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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. mmm ' " . 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. ■ — ■—* - 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. JY 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 Nervine Tonic qualities which it possesses and by its great curative power* upon the digestive organs, the stomach, the liver and the bowels. No remedy 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 American Nervine Tonic. 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. i'/ : V 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.