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three men semewhere ..
I would give a great deal
t v U nn, an old confederate
J' Q a fter serving all through
“ being wounded five times
r tnred twice, and now lives in At-
IP ‘Tamer street, was telling some
nn eriences last week. |
t to see those men, he contin
ue I was associated with
a peculiar way, and during the
Itt-flre years they have been
,1“ i„ ray thoughts. Ton boys
iwwhy? Well, it won't hurt
III the story now, though at one
, ' „ inkling of the truth had
,J the ears of General Reynolds, I
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of the provost guard at Athens
General Reynolds was in command
"Id Jesse Youngkin was provost
i 1 xhelmen were, many of them,
Sir homes, and they deserted fre-
I because they were homesiek
Jed to get a sight of the faces
S reported to headquarters one
that a deserter was hidden in a house
Athens and a lieutenant and three
ff ere sent out to capture him.
cD jjjgy advanced on the house a man
"ed from the back door and started
the woods. The three men fired
the man they aimed at staggered
ard a few steps, threw up his arms
u then fell to the ground. When the
[tiers reached the prostrate figure and
cd it over the man was quite dead,
it was not the deserter they were af-
hut an officer high in rank. In re.
ting the case the lieutenant swore
| he ordered his men not to fire, but
;ey disobeyed him and insinuated that
,ey fired because they recognized the
icer and had a grudge against him.
1 court martial was ordered, and the
iree men were tried and sentenced to
shot. All they said about the lieu-
.nt’s ordering them to fire was of no
."^heywere handcuffed to each oth-
, and turned over to me for safe keep-
ig until the time came for them to die.
believed they were iunocent, and every
I saw the three boys chained to
other and trying to cheer each other it
ade me feel bad. The prison was over
store and it had a hack gallery from
liich a flight of stairs led into a yard,
t was my business to stand at the door
f the prison room and see that all the
risoners had their meals handed into
hem. As the time for the execution
pproached, I watched/the three con
demned men closely, and such courage
and cheerfulness, I knew, could never be
shown by men guilty of a cowardly mur
der.
“The day before the execution I chanc
ed to be in the prison, and one of the
three handcuffed men called me to him.
He asked me for the love of God to send
for his mother, who lived many miles
away, and beg her to come to him. If I
could not get word to her in time, he
charged me with his love for her, and a
last message. It was more than I could
stand to listen to a boy scarcely twenty-
one years old, talking calmly of his death
aext day, and I determined they should
all have a chance for their lives.
“Quickly as I could I explained my
plan. I told them I would delay the
supper until after dark that night.
H hen all the men were gathered about
the door getting their rations, they could
slip out the window and crawl along the
Harrow ledge to the gallery, pass me
""hileruy back was turned, and so reach
the yard, pass through the store into the
street and get away. I also told them
°w to get rid of their irons. The only
condition I exacted was that if they were
ca ptured the7 should not tell who had
fisted in their escape.
Gladly they agreed to my terms and
one of them wished me to take his gold
Acatcli, but I refused. I was risking my
* e I knew, but it was because I believed
them
innocent and not for money. Then
wrote their names on a paper and
1 dipped it into a G. D. cap box I hud
^th me. When I left them I buried
e box in the ground so that nothing
c °nld be found implicating me in their
escape.
That night everything happened as
'' e had planned, they got clear off and
their
escape was not discovered until
aylight next day when I opened the
Prison door for the guard which was to
a ke them out to be shot. General Rey-
110 ds was notified immediately and he
ae nt for me. He never dreamed that I
a d helped in the escape and ordered me
0 take the five best men I could get and
Hot to return to Athens until I had re
captured the fugitives.
I knew that acting on my advice the
^kree men had gone by the Hogback road,
So J went in an opposite direction. For
ten days I kept my men riding about the
country, hut naturally we never came up
with the men we were searching for.
When I returned and reported, General
■Reynolds was mad but he finally con
cluded to abandon the chase.
“Later I dug up the cap box and found
that the rain had obliterated the names
written on the paper. I knew, however,
that the mother of one of the men lived
near Athens, and after the war I search
ed diligently for the family, but they
had moved away and I never heard of
them.
“I am a poor man, hut now, after all
these years, I would give a good deal to
learn what became of any one of the
three men I assisted to escape.
“You want to publish the story? Well,
if you think any of those three men
might see it, I wish you would.”
LETTER FROM BROOKLYN.
[From our Special Correspondent.]
Brooklyn, October 28, 1889. 786 La-
Fayette Ave.—For the second time in the
history of this city Talmage’s Tabernacle
has been destroyed by fire. That it should
burn early Sunday morning instead of a
little later when the great audience had
assembled, is a streak of luck which the
whole world should be grateful for. In
my opinion there was no more dangerous
public edifice in the world than this same
Tabernacle. The Brooklyn Theatre was
unsafe from the inflammable character
of the material used in its construction.
Its exits were as numerous and as large
as that of any other theatre of its day.
The Tabernacle was composed of fully
as destructible stuff as the theatre, where
three hundred lives were lost out of a
total of about nine hundred, but the
exits from, the auditorium of the Taber
nacle to the street were terrifying to the
timid, and an anxiety to the thoughtful.
It is probable that the architect who drew
the plans, and the Superintendent and
Inspector of Buildings, would have been
promptly indicted, had a congregation
been present, but now of course they and
everybody else will escape censure*
What a different verdict there would he
had this been a plaee of public amuse
ment instead of a place of so-called divine
worship. The seating capacity of this
structure was about four thousand, or
ten thousand, at both Sunday services.
To dismiss this multitude took all the
way from fifteen to thirty minutes, and
the crowds moved steadily and without
a block. Allowing for a panic or a'•con
flagration, not one-quarter of the con
gregation could have escaped. Mr. Tal-
mage must certainly have believed in a
special providence for himself and his
people, or he would have insisted upon
having the same safety methods for the
Tabernacle as are now used in all our
first class theatres. All the new theatres
and many of the old ones are as safe as
the ingenuity of man' can make them,
while our noble church structures, with
costly spires stretching heavenward, are
as empty of fire extinguishers, and means
of safe retreat in case of danger, as the
occupants of dungeons in our city
prisons.
The inscription on the large rustic rock
in front of the tomb of Mrs. John Bige
low, in Peaeedale Cemetery, Highland
Falls, is one of the most beautiful and
appropriate ever selected:
“Why seek ye the living among the dead?”
These words are at once a consolation
and a reproof. Mourners who haunt the
places where the bodies of their loved
ones are buried, and who can see nothing
above the mound of earth that covers
them, should find a clear inspiration in
this inquiry: “Why seek ye the living
among the dead?” Why, indeed? The
dear ones are not there. They never have
been there, and I doubt very much if
they are ever attracted to these spots.
Cemeteries are conceded to he unhealthy
places, and I have seen the most tragic
results to health and life by the constant
visiting of these spots. If those who
mourn and refuse to be comforted, who
stand weeping over these graves that con
tain nothing but the cast-off clothes of
their loved ones, would ask themselves
why they seek the living among the dead,
the answer would be beneficial in. the
highest degree.
Read the following, my friends, and
see how it strikes you. It is an extract
from a letter recently received:
‘If, in order to keep well, I have got
to wear loose gowns and petticoats, and
common sense shoes with low, broad,
ugly heels, and reform waists of corsets,
and go without candy and cake and hot
biscuits and pie and every other nice
thing, I had rather be snuffed out of ex
istence right now. I have never seen the
dresses that you write about, but if they
are hygienic and reformatory, that is
enough for me, for they are sure to be as
u gly as anything found in States Prison.
The person who tells me that it makes a
particle of difference to health whether
a woman wears her garter above or below
her knee, or prefers a -suspender elastic,
is simply a crank on this subject. I shall
wear my garters as I please and all the
rest of my clothes.”
So do, dear. Wiggle along on butter
nut heels, and pile the heavy dry goods
on your foolish back, and enjoy yourself.
You will not be “snuffed out.” You will
make your final exit by slow degrees,
each one full of pain and unrest, and
when it is too late to mend your
ways, you will see w%at a fool you
have been. The only thing I care to cor
rect in the above tirade, is the remark
about the costumes which I have so cor
dially recommended. She of course
means the Jenness Miller garments. I
repeat that these are the prettiest, most
DALTON, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1889
graceful, most healthful garments ever /Y1TT) AATTflT AT? A-EfiPfiT A
TERMS, $1.50 A YEAR.
graceful, most healthful garments ever
designed, and my opinion is shared by all
who use them. But is not the especial
prerogative of ignorance to condemn
that which it knows nothing about? .
In conclusion, I cannot forbear quoting
and commenting upon the following res
olution of the Brooklyn Tabernacle:
“Resolved, That we bow in humble sub
mission to the providence which this
morning removed our beloved church,
and while we cannot fully understand the
meaning of that providence, we have
faith that there is kindness as well as
severity in the stroke.”
Now, would they have conceded God’s
kindness if this fire had destroyed half
of the congregation? It is my opinion
that providence is chiefly interested in
fire-proof buildings, in the evolution of
brains that will produce safe places for
human beings to sit down in. Such a
resolution is a profane farce, and yet I
believe in God and in progress. The con
gregation of the Tabernacle might have
been burned to cinders any Sabbath when
fires were necessary. The edifice will he
rebuilt, and this time the planners and
the builders and the authorities will he
held to a strict account.
Eleanor Kirk.
HIS HORRIBLE CONFESSION.
An Eleven-year-old Boy Who Killed His
Father and Mother.
A Dubuque dispatch says: The grand
jury has returned an indictment against
Wesley Elpins, the eleven year-old boy
who murdered his parents in July last.
There was no evidence against him, ex
cepting his own statement in writing over
his signature, which is as follows: .
“I was sleeping in the ham and I
wanted to get away from home. I had
run away from home a number of times,
but they brought me back. I thought I
would kill them, so I went up to the
house just before sunrise on the morning
of July 16, and went softly into the house
to see if my parents were asleep. I
peeped into their bed room, and saw that
they were fast asleep. I then went out
to the road in front of the house to see
if anybody was coming, and, finding the
coast clear, I went to the corn crib and
got the club, which was a part of a rail,
and then went to the house softly, and
put the club in my bed room and set it
down. ' , m
“Then L took my father’s riflg, which,
was always'hung up-in my ro.om loaded,
and I stepped out of my bedroom around
to father’s and, his door being open, I
put the gun to his face and fired. I im
mediately went for my club, knowing
that I would not have time to load the
gun. I got the club, and when I got back
to the door mother was upon the floor
and stooping over. I thought she was
looking at father, who lay on the front
side of the bed. I struek her on the
head and she straightened up and fell
backward on the bed and over father. I
then got up on the bed and struck her a
great many times on the head, until I
thought she was dead.
“Then I heard father make a noise in
his throat, and I struck him two blows on
the head that smashed the skull. I then
took the baby and hitched up the horse
an started for grandpa’s. Nobody helped
me in any way nor told me to kill them.
I did it all alone.”
The boy is an intelligent little fellow
weighing only seventy-three pounds, and
is very fragile in appearance.
Tlie Reason of tlie Change of Policy.
From the Macon News.
The President and Secretary Blaine be
lieve in the adoption of a “more moderate
policy towai’d Mexico.” The fact of the
matter is Secretrry Win doin’ s tariff war
against Mexico has caused that country to
shut out the American hog and articles
such as furniture and agricultural ma
chinery, and the big packers and factory
men of the west, who put up a good deal
of money for the Harrison campaign
fund, are kicking with both feet. This
is what has inclined the president and
his prime minister to a more moderate
policy toward Mexico.
All the best sights along the hill-coun
try of Judea, between Jerusalem west
ward and the sea, have been bought by
Russia, and covered with splendid Greek
temples. The great pilgrimages of the
day are from Russia to Palestine. Every
year between thirty to forty thousand
Russian pilgrims visit the Holy Land and
return, bearing with them countless me
mentoes and relics of its old sacred
places, so keeping alive the fever which
one day, and soon, will drive the Turk
out of Constantinople and Jerusalem as
well. ■
Says the Charleston (S. C.) News and
Courier: The negro is not satisfied with,
his position in this country. There is no
reason to hope that his burdens will
grow lighter or that his condition will be
improved as the years roll on. He can
never hope to be other than he is—God
made him for what he is; it would he
better for him and better for us if he
should go back-to his own country. It
is the richest country on the globe, and
was appointed by the Almighty for his
habitation.
There is nothing in the assertion that
Georgia is growing poorer. It is not true,
the increase in her taxable property for
t he last year was $24,000,000.
CHRONICLES OF GEORGIA.
GLEANINGS AND WINNOWINGS FROM
THE STATE PAPERS.
QUEER CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TRANS
ACTION AT ST. PAUL, MINN.
A Queer Freak Of an Eufflish Sparrow.
From the Macon News.
Macon has a queer freak of an English
sparrow. Every morning this sparrow
flies into the office of the city clerk,
through the window, tarries a while on
the top of the inner blind, chirps a merry
good morning and then makes itself at
home. It does not seem at all frightened
at the people coming in and going out,
and flies about the room from window
to window, from the top of the hook
case to the maps on the walls, as uncon
cerned as if sporting amid the branches
of a tree.
The chill of the morning causes the
flies to remain dormant for the early
morning, and it has been noticed that
the bird makes a meal on these limp flies.
After gathering them in and making a
hearty meal, the sparrow perches upon
the window through which it came,
chirps its profuse thanks and then skips
ont to join itsless fortunate companions.
This has been going on for the past
month, and any one can see it by calling
around about 9 o’clock any morning.
It happened, several days ago, when
the morning was chillier than usual,
that the porter at the city hall did not
lower the window at the top as usual.
That day the bird was seen to fly against
the window pane and kick up considera
ble fuss at not being allowed to come in.
And it was not until the window was
lowered did it seem to he satisfied.
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A Substitute for Jute.
From the Athens Chronicle.
Mr. A. A. Jackson, of Crawford,
brought to the Chronicle offiee this morn
ing a plant, the fibres of which promise
to surpass for the purposes of bagging
even the jute, against which the farmers
are waging such a powerful warfare.
This weed was found in Cherokee Cor
ner, Oglethorpe county, and it is said to
grow generally in this part of*;the State.
If stripped from the stalk and twisted it
forms a cord much stronger than that
made by jute. It greatly resembles jute,
except in the fact that the fibres are
longer. The plant grows wild and is
quite prolific in seeds. It was shown
Lahe, who'il'an authori
ty on botany, and he says—fchat its K5har=-
acteristics aFisw er to. that of the ceno-
thera or evening primrose. A number
of cotton men who saw the fibre declare
that it will be better than jute for cover
ing. It is very possible that bagging
made from this fibre will prove to he the
long looked-for substitute for jute.
There’s millions it, if it is such.
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Death of a Good Man.
Ferdinand Phinizy died at his home in
Athens last week. From our earliest
recollections we have known Mr. Phinizy,
and can heartily subscribe to the follow
ing tribute to the memory of this upright
citizen from the Brunswick Times: “The
life of the late Ferdinand Phinizy is but
another noble illustration of what ener
gy, persistent adherence to one’s pur
pose, fidelity to every trust reposed, an
unspotted character, will bring to any
man in this country of grand and ever-
widening possibilities. Mr. Phinizy
started out to amass a fortune, and he
did it, but not a dollar he gathered had
upon it the touch of corruption. His
life was pure, his hands clean and his
record unsullied. There is as much
sanctity in such an ambition as there is
in that which inspires a man to preach
the Gospel. Both but cultivate divinely
bestowed gifts.”
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An Old Pipe.
From the Savannah News.
A citizen of Eatonton smokes about
twelve pounds of tobaceo yearly in a
pipe that he declares to be over 200 years
old. This leads a mathematical person to
calculate that if that were the average
amount used in the pipe since its first
day, 2,400 poands of the weed have been
burned in its howl, and if the first $12
had been put out at compound interest
at the rate of 10 per cent, it would now
have grown to the sum of $1,755,443,200.
Jnst how this would have benefited the
first owner of the pipe does not appear.
Trusts.
From the Trinidad (Col.) Advertiser.
The newspaper trust is the most exten
sive and universal trust in this country,
and, instead of making monopolists and
millionaires of publishers, it makes them
dependent paupers. To trust a thous
and subscribers from one to five years
each, is virtually lending a thousand dol
lars a year to Tom, Dick and Harry with
out security and with no prospect of
getting it hack again. Yes, trusts are
had things.
A Maine man is mad because his lost
trunk is found. He had presented a bill
of $77 for the lost box, when a railroad
employe found it in a Bangor depot, and
the box contained a peck of peanuts, a
monkey wrench and a jack for lifting
wagons; only these and nothing more.
The discovery of such frauds as this is
the principal cause of the delay which
honest people experience in getting set
tlement for just claims. Railroads are
rendered suspicious, and they have cause
for it.
Henry Bratsch Finds Geo. WeikofFs Wife in
Possession of the '‘Other Half of His
Soul’’ and Bays Her for the Sum of
$500.
A*St. Paul dispatch says: Many years
ago, Geqrge Weikoff took unto himself a
wife. Years rolled on, and George went
to work in the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul shops, at South Minneapolis.
Both husband and wife, by this time,
were past the prime of life. They re
sided in a comfortable dwelling honse in
the vicinity of Fort avenue and Lake
street.
The husband continued to ply his trade,,
and his wife finally joined the ranks of
Christian Scientists. Soon she practiced
Christian science healing. She became
so imbued with the spirit of the doctrine
that after much deliberation she found
that her husband was not her “soul’s af
finity.”
At first the exact whereabouts of her
kindred spirit did not become revealed
to her, but not for long was she allowed
to grope in darkness. As a light from
heaven the truth flashed upon her, and
she found her “soul’s affinity” in the per
son of one Henry Bratsch.
Henry is no longer a youth, having
passed his fortieth year. By trade he is a
machinist and works alongside of George
Weikoff in the railroad sh'ops of South
Minneapolis. He is well-to-do and re
puted to own property valued at $40,000.
Most of it lies within the city limits of
St. Paul. He boarded at 3028 Front
street, South Minneapolis, with the
Weikoffs.
Henry had passed the age of senti
ment, but his fellow workman’s wife,
who rejoices in the name of Henrika
Weikoff, cast the spells of her Christian
science over him and he fell a ready vic
tim to her wiles. He became abeliver in
this strange doctrine. The truth sud
denly dawned upon him that Henrika
had the other half of his soul. The
truth had not long been revealed to them
before they became .“two souls with but
a single thought.” The only difficulty in
the way of the consummation of their
faith presented itself in the inoffensive
husband. But now this trifle has been
removed and they are free to practice
their belief as far as George, the hus
band, is concerned.
Henrika Weikoff owned a house and
lQt on Fort street, and to satisfy-her hus
band she mortgaged this. ..property fo
the sum of $900, §500 of which she ]
her husband, he agreeing to sign a deed
of separation, releasing her from all
matrimonial control in consideration of
the sum above mentioned. Henry Bratsch
paid over $500 to Weikoff and all the
necessary papers were drawn np by a
well-known attorney of St. Paul. As
security Bratsch took the mortgage on
Mrs. Weikoff’s property.
All parties are now happy. The two
living souls can yearn to their heart’s
content without the interference of s
husband. Mrs. Weikoff has two grown
up children. One of them is a young
man and a prominent officer of a secret
society. Shortly Mrs. Weikoff will insti
tute proceedings for divorce from her
legal husband, and the climax of this
strange story will occur when the mar
riage bells ring on the occasion of the
marriage of Henry Bratsch and Henrika
Weikoff. All the parties to the affair
were interviewed and admitted its truth.
PILFERED PARAGRAPHS.
A Wheeling youth was engaged to four
girls at the same time. All found it out,
and now he isn’t engaged at all.
A citizen of Wellsville, Ohio, now 74
years old, bo&sts that he has never paid
a cent to a lawyer, doctor or minister.
Ex-Congressman Amos J. Cummings
has been nominated for Congress, in the 1
Ninth distriet, New York, to succeed
Samuel Sullivan Cox, by Tammany Hall.
There are ruins near Gallup, Cal., the
foundation of which can be traced for
two miles, indicating the existence of a
large town in that locality in by-gone
times. •’ *
The Prince of Wales always had a pre
sentiment that he. would never be king
of England. Now that his doctors tell
him that he has Bright’s disease, he
knows it.
The red bandana is once more in the
air. Old man Allen Thurman is on the
stump again in Ohio. This seems to he
a great year for democrats in the Buck
eye State.
Reports from Japan give a terrible ac
count of desolation and death prevailing
in sections of that country, caused by re
cent floods. Several thousand people
are homeless and suffering for the neces
saries of life.
When all the cotton raised in the South
is sold direct to Southern factories, then
the time will have arrived when the far
mer will realize a good profit on cotton.
It is this selling and re-selling, shipping
and freights that render cotton raising
unremunerative.
The colored brother who wants to col-
onizejin the west, is the one who ought
to he colonized for the good of those he
would leave behind. If the negroes were
more equally distributed over the north
ern and eastern States it would be bet
ter for the south.
UnlessJGov. Hill gets married before
1892, he will stand no chance of beating
Mr. Cleveland for the democratic nomi
nation. Mr. Cleveland is a pretty hard
man to beat, and when Mrs. Cleveland is
taken into consideration the combination
becomes invincible.
Electric Bitters.
This remedy is becoming so well known
and so popular as to need no special men
tion. All who have used Electric Bitters
sing the same song of praise. A purer
medicine does not exist and it is guaran
teed to do all that is claimed. Electric
Bitters will cure all diseases of the Liver
and Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Boils,
Salt Rheum and other affections caused
by impure blood. Will drive Malaria
from the system and prevent as well as
cure all Malarial fevers. For cure of
Headache, Constipation and Indigestion
try Electric Bitters. Entire satisfaction
guaranteed or money refunded. Price
50 cents and $1.00 per bottle at S. J. Mc-
Knight’s Drug Store.
As It Should Be, and As It Is.
From the Boston Globe.
The fact that a man receives a pension
from the United States government
should imply that he has rendered his
country honorable service. It should be
a badge of honor. But so lax have been
pension laws and the administration of
the pension office become that it is now
impossible to say, from the mere fact
that a man receives a pension, whether
he was a brave soldier or a cowardly de
serter.
Would the People Stand It?
From the Boston Glohe (Dem.)
If President Harrison dares to remove a
Montana judge because he fears the judge
would decide against the republican vote-
stealers in that state he should be im
peached. The American people will
stand a good deal of nonsense from their
elected servants, but they draw the line at
intimidating the judiciary.
The fact that many of the delegates to
the Pan-American Congress have ex
pressed the opinion that “America should
he for Americans,” is causing a great
deal of uneasiness in Europe on account
of a probability of a great loss of trade.
The fact of the matter is the Congress
has done more to put a kink in the tail
of the British lion than all of Blaine’s
bluster.
The trade conditions are favorable
for a healthy revival of business all over
the’United States. The New York com
mercial bulletin estimates that the ex-
cess of exports over imi
the excess of imports in the same month
last year of $2,258,631.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Not only is it now proved the Chinese
printed with movable type long before
Gutenberg’s day, but now manuscripts
found at El Fayum, in Egypt, show that
movable type were used in that country
in the ninth century, and the Caliph had
a paper factory in Bagdad in 794.
A man thirty years old, with no hair
on his head, no whiskers on his face and
no eyebrows, is under treatment in a St.
Louis hospital. He comes from Texas
and claims to have been hairless fiom
birth. He has been married once, and
another Lone Star belle has agreed to
become his bride if the defects in his
make-up can be remedied. This is why
he put himself in the doctor’s hands.
A serious state of affairs exists in Har
lem county, Kentucky. It seems that a
gang of outlaws, under Willis Howard,
have inaugurated a reign of terror in the
county and are conducting affairs pretty
much as they please. The citizens or
ganized a law and order party, and pis
tols and Winchester rifles are in de
mand. The latest news states that the
Howard gang had forced the law and or
der party to take refuge in the Harlem
court house.
A jury in New York State has awarded
an only child a verdict of $4,000 against
a Hudson River steamboat company, un
der the civil damage act, for the death
of her father, a deck hand, who became
intoxicated at the steamboat bar, and
fell off into the river and was drowned.
The court has refused to set the verdict
aside, and steamboats in that State are
warned that they keep bars at their peril.
The verdict is a healthful sign of public
sentiment.
Mr. Graham has obtained a verdict
of $25 damages for being arrested for
refusing to pay his fare on a Philadel
phia city railroad because he was not
given a seat. This goes a great distance
towards settling the question that unless
a passenger is furnished a seat he is not
bound to pay. Mr. Graham has the
thanks of the millions for making the
fight. Now let the road fight it out in
the higher courts. A man should not be
compelled to pay for that which he does
not get.
Consumption Incurable.
Read the following: Mr. C. H. Morris,
Ark., says: “Was down with Abscess of
Lungs, and friends and physicians pro
nounced me an Incurable Consumptive.
Began taking Dr. King’s New Discovery
for Consumption, am now on my third
bottle, and able to oversee the work on
my farm. It is the finest medicine ever
made.”
Jesse Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio, says:
“Had it not been for Dr. King’s New Dis
covery for Consumption I would have
died of Lung Troubles. Was given up by
the doctors. Am now in best of health.”
Try it. Sample bottles free at S. J. Mc-
Knight’s Drug Store.