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THE REIGN OF TERROR.
Morehead, Kentucky, Suspends Business
and the Citizens Patrol tlie Streets.
Lexington, Kv., July 27. — C01. John
R. ( ’iih!lonian and Adjutant Roger Wil
liamM returned from Morehmd to-day,
where they had been sent by Governor
Knott to inquire into the propriety of
sending troops there to uttend on the
Missions of theeircuit court, which in set
I o eonvene there next Monday. 'Troops
have lecn asked for by Judge ( ole and
Sheriff Hogg, and others. The sheriff is
in Mount Sterling, and declares that he
will not go to Moreliend to attend court
unless troops are sent to maintain the
peace.
The governor’s commissioners, after
examining thesituation carefully decided
to report adversely to sending troops to
Morehead. The town is dead. Every
business house is closed and the doors
nailed up, with the exception of one
small grocery store and saloon, the lat
ter being carried on by the widow of
Craig 'Tolliver. The Hailey hotel is also
open. With these exceptions, no busi
ness whatever is carried on at Morehead.
This town is patroled day and night by
forty members of the Law and Order
society, and the men are armed with
Winchester rifles and are the only per
sons to be seen moving around. They
are constantly on tin* alert for an attack
from the Tolliver gang, and rumors of
dose proximity of the gang to town arc
heard every day and all men titers of the
La w and Order society object to presence
of troops, and people who are known to
have bi*eu on the btlier side are vehe
ment in their request for military aid. The
former express their ability to protect
the citizens and aid the court in ttie full
execution of the law. It is the general
feeling l hat as soon as the patrol is re
moved, or if it should become careless,
mo as to atfonf the opportunity, the Tol
liverites will sweep down on the town and
avenge the death of their chief and his
kinsmen. It is known that an organiza
tion for that purpose is in easy reach of
Morehead, and the chances are that more
bloodshed will follow the slightest oppor
tunity for an attack. The presence of
troops might temporarily avert this, but
the only true solution of the bloody feud
is to let the citizens of llowan county
settle it among themselves.
A Comi*lete Cuuk ok Dancer.
Gentlemen —I had a sore on my upper
lip foi eight years. Seven different doc
tors tried in vain to heal it. One gave
me a small vial for live dollars, which
was a “certain cure.” It is needless to
say that it did me no good. About two
years ago 1 became quite uneasy, as peo
ple thought I had a cancer, and 1 took a
course of eighteen bottles ofS. S. S. The
result has been a complete cure. The
ulcer or cancer healed beautifully, leav
ing scarcely a perceptible scar. From
that day 1 have been in excellent health,
the Sptvilic having purified my blood
thoroughly, increased my appetite and
perfected my digestion; In a word, l feel
like anew woman, and, the best of all,
the eight year ulcer is gone entirely.
Yours sincerely,
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Trenton, Todd Cos., Ky., Feb. 25, \S7.
Two Bottles Effect a Cure.
Gentlemen :
My blood was in such a condition that
on the slightest abrasion my flesh would
fester, and sores were difficult to heal. 1
took two bottles of S. S. S., and after
that. any. abrasion would heal on first
intention, and my flesh was firm.
W. T. Wilkins.
Jessup, Ga., MarcaS, 1887.
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Saved by a Watermelon.
Tallahassee (Fla.) Tallaliaeman.]
East Monday week while Jake Gibson,
a colored brother, was sitting in the
forks of an old oak tree on the Ball plan
tation, near Ceutreville, eating a water
melon, a thunder cloud came up, light
ning struck the tree, split it into frag
ments and threw Jake many feed away,
apparently deader than Hector. Mr.
Calvin Johnson, “Fuele” Glenn, an old
colored man and others rushed up, pour
ed water on his face and began to rub
him. Justus all hope of resuscitation
had fled and his friends had turned sadly
away to prepare for the funeral, Jake
rose up, looked around half dazed and
inquired: “‘Uncle’ Glenn, whur’s my
watermeh n?”
My Wit-'* Frteml.
My wife is a very kind-hearted woman |
and that is the reason, I suppose, why
she took a fancy to Mrs. Million, the
broker's wife. Mrs. Million always
headed any charity with the largest
amount of money and always figured at
any benefit or fair among the leaders.
For my part I could not get myself to
like her. She was vulgar in dress and a
loud and noisy talker, and she made me
nervous whenever she came around.
Jemima, however, said she had a good
heart, anil that settled it.
My wife was out shopping one day
when she saw a white-faced young girl
stagger down the steps of a fashionable
house and fall in the street. She was
poorly dressed and there was something
of refinement about her manner which
took Jemima's fancy.
A policeman was about to take the
poor girl in, insisting that she was drunk,
but. my wife interposed and had her
taken home in a carriage. That night
we heard her sad story, which she told
with tears ia her eyes.
She was the daughter of Pennington,
the speculator, whom I remembered very
well. When he died he didn’t have a
cent, and his only daughter, Alice, had
to go out in the world and earn her own
bread.
She had tried everything, even to wil
ing pnjiers, aud had suffered everything.
Recently she had found a little sewing
work for a lady, which she had worked
day and nights to finish. She had called
a number of times for the money, but
the servant always made* an excuse, and
at the time my wife found her she was
dying of starvation.
‘*l wish you would tell me tin* woman's
name,” I snid when she had finished. “I
should like to state my opinion of her
should we ever meet.”
"She was called Mrs. Million,'' said Miss
Pennington simply. I looked at Jemima
and she looked at me, and then we both
groaned. From that day the philan
thropic Mrs. Million never gained foot
ing in our house.
Miss Pennington soon grew to be an
indispensable part of tlie household,
Jemima Jane and she were like sisters.
As for myself, cynic that I am, I saw
more to admire in her daily.
One evening, while reading the after
noon paper, I looked up aud said:
“Don't you remember, my dear, talking
of young Culverden's a couple of months
back, and wondering where he was?
Well, his name is reported here as hav
ing arrived by the Scythia to-day. 1
must hunt him up to-morrow. How
glad 1 shall be to see him.”
1 happened at that moment to look
toward Miss Pennington and was sur
prised to see her turn pale. 1 rose has
tily.
I rose with both hands extended, as
my young friend, sun-burned with travel,
but handsomer than ever, entered the
room.
“1 have just lauded,” he said, also ex
tending both hands, “and the first house
1 come to is yours, for l can never forget
how kind you and Mrs. Jones were to me
in the old days. Indeed 1 shall never
lie stopped suddenly ms if he had seen
an apparatiou. Miss Pennington had
risen and was standing by the table, sup
porting herself by leaning one hand
heavily on it. She was trembling vio
lently. Her eyes were fixed in turn on
our new guest, with the same varying
expression on her countenance as on his.
“Are you ill?” I said.
In a moment Jemima was at her friend's
side.
“What is it, dear?” she asked.
“Nothing, nothing,” said the girl,
faintly, putting her hand to her side.
“Only a stitch I have here sometimes. T
was very foolish. It is all gone now,"
smiling. Rut 1 noticed that she remain
ed as pale as a corpse.
It was about a quarter of an hour
later, aud we had all settled down* into
quiet again, 1 to my newspaper and the
ladies to their fancy work, when the door
was flung open.
“Mr. Culverden,” said tlie footman.
“Ida!” cried the young man.
“Harry!”
He went past me like a shot, taking no
notice of my outstretched hands. He
had clasped those of Miss Penington the
next instant instead.
The whole beautiful idyl flashed on me
at once. Culverden was the hero of the
Roman story about which we had heard.
Jemima June saw it also. She gave me
a smile and a nod, and we slipped quietly
out of the toom.
“Yes,” said Culverden an hour later,
os he sat holding Ida’s hand in his own,
after we hud been called in to congratu
tliem, “it was an old affair. 1 was very
angry at the time, and came off to New
York, vowing to shake the dust of my
native city from my feet forever, and all
on account of this dear girl, to whom you
have been so kind. I wanted her to
marry me whether or not. But she
would not disobey her parent. She
would never marry anybody else
however, but me, she said. 1 have
learned to know that she was right and
that 1 was wrong.” Here I am pretty
certain 1 saw the delicate little fingers
close in a tighter pressure on his hand.
“When fortune smiled on me I went
abroad, principally to try and forget
her. But I did not succeed. I traveled
all ever Europe; up the Nile; around the
Isthmus to Calcutta, and from there
pushed on to Japan. Everywhere her
dear face followed me.” A look of inef
fable content at the sweet, blushing
countenance. “It was only the other
day, at Yokohama, that 1 saw in a news
paper, a year old, that she was an or
phan. 1 took the very next steamer, de
termined to ascertain if I had any hope
now; and lo! fortune brought me here
the very first evening of my arrival.
God bless you for what you did for her.”
The wedding that followed at our
house was a very quiet one. Neither Mr.
Culverden nor his bride nor ourselves arc
fond of ostentatious display. < >uly a
few guests were at the festival, and
among them, von niav be sure, was not
my wife’s friend, Mrs. Million.
Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy cures when
every other so-called remedy fails.
LYNCHING.
Short Work Mi.li* of a s;ro Flo ml by a
Mob Near Atlanta UVdne-Klay Last
Last Wednesday in >raing a handsome
young married woman: Mrs. Rush, was
assaulted near her home at Redan, a
small station oa the Georgia Railroad,
by an unknown irogro man who called
at her house while her husband was
away and asked tor something to eat,
and while the fady was preparing it he
made tin* assault.
The lady was entirely alone at the
time, but as soon as she was able, has
tened over to the railroad, where a num
ber of men were at work. Some were
white and some were colored, but every
one immediately quit work and com
menced a search for the miscreant, which
was continued until 10o'clock that night
to no avail.
That night a negro hailed the south
bound Georgia Railroad accomodation
train between Lithonia and Conyers,
Conductor V. IL Boyd, and, when the
train stopped, got aboard the colored
people's- coach aud immedidiately enter
the water-closet.
Conductor Boyd, coming along for
tickets, suspected the truth, knowing
the facts. He had a description of Mrs.
Rush's assailant in his mind, and as
soon as lie saw the negro he recognized
him as tin* man wanted and seized him.
Tin* negro resisted, but was soon tied
down, 'rin* man was taken to Conyers
and placed m jail. Next morning offi
cers went down from Redan and brought
him back.
On. the return trip of (’apt. Boyd’s
train, at Lithonia twenty men, armed to
the teeth, boarded the train, and when it
arrived at Redan a larger and more ex
cited crowd had assembled and more
were coming from the back country in
every kind of convenience, and armed
w ith every description of weapons.
IDENTIFIED BY HIS VICTIM.
The negro was taken, to Jones & John
,-on's store, near depot, and Mrs. Rush,
whose house was half a mile distant, was
sent for. While waiting for her arrival
the constantly growing mob was becom
ing more and more excited, especially as
a negro woman in the crowd asserted
that she knew the man to have been at
Mrs. Rush’s home the day before. This
was between 7 and 7:30 a. in., and Mrs.
Rush arrived on the scene about 7:40. A
man in the crowd asked her:
“Is this the negro that assaulted you?”
Mrs. Bush, pale and trembling with ex
citement, replied:
“Yes, I know him well; he is the man,
for he has on the same shirt and hat,
and his pants had the same big hole iu
them at the time.”
The colored woman was again brought
forward and asked:
“Is this the negro that you saw going
to and from Mrs. Rush’s house yester
day forenoon?”
She replied, addressing herself directly
to the negro, that it was.
Several other parties also inentified
him as having been in that vicinity
Wednesday. All this time the crowd
was still swelling in numbers and grow
ing more and more threatening and de
monstrative. The negro was all this
time bound with heavy ropes, and when
his identity had been thus established, in
spite of the remonstrances of some of
the more conservative members, and the
protests and threats of the officers, sev
eral strong men took hold of him and
led him struggling in the direction of the
woods.
After going a half mile back they came
to a stubby, short growth hickory tree,
only about 8 inches in diameter at the
trunk, and having only one big limb
branching out at a heigtli of
from the ground. Here the mad crowd
halted, and a spokesman asked the
trembling man if he was guilty.
PROTESTED HPMNNONENCE.
He said no, bub that he could and
would produce the guilty man if they
would spare him. He was then told
there was no question of his guilt, and
he might as well confess it, but he still
held out, and thereupon was told that he
had just a few moments in which to pray
if he wished to do so, as he was going to
be hung right off. He was asked his
name, and he replied that it was Reuben
Johnson Hudson, and that his home
was in Covington. He said he had a
family there, and asked a gentleman
present;
“Will you write to my wife, Ophelia
Hudson, at Covington, and to her
brother, Charlie Holland, in Lithonia,
and ask him to take care of my body? 1
don't want the buzzards to get it. I
know I am bound to go to hell, for 1 am
not prepared to die.”
After praying a few minutes he was
cut short in his devotions by the impa
tient mob, among whom by this time
were a goodly sprinkling of his own
color, all clamoring for his death as a
just punishment for his crime.
HIS CIUES CHOKED OFF.
The crowd began to untwist the rope,
and one end of it having been tied se
curely to his neck, the other end was
thrown over the limb of the hickory.
All this, time the wretched negro was
begging, and when the lynchers began to
pull him up he begged piteously for some
time, saying:
“0 boss, give me inoah time; I wants
to talk some some inoah.” but the re
lentless ropqr continued to tighten, and
soon his cries were strangled, and his
writhing body was swinging above the
ground. He died in about eleven min
utes after a desperate struggle, in which
the veins stood out upon his face, and
his eyes protruded more and more.
After one-half hour the crowd began to
disperse, and when things had become
sufficiently quiet Deputy Sheriff Thomp
son took charge of the body, and the
coroner was summoned.
Mrs. Bush went down before the body
was cut down and witnessed the scene
with considerable emotion. Great ex
citement still prevails in the vicinity.
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Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
CARTERSVILLE, GA„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1887.
Visitors From Tlie City.
From the Dakota Bell.]
“I wish you would give me about a
nick’s wutli of old pajicrs—there s a
whole raft of folks visitin' out at my
place, and theyr'e finding fault and turn
in’ up their noses 'cause then 1 ain’t no
litertoor round the house, an’ I'm bound
to satisfy ’em on that pint.”
“Friends from the East?”
“ Y-e-a-s —some of my w ife's relatives.
Her cousin an' husband an’ four big
children and three little ones an' a baby,
an’ grow n up cousin who ain’t married
an’ tlie feller that’s courtin’ her an' a
leetle dura dog with lots o’ hair round
his head an' neck, an’ none to speak of
on the rest of him. The w hole caboodle
of'em have been at our house about two
weeks pesterin’ as, an’ I'll be doggoneil
if I don't buy mo a tin bill an’ git down
and pick gravel with the chickens 'fore
I’ll low it to ’cur agin.”
“Yes, see they live in New York, an"
they've couie out to spend the summer.
The let on they think a heap of us, an'
have been ’bout dvin' to set us for years.
1 reckon they could never git money
’nough to come before.
“When they came the boy that's bout
twelve }, ears old got out of the wagon
first, unil while I was helpin’ the others
out he went around aud broke the well
windlass an' throwed a stone at a chick
en and killed it, an' begun chasin’ a calf
round the yard an bungin' hold oi its
tail.
“The next day Em—that's the cousin
that ain't married —saw a snake in tlie
front yard an’ began to holler, an’ shin
ned up an apple tree. Her feller went
into the house lookin’ fora gun, an'
‘Liza —that’s the married cousin—stood
on the porch an’ screamed, an’ the chil
dren got up on the fence an' yelled.
‘Liza's husband was out in the garden
pluggiu’ leetle bits o’ watermelons no
bigger’n door knobs to see if they were
ripe, and my wife had made herself sick
waitin’ on ’em all, an’ was in bed. I
heard the hullabaloo down in the hay
field un’come up on the jump, an'went
and picked up an old whiplash that lay
in the grass, an’they didn't none of them
see any more of that snake. They didn't
’pologize, tho', and Em said I olighter
know better'll to let whip-lashes lay
around where they would be sure to fool
folks.
“An’her feller tried to help her down
an' she slipped an’ fell on him an’ spav
ined his arm, an’ Iliad to hook up au
go down after the doctor.
“An’ the next day the baby was took
with the measles, an’ I had to go again.
“Ah' in the meantime the boy that's
’bout twelve had throwed stones down
the pump so’s it wouldn't pump, broke
the winder out’n the barn, barked all tlie
trees an' killed two liens with some rub
ber gum fixin’ which I afterwards got up
in the night an' stole away from him an’
burned in the kitchen stove.
“An’ Liza’s husband finished pluggiu’
the watermelons, an' got a load iu the
shotgun that he dasn't shoot off an'
said he guessed he'd send fer his brother
to come out so's to make a pleasant
family party.
“Ye orter see ’em store away the meat
an’ garden sass an’ grub an’ one stuff
an’ ’nother when they get to the table,
though they're all the time tollin’ how
delicate they air, an' how they got the
hay disease or something—hay fever
mobbe it is. I reckon its a trouble as
kinder stimulates the stomach, an’ then
makes folks hungry. At ‘dinner one day
I seed the pertaters meltin’ ’way pretty
fast, an’ begun to swallerin’ mine pretty
fast, so's to get ’nother ’fore they was
ail gone, an' I was shovelin’ it with my
knife, when Em spoke up and said that
some folks she knowed would cut their
mouths clear round to the back o’ their
heads some day, an’ that it was awful
funny how people that lived in the coun
try didn't have table manners, nohow.
Then she speared her fork inter the last
pertater in the dish, an’ I got left after
all.
“One day Em's feller says to me: ‘Say,
Uncle,’ (he always calls me uncle for
some reason) ‘ju know yer spotted cow
haint got no teeth in front and above?’
‘ls that so?’says I. ‘Yes,’ says he,‘for
I turned up her upper lip and looked.
She haint got none, nor never had none,
neither. I know a dime museum man in
New York ye could sell that cow to for
$4,000. He'd put her up on a platform
an’ hang an ear o’ corn over head, an’
she’d sorter grin at it an’ show her gums,
and ke'd clear a million dollars on her.’
“Tlie twelve-year-old boy has got the
heft of the hens eit her killed or disabled
an’ the dog that pears to run to a sharp
p’int behind has et most o’ the little
chickens. Em’s feller has peeled all the
shade trees in the front yard tryin’ to
find some birch bark. He was startin'
on the lilac bushes when I told him birch
bark didn't grow on trees, an’ he stop
ped. Em lias had twenty-three cryin’
spells and hysteriticks four times. ’Liza
an’ her husband have throwed dishes
at each other twice, an’ have a common
row most every day. The children have
had everything but smallpox, an’ have
made the team run away twice.
“Well, gimme them papers—mebbe
when they git ’em they’ll read an’ not
bust things quite so much. After they
go ’way, if they ever do, I’ll come in an’
tell ye the rest they do.”
A Hint to Heal .Estate Ag. nts.
Bismarck Tribune.]
“I want to buy the fastest horse you’ve
got iu your stable,” said a sleek-looking
man to the liveryman. “One that can
go like the wind.”
“A 3:40 horse suit you?”
“No, no, no. Must be faster. About
1.40 is what I want.”
“You a sportsman?”
“No, not exactly. I’m going into the
real estate business, and when I start
out to show a man a lot I want a horse
that can get there so quick that he’ll
think it is right iu the heart of town.”
All Men are not Bad,
Neither are all prepared remedies unre
liable. This is proven by the results fol
lowing the use of Dr. Harter’s Iron Ton
ic for dyspepsia, rheumatism, scrofula,
jaundice, torpid liver and general weak
ness.
THE YYIiETC HED WETNESS.
The Tower Part of the State Nearly Inuu
(lated.
The rains that commenced falling last
Thursday were general over the entire
state and into Alabama. The people of
several towns spent Sunday in great
anxiety, the stories of which appear
below:
AUGUSTA FLOODED.
Augusta, July 31.—The Savannah
river has been rapidly rising all yester
day anil to-day, and now registers thirty
five feet. Seven-eights of the entire city
is flooded to a depth of from one to
twenty feet, and in many instances wa
ter is in the second story of houses. All
the stores on upper Broad street are
flooded, and many thousand dollars’
worth of goods destroyed. Iu the south
ern portion of the city the canal bank
burst to-day, and Lombard's mammoth
foundry is in danger ef being swept
away at any moment, the water flowing
around it in a perfect torrent, being
twenty feet deep. Two hundred boats
are now in use removing people from
houses. Many are rescued from second
stories, the water having risen so rapidly
during the night that they were unable
to escape. Iu Hamburg, immediately
across the river, the water is up to the
tops of the small houses, anil the people
have fled to the hills in the rear of the
town. The South Carolina and Fort
Royal and Augusta trestles across the
river have been swept away, and the
bridges proper have been in such marked
danger that all trains have stopped.
The Enterprise cotton factory is sur
rounded with water, and iu stores in that
neighborhood the w ater is up over the
counters. Every factory in the city is
shut down, and the prospects are they
will remain so for the next two weeks.
Reports from up the river are to the
effect that it is pouring rain, and it is
feared the entire city will be flooded be
fore morning. It has been raining in tor
rents here this afternoon. The water is
so deep on the streets that sailing yachts
can be seen—dozens of them.
WEST POINT.
July 31.—The river is rapidly rising
ami already the back-water is rushing
through the streets. The town is all
astir and the citizens have been perplex
ed with doubt whether to make prepara
tions for an inundation or not. They
lost little time, however, in hastening to
elevate their goods out of reach of the
flood tide. The railroad men are busy
moving trains away. The stables have
been cleared of all stock. They suffered
greatly last year. Every indication
points to a big flood, and we are endeav
oring to prepare for it as we have never
done before. Already the waters are
covered with boats. Without them we
would be outdone. The wildest confu
sion exists, flashing lights, hallooing of
negroes, rushing waters altogether, gives
to the grand, the terrible scene, a weird
aspect as novel as sublime.
EUFAULA.
July 31. —The rain still continues. All
the plantations on the Chattahooche
river are under water from five to fifteen
feet deep. A place just above Eufaula
on the river has 300 acres of cotton
under water ten feet, and has been sub
merged for five days, and the river is
still rising. All the creeks and branches
are overflowed. The damage here will
be, unless the rains subside, immense.
The Chattahoochee river is higher than
ever before known in July, aud still ris
ing. The rains are damaging uplands.
It has been raining constantly since Tues
day.
conyeks.
July 30. —The rains here have been
perhaps the most severe that was ever
known in this section. The damage to
growing crops is immense, and is va
riously estimated in this county alone to
be from $25,000 to SIOO,OOO. The
wind storm yesterday did a great deal of
damage, especially in town, blowing
down shade and fruit trees, unroofing
our jail and doing considerable damage
to the Methodist church and various
other buildings. We have not heard
from bridges as yet, but fear that many
of them are washed away, and more or
less damaged.
COVINGTON.
July 29. —Our oldest citizens say they
do not remember to have ever seen so
much rain fall as has fallen here in the
past forty-six hours. Since 5 o’clock p.
m. of the 27th to the present (3 o’clock
p. m of the 29th) the rain guage shows
10)4 inches of rainfall. Water courses are
very high, and we are apprehensive of
heavy loss to the county in destruction
of bridges. Crop prospects were never
more flattering here than now. Low
lands will be severely damaged by the
rain that has and is still falling.
MACON.
July 31.—The Ocmulgee river at this
point is eighteen inches higher than any'
previous high water mark. The amount
of damage to corn and cotton on the
land just below the city is estimated at
$20,000 and to brick yards at SIO,OOO.
The Central Park buildings and the finest
mile track south are under two feet of
water. Four bridges span the river
within a distance of five miles, but all are
intact except the Covington and Macon
railroad iron bridge, which has been bad
ly damaged. There has been no loss of
life.
A ,Sound Legat Opinion.
E. Bainbridge Munda.v, Esq., County
Attorney, Clay Comity. Texas, says:
‘‘Have used Electric Hitters with most
happy results. My brother also was
very low with Malarial Fever and Jaun
dice. but was cured by timely use of this
medicine. Am satisfied Electric Bittern
saved his life,”
Mr. 1). 1. Wilcoxon, of llorse Cave,
Ky., adds a like testimony, saying: He
positively believes he would have died
had it not been for Electric Bitters.
This great remedy will ward off, as
well as cure, all Malarial Diseases, and
for all Kidney, Liver and Stomach Dis
orders stands unequaled. Price 50c and
sl, at David W. Curry’s. tf
Pun v Bauiks
can only be made strong by giving them
a food identical in effect with mother’s
milk. Such is Lactated Food. It is easily
digested, and assimilated, and prevents
or cures all bowel disordei-8%
How Tow us are Built.
Before you cook your rabbit yon must
catch him. A town that exjveets to pros
per in this country must so spread its
net as to catch live men—energetic men,
progressive men. A town with any nat
ural advantages at all will succeed if its
citizens are energetic and enterprising.
For ac-ommuuity of live men will not sit
down and whittle white pine and allow
the town and its interests to stand still.
A town must have natural commercial
advantages—but it might have all the
advantages in the world, and yet not
prosper if its citizens are so constituted
as to be willing to look after only their
own individual interests.
Wichita,a Kansas town, is an example
what can be accomplished by the energy,
the enterprise anil the united public spirit
of its citizens. Wichita has grown in a
year or two from a comparatively insig
nificant little town to a great trade and
railroad center. There has been au in
crease of over one thousand percent iu
the value of real estate, aud an increase
of over 20,000 in population. Lots in
the town sell for more than $2,000 a
front foot. What is the secret of this
wonderful progress? Let a business man
of Wichita tell the story:
“We organized. We held almost
nightly meetings, and among the first
things we agreed upon was to hang to
gether and stay by each other through
thick and thin.
“We advertised by hundreds of thous
ands of circulars. We set forth all our
advantages in such a mannerthat stran
gers who were led by our circulars to
give us a call were not deceived, but, on
the contrary, agreed that we had not
put it as strong as we might.
“Every town in the east of notoriety
was not only served with our circulars,
but our newspapers. And the newspaper
advertising did double duty. Our peo
ple made it a rule to ask all their friends
to advertise.
“We then subscribed for a large num
ber of copies, loaded with local advertis
ing and great advantages, and we found
by conversing with parties who finally
came here prospecting that the full ad
vertising columns of our papers which
they had seen did more than all else to
impress them with the growth and im
portance of the place.
“We found then we could not overdo
this thing—that the more we paid out
for these purposes the more were our
profits. Every new comer was a cus
tomer to most of our stores, and while
their advertising paid to them rich re
turns, it served the double purpose to
impress the eastern man who han an oye
to business with the fact that Wichita
was a rising town, and thus we have
gone on until we have added a popula
tion since I came here of over 20,000,
and property has increased in business
places more than a thousand fold, and
in the country round about us the ap
preciation has been over 400 per cent.
“I know as well as you can know that
printer’s ink is the best capital to boom
a town. Had we not used it unsparingly
Wichita would not have been larger than
Carthage. As it is we will soon outrank
any town in the state.”
This is characteristic. There is a fa
miliar twang about it that reminds us of
home, sweet home, as it were. In other
words, the Wichita man talks like an At
lanta man, and the wonderful growth of
the Kansas town is paralleled by the ex
traordinary growth of Atlanta during
the past fifteen years.
The moral of this is obvious. There is
not a town in Georgia, nor in the south,
that cannot achieve a reasonable degree
of prosperity by blowing its own horn.—
Atlanta Constitution.
There is a lesson in this for Carters
ville.
Stonewall Jackson’s Last Command.
Gen. Badeau in August St. Nicholas.]
After night fell, Stonewall Jackson rode
out with his staff to reconnoitre in front
of the line he laid gained. It was his
idea to stretch completely around in
the rear of Hooker and cut him.off from
the river.
The night was dark and Jackson soon
came upon the Union lines. Their in
fantry drove him back, and as he return
ed in the darkness, his own soldiers be
gan firing at their commander, of course
mistaking his party for the enemy. .Jack
son was shot in the hand and wrist, and
in the upper arm at the same time. His
horse turned, and the general lost his
hold of the bridle-rein; his cap was brush
ed from his head by the branches; he
reeled and was caught in the arms of an
officer. After a moment he was assisted
to dismount, his wound was examined,
and a litter was brought. Just then the
Union artillery opened again, and a mur
derous fire came down upon the party
through the woods and the darkness.
One of the litter-bearers stumbied and
fell, and the others were frightened; they
laid the litter on the ground, the furious
storm of shot and shell sweeping over
them like hail. Jackson attempted to
rise, but his aid-de-camp held him down
till th : tempest of fire was lulled. Then
the w unded general was helped to rise,
and walked a few steps in the forest; but
he be ame faint and was laid again in
bis lifer. Once he rolled to the ground,
when ais assistant was shot, and the lit
ter fel-. Just then Oen. l’emler, one of
his subordinates, passed; he stopped and
said:
“I hope you are not seriously hurt,
General. I fear I shall have to retire my
troops, they are so much broken.”
But Jackson looked up at once and ex
claimed :
“You . .ist hold your ground. Gen.
Pender; you must hold your ground,
sir!”
This was the last order he ever gave.
He was borne some distance to the near
est house, and examined by the surgeon;
and after midnight his left arm was am
putated at the shoulder.
When Lee was told that his most
trusted lieutenant had been wounded, he
was greatly distressed, for the relations
between them were almost tender.
“Jackson has lost his left arm,” said
Lee, but I have lost my right arm.”
The many remarkable cures Hood’s
Sarsaparilla accomplishes are stifflciei t
proof that it does possess peculiar cuia
tive powers.
HYDROPHOBIA.
The Terribie Death of Delia I’entclifl', a
Beautiful Xw Jersey Qlrl.
Beverly (K. J.) Spevliil to i'hiluUelphia Pres*.]
I lei It i Hen tel iff. a beautiful young girl
of 20 years, died on Wednesday night,
near Bridgeboro, of hydrophobia, and
notwithstanding the enre of the girl's
family and of Dr. Currie, of Beverly, the
physician, to suppress all the horrible
features of the ease, the facts have now
become generally know n.
Delia Benteliff is the daughter of Sam
uel Bentcliff, a farmer residing between
Bridgeboro and Beverly. Lust March
she visited some friends at New Albany,
which is in Cinnaminson township, four
miles from the prettv,suburban village of
Riverton. One afternoon, in passing the
home of David Hunter, she was attacked
by a large bulldog, which, on account of
his general bad temper, hud been chain
ed for some months. The dog, it is said,
had been excited by some passing tramps;
and was angry. Miss Beuteliff, in pass
ing by, said a few pleasant wards to
soothe him. The beast broke his chain
and attacked the girl, biting her several
times in the back and shoulder.
The injured lady was at. once besieged
by her friends, w ho suggested many rem
edies as fin antidote, and made alarming
statements about tl.edangeis of hydro
phobia). Her relatives demanded that
the dog should be killed, and this was
promptly done by the owner.
Miss Bentcliff returned to her home
near Bridgeboro. She bieame much
alarmed fit her condition, and fell into a
gradual decline. The terrors of' the
dreadful malady were constantly pictur
ed to her and she became ill, her ailment
afterward developing the symptoms of
typhoid fever. Dr, Currie, of Beverly,
was called to her bedside three weeks
ago. His diagnosis showed that the
young lady was ill w ith a violent form ol
typhoid, and to this his skill was direet
ed. When the fever had been broken
new symptoms presented themselves,
and the examination showedithat there
was considerable blood-poisoning. The
sufferer refused food, and soon fill the
positive forms of hydrophobia became
apparent. At intervals she made strange
sounds, not unlike the barking of a dog,
and these were varied with the peculiar
hissing noises which are set down as the
true symptome of this disease. During
her ravings the fair young victim froth
ed at the mouth and leaped find lunged
in bed. For several days such symptoms
Continued. Last Monday the physical
powers of the girl had so far exhausted
themselves that she sank into a stupor.
The only sign of life was an occasional
convulsion, which would rack and w rench
her frail form for a halt an hour or more.
On Wednesday afternoon the convul
sions became frequent, and continued
during the evening, when she died.
Dr. Carrie is a homeopathic physician,
of Beverly. II is office is a square from
the railroad depot. The Dress reporters
saw him as he was about mounting an
open wagon to answer an important call
in the country. Dr. Currie was at first
averse to giving any particulars of the
affair. “I have kept this away from the
reporters,” he said, “but fearing you
will get a bungled account of it, I will
give you a brief statement. I gave this
undertaker a certificate to the effect that
Miss Bentcliff died of blood-poisoning,
with symptoms of hydrophobia. She
was a pretty girl, and the parents desire
no publicity given to the horrible details.
She was bitten in the back of her shoulder,
and the dog’s teeth pierced through her
skin and flesh.
“There is no doubt but that the fever
was superinduced by the anxiety of the
girl and her parents in reference to the
possibility of hydrophobia. The signs
of the disease were positive. There were
the usual barking, hissing and frothing
of the mouth. When she became weak
the convulsions began, and she died after
recovering from one of them. When she
was first taken sick 1 cannot say. 1 at
tended the case about three weeks. The
symptoms of blood-poisoning were quite
pronounced. There is no doubt that the
bite of Hunter’s dog contributed to the
cause of her death.”
A SILLY LAW.
Alabama Railroaders Discharged Right
and Left.
Ukattaiiooga Times of Monday.
The employes of the railroad men on
the Alabama railroads arc being dis
charged from the positions they worked
years to secure, and all because the Ala
bama legislature, in the absence of any
thing else to do, passed a law requiring
all the railroad men to be examined once
per year for color-blindness. The exam
inations have commenced, and the rail
road men say the examining committee
have but little more sense than the men
who made the odious law. A few days
ago a number of passenger engineers on
the Memphis & Charleston railroad were
examined. They were the oldest men on
the line, and have pulled trains over the
road for from ten to thirty years. More
reliable and efficient men never pulled a
throttle.
Last night the news reached the city
that three engineers had been discharged
owing to alleged defective eyesight.
Among these who were discharged were
Pres, franklin and Tom Kinslaw, two of
the best known men on the road. Frank
lin had no accidents, and in fact there
are few on the Memphis & Charleston
road. When it became known that the
men had been discharged the rage and
indignation of the employes # knew no
bounds, and they denounced the law and
those who made it in the most unmeas
ured terms.
The conductors, however, are the ones
who will suffer most. They began at the
bottom and worked years and years in
menial positions before becoming a con
ductor. Other employes, such as brake
men, firemen and engineers, can go to
another state and obtain similar posi
tions, but the conductor cannot; he
must begin at the bottom round again.
Five passenger conductors will be exam
ined to-day, and it is said they will fail,
owing to the red tape and silly techni
calities of the law. The conductors on
the Memphis road have been running
lo to 38 veins, and there are not a
ADEV RTIS EM EN T 9.
The Cottkaht-Amebican is tiie only
Paper Puma shed in one ok the Best
Counties in North Oeougia. Its Cin
cur, ation IS SECOND to none ok itsClasi.
Reasonable Rates on Aitucat io.v.
$1.50 Per Annum— sc. a Copy.
cleverer set of men in the world.
It is believed that the railroads of Ala
bnmn will combine and test the infamous
law which threatens to deprive them of
some of the oldest and truest men.
FATHER OF FORTY-ONE.
A Pennsylvania Hunchback’s l a,ally „f
Children.
New York Times ]
nAiiiHsm mi, Pa., July 25,-“I read in
j the 1 imes a few days ago," said a niem
i l “ >r of the Reading bar, on a visit to this
; city, “ an account of a mtm in Western
Pennsylvania who dies] the father of
thirty-three children at the age of 96.
\\ hen John Heffner, of Rending, was ac
cidentally killed by the ears in that eitv
in 188a, at the age of 69, lie was the
father of forty-one children and a step
child also called him father. Heffner
was oue of Reading's characters, and
was in the full vigor of health when he
was killed. It is doubtful if his record in
the parental liue was ever equalled. Heff
ner wus u dwarfed hunchback. He was
born in Berlin in 1816, and came to this !
country in 1846, settling in Reading.
Fntil his death he made a living by col
lecting and selling rags mid paper. His
remarkable family history is part of (lie
records of the Berks county courts, it
having been elicited a short time before
his death w hile he was a witness in a
lawsuit.
‘ lie was married first in 1840. In
eight years his wife bore him seventeen
children. Flic first and wx*oud years of
their marriage she gave birth to twins.
For four consecutive years afterward she
bore triplets. In the seventh year she
gave birth to one child soon afterward.
<H the seventeen children she left, conse
quently, the oldest was 7 years of age.
Heffner engaged a young woman to look
utter his large brood of babies, and three
months later she Itecame the second Mrs.
Heffner. She presented her husband
with two children the first two years.
I’ ive years later she adihnl ten more to
the family, two at every birth, then for
throe years she added but one a year.
She died before another year came round.
Of the thirty-two children that John
Heffner had been presented with, twelve
had died. The twenty that were left,
however, did not appear to bo any ob
stacle to a young widow with one child
consenting to become the third wife of
the jolly little hunchback—for he was
known ns one of the happiest and most
genial men in Reading, although it kept
him toiling like a slave to keep his score
of mouths in bread. The third Mrs.
Heffner became the mother of nine chil
dren to her husband in ten years, and
the contentment and happiness of the
couple were proverbial. One day in tin*
fall of 1885 the father of the forty-one
children was crossing the railroad track
and was run down by a locomotive and
instantly killed. But for that sad ending
of Ids life it is impossible to estimate
what the size of the little peddler's fam
ily ivouhl eventually have been. His
widow and a large family of his children
—I believe there are .iventy-eight of the
forty-two still living—live in Reading.
They are all thrifty and respectable peo
ple.
A Girl Sleeps for Weeks at a Time.
San Francisco Chronicle.]
The daughter of Captain of Police W.
R. Thomas presents a peculiarly interest
ing case to medical men. She is given to
catleptic trances in which she remains
for weeks without regaining conscious
ness. Atone time she slept five weeks
and at another six. She is now suffering
from one of the attacks. Her body is
rigid, and all appearance of life has de
parted. It is over five weeks since she
went into the trance, and at no time
since has she regained consciousness for
more than an hour. For four weeks she
slept without once waking, bill now site
wakens once every twenty-four hours
ami remains awake tor a few minutes.
She takes no nourishment all this time,
but does not lose flesh or strength. 11l
fact, during a six weeks’ trance, though
taking no food, she gained between four
and live pounds in weight. At times she
is sensible of what is going on around
her, but is incapable of indicating the
fact. Medical skill has exhausted itself
in the endeavor to effect a cure, but the
trances seem to be beyond the skill of
the physician.
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diarrhoea, griping in the bowels, and
wind-colic. By giving health to the
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it again? It never fails to relieve all
bowel affections and children teething.
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