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A Matter of Health.
Housekeepers faintly realize the
danger of an indiscriminate use of the
numerous baking powders nowadays
found upon every hand, and which are
urged upon consumers with such per
sistency by peddlers and many grocers
on account of the big profits made in
their sale. Most of these powders are
made from sharp and caustic acids and
alkalies which burn and inflame the
alimentary organs and cause indiges
tion, heartburn, diarrhceal diseases,
etc. Sulphuric acid, caustic potash,
burnt alum, all are used as gas-produc
ing agents in such baking powders.
Most housekeepers are aware of the
painful effects produced when these
chemicals are applied to the external
flesh. How much more acute must be
their action upon the delicate internal
membranes! Yet unscrupulous man
ufacturers do not hesitate to use them,
because they make a very low-cost pow
der, ner to urge the use of their pow
ders so made, by all kinds of alluring ad
vertisements and false representations.
All the low priced or so-called cheap
baking powders, and all powders sold
with a gift or prize, belong to this
class.
Baking powders mado from chem
ically pure cream of tartar and bi-car-
bonate of soda are among the most
useful of modern culinary devices.
They not only make the preparation
of finer and more delicious cookery
possible, but they have added to the
digestibility and wholesomeness of
our food. But baking powders must
be composed of such pure and whole
some ingredients or they must be ta
booed entirely.
Dr. Edson, Commissioner of Health
of New York, in an article in the
“Doctor of Hygiene,” indicates that
the advantages of a good baking pow
der and the exemption from the dan
gers of bad ones in which the harsh
and caustic chemicals are used, are to
be secured by the use of Royal Baking
I'owder exclusively, anil he recom
mends this to all consumers. “The
Royal,” he says, “contains nothing
but cream of tartar anil soda
refined to a chemical purity, which
when combined under the influence of
heat and moisture produce pure car
bonic, or leavening, gas. The two
materials used, cream of tartar and
soda, are perfectly harmless even when
eaten, but in this jireparation they are
combined in exact' compensating
weights, so that when chemical action
begins between them in the dough they
practically disappear, the substance of
both having been taken to form car
bonic-acid gas.” Hence it is, he says,
that the Royal Baking Powder is the
most perfect of all conceivable agents
for leavening purposes.
It seems almost incredible that any
manufacturer or dealer should urge the
sale of baking powders containing in
jurious chemicals in place of those of
a well-known, pure and wholesome
character Bimply for the sake of a few
cents a pound greater profit; but since
they do, a few words of warning seem
to be necessary.
An Air Thermometer.
The air thermometer is the name
given to a recent English device for
giving warning of a fire. In this ap
paratus the expansion of air by heat in
nil nir box fitted to the ceiling of the
room is made to inflate a thin hollow
India rubber diaphragm. This raises
a small terminal rod, bringing it into
contact with another terminal, an elec
tric circuit being thus completed, the
current ringing an alarm bell aiul re
leasing a semaphore, which serves to
indicate the location of the outbreak.
As thus arranged the apparatus con
sists of throe essential parts, the air
box, the pulsator, and the indicator.
Heat currents ascending to the ceil
ing cause the enclosed air in the air
box to expand—the force of this ex
pansion being directed by a pipe to
the under side of the India rubber
diaphragm of the pulsator—an electri
cal current is in this way made and
the alarm given. The air box and
pulsator may be in the same room, or
in proximity to each other, but the in
dicators may be placed in any part of
the building or at a remote distance.
The sensitiveness of such an apparatus
to thermal changes, and the ease with
which it can be adjusted over a wide
range of temperature, have, it is as
serted, been fully determined by nu
merous experiments.
The Congressional Directory;
The Congressional Directory sho'vs
that there are twenty-two Representa
tives in the house of foreign birth.
There is only one negro. Ireland fur
nishes eight members, five of these
being in the New York delegation.
Germany gives four, Canada three,
Norway two. Florida, with three
Congressmen, has no native Floridians
on the floor. Georgia furnishes five
Congressmen to other States. Fifty-
five members of the House have work
ed on farms, thirty-two have taught
Schools, eight were printers’ appren
tices, four were sailors, two were tele
graph operators, four have been black
smiths, three have been shoemakers,
and two carpenters. There are in the
House eighty-seven graduates of col
leges and thirty-one whose college
course was out off. Of the three hun
dred and fifty-six members two hund
red and seven have practiced law.
Forty-two members were in the Union
nrmy and forty-seven iu the Confed-
ate army.
To Meml Broken Cast iron.
Here is a recipe which Ofliee and
Laboratory recommends for broken
cast iron : Take two ounces of sal am
moniac, one ounce of sublimed sul
phur and one pound of east iron til
ings; mix in a mortar and keep' the
powder perfectly dry. When it is to
be used, mix it with twenty times its
weight of clean iron filings, grind the
whole in a mortar, wet with water
until it becomes a paste, and apply to
the parts to be mended. It will often
become, after a time, as strong and
hard as any part of the metal.
Fruit-eating bats are as menacing
to Australian farmers ns the rabbit.
They call them flying foxes, when they
advance upon orchards of evenings.
Another great nnnoyance to farmers
in Australia is the poisonous nettle, or
“stinging tree.” It is so poisonous
that if its heart-shaped leaves are only
put in motion they cause one to sneeze.
They are covered with nettles on both
sides and a sting from them gives great
pain. Horses wounded by them roll
over as if mad with pain, and if they
do not at once receive attention they
will in this way kill themselves.
Still Booming.
Eastern Man—“How are tilings iu
Dugout City now?”
Western Man — “Booming, just n-
booming Why, I happened to want
a little spending money last week, and
'■it didn’t take me half an hour to get a
■third mortgage on my bouse.”—Neu
i York Weekly.
NEARLY 2,000 DROWNED.
Fearful Havoc Wroaght by tbe Gulf
Coast Tornaao.
Appalling Loss of Life and Millions in
Property Swept Away.
The news received nt New Orleans
Wednesday morning from the islands
on the lower coast of Louisiana is
most appalling. The rumored disaster
at Grand Isle has been confirmed and
the death list has swollen until it now
reaches into the thousands. Grand
Isle was all but swept out of existence,
and out of 750 souls who were on the
island at tho time of the storm, only
about twenty escaped. The island of
Chieniere C'arrida, about a mile and a
half west of Grand Isle, contained over
two thousand persons. Of these only
about one hundred escaped.
There are five small islands in Grand
bay, and each was populated by a
large number of fishermen, of whom
only a few escaped alive. At Bayou
Coke, eighty-seven persons lost their
lives by actual count.
APPALLING LOSS OP LIFE.
Nearly 2,000 killed and five million
dollars’ worth of property annihilated
is the record so far. There lias never
been anything approaching it since
the country was settled. More than
half the population in the region ovei
which the hurricane swept are dead.
Everything is wrecked. One house in
ten is standing,nud the surviving pop
ulation is left in the most destitute con
dition, without food or even clothing,
for most of them were sleeping in their
beds when their houses were crushed
by the wind or waves. More than <.
dozen relief expeditions went down
from New Orleans Wednesday to dis
tribute food among the survivors.
The death list is already above 1,800
and only a portion of the devastated
country has been heard from. It is
such a network of islands, bayous,
lakes and swamps that it will be a
week before the relief boats can trav
erse nil the waterways and discover
the full extent of the damage done.
The worst, however, is known, for all
the large settlements have been heard
from and it is only the smaller ones
scattered along the bayous and in
terior lakes that will hnve to be vis
ited.
1,840 DEAD.
The deaths so far reported, and
which are confirmed, ns follows: Clie-
meie Cnminnda 820 fishermen from
the settlement; at sea in their boats
240 ; Bayou Cleallon40 ; Oyster Bayou
28 ; Bayou Cook 87; fishing settlements
around Bayou Cook 43; Bird island
45 ; Simon island 16; Rosario island 20;
Razor island 5; St.Malo,25,all Malays.
Adam bay, 200; Fishing camps around
Daisy postoflice, 20; Grand bayou,20;
Tropical Bend, 10 ; Pass Aloutre, 40;
Pointe a la Hatclie, 4; Grand Prairie,
5; Bartholemy, 0; Fort St. Philip, 0;
Hospital bay, 8 ; . Sheel beach, 12 ;
Grand bank, 8; Grand isle, 10;
Buras, 3; Point Pleasant, 5;
Sixty-Mile Point, 3; Bayou
Andre, 40, all Chinamen employed
by a San Francisco Chinese firm in
packing shrimp. Devi ’s Flat, 1; Boli
var Point, 3; Happy Jack, 2; Nich-
olls’s postoflice, 3 ; Faitulings, 3; F.
Cosses, 5; Stockfletcho, 1; Quaran
tine, 2 ; Eadsport, 1; Pearl River, 1;
Near Point Pleasant, 2 ; Bay St. Louis,
2; Back bay, 1; Lost on Webre, 20;
Lost, in the bogs or at sea 45; Bayou
la Fond 110: Bayou DufonlO; Cal-
sausage 20; on lugger General Yixie 4.
ALONG THE COAST.
The towns and settlements extend
along the Mississippi from Pointe a la
Hache, forty-five miles below New
Orleans to the gulf on Balou Barntara
and the oyster reefs between there
and the mouth of the Mississipi, and
on the islands stretching from the
Mississippi to the main land at Clie-
meie Caminada, Bay St. Louis and
Pearl river are in Mississipi.
The great majority of tho people
drowned are whites and not over one
hundred are colored.
MILLIONS IN PROPERTY LOST.
The damage is now estimated as fol
lows: New Orleans, $360,000; Palque-
mine parish, houses, etc., $600,000;
orange crop, $280,000; other crops,
$250,000; cattle, etc., $250,000; ship
ping—schooners, luggers, etc., $250,-
000; cattle, etc., $250,000 ; fishing set
tlements, $40,000 ; railroads,$900,000 ;
miscellaneous,$350,000; total, $3,590,-
000.
Between New Orleans and Mobile
the damage done is placed at $500,000,
and in and around Mobile at $300,000,
the total damage amounting to $4,300,-
000. The loss of the crop of Plaque-
mine parish is estimated at 25 per
cent the loss iu oranges is 75 per cent,
while about 20 per cent of the orauge
trees were killed or blown down. The
oyster and fishing fleet is almost com
pletely destroyed and the levees badly
washed and will have be rebuilt. Tbe
shipping suffered severely, but prin
cipally the the smaller vessels. The
dueWebre, Aspinwall, Cbaniberlane and
two other steamers arc supposed to be
in the wreck. One of them was blown
into a rice field. One hundred and
twenty schooners and barges and 265
luggers are suuk, iu most eases accom
panied with heavy loss of life. Some
150 small vessels are missing and are
supposed to be lost. The entire gtili
coast of Mississippi and Louisiana
west of Atchafalaya is strewn with
wreckage.
DAMAGE TO RAILROADS.
Of ihe railroads, the Louisville and
Nashville is the heaviest sufferer and
the damage inflicted will run from
$500,000 to $600,000.
The greater portion of the liue be
tween New Orleans and Mobile, 142
^niles, is more or less damaged. Nine
hensand feet of the Bay St. Louis
oridge is completely swept away, 3,000
feet of the Biloxi bridge is gone, while
the Scranton and Jackson bridges are
,11 badly injured anti cannot be used.
Utout five miles of embankment and
trestle work and fifteen miles of track
are washed away.
EIF.ST REPORTS.
Special dispatches of Tuesday state
that the storm which visited Mobile,
Ala., Monday left it a perfect wreck.
At present the damage can only be
conjectured, but it is safe to estimate
it at nearly a million dollars. Several
schooners and small crafts were dis
mantled and the passenger steam
er Crescent City was wrecked on the
bay shore. Several of the scows word
ing in the lower bay went ashore,
but fortunately no one was hurt.
CATTLE LOST BY HUNDREDS.
It is certain that three or four hun
dred head of cattle have been lost.
The home of Stephen Walker was
swept away and his family, consisting
of himself, his wife and niece were
drowned. The city was in utter dark
ness Monday and no street cars were
running. There was only one wire
out of the city and, no trains are run
ning.
THE LOWER COAST DESOLATED.
News from the lower coast is heart
rending. At Grand Bay four churches
were destroyed, while at Scranton five
churches suffered a like fate. Houses
have been scattered, crops ruined and
desolation appears on every hand.
Between Mobile and New Orleans
are twenty miles of bridges, the long
est of which are at Bay St. Louis and
Biloxi. All these bridges are washed
away, and traffic on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad is suspended.
Accounts of the storm are coming
in slowly and it will be several days
before a true account can be obtained.
THE DAMAGE ABOUT NEW ORLEANS.
A New Orleans special says: A ter-
riffic storm struck New Oi leans late
Sunday night, coming from the north
east, and raged all day Monday,
sweeping to the south afong the line of
the Mississippi river, through the par
ish of Plaquemine to the gulf.
The storm was one of the worst
which ever visited this part of the
country and, as far as can be learned, '
twenty-four or more persons were
killed and probably three times as
mnnv wounded, some fatally.
The wind had reached a velocity of
48 miles an hour at 8 o’clock Sunday
night, when the anemoneter of the
weather bureau was destroyed, and it
constantly increased in force until 2 a.
m., when its velocity was estimated at
60 miles an hour.
The crash of sheds and buildings
blown down, trees torn up and houses
unroofed, caused intense alarm, and
most of the population of the city re
mained up all night, expecting their
houses to be blown down.
The icvetment levee on Lake Pont-
chartrain, which protects New Orleans
from overflow on the rear, was washed
away, and water swept over it fifteen
feet or more. Many of the yachts
there were sunk or injured. The
tracks of the Louisville and Nashville
railway were badly washed for fifteen
miles, and it will be several days be
fore it can run trains.
THE MORTALITY SEVERE.
Three deaths and one person wound
ed severely, if not fatally, is the mor
tality record in New Orleans. Below
the city it is far worse, especially in
Plaquemine. Here the wind reached
a velocity of 100 to 125 miles an hour,
sweeping everything before it. The
parish seat of justice, Pointe a la Hache,
a town of 2,500 people, was the worst
sufferer. In the town not a single
house escaped injury. The courthouse
and the Catholic church, the principal
buildings in the town, and some t wenty
other buildings were destroyed, and
the situation was so threatening that
the greater part of the people, fearing
destruction in their buildings, camped
out in the street all night in the heavy
rain.
The air was filled with debris, and
the wind was blowing so fiercely that
many of them had to anchor them
selves against trees to prevent being
blown away. Four grown persons are
known to have been killed in Pointe a
la Hache, and several children—how
many is not exactly known. It is
probable that ths mortality will be
greatly increased when the news is re
ceived from the far-away sett’oments
on the gulf const below Pointe a la
Hache, in tho range country of Lou
isiana.
THE ORANGE CHOI- RUINED.
The orange crop was ripe upon the
trees and about to bo harvested. It
was completely destroyed in the storm,
with a loss of $350,000 on this one
item. The crop iu the orange farms
of 1 radish Johnson, the largest in the
south, had been sold to a fruit dealer
in New Orleans, Mr. Oteri, for $65,-
000. It is said that there is not an
orange left on the trees, and it is the
same all the way down the const. The
sugar district escaped the worst of the
blow. There is much damage to rici
and sugar cane.
LATER DISPATCHES.
A New Orleans special of Thursday
says: The return of several of the
relief parties sent to the storm-stricken
districts of the state fully confirm the
news of Wednesday and adds to the
list of those drowned or killed a cor
rected list which swells the total num
ber of dead to 2,041. This may be
increased some 250 or 300 more by
news from the St. Bernard marshes
and tli* vessels off the Louisiana coast,
from which only meagre returns have
been received. These indicate nearly
complete destruction and that none of
the smaller vessels in the open sea es
caped.
The additional losses reported arc :
Eigolets 16 ; Biloxi 1; Chandlier 110;
Near Grand Bauree 10 ; from vessels
93. The loss of life at Chernue Cam
inada is now known to be 1,250. At
Bayou Andrew seventy-two jterished
instead of forty, and nt Grand Isle
iwenty-fonr instead of ten.
PERHAPS ALL ARE LOST.
The only section from which no re
turns have been received ns yet is the
St. Bernard or Lake Bargne marshes.
The marsh extends from Lorgne to
the gulf. It is a dead level ocean
marsh—more water than land—cover-
in; 1,200 square miles. Its only in
habitants were some two hundred fish
ermen, who lived in cabins built on
spiles. Not a word has been heard
from this section since the storm.
Not one of the inhabi
tants has come to town or any
neighboring settlement. At the spot
in the Chandeliers where the tornado
was so violent none are said to have
escaped. In the west Plaquemine
parish the wind reached a velocity of
120 miles an hour. The chances of
the Lake Borgue fishermen surviving
the hurricane are considered very
doubtful and a bont was sent to tlieir
settlements to see if any survived. Loud
complaints came from the Bayou Cook
section of the stench from the dead
bodies there. The land is too low for
burying. Already some 126 bodies
have conveyed by boat to the high
lands on the Mississippi at Frysnal
Bend for burial, but many are unburi
ed in the swamp and rapidly decaying.
Many of the bodies were found to have
been looted and robbed. Most of the
fishermen were well-to-do and all car
ried their fortunes in cash. No money
has been found on their remains nud
sums of from $3,000 to $10,000 lias dis
appeared. Nearly all of the bodies
were badly mutilated by the slime.
South American Revolutions;
The New York Herald correspond
ent in Santiago, Cuba, telegraphs that
the government of Argenta has over
come the revolutionists in the state of
Santa Fe, and also has suppressed the
turbulent element in the city and pro
vince of Buenos Ayres. The Brazilian
government has issued a decree order
ing all vessels arriving from European
ports to be quarantined.
Yirginla Bonds Quoted.
At the stock exchange at New York
Thursday, $10,000 Virginia funded
debts bonds of 1891 sold at 51}. These
bonds were listed Wednesday at the
stock exchange and were issued under
the settlement of July 1, 1891, as made
by the Virginia bondholders’ commit
tee.
CONGRESS IN SESSION.
lie Daily Rontine ol Both Houses
Briefly Epitomize!
What is Being Done to Allay Finan
cial Depression and Bring Relief.
47th Dat.—The repeal was taken up
in the senate at 12.25 Monday. Mr.
Sherman pointed out another fraud
and forgery in connection with the
demonetization act of 1873. Mr.
White admitted that he had not veri
fied the quotation referred to which he
had found in other speeches and
statements, and said that he would
have it omitted in the reprints of his
speech. Air. Dubois complained of
the statement made by Air. Gorman
last week as to his resolution for the
postponement of the repeal bill being
offered for the purpose of delay. He
denied that statement and said he was
in no plan for obstruction. Mr. Kyle
then addressed the senate in opposition
to the bill.
48th Day.—In the senate, Tuesday
morning, a letter was read from the
secretary of the treasury in reply to a
resolution of inquiry, showing that
five million ounces of silver were ex
ported during July and August each.
Air. Gallinger introduced a joint reso
lution, making the $230,000 appropri
ated in 1890 and suspended later,avail
able for the purchase of a site for the
government printing ofliee,and direct
ing that the square continguous to the
present building be bought. Air. Mor
gan submitted an amendment to the
repeal bill. It provides that citizens
of the United States are entitled to
and shall enjoy all the rights and priv
ileges defined in the act of January
16tli, 1837, supplemental to the
act establishing the mint, and
to add to the value and secu
rity of such rights, the secretary
of the treasury is required to deduct
from the custom duties that are or
may be imposed by law upon imports,
20 per cent, of such duties, when such
imports are made in United States
vessels or in vessels of the country
where snch imported articles were
produced, provided such country
shall by law provide that the standard
silver dollars coined in the United
States mints and of the present stand
ard shall be legal tender for all debts,
public or private, in such country and
so long as such laws shall be maintain
ed in full force and effect. The re
peal bill was taken up, and Mr. Dolph
continued the speech begun Alondny.
During its delivery Air. Teller asked
Air. Dolph if the Sherman act were
unconditionally repealed, would Air.
Cleveland approve any legislation fa
vorable to silver, anil Air. Dolph re
plied that in such case he certainly
didn’t expect that the president would
approve anything of that sort.
49th Day.—In the senate AVednes-
dav, Mr. Morgan, from the commit
tee on foreign affairs, reported back
without recommendation the bill mak
ing appropriations to enable the sec
retary of the treasury to enforce the
provisions of the Geary act, and it
was referred to the committee on ap
propriations. Arr. Pcffer offered a
resolution for the appointment of a
committee of three senators to ascer
tain what legislation is needed to im
prove the banking system so that fi
nancial paniesmny beavoided, a better
circulation of currency secured, and
the safety of deposits assured. It was
laid over till Thursday. Air. Alorgau
asked immediate consideration of the
resolution directing the judiciary com
mittee to inform the senate what pro
visions of the act of 1837, establishing
the mint and regulating coinage, are
still iu force, and authorizing it to re
port by b 11 or otherwise. Air. Mc
Pherson believed that the adoption of
the resolution would delay pending
financial legislation, and on his objec
tion the proposition was laid over.
The silver bill was then taken up and
Mr. Butler took the floor against the
repeal.
50th Day.—After a quarter of an
hour spent iu morning business by
the senate, Thursday, the only feat
ure of which was a proposed amend
ment to the rules by Air. Hill, author
izing senators paired aud not voting
to be counted to make a quornm, the
senate went into executive session to
deal with the nomination of Ind an
agents.
the house.
47th Day.—The federal election re
peal bill was taken up Alonday morning
before a very small audience, and 31r.
Dinsmore took the floor in its advo
cacy. Air. Benson, of Alabama, fol
lowed in the support of repeal. He
appealed to his fellow-members of the
north and south to help wipe from the
statute books laws so obnoxious to the
intelligent citizens and voters of the
great section he represents. Northern
men who were willing to invest money
in business in the south and trust the
business men there to care for it,
ought to be as willing to trust them to
enforce the laws regarding elections.
48th Day.—Tuesday, the house
without transacting any morning bus
iness, resumed the consideration of the
federal election repeal bill aud was
addressed by Mr. Northway in oppo
sition to the measure. He was always,
he said, iu favor of the under dog in
the fight, and in this fight the United
States was the under dognnd the states
were the upper dog. He affirmed the
constitutionality of the federal laws.
49th Day—The house in transacting
rontine business Wednesday, passed a
joint resolution tendering the thanks
of the United States to the foreign
governments which generously end ef
fectively participated in the World’s
Fair. The bill to promote the safety
of national banks by prohibiting the
officials of such banks to borrow mon
ey except by consent of the board of
directors was then considered. The
bill went over without action. The
bankruptcy bill and the bill to amend
the Chinese exclusion act were re
ported and placed upon the calender.
The house then engaged in routine
business.
50th Day.—The house transacted
some important routine business Thurs
day morniug and received from Secre
tary Carlisle his answer to its resolu
tion asking why the Sherman act had
not been enforced dufing July and
August. The communication was re
ferred. The house passed the bill au
thorizing the sale of the old custom
house in Louisville, Ky. Bills were
passed for the inspection of boiler
plates at the place of manufacture and
placing the secretary of agriculture in
the line of presidential succession : al
so for the relief of theChurchof Jesus
Christ of the Latter Day Saints. The
federal election repeal bill having been
taken up, Alurray, of South Carolina,
concluded his speech in opposition to
the measure and criticised the election
methods in vogue iu South Carolina,
claiming that the presence of federal
soldier supervisors was necessary to
conduct a fair and free election. When
Murray concluded, Ben Russell, of
Georgia tool; the floor. He made a
constitutional argument, interspersed
with cold fncts drawn from the actual
varieties of the political situation. He
caused much amusement by announc
ing that he had listened with interest
to the gentleman from Indiana and
the member from South Carolina.
ODR LATEST DISPATCHES.
The Happenings oi a Day Chronicled in
Brie! and Concise Paragraphs
And Containing the Gist of the News
From Ail Parts of the World.
News reached Huntsville, Ala. .Thurs
day that the posted gins, about twenty,
in the county had resumed work. Fear-s
•if trouble are subsiding.
Only nine new eases were reported
by the Brunswick board of health
for the twenty-four hours ending
Thursday at noon. Five eases were
discharged.
The New York democratic state
invention was called to order Thurs
day noon at Saratoga. Daniel N.
Lockwood, of Buffalo, was elected
temporary chairman.
Three new cases of cholera and five
deaths were reported in Leghorn, Ita
ly, Thursday. In Palermo there were
fourteen deaths aud no new cases.
Since September 20th there have been
sixty-eight cases of cholera and thirty-
eight deaths in the lunatic asylum at
Nocera.
A special of Thursday from Liucoln,
Neb., says: It was after midnight be
fore the democratic state convention
settled its disputes by the overwhelm
ing defeat of the silver element, led by
Congressman Bryan. Secretary Alor-
ton directed the movement of the re
peal leaders from Washington.
A Knoxville special says: Judge
Hicks, Thursday morning, refused to
allow the sixteen soldiers now confined
in jail, charged with the lynching of
Miner Richard Drummond, a change of
venue from Anderson to Knox county.
Their counsel will at once enter habeas
corpus proceedings to have them re
leased.
A Jackson, Alias., special of Thurs
day says: Judge H. D. Aleyers, of the
eight judicial district, embracing thir
teen counties iu eastern aud southern
Alississippi, denies the sensational re
port sent over the country in regard
to white caps taking the country. He
says white capism is about extinct in
his district, which has heretofore been
regarded as one of the strongholds of
the order.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch of
Thursday says: Ex-Assistant post
master It. H. Burger, under R. L.
Houston has been indicted, and is
now under bond on the charge of em
bezzlement. He is charged with ap
propriating $1,379 to his own use on
or about June 30th, last. He had fill
ed the place about eight years and en
joyed the confidence of all who knew
him. Until recently his life has been
above suspicion.
A very interesting case was decided
Thursday at AVilmington, N. C., in
the superior court. When the Bank
of New Hanover failed there last
spring State Treasurer Tate claimed
that he alone had the jurisdiction to
bring action for the appointment of a
receiver. Creditors had filed a bill
and the superior court judge appoint
ed Junius Davis receiver. The court
decided that the state treasurer had
the sole right to bring action to secure
the appointment of a receiver.
The white caps have at last arrived
in Randolph county, Ala., according to
a dispatch from Roanoke. Several of
the ginneries were found posted with
the following notice: “The white
caps have come at last—No. 846. If
you gin or haul any more cotton yon
had as well haul out your fodder anil
corn also. Take warning.” Alost nil
of them were worded differently in
different handwritings. The most
conservative citizens think th ’re is
ground for fear.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
Condition of Trade as Reported by Dun
& Co. for the Past AVeek.
R. G. Dun & Co. ’s weekly review of
trade says: A complete statement of
failures for the quarter, which closed
Friday night, is not possible, but the
number thus far reported is about
4,000, and the aggregate of liabilities
about $150,000,000, greatly surpassing
the record of any previous quarter.
For the past week the failures have
been 329 in the United States, against
177 last yeat, and in Canada34 against
31 last year.
“Hope deferred” explains the past
week iD part, and it is doubtless true
that many indulged unreasonable
hopes, but business has not entirely
answered expectations. The feeling
of disappointment is commonly as
cribed to delay of action on the silver
bill in the senate. It is also true that
many works, which have resumed op
erations, do not find orders as large
or the demand from customers as vig
orous as they anticipated, and with
some it is a question whether they will
not close again. AA'hile money on call
has been abundant andcheap,and about
$4,500,000 clearing house certificates
have been retired, there is a percepti
ble greater caution in making com
mercial loans at New York and at some
western points. Confidence, prover
bially of slow growth, has been some
what diminished, in part, because ad
vancing exchange suggests the possi
bility of gold exports. The cotton
manufacture is gaining more than any
other, and there is a stronger market
for print cloths and prints, while some
reduction has helped to stimulate trade
in other goods. The enormous de
crease in production for the past two
months begins to be felt, and sales are
larger, though much below the usual
qantity.
AA’hile seventy-eight manufacturing
concerns are reported as starting,
wholly or in part, against twenty clos
ing or reducing force, more than a
third of the increase has been in cot
ton mills, and another third in ma
chine shops, nail mills, manufacturers
of stoves and hardware, tools and cars,
while in the iron manufacture proper,
only seven concerns have started,
against three that have stopped, and
the outlook does not seem brighter.
The closing of the largest iron mine in
the country, the Norris, which ordina
rily produces a million tons yearly,
indicates the limited character of the
business.
At the east the demand for products
is painfully inadequate, even for the
scanty force now at work, and the
lowest prices on record attract little
business. It is said that one sale of
steel rails ha3 been effected by a sjharp
reduction in price. The contest be
tween the Amalgamated Association
and the works in the Pittsburg region,
has been settled, but too late for most
of the men.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
The Drift o! Her Progress and Pros
perity Briefly Note!
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
For the 24 hours ending AVednesdny
noon, the Brunswick board of liculth
reported 16 new cases of yellow fever,
9 discharged, aud 2 deaths. The fever
record stands: Under treatment 51,
deaths 14, total 148; ratio mortality
9.4 per cent.
Three deaths were officially reported
by Brunswick’s health board Tuesday
—Miss Rosa Nisi, the infant of Blount
Bowen and Mrs. Emma Willis, all
white. Fifteen new cases of yellow
fever were reported and five patients
were discharged.
A AV’ashington special says: The
Pelmetto trademark case from South
Carolina, Governor Tillman against
the commissioner of patents, was de
cided Tuesday by Justice Bradley in
the district supreme court in favor of
Governoi Tillman.
R. A. Tompkins, tax collector at
Russellville, Ala., who was recently
found to be several thousand dollars
short, is missing. Several days since
he was arrested for embezzlement, but
the suits were withdrawn on certain
conditions. It is believed that he has
left for parts unknown.
A Raleigh dispatch says: There is
now no doubt from reports received by
the state agricultural department
Tuesday that North Carolina’s cotton
crop will be picked by October 20tli.
Three-fourths of the cotton is now-
open on most farms. Sncli early and
general opening was never before
known in North Carolina.
Surgeon Murray arrived at Jesttp
Tuesday morning from Brunswick and
visited the suspicious cases reported
Monday. He declares them to be yel
low fever. They are in four parts of
the town. The town is ulmost depop
ulated by the white citizens. A strong
cordon has been placed around the
city. Notone will bepermitted to leave
unless by way of Camp Detentson.
A Knoxville special states that Ad
jutant-General Fite and Captain AA’nrd
arrived in the city Wednesday morn
ing from Nashville. They did not go
to Clinton to disband the troops, as
at first expected, nor will they, since
consulting with General Carpenter, as
it would damage the cases against the
soldiers now in jail to scatter
their witnesses over the state where
they conld never get them together
again.
A Birmingham dispatch says: AA'eil-
nesdav morning Leonard Lippman,
ex-president of the New York College
of Commerce, was sentenced to two
months at hard labor in the mines.
He was found guilty of obtaining
money under false pretenses. Lipp
man came from Savannah a few years
ago. He was an expert stenographer
and typewriter. At one time be was
private secretary to the general mana
ger of the Central railroad.
The cotton crop report of Sonth
Carolina, published Tuesday, says:
Cotton is opening rapidly and with
good weather the crop will be all
gathered by November 1st. Some
damage from water, dropping off wet
leaves and staining the staple, is re
ported in the west counties. Abbeville
county reports cotton nearly half
gathered. There will be no late crop
or very little in many counties. Esti
mates still give cotton at about one-
hnlf a crop.
A Birmingham special says: Col
onel Clark, of the Second Regiment
of the Alabama state troops, received
a telegram late Tuesday night from
Governor Jones, ordering the four
military companies of Birmingham
and vicinity to arms to await further
orders preparatory to going to Deca
tur, Ala., on a special train, to protect
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
company’s property and quell the riot
between the striking shopmen and the
men at work, which was anticipated.
Invitations were extended Monday
by tlie Port Royal Shipping Company
to President Cleveland, A’ice Presi
dent Stevenson members of the cabi
net, governors, senators of Georgia
and Sonth Carolina and to exchanges,
newspapers, mayors and prominent
business men throughout the south
west to attend a celebration at Port
Royal, S. C., October 9th in honor of
the inauguration of direct trade with
Europe from that port. Governor
Tillman, of South Carolina will pre
side.
State Geologist Holmes, of North
Carolina, reports that the geological
survey will close this season’s work.
It has conducted this jointly’ with the
United States geological survey. The
section from the Cranberry mine to
the Georgia line along the Great
Smoky mountain has been examined
by iron experts. Particular examina
tion was made in that region for
chrome iron, corundum and nickel
ores. The winter will be devoted to
the examination of tlie piue forests of
the eastern counties.
A Birmingham special of Wednes-
dav says: Owners nnd operators of
Alabama cotton gins are becoming
more and more frightened every day.
In several parts of the state they have
been forbidden to gin cotton by secret
notices posted at their gins and threat
ened with incendiarism if they persist.
In Madison, Courtland and Bibb
counties nearly all the gins are idle.
Ihe notices rend ns follows: “Please
do not gin any more cotton. AYe have
struck for 10 cents per pound. If you
gin any more you will be burned out.
—Shotgun Company. ’ ’
During the monetary stringency it.
Au"nst the banks of Montgomery.
Ala., 1 egau to issue (Ie;*ing
house certificates which have been in
circulation since that time. Alonday
the police were informed that some
one had passed a number of counter
feit certificates on Saturday night,
and five or six of the certificates were
brought to headquarters AA’ednesday.
All of the certificates counterfeited
are of the denomination of 35, and in
each instance where they were passed,
purchases of less than $1 were made,
which made the transaction net the
party passing the bills more than $4.
ALTGELD ENDORSED
In His Action Pardoning tlie Hay-
market Rioters.
A Chicago special says: That the
democracy support Governor Altgeld
in the pardon of the anarchists, and
his denunciation of Judge Gary’, was
publicly demonstrated at the county
convention AVednesday, AA’hen it
reached Judge Gary’s name for re
nomination, ex-Judge Moran, one of
the most respected jurists in the city,
was howled down and threatened with
personal violence when he presented
Gary’l name,
Animal Statistics.
Russia stands at the head of the list
in the matter of having the largest
number of horses in the world—20,-
000,000. The United States stands
second with a horse population of 16,-
000,000. In proportion to the number
of inhabitants, however, the Argentine
republic surpasses, as there are there
more horses than people. From the
latest accessible figures the Argentine
republic has five head of cattle to
every man, woman and child.
Italy, with a population of 30,000,-
000 people, has only 720,000 horses;
but has 1,500,000 mules and donkeys.
Spain has one horse to every sixty peo
ple—about 3,000,000 horses. The “gay
cavaliers” of Spain still ride on don
keys.
The United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tian und Ireland have 2,000,000 horses.
The United States has a larger pro
portion of pigs to the human popula
tion than any other country. Ireland
has always been considered the Utopia
of the pig. Tho United States wears,
however, the “blue ribbon” as to
greatest number. She owns 46,000,-
000 swine.
Australia is par excellence the coun
try of the sheep. The population is
3,000,000 people, and the number of
sheep is 62,000,000—twenty sheep to
every man, woman and child. The
United States lias a sheep population
numbering about 47,000,000.
The United States and British India
have about the same number of head
of cattle—52,000,000.
Lost-An Appetite!
If you have lost your appetite it wiil return
to you if you apply to a druggist or general
dealer who sells Hostetter’s Stoma h B.tters.
When you arc in po-session of this helpful
tonic, you have a restorer of appetite which
is unfailing and prompt. Moreover, it restores
digestion as well as appetite, and regulates
the bowels, liver and kidneys, and protects you
lrom malar.a and rheumatism.
One hundred cents make a dollar, but they
wouldn't if they were in the newspaper busi
ness. _____ .
Malaria cured and eradicated from the sys
tem by Brown’s Iron Bitter-, which enriches
the biood, tones the nerve--, aids digestion.
Acts like a charm on persons in general id
health, giving new energy and strength.
Mav all the wire-pullers in Congress en
counter a live wire and be laid out.
When Nature
Needs assistance it may be best to render it
promptly,but one should remember to use even
the most perfect remedies only when needed.
The best and most simple and gentle remedy is
tbe Syrup of Figs manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co.
It is raid that a man has been found so radi
cal on silver that he wouldn’t embrace a golden
opportunity.
A NOTED BUSINESS COLLEGE.
A High Compliment from a Former Presi
dent of Vanderbilt University.
Bishon McTyeire, while President of Van
derbilt Un versify, raid to a mother whose son
wan e l a po ition: “Send him to Jennings’
Business College, Nashvili; a certificate 1 r un
R. W. Jennings to your son, recommending
him fora posi ion, will le of more benefit to
him than any other influence he could have.”
9100 Reward. 9100.
The reader of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaaed disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu
tional disease, requires a constitutional 1 reat-
ment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly on the blood an l mucous sur
faces of tho system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving the pa
tient strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its curative
powers, that they offer One Hundred Do lara
for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list
of testimonials. Address
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^~Sold by Druggists, 75c.
In every community there arc a number ot
men whose whole time is not occupied, such as
teachers, ministers, farmers’ sons ana others.
To these cla ses especially we would say, if you
wish to make several hundred dollars during
the next lew months, write at once to B. h.
Johnson & Co., of Richmond, Va., and they
will show you how to doit.
You cannot a’ways keep young, but you can
always keep young enough to learn someth ng
Brown’s Iron Bitters cure* Dyspepsia, Mala
ria, Biliousness and General Debilit’’. Gives
strength, aids Digestion, tone* ti e li. ves-
creates appetite. The best tonic for cursing
Mothers, weak women and children.
You ran boa c t of noble blood when you arj
the hero of noble deeds.
Impaired digest on cured by Beecham’s
Pills. Beecliam's—no other-. 25 cents a box.
Neuralgia Cured
“Formerly I suffere l with neuralgia, but it
has not troubled me since I have taken Hood’s
Sarsapari l la. I gave
Hood’s to my little gir*
for throat trouble, and
gave her immediate
lief. My brother has also
taken it and it his
him of asthma,
viously, he con'd no:
eat much, and got only
a little sleep. Noav hi
has a good appetite, can
breathe easily and sleep
soundly at night. He has regained his
former strength and weight. We are all in-
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other medicine.” Mrs. Rebecca West, Orrs-
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Unlike the Dutch Process
No Alkalies
— OR —
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It is delicious, nourishing, and easily
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Do Not Be Deceived
with Pastes. Enamels and Paints which stain the
bands, injure tbe iron and burn red.
The Rising Sun Stove Polish is Brilliant, Odor
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or glass package with every purchase.
“German
Syrup”
William McKeekan, Druggist at
Bloomingdale, Mich. ‘ 1 1 have had
the Asthma badly ever since I came
out of the army and though I have’
been in the drug business for fifteen
years, and have tried nearly every
thing on the market, nothing has
given me the slightest relief until a
few months ago, when I used Bo-
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glad to acknowledge the great good
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Scott’s Emulsion
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ments that are causing rapid loss
of flesh and vital strength.
Scott’s Emulsion will do more than
to stop a lingering;Cough - itfortifies
the system AGAINST coughs and colds.
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