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About twenty years igo I discovered a little sore on my cheek, and the doctors pro
nounced it cancer. I have tried a number of physicians, out without receiving any perma
nent benefit. Among the number w re one or two specialists. -The medicine they applied
was like fire to the sore, causing intense pain. I saw a statement in the papers telling what
S. S. S. had done for others similarly afflicted. I procured some at once. Before I had used
the second bottle the neighbors could notice that my cancer was healing up. My general
health had been baa for two or tnr. ■ years—l haa a hacking cougn and spit blood contin
ually. I had a severe pain in my br- ast. After taking six bottles of S. S. S. my cough left
Bje and I grew stouter than I hud been for several years. Aly cancer lias healed over all but
a little spot about the size of a half dime, and it is rapidly disappearing. I would advise
every one with cancer to give S. S. S. a fair trial.
>lrs, NANCY J. MaCONAUGHEY. >.?he Grove, Tippecanoe Cos., Ind.
Peb. 13, 1883. ’ ' ‘ *
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THE GROCER.
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- A grocer cannot take his Efe -
Or even C X rest,
For he’s to market while B’s
Sleep E Z in their nest.J
He has to watch with all liisEs
When customers S A
To hel p themselves, or other Y’s
They’d steal his fine R. A.
He makes big profits on bis T’s,
With sugar mixes S &
And grinds with coffee lots of P’s
Or N E thing at hand.
Slow payers he muat not X Q’s
Because, in K C trusts,
With all the caution he may' U’s
Sure in the N D busts.
When for a man he cuts H E’s
A big P C will weigh
And wrap ere the buyer C’s
It’s mouldy with D K.
Most every one the grocer O s
But, if he’s Y Z will
Shut down on each D T knows
And have no M T till.
—H. C. Dodge, in Tid-Bits.
—
ERICSSON AND OLE BULL
How the Noted Violinist Charmed the
Great Mechanician—A Triumph.
In conversation a few evenings ago a
distinguished chemist and physician, who
is also an enthusiastic and crital lover of
music, told an interesting story about Ole
Bull and John Ericsson, the great inven
tor.
It seems that they were friends iq early
life, but drifted apart and did not meet
again until each had became famous-
Bull had charmed the ears of admiring
thousands all over the civilized world*
while the pait the great mechanician
played in naval warfare during the re
bellion roused the north ’to .enthusiasm
and startled the world.
Bull happened to be in New' York on a
concart tour, determined to look up his
old friend and renew the acquaintance.
He fount! him in his workshop surrounded
by tools apd machinery, designs, models,
and materiels used in mechanical con
structions, directing the labors of assist
ants.
When taking his. leave Bull invited
Ericsson to attend his concert that night.
Ericsson, however, declined, saying he
had no time to waste.
Their acquaintance being thus renewed,
Bull continued to call on his old friend
when visiting New York, and usually
when taking his leave would ask Ericsson
to attend his concert, but Ericsson always
declined the invitation.
Upon one occasion Bull pressed him
urgently, and said: “If you do not come
I shall bring my violin here and play in
your shop.’’
Ericsson replied gruffly:’
“If you bring that thing hero I shall
smash it.”
Here w r ere tw T o men the very opposites
of each other. Bull an impulsive, ro
mantic dreamer; Ericsson stern, thought
ful, practical, proving every moment with
mathematical precision.
Bull’s curiosity was aroused to know
what effect music would have upon the
grim, matter of fact man of squares and
circles. So, taking his violin with, him,
he went to Ericsson’s shop. He .had re
moved the strings, sciews and apron, so
that the violin would seem to be in a
oad condition.
As he entered the shop, noticing a dis
pleased expressions on Ericsson’s face,
Bull called his attention to certain de
fects in the instrument, and speaking of
its construction asked Ericsson about the
scientific and acoustic properties involved
in the grain of certain w r oods. From this
he passed on to a discussion of sound,
w r aves, tones, semitones, etc.
To illustrate his meaning he replaced
the strings and improvising a few chords,
drifted into a rich melody.
The workmen, charmd, dropped their
tools, and stood in silent wonder.
He played on and on, and when finally
he cettsed, Ericsson raised his bowled head,
and, with moist eyes, said:
“Do not stop. Go on! Go cn! I never
knew until now what there was lacking
in my life.” —Lowell Sun.
THE
TIME
He (trying to get out of it pleasantly)—
‘T’m awfully sorry that-I must go to
night, Miss Bessie. What an agreeable
two weeks we’ve had of it. I will go and
ask your father —” (he was going to saj
“to harness the horse”) She — “Oh, Wil
liam, I knew it would come, and I asked
pa yesterday so as to save you the trouble.
He’s more than willing.”—Tid Bits.
If the sight-seers of the National Capital
enter the Bureau cf Printing and En
graving, they will glimpse through the
separating wire partion a pile of silver
certificates amounting to thousands of
dollars, being counted by a lady. The
hand of the young man with his girl in
voluntarily seeks hers, for so much cash
so near by calls up visions of love in a
palace, and she, in perfect sympathy
with him, ejaculates softly, “O, my!” and
the old gent ol the party gives his glasses
an extra rub as they all pass on.
The Constitution gives a list of 65 sa
loons and their present uses since pro
hibition went into effect. Only 12 were
vacant* against the hundred wagered by
antis, 4 has blossomed out as “neat wine
rooms,” a number were restaurants and
giocery stores, and altogether the changes
represented nearly every branch of busi
ness. The domestic wines alone allowed
under the law, will develop anew in
dustry, and will let a premium a “ridges”
and rocky hill-sides. The thrifty Geor
gian is quick to take a hint. A “tech
o’spirits” will furnish the rapid age
and flayor.
CONVICT LABOR.
REPORT OF THE ILLINOIS BUREAU
OF LABOR STATISTICS.
The Number of Convicts in the Several
Penitentiaries Working Under Con
tract Effects of Convicts Labor on
the Important Industries.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The advanced chapters of the Illinois
labor commissioners’ report on convict
labor are full of curious matter. For ex
ample: Out of the total 01,084 convicts in
all the prisoners of the United States,2,Bol
are from the agricultural classes, 3,756
from the professional and official classes,
7,380 from the eleried 1 and personal ser
vice class, 53& from the distinctly crim
inal class, 427 of these being prostitutes;
13,803 from the skilled labor classes,l6, 37o
from the unskilled labor class,2*B77 from
the classes engaged in transportation of
passengers and goods, and 4,566 of no
special classification, We are pleased to
notice that there are only two reporters
and no editors figuring in the list. If such
one has been convicted he has registered
himself as a postmaster, of whom there
are eight; but the “art preservative” is not
without representatives on the black roll,
there being 391 printers, 19 pressmen,
59 newsboys, ami 1 publisher doing
involuntary service to their common
country. Barbers are ** curiously cat
alogued among the “professional and
official” class of criminals and are most
numerous constituents, there being 519
of them. Next in this class are “norsq
men,” who number 581. Saloon-keepers
are also classed with professionals and
officials, and count only 81 in penal servi
tude. Twenty-nine actors and 13 show
men are registered in this grade, and
there are 10 preachers. In the “clerical
and personal class” servants take the
lead, there being 3,385 of them, besides
1,101 cooks, 435 housekeepers and 435
’anitors. There are 696 waiters and only
25 waiteresses in prison, only one cash
boy, only 4 shop girls. There are 195 bar
tenders and -200' book-keepers, 110'ooot
blacks and 6£4 clerks*# lamp-lighters und
3 maiil-carriers. In the class ol “skilled
producers” the metal workers lead, there
being 2,136 of them; next are wood-wurk
ers, to the number of 1,789; then euach
workers, 949; then bakers, who count 409.
There is only 1 sugar-boiler, 1 wig-maker.
2 rubber-workers, and two salt-makers
in this class. The tobacco-workers run
up to 854, and the sfrdeffiakers to 397.
The miners count 603, in addition to the
metal-workers, and the hatters 07. In
the “unskilled” class of 16,370, those who
register as “laborers” count for 14,355, and
the teamsters as 1,364.
In the commissioners’ report Table 1
shows a total population of 109 penal and
reformatory and institutional ol 57,831.
Of this number 53,108 are males and 4,-
193 females. There are 52,739 at work,
of whom 48,838 are males and 3,901 are
females; leaving 4,592 idle, ot whom 0,321
are incapacitated.
The cannalysis of the methods of em
ployment shows tnat 14,939 are ut work
under the contract system, 9,291 are L .sed
out, 2,980 are employed on the p.oce
plan, 10,676 on public account, and 0,850
are occupied in prison duties. The states
in which the. contract system prevails
are Conneticut, Illinois, Indiana, lowa,
Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michi
gan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hamp
shire, New York,Ohio, Oregon, Pennsyl
vania, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont.
Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
In three of these Stages, however, the
contract system nas recently been abol
ished by law, and the practice in those
States will become extinct upon the ex
isting contracts. These are New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio. The contract
system has also been entirely abolished
recently in California and New Jersey,
m both of which States the piece-price
plan has been substituted. A law wa
also passed by the last Legislature of the
State of Michigan, forbidding the Con
tacting of convicts, but it failed ul the
approval of the Governor upon tech deal
grounds. Thus the States of New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ouio, Michi
gan and California havo arrayed them
selves against the system, and four of
them are adopting other methods of util
izing the labor of convicts.
The lease system is seen to be still in
vogue in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississip
pi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten
nessee, and the new State of Nebraska.
Eight Stales have some portion of their
convicts at work on the piece-price plan,
and two of them their entire prison force ;
while twenty-seven States have more or
less prisoners at work on public account,
though none of them have yet made the
system universal.
Table 11. exhibits an analysis of the
prison work of the country by industries,
showing the number of convicts em
ployed in each of a group of fourteen
general lines of productive labor, besides
the number engaged in miscellaneous la
tfor and prison duties. This shows a
much larger number of convicts c riged
in the various forms of boot an- shoe
manufacture than in any other in • stry.
TLe whole number thus emplo* jd Is
7,079, while the manufactures ol * aring
apparel and furniture come next.
The following are testimonies as *o the
effect of the contract system on free la
bor:
The president of a wealth- ° fage
company doing business in eT ts of
the country offers this tesu.EuMj pon
the subject; “The m&nuucture of laid
tierces and pork barrels in prison by ma
chinery in the various States has virtually
given the complete control of the markets
for proyision cooperage into their hands.”
A Chicago manufacturer of cooperage,
with many years’ experience in the mar
kets, gives this emphatic testimony as to
the consequences of the contract system:
“The competition of prison-made goods
in our market has caused such a decline
in prices that we estimate present rates to
be from 25 to 40 per cent, lower than
they would be if the contractors did not
force their goods upon the market.”
The president of one of the oldest and
largest boot and shoe establishments in
Chicago or the country, having an invest
ed capital of over a quarter of a million
dollars, makes the following statement,
based upon the observation and expe
rience of his firm for many years, in re
gard to the influence of convict Labor upon
their business: “Prison labor in the
manufacture of boots and shoes has de
pressed the prices of those goods at least
20 per cent.”
A master marble-worker says: “Even
when there is plenty of work being don*
in our line we have been obliged to run
on short time, is equivalent to
paying only partial wages, because the
bulk of the business was secured by the
prison contractors below our lowest rates.
In this way honest men are robbed of
work and wages.”
Another operator in stone and marble
works says: “It is utterly impossible for
outside dealers to compete with the prison
contractors, for the reason that they have
established such a low price for marble
and granite work. Unless we could find
customers who are opposed to prison la
bor w 7 e could not sell one loot of these
goods.”.
ANOTHER FIGHT IN CHICAGO.
Fiukertan'* Men und the Strikers in
Conflict.
Chicago, Oct. 16—As about a hundred
discharged Pinkerton men were on their
way to the city to-day in cars from stock
yards, they were hooted and stoned by a
crowd of strikers near Fortiek sirect.
One of them, in exasperation, finally
fired his Winchester into the crowd
through a car window, mortally wound
ing Dennis JBagley, a well-to-do teamster.
Word was immediately sent to Chica
go authorities, and upon the arrival of
train here the entire lot of Pinkerton
men, together with some forty non-union
workmen who were also on the train,
were arresten and locked up m Harrison
street station.
From later accounts it appears that
the shooting was not confined to one
man, but that ail the Pinkerton men
joined in the fusiiade. When the tram
passed though the crowd at Halstead
street they were again greeted with
jeers, when a large, stout, red-faced
man, clothed in a Pinkort’on uuforin,
stepped out on the back platform and
fired his revolver into the crowd. This
was the signal for a general volley, and
fifteen or twenty Pinkerton men began
to fire their rides from the windows.
Fuliy thirty shots were fired. The fence
and shanties along the track were mar
ked with bullets.
The stock yards strike, which prom
ised to pass into history as a bloodless
one, has been attended by the sacrifice
of human life. Terrey Bagley and an
other man was mortally w T ounded by the
Pinkerton men this afternoon, and fifty
of the latter were arrested to await dis
position on the charge of murder. All
but six were afterward released. The
Pinkerton men say that the strikers
made the assault first with stones and
then with revolvers, that they made no
attack until they had been fired upon.
Captain C. Harkey said, however, that
the Pinkerton men did the first shooting
without auy provocation. Captain Joy
was iu charge of the Piukerton men
when the shooting occured. He was
standing on the rear platform, He said
that the men picked out by the city po
lice where not the guilty parties. He
said, also, that strikers gathered about
the ear four hundred stroug just as they
were about starting and began pelting
them with stones and some of them shot
at them.
“We were sent down there” said,’ Cap
tain Joy, “to preserve the peace, not to
disturb it, but wheu some of my men
were fired upon they returned it, think
ing perhaps that the lives of the em
ployes who were iu their charge were in
danger. I was standing on the rear plat
form of the train at the t ime. I rushed
iuto the train and ordered them to stop
firing. I did not know what damage
was done until I came iuto the city.”
William A. Pinkerton says lie has ample
proof that his inert did not fire upon tke
crowd until they had been fired upon.
Charles Beck, ome of his me, who was in
a cat ahead of the one from which the
shooting was done, says the crowd fired
at least five shots before the fire was re
turned. One of the bullets passed the
car and imbedded itself in an opposite
wall. Bricks and stones were thefi
thrown until tbs side was well battered
up.
A dog with a tin can attached to his
tail passed hurriedly down the street.
“Is that dog mad?” asked a pedestrian.
“Well,” responded another, “I caught the
glimpse of his countenance as he passed
by and he -didn’t look the least bit
plwwied.”
MURDERED IN HER SLEEP.
A Bride Agstissiiutted by Some Unknown
Person.
The most mysterious and diabolical
crime ever perpetrated in southern Mis
souri was committed on Big Creek, six
miles east of Houston, Mo., Friday morn
ing, at 3 o’clock. Mrs Ella Williams,
bride of Half Williams, was lying asleep
by the side of her husband when some
unknown person entered the bedroom,
placed a pistol against hor forehead and
a bullet through her brain. The re
port of the revolver awakened Williams,
but he had been ill for some time and
was unable to pursue the murderer. Two
men sleeping in an adjoining room were
also awakeued, and immediately went to
the room after procuring a light. The
young bride lay motionless on the bed,
blood streaming from her forehead and
her brains protruding from the wound.
The builet had entered just above the
right eye and that organ had been forced
from its socket, and was hanging by a
cord upon her cheek. Search was made
for the murderer, but he is still at large.
No motive can be assigned for the deed
except that some disappointed former
lover of the bride took this means of re
venge. Mrs. Williams, before her mar
riage, was the belle of the county and
bore an irreproachable character. The
couple had been married two months.
A MYSTERIOUS KILLING.
Saturday night Pat Erskine, who had
been driuking quite heavily, got into a
difficulty with some parties, unknown to
the publfc and was stabbed in the back
between the shoulders. It is said that
he found his way iuto the room of Annie
Moore, a woman with whom he bad been
living for several years, that they had a
rough and terrible fight, and that An
nie got the best of it. Be that as it may,
Erskine, who had been complaining for
several days, was reported as dangerous
ly ill Sunday morning, and died Sunday
evening. Coroner Speight empannelled
a jury, and after considering the code
until a late hour Monday night returned
a verdict a follows: “We the jury find
that the deceased, Pat Erskine, came to
his death, from a knife wound, in the
hands of Henry Black, and Annie Moore
as accessory.”
We have heard none of the evidence,
the jurors in the inquest case are not
allowed to divulge anything. The knife
that the cutting was done with was
found, wrapped in a handkerchief, in the
pocket of the deceased. On Tuesday
morning Mr. Black and Annie Moore,
waived commitment trial, and were
remanded to the custody of the sheriff.
Next Friday, we learn, Judge Fort will
give them a hearing ao to tho advisa
bility of allowing them bail.
This case has excited great interest in
tho city. Black is a young man who has
tho sympathy of nearly every person in
the city, and the general expression is in
his favor. He may be given to the habit
of drinking too much at times, but there
is no vindictiveness in his nature. He is
a man of courage and honesty, and one
that friends can lead into the errors of
pleasure, but he would not be the man
to do a deed so foul as that ascribed to
him. He has the universal regret of the
people of the city that he has been
found in such company. Of the charac
ter and standing of the man slain, we
shall say nothing—oiily that he is dead,
fallen a victim to the charms of s siren
who bewitched, enthralled and then de
stroyed, a man, whose heart was good,
but who yielded too easily.—Sumpter
Republican.
NATHAN MOSELY HANGED.
A Young Negro Executed in Union
Springe, Alabama*.
Nathan Mosely was hung in Union
Springs, Ala. A lurge crowd, mostly
negros, came to town from the sur
rounding country, and at the hour ap
pointed for the execution, 500 or 600
people assembled around the jail to catch
a glimse of the doomed fellow. He was
taken from the jail at 11;30 o’clock, and
guarded by Southern Rides, Mas escor
ted to the gallows, nearly a mile distant,
the crowd following. After prayer
Moseley made a short speech, in which
he fully confessed the crime and exhorted
his hearers not to follow his example.
A.bout 12.25 the black cap was adjusted,
his relatives were told good bye, the cord
holding the trap was severed by the
sheriff, and in a few minutes he was pro
nounced dead by the physicians.
The crime he committed was rape, last
spring, on the person of Miss Chrissie
Gayle, an inmate of the poor house, 75
years old. The evidence of his guilt was
clear. Ho was tried by a jury composed
of eleven white men and one nog ro, all
of whom concurred in the opinion that
he deserved the death penalty. He de
nied being guilty until after his convic
tion, when headmitted the crime. He was
a negro about 22 years old, and seemed to
fully realize the enormity of his crime in
the direful death which awaited him.
Bob Southern, the husband of Kate
Southern of murder fame, has just been
sent up for nine month from Pickens
county, for revengefully cutting a neigh
bor’s buggy into doll rags, and otherwise
deporting himself furiously.
The eagel is a tough bird, but wlieu it
is put on the back of a doll r it is Aga
tender.— M © reliant Traveler.
NUMBER 24
CONSISTENCY.
lie always stays so late—-that stupid
Brown.
i was half past ten I know,
Last night before-lie took his hat
And “thought he’d better go.”
1 thought so too, but only said
“Good night,” and yawned behind
ray fan,
And- wondered bow the other girls
Could enterain that sort of man.
[Threeguonths later; same young man
same glrh] A
“Don’t hurjry, Ed; it isn’t late,
That clock is lots too fast.
1 Its only twelve; I’ll let you stay
Till twenty minutes past.”
—Miss E. Sylvester in Judge.
‘fThe Saratoga walk” is the latest agony
It probably lies a good deal of “spring” to
if.—Boston Herald.
Charley Hill, the Atlanta solicitor, is an
admirer of Dickens, and dashes his
speeches before the jury with Pickwickian
pepper.
A; physician’s little daughter called
upon for aTo&st, gav.e “The health or
papa and immma and all the world.” But
she suddenly corrected the sentiment,
“Not all the world, for papa would have
no patients.”
St Louis had a singular drowning
during a fire. A lire-plug burst and flood
ed the neighborhood, and a'young man
who to escape the flood had climbed a lamp
poet, lost his hold, fell into the ditch and
was drowned.
It may not have been gefierally noticed
but it is a fact, that w r heueverthe ’possum
crop in Georgia is a good one, business is
brisk during the season that follows
We have it from all quarters that ’possum
crop of 1883 is a phenomenal one.—
Macon Telegraph.
A PANIC IN CHURCH.!
Attempt to Assassinate a Polish Priest lu
Pittsburg,
Intense excitement prevails among the
Polish residents of Pittsburg, Pa., over'an
alleged attempt to assassinate Rev. Father
Miskewitz who presides over the little
Polish church at the head of Fifteenth
street. It occured about 11 o’clock Sun
day, while the priest stood before the
Mass had been said and-the -father
had just turned to address the congrega
tion, "when “crash” came a bullet through
a on the south side of the churen,
aud flattened itself against the solid wall
on the opposite side. For a minute con
fusion reigned in the church. Women
screamed, choir boys shouted, and many
of the members of the congregation either
pressed forward to see if father Miskewitz
was injured or rushed out of the building
to find from whence the bullet came.
The priest showed great coolness, not
withstanding the fact that the missle
must have past within six inches of his
body. If it had been fired a minute soon
er it would have passed through him. He
turned with a gesture, waived his flock
to their seats; but not all of them, for by
this time upwards of a hundred had
swarmed out into the street and into the
yard of the parish building.
SHOT HIS DAUGHTER IN THE ARM
Friday night a young lady, Jennie
Ramsey, ofSavannah, Ga., sixteen yeais
of age, was shot and painfully wounded
by her father, Charles Ramsey, a steve
dore, It appears that Ramsey had been
drinking, though he was not greatly
under the influence of liquor. He went
home early iu the evening and proceed
ed to his room and got his pisol. As ho
entered the hall, his daughter, who had
beeu in an upper room, started to come
down stairs. Her father suddenly turn
ed and aiming the pistol at her, fired the
shot. The gill involuntarily raised her
arm and the ball entered it just below
the elbow, inflicting a serious but not
fatal wound. But for this movement she
would have beeu hitin the left breast.
After she was shot, Miss Jennie sushed
ou her father and prevented him from
shooting her a second time. Sever* 1
neighbors meanwhile rushed in. It is
said that Ramsey had been wounded
about his daughter’s conduct, and had
beeu brooding over it, aud did not km v
what he was doing when he shot. Others
state that he mistook his daughter for a
burglar. There is some Tnytery about
the case, but Ramsey has not been
arrested.
thirteen stabs.
A serious difficulty occurred at 'Ballae,
Ga., Wednesday night, about 10 o’ clock,
in which John Allen, a citizen of Dallas
was stabbed twelve or thirteen times, five
of whren were fatal, and from which he
died. Allen went to Atlanta on that day
and returned on the evening train under
the influence of whiskey. Sometime
afterwards he met up with a man named
W hitlook, and struck him on the head
with a stick. Whitlock was carried
home. A friend of his, J. N. Dili,
after Dr. Poster, and on his way met
Allen. A difficulty arose with AlJ*n
and some one, supposed to be Dill lxia
son. Loud talking was heard between
them, after which licks *’ ere y
heard, when Dill and his son passec
Spinks house. Allen s inn,
dlately went p to "“t*
and found Mm cut all over. Dm. IW .
Connolly and Robertson were sent 1,-,
| anL i rendered all the aid in their pov .
Allen leaves a wife and four childicm
Dill and his son, a boy about fifteen r
sixteen years old, who is supposed did
he catting', left town at night.
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