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'j;:V-:'--Xoticc! in local o'nmn, ten cents .. . obituary Noticesv fine cant 3 a line. ft ,: PALEMON JOHNEditor and Proprietor. VOLUME XXVII. ! Devoted to the Interests of the City, the County and the District. TERMS $1,00 a Year; in Advance. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C WEDNESDAY, MA. Y 20, 1890. NUMBEE 52. Site IfMr - -v -V 'J 1 ii 4.- I'M- 111 jJII'lilf lil . :3i ic.Twnxi llillflflliiflllJl1 II" iiiiiiliiillurillliii! lit 1 W.0 DOZEN 'BUTTONS. fortable old spfaj broke into a flood of bitter tears tha firs'-' sho. Lad. sued during her married life. . "Haw could he havo done it! Ob what have I said? Oh John, John !'1 Tho bird.twittered in his littlo cage over in the wiudow'among the plants. Betty remembered like -a' flash - how John nnd she had tilled tho seed-cup that very morning how he had. laughed wheuj she' tried to put it in between the ( bars, and when the ; i couldn't roacli without getting upon a Iw lty fiibfiil.- Now; vhy fche should chair he tookher iu ;his groat arms ,vo Hij'htid at thus particular moment and held Iter tip, lustilike'a child, that on i'Hith could tellij And it was. aha mighUfixit td enit herself. . ."p.i KM in oil) tixuspej-ftting -rbecause I Audthe "bits" lie had said in his i .-'.Tin -ltu'd 'just guur,ottly put.into her tender way, they, had; gone -down to itt'O-. hiiupcly huil . a frnnd new tee the best, tbe kindest, the noblest husband that ever was Riven to a t .-.. . j woman.! I've mado him more trouble than you caix guess ; my hot temper has vexed hm I've been croBS, 'nd impatient and " j "Hold!" cried . a ;yoic'e, "you're talking; against my wife!" and in a moment big ; John Peabody rushed through the door, grasped the : litilo woman; in his arms and folded her to hi heart, 'right before old maid and all. ; ! 'V, , - "OhM". said Misa Simmons, sitting up striight and setting her Bpectaclea moro firmly, ij' "And now that you've ;learnedi all that yon can,'" said John, turning around to, her still holding Betty, "why you may go." The chair was Vacant. A dissolving view through the door was all that was to be seen of the ' gossip, who THE " GOOD TIMES AGAIN." DEMOCRATIC IDEA OF BUSI NESS. PROSPERITY.; The Number of Business Failures of the First Quarter This Year Much Greater Tban In 1895 Startling Evidence of Democratic Hard Times.' ; ' . ' The total number of business fail ores in the United States dnring the first quarter of 18&6 is 4512, by co incidence exactly 7U0 more, than in the like quarter last year, an increaee of almost one- fifth . The only preced ing quarter in which the total number of failures was as large as 4000 was in 1885, immediately following the panic ot lbo4, when the total number was 4050. . In no like quarter before or eince.has the number of failures been as large as in the past three months although in the first quarter of . 1894. there were nearly four thousand busi ness failures reported 3969 com- What Governor Griggs Sars. In his recent speech at Hartford, Conn.. Governor Grimes.- of New" Jersey, said: .. "The people want no more tariff re form of the kind supplied by the Democratic party. The promised re duction in the price of tho necessaries oi life has, as we told them, been oi no special benefit to men who for lacli of funds were not in the market Thi experience of the last three years addj one more practical argument to thd position of the protectionists, who Jiave always maintained that high tariffs bring prosperity and that low taiiffs, cause , business depression .and popular distressrf i . "The tariff reformer has never con vinced the judgment of the working man. He has succeeded in arousing J his passion by unfair appeals to prej udice against the employers of labor and vilification of American manufac' mssmsm i m Five Men' ofi the Conipetitor Con demned to Death in HavanaJ- - v. -- I-1 - ' - r , THE EXECUTIONS POSTPONED. Prisoners Captured on the j American Schooner Hastily ConTlcted toy a. ppan lsli' Court i Blarilal Consul General WilUimi'i Demtnat foi s CIil'Ttlal for American Ignored, f niflMr.id1 lln tltA . r Y It ! V : A I I IT 1 A (1 V 1 Tl ft I - CJ 0,,fcC... tuC iuv.u.Vv.v, -p-t,.. the past quarter is about one-ninth peace ueninu. , - t Alter a year of extreme depresseon, "Betty," said John, some halfs hour following, the panic of 1893, and par- afterward, "what was the sieh for? I "cuariy alter a year, in wnicn mere bill. And ihoroi betran the I I ( 111 ll . ; "WliJit'n thp matter,'' he said, his j'li.t. fuHjii'nt the faint sontul amr his A .iiitl clipping togofheMn what those' kiit:w Lnn but .httlo called an ob t:jjnti' jnicK:r. "Now .what. is it?" f;.'ttv, Avh hud j nt begun to change M'Vli 1110 a merry liltlu jlatigh r-ip-jutiu hII oi 1 Uio' coinusjof th.e'red tcijijifMl wtuMonl loused her head. iTi I, vi,iti-ahmnU j(.-r!t ii(),wisy. concilia-.;. tui v M iit out'the.wordi: ! -a f . -....' i - . ! " Vnu-Ueeilii't 'jiistuuatr, John, that. 1-mi'i ulwjivrt troiildo-ionH" J I ' M'.U.l i i" 1 1 1 hi u ua to who,H tj .t alkiug . ff -i-DsniuiTt rfi'.i cried he,, thoroughly... ti'ifJiJtHUU HI l lit) -very iu'jii.uuii .- uutiv; ii iiway a few- steps he jgJlAred down1 reimo 1 I the dejjths of. her foolish' littlo heart, sending her about her work singing, for very glwlness of spirit. And now ! , -." 13etty Btuffbd her fingers hard into her roso cars to shnt out the bird's chirping. . "If ho only knew why I sighed," .tjhe moaned.,. ' 'Oh, . my husband! Birthdays nothing "will.1" inake any. differenco tuow,' I Oh, why oau't I die?-" ;'..' : . How long she stayed there, crouched down on the Qld sofa, she never knew. I don't care now, but I did think, dear, aud it cut mis to the heart, how you might have married richer. I longed to put ten times ten into . your . hand,; Betty, and it galled me. because I couldn't." v " ; f Betty smiled and twisted away from l,i rrnr lliihnincr into the bedroom report concerning the quarter's fail , ,-, , - i .;n .' . I nres-is the relatively heavy ' '. increase olio nrunf v rl.iirnpii fttill RnillinfT i J y . 1 . ' . J . ; I of liabilities compared with gain in wnn a uunq,io roneu .,up m a jcicuu I number of embarrassments. Thus, towel. ' This Bho put on Jier husband's while the increase in the latter is 18 i-' , II'- 1 . l1 al .a. knee, who stared at her wdnderingly. Vex ceni- as comparea wnn me nret was a moderate boom in leading com mercial and industrial lines and a gen eral advance in prices, as in. 1895, it would have been natural to expect a year with conditions looking to im provement,- the outcome of which coujd of course hardly help lower log the-commercial death rate. The most unfavorable feature of the HaViXa, Cuba, May 12. The flvd prisoners captured on the American schopneri Com petitor have been sentenc9J to deathl . Tho prisoners were: Alfredo Lahorcle, btrn in New Orleans; Owen Jlilton, ot Kanani; .Will- lam Elnlea. an Englishman. ! and? Ellas u mauaiac- . . A.., u . v j v i Captain Hu z acted President pi tha that have ensued, reason has returned "i1"111 ... . . , , . . J.u:.... to the laboring men of America. They have seen their jobs transferred to foreign workshops and the wages they Mainly hoped for received by the work men of other countries. : "When 'we shall have nominated Court, which consisted ot nine other lillitary and naval officers. ' I The prisoners wero given a moci trial. Thpy were not given a copy of the charges against them, nor were thev allowed to em dIov counsel nor summons witnesses in their behalf. A Spanish naval officer was ap- . "I didn't mean," she said, uupin- uiug the bundle, "to get it out' now, Over and oyer the dread.'ui scene she I but shall have to. Why. i John went; .realizing its worst, f eaturea each ll'day after tomorrow is your birth- time in tlespair. until a voice out in the kitchen said footfalls proclaiined that some one was on the point of Uninvited. Betty sprang i .' : Vviico, was'uarslij-'juid the eyes ni ties,, and by ' parade over he mcatic work su dress makiug a trtiii .i trom ndotis litilit, pi extrejint iiritiitiun 'It'yoit8olif vuJ rs for "n rr vt-c lusiuuattir' aud all that, and then .!.. ii; . f.,r you to. jjiit it oir iQj--4t a realij j .!tlnmiuami;v liiWt louTtod do-wii futo. hortl vfpro Snot .ilousant to bc-hold.-' , i - 1 . i. .-..' " " Vtnl if you think, John Peabody, that I'll bfvul and tiae h,ueU things' nl to pic, jou m ft your guess : t'TitSMlH" en d Bau.'wijU two Lig 'i cit pets coming in her cheeks, as sho . tried to draw her. httlo erect figure to -. iU'Miturost-idimv.iiiioirs. ! "forever" in- . " . , i i i.. sitni'Uitiir ! . I gues you wouldn't have -,'.iaid that botore.l married '.you. ;Oh now you e wiof. course !' ; i. -; :." "Drdti't you say lt'first, I'd like to ktibw?' Vrit'd Johnvm giteat Texcitc-i , incut, diaw.ug jieaiei the jjiiKill crca- tivr.Mic called "'wit V who :was gazing ut linn . witlrdnztug eyes of iudigua- : turn i vl.in't endure "every thing !" -Afid'-ff Voil .bear mwre thau I do," 'cri.'H Betty, wholly" beycxndl control .Vijow,-;'vliy, .then, I'll give up," and he avd. a bitter littlo! laugh, and ' t'osKcd-her head ajjuin. . f f ;"'. '. , Viul hue thi y were in tho juidyt'df i uni il! 'Ihtsp twovhoL but a year . "liL'fire-w had promised to lop-o and pror ; left tufd help e sck other, through life. " .. "owv" Hind .John, and 'he; brought, menced . . . ... , l . : . . r , i-.- .htA'.tr.ititl ilowu 'Bjtty 1" and heavy breaking in upon her up, choking back her sobs, and tried' with all her 'Blight to compose herself and remove all traces of her trouble. The visitor was, the worst' possible one she could ,hfive under the circum Crowding herself bu terms of the cloaest macy with the pretty bride, . who with her husbahu, had moved into the previous, Miss .made tho. very most of her opportu- ui-nt of making great ping her in soma do - ch as house-cleaniti'g, hd. the like, the maiden . "So 'tis." said John. "Gracious! has it come around bo, soon?" 5 "And you, dear boy," said ,Betty, shaking out before his eye a pretty, brown affair, all edged with, silk of quarter of 1895, and about 11 per. cent, compared with the hrst quarter of 1894; total liabilities aggregating1 $62,513,000, or - about 30 per cent. larger than in the corresponding pe riod one year ago, and 27 per cent.; larger than . in the like peripd .two years ago; : No corresponding period. 'during the previous fifteen years has presented so large a total of liabilities as that the .statistics for which are now made public. In the first quarter of 1885, when there were only 4050 fail on r -candidate, it will be no Weakness nointed bv the Court to "defend" thesn en n I The accused men nloaded ndt gutltyand . 0n;A rpv,t - '., witnesaea admitted that when the ml?n weM him a protectionist. That is exactly ;ca.lture(i they were not armed ! and ofleml the kind of a candidate the people are no rpsistance. Nevertheless. the profecutin loolring ior. They are impatient of officer demhnded the conviction I of tbd the arguments of professors of poll- P? v'A rZ"ZZ? i J v i XV - , I UUUCU Olitl-a -iWUa. wouvi v ticsl economy ; what they want is not flled a f0rmai protest agatast the trial, but it! cneap gpoas,. dui wore ana wages, was disregarded. j Tf ntnWmh irnr m tlkm tliof.i' Th Comnetitor sailed f rom Key Wast. Fla . . . l v hi 11 y' a1 nn thn thii'ht nf rn-OA ont .Imil nn hnftrrt twmtvj-tlVO or pay a few cents more for a pane of J thirty Cuban She was commanded! by Can- clothes. Low prices and no money it was rumore.1 that CPil'. are not to bi preferred even to high &oly forfeited to the United States for Lxiuca xx bucia uc aiau iiuuu it ngo i vininTinn or i h liKvciiurj lawr. & " su. the bluest shade, that presently as- ures, total liabilities amounted to $41,-. sumed tho profKrtions of a dressing 464,000,000, nearly one-third less. ..... - . i xi is wnen we come io recorus irom gown; "this is to be your present. WeBtern ail3 tho Middle states that But you must bo dreadfully surprised,; jncreaEesi nbt only'in number of; emf John, when you get it.for bh, I didn't barrassments, but in aggregates of in- want you to know it!" debtedness, become striking. lhe John made an . answer he thought , . . i miTTihpr rf 'fftilnrps of ran than 4o best When he spoke again he said, per cent 1205 compared with 830 a The Treasury Under Protection. Under the Harrison Administration the revenues of the Government, brought in under the operation of the McKinley law, were not only more than sufficient to meet the current ex penditures of the Government, but, under the wise administration of the THE HALLS OF CONGRESS. violation' of the Rev6nue laws, was hiding on one ot the Jteys north i of Key west, waiting to taKe commaaa i oi mo Competitor and run her over t v,uoas A few day3 after th vschboner sail from' TTfiv Wpst Rhi was caDtured by the Spanish gunboat Mesagera near Berracefi.i on thai northern coast oi tne province;oi iimir .i Bio. She was loaded with arms Jind am munition. . - : 4' -i '' J. . .is The schooner Competitor is a vessel of 47 na ro taat A inn.hna lone. 20 feet wide and 4 fee't in depth. ; She was built at Jiellport The Sonate nceertM the Marquette stafn: there was no opposition, and the matter Is settled. '. . . .. f 1 ' A bill was Introduced in Consrress appro priating tSOO.'OOO for a monument, to General Grant In Washington.; : The Senate Committee on Commerce? di rected Mr. Frre to make a -favorable report oh hla bill for th protection of the yacht- Owners and shipbuilders of the United States. -. .' .-.'. I The Wava and Means Commlttw ordered H favorable report on tho bill of ihlr. Evan?, Kentucky, to allow the bottling bf distilled nlrit In bond under recrnlations of the Treasury Department. . . t The House of Representatives passed the rickler General Tension" bill by i a vote ot 187 to 64:' the Eepublicans and Topmast voted in favor of tho measure ana the dem ocrats, with six exceptions, agal$sr It. ' The Aldrleb, RepubMcan, v. Underwood, Democrat, election contest from the Ninth Alabama District was conf idcred by House Elections Committee No. 1. and was practi cal ly decided in favor of Underwood, the Bitting member. ; . the Senate., contained some cnnnCes ! iroiu the measure as it passed the House.! me most important was the reduction of the ap propriation Tor tbelmproverocnr oi ine i.oi aware River from 8500,000 to $250,000.) I i TV. a K.nnti nm-ofld.to the House SllliStltUtO for the Stnata conburrent resolutions pro viding for a toint icommittee of the ; two iHouses t j sit durlnir the recess ot the Con gress to inquire into the conditions of the new library, and to report at me next ses sion also' to report a plan for the organiza tion, custody and management ot the new building; . ' . 1 I Representative McCall. of Mas.achu$otts submitted a favorable report on a bill tb aid .and encourage the holding oi tho 'lennessee Centennial Exposition at Nashville, lenn. ! in 1897, and appropriating 130,000 j for a Government exhibit, l lie report says mat the one-hundredth: anniversary! ot the aa mission ot Tennessee as a State into the Union is an event entitled to proper celebra tion. and such fis to commend Itself to ap h proprlato recognition by pongrews. Representative Woodman, of Illinois, In troduced a resolution providing that tho House of Representatives directly requt the Tresldent to make immediate irolama- tion that a condition of war In Cuba Is rec ognized and that it is tho purposo of this Government to preserve a "position of j heu tratltvi and that tho United States will look with especial disfavor on the continuance of any methods of warfare not recognized In the rules or, war a praotlcoa by tua leauiog jMa tions of the civilized world. inTlMYOMOW Governor Morion Signs'' the Consoli- ' , dation WORLD'S SECOND .METROPOLIS. :i A Muiortilam From the CioTernor E- , plalnlas the Hoon for IIU Aclon--r j The Ato of Mayor Stronc, orw (, York Ity, nd "Trter, of llrortklyn, j . Dlareardrd. -'.. I Albist, N. Y.. May IX Governor Morton Signed the Greater Now York bill at 1 oVKyk ' yesterday. Tho act coasolid:iting Now York, Brooklyn, Long lslau I City an 1 : their : environs Into one great'clty on January 1, 189S. Is now Chapter 4S.S of tho Laws ol 1836. The Governor signed tho bill with a tnnntain. rn. col 1-mouuted. Tha pou goes to the Manhattan Eyo an 1 E ir Hos pital, to be sold for that Institution!- benefit.; The Greater Now York dist riot-now hi 1100 churohes, 90 .postoffiises, ex.luiva ot stamp station, a debt of 17ifW0.O0O, a faxa. ' bla property of 2,5S3,S2l,3i9. 3:.0ia busi ness houses, 130,000 dwelling, 0WJ acres of parks, 330 milt of paved -stre ss, 1100 miles of street and elevated railroad, 1 10, hotel V and 850 public shools. Th population of Greater New York is about 3,000,000 persons, and tho arua is 800 square mllo.-i. By the 1st of February, 1S'J7( the commis sion Is to report tho charter, and tho co:n misslcn goes out ot exltenoo March 1, 1897. Consolidation goes iuto effoct on January 1, 1S4W, and the ilrst Mayor ot Greater New Yprk will be elected in the fall of 1897. The Governor, in the message aocompany dng his approval of the Lexow bill, goes over the provisions of tlit measure, , briefly re Views not only tuo vetoes .of Mayor Htrong aud Wurster, -but also tho history of tho rigl tation and legtslatlm, in oluJing tho result at tho polls la- IHOi, whou tho consoll J -tlon wits carried in tho proposed terri tory by an aggregate majority' of. 41,133. . lie states briefly tho reaoni for his own judgment in favor of tho Greater Now York bill, and says, in effect,-that there la no doubt in his imod that tho coinmlfdon to bo appointed by htm will well able lo draft a good charter la tho time allowoJ. lady had managed to ply her other vo cation, that of and the same time, pretty effectually. .She always -name, though balled her by the first Betty resented it ; and she made a great handle of her friend- but they were1" the best . I could do this year, about 50 per cent., but the mischief 'had if devastation with tbiich a ;iaug on neur- jKe.tnlile beiofs! .iumithat hi)k-ippjd -rit''o'f bur littlei -'sL'c coiit rolled the start far she would .lijive .died before she hud Let John see it, 'tts- will have no . aiioro ot this UOllsse llriO.!-" . . .-' Boon cry plainly than . Betty slfoo-r-only I into the pretty chintz-covered rocking chair with an :tiPoiiild the iiLoutk' to. "Ouly folks li ii'ace was very )ide nSnd; the lines j your husband villiigG a twelve-month . per'plexed.while email pucke? of be- year ago, but with iespefct to liabilif Elvira Simmons bad wilderment settled between his' eyes: ties the increase there is mpre than : . - i ncn i. ic nns nnn l thifigi" laying one linger on me gown, New New jerseyf Pennsylvania 'had to do with the sig-h.' ' and Delaware report 1030: business "That," said Betty, and then sho failures, against 910 a year ago, anin :..i'i-iv'.' i,t nrAi''' crease of only 13 per cent., but they urui0 'ulu " j B friah ino nun r f ;nAMa.lTa mixed up'with the dimples and the f th fi 't Q 'rter o 1896. asainst news-gatuerer at one dancing-brown eye9 that for a moment $17,445,000 in the like quarter of last she' couldn't finish. , t T.lnn In 1 CC7 Tha 1 .-pnn Republican party, the excess was ap- thA .Ij.f i,-,- (,-ntiin and owner plied to the payment of the National I respectively as A. Albury and S.; Pindar, and debt, and morei tnan $zoy,uuu,uuu oi nernaumtj iun j .h National debt was Paid oft Not I : ' -I nnW that, but the- Republican rjartv OUR PROTEST HEEDE turned the Treasury over with $107,- Tbo; kiiubk of the Competitqr's Crew 000,000 in gold and nearly $40,000,- . win Be Postponed. 000 of other money to the incoming ; -was-h"ington, May 12. Tlio State Depart-: TlAmnnrfttio Administration. What has ment trdvei out the following: I f ' -ji 1 F i ' a v,'v,n nmn.rat;n nortir nr ' 'ln the Competitor ease it can bfe author-j it came into power ? Instead of pay- wni . postpone execution of tio death ine off any part of our National debt, sentenco upon American citizens im- in the enormous sum of ; 262,.5l.-)OUO the treaty of 1795 and tho protocol of 1ST7. in a period of a little over three years' can be presented and considered.'? ' I. time. This imposes upon the people- . ..The sentences of -the Cojnpitoj prisoners lime, xuia imposco j i forwarded to Madrid, hercr'thcy were of this country an indebtedness in in- byUSecretary Olney's flrni retnonstrance teresi aione oi jn,iji,uiu -v" uu. against the precipitancy ana apparui prt;ju- QUEEN RECENT ON jCUBA. She Keada ller Speech lu. llorson to the Spanish Cortes. J--. j.. . . The Spanish Cortes reassembloi In Madrid. Great interest was manifested in the speech from the throne opening tho session. Which it was known would deal at longth with '.hd situation in Cuba. Tho spaech was read in person! by the Queen Regent,, representing the youthful King. j The speech from: the throne announces a meaMiro aiming to establish in tho Antilles an administration of a purely : local charac ter, giving the country control of its own finance,1 while maintaining Intact Spain's sbvereign rights. " i f ) ' Thn nnwli dnlrOS that Spain's ha-J ful- fliled bevond measoro the protnlseai she mado to the Cubans after tho flrt rebelllonj Tho relations with foreign Powers, the speech savs. aro excellent. The correct and Irlend ly attitude of the (South and Central) Amer ican Kopubiics in mepresenc9 oi ine. tuoua i IV. nnirYl;incoii fTint. -ara I Ala ,iriti mhich tha PTrtrPima' ucnaltv was SO iiuuYo tuuiu r f hiwTthenrd matter- rebellion. It say, eorves- to prove tnat eacn had under a Republican Administra- hasti lmpos anS! day develops M moro the mtorests TH. nTn,Lfl nn,ca veM after 8.M?.Pflj6'c2T ?f:3"fl btadin? them to Spain. In the I United va- j I lnna year, an increase of 24 per cent. . t xr v i . i iw f6h: John, I wast worrying so over , wt "luuu . . . I number of business failures ov auar- those buttons J.ney weien i gooa, ter(J ium ed from 165 last year to 258 ship on every occasion, makiug John rage violently, and vow a thousand times that th 5 " old maid" should walk. Bat she never had and now,: sceut- intr dimlv.rlilce h cariou after its own prey, thnt,' trouble might come "to the pretty little white house, the make-; come to : do her work had not already com- iing'T " she said more bolitoly, sinking1 down then. And I'd only bought 'em yes terday.. Two'wholo dozen. And you put that $10 .bill in my hand, ' I didn't hardly know 'it, but I suppose. 1 cliO- give one little bit of a sigh, for I was ao provoked that I had not waited buy ing them until today. " T V I . i. 11. . ..,!.-. tnnm n ti 1 JOU11 CaUgUl UJ tut) imna vim"i dressing gown and all. I don't think they have ever quarreled since at ! least I have never heard of it. total liabilities increased from $4,- 924,000 to $8,398,000, nearly 70 per 'cent, -.;. . ':' ' ' Tree Trade Means Free Gilts. o ff.-i nnn nno o I : . 7" -t-rt (u;n I States. ilesDlte tne eilortS Ot puDiic opimou yor, ana inee W tion, eitnera rev. son u in the contrary direction, the President and mortsace upon the people of this proper representation of thdefencowiii be country extending over a period of ff1 thirty vears. Hon. Albert kins, M. C, of Illinois energy that showed that hhe "meant to stay, and made the chair creak f earfully. . ' ' ; do ; say that you and don't live happy but, drawn that 'it la!' I wouldu t mind 1 know tain t , 1 . . - 1 'would'have .gone: to any one's heai't to your fault knCj jsntiii -their tfxnvesMou. ' "l I Betty's heart ..... . . ... . ., v .. 1 . . . 1 r . "1 don't kuo how you will change come to this,? it or help it," -said Betty; lightly,-to a Biiuey indifferent j story in ever Lido Let: itihinay at the turn affairs had ; tnkisu,'- Vl'm fciu e !" and Ibhc pushed .-.back--the light, - waving luiir - frpm her torehottd with . -gx-stitre. '. :- r - .-. . . That Lrnir that.Tohn always smoothed . whrtii t ki ipetted her, j ttred or d.is .hnihnud, 'aiul called hr ' "child." . Her L'x'sthre -struck to bjis-i heart as he l-'liiiH-ed nt her Hiuiiiy i locks, and the. r.' cool, libliiloreiit frfca uLdurneath and lu foro he knew it b! wks Laying : . ."Ibere id no help fojr itinow, I snp- io--." ' ' ! '- 1 :i v: - stood etill. Had .it. . John and he not live' happy ! To be ure they '.d.idn t, as ahe nicmbereil with a pang tho dread- ful'scene of words and hot tempers; but had itotteu around so soon aJ uq three week8 uader! penalty - of ybodv's mouth? 1 . . . With all her distress of inind sho was saved from opening her mouth.: mons failing that was on. ... - : i folks so," she 6aid, rock- So Miss Sim forced to go "An' I tell the effect of git to talkiu' if things doli sure : "h; yes, there la," .said Betty, . "You tell fctlii 111 that caol, calmpvay tliat ought fiot-lo.have dce'eived hjim. Bit : men -.-kuow-sUlittl8 of AvonHni's! hearts, al- vagucly, "What? though -thtrvi niny live with thorn for yt ari in. clorto.it friqnds lkip. . - . . . .,t .i:t-Kl not try to ..tuau Ypu Precautious at a Russian Coronation, Miss Mary Grace Thornton, the daughter of the English ambassador, describes the coronation of Alexander lit in the -Century. Miss Thornton -says:'1 ; '. . .' ':".- . i "Several orders have also appeared in tlie paiers: with regard to Moscow. No h'ojise proprietor is t,o let ; out. his windows bu the route of the ' proces- eion. (Some one even said that, no window wus to be opened on tho streets. through which it passes.) No irivato person is to be on hor'sebacls during n herself back and forth to witness her words, wnen -tncy ; so. you can't blame, me 't go easy for you, I'm folks?" repeated Betty, and-' standing .-qiiite still. lon'f understand," ;. naaid, exasperated at her tl and her dullness. 'V 1 kudv,-.if v o u' do n't wan t to. I don't caio!" . , "V.lIat do vou liiioau? : - . .-r .- Her huiibmid I'm sure her coin polled the merry brown -. lot'k up to h 1 m. . : : : '..'l- cini 'go back to : mot ildttv, iirovok-ifin'lt'. "Sh -any ditv, a ml' t lieu you ca '-'iuhI. to suit yourself, iuk - 'betterall. ro.uikvl."i. -. -v.! usU'ad .-o.f .Wn iniri m ir odt Why, that the blame is nil. hi-i'n,' cried tho. old strailgejuoot e i John Pea- 8iy, soys I, why there couldn't no one live with hiiiu, let alone that pretty wife he's 'git. That's what I say, Be'tty, 'And then I tell 'em what a queer man he is, how cross an " : "And you dare to tell people Such things of "my husband?" cried Betty, drawing, herself up to her extremist fine of 500 rubies. (30), so that only prince Demidov-will bo able to afford a morning canter. No .black is to be worn during the time of the corona tion., A little Spauiurd dined with us recently who has just been to Moscow, where he found great difficulty in see ing anything. As he said, they are so 'precautious. ,' . One precaution is rather ingenious. A . double row of soldiers is to be placed on each side of n rnntn of the urocesaion. the .men back to back, one row facing tlie;pro cession and one. tho houses X V" 'If V C- 4 Little Billee's Brains. "The Democratic party's constitu-; ency i3 mainly the industrial masses, whose advancement and elevation it eyer seeks, and whose counsels so largely shape its policy. "Speech of Governor Russell, : September 27, 1892. And this is the man who is talked about for President. ;Arid'howhas the , "advancement and elevation" of the industrial masses been attained since 'D2, Mr. Russell? Has the Democratic party been honest to "its constitu ency?" Those "counsels," which "so largely shape its policy," will be given by the "industrial masses" next No vember, and where will little J3illee and his party be? , forthcoming, or a commutation of sentence 111 I .,wl . ! I '! will iih i;i n 111 n.i. 1 1 Ji llop- j The report oo.mes from. Havanil that Cap- lain teneral weyior resigned uuuitusu 01 uo action of tha home Government in the case of the Competitor filibusters. . SPAIN'S ACTION. Ii Tear. 1893,. 1895. j Interest 00 Kalidnal Debt. . Per capita .. - ' ot population. j . . .34 cents. Smallest since the war. .' . . . .44 cents. Back to 1890 condition. Democratic increase. 10 cents. ' senator innrsjon B.nows. 1 ' vWe feel that it is no longer neces sary to make an argument for protec tion in the United States. That ar gument is being made by the silent water wheel, by the still spindles, by the smokeless chimneys; that story is in every American borne, graven on every American- mind, and now, the American people are. ready to act, they are eager to act, they are burning to act, and they are going to act at, the St. Louis convention and at the polls in. next .November.-United States Senator, bl Nebraska, Thurston. The Army and Navy Counjcll Will HevUe the Court Martial's tlolngs. Madrid, Spain, May 12.: It is' understood Hint the Hnanish Cabinet has 1 decided ; to place the cose of the men eaptuj-ed on the filibustering American schooner! Competitor before the Supreme Council of the armv and navy for a revision of the proceedings ot the court martial held in Havana, j I ! A'deparch from Havana says pat .uaptain General Wevler is angry bedausfe of the atti tude ot the'United States, and f that he will resign unless the .sentences a?e executed. The despatch adds that the conduct of the American Consul General Is vdy irritating to the loyal Spaniards; He shows himself everywhere, and his talk is jmeqacing. , I, Thn anti-American' feeling! among the Spaniards has been bitterly revived by the action of the United States Government in the case of these filibusters. j J The British Consul at Havana nas cuvmu hia Government have not separated them selves from 'the lino of conduct and the toval frendshlD whieh always have cxlstod botween the two countries isinco the ' crea tion' Of the Republic. Thoi Pope has given renewed sympathyto Spain.) t : ! The speech pratses ;tho conduct of the arm v and navv dnrlne the struggle in Cuba. The Government is occupiedi with an in crease of the dofenses for tho'PenlDSula aud for the colonies. The army soon will bo pro vided with new pattern rides and complete artillery equipment. Spain, already has. in creased her navy .by t went y-flve gunboats and other vesseb. An extraoruinary ouagoi will be presented to provide for the acquisi tion o new ship3 and for, improving the arsenal. i; : ; , ... : LOST IN A MISSISSIPPI WRECK. PROVISIONS OF THE BILL. ' Wliat tbe Jlcasure Mean and lhe Terri tory .Iuclmled. The bill provides 'that Kings County, Rich mond County, Long Island City, Newtown, Flushing and Jamaica, and that part of the town Of Hempstead in the County of Queens, which Is westerly of a straight lino drawn from the southeasterly point oi tuo town .01 Flushing through the middlo of Hi" eh;:auo . betwwn lVokaway lkiachuud Shelter lsliina, . In Oupj.n Couiitv. to the Atluutio Ocouu,, shall be consoHdatOit with the etty and coun ty of New York. For all purposes the loenU . administration 01 tuo territories oaumeriiieu, shall be performed and-exercised by the re spective bodies, pouiio .aiia eorporaiu, ir which they are now lniruhieu umu so in r u hereafter changed by law. , The commission created to draw tip a eharr " ter for tho greater city is to eonsint of ttioi Presidi'nt of tho old renter New York Com-J mission, tho Mavors of New York, llroo'klyu!. and Long Island Citytho Htnto Engiuwr and Surveyor, the , Attorney-Oeueral and niho other persona, reslden's of Mho on-! larged territory, to lx appointed by the Gov-j. ernor. This cbtnmi.-wloti. must make a tlnali report to tho Legislature on -February 1, 1897, and to submit therewith bills to provide- for the government of tho munleipab corpoialion created by the act; an 1 among other things for attaining an equal and unl-l, form-rate of taxation and ot valuation for, taxation throughout the whole territory.. , The cities of New York and I!rokiyn ' ; directed to raise such .proportion of llieuiu of $25,000 as is nectsssafy for tho ur.s of 4 lie oommissiou iii ciirrying out the provisions of the net. Nothing in the act . Is to lx con strued as attempting to affect in any wny the boundaries, government, rights, powers", dutiesobligations, limitations, or disai.ili ties of. any. county or officer thereof, as fixed by tho constitution. . . Consoli'lation is to tako effect on January, l.'18'J8. The rest of the act takes effect im mediately. . , -. : PERSIA'S NEW RULER. The -Boilers of a Towboat Bnrt aa She . Near Vck'slurff. ! The. towboat Harry Erpwn, of Pittsburg, upward bound from Now Orleans, burst her boilers at 11 o'clock p. m.jaboujt twenty-five miles below Vicksburg. Miss. Tjho boat was wreekod and it sank in five: minutes. . Eleven lives were reported lost. Including Pilot Nor man X. Dravo. G. W. , Bordsley, steersman; The Late Shall' Successor ! l-ncrEOlic, but Una Led tt Llle oi Seclunlou. The eldest son of the late . Sliah of Persia is ZU Es Sultan, Governor of Jshahun, nnl practicaij-ul'Jr of Southern rersin. He had . .. , .1... L1...1. 1.. luart- given some trouuio ana iuu nu.iu m ' greatly reduced his power. Tho SlyUniamed hla second son, Mu7.!ifflrMd-Din, as .heir-elect to the throne. Tho new Shah was at la- to Queen Regent Christina alking her to William Dougherty chief engineer; Annie V 1 " W.. 1 . Lm mUn 1 - 1 i A - fP-v T,, A Will- rardon William liiiaea, laeiiiDKusumau wuv iics, i-uumuorujttiui.iym uuu anu nrna marfl fiTl 1 11 H lf? tl 1 1( 1 1 1 13 1 JVtlllJJIJCLlLVIi t I IJlIIl: W113UU. 11LCU1UJ1. 1 A lly wwvv v The best opinion coincides with the state- Mate William Fitzsimmdns, - (that 6f the ment that the fate of the I Americans- con- g(cond mate, and those of Geofgo Keirn and cerned will be decided by the Spanish Cab- William Kelly, lamp trimmers, j wero reebv- lnet at Madrid, lue impression provmia 1 ereanyine steamer -usuiugiuu xiunano.., that they will not be executed. OFF WITH ARMS FOF j The Laurada Tahes Cannoi l.OOO.OOO Cartridges , 1 CUSA. , Rifles and which was In sight of the; Brown at the time of the accident. Six members of tho crew r.r I nin rod. Captain Keirn, the master of tho. Brown, was blown to tnecaain rooi oyinoexpiosion. CaDtain Keirn states that it would be Impos sible for any one to tell how many of theseveh boilers exploded, it seemea to mm mat ine Plenty for England. , There is a shortage in the Austral ian wool clip. But by the -surplus in which can be shipped supply their, deficiency. . : . .i ! t j ik o 1 bouera expioaeo. it seemea 10 m ) The American uwr;., yessel went down -In less than a minuto. careo of munitions of waB'fasf large a3 tha c-mtaln Keirn attaches nt) blame to ahy one. tkiaIi anno r-A.ntlv on the Bermuda, if not rio savs the cause of tho oxplosion will neyer larger gotaway from NewfYoik Harbor. She be known, as the chiefi engineer, William tn afnwhrealongthe; route to Cuba DoushertVi was lost. Tho boat carried a list and pick up a large number of men. Only the .0f forty-eight officers and crew, all white, commanders of the expedition; and the arms ahe had in tow sixty empty barges an I two ....i ammunition .were taken aboard at the - fuel boats. i r- Kao Vnrk. The exoeiiition will, it is The Brown was owned; by the coal firm ot -v - . . j . t . -1 . . .1 I . j--, . - . Tim.i !tu v.., .... in perfect order and had just had her boiler?' cleaned at flew urieans. 1 this can, be offsel ' eald.be piloted oy wpw" -Tuu" v-aTA hp VTnitPd Stftfpe who is known as "i;jnauuu tne Jmteti oiaies 1 . Koa number of eipeditions into to Europe to r.ubftn ports, notably the Bermuda's, despite ra-ped her arms nud eyes to 1 , - Uilivo it sfii.l p. waiits Jilt' height, aifd 'quietly will" 'be pT(tcstuti.oii of fond nlK'CtioU and rc- 1 1 :mu-rse, which she tulJy ixpected, John ilrew himself tip, looked at her fixed ly towering so over the old woman in the chair that she jumped in confusion at the storm t-ne liau riised, aud stared blindly: iuto the s and face rosy with right eous indignation ; her only thought swas how tojget away from-'the storm -sho had raised but could. 5 not stop.. u violent lilazing eye and. with, white liui ara'id ii'.; tier arm blowl v : . "Xes, it niyy be better as you say, better-all round, j -You know , best !' and w is gone Irom the r'oom before bho could recover from her astonish-; meut enough to ntter a silund. iot a loliq, --lour; minute, .tljen dropped Ibit she was forced to stay, for Betty Ktooa just in,, iro.ni 01 i blocked up the way, so sho slunk back into this am idlest corner of it and look it as best sae could. .' .' ' "JSly husband!"'. cried Betty, dwell in with pride on the propoun at least, if they were to part, she would. With tt-'wild cry Butty rushed across say it over lovingly as much ns she the room, first tossing-the ten dollar could till the last moment ; ahdftheu, bill savagely as Mr as she) could throw when tho time did come, why,1 people if, and flinging herself on tho com- shoujd know that it was John's fault j Cost of Germany's Ship Canal. j Aak'finite official statement of tho cost of that groat engineering work, Kiel-canal ' shows the reaching .r-7 . .. i , point to have been some c53,OUU,UUU, It is about sixty-one miles long, twen ty feet deep at dead low water, and 229 feet wide in numerous places the width increasing to some 428 feet, to allow the largest vessels to pass each other, and work will be continued un til vessels of; any depth can pass at low water. . The embankment is stone: lined to a depth of six feet below water,' aud the locks at the North Wnn And .of the caual are said , to be , - : j-- the world, with tho ex- t.uo " ' .. I ception of that at Bromerhavcn. ; Two bridges, 137 feet high, span - it; there are six opening bridges and sixteen ferries. - . - -' ' II is NeVer-Failing Test. ''Old chap, I've been duck shooting don't you know. I TWk . shootmK?" "Why, you fame duck from a wild UVU W y ouc. .. : -r ; i "Oli, yes, I do the wild ones ;,way l"-t'aicgo Record. I gbt 1 . 1 1 mm '1 L8&5 mm si Thrift I "fi nhon nrtrta " notftblV 1 llann of the Srianish (tunt oats. : Tha n-n i eomnosed of tOOO.OOO rounds 'of ammunition, consisting mfcstly of Mauser. t-iAr,aa imi rtnrts. inree cuuuuu, uu i twelve-pounder, -and a large quantity 01 dynamite and mecuciuesh. 1.... Jas fitted out at a cost 2ft S150.000 byj the Junta in New York City. .Thecannon are Gardner guns and the rifles aVe Winchesters. Colonel F. JC. Hain Killed. New York City, - : . China l'ay Cp. ', Consul Eeacf, the Chairman of the Unfted State3 Chengtu Commission, has succeeded in securina payment' in! fall of the Baptist Missionary Union claims for property losses in the Sechuen riots. Thus all the American claims have been settled in a friendly man ner. China paying the whole amount de manded. 1 MUZAFFIB-ED-DI!, BDAII OF I'EUBIA. Colonel Frank K. Haini, of 'Was run over and killed iat Clifton Springs, TJ v bv a freight train of; the New York Central Bauroaa. . iaiiu. b"" suffering for many month from net-yous prostration, caused Dy overwore x Kintzie Hain was Tice-Presi4ent and general manager of the Manhattan Elevated Railway system. ' Ha was bor.nin.lS3G. . - . : -r j i Gl.tirhtered l.v the -Natl ve. The steamer Monowal brings news - ot the wholesale massacre ot traders aind mission- Killed in a Sh&rn Battle. : In a sham battle at Caraca. Venezuela, bullets were secretly usd by both'stdes.' - As a consequence, one man was killed and sev eral were wonnded in the excitement of the fray. The Caracas press in commenting Upon the affair gnmly observes; bullets lor Eagnsnmenf , - . ... ; 1 . breeze when his father was assassinated. Tabreezo is tho, most important city in Per sia, tip in the northwestern comer, ano new Hhah was --there- enmroneu, anu no is now.on his Way -to Teheran .by the great car avan route. Mr. Curzo-u, tho Lnglisli trav eler, now in Parliament, says Jluzatnr-ed-Dln IS a man of intelligence and energy, but his life of seclusion has left him unlltted for "We have j providing Persia with a libera!,-brogrcsslvo government. ' . - Five I'rencli Officer Killed." i- i. A train loaded with troops destined for the island of Madagascar collide'd in Algeria, Out of the Common Kan. Chicago Aldermen get $3 a day apiece. tfAeflrtm' hna ronrlv flrn thnuftAnit - i I 1. . . . .1 n ' j n nnA V.Br.M ha.Tmiin with a I ' - oripa hV natives OL lUO 3iv r t-,.. , fclll I wuv.. Straits 'and the Solomons. Malay!! savages otner train x M . - ,1 . The total seal catch of Newfoundland seal 1 v. nnAor r t mMn 1 ri 1111 if luiu viuwti - j - t . i . rrs rr 1 ,. ers wiu 1001 iip zw.uuu suaia. . . t 1 m a nna fir BTPfLm ra 11 j 1 mn -t rirni i.uu iu and one American traaer insius "S" - : i i T,i,.. nnr-tt Canada, to rdv between the Dominion and Th K1etmen of Daltonl N.' H.. havo in- t rance. stitutedsuit against Bert L. (Taylor, fori P.eports come from many sections that twenty years town Treasurer, to recover j hop yards will not be cultivated "this yoar S10 000. It is reportea tnat a suortage or 1 anu many win be rooieuout. 3000 has been discovered in a nasty exam- I A big rattlesnake at Grenwood Garden, inatiOD 01 ireasurer fviut a uwn, umw- L Peak s Island, Me... has. just eompioiea an ing a lew recent years Thru ri Tv tlre. i ' if A.hUnit'. Wli. Inl a kcHtructiW fife, three persons perished, and pe property loss is nearly t5CG,000. 1 Thejdead aire. PetejTi En eedman. John , Nodlander and Ole Olsen. Nearly 20,000,000 feet of lumber was burned. - Criiae of Jealou L.over. ". j, Joseph Graham, a carpe4er. of Freehold. N. J., shot and killed Annie Anderson and then 'killed himself. Tljie seae of the dou ble tragedy was tne residence ; 01 uuanra Baumgartner, on West j State street, a fash ionable residence thoroughfare of Trenton, N J. Miss Anderson 1 was employed as a domestic servant in the Bajamgartner house hold. -. - r i j. : : ' Nevada KepuMlcani for SiWer. The Nevada Republican jState . Convention met in Virginia City j Delegates to repre- ni th state at theT. National Convention were chosen and resolutiohs adopted favor ing the free and uniimiteoi comage 01 suvot at 16 to 1- j.! . I . v UDbroken fast that lasted a year. An attempt wa made to kill Tv. Max Euppuehter in Ht. ' Louis, Mo., by sending poisfnod fruit to his parish school. Tho village of Aumone. France. 13 said f o bo tho healthiest place in Europe. It has ' but forty inhabitants, twenty-three' of whom are over eighty years old and ore Is ' over 100. ' '...' , - Quan Yick Nam, an Americanized China man, of New York City, has applied to be appointed on the police force. It Is said that the Highbinders have a reward of f 15, 000 offered for his head. - George flalowell, a wagon-maker, of St, Paul, Minn., says that-nothing will ever in-. duce him again to repair a hears. Five been sent to him to Will be approximately J mind, ana after each time one of bis family died. , - : . . "Wheat Consuudption Per Capita, After an elaborate Investigation of the quantity of wheat copsumed by this country Bradstreet's finds that tho annual consump tion for each Inhabitant is 5.587 bushels, instead of K bushels, as' given for many years by the Agricultural ipartmenr. : UeKinnlnit and! bad of Centuries. The nineteenth Century ends on December 81, 1900; the twentieth century begins on January l, laoi. j -,. . . 1 . The National Treasury', Deficit The Treasury deficit for tho fiscal year end ing June 30, 1996, 25,000,00a. -' t r
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