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TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1807
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STOCKS TIE SHARP
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PERRY BELMONT, OF N. Y.
By Savoyard, for Macon Telegraph. 1 tion. The Rodgers family contributed
as abundantly to the American navy
_IVERPOOL -pctc closed Holiday
NEW YORK spots ctcsea 12.15
NEW ORLEANS cpot6 closed 12.00
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NEV/ YORK.
JCEW TORX. May 20.—The cotton mir-
et was less active than last week and
Chile fluctuation* were irregrJar, the
ring to
v.
Sal
opening was barely steady at an
•e of 7 points on Ihe old cron posl-
wrieh we-e Influenced by bull sup-
vlille the later positions were lower
e favorab’e showing of weothe r
i over Sunday. After soiling off
of 7al2 points during th
20 —The reren
arket gave vr.iy to
day to a sharp downward movement,
accompanied by some broadening of the
speculative ar.d an increas" In the se
gregate of the dealings over the rocent
averages. Good observers professed to
see some evidence of liquidation In the
"o.i-'g, part of It Induced by the decline
Itself.
The large proportion rf the dea'ln-s
were admittedly In professional hands
still. There was clear evidence tnat
th" hands which were ope-.atlne with re
newed vigor In stocks were carrying on
parallel operations In the wheat market. ■
This Is a very usual coupling of specula
tive activities, a bull campaign In wheat
oTfrln" arT’^nts for sftHdf of
securities, and especially of the Granger
railroa-.s. Tile granger railroads were. In
qi?»o C'*71* ? *'*'***'V" *•» fbr
today and It w-s common belief that
some of the principal selling orders in the
stock market came from houses with Im
portant grain market connections.
The speculation for the decline received
a considerable Impetus from the news of.
Government activities at Washington.
The special weakness of the Hl'l stocks i
was traceable to the renort from Wash- .
not unchanged Jnvton that the Inquiry into the common ;
being the only ! relations of those companies to the Bur-
were estimated I 1 ington Railroad was to be n'-gre^sively :
extended. The contents of the Bureaii
of Corporations on the-, St»-"d"rrt Oil i
Company was a companion Influence, as
the principles there formulated for the .
When August Belmont w4s chair
man of the Democratoc national com
mittee that body had no headquarters
and when Zachariah Chandler was
chairman of the national Republican
committee It had but one clerk. That
1? all changed. Politics in our country
is a game that resembles war, in that
organization Is necessary to success,
and the two are
Her r*
widening ’'ladefln'Keiv
problem of rotes to b.-> rlr"—c bv N5<It:''o, , s j the money they can command. He
»» cid the Perry
close kin.
Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s wife
was a sister of John Slidell, formerly
United States Senatar from Louisiana,
who, with James M. Mason, of Vir
ginia. was a Confederate commissioner
to the courts of Europe. They were
M taken from the British merchantman
and money Is requisite to organization. | Trent, during the war of 1S51-1S65.
Her.co it A become a siyirg with us j and but for the coolness and good
that just as victory inclines to the side ' sense of Abraham Lincoln, the episode
with the heaviest battalions In war bo- . would have been followed by war.
tween nations so victory comes to the 1 when the United States had on hajvf
side with the largest campaign fund . all the war she could stand. August
in struggles between parties. And it Belmont married a daughter of Mat-
follows that both political
busy before the con'
out who of the candid:
mand the fullest camp chest. i ?$. 1*51. Ho received his education at
Mr. Pern.- Belmont is convinced that ‘ the best schoo’s of both .hemispheres—
the only way to better politics Is to ! Harvard, the University of Berlin, and
elevate the idea above the man. or the ; Columbia law <-chcol. He chose the
dollar, and to that end he is striving i lew for a profession, and unon his ad-
to secure legislation that will force . mission to the bar entered the office
of the firm of which ’William M.
Fvnrts was the h°ad. His father and
Charles O’Conor, the dean of the Amer
ican bar, were int'mate associates and
but
from
tfiat Is whv
associated
parties. Ana it Keimoni married a daughter ot piat-
litlcal parties are ! thew C. Perry, and of that union Perry
iventions finding j Ee’mont was the eldest child,
didates can com- , Perry Belmont was born December
publicity in the matter of contributions
of rronev for political campaign pur
poses. He believes that the one way
to Improve conditions In our elections
is to first improve conditions in party J personal and political friends
organizations. The way to do that Is j O’Conor had practically retired
gress from the Long Island district of
New York, and served In that body
until he was appointed minister to
Spain, near the close of the first Cleve
land adminlsrtation. It is worthy of
note that he was stiil at that pos.
when Mr. Blaire again became head
of the State Department and that Mr
Blaine cordially approved his course
in certain negotiations with .the Span
ish foreign office. In Congress Mr.
Belmont was a very active member
and ceaseless in industry. The bills
reports, and speeches emenating from
him covered a wide range, ar.d were
devoted to numerous subjects. He was
also frequently on the stump and con
tributed copiously to the press on
matters of public interest.
adverse second shall be
shooting's* him."
justified In : Astor used in the preamble of the be-
! quest.
He was always a Democrat, and
fired in the principles of the party, but
he refused to support Mr. Bryan in
1896, and became a leader In the Pal
mer and Buckner movement. Only a
man born a Democrat, and a Demo
crat for what he believes, can tell what
it costs to engage in a bolt of a regu
lar ticket. The abuse that it brings Is
as nothing. It is the sorrow and the
regret of a Fevered relation that op
presses. He supported Bryan in 1900.
service by nubile corporations' were they believe and for what they are—! y-oung Belmont was not ass
the for the idea they stand for rather than j wi h h i rp. On form” as the race folk
Parly umv*r linnid and local as they mlprht be controlled by the Gov- . recosrnizes that political campaign j
?f 0 ou"ride ’1,MJS"ri e rtomo??d n hv a thS n ^?- C Th“-. t necl«! In Union Piei\j *“*«» £
tlnu”d i>m!"*1i private crop advices. Ju’y I — —’1 "■> ♦- to’ ‘A make political Mm« even more essen- ;
Evart= was our greatest lawyer.
He appeared for Andy Johnson in Mae
fv-ncachTTirnt proceedings. He was
chief counsel of the United States he-
ivnnoc gaining 12 points .over : Washington for Its Inspiration Holidays tial. He would have a party to ap- j f?re the _ Geneva tribunal »f interna-
(hc closing flgums of Batitrdav. w’fl’e I - • • • - •; peal to the reason and the conscience * tmnal arbitration. He was the sen’or
ll r pew croo “old 3'til points net hlghc-. from that quarter and made a dull day rather than to the passion and the [ counsel for Haves before the electoral
Offerings Inert“"d :,t this level and , also in the fomtgn escb30”» .mari_w greed of the electorate. And where Is ; tribunal. He was successful In all. It
PiTrkri rt,”* and un^ttlM 'under was the feature of W bontomarket. ato 'the patriotic, honest man who has was In the office of the firm headed hv
more gener-i liquidation and h-ir press- t; touted to rumors, which' tntc denied.! read and pondered the revelations this great-Wrist, whose life ambition]
l; . 0 'pi;., n , V e-op v -as restively weak • of an Intended note Issue by the corpora- touching the national campaign of | was to to Chief Justice of the United
But this paper has come to its allot
ted length. True to his lineage. Bel
mont served in the war against Spain,
as did eight of his kindred, but he
never ceased to distruct the Republi
can party and to hope for the return of
the Democracy that he believes In to j
power. His present ambition is to j
lend his endeavor to the advancement
Is the Dr. David Wills, Jr., of
Oswego, X. Y., who created somewhat
of a sensation Saturday in the North
ern Presby;eria n general assembly in
session at Columbus. O., by declining
to serve as chairman of the committee
on temperance, a former Maccnite? I
may be mistaken, but I rather think
he is the son of Rev. David Wills D.
D.. who was pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church In this city from
March 1, 1S60, co October 7, 1S70, a
period of ten years and seven months.
Afterwards he became president of
Oglethorpe College, and his last ser
vice, so far ns I know, was as a
chaplain In the United States Army.
When he resided in Macon he had a
young son named David, who he.ame
a Presbyterian minister, and doubtless
he Is the one who is figuring in the
general assembly. A warm controver
sy seems imminent in that body over
the temperance question, and Dr.
Wills, Jr., says he is not in atten
dance on the assembly for the purpose
of quarreling, so he resigned the chair
manship of the committee. He declar
ed that he had no desire to be at the
head of a committee which will be the
bone of contention and the target for
the shafts of those opposed to the re
port of the committee. Dr. Wilis, who
was pastor of the Macon church, was
one of the ablest preachers and most
eloquent pulpit orators ever in Geor
gia.
An application for leave to sell one
of ideas rather than men la political of the historic landmarks of Macon
affairs, and when that is accomplished
enlightened progress will follow as the
dawn the dark.
and at
time showed a" net loss of
points on the active months.
The e’o'-e was a little on from the lowest
on covering. Live—tool will reopen to
morrow enrl some of the afternoon selling
mov have he->n on expectsiton of bearish
rabies on the . wenthe- news. Southern
snot markets w^ro unchanged to ’ %e.
higher, generally unchanged.
Receipts of cotton at the noris today
were S2U 'bnl<-s pvalnst 8 370 be!“S l***
week and 11 9 , 'S haler las* y nr, For th"
week fe“tlmatcd) 52 00ft brio, against
59 231 bales last week and 75.575 bales last
yeo r.
Tofl-y’s recel-ts at b T ew O-’eons were
1.97$ bales against 1 7$8 hales li't year
and at Houston 1,293 bales against S29
bales last year.
tin-
Bonds were easy. Total sales, par
value ?1.474 non. rn<t<'o States bonds
We-" UT'rh"1g"<i on ""Ik
Tb<- total sales of stocks today were
748,400 shares.
• m«--v r• --•-**•
NEW YORK. May 20.—Money on
‘ — J ’ to 2’"
call
?—• '"d Cfitur-s.
new YORK. May 20 — ?not cotton
closed ovlet: mUdUn" up'"" J t'! 12.15; mid-
Jllng gulf 1° it ’ ‘
Futures elo
ties 7.3
bales.
quotations:
O^en.
Htob.
T OTC.
Flos 1
.finniTr ....
....11.45
11.50
11.32
11.85
February ....
. . .
. .
—
11.39
March
, , . —
11.52
11.49
H.
May
....10.99
11 .CO
10.93
10. fl?
....10.91
10.
in.no
in.ni
July
....19.95
H.no
10.no
10.0"
A uinist
.#..10.0)
11.01
10.91
Pentomber ..
....11.09
11.10
19.07
ll.ftft
October
... .11.29
11 99
11.10
11.17 I
November ..,
t - T
H .no
11. on
11.17 I
December ...
...11.3ft
11.S3
11.19
11.23 i
of j was
1904 who is unwilling to aid Mr. Bel- j States Supreme Court, that Perry Bel
mont in this endeavor? Mr. William j mont was fitted for a public career.
J. Bryan has expressed his approval ! In 1590 youog Belmont was elected
' of It and nobody has openly opposed It. ! to. Congress from a Long Island dis-
For some reason or other, that it is not j t'rict. It Is the general impression tiaf
difficult to conjecture the animus of ‘ he was a Tammany man. That Is an
, . _ , the Fifty-ninth Congress refused to j error. He first appeared in the. national
* *■ ‘A;,’’ 0 C7i C o" 1 * : r “" n '; rpt f . enact the legislation Mr. Belmont sug- councils in 1881. unon the assembling
ferod^t^^ rer*celit^’nme"loans ’ difil i gested. . / of the Foriv-seventh Congre-s. Kef!
nnd steady; 60 days 32*31 tier c^nt; *90 Perry Belmont is the eldest son of : fer was Speaker and the Remiblican
dnys 4 Tv%-’cent: six months per Ausrust Belmont, who wan so lonsr j Tori tv very narrow. No one
rrnu Prime mercantile paper "5% per prominent Iiv politics, diplomacy and ; dreaded that* Perry Belmont’s name
ce SJ* „ • f nance. Born in Alcy, Alsace, in 1816, ! r^-pid be r»n everv ton<rue before the
'actual bust”^to F banW bf&T^l i the ’! on bSt ^ co ™ ,ete ' 1 but »*
to 4.869ft for demand, nnd at 4.8495 fo- i province, who w. s a repub.,can, hut.
ftft-'iay bills. po"t"d rare, 4 Hu an d 1 uot a terrorist, when the mightv rev- j
4.87%. Comrn«"-e|«tj bibs 4.8**<a%. olution of 1789 burst upon Europe, j
' and fater appointed to a political do- ,
s'tion of resnonsibllitv 'by Nanoleon ,
then firts consul. August Be’mont re- :
ceived an excel’ent education, and
when a very young man entered the j
banking house of the Rothschilds at i
Frankfort. So ready was he to master ;
the science that ere he was twenty he |
was apTmtnted at the head of tbe I
Italy. At i
Bar slicer G5%; Mexican dollars 59%.
Owernment bonds steady; railroad
bonds easy.
CHICAGO. May 2ft.—Wheat today
was exooo'U-igly nervous, crlces fiuc.tu"t-
ing excitecij- over a range of 2 to 2%
cents. The market was strong earlv in
the session but later e"«ed off considor-
ably. At the rlos". July showed r> net
gain of IV.e. comnnred with Sat’—daVg
final eworations. Eentemher and Decem
ber —ained prono-tionately.
July com eiesed %c. higher, and oats
were %r. higher.
on th e close were from 5 to
10c. higher.
Me -errept at the Ports
Pcc"«->*, end Etno-tv Today.
Con-elldatea net reee'nts./ 8 28ft
Exports to Great Britain.. 1'h
Exports to Fran"e 7 5 «3
Exports to cont'aent it i'9
Stock on hand nil ports... .495.831
Since September 1. 1906—
Eon*o’ldst."d rereintg
Exports to Em", Britain.
Fxnorts to France 873 n ga j
Exnorts to cmMoent 3 *"* "ax
Exports to Jnpan 226 926 !
Price. Net Receipts. Sales. Stocks.
The Ports. I Prlee.ITterts.iSales.I Srck.
Open.
High.
Low.
Close
- .
0714
0'U
■ . 97%
po*;
97U
5*7%
. . 99
1.0051
93%
. . P4
MH
F.3»i
Si
- . 52
F2.%
53
*53114
. • 53%
53%
53
53%
. . 47%
47»t ■
46%
47
. . 4014
47%
4014
45%
. . 33%
*k—
39%
38 %
39%
hfm'ded from one end of t’re country
to the of’er in the spring of 1882. wh“n
he had the tewerlfv to enter the l'st«
awainst .Tames G. Blaine, then the idol
of b’ve Renuhije"n prrty and one of the
wv powerful indtrijuals in public af
fairs in t-be United States.
Mr. Hleinp became Secretary of
States In 1881 against the adv'ce of bis
friends and contrary to his personal
Incllr-arion. Nnbodv knew better than
he that his place was in the forum
Rothschilds bank at Naples. Italy. At . rnthPr th , n in t -.. e elo , ot . He , had had
the age of twenty-'ne be went to New . ro training for the Cabinet, least of
York and there onened the house of I j,j| t’ le Rtate Dennrfment. whose head
Augu't ’Belmont Co., whi^i becAVe j s ^-^opfed to write dis-natebes for the
the correspondent of the Rothschilds J of BV<Krv n ffi ra of t ti e
I in the United States. Not long after , OId World. In the Senate or.the H-use
he begun business he became en Amer- >e ^.33 at hoTno _ ready for all comers—
lean citizen, jo’ned tho DemocraUc | } , nft t the ahlext.’ certalniv ’the most
n°rty and was active in beha f of joshing and audacious debater of bis
Polk and Da-las in the campaign of j Put Blaine was uxorious: that
IS-M. j accounts for his becoming the head of
Them were two factions of the. New ; ravjnpt. OOU Td and would have
York Dewocmcv. At the head of one , managed Garfield ahvhow. from th’e
v-"s Martin Van Burem with Silas , Spt ,»te Chamber as from thj. State De-
Wright and Samuel J. THden for l eu-
tenants. These became tie ’’barn
.16.70
.16.85
16.7744 16.8ft 16.6744
16.87% 16.72% 16.80'*
P"V"nnnh .•
pb,rir,ton .
Wilmington
Norfolk . .
R-.l'Imore .
New York .
Eo-ton . . ,
Philadelphia
.117*4
.’17
.111%
.11%
.'Utf
.112
.11’. 15
..112.40
3 i’6* 1,63178
17931 lft’7'11 ’779
.’66! 50! 10615
76«l I 41067
...I 8499
9’7' I fi-'n
16171 74' ”"''3
I ' 106-1
I 7300T78S99
I
13! I 2297
9.17*
9.30
n.o’v,
9.37%
Interior Movement.
1 1 '' map
NEW YORTf. M"y 29:—-Tbe dry goads
morket orened falriy an,b-p in f’e nri—n-
ry markots. and vatV active in the entm-j
good- d.k*i- , on. .To^b’n"- markers am feel-
inr the fc'Vpets of delnye^ trade with rr-
t" fie-s more partienlarlv in the dro= s
goods division p->sh goods md summer
— . wear. Domestic develonman‘s are fairl
ly ective for the season. JT’avy oo»,oa
— gooda are stropgor. Paw silk is higher
i on^ n-™— -ar houses report a
ill goods.
nartment. In a Httle while ’B’airie fell
j In love with h‘s newdolh. and doubtless
burner-/; Thc otw faction was heM- ! hnf7 ,7r*an* of F’chelieu. of Chatham,
ed by illiam L. _^rc®r. ^ or t of Bismarck. MaVbo >he hoped tr
manv years later, the • 171 a 'l i P^Vnter a. lance w*th that greatei
in tbe entire eoun*ry for tbe office of
President of the United f"* o *PS. Bel- ,
mont became a partisan of Marcv. and i
when the latter was anno'nted S“cre-
to
greater
B’aine—Peniaruin Disraeli. r
•Perry Belmont sneaks.' reads and
—r',e- Fren"h like the most cultivated
j T>p-isipp. pnd one day Bamunl J. Ran-
|Oaught on |
f tHe Wins
•H-l-H-
-i-5-
"I-H-l-i-I-I-I-I-i-i-
By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET.
appeared In last Saturday’s Telegraph.
It is the old Dr. Lightfoot house, cor
ner of Walnut and Fourth streets, once
the residence of ex-Gov. Charles J.
McDonald, of Georgia, and later of Dr.
Franklin, who afterwards lived where
the residence of the late J. M. John
ston now stands. Dr. Franklin was
one of Macon’s wealthiest and most
prominent citizens. Only recently I
wrote for these columns an extended
sketch of the public career of
McDonald.
Perhaps the oldest library in Geor
gia is the Historical Society of Sa
vannah, which was organized scuno
time about 1839. Tho movers In tho
matter were P.cv. William B. Stevens,
L K. Tefft and Dr. Ri.'hard D. Arn
old The institution has had a long
and useful life. No similar library in
the State is better known. Carnegie
libraries have been established in a
number of cities in Georgia, the most
notable of this kind being the one in
Atlanta. The library of the University
of Georgia, and that of Emory Col
lege, each has about 39,000 volumes.
Mercer University at Macon has
something over 15.000. There are good
libraries in all of the educational insti-
tions of the State. In the early life of
Macon her intelligent citizens recog
nized the value of a library to her
people, and on December 31, 1836, tho
Macon Lyceum and Library Society
was organized by the election of Dr.
Ambrose Baber, president; Washing
ton Poe and Jerry Cowles, vice-presi
dents. and a board of directors con
sisting of twelve leading citizens. Ma
con should fester her public libraries.
They go hand in hand with the public
schools, and her higher Institutions of
learning. There is perhaps many a
germ of genius in this community,
destined, by the influence of the public
libraries to reach eminent places in
life. The records show that numerous
illustrious characters were aided by
Hbraries to rise to the pinnacle of
fame and human ambition.
WO GOOD SUBJECTS
I
Here Is
The proposition to consolidate the
— _. . . . _, ... , , two public libraries of Macon i?ug-
The Telegraph had an editorial yes- j ge sts the statement Mat some give
t^rday on how Daniel Webster dodged
a du51 with 1 John Randolph, of Roan
oke. There are many interesting
things told about the wonderful Vir
ginian. Here is one: During some
period of Mr. Randolph’s political ca-
oeer, he had the ill-fcirtune to offend a
coxcombish j'-cung fellow, who deter
mined to avenge himself by insulting
the Roanoke orator on the first op
portunity that occurred. At length the
opportunity presented itself, when the
young sprig, meeting Randolph on the
pavement, walked up to him very im
pudently, and said: "I never give the
way to a damned rascal." Mr. Ran
dolph, immediately pulling off his hat,
and mak'ng the man a low bow, re
plied; “Well, sir. I always do,” and
gave him the pavement.
tarv of State he se?ected Bnijtront for ^ a ]i said .to hi" that'a Frenchman was
I Prlee.iRccts.’Sales.! RteX vit firmer. Men’s
! better lnrulry for
I 1?93’ ?1I 933X7 | — 1
I "All 1361 79699 , r-TTAN PFED OIL.
.11’
.111
..’12
I
• 112
Rftll 100 n "t”8
I 2791 31 S
.1 189!......! 868
! ! I
.V
Mr-w rip" 6a,N9,
ypry ORLE4NS M’y 29.—Snot cotton
oniet and unehenged. mMdlin'r 17
bales on tho spot and 275
NEW YORK. May 20.—Eotron seed oil
was dull, but firm on light sunnlies.
Prime crude in bar-ei, f.n.h. mills 43
bid; prime summer yellow 569%: off sum
mer yellow 50a"i; good off s"mmer vej-
low 50i4a"4; prime summer white 5Sa50'
prime winter yellow 5Sa60,
minister to.the Hague. Whi’e .Tomes
Buchanan, nv'nister to England: Werre
Foule. minister to Sonin, and John Y.
jtoson. minister to France. wpr° writ
ing the Os*end Manifesto. Belmont
w’.’ entering into eonvem ions with
Holland that onened the UntoY Ea’t
Indies to our trade end resulted In In
calculable advantage to American
commerce, that began to et6w about
that time. He also participated in the
diplomatic congress at Paris and his
discus-tons of the practice of tir'va-
teerirg in time of war commanded the
attention and extorted the admiration
of every European chancellery.
good
to arrive.
R)’i the strength of tl
Snr.'ii” tho rains predin
to materialize, coupled with a
A 1,1 e account* o' the ropept cr
the future ■ ■ .. 1 1 -1
freon 11 to 15 points below the
TORSto.
nv 29.—Turpentine
m
MAW^L
CH.'.PTTESTOV.
and r"S l-i po,h!"i-
9AVAFM.AH. Go.. Ma'- 20.—Turpentine
firm at 6‘1>a : snl“s 1072; receints 467;
shipments 875. Rosin firm: sajoc 1.’76;
roeelpto 1 347; shinmonta 1 619; stock 29 -
165. Ouoto; A. B, C *4.30a4»- T) S4 7Q
to *4.53; E. 84.70; F. $4.75: G.’$4.35- H
84.9ft ; T S5.2ft; K. $5.47; y T $5.50; N
$5.70; W. G.. $5.75; W. W., $5.SO.
ns pointing to
rhe ctoFe'wis’blrei^r^dv" Grain i Provisions^ Groceries.
rapminv from 15 to 17 points below
■e favor-
damage.
v steody.
?9 nat
ron reports of
wen received
comhined with ,
onflnnsnee <
tvir>9
bid
iturdoy
•PS elec
ba
hid
bid .
December, led
ply steady at
11.R2
J1.53
11.60
n.«7
11.65
11.7S
..... 11.72
11.6ft
11.4S
S. Tt
ar wholesale and not
Jaaues & Tlnsiev Co.l
CORN—V"ol-ed white Rt
Sacked mixed si
Ear corn so
C’r tote P i*’-,o- sacked or bulk,
m"do on ennlicatlop.
OATS— w h!to dinned 6’
No. 2 write 7.61
No. 3 white 60
Snedal auoratlons made on
c C-tton Letter.
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Of th"t
deeided It' co-fid
>c h’fi] partu who
to “harp cd-^nce.
’ldino-s. Wi*h this
srilllng to dis-nse
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mg ve"tber over
ms tod"y there-
llils s’llipg. nroh-
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whs; the fo-,
...$1.40
... 1.35
1- lots
HAY—Choice timothy
No. 1 timothy
No. 2 timothy
No. 1 clover 1.29
Timothy and clover hlxed.... l]?5 I iC' J
Al'-IPs hay i.rr i He
pe.tdlnv straw 65
BRAN—Tn-’O wheat
Mixed bran
Jersey stork feed s... i "
Rdinh'e foe,1 i.in
Ct--ds-d feed 1 in
FLOUR—Private stock, fancy past.. 5 $5
Royal Owl. best pa^nt U$5
Ton Noteh. firs* parent 4.55
Nev, Constitution. % patent. 8*90
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Special nrlces car lots.
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CHEBSE—Full cream 1714
r.mar.cs at per thous-
linffles at $4.25 per tbous-
! s shingles at $3.CO
per
Dry Goods—Wholesale.
steady; railroad
lots.
GRISTS—Hudnu:.» in tfifi. $3.7.5
Hudnuts. In S5-lb sacks ... 1 $5
, SUGAR—Grtimfiated. to hVs. 0r sc k. .5%
New Orleans clarified 5
New avirk yd'ow 414
| COFFEE—Choice Rio ....... .....14
Prime Rto 13
j Medium Rio 12
Common 11
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When Marcy ceased to be Secretary
of State. Belmcnt returned to Amer
ica. He was now active in politics—
not for office, but for ideas. He might
have been Governor - or Senator had
j his amb'tion. been in that direction.
I He h"d cone to The Hacua only with
I the view to serve the country in a dip-
• ic-matio capacity, for which he was
1 splendidly equipped. When Buchanan
. and Douglas parted company, Belmont
: followed the,latter, and supported btoo
j in the Charleston convention to the
1 end. and later was active in his.behalf
1 at Baltimore. No man in the country
j had a Clearer vision of the situation
when secession came than August ’3e’-
mont. His letters and speeches of that
j period are models of strong, terse, can-
! vlncintr logic expressed In perfect Eng-
I lish that any one horn to that tongue
might well envy, in the light of sub-
j sequent history they read like proph
ecy. No man at the North was a bet
ter frierd of the South. Few men at
the North saw the inevitable result as
clearly as he. But his warning fe’l
on deaf ears, and at Appomattox the
South was crushed.
About 1862 the Government sent
Archbishop Hughes and Henry Ward
Beecher to Eng’end to make puriic
opinion for the North. At that time
Lord Palmer'tcn was prime minister.
was a Southern svmnath'zer. A
typical beef-eating Englishman, he
j n ! was to statesmanship what Tom
1.30 j Sayres was to pugilism. He honed the
1 South would -win. Two sentimentalists
j like Hughes and Beecher were only
' calculated to irritate such a man as
j P"lmerston. but the coo! he"ds at
j Washington requested August. Belmont.
I a man of as much common sense as
Palmerston himself.* to talk the thing
over with the British foreign office.
He soon convinced them that the
cause "f the South was hopeless ns
j long as the North was determined, and
it was manifest to all that the North
was determined. No man did more to
prevent English interposition, and no
other mnn so much to place the United
State? Government loans with Eu
ropean hankers. Had he been secre
tary of .the Treasury the war would
have cost about 40 per cent of what
It did cost, so far as was shown in the
national debt statement. There would
have been no greenbacks.
Mr. Belmont supported McClellan in
1S64. and Seymour in 1S6S. When
Greeiev was nominated, he resigned
from the chairmanship of the national
cop-mittee. He was a delegate to everv
national convention from 186ft to 1884.
both inclusive. He died in 1890. after
having been a ]e"der of his partv and
a eonso'cuous citizen fo the United
States for fifty years.
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Sugar cakea. Sc.
Liquors—Wholesale,
(Cor-f'cr-fi liy Weichselbaum S: Marit.O
WHISKEY—Rye. Jl.m to S3 59- com
$t.10 *1 to; pin. $1.10 to $1.75; North
Carolina corn. $1.10 to Sl.SC: Georgia
ror- *i 60
W774E—75c. to $5: high wines. $1 SO
no-t and sherry. 75c. to j« : claret. $4 ro
$10 a case; American champagne $7.50 *0
tomorrow.
Edmund Perry, of Devonshire. Eng
land. wa? a direct desc°nd"nt in the
s’xth generation from Sir William
Wallace. Jsero of Scotland. He came
to America In 1630 and settled In Mas
sachusetts. A descendant of his.
Christopher Ray Perry, a naval officer
of the United States, was th° father of
five s 0 nr. all officer' of the Un'ted
States navy—Oliver Hazard, Raymond
H. J-. Matthew C.. Jam“3 Alexander,
and Nathaniel Hazard. The hiStow of
our navy could not be written without
copious narration as to at least two
cf these, the eldest, here of Lake Erie,
and the third son. .Matthew C.. the
man who Introduced Japan to civiliza-
perslstentlv after him- about some
ctolm or o*ber to connection w'th Peru,
and .he asked Belmont to talk with the
trin in bis own t"n—’e' and find out
w.h"t was. Brii-ront did b,av" the in
terview. and that is the beginning'of
the story. Chile and P°ru Were tori
out of a war. in which Peru -was d’S-
astrbuslv defeated! It w"s 'a good timo
to administer on Trim "affairs; and our
Government was sought to be made a
col'ecting ave-ri fen some rattier riiady
claims. Merton. Bilks Go; were- in
terested in it and Mr. B’airi" ha.d writ
ten a letter the import of which was to
fo-ce tbe col’eettcn.' I wish T had the
srace to enter into tW particulars,
though it is a pot very edifying chap
ter in our history. .
Be’mont on the Committee on
Foreign Affairs. He cared nothing
nb-ut the, claim, but he cared much
about the practice of tucking tb“
Un*ted Slate? a collecting agent for a’l
sorts of scomps, and esne—lallv for°ign
scc.mps whose pretentions had been
repudiated by the'r own Sta f e De
partments. Then, as now, In the
matter of campaign funds, Be’mant
hoped to cure the disease and disre
gard the symptoms. He prepared a
resolution of inquirv, hut Mr. Reason,
another member of the committee,
rose at the same time, was recognized,
end offered a re'olut'on practically
idenrice.l with Beimopfs. T.he toi’es-
ttonMon bea-an. and tf-e House Com
mittee on Foreign Affai-s became the
news center of the Capital. Belmont
■hod no d’sn-sitton to assail Blaine, and
po to tent ton of doing so: but Mr.
Bleine voted himself/ impugned and
came down on the committee in char
acteristic B’ainesoue fashion. He was
mad, and mad clear through. What j
was more, he was astonished, and re
solved to sweep Perry Belmont off the
political chess board.
The testimony of Mr. Blaine con
sumed many sittings bf the committee,
and Be’nv'nt’s examination of him
was just like Senator Morgan’s exam
ination of C. P. Huntington—Belmont
was resolved -to have an answer and
’31a!ne was determined not to give an
answer. There was a quibble about
dictation marks. There was a ques
tion as to th? integrity of our minister
to Peru, and a great many other
things;, but Belmont clung with bull-
jog tenacity to Blaine's letter of in
struction, and Blaine persisted in an
attitude of insolence that grew into
insult. Th's policy had served him
well in a f'rmer investigation, and he
had little doubt that he would brow-
best Belmont now. He never was so
much mistaken in his Mfe. and proba-
’riv never so much astonished as when
Belmont met his bluster with a reso
lute and aggres'ive emphasis that
meant business of the most serious
character. Hasson, a consummate dip
lomat, lnterp'sofi an( j put an interpre
tation on Blaine’s language that
amounted to p retraction: Blaine as
sented and Belmont ■acquiesced'. There
would have been no trouble if Blaine
bud understood that "Belmont was as-
sail'ng a system and policy and was
moved bv po personal animosity.
The result of that Inquiry was, or
whether it resulted from it or other
cause the svstem was destroyed, and
no longer does our Government sell
Its recognition of this or that revolu
tionary in a South American State in
consideration of the payments of this
or that claim, honest or dishonest
against the State.
A few days ago in an editorial The
Telegraph referred tio “doughfaces” in
politics. This term originated with
Randolph, and the epithet has 'been
adopted into the political vocabulary
of the United States. He opposed the
Missouri compromise in the Congress
of 18t9-’20. stigmatizing t.he Northern
members by whose support It was
carried as “doughfaces.” The diction
ary savs the word is “a contemptuous
nickname for a t’mid, yielding politi
cian, or one.who Is easily modied.”
At times .Randolph would make the
most brilliant flights of toratory. mar
shaling his arguments in conclusion
in dazz’tog arrav. Does this fable
written bv himself exp!"in this feature
of his debate'?—"A caterpr’ar comes
to a fence; ire crawls to tbe bottom of
the ditch and over the fence
some one of h's hundred feet ai-
wavs in contact with.the object upan
which he moves: a gallant horseman
"t a flying lean, clears both ditch aud
Fence. IB top! ’ says th e ctVeroH’rlr.
You are too flighty, you want connec
tion and continuity; It took me an hour
to get over: you can’t he ns sure as I
am, who have never ouitted the fV
tect. that-you i'"7*e overcome the diffi-
"u’tv and are. fairlv over the fence.’
•‘Thou miserable reptile.’ .rep’Ies the
huntsman. fif.\ ’ike you. T crawled tove-
the earth .slowly, and patofullv. should
T, ever catch a fox. or 'to anything more
than, a wretched, caterpillar.”
Rorctolph became an invalid and
suffered severe’’/. For years with him
it wss a race between fife and death.
"T.he le't scenes of his life hai’e beep
’.aid before the world. It is a story of
pain, of agony Which -bad become so
inwrought with his entire existence
that it dees not seem strange "n his !
lips now. His call for hi? father’s j
to Julius Caesar the honcr of conceiv
ing the idea cf public libraries. To
As'nius Po’.iio belongs the credit of
founding the first Roman Catholic
DUblic -.library. It was the boast of
Italy that she and France had more
<—s_ iJv4„ r < eg than any
other European countries. France is
oaiu Lj nave the largest 'tingle library
in tbe world. It contains considerable
more than 2.000.000 volumes. The
British museum has a magn'ficent col
lation, ranking in size second to
France’s, but of a more choice and
valuable variety. I have heard it stat
ed that when the Georgia historian, tbe
late Charles C. Jones, of Augusta, was
ready to begin his writing of the his
tory of this State he went to the Brit
ish museum for much of his important
_ case that belongs to tho
G° v ‘ I juvenile courL if it was in operation.
I and furnishes an illustration of the
| objects of that courL
j Here are two white boys, both under
! 15 years of age, locked up in the city
prison awaiting trial on the charges of
stealing a bicycle and a lot "f pocket
knives from Birch & Cubbedge.
John Simpson, the son of a wid
owed mother, who has tried to do
something with her boy. and who has
figured more than once in scrapes of
this sort.
Frank Bowen, whose widowed moth
er lives in Savannah, and who ran
away from the Georgia ' Industrial
Home, is the other.
. They are charged with stealing a
new bicycle from Special Delivery
Messenger Benton of the po^office
about a week ago, and of taking a box
of pearl handled knives some three
weeks ago from the hardware store of
Birch & Cubbedge.
They admit everything. The bicycle
and reliable material. He obtained j was f aoId *» s ? m , e . a "?
matter there which he cou’d not find “‘JLTC
in Georgia, or in the Un ted Statec.
Czar Peter estaih’lshed the Imperial
library at St. Petersburg, and it is to
day about the 'third largest in the
world. Germany has a multitude of
•large libraries. There were many fa
mous private l’br’ries centuries be
fore the birth of Christ The Alexan
drian library the mori ce'ebrated of
all anctort I'braries. was founded ear
ly in the third century B. C. In the
British are several thousand tablets of
clay imnressad before burning with
inscriptions, that were found in the
ruins of the 'library of the Ninevlte
kings. The most celebrated library of
antiquitv next to the Alexandrian, was
that founded by Eum.enes II. king of
Pergaruus, consisting of over 200.000
volumes.
charms of Cleopatra, transported this
'torarv to Alexandria as a present to
Cleopatra. “"When Christian Europe
was plunged into ignorance, the Mos-
was identified and traced to the boys.
The knives were sold by them at 20
cents each though the lot brought $2.
There ’would be no better subjects
for a juvenile courL
THREE COMPANIES PAY
TO AVOID LITIGATION
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.. May 20.—The
Sun Insurance Company, of New Or
leans, Hartford Fire Insurance Com*
pany, of Hartford, Conn., Palatine In
surance Company, limited, of London,
which were recently sued for $5,000-
000 each for alleged violation of the
anti-trust law of. Arkansas, today paid
by agreement $600 each and the suits
j were dismissed. It was stipulated in
Mark Antony lured by the | »•
' paid for the stole purpose of avoiding
litigation. The companies were allow
ed to deny each and every allegation
in the complaints filed against them.
■ ams tod a large col’eotton of books.” In adit ' on agreements proi-Ide the
Thev had a library ! n Cato that num- ! Payment of these SUM iriJ Le a liar
berod 1.600.000 volumes. There were I ‘9, an J Prosecutions for anv
splendid Arabian libraries in Bagdad. I violations of tie act prior to
Trloo’i and other places. It is claimed i the dato ° l the agreement
that
■library was eriobl'shed in
Greece even before Aristotle made bis
collection. And prior to that time the
kings of Persia 'had libraries. It is not
impossible that libraries are nearly
coeval with the art of writing. The
’torary is no more modern institution.
They did not orig’nafs in America. I
guess not. This is verv clear when
vou stop a moment to reflect that Pau-
•lus Aemilius. onfl hundred and sixty-
,,'even years before Christ, carried to
Rome a library which he had taken as
a spoil of his eamnn’gn in Macedonia.
Long before the fall of tbe Roman
emnire her emperors had filled her do
main with libraries. After Rnmn had
become th-9 “Nieto of nations” libraries
olden" shirt-stud" to'be placed‘on'bis j commem-ed springing un in the large
bosom as he was dying, is verv touch- I ? ,tleB , nf Eunope. In Lns march of
tog. The word ’Remorse.’ which he or- j ’^ rn,n « and Y ar L° US ™° U n'
dered to be written town, calling for tries were ahead of Eng.and The li
ft dictionary—’C-et a dictionary, tot me ; H T? S *2™-
the wwd.’ .has an a to of de’irlnm. ; <* «>e nuclei of the valuable collections
Randolph lived in dread of insanity : ” f ’»*«• veers. The world to largely In
and would often quote Johnson’s sad
lines:”—
“In life’s last scenes, what prodigies
Those Horrid Men Again,
j From the Philadelphia North American.
! Advising young women what sort of a
I man not to marry. Miss Belle Kearney,
i well-known student of sociological prob-
1 lems, who lectured yesterday at Temp’.o
I College, said that "drinking and smokins
| men should be tabooed.”
Miss Kearney was addressing the Young
I Moman's Ed'icational Association on.
“The Moral Evils of Today.” She con-
tinned:
I “If girls would insist on sobriety and
propriety, men weald have to mrt their
requirements. The American girls sei3
! the pace for the whole world, ar.d if she
1 raises h r r standards and demands 0:1a
1 moral code for men and women she will
i benefit humanity at large.”
Miss Kearney asked the young women
pres°nt to think a long time -b -fore they
j married, and to debate seriously upon
the qualifications of the men they choose.
GENERAL KUR0KI PAYS
surprise,
Fears of the brave and follies of the !
wise!
From Marlborough’s eyes the streams j
of dotage flow.
And Swift expires, a driveller and a !
show.-”
Th'ougji his snfferipgs from disease j
were Intense, tbe distinguished Vir- j
e'nian was spared the sad fate »f a :
lost mind.
tobted tedav to tbe I3enedietines for
the preserimt'on of the classics. Their VI^IT TO VAf F VAf?^ITV
’earning epatried them to make care- i ' * l 1 LL t 1 i
ful reproduction of manuscripts. Li-
hrartos are prel'flc in all the contorte-s
of Europe. Thev are seen in Eyvct.
China. Janan and in the various lands
that lie far to the Fast. And even in
Iceland there is a large library.
•One of the inter:
that wfll he displayed in th
room of history at the Jomestown Ex
position Is a relic of the dueling days
in the shape of the n-iHnal artie’es of
agreement in an "affair” of honor,
signed by tbe accords. James Long-
street, and xviHi.am Jones. The paper
reads as follows:
"Agreement ’between '.Tames Long-
street. the friend of Gilbert, and "Wil
liam Jones, the friend of. John M.
Jamison, in deciding a disnute bv deul.
The United States has made won
derful strides in the founding of libra
ries I believe that the first library
established in this country was that at
— | Harvard TTni V ersitv. Cambridge. Mass..
ting documents ! in 1638 Tbe Harvard library contains
Georc'a ' about 750.000 books. The library of
Congress at Washington, has the
largest collection In the Western Hem
isphere. It has about 1.400 000 printed
books and- pamphlets manuscripts, etc.
This library was established in 1800.
One of the special accessions to the
library was the Peter Force collec
tion, purchased in 1867. at a cost of
SinO.OOO. The Count de Rochambeau
collection was obtained in 1883. for
which $20,000 were paid. The library
“Article 1. The parties agree to j occupies tho largest and most raagnifi-
The Forty-eighth Congress was
Democratic, ar.d Mr. Belmont became
chairman of the committee on foreign
affairs. He earned this appointment
by a speech he had made in the pre
vious Congress on the subject of South
American affairs that was an exhaust
ive discussion of the entire question
and a full and complete history of our
relations with Peru, and that speech
is now become our policy in that par
ticular.
He was four times elected to Con-
meet at the Carolina side of the sand
bar ferry at 3 o'clock p. m. this day.
“Second. The weapons shall be pis
tols and those such as the laws of
honor allow.
“Third. The distance to he ten
paces.
"Fourth. Pistols are to he charged
with one hall onlv by each second In
the presence of the other.
"Fifth. After the ground" is chosen
and measured the seconds toss for sit
uation. the winner to have choice.
"Sixth. The seconds again toss for
the word—the winner shall give it for
the first shot, the loser for the second,
and so on alternately as long as nec
essary.
"Seventh. After the gentlemen take
their positions the seconds shall (Im
mediately) silently present them with
their pistols cocked, after which the
seconds return to their situation. The
words, make ready, fire, shall be given
by the proper second and no longer
time shall be allowed between the
words than whilst one can be counted.
"Eighth. The second entitled to
give the word shall previous to h’.s
giving them declare what they shall j
be and if any other word than those
mentioned are given by him or any
other delay in giving them as above
specified the opposite second shall be
jusMfled in firing at him.
"Ninth. After the ground is meas
ured. the situations apportioned etc..
It shall not be admissible for the par
ties to converse with any by-stander
that may be admitted on the ground
"Tenth. Either party reserving his
shot after the word ‘fire’ is given shall
forfeit that shot and after so forfeited
should he fire at his antagonist, th:
cent library building in the world, hav
ing been constructed at a cost of
$6 347.000. exclusive of the price of the
land which was $585,000. There are
nearly eight acres of floor space and
fortv-five miles of shelving, affording
space for 2.200.000 volumes. In the
decorations some forty painters and
sculptors are represented—all Ameri
cans. This new elegant library was
opened to the public in U97. Thero
are 450 employes in the library ser
vice. The institution is maintained by
Congressional appropriations.
Before Andrew Carnegie commenced
dispensing'so liberally fer libraries the
greatest endowment of any library in
America was the Drewry legacy of
over $2 000,000 to the people of Chi
cago. The Astor ar.d Lenox libraries
in New York have a world wide repu
tation. I do not know how large the
endowment cf the Astor Ubrarv is. but
it exceeds S1.000.000. One of the mogt
valuable historical collections in Amer
ica is contained in the Lenox library.
The Astor library was founded by-
John Jacob Astor as a free library for
the city of New York. He made a
gift of $400 000 in his will. The
founding of the institution started in ;
this way: A member of the bar called
on Mr. Astor to see if he would sub
scribe towards a free citv library. He ■
announced his determination to found
the institution himself, which he did 1
most generous’v: and in tune mem
bers of his family added to the original i
munificence Desiring to rende.r a pub- j
lie benefit to th» city of New York,
and to contribute to the advancement 1
of useful knowledge, and the genet's! j
good of society.” ' were the words Mr. I
NEW HAVEN. Conn.. May 20.—Tha
5’is’t to Yale-University of General
; Kuroki today was brought about by
the desire of the distinguished soldier
; to see the institution in which many
: Japanese off'cers received a portion of
! their education in the higher branches.
Many of these officers served with dis-
' tinction at Port Arthur, and in the
battles on Manchurian soil; and sever
al of the off'cers holding high rank had
their preparatory school education in
Mark Pitman's school at Wallingford,
at the time one of the famous schools
of this section. At Woodbridge hall,
the party was officially rece'ved by
President Arthur T. Hadley, of the
university, and here also the Japanese
students, twenty in number, were as
sembled and presented an *.ldress
through their spokesman. Dr. Saiki, a
graduate student in the Sheffield
sc’entific school. A lunch was served
the party at the graduates club. There
were present Secretary of Gtate Eliliu
Root, Gov. Woodruff. Mayor Studiev,
President Che.s. S. Melen, of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail
road. President Hadley and a number
of the professors and the faculty men
of tbe university, besides a number of
citizens.
Following lunch at the graduates
club, the party visited the university
dining hall, where the guests were
enthusiasticcly cheered by the stu
dents.
Hardware—Wboiesa le.
fCV*rrecte<t Dnnia?» Harw^re Co.)
WTAJj WUCK2TS—S4 per <!oz
ROPE—Manila, 14*£c-: S*2?el. He.; cot*
ton ISlAc
WITTE—Parb. S^c. per lb.
PLOW STOCKS—Harman, 90c.; Ferm-
*on.
*n T R? s —Painted. $2.3 n : oe^ar. tz.QG.
POWDER—$4.50; half kesrj*.- $2.75; i;
kess. 51.?C: Durtont and Hazard s;noke-
l^ss. half kegs. 5.11.33. \\ kesrs. 23.73-
1-lb. canl5t«*rn. 51. )akio25 cent, Trnl*.
!c* r f 5J r r«'»keIe.‘.? powder. 1-lb. cans. 51.
SHOVE!.?—SR io $11 per doz.
CARDS—Co lion. $*.50 per dos.
PT.OTV PLADES. 5c. per lb.
IRON—2%c. lb. base; Swede, 4Uc.
pound.
AXES—$n.j>0 dozen, base.
7i4c. ponnd.
NAILS.—Wire.'53.60 keg-, base: cur
52.60 kc*. base.
? HOES—IT or-c. $4.25 to 54.75 ke£; nvjle
shoes. $4.25 to $4.75.
*. $!.7n doz.: white co
he
HNS
or peg. Austin era.*