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k tfEW ENGLAND MIRACLE.
IAILROAD ENGINEER RELATES
HIS EXPERIENCE.
[j SDKBFUL STORY TOLD BY FEED C. TOSS
ms mother-in-law to a he-
fojtTEH OF THE BOSTON HERALD —
BOTH ABE RESTORED AFTER
TEARS OF ACONY.
[From the Boston Herald.]
I yoe* health-giving results already at-
;Jby the newspapers throughout this
• and Canada to Dr. Williams’ ••Pink
Pale People” havo been recently
cuted by the eases of two confirmed
I in one household In a New England
I The names of these people are Fred
it, his wife and his mother-in law, Mrs.
I C. Holt, of Peterboro, members of the
household.
'o tie Herald reporter who was sent to
nveetigalte his remarkable cure Mr. Vose
;s!d : “I am thirty-seven years old, and have
«n railroading for the Fitchburg for fifteen
ears. Siuce boyhood I have been troubled
h a weak stomach. For the past seven
rs I have suffered terribly nnd constantly.
,• stomach would not retain food ; my head
ihed constantly and was so dizzy I could
rcely stand , my eyes were blurred ; I hada
d heart bum, and my breath was offensive. I
d physicians, but they failed to help me.
appetite gave out, and four years ago I
veloped palpitation of the heart, which
riously affected my breathing. Had ter-
ibie pains i 1 my baek and had to make
water many times a day. I finally developed
rheumatic signs and couldn't sleep nights.
If I lay down my heart would go pit-a-
pat st a great rate, and many nights I did
hot close my eyes at all. I was broken
I dr yn in body and discouraged in spirit when,
sometime in February last, I got a-couple
SSI boxes of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Be
fore I had finished the first box I noticed
that the palpitation of my heart, which had
bothered me so that I couldn't breathe at
dimes, began to improve. I saw that in go-
ne to my home on the hill from the depot,
| Licit was previously an awful task, my
IsPiirt did not beat so violently and I had
more breath when I reached the house.
Alter the sscond and third boxes I grew bet
ter in every other respect. My stomach
became stronger, the gas belching was pot
so bad. my appetite and digestion Improved,
and my sleep became nearly natural and un-
Jisturbed. I have continued taking thepllls
__ ree times a day ever since last March, and
to-dav I am feeling better than at any time
during til© last eight years. I can confi
dently .nil conscientiously say that they
have done me more good, and their good ef
fects are more permanent, than any medi
cine I have ever taken. My rheumatic pains
tn legs nnd hands are all gone. The pains
in the small of my baok, which were so bad
at times that I couldn’t stand up straight,
have nearly all vanished, and I find my kid
neys are well regulated by them. This is an
offec-t not claimed for the pills in the circu
lar, but in my case they brought it about,
am feeling ICO per cent, better in every shape
and manner.”
The reporter next saw Mrs. Holt, who said
“1 am 57 yenrs old, and for 14 years past I
have had an intermittent heart trouble.
Three years ago I had nervous prostration,
by which my heart trouble was increased so
badly that 1 had to liedown most of the time.
My stomach also gave out, and I had con
tinual and intense pain from the back of my
neck to the end of my backbone. In 14
weeks I spent $300 for doctor bills and medi
cines, but my health continued so miserable
that I gave up doctoring in despair. I began
to take Dr. Williams' I’lnk Pills last winter,
and the first box made me feel ever so much
better. I havelakentheplUssinceFebruary,
with the result of stopping entirely the pain
in the spine and in the region of the liver.
Mv stomach is again norma!, and the palpi
tation of the heart has troubled me but three
times since I commenced the pills.”
An analysis of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills
shows t halt hey contain, iu n condensed form,
all the elements necessary to give new life
and richness to the blood and restore shat
tered nerves. They are an unfailing specific
for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial
paralysis, t>t~. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neural
gia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after
effect of la grippe, palpitation of the heart,
pale and sallow complexions, all forms of
weakness either in malo or female, and all
diseases resulting from vitiated humors in
the blood. Pink Tills are sold by all dealers,
or will be sent post paid on receipt of price
(50 cents a box,’ or six boxes for *2.50—they
are never sold in hulk or by the 100; by ad
dressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Schen
ectady, N. Y., or Brockville. Out.
GEORGIA STATE NEWS.
Matters ot Interest Gathered Here and
There anil Briefly Snmiarizei.
Every-Day Items.
Newsboy—“Extry ! Extry! Turri-
bJe loss of life. Full list o’ tli’ killed
an’ wounded!”
Citizen—“Here, boy, quick! Give
me a paper. What game was it?”—
Street <fc Smith’s Good News.
Feathehly—Say, me ’dealt fellah,
how do you manage to keep such
a crease in your trousers?
Avy du Pois—I put them under the
mattress I sleep on.
Featherly—Oh you must do some
thing else, for I tried that plan until
I got sick of it!—Puck.
Judge Charles E. Yandertburgh, of
St. Pgul, closed a term of thirty-four
years of continuous service on the
bench December 31. He was elected
1859, when but 30 years of age, and
has never failed of re-election.
For Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Stomach
disorders, use Brown’s Iron Bitters—the Best
Tonic. It rebuilds the Blood and strengthens
the muscles. A splendid medicine for weak
and debilitated persons.
Tile workings of the bald-headed man’s
brains should he free, for there are no locks to
hold him.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, I
Lucas County. (“•
Frank J. Ciienev makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY &
Co., doing business in the City of Toledo,
Countv and State aforesaid, and that Bal'd firm
will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh
Cure. Frank J. Chicney.
sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, thisfitU day of December, A. D. 1S8B.
, —a— , A. '.V. Gleason,
■j seal >
1 —.— ’ Notary Public.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure istaken internally and acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. O.
^VSold by Druggists, 75c.
->'■ -Parting at tboso who are smarter than we
arc isTike a dog harking at the moon.
For impure or thin Blood, Weakness, Mala-
riu. Neuralgia. Indigestion and Biliousness,
take Brown’s Iron Bitters—it gives strength,
making old persons feel young—and young
persons strong; .pleasant to take.
Add to your chances of success, subtract
from your probabilities of failure.
For Throat Diseases and Coughs us.
Brown’s BronchialTrocres. Like all really
gocil thlngs,they are imitated. The genuine are
told only ( n tores.
“AH things come to him who waits,” except
success, prosperity, wealth and such trifles.
Beeeliam's Pills are better than mineral wa
ters. Beecham’s—no others. 25 cents a box.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
son’s Eye-water.Druggists sell at 25c per bottle.
The contract for the Colnmbns pub
lic building will probably be awarded
at once. A Chicago firm is the lowest
bidder and will probably get the con
tract for $29,000 for the construction
of the superstructure. The bnilding
will be constructed of Georgia granite.
* * *
The constitutionality of the Georgia
law allowing counties to tax railroads
was brought before the supreme court
last Monday. The ease was argued on
the part of the state by Attorney Gen.
eral Terrell and Colonel Clifford An
derson. Mr. Wimbish argued for the
railroads that the law was unconstitu
tional. The intimations let drop by
the court were strongly to the effect
that it would hold the law to be con
stitutional.
It is quite certain that one of the
three federal prisons which are soon to
be located will be placed in Atlanta.
Under the act of congress providing
for these prisons, the location of the
same is in the hands of the attorney
general and the secretary of the inte
rior. The secretary of the interior be
ing an Atlanta mao, and as Atlanta is
undoubtedly the best site for the loca
tion of a southern prison, it may be
put down as a certainty that Atlanta
will be selected for the southern one.
The bondholders of the Georgia
Southern and Florida road have com
menced to send in their protests to the
appointment of a co-receiver for the
Georgia. Southern. A bondholder,
writing from New York,, eays: “I am
opposed to the appointment of a co
receiver. I do not understand why
this extra and unnecessary expense
should be placed upon the property.
Moreover, Mr. IVilmer is not a rail
road man, and, so far as I can learn,
has never had any practical railroad
experience. I desire to join with bond
holders and other creditors in oppos
ing the appointment of a co-receiver.”
The officials in the department of
agriculture say every indication points
to the fact that the farmers of Georgia
will use a vast, quantity of fertilizers
this year. The shipments of fertili
zer specimens to the state department
for inspection lately have been far
ahead of those for the same period last
year. It seems to have struck the
office with a rush, this fertilizer boom.
The shipments up until the first of the
new year were very light, but since
that, time they have been cemiug in
with a great rush, indeed. Whether
this means that the farmers are going
to plant more cotton this year than
last, or whether it means that they are
going to put it under their corn and
spring grain, is an interesting ques
tion.
The circular letter sent out recently
by State Treasurer Hardeman to the
different depositories of the state car
ries with it a copy of the recently
passed law providing that depositories
cover into the central treasury any ex
cess of the amount of their bond. This
depository question is bothering the
governor a good deal. There were
eighteen new depositories added by
the last legislature, and he is compell
ed to redistrict the entire state'in or
der to give each depository some ter
ritory. It is a mighty big job. Some
interesting facts were brought out con
cerning the depositories, by examina
tion. In Jackson county, for
stance, the legislature created two de
positories, one at Harmony Grove and
one at Jefferson. In Monroe county,
at Forsyth, one was established, but
there is no bank in that county,
There is a strong private banking
house, but no banking company. It
is possible the governor may throw
some interesting light on this cleposi
tory question before he gets throu
with it.
ments to the constitution will have to
follow should this one be ratified.
The bill as it passed is a very simple
one. It amends article 3, section 4,
paragraph 3 of the constitution of
1877 by striking ont the word October
and inserting the word July so as to
make that section read: “The first
meeting of the general assembly after
the ratification of this ’constitution
shall be on the fourth Wednesday in
July, 1878 and annually thereafter on
the same day until the day shall be
changed by law. ” But it is provided
in the act that it shall not go into ef
fect until January 1895. It will be
seen that the legislature which is elect
ed in October, 1894, will bold its first
session on the fourth Wednesday in
October, 1894, under the present law
Then if the proposed amendment ii
ratified that legislature will meet on
the fourth Wednesday of July, 1895,
and the fourth Wednesday of July, 1896.
The governor elected in Oct., 1894, will
hold office until July, 1897, for his
successor cannot qualify except when
the legislature is in session. And af
ter the election of governor, which
occurs in October, 1896, the successful
candidate cannot be installed until
July, 1897. Under the present law as
it stands the governor’s term is from
October until October—two years. If
this amendment to the constitution is
ratified there must necessarily be a
supplementary amendment or each
legislature will have to have a special
session for the purpose of inaugurat
ing the governor.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Affairs ol Goyernmeiit and Nm
Hie Departments Discnssei
Notes of Interest Concerning the Pea-
pie and Their General Welfare,
Tlmt Big Railroad Case.
Comptroller General Wriglit is mix
iously awaiting the decision of the
United States supreme court in the
case recently heard before it bearing
upon the county taxation railroad law
of Georgia. The history of this case
is familiar to every Georgian who keeps
at all posted on public affairs. The
Glenn law was passed several years ago
providing for a tax on railroads by the
counties of the state through which
the railroads run. The law was chal
lenged by the Columbus Southern on
the ground that it is based on an un
constitutional principle. Other rail
roRds whose charters have a clause ex
empting them from any further taxes
than are stipulated therein made
kick against the law, and the come
quence is that but few of the roads in
Georgia have ever antied up the money
to the counties in compliance with the
law, preferring to wait and hear what
the final ruling in the case that has
gone to the supreme court of the
United States would he.
* * +
Working lor the Farmer.
Col. J. O. Waddell, president of the
State Agricultural Society, is working
up transportation for delegates to the
state convention of the Agricultural
Society, which is to meet in Brunswick
in February. This is a very impor
tant session, and there will he a large
attendance of farmers from all over
Georgia. Colonel Waddell is san
guine of being able to ar
range tickets over the Savannah
Florida' and Western railway and
the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia. He has worked long nnd
faithfully in the interest of the far-
mern of Georgia, and is much interest
ed in the state fair to be held this fall.
Col. Waddell believes farmers in Geor
gia tie on a boom, in spite of the panic
of the past summer. He says that
many car loads of hogs have
been shipped from southwest
Georgia to Chicago the past
year, Armour & Co. buying thousands
of Georgia porkers. This shows that
there is plenty of meat raised in the
state by our own people. The Colonel
is much interested in the growing of
fruit and the raising of poultry in
Georgia. He slates that one farmer
in Macon county last year made
$6,000 net from his orchard, and that
the people of northeast Georgia made
more from poultry and eggs than from
all of the cotton crop. It is not diffi
cult to learn from Colonel Waddell
that he has great faith in the Georgia
farmer and believes in his future.
ri odoehe made me blind. I tried every-
■MoV'-rd-oLand went to the Rhode Island
f' „A’s found no relief. A friend advis-
isaparilla. I have aow become
r Aly eves have perfectly heal-
(hA® ’•adache is cured. Hood’s Sarsa,
u Jvit all.” Mbs E. Loghef.
—‘“’yinKc HOOD’S CURES
•i t-
The Amendment Muddle.
The muddle over the amendment to
the constitution providing for summer
sessions of the legislature continues.
Under the bill passed by the legisla
ture, and which is to be submitted to
the people for ratification, the next
legislature must necessarily hold tbr.
sessions and there is sure to bi
complications about the
Btutehow o&cWc «n<i fnrii
Pensions for Widows nnd Soldiers.
The busiest man in Georgia today is
Captain Tip Harrison at the state crip-
itol. He is at work on the widows’
pensions, which fall due the first day
of February. This pension business
into which Captain Harrison has to
dive at this season every year is no
small job. He has to write out the
checks for every widow in the state
who draws a pension and has to keep
account of them all and then as soon
as that is finished he has to take up
the work of paying off the wounded
confederate soldiers who survive the
bitter days of the sixties. There are
4,100 widows in Georgia who draw these
pensions and it is no easy task to write
out their warrants on the state
treasury and keep account of them and
attend to the payment all at cnce.
Such attention to the widows involves
the handling of $275,000, which is the
amount appropriated annually for
them. There are nut as many old sol
diers on the pension list as there are
widows in the state. The number this
year will run up to about 3,300, and
the amount of money divided among
them according to the appropriation
act, is $185,000. The soldiers have no
regular pensions as do the widows, and
the amount paid each one vary as the
severity of the injuries received in the
war varies. So much is allowed for a
broken leg, so much for a lost finger,
so much for the loss of one eye and so
forth. The amounts rango from $5 to
beyond a hundred dollars. The death
roll of old soldiers this year will
be about the same as last. Tho num
ber last year was about the same as the
year before and was about the same as
the death rate among the widows. The
proportion of deaths among the sol
diers and widows runs about the same
as the years roll by, though there are
none to take the place of the old sol
diers on the list of pension drawers.
The ranks are thinning out gradually.
Each year there are fewer of the boys
who wore, the gray in the troublesome
days of civil strife to hobble into the
office of Captain Tip Harrison and ask
for their money the state gives them.
THE SPOUTS DISAPPOINTED,
‘Dummy” Contest at Jacisonyille
Was Not Interferes Witti.
The Sports Expected Governor Mitch
ell Would Take Action to Stop It.
A Jacksonville special says: Harris
and Watkins, the negro pugilists, met
at the opera house Monday night un
der articles of agreement identical to
those signed by Corbett and Mitchell,
and were not interfered with. The
meeting was under the supervision of
the chief of police and the referee was
vested with power to stop the mill
whenever it reached a point indicating
danger.
When time was called at 9 o’clock
there was a largo crowd present.
“Billy” Taylor, the well-known sport,
was referee, and Pat Reedy, a local
puglist, timekeeper. Two” “coons”
held the bottles. Chief of Police
Keefe, representing the city, and
Dupty Sheriff Yinzant, representing
Sheriff Broward and the state, were
on the stage.
As soon as time was called the ne
groes went at it viciously. After some
sharp in-fighting they broke away and
almost iinmediatelyWatkins got an in
ning and landed a heavy right on
Harris’s stomach, following it up with
a savage swing that caught his oppo
nent on the corner of the left eye, the
blood spurting from the blow. This
was entirely too hot for Harris and he
refused to continue, saying he had
been drunk all day and was in no con
dition to fight. The decision, there
fore, went to Watkins, and also four-
fifths of the $50 purse, the other $10
going to Harris. Time 1:20.
The club people were disappointed
that the state authorities took no ac
tion to stop the contest. They were
hopeful until the last minute that
Governor Mitchell would interfere,
thereby showing his hand, and giving
them an idea of what might be expect
ed if Corbett and Mitchell meet. But
the governor, it is said, has never in
tended to interfere with the fight
between the negroes, believing that it
was simply “a dummy affair,” arranged
by the club to draw him out with the
intention of gaining some point in the
legal complications which state inter
ference would have brought about and
which might be used to advantage in
the attempt to bring Corbett and
Mitchell together. The governor how
ever is rather “foxy” himself, and so
he kept his hands off the negroes and
is still free to carry out his intention
in regards to the Corbett-Mitchell
fight, without running counter to a
decision from any court in Jackson
ville. The club people know this, and
they feel that he has cleverly elud
ed the snare which had been set for
him.
The senate in executive session Wed
nesday rejected the nomination of J.
Scott Harrison to be surveyor of cus
toms at Kansas City. Mr. Harrison is
a brother of ex-President Harrison,
and was appointed over the protest of
Senator Vest.
Representative Durborow, of Illi
nois, introduced a bill in the house
Tuesday authorizing the secretary of
the navy to transfer to the trustees of
the Columbian museum, Chicago, the
productions of the caravels of Colum
bns, the Santa Maria, Nina and Pinta
which were exhibited at the world’s
Columbian exposition.
The senate in executive session Thurs
day made public the rejection of Hon
W. B. Hornblower, to be associate
justice of the supreme court of the
United States, and J. Scott Harrison to
lie surveyor of customs at Kansas City,
Mo., and also the following confirma
tions: William H. Brawley, to be
district judge for the district of South
Carolina; J. V. Guillotte, marshal for
the eastern district of Louisiana; Col
lectors of Customs, S. H. .Lane, for the
district of Pimlico, N. C.; T. W. Lamb,
district of Brunswick, Ga.: Collectors
of Internal Revenue, Mcllville E.
Carter, for the fifth district of North
Carolina.
Representative Stone, of Pennsylva
nia, introduced a hill in the house
Tuesday providing for the inspection
of immigrants by United States con
suls. The bill provides that no alien
shall be admitted within the United
States unless he shall exhibit to the
United States inspectors a certificate
signed by the United States consul at
the place nearest where such immi
grant last resided, setting forth that
the consul had made an investigation
concerning the immigrant, and that
he does not belong to the class of alien
immigrants excluded from admission
to the United States under the provis
ions of the law approved March 3,
1891, relative to the importation of
immigrants under contract to perform
labor.
Lil’« Restoration Abandoned.
Mr. Holman, of Indiana, who has
been one of the administration’s lead
ing representatives on the floor of the
house in the Hawaiian matter, said
Tuesday that the restoration of Lilli-
uokalani to the Hawaiian throne had
been for all time abandoned by both
the executive and congress. “My
view,” said he, “is that the United
States should now recognize the pro
visional government as the existing
and lawful government of Hawaii.
We should then proceed to secure, by
treaty with the provisional govern
ment, an agreement which will guar
antee the islands against interference
by foreign powers. It would be in ef
fect a protectorate, yet it should not
be a protectorate in the sense of bind
ing the two countries to mutual offen
sive and defensive measures.”
Secretary Carlisle’s Statement.
The senate committee on finance
met Tuesday morning, and, after dis
cussing for one hour the proposition
of Mr. Carlisle, were unable to agree
upon any definite result. Secretary
Carlisle’s statement was made in a let
ter to Senator Voorhees, chairman of
the senate finance committee. After
giving the deficit in the treasury for
the current year up to the present time
as $43,558,044.94, estimating the de
ficit at the close of the year at $78,-
107,542, the secretary says: “On
account of this critical condition of the
treasury, I have considered it my duty
in addition to the earnest recommend
ations contained in my annual report,
to appear twice before your committee
and, after full explanations of the sit
uation, urge prompt legislative action
on this subject. By the permission of
congress, I have prepared and pre
sented for the consideration, a measure
which, if promptly passed, in my opin
ion, would relieve the situation by
providing the means for defraying
the public expenses and replenishing
the coin reserve to such an extent as to
assure the maintainance of the parity
of all forms of all United States cur
rency. While this proposed measure
of relief has not yet been disposed of,
or considered by the committee, the
great differences of opinion which are
known to exist in both branches of
congress concerning the propriety
of granting additional or amended
authority to issue bonds, in any form
or for any jmrpose, renders it
doubtful whether new legislation
upon the subject can be secured
in time to provide the means which
are imperatively demanded in or
der to preserve the credit and honor of
the governmeni. Authority to issue
and sell bonds for the purpose of
maintaining specie payments are ex-
.pressly conferred upon the secretary
of the treasury by the act of January
14, 187t>, but it has not been exercised
since 1879, and, on account of the high
rate of interest provided for and the
length of time such bonds would have
to run. I have not been satisfied that
such an emergency as heretofore exist
ed would clearly justify their issue.
But the necessity for relief at this time
is so urgent., and the prospect of material
improvement in the financial condition
of the government is so problematical,
that unless authority to issue and sell
shorter bonds, or other obligations,
bearing a lower rate of interest than
that specified in the existing law is
granted by congress at a very early
day, I Bhall feel constrained by a sense
of public-duty to exercise the power
already conferred to the extent, at
least, of providing an adequate gold
reserve. If this action should be taken
congress ought, nevertheless, to pro
vide promptly for the deficiency in the
revenues during the current fiscal
year. ”
VOORHEES REPLIES
To Secretary Carlisle’s Letter in Re
gard to a Bond Issue.
A Washington special says: A meet
ing of the senate committee was held
Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of
considering Secretary Carlisle’s letter
and bond bill. After the conclusion
of the meeting Senator Yoorhees, as
chairman of the committee, handed to
an Associated Press representative, the
statement given below. In making it
he said he did not assume to report
the views of the entire committee and
yet, he knew of no opposition to the
committee to the opinions expressed.
He submitted his statement to the full
committee before giving it to the pub
lic. It is as follows:
“The embarrassed condition of the
treasury and the necessity for Drompt
action for its relief are fully realized.
There is not the slightest ground,
however, for apprehension that the
public credit will suffer or be endan
gered for tho reason that ample au
thority already exists by law for the
secretary of the treasnry to strengthen
his coin reserve to any extent
required, and to meet any demand that
can be legitimate. The”power of the
treasurer for the issue of bonds needs
nothing beyond what is given by the
act of January 14th, 1875. The*only
desirable object to be attained by new
legislation at this time on the subject
is to make a shorter time bond with a
lower rate of interest and yet the sec
retary feels assured that he” can nego
tiate for an issue under the act of 1875,
running only ten years on practically
a 3 per cent basis. It seems, there
fore, that it would be wiser, safer and
better for the financial and business
interests of the country to rely upon
the existing law with which to meet
the present emergency, rather than to
encounter the delays and uncer
tainties always incident to a pro
tracted discussion in the two houses of
congress. This view of the condition
of the treasury admits of but little, if
any, dolay, and of no uncertainty at
all in the final action to be taken.” It
would be trifling with a very grave af
fair to pretend that nc-w legislation
concerning the issue of bonds can be
accomplished at this time, and in the
midst of the present political elements
and parties in public with elaborate,
extensive and practically indefinite de
bate.
It is so obvious to every one that
the consideration of the tariff now
going on in congress will render any
financial legislation at this time far
more difficult and complicated than it
might be under another and different
circumstances.
“It is proper to say in this connec
tion that the senate finance committee
for several weeks past has had this
subject under almost constant consid
eration and that the hill submitted by
Mr. Carlisle has been examined and
discussed with the greatest care. • The
interest of the committee will by no
means be abated from this time for
ward. The fact that much remains to
be done is fully recognized. Whatev
er deficiency in the revenue may exist
during the current fiscal year will be
promptly provided for by appropriate
and efficient legislation at the earliest
practicable moment.”
The senate finance commit tee author
izes Senator Yoorhees to introduce the
Carlisle bill into the senate and also to
present the letter from the secretary of
the treasury for tho ennsideratfon of
that body, which was done. The au
thorization as to the introduction of
the bill is not intended to mean, how
ever, that the committee has decided
to make an effort to pass the bill
through the senate or that it has given
it further endorsement than to allow
it to be printed and refered to the
committee in the regular way for con
sideration.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
The Driff ot Her Progress and Pros
perity Briefly Noted
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
O’BRIEN RELEASED.
An
A Crank Sentenced.
James Bradley, the alleged crank,
who, in October, shot and dangerous-
wounded Superintendent Fred C.
Matthes, while the latter was direct
ing his men at work on a Broadway,
Y,, insurance building, was, on
Wednesday, sentenced to five years’
impriJk>nment in the state prison by
Recover Smith, in the court of gen-
.■*init of the Jaw.
tun —
it will
Unlooked for Denoument iu this
Celebrated Case.
The criminal prosecution of M. J.
O’Brien for embezzling $75,000 from
the Catholic Knights of America,
while supreme treasurer of the order,
was begun in the state court at Chatta
nooga, Tenn,, Wednesday morn
ing. A plea of abatement of in
dictment was filed by the defense
which claimed that the Knights
were not.a chartered organization un
der the laws of Tennessee. On refusal
of the prosecution to join issue on the
plea, the court discharged the pris
oner, This is one of the most signifi
cant decisions ever given from the
state bench. O’Brien was allowed to
make bond in the sum of $15,000
pending an appeal to the snpr^i
Court. ~
If yon have anjU^
yea ought to jgt**
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GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
Th- review of the industrial situation in the
south for the past week shows that in I he or
ganization of new industries the southern states
liaTe maintains 1 the average during the week,
with an increase in the number of enlarge
ments of manufactories. Inquiries for new ma
chinery continued to be unusually large. An
advance in the price of rice encourages the
growers, who have large stocks on hand, but
the farmers who aro holding thoir cotton for
advanced prices are not equally fortunate. The
southern farmers, as a class, are in better pe
cuniary condition at this season than ever be
fore. Less money was borrowed on the securi
ty of growing crop-, and more supplies were
made at home. In consequence, the greater
part of the receipts for sales remain for futnre
use instead, as in former years being paid on
previous debts, and for corn and meat from the
northwest.
The iron and coal producers are pog'poning
any increase in their outputs until the tariff
question is settled.
Tliirty-two new industries were established or
incorporated during the week, together with
twelve enlargements of manufactori es, and
twelve important new buildings. The follow
ing are among the prominent new industries:
The Lott Copper Mine Co., of Mineral City,
Ya-, capital $200,000, by W. F. Lott and others
of New York; the Fordyce Nut Lock Co., of
Fordyce, Aric., capital $100,000, by John D.
Dunn and others; the Brown Automatic Car
Coupler Co., of Alexandria. Ya., capital $100,-
000, by P. C. Brown aud associates; a canning
factory at Jackson, Tenn-, to cost $35,000, by
G. C. Anderson and others; electric works, cap
ital $20,000, at Jackson, Bliss., by IV. Watson
and associa’es; the GalveBton Cemeut Pipe
Works, of Galveston, Texas, capital $20,000, G.
H. Henchman and others, incorporated, anil
the Southern Glass Co., of Atlanta, Ga., capi
tal $15,000, by James Bogers and others.
A brewery is reported at Austin, Texas; can
ning factories at Brewton, Ala., Augusta, Ga..
Lexington, Ky., and Friendsville, Tenn,; err
works at Augusta, Ga.; cement works at Fort
Yallev, Ga ; flour and grist mills at Yocnm,
Ark., Summerville, Ga.; Columbia, N. C.,
Calhoun, Tenn., Beaumont, Texas, and Chat
ham Hill, Va., and a fiber factory at Daltonia,
Fla. A furniture factory-is to be built at Pine
Bluff, Ark.; an ice factory at Frankfort, Ky.;
car coupler works at Tar River, N. C., and
paint works at Little Bock, Ark. A gold
mine is to be opended at Canton, Ga., a tobac
co factory built at Winston, N. C.; refrigera
tor works an I a turpentine distillery at Mobile,
Ala-, and saw and planing mills at Hilliard,
Fla., and Little Bock, Ark.
The enlargements for tho week inolude elec
tric lighting woiks at Brinkley, Ark.; flour and
grist mills at Franklin, Kv.. and Tyro Shops,
N. C; coal mine at Brookside, Ala.; oil mills
at Little Book, Ark., and Barnwell, 8. C.sphoa-
phate works at Early Bird, Fla.; a furniture
factory at Atlanta, Ga.; cordage works at An
niston, Ala., and a cotton milt at Elkin, N. 0.
Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
MEETING OF TOBACCO MEN.
The Repeal of the “Free Leaf” Clause
Strennonsly Urged.
At a largely attended meeting of the
Richmond, • Ya., tobacco trade held
Monday the following was adopted:
“Resolved, That we respectfully
urge onr honorable senators and rep
resentatives to use their best endeav
ors to prevent any increase in the in
ternal revenue tax on plug and smoking
tobacco, cheroots and cigars; also to
repeal the clause known as the “free
leaf.” The law as it now stands is a se
rious injury to farmers, merchants, man
ufacturers and one of the chief reasons
for the immediate decrease of about
3,000,000 pounds in the manufacture
of plug in the year, with no percepti
ble increase in other branches, thereby
causing a heavy loss of revenue to the
government. By repealing this “free
leaf” clause the revenue from manufac
tured tobacco iu all forms will he so
largely increased as to nJider an in
crease iu tho tax unoecea
restore active compoti
The American Association of General
Baggage Agents held its thirteenth an
nual convention at St. Augustine, Fla.,
Wednesday.
At the regular meeting of the
stockholders of the Bank of Gunters-
ville, Ala., they declared a 4 per cent,
dividend and carried a good sum to
the reserve fund.
The Dean penitentiary bill was de
bated all day Tuesday in the Missis
sippi state senate and passed by a vote
of 29 to 9. The features of this bill
provides for the purchase of a state
prison farm.
It is stated that the Etna iron works
at Tecumseh, Ala., will be blown in on
February 1st. The Langdon ore mines
have already resumed work after more
than a year of idleness, and the busi
ness men of Tecumseh are beginning
to become reassured.
Huntsville, Ala., has* organized a
chamber of commerce, with Mr. B. E.
Bettus, a leading merchant, as presi
dent, and Hon. William Bichardson as
vice president. The club starts with
practically all of the business men of
the city as members, and great good is
expected to result.
The Coosa cotton mill, at Piedmont,
Ala., which has been idle for several
weeks past, resumed work Tuesday.
The hum of the machinery and the
familiar sound of the mill’s big whistle
has inspired the business men of the
city and things generally look decid
edly more cheerful.
A Jackson, Miss., special says: The
senate spent the entire day Tuesday
discussing Mr. Dean's bill, “an act to
establish a penitentiary farm and to
appropriate money therefor.” Able
speeches were made on both sides. No
vote was reached, but it ts clear that
the bill will pass by a good majority.
A bill was introduced in the Vir
ginia senate, Wednesday, authorizing
tho purchase of the Richmond and
Danville railroad, their successors and
assigns to become a corporation, adopt
a name therefor, aud possess and exer
cise general powers and authorizing
the consolidating therewith with other
corporations.
A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch says:
Judge Seymour, of the United States
circuit court for this district, has de
cided that married women are liable
for their assessment on their stock iu
hanks which aro insolvent. Women
who held stock in the wrecked First
National bank, of Wilmingten, refused
to pay an assessment made by the comp
troller of the currency.
General William H. Forney,ex-mem
ber of congress from Alabama, a gallant
soldier and distinguished statesman,
died at his home in Jacksonville, Ala.,
late Tuesday night. He was seventy-
one years old and was a veteran of two
wars. He was in congress sixteen or
eighteen years. He was probably the
best known and most uniformly beloved
public man in Alabama.
At Raleigh, N. C., Tuesday, there
was a full meeting of the trustees of
the Baptist State Female university,
W. L. Poteet, of Wake Forest, presid
ed. By a unanimous vote John B.
Brewer was elected president o'f the
university. For twenty-five years he
has been president of Chowan Baptist
Female institute at Murfreesboro. The
trustees also decided to open the uni
versity in Kaleigh September let next.
A disastrous fire occurred at Mills, a
small village ill Harlan county, Ky.,
Tuesday morning, in which three per
sons perished and a number of build
ings were consumed. The fire broke
out in the store and residence of
Frederick Houson. Houson and his
oldest son made their escape. Mrs,
Houson could also have been saved
hut for the fact that she attempted to
awaken her two daughters, aged sev
enteen and nineteen years, and all
three perished in the flames.
A dispatch from El Paso, Texas,
says: It is still impossible to get fur
ther details of the conflict between the
soldiers and revolutionists, but it is
certain that there has been a battle
near the Mexican Central road, be
tween El Paso and Chihuahua. Trains
that reached Chihuahua Wednesday
from the City of Mexico brought 600
rurales from that city. These are the
favorite troops of President Diaz and
are famous as fighters, especially fit
ted for mountain warfare. Just where
these troops are bound for cannot be
learned.
Mayor Ochs, of Chattanooga, has
issued an official call for a citizens’
meeting to take public action regard
ing the holding of a tri-state fair in
that city. The fair association has
been organized on a working basis,
and has gained recognition from the
city council. It is designed to hold
annually recurring fairs on a large
scale for the display of. the arts and
products, mineral and agricultural, of
the sisterhood of states, Alabama,
Georgia and Tennessee, forming the
foothill region of the great Blue Ridge
mountain system.
The South Carolina state board of
health met at Charleston Wednesday.
The following officers for the ensuing
year were elected: Chairman, Dr.
John R. Brnller, of Yorkville; vice
chairman, Dr. T. G. Simons, of Charles
ton; secretary, Dr. H. H. Fraser, of
Charleston. The new law passed at
the last session of the legislature was
discussed and the municipal authori
ties were notified that they must com
plete the organization of the local
boards of health and report to the state
board by July 1st.
Highest of all in Leavening PoY^ef.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report.
ABSOLUTELY (WE
How to Keep Grapes.
There are hundreds of barrels of
grapes sent yearly from Spain, and
they have to he kept for weeks and
months after picking. The fruit is cut
from the vines with a sharp knife
before it gets over-ripe. It is spread
on benches, twelve to eighteen inches
deep, in a close room and left to sweat
for two or three days. All broken and
discolored berries are then cut out
with long, pointed scissors and the
fruit is packed in barrels in dry cork-
dust. A layer of dust is put on the
bottom and then a layer of grapes and
so on until the barrel is full. It is
well shaken during the process and
all space filled with the dust.
The barrels are headed tightly
and then shipped. They are kept in
cool places after being received in
New York.
Native grapes may be kept in the
same way. Care must be exercised in
not letting them get get too ripe. Se
lect well-formed bunches and only
such varieties as have a tough skin
and hang well to the stem. Those in.
which the bunches are not too compact
are preferable to the solid bunches. If
possible get the barrels and cork dust
which the foreign grapes come in, as
experience has shown them to be the
best for this purpose. Where this
cannot be obtained, bran may be used,
or very fine dry saw dust. Iu fact,
most anything that will keep the air
away from the fruit will do. Store
the packages in a dark, dry, cool place.
Mathematics and Money.
Husband—“According to your own
figures, you spent over $100 this year
in cheap fripperies which had to be
thrown away after once wearing. That
SI 00 would have bought a piece of lace
that would have lasted a life-time—in
fact could be used by your descen
dants for generations.”
Wife—“Well, give me $100, and I
will buy the lace for next year.”
Ansband— ‘ ‘Um—never mind :I—I
don’t think lace is very becoming to
your style of beauty. Here’s ten cents
for another ruffle.”—New York
Weekly.
Suburban Life.
Mrs. Suburb—“I have been hardly
able to breathe all day. Those people
next door have been burning the dead
leaves on the lawn, aud the wind is iu
this direction.”
Mr. Suburb—“Never mind, my
dear. Wait till the wind turns, and
then we’ll burn ours. ”
Where Lightning Strikes Twice.
During the last feeven years five
horses have been killed by lightning
on a single knoll on the French
farm, which lies on the road lead
ing from Flint to Flushing, Mich.,
and nearly every tree on the same farm
is said to bear the marks of the ‘ ‘fork
ed fury.” An open lot at East Great
Plains, Conn., has been “hit by thun
derbolts,” as an old resident of that
place expresses it, 11 different times
since the spring of 1887, and apiece of
woods not more than a half a mile
away has been literally riddled by the
electric shots. At West Heath, Mass,
a hill near the village schoolhouse has
been struck by lightning so often that
the old settlers have tried to keep a
record of the singular occurrences.
A Constant Visitor.
A constant and most unwelcome visitor of
those troubled with rheumatism is pain-
acute, agonizing and spasmodic, or dull and
incessant. Check this obstinate complaint,
at its outset, with Host otter’s Stomach Bit
ters and avoid life-long discomfort. Malaria
and bilious trouble, constipation, dyspepsia
and nervousness are relieved by the Bitters.
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KNOWLEDGE
Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet-
tet ifian others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the world’s best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, th? refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative ; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
ana permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance. ^ - -
Syrup of Figs is for sale by drug
gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but its man
ufactured by the California FigSyrup
Co. only, whose name is printed otr very
package, also the name, Syrup of rigs,
and being well informed, you willuot
accept any substitute if offered.
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Enlivening Business.
First Boy—“Why did you throw
that dead cat into that yard?”
Second Boy—“Don’t say a word.
They’ll think that the next door neigh
bors threw it in.”
“S’pose they do?”
“My pop’s a lawyer, aud I want a
bicycle.”
Mayor John P. Hopkins, of Chicago,
is the twenty-ninth to occupy the
office. Fourteen of the twenty-nine
were born in the state of New York.
A SURGEON'S KHIFE
gives you a feeling- of horror and
dread. There is no longer necessity for
Its use iu many disooses formerly re
garded os incurable without cutting.
The Triumph ef Ganservativs Surgery
is well illustrated by tbe fact that
RilPTUPP or Breach,is now radl-
nuriunb cally cured without tho
knife and without pain. Clumsy, chaf
ing trusses can bo thrown away 1 They
never cure but often induce inflam
mation, strangulation and death.
TliMhRQ Ovarian. Fibroid (Uterine)
I uiiluliu and many others, are now
removed without the perils of cut
ting operations.
PILE TUMORS, 'Yfd
other diseases of the lower bowel, are
permanently oured without pain or
resort to the knife.
RTONF in thB Bladder, no matter
U l v is L. jj OTr large, is crushed, pul
verized, washed out and perfectly re
moved without cutting.
STRICTURE
also removed ^ritliout
cutting in hundreds of cases. For
E amphlct, references and all particu-
Lrs, send 10 cents (in stamps) to
World’s Dispensary Medical Associa
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NEWS FROM BRAZIL.
The Insurgents Making it Warm for
the Government.
Dispatches received at Buenos Ayres
Tuesday night from Bio Janeiro state
that the insurgent warship Aquidabon
had taken up a position in front of the
custom house and was preparing to
land troops. The insurgents have
captured Eugentro island. Forty gov
ernment troops were killed and sixty
captured. The government has sent
reinforcements to Nictheroy. The in
surgents are reported to be burning
villages in the state of Rio Grande do
Sul and butchering the captives they
make.
Resigned as Commissioner.
A Baltimore dispatch of Tuesday
says: R. D. Carpenter hag resigned
as commissioner of Associated Rail
ways of Virginia and the Carolinas.
The resignation takes effect February
1st. William H. Fitzgerald will suc
ceed to the position. Tbe railroads
comprised in tfye association ara the
Richmond an vrijDanville, the Atlantia
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heart, the head, the blood, the nerves
all go wrong. If you feel wrong,
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