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out. Manufacturers in the various lines are
coming to the same view, and all sorts of
wares are going straight from the producer
TO the retailer"
This talk was in my frierd's private Office.
a workman Tas removing a Wall street
"ticker" from i,s little shelf in corner.
Something new and improved in The way Of
stock speculstioHm ! asked.
"Yes, an improvement" was the ssrio.
comic reply. 81 am cutting of my telegraphic
communication with Wall street, and that
will be both new aud improving. l an s
reformed spscula,os-oue Of dozen on this
very BLOCK. Tie mania for getting rich by
STOCK operations has spent itself, 20 far a.
Nes OK merchants are Concerned. Tbs.
Is the csuse II the jci Ge-r taa' the b. kers
down there coupt-iu w.. 4 year szo /
hardly knew a man in nv rather extensive
circle a mercantile scqusin snee who
want IN some sort Of a scheme oulsds Of
his legitimate business. Everybody had
a 'tieeer' in bis ofice, CT 4 chuak Of
ore il HE POCKET, or his head full OF
sOme Couey Island or city smusement enter
prise. Well, the broker, have absorbed all
that he risked in margins, his mines have
proved worthless, and his seaside hotels aud
city music gardens are bankrupt. Aud his
regular business has, psrlaps, been seriously
imperiled By the withdrawal of capital and
attention. But that Is about over. Some
new folly may act in, but for the present We
are reforming"
In removing tho "ticker" the man dis
closed curious Object that had hung in par
tisl obscufity on the wall. Ii Was sort CT
plaque, made OF baked pottery in the high
art style now 30 widely affected. 1t present
ed surface which, on looking closer, rec
ognizsd az the bark Of tree, and into il
were cut two initials an besrt in a rude
monogram. The design explained itself.
That mans life must indeed be barren Of
sentimental plsssgss which does not, back
somewhere in his youth, contain the carving
OF his own and a 7weethesr's mutual sdora.
ton into the bark cf a secluded tree. NY
strictly business companion wss a little, bul
not much, ashamed to recall this in his own
| case.
sob, that's trifa," he said. "You see
my wife came across the spot where l had
used isck-knite on an old maple, down in
| Connecticut, when we were boy and girl to
gether. Il struck her, don't you see, that ii
would be novel idea to take an impression
of II, and have 1t moulded for plague. She
has rather a taste that way. Not 20 bad
either, ia ii? We've got one up at the house
| and this is a duplicate. The heart is pretty
nenrly filed up with new bark grown 10
'tW . shaped 50 long sgo, and yet ne al
| thers-srn't az aud the initials Rith ID. Az
odd thing 10 hang up Ia a mercantile Office
| eh?'
80 you are going to take it down?n
well, no. The ticker must 90, but
guess that little SOUVENIR won't interfere will
| business"
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AMERICAN AND INDIA WHEAT


A great many of our people submit TO the
high tariff, aud to the way we are driven
from the markets Of our neighbSrs upon the
American continent by its operation, because
they console themselves with the belief that
whatever we may lose our vast and increas-
ing wheat production and European reliance
upon that production, will keep us rich and
prosperous. Is it sure that we have such a
permanent hold upon Europe as a customer
for our breadstuffs? Three years ago the
East Indies exported 10 Elrope 100000
bushels OF wheat; last year their export was
little short Of 100000 bushels, and that
amount is fully one-third of what we could
export ont Of the largest crop we have ever
raised. Is there not something in these
figures 10 set us thinking? II is worth our
while, at al events, to inquire how this
vast increase has come about and
whether it is likely to continue British
India is two-lhirda the size of the United
States, and has population of 250,000,G00.
1t has vast belt of country adapted 10 the
cultivation of wheat, and the wheat culture
has been Enormously extended there-tbe
area is sufficient 10 produce 1000, 900, 600
bushels Of wheat year. Fifty years have
been occupied in constructing great irri-
eating canal with length of over 500 miles.
This canal, es complete, was opened few
months ago. With this canal and irriga-
tiol the East India grower is not depend.
a. " tho rama for tho
tainly OF his crop. The farms. by wise
arrangement, arr small, ami being so their
fertility is we'll kept up, go that the average
yield per acre ia as large as that Of the
United States. So much for the production
for the means OF reaching market railroad
are extending into the country, and the
wheat trade will attract them where
wanted, as it does among ourselves. The
quality of the Indian wheat is declared to be
equal TO that grown in Colorado, and that is
esteemed the beet the United States grow.
The water of the canal is free to the grow
ere, their rents are low, and as they go, as the
theory Of George prescribes, not 10 grasp
ing landlords but to the government, heavy
taxes ia this part OF India are unnecessary
the whole revenues of the government from
every source amounting to not over 81
year for each iuhabitant. The Icdian
wheat reaches the European market 10 J une
With this account before US, we cannot help
but modify our views of the future OF our
own grain expectation, especially when we
remember what is going on in Manitoba
and that very soon its products will be aug
mented by the proceeds of the rich aud fer.
tile valley of the Saskatchewan, all belong.
! ing 70 the ENGLISH.
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AARON xR'S PISTOLS,
with Oae of which He Killed AIexan.
der II a,oiItens

A correspondent of the louisville Courier
Journal gives. an Interesting description of
the superb 6us!iug pistols, once the proper
ty OF Aaron Barr, and now, belonging to
Capt. Beat Hopkins OF Louisville. Ole OF
these pistols fired the bail that killed Alex
andsr Hamilton nj Weehawk=u 1t is iden-
Iifed by long, deep notch indented on the
handle. The pistols we're made by
Mortimer, of Lsndon, England, and
were m ported by Burr al the close OF the
Revolutionary war. The barrels DIRE thirteen
inches long, aud carry an ounce bail. They
are tlint-lucks, and Tue pans for the priming
are iiued with gold, and the touch holes are
pushed vita the same metal. Tney are hair
triggers, and shoot vita great force and ac-
curacy. The ick- ara OF very supe-
fior and exquisite mechanism. The
pair came into The p0ss, S ion of
Capt. Brent Hopkins, the present owner,
through his uucle, Capt. Sam Goode Hop
Gins, OF The Forty-second Regiment OF United
States Drsso DEE, who purchased them from
Burr in Washington Guy in the winter of
1873 o. 1914, paying $500 10 god for them.
Burr remarked at the time that he would
not let anyone else have the pistols,
as h. had used them with Hamilton.
The weapons have surely blood stsiDe d
history. They have been used with fatal
fleet in eleven duels. Among the sspgun-
airy combats, Pet;is, of Virginia, killed
B!ddle on Bloody Island, near ST. Louis;
Eiward Towns, of Virginia, killed a
Frenchmau near New Orleans; C,pt. Sam
Goode Hopkins killed a Spanish count
near New Msorid, Mo, Hugh Brent killed a
man from Georgia on Dismoud Island,
below Henderson, KY. They were used
several times in Virginia, twice IN S1uth
Carolina, and more than once in Kentucky
With deadly effect. Robert Triplett, Of
Greensboro, shot the old lawyer, Phil
Thompsop, Of that city, through and
| through with one of them; but strange e
| say, Thompson recovered, and grew as fat as
bear. Henry Clay and Capt. Hopkins
were fast friends, and the former was to ave
used the pistols in one of his duels, but they
| arrived day too late
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ExTENsIoH OF AmEKI

EXTENSION OF AMERICAN TRADE.
1t will be well for our men of business to
keep in mind that a treaty drawn up with
Mexico is awaiting the action of cur autbori-
ties. The object of that treaty is TO facilitate
trade between the United States and Mexico
when the railroads, now building in that
country, shall be completed. The high tariff
has stimulated American production toward
point beyond which the home demand will
not sustain, and an outlet to foreign markets
becomes necessary. That outlet can most
readily be found, a, the start, in the countries
that are nearest US, and of these Mexico de-
serves especial attention as Offering especial
opportunities for American trade. We grow
and manufacture cotton, yet Great Britain
supplied Mexico, Central and South Amer
lea with S45,3l5,O00 worth of cotton
goods during the year 1881, while our own
sales in those countries we're only TO the
amount Of 50 $50 ,290. Even France exported
there to the amount Of S2,405,000. We have
skins 4gl the best machinery in The world
for the manufacturing Of shoes, yet France
sslis more Of them IN Peru alone than we do
10 all the Countries south Of US put together.
Anerican made paper is in high esteem
everywhere for its excellence, aud We sell
some Of it TO the other American States, but
altogether only to the amour. of S447 1916,
where France figures up to 81 ,481, 1926
These comparisons could be extended, bot
the figures we give chow how vast are th e
possibilities for Uaitsd S:ates trade. I'm
agine our cottons displaciug the fraudulent
goois OF the English only, on this continent
aud we beat the Eoglish in cotton goods even
in China--and gee what the cotton belt in the
S1uth would be. Factories by hundred,
would be working up the cotton grown in our
fields, bringing wealth like flowing Etream.
So it would be with the manufacturer, and
the manufacturer of wearing a2p.r.l, and
fifty other thiugs. OVerproducIlol ID talked
Of in some branches of our manufactures,
and yet we have a contiguity to the
Americas States that Europe is not ia
vored with; still they get the trade. To OBJ.
tain our share OF this trade, we must begin
with our next-door neighbor, Mexico. Here
we have no trouble from the want of Ameri-
can shipping. To get that trade advantage.
ousIy, we must have a trade treaty with our
neighbor. Such treaty awaits our DIS
posal, but what will be done with it remains
ia doubt, because the Louisiana sugar- grow.
ers think it would interfere with their
pro6ts-prodts that, they sss,rt, do not come
from their business, but from protection
Are 50,0C0,000 Of Americans to be checked
in ileir opportunities for prosperity because
by iorcs Of outlay kept up by taxation, sugal
can be co ixed II grow in Louisiana?
sugar refused To grow there, that State wouiC
not oppose the rattle lion OF the Mexican
treaty. Had We no b-tter pay Louisiana 4
abandon sugsr aud grow cotton, and get
snare of the 100000 a year bushes
dom in this country BY England? Spite O
Louisiaus, we must have trade treaty will
| Mayirp
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A Horrible sI0ry.

The Newbarn IN. c. Journal publishes the
following: "A story reached the city last
mis- hit that & colored man had been hung by
his wife aud a negro man 10 Hyde county,
under the following circumstances: The wife
entered into a conspiracy with this man to
get rid of her husband, and fixed rope
trough the upper floor Of the house, while
the husband was absent, and when he re-
turued home the wife met him at the door
and greeted him with kisses aud decoyed
him under the hole, while the man on the
upper floor dropped the noose over his head;
then the wife held her husbands hands and
the man pulled the rope. When they thought
he was dead they took him down, aud drag
cling him of, covered him up. When they
had left, the old fellow, like Sinbad, the
sailor, scratched out. The guilty parties,
hearing Of his resurrection, fed 10 Pamlico
county, where they were arrested and put in
Jail. This is the rumor, as told BY Pam
Iico man last night :"
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ADVANCES OK PERISH.

We are pleased TO observe that many Of
our country exchanges state that the farmers
around them are putting in a fair amount
of corn and other grain, and it is evident
that in many places increased attention is
given to the cultivation OF fruits aud vege-
tables. Occasionally we find a remark that
such matters are neglected in the district re.
ported Of, aud one paper this week, while
stating that call cotton" was prevalent in the
district around it, Significantly added: ave
are preparing for famine next year" The
press of the South generally, especially the
agricultural publications, have fer years
been pointing out to the farmers the absolute
necessity they are under to vary their crops,
30 that in those seasons when cotton fails to
pay, there may be at least the necessities Of
life 10 fall back upon, and that the greater
part of the gains made from cotton
may not be swallowed up in paying for corn
and hay and other things that should be
grown upon the farm itself. The influence
OF old custom in some measure neutralizes
this wholesome advice, but as the new gen.
GRAFTON, grown up under different ciroum-
stances and surroundings, takes the place of
it's fsthers, change will come, and the COM
parAtiye prosperity that follows it will give
q brightness 10 the farmers home that is
too often absent at the present time. Very
much has been done by the old citizens 10
adapt their ways TO the new conditions, but
that many should still adhere TO the "all
cotton" syltem proves how former thoughts
and ways sill linger. The old plantation
system has ceased to exist, slave labor ii
done sway forever, and With the new state
OF things a new plan of action is required
see-ssaan struggling to preserve
past modes of seton as though all things
had not become new, is a painful spects Gle
OF human imbecility. So the aristocrats OF
France, after the revolution had changed
the condition of national and social Affairs
from the base TO the apex, still endeayored
to preserve their old modes of existence, but
events and circumstances were too much for
them. They were lost in the Ehirl aud
hustle of the new condition OF things. They
were left 10 associate only with each other,
striving in their intercourse to preserve the
old forms when the substance was gone.
Their imbecile efforts to stem the food of the
new life were vain; the surging waters swaI-
lowed them up. Similar causes are produc-
ing similar effects in the South to-day. The
wise see that it is 20 and conform 10 what
they cannot DESTROY
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and vii return TO New York again in four
Hesks. He will, however, spend the sum-
mer and part Of the fall in E1rope with sew
eIs members of his family, and will leave
New York OF his second trip the latter part
OF June. De ssii his present trip wss fer
pleasure, and he wished it to IL distinctly uG-
dersieod that there was nothing the matter
with his health. He said be left his inter-
ests in his railroad companies in good hands,
and expressed the opinion that his roads
would Be more carefully managed now than
they had been in the past. All of Mr.. Van
derhili's sons, daughters and sons-in-law were
present to see him of.
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after we met 10 the hotel and he accused me
of being bought over by Mr.. Higley. 1 de.
MED il, and then he called me liar and
shook his fist in my face. / drew my re-
yolyer and warned him to let 90 Of NE. j
told him that II Was y blsckmsilina schers
all through anu ne Nss accusing me OF De-
trsyng him because ! would not Asecede to
his propositions" Mr.. Higley had long
interview with his lawyer, Mr.. Alvin Burt,
yesterday, and proposes to push the matter
vigorously. Mr.. George F. Elliott, counsel
for johnson, received yesterday regular
notice of appearance in the case from Mr..
Burt. In twenty days Mr.. Higley's answer
to the charges made by Mr.. johnson may be
looked for. 1t will be doubtless sn emphatic
denial of all the allegations
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New YORK, May 5.-Mrs. LILLY Siess, the
wife of a respectable mechanic, at ii o'clock
last MorGsy night WAS returning TO her
home al No. 80 Prospect street, Brooklyn,
from 8 visit 10 her sister 10 Broadway, near
Flushing avenue, Williamsburg. As she
was walking toward Lee avenue TO take q
Nostraud avenue car i've men, she says,
seized her and hurried her to stable in a
lot, where they each assaulted her. When
Mrs Sees attempted to scream hand was
placed roughly over her mouth, and threats
10 choke her were made. When she escaped
she ran toward Lee avenue, pursued BY one
of the men. She leaned upon a car going
in the direction of Williamsburg, and then
sank into a seat, half dead with suffering
and terror. She alleges that the man who
pursued her also boarded the car aud in
sisted upon accompanying Der. She asked
the driver to hail The first policeman he saw.
Al Broadway Policema an james Snort was
called, and on the complaint OF the woman
arrested a man on The rear platform OF the
car who said he was Hugh R.ynolds, twenty
one years old, of No. 80 Hayward street
He denied all knowledge of tins woman, but
Mrs ess Was positive that he was the man
who, after assisting 10 the assault, followed
her and spoke to her in the car. He was
locked up in the Fourth street station.
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to-dsy to ratiiy the transfer OF properties 10
the New York Mutual Telegraph Company,
and to exchange the stock of the one COM
pany Tor the stock of the other, share and
share alike. The stock Of the older company
is TO be valued at 500 per share. ard the
stock OF the other al S25. II was also voted
to reduce the capital stock of the company
from Sll ,000, 900 to 4. 100000
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sUNFLOwER AND LILY.

Over the seas came SunfiOwer rare,
And after him followed . Lily fair,
And when they had reached Americas land,
The! gaze1 shout them, smiling and bland,
And seemed TO say, 'SoE here arc We
From over the moaning, foaming sea,
And do you think there can Gurht compare
With this Lily sweet and this Sanfower rare?"
And the men all gszsd at the Lily's grace,
And said she - perfect in form and lace:
But the women they crimped and curled theil
hair,
And said: THE Lily is not more fair
Thar the flowers that grow this side of the sea -
And each one thought, "Onlg look at mel"
And the women stared at the Sunhower's hair
And smpersd, ''Oh, my, but he is more rare
La - Ho1sogs Il al thrive in American sir''
While the men in diSglst - ealI.
what feminine travelling show" they ssi1.
- 1t still is in doubt If the Lily be fair,
Aud what is the charm OF the Sun tower rare
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THES Avn NOW.

4 grandame, grooming e melody low,
A quaint, wierd song OF the long ago,
To sleepy cnild on q summers day,
When the air was perf1med with neW-mown hay.
time worn face, with snow-yhite hair.
A face grletGned and furrovgsd with care
A foIm that IS bent with the burden OF years.
And eyes that are humid WITH Unsht- Gears.
The voice that is singing is trembling ard low,
AUG the words OF the song fall sadly and SLOW
From her shriyeled lips and her witnered hands
Have almost number q the hOur-glAss sands.
She rocks the cradle and sings the song
TIL the tWllgnt shadows are frightening long,
And tzr-away look creeps into her eyes
As the sunsets glory fades in the skies.
A woman stands by moss-grown mound,
Where the myrtle and daisies have covered the
ground,
And thinks OF the days in the long ago
AS she ecoons msloJy soft and low.
asain he 1 r,a,,tt,5nIt 2 summers day.
But 10 = IN the grave the gratss--.1e Is sisaoinr
Ana The woman that sings IS sadly -wS-r;TT,s %
M liz
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CLINTON, Mo, May 5.-Wm. Nicholls, 4
travelling salesman for the machinery hrm
of S II. Cockrell & Co., Dallas, TsK, was
shot and killed this evening by Chas. h.
Adams CO the esst-hound passenger tram as
it was approaching Montrose, twelve miles
f.ann L---s I. E. ,loruht Adams ia ! crank
aud had been drinking. He is said TO hail
from CArrollop. HI.
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THE RANJO IN HEAyES.

Oars no use talkin' bout de hsrp,
Oars no use chimin' bout de lutes,
De heavenly bsn' will neber sing
Wild dem new-fangled hltes!
II niggah go 70 heben when be die,
An de big book tell me so,
Niggah no use when he git oar
Widout he got de ole bAnloi
When de time comes fur me 10 die,
No longer hezh TO roam,
Dar'il cum little angel frum de sky
An he'll take dis banjo home
-The Imp.
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Doubie Tragedy.

WoRcEsrER, MASS, May 5.-Late this sf-
tsrnoon Frank Mann, of OXFORD, shot Mrs.
Mary E Moore, of Milbury, formerly OF Ok
ford, in James Dean's bosrdlnshouse, Mil
bury. He then shot himself. Both are dead.
Mr.. Moore hiss been separated from her
hu.baud, who keeps a livery stable at Grail
ton. She was expecting a divorce, snd mean
time received the attentions OF Mauu, who
was forty or fifty years old. The cause Of
the shooting is not KuoEn.
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vIRGINIA's GOD.DAUaaTER
n Romantic Page from Ante.Rey0Iu.
tianary History.

The arrival of Lord Dunmore in New
York promp's the Richmond State 10 recall
a romantic episode in the history of Vir-
ginia that occurred more than a century
ago. The great grandfather of Lord Dun
more was before the revolution the popu-
lar representative of Great Britain as gov.
ernor 10 Virgins. The vice-regal msnsiou
was then in Williamsburg, the capt. Il of
the Old Dominion, and official lie there
was patterned nearly as possible after
the royalty of England. Lady Dunmore's
reception, attended by the gentry from
miles around, we're uuequ6lsd in their
splendor by anything of the kiud n America.
When the lord governor and his lady had
reached the summit of their popularity a
daughter was born TO them. The House of
Burgeeses was in session at the time. The
next day it passed resolution begging the
governors permission to claim his infant
daughter ss the granddaughter OF the colo
ny. Lord Dunmore promised that the
child should be called Virginia, and the
chairman of the committee of Burgesses
stated that resolution had been Passed ap-
propriaung sum Of money TO accumulate
during the girls minority, and 10 be settled
on her upon her coming Of age, by which
time it would amount to 100000. Lord
Dunmore accepted The kind offer OF the
VI aHu Tue CuiiO " as Curie-
tened Virginia Murray in the old church
near Williamsburg. A few years afterward
the revolution occurred. The Earl of Duu-
more endesvored 10 stamp cut The
seeds of rebellion, and becoming as
much hated as he was before loved by the
colonists, ne was forced to fly with his fami-
ly 10 Engisnd. Much Of the subsequent
history of Nirginia's granddaughter ia un-
known, but the fact that she was left, on
the death of her father, totally unprovided
for, she herself communicated, in a letter
addressed By her many years afterwari
10 Thomas Jefferson, then president
If the Uoiled States She recalled
The circumstances under which she be-
came the daughter of the State, and
the promises made that on her reaching her
majority she would receive fund of slOO,-
coo. Her appeal 10 the honor and generos-
iIy of Virginia closed as follows: Nov that
my father Is no more l am certain they
aud you will remember what merited
your esteem in mis- character and conduct.
and forget that which estranged vonr
hearts from 30 honorable a man. But
should you not, you are 100 Just to visit
what you may deem the sins Of The father
upon his luckiess daughter" What reply
was made TO this appeal of Virginia's dis
carded daughter is not known, but there can
be no doubt that abe received no money II
would add several millions 10 the debt Of
Virginia il this claim and the accrued inter
eet had not been barred by the events Of the
revolution