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01 EBMM BEAD.
Massachusetts' Chief Executive Ex
pired at His Heme in Lowell.
HE SUCCUMBED TO PARALYSIS.
A Bnsy Life Braasht to a dese Three
Ximei lilectel C'liicf Execntivo of the
5ay State C'srpr nn a. Lawyer antl
t T.-'liidan -Kosa tn Eminence In the
Law and Held ?t.ny Offices. I
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1.0.'''?., "a.;S., Z?$"zr.Tv. jCii.Oi. Ijred
eri k T Greenhi.dled shortly before I
o'ekfk a. m. at his residence In this city.
TT? r caineJ unconscious throughout the day
nn J his death had been expected mo
mentarily, lie suffered a second stroke of
rnraiyeis.it 11.30 p. ni. and sank rapidly un
til 12.11, -when, ho die J. Governor Green
halge, of Massachusetts, was suddenly
stricken with paralysis at Boston ten days
before his dc:.th. lie was at once removed
to his homo at Lowell.
!T-,q. Frederick T. Greenhalgi was born at
Jv.iOnter. England. Ji'Jy 19, 1542. Twelve
Y; iirs later his parents moved to Lowell,
VriL-.--., where iho yo:;ng man entered tho
public ."v-'acl"? iiti l won for himself even in
his youth a good r.am-s as a public speaker,
la 3 839 ha entered Harvard College, and re
fine I ther-i until ihn death of his father,
whu ho took upon himself the burdens of
' -.'.ring for ta' tumily without having been
cao.
ioI for a living he studied law. In lSbJ
h! uterO't too array, a:n aj tuuuwicu
iri'h Ve CoiTirr.i-;arv- Department at New
i: tw, N. C. In ISC5 he was admitted to
j'r -li'-eat the bar of Middlesex County,
i V I throe years iater he becran his career
3 a public" uja--, serving in the succeeding
two vears in liia Co nrnon Council of Low-
;) "in 1571 bo was elected a member of
i lii j S-hool Board. Tlv n, in 1830 and 1831,
ho was elected Mayor of Lowell, and fol
lowed this up by Leing . elected to rcpre
.fut his (liri-t in Congress iu 18S8. Ho
w.is defeatel for a .second term. Until
ISy: he did work fur the Republican
i,:vrtv -without sookiag office for himself, and
, then" be was nominated lor Governor of
"u"asachnsett, ar.d f leeted by a largo ma-
nty.
This majority he increased during
OOVERSOK FREDERICK T. OftEENHALGE.
the two succeeding campaigns, and at his
la;t election he carried Massachusetts by a
larger majority than had been known since
the war.
Harvard gave him his degree of B. A. in
1S7. just the ea-r.e. and at the last reunion
of the class of '63 at Parker's F. T. Green
halge was in the cnair. lie and E. L. Ste
vens, who died in the Civil War, were the
trro most notable debaters in '.he class. The
iraditions of the institute of 1870 are filled
with bcuts which Greenhalge had with other
members of the society.
The history of Governor Greenhalge's ad
ministration" contains some elements of ex
ceptional interest, and which served to give
it a distinctly courageous and disinterested
character, but perhaps the most portentous
thing in it, in view of what has now hap
pened, is the fact that the Governor's en
gagements averaged 3L'0 a year; they
reached so hisrh a flcure as 350 the first
year that he was in office. In a idition to
Lis public extra-official appearances within
the commonwealth Governor Greenhalge
represented the State at Chattanooga in Sep
tember and at Atlanta In November, 1895: he
cave an address on John Winthrop before
the New England Society at Brooklyn, N. Y.,
in 1331, bavins previously delivered a poli
tical address before the Lincoln Club at Del
monico's in N-w York City.
There is a pntnetic significance In the fact
that the last official act of Governor Green
halge was his message to the Legislature
-n the 24th of February, annouueing the
death of ex-Governor Bobinson.
Mr. Greenhalge was married in 1872 to
Isabel Nesrnith, whose father, John Ne
rnith, was Lieutenant-Governor of Massa
chusetts 'n 1862. II- aud three children.
Frederick B., Harriet Nesrnith and Richard
-paulding.
Fort.r-one Years In Prion,
The heaviest term of Imprisonment, ex-
-ept for murder, that was ever imposed
n a criminal in Kings County was pro
nounced In the new County Court in Brook
lyn, N. Y., when Judsce Aspinall sent Rich-
"rd Johnson, alias Henry Smith, a colored
iuan, to Sing Sing for forty-ono years.
He had been convicted of both burglary in
lie second degree ani grand larceny in the
ilrst degree, in each instance a second
offence, Johnson is twenty-eight years old,
f-ingle. He was born in Richmond, Va.
American Flag Tubllcly Burned.
There have boon renewed disturbances In
Madrid, Spaim, and demonstrations of popu
lar anger against the United States Govern
ment. The students of the university seem
to have been the offenders or the leaders in
the demonsrrat ion. They assembled before the
Madrid University and there publicly burned
an American flag. The podce dispersed the
meeting after making several arrests. As a
result the Ca iat Council decided to tem
.porarily close tho universities.
Disaster in a Prussian Mine. '
An explosion, followed by fire, occurred in
the Cleophas mine at Kaltowitz, Prussian
Silesia. The rescuing party eucoeoied in
saving eighty of the entombed miners, but
they brought to the surface twenty-seven
corpses, leaving thirty-three of the miners
Bank Fresideut Murdered.
As a result of a feud of long standing W.
M. Purdue, an attorney, shot and killed John
R. Jones, President of the Memphis (Texas)
National Bank, and daagerously wounded
his eon, Nat. Purdue was arrested.
Italy AriVes in Tf rath.
The Italian loss at Adowa, Abyssinia, is
now admitted to be 5030. The whole king
dom Eeerr.3 to have arisen in wrath, blaming
ths Government for tho defeat.
Where Money i Clieap.
The contiuued cheapness of money in Lon
d .u amazes financial experts.
THE LABOR WORLD.
The brotherhood of Carpenters has a mem
bership of 60.003.
Diamond Workers Union withdrew from
the Central Labor Union.
Metri! Polishers and Rafters' Union Joined
the Euildiog Trade Sertioa.
Thero are S-OO surface railroad employes
in New York City. They have no union.
Brooklyn stair builders applied to the
Brotherhood of Carpenters for a charter.
Central labor bodies were organized In
Newtmrg Youkers and Peekskill in Ne7
York.
Franklin Association of Pressmen and
Feedei-3 of New l'ork Oitv intend to quit the
K. ol L. " J
German painters held a meeting In New
York City, and advocated a State Bsfety scaf
folding bill. '
iUIiographefs were successful In their gen-
eral etrik tor increased wacres in St. Loul, !
Boston, Chicago and Rochester.
A demand for an eight-hour work day will
be made Hay I throughout the country by
the Brotherhood of Carpenters Unions.
The Shlrtmakers' Union is faying to devise
measures to stop the practice o employers
running away with wages dus its members.
A strike of 5000 members of the Garment
Workers' Union took place 'n Baltimore.
Tho strikers refused to wsrk alongside
Knights of Labor tailor?.
A movement was set on foot to organize a
new oranizaton of carpentd rs, which will
have no affiliation with the Ex.ight3 of Labor
or the American Federation.
The American Federation of Labof boy
cotted more than fifty manufasturers in var
ious businesses, and nlso two weekly news
papers and oca monthly, in Boston.
The 150 employe? of Hallahan's shoe fac
tors, in Philadelphia, wero last week given
an "unsolicited advanca of ten percent, in
their wage?. As no reduction had been made
during the hard times the increase is a genu
ine advance.
General Secretary T. J. Elderkin, cf the
National Seamen's Union, has issued a circu
lar calling upon all organizations of marine
firemen, ship carpenters, calkers, engineers,
pilots, risreers and sailmakers to join the
National Union.
The siceess of the uniformity agreement
in the Pittsburg coal district is assured. At
tho second dsy's session of the railroad ship
pers over forty operators, reprefentins sev
enty per cent of the entire tonD age, affixed
their signatures to the agreement.
Foreign window glns3 has been almost
completely shut out of the United States.
The latest reports show a rapid falling
off iu imported glass, and during the last
few months imports have been lower than
ever before in the history of the trade.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
General Joubert, commander of the Boer
army, receives a salary of $15,000 a year.
"Mark Twain." having had a very success
ful tour tn Australia and New Zealand, Is
now in India.
Professor von Hoist, the aged historian, Is
about to go to Germany to ward off a threat
ened attack of nervous prostration.
Dr. Floto, of San Francisco, who is ninety
four years old, 13 still in the active practice
f his profession. He believes that he is the
oldest practising physician in the country.
Sir Edwin Arnold boasts that ho has writ
ten more than 8000 editorial leaders, aver
' aging over a column in length, in the course
of his work for the London Daily Telegraph.
! President Faure, of France, has a fax? of
teaching the bicycle to all of his visitors.
: King George of Greece and the King of Por
. tugal are among M. Faure's most promising
; pupils. ,
Among the celebrities now on exhibition
at Mme. Tussaud's In London are Alfred
Austin, the late Prince Henry of Batten
berg, Grover Cleveland, Dr. Jameson, Mr.
P.hodes and President Kruger.
The American artist, W. M. Chase, has sold
out his studio and ejects in Nw York, and
sailed for Europe with his family and a party
of students. He proposes to locato in Mad
rid, and open a school of Spanish art. .
Count Leon Henckel von Donnersmarck,
who died recently in Germany, was the last
living descendant of Goethe, of whom he
possessed many valuable relics. One was a
golden laurel crown set with emeralds.
The late Max Lebaudy, who died while
serving as a private in the French army, was
worth "$6,0LO,000 and would have inherited
1 20 000,000 more had he survived his mother.
His'pay in the army wa3 one cent a day.
Dr. Peters, who was recently elected Presi
dent of the Berlin branch of the German Col
onial Association, is an advocate of the
Greater Germany" doctrine, and of a pow
erful navy. He is classed as an Anglophobe.
Rechad Effendi, brother of theSul'an, and
prospective heir to the throne of Purkej', is
kept a prisoner by Abdul Hamid. He is per
mitted to rend neither books nor newspapers.
Rechad is fifty years of age, tall and well
proportioned, and resembles the Sultan in
face.
NEWSY CLEANINGS. ,
Memorial Day falls this year on Saturday
Anarchists are organizing in San Fran
cisco. Yellow fever Is now raging at Rio de Jan
eiro, Brazil.
In tho Dakotas people are now using po
tatoes for fuel.
The Hudson River ice crop, it is feared,
will be a failure.
Boston is going to send a team of athletes
to compete at the Olympian games at Athens,
Greece.
Abel Campbell, of Morristown. Vt., has an
order for 1003 live skunks from Montreal,
Canada.
A "curfew" bill has been introduced in the
Iowa Legislature by a man appropriately
named Bell.
An international exposition will be held In
MontrealCanada, from May 24 to October
12 of this year.
By a vote of 49 to 44 the Iowa Senate has
defeated a resolution to give women the right
to vote at all elections.
The mills and factories established in this
country by the Salvation Army gives em
ployment to 10,700 persons.
France gives 570,000, by vote ot tne t,nam
I'rencn Amo.tssaaor w oi. xu.
French
sia, is to give in honor of the Czac's corona
tion. , . ,
Ten years ago Japanese ports had hardly
any trade compared with the Chinese. To
day that of Yokohama far suspasses. and
that of Hiogo almost equals, the aggregate
values of five Chinese ports.
It Is said that a firm in Montana has con
tracted to ship to Germany 2.500,000 bushel3
oi barley, and if the venture pays the men
in the deal they will arrange to ship a much
larger consignment of Minnesota barley.
Miss Annie Scott, a student at the Central
Normal College at Great Bend, Kan., has
been appointed Clerk of the Venezuelan
Commission. She is a niece of Justice
Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court.
Spring is already well advanced in Curry
Countv. Oresronwhich is in about the same
i3itTi(?fl a New York. Wild flowers are in
bloom, trees and brush are in leaf, cherry
showine blossom?, and miles of
cnlmriTi. berrv bushes are in fuU bloom.
-Riittftrenns are showing in the sheltered
valleys, too.
The horse meat factory at Portland, Ore
1 whieh was receutlv established with
good prospects of supplying tUe large foreign
demand, has closed. Tho managers say the
big Antwerp trade was ruined by Chicago
packers shipping flesh of deseased horses, so
that the Belgium, Government barred out
American horse meat. An effort was made
to open a market In Japan. but Tinsuccess-
fully. . .
THE FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
A Synopsis of tho Proceedings of Both
Houses.
THE SENATE.
MONDAY.
In tho Senate Monday a conference was or
dered on the army appropriation bill.
The President's -cto message on the bill
for leasing school lands in Arizona was pres
ented end read; and the bill and veto meg
sage was referred, to the committee on publio
lands.
The Senate, then, fey unanimous consent,
proceeded to the consideration of bills on tho
calendar unobjected to, and passed, among
others, the 8enate bill authorising the Secre
tary of the Navy to enlist additional men for
service in tho United States Navy.
The remainder of the day was consrcd
In tho passage ot bills oa-.ire -calendar that
sr tei objected "to,"ihe most Important be
Aig one to promote the efficiency of the rev
enue cutter service by establishing a perma
nent retired on three-fourths pay and the
omnibus bridge bill, regulating the construc
tion of bridges over the Mississippi and Mis
souri rivers.
The Cuban resolutions, as pissed by the
House were laid before the 8nate and re
ferred to the committee on foreign rela
tions. TCESDAT.
In the Senate on Tuesday a bill was re
ported frc in the select committee on the in
ternational exposition, and was passed,
authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to
distribute medals and diplomas awarded to
exhibitors at the World's Columbian Ex
position, not yet distributed, and appro
priating $15,000 to defray expenses.
The conference report on the, army ap
propriation bill was pro; ented and agreed to.
A bill entitled 4,to protect the Treasury
Department and for other purposes" was in
troduced by Mr. Allen and referred to the
committee on finance. It provides for the
retirement of all national bank notes ami the
substitution therefor of United States legal
tender notes to be issued by the Treasury to
the banks the bonds now deposited as se
curity for the redemption of national bank
notes to be retained in the Treasury as se
curity for these legal tender notes.
Mr. Chandler, from the committee on
privileges antl elections, reported a resolu
tion for the appointment, by the President of
the Senate, of a 6elect committee of five
Senators to inquire into the facts and cir
cumstances of the. election in the State of
Alabama on tho first Monday in October,
1895, which election resulted in setting up a
government and Legislature, which Legisla
ture elected a United States Senator, and
especially whether such selection of a State
government was accomplished by false and
fictitious returns or other dishonest methods,
or by violent practices the committee to
have authority to send for porsons and
papers.
The agricultural appropriation bill was
then taken up. It carries appropriations to
the aggregate amount of $3,262,652. It was
passed with very little opposition or discus
sion, and is the regular appropriation bill
that has passed both Houses. .The only other
aDDroDriatiou bill that has been received
from the House is that for the Indian De
partment, and that is now in the hands of the
committee on appropriations.
A message was received from the House
withdrawing the House Cuban concurrent
resolutions of yesterday, and announcing the
passage of the Senate Cuban concurrent res
olutions with a substitute the substitute be
ing the House Cuban resolutions. They
were referred to the committee on foreign
relations.
Tho Senate bill appropriating 25,000 foi
a statute of General Nathaniel Greene on the
battlefield of Guilford Court House, N. C,
was reported from the library commiV
tee, and placed on the calendar.
WEDNESDAY.
The Senate entered Wednesda y on the con
sideration of the question whether Henry A.
Dupont has been or not legally elected United
Btates Senator from the State of Delaware.
No action was taken.
The Senate disagreed to the House substi
tute for the Senate concurrent resolution as
to Cul a, and a conference with the House
was requested the Senate conferees hems;
Senators Sherman, Morgan and Lofc all
members of the committee on fore gn rela
tions. Among the measures passed by the Senate
were: Senate bill to provide for sub-ports
of entry and delivery in the State of Florida;
Senate joint resolution directing the Secre
tary of War to furnish an estimate for deep
ening the channel from Hampton Roads to
tho Navy Yard at Norfolk, . Va., and also
improving tho western branch of the
Elizabeth river: Senate bill granting a
pension of 75 a month to tho widow of
ex-Senator Spencer, of Alabama, as brigadier
general; Senate bill for the relief of St.
Charles College, Missouri, for use, occupa
tion and damages by L"nited States troops
during the civil war. Also Senate bill re
pealing the law which requires the Southern
district judge of Florida to reside at Key
West, Fla.
THVCESDAY.
The Senate on Thursday passed some 25
bills on the calendar that were unobjected
to. Among them was Senate bill to pay
i?4S,853 to the heirs of tho late John Roach
for labor and material on the United States
trunboat Dolphin.
Also the House bill to incorporate the
Supreme Council of the 33rd degree cf
Scottish rite Masonry for tho Southern juris
diction of the United States. Six persons
named in tho bill are inoorporporated and
made a body poiitic and corporated in the
District of Columbia bv the name of the
Ruoreme Council fMother Council of the
World') of the inspectors general knights
commanders of the House of the Temple of
Solomon of the Thirty-third decree of the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish rite of Free
Masonry of the Southern jurisdiction ot tne
United States ol America.
The conferenco report on the Cuban re
solutions was presented by Mr. "Sherman,
chairman of the committee on foreign re
lationsthe report being that the Senate
recede from its disagreement to the House
resolutions and axree to them as a substitute
for its own resolution. The report was made
the special ordfr for Monday at 2 o clock
FEIDAY.
In the Senate on Friday the Revenue Bill
was passed. The racueal change in the man
ner of compensating revenue officers goes
Into effect June 30th.
THE HOUSE.
MONDAY.
In the House on Monday the rules were
suspended, the Senate joint resolution was
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cedincr years.
Mr. Hitt. of Illinois, chairman of the for
eign affairs committee, then called up the
Senate Cuban resolutions and moved to sus
pend the rules and pass resolutions reported
bv th9 House foreign affairs committee, in
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lieu ot tne senate resolutions, x ub resolu
tions were adopted by a vote of 263 to 17.
TCESDAY
Tuesday's session of the House was almost
wholly devoted to a discusion of tho amend
ment proposed to the legislative, executive
and judicial appropriation bill, to make the
offices of district attorney and United States
marshal salaried ones instead of paying tho
incumbents bv fees. It was advocated by
several members, and opposed by none." The
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matter will to rurtherccnsKierea emesaay
imdor thn five-minute- rule, when amend-
under tho flve-niinute- rule, when amend'
meDts will be in order.
A mistake having been made in the mes
sage conveying the Cuban resolutions passed
yesterday to the Senate, whereby they were
described as House concurrent resolutions,
instead of a substitute for the Senate resolu
tions, a resolution was adopted asking a re
turn of them in order to make tho necessary
correction. They were shortly returned, in
accordance with the request.
Senate amendments to the House bill reg
ulating anchorage of vessels in St. Mary's
channel were agreed to.
WEDNESDAY. .
After passing a few relatively unimportant
bills the House spent the rest of Wednsday's
cession iu the consideration, in committee of -i
tne whofe, of the fee and salary amendment
to the legislative, executive and judicial ap
propriation bill. No changes were made in
the schedule, save in two instances.
A message was received from tho Senate
announcing the disagreement of that body
lo tho substitute of the H use for the Cuban
resolutions and asking a conference IhereoD,
but no action was taken on it.
The order for the printing of the report ot
Nicaragua Canal commission, made February
19tb, was amended so as to exclude the print
ing of the accompanying papers and maps.
The conference report ou the army appro
priation bill was agreed to.
- THCnSDAY.
Is the House on Thursday the bill making
the national military parks public fields for
military manoeuvre and drill by tho regular
and State militia, under regulations fixed by
the Secretary of War, was pas-scd". Also a
K 1 appropriating $96,000 for the reconstruc
cf the hridgo over the. Mississippi river at
Book Island, 111.
Most of the day was spent In further dis
cussion of the fee and salary amendment to
the legislative, executive and judicial appro
priation bill, raostcf the time upon the sec-.
tion llxug salaries of district marshals. But
one change was made In the schedule pro
posed by the committee on the judiciary,
that of the marshal for the eastern district of
Michigan being increased from $3,000 to ?4,
000. Mr. Dingley secured an amendment re
ducing the general maximum compensation
of the field deputies from 62,500 to $1,500,
with authority to the Attorney General to
pay ?2,500 in certain special cases.
FBI DAT.
After seven .days' consideration, four of
wnicn were devoted to the fee and salary
amendment, the House Friday passed the
legislative, executive and judicial appropria
tion bill.
The postoffice appropriation bill next was
taken up and discussed ntil the hour of
recess. Besides discussing these two bills,
the House passed tho House bill requirkg
pension agents to mako all payments by
check; and agreed to the Senate amendments
to the House bill makiDg seven years' con
tinued and unexplained absence sufficient
proof of a soldier's death in cases of applica
tion for pensions.
8ATUBDAY.
The House Saturday, in committee of the
whole, continued its consideration of the
postoffice appropriation bill.
Before going into committee of the whole,
the House passed a 'Senate bill authorizing
t ho Secretary of the Treasury to distribute
the diplomas and medals awarded exhibitors
at the Columbian World's Exposition and
the House bill incorporating the Grand
Lodge of Masons of Jntiian Territory.
The Senate amendments to the agricultural
appropriation bill', with two exceptions,
were non-concurred in and a .conference or
dered. Tho two amendments authorize the
immediate publication of 75,000 copies of
"Diseases of the Horse" and 60.000 capies of
"Diseases of Cattle and Cattle-Feeding."
By a vote of 117 to 106, the House refused
t concur in a Senate amendment authorizing
the publication of 25.000 copies of "Cattle
and Dairy Farming."
THE TUSKEGEE CONFERENCE.1
A Negro Association AVith Principles
n rrd K.nnnnh TTop Anvhodv. i
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The fifth Annual session of the Tuskegee
Negro conference' was held at Tuskegee,
Ala. There were oyer six hundred people
present and fifteen States represented, eight
Southern and seven Northern. The meeting
wps presided over by Booker T. Washington.
The following declaration was unanimously
adopted:
1. We are more and more convinced as we
gather in these annual conferences that we
shall secure our rightful place as citizens in
proportion as we possess Christian character,
education and property. To this end we
urge parents to exercise rigid care in the
control of their children, the doing away
with tho one room cabin and the mortgage
habit: we urce the purchases of land, im
proved methods of farming, diversified cr ps,
attention to stock raising, dairying, fruit
growing and more interest in learning the
trades, now too much neglected.
2. We urge that a larger portion ot our
colletro educated men and women give the
benefit of their education, alone Industrial
lines, and that more educated ministers and
teachers settle In the country districts.
3. As in most places the public schools are
in session only three or four months during
vear. wo urge the people, by every means
possible- to supplement this time by at least
three or four additional months each year
that no sacrifice be com idered too great to
keep the children in school, and that only the
ln'St teachers be employed.
4. Wo note with pleasure the organization
of other conferences and we advise that the
number be still more largely increased. As
we look back over the five annual sessions of
th'B conference we arei oavlEO ;d that marked
improvement has been made among the
masses, in eettluar rid of the one room cabi
net, in the purchaso of land, in greater econ
omy, in getting out of debt, in the raising
more food supplies, in the more considerate
treatment of women, a greater desire for
higher education, a higher standard of mor
a'.s and a widespread and intense purpose to
get into better conditions.
NEW STAR IN OLD GLORY.
A. Re-Arrangement of the Stars of the
Flag.
With the approval of the President, publi
city was given to the design agreed on be
tween Secretary Lamont ai.d Secretary Her
bert for the arrangement of the forty-five
stars in the national flag, made necessary by
the admission of Utah to the statehood. The
new arrangement will be officially inaugura
in the army and navy on July 4 next. Under
the present arrangement the stars are in six
rows, the upper and lower rows of eight
tars each, and the other rows ot seven stars
?ach. The design agreed on by Secretaries
Lament and Herbert also arranged the stars
in six rows, the first, third and fifth of eight
stars, and the second, fourth and sixth of
seven stars each. No new arrangement will
be necessary through the admission of new ,
States as additional stars can Deaaaea to mo
second, fourth and sixth rows without dis
turbing the uniformity of the design.
Heretofore the Navy Department nas not
conformed strictlv to any official design in
the arrangement of the field, but the design
prepared by Secretaries Limoni anu xicr
oert will be adherred to in all national flags.
The Southern States Exposltfon Com
pany Incorporate.
The articles of Incorporation of the South
ern States Exposition Company, which is to
manage the local end of the exposition of
Southern resources and manufactures in
Chicago next fall, were filed in the office of
the'.Secretary of State in Springfield, The
Authorised capital stock ' Is $100,000 and the
subscriptions to this amount have been prac
tically guaranteed Dy tne leading uusidbs
men, bankers and capitalists. The capital
BtOC
ek may be increased as necessity requires.
.L.r.i.m V.AixAn Walker F. F
Lawrence, A F. Seeberger and Malcolm t.
XeilL
rhe Half-Hanged Whitecap ' Who
Escaped Has Surrendered.
Will Purvis, the Marion county, Miss.,
whitecap who was hanged two years ago, but
who through the connivance of tho sheriff
slipped the noose and escaped death, and
who was re-sentenced to hang and was res
:ued from jail several months after and but a
day or two before he was again to mount tho
scaffold, has surrendered to the sheriff. It
Is believed that Governor McLaurin will
commute his sentence to life imprisonment
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
HE FINDS GREAT COMFORT TS
niS LITTLE GRANDCHILD.
Strikes at Mothers Who Are Absorbed
In Fashions and Follies.
I was ruminating abont the cost of
raising a child. My wife and my
daughter have been busy for a week
fixing up ehort clothes for he littlo
girl, and I wondered what -was tho
matter. "We are just making up somo
spring dresses for Caroline," they said.
"How many will it take?" said L
"Well, we will have to have fourteen
to start on," said my -wif, "one for
each day and seven of them will have
to go out in the wash, you know, every
Monday." "How many other, gar
ments?" said I. "Well, there are
seven white skirts and four flannels
and some little shorts, you know, but
everything is so cheap now that her
clothing doesn't cost much. These
nice little dresses with lace trimmings
and all only cost about 50 cents apiece
for all the material, and we do the work
at home." Caroline is our grandchild
and lives in the house with us and gives
us lots of comfort. She loves me and
I love her dearly, and had rather
nurse her and frolic with her than go to
town and exohange wit and wisdom with
the ilterati and the loafers. An old
man and a little child fit mighty well
together. It is nature's compromise.
I am old and wrinkled and gray, but
this little child will put out her hands
to come to me whenever I come in the
room, xnat natters me, oi course,
though her grandmother says it is just
because I walk about with her and that
I spoil her and make it harder for any
body else to nurse her. fohe is cutting
more teeth now and is just getting
over the" whooping cough and needs
more nursing, and when 6be puts out
her arms to me I'm going to take her
and walk about with her if the world
comes to an end. I've got a little
soothing song that I've been singing
to our children for forty years and I
can get them to sleep when nobody
else can. The measles are all over the
town now and she has got to have
Ihem. Her little cousins have been
here kissing her and now they have
broken out, but that's all right. I
don't believe in hiding a child from
the measles.
It is a right big thing to raise a
child, and especially ten of them. It
is the biggest thing in this life. There
are things that the newspapers, and
society and congress make more fusi
about, but they won't compare with it
in importance nor in purity and love
and self-sacrifice. The innocence,
helplessness and affeotion of a child,
say from one to five years old, is the
most blessed and attractive thing in
the world. About three million babies
are born every year in the United
States, and it takes about six million
people to raise them up to walking and
talking time. Then another crop
comes on, and another and another.
The fact is that about half the people
in the civilized world are engaged in
raising the other half. And it is a la
bor of love. I speak from experience
when I say that the pleasure I
have derived from nursing, caring4for,
maintaining, pleasing and educate
ing our children has exceeded all that
"i have realized from all other sources.
And now that P am old and tired, I
had rather frolic ywith a grandchild
than do anything else. Of course
there are some outsiders who care
nothing about these things. There
are some selfish mothers who are ab
sorbed in society and iis fashions and
follies who turn their children off to
be nursed, and there are some old
bachelors who don't want to be both
ered with them and some"business men
who think that making money is a bigger
thing, and hardly have time to get ac
quainted with their children, and there
are a big lot of thieves, burglars, rob
bers, drunkards and convicts who care
nothiner for children, but, neverthe
less, the masses of the people get mar
ried and become engaged in raising
children and this is the natural thing
to do and brings more happineFS than
can be found in any other state or
condition. My wife and my daughter
with her first child are happier rip;ht
now in working for that little child
than they would be in any other occu
pation, and so am I. I wouldn't write
u line for a newspaper if I wasn't ob
liged to. I would work in the garden
a,ud among the flowers, for that is the
next best thing and keeps me in good
health.
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eqa pa uiooi iviH v aF suinoui J'7J
ioj tmq; Aq oqs pan 'ioq ipis u ;o
9jwd ojibi o puoTj oj:go poijjuq 9TZ
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oj o3 n! es "J Avotl l)Qy nvc
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8S9 em jsoo eq eqs pa &oiq Jq no
eiuiJAY XrpjBq pun pq oisBro
no Jiq ?ou ei ojaqj, vfsdojp
pu pus eraooaq jo 'qsarj vo ao vm
peutd eeq eqa jvqj qqi J,uP I
si ?i" jt jsqAi ssdnidduq sSatiq i Ji ?nq
'Sfuuvi 2 ieo 63iioi mo5 'raaqi ic
jaijoM. ut Actdq uaeq suq sjb?X a
')ioj joj pu ';oaii9ai poiata oq?.
psq gqs ;ng uaq pat jmm j uaq uaa;
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xia ajuo sii puu laq panojB b spiBtu
pa JOA 0 pastoj
xuMi. H y 4 y i i -
,usbj. eqa 1h J Ji-'L,isu'-' iujwf"v
sbai H aaipiiqo aaq joj jeoiu joiom
eiouipip oqav 29qtouiBGBj j3A3n oiaqx
1v pus B3atoo;9 'ejauuoq 'advo
sSutraraiJ 'eonj 'sjtBjd sjaSnrj iaq
qjtA u pip eqg 'pro satjaXiqSia bbav
pitqo ?8iu juo piuu eaiqouuT
pq i9A.au sai aoj 'puajqi puB erpaau
Asnq iaq dd x pas pueq uo oa;
pq aitbi3U88 ojm A"pj -qSuouaErjt
ABp qv sstm) p0 eqi ui Zap
AjdA9 pa2aBqo ?ou aaaA A"3TX V-bj
eqj joi pip SB uaipiiqo sig juo jo
tuaraiia iuBui s?b i ?,npip ?i jng
about that. An.l right now she i on
the lookout for a te'.ejrram from New
York or Ohio or Mexico or Florida.
where the boys are scattered, and if it
comes Ehe will want to take the first
train. What it will cost or where the
money will come from doesnotseem to
concern her. "If Carl gets down sick!
in Mexico I am coins: to him." she;
says, with as much assurance as if
every railroad belonged to her. Til
telegraph Mr. Eaoul for a pass," she
says. "He persauded Carl to go there
and he must take me to him if he get?
very wok. Mr. Baoul will make him ;
do it, I know, for she is a mother and j
hae a bov out there. Carl's life is
worth more than all the railroads in
the country." And she puts on an
autocratio and determined look that
alarms me and all I can do is to pray
the Lord that Carl may not get sick.
He is tu" baby boy, you know, and
mothers always cling a little closer to
tho last one. So did Jacob to Benja
min, and it is according to nature, I
reckon. He writes to her every -week
and his letters are always bright and
cheerful and loving. She files them
away in her stand Jiawer and ties
them up with tape, and every now and
then takes them out and reads them
again and takes comfort. Oh, if the
boys would all write such letters to
their good old mothers. What a world
of comfort there is iu them. Carl's
last letter tells us about ; Lis getting a
day off,-, and he and two Georgia
friends went out a hundred miles to
shoot ducks and killed 156 in a day,
mallards, teal, canvanbacks and spoon
bills, and he says, "If yon want to get
rid of old Grover, send him out here
to shoot ducks and ho will never gc
back any more, for it takes no boat,
and no blinds and no decoys." Bilx
Anr i Atlanta Constitution.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
Gov. Griggs of New Jersey, presid
ed at a big meeting in Newark to pro
test against Armenian atrocities.
Ninety-bodies have thus far been
taken from the Cleophas mine at Kat
towitz, Prussian Silesia, tho scene of
an explosion of fire damp.
Congressman Phillips, of Pennsyl
vania, introduced in the House at the
request of the executive council of the
American Federation of Labor, a bill
to restrict the jurisdiction of United
States courts in proceedings for con
tempt. It is rumored that Gen. Baratieri,
commanding the Italian forces in Aby
sinnia, hs committed suicide, being
unable to endnre the humilation of his
defeat by the Abyssinians, on March
1st, when 3,000 of his troops were
killed including two generals.
A Huntington, W.Va., dispatch says
that the county court house at Wayne
was burned Friday, entailing a loss of
more than $50,000. All the records
were saved. The building Was fully
covered by insurance.
Owing to the shortage of funds Chi
cago will probably tuin out the street
lights on nights when the moon is full.
Ihere is no money in the treasury ior
Btreet lighting.
A New York dispatch says A. Iselin,
Jr. , Frederick Cromwell, W. E. Iioose
well, and Edward N. Gibbs have been
appointed a committee to re-r rganize
the Memphis & Charleston Railroad
Company.
A street car at Memphip, Tenn
dashed from a bridge- and dived into
the water fifteen feet below. There
were thirteen passengers, several of
whom were fatally injured. The con
ductor and motorman of the car have
been arrested.
Nothing so completely tells the story
of the work of the Cubans to gain in
dependence than tho statement that
only 32 of the 361 important sugar fac
tories of the island of Uuba are run
ning. Their declaration to cut off the
government revenues and so strike a
vital spot in the contest is very near
true. The normal outj ut of Cuba, in
the sugar produot,is 1,500,000 and this
has been reduced to 100,000 tons. Ihe
insurrection in this phase alone has
acquired a magnitude that costs Spain
this vear at least $30,000,000 alone in
V 1
tax income.
TORTURED) TO DEATH.
The President Asked to Investigate the
Matter. .
Senator Call, of Florida, on Monday in
troduced the following resolution in the
Senate :
Resolved, by the Senate, That the Presi
dent of the United States be requested to
demand of the government of Spain a state
ment as to the truth of the charges made in
a letter published in the newspapers pur
porting to bo from M:. Gomez, late editor o
La Lucha. a newspaper published in Hava
na, that ho had been tortured while confined
in a dungeon iu tho bare ground for two
months in Ceuta, the penal colony of Spain,
to extort from him evidence against Julius
Sa::guilly, a naturalized citizen of the United
States, and subsequently killing the said
Gomez; also to insist on a full report of the
evidence and all the proceedings in the al
leged civil trial of Julius Sanguilly, in which
it is charged that the said Hantruilly
was condemned to imprisonment for life at
Ceuta on suspicion onlv and without evi
dence; also todemand the release of Chas.
MIchelson and Lorenz Belancourt, corres
pondents of the New York newspapers, who
are charged only with entering within the
insurgent lines to obtain information; also to
demand of Spain that all American citizens
who shall be captured by the Spanish forces
ghall be treated as prisoners of war, and be
accorded tumane treatment, and to inform
the Spanish government that the United
SU.tC3 will insist on this demand.
Mr. Call also sent to the clerk's desk and
had read a newspaper paragraph stating that
Juan Gualberto Gomez, ex-editor of La
Lucha, who bad" been arrested and sent to
Ceuta, Africa, for political re&fon?, had been
tortured to death because he would not mako
false charges against Sanguilly, an American
citizen.
After remarks by Mr. Call, the resolution
was referred to the committee oa foreign re
lations. "Yeast Do you give your dog any ex
ercise? Crimsonbeak Oh, yes; he goes
for a tramp nearly every day. Yonkers..
Rtntpsman.
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THE MARKETS.
srsw tokk oorrosr fxttukes.
Cotton, quiet; middling uplands, 1
middling gulf, 1. Futures, steady. Sales
10,600 bales.
March 7 1719 August. . .7.7 37S3
ApriL 7 29&80 Sept. 7 17$18
May 7 33ffi34 Oct .7 12U
June 7 35(239 Nov.... .7 07S03
July... 7 3733 Deo. .......7 10U
LIVERPOOL COTTOS HARKE.
Cotton; lower. Middling 4 19-32. Futures
steady. Sales 12,000, Including Ame. icon,
10,000.
March. 4 08 b July A Aug.. . 4 06 a
Mar A Apr, ...4 0703 Aug. A Sept..4 04 a
Apr & May. ..4 07 o Sept A Oct.... S 61 a
Mav A June. .4 07 s Oct A Nov u . .3 57 a
Jued;July...4CSb Nov A Deo... 85C57
CHICAGO OEATK AKD tBODDCE.
wheat Mar.... .65 May. .... tw
cobs Mar...... 2t May...... 80
oats Mar lbr May
21K
pork Mar. .
lard Mar. .
KiBs Mar. .
..0 70 May
..5 30 May...
507K May.......
.9 85
. 5 45
. 5 22h'
HOHK COTTOK
MA RESTS.
Oh- Col- Char
lotte. umblM. lton.
Good middling. 7 7-18
Strict middling 7$
Middling.... ........ 77-16
Strict low middling. .. .
Low middling
Middling fair
Fully middling. .
7K
7?r
7K
1
M
7
AT OTHEa FOISTS.
CoTTOif -Middling quotations: Augusta "easy,
7. Norfolk. easy, 1. Charleston,
steady, 7K- Boston, steady. 7. Savannah,
quiefc7 5-16. Baltimore, dull 7jtf. Philadel
phia, nuiet. Vi. Wilmington, nominal 7K
New Orleans, quiet, 7
BALEIOU COTTON MARXET.
Middling .7
Strict middling s 7J
Good middling 7f
RALEIOU TOBACCO MARKET.
Smokers. Common. Srtf1 5
" Good 5 8
Cutters, Common... . ....1C15
Good jufia
Fine 1820
Fillers, Common Green ...20(a.2S
Good CS s
Fine 4( 6
Wrappers, Common 6(o510
ttooa iu(gio
" Fine .., 20(o-30
Fancy ...35(8 51'
Market strong with good demand for all
grades. . - '
BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET
Flour Dull, Western superfine 2.552
2.70; do extra 32.95$3.30; family 3.60(3)
3.85; winter wheat patent frf.5nxa-4.ia
spring wheat, patent ro. ut4.uu; spring
wheat straight ?3.6U(a3.t)U,
Wheat Dull: spot and March 73K735f:
May 7373K; steamer' No. 2 red ;
Southern wheat by sample, 76(5)77; do on
grade, 71f7X- .
OoRX-Duii; spot 23?f,g33JS; juarcn, aaegp-
33: April 3i31X; May 34(S34;
steamer mixed, 32?-')32; Southern white
83(a34X; do yellow corn 33?4Ml.
Oats bteaay; ro. a wnite western it eia?
No. 2 mixed western do 253 26.
Bye steady; No. 2, 43(5i4 for near by
4546 for western.
Hay Easy; choice Timothy, ?l6.uul6.ou.
NAVAL STORES.
Wilmington, N. C Rosin firm,, strained,
1.25; good strained. 1.30; rpirits steady,
27. . Tar firm, at .60: crude turpentine
firm, hard , soft, 1.C0; virgin 1.90.
Cotton Seed Oil. Slack; crude 20(g
21; yellow prime 2425.
rice. I .
The rice market was steady at Charleston.
The quotations are: Prime 4a42f; Good
Z a ; Fair 8f a$; Common 2a3.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Country Butter Choice Tennessee 18a25c.
medium 12 to 15c. i
Cow Peas OOo and C5c. per bushel
rhe Explanation of a Transaction of
the Tobacco Trust.
The following explanation of the report
hat the American Tobacco Company has
issued or is about to issue a part or all of tho
f 2,000,000 of its Treasury stock, comes from
persons enjoying close relations with certain
ji the company s directors. It is that when
.ho company purchased certain plants
recently it did so partly for Cash and partly
for stock and borrowed the stock from seveial
arge holders, glvin them scrip in place of It.
It is said that the company now intends to
edeem the scrip by issuing stock for It.
New Deputy Comptroller of -the Cur
rency. ' - '
Mr. Oliver P. Tucker, Deputy Comptroller,
of the Currency, has resigned and has been
appointed bank examiner for the district of
Cincinnati, vice Madison Beets, ; national
bank examiner for the Cincinnati district,
resigned. Mr. George M. Coffin, of Charles-"
ton. S. C, has been appointed Deputy Comp
troller of Currency, to succeed Mr, Tucker.
A Lesson Misapplied.
It seems strange that a child' mind
should be Infallibly attracted to . thi
naughty rather than to the nice. A
year or bo ago I took Ethel and har
old to see the play of "Little LorC
Fauntleroy." I rashly fancied, that the
example of the little hero's gentlenesi
and goodness would have a fine effect
upon tny little relatives. The day af
ter the performance I overheard Ethe!
and Harold say "Bully for you," and
"Cheese It, Cully," with an alarminj
ease and frequency. "Where did yot
hear such expressions?" I cried, only tc
receive the answer, "Why, at 'Llttl
Lord Fauntleroy. Don't you rem em
ber? Dick, the bootblack, talked lik
that." ...i.
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