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Simmons on the front, and these words on top of each bottle and package: “Trade * Mark Registered, consisting of Name, Picture and Autograph, Nov. n, 1843.” MEDICINE o : lias for 47 years cured Indigestion, z Biliousness, Sick Costive ness,Dyspepsia, Souh Headache, Stomach, Low Loss Spirits, op Appetite, Breath, Foul Dr. J. R. Colic, Etc. of The Memphis, Tenn.,says: Graves,Editor Baptist, o I received a pack ageof half y»ur LivcrMcdicine, and have used m of it. It works like a charm. I want Z 00 better Liver Regulator, and certainly 4 no more of Zeilin’s mixture. ic C. F. Simmons Medicine Co., Propr's, St. Louis, Mo. z ESTABLISHED 1840.™ Of 100 samples of “safety envelopes,** to prevent rifling in the mails, which were submitted to the conference of postoftice inspectors at Washington, ali were rejected. Alexander Hogeland, president of the Boys’ and Girls' National Home associac tion, makes the startling stat mint that there ore t50.000 boy tramps in t-ka Unite 1 Sates. A new company, in which Thomas A. Edison, the inventer, is large y in terested, has been organized to manu facture dolls on a large scale. It will turn out 250,000 the first year. A race between bees and pigeons late ly took place in Westphalia, The bees were marked by rolling in flour, and the first reached home over the distance of three and a half miles twenty-five sec onds before the first p'geon, three other bees arriving before the second pigeon, Professor Behrcud, an English medi cal authority, points out that in a prac tice of thirty years, largely among He brew patients, he has not met a single case of phthisis in the members of that faith, their immunity from its attacks being undoubtedly due f o the Hebrew meihod of examining and slaughlering cattle. The Russian naval manoeuvres in the Black sea narrowly escaped being a direct failure. Owing to the impossi bility of procuring efficient stokers three of the largest ironclads were pre vented from leaving their moorings to take part in the affair. It is impossible lo find Russians enough to fill these places, while for varitui reasons the service is not particularly inviting to foreigners. Probably the smallest republic in the world is the one which iccently de clared its independence at Franceville, one of the islands of the new Hebrides, and , elected , ,, ,, M. Chevilliur , l .. its presi dent. The inhabitants consist of forty Europeans (inc'.u ling a solitary Eng lishman, a missioner), and 500 black workmen employed r J by J a French com pany. The new flag of the republic having been duly hoisted, the French gunboat Scrtric landed a detachment and saluted the flag. A test of metal railroal ties will soon be .made in Chicago. It is predicted that metal ties will be usod before long on all railroads in the country. Beyond their technical value, observes the New York World, these tie3 suggest the pos sibility that our Americau forests may be saved from total destruction, Thct greatest dram upon our forests has been made in the construction and repair of railroad tracks. A xvoodeu tic lia? only a shert lea’s of usefullness an l has to be replaced very frequently. Thy Japanese minis'er to America, Mr. Mu sa, Las just received the decora tion of the Order of the Crown, con ferred upon him by the emperor in recognition of his recent conclusion of a treaty with Mexico and other services for the state. Mr. Mutsu hac\ pre viously been decora cd by the emperor with the Order of the Rising Sun. The order was inclosed in the hollow of a bamboo stick, a method which prevails in Japan. Mr. Mutsu is not a noble man, but belongs to a das* in Japan anulogous to that of the gentry in Eng , land. , It , . exceedingly ,. , that the is rare orders w hich he hasreceived arc bestowed upon any but the nobility, and they iu dicate that he is held iu the highest re pute at home. The charges made with regard to the treatment of recruits at .T-ff rson Bar racks, Mu, have been investigated by an army court of inquiry and a re port made to the Secretary of war. A number of the charges of cruelty against on i*tel men wore proved io De exaggerated, al though the cooking was found to be bad. A number of non-commissioned efti cere, it was discovered, had been running games of elutnee whereby re cruits lost a considerable putioa 0 * their earnings. More desertions occur from this post than any other. Tuis is attributed to the fact that the post is so near a bu gs city. Miny men enlist iu the Evst merely for the sake of getting sent out West. Many chronic ■ deserters 4 . r from . . the ,, arid ... cry and asi. Infantry enlist and get scut to this cavalry post, where the chances of meeting their former vlliicrs become very slight. Ia this way they manage to desert, in many cases, for the third tune. SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. CURRENT NEWS. CONDENSED FROM THE TELE GRAPH AND CABLE. t hings tiiat happen from day to day THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Adelina Marquis deCaux, formerly husband of Patti, is dead, C. L. J. Myer, Sons Sc Co., dealers in manteJs.g have rites, etc., in Chicago, Ill., made an assignment. Three thousand miners employed in colicries j.t Oldbury,,England, have given notice tl at they will strike unless they rre .heir granted an increase of ten percent in wages. '■ Patrick Sullivan, employed by the Manhattan Electric Light Company, was instantly killed Saturday morning by an electric shock, while at work in the com pany's building. W. F. Camp, the most extensive mer chant in Polkton. N. Y., made an assign ment Saturday. His liabilities and assets arc not yet known, but both are said to be heavy, and near the same. A passenger train on the Missouri Pi iific railroad collided with a freight train near Pleasant Hill, Missouri, Friday night, and two tramps stealing a ride be tween the tender and mail cars were crushed to pulp. One hundred ami thirty printers from Beiffhi have been engaged to take the places of the strikers in Berne. The Bund and three other journals have con solidated and will be issued ur.der the title of the Normal Gazette. Warren Le’and, Jr., hotel proprietor at Long Branch, N. J., on Friday made an assignment of all his property, including .nr Ocean hotel, Ocean theater, Ocean club house, etc., for the benefit of his creditors. His liabilities are $225,000. At a mass meeting of Knights of La bor held at Wilkesbarre, Pa., on Satur day. a resolution wa< passed to the effect that a demand of 20 per cent, advance in wages be made February 1st. The meeting was largely attended and com posed of miners and laborers only. John R. Rauch, Jr., who has for sorpe time past conducted a savings bank at Baltimore, was on Saturday reported to p av( . disappeared with all his depositors’ composed money. The mainly depositors in thebanly were of poor persons, and the average amounts were from $8 to $20. Warehouse 14, at Baltimore, Md ■i owned by the Sadtder estate, wtfs da tri aged by fire Saturday morning to the ex iont of $15,000. Martinez A Co., cigar manufacturers John R. Kerb – Co., jewellers, and George Instruments, R. Wnhg «te Co., dealers ip musical occupied the building, In a blinding snow storm at kittle Fern - , N. J.. Saturday, a heavy coal train through plunged into the Hackensack river, gine went an out open of sight, drawbridge. carrying The with en- it the engineer, fireman and one brakemgu. The snow prevented the engineer from seeing the done danger signals, and nothing could bo to stop him. At New - York Saturday morning the commissioner of public works, Gilroy, sent out four gangs of men to cut down the poles and wires of the. electric light companies. Inspectors of the hoard of electric control accompanied them to point out the poles on which the dangerous' wires were strung. The companies are actively seeking another injunction. PHOSPHATE BEDS. A SCHEME ON FOOT TO SELL THEM TO A SYNDICATE Olt TRUST. The new - s of the development of a pro ject in Columbia, 8. 0., looking to the outright title and sale by the State of all its right, interest in the phosphate beds, for a sum not less than seven million dol lars, has caused a stir in the phosphate exchange at Charleston. The first inti mation of the project was the introduc tion of the bill in the legislature by the ways and means committee on Friday. The phosphate industry is the principal industry of Charleston. Millions of do'. lavs are invested in it by natives, north enter; and foreigners. Most of the fer tjUser their supplies works ot there. Europe The and deposits America get the on s f mims are moved by companies who pay the State a royalty of about one dollar a ton, the revenue to the State amounting to about $200,000 a year. Should the State dispose of its interest, the pur chasers w'ould lie at liberty to increase this royalty to any figure, as there is no restriction in the proposed bill. THE LABOR FEDERATION. MEET IN BOSTON, MASS., AND ELE< T OFFI CERS FOR THE ENSUING YEAH. The National Federation of Labor, at Boston, Mass., on Saturday, elected the following officers: President, Samuel Gompers, of of New York; W. H. Martin, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, first vice-president; P. Maguire, of the United States Brother hood of Carpenters and Joiners, second Miners vice-president; and Christopher Evans, of Mine Laborers, Secretary; Henry Einrieh, of Furniture Makers un ion, treasurer. After selecting Detroit as the place for the next year’s meeting, the federation adjourned. MOVEMENT OF SPECIE. York Exports week of specie from the port of New - last amounted to $299,035. V>47,800 of wh] ,. h mm was ^ alM| silver. Of the total export $1,200 iu gold and $225,850 in silver went to Europe an< ^ > n an< ^ $22,220 in silver to South America. Import* of specie amounted to $20,028, of which $11.86) was in gold and $17,167 silver. A MONUMENT FOR DAVIS. THE 80 tcrriKIlN PISE8S MONUMENT ASSO CIATION HSUE8 AN ADDRESS. At a Monument special meeting of the Southern Press association, at New Or leans, on Friday, President Childress was instructed to appoint one vice-presid cut lor each "state. Appointments them ore were made as follows - : South Carolina—• J. C. Hemphill, Charleston News and Courier. North Carolina—S. A. Ashe, Raleigh News and Observer. Florida— W. C. E. Merrill, Jacksonville Times Uniou. Arkansas — George William Caruth, Little Rock Gazette. Virginia— W. G. Walter, Richmond Dispatch. Maryland — Asa Bell, Baltimore Sun. Louisiana—F. E. Davis, Picayuue; Page M. Baker, Times-Democrat; George A. Dupree, States, and John Fairfax, the City Item. Missouri—C. H. Jones, St. Louis Republic. Kentucky — W. N. ITaldeman, Courier-Journal. Tennessee— W. A. Collier. Memphis Appeal. Ala bama—-W. W. Screws, Montgomery Ad vertiser. Texas—A. II. Belo, Galveston News. Mississippi—J. L. Power, Jack son Clarion. Georgia—J. H. Estill, Savannah News. The following address was drafted by the committee duly ap pointed at the meeting Friday: “The purpose of the people of the south to build a grand momanent to Jefferson Davis was synchronous with the last breath of the dying - hero of the Confeder ate cause. It is not, therefore, to create new - enthusiasm; it is to centralize and direct the course of that which already fills,millions of patriotic souls, that the newspaper press of the South have organ ized to co-operate with the association of United Confederate Veterans. While the great soul of Jefferson Davis, freighted with indefensible truth of the Southern cause, of constitutional liberty, has winged its flight to the throne of God, his earthly remains must he duly honored by those for whom he suffered, and w r e should be dead to every sentiment of duty, every prompting of gratitude and love, did we not, now that he has been called hence, seek in every fitting way to perpetuate his memory and prove to the world and to posterity that we know how to appre ciate so pure, so noble, so exalted a character. We need d#> no move than state the object qf the association to s» cure the (lamest and enthusiastic co-oper ation of every newspaper in the south, That object in itself—so noble, so patri otic, so suggestive, that the heart of every man and woman in our broad, fair land, .vill at once beat responsive to it.” The tddress -was signed by George W. Dupre, •hairman; Page M. Baker, Thomas E. Davis, John W. W. Fairfax, New Or leans; W. G. Walter, Richmond, Va.; A. N. Screws, Montgomery, Ala.; W. A. Collier, Memphis, Tenn.: E. N. Car mack, Nashville, Tenn.; Ed P. McKis sack, Charleston, S. C.; R. M. Johnston, Houston, Tex.; John Henderson, West Point, Miss.; Deon Jastremski, Louisiana; John IV. Childress, ex-officio chairman. ANOTHER DEATH TRAP. A? X panic in tiie TyfiSATRE building in UNFORTUNATE JOHNSTOWN. Tom’s During the performance of “Uncle Cabin” at the Park opera house at Johnstown, Pa., Tuesday night the cry of fire was raised, resulting in a terrible rush down the narrosv stairs. About a score of persons w r ere instantly killed and impiy terribly injured. People rushed from the outside up the narrow stairs land were crushed by the crowd forcing its way to the street. Seventy-five When person were injured. the crowd was driven away, the following the persons were found dead upon stairs: Mass Clara Burns, Mrs. Nes ter, George llerner, Charles Fiaut, John Carr, Mgs. Lester, John Miller, A. $ r eiss, John Wayman, Richard Worthington, Isaac Tolar, an unknown vmman. Among Vaugh, the seriously injured were Charles Albert Owens, and a man named Wiemer. There are about thirty others injured, but their names cannot be ascer tained. The alarm was false and there are many threats against the unkiNhvn man who started it. CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE. A RAILROAD WATCHMAN CAUSES FOUR MEN TO LOSE THEIR LIVES. When ope of the fast New - York and Washington and express trains on the Balti more Potomoc arrived at Washing ton Saturday night, the dead body of a man w as found on the cow -catcher of the engine. It was subsequently learned that the train had run into a wagon filled with countrymen on the outskirts of the city. Four men were killed—-two white and two colored- and one colored man was badly injured. The men were in a cov ered wagon and drove across the track without concern, as the guard gates were open. The watchman at the crossing, whose duty it was to close the gate at the cha approach of a train, was arrested on the rye of manslaughter. STRIKING MINERS. THEY CLAIM THAT THEY WE HE NOT TREATED RIGHT. The miners at the Pratt mines of the Tennessce Coal, Iron and Railroad com pany went out on strike Thursday morn ing. They claim that last year the Ten nessec agreed Coul, Iron and Railroad company to advance wages whenever the price of iron w - ent up. The advance promised Avas two and one-half cents a so the '■liners rl-iim i 0 j striE. ; -ii (L - C0Up i Smtorfretolnn wif h. rto ' n T , l 1 th"’ kd them to refuse to go to work. r l he mini- 2 000 Tnd thev Zl 9 th can/^ nt - 0Ut x is , I' 6 ™ <" “ 'ong as the company SOUTHERN NOTES. interesting news from ALL POINTS IN THE SOUTH. general progress AND OCCURRENCE* WHrCH ARE HAPPENING BELOW SON'S AND DIXON’S LINE. The Virginia senate, on Friday, a bill repealing the law opening 'u,,,/ pa*,,a land Flats for planting oysters.” The jury in the Kilrain case, at p,, Miss., on Saturday, returnad rV u not guilty of prize fighting, but a verdict rf assault and battery. They guilt,, were ‘ hours. out five A large tubular boiler at Randall Bro.’s saw mill, Covington, t ploded Saturday, demolish! Tenn ex , the building and killing completely U K and Mr. Stuart, Fireman Jones one of the firm, Two other employes were seriously hurt. Western nail manufacturers to the her of fourteen mills met in Wheeling' mini discussion vy. V a., L rid ay morning and after a | 0 n,r over the condition of trade advances in raw material, etc., concluded to advance the price of nails to *-> ■>-. net. A strike occurred at Chattan OOO'ji Tenn., on Saturday, of eighty-five brick layers iu th<* employ of D. J. Chandler and sixty-three stonecutters in the employ of the Chattanooga stone and marble cutting company. A difference of five cents an hour on Saturday was the cause. Half a dozen farmers, w ho w - ere return ing to their home from Dallas, Texas after selling their cotton, were robbed by highwaymen Rock. on the road near White Bloodhounds were put on their track, and a report has reached Dallas that two of the robbers were captured and hanged by the enraged farmers. General Manager Bond, of the Tetme S.“ see Coal, Iron and Railroad company, returned from New York Friday morning, and, after conferring with a committee of Pratt Mines miners, all differences were arranged, and the miners agreed to return to work at the present prices. wages are to be raised as the price iron advances. Advices Saturday from Key West imli cate that the cigar strike is further from settlement than ever. The men are better and are receiving daily large from other labor organizations, They lose nothing but their wages, while manufacturers are losing their profits, their trade broken up and being each. to monthly The expenses of over strikers now laugh at at a OVATION TO COL POLK. HE IS GIVES A GRAND RECEPTION BY THE FARMERS OF NORTH CAROLINA. The Fanner’s Alliance hadademonstra tion at Raleigh, N. €., on Friday, upon the arrival of the president of the Na tioual Farmers and Laborers’ Union, Col. Polk, from St. Louis. Colonel Polk was escorted to the city hall by a procession in which were many public men and offi cers of the State and county Alliances, and a mounted escort of members of Oak ridge Affiance, of which he is a charter member. A. C. Green, president of the Wake County Alliance,presided, and Col. Polk was greeted with great applause when he entered, accompanied by Acting Governor Holt. President Green wel comed him, as did also Governor Holt and Mayor Thompson. Addresses were made by State Labor Commissioner Scarboro, Pres ident. Tonnoffskie. of the Knights of La bor, Trustees Broughton and W. IT. S. Mechanical Burgwyn, of the State Agricultural uud college, and other prominent men. In response Col. Polk delivered a forcible and eloquent address, among other things saying, this demonstration of approval by "his neighbors was more gratifying high to him than his election to the position. AN INVITATION TO UNITED STATES DELEGATES TO TAKE A TRIP TO SOUTH AMERICA. The central and South American dele gates to Hie Pan-Apaerican congress at Washington, United have decided to invite trip the States delegates to take a through invitation Central and South America. The w ill probably be accepted. The through delegates to the congress will take a trip the Southern states, starting about the 15th of January. The islands of tlio Pacific have been the sphere of some of the greatest trans formations in history. Among these the story of New Zealand is by no means h sst exciting. It is a land 1,500 miles long from north to south, full ot great resources, agricultural and other wise, cnriche l with some of the most romantic scenery on the lac ; of the globe, lofty waterfalls, towering snow clad southern Alps rising 12,000 feet, and beautiful stietches of coast, lhe change Zealand has been most wondeiful. inhabitants, has 606,000 happy, known, prosperous the poverty is little anil cites are fall of comfort and taste, the whole people are worthy mid in’clh S cllt - Business is thriving, impr< Vj - ments lllG of vast extent, and a soli< basis for the life of the colon v is us sured * is room for ten times iu man y inhabitants, and the next lmj years will find a givaf increase m Population, ' , r which can be drained and brought undei cultivation is equal to that of all the cultivated lands, ’ or nearly 300 , 000,000 a . r Mm;1 . of this i. ir q cou ld l e re claimed without groat difficulty or e* ereaT’v.lue far;n " -,Mld °