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VOL. I.
DAY AND NIGHT.
Oh the rapturous thrill of awaking
In the morning cool and gray,
When my pulses stir with rejoicing
For the gift of another day.
Oh a day is too short for such chances
Of love and of service true,
With the glory of sunshine around me,
And my beautiful work to do.
Hut the dear day slips from my holding
And the chances come and go;
While I love and I work a little.
And I worry a bit, you know,
Then the even ng comes with its quiet,
And dreams of the hours past,
And I put off my plans until morning,
And I’m glad to sleep at last.
So my life grows rich with its meaning.
Until beauty and service combine;
And it claims me with power resistless,
It thrills me with longings divine.
Too brief are the years of our striving,
Far distant the brotherhood drnm
But we work with a courage unfailing.
And ’ Ife holds a glory supreme.
But perhaps in the misty future
An hour of quiet may come,
When an evening hush may enfold me,
And each summoning voice be dumb;
1 may sit perhaps in the stillness
And muse on the happy past;
Then say my few words of thanksgiving
And be willing to sleep at last.
—Emma E. Mareau, in Boston Transcript.
, ON THE TRAIN..
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BY EMMA A. OPPER.
It was going to be a dull railroad jour
ney, that was certain. Dullness per
meated the dusty and cindery atmos
phere.
Kitty Brooks had a book, but she did
not feel like reading. She might have
looked out, but the telegraph poles dis
turbed her, and not much was to be seen
at any rate.
Three men were asleep. A womau
across the aisle was eating out of a lunch
basket something of a distinctly oniony
odor—onions or garlic. It had afflicted
Kitty from the first,- and now she felt
that fresh air was absolutely necessary.
The cinders could not be much worse
than they already were. She relinquished
book and puree and umbrella and tried
to raise the window.
It stuck, of course. And equally of
course a man rose up from the seat be
hind her, touched his hat, and said;
“Allow me!” in polite accents.
Had Kitty been more traveled, less
unsophisticated, she would have been
able to forecast that occurrence with
reasonable certainty.
As it was, she raised startled eyes and
made stammering reply. What she saw
-was a young fellow of attractive ex
terior, if not precisely handsome, bend
ing forward with a courteous smile.
What the young man saw was one of
the sweetest faces imaginable, biue-eyed
and tender-mouthed, under a hat not
quite of the newest style; a slender, 1
girlish form, clad in a dress which was
not exactly “the thiug,” and a look of
tremulous uncertainty.
“I’ll put it up,” he said, hastily, and
rather stiffly.
What in the name of sense was the
girl afraid of?
He shoved it up with a strong push
and sat down.
But now that he had seen her face—
such an astonishingly charming face!—
the back view of her flaxen head and un
worldly little hat w’as simply tantaliz
ing.
He kept an admiring, fascinated gaze
upon them. And when she turned, the
next moment, a timid flush rising in her
eheek, George Floyd's heart actually
beat faster.
“I didn’t mean to be so impolite as not
to say thank you,” Kitty said, bravely
as she could. “Thank you!”
“You are more than welcome,” he an
swered. But the response sounded
jerky—or he persuaded himself that it
did. “I fancy,” he said, smiling, “that'
you were getting tired of the pickled
onions of our hungry neighbor?”
“Was it pickled onions?” Kitty
smiled, too. “Yes; I couldn’t stand it.”
“Most of us seem oblivious, though,”
be said, glancing around. “I think you
and I are the only wide awake people in
the car.”
“Yes, I am sure one of those men will
lose his hat off in the aisle if he doesn’t
wake up,” said Kitty.
But in the words were an effort—he
knew that. She looked shy, shrinking.
The ancient simile of a wild-rose oc
curred to George Floyd’s intent mind.
To nobody could the phrase have been
more fitly applied. Her sweetly pretty
f&ce was flower-like, and she bore the
marks of a half-rusticity, which added
ten-fold to her charm.
It vexed and distressed him that.she
should seem to distrust him; as though
be would be guilty of a breath of disre
spect —he, and to her!
“Warm weather isn’t conducive to en
thusiasm among railroad travelers. And
—possibly I shouldn’t say it—but the
scenery along this road clear to Wyud
ham, where my experience of it ends, is
worse than ordinary; it’s bad. You get
tired of brickyards and spindling
woods.”
He spoke in a studiously matter-of
fact way. hardly looking at her even.
She should be made to see that he was
a gentleman,at least—little wood-pigeon
that she was.
Kitty gave him her first full look.
“Wyndham?” she said.
4, Yes. I live there,” said George
Btatc of Bak leto&
Floyd, an odd little hope stirring with
in him. “You—are you—”
“I am going to Wyndham,” said
Kitty.
Then she turned pink again and
dropped her eyes, and was silent.
The train rattled on with an exasper
ating chug-cliug. And George Floyd,
amused and exasperated, almost ground,
his teeth.
“I am glad you are going to Wynd
ham,” he said, quietly. “I think you’ll
like it. I live there. But I don’t see
why—l don’t, truly—why that or any
thing else should make you feel afraid
of me?”
He looked annoyed—he looked hurt.
Kitty’s distrust had fled long ago, and
now her timorousness was going, too.
She hid her merry smile behind her
loosely gloved little hand.
“It doesn't,” she answered. “Ilf is
Aunt Calista.”
“Why is it Aunt Calista?” George
questioned, and wondered if ail men
were moved to be as pfotectingly gentle
to her as he was. “She isn’t here, is
she?”
“No.” Kitty’s humorous little smile
remained, with just enough of shyness to
be pretty. “But I seem to —to feel her,
you know—almost!”
Her listener laughed, since he could
not help it. So did Kitty.
“She must be a—a terror, so to
speak,” he ventured.
“Oh, no! She is—well, Aunt Calista,”
said Kitty. “That describes her best,
somehow. She is my father’s sister, but
not a bit like my father. She has always
lived in Wyndham, and Wyndham is
very different, I suppose?”
“Different from—” George queried.
“From our little old farm,” Kitty an
swered, smiling.
“And you’ve never visited Wyndham
and your Aunt Calista?”
How interesting was every fact con
cernmg this sweet-faced girl—her every
word!
“No. Mary went first, then Celia.
But now that they’ve married, it is me
or nobody. She visited us a year ago—
Aunt Calista—and lately she wrote for
me to come.”
“Well?”
“Well, and—and I’m afraid she
doesn’t really want me. Mary and Celia
are different. I don’t think—l really
don’t—that Aunt Calista approves of
me.”
She looked rueful and serious. Her
pretty mouth was faintly pouted; a ten
dril of hair blew acAss her delicately
blooming cheek.
Was Aunt Calista blind or insane?
George wondered in real impatience.
But he said, mildly:
“Why not?”
Was she saying too much? Kitty
knew she was. But he was looking at
her with a deep, respectful interest—
with that quiet, gentlemanly air which
had made her sorry for seeming to be rude
to him at first.
“Well, I’m not quite so ladylike as
the others,” she responded, gravely. (He
stared.) “I’m different. I like things
just such as the boys like. I’ve tramped
around in the woods with them till I
know as much about birds and trees and
things as they do. I like to fish, and
I’m even getting to be a decent shot.
And Aunt Calista doesn’t admire it.”
“I cannot conceive why not!” said
George, warmly.
“She doesn’t. She said so to father.
And when she saw me once running
after one of the cows which had got in
to the wrong lot, and washing off the
buggy another time, when father was
busy, she told mother she was afraid I
was ‘hopeless.’”
George Floyd coughed. He did not
venture to smile, her face was so gently
serious. But the visions which rose be
fore him shut out all else for a moment.
He saw her among the tall greenery of
the woods, bare-headed, warm-cheeked;
he saw her tracing a path across a dewy
pasture, singing—or whistling, maybe;
he saw her in the barn and the meadow,
in some rattly old wagon, perched in a
haystack—and saw always her innocent
eyes and sweet-expressioned mouth and
rumpled flaxen hair. His heart was
beating rather fast now.
“I don’t know what kind of a person
your Aunt Calista is,” he said,shortly.
“She is very good,” said Kitty—
“charitable and good, but she is very
particular, and I’m a good deal afraid of
her. If I didn’t know she doesn’t ap
prove of me, and would certainly have
asked Mary or Celia again instead—if
they hadn’t got married—but I do know
it.”
He longed to express his utter con
tempt for Aunt Calista and all her tastes
and preferences —his unqualified horror
of her.
“I trust she won’t make your life a
burden to you while you are with her,”
he said, indignantly.
“I shall try to be a pleasant surprise
to her,” Kitty answered, with simple
earnestness. “I told father I should,
and I shall. I think I can behave well
—as Aunt Calista likes to see a girl be
have, I mean—and I’ll try to. I can’t
be a ‘romp’ in Wyndham; that’s what
Aunt Calista says I am. The boys won’t
be there, you see; and perhaps, by keep
ing it on iny mind and trying hard—”
Her gra"i f y gave way at last to a mis
chievous little smile.
“And it was that,” said George Floyd,
“which made you afraid to thank me for
opening the window', and scared at the
notion of speaking to me afterward—it
was your having your Aunt Calista on
your mind? Bryerdon!” he muttered,
inaudibly; “and Wyndham only two
minutes off. Confound it!”
TRENTON, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 14,1891.
“Yes,” Kitty owned. “Aunt Calista
would think it dreadful, my speaking to
anybody 1 hadn’t been introduced to—l
know she would. Yes, I’mcertain of it,
even when—if—”
“Even if it was perfectly apparent
that ‘anybody’ was an entirely safe and
innocent individual, bored to death by
the monotony of a lengthy journey, and
only desirous of lessening his own dreari
ness and that of his neighbor a little,”
said George, in a sort of growl.
Wyndham was only half a mile away,
and he was feeling angry with his un
kind fate, for he didn’t know “Aunt
Calista” from Adam.
“I suppose so,” said Kitty, apologiz
ingly.
“Aunt Calista who?” he demanded,
with a desperate hope.
But the conductor w r as shouting Wynd
ham, and Kitty was picking up her
traps.
“If I can be of assistance about your
trunk?” said George, gloomily.
“Thank you!” said Kitty. ■
Did she look a little bit sorry, too?
He fancied so—he hoped so!
She fumbled in her purse and held out
her brass tag. The train was stopping
before the busy, long station, an 1 she
was peering out.
“Oh!” she gasped.
George saw a tall, elderly lady, in a
black bonnet and veil, standing in a
calmly waiting attitude.
“It’s Aunt Calista,” Kitty said, her
blue eyes solemnly fixed in Aunt Calista’s
direction. “I didn’t expect her at all.
Mary and Celia said she never met them
—she always sent her man aud the cart.
Oh, dear, what would she think about—
about it? She would be shocked the
very first thing. I think she’d send me
home again. Don’t get off the train
with me—don’t take my check! Oh,
dear! I—l—if it was anybody but Aunt
Calista. You don’t feel angry? You see
how it is?”
She gave him an imploring look,
which he told himself he should never for
get, and was gone.
At the latest possible moment—the
bell was beginning to clang—he stepped
from the train. There stood Aunt Ca
lista and Aunt Catista’s niece—he seemed
to see nothing else. But he cast no
glance at them. He strode past at as
wide a range as possible, grimly smiling,
“George Flovd!” Aunt Calista called,
sternly, “come back here!”
The young man went back, hat in
hand, dazed and staring.
“Mrs. West!” he stammered.
“Certainly!” said Mrs. West, looking,
behind her veil and her glasses, distinctly
displeased. “Didn’t you see me? My
niece, Miss Kitty Brooks—Mr. Floyd—
George Floyd, a very old young friend
of mine, Kitty, if I may express it so.
And you came on the same train as
Kitty? In a different car, I suppose?
You would certainly have known her it
you had been in the same car, George?"
“I—don’t know, I—”
He lowered his eyes. At Kitty he
did not dare look.
“I told you I expected my niece to
day, George Floyd!” said Aunt Calista,
in halt real and half pretended dis.
pleasure. “To-day, and on this train.
And you engaged to call on us this
evening. Do you remember that, George
Floyd?”
“Yes, Mrs. West.”
He stood like an awkward shoolboy
with his “piece” forgotten. He remem
bered; and he remembered the tall,
rather cold and severely stylish girl he
had fully expected to see.
“Very well. I’m sorry you were not
in the same car. You’d certainly have
known that this was Kitty, and you
might have introduced yourself and
made it pleasanter for her, George. A
long, warm trip like that alone—
Well!”
Aunt Calista changed the topic with a
gracious wave of the hand, and sudden
ly turned her niece squarely toward her.
Her look was a proud, admiring and ap
proving one, as well it might have been.
“I em glad to see you,dear,” she said.
“We’ll walk home. Matthew is ill to
day.so I’ll send your trunk by the stage,
and we will walk, ths day is so beauti
ful. You may come, George.”
He looked at Kitty behind Aunt Ca
lista’s dignified back.
“Shall we tell?” his twinkling eyes
asked.
And she shook her head, turning if
away to hide her shy smile.
But the time came when she did tell.
It was some months later—for Kitty’s
visit te Aunt Calista exceeded in length
Mary’s and Celia’s put together. And
when Aunt Calista had come, very prompt
ly, to realize that her youngest niece
was no “hopeless” hoyden, but a sweet
and charming girl to whom young men
“took” surprisingly,and when Kitty had
come, not quite so promptly, to see that
Aunt Calista was, after all, very little to
be feared and considerably to be loved,
then Kitty told her about it. But she
told it as a sequel to her engagement.
Aunt Calista looked at her over her
glasses, and then kissed her on both
pink cheeks.
“And I am glad it happened so,” she
said, heartily. —Saturday Night.
The United States census office has
made public the tobacco statistics of In
diana. The total number of planters in
the State during the census year was
4457; the total area devoted to tobacco,
9373 acres; the total product, 7,710,-
297 pounds, and the value of the crop
to the producer, estimated on basis of
actual sales, 1384,370.
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming- an Epitome o? Daily
Happening's Here and There.
’The Soutl e u Denial Association met
with the North Carolina state association
at Morehead City, Tuesday.
On Sunday Mr. Mol ley, near Danville,
Yu,, fired to frighten boys bathing in his
poutl and killed one of them, who turned
out to be his nephew.
A canvass of the members of 'he State
Colored All ance convention, in session
at Raleigh, showed a large majority in
faVor of the sub-treasury plan.
Secret service officers seized nine thou
sand dollars’ worth of opium in Shasta,
' iiy, uTuKe up moe f srna
ces run by Chinese in manufacturing
opium from the crude material.
The Blakeney Manufacturing Company,
nnmufacturears of bed springs, mattresses,
etc., at Dallas, Tex., was closed Friday
by attachments, aggregating $14,500.
Total liabilities $35,000 to $40,000, with
ample assets.
A Louisville, Ky., dispatch of Sunday
says: The amount of the shortage of
Sylvester Y’oung, defaulting cashier of
the Newport News aud Mississippi Val
ley railroad, is now known to be at least
$38,000, instead of $25,000 as first sup
posed. Further investigation may add
slightly to this.
A Raleigh dispatch says: The railway
commissioners, who are, under the new
law, assessors of railway property, turned
over to the state treasurer Tuesday a
statement of taxes due by the railways in
North Carolina, sixty-seven in uumber.
The total amount due is $51,000, which
is $13,000 more than the amount hereto
fore assessod.
A Jackson, Miss., dispatch of Sunday
says: Reports from the Copiah county
primary indicate that George has a ma
jority of 300 over Barksdale. It is the
largest white county in the state, and
since the visit of Messrs. Polk, McDowell
and Livingston, it has been claimed for
Barksdale by 500 majority. It has four
votes in the legislature. Wayne county
also went for George Saturday.
The Alabama State Alliance trustee
stockholders have been in session in Bir
mingham for three days. George F.
Gaither, member of the national execu
tive committee of the new people's party,
has been general raana£||: lor a year, and
has been very successW, largely more
than doubling the business. Thursday
afternoon J. 11. Bostwick was elected to
succeed him, and it is reported that
Gaither’s affiliation with the new party
worked the change.
A dispatch from Middlesboro^Ky.,
says: Trpublc is feared in the coal pines
of the Mingo mountain. The whites ob
ject to the employment of colored la
borers in the mines, and the latter have
frequently been “run off” by the white
miners. Application was made Moafiay
by the owner of the mines to the sheriff
of Clayborne county, asking for protec
tion to the colored men retained at the
mines. The indications are that a race
war will follow.
One of the biggest baptizings ever
witnessed in the state occurred in Flor
ence county, 8. <J., Sunday. A great
revival bas been in progress for the past
two weeks at Trinity Baptist church,
and hundreds have professed religion.
Sunday afternoon a crowd of five or six
thousand people assembled on the banks
of Lewis’s mill pond, to see tbe baptiz
ing of a portion of the converts. Two
hundred and six candidates, men and
women, were immersed. The time con
sumed in the baptizing of the entire 206
was one hour and thirty minutes.
REDUCING EXPENSES.
A Week’s Holiday in Each Month
in the R. & D. Shops.
Master Mechanic Gteen, ot the Rich
mond and Danville railroad shops in
Columbia. S. C., who has been in con
ference vvith the authorities at Washing
ton, says it has been decided, in order to
cut down the heavy expenses of the sys
tem, to shut down all the big shops
owned by it, from one end of the line to
theother,a week out of every month until
further action is taken. The total sav
ing to the company per month on all its
shops will be about one hundred thousand
dollars. The Columbia shops have a pay
roll of about sixteen thousand dollars
per month. This cut down of one-fourth
will, therefore, be pretty generally felt,
not only in Columbia, but in other cities,
as some of the other shops are much
largei.
lookeiTlikewhisky,
But It Was Horse Liniment and
Proved Fatal.
A dispatch of '1 uesday from Lowell,
Mass., says: Sunday, Noel Beaulieu,
Harry Seacault, Joseph Charrette, Stracy
St, George and one Hacourse stole a bot
tle of horse liniment from a barn, believ
ing it to be liquor, and drank it between
them. Beaulieu is dead, Charrette is
dying and the others are in a serious con
dition, but they may recover. Tbe
mother of Beaulieu also drank a small
quantity of the liniment and is quite sick.
Blown to Atoms.
An explosion of the boiler of the elec
tric light works’ engine, at Bushville,
111., occurred at midnight Tuesday night,
demolishing tbe electric light house com
pletely, and killing engineer Van Winkle
and an unknown man, supposed to be a
farmer.
RYAN’S PROPOSITION
To Settle With His Creditors at
Thirty Per Cent.
Stephen A. Ryan, whose failure some
time ago created so much interest in
Atlanta, has formulated a circular letter
to be sent his creditors making a prop
osition for a settlement at 30 per cent.
The creditors will now have an opportu
nity of accepting or declining Mr. Ryan’s
offer, and should even a few decline it
will doubtless put an end to any other
effort at a settlement. Following is a
copy of the letter: Atlanta, Ga., Au
gust 10.—My Dear Sirs: Doubtless you
are fully aware of my failure. I have
awaited some authentic inventory of my
stock before attempting any settlement,
as I could not proceed without aid from
friends, and could not ask the aid except
on some definite basis. My indebtedness
is $970,000. My stock as inventoried by
the receiver is $408,665; total, $443,965.
The stock is encumbered by mortgages
for more than its value. I am aware
that it is honestly believed by many of
my creditors that I have other cash assets,
but such I assure you is not the fact,
and can never be realized. By the kind
act of others lam enabled to offer you
the following for your claims: 30 per
cent., as follows: Ten per cent cash; ten
per cent twelve months and ten per cent
twenty-four month. Defeired payments
to be endorsed satisfactorily, and to bear
interest at the rate of 6 per cent per
annum. In addition to this
I undertake to pay the expenses
of the receivership and court costs,
which up to date amount to $30,000.
But for treat assistance I could not make
this offer. I beg to assure you that this
is the best I can arrange—much better
than I could unaided, and hope your
prompt acceptance of same. More than
one huudred and fi ty suits have already
been begun, and are being added to
everyday about this matter, and I do be
lieve that unless there is un adjustment
the entire estate will be consumed in liti
gation, lasting a long period, and that
nothing will get to my creditors in the
end. Even if I had the amount found
by tbe judge to be in my bands (and ap
pealed from to the supreme court,) and
the same was paid over to the receiver,
yet you would not and could not get as
much as I now offer you. If you accept
this proposition, please sign the enclosed
slip of acceptance, and return same to
Mr. Walter R. BrowD, my attorney, At
lanta, Ga. With many regrets for my
past errors and misfortuues, and with yet
some hepo of a future that will meet
your approval, I am your* truly,
Stephen A. Ryan.
Should the enclosed slips of acceptance
be signed by the creditors aud sent in,
the doors of John Ryan’s Sons will be
opened, and Steve liyun will again be at
the head of what was the largest retail
establishment in Atlanta.
SHORT IN HIS ACCOUNTS
Is Business Agent Wynn of the
Georgia Alliance Exchange.
J. O. Wynn, state business agent of the
Georgia state alliance exchange, at Atlanta
is short his accounts between twenty and
thirty thousand dollars. Oa
an investigation of his affairs it was
developed that Wynn had made false en
tries on his books. Mr. Wynn
stated that he had used the
money to pay his debts: He war, in
debt when he took the office and made
use of the money expecting to repay it.
The alliance exchange has prepared the
following statement in regard to the mat
ter. Atlanta, Ga.,August 10. —At the
last meeting of directors of the Farmers’
Alliance exchange of Georgia, Col. Peek,
president of the exchange, requested that
the books and be examined.
The board appointed Cornel William A.
Broughton as a special committee to ex
amine the books of the general business.
Upon examination he found that Mr. J.
0. Wynn, state business agent, was be
hind with the exchange over twenty
thousand dollars. As soon as Colonel
Peek was informed of the shortage he at
once displaced Mr. Wynn and appointed
Colonel William Broughton, acting
state business agent. Colnuel Wynn, up
on entering upon the duties of state bus
iness agent, was required to give a fifty
thousand-dollar bond. His individual
bondsmen are perfectly solvent and amply
able to pay the deficiency; besides this
security the Fidelity and Casualty Com
pany, of New York, are upon Mr Wynn’s
bond lor this amount. The stockholders
of the exchange will not lose a dollar by
this misappropriation of the funds, as
Mr. Wynn has acknowledged that Colon
el Broughton’s investigation is correct,
and his bondsmen will pay the full
amount to the exchange at once. This
shortage will not affect the work
ings of the exchange in the least, as the
money will be immediately paid by the
bondsmen, and the exchange is on a good
financial footing. All orders are prompt
ly filled, and all checks honored upon
presentation.
A SCORCHER.
Fearful Heat Experienced in
New York City.
A dispatch of Monday states that New
York City is experiencing the hottest
weather in twenty years. The city seems
as a furnace seven times heated.
At noon Monday the heat was un
bearable, and between that hour and 4
o’clock in the afternoon ambulances were
brisky engaged in c rrying to hospitals
many human beings prostrated by heat.
A continuance of such weather during
the week means an enormous increase of
mortality, especially in the crowded ten
ement district. These unfortuuate peo
ple are forced from their close quarters
and seek sleeping room on the tops of
the buildings, and on the street.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
At a meeting of the Leeds Millers’ as
sociation. Tuesday, it was decided to ad
vance the price of flour one shilling, six
pence per sack.
The Pottsvillc, Pa„ Steel and Iron
company, which shut down a few weeks
ago, started two furnaces, on Tuesday,
with non-union men.
The well-known Cooper house, in
Coopertown, N. Y., was completely de
stroyed by fire Saturday. The loss is
placed at $75,000; partly covered by in
surance.
The seventh annual session of the in
ternational congress of hygiene and
demographie opened in St. James’ Hall
in London Monday. There were 2,300
delegates present in the hall.
Nine Italian laborers were seriously in
jured, two fatally, in a railroad collision
near Branford, Conn., on the Shore line
branch of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad, Monday morning.
Alfred Downing, president, and N. H.
Tolman, vice president of the National
Capital Savings Building and Loan Asso
ciation of North America, were arrested
Monday at Chicago, by postoffice
inspectors.
The August returns to the statistician
of the department of agriculture at Wash
ington, make the condition of corn 90.8;
spring wheat 95.5; spring rye, 89.6; oats,
89.5; barley, 93.8; buckwheat, 8t.3; po
tatoes, 96.5; tobacco, 88.5; bay, 90.9.
Exports of specie from the port of New
York, for week ended Aug. Bth, were
$705,905 of silver, of which $704,383
went to Europe, and $1,522 to South
America. Imports to specie for the week
were $257,037, of which $199,963 was
gold and $57,064 silver.
A Washington, D. C., dispatch says:
Treasury Agent Windom has macTe his
report to assistant Secretary Crounz, re
commending that the public building at
Roanoke, Va., ba located on the proper
ty on the northeast corner of Roanoke
and Church streets, owned by R. B.
Moorman, and valued at SIO,OOO.
A Washington dispatch of Monday
says: Acting Secretary Nettleton has
received a letter from F. G. Neidring
haus, president of the St. Louis Stamp
ing Compny, in reply to the letter of the
secretary of the treasury, of the 30th ul
timo, in regard to the importation of
skilled labor for the tinplate industry.
Mr. Neidringhaus argues iu favor of ad
mitting the laborers, because there are
none yet in America who are qualified.
The tinware factory of John D. Haas,
at No. 128, 130 and 132 Jane street. New
York, was burned Saturday. On the two
upper floors of the building were seventy
presses, used for punching tinware. The
floors were burned through, and the
heavy presses crashed down to theceller.
The firemen had great difficulty in saving
the adjoining buildings. Mr. Haas
timates his loss on stock at $25,000; on
machinery at $25,000 and on building at
$20,000. He is insured for SIOO,OOO.
He employed 100 bands.
A HOT WAVE.
PerambulatiMg Over the Wes
tern States.
A New York dispatch of Sunday says:
The west is having a' prettv warm time of
it. Chicago reports the hottest of the
season, with the thermometer at 100. At
Pittsburg the maximum temperature was
93. In St. Louis 98 degrees were record
ed, with a number of prostrations. Kan
sas City claims 100. Jamestown, N. D.,
is cooling a little, but the temperature is
still at 90, and the reported injury to
wheat from blight at the rate of ten bush
els to the acre comes from several coun
ties. Bismarck, N. D.. rejoices in 79
degrees, with the grain uninjured and
harvesting about to commence. Fargo,
N. I*., reports 72 degree-, and tanners’
claim that wheat is unit.iur< and.
A PREACHER’S VIEW
Of the Question of the Black
Man’s Removal.
A New York dispatch of Monday says:
Rev. Dr. Oaks, pastor of the People’s
Baptist church, Manchester, N. H., oc
cupied Rev. Thomas Dixon’s pulpit Sun
day and preached on, “Shall We Move
the Negro?” He was decidedly opposed
to the movement for the removal of the
negro, saying that he is a good citizen
and would be all right if he was only left
alone by his friends, who are deciedly
too numerous, He further said that a
majority of the southern people know
that the negro is an essential fixture of
the south, and that it was only cranks
that cry out against him.
MEXICAN ECONOMY.
President Diaz Will Allow No
More Subsidies.
A dispatch of Sunday from the City
of Mexico says: There is no truth in the
report of the resignation of the minister
of finance, although what may happen
in connection with that office is un
known. A representative of the Spanish
Transatlantic Steam-hip line has been
trying to obtain a renewal of tbe sub
vention of by which the line was bene
fited, but President Diaz will not recede
from the plan for economy upon which
he has entered, and it is considered that
the era of subsidies to railroads and
steamship companies is past in Mexico.
NO. IG.