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SHUFFLE-SHOOT* and amber
LOCKS.
IMPORTANT LAWSUIT DECIDED.
A Larjre Southern Medicine Company
Sued for Using a Trade-Mark.
The trade-mark lawsuit to enjoin the
Chattanooga Medicine Co., from using
the name M. A. Thedford or M. A.
Thedford & Co., in connection with
their liver medicine or Black-Draught
has been decided by Judge Newman
in the U. S., Circuit Court in Atlanta,
Ga., and the suit dismissed. One
brunch of the case in which the Court
was asked to enjoin the home Compa
ny from manufacturing a medicine
said to be an imitation of tho Chatta
nooga Medicine Co.’s medicine, has
been appealed, and will be argued be
fore the U. S. Apellate Court in N. O.,
in a few months.
The large trade-mark rights involved
in these suits, make them interesting
to all manufacturers who claim pro
tection tinder trade-mark laws against
concerns who attempt to pirate legiti
mate demand.
In publishing the result of the suit
in Atlanta, the Chattanooga Daily
Times says: The Chattanooga Medi
cine company and their predecessors
have been in the medicine business in
this city with one slight interruption
since 1872. They have the most com
pletely equipped medicine factory
south of the Ohio river. Their goods
are sold in every state and territory in
the Union, and to some extent in for
eign countries. Their M. A. Thedford
& Co.’s Liver Medicine or Black
Draught, is one of the most extensive
ly used liver medicines in the world,
and their McElree’s Wine of Cardui
has a reputation and sale greater than
any other of its class in the United
States. The company has practically
unlimited capital, competent and en
ergetic officers, and a reputation for
integrity and fair dealing that places
them above reproach in tho commer
cial world.
They are publishers of the “Ladies'
Birthday Almanac,” the 1894 edition
of which, consisting of 10,000,000 cop
ies, is now being distributed.
The company employs a large num
ber of traveling salesmen, visiting all
parts of the country, besides their fac
tory force, among which there are
fifty to seventy-five young ladies.
The Times cheerfully commends
this meritorious enterprise as being
worthy of the patronage they are re
ceiving, and any effort to cripple them
should be condemned by all southern
merchants who take pride in the suc
cess Qf southern manufactories.
Facts and Fancies.
In the United States there are said
to be 670,000 Freemasons and 650,000
Odd Fellows.
Every church and chapel in every
villiage and town in Wales has its
choir, often numbering 60, 70 or 100
voices.
In the harem of the Sultan of Tur
key the supreme authority is vested in
his mother, and she alone is entitled
to go to and fro in the harem unveiled.
To such an extent has machinery
superseded hand-work in the grain
farms of the northwest that it is esti
mated that tho labor of one man will
raise enough grain to support one
thousand men for a year.
The powerful Standard Oil company
has found in the Bussian oil fields
competion that it cannot meet, and it
has been driven out of the Eastern
Mediterranean ports. India, China,
Java and Japan markets that it for
merly monopolized. Tho Standard
sold in these countries $20,000,000
worth of oil annually.
Elizabeth Banks, once private secre
tary to the British minister to Peru,
will publish in a London daily a series
of articles concerning her experiences as
a parlor mainland houso maid in En
glish families. The title will be: “In
Caps and Aprons. ” She recommends
domestic service to poor girls in pre
ference to shop work.
Rolled Bread.
To butter and roll bread cut off all
the crust of a loaf of fresh bread.
Spread a thin layer of butter on one
end of the loaf. Cut off this buttered
end in as thin a slice ns possible. Boll
up this slice, having the buttered side
inward, and lay it on a napkin. Con
tinue buttering and making the rolls
until nearly nil the loaf has been used.
Draw tho napkin firmly around the
rolled bread and pin it. Put it in a
cold place for several hours. Boiled
bread is nice to serve with raw oysters,
or at a supper or luncheon party.—
Buffalo News.
A Fortunate Boy.
Papa—“Don’t you think you might
get a prize this term if you should try
hard?”
Small Son— * ‘No use. Sammy Smart
takes all the prizes in onr school. ”
“Why is that?”
“I don’t know- for sure, but I guess
mebby he’s got a papa wot knows
enough but arithmetic to help him in
his sums.—Street & Smith's Good
News.
Johnny’s Soap.
Mother—“Goodness me! Your face
and hands are almost black.”
Little Johnny—Well, that new soap
you bought me is sort o’ brown.”—
Street & Smith’s Good News.
When the Kidneys are Idle,
Or Dearly so, there is danger ahead. Rouse
them to activity with Hostetter’s Stomach
Bitters, which does nut, like the unmedicated
s’imulant* of commerc 0 , excite tli m. Thus
may he averted Bright’s disea=e and other
id a adies by wh ch both they and 1 fe itself
are imperilled. The Bitters >»re a standard
remedy tor rheumatic, neu’-aluic and liver
trouble, liver complaint, dyspepsia, constipa-
tion and malaria.
The earth receives only one two-billionth of
the heat of the sun.
For Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Stomach
di-orders use Brown's Iron Bitters—the Best
Tonic- It rebuilds the Blood and strengthens
the muse is. A spiend.d medicine lor weak
and debi itated persons.
The secret < f success is constancy to pur
pose.—Disraeli.
DwsTSimvo mThere is no art ! cle
which so r ch‘v deserves the entire confidence
of the community as Brown’s BRoxcniAt
Troches. Those suffering from Asthmat'o
an l Bronchial Diseases, Coughs and Colds,
should try them. Price ^3 cents.
Catarrhi
Is a Constitutional Disease
And Requires
A Constitutional Remedy
Like Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which, working
through the blood, permanently cures Catarrh
by era licating the impurity which causes
and promotes the disease. Thousands of
people testify to the success of Hood's Sarsa
parilla as a remedy for Catarrh when other
preparations had tailed. Hood’s Sarsapa
rilla also builds up the whole system, and
makes you feel renewed in health and
streng h. Take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, because
HOOD’S
Sarsaparilla
CURES
Hood'S Pills core all Liver Ills, Biliousness,
Jaundice, Indigestion, Sick Headache.
Shuffie-Shoon and Amber-Locks
Sit together, building blocks; "
Shuffie-Shoon is old and gray—
Amber-Locks a little ehild,
But together at that play
Age and youth are reconciled,
And with sympathetic glee
Build their castles fair to see 1
“When I grow to be a man”—
So the wee one's prattle ran—
“I shall build a castle—so.
With a gateway broad and grand.
Here a pretty vine shall grow,
There a soldier guard shall standi
And the tower shall be so high
Folks will wonder by and by!”
Shnffle-Shoon quoth: “Yes I know,
Thus I builded long ago !
Here a gate and there a wall,
Here a window, there a door •
Here a steeple, wondrous tall,
Biseth ever more and more;
But the years have leveled low
What I builded long ago!”
So they gossip at their play
Heedless of the fleeting day.
One speaks of that Long Ago
Where his dead hopes buried He
One with chubby cheeks aglow,
Prattleth of the By-and-By.
Side byside twin castles grow—
By-and-By and Long-Ago!
I ong-Agoand By-and-By—
Ah, what years atween them-lie!
Yet, oh grandsire, gaunt and gray,
By what grace art thou beguiled
That thou sharest in the play
Of that little lisping child?
children both, they build their blocks—
8huffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks.
—Eugene Field in Ladies’ Home Journal.
The Heroine of Queen’s Peak.
OUB miles north
west of tlie little
city of Bowie, in
Northern Texas,
there is a sharp
point of land
rising abruptly
above the prairie,
and known to all
the surrounding
country as
— Queen’s Peak. Its
history is closely associated with that
of a woman who is declared by the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat to have come
pretty near to being queen in reality
as well as in name.
It was in 1866 that Ellen Quinn
went from Western North Carolina
to this part of Texas. As would be
judged from her name, she had Irish
blood in her veins, but it was mixed
with a copious strain of Indian, de
rived from the Cherokees that still in
habit a reserve among the Carolina
Mountains. Just under what circum
stances she left her native State no
one seems to remember, but soon
after she announced her intention to
open a school for the benefit of the
surrounding country. It seemed as
if the school would likely benefit the
“country,” literally so called, as there
were very few inhabitants to get the
good of it. What few men there
were, however, got together and put
up a house for her. It was the first
schoolhouse ever put up in Montague
County, and was made of rough
logs cut from the timber surrounding
the base of what is now known as
Queen’s Peak. It was situated about
keif way up on the southern side in
order to protect it from the cold
aorthern winds of winter. There
vere several reasons why this site was
shosen. Wood was near at hand for
building the house and supplying the
ires in winter, which items were very
important ones to the Texans of those
lays. Water could be obtained from
i spring close at hand, and this also
vas not to be slighted. Moreover,
ihe Peak, though only a hundred or
io feet above the surrounding prairie,
vas the highest point for miles
vround, and from its summit a watch
iould be kept for the approach of
ndians or other hostile characters,
from it signals could be given in case
>f danger.
School opened with four pupils, all
>f whom came from the only house
vithin two miles of the place. Soon,
lowever, it began to increase as the
iact of its existence began to be noised
ibroad through the country. Grown
men who had come to Texas when
boys and who had lived on the frontier
ivithout educational advantages would
come to school to Miss Quinn in order
»o redeem their lost time. They came
from any where within 100 or 200 miles.
Most of them could come for only a
iew months consecutively, at times
vhen there was little to do on farm or
ranch, but they put in good wo'rk
vhen they did come. For some months
;he attendance would run as high as
thirty and then again it would drop
Sown to three or four. Tuition was
uniformly $3 per month. It must have
been an interesting sight to see the
little room crowded with big, bearded
lowboys poring over their books.
They probably had spurs jingling at
their heels and big six-shooters dang
ling from their belts, but the black
haired little Indian-Irish woman was
mistress for all that. On one occa
sion a big six-footer refused to obey
some command she had given him. Go
ing to the flour sack in which she kept
i collection of her miscellaneous be
longings, she gathered up a handful of
black pepper. She ha’d probably pre
pared this for just such emergencies,
ind before her recalcitrant pupil knew
what was coming she threw the pepper
square into his feyes. The bully sprang
to his feet with a roar of pain, while
the rest of the school shouted up
roarious approval of the act of disci
pline. Tlien a dozen of the devotees
of learning grabbed and carried him
bodily to the foot of the Peak. He
was then informed that if he ever en
tered the schoolroom again or in any
way molested the teacher there would
bo a feast for buzzards and coyotes.
For a while Ellen Quinn was troubled
by occasional travelers who, in pass
ing through the country, would use
her sehoolhonses as a lodging place for
the night. One night, just as such a
party were pushing in the door, a roar
like that of a cannon started them, and
on investigation it was found that a
rusty old musket had discharged about
a double handful of slugs into the roof
with force enough to have killed a
dozen men had they been in the way.
From that time on no nocturnal in
truder ever entered that schoolhouse
by the door, and as windows had not
yet come into fashion in that part of
Texas the house was free from intru
sion.
The teacher always had a loaded rifle
sitting in the corner of the schoolroom
during school hours, and had it strung
behind her saddle as she rode. She
was a fearless rider and an unerring
ihot.
After the sohool at the Peak had
been going on for about two years a
singular state of affairs began gradually
to oome into being. The fame of her
school had gone out over all the sur-
rounding country. She had exactly
those accomplishments and exactly
that torn of mind calculated to win
. for her the respect and admiration of
i the men of the frontier. The result
| was that they respected, trusted and
almost worshipped her. By degrees
1 she acquired almost unlimited influ
ence over the men for over 100 miles
aronnd. They would come to her to
settle all disputes, and would always
respect her decision. If any given
man felt inclined to resist her decis
ion such feeling was useless, as every
other man felt honor bound to help
enforce it. If a question arose as to
the ownership of stock the parties
would bring the cattle or horses in
volved up to the Peak. Each claimant
1 would state his side of the case and
' call on anyone else he might choose to
substantiate it. Then came tho de
cision from which there was no ap-
1 peaL If a man was suspected of steal-
| ing stock or of committing murder the
process was the same. A case could
be disposed of completely in thirty
minutes. On one occasion a mere boy
was brought up under accusation ol
murder. The case was clear aginst him.
and the verdict ran as follows:
“Well, he ought to die, but he’s
I nothing but a kid. Give him a pony
and let him go, but hang him if you
find him within forty miles of this
. place by to-morrow morning. ”
The hoy left.
Meantime a natural metamorphosis
took place in the name of the place
where she lived. From Quinn’s Peak
it was changed to Queen’s Peake, the
schoolma’am being by that time uni
versally known as the queen.
Her death, however, was as it should
have been, the climax and crowning
point of her life. It was all that was
necessary to make her subjects worship
her, not almost, but altogether.
During the fall of 1869 the Co-
manche3 began once more to make
raids through this portion of Texas.
The Comanches have been called the
Ishmaeiities of the West, their hand
being against every man’s hand and
every man’s hand against them, The
queen had formerly acquired almost
as much influence over the Indians as
she had over the whites, and in peri
ods of open Indian hostility this in
fluence stood her in good stead. The
Indians seemed to consider that hei
Indian blood made her one of them
selves, and so allowed her to pass back
ward and forward to and from their
camps unmolested. Though a Chero
kee, she had soon acquired the lan
guage of the Comanches. For a long
time her influence was successful in
protecting the settlers around th<
Peak from any disturbance, but on one
occasion it failed. All the men foi
forty miles had gone some distance
below to Clear Creek Canon, toward
which locality it had been reported
that a large band of hostiles were ad
vancing. While the country was thus
unprotected, a fourteen-year-old boy
came dashing up on his pony' and
called to the queen that a hand oi
about twenty Comanches were coming
as fast as they could travel. Hs
begged her go meet them and pacify
them.
“No,” she answered sadly; “it’s no
use this time. Their blood’s up be
cause our men have gone to Clear creel
and they won’t be pacified. Yon rid<
like the wind and get all the worner
and children hid in the creek bank.
I’ll hold the Indians long enough foi
that.”
Even as she was speaking the Indians
came in sight over a rise in the prairie.
They would willingly have passed hei
by without molestation, but she was
determined they should not. Taking
deliberate aim at long range she fired
and one Indian tumbled from his. horse.
Then she sprang upon the topmosi
stone of the Peak and, standing at full
height, sent out a ringing yell and de
risively waved her gun. The boy
waited to see no more, but keeping the
wooded base of the Peak between him
self and his pursuers, he dashed off, as
he had been told.
No one will ever know the details oi
what happened after this. There was
a natural barricade of stones on top oi
the Peak, and keeping behind it sh«
had the advantage over her foes in the
open prairie. The Indians seem finally
to have taken positions inside the tim
ber around the Peak, and then gra
dually to have drawn their lines nearei
the summit. Doubtless they were un
able to tell whether it was defended
by one person alone or by more.
Doubtless, when they had drawn nearei
and were preparing to make the last
fatal rush, she dropped her rifle and
used her heavy six-shooter with deadly
effect. Certain it is that she was game
to the last. Finally, the last cruel
rush was made, and the brave teacher
queen had given her life for those of
her subjects.
All this took time, and time was
valuable just then. There were not
more than three or four families then
living within several miles of the Peak,
and the boy messenger had ample time
to notify them and get them hidden
in the timbered bank of the creek: It
must have been after the nightfall
when the summit of the Peak was fin
ally stormed, and about 10 o’clock a
force of men came galloping in from
Clear Creek, having heard of the
threatened attack. The Indians still
remaining left under the cover of
night. Next morning the. settlers vis
ited the Peak. There, behind a big
bowlder, on the very summit they
found Ellen Quinn, the prairie queen,
stiff and cold in death. Her body had
been pierced by' half a dozen bullets
and her scalp had been taken. Kifle
and six-shooter were both missing.
Around the barricade, down in the
timber at its base, and out in the open
prairie, they counted the bodies of
eleven Comanches. That told the
story.
No death in the whole of this part
of Texas could have moved the people
as did hers. She could have escaped
by merely doing nothing, but she de
liberately chose to die that the lives of
some fifteen or twenty defenseless
women and children might be saved.
It was decided to bury her and raise
a monument to her on the Peak’s
mound, on which she labored in the
school room and on which she died.
Everyone for miles around attended
the funeral. There was no minister to
preach, but it was a solemn affair not
withstanding. The hody was buried
on the very summit and above it the
men piled up a vast heap of rough
stones. These may be seen there to
day.
A new set of people have filled np
the surrounding country. About all
they know about the matter is that
these stones mark the grave of an In
dian named Queen, who was killed on
the summit and after whom the Peak
was named.
A BabY With Grandfather Brothers.
The Kentucky Register, published
at Richmond, Ky., furnishes the follow
ing surprising item of news:
“Mrs. William Cook has given birth
to a ten-pound boy. She is sixty-sight
and her husband seventy-two years
old. They have named the baby
Grover Cleveland Cook, and the little
one has brothers who are sa andfathers,’
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Affairs of Goyeramcnt and News oi
the D3parti3nts Mmi
Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo
ple and Their General Welfare.
Attorney General Olney hasrendered
an opinion that certain notes issued by
corporations (clearing house certifi
cates) during the recent currency
“famine” are not taxable 10 per cent,
under the bank circulation law.
The sugar-raisers of the country,
that is many of them, are not satisfied
with the proposition to gradually abol
ish the sugar bounty as intended in
the Wilson bill. Consequently they
will continue the contest in the senate
and house with the hope of securing a
modification of the clause, if they can
not get it stricken out entirely.
Mr. Cleveland, to the surprise of
every one, even of the Kentuckians,
appointed John B. Proctor, of Ken
tucky, civil service commissioner Wed
nesday. Proctor was state geologist
of Kentucky, but was never prominent
in state politics. Mr. Cleveland met
him last spring. He was impressed
with the Kentuckian and made the ap
pointment as a personal one.
The cabinet meeting Tuesday was a
long one, lasting about three hours.
All members, except Secretary Smith,
were present. The president’smessage
was the main subject under discussion.
The president expects to have the mes
sage ready to send in Monday noon, as
soon as congress meets. Tuesday af
ternoon he was preparing the portion
relative to civil service, and sent for
Commissioners Roosevelt and Lymau
to discuss the subject "With him. The
message is expected to be a lengthy
document.
Reports received at Washington
from the subcommittee on agriculture,
which is investigating the low price of
cotton, are to the effect that the com
mittee has at last concluded its inves
tigation in the cotton-growing dis
tricts. The committee is at present
in New Orleans, where it has been
engaged for the past ten days, having
gone there from Memphis, where
eight days’ time was spent. The in
vestigation has been very thorough
into the cause of the depression and
the testimony of many persons who
are in possession of facts hearing upon
the question and of those who hold
opinions, has been taken by the com
mittee.
The ways and means committee will
hold a meeting at once to decide upon
a plan to raise sufficient revenue to
meet the deficit from the tariff duties.
It is tire opinion of experts that the
loss of revenue by the Wilson bill will
be $35,000,000. The committee is con
sidering a tax on the net incomes of
corporations, a personal income tax,
an inheritance tax, an increase on the
tax of whiskey, a tax on proprietary
medicines and various other forms of
taxation. The most popular tax with
the committee is the income tax and
the majority favors a tax on the in
comes of corporations rather than in
dividuals. Over the proposed tax a
serious conflict is feared within the
party lines.
Tin-re Was a Deficiency.
The following abstract from the an
nual report of Postmaster General
Bissell was given out at the postoffice
department Tuesday. The postmas
ter general, in his annual statement,
shows that the d ficiency for the year
ended June 30, 1893, was $5,177,171,
instead of §1,552,423 as estimated by
Mr. Wanamaker; and that instead of a
surplus of $872,245, the current fiscal
year, ns estimated by Mr. Wanamaker,
there will be an estimated deficiency
of $7,830,473. The postmaster gen
eral estimates the gross revenue for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895,
at $84,427,748, and the gross estimated
expenditures at $90,399,485,leaving an
estimated deficiency of $5,971,736,
which, however, will be decreased
$1,250,000 from funds taken from the
unpaid money order accounts.
Although there are ninety-three addi
tional postoffices now entitled to tho
free delivery service, the absence of
appropriation for extension renders
impossible tbe establishment of the
system in even one of these towns.
There are now 610 free delivery offices.
The New TnrifT fSill.
The new democratic tariff bill was
given to the public Monday. Its pro
visions fulfill every expectation of
those who predicted radical reform.
In many respects it is a surprise even
to the democratic members of con
gress, ns it is unprecedented in many
of its provisions. The free list is of
that liberal scope sufficient to satisfy
the most radical advocate of dras
tic refirm, and the repudiation
of the principle of reciprocity is de
cisive and emphatic. The following
summary of tbe bill has been prepared
by Representative Bryan, of Ne
braska: “The bill just completed
puts wool, coal, lumber, salt and iron
ore on the free list. It reduces the
tariff on sugar from one-half to one-
qunrter of a cent per pound. It also
provides for the extermination
of the bounty by degrees.
As a rule the tariff has been
made lowest upon the cheaper goods
of necessary nse and left highest upon
more expensive articles. The wool
schedule will, perhaps, attract most
attention. We have left no duty
higher than forty-five per cent, on
manufactures of wool, and that only
on ready made garments, the average
being less than forty per cent. The
cheaper quality of blankets and flan
nels are only taxed twenty-five per
cent, and lower grades of carpets only
twenty. We have also applied grad
ual reduction to the woolen schedule
so that at the end of five years
th“ highest duty will be forty per cent
and the average near thirty per cent.
Very material redactions have been
made in the cotton schedule. We
have placed iron ore on the free list
and made a large cut all along the
metal schedule. The duty on steel
rails is reduced more than 50 per cent.
Free lumber will be a great benefit to
the people of the prairie states, and
free salt will give to those who need
salt for their cattle or for curing meat
the same advantages which have been
secured heretofore by means of rebate-
to those who cured fish. Agricultural
implements have been placed upon the
free list in order to enable the farmer
to better compete in foreign mar
kets, and because many of our ag
ricultural implements are being made
cheaper abroad than at home.
Among the principal additions to
the free list are the following: Bacon,
hams, beef, mutton, pork, and meats
of all kinds not specially provided for
in this act; binding twine, borax,
camphor, bituminous coal, coke, cop
per in all its crude forms; cotton ties,
iron ore, cotton seed oil, agricultural
implements (cotton gins specially nam
ed), salt, soap, building materials ex
cepting marble, lumber, timber and
wood, in all but a few conditions,
which are named, and wool. The bill
covers customs and administrative
features only. International revenue
matters are left in obeyance.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
Condensed from Onr Most Important
TelegrapMc Advices
And Presented in Pointed and Reada
ble Paragraphs.
Four more Lehigh collieries, be
tween Shamokin and Quakley, Pa.,
have resumed operations.
A New York dispatch says: Ex-
State Senator John J. Kiernan died
Wednesday morning. Mr, Kiernan
was the head of Kiernan’s news
agency, and was for years a familiar
figure on Wall street.
An express train bound from Milan,
Italy, to Venice came into collision
with a heavy freight train Wednesday
morning. It is reported thirty-five
people met death in the wreck and
fifteen others were severely injured.
The 400 miners at the Winthrop
mine, Ishpeming, Mich., struck
Wednesday against store orders, and
the mine will probably close for the
winter. In August, the men had
agreed to receive pay in store orders,
rather than have the mine close down.
A fire broke out in Shields’ restaur
ant, at Oil City, Pa., Tuesday morn
ing, the wind blowing a gale. Before
the flames could be controlled the en
tire block from Sycamore street, con
sisting of ten or fifteen frame build
ings, was destroyed. The loss is esti
mated at $100,000. Three or four
lives are reported lost.
A notice posted in the Warren
Foundry and Machine company’s
works at Philllipsburg, N. J., is, that
in order to compete with the cheap
labor of the Suuth the men employed
in the pits are given a greator amount
of pipe to cast for a day’s work. No in
crease of pay allowed. The men will
have to work about two hours more a
day.
A cable dispatch of Wednesday from
Paris says: Senator Spuller has defi
nitely accepted President Carnot’s of
fer to form a cabinet, and he is now
busily at work visiting his political
friends. If he succeeds, Senator
Spuller will present a list of the new
ministers to President Carnot at once.
It is asserted that Baynal and Burdeau
will be the chief men of the new cabi
net.
The St. James Gazciic(London) isnot
greatly pleased with onr new tariff bill,
yet it admits that the bill shows signs
that Mr. Cleveland is prepared to fulfill
his promises and there is no question
that it will prove a great relief to trade.
Continuing the paper says: “All
through the bill care is taken to leave
the American producer with the differ
ential duty in his favor completely.”
Frank T. Anderson, general land
commissioner of the railroads com
prising the Queen and Crescent sys
tem, has sold $100,000 worth of fine
timber lands in Ouachita parish,Louis
iana, near Monroe, on the line of the
Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific
raTroad, to a syndicate of French cap
italists from Paris. The deeds have al
ready been furnished and the transfer
made.
A cable dispatch from London says:
William Seheig and Phillip Floyd,
who are wanted by the police of Min
neapolis, on the charge of robbing the
Bank of Minneapolis of $90,000, were
again brought- up at the Row street
police court Tuesday and were re
manded. The papers necessary to
bring about the extradition of the
prisoners have arrived from the United
States, but they are still in the foreign
office.
A cable dispatch from Berlin says:
It now appears that Emperor William,
on Sunday, was the recipient of an in
fernal machine from Orleans similar to
tfle one sent Chancellor Von Caprivi.
The infernal machine sent the emperor
was accompanied by a letter. Both
the machine and letter were delivered
at the office of the emperor’s civil cab
inet, where some employes became
suspicious of the contents of the box,
and accidentally discovered its real
nature. They soon managed to render
it harmless.
The anti-snappers are at work again
in New York to overthrow Tammany.
Charles L. Fairchild issued a long
address to New York democrats Wed
nesday abusing the machine, demo
cratic organization, in vigorous and
vicious terms and calling upon the
democrats to join the new organization,
to be known as the New York state
democracy. On the general commit
tee are such names as Ellery Anderson,
Abram Hewitt, William E. Grace,
James Swann, Oscar Strauss, Frederick
Coudert and about a hundred others.
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
An Enraged Husband Kills Four People
and Then Himself.
As the result of a terrible tragedy,
growing out of a family feud, five peo
ple are dead in their country home,
seven miles east of Sycamore, Indiana.
Four years ago Clinton Jordan, then
twenty years old, married a daughter
of Joshua Foster. They have not lived
happily together. Last week they sep
arated and she returned to the home of
her father.
Late Saturday night Jordan met his
father-in-law and accompanied him
home, contrary to the wishes of the
latter, who feared trouble. Jordan
promised to behave, bnt soon after his
arrival at Foster’s home he began a
quarrel. Foster ordered him out of
the house, when Jordan fired at the
old man, bnt missed him, the ball
striking Miss Cora Foster, aged seven
teen, in the head, killing her instantly.
His second shot hit Foster in the head
and he fell, bnt he soon rose and ran a
quarter of a mile to the home of an
other son-in-law, William Powell,
where he fell and lingered until late
Sunday afternoon, when he died.
Jordan then turned his revolver to
ward Mrs. Foster, his mother-in-law,
shooting her in the neck and causing a
wonnd from which she died. Jordan’s
wife attempted to defend her mother
and he stabbed her repeatedly in the
breast, hands and face and ended by
shooting her through the head.
Jordon then opened his vest and
placing the revolver against his breast
sent a ball through his heart. He fell
dead across the dead body of his wife.
The pistol was placed so close to his
breast that his clothing caught fire and
was literally burned off of him, the
6kin dropping from his body when it
was lifted.
Powderly Resigns.
A Philadelphia special says, it was
tacitly understood Sunday by the ma
jority of the delegates to the general
assembly Knights of Labor that Mr.
Powderlv’s resignation, which he ten
dered to ihe body Saturday, would be
almost unanimously accepted.
SODTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
Tbe Drift of Her Progress aM Pros
perity Briefly Note!
Happenings of Interest Portrayed In
Pithy Paragraphs.
One new case of yellow fever was an
nounced at Brunswick Tuesday and
two discharged. This leaves four col
ored under treatment. The w, ather
is slightly warmer.
A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch of Tues
day says: Lobdel & Co., of Wilming
ton, Del., who have arranged to start
an iron furnace at Egypt, have also
arranged for the manufacture of car
wheels at Baleigh in connection with
the plant of the North Carolina Car
company.
The United States circuit court,
which is in session at Columbia, S. C.,
is burdened with about forty liquor
cases growing out of violations of the
dispensary law and the consequent vio
lations of tho internal revenue law.
At the last term of the court there
were only three liquor cases.
The greatest fire in the history of
Jasper, Ala., occurred Tuesday.
Almost the whole business portion of
the city is in a mass of ruins. The
town has no waterworks of any de
scription, and practically nothing
could be done towards saving the
buildings, which were wooden struct
ures.
A wreck in which seven passengers
were injured occurred on the Western
Bailway of Alabama at 10 o’clock
Wednesday morning at Cliett’s sta
tion, twenty-one miles from Montgom
ery, Ala. Passenger train No. 55 was
struck by passenger train No. 54,
southbound. Two coaches heavily
loaded with passengers were consider
ably demolished and left the track.
Tbe Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail
way Company have advanced pig iron
twenty-five cents per ton, which is the
second advance in the the past thirty
days. Since selling fifty-six thonsand
tons last month the company has sold
thirty thousand tons additional at
an advance of 25 per cent. Fifteen
thousand tons of this was taken by
American consumers and eleven thou
sand tons as an investment by London
bankers.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says:
J. M. Montgomery and J. B.. Scott, of
this city, were, on Tuesday, appointed
receivers of the property of the Mary
Lee Coal and Railway company of
Jefferson county. This action was
taken at the request of Baltimore par
ties, who own half of the half million
dollar stock in the company and all of
its bonds. Tho receivers state that
the assignment will not affect the busi
ness of the company, as it will be con
tinued without interruption.
A Louisville special says: The Ger
mania Safety Vault and Trust Compa
ny, assignee for Hess, Henle & Co.,
completed their examination of the
books Tuesday night and made their
first statement. Ihe report shows the
firm’s assets to he $74,347 and liabili
ties $225,000. The majority of the
creditors are eastern firms. Mr.
Henle, who left town after the failure
in search of health, has not been
beard from and the other members of
the firm still profess ignorance as to
his whereabouts.
The excitement caused by the gold
find at Helen Blazes, fifty miles north
of El Paso, Texas, continues and quite
a number of miners , and prospectors
left tor that locality Tuesday. Inter
est in the new camp was considera! ly
heightened by the receipt of a letter
from nn El Paso man, who stated that
he had taken np an extension on what
is known as the “last chauce” and said
he had found free gold at a depth
of three feet. He also states that
veins of gold .bearing rock, varying
from six to eighteen inches in thick
ness, can be tracked for three miles
and are covered with from three to six
feet of drift.
A New Orleans dispatch says: Judge
Ellis Wednesday morning handed
down a decision of some importance in
the suits against the Crescent City
Athletic Club. It will be remembered
that about the time the club was going
to pieces Bob Fitzsimmons, the prize
fighter, entered suit against the club
to recover some $9,000, said to be due
him as a balance of the purse for his
fight with Jim Hall, before the club
last March. When the match had
been fought it could only pay a por
tion of that sum. The decision gives
Fitzsimmons right to sue the club for
the balance due him on the purse of
fered for the fight.
The annual meeting of the Savan
nah, Florida and Western railroad was
held in Savannah Tuesday and the fol
lowing were elected directors: H. B.
Plant, B. G. Erwin, H. S. Haines M.
J. Joseph, B. F. Newcomer, H. M.
Flagler, J. H. Estill. The directors
selected the following officers: H. B.
Plant, president; H. S. Haines, vice
president; B. G. Erwin, vice presi
dent and general counsel; B. B. Smith,
secretary; J. Moultrie Lee, treasurer;
B. G. Fleming, superintendent. The
net earnings for the year amounted to
$860,442.79, and a dividend of 6 per
cent, was declared amounting to
$564,774. This leaves a surplus of
$295,668.79.
A Sensational bill was filed in the
chancery court at Nashville, Tenn.,
Tuesday, by Attorney General N. W.
Pickle, on behalf of the state, against
ex-Governor John P. Buchanan, ex-
Treasurer M. F. House and ex-Comp-
troller J. W. Allen, and against the
bondsmen of House and Allen. The
bill quotes a resolution adopted by
the general assembly author-zing the
funding board, composed of the gov
ernor, treasurer and comptroller, to
uorrow money to pay January unu
July interest on tbe state debt when
necessary. Notes were to be given to
bear interest not exceeding the legal
rate. It is then charged that the de
fendants failed to perform their duties
and committed acts in violation of law.
A 3Inniflcent Premium.
A Washington dispatch of Friday
says: The official speed of the United
States cruiser Columbia, was reported
to the secretary of the navy by Bear
Admiral Belknap, president of the
trial board. They found the ship ful
ly filled the contract requirements in
every respect. The offic al speed is
22.8 knots, giving her builders a pre
mium of $350,000 at the rate of $50,-
000 for each quarter knot over the
contract requirements of 21 knots.
Sues For a Million.
A San Francisico special of Friday
says: A suit involving $1,000,000 has
been brought by C. W. Spreckles and
H. M. Wooley against the Hawaiian
Commercial and Sugar Company for
appropriating moneys, the property of
the Company. The plaintiffs ask that
itbe prevented from transacting fur
ther business until its affairs are set
tled in court. Serious charges of fraud
aud other irregularities are made in
the complaint.
I F you wish the lightest, sweet
est, finest cake, biscuit, bread
and rolls, Royal Baking Powder is
indispensable in their making.
SOME COLD
WEATHER RULES.
Meandering.
Never lean with the back upon any
thing that is cold.
Never begin a journey until the
breakfast has been eaten.
Never take warm drinks and then
immediately go out in the cold.
Keep the back, especially between
the shonlder blades, well covered ; also
the chest well protected.
In sleeping in a cold room, establish
a habit of breathing through the nose
and never with the open mouth.
After exercise of any kind never ride
in an open carriage or near the window
of a car for a moment, it is dangerous
to health or even life.
When hoarse speak as little as possi
ble until the hoarseness is recovered
from, else the voice may be permanent
ly lost, or difficulties of the throat be
produced.
Merely warm the back by the fire,
and never continue keeping the back
exposed to the heat after it has become
comfortably warm. To do otherwise
is debilitating.
When going from a warm atmosphere
into a cooler one, keep the mouth
closed, so that the air may bo warmed
in its passage through the nose before
it reaches the lungs.
Never go to bed with cold or damp
feet. Never omit regular bathing, for
unless the skin is in active condition
the cold will close the pores and favor
congestion and other diseases.
Never stand still in cold weather, es
pecially after having taken a slight de
gree of exercise, and always avoid
standing on ice or snow, or where the
person is exposed to cold wind.—Sani
tarian.
A College Journalist.
Friend—“How’s that? Lost your
position already? I thought you were
the highest honor graduate in the
Great American College of Journal
ism.”
Young Journalist—“That’s what’s
the matter. All the professors kept
dinging into my head the great jour
nalistic motto, ‘Boil it down.’ ”
“Well?”
“Well, the first work I was given
was editing the special cable dispatch
es. I boiled ’em down to about three
inches, and this morning the proprie
tor kicked me out.”—New York
Weekly.
An Unconventional Judge.
A famous judge actually broke off a
summing up upon one occasion with:
“Mr. Sheriff, I should like to know
what that fat man means by pressing
against those two young women in the
front row of the gallery.” On another
occasion the same judge, during the
examination of a witness, exclaimed:
“Really, Mr. Foreman, I am exhaust
ed,- worn out, with tho outrageous con
duct of that witness in the box, who
among other profanities keeps on say
ing that what he deposes to is ‘as sure
as God made apples.’”—Green Bag.
Ideas come Handy Sometimes.
Father—“If I ever catch yon with a
dime novel again, I’ll thrash some
sense into you, do you hear?”
Same Father (a week later)—“Nobly
done, Johnny! How did you happen
to strike the idea of blinding that
burglar with red pepper?”
Johnny—“I read it in a dime nov
el.”
Not Much Time to Loso.
Little Boy—“You’ll have to hurry,
papa, or mamma will be ready before
you are.”
Papa—“Indeed?”
Little Boy—“Yes, she’s tying on her
bonnet; guess you better begin to dress
pretty soon.”
In Olden Times
Peoplo overlooked the importance of per
manently beneficial effects and were satisfied
with ti ansient action, but now t hat it Is g en-
crally know that Syrup of Fi^s will perma
nently cure habitual constipation, well in
formed people will not buy other laxatives,
which act for a time, but finally injure the
system.
A caterpillar contains more than 2,000 mus
cles.
For impure or thin Blood, "Weakness Mala
ria, Neura'g a. Indigestion a id Biliou-ness
take Brown’s Iron Bitters—it trives ftrength,
making o d per-ons feel youn^—and young
persons strong; pleasant to take.
Work to get possession of the house not
made with hands and avoid the danger of a
strike.
Beware of Ointment* fir Catarrh That
Contain Mercury.
as mercury wi.l surely destroy the sensa of
smell and completely derange the whole system
when entering it through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used except on
prescriptions irom reputable physicians as the
damage they will do is ten fold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh
( ure manufactured by F. J. Ohen**y & Co.,
Toledo, O., contains no mercury', and is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood rn l
mucous surfaces of the system. In buying
Hall’s t ’atirrh Cure be sure to get the genuine.
It is taken internally, and is made in Toledo,
Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & < -o. Te timonials free.
|y So.d by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
Impaired digestion cured by Beecham’s
Pills, Beecham’s—no other-*. 25cents a box.
“German
Syrup”
My acquaintance with Boschee’s
German Syrup was made about four
teen years ago. I contracted a cold
which resulted in a hoarseness and
cough which disabled me from fill
ing my pulpit for a number of Sab
baths. After trying a physician,
without obtaining relief I saw the
advertisement of your remedy and
obtained a bottle. I received quick
and permanent help. I never hesi
tate to tell my experience. Rev. W.
H. Haggerty, Martinsville, N.J. ®
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A city girl writes, “It is a fond
dream of mine to become a farmer’s
wife and meander with him down
life’s flowery pathway.” Ah, yes,
that is a nice thing to dream about,
but when you have lived on the farm
and followed this meandering business
for a month or so, you will discover a
wide chasm between tho dream and
the reality. You will think of this
about the time your husband meanders
out and leaves you without wood, and
you have to meander up and down the
lane pulling splinters off the fence
with which to cook dinner. And when
you meander around in the wet clover
in search of the cows you will have a
dim perception that fond dreams do
not always pan out 100 cents on the
dollar, and that there are several mfe-
anderings in farm life that are not
listed in the dreaming category. Tho
meandering business on tho farm is
not what it’s cracked up to be.— Texas
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—this trouble
is not experi
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ministering
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