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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. —■■■ 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 I il 2 21 L \ $. ! 1 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 i 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.