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The Best Wo Cia
M’h-n thin?* <1 m't go to jru t u«,
Why s i uld w*s Told our hand?,
A/,'i *ay. "No us® itrying,
K*U billies all our plans.''
, Let not your courage falte-,
Ke-p faith in God and man,
And *o 'his thought be steadfast—
"i’ll do the beat I can."
If clouds blot r ut the sunshine
Along the way you tread
Don't grieve in hopeless fashion
And sigh for brightness fl»d.
Reyond the clouds the sunlight
Shin** in the Eternal Plan;
Tru t that the way w 11 brighten,
And do the best you can.
Away with va n repining*;
Wing tongs of hope and cheer,
Till many a weary comrade
Grows strong of heart to hear.
He who md«s ov er trouble
Is ayo the fiiscst man.
He rin t help what has happene
But—does the best he can.
Fo, if things won’t go to suit us.
Let s never fume and fret.
For finding fault with fortune
Ne’er mended matters yet.
Make the beat of whate’er happ
Bear failure like a man;
And In good or evil fortune
Do just the best you can.
—27* n / lit if or <1, in Saturday Might.
THE STORY OF BIP.
"Bip’s s ory is well known in tho
Cumberland valley, where he lived for
many years, and died not long ago,’’
paid Samuel Logan of Franklin county,
Penn., “and it is one of the most re*
markable narratives of slavery times
ever related. I have heard the old man
t^ll the story with tears in his eyes many
and many a timo, and no one who ever
know him could have tho slightest
doubt of its truth. Bip was born in
Africa, where, as ho believed, he was
the son of a king or a chief, for he re¬
membered that his fatlier and mother
lived in ft luirk hut surrounded by
smaller onos, which wore occupied by
many women and children, his father’s
.hut always being approached by others
in n most deferential manner. His
mother wore immense gold or brass
'hoops in her cars and bands of metal j
on her arm ?. IBs (at icr wore a big
yellow ring in his nose. When Bip was
about 5 ysars old, as he fd forward < vl- |
culated his father's household ami i
i
many of tin tribe were ovorpowered by
a horde of strange blacks and taken
captive. Tliey were bound together :
snd driven for days until they came to !
tho seashore. There they were per- !
tioned among a number of white men
tho first Bip had ever sc 2 n. The cap
tlves were taken away in boats. Bip
never saw his fathor again. Ho and his
Ojothcr were packed with hundreds of
others on board a vossel, and they were
many days on the water, Tho vessel at
last lauded and the negroes that weie
•till alive w< re taken ashore, and 15ip
and hi? mother were selected fr< m
the lot by a white man an l taken away.
It was not until after years that Bip
knew and appreciated the fact that ho
and his parents ami their tribi had
fallen victims to thc African slave trad
ers, and that he and his mother hr.d
been sold into slavery to a Cuban
planter.
“At the age of 15 Bip, which name
had been g.von him by his Cuban
owner, was stvM, with a lot of other
young negroes of both sexes, to a slavj
trader. B.p’s mother was at wo:k hi
the sugar Haiti when he wa? sold and
taken away, Hj never saw or heard of
her again. 1 ho herd of young negroes
was taken to N >w O lean where B:p
was sold <>ii tho auction bloc;. Ha was
put to work in t!m sugar fields, but
when ho was 2J yeus old he became
tr.e property of an Arkansas cotton
planter. He ?\;u taken to-tho At;kan<as
plantation, which was not far from Lit
tie R ok. Hi? now master prov.'l to
a khi l our, but B p felt that he was
not born to be a slave, and he was dc
termina l to escape from bondage, cven
at thc ii-k of hi? 1 if Lu‘o one night
in thc fa l of 1821 he ma 1c a break f r
liberty, lie ucwr knew exactly the
route lie took, but he tunic l hi? face ns
near northward as he could cdculute
and blindly fol'owe.l that course. Ho
travcVl all night, sw.nv.uing river>
and floumh i ng through swamp-,
In tie daytime he hid
among the den-o brake;, nud sati.?!ic l
IS hunger by diggng turtle? from the
mud and e tli ig their raw m‘at. lie
traved-i in that war for three nights*
and just before d i b • i; oi i ha morn
ing of the thirl he cam* suddenly upon
a c earing, II -aw at once that it was
thc home of a “fare can par." In
ihose days that par. of Arkansas was
wild and sparsely inhabited, an 1 sett er?
from other state? a id oth?r portions of
Atkunsas were taking up land and
gradually clearing tho country inti
p'ao'auoos T.e settle;, u.uaily
U * ln ^ u ^ Vl u occupancy
n what was known as ho camps, their
firo crop cES'.lin- then, to pu! up l>e:
•er dwellings. The lace camp was a
rude board hut or shanty enclosed od
but three side?. The side fae ng the
?outh was !c ft open, the climate, even
n w.n'tr, be ug mild enough to keep
as airy a habitation as a face camp en
tire y comfortable. The shanty wa?
-oofed with boards, and, as ths whole
was built with slight frame walls, it ;
was not the most secure dwelliog i n the
world. The in’etior of one of these
face camp? was severely simple. It con
rained the reltler's b^d, s table and a
peach or two, and a Soft for storin'*
various articles of hi u ehold us.\ The
etl w&s a rule bo.-ri bunk in one oor.
• at. msde fast to the side on one a ad
fh«* shsntv. The loft w«« n » m.U-
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bc%k, built three or four feet abovo the
‘•The face camper, during his first
yer r ns a settler, depended, in a great
measure, on game for the sustenance i f
birr.sclf and family. The woods trer< .
filled wi:h deer, bear-, and other wild
animals, When a deer or other animal
was killed the dressed carcass wa.
suspended on a pole in front of the
open end of the csm;>, the po’.e being
supported by long forkel sticks driven
in the ground. The face campers
rarely owned slave? while they were
making their clearing;, Liu they always
looked forward to the day when they
would become master i. As n rule they
were hard, ignorant people, and their
| reputation ai slave-holders was such
j that even the slaves of the cotton
planters on the lowlands pitie l the
negroes of a face camper. So, natur
ally, when Bip came suddenly at the
homo of one of this class ho was
greatly alarmed, and made up his mind
to get away from that locality as soon
as possible. The moon was shining full
and bright in the shanty, an 1 Bip could
see the bunk and the outlines of its
sleeping inmates, and the loft
above it. As he stool peering oat of
the thicket, taking a hurried view of
the curious scene, an u jly and ominous
growl came from the shanty. Suppose
ing that his presence ha 1 been discov
ered by the camper’s dogs, Bip was
drawing back hn-rielly to escape from
the spot, when he discovered that it
was something else that hal aroused the
dogs. Gift of the shadows on the op¬
posite side of the opening cams two
dark objects towards the deer, and two
huge bears were revealed in the moon -
light. They did not stop, but slouched
impudently a’ong to secure the object
of their visit, tho deer’s carcass. Bijs
could not overcome his curiosity to
watch and see what the resu t of this
invasion would be. As tho heirs shuf
fled up to the spot where the deer hung,
two dogs rustic I out of flic open camp.
With furious barking and lou I yelping
they sprang up m the bear?.
“The noise awoke the owner of the
camp, and Bip saw h:m spring from
(h e bunk, At the same time the wife
and the faces of three wild an {
startled-looking chil Iren rose u > in thj
bunk. The wt m m and the children
begun to scream and cry. As the set
t ] er jumped out the bears ma 1c a rush
for thc dogs which retreated to the
sh anty. They almost ran over the man
as lie approached. lie ran bick and
helped his wife and children from the
bed to the bunk overheal. The next mo
mint man, dogs, and Lears wereclose l to
gether iu one indiscriminate struggle.
Feeling that whatever the result might
bo his own safety lay iu e?c:iping from
the scene without delay, B p hastened
into tlio f.ireit. l£j hal not gone
far when it occurred to him that a
fedow man’s life was undoubtedly in
peril, and that it was his duty to aid
him in preserving it, no matter what
the c mseqtiences might be to himself.
W.thout an instant’s further hesitation
he turned and dashe 1 back through the
thicket. He cleared the opening at a
bound, and the next second had joined '
the settler and his dogs in their contest
with thc __ bears. The settlor was being
pressed by the bears against the board
wa ll at the foot of tho bunks, and the
frail shanty was shaking and swaying
threateningly. The man’s wife and chi -
d reil were shrieking frantically in the i
| 0 ft. fine dog had been killed an I
other disabled.
“Bip closed with oac of the biaro at
once. His knife was a keen, long
bladed dirk, with (wo edgj?. lie thrust
it lo the hilt in the baur’s breast a? the
animal hinged up against him. The
blood followed the blade in a stream
The hear staggered 4.nek, Before it
ralligl Bip turned to the other one. j t
had knocked the sett er to the ground,
where he lay stuunefl. In a second
more the bsar wou d have torn thc
man's fhr< at to strings. 4\1th one
slushof his effective weapon Bp sev
cr <I*ie big arteries in the bear’s neck
and laid the windpipe opsn. The bear
raised up er-ct on its feet and fell over
backward with its whole weight against
iho si lo of ihe camp. Th$ shock was more
than the structure could stand, aau the
dtauty came down with a crash, bury
ing bears and all beneath a pile of
boards and scantling, Tne next that
B;p knew it was broad daylight. ]j,
was lying on the ground on a deerskin.
lie was sore ami lame but managed to
get to his feet. A big-whiskered man.
a pale, weep'ng wmm, an 1 tw>
frigluenefi-looking children were
grouped near him. By the side of a
ragged pile of boards that had been the
face camp, lay tho carcasses of two
huge bear?. The big-whiskered man
groped Sip*, band, .od
told him he h.id saved his li.c, Ihe man.
his wi.'e,and two of the children hades
op d from th. wroci of the ,h«tr
with but slight injuries strange as it
seemeJ, but the other child had been
killed. Bip felt that he womd be safe
with these people, and he told them his
story. He then learned that the faci
camper was Israel Vawn, a noted re
hgious enthuihr?*, who hid settled in
the wilderness to form the nucleus of a
colony of his follower?. Bip helped
rebuild Yawn's camp, aud when it was
done Vawn made him promise that he
would remain at thc camp until the set
t>r made a business trip to Little Rock
and returned, NVhea Vawn came back
he placed in Bip’s hands bill
of sale for himself from his master.
Vawn hal purchased the young negro
sad givi*n Hm his frc^dAm. The v»r-
1 joyed Bip remained iu Yawn’s serv.ee,
' and was given the name of Solomon
1 Vawn. Israel Vawn died about the
j time the war of the rebellion began,
Bip, or Solomon Vawn, came North
and settled in the Cumberland valley,
where he worked as a farm hand uutii
lie die 1 some month ago, nearly 9 s
years old. He is buried near Mont
A*to, and his grave is on land, I bc
lieve, formerly owned by TuaJdeus
Stevens,”— X. Y. tun.
A London Doll Show.
| A doll show on a gigantic and some
f what original plan, which has bam or
ganized iu ai l of the new hospital for
women in Euston roal, will be opened
m the spring, Tiie diiferen t sections
j allow of great variety in doll dressing,
Ladies in the dress of the period—
morning, evening, bridal or court; gen
t-lcmen dolls ditto, little girl dolls, and
i the babe? in long and semi-long clothes,
dolls in the garb of professors, priests,
; official robes, in state, parliamentary,
! civic and legal, acaieinic, scholastic,
masonic, dolls in naval, military, postal,
or police uniform, dolls iu costumes of
j the pantomime, sirens of the bailct,
! dolls in working dress of all
kinds, artisau, domestic service, or
trade, are to be included in the v.trious
| classes. A special section will be
formed by dolls, ladies and gentlemen,
in sporting dross* hunting, shooting,
i fishing, golf, tennis and boating garb,
Others again will represent heroes,
heroines of history, fiction, the drama,
a spaeial class being assigned to char¬
acters of nursery romance. For “cele¬
brities of today" a double price is
offered, and a section of dolls in a gro¬
tesque, suggestive or emblematic dress
of any kind offers a wide field to the
fanciful. A special nurses’ section will
comprise dolls dresse l as patients an 1
nur?es, and others are exclusively limit
ed to children aid pupils of boar 1,
charity juul industrial schools, Fir
tlu best doll of all a pr.'z; of five
guineas is offered .—Pall Mall Gazette.
A Magician’s Story.
“Whi c iu Liclia," s.iil the magician
Keller recently, “I saw many thing,
done by the native masters of legirde
main that completely ‘stumped’ me and
some scientific gentlemen that were with
m *. The most wonderful performances
were in hypnotism,
“Framjee Cowasjec Jeejeebhoy, a
millions re Paisse merchant, sou of
Framjee Cowasjes, the founder of thc
Bombay Institu'.e of Physical Inquiry
bearing bis name, gave me his word for
Uiis remarkable story:
“I Q the north of India was a famous
j hypnotist who possessed the power of
hypnotizing himself. His wife, who
knew his secret, was accustomed to re¬
vive him whenever he excicised his ex
ceptional power. He killed a man and
"’as sentenced to execution. Several
days before the time for the execution
* le hypnotized himself, passing into a
condition which, to all appearance, was
death. So perfect was the semblance
^ iat l * le English Government physicians
who were called in officially certified
was dead and ordered his body
cremated. But at this point his wife
?ippcared. She was stricken with grief,
moaned and wept uutii the hearts of
tlie authorities were touched. Sac was
permitted to take away the body for
private cremation. Then she revived
her husband, and together they es
caped.’’ — Chh.igj Tribune.
A Child’s Plea to a King.
King Leopold of Belgium is the hero
°* a pretty story. Some six years ago
a seaman named Frank Moore deserted
from steamer Rhynlau l at P.iila
delphia. lie was lately arrested at
Antwerp for thi? offence, and heavily
sentenced, whereupon his little niece,
Be-ric Iv-itn, wrote to the Iv ng, be
seeching her uncle's release. This
* ctter icl ite 1 that mx years n^o her
au»f was dying, an 1 that luv only
prayer was that *he might live to sec
^ (r l»o.hei Frank who. >n arriving
an * hearing this, entraate l of his cap
tarn porniHiion to visit her, which
being denied him, hedcsertel. Little
B .’ssio gravely conciu led •• Your
Mije-ty, if you had been in hi? place,
would not you have done the same’ I
hope you will pavlonL' ic e Frank for
debiting an 1 me for writing. ’ Not
long afterward the child received a
iet!er fu in a high offi -ial, saying that
the offender had been release I. “out of
compliment to his Majesty's iittl
friend
A Lively Kind of Stick.
John Hall of Hopkinsville was ut on
a hinting excursion yesterday, when he
attempted to cross Pond River, which
was so bad; v swollen he stooped to
g. lhcr upf,,,^ ,, ™ t Ud„=L
0 f the ^vater. He sud ieolv became
s„.kld„LaJof ♦In* hr bad fr-^npi ^ a >*»* ’em -e l>'<
»„d he
C ou'.d drop the serpsat it struck at him.
and only his presence of min i saved
from being bitten, After a sharp
battle he ki.lcd the snake and brought
it home with him. it is nearly a yard
j n length.— XathtilU American.
Too Compatible.
"N Hiram, - ’ said tha gir
\ young
sai.y, “I cannot be your wife, Y*e
ara too compatible.’' “Compatible!’’
he exclaimed. “Isn’t that the very
reason why—’’ “Not in our case. •*
should probably insist from motives of
economy on dispensing wifh a servant
and doing my own housework, and
j yo IL^.m u would ’— Chicago probably Tribune, let me do it,
m
>011111 liN NOil-X
fXTERESTIXG XEWS FROM ALL
I 1 01XTS IX THE SOUTH.
I GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA¬
SON'S AND DIXON'S LINE.
The Pan-Americanists will leave Wash
inuton on their Southern trip about the
10;h of April.
A lire started in the business portion of
Laredo Texaf*. Tuesday morning, and be
fore it could be checked $100,000 worth
of property had been destroyed. It was
p ATUd/^'v.'T ul iaily covered by insurance
*5** TT vn
them into one stock company. ieve'ral He ha!
also obtained options on large to
bacco factories Lynchburg. '
m
It )> ouici.il,announced at Chattanoo
tra. lenn., that the ( hattanooga Southern
ILii toad "ill be extended immediately
to Gadsden, Ala.. and from there, via
Ialludega, to Atlanta, Ga. It will open
up a section very rich in mineral wealth,
Cars will be running to Gadsden by July
1st.
In a vote of 2,568 to 1,880, Chattanooga,
$500,000 Term., on Wednesday, decided to issue
for street improvement purposes,
to be expended by the recently appointed
board of public works. The negroes
voted solidly The against anti-bond the improvement
measure. men will prob¬
ably enjoin the issuance of the bonds.
'1 he twenty-second anuual meeting of
the Georgia press association met at Sa¬
vannah. Ga., on Tuesday. The following
officers were elected; W. L. Glessner,
President; T. M. Peeples, Vice-President;
T. L. Gantt, Second Vice-President; J
W. Burke, Treasurer; T. W. Chapman,
Secretary; W. S. N. Neal. Corresponding
Secretary.
It is reported that another large cotton
mill is soon to be built near Greenville,
s. c. A party of northern capitalists are
negotiating for the shoal on Poluda river,
about five miles from there, and where it
is crossed by the Atlanta and Charlotte
railroad. A committee of the capitalists
will soon visit the proposed site, which i
said to be one of the best iu the county,
and will doubtless cause them to begin
operations very soon.
II. M. Flagler, of St. Augustine, Fla..,
has offered to deed to the Baptist society
i lot worth $25,000 and $25,000 in cash
for building in a church, chapel and parson¬
age that city, on condition that the so¬
ciety raise $75,000 within twelve months.
A. E. Dickerson, editor of the Religious
Herald, of Richmond, Va., will endeavor
to raise the additional sum required. This
is the fourth church which Mr. Flagler
has built, or aided in building, in St. Au¬
gustine. 9»
\v iLL Y Ol SUFFER with dyspepsia
find Liver Complafht? Shiloh’s Vitalize!
is guaranteed to cure you.
B. D. Smith, Druggist.
FURTHER RESTRICTIONS
IMPOSED ON TRAVELERS TO THE DOMINION
OF CANADA.
The convention supplementary to thc
tenth article of the treaty of 1842,between
Great Britain and the United States, COI1
eluded at Washington July 12, 1889, and
ratifications exchanged at London, March
11, 1890, was proclaimed on Tuesday. By
the terms of the supplementary conven¬
tion, the provisions of the teuth article of
the original treaty are made applicable tc
the following additional crimes:
1. Manslaughter, when voluntary.
tering 2. Counterfeiting bringing or altering circulation money, ut¬
or into coun¬
terfeit or altered money.
8. Embezzlement, larceny, receiving
any money, valuable security, or othei
embezzled, property, knowing the same to have been
stolen or fraudulently ob¬
tained.
4. Fraud by bailee, banker, agent, fac¬
tor, trustee or director, or member or offi¬
cer of any company made criminal by thc
laws of both countries.
5. Perjury, or subornation of perjury.
6. pping. Rape, abduction, child-stealing,kid
na
breaking. 7. Burglary, house-breaking or shop-
8. Piracy by the law of nations.
9. Revolt, or conspiracy to revolt by
two or more persons on board ship ou the
high seas, against the authority of the
master; wrongfully sinking or destroying
a ve-sel at sea, or attempting to do so:
assaults on board ship on the high seas,
with intent to do grevious bodily barm.
10. Crimes and offenses against the
laws of both countries for the suppression
of slavery and slave trading.
Extradition is also to take place for
participation in any of the crimes men
tioned in this convention, or in the afore
said tenth article, provided such partici
pations be punishable by the laws of both
countries. Political offenses are expressly
excluded from tha operations of the
treaty, and it is stipulated that people ex¬
tradited upon one charge shall not be held
to account for arry other previously com¬
mitted until they shall have had an op¬
portunity to return to the country whence
extradit :d.
SHILOH S COUGH and Consumption
Cure is sold by us on a guarantee. It
cures Consumption.
B. D. Smith, Druggist.
ALLIANCE HEADQUARTERS
r*T VBLISIIED IN WASHINGTON — THE
SUB-TREASURT PLAN.
The Farmers' Alliance has established
a headquarters in Washington, where the
work of educating congress as to desired
legislation will be carried on. The pres
ident, Mr. Polk, is on hand actively
pressing the merits of the new sub-treas
ury plan. Mr. Polk declares that this
phinist he prod uctof the best minds of
The Alliance is making its influence felt
with congressmen and the politicians worried h; of
I bothpanies mo ^comdd-Hj
‘ ' l ^-- es ' i03s ;--—
THAT HACKING COUGH cun be >o
quickly cured by Shiloh's cure. We
j guarantee it.
: B. D. Smith. Druggist.
j AN EDITORIAL JAUNT.
MEMBERS OF THE GEORGIA URUpS ASSOCIA¬
TION IN THX LAND OF FLOWERS.
The Georgia Press association arrived k
j Jacksonville, Fla.. Thursday morning.
They visited the sub tropical exposition,
where they were received and shown
about by Director General Moran. Secre
tury Atiams and Representative Dilion.
President Dillon made a short speech of
^'elcome, "f^tiieL^Tl which wa? replied to ^ by Presi
! tors ar<
j Irndwin ^venatrriw^Cubti^Ibvthat
TBpany
DODGE’S FIGURES.
Til* A9RICCLTTHAL STATISTICIAN COM¬
MENTS ON THE SITUATION.
American agriculture is treated by Sta¬
tistician J. R. Dodge iu the March report
a: the department of agriculture. Thi
prevalence of low prices is noted and feel
mg ot discourajnnent iu rural circles
hroughout d the world is indicated. It is,
ln has been, especially severe in Great
Britain, and is the subject of com
discussion and official in
jestigation . in Germany F
j ranee,
t aul * other countries. It is
P rosent in monarchies and republics, un
I ■* er diverse currencies and economic sys
tanner'. interest account i, unreduced,and
his mortgage harder to lift.
CAU9E o» low wucm.
T . f low referred
mam ca 4f e ? P nce81s
“a^Tom £ ^.“andSfi^apt
sre Immigration cheap because of over-production, population
has increased the
5,000,0U0 in ten years, luter-coutineutal
areas have been carved into farms free to
j the natives and foreigners, opening mil
lions of acres to cultivation. Railroad ex
tension has stimulated production and
overwhelmed the east with western pro¬
ducts. Speculation first and utilization af¬
terwards have produced results that
have astonished the world with a plethora
of bread and meat. The old world has
joined with the new to crowd the moun¬
tains, valleys, slopes and far-stretching
plains of the continent with beeves, in
the haunts of the once countless herds of
buffalo.
Iu the more eastern areas maturity of
beeves has been hastened by breeding and
feeding. how An extended comparison shows
in the progress of forty years, pro¬
duction outrun the population in it*
wildest strides. It is shown that wheat
growing has become a philanthropic mis¬
sion to make cheap bread consistent with
the low wages iu Great Britain, that
northwestern missionaries continue sowing
their seeds and floating their bread across
the waters, mourning for profits that do not
return after many days. It is suggested that
less than a fourth of the world eat wheat;
that haif of the people of Europe scarcely
know the taste, and that Asia, Africa,
South America and Australia all have
wheat to sell. Mr. Dodge says that while
there is an excess of production of few
staples, there are insufficient supplies cti
many other necessary products, and the
total absence of sc ores of others, which
should furnish profitable employment to
rural labor. There is too narrow a range
of cropping. Diversification is essential
to agricultural salvation. There are im¬
ports costing $240,000,000 per annum,
of a, ultural products which should be
produced here. These are sugar, ani¬
mals and their products, fibers, fruits
and nuts, barley, leaf tobacco, and wines.
The farmers are suffering for the want of
the hundreds of millions of dolla s that
the sweat of the brows and dexterity of
hands might produce in .“raw materials”
for scores of old and new industries.
Depression more intense will result, it is
predicted, if the farmers continue to re¬
strict their efforts, walk in the furrows
their fathers turned, and seek to live and
die in the same overdone arid profitless
routine. Another serious cause of de¬
pression, he says, is the exorbitant share
of farmer's products taken by middle
men and carriers. Speculators depress
prices when the garners are full,
and boom them when the farmers have
nothing to sell, as at present. The com¬
munity is infested with the pestilent
swarms of non-producers. The curse of
speculation blights and consumes the re¬
sult of honest industry. Leeches fasten
on every product of labor and suck from
it the life-blood of profit. Men who pro¬
duce nothing, who neither toil on faims
nor spin in factories, are absorbing combinations the
wealth of the country, by
without conscience, and service without
equity.
For lame back, side or chest, use Shi¬
loh's Porous IBaster. Price 25 cents.
B. I). Smith, Druggist.
THE FLOODS
CAUSING GREAT DISTRESS AMONG THE
MISSISSIPPI PLANTERS.
Officers of the lower Mississippi steam¬
ers arriving at St. Louis, Mo., report
much distress in the overflowed districts
south of Memphis and the outlook for
their next crop quite discouraging.
Should the water not drain off by the
first of April it will seriously Interfere
with their planting. Over one million
empty sacks have been shipped to points
between Memphis and Vicksburg, and
have been filled with earth and sand and
used in strenghtening the levees.
1 The Miner and the Sharpers.
j
i
••The confidence game is played on
1,000 strings, 1 ' said Captain Horace
Vardie, of Richmond, to a Washington
Post reporter, "and thc bunco man for
ever wcars a new face and forever finds a
new device. I’ve just got back from the
Pacific coast, and among the Rockies
ln<t w<-ek I certainly saw the most novel
turn of chicane.
•The train boys or ‘candy butchers,’
<ju these Wester n roads are grown men,
and. without exception, sharks and
sharpers. Passing through* the town of
Gunnison, near the western foot of the
range, a miner got on—a big, rough
bearded fellow of the old style that did
one good to see. The ‘butcher marked
him for a pigeon and inveigled him into a
euchre game at *1 a corner. The old fel
ow, however, was so apt with the cards
that he won rather than lost, so that after
sinking about 8!U at the game the
•butcher’left off cards playing and began to
throw tlirec upon thc lapboard,
after the well-known monte fashion.
,; i With each throw,’ho said,as though
repeating an old and meaningless formula,
T’ll bet you $100 that you can t spot the
queen.’ Once turned after throwing the cards
the trainman to the occupant of
the next seat and asked that the w indow
be closed. A young man in a check suit,
apparently a straDger to both, who sat
upon the arm rail of the miner’s seat
watching the play, stooped and swiftly
exposed the queen. As swiftly still and
before the thrower could detect him he
punctured the queen with a penknife,
thus marking conspicuously that card.
All unsuspec tingly, the cards were thrown
again and the offer of wager made.
"The miner, winking at thc young man
in the check suit, took the bet, and with
seemingly great reluctance, the ‘butcher’
covered the money. The young man- in
the check suit was given the stake*. The
cards were thrown and the miner smiling
»y selected the punctured card, when to
the astonishment of all, it proved a jack.
f> ith a hole through his doublet exactly
: .ik< tin- one in the ojueen's bodice. With
i shout of discovery ;ur1 an- oath of rage
:Ue miner snatched the stakes undndmin-
1 a terrible thi ashing to Doth the
tanuy-butehef and the young man in the
'heck suit.**
A DAMAGING STORM.
SWEEP? OVER SOUTH CAROLINA—SK\ EHM.
LIVES LOST.
A violent storm swept over the north¬
ern. western and central portion*of South ;
Carolina Saturday afternoon. The loss ot j
life was small, but several negroes were
killed in Sumter county, and n white man
in Union county, by falling houses. A
railroad bridge over Broad river, ueai
Spartanburg, was blown clear from its
piers,five minutes after a train bad passed.
Many dwellings and stores lost roofs and
spires. A Baptist church in Sumter wa;
blown down. Buildings were unroofed,
fences leveled, trees destroyed uprooted, and a Pres¬
byterian church in Chestei
county. There was a severe blow, with
occasional damage to buildings and in Flor
enee, Spartanburg, Newberry Charles
ton counties.
BISMARCK'S FAREWELL.
THE MAN OV "IRON ANI) BLOOD" liiDis
EMPEROR WILLIAM ADIEU.
A dispatch from Berlin, Germany, says;
The farewell audience between the em¬
peror and Prince Bismarck was held
Wednesday morning, The interview
lasted three-quarters of an hour. The re¬
tiring chancellor was heartily cheered on
his way to the palace by crowds which
had gathered along the route. The em¬
peror permits Bismarck to retain the tit It
jf prince, with that of duke of Lauen
fourg, as secod distinction.
I.W. ENSIGN
DEALER IN
BOOKS AND STATI0NRY,
A fall line of the SCHOOL BOOKS
ordered by the Board of education. . Can
furnish dealers in the county with
SCHOOL BOOKS
I r sell at introductory stock prices of miscelli as ag ent ol
E, Parks. literaiy A good books for sale aneous low
and standard at
prices.
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WEIGHT & STONE,
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r\FFICE upstairs Pye’s, Opera Houa
building. Forsyth Ga
Loans Negotiated
On Farms and Town Property in
Bibb and adjoining Counties.
ELLIOTT ESTES & CO.,
31S Second Street, Maoon, Ga
APPLICaTION FOR DIbMISSION.
r< EORGTA—Monroe county—Whereas
LI O. H. B. Btoodworth, administrator
of James K. Clements, late of said coun¬
ty, deceased, has applied tome for letters
of dismission from said trust; this is
therefore to cite all persons interested to
show cause, if anv, by the first
™utgS",r lwhysai ' 1 lettersBhu " i;i
Winess my hand and official signature
this November 1st, 1889.
JOHN T. MoGINTY, Ordinary.
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