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lUE MTIOm CiFITAL.
BILLS ISTROJlCEI S TEN
MSMFE COSfiKKKSMKX.
The reilcy of tlie AdmlnUtratloa oa
tho Mlnr Qigttoirpltal
IHCUL TO Til ArPBAL.I
W asitinoton, Marvh 2. The fol
lowing bills of iiitorcst to the Ninth
-re liitrixluLVtl to-rlnv:
ily Mr. Ko'ife. : A bill for the relief
of John JT. OWm of Greene county,
TVnn ; a bill grnntiiix 8 penwon to
John Jfnyrien ; a bill to eorreet the
muster roll o! Wm. Carter, Third Ten
nexst'e Infantry Volunteers; for the
relief of Mrs. Charlotte Smith fur aery
ices-iw hospital nune: a hill for the
relief of Mm. Cliarlotte Mmth for aerv-
iee in numinj; ifk and wounded sol
By Mr. Richardson: A bill for the
relief of W. K. Itunnom ; a bill for the
relief of N. d. Terry of Bedford countv,
By Mr. Ken!: A hill for the relief of
Mary Caroline Ingram and r.hzahetli
L. Kumago of MeMinn eounty, Tenn. ;
a'bill to rqieal the internal revenue
By Mr. John M. Taylor: A hill for
the relief of J. 1'. Mason of Jackson,
Tenn.; also, a hill for the relief of A.
W. Jonex, iwnident of the Memphis
Conference Female Institute, Jackson :
al, a hill for the relief of the lepil
representatives of John U. Alston, de
ceased ; also, a bill for the relief of
Calvin Hopiw of Decatur eounty,
Tenn.j a bill to remove the charge of
desertion npiiinst Tliouias Carey of
Henderson county, Tenn., ami place
hiui on tho pension roll; also, a bill
for tlie relief of Moses lillie, late of
Henderson county, Tenn. ; also a hill
aiithorixlu the Adjutant-General of
the Unitad HUiU-s to place thu name
of Frod B. Eurnes on the muster roll;
also, a bill for the relief of Mrs. F. A.
Ia-8 of Madison eounty, Tenn. ; also, a
bill to provide for protecting the nav
igation of tl.o Tennessee river by ex
tending the system of In-acon lipids to
said river j also, a hill for the relief of
Mrs. M. A. Crittenden of Madison
countv, Tenn.
Bv Mr. Caldwell: For the relief of
Richard Atkinson.
By Mr. fr-aeh Taylor: A bill to mod
ify and re-enact an act entitled "an
act to prevent tlie introduction of con
tagious or in'.i'ctious diseases into the
I'n i ted States;" also, a resolution re
questing information from the Postmaster-General
in regard to the for
eign mails of the United States; also,
a bill for tho relief of Coronua, Taus
sig & Co. and others.
f TUB SfPHKMK "Ol' KT
yesterday affirmed the decision of the
lower court in the case of the North
Carolina Cherokee Indians against the
Cherokco Nation.
w ho had another conference to-day
w ith the' Southern Utcs, thinks that
they should be allowed to remove to
Utah if suitable agricultural lands can
, he found.
of the Iouisville Timet, who was car
ried on the folder's roll of the House
at $840 per year.told the Investigating
Committee yesterday that the position
was not the one promised him, and he
intended to resign. Ho said he never
did any work as a folder.
was taken bv the House Committee
. on Public Lands to-day on the propo
sition to reneal the nre-einntioir law
The result was decidedly in favor of
reporting on repealing the measure.
THUIK ' rHII,TII REMOVED.
The Presiuelit to-dav approved the
acts removing the disabilities of Alex
ander P. Stewart of Mississippi, Ed
ward G. W. Butler of Missouri, and
Thomas L, Kosser of Virginia.
Meerelarv Whltiteyianrt the llroad
wajr aVrtaaebiae.
Washington, March -'. Secretary
Whitney to-day sent a letter to the
chairman of the Senate Committee of
the -Now York Legislature investigat
ing the Broadway street railroad case,
in which ho explains his connection
with the matter, and says if it is in any
respect open to just criticism he is not
aware of it.
Seised at New
Dui-loc I he War..
Washington, March 2. Secretary
Manning has, answered the resolution
of tho House calling for a statement of
the moneys seized at New Orleans by
Generals Butler and Banks between
the dates of May 1st, 1HH2, and May
1st, 18(55. The Secretary says Gen.
Butler seised and accounted for $''ti2,
534, taken from New Orleans bunks,
while Gen. Banks seized J47.88!) in
The Stiver qarolioo.
Washington, March 2. The Secre
tary of the Treasury to-day sent to
the Speaker of the House an answer
to the Bland resolution, calling for in
formation in regard to the past and
future policy of the Treasury lepart
ment on the silver question. It is a
document of forty pages, and contains
a vast amount of correspondence and
statistical information. In it the Sec
retary declares that he has used his
utmost efforts to get silver into circu
lation. Ho has already given his
opinion as to the propriety of express
ing his views concerning the past and
future policy of .the dcjwirtment upon
Democratic (unrni.
Washington, March 2. About forty
IX'mocratic. members of the House met
in caucus to-night to arrange for the
selection of a Hernocratie Congress
ional Campaign Committee. A reso
lution was adopted instructing the
State delegates to select one of their
number from each State to constitute
the rommi"v, the committee so
elected charged to meet within a week
and choose tve of their number to act
with a similar liuiulicr chosen by the
Democratic Senators, to act as an
executive committee.
roaveatloa af American Keaabllee.
Washington, March 2. Senator
Gorman introduced a bill in the Sen
ate to-day authorizing the President
to invite the Presidents of the sixteen
American republics to meet in Wash
ington on the 4th of March, KN!, in
honor of the one hundredth anniver
sary of the constitution of the parent
republic of the United States.
The Hellaad Harder Trial.
Niw York, March 2. Tlie trial of
James T. Holland, charged with the
murder of Tom Davis, the sawdust
swindler, . is resumed this momv"g
Among the prisoner's friends present
were lien. J. G. Tracey, ex-l nited
States Marshal of Houston ; Col. Frost
of San Antonio, and ex-Chief
Justice Marx of Texas. "The"
Davis, brother of tho dead man,
continued his teMiawny, and the cor
oner and a number of lemons who do
business in the nchriilsirhood testified
as to the facts within their know ledge.
The deposition of John P. Hill, city
marshal of Abilene, Tex., who was
Holland's companion in their investi
gations into the mysteries of the coun
terfeit money trade, aan read. It de
tailed the movements lf the parties pre
vious to the tragedy. IAt this jxiint the
State rested, and counsel for the de
fense stated Holland's side to tlie
jiirv. It was, in ijl'ect. that after Hol
land had paid the $500 to Tom Pavis
the l.-tter net' to kcflii him frou. leav
ing the room, and that in the alterca
tion which followed "The" Davis
from the next room shouted to Tom to
kill Holland, and that Holland then
drew and tired in solf-defcnse. The
court then adjourned.
Kxeltlaaj Epleede la the Hlah
(ale Trial.
IsrioiAb to in ArriiL.1
Holly chinos, Miss., March 2,
The sjcciul committee apjMjinted by
the Legislature to investigate certain
charges against the , colored normal
school, W. B. Highgate (colored) prin
cipal, have been in session to-day.
They are Senator ljarvey and Sum
mers and Representative Walter.
While Highgate was giving his testi
mony he alluded to a certain article
published in the RejiMer last summer
as villainous, when -the author of said
article, who was present, seized an
iron paper-weight and threw it at
Highgate, which very nearly struck
several persons, and . was about to
throw again when parties interfered
and quieted him. Highgate arose from
his seat, saying he would protect him
self unless he was protected by tho
court. Considerable excitement ex
ists on account of thu mutter and its
causes. Both sides have friends, and
they are desirous of maintaining their
respective claims.'
Addreaeee Before ihe 'IVacneiV
DkFumak Si-kings, Fi.a., March 2.
The Teachers' Institute in attendance
at the Florida Chautauqua Assembly
to-day were addressed by Ed w. Brooks
of Philadelphia, Dr. B. G. Northup of
Connecticut, Prof. It. L. Conineck of
Illinois, Maj. A. J. Russell of Florida
and the Kev. J. W. Lee of Atlanta.
The assembly will continue until tho
nil of March.
Sboatlnc Affray In Which a Man
Was Berlonaljr Wounded.
IV kdett, Miss., March 2. Young
Louie Storm was badly wounded here
this evening, being shot through the
spine in a difficulty with Hubbard
Gordon, colored. Several shots were
passed between them. The weapons
used were Smith & Wesson pistols.
The particulars are as yet unknown.
- SrOETING- NEWS.
American Baaeball Aeaoelatlon.
Louikvii.i.k, Ky., March 2. At the
American Base Ball Association this
morning Messrs. Phelps and Simmons
reported on the Barclay case, suspend
ing him one year and fining him SUM).
A stormy scene followed the decision.
Nimick appealed to the chair agninnt
the report. President Mcknight sided
with him. Mr. Phelps appealed from
the chair's decision, and his report
was adopted by a vote of 5 to 3, Pitts
burg and the Metropolitans voting
against the report and Von Der Abe
refusing to vote. This treats Barclay
just ns Mullane was treated. It is said
Pittsburg will take the matter to tho
Tbe New Orleans Bacee,
Nbw Orleans, La , March 2. Fitnl
Race. Selling race, three-quarters of
a mile. Hot Box won ; Malvoh'o see
ond, Hyderabad third. Time 1:24.
Second Rare. Selling race, one mile.
Won by Fletch Taylor by a leneth ;
Hibernian second, Kiobh third.
Time 1:55.
Third Race. For beaten horses,
six furlongs. Vaulter won by half a
length; Centennial second, Nellie
Glencon third. Time 1:23.
Jfourlli Race. Handicap for four
year old?, seven furlongs. Amanda
Brown won by a head ; Violin second,
Dick Watts third. Time 1 :39.
The wetther was cloudy and the
track heavy.
firm with a fair demand, holders offer
ing moderately. Corn steady, fair de
mand. Closing prices of May options at
Chicago yesterday: I'ork,'$10 45 bid;
lard, 5.!)7Jc bid; clear rib sides,
5.42Jc; corn, 40Jc; wheat, SIJcj oats,
Repokt of the Grain Elevator yes
terday: Wheat received, none; with
drawn, none; in store, 30.i7, bushels.
Corn received, 3507 bushels; with
drawn, 625 bushels; in store, 43,047
bushels. Oate received, none; with
drawn, 1403 bushels; in store, 28,084
Visitors on 'change yesterday: G.
B. Smith, Toronto, Canada; Thos. 11.
Tavlor, Como, Miss.: Miss A. Onty,
J. T. Warren, Chrystal Springs, Ala.;
A. L. Avdelot, Ark.; S. B. Chism,
Miss.; Mrs. M. K. Pratt, Ala.; Mrs. W.
P. Miller, T. B. Keulby, Springfield,
Mo. ; J. N. Beckwith.Texarkana, Ark. ;
J. Jnwell'olk, C. J. kiersant, St.
Charles, Ark. ; J. L. Dana, Chicago ; W.
E. Hampton, Cincinnati; James Car-
den, San Francisco, Cal. ; J. W. Crow
ley, Friar's Point ; A. M. Allsop, Tenn. ;
G. T. Griswold, Chicago; W. C. Gris
wold, Tenn.; Mrs. W..P. Miller, city;
J. Bernheim, Holly 'Springs; P. J.
Clapton, Ark.; A. P." Hearne.Oakland.
Aafdemorte Senteaced.
Niw Orleans, La., March 2. J. H.
Aafdemorte, the embezzline sub-
Treasury clerk, wa) to-day sentenced
to five years' imprisonment in the
Chester, 111., penitentiary and to par a
fine of f 5P00.
THE CHINESE (jlESTIOL
lie Sajg Tbfj 5 list Be Protected
la All I heir Treaty Bight
and Prirllege.
Washington, March 2. The IM
rtent sent the following inesstige to
Congress to-dav :
To Ihe Senate aod Houm of Rt.r aura-
ur ;
It is the constitution duty of tlu
President to recommend to the vmv
sideration of the Congress, from time
to time, such measures as ho shall
judge necessary and expedient. In no
matter can the necessity of this lie
more evident than when the good
faith of tbe United States, under the
solemn obligation of treaties with
foreign powers, is concerned. The
question of the treatment of the suli
jects of China sojourning within tlie
jurisdiction of the United States,
presents such a matter for I lie urgent
and earnest consideration of the execu
tive and of Congress. In my first an
nual message Hxm the assembling of
the present Congress, I adverted to
this question.
The President here quotes tbe pas
sage from his message upon the Chi
nese question, and continues: At the
time I wrote this the shocking occur
rences at Kock Springs, in Wyoming
Territory, were fivsh in the niuids ot
all, and had been recently presented
anew to the attention of Otis govern
ment bv the Chines- Minister in a
note which, while not unnaliinill v
exhibiting some misconception of our
federal system of administnition in the
Territories (while they are not in the
exercise of the full measure of the
sovereign self-government pertaining
to the States of the Union), presents
in truthful terms the main features of
the cruel outrage there ierpctrated
In the investigation of thu Rock
Springs outbreak, and the ascertain
ment of the facts on which tho Chi
nese Minister's statements rest, tho
Chinese representatives were aided by
the agents of tho United States, and
the reports submitted having leen
thus framed, and recounting facts
within the knowledge of witnesses on
lsth sides, possess an impartial truth
fulness winch could not fail to give
them great impressiveness. The facts
which, so far, are not controverted or
affected by any exculpatory or miti
gating testimony, show the murder of
a number of Chinese subjects in Sep
tember last at Uock Springs, the
wounding of many others and the
spoliation of the property of all when
tlie unhappy survivors had been driven
f;om their habitations. Then; is no
allegation that tho victims by any law
less or disorderly act on tbc'r part
contributed to bring about a collision.
On the contrary, it appears that the
law-abiding disposition of these peo
ple, who were sojourners in our midst,
under the sanction of hospitality and
express treaty obligations, is made the
pretext for the attack upon them.
This outrage upon law and treaty en
gagements was committed by a lawless
mob. None of the aggressors, happily
for the national good tame, appear by
the reports to have been citizens of
the United States. They were aliens,
engaged in that remote district as
mining laborers, who became excited
as it would Benin, because of their re
fusal to join them in a strike to secure
higher wages. The oppression f Chi
nese subjects by their rivals in the
competition for labor does not difl'er
in violence and illegality from that ap
plied to other classes of native or
alien labor. All are equally under the
protection of the law and equally en
titled to enjoy the benefits of assured
public order. Was there no treaty in
existence referring to the rights of
Chinese subjects, did tbeycomo hither
as all other strangers who voluntarily
resort to this land of freedom, of self-
government and of law, here peace
ably to win their bread and live their
lives, there can be no question that
they would be entitled still to the
same measure of protection from vio
lence, and the same free forum for tho
redress of their grievances as any
other aliens. So far ns the treaties
between the United States and China
stipulate for the treatment for the
Chinese subjects actually in the
United States as the citizens or sub
jects of the "most favored nation" are
treated, they create no new status for
them--they simply recognize and
confirm a general and existing rule,
AI'CLICAni.E TO ALL ALIENS AI.IKK,
for none are favored above others bv
domestic law, anil none by foreign
treaties, unless it bo the" Chinese
themselves in some respects, for bv
the third article of the tmity of No
vember 17, 1880, between the United
States and China, it is provided that,
"Article J If Chinese laborers, or
Chinese of any other class, now either
permanently or temporarily residing
in the territory of tlie United States,
meet with ill-treatment at the hands
of any other person, tbe government
of the United States will exert all its
power to devise measures for their
protection, and to Beeure the same
rights, privileges, immunities and ex
emptions as may be enjoyed by tbe
citizens or subjects of tbe most favored
nation, and winch are entitled by
treaty." This article may be held to
constitute a special privilege for Chi
nese subjects in the United States as
compared with other aliens not that
it creates any peculiar rights which
others do not share, but liecause in
case of ill-treatment of the Chinese in
the United States, this government is
bound to "exert all its power to devise
measures for their protection," by
securing to them the rights to w hich,
equally with any and all other for
eigners, they are entitled. Whether
it is now incumbent upon the I lilted
States to amend their general laws, or
devise new measures in this regard. I
do not consider in the present
communication, but confine my
self to the particular Hiint
raiseil by the outrage and
MASSCKK AT ROCK SPRINGS. s
The note of the Chines' Minister,
and the documents which accompany
it, give, I believe, an uncxaggerated
statement of the lamentable incident,
and present impressively the regret
able circumstances that the proceed
ings in the name of justice for the as
certainment of the crime and fixing
the resismsiliility therefor were a
ghastly mockery of justice. So long
as the Chinese Minister, under his in
structions, makes this the basis of an
ajvpeal to the principles and convic
tions of mankind, ii'.rx.vptinn can lc
taken, but when he pies further,
and, taking B ln precedent tlie ac
tion of the Chinese government
in past instiiim-, where the
lives of Aliieri. :in citizens mid their
proiMTty in China have U-en en
dangered, ntyiies , tcemrncal obliga
tion mi the I'iut of the United States
to indemnify tl ChiiiPscsiibjivtM who
sintered at F.o-k Spiings. x Uvsme
neecs.sary to nii- t his argument, and
to deny most iiiphatn ally the con
clusions I seek- to dra- ns Utlie ex
istence of such a liability, ami the
right of thx- Chiiese g'eraiiA'iit to
insist iiisiii it. I draw the attention
of the lonpvw to the latter part of
thu note of the Svrrtarv of State of
February 1S in reply to the
Chinese Mill' tcr's representations, and
to invne especial consideniliou ol tlie
regent reasons by w Inch lie reached
conclusions that whilst the United
States govern iwent is under im obliga
tion, whether bv the expres term of
its treaties with China, or the princi
ples of international law, to indemnify
tlu'se subjects lot tssscs caned by
such means and under tlie admitted
circumstances, yet. that in view of tbe
palpable and dix reditable failure f
tlie authorities nf Wyoming Territory
to tiring to justice the guilty parties,
or to assure to the snl!ercr an impar
tial forum in w Inch to seek aud'obtahtt
COMITSSATION pi ik TUB 1.IWHCS
which those subjects have incurred b
lack of police protection, ami voiisiif-
ering further tlie entire nbw 'lire of
provocation or contribution on the
part of the victims, the executive may
lie induced to bring the mutter to the
benevolent consideration of Congress,
in order that that bodv in its hiidi dis
cretion may direct the Ismnty ot the
government in aid of innocent and
lencelul sf rangers w liosenutltreatiueiit
ms brought discredit upon the coun
try, with the distinct understanding
that such action is nowise to Is' held
as a precedent, is wholly gratuitous,
and is resorted to in a spirit of true
generosity toward those who are oth
erwise helpless. The correspondence
exchanged is herewith submitted for
the information of the Congress.
(i ROVKR (,'LKVKLANI).
Exu't Tivi M.iski'is, V 48HINUTOM, March
THE I.ETTKIt
of the Secretary of State to tbe Chi
nese Minister, referred to in the Pres.
ident's message, is an exhaustive
statement of tlie whole Chinese ques
tion, ami its main points are Hilly
covered in the message.
THE VrA(iE WOKEKUS
Slannfaelarera Hiving- In.
Mii.WAiKEK, Wis., March 2. A
break oceurrod in tbe line of the boot
and shoe manufacturers yesterday.
The Maver Boot ami Shoo Company
signed tlie scale submitted last week
by the men. This leaves but three
(inns Beals, Inrey A Co., Atkins,
Ogden it Co. and the Page Shoe Com
pany out. These houses are firm in
their declaration that they will not
sign the scale us submitted.
tbe Knllroad Mlrlkeat far! Worth.
Foiit Worth, Tk.v., March 2. There
is universal surprise in the city at the
great railroad strike which began here
last evening. There was no intima
tion that it was coming. At 5.3(1 the
whistle at tho round-house blew, and
at once every machinist, vur repairer,
section hand', baggage handler, and in
fact, every man who lielongs to As
sembly No. 101, Knights of Labor,
stopped work. The business of tbe
Texas Pacific and Missouri Pacific was
almost completely suspended here.
Three hundred men had stoprs'd work
in nn instant A- The order came from
Sedalia. The causes are said to be
numerous, but the chief one is that
$1.50 per day is demanded as a day's
wages for unskilled laborers, w ho now
receive J 1.1. ' per day. Other reasons
are the refusal to make eight hours a
day's work, and tho discharge of men
at 'Marshall. No freight trains went
.nut last night, and all the freight en
gines are in the round-house. No
railroad work of any description is
being done, except tiie movement of
liassenger trains, and no one is left to
liandle the baggage hut the baggage
The Mltnnllon n( the McCormlck
CaicAoo. Ii.i.., Ma-ch 2 Tte Me
Cormick Works opened as usu il ttis
morning. There were large irowds of
idle men about the works, but the
presence of the police, prevented Htv
outbreak on their part, even though
they bad contemplated one. Five
hundred and forty men reported for
work an increase of 2C0 over yester
day and tho managers of the works
exjiect that the number will be in
creased to 800 to-morrow. The nth
cers think the strike is practically
Strike at Ljachbnrg, Va.
LvNciuii'iwi, Va., March 2. A striko
has been inaugurated at the Old Do
minion Iron and Nail-Works in this
city and the mills have stopped work.
Aeompromise is probable. The Arbi
tration Committee of the Knights of
Labor and the stockholders are in ses
sion. The strike was caused by a no
tice of a reduction of wages on March
1st of 50 cents a ton.
The Slrlke ol the Texas aad Pari He.
St. Louis, Mo., March 2. Ltsr ad
vices regarding tbe strike on the Tpiih
and Pacific lailioad give an interview
with Gov. Brown, one of tbe receivers
of the road, which in subfitince is as
"The workmen in the shop at Mar
shall, Big Springs and Foit Worth
walked out yesterday, but no em
ploye of tbe company has ever laid
any grievance before the receivers or
tbeir agents. If any man felt ag
grieved aad had expressed it, we
should immediately have looked into
it) merits, and would have righted
any wioog we found. We are deter
mined to protect our employes against
aoy wrongs from ourselves or our
agents, or from outside intermeddlers.
We claim, however, the right to ad
just onr differences, if any there be,
between ourselves and our employes
without the mediation of neople who
are not in our employ. We pay em
ployes prompily, and we claim they
shall prefer their grievances direct t)
up, and cot ti tbe officious interfer
ence of persons wbo do net appear on
our rolls and who are unknown to us."
From other sources it is stated tint
the strike is likely to tecome gpnersl
on all tho Gould lines in IVxhs rs
well as tbe Texas Pacific, and that th
trouble may extend to other roads in
the State.
A kemkhv resting on the basis of in
trinsic worth demands the confidence
of all. Dr. Hull's Cough Syrup is known
and nwd most satisfactorily through
out the land, as is attested by its great
sales. Your drnggist keeps it.
THK omn.iLS.
hartr tt CrookedofM and Frand
en the Part of the thief
New York, .March 2. A breeze has
l'ii stirred up among the otlb tills
coiiiecUd with the construct ion of
newCroton aqueduct. Tlie chief en
gineer of this great ami cont'y work is
named Church, and the construction
engineer i. H. S. Craven, air orliccr in
tbe United Stafrs navv. Some time
ugo Craven laid i-harycs of dere liction
of duty against Chief Kngincer
Church licforv tl Board Aque
duct Commissioner. Tim- result
has been an informal demand
on Crawn for his reigiiation. Craven
to-dav addressed a letter to tbe tmird
in which ho refuses to resign mi the
ground that such a course wahM le
tantamount to an aduiission that his
charges against Church were, untrue.
He reiterates his charges smiinst
the chief engineer, and assert that
systematic efforts are ls'ing made to
get him out of otliiv in order that
ROOkKllNKSM IM TUB KXKTTIO
of the contract may have full play.
He charges that viuioimattempts nave
been made to compel him to with
draw, or, if he remains, to close his
eyes to open violations of contract,
for tbe bencHt of tlie contractors. On
one occasion, he says, he was threat
ened that unless he quit seeing so
much the Secretary of the Navy
would be prevailed on to return biiii
to bis regular naval duties. He
says be can prove that inferior ma
sonry has been ucirptcd by Kngiiuier
Church after its rejection, by the
w riter and two or three inspectws;
that wooden tiniU'm are being put up
to supply the phuv of masonry, and
that tuulieKs arc Is-ing paid for twice.
He intimates that the Board of Com
missioners even do not show proper
zeal for thv enforcement of honesty in
the work.
PatMenger Train Wrecked aa Sev
eral Ilea Killed.
Portland, Mi., March 2. A wind
plow special let island Pond yet tar
day, coming this way in advance of
the Montreal passenger train. The
train, consisted of a wind plow, two
enginos and a conductor's van. A cruis
ing caused the plow to jump
the track. Almond Smith of Island
Pond had an inch bolt driven into his
forehead. He died at Bethel at 11
o'clock. Thorn m Kilpatrick c ( Inland
Pood was injured about tbe bend and
shoulders. J. Chadwlck of Island
Pond watinjured internally: Ho died
at 3 o'clock this morning.' 8. Lydun
of Ga'ham. N. IL, was badly injured
abont tbe head, but will probably re
cover. Tbe track is in a terrible con
dition. At tbe point where the acci
dent occurred it win not snow, but
sand and hail mixed with enow, that
obstructed tbe track. - The snow-plow
made only a scratch on it. The mix
ture was so hard that it conld not be
cut oat even with the sharpest pir.k
Troable Over tbe Racial Eqaallty
Gainesville, Q a., February 28. On
Thursday night, in tbe Arlington
Hotel, a rn'ty of settlemen were
severely criticising the action of thu
rronibitionlBta in bringing tne colored
Bishop, Turner, from Atlanta, meet
ing him with a carriage and a band ot
music, attempting to obtain a room
and meals for him at the Hudson
House and in general making so much
of him. They denounced the action
of the Prohibitionist Committee as
tending to enconrtgi the negro in the
demand for civil rights. A Masia
cbusetts man, who drnms for
a Baltimore house, took op
the gauntlet In favor of. the colored
bishop, and s'out y maintained the
negro's right to occupy the same
hotel, sit at Ihefuaie tables, and, if he
should cboof.e, t marry a white girl.
This h st remark came "near result ing
in a personal difficulty. But friends
interfered, and the Massachusetts
man was earnestly advised to degitt in
making any more such remarks. He
was bent on arguing tbe equality ques
tion, however, into the people, and
went to tbe court-house. After lis
tening to the speech of the biBhon, be
came back etill more enthused. Noth
ing could exceed his admiration lor
him. He asserted that be would
rather have his daughter marry such a
negro than an ignorant white man.
Though urged not to do so, he began
anain next morning, and male him
self so obnoxious that, late in the
afternoon, a party of citizens waited
on him, and were about to lay violent
hands on bim, bnt desisted on hie re
treating.' He bad contracted to fur
nish parties here with gcods, but the
order was countermanded. In fulfill
ment of his promises he left last nlgt t,
and will probably steer clear of Gaines
ville for the future.
Jewleb Wed tile al 9ew Vara.
New York, March 2. Jelferson
Seligrnan, sou of James Soligman of
J. A W. Seligrnan, bankers, to-night
married Miss Julia Wormser, daughter
of Isadore Wormser. The wedding
was at the bride's home, Ktti Fifth
avenue. Itahbi (iothcil officiated.
The bride wore diamonds and orange
blossoms. There was a dinner at Del
nionico's. The bride's father gave
her 100,000 slum's in Ijike Shore
bonds. Tin; groom's father gave him
a check for f 50,0 Ml, and the firm of J.
fc W. Seligrnan gave hi in $20,(XK).
Havk (riven Tont;nliiie a trial in
acute rlioiiniatimn, and neurulniii, und
ri-licf woh promptly (riven.
W. A. HAYEK, M.D., WinUrrllle, Pa.
MlMlaa; Mall Paaeb.
Chicago, III., March 2. To-duy it
im learned that the mail pouch from
Cincinnati, that reached CtiieaRo over
the Chicaeo, Cincinnati and Lafayette
ro id Saturday night i tineii for the
Chicago, McUresor and St. I'aol mail
car, was miesed shortly after it 1 ar
rival, and has since been found empty
in a lreight-car on a side track ia this
city. 'Ihe contents are pone. The
value is not yet known. No trace of
the thieves hai been obtained.
Pal Ire l.lealrnant Hhut.
Cincinnati, O., Marrh 2. Police
Lieutenant Joseph Moonimn wan shot
in the jaw at tho Vino Street Opora
Houho this afternoon by Mike Arnold,
with whom he had a quarrel. Moor
man is said to have been very drunk
at the time.
FATAL t'AMn. V I Kl l.
A Virginia Polliielan .AtBlanlr4
by a ('lav
PhTeitM,Ki, Va., Ffhruafr -N. In
telligence reached hen- toU,v of a
iiioxtcold-blixsletlasxawiiiHtio!), v hieli
rs-ciirred in Susse County. tbi iStatc.
The si-ene of the tragedy is si me-in iles
from Wavcrly Sati,n. im i Ve V.filk
and Western railroi.d, and within a
short distance of the murdered msir's
home. The parties to the horrible)
allAirnre William P. Pain ami Ouirv
I lam, third coumun. csteroV tki
two men met in tl.r road. mi4
after passing, (luiiicv llaiii tuniedi
and iVlibenitelv disi harvt-d both' bar
rels ol bis gnu, loaded wiih bin k lmt,
at ilUain, striking bun in tbe N ad
ami killing Kim instantly. Ihe nir
derer tlu'ii deliberately witiked up to
tbe liody of his victim and shot Van
through the Ixwk of the bead, to
make sire tbH hishlondv aork ;
completed. This is considered one t
tbe coldest-blooded ami mont delib
erate murlem that lias ever Wm com
mitted in Yirgi&ia. It occurred in
tU presence of a man named Mor
ris, who, with tlu- murdered man
was uuaimcd. Tbe murderer made
hia escape, but efforts are bcinu
made to capture to him, ami there is
strong talkot lyiiclimg if lie is caught.
William P. Kiin, tlx murdered man,
was a prominent I li 'publics n and took
an active part, in politics, and roc a
long time was supervisor of Sussex
county. A few veara ago he and a
man named T. VV. Atkinson became
involved in v diflicultv, during w hU h
Atkinson was tabbed by I'm i ri and in
stantly killed. Itaiti was arrested, tried
and acquitted, having I sit defended
by able counsel. Bain, wbo was mur
dered yesterday,, stands now imlicuil
in the County Ciurt of Sussex
for an attempted rape on Otiiiury
ltitin's w ife, for w hich olfense he was
to have been tried in the County Court
on next Thursday. It is understood
that recent developments have pmvvu
that the charges brought agaimt him
could not have been sustained, aad
that on next Thursday the attorney
for the Commoitwiiilth would hate
asked lb" Court for tbe acquittal of
the licensed. The murderer and his
victim arc married, and alsmt thirtv
tive years of age. The murder is the all
absorbing topic of conversation in the
neighborhood in which it occurred, in
asmuch ns tbe parties are prominent
and highly connected. The Common
wealth s Attorney savs that the people
of Sussex county are good and law
abiding citizens, and that if the mur
derer is caught and lynched before
the authorities can prevent it, be
shall use the utmost diligence to as
certain the names of the lynchers,
ami have them arrested and properlv
punished. It was only a couple of
weeks ago that Bain, the murdered
man, had his store and contents
burned. At the time of the tire be
was asleep in the building, ami barely
escaped with Ins hie.
VET Holders of MIhImIpp( No. 1
Letee Donds, October, 1S71, wbo
desire to collect same, will do well to
aildreas at once,
XV. If. II.UItKKV. Turkann, Mlaa,
PIANOS and ORGANS
Direct frena tuetorj ta Porehae
era, aavlac nil per real. Write
Monte Flchenn & Co.. Memphis
fion-Kealdent Notice.
No. 8110, R.D.-In the Chancer Court ef
Btioio county, lean, ibllebert Wllker-
, 10a et al '.
rietcher lAaeetal.
It am
iioarlni from decree entered herein
' March 1, into, la title eauae that the defend
ant Vletoher Lane departed thia life leav
int J. K. Lane and otbera aa hia helra t
law 1 and it further aiipearini that mid J. 8.
Lane la a reeident ol the State of Texaa and
a non-reaideni of the btate nf Tenneaieei
It la therefore ordered, That ho make hit
anpearanoe herein, at the oourthouae of
H hell) r oounty, in Memphia, Tenn., nn or bo
fure the Brat Monday in April, lHHal. then
and there to (how caone, II any he have,
why thia ftiit ahnuld not be revived aaainat
him ea tho beir nt Inw of Fletcher Lane:
and that a uopy tf thia order be puhiiahoa
once a week, lor four aucceaaive weeka, in
t e Memphia Appeal. Thia lid day of March,
IHrUI. A oopy altet:
8. I. M( DO W b'l-fj, Clerk and Mnater.
Dr II. F. Walah, Deputy Clerk and Maaler.
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I'll P1 Inatant relief. Final cure In
1 aJAJO. ten dura, and nerer returna.
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IL GODOIM Ii CO.
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Nok. 31 and 3G 9Iadiion Street, Iemiul,
f. HCCADOKB.
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C. M'ruy.
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o'clock in., KAcia 'eHTi.
Funeral will take j loe thli (WEDN'I3-r
DAY) afternoon at 3 o'clock frcin hut Intel
reudence, 2US Withiaaton traet. Members
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and other irieadi era Invited to attnd.
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p.m.. nf croeo. Amur. Mat. vounaait nhiM
of II. M. and India E. Keaeh, aet throe
jeara ana ion noma.
Funeral will take Hat thli (WEDNES
DAY) afternoan at : a'olork fro-a the
inidcnn, Vo. 112 Moiby atreet. Fritnds
and acoeilntaana Invited to attend.
K.OF II. t'lWKIlAI. IVOTICE
fOIRSTER-Tke oOoen aid member! of
Oennaitia Lodro Wi, K. o' 1).. are requeued
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alternooa al 'I o'olork, to attend th funemi
of eiar late brother, Faaxa FitaaaTna. Hem
bora of aiaterlcdf! fraternal If iorited.
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th e lodeo are orderad l aaiembla (
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0'rliwk. aharp. far wi rk in th . Pair 'i
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out lean oflcrod.
Francis Smith Caldwell & Co.
25ft Socontl St., Memphis.
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f. BAKERS CO., Dorchester, Mass.
HA8 delertnineil to give to Paplfa ami
Htudenta of Muala, on ami after March,
1, 11, tbe fame dlacount olniinad by Teach
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Back in Time 02-03-09
Herald Lifestyles Editor
Published 6:00 pm, Thursday, February 5, 2009
Feb. 3, 1949: Paul Toliver and his force from the No Name Café prepared and served a noon meal to more than 100 people attending the opening session of the Consumers Fuel Association annual meeting.
*John I. Bowling says that the Hale County Chapter of the Farm Bureau Federation started out with only 45 members two years ago and now has 1,100 members.
*Miss Margie Cornelius celebrated her 16th birthday with a Valentine-theme party. Among those attending were Reika Robinson, Betty Bawden, Delight and Treasure Pheggley, Tillie Durning, Quadine Billington, Xandra Blair, Alice Ann Yates and Jerry Pennington.
*George Stokes, accompanied by Dr. Guy Woods, provided the entertainment for the Lions Club.
Feb. 3, 1969: Carter "Buck" Lindsay, superintendent of Harvest Queen Mills, was elected president of the Grain Institute in Lubbock.
*Carolyn Clothier has been named the 1969 PHS Betty Crocker Homemaker for Tomorrow.
*Mrs. Don Holley presided at the meeting Tuesday night of the Omega Mu chapter of Beta Sigma Phi.
*F.A. Ray, Peggy Pendergass and Maylene Mickey will participate in an art exhibit at Wayland. (A longtime art association member, Mickey died Jan. 22 at age 87.)
Feb. 3, 1979: The wrestling matches Saturday at the Ag Building will feature Dick Murdock vs. Mr. Pogo, Tokyo Tom vs. "Sonny" Boy Cassidy, Merced Solis vs. Ratamayus and Larry Lane vs. Stan Lane.
*Brad Garner, son of Dr. and Mrs. Gary Garner of Canyon and grandson of Eleanor Griffin of Plainview, will give a flute recital in Northen Recital Hall on the West Texas State University campus.
*Hospital Auxiliary members Mayme Lou Rayburn and Marva Moore presented a $7,200 check to Landon Donnell, assistant administrator of Central Plains Regional Hospital, toward the purchase of a new X-ray machine.
*Plainview City Clerk M.L. Rea is pictured with volume one of the Plainview City Council minutes dating to March 1907.
Feb. 3, 1999: Matador Hall Women's Dormitory, the first building constructed on the Wayland campus in 1909, soon will be torn down with its bricks to be used for three new projects on campus.
*In a letter to the editor, Celia May Walker, who resides at Heritage Home, thanks employees at IHS who decorated for Christmas, making it special for the residents.
*Lickin' the Bowl featured a recipe for pea-viar and cactus salad.
*Scoring points in the Bulldog game against Frenship were Daniel Webb, Rod Ansley, Ryan James, Regie Brooks and Ryan Autry.

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PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Christopher Harris insisted he didn't beat all five of his former in-laws to death in their central Illinois home, only the 14-year-old boy who Harris said was slaughtering his own family when Harris wandered into the house late one night in 2009.
A jury didn't believe Harris, convicting him Friday on five first-degree murder charges after about five hours of deliberations. The 34-year-old faces a mandatory life sentence.
Harris sat quietly as the verdict was read count by count — including home invasion and other lesser charges —dropping his head into his hands before being led away in handcuffs.
Harris was found guilty of using a tire iron to kill 39-year-old Ruth Gee; Ruth's husband, 46-year-old Raymond "Rick" Gee; Rick's son 11-year-old son Austin Gee; and Ruth's children, 16-year-old Justina Constant and the 14-year-old boy, Dillen Constant. All five died inside the family's home in the small town of Beason, about 160 southwest of Chicago. The Gees' then-3-year-old daughter, Tabitha, was beaten but survived.
Harris had been married to Rick Gee's adult daughter, Nicole Gee, who was not in the house. The two had reconciled, but broke up again just days before the Sept. 21, 2009, killings.
Logan County State's Attorney Jonathan Wright said Friday that the guilty verdicts provided some justice for the victims, particularly Dillen, who defense attorneys portrayed as a troubled boy prone to violence.
"It's emotional to know that Dillen was vindicated," Wright said. "It's emotional to know that justice was done."
Defense attorney Dan Fultz told reporters that he went into the case knowing it would be difficult to convince a jury to acquit Harris, in part because of evidence from the Gee home; partly because Harris often lied to police; and because, according to testimony, Harris slept with a former girlfriend the morning after the killings.
One particularly damning piece of evidence, Fultz said, was a pathologist's testimony that Dillen was immobile or close to it for most of the more than 50 blows he suffered.
"That fact that someone hit him repeatedly is problematic," Fultz said. "It can't be denied."
Juror Seth Jones agreed that the evidence against Harris was strong, including a bloody palm print that matched Harris' found on a bathroom counter above Austin Gee's body.
"I honestly was really looking through everything to try and find something to say he's not guilty," said Jones, who is 19. "All the evidence against was way too stacked up against him."
A number of the Gee family's relatives were in court. All declined comment. One, a woman who only identified herself as family, hugged Jones in the hallway outside the courtroom.
"Thank you so much," she said as she cried.
"Stay strong," Jones told her.
Harris did not dispute that he and his brother, Jason Harris, drank, smoked marijuana and used cocaine on Sept. 20, 2009. He told the court they went to the Gees' home to buy more marijuana. Harris said when he walked into the house around 1 a.m. Sept. 21, he saw Rick, Ruth and Austin Gee all badly hurt or dead. He said he then fought Dillen.
But Jason Harris told the court he believed they went to the Gee's home that night because his brother — after a night of failed attempts to convince several women to join him —wanted to have sex with Justina Constant.
Jason Harris, who is now 25, said his brother went into the home with a tire iron. Harris said he listened, frightened, from outside, to screams and loud thuds. And he said he watched Christopher Harris briefly beat Dillen outside the house.
Afterward, Jason Harris said, Christopher Harris admitted he'd killed all five: "I (messed) up. I killed them all."
Jason Harris also initially lied to police, too, and helped his brother burn bloody clothes and dispose of the tire iron and other evidence. Jason Harris was at one point charged with murder but agreed to plead guilty to lesser charges that, with time served and good behavior, could see him freed from prison in six years.
He also has a prior conviction for perjury, something defense lawyers emphasized. Jones, the juror, said he only trusted portions of Jason Harris' testimony that were backed up by evidence.
One defense witness, an expert from Iowa State University on video game violence, testified that based on records from school and elsewhere, Dillen had a number of risk factors for potential violence: He had twice pulled knives on his older sister, performed poorly at school and had a penchant for violent video games.
Rick and Ruth Gee's drug use and open sexual relationship were potential problems, too, said the expert, Craig Anderson.
But Judge Scott Drazewski barred Anderson — who never met Dillen or any of his family — from offering his opinion on whether the teen was capable of committing the murders.


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Art by Carolina Gynning
Carolina Gynning is a very known media icon in Sweden and she is also an amazing artist who paints these gorgeous paintings plus she has also launched a glass collection with the motives of her paintings. Additionally she is a writer, model, Tv-host and she has also launched her very own fragrance "Go-Girl".
To me, her art is so inspirational and I think that every piece have a story which is sometimes both sad and happy. What I truly love is that you can really feel that the paintings have been painted by someone who really believes in what she is creating, and that the painter has her heart hundred percent into her work. Bravo!


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This Week on the Island 09/14/2014
'This week on the Island' is written by Doug Bennett and is an update to friends about happenings in Key West last week. Everything is true except for those parts that are lies.
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Weather: It is truly the rainy season/hurricane season/summer. Some rain most every day with temperatures in the mid 80's and lots of humidity. More rain on the way.
This week I read 'Key West Explained' by Marsh Muirhead. A great little paperback that made me want to visit Key West. I suggest that you may want to read it if you are coming here, been here, or ever heard of the place.
This week there was not a lot happening. I did forget to mention that last week was 'Women in Paradise'. Lots of ladies holding hands. Next week is 'Bike Week', so it will be lot of bikes with no mufflers.
The excitement this week was giving Boca a bath. He smelled doggie, he didn't want a bath. We had a 'discussion' he won and he still smells doggie. This is a picture of my hand.
I was going to the library to get a new book to read next week when Tim (he used to give tours for Parrot Heads) came by and mentioned that Michael Haskins was down at Smokin' Tuna signing his latest book 'Nobody Wins'. I got on my trike and went to Smokin' Tuna and got a copy.
Michael gave me a ticket for an adult beverage, so I went outside to the bar and met Amber
And we talked as I had my rum and orange juice. Life is good in the Keys.
'Close to Perfect, far from Normal'
Doug Bennett
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Doug Bennett
Lat 24.5591N, Long 81.8016W
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DAGUPAN CITY – Mayor Belen T. Fernandez held a year-end meeting with all department heads on December 28 where she briefed them on what to do if the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) fails to pass the 2016 annual budget of P768 million by January this year.
In that meeting, she urged department heads to properly use their 2015 Project Procurement Management Plan (PPMP) in accordance with what the law dictates if the city has no new annual budget by next month.
The proposed 2016 annual budget of P768 million is P77 higher than the 2015 annual budget of P691 million.
Fernandez is however confident that the SP will be able to pass the proposed annual budget so the city government will not suffer much financial woes at the start of the New Year.
"I have faith on the wisdom of the SP that it will eventually approve our city's 2016 budget as this will redound to the benefit of our city and people," Fernandez said.
Fernandez expressed fear that if the city operates on a reenacted budget, there will be delay in the delivery of services like the implementation of infrastructure projects as well as the salary standardization for regular employees, and a good number of job order employees will lose their jobs.
Moreover, the city's good financial housekeeping status will not be maintained, thus it may lose its chance to win anew the Seal of Good Governance (SGG) and the Performance Challenge Fund (PCF) of P5 million.
In anticipation of a reenacted budget, Fernandez urged all department heads to follow the legal flow in processing their PPMP.
She reiterated the procedures that there must be an appropriation first before a request form for procurement of goods and services is charged from their PPMP and for department heads to attach a proposal or budgetary requirements duly approved by the mayor.
Also, they must submit an accomplished purchase request before the City Budget Office will certify as to the availability of appropriation duly signed by the Budget Officer then it will be submitted to the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) to undergo the bidding process.
"After the bidding, accomplish a purchase order before the delivery of goods or items is made. If the goods or items are delivered, prepare an accomplished inspection and acceptance report and an accomplished disbursement voucher to enable the City Treasurer's Office to prepare the check or cash disbursement for release," said Budget Officer Luz de Guzman. (Joseph C. Bacani/CIO/Dec. 28, 2015)
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Maestro Raffaele Ponti
Winning admirers and exciting audiences, conductor Raffaele Ponti is known as an artist of dynamic personality, charismatic performances, and superb musicianship. Ponti's trademark is in the breadth of his vision, the clarity of his interpretation, and the rich beauty of his sound.
The Chicago Courier News writes, "Maestro Ponti is a rising star, someone gaining international acclaim and attention. He has a tremendous zest for music, an exuberance recalling both the roar and rush of a roller coaster ride. Fans worldwide say that his passion shows. Ponti brings an exhilarating energy level to center stage. It's an electrifying swagger-empowering and enabling him to pull music from light to darkness and back again."
David Kim, Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra writes, "Maestro Ponti is first and foremost, a wonderful and natural musician. His conducting technique is simple, clear, and uncluttered with mannerisms. He is extremely generous of spirit and is a sympathetic accompanist. I also find Maestro Ponti to be efficient in his use of rehearsal time."
Robert Bonfiglio, Harmonica Virtuoso states, "I just performed the Villa-Lobos Harmonica Concerto with Maestro Raffaele Ponti and I was stunned by what an unbelievable conductor he is; wonderful, dazzling, exciting, I don't know what to say other than "very musical."
Raffaele is Artistic Director and Conductor of the Paducah Symphony Orchestra (KY), Charlotte Symphony Orchestra (FL), Genesee Symphony Orchestra (NY), former Principal Conductor and Music Director, now Regular Guest Conductor of I.K.O. Italia Konzert Opera International, Founding Director of Festival di Musica da Camera in Ripatransone, Italy, and continues to appear with prominent orchestras around the United States and Europe.
Michael Ludwig, Concert Violinist writes, "Raffaele brings extraordinary artistry and incredible excitement and passion to the podium, a musician of great sensitivity and high artistry. Raffaele had a wonderful rapport with the orchestra. He has tremendous skill in communicating his musical thoughts and expressions, and is extremely efficient in his rehearsing method. Most importantly, Raffaele approaches the music with a great artistic sensibility. His interpretations are passionate, exciting, and well thought out. He brings great excitement and enthusiasm that is palpable to the concert goers, as well as the orchestra."
Raffaele's dynamic personality with excellent people skills makes him a favorite with everyone, orchestra, audience, board members and sponsors.
Former Executive Director, Daniel Sene states, " Raffaele is an extremely skilled conductor who achieves great results with the musicians he works with. The orchestra respects his musical vision and responds with great performances. As a result of his leadership, our orchestra has seen phenomenal growth in season ticket sales. Additionally, Raffaele understands the role of a modern Artistic Director and thus relates extremely well with patrons and donors."
This season Raffaele led the Buffalo Philharmonic and Erie Philharmonic with immediate return engagements, and makes his debut as Music Director of the Charlotte Symphony (FL). Recent engagements include the Buffalo Philharmonic, Erie Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic, Paducah Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Genesee Symphony, Sofia Symphony, Varna State Opera, Orchestra di Pescara, Austin Symphony, Siena Sinfonia, Binghamton Philharmonic, Elgin Symphony, Teatro Lirico d'europe, Billings Symphony, Italia Konzert Opera, Utica Symphony, Schenectady Symphony, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, and Syracuse Symphony.
Ponti has worked with world class artists David Kim, Allen Vizzutti, David Halen, Michael Ludwig, Juana Zayas, Philippe Quint, Elena Urioste, Jeffrey Biegel, Pip Clarke, Robert Bonfiglio, Ettore Nova, and Ambra Vespasiani.
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As another academic year begins, The Maha team wishes the best of luck to three members that have enjoyed a stay for many months. The work produced by these researchers is an invaluable addition to our team, and the multi-cultural nature of our visitors truly makes the Maha Research Center a unique place to work.
Takayoshi Ichiyanagi, an assistant professor from the National Defense Academy of Japan, in Tokyo, has spent a full year at Maha aiding the development of our CASPAR modeling software.
Takayoshi Ichiyanagi
Najoua Jouini has also worked to further the development of the CAPSAR simulation tool. She has spent her time investigating the thermal effects between the valve plate and the cylinder block. Her work has produced a useful thermal module to predict temerature in this gap, a topic for which she recently received recognition at the 5th FPNI Phd Symposium. She will be returning to Germany to finish her Diploma.
Najoua Jouini
Donatien Keho is yet another servant of CASPAR. He has aided some of our other students by running simulations and interpreting the results. During pump analysis it is often necessary to run tens, sometimes hundreds, of simulations, and every concurrent process makes the job just a little bit quicker.
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Bethel woman faces multiple charges
Published 8:00 pm, Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The woman faces additional charges for cocaine found during the arrest, police said.
According to police reports, Kim Burns, 52, was charged with fourth-degree larceny, credit card theft and possession of narcotics within 1,500 feet of a school.
Burns was held on $27,000 bond and is due in court April 24.


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Magazine article University Business
Seton Hall Smartphones
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Students and technology go hand in hand, especially when you hand out smartphones at orientation. Seton Hall University (N.J.) did just that with Nokia Lumia 900 smartphones during orientation in June. "It's an exciting time here at Seton Hall," says David Middleton, assistant vice president for administration and executive director of the university's Center for Mobile Research and Innovation. "This is part of an ongoing effort we've been taking on for a few years," he says, adding that students also receive a PC.
Smartphones are the next evolution in their laptop program that started in 1997, he says. "The value of having that history and these established partnerships was critical for us to be able to do this and do it effectively." There is an assumption that all students come to campus with a smartphone, but the ones who don't won't be broadcasting it, Middleton points out. "But by ensuring they all have the same technology in their pockets, we can be sure we're providing the same experience to them all equitably."
The move to handheld devices is an acknowledgement of the "meteoric" rise in mobile technology, as well as a desire to ensure graduates are prepared to work with a variety of devices when they enter the professional world. "We have a primary partnership with Microsoft, AT&T, and Nokia," Middleton explains. "That allows us to provide a greater package than we could afford. There are no extra technology fees associated with it."
While strategies are being developed to integrate the devices into the curriculum, the goal of distributing them during orientation was social development. …


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Metric Prefixes
Date: 9/15/96 at 13:55:21 From: Technical Services Subject: Metric Prefixes What are the metric prefixes for 10e4, 10e5, 10e7, 10e8 and the corresponding neg. values? Thanks...
Date: 9/16/96 at 14:27:54 From: Doctor Tom Subject: Re: Metric Prefixes There aren't any. It's convenient to have names for 10, 100, 1/10, and 1/100, but it's not worth it to have names for the sizes you've mentioned. Nobody would remember them. So I simply say 10 million volts or 10 megavolts, et cetera. For more information on metric prefixes, see http://edie.cprost.sfu.ca/~rhlogan/metric.html . -Doctor Tom, The Math Forum Check out our web site! http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
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STANFORD, Calif. | Kevin Hogan threw for 254 yards and three touchdowns in his first collegiate start, and No. 16 Stanford overcame four turnovers to rally past No. 13 Oregon State 27-23 and stay in control of its Pac-12 title hopes.
Cody Vaz fumbled late in the fourth quarter to give the Cardinal (8-2, 6-1) the ball at the Beavers 29. The only Oregon State (7-2, 5-2) turnover turned out to be the difference.
Hogan hit tight end Zach Ertz for a 13-yard touchdown for the go-ahead score and Stanford stopped the Beavers twice more. The Cardinal will head to second-ranked Oregon next week with a chance to take over sole control of the North Division and move closer to a spot in the conference championship game.
#3 Kansas State 23, TCU 10
FORT WORTH, Texas | Collin Klein ran for two touchdowns and Kansas State bolstered its national title hopes with a victory at Big 12 newcomer TCU.
The Wildcats improved to 10-0 for only the second time under coach Bill Snyder, and moved within two wins of likely reaching their first BCS championship game.
Only a few minutes after the start of Kansas State's game, and a rare turnover by Klein, SEC newcomer Texas A&M finished off its 29-24 victory at Alabama, the No. 1 team in the BCS standings and AP poll. The Aggies win gave their old Big 12 rivals at K-State a boost.
TCU (6-4, 3-4 Big 12) didn't take advantage of Klein's interception on the fourth play of the game. The Heisman Trophy hopeful then hit Chris Harper for a 62-yard pass, and ended that drive with a 7-yard TD run. Kansas State, No. 2 in the BCS standings, has games left at Baylor and home against Texas.
#14 Oklahoma 42, Baylor 34
NORMAN, Okla. | Landry Jones threw for 277 yards and two touchdowns, Damien Williams ran for 99 yards and two scores and Oklahoma beat Baylor to move Bob Stoops into sole possession of second place on the school's career wins list.
3#19 Texas 33, Iowa State 7
AUSTIN, Texas |David Ash passed for 364 yards and two touchdowns and Texas honored former coach Darrell Royal by whipping Iowa State.
Ash had a 61-yard touchdown pass to Mike Davis in the first quarter. Johnathan Gray ran for two touchdowns for the Longhorns (8-2, 5-2 Big 12), who won their fourth in a row.
Texas paid tribute during the game to Royal, who died Wednesday at age 88. Texas lined up in the wishbone, the formation Royal introduced to college football in 1968, on the Longhorn's first play. Instead of a run, Texas ran a trick play that resulted in a 47-yard pass.
#21 USC 38, Arizona St. 17
LOS ANGELES | Marqise Lee caught 10 passes for 161 yards and a touchdown, Curtis McNeal rushed for 163 yards and two more scores, and Southern California bounced back from consecutive losses with a victory over skidding Arizona State.
Matt Barkley threw for 222 yards and three TDs while becoming the leading passer in conference history for the Trojans (7-3, 5-3 Pac-12), who overcame a slow start and five turnovers to snap their two-game skid.
USC hasn't lost three straight since 2001, former coach Pete Carroll's first season.
#25 Texas Tech 41, Kansas 34
LUBBOCK, Texas | Eric Stephens took the snap out of the wildcat formation, rolled to his right and threw a 3-yard jump pass to Darrin Moore for a touchdown in double overtime to lead Texas Tech past Kansas.
Kansas quarterback Michael Cummings couldn't connect with Tre' Parmalee in the end zone on fourth-and-9 for Kansas to end the Jayhawks chances.
Cardinal Overcome 4 Turnovers in Victory
STANFORD, Calif. | Kevin Hogan threw for 254 yards and three touchdowns in his first collegiate start, and No. 16 Stanford overcame four turnovers to rally past No. 13 Oregon State 27-23 and stay in control of its Pac-12 title hopes.


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Valentino Rossi is a motorcycle racing legend, but will his legacy be spoiled if he moves back to Yamaha and fails to ride as he did three years ago?
Decisions made with heads, or hearts. And endings, on high notes or otherwise.
If you'll forgive a digression into another kind of racing, recent rumors put me in mind of Secretariat's last race.
Yes, Secretariat, the horse.
Secretariat didn't get his racing career off to a particularly auspicious start. He was never that great coming out of the gate, and in his first race (he was two years old) he started slow and finished fourth. Once he got the hang of it, he won his next five races (although race stewards demoted him one place in one race for bearing in.) It was rare for a two year-old horse to be named Horse of the Year, but he was, in 1972.
The next season, as a three year-old, he won two of the three races he was entered in, prior to the Kentucky Derby. That one loss led many to think a rival horse, Sham, was a favorite to win the first race of the Triple Crown. But Secretariat not only won the Kentucky Derby, he set a track record that still stands.
The next leg of the Triple Crown was the Preakness Stakes, where Secretariat again showed his poor start, leaving the gate dead last. He won, and according to hand-timers set the track record, although the official timing malfunctioned.
The final Triple Crown race, the Belmont Stakes, was held over the longest race distance yet. Secretariat won, setting a record for the largest winning margin, and another track record that's still intact. He was such a dominant favorite that a two dollar bet paid only $2.20.
His owners were contractually forbidden from having him race past the age of three, because they'd already sold his stud rights and every race increased the risk that the investment in those rights would be wiped out in a fatal fall. Inexplicably though, they raced him a few more times. He won his next race easily, but was defeated the first time he raced against older horses. In the five races that followed his Triple Crown, he went three-and-two; hardly invulnerable.
That set up Secretariat's final race, the Canadian International Stakes, in Toronto, on October 28, 1973. I couldn't figure out was why he was racing at all. Although so far, Secretariat had run better and better every time the distance was increased, the 1 5/8ths mile course was his longest distance yet, and the outside turf track crossed main track for a tricky surface change that wasn't even quite level. The organizers had amassed a quality field, including some older horses. The Canadian International Stakes certainly presented the opportunity to go out on a loss. To me, Secretariat had nowhere to go but down.
Rossi (46) ahead of Jorge Lorenzo (99) in 2010 at Valencia. Rossi ended the season third overall while Lorenzo went on to take his first MotoGP Championship of his career.
I've got a personal backstory-connection to this particular race that I won't go into. Suffice it to say that even now when I watch the race film and see Secretariat take the lead a mile into the race (at about the 3:40 mark of this YouTube video) and I hear the track announcer, forgetting himself and yelling, "There he goes! There he goes!" I always get a little weepy.
Secretariat went into a long and happy retirement where, basically, people looked after his every need and all he had to do was eat and screw, until he contracted laminitis and died in 1989. The veterinarian who performed Secretariat's necropsy described seeing the great animal's heart. "We stood there in stunned silence," he said. It was over twice the size of an ordinary horse's.
That's the story that came back to me a few days ago, when we were all sucked in to rumors that Valentino Rossi had signed with Yamaha, and would be returning to team with Jorge Lorenzo next season. As I write this, it's not a certainty that Rossi will leave Ducati, but it seems the smart money's betting on a return to Yamaha after all.
Rossi's equivalent of the Triple Crown might have been winning championships in 125, 250 and 500GP, or winning the last premier-class two-stroke title, the first of the four-stroke titles, and then switching manufacturers and winning again.
But like Secretariat, his next races didn't go so well. His inability to match Stoner's performance on the Ducati have shown his vulnerability. A return to Yamaha is the same kind of high-risk move that Penny Tweedy, Secretariat's owner, made by entering that final race in Canada.
Most fans have short memories. It's easy to blame Rossi's poor results over the last couple of seasons on Ducati, but the fact is that in his last season with Yamaha – Rossi's broken leg notwithstanding – Jorge Lorenzo had taken his measure. I'm sure that Rossi thinks that he can win on the Yamaha, but what will the impact be on his legacy if Lorenzo regularly beats him? He has nowhere to go but down.
If Rossi does, as expected, go back to Yamaha for 2013, it won't be as a result of a calculation done in his head, it will be a decision made in the heart.
Speaking of ending on a high note, earlier this year, the AMA announced that Derek 'Nobby' Clark – he was Mike Hailwood's mechanic, as well as Giacomo Agostini's, and Kenny Roberts' – would be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Then last month, the AMA issued a terse press release rescinding Nobby's induction. According to the AMA, Nobby had never received enough votes from the nominating committee, and his name shouldn't even have been on the ballot.
By then, the damage was done. First Dave Despain, then Dick Mann and King Kenny told the Hall of Fame that if Nobby didn't deserve being in the Hall, they didn't either, and they resigned from it.
'King' Kenny Roberts resigned from the Motorcycle Hall of Fame when the AMA reversed it's announcement that Derek 'Nobby' Clark would not be inducted in the Class of 2012.
It's all a bit too complicated to go into, but if you're curious what went on, I've created a special category tag on my personal blog, bikewriter.com, devoted to 'The Nobby Clark Affair.' Suffice to say that at the end of the day, the AMA has come about as close as it ever does to admitting that it screwed up, and taken steps to correct the situation by putting Nobby's induction to a special supplementary vote. It's a heartening example of the organization ignoring the byzantine rules that are supposed to govern Hall of Fame nominations and instead, just doing the right thing. Now, I hope that everyone who gets to vote does the right thing too, and Nobby gets inducted with the Class of 2012.
While I was sitting at the keyboard writing this Backmarker, I got a message from my friend Steve Hodgson, who lives on the Isle of Man and managed the Padgett's shop there for years. He told me that Vern Wallis, perhaps the top expert on post-war Velocette motorcycles, died last week.
Vern was one of the people who I wrote about in Riding Man. He was the central character in one of those serendipitous, almost magical things that happen to motorcyclists on the Isle of Man. This is what I wrote about meeting him…
A few minutes ago, there was the sound of an old single, thump-coughing to stop.
Andrew, Padgett's apprentice mechanic, is prodding a bit of motorbike. He wanders up the oily concrete steps from the workshop into Steve's office, then stops, as if he's forgotten why he came up.
The whole "employees only" thing doesn't happen here. A customer has followed him past the red stenciled caution sign that is the shop's only concession to future liabilities. The guy is maybe 50, in a Cordura riding suit that's seen some miles. Andrew hands the stranger his part–the float and bowl from an old Amal–saying, "It looks OK to me." Without a word, the stranger walks back down through the service bay and outside.
A few minutes later, Andrew is back, handing Steve a £5 note.
"What's that for?" asks Steve. "He just gave it to me," replies Andrew. "What did you do?" "His carb was leaking. I just told him to pull off his float bowl and I'd look at it." Andrew, who is only 16, adds "But I've never seen anything like it, so I don't have clue what's wrong." "Who is he?"
"He's rich, that's all I know," says Andrew. Which is funny, because he didn't look rich.
On cue, the stranger returns. Evidently, just pulling and replacing the float bowl hasn't fixed anything. Despite appearances, when he opens his mouth to speak I know what Andrew meant. It's not what he says; a transcript of his conversation would betray no trace of snobbism – it's the way he says it. I'm no expert on English accents, but I saw My Fair Lady, and this guy sounds like Professor Henry Higgins, not some Mr. Dolittle.
To rescue Andrew (as usual, the apprentice is the only one doing any real work) Steve and I go out to look at the guy's bike. It's a 1960 Velocette Venom Clubman. Original and unrestored but with an Amal now dribbling out fuel at a rate some prostate patients would call genuine progress. It's quite pleasant standing there in the sun, speculating about what the problem could be, but none of us really has a clue. We decide to call someone.
In his office, Steve flips through a battered Rolodex. On the Isle of Man, you're never more than a couple of calls – a friend of a friend – from an expert on any motorcycle subject. The Velocette owner, meanwhile, introduces himself.
His name is Iain Griffin. He rode a BSA B40 back in his college days, and has owned the Velo since the mid-'80s. "When I bought it, I was actually living in Australia," he explained, "but I used to come back to England every year or so on trips. Whenever I came back, I'd ride it for a day or two." Now with his kids grown, he'd recently been transferred back to England. For the first time in ages, he'd got four consecutive days vacation and he'd set off that morning from Birmingham on the Velo.
Meanwhile, Steve's tracked down a Velocette expert named Vern Wallis. The next call is to Vern himself, who suggests that if the bike will make it, the owner should just ride it to him. "Turn right between Sulby Bridge and Ginger Hall." A lot of addresses on the Isle of Man are home names, not numbers. So Wallis's address is simply "Rider's Retreat," Sulby.
"Sulby," says Griffin. "That's on the TT course, isn't it?" I start to explain how to get there, and he stops me. "Wait, I've got a map on the bike."
He unfolds a faded, brittle topographical map of the Island. Each corner is peppered with pinholes. He tells us that he bought the map in 1973, and put it up on the wall of his room at Oxford. He wanted to come to the TT after graduating. Since then, despite a series of moves that took him farther and farther from the Island, he'd always had it on the wall.
In fact, the road we need to show him isn't on the map. Although the housing development where Wallis lives is not new, it post-dates Griffin's map. I offer to lead the way on the CBR, and keep an eye on the Velo. Out on the course we trundle along at about 40 miles an hour. The old Venom has a ribbed front tire that looks a little too original for my liking, but when I check him out in my rear-view mirrors, Griffin confirms himself as a smooth, composed rider.
Gary Johnson through Barregarrow in 2012, just one of the iconic segments on the Isle of Man TT road course.
It feels nice to be showing someone else the way 'round. I imagine him seeing the famous landmarks for the first time: the Highlander, Glen Helen, the bridge at Ballaugh, the front doors of the houses in Kirk Michael that open right onto the course. These places are now more familiar to me than the streets I grew up on, but leading him around, it's as though I'm seeing them again for the first time, too. I see the scenery, see the flowing mix of fast and medium bends, the places where I've learned to compromise one bend, in order to be better positioned for the following one. And it hits me: this would be one of the world's great riding roads, even if it weren't famous.
Iain Griffin is grinning like a kid when we stop in front of the Velocette expert's house. Vern's wife comes out. We're expected. She cocks an eyebrow at the gleaming CBR I've parked on the street, looks at me and says, "That's a bit posh." I shrug. Then she looks more warmly at the Venom. "Push it in here." Vern's already lowered one of the two bike lifts in his garage, and backed some project off it, to make space.
There's a round of handshaking and introductions, and Sally goes in to make tea. This is not your ordinary garage. There's a restored Harley Sprint on the other lift, a perfect Velocette KTT in race trim parked off to one side, and a Manx Norton engine on a workbench in the far corner. Another Venom, "built from bits" for a friend, awaits pickup in the driveway. The only reason I don't describe it as "showroom" is that they never looked that good when they were new.
Griffin's Velocette is placed on the vacant stand, and it's Sally who uses the foot-actuated hydraulic pump to raise it to a convenient level. Vern says something about a bad knee or a hip replacement. Griffin has never seen a hydraulic lift, and says, "That's fantastic!" with real enthusiasm. Later on, when Vern's compressor kicks in, Griffin jumps and asks, "What's that?"
Vern disassembles the Amal, handling it with a familiarity that other men reserve for their TV remotes. I can see that he doesn't need to concentrate, so I ask him how long he's been here. He looks up into the middle distance and counts something off with little nods of his head. "Let's see," he says. "This Manx, it'll be 14 years." The son of a machinist, Vern apprenticed at Collier's, one of England's biggest Veloce dealers, when he was 14. He saved up enough to come to the TT for the first time in '51, finally racing in the Manx Grand Prix himself in the mid-'60s. When Veloce closed its doors, Vern continued working on the bikes, restoring them, effectively serving as the "help desk" for the Velocette Owner's Club. Iain Griffin's Venom has broken down on the Isle of Man. Purely by chance, he's brought it to the man who is, quite possibly, the world's greatest living expert on sick Velocettes.
In the time it takes to drink a mug of tea, the carb's been fitted with a new needle, and the Venom's been test fired. The subject of payment never comes up, but Griffin insists there must be some way he can repay them, and suggests that he'll take them to dinner the following evening. The Sulby Glen, just down the road, has a good kitchen, and they agree to meet there. Griffin roots through his luggage, a gym bag bungeed to a carrier on the Velo's back fender, to find a notebook and take down their phone number. To find it, he pulls out a long scarf, and Sally says,
"Ooh, somebody's been to uni." (It took me a while to put it together, but I later realized it was a scarf in Oxford colors.)
"What about you?" Vern and his wife want my story, too. "We've seen you practicing." When I tell them what I'm doing here, Sally immediately says, "Well, stop in any time. There's always tea on here, and a loo." In fact, my friend Karolyn, who is coming from San Francisco for the TT, owns a Venom. I tell them I have a friend who I'd like to introduce. "I'll be knocking on your door some time during TT week to bring her around."
"Oh, no one bothers knocking during TT week," they say. "The door's always open. People just come and go." (In fact, I won't get around to visiting them during the races, but I see them standing out by the course, on the little straightaway between Sulby Bridge and Ginger Hall. They're there every session, and wave at me every time I come past.


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I recently impulsively purchased a bottle of Mahia at the packie. I sampled it at the instore tasting and liked it, but I bought it without looking at the $38 price tag. Yikes $$! Now I can't find any cocktail recipes for it! It was like better than tequila, with a good aftertaste. Any ideas? Here is their website:


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The Kansas basketball team has missed out on a five-star recruiting target.
Trae Young, a 6-foot-2 point guard, announced his commitment to Oklahoma in a Thursday afternoon news conference at Norman North High School, snubbing Kansas and Oklahoma State, his other two finalists. He said he was in "a place of peace" with his decision, and called OU that place of peace.
"I wouldn't change a thing," Young said of the recruiting process. "I wouldn't change a thing about this."
The Sooners and coach Lon Kruger were the first school in Young's recruitment when the prospect was in eighth grade and play in his home town of Norman, Okla.
"Coach Kruger, I love his excitement. It brings out the 25 year old in him," Young said. "He's passionate for the game, he loves the game and I can't wait to continue to work with him.
"This is just home. This has always been home to me. I've built relationships with a lot of coaches throughout the years. The recruiting process has been very long and very tough."
Young is the No. 14-ranked recruit in the Class of 2017 at Rivals.com. The guard is averaging more than 40 points this season. Young's father, Ray, played at Texas Tech from 1996-2000, once putting up 41 points in a 1999 game against the Jayhawks in Lubbock.
The Jayhawks, who graduate senior point guard Frank Mason and could lose junior guard Devonte' Graham to the NBA Draft, will now turn to five-star guard Trevon Duval (No. 3-ranked guard) in an attempt to fill the backcourt void. Arizona, Baylor, Duke and Seton Hall are also involved in the recruitment of Duval, who visited Lawrence on Jan. 31.