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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-15
REMNANT PRICES
AT THE TOWER,
ON THE
Corner of Second and Broad Streets.

Better opportunities for saving money
upon ell purchases here cannot be found
elsewhere.
BLACK SILKS.
A special counter Is devoted this MORN
ing to the display OF several Black SIX
Favorites. Black Figured Silks selling
at Sc. Special price. 81 i-2c.
PRINTED INDIA SILKS.
These Genuine India silks, which are
shown this morning in the latest Paris
designs, are the choicest Silks OF the
kind exhibited upon our counters this
season. We have priced them S9c.
LADIES' UMBRELLAS.
These special prices should make this
one-day sale n memorable one. You have
never seen such bargains as these, and
may never see their equal again. Ladies'
Sl65 Jewel-Handle Umbrellas for S5c.
our 81 TwiIled UntJrellas. good service.
for GO lie
DANAsk TOWELS.
Satin Damask Towels, knotted fringe
and drawn-work, goods that sold at lSc.;
little soiled, for lie.
WHITE VICTORIA LAWN.
Fine and sheer; these prices have never
been approached.
i6 2-3c quality, i0c.
20c. quality II l-2c
25c. quality, Is 2-Sc.
90e ouqfffv 00o
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-15
LADIES' UMBRELLAS.
.ANIASk TOWELS.
WHITE yIcTORIsLtMN.

Satin Damask Towels knotted fringe
and drawn-work, goods that sold at lSc.
little sOiled for lie
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-08
Hon. Alex. A. Lesueur.

From the Liberty Advance.
Alexander A. Lesucur, descendant
of one of the oldest French families of
the Missouri valley, was born in st
Louis, Nov. %, 1912. He was edu-
Gated at the St. Louis university and
entered upon mercantile pursuits.
which were interrupted by the portents
of war. Young, ardent, spirited, and
with an instructive fondness for military
life, ms first experience as a soldier
was as a member of Capt. Geo. w.
Vests company, General Frost's brig
ade, in what is historically known as
the Southwest expedition, in 1860. The
civil war coming on, he left St. Louis
May 8, 1861, as private in Capt. 10.
Keliy's company of infantry. Later he
was promoted to sergeant major of
battalion, and at Cassville he organized
an artillery company and was captain,
commanding the Third Missouri field
battery, Parsons division, C. S. A.
The performances of Lesueur's battery
made il famous in the annals of the
war in The west, and the brilliant
record of its young commander gave
him permanent place in the history
of Missouri.
Returning to Missouri at the close of
the war, he settled in Lafayette county
in 1865, where in 1868, he married
Mis- Florence F., daughter of Hon.
VIM. X. Trigg of that county, after a
romantic courtship beginning in Texas,
whittier the Trigg family had been
banished during the hostilities, and
eliminating at the brides ancestral
home in Missouri when white-winged
Peace had come again to the land.
Capt. Lesueur found the democratic
party of the state and of his county
demoralized and dispirited. But he
became the first chairman of the dem
ocratic county committee of Lafayette
county after the war, and Infused his
restless and indomitable spirit INTO the
party uutil it became the superb organ
ization it has been ever since. Fol-
long years he was the editor of the
Lexington INTELLIGENCER, and in 1889
was president of the Missouri Press
association. He served his county as
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-08
First GUN of the War.

n
rou. "a. ' Traa,s;or Snr;nas lac, wee. ,ba
state committee fired the
G.. 90 tho var The hattie of 1860
ann-o.ob.s and organization and alion-
nan, are wa,cbvordc of the Missouri
,,o,oor.or The amba,,led hosts of that
.,n data.,.a Of the last election bv
IT, domoor.,s who snlked in their
tents now mean business. Now mean
,,;,v ot .o,;on on nrinciples of COM
eanse and common patriotism.
NJ. an that aurino the cominu
na or tho naIls in No.
-. -. ..,,,, ss,sac;a,
,.n.,,i. s,,d shIaia ~
......,.. ,~,.,,,s, < camm,n flar They
80. g thsv mean anvtbiuc tl,a,
a;,,,a. honast differences of opinion In
ras,,ao, ~ the financial ouestion. nor
,.sdars national or state. shall
,iv;,Ie and defeat them. but submitting
tho ,,;ll of the majority of the party
- tho state on the ouestion of coinage
m work and yoto together as demo.
Gratis
Tha dauocrat. of Missour, have a
- - e., ,hiuv I'm tor,v ,hops.
'otihg ioieo i'oA 'A' -. -,
and IN excess OF the iePuDi'cahs' lhey
intend to utilize that force for the resto-
ration of the interests of the people,
ii It.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-08

The report of the majority OF the
finance committee was sustained
throughout. Senator Jones of Arkan-
sas managed the bill, and did 1t with
extreme tact, good nature and efficiency.
There were some surprises when the
vote was announced. 1t was expected
that Baker of Kansas, Mcbride of Ar
kansas and Martin of Virginia would
vote for the bill, but they registered
their votes on the other side. Senator
Mills of Texas voted for the bill in
committee of the whole and against it
on the final vote in the senate. The
action of the Texas Senator meant that
he preferred the free coinage of silver
to the issue of bonds, and consequently
voted for the report of the senate
finance committee, which substituted
free coinage for the house bond bill.
When the free coinage bill pure and
simple, however, without o possibility
of being substituted for bond bill,
was before the senate the Texas senator
voted against it. This was IN accor-
dance with the plainly expressed and
well-understood views of Senator Mills.
OF the AZ senator's who voted for the
ill, 20 were democrats, Is republicans
and populists. OF those who voted
against the bill, % are republicans and
Is democrats. Nobody expects, of
course, that the house will adopt the
senate bill, but it is probable that there
will be conference committee, and
that serious effort will be made to
get up some scheme while the bill is in
conference that would meet the ap-
proval of both houses and, perhaps.
the president. 1t is very doubtful
however, at this time if any measure
can be patched up that would meet the
approval of the divergent sentiments OF
the senate, house and President Cleye-
land.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-08

who for many years lived near Arrow
Rock, in Saline county, who was we'll
known here in Brunswick, who was n
portrait painter of rare skill, and who
opposed the issuing of the order and
begged and pleaded with Ewing not to
issue 1t, When Ewing persisted, Bing-
ham became defiant, aud told Ewing
if he issued that order he would make
him '.infamous." He watched the
wretchedness aud want and suffering
inflicted upon these people by these
reyengeful jayhawkers. After the war
closed, with masters hand, he
painted a picture called .'Order No.
H." 1t showed women and children
being driven from their burning houses
or their own farms by a cruel set of
armed marauders. The painting became
very celebrated, the artist having been
offered once $1,000 and at another
time $4,000 for it. Photographic
copies of it were made, and sold every
where, and many of them can yet be
found in Missouri homes, and every
where where the history of the picture
is known E~ing's name is cursed and
denounced as 'infamous." After the
war Ewing became prominent in Ohio
politics a. democrat, but lost the
Office OF governor by reproductions in
the public prints of the history and
painting of "Order No. H." He aspired
to be president. But the south and
west called ont ssOrder No. IL" and
made his name again s'infamous.r He
left Ohio and went TO New York, where
he became prominent at the bar, but
ne has for fifteen years, although he
belonged to one of the proudest fami-
lies in Ohio, had no public influence
either inside or outside his party.
''Order No. IL" laid waste many a
home in western Missouri, and laid
waste the otherwise far name of
Thomas Ewing. No tears have been
shed nor will be she'd in Missouri at the
announcement of his death. Such men
should be forever '.infamous.''
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-08
THE OFFICIAL CALL
Issued for the Convention to be Held
at Sedalia April 18th.

The following has been issued by
the democi attic State Central Com
miItee and~will be mailed 10 the chair-
man of each county committee:
Headquarters Democratic State Cen
trail COMMITTEE, St. Lonis, Mo-, Jan.
20, 1s96.-At meeting of the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee, held
on January 25th, 1896, at Excelsior
Springs, Mo-, Democratic State
Convention was called to meet at
Sedalia, Mo-, at ~ o'clock (noon) on
v ednesday, April 10, 1896, for the
purpose of selecting thirty-four dele
gates and thirty-four alternates, being
two delegates and alternates from
each Congressional District and four
delegates and four alternates from the
state at large TO the National Demo-
cratic Convention to be held in the city
of Chicago on Tuesday, July 9Th. 1896.
The basis of representation upon
which delegates are to he elected TO the
S .dalia convention is one delegate for
every 500 or traction of $50 or more
votes cast in each representative dis
trict of the state outside the cify az 81.
Louis and in each ward In. 81 I1onis for
the Democratic electors IN 1894 The
manner and metl,o1 81 se;eetfne dele
gates are 10 bel defermi1ed by the
county c556nsiftees IN the several
COUNTIES in IRE state.
Beliering that the welfare of the
party will best be subserved by ample
time being given for full and free dis
discussion of public, questions, we
earnestly but respectfully recommend
to the various county committees of the
state that no county convention for the
purpose of selecting delegates TO the
Sedalia convention be held prior TO
April 1, 1896.
Desiring to secure the most efficient
organization possible, we earnestly
recommend to the various county con-
ventions OF the state that when they
meet tor the purpose of selecting dele
gates TO the Sedalia convention they
then elect their county central COM
mittees for the ensuing two years.
(Under the basis Of representatit n
given above the county of Lafayette
will be entitled to eight delegates.)
The democratic voters of Missouri
are earnestly requested to participate in
the selection of delegates from their
respective legislative districts.
c. c. MAFFITT,
Chairman Democratic Central Commit
tee.
j. w. ZEvELY, Secretary.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-08
To whom does it beiongP"
Farms and Farming.

From the Richmond Dispatch.
The egg product of this country Is
estimated at $3.50. 900, 900 per annum.
The farmers OF our country raised in
1889 2,sl2, ,437 bushels of Canada peas.
The sugar naples of the United
States yielded IN 1898 $500, 900
pounds.
Arkansas has log acres planted in
barley, with product of 994 bushels.
Missouri raised in 1890 45o, 1881
bushels of fax seed and l 1853 pounds
fiber.
Most of the beet sugar made in this
country is manufactured in California.
Arizona has the smallest number
of improved acres on her farms,
104, 4,-12S.
The farms of Arkansas produced in
1889 S53, 122, 1856 worth of cotton and
grains.
The farms of Kansas produced IN
The census year an estimated value Of
90s0I0-0 -0S0- -. ..ss.-.s.ss.s
The Increase 10 fFait farms IL tAl'
country has been mainly in the wesl
and southwest.
Missouri in 1890 had 1906 acre.
planted in barley, which produced
"a 1868 bushels
In 1898 there were produced in tn,
United States 9s6.s0O pounds o
sorghum sugar.
Kansas raised in 1890, 994, ,12;
bushels of fax seed and sc, ,O93 pound
of fiber.
Nebraska, according to the las
census. had l1S,6Os farms, having
81 .593, ,444 acres.
Missouri grew in the census yea
thirty-one tons of hemp from seventy
nine acres.
Missouri in 1890 had 1876, TOt
acres sowed in oats, which produce,
80, $50, 149 bushels.
In 1898 there were 26,320,677 acre
| OF oats sown and yield of 609 ,260, ,66(
| bushels.
Missouri produced, according to tn
last census year, 30s,s07 bushels O
rye from "a 1888 acres.
The value of the farm products O
New England has steadily declined TO
number of years.
The best rice-producing state i
Louisiana, having S4,377 acres pro
ducing 75,646,4 ,433 pounds.
There were 93,425 acres of broom
coru sown in 1889, and SO, ,557 ,42!
pounds of product raised.
On June /, 1890, the value of all tn
live stock on hand in the United State
WAS 81, POS, ,767,573.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-08
CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS.
Judge WIlIiam Young OF Lafayette
County Announces.
-. ~. ,.,,,o,,a,,oonc. sen,,ne,

From the Independence Sentinel.
In y letter to the Lexington INTEL
LlGENcER, published Saturday, Judge
William Young, of Lafayette county,
announces that he is a candidate for
the nomination for congress from the
Fifth district, composed of Jackson.
and Lafayette counties. Judge Young
is a well known man of Lafayette
county and also in the district He
was soldier during the war on the
confederate side and was severely
wounded. He has for several years
served as probate judge of Lafayette
county, and from the complimentary
notices from the papers of his own
county, is held in high esteem regard
less of party. Lafayette county thus
makes n formal bid for the congress
sional candidate. The result can be
better told after while.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-08
Make Room for Russia.


Salisbury's speech at the meeting of the
Non-Conformist Unionists is said to
have disappointed his warmest ad-
mirers, especially in his exposure of
The weakness of Great Britain in the
east and in his explanation of her rea
sons for non-interference in the behalf
of the Armenians.
His repeated acceptance OF the Mon
roe doctrine, however, shows that the
common sense policy advocated by Mr..
Gladstone in the treatment of the Vene-
zuelan question is finding root in high
quarters and this is a most timely
showing for public sentiment is becom-
ing strongly opposed to the Premier's
attitude toward America, North as well
as South.
George J. Goschen, first lord Of the
admiralty, will move the address IN the
House of Commons in reply to the
queens speech at the opening of par
lament, and Sir John Maxwell will
second the motion. The stand taken
by the government in regard to the
Venezuelan and Armenian questions
will be challenged by the liberals.
Mr.. Justin Mccarthy has summoned
e meeting of the Irish parliamentary
party for next Saturday, and 1t is
understood that upon that occasion the
reform organization movement wiz be
considered. Mr.. Mccarthy, it is sid,
will be reelected chairman.
The st. James Gazette this after
noon announced that it had learned
that the government had settled, SO far
as possible, the programme for the
work Of the session. The proposals of
the government, the st. James Gazette
adds, will deal with four groups OF
subjects, national defense and increase
of the navy, measures, for the relief oi
husbandry, Irish land legislation aud
the question of the support of the vol
untary schools.
Before any progress is made with
these measures, however, there will be
discussion Of the foreign and colonial
policy of the government, especially
regarding the Transvaal. Venezuelan
and Armenia, and the latter subject
proposes to provide much interesting
reading in view of the admissions oi
Great Britian's weakness which the
Marquis of Salisbury made last evening
and which, it is claimed, show that
there has been a complete failure Of
British diplomacy.
All the newspapers dwell upon the
gravity of the statements made by the
Premier and admit that British inter-
vention in the affairs of the Turkish
empire has resulted in fiasco The
st. James Gazette says: Armenia wa:
the Marquis of Salishury's first failure
and it II a serious one. The failure is
chiefly Lord Roseberry's and Lord
Kimberly's. but the Marquis of Sails.
bury is also responsible. If he had
retired from an almost impossible posi-
tion, the precursors, five months of the
autumn massacres would have been
avoided and yesterdays hnmilatipg
confession of failure and impotence
would not have been needed.
The Westminster Gazette remarks
According to the Marquis of Salisbury's
speech the Berlin treaty meant nothing
and no engagement existed. If so, had
not we better confess the farcical
futility OF the whole performance and
make room for Russia or any Other
power who can influence the sultan?
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-08
FREE COINAGE BILL PASSES.
Substituted for the House Bond Meas
ure by a Vote of FOrty-twO TO
Thlrty-five.

Washington, Feb. 1.-The free com
age bill passed the senate today by
majority of seven. There was good
deal of parlmmenIy sparring before the
final vote was reached and "a number of
senators were disappointed because
the7 were excluded from offering
amendments.
The amendments that We're pending
before two o'clock were voted upon
and rejected. es
Then Mr.. German made a motion to
lay the whole bill on the table and this
was defeated. sRsz
The bill was reported then from
committee of the. whole TO the senate
and passed by the following vote of AZ
IN %.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-08
Gen. Ewing and "Order mo-. 1I.,

From the Brunswick BrunsWickeT.
General Thomas Ewing was killed IN
New York on Monday by a cable car
while attempting to cross a street.
Next to Jim Lane and Chas ID. Drake,
General Ewing was The most thoroughly
hated man connected with the CIVIL
war in Missouri. While stationed al
Kansas City, in revenge for Quantrell's
savage raid on Lawrence, Kansas, he
undertook to issue 'sOrder No. H."
which was the act of tyrant. Its
history shows the biting misery inno-
cent people had to suffer In those times
from the hands of rowing bands of
guerrillas on both sides which were not
composed of brave generals and soldiers
in open and honorable battle, but OF
hateful marauders whose purpose was
to murder, rob and despoil. "Order
No. IL" commanded all persons then
living in the counties of Jackson, Cass
and Bates, except those in the principal
towns, to ,remoye from their places of
abode within fifteen days. All persons
who conld show 10 the nearest military
eommandsrs that they we're loyal Ctr.
zeus were permitted 80 move 70 the
military stations or to Kansas. All
other persons were directed to move
entirely out of these counties. Their
grain and hay were to be taken to the
nearest military stations, where the
owners were granted certificates show
ing their value, and all produce not SC
delivered was to be destroyed. The
military commanders were to see that
this order was strictly complied with,
and they did so with dire earnestness
and cruelty. The whole district soon
presented a scene of blackened desola-
tion rarely equalled. Cass county was
almost wholly depopulated. OF its
10, 900 inhabitants only 600 remained
in the county, and these were gathered
at the military stations of HarrisOnville
and Pleasant Hill. There was alno m
immense destruction of property. One
third of the houses of the county were
burned, and one-half OF the farms laid
waste. In Bates results were still
worse. Within fifteen days nearly
every inhabitant had crossed the Dor,
der, and for three years its history was
blank. During these years the
prairie fires swept over the land,
adding to the desolation, and when, in
1866, the old Inhabitants returned,
not vestige of their old homes was
left save the blackened chimneys
rising above the rank weeds. Fol-
these reasons these counties were fol-
IA score of years known as the ''BurnI
District" " A member of Gen. Ewing's
staff was Col. George c. Bingham,
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-08
PRESIDING ELDERS APPOINTMENTS.

PRESIDING ELDERS APPOINTMENTS.
Columbus circuit at Columbus Feb
ruary s 8.
Odessa and Marvin, at Odessa, Feb
ruary 8 10.
WarrensburG station, February 1916.
Montserrat circuit, at Montserrat, Feb
ruary 22-23.
Lamont station, February 1924.
Wellington circuit, at Wellington, Feb
ruary 90 and March !.
Sweet Springs at Blackwater, March 7-s.
Hcradon and Houstonia at Herndon,
March II IS.
Elmwuod and Dethel, at Bethel, March
81 - > Hl.
G.i,i-r .,uL Black burn at Corder, March
u ~ M.
J. NJ. Boon, Presiding Elder.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-08
FOR THE SOUTH POLE.
intentions of BOrchgrevink, the
Norwegian Explorer Eleven
Scientists to Accompany the
Daring NOrseman.

New York, Feb. &C. Egbert
Borchgrevink, the Norwegian explorer,
arrived here on the Umbria today.
Borchgreyink has taught the world
pretty much all It knows about the
great continent which lies in sout hern
Polar seas, and # his plans as now
arranged are carried out, he will be
able to tell much more after he gets
back from an expedition which he is to
undertake next winter
The scheme that the explorer has IN
hand Is to travel over 100 miles inland
on snow Shoes and sledges, with three
Norwegian companions, that he may
reach the South magnetic pole. He
expects that it will take him more than
two years to do SO, but he talks of the
undertaking as IL such trip were to
him nothing more than a little jaunt
through Europe to an ordinary man.
Speaking of the proposed expedition,
Borchgrevink says:
..The most difficult part of the matter
has already been accomplished. That
is the raising of the money. A COM
meroial company has been formed IN
England for the purpose of whaling
and getting cargoes of gusno from the
Antartic regions. This company has
agreed TO send out an expedition next
September. Eleven scientists are to GO
with the expedition. We have char
tered the auxiliary steamer. Jason, the
whaler which took DIR. Hansen into
the Arctic regions. We will sail right
for Cape Adare, which is on the New
Continent. We expect to get there by
November l. We will have another
seventy-four ton steamer and naptha
launch with us. The two steamers will
leave us and return TO Melbourne after
whaling for time.
"with three Norwegian friends, all
experts with snow shoes, will start
inland from Cape Adare and traverse q
country that was never entered by a
human being, as far as we know. We
will go from Cape Adare to Coulman
Island, distance of sixty miles, over
the snow, and from there we contem-
plate q two and half mor.hs' journey
in over the mainland, travelling across
the plateau of ice and snow on sledges.
We want to locate the South magnetic
pole. On my previous expedition l
reached "A degrees and 10 minutes
south latitude, but we shall get much
further south this trip, unless / am
very much mistaken. II the expedition
succeeds, the results to science will be
the most important in many years.
"Do you think there is great con-
tinent there or merely an islande'' Mr..
Bsrchgrevink was asked.
s'I am quite sure it is continent,
and one probably three times as large
as all Europe" he answered very pos
lively. s.Rock specimens which l
brought up have satisfied scientists
that it is q continent and not an
island."
| "To whom does It beiongP"
"Well, England claims it," replied
Mr.. Borchgrevink. "When Captain
Sir James Clark Ross landed on Pos
session Island, which is off the coast OF
the new land, more than half century
ago, from her majesty's ships, Erebus
and Terror. he took possession of the
mainland, which he never stepped upon
in the name of the queen.''