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- A Matter of Health.
r Housekeepers faintly realize the
■ danger of an indiscriminate use of the
numerous baking xiowders nowadays
found upon every hand, and which are
• ’ urged upon consumers with such per-
; — _ siatenoy by peddlers and many grocers
on account of the big profits made in
their sale. Most of these powders are
made from sharp and caustic acids and
. • alkalies which burn and inflame the
alimentary organs and_ cause indiges
tion, heartburn, diaxihceal diseases,
etc. Sulphuric (icid, caustic potash,
burnt alum, all are used as gis-produc-
ing agents in suoh baking, powders..
Most housekeepers are aware of the
painful effects produced when these
chemioals are applied to the external
flesh. How much more acute' must be.
their action upon the delioate internal
membranes ! Yet unscrupulous man
ufacturers do not hesitate to' use them,
because they make a very low-costpow-
der, nor to urge the use of their pow
ders so made,, by all kinds of alluring ad
vertisements and false representations.
All the low priced or so-called cheap
baking powders, and all powders sold
with a gift or . prize, belong to this
Baking powders made from; .chem
ically pare cream of tartar and bi-car
bonate of soda aro among the most
useful of modern culinary devices.*
■They not only make the preparation
of finer and more delicious cookery
possible, but .they have added to the
digestibility. and' wholesdmeness of
our food. But baking, powders must
be composed of; such pure and whole-
V some ingredients or they must'be ta
booed entirely.
Dr. Edson, Commissioner of Health
of New York, in an article in the
“Doctor of Hygiene,” indicates that
the advantages of a good baking pow
der and the exemption from - the dan
gers of had ones in which the harsh
and canstic chemicals are used, are to
be secured by the use of Boyal Baking
Powder exclusively, and he recom
mends this to all consumers. “The
Boyal,” he says, “contains nothing
but cream of tartar and soda
refined to a chemical purity, which
when combined under the influence of
heat and moisture produce pure car
bonic, or leavening, gas. The two
materials used, cream of tartar and
soda, are perfectly harmless even when
eaten, but in this preparation they are
combined in exact compensating,
weights, so that when chemical action
begins between them in the dough they
practically disappear, the substance of
both having been takon to' form car
bonic-acid gas.” Hence it is, he says,
that the Boyal Baking Powder is the
most perfect of all conceivable agents
for leavening purposes.
It seems almost incredible that any
manufacturer or dealer should urge the
sale of baking powders containing in
jurious chemicals in place of those of
a well-known, pure and wholesome
character simply for the sake of a few
cents a pound greater profit; bat since
they do, a few words of warning seem
to be necessary.
Havoc Wrought hy' tlie Gull
Appalling loss of Life and Millions in
Property Swept Away.
■ The news received at New Orleans
Wednesday morning from the islands
on the lower coast of Louisiana is
most appalling. The rumored disaster
at Grand Isle has been confirmed* and
the death list has swollen until it now
reaches into the thousands. Grand
Isle was all but swept out of existence;
and.out.of 750 souls who were on the
island-at the time of the storm, only
about twenty escaped. 'The island ; of
Chieniere Carrida, about a mile and a
half west of Grand-Isle, contained over
two thousand persons. Of these only
about ode hundred escaped.
/ There are five small iriands in Grand
hay,‘ and each was populated'by a
large number of fishermen, of whom
only a few escaped alive.' At Bayou
Coke, eighty-seven persons lost their
lives by actdal count...
APPALM/JUL LOSS OF LIFE.
An Air Thermometer.
The air thermometer is the name
given to a recent English device for
giving warning of a fire. In this ap
paratus the expansion of air by heat in
an air box fitted to tho ceiling of the
room is made to inflate a thifi hollow
India rubber diaphragm. This raises
a small terminal rod, bringing it into
contact with another terminal, an elec
tric cirouit being thus completed, tho
current ringipg an alarm bell and ro
leasing a ..semaphore, which serves to
indicate the location of the outbreak.
As thns arranged the "apparatus con
sists of three essential parts, the air
box, the pulsator, and the indicator.
Heat currents ascending to the ceil
ing cause the enclosed air in the air
box to expand—the force of this ex
pansion being directed -by a pipe to
the under side of the India rubber
diaphragm of the pulsator—an electri
cal current is in this way made and
the alarm given. The air box and
pulsator may be in tlie same room, or
in proximity to each other, but the in
dicators may be placed in any part of
ihe-teulding or at a remote distance.
The sensitiveness -tff such an apparatus
to thermal changes, "and the ease with
which it can be adjusted over a wide
range of temperature, have, it is as
serted, been fully • determined by nu
merous experiments..
The Congressional Directory i
The Congressional Directory shows
that there are twenty-two Represents-
tives in the house of foreign birth.
There is only one negro. Ireland fur
nishes eight members, five of these
being in the' New York delegation.
Germany gives four, Canada three,
Norway two. Florida, with three
Congressmen, has no native Floridians
on the floor. Georgia furnishes five
Congressmen to other States. Fifty-
five members of the House have work
ed on farms, thirty-two have taught
schools, eight were printers’ appren
tices, four were sailors, two were tele
graph operators, four have been black
smiths, three have been shoemakers,
and two carpenters. There are in the
House eighty-seven graduates of col
leges and thirty-one whose college
course was cut off. - Of the three hun
dred and fifty-six members two hund
red and seven have practiced law.
Forty-two members were in the Union
army and forty-seven in the Confed-
ate army.
To Mend Broken Cast iron..
f Here is a recipe which Oflice. and'
! Laboratory recommends for broken
oast iron: Take two ounces of sal am
moniac, one ounce' of sublimed, sul
phur and one pound of cast iron fil
ings; mix in a mortar and keep the
powder perfectly dry. When it is to
be used, mix it with twohty times its
weight of clean iron filings,, grind the
. Whole in a mortar, wet with water
until it becomes a paste,- and apply to
the parts to be mended. It will often
jgk become, after a time, as strong and
• hard as'any part of the metal.
-
Fbuit-bating bats are as menacing
L to Australian farmers as the -rabbit.
, They call them" flying foxes, when they
v advance upon orchards of evenings.
'' Another great: annoyance" to farmers
in Australia is the poisonous -nettle, or
‘•‘stinging tree.” It is; so poisonous
that if in heart-shaped leaves are only
put in motion they cause one to sneeze.
They are covered with nettles on Both
sides and a stirigtrom them gives great
. pain. Horses wounded by them roll
over as if mad with'jiain/ and Hf they
do not at onoe receive': attention they
1 in this way kill themselves. •'*
Still Booming. '
Eastern Man—“How are
Dngout City now?”-..
"Western Man—“Booming, just
booming. Why, I happened to want
a little spending money last week, and
take mo half an hour to get a
3 on my hogte, jVeid
Nearly 2,000, killed anil five million
dollars’ worth of property; annihilated
is the record so far. There has never
been anything approaching it since
the country was settled. ' More than
half-the population in the.region over
which the hurricane swept are dead.
Everything is wrecked. One house in
ten is standing, and the surviving pop
ulation is left in the most destitute con
dition/ without food or even clothing,
for most of them weresleeping in their
beds when their houses were crashed
by the wind or waves. More than »
dozen relief expeditions went down
from New Orleans Wednesday to dis
tribute food amoqg the survivors, *-
The death list is already above 1,800
and only a portion of the devastated,
country has been heard from. It is
sncli a network of islands, bayous,'
lakes and swamps that it will be
week before the relief boats can trav
erse all the waterways and discover
the full extent of the damage done.
The worst, however, is known, for all
the large settlements have been heard
from and it is only the smaller ones
scattered along the bayous and in
terior lakes that will have to be vis
ited.
1,840 DEAD.
The deaths so far reported, and
which are confirmed, ns follows: Che-
meie Cnminada 820 fishermen from
the settlement; at sea in their boats
240; Bayou Cleallon 40; Oyster Bayou
28; Bayou Cook 87; fishing settlements
around Bayou Cook 43; Bird island
45; Simon islnndl6; Bosario island20;
Bazor island 5; St.Malo,25,aIl Malays,
Adam bay, 200; Fishing camps around
Daisy postoffice, 20; Grand bayou,26;
Tropical Bend, 10; Pass Aloutre, 40;
Pointe a la Hatche, 4; Grand Prairie,
5; Bartholemy, 6; Fort St. Philip, 6;
Hospital bay, 8; Sheel beach, 12;
Grand hank, 8; Grand isle, 10;
Bnras, 3; Point Pleasant, 5;
Sixty-Mile Point, 3; Bayou
Andre, .40, all Chinamen employed
by a -San Francisco Chinese firm in
packing shrimp. Devi.’s Flat, 1; Boli
var Point, 3; Happy Jack, 2 ; Nich-
olls’s postoffice, 3; Faitulings, 3; F.
Cosses, 5; Stockfletcho, 1; Quaran
tine, 2; Eadsport, 1; Pearl Biver, I;
Near Point Pleasant, 2; Bay St. Louis-,
2; Back bay, 1; Lost onWebre, 20;
Lost in the bogs or at sea 45; Bayon
la Fonil 110: Bayon Dufon 10; Cal-
sausage 20; on lugger General Yixie 4.
ALONG THE COAST.
The towns and settlements extend
along the Mississippi from Pointe a la
Hache; forty-five miles below New
Orleans to the gulf on Balon Barntara
and the oyster reefs between there
and the month of the Mississipi, and
on the islands stretching from the
Mississippi to_ the main land at Cbe-
meie Caminadn, Bay St. Louis and
Pearl river are in Mississipi.
The great majority of the people
drowned are whites and not over one
hundred are colored.
olated.
News from the lower coast is heart
rending.- At Grand Bay four churches
were destroyed., while at .Scranton five
churches suffered a like fate. Houses
have been scattered, crops ruined and
desolation appears on every hand.
Between Mobile and New Orleans
are twenty miles of bridges, the long
est of which are at Bay St. Louis and
Biloxi. All these bridges are washed
away, and traffic on tho Louisville and
Nashville railroad is suspended.
Accounts of the storm are coming
in slowly nnd it will bp several days
before a true account can be obtained.
TEE DAMAGE ABOUT NEW OELEXNS.
A New Orleans special says : A ter-
riilic storm struck New Oi leans late
Sunday night, coming from the north
east, nnd raged all day Monday,
sweeping to the south along the line of
the Mississippi river, through the par
ish of Plaquemine to the gulf.
The storm was one of the worst
whichever visited this part of the
country and, as far as can be learned,
twenty-four or more persons were
killed and probably three times as
many wounded, some fatally.
The wind had reached a velocity of
48 miles an hour at 8 o’clock. Sunday
night, when, the' anemoneter of the
weather bureau was .destroyed, and it
millions in pbopertv dost.
The damage is now estimated as fol
lows: New Orleans, $360,000; Palque-
mino parish; houses, etc., $600,000;
orange crop, $280,000; other crops,
$250,000 j cattle, etc., $250,000; ship
ping—schooners, luggers, etc., $250,-
000; cattle', etc., $250,000; fishing set
tlements, $40,000; railroads,$900,000;
miscellaneous,$350,000; total, $3,590,-
000. *>'.
Between New Orleans and Mobile
tlie damage done is placed at $500,000,
and in and around Mobile at$300,000,
the total damage amounting to $4,300,
000. The loss of the crop of Plaque-
mine parish is estimated at- 25 per
cent the loss in oranges is 75 per cent,
while about 20 per cent of the orange
trees were killed or blown down. .The
oyster and fishing fleet is almost com
pletely destroyed and the levees badly
washed and will have be rebuilt. ' The
shipping suffered severely, bnt prin
cipally the the smaller vessels. The
dueW ebre, Aspinwall, Chamberlane and
two other steamers are supposed to be
in the wreck. One of them was blown
into a -rice field. One hundred and
twenty schooners and barges and 265
luggers are sunk, in most cases accom
panied with heavy losp of life. Some
150 small ^vessels are missing and are
supposed to bd’lost. The. entire gull
coast of Mississippi and Louisiana
westeof Atchafolaya is . strewn with
wreckage.
DAHAGE TO BAiLIiOADS.
Of the railroads, the Louisville and
Nashville is the heaviest sufferer and
the damage inflicted will run from
$500,000 to $000,000.
The greater /portion of the line be
tween; New Orleans and Mobile, 142
miles, is more or less damaged. Nine,
thousand' feet "of the Bay St, Louis
bridge is completely swept away, 3,000
feet of the Biloxi bridge is gone, while
the Soranton and. Jackson "bridges Are
ill badly injured and cannot be used.
About five miles of "embankment and
trestle work and fifteen miles of track
are washed away.
60 miles an hour.
The crash of sheds 'and buildings
blown down, trees.torn upend houses
unroofed, caused intense alarm, and.
most of the population of the city re
mained up all night, expecting their
houses to” be blown down.
, The revetment leveq on Lake Pont
cliartraiD,' which protects New Orleans
from overflow on the fear, was washed
away,;and water swept Over it fifteen
feet or more. Many of the yachts
there were sunk or injured. The
tracks of the Louisville and Nashville
railway wfere badly washed for fifteen
miles, and it will be several days be
fore it can run trains.
THE MOBTALITY SEVEBE.
Three deaths and one person wound*
ed severely, if not fatally, is the mor
tality record in New Orleans. Below,
the city it is far worse, •especially in
Plaquemine. Here the wind reached
a velocity of 100 to' 125 miles an hour,
sweeping everything^before 'it. The
parish seat of justice; Pointe ala Hache,
a town of 2,500 people, was the worst
sufferer. In the town not a single
house escaped injury. ’ Thecourthouse
and the Catholic church, the principal
buildings in the town, and some twenty
other buildings were" destroyed, and,
the situation was so threatening that
the greater part of the people, fearing
destruction in their buildings, camped
out in the street all night in the heavy
rain.
The air was filled with debris, and
the wind was blowing so fiercely that
many of them had to anchor them
selves against trees to prevent being
blown away. Four" grown persons ore
known to have been killed in Pointe a
la Hache, and several children—how
many is not exactly known. It is
probable that the mortality will be
greatly increased when the news is re
ceived from tho far-away seti’ements
on the gulf coast below Pointe a la
Hache, in tho range country of Lou
isiana.
Daily Routine of Both Houses
Briefly Epitomize!
What is Beiug Done to Allay Finan
cial Depression and Bring Relief.
TEE OTANCE CBOr- BDINED.
■ The orange crop was ripe upon the
trees and about to be harvested. It
was completely destroyed in the storm,
with a loss of $350,000 on this one
item. The crop in the orange farms
of Ll-adish Johnson, the largest in the
south, had been, sold to a fruit denier
in New Orleans, Mr. Oteri, for $65,-
000. It is said that, there is not an
orange left on the trees, and it is the
same all the way down the coast. The
sugar district escaped the worst of the
blow. There is much damage to liet
and sugar cane.
, EIBST BEPOBTS.
Special dispatches of Tuesday state :
that the storm .which visited Mobile,
Ala., Monday left it a perfect wreck.
At present the .damage can only be
conjectured, hut it is. safe to estimate
it at nearly a million dollars. Several
schooners and small crafts were dis-
.mantled and the passenger steam
er "Orescent City whs wrecked on the
bay ,shore. " Several of the scows work
ing in the lower bay; went ashore,
but fortunately no one was hurt.
CATTLE DOST BY HUNDREDS.
It is certain that three or four hun
dred head of cattle have been lost,
ho home of Stephen Walker was
ept away and his family, consisting
of-himself, his wife and niece were
drowned. The city was in utter dark
ness Monday and no street cars were
running. There was only one wire
put; of tlie city and no trains are rmjr
BATEB DISPATCHES.
A New Orleans special of Thursday
says: The return of several of the
relief parties sent to the storm-stricken
districts of the state fully confirm’ the
news of Wednesday and adds to the
list' of those drowned or killed a cor
rected list which swells the total num
ber of dead to 2,041. This' may be
increased some 250 or 300 more by
news from tho St. Bernard marshes
and th» vessels off the Louisiana coast,
from which only meagre returns have'
been received. These indicate nearly
complete destruction and that none of
the-smaller vessels in the open sea es-.
caped.
The additional losses reported are :
Rigolets 16; Biloxi 1; Chandlier 110;
Near Grand Bauree 10; from vessels
93. The loss of life at Clfernue pam-
inada is now known to be 1,250. At
Bayon Andrew seventy-two perished
instead of forty, and at Grand Isle
twenty-four instead of ten.
PEBHAFS ADD ABE DOST.
The only, section from which no re
turns have been received as yet is the
St. Bernard or Lake Bargne marshes.
The marsh extends from Lorgne to
the gnlf. It is a dead level ocean
marsh—more water than land—cover
ing 1,200 square miles. Its only in
habitants were some two hundred fish
ermen, who lived in cabins built on
spiles. Not a word has been heard
from this section since the storm.
Not one of the inhabi
tants has come to town, or any
neighboring settlement. At the spot
in . the Chandeliers where the tornado
was so violent none are said to have
escaped. In the west Plaquemine
parish the wind reached a velocity of
120 miles an hour. The chances of
the Lake Borgne '• fishermen surviving
the hurricane are considered very
doubtful and a boat was sent to their
settlements to see if any survived. Loud
complaints came from-the Bayou Cook
section r pf the .stench from the dead
bodies there. The land is too lo w for
burying. / Already some.; 126 bodies
have conveyed by boat to the high
lands. on the Mississippi at Frysnal
Bend for burial, but many are unbnri-
ed in tho swamp and rapidly decaying.
Many of the bodies were found to have
been looted and robbed. Mo6t of the
fishermen were well-to-do and all car-
ried their fortunes in cash. No money
has been found' ou their remains and
sums of from, $3,000 to $10,000 has. dis
appeared. Nearly nil of the bodies
were badly mutilated by the slime.
47tii Day.—Tlie repeal -was taken up
in the senate at 12.25 Monday. Mr.
Sherman pointed out another fraud
and forgery in connection with the
.demonetization act Of 1873. - Mr.
"White admitted that he had not veri
fied the quotation referred to which he
had found in;. other speeches./and
statements, and said that he would
have it omitted in the reprints - of his
speech. Mr. 1 Dubois complained of
the statement'made by Mr. Gorman
last week as to his resolution for -the
postponement of the repeal bill being
offered for the purpose of delay. He
denied that statement and said he was
in no plan.for obstruction. Mr. Kyle
then addressed the senate in opposition
to tho hill. .
48th Day.—In the senate;- Tuesday
morning, a letter was read, from the
secretary of the treasury in reply to a.
resolution of inquiry; showing that
five million ounces of silver were ex
ported during July and August each.
Mr. Gallinger introduced a joint reso
lution, making the $230,000 appropri-
ated in 1890 and suspended later, avail
able for the purchase of a site for, the
government printing office,and direct
ing that the square continguons to the
present building be bought. Mr. Mor
gan submitted an amendment to the
repeal bill. It provides that "citizens
of the United States are entitled to
and shall enjoy all the rights and priv
ileges defined in the act of January
16th, 1837,. supplemental to the
act establishing the mint, and
to add to the value and secu
rity of such rights, the secretary
of the treasury is required to deduct
from tho custom duties that are or
may be imposed by law upon imports,
20 per cent, of such duties, when such
imports .are made in United States
vessels or in vessels of the country
where such imported articles were
produced, provided such country
shall by law provide that the standard
silver dollars coined in the United
States mints and of the present stand
ard shall be legal tender for all debts,
public or private, in 6nch country and
so long as such laws shall be maintain
ed in full force and effect. Tho re
peal bill was taken up, and Mr. Dolph
continued the speech begun Monday.
During its delivery Mr. Teller asked
Mr. Dolph if the Sherman act were
unconditionally repealed, would Mr.
Cleveland approve any legislation fa
vorable to silver, and Mr. Dolph re
plied that in such case he certainly
didn’t expect that the president would
approve anything of that sort.
49th Day.—In the senate Wednes
day, Mr. Morgan, from the-commit
tee on foreign affairs, reported back
without recommendation the bill mak
ing appropriations to enable the sec
retary of the treasury to enforce the
provisions of the Geary act, and it
was referred to the committee on ap
propriations. Mr. Peffer offered a
resolution for the appointment of a
committee of three senators to ascer
tain what legislation is needed to im
prove the banking system so that fi
nancial paniesmay be avoided, abetter
circulation of currency secured, and
the safety of deposits assured. It was
laid over till Thursday. Mr. Morgan
asked immediate consideration of the
resolution directing the judiciary com
mittee to inform the senate what pro
visions of the act of 1837, establishing
the mint and regulating coinage, are
still in force, and authorizing it to re
port by b 11 or otherwise. Mr. Mc
Pherson believed that the adoption of
the resolution would delay pending
financial legislation, and on his objec
tion the proposition was laid over.
The silver hill was then taken up and
Mr. Butler took the floor against the
repeal.
50th Day.—After a quarter of an
hour spent in morning business by
the senate, Thursday, the only feat
ure of which was a proposed amend
ment to the rules by Mr. Hill, author
izing senators paired and not voting
to be counted to make a quorum; tho
senate went into executive session to
deal with the nomination of Ind an
agents.
itutional argument, interspersed
, cold facts drawn from the actual
Ho
announc
ing that he had listened with interest
to the gentleman from Indiana and
the member from South Carolina..
OUR LATEST DISPATCHES.
in
And Containing the Gist of" the Sews
From All Farts of the World.
News reached Huntsville, Ala., Thurs
day that the posted gins, about twenty,
in the county had resumed work. Fears
of, trouble are subsiding.
Only nine new cases were reported
by the Brunswick board of health
for the twenty-four hours endin;
Thursday at noon. Five cases were
discharged.
The New York democratic state
convention was called to order Thurs
day noon at Saratoga. Daniel N.
Lockwood, of' Buffalo, was elected
temporary chairman.
Three new cases of cholera" and five
deaths were reported in Leghorn, Ita
ly, Thursday. In Palermo there were
fourteen deaths and no new cases.
Since September 20th there have been
sixty-eight cases of cholera and thirty-
eight deaths in the lunatic’ asylum at
Nocera.
A special of Thursday from Lincoln,
Neb., says: It was after midnight be
fore the democratic state, convention
settled its disputes by the overwhelm
ing defeat of the silver element, led by
Congressman Bryan. Secretary Mor
ton directed the movement of the re
peal leaders from Washington.
A Knoxville special says: Judge
Hicks, Thursday morning, refused to
allow the sixteen soldiers now confined
in jail, charged with the lynching of
Miner Richard Drummond, a change of
venue from Anderson to Knox county.
Their counsel will at once enter habeas
corpus proceedings to have them re
leased.
A Jackson, Miss., special, of Thurs
day says: Jndge H. D. Meyers, of the
eight judicial district, embracing thir
teen counties in eastern and southern
Mississippi, denies the sensational re
port sent over the country in regard
to white,caps taking the country. He
says white capism is about extinct in
his district-, which has heretofore been
regarded as one of the strongholds of
the order.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch of
Thursday says: Ex-Assistant post
master It. H. Burger, under R. L.
Houston has been indicted, and is
now under bond on the charge, of em
bezzlement. He is charged with ap
propriating $1,379 to his own use on
or about June 30th, last.- He had fill
ed tho place about eight years and en
joyed the confidence of all who knew
him. Until recently his life has been
above suspicion.
A very interesting case was decided
Thursday at Wilmington, N. C., in
the superior court. Wheu the Bank
of New Hanover failed there last-
spring State Treasurer Tate claimed
that he alone had the jurisdiction to
•bring action for the appointment of a
receiver. Creditors had filed a bill
and the snperior court judge appoint- •
ed Junius Davis receiver. The court
decided that the state treasurer had
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
South American Revolutions;
. The New York Herald correspond
ent in Santiago, Cuba, telegraphs, that
the government of Argenta- has- over
come the revolutionists in the state of
Santa Fe, and also has suppressed the
turbulent element in the cityand pro-
vince of Buenos Ayres. The Brazilian
government has issued a decree, order
ing all vessels arriving from European
ports to be quarantined. §p§li§j{i
Virginia Bonds Quoted., '
At the stock exchange at New York
Thursday, $10,000 Virginia, funded
debts bonds of 1891 sold at 51}. These
bonds were listed Wednesday at the
stock exchange and were issued under
the settlement of July 1, 1891,as made
by the Virginia bondholders’ commit
tee, "
THE HOUSE.
47th Day.—The federal election re
peal bill was taken up Monday morning
before a very small audience, and Mr.
Dinsmore. took the floor in its advo
cacy. Mr. Benson, of Alabama, fol
lowed in the support of repeal. He
appealed to his fellow-members of the
north and south to help wipe from the
statute books laws so obnoxious to the
intelligent citizens and voters of the
great section he represents. Northern
men who were willing to invest money
in business in the south and trust the
business men there to care for it,
ought to be aJ willing to trust them to
enforce the laws regarding elections.
48th Day. —Tuesday, the house
without transacting any morning bus
iness, resumed the consideration of the
federal election repeal bill, and was
addressed by Mr. Norfchway in oppo
sition to the measure. He was always,
he said, in favor of the under dog in
the fight, and in this fight the United
States was the under dog and the states
were tho upper dog. Ho affirmed the
constitutionality of the federal laws.
49th Day—The house in transacting
rontine business Wednesday, passed a
joint resolution tendering the thanks
of the United States to the foreign
governments which generously end ef
fectively participated in the World’s
Fair. The bill to promote the safety
of national banks by prohibiting the
officials of such banks to borrow mon
ey except by consent of the board, of
directors was then considered. The
biil went oyer without action. The
bankruptcy bill and the bill to amend
the Chinese exclusion- act were.re-
ported and placed upon the calender.
The house then engaged in routine
business.
50th Day.—The house .transacted
some important rontine business Thurs
day morning and received from Secre
tary Cnrlislejris answer to its resolu
tion asking-why the Sherman act had
not been enforced during July and
August. The communication was re
ferred. The house passed -the bill au
thorizing the sale of the old custom
house in Louisville,'Ky. Bills -were
passed for the' inspection of. boiler
plates at the place of manufacture and
placing the secretary of agriculture in
the line of presidential succession; air
so for the relief of the Cliurchof Jesus
Christ of the Latter Day Saints. The
federal election repeal bill haring been
taken up, Murray;, of South Carolina,
. cohchlded his speech in opposition to
the measure and criticised the election
methods in vogue in South j Carolina,
claiming that the presence of federal
soldier supervisors was necessary to
conduct a fair and free election. When
Murray concluded, Ben "Russell, of
Cigorffia tool; tho floor, Tie intuit}, »
Condition of Trade as Reported by Dnn
& Co. for the Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: A complete statement of
failures for the quarter, which closed
Friday night, is not possible, bnt the
number thns far reported is abont
4,000, and the aggregate of liabilities
about $150,000,000, greatly surpassing
the record of any previous quarter.
For the past week the failures have
been 329 in the United States, against
177 last yeai, and in Canada 34 against
31 last year.
“Hope deferred” explains the past
week in part, and it is donbtless true
that many indulged unreasonable
/hopes, but business has not entirely
answered expectations. The feeling
of disappointment is commonly as
cribed to delay of action on the silver
bill in the senate. It is also trne that
many works, which have resumed op
erations, do not find orders as large
or the demand from customers as rig
orous as they anticipated, and with
some it is a question whether they will
not close again. While money on call
has been abundant and cheap, and abont
$4,500,000 clearing honse certificates
have been retired, there is a percepti
ble greater caution in making com
mercial loans at New York and at some
western points. Confidence, prover
bially .of slow growth, has been some
what diminished, in part, because ad
vancing exchange suggests the possi
bility of gold exports. The cotton
manufacture is gaining more than any
other, and there is a stronger market
for print cloths and prints, while some
redaction has helped to stimulate trade
in other goods. The enormous de
crease in production for the past two
months begins to be felt, and sales are
larger, though much below the usual
qantity. ■
While seventy-eight manufacturing
concerns are reported as starting,
wholly or in part, against twenty clos
ing or reducing 'force, more than a
third of the increase has been'in cot
ton mills, and another third in ma
chine shops, nail mills, manufacturers
of stoves and hardware, tools and cars,
while in the iron manufacture proper,
only seven concerns have started,
against three that have stopped, and
the outlook does not Beem brighter.
The closing of the largest iron mine in
the country, the Norris, which ordina
rily produces a million tons yearly,
indicates the limited character of the
business.
At the" east the demand for products
is painfully inadequate,, even for the
scanty force now at-wprk,'and the
lowest prices on record attract little
business. It is said that one sale oi
steel rails has been effected by'a sharp
reduction in price. ‘ The contest be-"
tween the Amalgamated Association
and the works in the Pittsburg region,
has bean settled, but too late for ©ost
of the man, '. ' ” ''
For the 24 hours ending Wednesday
noon, the Brunswick board of health
reported 16 new cases of yellow fever,
9 discharged, and 2 deaths. The fever
record stands: Under treatment 51,
-deaths 14, total 148 ; ratio mortality
9.4 per cent.
Three deaths were officially reported
by Brunswick’s health board Tuesday
—Miss 'Rosa Nisi, the infant of Blount
Bowen and Mrs. Emma Willis, all
white. Fifteen new coses of yellow
fever were reported nnd five patients
were discharged.
A Washington special says: The
Pelmetto trademark case from South
Carolina, Governor Tillman against
tho commissioner of patents, was de
cided Tuesday by Justice Bradley in
the district supreme court in favor of
Governoi Tillman. *
R. A. Tompkins, tax collector
Russellville, Ala., who was recently
found to be several thousand dollars
short, is missing. Several days since
he was arrested for embezzlement, but
the suits were withdrawn on certain
conditions. It is believed that he has
left for parts unknown.
A Raleigh dispatch says: There is
now no doubt from reports received by
the state agricultural department
Tuesday that North Carolina’s cotton
crop will be picked by October 20th.
Three-fourths of the cotton is now
open on most farms. Such early and
genera] opening was never before
known in North Carolina.
Surgeon Murray arrived at Jesup
Tuesday morning from Brunswick and
visited the suspicious cases reported
Monday. He declares them to be yel
low fever. They are in four parts of
the town. The town is almost depop
ulated by the white citizens. A strong
cordon lias been placed around the
city. Not one will bepermitted to leave
unless bv way of Camp Detentson.
A Knoxville special states that Ad
jutant-General Fite and Captain Ward
arrived in the city Wednesday morn
ing from Nashville. They did not go
to Clinton to disband the troops, as
at first expected, nor will they, since
consulting with General Carpenter, as
it would damage the cases against the
soldiers now in jail to scatter
their witnesses over the state where
they could never get them together
again.
A Birmingham dispatch says: Wed
nesday morning Leonard Lipprnan,
ex-president of the New York College
of Commerce, was sentenced to two
months at hard labor in the mines.
He was found guilty of obtaining
money under false pretenses. Lipp
man came from Savannah a few years
ago. He was an expert stenographer
and typewriter. At one time he was
private secretary to tlie general mana
ger of the Central railroad.
The cotton crop rejiort of South
Carolina, published Tuesday, says:
Cotton is opening rapidly and with
good weather the crop will be all
gathered by November 1st. Some
damage from water, dropping ofi' wet
leaves and staining the staple, is re
ported in the west counties. Abbeville
county reports cotton nearly hnlf
gathered. There will be no late crop
or very little in many counties. Esti
mates still give cotton at about one-
half a crop.
A Birmingham special says: Col
onel Clark, of the Second Kegiment
of the Alabama state troops, received
a telegram late Tuesday night from
Governor Jones, ordering the four
military companies of Birmingham
and vicinity to arms to await further
orders preparatory to going to Deca
tur, Ala., on a special train, to protect
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
company’s property and quell the riot
between the striking shopmen and the
men at work, which' was anticipated.
Invitations were extended Monday
by the Port Royal Shipping Company
to President Cleveland, Vice Presi
dent Stevenson members of the cabi
net, governors, senators of Georgia
and South Carolina and to exchanges,
newspapers, mayors and prominent
business men throughout the south
west to attend a celebration at Port
Royal, S. C., October 9th in honor of
the inauguration of direct trade with
Europe from that port. Governor
Tillman, of South Carolina will pre
side.
State Geologist Holmes, of North
Carolina, reports that the geological
survey will close this BeasiSU’s work.
It has conducted this jointly with the
United States geological stfrvey. The
section from the Cranberry mine to
the Georgia line along the Great
Smoky mountain has been examined
by iron experts. Particular examina
tion was made in that region for
chrome iron, corundum and nickel
ores. The winter will be devoted to
the examination of the pine forests of
the eastern counties.
A Birmingham special of "Wednes
day says: Owners and operators of
Alabama cotton gins are becoming
more and more frightened every day.
In several parts of the state they huve
been forbidden to gin cotton by secret
notices posted at their gins and threat
ened with incendiarism if they persist.
In Madison, Courtland and Bibb
counties nearly all the gins are idle.
The notices rend ns follows: “Please
do not- gin any more cotton. We have
struck for 10 cents per pound. If you
gin any more you will be burned out.
—Shotgun Company.”
During the monetary stringency in
August the banks of Montgomery.
Ala., began to issue clearing
house certificates which have been in
circulation since that time. Monday
the police were informed that some
one had passed a number of counter
feit certificates on Saturday night,
and five or six of the certificates-were
brought to headquarters Wednesday.
All of the certificates counterfeited
are of the denomination of $5, and in
each instance where they were passed,
purchases of Jess, than $1 were'made,
which made the transaction net the
party passing the hills more than $4;
ALTGELD ENDORSED
Iu His Action. Pardoning the Hay*
market. Rioters.
—A Chicago 'special says: That the
democracy support Governor Altgeld
iu the pardon of; the anarchists, and
his denunciation df Judge Gary, was"
publicly demonstrated at the county
convention' Wednesday, When it.
-reached - Judge I-Gary’s Vnanie for re-
nomination, ex-Judge'Moran, one of
the most respected jurists in the city,
•was howled down and threatened with
pei'sgnal violence when bs presented
Gary’s panic. '
Bussi a stands at the head of the list
in the matter of having the largest,
number of horses in the world—20,-
000,000. The United States /stands
second -with a horse population of 16,-
000,000. In proportion to" the number
of inhabitants, however, the Argentine
republic surpasses, as theire are there
more horses than people. From the
latest accessible figures the Argentine
republic has five head of cattle to
every man, Woman and child.
Italy, with a population of 30,000,-
000 people; has only 720,000 horses;
bnt has 1,500,000 mules and donkeys.
Spain has one horse to every sixty peo
ple—abont 3,000,000 horses. The “gay
cavaliers” of Spain still ride on don
keys.
The United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tian and Ireland have 2,000,000 horses.
The United States has a larger pro
portion of pigs to the human popula
tion than any other 'country. Ireland
has always been considered the Utopia
of the pig. The United States wears,
however, the “bine ribbon” as to
greatest number. She owns 46,000,-
000 swine.
Australia is par excellence the coun
try of the sheep. The population is
3,000,000 people, and the number of
sheep is 62,000,000—twenty sheep to
every man, woman and child. The
United States has a sheep population
numbering about 47,000,000.
The United States and British India
have about the same number of head
of cattle—52,000,000.
Lost-An Appetite!
If you have lost your appetite it will return
to you if you apply to a druggist or general
dealer who sells Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters.
When you aro in possession of this helpful
tonic, you have a restorer of appetite which
lrom malaria and rheumatism.
One hundred cents make a dollar, hut they
wouldn’t if they were in the newspaper busi
ness.
Malaria cured and eradicated from the sys
tem by Brown’s Iron Bitters, which enriches
the blood, tones the nerve-, aids digestion.
Acts like a charm on persons in general ill
health, giving new energy and strength.
When Nature
William McKeekan, Druggist at
Bloomingdale, Mich. “ I have had
the Asthma badly ever since I came
out of the army and though I have
been in the drug business for fifteen
years, and have tried nearly every
thing on the market, nothing has
given me the slightest relief until a
few months ago, when I used Bo-
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glad to acknowledge the great good
it has done me. I am greatly reliev
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of pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypo-
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of flesh and vital strength.
Scott’s Emulsion will do more than
to stop a lingering Cough-it fortifies
the system AGAINST coughs and colds.
Prepared by Scott <fc Bowne, N. Y. All druggists.
Keeds assistance it may be best to render it
promptly,hutope should remember to use even
the most perfect remedies only when needed.
The best and most simple and gentle remedy is
the Syrup of Figs manufactured by the Cali
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It is said that a man has been found so radi
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