The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-02-18
THE HILL MEN ROASTING
mrs OPPONENTS CITING HIN ROPE.
Southern Loan and Trust Company-lne
Nicaragua Canal-No Moro hussia"
Hebrew Immigrants Wanted.
New YORK BUREAU RrcHMoyD TINES.

NEW YORK BUREAU RICHMOND TINES.
Feb. II. 1892.
Senator Hills admirers are Boosting that he
will have more than three hundred OF the
three hundred and eighty-four delegates 70
,bs State convention which will meet IN
Albany next Monday. His opponents are
making no efforts except in two or three
counties 10 fight the Hill machines. They
are giving him all the rope he wants ana they
have reason to suppose mat the traditional
result will follow in due time. Indications
are cropping out daily that even Tammany
Hall is fearful about the effect OF
Hills blunder. II is reported to-day
that several Democrats f Irrational prominence
will ioin in an open letter to the State com
mittee before the end OF the week explaining
why thew arc opposed 60 the February con-
%venti0n. The names Of the gentlemen VINO
are to sign this letter, it Is said. Will give 70
the anti-Hill movement an even greater I'M
portance than 1t now possesses
SOUTHERN LOAN COMPANY.
A Southern loan and trust company IN New
York. 10 operate between the promoters ana
projectors If the South and the capltallS's anu
investors of the East. Is talked OF.
Earnings OF the Norfolk and Western tor
the second week in February are SZi'OIl.
THE NICARAGUA CANAL.
Ex-senator Warner Miller has been invited
70 address the Irans-M Mississippi commercial
Congress. which meets IN New Orleans on
Tuesday next. on the subject of the Nicaragua
canal. He said to-day that he had accepted
the invitation.
TRANs-MIssIssIPpI CONGRESS-.
The Trans Mississippi Commercial Congress
met last YEAR in Omaha. There are some
two thousand delegates from States west OF
the Mississippi river. and the congress IS %
discuss transportation and the Development
of the West.
so moRE RUSSIAN HEBREWS.
The international Navigation Company,
formerly known as the lnman and RED star
lines. has cabled its Eur pean agencies not
t. book any more Russian Hebrew passen-
rers. The company has grown tired OF nav
INC its steamers detained at quarantine WIN
ont. IN its opinion, Just cause. several Oh tHe
other lines have made a similar Isi"esss
q the home offices. At the onlceS on
the board OF health DR.. Edison ana
President Wilson both stated that they be-
lieved the worst period OF the disease nad
nassed. All the Russian Hebrews were either
dnuyn with the disease on North Brother
Island or were carefully quarantned. mo
only danger they anticipate no" is rom ln'
Italians who came over on the same steamer,
and the majority Oh AApaH Nh' 30"
IN the city have been located and are Under
surveillance. They will be watched con-
stantly until the period OF incubation 10 over
ANri-yIcE SOCIETY.
Secretary Anthony Comstock. Of the New
York Society for the Suppression OF wee
has received d letter from Cardinal Gibbons
i'm which he says that ~ Will not DC po9siolo
Tor INN 10 be present 40 the twentieth ami
versary of the organization Of the society,
which will be celebrated at Carnegie Hall on
tuesday evening March LIST. Mr.. Comstock
said today that the letter would be read NJ
that meeting. and Cardinal Gibbons ex-
PRESSES himself Is strongly IN favor az Keep,
ing the minds of children free from e'ii ana
wrong % he said. "as he did on the question Of
the suppression OF the lottery