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Telescopes were first made by Jan¬
sen in 1590.
Rochester has a company of deaf
mute soldiers.
Europe now imports every year
360,000 tons of meat.
Ceylon has cinnamon plantations
covering 36,00(1 acres.
In the rock of Gibraltar there are
70 miles of tunnels.
The Union Pacific railroad crosses
line mountain ranges.
The. Chinese live longer than people
>f any other nation.
The anchors of the steamship Cam¬
pania weigh H 1-2 tons each.
Rembrandt's father is said to have
been a. miller and farmer.
A teaspoonful of microbes contains
over • 1 , 000,000 individuals.
In all countries more marriages
take place in June than uny other
month.
The queen of Corea has a lady phy¬
sician who gets a salary of $15,000
yearly.
The most prolific of opera composers
was Pieeini. He wrote over two hun¬
dred operas.
Unbearable boorisbness can be
changed to bearable eccentricity by
Ilic acquisition of wealth.
Marshal Hessieres was a farmer's
boy, and after enlisting as a private
rose from (lie ranks.
Southern Pacific locomotives will
soon use for fuel bricks made of coal
dust ami asphaltum.
Celluloid is paper chemically treat ed,
reduced again to pulp and then molded
into its final form.
Some characters are like flic black
billiard ball not black, but called so
because of one black spot.
We are haunted by an ideal life,
and it is because we have within us
the beginning and the possibility of
it.— Phillip* Jironks.
A man going shopping with his wife
is usually a most woe begone looking
object. His face always bears upon it
the marks of despair.
Perhaps you have heard of "Hpar
tacus to the Gladiators," Its author,
the Rev. Elijah Kellogg, still preaches
at Harpswell, Me., although over Hll.
A Beverly (Mass.) man was fined $5
for slapping Ins wife in the face and
$15 for assaulting the policeman who
arrested him. There seems to be
something wrong with the Beverly po¬
lice court’s tariff.
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Electric Wires and Rain.
Professor Wiggins believes that, tel¬
egraph wires eaiiso drought; tlmt the
atmosphere cannot absorb moisture
unless it is charged with electricity
and that upon an oblate spheroid like
the earth the electricity will inevitably
collect at the equator. In this way he
explains the frequency of the rains at
the equator. “If, however,” he says,
“there lie elevated spots on a sphere,
electricity will collect on them. Should
these spots or continents lie connected
by wires, it might accumulate on each
alternately. This has happened, and
America has all of the electric energy',
and Europe has lost it, so that our
continent is flooded, and Europe is
burned up with drought.” His eon
elusion from all this is that electric
wires should he buried. Chicago
Trlinin’.
Why l’lcnlcs arc ho Called.
Everybody knows what a picnic is,
but most of folks would find it hard to
Bay how it got that name, and yet it is
simple enough w hen you come to learn
it. When a picnic was being arranged
for, tho custom originally was that
those who intended to ho present
should supply the eatables and drink¬
ables. \ list of those necessities Lav
ing been drawn up, it was passed
round, ami each person picked out the
article of food or drink that he or she
waa w illing to furnish, and the name
of the article was nicked, or ticked off
the list. The open air entertainment
thus became known as “pick and
nick." The custom is said to Irnve
dated from 1802, so that the picnic is
wholly an institution of the nineteenth
century. Pn-hantp .
A Mitigating Circumstance.
Pastor Is it a fact that you throw
your boots at your w ife, and that she
pounds you with the broom-stick V
Husband Yes; but sometimes we
change about, and 1 pound her with
the broom handle, and she bounces
the boots on me. Pi m v Siftings.
Hale the w(»rk washing dishes is
keeping the dishcloths and towels
clean. Washing out once a week in
ammonia water should never bo neg¬
lected.
11 \ on lln«t m Friend
Torment**l with n,you couhl not kIvo
him bvttvr ivtlvix v Umn to 5*'.out and stick to
« course of Hostetler's Stomach Bitters,
tlneM ami Mkfc't of tonics ami renal*tors.
This is no barren assertion. |'ul»Ur Kxpcrienco ha*
«roved, N'o i'*»y sician*. ami the certify to it.
levs emphati i- their indorsement of it as
h reined v for main rial disease, constitution,
r lieu mat!'in, kid ev disease, gout and neu
rftlffia.
If you aa itnt to know what your friends
really think of you, net into « quarrel with
them.
Brown’s Iron Bitters cures Dr»n»nstn. Dvbiltt'. '!»’»
Tin, Biliousness and General Oivaa
strength, aids Digestion, tones tie nvvea—
treat*#appetite. The be*t tonic for .Nursing
Mothers, «eak women ami children.
\ good srrmon will *!«»>. outlive the
towarner
. . thing 4
it is« greAt for a young man to get out
» little imd oom$ In con tart with other A woule
and how they live B K Johnson Co.,
in l«!ik p.dly. 1 them and Um" ‘
money I. ry see
H, Car, K iMurt.
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THE TESTIMONIALS
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IFOUR HONORED ARE DEAD!
Appalling Fatalities ol the Storm About
Beantort and Port Royal
Scenes of Death and Desolation On A11
Sides—400 Dead Bodies Recovered.
A special of Thursday night from
Beaufort, H. C., is to the effect that
over three hundred and ninety dead
bodies have been found on the islands
about Beaufort and Port Royal. Over
two million dollars of property has
been wrecked near the same points.
And both of these are the direct re¬
sult of the severe storm which swept
along the Atlantic coast on the night
of August 27th.
Every one of the fifteen or twenty
islands lying around Port Royal and
Beaufort is steeped in sorrow. On
every door knob there is a bunch of
crape, and upon every hillside there
are fresh-made graves, some already
filled, while others are awaiting the
bodies that will be deposited in them
just as soon as some one can be found
to do the kind Christian act of shovel¬
ing the dirt upon the coffin.
The beeches, the undergrowth,
frees and shubbery, the marshes and
i the inlets are turning up new dead
bodies every time an investigation is
made. Already more than two hund¬
red bodies have been found, and many
people of that section are confident
in their predictions that the death roll
will run as high astive hundred. Some
of the people, and they are among the
best people of that section of the state,
even place the loss at more than one
thousand.
There has not been an hour of any
day since the early hours of Monday
morning that a dead body lias not
been found at some point on one of
the many islands. As the waters re¬
cede and the people move deeper into
the wreckago gathered hy the storm
the ghastly pictures arc uncovered. So
frequent are the discoveries that the
finding of a single body attracts no
attention at all. It takes the discov¬
ery of at least a clump of a half-dozen
or more to induce the people to show
any it feelings whatever, Roy¬
is around Beaufort and Port
al that the deat h rate was the greatest ,
but in neither of the towns were many
lives lost. At Beaufort only three
coffins were brought, to supply the
local demand, while Port Royal got
off even lighter, Around the two
tow ns there is a chain of islands, and
it was upon these that the black angel
of death hovered for hours Sunday
night, leaving in his path sorrow and
desolation greater than lias ever visi¬
ted the state before,even in the bloody
days of reconstruction.
The storm was one of the most se
vero the people of the coast have ever
known. This section of the Atlantic
coast has been prolific in storms 1 lint
scattered denlli and destruction of
property in their wake, Imt the weath¬
er wise man, the oldest inhabitant, or
the coast pilot cannot recall anything
approaching it. It was a storm of
wind, rain and hail, and the elements
seemed combined in their greatest fur v.
The seas ran high, and salt-water
waves were driven by the heavy winds
as much as twenty miles inland.
House were blown away; trees were
torn from the earth, leaving holes big
enough to hide a freight train, vessels
were dashed against the breakers and
thrown upon the earth as much us live
miles from the water edge.
The storm began, really, Sunday
morning. The day came on with
heavy black clouds hanging over the
ports. An ugly wind started up about
10 o’clock Sunday morning, blowing
from the northeast. It increased as
the day grew oil, and about noon a
cold, chilly rain started. Long before
dark the people living along the const
knew that a storm was inevitable but
none dreamed of the great extent it
assumed. Lute in the evening the
wind took on a great velocity, and as
the night advanced the great velocity
of the wind increased until it attained
a speed of 130 miles an hour at 3
o’clock. And this is about the time
the Uitv of Savannah went ashore.
But it was not until the next morning
that the people knew of tho great and
terrible danger through which they
hud passed.
A glance at the map will show that
around the place of greatest disaster
there is a group of some twenty
islands. Home of these are very small,
with only one or two families living
thereon, w hile others nre larger and
accommodate as many inhabitants as
1,500. St. Helena has a population of
4,500; Lady’s island, 1,500; Dawtha’s
island, 75; Coosaw island, 600; Bean
fort, town, has a population of 3,600.
Port Royal island, embracing the
towns of Beaufort and Koval, has a
population of about 8 , 000 .
lorn HrsDur.!* auk i*k\i».
Ah far ns reliable information which
has reached the officers goes, tin* dead
will number 400, and tin v are located
nft follows; At tho Pacific works sev
euP nine ln»dies have been found *uid
buried, thi l.adv s island twenty-four
bo (ties wire buried on Tuesday and
others ha\ Won found since. On Paris
island nineteen bodies had been recov¬
ered and buried up to Tuesday noon.
On Beaufort island twelve Itodies
have been ’buried. At the Coosaw
mines five bodies have boon buried.
At Cain’s Neck twenty-two bodies have
been recovered and buried, aud re
ports uro that aowntv-nuio lives wore
> . thott. „ On t \ tlh V,, Ptlstls .• pint .1 t, oiu
of the richest plantations of Lmlv's
“'".' seven new mod* graces
were tilled Wednesday morning. At
the other end of Lady's island seven
other dead bodies have been found. At
Doha's island, s place of .boat
1,200 acres, eight v lives are reivorted
lost and nearly half that many bodies
have been recovered, in addition to
the list of those given elsewhere from
St. Helena it is estimated that 150 lives
nave been lost. On A\ arsaw island
" l^’le information has places! forty
tiy « in the grave. On bnuting ls.aud.
off which the steamship
C ity ol Savannah was wrecked, forty
are
LOSS TO SHIPPING.
The loss to shipping around the im¬
portant islands is tearful. There are
eight dredges which were employed in
getting out phosphate rock by the
several companies engaged in this in
dustry. The largest one, the Kennedy,
cost 8350,000. The others were not
so valuable, but all are beached high
and dry, or are bottom up and hope¬
less wrecks. Connected with these
dredges were washboats and lighters.
There were something like three hun¬
dred of these, the average value being
about $ 2 , 000 , and which are scattered
all over the marshes. Many of these
can be recovered,but there are at least
fifty that are total wrecks.
The damage to the phosphate indus¬
try, to shipping, warehouses, com¬
merce, merchandise, dwellings and
, T , , . . — . — i
w/lfgo U
to $2,000,00(h AddSl.OOOdWO
for Charleston, another for Savannah ,
XlnSdp lfnTand there is a grand
total of something like $ 5 , 000,000 loss
and 600 dead bodies as the fruit of
Sunday night’s blow in a stretch of
100 miles on the Georgia and Carolina
coast. It is equal to the devastation
of war, and yet these are the figures
given by conservative men.
ME GOVERNOK’s PROCLAMATION.
Governor Tillman issued the fol
lowing proclamation at ,, 11 o ,,, clock
Thursday night: “Having received j
the following telegram from J. H. j
Averil!, receiver of the Port Royal
and Augusta Railroad company con
veying the startling intelligence of an ,
appalling loss of life ami a terrible
state of destitution upon the inlands
upon the coast of this state resulting
from the terrible hurricane which the 1
Almighty in His judgment has visited
upon the people of the south Atlantic
states, causing universal suffering:
“ , Ym»BsnA,N. <! .August. 11 - To Hon. B. R.
Tffhnan. Oavemor of -Non I. Carolina: The loss
of life by the recent cyclone on tlio Lianas ad
jacentto 11 aufort and Port Koval will numb r
not leFB than Hix hundred people. entirely There destitute are j
seven thousand on tho islands !
of provisions. All they had lias been washed
away and their crops arc entirely lost. Great
destitution will prevail among them unless they
have spec 1y relief. I am working night ami
day to open up communication and hope to
have trains into Beaufort not later than Mon¬
day next. Please address any reply you have
to meat Yema-W ', from which point it will he
forwarded by railroad. J. H. Avkhill-”’
Governor Tillman then goes on to
call on the people of South Carolina
to come to the aid of their suffering
follow citizens. He calls for con
trilmtions of money, food, clothing
and other necessaries of life sufficient
to meet the present emergency.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
Condensed from Our Most Important
Telegraphic Advices
Autl R resell ted In Pointed and Reada¬
ble Paragraphs.
I hree deaths , , from , cholera it, were ... FA
corded in Naples Wednesday,
new eases. Three fresh eases 1111 I
three deaths were reported in Casino,
Secretary Mohlor, of tho Kansas
state hoard of agriculture, issued an
appeal Monday for seed w heat and
money to buy it for the farmers of west
et n Kansas. I he appeal states that
tlie wheat crop is ft iailure m that por
til’ll Of the state.
Two fresh cases of Asiatic cholera
were reported in Berlin, Wednesday,
Both were caused by the drinking of
city water. The newspapers demand
that the city waterworks at Strau, on
the Spree, he closed, as they are gen¬
erally believed to bo infected.
Tho Pennsylvania republican state
eoiiventiou assembled at Harrisburg
Wednesday and nominated Judge
Nowlen 1). Fell, of Philadelphia, as
candidate for supreme court judge,
and Samuel M. Jackson, of Arm
strong county, for state treasurer.
Surgeon-General Wyman, Wednes¬
day, received a telegram from James
Y. Porter, state health officer at Port
Tampa, Fla., stating that there is one
case of yellow fever there in tho per- j
son of a clerk employed on tho dock, j
It developed ten days after possible j
exposure to the disease. 1
l’he Chapin , .... Mining Company, „ of
Milwaukee, Win., filed a certified copy
..fa mortgage for $1,808,000 on its
property, ore and franchises Monday
morning to secure funds for the pur- ,
pose of the paymeutof labor and taxes, 1
the payment of royalty on ore actually ,
mined and for the development and
operation of the mines in Wisconsin, j
The Vienna correspondent of the ]
London Times reports the first death !
from Asiatic cholera in \ ienua due to
the drinking of unfiltered water from
tin* Danube, Ouedeath is reported at
Altliafen, a suburb of llnda l’osth. j
The official returns from Galicia show
thut forty-two new oust h and twenty - j
eight deaths were recorded Saturday j
hihI Suudtiv. j
The storm which swept the south |
Atlantic states from Sunday morning
until Monday morning eut down the j
telegraph wires from southern Florida
up i nt** Virginia. All telegraphic
communication south was eut off with
Washington except by way of t’hica
go It was with great patience and
difficulty that even meager dispatches
were obtained by the press telling of
.
the day m congress. i
A Toledo, O., dispatch of Sunday
says. Hie famous personal damage
suit against P. M. Arthur, chief of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Eu
giueer, for $300,000, commenced last
March, immediately after the strike of
the engineers on the Ann Arbor rail
road, has been settled out of court, i
W'hat the exact terms and conditions
of the settlement are, the public will
probably never know. i
A Washington special says: The
commissioner of patents rendered a
decision Wednesday in the matter ol
the appeal to him of the state of South
Carolina from the refusal of the exatn
iuer to register a trade mark applied
for in the name of the state, consisting
of the word “Palmetto’’ to be printed
on the liquor labels, together with the
arms of the state and the name of the
liquor The examiner refused regis
t ration. "
A sptViaI fl , Madrid, Spam, savs: |
rl „. oU citv ot Sar . ..... . i itC :
{jie province of that name, was the
„. VM Sunday of u rarious riot grow
jug ,>ut of the dissatisfaction of the
^xvtator? at a bull liirht with tho
characer of the performance. The
police attempted to disperse them, but
were greeted with a volley of stones.
It was not until reinforcements ar
rived at the seem of trouble that the
rioters were dispersed.
VICTORY FOR REPEAL.
Free Coinage Defeats!! in the House hy
a Vote of 239 to 110, | j
1
The Bland Amendments Were All Voted
Down hy Large Majorities.
Nineteenth Day. —In the Senate
Tuesday. Mr. Voorhees, chairman of
the finance committee, reported back
to { ^ ^ nafitrf ^tran^mend* The substitute: I
0 f
" "? ** be placed on the
c ‘ i I e «' !ar ail<1 gave notice that h ® a h oal(l
^k the senate to take it up immedi
ately after the morning business from
this time on until final action is taken. ‘
When he called it up, Mr. Teller ob¬
jected to its immediate consideration
and it went over until Wednesday. _ , 1
plr. c Stewart , , sresolution, , inquiring m
to the condition of the treasury, was
then taken up. Senator Gordon, of
Georgia, ,. had the floor an , hour on the ,.
silver question. He spoke in favor of
unconditional repeal. He also declared
himself in favor of free coinage. If
the iriends of bimetallism, said u e >
were strong enough in the senate to
attach free coinage to the pending
bill they would bo strong enough to
enact it afterwards. Ho was opposed
to delay the repeal by a contest over
free coinage. During the delivery of
his speech Senator Gordon was given
close attention hy well-filled and
crowded gallerieh. He explained his
1M)Bition f by stating tlmt tho Sherman
law was not, the inend but tho insidl- •__•, ■
ous foe of bimetallism.
Twentieth Day. —In the senate,
Wednesday, after the routine morning
business the bill for the repeal of the
Sherman act was taken up, and Mr.
Sherman proceeded to address the
senate. lie said that if tho repeal of
the purchasing clause of the act of Ju¬
ly, 1890, were the only reason for the
extraordinary session it would seem
to him insufficient. It was, how
justified . ... , by , the existing ...
ever,
financial stringency. On one thing,
lie HaK *> congress and the
people . were agreed, and that was that
both gold and silver should he contin
tied muse as money. Monometallism.,
]>ur«j and simple, had never gained a
foothold in tho United States. If the
senators wanted cheap money and an
advance in prices the free coinage of
silver was the way to do it, hut they
should not credit bimetallism.
Twenty-First Day. —After some uu
important proceedings in the senate
Thursday Mr. Cockrell introduced a
concurrent resolution directed the sec
retary of the treasury to issue
certificates, not to exceed 20
per cent of the amount of gold ;
coin and bullion in the treasury and
to URe and oxp ,. Ildt he samein payment
of interest on the public debt, or any
other demand, liability or obligation
of the United States. It was read and
j H j d „„ the table for the present.
'pho house bill for the repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman act
xvas then taken up and Mr. Wolcott, of
Colorado, opened the debate with
pr ep»red speech against tho bill, do
Jivered in tho presence of almost all
the senators, and of a large audience
in the galleries,
the house.
Free Culnngo Defeated.
Eighteenth Day. —The public gal¬
leries of the hull of the house of rep
resentatives were filled before ten
° clock Monday morning, and many' j
members were in their seats on the
floor at that hour. 1 ho surrounding
corridors and lobbies of the floor were
also filled with a throng of people.
When the speaker commanded order
at noon, nearly every sent in
the hall was filled, an un¬
mistakable evidence of general
and individual interest in the matter
on hand. After the reading of the
journal, Air. Weaver, ot New York,
appeared at the bar of tho house on
arm of his colleague, General Tracy,
and was sworn in l>y the speaker,
The house then began to vote on the
Bland free coinage substitute, fixing
the ratio at 16 to 1 at 12 o’clock, and
it was defeated—yeas 123, nays 225.
sixteen to one is believed to be the !
strongest substitute. The majority j
BgH inst 16 to 1 was at lenst 30 votes j
pj^Ker than the anti-silver men
c ] a j med . q’j le 17 j amendment was
defeated—yeas 100, nays 240. On a
vote at 17 to 1, besides tho loss
of populist votes, the members of that
party withholding their votes, there !
were several negative votes from those
who voted in fnvor of the ratio of 16 to
1. The 18 to 1 free coinage amend
ment was rejected. Yens, 102; nays,
239. The 19 to 1 amendment was re
jeeted. Yeas, 105; nay's, 237. The
20 to 1 amendment was likewise re
jeeted. Yeas, 119; nays, 220. On the
substitute reviving the Bland-AUison
act, the vote was, for 136, against 213
majority' against, 77. In the final
vote to repeal the purchasing clause of
the Sherman act, tlic Wilson bill, the
vote stood 239 against 110—a majority
of 139 Wotes for repeal. After Mr.
Gatchiugs had given notice that he
would call up the house rules Tuesday
house, at 3:30 o’clock, adjourned.
NiMViesrn Day In th house,
Tuesday, after a little routine business,
Air. Hatchings called up the report ot
the com i.ittee on rules reporting rub -
to o v. rn th- house of the Fifty-third
congr, ss. Air. Reed twitted the demo
crats upon tln ir partial approval ol
th rules of th fifty-first congress, but,
n: a 'numerous vein, cont; tided th-.t
they had uot gone far enough. Hi
then, in it umrt serious manner, argued
in favor of the rights of the majority, j
w hich right - had been firmly maiutied
in the fifty-first congrt Then foi
the first time this session the speaker
tov>k the floor, having called Mr. Rich
ardsou of Tennessee, to the chair, and
replied t.i the criticisms of the gentle¬
man from Maine. The debate was
continued by Messrs. Springer. Boat
Ut ’ r liu ' 1 Hooker of Mississippi, who
contended that the membership of the
committee on rules should be increas
ed. Ai r . pickier, republican, of South
Dakota, agreed with Mr. Hooker on
this point. Messrs. Camming, Hop
burn, of Iowa, and Bryan also joined
in the discussion. Th n the subject
as dropped and Mr. Springer intro¬
duced a bill to provide fcT the coin¬
age of the seigniorage silver in the
trca . arv Referred. The house at
o'clock adjourned
Twentieth Day.—T he session of the
house Wexinesday was devoid of inter-
est. Mr. Talbot asked unanimous con
sent to introduce a bill repealing the
statutes authorizing the appointment
of marshals and supervisors of elec¬
tion. Mr. Breckenridge, of Kentucky,
from the committee on appropriations,
reported the urgent deficiency appro
priation bill, and it was passed. The
items are .$25,000 for bank note paper,
$ 200,000 for the coinage of subsidiary
coins and $75,000 for clerks to repre¬
sentatives. The house then resumed
the consideration of the new code of
rules with the understanding that the
general debate should close at 2 o’clock.
Xlus uncterstan<lln g waa disregarded
^W^ZoVVhe^roSfd
the hour rule and the five minutes
rule Without disposing of the rules
the houfte at 5 ;05 O > olock adjourned,
Twenty-First Day. —After the very
little and very unimportant routine
morning business had been transacted
in the houBe Thursday, the considera
|j on G f th e new code of rules was
taken up. Mr. Hooker attacked the
proposition in the rules which confers
u the comm i t tee on rules jurisdic
tion ov(>r ftU propoBed actio n touching
order of business. He contended
that such a course would mean the
Burrt . nt i er 0 f the powers of the great
committees of the house to a commit
t( , e conB i B ting b of five men.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
The Drift of Her Progress and Pros¬
perity Briefly Noted.
Iiappeiiiiigs of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
A Savannah special says: Another
case of yellow fever broke out at Port
Tampa, Fla., Wednesday. The quar¬
antine has been raised, but is now on
again.
A Knoxville dispatch says: News
comes from Sevier county of a terrific
freshet Mondav , Pigeou river ros e
fifteen feet in two hours, and water
dowed two f e ,q deep j u the streets of
Sevierville . Growing corn along the
rjveJ . hftR beon tl dflmaged .
Major Campbell , Brown, pro >a ) J
««• wealthiest live stock breeder in
J enncftsee, committed,suicide at Grand
Rapids, Midi., Mednesday, by shoot
J 1 !” himself through the head with a
32-caliber revolver. Major Brown has
suffered from mental trouble for five
years and treatment has been without
permanent benefit,
Colonel Louis J. Dupree, one of the
best known newspaper men in the
south, and American consul to San
Salvador under Cleveland’s first ad
ministration, died at Memphis, Tenn.,
Monday night. He was sixty-eight
years old and until his late sickness
lias been editor of The Memphis
Ledger.
Frederick A. Hull, president of the
Log Mountain. Coal, Coke and Timber
company, of Pinesville, Ky., and a
member of the firm of E. A. Hull &
Co., of Danbury, Conn., made an as
sigument Wednesday. His Kentucky
property is valued at one million dol
Jars. His Danbury interests are ex¬
tensive. Hull is sick and may not live.
The Southern Passenger Associa¬
tion at a meeting at Knoxville, Tenn.,
Wednesday declared the penal law in
effect regarding world’s fair rates to
Chicago. The trouble is between the
Mem P liis, Cumberland Gap and Louis
ypjg a nd East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroads. Both roads, it
geems, did some cutting and an iron
clad contract made Saturday last was
broken by both roads Monday.
The City of Savannah, of the Bos¬
ton line, is ashore on hunting island,
thirty miles off Beaufort, S. C. She
is a total wreck and is rapidly going to
pieces. Her passengers were received
by the City of Birmingham, of the
New York line, and carried to Savan¬
nah Wednesday night. The wrecked
passengers lost everything, some being
" von without hata and coats. They
^ provided for by the Ocean Steam
ship Company,
A Columbia, S. C., special of Wed
nesday says: The great storm has
passed and gone but its effects will be
felt in the Palmetto State for the re
remainder of this year, if not longer,
Wreck and ruin have followed in its
path everywhere. Dire disaster dawns
more and more upon the people as
each day passes, and they' have come
to look about them and behold the
ruin that has been wrought by tho
raging winds and surging waters.
A Montgomery special says: Josiah
Morris & Co., who suspended payment
two weeks ago, resumed business
Monday morning, and from the hour
of opening until closing a heavy busi¬
ness was done, the old customers of
the bank coming forward to make de¬
posits and open their accounts with
the firm. This incident in the bank
ing history of the country is almost
without a parrallel. The entire com
munity rejoices over the resumption,
A Jacksonville special of Tuesday
say8; ‘,.l The damage done by Sunday’s
ov out , was general throughout the
c ity aud on the east coast of Florida,
there was no serious loss at any
ono po j n t. The unroofing of the
Presbyterian church and the opera
' and Lynn’s
j louse Jacksonville of
hotel, at St. Augustine, were the most
Ber j onB results of the storm. The loss
j n J ac ksonville will notexceed$25,
ppo, and this is distributed probably |
among 500 people, in various amounts.
'
Several thousand people wearing
Keeley badges, ass, mbled in the spa
cious grounds of the Keeley institute i
at Memphis Tenn., Wednesday, to j
form an interstate league. Addresses j
were made by Dr. Leslie Keeley, who
was present, and by the heads of the
various commercial bodies of the city, j
the mayor and several others. The j
city was full of delegates and the
meeting was a grand success. The j
new organization takes in members
from Texas. Mississsppi. Arkansas, j
Missouri and a few other states.
Ilie Cholera Spreads.
\. cable dispatch from Amsterdam
SAVS Nine fresh eases of cholera and
five deaths were reported in Leerdam
Wednesday. The D’.itch-American
steamship company has notified its
agents that all emigrants, before em
x.rking. must remain five days under
the observation of an American pbysi
cian in the company’s hospital
A Musical Canine t'ritic
A wonderful story of a French musi¬
cal critic is related by persons who
profess to have been acquainted with
him and to have seen him in attend¬
ance on musical performances. He
was a dog, and his name in public was
Parade. Whether he had a different
name at home was never known. At
the beginning of the French revolution
he went every day to the military
parade in front of the Tuileries palace.
He marched with the musicians, halt¬
ed with them, listened knowingly the to
their performances, and after pa¬
rade disappeared, to return promptly
at parade time the next day.
Gradually the musicians became They at¬
tached to this devoted listener.
named him Parade, and one or another
of them always invited him to dinner.
He accepted the invitations and was a
pleasant guest. It was discovered
that after dinner he always attended
the theatre, where he seated himself
ealmy in a corner of the orchestra and
listened critically to the music.
If a new' piece was played, he notic¬
ed it instantly and paid the strictest
attention. If the piece had fine,
melodious passages, he showed his
joy to the best of his doggish ability,
but if the piece was ordinary and un¬
interesting he yawned, stared about
the theatre and unmistakably express¬
ed his disapproval.— Youth’s Com¬
panion.
Spanish Courtesy.
In Spain a person who seats himself
at a table where there are others seat¬
ed salutes them on sitting down and
rising. Even when seating himself in
a park or garden, near to others, he
lifts his liat and repeats the courtesy
when he leaves.
GIOIOIGIOIOIOIOIOIOIQ m
8
Don’t Blame the Cook
1 8 If a baking powder is not uniform in strength,
i so that the same quantity will always do the same
o. work, no one can know how to use it, and uni¬
:8 formly All good, light powders food cannot be produced Royal, because with it.
baking except
i improperly compounded and made from inferior
1 materials, lose their strength quickly when the can
o is opened for use. At subsequent bakings there
a will be noticed falling off in strength. The food 8
a
is heavy, and the flour, eggs and butter wasted.
It is always the case that the consumer suffers 8
in pocket, if not in health, by accepting any sub¬
stitute for the Royal Baking Powder. The Royal
is the embodiment of all the excellence that it is
possible to attain in an absolutely pure powder.
It is always strictly reliable. It is not only more
economical because of its greater strength, but
will retain its full leavening power, which no
other powder will, until used, and make more
wholesome food.
A
m DIGIG
ii
Syrup
Mr. Albert Hartley of Hudson,
N. C., was taken with Pneumonia.
His brother had just died from it.
When he found his doctor could not
rally him he took one bottle of Ger¬
man Syrup and came out sound aud
well. Mr. S. B. Gardiner, Clerk
with Druggist J. E. Barr, Aurora,
Texas, prevented a bad attack of
pneumonia by taking German Syrup
in time. He was in the business
aud knew the danger. He used the
great remedy'—Boschee's German
Syrup—for lung diseases. <£>
Unlike the Dutch Process
i, Xo Alkalies
— OR —
Other Chemicals
are used in the
preparation of
W. BAKER & CO.’S
i. i IpreakfastCocoa ’Vra •rliich is absolutely
<V : d 1] pure and soluble .
h hll fell it has more than three times
tfie strength of Cocoa mixed
, 1 V| j, £ ks with Starch, Arrowroot or
Sugar, and is far more eco¬
nomical, costing less than one cent a> cup.
It is delicious, nourishing, and easily
DIGESTED. _
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
W- BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass.
MERCURIALS JKgym
“About ten years ago I con¬
tracted a severe case of Mood poi¬
son. Leading physicians prescribed medicine
after medicine, which I took without any relief.
I also tried mercurial and potash remedies,
with unsuccessful results, but which brought
on an attack of mercurial rheumatism that
After “.V-JSRHEUMATISM suffering ■»” htPtiJll ■ ■ will
four years I gave up all remedies and began
using S. S. S. After taking several bottles I
was entirely cured and able to resume work.
TW' ilh
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
*~e- Sw.ft Specific Co.. Atlanta. Ga.
9
s
Do Not Be Deceived*"V-S3E5Tii*'*fsEi
with Pastes. Enatfr.eis and Paints which stain the
bands, injure th* iron aud hax-n red.
The Risin* Sun Srove Pc.’ish 1 s Prillixct. Odor*
lea*. Durable, and ;! e consumer purehalse. i*va tor no tin
or glass p&ck$fe with e ery
Ingleside Pi$e*U?s S^-etreat.
For of Women. Soientiflc treatment and
cures auaranteei. Eietant apartments for ladies oo*
fore durinr confinement. Address Tht Resi¬
dent Physician.Baxter Court, h a?Uviiic. Tenn.
C« A Cured P; i pi.A>reu. manentlv
xo P.ra*-, is.
CRlf ___________ FREY Circular.
' RF faiRSq - X J.
Even Machines Must Best.
To the town council of Southport,
England, belongs the honor of having
reduced Sabbatarianism to an absurdi¬
ty. Not content with decreeing that
all shop-keepers shall rest from their
labors on Sunday, this delightful body
has decided that the same rule shall
apply to automatic machines. Six
days these overworked automatons may
labor, but on the seventh day they
must disregard the pennies introduced
into their interior on pain of fine or
imprisonment.— Exc- han'jc.
Th.- True l.axntire Principle
Of the plants use( j j n nianufduring the pleas¬
ant remedy, Syrup of Figs, has a permanently
beneficial effect on the human system, while
the cheap vegetable extracts and mineral solu¬
tions, usually sold as medicines, are perma¬
nently injurious. Being well informed, you
will use the true remedy only. Manufactured
by the California Fig Syrup Co.
by You can’t noise t»li he much abou> a man’s religion
the makes a' camp meeting.
Many persons are broken flown from over¬
work or household cars. Brown’s Iron Hit¬
ters rebuilds the system, aids digestion, re¬
moves excess of bile, and euros malaria. A
splendid tonic for women and children.
When you talk to a man about his sins don’t
stand ovtr him w.th a club.
Bew;ire of Ointment* f ir Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,
as mercury wi 1 surely destroy the sense of
smell when and completely through derange the whole system
Such articles entering should it the mucous used surfaces.
never be except on
damage prescriptions they will from reputable physicians as the
do is ten fold to the good you
can possibly manufactured derive from F. them. Cheney Hall’s Catarrh
< Toledo, ure O., contain-* by J. and i & taken Co.,
internally, acting no mercury, s
surfaces directly the upon tile In blood buying ru t
mucous of system.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure to get the genuine.
It is taken internal iy, and is made in Toledo,
Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & (’o. Te-timonials free.
£39“Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
Beecbam’s Pills cure indigestion and con t ! -
pat ion. Beecham’s—no others'. .25 cents a box.
l)o You Sleep Peacefully?
| “ Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, tliou 1
gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mlndj
I from which care flies; who dost
SOOTHE
THE HEARTS
OF MEN
Wearied with toils of the day, and reflttest theml
I for labor.”
THE HIGHLY TEMPERED STEEL WIRE
W9*
Pilgrim
Spring
Bed
^secures ly ness.” “ inviting sleep and its soft forgetful¬
J Do not be deceived by cheap, common wire
limitations, for “they are not what they appear.”
h |~ Exhibited at No. 31 Warren Street, New York;
No. 2 Hamilton Place, Boston.
J For pale by all reliable Dealers.
U bee Brass Tag Registered Trademark on all
FGenuine 3 Pilgrims.
bend for Money Saving Primer. Free.
3 Atlas Tack Corporation, Boston.
3 Warehouses— Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
U Chicago, Baltimore, San Francisco, Lynn.
FFactorum—T aunton, Mass.; Fair haven, Mass •s.;
3 Whitman, Mass.; Duxbury, Mass.; J'o yiuou th.
L Mass.
driJTXIJTLJXITJTJXITLJTJXriJriTTJ'^JTJrT?
MEND YOUR OWN HARNESS
WITH
THOMSON'S
SLOTTED
CLINCH RIVETS.
No tool! required. Only a haramar needed to drirt
am ednch th m easily and quickly, leaving the clinch
*t>so ately smooth. Jtequitir.S no ho e to be made in
the leather no< burr for the Hi veil. They r are ■trOB a
touch end dnrabie. Millions no w in
lengths, uniform r put up i:i f oxes.
A«Ea your dealer for them, or send 40c. In
»tamp» for a box of 100, assorted »ue«. Mao id by
JUDSON L. THOMSON MFG. CO.,
WAI.IHl'l. MASS.
r*» ■*»«■*r wwwsb
jFor Indigestion, tilliousne**. j
(
I an d all disorders of the Stomach,
| Liver and Bowels, I
i by qruggfate or sent by mail. Box
= «* vials u 55c. Package < 4 boxes), $2. !
| For free samplM^dreT CO., New iork. J
I—
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CANCER
CURED WITHOUT THE KNIFE
Jr use of painful, exclusively burning, poison-jus ed. pies- Dr.
cr- Cancers trea Pay Ain.
• B. Green's Sanatorium, rnrt .e.
£75 m 00 y©.3Soutfclltlxftt.,Richmond,V*
TT9 raR=.
Consumptive* a.;.d pe pie
who have weak laarsor As:is
tea, sbenii u*e Piso’sCore for
Consumption. It has cured
iaoe»r»nds. It has not injur¬
ed one. It is not bad i ta-e.
It is '.be best congfc syrup.
Sold everywhere. ZSr.
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