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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16
New Orleans Cotton Market

New Orleans, July 15-Cotton quiet: sales
1,100 bales. Ordinary, 31ac; good ordinary,
4e; low middling, 13-16c; middling, ) 1l-16c;
good middling, csc; middling fair, CSC; re-
ceipts. 315 bales stock. 1767A.
Consolidated statement: Net receipts, 1,r
SOS bales exports to Great Britain, 539;
stock, 243, Jos.
New Orleans, July 15.-Cotton futures
quiet and steady. July, 800 bid August.
5.3S@5S9; September 5.33a5.3i; October. 5.33
@5.S4; November, 535a5.37; December. 5.4OQ
5.42; January, 5.4SQ5.4; February, 5.4745 is
March, 5.52Q5.53.
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Mrs. WinsIow's Soothing Syrup

Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS by
MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILL
DREN WHILE TEETHING, with PER-
Feet SUCCESS. 1t SOOTHES tho CHILD.
SOFTENS the GUMS, ALLAYS all PAIN;
CURE WIND collie, and is the best rem
edy for DIARRHOEA. Sold by druggists
in every part of the world. Be sure and
ask for Mrs. Winsow's Soothing Syrup"
and take no other kind. Twenty-Five cents
a bottle.
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Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
was steady; patents, s350d3.6O; straights
$32Oa3.3O; clears. $3.15; spring wheat spe-
Gals, $780, hard patents, $9.60a3.70; soft
patents. $3.30d34O; straights Minnesota,
$40; bakers, 81. sOa245 No. 2 spring wheat
73Bc No. spring wheat. 71@717sc; No 2
red, 7312@74c. No. 2 corn. S419c. No. oats,
24aic No. 2 white, 2SG2S&c No. 3 white.
2514G27lac. No. 2 rye, SIC. No. 1 flax seed,
9S1c; Northwestern, SLOPE; prime timothy
seed, s240d2.5o Mess pork, per barrel, $S.5O
d905; lard, per 100 pounds, $5.25d537la; short
rib sides, loose, S5G0G515; dry sailed shout
ders. boxed. 53S@5hc; short clear sides, box
ed, $5.35G5.4O. Whisky-Distillers' finished
goods. per gallon. $1.26. Sugars-Cut loaf
unchanged. No. yellow corn, 3i94c. Clio
ver-Contract grade, s6.506675 On the pro-
duce exchange today the butter market was
weak; creamery, 131Sd1713c; dairy. 11le151Rc.
Cheese was steady at S1249c. Eggs were
firm at 12c
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DrvGoods

New York, July 15.-Dry Goods: Market
on the spot shows quiet conditions today
In the cotton goods division. Fair order.
through mills are received. The American
Wooden company made a further advance
in clay worsteds of 2 1-3c per yard and adj
Vanced full lines of serges and French
backs 21a to per cent
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CAMP MEETINGS ON THE GULF OF
MEXICO

Round trip tickets will be sold from Biz
mingham to Camp Grounds. Miss, at the
very low rate of 1925 for the round trip up
to July 22d, limited good to return August
31st, 1899.
An old-fashioned camp meeting has been
arranged for with modern physical i'm
provements. Magnificent grounds, lighted
by electricity; spacious hotel, fronting 100
feet on the Gulf; bathing pier, extending
1,4O0 feet into the Gulf; cottages and tents
for rent; first-class restaurant for meals
Some of the celebrated divines of the South
will be In attendance among them Bishop
John c. Keener, Bishop Charles B. Gallo
way, DR.. ]. D. Barhee. DR.. II. M. DuBose
and others. For further information re-
garding tickets, etc. call or address any
agent of L. & N. r. r., or
R. F. BEASLEY, p. A.,
7-13-to-7-22 Birmingham, Ala.
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Talbot & Palmer,
Commission Brokers.
NO. II N. TWENTIETH ST. TELEPHONE 584
Cotton, Stocks, Grain
and Provisions. 80.
Direct private wires to New York,
Chicago and New Orleans.
Chicago Change

Chicago, July 15.-Lack of cash demand
and favorable weather. with heavy receipts,
caused a decline in wheat today, September
closing sc under yesterday at 72s4G727sc.
Corn and oats closed fraetionally lower.
Provisions lost 5q1212e ON heavy hog re-
ceipts.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
a .iiai--. L., = =,
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Treasury Statement

Washington, July 15.-Today's statement
of the condition of the treasury shows
available cash balance, $279, oO,214; gold re-
serve, $245 ,91014e.
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New York, July 15.-Cotton quiet mid
ding, BIG; gross, 592; sales 527; stock,
$50
Total today: Net receipts 1881; contin-
ent, 500; stock 423 Jos.
Consolidated: Net receipts, 1888; contin-
ent $50.
Since September I: Net receipts, SOS, 267;
exports to Great Britain, 3,45i 249; France,
7SS,157; continent, 2,774,133
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New York. July M-opt!ors opened quiet
at unchanged prices; ruled exceptionally
DUH, With weak undertene IL the absence
OF cabios from Havre. Fie and Santos
closed On account of HOLIDAY. Tho close
WAS Inactive. 5oles, DG bags. including:
Geptembsr. 34.s1. Spot sofee: no dull:
No. Invoke. Sc; No. stosi1s. tAc; mild.
qllst; csrAcvs, spa
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COTTON MARKET
WAS FEATURELESS
Sales in Spot and Future List
Were Disappointing.
WEATHER NEWS FAVORABLE
Bearish Crop Conditions Thought to
Have Been Over Discounted
Close Was Steady, to 2
Points Net Lower
WEATHER NEWS FAVORABLE

New York, July 1.-THE cotton market
was narrow and featureless in the absence
of stirring news of consequence. Sales
We're disappointing, both as to spot sales
and the future list of quotations. the for
mer showing a total of but 5000 bales and
the latter decline of one-half siXty-fourth.
Weather news was generally favorable, out
have been overdiscounted and selling for
short account to one point lower; ruled "A
point or two easier and then rallied on a
little local covering. August liquidation
was a feature of the early trading. The
market closed steady at l to points net
lower.
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inpnciai

New York, july 1o.-The Commercial Ad-
vertiser's London financial cablegram says:
The markets here were lifeless and nerv-
Gus today or the Transvaal war prepara-
tons, which are proceeding actively. The
situation is apparently delicate. 4 bank
rotc OF per cent. Is talked off IN the event
of hostlIes, and the expectation is that
the rate viii he made per cclt. rex week
in any event. Americana dropped. Spanish
As were 5SSz: Tir.os. HA: .AnacoAlas,. 1iss
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We DON'T CLAIM

FURNITURE the will the CHEAPEST The articles illus
o
and ending SATURDAY, July 22 will
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LOCAL MARKETS.
LEGAL Cotton Market
Cotton-Middling, SIC.
The Iron Market.

The Iron Market.
Birmingham July 15.-The following are
the present quotations IN iron:
the nresent ouotations in iron.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-30
She VIII &c HappI Again.

Mrs. Seely is handsome woman. She
has one child. boy. She lived until
she went TO Illinois with her mother,
Mrs. Emily Bennett, and her brother,
Samuel Bennett. i'm the two-story and
basement brick house. No. 422A Halsey
street. Brooklyn. Mrs. Seely has told
her friends she will return TO New
York early in July happy woman once
more.
Seely was communicated with at the
Kings county penitentiary and was
asked if he had made any formal OBJ
lection To his wlfe's getting a divorce.
He sent back word he did not care to
make any statement.
Mrs. Seelys friends say she has kept
all knowledge of her intentions from
her husband. fearing he would try to
put some obstacle I'm her way. or would
attack her i'm public statement charg-
ing her with abandoning him i'm his
misfortune without just cause.
Samuel G. Seely will come out OF prls-
on a free man on MAY 1 next yaar He
was sentenced TO eight years i'm Decem-
Der. 1894. but has gained the usual COM
mutation by good conduct. He assists
In Keeping the accounts
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-30
SONS OF THE REVOLUTION.
Society viii Have an Old FashIonsd Observance Of
independence 0av In This City.

The Rhode Island Society OF the Sons
of the American Revolution will cele-
brate Independence day this year in the
old-fashioned style. Ii will hold patriot
ic exercises at the First Baptist Meet
ing house, Providence. on July Fourth
at 1915 o'clock noon. The exercises will
consist of prayer by the chaplain of
the society, Rev. Frederick Denison,
reading the declaration of independence
by Compatriot John L. Farnsworth OF
the Rhode Island society, and an ora
ton by the Hon. George III. Utter. eX-
secretary OF state OF the state OF Rhode
Island. There will be stirring muse
and at the close the audience will rise
and join in singing THE Star Spangled
Banner" The president OF the society.
Compatriot Robert II. Brown. will pre-
side Numerous guests have been in
vited, including the governor and his
staff, the state officers. the mayor and
city council Of the city Of Providence,
the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion In the state and the Rhode Island
society, Sons of the Revolution. Ample
opportunity Will also be afforded the
public TO attend. and as the meeting
occurs after the parade. doubtless
many will avail themselves OF the op-
portunity. Mr.. Utter is "A Well known
speaker. an able and patriotic man, and
great interest attaches TO what he may
say upon this occasion.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-30
Found a Suspicious Letter.

Mre. Seely's friends say she clung 60
her husband until she learned. long
after he entered the Kings county pen
itentlary, that he had been unfaithful
to her. 1t is alleged she found letter
which he had written To woman who
had been a servant in the Seely house,
hold.
Mrs. Seely went TO Illinois n year ago
and acquired legal residence there
for the purpose of bringing the suit.
The ground of her action was that her
husband had been convicted of a fell
ony. Under the Illinois law. as I'm this
state. this was ground for an absolute
divorce.
To some of her more casual friends
here, Mrs. Seely has written saying she
was in the millinery business in Illinois
and was doing well. Her letters were
dated from Rollins. but most of them
were postmarked at Chicago. some
miles below She is known 10 have
boarded for awhile at n hotel on Michi-
gan avenue. Chicago.
Some time ago property in Brooklyn,
which formerly had belonged 10 Mrs.
Seely and had stood i'm her name. but
had been transferred, was decided back
TO her on the statement that a friend
of the family" was ready to pay the
taxes and clear off the other indebted
ness. The transfer was made and the
next day the taxes We're paid. The
money, IL is said, was advanced by the
elderly Brooklyn admirer of Mrs Seely.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-30

limitations precludes the possibility of
a charge for them.
Mrs. Elise Lind Is too grieved by her
misfortune in having no other claim
against Sebastian Linds estate than
those of housekeeper and clerk to be
troubled about the dimnutive legal val
ue of them. For twenty-three years
she was Sebastian Linds wife.
They were happy years. She was his
clerk. his adviser. his only servant at
home. He had two shops on the East
Side. He made a fortune that some
persons estimate at 100000. He told
her il would be hers and their chill
dren's. He died.
She discovered that she was not Sc
bastian Lind's wife. His testament ap-
pointing Justice Bschoff, Jr., as his
executor. bequeathed to Marghareta
Lind of Belize. Honduras. all his estate
and made "a slight provision for ELISE
Lind nee Kehr my repueed WIFE" His
"reputed wife" was amazed when the
will was shown to her by the lawyer.
John q. Boyd. whom she engaged to
take care OF her interests. The will had
been filed after probate. She had never
seen IT,
She had never heard Of Marghareta
Lind. The latter's claim was soon made
tieaf To SeDHStldn Lima = 'fepute0
Wife" In 1872 he was a merchant at
Belize. Honduras. and married there.
He went 10 Germany for a short voy-
age TO his parents home. and met Elise
Kehr there. She was "a widow They
came TO New York. and without n mar
riage ceremony she became his wife.
she was Mrs. Lind To all his friends
They went Co church regularly and IN
social reunions as Mr.. and Mrs. Lind.
a.
tor. said: Il believe that Mrs. elise
Lind tells the truth. Her disillusion Is
pathetic. I am sure that she is n
worthy woman. and | am sorry for
her"
She has five children. She lives i'm an
apartment on West one Hundred and
Thirteenth street. entirely devoted to
them. She does not speak ill OF her late
husband because bf his deception. She
tries to remember only that he was
kind to her while he lived. In that ef-
fort her grief is profound.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-30
Eged and Rich BTookIjnlie Said TO Be the
Woman's Prospective Husband.
HELPED HER TO SAVE HER PROPERTY.
Was fislAliracisd 10 Mrs. Sesy By The Devotion
She Dsp'aysd Toward Her Husband IN His
Trouble Letter Changed Her Feeling.

view York; 5tfrfc 30.-There is Sc
auel 10 the world-famous robbery of
the National Shoe and Leather bank
OF this city I'm 1894
Word was received yesterday from
Rollins, Lake county, nl.Athat Mrs. Ida
Bennett Seely had brought suit for an
absolute divorce from Samuel c. Seely.
Seely and Frederick Barker together
stole $354,O0O, from the bank, and See
ly's brother-in-law, Samuel Il. Aymar,
robbed the bank OF $4,000 i'm 1895.
Behind Mrs. Seelys action for di-
vorce is a romance. She is engaged to
be married To a rich and elderly resi-
dent of Brooklyn, who first was at
tracted to her when her husbands Pc
culations brought her as well as him
into the white light OF publicity.
This man admired her pluck and de-
votion TO her husband, and when the
opportunity came. he pledged himself
and his fortune In her behalf when IL
nancial troubles threatened 10 take
from her the little property she had
saved out of the wreck wrought by her
husbands wrong-doings.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-30

city From the point OF view OF most
OF US the Boer oNts much 10 the inl-
migrant for developing his country ana
he Is regarded as a kicker because he
refuses TO acknowledge the debt But
from his point OF view he is no more
happy because OF what has been done
for him than Is the American Indian
because big cities have grown up where
he used 10 pitch his wigwam. To be-
sure he is not SO bad off as the Ameri-
can Indian. but he II evidently fearful
that he will be II the outsiders who
have come In and made his country rich
acquire the power TO govern II as well
as To support it on plane that he new
er coveted. He would rather the for
eigner would go back home. and. II
he would, most likely the humble Boer
would cheerfully agree To fill up the
mines and LET the big city crumbls. re-
storing his land To it's former state of
unambitious agriculture. But probably
the outsiders are inside TO stay for ali
the protest OF the Boer
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-30
PROVIDENCE OPERA HOUSE.
Wilbur Opera Company Ghss an Enjoyable Per-
formancs Of "BOcOaccIO" 10 Large Audience.

There WAS one OF the largest and
best pleased audiences at the Provi-
dence Opera House last evening that
has assembled there since the open
ing OF the popular season of the Wilbur
Opera company. The opera of Boccac-
clio was the chief attraction and its
jolly music was well sung. This opera
Is a prime favorite amongst comic op-
eras with the lovers of light music
In Ii the company was heard to good
advantage There is fots of .opportun-
ity for fun-mal1ing which the fine
comedians I'm the company make the
most OF and the merry tuneful Choir
uses were sung with dash and spirit.
The cOopers' chorus, one of the gems
of the opera, was given in fine man
ner with Mr.. Huntington as the leader
and soloist. Miss Richardson was q
most pleasing Boccaccto both in cos
tune and voice and Miss Rowland as
Fiametta, the grocer's adopted daugh-
ter, sang wellAher important part.
MIR. Kohnle was irresistibly funny as
the green grocer as was Miss Taylor
in her character of the sister. Miss
Robinson who is one of the favorites
OF the company. made new friends last
night a, vi Mr.. Comfy and Gus Vaughn
as usual sang we'll. Very spontaneous
applause followed the fine rendering Of
Won Supple music during the entire
evening and every seat in the house
was sold before the curtain went UP.
Anna Daughlin sang some new selec-
lions and had TO respond 10 encOres.
Miss Rowland sang between the acts
,sxme very attractive selections that
were appreciated as they deserved to
be. Mr.. Lamars illustrated songs con-
tinue to be a popular feature of these
entertainments. The amazons march
was as pretty as earlier in the week,
and there were gramophone selections;
a very rich bill concluded with the
living pictures.
The opera of Boccaccio viii be given
the rest of the week and so will the
other features which have made the
company one of the most popular that
ever had an engagement at local
theater.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-30

The orders FOR the encampment OF tho
Rhode Island militia suggest that ic
there are any members of the organiza-
tlon who expect that the tour of dui<
they had better secure their discharge
at once, il that is possible. But the
lesson of actual war has taught not
only higher patriotism. but COM
prehension OF the soldierly duty that
the present generation had no idea or
and the citizen soldiers of Rhode Isl
and may be counted upon TO have taken
that lesson to heart and TO go about
their prescribed duties with new and
sterner purpose and better realization
OF the seriousness OF the soldering
business.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-30
It'd BITS.

Artificial ivory is made from borax
and skinned milk.
The churches of the United States
claim 26 .000, 600 communicates.
The Anglican Bishop of Labrador
saws that his diocese extends To the
North Pole.
Corsets made OF aluminium are now
used by medical men for the treatment
OF certain spinal disorders.
vacant church in Philadelphia.
which pays it's pastor salary OF $1,000
"A year. has the names OF 100 candidates
under consideration.
In Russia the proportionate number
Of births Is nearly double that of
France. while the German population
increases faster than that OF any other
country.
An English operate trilogy is being
constructed on the legend of King Ar
thur by Mr.. Money-Coutts as poet and
Mr. Albenir as composer. The plays
will be called Merlin" "Lancelot" and
"Guinevere."
An English actor who died on the
road was shipped I'm his coffin 30 Lon
don recently by his manager as the
atrical properties" This cost 81. where
as " he had gone as a corpse the cost
would have been $50.
BY the death OF James Schoolbred
Gibbes. of Charleston. :. c., that city
as resduary legatec. under the will'of
Mr.. Gibbes' father. win get 800 coo be-
queathed Co found an art school and
womcn's library. The viii was probated
twenty years ago.
IN 1861 the population OF England
and Wales was about 20. 600. 600 In that
year 25S divorce suits were entered. Ten
years later there were ii0 suits among
-. 100000 population. In 1891 there were
6iS out OF 5000 900 and last year there
We're S22 out OF Sl.O00.o .ocO.
In a British ,vcll on tho Drink Prob
lem. Just published if is stated that I'm
Guinness a 10. there are. among the
shareholders lfS persons bearing the
title of REV" and that they include
bishops deans. archdoacons and can
ons In other four compan es there arr
i3s who are desgnatcd REV"
Henri Lavedan who. although olecl-
ed. has not yet been received into the
French academy. violated an the trsdi
tions of that body by permitting tho
words de iAcaaemic Francois" To- ba
printed AFTER his name on the theatre
posters advertising "Le Nieua March
eur" The indignation of the academy
was greater because the play ls dccid-
ediy immoral and the language nsed
contains a great deal OF slang that h.
not yet accepted among reputable pec-
pie. NJ. Lavedan has had the dcsigna-
ton removed from the posters.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-30
NORMAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
Graduating Exercises YsId Yesterday Afternoon
AP'easlng Program Rendered

The graduating exercises OF the Nor
mai Grammar school were held yester-
day afternoon, in the lecture hall of
the state Normal school. and 10 misses
ana four boys participated In the exer-
cises. In his address to the graduates.
Principal Gowing emphasized the value
of further course OF study. referring
10 education as continuous process.
The programme was as follows:
Singing. I'm Giondoa," Caldwell.
grades and 2: recitation. THE Sing
ing Lesson" Ingelow. L1uise n. Bar
fett; recitation. The Sandpiper." Thax-
ter. Annie n. +. Farrelly: singing
swing Song" Lohr. graduating class;
defamation, "Recessional." kipling
Ernest IL. Richards; recitation, THE
Legend Beautiful" Longfeliow. Ida NJ
Sanner. singing. Fishers Song" -,
grades 3 and 3, address by the prin-
cipal awarding OF diplomas; singing.
Merry June" Vincent. class. The
good and generous applause was be-
crs and singers.
.,rh graduates were. Carr.@ 1sOomis
Atwood. Louise Ruth Barrett. Louise
Marie Brown. Henrietta Almeda Buf-
FUN. Katherlne Louise Bugbee. Annie
r. r. Farrelly. Maud Isabelle 0arvin.
Fred Arnold Cafes. Janet Murray Gibb.
Albert n. v. Green. BESSIE Emma
Con. Mabei Mumforl Lincoln John
william Luudn. Mabel Wlllcna Logan.
Mary \. \. Malone. Ernest Bunning
Richards Ida May Sanner. Ena collins
smith. Linda U0rham Wheaton. chiids
She.6on Wheaton.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-30

: Cen Leonard Wood is pretty much
In demand these days and his nature Is
such that the field of his activities Is
to be limited only by his physical ca
pacity for getting around. The former
Colonel OF the Rough Riders is just now
coming i'm for a goodly share of praise
from his patriotic but, as "a rule, not
so varously useful fellow citizens be-
\ cause OF a reported refusal to accept
the presidency OF a Washington trolley
line at a salary OF thirty thousand dol
lars a year electing instead to remain
In the army at comparatively meagre
salary 10 continue his splendid work
Tor the redemption OF eastern Cuba
and stand by TO go where duty calls.
Furthermore IL appears that Gen.
Woods brief visit TO his country was
taken advantage Of by the President
for consultation regarding tire hruftir
OF Mrs. Mckinley who is reported To
be quite seriously, IL not alarmingly. an
invalid and IL is recalled that he was
her physician before the Spanish war
when as a surgeon I'm the army. he was
stationed at Washington. There is also
suggestion that in event cabinet
department. for the colonies is estab-
lished Wood would be about the right
man for that place and everybody
would be likely 10 agree To the sugges-
fion. Meanwhile in event Gen. Alger re-
tires from the War Department, Wood
might easily be considered to fill the
vacancy there. In a word his associates
and official superiors seem to share the
general public sentiment that II there
'is almost any business worth doing
Wood comes to mind as the man to do
n providing his other engagements will
permit.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-30
FIRE IN BAG OF PEANUTS.


An alarm was rung in from box II.
at few minutes past O'Clock last
evening. ana when the firemen arrived
they found that the fire was confined
TO bag of peanuts that had been
thrown out TO the sidewalk from the
upper story of the fruit store OF j. n.
Preston q Co, ON Dyer street. The
damage was very slight. az the use of
htue water removed AL signs of
fire
Then the small boys came i'm for thelr
share OF the work. and there was such
q scramble upon their part u get the
scOrched and biackened peanuts as
Dyer street had probaDiy never seen
before. In a few minutes the last pea
nut had d'sappearcl. one of the boys
even starting of with what remained
OF the bag