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1886
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GENERAL NEWS.
The New York legislature will prob
ahljr attend Gen. Graut’s funeral.
Services in honor of Gen. Grant
were held in Westminster Abbey An.
gust 4tli.
The troops in Arizoua are pressing
the Indians, but haven’t killed or cap
tured many as yet.
Two per cent, of the voting popu
lation of Bell county, Kentucky, is
charged with murder.
A Florida boy ol tweuty-four sum
mers and a dashing widotv of eighty
were recently married.
The New York World has succeed
ed in raising that SIOO,OOO for the Bar
lhold! Statue of Liberty.
Gen. Hancock will have charge pf
the military ceremonies connected
with Gen. Grant’s funeral.
A colored man has died in Chester,
field county, S. C,, leai iug his thir
teenth wife to mourn iiis loss.
The northern papers, tell us that tli*
long iioped for business revival lis
come. It haa not readied the south
yet.
The Nashville meeting in honor of
Gen. Grant, was presided over by
Gen. FVank Cheatham, ot Confeder
ate lame.
The Macon Telegraph advises (lie
women to icaru how to shoot ami
protect themselves against the negro
villains.
R. E. Leo and Stonewall Jackson
camps of Conlcderate veteran*,passed
resolutions ot regret at the death of
Gen. Grant.
“Go, and do as did Iscariot, yo(t
great, leaden-tcared crocadiie,” it
John Swinion's advice- to Heury
Ward Beeuhoap
The i’reniirent expected to start
last Saturday on his summer vaca
tion. but hit* postponed it ou accouu)
of the death of Gun. Grant.
A Southern'Senator now in Wash
ington sayt'fie shall introduce a bill
next session giving Mrs. Grant a pens
eion of $6,000 a year for life.
The gurrison at Kassoia his l'e
pulsed El Mahdi’s besieging army
killing a great number of the enemy;
and capturinguearly all their cattle
The lady students at Chautauqua
this year out number the gentlemen
two to one. Even the business
school is largely composed of youug
ladies.
Cattle are beginning to come Ea.t
from the ranges. As early as July 7
a lot from Nebraska reached Chicago
and sold from $3 (13 to $5 13 per hun
dred pounds.
Tha nioititity rrom swine fevor in
England hits readied a point when
aboui 2,000 animal* perish every
week, or 100,000 per year out of 2,-
000,000 swine.
At a camp-meeting in ludiunna
Sunday a preacher advocated misce
genation between whites and black.
There was great, indignation mani
fested by hi* heurers.
Two English bloods bad a fisticuff
the other day, in Hyde Park, on ac
count of the attention each ha* been
paying Mrs. Langtry. Unfortunately
neitlicr was much hurt.
Two bars of bullion, shipped from
ihe Comstock lode on July 11, con
stituted the first business shipment
from 3,000 level of any mine In the
United States or the world.
Alabama's strongest man, Mr. J
H. Clark, of Shirley, Covington coun
ty, can take a 230 pound anvil, and
by placing his thumb in the mason
hole, throw it off like a marble.
The first bale of new cotton was
sold in Houston, Texas, Friday July
22 for SIOO. It was raised in I)e-
Wiw county, in that state, 570 pounds
and was classified as mliddllng.
Missionaries in the equatorial lake
region of Atrica huve discovered that
a kind of beer made of bananas is a
p •ophylactle against malarial fevers,
and that thiadrink la indispensable
to heir health.
Six hundred and thirteen children
under fire years of age died in New
York last, week. Three hundtod and
ninty-five of these deaths resulted
from diarrheal affections, largely in
duced by the very hot weather.
It is rumored that a t the next meet
ing of the Atlanta City Council that
body will be petitioned to close the
cigar stand*on Sunday. It is claim
ot that smoker#can supply thetn
• -Ives on Saturday and not suffer any
inconvenience.
John Faugonan, his wile and 3-
year old son, have died in Baltimore
from trichinosis, and a daughter is
lying in a dangerous condition. The
pork was eaten on Mar 10. These
are the first eases of the terrible mal
ady known ih Baltimore.
The little duster of islands in the
Pacific just off the Patagonian coast
furnish forage for 400,000 sheep.
There are no bushes or tress of any
kind on the itlands, and the entire
surface is covered with a bed of pelt
which woulrf supply the worJ|.
Over the peat a thick growth ofj
short, but very nutritious, grass, on
which the shetep thrive wonderfully.
Nearly every day theireis rain, which
seems unable to force its way down
Prince Henry of Buttcnburg cannot
speak enough English to carry on the
simplest conversation. He learned
his uart in the marriage service, and
that is about all he knows. All the
same, he got air’Engmh princess, and
$30,000 a year out of tfio English
treasury.
This horribie story comes from
Landingville, Pa.: J. B. Marshall’
aged 20 years, a telegraph operator
at Landingvillc. near Schuylkill liaH
veil, got Ids foot fast in a frog ill
from of his office this morning and
ivas crushed to death by a passing
coal train an the Philadelphia and
Reading road. His body dLis hr
liibly mangled.
Dr. C. C. Abbott, tho naturalist,
recently found upon bis farnial Tren
ton, N. J., a box tortoise, upon the
under shell of which was cut his
grandfather’s name, J. Abbott, with
the date 1821. The appearance bt
tlie lorvbise denoted graCt
there is no reasou to doubt the fact
that the mime ivas really engraved
upon it 64 years age.
mt>,m and $400,000. She receives
the beuefits without qualification
may use the money as she chocfc-v
bui il is supposed she win follow Wt
the General’s wishes to reimburse,hi*
relatives from losses they sustained
though having*beetled bUS| erfu
nectiou wit tx Grant * Ward 10 inv4bl
their possessions with that ill-fated
firm.
Sunday, as the train from Sylvania
to Rocky Ford was going out. ,lo*epii
Edeufield boarded it at Waters' sta-
Ks,lu , r,'K k .AT-‘jti
reckless and reprehensible manner,
firing Id* pistol cfjMficff
seining it at par
and using tho most obscene and vnl-
ad igthe prwefec
ot female infssefigem, aid Jtbej-s'
happened to be at the depot. Two or
three bullet holes are said lb Imh o
been shot through the coach.
A* When ha eras Y oung.
“I have used Parker’s Hair Balsam
and-like it better tban nny similan
preparation I know of” wrUea Mrs
Ellen Peity Wlfeof Rev.,K#efr|,b|
Coldbrook ftprbigs, JdAsP*My lurti
was almost entirely gray, but a dojjpr
bottle of the Balsam ha* restored the
softness, and she brown color it had
when I was ybugg-jpot.a singjfgrur
hui* left. Since 1 begun applying ilul
Balsam my hair has stoppee falling
out, and I find that it is gcrfecllv
hamless and ngreeablo dressing.
These lire Solids Filets.
Th ! bos' blood purifier and system
regulator ever placed within the
reach of suffering humanity, Imry
is Electric flitter.-. Inactivity of the
Liver Biliousness Jaundice, Constipa
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Bitters tho best and olilv certain cine
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No family can afford to be without
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Sold at llfty ctiffs a bottle £y G. E
Lyudoft. ‘
Good milk cows on hand for sale
at all times. Prices from |35 to 1110
3m W. A. BuitnkriV.
Buy your preserving kettle of W.
T. Johnson.
Cure Fr Piles.
Piles are frequently preceded by a
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lower part of the abdomens, causing
ihe patient to suppose ho lias some
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