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THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
The North Carolina Farmers’ alliance,
in session at Morchead City, on Wednes¬
day, elected as president of the state
alliance Mr. Marion Butler.
A full investigation of the books of ex
Business Agent Wynn, of the Georgia
State Alliance Exchange, at Atlanta, de¬
velops a shortage of $20,891,00.
Secret service officers seized nine thou¬
sand dollars’ worth of opium in Shasta,
Gal., Tues lay, and broke up nine furna¬
ces run by Chinese in manufacturing
opium from the crude material.
A Jackson, Miss., dispatch says:
George carried DeSoto, Tate, Lee, Clay
and Benton counties Saturday, which
gives him a majority of the legislature
with a dozen other certain counties yet to
act. Walthall’s election is also settled.
The annual exhibition of the South
Carolina State Horticultural Society be¬
gan far at Greenville, Friday. The exhibits
surpass those of any previous year,
and were pronounced by competent
judges to excel anything heretofore ex¬
hibited south. *
A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch of Thurs¬
day reports that Mrs. Ex-President Polk
is in a dying condition. Her trouble is
general congestion of the system, which
her physicians regard as promising fatal
results, owing to her extreme age of
eighty-eight years.
B, D. Whilden, arrested iu Oregon for
attempted insurance frauds, and for ob¬
taining money under false pretenses, was
lodged in jail at Birmingham, Ala.,
Wednesday. Whilden disappeared from
the city eighteen months ago, aud his
wife brought suit for $40,000 insurance
on his life.
Ou Friday a powder factory on the
Ohio river, at Kellogg, W. Va., four
miles below Huntington, blew up.
There were about two tons of powder in
it. John Bayles and Timothy CoDey
were in the mill, but only unrecognizable
fragments of their bodies can be of found,
anil two bucketfuls of shreds human
flesh could be gathered.
A telegram of Sunday from Gaines
ville, Fla., siys that the man shot rjrar
Bronson, Saturday, aud supposed to be
Harmon Murray, the negro desperado,
has turned out to be Jtsse Burton, the
negro who shot Deputy Sheriff Carson,
at Branford, Fla.. about six months ago.
He was a desperate character, only sec
ond to Murray in crime and bloodshed.
An Opelika, Ala., dispatch says: Ex
tensive preparations are being made lor
the next East Alabama fair. If possible
the management intends to obtain a more
magnificent success than last fall. It is
probable the buildings will have to be
enlarged, as the applications for space
in eveiy department are larger than ever.
Not a stone will be left, unturned to
make it a complete success.
A special of Sunday from Cullman,
Ala., say s a few d a vs ago Monroe Evans
and his son John were arrested at Bailey
ton, in that county charged with shoot
ing Pierce Mooney last. May. On Satur
day they were taken before a local ius
tice of the peace, who declined to try
them, but bound taem over without bail.
They were put under guard at a neigh
bor’s house over night. About midnight
thev were taken lrom the house and
hung to a tree.
OFFERED TO SELL OUT.
Serious Charges Against Mem¬
bers of the Legislature.
The following resolution was intro¬
duced in the Georgia legislature Monday
morning by Representative Oattes, of
Muscogee county, and after being imme¬
diately transmitted to the senate, was
promptly concurred in by that body:
Whereas, Charges are being circulated
over the state that during the race for
United States senator at the fall term of
this general assembly, as many as eight
members of the legislature offered for
sale; and, whereas, said report is a reflec¬
tion upon the geueral assembly; there¬
fore, be it
Resolved, by the house, the senate
concurring, That a committee of three
from the house and two from the senate
be appointed £o investigate said charges.
Resolved, further, That said committee
be authorized to send foi persons and
papers and administer oaths to witnesses.
The reading of the resolution created
a great sensation in both houses.
REDUCING EXPENSES.
A Week’s Holiday in Each Month
in-the R. & D. Shops. Rich¬
Muster Mechanic Gieen, ot the
mond and Danville railroad shops in
Columbia, S. C., who has been in con¬
ference with the authorities at Washing¬
ton, says it has been decided, in order to
cut dojvn the heavy expenses of the sys¬
tem, ,to shut down all the big line shops
owned by it, from one end of the to
theother,a week out of every month until
further action is taken. The total sav¬
ing to the company per mouth on all its
shops will be about one hundred thousand
dollars. The Columbia shops have a pay
roll of about sixteen thousand dollars
per month. This out down of one-fourth
will, therefore, be pretty generally felt,
not only in Columbia, but in other cities,
as some of the other shops are much
larger.
A L0VELY archipelago,
SOME PACTS OP INTEREST ABOUT
THE BERMUDA ISLANDS.
Their Geographical Situation, Pop¬
ulation, Government aiul Pro¬
ducts—A Delightful Climate.
These islands were also called Som
mera’ Isles, and were named respectively
from Burmudez, a Spaniard, who first
sighted them in 1527, and from Sir
George Sommers, an Englishman, whose
shipwreck there in 1609 was the imme¬
diate occasion of their beiug colonized
from Virginia.
This low and lovely archipelago is a
mere group of sparkling specks of rock
and reef, with a thin covering of earth
here and there, surrounded by a wild
waste of surging sea.
Though the group comprises more
than three hundred islets, yet it contains
only 12,000 acres, or about forty-seveu
square miles, iu all, the whole occupy¬
ing a space of nbout twenty miles in
length by little more than six mile3 in
breadth.
The four principal islands are and St.
George’s, Bermuda, Somerset Ire¬
land. Among the minor islands—St.
David, Cooper, Smith, Long Bird and
Nonsuch form numerous picturesque
creeks and bays ot considerable size and
depth, such as the Great Sound, Castle
Harbor, Harrington Sound and others.
Their elevation is trifling, the highest
land scarcely attaining the altitude of 500
feet above the level.
In aspect they are similar to the West
Indian groups, except that they remind
the voyager, by their proximity, of the
lake scenery of North America. They
are geographically situated in latitude 30
degrees and 20 minutes north, and longi¬
tude 64 degrees aud 50 minutes west,
and are pbout 600 miles east from the
coast of South Carolina.
Their population i3 about equally of
blacks and whites, and amounts to fifteen
or twenty thousand. The condition of
the people have oeen greatly improved
by multiplied educational facilities and
the establishment of friendly and bene¬
ficial societies, which have served to pro¬
mote 'lie welfare ol the blacks since
their emancipation,
The harbor of St. George’s is large
enough to contain the whole British
Navy, but it is extremely difficulty ol in
gres3 and egress in consequence of its
contracted entrance. The principal
island, or mainland, as it is called, is
about twenty miles in length, but it
rarely exceeds one and a half in width,
In the centre of the island, and on the
north side of a beautiful bay, is the town
0 f Hamilton, which is now the seat of
government. fortified Ireland
The only places are
and St. George's Islands, where large
forts have been built, which render the
islands almost impregnable,
At the former of these is the naval
dockyard, off of which there is good an
chorage and moorings laid down for fif
teen or twenty ships of war, though the
breakwater is extensive enough to con
tain a krge fleet of the line.
With the exception of two or three
small detachments, the chief military
force is stationed at St. George’s,
T he £ principal J exports T from the Ber¬
mudas re owro( tt tat ’ oni ’
. .. d , , faw ; h f’ lu . P roducm , . S
P a a ° S
wb ’f tbe P eo P le excel \
^, e * ladlD f> companies own several
hundred , small vessels, which are chiefly
employed in the trade between the north
ern colonies and the West Indies. The
whale fishery off the islands employs
some of the people, and might be profit¬
ably carried on with suitable capital.
The waters about the islands and reefs
abound in an endless variety of fish, but
scarcely any are at the present time cured
for exportation. Cattle and sheep are
plentiful, and large quantities of poultry
are raised to supply the numerous ships
that call at these islands. All the or¬
dinary products of tropical climates,
both animal and. vegetable, are produced
in abundance. The fruits aie varied and
excellent. The Bermuda arrowroot has
a world-wide celebrity, and is fully
equal to that which is brought from the
East Indies.
Cassava and .
yams maize are grown,
but only for home consumption; sugar
cane, coffee and cotton succeed well, but
are little cultivated; cocoa and an in
ferior kind of indigo are indigenous.
The Bermudas possess a most delight¬
ful climate duriug the summer, neither
suffering from the rigors of the north
nor the fervid heat of more tropical re¬
gions. Nor in the winter is much cold
experienced.
The soil i3 fertilized by heavy dews
and the near proximity of the ocean,
never suffering from the drought so com¬
mon in the West Indies.
The government is similar to that of
most all the other English colonial de¬
pendencies. The Governor is appointed
by the Crown, with a salary of $11,000,
made up by perquisites to about $15,000.
ile is assisted by a Privy Council of
nine, nominated by the-Crown, which
also performs the functions of a legisla
iive * council
The Home of Assembly has thirty-si
members, elected by nine parishes, each
returning four.
The electoral qualification is the pos
session of property valued at not less
than $300, which at present enfranchises
ubout 980 votes.
Ecclesiastically Bermuda is attached
to the bishopric of Newfoundland. The
Roman Catholics, Wesleyans and Pres
byterians are is also well represented.
Education favored and supported b>
the Government, and attendance at
school is made compulsory. All who have
carefully studied the resources of the
Bermudas unite in prophecying the rapid
approach of an era cf general prosperity
and thrift that shall throw iu the shade
ull their past progress.
Tired Gold Pens.
“There, that pen is tired and will
have to rest a month or so.”
The speaker was the mortgage clerk
of one of the principal savings batiks in
this city, and as he spoke he carefully
wiped a largo gold pen and put it away
in a case.
A Post reporter, who had just entered
the buuk to have some back dividends
entered in his book, overheard the re¬
mark and smiled.
“Oh, you needn’t laugh,” said the
clerk, “for it is the true business I am
telling you. Gold peus have to rest now
and then, Here I have, I suppose, two
dozen gold pens. If I use one for sev¬
eral weeks or so I find it will not write
to my satisfaction. Sometimes it is too
soft and sometimes it is too hard, or the
ink does not aeetn to flow well.
“For a long time I could not find out
what the matter was, but at last I went
to a jeweler, who, after examining my
pens, said, ‘Give them a rest and they
will be good T * >
as as uew.
He then explained thnt the constant
use of the pen had the same effect on the
metal as is the case when a razor is used
with great frequency.
“Some sort of the electro-magnetic ac
tion takes places in the metal, which has b
tendency to bring into parallel lines all
particles, and # in that condition
the o
razor cannot be made to hold edge, and
a pen is equally refractory.
“If the razor is laid aside for a time
the particles of metal gradually resume a
more or less confused arrangement and
razor takes on and retains a keen edge.
“It is the same way with a gold pen.
Now, if when one of my pens gets to
acting bad I lay it aside for a month or
so it will be all right again. That’s why
I said that pen was tired and wanted a
rest .”—San Francisco Post.
Coffea-Cuj) Barometer.
According to the bright little Span¬
ish building journal, the Gaceta de Obrat
Publicas , a cup of pure coffee, with the
addition of a lump of sugar, forms an
excellent barometer. The sugar should
be put into the coffee without stirring, and,
a moment afterwards, a quantity of bub¬
bles, due to the air contained in the
sugar, will be seen to rise to the surfaco
of the liquid. If the bubbles collect in
the middle of the cup, the weather will
be fair; if, on the contrary, they leave
the centre and adhere to the sides of the
cup. forming a ring of bubbles, with a
clear space iu the middle, there will be
rain; if they scatter themselves indiffer¬
ently on the surface, the weather will be
variable, while a cluster of bubbles at
one side of the cup indicates rain, No
one, apparently, has attempted to ex¬
plain the connection between the behav¬
ior of the bubbles aud atmospheric con¬
ditions, but it is said that the indications
of the coffee-cup barometer generally
agree with those of a mercurial barome¬
ter placed near by.
Virtues of Vichy.
“Vichy water is becoming a very popu¬
lar drink,” remarked a soda-water foun¬
tain attendant to a News reporter. “II
it was only more palatable more of il
would be drank than of all the othei
waters combined. It possesses wonder¬
ful thirst assuaging properties, and is the
favorite drink of all who are aware o)
this fact, among those being every phy¬
sician whom I have ever seen drink al
this fountain. They certainly would not
use it unless the water wa3 beneficial. Of
course the liking for fruit juice syrups
and other sweet drinks which most peo¬
ple possess retards the growth of vichy in
popular favor, but it is only a question
of time until it will supplant many of the
fancy drinks, as peoE> realize that it is
the healthiest drink known for the hot
weather. A good way to render the
vichy palatable is to have a few spoonfuls
of acid phosphate of some sort put iu the
^lass. York News.
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Public Lands in the United States,
The public lauds of the United States
still unsold and open to settlement are
divided into two classes, one class be¬
ing sold by the Government for $1.25
per acre as the minimum price, the other
at $2.50 per acre, being the alternate
sections reserved by the United States in
land grants to railroads, etc. Such tracts
are sold upon application to the land
register. Heads of families, or citizens
over twenty-one years, who may settle
upon any quarter section (or 160 acres)
have the right under the preemption law
of prior claim to purchase, on complying
with the regulations. There is a land
register at Independence, at Humboldt,
at T ^ os -Angeles, . at bacramento, at San
* rauclsco . > at Shasta and at Visalia, in
California, and at either of these offices
applications for land in that State will be
* dcd and an ^ < l ucs i ious answered.— Bos
totl Cultivator.
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Will Waters, aged twenty-one years,
was drowned four miles above Kuox
ville. ville, Tenn.. Tenn., 'the the other other dav. day. He He was was pn. en
joying a day’s fishing. He had a num
ber of live fish, which he strung around
his neok and attempted to swim the
river. He sank on the way over, pulled
down by tho live fish.
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THE GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN
r ' ERVINE TONIC
AND
Stomach^Liver Cure
The Most Astonishing Medical Discovery ot
the Last One Hundred Years.
It is Pleasant to the Taste as the Sweetest Nectar.
It is Safe and Harmless as the Purest Milk.
This wonderful Nervine Tonic Luis only recently been introduced into
this country by the Great South has American been Medicine’Company, known bj the native and yet inhab¬ ita
^reat value as a curative agent rely almost long wholly medicinal
itants of South America, who upon its great
powers to cure every form of disease by which they are overtaken. and
This new and valuable South American medicine possesses powers
qualities hitherto unknown ^ the medical of profession. This medicine haa
completely solved the problem of the cure Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Liver
Complaint, and diseases of the general Nervous System. It also cures all
forms of failing health from whatever cause. It performs this by the Great
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compares with this wonderfully valuable Nervine Tonic as a builder and
strengthener of the life forces of the human body and as a great renewer of
a broken down constitution. It is also of more real permanent value in tha
treatment and used cure of this diseases continent. of the Lungs It is than marvelous any ten consumption for rem¬
edies ever on a cure nervousness
of females of all ages. Ladies who are approaching the critical period known
as chauge in life, Bhould not fail to use this great Nervine Tonic almost
constantly the danger. for the space This of two strengthener or three years. and curative It will carry is of them inestimable safely
over and infirm, great because its energizing properties wLU
value to the aged hold life. It will add great fifteen the lives of
give them a new ou ten or years to
many of those who will use a half dozen bottles of the remedy each year.
CURES
Nervousness and
Nervous Prostration,
Nervous Headache and
Sick Headache,
Female Weakness,
All Diseases of Women,
Nervous Chills,
Nervous Paralysis, Paroxysms and
Nervous Choking
Hot Flashes, Heart,
Mental Palpitation Despondency, of the
Sleeplessness, St. Dance,
Vitus’s
Nervousness of Females,
Nervousness of Old Age,
Neuralgia, Pains Heart,
in the
Pains iu the Back,
Health.
Ail these and many other com plain (a cured by this wonderful Nervine Tonic,
RSERVOUS DISEASES.
As a cure for every class of Nervous Diseases, no remedy has been abl®
to compare with the Nervine Tonic, which is very pleasant and harmless in
all its effects upon the youngest child or the oldest and most delicate individ¬
ual. Nine-tenths of all the ailments to which the human family When H heir, is ara
dependent on nervous exhaustion and impaired digestion. there aa
insufficient supply of nerve food in the blood, a general state of debility of
the brain, spinal marrow and nerves is the result. Starved nerves, lik*
starved muscles, become strong when the right kind of food is supplied, and
a thousand weaknesses and ailments disappear as tho nerves recover. As the
nervous system must supply all the power by which the vital forces of tha
body are carried on, it is the first to suffer for want of perfect nutrition.
Ordinary food does not contain a sufficient quantity of tho kind of nutriment
d cessarr to repair the wear our present moda or living and labor impose*
upon the nerves. For this reason it becomes necessary that a nerve food be
supplied. This recent production of the South American Continent has been
found, by analysis, to contain the essential elements out of which nerve tissue
is formed. This accounts for its magic power to cure all forma of nervoua
derangements.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, IK0., Aug. 20, ’M.
To the (heal South American Medicine Co.:
De. r Gents:—I desire to say to you that I
have suffered for many years with a very seri¬
ous disease of the stomach and nerves. I tried
every medicine I could bear good of until but I nothing ad¬
done vised me any appreciable Great South American Nervine was
to try your
Tonic and Stomach and Liver Cure, that and since I
using several bottles of ft 1 must say am
surprised at ita wonderful powers to cure the
stomach and general nervous system. If every¬
one knew the value of this remedy a a I do, you
would not bo able to supply the demand.
J. A. Hardk*,
A SWORN CURE FOR ST. VITUS’S DAI. OR CHOREA.
CRivrFORimvnxE, Ind., old, May had 19,1*SG. been af¬
My daughter, twelve years
flicted for several months with Chorea or St.
Vitus’s Dance. She was reduced to a skeleton,
could not walk, but could not talk, had could handle not swal¬
low anything milk. I to her
like an commenced infant. Doctor giving and neighbors the South gave Ameri¬ her
up. I her
can Nervine Tonic; the effects were very sur¬
prising. In three days she was rid of the ner¬
vousness, aud rapidly improved. Four bottles
cured her completely. I think the South
discovered, American Nervine aud would the recommend grandest remedy it ever
to every¬
one. Mrs. W. S. Enshinqee.
Stale, Montgomery af Indiana, County, \ f " 1 ,
Subscribed and sworn II. to before me Public. thl» May
Chas.
INDIGESTION AND DYSPEPSIA.
The Great South American Nervine Tonic
Which we the now offer of you, Indigestion, is the only Dyspepsia, absolutely and unfailing the remedy train of ever discov¬
ered for cure vast symptoms
and horrors whioh are the result of disease and debility of the human stom¬
ach. No person can afford to pass by this jewel of incalculable value who k
affected by disease of the Stomach, because the experience aud testimony of
thousands go to prove that this is the one and only one great cure in th»
world for this universal destroyer. There is n o case of unmalignant diseaas
of the gtomach which can resist the wonderful « urative powers of the Soutk
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Every Bottle Warranted
Price, Large 18 Ounce Bottles, $1.25.Trial Size, 15 cents.
NEILL 5c ALMOND,
Sole Wholesale and Retail Agents
FOR HARALSON COUNTY CA.
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Broken Constitution,
Debility Indigestion of Old and Age, Dyspepsia,
Heartburn and Sour Stomach,
"Weight and Tenderness in Stomach,
Loss of Appetite,
Dizziness Frightful and Dreams, Ringing in the Fan,
"WeakneM of Extremities aud
Fainting, Impure and Impoverished Bloed,
Boils and Carbuncles,
Scrofula, Scrofulous and Ulcers,
Consumption Swelling Lungs,
of the
Catarrh of the Lungs, Chrouia Cough,
Bronchitis and
Liver Complaint,
Chroma Diarrhoea,
Delicate and Scrofulous Children,
Summer of Infants.
Mr. Solomon • Ind., “X have
of Friends, of Darlington, Great says: South Ameri¬
used twelve bottles of The
can Nervine Tonic and Stomach and Liver Cure,
aud I consider that every bottle did for me I hav* on*
hundred dollars good worth night’s of sleep good, for because twenty year*
not had a horrible dreams,
on account of irritation, prostration, pain, which haf
and been general caused by nervous chronic indigestion and dys¬
pepsia of the stomach and by a broken down
condition of my nervous system. But now I can
lie down and sleep all night as sweetly as a baby, think
and X feel like a sound man. introduced I do not
there has ever >■*"— » medicine into
this country v will at all compare with
this Nervine . a cure for the stomach.”
CRAWFORUsvinix, Ind., June 22,1SS7.
Uj daughter, eleven year* old, was severely
afflicted with 8t. Vitus’s Dance or Chorea. W#
gave her three and one-half bottles of South
American Nervine and she is completely re¬
stored. I believe it will cure every case of St.
Vitus’s Dance. I have kept it in my family foi
two years, and am sure It is tho greatest rem¬
edy sia, all in forms the world of Nervous for Indigestion Dlsordors aud and Dyspep¬ Falling
Health from whatever cause.
John T. Max.
Subscribed and sworn to befora m* thl* Jun*
22,1J87. Chas. W. Wrioht,
Publlo.