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lie railway mileage thi 0 year ie
l&rfftince 1865. '
' Ybe Washington Star thinks
Li Hong Chang may have to
With the exception of New
Pennsylvania makes the most
appropriations for militia purposes.
Commodore Melville, of the
States Navy, says that if the
steamer materializes it will have
screws.
There are about ten
lawyers tn New York, thirteen in
ton and more than twenty-five
Chicago.
Tbe Engineering and Mining
nal thinks we shall soon be competi¬
tors with English manufacturers, of
iron and steel in foreign markets.
A United States Treasnry expert de¬
clares, in the Detroit Free Press, that
there is enough of silver now held by
ihe Government to make a column one
foot square and six and
miles high.
The reoently reported shipment of
live cattle from Australia to England
wae not a success. The voyage was
too long and the cattle lost too much
flesh on the trip, explains the Rural
New Yorker.
The Hartford Jonrnal thinks that
(he wrecks that strew the AtUntio
Coast as the result of a West Indies’
Imrrioane are few compared with the
number found the day after a Novem¬
ber political atorm.
Rational spelling has taken a de
elded step forward in France. The
Frenoh Academy has recommended
1200 changes, and it is probable, an¬
nounces the Pathfinder, they will be
very generally adopted at once.
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The United States Government is
e&c of th# few powerful Governments
which take no direot Maps to foster
breeding. The horse of this conntry
owes his advancement almost solely to
psbrate enterprise, maintains the New
York World.
John Smith, Head Patriarch of tha
Mormon Church, was oalled to ac¬
count publicly ia meeting the other
dty by President Wilford Woodruff,
Of the ehnreh, for using tobsooo,
Which the President said he must give
up or resign his position.
An associate of Tesla, the mysteri¬
ous electrician, who claims to b# able
to have a current of 1.000,000 volts of
ekotricity pass through his body with¬
out fatal effect, says that an electri¬
cal engine will be introdnoed within
five yean Which will drive steam ont
Of urn as a motive power.
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m McHenry and Frank Delmaa
d over a wager in Wheeling,
. Ye., relates the New York Mail
d-Bxprees, and injured each other
jelly with siekles which they were
lag ia a truck peiob. McHenry bet
fej at ha oould game aa American city
cm than 80,000 inhabitants
i al the asxt election the Demo
party would not get three votes.
e the oity Mo
W as hington , D. a
the truth of the
but said it was a catch bet.
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ta anywhere,” de
Speotator. “You
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---convince him feat
e aay real risk of things going
He will admit
moat of super Aeial wroege, but
wg bpek of hie mind is the eonvic
h-a conviction which has
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after the summer.
PmHloo? Ab, yes; tbe eon Is rich gold |
Tbe fields are elose-mowo, sad pale
With giving of life to hungering told t
Tbe wild blooms of bill and vnle
H ive languidly tossed worn petals aside
To die in tbe late-month sun ;
The call of tbe bird to bis sprinitlne bride
Tells forth that their work is done.
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Tbe gloss » of the leaves clothe • old
that tbe
frees
Has dulled to a modest crown.
That quivered ani gasped, athirst for a
breeze,
Then faded to dun and brown.
The delicate bloom bangs strong, stnrdy
fruit;
Faint p*rium6, to incense grown ;
Tbe dream oi a hymn, to strain of the late;
Young whispering wind, to moan.
We lived—you an 11—in Life’s snmmerttde;
•Oor feet pressed the carp'd green
That God flung about, on every SI le—
My King, and I was yonr Queen;
The sun gave Hs blessing; tne trees lent
• their shade;
Tbe storms swept us, swift and strong;
We breathe, as we glance to see the Past
fade,
A sweet, soft thanksgiving song.
—Emma J. Gomp*, in Llpplnoott.
SPICE SWEETINGS,
A^NIE Wilde
and John
Gra ndmont,
from being
G were happy the lovers, two
V must miserable
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KsEjiriF' P«°ple on the
J£. face of the
fiKwjiF / j° globe ly on that
m re evening
when they
parted at the
garden gate of
tbe Junipers.
It bad been such a clear, long,
cloudless day, while a west wind ruffled
tbe lake and tempered the fervid sun.
John was at the Jnnipers for a holi¬
day. He enjoyed it thoroughly; the
escape from tbe city’s confinement;
the change to the country, where,
among verdant fields, under clear
skies, “the blue and green were glad
together."
He bad health, hope and the girl of
his choice by his side. What more
could he ask?
But wben they had chatted and
sang, and goue to drive and come
home to a delightful tea under tbe
junipers on the lawn, there arose a
little cloud no larger than a man’*
hand.
Nannie had bnrriedly changed her
aoftgrsy carriage dress for a white
muslin knotted with bine r bbona.
“Hurry, Nannie,” her mamma bad
■aid, “or tbe peaohes and cream will
be spoiled.”
And Nannie had made her toilet for
the evening without orfoe looking in
the mirror.
After supper ahe jumped up brightly.
“Come, John, let ua go down into
the orchard and aee if the spioe sweet
inge are ripe.”
“Spioe sweetings!”
John jumped up, too.
Do you know whet spioe sweetings
fire? They are tbe fairest, smoothest,
moat fragrant, in pale-green globes that
ever hung an apple orchard.
It was hardly time for them to be
ripe; but, then, Nannie thought they
might be. Besides, tbe lane was so
pleasant and the seat under the old
russet tree so comfortable.
She wanted one oozy hour with John
t* think of when he should be gone
fur be oould not come often to the
Jnnipers. for She might not aee him again
months. ’
And then, if John had anything spe¬
cial to say, ahe ought fto give him op¬
portunity. To-be-sure, they had beau
alone while driving, but the horse was
very gay, and required the moat oi
John’s attention.
. Together thev went down the lane
to tbe orchard in the sunset glow.
handsome “By George John I this is pleasant!” said
through Grandmont, walking
the rod clover-tops and sniff¬
ing the soent of tbe ripening appl
Nannie was silent, though she
smiled.
. flow i he was, and how
dear, with his strength, and bravery,
and sweet temper! How ioaeeome
ahe ahoald be to-morrow when he had
gone, and all the to-morrows after¬
ward until he ae again !
Bhe wished he would n ran away with
bar. Nannie had a good home ani
Mad friends, bat th e r e were three
younger girls and by her soother’s second
marriage, aometimes the nest
a little crowded, and she
wished she had a home of her own.
John's salary was not enough for
to
perhaps “Nannie,” by next— said.John, “is fee
it
style together to F’ wear pink and blue ribbons
flow quickly Nannie reddened!
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looking down at
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that John thought her countrified,
compared her to the youngest Miss
Yalias—Isabella, she believed the
name was—to her disadvantage.
Now, Nannie had a naughty little
temper, which was nobody’s bat hej
own; and though in her beet moments
sbe resolutely straggled to check it, it
blazed forth now.
She gave John a sharp glance, and
fionneed down npon tbe rustic seat.
“I do not pretend to be a mirror of
fasbion!”
“ Wnat?” exclaimed John, sharply.
He was astonished. He bad never
seen Nannie look like that before.
And innocent as a babe, be had simply
asked Tor information regarding the
ribbons.
The girl twisted her bracelet, a very
pretty one, with John’s hair in the
clasp, and finally bnrst forth:
“I don’t pretend to dress in perfect
taste, and I know I don’t suit yon. I
am homely and countrified. Yon
didn’t think so once, peshaps; bnt I
know yon do now. Yon associate with
a different kind of people from what
you did when yon lived here, and saw
tbe difference between me and—
and Miss Yallas, for instance. I can¬
not help it. We are poor, and it
takes money to dress well. I do not
suit you—i know that very well—and
I bate pretending. You need never
feel obliged to come to the Junipers
again. Let us go baok to the house. ”
“Certainly, if you wish,” he said.
Back they went, over theredclover
tops, their backs to the luminous
glory of the west, which framed with
its ilood of gold John’s stern white
face and Nannie’s pont.
“Who would have thought she had
such a temper and was so unreason¬
able?” he was saying to himself.
“He hated me and I hate myself.
Ob, dear!” Nannie was wailing in
spirit, bnt she yet tossed her curly
bead with an unrepentant air.
They reached the old blue door
stone.
“I can catch the six o’clock train, I
think,” said John, looking at his
watch.
“I think you can." syllabled Nan¬
nie, icily, with a bleeding heart.
John stepped unto the hall and took
down his Kuen duster from a peg.
Nannie airily selected some sprays
from the blossomed door vine, and
took no notice of the pale face and
stormy blue eyes.
John did not Usually go until the 8
o’clock train, and he was going—go¬
ing!
“As we were about parting, I had
better say, perhaps, that I meant no
offelise,” he said, his hat in his hand,
but with a manner distant as her own,
and a toue hard as iron.
“That makes no difference,” re¬
sponded Nannie, coldly and indiffer¬
ently. John straightway his hat
pnt on Nannie
and marched ont at the gate.
listened to the dying tread a moment,
her eyes fixed ou the ground; then,
looking np, seeing him gone, hearing
all still bnt tbe aooustomed twilight
sounds, she started, flew up to her
room, and, easting herself upon the
bed, uttered a cry of grief and broke
into a passion of tears.
A year passed away. The lovely
weather, the elover-tops in the lane,
the apple-orohard were all the same,
The Junipers was still Nannie’s home,
and only she had ohanged, how much
can scarcely be told.
The infantile roonduesa of cheeks,
the air of extreme youth, the vivid
bloom were gone; the girl had suf¬
fered, end wae purified. won’t
“You’ll go to the picnic, you,
Nenuie?” said her friend Mollie Hale.
The Gaya will be there, and Ed. Da
vine. I shall go. And lota of people
from the eity are coming out.”
No, Nannie wae not going, and
Mollie did not attempt farther to per¬
suade her. She was the only one who
complained of the change ia Nannie.
It pleased others. Mollie declared
that Nannie had grown “sober and
old maidish.” She wee a good-heart¬
ed girl; she divined that Nannie had
suffered and wae sorry for her. None
the leas she resented being shut ont of
of her confidence.
Fat Nannie had never lisped one
word of what had caused the estrange¬
ment between her and John Grand
monk. A whole year had p as s e d, and
she had never mentioned hu name.
Oh, how bitterly ahe repented I What
period of suffering it bed been!
At first die expected to hear from
Ma would write, of course, to
upbraid her—probably gifts—the to request brace¬ the
return of his pretty
let, a book, a tan, a scarf—there had
beau ao ring. She would not have
parted with them for the world.
Did he dream of the trsth, sad
them wife her out of mercy?
so; and indeed it not
The troth was John thought noth¬
of these trifles.
After their silly, oould wicked quarrel, elf
which Nannie etc now was
her fault, she had wept herself sick;
hat oa prep trim? for the atgfci, had
bed
knotted in her hair.
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lane and orchard, the b’ne-Mrds mated
and the violets came, Nannie realized
that she had lost forever the heart that
loved her, and that ahe loved, oh, so
de&rly! troth, bnt
No one guessed all the
she was very ill, and they were all
kind; and by-and-hy ahe got up, when
the roses blossomed, and walked abon 1 .
the garden, wondering at its cheer and
bloom.
Was it the same world, after all?
Everything seemed so different to
Naunie—so very, very different 1
That she bad repented did not seem
to matter. She mast bear her punish
ment and bear it she did with no un¬
wonted patience.
And, ah, what a patient girl she wai 1
assisting her mother, teaching her sis¬
ters, tending the teething baby who
had worn every body else out—not a
bit like the imperious, passionate,
pretty Nannie of old.
“I declare, Nannie, yon are quite
plain sinee your sickness!” her mother
said, not dreaming what a stab she
gave her daughter’s sore heart.
Had that gone, too—even her little
bit of beauty, which had found favor
in John Grandmont’s eyes?
And now, after the long, dreary
summer, people who enjoyed life were
going to have a picnic in Harebell
Hollow.
No; she did not care to go. Besides,
it was jnst a year since the day she
had last met her sweetheart.
Nannie’s heart was too full of mem¬
ories of those last hours for her to at¬
tempt to mingle with happy people.
“Mollie,” she whispered to her
friend, as the latter went away in a
tri n new suit with its Scotch plaid
ribbons, “come down into the orchard
when yon come back, and perhaps I
will tell yon something,”
“Yes, dear, I will,"’! sail good na
tured Mollie, kissing her on both
cheeks. “And don’t yon fret.”
People never stayed late in Hare¬
bell Hollow—it was too damp, though
snch a pretty place—and just at sun¬
set, Nannie, lying on the old rustic
settee, heard a step in the rustling
g
‘‘Have vou voir come Mollie’” she said
in a st.fled
She had been erring, 'and did not
lift her swollen face.
Some one sat down on the old seat’s
head, had put a gentle hand u on her
brown cans.
“i know von’re sorry for me, Mol
lie. You’re a real good girl and we’ve
been friends for a long time, and I
might have told yon, perhaps, but I
conldn’t bear to speak John Grand
mont’s name. Oh, Mollie, I loved
him so! He was all the world to me.
Yet I got cross and scolded about the
lenst little thing—my wearing pink
and bine ribbons together—aud he
meant no barm, and he was offended,
He didu’t dream 1 oould be so cross and
unreasonable, I know: and he left me.
I deserve it. But, ob, Mollie, it seems
sometimes as if I conldn’t bear it. To
night—jnst snob anight again, cool,
and the west wind so balmy, and the
smell of the spice sweetings ripeuing—
and all the other nights like this I
mnst be left alone—”
Sobs choked the rest.
“My little darling Mollie’s 1”
Bnt it wasu’t voi-e—it
wasn’t Mollie’s face ben ling closer
above Nannie’s tear-filled, startled
eyes.
“My poor little Nannie!” said John
Grandmont, kneeling at her side and
taking her in his arms. “iVe have
both saflered enongh. Let ns forgive
each other. And we won't quarrel
spioe sweetings ripen 1”
Ah, two such happy hearts under
the spioe sweeting trees!
John had come to the picnic, hoping
for a glimpse of Nannie, and Mollie
had begniled him to the gate of the
“Nannie ia in the orohardU’she had
•aid.—Saturday Night.
Shrimp hi the South.
The Charleston gourmet is now joy¬
ously dish*, feasting daily on oar own little
the shrimp. There is hardly a
family in the oity that does not have
this dainty little crustacean served for
breakfast in some shape or form.
When the dark shades of night drop
over the harbor tbe hardy shrimp
their little canoes, and with
that? nets neatly arranged and
ready dark to be thrown, marsh they make where for the
long shores of their
prey makes its feeding grounds. They
have to wait silently end patiently on
the edges of the marsh until a certain
time of fee tide, when out oome the
•hrimp in millions, mid ont fly the
heavy nets aud fee wars commences.
The oarsmen pall or pant or paddle
along fee shores, end the men with
fee net keeps hie eyes and ears open
for fee ripple and sound of fee sportive
shrimp. As the shrimp moves through
fee water he ia a beautiful sight The
moat beautiful colors shine from hie
long body end hie faa shaped tail stirs
fee phosphorescesoe end leaves be¬
hind a subdned trail of fire.
When fee. usual quantity is caught
d the turning of the tide takes fee
rimp to other,tyota, t.ie shrimpers
pull for fee wharves to sell their spoil.
Long before daybreak the venders,
•re on head with
their trees to got fee r scorning’s sap
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FROM WASHIJlGTON.
NEWSY ITEMS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITJL.
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
Some expert^analyzer of the will new
congress has figured that there be
in the next bouse one hundred repre
eentatives of the A. P. A.
Tbe democratic congressional breth¬
ren who were buried in the reepnt po¬
litical snow storm, are beginning to
pnt in a resurrected appearance in
Washington.
A district suffrage petition associa¬
tion has been organized and the mem¬
bers are now securing great stacks of
names to a petition begging congress citizens
to invest District of Columbia
with the right of suffrage.,
Among the fifteen notices of contest
of the next house, of which ihe repub¬
lican campaign committee have been
apprised, are Cheatham, of North
Carolina, a negro who has sprved sev¬
eral terms iD congress, against Wood¬
ward,and George Washington Murray,
tba®eolored South Carolinian, against
Elliott. *
r J he report of the United' States
strike commission upon the controver¬
sies which arose between the Illinois
'Central Railroad Company and ihe
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail¬
way Company aud iheir employes in
June last is a pamphlet of forty-three
pages, and contains suggestions of
more than usual interest.
Judge Cole, of criminal court No. 2,
Saturday directed that John W. Mc¬
Cartney aud Riverton R. Chapman,the
recalcitrant witnesses before the sena¬
torial sug»ir trust investigation com¬
mittee, whose demurrers he overruled
a few days ago should appear in court
and plead to the indictments. Counsel
fur McCartney aud Chapman will ap
P eftl to the court of «PP«* ls from Judge
Cole’s decision. They will claim that
congress has no power to make a cr:m
mal offense of the refusal of a witness
to ^fore a comm.ttee.
Many requests are received at the
postoffice department from postmas
ters all over the country asking that
certain officers included in the recent
civil service order be excepted from
its operations for -a ( short time. It
appears, according to many of them,
that the postmasters appointed since
the new administration came into
power have not yet had time to fill
the offices under them with tbeirparty
friends, and by the new extension
they are debarred from selecting chief
clerks and other officers who have
heretofore been considered entitled to
party patronage places,
Gold was withdrawn at the New
York subtreasury Monday in exchange
f or currency by the following parties
in the sums named: Third Nutional
bank. 81,000,000; Emerson & Turn
bull, 8300,000; Central National bank,
8200,000; Astel & Co., $48,000; Na
tional Bank of the Republic, $100,
000; total, 81,648,000. Corrected and
u ffl c j a | figures reoeived at the treasury
department show that the net hiss of
gold on Friday and Saturday by the
treasury was 81,485,135, as follows:
For United States notes, 81,468,581;
treasury notes, $16,555. The treasnry
stated balance Monday was $101,162,
000, of which $61,832,000 is in gold.
Notwithstanding Mr, Cleveland’s fi¬
nancial message and his effort to side¬
track silver, it has already become ap¬
parent that the silver men of both the
house and senate inteng to make a
great effort to pat through a free coin¬
age bill at this session of congress and
send the same to the white house for
Mr. Cleveland’s approval or veto. Mr.
Bland has written to Washington that
he expects to pash the silver bill with
all his power. Judge Holman, of In¬
diana, has been interviewed on the
question, and he says free silver will
be the chief issue in the campaign of
1896. “The democratic party,” said
be, “dare not do otherwise than de¬
clare for the unlimited coinage of the
people’s money at the present ratio.
With that isnne can we win.”
The Government Dissatisfied
Chief Hazen, of the United States
secret service, says the fact that the
United States grand jury at Jackson,
Miss., refused to indict Governor
Stone and other state officers in con¬
nection with the issue of the Missis¬
sippi warrants, will not deter the
United States government officers from
prosecuting the case in Si Louis, Mo.,
and Chicago, Ill., against the bank
n<>te company that printed the war
rants. The matter is also likely to be
again c-lled to tbe attention of the
sew United States grand jnry at Jack
son. The government officers in the
treasury view tbe matter of tbe state
issuing warrants, which were intended
to paaa as money, and which have a
striking similitude to the United
States paper currency, in a serious as
peet as being a direct contravention of
the law. Tbe prosecution will be
pu-hed in all its phases to the highest
courts by the United States govern¬
ment
Why Itaverett was Called Down.
Halted States marshal f.*r fee sou then
district of Georgia. This ia fee piaoe
to which Hon. Frank Leveret* was sp
ST 1 ?,” s after fee beginning and of
feat lad to Mr.
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820,000 and the government advance*
him money with which to pay the ex¬
penses of court proceedings with which
he has to deal. The gov, rnment will
advance, through the department of
justice, an amount equal to the amount
of the bond given by the marshal. It
seems Marehal Leverett had been
advano-d more for the expenses
this district than was on his bond.
His credit with the government had
therefore, expired. This credit can
be re-established by promptly return¬
ing to the department vouchers for the
amounts expended duly approved by
the i ldge of tbe court. Marshal Lev¬
eret! had neglected to do this, and his
credit with the department had ex¬
pired, It seems to have been more of
a case of neglect that was made ont in
the repoit upon the affairs of his office
than anything else. The reason there
was no money on hand was because
these vouchers had been neglected and
the marshal’s credit had expired.
SOUTHERN FLASHES.
A SUMMARY OF INTERESTING
HAPPENINGS,
And Presenting an Epitome of the
South’s Progress and Prosperity.
A destructive fire occurred at Co¬
lumbus, Kentucky, Saturday morning,
twelve business houses and nine resi¬
dences were totally destroyed. The
total loss is $75,000, partially insured.
H. P. Schmidt, banker and general
dealer, in Bremond, Robertson county,
Texa**, has filed a deed of truRt to se¬
cure creditors in the sum of $75,000.
Schmidt's assets are from $100,000 to
$125,000.
A barge loaded with 6,500 barrels of
flour, all consigned by Scharff, Bern
heimer & Co., of St. Louis and towed
by the steamer Polar Wave, sank about
forty miles above Greenville, Miss.,
and it is likely that the cargo is entire¬
ly rained.
C. D. Hess, in an interview at Lex¬
ington, Ky., Sunday, said that the re
port that he had contracted with
ouel W. C. P. Breckinridge for a lec¬
ture tour was true, and that the col¬
onel would begin at once. His first
snlject will be “Ten Years Among
Tariff Reformers.”
A Memphis, Tenn., special says:
After a week’s delay in securing a jury
the trial of W. 8. Richardson and E.
N. Smith, charged with beiDg parties
ro the Kerrville lynching where six ne¬
groes were murdered, was begun
Thursday. It looks as if tbe trial will
last thirty days. ,
The sensation at Memphis Thursday,
in the murder trial of Smith and Rich
xrdson, charged with the sextuple
lynching, was the appearance on the
wituVss staud, one after another, of the
s x widowsof the murdered men. They
t*>ld the circnmst incea of the arrest of
.heir husbands by Detective Richard
son.
Advices from Key West, Fla., say
tbe British steamship Hajeen, New
Orleans to Liverpool, cotton laden,
has arrived there with fire in the for¬
ward hatch. The British steamship
Royal Welsh, New Orleans to Liver¬
pool, cotton laden, is ashore on the
southwest keys and is reported to be
on fire.
W. H. Gibbs, republioan postmaster
at Jackson, Miss., nnder Harrison, ex
auditor of Mississippi under the re¬
publican regime, recently- indicted for
«mhezzlement as postmaster, of $3,
970.82, was fined the amount of his
embezzlement by Judge Mile^tin the
federal court Wednesday and sentenced
to three years in the Brooklyn, N. Y,,
prison.
A Sensation was sprang at Mem¬
phis, Satarday, in the trial of Deieo
ive W. S. Richardson and Ed N.
Smith, charged with lynching the six
negro prisoners, when F. E. Turner, a
deputy sheriff, took the stand. He
stated that Richardson told him on
Monday morning before the lynching
that the men would be arrested and
wonld be lynched.
The State Agricultural and Meehan
ical Society of South Carolina, nnder
whose auspices the state fairs are held
annually, has decided to raise a capital
stock of $50,000 in order to perpetu¬
ate the society snd place it oa-s first
class financial footing. The fends of
the society have always been meager,
and it is believed that with this capital
*tock a great many taking features can
be added to the fur.
The complete official returns of Mis¬
sissippi’s election arrived at the office
of the secretary of state at Jackson,
Thursday, from the seventy-five conn
ties in Mississippi show tbe following
aggr election gate vote the at the eongressional No
in seven districts on
vtmber6th: Democratic, 26,501; pop
nliBt, 12,096; prohibition, 451; repub
liean, 1,900. This less than half
a vote.
The Lexington, Ky., passenger end
belt railroad was. sold Saturday to
Presidfiut M. E. Ingalls for the Chess
peak and Ohio Raflrood Company for
The road is four and a half
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of heavy
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Nashville, which heretofore handled
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