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TUB WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY APRIL 5 . 1887
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tions.
Chairman Wentworth said there
ent a distinguished and trusted leader, whose
banner they had often followed to victory, and
who would now be able to again command suc
cess if he would but cousent. If thero were
no objections, he would put a motion to make
Air. Harrison their nominee.
The responso was unanimous and an enthu
siastic aflirmative, but a hush fell upon tho
committee as Mayor Harrison aroso, and after
briefly reviewing his official record, tho lick of
encouragement ho had roceivod from persons
high in the party, and opposition to him by
the entire press of the city, declined outright
and for tho third time.
Before resuming his seat, Mr. Harrison
said the republican papers had been calling
upon the democratic party to put up a ticket if
only to save the city from a socialistic mayor—
their way of referring to Mr. Noiaon, the
united labor candidate. If tho republicans
wanted this, then let them withdraw Roche
and put on their ticket Carter Harrison [cheors
and astonishment] and he would beat Nelson
by 30,000 votes.
.. If the democratic party wanted to run a
ticket to keep up party administration.ali right,
but they should not run to help the republicans,
i , ma ^® R speech warmly fa
voting the citizens’ movement. The republi*
cans knew they would be defeated If thoy did
not withdraw Roche. If they could tako tho
rnk the democrats could. He moved the ap
pointment of sn executive committee of five
to confer with representatives of the citlzeus’
organization, should ono develop. Tho mo
tion was carried and the democracy adjourned
sine die.
THE POLITICAL FIELD.
New York,March 30.—[Special.]—James G.
Blnir.c started west from Now York yestordny
morning, over the Pennsylvania railroad, in
the private car of President Roberts. Ho will
ettne back in about three weeks, by way of
Chicago. In June, Mr. Blaine will sail for £u-
reno. All arrangements for that voyage bare
bcv-n perfected. Mr. Blaine will remain abroad
U r one year.
WILL GET THE NEWS BY CABLE.
He will be abroad when tho next republican
national convention is in session. Mr. Blaine's
friends say that ho is indlfl’eront to a renomi
nation, and has decided to go abroad for so long
h timo for the purpose of indicating this in
difference to his party followers. He is quoted
as expressing himself literally disgusted with
the constant pressure that is brought to boar
on him to accept the position of an activo
candidate for nomination. His friends say he
v ill Beit her seek nor avoid a nomination. Ho
Is to spend his timo abroad in studying
the labor problems, social phases, and interna-
ticnsl problems. When ho comes back ho will
lake tliu stump for the nominee of his party.
Il«publicans who aro not friendly to Mr.
Blaine’s r* nomination, who woro told Mr.
Blaine's intention, affected to bolievo that it
was simply a shrewd bid for popular favor.
WHAT !!I« OPPONENTS BAY.
A loading republican, who is classed as a
mngwnmp, said: “Blalno wants tho nomina
tion, but realizes that if it comes to him by his
own seeking, it will bo evon moro worthless to
him than in 1884. If he could be abroad and
re nominated over Sherman, Allison, Hawley,
Lincoln and others, ho would bo in a condition
to claim moro nearly tho unanimous support
than ho had before. Besides, the nrcstlgo of a
foreign trip would bo a valuablo adjunct to tho
canvass by his friends for ronomination. Al
though ho will bo out of the country, his
frieuds feel strong enough to procure him the
nomination without great effort. Thoy havo
already begun the quiet work of setting up
the state delegations and will go at it moro ac
tively and openly after hla departure. I was
told somo some timo ago that Biaiue had a
great coup In contemplation. This It it!
St. Louis, March 31.—James G, Blaine was
on 'change today, where he held an informal re
ception for an hour in the directors' rooms, and
•towards made a five minutes' speech upou the
floor of the exchange.
Kx-Senator McDonald Talks.
New York, April 3.—[8pecial,]—Ex-Senator
Joseph E. McDonald, of Indiana, was in the
Fifth Avenue hotel today, his loose frock coat
•winging around his sturdy form like a toga
on an amateur actor. Ho was asked by your
correspondent:
“What lathe prospect for a democratic victory
in 1888?”
“Oh, first rate, 1 think.” Yon soo the demo
crats in New York state, Virginia and other
states, who were apathetic and did not vote at
the last elections will turn out and vote at
tho national election. In my state they refus
ed to voto because thoy thought the adminis
tration had not divided the patronage sufficient*
ly among them. [ suppose 20,000 at least re
frained from voting on that account
alone. I do not mean to
aay by this that President Cleveland has not
made good appointments in my state, for ho
has; but in the congressional districts thero
were a great many aspirants who failed to get
office. Thoee same men, too, will turn out in
2888 and vote for Mr. Cleveland, if ho is nomi
nated, because they know bo is preferable to a
republican president- With a republican in
office they could not hope for anything.
I believe that the civil service reform is a
sham. Why, if the republicans should go into
tomorrow and tako control of this govern
ment, they would turn out immediately every
democrat in office. There would bo no dally
ing or weighing in nice scales the delicacy of
inch action, but with stalwart promptness out
would go every democrat from even tho small
est position. If the republicans g»in control
in 1888, all the democrats Air. Cleveland has
putin office will be put out, bag and bnggago
without ceremony and without hesitation.
When Senator Sherman bccamo president of
Ibe sen*fa, he immediately discharged tho
secretary and mcfrenger, paid fur by tho gov-
tn men for the vice-president.”
“You think the internal revenue question
and economic questions will be the chief issues
in the campaign of lei's?”
“Yes, I do.’’
n*> Declines the Honor.
Chicago, March 30.—John H. McAvoy has
declined the democratic nomination for mayor
which was tendered him today. Tomorrow even-
tor a rrir.mlttee will report a new name, it a can
didate can be found who will accept.
Incitement in Detroit Over tho Approach
ing Liquor Election.
Detroit, Mich., March 31.—Tho intonsity
of feeling over tho proposed prohibition
amendment bas no p&rallol in tho history of
political campaigns in this state. Conservative
men of both sides aro fearing serious trouble
on election day in Detroit. The feeliug against
the prohibitionists in tho eastern part of the
city, particularly in the fifth, seventh, ninth,
ele venth and fifteenth wards is intense. In
terest In state and county politics shrinks onfc
of sight compared with tho absorbing impor
tance of tho question whether tho pcoplo shall
havo beer or not.
An eleventh word alderman said that not one
prohibition vote would ho cast in his product,
becanso no prohibitionist would dare to voto
them. He added:
“I am speaking the truth when I aay it
would not bo safe for a man to voto for a pro
hibitionist in my part of tho town. That is,
of course, if it is found out”
Thero will probably bo 5,000 anti-prohibition
workers at the polls. The prohibitionists aro
uneasy at the outlook.
The Issues in the Cincinnati Election
Which Takes I*laco Today.
Cincinnati, April 3.—At the municipal
election tomorrow there will bo threo tickots
in tbo field, tho democratic, tho republican
and tho united labor ticket. The laotnamol
party, though bearing the name, is
a Henry George party. It should
bo entitled the union larbor party, the name
choeen by the national labor conferenco which
met hero in February. It includes all olo-
ments which fused in that conferenco, among
which aro tho prohibitionists and greenback-
ers. It is proper to say that it does not
include the socialist eloraent. Its
candidate for major is W. H. Stevenson, a
journeyman bricklayer, who has been quite
prominent in labor matters. Ho now holds
the ofhco of secretary of tho National Brick
layer’s association. Its other candidates are
necessarily not widely known, as they repre
sent a new party. Mr. Sheague, candidate for
city solicitor, is a young lawyer who has also
served for sevoral years as
editor of tho Express Gazette. Tho
issue this party presents Is reform and econo
my in municipal management. The demo
cratic candidate for mayor is Isaac B. Watson,
who filled the office of probato judgo for a
number of yean. Its candidate
for judge of tho superior court
is J. If. Taylor, brother of Ifon, Alii ton
Taylor, who represented tho first Ohio district
iu congress ono or two terms. Tho
democrats attack sharply the
republican methods of government and prom
ise of reform. The republican candidato for
mayor ia Abner Smith, Jr., present incumbent,
wbo was elected two years ago. Its battlo cry
has been to keep out of municipal office a party
which has connived at frauds ami public rob
bery which have been exposed withiu the past
two years.
New York's High License Hill.
Albany, N. Y., March 31.—Tho sonata this
afternoon suspended the rules aud passed the
Crosby high llcente bill. Tbo voto was 18 to M,
two republicans voting with the democrats iu tbo
negative. The bill now goes to tho governor.
WHATOF SENATOR JQNBS.
The Queer Statesman Expects to be Senator
Again and Feeltt Certain of Election.
Detroit, April 3.—In spite of his two years’
continued rc&idenco in this city, Senator
Charlei W. Jones still chooses to consider him
self as “of Florida.” Michigan law, howevor,
designate himaa denizen of this common
wealth, but Senator Jones deems himself “of
Florida” to such an extout that when the leg
islature of tho sunny state moots on April 5 ho
will ask to be sent back as its representative
in tho United States senate. Ho has already
directed his eldest aon and private secretary to
leave Washington for Florida, and will him
self start for thore tomorrow. Rumors
of the senator’s intention to ask a recelection
have received general discountenance from the
press of tho country as something too absurd
for belief, bat that is just what Senator Jones
lends to do.
Senator Jones evidently has some strong rea
son for asktag to be kept In the senate, or else
his mind is unbslanoea. The last looms to be
tho most charitable construction to placo upon
hla actions, and has often been hinted at.
Despite tbo ridicule heaped upon his avowod
intentions, he certainly feels that ho will bo
elected, nor would It surprfso many here who
know tho man. He declares thtt he ha l a
bomb which he will touch offin tho Florida
lcgitlaturo, but he sticks steadfastly to keep
the secret of his composition In hit own breast.
After spending a short time in Dotroit as the
guest of ex-Mayor Thompson, Senator Jones
rmoved to tho Russell house and established
himself in parlor A, where he has over sineo
lived. He admits bo reroners to his presence,
and refhscs to communicato with them. The
most starking feature of the senator’s quarters
is a spice on the left of the marblo firepluo
devoted to the files of the leading Now York
dailies complete for two years bock. Against
them Senator Jones breathes dire threatening!
of suits at law and other terrible things
“when the proper time comes.” These papers
come to hit room every day and he spends sev
eral hoars of every day in the public library
scanning the southern and oastern papers.
Senator Jones has become popular among
the masses in Detroit, and had ho become a
resident hero in his own mind, as the law says
bo Is, he might have become a power in tho
democracy. At tho 8t. Patrick's day banquet
he was received with such enthusiasm as has
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
NEWS OF THE WEEK FROM THE
National capital.
A Ki w Peit fa for Stamps lii{Cont*mp T a»'on~ New I
Docks to be Built -New Secretaries Commit-
iloned—Tbs Inter-Stxto Goromnroe Com
mission—Other Capital Nows.
A TERRIBLE SIGHT.
Washington, March 30.—Postoilico dopirt-
meut officials are having prepared a series of
new designs of embossed stamp* for stamped
envelopes of one, two, four and five cent de
nominations. Tho head of Fraukliu has boon
selected for tho one cent stamps, and heads of
Washington, Jackson and Grant for tho two,
four and five cent denominations, respectively.
The general design of the new Berios is uni
form. On tho upper side and following tho
oval shape of the stamp is the legend, "United
States Postage,” instead of "U. 8. Postage," ns
on the stamps now in uso. This new serios
will be ready for uso about May 1. The border
of tbo one cent adhesive stamp bas been slightly
modified to conform to the design of the two
cent stamp.
Washington, March 28.—Tho president
made the following appointments today: Daniel A.
Carpenter,Knoxville, Tenu., to be pension agent at
Knoxville: James R. Jordan, of Virginia, to be*
marshal of the United States for the western dis
trict of Virginia.
Thomas ti. Laird has been appointed inspector o
hulls of steam vessels at havannah, Go.
Washington, March 31.—Secretary Whit
ney has approved tho report of tho board
appointed to select sites for the two now dry
docks authorized by tho last congress. The
docks will be located at the Now York and
Norfolk navy yards, and will be built by
contract on tho general plan of tho Simpson
dry dock. They will bo constructed of tim
ber, and tho dimensions will bo about as
follows: Length, 485 feot; width, At top, 125
feet; and tho width at tho bottom <10 foot. Tho
amount of money availablo for their construc
tion ie $1.100,000
Washington, March 31.—Tho comptroller
of the currency today authorized tho First
National bank of Gadsden, Ala., with a capital
of $50,000, to begin business.
Tho president appointed today A. II. Mawry,
of South Carolina, postmaster at Charleston, S.
l\, vico Benjamin linger, deceased.
Washington, April 1,—Tho president to
day signed tho commissions of Charles 8. Fair-
child aa secretary of the treasury, and Isaac
II. Maynard ns assistaut secretary of tho treas
ury. Mr. Fairchild at ouco entered upon tho
discharge of his now duties. Ho was sworn
in at eleven o’clock by a notary public employ
cd in tho secretary's office and took possession
of the ofiico and dosk formerly occupied aud
used by ex-Secretary Manning. Tho officers
aud many clerks of the department waited on
him early and extended their congratulations.
Judgo Maynard will not qualify as nidstant
secretary before Monday, as ho deslro3 to dis-
poso of somo business now pondiug in tho soc-
ond comptroller’s office. In accepting hi i now
office he will suffer a loss of $5,000 a yoar in
valury. Ho makes tho chango at tho personal
solicitation of the president and Secretary
Fairchild, with tho latter of whom he enjoys
the closest personal relations.
The preshlont today appointed Martin V.
Montgomery, of Michigan, to be associate jus
tice of the supreme court of tho district of
Columbia, to succeed Justice MacArthur, re*
tired. Mr. Montgomery is a resident of Lan
sing and entered political life in 1870, boiug
elected to tho state legislature as a democrat.
Ho was a delegate to the St. Louis national
convention in 1870, and his appointment os
commissioner of patents was one of the first of
importance mado by President Cleveland.
The Inter-State Commerce Commission.
Washington, March 31. — [Special.] —
Threo times in tho history of Washiugnon it
has been tho scene of the assembly of a littlo
group of men on whom tho eye of the nation
were intently fixed. All of these groups have
been so small that thoy could havo heldthoir
sessions in tho cheapest room of any hotol in
the city. Eight men ono morning came to
gether, and finally agreed on tho draft of a
proclamation which was to liborato four
millions of human creatures. Fifteen mon sat
for days in a little hall at tho capital,
protending to adjudicate a contested
presidency. Today five men sat in a cozy par-
lor at Willard’s hotel and arranged for tho or
ganization of a commission which will hold in
its control thousands of millions of property,
and tho rights and privileges of sixty million
tcople. The littlo gathering today was abw-
tifely destitute of tho dramatic elements
which throw such a glare upon the consulta
tion of tho Lincoln cabinet, and the session of
tho electoral commission. Everything tod ly
Has ret to tho cold, quiot tono of business.
At 3 o’clock the commissioners called on the
secretary of tho interior, beforo whom they
took the oath of office. Each was then handod
hie commission by the secretary. Judge Cooley
wis elected president of the commission.
Washington, April 1. — [Special.] — The
Story of a Western Cyelono—The ICmllcHi
Knit Had Come.
Will Hnbbard-Kercau Iu New York Mercury.
“It isn’t far—only seven miles—and I know
you’ll like my place. I’ve a pretty cottage, the
best of wives, and just tho loveliest littlo boy
yon ever caw.”
Tbo young farmer stood on tho threshold of
my dli co nt North wood, Dakota. Ho was on
bis way to Graud Forks, aud wanted mo to rldo
home with him on hla return tho following
day.
‘‘Well, I’ll go,” said 1, "but it will put tho
paper behind, aud—”
• O, Ned can take caro of tho paper, and we’ll
have a pleasant week of It, hunting and fishing.”
With that he started off at a swinging pace.
Sensations in Madrid.
Madrid, April 3.—During tho sitting of tho
•chamber or deputies yesterday > parchmout case
containing gun powder, within which
table cartridge with a fine attached,
the doorway of tho president’s bureau. Later In
*“* evening the petard was exploded in tho vest!-
n nym *• * ..v
fourth section of the interstate commerco act ia
as follows:
That It shall bo unlawful for any common carrier,
subject to tho provisions of this act, to charge or
receive any greater compensation in the aggregate
for the tran»i»ortaUon or passengers or of like kind
of property, under substantially similar circura
“•aces* and conditions, for a shorter than
longer distance over ■*“*
line In tho same direction, the shorter being in-
• luded within the longer distance, but thta shall
not bo construed as authorizing any common car
er, within the terms of this act, to charge and ro-
L ive as great compensation for a shorter as for
IWWU Wl IWMHHIIVI —T VWM.-W
*ion may, from umc U> iJmo, prescribe toe extent
to which such designated common carrier may be
relieved from tne operation of this section o! this
Carter Harrison Again.
Chicago, Mar:h 31.—When the democratic
nominatirg committee had assembled this
evenipy, Mayor Harrison entered the room
alote. A sub-committee of five reported that,
noliiithstandisg an antiring aeorch, they had
b*« n unable to find a suitable democrat in the
city wbo woold accept tho party's nomination
far tho mayoralty, They had reached almost
prohibition meeting where he waa called out
tho people fairly went wild over him. .But
Senator Jones's eye is fixed on the Florida'son-
atonhip, while his brain and hand na5 not
L< tn idle. As to the rumor of a political con
spiracy which the senator is to disclose and
ck’.Efc tnco to tremble, the foundation for it is
no doubt in marginal notes written on news
papers opposite paragraphs reflecting on the
ex-*enator, and which are said to be in his
hard wilting.
‘ Wait for the great conspiracy to be dis
closed. What about that? ’ is a specimen writ
ten on the margin of a Detroit paper and re
turned to it. Eastern journals have had their
papers sent tackjwith similar indorsements.
The human body is the nearest approash to
perfection except Dr. Ball’s Congh Syrup.
“Maud Bants Tobacco."
Aik your merchant tor "Hand Harris Tobacco,
Will, not one of the commissioners will ex
press the slightest opinion as to what will con
stitute inch a special case aa should ho ana pend
the operation of the fourth section of tho act,
every one of them has abown a disposition to
avoid any sudden or harsh disturbance of tho
boaincss of tho country. The ten
dency toward couscrvatism in tho
administration of the law is growing more and
more pronounced among tho commission. How
far they may feel justified In using thedisern-
tion to suspend the operation of the act, and
wbat will be their ideas as to exactly what will
constitute a case which will merit such con
sideration, is ss yet undetermined and entirely
beyond the range of surmiie.
I think tho peculiar condition of the south
will bo so apparent to tho comruitstoion
that it will conccivo it to be its dnty to
order a suspension of the long and short haul
provision as to a largo part of that territory.
Every expression that I have boon able to ob
tain from the members of the commission, and
all the inquiriei they mado of the Atlanta
committee and the railroad mon who havo ap
peared before them, point in the direction of a
conservative course, when it is so appa
rent that a literal construction of the
fourth section, combined with a blind
to many anu relief to none. It is not to
presumed that the commission is going to sot in
motion an engine of oppression. An order on
the case presented 1 by tho southern shippers
and railroads will probably be mado early this
week. There Is good reason to hops that it
will allow former rates to be continued, at
hast, until tho situation can be comprehen
sively examined by the commission.
Tho Arctic Explorers.
WinnitTg, Man* March 31.—Alex Ma^Ar
thur, who left here about a month ago to find
the north pole, has returned. Nows of the
movements of Bakomos, whom he expected to
meet, was discouraging. They will not bo on
Hudson bay till the fall and u the only other
route was that which Colonel Gildon found
impracticable, he decided to abandon tho tiip
for the present. He says he will make an
other attempt next fall. i olonel Gil len, the
other arctic explorer, fa still here.
th that he started off at a swinging pace.
Hello, Ben,” J called, “X didn’t promiso a
week.”
Ho looked around, his handsome face radiant
with smiles. Tossing me a kiss, he cried back:
“I'm bossing this busmen, old follow!”
It was one of those bright, blithe incidents
that swoop across our lives at times and recon
cile us to the dark, tho passion and tho storm.
Later in the day I sat down and tried to
write* but 1 wasn’t in the mood. I felt uneai
—oppressed—unlike myself. It seemed as -
there waa a strange, electrical influence in the
air that strung the nerves to the highest ten
sion, causing mo to throw down my pen, spring
from my desk and walk quickly to and fro.
I went to tho door. How still the air was!
How sultry! How intenso! I could hardly
breathe; and away off to the north wasagroen,
flying, hideous cloud that suddenly darkened
tho sun till wo bad to light our lamp.
Ned nut down his stick, came over to mo and
said: “1 fed so—so queer.”
“Tho cloud—tho cloud, Ned!” T cried, fof
while he was speaking it had taken the shape
of a balloon, aud out of it flashed a light that
seemed to whirl aud leap and danco and rise aa
if it possessed a conscious life.
There is no other light in all tho nniverso
like that which lends tho unutterable horrors
of hell to tho cloud of a cyclono.
Ned caught my hands.
There was a roar—low, louder, intensor, un
til it seemed as If tbo endless end had come,
and the earth was smiting tho planets in mad,
titanic terror as it flow out of its orbit forevor.
The band-planted trees in front of our office
shook, quivered, beat tho green gronud with
their blanches, broko, and away wont tho
boughs to tho uttermost limits of sight. Ter
rible flashes of lightning splintered tho low-
lying clouds in tho horizon into fire, and tho
e arth seemed to send electricity to tho hoavons,
that thundered with unceasing crash upou
crash, till tho dovilish diapason left me stunned
and half senseless.
Ned clasped my hands closer, closer, silent,
awed, In tbo awful sublimity of thattremond-
ous hour.
Tho office rocked, rocked.
Flash!
Boom!
1 caught Nod by the ahonldora. He was white aa
eternal death. In an instant it was all past aud
wo totterod to the loungo. I gasped for breath.
Ned lay beside mo, gasping out unconsciously
at tho empty air.
We had been caught on the edgo of a cy
clone!
Next day Ben drove up to my door.
“Come on!” ho said, jauntily.
Thero was a great gulp in my throat as ho
spoke.
“You—you havo heard of tho cyclone?”
“No—no—where!” Ho totterod into tho of
fice—his great, beautiful, intelligent eyes tak
ing in all that I meant.
•Tint thorn?”
Ixnly was injured, but tbo two events have caused
THE COTTON MARKETS.
the tone, and it I* probable th&t higher prices arc
to follow. Spots, middling!(%.
Net receipt* iui l nays 5.201 oaies, against 4,527
ties last yoar: exports 15,40 bales; last year 15,491
ales; stock 528,521 bales; last year 83I,6'J6 bale*
Below we give tho opening and dosing quota
tions of cotton futuroi lu Now.York today:
April
'Out there!”
Ho looked and fainted dead away—dead
away—poor, poor boy!
Wo brought him to—Ned and I—and ho lay
there for hours, crying out:
* 1 My wife, my little Bessie; and oh, my boy,
my pet Harry! Hany! Harry!”
“Ned,” I said, “spring into his buggy, ride as
. you am ^ and return to-
qnickiy .
night if poaiible.”
And tho hours, the awftil hours that some in-
■crutiblo power intends us to pass through,
went by as though thoy were conturic*.
Ned came bamk aa tho clock of tho night
•truck the hour of elovon.
“Ned!”
He tore past me into tho back room.
“0,1 havo soen—havo seen things lot God
forevor havo mo forget," and ho broko down In
a great sob. “His pretty homo Is a ruin, his
wife dead under its rafters, and his littlo boy,
clasped in the arms of his mother.”
Thero was a wild, unoarthly cry. Bon had
fallowed ns and listened.
“My Harry! O, my Harry! What of him?”
“Paved by a miracle, unhurt!”
“Now God l>o thanked! But Bessie! 0,dar
ling, darling! ’ and ho fell prone.
“Ben!” 1 said, throwing my arm around him,
for I loved him aa a brother. “Bon, you have
Harry yet!”
“Yes,” ho said, after a long, long whilo.
“But Bessie!” And ho wont out to tho place
that had been his homo.
And J turned to my desk and wrote the
tragedy, and said:
“Yet the years troop on, with the immortal
beauty of the blue, sun-shotted sky langhlng
down at us all. The yean troop on, with the
carol and trill and warble of the birds nngitig
after ue from tho glad, green branches or our
southern magnolias. And tho years troop on,
with life and color and tong, to cheat ne Into a
love of life, and sneer at ns for surrendering to
their cliarmi.”
Wbat is tho uso of It all? I say-
Why are wa brought from the blank unknown
To iaugh and weep through a little day,
That drifts us under a burial stone.’
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But for 91 we offer to give every man, woman and
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one year. In these letters bo will carry the
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Profcuor White ia learned, observant, a fine
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spending a week In a farm house of each nation
and giving letters on the fanning and farm Ufo of
England, Ireland, France, Russia, Germany, 8pain,
Italy, Austria, Sweden and Norway. He will write
letters of adventure, gossip, and every one will
11E WOirriJ A YKAIl’8 8UJ19GRIF fflON•
Now can you afford to miss this? We have
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Ing. ^___
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SOOTHING SYRUP far children teething. It
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September .....«..to 42i
October mm n 10.cii
November. 9.r
December-.... 9.1 . w
Closed firm; sales 92,700 bales
Local—Cotton firm; middling 100.
NEW YORK, April I - Tho following is th«
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today:
Net receipt* at all United States port*.
Same time last year,....................* 33
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25,457
Showing a decrease.
Total export* to date
Same timo last year
Showing an increase
Stock at all United States porta.
Same timo last year.
Showing a decrease..
Stock itl Interior towns.
Same time last year
Showing a dccrcaso.
Stockfat Liverpool...
Samcftimo last year-,...
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American cotton alloat for Great Britain 171,000
Same time last year. 128,000
Showing an Increase 45,000
NEW YORK. April 2 -Tho total vlslblo
celpt* at ’an ’ lnterior towns biles,
ceibt* from plantations 8,437 bole* Crop in light
The Clileago Markets.
CHICAGO. April 2—Wheat was dull, and prices
. »'— the closing. Trading
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show a shrinkage of %o
w aa almort excluslvery of a local nature. For May
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with 82Xc tho cloning. Tho visible supply stato-
iphow adccreuHoof about 1,000,000
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cl* and shipments l7H,<
Corn was weak, all features boing of a depress-
ket became excessively dull. Short riba broke 2HC
tores In Chloago today:
^ Wh*AT— Opening
20 75
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2100
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8 25
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