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THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH
Notes ol Her Progress and Prosperity
Briefly Epitomized
And Important Happenings from Da;
to Day Tersely Told.
Moses Brothers, who failed at Mont
gomery, Ala., two years ago, for
large sum and were placed in the
hands of a receiver, are gradually
paying their depositors. On Tuesday
the bank paid another dividend of five
per cent. At this rate depositors will
be paid in full inside of the present
year.
On the farm of B. A. Honea, four
miles south of Aberdeen, Miss., Mon
day, a colored tenant and his wife left
their three children, all under five
years of age, in the hQUse alone and
went out to work. During their ab
sence the house caught fire. All was
completely destroyed. The children
were cremated.
Fire Thursday afternoon at Wiiming
ton, N. C., entirely gutted the large
grocery stores of Stevenson & Taylor
and B. W. Hicks, and also the build
ing recently occupied as a store, but
which two Wilmington divisions of the
North Carolina naval reserve had just
occupied ns an armory. Loss, $25,000
half covered by insurance.
A petition for the appointment of
receiver for the Atlanta and Chatta-
hoochee Biver Bailway company was
filed in Atlanta Monday by attorneys
for the Short Electric Bailway Com
pany. The grounds in the bill are
that the defendant is indebted to the
plaintiffs $41,000 ; that it has failed to
pay taxes, for street improvements and
for its rails.
Fire at Kelso, Tenn., Monday night,
destroyed several business houses and
the dwelling of Benjamin Thompson
a local merchant. While the flames
were still in progress Mrs. Thompson
erroneously supposed that one of her
children was still up stairs and rush
ed into the burning buiding. Her cloth
ing was ignited and she is dying from
the effects of the burns received
A Jackson, Miss., special of Wed
nesday says: Mayor Chiles has issued
a proclamation urging the people to
contribute to the cyclone sufferers in
Simpson county. Forty dwelling
houses were blown down and thous
ands of acres of growing crops left
fenceless. Five persons were killed
Thomas Amos and his two children
and Elijah Husbands and a negro boy.
Several persons are missing.
A dispatch received from Tracy
City, Tenn., Monday, states that the
troops are retained there because of a
dispatch from Bon Air mines to the
effect that 1,000 miners are marching
on Tracy City. While this is believed
to be exaggerated, as a precautionary
measure Governor Turney ordered the
retention. The troops had made all
preparations and were on the eve of
departure for Nashville when the order
was received.
A special from New Berne, N. C.
says the excitement which prevailed
among the citizens of that place and
James City has subsided at last, and on
^Thursday all the negro residents of
James City signed leases by which they
rent the property for two years from
James Bryant, its lawful owner. The
troops will be sent home at once.
Governor Carr will remain a few days.
No more trouble is anticipated. There
nre 554 families in the place.
The will of the late John Schardt,
cashier of the Merchant’s bank, at
Nashviile, was probated Wednesday.
Ho directs that his indebtedness to the
bank be paid in full out of the $80,000
life insurance which he has transfer
red to the bank. The balance with
all his real estate and personal proper
ty, he leaves to his wife. The will is
dated two days before his death, and
was witnessed by the president and
one of the directors of the bank.
It was developed at Montgomery,
Ala., Wednesday, that the Southeast
ern Tariff Association has decided to
advance the rates of fire insurance in
the city on business property. At the
last meeting of the legislature a strong
fight was made to allow the people of
Alabama to insure property with com
panies having no representatives or
office in the state, which would have
tended to keeping rai£s down. This
legislation was defeated and the pro
posed raise will cause a sensation and
much dissatisfaction.
The eleven whitecappers of Carroll
county, convicted of riot, were given
the maximum of the law. All the men
save three have sentences of twelve
months each. Two of the Duke boys
who turned state’s evidence, are being
prosecuted in the United States court
for conspiracy in that they assisted in
the whipping of the Britts who had re
ported an illicit distillery. The eleven
men will be carried to Donaldson’s con
vict camp to spend a year. All of them
are able to pay a fine equivalent- to the
year in the gang, but the law will not
t llow it.
At the democratic primaries in
Baleigh, N. C., Tuesday there was for
the first time an attempt to vote for
a choice for postmaster. The result
was decidedly negative and the plan
failed. There were three aspirants for
the position and while one was active
in the primaries and had printed tick
ets the others took no part. The ac
tive aspirant got nearly all the votes
cast. The experiment will hardly be
repeated and the postmaster-general
will probably make his selection in the
good old way. The matter has excited
considerable interest at other points.
A package containing $1,269, sent by
Paymaster Bobinson, of the Georgia
Central railroad at Savannah, Tuesday,
to A. H. Stevens, agent of the railroad
a* Birmingham, to pay the salaries of
the clerks, arrived, and when opened
was found to contain strips of white
paper instead of money. Examination
showed that one end of the package
hs.d been carefully cut open and the
money extracted, the paper inserted
arid the package closed with thin court
plaster. The express and railroad offi
cials are making a rigid investigation,
but no arrests have yet been made.
In the United States court at Charles
ton, S. C., Monday, Judge Simonton
signed an order directing Beceiver
Comer, of the Central railroad, to turn
over to the Port Koval and Augusta
Bailroad Company all the property and
effects of the com pany in his possession
as receiver of the Georgia Central.
This decision, based on that issued at
Savannah by Judge Pardee, places the
entire property of the Port Boyal and
Augusta railroad in the hands of Be
ceiver Averiil, who was appointed in a
suit in the state court instigated by the
majority of the stockholders of the
Port Boyal road backed by the state.
A new move in the fight against the
enforcement of the South Carolina dis
pensary law, which is to go into effect
July 1st, was developed at Baleigh,
Saturday, A meeting was held by a
number of leading merchants and
property holders to consider the situa
tion, the counsel employed by the
liquor dealers having advised that it
would be useless to attempt to resist
the law. Kepresentatives of pretty
nearly every society in the city were
present and it was decided to send cir
culars to the freehold voters of the
city, requesting them not to sign the
petition of any person applying for the
position of state dispenser of liquor.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
Dun & Co’s. Statement of Trade for
Past Week.
K. G. Dun A Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: Monetary doubts have
overshadowed all other influences at
New York, but have not yet greatly
affected trade at most points. Wheat
has fallen 2 1-2 cents, with sales of 40,
000.000 bushels here; corn 2 3-8c., oil
2 l-4c. and coffee 1 l-8c. Wheat re
ceipts have been 2,500,000 bushels at
western ports in four days and Atlantic
exports net six hundred thousand
bushels. Pork products are somewhat
lower, though declining less than
corn. In the cotton market liquidation
has continued, and with sales of 1,200,
000 bales here, the price has dropped
6-16. The week’s receipts from plan
tations are fully up to last year’s and
southern advices generally indicate
some increase in acreage this year
Keports from other cities show con
siderable embarrassment from severe
storms and the backward spring, with
some signs of shrinkage in the trade
from other causes. The tardy spring
makes clothing quiet and the advanc*
in shoes retards buying. The build
ing trade is active and the demand for
lumber large, but sales for wood are
moderate.
Currency does not return as expect
ed and large sums are tied up in fair
preparations so that bankers are con
servative. Keceipts of cattle, butter
and barley increased moderately over
last year, sheep 30 per cent., wool 33
while in cheese, hogs and flour there is
a moderate increase; dressed beef and
oats 33 per cent., in corn and rye and
in cured meats 60 per cent.
The weather retards trade at Louis
ville and at Nashville, Knoxville and
Little Bock, business is quiet, at Co
lumbus very dull, but with improved
collections, and at Atlanta fair for the
season. At Mobile cotton is moving
more freely, and at New Orleans sugar
is strong but rice and other trades
quiet with money in active demand.
Collections throughout the country
are at most points slower than usual
and in such a condition that monetary
stringency might occur if exchange
with New York were embarrassed
Meanwhile exports of merchandise in
April fall much below last year’s, whila
imports increased nearly 20 per cent.
So that the excess of imports, though it
tnay not be half the $26,000,000 of
March, is likely to be large.
The business failures occuring
throughout the country during th
last seven days number 208, cempared
With a total of 209 the week before.
VASHIHGTOH GOSSIP.
Happenings from Day to Day in tie
National Capital
Appointments in the Yarions Depart
ments—Other Notes of Interest.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Development During
the Past Week.
A review of the industrial situation in the
South for the pa-it week shows the organiznti in
of The Southern Leather Jlanufactming Com
pany, at New Orlenii, La., with a capital of
$350,000, of the Fearls Oil Company, Hist< rs
ville, W. Va.. with a capital of $300,000;
$100,000 cotton mill at Opelika, Ala., a $75,
000 oil company at Groeshock, Tex., and a cot
ton mill company with $59,000 capital at Hai
mony Grove, Ga.
Thirty new induslrios were established or in
corporated for the week, together with twelve
inlargemeuts of manufactories and twenty-
eight important now buildings. Among the new
industries not referred to above, are cotton
compress, at Smiihville, Texas, eleotrio light
plant at West Point, Ga., flour and grist mill
at Petersburg, Va., ice factory at Winston,
N. C., foundry end Machine 6bop at Olaren-
don, Arkansas, wheel factory at Honston,
Texas, mining company with ©30,
000 capital, at Augusta, Georgia, furni
ture factory at Elizabetkton, Tenu.,
lumber company at Crowley, La., planing
mills at Beaufort, N. C., Griensboro, Ala.,
Little ltock, Ark., and Rural Hall, N. C., saw
mil's at Gilmoro, Ark-, snd Kerrvile, Tenn.,
shingle mills at Bard, Ark., and Peck’s HiLL
Ala., spoke factory at Covington, Tenn., and
Stov8 factory at Dickson, Tenn. A box factory
will be established at Thomasville. Ga., a pot
tery and a canning factory at Natchez, Miss.
The enlargements reported for the week in
clude cleotric light plant at Chattanooga
Tenn., fertilizer factory at Paradise, Fla., oi
mill, Dublin, Texas, tantn ries, Cumberland,
Miss., Flintstone, Ga., and Borne, Ga., cotton
mill at Bock Hill, 3. C-, furniture factories at
Fort Smith, Ark., and Rome, Ga., spoke works
at Humboldt, Tenn., and wagon works at
East Point, Ga.
Among the most important new bnildings re
ported for the week are noted the following
Court house at Clintnood, Va., court house and
jail at Griffin, Ga., court house at Hempstead,
Texas, and Mumfordsvi is, Ky., and jail at
Sunbright, Tenn. A warehouse will be erected
at Lewisbm-g, Tenn.. school bnildings at Char-
iottsville, Va., snd Nashville, Tenn., chnrohos
at Cleveland. Tenn., Petersburg, Vj., and Roa
noke, Ya., depo s at Montgomery, Ala , and
Nashville, Tenn. An infirmary will be ereoted
at Louisville, Ky., and hotels at HuroboHt,
Term., and Ta'lahassee, Fla.—Tradesman,
(Chattanooga, Tenn.)
TO SHOOT GLADSTONE.
Sensational Story Published iu the
Pall Hall Gazette.
A London cable dispatch says: The
Pall Mall Gazette in its issue of Thurs
day contained a most sensational ar
ticle, headed “Knmors of an Attempt
to Shoot Gladstone,” the tve used in
the headlines being the largest in use
for that purpose, The paper states
that the alleged attempt upon the
prime minister’s life was made while
Mr. Gladstone was walking through
St. James’ park at midnight last night
on his way to liis home, on Downing
street. The accuracy of the report
of the Pall Mall Gazette is doubtful.
It is probable that the story is based
upon the fact that a man who is now
in custody on the charge of firing a re
volver iu a public thoroughfare had in
one of his pockets a notebook contain
ing a number of entries detailing the
recent movements of Mr. Gladstone.
The prisoner will be arraigned shortly
and his object in making these entries
will be learned if possible. The arti
cle in the Pall Mall Gazette caused
much excitement among the friends
and supporters of Mr. Gladstone, and
many inquiries from various parts of
the country have been made as to the
truthfulness of the story.
COMER RELIEVED
and
Mr.
As Receiver of the Port Royal
Augusta Railway.
A Savannah, Ga., special says:
H. M. Comer has been discharged by
Judge Pardee as receiver of the Port
Boyal and Augusta Bailway companv.
This decision arrived late Saturday
night and is quite a lengthy one, set
ting forth at length arguments,
answers and petitions in relation to
the same, and concluding with an
opinion as to why Comer should be
discharged, by saying nothing as to
the confirmation of Averill’s appoint
ment.
The opinion of Judge Pardee states
that the question of jurisdiction of the
state circuit court of Bichmond
county in the appointment of Mr. Av
eriil, as receiver, did not require his
consideration; that court being the
judge of its own jurisdiction, and it is
assumed for the purpose of this appli
cation that Judge Boney’s court is
fully seized of all the jurisdiction it
has exercised.
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENTS.
Hon. James G. Blount, of Georgia,
may be minister to Hawaii. He will,
at least, be in practical charge, if not
actually the minister until all of the
present troubles are settled.
Everybody in Washington who had
the leisure and money to warrant a
trip to New York left the capital Wed
nesday to see the naval exhibition
which is to emphasize the opening of
the big show at Chicago. Barely has
it happened in the history of this gov
ernment that Washington has been en
tirely deserted by the president and
his cabinet. Such, however, was the
ease Thursday.
New postmasters appointed in Geor
gia Wednesday were E. M. Carter,
Carter’s, Murray county; C. D. Har
per, Chelsea, Chattooga county; W.
N. Bussell, Crow, Whitfield county;
C. C. Landers, Livingston, Floyd
county; Francis C. Peeples, Oakwell,
Camden county; William Touchton,
Pearson, Coffee county; A. F. Elrod,
Sonnersviile, Gordon county; B. L.
Hargrave, Spivey, Putnam county.
The president Wednesday announc
ed the following appointments: To
be government directors of the Union
Pacific Bailway Company: Henry F.
Dimick, of New York; Don. M. Dick
inson, of Michigan; J. W. Doan, of
Illinois; Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia;
Joseph W. Paddock, of Nebraska.
Otto Dobederlein, of Illinois, to be
consul of the United States atLeipsic :
David G. Brown, to be collector of cus
toms for the district of Montana and
Idaho.
The fiet gold in the treasury Tues
day morning over and above the $100-,
000,000 gold reserve was $900,000. This
accounts for the gold taken from the
New York sub-treasury for export dur
ing the day; also for the gold offered
and accepted from the Boston bankers.
It does not, however, include the gold
which was offered to the government
from San Francisco and Boanoke, Ya.
These amounts will appear in treasury
figures when the actual exchange is
made. Secretary Carlisle is much en
couraged at what he terms the patri
otic position taken by the Boston
banks.
The following appointments were
announced Tuesday at the white house:
L. F. McKinney, of New Hampshire,
to be envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to Columbia; Thomas
L. Thompson, of California, to be en
voy extraordinary and minister pleni
potentiary to Brazil; George William
Caruth, of Arkansas, to be minister
resident and consul general to Portu
gal; John W. Wiley, of New York, to
be consul at Bordeau; Harvey Meyers,
of Kentucky, to be commissioner from
Kentucky on the World’s Columbian
commission; J. C. Sanders, of Georgia,
to be alternate commissioner from
Georgia on the World’s Columbian
commission.
An Extra Session.
There will be an extra session of
congress called not later than Septem
ber and possibly sooner. Buck Kil
gore, of Texas, called on the president
Wednesday morning and asked the
point blank question.
“Why do you want to know?” asked
Mr. Cleveland.
“Because, if you are going to call an
extra session,” answered the congress
man, “I want to rent a house before I
go home and be ready to bring my
family on when I come.”
“Your reasons for knowing are not
very sinster,” laughed Mr. Cleveland,
“and such honesty should be met with
honesty. Yes, there will be an extra
session called, and I see no reason why
the business men of the country should
not know. It will be called between
the 1st and 15th of the month, and if
there is any special urgency, it will be
called sooner.”
This is the first time that Mr. Cleve
land has stated positively that- an ex
tra session would be called.
Lots of Money Needed.
Postmaster General Bissell and his
assistants are struggling with the usual
problem how to get through the fiscal
year with the growing demands of the
postal service on the meager appropria
tions made by congress. The biggest
appropriation outside of the salaries
of postmasters, which are fixed by the
law, is that for clerks in postoffices,
aud the strain to meet the demand
from the 65,000 postoffices of the
country is something enormous. The
increase in the appropriation this year
over last was over $300,000, but appli
cations for assistance aggregating $2,-
000 000 were on file when the year began.
Chicago alone asked for half the in
creased appropriation and New York,
Philadelphia and Baltimore were not
far behind her. The increase for the
next fiscal year in this appropriation
appears on its face to be $500,000, but
$50,000 is knocked out of this to pay
for canceling machines, for which a
separate appropriation was asked. The
allowance for the third-class offices has
also been increased $20,000, and now
stands at $620,000. These increases of
about 3 per cent are only half the av
erage increase of the postal business of
the country, which of late years has
been nearly double that of th*e popula
tion. •
CYCLONE IN OKLAHOMA.
Sixty-Tiro People Dead and Many
More Fatally Injured.
A special from Oklahoma City, I. X.,
states that two distinct hailstorms, cy
clones and a waterspout combined to
cause great destruction in Oklahoma
City. Taesday night. It is reported
that sixty-two human lives were sacri
ficed. It is positive that forty were
killed, while several were fatally and
scores seriously injured. The damage
to property is inestimable.
The brunt of the storm was laid up
on the prosperous little town of Nor
man, on the Santa Fe road, about
twenty miles south of Oklahoma City.
At that point thirty-one people were
killed, dozens injured and the town
almost completely destroyed. There a
pall has overspread the town, business
is suspended and everybody able to
render any assistance to the poor un
fortunates or towards removing the
dead bodies, are out searching along
the track of the cyclone.
The people are frenzied and cannot
give any estimate of their loss, and
know nothing except to care for the
dead and injured. Oklahoma City has
responded nobly, and the mayor and
principal citizens organized a relief
corps and are at the scene of destruc
tion.
Further on the town of Downs and
Keokuk Falls fared but little better,
being nearly devastated, and scores of
people injured fatally and otherwise,
though the loss of lives, if at all, will
not be as BejioRe as at Norman,
Instinct in a Cat.
“I have often wondered,” said Fran
cis Estey at the St. James, “in how
much human beings are guided by in
stinct. Every one knows that animals
are largely regulated by that queer in
fluence we are pleased to name, but
very few people believe that it plays
any part in human lives. I once had
an office cat that came to me a starving
kitten. I fed it for the once, and
daily it came to the office at the time I
arrived, about 9 in the morning and
always very promptly. Once it was
stolen from me by a party of clerks,
good friends of mine, and they kept it
for three months. They told me they
had been in the habit of feeding it at
noon, and that daily at that hour ex
actly the cat showed up with remarka
ble promptness. Then I became inter
ested. I changed the cat’s meal hour
from 12 noon to 3 in the afternoon and
watched the result. Up to that hour
the cat was never to be found. At that
honr, however, scratching and clawing
occurred at my office door, and my cat
was always on time. Now how* did
that cat know when it was 9 or 12 or 3
o’clock? We say, ‘instinct, instinct, of
course,’ but the question still remains
unanswered.”—St. Louis Globe-Dem
ocrat.
In Hard Luck.
TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS.
THe News of tHe World Condensed Into
PitAy and Pointed Paragraphs.
Interesting and Instructive to All
Classes of Readers.
Street Urchin—“Say, mister, gimme
fifteen cents, won’t yer?”
Gentleman—“What for?”
“Please, sir, me mudder is sick, an’
fadder is out o’ work, an’ I got stuck
on me papers.”
“Poor little chap!”
“Yes, sir, an’ I ain’t got no money
to go to de t’eater.”—Street A Smith’s
Good News.
Scandinavian Bread.
Sift together half a pint each ol
wheat and Graham flour, one pint of
barley meal, two teaspoonfnls of
Price’s cream baking powder and a
teaspoonfnl of salt; make into a bat
ter with one pink of milk and bake in
a greased bread pan in a fairly hot
oven. .
It is a Horrid Nuisance
To be nervous. Starting at the slightest
found, uneasiness by day and fitful slumber
l»y night, unrea c onable apprehensions, odd
•ensations, (onstant restlessness—these are
among its diabolical symptoms. Dvspepda is
the fountain head. Remove this with Ho-tet-
ter’s Stomach Bitters, and the food, is assimi
lated, the body nourished, me sleep grovrs
tranquil, nervousness vamoses. The Bitters
subdues malaria, constipation, liver com
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We have twenty-eight cities each having
more than one hundred thousand population.
For impure or th n Blood, Weakness, Mala
ria, Neuralgia, Indigestion and Biliousness,
take Brown jj Iron Hitters—it gives strength,
making old persons feel young—and young
persons strong; pleasant to take.
We arc at best but stewards of what we
falsely call our own.
Hood’s is the Best
The Judgment of Long
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Mv, Grant W. natives
“ Riehford, N. Y., Jan. II, 1893.
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My wife has had a chronic sore throat for
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more th n 20 years. It always troubled her
more or les-, but for the last 0 months, since
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sore throat except once when she took a slight
cold. We cheerfully recommend Hood’s Sar
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blood and to build up the system; I consider it
the best medicine in use.” Git ant W.
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Young Mothers!
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life of Mother and Child.
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After usfngone bottle of “ mother’s Friend” I
Suffered but little pain, and did not experience that
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Sent by express, charges prepaid, on receipt of
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Arbor day was appropriately cele
brated by the employes of the nation
al agricultural department.
The discovery was made Monday
that the $5 currency notes of the La-
gonda bank, of Springfield, O., had
been counterfeited.
The evangelical ministers of Kansas
City, at a meeting Monday in the min
isters’ alliance, voted to take a day off
two weeks hence and play baseball. A
motion waa made by Bev. J. M. Cro
mer to take an outing May 8th, and
play a game of ball.
A banquet was given at Blooming
ton, 111., Thursday in honor of Hon.
James E. Ewing, recently appointed
envoy extraordinary and minister plen
ipotentiary of the United States to the
court of Belgium, by the Bloomington
Bar Association, of which body he has
been a member for about twenty-five
years.
At Chicago, Saturday, Christopher
Columbus, twenty feet high and all of
bronze, was mounted on his thirty-
foot marble pedestal, which stands on
the lake front at the foot of Congress
street. The figure is said to be the
largest bronze figure in the United
States and with its pedestal represents
an expenditure of $40,1)00.
A San Francisco dispatch of Sunday
says: Colonel Clark E. Boyce, clerk of
the Veteran’s Home Association, is
short in his accounts at least $20,000,
and it may be $40,000. The Veteran’s
Home, located at Youngsville, Napa
county, is an institution supported
jointly by the state and federal gov
ernments for the aid of decrepit and
disabled union soldiers.
There is a big stir in mining circles
at Guyanjuato, Mexico, over the dis
covery of extensive and rich deposits
of tin. The find was made by an
American prospector. The new tin
properties bear evidence of having
been worked by the Aztecs or some
other race centuries ago. The work
of developing the mine will be begun
as soon as machinery can be obtained.
Cassville, county seat of Barry coun
ty, Missouri, was almost wholly de
stroyed by fire Tuesday morning.
Twenty-six business buildings and a
dozen dwellings were consumed. Two
banks, the newspaper offices, two lum
ber yards and three hotels were includ
ed in the burned district. In fact, a
small drug store and a small grocery
was all that was left of the business
part of the town. Loss, $150,000; in
surance, $20,000.
The Catholics of the New Orleans
see held their centenary celebration
Tuesday. A great many of the clergy
were present from all sections of the
United States including the following;
Cardinal Gibbon, of Baltimore; Arch
bishops Bynn, of New York, and Elder
of Cincinnati; Bishops Keane, of
Washington; Kann, of Wheeling,
Meerschaert, of Indian Territory; Ver-
daguer, ol' Brownsville; Yandervier,of
Bichmond; Gallagher, of Galveston;
O’Sullivan, of Mobile; Heslin, of
Natchez, and Nevaso. of San Antonio.
THEY WANT BONDS.
Wall Street Sharks Will Not Turn
Loose Their Gold Otherwise.
A Washington special says: The
outward movement of gold continues.
Tuesday $3,200,000 went out, of which
$2,000,000 was drawn from the sub
treasury, the rest having been taken
out last Friday and Saturday. But for
the offerings of the Boston and west
ern banks the gold reserve would be
depleted over two millions of dollars.
These banks advanced $6,000,000,
$5,000,000 of it from Boston, so that
the reserve remains intact with about
four millions of free gold.
It is now evident and admitted that
the country was dangerously near a
financial pauic last week. The pay
ment of treasury notes in silver would
have been the signal. The continued
payment of them in gold and Presi
dent Cleveland’s emphatic statement
of Monday morning that their pay
ment in gold would be continued, have
served to relieve the tension and have,
a large measure, restored public
confidence, though the money market
remains stiff and all danger is not
averted.
Conferences have been held between
Subtreasnrer Jordan and the presi
dents of the national banks of New
York. Secretary Carlisle is very anx
ious to have them come to the relief
of the treasury as the Boston and west
ern banks have done—that is, turn
their gold into the treasury and take
greenbacks for it. This they did to
a limited extent last February.
They declare that they cannot do so
now. They insist that the govern
ment shall issue fifty millions of bonds
for a specific period, so as to make
theiu marketable and that half of them
shall be placed in Europe so as to
fetch back some of the gold shipped
from this country; the New York
banks would take the other half. It
believed by them that this step
would tide the government over until
the season of exports begins again and
the balance of trade turns in our fa
vor.
Free Trip to Chicago.
Separate W-o-r-l-d-s F-a-i-R and use the
letters to spell as many words as yon can by
using tho letters as many times as yon wish'
either hack wards or forwards, bnt not use tb«
same letter in making any one word more timet
than it appears in “ World’s Fair.”
It » said serenty-Are small Eflglish words
can be spelled correctly from the ten lettera
contained in 44 World’s Fair.” Example: W
waif, soar, idol, etc. If you are good at word
making yon can secure a fret trip to
World's Fair and return, as the Scott Seed
Company will pay all expenses, including R.R.
fare, hotel bills, admissions to the Columbian
Exposition, and $50 in cash for incidental ex
penses, to the first person able to make seventy
words from the letters contained in “ World's
Fair,” as a! ove. They wi.l also give a free
trip to the World’s Fair and return with $25
for incidental expenses, to the first person
sending sir/y word* as above. They will also
give a free trip to the World’s Fair and return
(without cash for incidental expenses) to * u ~
first person sending fi tu*1ice words.
To the first person sending fir, y words will
be given C50 in cash towards paying expenses
to the World's Fair; to the first sending f*>rty
words will be given $25 in cash towards pay
ing expenses to the World’s Fair.toeach of the
first five persons sending thit ty-fioe words will
be gi\ en $10 in cash, and to each of. the first ten
sending thirty words will be given $5 in cash.
Only one prize will be awarded to the same
person. Write your name on list of words
(numbered) and enclose the same iostpa:d
with fifieen U. S. two-cent stamps for a large
package of our Choice English Cottage harden
Flower Seeds.
This combination includes the latest and
most, popular Eng.isli flowers of endless varie
ties (same as will be contained in the elaborate
exhibit of English flowers at the World's Fair).
This “ World’s Fair ” Contest will be care
fully aud conscientiously conducted solely for
♦ he purpose of introducing our business in the
U. S. Yon will receive the biggest value in
flower seeds ever offered, and if you are able
to make a good list of words and answer
promptly you will have a first-class opportun
ity to secure a free trip from your home to
Chico a»and return.
We are spending a large amount of money to
start our trade in the U. S. and want your trial
order. You will be more than gratified with
the result. Send to-day, and address the
Scott Seed Company', Toronto, Canada.
Finding a Lost Ring.
A gentleman living at Sonth Ken
sington ivas traveling with his son from
GJoucester road to Mark lane on the
underground railway. Arrived at his
destination, the young man, in opening
the carriage door, dropped from his
finger a valuable ring, which fell be
tween the carriage and the platform.
The station inspector, who happened to
be standing near, said; “All right,
sir; I saw it fall. Wait till the train
is gone, and I’ll get it for you.” And
directly the train moved out he duly
jumped down on to the line, but no
ring could be found. The gentleman
waited some time and then went home.
An honr or so afterward the son
went again to the railway station to
inquire if the ring had been found, and
while standing there the same train
entered the station, having been right
around the inner circle, and, wonder
ful to relate, on the lower footboard of
the carriage the ring was discovered,
having traveled the whole distance ly
ing on the open board.—London Tit-
Bits.
KNOWLEDGE
Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. Tho many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the world’s best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative ; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, who§e name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
August
Flower’
GEORGIA’S NEW GEOLOGIST.
So Not Be :
with Pastes, Enamels and Paints which stain the
hands, injure the iron and hum red.
The Rising Sun Stove Polish la Brilliant, Odor
less Durable, and the consumer pays for no tin
or glass package with every purchase.
I I BLOOD POISON I
| A SPECIALTY. I
If any on* doubts that
we can cure the m-st ob
stinate case in 20 to 60
days, let him wr.tefor
particulars and investi
gate our reliab lity. Our
fin*nclal backing is
♦000.000. When mercury,
iodide potassium, sarsaparilla Of Hot Springs fail, we
guarantee & cure—and our Marie Cypiiilene is the only
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sealed, free. Coos RxxeaT Co., Chicago, 22b
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for 2c. Stamp. Immense. Unrivalled. Only goo*
one ever Invented. Beats weights. Sales unparallels
912 a day. Write Quick. Bbojlabd, Philo.. Pa
tfc Morphine Habit easily cared-
By one win a-ed it 13 years. Addre*3
J. A. PE LAP. Elisabeth, N,J-
OPIUM H/ one_wjj i u-«d a 13 /ears. Addrej3
Governor >’orlhen Appoints Professor
IV. S. Yeates as State Geologist.
Tuesday morning Governor Northen
appointed Professor W. S. Yeates to
succeed Professor Spencer as state ge
ologist. Soon after the appointment
was made the geological board met
and confirmed it. A resolution was
passed by the board allowing the new
geologist to select his own assistants.
One of the troubles with the recent
geological department was that the
geologist, Professor Spencer, had no
authority _ over the men under him, as
they were selected by the board and
from the very start there was confu
sion in the office. Things went
from bad to worse until the board
abolished the old department. As
soon as this had been done Governor
Northen wrote to the Smithsonian Insti
tute and asked that a man be recom
mended as state geologist for Georgia.
The officials recommended Professor
Yates, and subsequently he wrote ap
plying for the place. He is a native of
North Carolina, bnt has been connec
ted with tne Smithsonian Institute for
the last twelve years. He has been
curator of mineralogy, his duties being
to classify 36,000 specimens of min
erals. He is also professor of geology
in the Columbian University at Wash
ington, and comes highly recommend
ed, and will doubtless be a very valua
ble man to the state. Governor Nor
then -has wired him of his appointment,
and has requested him to report for
duty at once, as his services are very
much needed.
“I have been afflicted withbilious-
ness and constipation for fifteen years
and first one and then another prep
aration was suggested to me and
tried, but to no purpose. A friend
recommended August Flower and
words cannot describe the admira
tion in which I hold it. It has given
me a new lease of life, which before
was a burden. Its good qualities
and wonderful merits should be made
known to everyone suffering with
dyspepsia and biliousness.” JESSE
Barker, Printer, Humboldt, Kas.@
DIAMONDS,
WATCHES and
SILVERWARE.
.Send for our Catalogue.
«T. P. Stovous cfc 33ro.,
47 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga.
Unlike the Dutch Process
No Alkalies
— OR —
Other Chemicals
are nsed in the
preparation of
W. BAKER & CO.’S
reakfastCocoa
tehich is absolutely
pure and soluble.
j It has more than three times
I the strength of Cocoa mixed
I with Starch, Arrowroot or
. ’ Sugar, and is far more eco
nomical, costing less than one cent a cup.
It is delicious, nourishing, and EASILY
DIGESTED.
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
W. RAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass.
Making Shoes Waterproof.
Shoes can easily be made waterproof
and snow-resisting by the aid of a lit
tle paraffin disolved in benzine. A
very little paraffin is needed, and only
enough benzine to dissolve it and
make it flow easily. The preparation
can be brushed over the uppers and
over the soles, and as it dries almost
as fast as put on, the shoes are ready
for wear without any delay. The par
affin presents a firm waterproof sur
face, and does not look amiss, although
it will not take a shine like unprepar
ed leather. But it will resist any
amount of wet and is very convenient
in snowy weather. The preparation
differs, in that instead of making the
leather stiff and hard, it makes it very
soft and pliable. The mixture can be
applied to patent leather tips and to
uppers composed entirely of that ma
terial, but it takes off the brilliancy of
these stylish articles to be nsed very
extensively for that purpose, although
when the paraffin has worn off, the
polish appears as brilliant as ever.
Passed.
Professor—“If a person in good
health, but who imagined himself sick,
should send for you, what would you
do?”
Medical student—Give him some
thing to make him sick, and then ad
minister an antidote.”
Professor—“Don’t waste any more
time here. Hang out your shingle.”—
New York Weekly.
A Little Management.
Minks—“Say, Winks, my wife tells
me that new servant-girl you have is a
thief, and you’d better be on your
guard.”
Winks—“I suspected as much; been
missing all sorts of things; but she’s so
efficient and respectful my wife won’t
get rid of her.”
Minks—“She’d send her flying if
you’d use a little management.”
Winks—“What shall I d(
Minks—“Kiss your wife ijo the dark
some night and pretend yo'
the servant-girl. ”—New Y
*Mnk it’s
Veekly.
Not Convinced.
Male Guest—“You must admit dp.o
thing. Though American women can
not vote, they are well taken care ofj.”
Mrs. Strongmind—“They are, are
they?” |
Male Guest—“Urn ! yoq never see
any bent up old women hete.”
Mrs. Strongmind—“No; when wom
en become too old to be offered seats
in street cars, they get straightened
out hanging to straps.”
If your Back Aches, or yon are all worn out,
pood tor nothing, it is general debility.
Brown’s Iron Bitiers will cure you, make you
ftronp, cleanse your liver, and give you a good
appetite—tones the nerves.
Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but
that is not its regular business.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
son’s Eye-water.Druggists sell at 25c per bottle.
A wonderful stomach corrector—Beech
Pills. Beecham’s—no others. 25 cents a bo
MV
r R\Kme
POWDER
Pure grape
cream of
forms tilt'
acid principle
of the Royal
exclusively.
The Royal
imparts that
peculiar sweet
ness, flavor and
delicacy noticed in the
finest cake, biscuit,
rolls, etc., which
Absolutely
Pure
expert pastry cooks
declare is unobtainable
by the use of any other
leavening agent.
CC
A SUCCESS.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., Gentlemen;—
I have suffered from catarrh for about five years
and have tried several remedies without relief
until I commenced to use Hall’s Catarrh Cure last
February. I must say that it is a A SUCCESS,
the dropping in my throat disappeared entirely
after the first bottle. It increased my appetite, so
that I now weigh eight pounds more than my cus'
tomary weight. I have recommended it to others
and all who used it have been greatly relieved and
speak highly of it. One of them was in my store
yesterday and expressed his wish to peddle it this
winter. Will you please let me know the lowest
terms you could furnish it for, as I would like to
keep it in stock. Hoping to hear from you
soon, I remain, Yours respectfully,
R. C. HAUSWEDELL,
Lake City, Minn.
BOLD BY DRUGGISTS, 75c.
ureaEttPsaza
'Hie Best Cough Syrui
: Cough Syrup.
| Tastes Good. Use In time.
jJSold by Druggists.
We offer
I you a ready
made medicine for Coughs,
Bronchitis and other dis
eases of the Throat and
Lungs. Like other so called
Patent Medieines, it is well
advertised, and having merit
it has attained a wide sale
under the name of Piso’s
Cure for Consumption.
It is now a “Nostrum,”
though at first it was com
pounded after a prescription
by a regular physician, with
no idea that it would ever
go on the market as a proprie
tary medicine. But after
compounding that prescrip
tion over a thousand times in
one year, we named it “Piso’s
Cure for Consumption,” and
began advertising it in a
small way. A medicine
known all over the world is
the result.
Why is it not just as good
as though costing fifty cents
to a dollar for a prescription
and an equal sum to hare it
put up at a drug store?
What Is Home Without
HOME /■ HOME
TACKS?! N Al LS ?
Several size, to suit,
In a compartment box,—
handy when you need
Tacks about the home for
carpets, curtains, gimp, or
naments, oilcloths, sheath
ing,—1001 U3es you know of.
Always find the right tack at
the right time.
Several sizes in a carton,—
handy when you need nails
for a loose board, shingle,or
Fence Picket,
broken furniture, rickety
door,—to hang your hat
and coat on, etc., etc.
Always the right nail at the
right time.
FOR SALE EVERYWHERE.
Made Solely bj the ATLAS TACK CORPORATHffl, BOSTON.
Warehouses: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, San Francisco, Lynn,
Factories: Taunton, Fairhaven, Whitman, Dnxbury, and Plymouth, Haas.
EVERYBODY WANTS THEM.
MEiKD
HARNESS
Cures Consumption, Coughs, Croup, Sore
Throat* Sold by all Druggists on a Guarantee.
BICYCLES.
Complete line of hign, medium
an: cheao«radi Bicycles. Sun
dries of ail kinds.
Immense Bargains in Sec
ond Hand Bicycles, Pneu
matic and Cushion Tired. Write f.-r catalogue
and prices. The cn'y excias vely bicycle house in the
/tfi Ad’n-s, BICYCLE UEP'T, LOWKY
mV. CO.* h - P. Cha»fant, Miner.,
Nj. 39 Pe-achtiea Street, Atlanta, Ga.
v
A
O feHIIMttoruhine Habit Cured in 10
r III Hi to days. No pay till cured.
■ ilflfl dr. j.STEPHENS. Lebanon,Ohfo.
h
THOMSON'S
SLOTTED
CLINCH RIVETS.
No tools required. Only a hammer needed to driv-f
■>n l c inch them easily and quickly, leaving the ciir.ci
vtiso'uteiy smoe tb. Bv-qniriug no ho e to be made jt
he leather nor burr tor the Ktveta. They are ayi-ona:.
oujrh snd durable. Millions now in us“. Al
«*mrths. uniform «»r ais-Tted, put up in boxes.
Ask yonr dealer for them, or send 40c. It
tumps for a oox oi 10U, assorted sizes. Man'fd by
JUOSON L. THOMSON MFG. CO..
WALTHAM. HASS- I A. N* U...
HOMES FOR THE POOR
AND RICH ALIKE
Larce and small farm3 in Alabama, South
Caroii a and Giorgia, for sale on Jon; time.
Special advantages offered to ten O” more pur
chasers lormi"ga t " *
larstoT. J. FELD*
Write for particu-
4
Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh is the
Be5t, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest.
Sold by druggists or sent by mail,
50c. E. T. Hazeltlne, Warren, Pa.
t
Seventeen. ’$8,