The News and Observer.
VOL. XXXYIII. NO. 59.
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INCOME TAX DECISION
RUMORED THAT THE SI i*REME
COURT WILL DECLARE II
UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
MORRISON FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
There is a Good Deal of Talk About
Nominating the Great Father of
Tariff Reform —He is a Believer in
Free Coinage—ls the Income tax is
Declared Unconstitutional it May
Necessitate an Extra Session ot Con
gress to Provide Revenue.
Special to the News and Observer.
Washington, D. 0., April 1.
There is a rumor that the Supreme
Court will declare against the constitu
tionality of the income tax. This rumor
comes from the same sources that gave
out information of the “trust” cases
three weeks before the court delivered
the opinion. If the rumor should prove
true it would leave a big hole in the
Treasury that would necessitate an im
mediate extra sessi mos Congress. The
thirty million dollars expected to be
raised from the income tax needed
to pay current expenses, and if
it cannot be collected from this
source, it will be necessary for j
Congress very soon to provide some ;
other method of raising the money. The j
Republicans would want to re-open the
tariff and increase certain duties in or
der to help forward interests at the same
time that they supplied revenue to the
government. An increase of the tax on
beer from #1 to $2 a barrel, and two
cents on bank checks would raise con
siderable revenue. But It will be time
enough to speculate upon how to raise
the fax when the Supreme Court has
rendered its decision.
There is a good deal of talk here about
nominating Col. Win. R. Morrison for
the Presidency. Stevenson is a prime
favorite with many, but Morrison’s
strong personality, his bluntness, his
downright honesty, and his lack of sen
sationalism and mugwnmpism commend
him to many. An Illinois politician in
office here, talking to the New York
Tribane correspondent, thus sums up his
strong points:
“Morrison’s peculiar merits, in my
opinion, are these: His moderation on
the money question and his availability j
as a soldiers’ candidate. The Democrats
are none too well off in the latter re- j
spect. As to the currency, Morrison’s
position is this: He is a believer in silver
free coinage, but he does not think the
time is fully ripe for it. If he had been
in Congress the last two Congresses, he
would have voted against free coinage,
and on the money question generally
with the administration. And yet I
know that he does not go anything like
as far as Cleveland and Carlisle do.
With him it would be merely a prefer- j
enee of a conservative over a radical pol
icy. On the other hand, he is so much
a silver man and so strong an advocate
of his party's policy, right or wrong,
that he would if President approve a
free coinage bill if passed and sent to
him ”
The President has made arrangements
to move his family to Woodley. This is
much eailier than usual.
MOONSHINERS FROM WILKES.
A New SIOO,OOO Cotton Factory to be
Erected in Salem.
Special to the News and Observer.
Winston, N. C., April 1.
Forty whiskey blockaders from Wilkes
and adjoining counties passed through
here this evening en route for the Fed
eral Court at Greensboro. They were
under guard
One of the number, Hort Burgess,
from Wilkes, will be tried for firing
sixty shots from a Winchester rifle at
revenue officers.
Amos Knott, one of the brothers who
were recently severely beaten by the
White Caps in Yadkin county for re
porting moonshiners, was arrested here
to day on a charge of retailing without
license. A revenue officer says the two
brothers had nothing to $° report
ing the Yadkin blockaders.
Winston shipped over a million pounds
of manufactured tobacco during the
month of March. This is a large increase
over the same month last year.
The stockholders of the South Side
Manufacturing Company met this af
ternoon and elected directors for a new
hundred thousand dollar cotton factory
to be erected at once, South of Salem.
The officers will lie chosen Wednesday.
H. C. Fries, of Salem, will probably be
chosen President.
THAT CLERKSHIP CONTEST.
W ilsuu ami Young Both Tender iheir
Bonds.
Special to the News and Observer.
Asheville, N. C.. April 1.
W. H. Wilson, elected by the last Leg
islature to a clerksdip lor Buncombe
Circuit Criminal Court, made formal
tender of bond to the county com
missioners to day and asked to be in
ducted into office.
Geo. W. Young, appointed by Gov
ernor Carr, also tendered his commission
and bond. The case was argued by
Locke Craig for Wilson and J. S. Adams
for Young. The commissioners reserved
their decision till to morrow.
Rev. J. 8. Felix, of Lynchburg, Va.,
has been unanimously called to the pas
torate of the First Baptist church. It is
believed he will accept.
During the term of the Superior Court
ending Saturday night Judge Graham
cleared two hundred cases from the
docket—an unparalleled record for Bun
com lie in the history of the court.
the wake forest team.
Something of the Boys Who W ill Play
the Orioles in Raleigh Wednesday.
Special to the News and Oliserver.
Wake Forest, N. 0., April 1.
I hope you will spare me the space in
your paper for the names and records of
my team. We are in good shape uow,
and we hope to play Baltimore a good
game Wednesday, April Bd. The Orioles
have met several of- our Southern teams
and all of them have failed to score, but
that is no reason why Wake Forest
shouldn’t. We have beyond doubt the
best team iu the South, and as the old
adage goes, “proof of the pudding is
chewing thereof,” just so we stand ready
to play any college team in the South
who think'that they are stronger than
we are. But, Mr. Editor, there is such
a thing as air castles and people of my
temperament often build the same, but I
firmly believe that 1 have good reasons
for thinking our team the best in the
South and will just here give some of
them. They are all North Carolina
bovs.
First. We have Honeycutt, who has
been one of U. N. 0. boys for the past
few years, where he made by no means
a bad record. He played last season
with Petersburg, and there made an en
viable reputation as fielder and batter.
He is generally known as the handsome
fielder, but we know him as “Honey,”
the handsome catcher. He plays his
place as well as any one—behind the
bat.
Second. Smith, better known to us as
“Smiddie,” the t wirier of the sphere, is
also with us, and all who saw him pitch
the game last Thursday no longer have
their doubts as to whether he lost his
arm last season One thing sure, if he |
lost it last season, he has found a stronger
one this. He pitched with Petersburg
last season and was in the box generally
three times and often four times each
week. He held up his end and wombs
many games as any of them. Often he
would go in against Richmond and that ;
team when confident of success were
disapoointed when they failed to “see
him. ” This boy was one of us last year.
He pitched a game against the University
of Virginia, and at the end of the sixth
inning the score was two, two. Played
tenth inning. The University got the
game, five to two. The next day he
pitched a winning game against Wash
ington and Lee; the next day he pitched
another winning game at Virginia Mili
tary Institute. With Smith and Honey
cutt as battery we fear no harm in North
Carolina at least.
Third. Well, my next man is Kimball,
otherwise known as “Has-been.” He
plays first base and all who have seen
the old boy there knows he is at home.
He caught all last summer with Weldon
At that place he held Kid Foreman, of
the Virginia League, good for “Hove.”
If be misses a ball it is an exception and
not the rule. One little fault, he will go
to sleep on most every game, but usually
gets his eyes open in time to save the
game. Without “Hove” we would feel
lost.
Fourth. Well, of all the boys, here
comes our best Stafford. Everybody
knows him. He only knocked ninety- j
six home runs last season while in the j
Virginia League. When he muffs a ball
on second, the rest might as well stop
trying. He goes with New Orleans this
season together with Smith and Honey
cutt.
Fifth. Charlie Taylor is our short
this year, and I dare say he is as good
as any short in the State, except per
haps a whiskey; he plays the game and
that’s all anybody can do.
Sixth. Old Sitting Bull holds third,
and he has so improved during this sea
son that we no longer consider that
place weak. He also plays the game.
Watch him Wednesday.
Seventh. Now where is Daniel in the
centre? He is by all odds the best
fielder we Lave ever had; I am tempted
to say that ever played in North Caro
lina; but for fear I might step on some
one’s toes I’ll put surmise.
Eighth. Billy Wynne, fielder and
pitcher, is also with us. He has played in
the National League, and his reputation
three is good. He Wlth Philadelphia
this season. Everybody “Liny ;
so no need to say more about him.
Ninth. Our last man is Turner. That
boy plays his place—right field. He has
had lots of experience in baseball. He
has played for a number of seasons with
Halifax, where he has done his part. TTe
; look for a good player out of him.
Now, it strikes me that these are nine
good reasons why we will score on Balti
more. Whether they be or not, one
; thing I can say with certainty; no other
team in the State can offer nine better
reasons.
Good peop’e, come out to see Wake
j Forest interest Baltimore.
Game called at half-past 8 o’clock.
Admission 50c; grand stand 10c.
Next day we play Trinity again. I
surely hope that they will be stronger
than when we met them last.
Our substitute is Harry Pool, of Ral
; eigh. He is a good player now,
and bids fair to become one of the bett
p tchers in the State. He made his first
appearance last Friday at Henderson.
He struck out every man on that nine,
aud they had some good ones. His place
is sub-pitch and field.
Isaac Meekins,
Manager W. F. B. B. C.
Miners in lowa Quit Work.
Ottumwa, lowa, April 1. —Twenty-
five hundred miners in Appanoose
county quit work this morning. No dis
turbance of any kind has occurred. In
the rest of the district, where the opera
tors signed the Ottumwa agreement, the
miners are working.
RALEIGH. N. C.. TUESDAY. APRIL 2. 1895.
NICARAGUAN CANAL
AN OFFICIAL EXHIBITION OF
AMERICA’S INTEREST IN
IT TO BE MADE.
BOARD OF ENGINEERS APPOINTED.
They are Charged With Ascertaining
the Feasibility, Permanence and Cost
of Construction and Completion ol
the Canal—They Shall Also Visit
and Personally InspecA the Route uud
Examine the Plansand Make a Re
port to the President Before Nov. I.
Washington, D. C., April 1. Presi
dent Cleveland has determined that an
official exhibition of American interest
in the Nicaraguan canal, which was au
thorized by the last session of Congress,
shall be promptly made, and the govern
mental commission to examine the canal
route, for which the sundry civil bill
made $20,000 immediately available, is
to be sent to Grey town as soon as possi
ble on a United States war vessel to em
phasize the concern of this government
mthe enterprise of American citizens
who have been acting under a charter
granted by Congress in 1889.
The programme of the administration’s
action in the premises was agreed upon
at last Friday’s cabinet meeting, when
Secretaries Lamont and Herbert were
directed to select a member of the corps
of army engineers and one of the naval
civil engineers respectively, who, with
civilian to be selected in a
day or two, will constitute the
board of engineers charged with “ascer
taining the feasibility, permanence and
cost of construction and completion” of
the Nicaraguan canal, which “shall
visit and personally inspect the route of
said canal, examine aud consider the
plans, profiles, prisms, and specifications
for its various parts, and report thereon
to the President' on or before Novem
ber 1 next.
It was also decided that the army
should have the ranking officer of the
board, and Col. Wm. P. Craighill was
selected. Col. Craighill was the last
president of the American Society of
Civil Engineers, and the weight -of his
opinion on the canal project would be
convincing beyond that of any other
man who could be appointed on the
board.
Secretary Herbert chose Civil Engi
neer Mordecai T. Endicott, whose rela
tive rank of Lieutenant Commander is
but a degree below that of Col. Craig
hill and who is the second officer on the
civil engineers’ list of the navy, a man
of high professional attainments and an
authority upon naval works ashore.
The President has not yet announced
the civilian member, but Col. J. A.
Montgomery, of Birmingham, Ala , who
has been prominent in the construction
of Southern raiiroads, is said to he the
leading candidate.
As soon as the President com
pletes the board it will organize
in Washington and go to New York,
where the plans, specifications and
contracts of the canal company will be
closely scrutinized. The party will then
go to Mobile and embark on the Mont
gomery, which has been detailed for the
duty of conveying the party* to Grey
town, and which will remain there as
loDg as their stay lasts, furnishing them
a marine guard as well as boats and
steam launches and tendering them the
moral support of the United States flag.
WAR MAY BE DECLARED.
Troubles Between Mexico and Guate
mala Greatly Increasing.
Mexico City, April I.—The Mexican
Congress convenes here to night, and it
is believed unless a reply is received
from Guatemala according to certain
demands made by Mexico before the ses
sion opens, President Diaz will make a
strong declaration of his policy, and
will probably ask Congress for the power
to declare war against that country in
case he should think it necessary.
The difficulties in the way of a settle
ment of the troubles between the two
countrits have greatly increased in the
last few days, and negotiations are now
suspended
Bvu*‘ a and Gagged the Watchman.
Washington, D.C., April 1.-—The office
of the Washington Steamboat Company
on Seventh street, near N street, south
west, was entered by burglars about 1
o’clock this morning.
The watchman. James Fornshow, was
bound and gagged by the robbers, who
: then blew one safe and opened another
by the combination, getting from both
about SBOO in money and many valuable
: papers.
Three men were concerned in the rob
bery. No clues exist as to their iden
tity. _
M. Charles Camille Roucetf, Dead.
Paris, April 1. M. Charles Camille
Doucett, the distinguished French draut
atic author aud member of the Perma
nent Society of the French Academy,
was found dead in his bed to day. The
doctors have decided that he died at
about 4 o’clock this morning He was
83 years old.
Another Bank Closed.
Stevens Point, Wis., April 1. The
Commercial Bank of this city, owing to
an extended run, closed its doors this
morning. Byron B. Parks was appoint
ed receiver. The bank closed its doors
last summer during the panic, but open
ed up again. The assets are put at SIOO,-
000 and the liabilities at $60,000.
A LEXOW WITNESS SUICIDES.
He Left Two Dollar* on lli* Table lo
Fay Hi* Rent.
New York, April I.— Carl Prieru, who
was the first witness to furnish the
Lexow Investigation Committee with
testimony regarding police corruption in
this city, was found dead in his room at
No. 51 East Third street, about 11 o’clock
to-day, having committed suicide by
taking poison.
Priem returned from Europe about
two months ago, and went at once to
live in the house where he killed himself.
Mrs. Heineek, from whom Priem
rented a room, not having beard or
seen the latter for twenty-four hours,
qoneiuded something was wrong and
sent for one of Priem's friends who broke
in the door, lie found Priem lying dead
on the bed. Two papers containing
powders were on a table. Two dollars
were also found on the table with the
words “for my rent” on a piece of pa{>er
with the money.
Priem was fifty three years old and
a member of Steinweihr G. A. R. Post
UNCLE SAM’S FINANCES.
Excess of Expenditures over Receipts
{During March Was 9210,382.
Washington, April I.—The usual pub
lic debt statement was not issued today,
but will appear tomorrow.
The official Treasury statement issued
today shows that during the month of
March the excess of expenditures over
receipts was $246,382. The receipts were
$637,778 greater than in March. 1894.
and the expenditures $5,420,603 less
than iu last March.
An increase of $2,497,750 in national
bank note circulation during the month
of March is shown in the monthly state
ment issued by Comptroller Eekles to
day, making the total stand at $209,-
450.144 on April 1.
The Secretary of the Interior has ap
proved two clear lists of 67,530 acres in
the Jackson, Miss., land district, select
ed by the State as inuring to the benefit
of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad.
REM ARK A RLE COINCIDENCE.
Conductor and Rrakeman Killed in
Exactly the Name Manner.
Uniontown, Pa., April I. Condnc
tor Charles Barger aud Brakeman John
Shipley, of this place, were instantly
killed on the B. and O. at Lament last
night.
A peculiar coincidence rs tl|*it both
were killed in exactly the same manner
and within an hour of each other.
Shipley was the first victim. While
u© was stepping from one car to another
the train broke and he the
cars and was ground to pieces.
The crew picked the body up and
started to town. They had gone but a
short distance when Conductor Barger
met death in a similar manner.
Barger leaves a wife and one child.
Shipley was single.
MCKINLEY GOES HOME.
Denies That he i* Planning a “Suing
Aronnd the Circle.”
Washington, D. C , April 1 - Gov.
McKinley started for Columbus’t his even
ning.
The Governor says he has made only
three other appointments- one to speak
in Ottawa, Kans., one in Atlanta, Ga.,
and one at some ot her point--and that
representations sent out that he was
planning a “swing around the circle”
were entirely unjustifiable.
He complimented the Southern Asso
ciated Press on the marked fairness of
the reports published by that organiza
tion in regard to his movements.
BISMARCK’S BIRTH DA Y.
The German Association ot Virginia
Celebrate* it by a Banquet.
Richmond, April 1. The Germaus of
Richmond under the auspices of the Ger
man Association of Virginia to-night
celebrated Bismarck’s birthday by a
popular meeting and banquet. Speeches
were made by Mr. Osterlobn, German
Consul, and others, and a telegram (f
congratulations was sent Prince Bis
marck.
Congralqlaliou* to fibnißrck,
St. Paul, Minn., April i.— l'Uo Leg
islature this morning passed a resolu
tion congratulating Prince Bismarck on
his 80th birthday. It is to be cabled to
the Prince.
THE RATE BAR PROGRESSES.
The Southern W ant* to Meet the Low
Rate* ot the Seaboard Air Line.
Washington, April I.—The Southern
Railway Company, which has been ob
serving the long (and short haui clause
of the Inter-State Commerce law, has ap
plied to the Inter-State Commerce Com
mission for relief under the clause so
that it may be able to meet the low pas
senger rates of the Seaboard Air Line to
Atlanta and other places, without mak
ing corresponding rate reductions to in
termediate stations.
The commission will hear all parties
interested, aud investigate the matter ai
its office in Washington on Saturday,
April 6, 1885, at 10 o’clock a. m.
SUICIDE AT ROCKY MOUNT.
A Virginia Man W iud* up a Drunk by
Drinking Laudanum.
Richmond, Va., April I—A1 —A Rocky
Mount, N. C., special to the Dispatch
says: Mr. J. A. Henderson committed
suicide by taking laudanum this even
ing. The act was the final result of sev
eral day’s drinking. Mr. Headers n whs
a son cf J. A. Henderson, of Dativi’l .
Va , and was empl yed by Mr. J. W.
Hines.
NORTHERN MILL MEN
PARTY OF MANUFACTURERS
EXAMINING INTO ADVAN
TAGES OF THE SOUTH.
NEW COTTON MILLS FOR WELDON.
A 8200,000 Spinning aud Knitting
Mill to Be Erected at Weldon and a
9500,000 Spinning and Weaving Mill
at the Rapids—The Contacts to He
Completed by August l--Mr. Tomp-
J kins, of Charlotte, in t barge ot tjie
J,Northern Mill Men.' - "
JJWeldon, N. C., April 1. —A party of
New England mill men left Portsmouth
to-day on the Seaboard Air Line to visit
various mill points in the South for the
purpose of examining into the advanta
ges and disadvantages of the North and
South respectively for the manufacture
of cotton goods, aud by the courtesy of
Mr. E. St. John, Vice President, the
party left here in a special train which
will stop at points that they may wish
to see.
The following gentlemen constitute
the party: Mr. Wm. C. Lovering, presi
dent Arkwright Club, Boston, Mass.;
Mr. Henry 8. Howe, practical partner of
Lawrence & Co., representing Pacific
Mills, Lawrence, Mass.; Mr. Arthur
Amory, of Jackson and Nashua Mills,
Nashua, N. 11., also Lancaster Gingham
Mills; Mr. Thomas Motley, of the
Chicopee and Saratoga Mills; Mr. Ed
ward Amory, treasurer of the Amory
Mills, Nashua, N. H.: Mr. Henry B.
Coxe, of Coxe Bros, anthracite coal
miners, Philadelphia; Mr. R. H. Ed
mondß, editor of the Baltimore Manu
facturers’Record, Baltimore, Md ; Mr.
D. A. Thompkins, of Charlotte, N. C.;
Mr. U. W. B. Glover, General Freight
Agent, S. A. L , Portsmouth, Va. ;Capt.
T. W. Whisnant, Superintendent Road
way, Seaboard Air Line, Atlanta, Ga ;
Capt. J. M. Turner, Trainmaster, S. A.
L , Raleigh, N. C.
Mr. D. A. Thompkins, of Charlotte, N.
C., is travelling with the party and has
charge of the trip.
Stops will be made at Charlotte,
Henrietta, Weldon and Raleigh, in North
Carolina, and at Chester, Greenwood,
Columbia, Clifton, Pacolet, Piedmont
and Pelzer, in South Carolina.
The last four points will be reached by
courtesy of the Southern Railway. A
few other points may be visited if time
will permit, and Tuesday will be spent
in Charlotte.
The United Investment Company,
which is composed of capitalists of New
York, have contracted with Darby J:
Brown, of Washington, D. C , for the
building of a spinning and knitting mill
of Roanoke Rapids, six miles from Wel
don, N. C , to cost in the neighborhood
of $200,000. Under the contract it is to
be completed by the first of next Au
gust.
The mill will give employment to some
400 or 500 hands A spinning and
weaving mill, to cost about $500,000. is
also shortly to be erected at the Rapid*,
which will furnish employment to over
500 i>eople. The capitalists, for whom
this mill is to be built, are residents of
Massachusetts, Petersburg and Weldon.
DEATH OF A NOTED NfGRO.
He Was Speaker of the House ot Rep
resentatives ofS.C. in I8?2.
Charleston, April I.—Samuel J. Lee,
colored, who succeeded the notorious
Franklin J. Moses as Speaker of the
House of Representatives of this State
iu 1872, died suddenly here to day of
heart disease.
Lee was b in in Abbe wile county, and
was the slave of Gen. Samuel McGown,
a distinguished Confederate General,
and was his body servant aud served
with him throughout the Lto
war, having been wounded. He man
aged to secure an education, and when
the reconstruction period came, moved
to Edgefield county, the home of all the
fin tie siecle officeholders iu this State,
and was elected to the General Assembly,
where he was chosen Speaker when
Frank Moses was elected Governor.
Lee was an able and experienced law
yer and after the overthrow of the re
construction government in 1876 he es
caped the fate of indictment that befell
most of the office holders of that period,
aud se tied in C harleston, where he se
cured something of a practice and toe
resptet and good will of his whre legal
brethren.
He was the only colored brig-diet 1 gen
eral in the United States, having com
manded the first brigade of colored troops
of this State after it was reorganized
under the Democratic organization of
the State He will be buried with mili
tary honors tomorrow.
A NEGRO KILLS 1118 MISTRESS.
In Plain View of a Number ol Persons
he Put* Three Ball* Into her Neck.
Jasper, Fla , April I. — About 8 o’clock
this morning near iho Georgia Southern
and Florida depot, in what is known as
the Cox quarteis, and in p ain view of a
number of persons, white and black,
Walden Mitchell, colored,shot and killed
his mistress, Rilla Beaumon, a nice look
ing mulatto girl. He put thr- e pistol
balls inro her neck and shoulder.
Mitchell, armed with two pistols, and
a chum of his, armed with a double
barreled gun, escaped to the woods.
Deputy Sheriff Jones and Town Mar
shal Dennis Cannon, with a couple of
trained blood hounds, are in pursuit
with a good crowd of citizens, all on
horseback
Mitchell is a bad negro, and the offi
cers expect a desperate encounter when
they come up with them.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
U.voi.u» t.i 4 VKSrniniAY.
The University Hold* the itui>t«D*
Down Till the Sixth Inning.
Charlotte, N. C., April I.—The Uni
versity of North Carolina team held the
Bostons down nicely till the sixth when
Stivetts was put in the box and the boys
became rattled. Score: |BteS *1
Boston 2 0 0 2 0 2 5 #-17
U. of N. C. 1 0 11 0 0 0 o—3
Batteries: Wilson, Nichols, Stivetts and
Danziel, Stephens and Oldham.
Atlanta, Ga , April I.—The Orioles
defeated tho Atlantas to-day. X They
were in fine trim. Score:
Atlanta, 000100000 1
Baltimore 21012 131 1-22
Batteries Schmidt aud Armstrong;
Kissinger, Hotter and Clark.
Charleston, S. C., April I.—Pitts
burg and Washington played here to
day. The game was not distinguished
for its brilliancy. Score:
Pittsburg, - 2000 06 2 0 x—lo
Washington, 102021 10 0— 7
Batteries: Jordan, Hart and Sugden;
Stockdale, Mercer and McGuire, %
Portsmouth, Va., April I.—The
Portsmouth league team met the Phila
delphia club of the National League at
league Park this afternoon and consid
ering the fact that the Phillies are
composed of the heaviest batters in the
league, the result was a decided victory
for Portsmouth. Tho day was all that
could be desired and a fair crowd wit
nessed the game.
In the ninth inning, with two men on
bases, Leach, of the home team, smash
ed the ball over the left field fence and
all three came home. Score:
Portsmouth, 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 3 3—lo
Philadelphia, 152 0 11 0 7 o—l7
Batteries: Mulligan. Brant and Vet
ter; Weyhing, Johnson, Clements and
Buckley.
Augusta, April l.—A fair sized and
very appreciative crowd witnessed a
closely contested aud interesting game
of baseball between the two teams of
the Brooklyn club to-day. Score :
Regulars 0002 0 11 1 o—s
Colts 21010102 x—7
Norfolk, Va., April I.—The baseball
enthusiasts, the fellows who yell for
Norfolk, were not pleased wii h the game
at the park this afterncon and believe
that inferior work lost the game to Lan
caster, rather than the brilliant playing
by the visitors. The audience was not
so large as usual. The Norfolk tried
Salmon, a new’ man to day, manage
ment holding back their strong man to
contend with the Quaker boys to-mor
row. Score:
Lancaster 4 0 0 3 0 1 0 o—B
Norfolk 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 2—7
Batteries: Yeager, Yerkesand Arthur;
Palmer, Salmon, Bernard, Tenley and
Geier.
MONUMENT TO STUART.
The City ol Richmond Gives 910,5C0
lor the Purchase of a Site.
Richmond, April I.—The city council
to-night set apart $10,500 to purchase a
site for a monument to General J. E. B,
Stuart, the great Confederate cavalry
leader. The site is on Broad street, in
the centre of the retail district.
When Stuart was killed the couucil
committed the city to the erection of a
monument to him, and the matter has
been recently revived. It is thought
that the Stuart Monument Association
will now press the matter of collecting
furds for an equestrian statue.
Sun’s Cotton Report.
New York, April 1.- Cotton roses
to 6 points, but reacted later and closed
barely steady with early months 1 to 2
points lower and some of the next crop
mouths Ito 2 points higher. May was
1 point below July and August instead
of bcirg at a premium of 2 to 3 points
as heretofore, aud it was only 1 point
above June.
There is a movement on toot to have
the New York Cotton Exchange closed
on Friday and the day following. This
is usually done, because Liverpool al
ways clo-es on Good Friday. Silver ad
vanced 1 2d in London and then lost
pa* tof the improvement. It was l 12c
higher hero.
Fall River did a large business last
week, the sales of print cloths being
370,000 pieces. Here iu New York the
cotton goods market is in a much better
position than recently. Liberal sales of
brown sheetings and drills have been re
ported. The signs in the industrial
world generally are more favorable.
Liverpool advanced 1 1-2 to 3 points for
futures and 132 don ihe spot with sales
of 12,000 bales. Spot cotton here was
dull and unchanged.
Iu Manchester yarns were quiet and
firm and cloths quiet. Port receipts to
day 18,818, against 17,967 this day last
week aud 8,195 last year. Exports from
the ports were 7,219 to Great Britain
and 12,436 to the continent.
The Southern spot markets were gen
©rally quiet, firm and unchanged. Nor
folk aud Augusta advanced 1 6 cent and
Baltimore 1-8 cent. New Orleans ad
vareed 8 to 6 points, but lost most of it.
Estimated receipts there tomorrow
8,000 to 9,000. Bombay receipts forth©
week were 26,000 bales, against 22,000
for the same time last year.
Today’s features: I.oug liquidation of
May aud August carried prices down a
little today in the later trading, though
early in the sessiou there was a further
advance, owing to a rise in Liverpool, a
further advance in silver, favorable ad
vices from Manchester, and an esti
mated reduction in the acreage in Lou
isiana during the coming season of
about twenty five per eeut.
Many are not surprised at the reac
tion ted iy, who, nevertheless, believe
that the general tendency of cotton is
upward.