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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION". ATLANTA, GA* TUESDAY FEBRUARY 9 1886
THE CHINESE MOVING.
THE PIGTAILS EXPEULEO FftOM
SEATLLE.
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1I.I..-WAW* Opca wita Taeir
Paid, and Ordered to Oo a
Loot Wap Off-Other Notes.
l*»t:ir.Ajfl\ Or., February 7. Today, at If
J.v pro-iamtne laid out. the Chinese arc Lein#
it Vi vi ii out of Seattle, W. T. It is under.torwl
that Hi* Knight of Labor are nt tlio head of
thcmowiuont. Tho Chinamen are marched
totho steamer CJuccu of the I’.u lflc, lying
at her w liarf, and the rioters pay steerage pas
sage to San Francisco for each one put on
Ifoarri. The steamer plica regularly between
Son Francisco and Puget Sound. At thla hour,
S p. in., about on© hundred Chinamen have
been put on board. Du an attempt being
made l».v the rioters to force the Chinese on
board without paying fare, which is
ten dollars in each 'case, the
captain Rationed men with liosc prepared to
throw five streams of water into the mob if
aurb an attempt Is made. The mayor of 8eattl<>
and other prominent citizens telegraphed Van-
couver bsirraeks. asking flenenil (libbon,
commanding the department of the Columbia,
fortroeps General (llbbon has telegraph-d
the war department, but no authority ha» vet
come from Washington to send troops. Van
couver is distant lfjO miles from Seattle, and
trmtiwf-'intatlon would be effected by host
and rail. The shortest time in
whlfh troops could bo transposed
is seven hours, and ©von if they should start
tonight, they would be too late to prevent the
expulsion of tho Chinese, t hief Justice (ire- n,
of Washington Territory, has telegraphed At
torney General Garland asking him to use Ills
inOaevcc to bavo the tro»i>H ondcred to Seattle.
As yet no bloodshed or incendiarism has occur
red, bet it Is Imlievcd tonight there will be -e-
rlous tmulilo.
TIIE CULMINATION RE MIIM*.
A tjuial to the Oregonian from .Seattle
says: * At last the long drawn out auti-Chliieso
agitation lias reached the culmiiiativo point,
as fat in Seattle is concerned. It was thought
by nuii-y that when tho United States troops
were a ithdrawn from here, that the agitation
was (it ad, and aa weeks went by with
out the commission of any overt act,
this ojdiiion was strengthened. As events
■how, however, the feeling was
not even dormant, and the agitators have been
quietly laying plana all the while. An effort
was made to ptit these plans into execution
today, though with what success cannot lie
said. An anti-Chinese meeting was held lutt
evening, at which a committee was appointed
for the ostensible purpose of visiting China
town to ascertain whether the city sanitary
regulations woro properly observed by tho
Chinese. The committee commenced its
work at seven o’clock this morning, headed by
Acting Chief of Police Murphy, and ii'com*
pan if 11 by an enormous crowd, which had ap
parently canto together by previous under-
standing. They proceeded to Chinatown,
KNOf'KINU AT TIIK HOOK.
The mode of proreduio was simple. The
comm hire would approach a home inhabited
hr Chinamen, and knock at the door. Win
the.occupants appeared they would lie (juc
tioiic.d concerning tho observance of tho cits _
Mtiitnty regulations. While such conversation
was going uu the crowd would enter tho liouso
nnd.lrgin loading the goods and occupant*
upon a wagon which lin'd, appeared just
before. It was useless for the Chinuuion
to rt-lst, and they generally
auhmiit'd with ns good grace as possible.
When I heir movable goods were loaded in the
wagon they were also placed on board, and
driven to,the occau dock, where the steamer,
Queen of tho Pacific, win- lying ready to Mail
for.Siii l-'iaucisco. Not the slightest warning
of this movement had been given, ami the au-
ihorlth.s were totally unprepared
for it. Tho police force gonorally
aided with tho crown, and tuado no effort to
atop the work of removal. Sheriff McGr.iw
was •ot n on the eccnc, and commanded the
mob to disperse, but they nuid no attention to
bjm. When he would collect a few citrons
and attimpt to Interfere, the crowd would
cease (jnations at that point, hut rarry them
on without cessation ill oilier quarters. This
continued for several hours. Sheriff McGruw,
Judge Green and tho mayor, making such ef
forts as they could in bchulf of law, but with
out avail.
TIIK f.OVERNor COMES IN.
About ten o’clock. Governor Squire. w ho is
In tho city, issued the following proclama
tion :
To ttih people of Washington territory: Where-
as. it IVicprewntcd to uic l-y the mayor of the city
of Health, ns Mows:
“lion. IV. C. Squire-Sir: The Chinese
or the of Seattle are being unlawfully ..... __
ItOtn tbl' city by a mob unlaw fully gathered to
nether. The authority of the titjr Is not sufficient
to keep the peaco. and preserve order, (appeal
to yon ter ahl and assistance.
'TIinrv !.. Yksi.kr. Mayor."
Now, therefore,!. Wat-on C. Hqtiire, govern <>
ol tVa-bii-gion territory, do hereby publMi ttii
the secretary of war, the fcteretary of the in
terior and General Gihlwtu, commanding the
department of Columbia.
hfcAii.i., Fid mury 7.—Au immense mob it
forcing the Chinese to leave Seattle The civil
nuthoiith ■ are nrtutng a po-M* eomitstns to pr-Mcct
them. A scrlouscooffiet 1- probable. I respectfully
requtri that United Plates iroo;.- be mmedfate-y
M in to Seattle. The (mop* at Fori Townsend can
arrive sootiest, and probably w ill l>e sufficient.
Have haired a proclamation.
Watson c. SqriREM, Governor.
The treops at Port Townsend aud Vancouver
arc ready to movi, and are only awaiting or*
dcra from Washington. Much surprise is ox-
prmed that the movement was arranged so
quietly. Tho city is full of stranger*, and it
is haul to tell whence they came. It is believ
ed by many that the plans were
made In Tacoma, as many
prominent agitators from that place, as well as
reporters for both tho Tacoma papers. arrived
horc yesterday. Mayor Wersbac ri, of Tacoma,fix
also here, ami it is freely asserted that he is
engineering the movement.
AN ANSWER FROM CUB HON.
Advices from Vancouver say General ft Jih-
1>onn has answend Governor Squires that he
could not send troops to Seattle without direct
orders from the president, and they have not
vet been received. The report that the
Knights of Labor headed the mob to expel
the Uhinese seems to havo no foundation.
While theic were members of the organis
ation in the mob there is no evidence what
ever that tho Knights as an organisation were
onnected with the movement.
THE PA ^ELECTRIC - SCHEME.
'•ideutH
HI HP.HII'HH'H IVIIIIUI7, -111 IIVIVU/ |*lll’tl II Kill
my pm mmatlon, warning all |*q»on*to desist
limn lui mb of tho peace, and that peaceably dis
posed iK iMmu shall retire to their home*, excel*
Mtch perntm as are dUpmcdto a»«M tho sheriff'
and duly constituted civil authorities In maintain
ing outci, aud l request alt person* t\hn are dim
poii'd to nuslst tn maintaining order, lu cu
roll theniH'lvee under the sheriff immediately,
for that (airpcte. Furthermore. I order the mili
tary of this city to Immediately place themselves
luiilrr amis, end that theromntanding officer* of
Htcli com panics report forthwith to the sheriff of
King comity, fi r (he purism- of rendering him
military assistance. If need be. lu maintaining
Jaw. l'oueatbcattiejthi* Till day of Fcbruarv,
INk Watson t\ Hqt'tat, Governor.
REAP TO THE CROWD.
This proclamation was read to the crowd,
and was received With a howl of defiance. It
had absolutely no ratifying ctfoct. An at
tempt was then made to rlug tho firo bells,
but they wore soon silenced. Two local com-
patties of militia, and thive companies of home
guards organized at the time the United Suit's
troops were withdrawn, however,
responded as quickly as possible,
but by tho time they were ready for action
there seemed to bo uothing for them to do.
Atout four hnudred Chinimou were huddled
together in tho warehouse on tho ocean dock,
and the imuteitae crowd prevented them from
returning to their homes. Tho majority of
them .'bowed much inclination to remain
where they were, as they were tliorougly*
cowed and eager to get away from Seattle.
A ROT BATH READY.
The 1 (Beers of the steamer, bowovor, refus-
*ed to twelve the Chlnamcu without tickets.
They prepared the hot wates hose and took
every precaution to deft ml the vessel front any
attempt (o force the Chinamen on board. In
this dilemma, a collection was raised, and
mouth Atari)** to pay the passage of about.
one hundred. These were received on hoard,
each ote expressing a desire t.» \ K o,
and th< lined the offer* of the officials
to piolca them from violence, if they re-
main'll.* 'Cite steamer should have exiled at
1 p. tu., but was detained - in tho hope that
•otuc at raagemebt would le made for the 1.ij.
sage ol the Vhinauten, who werb huddles! on
the desk Upableto returd to thoir homes, aud
perfectly willing to go. About five
o’clock • p. a. the militia marched
down to Chinatown and took poMeosion
Jl E>*, deserted except by a few merchants,
who had Itcen allowed to temain teuipurarily.
At t* p. w.» writ of habeas corpus was issued,
charging that tho Cttiuesa was Illegally re-
atralunl of their liberty on l>oan| the ateanit-r.
The writ was made returnable at lit o’elo- k
this iiiorniRg. Id the meantime the steamer
sis enjoined front sailing.
an rvccRTAtx arrrATioN.
••The situation at this hoar. Dp. tn., i* un
certain. A dismal rain is falling aud the mob
has largely decreased. ’The 1‘hinaiuen w.10
are not «-n board the atramcr arc huddlei to
gether i it the ocean dock. Two companies of
BtfJitia find (me hundred home guanlc are
patrolling the streets. The Oregon im
prove went ' company lias eighty tucu
guatdit g their docks ami warehouses. Tup
author nii* arc determined that no Chinamen
shall leave unwillingly, livery effort will 1*3
made to avoid Woodshed. The utmost deter-
ininnthm is expreased ou this poiftt.
1UY t I.i'LRAL l.m KKNMK.VT NO! I Ft ED.
Ctovi ir.or Hqulre, in addition to isanitig his
proclui biion, sent tho following telegram to
IllHrusHing tin- Fraudulent Itell Telephone
Patents-
Wamiin'.ton, February .'I,—Tho telephone
war is not likely to noon como to an cud. It
lias been shown beyond nil reasonable dispute
that Hell was not the real inventor of the tel
ephone, but obtained his patent hj fraud. The
chief ground 011 which the government will
move to vacate the itell patent is that the pit-
cut was fraudulently obtained by corrupt col
lusion with an examiner in tho patent office.
This lasue has not !*eetiadjudicated inanyof tho
telephone cares that have been decided by tho
lower coil 1 Is. It is not an issue that the sa
ne courts ran fettle in any case now before
It it a question that can l*e properly tested
and adjudicated only in a suit brought by the
government to aitnul the Dell patent.
Tho Hell telephone company through news
papers has commenced a bitter war upon At
torney-General Garland, Senator Harris, of
Tenncrsec,aml other well known southern men
who were stockholders 111 the Pan Klectric
telephone company, the owners of tho first
telephone aver invented. The success of tho
Pan Electric telephone company would drive
out of existence the Hell company, which has
made Its millions of dollars tinder a fraudu
lent patent. The Pan company would reduce
the cost of telephone* to one-hulf. one-third,
or perhaps one-quarter the price charged bv
Ilell, and still make a largo profit. The fol
lowing iirtfclo is from tho Now York World:
To fully understand .the interest which At
torney* General Garland had in breaking
Pan Telephone com patty-one-tenth of tho
whole company was his. Then there is tho
$40,000,000 capital stock of the liecnso compa
nies, of which 40per cent, or $10,000,003 be
longs to the Pah company-of this ouo-tcuth
or $1,000,000, belongs to Attorney-General
Garland. Put that is not nil, nor even n small
part of what would result from tho breaking
down of the Hell patents. In that event tltore
would net l*c eight, but at least fifty compa
nies, with capital stocks averaging $T».000,000
each, that would seek licenses from tho Pun
Electric company. Two huudred and fifty
millions of dollars is an exceedingly
small cstininto of tho amount at
which the companies using tho Pan
Electric telephones would be cnpitllized If tho
Hell patent was invalidated. Forty per cont,
01 #tno,oon,nuo, or tnrs stock would belong t»
the Pan company— one-tenth of that, or $10,
(WAGOO. would be the projwxty of Attorney-
General Garland. Paying only per cent
um! this is a small allowance—he would have
an income of over $500,000, without being out
ouo dollar.
There was anothor potent reason. The laws
of the country are particularly severe upon bo
gus corporations wnich obtain tnou6y without
giving an equivalent, and though corp
uro.without souls or bodies, iha men who coni'
)x*c them uro uot, aud lieuce, unless tho Hell
patents could be broken down aud declared in
valid, the tneti who had invested their money
in the f!0 per cent of the local companies which
had been licensed by tho Pan company, which
had paid l»onusca, built plants, bought tele
phones which were without value, would bo
apt to call ii|*on the parties who had induced
aud profited by these expenditures, tuado upon
fulro statements ns to law and facts, to mako
good tho losses.
There was min. both in fortune aud fame,
upon the one side and almost unbounded
wealth upon the other. It wns worth stretch
ing the law'and power of the government to
fcrnro the ouenml provent the otner.
The list of the names of the leading stock
holders ami officers in this company reads
almost like a page front tho Blue Book:
A. H. (iarlsml, attorney general.
J. K. JohuKion, railroad commissioner.
.!. I>. O. Atkin*. Indian comtnbsloner.
J*ham <*. Harris. t\ «. R. Tennessee.
George G. Vest, t*. H. R. Missouri,
Zcbulen (i. Vance. II. K R, North CaroUus.
Robert Klnt/. ex-M. C., iVnuwlrsiii.i.
Kit J. Ilrnkle, ex-M. (’., Maryland.
Casey Young, QX*M. C., Tennessee.
Mr. f'|«liur, ehlef t lcrk, Indlau bureau.
Frank Armdnmg, Indiau inM*eetor.
John 0. Brown, ex governor Tetinessee.
The lVtn Klectric telephone company has
$r»,000,l)00 capital stock, divided into shares of
$1,000 each; these shares wero held originally
by the following named ticrsons: J. E. John-
ston, IfiOO.OOO: Jshnm O. Hurt is, $."*00,000; A.
II. Garland. $fi0D,0(Xl; (’asoy Young, $JOO,OOU:
J. 1). C. Atkina, $500,000; J. Harris Bogers,
$2,000,000; tho comituiiy, $500,000.
It will be observed that theso five gentle
men CRch held one-teuth of the stock, but
kuowing the vagaries of inventors, thegr re-
attired that auuthcr tenth, makiug a majority,
should be put under thoir control, so that they
could have tho business in their owu hands.
. for each of the five, showing that of the
$3,000,000 capital stock there never was paid
in but $1,**>75, being a little more than oae*
fortieth of 1 percent.
After this money was paid back the direc
tors next proceeded to divide the remainder
of the $10,000 ns a dividend to the stock holl
ers, the amount received by each holder of
onc-teuth of the stock being a little leas than
$000.
The $500,000 of the company stock had in
(he mean time !>ccu partially distributed, one
hundred shares going to ex-Governor John C.
Brow n, of Tennessee, now resident in Ht.Loui i,
don principal attorney for what is known as
“the Gould ©ystem ofsouthwestern railways.”
Other sums wore given or told to other parties,
having or supposed to have either local or na
tional influence. Senators Vest, of Missouri,
and Vance, of North Carolina, each getting a
portion.
At the beginning of the first session of the
forty-eighth congress a brother of Senator
Vance, Mr. B. It. Vance, then a representative
from North Carolina, introduced a hill in the
house of representatives. giving the attorney
general power to bring suit upon application
to vacate patents. This bill was referred to a
committee, which reported in favor of its pas-
rage, raying in its report that since 1839 the
sttoitir-y general had not been intrusted with
this power. The bill passed the house of rep
resentatives almost unnoticed, but was never
reported from the senate committee on
patents. Contracts continued to bo made in
the spring of 1881 until eight local companies,
as before stated, were organised. As these
companies paid in the required bonus, the
money was paid out to the stockholders in
dividends, two being declared in Jluy of $1.59
per share, giving each of the original promo
ters, Garland, Johnson, Harris Young and At
kins, $750 at each division, or $1,500 in that
month. Another dividend of the same si/n
was declared inter, aggregating about $5,009
profitjto etch of these gentlemen within eigh
teen months upon an investment of $275 each.
THE BUCKS STIRRING.
DWIGHT’S DODGE.
A REVIEW OF A CELEBRATED IN
SURANCE CASE.
Did Ewftbt. Throug.n the Ageocr of a Drug, bo P
Lctlr Simulate Death mb to Deceit Hi« Phy.
ale tar a aud Friend*'- — An Insurance
Njs'.cry That Pr.zsles the Court*.
This $500,000 worth of romntfty stock belong
ed to the holders of tho otner share© In pro-
K rtion to their liotdiugs. but was controlled
the directors.
The board of directors of tho company was
composed of Joseph K. Jobnstou, Isham G.
Harris, A. II. (iArUnd, Casey Young. J. 1). C.
Atkins and J. Harris Bogers. Tho officers
were: Joeenh E. Johnston, president: Isham
G. Harris, vice president: Casey Young, socre-
r: A. II. Garlam" “
as chartered b;
Ita principal o
tibia and auother in Washington city, (’utter
the laws of that state aa to corporations, all
that was necessary to bo paid m of the five
million* capital stock was the fee to the secre
tary of state for using his seal, amounting in
this cue to $1.50.
In November' l.vtt, tho directors determined
to irnue license© to local companies, that Is, sell
territory in which the Fan Klectric instruments
were to be used.
The terms upon which these sale© were to l*o
mado were agreed upon and are as follow s:
"Forty per ceut of the capital stock of the com
pany to be held by the I’an compauy. all instru
ments to l*e furnished by the Fau company at a
stated price. A royalty of $10 per anunm*to be
paid by the loca’ company on each instrument;
a bonus in cash to be paid by each local com-
Under these conditions eight local companies
were formed. One for Fcunsylvania. with the
llou. Robert Klotx, formerly in congress, as
the principal promoter. General Frank Arm
strong, now indiau inspector, being the secre
tary; one in Baltimore, the Hon. Ell J. J.
Hankie, formerly in congrcs*. beiug the pro
moter, to which the Mates of Maryland. Vir-
giniaaud the Di«trict of Columbia were sold;
one In St, Louis for Missouri: one In Wisconsin;
on* iu Trnne‘Kic; ©uc in Alabama, of which
General Upshur, now chief of the Indian bu
reau. was the promoter; one in Texas and one
in Louisiana, The two first a imed companies
were net required to pay any bonus, but iu all
their contracts the Fan company agreed to
defirn£ its patents at its cw n expense.
When the first local company paid its bonus
of $10,000. the director* proceeded t » pay back
the sums expended by themselves mjptytng for
El. Faso, Tex., February 4.—Jesus Escobar.
Mexican consul in this city, is in tclcgraphir
ccrrcs) ondenre with the Mexican authorities
with the object of Inducing them to make a
formal claim for Gcronimo and his bund from
the United Htutes. on the ground that the In
dians surrendered to Liouteuant Maus on
Mexican territory. It is stated there is noth
ing in the treaty with Mexico to cover such a
case.
Washington, February 5.—Tho house com
mittee on military aflkirs today, by a vote of
six to one, passed favorably upon Beprcsenta-
live Laird’s bill for tho protection of the peo
ple of Arizona and New Mexico. It pro
vides for raising ouo regiment of volunteer
cavalry in each territory for one year’s service,
to be composed of and officered by actual resi
dents of the territories named. Two Mexican
ponies uro to be furnished each oifi-
c< r and soldier, and whenever theso
arc insufficient to make a vigorous pursuit of
tlie hostile Indians, regimental quartermasters
arc authorized to supply tho deficiency from
any herds urcessildc without tho delay of ad
vertisement or inspection, issuing vouchers for
such aniinalsns may ho taken from private cit
izens. Fack animals arc to ho provided ns
means of transporting supplies, iu addition to
the regimental wagon trains.
Ciiicacjo, February d.—A special dispatch
publhludhere this morning in reference to the re
ported uneasiness of the Red Like reservation In
dians. says that the bucks on the Red Lake reserva
tion. It h reported,are Hying hither and thither in
the most unexplained and mysterious manner.
Frequent cx|icdit!on* arc being made to
CrcokMon and the neighboring towns, and arms
and ammunition are procured iu quantities. It b
reported that iu several of the towns not a firearm
it mains for sale, iu the store)*, and private indi
viduals have their guns to the Importunlug
Indians, who rc|>ort a great amount or game this
winter. 9110 Indian warriors are traversing the
ft
oorts alarm and uneasiness over the action of the
Indians. The large camp which has been from
time immemorial on upper ltice bake, (has been
u moved to Rice lake In the dead of win ter, some
thing very' unusual. The young bucks arc very
Jubilant and excited. They have taken to paint,
and carry red streaks on their
checks, something not observed on
the in of late years. Their camp on ltice bake pre
sents unusual scenes of actlveity, ami the Iridium
from all over the reservation,except those at White
Ijirt/i. are gatiteriiig them. Tho former* In thir
teen loivinhlps and along the eastern part of the
northern counties report a great sale of stock and
horses to the Indians in exchange for furs. A trad
er hi furs among the Indians says he never saw tho
Indians >0 eager aud active as they arc now. They
are'.soiling everything for guns, nmuuition and
horses, lie could not conceive the cause of this
movement, and was wimble to say. from what he
bad leal uu). whether or not it portended trouble.
Fort Ktocm, M. T., Februaiy 1 Tho fol
lowing dispatch has bco»|rcccived from bnvbton
Montana. ‘‘On January W, at (labrlal 1 turnout’s
ranch, five miles from here, six free Indians
_ trouble ahead, and anothe
union iu the early spring Is looked for. They
claim to he starved out. The stockmen are on tho
look cut, (taring the C’rccs will run off their hor-
Wii.uox, Arlz., February G.—Gcronimo
ami nine otiier captives uro in camp tonight at
l4mg‘* ranch, cn route tojtovvle, Arizona.
Malarial l*olsou.
For many long months I wns n sufferer from
malaria find rotild get no relief. 1 eked nu
existence iu utter dispair, having virtlgo and
nuinerows unpleasant symptoms of that assail
ous poison. 1 began taking s. 8, S. aud im
proved nt onee. My appetite returned and
my strength came again. Tho virtigo left
aud from IfiO pounds I went up to 100 pounds,
my preterit weight. It cured me perfectly,
nint through me many others have been beno*
fitted and cured by Swift’s Specific
J. C. BiKonvvr,
111 East 24th Street, New York.
Swift’s Specific iscntircly vegetable. Treatise
on Blood aud Skin Diseases mailed free.
ThkSwift Specific Co., Drawer :i, Atlanta,
(la., or 157 W. 23*1 Street, New York.
January £», 1Hn»
Iteiuarkabl© Recovery.
I was two months In a hospital iu this city
under treatment for blood poison. When I
left there I had no appetite, was thin, weak
aud could scarcely walk* The unrelieveddis*
ease ami the treatment had so reduced mo
that 1 could scarcely,put one foot before the
other. 1 began taking 8. S. 8., and the first
bottle even had a telling effect upon me. My
appetite improved from tho first dose, and I
gained flesh and strength rapidly. The dis
ease began to pass away, and very soon every
race of it was gone. Swift’s Specific is a won*
dcrful remedy. It invigorates aud builds up
the system generally while effecting a cure,
instead of reducing one to death's door and
only giving temporary relief, as the old line of
treatment does. To me there was new life in
every dose. G>:o. F. Johnson*,
:ti:i Seventh Avenue.
New York city, Jan. •>>,
An exchange oay* the'Tall of the skating rink
lia> come." Well, it lx time. The rink tuu caused
enough tall* In llx time.
A Mother’* ratal MUtnke.
Bai.timorf. Md.—Every Saturday, of this
city, has an account of a sad accident which
happened in a family last week. A little child
was threatened witn ercup, aud the mother
ga\c it too large adc«c of cough mixture which
undoubtedly contained opium, a* the chill
sank into a comatose condition and died. The
coroner spoke strongly of the danger of such
medicine* and remarked that tho new cough
remedy—Bed Star Cough Cure—is free from
piati* or po!»on, that the governor aud many
public men of Maryland have warmly eudorsod
it. and that physicians in hospitals have adopt
ed it in*their treatment of thrnst and lung
troubles. It coats only twenty-five cents a
bottle.
At Norwich, N.Y., the Dwight insurance
casts will soon come up for trial. Iloright
had $250,000 insurance on his life iu the Ger
mania, the F.quitabl© and other companies.
Last November Dwight died suddenly. The
physicians held au autopsy, and thousands
looked at tho familiar face of the dead
About a month ago several friends saw and
recognized Dwight iu Chicago. The insur
ance companies were notified and they re
fused to pay the amounts of the {tolicies to
the dead man's relatives. This explains tho
suit. The Norwich correspondent of the New
York World gives the following additional
particulars:
“Dwight’s body was exhumed and examined
after it had been buried five months. Phy
sicians representing the insurance companies,
who examined the body carefully, aver that
certain gun-shot wounds received by the
colonel at the battle of Gettysburg were not
found upon this body, corresponding with
record of his wounds iu tho surgeon-general's
office at Washington. They also declare that
tho teeth of the body, which were very ©veo
and perfect,did not correspond with tho no
ticeably irregular and prominent teeth of the
colonel. Other discrepancies vvero alleged to
exist. One of tho officers of a New
York insurance company who for twenty-
five year* had been engaged in uuearthlng
frauds against Jusuranco corporations and who
had been successful iu many very complicated
ami celebrated eases, was convinced, after a
close analysis of nil the circumstances, that
Dwight had never died. It is’ freely admitted
by those who take this view, that if Colonel
Dwight in alive it is ouc of the most extraor
dinary cases of cunning aud imposture on
record; but it is likewise conceded that Colonel
Dwight was a very extraordinary man,
ami possessed of such resolution, invention
and adroituess that if he ouco undertook to
defraud insurance companies he waulsT
take any chances of failure. As to tlxe n
he wcnld employ to perfect his deception tho
history of life insurance frauds shows that the
most complex nnd irreconcilable Tacts' merge
into the simplest explanation when it Is once
established that tho insured person supposed
to lie dead is actually alive.
About the bth of November, Dwight moved
from Windsor to Binghampton and hired
apartments in a small cottage in an open lot
adjoining the Spauldiug houso and connected
with that hotel by a covered hall or passage
way. The colouel remained in bed most of the
tune and complained to those who called that
he had been suffering with chills. His brother-
in-law. McDonald, a lawyer, sat tip with him
night and McDonald s former law partner,
dairies A. Hull, sat up with him tho night of
his supposed death. Hull testified that when
he called on Dwight at tb© Spaulding callage
on Wednesday, November 13, tho colonel ge-
quested him to come round and sit up with
hfm Friday night, giving as a particular
reason that lie expected to -have
another chill and he knew
Hull was ’cool and would not get excited in an
emergency.’ Hull swcunrtknt he was the only
person present in tho room when Dwight died.
JIc testified that ho was sitting within ei
feet, at von inches (he had measured the
tauce)Jnf Dwight, who wns in bed; that .
gas wsh turned on, showing everything plainly
lu the bed, when, withont premonitory symp-
torn aud just after taking a piece of cracker
.and making a jocular remark, the colonel sud
denly ga.*|K'd and called: ‘Uliililie,’ aud before
tho latter could go next door nnd call assist
ance and return to his bedside lie was dying,
ami in a few moment© was dead.
"it is alleged that a bottlo found beneath a
window of tho cottage sometime after tho fun
eral wns examined by experts, who distinctly
recognized what was left of its contents as
gclscmium, a vegetable poison. It is but lit*
tie known to the general public, and only re
cently used by regular practitioners iu somo
kinds of fever, though its peculiar virtues as a
fever antidote have been known among tho
planters and negroes of the south for many
years. It is extracted from the common Jim-
ton weed so abundant in the south and south
west. Taken in auflicicnt doses it produces a
temporary paralysis of tho motor
nerves without loss of consciousness.
The eyelids close without tho'power of rais
ing them, tho jaw falls, the body tnrn!
cold atul clammy nnd thcro is complete simula<
tion of death. This comlitiou may last for
hours.
“Dr. Burr, the physican in nttcndauco nr
Dwight duriug his last illness, certified tl
ho died of gastritis. Physicians representing
the insurance companies, who assistod at the
post mortem , declared that he died of strang
ulation and claimed that a crease or indenta
tion in the flesh almut the neck was caused by
a rope. The uedertaker explains the iudenta
it was a
uc flesh caused by placli
the head of the corpse whilo it was cooliug.
“What then actually occurred before th©
eyes of Charles A. Hull, on the uight of
Dwight's supposed death? Did Dwight,, os if
taking his regular medicine, swallow a dose of
gobcinltim. procured at a New York drug
store? Had ho experimented with It and
knew tho exact quantity require*! by his sys
tem to produce tuc required result?
“If the body upon which a post mortem ex
amination wns made was tho bodr of Dwight,
that is precisely the way ho died, and there
was uothing discovered iu tho organs of the
body iucousistcnt with the theory of death by
gclscmiuui. Indeed, it is asserted by medical
experts that death from a large overdose of
gelscmiuiu would leave the organs of respira
tion in about tho same condition as they would
be if death were produced by str.mgulatiou.
Certainly no adequate proof was fouud that
he bad died of gastritis.
"But is there a reasonable possibility of
Dwight brine still alive? Could he, with the
aid of faithftil confederates, be delivered from
the brick-lined tomb, constructed under his
personal supervision, designed after a taodel
made by. himself? Could be, under the influ
ence of gelscmium. lie with face exposed in
church during the funeral ceremony without
betraying any sign of animatiou? Could a
laxly l*o substituted for bis after the physi
cians familiar with his features had satisfactoi
viewed his real body iu the cottage and
. .. for the Spaulding house barn, where the
substituted body was carried later and c*ier-
ated ui*ou by New York physicians who did
uot know Dwight in life, the first operation
requiring the scalp to be pulled down ovor the
face, with, perhaps, a physician there to uu-
obstructively aid appearance©? Would it be
reasonably t>ossible L
resembling Dwight's?
“It is worth while to note that the under
taker who assisted at Dwight's funeral was
recently charged with beiug one of the princi
pals iu the violation of the Fbclps grave in
Birmingham. Richards, the lawyer, who was
convicted of the charge and oenteueed to a
year’s imprisonment iu the county jail, very
manftilly took ill the bisiue upon himself, and
the undertaker, Ayres, was acquitted."
MRS. WOffiLOVT’d SOOTHING 8YBUP for ChU-
dien teething, eottens the guns, reduce* tnflamas-
tkm, alleys all pain and cutes wind coUc. ffioeata
a bottle.
Joue>-
1 you alua\*t«*i: a fool.”
ir he don’t ask too muen. What
* know?*’
Very. Very Little Tiling*.
But very important— your blood corpuscle*.
They are bright red. They are *<> small that
it takes over 3.000 of them in a line to make
au inch. The bright red 1 olor come* from the
iron in them. Wiien'there is m ; enough iron
the Mood is thin and watery and impure.
Fnrity and vigor go together. Brown’s Inm
Bitters I# the ooljr safe Iron tonic ever made.
It euriches the blood, builds up the system,
gives health, strength and enjoy meat of life.
Doctor—rm *frald, Mrs. Brown, di* ran chile li
’dieted with Membranous Croup, and de prognosti
cations all seem to prognosticate in dat direeshun.
Mrs. Brown—Foah de lewd, amdat so? I had'n
noticed dat de posh Urn's brain was 'fected. Well,
S o’ cuah him 00 de bralnousacss on' I’ll just knock
at Croup hlgher’n a kite wid a dose ob Tayujr’i
Cuutozix Remedy or 6<rxjc* Gum ax' Mcuznrjoh
I alias keep a vial in do cabin.
TAYLOR’S
CHEROKEE REMEDY
Of Sweet Gnm and Mullein.
The sweet gum. a* leathered from a tree of th©
aame name, growing along the small streams lu the
Southern States, contains a stimulating expectorant
principle that loosens the phlegm producing the
early morning cough, and stimulates the child to
throw off the fake membrane in croup aud whoop
ing cough. When combined with tho healing mu-
cilsginous principle in the Mullein plant of the
fields, presents in Taylor’s Chesokeb Remedy or
, fur one time ouly.
yc ‘*-
receipt of tl.GO.
„ , WALTER A. TAYLOR. Atlanta, Os.
Mention this piper.sunwkr
Sore Eyes
The eyes are nhvav* in sympathy with
the body, and afford an excellent Index
Of Its condition. When the eyes become
weak, and the lids Inflamed and sore, it is
an cvldenco that tho system has Irccomo
disordered by Scrofula, for which Ayer’s
Sarsaparilla is the best known remedy*
Scrofula, which produced a painful in
flammation lu my eyes, eatisctf tut- much
suffering for a number of years. Ily the
ndvlce of a physician 1 commenced taking
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. After tiling this
medicine u short tiiuu I was completely
Cured
My eyes are now in a splendid condition,
nml 1 am m well tiud strong us ever.—
Mrs. William Gage, C oncord, N. II.
For n number of years J was troubled
with a humor in my eyes, and wns tiunblo
to obtain any relief until l commenced
using Ayer's Sarsaparilla. This medicine
has effected a complete cure, atul I believe
it to be the best of blood purifiers.—
C. L. Upton, Nashua, X. II.
From childhood, nnd until within a few
mouths, I have been afflicted with Weak
and Sore Eyes. I have used for these
complaints, with beneficial mulls, Ayer’s
Sarsaparilla, uutl coiitldcr it n great Idood
purifier.—Mrs. C. Fkfllip*, Glover, Vt.
I JmfTcred for a year with inflamma
tion in my left eye. Three ulcers formed
on tho ball, depriving me of sight, uud
causing great pain. After trying many
other remedies, to no purpose, 1 was finally
induced to use Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, uud,
By Taking
three bottles of thin medicine,-have been
entirely cured. My sight lias been re
stored, and I here is no sign of Inflamma
tion. sore, or ulcer in my eye.—Kendal
T. Bowen, Sugar Tree Jtidgo, Ohio.
My daughter, ten years old, was afflicted
with Scrofulous Sore Eyes. During the
lost two years she never saw light of any
kind. Physicians of the highest standing
exerted their skill, but with no permanent
success. On the recommendation of a
frlcml I purchased a bottle of Ayer’s Stir-
eaunriila, which tiiv daughter commenced
taking. Before sue had used the third
bottlo her sight was restored, and she can
now look steadily nt a brilliant light with
out pnln. Her cure Is complete. — W. E.
Sutherland, Evaugellst, Shelby City, Ivy
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fids country, tn river valleys, and
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Quinine, however. l»only a tem
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