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■’ ADVANCE ON HAVANA.
(hat They Have Established
aquarters at Guanajay.
itch from Havana says that
o-'uts have chosen Guanajay,
Eniles lierations. from Havana, as the
Bninister Senor Navarro
Ipf of finance, denies
^erument the statement that tho
intends to raise a
or the purpose of meeting
« of the campaign,
Rail .way Construction.
According to the Railway Age, only
1,782.39 miles of railroad traok were
laid in the United States during the
year 1895. This is the smallest amount
of construction for any year sinoe
1875, when only 1,711 miles were
added to the railroads of the country.
With the exception of the four years
of the war and 1866 and 1875, the
mileage the past year was the smallest
constructed in forty years.
Of the railroad building of the year,
the northern and western states show
749,25 miles, against 762.25 for the
south, and 270.89 for the territories.
Among the states Texas comes first
with 224.22 miles. Indian Territory
follows, with 149.71 miles. No other
state shows a construction of one hun¬
dred miles. Florida, with 71.25 miles,
comes in eleventh, being surpassed in
railroad building by Texas, Indian
Territory, California, Ohio, Pennsyl¬
vania, Maine, West Virginia, Georgia,
Illinois and Michigan.
The states that made the increase in
railroad mileage are New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, Delaware, Tennessee, Ne¬
braska, North Dakota, South, Dakota,
Wyoming, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho
and New Mexico. Canada added 192.-
75, and Mexico 75.65 miles during the
year.
A Negro Knighted.
Among the New Year honors con¬
ferred by the queen of England, was
the bestowal of knighthood on Mayor
Lewis, of Freetown, the capital of
Sierra Leone, Africa. Mayor Lewis,
who is also an unofficial member of
the legislative council, is a pure-
blooded negro. This is the first time
that the honor of knighthood has been
bestowed on one of bis race;
Fire Burning for Twelve Centuries
A Parsee sacred fire which is burning
in a temple at Legiguil, Persia, is
known to have not been extinguished
since the days of Rapbereth, who lived
twelve centuries ago.
Nrbaatapol W’m Not Impregnable,
For It was taken b j assault, bnt a physique
built tsp, a constitut on fortified br llostet-
trr's Stomach Ritters, mar bid defiance toths
assaults of malarious disease even in localities
where it s most prevalent and m» ijnant. of
EmiuranU to the ague-breedinx sections
the West should bear th s in mind, and start
with a supply. The Bitters promptly sub¬
dues dyspepsia, rheumatic and kidney oom-
piaints, nervousness, consi ipation and bilious¬
ness. _
To decide avainst things that God against disap¬
proves sometimes means to decide
friends and enemies.
Borne floating soaps turn yellow and rancid.
Dobbins’ Flostlntr-Borsi Soap does nslther. The
Boras In it bleaches it srith sen, sad the odor
is delightful. Try it once, use it elwsye. Order
a trial lot of your grocer. Insist on red wrappers.
He who undervalues himself is justly un¬
dervalued by others.
Tbe Most Pleasant Way
Of preventing the grippe, colds, headaches and
fevers Is to use the liquid laxative remedy.
I Syrup of Figs, whenever the system needs a
gentle, yet effective cleansing. To be benefited
one must get the true remedv manufactured
by the C^’ifornla Fig Syrup Co. only. For sale
by ail d’toggists in 50c. and $1 bottles.
testy consists in being trtfe to
Bkioas.
Ijll^^W^Tnjured The north walls and were two floors employed. went
down. On the north is the Excelsior
Wire Company’s building, also partly
wrecked. Within a half minute the
three buildings were wrapped in
flumes.
Four More Bodies Found.
The remains, or really the remnants
of plosion four more victims of Thursday’s ex-
were taken from the ruins at
St. Louis Friday. The bodies were
burned and mutilated beyond recogni¬
tion.
This makes it certain that eight peo¬
ple lost their lives in the terrible ex¬
plosion. Tho work of rescuing the
bodies of the dead and caring for the
living has been going on incessantly
since the explosion occurred. Many
of thoso who were injured and who are
now in tbe hospitals of the city may
die from their wounds. About thirty
people were more or less seriously in¬
jured. The losses on property by tbe
explosion will amount to at least
$ 100 , 000 .
UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
The Whole Province of Havana Re¬
ported to be up In Arms.
A New Yoik Herald special from
Key West says: “Startling advices
have been received from Havana to
the effect thut tho whole province of
Havana is up in arms aguinst the gov¬
ernment. The situation in the west¬
ern provinces, Havana and Pinar del
Rio, lmvo been declared under martial
law. While no details are given of
actual engagements, the roports say
that the government troops are failing
back everywhere in tho disaffected
regions before the triumphant rebel
army.”
Discharging Commissioners.
An order has been sent out by Judges
Lurton and Clarke requesting the res¬
ignations of all tho United States com¬
missioners of eastern and middle Ten¬
nessee. The order was mailed out
from Knoxville last Tuesday by Clerk
H. If. Taylor, and will, it is said, re¬
sult in about thirty republicans being
out off, as the democrats will all be re-
appoiuted.
Massachusetts Legislature Assembles.
The Massachusetts state legislature
organized at Boston, Tuesday, with
George Von L. Moyer, of Boston, as
speaker, and Capt. J. G. B. Adams,
ofiLynn, as sergeant-at-arms of the
house, and George Long, of North
Adams, as president, and H. D. Cool-
edge, of Concord, as clerk of the
senate.
Thirty People Drowned.
A dispatch to the Paris Figaro from
Algiers says that by the sinking of
the French steamer Emilo-Heloise,
through being run down by tbe Brit
ish steamer Bol'erophoD, thirty of her
passengers wore drowned instead of
four as at first reported.
Undo Sum Demands Indemnity.
A dispatch from Constantinople to
tho Central News (London) says that,
H Jfi United .States havo demanded
f for n tho porto the payment of a large
indemnity for the losses sustained by
the American missionaries through the
action of the mobs in Asia Minor.
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Accompany your own flag through-
ont ' s '' orld uudt ’ r *lie protection of
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HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
Flannels should never be wrung or
ironed. First dip them in hot suds,
then rinse in water of about the same
temperature, in which a little soap has
been put.
Children can be trained with the
greatest ease to offer the cheek or the
forehead for the proffered oareBB, and
to elude the attempt to contaminate
the lips. Convent pupils are taught
to give and receive salutes upon the
cheeks.
For plain paste, Mrs. Rorer gave
the following recipe: Cut one cup
(half a pound) of butter into three
cups of flour, add ono teaspoonful of
salt and sufficient ice water to moisten,
and roll; fold and roll from you four
times and it is ready to use.
To cleanse glass bottles that have
held oil, place ashes in each bottle and
immerse in cold water, and then heat
the water gradually until it boils;
after boiling an hour, let them remain
until oold. Then wash the bottles in
soap suds and rinse in cold water.
A little starch water, added to cows’
milk, often acts well, it is said, in
holding the casein in a finely divided
state, and thus preventing largo, tough
curds. It mechanically honeycombs
the curd, as it were,thereby rendering
it more accessible to the gastric juice.
A teaspoonful of borax put in the
last water in which clothes are rinsed
will whiten them surprisingly. Pound
the borax so that it will dissolve easily.
This is especially good to remove the
yellow that time gives to white gar¬
ments that have been laid aside for
two or three years.
An expert tester gives the follow¬
ing directions for detecting adulter¬
ated coffee: Rub a handful of coffee
between the fingers. If it hardens or
cakes it is adulterated probably with
chicory. Another test is to place a
sample of the coffee on the top of a
wineglass full of water. If part of it
floats and part of it sinks it is un¬
doubtedly adulterated. Pure coffee
contains an oily enveloping substance
that keeps out the water, or at least
does not quickly absorb it.
In making a potato salad it is al¬
ways best to use potatoes that are just
boiled, and to slice them and oover
them with French dressing while
warm. Prepared in this way it will
be more digestible, as the oil will act
more directly on the salts of potash in
the potatoes. The potatoes are so
easily broken if turned over very much
in covering them with the dressing
that I found it best to put them in a
common bowl, pour the dressing over
them, toss a very little, then to place
another bowl on the first one and turn
the salad upside down into it. The
best potato salad is made from new
potatoes, as they keep th°ir shape bet¬
ter than old ones. In seme markets
small potatoes that come from Holland
are kept purposely for salads.
The Koran.
The Koran is at the same time a re¬
ligious and a political code. All Mus¬
sulmans admit it to be so, and it can-
therefore, that, since
re . with their
ot •f iftto
ing tho values of r.ussian gold cur¬
rency under a recent adjustment of
the Imperial bunk, Mr. Knrel con¬
cludes his communication with this
paragraph: “I understand that the
object ef (ho minister of finance of
the Russian empire is to accumulate
into the imperial vaults as much gold
as possible, with a view to establish¬
ing in future the Russian finances on
a gold basis.
Dld Not Agree.
The senate finance committee did
not conclude its consideration of tho
houso bill Friday. Tho failure was
dua to the fact that the silver majority
of the committee was unable to agree
upon the terms of the substitute which
they propose to report for the house
bill. The members favorable to sil¬
ver, including Senators Voorhees,
Harris, Vest, Jones of Arkansas, ami
Walthall, democrats, and Jones of
Nevada, populist, wero iu conference
for an hour before the full committee
met, bnt they found the task of pre¬
paring a bill to which all could agree,
somewhat more complicated than they
anticipated and wero compelled to ask
for more time.
New Year’s at tho Capital.
New Year’s day was celebrated here
in the good old-fashioned way, Wash¬
ington, of late years, is nlmost tho
only city that has retained the old cus¬
toms. Calls were exchanged by every¬
body in official and private life. All
of the officials received, the president
first of ail, the vice-president, tho
members of the cabinet, heads of
bureaus and so on down to the hum-
klcst officials, and after that ... the great
social public.
It was an ideal duy—a clear sky and
a bracing breeze fiom the northwest,
making walking pleasant, but was rath- :
er hard upon tho occupants of tho gay
equippages and tho vast throng on
foot, who were obliged to wait in tbo
long line outside of the white house to
pay their respects to the president and
exchange greetings with Mrs. Clove- I
land and the ladies of the cabinet.
Surplus In December.
The monthly comparative statement
of the receipts and expenditures of the
United States shows that during the
month of December tbe receipts, cents
omitted, aggregated $26,288,937, as
follows: Customs, $12,169,172, inter¬
na! revenue, $12,750,771; miscellane¬
ous, $1,368,993.
The expenditures during the month
amounted to $25,814,317, leaving a
surplus for tho month of $474,620.
The figures for the first half of the
present fiscal year ended December 31,
however, show adeficitof $15,394,707,
as against a deficit of $27,565 during
the first half of last year, as compared
with December, 1894, tho receipts
from customs show an increase of a
little less tbnu $1,000,000, and from
internal revenue an increase of about
For the Inst six months the receipts
from customs show an increase over
the corresponding period last year of
$12,377,000. There was during the
same months a loss in the returns from
internal revenue of about $5,276,OOJ.
Severe Earthquake Shocks.
A severe shock of earthquake was
at Ciciana, near the city of Nola,
the province of Caserta, Italy, on
A number of houses were
down. Several persons wero
and mnj others Injured,
THROUGH GEORGIA.
BITS OF NEWS GATHERED FROM
OVER THE STATE,
Being a Summary of Interesting Hap¬
penings From Day to Day.
Brunswick is infested with tramps.
There were attracted there by mild
climate and fertile soil.
J. A. D. McClellan, a prosperous
farmer of Mitchell county, has sold
out his property and left for Vene¬
zuela.
Application has been made to Hon.
A. D. Candler, secretary of state, for
a charter for the West Point state
bank.
_ Towns county veterans and the wid- |
ows of veterans got $3,330 out of the
fund appropriated for pensions by the
state of Georgia.
M. H. Shepard, of Athens, had on
his table new year’s day, fresh green {
corn. beans, tomatoes, beets and okra,
all from his own raising.
Within tho next two weeks the Cen- .
sire, 000
A farmer in Coweta county has for j
sale 3,000 bushels of seed oats raised
by him last year. Ho buys no grain
and doesn’t keep his smoke house in
the west.
The supreme court reports will here¬
after be printed at a cost to the state
of two dollars per volume, instead of
three dollars, which has been paid for
a number of years.
The city fathers of Valdosta have
begun work setting out shade trees
over the city, and will continue it un¬
til the first of March. They calculate
on planting from 500 to 1,000 live and
water oaks in that time.
A northerner is looking for a loca¬
tion in Georgia to start a newspaper. piace
Any parties knowing of a good
for such an enterprise might send
word to the Business League, Wash¬
ington, Ga.
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The members of the Harmony Grove
Baptist church have decided to build
a $ 10,000 church instead of a $ 6,000
building a 3 was first decided upon.
The work will begin in the early
spring and be pushed to an immediate
completion.
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It is authentically announced that
the Plant System will commence the
erection in the near future of a $15,000
hospital in Waycross. The establish¬
ing of this hospital at Waycross has
long been talked of, and it now seems
that it is to be carried into effect.
It is probable t
POLS e:
Three Men Killer nud a Number
Wounded.
A shooting affray in the Union thea¬
ter in the little mining camp of Victor,
a few miles from Cripple Creek, Col.,
Tuesday night threw tho place into
great excitement. Early in the even¬
ing the toughs of the town gave it out
that they would clean out the Union,
and when Manager Sm-th, of the thea¬
ter, accused Tom Paroo, one of tho
audience, of being the leader, a pitched
battlo was precipitate!. Smith,
The killed are: George man¬
ager of the theater ; Tom Pasco and
George Furguson. Those wounded
are: Bobert Smith, shot in the thigh;
Fred Ellis, left arm broken by shot.
Several others received flesh wounds.
Saloons aud duuce balls have been
running night and day ever since the
camp was started, and it is feared that
further serious trouble will follow.
Tho programme of the play was
about half finishod when Manager
Smith came in from his office aud
walked to a table at which were seated
five or six men. One of them was Tom
Pasco, a well-known man about the
camp.
Smith accused Pasco of being the
leader of a gang of toughs which were
scattered about the theater, aud told
him he heard the toughs had come
down to clean out the place. The lie
was passed instantly, and in a jiffy a
dozen pistols were flashing in the gas¬
light.
Before anyone could interfere Pasco
had brought his pistol to a level with
Smith’s head aud find. Smith drop¬
ped on his knee, aud as he fell ho was
seen to draw his gun. A report rang
out, and Pasco reeled and fell almost
directly across Smith. Tho shooting
then became general, and when the
smoke had cleared away nearly every
light iu tho place had been shot out
and it was some tune before sufficient
lamps could be obtained to allow tbo
marshal to see who hsd been killed.
It is a miracle that but three were
killed, as bullet murks are everywhere.
Some of the wounded left for theii
camps without saying who they were,
ftn d a full list of tho injured cannot be
obtained.
EUGENE FIELD’S ESTATE.
His Personal Properly Estimated at
$25,000.
The estate of tho lato Eugene Field
was brought into the probate court at
Chicago Thursday oka petition of the
widow for letters cf administration.
The estate is valued at $25,000, all in
personal property. Besides this, there
is the poet’s home, valued at $ 10,000
to $ 20 , 000 , which ho had conveyed to
bis wife some time bffore his death.
New Yorlt Wants he Convention.
In view of the gveat benefit that
must accrue to the msiness interests
and trade relations i f New York by
holding the next democratic national
convention in that city, The Herald
takes pleasure in an'iouncing that it
will head the subscription list for that
purpose with $ 10 , 001 ', provided tho
rest of the amount required be sub¬
scribed by tbe business men of tbe
city.
Frovldence’s .___ Largest T Firm _ Falls. ..
The H. W. Ladd Co., one of tho
largest dry goods concerns in Ptovi-
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A New Cotton Mill.
The Whittier cotton mills, on the j
river, a half mile from
plant of the Chattahoochee Brick
were put in operation a few
ago. Miss Helen A. Whittier,
of the company that owns
mill, pressed an electrio button
put the spindles in operation and
up another great industry for
the south, and gave employment to
between three and four hundred peo¬
ple. The mills will continue in oper¬
ation during all the working days of
the year, and will add much to the
manufacturing business of this section,
and will give a means of living to a
small army of people. The construc¬
tion of the mill was begun last spring
and was finished a few days ago. The
total cost of the mill was $200,000. It
has 10,000 spindles, and is one of the
finest equipped cotton mills in the
country. It has been supplied with
machinery of the latest improvement
and manufacture, and is said to be nn-
excelled, as far as the machinery de-
partmcnt is concerned,
To Lcaso the S. & w. Road.
At the annual election of the Augusta
Savannah railroad the following
directors were elected: General Law-
^ on » George S. Owens, Frank H. Mill-
er William W. Thomas, Joseph D.
i Henry H.
■Weed, Frank S. Lathrop,
Hull. General Lawton was re-elected
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Pr Th.A.pi.t» .OS S.Tirnnah rulro.d
Central for 101 years at 5 per cent, per
annum.
Joseph Williams, of Richmond, tbo
president of the Georgia and Alabama
railroad, formerly the Savannah, Arner-
icas and Montgomery, treasurer; J.
Wilcox Browo, Baltimore, attorney.
Leopold Wallaeb, of New York, and
the operating department of the road,
have been in conference with
dent Comer, of the Central of Georgia
relative to the leasing of the Savannah
and Western by the Georgia and Ala-
bama. The general impression is that
the conference will result iu either a
sale or a lease of the property.
THE GIRLSCOLI.EGK.
_ Trustees . Hold a Most Harmonious
Meeting in MllledgevUle
The trustees of the Georg,a Normal
and Industrial College for girls held
an enthusiastic meeting in Milledge-
ville, the main purpose of which was
to make preliminary arrangements for
the erection of the new dormitory to
accommodate the increasing patronage
of * the .I school. v i
Governor _ W. _ Y.
Those present were Walsh, Hon. F.
Atkinson, Senator Pat
O D.BIe. 0 . Ho. Mr. W.U., of
Putnam, and TVIessra. .Lamar and Mew-
ell, of Milledgeville. will about
The new building cost
825.000 and will be erected on the east
side of the school builMng, w hich will
nut it nearly in the
completei^^H beautiful
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l-y tho Ufi.Tuu U1
••KSiow as paid by foreign
ments,” were stricken out. The
lution was adopted.
Mr. Sherman then introduced
resolution which was listened to with
keen interest in view of tho senator’s
utternnees against the retirement of
the greenbacks, Ho gave notice that
on Friday ho would submit some re¬
marks upou it. Tho resolution was
as follows;
“Resolved, That by injurious legis¬
lation by the 53d congress tho reven¬
ues of the government were reduced
below its necessary expenditures and
the fund created by law for tho re¬
demption of the United States notes
has been invaded to supply such defi¬
ciency of reserve: application
“That such of the re¬
sumption fund is of doubtful legality
and greatly injurious to the public
credit and should be prevented by re¬
storing said fund to the sum of’ not
less than $ 100 , 000,000 in gold coin or
bullion to be paid out only in the re¬
demption of United States notes when
redeemed to be reissued only in ex¬
change for gold coin or bullion.”
Mr. Mitchell, republican, Oregon,
then took the floor and mndo a long
speech in favor of his resolution in¬
structing the finance committee to re¬
store the McKinley duties on wool in
any revenue bill reported to the
senate.
Mr. Morrill, republican, Vermont,
chairman of tho finance committee,
made a brief but important announce¬
ment in tbe senate Friday. He moved
that when tho senate adjourned it bo
until Tuesday, and in this connection
he said: “I hope that by Tuesday,
when the senate reassembles, tho
finance committee will be ready to re¬
port on both tbe tnriff and bond bills
passed by the house.” The motion
for an adjournment until Tuesday was
agreed to.
Mr. Hale, republican, Maine, in
presenting a bill for a cable to Hono¬
lulu and elsewhere, explained that it
was an elaboration of the plan urged
before the last congress’ and contem¬
plated a cable for tbe transmission of
the business of tbo United States gov¬
ernment. He said be would call up
the subject Tuesday. A joint resolu¬
tion for a constitutional amendment
admitting women to suffrage, was pre¬
sented by request by Mr. Hoar. Mr.
Squire, republican, Washington, of¬
fered » resolution for tbe negotiation
forthwith of a convention between the
United. States and Great Britain for
making the boundary between Alaska
and British North America and appro¬
priating $75,000 for expenses. The
resolution was referred.
Mr. George, democrat, Mississippi,
asked immediate consideration for a
bill repealing the law requiring an
oath of loyalty as a prerequisite to se¬
curing a pension for services iu tho
Mexican war. Mr. Hoar said tho
repeal was unobjectionable, where¬
upon Mr. Chandler remarked: “I
will certainly support any measure of
reconciliation which has the joint in¬
dorsement of tbo senator from Missis¬
sippi and the senator from Massachu¬
setts.” The bill was passed without
division.
Mr. Butler, populist, North Caro¬
lina, asked immediate consideration of
a bill “to proh’bit tho issue of inter-
Shearing bonds.” Mr. Hill, New
Y, r k, suggested that the bill he not
pWMeil for the present, Mr. Sber-
}.\e said, wm about to address the
ONLY EAT PEPTONOIDS
BUT PINK PILLS MADE IT POSSIBLE
TO EAT ANYTHING.
Get Your Digestion night and Your
Health Will Take Pare of Itself.
From the Star, Washington, D. C.
“Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills miraculously
cured me of two diseases and have otherwise
done me a vast amount of good,” said Mrs.
E. A. Meeker, of No. 207 Third street, South¬
east Washington, D. C„ to a Star reporter
to-day.
“For many years I was a sufferer from
muscular rheumatism in its worst form, and
in addition had stomaoh trouble to such an
extent that for a long time I could eat noth¬
ing stronger than beef peptonoids. The
rheumatism commenced in my back and not
only extended into my left arm, almost par¬
alyzing It from the shoulder to the elbow,
but attacked my hips and limbs with such
vehemence that it wa3 impossible for me to
go out on the street without being supported
by an attendant.
“I was attended by four different phy¬
sicians—not all at one time—of both the al-
lopathic and homeopathic sohools, and tnere
were times when I was oovered from my
neck to my feet with porous or some other
kind of plasters, for I tried everything of the
sort that was recommended by rav friends.
“During the greater part of this time my
husband and son were urging f me to take
SCTSl"* "** two b " and half ~
“About two years or a years
ago the physician who was then attending
me, and 1 have had none since, said to me,
‘Mrs. Meeker, there is no use for me to come
and see you any more; you have muscular
rheumatism, a disease incident to old age,
and you cannot be cured. I will give you
some iron for your blood, and when this
prescription runsoutyou can get it renewed.
It you get much worse you can send for me,
moUr W n0t ^ BUm ‘
“Of course I wasmuoh discouraged, but
Otill I tried a noted massage treatment thor-
^ b husb!^d U pe«uaded me to'try the
p iD k Pills. I began taking
“I waut to say that when
"“JSfJgS” simply please
w „ u u y> erl eflt me, but to my
husband and son by taking something. How-
ever, I took them as directed by the makers. ;
"^aur^rise that''myTomaoh™ longer to subsist so
mU ch better that I had no
on beef peptonoids, but could begin to In-
du ,'5" 1 “ T?'that as the Pink
Pills were evidently doing me good, I would
try them for another month.
“1 continued to use them nj directed and
improve, and it was much more pleasant for
m ,, t0 go 0 n the street, though I still hai to
be attended on .»ooount ot iny weak limbs
j^ul^not b£in to®5i them ttw for
p er j 0 ds w hen I would stop using a
weokatatime. But from the time I com-
meuced until I felt I couldI safely cease tak-
V^SStiSS after my eyeslgnt which began had been to
grow bettor, my caused memory, much trouble for a
defective and me good
lon^ time, returned and became as as
when as I was many years younger. During
the period to which I refer I had great diffi-
culty in remeinb-ring where I had put any-
«JJ«. “ro”; excellent,
while my eyesight also continues
-My long continued illness had reduced
my weight from between 130 and 140 pounds
gamed fwriv Un^Fnow
W Ptlfh 133 p, iU nd» asserted that
freely
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Booh
Mr. Hu demanded the yeas
traa nays,
Elkins’ motion for consideration
merely, not for passage, of his resolu¬
tion for public advertisements for
bonds, passed by a voto of 48 yeas to 6
nays. Mr. Hill thought it would be
becoming in tho democrats of the sen¬
ate to give the democratic secretary of
tho treasury a voto of confidence, llo
attempted to quote from a contract of
1877 between tbe secretary of tho
treasury and Now York and London
bankers for tho sale of bonds, but Mr.
Sherman interrupted to say that there
was in that contract nn express stipu¬
lation that tho bonds should be offered
to tbe people for thirty days. He de¬
clared that tho people did take tho
bonds, but Mr. Hill retorting declared
that they were bought for tho bankers.
INCREASE OF FAILURES.
Bradstreot’g Has Recorded 13,013
tor tho Yeur.
Bradstreot's review of business for
tbe past week, sny 9 : As is the rule in
Christmas week, wholesale trade has
been quiet. Tho holidays, the close
of the year and stock-taking tend to
make business slow, and promise only
a little trade until after January. In
various cities, notably Now York, Bos¬
ton, Baltimore and Chicago, anticipa¬
tions as to tho character of trade early
in the coming year, are hopeful but it
remains to be seen whether the down¬
ward movement ol demand and prices
and the delay in putting the currency
on a sound basis, uli of which have bo-
gun to show themselves in trade con¬
ditions, will permit of as early and
marked gains in staple lines of trade
iu 1896 as has been confidently antici¬
pated.
Business failures iu this country for
a completed year number 13,013, nn
increase in number of failures are at
the west, northwest and in the middle
states, decreases being shown in New
England, at tho south and on the
Pacific coast.
Tho quotation for coke has been ad¬
vanced, ns well as those for mohair,
wheat, indiau corn, oats and for sugar,
while for leather, hides, lumber, coal,
wool, coffee and print cloths quota¬
tions aro unchanged. Fractional re¬
actions are reported in prices of refined
petroleum, cotton, pork, flour, iron
and steel.
The week’s features in commercial
lines aro a rather better trade in
Christmas specialties than expected,
smaller business at tbe west from long
continued rains and light stock of
goods in bands of retailers, and the
pronounced movement of funds from
tbo west to tho east, not only to pay
interest but because of the better de¬
mand for currency at the large finan¬
cial centers.
TWENTY-ONE DEAD.
Fearful Explosion Occurs In a Silesian
Mine.
An explosion occurred in a coal mino
at Wrangel, Prussian Silesia, last Tues¬
day, causing the death of a large num¬
ber of workmen.
Twen ty-one dead and seventy injured
persons have boon taken out of tho
mine, and in addition to tho dead and
injured accounted for, seventeen oth¬
ers are missing.
We onjoy ourselves only in our work
—in our doing; and our best doing fj
our befet enjoyment.
LITTLE CURI1
Thore aro over 5H
set of china
The word “and” oc«
the Old Testament *
the New Testament. 1
Blood, in its natural!
surprising amount ■
to nearly sc
entire bulk.
St. Jerome states that liB
in the Roman armies**
human flesh regularly, esjfo L.
as a great delioaoy.
The doctors of Topeka, Ka' say
there is a young body negro and limbs in tha'^ covered burg
who has the
with skin exactly like that of an alli¬
The “World of Wonders,” page 30,
says that there is enough iron in the
blood of forty-two men to make a
plowshare of twenty-four pdunds
weight.
In the human subject, the brain is
the one-twenty-eighth part of the
wholo body’s entire weight. In the
horse it is not more than ono-four-
hundredth part.
*w largest p„re Itao* that be-
longing to the rajah of Mattan, weight)
3^7 Cttra ts. The ono of next greatest
wugnt, • ,, tno .. Orloof unooi, or or Orloff. mtui, weighs wtitgut
193 carats.
A beam of ij„ bt s hoots through
with prodigious . velocity 1 ■. of »
space a
196,000 miles a second, occupying
e j K ht minutes in making its trip fromi
the sun to the earth.
A turnip with a human face was ;
I]ed from a „ arc j on j n the village of
Weidan, Germany, in the year 1628.
A full account of this wonder and a
L« j ndld WO od-cut of the same may Vie
1.
tura” for 1670, page 139.
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Roe of the Female Sturgeon,
The report of the North Carolina
state labor commission contains an m-
teresting statement of a new industry,
The roe o{ the feraftle Htlir 8 oon riow
shipped in large quantities to Russia
and Germany from the great fisheries
on Albemarle sound. The roes from
tkr« .turg.o.,, fill o.ken k™
taining 120 pounds, and for each cask
$40 is obtained ot the fishery. In this
bngjne8g a hundred boats and 250 ex-
pert fishermen aro employed and
these receive as much as $50 each week
during tho fishing season. They get
* tbe roe from ettch female.
The greatest seines in the world are
on Albemarle sound. That of W. Ii.
0 v F . is a mile an d a half long.
. used ~ . . hauling. At ,
Steam power is tu
one haul last spring 485,000 herrings
, o 500 shad were landed. The
i .....iherri.g c.toh thoro i. fort,
millions,
Cotton.
With careful rotation
Mg and liberal fcrtilhad
*080 W hoi M V c^puTcFuI maj^^ 1 ^K|
previously maturing their bids
whole amount of maturity^ mh
time, not later than tho
the last installment. • doliv' 1
“Tho bonds will be 15th ready day for of Ft^
cry on or before tho
ruary, 1896. gircj^j^
“Notice is further lieroby
if the issue nud form salo j^nn ad|
or
liiaiut iiiiiuu’c ot
ho author! ■ I by InflSSSaB
<I.' 1 \ of Vi lirinirv, ’V._‘/y_
ale for tho ]mi rrl = .
also be to .1 m 3 iBHMH
place, and up TUT
upon the same terms » p aside ra-
tions herein sot forth, nud Snob bids
will be considered as well as [tho bids
for tbo 4 per cent, bonds heroin men¬
tioned. J. G. Ga m, isle,
“Secretary of tho Treasury.”
TEN MEN ENTOMBED.
Probably Crushed to Death by a Mino
Cavo In.
Ton mon wore caught in a enve-in in
tho Auna Lee mine at Victor, Col.,
Saturday morning, and it is not possi-
ble that any of them have escaped k
death.
President James Burns, of Colorado
Springs, had been down in the njiiuo
on a tour of inspection and had just
been hoisted to tbe surface, when As¬
sistant Superintendent Sheldon, ac¬
companied by a miner, entered tho
cage and wore being lowered.
They had descended about 280 fee*
when the engineer iu elmrgo of thcl
hoisting macnino received a signal signal! tol
draw up tho eago rapidly. Tho
camo too late. A great mass of rock'
had begun to settle, crushing tho cage
and its occupants. Eight men were
working in tho bottom of tho shaft
driving a level toward the ore chim¬
ney, and they were probably crushed
to death. Rescue gangs were imme¬
diately put to work from throe differ¬
ent directions.
0
KRUGER KICKS.
Says Jameson Was Not Killed— S<5oros
the Newspapers.
Sunday tho Hon.Cecil Rhodes, prime
minister of Cape Colony and tho head
in Africa of the British South African
Company, sent a dispatch reading:
“The rumor thut a force is collect¬
ing at Buluwayo is absolutely false.”
President Kruger, replying to Mr.
Chamberlain’s dispatch, cabled: “I
hnvo not ordered tlio freebooters, who
aro prisoners, to bo shot. Their caso
will bo decided strictly in accordance
with tbe traditions of tho republic and
in sharp contrast to tho unheard-of
acts of these freebooters. So many
lies and false reports are publisded, Eng¬
even in influential newspapers in
land, that I deem it advisable to add.
that the freebooters prisoners have
been treated with tho greatest consid¬
eration by our burghers, despite tho
fact that tho latter have been moro
than once compelled to take bought up inde- arms
in defense of tho clearly
pendenco of our republic.
Tennessee’s Convicts Leased,
The penitentiary commissioners of
Teuuessee have leased the labor of two
hundred convicts to Mr. G. IV. Fall,
representing a Nashville firm that will
employ them in pmhuf'ictnring sad¬
dler, and harness. They will pay 8 !j
esatfj ft for c-mli map,
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