHN c clerk AHAMILTON fe Ior low mil H 4 M A NEW ASSORTMENT OF Ginghams and Seersuckers In entirely new patterns aud combination of colors iu AND SOLIDS Dont overlook that ws aro CALICOES nt 3c anil me the best quality ALL OUR GOODS I MARKED ffl PLAIN LOT o OUR LINE OF WHITE GOODS IS THIS ET AST IS AN NAINSOOK CHECKS the value ever we have better ones at 8Ki and Idc Piques and every known fabric in tills lino OUR BEETLED CAMBRIC nt will any other at price tiro The reputation of oir lino of is now so well dont look for tillin e keop only the fur much for All the point o au nnd wn frinii our no la pick from Uio full A A PINS AT 1C KAlW r Complete B KH TO SAY TO THEIR NUMEROUS ERSTS THAT THEY NEVER HAD SO MANY TO OFFER TO THEM In every department they can show goods that cannot bo equalled in in this State hey are showing mi unequalled assortment of SILKS SURAHS AND SATINS BLACK GRAINS BLACK BLAK AND COLORED BLACK nought from a BANKRUPT STOCK which enables hem to offer these goods at a price which defies Spring GOODS at lOc and 8c that must be seen to be appreciated Every ne who looks at Roods Is astonished at the price and charmed with their beauty and style WHITE GOODS In addition to the usual inens and Checked Muslins they are offe arge variety of NEW FABRICS which are hemp comparison They call attention KI a nixed lot of White Goods LAWNS CHECKED ETAMINES NAINSOOK NAINSOOK CHECKS SC All at the uniform of yard ont let bo sold before you secure some Also the CHECKED MUSLIN ill Virginia or a yard CORDED AND WHITE PIQUES ow so much in demand CHEAP HOSIERY Al HANDKERCHIEFS When we toll yon we can sell yon a SOLID OLOR or STRIPE HOSE for Indies at c and rom that price to tho best you may well believe CHEAP HOSIERY and a RIBBED for children in Colors or Black for JOc nd a much better article with split feet our impression must be confirmed guarantee 10 show mor dozens of Hose IK a variety of styles lan anv house in the Slate We have PLAIN WHITE AND COLORED BOR DERED HANDKERCHIEFS from 5c acb up ward Wo show a nice EMBROIDERED CHIEF at 25c Our HEMSTITCHED at lOc 12c irc and 18c have never been equalled COLORED BORDERED AND HEMSTITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS in all grades OUR STOCK OF TABLE DAMASKS AND NAPKINS TOWELS AND AND WASH RAGS WHITE COUNTERPANES LACE CURTAINS PILLOW COTTONS COTTON LINEN PILLOW CASE LINENS ARE ALL BELOW KOCK BOTTOM T II E HATE TO SHOT THIS WEEK We ars now receiving our Mattings Come and see them nml ascertain who Wo offer again this your 40 YARDS OF WHITE MATTING for YARDS OF FANCY MATTING for nud bo convinced as to cheapness Wo HUirt our spring campaign against ANI moms We propose to sell is LOW as tho wane grade of goods cnn be bough in this country and many article for MONEY than they can be bought in any Northern city JERSEYS PLAIN 1KRSEYS PLAIN JiSc at nnd Test Front CORSETS CORSETS Nowhere you find such an ot CORSETS We have THOMSONS GB F E G UTJ THOMSONS ABDOMINAL THOMSONS THOMSONS LADIES MISSES WARNERS HEALTH HIP AND M M of all X Wft OFFER at ill V 230 CORSETS at We iOC IN TIIK CITY GKO II DAVIS rnh 14 VO G TIIK LOT CAM BE SOMB Ten Handsome and Nobby Patterns in ENGLISH DIAGONALS SCOTCH CHEVIOTS French Diagonals aM French f ALSO A CHOICE OK NEW f EAT VT on a splendid line of 6O6B3 early spring wear new designs and colorings NEW SUITINGS IN FANCY CHECKS FANCY AND PLAIN MIXTURES Hie and ti 1IECKS TRESH NEW MATTINGS Wp SMALL OFFER AT BELOW ALL JERSEYS JERSEYS We Offer Beirt BLACK 11OUCLE JACKET at BLACK BOUCLE JACKET at BLACK BOUCLE JACKET at COLORED BOUCLE JACKET at We can boat the on Jerseys and a and c har goods throughout the city TOWELS TOWELS A OK THOSE TOWELS ARK PER LESS FAX VS Bcv Now on IT Win Bt Too Specia Attention IS TO THK FOLLOWING NEW NKW BLACK AND RID AN STOlK OK M M DAVIS Co Mh 7 VO J IKON r f
