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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-23
Senator ouay's Projects.

First of these is the recent declaration
(reported) of Senator Matthew Quay
that he is in favor of liberal appropria-
tions for river improvements. He favors
the expenditure of $50, 600, 600 in the
construction of dams in the Ohio and
the upper Mississippi. where 60 different
dams are proposed, and he would have
half as much again spent in kindred
work elsewhere.
Next comes the report that outside
the mouth of the Eads jetties, in the
South pass, through the delta, there has
formed the great bar which was fore
told by engineers when the construction
of the jetties was begun. 1t was even
then recognized by the best engineers
though Captain Eads never acknowl-
edged it-that even if he should secure
enough ''scour" between his jetties to
carry the silt out to sea, and so prevent
its choking the channel, it would drop
to the bottom outside and form the bar
which now exists.
The Eads jetties, however. are not
part of tho work of the Mississippi river
commission, and the fact that they will
have to be extended for very consid-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-23
A HUNDRED MILLION JOB.
1t VIII Cost This Sum to Fix Up the
mississippi.
Has S7O,OOo,OOO MORE TO SPEND.
Senator Quay Said to Favor Big River
and Harbor APPrOpria ions.

Senator Quay Said to Favor Big River
and Earbor APPrOpria ions.
NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 2o.-The recent
foods in the Mississippi river, in which
a rise Of % feet in two days was record
cd at ST. Louis and similar one at
Cairo soon after, was in reality far more
startling to read about than it was in
any potentiality of evil. The telegraphic
reports of the weather bureau from all
parts of the country showed conclusive
~ that it was a local matter and not
likely to do great damage.
Certain other recent reports, however.
together with the foods, have served TO
attract attention to the great 500, 000,-
900 job to which the United States gov
eminent is committed in the work of the
Mississippi river commission, and this
is perhaps fortunate. It is certainly time
", as congress will be called on before
the end of the present session to provide
further funds for the use of the commits
sion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-23

Everybody takes the JOURNAL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-23

day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-23
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

oaioial Paper of the City of Topeka
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-01-30
Learned In One Lesson.

A truly remarkable story of feline in telligence was lately told by core spondent Of the London Spectator. In deed, it might fairly be called incredi- ble, only that the correspondent, as will be seen, vouches for its truth.
 l am induced to send you an account of a remarkable instance of feline sa- gacity which occurred in my house last week.
 About fortnight ago my black Per sian cat brought to the house young sparrow, and taking it to the front door mat, began stripping it of its feathers. The cook, not approving of the litter made by the said feathers, doubled the mat over and told the cat he must not make such litter, but strew the feathers on the wrong side of the mat and not on the top.
 A fortnight afterward the cat brought ill another bird and, marvellous to say, turned the mat-wh. ch was heavy coil mat-over with his claws, and Uttered the wrong side of 1t with the feathers, precisely as the cock had told him to do.
 This is absolutely true, and without exaggeration.
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The Wailsof the Arab Woman.

Seated in my tent outside the village watching the horses feed. and wonder ing if, after all, it was really worth while ever to oreturn to England, heard vail. Like the Celtic "coronach, ;" the Arab vail is something outside human fly. No jackal or coyote can produce a sound more dismal, It makes you sad at once, and yet sadness must be kind of mental convention after all, for both the "ooronach" and the Arab cry are just as doleful when they issue from the lips of professional mourner. Fancy a mute at funeral impressing one with sadness or inducing thoughts of any thing but gin and water. At the door of little hut appeared woman scarcely yelled, Ter hair streaming like d pony's tail after her another, and then group of children, all raising the same doleful cry. Then flom the other beehives and huts came groups of women, to comfort and to vail ill concert. h the midst was the widow, with tears running down her cheeks, and striking her nails into her arms and breast. The night be- fore horse had fallen on her husband and killed him.
 The sorrow that is dumb is not for Arabs, the reserve of power we hear so much of and which makes our grief, our joy, our eloquence, our acting seem so unreal to all except ourselves is not for those who see the un.-Saturday Re- ViaW
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The Heart of Gotham,

The real heart of Gotham, the brains and genius of the metropolis. are to be found in very small section of this big city, writes a New York correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch. Between Fourteenth and Fortieth streets are found the men who write our dramas, who make our songs, who compose the music for our operas, whose pens are responsible for many of those bright lit tie bits of hHmor that tighten our lives, whose brains invent many of the ideas that other men utilize. 1t is no exagger- ation to say that this section is responsi- ble for nearly every bit of the new or original literary matter that is produced in this city. If it is not actually com posed in the little world designated, it is there critically examined, revised, amended or corrected and put into the shape ill which it is finally given to the public. On Broadway, between the streets named, one is constantly bump ing against men and women who are re- sponsible for good deal of the music and laughter of this whole country.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-01-30
Turning the Tables.

A professor who once took with him to an appointment fayorite student thought to test the young man. He was to take the morning service and the yonng man that of the evening. Accord ingly while on the road to the ap- pointment the professor pumped" the youngster Witness his surprise when on giving out his text he found that the professor had stolen a march upon him. His surprise was turned to dismay when he found that not only text, but also "heads and all had been appropriated. Now, it happened that the pulpit was an old fashioned one, and the professor was very stout. To get in, a ladder had to be procured to enable him to climb over the top. After service he chuckled over his triumph His triumph was, however, turned to disaster at night when the young man announced his text, "He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is thief and robber "--Newcastle Chronicle
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-01-30
FRANCISCO MIRANDA.
Held In Reverence In Venezuela as a Pio-
 neor of Liberty.

necr of Liberty.
 Francisco Miranda was type of the reckless fighter and adventurer always dear to the hero worshiper. and he was so closely identified with the inception of Venezuela a's revolution against Spain that he will always be held as nation al hero.
 He was born in Caracas in 1756 and entered the Spanish military service when he was IT. He served in the Unit ed States in 1780 and later in Cuba. He was forced to leave Cuba for some illegal transaction, and for several years led an adventurous life in Russia, Turkey, England and Germany. He went into the French service at the outbreak of the revolution and by brilliant service reach ed the rank of major general. His name is on the Arc de Triomphe ill Paris, as one of the great captains of the revo- lution. His reckless and adventurous spirit apparently kept him i'll constant conflict with sober law, for in 1797 he was condemned by the directory, but es- capped to England. Receiving no aid in England, he came to the United States.
 Here he put into motion his scheme of freeing his native country from the Spanish rule. He found means to eauip two small vessels and with 200 yolun- teers he sailed for Venezuela. He landed early Ill 1906 and was attacked by superior Spanish force, losing many of his men. The Spanish captain burned Miranda ill effigy and offered $50, 0OC for his capture. He recouped his forces, and few months later took Spanish town, but did not succeed in arousine the people to revolution
 It was some time later that he met Bolivar and with him went to Europe tc secure aid Tor their enterprise
 When they returned in December, 1910, Miranda organized the first repub- lican government, which was made pos, sible by the uprising of the people ill April, 1910. He was vice president oi congress and signed the constitution and the act of independence. He was com mander of the army and won several victories over the Spanish, but his disre. gard for all proprieties finally got him into trouble. His fellow officers among the reyolutionists turned against him, he was accused of being a traitor to the cause, and in 18ls he was taken prisoner by his own party,
 He was allowed to fall into the hands of the Spanish authorities, who sent him to Cadiz in 1913 as political prisoner. Three years later, on July 14, 1916, he died. New York Mail and Express
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The Professional Woman.

|sas aslsalet sangster, writing of women |0d o ,a workers, says, .'The daily wear
 N 0bt sai oi nerves, temper and clothing
 |spoa asa,ory office attendance cannot be |aa asaa'eiy e@ stated Or paid fur in dollars |sa lSA's' ha and therefore woman must
 Eal a": aos profession over and above finan-
 she eaAs , ana pursue it for it's own sake |tosen "oaia o md in 1t the rewards of a
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-01-30
What ..sraIiciouso Means.

A prospective juror, wearing long hair and wealth of whiskers, caused much laughter in Judge Dunne's court.
 ''Do you understand the meaning of the word .malicious?' J asked the attor- ney for the defense.
 "Of course I do, promptly replied the man ill the jury box.
 "Well, now, what does it meanF'
 "soldiers, answered the bewhisker- cd juror. Then he looked surprised while the court told him he was excused from further service.
 He afterWard said he thought that the lawyer asked him the meaning Of the word militia. "--ESchange.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-01-30

nass a1s,asf ss how much more you often Eun II ,toln your anger and grief than |,s an Mose very things for which you
 |iaps e1s and grieyed. -Mareus Anto-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-01-30
Gustave Flaubert.

Nausea at his immediate surroundings was always characteristic of Flaubert. Du Camp tells us that at Croisset he dreamed of travel in the east, and in the east he longed passionately for home. The discomfort he felt with everything around him was part of the desire for spaciousness, for freedom, that was the concomitant of his malady. Before he was 20 this nausea at life had already appeared. Ut is strange, J he writes to Dn Camp in l846, "that I should have been born with so little faith in happi- ness. When 1 was quite young, had a complete presentiment of life. It was like an odor of unpleasant cooking es- caplng by a venthole One does not need to have eaten of it to know that it will make one vomit. In letter writ ten when lie was less than IS to Ernest Cheyalier we get the same curious mix ture of irony and disgust-the distem- per of Rousseau mingled with the laugh ter of Rabelais-that we find in his later ilfe dissect unceasingly; that amuses me, and when at last have dis covered corruption in what was thought pure, when 1 have found gangrene in some lovely thing, lift up my head and laugh. ,"
 To Mme. X. he wrote in 1846: q have never seen an infant without think ing that one day he would be an old man, nor a cradle without dreaming of tomb. The contemplation of woman sets me musing of her skeleton. It is on this account that joyful sights make me sad and sad ones scarcely affect me. When l had family, often wished 1 had it not, in order to be mora free. to go and live in China or among sayages Now that I no longer have a family l regret it, and I cling to the walls where its shadow still fingers "-- Fortnightly Review.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-01-30
BEAUTIFUL JAPANESE CATHEDRAL.
And Its Unique Way of Protection From
 Fire by F0nntains.

Fire by Fountains.
 When foreign architects visit Japan and see the cathedral of Buddhism fol the first time, they are generally aston. ished at the magnificent structure. It is executed in pure oriental style and is richly ornamented with carvings. H. Ito, famous builder of Nagoya City, designed it. The structure was com. meneed in 1878 and was completed in 1895. The cost has been estimated al ST, GOO, 000. It would have greatly ex- ceeded this amount had not numbers of Buddhists worked without any recon pense.
 As tho structure neared completion the committee having the work ill charge was much perplexed as to fire insurance. They found that no company would assume the risk on such valu- able wooden structure, the danger of de- struction by fire being very great, and thus the premiums would amount to all enormous sum of money. At last the committee decided on design devised by Dr. Tanabe Numbers of powerful fountains were constructed, both exterior and interior, which can be made to play on all parts of the structure at the same time.
 Usually only one great ornamental fountain is playing, rising to the great height of 157 feet. This is probably the largest artificial fountain iii existence, emitting 82. 080 gallons per hour. In case of fire all the water pressure is di- reeted through the numbers of exterior and interior fountains. Thus every part of the structure, both inside and out, could soon be dronohed and any conda- grafton soon extinguished. St. Louis Glohe-D Dpnlocrat
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-01-30
The GiIded Man.

At the headwaters of the Orinoco the Spanish traditions located the land of Fl Dorado, "The Gilded Man, po- tentate whose country was so rich in gold dust that he had his body anointed with oil and sprinkled with gold every morning, so that he shone i'll the sun as though gilded It is curious fact that the country i'll which tradition located this marvellous being has never been ex- nlored by white man.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-01-30
1rirst nnrseIeea Oarriage Invention.

Maryland has furnished so many of the first things ill invention and con struction that it will surprise no one to hear that tie first invention of horse less carriage in America was by Mary lander. It vas almost century ago. Baltimore American.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-01-30
THE WINTER TERM
THE
NtTTLETON'S COMMERCIAL
COLLEGE.

both Day and Night, will open Mon- day, Dec. 30. Parents and guar dians are invited to call and exam iHe our work and methods. We guatantee our commercial training to be as good as any in the South Educate at home and save the ex- pense of railroad fares, board in large cities, etc. Money saved is money earned. " Terms reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed.
 NIGHT SCHOOL-The busy sea son is now over, and young people who cannot attend school fin the day can spend two or three hours in the school-room at night with profit. Call at the college, cor 4th and Pine, or address T. s. NETTLYToN, Prin.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-16
NEM YORK sTOCK MARKET.

New York, Oct. 15.-The stock mar
xelt to-day was irregular with a sag
DING tendency on a diminished volume
Of business. The professional traders
maintained their control of the specn-
laIbion. but some commission house
purchases for cash were also reported.
The Industrials bore the brunt of per-
sistent bear drives, and the general
list was alphabetically depressed.
The market asM whole was unfayor-
ably affected BY the stiffness in the
money market, and by an unexpected
heavy withdrawal of gold from ths
sub-Treasury under somewhat peca-
liar circumstances.
The close Was weak ali sxactieaaa act
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-16
THE CROP A Bic ONE
The Movement of Cotton Con-
tinues TO be Heavy.
AND PRICES ARE IRREGULAR
The Market Closodat Net Loss
Of 9 TO 6 Points
FAIL uRE OF THIS WaEAr CROP
The Stock Market Was Irregular and
With saggi & 7 tendency or a
Diminished Volume Of
Business.
FAILURE OF T4s w4eAr CROP
Business.

New York. Oct 15.-Business in cot
ron to-day was at irregular prices and
IN small volume. dependent chiefly up
ON local trading. The opening call
showed a loss of sac points, cables
being disappointing. A rally Of B to
II points followed ON Indications Of
subsidinr receipts at the ports and
firmer spot markets in the South. At
the same time print clio rs reports
from Fall River were better, showing
that sales thus far this we k exceeded
one weeks production. j aiding was
conservative throughout TIE session,
and THE close was steady a unchanged
prices.
HUBBARD BROS. 81 CO.'S LETTER.
New York, Oct. 15.--(SpeciaD The
markets to-day are practically UNI
changed, the decline in Liverpool be-
ing the expected response of cotton up
ON this market for immediate de-
livery. 1t is not strange that we are
without any decided tendency. 1t is
rather more remarkable that we should
maintain the present parity above the
foreign markets, than that we should
not advance. The movement of the
crop continues upon such a scale that
Europe is simply pointing to the re-
ceipts remarking that the movement
shows that all the tales of woe regard
ing short crop are only another case
of CRYING wolf and that we have
only to wait until the pressure be-
comes too great for the Americans to
hold and then we can buy at our own
prices. One of the reasons for the
delivery Of cotton here is the high
rates of ocean freights which are not
confined altogether to transatlantic
shipments, but which are found all
over the world and mark the evident
improvement in trade in every country
but our own. The market rallied
sharply during the afternoon and
closed slightly higher than last even
ing. There has been IA better under
tone to-day than yesterday, but the
approaching elections prevent any
activity.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-16
CHESTER AND LENOIR R. R. co.
PASSENGES DEPARTMENT.

Schedule condensed, showing conneS
tiOns between Raleigh, N. c., ana
Lenoir, N. c., for Blowing Rock.
Season 1896.
Leave Raleigh, via Seaboard Air Line,
900 a. m.
Leave Lincolnton, N. c., via Chester
and Lenoir, 1856 p. m.
Arrive Lenoir, n. c., via Chester ana
Lenoir, 3.15 p. m.
Arrive Blowing Rock, N. c., via stage
line, 10 p. m.
Leave Raleigh, N. c., via Southers
Railway, p. m.
Leave Salisbury, N. c., via Southern
Railway, 1925 a. m.
Leave Hickory, N. c., via Chester ana
Lenoir 2:10 p. M.
Arrive Lenoir, N. c., via Chester and
Lenoir 3:15 p. m.
Arrive Blowing Rock, N. c., stage
line, 10 p. m.
G. w. F. HARPER, Receiver,
Lenoir " G.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-16
NEW YORK.

New YoRR, Oct. b. Flour firm; city
mill patent %.65a4.90; do. clears &.l0a4.25;
Minnesota patents $395o43O; Minnesota ba-
kers $27O03.35; winter patents $3.95D420;
do. straights $3.65(d375; do. winter extras
81. 100000; low grades $2.l0(G2.30.
Southern flour firm at $3.75.
Rye -four firm; superfine $2.6O02.7O; fancy
$2.75(d2.90.
Buckwheat -four steady at s.. 40a145
Buckwheat quiet at 80.
Corn meal steady; yellow western 81; city
62; BrandyWine STU
Rye firmer; No. 2 western 441@454; car
lots 5000
Barley firmer: feeding 292, mailing IS 4d46
barley malt dull; western 52a55
Wheat, spot irregular; no. Northern New
York, 774 t. 0. b. Hiioat; No. ] hard 7936
f. o. b. afioat Options, No. 2 red January
778a7S4, closed 784 February closed March
closed -, May rs IL l6aS0, closed 79B; October
closed 75b; November closed 76A; December
7G ll-l6, closed r.
Corn, spot easier; No. q 8l4 in elevator; 32&
afioat; options, January closed -; May 33&1
34&, closed BAN; October closed 81: Novem-
Der closed 3lA; December 81 4a33 closed ~.
Oats, spot easier No. 2, 22A; No 2 deIiV-
cred 23t; No. 3, 20H; No. white %; No 8,
white 23&, track white 20a30k; options. May
closed 241; October closed 22k; November
closed -; December closed 23k.
Feed firm; brand 45@Mk middlings GOA
Rye feed, 50a52]4; city, 55a57&
Hay easy; shipping 55a65 good to choice
Hops dul State, common to choice, 1894
crop, 2&a4Ai 1885 crop, 346&; 1896 crop, z; Pa
cine coast, 1854 crop, G59a8.
Hides irm;, wet selected, New Orleans, 4a5
G5 lbs -; Galveston, z0a25 lbs, II; Buenos
Ayres dry, 20a24 lbs, u; Texas, dry 24a80 lbs
~; California, 2la25 lbs. 10.
Leather firm, Hemlook sole Buenos Ayres.
light TO heavy weights, 10 l-2a20; acid, 194a22
Wool firm; domestic fleece, l1aiS; pulled
15a20.
Coal steady.
Beef firm family S9a$l0: extra mess
500; beef hams $500 packed $s.0Oas.0O; city
extra India mess g11aI300
Cut meats firm; picked bellies 5G6;
picked shoulders 4aa4h; do. hams 9G9k.
Lard steady; western steam $.57K; 0ctc-
Der S4.55; refined steady; continent $500;
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-16
M0YIRe FIFTH.
Land for Sale

On Monday. October 26th. 1896. at he court
house door in Raleigh, N @ / will sell at
public cutlery the following described tract
of land in Wake county; The tr&ct of land
in Cary township adjoining the Lands of A.
@. Jones' the late Willie Baucoi~ tne late
u. H. Afford ana Others and cont jDlng 374
acres more or less It being che lat q rwned
by the late Jesse Weathers mt his geath.
said land VIII be sold in three pa sells, as
follows:
LIST One hundred acres to be cut Oh of the
north side of the tract by lne running
parallel with A. G Jones' line. being that
portion OF said lands covered by the mort
gage from Jesse Weathers to J. ID CASTLE
berry, registered in Book No. lJN p. IS, of
the Registers Office of Wake county.
"a All that 20 tfon of said tract 81 34
acres hich ia not embraced 81, said 100
acres above described nor in th WIDOWS
dover. This parcel contains lI3 acre more
or less.
8rd That portion Of said lands ich was
allotted to Edith Weathers, wa r" uf esse
Weathers, for her dover, containing G6
acres, more or less, and fully dc-e#tbed ia
the Judgment of Wake superb d, urt, rem.
der80 at april term. 1885, In th, ra sasof Ed
wards ct ais v. Weathers ct ais, id tudg-
ment being recorded in the minutes o said
court for said April term. 1855 pages 235
ct seq. This parcel will DO SOLD INFECT to
the life estate Of said Faith We@thars
sale made pursuant TO said iuGgWert in
OF als V Weathars et01s glove re-
ferred to- Terms of sale, cash E0ur
SALE II M. r. IT BATTLE,
COmmt iOuer
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-16
RALEIGH TOBACCO MARKET.
NEW YORK MONEY MARK EFT.

NEW YORK, October l5.-BIoney on call
firm at 4a8 per cent? last loan ~; closed at "A
per cent Prime mercantile paper S@9
per cent. Sterling exchange steady, with &C
tual business ia bankers bills at $4.S3A (a4S4
for demand and S4.S0A6d4.Sl for sixty days
Posted rates $4.slka4S3 and $l.84ha485
Commercial bills, S4.79A. Bar silver 648. Mex
lean dollars ~. Silver certificates, 65W654
Government bonds firm. State bonds duh
Railroad bonds weak.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-16
LoCAL sTOCK MARKET.
GRAIN AND pRODuCE.

Chicago, H., Oct 15.-The failure
of the wheat crop in Indiana, attested
by the continued engagements for
shipment TO the country, helped wheat
to regain what it lost yesterday and a
little more, too, December closing at
Ne. advance. The coarser grains were
not sympathetic, corn closing un-
changed, and oats 1sc. lower. Provi-
sions advanced 2h@12hc.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-16
RALTIMORF-
NAVAL STORES.

CHARLESTON, s. C., Oct, 15.-Rosin firm
at S1.40.
Turpentine firm at 20.
WILMINGTON n. c., October 15.-ROsin
firm strained sl.45; good $3.50; spirits duh
at 266p26x.
Tar firm, at St.00.
Turpentine quiet; hard Sl.30, soft $I.7O; vir-
gin $3.50.
SAVANNAH, Ga, oct. 15.-spirits firm, at
26%. Sales 2,il9.
1928; N, sos; NJ, l.85; X, $l65; T. 100; H. SLIGO;
G, $l.55; +, $50; e, Sl50; d, G, j and A,
$3.50, Sales, 2,G62