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6 CUMNOCK’S CROP OF CORPSES. TUG BODIES HORKIBI.I MATGLED BV THE EXPLOSION. The Brnln* of Some of the A'letlm* Blown lint nnrt the Shin Torn From the Bodies of Other*—The Heart Xow Believed to Number It— Ditlt eult> Kxierleneel In Getting Men to (hi Into the Mine After the Heart. Raleigh, N. C.. Dec. Interest in the revrs from the Cumnock mini * was Intense today, and many persons from a distance went to the scene of yesterday's great dis aster. The work of searching for the dead continued all night. The searchers restod three hours and then renewed their effort*. The difficulty in obtaining per sons to engage in this work, was great and is one of the worst features of the af fair. Crowfls of men stood near the mouth of the mine, full of morbid curiosity. The pitiful supplications of the women, the ur gent request of Superintendent Cant, and the pleading of the miners failed to enlist their sympathy sufficiently to induce them to enter the shaft, and assist in the You haven't a heart as big as a pea. You ■w a't help raise your own dead, its coward ice " said F. Xuttal. one of the leading miners, and the nrst to enter the mines to begin the work of rescue. Ga.lani Supe-lnu ndent Cant, while ap pea'ir.g to the crowd, asked them as men if they would not undertake the work for a while. One man said he would not go down in the mine for llO.ftJO. "it’s a shame that you won't,” remarked the superin tendent. The average number at work Reaching yesterday and last night and to-day was about twelve. Bodice were found in ail parts of the mine, mainly in the 3uOfoot level, where the principal loss of life oc curred. . The condition of many of the bodies is shocking. The hands of many were near ly burned off. The work of identifying the dead was slow. Hundreds of persons in spected the thirty-five bodies laid out in the engine house up to 10 o'clock this morning. As rapidly as they were identi fied the bodies were shrouded. Those recovered up to noon were mar ried men. Their names were, George Andrews. William Baldwin, John Ols, John Gunter, George Munroe and his son Thomas Harry Morris and his son Ran dolph. Wright Tyson, Lucian Holllngs and his son Kdward, Frank McKoy, Iven eon Snells, Joseph W. White, Louis White and Arthur White, colored, three brothers; Joseph Thompson, colored; Wil liam Jenkins, colored; Charles Poe, Jerry Lambert and Huston Famber, colored, brothers; John Shomburg, Fisher Reaves, colored; Clay Harris, colored, and a Pole, whose name is unknown. Most of them leave dependent families. The following were unmarried: Walter Horton, Colored; Lewis Spurkle, colored; John ilciver. Jim Reeves colored; John Norwood and four Poles, who arrived a week ago. The injured are; Joseph Miller, John Williams Smith, Dempsey Halsey, col ored, and Jack Johnson. Two of these will die. There was a great contrast between the scenes at the mine yesterday and to-day. The women were all there and excited and overwhelmed with anxiety, but hop ing for the best. To-day all hope had disappeared; anxious widows sat at the cottage windows watching for the ap proach of a litter bearing their dead. Not a woman was at the mines to-day. There were some notable instances of heroism in the rescue of persons who were in the mine when the explosion oc curred. There is yet a dispute as to the cause of the explosion. Early yesterday morn ing the boss inspected the mine and re ported the atmosphere all right. As late as S H. m. the same rej>ort was made to Supt. Cant, by the mine foreman. It seems certain that it was a gas explosion; all flhe miners say so. There wore ISO pounds of dynamite in the mines, and the mine officials insist that It caused the explosion. The miners say someone care lessly igniter] a gas pile with a candle. At noon the bodies of L. P. Holland and Joseph Stark were recovered. The whites are distinguishable from the negroes only by the hair. The brains of sortie Is knocked out and the skin is torn from the bodies. Two children were found, both nude, one clasped in Its fa ther’s arms. There are yet four bodies In the mine, two in slope No. 2, and two in slope No. 1. These are thought to be bur led several feet under the coal. They are Joseph Smalls. M. Bentley, M. H. Quinn and Edward Bentley. Capt Harry Jackson. From the New York Press. One of the most talked-ahout men in the south died In Atlanta on Friday. Capt. Harry Jackson, counsel for the Piedmont Air Line, was a unique char acter. Capt. Jackson war educated in England. While at school there, he, In company of half a dozen boys, had his arm tatooed near the shoulder. One of the boys had the same figure made on his arm as Jackson had. That was forty years ago. The boys went their several ways In life, and forgot each other. Two years ago Jackson was a guest at a dinner In Boston, and at the table was an Englishman, who casually inquired If Jack son hag been abroad. Jackson answered In the affirmative, and told the story of the tatoolng. •This is all very strange,” said the Englishman, "1 went to school with some boys who had the same fancy. Half a dozen of us were tatooed at the same ttrne. I remember there was one boy who had the same mark put on his arm as I had on mine. 1 wonder what has become of him!” "What was the mark?” asked Jackson. An anchor with two stars on each side " "Why, that’s my mark,” exclaimed Jackson. In a minute coats w’ere stripped off and sleeves rolled up, the family of the host looking on with intense Interest. There sure enough were the two anchors, pre cisely alike, and the stars. After a lapse of thirty-eight vears the men found that they had been chums at school. ‘•Lot on a Narrow Xeck.’’ From the Chicago Journal ”A Woslyan Methodist” wants to know what authority there is for the state ment that Charles Wesley composed his celebratde hymn beginning “Lo! on a nar row neck erf land,” while sojourning in Georgia. Charles Wesley himself is the author ity. In a letter written by him from Jekvl Island in 1736 to Lady Oglethorpe we find the following: "Last evening I wandered to the north end of the island and stood upon the narrow point which your ladyship w'll recall as there projecting into the ocean The vastness of the watery waste as compared to my standing place, called to mind the briefness of human life and my surroundings Inspired me to write a hymn, eommenrtng: Lo’ on a narrow neck of land, ’Taixt two unbounded seas, I stand W hich I trust may pleasure your lady ship, weak and fec-Me as it is, compared with the songs of the sweet psalmist of Israel.'' Doctors Say; Bilious and Intermittent Fevers which prevail in miasmatic dis tricts are invariably accompan ied by derangements of the Stomach Liver and Bowels. The Secret of Health. The liver is the great ” driving wheel” in the mechanism of man, and when it is out of order, the whole, system becomes de ranged and disease is the result. Tutt’s Liver Pills Cure all Liver Troubles. NAPOLEON, I fey Mn the conqueror of 'worlds, died in 1821, 25 years before Pond’s Extract, K. the conqueror of pain, \ was discovered. Napo lebn’s greatness dirnrned Y / his years; Pond’s * Extracts greatness iq- If 0 *" ' f creases. PftWTVQ PYTIJ APT w,LLSoro Throat, Frost it v' At M itSxik JL liflv X CURE Bites, Lameness, Rheumatism, Wounds, Piles, Earache, Sprains, Sore Eyes, Hoarseness, Inflammations, Soreness, Burns, Bruises, Bore Feet, and Hemorrhages, GEORGIA AND FLORIDA. NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TuLD IN PAH AGK A PUS. A Macon Woman Map* the Face of the Georgia Magnet—A Hoy AVonnil eil in the Arm While Plnyiug Buf falo Bill—A Narrow Escape From Death at llawkinovllle—Two Small Negro Bo>* on Trial for Stealing S-'hmi From n Bank. GEORGIA. t Jod Bryant of Macon, charged with wife murder, has been acquitted. There are four families living within a mile of Pine Urove school house, in Clinch county, that have forty-one children. • Wednesday night David McGauley of OJum fell over a box in his house, am! broke three of his ribs and received in ternal injuries. L. C. Mandevllle, one of the leading mer chants of Carrollton, has sold ids entire stock of merchandise to George W. Roop, of Roopville. J. T. Saunders has been appointed post master at Fairchild, Decatur county, to fill the vacancy created by the death of W. C. Fairchild. J. T. Sanders has been appointed post master at Fairchild, Decatur county, to fill the vacancy created by the death of W. C. Fairchild. Mr. Walton of Sandersville is trying the experiment of fattening cattle on cotton seed meal and hulls. One beef gained 121 pounds In thirty days. Anthony Murphy of Atlanta claims the Southern railway has taken possession of land in that city belonging to him, and he asks $5,000 damages. The town council of Sparta has raised the liquor license for another year from JfirtO to $3,000, and but one application has been made for the increased license. The grand jury of Terrell county has given a strong indorsement to Solicitor General Sheffield to be the successor on the bench of the Pataula circuit of Judge James Griggs. It is Terrell county's time to supply the state senator from that dlctrlct In the next legislature, and a writer in the Daw son News suggests Hon. O. B. Stevens for the place. The Toccoa furniture and lumber fac tory Is receiving more orders than it can fill and is running an extra large force of hands from 7 a. m. until 8:30 p. m. every day. The Woodbury Messenger, populist is the first paper of any description, as far as can be ascertained, that objects to the government stocking the streams of the state with fish. The charities of Augusta have been con solidated under the control of a commis sioner, and all money appropriated for charitable purposes either by the city or county, is dispersed by the commission. Mrs. Jennie Jones of Cartersville died unexpectedly last Sunday morning of heart disease, with which she has been a sufferer for many years. The deceased was the step-mother of Rev. Sam P Jones. Gov. Atkinson states that he will an nounce the name of a judge of the Macon circuit to succeed Judge Hardeman on Monday or Tuesday next. Frqm present indications Solicitor General Felton will be appointed. The last grand Jury of Pierce county played havoc with the wine and cider manufacturers, getting true bills against some of them and recommending thait its manufacture for sale In Pierce county be prohibited altogether. G. W. Tilley of Fannin county has been arrested on a charge of Imperson ating James F. Forrester, and getting a check for federal pension money due the latter cashed. The penalty for the of fense Is ten years imprisonment. Bank Examiner Burgwyn has left Col umbus after having completed his Inves tigation of the affairs of the Chattahoo- National Bank. John F. Flournoy way appointed receiver of the Institution, and has orffered all persons having claims against the bank to present them within three months. While under the influence of a heavv drug, supposed to have been swallowed In a cup of coffee in the Turkish cafe in the streets of Cairo on the Midway at the exposition, grounds at Atlanta Thursday Dr. J L. Crigler, an exposition visitor from Crawford, Miss., was robbed of be tween SSO and $75. Postmaster Dunbar of Augusta had a painful experience while returning from Atlanta in a Georgia railroad sleeper He was In a lower berth, and during the night the upper berth gave way and its occupant, a full grown man was precipi tated on the ’’Judge.” Ilis spine was wrenched and gave him considerable pain. J. P. Bryant, a furniture dealer of At lanta. while drunk Wednesday, went to the house of a colored woman named Ka tie Wood, ami while there shot her. Hrr arrt claims his pistol was accidentally dis charged. The woman may die. Bryant is under arrest. He was badly beaten by four negroes as he was leaving the house after the shooting. In the United States court at Macon M ednesday Ed Smith filed suit for $5 <OO against the Central railroad receivers He claims that a passing train made his horse run away, Smith claims to have been thrown from his buggy and Injured to the amount of the claim. Alfred Mack also brings suit for SIO,OOO on eimllar al legations against the Central. A trade has been closed between Ellerv Johnson and J. K. Williamson, both of Rome, by which the latter assumes con ..u „ the lar Ke Icwelry establishment of the former. The stock is worth be tween so,ouo and SIO,OOO. Both have been in the Jewelry business, and Mr. Williamson will run two separate establishments In adjoining blocks for the present. On the Mock-Hood plantation. In Doughty county Wednesday afternoon, the cabin of William Benjamin was burn “'! up. tremating his 17-year-old son, N\ right The boy was subject to epileptic fits, and it Is supposed that he. while near the fire had one of these spells and fell in the lire, scattering the burning wood and causing the house to catch on fire. Otis Glass, the son of a prominent dtl z,a benola, was acldentally shot and painfully wounded In the right arm Tue*- day. Clarence Falls, the 16-year-old son uos'mlstress. was playing “Buffalo uin with Otis, and tuuippinir a dlb- Xo * him - Clar**nc© knew that the idßtol had on© ball in It, but did not think that m* had snapped round to it, otl* will reoover. Jud*** Kpp* of the city court of Atlanta, has handed in his reßlynation to B)v. Aikimton. to take effect on Ja.n. 7 T he re&tons he given are that th public nuHineMH demand* that bin aueceaaor Khali 4 MOOr L *• IXMMdbU b©*ln the dlachar*** of fib duties, and ttifti he liu a chance at thiis time to make a very advanta if€oub butflneM connection which n* can not overlook. A young man named Oscar Campbell wig) live* near Nwton factor y. m Vwv. ion SOUIMV was shot TUew U> night by an unknown person. He was wound*) in G>* Ui4k of the band and lm< k w*h • tfhotjfur> 4 amphtril riding a lioi belonging to Frank Jviiw. i'ne .üboogl THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1895. tion is that he was mistaken for Jones. The wound is serious, and it is thought that he will not recover. While Mrs. Annie Abbott, the Georgia magnet, was searching for her stolen jew els at Macon a few days ago Mrs. Walker slapped Mrs. Bishop's face. Mrs. Walker was ready to follow the first blow with others, but a countable interfered ami Mrs. Walker allowed the search to pro ceed. The missing articles were found, but Mrs. Walker said that she had been an innoceht purchaser of them. Editor Jack Powell of the Blakely Ob server. was married last w-qk to Miss Connie Strong, a popular young lady of that place, and this is his announcement of the event to his readers; "After a te dious courtship of several months. Jack Powell and Miss Connie Strong were mar ried on last Thursday evening. Rev. J. W. Arnold performing the marriage serv ice. No cards; no objections and nobody's business. Now is the time to subscribe.’* A fire which started at Carrollton Wed nesday about noon destroyed the build ing, machinery and tools of the sash dobr and blind factory of Dr. W. C. New’ The factory was being operated by Col! E. A. Brooks, who also lost some valuable machinery and material. A blacksmith and wood shop near by were also burned. Dr. New estimates his loss at about SHOOO and Cob Brooks says his will amount to about fI.OOIX Nfather carried any insur ante. The fire started from a spark from the engine. Clarence James, a machlnest at Pate Itros. shop** an Hawktnsville, ha,l u miraculous .-scape from death last Mon day morning by the bursting of a cylin der head of a small steam engine that he was repairing. He was heating the piece of machinery, preparatory to tak ing it to pieces, when it suddenly ex- .l? 1 ? r|t " a terrinc report. Fragments of the Iron flew in every direction, and one of them struck Mr. James in the rorehead, knocking him senseless. He was not seriously hurt, though he w-ill carry an ugly scur as long as he lives as a re sult of the accident. /Hi® correspondent of the Morning News at Douglas sends in the following: "The citizens of Douglas assembled in mass meeting Wednesday night for the purpose of nominating a munlpical ticket for the F ° r mayfi-. three name*, tlx. Ous L. Brack. W. F. Sibbett and C. a! Ward, Jr., were placed before the con vention. C. A. Ward, Jr., was finally de clared the nominee. The ticket now stands: For mayor, C. A. Ward, Jr.; for So ® uck a Beterson. W. P. a W. Inflnger, D. W. Gaskin, ow llt,le *Peoch. stated that if elected the first mayor of Douglas who was yet in her swaddling clothes as a city, that he would serve without salary. Bob Oliver and Julius White, two small negroes, worq put on trial In the crim inal superior court at Atlanta Thursday on the-charge of robbing the States Sav *n?P hen the case was called for trial it was proven that Julius White was only years old and he was ordered discharged, as under the law he is not responsible. As soon as he had been disttharged he was put on the stand and testified that he had stolen the money and the other boy had noth ing to do with it, except to help him spend It, not knowing that it had been stolen. The case was stubbornly fought by the defense, and when the jury went out It was unable to agree on a verdict, so Judge Clark ordered a mistrial In the case. The death of J. A. Adams, which occurr ed at Reynolds last week has caused sev eral of the merqhants of that place much uneasiness. Mr. Adams was president of the Reynolds Exchange Bank. He. also acted as cashier. The merchants had per fect confidence in Mr. Adams, and he held their daily deposits, they not knowing the result In case of his death. About ten days ago he was stricken with paralysis and died in a short while. W. M. Musslewhlte was appointed temporary administrator. It was found that there were but little funds', some notes, etc., to balance nearly $4.U60 liabilities. Mr. Adams bought cot ton besides doing his general banking business. Some of the cotton will also go to his credit. It turns up that there are a number of executions against Mr. Adams' estate, which, under the law, will claim his estate, Including cotton, money, etc. By this state of affairs several firms are temporary deprived of the use of consid erable money. Had Mr. Adams lived, everything would have been right. One of the largest sales of timber ef fected at Amerleus in some time was made Tuesday, by P. C. Clegg and J. C. C. Horne, to R. E. Johnson of Atlanta, consisting of the hardwood timber cov ering 6,000 acres of land lying along Flint river in Bumter, Bee and Macon coun ties. The land thus described is covered with a magnificent growth of whiteoak, ash and other hard woods suitable for manufacturing purposes, and the work of clearing the timber will begin next week. Mr. Johnson, it is understood, will export large quantities of this timber,raft ing the logs to the Georgia and Alabama railway at Johnson’s Station, where they will be loaded for shipment to Savannah or Brunswick. It is estimated that fully 50,000 selected log3 can be secured along Flint river. Messrs. Clegg and Horne •sold the timber at so much per tree, the transaction netting them a snug sum. The timber is of the finest quality, and early next week the work of felling it will begin at a point in Dooly county, and continued up the river until the amount wanted has been secured. Macon Telegraph: The Southern Ex press Company was held to be liable to J. H. & W. W. Williams in the city court Wednesday. Williams sued for siss and Interest. He got all he asked. The suit was brought mainly on the ground that the express company received the dia monds to be delivered at Swainsboro, nothing being said about the fact that the express cocnpany’s nearest office was Midvtlle, several miles distant. The forg er receipted the express agent at Mia ville for the diamonds, and Williams claims the express company is responsi ble for the safe delivery of the goods at their destination. Judge Ross charged the Jury that the plaintiffs were right in this contention, and that the express com pany should have used extraordinary dili gence to see that the goods were prop erly delivered; that as they had under taken to deliver the goods to the J O Coleman at SwaJnsboro, the man who got the goods at Midville became as an agent Of the express company, and If ho did not place the goods safely at their desti nation. the express company was liable. The express company's counsel requested the court to charge that If plaintiffs were entitled to recover at all. they were bound by the olause on the blanks lim iting the value to SSO. But Judge Ross ledieved the law on this subject applied only to cases where the sender of an ex press package refused to give valuation after having been asked to do so; if the package was lost under such circum stances, then the sender could not recov er more than SSO, and the Jury was no c harged The express company will car ry the case to a higher court. FLORIDA. People near Waldo had to fight a wools fire last Sunday away from their houses and fences. K W. Koesti r and Raymond liler* of Taqipa are In Orlando for the purpose of opening a cigar fa/ tary Many deer are being killed In Osceola county, an* firm at Kissimmee having re. centij puivfiaasif in one month ids hides Tb. Mag noil* Mori tors hotel baa i.-ntn I ! SHINNY ON YOUR OWN SIDE I '- -^= ; Says “Uncle Sam" to John Bull: i “You know what your own Lord Disraeli once said: We • i don’t want to fight, but then if we do—we have the ships 1 and the men and the Money, too.” • However, we’ll not cross that bridge till we get [ • to it. Just now before us is CHRISTMAS^ ) Are you going to purchase SUITS, The kind that not only look well when bought, but look shapely, dressy and fit the form until worn out. Others have them, but not like ours for the price. P About 200 Boys Suits, odds and ilk"#® 1 A a Regular prices 516.50, SI Lsl HO P ends, one and two of a kind; sizes ii T k I} I | and SI2, giving them away almost pl 4to 18, same suitable for small ]| fv m\(a] 1 II f But we want to close them out p men - J—■ " Mr nZ >V V and they are marked for slaughter. p If you want to make your boy happy for little money, buy one. p BETTER THAN BURNING YOUR MONEY. q Periodical Tickets Taken. | M. DRYFUS, p Congress Hall, 159 Congress Street. sold to Edward Records of Philadelphia. Mr. Records is to spend a large amount of money in beautifying the place. H. P. Shares, proprietor of the New Rockledge hotel at Rockledge, has re cently bought one of the orange groves In full bearing on Merritt's island. The engagement of A. G. Hartridge and Miss Birdie Dillon, two prominent young society people of Jacksonville, has been announced. The marriage takes place Feb. 19. , . W. R. Grantham's suit against the city of Tallahassee for SIO,OOO damages for falling into a ditch last May was decided on Tuesday evening by Judge Malone In favor of the city. The long drought In Holmes county has dried up the water courses and in many places catching fish Is no trouble. Even hogs are thriving on flsfh they find In the dried-up ponds. A. M. MoLoaron of Michigan Is In Lake City negotiating for 5,000 acres of land within five miles of Lake City. His pur pose Is to bring a colony of settlers and enter largely into tobacoo culture. Among the prospectors who have been In 1/ake City during the past week is E. D. Dickinson of Detroit, Mich., who pro poses to erect a canning factory at that point with a capacity of 20,000 cans per day. ' i Dr. N. B. Rhodes and other citizens of Tampa are organizing a horse Insurance company. It will enable the owners of stock to Insure the life of their animals just as life insurance is taken out on In dividuals. Pensacola News: Coleman T. Fanhln, In charge of a corps of engineers Is sur veying the shore line, including the front of the city between Bayou Grande and Magnolia Bluff. This work Is being done under orders from MaJ. F. A. Mahan. The chart, which will be made under this survey, will also show the depth of wa ter, extending out to the thirty-foot curve. Three attachments were Issued out of the circuit court at Tampa Wednesday against the Hillsborough Cypress Com pany, one In favor of Knight & Wall for $2,100, another In favor of the W. E. Hill Company for $666.68, and the other In favor of Jacob R. Einstein for S2OO. Morse & Cole, Edenfleld & Jetton and the Ybor City Manufacturing Company were gar nisheed in the same suits. Soon Kee, a Chinaman of Jacksonville, whom a sharper swindled out of S3OO by a gold brick scheme several months ago, was robbed Wednesday night of S3OO by a negro woman. The money was under a pillow in Soon Kee’s room. The woman had access to the room, and while Soon Kee was sleeping she entered and stole the money. He refused to give the name of the woman, or his own name to the po lice, but he was known by several by standers. The ante-mortem statement of Walter Jordan, the man who stabbed a woman with a pair of shears at Pensacola on Sunday night and afterward shot Police man Ragan, was taken on Tuesday night. Jordan was shot In the abdomen by the policeman and the ball perforated the bowels in several place®. Seven inches of the intestines have been removed. The policeman is by no means out of dan ger, but his condition is much more hope ful than that of Jordan. A meeting of the board of directors of the Subtropical Exposition Company was held at Jacksonville Thursday after noon, and action was taken In regard to keeping the property, Which will revert to the city if an exposition of some kind shall not be given this coming year. The meeting was called to order by Chair man Archibald, who presided. A motion wus made to present an application to congress asking that the government ex hibit, now at Atlanta. GtL, be moved thehe and placed in tne building belonging to the Subtropical Company In B|rr!ngfleld. The motion was earned, and application will be made at once. The correspondent of the Morning News at Kissimmee sends In the following The farmers of this section have determined to make gTi-at efforts to hoys some other crop# beside# the nsuai farm product# belli them out. To this end ten of them have (ontraeted to furnish the money to plant ten aerea in tobacco and employ an expert to oar* for it until marketed. They will also furnish all aatMatancs pos sible. including expert advice to ths farm ers who will pUijT This will cartgtnlg bs of great IvuMiigw to all who wish to plant, and will moat rsHalnly open up a new indumry here that will pay. There Is no <ioubt about Macro growing hare —that ba been tried, put baring no en !OVERCOATS. Heavy, warm, stylish and fine fitting. Or, if you prefer a me dium weight, we are with you also. Cape Coats, Box Coats and Coats of every description. Better for the price than ever ; had. who understood the curing It has not been marketed to any extent. At Gainesville Thursday the grand jury was busy for some time Investigating the charge against Bob Rains, Jesse Goss and C. Rlnkoson, who were charged with assault with intent to murder. Last spring, when an effort was made, to en force the cow law, and when several an imals were in the. pound, the fence was torn down one night and set on fire, and Paul Reynolds, the night watchman, was assaulted and severely beaten on the head. The three young men named were charged with the offense, but the grand Jury, after diligent Inquiry, decided that there was not sufficient evidence against them to permit of their being placed on trial. The guilty parties, whoever they were, accomplished their object, as from that date the effort to enforce the cow law was abandoned. The board of county commissioners held a special meeting at Pensacola Tugjday nignt and rescinded their action at a former meeting of levying a tax of SIOO upon each insurance company doing busi ness in the county. The commissioners were strongly urged by a committee from the Young Men's Business Leag-uo to take the tax off. as the insurance compa nies had already placed an additional premium of 26 cents on all new policies and those to be renewed. A decision was also shown to have been made by Judge Barnes of the circuit court, that a similar tax Imposed upon the insurance companies by the city of Pensacola was Illegal. Thursday the insurance companies gave notice that they would refund the ad ditional 25 cents per SIOO, that had been demanded by them on policies. ICHLATTER, THE HEALER, FOI YD. He Is Moving on Santa Fe, and Peo ple Are Getting Excited, From the Philadelphia Record. Santa Fe, N. M., Dpc. 14.—Francis Schlatter, the healer, Is expected here to-morrow. Last night he was in the village of Santa Cruz, three miles north of here. On Wednesday he passed through Taos valley, coming over the range from Elizabethtown. A letter from Taos says that Mrs. Alexander Cusdorf, who knows the healer, had a full hour's conversation with him. She addressed him in English and German and asked him to prolong his stay, pointing out the good he could do among the poor peo ple in curing their ills, but he said his time was really not his own. that he traveled under the guidance and direc tion of ’’The Father,” and must press on to the end of his Journey. He declined to reveal his plans, either for the present or Immediate future. Two ladies carried a substantial lunch to Schlatter, also two bottles, one filled with milk, the other with wine. He ac cepted the latter, but declined the milk and the lunch, saying the wine would give him strengh to travel, but that he needed no food. ”1 frequently go four or five days with out taking food ’’ he said, “and when I need it the Father will provide for me.” Much attention and reverence was shown this man on his trip through the Taos valley. Hundreds of people In all sorts of vehicles, on horseback, on foot, accompanied or followed him for twenty miles along the road, and all this time the healer was blessing handkerchiefs as he rode slowly toward the Rio Grande at Embudo. It is pointed out that on that dismal rainy night of Sept. 21, when hundreds of people from Santa Fe crowded the depot platform at Lamy Junction and Implored the htaler to come to this city he said to them from the car window " Have faith. I shall come to Santa Fe In three months." —There are probably as good fish In the sea as ever were lied about.—Yonkers Statesman. ms**. THE ONLY COCOA With Rich Chocolate Flavor. WE FEEL That we should make known the fact that we are manufacturing under our “R J R” Trade Mark tag, Naturally Sweet Chewing Tobacco that requires 60 per cent, less added sweetening than any other. It JR 16 oz. is marketed to reach consumers at 50c, and preferred by many cliewers who have been accus tomed to using the most expensive brands of North Carolina and Virginia chewing tobacco. We were recently awarded the highest premium on tobacco entered for competition at the Cotton States and International Exposition at At lanta, Ga. By calling at our unique exhibit, Agri cultural building, section 3, chewers can get a free cut of our R J R, and will be surprised to find that dealers can supply them with such an excellent chew in 10c cuts at the rate of 50c a pound. Manufactured only by R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., PALMiTr IIARDWARE CO. RETAIL DEPARTMENT, WHOLESALE WAREHOUSE, US Congress Street. Bay and Jefferson Streets. 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Orlando, Fla. °r n f S r ,‘ h ,® se son under new manage menL Remodeled and refitted. * WILLIAMS A BEF.MAN Owner* and Proprietors. GRAND VIEW HOTEL Jacksonville, Fla. h *& ground; central. nearest hotel / union station, thres hloOt* from I* O lielnand cook* selected from White Mountain aWkw SHOES. I Men’s Patent Leather in great 1 variety just received, all toes, aH 1 widths. Ladies’ fine Button and 1 Oxfords, all colors, all widths, i Just in, Children’s Shoes ofi every description. Texas Rust Proof Oats. Southern Seed Rue. Crimson Clover. UAV, UKAIN, IIRAM, COTTON HEED MEAL, CHICKEN FEED, COW FEEI'-** T. J. DAVIS. I’fIONK MIS. ise HAY STREET lovelu P I rtW/OPC Hesutlful dMl#*.Mwa*. f JUncrS PUnta, And rut <>' ' J >-• lii'dcm t- k Murr*> • ** Mutter rl., or leiepnulM SRI nil * 1 1 N, ‘ i she Uti Lui rntinay lot nurse./ uu ” Mud read