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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-04-25

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in@ With the dark steel grey and in
Guiding every shade to the light pearl
grey. y look at them Will be interest
ing. RUDOLPH s WALLACE
2S3 Main street.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-04-25
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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-04-25
THE VOTE

The question was here called ana the
vote on the amendment taken. Tho
vote resulted in favor Of the amend
ment to reduce - $3.50 as follows:
Ayes. --Ailen. Hannan, iceland ia
cobs, Joynss, Kahn kiernan. llariso
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-04-25

The Select and Common Councils met
in called joint session last night for
consideration of the yearly budget.
The Select Council was raped to
order promptly on time. with President
Greenwood in the chair and Mossrs.
Marx. Kahn. Vail, Bonncy, w. ~; Bon
ney, r. T.; Obcrndorfer, Consolvo.
Pannill. Jacobs, Mayer, Spann and liol-
In MI r,rnror.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31
HOW MILLS RAISE
PRICE OF COTTON
The Home Market Supreme
This Year.
A CHANGE OF 100000 BALES THIS YEAR
Port Receipts Formerly Exceeded interior
by That Amount and This Year Inland
Towns Show Larger Receipts How
This Has Helped the Planter.

One Of the most interesting Industrial
phases of the year has been the Jump
in the price of cotton, the varying esti-
mates of statisticians as to the size OF
the crop, and the generally puzzilg
condition Of the market and movement
of the crop even to those best veraed
in these things One Of the leading cot
ton buyers of Raleigh in the appended
specially prepared statement throws
some light on the obscure features Of
the situation. How marked is the change
in the normal course of the crop from
field to factory is shown by the writer )
statement that more than 100000 bales
have disappeared in the interior instead
of appearing at the ports as hereto
fore. The writer says:
Mr.. Henry NJ Neill is the first sta
tistician who predicted a ten million
bale crop. He has been wonderfully
accurate in forecasting the size of all the
large crops, and he has an international
reputation This year he has been
greatly puzzled to find an explanation
Of the change in movement. The port
receipts up to the first of December
usually exceed the twenty-eight counted
towns by 100000 bales. This season,
port receipts are considerably less than
the receipts at the counted towns.
1.-The solution of the problem is to be
found in the warehouses of the cotton
mills in the Carolinas and Georgia. Lo-
Gated almost in the cotton fields these
mills were the first to discover that
the crop had been seriously injured and
became active buyers early in the sea
son. They soon drove the exporter to
fields beyond the influence of Southern
mills, and then became active competi-
tors with each other in all markets in
the Piedmont section of the three States.
The price Of cotton in this zone of in
fuence has heretofore been kept fully
one-half cent per pound above an ex-
port basis adj the season, in fact, the
mills have made the market price and
Europe has reluctantly followed.
THE number of mills in this State
have increased so rapidly that they are
unable to get a supply of cotton along
the lines of the Southern and Seaboard
roads, on which they are chiefly located,
without going outside of the State, and
therefore, all nearby markets are kept
at a point equal to the difference in
freight between the long and short haul.
The producer of cotton is therefore
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31
THE INCREASE OF
INSURANCE RISKS
A So, 100000 Increase of
Life and Fire Risks Each.
THE RECENT SLUMP IN FIRE RATES
The Greensboro Companies Forced the South
eastern Tariff Association to Drop rs Per
Cent From the Rates Formerly
Fixed on Certain Risks.
Fixed on Certain Risks.

To the Editor 1t would be most in
teresting TO every thinking person in
North Carolina to know just how much
Insurance has been placed on lives and
property in North Carolina during the
wear 1899. This will be impossible until
the reports of all the companies ARE
made public and it will be sixty days
or more before they can all be seen.
We may suspect nice increase over
the business of 1898.
That we may get an idea of the mag
nitude of the entire insurance carried in
North Carolina l have taken the trouble
to compare the business of 1895 with
that of 1898 and give you the figures
below, calling attention to marked
change in the cash and giving the reason
for the first reduction:
FIRE INSURANCE.
Risks written in 1898
--latest report .. SCI, 544 514.S4
Risks written in 1893. D, 769, 1916
Risks written in 1898. .$35, 691 ,S99. 43
Premiums received in '95. 1,544, 7S1.26
Life Guarantee and accident insur-
ance:
Kicks written in 1898. .S35, 691, 800. 43
Risks written in 1895. =. 26,027 500. 80
Premiums received in '9S. 1,647 ,553.7 40
Premiums received in '95 1875, 42S.41
These figures are taken from the re-
ports of our State Department and some
of them are incomplete.
A SLUMP IN THE COST OF FIRE
INSURANCE.
During the year 1899 those of our cit
liens owning property belonging to the
class of risks which have been insured
by the Southern Stock Mutual and I'm
derwriters, of Greensboro have expert
enced a reduction in rates Of % pen
cent, which is saving to our people
Of from 100000 to $150,000 annually.
This immense saving comes to us sole
~ because these home companies at
Greensboro. owned ard operated by
North Carolina men and money, have
for years demonstrated their ability to
carry our insurance at 20 per cent less
cost than that fixed by the Southeastern
Tariff Association and the said asso-
citation has found it necessary to make
this sweeping reduction of % per cent
on lines written by our home companies
(what loss TO us. that our North Caro-
lima companies did not carry all lines
so as to force the association to reduce
on all lines)
So the operation of these home com
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31

Il condition means progress in popular in
terest.
81 IMPROVED COURSES OF
STUDY.
Almost without exception the require
ments for entrance have been raised.
thus lessening the competition and con-
tlict between the college and academy.
A general effort has been made to
broaden and deepen the courses of study
and to keep the instruction offered thor
Oughly adapted to the varying needs of
the times. The elective system, with
proper iTritations and safeguards, has
BEEN adopted. Latin and Greek go
hand in hand with French and German
and Spanish. Ancient and Modern lam
guages and hteratures are studied and
read not for their culture value alone,
but also for their contribution to our
knowledge OF the life and civilization of
the people whom they represent. A
growing prominence is given to scientific
studies. The old and the new in edu-
cational ideals and systems are carefully
examined and from each selections are
made. of whatever is suited to our CON
dtions.
Large additions have been made to
equipment at Il cost of many thousand
dollars. In Wake Forest, for instance, OF
which / can speak from more intimate
knowledge, a new chair of Physics has
been established in the hands Of a spe-
cialist to be supplied with the best of
modern apparatus. Like additions have
been made to the laboratory equipment
of nearly all the higher institutions Of
learning in the State.
In the prospect of the coming year
one sees promise. This must be so in
view of the progress already mentioned.
In the progress of the year closing thele
is a potency that must prevail in pro
ducing larger and richer results in the
year about to begin. The old State
vaguely conscious OF her limitlass re
sources, is saying to the colleges:
Bring me men to match my mountains,
Bring me men to match my plains,
Men with empires in their purpose
And new eras in their brains"
To this appeal from the State the
higher educational institutions must not,
will not, be deaf. They must realize
the weighty responsibilities upon them,
Labor and learning must go hand in
hand, twin workers in achieving the
glorious destiny of a great State. Di-
vorced from learning labor grOvels di-
vorced from labor learning scars, but
linked in harmonious union they be-
come omnipotent factors in the accom-
plishment of noble purposes. In the
future a college diploma must be not a
passport to ease hut a pledge to work,
not a token of triumphs won, but Of
battles yet to come. All this is involved
in the promise OF the coming year and
more.
Culture and scholarship must be
sought and secured, but not at the ex-
pense of character. Behind and above
the scholar must he the man, the woman
And the value of learning is to be found
not only in the graces of manner, but
also in that goodness of heart that en-
riches the entire personality and makes
it's possessor a blessing and benefactor
to the race.
The workers in the field of higher edu-
cation in North Carolina may see much
to encourage them in the closing year
and much to inspire them in the year
about to begin.
as. J. 3. CARLYLE.
Wake Forest, \. c., Dec. %, 1899.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31
MILLIONS GIVEN AWAY.

1t is certainly gratifying to the public
to know Of one concern in the land who
are not afraid to be generous to the
needy and suffering. The proprietors Of
DIR. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, Coughs and Colds, have given away
over ten million trial bottles Of this great
medicine; and have the satisfaction Of
knowing it has absolutely cured thou
sands of hopeless cases. Asthma, Bron-
chitis. Hoarseness and al diseases Of the
Throat, Chest and Lungs are surely cur
ed by it. Call ON all druggists and get
a free trial bottle Regular size Soc and
81. Every bottle guaranteed, or price
refunded.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31
STATES COLLEGES
| AND UNIVERSITIES
Higher Education in 1899
and in 1900.
A LARGER ENROLMENT THAN EVER
Growing Popular interest, Higher Courses Of
Study and Better Equipped Institu-
tons Mark the Progress Of
the Year.

Writing of the higher educational in
terests i'm North Carolina ON the last
day of the year, one feels inclined to take
both. a retrospective and prospective
view. On the retrospect he sees prog
ress, in the prospect promise.
The progress made in the year now
closing is manifest in three lines % a
marked increase in the number o. stu
dents enrolled (2) a growing popular in
tcrest (3) and steady Improvement in
courses of study and equipment.
a INCREASED ENROLMENT.
While l have not at hand facts and
figures upon which to base accurate state
ments, / think it fair to assume that
twenty per cent more students, male and
female. have been enrolled in the higher
institutions OF learning of North Caro-
lima during the year 1899 than in the
year Immediately preceding. Not few
of these institutions have been taxed to
their utmost capacity to accommodate
the eager learners, and in the case OF
some of them the announcement was
made that no others could be admitted.
When it is remembered that this in
crease has been made in the face of in
dustrial depression when times were con-
sidered hard and money scarce, it be-
comes the surer evidence of progress,
and the token of still greater progress
now that an era of prosperity seems
about to dawn.
(2) A GROWING POPULAR IN
TEREST.
This is evident to amy one who has
travelled extensively and mingled with
the people. All classes and all sections
are sending boys and girls TO college. In
hundreds of homes the desire for a col
lege education is passion that will
master all difficulties and override all
obstacles. The boy behind the pillow and
the girl in the kitchen, as we'll as the
sons and daughters of the well-to-do and
the wealthy are dreaming of the days
when knowledge shall unlock its treas
ured stores to their eager grasp.
The prospective lawyer and preacher
and doctor are not the only ones now for
whom fond mothers are planning a col
lege career; and it is fast becoming a
settled conviction in the minds and
hearts of the people that any boy, any
girl, who has the capacity to acquire
the will to seek and the character to
support, can get a college training. Such
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31

largely benefited by this change in
movement:
First: He has nearby markets.
Second: Having increased to a point
that the immediate neighborhood does
not supply them, the mills are now max
ing the price, and have driven the ex-
porter to sections not dominated by
mills.
Third; Having become competitors
with each other they have forced the
price in certain sections one-haIf cent
per pound above an export basis
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09
PIONEER DAYS IN NEBRASKA
Experience of Party of immigrants in
Seeking for Homes Twenty
Eight Years Ago.

GIBBON, Neb., April S.-(Special THE
annual reunion of the Soldiers Free Home
stead Colony" that made the first settle
ment in Gibbon and vicinity was held here
today. The exercises occupied the forenoon,
afternoon and evening sessions. An eabo-
rate dinner was served at noon and refresh
ments at o'clock p. m. About 100 persons
were present. Besides general handshaking
and renewal of old acquaintances and ex
change of experiences, a short literary pro-
gram was rendered consisting of music,
readings, recitations and speechmaking,
closing with eulogies for the members who
died within the last year-Wliam H. Ke
ley and Samuel McTice of Gibbon, J. n.
Allen and Mrs. Meyers of Shelton and Will
liam Roach of Oklahoma
Mrs. John NJ. Bayey was elected pres
ident for the ensuing year and Mrs. Carrie
NJ Marsh was reelected secretary. Steps
were taken to collect data for a more com
plete history of this colony.
During the winter of 1870 and 1871 John
Thorp of West Pennington, o., pursuant to
arrangements made with the land depart
ment of the Union Pacific Railroad company,
advertised for immigrants to unite in a colony
TO locate at Gibbon in the following spring.
Eighty-fve families, consisting of about $50
persons, responded to this call and reached
Gibbon April 7, 1871. Every northern state
east CT the Missouri river was represented.
Gibbon then consisted of a sdetrack and a
section house, surrounded by the bleak
prairie. with only the residence of eX-Gov-
ernor James L. Boyd, two miles in the dis
tance. The railroad company switched this
special train of immigrants upon the siding
and left it for the accommodation of the
people until they could make temporary
homes for themselves,
While thus situated, Oh April 10 one of
the most terrific billiards that ever swept
these plains began and lasted without
abatement for three days, causing much
suffering. The leaders feared that general
failure would result from so discouraging
an introduction, but when the storm passed
courage revived and all determined to re-
main. Up to this time no choice of lands
had been made and no one knew just where
their future home would be located. On a
bare spot of ground between the huge snow
drifts the men met and cast lots for their
choice OF land and each in turn, according
TO the number on the slip Of paper that he
had drawn stepped up to the plat OF the
surrounding country and marked his choice
of a quarter section without previous eN
amnations. Thus eghty-fye homes were
amicably located and each family went Wig
orously to work and in thirty days all had
left the cars and a new community had been
established.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09
New. from OsceoIn County.

SIBLEY. Ia, April ESPECIAL THE
Congregationalists of Sibley will build fine
new church this year
The Sibley teachers for the spring term
are: Prof Johnson, principal; Miss Mccall
lum. assistant Mrs. Beaumont Mrs. Bah
cock, Misses Fiegley, De Boos Raymond,
Rosney Bond and Spicer.
The receipts Of the town of Sibley last
year were s7O2s13 and the disbursements
$6SO2.9S.
The town Of Harris has organized Good
Templars lodge OF forty-one members.
Rev. Jamison of Sioux City has been hold
ing union revival meetings at Ocheyedan.
Miss Anna Kieth OF Ocheyedan died re-
Gently at Denver, Colo, in her 20th year.
The remains were brought to Ocheyedan for
burial,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09
SURVEYORS ARE RUNNING LINES.
Ii. & VI. and Union Pacific Engineers
Are BusX Neur Gerinx.


GERING, Neb., April S.-(Special. )-Tbe
North Platte valley in the vicinity of this
city is the scene of great activity on the
part of the surveying parties Of the Bur
lington and Union Pacific companies. The
former is cross -sectioning on the north Size
Of the river and there seems to be no doubt
that it has its line finally located.
T E. Calvert is with the party, as is also
Tobe Castor, and they are not only taking
options on various tracts OF land, but are
closing right of way contracts. Shepherd
sen & Long are understood to have cor~
siderable contract for grading and Lons,
who lives in South Bend, is here today Offer
ing to let sub-contracts.
Chief Engineer Berry's parties of Union
Pacific surveyors have been also doing act
i've work, beginning near Camp Clarke, on
the north side of the river. Where they
cross the Burlington survey they graded
and ,-oned several hundred feet of tracR.
This afternoon they crossed the river about
six miles east of this point, which will put
their line into this city. The engineers of the
Union Pacific are camped in Gering to-
night 1t is believed their plan is an eX-
tension of the Kearney and Galloway
branch.
ALLIANCE, Neb, April S.-(special. y
Grading outfits are arriving on all trains
and going into camp along the line of
the Burlington survey. A great demand for
horses and mules has been created by rea-
son of the building OF the Burlington
branch. The yards present an appearance
of great activity.
HILL CITY, 5. D., April S.-(Specal.) -
The B. & NJ. companys representatives
have been here the past few days picking
up men TO go to Alliance to work on a
branch of the b. d NJ. The route will
probably take southwesterly course via
Camp Clarke, Gering and then through the
Belmont canal country to Laramie City.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09

AMES. Ia, April Especial. THE Iowa
State Sheep Breeders association at a spe-
cial business meeting passed a resolu-
tion asking Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson TO make rules compelling rail-
roads TO dsinfect cars used for the
transportation Of sheep that have been
previously used for that purpose 1t
was stated that diseases introduced into
imported locks by cars have caused many
thousands Of dollars loss to Iowa sheep
growers annually. Another resolution passed
instructs the secretary to correspond with
the county growers with view to organiz-
ing a sheep association in every county in
he state
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09
KELLEY, ST!GER S co.
European and American
of the Highest Order
Spring and Summer
Wash Goods

Every effort has been put forth in secur-
ing the choicest line of domestic and i'm,
ported Wash Goods appointed for this sea,
sons wear.
CqIored Dimity, % inches wide, made TO
sell for 1Sc, s 1-3c yard
Domestic Dimity, in medium weight, all
colors, 15c yard.
Imported Irish Dimities, assortment COM
pletc choice designs. 25c yard.
Imported Organdies in all the latest de-
signs, half regular price, l6 2-3c yard
Sheer colored Bauste, S2 inches wide very
stylish for ladies' dresses, 15c yard.
Imported Madras Cloth-an assortment
which provides for all individual preferences
as to style, color and quality-at 12ac 15c,
zoe, 25c. SOC. S5c and S719c yard.
Imported Dress Linens, for children or
ladies' waists and dresses, CSC yard.
Piuuc. in warp or weft vale, at 15c 1Sc,
2Oc 25c, 35c, 4Oc. 45c and soc yard.
Pique in colored stripes, figures or polka
dots at 2Oc, 25c and 35c yard
Domestic Challie, satin stripes made TO
initiate the 75c goods at 2sc yard
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09
Council Effects a saving.

WEST POINT, Neb., April ESPECIAL y
The city council met last evening and ad
jcurned sine die. The newly elected officers
we're on hand and speechmaking was in
dulged in by Mayer Gffert and the newly
elected mayor, A. A. Peterson.
resolution was passed refunding the city
water works bonds of $4,000 and the sewer
bends of $685. al Az per cent This is in
conformity with a bill recently passed by
the legislature and will effect big saving
for West Point. The bonds draw per cent
at Dresent
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09
NO MUMMERY WILL AVAIL
Temporary Marriage Will Not Protect
Violators of the Law.
STRIKERS PERSIST IN THEIR DEMANDS
Union Miners Make Efforts TO Convert
Those at Work and Are Con-
Hdent of Eventual
Success.

DES MONIES, Ia. April S-CSpecial Tele-
gram Am interesting question was decided
today by the supreme court in an opinion
upholdng the constitutionality of the law
passed recently by the Iowa legislature,
making it a crime for a man TO desert
a woman after marrying her for the pur-
pose OF escaping prosecution for seduction.
Upon this point Judge Bishop of the POLK
county district court, who held that the
law was unconstitutional on the ground that
it savored of class legislation, is reversed.
Section AGA of the Code, the one which
is passed upon in an opinion written by
Judge Granger, is as follows: Every man
who shall marry any woman for the purpose
of escaping prosecution for seduction and
shall afterward desert her without good
cause shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor and punished accordingly"
The case in which this point of law is
involved is one which attracted considerable
attention in this city some time last fall
r. f. Morris the editor OF a county paper
at Runnells, Ia, was arragned in an east
side justice court. Morris later married the
woman in the case, but shortly afterward
deserted her. The supreme court, in re-
versing this decision, says upon the ques-
ton The law as a whole simply says to
the man who thus marries: You shall not
assume the obligations OF husband to avoid
the law for crime and after taking the
benefits TO yourself disregard your assumed
obligations with impunity.' II an ordinary
desertion without cause could be made
criminal, which no one seems 10 deny, why
may not the same act with the added fact
of having married to avoid prosecution
When Lyman w. Chttenden was found
guilty Of incest the court announced that
sentence would be pronounced on Monday
next, The attorneys for Chittenden ap-
peared in the criminal court this morning
and asked that immediate sentence be
passed The court granted the request and
sentenced him to ten years in the peniten-
tiary.
Chttenden is the man who fell off OF the
government building here while raising an
immense smoke stack two months ago and
was so terribly injured that his recovery
was considered miraculous
The striking miners are still out and are
endeavoring TO induce the men that are
working in the Chrsty and Des Moines Coal
companies to Join them. The miners are
still very confident Of success and base
their hopes chiefly on having the coored
miners and the nonunion men join them.