The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-04-19

8orki the voices Oh tne niiiss
Steady now. bslieversl
Hxrk! the music Of the riils;
Steady now. believersi
10 your country's honor brave.
Whore your country flag shall wave
Find your glory, or your gravel
Steady now, believersl
Atlanta Constitution.
Twenty -ons persons wers.each finsd -
ana costs in the police court this morn
ing for drunkenness
The breaking down Of heavy wagon
loaded with lager bser kegs on Cranston
street. this morning. delayed street car
travel for short time.
Ths Aldermanic committee on health
held meeting in the health department.
rooms st o'clock this Aftsrnoon to talk
over the matter of certain nuisanoes.
Councilman lFletchsr OF the Eighth
ward, who was threatened with typhoid
fever, ss botfer, but he will not be abe
70 leave his homo for some days to come.
Arthur Leach. ID. years Of age. has tcen
missing from his home Is Eddy street,
Johnston, since last Wednesday. He Is
descritsd as light complexioned. slim
build and with weak eyes.
Again mas the war spirit fiared up
among the younger men. and It 10 prob
able that II there IL general call to
arms Rhode Island will furnish her
quota without any difhculty.
Pensions have been granted Rhode
Islanders az follows: Original, Benjamin
r. Nichols. Providence, 50; Orin II.
Mssson, Tiverton, 81; David l.. Thomas.
Providence eS. Increase, James w.
Batea HlocumviIle. IS to sis.
gbe board of public works has COM
mspced laying the 30.inch mains on Plain
! neld strsst, in order to complete the ad-
ditional water pressure for fire. service In
the tewn Of Johnston. Service pipes
and hydrAnts are also being put In.
a oolored man with q white suit,
sWinging cane, who gees about whist.
ling various merry tuues. IL = conspicu-
ous figure on tho streets these days, a. he
goes up and down the principal thorough
1ares advsrtisins ons Of the large stores
~ the down town district
For public information. IL can be said
that the work ON the new bridge at
Market square and along Dyer street is
progr1ssins. though no one seems to
know just how fast. or be able to predict
WhOn ~ will be completed. In The mean
time the condition OF Affairs In that
neighborhood IL . great hindranoe to
trafI1o and travel in general
Professor Charles Eliot Norton. LII.
d., Of Harvard, delivered the third OF
his course OF lectures on Dante st Penn
broke hall yesterday afternoon, his SUBJ
jsot being "Ihe New Life" and "The
Banquek" He rscitsd the difficulties
that LAY in the way OF Dan te's study and
described the history OF the writing of
The above pieoeA
The Marine Corps of ARTILLERY OF Bat.
NY A. r. !. NJ, will hold it's annual
camp IRE on Monday next In the old
ar1nory on Benefit street. At the bust.
ness meeting last night. q committee Of Is
/. WAS appointed to make arrangements for
it and 70 provide the chowder aud enter
tainment Invitations and tickets will
Be furnished for the affair. The follow.
Ing we're also appointed nominating
committee to report q list OF nominations
or officers for the ensdina year: Charles
rown, James Mckay and William Ar
nold.
Professor Kent of Brown University
smoke before large audience in tho
synsgogue Of the Congregation OF the
Cons o. Israel ana David on the Babylon
Ian exiIes. He told most Interestingly
the History OF the Jewish people from the
earliest down to the present time, touch.
inG upon their suffering In exile. their
rslisious conceptions and the valuable
historical msttsr which they had gath.
erod together and embodied In the Bi BILE.
: He also spoke u the donations from the
Jowish churches to Brown University as
vsry valuable 70 the students Of Biblical
history.
The funeral Of Charles 1orton was held
from biz late residsncs, c7l Friendship
street. yesterday afternoon The simple
ssrvic<s wsrs attended by host OF
friends who held him In great estesm
and respect. Al the close OF the hymn
"Nearer. Ny 0od, TO Ttse, /" By the Ma.
oonIo choir. The EpisoopaI ritual vas