Highland recorder., April 04, 1902, Image 4

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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'.
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" 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. Company,
and a strike is probable.
Chicago dressmakers propose to form
a union, comprising 300,000 modistes of
the United States, for the purpose of
protecting its members from deadbeats
' and incompetent assistants, raising stand
i ards, and controlling prices to some ex
. tent.
Thc International Brotherhood of
Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers
in St. Louis, numbering about 1.400 men,
j struck for the new scale, which calls for
' 45 cents an hour, eight hours to consti?
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"Talkln' 'limit Weather."
"Well, sir, talkin' 'bout weathers, I
hain't seen nary winter like this sencc
the stars felled."
"Sakes alive! Hiram." exclaimed the
old lady. "You must be losin' of yer fer
gitfulness! Has you done lost sight er
the winter when Sis Williams was a
talkin' to the preacher atter meetin", an'
fell to laughin'. and her" jaws friz whilst
her mouth WUZ wide open, an' didn't
thaw tell her ol' man come home b'ilin'
full, an' she lit in to abusin' of him, an'
broke his head an' two jugs with a light
ard-knot, an' throwed hot water on the
dog kaze bc took the ol" man's part, an'
then pul the ol' man ter bed an' made
him drink red pepper tea tell he thought
he'd run agin' thc hereafter, an' sent fer
de preacher to come an' pray for him?
I axes you onct ag'in. Hiram, has yer
fergirfulnes:; fergot that-winter?"
"Yes," replied the old man, in a be?
wildered sort of way. "I had clean lost
track of it. But I won't fergit it no
more!"
She Executed the Songa.
It is told of Dr. Damrosch that some?
one inquired concerning a young woman
who had sung 3t sn amateur concert at
which he was present.
"She executed two songs," was his
reply.
"Yes, I know," said thc other; "but
how did she sing?"
'"I said," repeated the musician, "that
she executed two songs."
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