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the EAST.

4dE eteauer darOlQ arrived at New
York on the 9th and reported fierce fight
in Hayti. Legltime's fleet bombarded the
town OF St Marc and afterward sheered
off, leaving on shore large body of SOL
diers, who were mercilessly slaughtered bv
the followers OF Hippolyte.
AT Haverhill, Mass, twenty parents
were arrested on the 9th for sending Their
children to a condemned French Catholic
school.
CHARLES F. ORBAuN, q Philadelphia
newsboy. was on the 9th awarded $50 600
damages against the Traction Company
OF that city for injuries received.
WORD was received by Mrs May, of
Reading, P''., on tho 9th that she was to in
herit $500, 600 from an uncle who died re-
Gently in California.
A FIRE destroyed the large brewery of
the Niagara Falls IN W Brewing Com
pany on the 7th-
On the 7th Mrs Emma Althouse, of Attica,
N. Y, awoke from trance which lasted
thirty five days
A HEAVY fall Of snow occurred in Western
New York on the 7th, and all trains on the
Rome, Watertown 4 Ogdensburg road were
abandoned
CALEB NJ. TA1corr, of Hartford, Conn, a
dry goods merchant, failed on the 7th for
500 600.
The statement that seventeen men were
drowned recently in Pine lake, Fulton
County, N. Y, proved on the 7th to have
been entirely unfounded.
On the 7th Elihu Stevens, of Belgrade,
Me-, was given reception by the Legisla-
ture of that State. Mr.. Stevens is one hun
dred and one years old, in good health, is
the father of twenty two children and q
pensiOner of the war of 1912
The failure of the Pacific Guano Company.
located at Boston, occurred on the Sth for
81, 100000.
IHE discovery was made on the Sth that
A. s. Gookin, cashier of the Manhattan
Elevated Railway Company of New York,
had gone to Canada with between $50, 600
and s75,O 200 of the funds of the company.
In New York on the 9Th the coroners Jury
in the case of the striking street-car employe
MCGOWAN, who was killed by Officer SNYDER
during an attack by the strike:s on street
car, brought in verdict commencing the
officer, the conductor and driver of the car for
their heroic conduct in repelling the mob in
the attack on the car and exonerated them
from all blame.
The coke strike at Pittsburgh, Pa, COL
1apsed on the Sth, and all the works but two
were in operation.
ON Gne Jul Tile steamer Lam, With Minis.
ter Phelps and wife and Mollie Garfield and
husband, arrived in New York.
FIRE destroyed the barrel storage ware
house of the Standard Oil Company's works
at Bayonne, N. :, on the 10th. Loss, $15O, ,OOO
THIRTEEN counterfeiters were caught in
Butler County, Pa, ON the 9th at their ille-
gal work and arrested.
The establishment of James Wyeth l.
Brother, manufacturing chemists at Phila-
delph1a, was burned on the 10th. Loss, $780,
600. One fireman was killed.
THE steamer Haytien Republic, which
caused SO much trouble with Hayti, arrived
at Boston on the 10th
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years ten months and twelve days, oc-
CURED on the It'll ut Baltimore, Md. Mira
Bowman had three children, thirteen
grandchildren, twenty-five great-grand-
children, nineteen great-great grandchil-
dren and i've great-great-g -great grandchil-
dren. She retained her mental faculties
until the last, and her health was always
good
FLAMES ON the 7th swept away the opera
house, the Stemple House and nine business
houses at Steelville, Mo.
In Redmond's saw-mill at Darlington,
No., boiler exploded on tho 7th, killing
two men and wounding third -"
EARLY on the morning Of the 7th Henry
Ogden, Laketon (1nd,) dry-goods mer-
chant, was robbed of II sol. He had the
money under his pillow, and the burglars
drugged him.
HENRY D1ECKMANN, of st. Louis, a prom
incnt member of the Merchasts' Exchange.
skipped to Canada on the 7th, leaving a
shortage Of $5O,OW
FIRE on the 7th In the Northern Ohio
blanket mills at Cleveland caused damage to
the extent of 100000.
LITTLE Annie Redmond, aged six years, of
Chicago, who was kidnapped last MAY. and
whose disappearance unseated her fathers
reason, was found In the Home Of the
Frtendless on the 8th by q neighbor and at
once identified
HE Arkansas Legislature passed a bill on
the Sth enabling the Governor to offer 81, ,OOO
reward for the assassin of John M CLAYTON.
at PlummerHlle
AT Lafayette, La, band Of men calling
themselves viglantes ON the Sth ordered all
the unemployed negroes to leave the par
ish.
ALEXANDER, BELL, only nineteen years of
age, was sentenced at Columbus, Ind, ON the
sth to fourteen years in the penitentiary for
burglary.
On the Sth James Ross (colored) was
hanged at Brandenburg Ky, for the murder
OF Benedict Rhodes an old farmer, on
April last
A FIRE on the sth burned twenty business
houses and residences at Vidalia. La.
ELEVEN prisoners were whipped by Sheriff
Allen on the 9th at the Newcastle del.
whipping post Five Of them got twenty
lashes each for burglary and the other six
got five lashes each for larceny.
DISPATCHES of the 9th say that party OF
eight Mexicans seeking ancient Spanish
lodes In Wyoming, found American miners
in possession of the gold mines, and during
the encounter which followed all the Mexi-
cans were slain and three OF the Americans
were killed.
NEAR Lima, O., band of robbers tied
Wesley Oman to his bed on the 9th and
roasted his feet until he disclosed the hid
ing-place Of his little treasure, consisting OF
$500 in cash and 4, 600 in notes.
On the 9th Samuel Williams, an old man
living near Shelbyville,. Ind, fell into the
fire, and being too feeble to extricate him
self was burned to death.
The failure of the Ohio & Western Iron
and Coal Company occurred on the 9th al
Columbus, o., for $20O,00O.
The mill Of the Wisconsin Sulphate Com
pany at Monico, Wis, was destroyed by fire
on the 9th. Loss, $150,000.
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Where Are You Going?

When do you start7 Where fromR How many
IA your par - What amount OF freight oe
baggage have 5od7 What route do you pre'er1
Upon receipt Of an answer to the above ques-
lions you will be furnished, free OF expense, VITA
;::: :: e: IS: &:
abe inform Uvb RA'I~AL y Nation wh1cn
wili sAve trouble, time and money. Agents will
cnll in person where necessary. Parties Uot
ready to s,nswer above questions should cut out
and preserve this notice for future reference. 1t
NAV become useful. Address c. II. WARREN.
General Passenger Agent, st. PaIl. Nina
send icr pew map OF Northwest
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to its & lining foothold as the adopt ion
Of 1t will Kill any further attempt by this
]egis'a s'ature to pass any more stringent laws
the feeling of the House was strong against
him and the motion for special order
prevailed c. r Davis presented bill
making railroad ticket between two site
tions good either way.
Hoy5 had bill to make the salary of
district judges $4,50O vollmar thought
that serving on the jury once was enough
for the year and presented bill to that
eject h Wilson presen ed q bill appropri-
lives.
The House passed the Senate resolution
pe!iiioning Congress to pension Anderson
Vile prisoners a5 nos lsss than $12 per
month and So 90 per day while in prison.
Also House files for revising tho s5atu es
and increasing the salary of Supreme court
judges.
The loo 1tion of tho reform school ut Red
Wing was the theme that Senators talked
about on the 9TH for an hour or more. It
was finally mad. a special order for next
Tuesday the 18th. Senator Day was in
favor of max ng some provisions for new
va p4.OA ~A W H1Icudu 1ul1OuuCCI u OIlA
extending the term of Office of railroad
commissioners from three to six years:
Mr.. Edw; rrs bill amends the elec,io laws
making villages separate &C ion d str cts
In executive session committee was ap-
pointed toinvestigate tho charges against
Huntington, appointee to the board Of SOL
diers home.
The first furry in the House came up on
the bill to print the legislative manual
aud supply each member with ten copies
The bill was senate file and had aim st
become a law when it suddenly occurred
to the members that ten copies were alto
ge;her too much and the bill was re-referred
A motion that when the house djourned
on the 9Th that it adjourn mt Tuesday the
18th, brought out the question as TO what
was the life Of the legislature as stated by
the constitution viz: 80 legislative days !"
The ejudiciary.committee stated that the con-
struction OF the constitution by the CON-
mittee was tt at it meant 80 consecutive
days after excluding n days and hold .ya
Tl1s opin on woull make April 23rd the
clos ng day of the session.
Upon 1ntroduct on Of bills Elmquist
asked for apprcpr 'ations for the State Re-
form school to the mount CT $1O2, 900,
also to provide for normal training in the
state high SC ooL FL F. StevenE presented
joint resolution asking Congress to op.An
the Sioux reservation; Davenport In 10
duced bill to prevent the taxation VI
Mortgages; Temple had bill to incres ,e
the liquor c ses from 81, 900 to 81 go
and from $500 to 5000
After action on the first bill on the ca1eu.
dar it was found that there was barely 4
quorum present, so the house went into =
Committee of the Hhole, and after finishing
the routine, adjourned.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

BURMAu advices of the 5th say that Man.
dalay had been visited by two immense
confagrations. In the first the flames de-
stroyed 632 houses, q bazar and q Budd-
hist monastery, and in the second 500
houses were burned
CHINA dispatches Of the 5th say that the
severity of the winter was increasing the
distress caused by the famine in Shan
Tung and Manchitria, and it was estimated
that 250,O00 persons were starving In
Chen Kiang:
THE British bark Largo Bay arrived in
London in sinking condition on the 9th.
She reported that she was in collision with
an unknown four-masted steamer of
Beachy Head and that the steamer was
sunk with all on board, nearly one hun
dred persons
ADv1cEs Of the 9Th report serious riots
at Ching Kiang- Foo. The British consul
late and seven houses belonging to foreign
ers were wrecked by the mob. A British
man-of-war was on the way TO the scene.
In Dublin on the 7th Thomas Condor,
member of Parliament for East Tipperaly.
was sentenced to two months Imprisonment
for melting boycotting.
FURTHER advices of the 7th say that over
eighty lives were lost by the recent sinking
of the British steamer Glencoe off Beachy
Head In collision with the bark Largo Bay
The victims were all sailors, the steamer
carrying no passengers
A FAMINE and epidemic of typhus fever
prevailed on the 7th at Daboka, in Hun
gary. Many persons had died and the dis
ease was spreading.
On the 8th the bark Theodore Behrcnd was
wrecked at Texel, Eng, and ten persons
were drowned.
AT Pembroke, Eng, q ferry boat capsized
on the Sth, and nine persons were drowned,
The Indian Department of Canada in it's
annual report on the Sth showed the In
dian population of the Dominion to be
124,569.
OTTAWA (Ont) advices of the Sth were to
the effect that the annexation question
would before very long be submitted to the
people of Canada
THROUGHOUT Great Britain, France an I
Germany snow-storms prevailed on the 10th,
blockadtng railways and interrupting tele-
graphic communication.
NEAR Halle, Germany, eight workmen
were killed on the 10th by passing train.
RESOLUTIONS were adopted at an outdoor
meeting held on the 10th at Sheffield, Eng.
at which 10000 workmen attended, CON
demning Lord Salisburys coercion policy in
Ireland
In a blizzard on the 9th Mrs. McNulty and
Annie Mcclure were frozen to death near
their home In the vicinity of Ottawa, Ont
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GREAT ROCK ISLAND R0UTE
Pnlrnen sody
Comnoodous
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OuC, dnu Illttt Viz CtlS bIlSAuS lIOUl Luc LICl.
flc can never be overthrown by laws. until the
people are ready for them and have the NOR
al courage to enforce the salutary laws upon
our statutes for the suppression Of the evil
therefore
RE oLvED, as the sense of this House that
no action be taken or law passed tending to
undo or destroy the gr nd work accomplish
ed under the restrictive temperance laws now
upon our statutes, and urge upon all classes
in answer to their petitions, to aid, through
educational and moral agencies and in all
honorable ways to help in enforcing temper
ance laws as the surest way OF suppressing or
overthrowing intemperance in our State.
Notice Of debate was given and the reso-
luton went over
BY Farley, to prohibit prize fighting and
sparring matches; By Il nike, defining the
powers of Commissioners and Supervisors
as rela es to highways; BY c. R Davis,
amending the penal code, abo'ishing G ,pi!a
punishment Other bills wefe introduced,
making each incorporated village q
separate election dis riot Repeating the
garnishmeno aot as re,a.es to workingmen
and creating probate code The bill "
ing the government ght to purchase the
ship canal route ut Duluth was passed.
It was good easy day in the Senate on
9th. nothing done outside of the routine
The libel law us applied to the country pa
pers came up Senator Hixon did not op-
pose the bill Gu took the occasion to be-
little the country press, and aid they had
all the privileges they We're entitled to and
further said shat Il man could easily pur-
chase good number Of them at low prices
Senator Edwards introduced bill prevent
ing the wrongful we: ring of Grand Army
ba'ges Senator Cranda rs bill was to
prevent the sale of liquor in the vicinity of
the fair grounds In executive session the
appointments of ". &. Williston and Chris
topher Anundson to the boar d of churilies
was confirmed
When the hour o,me for the presenta-
ton of resolutions, Rep Haven. sent up q
resolution calling upon the committee
upon oil inspection to report back to the
ouse the bills regulating. the fees of tho
inspector, for action. He thought the
ao.jon of the committee looked like smoth-
cring. Mr.: Lane the chairman replied that
the committee had prepared bill upon
the quest on. The bill provides that the
oil inspector shall appoint q suitable num-
Der Of deputies and reduces the feoa
Flynn Of Morrison called up tho Hoyt
resolution on the temperance question and
moved It be made special order for
Tuesday tho 18th The friends Of prohih-
ton ws5s opposed TO the resolution and
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Liquids make at There is uo doubt
ol tbi. n mg mIHd tluusA 1874 fully
co-u.nnt of thc fact that 81 good many
arlcv..l deny &C. Ihecmmctcrof OBJ,
liquids has good deal to do ulth DO lui
the practice so drinking inasiahly lead-
% unuitliy bulk ln Spain. wheremcr
drink little. fat man is unknown h
Paris. whore mon content tuemsDifc.
with slipping thimbl,slui of al-nlhe ol
small cups of black coffee. The French ar.
chin % % remarkable degree THE wom
en. ON thc other hand. drink great guam
Titles of champagne burgundy and lat
tcrly beer. and thcy are as a result pgon.
% stoutnoss. In England men drink al'
and beer. and thoy $3.50 q th.ck uccscI
pud-y and heavy race as raie. ha,
observed an this many times, and wAei
went 90 Germany. where l know tht
consumption OF beer WAS very great,
had prepared to Sind Sac men in ahunl
ancc l was not disappointed Thor.
would seem n De absolutely no cad oil
big. corpulert and mwielly men in Ger
many While In Che army they arc Slim
and splendid looking warriors. Lut tw'
months after they leave the ranks the,
become heavy, puffy and bccly 90 3D.,
last degree This is cvca SOD in thorauk.
anon. the other soldiers, and tho cas-
airy wcrc men Of such extraordinary
weigls shat they always cSclted com
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Among the latest limitations which
have been successfully introduced into
the tobacco trade Of this city and other
cities are cigars. tho wrappers Of which
are made out Of a specially periumed
paper A gentleman well known i'm the
iron manufacturing circles Of this VIZ
entity was the first 10 inform a Com
morcial Gazette reporter that smoking
material of this kind was new i'm the
market lie has recently returned from
q visit TO Norfolk. Va. where he met a
drummer for large tobacco factory Of
Sew York state. This gentleman in-
formed the pittsnurger that lac was then
Introducing am imitation cigar wrapper
which was so dcceiying in its character
that experts could scarcely distinguish
ii from tho genuine.
This preparation was made from rye
straw. and one portion Of the process.
was % steep The material IN strong
solution made from tobacco stems. The
grain Of the straw, together with the
manner in which the material Wi.
dressed. would lead any person TO sup
pose that it was sample of he ical
used n making wrappers for cigars Of q
moro than ordinary quality The flavor
of tobacco WAS also present, owing &c
the paper having been immersed in th'
solution made from the genuine article
-pW-burg Commercial
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D. llayti lh3 people aye divided into
three classes the blacks, che colorod and
the whites. The blacks are, Of course.
the most numerous. and they arc al.
the moss Ignorant The coiarol are those
who have mixed blood b. them and form
lhe intelligent poriiouoi heiuhaD.iants.
They are largely in the minority bat
they are the only class competent 90 con.
duct the government. Tho whites are
those white men who 20 down there as
merchants. Many of these marry the
colorcd girls and then. Of course, be-.
come more thoroughly Identified with
the best iutoscstso of the government. The
people generally particularly the colored
portion. have q curious misturcof traits.
The negroes as q race are mprcssionabie
and cxcitablc. They lave these quail
ties. and IN addition tho mercurial tenn
permanent of the French, for nearly all
are sent 20 Paris 10 complete thcircduca.
ton. This combination makes lhcm elf.
hcut 10 govern, for there is o natural
jealousy between the blacks and tho col
ored, and so affairs are generally more
or less unsettled. Washington Star.
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& battle does not consist. as many i'm.
agmc. ina grand advance of victorious
lines Of attack. sweeping everything be-
fore them. or tine helter-sketor flight of
tAe unfortunate defeated. The historian
must SD present it i'm his descriptions
tine artist in his paintings. Even the
writer Of am official account must limit
himself TO the presentation of such mo
monts as demand special treatment, ol
io such episodes as involve important
and instructive tactical movements. All
Aosc events which are less striking
which pass more quietly, but which.
nevertheless. contribute % the final re-
suit. cannot Doe reproduced without toe
much expansion Those incidents which
uo account of the battle, official or un
official. takes amy note Of, the thou
sand and onccycnts observed only by tho
participants. the innumerablc cases II
which the direction and control Of AZ
nirs glide ont of the hands of the officer
these are the little drops Of water thai
mako the mighty ocean Of battle and de
tormue victory on deicat.-Cnited Ser
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-07-24

One night 40 "a reception at Mrs. Ron
aids while was pcrched upon sofa
Watching the brilliant asscmblage, j fell
into conversation with pleasant gentle
man seated beside me, who was very
curious about America and American
life. told him a great deal about
America. and said that Americans ~
ENGLAND would not at once know how C
address people properly. AS for me-
said, 81 am as green as a gooseberry Oh
,his subject; even if | supposed you were
ono Of the nobility should not know
now 90 address YOU" A few moments
incrwarl Mrs Roualds said tome: Mr.
Wilder that's a good thing you've been
saving 10 the Duke of Tcck; you've made
4u impression upon his highncss. ! IT,
piled: "Why, haven't met the Duke Of
reck. the only gentleman I've been talk
ing 10 is standing over there. "Wcll,
saws Mrs. Ronalds THAT is the Duke OF
rcck." Gracious. / am little enough
fellow by nature. but just then you
night have pat me in pint cup.-Mar
shall J.. Wiidcr's Book.
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Chief Clerk Webster. a man of great
zeal and usefulness in bis work, denies
that school girls and ho5 have "a better
chance boo these examinations than men
AMID women of more mature years That
tho competitors arc not school children
IS shown by the average age of candi-
dates which is about 80 years 1t is
noteworthy. however, that the average
ago of those who fail is always greater
Cham that Of those who succeed OF
common school graduates 36 out Of 100
Gail. as against only IL of 100 of high
school graduates Among candidates
who claim academic or collegiate cduca-
tion the percentage of failure Is nearly
80 aul tho business college graduates
DO but D on per ccst better
Not many of the problems are difficult
4 mmout, are in simple addition, mul
DUPLICATION and subtraction Few fail ON
these. bat may do on such questions as
Express 100 figures The following num-
bcrs. one hundred ani nineteen billion
one hundred and twonty-one million
eleven thousand and lorty-oue one hun
drcd thou,andtls." and also on such as
this-"Expc-s in words the following
numbers O.sH,5,l43LO3." - Washing
ton Letter
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The Cotton Market.
by telegraph

NEW YORK. July 23.-Messrs. Hub
bard, Price & Co. in their cotton CIR
cular tonight say Foreign cables
to-day were very disappointing TO the
majority OF operators. as lower market
quotations had been expected from
Liverpool. and the more favorable al
vices led to a sharp covering demand
more marked In the later positions 10
be I'm the nature OF closing out stand
ing contracts. Exporters have pur-
chased a few more Angus; for ship
ment. aud the trade are watching ior
the developments regarding send
efs with interest. Crop advices
continue good, but the exporters hold
such All amount OF December aud Jas
uary contracts locked up that small
covering demand is sufficient to adj
vance prices. Should adyices change
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The Indian population Of the United
States is increasing slowly Not in
Guiding Alaska. the Indian population
on reservations is 2Gl5g9. of which
2l 300 are mixed blools 10 appears. by
the 1857 government statistics. that fo'
that wear there were 4.19i births and
8.ss3 deaths, leaving am increase OF only
onc-third Of one per cent OF course
this varies on different reservations. ~
in New Mexico the increase was oven
Two per cent But it is observed that
with this one exception where the In
dian population is comparatively large
as in the Indian territory, Dakota, Mon
taua. Washington. Arizona and Cahior
MIA. there is little on no increase. The
education of Indian children is going on
the number Of Indian schools M 1857
being 2'l. with am average attendance
fIO.2lj. at cost of Sl09j.5'9 TO the
United States. while in 1913 the number
Of schools was 1877. average attendance
$3.50. and cost for their support
sos $50. New York Telegram.
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Europe would be free buyers at ad-
vancirg prices. Operators remain very
boarish IN their views Cf the new crop.
and the arrival OF new bale from
Texas TO New Orleans. in addition 20
the new bale due at the house to NOR
row. gives them great confidence in
their position.
Spot is steady 1876. for middiing.
Sales. 10j fer export and 39l to spin
ners. Futures closed July and Au-
gust. 10 IjalO so: September, 10 ia
1914. October. Q 9la9.92 November,
9. S3a9 50 December. Q s6a9.s7 Jan
uary. 9.9la9 % February. 9.9Sa9 80 {:
March 10 Ojai0 90 April. O.l3al0.l4:
MAY. 10 20alO.22 June 10.27al0 20. In
Liverpool cotton quiet midling up
lands 6!d. Sales. 5000 bales. Notice
is given by tho Liverpool Exchange that
it will be closed at ? p. NJ August ID.
and not reopen before Tuesday morn
ing. August 9Th.