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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-09-19

Woman. Ter diseases and Their Treat
ment. y pages, iIlustratedi price, gOc. sent
upon receipt Of lOc., cost OF mating eie,
Address Professor X. IL. Kline, NJ. d., 93l
Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Gentlemen,

DO you know who can remove The gloss
from your clothing, and clean, aye, ana re-
pair them in the best manner! Apply ur
IMAGINATION 10 MRS. A. J. PYLE, 40 north
Fifth street.
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Y.ritoAD STOCKS.
lEAfN MD cotton EXCHANGE.
RICHMOND, VA, sept. Is, lS'V.
a, ys REPORTED TO SECRETARY.

U..t-, onsberry. 1920 bushels very
.-..ats terms: do. do. . bushels very
slUi. do. mixed. a bushels for seed
r.. .f. terms: do. DO. 600 bushels prime
>..-. Y.do. 6Op bushels very good, $l.Vo;
t... 80. Co bushels good tLO4; DO. ohortDei-
fnl bushels fair. xl.OO; DO. do. * BUSH
... for .Dpl. $ll0: do. do. 1914 bushels very
.....l ,l.ts,. do. do. 400 bushels good, yiO5:
a.. l6 fD bushels good. $LOi; do. do. ~
I..-..... fiIr. 800: DO. do. - bushels fair,
4~... d.. 40. l,- bushels fair, Ic.; DO.
... - bushels common, $l.O; do. do. ~
bushels screenings. 5lc.; do. do. IL bushels
screenings. 6c. I0td sales OF wheat
f-.- bushels.
u.i. Mixed. 900 bushels yefy good on
rr.tHf. terms.
E... l1 bushels very good on private
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Yellow pine: I. "a. ~ inch. No. /. sea-
soncd l6 feet, SliaSl6; LAD, inch, No. ],
green 10 feet. $l2asil; I, ij4.1j5 inch, No. .,
seasoned 10 feet ,Sl2aSll: I. "a, ~ inch No.
. green 10 feet, Sl0afl2; 1, IA. ~ inch. No.
3. green lG feet. SSaS9; ], 1l4.lE inch, No. J.,
heart rs feet S25aS50; /, "a, "a inch, No. ,,
heart lG feet. SlSa$22.
Misunderstanding ETCHED: 40. | seasoned,
lG feet. Sl3aSli: No. green, ~ iect.Si iSij;
SO. , seasoned. l6 feet, SllaSl5; No. 2green.
~ feet. SlOaSi2; 40. . green, 10 feet, >saSJ;
sawed laths. Sl.GoaSl.6j.
White oak: Clear. Sl6aSlS; merChantabe,
Sl2all: oak fencing. S9aSl0.
Shingles: so. heart cypress, S6aSj5O;
80. / sap, S5aS5.3o.
Poplar: 80 !. !. "a. ~. seasoned, $50;
No. /. lXf. 5XJ. Gy6. seasoned. $50; No. 8. l.,
IA. ~. seasoned, SlSaSi9; No. 3. IN, 3N5'
6X6. seasoned. SlSa3l9.
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Acmlock Sole Leather: Good stamp. mid
de weights, 2la23c. per pound; lSni
weight. 2Oa22c.: best stamp j. y. sole
leather, 23I2ic.; good damaged, best selec-
ton. l9a2oc.; as IL runs. loa2Oc.; damaged.
an weights. according 10 quality. lOalSc.;
poor damaged. lial6c. hcmlock backs, lrsl
selection. 22a23c.; second selection, 20a22c.
third selection. lSa2Oc.
oak sole Leather. Louisville, according
To- quality and weights 33a3jc.; prime oak
sole. 3313ic.: good oak sole, 3oa3t'.; OAK
sole. ordinary. 2j32Sc.: OAK backs, per
pound. according 90 quality, 2Nadjr.
Hides: Dry flint. 14aoc. per pound; dam
aged, GaGl 90; calf, &C.; dry salted, - 4a612c.
damaged. BE-: calf &c.; glue hides, l54a
2I5c.: green sailed. steer, CD pounds and up
wards. 6a6isc.: green sailed, cow. GOpOunds
and upwards jaJlac green sailed, COWS
and steers. under 80 pounds. jajl4c.; green
sailed damaged, 4ail2c.; green salied, eau
SO. I. q pounds and over Doc; NO. >, undel
pounds, 3jc.
The hide market was somewhat weaker
Yesterday. Leather steady.
WOOL, SKINS, sc.
Wool: Washed wool. 2la2jc.; washed
bury. l1alSr.; unwashed wool, l'G2Oc.
mwashed. slightly bury. llalJc.; unWash
cd, badly bury, he.
Skins, &c.: Sheep,kins Green sailed
lambs. 50a6le.: green, salted shearings, ID,
sjc.. green. sailed wool skins. 1jc.aSll0
dry lambs. 3jalOc.: dry shearlings. l0a2jc.
dry wool skins. 6jc.aSl.; goat skins, dry
l5a3Oc.: green. sailed. 2Oa3Oc.; deer skins
per pound. 20d45c.; tallow. per pound -.
flsc.: DecsWaN, per pound, 22a24c.; hsi
sounds per pound, 2oa25c.
Prices Of an skins depend upon quantity
and quality of wool and condition Of pelt.
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sweet, 50 per dozen. best salad, 500; cas-
tor. 81 ~ per gallon. Nrgiss iubricating'
l5ai0c. kerosene. stl2c. cash per gallon.
Race GingW s..
Spirits rurpcntuC: h'1lc.
Soda: sal. lola1c. in kegs bl Carb. 2Aa
3Ac.
IRON. STEEL. NAILS. EfC.
Iron: American refined, Old Dominion
bar, Dc; English and American sheet, ga
jl5c. Swedes, hammered. 4Aaoc.; hoop'
5a5Hc.
Nails: Old Dominion. $40 for standard
size: old Dominion steel nails. $500.
old Dominion horseshOes, $50; mule,
S4S5.
Plow-Castiugs. Wholesale, 2kc.; retail,
&c. per pounds
Rope: Manila, best, 1899; iutc, 1]8asc.
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A GOOD INVESTMENT!
THE RICHMOND CITY ICE MACHINE co.,
Chartered the OF building
ICE-HAKING AND REFRIGHRAPING MACHINERY.
DIRECTORS:
HERMANN SCHMIDT POPE, E. A. SAUNDERS TOMAS POTTS
WILLIAM SIMPKIN ". DESAUSSURE. and r. g. REYNOLDS

The Company already erected several Of their lCENG PLAN
ylic are a work turning out
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n. .un ISIS. 1921. .......... 100
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~ ~ i'Nf
Glover, 7H@S4c. per pound.
Timothy, Si.5j@$l.7O per bushel.
Orchard Grass. Sl.3jM$LjO per bushel
Herd Grass: 4OMjOc. per bushel.
German Millet 1OW Soc. per bushel.
For small lots pI.ces will be higher.
FRUITS AND CANDY.
Candy. SIC per pound as to quality.
Wrench mixture, 1jzc. per pound.
Lemons Messipa, S3.JO@TI.oO per box
800 and $50 in a boA,
Oranges: K0di, 500,
Bananas, $l.jO@S2.50 q bunch.
POWDER AND sHof.
yuse. TOYS mining, @1al0c. per 100 iect
Powder. $3.50 per keg; blasting S2.0';
mining, 500. t,, or d.
Grlndstones: Jla2c. per pound.
CEMENT, LIME. PLASTER, sc.
Cement: Rosendale, $50 per barrel
James River, $l.3o. ,.,.,.,,.
Lime: Agricultural, oalOc. per pusnel
Rockland, Sl.l0aSl 10 per DaIIcl, accoi"'"s
10 quantity; Virginia, Si.Ooa1 80. ..,
Plaster: Lump, 500 per ton; sfouh''
ST 30: calcined plaster, 9l.O9. o.
North Carolina Tar: Large size, =;
coal tar, ~,
Fire Brick; per 1000, SiOaSl5.
Plasterng Hair: &c. per pound,
DRUGS, DYEsrCFfs, OIL, Eic'
Alum Sc.
Alcohol: S2.3OaS2. 30 per gallon.
Concentrated Lyes S275a3.Zj per case ol
four dozen.
Copperas: Ha3c.
Cochiueal SOC. per pound.
Extract Of Logwo0d: l3al0c.; assorted
Ice.
Indigo: 75aJOc.
Madder: l0al2c. 80.
Oils Linsecd, GOa63c.: machine, loa &C.
&C.. M. 15c.ayl; whale, 45c.; straits, J0aa9c'
lab ,rdor-cOd oil, 1OaJVc.; lara, oVaooS'
The morning call., 1890-06-16
THE ENGLISH IN PERSIA.
Russia Uneasy Over British Progress
The Shah's Domains.

Russia Uneasy Over British Progress In
The Shah's Domains.
The Russian press is arousiug to the fact
that English interests are making great
progress in Persia. The Moscow Gazette
says: "Yahya Khan, who, as Minister of
Foreign Affairs, five years ago was regarded
as friend of Russia, is now as Minister Of
Commerce Jealous friend of the English.
A short time ago he received from the Shah
an official tirman granting him cOnceS-
sions for the laying of a road between
Teheran and one of the towns on the River
Karun for the tobacco monopoly. and for
the establishment of telephone cOmmunica-
ton in the capital. The Minister has now
coded his rights with regard to the making
of the road and tobacco monopoly to
the English. 1t will be asked what
right has the Persian Minister to
give up such privileges to the En-
glish without the Shah's permission; but
IL is clear as daylight that he had not re-
ceived this permission, and that the eoDces-
sions were granted in his name only to
make the thing appear less suspicious. But
this is by no means all. At the present
time negotiations are going on to hand over
the mint to the English, as we'll as to
lease the Custom-house to them. The Riv-
er Karun, the bank, the mines, the roads,
the tobacco monopoly, are all in English
hands, so that, without exaggerating, it
may be said that England, RusSia's irrecon-
cilable Ell my, has oDtainedpoSsession of
PerSia's best treasures. We Russians have
not one privilege. except access to the I'M
important Enseli Bay, on the Caspian sea,
and this can be of no use to us. as no road
exists from Pirabaza to Kasbin. Before the
Persian authorities can entertain The idea
of building road from Meshed to our from
tier, that from Teheran to the Karun will
be long since finished.
The morning call., 1890-06-16
ARTIsTICALLY FOLDED NAPKINS.
Studies in Damask have taken the PIa'

Studies in Damask have taken the Place
of Fancy Work.
You can't guess what new handiwork So
ciety is playing with.
Needlework is out of date, painting and
spatter-work have lost their charm, and
knitting never was fashionable waste of
time. The cheapuess at which the apparatus
for amateur photography can be procured
has commoniZed" that art; poker work
is not generally admired, and aside from
the hard work and scientific skill necessary
to make good tennis player, the sport is
limited to youth and beauty. Hence the
need for new device to occupy pretty
hands and display delicately nodded wrists
and beautiful jewels.
For the nonce the gay world Is folding
table napkins. The snowy drapery is sent
upstairs in the silver basket to madame and
MAIDEN 0lSelle, who proceed to transform
the cedar-scented linen into Mikado fans,
fieur de lis Cardinals hat, poiss0niere, Nea-
politaD buckles, amaranth, orchid, nautilus
or pole de Barbiere. These are popular
forms, and then there is more difficult
series, including pagoda, Cinderella's
slipper, the Oxford. Cambridge and Carlton
tower; historical crosses, the iris, swan
and peacock, and the crest of a half-dozen
municipalities. 1t must not be supposed
that these napery designs are originated.
On the contrary they are the re-
suit OF long and close study from
imported paper patterns. The mod
the creases so well pressed that it is quite
an easy matter TO restore the design after
opening. These ornate fancies are arranged
in the flat, never in a tumbler, placed on
the cloth between the knives and forks, and
in the petals or fields the boutonniere, the
flower pin and frequently the finger-roll,
now SO fashionable, are inserted.-N. Y.
World,
The morning call., 1890-06-16
BY Degrees.

Two men sat on a bench in Union square
to enjoy rest and sunshine-one at eItheI
end of the bench. Ono was apparently
well fed and well to do. The other had APP
parently staked his all and gone down with
the crash. For the first five minutes not a
word was spoken. Then the hard-up man
ventured the observation:
Fine day"
The other nodded. About five minutes
later hard-up remarked:
Foliage coming OUT
three minutes this time, when the speaker
inquired:
think you could cash check for me?
A third nod. 1t was exactly minute
and half before he continued:
1T would be a great favor"
The other man put his hand into his
pocket, but let it remain. The hard-up
man was now breathing in an excited man.
ner, but he held himself back for fifty
seconds before lie said:
TITS small check-one for quarter"
The other extended quarter In his fin
gers and looked up to say: might have had
it fifteen minutes ago."
But L was afraid of working you too
fast. I've been over in jersey for three
months and they took all the hustle out of
me there. Why, sir, l got so at last that
I'd get to house at midnight and wait for
the farmer to get up in the morning to ask
him if l might sleep under his straw-stack
the coming night. AT one place they were
three weeks sending me to Jail for five days
and it took me two days to make up my
mind to break out and two more to dig
through the wall. I'll soon be all right
again. BY next week I'll be able to ask
you for dollar without losing ten seconds
irpa IN " Sun
The morning call., 1890-06-16
TELEGRAPHs OF THE WORLD.

The Number Owned and Operated by
the Governments.
SiXty-one per cent of the telegraph lines
of the world are owned and operated by the
governments Of the sum total of lines
those in the United States constitute more
than 90 per cent. Leaving this country ont
of consideration, about So per cent of the
remainder is under the control of govern
ments; or, leaving the United States and
Canada out, fully % per cent is owned by
governments. There are at least 2500 000
miles of wires in use in the world
Tariffs vary greatly. In North America
the body of the message only is charged
for; in other countries the address, or
signature, or both are tollable. In the
United States the toll ranges from % cents
to 81 for ten words, according to the dis
lance; in the Argentine Republic it is 40
cents for ten words, and 20 cents for each
additional ten words; in Denmark and in
Sweden and Norway, 1874 cents for ten
words, and 1.34 cents for each additional
word; in Ecuador, 20 cents for ten words
in Egypt, 1876 cents for ten words; in Ger
many. IA cents per word, the minimum be-
Ing II cents per message; III the United
Kingdom pence for twelve words; in the
Cape colonies, shilling for ten words, and
pence for each additional five words or
part thereof; in Guatemala, % cents
for ten words, exclusive OF the address :;
in Honduras, % cents for ten Spanish
words, ana double that amount for English
words; in Italy, 20 cents for Is words and
one cent for each additional word; in
Japan, four cents per word. including the
address and signature; in Portugal. five
cents for the first word and one cent for
each additional word; in Roumania, Loo
cents per word in Siam, from 80 cents to
So 65 per word; in Switzerland, one-half
cent per word in Turkey, two to four cents
per word and in Venezuela 20 cents for 10
words. In New Zealand messages are
classified as urgent. ordinary and delayed,
the rates being respectively two shillings,
one shilling aid siXpence for ten words,
with a half-penny for each additional word.
In mileage. relative number of offices,
popular use of the telegraph, and cost or
sending a message we are not in advance
OF leading countries, and we are even be-
hind some of the inferior ones. Within
the years 1S70-S9 the increase in population
in England has been Is per cent, the in
crease in the number of letters carried 20
per cent, aud the increase in the number of
kilograms 455 per cent. In the United
States in the same time the increase in
population has been 80 per cent and the in
crease in the number of messages $50 per
cent. LII the ratio of increase of messages
TO increase Of population the English have
beaten US three to one.-BronS0n Z. Keller
in lime Forum
The morning call., 1890-06-16
Elkins, Ninelv-Koom Castle.

The ninety-room house that Stephen 3.
Eikins is building near the town Of Elkins,
Randolph County. w. Va, will be finished
about June LIST. 1t is one of the finest
country residences in the South, and is at
the top of high hill-abOut ten minutes
walk from the railroad station. In front is
an extensive lawn. Around the building
is a wall three feet higher than the first
floor At distance the house with its
towers does not look unlike European
castle.
1t is an extensive three-story structure,
with shingled sides and slate roof. On the
first floor is large nall, which will be
lighted with six ornamental torcheres, which
will cost about $500 apiece. The parl0r,
dining-room and library, all about the same
size, are on the same floor, and will be fit
ted up luxuriously. The children's room is
also on the same floor, but is smaller than
the other three. All the rooms are fin
ished in hard wood The fire-places are
massive. The walls of some of the rooms
are adorned with paintings. On the second
floor are the sleeping apartments and about
half a dozen bathrooms. Tie bath-tubs
are Of solid porcelain. The kitchen extern
sion is twO-story building. The first floor
contains the kitchen proper, the servants
dining-room, and the floor above their
sleeping and bath r0oms.-Baltmore Sun.
The morning call., 1890-06-16
LIBERALS FIRST STEAMBOAT.
1t Was Formerly Suear-MiII, aud the
Peopie Arc Having Fun with Ii.

1t Was Formerly Sugar-hIiIl, aud the
People Are Having Fun with 1t.
The bark Liberia arrived in port recently,
thrty-four days out from Sierra Leone. E.
L. Page. her captain, came across the
United States man-of-war Pensacola off
Sierra Leone. He was the guest of Pay
master Bliss on the Pensacola, and was
present in Sierra Leone when the
eclipse astronomers captured the town.
The antics of the eclipse party about the
English church in Sierra Leone are still
town talk there. Never was there such a
number of cameras trained before on one
inotfensive little church, it is said, as there
was on this one in Sierra Leone. After
taking photographs of every colored per-
son in Sierra Leone, and having got her
supply Of coal, the Pensacola started down
the coast.
Captain Page says that the Liberians,
after being forty-four years building up
their Government to top notch, only re-
Gently started in the steamboat business.
They have launched the Grand Republic,
which is quite unlike the steamer known
here by that name. 1t was once a sugar
mill, and the engine that ground the sugar
now moves the boat 1t propels two wheels,
each of which has four paddles. There
We're fireworks and a torchlight procession
Of the Grand Republic up the st.
Paul River. 1t goes up fifteen miles
one day and returns the next.
Getting the Grand Republic up to her
wharf, Captain Page says, is an awful job,
and sometimes requires the united services
of the colored male population of the town
off which the boat lies
The Norwegian man-of-war Aida re-
Gently arrived in Liberia and fired salute
of twenty-0ne guns. The LiDerian Pres
ident, Hilary johnson, not to be OutdOne in
etiquette, secured MOnroyia, the Liberian
capital, for Norwegian flag. He found
one i'll the Norwegian Consulate and
borrowed it for half an hour.
When the flag was ready for unfurling
some one called attention to the fact that il
was the Norwegian Consular flag and not
the naval flag, which has pieces chopped
out OF its outer edge. President johnson
then assisted in flying it. The flying
was nothing compared to the firing
Of the salute from the Liberian fort.
When the government was founded and
the Tort built, tweDty-0ne guns were
placed upon it. But the masonry had not
grown stronger with age, SO the twenty-one
guns had fallen in the mud. Two OF them
were fished ont and one placed in the
crotch OF cocOanut tree and the other held
up between two boards. 1t was an awful
job to fire the salute of twenty-one guns in
return, but President johnson, Captain
Page says, stood by and vowed that
the Norwegian man-of-war would be
honored or he would know why. Instead
Of half an hour it was three and half
hours before the flag was returned to the
The morning call., 1890-06-16
He Rant ynn MnI,Le.

General d'Hautpoul, of whose death we
are informed by our Paris correspondent
was once pitted against Count Won Moltke,
and beat him. General. then Captain
d Hautpoul, was then, in Louis Philippe's
time, the head of Ibrahim Pasha's staff.
He was also aide-de-camp to Sollman
Pasha. Count Won Moltke was the virtual
commander of the Turkish army at Nezib,
as was General d Hautpoul of the Egyptian
army, of which Ibrahim was the nominal
chief. The Turks were routed, owing
to the skill and foresight of Cap
tain d'Hautpoul in occupying as he
did the positions dominating the road to
Aleppo. The Intervention Of Europe alone
saved Constantinople from being entered
by the Egyptian army after the defeat Of
the Turks at Nezib. General d'Hautpoul
was sent by General Trochu to Versailles
in 1871 to negotiate an armistice, and met
there his old foe, Moltke, but refused to
sign until informed about Bourbaki's army
General Walden then took his place and
signed, and Bourbaki, to avoid being cap
tured, was forced to retreat in haste into
Switzerland. General d'Hautpoul was the
last of the French military men who helped
to build Mehemet ALPS Egyptian army on
European model-London Times.
The morning call., 1890-06-16
A MONTANA MANS REGRET.
He Had Good Chance to Shoot and
Lost II.

He Had Good Chance TO Shoot and
Lost 1t.
Six men Of US had come out of the mines
in Montana to take a train for the East, but
the train we intended to take met with an
accident and was several hours late. The
station was small one, the weather very
bad. and after awhile one of the party went
to the agent. who was also the telegraph
operator, and asked how long before we
might expect the train.
Dunno" was the brief reply.
''You don'tl Well, then, find out! ex-
claimed the other.
"When 1 do I'll let you know"
"Oh, you will, Ell? Now, then, you ask
Roseburg if the train has left there yet"
"PIl DO - if dor
One man out with his gun and was going
to shoot, but two or three of us drew him
away and talked to him and finally cooled
him off. The most solid argument we adj
vanced was that if he killed the operator we
could get no news Of the train and would be
even worse off than we were. This argu-
ment was what decided him, ana five hours
later the train came along and we got
aboard, We were all seated together ana
had got fair start when some one observed:
THAT operator had narrow escape"
"Yes; meant to shoot him." replied the
man who had pulled his gun, but these
gentlemen argued that in case l did we
could not hear from the train at ALL"
Thunder gasped q third. why. Pm
an old operator myself, and had you shot
him was all ready to locate that train in
five minutes"
''Then may / be teetotally kicked to death
by jackass rabbitsW groaned the would-be
slayer, and he leaned back and nursed his
disappointment, and would not speak to
any Of us for the next three hours.-N. Y.
The morning call., 1890-06-16
CLEMENTS DIES.
Unfortunate SpeculatIOns Drove
Him to Suicide.

William Clements, the stoek-dealer who
shot himself with suicidal intent on the
Goth of last month, and who was taken to
the City and County Hospital. died In that
institution yesterday from the effects of his
self-inflicted wounds.
From all that can be learned Clements
was the victim Of unfortunate circum-
stances. He acted as go-be tween for
friends and stock brokers in the matter OF
the purchase and sale of stocks. In
this way he amasSed consid cradle
money and operated successfully on his
own account. Then reVerseS came, and he
lost everything he had. He sustained him
self, however for awhile on money which
he borrowed from friends. One loan he OBJ
tanned from a woman, and gave his note
therefor. He was unable to meet his note,
and the woman threatened him with arrest
on a charge of obtaining money under false
pretenses.
Clements became very respondent over
the prospect of arrest, and on May 10th
tried to blow his brains out. He fired four
bullets, two of which took effect, intlcting
serious wounds in his head. 1t seemed
marvellous how he escaped instant death.
On the day after committing the deed he
was removed to the City and County Hos
pital, and for a while it was thought that
he might recover. Within the past few
days though, he had been gradually sink
ing.
Clements was native of Sweden, aged
60 years, and resided at 116 Berry street