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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17

ment of these turnpikes was TO faciiitate
the transportation Of merchandise and
messengers. Private corporations, IL was
found. would keep the roads In better re-
pair than the towns through which tney
ran. and besides there was pront LOT the
corporation engaged In the ehterPIne, al
though not very large, 1t may saieiy De
assumed.
A friend showed the Gossiper today
copy of the tariff on the Boston ana
Providence turnpike, which may be Ia
ken as being a fair sample OF Inc otners;
Here it is: Wagon cart cart or or,t,s ok sas, s1ea
cents; team of more than four cattle, 10
cents; sleigh with more than one horse,
12la cents; one horse sleigh, bi4 cents;
coach, chariot or phaeton, 40 cents;
chaise, chair or sulky, pig cents; horse
and horse cart, 6 Ia cents; person and
horse, Ia cents; draft horses and neat
cattle in droves, per head, cents; swine
i'm droves, for every Is, 10 cents for less
number than IS, each cent; sheep and
store shoats, each cent; mail stage, d
Ia cents.
The rules Of the road, il they may so
be called, provided also that foot passen-
gers should not be liable TO any toll, nor
shonld persons passing over the turn
pike for the purpose of attending public
funerals. Persons living within four
miles of the turnpike who passed over 1T
for the purpose of attending town meet
ings or doing other town business, or go
ing to or from mills or for the purpose OF
husbandry. were also exempted from the
paying OF toll
Some very curious notions exist about
very familiar things. Thus the Gossiper
overheard two young men, mechanics
they appeared to be. discussing the ques-
tion OF what constituted a horse power.
One of them admitted that he don't
know what ii was; but the other, while
not positive, said he thought II repre-
sented the load horse could draw on
a dead level. He added that he thought
a ton or two thousand pounds was the
average load that a horse could draw up-
der such conditions. This young mans
notion was decidedly hazy as well as very
wide of the mark and in order TO set him
right, IL he is fortunate enough 10 be a
reader of The NEWS, the Gossiper gives
what is meant by the term "horse
power" when applied to an engine.
One horse power is the force required to
lift 33, 900 pounds one foot high in one
minute. The two early English engine
makers, Wall and Boulton, ascertained,
after various experiments, that this was
the average amount of work done by the
brewers draught horse in London. II
is. however, somewhat more than il per
formed by horses otherwise employed
Therefore when an engine has the power
to lift 33, 600 pounds one inch in one min
ute il is said TO have one-horse power
and higher ratings are determined in the
same way.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17

WAsHrYGroY. March l7.-The president
Yesterday issued proclamation with
drawing the disposition under the home
stead law all that part of the public lands
formerly known MS Grior county, Texas,
and rescrving the land from settlement
until decision shall be reached as to the
merits OF the Choctaw claim TO this
county. Persons who settled therein prior
To Dec. 30, 1887, are not 20 bo disturbed
ir tho meantime.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17
Gale OF Britain's Coast.

LONDON, March 17--Terrible gales oc-
Cured yesterday in the west OF England
and in Ireland. The piers at Liverpool
were washed over and flooded. Several
derelicts and disabled vessels have been
towed into the Mersey. The ship canal
was made unnavigable by the storm.
The flying squadron had to make for
Queenstown for harbor in some distress,
the vessels of the squadron having shipped
large quantities of watcr.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17
ACQUITTED ON ONE CHARGE.
After Long Debate Pastor Brown Was
Declared Not Guilty.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 1.-THE coun-
Gil that is sitting in judgment on the
Rev. DR.. Brown has acquitted the ac-
cused pastor on one charge. After a long
debate the counci'men came to the con-
clusion that DIR. Brown was not guilty
of any immoral conduct with Mrs. M.
A. Stockton.
They based their opinion on the fol-
lowing:
1. That Mrs. Stockton was not q
woman whose testimony could be taken
for the truth.
2. That there was no evidence intro
duced that was strong enough In legal
sense to convict the pastor.
3. That ne had SHOWN Mrs. Stockton
great kindness in the way that Chris
tian minister should and that she had
taken advantage of that kindness.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17
The Ir.liana's Plight.

WASHINGTON. March 1.-THE navy de-
partment has now abandoned hope of
getting the Indiana into the Port Royal
drydock before tho goth INST, when tho
next spring tide is expected. The vessel
has been lightened as much as possible
and even the water in the spare boilers has
been blown off, SO that her draft is now
24ft. lin. instead OF the eft. she draws
at her maximum, bat there still Is not
enough water In the dock.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17
A Delightful Masquerade.

In Liederkranz Hall, "a North Main
street. last night, there was masquerade
bail under the auspices of the sick Bene-
fit Society of Germania Lodge 1870, X. and
l.. of III. 1t was well attended and very
enjoyable. Some of the costumes were
exceedingly pretty. RaithePs orchestra
furnished music and the following COM
prised the committee of arrangements:
Mr.. +. Fiebig, chairman; Mr.. q. IL. En-
Finger, treasurer; Mr.. &. Gabriel. Mrs.
A. Gabriel, Mrs. Kruger, Mrs. Dasbach,
Mr. Geduldig, Mrs. Storm; floor director,
Herman {. Bernner; aid, Mr.. Geduldig.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17
Misery

To all who are in depths of despair
the following letter may come as a
beacon light, pointing the way to health
and safety. Truly, it is not what we
soy, but what Hoods Sarsaparilla Goes,
that tells the story. just read the
voluntary statement Of Mr.. Owen:
"For six or seven years of my life did
not live, merely existed. Twas in de-
plorable condition, suffering from COM
plication OF evils. / was so costive that
q week, or sometimes two weeks, would
pass without a movement OF the bowels.
had no appetite. Had become so
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17

Boston, March l7.-The board OF alder.
mon yesterday, acting upon the report OF
special committee OF Investigation.
passed resolutions favoring free transfers
ON the West End Street railway, school
children's tickets at reduced rates and
working peoples tickets at reduced rates
for certain hours OF the day. The law Off.
GERS OF the city are authorized to appear
before the legislature in behalf of legisla.
tion TO this end. The aldermen voted in
favor of flye-ycar terms for subway fran.
chiscs,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17
,,.xor u.fri.nds Little Ones.

SALEM Mass. March l7.-Mayor Turner
gave che school board "a surprise last night
In communication demanding that an
investigation bc made into the conduct Of
the schools and charges of favoritism, and
70 what he called "a system of nagging
and unkind fault-flndiIg by some teach
ers." The mayor claims that this over
bearing conduct affects the nervous sys-
tenn Of the young pupils. with many seri-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17

RicHMoSp, :. l., March i7.-Judgc
Smith has dismissed the indictment for
manslaughtcr against Captain William
II. Husc and Pilot James Allen Of the
steamer Pcrseus. On the evening OF Aug.
pgj last. the Pcrscus ran down the yacht
Adelaide, rcsuiting In the drowning OF
Robert w. Inman, Jr.. tho owner OF the
x.rht
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17
The Kelly Failnrc.

ST. PAUL. March i7.-The y. II. Kelly
Mercantile company in which p. II. Kelly.
who recently assigned, Is the chief stock
holder, yesterday decided to- assign. The
company is rated $4,000 Al. No figures
have yet been given out.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17

News has reached Billings, Mont, of
the killing of two Indians belonging
to the Shoshone tribe in Northern v yom-
ing, by three white men who murdered
the Indians and then stole their horses.
The murderers are being pursued by
United States Marshal McDermott of
wyornfp0
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17
Instructed for Mckinley.

CHIPPEWA FALLS, VII. March no.
X. Anderson of Dou9las county and
Charles ii. Taylor OF Barron county, have
been chosen district delegates 10 the ~.
sionaI district. They were instructed for
Mckinley.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17

The 1900 employees OF the Oliver Iron
and steel Company, South Tenth street
mill, Pittsburg, have been notified OF
10 per cent. reduction in their wages to
take effect at once. The cut has caused
Der Of men have quit work.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17
Melancholy

that / was scarcely of the farm in six
years. even contemplated making an
end to my miserable existence.
"This Is the stage where a man becomes
disgusted with doctors and medicines OF
all kinds. II this should reach the eye OF
any such, it is written in the hope that
just such persons will read IL, believe 1t
and be benefited by IL. A friend had half
bottle OF hoods Sarsaparilla, and per-
suaded me to take IL, with some OF Hoods
Pills. Experienced so much benefit took
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17

rs Perkins Horseshoe Co.................... So
Ex-div. iSb per cent. liquidation.
For Late Stock Quotations See Page 3.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17
The follow ing are the closing bid prices
Of the listed stocks on the Colorado Min
ing Stock Exchange, Denver, March l6, as
reported by L. L. Davis q company. 2A1
Washington street, BOSTON,

PROVIDENCE CLEARING HOUSE.
The clearings of the Providence banks
today amounted TO S902, 600,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17
EARL CARPENTER & SONS,

No. 2 Westminster street, Cor. Dyer.
This old established house whoiessies ani reta.is
ICE 1T fair prices and by promp attention 10 bus
meas spd the emp loym ment of good men In their
several departments. merit a Ccntinuanoe Of the
patronage go long enjoyed
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-23

original status and predicting the mis- fortunes of the damned if we should dare restore silver. These prophecies are like those of Balaam, and should not stop sii- ver's progress
 That monstrosity of democratic presi- dent who instead of acting the part of the Samaritan with the body polite has de- ported the masses from the ship of state and we have f1oundered in the desolation of despair until we feel like the Chinese. It was during tremendous drouth, the country was parched and the dust was shoe deep everywhere daily they had sent up prayers to their gods for rain and relief No answer, no relief came and finally in mass meeting it was concluded that their gods sitting back in the cool niches of the temple had never heard their prayers and did not realize their suffering and danger and that If they would just take them out and drag them through the parched fields and dusty roads that they would appreciate the trouble and send relief. That afternoon it was done and that night the rain came.
 MT. Cleveland went to the Atlanta ex- position on the finest train that ever straddled a track. He lives and asso- ciates with those who have been doubly enriched by this very law; our national officials in daily contact with every lux ury, no wonder they should contentious ly advise the laborers to quit idling and behave, the farmers to quit grumbling, stay at home and make living. If it were onl.- possible to drag them out of their salaries and legislative gains and through the hardness of the times we might have different view of the condi- tions. B. B. CONFER
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-23
BARNEY BARNATO IN MEXICO At the Head of a Twenty-Five
 Million Syndicate. GOOD DFlELDF0R INVESTMENT The Kaffir King Has Gone to Free Silver Mex leo to Invest His Gold insProftable
 Mining Enterprises.
NeWOrleans Letter.

New Orleans Letter.
 Barney Barnato, the Kaf1ir king, has gone to Mexico to invest $25,000,000 in developing enterprises and to build up the trade in tropical products
 This interesting bit of information came from a Tampico commission mer- chant who arrived at the Cosmopolitan hotel yesterday. MT. Tom Cobb King, who is in business at the wel-known Mexican port, stated to a reporter of the Picayune that the stock company had been organized in the old country and that Barnato had just arrived in Mexico to begin operations with the use or the immense sum named He said that Bar nato put up $16,000,OO0 and that one or the Rothschilds took $6,000000 worth or stock in the concern, while the rest was made up among smaller men Of means.
 This news is not known and no pupil cation of it has appeared, although II has been known that the kaffir King went to Mexico some months ago and travelled over the republic. At that time MT. King met him and heard him say that the possibilities were tremendous for good returns from capital properly invested and managed. After careful examination of the resources Of the re public Barnato returned to London and organized his company and has now come back to make the necessary ar arrangements. Silver and gold mines will be opened and coffee plantations. rub Der plantations and ground that grows all the tropical products will be pur- chased here and there and tremendous scheme put on foot to raise material for exportation. From Tampico to Juanito MT. King said that the distance is 150 miles, and is traversed by the Mexican Central road. which penetrates the rich est valleys and runs by the mountains which are filled with metals and precious ores Coffee, said MT. King, will be one of the leading products with which the Barnato company will have to do, The plantations along the Mexican Central are productive and the hest grades of coffee are grown.
 Labor in Mexico" said MT. King, Ifs on the peon planter system, and is paid in silver while all the products are sold for gold This gives the producer or operator opportunity for splendid gains. Labor is very cheap and he is enabled to make money from the very fact that he pays it in silver and then gets the yell low metal for his output. This Is what Is bringing the present era of prosperity in Mexico. Capitalists, especially from the United States, are focking down there, looking for good things, and American machinery is becoming an important ar ticle in the Mexican trade on account of the improvements which are being made. As to the silver and gold question, I would not like to discuss that. but I will say that Mexico is desirous that the United States remain on the gold basis for the reason just recited. Now. Mexico may or may not have been more pros porous with gold standard. I don't know that that makes very much differ
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-23
How Our Presidents Dled.

1. George Washington died from a cold which brought on laryngitis; buried on his estate at Mount Vernon, Va.
 2. John Adams died from senile de- bility; buried at Quincy, Mass.
 3. Thomas Jefferson died of chronic diarrhoea; buried on his estate at Monti- cello, Va.
 4. James Madison died of old age; buried on his estate at Montpelier Va
 5. James Monroe died of general de- bility; buried in Marble cemetery, New York city.
 6. John Quincy Adams died of paraly- sis. the fatal attack overtaking him in the house of representatives; buried at Quincy, Mass
 '. Andrew Jackson died of consump- tion and dropsy; buried on his estate, the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tenn.
 8. Martin Van Buren died of catarrh of the throat and lungs; buried at Kinder hook. N. Y.
 g. William Henry Harrison died of pleurisy, induced by a cold taken on the day of his inauguration; buried near North Bend. O.
 10. John Tyler died of a mysterious disorder like bilious attack; buried at Richmond, Va.
 Il. James K. Polk died from weakness, caused by cholera; buried on his estate at Nashville, Tenn.
 12 Zachery Taylor died from weakness, morbus, induced by improper diet; DuTleu UIl HIS 6Stdte nedF lLOulSVllle, Ky. 13 Willard Fillmore died from paralysis; buried in Forest Hill cemetery, Buffalo, N. Y.
 IA. Franklin Pierce died from fnflam- nation of the stomach; buried at Con- cord, N. H.
 l5. James Bucha man died of rheuma- tism and gout; buried near Lancaster, Pa.
 16 Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by J. Wilkes Booth; buried at Springfield, III
 IT. Andrew Johnson died from paraly- sis; buried at Greenville, Tenn.
 1S Ulysses s. Grant died from cancer of the throat: buried at Riverside Park, New York city.
 19. Rutherford B. Hayes died from paralysis of the heart; buried at Ere mont. O.
 20. James A. Garfield, assassinated by Guiteau; buried at Cleveland. o.
 ot Chester A Arthur died from Bright's disease: buried at Rural ceme- tery, Albany N. Y. -..
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-23
REED IN HIS MAINE HOME Without Special Local Prestige
 Is This Famous Man. SAME AS OTHER PROPHETS Early History and Antecedents- Folks Once Backed Him to Be Educated
 as a Preacher.

Portland, Me, Letter in New York Sun.
 Ever since Speaker Reed has loomed into prominence as possible candidate for the presidency people have turned to this little city by the sea, his birthplace and home when he is not in Washington, for information concerning him. They somehow seem to think that Speaker Reed is so big figure in small place that any one they accost must be able to tell them all they want to know about him. As matter of fact, Speaker Reed when at home can walk daily from his. house on Deering street to his office on Exchange street, a distance of about half mile, without accosting or being ac- costed by those he meets on the way. Only a day or two before he last left for Washington he entered a store on Con- gress street, where more than a dozen men were lounging, and after he had passed out one of them remarked: That's a big fellow; who is he?" and even the shop keeper couldn't answer.
 good deal of this is due to village apathy, for the average Portlander, des- pite the 264 years since the towns foun- dation, is in his outlook and feelings still practically a villager Hence, though the people can boom and cheer them selves hoarse over an able son of the place, after the great outer world has put its patent upon that ability. it would be difficult to name another place where sprouting ability would find it harder to make itself felt. ~1.-sl it has always been thus. Longfellow wrote rhymes here in his native town, but he had to go to Boston to establish his caliber N P
 Willis and his sister. Fanny Fern, from the very start. found the air here too choked with Puritan miasma to allow them utterance. One can still find an odd old man or woman able to tell the story of their ostrac!sm in their native town before New York found room for them. And it Is not very different today The true spirit of ancient Purtanism is of course dead, as it is everywhere, but in no large city can one find the people all still wearing the mask and old clothes of their ancestors as they do here and in towns still smaller. e-3
 Doubtless it was as lucky thing for Tom Reeds local prestige as 1t was for the training of his mind that one or two men of the richest Congregational church here had some early suspicion of his abil- ity, and worked upon the church to send him through Bowdoin college, with the purpose of having him enter the ministry, In a town where church membership and church vestry meetings still dominate and give social intercourse whatever life and color 1t has, this fostering of his edu- cation by the church gave certain re- spectability to the son of very poor man. A proof of this is yet visible in the fact that one may any day hear the story of how the State Street church gave Mir
 Reed his education, while rarely indeed Is that statement supplemented by the no less important fact that Mr. Reed paid the church back every cent after he had decided on another career than the minis
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-23

ence, but at present Mexico would not change because the existing conditions are to her advantage. But that argu- ment could not be applied to the United States. This induces manufacturers to come there and employ labor and pay sil- yer and sell their products for gold.
 Most of the enterprises down in Mexico are headed by Americans and Mexico was not undergoing any develop ment until the yankees went down there. The Barnato- -coppany will start things boofniaaer-fn reality. The port for the out put of the properties of his company will be TampicO, where there is channel of 26 feet at the present time"
 In reply to a question, Mir. King said that there was no steamship line to Tampico from New Orleans, but a regu- lar line went to Mobile and carried prod ucts which were shipped to Kansas City and St. Louis. He said that this was attributable to the low rates o-ld good accommoda tions afforded by the Mobile and Ohio railroad. Most of the coal, he said, came hJ- way of Mobile, but he de- cla.2d It would be profitable if ships piled between New Orleans and Tampico, as market could be created easily there for Alabama coal and Pittsburg coal brought to this port in barges.
 Mir. King spoke of the rubber industry
 and said that it had taken on quite spurt on account of the demand for rub Der for bicycle tires. It grows wild in the vicinity of Tamp!co, and there is plenty of it for the markets. The only
 thing 1t needed, he said was capital to get it out.
 MT. King said that Mexico was the
 finest cattle country in the world and
 was rapidly coming to the front in this
 respect. The cattle at present are dwarfed because they have not been
 properly cared for and developed, but
 new breeds are being introduced, and as there are no frosts down there, graz ing is good all the time, and cattle can be fattened very cheaply.
 There is a good deal of corn grown in Mexico. but not much cotton. MT. King stated that the cotton last year brought 20 cents per pound in silver and that corn fetched $1.50 per bushel.
 Discussing the political situation in Mexico, MT. King stated that President Diaz would be unanimously reelected in the fall, when the elections take place. He has conducted the government on
 high and patriotic lines and very much after the manner of the United States as to the principles.
 Mr. King said that no good snaps ex- isted any longer in Mexico as far us railroad franchises went but that people
 with capital and good intentions were received and given every opportunity to l get some return for their investment. Mir King is very intelligent young American, who has become a prominent commercial fixture at Tampico. He is a brother of Mayor Porter King of At l lanta,
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-23

Reed, would be prominent in society here, but as a matter of fact she is seldom heard of in that way. She is a studious girl and of great assistance to her father in his correspondence and other mental work. Possibly Miss Reed perceives such contrast between social life here and that at Washington that she may not think the game worth the candle in her native town.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-23
TO JAMAICA.
Special Excursion From Port Tampa to Ja- maica Island by the Plant Steamship Lines.

maCa iSland Dy the TIdnl otedi'S"ip l"ies'
 Owing to the success and popularity of former excursions from this country to Jamaica island the Plant Steamship lines will run series of them, leaving Port Tampa January r and 31, February IA and 2S. March 13 and 27. Each trip will consume eight days, allow ing two and one-half days on the island. Tickets will be good, however. to return on any ship up to and including April 9. One of the Plant steamship company's and the trip will be most enjoyable one in every particular. Full information will be furnished upon application to
 w. V. LlFSEY,
 Division Passenger Agent, 1.2-tf Montgomery, Ala.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-23
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