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'^KI/)SS OF THE OREGON.
M.y Tend to Shed ld(ht on
^'^.M CnuJof the IHeaeter.
fiM1 r»oclv;o Cell.
, communication from n resi-
The / < 55. dtyrelation to the loss of
dent of lB1 ill 1,0 read with interest, even
the ? r T»ho may make kshtof the writer's
ttidcoT temicney toward a belief in the
s apcnm'” r “* oE ^ Cunsrder Oregon has
rke i K rv vividly to my mind some curi-
brottgut' •> bick occurred during my
oM mc “ C t “' s the Atlantic in that vessel
voyage acr \y ( , left Liverpool on a
,bo«t ay Saturday afternoon in February,
vw Oregon lmd scarcely got out of the
The ureg dinner w8 s announced. There
river 2 ood-sized crowd at the festive
an ocean liner the first evening of
T^ome when the boat is gliding
““ ;! throunli the still waters of the
(Boots J somehow the attendance at
on the following morning is
. , !,llv diminished. This was no excep
BSttniu y M d » tall lady, well but
“ C “„u-dressed iu black, apparently travel-
“L ahme. who had attracted general
“pi* hL the dinner-table, was among
ullh-eut.Ls the next day. I noticed that
Jr j, h ul exercised a peculiar fasciua-
“? fair-haired young Briton who sat
*‘",1 to me. He fixed his eyes upon her
ieI after »e sat down, anil from that time
Si paid hut little attention to his gas-
;otfl P duties. The lady rid not, how
pear to notice his somewhat
caze. 1 must confess my
j tv had been excited by Mrs. Moffett,
* altera aid learned her nnmo to
It «as not her somewhat proud
nor even those coal-black
'Tj’i-h attracted my notice. It was
... r " s mne indefinable, invisible power
fffrV lin-tinctively felt she possessed. I
(roc h up an acquaintance with the
nuns Englishman who had appeared so
urinated by her on the first evening of
f t( , vs .-e,' His name, he told me, was
“rti/yi'u.’riiilJ, and be was bound for
lorado “hero lie expected to be initiate
f|„ ti, e mysteries of eow punching, on the
Lpeh of stately estiblished cattle company,
lose representative he had met in Lou
oe He was a bright, merry boy of 22,
litb plenty of sterling good sense, and his
i ...fi->■! 1 erect 1 v oceanic
THEMACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH; TUESDAY* APRIL 20, 1886.—TWELVE PAGES.
Ld ^nied grentlv occupied with
aonebu «»t the “girl lie loft behind h\m,” a
trank'U*ly whom he hoped to win bjr bin
rtiinsin the liocky mountain country,
mention this tact because it Hill show
M he wm not iu ft State very likely to be
Itrait-d by the churms ot any ctlie
Ck’htcr ot Eve.
Yrt, I observed that whenever the
; an in black" appeared in the .saloon
>ul(7 friend would suddenly reuse tilking
[,1 ioting nitli bis neighbor*, and the
.onbbd expression I ba l noticed ( n the
jftt evening would again puss ov« r bis face,
hile he ever and anon glanced furtively
ivtrd the graceful figure iu black at the
end ut tbe table. Puzzled to account
kthwcluDge in his manner, I tried to at-
•i his attention by speaking of life on
plains, a subject generally sure to in-
irt,t him. Hut he wuh almost too pre-
cupiedto reply to my remarks until the
It «b» so engrossed his attention rose
Hleft the saloon, when the sombre eloud
. nging over Fitzgerald’s countenance
|-«itd away Hi fore retiring that night 1
;ed him* if lmd ever met Mrs. Moffet
iviottly. but lie assured me that he knew
one on board save the people whom both
and l had become acquainted with since
6 commencement of the voyage, uud of
mrie I could not very well press the sub-
it, although he was evidently keeping
Imething back.
A* he and 1 were descending the stairs
’inj; from the deck one morning, Fit*-
'kid tuddenly slipped and fell down tho
it two steps, coming into somewhat vio-
ft contact with a lady who wns crossing
‘ pissagt tint moment Of course his
]lcv;it» were profuse, «ud the lady, who
i nont* otb* r than Mrs. Moffett, while
•nring him of her entire escape from iu-
fry contrived to draw him into a conver-
f»i *n. and Fitzgerald offering his arm, re-
lAiztly, I thought, they ascended to the
•k A' I raised my hat and passed on, I
t convinced that this mysterious woman
^kse-l some subtle influence over my
ltn '^ tor the awkward embarrassment—
ost unnatural in him—which seized him
en be with whom he had come into
‘Won, and his most evident d«sire to
a.l her would certainly indicate an aver-
a toward Mrs. Moffett, rather than any
Hj to make her intimate acquaintance,
put evening I laughingly chaffed Bertie
r, ® conquest he had made, but I
*'* that his face clouded over at tho
Mm of Mrs. Moffett's name, and he
uufd to dislike to speak of her. Pres-
WAa? asked me, in h homewhat sheepish
7* whether 1 believed in prophetic
J 0 *.*' "tbat sort of uonsense." I ad-
. , at f *** decidedly sceptical on
; u IQb ] f cts, and iuipiired what prompted
■ uuetUou, whereupon, after a good deal
I taUatioD,he related the following story:
f t L j“‘ , ‘ ri »mt about six months previously
► fie was «>n a ship, amongst a crowd of
1strangers to him. Cue
I a tall, handsome woman, bcck-
r him to follow her, and led the way to-
JW e stateroom. He hod, in the dream,
f . * her wUnt gesture of command, and
f up ^ parcel to which she pointed.
ku • described as being heavy,
C p v MZfc of a trick, and was
Ct ; n br ; )W *‘ r»l>er. The strange lady
in; llo ? u a ^ on K Passage tormina-
L.“* iU X Ul of ‘to Which Lit to a l»rno
r •fdce-ptemimahty aonie part of tho
..iT lKh he ,<k'l>oHlte<l Li* burden.
11 “I’Potted to him in the dream,
Jj. e cluinBcU. He wa* lvinu in the
i 'mail rawing bout, flouting on the
lUe liul « »»t
I L11 be «“ on the Urger ves-
Ikaei >'!• to look around.
It of ,i a i. cu( ‘ nlD ? ex plo*ion, and saw 11
rM!,- 1 "" dutance from him. Then
L.i, ‘n' fftraog 0 ringing in bu ear*,
V ..,r“ tt„. 1LS he concluded thU re-
f' t.N. 'f ?, ,ll * n "n board the Oregon who
Ida. w „„: , > il "fiett ia the exact image
RTS? n-y dream. No won.lor
F Lr ih., ,^. m 7 Perturbation when I
l"ontar,i l°r directly I net
Fned m l '. » h “‘ dream
nilil. .. “d- Hlie exerciiseH Home
owme,and I feel ,x»-
'1? wb at *he will*."
■etitir. K , “8 '*ay Mm. Moffett contrived
»mi n Ti nop, ' liza ,,crtic - 1
kiiii mitn*»fc K tUe evcnin K “d did
-«(ioii~a tl A, tt . e ? ei k morning when I
I He *‘® w »* pale and liag-
Iti.hi . , Ijssed that he hail not slept
eonfiile,! to me the fol-
1 1 ~- ".uS : " u “ t niKb '’"
ting room*,, °i 1 C1U1 ‘« out of the
fi ii >,f .i,, 1 ’ Hit imjieUed to go in the
krltra lirh 1 .'" ’"Hood. On my way
fits l*ek. m *‘ me. and without
1 ‘1'enl u. ? l .° l,lc to follow her. I
V hLit*. ° •* we movcil toward
1 fee li l rt° w * * be conviction flashed
k.. i. ""rrmnding* were the
■iifii |, ,, ,dream I told you of.
rtto r>> ,„ *11 my will |lower in the
M 0.0 f.. r ,„i*J l,, » , |de hand which im-
r-.!.,| ■ eoulil not do to, and I
m ,t,Ji° , ’ r . °f 'Ha room where
!un.ile,, I Knnt *ng to a parcel, tbe
‘- i jtu hr.„L )!* OBt *“ my dream. Al-
■i wciil.i -,n w D °t Ike »ort of a fel-
aetcall a coward, I waaalmoat
laralyzcd with fear at my inahiUty to fol.
ow the distatea of my own will Au r «
involuntarily stooping to pick up the pared
acme one came toward us from the farther
®"d° f ‘ he Pfaage and, u* if afraid of being
tn , ok my arm and almost
dragged me back to the saloon. There she
left me, congratulating myself on the prams-
dream™ lUIU<m thbi re P etition « my
As he fold me this the poor hoy looked
low lively unnerved. He concluded by say-
ing ; For God s sake help me to resist and
k©\3p away from that woman.”
I tried in vain to persuade Fitzgerald this
was some delusion, that he had probably
been feeling unwell and had experienced
another realistic dream, in which some of
the incidents of the former one had
been repeated. No; he insisted upon its
being reality and I determined to have
conversation with the mysterious •‘li
ra black ’ on the following day.
However, she remained invisible from
that time until we readied New York, be
ing, as the steward told us, too unwell to
appear in public. We ran past Sandy Hook
on Sunday morning, and Bertie Fitzgerald
ad‘if landed without ngnin beholding Mrs.
Monet. Bertie recovered his wonted spirits
directly we left the Ore gon, .and when, as I
was Heeiug him off on his journey to the
far \\ est a few days later, the subject of his
dream again came up, we both agreed that
the adventnie with tho strange “woman in
black” on tbe Oregon, had, to say the least,
been suggested by his imagination.
I kept up an occasional correspondence
with Fitzgerald, and a few months ago I
heard that he was about to return to Kug-
land, having given up cowboy life as un
profitable. Only three weeks since I re
ceived a letter from him, telling me that he
was again coming to the States, having been
offered u lucrative position in a Chicago
mercantile house. He remarked that by a
strange coincidence he would again cross
in the Oregon, and he recalled tbe mysteri
ous Mrs. Moffett to me, jokingly expressing
a hope that his dream would not bo fulfilled
on this voyage. When I read the account
of tbe mysterious loss of tbe Oregon
I was considerably startled, especially
when 1 saw later that an explosion was
supposed to have caused the damage which
ro ulted in lier sinking. I am more than
anxious at having heard nothing from Fitz
gerald, who was undoubtedly n passenger
on tbe ill-fated vessel, although I wrote to
him »it New York, immediately on hearing
of tho disaster. God grant bis ominous
dream lias not been fulfilled and ho tho un
willing tool'that caused tho loss of that fine
ship; a loss which might so easily have been
magnified by the destruction of many hun
dred valuable lives. But his description of
the mysterious parcel, I now remember,
tallies with that given by a policeman of
auother mysterious parcel, the contents of
which it was supposed wrecked Westmin
ster Hall some eighteen months ago.
A COTTON PICKER.
ALLUSIONS PERSONAL.
—Mrs. Ole Bull U ill with pneumonia.
— Cannon Liddon is slowly regaining bU former
health.
-BUhop Goodwin of Carliiile, England. Mils for
New York on April 14.
—The Pasteur fund in Parle now amounts to over
$1(10.000 and the hoepltal is assured.
—Rev. Francis Trench, brother of the late Arch
bishop of Dublin, is dead, aged SO years.
—During the past month 617 slaves were declared
free iu tlie province of UnImu/jm, Cube.
—Adolphe Alphonse Assi. tho French Communist,
who was deported to New Caledonia in 1*72, U dead.
—Tho Crown Prince and Princess of Austria will
spend the coming summer among the Scotch Uigh-
lands.
, —Mis* Wonnly of Newport is announced as the
translator of the Balzac novels now being issued by
Roberts Brothers of Boston.
—I*ord Aberdeen Insists on dally mi
chapel of the Castle In Dublin, which has caused
much linttering among the dove-cotes.
—Col. Lamunt has returned from Fort Monroe to
Washington somewhat improved iu health aud ■
resumed his duties at the White House.
—The Duke of Connaught. Queen Victoria*!
youngest son, will return to India for the next two
years, to command a divisiou of tbe Bengal army.
—The Qaeeu has twice seen Mrs. Langtry at draw
lng rooms, for she was prasented In 1H78, and she
attended a draw.it g room during the following year.
—Lionel Tenn) son, second sou of the poet, who
contracted an Indian fever while visiting the fami
ly of the Earl of DufTerln, Is now thought to be out
of danger.
—Ihe Society of Arts In London bss set up
mural tablet in the chamber occupied by Charles
Dickens from l*it to 1K17, in what was ouce known
as Farnival's Inn.
—Sir Charles Dilke. not at all shame-faced,
showing himself iu public again- He was in tbe
chair at a political meet lug at Kensal New To'
the other night.
— Mr. Waugh took a likenese in wax of Jndge
Marshall in 1837 and the likeness has Just Leeu
discovered at Kaleigb. It will go to the Virginia
Historical Society.
—Mine. Bernhardt will wear iu her performances
in laoudon the trousseau prepared for her projected
American tour. The dresses, which are exceeding
ly handsome, cost £3,126.
—A Paris dispatch says that an American doctor
named Hers baa been made a grand officer of the
Legion of Honor for services in connection with
post office aud electoral inventions.
—Will Carleton, the poet, • Is now roaming and
rhyming in the orange groves of Florida with a
view, doubtless, to restoring the sweetness to tho
crop so sadly soured by the untimely frosts.
—Before sailing for England last week James
Russell Lowell is credited with having refused a
number of mpiests from publishers of magazlues
for articles for which f l.ouo each was offered.
—Charles Dudley Warner writes from Morelia,
Mexico, to the Hartford Courant: “In fact, Morelia
Is the perfection of climate. Hummer weather, but
not debilitating. June roses in February. That
the sort of thing.”
W—*«*• A- Cole, of Colorado, is confidently
nouuced as the coming sweet singer of America,
whether operatic or poetical, is not stated, but the
advance iu Pennsylvania cols gives a boom to the
Cole of Colorado.
—Heretofore the Griffin lias been supposed to
it entirely fabulous creature, but there seems to
plentiful supply of real ones. Dr. Ham Griffin
announces his intention of bringing out
stage his niece, Virgellne Griffin.
—Mr. Rusktn in a recent letter declares that the
scientific education of to-day teacher that “honor
is a folly, ambition a virtue, charity a vice, pov
erty a crime, and rascality the means of
wealth and the sum of all wisdom.”
In New York the other day Mr. Roacoe Conkling.
in the midst of a vehement philippic against tbe
Broadway steal, turned to Clarence Heward. who
sat close to him. and whispered: “How U that,
IjewanlT Am I putting it on thick enough?”
—When Queen Victoria visits Liverpool in May,
a', she prupoees, she will fiud that the place has
more than doubled in size and population elncu she
last saw it in 1851; but then a great deal has been
golug on in '.treat Britain during the Qneen'a long
retirement.
—John K.kins, brother of 8. B. Elkins and a mem-
bar of Uu> Colorado Sub; Heuate, has been in New
York for a week on a visit to his brother. He le a
tall, angular man. with sandy hair and a fiowine
bead of fiery red. an aquiline nose and a lively
command of language.
—It Is reported that Mr. Wlnans, the Baltimore
millionaire, who owns such extensive shootings in
Scotland, has amused much indignation through
ltoae shire by promising to close the hob-1 at Mtmy.
the only one in the midst of a large district much
frequeuted by tourists.
—Gone la Frances, widow of Mortimer Collins
helpmate of the noct philosopher in hi* work and
mainstay of bis home, says the London W’orld.
Many of Mortimer's sweetest verse* are addressed
to her, under the fanciful name of Karine, and in
his published letters and re flection* there Is con-
stant reference to her unselfish devotion and hla
appreciation of It
Consumption Cured.
An old physician, retired from practice, having
hul pUcnl in hi. h.n.1* by «a Eu-1 Indi. ml«l„„u
rj th. formula of a .impl. r««rt»W* mn"l> for ih.
arwedy and permanent cure of consumption, bnm-
ckiUs; catarrh, asthiua.nd all thru* an. lung affeo
lion-; also a positive and ml leal cure for nervoua
debility and all nervous complaints. »n*r hav ing
b-sted its wonderful curative posers **» thousands of
cases, has felt it hU duty b> make i.. known to hie
fellow sufferers. Actuated by this motive arid a de
sire to relieve human suffering. I» W send tree of
charge, to all who deein* It. this ru-*ipe. tuGermana
French and English, with full directlocs for prepar-
lac and milmt- amt by
stamp, p»—»**hg this paper, W. A. Noye*. ltf Power,
nock. Rochester, 31. T.
Possibility of the Present, a Certainty of
the Future.
Now Orleans Times-Democrat.
The greatest problem yet unsolved in &e
matter of cottau has been some means of
picking it more cheaply tlun at present.
Tho most important discovery of the cen
tury for tho South whs the cotton ^in; tho
greatest possibility of the future is a me
chanical cotton picker. As things now stand
tho cost of picking tho cotton is one of the
largest elements of its production, amount
ing to $10 a bale, or $58,000,000 for tho av
erage crop. When a machine can be in
vented 111 at will avoid tho present slow,
tedious and expensive process of picking
cotton by hand, the work, it is estimated,
can he done for $1 per bale, effecting a sav
ing of at lcai-t $50,000,000 a year to the
•South.
Such a machine has long been the hope
and desire of all^ersons interested in the
production of cotton. Several experiments
have been made and several machines pat
ented. A new one, manufactured by the
United States Cotton Harvester Company,
of New York, comes before the Southern
people claiming to accomplish all that is
desired of it; to pick and gather automat
ically the cotton from the field without in
jury to tho growing plant.
This picker was tried at the New Y’ork
Cotton Exchange, the cotton plants being
placed iu rows on the floors* of the Ex
change, as in a field, and tho picker driven
between the rows, Kcoomplishing the work
assigned it and picking and storing the cot
ton in bags.
In speaking of the machine to the Ex
change Mr. Bugg, the president of the com
pany, claimed that it would not break the
plant; would not destroy the cotton blooms
or bolls any more than when the cotton was
picked by hand, and would not gather any
more trash than the average hand did.
The machine, he declared, was drawn eas
ily by two horses, and was about half the
weight of a grain harvester. It required
only two hands to work it, one to drive and
the other to attend to replacing the sacks.
The cost of building the picker was lens
than that of u grain harvester. The opera
tion of the mnohine is as follows:
Four endless belts are arranged iu a
frame supported upon two wheels, which
furnish the power to drive tho mechanism.
These belts move horizontally, and curry
rotary picker stems, whieh are* placed per
pendicular to the face of tho belt, aud jour
naled thereon. Two of these belts are
mounted on each side of the machine, and
are driven so as to carry tho picker stems
rearward in time with tho forward move
ment of the machine along the cotton row.
The row of plants passes between the belts,
whieh, by tlio movement, carry tho picker
stems into the plant and to the rear. At
the same time the picker stems are rotated
and wind the cotton upon themselves.
After being filled with cotton they are with
drawn from the plant by the movement of
the belt, and pass into a receiving compart
ment, where the direction of the rotation
tho picker stems is rapidly re
versed, and tho cotton is unwound and
drops upon a carrier belt, which in turn de
livers it upon the elevator, by which it is
deposited in a hag at the rear of the machine.
The picker stems* are cylindrical, and are
made of hard wood, having pointed brass
pins inserted nt a certain distance from
each other, and inclined to tho surface. The
pins are suitably protected so as to avoid
injuring the unripe cottuii and stalks. The
machine is fitted with a tongue, and is
drawn by two horses, one each side of the
row. A seat is placed on top of the ma
chine for the driver from which position he
enu see the operation of the working part,
which ho eftn stun or start instantly by suit
able levers within easy reach. The
weight of the maohiue complete is a little
over 1100 pounds.
Such is tho machine and inch are the
claims made for it It has experimented as
yet with very little cotton. Its practical
success will have to be tested in the field
on next season's crop.
Should it prove a success, it is scarcely
necessary to say that the discovery will be
one of the most important in its results to
the South. Even snould it not be wholly
successful, there is every reason to hope for
ultimate suocesss, since the minds of in
ventors have been turned to constructing
some machine of this kind. It was re
garded, only a few years ago, equally as im
possible to iuvent a cotton picker as it
seemed impossible to our great-grandfather
that there could be any other way of separ
ating the seed from tho fibre except by
bamt The cotton picker is recognized to
day a possibility of the present, a certainty
of tho future.
THE DAVID CROCKETT,
Tbe Old Steamboat K**urr«*ctc<l by tbe
Kccent Flood.
Yesterday Capt. A. G. Butts visited the
old steamboat that bad been brought to
light by the recent flood. Ho made the
discovery that instead of being thoJ. M.
Goddard, a barge, it is the hull of tho
“David Crockett,” a towboat. This boat
was built by the late Janies R. Butts, in
1834 and plied between Macon ifhd Darien.
It was a stern-wheeler, contained two thirty-
three horse power engines, and was about
ninety-five feet long. It belonged to the
Pioneer Line of boats and won used for
towing freight-laden barges, one on cither
side, from Darien to Macon.
When the boat was built, David Crockett
bod given utterance to the maxim, “Be sure
you’re right aud then go ahead,” and was
almost nt tho zenith of his fame. On being
informed of his namesake, he forwarded a
full set of colors for the new boat. After
ward the boat changed owners, and was
given the u «rae of the ‘‘Black Hawk."
The wharf of the Pioneer Line was at
the bluff where the East Tennessee, Vir
ginia and Georgia depot now stmds. In
1844 the Black Hawk was tied at this wharf
for the summer and through carelessness
was filled up with water and hank. Iu some
way it drifted down tho river, turned bot
tom upward and now its prow is buried in
the nnid and sand near the old Augusta
railroad bridge, just below tho park. Th©
Hfl*m of the boat stands up out. of tho high
water at an angle of about forty-five degrees.
By means of a batteau Capt tin Butts wns
enabled yo terday to examine the old boat.
He think* the engines are there, though it
is possible the boilers are goqo. Tho tim
ber used in ita construction i • as sound as a
dollar.
When the nver gets lower a thorough ex
amination will he made of this relic of Mu-
con’s steamboat days.
tv fiat i!aktB£ I'uwilnr shall W«* Use?
This plain qnemion comes* homo to every house
keeper. We all derire pure ami wholesome food,
end thin cannot In ha<l with tha use of liupnre or
pofaoi one baking powden There c*n \*o no loogaf
a question that all the c amper, lower (trade of hak
im? powders contain either alum, lime or phosphat
tc acid. Am loth a* we may be to admit »o much
RRiihiHt what may have been some of our household
izods.thore can h« no gaitiRayinR tho unanimous tes
timony or the official chemists. Indeed, atial}Hta
seem to find no bsklrg powder entire.y free from
gome one of these objectionable Ingredient* except
the Royal, and that they report as chemically pure.
We find some of tbe bakinK powders advertised as
S ire, to contain under the tests of l*rofa. Chandler,
abirshuw am! others nearly twelve per cent, of
lime, whi e others aro made from alum with no
crenm of tartar. This, we presuuio, account* for
their lack of ieaveuini? power as sometime* com
plained of by the cook, and for the bitter taste
found iu the biscuits so frequent y complained of
by ourselves.
But aside from the inferiority of tho work done
by these p* wders. the physiologists assure us that
lime aud alum taken Into the system in such quan
tities as this aro injurious. They are not decom
posed by heat and not dissolved in mixing or bak
ing. They (?o with tho bread, therefore. Into tho
stomach where their physiological effects are indi
gestion, dyspepsia or worse evils. mriH
SHE HAD HANDSOME EYES.
A Young Man Initiated Into the Mysteries
of Uelladonn* by • Siren.
New York, April 11.—Walter 0. Foator,
a Kood-lookiuK yoaoK man about 22 year*
ol.l, living at No. 242 East Seventieth Street,
waa in a very penitent mood ye*terduy. Hn
hud ]n*t been di*charged from the bmpitut,
where he had been lying on the point of
deulli for aeverul hour* Muttering from an
overdose of belladonna which ho hnd taken
with the intention of shuttling off this
mortal coil. Near Foater'a house live* a
pretty girl. She i* employed on a saleswo
man in an np-town dry good* atore. There
Walter met nor and made her acquaintance.
She luul big dark eyes. One evening in an
unguurdod moment she confessed to Walter,
who hod often asked her to tell him what
made her eyes so big, that she dropped bel
ladonna under the lido, and thus enlarged
the pupils.
"But it is a deadly poison, is it not?" be
said, tenderly pressing her hand. She ad
mitted that it waa and promised that for
bis snke site would not take enongh to kill
her. When be called Wednesday evening
she was not at home. It was the first time
she hail ever disappointed him. When she
relumed he took her to tusk and they had “**•
some real hot words. “Will yon let me
look at your belladonna bottle'" he asked.
She banded it to him and he drunk the
contents. Half an hour afterward he found
himself on a cot in the hospital with six
physicians and nurses keeping off sleep by
switching him.
The question naturally arise*, why <lo these cheap
baking powder maker* n*o these thing*? Alum is
three cents a pound, lime still cheaper, while
cream of tartar cost* thirty five or forty. Thoma
sons for the chemical purity of tho Royal Bakins
Powder were recently given in the Now York World
In an interesting description of a now method for
refining argols. or crude cream of tartar. It secuis
that it ia only under this process that cream of tar
tar cau be freed from the lime natural to it and
rendered chemi-Mly pure; that tbe patents and
plant for this cost the Royal Baking Powder Com
pany about half a million dollars, and that they
maintain cxrlu*iv« control of the rights.
Prof. McMurtrie, late chief chemist of the De
partment of Agriculture at Washington, D. Cm in
tho interests of commerce, made an examination of
this process and reported upon the results attained
in the refined cream of tar.ar. Tbe following ex
tract from his report would seem to answer the
question repeated at the head of this article, which
we have heard so frequently propounded by our
lady friends:
“I have examined tho cream of tartar nsed by
the Royal Bakina Powder Company in the manu
facture of their naktmf powder, . and And it to be
perfectly pure, and freo from lime in any form,
Chemical tests to which I have submitted the Roy
al Baking Powder nrove it perfectly healthfttl, and
' > iroui every deleterious substance.
“Ww. McMwnu*. E. M., Ph. D..
"Chemist in Chief U. H. Dep’t of Agriculture.
BURNING OF A BARN.
Suspicion Full* on m Tramp as tha Incan*
diary.
Monday afternoon a tramp approached
the house of Mr. Asa Thompson, whose
plantation is about three miles from the
city, on tho Houston road, and asked for
food and lodging He was given his sapper
hut refused lodging for the reason that the
depredations by trumps over the country
had reached the ears of the people in that
section.
About two hours after tho departure of
the tramp, the barn of Mr. Thom {won waa
diHcovercd to be on fire. In the bam waa
about GOO bushels of corn, a quantity of
fodder, tho harnesa belonging to the farm
teams, and other property of value. Al
though the neighbors responded promptly
and used all possible efforts to save the
barn, it waa entirely consumed. During
the progress of tbe tire the tramp
returned, and suspicion fell upon him
at once. Mr. Bob Bailey and others took
him in hand And kept him until yesterday
morning. They thou brought him to town
and a warrant was a worn ont before Justice
Damour charging him with the offense of
anon. He gave his name as Patrick Con
rsd and Haiti his home was in New York.
that he left tho place after eating his sup
per, uud while seatinl on the railroad bank
with his shoes off, his feet being blistered,
he saw the blaze in the distance, and think
ing he might aid in putting it out he
turned.
Yesterday at 2 o’clock he was taken be
fore Justice Damour, hut asked for a con
tinuance until Friday that he might secure
aa witnesses an engineer and fireman who,
he cloimii, saw him on the railroad track.
Mr. Morgan Clark brought him in town and
lodged him in jail
Mr. Thompson’s barn was not insured.
Dr. K. O. Colter.
Permanently located in Macon. 138!«' Heron*! street.
DiMWsee of the *)*, ear, throat and naae. Former
ly assistant for four years to Dr. A. W. Calhoun, At*
iTLAITAJA.) DOTS,
Sometliinsr About the Ups and
Downs of Iter Inhabitants.
Miss Dunaway Alive.
Atlanta papers are giving the publio some
curious and wonderful cases that are ouite
interesting. It seems a voung lady of At
lanta had been reported as dead, but it
came to tho ears of a Constitution reporter
that she was still alive, and beinp on the
alert for news, called at bar residence to
learn ull tho facts. Miss Dunaway, who
had been prononneed dead, said :
“For four years, rheumatism and neural
gia have resisted physicians and nil other
treatment. My muscles seemed to dry up,
my flesh shrank awav, my joints were
swollen, painful and large, lost my appe
tite, was reduced to GO pounds in weight,
and for months was expected to die. I
commenced tho use of B. B. B,, and the
action of ouc-half bottle convinced my
friends that it would cure me. Its effect
was like magic. It gave me an appetite—
gave me strength, relieved all my pains and
aches, added flesh to my bunts, and when
five bottles had been used, I had gained 50
pounds of flesh, and am to-day sound and
well.
Mr. .1. P. Davis, of West End.
>Vhat Mr. J. V. Davis c! West End. said:
‘I have only a few words to say, which ar&
state that I have been confined to my
bed for two months with what was called
Nervous Rheumatism, or Sciatica. I was
only enabled to hobble about occasionally
by the use of crutches, and in this condi
tion I commenced the use of B. B. B., four
bottles of which enabled me to discard the
use of my crutches and attend to business.
I had previously used all well recommended
medicines without relief. It has been over
one year since using B. B. B., and I con
sider myself a permanently cured man.”
Mr. K. P. Dodtr<*,Yardniastcr Ua.
Uailroatl,
makes a statement:
“My wife has been a great sufferer from
catarruh. Several physicians and various
patent medicines were resorted to, yet the
disease continued unabatod, nothing ap-
waring to make any impression upon it.
:lcr constitution finally became implicated,
the poison being iu her blood.
“I secu/ed u bottle of B. B. B. and placed
her upon it.* use, and to our surprise the
impiovement began at once, and her re
covery was rapid and complete. No other
] irepamtion ever produced such a wonder-
: ul change, and for all forms bf Blood Dis
ease I cheerfully recommend B. B. B. as a
suporior Blood l’nrifier.”
Mr. «Tas. L. Doswortli, Hutton-
holed.
Yes,” said Mr. James L. Boswortb, an
old Atlantian, “it was twelve years ago
when I contracted a terrible case of blood
poisoning. I lmd no appetite, did not
sleep well at night, my digestion was im
paired, iny throat was cauterized five times,
and iu fact 1 was a total wreck. I had
been under tho treatment of several of the
leading physicians of Atlanta; tried nearly
every blood remedy advertised; w'ent to
Hot Springs, where I remained several
months, receiving no benefit whatever.
“A truly wonderful blood remedy was
recommended, known as B. B. B. I used
it, and, sir, 5 bottles cured roe, and I really
believe it to he the grandest and quickest
blood remedy ever known.”
Send to Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga.,
for their Book of Wonders, free.
ian‘22-fri-sunAw
A Watch Free
Wo will mail a piickol Silver Waterbary Watch of
the style represented In tbe eni below to any one
who will send us a club of ten *zw subscribers to
The Weekly Teleqhaph at one dollar each. This
will enable each subscriber to secure the paper at
the lowest club rate, and at the same time compen
sate the club agent for his trouble.
Only new suiisoribee*—that is, those whose
names are not now and bave not been within six
mouths previous to the receipt of the order on onr
books, WILL BE COUNTED.
These watches are not toys, but accurate and
nervieeable time-keepers. They are simple, dura
ble and neat. The cases always wear bright Tens 1
of thousands of them are carried by people of all
classes throughout the United States.
■
“The Waierbury.”
FOE SB3.50
we will send The Weekly Telegraph one year
and one of the above described watches to aay ad
dress. This propostion is open to our subscribers
as well as those who are not
A_ct [Promptly.
The above propositions will be kept open for a
limited time only and parties who wish to take ad
vantage of either should do so at once.
wy Union* otherwise directed we will send the
watches by mall, packed in a stout pasteboard box.
and our responsibility for them will end when they
are deposited in the post-office. They can be regle-
tered for ten centa and parties who wish this done
should inclose this amonnt, or we will send them
by express, tbe charges to be paid when they are
delivered. Addreee THE TELEGRAPH.
Macon. Georgia.
Make money orders, checks, etc., payable to
U. C. HANHON. Manager.
HR C0UGHS“«CR0UP USE
TAYLOR’S
ALL FIRST-CLASS
StRtopnitejitMale
IUtbm in Venetian Canal*.
A writer in St. Xickola* tella the little
people something about “Life in Venice.”
“If the <lay is warm we shall see plenty of
Venetian boys swimming in the canals wear
ing nothing but a light pitirof trousers, and
they care so little for onr approach that we
are afraid our gtmdolaa will run over some
of them. I once saw a Venetian girl about
sixteen years <>1«1 who waa sitting upon the
steps of a house teaching her young brother
to swim. The little brother waa very* small
and she bad a cord tied around his waist,
one end of which she held in her hand. She
would let the child get into (he water and
puddle away us well aa he could. When he
«cewod tired, or when he hail gone far
enongh, she pulled him in. She looked very
much aa though she waa fishing, with a
small boy for bait,"
REMEDY
SWEET GUM
AND
MULLEIN.
TO PARENT*
Many baking powders are very pernicious
to health, and while every one regards his
arefoi
SEA FOAM
containsnonn of the bad qualities of taking
powd**n»—soda or saleratus. It contains no
hurtful IngraUeufr-ao slum or ammonia.
SCIENTIFIC.
All Chemists who have analyzed Ben Foam
commend it. Housekeeper* who tave used II
will have no other. Cooks, whose best efforts
tave failed with other powders, are Jubilant
over Hen Foam. Saves time, saves labor, saves
money.
l It Is positively unequaled. Absolutely (lire
Used by Uio leading hotels and restaurant*
In New York city sna throughout tbs country.
~ sole by all Orsvclsss grocers.
QANTZ, JONHS Ji CO.,
170 Thtnne St., X. Y.
Freight Train Wrtrknl.
Yesterday afternoon an accident ocmrred ou Ihe
tost Tennessee. VirprinUand Georgia rsilroad. near
MrDomuirh. a journal broke under a cev in a
freight train (mini? north. Tbe car drujqed to tbe
tra*‘k, and thoes behind It piled up on top of it and
then fell off on either tide. The wreck was coin-
E lete. tbe can* being tadly smashed. Nobody was
r»rL The obstruction to tbe tra*-k we* so serious
thet it required until 6 o’clock this morning to clear
It i he south-bound pas** niter train wUI not ar
rive in Macon until after 7 o'clock.
Bile PbansI What a fanny name for a medicinal
Nevertheless it is very sigalftcsnt as applied to the
article. Bile, according to Webster, is "* yellowish
bitter, vied i nauseous fluid, secreted be the liver.”
Whenever tbe liver does not act property this fluid
Is retained in tbe blood and poisons the whole sys
tem. and Mellowness and misery is the result.
Smith's Bile Beans is a sum cure tor biliousness
and livsrcomplaint. Fries. 23 cents per bottle.
hllirti r‘~~ r t» la tbs nsll«ta yluisf AssMBsMs.pt*
ststslB TiiMsfl Canons tram 09 IwtsrQvw *'»
Knisu il« ImS fcsswa t—If Or Ch|Ii, Cvssg,
WSsayUg Crash sad Csassn»tf—; ss4 as »sUUMt, say
•hlM b ftessst I* Ut• U. A* yraMrsaUUwIt. Trim,
«|s.ss<tl. WAITER A. TAYIOR.Atlamta.Oa.
Cm DO. BIOOKB9- grCELKBEKET COBDUL fcf
tHsrrtw. Pywstwy ss4 CMMiss Tmhi»«. r*Misty
tflSrscsMA
DR. BIGGERS IIFCKLERERKY CORDIAL
FUR THE
B0WKL8 AND CHILDREN TEETHING.
It is tha graatMonthern remedy for the bowels
It ia one of tbe moat pleasant and affiearlovj
rsme*lira for all Hummer complaints. At a sea-
sou when violent attacks of the bowel* mtw so
frequent, some spaedy relief should be at band.
The wearied mother, losing sleep in nursing
the little one teething, should use this medicine.
Me. a bottle. Hand 2c. stamp to Walter A. Tay
lor. Atlanta. Ga.. for Riddle Book. annaw
Tha lUlilwia County l'rot»»t«
M11 ijuxikvillb, April 12.—The anii-pn>-
hihittotiisU b* vo Kectired 3G3 burnt* to their
petition for the contest and will make ap
plication to Jadge Lawson at occe. Hon.
Sam. II. Jettison of Macon will represent
them, also Messrs. Whitfield, Allan and
Jacluon of the loco! bar.
An effort it being made in Stockholm to
introduce the custom of sending instead of
fiowent to a fnnernl a card on which is in
scribed a receipt for a contribution to *ome
benevolent institution. Such cords, for tbe
amonnt of five crowns each, can be hod nt
the bookstore* for the benefit of a proposed
children's hospital.
Advice to Mothers.
Vra. Wln.l«>V. Booth.ng H)rnp .hotjM .1 w... b.
mo! for rtilldmi It MMrthM th. ehll4.
■oftcu th. sum., alls), -h tain, ram wind .mile.
Kid u th. Uat remedy for ilmrrh...- tie. » bottle,
Jjitwl,
iMoittsrkr-iiit. h. b. bIunku).
“ >1^ M.!h.t!7 KIM. Mk .xi.
OSc.baun-tKB.to*,. n.
f to T. B. ■Uekakrar. TbemnmlU. Ok, fu
Portable Mill* $80
and upward*, to mska bast qual
ity of Table Meal. Millstones
and Ite Loach WaterWheels.
HUniilrat aud Cheapast in tha
market, Hrnd fur finely Illus
trated circulars and sea what tha
SoulbU doing.
A. A. DeLOACH * HKO.
Manufacturers, Atlanta,
wly
OPIUMS^
Salwlr—I/. ! «*
ratra. 1 *.' W H k
Opium and Morphine
Opium ami morphine hsLit cured in t 1
tteoks. No care, do p*y. The cure is Ml.
Uhl pomtive. No fsilnre ia t singht cut
where patient, her. been trmted by uk
Address Dr, DROWN, or Dr. PEA Its, su
perintendent, Bbiyrns, Os. spCwtt
mar'l?.Mtbw3ni
Georgia Chill Remedy
ChUla and favars bars for years affacted thou
sand*, and will contlnna to do so until tha merits ef
Hall’s Georgia Chill Remedy become known. This
la no patent humbug nostrum, but the result of tbe
axpariancs of a quarter of a century in compound
ing end manufacture drag in our Southern cli
mate. I ha vs cured myself and thousands of oth
ers of chronic chills efts ithey had for a long time
resisted tha efforts of abla physicians and quinine
had caasad to kavs any effect. One bottle in all
cases of leas than six months standing will effect a
permanent cure. In th-t time a sufferer would
■pa ml double the amount for quinine and yet not be
cured. I append a few certificates ahowing what it
has accomplished—thousands could be obtained It
desired.
Macon. Ga., October f, IMS.—Tbe beet cbm non
dy I ever saw. Ciua. H. Fee email
Macon. Oa.. October 15, 18H4.-I consider Halta
Georgia Chill Kamedy the beet chill remedy I ever
■aw. c. L. O'GoaMA*.
of the firm of J. W. Rloeh Co.
Mr. Oeorge H. Plant, of Houaton county. Go., say*
he bee never known It to fail.
Mr. Henry B..reagin. another prominentciffiam
of the same county, *r donee it above every othat
preparation is tho world.
LAMAR, RANKIN k LAMAR,
■old by all druggists. Macon, Go.
angylsmUtwIy
REYNOLDS’ IRON WORKS
Iron un«I Brass Fmindrlcit and
Machine Shops.
Kettles, Masai
I bwildingaeCaR
kinds, machinery of all kinds. Grist Milto. Re
pairing stt—n engines and machinery a specialty.
Iron and b» castings of every description, he
fact any aa • everything that ia made or kept ia find
dess iron sorks.
Tho proprietor has bed aa experience of over
forty years in the Iron buaineee.
•Twt guarantee to eellyon Cane MUM cheaper
ban anybody, and that they will give perfect mite
n ~ ,/• MTHOIJlt. rrvprertra.
Cor. ruth ud Us. thorn. Mmh Karoo, (k
Dr../. if, Buchan <£• Son
UmUAOIOMU.
rnuuudckmle .
rotate soa chnmie 4*mm . kkcUIUx.
dm.Uofr.itltcsta.of CM. Will ,Uit adjotata.
MtatniU. <’ M K _ V.