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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-05-04
OUADRENNlal CONFERENCE
M. {. Church South, Baltimore, Md.-Reduced
Rates via Southern Railway.

On account of the quadrennial general
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, at Baltimore, Md, May 10
rs, 1898, the Alabama Great Southern rail-
road will sell tickets from all points on its
line to Baltimore and return at greatly re-
duced rates. Tickets will be sold May 2,
and A, and May Q, 10 and II, with final
limit May 81, 1898.
The schedule accommodations via the
Alabama Great Southern railroad are most
excellent, and parties contemplating at
tending this meeting, and desiring rates,
sleeping car reservations, etc., should COM
municate at once with the nearest agent of
the Alabama Alabama Great Southern.
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BONDS
Financial

New York, May 3.-The Evening Posts
London financial cablegram says: The
stock markets reopened good today on the
American war news, Americans naturally
leading, but the support here was entirely
bears covering and professional operations.
There was no general buying and prices
closed under the best. Two more failures
in the West Australian account are an
nounced. The worst is now over financial
ly, but the matter possibly may reappear
In the courts of justice.
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Cotton Eetter

By Private Wire to T. G. Hewlett, Agt.
Birmingham, May 3.-Liverpool again SEM
unfavorable cables. futures declining two
to three sixty-fourths. closing quiet. Spot
demand dull, sales 5000 bales middling,
8 9-16 New York opened in sympathy
with Liverpool's decline. First call prices
5 to 6 points under yesterdays close. How
ever the market ruled steady at decline and
very little liquidation was in evidence The
market was practically featureless. fuctua-
lions confined within a range of l to
points.
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Chicago, May 3-Wheat today recovered
an early loss of 214c on Paris advices that
the French import on wheat had been re-
moved for May and June. The close was
2Ac higher than yesterday for July wheat
and 1c higher for May.
Corn and oats recovered early losses and
closed unchanged. Lard was the leader in
provision pit, gaining 1oc. Pork and ribs
gained 21ac each.
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Southern Baptist Convention, Norfolk, va
May 5-12.

One fare for the round Experimentation
to Norfolk and return. s1S.75. Special par
ty from Birmingham.
Parties desiring to join the Baptist par
ty to Norfolk, Va, leaving Birmingham,
Ala, via a. G. 8. railroad. May Bird, about
500 p. M, will please leave their names
with Dr.. p. 4. Hale. or Cr B. ID. Cray
The route of this special party will be
Xia A. G. 8. railroad to Chattanooga, pass
ing Lookout mountain, thence via the
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Rough and Ready

Rough and Ready
From the New York World.
"Roosevelt's Rough Riders!" 1t has an
agreeable sound. If animated by the spirit
of their commander and possessed of his
abnormal appetite for fight, they would
prove the deadliest "three Rs" since the
famous ALTERATION that killed Blaines
chance to be president.
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Spanish tours were neglected and dull.
The revival in Kaffirs continues. A feature
today was the sharp rise in India stock
and the fall of silver on the announcement
of proposals of the Indian government for
an immediate gold standard and on sales Of
silver stocks by the government.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-05-04

Go to Powderly. See beautiful town
named for T. v. Powderly. Take cars at
1916 Second avenue. 4-l2-tf
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Markets b Telegraph
LOCAL MARKETS.

Local Cotton Market
Cotton Middling-5Kc.

Fruits and Produce
Butter-Elgin. 25c; Dairy, No. l.; 29c
Dairy No. 2, 1Sc; country, l5c; cooAins'
10e412c. -.
sweet per barrel, S2.75.
Eggs, lie.
Apples, $4006450
Lemons, SO. 00n3.50 per box.
Oranges, Ss00ft4.e0 per box.
Cecoanuts, $4G0 per 100.
Corn-Yellow, aic; white. 42c.
Meal, Soc per sack. 49,. ~.
Hay-choiee Timothy, SIS; No. l. sl4; NO.
2, siS
Poultry Hens, 22lSc: fries. l292eazVc'
ducks, 45cQ3ec; SeeSA. soc.
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LocAI STAPLE GrOcPffks
Fiour-Best patent S5h0G5.75.
Straight-$5.00; extra family, S5.4o.,,
Sugar Granuiated; S.38; Y. C., $4.SiR.
coffee-Green. Sa1Olac; Arbuckle's PACK tx.
ages, $1,000; Coverings packages $ie'oo'
Lyons packages. $3.50.
Lard, Csc basis.
Clear ribs, sides, 5000.
:. Molasses-Centrif., 15d25c: sugar-house'
206DS5c.
Rice. 514aslzc.
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Southern railway through Ashevilie and
the Land of the Sky"
Through coaches and Pullman sleepers
without change. The most magnificent
scenery in America. - -
Side trips from Norfolk, via steamer to
Baltimore and Washington.
r. M. Ellis. T. P. A, ]. r. Bi1ups. T.
p. A. So,
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Strangers in the City

Go to East Lake for a pleasant hour
Take East Lake cars on First avenue.
4-12-tf
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CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
RAILWAY co.

No. from Albany, Columbus, etc. IL :35 am
No / from Savannah, Macon, CO.
lumbus, etc.,. ............ $50 pm
Connection at Savannah with superb
freight and passenger steamers of the
Ocean Steamship company. from New York,
Boston and the Eas..
For further information apply to
s. Jacobs, Cont Agent, Jack w. John
son, Union Ticket Agent, J. C. Halle Gem
eral Passenger Agent, E. H. Hinton. Traffic
Manager. .-sf
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Notice-Central of Georgia Railway

Effective Sunday, April 10, 1893, St.Louis-
Jacksonville sleeper line is withdrawn.
Double daily service between Birmingham
and Columbus, Ca, remains unchanged
SOLON JACOBS, Commercial Agent
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The Double Umpire system In History

The Double Umpire System In History
From the New York Tribune. .s4
Two historians are needed for this war.
One to set down the things that really hap
pen and one to record the things that are
said to happen, but don't.
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New Orleans, May 3.-Secretary Testers
New Orleans cotton exchange statement,
issued today, covers the monthly movement
to April 80.
Compared with last year 1t shows an in
crease for the month in round figures of
10000 bales, compared with year before
last an increase of 10000, and with 1895 an
increase of 5000.
The total for April was 345, '02, against
232 1913 last year, and 240,65S year before last,
and ,72S same time in 1895. 49,
The amount Of the crop brought into
sight for the eight months from Septenba r
to April inclusive is 2,S11 $50 over last year,
3Se0,149 over year before last, and 1920, 456
over 1885,
The movement from the first of Septem-
Der to April 30, includes total receipts at all
United States de'ivrry ports S,22s91.
against $3.50, 326 last year. 5.023 507 year be-
fore last and 773O 1913 same time in 1896;
overland movement by railroads across
the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers
1140 .267, against Ss3.719 last year 754,15s vear
before last and 019,131 same time in 1895;
southern mill takings exclusive Of ora t'tv
consumed at southern outports, S5S560,
against SIS. SB last year, 72S.426 wear before
last and 674O71 same time in 1906; and in
terror stock in excess of those held PIT the
commencement of the season, % s0s,
AGAINST 46S3s last year. 1868 year before
last and 114300 same time In 1896
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Now Orleans, May 3.-Cotton easy; sales,
1000 bales. Ordinary, AZ; good ordinary,
AS; low middling, 81; middling, l1-16; good
mddling, l-16; middling, fair, TIC; re-
ceipts. 3,703 bales; stock, 266,9O1.
Galveston-Easy; middling, 5% sales, l.
104 bales receipts, 512; stock, 51,343.
Mobile-Nominal; middling, ga; receipts,
81 bales; stock, 1923.
Savannah-Quiet; middling, 11-16; sales.
Al bales; receipts, LIZ; stock, S6,0O1.
Observation-Disclosures iddling, So; re-
ceipts, 56S bales; stock, 10,0S4-
Wilmington-Steady: middling, 81; sales,
127 bales; receipts. 23S; stock, 1866.
Norfok-Dull middling, 6B; sales, 745
bales receipts. 955: stock, 40,417
Baltimore-Nominal: middling, 65-16; re-
celpts, 372 bales: stock, 21,6 500.
Boston-Quiet; middling, 5-16; receipts,
net, 81 bales; gross, 2,256.
Observation-Disclosures; middling, 9-16;
receipts, 800 bales; stock, S,551
phis-Steady; middling, SIS; sales. $50
bales; receipts. 707; stock, 61,52S
Augusta-Steady; middling, 6; sales. CT
bales; receipts, 200; stock, corrected. 34214
bales.
Consolidated statement: Receipts, net. 3d.
1919 bales: exports to Great Britain, 39,9S7;
to the continent, 81 SOS; stock, 659,431.
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Paine Murphy q Co.'s Grain Letter

Birmingham, Ala, May 3.-The lower ca
bles, which averaged about I'd decline from
yesterday, coupled with liberal northwest
movement and the let-up abroad on the
belief that the little wrestling match with
Spain would soon be ancient history, all
had effect on prices. which were nearly
cents lower at the opening. The liquidation
started in the first hour and prices We're
too low for selling. This caused extreme
dullness until the noon hour, when rumors
that France would reduce duties at once
had bullish effect and the buying which
followed, while local, had the effect OF
advancing prices 1 cent a busheL Later IL
was confirem dthat France had taken of
the entire duty until next January. This
caused further advance, which held
throughout with rumors that July would
be put to 81 this week. Course grains and
provisions, after sympathizing with the
wheat opening decline, rallied on good buy
ing, closing firm at about the best figures
of the day.
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lowed by some reaction this morning when
enthusiastic excitement had been subsidized.
Ihe approaching holiday also had diverse
efect, the small holder preferring taking
profits rather than carry over a no iday
with possibilities of some sensational hap
penings. Despite these hearish features
the market as whole held strong, and
barring naval defeats, which are ifnproba-
bic, conditions will continue to assert them
selves, and as a result prices will advance
in response to the general rosy outlook for
the coming years crops and consequent in
creased railway earnings throughout the
greatest country that providence ever had
hand in creating. The news from abroad
was reassuring, and it Is semi officially
stated that a provisional government has
been established in the Philippines.
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opening Highesl Lowest closinl

Cash quotations.: Flour, steady; demand
1O@15c lower; No. spring wheat, $1.0S@1. 10;
No spring wheat, $l.0211.15; No. 2 red,
$11S@1. 20; No. Q corn, 1874 nominal; No.
oats, SOC; No. white, s2a321kc; No. 8
white. 31A@32c; No. 2 rye, e21kG6sc; No. 2
barley, 39a51c; No. / fex seed, 81. 32kQI1. SO;
prime timothy seed. s2.6092.75; mess pork,
$l0.95@11.00; lard, $5.75a5.S5; short rib sides
Coose) $535Q5.70; dry sailed shoulders
(boxed), 4l05c; short clear sides (boxed).
s.. S5@6.O5 whisky, s1-20: No. 2 yellow corn,
33A nominal.
On the produce exchange today the but
ter market was steady; creamery, 13@1Shc:
dairy, 12@15c; eggs, steady, fresh, 10izc;
cheese, dull. unchanged.
Paine. Murphy G. Co.'s Stock Letter.
Birmingham, May 3-The extraordinary
advance Of yesterday necessarily was fol-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-05-04

NORTHERN ALABAMA RAILROAD
COMPANY
TIME TABLE NO SIN EFFECT
Monday, January 4. 1897, at 500 IN.
Passenger, Passenger,
Daily except Daily except
Sundays. Sundays.
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Silver Going Down
New York, May 3.-There was a decline
of q cent an ounce in the price of bar
silver today in sympathy with weakness
in London, which was due to the Indian
government proposal to establish the gold
standard in the Indian empire.
New York, May 3.-Tomorrow being set
aside as a holiday for the Greater New
York charter celebration all markets here
will be closed
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BY Private Wire to Paine, Murphy & Co.
The herald., 1898-09-04
AGAINST MR.. "BoGEY"
A Golf Tournament at the Santa Mon
lea Golf Club Tomorrow

A golf tournament, out Of the usual order
and different from any tournament ever
| held in Southern California, will be held
on the links of the Santa Monica Golf club
| tomorrow by the Baroness Harden Hickey
The management of the affair is in the
hands Of Robert Osburn Of Riverside. The
tournament consists Of handicap events
the strokes to be on the different holes and
play against the DOGGY score, match
play. Should player make a bad score a,
one hole, he is not out of 1t; he simply
loses the hole. 1t makes every hole a
match. and the play continues until either
the player or DOGGY" wins the game.
Prizes will be given-two for the men and
two for the lady players. The player max
ing the best score against "bogey" wins the
first prize, the next best winning the Sec
ond. The "bogey" score for men for the
eighteen holes Is 70. The DOGGY" for the
ladies. who will only play nine holes, is so
Play will begin at 10 o'clock in the morning
by the men, a. the corner Of California
avenue and Fourth street. The ladies'
play will begin at o'clock in the afternoon
on the polo grounds.
Among the ladies who will play are Mines.
Waring. Jardine, Young. Wells, stearns,
P. Severance. Tufts and Vail, Misses Alice
ard Marian Jones and Roberts. The men
who will play are Messrs. Young Butcher,
Jardine, Pedley, Osburn. Tufts. Cosby,
Vail. Flowers. johnson, Waring. Acker,
Severance, Bumller, Cochran. Cole. Rob
ertson, Chapman, Conde Jones, P;cher.
Rowan and Roy Jones.
The herald., 1898-09-04
SIEGE>OF MOUNT LOWE
Pastel Painting of Rare and Remark.
able Phenomenon

F. E. Sturgis has placed on exhibition
in the window of Gardner & Haines' book
store. on Spring stree, near First, pastel
painting entitled, The Siege of Mt Lowe. -
The remarkable and rare phenomenon in
smoke-form shown in this painting was
an actual occurrence during the recent for
est fires in the Sierra Madre mountains.
The gigantic perpendicular column seen
Immediately behind the summit of Mount
Lowe rose majes tically in heigth to thous-
ands of feet where, in the rarefied at
mosphere its cap expanded into a beauti-
full vase and bouque;-like shape, standing.
restive, glisten!ng gorgeously in the rays of
sunshine few brief moments a 5 if a living,
sentien: creature. boldly relieved in ethereal
blue, then vanishing into seeming nothing
ness. beautiful thing. forever gone, as
unlikely 10 be reproduced in the future as
to ever have appeared in the past.
This wonderful transformation scene was
presented in the forenoon Of August 20,
between 10:15 and 10:30 o'clock: is faithfully
portrayed in the painting as i; appeared
from the base of Klondike hill, at the cor
ner of Third street and Beaudry avenue In
the northwest part of the city, where the
picture was sketched and painted.
The herald., 1898-09-04
FRu1r FOR OMAHA
Chamber Of Commerce Sends Supplies
to the Exposition

The chamber Of commerce shipped te
Omaha yesterday ten boxes Of oranges fol
decorative display; two boxes OF Valencia
late oranges from the ranch of j. H. F
Jarchow, San Gabriel; four baskets OF
Kelsey Japan plums from the ranch OF
Mark Brimble, Covina; three boxes Of lem
ons from Briggs-Spence company, Monro-
via; three baskets of figs from c. H. Rich
ardson, Pasadena.
Reports from Omaha state that last Sat-
urday there were displayed at the Los An
geles county exhibit fifty plates Of differ
ent varieties of fresh fruits, received from
the chamber during that week. These fruits
compared favorably with anything in the
building.
The chamber Of commerce of Santa Ana
sends for the Orange county exhibit. from
the ranch of S. Penfield, display of Green
irg, Smith Cider. Fall Pippin and Sp.tzen-
burg apples. These apples are as fine as
any that have been exhibited in the hall this
season.
Z. Hamann Of Lankershim sent in dis
play of orange-clng peaches and Kelsey
Japan plums S. Donaldson OF this city
shows a model of a patent hay and cotton
press. Mrs. Otto Brotbeck, this city, pre-
sented the chamber with six mammoth
punches of dates. The largest bunch will
be sent to Omaha. L. H. Bannister. Pasa-
dena, exhibits a new variety Of peaches,
the "Elbe" The chamber of commerce Is
issuing 10000 pamphlets, 'The City and
County of Los Angeles" for distribution at
Omaha.
The following visitors from California
registered at the Los Angeles county de-
partment at Omaha last week:
Los Angeles-Mrs. S. B. Thompson, Mrs.
Charles z. Morris. Mrs. T. f. Whitesell and
daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. Ira o. Smith. P. J.
Collins, Mr.. and Mrs. F. W. Mattern. W. 7.
Haley. H. X. Pratt: San Francsco-Ber-
nard Bienenfeld. Cecil Calvert. G. Haines
Woodbury.. Mrs. F. Kerngott, Miss NJ. A.
Jones f. r. Jevan: Pasadena. Mrs. L. V.
Sweesy; Pomona. NJ. A. Miller: Santa Bar
bara. J. P. Bechstead: Orange, J. F. Spots:
Santa Monica. Edith Heeney.
The herald., 1898-09-04
NEWS OF THE RAILWAYS
Notes and Personal Mention of Inter
est to Railroaders

The Santa Fe overland was five hours
late yesterday owing to wreck near Cha!-
lender. The wreck was caused by the un-
timely meeting of two freight trains. Con-
siderable property was destroyed, but, for
tunately, no one was injured. Engineer
Irwin jumped from his cab and escaped
with only a slight injury to his back The
ether engineer was hurt even less. Brake
men Foster and Manson were badly
bruised, but not fatally.
The southern Pacific company has an
rounced rate of one and one-third to the
state fair which opens at Sacramento on
September 8. The tickets are good from
September 3 TO II.
w. E. Hodges, general purchasing agent
for the Santa Fe, with headquarters at
Chicago. teegraphed yesterday that he
intended to start for Southern California.
The object of his trip was not staed
A. C. Wells, general superintendent of
the Santa Fe. who has been in Arizona the
past week inspecting the condition Of the
roadbed, returned yesterday. Mr.. Wells
reports that although the rains this year
have been much heavier than usual the
washouts have been less severe, owing
to the large expenditures the past summer
III palIastiAS the trach anu pul4u!hR
bridges.
W. B. Beeman, superintendent Of the
Southern California division of the San "a
Fe. came UP from San Bernard!no yes
terday.
A. S. Robinson of Chicago, bridge en-
gineer for the 4. T. 6, S. F., arrived in the
city yesterday.
Both the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific
companies ran special trains last evening
to the Gage ratification. The Southern
Pacific ran trains from Santa Ana, Long
Beach and San Pedro
The herald., 1898-09-04
ovER-cRowDED HIGH SCHOOL
Fourteen Hundred Pupils Will Be
Enrolled This Year

The High school faculty will be con-
fronted when schools opens with the same
old difficulty intensified with which it has
struggled for several years past, how to
accommodate twice or three times the
number Of pupils for which the building
was designed. 1t is estimated that there
will be l 400 students enrolled at the open
ing of the term and wha. to DO with them
is a question.
To relieve the overcrowded condition of
the building ii is probable that the B
Ninth grade will be given halliday ses-
sions, but an effort will be made to give
the A Ninth the benfit of full time. Three
new teachers will be added to the faculty
this fall S. L. Coleman in the scientific
department; Il. f. Wright, general teach
ing: Miss Elenor JOY, promoted from a
principalship in the grammar grade. will
take Miss Mary Foy's place in the English
department during her absence in Europe.
The herald., 1898-09-04

service, but rather doubt whether their
efforts will amount to anything, when our
colonel and other officers lie so about the
matter. The truth is that the boys have
| not got what are termed cold feet think
every man in the regiment would be per-
fectly willing to stay in, in case our coun-
try should need US, and just as long as we
are needed But what We don't want is 20
become regulars under a volunteer system
that is. to lie in a camp and be neglected
as We have been, for two years.
"Of course, we would be willing to do this
If our country should need us to do il. do
not believe we have been asked to do II so
far. The boys would like to express their
opinion. but they have been checked In all
their efforts by the officers and. what is
more, the colonel wrote to the press and
said that the boys were all anxious 70
serve their two years. You see, when bow
enlists in the army he has no longer the
privilege Of expressing himself as he feels
Theirs not to reason why; theirs but TO do
and die am glad some one outside the
army has taken our part"
The herald., 1898-09-04
POPULISTS' NEW CHAIRMAN
Fusion Committee Appointed and Con
vention Place Set

E. L, Hutchison is no longer chairman of
the Populist county central committee He
thinks that his candidacy for the office Of
lieutenant governor will preclude him from
acting as chairman, and at the meeting OF
the committee held al the headquarters In
the Downey block yesterday morning he re-
signed. Fred Baker was unanimously
elected TO succeed him.
After some little discussion. II was agreed
that, providing suitable arrangements car
be made, the Popuist convention shall be
held in Santa Monica on the same date tha,
the Democrats and Silver Republicans hold
their conventions.
In the afternoon the following were ap-
pointed members Of the executive and fu-
s:cn committee: Frederick Baker, c. o.
Morgan. Sam ]. Chapel. r. Curran, ]. w
Hordwcke. J. L. s. Rush ]. A. Anderson,
Joel S. Parker, ]. D. Bailey, W. S. Faw-
cett and E. D. Goode.
The herald., 1898-09-04
Pensions and Postal

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-California pen
sions were granted today as follows:
Original-Mortimer Hulott Of Sacra.
mento, s12. Mexican war widows-Mar.a
Ge Los Angeles Russell Of San Jose, IS.
California postoffices es.ablis hed-W ood
leaf Yuba county. Charles L. Falk, post
master; Eimdale, Stanislaus county, PER-
S. Martin, postmaster.
The herald., 1898-09-04
WHAT THEY WANTED
Privates of the Seventh Have Had
Enough of It

Although the fight has been won and
orders have been issued for the mastering
out Of the Seventh regiment, letters con-
tinue TO be received in this city from the
boys indorsing the sentiment Of mastering
out. Following is an extract from a letter
received yesterday:
Il notice that the Los Angeles papers are
making fight TO have US mustered out OF
The herald., 1898-09-04
COmfOrtableS

Bed Comforts. hand tied and filled with
a pure white cotton, we'll made, printed
silkolne cover, double bed size Or
and sold everywhere at $1.25; NHC
Sale price. .....................
$500 Comforts reduced to $1.25.
$225 Comforts reduced to $1.74.
$3.50 Comforts reduced to $3.50.
The herald., 1898-09-04

j. V. Kelly, secretary Of the board of
railroad commissioners, is down from San
Erancisco.