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telegraphic gleanings.
Tie News of t&e World Condensed Mo
Ply anil Pointed Paragraphs.
Interesting nnd Instructive to All
Classes of Readers.
The Reynoldsville woolen mills, of
Beynoldsville, Pa., was destroyed by
lire Thursday. Loss $100,000; insu
rance $75,000.
The first National Bank of Fort
Scott, the oldest financial institution
in Southeastern Kansas, suspended pay
ment Tuesday.
The British steamer Blue Jacket,
from Marseilles, arrived at Cardiff
Wednesday with cholera on board and
was ordered in quarantine.
The McNamara dry goods company,
at Denver, Col., one of the largest
houses in the west, was closed on at
tachments Tuesday morning.
A third furnace of the Maryland
Steel Company, at Sparrows Point,
was banked Thursday night, throwing
300 laborers out of employment.
Thursday afternoon a can of naptha
exploded in the sweatbund factory of
J. D. Campbell, No. 211 Walworth
street, Brooklyn, N. T., killing four
persons.
The headquarters of the National
Republican League, in New York,
were formally closed Wednesday and
the effects shipped to Chicago, the fu
ture headquarters.
An incoming passenger train on the
Grand Trunk road ran down a crowd-
- ~ed street car in Chicago, Monday
night,killing four people and injuring
a number of others.
At St. Louis, Thursday at noon,
1,200 boiler makers and sheet iron
workers quit work in the boiler yards
of Rohan, Brothers, Wingler, Garstand
and O’Brien, they strike for nine hoars
work at the same salary they have
received heretofore.
Citizens bank of Ada, the most
prominent one in Hardin county,
Ohio, failed to open its doors Tuesday
morning. Its owner, Peter F. Ahl-
field, has controlled it over a quarter
of a century and is one of the wealth
iest men of that section.
The American bark Alice Reed, from
Cienfuegos with sugar for orders, ar
rived at the Delaware breakwater
Wednesday night. Both mates had
yellow fever on passage. One died
and was buried at sea. The vessel was
quarantined to be fumigated.
The Chateauguay Ore and Iron
Company, whose foundries are located
at Lone mountain Pa., closed down
Thursday, as did also the Crown Point
iron works. The cause given is the
dullness of trade. A thousand men
are thrown out of employment.
It was stated in court at Chicago
Thursday that the assets of the suicide
banker, Herman Sekaffner, would not
pay over 12 1-2 per cent of the liabili
ties. The announcement was a sur
prise, though it was known that not
much would be realized.
The first national convention of jew
elers and watchmakers opened at Chi-
-eago Wednesday. Delegates were pres
ent from Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Mississippi nnd Alabama. The con
vention was addressed by Newton
Dexter, of the Business Men’s Associa
tion, of New York state.
Dispatches of Monday state that
the trouble between the French and
Siamese continue. A body of French
marines have enptured the forts at
Donthane and Taphnm, on the upper
Mekong. The French loss in the as
sault was six killed and wounded.
The Siamese lost heavily in both en
gagements.
——A Boston dispatch of Wednesday
announces the shutting down for Au
gust of the Amoskeag cotton mill.
This is the largest cotton mill in the
United States, and probably in the
world. It employes 8,000 operatives,
uses 0,000,000 pounds of cotton per
week and pays $225,000 per month in
wages.
A fire in London Monday night de
stroyed thirty buildings, which were
occupied by more ■ Ilian twenty-five
firms, who dealt in stationery, cloth
ing, tea, wines, furniture, imported
goods, etc. The district burned is
over an area of five hundred yards
square. It is expected that the loss
will reach 1,500,000 pounds.
Six hundred shoemakers are on a
strike in St. Louis. The trouble orig
inated in Gunner’s factory nnd was
precipitated by a reduction of 10 per
cent, in wages, caused by the strin
gency of the times. The strike has
spread to other factories. The Ham
ilton-Brown Shoe Company, the lar
gest in the west, is only working half
time.
Cable dispatches of Wednesday from
London are to the effect that cholera
is rampant nmong the poorer class in
Moscow, Russia. Much indignation
is felt because the director of prisons
learning that there was cholera
in the Moscow prisons, ordered a ma
jority of the prisoners to be removed
to four other cities, thus increasing
the danger of a spread of the infec
tion. There have been no cases so far
in St. Petersburg.
Proceedings to obtain a pardon for
ex-District Master Workman Hugh
Dempsey, of the Knights of Labor,
now confined in the penitentiary for
complicity in the Homestead poison
ing cases, received a setback at Pitts
burg, Pa., Thursday. Patrick J. Gal
lagher, whose retraction of evidence
in court was the basis of the applica-
tion.for Dempsey's pardon, refused to
sign or make affidavit to the retrac
tion.
A Leavenworth special says: It is
- reported on authority of railroad offi
cials that one thousand men were put
on the cars at Birmingham, Ala.,
Wednesday night and started for
Kansas to take the places of striking
miners. It is thought that they will
go to Pittsburg, and from that place
be distributed to all the affected mines
in the state. Trouble and perhaps
bloodshed will undoubtedly follow
such an attempt.
A Ran Jose, Cal., dispatch of Mon
day says: An importantrdisvovery re
garding the comet has been made at
the Lick observatory. Photographic
plates reveal the fact that the heavenly
visitant is not alone in its glory, but
has a companion. The second comet
is enveloped in the tail of the first one,
and shows distinctly as a nebulous-like
condensation. Its tail also merges
into that of the other. It appears to
move in the orbit exactly parallel, and
at the same rate of speed.
Dr. Henry C. W. Meyer, the whole
sale poisoner for insurance money,
reached New York Monday afternoon
in charge of a detective. The detect
ive said nothing of interest passed be
tween himself and the prisoner on their
way from Detroit. Meyer was sullen
during the entire trip. He would talk
about nothing but commonplace mat- j
ters, except on one occasion, when he
said he had never been in New York
and knew nothing about the death of
the man known as Gustav A. J. Baum
and Ludwig Brandt.
At a directors’ meeting Thursday, it
was decided to shut down the mills of
the Westbrook Manufacturing com
pany, at Portland, Me., makers of
ginghams, from July 24th to Septem
ber 1st. The monthly pay roll is
$20,000. The goods now being manu
factured cannot be sold until October,
and no money can be realized on them
until next spring. The mill has been
in operation thirty years without a
shut down, and some relief measures
are neeessar y.
A special of Thursday from Topeka
says that the Santa Fe management
have just unearthed*' extensive frauds
on that division of the road included
between Topeka and Chicago. The
frauds, it is said, have resulted in a
loss to the road of $17,000 a month.
The conspiracy is far-reaching and in
cluded, it is said, various officers of
the road, from assistant superintend
ents down to the section bosses. The
scheme was to pad the pay rolls with
fictitious names and to divide the
amount thus secured among the various
conspirators.
FRANCE AND SIAM
Engage In Hostilities and France Conies
Out First Best.
A London special of Friday says: A
dispatch from Bangkok, the capital of
Siam, states that twenty Siamese were
killed and fourteen wounded Thursday
during an exchange of shots between
the forts at the month of Meinam
river, and the French gunboats Comete
and Ineonstante, which forced the pass
age of the bar in the face of orders
from the Siamese government prohib
iting their entry into the river.
PBOTECTION FOB XMEBICAXS.
Begarding the trouble a Washing
ton dispatch says: There are about
twenty American missionaries in Siam,
mostly Presbyterians,and their friends
in this country have become concern
ed about their welfare, now that act
ual hostilities have broken out be
tween the French and Siam.
VERY LITTLE OFFICIAL NEWS.
The only official news of the trouble
between the French and the Siamese
received at the state department yvas
contained in a brief cablegram from
Acting Consul General Boyd, at Bang
kok, stating that, after an hour’s en
gagement, the French vessels had pass
ed the forts below Bangkok. It is not
' the present intention of the depart
ment to especially dispatch an Ameri
can war vessel to the scene ot war, in
view of the fact that the American in
terests in Siam are insignificant, being
confined to a small trade in teak wood.
Nevertheless, it is appreciated that
if the war assumes formidable pro
portion, the Siamese may make it very
unpleasant for foreign residents, in
cluding the Americans there, as the
hostilities are apt to be characterized
by the summary proceedings known to
semi-barbarous nations. If such a
state of affairs obtains, however, the
United States will not be without a
vessel in the Siamese waters, as the
United States steamship Concord, now
on her way to China, will be in that
neighborhood in the course of two
months.
WHAT WILL ENGLAND DO?
In the house of commons Friday
Mr. Gladstone stated in response to a
question that the foreign office had re
ceived news of the asoent of the Mei
nam river by the French fleet, but it
had not heard of active hostilities be
tween the French nnd Siamese. The
prime minister added that he relied
on the assurance given to England by
the French government being kept.
TRADE REVIEW.
Report of Business for the Past Week
by Dun & Co.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: There is a somewhat bet
ter tone in business because the money
markets are a little less stringent. But
it cannot be said as yet that there is
any distinct improvement. In every
direction usual conservatism prevails,
orders are small, the volume of busi
ness is restricted and a waiting policy
rules.
Improvement is expected from the
resumption of business in the iron and
silver regions nnd the building trade
shows signs of revival with material 20
per cent cheaper than last year. East
bound shipments are slightly smaller
than last year, real estate dealings 75
per cent less and receipts of most
products smaller.
Louisville reports easier money
nnd business fair in volume. At Nash
ville business is quite fair and Mont
gomery improving. At Little Bock
business is more hopeful with good
crop prospects and at Columbus trade
is fair with collections unimproved anti
at Atlanta satisfactory in volume, but
collections are very slow. Trade is
dull at Augusta, though crop prospects
are good, and at Mobile crop prospects
are fair and trade satisfactory. At
New Orleans littl. improvement is
seen and money very tight, but a bet
ter feeling prevails, for crop prospects
are bright.
The failures during the past week
have not diminished in number, being
374 in the United States against 168
last vear for the same week.
THE MOBILE REGISTER,
One of the Oldest Papers In tlie South,
Assigns.
A Mobile, Ala., special says: The
RygiBter Company, publishers of the
daily and weekly Register, one of the
eldest papers in the south, made an
assignment Tuesday night. The com
pany has been for years heavily loaded
with an indebtedness growing out of
a lawsuit for the possession of the pa
per a number of years ago. Interest
on this was promptly met but the pay
ment cramped the management and
forced the creation of considerable
floating debts. This, in these times of
stringency, became too heavy to carry
and John L. Rapier, principal stock
holder and president of the company,
urged an assignment in the hope of a
curtailment of the expense account and
relief from the pressure until the paper
could recover itself.
ON BANKS AND BANKING.
Governor Nortlien Wants a History of
the Business in Georgia.
Governor Northen has requested Mr.
George B. DeSaussure, vice-president
of the Exchange bank of Atlanta, to
prepare a paper on the history of bank
ing in Georgia and an account of the
existing banking laws, to make a part
of the records of the congress of bank
ers and financiers held in Chicago in
June. Mr. DeSaussure now has this
paper in course of preparation and will
soon be ready to submit it. He has
written recently some very valuable
articles on the financial questions of
the day. Although comparatively a
young man, Governor Northen could
not have selected a person more capa
ble of undertaking the work which he
has in hand.
THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH.
Notes of Her Progress and Prosperity
Briefly Epitomized
And Important Happenings from Day
to Day Tersely Told.
Colonel C. C. Jones, Georgia’s his
torian, died at his home near Augusta,
Wednesday morning. Colonel Jones
was afflicted with Bright’s disease and
had been calmly awaiting the final
summons for several months.
Colonel E. H. Taylor, Jr., distiller,
at Frankfort, Ky., made an assignment
Thursday to the Lexington Trust Com
pany. The liabilities are not given
out, but it is supposed that they are
not nearly so large as the assets.
A disastrous fire occurred at Susan-
ville, Col. Tuesday night, resulting in
the destruction of sixty buildings and
causing a loss of about $250,000
With the exception of one restaurant
not a business house in town was left.
A special from Gadsden Ala., Mon
day night tells of the suicide of Mon
roe C. Herstein, of the firm of Lowen-
thal & Herstein, of that place. It is
said that he had been a heavy loser in
cotton speculations lately and had
been in a depressed state of mind for
same time. He was also a member of
the firm of Herstein & Lowenthal, of
Huntsville.
A San Diego, Cal., dispatch of
Thursday says: Rev. Charles A.
Briggs, who was deposed by the Pres
byterian general assembly, has de
clined an offer of a testimonial of
$50,000 which Chaplain Parker, of San
Diego, wished to raise. Dr. Briggs,
in declining, said he lost nothing by
the trial except delay in literary work
and waste of time and strength.
A dispatch of Sunday from Yalejo,
Cal., states that it seems more than
probable that Admiral Farraguft’s old
flagship, the Hartford, is to be refitted
and once more fly a commission pen
nant from her main mast. The com
mandant of Mare island navy yard has
received detailed plans and specifica-
rions for remodeling the rigging and
refitting the vessel.
In the federal court at Knoxville,
Tenn., Monday, William Johnson, a
fraudulent pensioner, was sentenced to
a term in the Stillwater, Minn., peni
tentiary. For three years past he has
drawn $12 per month from the gov
ernment while the right Johnson lived
in Chattanooga. Henry Billingsley,
alias Wilson, was given an eighteen-
months’ sentence for drawing the pen
sion of Henry Wilson, of Texas.
W. H. Wallace, a wealthy lumber
dealer of Lebanon, Tenn., left St.
Louis Sunday morning, and, purchas
ing a ticket, displayed his pocket book
containing nearly $10,000. When he
left the train at Nashville Sunday
night two men brushed against him,
although the depot was not crowded.
Mr. Wallace didn’t miss his pocket
book until Monday morning, nnd is
confident that he was robbed by men
who followed him from St. Louis.
The county board of control met at
Columbia, S. C., Tuesday, nnd ap
pointed two more dispensers, making
three dispensaries that will shortly be
opened in Columbia. Dispensaries
have also been established at St.
Matthews, Orangeburg county, and
Manning, Clarendon county. The
price of California wines was an
nounced. It will be about fifty cents
per gallon and fifteen cents per bottle.
Brandies will bo $4 per gallon.
A San Francisco special of Wednes*
day says: Attachments aggregating
several thousand dollars have been
filed against the Union Stock Yards
company, whose great meat packing
establishment is at Kodeo, Contra
Costa county. These claims are said
to be preliminary to larger suits by
eastern holders of the first bonds.
The immense plant, it is said, has
practically shut down. The plant cost
$100,000 and was started May 1st.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
The dispensary authorities, on Wed
nesday, succeeded in getting from As
sociate Justice Pope an order staying
and superceding the restraining order
issued by Circuit Judge Hudson in
the Darlington injunction case. Un
der Judge Hudson’s order the Darl
ington dispenser was restrained from
opening the dispensary, but the order
of Justice Pope vitiates the restraint
and opens the dispensary until the
further order of the court.
James M. Dowling, cashier of the
local United States mint in New Or
leans, was arrested Thursday after
noon, upon affidavits sworn to by W.
G. Forsyth, an operative in the secret
service of the government, charging
him with the embezzlement of $25,-
000. The accused was arraigned be
fore United States Commissioner
Wright and placed under $10,000
bond. The arrest of Cashier Dowling
is the outgrowth of a fire which took
place in tlie mint on June 24th.
ATTACKED BY STRIKERS.
Desperate Conflict Between Miners in
Weir City, Kansas.
A special from Weir City, Kan., says:
The expected crisis has come in the
miners’ strike. Miners who are willing
to work quietly and peaceably have
been attacked by the strikers, and
blood has been shed. The feeling which
has been growing more and more bit
ter for several days culminated in a
fierce battle at Clement’s pit, twelve
miles south of the city, Thursday. All
day there was evidence of an approach
ing storm, and the feeling Vas uni
versal that serious trouble was at hand.
Over one hundred shots were fired,
and it is nothing short of a miracle
that nobody was killed. One man was
wounded in the forehead and in the
leg, a boy in the foot and one of the
women got a bullet through her arm.
None of the wounds are fatal, and it is
believed that none of them are dan
gerous. A number on both sides were
badly beaten up with clubs and club
bed guns. The wounded were quick
ly removed by their friends and their
names have not been learned.
Just before noon a band of 500 of
the strikers, headed by 100 women,
which had been marching to the va
rious strip pits, reached Clement’s
pits and sent in a committee to per
suade the working miners there to
quit. The miners refused to do this, !
and when the committee reported the |
entire body of marchers moved on the
workers to force them out. The strip !
men were ready for them, and when :
the trespass line was passed, they were |
fired upon, and a general battle en- j
sued, iu which Winchester rifles, pis- i
tols and clubs were used.
As the result of the battle the men
; in the strip were routed by the strik
ers and were forced to flee for their
lives, pursued by the howling mob,
which would have lynched them had
they been caught. The excitement
continues st a high pitch, and further
bloodshed now seems inevitable.
THE FIRST VICTIM.
Governor Tillman Sets in Motion the
Law’s Machinery.
Proceedings were begun against the
violators of the Evans dispensary law
in Charleston at a very early hour
Saturday morning, nnd a sensation
only exceeded by the earthquake of
’86 and the hoisting of the secession
flag in ’60, was created thereby.
The first victim of the lavr was a
very humble Italian citizen named
Vincent Chicco, who kept a posada in
Market street. It was shortly after 12
o’clock in the morning when six of the
governor’s constabulary appeared in
front of Chiceo’s posada. They were
armed with a warrant for Chicco’s ar
rest issued by a trial justice and an
injunction issued by Circuit Judge Iz-
lar, which latter gave them the power
to seize and confiscate everything on
the premises, which they proceeded to
do. Wagons were brought up and
loaded with Chicco’s goods. The con
stables then proceeded to search the
premises for contraband goods. The
goods were hurried off to the sheriff’s
office, but subsequently a part of them
were returned to the house of which
the constabulary still had possession.
In the meantime crowds of citizens
had gathered around the scene of hos
tilities. The air was filled with de
nunciations and threats of lynching
were heard on all sides. A lieutenant
and squad of policemen soon came up.
Gaillard, the chief of the constabulary,
ordered the lieutenant to clear the
mob. The police were evidently in
sympathy with the crowd and the lieu
tenant replied very tartly that he knew
his business and would conduct it in
his own way.
In the meantime, Chicco had been
taken to the trial justice’s office,
where he was followed by a dozen
prominent business men who offered
bail at any amount. A preliminary
hearing was entered npen and Chicco
was bailed. His goods are still in the
possession of the sheriff and his prem
ises in the custody of the constabu
lary.
The excitement and indignation in
Charleston is intense and pervades all
classes of the community. The scene
in the trial justice’s office during the
examination was dramatic. Angry men
rushed up to get a look at the constab
ulary, and left denouncing them and
breathing threats of vengeance. Dur
ing the examination one of the consta
bles lugged out his revolver and threat
ened to shoot the defendant who had
been cursing him. The officers inter
fered before the shooting could com
mence.
Many citizens are arming themselves
and avow openly that they will shoot
any constable or spy who attempts to
| enter their premises.
The state constabulary continued
their nork Monday afternoon of ar
resting persons charged with violation
of the dispensary law. They gave
bonds for their appearance and were
released. The places of the arrested
persons were searched but nothing
contraband was found. While the
community is iu favor of the enforce
ment of the law, there is deep indig
nation at the conduct of constables on
Saturday. Hoyne Pepper, the con
stable who tried t. shoot Chicco was
bound over in tha sum of $500 for
trial at the county session for assault
and battery with intent to kill.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Development, During
the Past IVeek.
The review of the industrial si uition in the
south for the past week shows the organization
of a gas company witli $500,100 capital at
Charleston, TV. Va., by the Weat Virginia Fuel
Gas Company; of a land and lumber company,
capital §1150,000, at Greenville, Ala., by the
Steiner Land and Lumber Company; of the re
building at Winchester. N. C., of a $250,000
tobacco faetorv, by P. H. Hanes & Co., and the
i rection of a 300,000 bushels grain elevator at
New Orleans, La., by the Illinois Central rail
way; tha chartering at Houston, Tex., of the
Lottman Bros. Manufacturing Company, capi
tal $100,000, to engage in manufacturing bed
springs, etc.; the organization at Board Land
ing, S. C., of tho Horry Cotton Mill Company,
capital $100,000, by F. Norton and others; of a
cotton mill company at Gastonia, N. C-, with
$40,000 capital, by FrankOiiver and associates;
of a cotton compress, capital S53,000, at Deni
son, Tex., by P. II. Tobin slid others; of the
Kiverside Cotton Mill Company at Statesville,
N. C., capital $4C,00J,by H. Gilbert a id others,
and of a $25 OOJ coal mining company, at Big
Stone Gap, Ta., by the Ayers Coal Company.
Fifty-seven new industries were established
or incorporated during the week, together with
7 enlargements of manufactories, and 14 im
portant new buildings. Among the new indus
tries not above refered to are brick works at
Abbeville, Ala., canning factories at Hopkins
ville and Mayfield, Ky.; a distillery at Morgau-
ton, N. C., an electric light plant at Martins-
burg, W. Va.; flour and grist mills at Dalton,
Ga., Shuqnalsk, Miss., Nashville, Tenn., and
Prantytown, W. Va., and a rice mill at Galves
ton. Texas. Ice factories are to be built at
Glasgow, Ky., and Palm Beach, Fla.; a foun
dry and machine shop at Carrollton, Ga.; coal
mines are to be developed at Hawesvilie end
Power sSta..Ky..Thnrbur and Horan,Texas, and
Oak Hill. TV. Va. ;copper mines at Case >de, Ark.,
and mica mines at Hifl n, Ala., cotton seed oil
mills at Alexandria City. Ala., Macon, Ga.,
Blackville and Ninety-Six, S. C.; phosphate
works at Gainesville. Fia.; tanneries at Spririg-
vale, Ga., and Wadeville, N. C.; cotton gins
and elevators at Elko, S. C., and Memphis,
Tenn., and a knitting mill at Carter sville, Ga.
Among the woolworking plants of the week
hto box factories at Berkley, Va., and Clarks
burg. TV. Va.: haiidC factories at Idaho, Ala.,
and Fayetteville, N. C.; saw and planing mills
at Beattyville, Ky., Hattiesburg, Miss , Wade
ville, S. C., anil Staunton, Va., and stave fac
tories at Columbus. Miss., Tom’s Creek, Tenn.,
and Buena Vista, Va.
W’ater works ara reported at Bonham, Waxa-
lrachie and Whitney, Texas. Enlargements of a
cotton compress are r ported a‘ Houston, Tex.;
of flouring mills at Burlington, N. C.; of oil
mills at Carnpti. La., and Brenham, Texas,
and of a machine shop at Savannah, Ga.
Among tlie new buildings of ihe week, as
reported, are a S(i0,000 cbmch edifie: at Hous
ton, Texas, and one cos ing $13,00J at Char
lottesville, Va.; factory buildings at Louisville,
Ky., and Wheel ng, W. Va,; ho:ers at Abbe
ville, Air., Hammond. La., and Gainesville,
Texas, and a $20,000 sanitarium atGainc vill *,
Fla-—Tradesman (Chat auooga, Tenn.
THREE RECEIVERS.
flamnel Spencer Appointed as tlie
Third Receiver of the R AD.
A Baltimore special of Tuesday says:
Judge Goff, sitting in the chambers
of the Unite States circuit court for
the eastern district of Virginia, and
acting under the bill filed by the Cen
tral Trust Company of New York, has
appointed Samuel Spencer, F. W.
Huidekoper and Reuben Foster as re
ceivers of the Richmond and Danville
Railroad company and leased lines.
Mr. Spencer is the representative of
the Drexel-Morgan banking house of
New York, and the appointment is a
move in the interest of reorganization
by that house. Each of the receivers
was required to give bond with ap
proved security for $100,000.
The application for receivers was
based on a petition for a foreclosure
of the Richmond and Danville five per
cent bonds. Judge Goff passed the
necessary order and appointed the
three trustees named. Foster and
Huidekoper were appointed receivers
by Judge Bond under the original
Clyde proceedings. The present ap
plication is a new case, and their re
appointment was necessary. In mak
ing the appointment the court ratifies
and confirms all the acts of Huide
koper and Foster, the old receivers,
the order being especially guarded in
that respect. The last step to be taken
will be the foreclosure under a general
consolidated mortgage and the sals of
the property.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Happenings from Day to Day in the
National Capital.
Appointments in the Various Depart
ments—Other Notes of Interest-
The gold reserve continues to fluct
uate in the neighborhood of $98,000,-
000. Wednesday it was $98,387,709,and
Thursday it dropped to $97,812,669.
The absence of the president and
his family at Buzzard’s Bay is being
taken advantage of to thoroughly ren
ovate the white house, and to make
some domestic changes in the arrange
ment of the interior.
Inquiry at the pension office Wed
nesday elicited the information that
the total number of pensioners drop
ped from the roll since March 4, 1893,
was 245 and that the total number of
pensioners suspended since March 4th,
pending a further investigation of
their cases was 5,000.
Secretary Gresham received a cable
message Monday from Minister Baker,
dated July 13th, as follows: “The
Nicaraguan president and minister of
foreign affairs are still in prison at
Leon. A meeting of the cabinet pro
claimed Zavilla dictator. A large ma
jority of Nicaraguans support the gov
ernment.”
The president has recognized
Charles T. Wilder as consul general of
the provisional government of the
Hawaiian islands for the states of Cali
fornia, Oregon, Nevada and Washing
ton ; Charles Henrotie, consul general
of Turkey at Chicago, and Erskine M.
Phelps, consul of the Republic of
Colombia at Chicago.
Orders have been sent to Commis
sioner Brook, commanding the Alert,
to proceed home, reaching San Fran
cisco not later than the last of Sep
tember. Her cruise (three years) is
out on the 9th of October, when her
crew are entitled to discharge. She
has been on duty on the Atlantic sta
tion, and when last heard from, was at
Chemulpo, Corea.
Telegraph orders will be sent to
Commissioner Whiting, commanding
the Alliance at Callao, Peru, to pro
ceed at once with that vessel to Cor-
rinto, the port nearest to Leon, where
the latest revolution is at its- height.
Commander Whiting is instructed
simply to use all possible dispatch to
protect American interests there. It
will take at least a week to make the
trip.
Charges of purjury made against a
Japanese interpreter- employed at the
United States custom house in San
Francisco have been overruled by the
tereasury department. On Wednes
day, Acting Secretary Hamlin sent a
letter to the collector of customs at
San Francisco exonerating the interp
reter and directing that twelve Japa
nese be deported ‘ ‘to the country from,
whence they came. ”
Secretary Herbert, accompanied by
Miss Herbert and his naval aide, En
sign Wood, left Washington Monday
on the President’s yatch, Dolphin, for
a visit to the naval stations at New
York, Newport, New London, Boston
and Portsmouth, N. H. He will also
make a visit to Machias, Me., to en
able the secretary to be present at the
presentation by the citizens of that
place of a silver service to the stanch
little boat in his honor. The party
will be absent about three weeks.
3Iorc Carriers Are Needed.
On Wednesday the attention of Act
ing Postmaster General Jones was call
ed to complaints of a number of post
masters which have appeared in the
newspapers reflecting on the postoffice
department because of non-compli
ance with their requests in the matter
of allowances for letter carriers. Mr.
Jones said that there was no question
that New York city and a large num
ber of other cities were actually in
great need of additional carriers and
more facilities for carrying on the
work of the department, while it
would afford the department pleasure
to comply with these requests, yet, as
a matter of fact, it was powerless to
do so, owing to the insufficient appro'
priations.
A Treasury Router.
The department of state has just
issued a register containing some new
features. One of these is a historical
sketch of every secretary and assistant
secretary from Thomas Jefferson down
to the present day. Another is a
record of the persons in the diplomatic
and consular service, which is inter
esting from the exhibitions of the nu
merous officers who have remained in
for years undisturbed by the mula-
tions of politics. The nestor of the
consular corps appears to be William
S. Campbell, who was originally ap
pointed consul at Rotterdam April 27,
1843. The new register also disclosed
a reform much affecting the methods of
the state department itself. For many
years the clerical force has been organ
ized under a system which placed each
clerk in charge of correspondence on
certain specified subjects. As a con
sequence it has happened that some
clerks were unduly taxed, while others
wore comparatively idle. ; The regis
ter shows that this practice has been
abolished; that the various special
designations have been done away
with, and that all of the clerks, tn the
diplomatic bureau for instance, are
subject to assignment by the chief of
the bureau, to any work on hand.
A NEW BANK
With $500,000 Capital Opened in New
York by Weils, Fargo & Co.
An Albany, N. Y., special says: Su
perintendent Preston, of the state
banking department, Thursday issued a
certificate of authorization to Wells,
Fargo >t Co.’s bank to transact a dis
count and deposit business in New
York city. The capital stock is $500,-
000, divided into $100 a share. The
capital stock is paid in cash. The
bank, besides starting with $500,000
paid in capital, has a surplus of $500,-
000, each share of stock having been
sold to the subscribers at $200. The
Wells-Fargo Express Company already
have a bank at San Francisco and one
at Salt Lake City.
THE DEAD FIREMEN.
Tlie Heroes of the Chicago Holocanst
Consigned to Earth.
A Chicago special says: The funer
al of eight of the unidentified victims
of the fire took place Friday afternoon.
The funeral car, deeply draped, drawn
by eight coal black horses and escort
ed by a guard of honor oi the com
rades of the dead army officers. Co
lumbian Guards and police. In the
funeral procession were all the army
officers on duty at the fair, a company
of fifty Columbian guards, and ten
sergeants, commanded by Captian
Scknnk and Lieutenants Ely and Sage,
and details from the fire department.
Besides the citizens there were civic
societies in which the dead had mem
bership.
HOOD’S CURES
14 Fourteen years ago I
had an attack of the
gravel, and since have
been very seriously
troubled with my liver
and kidneys. I had no
appetite and ate nmth-
ing but gruel* Had
no more color than a
marble statue* Af
ter I had taken threel
bottles of Mr. D. M.Verd...
HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA
I could rat anythin*; without distress. 1 have
now fully recovered. 1 feel well anti am
teell.” D- Al. Jordan, Elmeeton, N. Y.
Hood’s Pills curs all Liver Ills, Bllloumus,
Jaundice, Indigestion, Sick Headache.
A Dictation Exercise.
The London Tid~Bits offered a prize
for the best tongue-tangling sentences
and the following among others were
offered in competition. If a person
can repeat these sentences glibly with
out a hitch it is strong presumptive
evidence that he is in a satisfactory
state of sobriety:
Six thick thistle sticks.
Flesh of freshly fried flying fish.
The sea ceaseth and it sufficeth us.
High roller, low roller, lower roller.
Give Grimes Jim’s great gilt gig
whip.
A box of mixed biscuits, a mixed
biscuit box.
Two toads, totally tired, tried to
trot to Tedbury.
Strict strong Stephen Stringer snared
slickly six sickly 6ilky snakes.
She stood at the door of Mrs. Smith’s
fish-sauce-shop welcoming him in.
Swan swam over the sea; swim, Swan,
swim; Swan swam back again; well
swum Swan.
A haddock, a haddock, a black spot
ted haddock, a black spot on the black
baok of a black-spotted haddock.
Robert Rowley rolled a round roll
round; a round roll Robert Rowley
rolled round; where rolled the round
roll Robert Rowley rolled round?
Oliver Oglethorp ogled an owl and
oyster? Did Oliver Oglethorp ogle
an owl and Oyster? If Oliver Ogle
thorp ogled an owl and oyster, where
is the owl and oyster Oliver Oglethorp
ogled?
Hobbs meets Snobbs and Nobbs;
Nobbs bobs to Snobbs and Nobbs;
Hobbs nobs with Snobbs and robs
Nobbs’fob. “That is,” says Nobbs,
“the worse for Hobbs’ jobs,” and
Snobbs sobs.
Superstition of the Thirteen.
When King Arthur founded tha fa
mous round table, he requested Mer
lin, the enchanter, to arrange the
seats. Merlin arranged one set of
seats to represent the apostles; 12
were for the faithful adherents of Jesus
Christ and the thirteenth for the trait
or Jndas. The first were never occu
pied save by knights distinguished for
their achievements, and when a death
occurred among them the seat remain
ed vacant until a knight surpassing
him in heroic and warlike attainments
should be considered worthy to fill the
place. If an unworthy knight sought
the chair, he was repelled by some
magic power.
The thirteenth seat was never occu
pied but once. The st zy goes that a
haughty and insolent Saracen knight
sat down upon it and was immediately
swallowed up by the earth. Ever after
it was known as the “perilous seat,’
and brave as the celebrated knights of
the round table are said to have been,
not one ever had the courage to sit on
the thirteenth chair, and the supersti
tion against it still survives.—PittS'
burg Dispatch.
A Stand and Deliver Scheme.
What Educates ?
Small Son—“Mamma, I wish you’d
buy me a fiddle.”
Mamma—“You have no ear for mu
sic, and the noises you would make
would be utterly unendurable.”
Small Son—“I won’t play only w’en
papa is at borne, ’cause then I think
maybe he’ll buy me a nice bicycle so
I’ll stop.
Poverty Exposed.
Little Dot—“I guess Mr. Nexdoor
is awful poor.”
Mamma—“Why so?”
Little Dot—“Mrs. Nexdoor toldher
little girl that candy would spoil her
teeth. ”—Street & Smith's Good News.
That Terrible Sconrgr.
Malarial disease is invariably supplemented
by disturbance of the liver, the bowels, the
stomach and the nerves. To the removal of
both the cause and its effects Hostetter’s
Stomach Bitters is fuhy adequate. It “fills
the bill” as no other remedy does, performing
its work thoroughly. Its ingredients are pure
and wholesome, aud it admirably serves to
build up a system broken by ill health and
shorn of strength. Constipation, liver and
kidney complaint and nervousness are con
quered by it.
Think well and you will be more likely to
do wel'.
Many persons are broken down from over
work or household can a. Brown’s Iron Bit
ters rebuilds the system, aids digestion, re
moves excess of bile, and cures malaria. A
splendid tonic for women and children.
You ask what will educate your son.
Your daily example will educate him;
your conversation with your friends;
the business he sees you transact; the
likings and dislikings he sees you
express—the society you live in will
educate him; above all, your rank,
your situation in life, your table will
educate him. It is not in your power
to withdraw him from the continual
influence of these things, except you
were to withdraw yourself from them
also. Education goes on at every in
stance of time; you can never stop or
turn its course. What these have a
tendency to make your child, that will j
he be. Parents should invariably give j
good examples to their children, for
youths are usually apt students, and i
impressions made in childhood are in- [
delibly stamped on the susceptible I
mind.—Selected.
An ounce of put-off will produce two ounces
of regret.
Wo Care Raptare.
No matter of how long standing. Write
for free treatise, testimonials, etc., to S. J.
Hollensworth & Co., Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y.
Price f 1; by mail, $1.15.
Conductor E. D. Loomis, Detroit, Mich.,
says : 44 The effect ot' Hall’s Catarrh Cure is
wonderful.” Write him about it. Sold by
Druggists, 75c.
Be true to yourse f and you wiJl necessarily
be true to the world.
Brown’s Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia, Mala
ria, Biliousness and General Debilit**. Gives
strength, aids Digestion, tones the ttsrves—
cn-ates appetite. The best tonic for cursing
Mothers, *eak women and children.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. IsaacThomp.
son’s Eye-water.Drusrgiste sell at 25c per bottle.
Beecbam’s Pills, instead of s’osliy mineral
waters. Beecbnm’s—no other*. 25cts. a box.
None but Royal
Baking Powder is absolutely pure. No other
equals it, or approaches it in leavening
strength, purity, or wholesomeness. (See
U. S. Gov’t Reports.) No other is made
from cream of tartar specially refined for it
and chemically pure. No other makes such
light, sweet, finely-flavored, and wholesome
food. No other will maintain its strength
without loss until used, or will make bread
or cake that will keep fresh so long, or that
can be eaten hot with impunity, even by
dyspeptics. No other is so economical.
If you want the Best Food,
Royal Baking Powder
is indispensable.
Hatoits Cured
At your home without pain or confinement.
Patients continue business while under treat-
meat. Whisky and all other drugs stopped
immediately on beginning treatment—do rrot
need them. No treatment yet discovered to
compare with it. Have given special study
and practice to these diseases for the past
twenty years, with continued and successful
increase in practice. Write for my book
of cures, free.
B. M. WOOLLEY, M.D.,
Office, I04>£ Whitehall St
Department A ATLANTA, CAi
CURES RISING
.. BREAST ..
“MOTHER’S FRIEND”—--'"-—
KNOWLEDGE
Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet-
tei .nan 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 tho 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, whose 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
i -iK.il w ■ ihhiiw blessing ever
mHSSjSSSb ; MEND YOUR OWN HARNESS
iplisbed wonders and relieved much |
ing. It is the best remedy for rising of j
•east known, and worth the price for that
Mks. M. M. Bbcster,
Montgomery, Ala.
t bv express, charges prepaid, on receipt j
ce, $1-50 per bottle.
1ADFIELD REGULATOR CO.,
>y all druggists, Atlantia,
Do Not Be Deceived
with Pastes, Enamels and Paints which stain the
hands. Injure the iron and burn red.
The Rising: Sun Stove Polish Is Brilliant, Odor-
Jess, Durable, and the consume
or glass package with every pu
N THOMSON'S!
SLOTTED
CLINCH RIVETS.
No tools required. Only a hammer needed to drive
I sna c inch th.m easily end quickly, leaving ihe clinch
: abso'utelj smooth. Requiring no ho e to be mm-e In
thf leather no.' onrr tor the Rivets, Thsr are strong,
io«l> h and dnrsble. Million, now in u«. All
Jemrth*. uniform or assorted, put up in boxes.
Ask yotsr dealer for them, or send 40c. in
stamps for a box of 100, assorted sizes. Man fd by
JUDSON L. THOMSON MFG. CO.,
WALTHAM, MASS.
COTTON SBC ALES.
5-TON
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
Tulane University of Louisiana.
It. advantages for practical instruction,both in ample
laboratories and abundant Iiogpital materials are un-
oqualed. Free ac e$s is given t‘> the preat Charity
Hospital with 7UU beds and 2J.IM0 pauents annually.
Special instruction is given daily at TH* beds:DS of
the sick- Tne next sess on begins October 19th. 1993.
Fur catalogue and information address
Prof. S. E. CHAILLE, M* H., Dean.
tS~P. O. Drawer 261. NEW ORLEANS, LA.
EALFAMI LY MED I CINE!
gestion. Biliousness,
s. Constipation, Bad
ton. Offensive Breath,
orders of tho Stomach.
Bowels,
I n 3 I KD V*.
yet promptly.
vttTU iItIMIdTbEAU BOX, Tare Beam.
A SSmtotoon trial For facts write
iOMia OF .IM-SfeoVAATOS. »■ I . .
HOMES FOR THE POOR
AND RICH ALIKE
Larse and small farms in Alabama, South
Caroli- a and Georgia, for sale on lont time.
Special advantages offered to ten or more pur
chasers lorminga colony. A rite for particu
lars to T. J. FELDER. Atlanta, Ga.
tory Ends 25c. per ounce. Skein Embroidery 25c.
a bunch. 50 pieces of Silk, different, 6x3, $1.<T).
Agents wanted. H. BATON, Miltonboro, vt.
fifllTDC nilDCn SEND for FREE Circular.
BUI I lit UUKtU J.y.Klein,Belleville^.*.
99
“ I am Post Master here and keep
a Store. I have kept August Flower
for sale for some time. I think it is
a splendid medicine.” E. A. Bond,
P. M., Pavilion Centre, N. Y.
The stomach is the reservoir.
If it fails, everything fails. The
liver, the kidneys, the lungs, the
heart, the head, the blood, the nerves
all go wrong. If you feel wrong,
look to the stomach first. Put that
right at once by using August
Flower. It assures a good appetite
and a good digestion. 9
‘He, like the world, liii ready visit
pays
“ Where fortune smiles tr (
Upon him that owns that best of beds, tha !
Pilgrim
Spring
Bed i
Which Is made of highly tempered steel •
wire, Is the PERFECTION of EASE, and will *
last a LIFETIME. Avoid all common wire Im- J
itations, for they are like unto ,
“ A villinn with a smiling cheek; !
“ A goodly apple rotten at the heart; t
“O, wliat a goodly outside falsehood '
b th— ‘
“ A quicksand of deceit.** i
THE PILGRIM \
CHARMS PEACEFUL SLEEP, i
A CHILD CAN LIFT IT AND
TURN IT OVER.
Exhibited at No. 31 Warren Street, New York; >
No. 2 Hamilton Place, Boston. *
For sale by all reliable Dealers.
Fee Braf s Tag Registered Trademark on all ,
Genuine Pilgrims. t
Fend for Money Saving Primer, Free. •
Atlas Tack Corporation, Boston. j
Warehouses—Boston, New York, Philadelphia, J
Chicago, Baltimore, San Francisco, Lynn. J
Factories—Taunton, Mass.; Fairhaven, Mass.; ;
Whitman, Mass.; Duxbury, Mass.; Plymouth, i
Mass.
AN ASTONISHING
TONIC FOR WOMEN.
BScELREE’S
It Strengthen* the Weak, Quiet* the
Nerve*, Relieves Monthly
Suffering and Cures
FEMALE DISEA8E8.
ASK YOUR DRUGGIST ABOUT IT.
*1.00 PER BOTTLE.
CHATTANOOGA PED. CO., Chattanoog*, Tnn.
Delicious Drink.
EASILY MADE
PURE
FRUIT
JUICESf
Quiets the Nerves. Aide LMgcstion
Cools fbc Blood. Prevents Fet
Quenches Thirst. Temporance Wnk. J
Put up in condensed form, 10, 25 and 50 cent
bottles. Aakyour GR'»CKBor 1>RL’GGI8T. To bo
sure you get the genuine show your dealer this
advertisement; or send §1.00 to *
id, enoai '
only Dy
FR^NK E. MOUSM Se CO.
235 Washington St., Boston, Maas.
AGENTS wanted in each town.
Altitude 600 ft.; climate mild and beautiful; choice
of College Courses leading V> degrees of Bachelor,
Master and Doctor of Science, Pedagogy and Philos
ophy and to Life Certificates or Professional Life
Diploma from State Superintentent. Scholarly and
experienced teachers may take FROFESSIO-
\ii COURSE largely IN ABSENTIA. Ex-
mses low. For information address E. It. EL-
.IDLE. LL.D., President, Troj> Ala.
If any one doubts that
we can euro the m -st ob
stinate case in 20 to 60
days, let him write for
particulars and investi
gate our reliab lity. Our
financial backing is
$500,000. When mercury.
Iodide potassium, sarsaparilla or Hot Springs fail, we
guarantee a cure—and our Made Cyphileno is the only
thing that will cure permanently. Positive proof Matt
scaled, free. Cook Rkmxdt Co., Chicago, HL
pense
Dili
I I BLOOD POISON 1
I A SPECIALTY. I
CANCER Cured Permanently
Plso’s Remedy for Catarrh is the
Best, Easiest to Use. and Cheapest. H|
CATAR R H
Sold by druggists or sent by mail,
50c. E. T. Hazeltine, Warren, Pa.
«. .Twenty-
a. ■ j '