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To Clean Turbid Water.
Dr. Leffman recommends to house
wives a simple means of precipitating
turbid water by the solution of alum.
One hundred and thirty grains of
chrystalized alum dissolved in one
pint of water will produce a largo
quantity of the purifying liquid, ns it
is only used in the proportion of one
to two grains of alum to a gallon of
water. That would require three tea-
spoonfuls of the solution to every two
gallons of the water. After stirring it
in let the water stand a few hours,
nnd it will be perfectly clear and
re.ady to be poured off from the thick
deposit in the bottom. If it is then
filtered it will be in good condition
for drinking.
Even without filtering it will be safe
to drink the water if it has not stood
very long, ns it has been found that
the addition of the alum greatly re
duces the number of bacteria. * The
taste is not affected, as the alum de
composes the water and sets free com
pounds that attach themselves to the
muddy elements in the water and
cause them to settle. This remedy is
not for contaminated water, which
should always be boiled.—New Yor/:
Post.
CONGRESS IN SESSION.
r \k Daily Routine of Both Houses
Briefly Epitomized.
What is Being Done to Allay Finan
cial Depression and Bring Relief.
Hope For Young Poets.
Peddler—“One moment, please.
You are a poet, I am told.”
fieri bliler—“Y-e-s, but I—er—have
not published very much of my work
as yet. ”
“Exactly. That’s why I ctjlejl.”
“Eh? Are you a publisher ?”
“Jib, sir; I am general agent for
one of the greatest money-saving in
ventions of the age.”
“Yes, that’s it, and I’ve got the
thing to enable you to do it. It’s a
little rubber stamp with the words,
‘Declined with Thanks,’ on it.
put
You write your poem,
in an envelope, slip
piece of paper with those words od it,
address the envelope to yourself, open
the envelope, read the slip, dump the
whole business in the waste-basket—
and there you are. You’ll savo ten
times its cost in postage stamps every
week.”—New York Weekly.
Vital Energy in Renewed,
When strength and hea'th have run down
by a timely resort to the helpful, bracing
tonic, Ho'detter’s Stomach Bitters, particu
larly adapted to the wants of nervous,
peptic, bilious invalids. It worn out by
mental strain, the care of business or over
work, seek its prompt and benign aid. It an
liiliilates malarial complaint, and is an effi
cient remedy for incipient rheumatism and
neuralgia.
If 3*011 cannot make money these times try
and make lmppine s.
When Nature
Needs assistance it may bo 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
the Syrup of Figs manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co.
Business men who have lost their trade
should advertise for it.
If your Back Aches, or you are all worn out,
f ood for nothing, it is general debility.
•rown a Iron Bitters w.ll cure you, make you
strong, cleanse your liver, and give a good ap
petite--tones the nerves.
The wages of sin is death, and itis the only
wage3 a person is willing to have reduced.
“Teach your hoys that which they will
iractlcc when they become men.” This re
mark of Plutarch, the ancient philosopher,
shows that the needs of ln.sday were similar
to those of the pres *nt. We are g ad to note
that many of the more progressive schools are
providing places where tlie young men and
women may learn that which they will prac
tice later in life. Our old friend, the North
Georg a Agricultural College, Dahlonega, Ga.,
lias ma 'e such an addition to their already
thorough literary and military course. Splen
did rooms have been fitted up, experienced
teachers engaged, special furniture put in,
and everything possible liasb en done to make
the department equal to that of any first-class
business college and at much lower rates of
tuition. Ail>* desired information will be
cheerfully given upon application to the pres
ident. Dahlonega is a great i ealth resort nnd
h. very cheap pace in which to live. Itis also
free from the temptations which are a ways to
be found in our large cities.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only ono
way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitu
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
flamed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in
flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper
fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed
Deafness is the result, and unless tho inflam
mation can ba taken out and this tube re
stored to its normal condition, hearing will bo
destro3*ed forever; nine cases cut ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
flamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can
not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Ladies needing a tonic, or children who
want building up, should take Brown's Iron
Bittrts. It is pleasant to take, cures Malari i.
Indigestion, Biliousness and Liver Complaints,
makes the Blood rich and pure.
The love for money doesn’t seem to he recip
rocated just now, for money is shy and keeps
at a distance.
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For Hood's Sarsaparilla. During the war I
contracted typhoid fever, and fever and
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malarial and mer
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nervous prostra
tion and general debil
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work, and the doctors’
Mr. Stillman. treatment failed to do
me any good. Since I began taking Hood’s
Sarsaparilla 1 have not lost a day’s work in
three months, weigh ten pounds more
Hood's 5 #* Cures
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any time since the war.’* J. H. Stillman,
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ATLANTA, GA.
60th Day.—As soon as Monday’s
journal was read in the senate, Tues
day, objection to it was made by Mr.
Dolph, because on one roll call it did
not show the presence of two senators,
Messrs. Allen and Kyle, although they
were in the chamber and although he
called attention to that fact. Discus
sion immediately sprang up on this
point, Mr. Dolph pointing out the
ridiculous attitude presented by the
senate drifting along in the current
of endless debate. He declared
that the committee on rules ought
to present to tho senate a reason-
ble rule limiting debate; that the
presiding officer should, after a dis
cussion of two or three days, put it to
a vote, and, if it were adopted by a
majority of the senate the presiding
officer should put it in force. In the
course of the debate, Mr. Morgan and
Mr. Washburn got into a personal
controversy, and Mr. Morgan, turning
to his opponent, said: “I am respon
sible for every word I say, either in
this chamber or out of it. Do you
understand that?” At another point
Mr. Morgan said: “I intend before
this debate is over to move to strike
out the enacting clause of the pending
bill nnd insert one repealing the en
tire Sherman act. I will see where
you repealists then stand.”
61st Dat.—In the sena'te Wednes
day morning, the pending question
being Mr. Dolpli’s motion to correct
Monday’s journal, Mr. Morgan re
sumed the floor. Referring to the
supreme court’s decision, npholdin
Speaker Reed’s counting a quorum
he said the house had rules nnd a pre
cedent for Reed’s action, while the
senate had not. It was not possible
for the president of the senate to take
a similar course without its being
unconstitutional. Mr. Morgan claim
ed that the minority only wished
to have present action post
poned till the people could be heard
from at the polls. Mr. Morgan then
paid his respects to Mr. Hill for rc
marking upon Mr. Morgan’s connec
tion with the confederacy. He said
the south had not seceded because it
objected to the constitution of the
United States. When it found that it
could not get its desire, it came back
to the house of its fathers. Other
democrats had fought on the Union
side, and had never sneered at south
erners for siding with democracy. Mr
Morgan spoke for two hours. He cx
plained that the effect of his proposition
to repeal the whole of the Sherman
act would be to bring into full force
all of the Bland act that had not been
repealed by it. It would take from
the secretary of tho treasury the “dis
cretionary powers” to coin silver, and
would make it imperative. At the
close of liis speech Mr. DoIph’s mo
tion to amend the journal was (on mo
tion of Mr. Yoorliees) laid on the ta
ble—yeas 45, nays 3—Messrs. Dolph
Gallinger and Perkins. Mr. Teller
made another motion to correct tho
journal and took tho floor. At 5:15
o’clock p. m. Mr. Yoorliees moved
that the senate take a recess until 10
o’clock Thursday morning, which was
agreed to.
62nd Day—The senate met at 10 a.
m. Thursday, but the discussion on
the question of the amendment of the
journal, the subject which ha3 been
before the senate for the last two days,
waB not taken up till 11 a. m,, when
Mr. Stewart took the floor. The in
tervening hour was taken up in wait
ing for a quorum nnd in the reading
of a report from the treasury depart
ment- as to the financial aspect of the
overnment for the current fiscal year.
The summing up of the document is
that, if present conditions continue,
there will be a deficiency of fifty mil
lions at the end of the year. Secretary
Carlisle attributes the falling off in the
revennes to tho existing financial
uncertainty. He says an inspection of
the figures will show that the defi
ciency is due to falling off in the rev
enue, not the increase of expenditures.
Mr. Stewai t finished his speech within
two hours and left the chamber. He
had little to sav about tho rules, ex
cept to declare at the close of hi:
speech that the attempt to get the
vice-president to disgrace himself and
make himself famous was outrageous,
and that the vice-president would not
thus lay his hands on the constitution
nnd laws of his country, but would ad
minister the rules and protect tho mi
nority. Mr. Stewart was followed by
Mr. Dubois.
cited a good deal of discussion. They
cost 60 cents per volume. -A compro
mise providing for 75,000 copies was
agreed upon. At 5 o’clock, without
completing the consideration of the
bill, the house adjourned.
62>u Day.—In the house, Mr.
Outhwaite, from the committee on
rules, requested a resolution making,
the bankruptcy bill the special order
for Monday next, and it was agreed
to. The house proceeded to the con
sideration of routine business.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Affairs of Government and Routine ot
tte House anil Senate Discussel
Xetes. of Interest Concerning the Peo
ple and Their General Welfare.
SODTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
Drift ot Her Progress anfl Pros
perity Briefly Noted.
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
i Deceived
I with Pistes, Enamels and Paints which stain the
(hands. Injure the iron and burn red.
The Rising Son Stove Polish is Brilliant, Odor-
_ess. Durable, and the consume- |— j
or glass package with every pi
THE HOUSE.
58th Day.—At no time during the
day Saturday were there more than
one hundred members present in the
house, and the discussion of the bill
for the suspension for six months of
the provisions of the Geary Chinese
exclusion bill was rather dreary and
uninteresting. It was participated in
by Messrs. Maguire, of California;
Outhwaite, of Ohio; Everett, of Mas
sachusetts ; Herman, of Oregon; Sib
ley, of Pennsylvania; Mahon, of
Pennsylvania; Williams, of Missis
sippi, and Hilbnrn, of California.
Without disposing of the bill, the
house, at 5 o’clock, adjourned.
59th Day—On assmbling Monday
morning the house resumed the con
sideration of the McCreary liill to
amend the Geary law.
60th Day.—There was a good at
tendance of members in the house
Tuesday morning, but the body was
slow in getting to work. Finally it
proceeded to consider the bill dispens-
with proof of loyalty as a prereq
uisite to being restored or admitted to
the pension rolls by persons who oth
erwise would be entitled to pensions.
Mr. Burrows claimed that the bill
would repeal the section barring from
pensions all who engaged in the re
bellion. Mr. Oates denied this. The
most important feature of the bill, he
said, was the clause permitting survi
vors to secure the bounty lands they
had earned. Mr. Burrows cried:
Call the hell hounds off the track of
the Union soldiers before you restore
men to the pension rolls who are false
to the Union.” Mr. Oates replied that
the last republican pension committee
recommended the pending bill and
that Mr. Burrows didn’t understand
its provisions.
61st Day.—No bills of importance
were reported from committees in the
house Wednesday. The transaction of
routine business was proceeded with.
A bill was passed amending the stat
utes relating to fees of United States
marshals, clerks and commissioners.
Mr. Geary then called up the New York
and New Jersey bridge bill. DeWitt
Warner, of New York, and Mr. Geary
at last came to blows in a dispute over
an amendment to the bill, after which
it was passed. The house then resumed
consideration of the printing bill. A
proposition to publish 400,000 addi
tional copies of the “Horse Boot," ex-
A Port Monroe, Ya., dispatch of
Wednesday says: The engagement of
Senator Faulkner, of West Virginia,
and Miss Virginia Whiting, daughter
of Colonel H. Whiting, a prominent
banker of Hampton, is announced.
The wedding will take place early in
tho coming year.
The official report of the Brunswick
health board Wednesday gave forty-
two new cases and two deaths. Two
of the new cases are on St. Simon’s
Island. Eighteen patients were dis
charged. Wednesday’s report breaks
the record on new cases and puzzles
the people.
A dispatch of Wednesday from
Charleston. S. C., to the life savin
service at Washington reports the
Spanish steamship, C. Colden,
from Barcelona to New York,
lying partly disabled off Charles
ton bar. Part of her propeller is gone.
All are reported well on board.
Tuesday night fire broke out in H
F. Brown <fc Sons’ livery stable, at
Owenton, Kv. It spread rapidly, and
twenty-five houses, embracing two
blocks, were burned. H. B. McNally
was burned in the Exchange hotel.
Loss, $60,000; insurance, 318,000.
The orgin of the fire is unknown. This
leaves the town without a hotel or liv
ery stable.
The accounts of J. H. Faust, cash
ier of the First National bank of Saul-
isbury, N. C., stands overdrawn to the
amount of $16,000. He was arrested
Tuesday morning as he was leaving
the bank to go to parts unknown. The
bank’s interest nor the stockholders
will suffer by the defalcation, as Mr.
Faust has turned over to the
bank enough of his personal property
to make good his defalcation,
Patrick Walsh, president of the
Augusta exposition and national com
missioner from Georgia to the world’s
Columbian exposition, invited the
national commission in session there to
attend the exposition in Augusta, which
opens November 14th and continues
until December 14th. Commissioner
Walsh’s proffer of a full measure of
proverbial southern hospitality was
well received and accepted with com
plimentary remarks in behalf of the
national commission by Commissione”s
Hnnche, McLows and McDonald.
A Jackson, Miss., special of Tuesday
says: Governor Stone has written to
the editor of tho New York Sun eall-
his attention to the fact that not
a cotton gin has been burned by white
caps in Mississippi this year. The
Sufi published a statement to the ef
fect that white caps were terrorizing
the ginners of the state. A few gins
have been posted, by whom no one
knows; possibly by some crank or
harmless sneak, blit it is a fact that
will not be contradicted that not a
single gin that was posted has been
burned or otherwise molested.
Tho state assembly of the confed
erate veterans of Alabama was held at
Birmingham Tuesday for the purpose
of electing a major general to succeed
the late General Holtzclaw. Fred S.
Ferguson was elected on the first bal
lot. It was decided to divide the state
into four districts nnd make four state
brigadiers and elect four brigadier
generals. These organizations will be
made at once and be ready for the
state convention, which will be held
at Birmingham next spring at the
time of the holding of the grand re
union of confederate veterans.
The citizens of Jacksonville, Fla.,
voted Tuesday upon the proposition to
bond the city for $1,000,000 for public
improvements. There was very little
opposition to the project, the majority
for bonds being 497—nearly three to
one in their favor. Of the $1,000,00(1
to be issued $200,000 will be applied
to retiring the old sanitary improve
ment bonds now bearing 8 per cent in
terest, and the remaining $800,000 to
water supply and sewer extension,
bulkheading the river front, pave
ments, electric light plant, city build
ing and market, sidewalks, etc.
A San Francisco dispatch of Tues
day says: The rumors current ever
since Actor M. B. Curtis was acquit
ted of the murder of Policeman Grant
that the release was secured by bribe-
y, have now erystalized into open ac
cusation. It is charged that two sets
of jurors were bribed. Eight thou
sand dollars was promised, but only
$2,800 paid. Four jurors had been
bought and only two paid. The other
two are said now to be blackmailing
Curtis and threatened to kill. Curtis
has left town and is living on a ranch
guarded by armed men.
A Galveston, Texas, special says:
The steamship Palmas, which arrived
in quarantine Wednesday evening, had
aboard eighty-nine of the crew and
passengers of the French steamship
Marseilles, which foundered at sea in
the recent cyclone off the south Atlan
tic coast. All effort to board the
Palmas and get a statement from the
rew and passengers of the boat Mar
seilles, has been strictly prohibited by
the quarantine authorities, who will
allow no communication with the ves-
It is understood that the treasury
department will take steps to restrict
the payment of gold over the counters
of the sub-treasury at New York, with
a view to building up the gold reserve,
which has now been invaded $5,000,-
000—leaving it in round figures at
$85,000,000.
Bids were opened at the navy de
partment Tuesday for the construction
of three light draft gun-boats of about
1,200 tons. The Newport News Dry
Dock and Shipbuilding company was
the lowest bidder, itsbids being, $290,-
C00 for No. 7; $306,000 each for Nos.
8 and 9 or $840,000 for all three.
Thursday Postmaster General Bis-
sell sent the nomination of Dr. Amos
Fox as postmaster at Atlanta, Ga., to
the president. The president will per
haps sign it ami send it to the senate
at once. Ab Senator Colquitt is chair
man of the committee on postoffice af
fairs, an immediate and favorable re
port may be expected and the senate
will confirm him at its first executive
session.
The democratic members of the ways
and means committee hope to have the
tariff bill reported to the house within
a month, and to have it pass that body
before t(je holidays. This indicates that
considerable progress has been made
with the bill and that it is not tntici-
pated that on the schedules yet to ar
range very much time is to be con
sumed, as it will be necessary to have
the bill considered by the full commit
tee and the republican members given
an opportunity to make a minority re
port before the bill is reported to the
house.
The house committee on elections
Tuesday partly considered the case of
Whatley vs. Cobb, from the fifth Ala
bama. The contestant had made ap
plication for leave to file addi
tional complaint, to take further testi
mony and to print testimony left out
by the clerk of the house from the
Record, and the two appoint a com
mittee to investigate the alleged else
tion frauds in the fifth Alabama dis
trict. Five days were given the con
testaut’s attorney in which to file his
brief, and tlie case was set for a hear-
g on the 24th inst.
The following nominations were sent
to the senate by the president
Wednesday: Interior—JolinB. Crown-
over, Arkansas, to be receiver of pub
lic moneys at Dardanelle, Ark. Navy
—Pay Inspector ThomasT. Caswell, to
be pay director; Paymaster Robert W.
Allen, to be pay inspector; Past As
sistant Paymaster Charles W. Little
field, to be paymaster; Assistant Pay
master George W. Simpson, to be past
assistant paymaster; Past Assistant
Surgeon James E. Gardner, to be
surgeon; Past Assistant Surgeon Mil
lard H. Crawford, to be a surgeon
Medical Inspector Benjamin H. Kid-
ridge, to be medical director; Surgeon
F. Winslow, to be inspector.
No Caucus Agreed Upon.
The democratic caucus committee
was in session again Thursday morning
for an hour, but came to no conclusion
on the question of calling a caucus.
All of the members were present. As
originally appointed, this was sup
posed to be a silver committee, but a
prominent silver senator states that
they are now in a minority. The
same senator also made the statement
that, despite the absence of two or
three silver senators, they had been
able to secure enough signatures to the
request for a caucus to make a quorum
of democrats. The committee ad
journed at 11:30 with nothing deter
mined upon.
Ainsworth Seek in at Vindication.
Among the clerks who were in the
old Ford theatre when the awful acci
dent there occurred in June, by which
a number lost their lives and many
others were injured, a paper address
ed to the secretary of war is being circu
lated for their signatures, stating that
they are p rfectly willing to return to
the building when the repairs are
completed, all statements in the press
to the contrary notwithstanding. Out
of four hundred clerks in this office,
only eighty-two have signed the paper,
and these, it is said, under constraint
emanating from Col. Ainsworth or his
friends. The statement is said to be
intended to influence public opinion
regarding tho approaching trial of
Ainsworth and his co-defendants rath
er than the secretary of war, to whom
it was addressed, because the latter’s
order for the clerks to return to the
old building would moke any protest
on their part useless.
Yoorliees Stand* Firm.
“We are going to pass that bill if it
takes from now till the end of next
winter and all through the following
spring,” said senator Yoorhees in an
interview Tuesday. “It is not so much
a question of repeal now as whether a
majority in tho senate shall rule or
the minority have that privilege. “Mr.
Yoorhees holds that under the rules
of the senate the vice president has not
the authority to count a quorum, but Mr.
Hill thinks that that official can force
action so as to bring the debate to a
close and a vote on the amendments
and the bill itself. Meanwhile a move
ment towards a compromise appears to
be baiting. Radical difference be
tween democrats and the opposition
of the administration to the long post
ponement of the date on which the
repeal law is to go into effect have
proved a serious check. Unless dras
tic measures can be taken to force a
vote it is difficult to tell when the
situation will change.
TO WELCOME VETERANS.
Extensive Preparations Made by Cin
cinnati to Ententain Them.
Advices of Thursday from Cincin
nati state that the general committee
of thirty, consisting of the subcommit
tee appointed by the Chamber of Com
merce, the Merchants and Manufact
urers’ Association and other mercan
tile bodies met in the Chamber of
Commerce and made arrangements for
the reception of 1,000 ex-confederate
soldiers who will pass through Cincin
nati in a few days on their way to the
world’s fair. Memorial hall has been
offered by George H. Thomas post
Grand Army of the Republic, and ac
cepted as headquarters for the visitors.
They will be formally entertained
and will probably remain two days in
Cincinnati.
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sel.
A Charleston, S. C., special says:
The dispensary constabnlarv got an
other move on them Wednesday and
made three raids. They captured ten
allons of whiskv* from the Southern
Express company. As usual it came
from Augusta, Ga., and was consigned
to parties in Charleston, who are
yet unknown. Then they raided the
places of W. J. Bowen and D. W.
Goetjen, both on King street. In these
latter places the entire establishments
were sacked, and the contents removed
to the jail and the proprietors placed
under bond.
The Wires Down.
A Washington special says: The
West India cyclone and the storm from
the northwest joined issues Friday
morning east and west, and since tele
graphic communication has been prac
tically at a standstill. After sweeping
over the Florida peninsular Thursday,
the cyclone made its way north
through Georgia, North Carolina and
the Virginias, and i niting with the
storm from the west, somewhere in
Pennsylvania or Ohio, were both dif
fused over a wide area, playing havoc j
The Income Tax.
Mr. Bryan, of Nebraska, who is a
member of the majority of the commit
tee on ways and meaus, is trying to
have a graduated income tax made a
part of the tariff' bill. If it is not ac
cepted, he will present it to the house
in some form. The young Nebraska
statesman thinks he has solved what is
considered the most objectionable fea
ture of the income tax poposition—
the inquistiorial feature. He would
have it made the duty of every
person liable to a tax upon his
income to go to the office and pay
it and not subject him to the
annoyance of paying agents of the
government, which has been suggested
as its disagreeable feature. He thinks
those who had no desire to avoid the
payment of tax would escape the in
quisition or annoyance. He will pro
pose a tax on all incomes above $2,500
at the rate of 1 per cent., 2 per cent,
on $5,000; 4 per cent, on $10,000; 6
per cent, on S25.000 and 10 per cent,
on $50,000. His plan is to have the
postmaster in cities of 10,000 popula
tion or less to collect the income taxes
and in large cities a special income tax
collector to be appointed.
The wife of late Senator Roscoe
Conklin died at her home in Utica, N.
Y., Wednesday.
A. W . Steinblock, his daughter Ida,
and his son William were suffocated
by gas Wednesday night at the Raiser
hotel at Chicago. The family came
to tho world’s fair from Hampton, la.
It is supposed they blew out the gas.
Advices of Tuesday from New Y'ork
state that the monetary situation con
tinues to improve. Currency in large
amounts has reached the banks from
outside points during the past three
days, mainly from Chicago, nnd fully
$2,000,000 iu currency has been re
ceived since last Friday.
Wednesday was another day of sky-
‘rocketing in the senate. It was a con
tinued round of fireworks from the
moment of meeting until the body re
cessed at 5 o’clock. Tlie sparring nnd
slugging which commenced Tuesday
continued throughout the day and act
ual fisticuffs were narrowly averted.
Bursting water dams in the territory
of Tepnca, Mexico, have caused great
loss of life on several haciendas.
Twenty-four persons are known to lie
drowned. At Santa Inez, iu the state
of Oxaca, the town wus inundated nnd
the town hall and many other build
ings were swept away. There were
similar disasters in other towns.
Information comes from Valparaiso,
Chile, of the marriage of Miss Amelia
llojas to Francis W. Egan. The groom
is the eldest son of Hon. Patrick Egan,
formerly United States minister to
Chile. The bride is a daughter of the
late Don Jordge Bogas, at one time a
member of the Chilean senate und one
of the best and most respected fami
lies in Chile.
The recent storm which swept along
the Pacific coast west of Guadalajara.
Mexico, did more damage than was at
first reported. The inundations in the
t-epic territory caused thousands of
dollars loss to stockmen and farmers,
and entire villages were swept away.
The number of lives lost is now placed
at 150. Many bodies have already
been recovered and the search for
missing ones still continues.
Advices received Tuesday at Buenos
Ayres are to the effect that Admiral
Mello, commander of the insurgent
Brazilian fleet, again bombarded Bio
de Janeiro Monday. The damage
done is said to have been great. Many
of the residents who remained in tho
city prior to the bombardment are
now fleeing to the interior cities nnd
towns. President Peixoto continues
his efforts to organize a fleet where
with to give battle to the enemy.
A St. Louis special of Tuesday says:
The American Express Company has
lost $50,000 entrusted to it by a New
York bank for transmission to New
Orleans via St. Louis. The money
was placed in a strong box in New
York, with Special Guard Korzdurfer.
Just where it jumped the track, de
tectives upon the ease seem unable to
learn. They left for New Orleans,
having apparently readied the opinion
that the loss took place between St.
Louis and the Crescent Ci'y.
Lady Henry Somerset called to or
der a great audience of women at the
art palace, Chicago, Tuesday, for the
second session of the Woman’s Chris
tian Temperance Union congress. In
memory of Mary Allen West, the sixth
around-the-worid missionary who died
in Japan, Mrs. Chika Saknrai, of Ja-
l an, delivered an eulogy on her life
and work. Lady Somerset introduced
Susan B. Anthony, who stirred the
audience up to a pitch of enthusiasm
with a woman’s rights and temperance
speech combined.
The Boston Herald of Tuesday says
that a warrant has been issued for
George B. White, representing the firm
of Williams, White & Co., tanners and
leather dealers, in that city. Mr. White
is accused of obtaining money by false
pretenses—about $200,000 from a dozen
banks in Boston, and about $300,000
from New Y’ork, Philadelphia and
Pittsburg institutions. The firm is
said to have had at one time assets of
about $1,250,000, with liabilities less
than $300,000. All that could be found
now would not make a check of the
firm good for $100,000.
On May Oth last, the well-known
Wall street firm of Patton A* Co. fail
ed with liabilities of $788,000 and as
sets of $11,000. Tuesday William
L. Patton, a member of the firm, was
. jailed, charged with the hypothecation
of $60,000 worth of securities held by
the firm iu a fiduciary capacity, and
also with appropriating to his own
personal aeconnt $250,000 of the ac
tual $350,000 lost to creditors. Pat
ton, it is said, never disguised this
fact to the creditors, but claimed that
he would, through the assistance of
wealthy relatives, pay back dollar for
dollar.
The French newspapers publish long
comments upon the sympathy exjiress-
ed by the Russians at the death of
Marshal MacMohon, and seem greatly
pleased at it. The czar’s message of
thanks to President Carnot for the
courtesies extended to the Russian
sailors at Toulon and in Paris has also
greatly pleased the newspapers of Paris
and other cities of France, and it may
be said that France and Frenchmen
feel more confident today in the sta
bility of the republic and iu the
strength of their army and navy than
thev have done for twentv rears oast
Early Thursday morning fire de
stroyed the Canada Rank Note Com
pany’s bnilding at Montreal, Canada.
The loss is $125,000; insurance, $40,-
000,
The str ke on the Memphis and
Charleston railroad was settled Wed
nesday, both sides making conces
sions. All the old men will be taken
back.
The Battle monument to commemo
rate one of the most important events
of the revolutionary war was unveiled
at Trenton, N. J., Thursday, and was
a great success.
The annual report of Major General
Howard, commanding the department
of the east, has been received at the
war department. Regarding sea coast
defenses, he says that, while their con
struction at New York. Boston nnd
New Oaleaus should be continued,
other coast ports and Hampton Roads
should be t aken in hand.
The Brunswick board of health, at a
meeting held Thursday noon, announc
ed thirty one new cases of yellow fever
nnd one death. Twenty-five were dis
charged. Recapitulation—Cases nnder
treatment, 274; cases discharged, 289;
deaths, 29 ; total number of cases,529 ;
ratio of mortality, 9.1 per cent. The
largest number of cases reported for
one day was 42.
The supreme council of the Scottish
Bite Masons of the southern jurisdic
tion began the concluding day’s busi
ness of the present session at St. Lonis
Thursday morning. Upon the mem
bers elected previously to higher ranks
the grand commander conferred the
degree. Other business of a secret
nature was attended to and at 2 o’clock
p. in. the meeting adjourned.
Advices of Thursday from Louis
ville, Ky., state that the strike of the
shopmen of the Louisville and Nash
ville may be caul to be at an end, nnd
many of the strikers now find them
selves unable to get work. They are
willing to go back to their old places
at the terms of the company, but tlieir
positions have been filled and Master
Mechanic Clifford will not discharge
the new men to give the strikers
work.
A Nashville dispatch of Thursday
states that gold has been discovered in
paying quantities in Fast Tennessee,
nnd is to be mined l»y a syndicate of
Cincinnati capitalists, who, after thor
cughlv prospecting, have leased seve
ral thousand acres of land. The find
is about (Uirty miles east of Athens
and near the Great Smoky mountains
and the assays show that the ore is very
rich. Machinery for use in the mine
nnd a stamp mill have been bought,
and operations will begin at once.
A Paris special of Thursday says:
The remains of Marshal McMahon are
still lying iu state at Mont Gresson,
where the coffin rests on a platform
the mortuary chamber, covered with a
pall, flecked with silver stars. Upon
the casket are displayed the field mar
shal’s baton, the sword nnd chapeau
of the dead soldier president. The
interment will take place at Mont
Gresson on Sunday. In compliance
with the request of the Russian gov
ernment, Admiral Avellan will be
present at tlie obsequies of Marshal
McMahon.
YV. C. Bunn, receiver of the Chatta
nooga, Borne and Colnmbns Railway
Company, lias filed a petition in tho
circuit court of the United States at
Savannah, asking Judge Pardee to re
quire Receivers Comer and Lowry, of
the Savannah nnd Western, to turn the
Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus road
liack over to the company. The ground
is that the deed of conveyance made by
the president and board of directors of
Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus Rail
way Company to the Savannah and
Western was fraudulent and drawn for
the benefit of tlie Central railroad.
A Yienna special of Thursday says
The political situation in Austria i
greatly strained. Tlie government
does not possess the majority necessnry
to pass a motion of approval of the re
pressive measures taken in regard to
the city of Prague, as a result of the
Czech disturbances. All parties are
estranged from tlie government on ac
count of the franchise bill; nnd the
journeying of Count von Taafe, presi
dent of the council and minister of
foreign affairs to Buda Pesth, where
they are to consult with Emperor
Franeis Joseph, has given rise to the
rumor that a dissolution of parliament
is to be anticipated in the near future.
The North Carolina Stnte Associa
tion of ex-Confederates met Thursday
at the fair grounds at Raleigh. Coi.
E. D. Hall, of Wilmington, its presi
dent called it to order and delivered
an address iu which he urged thorough
organization. He was re-elected pres
ident by acclamation, and in like
manner William C. Htronaeh, of Ral
eigh, was re-elected secretary. K. A.
Ashe,P. E. Hines and F.H.Basbee were
appointed to choose a vice-president
for each congressional district. The
wives,sisters and daughters of veterans
were declared eligible to membership
in the association.
THE MITCHELL-CORBETT FIGHT
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T HE ROYAL Baking
Powder surpasses all
others in leavening power, in
purity and wholesomeness,
and is indispensable for use
wherever the best and finest
food is required.
All other Baking Powders contain
ammonia or alum.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK.
WISE AM) OTHERWISE.
The sign “lb” or “lbs,” which is
often used instead of pound or pounds!
is of ancient origin and is simply a
contraction of the word “libra,” tht;
Latin for pound.
The armchair once owned and used
by Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexico
grapher, writer and brilliant conversa
tionalist, has been sold at auction al
Denbigh, Wales. It brought £53 7s.
India has perhaps a greater variety
of plants than any country in the
world, having 15,000 native species,
while the flora of the entire continent
of Europe only embraces about 10,-
000.
Embalming in Egypt.
It is estimated that the number of
bodies embalmed in Egypt from B. C.
2,000, when the art is supposed to have
been first practiced, to A. D. 700,
when it ceased, amounts to 420,000,000.
Another estimate places the total
number of mummies at 741,000,000,
but this is based upon the exteutioa oi
jibe beginning of the practice to a mut'K
■arler date. The traffic in mummied
s very profitable to the moder*
Egyptian dealers.—Exchange.
Began Work at Once.
Fond Mother—“And so my little
»ngel joined the Little Defenders to
rn. t i lav, and will always be kind to dumb
lhe “nova constellatio coppers ot ; •'
1783, so highly valued by collectors, j Little 'Ang el _‘<Yes’m. Cornin’home
were made in Birming-ham England, | j m( . t alDttI ? wif 0 bllgful i of kittens’at
for Gouverneur Morns. Forty tons L ^ in> to drow £ nd he prou 4, d
of Conner were used in the manufac- ! lo brin £ them here for us to be kind
An Attempt Will be Made to Prevent
Its Taking Place.
The New Y'ork Mail and Esjwcit*
says: “Mayor David A. Bowl/, in
view of public opinion, requested the
county authorities Thursday to put a
6top to the Mitehell-Corbett fight. This
grows out of the interview in New
York, this week, with Governor Flower
by Boss McLaughlin. Tlie fight, there
fore, is declared off.”
A New Orleans special savs: Gover
nor Foster, in an interview on the sub
ject of the suppression of prize fight
ing in this state, said he would take
steps to prevent them being held here.
In his opinion there is not any great
likelihood of the Mitchell-Corbertt or
other events taking place here. Should
there be, however, he will at once
take steps whereby such attempts will
be thwarted.
gen. McMahon dead.
of copper were used in the manufac
ture.
Many of the Hebrew wedding rings
were “tower rings,” the set bearing
the shape of a smaller tower in which
was inclosed a slip of parchment con-
containing a prayer for the happiness
of the couple
While a lineman was fixing a wir
near Los Angeles the other day he was
attacked by a large eagle. He fought)
the bird with a hammer, stunned it-,,
and hurrying down dispatched the
eagle. He was badly hurt.
A survey for a new railway which,
when built, will draw the trade of
southeastern Mexico and northern Gua
temala to British Honduras or Balize
has been made. The road will opei(
immense forests, mahogany and other
valuable woods.
The Bev. Edward Everett Hale says
that Ralph Waldo Emerson on one of
his ocean trips committed Milton’s
“Lycidas” to memory to while away a
few otherwise unprofitable days, and
that he never heard of any one else
who did that on such a voyage for
pastime.
Poisonous snakes are so numerous
in Venezuela that snake bite is almost
as common there as in India. But
there are fewer fatalities, for the na
tives have discovered that a plant
known as the ocumillo, when powder
ed and applied to the wound, results
in a cure in almost every ease.
The difference between the atmos
phere of the best ventilated houses
and the outer air is illustrated by the
conduct of cut flowers. Blossoms that;
retain their freshness but a day or two'
when standing in water within doors
will sometimes live twice as long when
dropped in a shady place out of doors.
A Practical Little Miss.
to. ”—Street & Smith's Good News.
Little Girl—“Mamma, we is goin’
to have a church fair, to get money for
the heathen. *’
Mamma—“That’s a lovely idea, my
angel, but what can you get to sell?”
Little Girl—“Oh,we is goin’ to have
the people to bring their own things,
an’ sell them to theirselves, an’ give
us the money.”
Somehow, this tinkering with the
currency and the great fear that our
dollar wasn’t an honest one reminds
us of the epitaph found on an old
tombstone: “I was well, wished to be
better, took physic and died.”—Ex.
SEVEN IN ONE BANK.
A Nashville Bank .Show* Its Preference
far Jettniagn* Student*.
Tlie Fourth National Bank, Nashville, has
in its employ* seven of the graduates of Jen
nings’ Business College, Nashville, Tenn.
They are scattered all the way trom the Tell
er’s desk hack to that of collections. Some
of them receiving salaries as hieh as $1,500 per
year. There are many other Banks and prom
inent firms in Nashville and in the South who
have with them graduates of this not*, d school.
Beecham’s Pills with a drink of water morn
ings. Beecham’s—no others. 25 cents a box.
A Careful Boy.
Mother—“How in the world did you
get your coat sleeves so dirty?”
Little Boy—“Walkin’ ’cross tho
puddles on my hands, bo’s not to get
my feet wet.”
SaB»*t—...
POULTRY YARD)
108 Pori 45th Edition. Writ-I
ton At© years after 1 had learned
to raako Hogs and Poultry a
eesii. A plain, practical sy>
ea*ily learned; describes all of
their dlseoscH and their remedial.
How to make Hens lay l
'era. Gapes
, 25c.; one ce
learn It In c
«k»tch of my Ilf.Totc. 1. «. L15H, COTE DA Ik, KT.
The Rugged Child
is largely an
“outdoor”
product.
Fresh air
and exercise
usually pro- -J
duee sound
appetite and
sound sleep.
Sickly chil
dren obtain
great benefit from
Scott’s Emulsion
of cod-liver oil with Hypo-
phosphites, a fat-food rapid
of assimilation and almost
as palatable as milk.
^r^rfdhvSont^BtmnSjTLJ^An drugging.
99
“German
Syrup
I must say a word as to the ef
ficacy of German Syrup. I have
used it in my family for Bronchitis,
the result of Colds, with most ex-
"ellent success. I have taken it my
self for Throat Troubles, and have
derived good results therefrom. I
therefore recommend it to my neigh
bors as an excellent remedy in such
cases. James T. Durette, Earlvs-
vilie, Ya. Beware of dealers who
offer you “something just as good.”
Always insist on having Boschee’s
German Syrup. £s
WHISKY
AND OPIUM
HABITS CURED
At your home without pain < r confinement.
Patientn continue business while under treat
ment. Whisky and all other drugs stopped
immediately on beginning trea ment—do not
tieed them. No treatment yet discovered to
Compare with it. Have given special study
and practice to these diseases for the past
twenty 3*ears, with continued and successful
increase in practice. Write for my book
of cures, free.
B. 31. WOOLhEV, 31. I)., Dep’i A
Office, No. 104% Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Qx.
TOUR OWN HARNESS
WITH
THOMSON’S N
SLOTTED
CLINCH RIVETS.
No fools required. On!* a hammer needed to drive
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nbso'utely smooth. Requiring no ho e lo be nimlo hi
fhe leather nor burr for the Rivets. Thev arc atrong.
lousrli nnd durable. Million*)
lengths uniform or assorted, put up in boxe«.
A»k your dealer for tlicm, or send 40c. In
Stamps for a box ol 100, assorted sizes. Man’ld by
JUDSON L. THOMSON MFG. CO.
WilTHAJI. yiAS*i.
and
The Best for Either Heating or Cookinr.
Excel in Style, Comfort and Durability.
ASK YOUR STOVE DEALER
To shoir you SHEPPARD’S LATEST CATALOGUE.
If no desler near you wr.te to
ISAAC A. SHEPPARD A CO. f
BALTIMORE, >11).
LARGEST MANUFACTURERS IS THE SOUTH.
$10 A Day Free!
Enclose in a letter containing
your full name and address, the
outside wrapper of a bottle of
Smith's Bile Beans (either size).
If your letter is the 6rst one opened
in the first morning mail of any
day except Sunday $5 will be
sent vou at or.ee. If the 2d, 3d,
4th, Sth or 6th, $1. Ask for the
SMALL size. Full list mailed to
all who send postage for it (2 cts.).
Address J. F. Smith & Co.
No. 255 Greenwich St.. New York.
“ Not a gripe
in a barrel of
them ”
CANCER
CURED WITHOUT THE KNIFE
Or use of painful, burning, poisonous plas
ters. Cancers exclusively trea cd. Dr.
P. B. Green’s .Sanatorium, Fort Payne, Ala.
IAN IDEAL FAMILY MEDICINE!
| For IudJgcatlon, UlliousBcft*,
I Headache, Conatlp&tlon, Bad
I Liver and Rowels,
! _ RIPANS TABULES
= act gently yet promptly. Ferfeet
| digestion follows their use. 8oid
"by druggists or sent by maiL Box
| (6 viola;, <5c. Package (i b<
I For f ree sainples addrcfys
1 boxes), $2.
j BIPAA8 CIIEMICALCO.. New York. J
Everroody should read the paper and
with all means of wire communication, I ^ ee P U P '-k e tiiyee-
Forest Fires in Texas.
Reports of Tuesday from eastern
Texas say that fifteen miles of pine
timber, reaching Montgomery county
toward the Sabine river, are a seeth
ing mass of flames. The whole coun
try is dry, and unless rain falls it is
feared that the loss to the yellow pine
section of Texas will run into the
millions. Several fine milling plants
and towns are in the path of the fire,
And grave fears are entertained.
He Was One of the Greatest of the
French Generals.
A special from Paris announces that
Marshal MacMahon, one of the great
generals of the Franco-Prnssian war
and once president of the French re
public, is dead. He died at 10 o’clock
Tuesday morning at Chateau La Foret,
on the Loire. He was able to partake
of food until Monday. During the
night the sufferer’s strength gradually
declined, and he grew weaker and
weaker until the end came peacefully
at the hour mentioned. Tho family of
the deceased, soldier were present at
his Heath,
Unlike the Dutch Process
No Alkalies
— OR —
Other Chemicals
are used in the
preparation of
. BAKER & CO.’S
which is absolutely
pure and soluble.
tj It has more f Ann three times
l-l the strength of Cocoa mixed
*“| with Starch, Arrowroot ar
9 Sugar, and Is Jar mare eco
nomical, costing less than one cent a cup.
It is delicious, nourishing, an cl easilt
DIGESTED.
Sold by flreeers everywhere,
W. 6 C0u Pwshwtw. Kw,
BIRD FOOD C
Un, mixed with the di
xflood of«w®et melodies, toil will iafuse new
life and vitality into the household
• pet. Very often their msfical ef
fects t.-e produced in a few minat-ts. Sent by nail for 25©.
Bird Book Free. Bird Food Co., 4J0 N. 3d St., rhilad'a. To.
BITTERS.p
Xngleside 3ES.etreat.
For Dineaees of Women. Scientific treatment and
cure* guaranteed. Elegant apartments for ladies be
fore and during confinement. Address The Resi
dent Physician, 71-72 Baxter Court, Nashville, Tenn.
CANCER t'ured Permanently
NO KNIFE. NO POISON. ><» PLASTER.
JNO. B. HARRIS. Fort P.'jao. Ala.
Consumptives and people
who have weak lungs or Asth
ma, should use Piso’s Cure for
Consumption. It has cured
thousands. It has not Injur
ed one. It Is not bad to take.
It is the best cough syrup.
Sold everywhere. 35c.
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