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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-27

III VWVI" IIUUS NEFO ~ iOIIOWE. No. ?
Yellow corn, 3ia,c Flour quiet and easy.
No spring wheat. 7011lc.. No. spring
wheat CeNlc.; No. , red. 75n76c. No.
white. 2a03osc: No. white. 2903oc No.
rye. 5s2c. 80. barley, 3id &c No.
! haxsced. N.lIi4; new I.N4nH.21ta.
Prime timothy seed. s2.Sj. Mess pork
per barrel S9nS905. Lard. per 100 pounds.
3'.l5uSjl1i,. Sh1rt-rib sides. loose $50
isis. Dry-salted shoulders, boxed.
Nl31NSL1I. ShOrt-cloar sides. boxed.
Asjusj.e5. Whiskey distillcrs' finished
goods. per gallon. 2L2i Sugar-Cut-loaf
unchanged Butter quiet: creamery. 12li
ltc. dairy. Halle. Eggs steady: fresh,
l2i2c. Cheese weak. creams HOPPE.
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

Miniature ALMANAC. APRIL n, 1879
sun rises -.......5.l0 HIGH TIDE.
Sun gets .........6.55 Morning ..........5.L
Moon rises ......3.29 Evening. gu
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j. t. spEJEGLE.
FOR SALE,

County Supervisor
an 2I-eOdlm Grcenyille County, = G.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-30

every country in the world. For years
the monument was in charge oil an as
ISOLATION of private citizens There
We're no funds for it's preservation and
maintenance and it became necessary
to charge an admission fee to cover ex-
penses. This plan gave rise to consid-
cradle criticism and failed to bring in
much money, and the monument suf-
fered for lack of repairs The entire
structure is now in the care of the
state, the custodians being the gov
ernor, state treasurer and state super
1ntendent of public instruction The
only funds which they have to spend
in the repair and maintenance of the
monument are those appropriated by
the legislature.
PLOT TO STEAL THE BODY.
Shortly after the interment of Lin
coins remains in the crypt Of the mon
ument the country was startled by the
exposure of plot to break into the
tomb and steal the emancipator's BODY
Iii the fall of 1876 P. D. Tyrrell, a Sc
cret-Service operator employed by the
government, was informed that a con-
spiracy to steal Lincoln.s BODY had
been arranged in Chicago, and that the
job was to be done on the night of
Nov. Z. At that time notorious coun-
terfeiter was imprisoned in the Illinois
penltenuary. The conSplratOrS, who
were this mans friends, planned to
make his pardon a condition for the
recovery of the remains, and expected
in addition to this to extort a money
reward of at least $1,000 Advance
information of their plans, however.
came to Tyrrell, and the plotters were
frustrated They broke into the tomb
on the night set, but were frightened
away and later were captured At that
time there was no law against body
stealing In Illinois, and it was found
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-30
vICToRIA's REAL NAME.
She Was Born Miss AEON and After
wards Became Mrs. Victim.
From tba r,b;ot- srI.I

She Was Born Miss AEON and After
wards Became Mrs. Victim.
From the Chicago Tribune.
What is theaqueens family name?
1t is matter Of common belief
that In the extremely unlikely
event of the entire abolition of all
utular distinctions in England, and
the disintegratien of the social hier-
archy into it's primitive elements, her
majesty's present royal designation
would be reduced to the simple formula
OF Mrs. Guelph
This is an entire mistake. The queens
legal name, were she by some mys-
FERROUS process to become a simple COM
moner, would be Mrs. Victim by vir-
tue of her marriage with Prince Albert
or Saxe-Coburg-G otha, whose name,
stripped of territorial and other gar
nishings, was plain ALBERT Victim
Victim is the patronymic of King
Leopold of Belgium, of King Albert Of
Saxony, of Prince Ferdinand Of Bull
garia, of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg
Gotha, of the Duke Of Sake Weimar,
and of the Duke Of Sake Meiningen, as
well as of the Prince of Wales, and
his brothers. and of Prince Charles of
Portugal.
Victim, who died in 1885, was des-
cendant of one Wittikind, who was
contemporary of the great Charlie
magne The majority of the reigning
princes of Europe claim to be descend
ed from Wittikind, among them being
King Christian of Denmark, King
George of Greece, Peter, Grand Duke
of Oldenburg, and the Car of Russia.
The patronymic of these four rulers
Is Oldenburg, the emperor of Russia be-
ing neither a Romanoff nor yet Hol
stein-Gottorp. as has been stated.
The queen. prior to her marriage, was
entitled to the patronymic of AEON
she was Miss Azen, In fact. OF the
same name are the reigning prince of
Liechtensten and the Duke of Cum
berland, or King of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha, as he is now.
The founder of the house Of AEON
died in the year 964, and was Margrave
or Marquis Of Este. 1t is for this rea-
son that the royal house Of Great
Britain has sometimes made use Of the
name of d'Este, notably in the case Of
the Duke Of Sussex, a younger son Of
King George III, who gave the name
of d'Este, after marriage, to his NOR
ganatic wife,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-30
SIR WILLIAM JENNINGS.
Anecdotes of the Late Noted Ply
stefan to Queen Victoria.

Anecdotes or the Late Noted Ply
stefan to Queen Victoria.
From the Chicago Tribune
The late Sir William Jennings used
to wear att his watchchain a gold
guinea piece which bore pleasant lit
tie history. One day he found among
the patients in his consulting room a
humple carpenter. On remarking TO
the man that his disease had, through
neglect of treatment, made great prog
ress, he received the following reply:
L have been waiting to see you for
three years, sir
why, my MANI" queried the physi-
clan. couldn't you afford to come
sooner?"
"Oh. yes,'s answered the carpenter,
piece anywhere. and I heard that you
would take nothing else.''
Sir William used to wear that guinea
on his chain. But, though he COM
pletely cured the patient in the course
of eight months, he never took another
fee from the poor fellow, who tried so
hard to find that guinea piece, and who
had waited so patiently to consult him.
Ore of Sir Williams warmest ad-
mirers was the late John Brown, for so
many years the gillie and personal body
servant of the queen. John absolutely
declined to be professionally attended
by anybody except Sir William, ex-
planning that he had no faith whatso-
ever in the other royal physicians. In
deed, they tell story at court In Eng
land of how on one occasion old Sir
William was summoned post haste
from London to the south Of Europe,
where the queen was sojourning at the
time, in order to prescribe for very
bad attack of Indigestion, which had
Frustrated the surly cantankerous,
though honest and devoted. body serv-
ant of the queen
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little, he is angular, his cheeks are
thin, his forehead deeply wrinkled Old
Illinoisans who had known Lincoln
from his boyhood pronounced it an ex-
cellent likeness. The front of the pc
destal on which the statue rests bears
the coat of arms of the United States
in bronze. The American eagle on the
shield is represented as having broken
the chain of slavery, some of the links
being graSped in his talonS, and the
rest held aloof In his beak. An olive
branch, spurned, is thrust aside at his
feet.
RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL.
Memorial hall, in the base of the
monument, is filed with various Lin
coin relics and souvenirs. One of the
from the wall of Servius Julius, pre-
scented to President Lincoln by citizens
of Rome in 1865 1t is a large, irreg-
ular slab of sandstone, on which is
carved the following inscription in
Latin:
ITO Abraham Lincoln, President for the
second time of the American republic, cti-
zens OF Rome present this stone from the
wal waiis $, OF Servd9s Iullius, by which the mem
erty may be associated. Anno 1861
After Llneoin's death this stone was
found in the basement of the capitol at
Washington. 1t is supposed that the
president. not caring to nave a furore
raised over the incident, bad ordered
the stone stored away without saying
anything about receiving it. The body
of Lincoln was removed to the crypt
III the monument from a temporary
tomb in the public vault Oct. 8, 1874.
The marble sarcophagus bears the in
scIlpt1on: With malice toward none,
with charity for all.-Lincoln.' The
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CLEVEREST NONE Y-GETTER OF HIS Day.
FIT Last M Doubt the Minds of His Victims Hbout the ohaatnY John
H E. w. keeN Has Been REMOVED


keely motor. When he died she sur
vived only few days. Her soul SEEM
eG to be bound up in the success of
the invention
Professors of science studied Keeley's
machines and listened to his hybrid
Jargon Once a savant gravely pro-
posed that Kelly, who murdered our
English speech with every other breath,
should have a home among the elect
of the University of Pennsylvania.
Now that the personality of Keely
has gone out from this world it seems
one of the most astounding occurrences
of history that men should have wit
messed in sober earnest the antics of
this zany of science. He played
horse" as the college boys would put
it. with scientific nomenclature. He
put Up strange gods in his Philadel-
phia laboratory, which mankind wor-
SHIPPED after the weird ritual composed
by the high priest of fraud. Wealth
made sacrifices Of millions, too at
those shrines and men thought that
they were on the road to fortune on a
way made straight by the great Kelly
motor.
INTERESTED ALL CLASSES.
They believed that if once started
there could be no stopping the revolu
tons in earthly affairs which would
follow in It's train. 1t was only year
or two ago that the manager of the
Manhattan Elevated railroad inspected
the motor and said that it was worth
careful examination. Officials Of the,
Metropolitan Traction company made
a similar examination. Col. John Jacob
Aston. whose attention was attracted
to the apparatus by Keely's friend.
champion and agent, Mrs. Bloomfield
Moore. seriously considered the adj
Visibility of forming a syndicate to
bring the invention before the world.
None Of the gentlemen whom I have
mentioned was finally convinced Keely
had discovered anything of value. 1t
goes to show that Keely had the facul-
ty of securing the attention Of the
keen and practical man of affairs.
Ordnance experts have sat in the
Keely laboratory in Philadelphia and
watched experiments with wonderful
cannon. which was in reality nothing
but a big popgun.
Experts last week dissected the build
ing in which the charlatan carried on
his experiments. They laid bare the
pipes which conveyed the compressed
air from buried steel tank. They
found that the strange force which
came at the twanging Of a fiddle bow
or the dropping of a little water was
after all only atmospheres condensed.
There was nothing new. They found
that the machines were operated on
principles discovered centuries ago.
EXPOSED YEARS AGO.
Yet the Keely motor had been de-
nounced years before that. The Herald
had nine years before shown the work.
ings of Keely models and pointed out
that the force which made the motor
whirl was compressed air. For all that
Keely was able to organize company,
not an officer of which had been taken
into the confidence of the inventor. Not
a man knew what was supposed to
make the motor mote" Keely died
without revealing the means by which
he attained his results. Even the courts
could not compel him to tell.
Keely's success lay in his faculty for
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-30

Stimulating earnestness. He affected
virtue if he had it not. He acted as
one who believed that he had made a
great discovery. He was consummate
actor. There was a stormy scene in
his laboratory once when man ac-
cuSed him of using copper pipe from
the transmitter and defeEKeely to cut
it.. Mrs. Bloomfield Moore offered the
inventor 81 900 if he would cut the sup
posed wire and thus fling back the as
pensions of the critic. Keely would not
listen to such a thing. The spectators
were hurried from the room, and a few
minutes later Keely summoned two
witnesses and cut the supposed copper
pipe. 1t proved to be wire. Now, the
puzzle is to find when the change took
place, for there is no doubt in the world
that the wire was copper pipe not five
minutes before. Yet through all this
stormy scene Keely boiled with right
eous indignation and scorn. Could 1t
have been that he pursuaded Kelly, the
inventor, to believe in Kelly the char
latan?
1t almost seems incredible that one
should listen without laughing at some
of the Munchausenlike statements
made by Kelly. 1t was the grave face,
the earnest eyes, the enthusiastic man
ner of the man which carried convic--
ton.
within six MONTHS" he said years
ago, "a train of cars may be run be-
tween here and Philadelphia at the rate
of mile minute by taking the power
out of SO much water as will rest in
the palm of MY hand. Why. there is
sufficient power in bucket of water to
run a steamer so fast that she will
split in two"
HIS TRICKS OF MAGIC.
Only the accomplished manipulation
can make the farmer believe that it's
an easy thing to find under which shell
the pea is resting. Only man Of the
Snowman instincts and the never-fall-
ing nerve of Kelly could have talked
rene a face. 1t took the GOODNESS of a
man who could juggle knives
to keep the public at bay
year after year with the prom
Use that his great invention would
soon be complete His tactics were al
ways those Of the prestidigatateur. II
he wished to keep his motors from too
close scrutiny he twanged a tuning
fork, scraped violin bow and always
kept up a patter of pseudo scientific
terms. Imagine a scientist playing
Home, Sweet Home on harmonica
for the purpose of disintegrating o.
force sufficient to split a steamship in
two.
There was for years an eccentric
character in Ohio, known as the I'm
mortal ]. NJ" who travelled free on all
railroads and paid no bills, so earnestly
did he talk of the time when he would
assume the pressure and lift the veil"
Keely was another Immortal J. NJ"
supplied with striking phrases of his
own making.
u. NJ never assumed the pressure,
neither did he lift the veil. He was al
ways about to do SO. Keely raked in
the money, had pew in church, lived
in fine house among art treasures,
while, to use his own phraseology, he
'annihilated gravity, drove the revolv-
ing globe, charged the vaporic genera
tor and propelled the harmonic engine
Like the Immortal j. NJ" he lived we'll
while he prepared for the great effort
OF his life, which never came.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-30
BROTHER OF GIRLS"
Painful Ordeal to Secure the Cham
piOnship of n Nubian Camp.

Painful Ordeal to Secure the Cham
pionship of n Nubfan Camp.
From Harper's Magazine.
The power of enduring pain exhib-
tied by the Nubians is almost incredi-
BILE. This is strongly instanced in the
competition by the youths of the viii
lagos for the championship of their
camps. ~
1t is a much-coveted honor to be
called "akho benat' the brother of the
distinction Is entitled to marry the
belle.
The competition itself Is a most ag-
onizing spectacle. 1t commences by
the maidens, on certain festivities,
beating the drums to a quaint and
peculiar tune, which so excites the
spirits of the young men that num-
bers of them at once rush into the
arena, each loudly exclaiming: IT am
the brother Of the girls! am the
brother of the girlsr
They are then paired off by casting
lots, and, when stripped to the waist
a powerful, flexible whip of hippopot-
anus hide, five feet in length, Is placed
in the hand of each combatant and at
a certain signal f1ogging match COM
mences. 1t ss - sfsa
The strokes are not given at random
or in haste, but with the utmost delib-
eration each youth delivering his blow
in turn, and keeping time to the music
The long, plant lash descends with
keen precision, cutting deep into the
flesh at every stroke, while the monot-
onous 'hwit,'' ffwit,'' "hwit'' goes on
increasingly, and the red streams tell
the tale of suffering which the tongues
disdain to proclaim. At last the one
who can endure no longer falls fainting
to the ground and is borne away by
his kinsmen.
The victors are subsequently pitted
against each other, till the remaining
one becomes the champion, and bears
the proud title of 1.-The brother of the
girls
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-30
IN TIC Now York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
Death has claimed the arch charla-
tan, John Ernest Worrell Keely, but
what of his treasure chest, stocked
again and again in the last quarter
of century? Keely has been an ar
tiGcer in wood and iron and brass, an
Indian fighter, a head waiter, first
violin in an orchestra, circus per-
former and professor of legerdemain.
He combined the skill of all these
trades and professions, invented the
I<eely motor and wheedled millions
OF this charlatan of the nineteenth CEN
Here you ale, ladies and gentlemen"
he might have said Here is the great
heely motor. Now you see 1t move
and now you don't. Win some one
lend me a few millions of dollars?
Thanks. Observe l place it in the mo-
tor. so. You'd like it back? Stand
right on this spot until | improve the
motor so that it will work, and I'll de-
clare dividend
Here is d list of some of the invest
nents TO be charged to the account
of this charlatan of the nineteenth CEN
fury:
Advanced by New York capitalists
Niotft .-.-.- OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $l0, 600
Expended in perfecting motor . 1000
Given by Mrs. Bloomfield Moore.... 100, OS0
Stock OF the Keely Motor company 5000 600
1otoi 800. ...'.... ............. pa, 000
Not that this by any means repre-
sents al the money which has been
swallowed up in the swiftly revolving
motor. 1t may be six millions it may
- be ten millions; for in the twenty five
years in which the new force which was
10 be evolved was exploited before the
public this magician of mechanics
found thousands who believed in him
and backed their faith by greenbaeks
He never lacked for funds with which
TO carry on his weird experiments. The
financial operations of the Kelly motor
were involved in as much secrecy as
the mechanism itself Hundreds have
invested in it and have kept the in
vestment secret. The exact amount of
money sunk through Kelly will never
be definitely known.
NIGHT HAVE HAD MORE.
He had operated an engine by means
of compressed air forced through thin
tubes from a concealed tank He had
wonderful invention, which. at the
twang of q violin and in response to
the tossing of a gill of water into it's
mechanism set up terrific disturb
ance, provided the condensed air pipes
were tight and no inQuiSitive individ-
ual moved the machine about the floor.
One of the most remarkable things
concerning this juggler with science
was that he did not leave more money
than he did. He bequeathed to his
family $1,536, fifteen pieces of expert
mental apparatus and a certain right
of unknown valuation in certain I'M
completed and unpatented inventions. -
keelyism," if l may coin the word.
had its converts everywhere. Men of
shrewd common sense went to the in
ventor in his little shop and pressed
him to take their money.
Mrs. Bloomfield Moore, a brilliant
Woman, famed for her learning and cul-
ture, gave the man from $3.50 to $3.50
& month to aid his researches. She
made codicil in her will, signed in
the dingy little shop in Philadelphia.
whereby she directed that part of her
estate go to fund for perfecting the
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Tho Stock Marksts.
Close. Day.
Bar silver, New York ..........s,,.59H . 1914
Call money, New York ....... 21b0S


NEW YORK. Jan. 2S-The stock market
was quite irregular today. The opening was
strong in spite of the regularity in the Lon-
don market, because. in part of the absence
of disquieting Philippine advces which ap-
parently had been expected by the traders
who started covering short contracts There
was renewed attack on values on predc-
tons Of an unfavorable bank statement, but
when the statement appeared it upset all
calculations by being very favorable. This
was the signal for the repurchase of stocks
sod earlier, which gave a strong tone to
the closing. There were some recessions
in the railways, however, on the evening up
of contracts for the week. Sugar and
seemed to be the impression of traders that
Sugar was advanced In the interest OF sell
lers, while in other quarters the simultaneous
advance of Glucose and Sugar was surmisen
to presage favorable trade Developments
Among the Pacifcs there was an advance of
over point in Northwestern and Southern.
The movement in Northern Pacific was at
tributed to more confident gossip regarding
its dividend standing.
Pacific Mail was strong on the more favor
able outlook for the mail subsidy bill in con-
gress. Minneapolis & St. Louis at one time
displayed strength on possibility of the first
preferred stock being retired. The prospective
advance In coal rates at Western points was
reflected in some strength in Reading Among
the low-priced shares, St. Louis & Southwest
ern preferred rose 4 points and ST. Louis g.
San Francisco preferred 2as. p, c., C. &
st. L., American Express and Southern Rail
way were also strong. Among the industrials,
American Steel preferred and American Malt
were weak Canada Southern and c.. c.,
C. & St. L. preferred also showed declines.
Pronounced strength characterized the bond
trading, the market showing less feverishness
than In stocks Many issues were brought
prominently forward, owing to dissemination
of rumors regarding their standing toward
a union with other properties. Dealings were
on an immense scale, with purchases for
out-of-town account exceptionally large.
United States IS reacted " and the 5s coupon
advanced Il in the bid price.
STOCK QUOTATIONS.
Furnished by Charles H. E. Smith & Co.,
members of New York stock exchange, Pioneer
Press building who have direct wires TO
Chicago and New York. Closing prices are
bid:
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NEW YORK MoNEY-New York, Jan. 2S.-
mercantile paper, 2hQ3A. Sterling exchange
steady, with actual business in bankers hills
at s4:S4%94;s5 for demand, and at s4s2k@
4.S3 for sixty days Posted rates, $4.s3k@
icates. nominal at 5911Q6O1sc Mexican dol
lars. 471sc. Bar silver, 59Ac
TREASURY STATEMENT Washington.
Jan. 2S.-Today's statement of The condition
of the treasury shows: Avai-able cash ba =
ances, 1921, 322,S7s; god reserve. S229 49S. $50
ments Of the % per cent rule.
FOREIGN FINANCLAL-New York. Jan. %
The Commercial Advertisers London fnan-
cial cablegram says: The stock market here
today was quiet but firm. Americans hung
about the opening level The Morgans
caused an advance in Southerns Tintos al
most reached Sc. Anacondas were firm and
unchanged. OF gold 10000 came in from
Australia; f623,000 of yesterdays gold from
The Cape is still undisposed Of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-30
FARM FOR PRINTERS
Meets With Such Success as to En-.
courage It's Continuance.

Meets With Such Success to En-
courage It's Continuance.
From the New York World.
Members ofd Typographical Union No. 6
think their Pelham Bay Park farm a sue,
ces, and will continue to operate it. The
committee in charge of the farm made
report yesterday to the union.
The report said that in February 1898
$500 was appropriated for a farm on which
unemployed men could work. Sixty-seven
men worked through the season, each man
cultivating half acre lot.
1t was too late in the season to pant any
thing but potatoes. The union paid the
mems car fare to and from the farm and
gave them fneal day
In July drought set in, and in August
the potatoes were struck by blight, but
the yield Of the farm to the workers in
crops-sold, eaten and taken home-and In
rent and lodging saved was $1,676
farming school will be established ard
a colony organized:
The report OF the committee was adopted
and the committee instructed to Continue
its farm work this year.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-30
Vanilla Rean Costly.

1t is not generally known that the vanilla
bean is the costliest bean on earth. II
grows wild and is gathered by the natives in
Papantla and Misantla,. Mexico When
brought from the forest these beans are sold
at the rate of e. IS per 1000, but when dried
and cured they cost about e. IS per pound.
They are mainly used by druggists. and
last year 90,00G00e beans were imported into
this country.