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Observation-Disclosures CE

terests in the company are not at all
disturbed over the coming tariff changes.
In commenting on the further decline
in time money rates, prominent bankers
are said to express confidence as to a
discontlnuance of comparatively easy
conditions during the fall months.
Floor gossip indicates that the unfa-
vorable statement of the New Haven for
the June quarter induced selling, accom-
panied by rumors of reduction Of the
dividend rate to per cent
A big trader says it looks as though
the pool in Third Avenue and Inter-
borough metropolitan are not meeting
much stocks when bids are advanced,
and are likely TO make these issues bull
ishly active at intervals for some time
to come.
Liverpool cotton due, IL to 2 1-2 points
higher opened steady at 9 l-2 to points
advance; closed steady at a net advance
of 8 IL points.
Spot cotton. quiet, unchanged; mid
uplands, 6.62; sales, 1900, including 5000
American.
A fair crop of bears has been created
in corn by the market action in the last
few days, and the short has been interest
increased. Many Of those in a bearish
however, appear to be working
harder to talk the price lower than by
actual short sales. A majority of those
who are bearish have been on the bull
side and would like a break OF or 3
cents or more to get in again.
The new level in high ore mine of Ana
conda, at 3,400 feet, opened a large body
Of copper glance, said TO be the richest
ever known I'm Butte district. This is
now the deepest level in Butte district,
In the Badger State, also an Anaconda
property. new level has been opened
at 200 feet and big body of rich copper
glance also was discovered there.
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wheat. in lcoround sacks, TO arrive $50. nominal
city bran. in bulk 2iic
RYE FLoUR-EIm- Good TO choice quoted at
aIsai.0c, in barrels
CORNAEAL-Firm trade dull. kiln-dricd fol
export, 80; coarse, in bags. Lssa15o.
HAY-Receipts. 81 tons; quiet. Qu0tatiors: No.
timothy, LO5al.lo; standard. at L0Oalo5; No.> 2
s5aloo; No. = s0asc.
quoted at g.
PoRK-Fim. Mess. 3.s5a5. 30: family. .. .5oa20.0.
BEEF-Quiet.f Packet. 1880; family. D.ooa2oo.
LARD-Steady; trade quiet. Prime Western. u55;
refined continent. l2l5 South American. 12so; re
fined Brazilian, in kegs. l39; beef Stesrine lOis
asked; lard stearine dull; New York, l3h.
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Millions In Peanuts.

Peanuts galore and COOLERS to coax OF
the spell Of insomnia are fiourishing this
year in the new State of Oklahoma that
will make the farmers along the Tennes-
see River hang their heads in shame
Railroad officials who have been max
ing a survey of the entire State have re-
ported to the Department Of Farm and
Improvement Work that Stephens Coun-
ty, in Oklahoma, has 1000 acres planted
in peanuts that will yield $1.2OO,OoO in the
dollars of the daddies this year for those
who cultivate the soil for peanut raising
Next TO the cotton crop, which this
year is the greatest crop that Oklahoma
ever grew. peanuts will come next in
farm product value
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NEW YORK MONEY.

New York, Aug. Call money ruling rate, ~
PER cent; time money, for sixty days. 59ts4 per
cent; for ninety days, a; for four months, a,
for hve months yia5l9; for six months, 5Ha5is
Dull and inclined 10 weaken further.
Foreign exchange markets cables quoted at iss.jl
ss6s5. Demand sterling. 4s655ais6s5 francs 5lszt
marks 95H.
Exchange on London: Paris. z +. ~; Berlin,
p N. Is pfg
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CLEARINGHOUSE BANKS
SHOW RESERVE DECREASE

New York, Aug. 23.-The statement of
the actual condition of Clearing House
banks and trust companies for the week
shows that they hold 22,I73,1jO reserve
irt excess of legal requirements. This is
a decrease of s2,525.O5O from last week.
ACTUAL CONDITIONS.
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Preliminary work.

From Judge.
Ted-You don't seem to be as friendly
with him as you used to be.
Ned-No; I'm rather suspicious Of him.
He borrowed some money from me the
other day and paid il back.
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Everything Relative.

From Judge.
Madge-This summer seems to be much
cooler than last.
Marjorie-You must remember, dear
that you're not wearing so many clothes
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means afforded them of handling their
financial needs easily and inexpensively.
They should be furnished these facilities
before their enterprises languish, not
afterward."
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The New Woman.

From Judge.
Mrs. Knicker-Are you going to take
a course in business college?
Mrs. Bocker-fcs; 1 want to find out
how to get more money out of Jack.
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NEW YORK PRODUCE.

New York, Aug. 3-MILLFEED-Fim, trade
quiet Spring bran, in 100 pound sacks q 50: stand
ard middhng, ESQ; Western red-dog 300; winter
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terests in the company are not at all
disturbed over the coming tariff changes.
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New Haven stockholders criticise the
directors terms with the bond under
writing syndicate.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-25
NOT FIRST AT BETHEL

records, as | felt sure that the pro-
ceedings of the secession convention,
of which Captain Mari had been a
member. would probably have some
resolutions which had been passed on
the subject. And / have recently cX-
ahmed the journal of that convention
in the state :, prary, and find The fol-
lowing on page 2il: AT the session
of Friday, June IA, 1851, Mr.. Scott, OF
Fauquier, announced the death of John
g. Mari, his late colleague. and sub
mittcd the following resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted: First,
Resolved. that this convention laments
most deeply the death of Captain John
Quincy Mari. late a member of this
body from the county OF Fauauier,
and as a testimonial Of his worth and
in respect for his memory, the mem
bers thereof will wear the usual
badges of mourning for thirty days
Second. Resolved, that the condol-
ence OF this convention is expressed to
his bereaved mother on this occasion
Of her distressing affliction.
Third, Resolved. that the thanks of
the people of Virginia be communal
Gated to the Warrenton Rifles for
their gallant conduct in the affair OF
the lst of June at Fairfax Courthouse,
i'll which their brave captain feil.
Ana Immediately following the above
! find that ION motion OF Mr.. Morris,
the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved. that when the secretary
causes ale ordinance of secession to
he autographed, that he have the
name of the late Captain John @.
Mari appended thereto, and that he
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Richmond, Va, April Is. 1919.
To the Editor OF The Times Dispa
Confederate Column.

To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Confederate Column:
Dear Sir,-I can affirm to the truth
of all your correspondents say IN your
paper OF the 6th. concerning Pick
ctts Division and General Armistead
at Gettysburg, as | was Very near
twithin few feet of General Arm
istead and Colonel Martin when they
were shot after we were over the
stone wall and had captured Cush-
ing's Artillery. was shot through
the thigh and made n prisoner for
nine months, until my escape from
Johnson's Island, February -, 1861.
The claim of North Carolina and the
unwilling Of their tablet or monument
at AppomattoN, asserting their claim
TO heing the farthest at Gettysburg. :.
is absurd, in the face of the fact that
Heths Division OF North Caroliniaus
and Tennesseeans. General Pettigrew
commanding. on our left was broken.
gave way and allowed the Eederals
To advance. then wheel. and come in
our rear. while those of Picketts Di-
vision. who had pressed forward with
Armistead. captured and held for a
while the stone wall. the centre and
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THE TfMEs-DsPATCH RICHMOND VA, SUNDAY MAY g. 1913

furnish "a copy thereof To the family
Of the deceased" And. In accordance
with this. the Autographed copy of
the ordinance In the state Library
shows the name OF Captain Aarr at
tached TO il. iii addition. l will state
that Horace Gieeley's history OF the
war, entitled. 1.-The American Conflict.
vol l.. page 533. mentions this hight
at Fairfax Courthouse, Va, and states
there was loss OH both sides. though
he gives no names Of those killed or
wounded, But the above resolution
passed by the Virginia convention
within two weeks after tina fight hud
taken place. proves conclusively that
Captain Mar was killed June /. 1861.
In the affair at Fairfax Courthouse.
Va, IN which the company OF which
he was captain, the Warrenton Rifles.
was engaged, and that, as have said.
he was killed nine days before Henry
l.. "yatt was killed at Bethel on June
10. 1861. And let me also add that
North Carolina does not need To have
had the hrst soldier killed in battle
on the Southern side during the war
TO establish her position. For. though
other southern States furnished as
brave troops as did North Carolina,
none furnished drawer. and had the
south had two or three mora North
carolinas. 1t would have won beyond
the peradventure of a doubt. For
even AS 1t was with all the odds
against it. and with some of the States
which had been called Southern, Ike
Delaware. Maryland. Kentucky ana
| MISSOURI. furnishing. each one of them,
more troops To the North than 1t did
| four years tussle. And with two or
| three more North Carolinas on it's
| side, its success would have been GER
tain. l.. w. WISE.
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Editor Confederate Column:
Dear Sir,--Somc lime back, whilst /
was III the South, saw in Your col
umn statement purporting to come
from Judge Walter Clark, in which it
was asserted that Captain John @.
MARI who was Killed on June |, 1861.
which was nine days before young
Henry l.. Wyatt, Of the First North
Carolina Regiment, was Killed at
Bethel on June 10, 1851, was
killed at Warrenton, Va, whilst wall,
ing along the streets of that town,
dressed in citizens clothes. with his
walking stick i'm his hand. 1 felt
sure when | read 1t that Judge Clark
ad gotten matters somewhat mixed
III his statement. knew Captain
Mari had been one of the members of
the Virginia Secession Convention
from the county of Iauquicr: that at
ter voting for secession on the 18th OF
April, 1861, he had left his seat in
the convention, and went in the army
as captain of the Warrenton, Va,
Rifles. and that he was killed, not at
Warrenton. but on the list day of June,
1861, at Fairfax Courthouse. Va. n
place some forty miles from Warren
ton; and that he WAS killed during a
light that was going OH between a
small number of Confederate troops.
who were stationed there, and who
were being attacked by some regular
troops of the United states Army.
did not have the necessary data be-
fore me to. throw any light on the
SUBJECT, being. as have said, in the
south. But / determined as soon as /
returned to Richmond to look UP the
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To Editor of The Confederate Page;

To Editor of The Confederate Page:
There were three wharves on James
River located three or four miles
apart. which General Grant used i'm eff
fecting the transit OF his army to the
Petersburg side Of the river These
wharves were afterwards diligently
guarded by patrol OF two gunboats
together with an occasional safeguard
of marine sharpshooters" on land
until burned by n detail made from
Gary's Cavalry Brigade, which con-
sisted of one Virginia regiment tthe
TWENTY ourth) and two South Caro-
lima regiments. The writer had the
honor OF being one OF the ten men
selected from the Virginia regiment to
CO operate with thirty chosen from the
two South Carolina regiments to burn
those wharves OH a certain very dark
night After speech to the segre-
gated forty men by General Gary. who
repeatedly affirmed that we had been
selected by our respective regiments to
perform very hazardous service
asked in very fiery. threatening
manner. Arc YOU men willing to
undertake the job?" Being vocifer-
ously assured of our Willingness (don't
remember that the writer yelled at ALI.
each squad. provided with an amhu-
lance and surgeon. and each man with
n canteen of kerosene and a bunch of
lightwood, matches. etc, the division of
the perilous undertaking was arranged
as foliows:
To the ten Virginans was assigned
the task OF burning the "Westover''
wharf.
The thirty South Carolinians were
divided equally for the destruction OF
. two other wharVes.
/. What are the names OF the two
other wharves," and what was their
situations relative to "Westover," and
their distances apart?
.. AS it had been ascertalned by
scouts during the day Gone OF them for
tunately Of the Virginia detail of ten)
that the MISSIONER had "sharpshooters''
on its wide lowsrounds. why was the
thirty assigned the destruction of the
two wharves which at nightfall were
not known TO he provided with land
guards? On a certain other occasion
General Gary dubbed his Virginia resi-
ment "Hellons' Did he use the term
in a profanc sense, or was il an attem pt
at the classic?
The ten Virginians by unique strate-
shooters" without firing Il gun feat
which enabled them TO escape the at
tention of the gunhoats and fire their
wharf before the tasks OF the other de-
tails were accomplished.
3. Please give the precise date of
that night of horrors.
4. is General Gary living?
W. c. JONES
Company +. Twenty fourth Virginia
Cavalry.
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Editor Confederate Column. The Times
Dispatch:

Editor Confederate Column. The Times
Dispatch:
thank YOU for the effort YOU made
in your recent issue To print the roster
of Captain II. j. Epes's company, OF
DinWiddie County. Va, which | mailed
you some time ago
strange fatality seems TO beset the
roster Of this company. In the first
place it was lost or captured II has
taken half century to get what /
sent you; but war. pestilence and
famine We're kind in comparison to
your printers devil" He has made
the captain corporal, turned Il rapid
fire gun OH the names. horribly mutt
latinG them, placed the closing para
graphs al the beginning, changed
names recklessly (and wrecklessly).
omitted more than half the names. and
the Lord only knows what lie would
have done had he set up the whole list
Unless YOU come TO my rescue and
restore some semblance OF recognition
to this old and beloved battery, | will
never be able to revisit my old county
and home place again in safety. unless
/ have the entire military OF the State
as an escort
Please. please. Mr.. Editor, HELM me
i'm my extremity. for / had written nv
home people to look out for this pub
LEGATION. but now they will be looking
out for me
To any inquiries as to where | am.
say that | have gone TO Mexico, where
Yours truly.
STERLING ROUSSEAU,
Please publish this in to-morrow's
issue in order to save correspondence
and-my bacon. S g.
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Is


two young negroes of or about ten
years old; also one horse or more, to
be chosen out OF my negroes and my
horses at my death, from which period
they ana their Increase TO her and
her her forever. and one hundred
pounds. to be paid her by my cxecu-
tors hereafter to be named. either in
property of the estate. except negroes
at valuation or cash. as she or her
heirs may choose.
Should my land lying in the State OF
North Carolina, wherein my son, VIII
liam. lately lived, be unsold at my
death, my Will and desire Is that my
executors. without delay after qualif-
cation, proceed to sell or cause TO be
sold the said land. and q conveyance
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Southland. 10 Lo.c-I. nut to Go,n,

AS song birds in listIess silence
Seek deep thickets when the heat
or the summers highest valence
Robs fair now'rs OF incense sweet:
AS bright stars grow pale when morn
ing
Burns the sobings of the night;
Honor dies at greed's usuborning
or some principle OF Right
But. as birds. despite the Ealing
From dull clouds OF drenching rain,
Sweet repeat their mellow calling;
AS stout sun comes forth again
From devouring darkness, burning
Ever glad TO warm cold earth:
Honor to its task returning
Finds each death new cause for birth
Death alone hath pow'r to fashion
CAS- pure gold from tiercest fires),
Every great and noble passion
From Hopes sombre funeral pyrcs;
For but those who find aftiction
Is the planting OF I.ife's seed
And from grave or crucihxion
To Rights aid unshrinking speed
THE OLD GRAY DOCTOR
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key to the Federal line OF battle. untii
without support or rcinforccments we
were overwhelmed by Hancock's ad-
vancing forces. and compelled TO sur
render heard Colonel A. *. Mc-
clure. OF the Philadelphia Times. I'm an
address at GETTYSBURG. July ., 1887.
say, Had Picketts Division been fully
supported at gettysburg IN that
charge. in all obability, the Ycograph-
icnl lines OF the United States would
have been changed as the whole
North was tired of the war and
ripe for the cessation OF hos
tilities,'' And we know prior to
the fall of Vicksburg and our fall
urc at gettysburg. it became very dii-
ficult to enforce conscription or raise
recruits for the Federal army in sew
eral Northern States, creating almost
riot in New York.
Yours very truly.
b. L. FARINHOIIr
Colonel ConfcderSte States America.
Captain of Company e Fifty-t third vtr-
ginia ReEsment in the charge of
Pickett's Division. July 3. 1868
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Miles

Editor OF Genealogical Columns:
Sir,-Piease publish all data CONCERN.
ing the Miles family
William, Charles and George Miles
came to this country from England
In the year l777 and 1888 and settled.
IN Stubensburg, Culpeper County. Va.
Gibson Zimmerman Miles carried on.
the saddle and harness business I'M
Richmond before the Civil War. and he
married Miss Catherine Woods, sister
or Doctor Jackson p. Wood. retired
druggist OF Richmond
BY giving you this information r
thought some one might give me the.
Information I want
Very respectfully,
MRS A. NJ. SHARPLY. Z
Princeton, W. Va y
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MOrehead.

Editor OF Genealogical Column.
Sir.--Last July wrote YOU an
article correcting mistake made by.
your genealogical editor in relating
that Mary Morehead tmy mothery.
married Peter F. Scales. and lived in
Little Rock. Ark. She did marry Peter
2. Scales. but lived upon the farm.
upon which am now living and which
has been In my family continuously
since 1863, when II was granted to ono,
or my ancestors by the Crown OF Eng,
land. which grant 1 now have in my.
possession.
My mothers sister. Mrs. woodson,
lived in Little Rock, Ark
I requested you to send mo twenty
five copies when the correction was
made and sent check for si2a, the
price you named, for which hold Your
receipt. Why was not the mistake
corrected. have never had any no.
tice of il in the way OF papers sent.
Yours very truly,
' l. Fl. SCALES
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Confederate Generals Killed or Mort
nIlr Wounded.

Editor Confederate Column:
Allow me 10 add the names of Con-
federate generals killed or mortany
wounded" to the list published in last
Sundays paper:
Adams. John. brigadier- general,
Killed at Franklin.
Anderson. Robert H.. brigadier-gene-
raj. killed at Jouesboro
Branch l.. OBJ. brigadier- general,
killed at Antietam.
Elliott. stephen, brigadier- general
killed at Petersburg
oiarnett. Richard r.. brigadier-gen-
eral, Killed at Gettysburg.
Griffith. Richard. brigadier- general
killed at Savage Station
Harrison. r. w. brisadier- general,
killed at Stone River.
Little. Henry, brigadier- general,
killed AT Iuka.
Pe,tigrew. j. j. brigadier-g general
killed at Falling Water.
stahl. q. F. brsadier- general, killed
at Franklin
Tehman, Lloyd, hrigadier- general,
killed at Champion Hill.
Walker. William H., major-general,
killed At Atlanta.
Ii any other readers of The Tines
Dispatch can recall other names, let
them do so and give us a complete list.
Respectfully,
READER.
Richmond Va, April Is, 1913
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MRS. I. w. CARRIE.
Rox 2s7. Martinsville. Va.

HoN 2En MartinsvilIe, Va.
tThis department can answer in
dulrles only In print. 1t is impos sible
TO answer letters to inquiries. n
Joseph Stovall Is referred to as
soldier In the list published by the
State Library in 1912 a Samuel Davies
and Samuel Davis were also soldiers.
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Acton Nash was born In Virginia,
came to Georgia and married Auguat
l3. 1879. Margaret Stroller. daughter,
OF Peter Stroller. OF Wilkes County,
Ga.
Can any one give me any clue 10 tho.
ancestry Of Acton Nash? Did. he light
In the Revolutionary War?
tsisned) L. i. u.
Address, Mrs. Robert Davis Tennis
VILE, Ga.
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StovnlI md Davies

Editor Of Genealogical Column
Sir,-Enclosed please find return
postage Will you please give ma
some information In regard TO the
Revolutionary services OF James Stow
all or Stobal and Samuel Davies or
Davis A prompt reply will DO APP
practataJ -
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VIII of John kim,

In the hame of God amen. I, John
King. of the Parish of Saint John and
County Of King William. do make and
ordain this my last will and testament,
in manner following, to-wit: give to
my beloved wife, Nancy King, one
negro man and one negro woman; also
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At court held for King William
County. at the courthouse. on Monday,
the 23d of April, 1904.
This last Will and testament OF John
King, deceased, was proved by the
oaths OF David l.. Smith and John +.
King, two witnesses hereto ana ordered
to be recorded.
Teste: ROBERT POLLARD, G. c.
4 Copy-Teste: RIO. POLLARD. &. c.
BroadnnN, Etc.
The BroadnaX, Meriwether Boiling
etc. connection is as follows;
Nicholas Meriwether had son. Fran
els. who married Mary Bathurst, daugh-
ter of Iauncelot Bathurst, and had
Mary Bathurst Meriwether. who mar
ried Thomas Wright Belheld. They
had Frances Belfield, who married. first
Freeman Walker, and had Mary Walk
er: secondly, she married Henry Broad-
max. who had a son. William SroadnaX
by a former marriage. The stepsister
and stcpbrother William Broadnax and
Mary Walker married and had Meri-
wether Bathurst BroadnaX. who mar
ried Ann Eliza Walker Ann Eliza
Walker was daughter of DIR. Robert
Walker and Miss Sturdivant. DR.. Rob-
ert Walker was son Of Captain Robert
Walker and Elizabeth Boiling Starke.
Elizabeth Boiling Starke was daughter
of Captain William Starke and Mary
Ann Boiling. Mary Ann Boiling was
daughter of Robert Boiling and Mary
Anne Cooke. Robert Boiling was son
Of Robert Boiling and Ann Stith.
william BroadnaX. who married Mary
Walker. was son OF Henry Broadnax
and Ann Holmes. Henry BroadnaX was
son of William Broadnax. who was son
of John BroadnaX. v1o was son OF
Robert Broadnax, of sIoudoun.
This family of Broadnax is the same
of that as that of Godmersham. in Eng
land
Arms: Or two chevrons gules, on n
chief of the second three cinquefoils
argent.
Crest out of mural crown argent a
griiiins head, or winged and collared
gules charged with three cinquefoils
argent.
This information was furnished by
DR.. John Broadnax. of Manchaster