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The State of Dade News.
VOL. X.
THE TOTAL ECLIPSE
Interesting Solar Phenomenon to
Occur May 28th
AN AWE-INSPIRING SPECTACLE
The Path and Duration of Totality—
Where Observations Will be Made
by Scientists.
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Washington, D. C., Special.—The
forthcoming total eclipse of the sun on
May 28, is attracting world-wide atten
tion, and astronomers everywhere have
long been making preparations for ob
serving and photographing the phe
nomenon. Besides making the usual
time observations, Interest largely oen
terc in photographing the corona, the
coronal streamers, the spectra of the
chromosphere, and particularly the cel
ebrated flash spectrum appearing both
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THE PATH OP THE ECLIPSE THBOUGH THE UNITED STATES.
at beginning and end of totality. For. !
tunately it will be yoslble to witness
the phenomenon from many sections of !
the United States.
The Johns Hopkins University expe
ditions to observe the solar eclipse will
work in unison with the United States
Naval Observatory and under the su
pervision of the latter. The observa
tories of the Naval Observatory will be
divided among five parties. At Pine
hurst, N. C., there will be four astron
omers from Washington, under the di
rection of Professor Skinner; the Johns
Hopkins party from the Coast and
Goedetic Survey, under Professor G. A.
Bauer. At Griffin, Ga., there will be
one Naval Obsjervatory party, consist
ing of Dr. L. S. Mitchell, of Columbia
University; Professor Henry Crew and
Dr. Tatall, of the Northwestern Univer
sity of Virginia, and L. E. Jewell, of
the Johns Hopkins University; Profes
sor S. J. Brown, Astronomical Direc
tor of the Naval Observatory, will con
duct observations at Barnesvtlle, Ga.
The colleges and universities of the
country will be well represented. Ex
peditions will be dispatched by Har
vard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, the
University of Pennsylvania, the Uni
versity of Virginia, the University of
Chicago, etc.
On May 28 the circular shadow of the
moon cast by the sun upon the earth,
and about eighty miles in diameter,
will come sweeping across the Ameri
can continent from New Orleans to
Gape Henry. Along the centre of the
path traveled by this swiftly moving
shadow the sun will be completely bid
Fear Our Polities.
Chicago, Special.—A special to the
Record from Honolulu dated May 9,
via. Victoria, U. C., says: “At a con
ference of many prominent natives held
yesterday it was decided to advise for
the present that the Hawalians hold
aloof from both the Republican and
Democratic parties and organize a
Hawaiian party. J. 0. Carter was in
dorsed for delegate to Congress.
Aguinaido Heard From.
y anila, by Cable.—A proclamation
mu Parting to have Deen issued by Ag
uinaldo. and dated May 14. from Polil
lo Island, one of the Philippine group
east of Luzon, is circulating in Manila.
Tt says the commission appointed by
President McKinley was appointed
-without the authorization of Congress
and that hence it can not treat officially
ft urges the Filipinos not to surrender
t heir arms at the instigation of the
•■ommissioo. and on promises which
Con areas roav not ratify, and he aDo
tu-ges the Viilplnos to enthusiastically
welcome the commission when it ar
rives in the towns and provinces asK
ing them boldly for the form of gov
ernment they most desire, as the Am-
riermd freedom of m>eeoh
dan for a period or aoout two minutes.
More than forty miles away, on either
side of the track the eclipse will he
partial, not total.
An eclipse of the sun that will be vis
ible can occur only when the moon is
aew. At that time she passee exactly
between the earth and the sum Ac
cording to the calculations of Profes
sor Lumslen. the round black shadow
in out of space same time after sun
rise on the morning of May 28. This
gigantic arm will come into contact
with the earth somewhere near the
Revilla Gigedo islands in the Pacific
ocean. With tremendous velocity the
shadow will rush toward the mainland
and will enter Mexico, near
at a speed of more than 100 miles a
minute, in eight minutes it will havo
crossed the Rocky Mountains, and by
7:30 central or 8:30 eastern time it will
have crossed the Gulf and entered
Mexico. Then cm it will pass, over its
selected path, until it is lost again in
space.
The period of totality of the eclipse
varies at different points along the
track. At the Rocky Mountains the
spectacle will last but about thirty sec
onds, and at New Orleans the period
will have been lengthened thirty-sev
en seconds. At Union Point. Gfeen
c-ounty, Ga. the centre of the path for
the United States, the time of tality
POSITION OF THE PI.ASETS.
w ill be niney-two seconds, w hile those
who -are at the Atlantic coast, just
south of the city of Norfolk, will he
able to continue their observations for
105 seconds.
Off For Cape Nome.
Seattle, Wash., Special.—Saturday
and Sunday were probably the banner
days of the rush from Seattle to Cape
Nome. Five or six of the largest ves
sels of the great fleet were scheduled to
leave. The Garonne, the largest vessel
sailing from Seattle, will get away Sun
day night. The steamship Senator puts
to "sea in the evening with nearly 500
passengers. Steamer Cleveland sailed
at noon. She has 195 passengers.
Brevities.
John Clark Ridpafch, the historian,
who is ill at New Y'ork, is improving.
President J. J. Little, of the New
York board of education, resigned be
cause of ill health.
Frank Fossett, on trial for murder
at Fort Worth, Texas, w alked unob
served out of the court 'house and es
; cap-*d.
Rev. Robert Wood Barnwell, of
; Selma, Ala., was elected Bishop Ooad-
I jutor by the Episcopal Council at Mo
l bile, Ala.
James C. Keough, former tax collec
! tor of Holyoke, Mass., charged with
i embezzling $300,000, was sentenced to
10 years’ imprisonment
TRENTON, GA., MAY 24. 1900.
PRESBYTERIANS IN ATLANTA
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Much Interest Being Manifested in
Their Meeting.
Atlanta, Ga., Special.—The commis
sioners to the Southern Presbyterian
General Assembly, is holding
its thirty-ninth annual session in the
Central Presbyterian church, of this
city, met for the first business session
Friday. The attendance wae larger
than Thursday, and an active interest
was shown in all the proceedings, not
only by the 2(H) commissioners, but a
large number of visiting members and
laymen of the Presbyterian Church,
Officially connected with the Assembly
and many resident Presbyterians. The
day’s sessions opened with devotional
exercises, after which the transaction
of routine business was begun. Stated
Clerk Alexander read the committee
report, which had been appointed by
the Moderator. The personnel of the
committees is considered very im
portant, as much of the work of the
Assembly will be directed by them.
The committees on records for each
State were named as follows: Ala
bama, Byron Clark, Geo. Stevenson;
Arkansas, W. T. Walter, .T. M. Carotb
ers; Florida, R. A. Hardin, P. Mc-
Gregor; Georgia, R. S. Brown, S. D.
Reynolds; Kentuckj’, J. B. Swann, J.
M. C. Moore; Memphis, R. A. Brown,
A. E. Dimmock; Mississippi, V. R.
Gaston, G. W. Taylor; Missouri, T.
D. Latimer. D. McCarr; Nashville,
W. D. Shoemaker, J. J. Wood; North
Carolina, Dugald Monroe, George
Hartfield; South Carolina, J. F. Lloyd,
H. L. Money; Texas, J. S. Anderson,
W. H. Mitchell; Virginia. T. T.
Wade, D. M. Killam.
Interest was intense as the stated
clerk read the overtures from the
Synods and Presbyteries of the South.
The overtures were referred to the
proper committees and constitute the
work which will come before the As
sembly.
The Presbytery of Suwanee, Fla.,
protested against the “spectacular and
theatrical features’’ of children wear
ing fancy costumes in the exercises to
be held on Children's Day, May 27.
A time was set apart for raising
funds for foreign missionary
work. The question of divorce and
re-marriage will be a leading one be
fore the Assembly. The Synod of
Alabama and the Presbyteries of Mem
phis and Norfolk sent in overtures
asking for definite Church laws, gov
erning the re-marriage of divorced
people.
The question of salaries for secre
taries of the executive committees will
be an important one, many overture®
being filed asking that no increase be
made in them. On the adoption of a
new hymn book, there were overtures
strongly protesting against a change
this year, it being claimed that the ex
pense will be too great.
Hester’s Cotton Report.
New Orleans, Special.—Secretary
Hester’s weekly New Orleans cotton
exchange statement show3 that for the
260 days of the season that have
elapsed, the aggregate movement into
sight is behind the 260 days of last
year 2,005.000 bales and behind the
same days year before last 2,075,000.
The amount brought into sight during
the past week has been 56,780, against
68,157 for the seven days ending this
date last year. The total movement
for the 260 days from September 1 to
date is 8,681.498. agaiuat 10,689,406 last
year. The movement since Septem
ber 1 shows receipts at all United
States ports 6,444,610. against 8,139,685
last year: overland across the Missis
sippi. Ohio and Potomac rivers to
Northern mills and Canaria, 1,116,3-68,
against 1,214,268; interior stocks under
September Ist, 54,331, against 265,002;
Southern mill takings, 1,174,851
against 1,070,451-
Vue ruxnty Mount, A. c.. Argonaut
says: “From further- observation in
the surrounding country we are satis
fied that the tobacco acreage in Nash
county w ill be cut about fifty per cent.
Plants are very scarce, a good many
beds being a to talc failure.”
Maj. W. A. Guthrie has taken an ap
peal from the decision of Judge Simon
ton in Blackwell’s Durham Tobaec*
Company case.
Pittsburg produces a million stogiM
a day.
The acreage of tobacco planting in
South Carolina will be increased this
season.
Mr. J. B Duke, president of the
American and Continental tobacco
companies, is being cartooned by New
York papers.
News Items.
Cruelty on the high seas brought a
fine of 11,000 and two months im
prisonment for John Hayei, mate of
the ship St James, at New York.
Railways and steamship companies
in Germany are experimtnttng
the u|e of. oil fos uwi
DEMOCRATIC.
THE GRANT STATUE
Unveiling Ceremonies at the Nation’j
Capital.
Washington, D. C., Specia,.—The sta
tue of General Grant, presented by the
Grand Army of the Republic to the Na
tion, was unveiled in the great rotunda
of the Capitol Saturday, and elaborate
teermonies commemorative of the
event were held in the Hall of Repre
sentatives in the presence of a vast
concourse of people who included the
widow, doughter and descendant* of
the General: hundreds of his comrades
in arms, the officers and committee of
the G. A. R., and many persons dis
tinguished in military, political and so
cial circles. The statue represents the
contributions of thousands of his com
rades, no one of whom was allowed to
subscribe more than 15 cents and is the
result, of a movement started shortly
after General Grant’s death at Mount
McGregor in July. 1885. It is the work
of Franklin Siminons, an American
sculptor. Of marble, of heroci size, it
represents the grim old soldier in the
full uniform of a general equipped for
the field with topboots and gauntlets,
his cloak over his left arm, his right
Band resting on the hilt of his sword.
The unveiling took place shortly be
fore noon in the presence of Mrs. Grant,
Mrs. Sartoris. Miss Sartoris, the officers
of the G. A. R., Speaker Henderson and
Henator Frye, President pro tem of the
Senate.
The fact of the unveiling was kept
secret and only a few outsiders wit
nessed it. There were no ceremonies.
Miss Sartoris, attired in white, drew
drew the lanyard that uncovered the
statue. Mrs. Grant inspected it criti
cally' and smiled her approval. The
party then repaired to the hall of the
House, where the ceremonies occurred.
The ceremonies in th House were
profoundly impressive. They consist
ed of addresses by Mr. McCleary
(Minn.), Mr. Grosvenor (Ohio), Mr.
Richardson (Tenn.), Mr. Warner
(Ills.), Mr. Linney (N. C.), Mr. Gard
ner (Mich.), Mr. Brosius (Pa.), and Mr.
Dolliver (lowa.)
For Peace.
Be.me, By Cable. —The committee of
the International Peace Bureau has de
cided to make a final appeal to the
twenty-five powers wtho are signers of
the conventions adopted by the Hague
Peace Conference, in favor of the res
toration of Peace in South Africa. The
committee calls attention to the clause
of the convention for the peaceful set
tlement of international conflicts by
the terms of which the signatory pow
ers agreed to use all efforts for the set
tlement, not only of difficulties among
themselves, but of all international dis
putes. Consequently the committee
declares, an offer of mediation cannot
be considered by Great Britain as an
unfriendly act.
New Building Dedicated.
Kiehmoud, Special, —The new build
ings of the Virginia Union University
were dedicated iast week with appro
priate ceremonies. The Union Uni
versity is a combination of the old
Richmond Theological Seminary and
Waylaid University of Washington.
It is for colored students of both sexes.
The address of the day w-as made by
Gen. T. J. Morgan LL. D., of New
York, secretary of the American Home
Mission Society. There were also ad
dresses by Rev. S. H. Morehouse, D. D.,
of New r York, field secretary of the as
sociation: Rev. P. T. Morris. D. D.. of
Lynchburg, and Rev. J. H. Mason, D.
D.. of Batavia. N. Y. There are six
buildings completed and two are in
course of erection.
British at th* W*al River.
London. By Cable. —British horse
men, according to a dispatch from Lo
renzo Marques, are now close to the
Vaal river, within 40 miles of Johan
nesburg. Tbe migration from Pretoria
has begun Women and children are
being sent in trains to Maehadadorp.
on the way to I.ydenburg. Trains are
arriving at Lorenzo Marques filled
with passengers, among whom are
many Germans bound for Europe.
Fear Our Polities.
Chicago, Special. —A special to the
Record from Honolulu dated May 9,
via. Victoria. B. C.. says: "At a con
ference of many prominent natives held
yesterday it. was decided to advise for
the present that the Hawaiians hold
aloof from both the Republican and
Democratic parties and organize a
Hawaiian party. J. O. Carter was in
dorsed for delegate to Congress.
Strong R. I eing Force.
London, By Cable.—The following
dispatch from .Sir Alfred Milner, the
British high commissioner in South
Africa, to the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, Mr. Jos. Chamberlain,
was received at 1:30 p. m. Monday.
“Barton telegraphs from Taungs that
Mafekiug was relieved May 17th. The
relieving column was a composite
force under Col. Mahon of about 2.300
men.”
Brevities.
Rev. John E. Hall, of Khedive. Pr...
w-as consecrated as a missionary to
Japan, at the Cumberlairi Presby
terian Assembly.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Dally Proceedings of the Senate and
House.
One Hundred and Twenty-first Day.
—Discussion of the administration of
affairs in Cuba by agents of the United
States occupied the attention of the
Senate during the greater part of the
day’s session. % Mr. Bacon, of Georgia,
called up his resolution directing the
committee on relations with Cuba, to
make an investigation of the conduct
of the financial affairs of the island
and addressed the Senate upon ft.
Oue Hundred and Twenty-second
Day.—During practically the entire
session of the Senate the postoffice ap
propriation bill was under consldera
tiou. The measure was read and all
of the committee amendments were
agreed to except that relating to the
extension of the pneumatic tube ser
vice. This created some debate and
was being discussed when fhe measure
was laid aside for the day. Mr. Wol
cott, chairman of committee on poet
office and post-roads, vigorously at
tacked the committee proposition to
appropriate $750,000 for the pneumatic
tube service, declaring the extension
of the service was unnecessary and the
appropriation a waste of public money.
Mr. Mason, of Illinois, quite as vigor
ously supported the proposition. The
amendment of Mr. Butler, of North
Carolina, to reduce by .10 per ent. the
amount to be paid the railroads for the
transportation of the mails was re
jected, 11 to 41.
One hundred and twenty-third day.
—A pyrotechnic discussion of the
status of the Boer commissioners now'
in Washington was precipi.ated in the
Senate by a resolution offered by Mr.
Allen, of Nebraska, extending to the
commissioners the privileges of tho
floor of the Senate during their so
journ in the national capital. The res
olution was defeated by a vote of 36 to
21,but not until a sharp controversy
between its authir and Mr. Davis,
chairman of the committee on foreign
relations. Mr. Allen maintained that
the resolution was in line with prece
dents, while Mr. Davis contended that,
in the peculiar circumstances, the
Senate ought not to take any action
that might be considered a recognition
of Boer diplomats until the President,
who aione had the power to receive
diplomatic representatives, had taken
action.
HOUSE.
One Hundred and Twenty-first Day.
—The House accomplished little be
sides passing: the Senate bill to incor
porate the American National Red
Cross. No ryrogrers was made with
the Alaskan code bill, owing to the In
ability of the two sides to agree as to
the time to be allowed for general de
bate. The conference report on the
District of Columbia appropriation bill
was rejected, after extended debate
mainly over appropriations for secta
rian institutions. It was agreed that
the minority of the judiciary commit
tee should have until Monday to file
their views upen the anti-trust bill and
resolution reported by that committee.
One Hundred and Twenty-second
Day.—The House passed a special
River and Harbor Bill carrying §lon.-
000 for surveys and emergency work
and devoted the remainder of the day
to the Alaskan Code Bill. Very little of
the three hours' debate was pertinent
to the measure. General debate was
closed and four pages of the 61 T pages
of the bill were disposed of before ad
journment.
One hundred and twenty-third day.
—The House, under suspension of the
rules, passed two important bills re
ported by the committee on labor, one
to extend the 8-hour law to all labor
ers employed under contract on gov
ernment work and the other to prohib
it the inter-Stake traffic in prison-made
goods by bringing them under the jur
isdiction of the police powers of the
State.
Off For Cape Nome.
Seattle, Wash.. Special.—Saturday
and Sunday were probably the banner
days of the rush from Seattle to Cape
Nome. Five or six of the largest ves
sels of the great fleet were scheduled to
leave. The Garonne, the largest, vessel
sailing from Seattle, will get away Sun
day night. The steamship Senator puts
to sea in the evening with nearly 500
passengers. Steamer Cleveland sailed
at noon. She has 195 passengers.
The Times of London, begins a series
of articles on “American Engineering
Competition,” written by a special cor
respondent who dilates upon the “in
difference displayed by British manu
facturers toward the immense develop
ments in America," and upon the cer
tainty of a “serious rivalry so soon as
tile present excessive home demand in
the United States slackens up.” Com
menting editorially upon the opening
article and emphasizing the “grave im
portance of the matter,” the Times
says: „ ,
‘•The difference between the English
and American workmen is the same as
the difference between the mechanical
discipline of our soldiers and that reli
ance upon individual training and in
telligence which is now recognized as
necessary in other armies. In fact, our
workmen are too much like their mas
ters in thinking that what lias been
done in the past will do very well in
the future. We trust that these tetters
on American engineering may help to
dispel this illusion in time to prevent a
rude awakening
MR. JOSH SIMPKINS ON ETIQUETTE.
I’ve studied up on etiquette,
Read every book that I could get,
And yet
There isn’t one in ail the let
That tells a feller it is not
De rigger to eat pie
ior breakfast , henoe why shouldn't I?
And, furthermore, I caauot And
In all the books I call to mind
A single line
That gives a reason worth a whoop
Against a second plate of soup
When fellers done.
And as for eating marrowfats
Without a spoon, I think tfemt that
A fool-
Isii sort of liile.
'■* hen I eat nease
1 II do as l darn please
And what is mote, till I’m a anon
J II eat my corn straight off the cob ;
And spariergrass I’ll eat as 1
Have always done in da* gone by—
A sort of dangling from the sky ;
A sort of gift from heaven come.
Held ’twixt my finger and rry thumb.
And as for those peculiar things
tailed fhnrer-bowL. 1 vow, by jings !
i will not use ’em as they gay
I’he hon-iuus uses ’em today.
I f my hands ain’t both good abd eleaa.
The pump is where it s always been ■,
And far as ever I could see,
it’s plenty good enough for me.
I don't stand much on etiquette,
But yet
I'ui too polite to wash my paw-
At table spite of social laws.
— ! Harper’s Bazar.
HUMOROUS.
“That was an arrow escape,’’ re
parked the confirmed bachelor, as ii*
dodged Cupid’s shaft.
Dix—Did that policeman die a natu
ral death? Hix—Yes; he just went
from one sleep into auother until ha
fell info the last sleep. /
First Medical Student—l believe in
letting we 1 enough alone. Second
Medical Student—Then you’ll never
make a successful doctor.
“Girls are getting awful finicky.
That girl rel'used me.’’ “Did she give
any reason?” “She says I made a
pun while I was proposing to her.”
He (at the club reception) Are you
a member of this club? She—No; onlv
mnrried people belong. He—Then
suppose we organize a trust for the
purpose of making each other eligible )
Magistrate—l believe you charge
the officer with shooting at random.
Plaintiff—No; I don't know nothin’
about Random, whoever he is. The
bullet took a slice of skm off my shin
—that’s what I’m I’m sore about.
“By the way,” said the Cornfed
Philosopher, “I think I may take ad
vantage of this being the gardening
season to remark that there is often
very little difference between a bud
ding genius and a blooming idiot.”
Oaf’s sense of sight may be flrst-olasj
Whose hearing may be weak.
Foruiaay see the mountain pass
W ho cannot hear its peak.
“This bell,” said a well-meauiug
sexton, when showing the belfry of ait
interesting village church to a party
of visitors, “is only rung in of a
visit from the lord bishop of Me dio
cese. a fir. 1 , a flood, or any otnei' such
calamities. ”
“Mamma, what would you do if
that big vase in ti. , parlor should get
broken?” said Tommy. “I should
whip whoever did it, ” said Mrs. Banks,
gazing severely at her little son.
“Well,then, you’d better begiii to get
up ’your muscle,” said Tommy; “coz
papa's broke, it.”
Wife (who has been struck by a bi
cyclist ' —Never mind, dear; don't
make a seerfe over it. Husbaud-
What? Do you think I'll let him go
without saying what 1 think? "But
I’m not really hurt.” “That don’t
matter. A little more and he might
have run into me.”
“And vou are stuck on your last
husband?” we faltered, wishing to
seem very sympathetic. IFhe beautiful
woman burst into teays. "I never
was so badly stuck op a husband in
all my life:’’ she sobbed. “I sup
posed he was worth a million, and ha
isn’t worth anything.”
An Irish lawyer addressed the court
as "gentlemen” instead of "your hon
ors.” After lie had concluded, a
brother of the bar reminded him of
'his error. He immediately arose to
apologize, thus: "May it please the
court —in the heat of debate I called
your honors gentlemen. It was a
mistake, your honors.
X% lieiß He Drew the Lin.
Professor John Snelling Popkin
was professor of Greek at Harvard
home years ago, and he was not with
out a nickname, which he accepted as
(a matter of course from the students,
but hearing it on one occasion from a
man of dapper, jaunty, unacademic
aspect, Professor Popkiu exclaimed
‘‘What right has that chap to call me
‘Old Pop?’ He isn't a student of
Harvard college.”—Argonaut.
Arranijed for m Hone.
"What makes this portrait of Aunt
Hannah look so unnatural?”
“All portraits look unnatural.”
“No, they don’t; oh, I see now;
she’s got her spectacles on straight.”
Pay, Pay, Pay.
Collector—This is three times l
have asked you to pay.
Betein You’re another of those
"Absent-Minded Beggar" elocution
j ists, are you?—Baltimore American.
NO. lu.