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Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-13
Non- n-Resident Notice.

The State of Alabama, Jefferson County.
 1857. A. W. Jones vs. John M. Caldwell, Charles H. Caldwell Charles O. Locke, as Exc cutors of H. M. Caldwell, De-
 ceased, ct al
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-13
In Wall Street.

In Wall Street.
 New York, Jan. 12.-There was a slight falling off in the volume of trading at the stock exchange today, the sales amounting to 115,695 shares against 126,000 yesterday. Tn oai sugar qe grea 5 and 5oT I snaae Lake Erie for 11,S00. The market displayed strength throughout, the signing or the ar bitration treaty by representatives of the United States and Great Britain and the improved outlook for general business hay ing exerted favorable influence. The standard issues moved up gradually and at the end of the session a few stocks showed gains, Of ha1& per cent. , Leather, pre- the grangers, Manhattan and Reading were all prominent In the upward movement. Sugar sold up to within fraction of 11S, the reduetion of 1-16G1B in certain grades of re- finedesugar and the coffee war at the west being. ignored by operators, Leather, pre- ferred rose IFS to 61ss on covering of shorts. Eouneement that strong interests will be represented in the directory in the future. The directors are to meet tomorrow to make important changes in the board. Union Pacific was better supported and rallied were to fl tbe efect that tbe in view of the defeat Of the funding bill would begin foreclosure proceedings at once. Lon don was seller and according to estimates parted with nearly 10000 shares of various stocks The offerings were quickly absorbed s and made nc no impression on prices. The in Wheeling and Lake Erie, the common dropning from 51s to $Ss441s and the pre-
  was the result of reports that application had been made for receiver This was not confirmed although it is generally admitted that the demoralzation in the btuminous coal trade has affected all the soft coal car riers Long Island stock was dull until just before the close when 400 shares were sold at 52, a decline of 3 per cent The stronger and rose s1s to S5. and New York, Brooklyn and Manhattan Beach Consoli- dated 5's advanced 3l4 to 105%. The appre- ca ton in the bonds Is due to the recent formation of a syndicate to protect the property. The directors of the Long Island road met today, but took no action on the dividend; In the, past the. directors have January meeting. Baltimore and Ohio was another weak spot and fell 21s to 147s, with a subsequent recovery to 157s
 Speculation in the final dealings was strong in tone. Wheeling and Lake Erie lost lss and do., preferred, SIS per cent. on the day.
 Bonds were higher; sales aggregating sl,- 545,G00.
 1T WdnsVssh. .inggsb four
 Treasury balances Coin. $122, 5S5, 174; cur rency, S47.964, i55
 Money on ual easy at 11sG2 per cent; last loan at la and closing offered at 1is.
 Prime mercantile paper 3HM32.
 Mexican dollars. 504 @517sc. e Bar silver 64&c.
 Sterling exchange steady with actual busi- ness in bankers bills at $4.Si15G4.S4A for sixty days and $4S7A for demand
 Posted rates S4. 4.S5lf4.8S.
 Commercial bills $4.S3@4.Si.
 Government bonds steady.
 State bonds dull.
 Railroad bonds firm.
 Silver at the board was neglected.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-13

LaTd, prime 1stea1ns $3. .SDGl3.85; choice s3.90 93.95s Bacon shoulders $455: extra short clear, S470; clear ribs, SAYS; clear sides, $4.90.
 Dry salted meats, shoulders, $4.05; extra short clears, $40; clear ribs, $40; clear sides, S4.55.
 High wines steady at s11s.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-13
Articles Iopening Highest Lowest Closing

Cash QuOtations: Flour was quiet and easy; No. spring wheat, 77g7Slac; No, red, s7AaS9lsc; No. ? corn. 221Aq229sc; No. oats, rib sides, ssSoa4i5; dry salt shoulders, $4 25 @4.50; short clear sides. $412ta@4.25: whisky, ii (
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-13
Markets by Telegraph.

BONDS.
 Alabama, class sA......................... A. 104 Al labsma, class B.......................... 103 AlaEama, class O.. C.......................... 94 Lo usiana stamped 4s..................... 94 North Carolina 4s........,...... ...... 100 North Carolina ....................... 124 Tennessee new settlement 3s............ 80 Virginia 6s deferred. d.....4............... Virginia Trust Receipts. ................... Virginia funded debt. CHA United States As, registered ............. 110B United States As, coupon .. .......... III United States s.. ...................... 95l5 United States new 4s, registered ....... S5ss United States new As, coupon. ........ ... 9fs Southern Railway 5s...................... 26H Southern Railway common ......... 100 Southern Railwad preferred ........... 120A South Carolina 4I2s. ............. ......... 1203 *Ex-dividend. tI3id. Asked.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-13
SITUATION WANTED.
FOR RENT.
AGENTS WANTED.

AGENTS WANTED.
  AGENTS WANTED-Assorted comic, mot to and campaign buttons hot sellers; 15c per dozen; SIPS per 100, post paid: Sl0 per 1000 by express. Campaign Supply Co.,, 94 Arch street, Boston. Mass. 9-20-dly-eX sun-tf
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-13

.St. LOUIS. St. Louis, Jan. 12.-Flour easy and un-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21

The question Of a century celebration of
the death of Edmund Burke is being
mooted in Ireland.
Because he was out of money and had
nothing to live for. Henry Miller (also
spelled Mueller), who was formerly a
prosperous butcher In Chicago, shot him
self in the left lung at San Francisco and
is now dying.
The State hospital at Rock Springs,
Wyo., was burned. Twelve patients who
were in the building were rescued with
out much inconvenience, Most of the
furniture was saved, although the build
ing is Il total loss.
Ahlwardt. the notorious Anti-Semitic
agitator and member of the German
reichstag, who recently came to the Unit
ed States to organize crusade against
the Hebrews in this country, is said to
have deserted his family i'm Germany.
Sir Edward Clarke, solicitor general
in Lord Salisbury's former cabinet, speak
ing upon the Irish grievances on account
of the over-taxation of Ireland, advo-
Gated the granting to Ireland of FL 900
600 yearly from the imperial exchequer.
The Pope has issued an order forbid
ding priests not belonging to the Roman
diocese to dwell in Rome under penalty of
suspension. 1t also threatens measures
against the resident clergy who are seen
ION the streets after the religious curfew
bell.
Bernard Reed, n wealthy farmer is in
n critical condition at the city hospital of
Youngstown, Ohio, suffering from gan
creme of the right foot, caused by trim
ming corn too closely. The foot was
amputated, but there is little hope for re-
covery.
| Sir Harry Halford who was captain of
the English rifle team which visited
America n score of years, ago, died ut
London. He has been well known to
American marksmen since 1875, when he
entertained the American party that visit
ed England.
Five miners, Martin Ryan apd Joe Cox,
white, Tom Curry, William Bishop and
Simon Pity, colored, were instantly killed
In mine explosion at Anderson, i. T.
The explosion Is supposed 10 have been
caused by the fire boss unscrewing his
safety lamp, which ignited the gas. No
damage was done TO the property.
The premises Of the Russian Oil Com
pany at Purleet, Eng, have been burned,
doing immense damage. Cataracts of
burning oil were poured into the Thames,
Illuminating the river from Greenwich
to Gravesend. The Purfeet powder mag
azine and the Anglo-American Oil Com
pany adjacent, were saved by the efforts
of the fire brigade.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21
EiAKNET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime.
$3.50 to $3.50; hogs, shipping grades,
$500 TO 49, 10; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $500; wheat, No. red, TTc to 7Sc;
corn. No. =, 22c to BE: oats. No. 2. 16c
to lie; rye, No. =, 31c TO 39c: butter,
choice creamery, 1Sc to zoe: eggs, fresh.
lie to Ice; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to
3Oc; broom corn, common green to fine
brush, 212c TO 5Ac per pound.
dianapolis-Cattle, shipping, $500 to
500; hogs, choice light, $500 to S3.75;
sheep, good to choice, 500 to 1919;
wheat, No. 2, SIC to S9c; corn, No. 2
white, zoe to pc; oats, No. 2 white, Ole
to pc.
st. Louis-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs.
$500 TO $3.50; wheat, No. ., SEC to SIC;
corn. No. 2 yellow, 20c to 21c; oats. No.
white, 16c to lie; rye, No. ., 31c to 33c
Cincinnati-Cattle. $3.50 to $500; hogs
$500 to 1915; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, 93c to 94c; corn, No. Q
mixed, 21c to DC; oats No mixed, 19c
to zoe; rye, No. 2, SAC to 36c.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 TO 1925; hogs,
$500 to $3.75; sheep, $500 to 1915;
wheat, No. red, SOC to 9Oc; corn, No. 2
yellow, dc to DE; oats, No. white, 10c
TO Zoe; rye, Csc to Doc.
Toledo-Wheat, No. red. Ole to 92c;
corn, No. 2 mixed, 21c to DC: oats, No.
white, lie to 19c: rye. No. 2, SIC to 30c;
clover seed, $5.25 to $3.50.
Milwaukee-Wheat. No. 2 spring, Toe
TO TIC; corn, No. 3, 10c to 21c; oats, No.
white, 1Sc TO zoe; barley, No. ., 25c to
35c; rye, No. 1, Csc 70 doc; pork, mess,
$3.50 to $500.
Buffalo-Cattle, $3.50 to $500; hogs,
$500 TO $500; sheep, $500 to $4.25;
wheat. No. 2 red 02c to 94c; corn, No.
yellow, 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white,
21c to DC.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $5.25; hogs,
$500 to $4.25; sheep, $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2 red, CSC to 00c; corn, No. 2,
2Sc to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 90 to 23c:
butter. creamery, 15c to &c; eggs, West
ern, 14c to 1Sc.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21
NEW USE FOR CORN STALKS.
l.. s. Cramp Has Scheme Which
Will Benefit the Farmers,

Edwin 5. Cramp, the millionaire ship
builder of Philadelphia, is now interested
especially in the production of padding
for warships and fodder for cattle from
cornstalks. Thanksgiving Day last Ed
win S. Cramp was granted patent for
the new invention he bought from the in
ventor. Experiments have been made
in the East for six or seven months and in
every case they have been very success
full. Now the scheme is to be introduced
in the West, and next year a considera-
bic portion of the cornstalk crop of Hi
nois and Iowa is to be bought from the
farmers and used in making both the fod-
der and the ship padding. The British
Government has become interested in the
new discovery of the Cramps. If it Is
pleased with the results of its investiga-
tion and decides to adopt the invention it
will mean that large additional demand
will be created. and, of course, the corn
raisers will be the beneficiaries. The pro-
cess for manufacturing the two things
cattle food and ship padding-is simple,
as explained by Mr.. Cramp. 1t consists
in separating the pith from the outer stalk
and grinding each. The outer portion of
the stalk is converted into coffer-dam, as
the article used in the ships is called. The
pith when ground and prepared is the
food for cattle. A factory is to be estab.
lished at Rockford, ILL.,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21
A CITY OF DEAD AND DYING.
Over Half of the Inhabitants of Bonn
bay, India, Have Fled.

Over Half of the Inhabitants of Bonn
bay, India, Have Fled.
Over half the population of Bombay,
estimated TO amount to about 100000, has
fled from the plague and the erstwhile
crowded streets, docks and baZaars are
not recognizable. Business in piece goods,
crockery and hardware is at n standstil',
and the money lenders have vanished.
The courts are deserted and the judges
and officials have gone to healthier
cline. Many of the native doctors. grad
yates of the college. have fed, and those
remaining refuse to attend plague cases,
or, when they do attend them, will not
touch the sufferers. dreading contagion.
Clerks and others whose vacations call
them to the city daily have removed to
suburban stations. where the people are
mostly living in matched huts. 1t is esti-
mated that 100000 persons are encamp-
ed ut Andheri, from whence they viii
soon be forced to migrate owing to the
lack of water and sanitation, threatening
to breed cholera. The cemeteries are
already filled to overlooking, and the wind
is spreading the contagion. The nights
are made hideous by cymbals and melan-
choly dirges. Often difficulty is expert
enced in burying the dead. friends and
relatives refusing to carry the corpses. In
some instances women have assisted in
carrying the dead bodies. A large num-
Der of plague corpses at the Tower of
Silence, the Parsee burial place, have not
been eaten by the vultures inhabiting it.
Corpses have been found in the streets.
The official returns show that up to We'd
nesday theie were 1904 cases of bubonic
plague and 1856 deaths from that dis
ease,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21

force the European into ceaseless activity.
Given n matched hut with little rice or
grain enough to make a cake on the heat
ed stones of the hearth and they do not
care for the future.
The jungles near which they make their
villages are full of fierce quadrupeds and
yet more deadly reptiles. Tigers kill and
devour them, cobras sting them to such
an extent that the deaths from this cause
alone run into the thousands every year.
The deadly miasma of the marsh and the
jungle saps their vitality until they are
never more than half alive at best. Yet
they live, If not happily, still with an apa-
thetic content unknown to the Caucasian.
In the best years, they Srag their ema-
ciated bodies back and forth from their
work seemingly with no other use in the
world than to figure in statistics illus
trating the greatness of the British en-
pire, to whose far distant seat of powe..
their surplus grain is shipped, while they
live on as they have always lived-from
hand to mouth, in the most literal sense
of the word.
With little or no clothing. except a cot
ton rag, with hardly enough to eat in a
week to keep an American laborer alive
for day, they are still peaceful, un-
complaining and seemingly contented as
long as they can manage to barely exist.
Famine Levels All Castes.
From year to year they barely exist.
until the monsoon on which they depend
for rain fails them. Then comes famine
with pestilence in its train. The streets
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21


passed an order directing that the supply
of drinking water In all the public schools
be shut of until further notice. Ii Is
likely that for some time the equipment
of every Chicago school boy and girl will
include. besides the time-honored bag and
lunch box. a water bottle or two, slung
over the shoulder and containing boiled
water brought from home. Some of the
principals anticipate much annoyance on
account of the lack of water. Others
think it will not occasion any inconven-
fence. believing the children will learn at
once that they must quench their thirst
before leaving their homes. 1t Is not
likely that the schools will be- deprived OF
water for any length of time. The mem
bers of the board will doubtless get to-
gether and arrange for boiling 1t. or intro
ducing filters. Neither is il anticipated
that any hardship will follow the opera
ton of the order. The children are in
school only three hours Mt time, and can
get along without water II necessary. In
1t was ut different season of the year
there might be some suffering.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21
Notes of Current Events.

1t Is said that Adelina Patti is anx-
ious to secure the decoration of the Lee
gon of Honor.
The third and last Of the torpedo boats
being built for the United States at the
Columbian Iron Works was successfully
launched. Her total cost will be $97, 800.
She is 100 feet long and sixteen feet
broad.
Frederick A. Gregory, private secretary
of Proprietor John Hold, of the Tiff
House. Mt Buffalo. and chief clerk of that
establishment, has disappeared, leaving
behind numerous bad checks and taking
with him. 1t is alleged, several thousand
dollars of his employers money.
DIR. Oallot read before the Academy of
Medicine at Paris a remarkable paper
describing decades experiments In
strengthening the spines of hunchbacks
by pressure. The novelty consists of the
means adopted TO keep the spine straight
for ten months, by which time a cure is
effected.
Bedros Effini. the Armenian who was
recently appointed subkaimakan OF
Tscharsandjak, Turkey. was assassinated
two days after his arrival there.
Secretary Herbert, of the Navy De
partment, has decided to increase the
present naval corps of inspectors of steel
used in the construction of naval vessels
of the United States by the appointment
of a number Of expert civilians.
The appellate term of the Supreme
Court of New York has handed down a
decision TO the general effect that hus-
band, although living apart from his
wife, Is responsible for debts contracted
by her for necessary articles In the alb
sence of any agreement to the contrary.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21

many forms-and among them that swift
est and most dreaded Of all forms of death
in Asia-cholera. Whole villages, weak
ened by hunger, are swept away by it.
Father, mother and children die together.
There is no one to bury the dead. Houses
in the outlying villages are filled with
corpses, and the gaunt wolves and jack
ais from the jungles are emboldened to
enter the deserted streets in search of the
food which famine, though it has made
them lean in the beginning, supplies them
in superabundance in the end.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21
PLEADING FOR WORK
IDLE MEN BEsIEoE A COMMON
COUNCIL.
Problem Which Confronts the City OF
Dayton, Ohio-Gain in Commercial
Circles Is Slow, but Steady and
Healthful-Love VS.. Gam bling.
Thousands Want Employment.

Nearly 100 of Dayton, Ohio, unem-
ployed workingmen, mechanics and la
borers held mass meeting, to which all
city boards and public officials were in
vited. The object was to discuss the Sc
rious situation confronting the masses
and TO devise ways and means to relieve
the distress of several thousand families.
No definite plans We're adopted, though it
is confidently hoped that the situation will
be adequately met and that none will suf-
fer. 1t is known that at least 5000 me-
chanics and workingmen are out of en-
ployment and that possibly more than
10000 peoplecare dependent upon them.
Most oftthem have been out of work for
three or, four months, and as the winter
shows no Improvement it is found neces-
sary o.anpeal TO public boards and chart
ties. More than 1000 of the unemployed
signed II paper expressing their willing
ness TO work at any honest labor, and all
public boards will be petitioned to hasten
the prosecution of city improvement The
water works department began work on
several miles of street mains, having APP
propriated considerable sum for the pur-
pose. i.r
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21


The papal delegate at Washington.
Archbishop Martinelli, has received dis
couraging news from his vicar general,
Rodriguez, in Rome. regarding the rebel
lion In the Philippine Islands. In an in
terview Mgr. Martinelli discussed the sit
uation in both the Philippine Islands and
In Cuba with considerable freedom. sour
order Is very strong here" said the Arch
bishop. 'as we have several bishops ana
$50 priests scattered all through the prov
inces. 1t was too much to expect that all
of them had escaped, and the news l re-
ceived Is bad. have two letters from
my vicar general. and he informs me that
five Augustinian priests in parishes about
Manila have been carried off by the
rebels, and no news whatever has been re-
ceived from them. In the absence of in
formation we believe that they are dead.
Thirteen Dominican priests were also
either carried away or slain by the rebels
and those who were taken off were after
ward killed: so we suppose the same fate
has befallen the members of our order.
The rebellion in the Philippines is likely
TO prove most horrible affair, rs the ma
tives are only semi-civiized. Spain, too,
is handicapped to some extent by the TACT
that she maintains on the island only a
scattered army of about four thousand
men. Spain will have a difficult task to
subdue the half-barbarous people of the
Philippines"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21
STEADY GAIN IN TRADE.
Gradual but Certain Improvement
Noted i'm business Circles.

X. G.. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review Of
Trade says: THE greatest growth and
prosperity the country had ever seen came
suddenly in 1879 after several months of
disappointment because specie resump-
ton had not yet brought the benefits ex-
pected. 1t takes time for new confidence
to reach through easier money markets,
large orders, resuming mills, expanding
employment and large distribution, to the
results which make still greater and last
ing gain possible. Such gradual and
steady Improvement has been in progress
for more than two months. Money mar
kets feel n steady increase in demand for
commercial and manufacturing loans. Ad-
ditional works went into operation each
week in January and the working force
is larger than at any other time for six
months. Best of all, there is so little
crazy excitement that the gain may be
ascribed to the deliberate judgment of the
ablest and most prudent men in business.
1t is not time of high prices. Many who
are anxious to get early hold on the mar
ket are making for the moment lower
prices than they could afford to maintain.
Some have secured orders enough for
months to come, and begin to be less keen
in competition"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21


BILE to the spectator, for with Il comes
pestilence. At his best. the Hindoo 10
really half starved, and in a famine year
he Is inevitably victim of the horrible
diseases of his condition and climate. The
ground parches under sun which bakes
II until II is dust with no drop of moisture
anywhere to make even cooling dew.
The brooks vanish. The rivers become
mere threads or dry up altogether. The
pools of water on which the villages chief
ly rely are foul at best, but in prolonged
drought the water In them evaporates
until II is of the consistency of slime.
And this slime, foul with animal and
vegetable putrefaction, the people must
drink as the horrors of thirst are added to
those of hunger. Up from the dry jun
giles and the parched fields come dust
clouds laden with the seeds of death in
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS FORieee
statement Relating to Merchandise,
Gold and SILVER Issued

Statement Relating to Merchandise,
Gold and Silver Issued.
The monthly statement of the exports
and imports of merchandise. gold and sill
yer for the month of December, 1896, and
for the twelve months of the calendar
year 1896, shows as follows: Exports of
domestic merchandise during December,
$'1G,12S.33i, and for the year, $3.50, ST.
2o6. This is gain Of $25, 052, 900 for the
month. as compared with the December,
1893. and gain for the year of S179.-
12S,OO0. The imports of merchandise
during December amounted to 1856
OO9, and for the year $3.50, 500, 223. Of
the amount for the year 1921 ,951 500 was
free of duty and 1855, GOA, 7O7 was dutia-
BILE. The gain for the month is about $4,-
100000 and the loss for the year about
$121, 10000. The exports of gold during
December amounted to S405, S56 and the
imports to S2,512,271. For the year the
exports aggregated $56,742,S44 and the
imports S1o2, 1885, 3S. The silver exports
during December amounted to S6,S19,545
and the imports 10 $1,279,S01. During
the year the exports amounted to S63,-
02o,336, and the imports to $12,504,577.