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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY. DECEMBER 4,1888 -TWELVE PAGES
THE HAY IN ATLANTA
Losses of Hancock Barracks
Contractors.
EXPLANATION OF CAPTAIN JACOBS.
How Thanksgiving Was Observed in At.
lanta—Mr. John H. Inman nnd Party
in the City—An Knglneer's
mishap at Dalton.
KR*r, 1
Stbeet, >
V. 29, 1888.)
Macon Telegraph Bureau,
No. 3X Whitehall Stbeet,
Atlanta, Ga., Not. 29,18)
Gen.Cliaa. J. Sawtell of the United
States Army, who has been in Atlanta for
several days inspecting the new barracks,
left for Waahirgton, D. C., this afternoon.
Gen. Sawtell says that the barracks are as
fine as he could wish for them to be and is
much pleased with the work that has been
done by Capt. Jacobs, who has been super
intending i he construction of the build
ings and the general work of preparing the
parade and drill grounds within the en
closure. Some of the contractors are com
plaining that they have lost money on
their contracts by reason of their having
been compelled to go over some of their
work the second time before Capt. Jacobs
would audit their accounts,
TAKING T1IK CENSUS.
How the Government Will Froflt In 1800 by
the Mir takes of 1880.
From the Chicago News.
A republican will take the census ot
1890, and republicans will agree before
hand that it will he taken conscientiously
and intelligently. They refer with a good
deal of sarcasm and bitterness to the man
ner in which the last census was taken and
to the peculiar methods employed bv Mr.
Walker, who is not likely to be selected
again to perform the duty. Had Mr.
Cleveland been re-elected, in all probabil
ity Mr. Carroll D. Wright would have
been selected as census commissioner.
Who the coming man will be under the
republican administration will not be de
veloped for a year or more, but the posi
tion is of such importance and universal
concern that great public interests at
taches to the selection.
A gentleman familiar with the affairs of
the census office tells of the difficulties sur
rounding its management and the uncer
tainty of the time necessary to'do the work
and the vast expense attending it when it
is made comprehensive. “If I were selected
to do the work,” said he, “I would not
estimate in advance what it would co<t,
but I would say to the authorities to give
me so much to begin on, and I would do
with it the best 1 could, and when the
6um was exhausted I would endeavor to
tell them how much more would be neces
sary. No man can tell what the census
will cost, with the marvelous growth of
the country, the development of varied in
terests, and the increase of population in
$5,
onld audit their accounts. . , ev ry state and territory. It is labor even
•Contractor Everson says he has j ! tha magnitude of which is almost incal-
j,000, Contractor W. F. Bone $28,000, and
Contractor Howard $30,000.
With reference to their compiaits,
Sawtell says that they will ;be
that
Gen. Sawtell says that they
looked into, and that if any injustice has
been done them the government will re
munerate them in a satisfactory manner.
Capt. Jacobs says that all that he has
done in the premises was to make the
contractors carry out the terms of their
contracts fully and do their work
thoroughly. As the representative of the
United States government he felt it as his
dnty to see to it that the work was done
in the best possible manner, and it was
nothing to him whether the.contractors
lost or made money out of their contracts.
Engineer Flynn Injured.
Atlanta, Nov. 27.—Engineer John
Flynn of the Western and Atlantic rail
road met with a frightful and serious ac
cident Monday morning last at Dalton.
While running into the town his engine,
by reason ol a misplaced switch, left the
main line and took to a spur track, rim
ing into several freight cars. When the
locomotive struck the cars, Flynn was
thrown backward and fell between the lo
comotive and the tender. He was ought
'(between the two and badly mashed about
.v waist. His injuries are internal and
~ nainfui. »■> much so that it is
to remove him to At
>,Jtou, where he wiii
lanta. He is still at Dtt.W > lr —
remain until he sufficiently rev-
t In
Rovers from
his injuries to be brought home.
Xlifl FotOiUf Congress.
Atlanta, Nov. 29.—Ex-Gov. Bullock,
vmidant ol the Southern Forestry Gon-
gms, is in receipt ol notices l.rom tne
governors of several states naming dele-
gatis to the convention, to meet here on
Dec. G and 7. Cheapfarcs have been ar
ranged for, and it is expected that the
congress will join the romological Con
vention in Augusta on the 10th. The
American Forestry Congress meets here at
the same lime, and large delegations are
coming from tne North. letters from all
sections evince great interest in ihc meet
ing-
Here the gentleman referred to the man
ner in which the work ot taking the cen
sus of 1880 was awarded. The committee
authorized to appoint the commissioner
had recommendations for both Mr. Walk
er and Kennedy. They were directed to
prepare schemes, which they did, both
practically alike. Mr. Kennedy was
asked what his plan would cost and he
said $8,000,000. Mr. Walker declared
the work could be done under his scheme
for $3,000,000. Of course Mr. Walker
got the job. He used up the $3,000,000 in
a little over six months and had not yet
enumerated the population; and when he
came before the committee for an ad
ditional
ppropriation he said $500,000
more would be enough to complete the
work. He got this $500,000, and in a very
short time that was all gone, and the
work contemplated was not half done.
And so it went from one half year to
another, more money being called for each
time until the appropriation committee
became disgusted and did not want to hear
any more about it. The lime came, in
Net, when the funds were all exhausted
and the census officers were compelled to
evade the law against anticipating appro
priation* by Issuing to employes < « rt iti-
cates of work performed which were hawked
about the streeta of New York and Wash
ington and discounted by brokers far the
accommodation of the unfortunate hold
ers. The number of volumes necessary
-•crfect the census is unknown. It
wilf reman? unknown by the people
for some time, and the cec™ taken in
THE INCH AND THE OUNCE,
.Standarda of
Tlie Derivation of Tli*
Measurement.
From the Boston Herald.
As the Jews had n mystical reverence
for seven, and the ancient Welch and Celts
for three, and the Greeks a perfect philos
ophy constructed out of the harmonies of
all sorts of numbers, so the Romans fell
back upon a 6cale of—or, more properly,
upon a scale with a base of—six. Accord
ingly, as they divided the jioucd into
twelve ounces, so they also divided
the foot, which was the standard of
lineal measure, into twelve sections, and
they called these sections uncia-, too. Bjt
how did they get the fact originally? I
may be asked. Bather, how did they ge
the pound? for that, nnd not the inch i
the unit. There seems to be no precise
information on this point. They would
divide any unit into twelfths, and a
prevailing notion was that at one time the
linear uncia was really the original and
was then transferred as a rame
to a weight. This, though plausi
ble, is hardly the
times, especially in old
when philology was not what it is now, it
was the fashion to derive unciie from the
same word in the Greek, because, after the
revival of letters in Euroj,e, the admira
tion of the Greek became so great that
whenever similar words were found in it
and some other language, it was also said
that the other language borrowed them
from the Griek. This is very far from being
always so, and in the present instance the
very reverse appears to have occurred.
The ounce is literally the twelfth,
and thus we see at once tiie
sense of speaking of an ounce of land and
an inch of milk, just as of an inch of a
man’s will or an inch of interest for
money on a loan. It wag always the
twelfth of a unit; twelfth of an hour;
twelfth of a jugerum, that half acre
which the two oxen plowed in a day;
twelfth of a sextarius, or equivalent to our
pint; twelfth of the entire hereditis;
twelfth of the principal lent on time when
it was money at usury—that is, over 8 per
cent.
It is, accordingly, as much of a mistake
to say that the primary meaning of the
word is a lines', which is to say that
comes straight from the Greek into the
Latin and thence on to us. The riddle is
plain enough when we get to the true
origin of the word—a twelfth. Once, in
deed, it used to be said that the true
origin was that the word meant a thumb
breadth, because its equivalent, pollex, in
linear measure, was oltenuscd in its place.
But this is not the case. Borne of the old
Latins themselves, moreover, thought it
meant literally the unit; but even this
will not hold beside the proper significa
tion cf the twelfth.
The pound weight really never divided
by inches or ounces, it was divided by
twelfths, by halves, by thirds, by fourths
and by sixths. And hero, again we see
MEN WOO MIGHT FIGHT.
Congressmen Who are Said to be Quick on
the Trigger.
From the Washington Star.
There are probably not many dueling
men in Congress. A few have tne reputa
tion of being quick on the trigger, and a
number arc said to curry pistols. Some
of the most courageous and quickest to re
sent an insult never go armed. Several of
the members of the Fiftieth congress are
crack pistol shots and expert swordsmen.
Two cr three of them can defend them
selves with their fists skillfully.
TTie Blackburn-Rucker aflair brings up
the discussion of the courage of public
men. It is a great mistake to imagine that
Southern men are the only ones who are
quick with a “gun.” No 'one would sus-
:ieci the mild nod courteous little member
from New York, who lias just been sent to
Spain, Mr. Perry Belmont, of fceing a ‘fire-
eater.’ Yet it is advisable for a man who
wants to avoid a duel not to attempt to put
ann isult upon him. He is one oftlie best
shots and most expert swordsmen in this
ciu-e. Some- country, and he has proved his courage.
booKs. written belmont and blaine.
It is not publicly known how near he
and Mr. Blaine came to having a meeting
on the field of honor. During the tilt be
tween them when the famous Peruvian in
vestigation was in progress both men got
very angry. Yet the publicity that was
given to the aflair was annoying to both.
Either would have been very glad to have
got out of it honorably without more ado.
Mr. Belmont confided to a friend the
fact that ho would he willing at any time,
if agreeable to Mr. Blaine, to go with him
outside the jurisdiction of the United
States, so as not to violate the laws ol the
country, and settle the matter according
to the law of the Code, with either pistols
or swurds. Somehow or other the affair
was so conducted that no challenge
actually passed between them, but Mr.
Belmont’s disposition was known to Mr.
Blaine, or to his friends.
THE COUNT SOUGHT SAFETY IN FLIGHT.
When Mr. Belmont was in Paris he had
an aflair of honor on hand, but his an
tagonist, a French nobleman, ran away to
avoid the conflict.
At that time nn engagement between
Mr. Belmont and a beautiful young lady,
who, besides being beautiful, was worth
several million dollars, had just been
broken off. A romance of that sort, in
volving people of such wealth and promi
nence on both sides, was, of c- urse, much
talked of in Bocicty and at the clubs.
There was much speculation as to the
reason for the breaking off of the match.
The parties interested were silent. A
certain count, who was a prominent
club man, and withal a great gossip,
undertook to give the reason. Publicly
at the club, in the presence of several
of Mr. Belmont’s friends, but in that gen
tleman’s absence, he proclaimed loudly
that the engagement had been broken off
what 'a convenient base a system of j because of fir. Belmont’s dissipated habits,
twelfths is for division cnnmared with a l This was in face of the well-known fact
ayatem of tenths,"which could only be di- ‘h»‘ Mr. Belmont was not in the least dis.
vided evenly in two ways-by two arid' Bi P“! ed - HI; frlanda reported tho matter
five. For given ounces they use the liter »i ] ^ him, and he at once cent a friend to the
•even-twelfths; for eight ounces they said <*mnt >vith a challenge. The count denied
M two parts—that is, Iwo-tbir.fl J'T I having made the statement, and put the
VfWo'hna never been finished and several wanting a fourth, »l;ich, with us, . ] tiiTual in writing. Mr. Belmont refused to
sections of the editions are Mill in tho‘like ft rounds Km, I way of expressing, l . h . e statement, Bt-UnK that several
liands of the printers. There are sop-, three-quartets; for ten, wanting :• alxib; " - - - w “' u
arate books on population, nativity, age, I for elevm. wanting a twelfth. \ '''
ll IlMlIl'jjfcs.
jms.unudii nervous ana iremoiing sensations, ac. THE FIRST nhsr u/ i i
ENTY MINUTES This U no fiction. Every sufKrSrlixenrneV.ly “•
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TIIE DODGE COUNTY SHOOTING.
A Macon Detective Works Up a Case of
Peculiar Interest.
Detective Wilson has returned from
Eastman, where lie attended the prelimi
nary hearing of Louis E. Knight and Wm.
Carter, charged with the assassination of
James Conley. He worked up the case
successfully, and the men were required on
Wednesday to give bond in the sum of
$1,000 each.
The Eastman Journal gives the follow-
ig particulars of the affair:
will be remembered by the readers of
the Journal that on tho night of Oct. 28,
last, a dastardly attempt was made on the
life of Mr. James Conley, a worthy and in
offensive citizen residing near Cliatmcey,
in (his county, by unknown parties.
- ;ht
About midnight on the above named
date Mr. Conley was awakened by four
eiinsliots. fired in ranid Riirressinn in frnnl
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LITHOGRAPHING.
Observance ot Thanksgiving.
Atlanta, Nov. 20.—Thanksgiving day
In Atlanta waB only pai tially observed.
Hunt, more observed around the tables
than around the stores. Only a few of
them pbserved the day to any extent,
closing llieir places of business in the af
ternoon. All the hotels and boarding
houses put on an extra dish or two at
dinner. The historic turkey occupied one
ol them, while baked “pofeuw and taters”
filled the other,
sex,religion, and occupation; on employes
in mints and Industries, mechanical and ,
agricultural, and tho extent of m&nufact-1
urng; the kinds and number of live
stock in the country; the farming and
dairy piudiicU; ii* Cntpst rtdntW; and
the value of ores,coal, oil, gas, etc.; every
thing that pertains to the manner in
which citizens earn a livelihood; all
about children of school age or younger;
criminal statistics of every available na
ture, and data about the insane, the deaf
mutes and the blind. The next census
will be much more voluminous than the
Danger of High
From the American Architect.
The daily paper
good Goal in lh‘ 1
s Interest theniielr
had heard what
and no denial could l>e credited. He de-'
■minded a hostile meeting. His seconds
went back to the count with this message.
Mr. Belmont's skill, liolh with swords and
with the pi-tol was well known in I’acis,
nty-aight-stdrv l>ul d- I and tiie conn h-d no desire to test it. He
ini; ’.vhi. h i! i~ pp-j" - ■! in, re t in Minne
apolis. We do not know whether the
scheme is a serious one, hut, if so, we are
decidedly inclined to agree with the per
sons who believe that sucli inordinately
lofty Structures are not likely to prove
profitable to their owners. There is no
doubt that, with rare and skill,
sent a message 1
guage while i mkr the influence of wine
the evening before, and that lie was very
sorry for it. To this message ihe second
added the following I ,
“If this is not satisfactory you will have
to telegraph farther communications. Tho
count has gone to England.”
gunshots, fired in rapid succession in front
of his uoor. Buckshot came crashing
through the door, scattering splinters in
every direction, and riddling the bedstead
and clothing upon which Mr. and Mrs.
Conley were sleeping. None of the leaden
missiles, however, took effect in their
bodies, though Mrs. Conley was Blightly
wounded on the head by a flying splinter.
They had a narrow, miraculous esciyie
from death. There was then no clue or
conjecture as to who the wouid-be assas
sins were,and for a time matters rested
easy, and everything went on as though
nothing of the kind had occnrred. But
Mr. Conley and his friends were not idle.
Tiicy requested Detective Shackelford
of Macon, to take hold of the case and
work out the mystery. Shackelford
sent Detective Ed Wilson down to the
neighborhood to see what he could
discover. Wilson learned that two white
men, Louis E. Knight and William Car
ter, had been seen with guns on the night
in question, and Merchant McKnight had
given Louis E. Knight certain kind of
wads, and wads similar to those were
found near Conley’s house, where the guns
were fired. It was also learned that Con
ley was a witness in a case against John
Pierson, a large land owner, and Louis
Knight was the son-in-law of Pierson. It
was desired that Conley be killed so he
could not veaiify against Pierson. De
tective Wilson soon became satisfied that
Knight and Carter were the would-be as-
saiwins, and he had them arrested and
both were bound over in the sum of $1,000
each, Pierson standing the bond.
Sheriff Rawlims went down to Chauncoy
and made the bonds, and a preliminary
hearing cf the esze rill be bed in East
man to-morrow (Wednesday), when fur
ther developments, it is said, will be made
public.
Blank Books that Open Flats
Specialty.
FINE BINDING
In all Styles for Public and Private Li-
hraries. Turkey Morocco, Crushtd
Seal, or Levant, Russia and
other Qualities.
MUSIC AND MAGAZINES
In Marble, Plain or Gilt Edge*.
MORNING NEWS
JTINM
A CAUSE FOR ALARM.
% . —— i„man In Atlanta*
Atlanta, Nov. 20,—Preeideni John H.
Inman and the dlrtClOf* ol the Richmond
and West Point Terminal party will sjiend
tomorrow in Atlanta. During the morn
ing they will bo driven about the city, and
tomorrow night a leception will be ten
dered them in the parlors of the Kirnb ill.
The party will leave the following day
for New York. __
iuucii uiuio TiH -I - lofty office building or apjrtineul house
in course of completion, and the; may be w conrirucled a» lobe ,-afe agaluit} The count’s action was made public at
oner who undertakes its compiia- ordinary sources of danger, hut it 1. also . tli« club, and that ended tho aflair. Mr.
lie entitled to the prayers of the! certain that very few bnildinp of the kind; Belmont may be depended upon to main-
1 ' • 1 — — — 1 — 1 all the ' tain the American dignity at the Spanish
.•* that I capital, and will do credit to the Yankee
now have, wiltiin a few years j reputation for pluck, if necessary. But he
after their construction, show signs i is not a braggart, and lias not a disposition
of movements which must inevitably lead j to quarrel.
total tain. J senator blaib Mtoirr eight.
sgovellst. I "‘LiTT'A.—C : -aft tw, * l,n 5> | A few months ago Senator BUi*. who
f . . in tOTthncf. whlch lhc oWr X ant c ?° r( '" hl - v " t ’ ct ‘‘' comes from the staid old state of New
V ViSUriut JKmotle. tn Scrtbm. j ajpfvaartO com* from oaegeal eettUment j Hampshire, euppo ed still to preierve in
ordeal and not remain in ofhee until the twelve and JlfUiefi-slory strli
appointment of his eucceaaor.
THACKKK « Y AND WALLACE.
■ . | to speedy deterioration, if not
Some Interesting Point. About thf tlrMt' Jn lb , „
HypuolUm at nerltn.
From Ibe Ivondou D*lljr Nrw».
At a late meeting of the Berlin Medical
Nocietv, prof. Virchow introduced a French
physician, Dr. l'eldmann, who made some
experiments in hypnotism. A young man
named Garrick oilered himself as a me
dium. After a few seconds of the usual
manipulations the medium fell into a deep
magnetic sleep. He became perfectly
apathetic and motionless. In the state of
“suggestion” Dr. beldmann showed the
influence of various medicaments on the
medium, who took quinine for sugar,
smacking his lips with enjoyment, auff he
believed ammonia to be perfume, and
smelt at it for some time. Immediately
afterward, following the will of the doctor,
he showed the usual s’gns of abhorrence
of those bitter and caustic substances.
With the same success he ate a lemon
for an apple. A piece of camphor
held on bis forehead had a singular effect.
The medium bent his body far backward,
and had to be held on hia chair. A mag
net caused a dreamy state, during which
the medium related bis impressions as to
events in the street, in which he believed
himself to be. Then the medium obeyed
the will ol the doctor in various ways,
shoveling snow, skating, falling, and rising
again with one jump at the doctor’s sug
gestion, and finally took a pocketbook by
force out of Prof. Virehow’e pocket*. He
was then ordered by Dr. Feldmann to re
seat himself, and soon woke out of the
hypnotic sleep, remembering nothing of
what had happened. Two voung physi
cians then spoke, declaring that such ex
periment* were without scientific basis.
They believed the “suggestion” to be prob
ably genuine, but as to the other experi
ments, especially the effect of medicine*
and the magnet, they thought they needed
careful examination.
Thackeray lived with a very great and j different portions of the walK, and in j tact a j arg ’ e measure of strict puritanical
near friend o! mine and my father’s, and the aubstance of the wall. ibemseWes, and prlnclpU ^ CMJle d considerable talk by a
they bad rooms together in Houston street, auch unequal settlements would ue ln ' • public statement to the ellect that he
1 had a house next door hut one to them creased by carrying the masonry to a ^ ou jj f,M )t a duel if challenged. He said
ami this is how I became so intimate with ! Rreater bight, unfesath* u«ual system ot at that lhat he believed tlm late war
Thackeray. The name of this gentleman budding was modified by abandoning j m j R j lt j,»ve been averted if Northern men
was William Duer Robinson, a member of close-jointed fa ing* to rubble or rough , , 18 j enle rtait.cd other notions on dueling,
an old and well-known family, a family brick walls, and constructing all exterior JIe reasoned ,hat the notion that had got
whose property waa confiscated in revolu- and division walla of block, -tone-, ol | abroad , n , he 8outb ,hal Northern men
lionnrv times bec^Uie they stuck to the nearly the name dimension*. 1 h t 18 * lacked valor had rnuoh iitlluence.
king. Thackeray I auppow took a fancy to would add considerably to
mefatanyrate it was underatood every j cost of the building, and Increase
nigiit when I came home from acting that amount which must be charged for ren
A few
duels beiore the war, he thought, might
. ; have corrected this opinion.
-Is 111 1 -
the
Sn saw a light in a certain window I • it- Moreover, even if properly ami safely
was to go in, and if not it was a sign ! constructed, auch a building would have
lL.1 * <1inn*r nr inADf objections from which more modest
they had gone out to dinner or '»»».»objections, from which more
to bed When I did find them structures are exempt. Ue ought never
in we never parted until half-past to forget that we live m a country where
.1,.— mornintr. Then was : earthquakes are tolerably frequent. I roba-
two or three in the morninR. inen was. » f ,,
the lime to see Thackeray at his best, be- bly each one of onr readers have felt one
cause then he was like a hoy; he did not or more ahocka strong enough, ,^i haps to
attempt to be the genio. of the party; he shake bricks oflla chimney top, an I the
would let Robinson or me do the enter- effect M such shocks at the top of a build-
taining while he would be the audience. It *»g 300 feet high would be so v igorou* a*
did not matter how ridiculous or impos-. to frighten the tenanU of the upper stories
sible might be the things 1 said, he if nothing worse. More than fifty years
would laugh till the tears ran down ago there was an epidemical lofiv builil-
hia face; auch an unsophisticated, gentle-. ings in New York, and, although elevator*
iglit
hearted creature lhat he was. He gave a were then unknown, aix, seven or
large dinner, at which I mnember were stone* were not considered too mu
Mr? Denning Duer. my father, George place over the valuable lots m the lower
William Curtis. W. Robinson, myself and part of the city. Between 1830 and 1840,
ntbers, eighteen in all. It was the most | feme earthquake shocks were felt in New
delightful evening that could possibly be YtMS^aiw8»e OWMCT of tfce »^cr 1 -
YOUR EARS
Ought to have attention perhaps. If so,
B. B. B. will do you good, removing all in
organic matter, the direct cause of deaf
ness. It will also aid your iliges ion. Wit
ness the following testimonies:
COULD HEAR A TICK CRAWL.
What Occnrreilln the Telegraph Uallillng
Last Night.
Some of the compositors on the Tklk-
08*911 have been in tho habit of exercis
ing their limbs upon a ladder on tbe third
floor of the building. Thls ladder is in
the long hallway, and rests in the man
hole in the ceiling and opens into the attic.
Last night while the compositors were
in the composition room waiting for the
word to ga to work, one of them went out
in the dark hallway to exercise himself.
While so engaged ne felt the ladder slip
ping away, and out of the hole. He was
afraid to run down the ladder, for fear it
would fall with him, and he lust had time
to grasp the edge of the hole when the
ladder fell. It fell flat upon the
floor, with a report that was heard
u block away. The printer! heard it, and
instantly it flashed upon them that one of
the muskets in the Cadets’ armory on the
floor bell)* had been discharged, and every
man rushi d out. The reporter* in another
room ran out, and, believing like the
printers that a tragedy of some kind had
occurred on ihe floor below, ran down tiie
stairs two steps at a time to find the Cadets
seated in tiicir cosy psrlors chatting about
Columbus and Augusts, and tho proposed
trip to Indianapolis just as though the
ladder had not lalleu down.
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policeman, had congregated about the
lower stairway, and you could hear the in
quiry, “who's shot, etc. The reporters
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Mr. C. E. Hal) wrote from Shelby, Ala.,
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February 9, 1887: “I could not hear it
thunder. I heard of B. II. B.. used two
bottles, and now can hear a tick crawl in
the leaves.
“I GAVE UP TO DIE.”
Who lie Was.
VroM the Philadelphia Record.
Caller: To decide a bet, Mr. Dana, will
you please tell me whether the expression,
'“The house has been building for several
months” is correct or not?
Charles A. Dana: It is good English.
Are you a school teacher?
“No, sir; I am tbe man who baa been
building the house lhat baa been building,
but the building ha* ceased temporarily to
allow the inside work to proceed. Ti e
house is painting, plumbing, plaaleriog,
kslv.mining and piasteriug today. Much
obliged.
delightful evening
imagined. Thackeray, two nights before,
had been to see my lather play “bhylock,”
and he said: “Wallack, that is the first
“Sbylock” who ever gave me the idea of
what an ill-used man be was. On that
evening I remember my father telling*
storv, which many au old actor here will
recollect. It was the tale of a shipwreck,
as told by a dergymtn who waa on board,
ar.d the same scene* as described after
ward by an old sailor, the captain of the
maintop. Thackeray’* gentle and gener
ous nature waa so aroused by it that the
tears ran down hi* face. Certainly, one of
the finest thing* my father did waa the
tolling of that story. George Curtis and I
sang t duet* I remember, “Drink to Me
Only with Thine Eyes,” and we were asked
to repeat it three or lour timet. Thin all
took place abont the year 1866,
Don't Yoa Know
tbit you cannot afP.nl to neglect that ca<
ings made haste to cut off the uj
stories and reduce them to more suitable
proportions. What would he the effect of
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and the fall of a person lrom an upper
window, or any one of a dozen probable
accidents, would depopulate all the struc
tures over a certain bight in Minneapolis,
or in other towns that might follow its
example.
tarrh ? Don’t you know that it may lead to
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yon know that it can be easily cured ? Don t
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that Dr. 8ag*'* Catarrh Remedy is a certain
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gists.
What the Election Co**.
From the fit. tools Republic.
Mr. Chauncey M. Depew is credited with
Baying that the recent canvas involved
low of $o00,000,000 to the commercial in
terest* of the country. That e«tin;ate is
entirely too low. The recent canvas, re
salting as it did in republican victory, wiu
coat the country at lea»«i $-.000,000,000
during the next four year*. The monopo
lies and trusts bought the home market,
and it waa only an incident of their cam
paign that Harmon wan elected Preri-
dent. They mav be relied upon to tax the
home market all it will bear, and they
hare long been taking out of it $500,-
000,000 a year at the expense of consumers.
Knoxville, Tenn., July 2, 1887.
I have had catarrh of the head tor six
years. I went to a noted doctor and he
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