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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-22
NEW ORLEANS.
OTHER MARKETS.

New Orleans, La, April 21.-No cot
ton market to-day. Election.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-22
GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.
CHICAGO

Chicago, Ill, April 21 Fine grow
ing and seeding weather was reported
from the wheat States and together with
liberal fluctuations caused another
sharp decline in wheat to-day. lit open
ed and closed weak. May closed at
633kGp1zs below yesterday and July at
641I, or 15s below yesterday. Corn, oats
and provisions were watery, reproduc-
tions of the weakness of wheat.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-22

Norfolk, quiet, I1-16; 1913 bales.
Baltimore, nominal, s; bales.
Boston, holiday.
Wilmington, quiet, 75s; IA bales.
Philadelphia, 3-16; % bales.
Savannah, quiet, 9-16; 913 bales.
New Orleans, holiday; 4,03s bales.
Augusta, steady. Z 11-16; Sc bales.
Charleston, steady, ~; 237 bales.
New York, quiet, 1916; - bales.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-22
LIVERPOOL.

Liverpool, April 21.-4:15 p. NJ
Cotton-Spot moderate demand; prices
unchanged; American middling, 43sd.
Sales for the day were 5000 bales,
Of which 500 were for speculation and
export, and including 1000 American;
receipts $500 bales, all American.
Futures opened quiet at the decline,
but later reacted and closed steady
at the advance.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-22
NEW YORK.

New York. April 21.-Cotton Spot
closed quiet; middling uplands, 15-16;
middling gulf, 3-16; sales 2,100 bales.
Futures opened quiet and steady;
sales 5000 bales.
Futures closed steady; sales $4,000
y.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-08
STORY OF A MlSoINa BABY.
Curious Experience of Parisian Lady of
 vDoSfrt,,u

Curious Experience of a P.risian Lady of
 Position.
 The recent experience of 9 Parisian lady of position, writes Miranda ia the Lady's Pictorial, may serve as useful warning to some of my readers who reside abroad. The lady in question returned from q ball one night much earlier than she had given her servants reason to expect, and to her conster1a- ton found three members of her household missing, the nurse, the houscmaid and-the baby! Greatly terrified, she rushed to tho concierge to make inquiries, and after some pre- varication the man informed her that the two servants, fancying their mis- tress would not return for some hours, had gonc to a notorious dancing place, taking the baby with tkcn, and there tho lady would be certain to find all three ''uuitc safe and sound" As the master of tho house was absent. the distracted mother went to seek $ male relative, and together they visited the locality indicated, where they found the two women drinking with friends, but no baby. In reply to frantic in ouirics after her child, tllc houscrlaid impudcntly told her Elistrcss-whose srlartest new gown she had borrowed for the evening, by tho vay-''that madam need not excite herself. the infant was in good hands," At first she refused to say where; but by aint of threats it was dragged from her that the child had been taken to low inn close at hand. Here the cnraged parent found her precious ofEs)ring asleep in filthy bed with eight othcr children, who were all being taken charge of ct one franc fifty centirnes q head while their nurses enjoyed them | selves. Needless to say the two | wretches wcrc dismissed on he spot.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-08
DlSLlKED IN BERLIN.
Tho German Emperor Apparently De-
 lights in Annoying the Capital.

Tho German Emperor Apparently De-
 lights in Annoying the Capital.
 The emperor has become extremely unpopular during his six years of reign, and this fact is so patent to even cas- ual observer that it would be folly to deny it. It can not be disputed, either, saws a writer in the New York Post. that the emperor furnishes, every little while. abundant cause for this feeling. Thus, by his express orders the whole nciraborhood where a military or court ceremony is to be enacted IS every time shut of against the 2opu- lace-a precaution which William l. never took, although the aged monarch was. as will be remembered, the victim of a number of attempts on his life. Arain. D government bill is now talked of to shield still further the life of the monarch against possible assassirs.
 If. however, one thing more than an- other has cstrangcd the sympathles or the lower classes from the present c1n- peror. it is the recent order prohibiting the holding of the Christmas fair on tho Schloesplatz, adjoining the royal castle, where such fair had been going on fortnight before the holl- days since time immemorial. The thou sands of petty dealers and the myriad of small lads and aged women who' during the fair, were given chance to earn a few marks by selling cheap wares of every description. and who have now been driven into the poorer and more tlickly-populcted quarters of the city, feel deeply aggrieved at this latest change. Again, the em- peror cordially rcciproc2tes tho dislike of the Bcrliucrs. and he simply testlhes to that fact by spending as little ot hls tirae as he possibly can in his capital, praferrinr the inconvenience of resid- | i,o ia Potsda1n, with the ceaseless riIing to and fro in railroad ccrrlagc to remaining in the midst of the crit ieai. sarcastic, outspoken people o1 l Rorlio. This studied neglect of the ec2ital city means more than slap al t7,n loaol patriotism of Berli1-it means a loss of millions of marks. tho money roi3r to the traGcsr1en Cf other cite. and towns, especially of Potsdam. A' cn excuse this yc2r the emperor ha'
 ,iycn it ont t,la3 the thorough rcnova ion of the old castle. inside and out v2s resnonsible fer his late coming ant carly coinc. but nobody here accept
 tais excuse. All t!ie less is 1t accepted
 because of tho undeai&blc distres
 throughout Berlin this winter.
 .
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-08
sMoK9JAcKo AND CAPS.
An Increasing E1m5e- Coming Into View
 Upon tho C.ty's EorSetops.

An Increasing E1mSe- Coming Into View
 Upon the City's Eoroetops.
 "It seems to rac.'' said a New York citizen recently, that there ls very striking increase in the number of chimneypots and sraclEejacks and smokecaps visible in the city. The chinneypots arc mo3tly of the con- ventional form, like slightly tapering cone with tho top cut of; the smoke jacks and caps are of various heights and styles. I suppose the object of all these things is to improve the draught of the chimney. don't know why we should have 1ncrc of them now than we used to, whether iS is on account of some difference ia the construction ot our chimneys, which makes them nec- essary; whether we are not satisfied with draught th2t would have satis- fed us years ago, and want the chin- ney to draw better as VIC want and eX- pect to have everything better nowa- days; or whether the construction in these days of many higher buildings has made such changes in the air cur rents and atmospheric conditions gen. crafty as materially to affect the draught of many chir2ncys; but know there are more chimney pots.
 ''This last idea about the breaking up of the air currents and that sort of thing seemed at first to account in some measure for the greater number of the newer clinneypots; but when l come to think of it I remember that in Lon don riding along viaduct on trains go inc in or out of tho city, looked down on should say hundreds of thousands of chimncypots in districts where hun dreds of acres were covered with small houses of unvarying uniformity in height. There wasn't any delection ot currents here, but doubt if there was a chimney without its chimneypot, a thick .stu5ble of chi2ancypots, and a mast fascinating sight it was, too, and a fascinating thought to think of the nyri' ads of people that dwelt beneath them
 Our chimnoypots have not yet by any means attained that striking eff feet. They are still greatly scattered but, with tho smolzcj2cls and the smolecaps, they are now sufficiently numerous to add to the city feature of picturcScuencas."
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-08
MoORs OF DELAWARE.
4 Curious People Who Live by Themselves
 and Are Va-;ous,y Accounted For.

A Curious People Who Live by Themselves
 and Are Va-;ous.y Accounted For.
 There has been much speculation about the so-called Moors living in Kent and Sussex counties, Del. These people arc usually swarthy. black haired, and black-eycd. though some times of a fair complexion. They are mostly farmers. They have their own schools distinct from thc general pub lie school system, and they associate neither with whites nor with blacks. One theory has been that they arc of the Moorish race, and that their ances- tors were Spanish Moors wrecked on the coast more than century ago. Another tradition represents them as descendants Of the Nanticollc Indians
 Gorge P. Fisher, g lawyer long prac- tic;nr in Delaware writes to tho Mill ford Herald to present what ke regards 2s g. isfaatory evidence as to the origin Of these people. lie has been ac- cucintcd with these people all lis life. Noke Norwood, a giant or the tribe, erect and blacll-hairc4 at GcTc:lty-ive. he l-ncw from childhood. When Idr. Fisher became attorney general of the state he was called upon to prosecute Levin Socl1um, one of the race, for sell ;cc- ammunition to Isaiah IIarnCn of tho same race, the Indictment having 1 been found under q statute of Delaware r,cl,inr i5 Q nisdcnc2nor to sell arms or ammunition to any negro or m1latto. Harmon was a man of twenty years, with excellent Caucasian features, i dark chestnut hair, rosy cheeks and hazel eyes. Mr. Fisher thought hin the | handsomest man. in the courtroom. Nevertheless, Lydia Clark. kins- i yo1aca of Harmon, testified for the state that, according to family tradition, soiao years before the revolutionary var broke out, when she was little rirl. their ancestress, a woman of Irish birth, owning and cultivating farm in the Indian river hundred, Sussex coun- tv. few miles from Lewes, bought of a slayer that was driven into Lewes creek a negro slave who profeSscd to be Q chief Of one of the Congo tribes. Tho woman. whose name was Regua, shortly after married her slave, and her 1 children, not being allowed to associate with the whites, internarricd with the remnant of the Nanticol1e Indians, then sill living in Sussex county. The wit ness, very old woman, looked like an Indian of pure blood.
 These people for several generations were confined principally to the south eastern part of Sussex county, but have since gone into Kent county, and even northward into Newcastle county They have always refused to associate with the colorcd people. Although chiefly engaged in farming, they have
 nanagcd to pick up sufficient mcehan
 cal skill to build their own houses
 lIr. Fisher says that they arc thrifty industrious, frugal and law abiding .Ic has known of but two instances where one of tho race was brought into court for a violation of law. One case was that of Socl,u1a and the other of man charged wish attempted murder but acquitted.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-08
nEM cAMELINa N.T.llXLE.
How Some Jolly rei,o-ys Seek to Woo Che
 Co,-scsa of I-o-t-rc.

CoCccss of To-t-nc.
 There is rev form of c-EbiiaT r-Iich affected in clubs and baIroc-s uoyva- days tlat even sl,c board cf trade will find it hard to put stop to. says tle Washington Post. Everyone is l.l-liiiar with the electric faas vl-icl ia the -ast few yea -s have proyed such boon in torrid weather. They arc sl,cpea 3-Ie a propeller and have four, five or six blades and are iac; scl il y.iI'a cages with large aPereurcs. By tou1-li.1g lever at the back tho machiCe cca oe started CT stepped ;-t will, ced vhll n motion the velocity is so@ctIi1g trc- mendous. -4Scrac vicN-aT axe Cenlu5 not long ngo conceived tho flea taat the ele-sric fan colla be utilize 2s an excellent ncanS of wooi-lg the gedacs5 of fortune and put the suggestion into operation in this y7iSc: A Siz-5la1cd fan was stopped ard each of its blades marked with num- Der. Then six slirs of P@- CT were marked with similar numbers and six jolly fellows drew slip apiece. The number oa the Giio co-rcs2cnded to the number ca enc Of inc blades and it was q ,,.idod that the blade that was nearest the perpcndic1lar wire at thc bottom cf the cage covering the fan when the latter stopped revolving sh ould win the pot. The latter con- sisted of six dollars, put uo equally by the half-lozen players. Then the fun began. The lever wo1ld be turned on and as. quiclDy Of md the fan wo2id revolve like lighen;1g, slow down and stop in half a minute. There was no 'skittyT to be fed as in poker, no per centage of split, as io faro, and no rake off for the hou1e, as in other games. It was a pure lrck affair and tho heaviest loser was not Iaore than five dollars out at the end Of an hours whirling, while the excitement had been as ln- tense as the most devoted gambler could desire. Next day each one of the six introduced the electric fan to his friends in it's new guise as spinning jenny and now the garcc has spread all over town. The interest in 1t is heightened good deal by having a blank blade, which when it stops at the winning wire constitutes Q jack pot and necessitatcs tie players put ting up an extra stake, just as in poker So from Q one dollar ante in brokers offices to whirling for coppcrs by district messengers the electric fan is being brought into reputation with general hilarity.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-08
,,ost r,acr,h plece of nIusic.

A number of the most celebrated of French pianisss were recently asked to state the piece which they found it most difficult to execute. The answers are naturally most varied. There is general agreement that difficulties of style are much less easy to overcome than those of technique. From tho standpoint of mechanical difficulty, M. Marrnontcl thinks Becthovca's Sonata Op. 8 t,1e most rcdoubtable piece. NJ. Diemer and II. Plantc accord the palm to Balacl5ircf1'3 L1c,ancv, and M. Pfeif>S finds himself embarrassed be- tween the claims of Liszt's 'Rhapsodies and Studies, Tausig's "TT.ascriptions" rnd All1aas 'Variations. II. Dcla- brode discrcetly end cnignatic2lly re- plies that tho most difficult piece for him is invariably tho piece which Ec happens to be playing at any moment. To M. de Gcriot tho modest scale-dc- rnanoing as it does the Eost perfect equality througkout-is tho supreme difficulty, and ono mast work at 1t, he declares, until occ's last breath.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-08
can.sn- in Eussia.

Tn Russia the state bank advances money at four and onc-haif per cent. wear on all kinds of goods in amounts as high as tg7o-thirds of their value; 1t takes money on deposit ct one and one half per cent. A little while ago. to assist tic grain trade, the government bought largely direct from the. pro- duccrs, and will soon be the largest holder of grain in the country. It has rearly completed the absorption ot private railroad lines, hes acquired the
 monopoly of the manufacture of spir' it's and the control of tho retail trade is about to take. the wine and sugar trade into it's hands and very likely the coal trade cs well.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-08
AMERICAN WRITERS LACKING.
Complaint That Good Work Is in Demand
 While the Quality Is Poor.


 There is an increasing demand for rood American fiction. With all due respect to the galaxy Of Lright writers in Great Britain who have aSLicycd such prominence here during the last few years. it is, nevertheless, fact that publishers arc looking eagerly Ter novels and Eovclcttcs Gc2l.ng with American peorIc and scenes. Sad GIG of them to the Literary N,Crld fl,c .: h. CT day: I've have been ruLi.alii1GG> Eagli5h and Scotch storics ai,lspl~ be- cause we could pot rrocrlc Ailci ;.rl fiction of corresponding worth. l. ls needless to say t.sat tacrc Is 1@r greater dcraand for American no9els than for those written about cl.aIF;'- tcrs and incidents European al, i-rlt- ish. But it looks as if Uc could not succeed in CIT ccdcavor. N.c f'o not want a novel, for icalan Q, that IS dashed of. three or fol,r chapters at . time. by 2 worn2n after Sac E3s glven an afternoon tca before di'c.s.,il. z fyr t-lc evening. Bat VIC want Aincrlean novels written by men aId Tci,icn whose brains surge and swell while they are at work. And sec no hope fuI ou1 lock excepting ln thc ncwspa- per offices"
 The publisher docs not understand tho conditions of ncwspc per work now adays, CT he E.ig!-t not be hope Il. There arc young lncn enl young women scattered through newspaper o-ices here and there who arc c292lilc of de- vcloping into novciises; but Clcy have no chance, while on raornirss papers, at least. The average rcrur,cr goes to work at n0Ol, anu then until midnight, or an hour later, l.c or she Is Ilastenlag from one point to ano' her, client mes unable to. eat regularly or to secure sufficient sleep By the tine the after noon assignment Is covered and the ''storv" wrictcn the reporter has a ] chance to breathe sometimes; and then when he reaches the office with his evening assigarlclt covered, provided he has but one, he sits down and writes when too often he is greatly fa.igi;cd. At 1,aidniglt, or ono or two o'clock ln the morning, he goes home. Is 1t req sonable to expect 9 man or woman ] after such q siege towrite fiction? How can it be done? Leaving entirely aside the fact that newspaper work, with it's plain statement of events, prccludcs the development of thought and lit crary style. the reporters very exist cncc, with its hurry and rnsh and eX- hausring physical labor, makes 1t very l doubtful if we can look to hin as lass from whom to expect fiction. With men and women on evening pa- pars tic case is different. They have more leisure, in the evenings. at least; but the fact remains tliat as usual thing the brightest men and women prefer morning papers, because they pay so much more.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-08
11osau,toes of Different Species.

There arc supposed to be about one hundred and fifty species of mosquitoes in the world. Already twenty-onc species have heen identified as natives of North America. The largest varieties occur in the tropics, where insect life of all sorts obtains it's fullest and most pestif- erous development. Nowhere, how ever. are these bloodsuclers more abundant than in the far northern lat itudes, as in arctic Alaska, where they appear in countless swarms during the brief boreal summer.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-08
1owa Lakes Disappearing.

There is no longer doubt as to the gradual disappearance Of the smaller lakes in northwestern Iowa. It Is only of late that the phenomenon has att tracted general attention, and but re- gently have people become interested in the preservation of these natural bodies of water. Whether anything can be done to check the process effect ing their extinction is a problem worthy of serious consideration.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-08
NGw WOMEN IN CNoLAH0.
Recent Judicial Opinions which VIII Ia-
 tcrcst Them.

Recent Ou(4tClal NI)tn-O1S AttNAl ff --- Al
 tercst ,-Ie:n.
 Two or three of her Iaajesty's jlGgcs have given expression to sentiments of particular interest to YorlaHl1ind. says the New York G,n. Thus Sir Forest Fulton, the Recorder Snlyth of the Lon don criminal courts, instructed jury that ''bi-arly on the part cf 2 E1orlan was q very different thing from biSauly on the part of q man, and the jaTF must require strong evidence that the prisoner was aware that her husband was alive when she contracted her sec. ond marriage"
 The judge of anothcr court when talk ing his seat oa the bench cav some enc in the public gallery wearing 2 s-aod- ing collar cad four-in-hcn-l with esp on his head. "Talio or ,aat lat ID thorc!@ cried the judge. severely. Tlcrc was no movement. ''Tallc of t.l2S i-a5. sir!" carac the ordcragai.l, in tac seera- est tones from the bench.
 Then came the reply il 9 weak voice from the Tallcry:
 ''Pleasc, your honor. it's l2dy."
 The judge started Tor q i1@o.acLt, anol then cxclcireed:
 "A woman, is i? Then why does she dress l;l7c that?"
 There was no explanation, and tic business of the court went on.
 Another judge decided, to t'.e con- sternatioa of English housewives. that a mistress hes TO 1;.-i.t to compel asIT7- ants to pay for broken crocl,cry Or to discharge them Eit.out not e for such e,,-l.-. .-~..'~- i. = 'lc agreement when Lhc servant is cngagcd.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-09-20

operations and thus swell the already
large army OF idle labor Merchants
who do business with borrowed money
and the number who do not borrow
Is extremely small-would be forced to
close their doors or to make most ruin
GUS sacrifices In order to save Shem-
selves from complete ruin. Farmers
would be unable to obtain money FOR
carrying their grain, or would have 60
pay much higher prices for II, many OF
them being compelled to sell ON a
market whose demands would be re-
duced by the decreased purchasing
power OF the people.
An this would Immediately follow the
success OF free silver, and the financial
disorder and decentralization would not
and could not pass away until after
the Inauguration OF the new president
and free silver congress, II would con
tinue until financial and business at
fairs could adjust themselves to the
new conditions Of MIR, Bryan's policy,
and how long this would require 10
man is wise enough 70 say, Free sill
yer legislation could hardly be had In
less than six months after the 'electicn
and probably a very much longer time
would elapse before that policy could
he put into effect In the mean time
the country would have gone to the
silver basis and financial and business
wrecks would be strcwn everywhere.
while ~labor--the object just now " 50
much sweet solicitude by Mr.. Bryan
the first to suffer and the last to g,t
relief when panic comes. would expo
rienoe hardship greater than Il has
ever yet known. In fact there would
be no class or condition Of workers
throughout the whole breadth OF the
land who would not suffer nom a sit
uation which would put a stop to int',S-
trial activity, multiplied the hosts Of
idle labor. paralyEcd credit and throw
the financial system OF the government
into utter uncertainty and disorder.