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DAILY ENQUIRER • SUN: COLUMBUS GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1^6.
Ahout Knrl lii|i)nkcM.
Enquirer-Sun : Last Tuesday evening,
31st instant, as my family sat on the stone j
porch of my place of residence, talking j
over the nffairs of the day, etc., we were l
suddenly startled by a strong vibratory j
sound resembling the noise of a tornado of j
wind coming from the north and approach- i
ing at a rapid rate. This we heard for !
about ten or twelve seconds. While try
ing to divine the cause of it, presently the
windows of that firm and heavy house o mi-
menced to rattle, the house to oscillate,
and we decided, so Bensibly did we feel
this shook, that it was an earthquake. The
rattling of the windows continued for
about thirty seconds, but we distinctly
heard the passidg sound for about ten or
twelve seconds thereafter—about one min
ute in all after the first hearing—not a low
rumbling sound, such as we" suppose a
subterranean one, but atone indicating the
letter D of the music gamut scale.
After our fright had somewhat subsided
we very naturally fell to discussing the
whys and wherefores—the causes of such
terrible and unexplained phenomena.
Quoting the opinions of eminent scientists
on the subject, one of the party said that
“the earth was filled with red hot matter
that was cooling otf, and naturally found
places where explosive materials might be
stored away, and thus an explosion, such
as we just saw and heard might take
place.” Another, that “volcanoes assisted
the shocks and probably caused extensive
land slides, changing and causing different
levels of the earth’s surface in their vicini
ty.” Quite a variety of conjectures were
formulated and spoken, but none that met
the writer’s theory of earthquakes, who
joined the conversation by remarking as
follows: “With due respect for all the
learned theories advanced, I humbly offer
my opinion, and at the same time it’s basis
•of causation, proposing to show how
the earth is constantly being built up
and preserved, and the reverse of it.
On this globe oil with wh which come in
contact is matter, let it be much or little,
large or small, its particle of matter here,
or an orb, that floats in the space above us.
Their principles of action are the same
and are inherent. They all possess weight,
size, shape, strength, breadth and length,
which are the determinates of motion and
velocities. The apple of Professor New
ton descending to the centre
of gravity of the earth rep
resents relative motion. Why it did
not fall upward or horizontally is the real
question, and illustrates an indpendent
motion, such as all bodies assume when
left to themselves in space. Could they
move in a straightforward line then ? Oil,
no; that would destroy their harmony.
Length would get the preference in such
a journey, while breadth and depth would
still struggle for their share of existence,
which they must and will have. So in
stead of dividing the mass of matter, nature
kindly provides a motion, or force, for
each part of the cube, length, breadth and
depth. Here lies the principles of aggre
gated forces so powerful in matter.
Here, representing the centripetal forces
of the earth, we get its daily revolution on
its axis, passing a given point at the rate
of a thousand miles an hour, carrying and
sustaining, by its velocity, the greatest
share of the earth’s weight, and in con
nection with the yearly orbital motion or
velocity, another share ofthis heavy labor,
but takes 365 days to accomplish it. It
represents depth, and moves with a veloc
ity past a given point at about the same
rapidity—one thousand miles an hour.
These keep up the rotundity of the earth,
and gives us the seasons. They are, in
fact, the working forces of the earth, and
intersect each other twice in the year, on
the earth’s surface. Should they not act
in perfect harmony and accord, disinte
gration of the earth’s surface and of the
atmosphere, would at once commence to
take place.
THE CENTRIPETAL FORCES OF THE EARTH.
What are they? those inherent veloci
ties of matter, that tend to unite, and build
up, the opposite, ceutripegal, those that
separate, and disintegrate parts of matter,
it moves, it acts, there is nothing at rest;
if there was, disintegration and separation
would at once take place; so the forces
that build up are conserative and are, un
doubtedly, the daily and yearly revolu
tions of the earth, and of every piece of
matter, regardless of size or position. Ap
ply these principles of action to the con
vulsive shakings experienced, the last few
days, and a similarity of active forces will
at once be seen in regard to time, etc., etc.
In July, 1885, one was felt in eight or ten
eastern and western states, but could not
learn of the earth’s being broken on the
surface anywhere. Now this one at
Charleston, about twelve months there
after, beginning at about the same place,
travels and shakes double the space, and
makes but one place wh ’re we might ex
pect an explosive shock. It will be no
ticed that every twenty-four hours for five
or six days tbe’shocks were felt at Charles
ton, thus showing the lines of intersection
connected with the daily and yearly revo
lutions of the earth. That he believes
nothing could so effect the
earth and atmosphere, but the absence,
by disturbance, of the above forces.
That the aggregation of units or particles
of matter, large or small, is constantly
aoing on, influenced and sustained by in
herent principles common to matter.
They move, they live, they animate,
whether at the centre of gravity, or on the
surface; hence, move a world by their
united influence. Matter possesses length,
breadth and depth. The cubes, deter
minates of motion. It also holds weight,
the most important force of all. ’Tis the
apple of gravitation, the eminent New
ton saw as he lay under the tree, with
thoughts no doubt akin to the above. The
earth caught the apple; but, remove the
obstacle, you And yourself in space; then
in what direction does your apple go—up,
down or horizontal ? Disintegration
would at once take place, unless a triplex
motion comes to the rescue, viz.: the daily
revolution of the earth’s axis, tho yearly
orbit, and tne other slow and conservative
of the other two forces or velocities, but
not not less positive an orbit of
thousands of years.
Here you see the groundwork of the
writer’s objections to tlie present explana-
tion causing earthquakes, of which the
two last shocks, one of July, 1885, and
the recent one at Charleston. Their re
currence at the time of the crossing of the
intersectional lines, of the daily and yearly
revolution of the earth, give strong
grounds to wake up a difference of opinion.
Were these two forces so disturbed that
their centripetal action was modified,
lessening the pressure of the aimosphere
and of the impact air thirty-three pounds
to the square inch, the earth’s surface
downward, thus causing a pressure that
passes matte!* quite near, disintegrating
and a separation of the earth’s aggregation
of units. This is more plausible, for if an
explosive force sufficient to shake and
oscillate a continent found vent at Charles
ton, it would have blown the city one hun
dred miles from its present location and
left an opening large enough to engulf
ten such cities. Again, there was a daily
shock, agreeing with the earth’s intersect
ing lines of travel, etc., etc.
President Tyler’s Son.
New York World.
One of the most striking figures in Wash
ington is the son of ex-President Tyler.
He is now an old man. He is bent with
weight ot years. His long, white, patri
archal beard sweeps down from his ven
erable face, nearly covering his broad
breast* He wears a soft hat slouched well
down over his deeply-set eyes, and is
dressed generally in a careless suit of badly
cut black. He is rarely noticed, and walks
the street to most people unknown. Yet
ciety of Washington. When his father was
president lie was the leader among the
young men who went in Washington
society. He was tall then, straight as an
arrow, and with a most magnificent pro -
ence, if one can judge of the glowing tales
of his contemporaries. He used to wear a
tong, shaggy coat trimmed with Astrakhan
fur, which was ir. that day a rarity. When
he walked the avenue swinging his cane,
twirling his brown moustache, with his
fur coat thrown back, he was hailed as the
hero of his time. Women bowed down
and worshipped before him and tlie num
ber of his conquests was legion. To-day
he is a poor, broken old man who walks,
insignificant and unknown, about the
streets where lie once reigned us a social
king.
A WONDERFUL CLOCK.
An Klmrlenl 'I'lnieplei-.- Ihiil l’rinnliu’s tu HiTnli:.
11 on l*o tlio ticker World—A Himlln Comity
Mini’s Invention.
Elizabethtown, Ky., September 14.
Hardin county has contributed to the
scientific world an electric clock,'which
surpasses everything of the kind ever in
vented. It lias been placed on display at
the exposition by Mr. C. B. Gifford, of
Colesburg, and will doubtless attract a
great deal of attention. Unlike previous
electrical time-keepers, this clock regu
lates itself automatically under all varia
tions of temperature and the pendulum re
mains the same length under all tempera
ture changes. This requires what is called
compensation in metal, and is effected by
an ingenius arrangement of iron and brass
rolls acting upon a lever so that the dis
tance between the points of suspension
and oscillation of the pendulum remains
unaltered by variations of temperature.
The ordinary- compensating pendulum
consists of a mass of rods, which forma
part of itself, thus increasing the surface
exposed to atmospheric influences, while
in the Colesburg pendulum the compen
sating portion is fixed and the vibrating
portion consists simply of a pendulum bob,
and approaches as near as possible the
form of the theoretical pendulum. The
electrical device which keeps it in motion,
while ingenious, is exceedingly simple. All
wheel escapements are dispensed with,
and the pendulum is kept in motion by the
successive itnpulsations of a magnetic
armature. The magnet varies in strength
according to the condition of the battery,
but by a simple arrangement this variation
of magnetic force makes no corresponding
change in the arc of vibration, which re
mains constant under all conditions of the
battery.
So delicate is this pendulum that one
cell of gravity battery is amply sufficient
to run the pendulum and a primary clock,
and the pendulum will run any kind of
electric clock, either primary or second
ary, and the number is unlimited.
Mr. Gift'ord has been testing the electrical
wonder for four or five months, and not
even the slightest variation has been de
tected. Nothing of the kind was found in
the patent office at Washington, and let
ters patent were secured without any
trouble whatever. Had it been the inven
tion of the wizard of Menlo pard it would
long ago have attracted p lblic attention,
but as it is the result of long and laborious
experiments of a modest gentleman who
thirsteth not for popular applause, its ex
istence is known to but few persons.
PROF. LEROUX’S LEAP.
A Feat Which ltlorkaili’il the Streets of l’lillu-
delphla.
Philadelphia, September 13.—The an
nouncement that Prof. Charles Leroux, of
New York, would jump from the top of
the dime museum building drew a great
multitude to the vicinity of Arch and
Ninth streets to-day at noon. First on the
ground were the newsboys and bootblacks.
Then followed hundreds of school chil
dren. Merchants, clerks and -artisans has
tily swallowed their lunches
and hurried, some coatless,
some hatless, to witness the feat.
Women and girls, and mothers with
babies in their arms, joined the throng,
which every moment grew denser. All
traffic was suspended, and cars and vehi
cles of all kinds were blockaded until
Arch street from Eighth to Tenth was one
solid mass of people, horses and vehicles.
The blockade also extended for a longdis
tance north and south on Ninth street.
The windows and house tops were filled
with people. Bovs climbed up on the ob
structed wagons, paying 5 cents apiece for
the privilege. Uniformed messenger boys
were conspicuous in the crowd, and no
amount of money could induce aiiy boy to
do au errand at that hour.
Promptly at 12:30 o’clock the professor
appeared upon the high mansard roof, 100
feet above the pavement. He was greeted
with loud cheers. His well-knit figure was
displayed to advantage in iightrblue silk
tights and satyi trunks. A parachute six
teen ieet in diameter swayed back and
forth in the wind, and as the professor
seized the tower end of it the crowd called
out a steady “one, two, three; one, two,
three.” The policemen cleared a space
twenty feet square on Arch street, directly
in front of the place from which the leap
was to be made. As the crowd oried
“three” the third time the professor
leaped into the air. His descent was very
rapid. A light breeze carried the para
chute and its passenger about thirty feet
to the east, and the professor just missed
the lamp post at the street corner. He
struck a man upon the head, throwing the
professor’s right knee against his own
forehead and cutting a gash, which bled
profusely. The jumper was led into the
office as the crimson fluid dripped upon
his bright-colored clothing.
After the crowd was dispersed it re
quired 20 minutes for the policemen to
move the cars and carriages and restore
travel to its accumtomed course. Prof.
Leroux is 30 years old, and weighs 144
pounds. He is a professional aeronaut,
having made 38 ascensions. He has leaped
from High bridge in New York, and on
July 27 he jumped 100 feet iu Paterson,
N. 'J.
SELMA’S WONDER.
A Young Girl Who Talks With the Demi,
Selma, September 14.—Selma to-day
steps forth with a medium who, by her
wondrous and inexplicable performances,
holds spell-bound the community in which
she lives, while scientific men throughout
the city talk amazingly of the seemingly
supernatural being. Her name is Miss
Clara Owen, the daughter of .1. F. Owen,
residing on Florence street, this city. She
is sixteen years of age, of slim figure, has
brown hair, blue eyes, and a very pleasing
face. She is also full of life, and possesses
the power of communicating with
the spirit world, which she
does in a most mysterious
manner by- means of a slate, on which is
used no pencil, but on which any question
is answered, and in a bold and legible
hand. Throngs of people are reported to
be flocking to her, night after night, that
they may hold communication with tlie
friends and loved ones in the spirit land.
Sealed questions have been placed in an
envelope, which was done outof her sight,
which are not only readily but correctly-
answered from time to time, f hese facts,
though monstrously wondrous, are readily
certified to by her stable parents, as well
as many of the best and most reliable citi
zens of this city. Miss Owen is the won
der of the Central City.
An Editor Unlike the Rest or tin.
London, September 16.—Sir Charles
i has returnr■* T J * - -
Competent Testimony.
Some time ago Mr. D. R. Locke, so well
known under the nom do plume Of
Petroleum V. Nasby, went to New Orleans
to investigate tlie workings of The Lou
isiana State Lottery, about which he had
hoard so much. lie went there preju
diced against it, but, as will be seen from
what he wrote home to his newspaper, the
Toledo Blade, he fully satisfied himself
of tlie honesty and lair dealing of this
world-renowned company. The following
is a portion of Ids letter, and is interest
ing reading :
“In Europe the lottery is a government
instituti m ns much us the tax-gatherer.
Germany. Austria, and Italy all have lot
teries that area part of tin governmental
system. In Austria loans are contracted,
the interest being paid in prizes determined
by lot, and almost every' Austrian and
Italian purchases these tickets. The prin
cipal is paid by the government at maturi
ty, and the interest is divided among those
making tlie loan. A man simply lends the
government an hundred fionn> .it five per
cent. Instead of receiving live florins in
terest, he and all tho other holders throw
it into a pool, and five lucky men draw the
interest from a million ot such loans.
Which is to say, they prefer to take u
chalice of receiving 100,0;):) florins to a cer
tainty of reeeh ing five. And so the hun
dred florins bond lies from year to year, In
the hope of its eventually making the
holder an independent man.
The same system is in vogue in Now Or
leans. The city issues what are called
“premium bonds,” the interest being dis
tributed in blocks by lot. Those bonds
they sell the same as other seeurlti ;s on
which interest is paid in the usual way, u.
fact they are preferred.
The greatest lottery in tlie United States
is located in New Orleans, and this is how
it is.
The people of the south, Louisiana es
pecially, and New Orleans more especially,
have always been devoted patrons of the
lottery. Enormous sums were annually
sent abroad to Havana, Vienna, Rome and
everywhere else for tickets, all of which
told severely upon the resources of the
state. Taking advantage of this tendency
of the people, irresponsible lottery com
panies were formed all over the state,
which were swindles of tho commonest
order.
To remedy this the legislature of the
state in 1868 authorized the incorporation
of one lottery company, to be known as
the “Louisiana State Lottery Company,”
with a capital of $1,000,000, and enacted
that this company should alone have tlie
right to prosecute the business within tlie
state. Tlie methods of conducting the
business were all set fortli with great ex
actness, and a certain percentage of the
profits were required to be devoted to the
support of the hospitals of the city; and it
was also provided that all drawings should
be conducted by a board of commissioners
appointed by the state.
Under this act the company was organ
ized and its stock taken by tho very best
citizens of the state, all classes of business
men being included in the list of stockhold
ers, and the best citizens accepting posi
tions in its management. In 1879 tlie same
provisions were included in the revised
constitution of the state, giving the com
pany the double seal of legality, legislative
and" constitutional.
Under this charter, or rather charters,
the company has operated ever since. The
stock in the company is quoted regularly
upon the stock exchange; its stockholders
and those in the management from year to
year are among the best known business
men of the city and state, men not only of
recognized financial, but social position.
It is essentially a state institution. The
state hospital, one of the largest, best con
ducted, and best equipped in the United
States, is supported by the company, not
by donation, but in pursuance of a provi
sion in its charter. The payments to the
hospital are made quarterly.
It is a large contributor to every charity,
and it is the most important factor in the
material prosperity of the city. Its stock
holders are planters, mill owners, sugar
refiners, and real estate owners, who have
an interest in tho city and state greater
than any association within its borders.
Consequently the company is the very
centre and heart of all enterprises directed
to the development of the state, it is the
promoter of the various railroad enter
prises and manufacturing schemas which
have since the war done so much toward
the development of the resources of the
state.
The company has to-day a larger capital
than any bank in the state, anil its finan
cial resources are practically unlimited.
No one in New Orleans questions its in
tegrity. No matter what may be thought
of the'morais of lotteries in the abstract,
the state of Louisiana believes in them,
and it has made a giant corporation,
and so hedged it around that it stands the
severest possible tests.
The character and standing of those who
from time to time have been in its man
agement has never been questioned, either
on the legislative floor or in the press. It
owes its existence to a vote of the people
of the state, who twice indorsed it, once
by a majority of 60,000 votes, and it is so
hedged with safeguards that it pos
sesses their entire confidence.
The managers know nothing of
the drawings—the commissioners, who are
really state officials, have sole control of
every detail. They have always
actual possession of every ballot
placed in the wheels, and they
can reap no benefit whatever from airy
drawing. Added to this source of confi
dence is the additional fact that men of
the very highest commercial integrity are
active in it, owning its stock and controll
ing its operations. There is scarcely a
banker or merchant iu New Orleans who
is not directly interested iu it, and they
take as much pride in its reputation as
they do in their own private business.
The company own a very fine building
on St. Charles street, in which its vast busi
ness is transacted, and an army of clerks
and accountants are required. It has the
appearance, internally and externally, of
a systematically conducted bank, which it
really is, only it does more business than
any ten banks in the city.
This would be impossible in the north
ern states. No merchant, shipowner, or
manufacturer in Boston would want, it
known that he was concerned in a lottery,
even as a ticket buyer, much less as a
stockholder or manager; while here in
New Orleans it is considered not only not
disreputable, but absolutely legitimate, as
much so as any other business. When the
company was organized and the stock
placed upon tffc market, it was considered
the same us any other stock; men of the
highest character, financially and socially,
invested in it, and went into its direction,
and it is managed with just as nice a re
gard to mercantile honor and commercial
integrity as any stock company in the
south. The difference between Boston and
New Orleans in this respect is in the moral
sense of the community. In this particu
lar, New Orleans is where New England
was an hundred years ago. That is ail.
Whatever may be public opinion as to
lotteries in general, it is only justice to say
that the company perform all promises
with rigorous fidelity, and its bitterest op
ponents have never questioned its integ
rity.
how the drawings are conducted.
All the drawings of the Louisiana Com
pany are under the personal supervision of
Generals G. T. Beauregard and Jubal A.
Early, assisted by a Htate commission. The
managers have no interest iu the drawing,
nor have they anything whatever to do
with it. Everything is in the hands of
commissioners, and they alone manage
the distribution.
The method is very Staple. There are
- * ticket*sol/i NnmKo
ranging in value from $75,000, which is the
great prize, down to $25, the smallest.
The prizes ranging from $25 to $76,000
are printed upon slips of paper and depos
ited in another wheel, securely packed in
paper tubes us are tlie numbers of tlie
tickets. All the tubes are exactly alike in
both wheels, arid these wheels are so
turned that they are mixed beyond any
possibility of knowledge on the part of
anybody.
A number is drawn out of the wheel
containing 100,000 numbers, and another
out of tlie wheel containing the prizes.
Ilotli are opened, and tlie holder of the
number is awarded the prize indicated on
the slip taken from the large wheel.
In tlie drawing I witnessed, the first
number drawn from the wheel was 71,541,
and the prize that came from tho other
was $24. Who was the holder? No one
knew, it was somebody. Ho might be a
barber iu New Orleans, a farmer iu Minne
sota, or a millionaire in New York. All
these classes are patrons of the company.
The .naiuigemem know no more who holds
tho tn-kets that draw Uio prizes than do
the bystanders; ail there is of it, when the
ticket is presented the holder receives a
check on the New Orleans National bank
for the amount it calls for, and the traits
action is over, so far as the company is
concerned.
The drawing that I witnessed took place
at tlie Aeadi my of Alusic March 11th. The
theatre commenced filling up at about 10
o’clock, with people of all ’ grades, from
the wealthy merchant who lias his wine at
his dinner, to tho bootblack whose days
jire skirmishes with hunger. They all had
’an interest in the proceedings. At about
10:30 a dozen men appeared upon the stage,
two evidently in charge, fine of these
two, a rather under-sized man, with a
sparkling blek eye, togs Hlightly curved, a
not large but exceedingly well-proportion
ed body, a face expressive ol peculiarly
quick intelligence, hair, moustache and
Imperial silvery white. That is Gen. G. T.
Beauregard, of whom the United tSates
knows much.
The other of the two is a very tall man,
with a head us bald us au egg on the top,
and a long white beard that sweeps his
bosom, slightly stooped, with a white
slouched hat, under which there is a face
that would mark its bearer as a Baptist
clergyman rather than as a sanguinary
warrior. It is a kindly face, with nothing
blood-thirsty in it; the face of a rather pros
porous planter, who attended strictly to
business, and worked his land well. That
is Gen. Jubal A. Early, of Virginia.
These men were in the public gaze twen
ty years ago—they are not now. They are,
to-day the commissioners who supervise
tho druwings of The Louisiana Lottery,
and they arc responsible for everything
connected with it.
There nro two wheels on tlie stage. Into
one, an immense affair, are emptied tubes
of pasteboard, which contain slips of paper,
on which are numbers running from one
to one hundred thousand. The other
wheel, much smaller, contains tubes to the
number of 1967, which is the number of
prizes to be awarded. There is a tre
mendous difference between the wheel
containing the prizes and the wheel hold
ing the numbers. The one requires the
muscle of two stalwart negroes to turn it
while the other a child might whirl. One
represents the blanks in life, the other the
prizes. Tile proportion runs about the
same in everything in this imperfect world.
It takes a great many thousand men to
build a railroad, but only one Vanderbilt
to own it.
The numbers are placed in the wheel;
they are turned so as to be thoroughly
mixed. One boy, blindfolded, at the great
wheel lakes out a tube and hands it to
Gen. Early, who opens it and announces it
“Two thousand one hundred and sixty
four.” A boy. also blindfolded, at tne
other wheel takes out a tube and hands it
to Gen. Beauregard, who opening it an
nounces “Fifty dollars.” The number of
the ticket and the prize it lias drawn are
both recorded, and the operation is repeat
ed till the 1967 tickets are’ taken from the
smaller wheel.
Those present sit and watch carefully.
There is no sensation while the smaller
prizes are being drawn. As a matter of
course there will be five or ten minutes
during which the prizes will be $25’s and
$50’s, with an occasional $100. These ex
cite no special attention. But t here conies
one which does excite attention. Gen.
Early pronounces a number, and Gen.
Beauregard, when the correspondent num
ber is drawn, hesitates for a moment, and
slowly announces “ Six thousand dollars !”
There is a perceptible movement among
the audience, for $6000 is a very tidy sum of
money for any one to have, especially
when the investment that procured it was
only $5.
Presently there is another sensation. A
number is drawn, and Gen. Beauregard is
a trifle more slow, as if to whet the impa
tience of the throng. “Twenty-five thous
and dollars!” is announced. That is some
thing like it. Six thousand dollars does
very well as a starter in life, but the lucky
winner of .$25,000 can, if he be it man of
moderate tastes, retire on that.
Still this is nothing, or at least it isn’t
what they are ail waiting for. Presently a
number is announced, and Gen. Beaure
gard, with provoking slowness, announces
"S-e-v-e-n-t-y-fi-v-e thousand dollars.”
There is a sensation, for that is the capital
prize. The one that everybody who buys
a ticket hopes to draw. Only one gets it,
however. It is Vanderbilt and his laborers
over again.
In this scheme there is one prize of
.$75,000, one of $25,000, one of $10,000, two
of $6000, five of $2000, ten of $1090, twenty
of $500, 100 of $200, and so oil down to
1000 of $25 each, with approximation
prizes of $750, $500, and $200.
Who bagged the great prize ? Who was
he or she ? No one knows. One man may
hold the whole ticket and will receive the
whole amount, or it may he divided into
fifths, and may be held by five persons, iu
which event the comfortable sum will be
divided into five parts.
The successful numbers with the amount
the}’ have drawn are published the next
day after the drawing, and within a week
or two the prizes are mostly claimed and
paid. In this ease the capital prize went to
some one in Illinois, who sent for it
through the bank in his village, and the
sum was sent him in a draft.
What will be do with it? It is a comforta
ble sum to have for any man, old or young,
and it may make him or mar him, accord
ing to his bent. Invested in first mortgages
at six per cent., he has $4500 per year to
live upon all his life. If he becomes infat-
! uated and goes to Chicago to gamble in
I grain, or to New York in stocks, it will
' last him a few weeks, and he will be no
| better oft’than before.
! It would lie a curious study to know
] what has iieen done with the untold
i millions the company have distributed; but
| who shall ever write their history?
The drawing requires about four hours
| of time, for it is done with the utmost
■ exactness and system. Several records are
| made of each number drawn, with the
i prize accompanying, and there are so
i many checks anil counter checks that a
; mistake is impossible.
! Then the announcement is made up and
published in the official papers of thecom-
i pany, and the prizes are paid as fast as the
' holders present their tickets. Those near
by come and get their money. Those at a
distance send their tickets t hrough their
j own banks to the banks here, who collect
and remit.
Everybody in New Orleans invests in this
lottery just as regularly as they pay their
| rent, and the sale of tickets is considered
I an entirely legitimate business. I saw
men on the morning of the day at within
five minutes of the time the drawing com
menced, send out for a fifth of a
ticket, they having forgotten that, to
♦ how iffffynminf*.*- r)—*— m l J -
money back. And the grand prize ! Who
knows but they may strike that,?
Tho Louisiana State Lottery is as much |
of an institution in Louisiana as the Legis
lature, and is recognized as being jus,, ns
legitimate. It has now, and always had.
a solid hold upon tho peopk of the state.'
—D. R. Locke, in Toledo lOhlot Blade.
REPORTS ABOUT THE CORN.
liiilicntloiis find tin* I'ruji is IVell I’nitt Aliy
SrrlmiK IliulKi’r i,f Frost.
Tin- following summary will appear in
this week’s issue of tho Chicago Farmer’s
Review: ’' Tlie corn crop had a week of
hot and crowding weather, and llie
mujoi’lty of the reports received at the
dose ol the present week indicate that the
crop is well past any serious danger of j
frost. Amlin portions of Illinois, Mis
souri, Kan.-,.is. Iowa and Wisconsin the
grain is already sufficiently matured to le-
sint any injury from light frosts. The gene
ral averages indicated by the reports
during the past four weeks have not
changed in any particular degree.
In a general way the pros
pects are still very good for a full
average yield in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana
and Minnesota. The average prospective
yield is lowest, in llfinois, Wisconsin, Mis
souri and Iowa, and ranges low in Kansas
and Nebraska. The averages given last
week are varied from only slightly. The
average for Illinois, according to reports
from twenty-two of the principal corn-
growing counties, is between 62 and 85 per
cent., and five of tlie counties report that
the crop is out of all danger from frost.
The most encouraging reports from Illi
nois come from Lee, Ford and Morgan
counties, and are the only ones reporting
a prospect of a full average yield. The
average is the lowest in Edwards and
Mercer counties. In twenty counties of
Iowa the general average ranges from
59 to 63 per cent. In Cass and Carroll
counties the reports show the crop will
give a full average yield. In Madison, De
catur, Marion and Appanoosn counties tlie
average falls from 20 to 35 per cent,
of au average yield. The telegraphed
average of 61 per cent.sent last week should
have been applied to Iowa instead ofOhio.
In Kansas tlie lowest average reported is
25 per cent, and the highest 100. The
average for the state ranges from 66 to 72
percent. In Missouri the average for the
fifteen scattered counties falls below 50 per
cent, with a general average of 58 per cent.
In Wisconsin some of tlie counties indi
cate very low averages. In Grant,Fond du
Lac aim Sheboygan counties the yield is
placed at from ten to fifteen bushels an
acre. The average for the state runs very
low. Fully one-half the counties of
Minnesota predict a full average yield. In
Ripest,one county the yield promises to be
the largest ever raised in that county. In
Michigan the yield will be nearly a full
average, and in Indiana will probably
exceed the yield of a year ago. In
Nebraska the yield will be fully 85 per
oent. of ail average yield.
“The reports continue to indicate that
early planted potatoes promise a fair yield,
while nearly all late planted potatoes are
very poor, indicating generally less than
one-fourth the usual yield. The totnl yield
will exceed very little more than one-half
the usual yield.
“Late rains have improved the pastures
somewhat in Iowa and Illinois, where the
grass in maiiy sections is reported short
but green, in other large sections past
tires are reported dry and short and cattle
lean. In many portions of Illinois, Mis
souri, Iowa, Minnesota and Kansas corn is
being cut in large quantities for fodder.
Hogs are reported light but generally
healthy. Hog cholera is reported in Jas
per county, Illinois, and in Osage county,
Missouri, hogs are dying from an unknown
disease.”
Mi'h, II, ( . Hmii-h Deserts a Blind IIukIihihI mail
Three- Little Chllilmi.
Cincinnati, September 14.—A distress
ing ease of family trouble came to light at
Hammond street station last night. H. C.
Roach, the well-known caterer, who has
become blind, entered the station house,
led by his little, daughter, scarcely ten
years old. With teara streaming down his
cheeks, the old gentleman told that hit
little boy, three years old, had been stolen
from his home, 91 Court street, in the af
ternoon, and lie wanted the officers to look
into the case. Lieutenant Pistner, by
close questioning, learned that Mr. Roach s
wife had deserted him and three Hnir.il
children last Thursday, and had not been
seen since. Tlie old gentleman is almost
helpless, and his children are aged ten
years, three years and nine months.
Lieutenant Pistner detailed an officer to
look into the ease, and on information
furnished by Roach the recreant wife was
found on New street at the house of Mrs.
Meads. There it was found that it was
she who had stolen the child. As soon as
her husband told her what he wanted she
thrust the little boy into his father’s arms
and slammed the door in the face of both
husband and children. She said she would
never return to her home or children.
Later she appeared .at Hammond street
station with her baby in her arms. She
says she is unwilling to take her husband’s
abuse. She is employed in the laundry at
the Palace Hotel, and is said to be a very
hard-working woman. The trouble be
tween the two seems to be the inclination
on the part oi the wife to drink too much
beer, and to associate with women of bad
character.
.41A It KLIN It Y
Kinaiicial.
London, September 15. —4 p. in.— Consols—
money lOO;*, account PK) 13-16.
NEW YOKE MONEY MARKET.
New York, September 15— Noon—Stocks active
and steady. Money quiet, 5"i 6. Exchange lung
$4.8iv>$i.82, short $4.84%(i $4,84 : .%. State
bends dull, steady. Government bonds dull but
firm.
New York, September 15.—Exchange $1.81%.
Money 7(" 1 per cent. Government’s dull, firm;
new four per cents l‘Z6 7 >,; three per cents 126%
bid. Slate bonds dull.
SOB-TREASURY BALANCES.
Gold in the Sub-Treasury $127,728,000; currency
$28.185,000.
STOCK MARKET.
New York, September 15. —The following were
closing quotations of the stock exchange:
Ala class A 2 to 5 ... 105% (.' & N 65
do class H 5s 108 IN. U. Pac. Ists 75%
Ga O’s IN. Y. Centrtyl 111%
Oa 8’s mortgage.... 111' J Norfolk &\V’flpre. 15%
sellers; September and Getober, 5 8-6-ld buyers;
October and November. 6‘P64d value; November
and December, 5 3-Old sellers; December and
Jaiiury, 5 8-o-ld sellers; January and February.
5 3-64rl buyers; February and March, 5 5-64d
sellers; March and April, 5 7-6-ld sellers; April
and May, 5 9-fl-td sellers. Futures quiet.
-1:00 p. M. -September delivery, 5 13-64d sellers;
Septembei an I October. 5 8-Md sellcis; October
and November, 5 3-84(1 sellers; November and
December, 5 2-Old sellers; December and January,
5 2-Old sellers; January and February, 5 3-64d
sellers; February and March, 5 4-6-Id buyers.
March nnd April.5 8-84(1 buyers; April and May,
6 8-64(1 value. Futures closed easy.
New York, September 15.—Cotton firm;
sales 761 bales; middling uplands 9%c,
Orleans 0 7-ltlc.
Consolidated net receipts 0,701 hales; exports
Great Britain 1810, continent. 350, France 00;
stock 201,573.
NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS FUTURES.
New York. September 15—Net recelDtsO, gross
0012. Futures closbd linn: sales 70,700 bales,
as follows:
September 9 lH-100f« 9 17-100
October 9 19-100®9 20-100
November 0 21-100'a9 22-100
December 9 93-100(1.9 24-100
January 9 fO ioum.9 31-100
February 9 38-100"'9 39-100
March- 9 16 loom9 47-100
April
■May
July 0 ..!. 7......
9 71-lOOui 0 72-100
9 79-100'" 9 80-100
New Orle
Mt'ndy;* sales
September...
October
vns, September 15—2:40 p. m—Futures
16.800 bales, as follows:
8 82-lOOd'8 84-100
8 78-100'" 8 80-100
November....
December....
January
February
8 76-100'" 8 77-100
8 79-1001"'8 80-100
8 88-100'" 8 89-1( 0
8 99-100(0)9 00-100
9 09-100'". 9 11-100
April.!.......!.'.
May
9 20-100'" 9 21-100
9 30-100(4*9 31-100
9 40-100(1 9 41-100
July 9 48-100W.-9 49-100
Galveston, September 15— Cotton firm ; mid-
lings 9c; net receipts 3769, gross 3759; sales
1675: stock 33,555; exports to continent 00, Great
Britain 00.
Norfolk, September 15.— Cotton steady; mid
dlings 9c; net receipts 194, gross 19-1; sales 15;
stock 3161; export! to Great Britain 00.
Baltimore, September 15. -Cotton firm: mid
dlings 9%c; net, receipts 00, gross 00; sales 2009,
spinners 2,109; stock 3389; exports to Great Brit
ain 00, to continent 00.
Boston, September 15.—Cotton quiet; middlings
9'I h (i,9%c; net receipts 2, gross 15; sales 0; stock
—; exports to Great Britain 00.
Wilmington, September 15.—Cotton steady;
middlings 8t>,c; net receipts 104, gross 104; sales 0;
stock 037; exports to Great Britain 00.
Philadelphia, September 16—Cotton dull; mid
dlings if 1 fie; net receipts 32, gross 32; sales 00;
stock 0948; exportH to Great Britain 00.
Savannah, September 15. -Cotton very firm;
middlings H%c; net receipts 2774, gross 2774;
sales 1800; stock 19,618.
New Orleans, September 15.-Cotton market
firm: middlings at 9c; net receipts 1903, gross
1981; sales 300; stock 21,900; exports to Great
Britain 00, to continent 00.
Mobile, September 15. -Cotton market steady;
middlings H : !.|C; net reoeiptsSl, gross73; sales 100;
stock 30-10.
Memems,September 15 -Cottonquiet; middling
8%c; receipts 211; shipments 300; sales 250;
stock 3792.
Augusta, September 15.-—Cotton firm; mid
dlings 8’’„c; receipts 247; shipments 00; sales 308;
stock —.
Charleston, September 15.-Cotton market
linn; middlings 8%c; net receipts 914, gross
914; sales .1000; stock 876-1; exports to Great
Britain 00.
Atlanta, September 15.—Cotton recoipts 91
hales middlings 8%c.
PrOViNlWIIN.
Chicago, September 16.—F’lour unchanged;
southern winter wheat $115®4 50. Mess pork
unsettled, closing 25(1,300 lower than yesterday—
casli $10 85, October closed at $10 85(>i.$10 87%,
November $10 57!-4«u$10 80. Lard weak and 20®
25c lower -cash and September $7 20, October
dosed at $7 36(n7 87%, November at *7 25®7 27%.
Short rib sides steady—cash $7 35. Boxed meats
quiet, steady-dry salted shoulders $6 12%®6 25,
short clear sides $7 25d $7 30.
On the afternoon board grains were weak and
closed a shade easier, and provisions a little
steadier.
St. Louih, September 15.—Flour (Rill, weak-
choice $3 25(i 3 40, family $2 00tii2 75. Provision*
weak ami unsettled. Mess pork lower-$ll 50;
lard weak, $6 00(i 0 70; bulk meats lower—loose
lots Jong clear and short rib sides $7 80, short
dear sides $7 90; boxed lots—long clear sides
and short rib sides $7 80, short clear sides $7 87%;
bacon dull -long clearsides $8 12%®d 35, short
rib sides $8 25, short clear sides $8 76®8 87%c;
hums $12 26ftu$13 5(1.
Cincinnati, .September 15. — Flour quiet—
family $3 itfiirS 60. Pork firm—$1150. Lard
dull --$7 00. Bulk meats easier—short rib sides
$7 60. Bacon firm—shoulders $7 37%, short rib
sides $8 25, short clear sides $8 60.
New Orleans, September 15.— Rice firm,
fair demand - Louisianna fair to prime 3%@
I' ,c. Molasses, steady; Louisiana open kettle
—good prime to strictly prime 32c, prime 20c,
lair 17'i 18. good common 13'i 14c; centrifugals,
firmer- ;•:’me to strictly prime IOm 20c, fair to
good fiiii .2 • 13c, common to good common 8®
130
100
rt lie
lillc..
eltle
Virginia 6s
Virginia consols..
Chesap’ke A: Oliii
Chicago & N. W
do preferred
Del. Si Lack
Erie
East Ten n
L
, Mem
I Mob;
Si N.
: do pi
Pacific Mail
Heading
I licit. A Allegiiai
I (iclimond A: Iia
tich & \V. P. Te
I lock Island
St. PauJ
•Bid. ? Asked.
Liverpool, September 15. — Noon.— Cotton
market business large at advancing prices; mid
dling uplands 5 .%-16d, Orleans 5 1 ,d; sales
18,000 bales—for speculation and export 8000
bales. *
Receipts 2300 bales—all American.
Futures steady at advance, at following quo
tations :
September 5 14-64(^5 15-64d
September and October 5 8-64<a>5 9-6 Id
October and November 5 4-64d
November and December 5 3-64d
December and January 5 3-64d
January and February 5 3-64d
February and March 5 5-64d
March and April 5 7-54d
April and May d
Tenders of deliveries for to-day’s clearing 7300
bales of new docket and 00 bales of old docket.
tic
Louisvi -.i.i September 15.—Provisions, market
dull ; if on, shoulders $6 75, clear rib $7 75,
clear sides 00. Bulk meats—clear rib sides
$7 25, clear . as $7 50; mess pork $11 00. Lard-
choice leal ;8 IKK", 8 25; hams, sugar-cured, 13c.
<4 ruin.
Chicago, September 15.—'Wheat fairly active
but closed :, h under yesterday September closed
at 74'|C. October at 76 3-16c, November closed at
77 7 hC, No, 2 red 75':$c. Corn heavy and closed %
under yesterday-cash 38> H (u 38 : k»c, September
closed 38' -c, October closed 39 15-16c, November
closed at 41 5-16c. Oats dull, closing j/«c lower—
« asli 26' |C, September closed at 25 3-16e, October
closed at 26'*c, November at 27' h c.
St. Louis, September 15.— Wheat generally
weak, closed 1 'ya l‘.iC below yesteaday—No. 2
red, cash 75P$c, October 755 h '« 76 7 h o, November
e. Corn weak and closed below yester
day—No. 2 mixed, cash 3fi l .,i«’37c, September —c.
November 37 : V*.< 37?.,c. Oats easier—No. 2 mixed
cash 25(ji26/4, October 26^c bid.
Cincinnati, September 15. — WheaJ quiet—
No. 2 red 77c. Corn dull—No. 2 mixed 41X C *
Oats easy—No. 2 mixed 27%c.
Louisville, September 15.— Grain dulfc Wheat
No. 2 red 73c. Corn dull, No. 2 mixed 43c, white
45c. Oats, new No. 2 mixed 28c.
Niitfiftr and ('oll’ee.
New Orleans, September 15.—Coffee excited
and higher—Rio, in cargoes, common to prime,
9>:F^12' ,c. Sugar quiet, steady; open kettlejprime
5^hC, good fair to fully fair 5*4(^5 7-16c, fair 4%c,
common to good common 4^/u;4%c: centrifuala
firmer; white hW(a$l H c, choice yellow clarified
5 7 „c, prime yellow clarified 5%(«'6c, seconds 4^
fit 414c.
New York, September 15.—Coffee, spot,fair;Rio
firm 11 1 $c; .No. 7 Rio, September $9 00(^9 05,
October $9 05. November $8 9Bfa 9 20. Sugar firm,
quiet Muscavadu 4 9-16, Barbadoes l 1 ,c, centrifu
gal 55\(n 5 f>-16o; fair to good refining 4 %(a,4%q:
refined firm extra C c, white extra (J
5 >-5'. 2 c, yellow ll-16c off A5 U-16fc«5%c;
cut and mould 6‘ .c; standard A 5 7 h c, confec
tioners A 6c, cut loaf and crushed 6%c, pow
dered 6 ;l , h fn 6; ..c. granulated 6 1 ^ 6 3-16c, cubes
0>'4<gt0 5-16c.
Chicago, September 15.—Sugar steady—stand
ard A5%(af>Kc-
Cincinnati, September 15.—Sugar steady; New
Orleans 5, 1 y c.
Ito-in and Turpentine.
New York, September 15.—Rosin quiet-
strained $1 00 " $1 05. Turpentine steady—3554c,
32’,‘qC.
I Savannah, September 15.—Turpentine firm, at
, 3hr; sales 00 barrels. Rosin firm -good strained
90c'<i $1 10; sales 400 barrels,
i Wilmington, September 15.—Turpentine firm;
! 33*:jc. Rosin quiet—strained 75c; good 80c. Tar
firm $1 30; crude turpentine firm—hard 75c,
; yellow dip $1 80, virgin $1 80.
Cotton Seed Oil.
i New Orleans. September 15.— Cotton seed
j products scarce and firm— prime crude oil
1 delivered 25'" 26c; summer yellow 36'" 37c. Cake
' and meal, long ton, $19 00("20 00.
New York, September 15.—Cotton seed oil, 24®
26c for crude, 40c for refined.
Wool and Hides.
New v York, September 15.—Hides steady—New
Orleans selected. 45 and 60 pounds, 9;4@10o;
Texas selected, 50 and 60 pounds, 10@1054o*
New York, September 15.—Wool firm—
—domestic fleece 30<v? 38c, Texas 10®25c.
Whisky.
Chicago, September 15.—Whisky steady—|l 15*.
St. Louis, September 15.—Whisky firm—$1 10.
Cincinnati, September 15.—Whisky firm—
$1 10.