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Colton .
Beyond l he very low average price at
Shlch nine million bales of cotton have
Jteen marketed general Interest In the
largest erop of American cotton csV* r
raiKtxl has not commanded anything like
the attention that the smaller one* of 1 S 92
<x«*roin«*d. 'Phe feature that ha* arouaed
the great oh t care and thought ban been
the effect of the low price* upon the
grower* of the crop and the million* of
worker* Identified therewith. The low
price ban (Jenpoiled to a vt ry large ex¬
tent the credit facIlltPa of a very large
body of cotton grower*. Inasmuch a* be¬
ing unable to liquidate old obligation*
they an* powerless to negotiate r n< w ones.
The Indirect influence of the* low avorage
value ha* hern very far reaching and ha*
been It to a greater or less extent In
ever.v 'i pariment of finance, trade and
manufacturing, and Is responsible for the
InereasoiJ commercial death rate for me
llrst quarter of the year, or son, against
't.i for tin »rnc period in lHfM, alt bough
ih • amount involved wn* *om 'thing |< h*.
leaving this phase of the effect* of the
phenomenal crop that 1* nearly in, the re¬
markably easy di*po*IMon of that portion
of the crop In sight which is in excess o.
the total crop of JK91-92, to put It mildly,
ha* surprised th cotton mart* and manu¬
facturers of the world under the rncrru-
rial and generally unsatisfactory trade
condition* that have prevailed without a
r:ty rtf hope In *Jx month" to betoken
promts© of improvement, jn the fac of
such fuels lhe marketing of nine mJUlion
ha!* 1 * of cotton that have hi-<>n delivered
from pl.'inin,(Ions cannot be regarded oth¬
erwise than a* extraordinary. V« ry for-
Innately, however, the people of I lit*
country have become ho familiar with
big thing* that when detail* of fabulous
receipts of any crop*, iimnufacture* or
iiidcbt.edneKH are ext>re*Hcd the wond< r
manife*ted thereat try unknowing one* is
lost in tbe greater amazement caused |,y
tin student’* reply. “Ih that nil?" Neither
pigmy nor mastodon pro|M>rtlon* are any
longer of effect upon speculators, opera¬
tors or those giant minds that arc the
propelling power of the comm, tela I
world’s forces. Millions and billions of
debts, financial negotiations and the
pounds, bushel*, gallons and other tneus-
lire's of quantity no longer derange the
appotit.ie of any body of leaders in tlx
struggle for commcrejal supremacy, in
support of which statement we point to
the mercurial Indifference with which a
crop of possibly 10 , 000,000 bales is regard¬
ed by those whose interests It bears most
heavily upon.
Consideration of the figures jurtallnglo
that portion of the crop that has been
received for the seven montta ended with
March will now be pre sented, as some of
them in bold type will undoubtedly oc¬
casion no lit I le surprise. The total quan¬
tity received from plantations between
September I, 1891, and March 31, 1895, is In
round numbers 9,00o,000 bales, or 22.0U0
bales more than tin 1 entire crop of 1892,
which was 9,038,797 bales. This quantity
has been disposed of as follows: Euro-
jwan exports, 5,010,H00 bales; Northern
spinners 1,823,337 bales; Southern spin¬
ners. 518,000 bales; stock at the ports,
921,500 bales, and ©took a*t interior towns,
323,032 bales. Comparing thes items with
the figures for 1892 and some wide dis¬
crepancy's IwM-ome apparent, For instance,
the excess of receipts this year to March
31 is 707,725 bailes ovT those for the same
time in 1892, yet the excess of exports is
753,018 bales, which disposes of the in¬
crease* in crop, and which quantity will
be enlarged, because the quantity on ship¬
board and not chared at the end of last
week was 05,000 bales greater than In
1892. The quantity of cotton taken by
American spinners In seven months was
2,311,337 bales, or 02,120 hales more than
for the same period In 1892. At the ship¬
ping ports and Interior town* th’ stocks
on March 31 amounted io 1,247,598 bales,
or 197,411 bales less than it the same time
In 1892, which result has I ft n ft rechad-
owed by the larger exports and the tak¬
ings by American •pinners.
Those figures appear satisfactory, but
undoubtedly, as was the case in 18112,
they do not Include an invisible mov, -
ment, as without such the crop of 1893
wouild have realized much better prices
and could not have supplied the spindle*
of the world. It Is this phase of the sup¬
ply that becomes interesting to growers
of cotton. From tipi>e«ranees it Is more
than probable that the exports to Europe
will exceed (i.iNSI.IMN) hales, or which a
large quantity will he carried over on
September 1, and will he used to dep ri’HH
prices of lie. new crop should it reach
7,()00,(>ito bales. Another hNltUIN* Ot 111
crop In ing marketed Is that it Is very
dean mitt will furnish more yarn from
a pound of lint than the avt ruffe crop,
besides which hti average increase of six
l>nmnls In the weight of hales Is a factor
of fair- importance.
It is this view of the jfntherhuf crop
that cotton eulturlsts must look at and
Kivu all th " weight of doubt against
themselves before delormlninK upon the
a ere, mo that shall be planted in cotton.
At ibis advanced period of the year, and
considering carefully (he force of all the
foretfolnK' fuels, such as the erop in
*iuht, the export and the quantity to be
carried over at the end of the year, be¬
yond one-ball’ of a normal erop there is
not a slnyt le fact that will warrant sueh
an a or owe bellin’ exceeded. Planters and
those associated with them in growing
cotton have had a hard time for seven
months, amt it is not to be bettered bv
repeat In*? what has brought sueh finan¬
cial distnss upon them. Cultivate cereals
on as liberal a scab as possible and the
raising of other food products will surely
prove to those mostly Interested that
cotton is not the only product that will
furnish peace and plenty to so many
home*. New York 1 .hilly l>ry Goods Ko
eorder
I’robnhl, Burl, Twain
The anonymity of the Harper’s serial,
.lust begun. "Persona! Recollections
Joan of Arc. ’ together with its announce¬
ment as !>> the most popular magazine
writer lias naturally resulted in much
guessing as to its authorship, A contem¬
porary ust rlbts it to Julian Ralph, hut
that appears to ns very wide of the
mark. Versatile as Mr. Ralph Is, he has
given no indication of talent for histor¬
ies! romance. Mark Twain, however. Tuts,
and the Internal evidence points very
strongly In his direction. Mr. Clemens
lias often given proof of hts powers for
serious fiction, hut like the beloved COIllp-
dtan. the late William Warren, his hu¬
morous associations haw been so strong
that it Is difficult to get a largo portion
of hts public to take in sober earnest any-
thing he does. 1’osslhiy for that reason
the present work Is put forth anonymous¬
ly. This s rial begins in « way that re¬
calls very strongly the dellgli rul manner
In which Mark Twain dives into the his¬
torical or legendary pari In Ms ’Prince
and the Pauper,” and his Vonneotlcut
Yankee at King Arthur’s Court." There
is the same charming -ymputhy with
child life, and th- tu»k about ,thc dra¬
gon and the fairies Is quite In the vein
of the latter work, while the eolsod with
tho madman recalls a scene In the for¬
mer. There are also not a tew outcrop¬
pings of real Mark Twalnlsh humor, like
•ho bravado of the group of hovs aft r
danger Is over, and the talk of peasants
they . sit . about the winter
as fireside if
not by Mark Twain, then the storv must
he by a twin brother of his in literature.
—Boston Herald.
Maud—1 s c that Flora Findcsiecle has
boon expelled from the New Woman’s
(Vtub.
Marie— \\ hat for?
Maud—For conduct unbecoming a
Roman.—New York World.
UNITED STATES
AT NICARAGUA.
OUR INTEREST IN TIIE CANAL TO
he iiemoastk ATEII.
IIO \ltl) OF FMilN i' i;< T
ItOlTE.
They Will Go on llourd of the Mont-
Koine ry.
liy Ho it tli< rn Ass tciated I’ress.
Washington, D. C., April 1. -Presi-
dent Cleveland lias determined that an
illi ial exhibition of American interest
in th • Nicaraguan canal, which wa*
authorized by the last session of Con- ,,
gress shall is* promptly made and tLe
governmental committee to examine the
rout- for wb'rh the sundry civil bill
made , $2)/•«•! . mimed,latelj ■ , .t\.t.l.t ;I.,v I., 1<. is
In Ito sent to Greylown as soon a- |M»
sil.le ill a United States war vessel to
mpha-zc lli • concern of tb s Govern
in tit in tlie enterprise of American cltl-
ZCJlrt Witt have been acting und r a
•liartcr grant d by Congress in 1890.
Th program of tb» administration corn-
mission was agreed upon at, last Fri-
hiy’s cabinet rnceiing, when Secretaries
Lamont and Her! ert wer * directed to
si*l t a number f r tin- corps of army
engineers and one of the naval civil en-
g !fcr> !•. quM-; i v ly, who, with a civil-
1 -id to be s, b’cted in a «lay or two. will
•■onstitiite the board of engineers
harged with “ascertain ng tin* feasl-
bilily, p rntaiP nee and ,h t of construe-
lion” of tlie Nicaraguan canal, which
shall visit and personally Inspect the
muto of Kitid canal. wk inline ami con-
,h r pie i s, proflb s, seclio: s. pr.snis and
.
,p Ill ation for its various parts and
report thet* on to the President on or he*
for,, November 7 next It wan also tie-
ejded that the army should have the
ranking officer of th - board and See-
r tar., Lain,oil rcleeied Col. Win. P.
Cralgudl for the chairmanship. Col.
iTitigh.il was the lust president of tlie
American society of civil engineer*,
ano the weight of his otpin'on upon tlie
anal project would it • convincing 'be-
y.ind that of tiny other man who could
i,' appointed on the board.
Secretary Herbert chose civil engineer
Mordoeai T. F.ndicott, whosi relative
rank of Lieutenant Command, r is but a
, egred below that of Col. Craighill,
toil who is the second officer on th*
civil engine r list of (lie navy, a man
,f high professional attainments and
an authority upon naval works on shore.
Tlte President has not ye I atm uinced
the civilian member, but Col. J. A.
Montgomery, of Birmingham, Al t., who
lias It en prominent in the construc¬
tion of Southern railways is said lo be
a leading candidate. As soon as the
President completes the lstard it will
organize in Washington and go to New
York where plans, specifications and
......tracts of tlie canal company will Do
closely scrutinized.. The party will
then go to Mobile and embark on tlie
Montgomery, wlti it lias been detailed
for the duty of conveying it to Grey-
town and which w II remain there n»
long ns their stay lasts, furnishing them
a marine guard as well as boats and
H ten 111 launches mul tendering them
the moral support of the United States
flag.
ANTI-1HSM A HCK.
The Socialists or St. Louis Air Their
Experiences Yesterday.
By Southern Associated Press.
St. Louis, Mo., March 31.—The social¬
ists of his city tonight held an nnti-
Bismarck mass meeting at Central
Turner hall. The principal speaker was
Mr. Adolph llepuer, editor of The
Tageblatt. In substance he said: “To¬
morrow Germany will be ablaze with
the enthusiasm of servile worshippers
of a man who, within the space of ten
years, inspired throe wars, entailing
misery, mutilation and death to hun¬
dreds of people. This apotheosis is the
last debt paid to the man who spent a
life time in aggrandizing the house of
Hoheuzollern, washing his conscience,
spurring that ardor that his flatterers
generously call genius, sacrificing per¬
sonal honor in tlie end.
As a people, the nation never existed
within his power except as a means to
glorify the dynasty, and rivet Its power.
An analysis of Bismarck’s part in unit¬
ing all Germany, reveals tlie part of an
absorbed enthusiast, a frenzied zealot
In creating a greater empire for a great¬
er Emperor, who inspired all his enthu¬
siasm, ami Germany became a vast mil¬
itary camp.
Certain classes of Americans are Bis
rnaroks on a leaser scale, and their
methods are reduced copies of their
model. The Carnegles and the l’ull-
mans, and the executive officers who
uphold them are in kinship to the octo¬
genarian, who welded united Germany.
But ns “Wood and iron," methods killed
German Idealism, whose fragments of
former peace and good will only remain
to us in song and story, so will the imi¬
tators in free America decline, from
everything but its name unless ’the peo¬
ple,’ uot the nation, take that power
which belongs to them and mold their
own destiny.”
The Itail was filled, and the half dozen
speeches in German were loudly ap¬
plauded. A Bismarck celebration was
also in progreM at the Germania theatre,
and was very enthusiastic.
irig Majority for Turner.
Ih Southern Ass ciat d Press.
Nashville. Tenn., March 29. The inv, s-
tlgatton into the charges nd counter
progressed so far today that it is possible)
for the first time to Make r.n -stimate
of what the result will he. The action
taken by three subcommittees at work
In different parts of the State shows thaf
the general committee report to the Gen¬
eral Assembly a majority between 4,000
and 6.000 votes In favor of Turney, where¬
as the face of the returns givts Evans a
majority of 700.
Two Prominent Mon Dead.
, London, , „ March . 3L—Gen. Sir George _
lhoiupklns, K. C. B.. member of I ar-
liament for Oxford, died suddenly tn
this city today. Sir Charles Henry Mills,
baron of Millington, died in London to-
day of pneumonia.
HERE IS A
BIG SCHEME.
BLFXTRIC RAILWAY BBTWBKif
NEW YORK A NO C HICAGO.
THF LARGEST WCOKPORATIBD
rOMI’AA Y IN TUB WEST.
Till* Will Revolutionize Freight
Transportation If Successful.
liy Southern Associated Press,
Chicago, Ills., March 31—The Inter-
Oceanic Electric Hail way Company, In-
coiporated at Springfield yesterday, pur-
post-e to make some decided change in
(he present method of freight transpor-
tation. The company has a capital stock
3f jjjixj.OiXj.oOO, the largest ever Incor-
porafed West, and a number of Chicago,
N-w York and San Francisco capitalists
are Interested In the corporation. The
Intention is to construct an elevated
( _ |w . 1r , f . rallway between Chicago and
jjew y or |< for the transporatlori of coal
aml ^rap,. Thf , plans and specifications
have been drawn by a Chicago engineer
and the company will control a number
of patents an electric devices used by tne
road.
CARDINAL GIirilONS.
\<lni<>iiiftli«‘s* III* Flo<*k To Trent
Co I tun n I n tor* With Moderation.
By Southern Associated Press.
Baltimore, Md. t March 31 .—Cardinal
Gibbons preached at the Cathedral to-
day to a large conKreeatlon, from the
text, "Wiio of you »hall convict me?"
H!» Eminence evidently had In mind ex-
Prl et Slattery arid the recent riots In
the South. He said in part:
The Catholic Church is Jealous of the
honor and moral rectitude of her clergy.
It. is her constant aim that they should
walk in innocence and blamelessness of
life. Whenever any of her clergy is
known to have contracted degrading
habits, Inculpable with hts sacred call¬
ing, he is withdrawn from the activs
pursuits of the ministry until he has
given marks of reformation. The church
has too much reverence for God; she
has too much respect for you; she has
loo much respect for the clergy them¬
selves. to suffer any unworthy priest to
minister at her altar.
We find It very hard to please our
enemies. They are very inconsistent, if
wo were to retain a degenerate Clergy
in the exercise of the public mlni^ry
they would point the finger of acorn at
us and say: 'Se how low Is the moral
standard of the Catholic clergy.’ If we
dismiss one of them they will forthwith
pick him up from the gutter an!T re¬
ceive this fallen angdl with open arms
and lead him about the country tike
some strange animal and exhibit him to
the public gaze, He is sure, of course,
to nmlign and misrepresent the church
for what man ever spoke kindly of ttie
mother church he had insulted and dis¬
honored? They affect to believe the man
after his fall when they would not listen
to him when he was honored in the
sanctuary. appeal
His eminence closed with an
to his hearers 4o treat the calumniators
of the church with moderation, and in
no case strike back at her eneihies.
A CHICAGO FIRE.
The Old Time* Building tltr Scene
of the Conflagration.
lly Southern Associated Tress.
Chicago. March 31.—Shortly after 2
o’clock this afternoon fire broke out in
the r.th floor of the old Times’s building
and in less than fifteen minutes the top
floor was a mass of flames. A general
alarm was sent in and after a hard fight
the (ire was subdued, but the building
was flooded with water.
The loss will not fall much below $40,-
000; the building being damaged to the
extent of $10,000. It is probable The
Times’s presses were damaged and in
this event the loss will be heavy. The
Free Proas plant was considerably dam¬
aged and losses wer» sustained by Severn
& Klleny, and the Simon Printing Com¬
pany. and Smiley, Rush & Co., dealers
In stationery. The fire is thought to
have originated in a pile of rubbish from
spontaneous combustion.
DISASTROUS FIRE.
Sweeping Over tlie Section of Ne-
brfiskn South of Binfflinmpton.
By Southern Associated Fress.
Binghnmpton, Neb.. March 31.—For
three (lays a very disastrous fire has
boon raging in the country south of
this place. Tt begun Thursday on the
ranch of It. R. Kincaid. The wind
blew from the northeast, and the fire
burned everything before it. It is im¬
possible to state the amount, of damage
done. Longfellow’s ranch lost over 200
tons of hay alone, and other ranches
..,iv| „rei*oriionaf,’iv' Everybody is
worn out trying to fight the fire. Re¬
ports tonight indicate that the rains
have put out the fire in some places.
FI 1EMICALS EXPLODEl>.
Aral D«*l»rl* I* Hurled Pell Moll—No
One Injured.
By Southern Associated Press.
Newark. N. J., March 31.—Fire de¬
stroyed the large Weiner Saddlery manu¬
factory at Rovlngton this afternoon, en¬
tailing a loss of $40,000. on which there
was $21.00u Insurance. The Margott No-
veRy Company Works on the east, and
Noble Press Works on tlie west of the
Weiner manufactory, were damaged to
the extent of about $3,000. During the
progress of the fire a barrel containing
chemicals exploded In the ruins of th*
Weiner factory hurling the debris over
an area of about 200 feet. Fortunately
no one was injured.
THROWING HAD FGGS.
Conunninrenlcr Grown If ns Three
ClHr.en* Arrested.
By Southern Associated Pre*s.
Chicago. Ills., March 31.—A special
from Massillon. O.. says; A sensation
was created yesterday by the arrest of
Cltv Engineer Borton and CopnrlVmen
Segner and- Walter McTgtin. charged bv
<*« *•» tf-
havinfif sought to break up his
meeting by throwing bad eggs. They
pleaded not guilty,
AN OPEN SWITCH.
A Florida Central nml Pen In sin In r
rn»eng:er Wrecked.
Galneovillev Fla., March 31.—At Danvlle
a small station between here and Cedar
ICeys. a Florida Central and Peninsular
passenger train was wrecked yesterday
„ ven |„g by dashing into an open swt-ch.
q>b e engine was wrecked. The fireman
an d on guv or escaped serious injury hv
jumping. Several passengers were bruis-
ed. but none seriously. It is believed
'rain wreckers threw the switch.
JAPANESE VICTORIES.
1 Fort and Tnenty-ili Gam Taken
I»y the Soldiers.
By Southern Associated Press.
London. March 31.—The Central News
has advices from the Pescadores
Islands, under date of March
20. These dispatches state that
Col. Ito reports that on March
24, the Makuug fort was taken easily
by the Japanese. On the 25th, the Jap-
anese attacked and captured Ken Yung.
They captured twenty-six heavy guns,
and a number of smaller ones, as well
os many rifles and a large Quantity of
ammunition. In the engagement the
Chinese lost thirty killed, and sixty taken
prisoners. The Japanese lost, seventeen
wounded. The Japanese fleet captured
the forts on the Fisher Islands, and all
the Islands forming the Pescadores
group are now in the possession of the
Japanese.
GOV. M’KINLEY.
Arrived In AVnNldnffton Feeling Hot¬
ter and Pleased With Ills Trip.
By Southern Associated Press.
Washington, March 31 -Governor Mc¬
Kinley, accompanied by his wife and Mr.
Smith, and Mr. and Mrs. Osborne), of
Boston, arrived in Washington at 11:15
tonight, from Savannah, over the At¬
lantic Coast Line. Mr. and urs. Osborn#
continued their journey to Boston, leav¬
ing at 11:35 o’clock over the Pennsyl¬
vania road.
Governor McKinley has fully iccovered
from the effects of his recent indisposi¬
tion from which he suffered in the South.
He refused to talk on political topics,
but referred to the experiences of his
Southern trip, which he seems to have
thoroughly enjoyed. The Governor and
party will remain In Washington until
tomorrow afternoon and then start o»
fheir homeward journey.
THREE IILOCKS r)K«i r r»nYED.
Hayes City, Kansas, Has a i)tl."!,000
Fire.
By Southern AMoeiated Press.
Hayes City. Kan.. March 31.—A fire
yesterday destroyed the better part of
the business district, including seven
stone, and twenty frame buildings.
Three blocks were destroyed, causing
an aggregate loss of *75.000. The in¬
surance Is *35,000. The fire started in
a livery barn.
A CRAZY HCSI1AND
Takes the Life of His Wife and
Himself.
By Southern Associated Fress.
Fort Recovery, O., March 31.—Henry
Thorne, owner of a store and farm on
flic State line, yesterday shot and killed
Itis wife and then hanged himself in his
barn. The 4-year-old son was prevented
from giving an alarm until the father
had taken bis own life, Thorne was
crazed by financial troubles.
THE SNOW MELTING.
Forty-two Inches Fell In Landers,
Wyoming.
By Southern Associated Press.
Denver, March, 31 -The heavy snow
fall of Saturday disappeared rapidly to¬
day under a warm sun, and the rail¬
roads. though threatened with washouts
from the flood, arc moving their trains
nearly on time. ’Flic snow was a phe¬
nomenal one, the heaviest fall—42 inches
- being reported at Landers, Wyoming.
The storm extended into Northern New
Mexico and Texas.
More Trouble for Hawaii.
By Southern Associated Press.
San Francisco, March 35.—Informa¬
tion has reached the office of Hawaiian
Consu! Wilder, of a plot to overthrow
tlie present government in the islands.
The leaders of the alleged conspiracy,
which was hatched in this city, are
said by the consul to be C- W. Ashford,
ex-attorney general, and others who
were deported for complicity in the re¬
cent revolution. The plan of the con
spiracy s that of a filibustering expe¬
dition .
No Boycott of Plant Line,
By Southern Associated I’ress.
Pittsburg, March 30.—Associated l’r,«s
liisp.itclus sent out from Pittsburg oil
Friday night stated that the Pennsyl¬
vania Railroad Company bad declared a
boycott on the Plant Florida-Ouban
Railway and Steamship line. From the
most reliable sources it lias been learned
that there was absolutely no truth in
the story, ms the Plant System and the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company sus¬
tain the closest relations in tlie sale of
ticket,,.
A Failure.
By Southern Associated Press.
San Francisco, March 31.—Edgar Cohen
son of the late A. A. Cohen, who was
chief counsel for the Southern Pacific
Company, ha» failed, with liabilities of
$331,000. Cohen was a member of the
commission firm of Walter A. Beck &
Co., which r cently assigned for about
$400,000. The creditors are scattered all
over the country, hut the principal ones
are in this city.
1.1 Hung Doing Well.
By Southern Associated Tress.
London, March 31.—A Tokio dispatch to
The Central News says that Dr. Scxrtoa,
of the Imperial! University, today ex¬
amined Li Hung Chang's wound ana
found that the patient was making ex¬
cellent progress, His pulse and tem-
perature were tiormal and he was able
to walk about his rooms.
Southern’s Earning's.
By Southern Associated Press.
New York, April 1.—Southern Railway
Company’s report for February, gross
earnings of J1.256.45S, decrease of $191,-
S>4, expenses $867,012, decrease $142,-
300, net $388,846, decrease $49,474 and
from July 1st. to February 28th, gross
$11,498,894, increase of $323,233. ex-
penses $7,557,028, decrease of $109,550,
net $3,941,240, increase $492, 992.
Jury Discharged.
By Southern Associated Press.
Nashville, Tenn., April 1.—Judge C.
D. Clarke of the United States District
Court, discharged the jury today in the
case of M. A. Sparr, who was charged
with falsely certifying checks of Com¬
mercial National Bank. Seven of the
jury were for conviction, and five for
acquittal.
Experiments in Georgia
show that the best cotton fertilizer should contain not less than from
3 to 4•/. Actual Potash.
Any failures to this crop can be traced to a deficiency of Potash
in the fertilizers used.
We will gladly send you our pamphlets on the Use of Potash.
'Hu y are Mat free. It will cost you nothing to read them., and they will save you
dollars. GERMAN KALI WORKS, n Naasas Street, New York.
People and Events.
Postmaster General Bissell retires to-
morre-w. The Cabinet was photograph-
ed this week.
David Christie Murray, the English
novelist, journalist and lecturtr, has
taken residence in New York.
The President expects to leave the
White Bouse with his family next we k
and occupy Woodley. He will drive to
the White House at least ^ice a week
for cabinet meetings, but will transact
considerable official busln< ss at his coun-
try residence.
On the 13th of this month the coffin of
Victor Hugo was placed In a sarcophagus
In its final resting place in the vaults
of the Pantheon in Paris. The nicne till¬
ed by Victor Hugo’s coffin is in a solitary
vault divided by a wall from the vault in
which the late President Carnot lies.
President Cleveland is said to be in bet¬
ter health than he has been for some
years past. His complexion Is clear and
he carries himself like a man who nad
given up all thoughts of becoming a con¬
firmed invalid. His recent duck-shooting
expedition was *of great benefit to him,
and the fact that he hasn’t a Congress
on his hands acts like a tonic.
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s physician re¬
ports as follows: “In accordance wun
the wishes of the familly of Harriet
Beecher Stowe, I desire to state, as her
physician, that, there Is no change in her
condition except that she is in better
health than usual. She spends much of
her time outdoors, visiting freely her
friends and neighbors. Edward Beecher
Hooker. M. D.’’
The sales in England of some recent
novels are given as follows: “Discards’’
(fourth edition), 0,000 copies; "Episodes,”
2,000 copies; "Great God Pan,” 2,000
copies; “Earl Lavender,” 1.000 copies;
"Gallia,” 2,00ft copies; “Woman Who
Did,” (fifth edition), 8,000 copies: ‘‘Yellow
Aster,” 24,000 copies; “Heavenly Twins,”
45,000 copies; “Keynotes,” (3ixth edition),
10.000 copies.
In the days of his youth the late Rich¬
ard Vaux was one of the few men who
set the style for masculine attire in
Philadelphia. Once when on his return
from abroad he brought a new dress
coat from Stultz, then the Poole of Eu¬
rope, it was left on exhibition at a down¬
town store for the benefit of the swells
of the day. It cost $130 and was the
envy of all the dandies.
The Letters of Ernsmns
The letters of Erasmus are a rich mine
full of materials ior study of the six¬
teenth century, in many aspects and not
only in its religious controversies. We
have an insight into courtly, social, and
literary life. The paid tutor in the
Prince’s house had now become a regu¬
lar institution. We see the voire of a
dedication to a wealthy patron. We have
a vivid picture of what traveling must
have been, the difficulty of procuring car¬
riages, the slow pace by horseback, the
wretched taverns.
How we pity poor Erasmus in that
journey from Basie to Louvain, with his
frail constitution, arriving at Aix after
a fearful shaking on had roads, ar.d be¬
ing regaled with cold carp by the pre¬
centor, and next day at the Vice Pro¬
vost’s, with nothing hut eels and “bac-
aloa,” salt cod almost raw! Though suf¬
fering much from illness aggravated by
the journey he managed to reach Lou¬
vain, w-bere his miseries culminated in
an attack of what was supposed to be
the plague, and hardly any one would
come near him. He concluded, however,
thus; “1 send doctors to the devil, com¬
mend myself to Christ, and am well in
three days.”—The Gentleman’s Maga¬
zine.
THE WOMAN IDENTIFIED.
Victim in New York Murder Mystery
Came From Virginia.
New York, April 1.—The body of the
colored woman found in the front yard
of a Sixth avenue residence Sunday
morning has been identified as that of a
woman from Heathsville, Va., near
Fredericksburg. She was sent north re¬
cently by an employment agent, The
identification was made by a colored wo-
man attendant in the Hoboken station of
the Delaware, Lacakawanna and West¬
ern railroad.
The last known of the dead woman is
that she started from Hoboken recently
to visit friends in Thompson street. New
York, where is gathered the largest ne¬
gro colony in the city. Search is now in
progress in Thompson street upon this
slight clue. The Hoboken woman had
forgotten the name of her acquaintance.
The case promises to class among the
“celebrated cases” and has stirred up
police circles greatly.
Tlie Stuart Monument Site.
Richmond, Va., April 1.—The City
Council tonight set apart $10,500 to pur¬
chase a site for a monument to Gen.
J. E. B. Stuart, the great Confederate
cavalry leader. Tho site is on Broad
street, in the center of the retail Om¬
trict. it is thought that the Stuart
monument association will now press
the matter of collecting funds for an
equestrian statue.
Murray nml Kerxvln Doomed.
New York, April afternoon 1.—Mayor Stx-ong
announced Into this that he
would remove Police Commissioners Mur¬
ray and Kerwin In the course of a day
or two tmitvts they handed in their resig¬
nations in the meantime. Tho commis¬
sioner mentioned, who are Republicans,
have opposed reforms in the depart¬
ment. Mayor Strong this afternoon
sent letters to United States Civil Ser¬
vice Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt
and cx-Fnited States District Attorney
Edward 11. Mitchell requesting them to
accept the offices of police commissioners.
Fnllnre In Chicago,
Chicago, Iil.. March 30.—Thomas D.
Waterbary, of M a loom & Waterbury,
the commission house which failed a
few days ago. was arrested today on a
complaint of W. Barnwell, of Jefferson,
la., charged with embezzling $5,000.
The Armistice.
London. March 30.—A special dispatch
from Simonoeski says: The three weeks
armistice agreed to between China and
Japan applies only Jo the localities of
Af 0 „kdeno Pe-chi-li and the Shangtuug
peninsula.
One of Carlyle’s niunders.
The Marquis of Ripon was rather un¬
fortunate in his speech at the Mansion
House on Friday in singing out for praise
the least accurate portion of Caryle’s
“French Revolution,” viz., the account
of the King’s escape to Yarennes. This,
as Mr. Oscar Browning has shown, bris-
t > es inaccuracies, the fundamental
ong t jj at Carlyle gives the diatauce
from Daris I arls to to Yarennes V arennes as as sixtv-nine sixty nine
miles, and the pace for twenty-two hours
ag consequently three miles an hour,
-whereatt, the distance is one hundred and
fifty m'les, and tile pace was seven miles
an hour. Carlyle evidently confused Va-
rennes in Argonne with another Varen-
nos near Choteau-Thlerry.— 1 The London
Time#.
Hail Caine as n Poet.
Mr. Craine has found and arranger a
portion of a remarkable Manx ballad,
which will l)e of Interest to the student
of myth as well as to the student of
poetry. Mr. Caine has gathered frag¬
ments of this poem from the recoilec-
old fisherman of a _ Peel, . and
tious of the
] ing put these fragments together most
skillfully, supplying now and then a
missing link. In the English version,
which he has made, he claims that the
burden and , metre ^ and . many or c the .,
lines come direct from the broken and
incomplete Manx original. The story
is of the phantom ship family of 'legend,
which is common to all Scandinavian
countries, though the Manx variation ap-
pears to be the most complete and best
rounded.—Baltimore News.
Rosettl'a Craving for an Elephant.
It was withdiffieulty that Rossetti was
prevented at one time from purchasing,
for a very large sum, a young elephant.
Browning said to him. “What on earth
wi’.l you do with him, Gabriel?” and Ros-
sitti replied; “I mean to teach him to
clean windows. Then, when some one
passes by the house, he will see the
elephant cleaning the windows, and will
say, ‘Who lives in that house?’ and peo¬
ple will tell him, ‘Oh! that’s a painter
called Rossetti,’ and he will say, ‘I think
I should like to hay one of that man’s
pictures;’ so he will ring to come in, and
I shall sell him a picture.”—The Book
Buyer.
The Sonthern’s Complaint.
Bv Southern Associated Press.
Washington, April 1.—The Southern
Railway Company, which has been ob¬
serving the long and short haul clause
of the interstate commerce law’, has ap¬
plied to the interstate commerce com¬
mission for relief under that clause so
that it may bo able to meet the low
passenger rates of the Seaboard Air
Line to Atlanta and other places with¬
out making corresponding rate reduc¬
tions to intermediate stations. The com¬
mission will hear h'I parties interested
and investigate the matter at the odices
in Washington. T). Saturday, April
0th, 1S95, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Tlie Swindler Must Snffer.
Lansing, Mich., Apri! 2.—In ajl -dfnan-
imous opinion this morning tho'Supreme
Court confirmed tlie sentence of Stone-
wail De France, tlie noted bank swind¬
ler who was sentenced to Jackson prison
for fifteen years for defraudiig- the
First National Bank of Kalamaz,o out
of $00,500 by means of a forged drift.
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