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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-17
SALE OF VALUABLE STOCK At
PUBLIC AUCTION.

AS Administrator upon the estate OF
the late James B. Lanier, will sell at
public auction to the highest bidder,
for cash, at the court house door in Sal
isbury. n. c., at the hour of ~ m, on
Monday the 18th day OF October, 1897,
the following personal property belong
ing to said estate, viz: 10 shares Of
the capital stock in the Connolly Springs
Company. This is Ills of the entire
capital stock of said company and will
give the purchaser large controlling
interest in this valuable property.
% shares of stock in the Salisbury
Gas and Electric Light Company.
10 shares Of stock in the North Care
lima Steel and Iron Company of Greens
boro, N. @.
Sept. 25th, 1897.
LEE S. ovERMAN.
Administrator.
w-and-s-tds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12
OCTOBER CRoP REPORT.
Average Condition OF Corn Slightly
Lower than on Sept. 1.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE October re-
port of the statistcian of the Department
of Agriculture shows the average condition
of corn on Oct. l to have been I'll, as COM
pared with 1913 on Sept l, with 90.5 on
Oct. l, 1885, and S2.5 the average for the
last ten years. There has been an improve
ment during the month of points in Mary
land and 4 in Iowa. On the other hand
there has been a decline of points in Kan
sas, in Nebraska, in Ohio, 3 in Illinois,
3 in Missouri and a general decline in the
Southern States.
The preliminary estimate of the yield per
acre of oats is ISL bushels. an increase of
S.S bushels per acre over the October esti-
mate Of last year. The principal increase is
west of the Mississippi river, Missouri, Ne
braska and Kansas, showing an increase of
six, twelve and fifteen bushels per acre
over last year. The average for quality is
S7.6.
The preliminary estimate of the yield per
acre of rye is 161 bushels or 2S bushels per
acre greater than the October estimate of
the crop of 1896. The principal rye pro-
ducing States all show increases as follows:
New York, 4; Pennsylvania, 2; Michigan, 6;
Wisconsin, 1; Kansas bushels per acre
over last year The average for quality is
92.7, as compared with 1913 in October of
last year.
The condition of buckwheat has declined,
since Sept. !, 43 points, the condition ON
Oct. being 9O.S. All the States of principal
production show a decline of several points,
except Wisconsin, where it is only one
point.
The condition of barley shows an improve
ment of IL points during the month, stand
ing on Oct. l. at S7.6 points In New York
Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota
there has witnessed marked improvement,
the average in California being points
higher than on Sept. l.
The average yield of wheat per acre will
not be published pending the result of
special investigation of acreage and produc-
ton now approaching completion.
The condition of tobacco shows decline
of So points during September The tobacco
reports vary greatly as between the differ
ent States Pennsylvania and Maryland
showing an improvement of 3 and II points,
respectively. while Virginia shows decline
of points; North Carolina, A; Tennessee, II;
Kentucky, 10; Ohio, 2; Indiana, 6; Mis-
souri,, 6.
clined 81 points. In the New England
States the decline ranges from points in
Massachusetts and Connecticut to Is points
in New Hampshire and Il in Maine In
New York and Pennsylvania it is and 5
points respectively, and in Illinois, Iowa
and Nebraska it is 6.2 and points respec-
tiVa1V
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12

New York Commercial Advertiser.


Golf is doing a great deal more for So
pied and developing its muscles" said a
pretty, rosy-cheeked girl who sat on the
steps of the Westchester Country Club
house the other day and mopped her per-
spring brow. Now, look at me; am i
not good specimen of what golf will do
for round-shoulder, narrow chested, aes-
thetically pale young woman@'
Certainly no one would recognize in the
blooming, tweed-clad maiden who asked
the question the semi-invalid that she de-
scribed. and the writer told her so.
Well she continued, with a cOmpIacent
air. punctuating her remarks with taps of
her golf club on the broad toes of her high
russell boots, golf has done everything for
me- 1t has given me health and happiness
my too lively nerves and otherwise made
me a vulgarly healthy young woman Be-
fore | developed passion for brassies and
tees l used to metaphorically sit by the
fire and spin, with the usual result of this
hygienic form of exercise l was a tea
topper and had begun to play cards. The
cards We're the last straw, and mother in
sisted upon my going TO the country That
was a couple OF years ago before golf was
a necessary of life. 1t was only fad and
a dissipation then: to some it was even a
bore. / took a languid interest in sports
even then. and because there was absolute
ly nothing to do 1 learned 10 play golf
And nOw'-the radiant Hebe stood up
Strengthening her broad shoulders and pre-
pared to walk over TO the links-"well, now
| dream of golf, eat so as TO be over with
quaim of conscience for spending so much
time playing. for ] consider my devotion to
the game mere paltry gratitude for all it
has done for me"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12
ARMIES OF EUROPE.
Major General Miles Talks About
What He Saw While Abroad.

WASHINGTON, Oct 11.-Major General
Miles, commanding the army, has returned
to Washington from a five months tour of
Europe spent almost entirely in the study
of European military methods and in the
collection of information that might be of
value in the development of army.
The views of General Miles on the respect
i've merits of the armies of the great mill
tary powers of Europe have been very
well set cut in the interview with him sent
by cable from London before the sailing
of the officer. Still, in matters of detail he
will have good deal to say in his report
that will be novel and interesting. One
feature of the maneuvers which were con-
Quoted on a grand scale in four of the
European countries that attracted the
special attention of General Miles, because
it is as yet lacking in our own military sys-
tenn to any appreciate degree, was the use
of balloons in field operations, not from
fixed points, but on movable bases. For
instance at the scene of the French
maneuvers a balloon fioated half a mile up
in the air. 1t was attached by cable and
telephone wires to a wagon drawn by eight
horses, and this team was galloped over
the field at rapid rate, enabling the OBJ
server aloft to scan vast expanse of
too, made it very difficult mark for gum
ners trying to bring it down. So far our
own army has only one balloon, and not
much has been done with this.
Another point noted by General Miles
was the large use made in Europe of
American weapons, particularly machine,
rapid-fre and small guns AT Aldershot
every one of the British regiments that
swept past in review was followed by
machine gun of American invention; the
entire British army was armed with rifles
designed by an American, and the Germans
have begun the purchase quietly of num-
STA also uses American ideas in her army,
and 1t is not doubted that only the enor-
nous expense of making a change in the
present system has operated to prevent the
French from adopting the same machine
and rapid-fire guns.
General Miles spoke in terms Of high
| communication of the Russian army and
he alluded to the fact as important that it
was even better equipped than the German
army in one point, namely, in having tents,
the Germans relying upon billeting their
| soldiers upon the towns of the hostile coun-
| try plan which might prove to be a fatal
| weakness in an emergency such as would
| follow the total destruction by fleeing in
habitants of their towns.
| Speaking broadly, General Miles said he
did not believe that much advance had been
made in the past five years in the science
| of war as revealed in the European
maneuvers. He felt that in the five months
| of his absence he had covered as much
ground as did General Sherman during his
years tour of inspection in Europe, fact
| which he attributed to the rapidfty of his
movements.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12

Available Assets of the Government
on june 80 Were $S74,763,377.

Available Assets of the Government
on June 80 Were $S74,7 63,377.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE annual re-
port of the treasurer of the United states
will show that on June 80, 1896, the total
available assets of the treasury were $3.50
Csc. S21, and on June 80, 1897 they had in
354 44S was available on June 80, 1896, and
1888, 295 424 on June 80, 1897, for the strictly
fiscal operations of the government. On
June 80, 1885, $547, 97S, and on June 3d.,
1897, 1891, 46S 953 was held in deposit against
outstanding certificates and treasury notes.
In addition to the net ordinary revenues,
the treasury received $15,44S,97O in deposits
for the retirement of national bank notes,
and $3.50 in refunding certificates for con-
version into bonds. so that the total income
available for the fiscal operations of the
year was 1858, ,925. AS against this there
was disbursed, besides the ordinary expendi-
lures, the sum of $11,37S,5O2 on account of
bonds and fractional currency, and the fur
Their sum of 81 092, 355 in the retirement of
national bank notes, making total of $685.
245017. Net loss of available cash arising
OIL O91. In the issue of paper currency, the
operations of the year, which amounted to
1874 S4S 600, was exceeded in only one year
1S92-and then by only narrow margin. The
redemptions, amounting to $3.50 10000, We're
also relatively higher. The presentation of
national bank notes for redemption increased
to such proportions as to overtax the ca
pacity Of the force employed in counting and
asserting, and required considerable adj
Vances to be made out of the general fund
however the arrearage of work was brought
up before the close of the year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12
PEOPLE ARE COMMENTED
OBsERv ATOMS OF SECRETARY GAGE
IN WESTERN STATES.
He Heard No Note of Distress Any
where-United States Treasurer's
Annual Statement.

WASHINGTON, Oct. n.--Secretary Gage
returned to Washington to-day after nearly
a months absence in the West. Speaking
to a reporter of his trip through the West
and South, the conditions observed by him
in those sections, Secretary Gage said: Il
was in Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and other
Western States as well as in several South
ern States. came into contact with people
on the trains and elsewhere, but heard no
note of distress anywhere. The people of
Nebraska appear to be particularly happy
over the situation and in Colorado there
was the same feeling. The industries in
that State are all looking up and the crops
have been good. Mining products are in
creasing in Colorado notably gold and coal
This general feeling of satisfaction prevails
everywhere, there being no exception this
statement
Secretary Gage was asked regarding the
amount of money in circulation and the
financial situation. Bank deposits are
larger than ever" he said 1.-The cash re-
serves of the banks are ample, and there
was plenty of money for commercial use
wherever l went"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12
Personal. Local and General Notes.


The Southwestern lines are to meet in st.
Louis. Oct. IS, and renew the effort to re-
establish the Southwestern Traffic Associa-
ton.
Ninety per cent. of the st. Louis division
of the Big Four is now laid with heavy
steel rails between indianapolis and Terre
Haute
The Chicago & Northwestern has under
consideration equpping its suburban trains
out of Chicago with electricity as the mo-
tor power.
George Graves, superintendent of the In
diana, Decatur & Western, who has been
on trip to the Pacific coast, will return
tomorrow
Division superintendent and passenger Of
ficials of the Big -Four will meet in Cincin-
natl tomorrow to arrange the fall and win
ter time schedule.
George Bradbury, vice president and gen.
eral manager of the Lake Erie & Western,
sailed from Liverpool. accompanied by his
wife, on Saturday.
The Illinois Central, which opened the
Ohio Valley road. is fitting up at Evans
Vile, Ind, the finest freight and passenger
offices in the West.
1t is stated that the Toledo, st. Louis &
Kansas City has agreed to cooperate with
the other roads in the maintenance of rates
east-bound out of st. Louis.
The Wabash last week sent out specif1ca-
lions to the leading locomotive works
asking bids on five large passenger engines
and fifteen heavy freight locomotives.
]. @. Van Wrinkle, general superintendent
Of the Big Four, has gone to Columbus TO
attend a meeting of the officials of the roads
which use the new Union Station at that
city.
Within the last month forty or more
freight brakemen the Missouri Pacific
have been dismissed for accepting money
from tramps whom they permitted to ride
On their trains.
Several of the Indianapolis merchants and
manufacturers are again agitating the re-
.val of the freight bureau at this point
yhich could be of great value were the
light man put in charge.
The official report shows that the Union
Fast Freight line, operating over the Penn
sylvania lines, in September brought west
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12
General Notes.

WASHINGTON, Oct. n.-To-days state
ment of the condition of the treasury
shows: Available cash balance, $213, 450 652;
gold reserve. $l49 401, 772.
The State Department has received word
that Ali Ferouck Bey has been appointed
Turkish minister to the United States. to
succeed Mustapha Bey. The new minister
studied in Paris for five years, and for two
years was secretary of legation at London.
The date for the fixing of a time for hear
ing arguments and submitting briefs in the
Chicago lake front case, now on appeal to
Secretary Bliss. has been continued indef-
initely, pending the return of Assistant At
torney General Vandeventer, who is off on
his vacation.
Postmaster Maurice Morris was to-day APP
pointed custodian of the government build
ing at New Albany, Ind.
The Union National Bank at Muncie, Ind,
has been made government reserve agent.
First Lieutenant George l.. Anderson,
Fourth Artillery, has been appointed mill
tary attache to the legation at st. Peters
burg
The secretary of the navy has ordered the
first-class battleship Maine docked at the
government dry dock at Port Royal, S. &.
This is the first time the Port Royal dock
has been used since the Indiana was locked
there about two years ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12
Trying to Regain His Health.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Oct. n.-Representative
Henry u. Johnson, of Richmond, who ar
rived in Washington last week, left last
evening for Asheville, N. G. During the
few days Mr. Johnson has spent here he
has about cleaned up his correspondence and
accelerated the motion of a number of cases
pending in the departments of interest to
his constituency. Representative Johnson
has not been in good health for some months
and he has been advised by his physicians
to Law aside all cares and seek complete
rest in the bracing balsam-scented mountain
air of North Carolina. He says that he
hopes a month of quiet and secluslon at
Asheviile will completely restore him and
that he will be able to take his seat when
the Fifty-ffth Congress assemblies, Dec. 6.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12
OurroDt Murder Case.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11-Attorney F'itz-
gerald, of California, was admitted to the
bar of the Supreme Court to-day. Mr.. Fitz-
gerald comes to Washington for the purpose
of representing the State in the Durrant
murder case. Durrant has appealed from
the decision of the United States Circuit
Court denying his motion for a writ of
habeas corpus. Mr.. Fitzgerald said to-day
that he would file motion for the advance
ment of the case on the docket. 1t is I'M
derstood to be his purpose later to move to
dismiss the appeal and as soon as possible
secure final determination of all legal pro-
ceedings in the celebrated murder case.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12
Catholics First in Converts.

SAN FRANCISCO Oct. 1-Bishop Nc
Kin, the Episcopal prelate of Toxic, was In
10000 converts in Japan, the Roman Cath
olics are first with $4,000, the Greek Cath
number in the neighborhood of 10000. He
said that in the matter of church govern
ment ritual and theology the Episcopal and
Greek Catholic churches in Japan are clos
er than any other religious bodies and
states that the two bodies may soon be
united. The bishop sailed for the Orient this
afternoon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis
Railway Company.
Annual Meeting of stockholders.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of
this company, for the election of directors
and for such other business as may come
before the meeting, Will be held at the Of
flee of the company, corner of Third and
Smith streets, in Cincinnati o. on
Wednesday, Oct - 1897, at 10 o'clock a.
m. The stock transfer boolxs Will be closed
at the office OF Messrs. j. p. Morgan & Co,
No. % Wall street. New York at 3 o'clock
p. m. Monday. Oct. A. 1897, and reopen al
10 o'clock a. m, Thursday, Oct. 2S 1897.
f. r. OSBORN, Secretary.
Cincinnati. Oct Z, 1897
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12

WASHINGTON, Oct 1.-THE monetary
commission reconvened at 10 o'clock to-day
at the Arlington House. Commissioners
Leighton, Dean Fish and Patterson were
absent, but all others are expected TO ar
rive within the next few days. Neither the
metallic currency subcommittee nor that on
the banking system are likely to meet be-
fore the last of the present week. About
one hundred communications on the general
subject of currency reform have so far been
received, and to-day's meeting was largely
taken up in their discussion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12
Fleming ReIensed.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. Oct. l1.-George B. Flem-
ing, of Fort Wayne, who was indicted by
an Iowa grand jury for Justification of an
expense account while acting as pension ex-
aminer, was released here to-day by Judge
Bradley on petition for habeas corpus. The
dismissal was on the insufficiency of the in
dctment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12
DIED.

NJ CULLOUGH-Jacob S Mccullough, at 440 p
m. Get IL, at new 904 North Senate avenue.
aged sixty-one years and one day. Funeral
Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. Friends invited.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12
supreme Court Reconvenes.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE October
term of the Supreme Court of the United
States began at noon to-day. with Chief
Justice Fuller and all the associate justices
in their seats. No business was transacted
beyond the admission of attorneys to the
bar, the court adjourning until tomorrow
in order to enable it's members, in accord
ance with the long-established usage to pay
their respects in a body 10 the President
Before adjourning the chief justice an
nounced that motions would be heard to-
morrow. and that after these were made the
regular docket would begin.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12

H. n McGrew, of Phoenix A. T.. tc be
register of the land Office at Salt Lake City
Utah; Fred b. Spriggs. Of New York, TO be
agent for the Indians at the Nevada agency
in Nevada; Edward Goldberg, of Wichita
Kan, to be agent for the Indians of Qua
paw agency in Indian Territory.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12
AsTROLOGER.

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ASTROLOGER-Mr DR.. Ellis. the best astrol-
oyer in America. be consulted at el4 North
Senate avenue. Consult the doctor and learn
locates oil and gas.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12
LEGAL ADVERTIsEMENTs.

Indiana, Decatur Western Railway Company,
Office of the secretary. Sept 70, 1877.
Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting
OF stockholders of the indiana Decatur & West
ern Railway Company Will be held at the office
Of the company in indianapolis, Indiana, on
Wednesday, Oct. 10, 1897, at l o'clock p m, for
the election of three directors, and the transac-
tion of such other business may properly come
before the meeting.
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ScrofuIa is the advertisement of foul
blood. 1t may be entirely driven from the
3ystem by the faithful use OF Hoods Sar
sapaTlla, which thoroughly purides the
blood.
Hoods Pills are easy to take. easy to OPP
crate. Cure indigestion, biliousness. 2Jc.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12

A number of the passenger officials OF
the Western roads left Chicago for New
York yesterday, where a conference is to
be held on Wednesday between them and
the officials of transatlantic steamship COM
panies. Some time since the Western roads
declared that they would have no further
dealings with the immigrant agents in New
York. but would deal with the steamship
companies through the medium of their i'm
migrant clearing house Since the Western
roads made this declaration the steamship
companies have been in conference with the
Southern Pacific road, between which and
the lines of the Western Passenger Associa-
ton there has for a long time been much
friction over the immigrant business. The
negotiations between the steamship COM
panies and the Southern Pacific have been
so far successful that the steamship COM
panies have felt themselves justified in
calling a general conference which may end
in the Southern Pacific becoming a member
of the Immigrant Clearing Association. II
this agreement is reached the steamship
companies will turn all their passengers
over to the clearing house for an agreed
commission, and the clearing house will
distribute them among the roads according
to an agreed percentage.