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TEE TWICE-A- TELEGEA?rj TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1807 ! r Cn Ltba STOCKS TIE SHARP and mmm turn dqwnwands 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 THE LOC NEW TOR r. i>tock : In- ond unc R ice ,oot Cotton Movcmtit. Re<~s. S^n Stock on Hand. ET. “sterday wo? [lowing quo- 12 11% 11% 11 Eat \01 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. '—E", he"vy was 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 "spf of ^ the u"w mg ve"tber over ms tod"y there- llils s’llipg. nroh- ' °f Sa turdsv m- •e short interest - rile trado. L!v- row with no 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 ,n-"-*ro Rloscm -s iyht. . .. 3 50 one MEAL—Water ground Juliette...!!!.78 O* e- h— MEATS -Ew IiTimDsr. :g at 516 to ....10 U-\MS—T’s”’ Extra half ribs 18-°9-lh. D. S. bellies jp: Bulk plates g*^ * ats -Vo over nhfv "d"rd ....16 to $22.50 pet LARD—Bure D^-)b tin nooring- per thous- celllngr at P^rc Pnrc Pure- . In . In 10-lb. tins....... . in "-'b. t*ns.. . in 3-!b. tins......... far other nHI ive. 'riband. weather boardlrjr at J?0 I mi m«’w e:1 * TlPr board- i SYRT’P—Gsor.cia cane TncvO 36 Rna 1 .W-w Orleans 2f Firtrk atm:... SALT—bs. WWt* r*nttnn %ck....50 I'^A-Tb. 4£ Special nrlces car lots. 'mpnrrpf’ »^nrk «qlt. ib TH 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 Arbuckls's Roasted 16 04 ■ RICE—C-.c.-cc head 7 Medium g 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. ...lftiA . ..ins; ...I””, ...11% . ..M% • n% Cra fibers. Wlnn-Johnaon Co.) N. n C sodas. 7c 6c_ rs 7%e. cracker*. «%c. Gireer A s«"T 6 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.*