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THE ASHEVILLE GAZETTE. MAY 24, 1898- KSgfJ i i- .1. ! k- - ass.. Hi I The Daily Gazette. ASHKVTLL. N, C. PUBIMBD STORY lORKING EXCEFT MONDAYS THE AaprtSVILL? GAZETTE PUB- EISMING COMPANY. SUBSCRIPTION BATES : Si. Daily, One Year Daily Six Months 14.00 2.25 LOO Daily, Eleven Weeks Daily, One Month Daily, One Week Weekly Gazette, One Tear....;... Weekly Gazette, Six Months , 40 15 1.00 60 These reduced rates are for subscrip Mna naid POSITIVELY IN Ad VANCE. All credit subscriptions will f.horo-od at the rate of 15 cents a week for whatever time they may run. ThA Oazette is delivered in Asheville, Victoria and Biltmore by carriers at the regular subscription n rates, witnm these limits of territory the paper may be ordered by letter, postal card or tele phone, and the subscription price paia to the carrier. TELEPHONE 202. Day and Night. Pelham's "Sire Catch" Sticky Fly Paper, "Catch 'em a-coming and a-run- ning. we are me people wno cut the prices on everything in the drug line. Sticky Fly Paper is not excepted. Two double sheets for 5c, At Pelham's Five double sheets for 10c, At Pelham's One box, 25 double sheets 25c, At Pelham's The Cut-Bate Druggist, 24 Pattou Avenue. Pelham's This Date In History May 24. 1750 Stephen Girard, eccentric millionaire and philanthropist, born near Bordeaux, Prance; died in Philadelphia 1881. During the war of 1812 Girard was the sheet anchor of American credit. He left property val ued at $9,000,000, $2,000,000 of which went to the founding of the famous Girard college for orphan boys in Philadelphia. 1785 Silas 7f right, governor of and senatoi from New York, born at Amherst, Mass. ; died 1847. 1883 The Brooklyn bridge, the largest suspen sion bridge in the world, opened to the public. ion. Hugh McCulloch, secretary of the United States treasury from 1865 to 1869, 3 died at Washington ; born 1806. 1896 General John Echols, a noted Confederate veteran, died at Staunton, Va. 1807 Matthew Laflin, a pioneer of Chicago, died in that city ; born 1806. Harvard and Yale are of free advertising, i getting a lot The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on Rev. L. W. Crawford, ed itor of the North Carolina Advocate, at the commencement of Weaverville Col lege. It was worthily conferred. That ex-Secretary Sherman does not want Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines or Hawaii annexed to this county, seems to show that in spite of his fail ing powers, the wise policy of the fath ers is still firmly fixed in his mind. When Spain gives out the informa tion that the; Pelayo has been ordered to Manila it strengthens the impression that she is going somewhere else per haps to pay us a friendly visit. We'll treat her as kindly as the Spaniards did the Maine. And how we are told that the earth jis not round, but that "a tetrahedron Is the shape accepted as correct by the best scientific minds." The "best scien tific minds" are always upsetting some cherished belief, and this recent dic tum will give a new interest to polar explorations. It may be that the earth is flat after all. Of the cranks who are predicting uni versal war ex-Lieutenant and prophet Totten takes the cake. "The Cuban war," he says, "may be the means of letting loose the armies that have ,been massing for twenty years. Wherever it begins, however, there can be no doubt where it will end. It will end n-Palestine as the prophets have fore told." He refers the doubters to the book of Ezekiel, and especially to chap ters 38 and 39. , The Paris 'newspapers continue to jabber about us; some for us and some agin' us. The influential Journal des Debats says "of all foreigners our na tional sympathies are for the United States." 1 ? It charges Great Britain with being at the bottom of the mischief and de clares it is America's own business if she decides to intervene in distant af fairs. The article concludes: "What concerns us is that America shall not, in taking up . the great role of international domain, start with preconceived ideas against us and re nounce the good understanding with Franch which has been so useful in the past" and which is still more advisable in the future. The French "nation was neverreally hostile to the Americans, who will realize this when the present friction has had time to disappear." La Patrie tries to excite public opin ion by declaring: that in 187 America congratulated Germany upon its Vic tory over France as the triumph of civ ilizatlbri over barbarism. $ The Figaro has a passage, extracted from, the Comte de Beust's book, which appeared in, 1870. "Europe entire will suddenly see the American eagrle, after having ravished the queen of the An tiles from Spain, begin to meddle with her affairs and weigh down with re doubtable heaviness the monarchical destinies of little old Europe.' ONE OUTCOME OF THE WAR. Whatever else may result, whether the contest be a long or a short one, whether we become possessed of colo nies or adhere to our policy of letting outside territory alone, one thing is ertain, as an outcome of the War, and that is that the United States shall in future have a navy befitting its nation al importance. We are not among those who belief that the possession of such a navy will change our national policy rather ;t will enable us to main tain our independent existence and to carry on our national development on the lines we have chosen for it. Mod ern national life is closely identified with the growth of modern navies, as the Chinese-Japanese war has recently illustrated. A single battleship today would 'be more than a match for all the navies or tne worm rorty years ago, and the substitution of steam and steel for wind and wood has created a new power in the world which renders a na tion that does not possess this power helpless against the agressions of even weaker nations. In a work on the British navy, pro jected by William Laird Clowes the first two volumes of which have just been given to the public, the author says: "It is upon the navy, that, under the good providence of God, the wealth, the prosperity and the peace of these islands, and of the empire, mainly de pend. But for the navy, Great Britain on numerous occasions would have laid at the mercy of foreign powers, which, had they had their will would have left her neither riches nor liberty. The navy, too, "has played as great a role in the development as in the protection of Britain's commerce and empire. Tt has been instrumental in the discovery of some colonies and in the acquisitfon of many others; and it is to this day responsible for the maintenance of se cure communication with all, and of pacific trade and traffic between the various portions of the empire and other pots of the world. And, 'while It has advanced in a peculiar manner the special interests of Great Britain?' if has not been without . influence upon the progress of civilization generally. Not monarchs, not statesmen, not sci entists, "hot reformers, not manufactur ers, not even merchants or soldiers have contributed as much as the navy has contributed toward the building up, the extension and the preservation of the British empire." Within certain limits the same must be true of the United States of the fu ture. We must be able to repel attack from other nations and to maintain our supremacy in the Western Hemisphere if we are to go ahead unmolested in our progress. Capt. Mahan, in his latest book, "The Interests of America in Sea Power," says what indeed Is becoming apparent to the most careless observer, that our "interest and dignity require that our rights shall depend upon the will of no other state." The Caribbean Sea, he asserts, must be controlled by a navy, and the owners of this navy must possess positions carefully chosen and suitably distant from one another, to furnish bases upon which it may rest, and from which it can exert its strength. Four years ago, Mahan de clared, great destructive forces were impending in the future and that the martial spirit was our only safeguard against them, and that "whereas once to avoid European entanglement was essential to the development of our in dividuality, now to take our share of the travail of Europe is but to assume an inevitable task, an appointed lot, in the work of upholding the common in terests of civilization." These words have already been partly proved to be true; and, while it is high ly improbable that the United States will depart from its policy of non-aggression to one of external ambition, it is most probable that we may be called uu" mamiam our position among the nations of the earth by at least a readiness to defend our territory and our principles. TOPICS OF TODAY. ' - Japan is now building abroad eleven warships, three of them battleships, five first-class armored cruisers and three second-class cruisers. The Tan B.ees oi tne east nave tneir eyes open to the signs of the time. Naval estab- usmneius are going iorwara with a jump the world over. Boston Tran 1 i 1 A ' m . script. The Spanish prisoners of War are re ported happy. They say they haven't been treated so well since they were ba bies. Boston Herald. VERMONT TROOPS Pasid Through shevill Afternoon Yesterday The First regiment of "Vermont state troops, which was programmed to reach here Sunday afternoon en route to Chickamauga, were delayed in Jer sey City so that they were unable to reach here until yesterday afternoon about 2 o'clock The first section was the food, stock and ammunition train and the commis sary force, numbering about thirty, The first train bearing the regular troops came about an hour afterward, containing iourxeen cars, xney con stituted the Third battalion, composed of Companies B, D, G and L, in charge ot majur rumen, anu were ifreeiea Wltn prolonged cheers from those who had assembled at the station, of whom there were fully 1,500. At least nrty per cent. or. tne men were raw recruits who had been mus tered in only a week, but notwith standing that fact and that they were without uniforms and had been travel ing almost constantly since Saturday morning, they presented a fairly good appearance. The regiment, which consisted of twelve companies, was mustered in at the camp at Fort Ethan Allen, near Burlington, Vt., where they were drill ed for a few days. Colonel Clark and Lieutenant Col onel Nimms were interviewed in their private car and expressed themselves as being thoroughly pleased with their uneventful journey. i Colonel Clark stated that he and his men had expected not to be given so warm a reception after they crossed the Mason and Dixon line, but they had been pleasantly surprised and had found the southern people thoroughly, hospitable in their treatment of the Yankee soldiers. Even at all the little towns along the route there were large crowds to greet them. Colonel Clark and his officers were very pleasant ana gentlemanly and made a favorable impression. The first section remained at the sta tion over an hour. After their departure at intervals of perhaps thirty or forty minutes the other two sections arrived and depart ed. The regimental officers were Colonel j. D. t Clark, Lieutenant Colonel J. H. Nimms, Major H. D. Filmore, Major J. Gray Estey, Major C. M. Bonett, regi mental adjutant, A. G. Eaton; regi mental quartermaster, J. A. Creed; sergeant major, John Norton; adju tants, Dan Curtiri, W. Sterling, Walter Robins; battalion adjutants, Norton, Curtain and Sterling; regimental ser geant, H. H. Lee; assistant surgeons, J. H. Hamilton and J. W. Jackson; chaplain, Charles O'Day. The regiment numbered 980 men and 47 officers. NOT TO BE POSTPONED Washington May 23. President Mc- Kinley and Secretary Alger remam firm in their determination not to postpone the invasion of Cuba. Mili tary experts here believe in a week the American forces will be in possession of Havana. It is also believed that the troops for the invading expedition have already started. It is known that with present facilities 25,000 troops could be transported , from Tampa to the Cuban -soast in thirty -six hours. No5 word has been received here concerning Sampson, Schley or Cervera. TO ST PIERRE St. Pierre, Martinique, May 23. It is believed that Admiral Cervera's fleet is on the way to this port. The Span ish consul Was notified this morning that Cervera could not return here for coal from which it is inferred that permission had been formally sought by Spain. Another suspicious circum stance is the presence here of the Brit ish steamer Twickenham waiting with a supply of -coal for the Spaniards. The government declares they shall not coal in the harbor. INTERVIEW WITH MERRITT Chicago, May 23. Gen. Merritt, who is here on his way to San Francisco to take charge of the Manila expedition, in an interview today said he would take 18,000 to 20,000 men with him to the Philippines. He said he would leave San Francisco just as quickly as the troops and vessels could be gotten ready. DIXIE SAILED Newport News, May 23. The auxili ary cruiser Dixie, manned by the Maryland naval reserves, sailed from here this morning. She had 1,000 six inch shells in her magazine and her gun decks had been strengthened by steel plates. AN INSURGENT ATTACK Madrid, May 23. A despatch from Havana says the insurgents attacked Palma Soriano, near Santiago De Cuba, using rapid-fire guns. They were repulsed, the Spaniards sustain ing a slight loss. ADAMORE CAPTURED Key West, May 23 The British steamer Admore was brought here as a prize this morning. She was cap tured by the Osceola while attempting to run the Havana blockade with a load of cattle and lumber. A WORLD REPORT New York, May 23. A special to the Evening World says that a British cap tain, recently from Cadiz, says Spain is preparing to shell Boston. ANOTHER SPANISH FLEET t Madrid, May 23. The government is preparing another fleet of twelve ships which will be used for coast defence purposes. . 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This map, or rather series of maps, as it includes four complete color maps, is the best to be ob tained anywhere, both as showing the whole world at a glance and the location of all the points at which developments have occurred or are to occur in the war, and also of the particular localities that figure in the great drama of the Contest of the Nations. Including maps in detail of Cnba, Porto Rico, Hayti, the City of Ha vana; the Philippines, etc., etc. Mr. Russell Laraway will canvass Asheville for the disposition of this map as a premium for the Gazette, or subscriptions may be left or sent to the Gazette office, 4 North Court square. The Map Is Ready for Immediate Delivery. THE CHEAPEST For Sale Through ALL COAL DEALERS AND ALL GROCERY STOKES W i 1 - KQiTniir iiniiniii aQd WMIIVUI i flllQ yuu FREE! FIREWOOD which have a Phone BJSpHpBHB
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