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The Leader.
MfcM Every »«Jarelay Evealaf.
PBRnRR ' vEf, : : Mississippi.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Thk commissioner of pensions says
there are 50,000 pension attorneys in
this country.
American property owners in Culm
have lost, it is stated, $20,000,000 ,
through Spain's maladministration of
Cuban affairs.
Thk secretary of the National Spir
itualistic association, at the recent
meeting of the society at Cleveland,
O.. said that there were 152,000 spiritu
alists in this country.
At the patent office at Washington
on the 27th of December S75 applica
tions for patents were received, being
the highest on record for any one day
in the history of the office.
In an addreas before the Illinois
State Teachers’ association at Spring
field. President E. Benjamin Andrews,
of Brown university, strongly urged
free text-books and favored free
lunches in the schools.
Mint Director Preston estimates
the gold production of the world in
1897 at $234,000,000, an increase over
1890 of $30,000,000. The United States
will lead the column with $00,000,000,
an increase of 14 per cent.
• Early In the spring Dr. Ziegfeld
will begin the building of the Chicago
Husical college, the estimated cost of
t/hich will be $300,000. It is his avowed
intention to make Chicago the musical
canter of the United States.
Moke states will elect governors or
other state officers in 1898 than were
chosen in 1897, legislatures which will
choose United States senators will be
elected in many states and a house of
representatives of S57 members will be
renewed. _
Gen. Mii.es has recommended, it was
reported, that the uniform of the
United States army be changed to cor
respond with the more gorgeous uni
forms of European armies, but Secre
tary Alger does not think favorably of
the recommendation.
John T. Shayxe, a member of the
Commercial association at Chicago, is
planning to give that city the grandest
exposition building and botanical gar
den that the world ever saw. It will
take the place of the Coliseum build
ing which burned down recently.
The apple crop of 1S«6 on this
continent, the New York Sun says,
was by far the greatest ever known.
It is now estimated to have amounted
to 70,000,000 barrels. The apple crop
of the present year will be, it is said,
about one-third as large as that of last
year; it is now estimated at 20,000,000
barrels. This, however, is more than
an average crop.
Baris police statistics just published
effectually prove that murder does’not
pay from a financial point of view.
They enumerate 21 murders by which
the assassins averaged 810, and all the
criminals were guillotined. The sta
tistics also cite cases of over 100 more
or less famous murders yielding in
many eases but a fe%v cents. The big
gest haul was 805.
Thf. Kainy Pay club of Syracuse, N.
Y., which was organized with a flour
ish of short skirts last spring, has col
lapsed, owing to the sensitiveness oi
the members to criticism. A news
paper cartoon broke the spirit of the
girls. This represented that the club
had been formed for vulgar display
rather than for the promotion of dress
reform, and was so pointed that the
members concluded to abandon the
“object lesson’- promenades on rainy
days. _
Capt. Wii.i.iam C. Oi.drieve, of Bos
ton, has planned to walk across the
Atlantic ocean. He will begin his
journey July 4, accompanied in a boat
by Capt. Andrews, famous by reason of
his voyage across the Atlantic in a
small boat. The sea-going shoes of
Capt. Oldrieve are really a pair of
cedar boxes five feet long, with fins on
the bottom and sides. They are very
light and capable of sustaining 140
pounds, but, as Oldrieve weighs only
ISO. they are as good to him as a steam
er’s deck.
A Rio international health exposi
tion will open in New York on April
25. The promoters propose to make
their show practical, scientific and ed
ucational, covering every thing that re
lates to health, indoors and outdoors,
and showing all the sanitary and
hygienic progress of the century in
house heating, ventilation, plumbing,
and so on, and also comparative ex
hibits of new and primitive hospital
arrangements, systems of sewerage for
cities and villages, a modern school
room and the other kind, model tene
ments, health food and many other
things.
The figures compiled by the Rail
road Gazette show that the new rail
roads built in the United states in the
year 1897 amounted to about 1,988
miles. These figures are partly esti
mated and are subject to small correc
tion. The number of miles of new
railroads built in the year 1890 was
1,997, and in the year 1895 1,922 miles.
California built more track than any
other state in 1897, namely, 199 miles,
and the largest amount built by any
one railroad was 209.4, by the Kansas
City, Pittsburg & Uulf. Missouri built
110 miles of new- track, but in Kansas
not a mile was laid.
In a Philadelphia hospital is a blind,
crippled, nine-year-old girl undergoing
treatment for hip disease, who has in
a few weeks come to be known as a
human phonograph. She is said by
the doctors and nurses to have the
most marvelous memory of any human
being that ever came under scientific
examination. Whatever is repeated
to her seems to become fixed in her
memory as steadfastly as the records
of the phonograph aie taken on the
wax cylinder, and days afterward she
ean repeat poems, speeches and stories
word for word as they were read, ller
Male is Josephine Brenner.
The war department at Washington
will soon issue a handsome book
entitled “Medals of Honor Issued by
the War Department Up to and Includ
ing October 31. 1897,” with the laws,
orders and regulations relative to the
medal, the ribbon to be worn with the
Modal and the knot to be worn in lieu
of the medal. In 1862 congress author
ised the prepai ation of 2,000 medals of
honor for auch non-commissioned
uttoers and privates as distinguished
themselves by their gallantry in action
and other soldierlike qualities. In all,
8.578 medals have been distributed, 28
going to Missouri volunteers.
Nkxm.a Tula has at last succeeded
ia harnessing the energy of the sun.
is only a lew months sgo that
an non need that he had perfected
mention by which electricity
he transmitted over tbe whole
i made to work at tbe will
was said that the great
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Ttie senate and house sub-commit
tees on Indian affairs on the 27th con
sidered the Curtis bill in joint session
and will urge that the bill be passed
this session.
Representatives of the brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, Loco
motive Firemen and other lailway
orders are in Washington working
diligently to defeat the nomination of
Judge Paxson for interstate commerce
commissioner.
The nomination of S. N. D. North, of
Massachusetts, for census superintend
ent will be made as soon as legislation
providing for the census has passed
congress.
It was announced at Washington
that the report of the monetary com
mission will be published in a short
time and it will present a comprehen
sive plan for dealing with the legal
tender notes, the banking system and
existing silver coins. A bill carrying
out the recommendations of the com
mission will also be prepared and be
ready for publication in a few days
after the report.
A SPECIAL dispatch to London on the
28th from Shanghai said that the
Japanese fleet, fully equipped for war,
was awaiting instructions near Goto
island, and that Japan would cer
tainly oppose a permanent occupation
of Port Arthur, China, by Russia.
Many members of congress have re
ceived protests from theirconstituents
against Commissioner Kvans proposal
to publish a list of pensioners.
At this session of congress a strong
effort will be made to amend the in
terstate commerce law and give the
commissioners more power to enforce
its decrees.
Tiif. report said to have been started
by ex-Secretary Vanderlip that Secre
tary Gage had tendered his resigna
tion to President McKinley in conse
quence of his (Gage's) financial views
has been denied by Mr. Vaciderlip.
Word was received at the office of
George Gould in New York that
Countess Castellaue, formerly Anna
Gould, gave birth to a son on the 29th
in France.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, has re
plied at Washington in an opeu letter to
, Secretary Gage's recent letter taking
■ exceptions to resolutions passed by the
federation with reference to the Gage
financial bill. Mr. Gompers scores the
secretary's currency scheme and says
it would mean financial rule by the
banks.
The British admiralty has requisi
tioned three of the fastest steamers
used by the Pacific Railway company
and each has been supplied with for
midable armament in case of emer
gency. The requisition proves that
the British government looks upon the
situation in China as an emergency of
the gravest character.
Congratulations were sent to Wil
liam K. Gladstone on the 29th, it being
the SSth birthday of the British states
man, who was sojourning at Cannes,
France, on account of neuralgia.
Tiie president has signed the bill
passed by congress “prohibiting the
killing of fur seals in the waters of the
North Pacific ocean.'*
Gen. Gomez, the Cuban insurgent
general, was recently interviewed and
said that for Spain to offer autonomy
to the insurgents was an insult: that
the insurgents were fighting for inde
pendence and, although they would
welcome the intervention of the United
States, they can, if let alone, achieve
their independence unaided.
The next development in the rela
tions of the United States government
with Spain will be instructions to
Minister Woodford to insist on the pay
ment of the Ruiz claim. The case lias
been put in readiness in the state
department and the note relating to it
will go in within a few days. The
sum of 5175,000 was first asked by the
widow of the man who was murdered
in a Cuban jail, but this was scaled
down to 5140,000 by the government.
Congressman McCulloch, of Arkan
sas, advocates legislation by congress |
to establish in St. Louis a depository of
all the surplus gold and silver in the
United States treasury. He thinks it !
possible, although improbable, that
New York and Washington might be
captured by a combination of European
powers, but that all the land forces of
the United States could be mobilized
at St. Louis before an invading force
could reach there and the wealth of
the government would thus not be in
60 much danger.
11181JKLLAXEOCS.
James Reed, a negro, murdered liis
mistress, Susie Blakely, at Kansas City,
Mo., on the 28th. A lot of boys heard
the shots and they followed the negro
until he was arrested. Reed comes of :
a murderous family, his father having ;
been hanged for murdering the man's
mother.
A band of raiders from Koodestan
massacred all the inhabitants of a
Christian town—about 800 souls—near
Salmas, Persia.
A mob at Glendora, Miss., captured
Joe Hopkins, who murdered two men,
and they hanged him by the heels and
burned him to death in that posture.
A i’KIBoxek named Harry English atr
tempted to burn his way out of the
Ysleta (Tex.) jail and wah cremated.
While returning from a Christmas
entertainment at Terhune, Ind., a
freight train on the Monon road struck
a carriage containing Mr. and Mrs.
Moore and Miss Brattain. Mr. Moore
was only slightly injured, but Mrs.
Moore was fatally hurt and Miss Brat
tain killed. Mr. and Mrs. Moore had
only recently been married and this
was the first time they had been away
from home together.
The paper mill of the Joliet Paper
company, the manufacturing plant of
the Central Carpet Dining company
and a portion of the woven wire fence
factory of W. J. Adams at Joliet, 11L.
were destroyed by fire.
Ex-Qckej* Lilieokalash will advo
cate the annexation of the Hawaiian
islands by the United States, provided
a pension is settled upon her just as
her niece is provided for.
Robert Jordan’s U-year-old daugh
ter had her dress ignited at Ringgold,
Tenn. She ran into a field, but was
overcome by the lire and her death re
sulted after two hours of suffering.
"Mat wheat will sell for 92—some
time.” This was the sensational
prophecy made by John P. Grier, who
represents the concern that is doing
Levi Leiter & Son's business on the
Chicago change. Grier refaked to
elaborate bia prediction when pressed.
Ax old woman named Mrs. Anna
Fowlery was burned to death at Bor
dentown, N. J., the house and adjoin
ing property valued at IU.000 being
consumed.
Tat busineaa portion of Mnchaka
nork, la., a mining town near Oska
loosa, was practically deatroyed by fire
on the 30th. The Are started In a res
taurant and the flames burned them
selves out, there being no water to
fight them.
.Iamrs McCot, of Mnd Run. W. Va.,
forbade his sistci^in-law, Mias Sham
blin. to go to school, hut she took her
books and atarted. He followed and
struck her a blow with hia flat, killing
her instantly.
Secrktart Loso has submitted to
the house naval committee a draft of a
bill to secure the attendance and testi
mony of civilian witnesses before
naval courts-martial without giving
the naval courts undue authority.
Tiik commissioner of pensions has
been giving some attention to a prop
osition whereby the services of pension
attorneys engaged in the prosecution
of claims before the office may be dis
pensed with and their work done by
government officials. He thinks it
would be a great saving to both pen
sioners and government.
A news agency reported on the 30th
that the British naval reserves were
being mobilized. This created great
excitement in London, for it was held
to mean that Great Britain was pre
paring for serious trouble in China.
A pispatch received at the interior
department on the 30th announced
that the government of the Seminole
nation of Indians had ratified the
agreement recently entered into be
tween the Dawes Indian commission
and a similar body representing the
Seminoles. The agreement must now
be ratified by congress to become ef
fective.
Tnr. crop bulletinsof the department
of agriculture next spring will be cen
tered more largely upon the collection
and dissemination of exact facts re
garding crop areas than in guesses on
conditions, thereby reversing the prac
tice which has prevailed for many
years. The reports will have less dis
turbing influence upon the speculative
markets and will be of a more real
value to the trade and to producers.
Empress, the East Indian python on
exhibition at Boston, was found early
the other morning with a litter of
young amounting to nearly 100.
J here was mucn txcueracni me
other day among the people of Brown
county, Tex., over the reported discov
ery of a pot of gold, which it was
claimed is only a small part of a large
fortune that lies buried near the same
spot by a colony of Spaniards who
were afterward massacred by the In
dians.
Mrs. William Ki.ik was burned to
death at St. Louis by her clothes ignit
ing from the explosion of a coal oil
lamp.
The office of the Texas Independent,
a populist paper published at Green
ville, Tex., was destroyed by an incen
diary fire.
The business portion of Cantril, la.,
was destroyed by fire.
A negro domestic named Nellie
Johnson was hacked with a hatchet so
fearfully at Kansas City, Mo., on the
night of the 29th that she died a few
hours after. The murderer escaped,
but the police were convinced that the
crime was committed by the woman's
husband, a negro teamster.
The three-vear-old child of J. W.
Hodges, of Stillwater, Ok., was burned
to death. His clothing caught fire
from coals in a bucket of ashes.
Fifteen Indians, convicted of vari
ous violations of tribal laws, were pub
licly whipped at the recent term of
court at Alikehi, I. T.
The plant of the Austin Manufactur
ing company, makers of agricultural
implements, at Chicago was destroyed
by fire on the night of the 29th and
Frank Sutton, an employe, was caught
in the flames and burned to death.
Loss, Silo,(100: covered by insurance.
H. Ci.ay Evans, the commissioner of
pensions, created a sensation by de
nouncing pension attorneys. He
charges that they are alone to blame
for frauds on the roll of honor.
The other night a fire broke out at
Port au Prince, llayti, and destroyed
800 houses, including a number of ware
houses. About 3,000 people were ren
dered homeless.
Secretary Wilson, of the depart
ment of agriculture, will try to get
from congress enough money to estab
lish inspection by microscopists on an
elaborate scale of all butter, fruits and
other farm products going abroad.
The Arcade building at Detroit,
Mich., burned on the 28th and the
structure to the west of it, occupied by
the Detroit Free Press Printing com
pany, was also nearly ruined. The
loss on the two buildings and contents
will reach 8125,000.
A new bridge across the Cimarron
river at Perkins, Ok., was dedicated
recently. The last nail, of solid silver,
was driven by Miss Maud Devaul.
The business houses in the center of
St. Louis were shaken to their founda
turns on the 2Ttb by a terrinc explosion
of a charge of dynamite used in trying
to raise the sunken tug boat Dolphin,
which went down in the Mississippi
during the tornado. The attempt
proved futile.
A sew order, the enforcement of
which it is believed will expedite the
disposition of pension claims now
pending, has been issued by Commis
sioner Evans, of the pension office, as
follows: "Hereafter claims for in
crease of pension will not be considered
within 12 months from the last action
—allowance or rejection.”
Rev. Dk. Sheldon Jackson sailed
from New York on the 25tli for Nor
way and Lapland with power from the
I'nited States government to purchase
500 reindeer, harness and other equip
ments for use in transporting supplies
to the Yukon miners and to hire 50
Laplanders to drive the outfits.
Joe Walcott and Tom Tracey met
at Chicago on the 27th for a six-round
bout. The decision of the referee was
a draw-.
John Agnew and Thomas Kennedy
were in a car in the Alden shaft at
Wilkesbarre, l’a., on the 27th, when
the rope broke and it fell 450 feet and
the men were dashed to pieces.
BICYCLING ADVICE.
Fancy riding in public places is at all
times bad form, whether on a country
road or in a city park.
When riding in the city use the han
dlebars. They are designed for that
purpose, and may save a doctor’s bill
or a lawyer’s fee.
It is the fashion nowadays to have a
monogram engraved on your wheel. It
is inexpensive, decorative, and a useful
means of identification.
Castor gloves, with fur wrists .and
wool lining, are most useful for winter
riding. Leggings of castor are also
worn in frosty weather.
Don’t ring your bell too often, there
is already noise enough in the city;
don’t fail to ring it when necessary, as
there are funerals enough everywhere.
Slim girls, whose lack of avoirdupois
will permit it, are discarding corsets
from their wheeling wardrobe, saying
that they ride better, feel better and
look better without them.
Dismounting from a wheel is not one
of those things that “were well done
quickly." Dismount slowly, even where
danger threatens; otherwise, the
chances are you will jump from the
frying-pan into the fire.
CHINESE TERRITORY.
The Rapid Movement of Events
in the Far East
I’f'W.m Aligning for thr strugglr The
l’nil.,I Stnira Will Taler No Tart In lha
Srramblr Opinion# of lilplomala
t norrrun! In thr Dlvlftloa.
Washington, Dec. 31.—The rapid
movement of events in the far east con
tinues to be an absorbing topic in dip
lomatic circles here, particularly at
tlie embassies and legations of the
powers which are aligning for an ap
parent struggle for Chinese territory.
There is no further talk of the United
Mates ns a possible factor in the con
test, as the recent understanding at a
cabinet meeting is accepted as remov
ing Ibis government from the field of
controversy. At the same time, an
eminent authority on international
affairs is quoted as saying that
a situation might develope wiien
the United States would be called upon
to go much further than protect Amer
ican interests at the treaty ports in
China. This situation tvouid come, he
said, if tlie scramble for Chinese terri
tory went to the extent of the extinc
tion of China aud the complete absorp
tion of the old empire by foreign na
tions. Such was the apparent drift of
the present movement, he said, and if
it became a reality then a condition
would arise similar to the extermina
tion of Poland. Poland had estab
lished a precedent in international af
fairs, he said, aud following that pre
cedent, if China was to be absorbed,
then it was a question which the
United States, in common with all the
uutions of the world, must take cogni
zance of. Until this fiual movement
occurred, however, it was plain that
the United States had no interest in
the fencing of European nations and
Japan for coaling stations aud ports
on the Asiatic coast.
In the meantime, however, the dip
lomats are much concerned in the
movements of their respective govern
ments. A leading Japanese diplomat
said yesterday:
“1 do not look at the question as in
volving the partition of China, and no
event lias occurred tiius fur to indicate
tiiat China is about to be divided
among the powers. The only tangible
fact is that Germany lias occupied
Kioa-Chau hay, and that Kussia
bus a lleet at Port Arthur. Hut
Germany’s action was taken to col
lect an indemnity for an indignity to
German missionaries, just as she en
forced indemnity from llayti. Heyond
tins Germany may seek to establish a
naval station at Kioa-Chau, and thus
have a navai base of operations on the
Pacific. Hut that does not involve tiie
taking of any considerable portion of
Chinese territory, and it is yet to be
shown that Germany will take more
than a coast port and such land imme
diately adjacent as to give the port
proper facilities. If it comes to taking
territory, the course of China must not
be overlooked. While China is weak
from a military uud naval standpoint,
yet, she has an enormous number of
men ready to take the field, while the
entire force of Germans at Kioa-Chau
can not exceed a few thousands. Even
a weak nation is strong in defending
its own territory. There are reports
that Japan would aid China ill an ex
tremity, but there is nothing in that.
Japan doubtless will act alone if there
is any reason for ueLing at all. Thus
fur, however, I kuow of no steps that
Japan iias taken or contemplates to
ward taking part in the controversy.
My impression is that she will remain
independent and a neutral observer,
ller position will be much stronger by
such a policy than it would be by an
alliance at the outset. As an observer,
if she sees that the partition of Ciiiua
is at hand, doubtless she would have
some part to take, but for the present
there is no evidence that such an emer
gency is near."
A Chinese diplomat said:
“The alleged official statements com
ing from the Chinese legation have
been unwarranted, as the legation lias
not received a word from Pekin since
the first notice was sent that a Ger
man force had landed at Kioa-Chau,
without previous notice to the Chinese
government. It is felt, however, that
many of the reports as to the serious
ness of the situation particularly those
from Shanghai, are overdrawn. Judg
ing from the press dispatches, there
appears to be little doubt that the orig
inal purpose of Germany to enforce an
indemnity has now developed into
securing a naval station at Kioa-Chau
and possibly more territory on tlie
ground Unit Germany is entitled
to a return for her service
during the Chiua-Japau war.
Hut it appealed to be overlooked that
Germany lias received distinct returns
for those services, in the granting of
large concessions, which, at the time
of me gram, were considered as most
valuable to Germany. As to the ltus
sian fleet at Port Arthur, that is not a
surprise. A ltussiau fleet was wintered
at a Chinese port last winter with the
consent of China, as it involved no sac
rifice of territory. Wliat the outcome
would be is difficult to say, but it is
felt that an amicable settlement will
be made, possibly by the granting of
coast stations, but without any serious
dismemberment of territory.”
The British embassy has not received
a word from the foreign office on the
eastern situation.
SEIZED BY THE FRENCH.
The Tricolor lloleted Over the Island of
liai Naa.
Shanghai, Dec. 3D.—It is reported
here that the admiral of the French
fleet has hoisted the French flag on
liai Nau island. The Chinese offered
no opposition.
liai Nan island is o(T the south coast
of China and separates the gulf of Ton
quiu from the China sea. It has au
estimated area of 13.000 square miles,
and a population of 1,000,000 Chinese,
exclusive of wild tribes who occupy the
interior.
PRACTICAL-MEN
UoIub to Inspect the Survey of the Pan
ti mu i'aual.
New Yoke, Dec. 30.—-When the Pan
uinu steamship Finance sails down the
bay to-morrow, she will have on board
14 of the most prominent contractors
in the United States, who will go to
Nicaragua to inspect the survey of the
proposed canal, if the work is deemed
practicable these men will form a com
pany and bid for the job. The party
is under the direction of E. F. Cragiu
and E. L. Coolay, chief engineer of the
Chicago drainage canal.
WANTED IN LOUISIANA.
A Requisition for Joe Gladuev. Now la
tu the Colorado Peuiteutlarf.
Denvkb, Col., Dec. 30.—Gov. Adams
yesterday received a requisition from
Gov. Foster of Louisiana for Joe Glad
ney, a convict, whose term in the Colo
rado penitentiary for a robbery com
mitted at Pueblo in 1304 will expire
January 14 next.
Gladney was sentenced under the
name of F. li. Jones. He is wanted in
Louisiana for the murder of Wo. Mad
dox iu the parish of Claiborne iu Juue,
1333.
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
Shot and Cat Almost to Ploem.
Charles II illoway. a well-known
young farmer near Whitewell. Tenn.,
went to the home of a companion, and,
calling him out, quarreled. Blows fol
lowed hard words, and then lioth drew
revolvers and began shooting- One
bullet took effect in Ilolloway'i arm,
and he tried to close on Smith. At
that juncture Smith's father and
mother, who had been at
tracted by the ’shootiug. ap
peared on the scene, the former
with b shotgun and the latter with a
huge carving knife. The old man fired
at Holloway, who fell, badly wounded.
Mrs. Smith then with her knife stabbed
him three times in the breast, on the
arm and in the right side. A physician
was summoned, the affray having been
finally stopped by neighbors. Hollo
way's wounds are pronounced fatal, he
having been shot and cut almost to
pieces. Hollowav is a son of (Ireen
Holloway, a respectable citizen of
Whitwell. He is married. The Smiths
were arrested.
Sensational Slander Salt.
Papers were filed in oue of the most
sensational suits brought in Marshall
county. Miss. It is a suit for alleged
slander, brought by Miss llennie Na
bors against Judge Orlando Davis, and
J50.000 damages are asked. There
are about half a dozen averments as
to slanderous remarks that Judge
Davis is alleged to have made, in
cluding charges of theft, while plain
tiff was deputy postmaster several
years ago. The case will come up in
the circuit court in February. In the
averments the names of several prom
inent persons arc mentioned. Judge
Davis is 84, and was judge of the cir
cuit court of Marshall county for many
years. He has been prominent in the
state for half a century. The plaintiff
is also highly connected.
Led a Useful Life.
William Washington llrowne. of
Richmond, Va., who died recently, was
the president of the savings bank of
the Order of United True Reformers,
in that city. It is said that he was
the only colored bank president in
the country. He had the confidence
of the white bankers and busi
ness men of Richmond, and it is
stated that his was the only bank in
Richmond that did not decline to pay
currency during the panic of 1893, cash
ing the checks of other banks as well
as those drawn on it, and furnishing
the needful currency to enable the
teachers in the public schools to be
paid.
Hurled la UU Stoae Coffin.
Peter Ryau, a wealthy but eccentric
citizen of Hopkinsville, Ky., who had a
stone coffin prepared for his burial
many years ago, is dead from blood
poisoning, at the age of 87. Ryan had
a fancy to rest in a grave that should
be perfectly secure. He had two im
mense stone caskets hewn out, one for
himself and one for his wife, and he
kept them on exhibition. His wife
died some years ago. Her remains
were sealed in the stoue sarcophagus,
which was then sunk deep in the grave
yard. His own coffin was placed be
side hers in the grave, anil is now in
use.
That Kubbrry at U« Kalb, Hln.
The office of the sheriff at He Kalb,
Miss., was entered, the other night, by
parties who robbed the safe of $.',500.
The authorities went to work on the
case, and Deputy .Sheriff J. J. Scott
and his brother, Frank Scott, were ar
rested, charged with the crime. They
were given a preliminary hearing be
fore a justice of the peace and admitted
to bail in the sum of $1,000 each, which
they furnished. The burglary, with
the arrests following, created quite a
sensation. Both the accused have been
prominent in county affairs.
Charge Against an Express Agent.
I*. 11. Mabrey, ageDtof the Southern
Express Co. at Bruuswick. Ga., disap
peared the other day, and it was al
leged that he took with him $5,000 con
signed to the Brunswick Savings and
Trust Co., and $5,000 consigned to the
National bank of Brunswick. This
currency was shipped by the Savannah
(Ga.) Bank and Trust Co. In addition
Mabrey is supposed to have taken $4,
500 placed in the express office by the
Johnson Steamship line.
Wrecked by a Hursted Fly Wheel.
On account of the controlling pin of
the governor slipping out the 175-horse
power engine at the Rabbeth <fc Dunlop
Hour mills, at Clarksville, Tenu., ran
away,and the 13-foot (J,000-pound drive
wheel burst, partially wrecking the
building. Large pieces of the wheel
were hurled I hrough the roof.a distance
of nearly 300 yards, and buried in the
ground. The engineer, George Clark,
was injured, and others narrowly
escaped death. _
Furniture Polish Instead of Whisky.
J. H. Watts, a prominent merchant
of York, Ala., while at the Culpepper
hotel, Meridian, Miss., drank furni
ture polish in mistake for whisky, and
came near dying._
Fatal Fight Over a Game of Cards.
At Florvilla, Ga., Sabe Greer and
James Ball, well-known young men,
engaged in a tight over a game of
cards. Greer was killed and Bail bad
ly wounded. _
Caused By Moonshine Whisky.
Moonshine whisky flowed freely at
a festival at Double Bprings church,
Oconee county, S. C., resulting inChas.
Wheels being killed by Samuel Wie
banks.
The Gallows Had Been Erected.
Gov. Johnson commuted the sen
tence of Jesse Sugars, condemned to
hang at Decatur, Ala., to life impris
onment. Mis gallows had been erected.
Believe In Football.
Young ladies were present in the leg
islature at Richmond, Va., when the
bill to prohibit football came up, and
applauded speeches made against it.
Killed By a Deputy Sheriff.
Edley Heard, a well-known young
man of Dunlap, Tenn., was killed by
Deputy Sheriff Stauton McWilliams.
Heard threw a rock at the deputy.
Col. John W. Buford.
Col. John W. Buford, clerk of the su
preme court of the western district of
Tennessee, died at hla home in Jack
son, after a protracted illness.
Oldest Confederate OMeer.
Gen. Dabney H. Maury, the oldest
surviving confederate officer in Vir
ginia, has applied to the legislature of
that state for a pension.
Wealthy Negro Weds.
D. W. Washington, a rich colored
man of Memphis, Tenn, and Georgia
E. L. Patton, a female physician, were
married a few days ago.
Celebrated Christmas and Died.
At Woodford, Tenn., Jerry Cage
fired off an old musket on Christmas
day. The weapon was heavily loaded,
burst and killed him.
Burned Their Victim's Body.
Isaac 0. Arms, of Kemeralda, Fla.,
was murdered by unknown parties,
wbo burned the body to remove traeea
of their crime- -*C*;’*
Herbert K. Tattle, oae of the bast
known sports in the south, was found
dead in bed et|bis boms in Ban An
touio. Tea.
MR. KLINO. OF PINEVU.Lt
In Plneville town, on Plney creek.
There live* a man named Kllng:
He's twin to Luck, the people aay.
And never lack* a thing:
He's Juat a cchnmon sort of man,
Without a vain pretense:
la common In his speech and clothes.
And has Just common sense.
Perhaps he Is peculiar
About his head and feet.
Because he wears his hat well-brush d,
And keeps his footwear neat.
And If he has a vanity
It Is his Anger tips.
For he will say: "Such as they are
Just such are people's lips."
He has an ordinary farm.
An ordinary stock:
Has common tools and common things.
And winds a one-day clock:
Has pumpkins, taters, beef and pork,
And bread as white as foam:
Has garden truck, milk, butter, eggs.
And eats and lives at home.
He Isn't much on politics.
And never argues creed,
But votes Just as he thinks It best.
And proves a friend In need.
In one thing only is he "set,"
And keeps In Aghtlng trim:
He works his land, and works his crops.
And ne'er lets them work him.
But what Is most remarkable
In all of Kllng's career
Is when the blind bump up 'gainst him
He makes them see things clear.
And now gleams hope, a streak of dawn,
Through fortune's darkest frown,
For he has put a thinking spell
On all In Plneville town.
—John P. SJolander, In N. Y. Sun.
| An Indian Mother.
; By Viola Roseboro. |
Ni———————————
FF the coast of southern California
lie the Sunta Barbara islands; they
look very near the mainland on the
map, as if it would only be a pleasant
afternoon’s work to explore them in a
rowboat, but in fact they are far
enough away from the homes and
haunts of men to have been the scene of
a history stranger, lonelier and more
pitiful than the one Defoe “made up”
about Kobinson Crusoe.
These islands have been long unin
habited, visited only by grazers who
keep sheep on some, and by trappers
after otter and seal; the sea-lions in the
Cincinnati Zoological gardens and in the
New' York aquarium were lassoed here.
But Indians used to make their home
on the larger islands, and it was when
the last of the tribe were being removed
to the mainland that an accident oc
curred which caused a woman to spend
on San Nicholas 18 years utterly alone.
In 1835 Spanish missionaries were
busy in southern California civilizing,
teaching and converting the Indians—
not such degraded beings ns are now to
be seen on the western coast, but a skill
ful people who learned well how to build
and farm. The fathers had done much
with the coast Indians, and now turned
their eyes to the little tribes on the
rocky islands out at sea. They made
arrangements to bring them, one after
another, to the mainland. The Indians
seem to have come w illingly, but in one
case the embarkation was effected wi'h
much difficulty, on account of a storm.
A schooner under the command of a
Capt. Williams had gone to San Nich
olas—San Nicholas lies 70 miles out at
sea—to bring away the Indians, about
20 of them, who lived there. A tempest
fell upon the island as the schooner
drew near, and to land was very diffi
cult; all was wild hurry and confusion;
the vessel was in danger, and the Indi
ans were making a “flitting” for life.
So it was not remarkable that, as they
were putting out to sea, one young
mother should find her child had been
left behind. She thought it had been
brought aboard in a sailor's arms.
When she discovered the truth she
was frantic. She prayed the captain to
turn back, but he said the storm was too
dangerous; they might all be ship
wrecked and drowned. The poor girl
grew desperate, and she did what many
a mother would be driven to do in like
ease; she jumped overboard.
She could swim, and the last that was
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DISCOVERS THE LOST MOTHER.
teen of her she was striking out brave
ly, making her way back to her deserted
home and her baby. But only a moment
was she visible.
No attempt was made to rescue her.
The schooner lauded its exiles at San
Pedro. At that time vessels were very
few on the coast, and the schooner w as
engaged for two trips which, it was con
sidered, must be made before she could
return to look up the lost woman. On
the last of these trips she w as wrecked,
and there was nothing bigger than
canoes and fishing-boats left on the
lower coast. Seventy miles in an open
boat no man cared to undertake.
Some said both woman and child
must by this time be dead; some that
the mother never could have reached
the shore. Father Gonzales, however,
was one person who was not satisfied,
but 15 years passed before he could get
anything done.
The details of the searches made can
not be given here, but Thomas Jeffries,
a man who, for $200, made the first
effort, did not find her. But he fouud
so many seals and otters that other
schooners made several trips there in
the next few years, carrying hunters
and bringing borne spoils. At last, on
one of these expeditions, a Capt. Nidi
ver found the print of a slender, naked
human foot in the sand.
“There,” he said, “has passed the lost
woman,” and be vowed he would not
leave till he found her. Ue and bis men
now raked the island as with a comb.
Soon they came on an unfinished
dress of birds' breasts, a beautiful
thing of wonderful workmanship. It
was in a basket of rushes hanging in a
tree. Near a spring dried fish and blub
ber were hidden in the rocks. At last
Xidlver himself saw the woman, wear
ing a dress, low-necked and sleeveless,
like the one in the basket. When she
saw him she first started to run. then
stopped and met him with friendliness.
No one could talk to her, but with the
most touching hospitality she set about
getting a meal for him and his men. She
had various little neat pens and shelters
in different places.
The saddest .thing is yet to be told.
When they took her to the mainland
•aajr Indiana were brought to her, and
'V; v • . > , ..** t
the scanned each face eagerly, but bo
ore who could even talk to her waa ever
found. Her little tribe wa* tcaltercd
and abtorbed among other “mission
Indians" ns rain-drop* are lost in the
sea.
She was treated with all tenderness
by C*pt. Nidiver’* Spanish wife, who
kept her and would not allow her to be
made a show of; but when no human
soul could be found who knew even her
tongue, she began to droop.
She loved Mrs. Nidiver’* children de
votedly. and would tell over and over
by signs how she had looked and looked
for her baby and never found it. She
thought the dogs on the island had de
voured it.
The lady raise to love her much, and
when she grew weak she sent for seal’s
meat to try and tempt her appetite w ith
the food she was used to. The sick
woman patted her hands for “thank
you,** but she would not eat it. Soon
she died.
Her beautiful feather gowns were
sent to the pope; the Nidiver family
still keep some of her water-tight
baskets; several of her bone needles
are treasured by a lady in San Fran
cisco, and the grave of this pathetic,
wonderful heroine is still pointed out
by the priests in Santa Itarbarn.—
Youth’s Companion.
AN ANGRY COOK.
lie Was Holly Opposed to Revolution
ists.
Yolney was one of those French phil
osophers whose attitude toward Chris
tianity displayed that antipathy to re
ligion which cramps and distorts the
mind. While traveling in the United
States, Yolney became engaged in a dis
cussion with Dr. l’riestley, an Kngiish
man, the eminent natural philosopher
who discovered oxygen gas, and whose
Unitarian theological views and radical
political sentiments had driven him
from Kngland to Pennsylvania. Dr.
Priestley, with more bitterness of feel
ing than courtesy, called Yolney “an
atheist, an ignoramus, a Chinese and a
Hottentot.”
In the autobiography of Chevalier ue
I’ontgibaud, reeenlJy translated under
the title of “A French Volunteer of the
War of Independence,” the chevalier de
scribes a scene of which he was un eye
witness, at Philadelphia, during his
third visit to the United States. He
writes:
“Marino,whohad formerly been a cook
to Chevalier de Capellis, lived in Phila
delphia and was known as an excel
lent pastry cook. One day the chev
alier was in Marino's shop when a
stranger entered. He was a French
man, and ordered a pate, composed of
the choicest delicacies; he was going to
invite a score of persons to dinner.
The pastry cook asked the customer’s
name and address.
“Volney,” said the stranger.
“Volney!” roared the cook, who was
a royulist and hated the revolutionists
with whom Volney had been identified
—“Volney! Volney!”
Quitting his saucepans, he came for
ward, with the white cap on his head,
the apron tucked up, and a big knife
stuck in his belt, and in a loud, trem
bling voice—for he was angry—cried:
"Get out of here, you scoundrel! Get
outof my kitchen,you accursed atheist!
You revolutionist! You have robbed
me of my property! I don’t work for
people of your kind. My stove shall
never get hot for you!”
Volney was fairly drawn from the
shop.—Youth’s Companion.
A PERTINENT QUESTION.
Snssrutrd by an Kxhauatril Stale at
Patience.
It was the first year that Farmer An
drews had taken boarders, anti though
he conscientiously tried to serve them,
he found the task almost beyond his
powers. They were fastidious and even
“fussy.” They seemed determined to
be more than comfortable, and had no
hesitation in complaining when they
were not so. Hut evidently the. Andrew s
fnrm did not altogether displease them,
for they not only finished tlie summer,
but stayed on into the fall.
Then their crying grievance, became
not the thickness of cream or the salt
ness of butter, but the difficulty of keep
ing every corner of the old-fashioned
rooms as warm as a tropical summer.
Onei day. Farmer Andrews was called
in from the woodpile, where he was
vainly trying to do a forenoon's work.
This was the third time lie had relin
quished ax and patience together.
“Mr. Andrews,” said the boarder,
somewhat frneetiously, “something
must really be done about the tempera
ture of my chamber. This fireplace is
not sufficient for so large a room.”
The farmer stroked his grizzled
beard, and tried to speak serenely.
“Put ye up a stove, ma’am!" said he.
Hut. I don t want a stove! 1 want
this open fire, just as I have it now, only
I expect it to heat the room, .lust look
at the thermometer! It has been hang
ing over here by the window, and I can't
get it above 69.”
She swept forward with the telltale
glass in her hand, and at that moment
Farmer Andrews felt his patience snap
and fly.
"Over by tin; winder!” he repeated,
almost weeping with the vexation of
one who has been unjustly used. "Over
by the winder! Why under Heavens
don’t ye set it here in a warm place?”—
Youth’s Companion.
Settled the Case.
“I was called upon in 1878 to defend h
man who was charged with the most
unusual misdemeanor I ever heard of
any clerk entering on a court calendar,”
said a lawyer friend from the moun
tains, one day. “A young farmhand
came to me at the hotel, where I was
stopping, iny home being in another
town, but my practice extending to the
county seat I was then in. The swain
to!d me he bad been charged by a girl,
to whom he had been paying attention,
with giving her measles, she claiming
that the disease, which had been epi
demic in the neighborhood, had been
communicated to her by kissing her
repeatedly, while the defendant was re
covering from the measles. The girl’*
surly father sued the badly-alarmed
defendant for $S0 damages, claiming be
had expended that sum in doctor’s bills
for the afflicted daughter. My client
pleaded guilty to kissing the plaintiff,
but said he couldn’t ‘a-hoped it ef he’d
ben a-mind ter,’ and insisted that he
had never had measles. I tried the case
before a kind-hearted old squire, and
after the court had heard the testimony
he delivered a long opinion, in which he
held that a girl as pretty as the plaintiff
would make a boy risk measles and
'even dumb chills' to sip the sweets of
her coral-like lips. The judge’s ‘jolly’
put both sides in good humor, and the
defendant two weeks later married the
plaintiff and settled the costs of the suit
to appease the wrath of her father.”—
Louisville Post.
—To be sensitive is to be lovable; but
to carry sensitiveness into self-con
sciousness is to be very unlovable. The
one safegnard against such a nature is
to look out, and not in. To think what
we may be able to do for other people,
not what they might do for us— that i*
the keynote of harmsioy.—Lilian Whit
ing.
MISPLACED CONFIDENCE.
Y«t He DIR Ret Resort te raise,
hood.
A benevolent looking old ladv had her
tention called to a ™,|| .tree? ,™j7Vbo
was crying as if his heart would break
“Come, come, my little fellow, don't crv
Mas some one hurt you or are you afraid oi
something? ul
home°™*’ bUt 1 " ^ btkH Wh,n 1 *>*
"What have you been doing that voull
be punished for? ' 1
"1 lost a dime, an’ pap’ll whip me when I
go home. *
"Oh. we will fix that for you. Win*
your face, and I will give you another dime
so there will he no trouble on that account "
When he got the dime hia face brightened
like the sky after a ahower. He was not the
same hoy. In fact, in his tones and look and
talk there w as a change that was almost mar.
veloua.
“Now,” said the good woman, “run along
and lie a good boy. But before you go vou
must tell me what your father gave you the
dime %>r.” -
“Yesum. He gave it to me to git him
some beer, but I left the bucket around the
corner.’’
“That’s too bad. I’m sorry vour father
drinks. I hope when you grow up you will
never drink a drop.’’
"Nome, I won’t.”
“Maybe if you look right carefully Von
can find the dime you lost. Where Was i*
you dropjied it?’’
“I didn t drop it. I lost it: jist lost it.”
“But where did you lose it?”
“Right aroun’ ther’ in the alley.”
“But how did it happen that you lost
it?”
“I was pitchin’ pennies with the fellers
an’ they got It all.”—Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
Ironical Its.
If a man has no dust, his name is usually
mud.
If a man lias horse sense he should know
when to say neigh.
If the cat scratches you it is always the
sign of the Maltese cross.
If a man would follow the advice he gives
to others he would soon lie perfect.
If the mercury goes higher than usual
next summer blame it on the Dinglev bill
If women were as fond of appearing in
print as in silk there would be more lady
writers.
If canes were to go out of fashion, some
young men would have no visible means of
support.—Chicago News.
Catevoricnl.
"Hut wliat do you mean by laying that tin
man wan more or less intoxicated?" asked
the lawyer. “Letnme see," said the witness,
as he scratched his chin. “I guess I mean
that if he had been more intoxicated he
would have been drunk, and if he had been
less he would have been sober. How'll that
do?”—Indianapolis Journal.
Saved Their I.lvei,
It was at an afternoon tea and the crush
was simply horrid. It seemed that nothing
would save the few men present, when one
quick-witted woman exclaimed: “Ladies,
please remember there are gentlemen in the
crowd!” It was all that preserved the poor
things from a horrible fate.—Philadelphia
North American.
One Better.
“I won’t submit tp being turned away.”
said the disappointed arrival at the hotel.
“See here, I'm flush,” and he displayed a roll
of hills.
“I know.” responded the rlerk; “but I've
got a full house.”—Philadelphia North
American. _ _
We wish somebody would invent suspend
ers that never wear out.—Washington
Democrat.
A girl stands l>efore a mirror while dress
ing so she can see what is going on.—Chi
cago News.
A good thing gets a little lx-tter every day;
a poor thing, a little worse.—Atchison
Globe.
A writing teacher is no account for any
thing else.—Washington Democrat.
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Dyspepsia, rheumatism,
Catarrh and all diseases
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Strength builder.
SOUTH CAROLINA HEARD FROM.
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several years 1 had suf
fered much from Cold
i Feet, Sick Headache,
I Sleepless Mights, and
found no relief until 1
commenced taking that
greatest of all medicines,
i Dr. M. A. Simmons
J.iver Medicine. It ll
i better than the others.
Enlargement of the Womb.
This may be caused by congestion, inflam
mation or tomors. The symptoms arc a
doll pain in the lower part of the abdomen,
sometimes depressing or sinking down of
the womb, ana some uneasiness in empty
ing the bladder and bowels. Costiveness
should be avoided by using l>r. M. A. Sim
mons Liver Medicine in small doses, and
onr Mexican Female Remedy used os an
injection, and the peraistent use of I>r.
Simmons Squaw vine Wine, will bring
•bout a cure.
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Have used Dr. M. A. Sim
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six years in my family. My
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Have used “Zcllln’s Regu
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' use no other.
Irregular Appetite.
Thl* condition is a symptom or some con
stitutional derangement of the system, es
pecially of indigestion. .
A sufferer from dyspepsia generally ba*
“the blues.” Be is as miserable in mind as
In body. Bis appetite is more capricious
than the whims of a spoiled child; at times
there is a craving for food, at others a loath
ing of even the very tbonght of ealiDg. This
condition renders life miserable and should
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the Supreme Court enjoined it. The l nilea
States Court knocked out the old prop™:
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Draught " aa perpetrators of fraud.
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