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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-06

A LONDON publisher lie about TO issue
q life of the Prince of Wales, Hn
tells the whole story it will be o warm
work.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-06

As pretty q home wedding 40 eyer
was celebrated 10 Las Cruces occurred
on Dacember tst. at the nome OF r HI.
Fry, it being The marriage. OF bis sister
Miss Anna Fry to Mr.. Jos. BonhSm.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-06
4 eAIn riu w

A notable figure has disappeared
from The bench Of the supreme cour'
Of the United states in the actual REL
tirement OF Associate Justice Field
The Ca4ifsrnia urist WAS app tinted BY
President Lincoln. He took his place
on the supreme bench q middle aged
man, and he has remained there for
thirty four years. NJ formal ex-rcises
marked his departure, no farewelis
we're publicly uttered BY the chief
justice or any OF Judge Fields as
sociAtes. Up TO certain day the old
man appeared in court and .ook bis
accustomed place, and then no came
no m ,re. There Is something melau-
choly 10 such an ending Of q long and
great career something like the
snufing out Of a candle. The usual
reflections concerning the advantages
Of rest after labor do not seem to np
ply to this case Judge Field has been
a vigorous lAborer oil his life. He
may be said TO have worked every day
up 10 tho hour OF his disappearance
from the court, aud n only accspi
rest and inaction a. something new,
strange and irksoms.
The restful green old age. full Of
calm reflection, pleasant retrospect and
the contented abandonment Of am
bi,ion and all its aims Is not provided
for in our American plan OF life. Whet
} an American, especially in public he
%retires he does 80 usually rather from
necessity than inclination. He Ia ap
I to feel at sixty-four or seventy o
: whatever the retiring age may be, tina
. he is just as good man as be evtr was
d and instead OF louging to rest he earnest
" desires to continue the lnbors,t the ex
J citemept even, which have filed hi
nctiys life. The old general think
that he could set . squadron 10 th
field, II the occasion appeared. with a
much skill as ever, and lead on t
victory. Whether openly or not. b
murmurs at the fate that shuts him on
forever from the sound Of the spirit
stirring drum.
u In the construction of our countr
we have made abundant oDportunitie
. for activity, ample provisions for WORK
We associate the idea Of rep,se wit
sickness or infirmity. II there Is
"kest!" advertised anywhere it
o understood to be for the benefit {
o invalids. That q man not PHYSICAL
infirm or broken beyond the possibilit
Of doing mental and physical woT
K shall deliberately sit down uader b
& own Dig tree and rest himself does M
10 enter into our American calculation
There are few sadder words in OF
language than retirement, and fe
q more melancholy sights than an Amer
8. can endeavoring to rest himself.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-06

CONSIDERING how many girls a
play q little, dance a little and sing q
little, 1t is q God.send that women are
never called professor"
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-06

To secure proper Classification, adver.
tisements should be handed In not iats'
than 10 o'clock a. m.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-06

MILK is selling for dollar a gallon
In Havana. The water rates down
there must be simply enormous.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-06
Better Than Wealth

Is sound, rugged, robust health. But
this cannot be had without pure blood.
Upon the purity and richness Of the
blood depends the healthy condition
II every organ. Hoods Sarsaparilla
is the One True Blood Purifier. It
has power to give good health.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-06

THAT concert Of Europe should give
the Sultan OF Turkey a rest and sere'
made the Austrian reichsrath for . few
eunoa
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-06

In order to avoid delays on account OF
uersonal absence, letters to The OPriG
should not be addressed TO any indivioual
connected with the Office, but simply 70
ness department, according to the tenor OF
nurDOso.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-06

Acting Governor Wallace has reap
pointed Harry +. Lee, of Albuquerque,
As q notary public in and for Bsrnalillo
county. <.
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Hoods. Pills act harmoniously
with Hoods Sarsaparilla. 25c.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-06
MONDAY EVENING. DEC. s, 1897

OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY.
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OPTIC TELEPHONE NO..

TTr Optic will not. under any circum-
..snc. J bs ,esponsiDls for the return or
the safe keeping Of any rejected mauu
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rule, win re. ard 70 eituer letters or 10.
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kntered at the East Las vegas. =. M
uostof1ce for rangmtssion tnrouBA
mails as second class n liter.
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PRICE $500 PER BOTTLE.
SOLD By ALL DRUGGISTS.
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tunes.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-22

The New England Southern Confer
encs of Methodista voted Friday to
admit women to membership 10 tho
General Conference.
Frederick J. Walter, cigar box
manufacturer Of Allentown. committed
suicide at the A uerican Hotel. Phillips
burg, N. j., Friday by cutting his
throat.
Baron Won Grotheus,a Russian nobe-
man and lieutenant In the Czar's
guard, who settled in Montana in 1886,
died on Thursday at Clark's ranch, in
Teton county.
James Maxwell, aged II years, oil
Gloucester City, n. j., cut his throat
on Friday with a pocket knife, while
in Respondent mood, and died several
hours afterwards.
The store and dwelling occunied by
w. A. Drennen, at Goshen, Pa, were
burned on Friday. The family mar,
rowly escaped loing burned 10 death.
The loss is So, 600.
Tho Great Falls National Bank oil
Somersvilla, N. H., was entered by
| two robbers Friday afternoon. Joseph
Stiukney, the cashier, was killed and
about sf, 0uO was taken.
Secretary Long has revoked the
orders by which, Lieut.. Robert T..
Feary, tho Arctic explorer, was trans
ferred from the New York Navy Yart
to that at Mare Island, Cal. ic5l
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-22
AN ALLEGED CONSPIRACY.


Ir InvoIvsd Thirty Thousand Dollars and
the story Was Told In Court by Ono of
the Participants
A press dispatch cent from Lancaster,
Pa, on Saturday laet, said:
Sensational testimony OF a conspiracy
to which be was himself one of the
parties was given by d. Il. Joslyn in
an equity suit hearing before the court
here to-day. This bill in equity seeks
to recover a mortgage for $50, 900 alleged
to have been fraudulently transferred.
Joslyn testified that when Levi Miller
and his son,in-law, E. D. r. Sutton.
of Wilpingtcn. Del, eaw they would
fail several years ago thay transferred
to their creditors lot Of securities OF
the Sussex Land and Cattle CO.. now
the Real Estate Guarantee and Invest
ment Co. Of Delaware, and in addition,
gave notes TO creditors for 500, 900 to
cover all their liabilities, but retained
the above mortgage on Lancaster
county farm.
Josiyn was general agent Of the COM
pany above named, and says that, 10
consideration Of being released from
s., 600 debt, no had entered into con-
spiracy TO transfer the $40, 600 mortgage
10 Edward Dudlay, solicitor Of the Cam
den National Bank, ono Of Sutton and
Miller's creditors. dudley, he says.
was to pay each attorney of the creditor
banks $4,000, and TO give each bank
81. 900 to indemnify them for Gusts.
Dudley went to Europe, but before
going transferred the mortgage tc
Heulings Lippincott OF philadelphia
and Francis II, Hoffecker of Whining
ton, who proceeded TO foreclose.
Joslyn's conscience then prickod him,
and he made a clean breast OF the
whole affair, and the action now or
trial was brought by the Real Estate
Guarantee and Investment 20. to re
cover the mortgage. The defence wal
a general denial.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-22

Special Correspondence OF Gazette and Journal
Newark, April 10. Frank Bray,
judge at the Singerly races, has bean
presented with split.second gold
watch, gift from horsumen. The
watch was formally presented at the
headquarters of the Newark Athletic
Club, Thomas Barrett making the pre.
sentation speech.
Frank Mitchner was arraigned bo-
fore Magistrate Dean on Friday,
charged by Mrs. William Cook of Rose
vile with assault and abusive language
Mrs. Cook had been hired to nurse
Mitchner's wife, for which she was to
receive S3 per week, payable in adj.
vance. The first weeks wages were
paid according to agreement, but when
Mrs. Cook asked for the second weeks
pay Mitchner threatened 4 to blow holes
in her," Mrs. Cook left, and Mitchner
went to her home to demand one OF his
children, who was stopping there. He
was denied admission and. going to the
road, he swung sword and threatened
to cut out Mrs. Cookie heart. Mitch
ner was held in 500 bail for court, and
failing to obtain bondsman he was
sent to JUL.
Leslie Derickson and Miss Anna
Pennington were married on Wednesday
evening at the residence of the brido's
parents, the Rev. Henry II. Mason
| officiating.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-22

The bill now pending in the Legisla.
ture providing for "the better protec.
tion OF female employees" is a measure
that should he passed, after some
changes 10 mako it general in its appli-
cation. The objection to it in its pres.
emit shape is that it contains provisions
demanding accommodations for female
employees that, while necessary in one
class of establishments, would be en-.
tirely superhuous in another. With re-
spect to the real subject N atter---thu
enforcement Of provisions for the proper
and respectable accommodation Of
women at all establishments where they
are employed-itI Is an sminently proper
measure, and the wonder is that legis.
lation on such subject should be
necessary. But it appears to be dis.
graceful fact that 10 some establish
ments where women are employed in
large numbers, Eo provisions whatever
are made for their accommodation and
convenience, aside from those that are
shared 10y the men. That such a state
Of affairs should prevail is an outrage
upon deconcy, and the pending bill,
after being amended SO that 1t may be
generally effective, and in no way
extensively otiicious or medding, should
be enacted into law.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-22
MlDDL rrowN,s wArss SUPPLY.


The Delaware Baiiroaa 90. To Substitute it
for Its own Pumping station.
Special correspcndence OF Gazette and Journal
Middletown. April 90 - The Della,
ware Railroad Co. has consummatod
arrangements with the Light and Water
Comm ission whereby the town Will
supply the company with all the water
which the latter uses at the depot here.
For some time the railroad company
has been irving to secure a supply
through itH tank house, and has spent
considerable money and much time,
but with unsatisfactory results. The
new arrangement will doubtless prove
satisfactory, not only to the railroad
company, but to the town as well, in
asmuch as the revenue derived from
this now source will place the water
system upon q self.sustaining basis,
The town water supply is, compare
lively speaking, unlimited, and there
is no reason why the new plan should
not be thoroughly satisfactory.
While this matter was being con
sidered sample OF tho town watcl
was sent to the chemist Of the railroad
compay at Allentown, Pa, and thu
analysis there made spoke highly To-
tho quality OF the water furnished b!
the present system.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-22
GoRDYSIR :MARXABLE NERVE.
Even the Pressnoe of HIS Young Children
Did Not Affect HIM.

Even the Pressnce of HIS Young Children
Did Not Affect HIM.
spe'iai Corresnchdence OF Gazette ana journal
Georgetown, April al james Nj.
Gordy, convicted of numbering HE
wife, was Visited yesterday by his
children = Ellaer, aged Z years, and
Adolphus, agbd years. 1t was thought
that it would be impossible for him to
maintain his demeanor OF stolid indif-
ference whenIhis children should 60 into
his cell. thai the human in the man,
II any there pc. would assert itself, but
the visit hid no visible effect upon
him. The oder boy was frightened by
the gloomy ahd uninviting appearance
of the interid of the Jail, and hesitated
before entering the place of criminals,
but he was rdassured by his two uncles,
Joseph and John. who brought the lads
to sec THEM unnatural and hardened
parent, and DO entered the cell of the
condemned han. The meeting was
touching in the extreme. The baby
arms was flung affectionately abuut the
neck of the man who, however black
mis- heart may DO, however much his
history may be checkared with crime,
was still papa to them. As he felt
the gentle, loving pressure of their
arms about his neck did he think OF
the other pressure - not gentle, but
cruel and elentless-that he will feel
10 l.ss than eight weeksS No one
knows. So far as those who witnessed
the scene could observe il might have
been enacted in the happisst of homes,
with the central figure as free as the
birds of the air. The children, for
tunately for them, are too young to
realize. to any appreciable extent, the
terrible position their father occupies.
No allusion wRs made to the awful fate
which awaits him.
The children prattled, in their inno-
cent way, of the occurrences at home,
and their father seemed cheerful, even
jocnlar, Tho nerve tine man displays
becomes more and more remarkable.
The eyes OF his two devoted brothers
were wet with tears when they lett his
dingy cell.
! subsequently the murderer was
visited BY the Rev. A.. ID. Davis,
a superannuate OF the Wilmington
Methodist Episcopal Conference, who
talked to the prisoner regarding bis
spiritual welfare. Gordy bad requested
| that tho minister be sent for. The
Condemned man spent the remainder o.
the day in singing hymns.
1t has been learned 10 the last few
days that in 1894 Gordy hauled
piling and firewood from his farm a
Vaughan's wharf. and that he wa
thoroughly familiar with Bruadkilr
river at that point. Ii was on th,
alleged fact that he was not fanlilia
With the river that the defence ARGUED
most stronplV
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-22

A preacher in Baptist Church at
South River, Nj, Sunday night intro.
duced phonograph in his service. and
the machine very acceptably rendered
violin solo, an orchestral Choir US, read the
Twenty. third Psalm With the most com
plete oratorical effect, offered n prayer
and sang the Doxology. This innova-
tiuo, however is not likely to he fol
lowed generally. 1t is calculated to sug.
gest to congregations served by minis.
ters OF ordinary accomplishments tho
propriety of substituting Photographs,
charged with the most impressive
church muuic and sermons delivered
by the most famous diyineH of tho
world.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-22

1
Harry Mcdonnell OF No. 1894 Frencb
street has received n neat silver medal
from John Wedderbnrn & Co., paten,
attorneys, Washington, d. O., az n rs'
ward OF genius for patent gas cbeck
invented by him. The Invention con.
ssts of a perforated wooden plug which
is inserted in the burner 10 the place al
the small wire netting now in general
use. The plug Is made of MALAGA
wood or rattan and as II will not swell
the pores cannot become clogged. he.
sides this the amount Of gas consumed
is no greater than by tho ordinary
burner and the fame 10 very even one,
The burner can also be applied 10 an
oil lamp and does away with tho wick,
Mr.. Mcdonnell has been urged TO tako
out letters of parent for Great Britain
and Carada, in addition to those for
this country.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-22

The jury drawn to determine the
guilt of James NJ. Gordy, on trial at
Georgetown for the murder of his wife,
promptly returned a verdict of guilty
of murder OF the first degree This was
only what was expected by all who
gave any attention to the progress of
this most extraordinary criminal case.
That the affair was sensational was duo
entirely to the sensational features con.
nected with il. The guilt of the accused
was apparent to all, before the trial was
under way. and to all intents and pur-
poses the accused might as we'll have
pleaded guilty, To say this is no no.
Election upon his counsel, who made
decidedly the hest OF what was q very
black case. Gordy was convicted by his
own acts, which could not be concealed,
and not by newspaper sensations, az
one of his counsel sought TO impress
upon the jury. How little weight the
jury impaired to this foolish suggestion
was shown by the promptness and
unanimity OF their verdict. Not one
of them could evade the conclusion that
the State had fully made out a case
Of guilty in manner ard form as
indicted" The verdict Of the Jury
fifty closes the history OF one Of the
most notorious crimes ever known in
Delaware.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-22

All meeting Of the Conference of
Baptist Ministers in Philadelphia on
Monday, the Rev. o. G. Buddington of
Bethany Baptist Church this city,
read paper on "The Twentieth Cen,
tury Revival" He said that recent
researches have shown that Christ was
born about four years before the date
assigned to the event in current chro-
nology, and therefore, strictly speak
ing, the twentieth century had already
begun. Standing thug. as upon the
threshold OF the new epoch, MIR. Bud
dington urgad tho need of aggressive
evangelical work so that tho kingdom
of Christ may be spread over the whole
earth. AS evidence Of the necessity for
more consecrated effort be iustanced
the steady increase 10 recent years OF
homicide. suicide and other forms OF
crime and the low standard of right
eousness among many professional
Christians, and he referred to the
many opportunities of promoting
gospel work throughout the world as
an additional reason for the starting Of
revival movements.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-22
our lneSSsa.,nr Is.por, Trade.

Figures prepared by the New York
Evening Pest show how our export
trade continues to increase almost 90
rapidly as our imports, despite the
impetus given to the latter by the
threat of the Diugley bill and its
higher rates OF duty.
During March our exports rose nearly
eight millions over February, and not
quite twelve millions over March, 1896.
To make the comparison still more
striking, it may bs added that the export
trade last month was the largest ever
recorded in this country for the month
OF March. As consequence, the
already unprecedented excess Of ex.
ports over Imports, for tbs nine COM
pleted months of tho fiscal year, has
risen now to the stupendous sum Of
1923, 3s1. $40. Such trade balance
overweighs all other factors ia inter
national exchange. 1t is not, there
fore, matter for surprise that with
foreign exchange on London at all
principal continental points falling 30
low that export gold is leaving the
Bank of England daily, there lie hardly
symptom Of disturbance in our own
sterling market
Part of this very remarkable increase
in our export trade is due to continued
heavy shipment of the cereals; for
although wheat exports in March fell
below theaverage of recent years. ex-
ports of corn particularly have trebled
any previous record. But the new
factor in our foreign trade. export Of
manufactures, has played an equal
part The detailed Treasury returns
for February showed the country's
manufactured exports of that month ia
be two millions In excess OF 1896. and
eight millions over 1895. Reckoning
on the not wholly unwarranted assump-
tion that such exports will continue Of
their present average, it has been
figured that for the current fiscal year
their aggregate will reach s26l, COO. 900,
against 1928, 400, 900 year ago. sl5S,
600. 900 in 1893 and only slO2, su0, 0O(
seventeen years ago.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-22
Too n,uon d r,rotec,lon, !, Last.

4 Philadelphia's large carpet mauufac-
turers are alarmed over the excessive
wool schedules IN the Dingley bill, and
the proposition to make the rates still
higher when the bill is passed upon by
the Senate. They claim that ouch
action will practically ruin their bust
ness, and their protest is thus editori-
ally endorsed by the Philadslphia
Ledger:
1t is scarcely conceivable that a half
dozen Western Senators, representing a
population not much il any greater
than that Ut Pennsylvania, will be per.
mitted by the Justice ana sense Of tho
Senate to "hold up the Tariff bill, to
ruin a great Industry, to deprive tens
OF thousands OF working people of
work and wages and to tax carpets out
ct the homes of all but the wealthy.
Yet these would be the consequences,
say such representative carpet manu-
facturers as Grow and Dorian, speak
ing officially for the trade, that would
follow the adoption of thu Western Sen
ators' proposed amendment to the
already excessive wool schedule OF the
House.
arli
1t Is refreshing to see Pennsylvania
protectionists squirming 30 vigorously
against the administration Of a dose OF
their own medicine Thoy have advo.
Gated pro ection for their own interests
for years. no matter how others were
affected, but now that other people
seek protection at their expense they
protest with great clanior.
The situation should servo to show
the thorough selfishness of the protec
tive system and its evil effects upon the
industries of the country. Our manu-
facturers are DOW sending their pro
ducts abroad in encouraging proper
tions. They do not want higher tariff
taxes. The m,schiovous Dingley bill
should be defeated.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-22

The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
is Republican paper, but it has slight
patience with McKinley's International
Bimstallic Commission. 1t desgnates
that most peculiar concern as ian in
definite. nondesrript, nebulous body"
and its personnel as 'of the same misty
and i'll defined character. Twice
already, the Telegraph adds, 1.-THE
government of these Unitad States has
been Inundated and made a laughing.
stock before the world by the dispatch
of similar delegations to Europe. having
In view this same object, of satisfying
the demands of the silver voters at
homo, and now this third effort in th g
anme direction promises TO be the most
ridiculous, most stupid, aud contempt.
BILE that has yet been made" And still
many hide-bound Republican organs
insist that the present administration
! is keeping faith with the people in
thus contenptuousIy temporizing with
the money question and forcing to the
front an obnoxious tariff bill which IL
only demanded by the most selfish pri,
yate interests.