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uu TO THE DAJLi nwii ui I -a" '1- Makes the food more delicious nd wholesome RAILROAD NEWS 0 FROM ALL AROUND 'Tie Illinois Central Connected With the Latest Bumor Cf a Continental Consolidation, In-: eluding the Union Pacific. Ue-ir Orleans Will Hold Her Great Grain Trade. Tie Shrerreport and Texarkana Hakes a Proposition to Xatchi toches Enterprise. Kw Tork, July 20. The Herald says: 'A deal la under way Involving a combination Of at least four prominent railroads, and perhaps two or three more, making a complete trunk line from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

The scheme Involve a merger of several of the proper-tie "'In which E. H. Harrlman, Kuhn, Loeb Jc and Speyer are Interested, and with their friends exert a controlling influence. Among llVfe Tropertle are the Union Pacific, the Illinois Central, the Chicago and Alton, the Chicago Terminal Transfer Company, the Oregon Sort Line, the Oregon Hallway and Navigation Company and the Baltimore and Ohio. It Is asserted in some quarter that the Great Northern will come In.

but thia is. considered doubtful, although Jfenies J. Hill closely associated with several of the gentlemen who are prominent In the railroads mentioned. This combination wili give a compact system, and will bring about a revolution la traffic alliance. The Union Pacific too keystone.

Its closest connection at present Is the Chicago and North western, and for a long time It haa been the re vailing; opinion In Wall street that the anderbiits will attach the Northwestern ud Union Pactflc to the growing New iork Central system. f'WaSLX HOLD THH GRAIN. Even at thd early stage in the sea-n's crops, the grain roads are' getting me encouraging advice as to the proba-e bostnaea erf the approachlag season, he Illinois Central people say that, from 1 sKttoaoVona, there will be a pearler xvemeut of grain to this port the ap-oadhinc season than there has ever ea beuVare. They say also ithat in all the season's movements will earner Chan usual. In eakoteftpartioa of thia arrowing increase i grate sibapenents to the port of Now ivttut, Che llanos Central Koad has ra caking time by the forelock, as It re, exd durrog the past eight or nine oaths tmm been toweling Its grades and ting- see snramxp in awh a good ate of repafcr as to enasble the company, stated oae of Ihe prominent omdals to handle twice aa much grain the eaime engine power that has -ratodore been carried eouch.

This will. can be easily seen, greatly reduce the rice of ctandJtac grain by that road, and tha-emera-ency arrives, as some of officials Chimk it mill het the road .1 tan to protect this city against the i lactic seaboard ports on rates. It will able to make the reduction very low, at ti9 same time atili carry the bosl- at a prone This vm oeea protecting the port Mew Orleans acainat ell bidders, but i has pot op eoxnetbinjr to do It. From i Ms time on, however, the road la pre- i red to make a profit out of the hauling, ot to mention the advantage the port ot end the road gets from creating rftige for New Orleans." But che other roads, coo, are getting In adlDea to handle a great deal of grain 'ring-' the apyroaclung season. The akmette terminal people hare made oer arrangements with such roads In city as have not proper elevator fa-ties for handling all the business kih may come in over such lines as Louisville and Nashville and the titers Pacific.

The Texas and Pacific d. baring 'elevator facilities of its will probably not nave to call upon timette for aaetstance until the heav- movements begin. There has been a tract of some years' standing, how- r. between eheae two roads for the USg of excess g-rauln at Ohalmetfce, 1 the Texas aatd Pacific stands ready rke car of all that comes. The Texas lie people will, in all probability, han-more grato this season than last.

XSEDBBINO THH PROPOSITION. (Bpeeial te the Picayune. "ltcftftocnta. July 20. Messrs.

Helm and Nelson, capitalists snd ackers of. the Shreveport and Texar-Railway, were In Natchitochea Jaarlnjp come down by land from -vepcrt, for the purpose of interrtew-r the business people of the town conning a proposition to extend their here. To do this they asked for 3Chlses to the amount of $150,000. Jisto tnft matter under con-ration, and will five an answer or enter proposltioa within a few days. visitors express themselves as very clt plesaed with the country, and ap-ir to be anxions to come this way.

ieft for fihreveport this evening. r. EL fitringfellow, who came from -siatta -wit the party, itemed home -T-HirSN PACIFIC BUYING PBOP- Special to the Pleayans. Uvea ton, July 20. The Southern icioe Railway Company has selected its ute froos the Bay bridge to the property tween.

Forty-first and Flfty-flrst rests, which it purchased for its aarvea and terminals. Two rel estate ins have been engaged for some little ae. one getting the right of way and me other rights, and tae other op era t- Independently, cam be stated authoritatively that I r. Huntington haa much larger plans ot development here on Galveston Island ia the general public have any Idea of. tore land has been bought, and la being Might.

In the west end by Mr. Huntlng-a's agents, and it is quietly stated that lands are to be used for not directly connected with the if hern Pacific but nevertheless de-ideat to a large extent opoa tae rall-r for success. ae opinion Is gaining ground that the vestoa, Houston and Northern Is like-to be used by the Southern Pacific i way. People are all of the belief the La Porte Is ultimately going to icked up by iMr. Hon ting ton.

snd tae Southern Pacific officials hare a color to. the story in a way that va there is something being aone to-l tost endV ot the property being purchased r. Huntington Is oa the line of the rts road. Mr. Huntington already considerable property In this i it does not stand la ais name.

for several years been purchasing la certain locaMUes. One of the Mr, Huatingten Is nslng Is the ern Derelopment Oompsny." The Development Company, among rta, owns one snd a half blocks Just west of" the brewery. The block Is owned by F. Nichols It la said -that Mr. Hnntlngton to become the owner of this -teurt This bat -half; a -dosen transactions now var.

It may be denied that Mr. ton Is the Southern Development r. but C. C. Gibba, land agent ot it horn Psclfle Railway, pays, the the1 lands porchased by the Development Company-and all its affecting tns property are taat sm J- acting for Mr.

Huntington have been on tne line, or sojaceni i "ii" of the Galveston, Houston and Northern In this city makes it look more and more as though the La Porte is going to come ern Paclnc 6UPPORTTNO TILE COMMISSION. The artion of the Southern Pacific Road In ereOtlag aa Injunction against the put ting In force of the reduced rice rates named by Che railroad cooimlwrion will be contested by the Board of Trade, as well as by the railroad commission. President Breanx, of the jBoaxd of Trade, bad hoped that yesterday evening, at a meeting held there would toare been delegates from the otfher commercial exchanges of itbe'dty, as an Invitation had been expended them to Join in resisting the action of the Southern Pacific But from some cauee or other there was luuthlng like a attendance from the other commercial bodies, ami no action was taken. This m-urn-Ing, however, President Breaux will pre-scut Che matter to the Board of Trade, and will suweest timt that organlxaUon rtake up the hgbt alone. "I oo not know what win aone, said Mr, Breaux yesterday.

"1 hud huoed that the other exchanges would take pant with uu. -but they have noa done ao, na so, in an proiDaxnuiy, me Board of Trade will have to make che fight alone, lending its assistance to the CKiamLsaiioa in the matter. As to the claims of the Southern Pacific Company that it will sustain greuit losses by the application of the commhuoon's rates, 1 have oixMng.to say, but it strikes me as pecuU-ar that none of the other lines in the state should have demurred to the rates. They have not done so, and i'f one road can haul a business at a p-rotitj, why cannot another one do Che same? However, we lo not propose to dlsc-uss that part of the proposition. We hi ink toe railroad commission has not done any violence to what railroad men call tiie principle of ratemaklng, and we think the commission should be sustained." The Soouhern Pacific Rairoad people tell a very different story about the Injunction.

They say that It was only on account of the Arbitrary action of the state counmiasdon in refusing to give the rice case a rehearing that the injunction procedure was resorted to. The officials of that road claJm that If the commission had given "them a rehearing, so that a careful estimate of the mcrlu of the case, pro and con, could have been gotten, no aoch slashing of the rice rates wouuq nave occurred. They state that, even after the injunction proceedings were taken, they offered to wluhdraw it if the oonimteston would grant a rehearing. The ckxrthern Pacific people repudiate any lathnaitlon even that the injunction is a strike at the constitutionality of the onranlxacion at th railroad commlesion. There will.

In all Drobabllrtv. tx a ren- eral meeting called of the members of the Board of Trade to-dav (n tik steps In the matter. SOLID TRAIN OF ITALIAN MARBLE. Last evening a solid train of twenty- four cars of Carrara marble was for warded via the Atlanta Dispatch, com posed of the New Orleans and North eastern Railroad and the Southern Rail way. This marble arrived at the New Orleans and Northeastern docks Sunday morning on board the Italian steamship Cltta dl Messina, from Genoa, Italy.

As Its name Indicate, its aoalitv of the finest, being as immaculate and as beauti- rni as snow, ana while being handled from ship to cars it was admired by a targe numoer oi people, among whom were several local sculptors, who bad heard of its coming. This marble goes to Atlanta for the Kehnesaw Marble Company, to be carved Into monuments. statues and other works of art. The Im portation of Italian marble through the port ot aw urieans is constantly growing, and It Is said several cargoes will follow the ene Just discharged and forwarded. REFUNDING THE BONDS.

Clncln latl. Ohio, July 20. The sinking fund trustees, of Cincinnati, and the trustees of the Cincinnati Southern Rail way to-day Opened bids for the refund ing of Southern Railway bonds expiring In 1902, and drawing 7 and 7 3-10 per cent Interest. It Is proposed to refund them with bonds at 1-2 per cent Interest 10 run unni nwt 'mere are S8.000.000 of these bonds outeandlng. The total amount offered for redemption was Some of the holders asked a nre- mlum.

ranging- from 1-8 of 1 oer cent to 2 per cent. The greater number asked no premium. in the absence of a quorum, the trustees -took no action on the bids. LIMITED EXPRESSIONS. Among the visitors in the local rail road world yesterday was General Manager Pearsall, of the East Louisiana Road.

Superintendent Marshall, of the Louis rille snd Nashville, returned yesterday from Mobile, where he has been looking after many new Improvements his com pany la making in that city. Chief Clerk N. P. Randolph, of the general freight agent's office of the Southern Pacific, will take a vacation this week across the lake. Mr.

Ed. Nathan, of the claims department, as well as Mr. of the freight ofllce. snd Mr Charles Baxter, bill of lading clerk in the ofllce, will also take a vacation during the next few days. The Morgan people say that there Is a very htavy movement of business to Cuban ports, that every ship goes out loaded.

This, heavy movement Is due to the exertions snd hustling ability of Captain Joe Hernandez, who Is sometimes called the "Duke of "Havana" by railroad people. Mr. Hernandez, since his appointment to the charge of the steamship Interest! of the Morgan Line, has well demonstrated his ability and worth. A COLORED CHARITY For Wkleh aa AUkama Minister Is Seeking; Alsl. Rev.

R. H. Keller, colored, of Birmingham, is in tae city, soliciting aid for the Alabama Colored Orphans and Old Folks' Home, wfolch was established In Tented quarters kn 1897. near Birmingham, but has aov bought grounds for the erection of building for the helpless old people in I orphans. He hot the people of New Orleans wrll give to this very worthy object, as those of other ctrtes wihlcn he has visited have done The borne ba now nine Inmates, but.

as agents have been appointed in var ous sections of Alabama to investigate applications and recommend sdmisRl'ns, naniber will be greatly augmented; fl is proposed To erect the new building at once. Rev Keller's work is indorsed by Birmingham mayor and the ministers of WUmer Including Bishop AX 1SCEXDIART FIRE. Yesterdsy morning a fire, supposed to be the wort ef an Incendiary, was discovered under the kitchen floor In the resr of the double frame house, Nos. 3120 and 3122 Cleveland avenue, owned by James Brennen and occupied Jointly br Herman Makofsky and Charles Th. building waY damaged about 25" 22i ot Mfky was dim: I20, bwed by a policy for $450 la the Merchants' Company.

Mr Gross furniture wss damaged about Sio oa which there Is ao Insurance. Among the latest. eoUectlns; fads Is a search after odd trade alga and etrcalars. Tha eoUeeton deUr tber is star ran lilt tkaa aaytalng la taa esUeetlom lis nt tempteq. A CASTOR I A toxxaiiaastn.

It3 KtJ Yea Hats Alwafs Ecukht- CDRREST COMMENT IN MISSISSIPPI. Iu.dg Longino is the Second Choice of Hinds County. The Conrention Did Hot Indorse lIcLaurin's Administration. A Woman With Two Little Children Excited Comment. She is Bellered to Hare Come to Kerr Orleans-A War Time rrajer.

THE PICATONB BCREiC,) 218 Capitol Street. Jackson, July 20, 1889.) It Is stated by those who know, that of the twenty-one delegates selected to the state convention at the Hinds county convention yesterday, nineteen are for Longino for governor on second choice, but that they will be loyal to Colonel Montgomery, of Hinds county, the In trepld soldier, patriot and legislator, for whom they are instructed. They are also Instructed to rote as a unit on all questions coming before the convention and no proxies will be allowed. The press reports from Raymond failed to mention that a set of type-written res olutions, indorsing the McLaurin administration, failed of adoption, the conven tion adjourned for dinner, when they were first sought to be adopted, and ad journing sine die when they were again sought to be passed. The whereabouts of a woman with two babies, said to be about two weeks old.

Is the subject of anxious speculation here at the state capital. The woman is apparently in the neighborhood of SO years of age. She arrived here yesterday from the east. With her were two infants, one a boy, the other a girl. Each was nursing a bottle.

The woman, who gave her name aa Johnson, stated that she lived eleven miles from Hickory, In iNewton county, immediately upon her arrival here she went at once to the Baptist Orphanage and made application to Superintendent Foster to take the children in, but Dr. Foster could not accommodate them at the orphanage because no provision is made there for children under 4 or 5 years of age. The woman excited a great deal of comment- The conductor who brought her in from the east remarked to some of the men in the ticket office that he had brought her In, and that he did not believe that she was the mother of the children. After the woman had applied to Super- lsendent Foster for the admission of the children into the orphanage, Dr. Foster and several other gentlemen in that end of the city took an Interest In the case and started an investigation.

After the woman had visited the orphanage she returned to the waiting-room of the onion depot, where she was seen by several citizens. She said that her name was Johnson, snd that she lived eleven miles from Hickory, nad that she was poor and wished to get the children Into tne orpnanage De cause sne was not ante to take care of them. The most casual observer could tell tbst the children were not hers, but she stoutly maintained that they were. Some gentlemen started on a quiet investigation, but before they did anything in the premises she had taken the train for New Orleans, with the intention, doubtless, of placing the children In a foundling asylum. one of the gentlemen who Investigated the case is satisfied that the children did not belong to the woman, as she ap peared very anxious to get rid ox umo, besides, he says, there were other evi dences that the children were not ners.

The conductor who brought her over said he was satisfied from the wsy she treated the infants that they were not her children. The gentlemen tinder whose eyes the case came are very anxious to know the true inwardness of the affair, and some of them doutot very much whether she gave the right name. The public may hear something more of the case, as a further investigation is being made. Rev. Dr.

J. B. Gambrell, so well-known In Mississippi as minister and editor of the Baptist Record so long, now of Dallas, has written the following letter to the Brookhaven Leader, In which he expresses his devotion to Mississippi and admiration for Hon. John M. Allen: "Permit an ex-Misslsslppisn, who loves every acre of her soli, loves her people and cherishes every recollection of the many yeara spent on the sscred soil, to say a word about the campaign In which the good people of the state are now engaged.

Or, rather, let me speak of one of rne candidates for the senate, Joha M. Allen. I have known him since he wss boy. He was a soldier under me in the civil war, and a braver soldier never wore the gray. I have known his life from that time on.

and watched his career with great satisfaction. John Allen Is a man of extraordinary ability, as the people of Mississippi very generally understand. He is a man of the most unflinching Integrity. His moral courage is as great as bis physical. He has been on the right side of every moral question that was ever raised In his community or In the state.

He has never lent his Influence to any corrupt ring, especially the whisky ring. Be is out-and-ont. always has been, opposed to whisky politics, and I am perfectly certain if he is honored with the great office of United States senator he will reflect credit on the stste, and his public influence will be on the side of morality and good government, both In Washington and In Mississippi. It would give me great pleasure to see him elevated to that high office. "I am deeply concerned In the contest now waging in the dear old state.

From this distance it seems that forces, once are gathering again, to threaten the purity and the peace of the commonwealth. I wish every true friend to the cause would vote with reference to-the building up of a high morality In the state and a pure political life. There can be but little doubt that the moral conflicts, which have been fought In the years past must be repeated, in a measure, now. I know that John M. Allen helped to put an end to whisky politics and to the whisky business in his own community.

I say these words In the Interest, not of the man, but of the cause to which some of as have given our Uvea" Under the caption of "A War Time Prayer," Secretary of State Power writes as follows: "The recent pubHcarVm of a sermon, preached bv Dr. W. Harmon, of Pa aiding, dedicated to 'the Christian editor of the Ja'sper County calls to mind a war reminiscence in wnWh that faithful old soldier of (the cross was the central figure. The confederate forces at Harrrsburg, trad met with, a serious reverse; and the legislature, then rn sescton at Macon, 4n August, 1804, passed a sweeping militia MIL making very few exemptions. Dr.

Harmon was rnen preaching at Macon, and occasionally opened the sessions of Che enat and borne with prayer. The aessSons were fa eld in school buUdenga the hone In the larger, and the senate en tJha smaller building. This writer, being tha a prisoner on parole, went up from' Mobile to act as clerk of the bouse. He bed set type for Dr. Harmon wnen he was a publisher ta New Orleans 1854, so when ae appeared In tae entrance, the attention of Speaker Houston was called to the fact that a mintater was present; and tie was Invtted to come forward.

Tne doctor stood yost to the right of the clerk, wben the gavea summoned the members "to thetr devofton. All assumed a devotional atftifcode, and the doctor proceeded thusJy: 0 Lord, we invoke thy special Metav a upon fMa legislature, for they bare laid violent hands upon tie ordained nrtnJetry of thy church, and, putting car-Mi weapons ta ie4r bands, have thrust ifbeni forth tnro the field, bidding them go fortai aa aatoaatei of wiaOhi and vengeance. Lord, for fMa act if ImVlhr to Bears 2h Of thee, and thy lirrcb-a act 2t stands forth in all its gjoomy teolatkm. without a parallel te tha ieclslatkm of any civilised people on esmth -we Invoke thy pardoning puwen 4 Lord, jnai Mt the stn of CMs 1-wiature be Tawt upon our abate ana people, bat may ft tritrmph over all our enemies, and aectre onr peace, our ende- penaence, and a grand nationality among a nit i mti ma he naUVnm tt trth, and thy nan abaU be glorified aeemer. Amen.1 rinn proceeded wfth Ms took it down.

The prayer, CM writ members ra4Ml head, too grog at ten. other some, evt- the preacher, and dentlr amount. upnaca or pleased. The pre; Mitt dOA, tor did not wait to be congratulated, but body with prayer but a senator, who danced to be tn -the tense, got to the senate anead of Urn and objected to style of mornrng davoOona. 'After the readlkg of the Journal a supinemental Mil, prepared by.

Senator 43T Papons, was introduced In he house and saased several members wishing St understood that they 72 'aye not beoaoa they were enttam-IdSS5 th preacher's' prayer. Dr. Harmon la tH firing, at Pauld-tog, Miss. a fenj years ago he pub- a 'uuit oi sermons ana remi- uiw.CTiv.-ti, rn wmcfl dent is referred the foregoing tod- "he game of perketetlc chees played ft 1.5? interesting event. It Wfl ft nn rrlrnriasw1 v.

1. mn against Judge La- wre arrang-ed a semi-circle and 7- a trw one to anorner ana DlSVed Tne nrlra rrn. Carorbers, vr vvmlir eim, a. junenne, A. B.

Smith. F. Johnston. A. M.

Nelson! Hvmsn RIMm XT 1 dni-v. x- tti A- Hemlngwty. J. B. Stirling.

J. H. OdeneaL C. Amu i and E. Smith.

Of rhe jixlu-o rht was beaten by fouTj Messrs. Carothers, nuii i vj others managed to get in a tie: Messrs. juneime ana A. Hmrrn. me oiuer eieven, ana taey were rorced to avmvnicusc urieai.

ne game was a fine exhibition of chess playing and was a novelty among the Jackson lovers of the game. The N'ew Albany Gazette says "that Hon. Jno. W. T.

Falkner was elected sen ator snd G. B. Hlghtower and Fielder Webster. members of the legislature from Lafayette county, a strictly antl-McLaurln ticket. The county voted for W.

v. Sulriran for the long and short term senator, but in case Mr. Sulli van was not in the race the vote would eo to the available man to beat McLau rin." If Jackson bad a first-class auditorium it could accommodate any public meeting that mlzht be held here. For the past xew years mere nas oeen a great aeai of talk about building an auditorium, but it has been discovered. When rt is too late, that talk does not build audltorluma.

The Hafctiesburg Progress well says that "if it were carder to make a living in this state there would not be so many luie people. iae iruxn is men can sic around half the time and make a living, and when they get really hard up they run ior omce. The Columbus Dispatch says the Illinois Central is securing a right of way through Lowndes county for an extension rrom west trvnuu to tne coal fields of Alabama. A number of places tn the state are going to have fairs this fall. In years gone by Jackson bad some of the finest fairs In the south, but that was a long time ago.

Other towns in the state not so large as Jackson are free from the dust nuisance by a system of street sprinkling. CLAY COUNTY PRIMARY. Special to the Picayune. West Point. July 20.

The Cray county primary election passed -off quiet ly ro-oiy, ana airnougn intense interest was manifested, everything passed along very peaceably. Hon. waiter Heard received the nomi nation for state senator, W. S. Hill for district attorney, and A.

H. Cox for circuit clerk. The caaa-sl -not be known tmril a late hour, if at all to-night. MASS MKETINO IN LAUDERDALE. Special to the Picayune.

Meridian, July 20. The Demo crats of Lauderdale county met in mass meeting at the courthouse to-dav for the purpose of electing a new executive committee, and for the further pnrpoee of selecting delegates to the state convention. The following were the delegates selected to the convention: Geo. M. Hodfes.

I. R. Ellerbee. E. IT Walker.

C. L. Gunn. W. R.

Denton. S. H. Wilson. Tom Lyle.

J. R. McLaurin. E. S.

Bostlck, W. D. Cameron. W. K.

KrarKige, c. Miner. A. J. Kivsseii, a.

H. Mcfnnte, I. F. Ethridge, H. M.

Street, Ai. nawks. Harry Stanton. J. E.

Reed. A. B. Wagner, J. L.

Splnks. L. H. Doty, W. E.

Baskin, W. T. Houston, Sam. Rothenburg, S. A.

Witherrpoon, F. C. McGee. Dr. EL S.

Gully, M. Winner, Wm. F. Gray. In reference to the candidacy of Hon.

Jonr D. Mclnnls. of this city, for reelection to the office of railroad commis sioner, the following resolution was adopted wtrh a hurrah, and testifies the esteem and confidence In which that ex. eel lent gentleman Is held by the people of his nome county: "That we have not4l vrt-fh orlde and satisfaction the faithful. Intelligent and valuable public services or Hon.

no. D. Mclnnis as a member of the railroad commission of this state, and heartily commend his candidacy for re-election to the neoDle of Misalssiimi. hereby giving Instructions to the delegates to the state invention from Lauderdale county to not only vote for. but use every honor able means to secure the renominatlon of this able, honest and high-minded public servant for the Important office that for four years he has filled and adorned." The mass meetlnr was a large and en thusiastic one.

and fully represented the Democracy or iauderdale county. mobile: budget. Gleaminars of General Interest from the Golf City. Special to the Picayune. Mobile, July 20.

The general council to-night adopted the adverse re port of a special committee relative to the payment of a claim of the sewer contractor, T. J. Shea, for extra excavation, the claim amounting to $16,000. The committee relative to the City furnishing water to residents of Spring mil reported favorably, staling mat water could be furnished them at a cost of $2300, with an annual income from rentals therefrom nt SMOO. After Some discussion the report was referred back to the committee to bring in more uw- nits Information aa tn the COSt and the Income and also aa to whether the work can be done under the existing contract with M.

T. Lew man Co. The rpolrnnrlnn Alderman E. V. O'Connor was read and accepted and David P.

Burns was unanimously elected to fill the vacancv. Mr. Burns is st nresent nrpuMent nt Cttv Base Ball League and has been intimately Identified with base ball In this city for many years. He Is a -member of the firm of Burns Brothers, grocers, a director of the Mobile Brewery, a member of the ood-mn nt th Wam nn Goods Sales men's Association. Ancient Order of HI- Dernians ana a number oi omer wuiwi organizations.

He Is very popular and has many 'friends. coienei J. u. Clarke, wno nas omx rtnnalv 111 fmm th Tota of a CaT- left the city this morning In a special train for Chicago, where he hopes that the cooler weather will be more con ducive to. his rapid recovery, xie accompanied by nig daughter.

Mrs. E. T. Jeffry; his son. General Superintendent Charles Clarke, of the Mobile and Ohio, ana ty ma physician.

Dr. ttnets Tk.M was wa rhimder storm here this morning with a heavy electrical dlsolav. bat no renorts ef any material damage have been received. failed of re-election yesterday br, the school board, but was elected principal of tne junior urammar School. iihij a communication to the school noara resigning the position, to which he was elected.

The board will chose his sue- eessor at the next meeting. News was received here co to a position on the Tampico health ol Dr. Cobb Nichols, wbo was graduated. In medicine at the 'Medical College of Alabama in this city last spring, and who is at the present time assistant surgeon of the Mexican -en, i-road at Tampico. Dr.

Nichols is aa Ala-bamlan and has many friends who will be glad to learn, of the honor conferred m. ew i GOSSIP GATHERED An Experiment of Import to the Birer Trade. i. Pretty fr Georgia Ballroad. Eotuna Hakes a Bid for toe Biological Station.

Colonel Young: Talks of the City's Needs from an Engineer's Standpoint. Several prominent Mississippi river steambost men will gather In this city to witness an experiment In propelling power next Saturday morning. Captain W. D. Pugh, of Yasoo City, president and general manager of the Yazoo Transpor tation Company, and one of the best known navigators of the delta, was the first to put in an appearance.

He regis tered at the Grunewald yesterday, hav lng been accompanied to the city by bis niece, Miss Dulclna winner, who left in the evening for a visit with Miss Clara Barton at Magnolia, Miss. Captain Pugh will spend to-day In BlloxL where, his family is located for the summer. He will return Saturday for the experiment. The cross-compound steam engine will oe given a tnorougn test on the steamboat Whisper, one of the boats of the Mississippi Biver Packet Company. This propeller of a double action, two cylinders Deing used, and the effect is said to be very powerful.

"If the cross-compound engine proves a success on river said Captain Pugh, conversing with the Picayune reporter, "one of the greatest problems in connection with river boating has been solved. It will mean a saving of tuny per cent in rnei. xes, lr it is successful we will Introduce the system in the Yazoo traffic. This experiment on the Whisper will be watched all up and down the valley by steamboat men. "The principle Involved Is the utilization of all the steam of an engine, which Is not done in the type of ordinary steam engines.

All the exhaust steam goes into a Tow-pressure cylinder and is thus utilized. By the saving of 50 per cent In fuel the cost of river transportation would be cheapened Immensely. That is the real aim of the whole process, the cheapening of river transportation, which will make It possible for the steamboat men to put up a more spirited fight against the railroads." Messrs. W. Whry, D.

H. Walsh and Fred Grace, three representatives from Plaquemine, have rooms at the Commercial. D. F. Gray, a merchant of Hon ma.

Is In the city on business, and is stopping at the Commercial. W. Llghtburne, of Port Arthur, Is registered at the Cosmopolitan. Mr. Lightburne was formerly the general agent in this city of the Pee Gee Railroad.

He Is now manager of the Port Arthur terminals and elevators tor the same company. Dr. T. J. Woolf and Alfred Duperler, of New Iberia, have rooms at the Cosmopolitan.

T. F. A hern, the general superintendent of the People Telephone Company, who is here from Detroit, overseeing the putting in of subscribers' 'phones, said last night at the Denechaud that 400 'phones had already been connected and that on Monday the exchange would be opened and the lines put into service. It Is expected that 1500 'phones will be in working order Monday morning when the "hello girls" coma on duty for the first time. W.

W. Edwards, prominent In the affairs of Abbeville, this state, is at the Grunewald. Hon. Albert Estoplnal, district attorney of St. Bernard parish, came up to the city last night and took rooms at the Grunewald.

Mr. and Mrs. Ben A. Heldenrelch, ot McComb City, are among the late bridal couples at the Grunewald. They are among McComb's prominent young people.

D. J. Batchelder, is a guest at the St. Charles, from Hazlehurst, Miss. George 8.

Gardiner and Arthur J. Cox, two of Laurel's big lumber men, are stopping at the St. Charles. Love Atkins Dockery, a native of Memphis, who has been away In Mexico for six years, trying his luck In the gold regions, arrived at the Grunewald list evening, on his way home for a visit. He has been very successful In Mexico, and is now the superintendent of a large mining company operating at Ma-plml.

In the state of Durango. The mine turns out about aSO tons of gold, silver and lead ore a day, and the annual output from this rich deposit amotints to a million and a quarter dollars every year. The company makes this amount In clear dividends. 8. E.

Meoreton, one of Brookbaven's good citizens, secured hotel accommodations at the fit. Charles last evening. J. D. Hod son.

of Cralveston, Is In town on a brief trip, and is staying at tne St. Charles. T. G. Tiffany, who registered at the St.

Charles last evening with the Illinois Central passengers, from La Crosse, is the secretary and treasurer of the New Orleans Cypress Company. He was north spending his summer vacation, when a telegram told him the disastrous fire in the yards of the company last Saturday afternoon, and advised his immediate return. xwr fMMMir la tho nrpfll- tj iui.vn.. dent and general superintendent of the Georgia fionLeru nam i HnU Want niffht- ierru a i luc from Thomasvllle, Gs, He owns some 1Z.UUU or acres oi iiiut uic i ,1 i- vmmt- nariah. this State.

timber, accompanied by T. A. Crawford, OI AlOUl trie, J-f It lUaU wuv aass, wealth through the turpentine industry a. A ilaArxrli I 'rRWfOrtl J-U laic oi.ai.fj va vvv- r. la rolnr up the Valley Road with Mr.

11 COCK to looa at tne iai.i.ci and see if it will not be a profitable ln- a rnrrtentlno industry on a large scale in that section of the state. These two gentlemen xrom xuw in A tit laar Mlt- clana parish this morning, and wili e- turn in two or mrec of the turpentine Industry In Georgia, Mr. Pldcock said the supply of untapped timber was very scarce and that the men who had made fortunes at it were now casting about looking for new fields. He thinks a lot of them will come to Louisiana and Invest here. Aside from Che real purpose of Mr.

PWcocka Visit to Louflaasae, there is uta a nd sttorr In hia title aa Che gn- nai amnerlntendent of the Georgia North- era. BalVroad. That piece of property Is oae of cue most una que irm.uxyjriM.mm tines tn the country, it oeing ouux, not all of it ea yet completed, for the express object In view of prohibiting another corporation from getting through the eaine territory. Ttna wad. of wnlch Ma Pldcock la one of the cMef officials, extends from TuomasvlHe, throng ana co Albany, win ere it connects wirn tne ttafit avatem and other rood roads.

It a preclona ta a i long chain of -There Is another company which is Tery anxions to get Its line through the very same territory, and chat is the concern backed by the Standard Otl Com pany, ne inagier anxeresxs, etc. They want build from. TnomaavUle tn a point pracUcaily the same aa the one covered by rna other fellows. Now, -there ts a law inw sbu oi vrwrgia that wnj wwxt nrmrt one railroad to other ctoaer than ten rnriea. Oonae.

quenciy xne conrpany witn wnicn euper-lntendent Pldcock is connected has Che imt of tne sstuation br a lonr mey propose to keep the Standard Oil magnaxes imwuj ivr a good whl at least, "'-r 'i 7 wru Cia can grid Mr. PSdoock. WeIL I auepoct It wtU be ta tne ocner peopie ouytng ns out. Our Bne Is partly constructed and will be fully ao by the 1st of October. The Alabama, VJckaburg gad Western peo ple are very aaxoona to get a enrougn fine HP wuvuim un mnuiQKaam, ao tthat they can catdh onto New Orleans' onnectlona and compete wMn the old LootsvUle and waanvtua, Mmea.

O'Leary, Andrews and Robert ward comprise a nttle party of Shxeveoort ladles, who are nere on pleasure and aboppteg trip. They tare rooms ac tne vosmopounan. Hon. D. WalUs, of St.

James pariah. Mrs. L. Hood, of Longwood, MlssL the proprietress oz a large mercantile' busi ness, is registered at the A. Atkins, a prominent lawver oi Bernxwgham.

is tn the city and la a guest, ex tae ienecnauo. S. KeBy and wife, of Chicago, I1L, are among the Denechaud arrivals. Xlonma, Terrebonne parish, wants tne biological station and Leesburg is going to hav a rMrxlirrnr tnl tnr that The claims of the Terrebonne metro p- are yaruaiiy anown ana before the thing Is over this state will know a good deal more about Mouma aa an oyster, fish and shrimp market. R.

Barrow and Kdltor Kaston Duval, of the Houma Courier, are at uie v.uuuuerciai jttotei ana Dotn are en thusiastlc nhnntara for Unnm. about the proposed biological station, as a technical Institution," said Mr. Bar- me ie taemwr os uu constitution Sl Convention. "hilt nn 1 nMn. clples Houma wants everything we can flT0t Snd if ftlCk fthflAPVltAW wrvn 1 A a good thing for Leesburg, why, then nvuiu gVWX IILLUK XOr and we are after it." llr.

Barrow left for home last night and will work up the case. Kditor Duval Is in a position where he Is going to ruu xuuu iui uie lerrcoonae site. Thpv mm it 1 i i. A. i ka state for fish, oysters and shrimp, and osu iue im wnere tne sia- tlon should be.

A petition will be sent Oovprnnr Vnator an1 ika l.irl.l.t.. jmm. mwiiwi WIU mission asking why Houma was not given linfh Ha Houmalte, who registered at tie Grune- uiuuii iu ua ana i can see me jiuuee ui. placing tne Dioiogicai sia 1 1 r. that 1 A V.

iv vm ui uie interests of that Industry, where very- few fish are caught. A good location could be wuuu uu me souua oa xerreoonne. There srs a nrnnhtr nt ft nanntntr factories at Houma and the advocates of the biological -observatory aver that a vuvcuuigc ui tut; jibu pnrauct shipped from Morgan City 1 caught In luicuvuut icifiLorv. J. A.

Pharr. son of Cantaln harr. the ex-gubernatorial aspirant. Is at the St. Charles, registered from St.

Mary. J. Helmick, of McComb City, with a party of friends, had rooms at uie v.uuiuiercuu on xnursaay. Mr. and Mrs.

E. s. Woodfln are In the city, from Ethel, and have apartments at the Commercial. W. E.

Gassell. a business man up at snreveport, is in town on a running trip. ana is at tne trrunewaia. Mrs. 8.

P. Greene, of Fort Worth. and Miss Lyon, of Atlanta, are guests at tne Bt- cnariea, The final list of regiment appointments printed in the Picayune of Thursday was read with much Interest by many Or-leanlans, and especially by Colonel Wll-lard Young, at the Denechaud. whose name was mentioned in connection with the colonelcy of the Thirty-fourth Kegl- ment volunteers ior tne ruuppinet. xtj yesterday's announcement Lyman W.

V. Kennon, captain in the Sixth, was made the colonel or this regiment. "I knew Captain Kennon well, said Colonel Young, at his hotel last evening. "He graduated from West Point In 1882 and Is a good soldier and a competent officer. When I was assistant professor in engineering Captain Kennon recited to me.

men ae nas been witn me at various times since then. He was on Gen eral Brooke's staff In Havana and worked with me a good deal. I like Kennon and am glad he got the place. This appointment of Captain Kennon sets at rest the reports about Colonel Young, which he himself had ceased to tnina aoont long ago. 1 Colonel Wlllard Young win leave flew Orleans to-day.

His mission here, now that the final contracts for drainage have been closed, is at an end and be n-oes to New York, where the headquarters of th National Contracting Company are located, some big contracts are process or execution on tne icne eanai, and they will next claim the attention of this distinguished engineer, the son of the noted Brigbam Young and late colonel of the Second Regiment of United States Engineers. "Colonel, give us some of your lm pressions of New Orleans," was suggested by the reporter. "I have studied this city pretty thoroughly," replied this-eminent scion ot Salt Lake City, with a slight hesitancy In speaking of New Orleans, "and 1 will say tnat never saw a city in my life that needed Improvement so badly, in drainage, In sewerage and pav ing, as does tnis one. xsut tnat is just what you are doing and it is a great work: exactly what you should do. When completed New Orleans will be a splendid place.

Yon need pavements by all means, and nothing but asphalt should be considered for this climate and your soil, because or. the oenencent sanitary effects of the asphalt. It is a health river and a Dreventlve of disease, and you see so much refuse has been thrown out upon this soil that it Is completely saturated and soaked full of poisonous gases. When the asphalt is put down It cuts on an tnis poison. "Since I nave been here 1 haven't seen a slnale member of the drainage commission or of the city council, out looking into tne drainage ana see ing what is really being done.

In order to noid tnese positions ana carry on tne work properly these men, should qualify and become versed on the canals, -the pumping stations and alL I cannot understand why they don't. This does, not apply to Major Harrod, however, who has been very active. "Speaking of Captain Kennon. added the colonel, asking for his room key, "he was connected with the survey for the International Railway through cer tain Central American republics, and his report on that surrey was a model piect Colonel Young says he will probably be In the city again In the course of a few months. E.

L. McCIung. a visitor from Natchi toches. Is stopping at the bk Charles Hotel. the daughter of Governor McLaurin, and Miss Mary Craig Klmbrough, of Greenwood.

Mlsa are guests at the St. Charles HoteL C. J. Welsh, of Crowley. a rice planter and transfer man of the Acadia capital, witn his wile, arrived at me Grunewald yesterday morning.

Mr. Welsh has 700 acres of rice under cultivation this year. He says the crop promises an enormous yield and the rice men are In good spirits. Mrs. Welsh Is on her way to to visit relatlvea, and she left for the east last night.

There was a pretty little wedding at the Welsh home one evening this week, when Mlas Bertha Welsh was united In marriage to Forest Wright, also of Crow ley, xne young peopie will reaiue uicio. MHS.tHEXRY ROBERTS. The death of Mrs. Henry Roberts at 8 o'clock last Tuesday morning caused mucn sorrow among her many Mends. After a short illnesa.

foil of suffering. she 'passed st way among neartbrokea relatives and kind sisters and purees, wno were unremStting tn Ohetr care for the young woman. she was the tteee- moTitn bride of Prof. Henry jtooens. Mn.

TtAiwrta hfAT 4wr marriage Blanwh TTttr Hi MmA danglhter of Joseph 8. Hebert and Loutoe of French BebUement, Livingston pawn. She was only 19 yeara old. The passing away of ttbaa dutiful and ov4ng wife at sncn an early age was a source of pro- fntriwl rrlf ih to-m. mIiMtml aa well SS Her mourning husband.

iov- rng, sand and amiable ana was mucu loved. 75 v' k''-. ''f The remains of the deceased lady were taken to Freocn Settlement, where they were Interred on Wednesday acurmon, wuv u. miles east of Meridian, has complimented aicruuaa Dtar wim svuw rhraj. nt nnmA mltl at tWO pooaia tl tiree ounces each.

EP170B The CooTentldn nf eettmca Were 1,5, Tosrn tae nkt aratea Wm' :1 Z. rr lourta bier tlonal convention of tit will be la the neighborhood' to 12.000,;accordUig- to mates of the local managt-o clock thl morning 3500 haVi tered. The appointing. In poUt of namu the passengers from Njw Yak William S. Haven, first Tice t-the Epworth League of th.

Episcopal church. He said tie 1 1U eventually sr-- too to 600. So far about in(i 1 The CaUforrdaTdeUgattr i hard for the delegates-are here, eqoai I taeen Los Angeles They billed th, city tSSaTtt-V ers Inscribed. "CaioraiaVi 1 Dr. C.

B. Mitchell. tSVf rived last night, sad hiTt sprung the announcement ti oils will be entered il11- the next convenUoa. He sali gates are en route from Mini determined to secure iheTon committee on resolnUnii, o'clock this wnl should be the poUey ot theT with regard to the seating man- BrTgham H. Bobertt, cf torney General Griggs' declaioa young people's sou ties of 1 gellcal denominations' of the meeting was held behindTck and the recommendaUons of t4, tee will be kept under cover day night.

yThe corner of Market ud streets, where are located the 1 tent and Tomllnson HalL be point of Interest of the let: after noon. From all parts steady stream of delegates. -decked with ribbons and some banners, poured into the nt-the hall and tent, which are ua sides of the and but for the police the strwt bare become hopelessly chunk of lee could have hlrti carried through the teat witaoct inf-lJn sun beatdown on tie, tected canvas like hot Iron through a sieve, but the leaguer, i and- seemed to enjoy theinselT4 tent's seating capacity 1 7000 a well filled, but not crowded, xt-the assemblage the mlnlstarial ci mounted by a white tia rare invention a decidedly reUgToua mtpt Interior ef Tomllnaoa Hall cooler, and many who first eaie-tent went over to the hall Hon. Hugh Dougherty, of presided In the tent. Gorer A.

Mount welcomed the coartr behalf ot Indiana, and Hon. Eli l. followed oa behalf of the city spoils. ,7. The speeches were lespondel Rev.

Charles O. Jones, of nristos for the M. EL church south; Ktj man, of Toronto, Ontario, for Methodism, and Bishop w. X. Detroit, Mich-, for the M.

E. la Tomllnaoa HalL Hon. Frani bour, of vansvllle, sresid Because of the absence Fairbanks from the dty, Chailes W. Smith, of IndliDf Hrered the address of welcome of the state. Mayer Thonuu threw the gates of the dty Bev.

Charles W. Lewis, of InL, welcomed the conualttee ci of Indiana Methodism. Bev. G. J.

Boyd, of Hallf ax. sponded for Canadian Mtic xne response ior the Methc pal churcn was delivered ky F. Hurst, of Washlagton, 1 P. Fltsgerald, of NashvUla, It. speech, threaded with aomor, the welcomers oa behalf of tii 1 Episcopal church, south.

TUc then adjourned until ereniiig, 1 i 1 AyilAAlr an aarvei staM srr Ia win a ss VSWJS saaae, fj -y aaTSafW a fc ducted in the tent. The night session was held places, the tent, TsmUnsoa fia opera noose. xae everuag tr mented the number ef delegatei, 1 three meeting places were rv, standing-room, The forepirt three meetings was devoted ts vice, under the leadership of I. celL of Chicaro: W. I Texas, and J.

M. Slaok, ef V- a. Henry W. Bogers, In the tent; Bev. A Toronto, In Tomllnson Hall, A At.

Opera ilonse. The foUowuu were discussed: "The High School and "Self Culture; Its Talne ac. ties." "Books The Bible and the Intellect The speakers of the eveair' In the Tent Bev. Toronto; Ear. 8.

H. Wertta, Ex: Bev. Frank Hamilton, Boston; 1 F. McDowell. New Tork.

Opera House Bev. W. F. Lie: Worth, Bev. S.

L. Thorpa, lyn, Ber. fiamuel 1 ton, Btv. O. A.

Bajes, 111. Tomllnson Hall Bev. '3. W. n.i..M yvv.

1 A Saw JinM i BUngston. Ontario: Bev. B- IX bocker Los Angeles, CaL; Bar. I. Bowen, Atlanta, Gs, 'X Ln "Th Hic-h School and CoBe topic of the address by Ber- of Fort Worth, Tax.

He saidifl "To my mind there are hutw anna wnv higher educatloa eagerly sought by Cut jom pec; lrt a couege ruutu" secured first ot all for its -Second A colIegUta edocati be secured by our yonag pespis lor rlrv'a mV Third An education, -cation, for Chrisfaeaks IS the t-- on that give wbj.wj should secure tnis eqaipmvxn- Iepartineat conierwcra dav to-morrow, and ps w- will include several 01 The following message wa nlght: dial best anil i. winfi will. xae message was. reaa a meetings. SB CR0LOGT.

Js-eyh T. Baasefl. Special to tbs lit. VlCaSOurg, JS Bussell, one of SJl2rVPei Cioca una If a typhoid malarial fever. A.

is a this grandson of Mrs. city. who mcy result. is pay for tt. 1 return the remainder -s, and tr action wi penso wt." fcno Con ception vi eVam.

aajrtvasa hw. Itnedirotnt tj ioaithy Joases. Mer-a tr)rii jdekpeni tent ana In trio rwvl' ly, una to Itke feelings rganaoaoj. re giaaiy anedioal bo ktchsmre plain "Washington, wy worth ConvenrtonIndlasspol Please accept for the cmysatJM r. mmm.

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