The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-23
New YORK BUREAU.
RICHMOND Times,
Nrw YORK Nav %, 1891.

gout. Mr.. Blaine was in great need OF rest
and so informed by his physicians. Dr. Den
mis- said that Mr.. Blaines present col piea
was very favorable. Whether Mr.. Blame me
would return to Washington DR.. Dennis dld
DR. Dennis declared that Mr.. Blaine had
shown no signs of paralysis and merely SUI
fered with govt lie ate and slept as wen as
most people who were regarded as III eoou
health.
WON HIS DAMAGE SUIT.
verdict of 925 900 damage was awarded IN
the United States Circuit Court to-day IN
favor of Asa Bell, master Of the barge ous-
ouehapna. against the owners or the tug
Nathan Hale. The barge Susquehanna was
in tow of the tug boat, and 1t Is alleged tlaI
through the negligence of the officers oil the
tug the plaintiff had his right leg crushed
aud cut on above the knee.
DENIED BAIL.
In the case of the United States against
General Peter J. Ciaassen Judge Benedict,
of the United States Circuit Court, to-day
handed down a decision denying the appllca-
ton of the Sixth National Bank wrecker to
be admitted 10 bail General Claassen is
still confined in LudlOw-street Jail, where he
will remain until his case is disposed OF by
the United States Supreme Court.
IMMIGRANTS DETAINED.
The contract labor inspector has detained
five Norwegian immigrants who arrived here
on the steamship Germanic. One OF them,
Daniel Olsen. made an affidavit that he had
been in the employ of the White Lumber
Company at Mason. Wis, and when return
inc TO Norway last fall was told by the COM
pany TO bring some men TO work for them.
He brought four with him The Inspector
will try TO get evidence TO prosecute the COM
pany
JOHN wIsE's WORK
John 8. Wise. who has been selected to de-
liver the Grafton on Decoration Day at Gene
raj Grants tomb at Riverside Park, which
celebration will be under the auspices Of
Grant Post, Grand Army OF the Republic, IN
his capacity attorney for the Consolidated
Electric Companies. has been obliged TO give
wide attention to the law of damages in va
rious States He has found the laws so vary
ing that he has compiled them IN convenient
form for his own use, and Leading law-pub-
fishing house has requested his permission 10
publish them in book form. The volume viii
come out this summer, and promises TO be Of
value both to laymen and lawyers. as business
men are intent on knowing what liabilities
they may incur in failing to keep contracts.
TO MARRY HoTEL-wAITEB.
The formal announcement has bean made
of the marriage of Miss Mary f. Pomroy,
daughter of the late w. II. POmroy, wealthy
bond broker, TO John H. Stephenson, the
of the Murray Hill Hotel. The marked atten-
ton Of Stephenson to Miss Pomroy, widowed
at the hotel has been the gossip Of the hotel
guests for two years The bride is tall. slen-
der and handsome. She has an annual in
come of over $40, 900. Her husband is
Scotchman. ten years her senior, and very
good looking His salary as head waiter is
seventy-fiye dollars a month.
AREMARKABLE OLD LADY.
l. Ill. / l.
dred and first birthday to-day at the residence
Of her daughter, Mrs. e. }. Ii. Stecher, at 1868
Thirteenth street. Brooklyn. The old lady
has enjoyed splendid health all her lifetime,
and can still read with glasses She reads
the daily papers and is well informed on pub
lie topics. She has been a student of politi-
cal economy, and of late has taken quite an
interest in the tariff question. She was highly
delighted at the overthrow of Mckinley. as
she styled the result of the last election. and
she insists that direct taxation on incomes
is the only equitable way to support the Gov
eminent. Mrs. Smith was the youngest of
seven children, and was born in Greenvllle,
near Yonkers Her father, John Post, owned
farm that occupied the site of the present
City Hall Of Yonkers.
THE SLATER FUND.
The Rev DR. Atticus G.. Haygood, in the
report Of his administration of the Slater
fund, says that last year thirty-eight institu-
tons were aided in amounts ranging from
$500 TO $1,000, and aggregating SAT, 400. He
states further that the Southern States exclu-
siye of Arkansas, from which reports are not
yet in. now had 10. 9S3 colored schools. Estima-
ting that Arkansas had 1000 such schools the
number Of pupils enrolled in these schools
would be 1,l99, 40. DIR. Haygood says that
95 per cent. OF the taxes levied in the South
ern States is paid by whites. and predicted
that the schools for negroes would cost the
white people Of the South about 81 600, 900
this year.
THE FORCE BILL.
DR.. Haygood said of the Elections bill,
which was before the last Congress: IF there
be any friend of the negro VINO would listen
TO me, if there be any negro who believes that
| have tried to help him. TO such as care 10
know the facts that concern his future. wish,
IN this final report as agent of the John +.
Slater fund, To say with candor and earnest
ness: The negro's right in the public schools
of the South was in mortal jeopardy while the
last Congress was in session. The passage
and enforcement of what the Southern press
called the Force bill' would have wrecked the
negro's chances of public education. The
rightness or wrongness of this result am not
now considering: speak Of hard. cold facts:
of actual. not ideal relations; of conditions.
not theories.
The Southern white people, whose money
uldlHldluS the pubic SCHOOLS. WOulu nave
abolished the whole system before they would
have paid for the education of the negroes.
under the conditions which they believed 10
be involved in that measure
Helping the p gro truly means bringing
him TO stand on his own feet, so that he will,
by and by, need help no more. He has suf-
fered much from oyerhelp; many of them
have had the backbone of manhood coddled
out OF them. The wisest of their race know
this TO be true, and the wisest of their teachers
begin to demand of them that they pay a
larger share OF the expenses Of their educa-
ton"
WALL STREET ECHoEs.
The custom-house returns of exports of
specie this week thus far show a total of
s4,752,600 in lots varying from S750,0OO 10
$4,000 Among the lots shipped there was
$50, 600 in gold bars to Liverpool.
IL Is probable that s4.000,000 in gold will be
shipped by to-morow's steamers for Europe.
Earnings Of the Richmond and Danvlle
system for the second week of May, 1891,
s279,l45; 1880, s242,47o increase, $50, $40.
PERSONAL AND GKsERAL.
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