Evening gazette, Wednesday, December 9, 1896 · page 2

 

 

 

CURRENCY CHANGES.

Recommendations Made by the Board of
Trade of Baltimore.

BALTIMORE, Dec. 9. —The board of trade
adopted resolutions favoring a change in
the currency system of the government.
Eugene Levering presided at the meeting.
The resolutions were submitted by the
committee on banks and currency, com-
posed of William Checkley Shaw, German
H. Hunt, J. B. Ramsay and John Pleas-
ants. They declare that congressional ac-
tion is imperatively needed along the fol-
lowing lines:

“To withdraw the government from the
banking business by the retirement,
through funding or cancellation, of all its
demand obligations, the opinion of this
board being that the business of banking
is not a proper function of the United
States treasury, and that the private and
corporate capital of the country, under
proper legislation, would be quite sufficient
for all its financial and commercial re-
quirements. . .

, “The enactment of such legislation as
Will at an early date provide the country
with a. bank currency equally safe and uni-
form as that now in use, but more elastic
in character, special reference being had to
the needs in this particular of the agricul-
tural sections of the south and west.

“To provide such an increase in its reve-
nue as will enable the government, econ-
omically administered, to meet promptly
all its obligations.

“Pending the enactment of these meas-
ures such prompt legislation as may be
needed to insure the stability of the gold
reserve so that no doubt as to the ability of
the government tomaintian the parity of
all of its issues may ever again disturb
public confidence.”

The “Baltimore plan” for reform in
banking currency was indorsed, and it was
resolved to send copies of it, with the rese-
liutions adopted by the board, to each mem-
ber of both houses of congress, also to the
various boards of trade in :correspondence
with the Baltimore board, inviting their
tic-operation in securing the object sought.

VALENTINE SEN TEN OED.

The Notorious Forger Must Go to Prison
For Ten Years.

BROOKLYN, Dec. 9.—William E. Valen-
tine, the forger, was sentenced to ten years
in the Kings County penitentiary by Judge
Hurd in the county court today.

’ Valentine has attracted considerable at-
tention by being a member Of the Mo-
Laughlin gang of bad check floaters whose
operations have extended to most of the
large cities of the country.

Valentine was indicted for forgery,
grand larceny in the first degree and ab-
duction. a -

He was permitted to plead guilty to for-
gery in the second degree and abduction.

The check which caused Valentine’s de-
tection was one for $30 passed on Henry
Batterman & CO. by May Wintage.

After Valentine’s arrest the Wintage
girl made a confession in which she stated
that Valentine had taken her from her
home, in Newtown, where she had lived
with him for about two years.

She found that he had a wife living in
Hempstead, N. Y., hit-l tried to leave him.
She- was unsuccessful and attempted sui-
cide.

Valentine, when asked if he had any-
thing to say why sentence should not be
passed upon him, said that he wanted
more time to see his lawyer. The applica-
tion was denied.

Valentine is 35 years old, a builder and
comes from a good family.

 

Sixty-eight Dollars For One Pumpkin.

ORANGE, N. J ., Dec. 9.—-A pumpkin
realized the sum of $68 at the First Meth-
odist Episcopal church fair. The pump-
kin, which was a fine one. was to be sold
for $51.. lsaac E. Gates, a railroad presi-
dent, thought the price was too high and
offered to give 10 cents for every seed in
the pumpkin. The offer was accepted,
and when the seeds were counted 680 were
found. Mr. Gates paid the money.

Canadian Food Adulteratlon.

MONTREAL, Dec. 9.—The annual report
of the inland revenue department of the
Dominion regarding the adulteration'of
food has just been issued. Out of 1,265
samples analyzed only 105, barely 9 per
cent of the whole, have been found to be
adulterated. Jams and jellies were the
worst Of the samples examined.

The Weather.

Threatening, followed by clearing; east-
erly to; southerly winds.

' FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

Closing Quotations of the New York Stock
Exchange.

NEW YORK. Dec. 8.—Money on call easy at
1%@2 per cent. Prime mercantile paper. 4@5
per cent. Sterling exchange lower. with actual
business in bankers‘ bills at $4.8654@@4.86}§
for demand and $4.83%@4.83}fi for 60 days.
Posted rates. 34.84% and $4.87%@4.88. Com-
mercial bills. 84.82%. Silver certificates. 65%
@65y4c4 no sales. Bar silver, 65%. Mexican
dollars. 50%0. Government bonds firm. State

bonds quiet. Railroad bonds easier.
Closing prices:
Atehison .......... 14% New England"... ~—

N. J. Central.. ....104
North American. 5
Northern Pacific. li§é
Do. pref ...........

Bur. & Quincy.. . . 77%
0.. C.. C. & St. L. . 28k;
Chesapeake & O. . 17

Chicago Gas ...... 75%
Cordage. . . ., ......
Gotten Oil ........ 30%
Del. & Hudson...1.‘?.8

Instillers’ Trust. . —

his ............... 15%
General Electric.. 32%

. Omaha ....... . . . . .
Ontario & West. . 15%
Pacific Mail..—..... 25%
Reading ........ ...
Rock Island....... 68%

Hocking Valley.. 17% Silver Bullion..... 65
Lackawanna......158}§ St. Paul ......... .. 7
Lake Shore. ......156 Sugar Befinery...llm
Lead .............. 24? Texas Pacific...... 9%
Louisville&Nash 50 Union Pacific..... 9%
Missouri Pacific. 21% Wabash pref ...... 16%
Northwestern....106}§ Western Union... 86%
General Markets.
NEW YORK. Dec. 8.—FLOUR—-State and

western quiet and easy; city mills patents.
[email protected]: winier patents, $4.90@5JO: city
mills clears. [email protected]: winter straights. $4.60.

@4.65. .

WHEAT—NO. 2 red ruled weak and lower
in consequence of disappointing cables, liqui.
nation and absence of cash demand: March.
MW-i May. 85%@86c.

CORN—No. 2 steady err-unexpectedly light
receipts; May. 31 llsl6@31%c.

OATS—NO. 2 ruled dull: track. white, state.
m®32c4 track. white, western, 2262;32c.‘

PORK—Dull: mess. [email protected]: family. $10.50

011.
LARD—Dull: prime western steam, 84.10
nominal. . l
BUTTERiSteady: state dairy. 11@200.;_state
memory. ch.
CHEESE — Quiet; state. large. 71vé@10}éc.;
mil, 7mm)“. -
EGGS—Steady: state and Pennsylvania. 22@
”(3.; western. 16W. ~

SUGAR—Raw quiet. but steady; fair refln- .

ing. 2 15-160.: centrifugal. 96 test. 8 5-16c.; refin-
ed quiet; crush d. 5c.; powdered. 95c.
PENTI' E—Steady at 27%.
M ASSES—Steady; New Orleans. W.
, for new crop.
RICE—Steady: domestic. 37,§@6c.: Japan. 4%

We. . .
TALLOW—Weak: city. 3%“ country. 354m i

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THEATR‘ICAL ' GOSSIP.

EUGENE» FIELD’S DAUGHTER GIVES
PUELlc READINGS OF HIS POEMS.

 

“ Trutty,” “'ho Inspired Some of the Best
\Vcrks of the Western Author, and Was
His Con iidant and Chum, Efi‘ectively
Renders hchather’s Ballads.

The death of Eugene Field turned
his-daughter Mary from a gay, light-
hearted child, just beginning to see
the delights of young ladyhood in the
society with her brilliant father, and
beautiful mother brought to their
home, into a serious woman of respon-
sibilities. .

The Field home was one of the most
delightful and sought after in Chicago.
There was no citizen Of whom the
Western metropolis was prouder than
of Eugene Field. He had the closest
friends everywhere. In the nature of
things, his work could not have the
popularity that brings in great sums,
and of such sums as it brought he was
a ready spender. Hamlin Garland met
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MISS MARY FIELD.

old brass kettle, and was greeted witl
a swing of the newly purchased treas-
ure and “Behold a man who once had
ten dollars!” Mr. Field had curiosities
from everywhere, many Of them gifts
from famous people. \Vhen he died
he left his family poor in money, but
rich in friends and memories.

His children had seen his stories in
manuscript, many of them embel-
lished with the duaint little pen and
ink sketches he used to put on those

‘ he most loved, They had heard him

read them over and over, and when
after his death, it became necessary
that there should be a bread winner.
his daughter Opened his books and be-
gan reading his poems in public. She
has made a great success of her work,
and has been in constant demand at
Chicago “at homes.” She will "prob.
ably be in New York this winter, and
our society will have an Opportunity to
hear “lVith Trumpet and Drum” and
“Little Boy Blue,” as Eugene Field
taught her baby lips to recite them.
She was her father’s “chum” and been
companion. He dedicated many of his
poems to her, and used to say that she
was his severest critic as well as his
best friend. It was he who nicknamed
her “Trotty”—-a name that has clung
to her among her intimates, ever since
her childhood days.

She is a very natural, unaffected
reader, and inherits her father’s power
of producing effects by simplicity of
method. ROSE FANCHON.

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foreign tours was the more remark-
able from the fact that he was one of
the most 'nervous of men. A compam
ion in one of his trips used. to relate
that suddenly, while the train was run«
sing at express speed, he recollected
that a box of matches had been left
In his valise. They might get alight,
the train might catch fire, the baggage
of the other passengers, perhaps the
manuscripts of persons like myself—-
there was no telling—might be burnt
—many good people, even good chil-
dren, die a dreadful death. He was
so troubled by the pOssibilities Of these
mischief-laden “tandstickers” that noth-
ing would serve him but to have the
train stopped. Then, the evil thing be-
ing removed, the conscientious poet
had the pleasure of passing the inter-
.val until the next train at a lonely
railway-siding without even a child to
amuse.
Dyspepsia at a Premium.

-“I’.m afraid,"' said the neWspaper
proprietor, “that we’ll have to gel
somebody else to write these bitter
critical screeds." .

“Why, Mr. Kerstick has done that
work with exceptional brilliancy.”

“Yes; but he’s getting out of condi-
tion.”

“Is his health failing?"

“Not a bit of it. He told me yester-
day he had quite recovered from his
dyspepsia.”—Washington Star. , .

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Davis’ Awful Crime. '
MEMPHIS, Dec. 8.—‘A negro named. Da-
vis, while out hunting with Joe Williams,

knife, cutting the throats of both and
crushing the skull of the older. ‘ The old-
er boy is dead, and the other cannot live.’
The negro escaped. .

The Hamburg Strike.

HAMBURG, Dec. S.—A second meeting
of employers has reaffirmed their refusal
to arbitrate the dockers’ strike. ‘This is
due to the fact that a guarantee fund of
$250,000 has been signed for the protection
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' The Russell-Scott Case.
LONDON, Dec. 8.—The suit of Earl Rus-
sell against Lady Selina Scott, his mother— "
in-law; John Cockerton, anengineer; W11- .

’liam Aylott, a valet, and Frederick Kast,

a groom. whom he charges with criminal
libel, whs again adjourned today until
Jan. 4, owing to the illness of Kast, who
is said to be at the point of death in Hol-
loway jail.
The "Vote of Confidence" Farce.

PARIS, Dec. 8,—The chamber of deputies
today. after discussing the Madagascar
credits, adopted the order of the day and
approved the policy of the government by
a vote of 431 ycas to 91 nays.

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