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THE SUN. BALTIMORE, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1895. VIRGINIA AFFAIRS. SUBURBS AND COUNTY. scrupulously forth Polly Gibson within tbe last two days.

The river Is reported full of fish. Tbe city fish wharf and the fish benches in market were Saturday rented at public auction. The bidding was spiritless, though quite a number of persons were present at auction. Tbe fish wharf was rented to Theo. Balienger for $450.

Last year It brought $435, and in years gone by. several thousand dollars have been paid for its use. THE POPE ON DEMOCRACY. His Interest in the Affairs of the Two Great Republics. LEO XIII ON SCIENCE AND SOCIALISM.

Wm. Seemuller and Daniel Miller, who rep resented it at tbe recent meetlug of tbe National Board of Trade. Tbe president named Messrs. Wm.Cunning-ham. Wm.

B. Willson and Wm. Checkley Shaw a committee to nominate candidates as directors to take the places of Robt. G. Hoffman, deceased, and Frank Frick, resigned.

Frick is now in Cairo, Egypt, and as bis stay abroad will he extended, be bas resigned a director. THE CITY COUNCIL. Asphalt for Paving North Broadway To. Dredge the Harbor. Mayor Latrobe sent a message to the City Council at its meeting last night stating that ordinance already passed for paving Broadway north of Preston street with Trinidad sheet asphalt is mandatory, and that if It is not promptly amended to admit Bermudez asphalt to competition the city commissioner will be compelled to do the paving with the Trinidad variety.

A gentleman who has long been Identified with street paving in Baltimore said yesterday tbat tbe Bermudez asphalt product has recently passed under the control of the Barber Company, which also controls the Trinidad asphalt. An ordinance sent to the First Branch by the Mayor providing tbat fire-escapes shall not be erected without the approval of the fire commissioners was referred to the committee on police and jail. Tbe First Branch put on file a communica tion from Mr. Eugene Levering, Dr. James Carey Thomas and Rev.

T. M. Beadenkoff urging an appropriation of $8,000 for the establishing of a permanent free bathing-house. Mr. Langhammer introduced an ordinance authorizing the Norton Tin-Plate and Can Company to lay a railroad track on Boston street to the tin-mill to be built by that com pany.

Tbe track is to connect with the Pennsylvania Railroad system. The First Branch, under a suspension of the rules, passed a measure appropriating $20,000 best in the drediring ot the docks and harbor before warm weather arrives. An ordinance appropriating $3L000 to con tinue the work ot the hydrograpbicai survey also passed tbe First Branch. An account of the action takeu by-, the Council on the death of Councilman Daniel E. Clark will be found elsewhere.

Both branches adjourned to meet again next Monday. WANTS TO' LAY RAILS. President Perln's Plan for Donhle- Tracklng West North Avenue. President Perln, of the City and Suburban Railway Company, called on Mayor Latrobe yesterday and said his company wished to obtain a permit to lay rails on West North avenue. The tracks on West North avenue form the Lake Roland Elevated line to Walbrook This line has but a single track along a great part of its length and the City and Suburban Company proposes to double-track the line.

Tbe Mayor said Mr. Perln could not obtain permission to use rails without applying to tbe City Council because an ordinance prohibits the laying of such rails in the city. Mr. Perin claimed that this restriction did not apply to the Annex, and that as North avenue is on the line between the Annex and the old city limits, the suggested permission would not have to be obtained from the Council. No decision was reached upon the subject.

The use of rails would enable the cars to attain greater speed. A city ordinance authorizes reet cars to run at a speed of 15 miles an hour in the Annex, on North avenue and the elevated structure on North street and not over 10 miles an hour in other parts of the city. NEWS OF THE FORT. British Steamer Oxford. The British steamer Oxford, of Bristol, which traded to this port over three years under charter with the Earn Line in the Cuban iron-ore trade, has been sold to citizens of the United States.

It is said an American register will be granted her, and that, she will ultimately go to theJPaciflc for service. Capt. W. James, who, with his family, made his home in Baltimore while in trade here, will tate the Oxford out to New York, Chiet Officer Howard and Chief Enerineer Evers. who were with him in this trade, will also return In the vessel.

Since returning to England Mr. Evers has taken unto himself a wife. After delivering the Oxford in New York, Captain James will return to England to take a command offered him there. Repairs to Bay Steamers. The steamer Joppa, of the Baltimore, Ches apeake and Atlantic Railway Company, which has been undergoing extensive re pairs at Clark's machine shop, arrived at her pier at Light street yesterday and will be put on the Great ChoptanK route today.

The Joppa has been remodeled in her main deck. Her grand staircase has been put aft of the place where the entrance to the saloon deck was made. This was done to give more deck space. The saloon has been recarpeted and refurnished. The Avalon, whteh has been plying in tde Choptank river, will be withdrawn for paint ing and overhauling.

The Maggie was hauled out at Woodall yard yesterday to prepare her for filling her spring schedule. Captain North's Long Voyage. Captain North, of Rollius's bark Baltimore, from Rio Janeiro, arrived at Chase's wharf last night. His vessel had recorded her longest voyage between the two ports since he took ber on her maiden voyage. Five days after leaving Rio the Baltimore was in sight of the outer harbor lights, and it was not until the twenty-ninth day passed that the Baltimore leaped over the equator in a calm.

Thence to 17 north latitude light winds pre railed, followed by westerly gales. On February 27 and 28 she was hove to in a heavy gale. The voyage was fifty-one days to the capes and nrty-tnree aays to port. The Baltimore brought 7.317 bags of coffee.1 Cargo of the Oakdene. The cargo of tbe British steamer Oakdene, lost on Assateauue beach while bound from Hamburg to Baltimore, comprised 1,250 tons of kainit, 2,500 bags of potash, 1.000 bags of marine salt and 554 casks of cement.

With the exception of the latter, whioh was con signed to New Yorkers, the articles were for Baltimore. To Load Here. Pilot Worthington left for Philadelphia last night for the Johnston liner Barrow- more. Captain Waite, which sails from that port today to load for Havre. The new Neptune Line steamer Tampico.

Captain Wilson, will leave Newport News this morn ing to complete loading at Baltimore for Rotterdam. Charters. Charters reported were: Bark S. R. L' man.

coal from Baltimore and Newport News to Laguayra, $3 50 and port charges; schooners Jennie Thomrfs. Clytie and Ida Lawrence. merchandise" hence to Savannah and back with lumber. E. G.

Hight, coal hence to Charleston and back with phosphate rook. all at private terms. Bay Trade Reviving. An evidence of tbe opeuing of navigation after the ice blockade is the arrival of ves sels loaded with wood and lumber, which have not previously been seen in port for two months. The shipping intelligence of The Sun give the names of fifteen such ves sels wbicb came in yesterday.

Oyster Police-Boat McLane. Tbe State oyster police steamer Governor McLane, Captain Turner, arrived in port yesterday for tbe first time since the reeze. The McLane came from a cruise, and will coal up. Sadden Change of Weather. A heavy snow and ball-storm was re ported by the officers of the schooner Jennie Thomas, from Savannah, as having prevailed in the lower bay lor five hours on Sunday.

At 1 P. M. the weather was so warm that the crew could go on deck in their shirt sleeves. Salt from St. Martin's.

The brig Onoloska arrived from St. Mar tin's, one of the Virgin group of islands in the West Indies, with 16,884 bushels of salt for Alexander Kerr. Bros. Co. Stony Creek Route.

Yesterday the Rock and Stony creek steamer Petrel resumed her trips from the city for tbe first time since the close of navi gation in those waters wit ice. Schooner Fannie Keiche. Beacbam hauled the schooner Fannie Reiche for repairs to hull. The Reicbe ar rived from Seaford, where she had been frozen in. The Tfhaleback Colby.

Mr. M. V. O'Neal went down the bay last night on the wbaleback Bteamer J. L.

Colby. which sailed for Tampion. Mr. O'Neal will adjust the vessel's compass. A Sunken Schooner.

This morning the Baltimore Wrecking Company's steamer Argus will leave for Kent Island to raise the sunken schooner Emma Estelle. All Saints Church, in Sidlitz. Bohemia, pos sesses a chandelier made entirely of human bones. A up is a go it volumes and 14.000 manuscripts, which include tbe literature of all civilization and almost every language. It bas been a great privilege to sit for hours over these first printed editions of Homer, Cicero, Virgil, Dante, Petrarca and Galileo, and over the manuscripts of tbe latter three and many more almost as precious, including Gbibertl's Sketch-Book, But our nearest and sweetest touch with the past has been in perusing Savonarola's Latin Bible, filled with marginal notes Greek, written In his own exquisite band and with almost microscopic minuteness.

The broad margins were especially crowded around some of the Psalms, the Prophets Isaiah and Daniel, the Gospels of Matthew, Luke and John and tbe Revelation, and many fine vellum leaves were bound In tbe back, making a volume of Greek manuscript commentary. These were brought to us, while tbe librarian kindly seated us at a table in a smaller side room, and the visits we made there are among tbe best treasured memories Florence. Tbe largest room, was a beautiful sight, with its racks of journals and high walls of books in every tongue and its three long rows of tables surrounded by students from every clime. It was once a theatre so long ago that Tasso's "Armida" was first performed there. Lessons of the Fast.

In the story above this is an immense suite rooms lined with closed cabinets containing the "Central Archives of Tuscany" from early period In the eighth century to the present. In the end room, overlooking the towering Veccbio Palace and the beautiful Loggie die Lanzi, with its famous groups of classic statuary, are several glass cases with autographs of historical celebrities, seals, styles, waxed-wood tablets and writings on papyrus and palm leaves, of very ancient date; also election tickets of vellum, with tbe names of tbe candidates beautifully written and rolled up in minute Bcrolis and placed In little bags all telling of eras when both the virtues and the vices of humanity were more striking than in this aire of more diffused Intelligence, social sympathy and international fraternity, whioh ought to make us all the richer and wiser, for the recorded lessons of tbe centuries past. John Dickson, M. D. NOMINATIONS THAT FAILED.

District Attorney Marbury on the List, hut He Can Be Reappointed. Washington. March 4. Comparatively few presidential nominations were allowed to fail this session for want of action by the Senate. Tbe lisfe of failures Includes 25 or 30 postmasters and following: W.

L. Mar- bury, to be United States district attorney for the district of Maryland; David U. Browne, to be collector of customs for tbe district of Montana and Idaho; A. B. Stearns, to be appraiser of merchaodie at Boston; J.

R. Herod, to be first secretary of legation to Japan; Arthur P. Greeley, of Concord. N. and John H.

Frickenstein, of Lititz, now principal examiners in the patent office, to be examiners in chief. Among the nominations for postmaster which failed of confirmation was that of Frank W. Joplin, at Elizabethtown, who was appointed to succeed Emily T. Helm, a relative of the late President Lin coln. Ten or a dozen of the postmastersnip nominations in the State or JNew York, some of which were made on the first day of the session, were held back cn the request of Senator Hill until the last executive session last night, when he withdrew his request and allowel them to oe xavoraoiy acteu upon.

Tbe same course was pursued by him witn reference to Dr. J. H. Senner to be commissioner of immisrrotion at New York, and he also was confirmed at tbe last moment, thus entirely clearing up the New YorK list. Following is complete list or tne otner postmasters who failed of conhrmatiou: John Beard, Danville, Susan G.

Ste-paenson, Togus, Clinton C. Tobey. Sauk Uenter, uecaaru, Robert Kennedy, Pleasanton. Thomas P. McAndrews, White Haven George W.

Watts, Randolph. M. M. Huch, Schuyler, Luther Clark, Eureka, James H. Mann, Fitchburg, Charles F.

Blodgett, Stonenam, Alfred D. Hoitt, Arlington, Will E. Dowell. Misioula, Mont. Rejections for the session were as follows: W.

M. Campbell, United States marshal for the district of Minnesota: A. Augustus Healy, collector internal revenue, first district of Nw York; H. P. Kitfield, collector of customs, district of Gloucester, and the following postmasters: J.

W. Woodward, Centreville. A. D. Tinsley, Sioux Falls, S.

James Wolling, Victor, N. Y. Children Thank Mr. Gorman. Washington, March 4.

Senator Gorman was given a pleasant surprise this morning. At an early hour he was called out from the Senate chamber to tbe Marble Room, where a great throng or school children, over half a hundred in number, waited him. They were the children of the Brightwood school, and they bad driven In gayly this morning on two tally-ho coaches for the express purpose of thanking Senator Gorman for advocating the appropriation for a new building at Brightwood. They were headed by their principal. Mr.

Keene, who, on their behalf, presented Mr. Gorman with a handsome testimonial, siarned by all the school children of Brightwood. accompanied by a beautiful bouquet of roses. Mr. Gorman thanked the children for their kindness and appreciation and told them he would have been glad to provide for twice as many schools if there ha1 been money enough in the treasury.

Postmaster Kean Not Confirmed. tSPcial Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.l Washington, March 4. Among the list of unconfirmed postmasters as furnished officially this afternoon appears the name of Daniel E. Kean, of Cumberland, Md. It seems that the day after the confirmation of Mr.

Kean Representative McKaig was informed by Senator Gorman that a motion would be made to reconsider. This, it is understood, was done by Mr. Gorman. The effect was to "hang up" the case of Mr.Kean. It is understood that no charges were made against Mr.

Kean, and so far as is known the democrats generally of Cumberland were favorably inclined to bim. The President can give Mr. Kean a recess appointment, and Mr. McKaig will see the President at once and ask bim to do it. Mr.

McKaig saw tbe Postmasier-General this afternoon. Copyright Lir Amended. Washington. March 4. An important measure of great interest to newspapers throughout the country was enacted into law during tbe closing hours of Congress.

It amends the copyright law so as to correct unduly harsh and oppressive provisions of the law as heretofore enacted. Under the law any newspaper reproducing a copy righted photograph and publishing it forfeited tbe plates of tbe copy and was liable to a penalty of one dollar for every copy found in its possession. The measure as passed modifies materially the penalties imposed by the present law. Colonel Stump's New Title. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.l Washington, March 4.

Tbe title of Su perintendent of Immirgation Stump was changed last night to that ot commissioner-general. This was due to the fact that the chief Inspection officers at the various ports of tne country are- aesignateu as commis sioners, while tne neau oi tne service was called only a superintendent. ine senate passed an amendment to one or tne general appropriation bills increasing Mr. Stump's salary $1,000 a year. This item, however, was stricken lrom the bill by tbe conference com mittee.

General Baniom Qualifies. Washington, March 4. Within two hours after Mr. Hansom, of North Carolina, ceased to represent that State as a Senator he had qualified as United States minister to Mexico. The ceremony took place in the room of Assistant Secretary Uhl.

Mr. Ransom will leave for home tomorrow to put his personal affairs in shape, and will return to Washington in the course of three weeks to receive bis instructions before going to his post. Mr. Wm. Crichton, appointed secretary of legation at Rio, also took the oath of office today.

GOOD GOVERNMENT. Officers Klected by the First of the Clubs of that Name. The second meeting of the Good Government Club of the Eighth Ward was held last night at Associate Reformed Church, corner of Maryland avenue and Preston street. Mr. Charles J.

Bonaparte presided, with Mr. H. W. Williams as secretary. The following officers and executive committee were elected: Oliver Hoblitzell.

president; Rev. Charles A. Fulton, first vice-president; Rev. Hiram Vrooman. second vice-president; R.

Stanley Carswell, secretary; J. a. Detrick, treasurer; R. Brent Keyser. M.

GillettGill, W.T. Cowman, L. Jeff. Milbourne, Richard F. Kimball and John Haynes, members of the executive committee.

Mr. Hoblitzell offered his resignation as president of the club, but be was asked and contented to bold the office until other arrangements can be made by. the executive committee. Tbe trustees of Associate Reformed Church offered tbe use of a room in the church to the club without expense except fuel and gas. This offer was accepted with thanks to the trustees.

In an address made byMr.Bonaparte he said that during the present month he expected to organize lrom six to ten good government clubs in the city. He added tbat the mo-st important feature of the club would be to form an auxiliary and to increase its membership. J. R. de Lamar, the "Monte Idaho, is a native of Holland.

He is small in stature, witn large features and red hair, and bus been a sailor, a glue workman, a bartender and a butcher. He is now a millionaire. SKETCHES. Architectural Beauties of the City of Flowers. HOMES OF HER ARTISTS AND POETS, Bright Features of Her Feudal Times-Charitable Institutions Gates Worthy of Paradise The Lily of Florence Historical Retrospect.

Special Correspondence of Baltimore Sun.l Hotel Minerva, Florence, Fen. laaa. are 60 aocustomed to think of the cen turies preceding the renaissance as the dark ages tbat we can hardly conceive of them being blessed with many of the sweet amenities and charities that we boast of in our day. But Florence gives us some bright pages In her early history that lighten up gloom and darsrness of her feudal times. the beautiful cloisters of Sc.

Marco, the lunettes are adorned with old fresooes illustrating the saintly life of the good Arch- bisbcp Antonino, who was called from his priorsbip there, to that high office, against will, in 114(5. He was so overwhelmed with the responsibility of his position that went barefooted aod weeping to the Cathedral at his consecration. The luxurious palaoe became the refuge for the poor aod needy to such an extent that he deprived himself of the common comforts of life, and by every possible act of self-denial and service of sympathy and aid to the suffering, even in the time of the terrible plague in 1148-9, he proved worthy of his Master, who came into the world "not to be ministered unto, but minister." His examplo gathered around him many noble spirits, who helped to make the world better and happier by brotherly kindness and loving charity. After his.saintly life and peaceful death, amid the turmoil of a very wicked era, he bequeathed all that be possessed to be given to the poor. And so faithful had he been to his vows of poverty, that there were but four ducats left.

"All that he held in his cold, dead hand Was what he had given away" some one wrote about our own generous countryman, Peter Cooper, who loved his fellow-workers, and like Antonino an his kind of brotherhood, will live throusrh the succeeding ages in the memorr of true men. A. Strlkins Scene. Scarcely a day passes In Floreuce that one does not witness such a striking scene as this. We were walking through one of those quaint, narrow streets, where the old quondam palaces are so high and the cornices so broad that sunshine is almost a stranger there, when six men.

in black gowns and cowls covering their heads and faces like masks, walked quiokly past us, carrying a litter covered with a black pall. It seemed an unearthly, solemn mystery at first glance, but they soon stopped at the foot of a stone stairway, rested the lltier at the door, and two of them asoended, we supposed, to bring down a body for burial, and. seeing a respectful gathering of passers-by waiting, we halted like the rest until they came down, carrying very tenderly a poor woman who needed better care and nursing than she could have In her garret home. And the sight of those fine, nobie faces, as they were unmasked for the moment, must have given her strong assuranoe of the help she needed, as It gave us a beautiful introduction to the beneficence of the Misericordia Brotherhood, which has been an honor to Florence for six hundred years. The Misericordia Brotherhood.

Its singular origin is so worthy of emula tion tbat it deserves more than a passing notice. In the vicinity of the great Cathedral aod Baptistery was the old market-house. around which George Eliot describes so many graphic scenes in her "Romola," but whioh has been demolished in the march of 1m provemeut. since she wrote here, in tbe ilia Trollope. It was the chief business centre In the thirteenth century, and the porters en sraored there were so shockingly addicted to profanity of speech that one of their num ber.

Pietro Borsi. by way of reform, pro posed that a penalty should be paid by each offender, to which they all agreed. The money thus acquired was used for tbe benefit of sufferers from accident or sickness, and so the society was formed, wbioh, from such an humble beginning, now includes hundreds of willing members of every rank, who hold themselves in readiness for any mission of mercy to which at any moment they may be called, even to nursing the sick or burying the dead. Their methods would not be as efficient or expeditious in sudden emergen cies us the ambulance service in our large cities, but they are more in harmony with the narrow limits and densely populated streets of Florence, and being a voluntary association makes It immensely popular. Service at the Cathedral.

Last Sunday afternoon the annual service was held at the Cathedral for the "Extirpa tion of Blasphemy," for which very beauti ul and elaborate preparations were made. and for tbe first time we saw the immense rotunda under the great octanonal dome to our satisfaction. The grand altar was draped In white and gold silk, Illuminated bv hun dreds of wax lights in elegant silver and gilt candelabra, and the famous statues by Michael Angelo aod others in the niches of the surrounding piers were aglow with light and seemed almost alive to the brilliancy of the procession of thailchly-clad ecclesiastics and the Brother the Misericordia, all ar rayed In white and each carrying a larga wax candle like a torch, till the nave and aisles received the long line through the dense crowd of spectators and the immense structure seemed girdled with' a flaming circle of light, while the responsive chantinsr of tbe prayers and hymns, the pealing of the organ, and now and then the mingling voices of the great congregation, filled tne air with touohin? strains of pleading melody, and the beholder could not help thinking of St. John's vision of the radiant hosts In Heaven wbo came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white In the blood of the Lamb." Even the lovely little boys, with their fathers in the procession, added a cherubic sweetness to the scene, and no one couia have failed to see the artistic effect, as well as the religious significance, of the imposing ceremony. The Lily of Florence.

When we left by the south side-door we passed by the heroic statues in front of the canonry opposite of Arnolf the tbe cathedral, and of Brunellescbi who com pleted the doma.and the stone built in the wall of the next house marked "Sasso di Dante," to indicate the favorite resting place of their favorite poet. And then we stopped, as usual, to gaza once more at Ghiberti's gates in the baptistery, which are made of such lovely panel pictures in bronze relief that Michael Angeio said "they were worthy of forming tbe entrance to Paradise." And the view just tbeu seemed more than earthly, for the sunset flow was liurbting up the many colored and ricbly sculptured marbles of the cathedral and Campanile, that "Lily of Florence, blossoming In stone. The builder's perfect and centennial flower." Such a mass of radiant architectural beauty, with the heavenly blue sky above, is something to praise God for, "from whom all blessings flow." Part of this lovely view we have constantly before us from our windows overlooking the Piazza Santa Maria Novella, and a great deal more, including tbe ancient church beside us, and tbe immense cloisters and balls where Popes have lived and artists of the earliest Italian schools have left their immortal works. The names alone of Clm-abue, Giotto. Arcagna, Gaddi.

Memml. Llppi, Brunelleschl. Luca della Uobbia and many obers are enough to suggest the art studies that are here. And the historical associations are equally interesting. Historical Reminiscences.

In February. 1419. Pope Martin came to Florence after his acknowledgment by the Council of Constance, held magnificent court here and consecrated niueteen cardinals at the great altar. Pope John XXIII renounced the papacy before him on May 14 and died Deoember 21 of tbe same year. His elegant tomb by Donatello, In the ancient baptistry.

still excites great interest. Pope Eugenius IV held council here in 1439. The elegant anartments in the monastery where he held court are now occupied by the government of Italy as military quarters, but the church still a large part of the Immense buildings for the priests and the few remain ing Benedictine monks, who still control the extensive laboratory for the manufacture of elegant perfumes and the celebrated spicy cordial called Alkermes. This is entered through a very handsome doorway and hall, at tbe right of which is a little chapel frescoed by Aretino in the four teenth century. And in an elegant suite of rooms adjoining are many fine specimens of antique turniture, mirrors, paintings, engravings and the portraits of some celebri ties of tbe past who have dwelt or sojourned there in almost regal splendor.

Magliabecchi's Library. In tbe hospital of this once flourishing monastery died, in 1714, the learned Jeweler, Antonio Magliabecchi, whose passion for books made him the founder of the great library wbicb bears his uame in the Uffizi Palace. He was called by Mabillon a "walk insr mueeum and rf living library in himself." To tbe superb collection ot manuscripts and printed volumes be bequeathed to Florenco was added the irrand Biblioteca Palatina from the Pittl Palace, making 300.000 printed FLORENTINE in of of an without modifying or any way whatsoever. changing them In Tbey have become the Inheritance of a world-wide audience now, and the judgment of the thinking men of Europe will be passed upon them. That the Pope has already given hostages to the world of his profound inter est in the social question, his great encyclical on labor furnishes proof.

Men will judge now tbe latest words he has uttered. Death of Prof. Podesti. Art in Italy is not In so flourishing a condi tion tbat it can afford to lose one of its oldest if not on of its most prominent profes sors. On Saturday.

February tne om- meodatore Francesco Podestl, painter, died Rome at the age of ninety-four. He was dean of the Academy of St. Luke, at Rome, and was the oldest or Italian painters. He was also a member of the Institute of France and of the principal artistic and literary academies of Europe. Left an orphan at the aire of fifteen, be came trom bis native city, Ancona, to Rome, to study drawing, and in less than three years, under the direction of the Painter Camuoclni, his progress was such to promise a brilliant future.

Tbe whole style aud system of painting have changed since the early days of Podesti, and bis works. In the mind of the younger genera tion, are today us antiquated as tbe works of the early fifteenth century artists. Yet, In bis time, be was accounted a fine artist. After tbe definition of tbe dogma of the Immaculate Conception by the late Pope Pius IX, he was called upon to record In one of the large chambers of the Vatican tbe history of this great eveut. This chamber precedes and is contiguous to the first of the Stanze.

painted by the prince painters the immortal Raphael. That fact shows tbe esteem In which Podestl was held. It is but natural to expect that an active artist, who could draw freely and well and color with facility and rare felicity. would leave behind htm many specimens of his workmanship. And.ludeed.

his talent or genius bas been copious. Tbe best known of his compositions amount to about 400; besides these, ho bas made 350 portraits In oil and 200 portraits or figures in pastel. His range or subjects nas emoraoea almost every species of painting. Religious, classical and romantic subjects have been treated by him In the prevailing style of his day the aoademlcal. He bas also treated landscape with considerable power, and in the grouping of bis figures for great pictures bis composition and bis harmony of coloring he had attained a high place.

All classes In Rome were represented at his funeral. Opening of the Pilgrim Season. The season of pilgrimages may be said to have opened. Yesterday, by special train from Modena and Parma, 581 pilgrims arrived in Rome. They have ootne here to assist at the special celebrations and religious solem nities wbioh will mark this year, in honor of St.

Philip Neri, the "Apostle of Rome," as he Is fondly called, whose third centenary occurs in 1895. Many of the pilgrims assisted yesterday evening at a lecture delivered by tbe physician of the Pope, Dr. Lapponl, who discoursed of tbe miracles which have taken place at Lourdes. Tbe Doctor naturally treated of theso from a medloal point of view. The tendency of such conferences is to throw discredit on the work "Lourdes," written by Emile Zola.

That book, with all this author's other unsavory romances, has been placed upon the index of prohibited books, the reading of which is forbidden to Catholios. In such cases tbe index acts as would a paternal prohibition or a society for the protection of morals. C. NEW IRISH LAND BILL. Introduced in the House of Commons Yesterday.

Loxdon, March 4. In the House of Com mons today Mr. John Morley, chief secretary for Ireland, introduced the new Irish land bill. In so doing he said tbat be accepted tbe declaration of unionist belief that tbe land question was at the bottom of tbe disturbance and ill-feeling in Ireland and that Parliament was oompetent to make such laws as the con dition of Ireland required. Continuing, Mr.

Morley said tbat the first time the principle tbat a tenant had a right or interest of property in his holding was embodied in an act of Parliament was in the act of 1870. The act of 1881 granted the further rlgbt to devise or sell tbe tenancy whenever the tenant liked, fixed a fair rent in court and enabled him to renew his lease from time to time. These acts were the charter of the Irish tenants' rights and privileges. The reasons for asking tbe House of Commons to amend the acts of 1881 now was that in October next the tenant could have rents renewed for fourteen years. It was desira ble, therefore, to make the circumstances of those renewals as easy as possible.

In explaining tbe present bill Mr. Morley said that the government proposed that all the Improvements on a holding should be presumed to have been done by the tenant unless tbe contrary was proved. Tbe bill directed the courts to give ample compensa tion and security to a tenant for improvements and it also proposed to amend the act of 1870 so as to make it perform Its functions in tbe way it was designed it should. Consequently it would be modified in order to pre vent the undoubted intention of Parliament! being frustrated. Tbe compensation to be paid to a tenant would be in money or in money's worth.

It was also proposed by this measure that holdings should be subject to statutory con ditions until tbe new rents were fixed and tbe statutory conditions thereby revived. It also makes the terms of tbe holdings ten instead of fifteen years, at the end of which time the rents are to be revised. In regard to the landlord's rights of pre emption, the tenant was to be allowed the free sale of his interest," but before selling he bad to give notice to tbe landlord, who might purchase the tenancy for the sum agreed upon. When the court fixed a fair rent the landlord might demand that the court specify tbe value of the holding in case tbe tenant wishes to sell and the laud- lord wishes to buy. Where a tenant was in ocoupanoy as care taker for five years and bad discharged all tbe obligations incidental to.

the holding he should at tbe end of that period be deemed to be the present tenant again, with all former rights of ocoupancy. It was further proposed by the bill that all arrears of rent might be recovered within tbe next two years. After then the landlord would be able to recover two years arrears only. Upon the couolusion of Mr. Morley'e address the bill passed its first reading without a division being taken.

Americans-Arrested In Havana. Madrid, March 4. Iu the Chamber of Deputies today Senor Osma questioned the government regarding tbe report tbat Americans had been arrested In Cuba. Senor Groizard, minister of foreign affairs, replied that advices received by the government showed tbat three Americans had been ar rested at Havana and tbat the American consul-general there bad made application regarding them to the authorities. Senor Groizard further said that the government supported tbe attitude of Captain-General Calleja.

It considered that the Spanish American protocol or 18i7 afforded no protection to Americans who conspired against the government of Cuba, foreigners were subject to the same laws as the Cubans, ex cept that they could only be tried by the ordinary tribunals and not by courts-martial Conspiracy of Polish Students. Tarnopol, Austhia-Galicia, March 4. The trial of twenty-six young students and teachers belonging to a seminary and gymnasium here opened today. The prisoners are charged with, lese inajeste and con spiracy. It seems from a document in manuscript.

which was found at tbe residence of one of the students implicated, that the object of tbe secret society to wbicb the prisoners belonged was to effect secret organization among tbe rural population and working classes in order to "free Poland from the thraldom of Prussia, Austria and Russia," which countries are described as being the "irreconciliable enemies of the Poles." American Excursionists in the Orient Constantinople, March 4. The Hamburg American steamship Augusta Victoria, with a large party of American excursionists on board, arrived here Saturday. Tbe Sultan sent an aide-de-camp to greet tbe passengers. and ordered cigarettes and sweets to be dis tributed among them. His Majesty also per mitted the Americans to visit tbe palace.

All tbe passengers of the Augusta ictoria are in good health. Iffa, Palestine, March 4. The Hamburg. American line steamship Furst Bismarck. with a large party of American excursion Ists, arrived here on Saturday.

London County Council a Tie. London, March 4. The county council elections have resulted in a tie, each side electing fifty-nine members. Tbls is due to the fact tbat Lord Dunraven, for tbe moder ates, was elected for Wandsworth. The pro-gressives, however, will have a small major ity In tbe oouncll on account of tbe votes of tbe aldermen, who are chiefly progressives.

The Grand Duke of iiaueu. who has shown his anger at the dismissal of Count Cuprlvi by Emperor William, is, with the possible exception of the Ktnar of Saxony, the most popular and Influential ruler iu Germany. He married the only daugnter of the old Em peror William and bis always been an out spoken admirer of Prince Bismarck. We as tbe In his be as Resignation of Rev. O.

R. Moore, of Richmond. SURPRISE TO HIS CONGREGATION. The Fight Between Insurance Agen cies in Richmond Still On Death of Kev. Dr.

Alexander Martin, of Danville A Schooner Sank. (Special Dispa'ch to the Baltimore Richmond. Va March 4. Rev. R.

Moore, of this city, bas tendered his resignation as pastor of Marshall Street Christian Church here. The announcement of the fact yesterday was a great surprise to his congregation. Mr. Moore Is now in Roanoke holding revival services, and notified his church by letter of his intention to take another charire. He has accepted a call to a large and influential church in Minneapolis, Minn.

It is understood that an effort will be made by Mr. Moore's congregation to get him to reconsider. The fight between the non-co-operative insurance agencies in Richmond and tbe local board of underwriters, wbicb is made of agents who represent companies in the Southeastern Tariff Association, is still oo. It not as yet a general rate war and it is not believed "that it will be. At present It is only tight between the non-co-operative agencies anu the local board of underwriters.

The association has authorized the local board to meet the cut, but the individual members of the board cHnnot do so unless authorized by the companies they respectively represent. It is discretionary with each company in the association as to whether or not it will to war, and while 6ome of these companies have instructed their aurents here to meet the out, others have declined to do so, holding that they do not want business at tbe cut rate. Here the matter stands, and the end is not in sight. Some think that the non-co-operative asents will eventually go back into the board, while others fear that the board itself will dissolve, in which event is possible that there would be a general rate war. FROM OKFOLK.

The Schooner Dudley Beard From Loss of a Vessel and Cargo. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Norfolk. March 4. The overdue schoouer George E.

Dudley, which left New Haven February 5 for Norfolk, has been heard from at St. Thomas. W. by her owners. She was disabled by an accident and drifted two weeks.

Tbe three-masted schooner Edward S. Stearns, Capt. L. P. Heal, from Rock port.

bound to Charleston, S. with a cargo of lime and bay. is ashore at Hatteras inlet, N. C. The vessel and cargo are on fire and both will be a total loss.

The crew were saved. The five-masted schooner Governor Ames, of 3.000 tons, the only vessel of her kind and the largest schooner afloat, has been at sea one month from Salem, bound for Norfolk. She should have made the run within a week. Captain Thompson, of the schooner John C. Ferguson, which arrived from North Carolina lumber-laden for Salisbury, noted protest this morning, having lost 12,000 feet of the deck load six miles north of Croatan light.

The balance of the cargo is all right. The Merritt wrecking uompany steamer William Colev. which went to the wreck of tbe British steamship Gakdene, says tbe strippings only can be saved. Sister Camilla died last evening at St. Mary's Orphan Asylum, Mariner and Chapel streets, aged tnirty-seven years, ane was from New York, but had Deen nere ten years.

The interment will be here. William Stile, a member of the lire depart ment, died at his residence this morning. The fire bell was tolled at the city hall. Peter Morgan was stabbed with a knife by John Jones at 78 Scott street today. Ihe wound is about three inches above the heart.

Jones has disappeared. The United Stales dynamite cruiser Vesu vius left the yard today for a cruise on the coast and the United Statessteamship Marble- head put to sea this afternoon for tbe oleomargarine canes today in the United States Court Judge Hughes rendered his opinion, his decision being against tne State law and favoring oleomargarine. He holds tbat the law against tbe sale of it is unconstitutional and tbat tbe business cannot be stopped. The court discharged the merchants who were arrested. i.

a THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. Lynchburg Presbyterians to Seek Its Removal to that City. HSpecial Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Lynchburu, Va, March 4. A meeting was held by the Presbyterians of this city at Westminster Church tonight to take action with reference to the removal of Union Theological Seminary from Hampden-Sidney College and to take steps toward securing the institution to Lynchburg.

Rev. Dr.JR. H. Fleming stated tbat Lynchburg could offer a site which is superior to any yes offered elsewhere, and would doubtless do as well lrom a financial standpoint if not better than any offer yet made. Mai.

L. J. Kirkpatnck, a member or the board of trustees of the seminary, addressed the meeting on the advantages to be secured by a removal or the lrom its present location to some city, but he doubted whether the time was yet propitious. Its geographically central location, its accessibility and healthy climate inclined bim to the opinion tbat Lynchburg was the best place in the State for it. The beneficial results accruing to the city and to the semi nary, respectively, were ably discussed by Major Kirkpatrick.

Speeches were made by others, amonir them Capt. J. C. Featberston, president ot tbe west Liyncnourg riana com pany. His proposition was to purcnase tne west xyncnourg notei lora sue to oner.

This building bas over a hundred rooms and cost tbe company (58,000. On motion, a committee of live was to take the matter in band and see what was possible to be done. FROM ROANOKE. Assignment of a Dry Goods Company Rev. Dr.

Miller Accepts a Call. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.l Roanoke, March 4. The Virgiuia Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods Company assigned today to Joel H. Cutobin and A. Blair Antrim, trustees.

The preferred liabil ities amount to $16,454 19, mostly Baltimore and New York creditors. No statement of the assets has been made. Only the stock of goods, valued at about 415,000, is included in the assignment. Kev. ur.

li. M. Jmiier, or mcnester. bas accepted the call to tbe pastorate of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, this city, and will enter upon his duties tbe first Sunday in May.

Sarah Burroughs, ox ueaiora county, wno. with her sister, is charged with opening letters ot other persons and forging money orders, was sent on to the united States grand jury tbls afternoon by Commissioner Rhodes and in cierauit oi duu was sent to jail at liedlord City. ji. a. Jennings, a prominent proauce dealer of this city, was adjudged insane Saturday by a commission of lunacy.

Application will be made tor his admission to the State hospital at Marion, Va. Mr. Jennings had been a religious enthusiast ior some time, and this is supposed to be the cause of his insanity. Notes from Newport News. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.

Newpokt March 4. Sheriff Mil- steaa, of Warwick county, bas received a letter from Sheriff Curtis, of Elizabeth City county, asking for information about a man named William Lamb, who is supposed to have been employed at the ship-yard here. Lamb went to the Hampton jail a few even ings ago and asaeu lor a nignt. louging. winch was granted nim.

lne next morning be was a raving lunatic, in nis pocKei was found a brass cbecit like those used at tbe ship-yard, and on each side of this check was the number loot Ao one appears to know auything about the man. His strange case is exciting a good Ueal of interest. Rev. J. Francis Ribule, who recently ac cepted a call to St.

Paul's Episcopal Churcn, oi this city, preached to nis new congregation for the nrst time yesterday. His discourse was well received. Tbe March term of tbe Warwick County Court, Judge G. M. Peek presiding, began here today.

Ihe Circuit Court. Judge U. T. Gunter on the beocb, will meet tomorrow. R.

Danbridge. wno is charged with obtain ing money nder false pretenses from severa I business men or tnis city last spring ana who has been at large ever si bee, was arrested in New Kent county yesterday. He has been brought to ibis city and longed in jail. Danbridge was indicted for felony several monies ago, out neretoxore it nas been impossible to locate bim. Death of Rev.

Dr. Alexander Martin. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Danville, March 4. Rev.

Alexander Martin, D. pastor of the First Presby terian Church of this city, died at his home at 7.10 o'clock this evening. Dr. Martin was born July 10, lb-Si. Re became tbe pastor ot the First Presbyterian Church in 18U9.

The twenty-tiftb anniversary of bis pastorate wu8 celebrated by bis people on tbe zota ot January last. He was one of the oldest di-viues in tbe State. No man in Virginia was more greatly beloved. Declines- a Chaplaincy. Special Dispatch to tne Baltimore Sun.

Charlottesville, March 4. Rev. Therou H. Rice, of Alexandria, who bad been asked to accept the chaplaincy to tbe University of irginia. has declined.

Assistant Bishop J. B. Newton, ot the Diocese or Northern Virginia, has accepted tbe invitation to deliver tbe final sermon before tbe Young Men's Christian Association, at tbe University of Virginia, on Sunday evening, June 10. The Potomac Fisheries. Special Dispatch to tbe Baltimore Sun.

Alexandria, March 4. The fishing shore owners who bare not already sent down their crews will do so in a few days, and all the shores will De In full operation by tbe middle of the month. The steamer Harry Randall, which arrived up from tbe lower river Saturday, brought uu a large cargo. On ber were eleven barrels of line rock fish and two of perch, whicb bad been caught at tbe Gums fishing shore by Capt. the the Mr.

and of end S. the to to Grand and Petit Jurors for the March Term of Court. AN INSPECTION OF EASTERN AVENUE. Claim for Damages Declared Unjust by the Commissioners After a Special Ei-amlnation Extending the Curtis Bay Electric Railway. The March term of the Baltimore County Court began at Towson yesterday.

Judges Fowler and Burke were present. Sheriff Holmes presented a list of forty-eight jurymen summoned. The judges selected Mr. William Fell Johnson, of the third district, as foreman of the grand jury, and then drew the other members of that jury.as follows: Leonard A. Briscoe.

Georjre W. Dykes, Emory Widerman. William W. Frazier of Augustus J. Kleeman, Henry J.

Sb river, Charles F. Shelley, William H. Ehlera. Fredk. B.

Dickmeyer. Peter Sherman, George H. Archer. Charles H. Cronehardt, Jacob Gneaser, Charles Sims.

John L. Eosensteel. Alexander B. Miles. Henry C.

Hutehins. Michael Imnn, Michael Feehely. Win. G. illingham, Nicholas M.

Barthalow, Charles H. Haherfcorn. Judge Fowler, in his charge so the jury, said: "Very good order has prevailed in the county since the adjournment of the last grand Jury; therefore, your duties will be very light." He impressed upon the members their obligation to keep secret the busi ness of the jury. The remaining twenty-five jurymen summoned will serve as the petit jury. These are: Thomas B.

Cadoean, Charles V. Shoita. Joseph B. Perkins. George E.

Lynch, Henry Gumpf, John Childs. John W. Wagner, Josiah Glil. Franklin P. Bossom, George Ehrhart.

alder Little. John B. Kelly. James B. Ensor, Jeferson Crew.

William H. Burton, D. Tyson are, Lewis J. Boberts, George F. Wheeler, Paule Bode.

G. Frank Morgan, George H. Burton, Henry A. Brehm. Christian Hesse, Stephen 8.

Merritt and'John H. Kreamer. Tbe grand jurymen were sworn in by Major Thomas B. Gatch, court clerk, and Tobias Linzey was sworn In as bailiff to them. Prohibition Committeemen.

The prohibition executive committee of Baltimore county met at its headquarters in Baltimore yesterday and reorganized by the election of the following as members for the ensuing year: First District Kev. S. German, P. B. Crosby, James Monroe, Charles Monroe.

Second Dr. James T. Williams, J. T. Gallagher, M.

L. Jean, John W. Bowen, Henry Ehlers. Third Rev. W.

G. Cassard, M. Wright. Charles M. Wagoner.

Eli Matthews, Charles Welmore. Fourth J. Vinton Brown. W. Gray Bishop, J.

H. Penn, Wm. Boyd, Dr. S. McK.

Kemp. Fifth H. S. Cooper. Rev.

J. L. Benson, Irvin Benson, Hiram Sham burger, Wm. C. Sparks.

Sixth George P. Morris, M. Wilhelm. Seventh Wm. H.

Hendrix. John Knight, Dr. C. Little. Rev.

W. J. Nicoll, A. D. Hendrix.

Eighth Dr. -J. E. Benson. Robt.

F. Caples, Daniel DuDbs, James Johnson, Perrie Carman. Ninth W. S. Norris, Robert W.

Dunning, Kev.W. E. Robertson, John C. Carpenter, Wm. J.

Johnson, John T. Bitter, W. H. Flayhart. Tenth Alex.

Guthrie, Jacob M. Pearce, Harry Bosley, Wm. Freeland, Herbert Lee. Eleventh Rev. W.

M. Hyde, J. E. Standiford, Geo. B.

Moore, Geo W. Akehurst, Chas. J. Riddle. Twelfth Richard Vincent, John S.

Biddison, Rev. W. W. Barnes, John H. Sheridan, Rev.

D. A. Foard, P. G. Erdman, Wm.

J. Porter. Thirteenth Edward Stabler, Jas. O. Armstrong.

Mr. William S. Norris. of Govanstown, resigned as chairman of the committee. Resolutions were adopted on the death of Rev.

W. T. D. Ciemm, who had been a member of the committee since its organization. Rev.

W. G. Cassard and State Organizer W. Frank Tucker made addresses. Inspections by the Commissioners.

County Commissioners Magruder, Ritten- house and Weis yesterday inspected Eastern avenue for the purpose of ascertaining the condition of that thoroughfare before grant ing any further franchise for its use by the Baltimore; Middle River and Sparrow's Point Railroad Company. They met Messrs. Young, Wehr, Fox. Gilmore, Morris and Forrester, who are interested in the construction of the road, and Mr. Charles B.

McClean. engineer of the company. An examination of the whole length of the avenue was made. Mr. Mairruder said the party found tbe avenue in a very bad condition.

The railway company, he says, will have to restore it to its former condition. The commissioners also made an Investiga tion yesterday of a claim for damages against the county at Middle river bridge. The person claiming damages alleges that he sustained injury to his property by an embankment causing the water to be thrown upon the property. The commissioners found that the embankment was on the county road, but did not consider the claim just. Personal Mention.

Messrs. Richard H. Bayard and George G. Shepherd, of tbe Baltimore bar, have been admitted as members of the county bar. Mrs.

Ellen Jessop, widow of Mr. George Jesson. is seriously ill at her home, near Ashland, Baltimore county. Dr. John' W.

Hocking, of Govanstown, left for Atlantic City yesterday to recuperate his health. He has been suffering several weeks from injury to bis knee, caused by flipping upon tbe ice. Mr. M. Takaki, of tbe Johns Hopkins University, lectured on "Japan and the Wonderful Japs" lust night at Govanstown Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Townley R. Wolfe, assistant examiner of tbe Baltimore county public schools, has returned from Charles county, where he went to attend the funeral of his sister-in-law. The funeral took place' from tbe same house from which Mr. Wolfe's grandmother had been buried about a week previous.

Across the Patapsco. Emory Jackobs, aged seven years, son of Mr. E. E. Jacltobs, of Cedar Hill.

Anne Arundel county, was almost suffocated yes terday by falling in deep mud from a vehicle on the Annapolis road, near Cedar Hill. He was rescued with difficulty from the mud. which was over two feet deep. "A hundred workmen, under the supervision of Mr. M.

J. Flannary, of the David E. Evans Company, began yesterday to extend the tracks of tbe Baltimore and Curtis Bay Rail way to Flood's Pavilion. Curtis Bay. Mr.

C. V. Anderson, of the firm of C. V. Anderson Sons, was taken seriously ill on Saturdav.

and is confined to his home at Brooklyn, Anne Arundel county. Corporation Stocfis. Additional returns by corporations of shares of stock owned by residents of the county have been made to the county com missioners as follows: People's Bank of 632 Easton National Bank of Maryland. 20 Third National 857 National Mecbanics'Bankof Baltimore. 13,987 Merchants' National Bank 1,760 Broadway and Locust Point Steam Ferrv Company 47 Tbe Queen Anno's National Bank, 8 Mb 8t.

Joseph's College. About fifteen members of the Temperance Society of Mount Saint Joseph's College, on tbe Frederick road, went to Washington yesterday to witness the closing of Congress. They were under the care of Brother Isador. Tbe students of Mount 8aint Joseph's are preparing to produce "Tbe Merchant of Venice" some time In the spring for the bene fit of tbe Athletic Association. Accused of Attacking Mr.

Padlan. A colored man named Joe." was com mitted to tbe county Jail for trial by Justice Perrie on the charge of assaulting Miobael Padian. of Texas, Baltimore county, and sliirbtlv cutting him with a razor. The charere was made by Patrolman John H. Keating.

Marriage Licenses. Licenses have been issued for the marriage of John George Hoerl and Miss Lizzie Ander son Bowen. both of Catonsville, and Edward E. Harris, of Trenton, fifth district, and Miss Emma Jane Bull, of the seventh district. Franklinville.

A. A. Blakeney Co. are making extensive improvements at. their cotton-duck mill.

Franklinville, Baltimore county. Dr. Piatt is erecting a dwelling on the farm bought by him from Mr. A. A.

Blakeney. BOARD OF TRADE. Restoration nt Lighthouses Asked Civil Service for Consuls. The Board of Trade at its meeting yesterday took up the ques ion of tbe destruction of lighthouses by the recent Ice-gorge. Letters were sent to the Maryland Senators and Representatives urging them to take prompt action to have restored the destroyed houses, which are essential to the safe navigation of the river and bay'leading to Baltimore.

Communications were also sent to the lighthouse board at Washington, calling attention to the danger incurred by vessels from the absence of these lights. Tbe committee on foreign commerce re ported a resolution stating that the efficiency of the United States consular service can be benefited by subjecting applicants to a civil-service examination before appointment and by tbe introduction of a system of promotion from tbe lesser to the higher grades. Tbe board indorses tbe law making these provisions which has already been introduced in the United States Senate. The board received Che report of Messrs. Mr.

as tbe to Only two of the Hsu benches were re tea. James Lyons was brought to bis home here Saturday Evening in a sad condition. He, with his brother, were caught in Nangemoy reach in an open boat on the Potomac during the February blizzard. His brother was frozen to death and he was picked un almost dead. His bands and feet are frostbitten, he suffers from partial paralysis and is blind and deaf.

The late Charles Sinclair Taylor, whose sudden death Saturday night, bas been announced in The Scn was born at Berry ville. on January 25, and was a graduate the University of Viririnia. He was a farmer until 1)535. At the beginnimr of the late war he was made a captain in tbe commissary department, and served until the of tbe war. bavimr charire of the post ac In 1SS9 he.

with Mr. John Blackburn, who stiil conducts it, opened Potomac Academy In this city for boys. From 1882 to 1886 he served as private secretary to Governor Fred. Holliday, of Virginia, since which time be has been in private life, THE LEXINGTON BANK WRECK. Judge Grattan Delivers a Forcible Charge to the Grand Jury.

Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.l Lexington, March 4. The special grand jury for the March term of the County Court of Kockbridge to investigate fully the recent wrecking of the Bank of Lexington, expose the inside history of the looting and placing the responsibility where it belongs was impaneled this morning, Judee George G. Grattan. of Rockingham county, presiding, in the presence of a crowd only measured by tbe capacity or tbe building. Judge Grattan delivered to the jury his charge In a most impressive manner, and tbe bar and citizens were unanimous in the opinion tbat it was one of tbe ablest, broadest and most sweeping interpretations of tbe law and tbe duty of the jury that has been given any jury for years.

Tbe jury was in session all day and adjourned over until tomor row, and it will be kept together until tbe bank wreck is fully investigated and indictments brought in against all who are responsible In any way for the calamity. The town was crowded today by one or the largest gatherings of county people tbat bas assembled here for a long time, all brought here to learn more of the bank collapse and bear what the grand jury would have to say on the subject. SODTHSIDE VIRGINIA. Illness of the Widow of General Battle A Sermon Against Gambling. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.

Petkksbdkq, March 4. Rev. H. W. Battle.

D. pastor of the First Baptist Church, received a telegram last night announcing tbe serious illness of his mother, who is under treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore. Dr. Battle left this morning to atteud at hi3 mother's bedside-Mrs. Battle is tbe widow of General Battle, who was a gallant officer in the Confed, erate army.

A sensational sermon on gambling, preached last night by Kev. W. G. Starr, D. pastor of Washington Street Methodise Episcopal Church, has been much talked of today.

During his sermon Dr. Starr stated that he had been informed by a lady tbat policy was being carried on in Petersburg and that many of the young men who professed conversion at the revival of last year were engaging In tbe play. Dr. Starr declared that he had been informed that even ladies were buying tickets of this lottery. A carboy of muriatio acid exploded at the Norfolk and Western depot this morning, injuring a man named John Titmus.

Thomas Scott, one of Petersburg's oldest and best-known colored citizens, died this morning. Deceased had lived in Petersburg for a long time aud for many years had conducted the business of an undertaker. He owned a large portion of the colorod ceme tery in Biancford. Petersburg Typographical Union held its annual meet inn today and elected the following offict-rs for the ensuing year: President, W. F.

Leatb; vice-president, B. S. Turner; recording and corresponding secretary, Thomas V. Vtrell; financial secretary, William Campbell. In and Around Piedmont.

Special Dispatch to the Balt-imora Sun. Piedmont. W. March 4. At tbe meet ing of the Epworth League of the Methodist; Episcopol Church on Friday night last the pastor of that church.

Rev. Alexander Bielaskl, was presented with a very fine overcoat by tbe members of his congregation. Judge Keller, late of Washington, made tbe presentation speech, to which Mr. Bielaski responded. A literary programmu was rendered and ice-cream and cake served.

Searching parties have been huiitimt for tbe body of Patrick Moran, who was drowned Friday, but without success. A school boy was drowned here a few years atro and bis body was found at Rawllngs Station, several months after tbe search was abandoned. The Schooner Garland Sank. Fredericksburg, March 4. The schooner Garland, commanded by Capt.

Joel Layton, was sunk by ice at Wellford's wharf, on tbe Rappannock river. She was loaded with 2,000 bushels of corn. The vessel and cargo belonged to W. J. King and of this city.

The corn was fully insured, bus there was no Insurance on the schooner. Mr. Ferdinand W. Leacock died at his home here today, aged seventy years. Ha leaves a widow and six children.

NORTH CAROLINA. Tbe University and Normal and Indua. trial Schools to Be Cared For. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Raleigh.

N. March 4. The most important new bills introduced in the Legislature today were to prohibit boycot of railways in North Carolina; to make the Stats geologist ex-offlcio commissioner of emigration; to protect creditors against fraudulent distribution of property. A bill passed tbe Senate to make the board of agriculture trustees of the Aericultural College bere. A bill also passed reducinsr the annual appropriation to each company of the State Guard from 2250 to $150, an striking out the $5,000 appropriation tor encampment and reducing tbe adjutant-gen eral's salary to $300.

The bill to create the office of insurance commissioner was tabled, as was also bill to appropriate $5,000 for the women's exhibit at the Atlanta exposition and the bill to impose a succession tax on inheritances. Tbe bill to create a new criminal circuit of New Hanover, Mecklenburg and. five other counties passed. SPaddison. populist, offered a resolution, that as the term of the Fifty-third Congress expired today the country be congratulated, that It was no loiurer able to do any barm, but on motion of another populist it was tabled after a 6picy debate.

The county government bill was made the special order in the House tomorrow. There was a very important meejinar of ib House and Senate committees on education this evening, at which it was, by an over whelming- vote, aeciaed to uniavorabiy report Senator Fortune's bill to repeal the appropriations to the State University, Normal and Industrial School and geological survey. Fortune, who is a republican, made a weak speech in support of bis bill, wbicb was replied to earnestly by President Winston, ot the university.and Mclver.of tbeNormal and Industrial School. Senator Moody, Representative Moody and Congressman Harry Skinner, the committee, decided to recommend SJO.OUO appropriation for the university. It will also recommend an increased appropriation for the Normal and Industrial School.

During the discussion there was a lively scene between President Winston and Rev. Dr. Columbus Durham, who has led the attack by the Baptists on tne State aid to the university. North Carolina Items. Winston shipped over one million pounds of manufactured tobacco during the month, of February.

Tbe stamp collections aggregated $61,332 59. Tbe Columbus News says tbat the adjournment In honor of Douglass is all tbe more scandalous because "Douglass could not live in North Carolina with tili white wile without violating the criminal laws of tbe Lewis Rivers, aged eiirht y-tliree years, and Jack Ramsay, aged eighty years, both of Anson county, died last wetrk. The Statesville cotton mill is running regularly, and 70,000 yards of its product have been put "upon tbe market. One hundred and ten looms are In operation, giving employment to fifty-three hands, it is expected to have all tbe 180 looms running in two or three weeks. In a few months the spindlea will be put in, and these, with tbe additional looms, will give employment to a large number of people suicide' oV a lady.

A Sadden Change of Mind and Death by a Rope. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.l Chambkrsbcrg, March 4. Mrs. Ellen. Mish, wife of Mr.

Jeremiah Mish, and a daughter ot Justice William Bassard.com-mitted suicide this morning by hanging herself with a rope to a beam iu the barn, near Cbambersburg. She was about to leave for Chumbersburg for medicine, when she changed her mind, and, going to tbe barn to unhitch the horse, committed suicide. Her small children found her hanging dead. Mrs. Mish bad been melancholy for a long while-Six years ago she attempted to drown herself.

She was forty-five years old, and leaves a husband and sven children. Cheap Watches for Heroes. Swin firms have a contract with the Japanese war office to supply a sufficient number of watches for one to be given to everj soldier who bas served in tbe campaign when tne Mikado reviews his victorious troops at the close of the war. The watches, which will take the place of war nit-rials, are to coat 81 50 apiece. Jeweler'' Rerietc.

The metals which have been proved by astronomical science to exi-t in tbe sun are iron, sodium, nickel, copper, zinc and The Former Has Lost Its Prestige The Lutter May lie Christian Neither a Substitute for Religion Anti-Religious Radicalism Death of Podestl. Special Correspondence of Baltimore Sun.l Home, Feb. 12. One of tbe strongest signs of tbe tlrpes Is the particular Interest that I'ope Leo takes in tbe progress of the two great republics of the world the United States aud France. To visitors from these countries he speaks with more frankness than to others, and with stirring enthusiasm and warm affection when It is with an American he converses about America.

In France he encourages Catholics, who were inclined to see in the republic the revolution in permanence and In power, to take part in the existing regime, to accept tbe government loyally, and to try and turn Its administration to moro generous purposes. A few months ago Leo XIII said, with a slight gesture of Impatience, to a Frenoh Senator who bad an interview with him. and who urged that- many of tbe conservatives of France did not understand, or pretended not to understand, the instructions of the Pope: "Nevertheless, what I have said Is very clear; let them accept the constitution lu order to ameliorate the legislation." And he continued: "But the cbangiug of tb legislation cannot be done in a day; patience Is wanted. Because they called the laws villainmi laws they imagined they said everything, and tbey would bavo them suppressed by storm. That is not possible.

Let them see. then, what I have, with time, ob- talnnd in finrmanv for tbe withdrawal of the Mar laws and for the recall of the re ligious orders. Ah! indeed it is necessary to act. but not once aud with violence; one must act always." Science and the Soul. Later still he gave audience to the direotor of the great French review Revue des Deux Mondes and this able writer, after his in terview, wrote a roost interesting article on tbe failure of soience to fulfil the promises It made to the world, especially In regard to the absorbing Questions of soul and spirit.

Science, it seems to this writer, after his in terview with Leo XIII, did not resolve the absorbing longing and aspirings that man has to know his orlirlu and bis destiny and to satisfy tbe spiritual cravings that possess him. And be sums up his conclusion iu two wnrdo: Selonco has lost its prestliro. and re ligion has conauored again a part of its prestige. The Pope and the Socialist. The most interesting, bnwever, of all the recent verbal pronouncements of Leo XIII is his conversation with the socialist Deputy to tbe French Parliament, M.

Vlgno d'Ooton Tbe attention of all Europe has been oalled to theso words of tbe Pope and comments upon them are hoard on every side. Per haos the more generally important of the re- marks the Pope made to the French Deputy are those concerning science and socialism, He also suoke of the Italiau universities. cnnaidoriinr that there were too many of tbem. twenty-one. he believed, whilst ten would suihoo for all the exigencies of blither fducotion; In consequence several of them are Just vegetating aud pining away, counting within their walls more professors than sobolars and deprived of tbe hope of reach ing even a relative vitality and prosperity.

"But." said Leo XIII. "what more than anything else cloirs the wings of the Italian universities Is the intrusion of politics into their working and their life. Politics domi nates their life and they have become instru wents of power in the bands of the State." For theso and other reasons the intellectual level of tbe Italian universities does not reach tbe hetirht which the Pope thinks it should rise to In order to correspond to the many sacrifices wbicb tbe State has made and continues to make for these Institutions, The Pope acknowledges, also, tbe talents of the several professors, and that much work in an intellectual direction is done in Italy. "Regarding soience." said the French Dep uty, "has M. Brunetiere (the director of tbe Kevue des Deux Mondes) exactly reproduced your thought when.

In an article that made muoh noise, be attributed to you tbe saying that 'science has failed in Its The Problem of Man's Destiny. Brunetiere," said the Pope, "accord Ing to what I have ben told, has drawn very brilliant deduotions from some of my words. It does not seem to me that I said that soienoe has failed. I wished to say that the efforts made by tbe learned to explain tbe creation that which they call tbe genesis of tbe world and or life, have remained vain; that It has been in vain, and will continue so to be, to attempt to resolve, by reasonings ana calcu lations, the problem of our origin and of our destiny; that soienoe cannot be substituted for religion in tbe life of men any more than In tbe life of that so far as regards the mvstery of creation, all that human sol ence has been able to do and can attempt, outside of tbe divine revelation and of the dogmas of which the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church is tbe depository, has been and will continue to be infected with error and falsehood. Science and Modal Life.

"What I have wished likewise to say is that the abyss imagined by certaiu people as opened between religion aud science does not t'Xist: that science can and should go hand and hand with religion, and that the discov eries and the progress of the one are not and cannot but be the glorifloution of tbe other. Enarrant Del alorlam cveli et terra tbe heavens and the earth are telling the glory of Qod. Science should serve God, aud, believe me. It can also, without losing any thing of its independence and dignity. Guided and Inspired by Him who guided and iuspired tbe apostles, what is It that it can nut do for the benefit of the human raoe? Certainly, without taking Into account the many satisfactions of a purely intellectual order, it would be unjust not to recognize the faot that from the laboratories have issued.

ii lid still issue, ever greater elements of well-being, aud that the happy transformations lu toe social life, which are very oonsid crable, are due to the progress of soience. To us ministers of Ood and to you laymen called upon to direct men it Is incumbent to extend this new well-being among tbe dlslu herited, and to make it penetrate even Into the lowest depths of the suffering masses Christianity and Socialism. "But. Holy Father," said this socialist Dep uty, "this. It appears to me.

is socialism." "Yes, it is one side of tbe sooial Question." I dare to ask your Holiness what doyoutblnkof the progress of socialism in Europe, and more particularly in trance?" "IT by socialism," suld Pope Leo, "you understand the efforts that are being made to improve in a progressive, wise and rea sonable mode the condition of tne unhappy i asses; it you apply this term to what has been done to convey into the government of men greater social justice, I will answer you that it could not be possible to devise an end more uoble. Such has been the work of Christianity, which has inaugurate un era of olemency. of compassion aud of real brotherhood, whilst cruel paganism was on the throne aud the pitiless Roman world reached its apogee that Homau world whoso bloody traces you have seeu in your Journey in the circuses and the amphitheatres. To occupy oneself with tbe boclal question, with the consciousness of the grave responsibilities which weigh upon all those who are participators of riches or of authority, is a continuation of the work of the Divine Master, and, for my part, it is that wbioh I have not censed to do from my coming to the pontificate." "And what does your Holiness think of the political parties, wbioh, uuder tbe denomination of socialists, aim at the same thing iu Europe?" Aoti-Religlou Radicalism, think." said Lao XIII, "that these parties will do a sterile work and will be stricken with impotence as long as tbey will not be supported on relilon. Tbey are moving much at the present moment.

In Italy, for example, you have been able to see, since you have been at Rome in these days, the tumultuous manifestations, the riotous ovations made by the students of the university to Prof. Eurico Ferri, who, like you, is a most radical Deputy, and had inaugurated bis lectures with a discourse on socialism. In France and In Germany the violent opposition made by these parties to tbe governments has become more and more formidable. All that, 1 repeat, is a vain work, because religion is banishel from iu "The republican is a most acceptable form of government, and in spite of its errors and Its wrongs, I love your republ'o more than you believe In. France.

Why cannot the republic be religious? Wby, for example, do you send tbe young students tor tbe priesthood Into tbe barracks? No, to wish to govern men without religion is tbe most dangerous of all chimeras. Tbe socialist party in Europe, particularly in France, Is a young party and enjoys tbe advantage of not having laid to Its obarge any of tbe errors or the status of tbe other parties; besides Its want of discipline It will, I repeat, agitate in vain, beoause it bas not religion." The Social Question. The man, M. VIgne d'Ooton, to whom the Pope spoke, does not share these Ideas, but he has considered It his duty to give tbem in as of.