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VOL. XILAWRENCE VILLER. M. BATCHELDER.ESTABLISHED 1868.W. H. COLLINS.DEAI INBuilding: brick,Fire Brick,Fire y,PtaoUr,Lime,Rosendail Cement, Portland Cement, Shingles,Agricultural Lime.Cnlmney Pipe, Terra Cotta Pipe, Lathf HairOffice, 145 Water Street, NORFOLK, VAflHEN YOU BUY TURNIP SEEDSAt the most convenient country or village store it is possible that you may get seeds of fine stock and good germination, but—has your experience shotvnthat it is likely?Do you buy seeds from general merchandise stores because you believe that they have the best, or is it because you forget to order them from seedsmen in time, or find letter writing tco much trouble?Nobody buys seeds at second or third hand except as a result of forgetfulness or indifference, and if you have been getting yours that way, it is time you were making a change. It’s folly to risk your crops in that fashion.We will sell you “Thoroughbred Turnip Seeds” atfifty cents per lb., and deliver them free at your post or express office.BEO. TAIT SONS,«• ^ Seed Browers and Merchants.78 Commercial Place,NORFOLK, VA.© — MAY AND GRAIN IN CAR LOTS A SPBCMLTY.— QTHE F. A. BEN NETT CO.,Wholesale aud Retail Dealer* In All Kind* ofHay, Grain, Feed, Seeds, Flour, c.Nos. 346 AND 348 WATER STREET,PHONES; }•* »0.NORFOLK, VA.The^ Nottingham WrennGo.Wholesale and Retail Dealers InCOAL! COAL!All sizes AM 11 It API VK at lowest price*. George* Creeic CUMBERLAND X)AL for blacksmith*. Pocahontas STEAM COAL ami LUMP for Grate*.SOME PLAIN QUESHONSADDRESSED TO VOTERS WHO THINK MONEY IS THE ISSUE.Whan There in *% I*bned Citlzennliip ii» Porto Rico uml Alanila Then the I*-• ue 1* Not the Hollar Rut American Clllzen*lii|—•Atteni»l lo Scare Voter*’Your squirmy Republican politiciandoes not liko tlio look of ihings. Ho worries about the solid thinking Gormans who have abandoned .McKinley after supporting him In 1800. He wor lies about tin* native American who does not like It) see his form of government changed by Hanna. He.worries about tiie liberty-loving Irishman who hates the Hny-Paunccfote British alliance.Your squirmy Republican politician thinks to himself: “We won withmoney for an issue in '00. We mail aged fo scare the nation with u silver bugaboo. Peril a ps we could do it again. Let's keep money tiie issue.”That Republican will tell you that money is the Issue this year as it was four years ago and try to make you belbve it.Look that Republican in bis fishy eye, and say to him:“You think that money is the issue, do you? Then you think that the kind of dollar you got. is more important than the form of government you live under. Is that so? You think money is the Issue? Then you feel that a gold standard of currency is more important than a republican standard of government. Is that so?“You think money is the issue? Then you feel that we can live all right under a double standard of government, but not under a double standard of metals? Is that so? We onn have semi republicanism at home, absolute imperialism abroad and not suffer. We can stand bi-govcvnmeut. But we cannot stnud bi metallism.“You think money the issue, and you dread a debased currency, you fear an eighty-eent dollar.“But how about a debased citizenship? How about an eighty-five per cent, citizen in Porto Rico, and a fifty per cent, citizen in Manila?“Is a debased dollar or a debased citizen worse? Ik the dollar or tiie citizen the important issue in a republic?”•You talk like that to your Republican friend who says money is the issue, and you will soon cause him to change his tune.Money may bo the isstt? in America when there exi^Js no issue dangerous to American ideas and to republican government. But when Ilanim and his trusts seek to elinuge this Government, when peaceful Porto Ricans are treated as captives ami slaves, when American citizens are used as tools of imperialism, so many lives to bo traded for a market for so many tins of beef—Then American citizenship is t ho issue. American republican government is the issue.And the American by hi* belief and Ids vote proves that ids falliers did not found lids Government solely that some shark might feel easy about Ids mortgage payable in gold.There are things more important to this nation than a gold dollar or anv other kind of a dollar, and Hanna wlil learn that with surprise next November.BRUNSWICK COI NTY, VIRGINIA, SEPTEMBER 27, 1000.BRYAN AND THE SUPREME COURT. 'JSStED FROM MANILA.If Klertftri, lie Would Select the /.blent Available American JuriM.aThe Republican newspapers arc much exercised over the fact that Mr Bryan, if elected, might be called upon to appoint seven members of the Supremo Court.It is well for tiie Republican papers to call the .•mention of the people toj those Supreme Court nominations. Thej people of America must make up theirI minds whether they prefer William Jennings Bryan or Mr. Ilanna to name seven Supreme Court Justices to interpret the United States Consti-! tution.tSource of Instruction* to Keitel* to Renew the War.Manila (By Cable).—The insurgent demonstrations last week prove tohave been more extended than was at first reported. From Cagayan and Isabela provinces and the northwestern districts of Luzon come accounts of insurgent operations and American precautionary measures. Merchants in the province of Albav are getting their hemp to Manila as rapidly as possible, fearing that otherwise it will be burned by the insurgents.At Iloilo there was considerable anxiety lest, an uprising should occur; but the insurgents there are ceasing their activity and returning inWe believe that every intelligent j white clothing to the garrisoned townsAmerican, whether he be the poorest ! laborer or the most prosperous merchant or manufacturer, would prefer llmt the Supreme Court Justices should be named by Mr. Bryan rather ; than by Mr. Ha nun. We don't be-; lleve that many voters, even in the , Republican party, doubt that Mr. Hanna would be extremely influential, if not omnipotent, in the selection of the men who may succeed Jus vices 1 Gray. Fuller, Shims. Ilnrlnn, 'Brewer,I Brown and White. Everybody knows tlie sort of men flint Mr. Hanna would select if tlie choice were left to him j and everybody knows also what sort . of men Mr. Bryan would select.1 There is 110 need to discuss tho sort of men that Mr. Ilanna would select for tlie Supreme Court. Even if lie icted conscientiously it would bo the worst possible thing for the country, since ids view of the nation’s welfare is based on the belief that, courts und laws should tend to make the rich free from taxes and the trusts mightier. *Mr. Bryan would name for the Supreme Court—and every fair-minded mail knows it perfectly well—the a lies! interpreters of Constitutional law whom he could find. He would be guided solely by the desire to put upon lie Supreme bench men worthy of the highest judicial office in the world. He would select the ablest available \iuericnu jurists. He would certainly •lot select men who hod spent their lives as paid legal clerks of trusts or corporations, no would select honor-»ble American statesmen accustomed lo look upon the* Constitution as the unions great defender, and not nc-•ustomed to look upon it as an obstacle to be overcome in the service ofbribe-giving trusts and monopolies, if you want Bryan to nominate thelust ices of the Supreme Court, vote for Bryan.If you want Hanna to nominate the Tustices of the Supreme Court, vote for McKinley.of the district. As a resumption of insurgent operations is considered quite probable, the Americans there are taking the necessary steps.The American casualties in killed, wounded, or missing, during the last ten days approaches one hundred, including those at Siniloan. at the east end of Laguna de Bay, where the insurgents, after the engagement, delivered ten bodies of our dead.Documents captured in Manila show that the insurgent activity in this vicinity was ordered by rebels here, following instructions from the Hongkong junta.Senor Buencamino has received from Aguinaldo an answer regarding his peace proposals. Aguinaldo declines to consider them, and declares that lie is unwilling to agree to a compromise.The amnesty expired September 21, and the conditions that existed previously have been resumed.An insurgent proclamation signed last month by Aguinaldo, directing that American prisoners be set at liberty, that good treatment be accorded to captives, and that $10 be paid to each American surrendering, lias reached Manila. Few prisoners were released under the proclamation. Two who have just arrived from the Tailless district report that the insurgents in that locality are in “hotter spirits” than they had displayed at any time since the 1st of April. The insurgents recently murdered ruthlessly three persons in the Luk-ban district.Samar is short of rice, but an the hemp supply is abundant, the people are shipping hemp to Bulan Island and smuggling rice in exchange.0,000 l'KOR A UI.Y PKRI8HEI).More Self-ContrAdlction.‘ Practical civil service reform lias always liad the support aud encour-igemcnt of the Republican party. Flie future of the merit system is safe 11 iis hands.”So says Mr. McKinley, and it is 1 very sickening deliverance to lt;•lt; .10 *rom the head of an Administration wldch has removed 110 less than ten ho inn nd places from t lie* merit cate* sovy and turned them over to the qmils-monger as stock in trade.It is disheartening, but not in the least surprising, coming as it does rout William McKinley.it is not surprising, because we doCon*er»nllve 1 ttimato of I*e:ul in C.»I-Vestofi—Relief Work.Galveston. Texas (Special).—AH estimates of the number of dead in Galveston have been made as conservative as possible, but tlie evidence grows stronger that the figures have beenonly too small. It is now believed that6000 persons perished in the flood. A great number of negroes lost their lives and few have been identified. The property loss probably will foot up $22,500,000.The work of extricating bodies fromthe mans of wreckage continues. With all that has been done to recover bodies buried beneath or pinned to the immense rift, the work has scarcely started. There is no time to dig graves and the remains are hastily consigned to the flames.Under one pile of wreckage 20 bodies were taken out and cremated. Inanoilmr pll» i man pulled cu-«• V• lite-mains of two children. For a moment ; lie gazed upon them and then mechani-; caliy cast them into the fire. They I Were his own ilesh and blood. An they slowly burned be watched them until they were consumed. Then he resumed j his work assisting others.| At Hurd's Lane, about four miks west of the city, the water ran to a height of 11 feet. Hung up in trees]FORTY LIVES LOST.many PERISH in ILOODS IN HIEM FAT.A MIGHTY RUSH OF WATER.Grenf UfimRgo to the Cotton Field* A Ion z the Trinity R»»d DrnSO* River* —Ntnnbpr* of C ntile anil Sheep Drownedand Ilritiffe* F Wept An ny -Fenr* of I.on* of l.i f*«.Chicago (Special).—A dispatch to the Times-Herald from Dallas. Texas.says:“A cloudburst in tlie Nueces river country, 90 miles west of the Southern Pacific road, resulting in a terrific flood and much loss of life, is reported. Meagre details have been received, but It Is claimed that from 30 to 40 Italian* employed on the sheep ranches were drowned and all the ranches swamped. Many flocks of sheep have been lost and a large amount of property destroyed.From the most, reliable information obtainable extensive storm damages have been inflicted on the I pper Colorado and the Concho River Valleys, particularly at and near Brownwood, Blanket and San Angelo. Wire communication with all these places are cut off and the railroad linos damaged so that no trains can reach them.Reports indicate that the heaviest damage is at San Angelo, although many bridges in Brownwood havebeen wrecked or injured. It is feared many lives have been lost. The last telegram frcm Brownwood went out about 10 o’clock, and stated that the town was flooded and entirely surrounded by flood, and that people and goods wfere being removed to places of safety in rowboats and rafts.Bulletins from Temple state that the tracks of the Gulf. Colrado and Santa Fe Railroad are under water to the depth of 15 feet south of Brownwood, and that nothing can be heard fromplaces up the line.It rained hard for approximately 100 miles in all directions from Brown-wood, and, as the streams In that part of Texas are now very treacherous'in the matter of sudden rises, a disasteris feared.St. Ixmis, Mo. (Special).—Dispatches from the Nueces River Valley in Texas say the Mexican village. La Algie. on the Gallardo creek, a branch of the Nueces, was destroyed by the recent flood. A Mexican family of four, and two American campers, supposed to have been deer-huntcrs from Eagle Pass, perished.Loss of life is reported to have resulted on the Circle X ranch, ana at Dos Pasitos, but this cannot bo verified. All efforts to get word from Brackettsville have failed, owing to the washing away of telegraph wires.Y FI. LOW .JACK RACiKS IN HAVANA.Ka*d to Kxl*t In Part «»f City Occupied byA ninr!rttn-i.Washington (Special).—The Surgeon General’s office of the War Department has no information regarding the epidemic of yellow fever In Havana. although it is known to exist there to a considerable extent. Private advices from Havana indicate that the outbreak is serious. The fever existsfit pa rtf or the city andi •among Americans who have gone there. It is said at the War Department that no fears are entertained of a serious outbreak among the troops of the United States, as they are out- | side of the city and not in infected dis- | tricts. The outbreak is not uucxpoct- tcd, as fever usually develops about this j time of year, and is even worse during the months of October and November
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Lawrenceville, Virginia, US
Thu, Sep 27, 1900
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