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A, Simmons on tho front, and these words o.i top of each bottle and package: “Trade 3D Mark Registered, and Autograph, consisting Nov. of 1843.’* Name, Picture n, $ Has for cured Indigestion, o Biliousness, 47 years Costivenkss, Dyspepsia, 2 -; Sick Stu II Stomach, k abacus, Low Loss Spirits, op Appetite, Foul •*r 4 n Breath, Dr. J. R. Coi.ic, Graves, Etc. Editor of The Baptist, Memphis, Tenn., says: I received a pack- sjGfe. no age half better of of yaur it. Liver It Liver works Regulator, Medicine, like a charin. and and ha-. certainly 1 e want used S A k no inure of Zeilin’s mixture, Co.,Fropr's, ;.c: C. F. Simmons Medicine St. Louis, Mo, z ESTABLISHED 1840. f ^ SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS , AND EXCITING EVENTS. NEWS »BOM ETERTWHEBE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES, EUIES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST. Tlie governor-general of Cuba dis claims tna he in anyw iv aided the Btr.k ing cigarmawers of Key West. Mexican newspapers state that negro colonists will only be permitted to settle in fever districts on the coast. J. H. Rathbonc. of Wa hmgton, foun der of the order of Knight'of Pyhias, is prostrated at a hotel in Lima, Ohi >, and is not expected to live. Not including Alaska, Brazil is larger in extent than the United States, it possesses within its limits an area of 3,287,964 square miles, with a population of 12,383,375. The National Grange, in session at Sacramento, Cal., ou Wednesday pass, d a reso ution favoring the election of United States senators direct by a vote of the people. The Grange will meet next year at Atlanta, Ga. district Judge Foster, of the United States dered court at Topeka, Kansas, ren a decision in a criminal case Thurs day, holding that ‘*No Alan’s Laud” was Indian oountry, and as such was part of northern Texas, when the offense was committed. A new combine of all the barb wire mills of Illinois will be known as the Federal Steel Company, with a capital of $12,060,000. The present price of barb wire, but painted, is $3.10 in car load lots, after Januarv 1 the price will proba bly go up to $3.50. A dispa'ch from Kansas City says: The north bouud pa-senger train on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad was held up. Sunday night, at Pryor creek, near Perry Station. I. T. The express and mail car were robbed. The passen gers were not molested. The amount secured by the robbers is not known. Exports of specie from the ports of New York last week amounted to $583,- 124, of which $76,829 was gold and $486,292 silver. All the silvea went to Europe and all the go d wen* to South America. Impor s of specie for the week amounted to $203 074, of which $139, G85 was in gold and $88,389 silver. The United States consul at Colon re ports that since work on the Panama ca nal ceased, business at Colon lias been almost entirely prostrated. It some times happens, he says, that not a s ngle vessel is to be found in the harbor, a thing heretofore unknown since 1860. The Isthmus railroad, which, in 1888, paid a dividend of 23A per cent., will this year pay only 9 per cent. In aD open letter to Charles Steward Parnell, Miss Anna Carslake, of Trenton, N. J., has taken direct issue with the great Irish leader about h s mother’s con dition. She tells him plainly that Airs. Parnell is pennilesf and in ab-olute want. If he thinks otherwise he is in error. Mrs. Carslake has been Mrs. Parnell’s faiihful friend, and was Fannie Parnell’s schoolmate. A revolt has occurred among the con victs in Layolute prison at Tunis. The prisoners succeeded in freeing them selves from their chains and in procuring firearms and other weapons. They then made a fierce attack up m the jailers who were unable to quell the revolt, and troops were summoned. When they arrived at the jail a desperate fight took place and many of the prisoners and sol diers were killed. Arrangements have been in progress for several days for the holding of meetings at Kilkenny and Waterford, Inland, m memory of the two men, Allen Larkin and Gould, who were hanged for the killing of Policeman Brett in Manchester in 1867. The government issued a procla mation forbidding the holding of the meetings. Projectors of the that demonstra- will tion, however, announce they not abandon iheir plans. Fire broke out Sunday morning in the wholesale grocery house of Janney – Andrews, on Alarket street, Philadel phia. The fire is supposed combustion. to have or iginated from spontaneous The aggregate loss is estimated at nearly a quarter of a million. Janney – An drews lose on the stock $100,000; in sured for $131,000. The building,which was six stones high, cost $90,000. James McCuen, foreman of No. 4 fire company, was caught by falling walls and killed. It was reported Saturday that the firm of Sanger aud Wells of New York, coffee dealers, were unable to meet their obli gations. It is said that their liabilities will he about $300,000, aud their assets merely nominal. Tbe cause of the trouble is said to be the investment of some of the firm’s funds in a patent barrel fac tory, the headquarters of which are in Detroit. The firm has dealt principally in Java coffee, and is an old establish ment. A quarter of a century ago the firm was known as Sanger, Birds A Fisher. They controlled a large trade. NEW OFFICERS OF VHK PAST TENNESSEE. VIRGINIA AMU GEORGIA RAILROAD. At the animal meeting of the East Tenuvfisne, Virginia and Georgia railroad held at Knoxville,Tenu., on Wednesday, the following directors were elected: Ji lin 11. Inman, Samuel Thomas, Charles M. McGhee, Ga vin 8. Br»ce, John G. Moore, Thomas N. Logan, Edward J. Sanford, W. B. Chisholm, John Green ough, Win. L. Bull, George Coppell, John H. Hall, Evan P. Howell, Gaorge S. Scott and George J. Gould. BUSINESS OUTLOOK. TRADE REVIEW FOR WEEK ENDING SAT URDAY 21D, BY DUN A CO. R. G. Du i – Co.’s weekly report says: The Brazil r vmuiion has had surprising ly little infl u-ne in the m rk* ts as yet. Coffee is onty ^ higher for the week, an 1 the uew overumtm appears to be so generally ustained that appreutnsiou 'of the closing o ports or in erruptio.i of trade 1 as a l uost ceased. B it it is p >ssi i leihat-he mon y markets were indi rectly aff. cted tu fome extent through The Eur«p , where t> certainty continues. tank ut England lost ior the zek 1,U50,000 pounds. and the hank of France 430,000 francs, Ileie money has been scarce and dull at tim> s, tight at Phil de phia, and decidedly ciose at Boston. Reports re garding the policy of the administration uoout silver have been aisiduoualy used financial to create a feeling ol distrust as to the future, and in any case the neai approach of t ie first session of the new congre s would naturally have an unset ting u.flutn e with some. Under the reumstniices the money markets have iuen les- dis uriied thin migat have iness been apprehended.arid h the volume of bus is ot been percepibiy affected. Clearings continu larger than a year ago: at New York by 16 per cent, for last week; Boston, Philadelphia and Cuicago by 4£ per cent, and at all p ints outsi ie 01 New Y rk by 7J per cmt. While the tieasury has taken in for the week $1,430,000 more than it has paid out. Exports ami imports for the month thus <ar both show au increase of aoout 13 per cent, hut aa exp >rts exceeded im ports by twen y-two and a hali millions 111 Novemb r last year, the comparison is most satisfactory. The maraet ug of crops, anil the movement of money to >i pay for them, have piodueed an e .siet uatiou at, western and southern centers. The great industries are making steady progress, trough he sale of i-teel rails at $35, reported la>t week, was of small quantity, needed for renewals only, the market is undoubtedly strong, and pig and most torms of manufactured iron and steel lully maintain previous qu ua tions. Cotton mmufacture has been doing a steady business, with firm prices, a d as to its prosperity evidence is af forded by dividend averaging 9.73 per cent yearly on 83 Fall river mills. Wheat h is risen § cent, with sales of 25, 000,000 bushels, and c >rn only with sau-s of 5,500,000 bushels. Cotton un changed, with sales ot 408 000 bales. Tne week’s receipts exceed last year’s by 19,000, and exports exceed last yea»-’s by 39,000 bale-*. O its rose $ cent and pork products are higher, while with sales ol 329.000 sacks coffee has held only £ cent of its a 1 vance. The general course of prices has beeD upward, however, the advance since November 1st being about l£ per cent ou all commodities. Ac counts from various cities as to the state of bu-iness are almost uniform y of a fa vorable character receutty observed, and embrace some items of special interest. double At Chicago dressed beef receipts are those of last year, and of provis ions more than double, while the dry goods 1 r ide still quotes satisfactory re sults, with payments easy in the country. The Minneapolis wheat market is very active, and lumber cut is put at 275,000, 000 feet. On the whole the ou look re mains favorable, though for the present monetary scarcity has a depressing influ ence failures upon during some eastern points. Business the last seven days: Number for the United States, 245; Can ada, 32. total 277, as compared with 25C last week. A TERRIFIC STORM RAGING IN MONTANA—SERIOUS RAILROAD WRECKS REPORTED. A special from Missoula, Mont, says: A terrific snow storm struck here about five o’clock Friday morning, and is still raging in all its fury, All trains on the Northern Pacific road have been blocked and two seiious wrecks reported near Bonner, a town about seven- miles east of here, on the banks of Hell Gate river. Several trainmen were injured and a special train containing physicians and local railroad officials have gone to the scene of the wreck. This is the third wreck that has occurred at that place during the past three weeks. A later dispatch says: “Two more se rious wrecks, in all probability more se rious than the first mentioned, occurred west of here. It is impossible to ascer tain full particulars at ibis hour.” A SHIP GOES DOWN Hf A COtXISION—FIFTEEN LIVES SUP POSED TG HAVE BEEN LOST. The Old Dominion stemnship Manhat tan, which left New York for West Point, Va., last Tuesday afternoon, with thirty-five passenger-*, collided with the sehoouer Agnss Manning, from Balti more for New York, and went to the bottom. At least fifteen lives are sup posed to have been lost, The first information of the disaster wan given in an A^ociated Press dispatch from New London, at the company’s of fice on Friday. The information received pointed to the fact that probably over twenty people have been lost. The vessel’s crew numbered twenty-seven. The names of only a few of the crew are known to the Old Dominion people. The Manhattan was valued at $150,000, and carried ho insmauce. uis father’.-, 1 aht/t. Mother 'policeman’s n fe—Y,’ill-l ive been shou mg f*>r yo his iml hour. how is i you aro never ttn u.i when yo are wan ed { Sou—Wo 1, Mother, I sup u se 1 in herit it from father. — | Boston Courier. SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH i A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. A fire at Bald winsville, N. Y., on Wedne-dav night caused a loss of $250, 000. The flames originated in the Seneca ho el, and th - en ir<- hotel block, with two large warehouses adjoining, were destroyed. The valuable barn of L C. Webster, at Orchard Hill farm. Ky., was destroyed by tire Sunday morning. Four noted stallions were burned to death—Ev.mn mond, Prairie Wilkes, Joe Larkin aud Weaglement. Tbe loss is $75,003. Arrangemen s were made at Rich mond, Ya., Thursday to restore service from Richmond to Lynchburg and the southwest, over the Richmond and Dan ville and Norfolk and Western, via Bun kerville. The schedule goes into effect at once. The Randolph county, "West Virginia capitalists purchased one hundred thous and acres of land, wh ch is occupied by squatters, who have armed themselves to resist evicti 11 One surveyor h:ss al ready been killed, and serious trouble is anticipated, as the settlers will tight. fenrful A dispatch says that on Thursday a storm struck the plate and pulp factory of 8. H. Gray, at Newberne, N. 0., in which there were sixty hands,and leveled it to the ground. One employe was instantly killed, another mortally wounded, and eight others injured. Another meeting w r as held at the Mer chants’ exchange at Nashville, Tenn., on Siturday night in the interest of the fund to save Jeffers m Davis’ home. A committee was appointed to go ac tively to work at o ce. A numoer of subscriptions have already been made. A number of gentlemen arrived at Denver, ol., on taturday from Reno county, Kan., to locate government lands in South Santa Fe for a colony of 200 Mennonites, wdio propose settling on the line of the Atchison, opeka aud Santa Fee road. It is the first colony of the kind to locate in the territory. William Carpenter and Whitfield Mur rell were convicted at Edgefield, S. C., Younce Thursday, of the murd r of Preston in June last. The mur ter was most brutal and unprovoked. The pris oners were sentenced to i»e hanged or. the third of next January. These art the fir.-d white murderers convicted in for Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, on Friday, acted upon the case of the five Barnards, sentenced to hang for murder in Hancock coumy. The governor par doned ab oluteiy John; Jr., an I Elijah Barnard, commuted to five years iu the penitentiary the sentences of Clint aud Anderson Barnard, and to ten years that of old man John Barnard. A special to the Nashville American from Hopkinsville, Ky., says: Informa tion is r> eeived to the effect that Joseph A. Smith, the man who killed W. F. Williams, town marshal of Trenton, a village on !he Louisville and Nashville railroad, several miies south of th.s city, two weeks ago, w«» taken from jail at Elkton, the county scat of Todd, Sunday night, by a mob, and hanged to a tree in the courthouse yard. A meeting of stockholders of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad company was held at Rich mond, \ a. , on Wedne-day. The report '•bowed the operations of the road for nine months ended June 30, 1889. In come was $502,434; expenses of trans portation $307,068; interest on bonds for nine months $31,271. Dividends on general stock for nine months $26,271; net profit $137,823. Governor Taylor has received petitions from 3,000 prominent citizens in East Tennessee and letters from a majority of the supreme judges, requesting him to pardon or commute the sentence of death passed on the five Barnard brothers who killed Henley Sutton, in Hancock coun ty last January. After a careful exami nation of the record, the governor has decided to commute the senteuce of all, and he may pardon some of the five. > a' mormon growl. THEIR MANNERS AND CUSTOMS EXPOSED BY Tnu COURTS. A dispatch from Salt Lake City, Utah, says: The investigation iu regard to the district court Saturday. James E. Tal in mage, Salt principal of the Mormon college lfis Lake, testified that pupils of schools were taught that the revelation .n regard to plural marriage was from God; that the constitution, when prop erly administered, did not interfere with any revelations of God. Witness said he believed polygamy tTneousti,utiomal, was right and not the law h! against it standing the decision of the supreme court of the Uoiied States. revelation^ All pupils were taught to obey the f celestial marriage. Witness thought about one iu thirty of his friends was a polygamist. He believed the president of the church was divinely called aud would obey him. bank statement, I he following is a statement of the associated banks for the week ending Saturday, the 23d: Reserve increase...... $ 935,225 Specie Loans decrease.....] ’ ’ 690,200 Legal tenders increase....... 450,000 Deposits decrease...... decrease. 337,990 Circulation increase......... 3,2.i2 IKK) The banks m.w hold si,088,000 8,Otic cess of 25 in ex per cent. rule. THE BRAZILIAN REPUBLIC WHAT TUB NEW GOVEtUTMENT WU.J ORDER TO UU MAINTVfffED. ‘ D0^ The new government has that it will firmly maintain x preparing circular order “ ments relative a to the to foreign g which overthrow „f ‘ empire, will be telegranhed ' e them through Vi; P»lw Brazilian represen – Jr• it ' of mfied its adherence k to the rep ,aj News from other provinces u they are also in favor of thow th J ‘ of government. The a republican f 0 by the provincial governors named military government are S n men. The newly emperor^ made ien„k lie will allow the deposed contos dereis per annum during his vt The cree five are: articles First. of the A republic government d! - claimed. Second. The is pro. Brazil, united by federation provinces* of pose the United States ’ Rr^ii' Third. Each of State will form its own u cal government. Fourth. Each State will send a representative to a Con W Which will convene shortly, and the'finaj decision of which the Provisional Gov emment will await. Fifth. Meantime Governors of States will adopt more means to maintain order aud protect citi zens’ rights. The nation’s internal and ei temai relations will be represented mean while by the Provisional Government HOW IT WAS ACOOAiPLIsilii). The city awoke on Fridav to hear the Republic proclaimed. Gen. DaFonseca Senor Constant and others proceeded to Petrolis in the morning and informed the Emperor that he had been dethroned Dom Pedro received the deputation with absolute composure. Gen. DaFonseca said that Brazil had advanced lar enough in the path of civilization to dispense with monarchy. The country while grateful to the Emptrur for his patriotic services, was firmlv resolved to recognize only a Republic. Dom Pedro made a dignified reply. He declined to abdicate, but said he would yield to force. The Imperial tamily were allowed one hour to prepare for their departure. Carriages, escorted by soldiers, were waiting to take them to the outer harbor, where a man-of-wai was been lying under steam. The captain had instructed to sail as soon as the Imperial family had embarked. He had received sealed orders instructing hits what route to take. It is supposed that Lisbon is the destination of the vessel. THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON. The Brazilian minister received two telegrams from Brazil, one from the minister of foreign affairs and the other from the minister of finance They were simply confirmatory of press re ports of the establishment of a repuhli can form of government, tho departure of Dom Pero and that everything was quiet and tranquil in the Repub.ic. It is understood to he the intention ol Brazilians in official capacity at Wash ington to await the pleasure ofthenewlj organized government, THE NEW PLANT WHICH PRODUCES COTTON SEED WITHOUT THE LINT. The new lintless cotton plant time men tioned in these columns some ago, is attracting considerable attention. There seems to be no doubt hboui the existence of such a plant, as proM of it j s exhibited in Charleston. Tnere were, received there Tuesday a box of bolli raised in Sumter county all cont inmg co tton seed without a fibre of lint, This new plant which Will tried in Spartanburg county, will, it is claimed, produce from 8u0 to 400 bushels of cotton seed, without lint, to the acre. The bolls are filled wi bseed which are perfectly clean and sl ow m signs «>f lint. Every boll contains many seed as it can hold, the bollsbeinj ! tlie size of the average cotton boll,under eiy individual seed is as clean a-a Bostoi bean. The importance of this matter mu] be understood when it is lenumberej that there are thousands of cotton 0 : mills throughout the south, and wheim is added that the propagators ofthiine 1 coitun plant claim that at the pnsefi price of cotton seed, an acre of the w' plant will yield from 300 to lOOptrcenl more than an acre of cotton. AN INSANE WOMAN COMPELS HER DAUGHTER TO JOIN IN DRINKING POISON. v ‘ Ue M,ch J .«* 1 .•«"-•* Ln? L s s ’ -’ al) »ence of h her husband, u • - Str " ,0 n S fllled » H ™ g tv '° tumb e ™ *L 0 ei " Maude, M i a hand 1 nd ^^ , mcgirU 'R^een and tulung theothw ltJ d, “ k ° wn *°" “ revolve' ie g,rl \ at the muzzle of f k wu ow ,he f t aod bi vll „ efforts « to save the , woman n *, ' fighter tr ° n « d ‘ e were * a J 110^8^1 ml i m « h L ’ ana Mairl “ nd Maude an hour late • to the last that her » ; t ! ,,C « d her \° dn “ k ,h " P ° begg« ‘ teo e d ' d 1 no f t T[" nt . t .° dl ! ®- ?whiS S h ( ] 0 Jrl ’ " s 7 le ,ive her r, 1,fe nn lhe t insanity ; wffic - clearly to the awful act his beeu 11 for about two weeks. A STRANGE REQUE8T1 In his will, Millard P. Fillmore, *r President FUlmore, particularly that his executor destroy all corr ® , u donee or letters written by his f* 1 mother, . sister or himself that , , may found in his effects. Ho bequeath I estate ► alncd «t stonn fwio to rela^ 7 ® 8 m