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CONGRESSIONAL.
DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH
HOUSE AND SENATE.
The Discussion of Important Measures
Briefly Epitomized.
In the house Monday, resolutions
the Memphis Cotton Exchange favor
ing the Cotton States and Internation
al Exposition, at Atlanta, Ga., in Sep
tember, 1895, were presented by Mr.
Harris and referred to the committee
on commerce. At noon the tariff bill
was taken up.
Several private bills were passed at
Tuesday’s session and the bouse went
into committee of the whole on the
naval appropriation bill.
In the house, Wednesday, unanimous
consent was refused for the considera
tion of McGann’s resolution for the
investigation by a joint committee of
congress of the causes of the present
industrial depression, and after a call
of the committees for reports, the
house in committee of the whole, con
tinued the consideration of the agri
cultural appropriation bill.
In the house, Thursday, the bill re
pealing section 9 of the act of 1890.
governing the, -display of lights and
signals on vessels at sea, with a view
to preventing collisions was passed.
This was made necessary, it was
plained, by reason of the failure
Great Britain to observe the agree
ment of the International Marine Con
ference'of 18S9. The house then,
12:30, went into committee of the
whole to farther consider the agricult
urul appropriation bill.
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THE SENATE.
Monday being district day in the
senate measures relating to the district
of Columbia were taken up.
During the discussion of the tariff
bill in the senate, Tuesday, Mr. Vest
said that it was very evident that it
was the intention of the republican
side of the chamber to kill the bill by
'delay. (Cries of “Oh, no!” from the
republican senators.) “They say ‘oh
no,’” Mr. Vest went on, “but their
acts belie their words. They spend
day after day in discussing insectivor
ous matters. They want to kill the bill
by procrastination. We on this side
have got but one thing to do, and we
intend to do it without waiting or hes
itating. We intend to pass the bill if
it takes us until snow flies next winter,
and wo will leave to the senators on
the other side the task of defeating by
filibustering, but we are not gring into
the field of conjecture to help them.’
Mr. Aldrich expressed surprise at Mr.
Vest’s speech and said: “There is no
disposition, there has not been and
there will not be, on this side of the
chamber, to do anything with this
bill except to discuss it fairly. There
will be no filibustering, and no at
tempt at filibustering on the part of
the opponents to the measure. ”
In the senate, Wednesday, Mr.
Lodge offered a resolution reciting a
statement in the New York Sun that
bribes had been offered to certain sen
ators to induce them to vote against
the pending tariff bill, and signed ar
tides in a Philadelphia paper stating
that the sugar schedule had been made
up as it now stands in consideration of
a large sum of money paid for cam
paign purposes of the democratic
party, and providing for the appoint
ment of a committee of five senators
to investigate those charges. The
vice president asked Mr. Lodge what
action he desired. Mr. Lodge replied
that he asked for the present consid
eration of the resolution. Mr. Cock
rill—“Let it be printed and lie on the
table. ” And under the rule tho reso
lution went over until Thursday. The
tariff bill was taken up at noon, the
pending question being item number
27, of the chemical schedule, “flaxseed
or linseed and poppy seed oil, raw,
boiled or oxidized, 15 cents per gal
Ion.”
The senate at Thursday’s session
adopted a resolution providing for the
investigation of the charges of bribery
in connection with the tariff bill, and
the charges that the sugar trust has
interfered with legislation. The latter
part of the resolution was materially
amended so as to include the fact
whether or not the sugar trust has
made any contributions to campaign
or election purposes to any party, or
to seenre or defeat legislation on the
tariff bill. The tariff bill was taken up
at noon, and Mr. Gallingcr spoke
against it-.
HIKES NOMINATED.
THK POPULISTS OF GEORGIA
NAME IIIM FOR GOVERNOR,
Other State House Officers Selected.
The Platform.
The people’s party of Georgia met
state convention at Atlanta and
nominated Judge J. K. Hines, of At
lanta, for Governor. The followin
state house officers were named: Dr.
V L. Nance, of Gainesvile, Hall
county, for secretary of state; C. M.
Jones, of Bartow county, for treasurer;
W. E. Kemp, of Emanuel, for comp
troller-general; J. D. Mehaffey, of
Jackson, for attorney-general; James
Barrett, of Richmond, for commis
sioner of agriculture.
THE PLATFORM.
The platform as adopted began by
saying that the people’s party believed
in the democratic principles of gov
ernment laid down by Thomas Jeffer
son. The next proclamation was that
all men were created equal and alike,
and that, entertaining that belief, tho
people’s party believed in all the other
propositions laid down by the consti
tution of the United States and by
Jefferson.
We are amazed that the business
men of the country are willing to give
national banks the government’s money
at one per cent and let them charge
the people eight per cent in return, ”
was the next proposition, after which
came a declaration for a graduated in
come tax.
Then followed a number of clauses,
all of which began “like Jefferson, we
believe,” and the beliefs in these
clauses covered the platforms hereto
fore adopted by the populists’ national
conventions.
Then after a denunciation of the
democratic party and the democratic
administration the following procla
mations in connection with reforms in
the state of Georgia were made: -
For the abolition of the convict
lease system.
Eor the furnishing by the state of
school books in state’s schools and for
payment of the teachers monthly.
For an Australian ballot law, with
provisions for the protection of the
ights of the blind and illiterate.
The next clause condemned the ac
ceptance of railroad passes by public
officers, state and national.
The report closed witli a pledge to
support the principles laid down by
the third party in the past by invoking
the blessings of God.
LATEST TELEGRAMS
CONDENSED INTO SHORT AND
BREEZY PARAGRAPHS,
An<l Giving tlie Gist of the News Up
to the Time of Going to Press.
Of
Governor Carr, of North Carolinn,
has appointed A. G. Holliday commis
sioner to attend tho Southern Inter
state Immigration convention at Au
gusta, Ga., May 30th.
The officials of the Ramsey Coke
company at Uniontown, Fa., have an
nounced that every foreigner in their
employ would bo discharged as fast as
possible, and their places be filled by
negroes.
The stato convention of Mississippi
bankers, by formal resolution, re
quested the Mississippi senators and
congressmen to vote for the repeal of
the 10 per cent tax on the circulation
of state banks.
Secretary of State Coke issues a cir
cular letter to several insurance com
panics reported rs doing bnsiness in
North Carolina without license. This
is a violation of the law and the agents
are liable to a fine of $200 and ninety
days in jail or both.
A New York dispatch says
the $5,000,000 stock of the new
South Carolina and Georgia Railroad
Company, the successor of the old
South Carolina railroad, Charles Par
sons takes $4,000,000, which carries
control. Holders of the old bonds
get a portion of the balance of the
stock.
The North Carolina state crop
port for May, based on reports from
one thousand correspondents, says the
condition of small grain May lst.com
pared with the vitality and growth of
average years, is as follows: Wheat,
82 ; oats, 75 ; rye, 38; rice, 82; corn
95 ; cotton, 85; tobacco, 76; pastures,
hay and clover, 77. The fruit pros
pects are—apples, 30; peaches, 17, the
lowest on record.
A strange malady afflicts the family
of Peter Burba at Hodginsville, Ky.
Several months ago one of the girls
suddenly became blind and later her
tongue swelled until she almost choked
to death. This was followed by sever
al fits, when she apparently recovered
Another member of the family was at
tacked in a somewhat similar manner
some days ago. Tho affection spread
until now the entire family is suffering,
The most memorable convention of
late years in Tennessee succeeded in
breaking its deadlock at 5 o’clock
Thursday morning, and on the 455th
ballot Congressman Henry C. Snod
grass was nominated to make the race
again as the democratic nominee from
the third district. The result was
brought about by the withdrawal of J.
B. Frazier, the administration candi
date from Hamilton, on the 455th bal
lot.
A State street block, six-story gran
ite structure, at Boston, Mass., was
badly damaged and contents ruined by
fire and water early Thursday morning
It was used as a United States bonded
warehouse, and the custom house offi
cer states that there was over $1,000,
000 worth of goods in the building,
and in his opinion the loss will exceed
1600,000, without taking into account
the loss on the building. This is val
ued at $200,000, and is damaged to the
extent of $50,000.
Governor Mitchell has appointed the
following delegates to represent Flor
ida in the southern industrial and im
migration convention, which will con
vene at Augusta, Ga., May 30th
Colonel D. H. Elliott, of Sanford
Colonel John Bradford, of Bradford
ville, and Hon. John N. C. Stockton
of Jacksonville, for state at large
Colonel W. D. Chipley, of Pensacola,
for the first congressional district, and
Hon. P. P. Bishop, of Citra, for the
second district.
NEWS IX GENERAL.
A BRIEF SUMMARY OF IMPOR
TANT HAPPENINGS
Showing AVhat is Going On In Our
Own and Foreign Lands.
TRADE TOPICS.
Dun’s & Cc.’s Report of Business for
the Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Oo.’s weekly review of
trade, among other things, says: “Thfi
fitrikes begin to have a serious, though,
it is assumed, only a temporary effect.
The number of works depending upon
supplies of bituminous coal or coke
for fuel is large, and quite a consider
able portion of them has already been
compelled to stop operations. No
doubt the proportion is larger in the
iron and steel manufactures than any
other business, but nearly a third in
capacity of the iron furnaces at work
a month ago appear to have closed.
Some railroads at the west are embar-
assed, and textile works of some im
portance must soon close unless the
strike ceases.
“The movement of so-called armies
unemployed on Washington has
caused little excitement, and is less im
portant or significant than the outward
movement of specie, which shows a
shrinking of foreign demand for pro
ducts and the further withdrawal of
foreign capital.
“But neither strikes nor foreign dis
trust can long retard the progress of
this country. Tho capacity of iron
furnaces in blast May 1st was 110,210
tons, a decrease of 16,512 tons during
April, but The Iron Age has telegraph
ic rejiorts of stoppages by other fur
naces having a capacity of 25,092 tons,
including some expected to stop this
week, which would mean a decrease of
about a third of production since April
1st.
The textile manufacturers are not
keeping up in prospect, for while or
ders do not increase, uncertainties in
regard to the labor grow more serious.
The working force shows much unwil
lingness to accept for another season
tho wages which were temporarily
adopted in order to have the works re
opened after last summer’s suspension.
The apathy of buyers in cottons is re
flected in the further declines of print
cloths, although some qualities of
goods have advanced slightly.
The decline of the treasury gold re
serve below $94,000,000 suggests the
possibility that continued exports of
the precious metal may cause not a lit
tle trouble before the season is over.
-But at present the hanks are only grat
ified, as the accumulation of money
from the interior has not ceased, while
the demands for commercial loans does
not yet enlarge.
“One large failure about doubled
the aggregate of liabilities for firms
failing in the week ending May 3d,
which would otherwise have been quite
small, but were $2,922,794. The
number and the general average of
liabilities are still encouragingly
shrinking. For four weeks of April
the liabilities reported were $8,826,-
862, of which $3,687,220 were of
manufacturing, and $4,677,699 of
trading concerns.
“For the past week the failures have
been 206 in the United States, against
257 last year and 42 in Canada, agaiust
last year, with none of especial im
portance. ”
The Missouri democratic state con
vention met at Kansas City Tuesday.
W. H. Edwards, United States con
sul-general at Berlin died Wednesday
morning after a long and severe ill
ness, the basis of which was inflamma
tion of the lungs.
The Jackson plant of Cochran & Co.
at Connellsviile, Fa., was attacked
Wednesday morning by a mob of 300
strikers. The workmen were protect
ed by armed deputies and the mob was
driven off. Not a shot was fired.
Leading bankers, merchants and
manufacturers of Chicago, to the num
ber of fifty, have formed themselves
into a committee to further the inter
ests of international bi-metallism, and
have prepared a statement of their
aims and objects.
By the disastrous fire in Boston,
Mass., 137 buildings were totally de
stroyed, 22 partly burned, 464 families
burned out, and about 2,300 persons
rendered homeless. This is the report
of the district fire chief after a poll of
the district. The loss is about half a
million.
The miners and mine owners’ repre
sentatives meeting at Cleveland, O.,
agreed that a committee of five mem
bers representing each state be ap
pointed to agree upon a scale of wages
to be presented to the joint conven
tion, arranged satisfactorily to each
state upon that basis.
A Boston, Mass., dispatch says:
Four students at Harvard college were
drowned in the upper harbor, near
Thompson’s island, Tuesday afternoon.
They hired a catboat for a sail and did
not return. The boat was found over
turned with the bodies of two students
in it. The others have not beenfound.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle, which was
burned for the third time Sunday, is
to be rebuilt, and Dr. Tnlmagc is to
remain in Brooklyn. This decision
was reached at a meeting of the trus
tees, held at the residence of Dr. Tal-
mage, at which tho pastor and his as
sistant, Rev. Chandler A. Oakes, and
every member of the board of trustees
were present.
A Washington dispatch says: Coun
sel for Coxey, Browne and Jones have
filed in Judge Bradley’s court an ap
plication for-a writ of certiorari to
stay the carrying into effect of the
verdict in Police Judge Miller’s court.
The district attorney announced that
Judge Miller would suspend sentence
until the pending application was de
cided.
A Washington special says: The
trio of commonweal leaders, ‘‘General”
Coxey, Marshal Carl Browne and
Christopher Columbus J ones, met with
another rebuff in the police court
Tuesday. After four hours and a half
spent in arguments on the motion for
a new trial, Judge Miller overruled
the motion and notified the defendants
to appear Thursday for sentence.
Fire started early Wednesday morn
ing in one of the wooden buildings in
the enclosure known as Jones’ woods,
at Avenue A and Sixty-eightli street,
New York. The flames spread over
the four blocks between Sixty-seventh
and Seventy-first streets, Avenue A
and East river. Over $200,000 dam
age was done. Fifty horses were burn
ed to death and a number of persons
injured.
A dispatch from Greensburg, Pa.,
says: The Galvin commonwealers re
ceived very little eucouragement here
-and now the army is on the verge of
starvation. Colonel Galvin and his
staff called upon the mayor and chief
of police and informed them, unless
food was given within a few hours, he
would turn his men loose to prey upon
the town. Forty special policemen are
now guarding the town from the starv
ing unfortunates.
THROUGH THE SOUTH
ITEMS OF INTEREST GATHERED
FROM SOUTHERN STATES.
Culled and Condensed From
Daily Dispatches.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
The review of the industrial situation in the
South for the past week shows that the miners'
strike has caused preparations to be made for
shuttiug down another furnace, and a want of
coal is reported in a few places. In other re
spects th re is no change in the labor equa
tion, and both parties are confi lent and det- r-
niined. There is a decided improvement in th
lumber industry as is shown by the number of
new plants ami of enlargements of existin.,
ones reported for the week. Favorable weather
has greatly improved the condition of the
growing crops, and tho farmer’s prospects are
now quite encouraging. In gener.d business
and in financial circles matters are quiet, with
reports of less business than usual at this sea
son, and a demand for money not equal to the
supply.
Forty-nine new industries were incorporated
or established during the week, together with
eight enlargements of manufactories and six
teen important new buildings. Prominent
among the new industries of the week are: Toe
Swan River Phosphate Company, of Sheffield,
Ala., capital .f300,000; the Estabutchie Lum
ber Company, of Estabutchie, Miss., capital
450,000; the I'- nn I,umber Company, of Form,
Ga., with 540,000 capital. Tite Brown Electric
nd Machinery Company lias been chartered at
Little Ilock, Ark., with $30,000 capita]; a cotton
oil company, witli 430,0.0 capital, is reported
at Blooming Grove, Texas; the Hoffman Hard
ware Company, capital $35,000. lias been or
ganized at Texarkana, Ark., and the E. K. D:1
lingliam Iron Company, capital 425,000, char
tered at Houston, Texas.
Canning factories are reported at Montgom-
ery, Ala., and Houston, Texas; cotton mills at
Mobile, Ala., Athens, Ga., and Nesbitt, S. C.;
a coiton compress at Taylor, Tex.; lannic acid
works at Jacksonville, Fla., and flour and grist
mills at riiilpot and Mayfield, Kv., Corsicana,
Groesbeck and Nocona, Tex. Fibre factories
are to be built at New Orleans, La., and Titus-
vi le, Fia ; ice factories at Like City, Fla., Co
lumbus, Ga., Harrodsburg; Ky., and Biloxi
and Water Valley, Miss.. ant [ machine shops at
Valdosta, Go., and McHenry, Ky. An oil mi I
is reported at Mt. P eisant, Texas, and a piano
factory at Savannah, Ga. 'The wood-work
ing plants of the week are at England,
Ark-, Apopka, Fla., Birnesville and Waycross,
Ga., Frankfort, Jackson and Lebanon, Ky.,
Donallsnnville and New Orleans, La , Brook-
haven rnd Kuhns,-Miss., Chattanooga, Erwin,
Kingston and Memphis, Tenn., Salem, Va.,
and Kendalia, W. Va.
" ater works are to be built at Hempsfc ad,
Tex., ana Iionceverte, W. Va. The new btxil 1-
‘ igs include a 4100,000 hall at New Orleans,
-a., bus-ness houses at Birmingham and Jas-
per, Ala , Fort Myers, Fla,, and Wheeling, W.
Va., a 415,000 church at Temple, Tex., a 460,-
C00 cimrt house at Cuern. Tex., and a $40,000
one at Welch, W. Va-,a 410,000 school build
ing at Groesbeck, Tex., and a $38,000 residence
at Louisville, Ky.—Tradesman (Chattanooga.
Tenn.) ’
The North Carolina state medical
society met at Greensboro Tuesday in
its fortieth annual session. Dr. Wil
liam H. Cobb, of Goldsboro, presided,
Two hundred physicians were present.
Ten negro prisoners escaped from
jail at Kaleigh, N. C., early AYednes
day morning. Among them was Orange
Page, under sentence of death for the
murder of a colored woman, who was
to be executed June 14th.
Governor Carr, of North Carolina
has chosen Morehead City as the place
of encampment of the state guards
this year. The exact date is not yet
designated, but will be very early in
July. ' The railways make a rate of
cent a mile each way.
The newspaper men of Richmond, at
a meeting organized the Old Dominion
Press Club, with thirty-five charter
members. All newspaper men in Vir
ginia are eligible to election as non
resident members. The daily and
weekly papers will be embraced.
A Montgomery, Ala., special
Wednesday says: The Oates men claim
to have official reports from the con
ventious held in all of the counties in
the state except six and that these re
turns give Colonel Oates 254 88-100
votes in the state convention and Cap
tain Johnston 215 12-100.
The democratic central committed
of North Carolina met at Rnleig
Wednesday. It called a meeting
the state executive committee for
o’clock p. m., Jane 12th. It is the
sentiment of the central committee
that it is best to hold the state con
ventiou not earlier than the last of
July nor later than August 1st.
Governor Tillman has decided to
have a court of inquiry to look into
the action of the military companies
which refused to obey his orders to go
to Darlington during the dispensary
troubles. He has issued orders ap
pointing Brigadier General Riehbourg,
Brigadier General E. J. Dennis and
Colonel Willie Jones as the court, with
J. T. Barron as judge advocate.
The general assembly of tho south
ern Presbyterian church assembled in
Nashville Thursday morning. Amon;
the prominent questions that will
come before the assembly will be the
question of the preaching of theologi
cal students who have not yet been li
censed, and the case of Miss Sadie
Means, a telephone operator in Co
lumbia, S. C., who was disciplined by
her church for continuing at her posi
tiou in the telephone office on the
Sabbath.
General Auditor Loop, of the South
ern Express Company, lias requested
the Southern Associated Press to send
out the following warning to all south
ern cities: “Spurious money orders,
purporting to have been issued by
Wells, Fargo &, Co.’s express, Chicago,
have been sent all over the south
Some are sent through banks and at
torneys. The general auditor of the
Southern Express Company hereby
cautions all bankers, express agents
and others to beware of these conn
terfeits.”
Flower Culture for Essences.
ASKING FOR $500,000.
Atlanta’s Exposition Committee
Washington.
The Cotton States and International
exposition committee had a two hours'
hearing Tuesday before the house
eommittea on appropriations. It was
a very well conducted and very inter
esting affair. The members were in
troduced to the members of the com
mittee by Representative Livingston,
From tho very outset all hands got
together and on the most amicable
terms. Seldom has there been
hearing before a committee of con
gress so void of stiffness or so preg
nant with mutual good feeling.
The committee will take tip the mat
ter at an early date. There is every
prospect that it will recommend an
appropriation, though it may not be
as large as the sum asked, $500,000
Representative Livingston, who is a
member of the committee on appro
priations, speaking of the matter,
said*: “The visiting committee made a
very, very favorable impression on the
members of the appropriation commit
tee. I never knew a matter of the
kind better handled or better calcu
lated to attain its object. I think that
the committee will recommend an ap
jiropriation. I do not think that it
will be less than $500,000, and it may
be $750,000.
STORM IN MINNESOTA.
Seven People Lose Their Lives-*ntl
Property Greatly Damaged.
A special from St. Paul, Minn., sa c
Half a million dollars will scarcely
cover the damage by the great storm
of Tuesday in Minnesota and Wiscon
sin. The downpour of rain was the
greatest ever known in this section of
the northwest and in many places was
as destructive as a waterspont. The
damage is greatest along the St. Croix,
Eugalle and Chippewa rivers, where
the rise in the waters was
rapid that bridges could not resist it
and dozens of them were washed away.
In several places also dams were wash
ed out and the 6wift flowing flood
did large damage to bnsiness property.
Tho death list so far includes seven,
one being killed by lightning near
Anika, Minn., and another near New
Richmond, Wis. A woman and two
children were drowned in the Eugalle
river near Spring Valley, Wis., and
two men were drowned near Mindon,
Minn. Railway traffic was for a time
in a state of paralysis because of the
bridges and washouts on the tracks.
SUFFERING FOR BREAD.
SALE OF THE EAST TENNESSEE
Switchmen in Saxony consider
themselves well paid with $178 a
year.
Will Take Place at Knoxville on Julj
7tli Next.
Special Master Caldwell, appointed
by the United States court to conduct
the sale of the East Tennessee, Vir
ginia and Georgia railroad, has issued
an order fixing July 7th as the day for
the sale. The sale wiU be at the road’s
depot in Knoxville, Tenn. The prop
erty must bring $1,500,000 with $150,-
000 cash bonos. The reorganization
committee, as agents and bondholders,
will be the only bidders, and the new
owners will be operating the system
within sixty days.
Gold Rapidly Dwindling.
The treasury department was advis
ed last Wednesday afternoon that $2,-
500,000 had been engaged at the New
York subtreasury for export to
Europe. This reduces the gold reserve
below $87,000,000,
People on the Sea Islands Reported to
Be Destitute.
Governor Tillman has received a
letter from Bluffton township, Beau
fort county, S. C., describing a ter
rible state of destitution among the
white people of the township who suf
fered from the storm last August. The
letter states that 150 families includ
ing 600 people are now actually suffer-
ering for bread. The explanations
given is that the funds and provisions
contributed, with the exception ol
$300, were dealt out by the Red Cross
Society to the negroes exclusively.
An appeal is made to the governor for
immediate help.
A Strike Declared Off.
The central committee of ribbon
weavers at Patterson, N. J., declared
the strike off after a desperate struggle
of eleven weeks. A majority of the
operatives of the mills of the William
Strange company and Levy Bros, went
back to their looms.
The cultivation of perfume flowers
is the very refinement of agricultural
industry, the jewelry of horticulture,
the ideal occupation among all the
occupations of the soil. At Los Gatos
a perfume flower farm is in successful
operation, and—all honor to the sex—
is conducted by a woman. At Santa
Ana ten acres of land have recently
been purchased for a like nse. That
the industry will become one of im
portance can hardly be questioned by
any one who has seen the profuse
bloom here throughout the year. It
is also stated, but upon how good
authority I have not yet been able to
determine; that the roses grown upon
this coast contain 20 per Vent, more of
volatile essence than those of the far-
famed perfume flower district of
France. Allied to this are such indus
tries as specialties in flower and bnlb
culture. At Santa Ana I found a gen
tleman engaged in growing tnberons-
rooted begonias, confining his entire
attention to this one thing. Although
a comparatively new undertaking, he
has now about 60,000 plants. His
“farm” comprises about half an acre,
and is wholly enclosed and covered
with lath, giving it the appearance of
a big chicken coop. His entire prod
uct of bulbs is disposed of without
trouble to the large eastern seedsmen
and florists; and while I did not go
into financial details, there was much
collateral evidence to show that the
enterprise was ^remunerative.—Inde
pendent.
Lime Water anil Oltl Age.
It is thought by many modern phy
sicians that the ossification of the sys
tem, or the converson of many tissues
into bone or gristle, is one of the
greatest enemies of longevity.
Editor Joseph Midill of the Chicago,
Tribune has taken a new lease of life
since he became 71, by drinking water
only after it has been distilled. In
this way he gets rid of the lime which
he claims is the great cause of physical
ills as men grow old. Since he has
begun the use of distilled water
his rheumatism and indigestion
have disappeared, his heart
works normally and his spirits are as
cheerful as a schoolboy’s. Getting rid
of the lime is not the only, and per
haps not the most important, result of
using distilled water. It is worthy of
note that the larger part of mankind
in China and India have for ages used
water boiled in making tea. They
consider it more healthful, but it is
probably the boiling, rather than the
nicotin in the tea, which makes the hot-
drink more conducive to health. The
fact that tea-drinking nations are the
most populous is evidence of the
healthfulness of this beverage as a
drink.
Don’t Blaine the Cook
If a baking powder is not uniform in strength,
so that the same quantity will always do the same
work, no one can know how to use it, and uni
formly good, light food cannot be produced with it.
All baking powders except Royal, because
improperly compounded and made from inferior
materials, lose their strength quickly when the can
is opened for use. At subsequent bakings there
will be noticed a falling off in strength. T he food
is heavy, and the flour, eggs and butter wasted.
It is always the case that the consumer suffers
in pocket, if not in health, by accepting any sub
stitute for the Royal Baking Powder. The Royal
is the embodiment of all the excellence that it is
possible to attain in an absolutely pure powder.
It is always strictly reliable. It is not only more
economical because of its greater strength, but
will retain its full leavening power, which no
other powder will, until used, and make more
wholesome food.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Wonderful Discoveries.
The professor, who had for a long
time been pawing over the corn in the
farmer’s corn-bin for some purpose
known only to himself, at last came up
excitedly to the place where the farmer
was milking.
“Mr. Grassey,” said he, “I’ve dis
covered a remarkable thing—a very
remarkable thing.”
“I want ’o know,” said the farmer,
the surge of milk in his full pail ceas
ing for an instant. “In the corn-bin,
tew!”
“Yes, sir, a remarkable thing. There
isn’t an ear of corn in your'bin that
has an odd number of rows of kernels
on it.”
“Sho!” answered the farmer. “Yon
don’t tell me?” The pour of milk
started in again, louder than ever.”
“It’s a fact.”
“Wal, now’t you mention it, I can
tell you a remarkable fact. You may
take the exact number of married peo
ple in every state in the Union and
compare ’em, and there won’t bo
odd number in that lot ot -statistics. ”
“Ha!” said the professor contempt
uously. “There’s nothing very re
markable about that. Married people
usually come in pairs, don’t they?”
“Dew tell!” said the farmer. “An’
so do rows of kernels on ears of corn.
Guess you wa’n’t fetched up on a farm,
professor. Youth's Companion.
Cooking High-scented Food3.
Some housewives whose means are
small find it impossible to have a sepa
rate dish to cook high-scented foods,
such as cabbage, onions, and the like
in, and often go without dishes that
are dearly liked by the family jast be
cause it seems impossible to get the
odors out of the metal. They should
try burning. Wash the vessel in
strong soda water, dry it, then lift the
lid of the stove and turn tho vessel over
the blazing fire for five or ten minutes.
It will burn out as clean and sweet as
can be. Of course, this applies only
to iron utensils. For tin a vigorous
nring will generally answer.
Facts About Snow.
A foot of newly fallen snow makes
but one inch of water when melted.
Snow seldom falls as far south as Pen-
acola, Fla., but has been known to
border the gulf from that point to
Brownsville, Tex. One hundred miles
north of Key West is the farthest point
south in Florida that it has ever been
known to fall, at Punta Rosa, on Dec.
1, 1876. The only time snow was ever
known to fall at San Diego, Cal., was
during the great storm period of Jan.
17, 1882. The average annual fall
in Maine is seven feet, New York four
feet, and Iowa two and a half feet.
Childless and unmarried men form
75 per cent of all the criminals of
France.
Over 68 per cent of the whole num
ber of English criminals are unable to
read.
There arc over 5,000 assassinations
or attempts at murder every year in
Italy.
Capital punishment was abolished
in Switzerland in 1875 and restored in
1879.
Hanging in chains was abolished,
with many other cruel punishments,
in 1854.
The Romans had a jury system, the
jury being drawn from the roll of citi
zens.
Ireland has the least proportion of
criminals to the million of popula
tion, 950.
Italy has the greatest proportion of
criminals, 5,140, to the million of
population.
In 1881 there were 126 convictions
for murder in France, and but four
executions.
The breaking weight of one inch
square is 5,781 pounds, the breaking
weight of a piece of hickory of the same
dimensions is 270 pounds.
A Girl’s Life.
When a girl of sweet 16 appears on
the street she has a cute, pert way of
walking and tossing her head as though
she owned the earth and was going to
the middle of the next block to gi t it.
After she is 18 the world she owns i3
about as far away as the World’s Fair
was to the most of us, and at 20 she
gives up all hope of getting it at all.
By the time she is 25, poor thing! she
has a faint, vague suspicion that there
is a great deal of insincerity in the
world, and the thing for her to do is
to get a position and do something
useful. After awhile she gets married
to a man who is not at all tho sort of
a man she dreamed of. Then she con
cludes she would be better off in heav
en. —Exchange.
The fear of robbery is ever present
with the officials of the Bank of France,
and every day when tho money is
put into the vaults in the cellar mas< ns
arc waiting and at once wall up (ho
doors with hydraulic mortar. The
cellar is then flooded with water.
Cast iron melts at 3,479 degrees F.,
copper at 2,548 degrees, gold at 2,-
590 degrees, silver at 2,233 degrees,
lead at 717 degrees and cast tin at 442
degrees.
S’ Vi
The subject of the cbiva portrait la the
Rev. Charles Prossor, a much beloved and
most devout minister of the gospel of Car
mel, Northumberland Co., Pa. Hr. Prosser’s
usefulness, was, for a long time, greatly ira-
laired by a distressing, obstinate disease,
low his malady was 'finally conquered wo
will let him tell in his own language. Ho
says : “I was a great sufferer from dyspep
sia, and I had suffered so long that I was
o wreck ; life was rendered undesirable and
It seemed death was near ; but 1 came in
contact with Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical
Discovery and his ‘ Pleasant Pellets.’ I took
twelve bottles of ‘ Discovery,’ and several
bottles of the ‘Pellets, 1 and followed tho
hvgenic advice of Dr. Pierce, and I am
happy to say it was indeed a cure, for life is
worth living now.”
For dyspepsia, or Indigestion, “ liver com-
■ fiaint,” or torpid liver, biliousness, constipa-
: ion, chronic diarrhea and ali dera
Until 1836 an English murderer was
hanged on tho second day after his
conviction.
Be On Time to Catch That Boat
Or t rain, or you’Jl be left. Moreover, if you're
ick on the way to your destination you’ll be
‘left” if you haven't Hostetter’s Stomach Bit
ters along with yen. That protective agent re
lieves you promt tl'if yon arc tronbleil with
‘‘travelers’sickue Takeitaiong. Cramps,
oii'*, disorder of tiie bowels, malaria, rheu
matism. dyspepsia are all remedied by it. It
is a good traveling companion.
■angements
of the liver, stomach and bowels, Doctor
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery effects
orfect cures when all other medicines fail.
It has a specific tonic effect upon the lining
membranes of tho stomach and bowels. As
up both solid flesh and strength after grip,
pneumonia, fevers and other prostrating
disenses, “Golden Medical Discovery” hrij
no equal. It does not make fat people moro
corpulent, but builds up solid, wholesome
flesh.
Do you feel dull, languid, low-spirited,
ha vo fullness or bloating after eating, tongue
coated, bitter or bad taste in moutn, irregu
lar appetite, frequent headaches, “floating
specks” before eyes, nervous prostration and
drowsiness after meals ?
If you have any considerable number of
ns, you aro suffering from
associated with dyspepsia, or
_ The moro complicated vour
disease the greater the number of symptoms.
No matter what stage it has reached, D~.
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery will' subl
due it.
these symptoms,
liver, as:
torpid
indigestion.
Nervousness, sleeplessness, nervous pro
’eoillt
an invigorating, restorative tonic it^gves
strength to the whole system and bu
solid flesh to the healthy standard, when re
duced l
.. Iff‘‘ wasting diseases.”
Mr. J. F. Hudson, a prominent lawyer of
"WhitcfcerviUe, Sebastian Co., Ark., writes:
“Having suffered severely, for a longtime,
from a torpid liver, indigestion^ constipa-
irom a torpia uver, inaigcsr.ion, constipa
tion, nervousness and general debility, and
finding no relief in my efforts to regain mv
health, I was induced to try Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery and * Pleasant
Pellets.’ Under this treatment, I Improved
very much and in a few months was able to
attend to my professional duties."
Yours truly,
. 'J'.
To purify, enrich and vitalize the blood,
and thereby invigorate the liver and diges
tive organs, brace up the nerves, and put
the system in order generally ; also to build
tration, nervous debility, and kindred*
turbanees aro generally duo to impoverish'd
blood. The nervous system suffers for went
of pure, rich blood to nourish and susts 'a,
it. Purify, enrich and vitalize the blocd by
taking “Golden Medical Discovery” and r'U
these nervous troubles vanish.
Tho “Golden Medical Discovery” is frr
better for this purpose than tho much ad
vertised nervines and other comDOunds, o
loudly recommended for nervous prostration
a3 they ‘‘put the nerves to sleep,” but do
not invigorate, brace up and so strengthen
the nervous system as does tho “ Discovery,”
thus giving permanent benefit and a radical
cure.
Buy of reliable dealer*. With any othe"’
something ebo that pays them better w : ii
probably bo urged as “ just as good.” ?,’>•-
ha^3 it ls^for them; but it can’t be, for yoi
(133 pages) treating of * the fere,
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Dr. Kilmer’s Sv.tmp-Root cures
a’l Kidney ami Bladder troubles.
Pamphlet and Consultation free.
Laboratory Binghamton, X. Y.
The annnal death rate ia the French
5 107 to 10,0 j0.
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When Traveling:
Whether on pleasure bent, or business, take
on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Fig*, as it
acts most pleasantly and effectively on the
kidneys, liver and bowels, preventing fevers,
head&ches and other forms of sickness. For
sale in 50 cents anl $1 bottles by ali leading
druggists.
December is the most fatal month in the
year for asthma.
Congressman Bratton Dead.
Representative Bobert F. Bratton,
of the first Maryland district, died
Thursday morning at Princess An&e,
Maryland.
Attention) Tourist.
The most pleasant and cheapest way to
reach Boston, New York, and the East is via
' entral Railroad and Ocean Steam=hip Com-
§24.00 straight. Tickets include meals and
stateroom. Tables supplied with all the deli
cacies of the season. For informa ion call on
or address any agent of Central R. R.
Sudden Cbaxcis oy Weather cause
Throat Diseases. Thei> is no more effectual
remedy for Coughs, Colds, etc., than “Brown's
Broncnidl Troches,” Sold only in boxes. Price 25
cents.
Sell on Sigte-t.
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