North Carolina Newspapers

ES-VISITOR. NUMBER 8.849 RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY EVENING, APKIL U. 1899. 25 CKNTS A MONTH THE TIM FILIPINO WAR Am rican L ss s iuee Feb, 'lROOPd ARRIVE Lieut. Meyer Fell Overboard and Wat Drowned Heat Intense Troops Browing Weary oi the Campaign. . MANILA. JVipril 14. The known pre acnce ofjeverai insurgent officers in this vy ciLUMt iue uet euurce meut oi the order comyeiluig all pa-suus to retire to tutor houi at seven o'clock in We evemiaig. 'lius is to prevent aa outbreak At ujlit. 'lihe guards on duty have been dwuultd and ouher precau tious are being taken. 'line Auiern.au lyases since February fourth are ad lokows: 1l.luL,LuU TWO HUNDRED- AND OMS. Vv oUNDED NINE HUNDRED AND fe.JSVUi.NTY FOUR. General Lawton's expedition is now moving slowly along the lake. His men Sutve taktu severaii towns and had sever al skirmishes. Five Americans were killed during the advance and a number were wounded. Ihe Filipinos continue annoying the Americans ait night by tiring. General Ovenshint's troops are particularly tired of this sort ol warfare. LlJbiLT. MltfXER LOST. The United State transport Sheridan with the Twelfth Infantry and a bat talion of the Seventeenth has arrived alt Manila after a smooth passage. On the night of April eleventh, Lieut. iMeyer disappeared. The weather was extremely hot and the Lieutenant was sleeping on deck, when, it is supposed, Ue tell overboard. Three privates and six children of pri vates died of pneumonia. LOCAL NEWS ITEMS Familiar Faces From tie Passing Throng -Items of Note Mr. J. A. Tate is registered at the Yarboro. Mr. Nat Dunn, of Wake Forest, is in the city. Mr. John H. HiH and Miss Louise HiU are in the city. The Corporation Commission will hold its nest session April 24th. Mrs. Robert Simpson left this morning for Henderson on a visit. Rev. Dr. Eugene Daniel lsin Lexiug ton, N. C, attending Orange Presbytery. Alderman Samuel Bogasse is confined to bis home by sickness. Mr T. K. Bruner left today for the eastern part of the State to visit the fisheries. . .Rush Harris was fined $5 and costs by Mayor Powell today for pasting .signs permiscuously about the city. Bev R. T. Vann is preaching with great good at the Baptist Tabernacle. He Is one of the strongest men in the denomination in this State. George Lee, a thirteen- year old ne gro boy, was arraigned before Mayor Powell on the charge of throwing the rock at Mr. Geore McCullers, an account ,otf the affair appeared in tnis paper yes terday. Since there was no evidence that he was the one who threw the rock lie was released. The example of the BofcWtt-Wynne Drug Co.. in devoting the proceeds from the sale of drinks on the day the First Regiment arrives to the entertainment of the boys might well be followed by other firms. This afternoon, Robt. Blake, colored, fwal thrown from his buggy and run over on South Wilmington street. Dr. Mc Geachy attended Blab?, who had been carried into a blacksmith shop near by. fli wounds are not considered serious. (Mrs. B. R. Hall, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pulaski Cow per, has returned to her home in At lanta. Miss Blanche Blake has returned from a visit to friends in Durham, N Subscribers should ALWAYS require the carrier to bring them a receipt next day when they pay any money to the carrier. Miss Ellen Glasgow who. has been visiting the family of Mr. A. M. Mc Pheeters left for Wilmington, N. C. to day. Mr. J. D. Raggan has returned from northern cities where he purchased an extensive stock from European firms for next Christmas trade. He has also bought a big stock of goods which will delight of small boy on July 4th. Set out now the pot plants. Tomatoes, best standard aorta cab bage. California violets tmequaled In harli uess and fragran ?. 26c. per dozen. Rows, strong plants, all the leading varieties. Bedding plants of an descriptions at reasonable prices. . IT. STEINMETZ. 'Phone 113, North Halifax street. 3. R. Riggan has returned from New York. Mrs. Happy George, an Isirfon woman is very sick at her home on South Daw son street. IUP VAN WINKLE. (This highly entertaining emotional drama will be presented at the Academy of Music by Sam ml W. Glenn whose only peer in the rendition of the tide role is Joe Jefferson. Mr. Glenn has an Hidmiraibte support, by a company each or wnom is en artist in his or her char acter. Tlhe engagement is a benefit to one of Raleigh's roost praiseworthy charities, St. Luke' Horn for Insura bles, and should . be greeted to-night with fufl bouse. The prices an? reasonably popular for such, a high-class entertain meat and this is the but booking of this character for the season. Reserved seat tickets can be haL at King's Drug Store, 70 cents. General admission 60 cents. Gallery 26 cents. Tomorrow there will be a special matinee for school children tmu mules, tu yrioes w which ww pe 16 cents tor chfldrea and 26 cents for adults. Saturday night the last presen tation of Kip Vac Winkle will be glreft by Mr. Glenn, and let him hare a Targe amd appreciative aodien.ee. Remember the. cause for which CtU otoefith given. TRAMP NUISANC&. Traps have 'been in the habit recently of camping just west of the city in the neighborhood of the Boylan place. They have been committing various depreda tions mere, such as burning fences, etc. The police have been notified and they wall put a stop to this sort of thing. WATER REPORT Sppcial Session of the Board of Aldeimen This evening the Board of Aldermen will meet in ajourned session to hear the report of the water committee, which is composed of Aldermen C. C. McDonald, Jos. Cornell and W. W. Parish. To this connmitloe was intrusted the matter and they have considered it care fully. To this committee was referred the recommendations which City Attorney Perrin Busbee was directed to draw up. The committee met last night and dis cussed the city attorney's recommenda ilions, which deals with the matter in detail. The city attorney says that the water company has tnree probable ways to abate the nuisance of Castle berry's pond (1) by declaring it a nuis ance; (2) condemnation under right of eminent domain given the company in Its charter; (3) under summary provi sions of acts of 1887 and amendments of 1800. The city attorney contends that the 3. surest and quickest way is: A suit miglbt drag on until fall and Ral eigh have to endure 'the pond all sum mer. He recommends in closing (1) that the company must have dam removed by May 10th; (2) that the city pay no hydrant rent from January 1 to July 1, unless it is done; (3) the danger of con tamination from Gary he abated; (4) the water shed he protected and policed. The above is only a rough statement of the essentiais in the v coo mrneneiat ions. Mr. Ernest Haywood for the water company appeared before the committee and stated that the oomptuiy now had mill experts assessing the damages Oas t'leiberry would sustain by destroying thw dam and that Castleberry and the com pany would abide by their findings. He said further that he thought the daan would be removed before May 1st. In view of further satisfactory statimeots from Mr. Haywood the committee agreed to report the city attorney's recommen dations to the Board of Aldermen with out prejudice and recommend that the Board hold the matter in abeyance until their regular session the last Friday night in this month. TONE OF THE MARKETS CLOSING QUOTATIONS. Furnished by II. D. White, manager for Paine Murphy & Co., 307 S Wil mington street. LI V HKfOUL UUTTON MARKET. Liverpool 4 p. n .. April 14. '99 Spots; Dull Easy, demand moderate, middlings 11-32: sales 10.000: American 6,000; Receipts 10,000; American 9,000 speculation and export 600. Fut; opened quiet and steady. April 8-lfs April and May 8.18s M& and June 318s June and July 8.181s July and August 3.ln$s Au rust and September 3.18b September and October 8 18s October and November 8 18b No ember and December 8.17s Decern erand Jantary 8.17s Jitnuary an I February 8 17b February and Marcu 3.17jb NEW YORK STOCK MARKET. The following were the cloeing quo tations for the leading stocks: American &umr T 1 67t Siuihern R. R. Preferred 61f Pac'flo Mall ... 1 R.R. T 1.33, St. Paul - l.7T lanhnttan.. . 12ttf B. &Q. 141. American Tobacco 224 Ml souri Pacific 5if T O I. 64 L. & N. 65 J. U. 117 C. &O. 27 U. S. Rubber 63 NBW YORK COTTON. Months. Clofed April...'.... 5 70a7i May 5.7475 June 5.79a-0 uly 6.84a85 August 5 83a84 September.. 3.81a8i October.... 5.R884 November. 8,845 De-embe S.b8a89 Closed steady Be sort yon read the new ad. of H. T. Hicks in today's Issue. v. RALEIGH'S WELCOME Medal for Each of Her On w UR REPRESENTATIVES Raleigh's Delegation Left Last Might aid Thi Morning Ceremonies Tomorrow After . noon. - Hht gentlemen who are to represent Raleigh at the reception to the cruiser Raleigh have sul left for New York iiow. Part, went by the S. A. L. yes terday and others deft this morning- by the, same route. Below is a complete list of those to whom Mayor Powell issued credentials: F. H. Busbee, C C. McDonald, John C. Drewry, Eugene Glenn, Dr. Eugene Dtuson, Alex. Su-onach, Jr., Cam Weir, R. C. Rivers, W. O. Upehureh, J. W. Hardin, M. Rosenthal, J. G. Ball, Sam'l Berwanger, F. P. Williamson, H. F. Smith, P. A. Carter, W. A. Withers, II. E. Litohford, W. N. II. Smith, R. M. Furnian, Jr., Dr. G. A. Renn, E. V. Denton, E. B. Bar bee, Julius Lewis, J. N. Williamson, John S. Primrose. Mr. F. H. Busbee who will represent Mayor Powell, left yesterday. Mr. Busbee knows Mayor Van Wyck and was at col lege with his brother. A better selection could not hove been made. As a souvenir to the crew of the Ra leigh the committee are preparing a medal. One will be presented to every man on board the cruiser. It is being made from steel saved from the Maine. It will contain a bust of Admiral Dew ey, the date of the sinking of the Maine. February 15, 1808, and also the date May 1, 1808, biing the day of the battle of Manila. A member of the committee will present the medate to the man-o'-wars-men. In the City Hall today the executive committee of which General Butttrfield is chairman will meet to confer and re ceive reports from the sub-committees on arrangements for the reception of the cruiser. Several of the sub-committees uct yesterday and made a good start on the work intrusted to their attention. W'arren W. Foster, secretary of the executive committee, said yesterday the idea of a land parade, therefore, will oc cupy all the attention of the commit tee. Many of the details of the ar rangements will be decided at the meet ing today. There seems to 'be some doubt in the minds of the committeemen as to wheth er a banquet should be given to the offi cers o the .Raleigh, but the majority sentiment seems to favor such an idea as the best method of expressing to the officers the gratitude of their countrymen for their noble work. Washington, April 11. Secretary Long this morning received the request of the ?ew York committee apnoanted to re ceive the cruisir Raleigh, looking to the co-operation of the Commandant of tin- New York Navy Yard In the ceremoui. He turned the application over to AsU taint secretary Allen, who has given in structions to the Commandant to do ev erything proper and possible to aid the committee in carrying out their plans. ATTEMPTED BOYCOTT Slinitnts at Wake Forest Resist Or mace of Town Commissioners Several weeks since the commissioners of the town of Wake Forest pasted an ordinance imposing a licease tax nt ?-5 a year upon an agent or salesman who aold goods in the town. This was aimed at the clothing and shoe store of Raleigh aud oihor pluces who smd representatives to the College and sell goods to the students. It will be remembered that Messrs. Whiting Bros, refused to pay the $25, and have instituted suit to test the ordinance. Mtssrs. Cross and Linehan located their representative at Forestville and fur nished a conveyance for tueir customers to ride from Wake Forest in. The ordinance also affected some of the studtnts, who were acting as agents, therefore they decided to resist. A dele gation from the student body, headed by one member of the faculty, appeared be fore the town commissioners and asked that the ordinance be repealed. t This was refused, and the boys then settled their bills with the Wake Forest mer chants who were thought to be the insti gators of the adoption of the ordinance. They then notified the keepers of the houses where they were boarding that they would seek other quarters if they continued to purchase from these mer chants. The boarding house keepers told them to go since they expected to buy where tbey pleastd. The next thing was to secure a new boarding place and a lady was asked to open a house for them. She replied that she could not since she had no place where she could buy the necessities tor the table. Hence, the efforts of the students have come to naught. These are the facts as stated by a Wake Forest man. MARSHALL WON. ELKWOOD PARK, N. J.v April 14. 'Marshall won the grand American handicap at the end of the thirty third round. JR. O. U. A. M. " dl. No. 1, this evening at 8 o'clock in i Pythian ball. Bverr member nrved to to present. QUAY TRIAL. WiJtneases Swear to Handwriting of the Cashier PHILADELPHIA, April 14,-In the Quay trial Hagan resunnd testimony this morning by identifying the hand writing of cashier Hopkins in a letter. No mention of the contents was made end no cross examination followed. Ta'ber, receiving teller, waa recalled and idtntified the handwriting of Hop kins in the "Blackibook" and "Blue book," small memorandum books, found in the cashier's private desk. SEWERAGE FOR SALISBURY. T. M. McCuBoh, P. W. Brown, A. H. Boyden, Theo. F. Klutte, Edwin Shover. Davis and Unley Bank, John Whirelaw, Chaa. Price, E. R. Overman, W. H. Overman & Co., R. J. Holmes, J. A. Hedriek, C. R. Barker and others today filed articles of agreement with the Sec retary of State for the incorporation of tne ; iNortn Innass Sewer Company." The object of the corporation is the buijding and ownership of the system Oi sesrerage. in the city of Salisbury.. SIX DROWNED. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Ami! 14.-The Burlington passenger train plunged in a torrent, caused by an overflow of Big and Little Goose creeks, near Sheri dan, in this State. Six persons were drowned. ENGLAND AND GERMANY AGREE. BEKUN, April 14. Baron Von Bue- low announced this morning that Great Britain and Germany had reached an agreement to send tha commission to Samoa. A QUESTION. Mr. Editor: The Ualeigu Water Com pany has issued another notice to con sumers to come up and pay or their sup ply will be cut off. No one wishes to be without waer and yet no one wishes to pay full rates for such water as the Raleigh Water Company have served to their patrons for the last quarter. What do you advise in view of Mr. Sowers' suit? Would it not be well to pay ttnder protest if one pavs at all? CONSUMER. BANKRUPTCY Tmportant Rule in Parf nerslrp f!sD8 This morning the bankruptcy case of Stevenson and King was argued be fore T. P. Devereux, referee. This is the 6rst partnership case in this district and the ruling upon it is therefore very important. The creditors were represented by Mr. R. C. Strong and Mr. R. N. Simms while Mr. Jas. Pou and Mr. Samuel Honeycutt appeared for Stevenson and King. It was held by the court as follows: First That in all matters affecting personal property exemptions the State law as construed by the Supremo court of the State must govern. Second That in partnership the con sent of each partner is necessary before personal property exemiption can be set apart to the individual partners out of partnership assets. Third As matter of fact such consent is phown in the petition in bflnkniptcy filed herein and signed by each of the partners. DICK CROCKER He Testifies that He Is Ihe Supreme Boss of Tammany. NEW YORK, April 14. Riohard Croker was the star witness in the Mazet examination today. He testified that he is the leader of Tammany Hall and he will stand by the Sachems. All the se lections of office holders are agreeable to him and his wish is powerful. In selecting office holders the stringthen ing of Tammany Hall is held in view. RALEIGH S'OK MARKET. QroTF.n Bv Ohtwi-s ano Vans. Ralr oh, April 14, 1859. BONDS. Bid North Carolina 6s 132 North Carolina 4s 1081 City of Raleigh 6s " " 5s Wake Couuty 5s 107 Southern Rv. 1st 5s 107J W.N. C. R. R. 1st 6s 119 Ga. & Ala. Pref. 5s 10?. " " Console 100 Oa. Car. & North. 1st 5s Carolina Centre! 4s Ral. Water Co. 6s 103 Albemarlo & Cbes. Canal Co. 1st 7s. STOCKS. North Carolina R. R. 153J Seaboard & Roanoke Raleigh & Gaston Raleigh & Angnsta 20 Durham & Northern 45 Southern Ry. Pref. 611 " " Common 12 Mechanics Dime Swings Bank 10r Raleieh Water Co. "lnigh Gas rompanv Caraleigh Co.ton Mills Preferred 110 Common Raleigh Cotton Mills Odel M'g. Co Caralelgb Fertilizer and Phosphate Works Va. Carolina Chemical Co. Piefererd llfi ommon ' 76 Citizens National Bank 1x0 RitleighSavl: gt Bank 150 Asked. 106 101 103 00 106 104 82 2 110 S3 100 117 106, 118 7i IMrs. Charles Spparks, of ' Raleigh, arrived in tha city yesterday to spaod a while visiting ber mother, Mrs. M. M. Ramsey. Durham Herald. ' WASHINGTON LETTER StroLg Feeling Against IJ r many SH AFTER AGAIN The Samoan Commissioner a Gold Demo crat Gossip from the National Capllol. (From our Regular Coxresroadent.j v aaUangiou. Airfti 14. xhw uttuura are .surreu lu ueepeat wiuigaiuiyu uy We I ue Wit mac Uei'jinttuy tretu-uei y in .xniou uuj been ttttymnuiH! lor uie ainouMU aig oa a noma ueiwcKUueul ot Auieaeuu mud jtfiyiian uiMciuwi ty &uu native uud ine Kuuug el two lieutenant, une Aio ei.tcau aud uoie riiiigmli, one American eugn, and lour mai-iues, and tne au uuuiairabuu is doing jut an it was doing a year ago, waiuug. Uermauy nas U -seived a aiiarp ciui down lruui tiua gov ernment tour or nve times since Uie war with 6 pain began, but in every .u stauce Uie auiunuisiruiiou has aiiowed itoeii to be piacaled wjth a iituie sott ooap from the German Auiliucuwulor. iiepreueutauve iiull, ol iowa, a Re puLMitam, eays: "In my xeeuou the teei iig nan been strung against Germany tor six InouUis. 'Ike people believe tnat sUe was uosuie to us in tne war wun Sypaiu. lue peupie are in aucb temper thai tney will not permit any trinmg or neugiug on the part of this government." I'lie time has come wneu the iiwud of tne German Duipt ror must be cleared in 'an ettect.ve manner of the idea Unit this country is aliaid of him. VI ar Department otucials arc at last convinced tnat peace in tne i'hiiliupiues is stm a ionig ways orl, and the auuiiu miration is beginning to realize wai tne islands wtre uot a bargain at au,UUO, oou, and that we will pay the money a wug uuie before we get possession of Uie property, nuch as it is. bmuier umti: "Gen. Law ton and his men peakiug to several army ultuxcs, Geu. are acuitviug much success so far as they go. 'Ihe lighting against the Filipinos, uowever, is tike the brushing away ot tties; the moment the brushiue is stou- ped they come back. Ihe Filipinos are uound to give m eventually, but 1 be lieve iti s a much more serious task to subdue them than most people think. Anotner army cancer sand, after noting the resemblance of Gen. Lawton's cam paign to chose against the Apache In dians: "The Filipinos will get tired of the chase sooner than the American In dians did, and after a few years of at tempting to keep up a fight against the authority of the United States, the in surgents will disappear or surrender." That's a nice thing to contemplate isu't it? Pay $20,000,000 and thousands of good American lives Jar. islands which we will get complete possession of in a few years, and will not nave any us for after we get them. Gen. Shatter has had critics in plenty ever since the charge was made and never fully disproven that he had "funk ed" in the Santiago campaign and that he would have made a mess of the whoie business if Gen. Joe Whetaer and others had not prevented, but his testimony re garding the canned "roast" beef brought more harsh criticism than anything he had previously said or done. In the face of the evidence of nine out of every ten witnesses who have testified that the stuff was unfit to eat. Shatter said it was good and that he ate it every day and enjoyed it. Either, he, overdid the thing in his testimony or he was furnish ed with a different sort of canned "roast" beef from that furnished the rest of the army. Mr. McKinley's selection of Mr. E. Bartlett Tripp, of South Dakota, who was minister to Austria under the Cleveland administration, to nprestut the United States on the international Commission that will endeavor to straighten out the Samoan tangle, was disappointing to a number of republicans who would like to have secured the plum. Mr. McKiniey is no novice in the game of politics. He got elected by the support, directly or indirectly of gold Democrats, and he is playing for the same support next year. Mr. Tripp is a gold Democrat; besides, he is a n?ar rtlative, by marriage to Senator Davis, of Minnesota, who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. COOLER SATURDAY. The forecast of the weather bureau for Raleigh and vicinity says: Partly cloudy tonight; cooler Saturday, with a slight chance for occasional light show ers. The pressure is still high over the southeast section of the country and a new high area has appeared in the ex treme northwest, accompanied by a con siderable faillin temperature to a few degrees below freezing at Bismarck and Huron. Low areas are central over the Lako region and western Texas. The only pre cipitation reported occurred in the vicin ity of the Lakta, with the largest amounts at Marquette and Davenport. Cloudy weather prevails from the Lake region down the Mississippi valley to Texas. BASEBALL. Game Tomorrow Between A. and M. and Oak Ridge. The baseball team from Oak Ridge ar rived this afternoon and will tomorrow at 8:30 play the A. and M. College on the grounds of the latter. The A. and M. tea for the gae is as follows: Person, E pitch, Fcnner catch. Capt. Bhore 1 base, Cerly 2 base, Person, W. 3 base, Falson short stop, RorseU left field, Bonlts center field, Doss-right flM. 80M0AN AFFAIR FRANKFORT, April 14. Frankfurt er Zeitung publishes a dispatch from its correspondent at Berlin stating that Sal isbury is held accountable for the pres ent acuteuess of the situation at Sa moa. Lord Salisbury wtnt to Beaulieu without leaving any responsible repre sentative at London, and while gone Beaulieu treated the affair in a dilatory manner. Zeitung's London correspondent tele graphs that the British government has sent strict orders to Consul Maxas at Apia that all further action must be suspended until the arrival of the Joint commission. PARIS, April 14. Figaro says there is ground for establishing clearly the re sponsibility of Germany m thel atest Samoan incident. Gaulois publishes an interview with a diplomatist who declares that the preci pitate and aggressive conduct of German Consul Rose 1ms resulted in the out break of fresh hostilities in Samoa. COMMISSION LEAVES APRIL 25. WASHINGTON, April 14. After hearing from the British and German embassies the State Department was enabled to announce positively and final ly for the three parties that the Berlin treaty has been agned to instructine that Samoan commissioners be given and tnat its s now certain that the commis sion will leave San Francisco Anril 25tih on the "Badger." ENGLAND YIELDS. WASHINGTON, APRIL. 14. IT IS AUTHORITATIVELY ANNOUNCED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT THAT AN AGREEMENT HAS BEEN REACHESD BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY ON THE UNANIMITY RULE, ENG LAND YIELDING GERMANY'S CONTENTION. DIED IN QUARENTINE ilarj Timberlake Died of Congestion of i lie Lungs Mary Timberlake, a negro girl who was quarantined in the bouse on North street near where the first case of small pox was, died this morning at nine oMock. Yesterday afteruouu Health Officer Sale notified Dr. James McKeo that the woman was sick aud be imme diately went to see her. luis was aDout seven last evening. He prescribed for her. This morning she had another at tack and died. The cause of her death was congestion of the lungs. Mary Timberlake was one of the oc cupants of the house where Carrie Young lived. When Carrie Young was pronounced with small pox Mary Tim berlake escaped ami went to Wake For est, where she was apprehended and sent back. When brought to Raleigh ihe and six others were quarantined in the house where the Young woman, until a sufficient time had claus ed to insure the officials that there was no danger of their having the disease. The remaining occupants of this house are Laura Johnson, Horace and Ben Falcon, their mother, and two children. The body of Mary Timberlake was interred by the city this afternoon. THE ARNOLD-WELLS PLAYERS. Next week will close the season at the Academy of Music, by a continuous week's engagement of the Arnold-Wills Flayers, opening on Monday night." In the Social Swin," interspersed with il lustrated songs and up-to-date special ties. This company has a repertoire embracing that strong wisteru drama "The shadow of a Crime." The beauti ful romantic drama, "An Irish Rose." The side splitting comedy, "Too Much Motber-in-Law." Among the specially artists are Bert Gilderoy, the sweet voiced lyric tenor, in illustratid songs with his dissolving view stereoptican; Burt Walter, the singing comedian and Elbcrta Roy the charming and voracious soubrette, who will appear each night in new specialties. Popular prices. 10. 20 and 30 cents. Ladies will be admit ted free, on Monday night, if accom panied by a person holding a paid 30 cent ticket. Tickets on sale at King's JJrug store. Tnis week s performances are a benefit of the Academy employes, and will close the season, and should have the most liberal patronage. WATER RENTS. Mr. Editor: It is understood that if Mr. Sowers wins his suits against the Raleigh Water Company then a number of other suits for rebates or damages will follow. Would it not be wvll for the people to refuse to pay the rents un til this question is settled. Many say flatly that they will not pay for water which tbey could not use and the com pany cannot force them to do so. FAIR PLAT. IN DEMAND. Gen. Joseph Wheeler seems to be In demand in peace as well as war, savn the Baltimore Sun. Hon. William L. Wil son, president of Washington and l.e University, has just secured rhi services of the bero of Santiago as the orator tie fore the literary societies of Wanh.gton and Lee in the coming commencement In June. Though a very busy mnn. an address appropriate to the occasion way be expected. General Wheeler is also to be the orator at the reunion of the Confederate Veterans at Charleston. 8. C, nfxt month. This will doubtless have the effect of Increasing Interest nl the meeting, as General Wheeler is on of th most pnnnhtr of the mrvivliig heroes of tit civil war. He will be given a flattering reception.