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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

The CAPTURE CT Mr.. DAvIs.-Gen.
Henry Harnden, the officer of the
Union army who captured Jefferson
Davis, is in Chattanooga with the Wis
consin commissioners to locate the po-
sition of the troops in the Chickamauga
| Military Park. 1T is not true" said
he, "that President Davis was in wo-
mans attire when 1 captured him. 1t
was a cold morning about daybreak
when I arrested him and he had a
shawl over his shoulders. The story
about hoop skirts is false"
General Harnden belonged to the
First Wisconsin Cavalry and was
given 40 picked horsemen and given
orders to capture President Davis.
They rode three nights and three days.
| The capture was made near %Irwinville,
Ga. Just before the capture a body of
Michigan cavalry on a similar expedi-
ton and General Harnden's men collid-
ed. A fight ensued and two or three
men on either side was killed and o
number wounded before the mistake
was found out. "When 1 reached the
Davis camp" continued Harnden, "the
first man l spoke to was the Texas
gentleman, now Senator Reagan, who
told me that he was the Postmaster
General of the Confederate States.
President Davis was sitting zeal by on
a log with shawl, l presume his wife's,
as it was a cool morning"
elbow did the story get out about
dresses and hoopskirts? ?" he was asked.
"When I went to Macon and report
ed to General Wilson, my superior Off
Ger, he had the story telegraphed out
as fast as 1 spoke and the woman's
shawl became exaggerated. SIN the
excitement he may have misunderstood
me, or the newspapers exaggerated it.
l have tried for years to correct the
story, but have been unable to do so.
1t is very hard for truth to overtake a
lie. 1.-THE writer of history gets it cor
rect for future generations, l shall feel
better"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

NEW YORK, Mar. 27.-The tendency of
p ices at the Stock Exchange after the OPEN
ing was downward 90 8 decline of Y to "a
per cent. was noted during the first hour. At
II o'clock the market was quiet and barely
steady.
BALTIMORE. Mar. 27.-yirginia 3s, new,
1874 asked.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

81. Duncan Wood and Co. announced
their failure on the New York stock
exchange to-day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

The wholesale commercial markets were
very quiet to-day. Prices in some lines were
reported a fraction lower, Flour is still in
moderately active demand at current figures.
The receipts of Wheat are extremely scarce
usually st this season the merchants here
carry large stocks in store, but at present
there is none at all in first hands; sales 60,
81, 81, 63 and Ga for fair to good. Corn 40
to 80. Rye so to Sd. Cats-mixed 35.
white 81 to 39. There are no changes in
Country Produce, Groceries, Provisions or
Millfeed. Hay is dull.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

WASHINGTON CATTLE MARKET. Mar. o6-
At Union stock yards.-Some 142 cattle
were offered and sold as follows: Best 81.
a5thc, good 4ha5c. medium 3a,n4H,c
common 24ha31hc per lb. Some 2S1 Sheen
and Lambs Were on The market with sales
as follows: Old sheep sold at 4a5c per lb.
Lambs at 61aa61hc per ID. Spring lambs s,
&c per 10. Cow. with calves sold from SOS
to 500 each. Market good.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
RALr1MoRE, Mar. 27.-Flour dnll n,

BALTIMORE, Mar. 27.-Flour dull and
unchanged. Wheat firm; No 9 red spot,
month, April and May 61Aa61as steamer
No 2 red 57a5S; southern wheat by sample
60s62 do on grade 5SAa614. Corn steady;
mixed spot, month and April 50Bsa5OL (;
May 50lh&50&a; steamer mixed 4S&a49;
southern white 491aa5044; do yellow 49ha
501a. Oats very firm No 2 white Western
37ha3S: No 2 do 35a35h. Rye quiet;
No 2 Sass. Hay firm; good to choice
timothy $13 90 to $13 so. Provisions
steady. Coffee steady; No 7 161aa16'a.
Sugar firm at 81 20.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET. Mar. 90
Cattle-market firm; common to extra
steers 81 25a6. 80: stockers and feeders
$2.6Oa46O. COW and bulls 81. 5Oa4.75.
calves S2.5Oa5.25. Hogs-market strong
heavy $4.S5a5.2O, common to choice mixed
$4.7Oa5.15, choice assorted 81. 9Oa5 90.
light $4.TOa4.9O, pigs $4.25a4.7O. Sheep
market strong; inferior TO choice So. 90
a5.O0 per 100 lbs. Lambs $3.75a5. 80 per
100 lbs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

CHICAGO. Mar. 27.-Wheat-May $50;
July 567s; Sept 579s. Corn-May 49,;
July 46a4a467s; Sept At. Oats-May $685.;
June 29Aa; July 29a29As. Pork-Msy
s12 521a July So IS Sept $I2 70 bid.
Lard-May 81 O5; July 81 90; Sept 81 321b.
Ribs-May Sc 22a; July Sc 37h; Sept
Sc 5Oa$6 521b.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25
Might Do to Benefit the Agrcuuists
and Smaller Land=t1olders of California

demand for all the products of the agri-
culturist.
Just as the rental value of land falls as
you approach the rural districts, so will
the rental tax be light on farmers, because
their land values are small in proportion
TO city property and valuable manufactur-
ing sites.
A careful examination of the Assessors.
books, such as / have recently made in
this county, will reveal the fact that the
proportion of taxes now paid by the agri-
culturists of this State upon their lands,
improvements and personal property, and
their indirect taxes on all their farming
machinery, is very much greater, when
com pared with owners of city and COM
mercial property, than it would be under
q tax of rental or land values only.
Certainly the great number of tenant
farmers (rapidly ncreasing-Living Issues
says: ''There are four real estate firms in
San Francisco that for some time past
have foreclosed farm mortgages weekly at
be greatly benefited by the system l have
mentioned, which would place the entire
burden of taxation upon the margin of
production which they now pay as rent to
private owners.
To fam laborers, and in fact to all labor
ers, this plan would open up unlimited OPP
portunities for procuring homes. Itwould
be a greater boon to them than has ever
before been offered in the worlds history.
1t would also benefit all commercial enter
prises. For if you remove the heavy bur-
den now laid upon Improvements of all
kinds capitalists will flock here from other
States and start manufacturing enterprises
of every conceivable kind; and our CAPT.
talists will turn their attention in the
same direction, and the hum of machinery
will be heard throughout the whole length
OF our great STATE, calling into action all
the brain and muscle of every able bodied
person, and at greatly advanced wages.
For this making of large tracts of fertile
land easy of access 10 the masses will at
once tend to make laborers in cities scarce;
hence when an increase in building and
manufacturing comes, as / have described,
only raise in wages will secure the neces-
sary men to carry on the work.
OF course this great impetus to CONNER
cial enterprises will at once react favorably
on the agriculturist, creating a full de-
mand at good prices for all his product.
| would then, in consideration of the
foregoing, suggest that the State Govern
ment can relieve the pressing needs of
California agriculturlsts by so arranging
our system of taxation that the excessive
burden now borne by labors products
shall be removed, and all OF society's ex
penses be paid by that which society earns
locality, or rental, values of land and
not only will the needs of agriculturists be
supplied, but the needs Of all laborers,
and an era of prosperity will dawn upon
California unequaled by anything in the
annals of history.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25
SUGGESTED FOR

ployment was obtained through the
agency of the resident member.
Very frequently an ex-convict secures
employment and gives good service, and
were his employer to remain ignorant OF
his past history, all would go well. But
some busybody who knows the unfortu
mates past, actuated by senseless and
meddlesome goody-goodyness spite or
venom, slyly whispers in the employers
ear, who, ten to one, is weakling himself
and discharges his man. The career of the
ex-convict is thus cut short, his good in
tentions frustrated. He is compelled to
"move on" (but where p and in all prob
ability to meet with similar experience in
other places, until, disheartened by re-
peated failures at the hands of his cruel
fellows, he retaliates by relapse into crime
again.
1t would have been different had his
first employer been informed by the mem
Der of the organization that his applicant
was an ex-con. whom he was determined
to befriend so long as he conducted him.
self rightly. Then, when a poisoned
tongue drops its venom it would not only
fall unheeded, but pointed warning could
be given to desist from further malignant
attempts. Many man who has paid the
full penalty of a first and only misstep and
tried to redeem himself has been defeated
by loose-hung tongues of uncharity. And
many man has recovered and honored
himself because of the courageous and
well-timed aid of true brother whose
heart is so brave and tender that it recog-
nizes the appeal of all who suffer as right
full claim for assistance. 1t is to these
Heart Men that the weak, the ignorant
and the suffering appeal for help, and ap-
peal not in vain.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25

In California, less, perhaps, than in any
other part of the United States, are the
symptoms OF social unrest manifested.
But even on these golden shores there are
depresSions, some labor troubles and other
disaereeable economic difficulties that
thoughtful men and women are consider
ing the best way of obviating. This fact
argues not that the conditions are more
alarming, but that the public conscience
IS, more susceptible to the wrongs and
troubles of the weaker than ever before in
the written history of the world.
The following thoughtful essays, written
by men whose studies give them the right
to speak authoritatively on their respec-
tive subjects, will be found interesting and
inStructing.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25

pendence and magnanimity which free
dom and boundless opportunity in the
past stamped upon the American National
character.
What the single tax will do for US is
thus eloquently set forth in the closing
chapter of Progress and Poverty: "If,
while there is yet time, we turn to Justice
and obey her, if we trust Liberty and fol-
low her, the dangers that now threaten
must disappear, the forces that now men,
ace will turn to agencies of elevation. \
With want destroyed. with greed changed
to noble passions; with the fraternity that
is born of equality taking the place of the
jealousy and fear that now array men
against each other; with mental power
loosed by conditions that give to the hum
blest comfort and leisure, and who shall
measure the heights to which our civiliza-
ton may soar? Words fail the thought!
1t is the golden age of which poets have
sung and high-raised seers have told in
metaphor! It is the glorious vision which
has always haunted man with CLEANS of
fitful splendor. 1t is what he saw whose
eyes at Patmos were closed in trance.
1t is the elimination of Christianity-th
City of God on earth, with its walls of jas
per and its gates of pearl! 1t is the reign
of the Prince of PeaceP'
The Portland daily press., 1895-03-09
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The originals of our yard measure and
pound weight-otherwise the British
standard of weight and measures-are
sealed or walled up in the sides of the
House of Parliament at London. The
two articles which are therein so safely
cased are both of metal. The yard meas
ure is of bronze, in the shape of a bar,
The weight standard is cube of plati-
mum, weighing exactly sixteen ounces.
Once every twenty years the walls en-
closing the standards are torn away for
the purpose of removing the two pieces
of metal and comparing their length and
weight with the Official standards in use
by the bureau of weights and measures.
Walter Wellman the Washington COR
respondent, states that when Salmon p.
Chase died it became President Grants
study to appoint new chief justice. He
first offered the honor to Roscoe Conk-
ling, but Mr.. Conkling had some high
minded ideas about this post, and be de-
clined it on the ground that the chief
justiceship should go to great lawyer
or jurist and not to one who had merely
distinguished himself in politics or Con-
gress. 1t is said that the Sugar Trus!
have made Secretary Carlisle standing
offer to become its chief counsel At g
fine salary. :
Addison d. Virgins, OF New Hamp'
shire, who died in Washington the other
day, had charge of the elevator in the
Senate wing of the Capitol. He had been
in this position SO many years that he
had developed the peculiar ABILITY TO 1u-
terpret the touch upon the bell-push OF
The Portland daily press., 1895-03-09

manage. the affairs of the city for the
coming year. They have accepted the
responsibility Voluntarily and with an
implied promise that they will discharge
it to the best of their ability. II they
do any less they are false to their duty
and their obligation. It is obvious to
every body that one Of the first essentials
to husiness-like management of city
affairs is to have at the head of the sari-
Gus departments competent men, men of
experience, men Of good Judgment, men
OF knowledge. An incompetent man will
make no better showing in the manage
ment of the city's business than i'll the
management of that of a private firm or
corporation, and the men of the city
council who put one there will be just as
culDable as board of directors who
should put such man at the head OF
some department Of a mercantile or ban K
ing corporation. There is a strong dis
position on the part Of this co munity
to scan the acts of the council very close
~ this year, a stronger disposition than
usual, owing to the shortcomings of last
years council; and members of it who
give reason for criticism will surely be
visited with it. There has been grow
ing up feeling among the people that
our city officials would be very much
improved by making them appointiye by
the Mayor instead of elective by the
council. This feeling has already proved
strong enough to take away from the
council some of the most important
body at this time will sweep away their
power of election entirely.
In the case of most of the off cials who
are to be selected to-day the Repu blican
mem bers of the council are not in dan
ger of making any mistake. or being
led astray by improper influences, for
the only candidates are men who have
been already tried and found capable.
Bnt there is one office for which the cam
didates are numerous, and, if current
rumor is true, aggressive about in pro-
portion to their unftness. We refer to
the Office of assessor. 1t is one of the
most important Offices of the government,
requiring a man of experience, of sound
judgment and of knowledge. Some of the
candidates in the long list are unfit.
They have none of the qualifications
needed. But it is understood that they
have, "pulls" and are going to work them
| to their fullest extent in today's caucus.
| The fact that man is party worker
should not weigh against him. Indeed
| it nlighU fairly be urged in his favor.
What we protest against is the nomina-
ton of "a man simply because he is a
worker or has influence with certain
voters or has pull"
! A man who lacks the business qualif-
cation for the Office should be thrown
out, no matter what his political
influence or how much he may be urged
upon the caucus The Republicans can
maintain themselves in control of this
city only by giving the people good gov
eminent, and good government cannot be
had unless good and capable men are
selected to FIJI the Offices
The Portland daily press., 1895-03-09

There was a great up.oar in the news
papers of New Hampshire after the fall
election over defective ballots, and much
was said about the nchisement Of
tbs honest yeomanry by the complicated
system Of voting imported from Aus
tralis. Indeed some of the papers worked
themselves up to such Il pitch of indig-
on as to demand that the next legis-
lature repeal the system and substitute
the old one. Well, the other day their
demand was submitted to the judiciary
ccn,mittea Of the legislature which made
Irompt report OF Legislation inexpedi-
eet.n There have been Il good many SO
called demands for the repeal Of the
Australian system IN good many States
since it was first introduced, but in not
single one Of them has the legislature
accsded to the demand. The system has
been modified somewhat in the interest of
simplicity, but the essential features of it
have not been disturbed. The reason is
obvious. The method is popular with
the great majority of the people. 1t
contributes to quiet and orderly voting.
1t prevents triekery by means of split
tickets, and above all it rids the election
Of the disagreeable espionage which had
grown up under the old system. Tt defies
the efforts of the professional politicians
20 break it down because it is founded
On merit.
The Portland daily press., 1895-03-09
has she been in the advocacy of woman

has she been in the advocacy of woman
suffrage
Chicago's colony of a bout thousand
deaf mutes NUM- ers many people of
prominence. One of them is a lawyer of
high standing, another is chemisG and
assayer of the National Smelling and
Refining company, another is bead book
keeper in wholesale grocery house, an
other is President of land association.
Besides these the silent people" in Chi
caao are scattered among the trades,
including shoemaking, cabinet work,
wood carving, baking and typeseting.
There are quite number of cornpositors,
the majority of whom work on the week
ly trade papers. One is employed in the
city postoffice, where he is an adept at
deciphering badly directed letters.
The Portland daily press., 1895-03-09

Mayor Strong of New York is encoun-
tering good deal of severe criticism for
his appointment of Mr. Murray as excise
commissioner. The Office is one OF the
most responsible in the city, having to
do With the enforcement of the laws in
relation to liquor selling, and needs a
strong minded and independent man OF
business ability. But according to the
Post Murrsy's career has been that of
typical hanger-on in politics, a rnnner
with the machine, in brief, Boy"
What makes the case worse for the May
or is that the appointment is one entirely
Of his own selecting. The wicked Platt
had nothing to. do with it. Indeed when
the Mayor made it he was in open hos
tiiity to Piatt, and WAS trying to show
the people how great an improvement
on the personnel OF the public service the
absence of Platt influence would result in
Possibly the ayor's selection may
grouse Il suspicion in the minds of some
cf the clergymen who are preaching
about Platt as if he were the only OBJ
St acle to the full fruition of righteous
less in New York that the State may
rot be entirely purified when Platt has
Leen suppressed.
The Portland daily press., 1895-03-09
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The Portland daily press., 1895-03-09

were some pretty crooked practices in
connection with the getting up Of petit
Tors in favor OF woman's suffrage in
Boston. One prominent man who had
absolutely refused to sign subsequently
found his name on one of the petition in
some innocent explanation, but on its
face it looks like pretty had case.
The Portland daily press., 1895-03-09
CITY OFFICIALS.

When the Republican men hcTs elect of
the City Council go into circus this af-
ternoon TO nominate sui GrGirate city
they are charged with serious RESPONSE
biiity. They have been selected by the
majority of the voters Of their wards to
The Portland daily press., 1895-03-09

j, It is about time that the Senate shut
down on amendments to the Cape Eliza
beth division bill. The bill was amend
while it was in the House, and went out
OF that body in a condition satisfactory
to the great majority of the people of
both the proposed towns. The Senate
should now pass it without further de-
lar. II the matter is to be kept open
until every citizen Of both towns has
tried his hand at amending it, it will be
several years before the bill becomes a
law.
The Portland daily press., 1895-03-09
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY. MARCH 9.

People who have been familiar vii til
the history OF womans suffrage bills in
the Maine Legislature will not be I'M
prepared for the announcement that the
bill that was passed by the House on
Thursday will probably be defeated in
the Senate,
The Portland daily press., 1895-03-09
GENTS WHITE SHIRTS
AR II A I: Is ,
24e MIDDLE ST.
CAUCUS.

The Republicans of North Yarmouth are
requested to meet III the Town House,
Saturday. March 16, 1895. al 2 o'clock p. IN.
TO nominate town officers also to choose a
town committee.
Per order of
TOWN COMMITTEE.
North Yarmouth. March T, 1895.
The Portland daily press., 1895-03-09

The Book-Bills of Narcissus. An &C
count rendered byS Richard LIE Gallie-
une, with a frontispiece by Robert
Fowler. Mr.. lie Gallieune is not French,
but belongs to the school of modern
English writers, the younger men of the
day. His father was prominent in bust
ness circles at Birkenhead, so that the
family is of English Channel Island loca-
ton. Mr., LIE Gallieune went to London
III 1891 and Joined the staff of The Star.
He published the book before us in
1898; this is its third edition, revised,
with chapter entirely new. His Eng
lish poems, 800 copies published for that
country and America, received rather
severe criticism from the New York
Critic (the number for Jan. 21st, 1889,
but The Book-Bills of Narcissus also
The Religion of a Literary Man, made
The Portland daily press., 1895-03-09
CORSET SALE.

When we say Corset sale we do not mean
corsets at the regular prices, but
better values than can be found in
any store in this city.
One lot of Ladies Corsets, most all sizes,
24c. pair.
All of our soc. and 75c. Corsets at 5Uc.
pair.
The famous W. B. Corsets, actually worth
$l.o0. In drab. white and black.
Price for Saturday, 75c. pair.
The Portland daily press., 1895-03-09
WATER SUPPLY.

Ii inwaDt of water supply for private
use .0r town purposes, can get reason
able terms by contract or foot of A. s.
MERRILL, Practical Artesian Well
Slnker, WOolwich, Maine. Work
guaranteed. feb1Sd6ws