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VOL. V. * EMPEROR LOUIS NAPOLEON was a great smoker and prided himself on having the finest cigars in the world, made especially for him in Hav ana. Prof. Horsford the noted • chemist says that some years since in Cuba he had a desire to secure the best cigar made on the Island and upon inquiry found the manufacturer who made Louis Napoleoll s cigars and bought from him three of them paying one dollar in gold for each. In convei sation with the maker Prof. Horsford asked whether a liner cigar could be made and where the leaf tobacco used in these was raised. The manufacturer replied that it was impossible to make any better goods and no other lea! would equal that used for this purpose. For these cigars he spe cially imported leaf grown in the golden tobacco belt of North Carolina, Smoked by as fastidious an Emperor as Louis Na poleon and costing one dollar each in gold we presume those cigars were perfection. The outlet of ibis golden tobacco belt of North Cap)l ina is Durham and the.same grade of to- * mweo which was exported to Havana for the Empe ror’s cigars is what we use in Blackwell's Bi ll Dm - ham Long Cut. That is the reason we don't have to put any drugs in our goods to make them sell. You see we are the largest buyers of this grade of leaf in the world, and have the first pick of all the cioj and get the choicest q unlit/ every time. Have you tried Black well’s Bull Durham Long Cut yet? If not we want to tell you that aside from being pure and made from the finest leaf, there are two features about this Long Cut that you will appreciate. Two things that every smoker has wished for many times. We don’t need to tell you what they are for you will discover them after your first smoke. Just see the reasons for smoking Blackwell’s Bull Durham Long Cut, — no drugs,—no adultera tion, —no nicotine, —the' best tobacco, —the hand somest package and these two features that you have been wanting. All we ask is that you try one package. We don’t believe you will con tinue to use our goods un less they are the best and we would not throw money away in asking you to try a sample package unless we were conscious that we claim less rather than more than the merits of our Long Cut warrant. Manta JMHoeaL First Edition. 2 O’CLOCK P.M. TOLD BY TELEGRAPH The Happenings of the Morning and Yesterday. DAKOTA DISGRACED. A hew Rule for Presidential Re ceptions at the White House. THE CHICAGO ELEVA TOR FIKE. Two Murderers Sentenced to Swing in the Spring-Time— An Oid Offender Arrested in Tennessee. I Special to Post-Appeal. A change at tile White House. Washington, Feb. 10.—The President announces that he will receive to-morrow. He has heretofore taken Saturday as hi off day, when no visitors are received. The day has been devoted to his corres pondence and general executive business. As both Houses of Congress, as a rule, ad journ over from Saturday to Monday, and as Saturday is therefore the day most con. venient for senators and representatives to call at the White House, the President has decided to receive visitors on that day and take Monday as the day of the week upon which he will see no one. Special to Post-Appeal. The Methodise Book Concern. Hfce Branch Closed Here Because it is a Dead Loss. Cincinnati, Feb. 10. —The general book committee of the Methodist Church m t at the book concern yesterday morning for the purpose of holding its annual meet ing. The sessions of the committee are executive, and the various reports are held from the public at present. The reports made yesterday morning were hi the book agent of New York, and Rev. Dr. Walden, book agent at Cincinnati. CouninttetP.—were appointed on salaries, raising the Episcopal fund and several other kindred subjects. The* committee yesterday decided to abandon the branch at Atlanta. It has long been a heavy expense on the commit tee, and the losses incurred in maintaining it increased steadily. Special to Post-Apoeal. A Cowardly Cuban Cur. The Assault on Clarence M. Barton by A. JI. Solteldo in Washington. Washington, D. C., Feb. 10.—A. M. Solteldo, late managing editor of the Re publican under W. J. Murtagh, and now clerk of the Senate committee on railroads, last night attacked Clarence M. B. Barton, managing editor of the paper now in his office. Solteldo, who is a Cuban, tall and powerfully built, was accompanied by his younger brother. He presented an article in which the paper would appear as re tracting certain charges against him. This was declined by Barton, whereupon Sol teldo made a savage and unexpected attack upon him. Barton was getting the best of the fight, when the younger Solteldo com menced firing at him, hitting him three times, a shot also struck the elder ruffian, wounding him fatal'y. Barton proceeded home alone in a carriage, and it is thought will recover. Old Offender Arrested. Dickson, Tenn., Feb. 9. —Wm. Kirk, sheriff, arrived in this, place from McEwan, last night, with W. A. Bethel, changed with murder and robbery, committed in Franklin, Tenn., seven or eight years ago. The prisoner will be carried to Franklin to-night. Col. Cole’s Hoad in Tennessee. Chattanooga, Feb. 9. —About 500 hands are at work on the railroad being built between Red Clay and Ooltewah by the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia raihoid company. It is being pushed vig orously and will be finished by July. It will make the distance from Memphis to Dalton twenty-five miles shorter. The Ex celsior Coal company is pushing operations on its extensive coal track below this city, and is making a large number of entries, building saw mills, etc. Last week the gauge on the Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio railroad was changed from 4 feet 8% to 5 feet, to conform with the gauge of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta. The -distance was forty-eight miles, aid the en tire work was accomplished in four hours. The Chicago Grain Fire. The Insurance $413,000 but the Loss Com paratively Small. Chicago, Feb. 9.—About 7 o'clock this morning the employes in Neely’s & Hamil ton’s grain elevator, on Grove street, south side, upon trying to enter the building were driven back by dense volumes of black smoke, which broke through the doorway. The alarm was at once sounded, followed by a second and third, which called out the entire force of firemen in the city. The buildings were divided into three sections, haxing a frontage of 180 feet along the railway and extending back 160 feet to the river. The center building is the elevator proper, and is six stories high and thirty feet front. East and west of this are two tbree-story stone buildings used a store house for the grain. Aboutßo,ooo bushels of grain were all in the bins, but only 40,- 000 bushels of corn were injured and that ATLANTA. GEORGIA, FRIDAY EV greatly by water. The insurance men say that while the insurance aggregates $413,- 000, the loss is comparatively small, being only ten to fifteen thousand dollars and that the building is nearly unharmed. The friction of the belts started tbe flames and carelessness of watchmen permitted them to spread. A Virginian Venture Fails. Alexandria, Va., Feb. 9.—The Alex andria ship yard was leased some weeks ago to J P. Agu w & Co., with a proviso that it may tie purchased by them at any time within two years for $30,000. The stockholdeis have recently confirmed the lease, and it is probable that the “Alexan dria Marine Railway and Ship Building Company” will before many mouths pass out of existence. The company was organ ized about 1870. It has proven by no means a financial success, following in le spect all efi'or.s by incorporated companies to cany on industrial enterprises here. Its capital was $29,950, upon which it bought at low price tbe ship yard of Goodhand & Thompson, which wasenlaiged, remodelled and all the late improvements of such es tablishments added, including a commodi ous marine railway upon winch the largest steamers on the river can be hauled up It has built several large vessels and some small ones, but most of its work has been that of repairs of vessels. Business has not, as a rule, been wanting; but owing to the want of sufficient paid up stock the compa ny was obliged to boirow suiue $20,000 at 7' 2 percent interest, and this weight has p oved to be more than it could carry. Since 1878 various efforts have been made to reorganize the company on a new basis, and many of the .-mailer stockholders sold out at twenty cents on the dollar. It has. however, kept the yard open until its trans fer to a most enterprising gentleman. The total cost of the property which is to be sold for $30,000 was some $46,000; but “it was built in flush times, when everything was higher than now,” ami there seems to be every reason to believe that it will be come a most profitable establishment. Gen. Gwynn Dead. Baltimore, Feb. 9. Gen. Walter Gwynn, who was chief engineer of the Confederate army, and who directed the attack on Fort Sumter in 1861, died at the Carrolton Hotel yesterday in the eightieth year of his age. Gen. Gwynn was born in Jefferson county. Va., in 1802; gradua ted at West P >int in 1822, and was for ten years a lieutenant of engineers in the United States army. He resigned in 1832, and was subsevuently chief engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and the James River and Kanawha canal. He is well known South, and took an active part in Southern improvements. He war stricken with paralysis on Wednesday last, and died at 10 this morning. He leaves a wvife and four chi’dren. .itTtli derers Send T>ee«i. ! Knoxville, Feb. 9.---Milton and Sa.m iiel Hodges, two negroes who mtirdi red Jim McFarland last. September, were thi morning sentenced to be hanged March 24th. When Judge Hall said, “May the Lord have mercy on your souls,” Milton Hodges replied, “May he have mercy on your soul. You will be gone before we will.” This is the first death sentence passed in Knoxville in twenty-five years. A Dakota Disgrace. Protest by Bondholders Aaginst the Admis sion of the Territory. Chicago, Feb. 9.—Some holders of bonds of Yankton county, Dakota, have prepared a protest against the admission of Dakota as a State, which will be for warded shortly to Washington. The alle gations therein contained, if true, show a remarkably bad record for the citizens of that county. It is set up that, in 1872, the county issued $200,000 of bonds to aid the Dakota Southern railroad, under the act of Congress; that these bonds are widely distributed; that under the lead of some of the men now pushing the matter of Admission at Washington, the county stopped interest upon these bonds, and tried to repudiate them, but after several years of litigation, the United States Su preme Court, in May, 1880, decided that they must be paid. Since then, by various disreputable expedients, aided by the Ter ritorial Legislature, they have, the bond holders assert, evaded the payment of the interest, which now amounts to $150,000. One expedient was a law permitting county commissioners to resign immedi ately by filing a paper. By so resigning, the commissioners escaped service last summer, and when the affairs of the county demanded some attention, new commis sioners were appointed, early one Monday morning, who met secretly, transacted some business and resigned before daylight to avoid process. This trick was approved by the voters, who re-elected them, but they feared to qualify. Finally, two of them did qualify secretly, transacted some business, then resigned, leaving the bonds in statue quo. In view of this condition of affairs, the bondholders will protest that Dakota is not ready for self-government, and that the Federal power, which author ized the bonds, should protect the holders, and not encourage repudiation. TELEGKAPHIC BKIEFS. A Bombay dispatch say.•: “The Oomra wutta cotton crop is the largest ever re corded.” The Fenian Tobin, who was convicted at Leeds, has been sentenced to seven years penal servitude. The river and harbor billj will, it is thought, be ready for consideration by the house about the Ist if April next. Michael Corcoran, forty years ot age, was struck and killed by a 400 pound frag ment of iron in a foundry at Providgnce recently. The grand jury in Washington have be gan an inquiry into the alleged straw bond cases in the post-office department. The ease commenced with is that of Albert E. Boone, contractor. The pulley on an elevator at Wrigley’s factory in Newark, N. J., broke a few days ago, and four men were precipitated a dis tance of forty feet. Two of them are not expected to recover. Three unrecognizable dead bodies have been found in the woods near Lawrence ville, 111. GENUINE GEM TESTS. How Paste Diamonds and Coun terfeit Stones are Told. Ji The Methods by Which the Public May Distinguish Between the True, and False. PAPER NO. IX. Editor Post-Appeal:—Among the pithy, laconic paragraphs which abound daily in your editorial department there appeared in Wednesday’s edition the fol lowing: . Purchasers of diamonds for speculation or investment had better watch the development of the progress of artificial gem making it* Paris. Ihe art has attained such perfection already that experts are puzzled. It is not that experts are puzzled, but that purchasers misjudge as to who are and who are not experts. A manufacturing jewelry house like Tiffany & Co., - Union Square, N. Y„ or Jaccard * Co., St Louis, would not retain an expert who cfluld be deceived in dec ding between real and imi tative gems an hour. Buyers of dj.imonds or other gems are deceived'bv believing that every jeweler or clerk in a jewelry store is an expert. Jewelers as a general rule de pend upon the house from which they pur chase their goods as a guarantee of their being genuine. I will endeavor fin plain language to so clearly instinct tllose who purchase diamonds and other gems that they cannot be deceived if they make all the tests I shall give. DIAMONDS. The specific gravity of a true diamond is 3.5 (three and five-tenths.) The most de ceptive imitations, which will deceive fully two-thirds of the best jewelers; ar.- the col orless white topav, white sappbir i and zir con. These three cut glass. Zircon has a specific gravity of 4.4 sapphire, 4 and topaz 3.5, same as the diamond, and is palmed off, when of pure white color, for the diamond more than any other white gem. l’he Queen of Portugal owned one which for a time deceived all the crown experts. It weighed eleven ounces, and on the Value of diamond estimates was val ued at £240,000,000, or $1,200,000,000. It was finally detected by a Parisian Jew lapidary, who decided it was v. hits topaz, lhe test to determine between a true dia mond and either white topaz, sapphire or zircon is simple, yet a delicate one. It is also a certain test between all crystals which appear in the market as Brazilian diamond or any other colorless,erystals. It will not answer for a test tej.weqn true diamonds and paste but others which I shall give will. Perforate a card with a pin or needle. Fix the diamond, or it suspected colorless Crystal about to be purchased for one. in a steady position as ‘ii wax. .Look at -t, . bole in the card. A true diamond will shbw but ono hole, all the others will show two. A true diamond retains all its brilliancy miller water and is al ways cool to tbetouch, while paste diamonds are not, as they heat in proportion that the atmosphere is heated. All first class gems are cool to the touch. Paste imitations exhibit small air bub bles under a strong magnifying glass; dia monds do not. Breath remains very much longer on paste than onjtrne stones. All real gems when rubbed will attract the pith-ball and retain the power a long time. Pastes also become electric by rub bing, but very soon lose their attraction. Rub a diamond with a piece of flannel and it will attract the pith-ball, while a paste thus nibbed will repel it. It is not easy to look through a diamond of first water, while imitations readily per mit objects to be seen through them. Diamonds lose two-sevenths of their weight when suspended under water. Paris brilliants are the most deceptive. One house employs two hundred and fifty hands. They are such close imitations that they can be distinguished only by very close examination at, the hands of those well experienced. Their greatest failure is in hardness. They are scratched by the file. California diamonds, Cape May, Irish and Bristol stones are all skilfully cut crystals of quartz, and can be scratched by a tile, while a diamond cannot be scratched. Finally if one is dissatisfied with such teste as the jeweler offers in a sort of slight of hand way, have the gem you propose to purchase unset, place it between two sil ver dollars or gold or silver coins of any denomination above a dollar in gold, place them on the floor and put your whole weight on them. If either paste or ciys tals your weight will crush the so-called gem. If a diamond it will indent itself in<o the coins, but will not harm the dia mond. Jewelers who will not allow this or any other test should be shunned as swindlers. If business men purchase real estate to the value of one hundred dollars and upwards, they insist upon a clearchain of titles. Yet if purchasing diamonds or other precious gems they, pay for them on the word of men who in strict reality know absolutely nothing about them. There were many thousand dollars repre sented in the Exposition buildings in dia e ond form which were nothing in value above white topaz; still the crowds won dered as much over them as if the first water and color and true value were there. It is safe to say that three out ts five of all the diamonds worn in the United States were purchased at true value diamond prices are either pastes or imitations. A man who buys houses and lots on fictitious titles people say is served right if cheated by claims of true owners or real heirs. There are millions of dollars in vested in this country in false diamonds. People regard diamonds as so much wealth 1 ami lose the interest on the investment only for the pleasure of wearing them. When they must offer them for sale on account of fortune’s reverses then they learn how valueless their gems. The very finest paste—most deceiving—diamonds are made of the following composition, which, un fortunately for the purchaser, has the same specific gravity as tho diamond, namely 3.5: 100 parte pure sand melted, 150 parts pure lead, 30 parts of calcined pot ash, 10 of calcined borax and;one of arsen ic. This mixture is kept in a molten state three days and then slowly cooled. Each ingredient before usingiis reduced to a very fine powder. A file will scratch these as it will the imitation paste rubj-, which RUARY 10. 1882. is made of the following composition: strass one ounce and six drams, glass of anti mony 37 grains and purple of cassins one grain. These three ingredients are first fused and eight parts more of straps added, when fuse all for thirty hours when cool and reuielt pieces according to size wanted by a blow pipe. Another and more simple way of making false rubies is to melt five ounces of strass with one ounce of man ganese. False topaz is made by fusing 1,008 grains of strass, 43 grains of gldss of anti mony and one grain of purple of cassius. Powder all finely before fusing. False sapphire is made of eight ounces of powdered strass and 52 grains of pure oxide of cobalt. Fa'se emerald, difficult to detect from the gei.uine, is made of one pound of strass, one dram of verdigris, and 15 grains of c ocus mortis. In another way, take 2,304 grains of strass, 21 grains of green oxide of copper and one grain of oxide of crome. Still another imitation is made of an ounce and a half of finely powdered rock crys tal, six drams of dry soda, two drams of ■ ry borax, two drams of red lead, one dram of nitre, twenty grains of red oxide of iron and ten grains of green carbonate of copper. * False carnelian is made of two pounds of strass, glass of antimony one pound, two ounces of rouge and one dram of manga nese. Fire opal defies imitation, and amethysts are too common to allow margin enough for the imitator. Bear in mind that all genuine gems will bear the roughest handling without injury Consequently when a dealer cautions you to “keep hands off,” you purchase of him only’ to be swindled. Any gem worth buy ing and wearing is worth being thoroughly tested. There are tons of gems worn by the elite of American society for which full precious stone prices have been paid. A first class ruby has the color of pure blood as it flows from an artery. The deeper the hue of the emerald, the more valuable it is. False pearls are made by coating glass beads, made in pearl shape, with a com pound made of three ounces of the scales of the bleak or bay fish, half an ounce of fine glue, ono ounce of white wax and one ounce of pulverized alabaster. Powdered opal is often used to make a paste to cover glass beads, us also powdered pearl of the common oyster, soaked in vinegar and mixed with gum tragacanth. None of these weigh more than two-thirds of tbe genuine pearl and are all very brittle. To test for brittleness throw with force on a -flagstone. False corals are manufactured of resin and vermilion; or of marble powder made into a paste with varnish or soluble glass and a little isinglass, colored by Chinese vermilion and moulded. Much of this is used in settings for cheap jeweby. The penknife blade drawn across them shows that they are too soft to be genuine. Any and all imitations of gold may be detected by its weight of specific gravity test. Howell H. Huntoon, M. E. MARRIED FOR LOVE. Elopement of Two Society Stars—Wedded in Conyers. Some two years ago Mr. George Hoppie left his home in Baltimore and came to cast his lot in Atlanta For a young man his standing in business circles could hardly have been better. In society his popu’arity and gallantry among the Indies might well have been envied by his fellows. He be came acquainted and fell in love with Miss Katie Butler, a young lady whose beauty, accomplishments and splendid social quali ties justly entitled her to the position she enjoyed as a belle in Atlanta society. Their devotion was mutual, and but for the objections interposed by the fond n other of Miss Butler Mr. Huppie’s attentions and visits would have been far more frequent. They had long since concluded that mar riage was essential to their happiness, and no parental efforts or interpositions could avail to thwart the young people in their purpose. As if by a preconcerted arrange ment Miss Butler and Mr. Hoppie both happened to be out walking yesterday afternoon, and met on Luckie street. There was an affectionate greeting, and unwilling to let so good an opportunity pass, Mr. Hoppie said: “Do you love me, daring, well enough to leave home and friends and be mine ‘until death us do part?’ ” “Yes,” she replied, “I am yours hence forth.” “Then come with me,” he continued, and let’s get married.” Turning to her maid, who had accom panied her, Miss Butler bade her to leave them and go home, while she accompanied her lover in a stroll toward Peachtree street. The servant hastened to inform the young lady’s mother of what she had witnessed, and the parent set about break ing up the match. She could obtain no clue, however, and soon gave up the search, for her disobedient child. Meanwhile Mr. Hoppie procured a mar riage license, and with his affianetd took the cars for Conyers, wheie ’‘they twain were made one flesh” last night. The happy couple returned to this city to-day, and will board for the present at 84 Ivy street. They have received the congratu lations of many friends, and doubtless the offended mother has already forgiven and taken them to her heart. “All’s well that ends well.” The Purchase of a New Park. ’] he question of a location for a public park is a perplexing one. The latest plan is st sgested by tbe owners of a quantity of land beyond the barracks, which is to give the city foriy-five-acres as a donation. The city requiring one hundred or more acres, the balance will then be offered for sale at SI,OOO or $1,500 per acre, making tbe cost of a park between $75,000 and SBO,OOO. Public sentiment appears to be in favor of Ponce deLeon Springs as the most eligible location, as nature has en dowed that point with superior attractions in the matter of water, shade trees, shrub bery, etc. From indications there will be various points of competition, and the settlement of the park question a matter of much concern with the citizens. MUTILATED COINS. The Government Regulations Regarding their Value. Philadelphia Bulletin. Within the past iew months there has been a very general stir among the public upon the subject of mutilated coins, and there is a very general misapprehension as to the government regulationsand the laws relating to the nuisance. Large numbers of dollars, half dollars and smaller coins, having boles bored in thetnjnr having edges chipped off, are in circul tion, and as a matter of course they are very hard to dis pose of. Some time since a New York firm, anxious to purchase such coin as bul ion at a price far below its face value, issued a circular offering to purchase at the following prices: Dollar pieces, 65 cents; halves, 39 cents; quarters, 15 cents; dimes, 5 cents; and half dimes, 4 cents. Os course people readily assented to these prices, and placards were prepared and are now to be seen in different parts of the city, announcing them as having been ‘‘fixed by the government." The fact is that the Treasury Depart ment at Washington purchased mutilated coin by the weight, and not in any such way as the above-ment'oned notices indi cate. Silver coin is not worth in bullion is much as its face represents, and conse quently the discount on pieces recoined is about 20 per cent. Heretofore not less than SIOO worth of mutilated coins were received at the Treasury Department, the desire being to avoid the flood of small amounts which poured in upon the officials. Frequent inqub ies are made at the mint in this city, one man to-day writing to know what price would be paid tor coins having the “average-sized hole" in them. The following circular is sent in reply to all such inquiries, blanks being left for the date and the value, which sometimes varies: “Treasury Department, Bureau of the Mint, Washington, D. C., Jan. 31, lsß2. —The government has fixed no valua tion upon mutilated silver com other than the market value of the silver they contain; they are purchased at the mints by weight as bullion, and the value depends upon the price of silver on the day the coin is re ceived at the mint. "At present, the price paid by the mint at Philadelphia is $1.13 per ounce, fine, equivalent to $1.17 per ounce standard. “Horatio C. Burchard, . “Director.” The law prohibits the mutilation of coins, but its provisions have never been enforced. The following from the Revised Statutes of the United States covers the offense: "Section 5459. Every person who fraudulently, by any act, way or means, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, fal sifies, scales or lightens the gold and silver coins which have been, or which may here after be, coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign gold or silver coins which are by law made current, or are in actual use or circu'ation as monev within the United States, shall be imprisoned not more than two years and fined not more than $2,000." STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP. The residence of Mr. W. N. Maddox was consumed by fire, which originated in the stove room, Saturday night. Loss $2,000 The grain crops of Talbot county are re ported in excellent condition; there was never a more encouraging prospect at this season. Judge J. H. Akin, of the Akin District, near Griffin, celebrated his birth day at the age of e : ghty-one a few days since. His wife is seventy-nine years old. Henry Carlton, a little son of Hon. H. H. Carlton, was seriously burned by the explosion of gun powder with which the child was playing day before yesterday. Nora Billingsly, a colored woman living in Stewart county, was attacked with ver tigo Sunday, and fell into the fire. She burned to death before assistance could ar rive. A recommendation that the Governor of fer a reward for the apprehension and con viction of the parties who murdered Dennis Shea in Sumpter county several years ago was made by the grand jury of that county in their general presentments day before yesterday. Columbus is jubilant over the prospect of being lighted soon by electricity. An elec tric light company has been organized there and an engine has already been or dered. The company is composed of six of the best citizens of the place with a capital of SIOO,OOO. Mr. Charles Oakford Klett, traveling salesman for the Middletown Silver Plating Company, Connecticut, died suddenly of apoplexy at the Rankin House in Columbus Wednesday night. His remains weie placed in an elegant casket and forwarded to his home in Philadelphia. FACTS FROM FORSYTH. Forsyth, Feb. 9—Col. W. D. Stone, who succeeded James H. Turner, Esq., as Judge of Monroe County Court, presided yesterday fcr the first time. Mr. C. A. Gibson was so unfortunate as to lose his right eye a few days since. It went suddenly out giving him no pain whatever, nor indeed any notice of its ca pricious intent. KU-KLUXING A BOY. Gainesville Southron: On last Saturday night, it is said, a deputy marshal of this city took a negro boy, about fourteen years old, from the public square to the depot and back to the foot bridge by the trestle, where they met two other young men, and they made the boy strip, and beat him un mercifully. First with a rubber shoe and then with a switch, cut at the corner of Col. Sanders for the purpose. The brave deputy held a pistol to his head while the whipping was going on. and afterwards taking a hand in it himself. The boy was then taken to the Stringer meat market, locked in and kept there until Sunday morning. There are several statements as to the provocation, but none of them amounts to anything compared with the outrage. How long is this thing to be tol erated in a civilized town? One of the offenders has been tried for the offense, and Mayor Banks very properly fined him ten dollars and cost. Now what is to be done with the others, l&eoially the peace officer? It is to be hoped Mayor Banks will get a clatter at him, NO. 116 CURIOSITY prompted us to-day Io open a package of Black well’s Bull Durham Long Cut put up a year ago and the tobacco was as fresh and sweet as if put up yesterday, so you may add that to the list of merits if you choose. Have you discovered those two features we men tioned yesterday? If not it must be because you for got to get a package Somebody is trying tins Long Cut, just who wo can’t tell, but we know some people are investi gating our claims by the way the orders are coming in. This is exactly the same tobacco that we use in Blackwell’s Bull Dur ham Cigarettes, and is prepared in exactly the same way and you know that means that the Long Cut is made from the best leaf tobacco in the world and is absolutely pure. The writer overheard two gentlemen’ talking about this Long Cut last evening. Said one "it Iras the finest flavor of any tobacco I ever smoked and I am satisfied it is per fectly pure.” So there is one man at least who agrees with us. Honestly now, isn’t it a comfort when epjoyiug a pleasant, restful smoke to feel that you are not ab sorbing any injurious drugs and are smoking the same quality of tobacco that a famous Emperor has pro-* nounced unequaled? When we came to this city to introduce our cig arettes, some people asked if we were not afraid they would’nt sell. We never had any doubt of success, for we believed that oir cigarettes were purer and better than any others and we thought, we ha I only to tell you the hon est truth to secure your patronage and now we are just as confident of grand success on this Long Cut. We are the originators of the famous Durham to bacco, no one else thought of manufacturing it until we had made it a grand success, and we are now the largest smoking tobac co manufacturers in the world, simply because we have always given the public the purest and best goods. The way Blackwell’s Bull Durham Cigarettes are selling is simply as tonishing and so we take it for granted that you appreciate our eflorts to give you the best.