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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. ® 1 BENTS WANTED ON SALARY or commission io handle t e .New Patent C»iem*- cal T uk Erasing Pencil. Agents making $50 per week. Monre Eras, r llfg.Co.,X 701, La Crosse, WK 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 Siftings. 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