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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-21
RICHMOND STOCK MAyxEr.

KrcHaov'. November 90. 1891
sIIys.-P anters' National Bank-lo SHARES
u s,ITs AFTER CALL--yirxinia State Insurance
Com pany-I5O shares al 23ss; State BANK
snare! at 80.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-21
Z Per Cent. Investment.
Assets Nearly........$500,0 900.

A limited number Of FULL-PAID
SHARES IN THE UNITED BANKING
AND BUILDING COMPANY are offered
for sale at sl0o per share, with dividends
at the rate of per cent per annum. pay
able semi-annuaIly. on the first days OF
January and July OF each year. II desired.
The full amount paid in can bs withdrawn
any time after two years. For further In
formation apply at the Office Of the COM
pany, S2l east Main street.
no 7-Su Tu&Tha<t
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-21

Deem er. s7.27l< s7.27x s7.2o s729
January. s.221 s.s2h s.i7h S.l7h
LARp-Per 100 los
pecember.s4 l2H sIl2H s41o s4.12x
January. 425 425 422h 4.22h
SHORT RIBs--Per 100 lbs.
JsHYary. 4.saIs 4.aaM 4.17M 40
steady No. 2 spring wheat, IS 1-4qS9 l-sc. /;
No spring wheat, &QSSc:; No. red,
95 i-sd97 l-2c. No. 2 corn, rs lie. No.
oats. &c; No white q l-2424 l-2c.; No. 9
white giss c Ne; Tys s4 - seda4sf Is No asS
$40 IL. Prime timothy seed. s2.67 IL.
Mess pork, per barrel, S.20as7.25. Lard.
per 100 pounds. A7 IL. Short rib sides
doosel. A.15q;t75; dry-salted shoulders
s5odIs4e3 IL Whlsgey, dis,illers' finished
goods per gallon, Sis. Sugar, cut-loaf,
Elsa butter steady; creamery, l5q2lc.
dairy. 12lllsc. Cheese quiet at SQ12c.
Eggs-Firm; fresh, lSc.
ST. LOUIS.
ct. LOUIS, MO-, November 2O.--Flour-
Unchanged. with good local demand.
o. s-4c.: track, 96G97c.; No. 2 hard, cash,
SEC. December. 50 l-2c.; January, CSC. bid;
May SSSr;p@Spot lower to sell; No. 2, cash.
esc Decembar. rs l-sc.: May, n 3-ic.
Oats-Spot lower; No. 2. cash, elevator,
20 Pc; track, q he; No. . white. &c. !;
Nav. % l-4Q22 S-sc.
Bran-Strong; sacked. 5lc.
Butter-steady; creamery, isQis l-ic.;
dairy, 1lq1sc;
Eggs-Steady at Ice.
Whisky. Sis.
Pork~steady; standard mess, jobbing.
Iard~Lower; primo steam. Ao7 LIZ;
pacon-Boxed lots, short clear. rs;
ribs. S.62l-2; shorts, $50.
Dry Sailed Meats-Boxed shoulders.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-21

British North American Trading and El

Organized under the laws Of the State West Virginia Capital stock
rsandd irctors:
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-21

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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-30

through the Waloomsac and Hudson
rivers to Troy, where he expects 20 get
permission to go through the Erie canal.
At Buffalo he will meet his father, who
lives in Virginia, and who is TO attend
the national encampment OF the Grand
Army. From there he goes through the
lake to Chicago, and the rest OF his route
has not been planned. The young man
has sister in Nebraska, who has prom
Used to assist him in getting an educa-
ton, and as he had no means with
which to take the journey he undertook
this plan. The distance is over 5000
miles.
Col. Charles Forbes of the Vermonter
has been in Newport preparing the
special illustrated edition of Newport
and Lake Memphremagog, which is ex-
pected to appear in the September num-
Der of the Vermonter
The trustees of the Waterbury insane
asylum have awarded the contracts for
the heating and ventilating of the south
wing to A. B. Franklin of Boston. The
contract calls for duplicate OF the north
wing as to heating and ventilation
and one new boiler OF 100 horse
power. Thomas A. Rogers OF Brandon
was awarded the contract for the con-
struction of the cold storage, labora-
tory and mortuary building and brick
wall around the criminal exercise yard
About noon July % Samuel c. Flem-
ing, one of the oldest residents OF Bel
lows Falls, went to BARRIERS shop and
while waiting for his turn was seen to be
suffering severely. Before a physician
could reach him he had expired. He was
born here and was one of the first con-
ductors upon the Vermont Valley road.
After many years service on that road he
became proprietor OF the Island house,
then one of the most popular houses in
the Connecticut valley. Later he was
manager of of the Wilson house at North
Adams, the era wtord house at the White
mountains, and hotelsin the South, being
widely known to the public throughout
his life. For the past few years he has
lived quietly at his home here, owing to
a partial loss of eyesight, but was in his
usual health up to the moment of his
death. He leaves wife and two daugh.
tiers living at home, and two sons who
are railroad managers in Tennessee.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-30

my guide was a granddaughter of the
great prophet, Young. A brighter child
| rarely meet.
But we must leave the city for our des-
tination if we would be in time for the
great convention. pass by many inter-
esting points, such as the gold diggings,
oil works, coal mines, etc, and at the set
ting of the sun we boarded the great ferry
boat plying between Oakland and San
Francisco. Landing in the city, we are
warmly greeted by the members ofthe
reception committee, and soon we feel
ourselves not foreigners and strangers in
a strange land, but at home with our
brothers and sisters of the great Chris
tian Endeavor family.
The meetings in Mechanics and Wood
ward pavlions were the best and most
spiritual ever held. There seemed to be
an intense longing for the descent of the
Holy Ghost and the great throng fairly
hung with an intense hush over all the
place, upon the words of men "full OF
sound wisdom" as they spoke of the
work and prospects OF the great move
ment. Surely those who attended these
services must 70 away richer, nobler for
having been there. This is the general
expression ofthose who have done every
thing to make us at home, and the
churches are looking for great spiritual
upift.
San Francisco has population repre-
senting nearly every nation under the
sun, but the most interesting portion Of
the city is Chinatown, too full of in
terest to describe in this letter. wish l
could meet the young people of my native
town and describe to them as do to the
people of my adopted city, this journey,
San Francisco, Salt Lake and the Rocky
mountains with fine stereopticon views.
Respectfully Yours,
c. M. CARPENTER.
Pastor of Hope church,
Cambridge, Mass.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-30
Tariff Bill a Law.

After four months of patient wait
ing the new tariff is enacted into
law. President Mckinley signed the
Dingley tariff bill few minutes after
4 o'clock Saturday afternoon with a
gold pen which Gov. Dingley, who
brought the bill from the Capitol to
the White House, handed him for the
purpose and afterward put in plush
case he had provided, and tonight at
9 o'clock, Congress, having passed
the act TOR which it was called in
extra session, adjourned until the
first Monday in December, first listen
ing to the Presidents currency COM
mission message, the House passing
the c. w. Stone joint resolution to
agree to such commission, and the
Senate ignoring it. Last of all
Speaker Reed announced the House
committees, which he has been hold
ing back all through the extra
session.
President Mckinley was a very
happy man and spoke freely about
his great qualification at having his
tariff policy so quickly and satisfac-
torily carried out by Congress, and
at the prospect that he would 60
away on his vacation next Wednes-
day feeling that the corner stone Of
his administration had been laid and
that it would have the benefit of a
returning prosperity, which he now
regards as assured. He congratu-
lated Gov. Dingley heartily on the
outcome of his long and arduous
labors, and wished it understood by
the members OF the cabinet and the
personal friends who were present
that it was not perfunctory
approval which he had given to the
bill, but that he had never signed
anything in his lite with more salts
faction. He said that it was as salts
factory as any general revision of the
tariff could be, and in all it's main
features met his cordial approval.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-30
Oklahoma Is Booming.

Oklahoma was organized as a terri
tory in May. 1890, little more than
seven years ago, having been cut off
from Indian territory. At that time the
population of the territory was 60 ,O0O-
$4,000 male and $4,000 female-and
was almost exclusively native born
white inhabitants, the total number OF
foreigners being 700, of colored inhabi-
tants 1900, and Of Mongolians $500.
Oklahoma was the last OF the territories
to be let in, Arizona having been admit
ted in 1863 and New Mexico in 1850,
but its growth has been so rapid that
there is now talk of making Oklahoma
state, says the New York Sun. 1t is said
that no other territory ever gained popu-
lation so fast, and il the proposed new
state were admitted now it would out
rank Is OF the present states in popula-
ton. The present population of Okla
homa territory, it is said, exceeds $780,
900, and the number is increasing at
rate so rapid that unless it be stopped
Oklahoma will have, before many years.
not only larger population than Chi
cago has, but even, though this seems
incredible, a larger population than
Chicago claims.
The development Of Oklahoma has
been promoted enormously since it's
establishment as territory. The rail
road business has been developed largely
within its borders, and the early settlers
who went out in wagons, in carts and
on prairie schooners have now all the
facilities Of modern railroad travel. In
1880 there were not 800 miles of rail
road in Oklahoma and the Indian terri
tory, then united. On the admission OF
Oklahoma there were not 100 miles OF
railroad within its borders, though at
that time the Indian territory had 1900
On Jan. l. 1892, the railroad mileage o.
Oklahoma had risen to 800. On Jan.
1896 it was 430, and it is now nearly
600 miles.
Oklahoma is modern in some Other
respects. In 1896 there were more bust
ness failures in it than in all the othel
territories combned-more business fail
ures in the year than in New Hampshire
and Vermont together. But business il
Oklahoma has been good, and there arc
it is said, 60, 900 individual farm owners
The material prospects of Oklahom;
have been improved greatly during tn
last three or tour years by many add
tions through immigration of women
who now are nearly as numerous ther
as the men. There are enrolled in tn
; Oklahoma schools more than rs 90,
pupils, and there are nearly 1000 teach
ers there.
The soil and climate of Oklahoma ar
favorable to the production OF corn, cot
ton, sorghum flax and fruits, and it
remarked as an encouraging indicatio
l of the thrift that the inhabitants unlili
: those of New Mexico and Arizona, hav
only seven holidays year, Washington
birthday being one and Decoration da
another. Some $1,000 votes were cas-
in Oklahoma at last years election
t 1000 more than in Florida, and % 90
/. more than in Deaware-and Of these til
d plurality for the successful party we
f. only LOO. Oklahoma desires to be
: state before 1900, and its desire may
d realized.
: No one can debase you but yoursel
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-30

The postal service OF the United
States costs 100000 a year
above receipts, while that Of Great
Britain yields profit Of over S14,-
100000 that OF France nearly S10,-
100000, that OF Germany $6,000,-
600, that OF Russia $S.000,000, and
that OF even India and Japan$1 ,500,-
600. About the only other nations
whose postal service does not pay
expenses are Canada, Norway, Siam,
Chill, Peru, Bulgaria and Bolivia
This deficit in the United States is
largely caused by an Interpretation
OF the law that carries in the mails
an enormous amount OF printed
matter at a sum greatly below the
cost OF SO doing. Repeated efforts
have been made to repeal it, but a
powerful lobby has prevented their
success.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-30
Why Use Soap

if not the best? Soap is not
soap when it takes prizes
to sell it. "Welcome's
prize is it's virtue. Virtue is
always pure.
"Welcome" is so virtu-
ously pure that it washes
clean without rotting clothes,
and will not make sore
hands.
"Welcome" lasts longer,
cleans quicker, and is vastly
cheaper in the long run.
So use only
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-30

The telephone is a great institution.
Little Binks always wanted to tell big
Brasher that he thought him menda-
cous scoundrel, so he rang up on the
wire the other morning and did it.
"Oh, l am, am ?" roared Brasher, furi-
ously. Il am, Ell? Well, I'll fix you when
we meet. Who are your"
"None of your darn business" said
little Binks, and to this time Brasher
doesn't know who did it Harper S
Bazaar,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-30

1t does not frequently happen that
a governor is Kissed by the people OF
the state, and when he is there must
be some good reason for it. Gov.
Tanner was publicly hissed while at
the head OF the state troops in Chi
cago in the Logan monument pro-
cession. The Chicago Times Herald
says that the only man who stepped
out OF the crowd to do him homage
was former gambler and demo
cratic boss. The reason of his being
thus treated was on account Of hi.
signing an infamous bill that passeC
the Illinois legislature.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-30

Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone celebrated
Sunday the 58th anniversary of their
wedding. They received many visi-
tors during the day and on their
way to church were saluted by
many of the townspeople. Both are
in excellent health. Mr.. Gladstone
walked off with as much vigor as at
any time within the last ten years.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-30

A woman in Sbamokin, Pa, has
been relieved through the Y rays of
a snake that mad been living in her
stomach tor II years. She has been
constant sufferer all this time from
what seemed 10 be the violent antics
of some crawling creature within
her. A few days ago the Y rays
were turned on her abdomen, and
discovered that the cause of the
trouble was snake II inches long.
Poisonous drugs were administered,
which caused the reptiles death, and
he was then removed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-30

The most lucrative occupation in
the Klondike gold section appears to
be the saloon business. The profits
of d saloon in Dawson City average
about $4,000 a week. Fiddling is
also profitable there, one young man
making $50 night playing in the
dance halls. Dawson City might be
good place for little missionary
work just at present.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-30

1t is reported that second Klon-
dyke has been found near Silver Cliff,
CAL, and that it gives large expecta-
tions OF gold. The news of the dis
covery spread quickly, and within
few hours there was a grand scram.
BILE for the new dggings.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-30

Lightning played singular freak
with young man at Arnettsville,
West Virginia, the other afternoon.
The bolt tore his clothing from his
body and removed his shoes. He
was stunned a little, but able to run
a square to his home, where he was
as well as ever in few minutes.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-30

Vim. Bryan was recently given a
royal reception in Oakland, Cal, the
city almost taking holiday to do
him honor. Over Is, 900 people lis
tened to his speech, and women and
children strewed his pathway to the
platform with roses.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-30
ADVERTISING RATES.

These advertising rates have been adopted
by the CALIFORNIAN and will be used until
further notice.
Per inch per week, 81. Per month, $3.50.
For three months, So. For SIX months, So.
One year. So.
DIscoUNTs.-To all advertisers using regu-
larly three inches or more, 20 per cent dis
count from the above rates. Advertisers
using five inches or more regularly. 25 per
cent discount.
Local notices, wants, for sale, ETC., 2 cents
per word first insertion. (These will be set
In reading matter type and given the best
position In the paper.) Legal mott es 10
cents line, three insertions. Probate notices
$3.50 each for three insertions. Dissolution,
liberation and similar notices 81 so each for
three insertions. Card of thanks, rs cents.
Obituary poetry, 10 cents a line.
Solid electrotypes only will be taken. We
cannot use cuts with wood bases.
c. M. STONE & CO.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-30

The tariff bill is passed, signed and
has gone into effect. Now for boom
in business and the arrival of the good
times that have been so long on the
road.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-30

No one can debase you but yourself
Slander never can rob you of manhood.
The record-union., 1897-03-07
RANDSBURG MINING CAMP.
There is No Room There For Any But
Investors.

SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 6.-There is
no room at Randsburg for any but in
Vestors, says James T. Mccarthy, the
real estate man, who has just returned
from that camp.
In ALL he stated, "thre are only 200
men out of the 900 in the district who
ere employed in the mines. There are
plenty of stores, and most of the people
down there are prospectors who have
sQuatted on claims and are waiting to
get customers at exorbitant prices.
Some of them get days work now
and then in order to keep body and soul
together, While others are starved out,
leaving room for new comers, who go
through the same experience.
There are really six mines in the dis
trict, which is twelve miles square. The
Big Wedge has produced $4,000 in
three months, the Rand $40, 900 in four
months and the Belverde $4,000 in
three months. The others are the
Butte, which is piling up ore on it's
dump, and the st. Elmo, away out on
the plain, that has produced $40, 900 in
four months, and the Englishman, which
is not yet milling. The owners claim
that the ore runs 500 a ton, but it
costs $50 to mine and mill it.
The purchasers thus far are mostly
Coloradans, of whom Shinn & Brown
and d. E. Kearney of Denver are the
principal Building is active at Rands-
burg. During February 500 houses, if
you can call them such, were put up.
They are mere cabins, mostly covered
with cloth or gunnySackS"
The record-union., 1897-03-07
WOMEN AND LETTERS.
General Denial That the Gentler Sex
Lacks "TaSte.''

Warm, indeed, has been the discus
sion brought about by the Scotch pro-
fessor's statement that woman has
no literary taste.' Last Friday the
LenoX Avenue Branch of the National
Alliance Of Unitarian Women met to
discuss the moral power of the novel,
giving their views in most decided
and determined manner. thereby
claiming they had TASTE" and as to its
quality, they were ready to be judged.
The different societies of the New
York Normal College have taken UP the
subject in most enthusiastic manner,
the Alpha Beta Gamma spending the
whole of one afternoon last week dis
cussing the question rs Magazine
Reading Profitable?' and last night
NJ. Louise Thomas, who is deeply in
terested in the subject, greatly enter
tanned her guests by saying:
ITO declare that the average woman
does not follow or care for literary
pursuits is to simply class her with
the whole of mankind.
The literary, or learned, guild is
never many-it is comprised of the Sc
leot few who are silently guiding and
molding the minds of the many, but
in America the proportion between
men and women is fairly balanced
There is no reason why it should not be
so; the schools are open alike to girls
and boys. The spirit of our institu-
tions favors the idea of mental equal
ity, and the women are to be the
mothers of both men and women, and
to transmit to both whatever intel
lectual training they themselves may
possess. Whether that be much or
little, it is fair to assume that the
tendencies Of the children of the same
mother cannot be essentially differ
ent
Literature, or, more properly, learn
ing, is represented by books, maga-
zines and newspapers. and the class
affected by it may be divided into two
parts, those who write and those who
read.
"Of the last named, women are un-
doubtedly largely in the majority, for
the reason that they have more leis-
ure than men and their habits lead
them to quiet pursuits. I am aware
that mere association does not amount
to much on either side, and, still more.
that it is impossible to tabulate any
average of the true thinking power of
the men and women of the world, but
l am of the opinion that in America
literature is largely in the hands of the
women. What they read and approve
becomes popular; what they earnestly
condemn must die.
Some of the literary digests of the
day have lately been giving monthly
tables of the most popular books of the
The record-union., 1897-03-07
The Edinburgh CARLYLE Memorial.

The Edinburgh Carlyle Memorial
Committee have decided that the fit
test monument to the Sage of Chelsea
will be a replica in bronze of the late
Sir J. Z. Boehm's seated statute on the
Thames embankment This statue
was done from the life in 1915, when
Carlyle was in his eightieth year. They
have received the sanction of Boehm'5
trustees to proceed with the replica,
and no doubt they will do so when the
300 which is being asked for is sub
scribed. The work viii be executed
under the supervision of a well-known
Scottish sculptor. We believe that the
idea of a replica originated with Lord
Rosebery. In this connection 1t may
be mentioned that Thomas Mckie, Ad-
vocate, has presented WoOlners bust
of Carlyle-which he purchased from
the trustees of the late Charles Jen-
ner-to Edinburgh University. sub
scriptions toward the Edinburgh Car
lyle memorial fund may be forwarded
to s. D. Elliott, S. S. c., Al Great KING
E5diD Dburgh.
The record-union., 1897-03-07
EXTRA SESSION.
President Mckinley Issues His Proc
lamatiOn.

WASHINGTON, March 6.-President
Mckinley to-day issued the following
proclamation:
Whereas, Public interests require that
the Congress of the United States should
be convened in extra session at IL
o'clock on the 10Th day of March, 1891,
to receive such communication as may
be made by the executive.
Now, therefore, /, William Mckinley,
President of the United States OF
America, do hereby proclaim and de-
clare that an extraordinary occasion
requires the Congress of the United
States to convene in extra session at the
Capitol, in the city of Washington, on
the 10Th day of March, 1897, at IL
O'Clock noon, of which all persons who
shall at that time be entitled to act
as members thereof are hereby required
to take notice.
Given under my hand and seal of the
United States at Washington, the 9th
day Of March, in the year of our Lord
one thousand. eight hundred and ninety
seven, and of the Independence of the
United States, the one hundred and
twenty-first.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
By the President:
John Sherman, Secretary of State.
The record-union., 1897-03-07
UMCOMPAHGRE RESERVATION
A Large Number of the Parties Who
Made Locations Go Off.

SALT LAKE, March Ga special to
the Tribune" from Price. Utah. saws.
Inc TACT that President Cleveland
Ialied 10 sign the Indian appropriation
OH Is becoming generally known on the
oncompahgre reservation, and a large
majority of the parties who made luca-
tlohs are going off, although many Of
theIh are taking the tip given out by
arthur Brown in the Senate and are
hlhg thelr locations now, believing that
such action will give them first right
When the reservation is actually opened
III is thought the troops will remove all
remaining intruders tomorrow. orders
from the War Department to that eff
feet are expected every minute. All the
locators IN the interest of Salt Lake and
@t. LOUIS parties withdrew Immediately
when they We're informed that the bill
had not become law, and it will be no
trouble for the troops to remove the few
remaining when the orders are received.