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NEWS IN GENERAL.
Happenings of the Day Culled from
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatehes.
what is transpiring throughout
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OF INTER¬
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
Returns thus far received of
elections held in France, except in Paris,
ahead. Monday, show that the republican s
A dispatch of Monday states that
loss by Sunday’s fire in Winnipeg,
toba, aggregates $125,000. Four
Mere burned over.
A Philadelphia dispatch of Saturday
•says: Six members of “the Devil’s
tion” company have been removed from
the debris of the Grand Central
fire.
The British steamer Glengoil, from
Braz 1, which arrived at New York
Tuesday morning, reports having lost
three of her ertw while at Santos from
yellow fever.
The house of representatives of Con¬
necticut met at Hartford, Tuesday, after
a recess of nearly three months. A few
appropriations for contingent expenses
were passed and the house adjourned
until September 27th.
At the minister! d council at Madrid,
Spain, Tuesday, the cabinet decided in
favor of the introduction in the cortes of
a law providing for the trial of dyna-
miteri without jury.
Tuesday Joseph Silver, twenty years old, died
al. evening in Pennsylvania hospit¬
He is the third who has died since
the fire from his injuries, making nine
victims in all.
Filty cases of eunpowder which had
been shipped for Venezuela was seized at
Kan Francisco Friday at the instance of
the Venezuelan consul and taken to the
government magazines.
A quantity of explosives was seized
Sunday in an anarchist residence at Ville
Momble. near Paris, France, the police
having the got wind of the plot to destroy
Hotel de Ville. One person was ar¬
rested aud a number of others escaped.
Reports reached Berlin, Germany, ot\
Monday, that over a ton of dynamite and
gunp >wder had been stolen from the
magazines at Corfu, a Greek island in the
makes Mediterranean, his where the king of Greece
summer residence. No details
are given.
A bill in equity has been filed in the
United States circuit court at Philadel¬
phia by the government against the sugar of^
trust, to prevent the consummation
the recent (teal by which the trust ob¬
tained control of the individual refineries
in that city.
The Princess opera house, at Winni¬
peg, Manitoba, and six stores in the
block burned Sunday. Ruso & Swift’s
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” company lost
everything, including the special scen-
ery, wnrbrobes, heavy. etc. The losi will be
very
On 'Tuesday the commissioner of pat¬
ents issued three patents to Thomas A.
Edison, assignor, to the Western Union
Telegraph Company, of New York, cov¬
ering features of the speaking telephone.
The original application for patents was
filed in 1877.
At a meeting of the workingmen’s del¬
egates held in London, Sunday night,
letters were read from Lord Salisbury and
Balfour, saying they could not. promi-e
to receive a deputation to set forth their
claims for the establishment of the eight-
hour day law.
A telegram says that the grand circus
at Troyes, France, was set ou fire Sun¬
day, presumably, by the anarchists, and
burned to the ground, The flames
spread to and destroyed three adjacent
houses. While the tire was burning a
loud explosion took place in the interior
of the circus.
A cablegram of Friday from Melbourne,
Australia, says: The Deeming trial has
been continued. Miss h’ounseville iden¬
tified Deeming, who promised to marry
her, giving the nam > of Baron Swanston.
The jeweler’s clerk identified the prison-
oner as the sneak thief who stole two
rings from the store, one of which he
gave Miss Rounseville.
A Washington dispatch of Friday says:
3t has been arranged that the ratification
of the Behring sea treaty of arbitration
between the United States and Great
Britain shall be exchanged at London
instead of Washington, as originally
contemplated. The change was made in
order to expedite the finally act of nego¬
tiation. Hon. Robert Lincoln, United
States minister to England, has been
empowered to acton behalf of the United
States, and Lord Sa'isbury will act for
her majesty’s government.
The Rr tish steamship Tynehead, load¬
ed with 7,000.000 pounds of wheat for
4he Il’i'sian famine sufferers, sailed from
New York Sunday for Riga. The cargo
forms a contribution of the state of Iowa
nnd will be delivered to the Russian suf
ferers. Two hundred and thirty-two ear
loads of grain were received at Brook¬
lyn, I>ut this was more than the Tyne-
liead could carry away. What remains
vvdl be sold and the proceeds forwarded
to Russia. A miscellaneous lot of other
provisions also went on the Tynehead.
Ace >rding to a London cablegram the
strong efforts for her re'ease, made by
the ft iends of Mrs. FI trence Ethel Os-
borne, sentenced to nine months’ impris¬
onment for the theft of pearls from her
friend, Mrs. Hargreaves, and the subse¬
quent perjury, have been successful. It
was argued by many persons that the
state had no right to put the stigma of
urison birth ujjon the child to be borne
by Mrs. Osborne. This and other argu¬
ments were brought to bear upon the
.mine secretary, wi ll th‘> result'hat on
Sat u day he issued an order for Mrs. Os *
U"i nc’s rplc
AN EDITORIAL JAUNT.
The Georgi» Weekly Press Association
to Visit Mexico.
Extensive preparations are being made
by the Georgia Weekly Press Association
for their coming pleasu-e trip to Mexico.
Col. B. W. Wrenn, general passenger
agent of the East Tennessee, has notified
Secretary Barker, of the association, that
he will be glad to pass the members over
his line from Rome, Ga., to Meridian,
Miss., a distance of 804 miles. At Me-
ridim close connections will be made
with the Queen aud Crescent for Shreve¬
port or New Orleans. Other roads will
probabl y extend like courte sies.
Ferd is Free.
A dispatch from Sing Sing, N. Y.,
says: Ferdinand Ward was released
from prison at 9 o’clock Saturday morn-
iog. He left iu a close carriage, which
-was driven at a rapid gait. The newspa¬
per men, who were present in large num¬
bers, were not admitted within the prison
THE SARATOGA MIRACLE
Fl’RTIIEIt INVESTIGATED BV AN EX*
PRESS REPORTER.
The Facts Already Stated Fully Cox-
firmed—Interviews With Leading
Physicians Who Treated Quant
—TAe Most Marvelous Cask
in the History of Medi¬
cal Science.
A few weeks ago an article appeared in
this paper copied from the Albany, N. Y.,
Journal, giving the particulars of one of the
most remarkable cures of the 19th century.
The article was under the heading “A
Saratoga Co. Miracle,” and excited such
widespread comment that another Albany
paper—the Express—detailed a reporter to
make a thorough investigation of the state¬
ments appearing in the Journal’s article.
The facts as elicited by the Express reporter
are given in the following article, which ap¬
peared in that paper on April 16th, and
makes one o! the most interesting storie?
ever related:
A 1 evv weeks ago there was published in
the Albany Evening Journal the story of a
mo t remarkable—indeed so remarkable as
to well justify the term “miraculous”—cure
of a severe case of locomotor ataxia, or
creeping Fink Pilis paralysis, simply by the use of
for Fa e People, and, in comply-
ance with instructions, an Express Reporter
lias been devoting some time in a critical
iiivc stigation of the real facts of the case.
The story of the wonder; ul cure of Charles
A. Quant, of Galway, Saratoga County,
N. Y., as first told in the Journal, has
been copied into bundre is if not thousands
of other daily anl weekly newspapers and
has created such a sensation throughout the
entire country that it was deemed a duty
due all the peop.e, and especially the thou¬
sands of similarly affi cted, that the state¬
ments of the case as made in the Albany
Journal, and copied info so many other
new-papers should, if true, be ver.fiid; or,
if iaise, exposed as an imposition upon public
credulity.'
'J he result of the Express reporter’s in¬
vestigations autli >riz s him in saying that
the story of Charles A. Quant’s cure of
locomotor ataxia by the use of Pink Pills
for Pale People, a popular remedy prepared
and put up t>y tli- Dr. Williams Medicine
Company, Morristown, IS N. Y., and Brock-
ville, Ontario, J RUE, an i that all its
statements are not only justified but verified
by the luker development of the lurther
f acts of the case.
Ptrhaps the readers of the Express are
not a l of them fully familiar with the de¬
tails of this miraculous restoration to health
of a man who after weeks and months of
treatment of best by the most skillful doctors in
two the hospitals in the State of New
York—the Roosevelt Hospital in New York
City and St. Peter's Hosp tal in Albany—
has dismissed from each as incurable and,
because the case was deemed incurable, the
man was denied admission into several oth¬
ers to which api lication was made in his be¬
half. 1 he story as tol l by Mr. Quant him¬
self and published in the Albauy Journal, is
a‘*Y>llows:
“My name I is Charles A. Quant; I am 37
years old; was born in the village of Gal¬
way and excepting while traveling on busi¬
ness and a little while in Amsterdam, have
spent my whole life here. Up to about eight
years ago I had newr been sick aud was
then in perfect health. I was fully six feet
tall, weighed 180 pounds and was very
strong. For 12 ye»rs was traveling sales¬
man had tor a piano and organ company, and
to do, or at least did do, a great deal of
heavy listing, got my meals very irregularly
and slept in enough ‘spara beds’ in coun¬
try 1 muses to freeze an ordinary man to
death, or at least give him the rheuma¬
tism. About eight years ago 1 began to
feel distress in my stomach, and consulted
several doctors about it. they all said it
was treated dyspepsia, by and for dyspepsia 1 was
various doctors in different
could places, hear and took ail the patent medicines I
of that clai me i to be a cure for
dyspi p-ia. But 1 continued to grow grad¬
ually worse for four years. Then I began
to have p ;in in my back and legs and be¬
came conscious that my legs were getting
weak and niv step unsteady, and then I
staggered when I walked. Having received
no benefit from the use of patent medicines,
and feeling that I was constantly growing
worse, I then, upon advice, began the use ot
electric belts.pans and all tbo many different
kinds of electric eppdances I could hear of,
and tpent hundreds of dollars for them, but
they did me Journal no good. (Here Mr. Quant
thowed the reporter an electric suit
ot underwear, lor which he paid $124.) In
the fall of i888 the doctors auvised a c ;ange
of climate, so I went to Atlanta, Ga., and
acted as agent for the Estev Organ Com¬
pany. While there I took a thorough e ee-
tric treatment, but it only s emed to aggra¬
vate my disease, and the only relief I could
get from the shai p and distreesing pi ins was
to take morphine. The pain was so in¬
tense at times that it seemed as though I
could not stand it, and I almost longed lor
death as the only certain relief. In Septem¬
ber of 1888 my legs g .ve out entirely and my
left eye was drawn to one side, so that I had
double sight and was dizzy. My trouble so
affected my whole nervous system that I
had to give up business. Then I returned to
New York and went to the Roosevelt Hos-
pita), by where for four months I was treated
specialists and they pronounced tny case
locomotor ataxia and incurable. After I
had been under treatment by Prof. Starr
and Dr. Ware lor lour months, they told me
they had done all they coul 1 for me. Then
I went to the New York Hospital on Fif¬
6aid teenth street, where, upon examination,they
I was incurable and would not take me
in. At the Pr«-sbvrerian Hospital they ex¬
amined me and told me the same thing. In
March, 1890, I was ta ;en to 8t. Peter’s Hos¬
pital in Albany, where Prof. H. H. Hun
frankly told my wife my case was hopeless;
that he could do nothing for me and that she
had better take me back home and save my
money. But 1 wanted to make a trial of
Prof. Hun’s famous skill and I remained
un ter his treatment for nine weeks, but se¬
cured no benefit. All this time I had been
growing worse. I had become entirely
paralyzed partly* from my waist down an i had
lost control cf my hands. The pain
was terrible; my legs felt as though they
were freezing and my stomach would not re¬
tain food, and 1 fell away to 120 pounds.
In the Albany Hospital they put seventeen
irons,and big burns on my back one day with red hot
alter a few days they put fourteen
more burns on and treated me with elec¬
tricity, but I got worse rather than better;
lost control of my bowels and water, and,
upon advice ot the doctor, who said
there was no hope for me, I was brought
home, where it was thought that death would
soon Last come to relieve me of my sufferings.
September, while in this helpless and
suffering condition, a friend of mine in
Hamilton, Ont., called my attention to the
statement of one John Marshall, whose case
had been s miiar to my own, and who had
been cured by the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pills for Pale People. In this case Mr. Mar¬
shall, Royal who Templars is a prominent of member had, of after the
temperance,
four years of constant treatment by the
most eminent Canadian physiciaus, the $1000 been
pronounced incurable, and paid
total disabi ity claim al owed by the order in
such cases. Some months after Mr. Mar
shall began a course of treatment with Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pills, and after taking some
15 boxes was fully restored to health. I
thought I would try them, and my wife sent
for two boxes of the pills, and I took them
aceor ling to the directions on the wrapper
on each box. For the first few days the
cold baths were pretty severe as I was so
verv weak, but I continued to follow in¬
structions as to taking the pills and used the
treatment, and even before I had up
the two boxes of the pills I began to feel
beneficial results from them. My pains were felt
not so bad. I felt warmer; my head
better; my food began to relish and agree
with me; I could straighten up; the feeling I
began to come back into my limbs; be¬
gan to be able to get about on crutches;
my eye came back again as good as ever,
and now, after the use of eight boxes of the
pills, at a cost of only $ 4 . 1 * 0 —see!—lean with
the help of a cane only, walk all about the
hou^e ami yard, can saw wood, and on pleas¬
ant days I walk down town. My stomach
trouble is gone; I have gainei 10 pounds; 1
feel like a new man, and when the spring
opens I expect to be able to renew my organ
and piano agency- I cannet speak Pills in too for
bigh terms of Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pale People, as I know they saved my life
after all the doctors had given me up as m-
CU is wonderful which the Ex¬
Buch the story securing
press reporter haa succeeded in ver¬
ification of in all its details, from the hos¬
pital records where Mr. Quant was treated
and from the doctors who had the case in
hand and who pronounced him incurable
Let it be remembered that all this hospital
treatment was two ana three years ago,
while his cure, bv the use of Dr.
Pink Pills for Pale People, has been
since last September, 1891. So it is
a doubt evident that his recovery is
due to the use of these famous pills
have been found to have made such
able cures in this and other cases.
Mr. Quant placed in the hands of the
porter his card of admission to
Hospital, ther which is here reproduced iu fur¬
confirmation of his statements:—
(9EB1E0 m
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL^
No'40*7. OUT-PATIENT.
Age 3 Birthplace •
______ _ . ,
Civil Condition _____.....................
Occupation. ....... v_____
Residence
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, *
IQVER.l
T<Jverify Mr. Quant’s statement our
porter a few days ago, (March 31st. 189.’,)
<‘ailed on Dr. Allen Starr at his office, No.
22 VVest Twenty-eighth St., New York city.
Dr. Starr is house physician of the
velt hospital, situated corntr of
avenue and Fifty-ninth street. In reply
but that he was chiefly treated and
the more especial care of Dr. Ware.
said he regarded this case as ho did all
of locomotor ataxia as in urable. In order
that our reporter might get a copy of the
history of the case of Mr. Quant from
hospital record he very eourteou-ly gave him
a letter of which the following is a copy;—
street, offiMhoSSTe to
March 31st, 189.-.-Dear Dr. Vought: If you
have any record of a locomotor ataxia
name of Quant, who says he came to the
clinic3 or 4 years ago, No. 14,037, of the
D. Dept., Roosevelt, sent to me from Ware,
will you let the bearer know. If you
no record send him to Roosevelt Hosp.
-’ftSTESiSS Yours, Starr.
, ... , 251
history of Mr. Quant’s case made from the n
as follows:
“No. 14,087. Admitted September 16th,
U. S. Married. Hoboken.”
“History of the case:—Dyspepsia for
four or five years. About 14 months’
loss of power and numbness in lower
tremities. Girdling sensation about abdo-
men. (November 29th, 1889, not improve 1,
external strobismus of left eye and
tion of the left eye.) Some difficulty in
ing water at times; no headache but some
dizz ness; alternate diarrhoea and constipa¬
tion; partial ptosis past two weeks in left
eye. “Ord. R.
F. Bi pep. and Sola.”
These are ths marked symptoms of a
severe ca s e of locomotor ataxia.* “And Dr.
Starr sai 1 a case with such marked symp¬
toms could not be cured and Quant, who was
receiving treatment in the out-patient de¬
partment, was given up as incurable.”
“There never was a case recovered in the
world,” said Dr. Starr. An t then said:
“Dr. Ware can tell you more about the case
as Quant was under his more personal treat¬
ment. I am surprised, he said “that the
man is alive, as i thought he must be dead
long ago.”
Our reporter found Dr. Edward Ware at-
his office, No. 162 West Ninety-third street.
New York. He said: “1 have very distinct
recollections of the Quant case. It was a
very pronounced case. i treated him about
eight months. This was in the eariy sum¬
mer of 1899. I deemed him incurable, and
thought hirn dead before now. letter Imagine hi my
surprise when I received a from n
about two weeks ago telling me that he was
alive, was getting well and expected soon to
be fully recovered.”
“What do you think, doctor, was the
cause of his recovery.”
‘ ‘That is more than I know. Quant says
he has been taking some sort of pills and that
they have cured him. At all events, I am
glad the poor fellow 13 getting well, for his
w r as a bad case and he was a great sufferer.”
Dr. Theodore R. Tuttle, of 319 West
Eighteenth street, to whom our reporter is
indebted for assisting courtesies, said of
locomotor ataxia; “I have had several
cases of this disease in the course of my
practice. I I will not say that it is well; incurable, but I
but never knew of a case to get
w'iii say it is not deemed curable by any
remedies known to the medical profession.”
After this successful and confirmatory in¬
vestigation in New York, our reporter,
Saturday, Hospital, April 2d, 1892, visited St. Peter’s
in Albany, corner of Albany and
Ferry streets. He had a courteous reception
superior by Sister Mary Peter’s Philomena, the sister
the of St. visit,said Hospital, and when
tori of object of his she remem¬
bered the case of poor Mr. Quant very dis¬
tinctly. Said she: “It was a very distress¬
Poor ing case fellow, and excited couldn’t my be sympathies had much.
he cured and to
go home in a terrible condition of helpless¬
ness and suffering.” The house physician,on
consulting the recordsof St. Peter’s Hospital,
said he found only that Charles A. Quant
entered the hospital March 14th, 1S9.I, was
treated by Dr. Heury Hun, assisted by Dr.
Van Derveer, who was then, 1899, at the
head of the hospital, and that his case being
deemed npt possible of cure, he left the
hospital and was taken to his home, as he
supposed Such is to the die. full history of this most
re¬
markable case of successful recovery from a
heretofore supposed incurable disease, and
after all the doctors had given him up, by
the simple use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills
for Pale People. Truly it is an interesting
story of a most miraculous cure of a dreadful
disease by the simple use of this popular
remedy. further investigation revealed the fact
A
that Dr. Williams’ Pink Piils are not a patent
medicine in the sense in which that term is
generally understood, but are a scientific
preparation successfully used in general
practice tor many years before being offered
to the public generally. They contain iu, a
condensed form all the elements necessary to
give new life and richness to the blood and
restore ing specific shattered for nerves. such diseases They are locomotor an un-
fai as
ataxia, partial paralysis, Bt. Vitus dan'e,
sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous
headache, the after effects of la grippe,
palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow
complexions, that tired feeling resulting
from nervous prostration; all diseases
depending upon vitiated humors in the blood,
such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc.
They are also a specific for troubles .peculiar
to females, such as suppressions, irregulari¬
ties aud all lorms of weakness. Tuey build
up the blood and restore the glow of health
to pale or sallow cheeks. In the case of men
they effect a radical cure in all cases arising
from mental worry, over-work or excesses of
whatevei nature.
On further inquiry the w’riter found that
these pills are manufactured by the Dr.
Williams Aieiicine Coaipany, 13 rock vide.
Ontario, and Morristown, N. Y\, and are
sold in boxes (never in loose form by the
dozen or hundred) at 59 cents a box, or six
boxes for $2.o0, and may be had of all drug-
gists or direct by mail irom Dr. Williams
Medicine Company, from either address,
The price at which these pills are sold makes
a course of trertment comparatively inex-
ESwET*
A Mammoth Engine.
Friedensville, Pa., is not a very large
stationary place, but engine it can in boast the of^ United ’he largest State3
and one of the largest in the world. Its
driving wheel is 35 feet in diameter and
weighs 40 tons; cylinder its sweep is rod is forty
fett long; its one hundred and
ten inches in diameter; its piston rod is
ten inches in diameter and and of a ten
foot stroke, and it raises seventeen thous-
and and five hundred gallons of water in
a minute. The engine has been patriot-
ically name “The President.”
How to Get Change.
Stranger (politely)—“Pardon the in-
terruption, but could you change a
dollar bill for me, so that I can pay
car fare?”
SmaU Dealer (busily)—“Just out
change. Haven’t a cent.”
Stranger (briskly)—“Yes, (abruptly)—“Gimme sir. Here a
Dealer
are, sir. Thanks, sir. Here’s
change, sir—four dollars ninety
cents. “—Street & Smith’* Good News.
^ THE SOUTH IN
The News of Her Progress Portrayei in
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs
AND A COMPLETE EPrTOME OF HAPPEN-
1XGS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
A fire at Key West, Fla., Friday after¬
noon, than destroyed seventeen hous< s in less
two hours. Loss, $15,000; insur¬
ance, $10,000.
The United States vrss -ls Philadelphia
vannah, and Kearsage have been ordered to Sa¬
Ga., to participate iu the annual
May celebration to oegin on the 9;h inst
Friday morning the new Georgia. Car¬
olina and Northern railr. ad delivered to
a firm in Atlanta, Ga., seventy bags of
coffee shipped from Baltimore last Tues-
j dav evening. This is considered very
fast time.
Fire Friday night at Reed City, Miss.*
i idi destroyed all the business houses and res’
”” :es »" bo,h *«•“<>«
No business block was left standing two
hours after the flimes broke out. The
| loss is very heavy, but was not given in
! the dispatch *
_. Dispatches , of Friday from Corpus „
Christi, Texas, state that an immense
amount of food and relief supplies from
“ orth ^ the starving Mexicans at
Hl ° Grande , City, have been received at
that place and aie now being distributed,
Over 5,000 fatniles were fed Thurtday.
I n, 1 *° \ hundred men on the Kentucky
Central _
and Loui-ville and Nashville rail-
railroads, including transfer hands,
; switchmen, yardmen, section hands and
i •»,.» s,riko Mon a »<>»*?;
count of a reduction iu wages , from $l,oo
| to $1 25 per day. They predict that all
j men along the line will join the strike.
A Jacksonville, F!a., dispatch says:
( There was a great deal of excitement
Monday in railroad circles over the
rumor. d sa’e of the entire property of
1 the Florida
! Central and Peniusula Rail¬
road Company to II. B. Plant, of New
York, president of the Plant railway and
steamship paid s\stem. The price said to be
was $7,500,000.
The stockholders of the North Carolina
Cotton Oil Company met at Raleigh
Saturday and electa i direcrors who in
turn elected officers: T. R. Cnaney, of
New York, president; W. G. Upchurch,
of Raleigh, vice president; R. F.Monroe,
of New Ybrk, secretary; Justus Ralph,of
New Y T ork. treasurer; Garland Jones, of
Raleigh, assistant secretary and treasurer.
The railroad commission of Georgia, at
a meeting iu Atlanta on Monday,decided
to lower the rate on excess baggage on
railroads. The rate is now fixed at 10
cents per hundred 20 miles, 45 cents for
100 miles, 90 cents for 200 miles. This
a considerable reduction. At the same
meeting the commission decided against
the petition of the drummers for ticket
books ot two cents per mile.
The first through train from Atlanta,
Ga., over the Seaboard Air-Line arrived
atRileigb, N. C., Monday morning on
time. This line will undoubtedly prove
a grand trunk line between the northeast
and southwest. The track is pronounc¬
ed admirable, that of the new* portion of
the Georgia, Carolina and Northeu being
superior to many old roads. All classes
of railroad officials turned out to see the
new train.
Sunday morning a disastrous fire oc¬
curred at Herling, Ivy. The Sentinel
newspaper office, J. H. Brunner’s shoe
store, the postoffice, Hanline’s Bazaar,
Enoch’s bargain house, business houses
of T. P. Martin & Co., dry goods and
notions; Walter M. Gay & Co., groceries,
and Mrs. Kate O. Clark, millinery, were
entirely destroyed. Total loss $50,000.
with insurance aggregating one-half that
sum.
The talk of the Liquor Dealers’ Associ¬
ation testing the constitutionality of the
“dramshop” chapter of the annotated
code is creating some stir and feeling in
Jackson, M’ss. The supposition, even
among persons not avowed enemies of
the liquor traffic, is that tjje whisky peo¬
ple are liable, if they succeed, to jump
from the frying pan into the fire, as it is
asserted that the legislature will pass «
more stringent law, even if it does not
enact absolute (R'ohibition.
A fire at Norfolk, Va., destroyed the
cotton warehouse owned joiutly by E. C.
McCulloch and C. W. (irandy & Sons,
and occupied by Bassett, Nash & Co.,
and other cotton merchants, in wnicti was
stored 1,200 bales of cotton, 100 bags qf
peanuts and 100 tons of fertilizers. Bas¬
sett, Nash & C >. were the principal
losers. Their loss amounts to $30,000,
covered by insurance. The total loss fin
the buil ling and contents is about $75.-
000. The total insurance is about $50,-
000 .
The concluding arguments were made
Sa’urduy iu the Richmond and Danville
cases lefore Judge Speer at Macon, Ga.,
in the cases for contempt. The attorney
for the Central, argued that the court
could fine or imprison (or both) the
officials of the Richmond and Danville
for failure to pay ot^er the insurance mon¬
ey collected for the loss of the Macon
passenger depot. Judge Speer orders
the Richmond and Danville to pay the
Central $20,000. Macon depot insurance.
He rfserves his decision on the Steamship
stock iu escrow.
A NEW POSTAL LAW
Proposed to Change the Plan of Car- ~~
Money __ the Mails*
Tying in
The postmasters of the United States
b aV e formulated a bill which, ’ if made a
Isyt, , „ will ... materially . • ,, change , ,, the postal , ,
system of U m!e Sam’s government. The
bill has been drawn up in regular form
and will be introduced pkn.now'iu in congress in a
few days. Under the vogue
all sums of money transmitted through
the mails less than one dollar, are con¬
verted into postage stamps. Fre-
quently much larger sums are sent
through the mails in stamps. In one
year more than a million and a half of
dollars in stamps are sent through the
j maiis in lieu of money. The cause of
this is that to send money through the
mails in fractional parts is very inconve-
nient and very unsafe, and persons who
have money to transmit through the mails
u-tnlly convert it into stamps. The re-
g U it j 9 that a number of firms, which do
a large business through the mai s accu-
mulate large quantities of stamps incon¬
venient to handle and hard to djspose of.
; The Eighth Victim.
!
j Holmes, A Philadelphia dispatch says: Everett
oue of the audience of the Cen-
tral theater on the night of the terrible
fire, died at the Pennsylvania hospital
Tuesday morning after suffering great
a g° n y f or nearly a week, making the
eighth persou whose life was destroyed
| b J the catastrophe. During most of the
, tlme Mr * Holmes was delirious and raved
like a maniac.
Opening of Mempl is’ Big Bridge.
May 12th will be a great day in the
history of Memphis, Tenn. Oa that day
the big bridge across the Mississippi at
that place,and which is about completed,
will be opened with grand and imposing
ceremonies.
Among the notables who will be pres¬
ent at the opening will be: Secretary of
War Elkius, Secretary of Navy Tracy.
Speaker Cullom, Crisp, Vest, Senators Yorhees, Allison,
Butler, Frye and Gordon;
Congressmen Allen, Burrows, Henderson,
Storer, Fellows and Williams. Senator
Yorhees will deliver the oration of the
day. The bridge will be tested by send¬
ing fifteen heavy locomotives over it. A
United States man-of-war will be at
Memphis and three days will be given
up to the celebration. The citizens have
raised $o0,000 for the celebration. A
banquet will be tendered the distin¬
guished visitors on the night of May
12tb, and $10,000 worth of fireworks
will be let off. There will be civic pa¬
rades and pagean’, in which a number
of the mardi gras floats will be seen.
Belgium Punishes Hypnotists.
The votaries of tho theory that there
is uo such thing as hypnotism will find it
hard to explain the action of the Belgian
authorities, who have just p issed a law
prohibiting the indiscriminate exercies of
this remarkable power. The cause for
this action is stated to be that “while it
is admitted that in medical hands hypo-
tisin is a valuable therapeutic and reliev¬
ing patients afflicted with nervous dis¬
eases and in cases connected with cerebral
disorders and hallucinations, the use of
hypnotism places the patient within the
power of (he operator, and the ascen¬
dancy of one mind over that of another
is such that crimes may be suggested and
actually carried out by the unconsciou-
agent of another’s will.” Tfie new law
pre cribes punishment by both fine and
imprisonment lor exhibiting a hypnotized
person in public, and also prescribes a
penalty for the exercise of the mysterious
power by any oue hoidiug a physician’s
diploma.
A Foreigner.
Mr. Vanderkase—“Vy you gall me a
foreigner, eh? I no more foreigner dan
yourselfs.”
Mr. McCork—“Hear th’ shpalpeen!
Any one moigbt think he’d been born in
Gy’land.”
Indifference of Savages to Pain.
The comparative indifference of savage
tribes to pain is well known. It has gen¬
erally been ascribod to superior courage
and fortitude; but it is highly probable
that it is owing in a very large degree to
dullness of the sensory* nerves. The tor¬
tures inflicted in so called “sun” dances
of the American Indians are often ex¬
treme; but tho sufferer seldom cries out
or shows any signs of agony. The same
disregard of wounds and The sufferings is
visible in all savages. writer of the
article under discussion makes effective
use of this acknowledged fact in the sup¬
port of his theory. He says: “When we
read of a Kaffir laughing merrily at tho
appearance which his own thigh, after a
severe compound whose fracture, skull presented; been
and of a second, had
broken in by* u blow from a knobkerry,
submitting calmly and without anaesthet¬
ics to tho operation afterward of trephining, and
walking away of as though noth¬
ing had happened; which and had a been third almost hold¬
ing on his cheek,
entirely sliced off by* a blow from a
sword, and ymt y*elling and shouting with
his comrades in tho full onjoyunent of
victory—we may not feel inclined to
deny that, the savage feeis, but we can¬
not hold that he feels as we feel.”—
New Yoi’k Press.
The caravan trade in gold dust, ivory,
ostrich feathers and other articles brought
from Central Africa has been abandoned, as
the roads are so unsafe that merchants will
not venture to send their goods along them.
China Still Leads.
the According thi Chinese to the population tables of
year empire still leads the
world wish 404,180,000 people. The
British empire comes next with 815,885,-
000; then the Russiau with 104,20 >.000,
France and her colonies with 03,672,048
and the United States with about as
many.
Bnown’s Iron Bitters cuves Dyspepsia,Mala¬
ria. Biliousness and General Debility. Gives
Strength, aids Digeslion, tones the nerves—
creates Mothers, appetite. The best tonic for Nursing
weak women and children.
Add but one item to the store of the world’s
knowledge tal and your name will be immor¬
zed.
Mr. A. B. Laforme, Boston, Mass., says: “I
ordered and distributed one dozen large bottles
headache, Bradycrotine among my friends afflicted with
and in every case it has afforded
almost instantaneous relief.” Fifty cents.
If you will be truly happy keep yo ur blood
pure, your liver fro a gloving torpid by using
Beecnam’s Pills. 35 cenis a box.
tfigbs m > 'ASM s&sa
SS
3f vs, William, Lohr
“ C. Dyspepsia I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
“A year ago this last fall I commenced to fail
rapidly; lost all appetite and ambition,
and barely dragged along with my work.
During the winter and spring had to have help
about my housework. Physicians did not help
me and I got more and more discouraged. I
suffered from dyspepsia so that I
Could Not Eat Vegetables
or meat,and at last so that I could not even use
butter on my toast. Used to dip the toast in
tea and even then it would distress my
stomach, in the spring I hired a girl perma¬
nently, my health was so poor. She tried to
persuade me to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, as a
lady for whom she had worked had been great¬
ly benefited by it. She said: * It will only
cost a dollar to try it.’
I Dragged Along
Until August, when I began to take Hood’s Sar¬
saparilla. In about a week I felt a little better
Could keep more food on my stomach and grew
stronger. I took three bottles, am now perfect-
'ff well, have gained 23 pounds, am in excel,
lent health. I owe all this to
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
and me.” am glad Mrs. to William let you know Lohr, what 101 it Van has Burer don*
for
IStreet, Freeport, ill._________
Hood’s Pill’s are the best after-dinnej
Pills, assist digestion, cure headache.
The Skill and Knowledge
Essential to the productio n of the most per¬
fect and popular laxative remedy known have
enabled the California Fig Syrup Co. to
achieve a groat success in the reputation of
its remedy. Syrup of Figs, as it is conceded
to be the universal laxative. For sale by all
druggists.
£30,000,000 Europe consumes of every gold and year silver upwards in the of
worth
manufacture of Jewelry.
It your Back Aches, or yon are all worn out,
good for nothing, it is general debility.
Brown's Iron Bitters w.ll cure you, make you
strong, petite-tones cleanse your liver, and give a g >od ap¬
the nerves.
One of the biggest insurance companies in
;his country pays a Indy manager £10,000 a
rear.
_
Beware of Ointments Tor Catarrh That
Contain M ercury,
As mercury will surely destroy the sense «
smeii when and entering completely through derange the whole svs-
tem it the mucous sur¬
faces. Such articles should never be used ex¬
cept cians, on prescriptions the damage they from reputable do physi-
as will is ten fold to
the pood you can po ssibly derive from them.
Hal Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney and & Co., Toledo, 0.,contains no mercury,
is taken internally, and acts directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get
the genuine. It is taken internally, and made
in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co.
CdS'~ Sol d by Druggists, price 75c. p er bottle.
The Only One Ever Printed.
CAN YOU FIND TBS WORD?
There is a 3 inch week,"which^uMaotvro^rorda dl
this paper, this
al> < e except one word. The same is true of
each new one appt aring each week, from Ths
Dr. Harter .Medicine Co. This house p aces a
’’Crescent” on everything they make and pub¬
lish. Look for it, send them the name of the
word and they will return you b iok, beauti¬
ful LITHOGRAPHS Or SAMPLES FREE.
A Brilliant Discovery in lirmatoiogy.
It is said that superfluous hair can be per¬
manently removed without pain. An interest¬
ing and. valuable discovery has recently* been
made by* John H. Woodbury, of 135 West 43d
street, New York City*. It is a remedy for the
permanent removal of applied superfluous hair, consist¬ follicle
ing of a fluid which is to the hair
livmeansof an electric needle. It isdesigned and to
be used by' patients at their homes, is said
to be fully as effectual as electricity'. I ull par-
t iculars in reference to this valuable remedy
are found in a little book of 138 pages, which is
sent to any address for 10 cents on application
to the discoverer.
The worst cases ot female weakness readily
yield Dr. to Dr. Swan’s Fastiles. Samples free.
Swan. Beaver Dam. Win.
46 Mothers*
Friend’*
MAKES CHILD BIRTH EASY .
Colvin, La., Dec. 2, 1886.—My wife
MOTHER’S FRIEND before her
confinement, and saya she would not be
without it for hundreds of dollars.
DOCK MILLS.
Sent by expre ss on receipt of price. £1.50 per
tie. Book “To Mothers ” mailed free.
BRAOEIELO REGULATOR CO.,
FOR 8ALC BY ALL DRUGGISTS. ATLANTA. QA.
‘August Flower”
“What is August Flower for?”
As easily answered as asked. It is
for Dyspepsia. It is a special rem¬
edy for the Stomach and Diver.—
August Nothing more than this. We believe
Flower cures Dyspepsia.
We know it will. We have reasons
for honored knowing it. To-day it has an
place in every town and
country store, possesses one of the
largest manufacturing plants in the
country, and sells everywhere. The
reason is simple. It does one thing,
and does it right. It cures dyspepsia®
©
Tot! a Tim? Pills ©
fgfc * The dyspeptic, the debilitated, wheth- ^ ”
er from excess of work of mind or
(§9 body or exposure In malarial regions,
will find Tutt’s Fills the most genial
restorative ever offered the invalid.
Oft sole agency for an
o that is needed in every
A home and indispensa¬
ble in every office.
SELLS AT SIGHT, $700 in
town or country. in
BB1 BO BBa BJF 90 afterward. days and a A steady “Bonanza” inconi *
¥W In E.E. la for the right person, (food
1. W. JONES. Manager, Springfield, Ohio.
Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh U the
Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest.
CATARRH
m 50c. Sold E. by T. druggists Hazeltlne, or Warren, sent by Pa. mail. m
W. L. DOUGLAS $3. 00 SHOE
For gentlemen la a fine Call Shoe, made seamless, ol
the best leather produced In this country. There are no
tacks or wax threads to hurt tho feet, and Is made as
smooth Inside as a hand-sewed shoe. It Is as stylish, easy
fitting and durable as custom-made shoes costing from
$4.00 to $5.00, and acknowledged to be the
r Best in the World for the price.
For GENTLEMEN.
* 5.00 Hand-Sewed. Genuine
* 4.00 Hand-Sewed
Welt Shoe.
* 3.50 Police and
Parmer.
* 2.50 Extra Valne
Calf Shoe.
* 2.25 Working-
man’s Shoe.
* 2.00 Goodwear
Shoe.
TAKE NO SUBSTITUTES. -
|T |S A DUTY you owe to yourself and your family, during these hard
times, to get the most value for your money. You can economize in your foot¬
wear if you purchase W. L. Douglas’ Shoes, which, without question, represent
a greater value for the money than any other makes.
^v. | |T|A I I Ilia IU W. L. DOUGLAS’ name and the price is stamped
V on the bottom of each shoe, which protects the
consumer against high prices and inferior shoes. Beware of dealers
who acknowledge the superiority of W. L. Douglas’ Shoes by attempt¬
ing to substitute other makes for them. Such substitutions are fraud¬
ulent, and subject to prosecution by taw, for obtaining money under
false pretences. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass.
If not for sale in your place send direct to Factory, Mating kind, size a nd width
wanted. Postage tree. AGENTS WANTED. Will give exclusive sale to sho e dealers
where I have no agent and advertise them free in local paper.
Cheaper than Barb Wire.
HUMANE, STRONG, VISIBLE, ORNAMENTAL.
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HARTMAN WIRE PANEL FENCE.
Doable the Strength of any other fence; will not stretch, sag or get out of shape. Harmless to Stock |
a Perfect Farm Fence, yet Handsome enough to Ornament a Lawn. Write for prices, Descriptive Circu¬
lar and Testimonials, also Catalogue of Hartman Steel Picket Lawn Fence, Tree and Flower Guards,
Flexible Wire Mats, &c. HARTMAN MFG. CO., Beaver Falls. Pa.
BOCTHZRIf I UT i M AGKNCY, 51 and 58 B. Forsyth Street, Atlanta. O*.
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I ^
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An
CO£y»»c.*T wi
Doesn't “ look ” as she ought
—the weak, nervous and ailing wo-*
man. As long as she suffers from
the aches, pains, and derangements
peculiar to her sex, she can’t exa
pect to. there’s onlv herself to blame.
But
With Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre¬
scription, she’s a different woman.
And it’s a change that can be seen
as well as felt. The system is in¬
vigorated, the blood enriched, di¬
gestion improved, melancholy and
nervousness spelled. Prescription,”’
With the “Favorite
all the proper functions are restored
to healthy action. Periodical pains,
weak back, bearing-down sensations,
nervous prostration, all “ female
complaints ” are cured by it. It’s
the only medicine for woman’*
weaknesses and ailments that’s
guaranteed to do what is claimed
for it. If it doesn’t give satisfac¬
tion, in every case for which it’s rec¬
ommended, the money is returned.
Can something else offered him by
the dealer, though it may pay
better, be “just as good ” ?
m THE
* ONLY TRUE
BfIRON TONIC
Will purify BLOOD, regulate
KIDNEYS, remove LIVER
disorder, build strength, renew
appetite, restore health ami
vlgororyouth. Indigestion, thattlred Dyspepsia, feel-
iuiralisolutely eradicated.
Mind brightened, brain
power Increased.
LIIIES ‘ *«*>■. hones, it ws-
nerves, foi
clcs, receive new rce.
SulTering from complaints using it, fin*S i>c~
cnliar totlieir sex,
a safe, speedy cure. Rett sms
rose bloom on c hecks, beautifies Complexi on.
Sold ev ervwhere. All ge nulnc goods hear
“Crescenl t.“ Send us 11 cent stamp i for 32-page
pamphlet.
OR. HARTER MEDICINE CO.. St. Louis. M».
DR. S. C. PARSONS,
FEMALE REGULATING PILLS,
Made for women a d the
diseases p cnliar toiler sex.
They regulate the and ra n-
m. sfrn :1 flow, are .safe re¬
liable, Lav 3 bten sold ft r
years, an d cure all d Bcliar tea
and inflammations of the
womb.
% j. Sold l>y druggists and
!■ sent by mail.
/ Price SfiX.OO.
Dr-B. C- Parsons. “* annly
Physician” te’ls liow to get well and keep well;
400 pages, profusely illustrated. For pam¬
phlets,question lists,or private information free
of charge, address with stamp,
DR. S. C. PARSONS, Savannah, Gn.
Risi Cfe I
6] W
wdth NO rastls, SE, and Paints which stain
the The hands, injure Sun the iron, Polish and burn is Brilliant, off. Odor-
Durable, Rising and Stove the lor
les s. consumer pays no tin
or glass package with every purchase.
ED BOOS —Will yo U drtvg
out t he BED
HI (iS or will
toe llvd Bug*
drive out yo u ? This i query Increases lu iu-
tonsil v as th e warm weather advances.
BUTCHERS BEAD SHOT
is a power.ul killer. It euris of them up ai
fire does a leaf; Is a sure preventive return, and
is a promoter of “ Sleep in Peace.” Price US
Cents , at stores or by mail.
FRED’K DITCHER «fc SONS,
St. Albans. Vt.
LOOK —We furnish five IT. P. TTprl?h|
Engine and Other steel Boiler for $163
complete. sites In propor¬
tion. Address Armstrong Bros., Springfield, Ohio,
PATENTS W. T. Fitzgerald,
W sisliiiigloii, D. C.
■lO-img e book tree.
A. N. U... . Eighteen ’92.
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15&J ‘V m a ! i
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For LADIES.
* 3.00 Hand- Sewed. *
* 2.50 Beet Dongola.
* 2.00 Calf and
Oongola.
®|.75 **
MISSES.
For BOYS’ & YOUTH'S.
*2 * * 1.75
SCHOOL SHOES.