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fSE-CZEELY-' OtZETTE. TIE HEOLY GAZETTE KATZS CT AlmXTUlIO. Ob sqoar, thrmaMotiuL dlMEJ B, TVUBQ. Editor matrw IT. JL H ITCH ELL mo4 JL J. EV3ERS, ObwthSOM tTLtoil w-mt tdmOwniH y r 5SQ j VOL, IX. RALEIGH; N. 0.. SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1897- NO. 11. Rfl r J ntfc . IN Fj w ion fci r oo H . to . mots xmA lev lam Rj - in THE GRANT MONUMENT Official Formation of the Land and Water Parades. MANY MILES OF PARADERS. vi . . uiriaion Blade Up of Large Bodies of United State TroopaNew York niutlamen In the SecondDIrlslon Third Division Devoted to Troops from Other States Civilians and V eterans. Following is the official formation of the great land and water parades at the dedi cation or the Grant Monument in New York: Movement of the Unci, ' Platoon Mounted Police. Governor's Island Band. Major General Grenville M. Dodge, Grand Marshal. Staff: A. Noel Blakeman, Chief of Staff. Colonel H. C. Corbin, U. S. A., Adjutant General. Captain C. M. Chester, U. S. N., Fleet Cap tain. Captain John A. Johnson, V. S. A., Assis tant Adjutant-General. Colonel W. C. Sanger, Inspector-General Captain J. Allen, U.S.A., Chief Signal Of ficer. Captain "W. E. Horton, Military Secretary, Special Aids: General T. F. Eodenbough, U. S. A.; Gen- , eral N. W. Day, General C. H. T. Collis, coionei v. jn. Kwirt, J. Jf. Jfaure, lleuten- ! ant A. W. Lilienthal and Edward Kasco- var. Military Grand Division. Major-General Wesley Merritt, TJ. S. A. Aids First Lieutenants L. H. Strother, Harry C. Hale, T Bentley Mott. First Division. United States Forces, General W. M. Graham, U. S. A., Command ing. First Brigade. v- United States Army. Corps Cadets, only U. S. Military Academy. Lieutenant Colonel Samuel M. Mills, U. S. A., Commanding. Battalion of Engineers, U. 8. Army, Major John G. D. Knight, U. 8. A., Com manding, and Staff. Begiment United States Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel W. S. Worth, U. S. A., Commanding. Begiment United States Artillery, Lieutenant Colonel William Sinclair, U. S. A., Commanding. ' Battalion Light Artillery. Begiment United States Cavalry, Colonel S. S. Sumner, Sixth U. 8. Cavalry, Commanding, and Staff. First Squadron.Sixth United States Cavalry, Major Thomas C.Lebo.U. S.A.,Commanding. Second Squadron, Third U. 8. Cavalry, Major L. T. Morris, U. 8. A., Commanding. Troop, Military Academy, Captain James Parker.U.8. A., Commanding. Second Brigade. Forces United States Navy. Captain James H. Sands, U. 8. N. Lieutenant William F. Fullam, U. 8. N., Adjutant, and Staff. United States Marines. First Battalion, Major C. F. Williams. Second Battalion, Captain Bichard Wallach. GENERAL ULYSSES 8. GRANT. . United States Seamen. ; Third Battalion, Lieutenant C. Laird, U. 8.N. Fourth Battalion, Lieutenant Commander J. M. Miller, U. 8. N. Fifth Battalion, Lieutenant Richard Hen derson, U. 8. N. Sixth Battalion, Lieutenant W. L. Burdick, U.S.N. Seventh Battalion, Lieutenant R. M. Doyle, U. S. N. Second Division. Frank S. Black, Governor of New York, Commander-in-Chief. Major-General C. Whitney Tillinghast sec ond, Adjutant-General and Staff.. First Brigade. Brigadier-General Fitzgerald, Command ing. Lleutenant-Colonel 8. H. Olin, Assistant Adjutant-General and Staff. First Signals-Corps, Ninth regiment,1 Sev enth regiment, Seventy-first regiment, Sixty-ninth regiment, Eighth regiment, Twenty-second regiment, Twelfth - regi ment, First Battery and Second Battery. '" Second Brigade. Brigadier-General James McLeer, Com manding, and Staff.. . Signal Corps, Fourteenth regiment, Forty seventh regiment, Seventeenth Separate Company, Twenty-third regiment, Thir teenth regiment, Third Battery and Troop C. Fourth Brigade. Brigadier-General Peter C. Doyle, Com manding, and Staff. , Sixty-fifth Regiment, Provisional Regi me rt and Seventy-fourth Regiment. Third Brigade. Brigadier-General Robert 8. Oliver, Com manding, and Staff. Third Signal Corps, Tenth, Eleventh, Six teenth, Fifteenth, Twelfth, (Seventeenth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Battalions and sixth Battery. Naval Militia, N. Y. Commander J. W. Miller, Commanding. Lieutenant-Commander George E. Kent, Adjutant, and Staff. SigDal Corps, First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth and Provisional Battalions. Old Guard of the City of New York. Third Division. Major-General D. H. Hastings, Governor of Pennsylvania, Commanding, j Staff. General T. J. Stewart and First Brigade. Pennsylvania National Guard. General J. P. S. Gobin, Commanding, and Staff. Second Briga . Hon. John W. Griggs, Governor of New -. Jersey, Commanding. General William S. Stryker and Staff. r THE GRANT MONUMENT, RIVERSIDE DRIVE, NEW YORK. National Guard, State of New Jersey. Major-General Joseph N. Plume, Command ing, and Staff. Third Brigade. Connecticut. Governor Lorrin A. Cooko. General George Haven and Staff. Escort. Governor's Foot Guard. -National Guard State of Connecticut. Massachusetts. Governor Roger Wolcott. General Samuel Dalton and Staff. Escort. First Corps of 'Cadets, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas F. Edmunds. Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com pany of Massachusetts. Maryland. Fifth Regiment and Veteran Corps Fifth Regiment. Maryland National Guard. New Hampshire. Governor Charles A. Busiel. General A. D. Ayling and Staff. Escort. Amoskeag Veterans. Virginia. Provisional Regiment. General C. J. Anderson, Commanding, and Staff. --:iT Rhode Island. r A W ' Governor Charles Warren Lippitt. Brigadier-General F. M. Sackett and Staff. Vermont. Governor Josiah Grout and Staff. First Regiment, and First, Second and Third Battalions Vermont v National Guard. ' Ohio. Governor Asa 8. Bushnell. General H. A. Axline and Staff. Escort. Toledo Cadets, Ohio N. G. Ohio National Guard. Illinois. Governor John R. Tanner.' General J. N. Reese, Adjutant-General and Staff. District of Columbia. Provisional Battalion. Lieutenant-Colonel M. E. Urell, Command ing. First company, Washington Light; Second company, Washington Light; Corooran Cadets, National Fencibles, and Emmet Guard. Independent Companies. Societe Legione Giusseppi Garibaldi, Cap tain Luis Fugazy. Italian Rifle Guard, Captain Stephen Fer rettl. Independent Russian Hussars of America, v Captain Mike Marx. Polish- Lithuanian American Republican League, Colonel H. P. Lewandowski. Fourth Division. Military School Cadets. In E. L. Zalinski, U. S. A., Marshal. ptain H. V. .Lockwood and Aids. lecort, Cadet Troop, Squadron A. JJ lrst Brigade. Colonel Charles J. Wright, Marshal, and Staff. New York Military Institute Cadets, St. Francis Xavier Cadets, D e La Salle Cadets, Berkeley School Cadets, Hamilton Insti tute Cadets, Barnard School Cadets, Co ' lumbia Institute Cadets, Yonkers High School, Plainneld High School Cadets and Castleton School Cadets. Second Brigade. Major George M. Barry, Marshal. - St. George's Cadets, St. Bartholomew's Cadets, Alliance Cadets, Bloomfield Ca dets, Prospect Street Boys' Brigade, Em Cap - manuel Cadets. Fnlsconal fHinrnh Tm. peranoe Legion, Leo Battalion, Ascension Knights of Temperance, Hebrew Orphan Asylum Cadets, First New Jersey Bat talion, Cadets; St. Thomas Cadets, St. Monica's Temperance Cadets, St. Petri U. d. tm uaaeis ana our Aiaay oi Borrow iaaeis. Third Brigade. General A. G. Kanvon. Marshal. Baptist Boys' Brigade, First Battalion New oxoy uaaeis, umnese etuaents, new York Turner Cadets and Rathmore Boys' Battalion. Veteran Grand Division. Major-General O. O. Howard, Chief Mar shal. General Henry E. Tremain, Chief of Staff. Staff Colonel David 8. Brown, General H. H. Boyce, Colonel Henry H. Adams. Escort, Lafayette Post. Disabled Corps Commanders in carriage. First Division. . Grand Army of the Republic. Colonel T. 8. Clarkson, Commander-in-Chief. J. H. Mullen, Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief. C. W. Buckley, Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief. Henry L. Swords, Assistant Adjutant-General and Staff. Escort, U. 8. Grant Post. Department of New Jersey, G. A. R. Commander, Ernest C. Stahl and Staff. Department of Pennsylvania. George G. Meade Post, No. 1, W. W. Wal lace, Commander. Department of Rhode Island. Livingston Scott, Department Commander and Staff and Mounted Escort. 'Dm"-', Department of Connecticut. O. W. Cornish, Department Commander and Staff. Department State of New York. Commander James 8. Graham, Staff and Aids. First A division of the Department of New York, G. A. B., consisting of posts outside New York City, Brooklyn and Long Isl and. Past Department Commander John C. Shotts, Marshal and Staff. Second A division consisting of posts of Brooklyn and Long Island. M. J. Cummings, Marshal. . Fordham C. Miles, Adjutant-General and Staff. Third A division composed of posts of tho city of New York. James R. O'Beirne, Marshal, and Staff. First Independent Brigade. Composed of Veteran Organizations. General Joseph Hays, Commanding, and Staff. Medal of Honor Men, Union Veteran Le gion, Union Veterans' Union, United States Regular Army and Navy Veteran Association, Veteran Zouave Association, Eleventh Regiment Veteran Association of New York, Independent Veteran Asso ciation, Veteran Association of 165th Begi ment, New York Volunteers (Second Dur yea Zouaves), Eighty-second New York Veteran Association, Sixty-ninth Begi ment New York Veteran Corps. Second Independent Brigade. - General W. W. Henry, Commander, and Staff. Naval Veteran Association, Naval Cadets of New York City, Sons of Veterans, Sons of Confederate Veterans. Civic Grand Division. Chief Marshal, Colonel Charles F. Homer, and Staff. First Brigade. Colonel Frederic Kopper, Commanding, and Staff. New York Letter Carriers. Postmaster C. W. Dayton, Commanding, and Stan. New York City Fire Department. Chief, Hugh Bonner. First Battalion, Benjamin A. Glcquel. Second Battalion, Charles W. Kruger. Third Battalion, Long Island City Fire Department, Chief W. H. Delahanty. Second Brigade. Veteran Volunteer Fire Association. Robert B. Nooney, Marshal, and Staff. Third Brigade. Public School; New York City. Hon. Charles Bulkley Hubbell, President. : Members of Board of Education. Superintendent John Jasper, Marshal, and Stan. Fourth Brigade. United Ancient Order of Hibernians. Timothy Moriarty, Marshal. Fifth Brigade. Colonel Wright D. Gross. Commanding. United States Guide and Inf ormationCom- pany. Knights of Pythias. ig- Knights of Sherwood Forest. Loyal Orange Institution. Frederick F. Fleck Pioneer Corps. Charles Sumner Pioneer Corps. Rockland Institute. Junior Order United American Workmen. Sixth Brigade. Colonel John T. Underbill, Commanding. Frelinghuysen Lancers. Ninth Ward Pioneer Corps. Order of Scottish Clans. T- Southern Beneficial League. Saloon Men's Protective Association. Socleta Red-i Dalla P atria Battaglie. Italian-American Pioneer Corps. Legione Giuseppe Garibaldi. ' Socleta Operaina del Risorgimento Scillese. Koyai American Sonuetzen Bund. First Austrian Veteran Sick Aid Association. 13 i It PARADE ON WATER. Brave Array of United States Vessels on the Hudson." Bear Admiral Francis M. Bunce, U. 8. Navy, commanding. Staff Commander John Schouler, C. S.; Lieutenant Hugo Osterhaus, F. L.; Lieutenant Charles C. Marsh, S. North Atlantic Fleet. U. 8. S. New York (flagship), Captain Silas Casey, commanding. U. S. S. Massachusetts, Captain Frederick Rogers, commanding. U. S. 8. Indiana, Captain H. C. Taylor, com manding. U. S. S. Columbia, Captain James H. Jones, commanding. Ut S. S. Maine, Captain C. D. Sigsbee, com ...rr. manding. . V. S. S. Texas, Captain VT. 0. Wise, com manding. U. S. 8. Raleigh, Captain 7. B. Coghlan, commanding. U. 8. 8. Puritan, Captain J. R. Bartlett, commanding. U. 8. 8. Amphitrite, Captain J. C. Barclay, commanding. U. S. S. Terror, Captain P. H. Harrington, commanding. ; Revenue Marine. Dexter, Captain Abbey, from New Bedford. Woodbury, Captain Hart, from Portland.' Dallas, Captain Ropers, from Boston. Hamilton, Captain Mitchell, from Phila delphia. Windom, Captain Maguire, from Baltimore. IJghthouse Tenders. Maple, A. D. French, master. ' -Zitania, C. W. Atkins, master. ' .' Cactus, G. H. Goddard, master. John Rogers, E. C. Buland, master. Mistletoe, 8. D. Webber, master. '. Verbena, 8. J. Howes, master. J . Azalea, C. L. Gibbs, master.- . -LUao, E. W. Johnson, master. Myrtle, Theodore Nickerson, master. Gardenia, C. E. Mathews, master. Armeris, William Wright,-, master. . Foreign Men -of-; War. H. M. 8. Talbot.. Captain E.'H.. Gamble, . commanding. ; . ' ' French corvette Fulton. i H. I. M. 8. Dogali. k H. 8. M. Steamer Infanta Isabella. H. 8. M. Steamer Maria Teresa. Programme of Exercises at Tomb. 1. Hymn, "America My Country, 'Tis of Thee." 2. Prayer by Bishop J. P. Newman. 3. Hymn of thanks, "Old Netherland Folk-Song." 4. Address by the President of the United States. 5. "Star-Spangled Banner." 6. Oration by General Horace Porter, President of Grant Monument Association. 7. Acceptance of the monument by Mayor Strong. 8. Hallelujah chorus from Handel's "Mes siah." 9. Doxology. The Doxology will be sung by the chorus under Frank Damrosch, and the assemblage in the vicinity of the monu ment are invited to join. , ; CONGRESSMAN HOLMAN DEAD. ; The "Watchdog of the Treasury" Succumbs to Spinal Meningitis. William Steele Holman, of Indiana, the oldest member of Congress in point of ser vice, died at Washington, Thursday, after an illness of several weeks. Spinal menin gitis was the direct cause of death, and the venerable statesman had been un conscious for days preceding the end. Congressman Holman was nearly seventy- five years of age, his birthday falling in September. He was serving his sixteenth term. Mr. Holman would have been called "the Father of the House" during late years were it not for the fact that for over twenty years he was known, both in and out of the House, as "the Watchdoir of th Treasury." j THE LATE W. S. HOLMAX. William Steele Holman was born in Dear born County, Indiana, in ' 1822. He had a common school education, supplemented by a two-year course at Franklin College. Then he taught school to support himself wnue ne studied law. wnen twenty one years of age he was elected Probate Judge. He served also as a prosecuting attorney, was a member of the Constitu tional Convention of 1850. Then he en tered the Legislature, and later on was re turned to the Bench. His Congressional career commenced with the Thirty-sixth. and out of the twenty sessions of that body which have followed he has been absent from but four, the Thirty-ninth, Forty-fifth. Forty-sixth and Fifty-fourth, a record unparalleled in American public life. Personally Mr. Holman was of a genial and approachable disposition, which did much to reconcile his colleagues to his course on public matters, notably appropriations. General Miles to Go to Greece. Major-General Nelson A. Miles, com manding the United States Army, will visit the seat of the Greco-Turkish war in the East, as the representative of the United States Government, and will make an examination-, of the personnel, equipment, methods of military practice of the con tending forces, and will make an extended report to the Government of the. results of his observations. England at Delagoa Bay. A squadron of eight British, war ships ar rived at Delagoa Bay, the Portuguese Afri can possession. The advent of the squad ron caused much excitement. Six of the war ships have entered the river and two others remain in the bay. A French war ship has also arrived. It is thought at Cape Town that only a naval demonstration is intended. Hanged Him to a Lamp-Post. Joseph McCoy, colored, was lynched at Alexandria, Va., for assaulting his employ er's two daughters. He was arrested in the afternoon and confessed his crime. Two attempts were made to break in the jail. The second attack was made by a mob of 500 men, who overpowered the jailers and hanged the prisoner to a lamp-post. Shot at President Borda. An attempt was made upon the life of President Borda, of Uruguay, at Monte video, by a man who fired a revolver at him at short range. .The shot missed its mark, however, and the President's assailant was promptly arrested. The President's term expires next year. Two Killed In Prlxe King. Pugilist "Billy" Vernon died in Philadel phia as a result of a prize fight with Leslie Pearce. The latter is in jail. Frank Evans died at San Jose, Cal., from the effects of a blow received in a fight with "Matt" Se miohy. " Sewall for Hawaii. President McKinley has nominated Harold M. Sewall for .Minister to Hawaii. Mr. Sewall is the son of Arthur Sewall, who was the Democratio candidate for Vice-President last fall. " (if? I m m 111 IS I DM Of the Opening of the Woman's Exposition of the Carolinas. REDUCED RAILROAD RATES. Mrs.' Sallle Southall Cotton Will Deliver the Opening Address. Everything to Be in Readiness. The greatly reduced rates -which the Southern States Passenger Association has accorded the "Woman's Exposition makes the success of the enterprise, which already was assured, now doubly sure, for hundreds of people will avail themselves of this opportunity to travel,. nd visit the exposition and; other events which take place in Char lotte during the month of May. . This rate is the exceedingly low one of one fare for the round trip horn any point in North and South Carolina with a five days limit, and upon May 19th and 20th the unprecedented rate of one cent per mile is given with three days limi tation. This is indeed cheap traveling and as May is the most delightful month in the year, and the Exposition thorough ly attractive, every one will attend. The building is rapidly nearing com pletion, and that no time may be lost in wnicn to nave axi in penect readiness for the opening, the arrangements for an electric light plant within the build ing are now being perfected, so that if necessary work can go on at night, that all the exhibits may be in place at the proper time. The opening is announced for the evening of Tuesday, May 11th, when a reception will be held to which all are cordially invited. Mrs. Sallie Southall Cototn, of Falkland, N. C, will deliver the opening ad dress. Mrs. Cotton's address before the Mothers' Convention at Washington in the early spring was a fine effort, and one which won for her the econ mms of not only the prominent press of Washington but the other large cities as well. Day by day fresh exhibits are arriving, which insures every depart ment a complete and splendid display when the time arrives for throwing open the doors to visitors. The art de partment, with its many fine exhibits, cannot be described. It must be visit ed and studied if one would compre hend the wealth of its exhibits. "Break ing the Home Ties," the canvas of which everyone has heard, and .all want to see, will arrive on the morning of the opening. This is to-day the most popular picture in America and the man agement of the Women's Exposition feel a deep sense of gratification over its se curance for their exhibit. The admis sion rate has been made equal ly as low as the railroad fare, as it was the earn-e'st-dwnre on the part of the executive body that no one should forego the pleasure and profit of a visit, in fact,' several visits to the exposition. So for this reason the admission was placed within reach of all. Single admission tickets 25 cents, commutation tickets five for $1.00. Individual season tick ets, not transferable, but good for any number of admissions, $2.50. Chil dren of 12 and under, 15 cents. The pleasure to be derived from the Art de partment alone is well worth the ad mission price, but when it is consider ed that every exhibit in the depart ments of science and industry, educa tional, historical, eta, is equally re plete and satifving then can one arrive at some idea of the scope of the Exposi tion. And yet the exhibits are compre hensive and compact. The building is, of course, large and roomy, but every exhibit will be placed under the one roof. There will be no long, tiresome walks past exhibit after exhibit of one nature. Each and every display is se lected and then made complete in every detail so far as possible. TURPENTINE! DRIPPINGS. Four companies of Infantry, at Char lotte, Asheville, Stateville and Win ston have notfied the adjutant general they will go to Nashville Tenn. There will be no encampments of any kind in this State during 1897 so far as now known. The revenue act taxes drmmers $50 each, but this is the only tax allowed. No cities, towns or counties can levy any tax on them. Various points are competing for the State conventions of sheriffs. Ashe ville wants it and makes a proposition. So do Morehead City and Wrightsville. Governor Eussell appoints as dele gates to the Tennessee centennial expo sition: Theodore F. Davidson, Henry W. Miller, private secretary to Colonel A. B. Andrews; Thomas B. Robertson, Graham Daves, H. A. Whiting, W. R. Capeheart, W. A. Graham, Jr., B. A. Capeheart, Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, J. S. Morrison, G. W. Conley and A. G. Brady, Colonel Davidson is chief -of the delegates and all information can be obtained from him. The Secretary of State discovers that some insurance companies are fraudu lently doing business in this State un der the guise of benevolent organiza tions. He has detected two and noti fies the solicitors of this .violation of law.- Cuirituck county has a boy, Lewis T. Lewark, 13 years and six months old who, on the 6th insi, weighed 480 pounds. Owing to a hitch about the new law, convicts in Mecklenburg are not sentenced to the roads, but to the pen itentiary. Twelve have recently been taken to the penitentiary, and it cost the State $135 for expenses. The State Superintendent has re ceived a check for $900 from Dr. Curry, general agent of the Peabody fund, to be distributed as follows: Fayette ville, $190; Franklinton, $290; Plymouth, $290; Elizabeth City, $130. The State superintendent of public instruction has appointed the follow ing scholarship students to Peabody normal college, at Nashville: Katie Bagley, - of Littleton; William G. Beeves, of Lee; Sally C. Smith, oi Scotland Neck, andLeanderW. Trivitt, of Net. There are five other vacanciei to be filled by competitive examina tions, which will be held about July 20th. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Report of the Proceedings from Day to Day. SENATE. Monday. The Senate passed. the In dian appropriation bill. It is substan tially the same as it passed the House. Vest of Missouri, returned to tne ques tion which caused the recent tariff skir mish and re-introduced his resolution declaring illegal the recent order of the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to goods arriving after April 1 last. Vest said he would call up the resolution Tuesday. Morgan endeavored to take up the Cuban resolution, but at 1 :05 on motion of Davis, the Senate went int? executive session on the arbitration treaty, and at 2:13 adjourned as a mark of respect to the late Representative Milliken. Tuesday. Senator Morgan's resolu tion, declaring that a state of war exists in Cuba, was discussed briefly and then went over for a week. The agriculture bill was taken up and passed without amendment. - "Wednesday. In tnenate, Mason, the new Senator from Illinois. made his maiden speech and sharply criti cised the Senate's way of doing busi ness, or rather of -not doing it, but it never amounted to anything. Chand ler (Rep.), of New Hampshire, offered a concurrent resolution for an adjourn-, ment of the Senate and House from April 26 to May 3, with a view of par ticipating in the Grant ceremonies at New York, but by a resolution of Tur pie (Dem.), of Indiana, it went over. The bankruptcy bill will be taken up Thursday, but before adjournment it was agreed to omit corporations from the bUL Thuksday. The session of the Sen ate was one of the most eventful since Congress assembled. It opened with a proposition for an official expression of sympathy to the Greeks in their strug gle with Turkey. This soon merged into a turbulent debate over the disor ganized state of the Senate, during which Senator Morgan characteized Speaker Reed as the' "great white fili busterer." The Nelson bankruptcy bill was passed by the decisive vote of 49 to 8. Allen, of Nebraska, ofiered the resolution providing that the chief executive express the sympathy of the American people to the gov ernment of Greece. The resolu tion was referred. The following Senators were named as a com mittee to participate in the Grant cere monies: Piatt, of New York; Murphy, Foraker. Cullom, Cockrell, Proctor, Walthall, Shoup, Sewell, Gray, Butler, Warren Faulkner and Burrows. On the announcement of the death of Rep resenative Holman, the Senate ad iourn edasamarkof respect, the adjourn ment being until next Monday. HOUSE. Wednesday. In the House Mr. Con den, chaplain, offered thanks that this nation is at peace with the others and prayed that higher and holier methods than war might prevail everywhere. He also prayed for the friends of Repre sentative Milliken, of Maine, who died Sunday, after which Speaker Reed an nounced the appointment of the com mittee to attend the funeral. Thtjksday. The House adopted a special order for the consideration of the Senate amendment of the Indian appropriation bill. Bailey' and his fol lowers joined with the Republicans on this proposition, after the special order had been modified so as not to cover the appropriation bills. Bland; of Missouri, protested vigorously against the course, but only had a following of twenty-four, not enough to get a second vote. The Senate amendments of min or importance were concurred in except the removing of the Indian supply de pot from Chicago to Omaha. The amendment relative to the openinsr of the Uncompaghre reservation was not acted upon While it was being debated, the death of Judge Holman was announced. The usual resolutions were adopted and a committee of ten appointed to accompany the remains to their final resting place. As a further mark of respect, the House adjourned. Friday. The House completed the consideration of the Senate amendment to the Indian appropriation bill and sent the bill to conference. A resolu tion was adopted by which a committee of twenty-five, of which the Speaker, by tho terms of the . resolution, was chairman, was appointed to attend the dedication of the Grant tomb in New York on Tuesday, and the House agreed to a program of three-day adjourn ments for next week. Beginning of the End. According to information received from trustworthy sources at "Washing ton, the withdrawal of at least a part oi the great army that Spain has main tained for several years past in th island of Cuba will begin when th rainy season sets in. The initial move ment will be the departure of 10,00 Spanish troops from Habaua for Spain, and within a short time after thai 80,000 troops, it is understood, will fol low. Oysters In England. Probably few Americans even Lavt any conception of the immense nurabei of oysters shipped to England, whic h i the sole market for American bivalves as France roars her own, and the Cer man duty of $10 per barrel is rather to steep to allow any margin for profit Hundreds of thousands of barrels nr. received yearly in England, jiauv o which are transplanted for a few months, when they are taken up for th summer trade. Norfolk, Baltimore an other points Bhip large quantities, am the Connecticut trade is also large. The Naval Militia's Pay. The Secretary of the Navy has mad the annual allotment of the fund of $50,000 appropriated by Congress for the naval militia of the States. De ducting $2,000 reserved for the pur ohase of text books, the remainder the appropriation is alloted among t In states having naval militia organ iza tions in proportion to the number ol uniformed petty officers and men tbcj had on their rolls on the 1st of Januar" last. The result in the Southern fc'tatei is as follows: South Carolina, 165 ofii cers and men, allotment, $1,814; Noit! Carolina, 140 officers and men, allot ment, $1,138; Georgia, 189 officers an. men, allotment, $2,436. Louisiana. SO officers and men, $2,436. AFRO IB HI!! Bishop Henry M. Turner, of the A. M. E. Church, on Lynchings. NEGROES WHO TALK IRISH. Graduates In Law and Medicine Necessity is the Mother of Invention '. A Large Bond. "Necessity is 'the mother of inven tion" and so necessity for the time be- ing places in the rear the prejudices and over sensitiveness of some who would question the propriety of what they now gladly accept. The daily reports from the overflowed dis trict of the lower Mississippi river show that colored ,men avevery active ii strengthening the weak levees and that all classes work side by side in the effort to protect property and save life. In this object there seems to be a common and mutual interest and a good deal has been aooomplished. This is the right spirit and when the flood subsides it should be continued and brotherly love prevail among the peo ple. American Baptist. Bishop nenry M. Turner, of the A. M. E. church wrote an editorial some time ago in the Voice of Missions, which has caused considerable news paper comment in all parts of the coun try. These comments have brought the Bishop out in an able and manly de fense in the Constitution of Atlanta, Ga. This good man, as many of our readers know, is one of the great lead ers and defenders of our race. He has no superior among the great men of the Negro race, who are living at the pres ent time. The Bishop advises all col ored men to arm themselves, and de fend their homes with their lives even unto the taking of life. ' nil There has been recently graduated from Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C, eight colored physicians, eight pharma cists and three lawyers. Justice Walter Clark, of the Supreme Court, awarded the diplomas and conferred tbe degrees. He said that Solomon, in the beginning of his reign, asked God, not for long life or great riches, but for wisdom, and God added these things. The col ored race, when they gained their free dom and were thrown on their own re sources, made tbe same wise choice. No race in the past thirty years has made more progress than the colored people of the South. Maxton Blade. Some of our people are very narrow in their prejudices. They seem to think that no one from another place has. a right to make a living or become prominent in business here. Mark the result. Renumerative positions are filled by strangers or some one who is not one of the "first families," while those who claim everything by right of birth are practically starved out. If these same men would only go to work at something they will have less time to abuse the men who come among tbem seeking an honest living. The Wilmington Record. Some of our teachers seem to forget that the time has long since past in this county, when a teacher may ob- , tain and hold a school because of any Eull he may have on the powers that e. Merit will hereafter control and unless those who are in show some signs of appreciation and progress they need not hope to continue to teach in the county. Teaching is a progressive profession and unless those engaged in it can show signs of progress it is clear that they have missed their. calling. The New South. Shall corporal punishment bo abol ished in our public schools ? The ques tion needs a thorough considera tion. It is our opinion that in canes where home training is either neglected or deficient, a sparing of the rod is the destruction of the child. Children are no better today than they were fifty years ago, while the temptations to sin are quadrupled ; hence the greater need for thorough and prudent discipline at home and in the schools. Southern Age. Persons of African descent in the United States are classified as follows: Blacks 6,833.080, mulattoes 959,986, quadroons 104,146, octoroons 69,936. Virginia has the largest number of mulattoes, quadroons and actoroons, having 12i, 4441; Louisiana follows with 90,589; Mississippi has the largest num ber of pure Negroes of any State in tbe Union, 657,898 all told; Virginia stands next with 621,781. She Standard. The Irish language still lingers in the Bahamas, among the mixed descend ants of tbe Hibernian patriots banished by Cromwell to the W est Indies. One can occasionally hear, it is said, black sailors in the London docks, who can Lot speak a word of English, talking Irish to the old Irish apple women whom they meet and thus making themselves intelligible without a knowl edge of the Saxon tongue. Exchange. An Afro-American named Eugene Hill was arrested in Atlanta, Ga., the other day charged with burning a dozen houses. His bond was fixed at $15,000, which he promptly furnished. The Constitution thinks this is the largest bond ever given by a Negro in Georgia. The Max ton Blade. Many more colored men could suc ceed in business if they did not let a lit tle prosperity put them out of the reach of the people who created them. Neyer scorn the rounds of the ladder on which ron climbed to success. Mobile Week y Press. ' According to the Cincinnati En quirer. Prof. Booker T. Washington, while in that city recently, stayed in a back room of a hotel and took Eis meals there, because it was either that or go elsewhere. Wonder if all Afro-Americans of the "Queen City" were visiting in Europe during the professor's stay. The Gazette. There are 1,587,828 male colored chil dren in the United States in schools be tween the aces of five and twenty-one years. There are also 1,609.499 females of the same ajre. ThePrejDyterian. A 4-year-old boy in Georgia Ls caid to weigh 00 pounds, wears a No. 7 hat unJ a No. 0 ahoe. 9 3 ri