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VOL )X
HIE NEWS IN BRIEF
Items C fleeted From Every
Quarter of the Globe.
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Short S<»nth«»rn Mnrfct.
Tho t»wn <>f Ki?'-ton, N. U., has vo
ted to have lights.
Work i# soon to commence on a rail-
,i'l from 11'jcL.ingham to Concord,
N. U.
At Concord, Tenn., tiro destroyed a
d •/.■ ii bu.-ine « hous' S. Lo.ts, vCO.OuO!
insurance, §I,OOO.
Tho Knights of Pythias of Macon aro 1
to have a grand ui.i >ll mi cting tmdpub
lic jubilee on Aug. 25.
Rev. Sam P. Jones, tho evangelist,
will stump the tat" for the ticket noni
ieated by the Populists at their convcn- I
tion in Atlanta.
In iiccr nlanco with n bill passed by!
the last congress, Carrabelle, among !
other Florida ports, has been m ilea
t übpmt of entry.
lb n>y McncAo of Highland town,
Mil., drank a enn of water fr >.:i a pot in
whi' h ci abs had been boil ■ 1 and died
several days later.
Logan Carlisle, chief clerk of the
treasury departmmit, and son of tho
secretary, will not sv.; p <rt the nomina
tion oTßryan and Sewa.ll.
Tho first bale of tyirth Carolina now
crop ."otton was raid in Wade .boro, N.
C., f< r 7* 4 cent.i. G. A. Martin of
Morven was the purchaser.
Horace G. Yo’.*', one of Chattanoo- I
pi’s be t known residents, committed
suicide on Lookout mountain by shoot
ing himself through the heart.
Tho contract for tho magnificent
freight depot of tho Louisville and Nash
ville railroad, to be erected in Nashville,
has been let to an Atlanta firm of con
tractors.
The electric street railway war is on
Hi Savannah. A reduction has been
made by tho lino that is controlled by
tho Nashville syndicate to 3 cents to
meet a cut.
About 20 families have loft Rock
Hill, S. C., until tho diphtheria scare is
over. There have been ten or 12 cases
in that town and two deaths within tho
past few weeks.
Edward E. Barney, president of the
Virginia Navigation company, shot him
self at his homo in Richmond and died
from the effects of tho wound. No
is assigned.
A warrant has beorf T*<’ued for tho ar
rest of S. K. Platshok, a well known
Savannah stock broker, for hypothecat
ing bonds. Plntshek is sai l to have
gone to New York.
Secretary Herbert returned to Wash
ington after having cast his vote for the
Democratic ticket in Alabama. He will j
sail for Europe about Aug. 15, accom- j
panied by his daughter.
The New Orleans States, which was 1
one of the first southern gold standard!
papers to bolt tho Chicago platform and !
candidate, now announces that it wid !
support Bryan and Sewall.
Mr. 11. M. Emerson, a well known j
railroad official, has been appointed gen- !
end freight and passenger agent of the !
Atlantic Coast system, with headquar
ters at Wilmington, N. C.
William Good, a well-to-do farmer of j
Gaffney, S. C., committed suicide by !
No cause has been
found, was in good circumstances.
Ho leaves n wife and eno child.
Mr. W. 11. Tayloe, district passenger
agent of tho Southern railway in At
lanta, has been appointed general agent
of tho passenger department at Norfolk
and will be transferred at once.
Secretary Hoke Smith has gone to
Lincolton, in western North Carolina.
His family has preceded him there from
Georgia and the secretary will Ic away
from Washington about toil days.
Mortimer Goldman, a broker of Ma
con, Go., was arrested in New York
city. He is suspected of having s mo
connection with the murder of Annie
Bock, a young woman of the town.
Tho wills of the late Robert Garrett
of Baltimore after making several large
bequeaths, makes his wife sole devisee
and legatee. She will carry out all of
her late husband’s benevolent designs.
The Democratic convention of the
Eighth congressional district of Mis
souri nominated Hon. Richard P. Bland
by acclimation. The greatest enthusi
asm for Bland was shown by tho dele
gates.
Hon. Cyrus B. Watson, Democratic
candidate for governor of North Caro- .
lina, spoke Monday night in Charlotte
to an audience of 3,500 people. He
spoke at River Bend, Gaston county,
Tuesday.
At High Springs, Fix, the boiler in
the Barrs Lumber company's mill ex
ploded, fata ly injuring J. C. Barrs and |
Nelson Bell, the latter a negro. J. C.
Easterling and two negroes were also i
injured, but not fatally.
The first bale of Georgia cotton (new
crop) which arrived in New York Fri- I
day, consigned to Yatiuau <fc Schwartz,
was sold by auction at the Cotton Ex
change Saturday, at 20 cents per pound,
to Robert Moore & Co.
Postmaster General Wilson has de
cided not to take any part in the com
ing campaign in West Virginia. He
will sail for Europe in October and will j
THE CHATTOOGA NEWS.
remain about two months Ho will be
accompanied by his wife.
W. J. Costello, aged 25 j ears, a
watchman at the water tank of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, in
Pensacola, Fla., fell under a moving
train. The cars passed over both legs
and he died in a few hours.
Dr. John 11. Callender, one of tho '
must distinguished physicians of tho
south, died at Nashville, aged 68. He
was for many years sup rintendent of i
the state insane asylum and figured (
prominently in tho Guiteau case.
Tom Calloway was accidentally killed •
near Atlanta by his friend, Lon Kid
well. They wi re out gunning. Kid- '
well had the gun in his hands when it
! was jarrod and discharged. The load
i entered Calloway's body and ho scon
i died.
Alonzo Huckaby of Chambers county,
' Ala., killed throe negro children wit’i
!an ax and was looking for more. He
! was caught ami is now ii* jail. Huck
aby was adiieted with the fits and has
be a u nt subject fur confinement for
yc.ti s.
A man named Musgrove was found
Monday morning on Lookout mountain, i
near Mentone, Ala., dead with a bullet
in his head. The supposition is that he
had been murdered by illicit distillers
against whom he had recently given in
formation to the authorities.
Tho body of Bob Martin, who was
found dead iu Yellow river, near Crest
view, Fla., some time ago, and who was
j supposed to have been drowned in a
1 boat, was exhumed and his neck was
; found broken. Ono of his companions
has now confessed that he was killed by
u party and then thrown into the river.
Tho boiler of Layman’s canning fac
tory, at Troutville, Va., exploded, in
stantly killing two employes and wound
ing several others. The dead men are
A. F. Shannon aud Palmer Liukeuho
ker. The lattcrs's head was Llown com
pletely off. Fragments of the boiler
were thrown 300 yards away by the
force of the explosion.
Forest tires of considerable extent are
raging near England, in Lonoko county,
Ark., and in sov ral places tlm cotton
and cor.itie’ ..'it illy < stroye.l.
One hundred state ec victs have been
sent to tho .< no of the conflagration to
cut down tr s and underbrush. It is
estimated that 2,000 acres of cotton aud
corn have already been destroyed.
Notes From North, Fast, West and Abroad.
Sir William Grove, a famous English
scientist, 85 years of age, died at London.
Tho gold standard Democrats will
hold their national convention at Chi
cago Sept. 22.
Tammany Hall has indorsed Bryan
and Sewall without waiting for tho
state convention.
It has been settled that Major McKin-
I ley will not go on the stump in the
coming campaign.
Tho finances of Turkey are so low
that many officials have received no sal
! ary for seven months.
The statement of government receipts
! and expenditures during July show a
j deficiency of §13,056,249.
Hon. M. D. Frank of Portland was
■ nominated for governor of Maine at tho
I state Democratic convention in Water-
I ville.
Two wheel women were attacked by a
tramp near Danville, N. J. One struck ■
! him in the face with a stone and drove
i him away.
Tho receipts from internal revenue
i for the fiscal year ended June 80 were
§146,830,615, uu increase of §3,584,537
j over the preceding year.
News has been received from Spitz
bergen that Professor S. A. Andree's
j balloon has been filled, and was ready
! to start for tho north pole.
Judge Calvin Pratt of the supreme
court of tho state of New York died at
his residence in Brooklyn. He was born
in Pittston, Mass., on July 23, 1328.
John R. Tanner, Republican candi
date for governor of Illinois, was in
jured in a runaway accident at Quincy.
, His hurts are painful, but not dangerous,
i The captain and officers of the United
States cruiser Minneapolis were enter
tained at dinner Monday by the corpor
ation of the city of Edinburgh, Scot- !
land.
The treasury department has begun
sending out checks in payment of the
§5,000,000 sugar bounty appropriated by
congress and held up by Comptroller
■ Bowler.
Patriotic Spaniards living in Argen
i tina have given a Clyde shipbuilding
firm an order for a cruiser of 4,500 tons,
to c. st §1,600,000, to be delivered in 18
months as a gift to Spain.
John L. Sullivan has aband led ring
and stage ami has leased the Ciarend -n
j hotel, on Tremont street, in B <ston. He
will open it as sole manager and pro
prietor in about two weeks.
Secretary Smith approved the appoint
ment of John Sheridan of West Vir
ginia as a government director of the
! Union Pacific railroad, and was not
snubbed by the president as reported.
Captain General Weyler has an
nounced that crews of filibustering ves
sels, who aid iu throwing such vessels
in Spanish hands, will be regarded as
friends of Spain and liberally rewarded
besides.
The Brilliant Tube and Pipe works,
at Brilliant, 0., made an assignment to
( John S. McMasters of that place The 1
as-ets and liabilities are unknown. Five
; hundred hands are thrown out of em
ployment.
I A movement is on foot in San Fran
cisco to raise funds with which to re
move the remains of Miss Kate Field
from Honolulu, where she died a few
months ago, to the family plot at Mount
■ Auburn, Cal.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., and Miss
Grace Wilson were married in New
York city at the Wilson residence by
the Rev. William H. Pott, assistant
I rector of St. Thomas’ church. The
I weddiug was private.
A ballistic plate weighing 21 tons, a
I part of the side armor of the Russian
battleship Rostislar, has been shipped
Iby the Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron company
to Admiral Virchowsky, commander of
the port of St. Petersburg.
All the candidates for president and
vice president will meet in Topeka in i
September, the occasion being the old
soldiers’ reunion. Acceptances have
been received from McKinley, Bryan, !
Hobart, Sewall and Watson.
The Columbus (O.) Buggy company
has assigned to W. A. Mills aud J. H.
Thomas. 'As assets are put at from
§BOO,OOO to §1,000,000. Liabilities hard
to estimate, owing to contingent char
acter, but they are very large.
The United States civil service com
mission will hold an examination, com
mencing on Aug. 20, to establish a reg
ister of eligibles for the position of su
perintendent of construction, from
which vacancies may be filled.
Mrs. Hicks-Lord, a former society
queen and worth many millions, after
a romantic career, died in New York
city. Iler jewels were famous the world
over. Os late years sho lived in retire
ment, devoting herself to religion.
Bill Doolin, the outlaw, who escaped
from the jail at Guthrie, O. T., four
weeks ago, was surrounded by deputy
marshals at Wewoka. A desperate bat
tle took place and during the fusilade
of shots Doolin escaped. Deputies T.
M. Gregor aud Horace Reynolds were
killed.
A fire at Philadelphia, which origi
nated iu what is known as the “cook
house” in the big chemical works of
Baugh & Sons, de -troyed property val
ued at §IOO,OOO. The “cook house” was
a 1-. story building, 200 feet long and 75
feet wide. It was totally destroyed, to
gether with valuable machinery.
James K. Jones, chairman of the
Democratic national executive commit
tee, says: “I cannot consider any prop
osition for the withdrawal of Sewall,
but will entertain, as far as I have
power, and promote to the best of my
ability, any just and fair proposition for
fusion on the electoral ticket.”
It is said various European Courts
have received letters from members of
the royal family of Greece, saying that
King George will probably abdicate in
favor of tho Crown Prince Constantine,
duke of Sparta, if the powers compel
Greece to desist from her aspirations to
make the island of Crete a part of the
Grecian territory.
Two men were killed and another
fatally injured in a wreck on the Read
ing road, six miles west of Shamokin,
Pa. The wreckage was burned and a
car of powder exploded. Engineer
Smoke was burned to death in view of
the workmen. Conductor Smith, who
was crushed in a freight car door,
caused the wreck.
Papers in a suit for separation have
been served on Henry E. Abbey, the
well known New York theatrical man
ager, by his wife, Florence E. Abbey,
alleging cruelty aud abandonment.
Mrs. Abbey, who in former years was
well known on the stage as Florence
Gerard, was married to Mr. Abbey in
Boston four years ago.
Charles Thiede was hanged in the jail
yard at Salt Lake City. The execution
was witnessed Ly a largo number of
people. It is the second hanging
in the history of Utah. Thiede, who
was a saloonkeeper, murdered his
wife on the night of April 30, 1894,
ue-.rly severing her head from her body
with a knife. He asserted his innocence
to the last.
Moore Bros., promotors of the Dia
mond Match company and the New
York Biscuit company, have failed. The
! announcement was made at Chicago
late Monday night and caused a great
sensation in the business world. It is
estimated by those in a position to know
that the Moore Bros, lost between §4,-
000,090 aud §5,500,000 in the Diamond
match deal. Some say it has wiped out
every cent of their fortunes.
Senator Gorman has decided to aid
Chairman Jones in conductiug the
Democratic campaign. He has stipu
lated, however, thet he shall be a silent
partner, giving his advice and benefit f
his experience an i sagacity, a- a politi
cal general, but not being known pub
licly as a member of the executive or auy
other committee. This was arranged at
a quiet conference between Jones and
Gorman, at Gorman’s country home.
Business failures throughout the
United States for the past week number
269, a decrease compared with one week
ago. when the total was 294. The fall
ing off is principally in the middle and
New England states. As compared
with one year ago, last week’s total
shows an increase of 60, and with two
years ago. an increase of 72. In the
first week of August, 1893, during the
panic, the total number of failures was
. 4;4 -
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, AUGUST 12,1806
News of the Week Gathered
From All Parts of the State.
MANY IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
Bobbers Illow Open the Southern I2xpre*i
Company’s sale at Waynesboro—War De
part ment Approves Captain Carter’s Plan
For Continuing the Improvements on the
£t&vannaJi Harbor, Etc.
Atlanta, Aug. 7. —The Populist con
vention was called to order at 9 a. m.,
Judge Hiues in the chair. The hall was
filled to overflowing, members being
unable to find seats. The galleries were
packed, the red badges showing some
! delegates with the crowd of spectators
looking down upon the convention.
' At 9:30 the committee on platform and
resolutions uot being ready to report,
the convention took a recess.
| While waiting for the report, O. J.
I Thornton of Columbus was called for
I and made a speech which was well re
ceived. He said that the Populists have
j but one guiding star, love of country,
and prophesied victory if the party
stands together.
It being announced that the platform
committee was ready to report, the
chairman called theconventio.i to order.
The following platform was read and
unanimously adopted:
1. We indorse the St. Louis platform.
2. Civilization, to say nothing of re
ligion, has entered up judgment of con
demnation against barrooms. The public
I conscience revolts at the license system,
which fosters the saloon and generates its
manifold evils, in consid: ration of revenue,
that pays less than a tithe of t public
burdens it entails. It is un-rMffierican,
monopolistic and essentially immoral.
We, therefore, declare for an anti-barroom
: law which shall (1) make secure the pro
i hibition already obtained, (2) abolish the
beverage sale of intoxicating liquors and
(3) provide for the sale for other purposes
under public control.
3. We demand the abolition of the pres
ent convict lease system, which prostitutes
to the greed of private avarice the state’s
sovereign right to punish citizens for viola
tion of law. We believe the state herself
should keep possession of her prisoners
and should employ them upon the public
roads and not allow them brought in com
petition with free labor, aud reformatories
be established for juvenile criminals.
4. We declare in favor of improving aud
extending the public school system, to the
end that all our people can receive a good
common school education. We favor the
furnishing of primary school bocks by
the state to avoid the burdens put upon
our people by the frequent changes in
textbooks. We also favor the payment
of teachers monthly.
5. We emphatically condemn the prac
tice, of late becoming so prevalent, of
public officers accepting free passes from
railroad corporations and franks from
telegraph and express companies. We in
tend this condemnation to apply to the
executive, legislative and judicial branches
of our national and stale governments.
6. We condemn lynching and demand of
our public servants the rigid enforcement
of our laws against this barbarous prac
tice.
7. We demand that all public officials
be elected by the people. We denounce
the present system of electing judges and
solicitors by the legislature. It fosters
clique s and rings and enables corrupt poli
ticians not only to trade and barter politi
cal offices, but drags the sacred ermine of
the judiciary in the mud and filth of par
tisan politics. The price of office in Geor
gia under Democratic rule is obedience to
masters.
8. We denounce the present fee system
and demand that all public officials, where
practicable, be placed upon salaries. We
declare for a free ballot and a fair count
and pledge ourselves to the enactment of
laws securing t his to every legal voter.
9. We favor the continuance of pensions
to needy and deserving confederate sol
diers, and to widows of confederate sol
diers.
After adopting the platform the chair-
■ man announced that the nomination of
■ a state ticket was in order. Judge Hines
j called Mel Branch to the chair and took
the floor, nominating Seaborn Wright
!of Rome for governor. His speech was
j received with loud cheers. No other
names were put in nomination. A
number of eloquent speeches were made
seconding the nomination of Wright,
and the vote, taken by acclamation, was
> unanimous in his favor. The remainder
of tho ticket was v animocsly nomi-
I nated, which is as follows:
S. J. Bell of Burke for comptroller
> general.
i William E. Smith of Decatur county
for commissioner of agriculture.
! William C. Sibley of Richmond county
I for treasurer.
Donald H. Clarke of Chatham for at
i torney general.
Dr. J. A. Parsons of Milton for secre
tary of state.
SAFES BLOWN OPEN.
Robbers Enter Two Stores at Waynesboro
and Secure a G::od Sum of Money.
Waynesboro, Gx, Aug. 10.—Robbers
entered the store of C. W. Tyre, who
keeps the express office. The Southern
Express company’s safe was blown open
aud about §ls was secured, as well as a
I few other articles from the store. The
robbers then went to the store of J. M.
j Spence, Jr., & Co., mounted the steps
to the second floor outside and securely
tied the door to the railing outside, then
came down to the front door of the store,
prized it open and blew the safe open,
completely demolishing it, and secured
about §4O, and other articles of mer
i chandise.
The explosion aroused Dr. E. P. Little
aud A. B. Spence, who were sleeping
over the store. They ran to the outer
door aud found it fastened so they could
not open it, but they went to the ve
randa of the second floor and saw the
robbers leaving with their booty. The
clerks fired at them, but they escaped.
This was about daybreak. Bloodhounds
were secured and started on their trail
with an armed posse.
W ork on the Savannah Harbor.
Savannah, Aug. 10.—Dispatches have
been received in the city stating that
the war department has approved Cap
tain O. M. Carter’s plans for continuing
the improvements on the Savannah har
bor. This means work will be resumed
within a month or six weeks, and con
tracts to the extent of §1,000,000 are au
thorized to be made. The stoppage of
work two weeks ago threw 150 men cut
, of employment ana left the river chan
nel in a condition which would in time
make it dangerous to commerce. The
early continuation of the work, how
ever, will prevent these calamities.
HUSBAND AND_CAILDBEN
Left Behind by Mrs. Mayben,
Who Elopes With Young Burns.
Gadsden, Ala., Aug. G—While J.
H. Mayben, who lives about four
miles from here, was absent from
homo, erecting a new house, fifteen
miles away, his wife left her four
children, and in company with a
young man, G. W. Burns, boarded
a train for Rome, Ga.,but it is sup
posed they stopped oil at some
other place, where they will bo ar
rested for adultery if they are
known. Mayben is a good, honest
man and a reputable citizen. His
friends are congratulatimg him on
getting rid of such a wife.
THE MUSUEOVE MURDER.
State Solicitor Orders a Thorough
Investigation.
Kaolin, Ala., Aug. 6.—Dr. P. B.
Green, the county coroner, loft
Fort Payne under instructions from
Hon. J. G. Winston, state solicitor,
for Little River church, where he
will exhume the body of John
Musgrove, the old man who was
found murdered in the woods last
week, and examine the bullet holes
and secure every item of evidence
possible. It is said that while
hunting cattle Musgrove found two
men making a worm for a still and
that he recognized them. They
opened fire on him and tried to
kill him. He told a friend who
they were . The grand jury is now
in session and it is possible that
the whole matter will be found
out.
THE UNMARRIED MAN.
Twelve Reasons Why a Man
Should Rennin a Bachelor.
1. Ii a man is naturally selfish,
for goodness sake let him always
look after No. 1.
2. If his mother is the best cook
in the world, let him stop with her.
3. If whenever ho opens his
mouth, he is always putting his
foot in it, ho had better never pro
pose to a girl.
4. If he is a thorough miser, it
were better for him to remain sin
gularly miserable.
5. If ho is generally a woman
hater, let him become a hermit in
the Isle of Man.
G. If he detests children and
calls them pests he is evidently un
civilized and unworthy to frequent
the haunts of a civilized commu
nity.
7. If physically and constitution- ■
ally unfitted for matrimony, it is
nothing less than crimnal for him
to marry.
8. If a man is blessed with a
good sister to whom he is unkind
and even cruel, he is certainly un
suitable for a partner to anyone
else’s sister.
9. If a man is earning less salary
than the woman he might care to
marry is earning, let him not mar
ry her.
10 If a man would be likely to
prefer after marriage the company
of club associates and the pleas
ures of the billiard table to the
sweet companionship of the hal
lowed happiness of « home, let him
refrain from thinking of marrying.
11. If a man will be unable to
maintain a wife as comfortably as
she has been used to, and unless
he has something saved toward un
foreseen eventualities, he had bet-
i ter remain a bachelor, for when
poverty comes in at the door love
i flies out of the window.
12. If he would be unwilling to
frankly and candidly tell before
! marriage every thing of his past j
life, which, in the event of his mar
| rying, would, if found out, cause ■
I endless trouble and lifelong unhap- i
I piness, let him, by all means, re-'
main single.
More Bills Against Bridges.
Rome, Aug. G—Six more true
i bills were brought in by the grand
■ jury against Rev. W. M. Bridges!
ex-county school commissioner, j
| This makes eleven indictments;
Mr. Bridges will have to answer,
i It is thought he will have to make
a stronger bond or else be placed
in jail. Five of the late bills are
for forgery and one for misdemean
or. It looks very dark for the de
fendant, though he claims to have
ja good defense to all tho accusa
j tions.
FIENDISH CRUELTY.
In Trapping Alaskan Wolves.
Why Rugs Are Cheap.
Why are wolf rugs so cheap?
You can buy thorn for $3 apiece—
each consisting of four skins. Very
• handsome they are, 100.
The answer is a horrible story—
a story of men’s fiendish ingenuity,
taking advantage of the ferocious
instinct of the beast.
It is fiom Alaska these wolf skins
come. They are shipped thence by
tens of thousands, and it may be
imagined that the Eskimos who
kill the animals get an extremely
small price for the pelts which are
sold at so low a figure after being
cured and made up into rugs. The
secret of it lies in a scheme by
which the wolves are induced to
destroy each other wholesale.
The method is very simple. The
Eskimo takes a thin blade of flint,
chipped so as to be sharp as a ra
zor along the edges. This he fas
tens securely to the end of a wood
en stake, and drives the latter deep
into the ice, so that the flint blade
projects above. Then ho binds a.
chunk of seal blubber around the
Hint blade with a string of sinew,
thus concealing the sharpened in
strument within.
By and by along comes a big
gray wolf. He is hungry, as wolves
always are. His nose is supernat
urally keen, and he hag scented the
dainty morsel of blubber from afar.
Eagerly he begins to lick the fat,
which is frozen hard. This pro
cess melts the blubber a little, and
it tastes delicious. After a short
time his tongue comes into contact
with the keen edge of the flint and
is cut. Tho blood flows. Ah 1 The
flavor makes him wild—for he does
not know that it is his own blood !
By this time other wolves had
arrived at the sp >t. Those animals
always travel in packs, because
only thus can they assail the rein
deer and other largo beasts with
success. They likewise lick tho
bluber, cut their tongues on the
flint and taste tho flavor of blood.
It maddens them, and in a sow
minutes the stake driven into the
ice is the center of a crazy mob of
raving wild dogs. They attack
each other and fight to the death.
It is a fearful spectacle. They go
on fighting until all are dead or
desperately wounded.
Some hours later the Eskimo ap
, pears on the scene again and sur
-1 veys it with satisfaction. Tho ice
around the flint-headed stake is
reddened with blood. All about
are scattered the bodies of dead
wolves, with here and there one in
its last dying throes. The ingeni
ous hunter calmly proceeds to skin
his four-footed victims, and carries
the pelts away on his sled.
This process of destruction is
universally practiced by tho Alas
kan natives, and is many fold more
efficacious than any ordinary meth
od of hunting could be. A party
of hunters can set out, in even a
brief Northern day, an infinite num
ber of these awful battle-stakes and
the next day and the next, and the
next will not suffice for them to
gather up the wolf skins which are
the harvest of that stupendous
slaughter.
The Alaskan plan of wolf hunt
ing has a charm peculiarly attract
ive to the 1 jisure-loving Eskimo
—it reduces the work to a min
imum. His only objection to it is
that, after the wolf gets himself
thoroughly killed lie can’t skin
i himself and convey his hide to the
! market town. His system is a
i more deadly 7 and more wholesale
i one than that used by the Indians
still further south id driving the
buffalo out of existence.
But the wolves multiply fast
! enough to meet any demand.
That is why wolf skin robes are
: cheap.—New York Journal.
You can’t buy happiness but if
you are suffering from dyspepsia,
scrofula, salt rheum, impure blood
you may be cured and made happy
by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Hood’s Pills are the best family !
cathartic and liver medicine. ■
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ABSowrm pure
HE WAS CAUTIOUS.
And Meant to be Sure of His Posi
tion Before Making the Final
Plunge.
In the old days he would have
rushed to his fate blindly, but the
new woman has made the now man
somewhat more cautious than he
used to be in the old days.
She could see by the way ho fid
geted around in his chair that ho
had made up his mind to come to
tho point that evening, but desired
to look a little way into tho future
first.
“Sary,” ho said abruptly, after a
rather painful silence, “hov ye any
bloomers?”
“Nary bloom,” sho replied
“Ever expect tor git any?” ho
persisted.
“I never had no hankerin’ fer
pants,” she returned.
“Sorter reckon that yer husband
kin look arter everythin’ in tho
pants line, do ye?”
“I wouldn’t have a man thet
couldn’t.”
“Course yo wouldn’t,” he said
thoughtfully, and then ho ponder
ed the matter for a few minutes
before continuing.
“Hev ye any idoe that yo know
more about politics than me?” he
inquired at last.
“What d’ye s’poso I know about
politics?” she retorted. “D’ye
reckon there’s any politics in the
cook book?”
He nodded his head approvingly.
—“I rather like the way yo talk,”
he said, “but yo don’t seem to be
up to tho times. Most o’ the wo
men nowadays wants to do all the
votin’ and all the ta’kin’.”
“Taint my style,” she returned.
“D’ye think,” ho asked becom
ing more earnest than over before,
“tliot I know my own bus’nessbet
ter’ll you kin tell it to mo?”
“1 wouldn’t have yo sparkin’
’round here es ye didn’t” sho an
swered shortly.
“That settles it!” ho exclaimed
joyfully. “Will ye marry me?”
And so the matter was settled.
—Chicago Post.
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Electric Bitters is a medicine
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more generally needed when the
languid, exhausted feeling prevails
when the liver is torpid and slug
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alterative is felt. A prompt use
of this medicine has often averted
long and perhaps fatal bilious fo
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surely in counteracting and freeing
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son. Headache, Indigestion, Con
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rrtE MOST remarkable cures on
record have been accomplished by
Hood’s Sarsaparilla. It is unequalled
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—A meeting of Stockholders in
I the Eagle and Phoenix mill at Col
umbus was held yssterday and a
movement inaugurated to recog
nize the mills and put the concern
on its feet again.
Since 1878 there have been nine
epidemics of dysentery in different
parts of the country in which
Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy was used with
perfect success. Dysentery, when
epidemic, is almost as severe and
I dangerous as Asiatic cholera,
i Heretofore the best efforts of the
most skilled physicians have failed
■to check its ravages, this remedy,
' however, has cured the most ma
lignant case, both of children and
adults, and under the most trying
conditions, which proves it to be
i the best medicine in the world for
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| ville, Ga.
TT.ir-r T'MiiMOiri inii uri««~i
A Joke on Sam Jones.
With the coming of the Rev.
Sam Jones to the city many stor
ies of his peculiar methods begin
to float around. Tho latest now
going tho rounds was told by a
Methodist clergyman to an enthu
siastic body of clerical listeners
this morning.
Jhe Rev. Mr. Jones, so tho story .
goes had been invited to preach
for a minister who had trouble in
raising his salary. Toward ’ tho
close he turned to his host and
said: “Howmuch do they protend
to give you a year?”
“Four hundred and fifty dollars.”
L acing the congregation he cried :
“Only $450, and you won’t raise
that. If I had such a congrega
tion (turning again to tho pastor)
I’d get a yellow dog and sic it on
’em.”
lhat’s just what I did,” said
the parson, rising to his foot aud
clapping his hands. “Sic ’em,
Sam! Sic ’em!”—Baltimore
News.
Two Lives Saved.
Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junc
tion City, 111., was told by her doc
tors sho had consumption and that
there was no hope for her, but two
bottles of Dr. King’s New Discov
ery completely cured her and sho
says it saved her life. Mr. Thus.
Eggers, 139 Florida St., San Fran
cisco, suffered from a dreadful
co'd, approaching consumption,
tiied without result everything
else then bought one bottle of Dr
King’s New Discovery and in two
weeks was cured. lie is naturally
thankful. It is such results of
which these samples, that prove
the wonderful efficacy of this med
icine in coughs and colds. Free
trial bottles at 11. 11. Arrington’s
Drug store.
Regular size 50c, and SI.OO
—The old Markham hotel in At
lanta is to be rebuilt by a stock
company, and the plans show that
it will be one of the handsomest
in the south.
Not what we say, but
what Hood’s Sarsaparilla Does,
that tells the story of its merit and suc
cess. Remember HOOD’S Cures.
—There is a great stir among the
Georgia farmers over the letter of
Commissioner of Agriculture Nes
bitt, relative to the increased price
of cotton ties. lie suggests the
use of wire or some other material.
Clover Jim Malcoat and lady, of
near Summerville, accompanied by
their daughter, Miss Effie, who has
been visiting relatives in the Cove
the past few days, returned homo
Wednesday.—Messenger.
Mr. Julius Brown would not pay
the fines assessed against him for
the mistreatment of convicts in his
company and Gov. Atkinson very
properly and promptly took the
oonvicts away from Mr Brown. The
Governor is the right man in the
right place doing the right thing
at the right time and in the right
way.—Meriwether Vindicator.
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