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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. I Am Truly Thankful For Hood's Sarsaparilla. During the war I contracted typhoid fever, and fever and ague, leaving me with malarial and mer curial poisoning from which I have suf fered ever since, in neu- r a 1 g i a , rheumal ism, nervous prostra tion and general debil ity. Much of the time I 1 have leen unable to 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 than for \*ears and am in better health than any time since the war.’* J. H. Stillman, Cheltenham, Pa.Get only Hood’s. Hood’s Pills l>ecome the favorite cathart c with every one who tries them. 23 cents per box. How is Your Blood? I had a malignant breaking cut on my leg below tho knee, and was cured sound and well with two and a half bottles of I Other blood medicines had failed | to do me any good. Will C. Beaty, Yorkvillc. S. C. 5WDE Msa. I was troubled from childhood with an ag gravated case of Tetter, nnd ? hree bottles of I cured me permanetly. 1 WALLACE MANN. MannriUe. I. T. Our book on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. Will You Marry Soon? If so, yon are obliged to have a solid 18 karat gold ring. You will want to feet sure that it IS 18 karat, pure and genuine. Write to us for our catalogue of wedding rings. J. P. STEVENS & BRO., Jewelers, 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. OUR LATEST DISPATCHES. THe Happenings oi a Day Cfliwlefl in Erie! anil Concise Paragraphs And Containing the Gist of the >ews From All Parts of the World. THE NEWS IN GENERAL. Condensed from Onr Most Important Telegraphic Advices And Presented in Pointed and Beada* hie Paragraphs. 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 > 8* > i* > > 9* S* t 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. 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