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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY DECEMBER 1!. 1888 -TWELVE PACKS.
quick combustion.
The Question of tlie Disposi
tion of tlie Dead.
the crematory vs. the crave-
The Sul'J*- ct Discuss..! by <1 Number of
Well-Known Lady Writers, a Major
ity of Them Arguclog la
Favor of Cremation.
f penial Corrcapomienee.
\bw York, Dec. 6.—The disposition of
the dtad is a subject oyer which there has
been much discussion since the dawn of
the sanitary age, and it is one about which
there are held widely divergent views. An
English writer' (Sir Spencer Wells) re
cently asserted in an article favoring cre
mation that “thinking people were long
ago disgusted with the abuses of tho pres
ent objectionable system of burials, and
that the more ignorant part of the middle
amt lower classes would have to be edu
cated up to a rejection of customs endeared
to them by usage.
It is said that women, more universally
than mcD, oppose cremation, but this is
not true of tho educated class, at least.
From a correspondence on tho subject,
which included letters from nearly a hun
dred liicrary women, only two or three
rejected it, while the great majority urged
its adoption on religious, scientific and
economic grounds.
Below.will be found a few of the lending
opinions from women who are certainly
representatives of the thinking classes:
‘ Tne question of cremation is purely
one oi sentiment—religion does not enter
into it at all, and in a new, broad country
like ours, Jhe sanitary aspect of the case
does not press heavily upon the people.
We have room as yet for the dead as well
as the living.
Ths choice then lies between the grave
and the um, solely on the ground of which
robe death—tlie most of his terrors, and for
a long time, people will choose tho grave.
They would rather think of their dear
ones at rest under the green grass than re
duced to a mass of white ashes. It is in
rain to tell them that a process of disinte
gration goes on in ihe grave more terrible
than any Hue can cauBe. They do not see
it, they will not realize it.
Cremation is just as reverent as burial.
It can be made just as much of a religious
ceremony, it is cleaner, healthier and
cheaper, but for a long time the heart of
the people will cling to “tho green grass
of its sires and refuse to adopt it."
Bcssir Chandler.
“I have no views at all, yet burial
stems lo me the most natural method, and
without graveyards we should miss much,
1 should, as least—of poetic and religious
z.iocialion with tho departure of friends
into the unfeen.” T.rrv l.tltmu,
“Fifteen years ago I wrole directions to
have my own body cremated at last, and
the only horror death holds for me is that
the wish may by any chance be unfulfilled,
llow can we leave our friendless dead lo
the slow change and deformity of the
avi-? ’ Shirley Dark.
i believe in cremation, for four reasons:
i.First, it insi ra* ope^egaiait .orematftre
: hunt, f. fSecOUffpf lSTnore fir nftlirul foi
the living. Third, it is more agreeable to
pontemplate. Fourth, it seems to finish
> tho business of living in f. pioro com
plete and satisfucUry ulknner."
Oliver Thorne Miller.
"To me n is » I’ivusnui iuougnt that the
beloved object can be reduced to ashes
without passing through all the loath
some stages of putnfastion. The un
avoidable phenomenon that wc call death
—even |w.seiili> to u. a le.-s repul-ive sa-
pect when we reflect that the cherished
liorm need not become hideous, but can
Ite at once reduced to clean white ashes
Ithat wc may keep if we care for mortal
Iremains.
I Apart from this, the gcod of the many
I is what We must always consider, and tlie
[laifs of hygiene certainly call for all meao-
rores that may keep pure tho atmosphere
of this little planet. That there is nothing
new under the Bun most people are willing
1.. i- I.-lit, end I lie dis(,(i-:il in tie- dead I v
means of cremation is ns old as the hills.
| The ancient Egyptians, having no iuel to
[ burn their dead, made a point of embnlin-
I ing, and ofterward burying them above
high watcr.imark of the inundation. In
n. 1 • m liim-s the dwellers on the hank* >.f
the Nile inter their dead around the cities;
the result is cholera and oilier pestilences
All the wisest nations of antiquity were
tetuslomed lo burn tlie corpses, except
whtn unable to obtain fuel, then they
mumified them. Even in Central America
the ‘extinguished,’ as they called the de
parted, were given to the w arm embrace of
the purifying Ilames.
There is not the leist doubt that if when
the feter brokeout in Jacksonville crema
tion had been insisted on and adopted in
every case the disease would have soon
died out. As it is, the same sickness will
most likely reappear in tho spring.
“Alice Le Plosoeon.”
‘‘While it may be wise ns a sanitary
pesMire, I canrot as yet he willing to see
it adopted with regard to those who are
dear tome. Sabah K. Bolton.”
“Cremation as a method of dispoeing of
the untenanted human form has never
been repugnant to my thoughts. It is
•imply a more rapid method of combus-
Iiod, and combusiou is but one kind of de-
oompcthioii, and the least offensive
kina. In the interests of the liviDg cre
mation Iisb always seemed 10 be the most
unobjectionable way in which lo dispose
•f that which is dead. It is doubtless true
“■•t it the body was laid in tlie earth with
1,0 interposing barrier of indiiitructable
co ®n or casket between the kindly mould
and the dauntless form, it would be re
vived hack into its elements in a vastly
more rapid manner than it is now, and in
* more natural and harmless manner too.”
_ Frances E. Wii.liabd.
‘While I coufe-s to the prejudices of
•••Jf thought in favor of the old method
interment there .can be no doubt that
the sanitary considerations in favor of cre
mation are of overwhelming importance.”
Lillie Deverkacx Blake.
“1 have a great aversion lo this strange
tdea of cremation, a ml trust no friend of
®tne will dealrw it—“dust thou art and to
•nit ihon shall return,” but I prefer to go
■y the natural way and i ><t by lire. Yet I
*tn not pr. par i! to give sny good reason
j-’if. aversion save my own personal
“•■like of so disposing of the bodies of our
at from the standpoint of the dead body,
it seems to me that tlie quick and
complete reaction to a handful of clean
white ashes is every way more pleasant
and desirable than being lowered imn
a dark, damp bole, and left to the ‘
process of slow corruption, tlie chances |
of i cing dug up as a “Mibj ct,” by coarse ,
and irrererrant medical students, or later,
the possibility of being shoveled out and
cast aside by the spade of the workman i
who is excavating for a new street, build- i
ing or railroad bed. All thr-o things are I
continually happening to the buried dead; I
and all are surely much more repulsive J
than the idea of being “purified by fire,” ;
and transmitted at once to a little odorless
dust, which nobody can desc-rato or
identify. I see nothing but cremation
which comes effectually and wholesomely
to supersede tho pr* sent expensive and mis
chievous system of burying the dead near
tho homes of the living;expensive because
it occupies much of the most valuable
space on the habitable globe, and mis
chievous because it brings suffering, dieeaso
and premature death to a far greater num-
her of persons every year, than lias ever,as
I believe, been suspected ”
Elizabeth Akers.
“Justice to tlie living will ultimately
force the majority of people to the conclu
sions of tho miuority on the subject of
cremation. Personally I favor cremation
tor the same reason that t oppose banal-
on the hygienic and moral grounds. I
think the costly show places we call grave
yards—are disgraceful evidences of our low
civilization. The colonization of rorpses
near our large cities should bo forbidden,
first for sanitary reasons, and second that
tho vulgar aud ostentatious display made
in them may bestopped. Cremation would
remove rnay evils associated with our pres
ent burial customs, one in particular of
which Americans seem to enjoy the mo
nopoly. I refer to the traveling of corpses
about the country and over flip seas—to
the discomfort and injury of the living.
Pespect for my fellow-being! leads me
to desire that my lifeless body shall not
he permitted to contaminate the living,
and self-respect makes mo wish that my
kindred and friends may ass ciate the use-
lets flesh which I must leave to their care
to obliterate with the purifying element of
fire.” Laura C. Hollow at.
“I am getting where I must contemplate
tho possibility of worms eating ray body,
and I find myself very hoBtile to the idea.
I believe in cremation and desire it for
myself. I believe in it for all reasons.
The arguments in its favor must be the
same at alt times as its advocates in this
oountry have put forth from tho begin
ning, viz., from a sanitary consideration.
A thinking person 1ms only to glanre at
the already existing condition of things in
burial places near Best' n—where the Iri«h
are buried in “pi a toons” both horizontally
and perpendicularly, and covering such an
area, in one place at least, as to make one
turo with sickening contempt from the
whole scene, and vow “by the Eternal" to
do all in their power to bring about cr».
matian as a preventitivo of pestilences. It
is quite time the ancient method •{ dis
posing of the dead by cremation was re
vived. The early fistikn of inis country
were blessed with a “virgin soil.” in this
respect as well ns all othe-a. The North
American Indiana to an almost universal
extent, burned not only their dead, bnt
ev-rytiiing belonging to them. Borneo!
th* trilan in the Noithwest did this alto
gether and continue now to do so.thinking
i; sacred and landing obligation."
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‘ When we bring an unbiased judgment,
free from the shackles which the custom
of centuries has placed upon it, to the
Candid consideration of this subject) Wf
can but a 'mlt that cremation is not only
» safeguard for tho living, “but it is a
LOOKOUT TO TYUEE.Lt,;:'!'
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News Notes from Every Sec
tion of Georgia.
INFANTICIDE IN MONROE COUNTY.
llurglr,T*a Kxperlenrn wlltl Anierlr
Whisky—Hoodlum Work In Floyd
County — 1‘rlmUIve Huptlsta
nud Farmers' Alliance,
Horse thieves are at work in Habersham
toanty.
The sewerage question if being agitated
in Brunswick.
Mr. Wi
“lug 1,
h« fu
been r
Last
negri -
step on
he pi lot the intrudai
inflow and made his
r 'K i firing, but fal
” Returning to his room,
examination that he had
'll to j
ol;
nk
for a military fair.
Books for subscriptions to the new b
of Darien will be opened in a few days
Mr. McIntosh, the mayor-elect of Al
bany^ proposes to shake tilings during Ins
administration.
It is proposed to erect a Seaman's Bethel
for the Scandinavian sailors who enter the
port of Brunswick.
During the month of November 4,000,-
000 feet of lumber were measured at the
piolic boom io Darien.
Capt. A. G. West, the iron king of Polk
•ounty, is said to be suffering from soften
ing of the brain.
Last Monday W. O’Brien of Brunswick
was cut by A. V. N. Ellis. The cause of
the difficulty is unknown.
The Clay county farmers have under
advisement a proposition to wrap the next
cotton crop in 250 pound packages.
W. H. lasseter was arrested in Thom-
asrillo Tuesday evening. He is wanted in
Decatur oounty for misdemeanor.
Uorileie will “sport" a paper after Dec.
14. Messrs. Burton and Tison will en
gineer the venture under the name of the
“tordelittn."
John Anglin was “pulled” by Policeman
Smith of Americus last Monday. He is
wanted in Schley county for attempted
murder.
The citizens of Dahlonega have peti
tioned the Postoffice Department to change
the mail line from Gainesville, via the
Bridges on the Wauhoo route.
It is said that oDe oi the richest veins ol
iron ore ever discovered in the United
States runs directly througli Oglelhrope
oounty.
It would seem that the crime of infanti
cide is of frequent occurrence in Monroe
county, two cases having developed with
in the last week.
It is said that Taliaferro gave more
votes to the n»gro candidate in the list
election than any other county in that
congressional district.
Mr. T. K. Boswell of Taliaferro is
iruuhlnil hv inr-nn*1 i srips His bsrtl W2S
fired last week. Luckily, he discovered
the blaze in time to extinguish it.
The hoodlums of Floyd county are now
evidencing their disapproval of respecta-
bility by Mua“hing windows with bricks.
Mr. Pass of Fiatwoods was tlie last victim.
J, R. Biggs, of Isixington. has a mons
trosity in the shape of a three-legged
Chicken. "TfietiifrcT limb is between tlie
two customary ones, but stands out be-
hiud.
The last grand jury of Pulaski county
ryfomuieuded the appropriation of money,
from the county funds to erect in each
militia district a court house for holding
kinder, more tender dispo’ai ol the dead," i ,ii,trict cr malice court.
RomHaMWK* ThOBM. I Hr.'^Vcr of Americus left for Atlanta
and Danville, Va., a few days since font
urdav night Will Jf»ekson, a
of A in ricuf, took an initial
road to tlie penitentiary. He
erne red Air. Glovers general grocery more
with burglarious intent. .Among other
things, Mr. Glover lias in stock several
barrels of what is known in Americus os
“Glover’s chain lightning.” Will turned
his attention to getting on the outside of
this article, which promptly “floored”
him, and when Mr. Glover entered his
store Sunday morning the boy was sleep
ing in drunken stupor. An officer was
summoned, aud Will now languislie
J jalj-
Tuesday was pale day at Albady, and
The lenmlle Cornet Hand has bet a unusually heavy Hales were made,
reorganized. The Keaton place, seven miles be-
Brunswick is making great preparations low the city, containing 750 acres,
was hid ofl* for $1,000. The Locket plant
ation, lying on either side of' the Blakely
CHRIST’S CRUSADERS.
The Nortli Georgia Confer
ence at Milledgeyille,
REPORTS SHOW MARKED PROGRESS,
“It is mv impression Mint cremation of
the dead would be much better than burial,
in the Intersil ol tlio survivors, bnt I have
not looked into tho subject sufficiently to
have a claim to any opinion.”
Lou?e Chandler Moulton.
Geo* Harrison’* Presents,
1 hive letters by the hundred, and 1 turn them
o'er to 'IsIro, . « . .
Kxcept those from the autograph fiends w ho ask
me to oblige:
1 have callers by the hundred who come to take
my hand,
And{sorae of them, rub ro»a, an office to da-
mand;
I get suggestion* by the ton from people 1 don’t
know;
I've a cabinet to fashion, and I find the process
slow;
But there Is ono thing above all that continually
worries me.
And that's that I have got to keep a big menag
erie.
I praise tho kindness ol my friends, but still my
heart regrets » . ^ ,
That they insist on sending me so many of their
The cinnamon bear and catamount are fighting
all the day.
And the bull dog and tho griaxly are somewhat
rough at play;
The white mice mako theJr nestletsin Sunday
hatorahoe, , , ,
And the back yard is the play-ground of tb#
frisky caribou;
The moccasin snake's a gifted chap and has a
pretty shape. .
But mv household Is so crowded that 1 vrlfb he
would escape.
Abutter-bump, a great horned owl, two buz
zards and a loon.
A b'g and a little 'porsum, a beaver and a soon.
A very bald-headed eagle, an athletic Angora
cat,
A family of ground hogs, and an educated rat,
A mink, a gosling, a mack and tan, a lame
prairie dog, . ....
A monkey that docs Juggling tricks, a pig that
drinks eegnog.
A mountain sheep, two guinea hens, a bnrro
and a grouse,
Such arc some of tho pleasant gifts that decorate
my home.
With back and tnew and scream and screech
| and squawk and roar and bray.
They keep the house as lively as a circus night
and day;
And folks that come to see mo In a panic torn
and Ileo
When they hear tho mighty rumpus In my
menagerie.
But still from St. Croix river clear out lo the
Golden Gato ,
lien are packing curious animals and birds in
box ana crato.
The very next express that comes may chauee
to bring tome . -
An elephant or rhinoceros or unicorn, C.
O. D.
Now, I want here and now to thank my friends
of every rare,
And decline further contributions on account
of lack, of space, # , ....
I haven't got the laud to found a natural his-
And I°don’Vcaie to make my boost another
Noah's ark.
I do not pine for other pets, for furred or
feathered guests. .. A
Please keep yau» birds and beasts at home and
let me take a rest.
—From the New York Sun
Heecham’s Pills cure bilious and nervous
ills
BOBSPORDU ACID PM08PHATK
ImpntM Renewed Strength
AnJ vigor where there has been exhaustion.
Buckleu** Arnica Salve.
The best salve In the world fo
t rheum, feve
friends.
Mat*. JIj'may Ward Beecher.
“While the argumenia in favor of cre-| rh.’.ppcl La- cKrhllblaiDi
•“■lion are many anil excellent. I see '
JMbiuj* against it hut tradition, prejudice
rather txlfioia scnUnnnlaiity. Looked
bru
mi*J piHltlvcty cores rite*, or no pay t £ e e0uui ]
purpose of inspecting the cotton factories
of tuose places, preparatory to inaugurat
ing such an enterprise in Americus.
The government dredgo Hercules
readied Brunswick. It will be used in
dredging tho channel and Jekyl creek.
The eontractors nay the work will be com
pleted in about four months.
Col. W. L Peek of C»njers raised this
year 476 gallons of fine syrup on one acre,
besides saving a quantity of seed. He
valued the syrup at tlie fodder at
$15. Tho total cost of makiog this fine
yield was but $30.
Judge A. I. Monroe of Calhoun county
jlaiins to hnve discovered a substitute) for
coffee. His decoction is prepared as fob
lows: Into a cup of warm water mix a
leanspoonful each of sugar-cane syrup and
earn.
Tho several indictments found by liie
lale grand jury ol 1‘utaski county against
several negroes for illegal voting were
transferred to the county court and all of
them were on demurrer quashed by tho
county judge this week.
Mr. Ed Stokes of Americus, being very-
tired, sat down on the Central railroad
track to rest and fell asleep. When la-
awoke from his slumber he found himself
inthedi'ch with a broken rib and Billy
Patterson’s famous queition on his lips.
David Dewey was in Quitman the other
day with a curiosity in tlie way of a lag’s
foot. There.was no split iu the foot, it
being in one piece like that of a horse.
Mr. Deivcy has killed four hogs this
ter, all with feel formed in tlie same
The Bay Creek Hardshell Baptist
Church of Gwinnett county expelled three
of iia members for joining the Farmers'
Alliance. One went back and acknowl
edged that he had been following strange
gods and was restored to fellowship.
Fort Valley has a very submissive
negro. When he violates a town ordinance
anu the marshal arrests him, he will take
the key, unlock the guard house door, go
in ami Slav Ihcro AAmniil.'inn
The town al&o boaata of a woman shoe
maker who docs good work.
Last week a negro child about six years
old on tho farm of Mr. L. O. ifolii*, in
Monroe, was eo badly burned that it died
a few hoars afterwards. The child was
handling eoine cotton near a tire, and the
cotton becoming ignited communicated
the flame to the clothing of the child, and
owing to the absence of aid to suppress the
§re. the T»;ull was as above stated.
The largest and most fruitful gourd vine
yet on record io rej>orted ;ia having been
grown this year by Mr. Frank Burton on
{Sheriff Ed. Maxwell’s place, a few miles
from Oglethorpe. From it has been gath
ered one hundred and thirty-nix water
gourds with handles averaging eighteen
inches, aud besides these were fifteen or
twenty gourds broken before they were
ripe.
Last Monday night Mr. Henry Wilder
of Monroe county was aroused from de* p
by a noLe in his room. Suspecting that
extu si.ui, four miles w'est of Albany,
known as the old Locket convict camp,
sold for $10,000. This place contained
4.10(J acres of splendid land. The L. T.
Field4 plantation, together with all the
rnachin ry aud implements of a well
equipped farm, consisting of 980 acres oi
fertile land, and lying eight miles north
of Alba-v in Lee county, was purchased
by Capt. K. Hobbs of this city for $2,400.
It may seem that good prices were paid iu
these sales for land, but they sold far below
their real value, land being very valuable
in this immediate section.
AHH&KS IN ENGLAND,
Tli* Wonderful Kecuparntion nntl Growth
of the South since the War
Tiie wonderful recuperation of the South
from the effects of the war and the steady
progress of its material development have
elicited the admiration of all who are
acquainted with Southern history for the
past twenty years, 'the Financial Times,
of London, one of the leading financial pa
pers in England, recently paid the follow
ing tribute to the pluck and enterprise of
our people:
“There is nothing more astonishing in
the commercial history of the world than
the growth of wealth and all that pro
duces wealth in the Southern states'diiring
the last eight years. In 1880. the fifteen
years which had intervened since tho col
lapse of the great rebellion, were not suf
ficient to restore prosperity to one of the
most favored and richly endowed countries
on tho face of the globe. Without capital,
with half of her adult male population
wiped but, with her slaves forcibly eman
cipated, and with corrupt “carpet-baggers”
from l ie North usurping her state govern
ments and preying like locusts on her re
source^, the South lay like a huge helpless
wreck, realizing the terrible lines in which
Virgil describes the dead body of Priam,
beginning:
“Jacet ingens littore trunctis." ,
“At last a better feeling be^an to spring
np between the victorious Norlli and her
bumbled and desolate enemy, and to this
most desirable consummation no one con-
tribntvd more powerfully than Gen. Giant,
to whom Gen. Lee surrendered in 18G5.
The “carpet baggers” were driven back to
their own country, and the Southerners,
released from that exhausting institution,
slavery, which made labor disgraceful to
alt except colored men und women, found
j5£ SkMiWUibtJUlHWK.M^ it always
brings to those who engage in it with stout
hearts. The result is that a “New South”
has arisen. No such advance in wealth
has ever been made in any other part of
the American union as that just rocorded
between 1880 and 1888 by Southern news
papers And statisticians, The rehabilita
tion of the ruined 8outh began with rail-'
toad building, which progressed with
amazing rapidity.
“The mileage of Southern railroads has
more than doubled since 1880, and it is
from railroads that manufactures, mines
and agriculture have received a corres
ponding development and impulse. Pre
vious to the war the South had a few small
cotton mills and no iron furnaces. Now
she has 294 of the former, working nearly
2,000,000 spiodles, and producing cotton
goodn of the annual value oi about
JL*9,000,000. As regards blast furnaces now
iu opeiation, Alabama has 23, Virginia 14,
Tennessee 14, Kentucky 7, with others
scattered over the remainder of tlie South
ern sUtes. Last year they produced alto
gether nearly 1,000,000 tons of pig iron, or
about 600 000 tons more than their yield
in 1880. Moreover, tho iron of Alabama
is not only the cheapest, but also tho best
in the world. There are now, in addition,
nearly 12,000 lumbering establishments in
the South, employing about 100,000 hands,
turning out products of the annual value
of $92,000,000, or JC18,500,000. Finally,
agriculture has made an immense advance,
and the value of live stock has increased
to the extent of £40,000,000 in the last
eight years.”
ANOTHKK MY^rKKIOUS TilKFT.
An Bin»nn>ly Large Number of Delegate
Present—liiahop Keener's bklll iu
tlie Chair—Dr. IfAygood Makes
a Speech-Notes.
Millxdoeyjllb, Dec. 6.—The Nortl
Georgia Methodist conference convened in
annual session Wednesday morning, in the
Methodist, church, Bishop John C. Keener
in the chair. The venerablebishop hears hi
weight of seventy years well. Indeed, he
is as vigorons-Iooking as many of tho
younger members of the conference. Tlie
session proceeded immediately to work,
and up to today has transacted a large
amount of business. The presiding bishop
mikes » cipital officer. Quick, thoroughly
poz.tJ i: parliamentary law, as well as a
good junge of human nature, he holds the
meiuliers down strictly io the rules, and yet
it is done ns easily and as can be imagined,
without any friction, unpleasantness or
abruptness.
Bev. J. H. Baxter, tlie well-known sec
retary of the conference, is in his place,
and his energetic voice adds a gread de*
to the expedition of the business.
SOME FA MILIAR CHARACTER?.
Among the familiar characters to Geor
gia Methodism among us may be
named:
Dr. Haygood, Dr. Candler, the brilliant
young president of Emory College; the
uattie-scarred veteran. Dr. Jes*c Soring;
the scholarly Lee of Atlanta; the accom
plished author, Eev. George O. Smith;
tho famous revivalist, J. B. Culpepper,
and the inimitable Simon Peter Biehard-
son of Athens.
The present delegation is considered the
largest ever held here, being composed of
upwards of 350 delegates, lay and clerical.
They are all comfortably entertained by
our people, and seem to appreciate their
hospitality.
RHTOnTS FULL OK CHEER.
The reports so far indicate a magnificent
work during the past year. From every
quarter comes cheering words.
A large rla«s of under graduates were
admitted this morning into lull connection.
The address of the bishop to the class was
a grand plea for ministerial purity and
dignity.
Last night was devoted to the interests
of tho Widows and Orphans Aid Associa-
1100.
DR. nATOOOD RAre THE SCHOOL SYSTEM
Dr. Haygood addressed the meeting as
did also the secretary, Rev. W. D Ander
son. In the conrse of his remarks, Dr.
school system which were greeted with ap
plause, although in the church.
Dr. W. F. Conk delivered a magnifi
cent sermon Wednesday afternoon.
Dr. Qillain of Koine delivered the ser
mon tins afternoon.
The session will probably COR tin 1X0 until
Wednesday next when the appointments
will be read ant.
When She Died He Wns Jnitetl.
Springfield, O., Dee. 6.—Eighteen
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business man aud a member of the council
of this city,‘left his home and business to
avoid arrest for a series of alleged forge
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This premium an exact and faithful copy
of Munk&cty’s great picture,
"Christ Before Pilate,’ 1
which has just been sold for over on*,
hundred thousand dollar.', is a tine etched
engraving, measuring 22x28 inches.
In order to bring the picture within the
reach of thousands who cannot se^ or oyrn
to our readers. The original picture was
{Minted fit* yeflrt"yeai* J»*o 1>y the grefct*
Hungarian Artist. Munkaosy, as the
supreme eil’ort of his life and art in deal
ing in the sinrit of realism with a sacred
subject, ami is one of the most remarkable
and greatest pictures ever painted. Tho
rest for a series of alleged forgeries, snldert is treated with nndimming realism,
ing vv QVTvnu iuvuuaud lioiiiirs, ami j Xhc 8<cue is in the "Judgment Hall,” und
n a fugitive from justice ever since, tlio hour "Early"in tho Morning.” I’iiato
has bee
Early this week he was called home by his
wife, and today while he ho was ministering
io her an officer arrested him. In deference
to his wife’s condition, I.ayburn was held at
his home. Tho officer grimly waited for his
prisoner, who sat with This dying wife in his
arms. When she had breathed htr last he
was transferred to jail.
Wedding Reception at Ituenn Vista.
Buena Vista, Nov. 6.—Tho most pleas
ant society event of the season oecurred
here last evening. It was a reception
given by Mrs. M. M. E. Dunham to her
son, Mr. Tom Dunham, and bride, nee
Miss Walker of Cutlihert. The parlors of
Mrs. Dunham’s residence were thronged
with congratulating friends, nml the repast
prepared by the lady was “fit for the gods.”
and .
required. It l,Vu»r.ni«td to rtve twrh-u»*tL h;
bo«!° l t , or wile^yU- 1 j'.'/jm.r j. sou. ** and tired in the direction of the door. At j ' n county,
ol, which
, by a thief, lie
i:tii in
Trftasurj Department Kobbcil Again—No
Clue to the Thief.
Washington, Dec. C.—Another irregu
larity has been discovered in the Treasury
Department arising out of the mysterious
disappearance of ien sheets of paper, each
containing four notes of the denomination of
$5 and representing $.00 in all. These sheets
were included iu the regular delivery from
the Bureau of engraving ami Printing to the
United States treasurer last Tuesday morn
ing. The packages were counted and reported
to be correct in every particular before leav
Ing the bureau. On reaching the treasurer’s
office they were again counted, and reported
correct. The notes are all completed with
the exception of being stamped with the
treasury stamp, and when that is added they
are ready for issue.
After the package in question had been
verified at the treasurer’s office, they were
turned over to the sealing division for
pletion. They were counted there and found
to be short ten sheets. These were numbered
in regular order and were in the middle of
the package. The officer in charge of the
division refugee 1 to re eipt for these sheets,
and word was ‘•♦•nt to tlie bureau for an ex
planation. A thorough investigation was
instituted, ami although two days have
passe i no trace whatever of the missing
sheets has been discovered. While it Is
possible that the sheets were mislaid and
may be recovered, it is more than probable
they were abstracted by some one thor
oughly familiar with the method of hand
ling. The notes will readily paM for money
for they lack only the treasurer’s seal to be
legal lender.
LockeU.up Children lturne«l to Doath.
Atlanta, Dec. 4.—A dispatch from Lex
ington says: A negro woman on Hon. A.
H. Colquitt’s place, six miles from town,
locked her three children up in the house
and went visiting. On her return, late at
night, she discovered that the house bad
caught on fire and had been burned to the
ground. Her three children were burned
to death. This makes the third time such
a ire, similar in all respects, has ocoi’Ted
HOW I SUFFERED
Seventeen years from a Skin DUt-ase. Could
not walk or tlresn 1113 self. A mass of
dlitrnso from head to foot. Cored In
e»C»it weeks by tho Cutlcurn Hem* dies.
At the age of three months a rash (which
afterwards proved to be cciema or salt rheum)
made its appearance ou my face. A physician
was m'led. lie said t( •-thing was the cause; he
prescribed some cooling medicine, bul tbe sores
spread to my ears aud head. Another M. I), was
called. He professed to know all about the
case, called it “King's Ml," and prescribed
gunpowder, brimstone and lard mixed Into a
salve; but the i'Ik-mc couiiuued. i'nvycouid
could not do anything with it. Another pre
scribed borat, water and flour; another, linseed
poultices. None of them did me any good at
all. but made me worse. The disease continued
unabated; it spread to my arms aud legs, tl'l I
was laid up entirely, and frum continually sit
ting on the floor on a pillow my limbs con-
tn. ••!-.. I I ;• i - ' ' if ' *r.il
was utterly helpless. My mother would bavi |to
ilit me out ana Into bed. I could yet around
the boose on my hands and feet, but I could
not get my clothes on at all, and had to wear a
sort of dressing gown- My hair bad all matted
down or fallen off, and my head, face and cars
were ouc scab and 1 had to have a towel on my
head all the time in the summer to keep the
flies off. My parents Consulted a prominent
physician ana surgeon here in Chicago (the
other physicians before mentioned were of
Dundo-H ana Hamilton, Canada). He said he
could do nothing for me. n© wanted to cut the
sinews of my kgs so that I could walk, but I
would not let him, for If I did get better I
would have no control of them.
The disease continued in this manner until I
HU ICKUIWU )»*• ""I s") , 1,1 -
utrjr, 1879,1 re»<1 «n account In the Tribune ot
jrourCuttcur. Kcraciilc. It dccrlbcU mj mm
■■> exactly th.t I thought, u . tut resort, to
(tie ihem . trial. . ,
When 1 tint applied them 1 wm .11 raw and
bleeding, from icretchlug myielf, bnt 1 went
asleep utmost Immediately, winudhing I bad
not done for yen. the effect we. no toothing.
In about two week. I coiftd,und •tr.lght.but
not walk, I «un nut, but my zoree were
nearly well. A» nemr u I can Judge he Con
cur, reincdie. cured me In .bout >fx to eight
week., and up to tbf. date (1. k. from Jam.ary,
1879, to January, 1887.) I hzvoBOt been tick In
any wny, or have hud the least sUm ot the dt-
■cue reappearing on me,
w. j. McDonald.
17X2 Dearborn St„ Chicago, III., June 30, tl.
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Send for "How to Core Hkm ”
tiling at the right on hi* judgment seat,
his head bent In a questioning Attitude,
with Christ standing before him. A
heavenly submission is ou It is face, while
around the Governor's exalted seat the
l’riesls are gathered and the High l’rioat
Caiiqdias is in tlie act of licensing Christ
ami demanding Ills death “for announcing
himself as tho .Son of God.”
Oze conspicuous figure among the mob
is that of :i Jew shouting with them,
“Crucify IIim ( ” with uplifted arms, in the
dome mob which throngs the palace and
presses upon the Roman soldiers, ono of
whom is holding the crowd back with ltia
spear.
Below tlio placo where Pilate sits are
the accusing Priests and othor Judeans,
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