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TSE WEEKLY GAZETTE. THE HLilLY GAZETTE. KATZf o? umzrtiniQ. ft 69 1 M t 0 1 60 CO J JUKES H. TVOWG. Editor mn4 tip, H Om vqoar, threw iwnthi On qmarA, li mouth. . . - On Moara, om yaar... fr. . MITCHELL tu4 A. 4. ROGERS, H 00 Genera TrmrSoy Mgmt, IT Liberal oatracits mads for tartar VOL. IX. RALEIGH, N. G.. SATURDAY, MAY 8, 18 TT.' NO. 12. THE yP A ik ii w in im ir J- a rA II J J2d ; fl B til AFFAIR. That's What the Women's Exposi tion of the Carolina Is to Be, TVIAY 11TH IS THE OPENING DAY. The Picture, "Breaking of the Ilome Ties," Will Be Ready for the Opening. Charlotte,. N. CApril SO. (Special correspondent.) The comprehensive nnd attractive program for the Women's Exposition of the Carolinas is nearly complete. The doors -will be thrown wide open the evening of May 11th, with a reception to the public Mrs. Sallie Southall Cotten, one of the South's leading women, whose address on a national" training school at the Mothers' Congress at Washington at tracted such wide-spread attention, will deliver the opening address. A nuaiber of addresses by prominent "Southerners, and entertainments of various kinds will extend through the entire month. "Gala Week, " the week of the 20th celebration, will be crowded with events. In addition to the numer ous attractions afforded by the exposi tion, the fastest bicyclists in the country will be here at the week of the national rracing circuit; the competitive firemen's races and displays, and various other organizations will have a place in the celebration. Special rates have been granted the exposition from all points in North and foouth Carolina and nearby points in the neighboring States. The rate in cluding Norfolk, Suffolk and Danville in one fare for the round trip. For May 10th and 20th as low rates will prevail as has ever bfn given in the SState, the rate being one cent a mile. This will enable all to attend. The 'Century poster exhibit, probably the finest in the world, including all the private collection of Mr. W. Ellsworth, secretary of the Century Company; all works of the finest French artists ar rived this morning. Some fifty paintings from Washing ton artists have arrived, and many of the leading art exhibits will be here in the next few days. The work on the building is about complete and the rooms are being given the finishing touches. The building presents a hand some appearance; is well situated, and the arrangement is as good as could be desired. One of the features growing in interest daily is the exhibit of the colleges in the State. The University of orth Carolina will send a most creditable exhibit, including the famous death mask of Napoleon, valued at $30, 000. Greensboro Female College, the State Normal School, St. Mary's Guil--ford College, Sa'era Academy, .Eliza beth College an I other higher institu tions will probably bo represented. Par ties of students from the various insti tions will visit the exposition, indeed the plans are to arrange special excur sions from these schools and colleges, a Veal gala day affair. One exhibit of more than usual in terest will be that of the Russian Cot tage Industries. This will be arranged nd managed by one of the persons who represented Russia at the World's Fair in 1893. The exhibit will be novel to the people of this section and the per sons having it in charge will wear the native costume. As plans have grown the idea of a machinery exhibit has increased, until .it will now be quite comprehensive. It will include cotton mill, hosiery, band ing and cording machines in operation and al the exposition printing will be donfi in the building. Ihe arrangements for the shipment of "Breaking the Home Ties" have now been completed. Owing to the great risk and expense, the picture it self will not arrive until the morning of the night the exposition opens. May 11th. Te draperies will all be hung, and the details for hanging arranged, nd the picture can be placed in a few moments after it arrives. Our readers may be interested in knowing what is involved in the loan of tmch a picture. According to contract, insurance for $50,000 must be placed with the agents, Youngman & Wales, V x uuaueiiuiit, iu uie uaiuo 01 j. j. Harrison, the owner, the insurance to be in effect from the time it leaves his vails until the picture is hung upon its return. A check for $375 is necessary to this end. Jas. H. Earle & Son, expert packers of Philadelphia, are to send to the home of Mr. Harrison, a distance of some 15 or 20 miles, and remove the incture, pack it, with frame, in water proof packing, and box it securely. A check for about $50 is "necessary for this. The picture is then to be shipped by. express, insured, and the express company released. The expressage will make the cost for the loan of this pic ture for thirty davs about $450. ' The fact that this picture has been exhibited alone for the price of admis sion to the entire exposition is suffi cient proof that the women in charge are endeavoring to give the masses of the people a creditable exposition at at small expense. The Exposition News, the official or gan of the Women's Exposition of the Carolinas will be issued about May 1st. All persons desiring' a-copy which con tains full information will receive one by return mail by enclosing a stamp and addressing, Advertising Depart ment Women's Exposition of the Caro linas. Not more than two copies will be mailed to any one address. The Oklahoma Flood. The latest news from Guthie, Okla., . says the flood-stricken valley of the Cottonwood river is one of horror, hun dreds of destitute and hungry have been found. One hundred and fifty houses have been wrecked, and the . lnea umII Via in fnA n i cr Kri-rli rr! r4 $100,000. New Building and Loan Association. A large number of investing stock holders in the Southern Building - and Loan Association, of Knoxville, have formed a reorganization committee, composed of large stockholders, each State being represented by one or more members. The new company will at once be re-organized, known as the Lodn and Deposit Company of Geor gia, with headquarters in the Equitable Bnildmsr. in Atlanta. It will Viava n ! full-paid capital of $1,000,000 and will buy up the associations of the I South NEWS ITEMS. Southern Pencil Pointers. . A farewell banquet was given in At lanta, Ga., Saturday to Col. Albert E. Buck, Minister to Japan. D. D. Coleock. of New Orleans, La. , has been elected vice-president for Louisiana of the American Protective Tariff League. At Houston, Texas, seven negroes were lynched by a colored mob for the murder of an old negro and two girls At, Rock Hill, S. C, John Harvey Neely and Sam Neely quarreled while they were trying to settle an account of long standing, and resulted in tho former being p:tlyzed from a blow. There is no money with which lb close the Arkansas crevasses on the levees and the farmers refuse to feed their idle hands. The merchants decline to carry them and the chairman of the relief committee reports that 7,000 persons are in 'danger of starvation. At Jacksonville, Fla., Lieutenant of Police. W. E. Gruber was found lying in a patch of brush in the northern part of the city, foully murdered. It is be lieved he was either murdered by a women or a jealous lover or husband. At Dallas, Texas, the Confederate monument erected through the efforts of the Daughters of the Confederacy of Dallas was unveiled. Hon. John H. Reagan delivered an eulogy on Jeffer son Davis. The Tennessee Centennial was open ed May 1st with appropriate exercises. Governor Taylor, the. members of the legislature, the executive committee, the Supreme Court, and other notables were present. The exercises were held in the auditorium. President Thomas and Director General Lewis spoke. President McKinley, in Washington, touched the button that started the ma chinery in motion. Wm. P. Nicholls, president of the defunct bank of Commerce at New Or leans has been convicted of the embez zlement of $20,000. Cashier de Blanc, jointly indicted, was acquitted. The special election in the Fourth Indiana district to elect a successor to Mr. Holman will probably be called by the Governor for May 15th. The National Bank of Gaffney. S. C, has been authorized to begin business, with a capital of $50,000. J. H. Westburywas shot at Isabella, Ga. , by E. A. Nisbet, a real estate agent. Cause, an unpaid store account. Nesbitisin jail and it is thought West berry's wounds may prove fatal. Richard Long, aged 35, of Charles ton, S. C. , was found dead in bed at Saratoga, N. Y. He is survived by a wife and two children, who are in Charleston. James J. Willis, of Florida, the dep uty auditor cf the Stite. Department has been removed. It is stated that during the past year Mr. Willis has been absent from his desk 234 days with pay. The Alabama commissioner of agri culture estimates that the cotton plant ers of that State will this year spend $2,000,000 for fertilizers, every dollar of which will go out of the State. At 5 cents a pound that will take about 80,000 bales, or the profits, over and above the cost of production, on about 800,000 bales. On an electric car in Tampa, Fla., the conductor and motorman, who were trying to eject a Cuban, were set upon by three other Cubans. While the fight was going on the car ran down a grade to a railroad crossing and collided with a railroad train. One man was killed and three injured. All About the North. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has by one order discharged every head of a city department wiih one exception. The Central Union Telephone Com pany, of Dayton, O. , has filed a mort gage to the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank for $3,000,000. Three thousand people marched in the Socialist May Day parade in New York. Included in the crowd were 300 women and girls. Governor Pingree, of Michigan, has vetoed the Donovan curfew bill, which provided for the arrest of children found upon the streets after 9 p. m. At Brooklyn, N. Y., a fatal firo caused the loss of four lives. Theodore A. Havemeyer, the famous sugar magnate, of New York, is dead. The New York Legislature has finished its session and adjourned. Richmond Weber, of New York, shot himself fatally and before death ensued shot his 4-year-old daughter fatally. W. J. Calhoun, of Sprinfield, HI., has been offered in Judge Day's, place as special counsel in the Ruiz case. Forest fires in New Jersey have done great damage. Women and children were called into - service to save their homes. An electric street car of the Portland, Ore. , City and Suburban Company left the track and plunged through a bridge which spans the slough on East Morri son street. Three people were drowned and fifteen more or less injured. It is possible that Miss Clara Barton may go to Greece in the service of the Red. Cross Society. Mr. Demetrius Vasto, the Secretary of the American fund in aid of the Greek Red Cross, re cently summoned Miss Barton for a conference in New York in regard to her possible journey. - Washington. Over 100 Chinese immigrants with forged certificates, are said to be on a steamer at Tacoma, Wash. Miscellaneous. One hundred women of the Warren Avenue Congregational Church, of Chicago, have just earned $1 each for the church. At a meeting the other evening each one told what she did. One shaved her husband; another got five cents whenever she got up before her husband; another offered to wash for her son, and got $1 for letting the shirts alone; another assessed her hus band $1 for a shine. Still another got the money by not singing a song. One woman starved her husband till he paid ap. Wl HOUSES SWEPT HIT . i The Loss Is Estimated at Nearly a - Million Dollars. RIVER ABOVE ORDINARY LEVEL A Wave Six Feet nigh, and a Mile Wide Farms Completely Ruined. Spent the Night in Trees. A special' from Guthrie, Okla., of April 28 says:' -For miles the Canadian valley is a dreary waste. At sunrise this morning a mighty wall of water, six to eight feet high and a mile wide, broke upon West Guthrie, without warning, crushing houses, sweeping away property and drowning people by the score. Every movable thing was swept before the wave, which passed on into the valley with resistless force, wreaking terrible destruction to prop erty wherever it reached. Dozens of human lives are known to have been sacrificed, how many may not be ascertained for weeks. Hun dreds of houses were wrecked; for miles farms were completely ruined, bridges and tracks were washed out and railroad traffic in every direction is at a standstill. The efforts of rescuing parties have in many cases proved in vain. Many people floated down stream before they could be reached, and their fate is unknown; others passed the night in trees in midstream, or perched on house tops. The property loss is placed at something nearly $1,000,000. Fully two-thirds of the victims were colored people. Business was suspend ed all day in Guthrie. As thorough an organization for re lief as is possible has been made, but all aid has been necessarily retarded by the confused condition of things. It will be impossible to explore the houses until the waters subside, as many of them are submerged. As darkness fathered many overturned houses could e seen far out in the flood, but it could not be learned whether their occupants escaped. The river is 80 feet above its ordinary level. ' " A heavy rain began falling this after noon. A threatening bank of clouds came up from the northwest, and many persons fled to their tornado cellars, fearing that another disaster was upon them. Luckily, however, the damage wa3 slight. The Cottonwood river, a small stream that winds between steep banks, in West Guthrie, was bankfull from a heavy rain yesterday and last night About 6 o'clock waters from a cloud-burst above added to those al ready nearly up to the level of the high bank, and the flood was sweeping through West Guthrie, a Bection popu lated mostly by colored people. Per sons who saw the first wall of water said that it was about eighteen feet high, spreading entirely across the valley. There was no water in front of it save that in the river's channel. The first wave was followed by others in quick succession, until the whole set tled into a bank of water from six to eight feet high. A Kansas City special says at 10:30 this morning a tornado swept between Abilene and Salina, doing immense damage. All telegraph wires on the main route to Denver are destroyed. The tornado Is supposed to be a part of the frightful storm which resulted in such disaster in Oklanoma. TURKS REPULSED. Situation Serious at Athens Threats of Revolution. London, April 28 (By Cable) The Turks are within eight miles of Volo, but are reported to have been defeated with heavy losses yesterday. The Turks, the dispatch says, were repulsed with heavy loss and driven back as far as Teherlis. Athens, April 28. (By Cable) Pub lic excitement in this city is increas ing every hour. Foreigners are hoist ing their national flags over the build ings inhabited by them. A popular outbreak is feared, and may come at any hour. - The latest from the above point is that the retreat of the Greeks after the battle of Mati was a scene of panic and confusion. Some of the officers acted cowardly, -but old General Mayromi chaelis partially stemmed the tide, and that from three to six hundred people were killed. A dispatch to the London Daily Mail says that if Turkey goes too far France will defend the Christians. Matters at Athens are likely to re main unchanged until the ministry question is settled. The Sultan is said to be willing to listen to terms. The downfall of the Delyannis cabinet is taken for granted, though it has not actually occurred. Mr. Ra'li, who is likely to stand by Delyannis, was equally keen for war. MASSACRED BY THE SPANISH. Crime Overshadowing Turkish Bar baritiesMurdered and Burned. A special from Habana, Cuba, of April 27, via Key West, says: The Spanish battalion of Seria has commit ted one of the most shocking crimes in Cuba since the beginning of the war. A Cuban hospital in Laguna Matagua. province of Matanzas, was attacked on last Friday by the battalion and sixty wounded and sick men, including three women and five children, were slain by the soldiery. To destroy all proofs of their barbarity the Spanish burned the bodies of their victims and the house in which the hospital was es tablished. Will Sail on May & The members of the proposed inter national bi-metallio conference recently appointed by the President on behalf of the United States, expect to sail from New York on the 8th of May. They will go direct to London, but after a brief stay will probably proceed to Paris. - To Maintain Peace. The Governments of Chile and Bra zil have entered into an alliance with a view to guaranteeing the maintenance of peace in South America. INDIGNATION IN ATHENS. Kins George and His Government in . Great Disfavor. London, April 27. (By Cable.) The : Evening News publishes a dispatch from Athens, dated 8:10 p. m., and say ing that the people there are fright fully incensed with' the retreat of the j troops. The dispatch further states that the bitterness against King George and his government is intensi fied by the news that the Greek army has been ordered to suspend opera tion pending reconsideration of the position. Continuing, the dispatch says: I . "Indeed, it loots probable that to morrow will see the end of the whole business There, reason to believe that the government is contemplating the withdrawal of the Greek troops from Crete and to make an appeal to the powers to settle the troubles. This change upon the part of the govern ment is due to Edhem Pasha having in timated his intention of marching upon Athens." A CBISIS APPBOACHING. a London, April 27. (By cable.) A dispatch has been received from Athens stating that affairs there are fast ap proaching a crisis. The recent defeats of the Greek army have aroused public feeling to such a pitch that King George may be assassinated or deposed. There is also danger that the mob may take possession of the city. The resignation of the Greek minister of marine is reported in another dispatch. PLEASED OVEB THE GREEK DEFEAT. St. Petersburg, April 27. In holy circles here pleasure is expressed at the defeat of the Greeks, as it is looked upon as calculated to avert dangerous complications in the Balkans, which might have jeopardized the peace of Europe. . - ITAIilAKS EMBAEK FOB GKEECE. Rome, April 27. (By Cable.) The papers state today that six hundred Italian volunteers have evaded the po lice and embarked on a steamer at Cor netotarguinia f or Greece. NEW ORLEANS ALARMED. The Water Rising in an Overwhelm ing Height at Vicksburg. A dispatch from New Orleans, dated April 27th, says: "A feeling of alarm is general. The water has been rising to overwhelming height at Vicksburg, and all of this, as well as much of the crevasse volujae, must come down to the gulf. With the river here at 19 feet above the low water, which means 20 feet, if " it comes quickly, the weakened banks will hardly be able to hold it. After working day and night for a month, raising and broadening the banks, the levee boards have been ad vised to do the work all over again and build as if they were '"alining to meet two feet. more of water. The city, which can easily hold its front, but would be endangered by a crevasse in the Ponchartrain system, has begun to build the protection levee above the city to almost double its size." Kept Under Guard. Charged with embezzlement, Harry Cassin, the former cashier of the Geor gia Loan, Savings & Banking Com pany, is held a prisoner in Atlanta, Ga. , in a private office, unable to give $15,000 bond. As a result of the trou bles in which Harry Cassin is involved, another corporation with which Le was connectedln the capacity of sec retary and treasurer, the Washington Loan and Investment Company, has gone into the hands of a receiver. Hard Times the Cause. N. Burruss, Son A Co., of Norfolk, Va. , one of the most prominent bank ing firms in the South, has assigned, Tho liabilities amount to between $340,090 and $350,000, and the assets are stated by the firm to be $400,006 available, with nominal assets much more. The assignees are instructed to wind up the business at once. The cause of the faliure is given as hard times and a great demand for money. Record Made by Rats. Tae report ef Fire Commissioner W. C. Bryant, of New York, for last year shows that rats started 35 fires by knawing matches. The total loss of the year was $1,335,697, of which $551, 701 was on buildings and vessels in turned for $5,598,569. There were 1,667 fire alarms and 112 false alarms. Chem ical engines alone extinguished 215 fires. Lived in a Grave. The man hypnotized and buried in the ground for three days has been dis interred at Simcoe, Ont. As the man was being brought back to normal he became very restless and smashed the box into pieces.- It required five men to control him in his struggles until he was finally restored to consciousness. Qneen Olga's Appeal. The appeal of Queen Olga to the women of America has caused wide spread attention in the social world at Washington. It is rumored that the ladies of the cabinet and other influen people will get up a subscription list for Queen Olga's cause. News in General. The University of Virginia won the college championship of the South Mon day at Charlottesville by defeating North Carolina by a score of 10 to 4. Managers of Peter Maher and Tom Sharkey have accepted a proposition for a fight between their principals for a $10,000 purse, to take in the vicinity of New York between May 26 and June 10, next. April 25th an earthquake shock was felt at Cairo, 111. The largest struc tures were shaken with a swaying mo tion and the people rushed in terror to the streets. At Newport News, Va., fire destroyed two piers, three vessels and two tug boats. Eight persons were also more or less seriously burned, while the large elevator of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company was saved by heroic efforts of the fire department. The totaV loss will probably reach $2,000,000. ELOQUENT TRlBllTE-TO GRANT McKinley's Address Was Altogether Worthy of the Occasion. A GREAT LIFE NEVER DIES. Great Deeds Are Imperishable; Great Names Immortal and His Will Con tinue Undiminished. Below is President McKinley's ad dress delivered in New York on the oc casion of the dedication of the Grant monument: ".' "FELfcow-CmzEirs: A great life, dedicated to the welfare of the nation, here finds its earthly coronation. Even if this day lacked the impressiveness of ceremony, and was devoid of pageant ry, it would still be memorable, be cause it is the anniversary of the birth of one of the most famous and, best be loved of American soldiers. "Architecture has paid high tribute to the leaders of mankind, but never was a memorial more worthily bestowed or more gratefully accepted by ft free peo ple than the beautiful structure before which we are gathered. "In marking the successful comple tion of this work we have as witnesses and participants representatives of all branches of our government, resident officials of foreign nations, the govern ors of State and the sovereign people from every section of our common country, who join in this August trib ute to the soldier patriot and citizen. "Almost twelve years have passed since the heroic vigil ended and the brave spirit of Ulysses S. Grant fear lessly took its flight. Lincoln and Stanton had preceded him, but of the mighty captains of the war Grant was the first to be called. Sherman and Sheridan survived him, but have since joined him on the other shore. "The great heroes of the civil strife on land and sea are for the most part now no more. Thomas and Hancock, Logan and McPherson, Farragut, Du pont and Porter, and a host of others have passed forever from human sight. Those remaining grow dearer to us, and from them and the memory of those who have departed, generations yet unborn will draw their inspiration and gather strength for patriotic pur pose. A great life never dies. Great deeds are imperishable; great names immortal. Gen. Grant's services and character will continue undiminished in influence and advance in the estima tion of mankind so long as liberty re mains the cornerstone of free govern ment and integrity of life the guarantee of good citizenship. "Faithful and fearless as a volunteer soldier, intripid and invincible as commander-in-chief of the armies of the union, calm and confident as Prerident of a reunited and strengthened nation which his genius has been instrumental in achieving, he has our homage and that of the world; but brilliant as was his public character, we love him all the more for .his home life and homely virtues. His individuality; his bearing and speech; his Bimple ways had a flavor of rare and unique distinction, and his Americanism was so true and uncompromising that his name will stand for all time as the embodiment of liberty, loyalty and national unity. With Washington and Lincoln, Grant has an exalted place in history and the affection of the people. Today his memory is held in equal esteem by those whom he led to victory and by those who accepted his generous terms of peace. The veteran leaders of the blue and gray here meet not only to honor the name of the de parted Grant, but testify to the living reality of a fraternal national spirit which has triumphed over the differ ences of the past and transcends the limitations of sectional lines. Its com pletion, which we pray God to speed, will be the nation's greatest glory. "It is right, then, that Gen. Grant should have a memorial commensurate with his greatness, and his last resting place should be the city of his choice, to which he was so attached in life, and of whose ties he was not forgetful even in death. Fitting, too, is it that the great soldier should sleep beside the noble river on whose banks he first learned the art of war, and of which he became master and leader without a rival. "But let us not forgst the glorious distinction with which the metropolis, among the fair sisterhood of American cities has honored his life and memory. With all that riches and sculpture can do to render the edifice worthy of the man, upon a site unsurpassed for mag nificence, has , this monument been reared by New York as a perpetual record of his illustrous deeds, in the certainty that as time passes around it will assemble with gratitude and rev erence and veneration men of all climes, races and nationalities. - "New York holds in its keeping the preciousdust of the silent soldier; but his achievements what he and his brave comrades wrought for mankind are in the keeping of 70,000,000 of American citizens, who will guard the sacred heritage forever and forever more." DEBOE IS SENATOR. Long Deadlock in the Kentucky Legislature Broken. The long deadlock in the Kentucky egislature over the election of a United States Senator ended Wednesday. when the legislature in joint session elected William J. Deboe, the Republican crndidate, senator from Kentucky on the sixteenth ballot. He is a bi-metal- istand succeeds Senator Blackburn, Democrat. - To Hana; After Three Trials, At Alexandria, Va. , James Lewis, a colored man, charged with outraging Mrs. Ida Keidel, a white woman, about two weeks ago, was found guilty by a jury at Fairfax Uourt House. The death penalty was immediately impos ed. The case has been in some respects a remarkable one, the condemned man having been tried three times in as many days. In two former trials the jury found him guilty of the crime charged, but were unable to agree on the penalty to be imposed. DUN'S TRADE REVIEW. Modern Improvements In Most of the Great Industries. It. G. Dun k Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade, ending April, 80 says: In spite of moderate improvement in most of the great industries, business is disappoint ing. Expectations of the speedy end of war in Europe, through Turkish vie tory, have helped to depress grain. De mands of Austria and China have caused exports of $6,500,000 gold, merchandise imports are greatly increase J, and final action of Congress on the revenue question seems more remote. The exports of gold would not have much influence if there were not an ex traordinary increase in merchandise im ports and some decrease in exportt. from New York, large for the last week, and five per cent. for April. Imports have increased about 60 per cent, over last- year for the week, and for four weeks havebeen 80 per centgreater. At Boston imports have been ex traordinary and at Philadelphia they have amounted for the month to $1, 278.000. The thought that this abnor mal inorease may continue as long as action on the revenue bill is deferred tends to affect exchange, but the main influence at present is the exceptional demand for reconstruction of the Aus trian monetary system and for Japan. Of the great industries the iron and steel manufacture is slow in advancing now, as it was much the quicker in the winter. Partly because the increase in production in pig was then too rapid, partly because enormous contracts taken when the different pools broke down went mainly to the larger con cerns, and perhaps even more because possibilities of new development re main, there is great hesitation now in placing orders. Reports of pending negotiations between the Illinois steel and Minnesota iron companies point to an important change as possible. Prices of Mesaba ore have not yet been established, though ore better than Fayal has been sold at $3.45 to JP5.&U, ana pig is weak er; Bessemer at $9,50, with one sale of 2,000 tons for $9.25 at Pittsburg, and grey forge at $8.60. Nails are about 5 cents per keg lower and tin plates 0 cents per box, and Eastern quotations are frequently shaded to secure busi ness. A heavy sale of lake copper is reported at 11 cents and lead is a trifle weaker. There is more business in cot ton and woolen goods, and a little bet ter tone in prices, some cotton and some woolen goods having slightly ad vanced without general change. The mills are rather better em ployed, and the demand is apparent ly increasing, though not enough in wool to induce manufacturers to purchase. But imports have been enormous, if current reports are not in error, more than 100.000,000 pounds in April alone, Philadelphia having re ceived over 8,000,000 pounds in four weeks. New York over 24,000,000 and Boston apparently over 65,000,000 Eounds. Sales for the past four months avebeen 180,302,650, including 5)2,943, -400 domestic, and for the wool year 851,892,881, including 213,352,631 dom estic, but in 1892-93 sales were 308, 640, 855 pounds. Failures for the week have been 237 in the United States against 238 last year, and 40 in Canada against 81 last year. THE SOUTn'S INDUSTRIES. A Large Sale of Railroad Bonds In vestments in New Plants. The Manufacturers' Record announces this week the completion of the sale of $4,000,000 of bonds of the Mo bile & Ohio Railroad, to build -a 200 mile branch from Columbus, Miss., to Montgomery, Ala.. The number of new enterprises announced dur ing the week was creditable, the most important of them being the following: $100,00 telephone factory, ?,000 horse power electric plant, in Alabama. Cot ton compress, city electric light plant, cannery. 15,000 ton phosphate plant doubling capacity, big sash and blind factory, in Georgia. A $100,000 com press and warehouse company to erect 2,000 bale press, $20,000 fruit grove company, big sugar mill, in Louisiana. Water works, city electrio lights and water plants in Mississippi. Wood-working factory, lumber company in North Car olina. Implement works, drug com pany, $10,000 lumber company, $200, 000 real estate company $15,000 tel ephone company in Virginia. A number of new, large buildings were also announced to be built, among them being a $15,000 courthouse atSylvania, Ga., anda$5,000 jail at Griffin, Ga. Agreeing to Terms of Peace. Paris, France, May 1. (By Cables Dispatches received here state that M. Ralli, the new Premier of Greece, has intimated his willingness to have the powers mediate in the contest between Greece and Turkey. It is further stated that Turkey has signified her willing, ness to accept a war indemnity guaran teed by; a temporary surrender of the Greek fleet All the powers, including Germany and Austria, have agreed that the moment is opportune to intervene between Greece and Turkey. They are now discussing the conditions of such intervention, and appear about to reach an understanding. The Cotton Yield. Regarding the probable effect on cot ton of the overflow of the Mississippi, the New Orleans Times-Democrat says that the estimate, of 1,500,000 bales lost on account of the flood is a wild exag geration. Even if the entire Yazoo delta was over-flowed and not a pound of cot ton raised there, the total loss would not exceed a quarter of those figures. A small acreage is likely to have a far better effect on prices than the over flow. , From Old Ireland. The steamship Majestic, which ar rived at New York April 29th, brought no less than 500 Irishwomen, mostly young. There were a few old women who were sent by their sons; a lew wives traveling with their husbands and their families of bright children, and a few wives coming to join their husbands. The immigration bureau at Ellis Island expects a larger number of Irish immigrants this year than ueuaL 1-IL.nil CHIT CHAT. The Average White Person Is Bent on Abusing the Negro. AWAY WITH JIM CROWARISM. Higher Plane in Moral Life Should Be Good English Scholars Tho Time Is Not Ripe. One of the aggravating phases of Jim Crow Carism in Georgia is that a num ber of railroads refuse to run Pullman sleeping coaches, and instead run sleepers of their own, and on these sleepers they refuse accommodations to colored gentlemen and ladies however refined and able to pay they may be. A striking case of this kind oocurred two weeks ago, when a colored army officer who has been on duty at Fort Pulaski, near Savannah, and having been trans ferred to some post in the West, was furnished by the government with transportation and a berth on a sleeper was refused the accommodations to which he was entitled and was compell ed to travel the entire distance, 800 miles, from Savannah to Atlauta in a smoking car. The railroad company offered to furnish this officer a sleeper all to himself if he would pay for all the berths in the coach. The railroad company hid behind the iniquitous sep arate coach law of Georgia which, as a matter of fact, does not apply to sleep ing cars. There is a large class of the best colored people in Georgia that never ride on railroad trains unless compelled to do so because of the unjust and unreasonable discriminations prac ticed aerainst colored people under the Jim Crow car law. The Georgia Bap tist. The natural bent of the average white person is to abuse the Negro. Northern writers go South, look out of the car windows at the tumbled down cabins, drive through a few back allies and talk to the war-time aunties, or stop in front of some Negro saloon or crap div? and watch the antics of street corner loafers and then write column upoit column of abuse of the Negro and pom out their souls in sympathy with the noble white people of the South, who are called upon to wrestle with this great problem. These soul-meltinjf writers never see but one side of their pictures. JThey see all the Negro drunk ards, all tbe black liars, all the shiftiest) darkies, all the chicken thieves, in fact all the rag tag and vicious of the race in every city, town or uacK wooas oi their journey. And they take pleasure in describing all the vice, ignoranco and degeneracy they come, across with a chivalrous regard, to details. They let not one incident pass unrecorded which tends in any way to blacken the name of the colored people. Jf there is one story more shocking in detail or more harmlul in effect than the others, that one is selected to point the moral and adorn the tale. With the exception of William E. Curtis, Elenor Churchill Gibbs and J. W. Bushby the Southern correspondents of Chicago papers Have exemplified this couse of action. The Conservator. The Brooklvn Daily Eagle thinks that the time is not ripe for Afro-Amer ican youngsters to go to the military and naval schools, supported by tho taxpayers of the country, because the young white chaps educated at public expense object. This a highly humor ous view of the matter. Should Afro American youngsters also remain out of Yale and Harvard and other schools of higher learning because some of tho white Btudents want them to do it? Not much. The authorities and the cadets of the military schools should be given to understand that they are not bigger than the President and members of Congress, whose buciness is it to designate who shall be eligible to ca detship. " One of the great wants of the Negro of the South is a higher plane in moral life. The school in which the old mem bers of the race were instructed is yet visible in the manners, disposition and tendencies of the young. To eradicato these evils, of which we all know, a higher standard in home life must bo attained. The boys and girls of today will be the men and women of tomor row. What kind of men and women they will be depends on the characters that are now being moulded at the fire side. The Standard. , We get real sick sometime when wo hear preachers trying to tell how tho original Hebrew and Greek text of tha Scriptures read who could not, if their right arm was at stake, write a sentenca of twenty words in the English correct ly. These men should try to make themselves good English scholars. Jf they did, their pretended knowledge of the dead languages would have more weight with the people. Get a knowledge of the English language, brethren. Georgia Baptist. ' The colored boys and girls in tho Washington schools have scored a tri umph. In a series of experiments to test the power of the memory, conduct ed by the Smithsonian Institute, it waa demonstrated that the colored pupiis ex excelled the white pupils in memorizing. Tested in poetry, humorous pieces philosophical literature and history, they committed to memory more rapid ly and retained the passages longer. Advance A remarkable thing happened in Ken tucky recently. It was the appoint ment of a woman of the race, Mary El len Brown, of Georgetown, a notary public. N. Y. Age. In a recent report Brevet Brigadier General G. V. Henry, U. S. A., in speaking of the colored troops, says: "In garrison they are clean, self-respecting and proud of their uniform; in the field, patient and cheerful under hardship and privations, never prowl ing or discontented, doing what is re quired of them without a murmer. Some people are so slow to discover their own faults. Half as much time spent in self-examination would reveal as many faults in ourselves as we dis cover in others. The Southern Age.