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A Society 1 vent. Thc most notable event of the week will be the wedding of Miss Alice Amy Goldmine and Mr. Heritage Doolittle. The bride's gown, winch is plain but handsome, is of unregistered govern? ment bonds, with a deep flounce of COU pons. The corsage is ol Standard Oil certificates and thc veil of real dividends is caught up with a large certified check. She will carry a gold-mounted bank? book and a bouquet of thousand dollar bills. . . . - A special safe deposit vault has been built for the presents, which, besides tiic usual dog collars, necklaces and tia? ras, include a gold coal-scuttle from Mrs. Ami limit, a silver hatrack with turquoise pegs from Mr. and Mrs. Splur gcon (jetton, and a gold bathtub with diamond toilet appurtances from Mrs. I. M Itt, a sister of the groom.?From Life. Tru?t J" 1 WITS)* The Census Bureau missed a fine chance when it failed to include in its hst of impertinent questions to mankind: "When you give money to thc partner of your joys, does she ever look you in thc'eye and ask you if you made it hon? estly?" Where is the woman who cares anything about the source of money when her lord and master is in a liberal giving vein? CURES RHEUMATISM AND CATARRH. To Prove It?Medicine Free! Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) kills the poison in tho blood which causes rheuma? tism (bone paiDS, swollen joints, sore mus? cles, aches and paiDs) and catarrh (bad breath, deafness, hawking, spitting, ringing in the ears), thus making a permanent cure after all else fails. Thousands cured. Many suffered from SO to 40 years, yet B. B, B. cured them. Druggists $1 per large bot? tle. To provo it cures, sample of B. B. B. sent free by writing Blood Balm Co., 12 Mitchell St., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and free medical advice given. B. B. Ii sent at once prepaid. The Mackenzie River is 2500 miles in length, and drains an area equal to one half of the United States. State or Ohio, City of Toledo, i Lucas County, f s' Fiunk J. Cheney, mako oaththat he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney fe Co.. doing business in the City of Toledo, County aud State aforesaid, and that said linn will pay tho sum of one hundred dol? lars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot bo cured by "the uso> of Hall's Ca tauru Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before mo and subscribed in my , ?>? , presence, this 6th day of December, j seal. [ A. D? 1836. A. W. Gleason, ' ?y?'' Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on tho blood and mucous sur? faces of tho system. Send for testimonials, tree. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists,75c. Hall's Family Tills are tho best. A man may be too poor to hire a lawyer and at thc same time can afford to keep his own counsel. l'alienco and l'ergeverance. Throe million packages of Putnam Fade? less Dyes arc put up every year. To do this i. isitatea the handling of ono hundred thousand pounds of dye stuff. Thu packages are filled by dipping the dyo stuff up with a large wooden spoon and plac? ing in an envelope. Five car loads of dyo stuff bandied with a wooden spoon! Thisis accomplished every year by tho dozens of young ladies employed by tho Putnam Fade? less Dye Co., Unionvillc, Mo. ' The population of the Philippines is stated at 10,000,000. Many School Children Are Sickly. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, break up Colds in 24 hours, cure Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms. At all druggists'. 25c. Sample mailed Free. Address Allen S. Olmsted. Lo Roy, N.Y. It's a mistake to suppose the art of con? versation consists of asking questions. Earliest Knssian Millet. Will you be short of hay? If so, plant a plenty of this prodigally prolific millet. 5 to 8 tons of rich hay per acre. Price, 50 lbs., 81.90; 100 lbs., ?3.00: low freights. John A. balzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. A It's funny how many men there are try? ing to get rid of a "good thing." Best Tor the Bowels. Nomatter what ails you, headache to 4 can? cer, you will never get well until your bowel* are put right. Cascarets help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health b.ick. Cascaket3 Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. The baker who mixes his dough properly has a soft thing of it. FITS permanently cured. No Ats or nervous? ness after first day's uso of Dr. Kline's Great NerveRestoror.4>2\rial bottle and treatisof ree Dr. R. H. Kline,Ltd.,'J31'ArohSt.,Phila., Pa. One million miles is the "length" of an American locomotive's life. Putnam Fadeless Dyes aro fast to sun? light, washing and rubbing. Sold by all d ru ggists._ A London physician advises a quiet sea voyage for insomnia. Tiso's Cure is the best medicine we ever us?! for all affections of throat and lungs.?Wm. O. Lndslly, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. South African diamond mines vield over $40,000,000 annually. New Jersey Skin Troubles Can't resist Tettenae. 'T have been troubled with Eczema four years. Tetterine has done me '.-o nraoh good that I gladly recommend it. Send another box."?W. C. Fuller, Semi? nole Cottage. Sea Cliff. N. J. 50c. e. box by mail from J.T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga., if your druggist don't keep it. Boston, one of the richest cities in the country, has a municipal debt of $50,000, 000. "I was very poorly and could hardly get about the house. I was tired out all the time. Then I tried Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and it only took two bottles to make me feel perfectly well."?Mrs. N. S. Swirl ney, Princeton, Mo. Tired when you go to bed, tired when you get up, tired all the time. Why ? Your blood is im? pure, that's the reason. You are living on the border line of nerve ex? haustion. Take Ayer's Sarsaparilla and be quickly cured. K?K: Ask your doctor what lip thinks of Ayer's S.irsHjiarllht. He known all ab.nitthi'-prand old family medicine. Follow his advice and we will be MtfctiM. J. C. Av ek Co , Lowell, Mass. ?wiiHsinwinai min 111 ti, um CHRISTIANVIEW OF DEATH Rev. Dr. Talmage Says About 1870 Easter Mornings Have Wakened thc Earth. The Charge of thc Black fliant ? Root ot the King of Terror'. flNSf \ " Washington", D. C. ? The Christian; view of death as the entrance to a fuller! life is presented in this Easter discourse j by Dr. Talmage from the text I Cor. xv,' 54, '"Death is swallowed up in victory." j About 1870 Easter mornings have wakened I the earth. In France for three centuries) the almanacs made the year begin at East-1 er until Charles IX. made the year begin'. at January 1. In the Tower of London: there is a royal pay roll of Edward I., on; which there is an entry of eighteen pence I for 400 colored and pictured eggs, with; which the people sported. In Russia slaves I were fed and alms were distributed on. Easter. Ecclesiastical councils met in, Pontus, in Gaul, in Rome, in Achaia, to: decide the particular day and after a con-l troversy more animated than gracious de-; cided it, and now through all Christen-1 dom in some way the first Sunday after; the fud moon which happens upon or next j after March 21 is rilled with Easter rejoic-1 The royal court of the Sabbaths is made| up of fifty-two. Fifty-one are princes in, the roval 'household, but Easter is queen.; She wears richer diadem, she sways a more jeweled scepter, and in her smile na-; tions are irradiated. How welcome she is] when, after a harsh winter and late spring., she seems to step out of the snowbank; rather than the conservatory, to come out] of the north instead of the south, out o? the arctic rather than the tropics, dis-; mounting from the icy equinox, but wel? come this queenly day, holding high in her right hand the wrenched off bolt of Christ's! sepulcher, and holding high in her left! hand the key to all the cemeteries in Chris-j ten dom. My text is an ejaculation. It is spun out of halleluiahs. Paul wrote right on in his, argument about the resurrection, and ob-j served all the laws of logic, but when be, came to write the words of the text his fingers and his pen and the parchment onj which he wrote took tire, and he cried out,' '"Death is swallowed up in victory!" It is an exciting thing to see an army routcdj and flying. They run each other down. They scatter everything valuable in the track. Unwheeled artillery; hoof of horse on breast of wounded and dying man.! You have read of the French falling back from Sedan, of Napoleon's track of 90,000 corpses in the snowbanks of Russia, of tiLOj retreat of our armies from Manassas or of the five kings tumbling over the rocks ot* Beth horan with their armies while the' hailstorms of heaven and the swords of Joshua'! host struck them with their fury. In my text is a worse discomfiture. It, seems that a black gian' -reposed to con? quer the earth. He gatheicd for his host all the aches and pains and malarias and cancers and distempers and epidemics of the ages. He marched them down, drill? ing them in the northwest wind and amid thc slush of tempests. He threw up barri? cades of grave mound. He pitched tent of chantal house. Some of the troops inarched with slow tread commanded by consumptions, some in double quick com? manded by pneumonias. Some he took by long besiegement of evil habit and some by one stroke of the battleaxe of casualty. With bony hand he pounded at the back door of hospitals and sickrooms and won all the victories in all the great battlefields of all the five continents. Forward, march! ordered the conqueror of conquer? ors, and oil the generals and commanders in-chief and all presidents and kings and sultans and czars dropped under the feet of his war charger. But one Christinas night his antagonist was born. As most of the plagues and sicknesses and despotisms come out of the east, it was appropriate that the new conqueror should come out of the same quarter. Power is given Him to awaken all the fallen of all the centuries and of all lands and marshal them against the black giant. Fields have already been won, but the last day of the world's existence will see the decisive battle. When Christ shall lead forth His two brigades, the brigade of the risen dead and the brigade of the celestial host, the black giant will fall back, and the brigade from the riven sepulchers will take him from beneath, and the brigade of descending immortals will take him from above, and death shall be swallowed up in victory. The old braggart that threatened the conquest and demolition of the planet has lost his throne, ha* lost his scepter, has lost his palace, has lost his prestige, and the one word written over all the gates of mausoleum and catacomb and necropolis, on cenotaph and sarcophagus, on the lone? ly khan of the arctic explorer and on the catafalque of great cathedral, written in capitals of azalia and calla lilly, written in musical cadence, written in doxology of great assemblages, written on the sculp? tured door of the family vault, is "Vic? tory." Coronal word, embannered word, apocalyptic word, chief word of triumphal arch under which conquerors return. Victory! Word shouted at Culloden and Balaklava and Blenheim, at Megiddo and Solferino, at Marathon, where the Athen? ians drove back the Medea; at Poitiers, where Charles Martel broke the ranks of the Saracens; at Salamis, where Themis? tocles in the great sea fight confounded the Persians, and at the door of the eastern cavern of chiseled rock, where Christ came out through a recess and throttled the king of terrors and put him back in the niche from which the celestial Conqueror had just emerged. Aha! When the jaws of the eastern mausoleum took down the black giant "death was swallowed up in victory." I proclaim the abolition of death. 'lhe old antagonist is driven back into mythology with all the lore about Stygian ferry and Charon with oar and boat. Mel? rose abbey and Kenilworth castle are no more in ruins than is the sepulcher. We thal! have no more to do with death than wc have with the cloakroom at a govern? or's or a president's levee. We stop at such cloakroom and leave in charge of a serv.-nt our overcoat, our overshoes, our outward apparel, that wc may not be im? peded in the brilliant round of thc draw? ing room. Well, mv friends when we go out ot this world we are going to a King's banquet and to a reception of monarchs, and at the door of the tomb we leave the cloak of flesh and the wrappings with which we meet the storms of this world. At the cloie of an earthly reception, under the brush and broom of the porter, the coat or hat may bc handed to- us better than when we resigned it, and the cloak of humanity will finally be returned to us improved and brightened and purified and glorified. You and I do not want our bodies re? turned as they are now. We want to get rid of all their weaknesses and all their susceptibilities to fatigue and all their slowness of locomotion. We want them put through a chemistry of soil and heat anti cold and changing seasons, out of which God will reconstruct them as much better than they are now as the body of thc rosiest and healthiest child that bounds over thc lawn in Central Park is better than the sickest patient in Bellevue hospi? tal. But as to our soul, we will cross right over, not waiting for obsequies, independ? ent of obituary, into a stale in every way better, with wider room and velocities be? yond computation, the dullest of us into companionship with the very best spirits in their very best mood, in the verv parlor of the universe.thc four walls burnished and paneled and pictured and glorified with all the splendors that the infinite Cod in all, thc age3 has been ab'c to invi.it. Vic? tory! 'Ibis view, of course, makes it of but little importance whether we are cre? mated or sepultured. If the latter ia dust to dust, the former is ashes to ashes. If any preter incineration, let them have it without cavil or protest. The world may become so crowded that cremation may be universally adopted by law as well ns by general consent. Many of the mightiest and best spirits have gone through this process. Thousands and tens of thousands of God's children have been cremated?P. P. Bliss and wife, the evangelistic singer?, cremated by accident at Ashtabula bridge; John Rodgers, cremated by persecution; La timer ancL.Bidle::. cremaieiLai_Gxfm:d; Pothinus and Blandina, a slave, ancTAlex- | andcr, a physician, and their comrades cremated at the order of Marcus Aure? lius; at least a hundred thousand ot Christ's disciplej cremated, and there can b? no doubt about the resurrection of their bodies. If the world lasts as much longer as it has thus far, there perhaps may be no room for the large acreage set apart for renting places, but there is plenty of room yet, and tho race need not pass that bridge ol tiro until it comes to it. The most of us prefer Hie old way. But whether out ot natural disintegration or cremation Ave shall get that luminous, buoyant, gladsome, transcendent, magnificent, inexplicable ?tructure called thc resurrection body. You will have it; I will have it. Ever and anon there are instances of men and women entranced. A trance is death followed by resurrection after a few days; total suspension of mental power and vol? untary ac Lion. Rev. William Tennent, a great evangelist of thc last generation, of whom Dr. Archibald Alexander, a man far from being sentimental, wrote in most eulogistic terms?Rev. William Tennent seemed to die. His spirit apparently left the body. People came in day after day and said, "He is dead, he is dead." But the soul that fled returned, and Will Ten? nent lived to write what he had seen while his soul was gone. It may be found some time that what is called suspended animation or comatose state is brief death, giving the soul an ex? cursion into the next world, from which it comes back, a furlough of a few hours granted from the conflict of life to which it must return. Do not this waking up of men from trance and this waking up of in? sects from winter lifelessness, aud this waking up of grains buried 2000 years ago make it easier for you to believe that your body and mine after the vacation of the j grave shall rouse and rally, though there I be 3000 years between our last breath and the sounding of the archangelic reveille? j Physiologists tell us that while the most of our bodies are built with such wonder? ful economy that wc can spare nothing, and the loss of a finger is a hinderment, and thc injury of a toe joint makes us lame, still that we have two or three useless physical apparatuses, and no anatomist or physiologist has ever been able to tell what they are good for. They may be the foundation of the resurrection body, worth nothing to us in this state to be indispen? sably valuable in the next state. The Jewish rabbis and the scientists of our day have found out that there are two or three superfluities of body that are some? thing gloriously suggestive of another state. I called at my friend's house one sum? mer day. I found the yard all piled up with the rubbish of carpenter's and ma? son's work. The door was off. The j plumbers had torn up the floor. The root was being lifted in cupola. All thc pic? tures were gone, and the paper hungers were doing their work. All the modern improvements were being introduced into that dwelling. There was not a room in the house fit to live in at that time, al? though a month before when I visited that house everything was so beautiful I could not have suggested an improvement. My friend had gone with his family to the Holy Land, expecting to come back at th'e end of six months, when the building was to be done. And, oh, what was his joy when at the end of six months he returned and found the old house had been en? larged and improved and glorified. That is your body. It looks well now?all the rooms filled with health, and we could hardly make a suggestion. But after awhile your soul will go to the Holy Band, and wnile you are gone the old house of your tabernacle will be entirely recon? structed from cellar to attic, and every nerve, muscle and bone and tissue and ar? tery must be hauled over, and the old stntcture will be burnished and adorned and raised and cupolaed and enlarged, and all the improvements of heaven intro? duced, and you will move into it on resur? rection day. "For we know that if out earthly house of this tabernacle were dis? solved we have a building of God, a hous-e not made with hands, eternal in the heav? ens." Oh, what a day when body and soul meet again! They are very fond of each other. Did your body ever have a pain and your soul not pity it, or your body have a joy and your soul not re-echo it, or, changing the question, did your soul ever have any trouble and your body not sympa? thize with it, growing wan and weak un? der the depressing influence? Or did your soul ever have a gladness but your body celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek and elastic step? Surely God never intend? ed two such good friends to be very long separated. And so when the world's last Easter morning shall come the soul will descend, crying, "Where is my body?" And thc body will ascend, saying, "Where is my soul?" And the Bord of the resurrection will bring them together, aud it will be a perfect soul in a perfect body, introduced by a perfect Christ into a perfect heaven. Victory! Do you wonder that on Easter day we swathe our churches with garlands? Do you wonder we celebrate it with the most consecrated voice of song that we can in? vite, with the deftest fingers on organ and cornet and with doxologies that beat these arches with the billows of sound as the sea smites the basalt at Giant's Causeway? Only the bad disapprove of the resurrec? tion. A cruel heathen warrior heard Mr. Mof? fatt, the missionary, preach about thc resurrection, and he said to the mission? ary, ^ "Will my father ruc in the last day?" "Yes," said the missionary. "Will all the dead in battle risc?" said thc cruel chieftain. "Yes," said the missionary. Then said the warrior: '"Let me hear rio more about the resurrection. There can be no resurrection; there shall be no res? urrection. I have slain thousands in bat? tle. Wi]] they rise?" Ah, there will bc more to rise on that day than those whose crimes have never been repented of will want to see! But for all others who al? lowed Christ to bc their pardon and their life and their resurrection it will be a day of victory. The thunders of the last day will be thc salvo that greets you into harbor. The lightnings will be only thc torches of tri? umphal procession marching down to es? cort you home. The buming worlds flash? ing through immensity will be the rockets ce.ebrating your coronation on thrones where you will reign forever and forever and forever. Where u death? What have we to do with death? As your reunited body and soul swing off from this planet on that last day you will see deep gashes all nj) and down the hills, deep gashes all through the valleys, and they will bc the emptied graves, they will be the aban? doned sepulchers, Avid! roUgh ground tossed on each side of them, and slabs will lie uneven on the rent hillocks, and there will be fallen monuments and cenotaphs, and then for the first time you will spprs eiate the full exhilaration of the 'text. "Death is swallowed up in victory." [Copyright, 190?, L. Klopich.) Nautical ffulr Apparent. British service papers have noted that the Prince of Wales is the first heir apparent to the British crown to hold an actual commission in the navy, the senior service on their side of the water. Hitherto the heir appar? ent has been put into the army, and any naval rank he may have held has been purely honorary. The same rule was followed In the case of the sons of tho present king; Prince Edward was made a soldier, and died while major in a hussar regiment; Prince George was made a sailor, and has command? ed his own ship on a regular cruise. Now. by the death of his elder brother, he becomes Prince of Wales, the first of the line to be a sailor. Hitherto he has been promoted rapidly, but with a decent period of service in each rank, until he now holds the commission of a captain. Hereafter his promotion will be honorary, as it will no longer be advisable for the heir to the crown to go to sea in command of a fleet or to take the risks of a naval officer.? New York Sun. LIVE NEWS OF THE OIJ DOMINION. Latest Happenings Gleaned From All Over the State. SUFFRAGE PLAN^AGREED UPON. "Understanding'' and Poll Tax Requirements ?No Doubt of Its Passage?Many Bills Passed by Both Houses of tbe Legislature? Encounter With a Catamount?Suit Against a Contractor?Rebuilding at Norfolk. After being under consideration for more than io weeks, the suffrage ques? tion has been settled by conference. This body adopted what is known as the Glass plan, with numerous amendments. The vote on the article as amended was 46 to 17. After this work was concluded the conference adjourned. There is every reason to believe that the plan will be accepted by the convention. This is indicated by the vote in the conference. Forty-six, or five less than a majority of the whole convention, was cast for it in that body. This number will bc largely increased when it comes to a vote in the convention. Thc suffrage* plan adopt? ed provides for an "understanding" clause after 1904. The prepayment of thc poll tax for three years preceding the election is required. For both of these provisions soldiers, Federal and Confed? erate, and their sons arc exempted. After 1904 the voter must make application in his own handwriting for registration and prepare his own ballot unaided. Per? sons who pay taxes on $250 worth of property are exempt from these require? ments. Tho, educational and thc prop? erty qualifications provided after 1904 will possibly permit as many as 40.000 negroes to vote and disqualify many thousands of whites. The conference adopted a section, which Senator Daniel strongly opposed, providing that no per? son can vote in a legalized primary who is not qualified under the suffrage article to participate in the next succeeding gen? eral election. Owing to the request made of Presi? dent-elect George H. Denny, of Wash? ington and Lee University, by President Boatwright. of Richmond College, to re? lease Rev. Dr. P. S. Henson, of Brook? lyn, formerly a resident of Chicago, from the engagement to preach thc baccalau? reate sermon at the university in June in order that he might preach the bac? calaureate sermon to thc students of Richmond College, as Dr. Henson is one of the first alumni of that college, which request was granted, thc baccalaureate sermon for the students of Washington and Lee will be preached by Rev. E. Y. Mullins. D. D.. LL. D., president of Southern Baptist Seminary, at Louis? ville. Ky. Mr. Ernest B. Kruttschnitt, of New Orleans, will deliver the address before the alumni Association of Wash? ington and Lee during June commence? ment. Mr. Kruttschnitt is a distin? guished alumnus of the university. Thc Houses of General Assembly dis? posed of a great number of bills thc past week. Thc House concurred in thc Senate joint resolution providing for a committee to consider establishing an? other Female Normal School. The Gov? ernor vetoed thc Senate bill requiring the State Board of Pharmacy to register as a pharmacist Fred S. Hoback,, of Floyd county. His grounds for refus? ing his approval was that it. was unjust to the pharmacists and thc public to press these special acts of relief. The Senate passed the bill incorporating the Gladesville Railroad, which has been so bitterly opposed by thc Norfolk and Western and the Chesapeake and Ohio. It now goes to the House, where it is al? most impossible to get it through. While returning home at night, Ar? thur Smith, living several miles from Winchester, had a thrilling encounter with a catamount in midair, over 40 feet from the ground. His dog treed thc an? imal, and thinking it was a coon, Smith climbed the tree after it. The cata? mount retreated to the top of the tree, and as Smith approached near the ani? mal turned and sprang fiercely toward him. lie fired his revolver, but only wounded the animal, which again sprang toward him. After a short encounter a well-directed shot killed thc catamount. Active preparations are now going on looking to the rebuilding of that portion of Norfolk's principal business district which was destroyed by fire thc morn? ing of January 31, when the Atlantic Hotel, Albemarle Apartment House, Columbia Office Building, the splendid home of the Virginia Club and a num? ber of business buildings on Main, Gran? by and Plume streets were consumed. Mr. C. M. Randolph, owner of thc At? lantic Hotel, will erect on the site of thc bumed hostelry a splendid modern 12 story hotel and a 7-story office build? ing. Suit was instituted in the Law and Equity Court at Richmond by the Jef? ferson Hotel Company against Frank Bratunbaugh and thc American Bonding and Trust Company of Baltimore for $12,500. Bratunbaugh was the contrac? tor for rebuilding the hotel. He gave bond for its completion at a stated time. It was not completed at that time, aud hence the suit. Thc contractor says bc was interfered with in his work and could not carry out thc provisions of thc contract. Thc scaffold erected nt Newport News three years ago has been ordered torn down. Two men have been sentenced to die on it, but in each case sentence lias been commuted. There have been three other murder cases since the gal? lows was erected. Mr. Willie Houston^ son of Capt. W. 1). Houston, of Stafford, who accident? ally shot himself through thc foot, ne? cessitating the amputation of a part of it, is now improving. George F. Mcguire, a shopkeeper 'at flic Norfolk Navy Yard, was found dead aboard a water barge. Death resulted from natural causes Thc contract for- double-tracking tin Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad fnom Richmond lo Ashland b;t, been let to Hallie George, of the former city. A large force will bc put to work and the task pushed as rapidly as possible. The Petersburg Glove Leather Tan? nery Company has been chartered in that citj;. The capital stock is to be not less than $5,000 nor more than $25,000. The Bristol Lodge of Elks decided to hold a spring carnival on a rather elabo rate scale, lt will be held the first week in May. Some miscreant one night last week threw blocks of wood through thc win? dows of the handsome new courthouse building at Spottsylvania Courthouse, breaking thc glass and smashing the sashes. Mr. Frederick Dent, of Stafford coun? ty, has sold his farm near Stafford Courthouse, containing about 100 acres, to Mrs. Rose B. Curtis for $800. The Rev. Dr. H. A. Tupper is ill and has been compelled to give up his chair of Bible at Richmond Co'lege on account of his health. Thc Methodists of State Street Church, Bristol, will erect a new build? ing, to cost $20,000. COMMERCIAL REVIEW. General Trade Conditions. R. G. Dun & Co.'s "Weekly Review of Trade" says: Evidences of further im? provement arc numerous. Labor con? troversies are less threatening, many set? tlements having been effected, while oth? ers arc momentarily anticipated; wages have been advanced, not only through strikes, but in some cases voluntarily; traffic congestion has subsided until it is possible to deliver goods according to specifications. rrcssure for iron and steel has not di? minished perceptibly, yet the impression is growing that after July I the situation will become approximately normal and it will be possible to secure deliveries with some degree of promptness. Grain markets have begun to feel the effects of weather reports, and for the next few months it will be a simple mat? ter for speculators to secure erratic fluc? tuations. Although 400,000 bales more cotton have come into sight than a year ago, reports from thc South are almost unani? mous regarding thc exhaustion of stocks. Failures for the week numbered 209 in the United States against 224 last year, and 31 in Canada against 35 last year. LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour?Best Patent, $4.80; High Grade P-xtra, $430; Minnesota Bakers, $375* 385. Wheat?New York No. 2, 86c.; Phil? adelphia No. 2, 84J/2a85c.; Baltimore No. 2, 83c. Corn?New York No. 2, 67?^; Phila? delphia No. 2, 64K'a65c.; Baltimore No. 2, 05#C Oats?New York No. 2, 48^a49c.; Philadelphia No. 2, 51c; Baltimor* No. 2, 50c. Hay?No. 1, timothv large bales $15.00 at5.5o; No. 2 timothy, $14.00314.50; No. 3 do, $ 12.00a 13.00. Green Fruits and Vegetables.?Apples ?New York, assorted, per bri, $375? 4.50; do, Fancy Greenings, per bri, $4-50 a5.oo. Asparagus?Charleston, per bunch, prime, 5oa75c. Beets?Florida, new. per bunch, 4a5c. Broccoli?Norfolk, per bri, 65a8oc. Cabbage?New York State, large Danish, per ton. $t2.00a 14.00; do, new Florida, per crate, $1.00a 1.50. Car? rots?Native, per bu. box. 45a50c. Celery ?Native, per bunch, 2^33^; do, Flor? ida, per box, $2.5033.10. Eggplants? Florida, per crate, $3.5034.00. Green peas ?Florida, per basket, $2.5033.00. Horse? radish?Native, per box, 75c.a$l.oo. Let? tuce?North Carolina, per half-barrel basket, 75c.a$i.25; do. Florida, per half barrel basket, $1.0031.75. Onions Maryland and Pennsylvania, yellow, per bu, $1.2531.40; do, Western, yellow, per bu, $i.25a$i.40. Oranges? Florida, per box, as to size, $2.2533.25. Oysterpl.ants? Native, per bunch, \Vi*2z. Radishes? Florida, per bunch, long, 1 ^a2c. Spin? ach?Native, per bu box, 35345c. Spring Onions, per 100 bunches, 75380c. Straw? berries?Florida, per quart, refrigerator, 20325c; do, open crate, 12315c. String Beans?Florida, per basket, $2.253300. Tomatoes?Florida, per six-basket car? rier, fancy, $3.2533.75. Potatoes.?White?Maryland and Penn? sylvania, per bu, No. 1. 75380c; do, sec? onds, 65370c; do, New York, per DU, be>t stock, 80385c; do, Western, per bu, prime, 8oa8jC Sweets?Eastern Shore, Virginia, per truck bri, $2.5032.75; do, Maryland, per bri, fancy. $2.7533.00. Yams?North Carolina, per bri, No. 1, $1.5031.75. Provisions and Hog Products.?Bulk clear rib sides, 9^c; bulk clear sides, 9^$c; sugar-cured breasts, small, ioj^c; sugar-cured breasts, 12 lbs and over, ioJ4c; sugar-cured shoulders, extra broad, ioJ/'C; sugar-cured California hams, 8^4c; hams, canvased or uncan vased, 12 lbs and over, 12c; refined lard, tierces, barrels and 50-lb cans gross, toge. Butter?Separator, 28a2gc; gathered cream, 24325c; imitation, 2oa2ic; prints, i-lb., 28329c; rolls, 2-lb., 28a29c; dairy prints, Md., Pa. and Va., 26327c. Eggs, Western Maryland and Penn yl vania, per dozen, ?316c; Eastern Shore (Maryland and Virginia), per dozen, ?aloe; Virginia, do. ?316c; West Vir? ginia, I5|/^ai6: Western, ?316c; South? ern, per dozen, I5$4al6c; guines, per doz, ?a?. Duck?Eastern Shore, fsney, do, 31332c; do, Western and Southern, do, 30331c; do, small and dirty, do, ?329c. Goose, per dozen, 45350c. Cheese?New Cheese, large, 60 lbs, 12 to I2j^c; do, flats, 37 lbs, I2^c to 13c; picnics, 2Z lbs, i2-}4ai3j4c. Live and Dressed Poultry?We quote: Turkeys?Hens, choice, ?ai6c; dp, young toms, choice, ?314c. Chickens? Hens, i2ai2T/2c; old roosters, each, 25a 30c; ducks, fancy, large. 13314c; do, mus? covy and mongrels, iiai.ic. Geese? Western, each, 50370c. Guinea fowls, each, 15320c. Dressed Poultry?Turkeys, liens, good to choice, 17a?c; do, hens and young toms, mixed, good to choice, 16a?. Ducks?Good to choice, 14315c. Chickens?Young, good to choice. I.iai4; do, mixed, old and young, I2ai2^c. Geese?Good to choice. 10313c. Capons? Fancy, large, 17318c; do, good to choie Fancy, 15316c Live Stock. Chicago. ? Cattle ? Good to prime steers, fo.75a7.io; poor to medium. $4.25 a6.50; stockers and feeders, $2.5035.00; cows, $1.2535.50; heifers. $2.5036.00; can? ners. $1.2532.40; calves. $3.0036.85; Tex? as-fed steers, S5.00a6.00. Hogs?Mixed and butchers, $6.1036.50; good to choice heavy, $6.4036.55; rough heavy, $6.ioa 6.35; light. 5.9036.30: bulk of sales, $6.15 36.35. Sheep?Steady to 10c higher; lambs, steady to 10c higher: good to choice wethers. $5.20.15.60; Western sheep, $475a$6.oo; native lambs. $4,003 6.co. East Liberty?Cattle, choice. $6.6oa 6.75; prime. $5.2036.40; good, $5.5035.90. Hogs active: prime heavies. $5.7036.75; best mediums. $5.7036.75: heavy Yorkers, S6.50a6.60: light do, $5.3536.45; pigs, $6.00a6.2O: rough;, $5.003620. Shcop Steady; best wethers, $5.6535.80; eilis and common, $2.50:13.50. Veal calves, $7.5oa$8.co. (ABOR AND INDUSTRY 'Iliree millions of artificial teeth arc ??.-'?,I each year. < anning of fruits and vegetables is Maryland's biggest industry. Pittsburg's [.400 painters accepted a nts-cn-honr compromise. Five unions are to be chartered i:i Porto Rico next month, with ro3 mem? bers. Pennsylvania rilk mills have been or ? :.??.?'!. with a capital of nearly $2,000, ;\ iii sputc I(' "?;???' ? am?- *r ?' mi w I'rrcitcns tn divide Clr'raei lihor ran!;? The ironworkers have declined thc of? fer of the American Bridge. 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