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VOL )X HIE NEWS IN BRIEF Items C fleeted From Every Quarter of the Globe. ~ 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. ■ Harmless, reliable, sure. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report 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. Electric Bitters. Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for any season, but perhaps more generally needed when the languid, exhausted feeling prevails when the liver is torpid and slug gish and the need of a tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt use of this medicine has often averted long and perhaps fatal bilious fo vers. No medicine will act more surely in counteracting and freeing the system from the malarial poi son. Headache, Indigestion, Con stipation, Dizziness yield to Elec tric Putters. 50c and SIOO per bottle at 11. H. Arrington’s Drug Store. rrtE MOST remarkable cures on record have been accomplished by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. It is unequalled for all BLOOD DESEASES. —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 bowel com plaints. For sale by H. E. Arriogi n druggist. Summcr | 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. 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