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A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTERESTS.
VOL. VII. NO. 47
MAXTON, N. C, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1893.
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UNCLE SAM'S REFUSE
fATK OF THE GOVERNMENT'S
WASTE PAPER.
Jjurning Secret Memoranda of State
Congressional Bills for Butter
Wrappers Public Documents
In Junk Sbops.
A WHOLE library of romance is
contained in the waste paper
of the Government, says Rene
"Bache in the Boston Tran
script. At the treasury trusted women
ere employed to do nothing else but go
over the contents of the department
scrap baskets. This task they perform
chiefly for the purpose of picking out
the money which now and then finds
its way into such receptacles. Quite
ofteu considerable sums have been dis
covered in this manner. On one occa
sion a package of signed warrants from
the office of the first Controller, repre
senting many thousands of dollars, was
come across among the refuse. -Where
such enormous quantities of cash in
different shapes are handled daily it is
not surprising that some of it should
be lost and should eventually reach the
place of deposit for all waifs and strays.
Money is most frequently found in
express wrappers which have contained
sums in paper notes and certificates
sent in for redemption by banks. The
remitter is obliged in every such case
to pay the charges both ways. Very
often, at the last moment, he will slip
into the parcel the amount in change
required for the return transportation.
As likely as not the coins drop between
the folds of the stiff brown paper en
velope and conceal themselves. They
are not discovered until the wrappers
are carefully torn to pieces in the waste
room. In some cases they are only
disclosed by tearing off the seals, be
neath which they have hidden them
selves away. The sealing wax is all re
moved from the scraps and burned, to
get rid of it. Love letters written by
treasury clerks of both sexes Jo one
another and carelessly thrown away sel
dom afford amusement to the sorters.
The Department of State always has
n good many secrets to keep. To 6ell
is torn-up and waste bits of paper to
the junk dealer without discrimination
would not do at alL Scraps might be
put together so as to reveal most eso
teric points in the policy of the admin
istration. Accordingly, all writings of
ft private nature that are to be de
si roved are burned in the open fire
place in Secretary Gresham's own
room. His confidential messenger su
perintends the operation. The materia
thus disposed of is mostly notes and
official memoranda representing impor
tant diplomatic and other documents
in the preliminary stages of their com
position. All other refuse scraps are
put into the furnace in the basement,
because nobody has been found to buy
the stuff. The Navy Department has
trouble to sell its waste paper at 47 J
cents per 100 pounds. Tho War De
partment get sixty-three cents per 100
pounds, because much of its refuse
paper is in the shape of trimmings
from the office of records. The "cards"
of heavy paper used for inscribing the
records of Boldiers are of the finest
linen substance. The sheets from
which they are cut come half an inch
bigger each way than is wanted, bo
that they may be trimmed perfectly
square for convenience in filing.
The two branches of the National Leg
islature throw away an immense quan
tity of paper. During a snort session the
doorkeeper of the House sells $600
worth of it, and the amount is doubled
in the long session. From this end of
the Capitol 100.000 pounds of re
fuse bills and laws are carted
away to the junk shops during each
Congress. They fetch from $1.25 to
1.40 per 100 pounds. All such docu
ments are kept for one year in the doc
ument room and are then disposed of.
xne nenate wastee aDout one-quarter
as many bills and laws, which are sold
in the same way by the sergeant-at-arms.
Until very recently the marked
men in Washington used to utilize
Congressional bills exclusively for the
purposo of wrapping butter. They
cost almost nothing ; the paper was
smooth and good, and there was less
objection to it than to any other printed
paper, because the printing was only
on one side and the lines were
far apart. Besides, people were inter
ested to read on their pats of butter at
breakfast sometimes fragments oi
rpeeches which had been made by able
ttatesrnen. One clever newspaper cor
respondent writes all of his dispatches
on the blank back pages of Senate and
House bills.
The Interior Department ptodncet
more waste paper than all the other
departments put together, on account
of its great size, including as it does
the pension office, the census bureau
and other branches. A room in the
main building is set Apart tor the re
ception of all such rubbish. Formerly
the messengers were accustomed to
dump among it the debris of lunches,
empty inkstands and all sorts of stuff
that reduced the value of the refuse as
a marketable article. At present a
watchman is appointed to inspect each
basketful deposited. The materia
fetches fifty-one cents per 100 pounds,
it is sola to a nrm in Jittsburg. Tak
ing the year around it averages in
quantity nearly thirty thousand
pounds a month. An odd story is told
of a j-oung woman in the land office,
who threw away an envelope contain
ing her pay for two weeks. She dis
carded it absentmindely, thinking that
she had taken out the money. On dis
covering her mistake she wa3 much
distressed. She did not know where
she had dropped the envelope, but a
colored servant had the gumption to
look in the waste paper room, and
there he found it after a search. An
other employe of the Interior Depart
ment, a man this time, on receiving
his pay envelope walked out to lunch
and mailed it in a box on the corner.
He recollected himself at once and got
the envelope back from the postman
when he came along.
The Postoffice Department gets 37J
cents per 100 pounds for its waste
paper. During the last administra
tion a number of opened letters were
found scattered about on the streets
in Alexandria, a few miles from Wash
ington. It was at first supposed that
there had been a mail robbery, and
there was much excitement. Investi
gation disclosed the fact that a junk
dealer in that town had a contract with
the Postmaster-Oeueral for purchasing
scraps. Among the latter were dead
letters, and of these some fell out of
the bags on their way through the
streets.
All dead letters are disposed of in
this manner when it is found impos
sible to deliver them. This rule, how
ever, does not apply to missives which
coutain immoral writings or pictures.
All such stuff is burned in the furnace.
Only the other day a cluster of nine
big and queer looking cocoons was
captured at the department and held
as unmailable. The cocoons were
woven upon a single large twig, which
had evidently been broken from o
tree. The cluster was fastened to a
lace curtain in the Dead Letter Office,
and after a few days each cocoon pro
duced a huge moth of gorgeous colors.
They were, all the same variety ap
parently, having a spread of about
four inches. Some of them made their
escape out of the window, while the
others were chloroformed and pre
served. The Government printing office pro
duces by far more waste paper than
does any of the departments. It uses
up twenty tons of new paper per diem.
Every day it packs up about four tons
of waste for sale to flraa in New York,
PUtshnrtr and Washington. The refuse
Is sortea into eigne graaes. me nrsi
and finest, which fetches 2 cents a
pound, is "ledger shaving" from blanks
and blank books. Other grades arc
white shavings from books, white shav
ings mized with colored, waste printed
paper, manilla clippings, brown wrap
pers, sweepings and cardboard cuttings.
It is worth mentioning, by the way,
that the bureau of engraving and
printing ia obliged to account to the
the treasury for every sheet of paper
furnished to it for printing notes and
other Government securities upon. All
sheets that axe torn or otherwise spoiled
must be returned for maceration, to
gether with dirty money. ,
Every Man to His Trade.
He is a skipper of a coasting
schooner, but he had a week off, and as
"dad was laid up with rheumatiz," he
turned to and helped out on tho plow
ing. He found it an altogether differ
ent job than plowing the briny. His
bitch wasVyoke of oxen with the old
mare on ahead, and this was a com
bination that he had never handled be
fore. However, with a boy to drive,
he pitched in heroically.
When the crash came, it was a de
moralizing one. One ox got his leg
over the chain, whirled around, and
slipped down- a side hill. The other
bx flopped over his mate with a crash,
and the mare was pulled down on hoi
, haunches and eat like Towzer on a door
step. When the captain went to the rescus
he was kicked about ten feet by one of
the prostrate, struggling oxen. The
panic was complete, and the captain
flew into the house as rapidly as wi&i
would allow. Here's how ho breatar
lessly sized up the difficulty to dad :
"Say, the larboard ox is on the star
board side, the main braco is bottom
Bide up, the rigging is all by the board,
and the old mare's gone down stern
foremost. What in tarnation are ye
going to do about it?" Lewieton (Me.)
JnnnuJ.
Tbtta-wt perfect whlspoHog gallery
fa the world is th 4o cf St. Pfcul'i
in London
POPULAR SCIENCE
The diamond, in a sufficient beat,
will burn like charcoal.
The will-o'-the-wisp is caused by de
cay of the vegetable matter.
A Frenchman is experimenting with
a phonograph upon the language of
hens.
A speck of gold weigbing the mil
lionth part of a grain may be easily
seen by the naked eye.
On a clear night an ordinary human
eye can discover about 1000 stars in
the northern hemisphere.
No fewer than 25,000 peach-shape
jelly fish were counted in a cubic foot
of phosphorescent water taken from
the sea on the English coast.
One heat unit equals 772 pounds, and
the heat that must be extracted from
one pound of water to convert it into
ice equals 109,624 foot pounds.
The crab when living near the ocean's
surface has well developed eyes ; in
deeper water only eyestalks are pres
ent no eyes, while in specimens from
still deeper water, the eyestalks have
joined, forming a pointed beak.
There is a gun in the British navy, n
twenty-two-ton Armstrong, which hurls
a solid shot a distance of twelve miles,
the highest point in the arc described
by the shot being 17,000 feet above the
earth's surface. The discharge of the
gun cannot be heard at the place where
the ball strikes.
Recent catalogues show that ento
mologists have found 363 species oi
spiders in the upper Cayuga (N. Y.)
Lake basin, 370 in the District of Co
lumbia and 340 in New England. Doc
tor George Marx has compiled a list of
202 species which have been found in
the polar regions of the adobe.
If a pound of coal is subject to a dry
distillation, and the products and resi
duals treated chemically by the pro
cesses for obtaining the well-known
coal tar colors, the one pound so treat
ed will yield enough magenta to color
500 yards of flannel, vermillion for
2500 yards, aurine for 120 yards, and
alizarine sufficient for 155 yards of red
cloth.
Kedamath Basu has observed that
under the influence of enlarged educa
tion and refinement, tattooing and the
use of red paint on the forehead and
crown are diminishing among the wo
men of Bengal. These fashions still
persist in the Northwest Provinces,
along with the insertion of thick and
heavy wooden plugs in the lower lobes
of their ears.
Electric currents were proved many
years ago to exist in plants ; and Kun
kel was led to think, by his experi
ments, that they were caused by ths
mechanical process of water-motion,
set up on application of the moist elec
trode. A new investigation of the sub
ject has been made by Herr Haaske,
and he concludes that it is unquestion
able that changes of matter of various
kinds are concerned in the production
of the electric currents, especially oxygen-respiration
and carbonic-acid as
similation ; and that while water move
ments may possibly share in their pro
duction, their share ia certainly only a
BnaoU one.
Hasheesh ana its Effeot.
Hasheesh is chiefly composed of the
husks of the innocent hempseed, but
after its preparation loses its innocence
and becomes one of the greatest curses
of the East. One report 6tates that
hasheesh disturbs the functions of the
systems of digestion and circulation ;
that it injures the senses and motive
powers ; that it disturbs the cerebral
functions. The phantoms seen by and
the tendencies manifested in those who
are intoxicated with hasheesh generally
indicate the nsual habits of thought and
moral character of the intoxicated per
son or tho thoughts and passions by
which the man was possessed on the
day that he became intoxicated or at the
moment in which the symptoms of poi
soning began to make themselves mani
fest. Persons given to the use of has
heesh who become maniacs are apt to
commit all sorts of acts of violence and
murder.
Sometimes the intoxication of has
heesh impels the person under its in
fluence to suicide or the commission of
acts forbidden by morality. All au
thors are unanimous, basing their opin
ion on numerous observations among
Eastern peoples, that the long use of
hasheesh weakens the body and causes
at ropy, dulls the mind and creates hy
pochondria, idiocy and mania. Those
who indulge in hasheesh have a fixed
look, without expression, and an idiotic
appearance. According to statistical
information obtained from the lunatio
asylums of Cairo and Bengal, the ma
jority of the maniacs and idiots be
came such from abuse of hasheesh. In
most Eastern countries the importation,
cultivation and sale of hasheesh is for
bidden, but it is used in large quanti
ties nevertheless, New York AdYti
tiser,
COME Or GOVEBmiEKT BPILDIXO TOOWIKO CALIFORNIA KXDWOOD.
At the World's Columbian Exposition.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Latest Happenings Condensed
and Printed Here.
William D. McCoy,colored,of Indiana,
Ucited States Minis'er toLiberia,is dead.
He is the fourth Minister who has died
at his post ia Liberia during the last 12
years.
The newly-completed Great Northern
Railroad has created a sensation among
its competitors in the West by announ -ciDg
3,000 mile tickets, good for one
year, for $75.
The increase in attendance upon the
World's Fail is so rapid and marked that
the bureau of admissions is confident
that the daily average will soon reach the
300,000 mark.
The executive committee of the board
of education of the new Presbyterian
Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky.,
concluded an important meeting Ia5.
week. The faculty has been completed,
the chairs being filled with some of the
ablest men in the Southern Church. The
seminary will open next fall.
August 25 is colored people's day in
the World's Fair calendar, and 250,000
Afro-Americans are expected to pass
through the gates during the four day3
of the convention.
The bronze replica of the statue of
Columbus in Madrid has arrived in New
York and was privately inspected on
Saturday by the Duke De Veragua, his
brother and Gen. James Grant Wilson of
the Lincoln Bank.
The silver in the standard dollar, ac
cording to the price of the last purchase
of bullion, is worth about 83$ cents, and
the legal tender quality of that coin is,
therefore, made up of less than two
thirds of intrinsic value.
The trustees of the State Agricultural
College of Florida have requested the re
signation of all the members of the
faculty of that institution. A complete
reorganization is to be made. All the
faculty promptly, handed in their re
resignations, except Dr. Jame3 P. De
pa's, director of the experimental station
and professor of agriculture. He refuses
to resign and will force the trustees to
remove him.
VIEWrSS THE FAIR IS A KOLLEIt CUAIB.
World's Columbian Exposition.
A STRANGE FAILURE.
A Great Paper Firm Fails With Ax
sets Over $1,000,000.
Cincinnati, O. Lou's Snyders' Sons
made an assignment to C. M. Harding,of
Franklin, and George B. Parmlee, of
Hamilton, of their four great paper mills
at Hamilton, of their real estate in Butler
county and of their great paper ware
house, with contents, in Cincinnati.
Their assets are over $l,000,003,of which
over $250,000 is debts due them, con
sidered good. .Their total liabilites are
less than than f 3, 000,000. It is estimated
that a liqu'dition by forced sale would
leave them $450,003. Their assignment
is due to the fact that they were unable
to borrow from the banks Monday the
turn of $7,000, It is a very old, well es
tablished firm,
SACKED A NEWSPAPER OFFICE.
It Denounced White Cap Outrages,
and Has Had to sutler lor It.
New Albany, Miss. The office of the
New Albany Gazette was broken open
and sacktd by a mob Saturday night.
All the type was dumped inta the street
and destroyed and the office furniture
smashed. The paper has been very out
spoken lately in its denunciation of
White Cap outrages and "blind tigers."
It thereby incurred the enmity of the law
less element. The members of the mob
were masked, but several of them were
recognized.
How Georgia Truck Farms Pay.
Major G. M. liyals has a truck farm of
only 125 acres near Savannah, Ga. , in
Chatham county, frrni which he clearj
between $7000 and S000 annually. The
place is considered to be one of the best
managed farms in the South, and thows
wht can be done with Southern land
where skill and judgement are us?d in
cultivating the s il. List jear the cu
cumbers were the best cr"p raised on
Major Ryals's land . Potatoes were plenti
ful, but sold at rather low price?. The
cucumber crop, however, made up for
the loss. Cabbage, beans, lomatois, beets
and carrots sold fairly well, and, while
no fancy prices were received, these crops
all paid fairly well. Tais year potatoes
have been the leading cr p, at.d up to
date Major Rya's has shipped 4150 bir
rels off the sixty acres he planted. He
haa shipped nearly 4000 cratis of cab
bage also, and about 500 to 600 crates
of smnrl crops, such as tomatoe?. beets,
pe s, cucumbers, carrots and others. Ia
all he his takon nearly 10,000 packages
of truck off his place, and be estimates
nat the total amount will be at lest 18,
000 packages. Most of the vegetables go
to Northern markets, and his freight bills
average f 7500 a year. The farm is oper
ated by thirty men, under three over
seers, and thirty mules.
Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Uavis meet.
West Point, N. Y. Mrs. Jefferson
Davis, accompanied by her maid, arrived
here on the steamboat Mary Powe'.L She
was met at the laniing by Mr. E. G.
Maturin, themanag.r of Cranston's Ho
tel, escorted to bar carriage, and convey
ed to the hotel. Mrs. Davis wa? assigned
to a suite of rooms on tie first floor,
nearly opposite those ccupied by Mrs.
U. S. Grant. Mrs. Grant has been at
Cranston's Hotel for several weeks. She
was greatly pleased when sb2 heard that
Mrs. Davis was to vi-dt the Point and
that she was to meet her upon that his
toric ground. As soon as Mrs. Grant was
told of Mrs. Davis' arrival she left her
room and stepping out into the hall met
Mrs. Davis just as she was leaving the
elevator. Mrs. Grant grasped her hand
and said with much feeling: "I am very
glad to see jou." The two hdies then
went into Mrs. Davis' apartment and had
a lon.g talk.
The Effect on Silver in New York.
Net York. Silver certificates hav
dropped to 77, commercial bar silver to
77 and Mexicm dollars to 60 cents. The
break is due to the suspension of pur
chases of silver for India accounts and
the closing of the India mints. The be
lief that the Sherman silver bill will be
repealed adds to the b.arish feeling on
the metal
Preferred Death to the Chain Gang-.
Atlanta, Ga Jack Booth, teacher
of a band of music, committed suicide at
Waycross M'jnd j morning by taking
morphine. He had been fined thirty
five dollars for disorderly conduct, and
could not pay it. He kil'ed himself
rather than go to the chain gang.
A Kentucky Sank Fails.
A special froni A shland, Ky., says:
The Second National Bank of this place
has closed its doors. It is solvent, but
was forced to susptnd because of inability
to real'z j on good paper. Ths depositors
will get all their m?ney.
CHILDREN'S COLUMN,
KACGUTT PATTT.
Little rtty Popgun
NeverM stay in bed;
Motber'd hoar her footies
Pit-pat overhead.
Last uight naughty Tatty
Caught her little toes,
Down she fell and Oh! Oht
I5urap?d her little uohs.
Up they came and found h
Crying on the floor.
And today her head uehes
And her nose is wore.
Were I Tatty Topuun,
I would etay in bed;
X would do precisely
What my mother said.
fSt. Louis Republic
What is called a cloud of 6te:un,
coming out of an escape pipe, la not
steam at all it is a condensation of
steam. Steam cannot be seen. Look
at the spout of a teakettle, in which
the water is boiling, and between tho
outer end of the epout and the vapory
cloud that comes from it you will Hud
a clear space. The steam is there, in
visible, but when it comos iu contact
with ffee air it condenses and becomes
isiblo o.a a little cloud. Detroit
Free Press.
BOY-SOLDI EKS.
Everybody in largo cities is familiar
with the sight of classes from military
schools, uniformed, marching through
the 6treets; and in last Oclober' Co.
iumbiau Celebration iu New York,
they were combined iu regiments,
drilled thoroughly, and their march
inrr and wheeling formed a most at
tractive feature of tho splendid exhi
bition of those days. Now the French
have always had a tasto for military
demonstrations of any sort, and in
Paris, especially, they havo formed
quite an army of boy-soldic?s who are
organized, drilled and disciplined jtiht
like the French army. There are more
than seven thousand of theso boys, be
tween twelve and sixteen years of age,
and they are recruited from the
scholars in tho public schools. The
uniform is that of a Bailor boy, and
they carry toy muskets. They are
drilled by sergeants from the regular
arm', and commanded by ofliccrj on
half-pay. They are so popular in
Paris and in tho army, that when they
are out on parade, inarching to tho
sound of the bugle, Mio guard turns
out at the barracks, and the sentries
on duty before tho Bank of Franco
and other public building, salute the
'hops of France." Once A Week.
THE CliT OK A CHINESE BAISV.
Few Americans have ever seen a
Cninese baby cry. It is a sight equally
as intense to tho eye as to the ear.
They do cry, though no history records
the fact, and their manner of emo
tional ebulitiou i9 as different from
the Anglo-Saxon variety of infantile
protest and alarm as a full-blown vol
cano is from a ten-cent sky-rocket.
Down on the Midway PJaisance at
the World's Fair there is a Chinese
baby who gave an exhibition in this
'ine day before yesterday. lie can
just toddle, and he had wandered some
twenty feet away from his abode.
He wrs viewing the strange build
ings around him casually. Presently
A one-legged man hobbled by on
crutches. The Chinese baby gave one
look, and then he unravelled a corru
gated whoop that peeled the mud lrom
the Irish castlo. It was blood curd
ling, and when it had gone up the
piano scale and climbed down the 6ide
of the piano leg ia efforts to get high
er, it stopped suddenly.
There was a minute of ominous
silence, and then the whoop broke
loose again and scampered back down
the scale. Stiff-frozen where lie stood,
that Chinese infant's eyes were glued
on that oue-legged man. His biased
eyes Imng out on his cheeks. He was
petrified with fright.
A dozen Chinese, new to this coun
try and wearing tho silk dome-like
eapes, surmounted with chenille but
tons, lushed to the rcscu At first
they could not see tho causo of all tho
row. But iu half a minute they hud
caught sight of the one-legged man.
They were not frightened, but they
were puzzod. Whilo one man quieted
tho boy several of tho bolder spirits
took after tho innocent causo of this
disturbance. They examined tho
crutches minutely; insisted on feeling
the stump of tho missing member,
af;cr which they all stepped back
wonder-struck.
The baby's fright was not unnatural
or the curiosity of the Chinese at all
surprising. In China there arc no ono
Icgged men, partly from an absence of
surgery and partly from an absence of
raiiway trains and heavy machinery.
Thv man on crutches was the first one
Icyged mnn they had ever seen. -tCijirtigo
luier'Oceaii.
FINANCIAL SITUATION.
The End of Free Silver Coinage In
India.
A Ternble Blow to the Hopa of the
Bimetallism.
Since the news has been authenticate
that the Indian (Sovi i iinu nt, dominated
by Kngland, had stopped tho ooinugo of
silver at the India mints, the distiisMon
"f silver cubing!' lirs ii'Mimed a new
plri-ii' in the Tinted St it
Kl KKl'IH fl' THK NKWS IN W AMI I N1TN.
Washington, I. C When tho ro
j'orts of (jlad-t.)i c'a announcement in the
Ilou-ie f Commons und Lord Kimberly's
tta'einent in I he Home of Lord were to
ceived the gra ity of (lie situation bo
cuiuc at once appui i-nt. Carlisle immed
iately went over t the White House and
for really two hours dieuxsel tho bear
ings of this net ion with the I'resident
w ithout n aching any poMt've conclusion
as to the I. lie of action to be adoptvd.
'I he Confer. nc : v. as renewed "t Woodly,
the Pn siilent's sin ui ban home, later 1:1
tin evening and was protracted uutil far
into the nij;ht .
Iu view of this announcement ut tho
conference the uction cf the Indian
(Jovcriiment w-is not altoethrr a sur
prise to treasury ollicials, though what
its elTc t may lo on the future action of
the 1'nitcil States t nu not be accurately
gaged.
CAI1INKT lls TSSKS IT-
Washington, I). C. Two hours wcrs
consumed by the cabinc-n Tuesday in
dis-usc ing the new phrasj of the silver
Ut.stio?i and o'her matters demanding
ttt'ention. Two coiiferci ces Monday be
tween the I 'resident aud Secretary Car
lisle fciiupMled in it'trs to some extent.
Although the discussion, it is Raid, took a
wide rai ge it win necessarily brought
b.ck to one important and uiuiiis'nk .bio
poii t, that the t xe utive h id no power
in the Jilt mis s, Omgicss alono being
a le to i!eal with incisures f lelief. It
".as plain to the cab net that the monjhly
pun base of til Vi r must b coi, tinned r
e'se Congress must be convened in
tpeciil s s ion immediately. As the
I'lisi'tit hal lccidd to ca'l Congrc s
toe l ei in the early p:.it of Hep! ember
to Qeal with the financial situation and
manifisted no intention ( f changing his
tated pui os-c, the project of an earlier
s ssion of Congress, it is understood, was
dropped. S ) far as the continuance of
the pu chase of silver bullion under the
Slurnian law was concerned it was point
ed out that little more than two months
remained before Congress would convene
in extras ssion and that during the in
tervening timj the silver to be purchased
would be only 0,000,000 ouncts, com
paratively a small amount in view of the
previous purchases ; but tho b st way to
deal with the question was to wait the
cou'fce of events for two months longer.
It was generally agreed to and it was
with this view dominaLt that the meet
ing adjourned.
STATUE OF THK riEITDMC.
At the World's Columbian Exposition.
The Prince of Wales is eail to pro
Bent the extraordinary spectacle of
man in danger of succumbing to oi l
age whilo his mother is still in her
prime. lie has crowded about ten
years into every one of life, and La
hap, it is said, had fun enough to con
sole him for missing a job on tho
throne.
A Cashier Arrested.
Nahivii.'.e, Tknn. Will II Scoggins,
assistant cashier of the fail.d Coimneicbl
National IJnik, has been arrested and
placed under bond to appear at the
October t' rm i the Federal Court on the
ch .r"c of being cognizant of opcr.tions
whi h came, the wreck of tie bank.
Asp cial so sion of tl--; gra d j'lty will
be held July 20th wl en nnttcis i . ccn
oeciion with thy Med ba k will b-' con-jldere).
will