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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-10
A MUSICAL TREAT.

At O Bfien's opera house yesterday after noon and again last night the Marine band, under tho direction of F. Fanciuli, gavethe people of Birmingham a musical treat. Each selection was gem and rem dered with artistic skill. The "Voyage Comique" was especially fine. the puffing of the locomotive and the noise of moving cal s being so clearly initiated that 1t called forth burst of applause. All the old southern melodies were given, begin ming with "Maryland, My Mary land,'' and ending with the soul stirring strains of "Dixie.'
 Miss Roma has voice of pure quality great cultivation, sweetness and power.
 The following was the programmes: March-Hampton Roa ds tor the Naval Rem e-Semiramides .........-..,.. 1aossni Nocturne-The Monastery Bells
 ............. ..... .Lefebvre- " hely
 M-. F. Thompson.
 Excerpt frt m the ballet Excelsior. Marenco a. The he paiy Question d1a Never. AeImund e
 Miss Roma.
 Voyage Comique-A TT p to Manhattan
 Beach. lDescription-Break of day.
 Hurrying to the cars. Railroad ride.
 Dance on the beach. Fireworks, call
 ing forth the usual exclamations, etc n, characteristique-The Band Goes on a At the close of each concert the Marine band plays Hail Columbia" in accordance with United States naval regulation ns.
 The audience not being provided with programmes at the matinee performance were totally unprepared for the "strike, o and when only the director and base drum mer were left on the stage the people rose to their feet to go, whereupon the band re- appeared playing that sweet old Scottish melody, fAnnie Laurie.'' This little in- cdent caused much merriment and some confusion for short time. The Marine band is we'll worthy of liberal praise and patronage.
 The audience at night was a very large and appreciative one, and each number in turn was vociferously encored and graoi- ously responded to.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-10
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.

LIVERPOOL, April 9.-Noon- Cotton demand was good; prices were steady; American middling, 13-32d. Sales, Is ,uUU bales, Of which Is ,SUU bales were American; for specu- lation aud export, 1o0U bales. Receipts, 6000 bales, of which $500 were American. Futures opened steady; demand rloderate.'
 American n.I0dllng anu low mludnng clause quotations:
 May and June delivery.....3 3 23-64d June and July delivery .....3 z4-o4dd3 25-64d July and August delivery 8 2o-64da3 2o-64d August and september de-
 livery .........-.-....,...,.o Zf-U9uHo <o-otu September and October de-
 livery ............... .......5 Zo-o4u October and November de-
 livery y..................... 29-64d November and December
 QenYery. s....o oU-o4u December and January de- livery y......................5 3l-o4u
 LIVERPOOL April 9.-4 p. m.-Futures closed quiet.
 American middiing and low middllng clause quOtaticns
 April and May delivery ...3 21-64dt May and June delivery. ..3 22-64u@3 23-64df June and July delivery. 24-64d. July and August delivery..3 26-64dG3 27-64dt August and September de-
 livery .:........;.A 8 26-64dGa 27-e4dt September and Octoberde-> livery y.,.....,............. Z6-bfd October and November de-
 livery ......s...........s..3 5 -b4uf November and December
 delivery .,................3 $ 3O- 64dt. -- December and January 6e- f~sf a. - Dvery y..............-...... o 3l-b4Qf January and February de- 5
 'seliers. fBuyers. Value
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-10
----------------------- A EROUS DONATION.
To the Age-Eerald.

With commendable public spirit which l am sure will characterize his business in tercourse with this section, Col. c. A. Avary, vice-president Of the Colum bian Equipment company, has authorized me, without solicitation, to add the further sum of S125 to the fund for an Alabama exhibit at Atlanta. Surely our own citi- zens whose fortunes are centered in this district will not permit ust to be the laugh ing4stock of the country by holding back now ~., ALEx.T LONDON, Chajrman.-
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-10
NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET.

6e7 head; no trading; feeling firm. sheep and lambs-Receipts, bs2 headi very little in quiry for sheep and very few lambs offered; 1; common sheep, $3.75; common lambs and sheep and lambs mixed, $4. 5o@4.7o; clipped calls, $2. 50. Hogs-Recepts, 52l5 head no transactions reported; market nominally firm atsSl. 50G5 65.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-10
A GOOD IDEA.

WAsHINeToN, April g. Secretary. Carlisle has announced that hereafter no resigna- tion of any officer, clerk or other employe in the treasury department will be accepted when the cause is for any delinquency or misconduct.
 In all such cases recommendation for the removal of the offending person must be made, and pot simply recommendation that the resignation be accepted.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-10
MERCHANTS LUNCH

at "The Peerless" today II a. m. until l:3O p. m.
 c. F. Houston & Co.,, props. Cream of Barley Soup. Loin of Pork, Apple Sauce. Peerless Hash a la Mexicano, Chicken Salad Mayonaise.
 Maccaroni and Cheese.
 Cream Potatoes.
 Radishes, Young Onions.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-10
OH, IS BOOMING.

PlTTsBURG, Pa., April 9:-Oil is still on the boom. This morning the Standard Oil company announced that it would pay S1 20 per barrel for the crude article. This is an advance of F cents barrel in two days. On the Oil City exchange the price is 10cents higher, sales being made at S1. 37 rer barreI
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-10
CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET.

UNION STocK YARDS, Ill.,. April 9.-Cattle- Receipts, 3,OOe; market steady; common to extra steers, S4. 15a6 o0; stockers and feed CTS, S2.7oa4.75; cows and bulls. $1. 7o@5.UU !; calves, $2. 2.O0a2.75; Texas, $3. 25a 5. 50. Hogs Receipts, 3,O0U; the market was steady heavy, S5.0v@5.30 common to choice mixed, $4. 86G5.l5; choice assorted, $4 90G 5 10; light, $4T5u5.05; pigs, $4.25@4. .60. Sheep-Receipts, 7,UU0; market was strong; inferior to choice, s2 4O@4.s5; lambs, A. 0UG G
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-10


 their dances are always pleasant.
 WILL WED ToDAY.-At o'clock this afternoon at the First Methodist church MT. Lee Terrell and Miss Maggie Hagood will be married. Rev. J. P. Hamilton of Lowndes boro will oftieate on the occasion. ERTHE CITY SCRlP.-Nothing defiaite yet has been arrived at concerning the placing of the city scrip, though the matter IS be- ing steadily pushed, and favorable result is anticipated by the city fathers having the matter in charge.
 @ AT THE COUNTY JAIL.-Peter Crap was lodged in the county jail yesterday Oh charge of assault with intent to murder Harriet Crap. J. E. DePoyster Is another inmate of the jail, having been put there yesterday on two charges of selling mort gagged property. The offense is alleged to
 GONE TO NASHVILLE FOR FIsTIC EXER- CIsEs. .-Eugene McElroy and Johnnie Collins left yesterday for Nashville. They go to that city to participate in the hstlc tournament tonight given under the aus pices of the Cumberland Athletic club. McElroy will meet Charlie Davis, former Birming ham pugilist. and Collins VIII lace a man by the name of Miller.
 To DANCE AT RED MoUNTAIN PARK The Philhedonian club have decided to give a dance at Red Mountain park Wednesday night, April F. This will be the first dance of the season at the park, and will no doubt be a thoroughly oe- lightful occasion. The Philhedoniaus were to have given the opening dance there last week, but the weather WAS LOO cool and they went to their club rooms in- stead.
 A Coop WORKER ABROAD. George D. Whiting, treasurer of Camp Hardee and one of Admiral Semmes' brave seaman on the Alabama, has just returned from England, where he was called to look after legacy. While in England he attended big labor meeting in Birmingham, and was called on for speech. When he told them of Birm- ingham, Ala, it's tctric lights, paved streets, big buildings, etc., and that twenty years ago it was cotton field, they were astonished, for England is country of slow growth. They asked him il 1t was not dangerous to live here, aud he told them that life was safer and the laws stricter in Alabama than in England. He found much discontent among the working people in England. The big shoe makers' strike had just begun and several thousand men were out of employment. He found that L Lnecessaries of life were high; that the people were paying B ton for coal that was mil ed near by, and were surprised when he told them that good lump coal sold in Birming- ham, Ala. for $2 a ton. MT. De Whiting returned on the ship Teutonic aud had a rough passage, On board he met north ern capitalist and turned his attention to Alabama.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-10

The regular semi- monthly meeting of the United Charities will be held in their office on Twenty first street this afternoon al o'clock. J. E. ToRREY,
 Secretary United Charities.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-10
NEW YORK.

fNxw YORK, April s.-Flour was quiet anu abSp aos steady sG winter e as l9% 2. go; patents. s2.75@3.4o; Minnesota clear. s2. 40a2. go; patents, s. 25a4 %; low extra, ern flour was quiet, but steady; common to fair exifae $1. s0@2.75; good to choice extra, sz: z:sGa3,25: Wheat was less active and o1s 1sc vator, 6OAc; afioat, 61s4c; options were mod erately active and irregular. closing easy at May ,fb0Ac; June, 6o9sc; July, 6O7bc; August, 6llset September, 6ll2ci December, 63isc.
 5se se asked n M GGSSs Se ssfsd adoat; steamer mixed. 500 51e.- options were fairly active -but--Geak, at l2a4sc decline
 Oats were quiet and easier; options were dui
 33tscf No. ? White, April, a6Hsc. Spot prices mixed western, 3al2@ 34tac. Hay was in mod crate demand and firm; shipping, 5oa57ci moderately active; domestic feecef ] 5a lec; spull6dS 12a33c Beef was quiet but firm; family 1o.ooS12.oo; ire; extra s,a mess ao ] Ss,ooS beet was strong; city extra India mess, $15.0 @1s.oo. Gut meats were quiet, but firm
 hams, $9.Uoa9.50 Middies were stronger; short clear, $7.05. Lard was quiet, but firmer; western steam, s7.22ta; city steam, s6;62lsi April, S7.22, nominal; May. ST 35 asked; re- fined was qulet; continent, S7 63; South Amer lea, $500; compound, s5. 37lga5.50. Pork was quiet, but steady; mess, $13.25613.75. Butter was quiet; fancy butter was steady; state dairy, e01slgc; creamery dairy, new, 200; western dairy, s@l3i2c; western cream cry. new, i2a 2oe; western creamery, old, 9 d15l2c; Elgins. 200. Cotton seed oil was firm and in better demand; cruae, 23a24c; yellow prime, 26t2a27c. Petroleum was nominal; Washin gton, in barrels, New York price, ST 10; ; Washington, in bulk, A. 6O; refined New York. S7.l0; Philadelphia, $7.uo; Philadelphia, iD bulk, $4. 55G 4.b0. Resin was quiet, but steady; strained, common 10 good, $1 52l20 0 1.57l2. Turpcntine was dull, but easy. at S1l2 a32c. Rice was firm and unchanged; domes- tic,' fair to extra, 4AH6c; Japan, 4GG 4t2c. Molasses-Foreign was firm and unchanged; I; New Orleans open kettle good to choice, 2aa 3se. Peanuts were steady fancy hand picked, [, 3Aa4l2c. Coffee options were firm at , points down to points up; April delivery, $l4.4 45G IA. 5o May aelivery, sl4. 25a IA 30; June de- livery. $14.10@I4.2o; July delivery, $14. 200 II. 3U september delivery, $l4.20@14.25; october delivery, .s14.2o November delivery. Sl4. 10; December delivery, S14. .00d ii To. Spot RIO quiet, but steady; No. ', 1ol2c. Sugar-Raw was fairly active and firm; lair refining, 11-16c; centriiugaIs, 96 test, Sc. Refined was quiet, steady and unchanged; of A, 34sa 37sc; mould A. H. 16a4Ssc stand- ard. A, 15-l6d4lsc; cut-loaf, s-16d4s4c
 crushed, s-16@4s4c; granulated, s15-16@ 4Ae. Freights to Liverpool were quiet but steady; cotton, 7-6ld grain, 2d, nominal
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-10
ST. LOUIS.

ST. LOUIS, April 9.-Flour firm and s5.i5@5.5 e 5o'; choice, s2 oo@2. 10. Wheat was lower; May, 54s4c; July, 54lsc. Corn was lower; May, 42ssc; July, 43s4c; September, 44i9c. Oats were slightly higher; May. 30c; siZ' 55. Lard-Prime steam, S6 75. Bacon Boxed shoulders, Sb %; longs, s6.75; clear ribs, $6.87l2; short clears, ST. 12l2. Dry salted meats-Shoulders, $5 .0o; longs, $6. 37l3; {; clear ribs, $6. 50; short clears, s6.02A. High ,uin ste Xl .Zh.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-10
LOCAL LAQNlC
Gathered, Noted and CobIensec Age Herald Reporters-GeHneral
 Resume of HappeningsA

A COMING DANCE.--A ball will be etven by the Glover Leaf Social club at Knights of Pythlas hall Wednesday night, April " :: This club has a large membership, and their dances are always pleasant.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-10
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 yvernment bonds were steady. Estate bonds were strong. Railroad bonds were strong. Silver bullion at the board was 6634c bid and 67aEc asked.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-10

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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-10

WILL WE'D ToDAY.-At o'clock this afternoon at the First Methodist church MT. Lee Terrell and Miss Maggie Hagooo will be married. Rev. J. F. Hamilton ol Lowndes boro will oftioiate on the occasion
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-10

ETHE CITY ScRlP.-Nothing definite yet has been arrived gL concerning the placing of the city scrip, though the matter is be- ing steadily pushed, and a favorable result is anticipated by the city fathers having the matter in charge.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-26

the location, and new placers are being
discovered every day. Many rich finds
have been made in places skinned over
years ago by white miners who were
ANXIOUS to make fortunes in short time
and who did not think anything short oil
| $40 day worth bothering with.
Ihese coolies are making money and
oolng IL without capital or previous ex-
perlence, why cannot the white man do
the same ?" remarked Mr.. Fitzgerald. "It
Will cost but little to get tent, blanket
and few simple tools. Several oreaniza-
tons interested in the unemployed are
willing to lay out few dollars in this di-
! rectlon, and am sure that it will be pay
Ing venture both to the organizations and
to those now out of work. Men living in
the City with their families could not put
IN few months to better advantage, I
Will try and arrange for their transporta-
ton to the placer mines"
de said that in many of the foothill
counties, such as Calaveras, Butte, Trinity,
iuolumne and Shasta, there are many
Tree claims that can be worked. In MANY
places where the land is owned bv farmers
the miners can secure claims by paying a
royalty or by dividing the gains with the
landowner on percentage basis. That
there is still plenty of money to be made
IN placer mines is shown by the returns
from Placer County. Last year the Chinese
AA..SN Wv PcV4JOOV III SOlQ Nv Gn6 pan ana
rocker. The returns from other localities
are just as good, and no Chinese placer
miner ever throws up his lob.
In order to learn where the available
placer mines are located and the best
methods for their being worked Mr.. Fitz-
gerald has put Deputy E. M. Greene to
work gathering statistics on this line Mr..
GREENE gathered considerable information
from the Mint and State Mining Bureau.
In week or SO he will visit the favorable
localities and make ARRANGEMENTS with the
landowners SO that those who will be sent
to work the mines will have only to begin
operations.
BY. working out this idea the Labor Com
missioner hopes to dispose of and provide
WORE IN mills, farms, orchards and harvest
nelds. The cost of the experiment will be
small compared with the benefits to be de-
rived II 1t proves successful.
MI fitzgerald yesterday received his
hrst order for men. One of the largest con-
tractors In the State recently noticed in
the CALL Mr.. Fitzgerald's appeal to en-
ployers to patronize the free white labor
bureau when help is wanted, and he called
upon the Commissioner yesterday. He
SAID: II will take 200 of your men as soon
as the bureau opens on July Is. / will
probably increase my order to 500 before
August l, as have big irrigation canal
contract in Fresno. Heretofore have had
TO rely on the employment offices and
every man hired cost some one from So to
"a Tor commission. | will help you all |
can IN :, this matter and l am employing
men all the time. I don't want nv name
mentioned, as do not want men impor.
tuning me for work until | get ready for
business. want to be the first patron al
the free bureau and l will want to pick the
men," pm 'iie
Mr.. Fitzgerald feels much encouraged
over the promised success of his bureau.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-26
NOT IMPOSSIBLE.

The San Francisco Argus, while COM
mending the spirit which animates the
Civic Federation in declaring war against
the lottery evil, discourages all attempts
at action by asserting the impossibility of
achieving anything. OF the recommends
ton of the Grand Jury that the Legislature
make it a felony to aid, abet or take part
in the lottery business it says: "Of course
no attention viii be paid to this. 1t takes
money to have such bill passed by the
California Legislature, and the Federation
is opposed TO boodling." After further
argument it concludes by saying: 1.-THE
argus would like to see every person en-
gagged in the lottery business punished as
they deserve-not only the managers and
ticket agents, but their protectors, the
police; but it is not probable that such a
thing will ever be done. Not that there is
not sufficient law to do this, but because
there is no power to enforce the law
We regret that a journal like the
argus has taken this tone in dealing with
the subject. OF course nothing will be
done If nothing is attempted, and equally
OF course few people will make an at
tempt where there is no hope of success
1t avails little to denounce lotteries if at
the same time it is declared to be impos-
sible to suppress them. We take issue,
moreover, with the argus on the question
of this alleged impossibility. 1t does not
require doodle" to pass a law through
the California Legislature when a wide
spread and determined public opinion de-
mands the law. Nor is it true 'there is no
power to enforce the law" Republican
law can be made as effective as that of a
monarchy if the people will it SO and in
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-26
PERSONAL.

w.P. Edwards OF Petaluma was in the City
yesterday.
p. H Knapp banker of Napa, is a guest at
the Palace.
e. Mott Smith of Boston is registered at
the Occidental.
A Macintosh of Honolulu is staying at
the Occidental Hotel.
S. E. Damon of Honolulu registered at the
Occidental Hotel yesterday.
G. G. Kimball, a merchant OF Red Bluff, regis
tered at the Palace yesterday.
United States Marshal Baldwin and family
returned yesterday from Lake Tahoe.
Joseph Hall, prominent wool-buyer OF Nor
wich, Conn.,, is re gistered at the Grand Hotel.
G. Bustelli, wine-grower of Livermore, ar
rived in the city yesterday and is at the Grand.
w. L. Pritchard, stock-raiser of Sacramento,
came to town last evening and put up at the
Grand.
B. c. Holly, well-known stock-raiser of So
lano County, registered at the Grand Hotel
yesterday.
Rowland Twombly OF Newton and James
Bishop Thomas OF Cambridge, Mass, are guests
at the Occidental.
Charles E. Davis, Indian Agent at the Colo
RADIO River agency, is in San Francisco sojourn-
ing at the Grand Hotel.
Miss jean Davidson. daughter of the we'll
known real estate man, has gone on a visit to
friends in South Dakota.
DR.. Perley, U. S. A., who has been taking q
special course in the use of ant-toxine at Johns
Hopkins University, will return to San Fran
cisco in few days.
Captain Weber, formerly OF the steamship
Zealandia, arrived from the Orient last Mon
day and is living at the Palace. He will visit
the Yosemite Valley with party OF friends.
General James A. Williamson aud wife of
Washington, D. c., are registered at the Palace
They are travelling for rest and pleasure and
will sojourn in California for two or three
weeks.
C. NJ. stolp, well-known insurance man of
this City, returned from the East aay before
yesterday. He says that business prospects
are Frightening on the other side of the CONT
nent and predicts wave of prosperity which
will extend to the Pacific Coast.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-26
A PROBLEM FOR PRODUCERS.

The CALL yesterday published dispatch
from Sacramento which seems to be dis
couraglng to our peach-growers this year.
1t is to the effect that by reason Of the
heavy peach crop in Georgia, Maryland,
Delaware and New Jersey, California can
not compete with the Eastern market in
peaches, and accordingly growers are ad-
vised to dry their peaches or sell them to
the canneries on the best available terms.
The situation is made all the graver by the
fact that the freight rate on peaches from
Georgia to Chicago is only 81 cents, while
1t is 81 Is from. San Francisco. In view OF
the fact that the Southern Pacific has been
making extraordinary preparations for the
transportation of our peaches we shall
await the results of fuller investigation
before accepting the announcement from
Sacramento as final statement of the
situation.
Nevertheless it is well to consider such a
possibility, as it may arise at any time in
the case of fruits of the standard kinds
which the East can produce. While we
believe that the best ultimate results of
horticulture in California are to be secured
in the production of fruits which cannot
be produced in the East, the very large in
vestment which we already have in or
chards devoted to staple fruits in which
the East can compete with US requires us
TO meet the conditions of this competition.
There are three ways in which this may be
done.
One is for the transportation companies
so to adjust their rates as to favor these
classes of fruits.
Another is to develop to still higher
degree by intensive methods of cultivation
both the yield and quality of the fruit. AS
yet this feature of the industry has not re-
ceived due attention. One phase of ii
would be to market in the East only the
very choicest fruits, thus making competi-
ton in these higher grades impossible.
Experience has already shown that supe-
rior fruits of any kind, whether staple or
fancy, bring price SO much larger in the
Eastern market than the same fruits of or
binary quality as to justify their produc-
ton and shipment under any circum-
stances Of competition.
The third is the establishment of COM
panies which will receive dried fruit for
warehouse storage and issue certificates
against it which may become marketable
paper. This is suggested on the assump-
ton that there may be many growers who
cannot afford to keep their fruit after dry
ing, but are forced to sell it without regard
to considerations of profit or of market
rates. Such scheme has been discussed
before, particularly with regard to wine,
but under the recent combination among
wine-growers, which secures an excellent
profit, the plan is no longer a necessity.
Such combination among dried-fruit men
cannot be made to produce similar re-
suit, for the reason that it would not elm
mate competition with Eastern dryers.
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makes outrages possible and whose evils
are difficult of detection by ordinary
means. But the bad features OF the case
are that the newspapers which resort to
such practices almost invariably publish
gross exaggerations in order to justify their
course, are generally so sensational that
their exposures rarely are believed, and
are given to practices of their own which
make their pretense of desire to expose
and punish evil a screaming burlesque on
justice and consistency. Even though
they happen now and then to come near
the truth the very means which they adopt
to secure their news and their general
policy, of which this sort of underhand
work is part, make it impossible for the
community to believe that they are moved
by high motives in these particular lines
of work.
1t is pleasing to observe that this kind of
journalism is becoming obsolete. There
are better ways of reforming abuses than
this, and no newspaper can resort to these
methods without losing more in weight
and dignity than it gains by such show
of enterprise" There are many nobler
ways in which enterprise may be exhib-
tied