THE PROGRESSIVE FAREEER: JUNE 13, 1899
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State News.
TrAR HEELS ARB
DOING. I
. Presa-Drops Turpentine
Jl-nUf Rice from the E&st -Cluster
athr from th
OTie3 na 4UUW
V-thlsulks of Corn nd Grains of
. ... ,rr, th West Peanut
n "c . . c .v
and Cottonseed from the South
. onrt Gleaner: "We find
that
ysuuu.
. ,v,0 iodine colored men in
a n 1 ki-iu w a
j.3rtbsmpton iavur mo
v
T?.r. Jeremiah Hunter of the Moth- .
cJVt Protestant church, died suddenly ple
,aSeekat his home near Kerners- U.
eiile, aged S2 years. I
fr Far!ey, one or the patient at tne i
... ... . .
rr-.onitn.l whn PtlHtained a fraC I in
"i,wn of the bowling alley on the Hos 0n
;rl grounds on the evening of the I
' I inn.
1 Hk" .
1st UlfU. I
a terrible storm struck Siatesville
aturday, 10th, doing $10,000 damage
Ja the town and $10,000 more in the I
. grounding country. The Baptist
Pr-ihacage's valuable crop at Thomas
-nio w?i also destroyed by a etorm
Ibursiay
Mr B N Duke gave Trinity College
I'KCO l29t week. The gift was made
conditionally and the trustees have
. it is thought that $25 000 will be
aided to the regular endowment fund
cf tte college and the other $25,C00
nasd to endow the library.
TCilkeaboro Chronicle : A note from
p D Andercon says that in his neigh
bofhooi there :s a pauper drawing $1
nr mnn'h from the county. Amanda
HUl by name, and she keeps eleven
to feed. Mr. Anderson wishes to
tnow if it is charity on the part of the I
c:unty to help feed these eleven worth-1
aoz9 I
Th Governor hss pardoned James
J Mxre son of ex dhenn: Aioore, or I
Franklin county, a prominent Rspub I
.:, xirc wfta r.-nviptPd nf murder I
htheseoond degree, three years ago,
!;r killincr a negro at a political barbe
rae, in Franklin county, during the
campaign of 1S94. He was sent up for
15 years.
H:n. Giles Mebsne, a prominent
rit'Vn. died at his home at Graham,
finance county, Saturday, aged 92
He wes a native of Orange county, a
eraduato of the University and a tutor
there. He was a lawyer, and repre
;sc:ed Orange and Alamance in the
TseisiQfnrA frmuentlv. having been
Speaker of the House.
Tte faculty of the Biptist Female
: i-Tiity here is completed by the
i&rtoof Prof. Henri Abby, of II ol-hi,b.-sife
and Miss Louise Jone?,of
Rileizh, nbe in charge of the depart
neat cf instrumental end vocal
I rr
jiic and Miss Hattie Farmer, of
G:ld3bcro. in charge of the depart
nent of renography and typewrit
i:: ?.
Ice oY.raington Messenger tells of a
ycurg girl at Burgaw who placed a
cote in a bieket of berries requesting
'.he purchaser to inform her of the
price pMd for the same. A reply was
duly received stating that 35 cents a
basket wa? paid for the fruit. Com
-H3icn houae returns showed that the
srower received only 8 cents per
mrt.
A i'ptch from B 'au'ort June S:h,
S"v3: Mr. E B. Weeke, a well to do
EErebsn?, who lives cj Bjgue Sound
oour. 25 miles from Beaufort, was
:rdLrtd last night in bis store on
3:ue d:und near the f03tcffice known
a Buo. The parties who committed
i22 d'.ed r.re so far not knov,n, though
?-r:c tu?nicion points to men in the
tVODThOOd.
-dr. H. II. II rae, of Johnston coun-
7- who graduated with the higheit
-:iora at the Uaivcnity a few years
Hi and who was afterwards assistant
P?o!e;;or c! E gliah at the Ujiversity,
-23 received the degree of Pn. D. from
H irvard. Prof. II rne has accepted a
C)U to go to Dirthmouth College in
the faH Q3 instructor in the Depart
Q-nt of Philc3ophy.
Tae Expres3 learns that q'jite a forss
bands are emp'oyed at the coal mine
r::catiy opened on the Taylor plac3 I
t-wcen Cumnock and Gulf on Deep
ver. Mr. S. P. Langdon, who wes
'-rrnerly connected with the Cumnock
'so, has charge of the busines3 at the
Ho has laid c.ff a town there
a?-d erectd a nic3 cfSce and Esveral
::"sr buildings. Sanford Express.
--s indignant Post correspondent
r .-:tr from R )xbcro fays: H?re is
a"'ta:r a:t of our Democratic board
-I :?7?n commis3tcner3. They only
to place3 to fill, neither of which
&ve they filled with a Democrat, when
- io?ra-.s wanted both. Their last
r-s to make- F O Cai ?e-, a young
- pibii-ran. tax lister for the town of
: X ;.,ro. Tne I mocrats here can
" co ex-jae for such actions on the
i'tcfp i -mccratic b:ard. We cer-
thought the botrd would have
a lca: cfl-ercd thia pltce to a D .mo
crat.
Ei-Adjutant Ganeral A. D Cowles,
of Iredell, a lifelong Republican, has
written a letter giving reasons why he
will support the pending constitutional
amendment, and urging his party
throughout the 8tate to do likewise.
He mentions a number of his party as-
eociatcs, notably ex Senator Sharpe I
and Mr. Lee Morrow, member of the
House in 1895 for Iredell, who will
also support the amendment.
At a meeting held in Newbsrn Mr.
W. J. Edwftrdn nnd Mr Ti K Mnlver.
Ranford. Rnnht tn interest the neo-
o NewberQ in the plan t0 eeI1 the
and N. O. road to the Edwards
syndicate and extend it to Sanford.
Mr. James A. Bryan also spoke opcos
rr fh nlon TViq Tniii-nol oora tViofo
either side from that previously I
held by thoee who were at the meet-1
H
Three new buildings will be erected
at the State Uaiveraity within the next
year: Tne Alumni building, The Carr
building, end the Y M. O. A. building,
The foundation for the Alumni build
ing hai already been put in by Ittner,
of Atlanta, at a cost of $13 000. The
contract for the superstructure will be
awarded on the 15 :h of Jane. This
building, when completed, will be the
Ic will ccit
$35 uuo
The News and O server of the 10 ;h,
edited by a good Christian tells of its
Christian () work in this way: Toe
News aad Observer last night bulle
tined the J.ffrie3-Fi:z3immons priza
fight by rounds, just as it occurred.
And a few minutes after the knock out
of the champion by the Califcrnian it
wes announced to a large crowa or
v mm
people who watched the bulletins and
cheered the news in favor of one or the
other of the fighters etch man ei he
happened to have placed his bets.
vv e commenu io our resueiH mruugu
out the State the following item from
the Biblical K corder: There is no oec
ter way of promoting education in
North Carolina than that of working
for the establishmen c. a good echool
in one's own neighborhood, list a
house built, and you can get a young
man or woman to run the school. In
some districts down east, Rev. W. P.
Jordan informs us, they run the pub
lie schools several months by private
subscriptions. This is as good a way
as any. Here is an opportunity for
some man with heart for his fellows
to take the lead in a noble cause.
Raleigh Correspondence Charlotte
Observer: People who profees to be
on the ground fl . or, politically epeak
log, are tnus eariy taismg acau. me
D mocratic candidates in the nexi
campaign. They are saying that D in
Hugh McLean, member of the House
from Harnete, is apt to win the nomi
nation for Secretary of o -ate ma walk,
to use a sporting phrase; that Francis
D Winatcn and K 1 xie Gilmer are
apt to have a lively contnt for the
nomination for Attorney General, and
that as to that for Governor, Charle3
B. Aycock seems to be quite far in the
lead, though M H Justice, of Ruther
fcrd, is looming up.
A special to the Charlotte O aerver
from Lexington, June 7Ji, says: The
board of county commissioners, in
their 6c:sion yesterday, es:ablished the
system of road puilding and working
under the act of the G jneral Assembly,
1839 chapter 375 This act applies to
Lexington township, but any other
township m the county may secure
likri nrivilezea UDon petition to the
f a
commissioners, who can order an elec
tion thereon. For th'i township a
pneciil txof 15 cents on the iliu
worth and 4 cents on the poll is levied
r
A board of five trustees was elected as
fellows: J vfcn D Grimes, E A. Kotn
mc.k. P. J. Leonard D ,vid H H nkle
and W. S. Lopp.
In a euit tried in Sampson county
court, Judge Timberlake decided that
the new echool law, that part provid
ing lor tne election oi a uew luuuj
.. . -
board, is unconstitutional. Judge
Timberlake i3 a young man, but one of
the brightest Judges in the Stato. His
decision ecems to be on well established
constitutional law, and it only remains
for the Supreme Court to pass upon it
According to Superintendent Menane,
the following counties ara the only
ones in the State that the old boards
refused to surrender their conatitu
tional rights: Sampson, Catawba,
Chatham, Granville, Daplin and Ashe.
Judge Timberlake'a decision only ap
plicj to Sampson county. If the other
mentioned counties want their cases
te3ted, they must each in like manner
bring euit Hickory Mercury.
FUvRthflMt Olive Adverticer: The
loss sustained by the berry growers,
crate manufacturers and pickers be
tween Goldsboro and Wilmington be
cause of excessive freight rates charged
bv the Atlantic Cor 3t L;ne, amount to
about $315, SCO for this season alone.
Add to tbis amount the money lost
through the refrigerator company and
it will be in close company with the
half million dollar mark. Goipg to
submitt Yet how many papers are
there in North Carolina that will pub
lish the facts concerning the Dolicy
pursued by the Atlantic Coast Line to
wards the truckers! Yju can count
them on fingers on one hand and then
have several fingers to spaae. If you
doubt this assertion, send in an article
for publication that is just to the peo
ple) and ten to one it will never see the
light of day. The people who support
such journals are to blame for their
policies and their existence
Statesville Landmark: The trustees
of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College at Raleigh "are in a petty
fquabble over the election of a presi
dent for that institution. They bal
loted Tuesday and Wednesday and,
being unable to agree, adjourned until
July 5 ;h. Mr. W. S Primro3e, of Ral
eigb, and Mr. Geo. T. Winaton, late
president of our State Uaiversity, now
president of the University of Texas,
were the prominent candidates. Win
ston ki on every ballot but was un
able to obtain a majority. Much feel
nS was Bnown in tne ccnteBi ana is
probable that it would be best to drop
j J ! i. i
both these men and select some one
else. The Lindmark has no choice m
the matter and no interast except that
it hopes the best man for the place,
whoever he is, will win. Mr. Prim
rose is.by all accounts, a mc3t excellent
man, but he is not a teacher end we
think none but a teacher should be
elected president of a college. Mr.
Winston is an able and energetic man
but whether he is the best man for
-president of the A. and M. we confess
we do not know. The college has had
too much politics in it, almost from iti
inception and until politics are elimi
nated the institution will do little
good will never accomplieh the object
for which it was intended which was
to give the youth of the S.ate a prac
tical industrial education.
DAVIDSON COLLEGE.
At the clewing exercises of Davidson
College last week twenty-two young
men received diplomas. This institu
tion is doing splendid work.
Dr. R. N. Brackett, of South Caro
lina, delivered a veiy polished address
in the E lmenean hall, on "Three Im
portant b :ucational fteeas in tne
South."
1. The extension and development of
common schools in the South, giving a
brief historical sketch of the common
school system, the elowne3s of develop
ment. due to the innate aristocratic
ideas of her people. The need of devel
opment. More money is needed, above
aU th-'ngs. He made the point that if
all the money now appropriated for
higher education were put in public
schools it would not increase the length
of sessions three weeks.
2 The second need is the estab'ish
ment of free public libraries. Hs gave
development of the movement, and
showed the relation of tbo free library
to popular education. The methods of
estabi;shment. The time is now ripe
for their establishment, and they
should be free not only in name, but in
fact.
3 The third great neod is the cotab
lisbment of industrial museums in all
the lnrge towns. Theee he defined as
collections, showing the reeources of
the State. They can be established at
small cost. He gave a practical illus
tration of how this is done, on a small
ecale, at Clemson College.
THE CONDITION OF CROPS.
Reports from Correspondents of the
Agricultural Department.
The State crop report for the month
of May, tabulated from about a thou
sand correspondents, under the direc
tion of the Department of Agriculture,
was given out yesterday. It is as fol
lows:
General condition and progress of
farm work this year compared with
the average at same date, 89 2-3.
Cotton acreage th's year compared
with last year, 90 1-10.
Acreage in corn compared with last
year, 99 1-3
Condition of wheat compared with
an average, 82 2-5
Condition of oats compared with an
average, 82 3-5.
Number of horses compared with
Its'; year, 97 7-S.
Number of mulea compared with
last vear. 98 6-7.
Number of cattle compared with last
m
year, 91 1-10.
Number pf hogs compared wish last
vear. 94 3-5
Prospect for apples compared with
an average, l l-s.
Prospect for peaches compared with
an average, 65 1-5
Prospect ior grape s compared with
an average, 93 1-10.
Condition of the trucking interests
and small frui's compared with last
year, 89 5-8
Tobacco acreage compared with last
year, 105 1-2.
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i New York suffered much from heat
last week. In one clay tnere were
twenty five deaths from the heat and
ten of these victims were women.
The States which are to elect Gov
ernors this year are Ohio, Kentucky, I
and Maryland, Iowa, Massachusetts
and Mississippi. Rhode Island has al
ready, at the April election, chosen its
Governor.
Advices from Dawson, dated April
29 h, state that there are evidences of
the most wonderful output recorded.
Thousands of miners, who are waiting
for the first boats, have from $1,000 to
$50,000 each in gold dust.
Governor Bayers has telegraphed
all the Governors and A-torney Gen
erals of the Southern States a call for
an anti trust convention, to meet in
tt. Louis on September 20 ih, for the
purpose of securing concerted action
against the trusts.
Taere has been one death in Now
Orleans which the post-mortem showed
wa3 yellow fever. As this is three
months sooner than that disease usu
ally ehowg itself, there was excitement.
But no other case has developed.
Aeynopsisof the report of theNicara
guan Canal Commission was made pub
lie in Washington June 1st. It esti
mates the cost of the canal at $118,113,
790 Colonel H iins concurs generally
in the report, but submits a personal
estimate of $134 818.308.
In a battle near Paranaque, L!z:n, I
Saturday, 10th, our army defeated a
band of insurgents after desperate re-
sistance on the part of the latter. Their
less was fifty dead; ours, two dead, 20
wounded. The heat was intense and I
iO per (sent, of our army were pros
trated.
When the dispatch boat designated
by the French government to notify
D.eyfus of the revision of his trial
arrived at the Isle du Diable, Dreyfus
was waiting on the shore. Although
endeavoring to maintain hia self -pos
session, he received the cffioial intelli-
gencewith a countenance radiant with
jsy
The South Carolina Superior Court
has re 7ersed the decision of the lower
court in an important case Effecting
I the dispensary law. Thedecison gives
I a citizen the right to drive over into
I North Carolina or across the bridge to
I i.ugU3ta, Ga., or send h:'s team over
with an agent, buy whiskey
own u?e and return with it.
for his
Germany, it is
25.000,000 pesetas
announced, pays
for the Caroline,
Palaos and Mariana Islands. Spain
still retains three coaling stations, one
in each group, and Germany under
takes to defend these stations in case
of war. Germany, in addition, grants
8pain the most favored national treat
ment in Germany and in the Colonial
Islands
General Lawton began on June 4. h,
a general movement to the west of
Manila against General Pio del Pilar's
force of rebels in the foot hills. The
object was to drive the Filipinos into
Morong Peninsula, where escape
would have been impossible, but in
I this the Americans were not successful,
owning to the rough character of the
county the insurgents escape to the
northward.
Mere than two weeks have passed
since the Paris grounded on a ridge of
rocks at the entrance cf the Falmouth
harbor. Fortunately the steamer
struck in such a manner that she was
firmlv wedeed in the rocks and no
1
lives were lost. Repeated efforts have
been made to get her eff the rocks,
but they have all failed. She is not
far from where the wrecked Mohegan
still lies. The cause of the stranding
is yet to be investigated.
Dr. J. P. Greene, President of the
Willian Jewell College, at Liberty, Mo.,
who was asked to accept the Presi
dency of the Southern Baptist Theo
logical 8eminary, at Louisville, Ky.,
has declined the office. He was selec
ted by the board of trustees, to fill the
office vacated on May 11th
by Dr.
I Whitsitt. and it was thought as he was
himself a member of the board, and
the action of the board in calling him
was unanimous, that he would accept
I the position.
The boy king of Spain, according to
The Youth's Companion, is not loved
in Madrid. His presence in the streets
arouses no popular enthu9iesn. At
timr s when the guard is changed at
the royal palace, his troubled face
may be seen at a window, gaz'ng out;
but no one cheers, and he remains al
most unrecognized. No hat is raised,
or other obesiance paid him by hia eul
len subject s, when be ridea abroad in
i
melancholy state ! Among a more gen-
ercus people, his youth, his misfor
tunes, a consideration of the troubled
i
future which confronts him. would
at least awaken pity. His manners,
which ard placid, almost inert, have
in them no attraction. Hi3 very looks
are disliked. He is too blond in hair
and complexion. "He : s no Spaniard,"
siy hie subjects of Madrid, and this
which is to them a cause for reproach I
will hardly be thus viewed by the
world at large.
Chauncey Depew and his son have
left for Paris where the 8enator goes to
study conditions in France. Ha says
McKinley and Hobart will be renomi
nated without opposition and that if
the Democrats met now they would
nominate Mr. Bryan. He adds that
by the time the convention meets they
will be ready for a deal and "will
bargain to buy c ft free silver by giv
ing up a tne demand lor a Dig army
and navy and will go before the coun-1
try on an anti imperialism, anti corpo
rations, socialistic and labor party
basia. If this occurs, there will ba
another tremendous fight; but the Re
nnhiirmna will win Simh a nlatform
would mean the nomination of Mr.
Gorman."
William B. McSweeney, who suc
ceeds G V. Ellerbe under the law, is
the first Governor of South Carolina
who has literally risen from the ranks.
He was left fatherless in Charleston
when four years of age. Six years
later he went on the streets to earn his
living selling newspapers. Later he
clerked in a book store and attended
night school. Then he learned the
printer's trade. In 1896, with a capital
of $65 McSweeney moved to Ninety Six
and made his first j ournalistic venture.
He purchased a second-class outfit for
$500, paying $55 caso.. Within the
vear he Daid for his paper. He sold
this paper end started the Hampton
Guardian, which he still owns. Mr.
McSweeny was elected Lieutenant
Governor in 1896, and was again elec
ted last year without opposition.
The best foreign news of the week,
to Christian people, according to the
New York Observer, is the failure of
the Sunday newspapers in London.
A week ago it was announced that
"The Mail had ceased to publish a
8unday edition and now "The Tele
graph" has stopped its Sunday ?"ssue.
This was due to the uprising of the
reapectabie people oi England against
the attempt to force a Sabbath break-
ing nuisance upon the community,
similar public statement would
make itself felt in this country. It
I was reaolved to cease trading with ad-
vertisers in Sunday papers and a de
cline to buy cn weekdays, papers that
published Sunday iisies. As the pro
I nrietors made their papers for money,
they ceased to make them when they
saw that the hope of their gains was
gone.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
Lsst week's work of the Peace Con
ference was deeply interesting, says
the Outlook. The Commnsion on Dis
armament adopted resolutions prohib
iting the use o! the dum-dum (or flat
tened) bullet, and al30 the uea of ex-
I plosives from balloons and explosive
ti.-illrtt-a The r.imwri!nn nn Arhir.rft
wu.. JZliZS nTnV
huju, uynu, f '
its work wes historic.
In that work
the United Scatoa bore the leadingpart
a cause for National pride. After
examining the Russian, British, Ital
I ian and American plans for arbitration,
the eub commission indorsed the last
named. The entire Com mission is no w
examining the four plan3, and is draft
ing a single scheme based on them,
but it is hoped that our plan will be
practically accepted. It seems to have
been drawn on the lines of the echeme
put forth three years ago by the New
York 3tate Bar Association. Theprin
cipal points in our proposal are: (1)
The establishment by at least nine sov
ereign powers of a tribunal, the mem
bers of which shall be nominated by
the highest courts of the various na
tions and holding effice for an indefi
nite term. (2) The tribunal shall be
permanent and ever ready for the pre
eentation of cases, not only from the
contracting nations, but also from any
others, not parties to the treaty. (3)
The tribunal shall have jurisdiction
over all matters submitted to it by the
mutual consent of the parties con
cerned upon their undertaking to ac
nfiDt the awai d. (4) Each case is to be
tried by the regular, permanent bench
0 judge?; by the full bench or by any
Bmaller number not less than three, as
litigants may elect. (5) G3neral ex
penses are to be borne by the contract
ing nations ; outsiders are to be charged
for the exponas of their own cases.
The judges draw ealatie3 only for the
time when they are actually engaged
in the duties of the court. (6) There
may be a rehearing of any case on the
demand of any litigant within three
months after the notification of the
verdict, on the presentation of new
evidence or on the raising of points of
law not submitted at the first hearing.
THE REPUBLICAN rROORAM.
The committee appointed by the
caucus of the R3publicm members of
thelaet House cf Representatives to
formulate a plan for reforming the
currency has agreed upon a pro
gramme, which comprises:
1. The redemption of all obligations
of the government in gold on demand.
2 Greenbacks, when once redeemed
for gold, to be r& issued only for gold.
3. Permitting National banks to issue
notes to the par value of their govern
ment bonds deposited in the Treasury
instead of 90 per cent., as at present.
4. Permitting the minimum capital
of National banks to be $25,000, instead,
of $50,0(0 as at present.
The first proposition would make the
$500,000,000 of "greenbacks" and Sher
man act notes definitely payable in
gold alone, instead of gold and silver
at the option of the Government. It
would not, however, legal z3 Secretary
Carliale's plan to make cur $500,000,-
000 of silver currency redeemable in,
gold, and would fall that much short
of the compete establishment of the
ingle gold standard. The second prop
oeition, stipulating that when green
backs are presented for redemption in
gold they shall not be re's3ued except
when gold i3 deposited in exchange for
them, would prevent these greenbacks
from being used to meet current ex
penses, and might result in their per
manent retirement. The proposal to
permit National banks to issue notes
up to the par value of their bonds
would somewhat increase the bank
note currency of the country, and
also the price of all Government
bonds. The reason the new 3 per cents,
are selling at 10S though they may
be redeemed at par in nine years, is
not because their holdei s are content
with 2 per cent, interest, but because
the National bank which deposits
$100,000 of these bonds in the Treas
ury, and pays a small tax, receives
not only this 2 per cent, on its bonds,
but also the current rate of inten on
$90,000 of bank notes it is permitted to
issue to its customer. If the bank
is permitted to iesue $100,000 of notes
instead of $90,000, the value of the
bonds will of course be increased.
The fourth proposal, which would per
mit the establishment of National
backs with a capital of only $25,000
would probably lead to the establish
ment of such banks in country towns
too small to warrant a National bank:
of $50,000 capital.
Interpreting, without prs ing judg
ment on, these propositior s, we may
say that the proposal that all obliga
tions of the Government s lall be pay
able in gold alone merely makes obli
gatory the policy heretofore pursued
by the Secretaries of the Tret s lry. The
proposed requirement that greenbacks
once presented for redemption shall
not be treated as assets and paid out to
meet Government expenses would en
able the banks, whenever they were
so minded, to present these greenbacks
in such quantities aa to empty the
government treasury, for there are
over $300,000,000 of them outstand
ing. The bant s are (from their stand
point wisely) hostile to the circulation
of these notes, and their avowed pol
icy would incline them at the first op
portunity to force the Government to
I . . .v,,,K Kf1oca ir
I mccc ujtco, wu"6u
whatever manner wouia least arouse
public antagoniem. The third prepo
sition seems to increase the privileges
of National banks, without requiring
any corresponding payment for the
money value of the privilege-; but there
is nothing unsafe about allowing banks
to issue notes up to the par value ot
their bonds. The fourth proposition,
permitting banks of email capital to
operate under the National banking
law, eeem3 to be justifiable from the.
public standpoint. We want, how
ever, to hear what criticiem banking
officials may p es'bly make upon the
cerns. Expert knowledge on this point
will be valuable. Taken aa a whole,
the plan ia I: S3 radical than thaturged
by Secretary Gage in his last report, but
more radical than anything which
has neretorore receives me euppuri ua.
Western Republican Congressmen
The Outlook.
The monthly comparative statement
of the Government receipts and ex
penditurea for May, 1899, shows the
total receipts to have been $44,786,013,
aa against $30,074 818 for May, 1693.
year, leaving a surplus for last month.
of $4,273,009
Col. David B. Henderson, of lowav
who will succeed Mr. Reed in the
Speaker's chair, was born in Scotland
fifty nine years ago, but has lived in
this country since be was six years
old. He lest a leg in the Civil War
and for sixteen years has been a mem
ber of the House, where he is known
as a vigorous and effective orator, a
partisan of positive views, a genial,
warm hearted man, and "a good fel
low" in the best snse of the term.
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