Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1895, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1895—SIXTEEN PAGES. 9 Mertz’s Modern Pharmacy, lth and F Sts. Grand Stock- Reducing Sale. Commencing Tomorrow, Wednesday, Lower Prices Than Ever Before. We haye enough stock on hand to fill twenty ordinary sized Drug Stores. The unprecedented rainy weather during the month of May bas kept our sales down far below what they should be. As we make it a rule never to allow our stock to remain on the shelves and thus become stale, we shall inaugurate an exteaslve ‘“‘stock-reducing” sale in order to sell at least half of the stock within the next two or three days. As you all know, our regular prices for Drugs and Medicines are from 25 to GO per cent lower than elsewhere, and thesa ‘stock-reducing’’ prices will be from 25 to 60 per cent lower than our regulas prices, thus making them below any possible competition. We have been busy all the morning getting out the stock from behind the counters and In the cor ners, and will put on ext:a clerks to walt on you im the morning. Better dq your shopping in the morning and avotd the rush. 7'The last Music Box given away as an advertisement for our Soda Water foll the lot of Mr. Huyck of 1505 Pa. ave. The Next Music Box will be pre- sented on the first of the month. Read Every Item. Great Reductions In Medicines, &c. Johison’s Beef Capsules, (Very convenient to take.) Syrup of Figs... -29¢.; 4 for $1 (Excellent Laxative.) Umported Carlsbad Salt..........+.67¢. Mvstard Plasters, in tin boxes. » Tiydrogen, large bottl «1 Borax, pound boxes. Turner's Vegetable Compound for the Hatr . 4¥e. Lautler's Olive Ot, bottled in France, | (Absolutely pure.) ¢ of Callsaya and Iron.. 1 spring medicine—a 5c. cure It Extract ceeeeB2e terized Malt Extract, 15c.; $1.50 per doz, Is one of the best extracts of elt mde, containing a large amount of rutritive matter, with less than 3 per cent of aleshol.) C. 8. Disinfectant, large bottles....21c. (Should be Im every hoaschold.) Werm Fazenges. (Pleasant and effectual.) Dove's Mandrake Liver Pills, Me.; 3 for 20c. (Purely vegetable.) Elixir of Pepsin. (Good for all fot Mertz’s Beef, Iron and Wine. Mocking Bird Food, per bot. rd Seed, Db. Captor, 1B. Naphtha Camphor. (Something new. ry 2c; 5 Ibs. for $1 Certain death to moths. Better than camphor or moth balls.) Dead Sure, for bed bugs and vermin of all kinds. ce Roach Traps. Se. (Catches them every time.) Page's Sarsaparitla....50c.; 3 for $1.50 cel for bloal disorders.) Gic. 60e. ry and Beef Compound, good brain food. .50e.; 3 for $1.50 Phesio Thymol, large size...........42¢. (he best antiseptic made’) Pure Grape Jufce, free from chemicals, Warner's Kidney and Liver Cure. ...79¢. Hilton's Kidney and Liver Cure. (A speeliic for Kidney complaint (One Lithia water.) Hall's Tonic Nervine (for insomnia). .67e. (Produces refreshing sleep. Free from opiates or dangerous drugs.) Ferraud’s Wine of Coca + -62c. (Nerve tonic and stimulant.) Great Reductions In Toilet Requisites. Chiri's French Rose Water... +4Te. (In original bottles; pints.) Clark's Corn Salve. Te.; 5 for Be, Imported Violet Water. e bottle. .63c. re Large bottles Witch Hazel. 21e. Roses of Myrrh Dentifrice. 19¢. (Keeps the teeth white and the breath sweet.) Lavender Salts. oe . 2c, Bren Bags... 19¢. (Delicious for the bath.) Sea Salt, makes genuine sea salt water. Large ‘sacks... Ecorecte Rabuteat:'s Skin Food.. serene -B8e, (Makes the skin soft white—re- moves wrinkles—makes the face younger.) Lot Fine Toilet Soap, box 3 cakes. .19¢. Extra Fine Baby Soap..10c.; 3 for 25c. Lot Imported Violet cs Tot of Glycerine Soap, extra long bare, Per box of 6 bars, 4c" OU Dressed Chamois Skins. Special lot Tes 5 10c. and 22e, (These usual price.) Queen Anne Tooth Powder, small. Queen Anne Tooth Powder, large Cooper's Hair Success... 39e. (Stops the hair from falling and re- moves dandruff.) Cooper's Shampoo. Talcum Powder..... Best Baby Powder. Curling Fluid... (Keeps the hair in curl in all weather.) 19¢., kinds of Mertz’s Modern Pharmac Vs uth and F Sts. goeersossenscosooss ccesceeg :Don’t Be Worried THOMPSON'S INSECT POWDER will rid the house of them. For roaches, flies, water bugs, mosiul- toes, ete, it | bas EQUAL. 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MR.GRESHAM’S DEATH Tt Occurred at an Early Hour This Morning. A SAD AND IMPRESSIVE DEATH SCENE Fatal Termination of a Complica- tion of Maladies. SKETCH OF HIS CAREER a Secretary Gresham passed away quietly at 1:15 o'clock this morning, at the Arling- ton Hotel, after an illness of twenty-seven days. The fatal termination of the compli- cation of diseases with which he was af- flicted was not entirely, unexpected by those familiar with his aetual condition, but to the general public the news of his death came as a great shock. He was known to be very ill, but there was a san- guine expectation that he would ulttmately recover. Yesterday’s Star showed that his condition had taken a decided turn for the worse, but at that time the symptoms did not indicate that the end “was so near. It was realized that his condition was serious, but hope of his recovery was not in grave doubt until about 6 o'clock last evening, when the distinguished patient suddenly sank into a state of coma. The most powerful heart stimulants known to medical science—nitro-glycerine and digitalis—were injected hypodermi- cally, and an infusion of normal saline solution was made through an opened vein in the arm. He recovered slightly, but after two: severe rigors, shortly before 11 o'clock, he began to fail rapidly, and his vitality began to ebb. ‘The Final Scene. The attending physicians saw that the end was near, ard at midnight they with- drew to the ante-room, leaving in the sick chamber only the members of his family— Mrs. Gresham, her daughter, Mrs. An- drews, and son-in-law, Mrs. Andrews, and the nurses. Up to that time he had been conscious and talked at intervals. His words were full of bravery. He fully ap- preciated his condition, and spoke words of hope and cheer to his stricken wife and daughter. Sometimes his mind wandered slightly, and went back to the days of long ago, recalling incidents of love and happi- ness in the springtime of his life. He spoke, too, of his absent son and his private sec- retary, Mr. Landis, whom he loved as a son, and who, like his son, was speeding to his bedside all too late. But just before the physicians retired he ceased speaking, though he ‘appeared to be conscious. Mrs. Gresham sat at the bed- side, smoothing his fevered brow, and oc- casionally reading to him from the Bible passages which he loved. As the end ap- proached his pulse became hardly percep- tible. Gradually his eyes glazed and closed, but Mrs. Gresham, with noble and heroic fortitude, continued to read the words of the gospel to her departing husband. Her daughter and son-in-law stood with bowed heads at the side of the couch. At 1:15 a.m. his breathing ceased, a peaceful shadow passed over his pale countenance, his pulse flickered, and the sorrowing family were in the presence of death. Those present in the reception room were Secretary and Mrs, Lamont, Secretary Herbert, Assistant Secretaries of State Uhl and Adee, First Assistant Postmaster General Jones, As- sistant Secretary of Treasury Hamlin, Attorney General Olney, Col. Corbin of the army and Private Secretary Thurber. Mrs. Gresham's Devotion. Mrs. Gresham's devotion to her husband during his {illness has been of the most tender, patient and faithful character. Al- though physically slight, she displayed, so said one who has been in the sick chamber several times a day throughout the Secre- tary’s illness, remarkable ‘endurance and nerve. For four weeks she has hardly had her clothes off. Night and day she was at the bedside, snatching an hour or two of sleep, when she could, on a lounge in bis room. She seemed Jetermined to tight off death. “If he dies,” she said many times, “I lose all.” But she did not zomplain. With patience and devotion, she’ ministered to his every want, giving everything her personal atten- tion, ‘and trying to cheer and brighten kim when he was peevish and fretful. The ut- most persuasion was required to induce her even to lie down. Yesterday she grew so faint from sheer exnaustion that she reeled and would have fallen had not one of the nurses caught her in her arma. Mr. Gresham’s Illness. - Secretary Gresham was taken ill the Ist instant with an attack of acute pleurisy. The effusion filled the pleural cavity, but his condition yielded to treatment until last Saturday, when he suffered a relapse, ac- companied by acute pneumonia. llis heart action became enfeebled, requiring the con- stant administration of the most powerful heart stimulants. One or the other of his physicians, Drs. Johnson and Pfentiss, or both, were constantly with him. but for the stimulants he would have died. Nitro- glycerine and strychnine were given con- tinuously, hypodermically, together with digitalis and whisky. About 6 o'clock last evening he sank so rapidly that death was momentarily ex- pected. Restoratives were applied, and hypodermic injections of nitro-xfycerine, the most powerful of all heart stimulants, and strychnine were made. His blood ves- sels were in a state of collapse, and his condition was so extremely critical that the physicians decided that transfusion was immediately necessary to stimulate the heart. The operation was performed about 9 o'clock, and the stricken statesman re- vived somewhat, but it was only a tem- porary improvement, and a relapse fol- lowed, that ended in death, The physicians at that time issued a bulletin annouucing that there was little or no hope of recovery. Some criticism was heard about the hotel corridors because the serum in the pleural cavity had not veen drawn off in the first instance. Dr. Prentiss, when asked to re- ply to these strictures, replied: “It is an established principle of surgery not to tap for pleurisy until life is threatened. While the serum can be easily drawn off, the cavity reiills, not with serum, however, but with pus. Our treatment was to se the removal of the serum by absorpcion. MR. GRESHAM’S CAREER. His Leng Public Service—His Political Aflilintions. Walter Quinton Gresham, soldier, jurist, statesman, was born on a farm near Lanes- ville, Ind., March 17, 1 St. Patrick’s day. Frem a humble beginning rose one @ the foremost figures of his day, a man who, though never chosen to oflice by the votes of the people, save to the legislature of his state, recelved far more honors from the chief executive of his cointry than any other living man. His record includes the rank of colonel, brigadier general and iajor general of volunteers, twice a judge of the courts of the United States and thrice a member of the President's cabinet, His father was English, and his mother was of Scotch-Irish descent. The former was a cabinetmaker, and about a year after the birth of Walter Quinton, his youngest child, he was elected sheriff of his county. The next year he was mur- dered by a nuted desperado, whom he tried to arrest, anl left the widow with five small children te struggle for her own sup- port. The eldest child was a son of eight years. Walter was ford of study, and through the years of almost penury that followed his father’s death he worked early and late to learn, and though he received but two or three winters’ of schooling he was enabled at age of sixteen to enter Bloomir gton University, and after a year there went to the seminary at Corydon, where he studied law. He was made deputy clerk of court under Judge W. A. Porter, and continued his studies under that emi- nent jurist. In 1853, at the age of twenty- one, he was admitted to the bar, and a | year later formed a@ partnership with T. C. Slaughter, who was afterward circuit judge. Beginning His Political Career. At this time there was great agitation among the politicians. The old whig party was dying, and the new republican party was being organized out of the wreck of that old faction. Young Gresham allied himself with the new party and worked hard for its success. The Nebraska trouble was then at its height, and slavery was becoming the dominant issue of the day. The youthful lawyer went into the political arena and espoused with all the earnestness of his years the cause of John C. Fremont, “the pathfinder,” who was the nominee of the new party in 1856. Gresham stumped Indiana with Fremont, and at- tracted considerable notice by his energy and eloquence. Fremont was defeated by Buchanan, but the republican movement was sweeping onward, and in the wave Mr. Gresham was elected in 1860 to the leg- islature, where he at once took a leading part in the debates that ensued over the issues that were portending the great struggle between the states. He was made chairman of the committee on military af- fairs at the session coincident with the outbreak of hostilities, and as such brought into the house a bill for the creation of militia companies that gave Indiana her splendid start in the war equipment. Gov. Morton was attracted to him, and when the call for troops came appointed him Neutenant colonel of the thirty-eighth In- diana volunteers. He had already had some acquaintance with such matters,hav- ing been captain of a militia company call- ed the Spencer Rifles. His War Record. Before the regiment reached the front, Lieut. Col. Gresham was appointed colonel of the fifty-third Indiana, in December, 1861, being then but twenty-nine years old. The regiment was ordered to join Grant's forces before Fort-Donaldson, and there was born the friendship between.the young Indianian and the great commander. At the battle of -ShHbh (Pittsburg Land- ing) Col. Gresham- guarded the station at Savannah, and so didnot participate in the fight. He was active; however, in the slege of Corinth, and served with Grant through his Mississipp! campaign, and at the siege of Vicksburg. So seryjceable was he to the Union commander that in August, 186}, he was appointed prigacier general on the Tecommendation of Generals Grant and Sherman, and pleced in command of the Natchez district. Fridnds in Washington learned that there was a movement on foot to defeat his con§rmuation, and informed Gresham, who wrpte 4 private letter to Gen. Grant, with the result that the latter exercised his great’ influence in behalf of his young friend, !andi succeeded in over- coming the obsiagies»that had presented themselves. General\tGresham's govern- ment of Natchez was-net an easy task, bot Was well performef In the spring of 1864 he placed eomgnand of the fourth division of Blair's corps in the Atlanta campaign, and’ fought throughout that period. He was.in the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, and all the important engage- ments through that campaign. At Leg- gett’s Hill, before Atlanta, he was wounded in the knee by a sharpsnooter'’s bullet, and was kept from the ficld for over @ year. He never fully recovered the use of his limb, but always walked with a more or lecs perceptible limp. His wound troubled him exceedingly, and at times am- putaticn was recommended, but be would never submit to this operation. March 13, 1865, he was made brevet major general of vviunteers for his gallantry be; fore Atlanta, but he saw no further active service, on account of his disability, and after the war had ended he returned to New Albany, Ind., and resumed the prac- tice of his profession. After the War. In 1866 Mr. Gresham received the republi- can nomination for Congress, but was de- feated by M. C. Kerr. When Gen. Grant became President, In 1869, he offered Gen. Gresham the office of collector of the port of New Orleans, but he declined the posi- tion, and the President, who was a warm personal friend, chose him for the position of United States district attorney for In- diana. He could not, however, persuade him to accept, for Gen. Gresham had come to Washington to solicit this place for a friend. In that year, however, Gen. Grant prevailed upon him {o accept a seat on the United States district bench In Indiana, and he held that position without interrup- tion until April, 1883, when he resigned to take a seat in President Arthuy’s cabi- ret. Meanwhile he was becoming a strong figure among the republicans of the coun- try and his name was not infrequently mentioned as a presidential possibility. There was at different times talk of nomi- nating him for governor, but he would not aliow the use of his name in this connec- tion. In 1580 the republicans secured con- the successor to United States Senator J. E. McDonald, and Judge Gresham became an avowed and prominent candidate for that honor. The principal competitor was Gen. Harrison, and at one time the contest was unusually sharp. A majority of the republicans of the legislature favored Har. rison, and Judge Gresham withdrew his name when this fact became apparent. Harrison was then made the nominee and subsequently the Senator. The next year Gen. Garfield was engaged in making up his cabinet, and the name of Judge Gres- ham. was presented to him so forcibly that he determined, partly, it is said, upon the advice of Mr. Blaine, to make Judge Gres- ham Postmaster General. Complications arose, however, that caused a, ghange, of plan, : « In Mr. Arthur’s Cabinet. Gen, Arthur succeeded President Garfield upon the latter's death, ,in Septembar, 1881, and again Judge Gresham’s name was under serious consideration. Timothy 0. Howe was made Postmaster General, but died in 1883, and Presigent Arthur offered the position to 3c Gresham by tele- graph, and it was Hecepted. Mr. Grasham served as Postmaster General nearly eigh- teen months, and in that time achieved several important yeforms. The most im- rortant of these was: the reduction of let- ter postage from 3 to 2 cents and the in- crease of allowable weight from half an ounce to an ounce. The foreign postal service was improved, the fast mails were re-established, letter postage to Canada was reduced and (the, postal convention with Mexico was planned. Secretary Charles J.’ Fol held the tre r, who first sury portfolio’ under Presi- dent’ Arth died; September 4, 1854, at Geneva, y., being then in office, al- | though he had never fully recovered from the shock of his overwhelming defeat by Mr. Cleveland for the pcsition of governor of New York, and for some time before his death had not been able to attend to kis duties. President Arthur immediately: after the funeral endeavored to persuade Hugh McCulloch, who had been Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln, to accept this portfolio. Mr. McCulloch would not at first accept, ard after considerable de- lay, lasting more than twenty days, the President had a blank commission sent in from the State Department and sending a final dispatch to Mr. McCulloch awaited his reply. In the afternoon of September Mr. McCulloch positively declined the offer, and the commission was made out in the name of Postmaster General Gres- ham, who immediately resigned his port- folio to accept that of the treasury, and entered upon his new duties the next day. Judge Gresham held this position for just thirty-three days, on the understand- ing that as soon as a man of more extend- ed acquaintance with financial administra- tion should be fourd to take charge of the treasury he should retire from that post, which was not wholly to his liking. Mean- while additional reascns were presented to Mr. BfcCulloch that he should accept the post, and on the 28th of October, 1884, he was made Secretary of the Treasury and Mr. Gresham wes appointed circuit judge of the seventh judicial district to succeed Judge Drummond, who had viously re- tired. » In the Conventio: 18ss. Judge Gresham’s name had been consid- ered with some seriousness by the dele- gates to the rational republican convention of 1884, held in Chicago, but no votes were cast for hira, though he was second choice of many. He had drifted somewhat from the high tariff doctrine of his party, and had thus alienated some of the eastern men. In 1888 he was a strong candidate for the presidential nomination, and at the Chicago convention of that year he re- ceived 107 votes out of 831 on the first bal- lot. Senator Sherman was the principal candidate, with 220. Gen. Harrison was then a dark horse, whose chances, how- ever, were somewhat overshadowed by those of Alger. On the third ballot the voting stood thvs: Sherman, 249; Gresham, 1233; Depew, 91; Alger, 122; Harrison, 94; Allison, 88; Blaine, 35; Rusk, 16; McKinley, 8; Phelps, 5. At the close of this ballot W. W. Dudley made his famous combination with the California delegation, which ulti- mately resulted in Harrison’s nomination. During the voting at this convention Rob- ert G. Ingersoll made his remarkable ef- fort to stampede the convention to Gresham by making one of the most thrill- ingly eloquent speeches ever heard at a political gathering. He kept back the name of Gresham until the very close of his re- marks, and it was hoped that this would cause a wave of enthusiasm for the popu- lar Indianlan that would sweep the con- vention from its feet. It had the reverse effect, however, and from that moment Gresham's chances were dead. On the eighth ballot Gen. Harrison was nomin- ated with 544 votes to 118 for Sherman, 100 for Alger, 59 for Gresham, 5 for Blaine and 4 for McKinley. Favored Mr. Cleveland, After this convention Judge Gresham's alienation from his party associates on the tariff question became more and more pro- nounced, and after the passage of the Mc- Kinley law in 1890, he and some others openly announced their opposition to that line of action. So marked was his antag- onism to this policy that in 1892 he was tendered the nomination of the populist party for President, being waited upon at his home by a delegation from the third party,- prior to the Denver convention, which nominated Gen. James B. Weaver. Judge Gresham declined the honor. Dur- ing the campaign of that year he publicly proclaimed himself as favoring the election of Mr. Cleveland, his example being fol- lowed by Wayne McVeagh and some other prominent republicans. After Mr. Cleve- land's election Judge Gresham's name oc- curred to him as one fitted for cabinet office by his experience and prominence, and in February, 1893, he was summoned to La&ewood, N. J., where the President- elect was spending the winter, ané@ the State Department portfolio was formaily tendered him. He accepted the office, and was nominated and confirmed immedi- ately after the inauguration, and after trol of the legislature which was to choose | resigning his seat on the bench assumed his duties in the cabinet, March 7, 1893. His Long Public Service. Thus for twenty-six years Judge Gresham has served continuously on the bench and in the’ cabénet. From the date of his ap- pointment by Gen. Grant in 1869 until his death this morning there has not been a day of relief from the pressure of public business. It has been freely stated by his intimate friends that his death now, in what should be the prime of his life, for he was but sixty-three years old in March last, is largely the result of his unremit- ting attention to duty, and it is even said that his fatal illness has been brought about and aggravated by the tremendous responsibilities that have beset him since he became Secretary of State. Few men holding the state portfolio have ever been confronted with so many difficult problems. Foreign complications began immediately after his induction into office, when the Hawaiian controversy began to assume vious proportions. The trouble over the Bering sea ‘award followed, and South American difficulties have piled one upon another, until it was at one time said that the State Department was never so beset with business. During late months the trouble with Spain over the Allianca affair, the dispute with Italy over the lynching in Jorado of Italian subjects, the Venezuela boundary dispute, and the Nicaragua- British imbroglio, all made work for the American Secretary of State of the most exacting and difficult description. In many of these troubles the Secretary has stood as a strong center, and has unquestionably re- ceived more criticism than is usually given te cabinet officers. In addition to the other troubles, the State Department has acted as intermediary in the Chinese-Japanese war and in the Mexican-Guatemala boun- dary dispute. His Home Life. Secretary Gresham's home life was an exceptionally pleasant one. He was al- ways devoted to his family, and has fre- quently said that one of the chief trials of his late’ official career was the necessity of being absent from his farm home in the vicinity of Chicago. In 1858 he married Miss Matilda McGrain. Two children have been born to them, a son and a daughter, both of them residents of Chicago. The daughter is married. It is known that Mrs. Gresham has for some time been endeavor- ing to persuade the Secretary to relinquish his office and return to Chicago, as she feared that the strain that was upon him was too much for his strength. He dis- liked, however, to retire from office in the face of adverse comment, and insisted upon remaining until his constitution had been thoroughly broken down. ee An American Prisoner Released. Information has reached the State De- partment that Consul Donnelly at Nueva Laredo, Mexico, had secured executive clemency for Edward M. Dougherty, an American. citizen, serving a seven years’ sentence at Monterey for the killing of a man named Dingman. The prisoner was released on the 9th instant on payment of a fine of $650. —_-e-_____ Rendexvouing for Keil. The San Francisco and the Marblehead arrived at Southampton, England, yester- day, -the point selected for the rendezvous of the American fleet, which will participte in the naval parade at Kiel. News of the arrival of the New York and Columbia is expected ‘daily, although they are going under easy steam, and may take two weeks for the trip. MILLIONS IN A BOX How Government Bonds Are Taken to England. HR. UPTON TELLS HIS EXPERIENCE Dogged From Liverpoo! to London by a Customs Officer. N ROTHSCHILD®S’ ————— VAULT Considerable interest is evinced in to- morrow’s shipment of $30,000,000 4 per cent bonds, per steamer Paris, for delivery to members of the Morgan-Belmont syndicate in London, but, as told in yesterdays Star, the details of the transaction will be with- held from the public for the present. ‘There is not the same difficulty in getting information corcerning former shipments of bonds to foreign countries. Mr. J. K. Upton, formerly assistant secretary of the treasury, and now assistant superintendent 6f the life-saving service, is thoroughly conversant with the history of government loans, and has taken a leading part in the Placing of them abroad. “The government sold none of its. bonds issued during the war to parties outside of the country,” said Mr. Upton to a Star reporter today. “They were all taken by our own people, but in time a large portion of them found their way to Europe through the ordinary commercial channels. The question of the bonds being payable in coin being settled by the act of March 18, 1869, the credit of the country rapidly improved, and in July, 1870, Congress au- thorized the issue of 5 per cent boads at not less than par in coin, the proceeds to be applied to the payment of a like number of 6 per cents, on which the government had an option of redemption. Negotiating in London. “In the spring of 1871 Assistant. Secre- tary Richardson, now one of the Court of Claims judges, and Gen. Spinner, then United States treasurer, were sent to Lon- don to see if any of the new bonds could be placed there. In July a report was re- ceived that a syndicate, represented by Jay Cooke & Co., would take whatever of the two hundred million authorized was not subscribed-for in this country. A contract to that effect was entered into with that firm, and in August, I think, the first ship- ment of bonds was made. John P. Bigelow, calef of the loan division, went over to re- main until the bonds were disposed of. He never returned to this country, except on brief visits, and died in London a year or two ago. Mr. Richardson remained for some time, and the refunding of the 6 per cents into 5's was a success. Subsequently, under Mr. Richardson as Secretary, and under all his successors to and including Secretary Windom, bonds for refunding Purposes were sent to syndicates abroad, and payments therefor. made in canceled bonds and coupons received from them. Cash balances were paid by the syndicate direct into the treasury, at least after the transaction under the first contract. “Without exception I think all the con- tracts provided that the bonds subscribed for should be delivered in London at the expense of the syndicate. “Treasury officials accompanying the bonds drew no pay from the treasury dur- ing their absence on this duty. The syndi- cate usually allowed them the same pay as they were drawing at the treasury and a fair per diem for subsistence, in addition to the cost of transportation of themselves and bonds. This plan was much cheaper than to have shipped the bonds as public securities; ‘for the bonds usually bore in- terest coupons, payable to bearer, and were complete in form, ready for issue, and their loss would have greatly embarrassed the treasury. “The largest shipment, so far as I can re- member, was made in 1875, and consisted of twenty million coupon 4’s. It was made under my charge, and I presume my experience was about the same as that of others serving in like capacity. Mr. Upton’s Trip. “The bonds were in five steel boxes, weighing, when packed, about 400 pounds each, all fastened by combination locks, of which we had no key. We rode with the boxes to New York in a postal car. At the Jersey City station we were met by the superintendent of the subtreasury of New York, who had secured for us the neces- sary transportation to the boat, where the bonds were deposited in the specie vault, under the immediate contro! of the purser, but until the boat left the pier some one of our party kept an eye on the boxes. Once at sea, however, we relaxed our vigi- lance, and renewed it only when again ap- proaching land. At Liverpool, where we arrived after a pleasant passage, I had some trouble in getting the boxes through the custom house, not being able to declare under oath that I personally knew their contents, and there being no way to open them. A compromise was finally effected by my taking with me a customs official, who should see that the boxes reached the consignees undisturbed,and when open- ed contained the bonds as alleged, his ex- penses to be paid, by the syndicate. This delay caused us ‘to remain all night in Isiverpool. We had the boxes taken to our rooms, and there we took turns in watch- ing them through the night—the English official, however, had no relief from his vigils. In the morning, through a little British gold, I obtained the practical con- trol of a passenger car, into which we put our personal baggage and the five boxes, for which we paid as for extra-weight bag- gage. The exclusive use of the tar was deemed important, the bonds representing such an enormous amount of wealth. In the Rothschilds’ Strong Room. “At London we were met by other treas- ury officials temporarily employed at the headquarters of the syndicate, Messrs. Rothschilds & Sons, in scheduling and counting bonds and coupons received in payment of the new bords. We went with our boxes to the office of the firm men- tioned, and in its money vaults our bonds were counted, found correct and a receipt given showing that our duty had been per- formed, much to my relief. “This money vault, as I remember it,open- ed only at the top, through the floor of the room above, and we descended by a little ‘lifts It was not an imposing sight, but it contained an enormous amount of se- curities issued by nearly every nation in Europe. Two men were employed there all the time receiving and sending out securi- ties, or in cutting off the maturing cou- pons: We were permitted to remain in London about ten days at the expense of the syndicate, unless there was work for them to do, when the time was prolonged. “There were so many of these parties during the refunding period that nearly every prominent treasury official, and a great number not so prominent, who wish- ed had an opportunity to go to London in charge of bond shipments. There was no money in it, but of course there was con- siderable experience for those going into a foreign country for the first time.” — Baptist Ministers’ Union. The annual meeting of the Baptist Min- isters’ Union was held yesterday at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church. Rev. H. C. Robin- son presided, and officers were clected for the ensuing year as follows: Rev. +I. V. Bryant, Wafker Memorial Church, presi- dent; Rev. Daniel Morris of Beulah Church, Alexandria, Va., vice president; Rev. J. I. Loving, Shiloh Church, Ash Grove, Va., who has served four years as secretary, was re-elected; Rev. W. P. Gib- bons, Ph. D., pastor of Mt. Carmel Church, statistical secretary, and Rev. J. H. Lee, pastor of the Third Baptist Church, treas- urer. A vote of thanks was tendered the retiring president, who has held the office for four successive terms. a Charges Desertion. A petition for divorce was filed yesterday by John W. Gilliam from Jennie B. Gil- liam. The parties were married here April 3, 1866, and the husband charges that his wife deserted him ten years later. Killed by a Railway Train. W. T. Smith and Charles Eastman were struck and instantly killed by the Mounds- ville accommodation at Glendale, Ohio, yesterday. Both men were miners from Ohio in search of work. S, Kann, Sons & Co,,. STi & MARKET SPACE Chapter Ill Taken from the Auction Catalogue of HODGES BROS, Which took place in New York last week. ONE ENTIRE FEET COVERING, WILL GO ON SALE TOMOR- “Lots 90 & 104. 236 DOZEN INFANTS’ EXTRA QUALITY WHITE) HALF AND THI UARTER HOSE, DIVIDED BETWEEN BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON. TRUE VALUE, 20c. Auction Price, 10c. Lot 923 B. 186 DOZEN MISSES’ HERMSDORF FAST BLACK HOSE, FULL REGULAR MADE, RICHELIEU RIBBED, SIZES 5 TO 8% DIVID! ETWEEN BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON. TRUE VALUB, ’ Auction Price, 1234c. . Lot 195. 292 DOZEN MISSES’ FULL REGULAR MADE TAN RIBBED HOSE, GOOD WEIGHT, SIZES 6 TO $4 DIVIDED BETWEEN BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON. TRUE VALUE, 20c. Auction Price, icc. Lot S56 B. 309 DOZEN MEN'S FULL REGULAR MADE HALF HOSE, HERMSDORF FAST BLACK, TWO- THREAD HIGH SPLICED HEELS AND" TO! DIVIDED BETWEEN BALTIMORE AND WASH: INGTON. TRUE VALUE, 20c. Auction Price, 10c. Lot 298. 158 DOZEN CHILDREN’S FINE RIBBED HOSE, FULL REGULAR MADE, REAL MACO YARN, SLLICED HEELS AND’. TOES, HERMSDORF BLACK, SIZES 4 TO 613, DIVIDED BETWEEN BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON. TRUE VALUE, 25c. Auction Price, 12%. Lot SS. 259 DOZEN MEN'S E: HEAVY HAL¥ HGSE, 8 THREAD, IMSDORF — BLACK, SPLICED HEELS AND TOES, DIVIDED BE TWHEN BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON, TRUB VALUE, 2c. Auction Price. Lot 80. 133 DOZEN LADIES’ PURE WHITE HOSE, RICHELIEU RIBBED, FULL REGULAR MADE, EXTRA QUALITY. DIVIDED BETWEEN BALTI- MORE AND WASHINGTON. TRUE VALUE, 25c. Auction Price, 14c. Lot 183. 172 DOZEN BEST QUALITY MACO YARN Hi HIGH SPLICED 1. AND TOES, A GEN! UNBLEACHED BALBQIGGAN. DIVIDED BE- TWEEN BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON, TRUB VALUE, 25c. Auction Price, 14¢. Lot 922 T. 185 DOZEN MISSES’ TAN HOSE, FULL REGU- LAR MADE, RICHELIEU RIBBED, WARRANTED. ST COLOK. SIZES 5 TO 8%. ° DIV! TWEEN BALTIMORE AND WA: VALUE, Se. Auction Price, 15c. Lot 6G. 150 DOZEN MEN'S EXTRA QUALITY HERMS- DORF BLACK HALF HOSE, REAL MACO YARN, SPLICED REELS AND TOES QUIVIDED BE: WEEN BALTIMORE AND W. -GTON, TRI VALUE, 25c. bd = Auction Price, 15c. 149 DOZEN MEN'S FINE QUALITY TAN HAL# HOSE, EXTRA FINE Gatun SILK FINISH, DIVIDED BETWEEN BALTIMORE AND WASH: INGTON. TRUB VALUE, 25c. Auction Price, 15c. Lot 48. 192 DOZEN MISSES’ FINE RIBBED HOSE, FULL REGULAR MADE, HERMSDORF BLA DOUBLE KNEES, EXTIA SPLICED HEELS AND TOES. SIZES 5 TO 9. DIVIDED BETWEEN BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON. TRUE VALUE, Auction Price, 16c. Lot 480. 349 DOZEN MEN'S EXTRA-QUALITY HERMS- DORF FAST BLACK HALF HOSE, HIGH SPLICED HEELS, DOUBL 21 THREAD MACO YAi DIVIDED BETV BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON. TRUE VALUE, 35c. Auction Price, 19c. Lot 297 287 DOZEN -LADIES' HIGH SPLICED ‘Hi FINE GAUGE. DIV! AND WASHINGTON. TRUE VALUE, Auction Price, 19¢. Lots 400 & B. 240 DOZEN MISSES’ EXTRA QUALITY FINE RIBBED HOSE, HERMSDORF FAST BLACK, DOUBLE KNEES, BEST. QUALITY, OF MAC YARN. DIVIDED BETWEEN BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON. TRUE VALUE, 39c. Auction Price, 19c. Lot 1701. 40 DOZEN LADIES’ EXTRA FINE QUALITY HERMSDORF BLACK HOSE, | LINES BLD SOLES AND HIGH SPLICED’ HEELS.” DIVIDED BETWEEN BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON. TRUE VALUE, 50c. Auction Price, 27c. We have not mentioned one singie lot of our regular stock. This is a bona fide sale of Fine Hosiery from the auction sale of Hodges Brothers, which we in-= augurated last Monday, and which willbe continued the entire week. A differ- ent line of bargains for to- morrow. S, Kann, Sons & Co., STH & MARKET SPACE The Hustlers.”