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( NEWS OBSERVATIONS. ' fi
' -Thef rebublioans feel about : Mr!.
Lyman, as .they did about Mr. Eaton)
tha he ,ii' toothoroughly . a reformer
to stand as a fair representative of their
party. H - I ;' f
-i-TheProvidenee Journal says: 'fMf.
Gladstone blows his nQse when asked
about the Irish land bill.'' His friend
would say that is because he knows his
blows will toi : ? f
! -If it be teue. atftted, that a cr
tain eminent lkwyer receives two hnn
dred and fifty dollars a day for hit work
In the Broadway railroad franchise in
vestigation, it is no wonder that the end
of the proceedings seems as far off at
ever. - : '
' A bill to provide for a commission'
of five persons to ; investigate the aleol
holio liquet traffic in its relation to rev?
enue and taxation, and its general ecol
6onXrii& Atwiai; and"Tientili
aspects in i connection with pauperism;,
crime, social viriej public health and the
general welfare of the people has passed
the' Senate1. ' The commissioners are to
be appointed by the President, are not
all to be prohibitionists and shall serve
without salary. ' t
:. The Savannah (Ga.,) News, speak
ing of a great fog in that city Monday
night, saysri "The electric light qn
the high towers were lost in the dense
mist, and the 'street lights looked a few
rods off like a halo. The fog penetrated
the houses, and on -the streets every
thing was ,in thick gloom. Pedestrians
carried Umbrellas, and the late-outs and
police wore their rubber coats to 'keep
out the cold vapor that rested in thick
masses like a'load upon everything." 3
The "bankinz and currency commit
tee of the House had a conference with
treasurer Jordan Wednesday night at
his residence, during -which a general
exchangVof Views' on financial questions-.
took place, . The . conference did not
have relation'; to particular measures,
bdt Was devoted rather to -a ' statement
of facts and figures in connection with
finance "generally The principal- Buh-
jeet of discussion was as to the best
means to keep silver out in circulation
as' long' u'possible. Treasurer Jordan
favored making the banks the circulat
ing agency' instead of the treasury. He
thought this would secure the , ipngest
and cheapesl; circulation. I ;
-Sheriff Fellows, of' Winnemucca,
Ney.t got marriel last Monday and set
a basket of ehampagne to the offioe of
the Silver State." Under the glowing
inspiration of the third botUe the pas
toral editor reeled off" the following giljt
edged melody ? ; "May life's cares upon
litem rcist iujwftly as the fall otl autum
nal leaves upon the breast of mother
earth and like the stars, which in early
evening faintly glimmer, and then anon
throw forth their dazzling beauty to the
world's admiring gaze from thee far-off
heavenly fields, so may their pathway
adown the trends of matrimonial bliss
be addrned with sweetest tiuwers of af
fsctioo's worth,' ever opening their rosy
petals to reflect continued lustre, as .the
waning years roll stealthily away." : f
J : Miss 'Cleveland in a letter to a
friend sayst ! The ucwt-paperB state
ment with regard to my ' 'Immodest
dress'.' and'its influence in encouraging
"shocking scarcity of waists and sleevel?
in other women's dress has been sent
me several; times, with ascomanyihg
comments, but always anonymously, so
that have been unable to reply, had I
deemed the animus of the communiea
tion honest enough to justify an Honest
response.' :That has not always been the
case, but today 1 received a note from ,
person who speaks of himself as an agejl
clergyman, who signs bur full name tor
to the communication and seems to be,
genuinely concerned and friendly," a
lough I scarcely can reconcile the;
true interest and true respect- which
he has given j apparently , to tbe' stated
ment which forms the occasion of bis;
protest. I. should hardly feel true inter-
est or true respect for a person ' wuon I
1 believe to be doing what thejjewspa
per slip represents me to begytag 1. .,
using tnF uriet pruiuiune'ui uxj pom
tion to encourage habits in dress ahc
manners which are subversive of "what-
soever tnings are pure, loveiy, hud win
1 1 ' al
and; of good report." Such I belieye
the immodest dress of some few. sQciety
woufen tobe,: and against such immodr
esty I have made the silent protes
which it is etery woman s right, and duty
to make, ty having my own dress waistp
cut in a siyle which, . bo far as modesty
is concerned, 1 should be quite willing
to have all women to whom this style-of
dress is becoming and comfortable fol
low. I approve of evening dress which
shows the neck and arms. I do notap-
prove of any dress which shows the bOBjt.
Between' the neck Imd bust there is
line always to be drawn, ana it asiB cier
to the most frivolgus society woman as
to the anatomist. ;'' This line need never
be passed, and at fashionable wpmaas
low-neck evening dress neea never pe
immodest. If it is so it is because Bhe
prefers it to be so. It is wholly false,
so far as I have observed, that a "shock
ing scarbityof waists and sleeves marks
the gowns of society women." This is
sadly and painfully true ot aview 'soqi-
ety women" and it is indeed shocking,
nautiatihsr.-revolting and 'deserving bf
the utmost denunciation on the score of
morality, beauty, health and many Other
consiaerauons wnicn gooa men aua wp-
men should conspire to preserve arid ejt
Ob. ucio in ueeu ui a yerj icw wumo
oh this subject and no argument. I Any
American woman can wear the waist of
her evening dress up to the lobes of her
ears if she likes. There is no queen to
command her appearance in low corsage.
A 1in Ua! an Anntriva tin At ana
UUQ AAOV , m w. . V w uu. V"
that by the expOseure of her person ill
true social ethics and aesthetics as well
are revolted. Between the.two there is
an appropriate, beautiful ahd l modest
mean, which all can, if they will, follow.
CONGRESSIONAL,
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ROVSE HEABS NOME j VEST
PLAI9 TAliK
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tbe 'luatlan of Silver
Oetaimr.
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I Washington, D. C, March 20.
Housif. The House was called to order
by the clerk, and on motion bf Mr.
Morrison, of Illinois, Mr.- Crisp, of
(reorcia- was 6ne.td ax sneaker nro
-f o ? r 1
"Jem. duting the temporary absence of
the speaker.
Under a special order, made Tuesday
t', the limited; debate en the adverse
report on the free coinage Vul was be
gan, and the floor was taken by Mr.
James, of New York,' in opposition to
the hilll J
. ! Mr. James premised his speech with
what he stated were a few words of per
sonal 'explanation. People were wont
te look to lawyers, professors 'and polit
ical leaders for" legislation on financial
1 jues.tions .instead of to business men such
as he was. The result of this looking
ti lawyers, professors and political lead
ers was that now the country was in a
slough. The car of state was very
nearly ditched. This was not a Question
of doin something great; it was a ques
tion of, getting out of. something bad.
ft was not a question of making good
time; it was a question of getting the
wheels out of the .Blough. It was a
question which 'business men ought to
solve. 1 If business men had dealt with
silver questions, the team of state would
ot have been stalled in the mire as it
Was now- They should have! spoken
Out and insisted that their advice should
e followed. They should join their
roes for the judicious handling of great
questions. The so-called demonet
ization of silver had been from
the start a 'great business blun
der. .The coinage under the Bland
act should be suspended, for jthe con
tinuance of that coinage was but organ
ized chaos in the United States. The
coinage of silver under the Bland act
had been from the beginning 1 and -was
now a colossal business blunder, and he
believed that had it not been for the
passage of that bill silver would bave
been remonetized long ere this, both in
the United States and Europe. What
the countrv wanted oould onlv be ac
complished 'through the medium of sus
pension And 'negotiation. He went
on! to argue that Germany! France
and England were in a condition
where a little pressure, such as the sus
pension of coinage in this country, would
force them into adopting international
bi-metalism. For the United; States to
fix a day for: suspension of- coinage,
unless there was international concur- j
rence before that time, was a summons
which- European statesmen could not
ignore. :
Mr; oeymour, of Connecticut, fol
lowed the Bame line of. argument and
spoke; of the unwarranted assumption
of the extreme silver men. Tfiose gen
tlemen who were opposed to free coin
age were monometsjisis.
& Mr; O'Donnell, of Michigan, branched
off from the coinage question to advo
cate a proposition to encourage the pro
duction of sugar in this cohntry by a
system of bounties, !
Mr. Hemphill, of South Caro
lina, ; Said that the question before
Congress was as to the best method
of restoring gold and silver to parity as
money metals, and , he advocated as a
means to this end the appointment of a
commission to secure an international
bimetalio union. The "present standard
silver dollar had neither a dollar's worth
in it nor was it a promise to pay a dollar
in the future. Every time that the gov
ernment bought eighty cents worth of
silver and -stamped it as a dollar, it
stamped a falsehood on the face of its
Own coin and robbed the man to whom
it was paid. . Congress should not re
quire the secretary of the treasury to
perpetrate this gross injustice, and by
forcing silver on the country event
ually put geld at a premium and drive
it out of circulation. '
Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, sug
gested that greenbacks, national bank
notes, silver and gold alike paid debts
and taxes.
Mr.Hemphill replied that greenbacks
and national bank notes did not pretend
to be real money and no man accepted
them as such. They were a promise to
pay in the future. But the man who
took a gold dollar or a silver dollar had
right to rely on the honesty of the
government, and when he took a silver
dollar worth eighty cents he was fooled
nnnnfrv Krl never Keen
a double-standard country.; People had
been prosperous and happy in the past
and this had been confessedly under
single standard of value. There could
1
be neither- justincauon nor excuse in
forcing on the country a monetary policy
directly in the teeth of past history and
one which' threatened to- un
settle values, discourage business
and stop.; the wheels of progress,
simply for the purpose of maintaining
a financial . delusion among the people.
He would be glad to see the two kinds
01 coin floating together, at par at a
E roper ratio, but if the; country must
ave gold or silver alone, he much pre
ferred the former. There was $12 gold
per capita in the country, against $4 in
silver. The United States had been
confessedly a gold-using country since
1834 and no reason could be assigned
for such a ehange. in policy as would
reduce pur metallic money to one-fourth
of its present value.
Mr. Bynum, ot Indiana, a member of
the committee on coinage, weights and
measures; supported the minority re
port, which favors the passage of a free
coinage bill. Possessing, as he -did,
the greatest confidence in the in
ihtegrity ; and patriotism of the
the President and the secretary of the
treasury, he expected, whenever and
wherever he could, to support their
views and uphold 'their policy, but on
this question he was compelled to dis
sent from the views presented in the
message of the President and the report
of the secretary. Commenting upon
and sustaining the original act, he de
olared that had the spirit and inten
tion of that- law been honestly car
ried out it is more than prob
able that the problem would have
been settled long ere this, either by free
coinage or suspension. But the admin
istration of law had been in hostile
hands and the effect of the policy fol
lowed only tended to further depreciate
the market value of silver bullion.
Mr. Stone, of Missouri, announced
himself in favor of any measure which
would tend to restore silver to an
equality with gold. The House ad
journed. !.
ACIAUrsT THE STRI
sjW.
HmUbc f BasaJsMM aTa aad Cttlaeaa.
GAtvxsTOH, March iio. Specials t
the News from Tyler, Weatberford,
Piano, McKinney and other cities in
north- Texas report that largely attended
meetings of the business men and citi
zens were held at each of the above
named points yesterday afternoon and
last night, ttesolutions similar in mean
ing to those adopted by. the citizens of
Dallas, Sherman and Greenville regard
ing the attitude and seriousness - of the
strike ou the Texas Pacific and Missouri
Pacific system were . adopted. The
resolutions in every instance de
nounce the strikers for their
unlawful interference with traffic
and tender support to the railroads in
their determined stand against the
strikers.
A SenaavUosi In SUelly.
Boms, March 20 -A sensation has
been produced in Sicily by a most dar
ing attempt by brigands to capture the
great grandson of Admiral Nelson. The
young gentleman is the Hon. Victor
Albert Nelson Hood, son of the present
and third Baron Bridport, whose father
was the husband of Lady Charlotte,
daughter of Admiral Nelson. His
father is equerry to the queen and Duke
of Bronte in Sicily. -The family estate
includes the property containing the
Castello de Maniace, which was given
by the king of Sicily to the admiral.
Victor was residing in the castle when
the brigands, who, it is believed, had
plotted to take him a prisoner and hold
him for a high ransom, made an attack
in foiroe upon the place. The servants
were brave, and soon rallied around
their young master in defense of his
person and estate. A fierce fight en
sued, which resulted in tbe defeat and
dispersal of the robbers, but only after
many of them were disabled by wounds.
Four of the brigands were taken pris
oners and turned over to the custody of
we auinonues.
Hew Trk Ctta Fa tares.
Nxw York, March 20. C h. (Jreen
& Co.'s report on cotton futures says:
At the opening prices were forced up
about 8 points, but meeting with more
sellers than buyers there was a quick
reaction, with the close tame at about
last evening's rates. " Foreign advices
were generally promising, and while no
special pressure was brought upon the
position, the indifference of the shorts and
the scarcity of new buying orders ap
peared to place "bull" efforts at a dis
advantage. Another unfavorable in
fluence was found in expected heavy re
ceipts next week, consequent upon the
moving forward of cotton previously de
tained by the labor strikes on the south
western railways.
Tbe nUtnattoa Bomalsi VJaehe-os; i.K
St. Louis, Mo., March 20. The'local
situation this morning remains about,l
unchanged. No attempts have been
made to move freight, but the suburban
trains are running regularly. , The
strikers are quiet, no disturbance! hav
ing - as yet occurred. All fears of a
strike in east St. Louis have been al
layed. All trains running into that city
have either complied with the requests
of their switchmen for an advance in
wages or have promised them that ad
vance. Weekly Bank Statement.
Nxw York, March 20. The follow
ing is the weekly statement of the asso
ciated national banks : Loans increase,
$796,800; specie .decrease, $3,093,900;
legal tenders decrease, $1,091,700; de
posits decrease, $337,400; circulation
increase, $125,600;' reserve decrease,
t 3,201 ,250. Thebanksuow hold $18,
08,793. in excess of the 25 per cent,
rate.
Seeking: tbe Brldg- Burner.
Chicago, Ills., March 20. A speoial
from Marshall, Tex., says over fifty
deputy marshals arrived here yesterday
from Rush and Jacksonville, in Uuero
kee county.' They brought four saga
cious bloodhounds with them to hunt
the bridge burners on the Texas Pacifio
railroad. The officers jridict several
early arrests in connection with the
burned bridges.
Total VUlble Supply of vtlou.
: Naw York. March 20. The total
visible supply of cotton for the world is
2,948,614 bales, of which 2,451.434 are
American; against 2,732,792 and 2-205,-492
respectively last year; receipts at
all interior towns 30,212; receipts from
the plantations ao.iia; crop in sign
5,926,180 bales.'
Test Millie ta Bonda Called in.
Washington, D. C, March 20. The
secretary of the treasury will Monday
next issue a call for ten million dollars in
three per cent bonds. The call will
mature May 1.
ar Bb- T SJaaaWaii . i
Mr. Walter W. Brown, of Gordons
ville. Va., has presented this oflicc with
one of his political charts, copies of
which are for sale at the bookstores
here.
LLKWX M.
NATLOIfAI,
A JiU WOKril
HEWS.
CAROLINA
Cox and the Civil HervlreReld to th
, fcteaeiit4Jnrl Uleanlng.
Special Cor. of the News and Observer.
I Washington, D. C, March 20.
The proposition of Mr. Ingalls, in the
form of an amendment to the constitu
tion, Introduced in the Senate this week,
to change the date for the inauguration
of the President from March 4th to April
30th, apears to be a most sensible and
practicable suggestion, and its adoption
by Congress and the several State leg
islatures seems probable. A great deal
could be said in favor of this measure,
while I cannot see how any serious ob
jection to it could be made from any
source.
CONCIRNINO THB CIVIL SXRVICB.
The bill introduced in the House by
Oew. Cox this week, the provisions of
which were given in" my . last letter, is4
regarded as a very important measure,
and has been a leading topio of discus
sion in Congressional circles for several
days. Before introducing the bill Gen.
Cox explained its character to President
Cleveland, who is said to have given it
his cordial : approval. The chief pur
pose of the bill is to discover exactly
what the defects in the present law
are, if any exist, so that the
committee and Congress can act intelli
gently in the application of remedies.
From a political point of view the
Democrats generally regard it as a wise
and; timely act, inasmuch, as it is an as
surance to that element of the party
which is now dissatisfied with the oper
ations of the law that it is the intention
to perfect it in all of its details.- The
bill is simply, but emphatically, an ear
nest of what will be done when it is
established what ought and needs to be
done. The civil service committee, to
which the bill ! was referred, has in
structed its chairman to report it favor
ably to the House. The principle is the
same as that employed by all intelligent
physicians in treating a patient. : They
must first diagnose the case before ap
plying remedies that can be effectual in
"Doc-1
j J
reaching the root of the disease
tot? Cox has acted with discretion and
much show of wisdom in the treatment
of his legal case so much so that he is
certainly entitled to the degree of LL.D. ;
REPRESENT ATTV a REID TO THE RESCUE.
The educational bill will not be de-:
feated in the House if Hon. J. W. Reid
can1 prevent it. The resolution intro
duced by him last Tuesday will proba
bly; bear good fruit. After reciting in
the preamble the facts that the Senate
had passed the. Blair bill, and that the
House committee oh education had post
poned action oil all education bills until
the latter part of April a time. too late
id the session to receive proper consider
ation of the subject the resolution dei
clares that it is "undemocratic, unre
publican, unjust and unfair" to thus
prevent action on the bill by the House
and instructs the committee to report
the bill forthwith, with such recommen
dations as it may see proper. If the
friends of the measure are really in the
majority in the House, as is believed to
be the case, this resolution will be
adopted and the committee will be com
pelled to make a report. Whether this
should be favorable or adverse matters
little the majority will rule in this in
stance, as it generally does in other
cases, and I believe the bill will pass the
House, receive the President's signa
ture, and thus become a law. Should
these suppositions become events, there
is no one of the 325 members of the
House of Representatives who will de
serve or receive more credit and thanks
for securing the passage of this
bill than James W. Reid, of North Car
olina. As I have had occasion before to
remark, he is one of the ablest, most
thoroughly wide-awake and effective
members of the 49th Congress, and any
district honors itself and Berves its best
interests in sending such a man to, rep
resent it in the national legislature
Unless these efforts of Mr. Reid avail; I
see no hope for the measure. Tbe
House committee, at a meeting held, last
evening, redeclared its position by post
poning action on the Blair bill
the third Friday in April, as it had
previously deferred consideration ! of
the Willis bill. Mr. Willis will
.introduce a new bill in the Houpc Mon
day next and ask that it be referred, to
some other committee. If I am not mis
taken, however, it requires unanimous
consent to make such reference, am
there are sure to be objections made.
I repeat, therefore, that unless Mr.
lleid's scheme is successful there; is
bardlv a prospect of the enactment of an
educational bill during this session! of
Congress. But (and I am very glad to
be able to write "but just here) 1 be
lieve Mr. Reid s resolution will be
adopted.
sen (tor Stanford's subscription
- Some months ago Senator Stanford,
of California, agreed to give Rev. J.i C
Price, the colored president of Zion-
Wesley college (colored) at ; Salisbury,
the sum of $5,000 in aid of said college.
provided he yaised S2U.UUU additional
through other sources for the same pur
pose. ; This stipulation having been
complied with, president Price, accom
pauied by VV. U-. fearing, of Worth
Carolina, a departmental clerk here,
called on Senator Stanford this Week
and received from him a check fori the
amount.
district democrats
and the people of Washington generally
have manifested so much displeasure
over the nomination of the New York
negro, Matthews, to succeed Fred
Douglass as recorder of deeds here, 'that
it is very probable the nomination will
be rejected. The matter was to have
been cnnsidered by the Senate district
committee yesterday, but owing
to the absence of Senator Vance, who
is one of the leading members of the
committee, the consideration of the ease
Was postponed until next Friday. Sen
ator Yance is in New Orleans, whither
he went as one of the Senatorial escort
to the remains of the late Representative
Hahn. He and other members of the
committee have received numerous peti
tions from all classes of citizens of the
District, protesting against the confirma
tion of Matthews, principally on the
ground that i the office being a purely
local one should be filled by a resident
of the District. The prevailing im
pression is that the nomination will, be
reported adversely from the committee
and rejected by the Senate in executive
session.
CONGRESSMAN COX :'
having introduced a bill making pro
vision for the appointment of an addi
tional civil j service examiner, it will
probably become a law at an early day;
and Mr. Womack, the elerk to the crvil
service committee, has notified J. H.
Glass, of Indians? to appear before the
civil service suD-commitiee ana prove
his cnarges, embodied in a resolution
introduced in the House, involving the
alleged misconduct of certain employees
ot the House. The
payment or PSNSIONS
to ex-Federal soldiers their widows and
children, "and their sisters, and their
cousins and their aunts," will soon : re
lieve the treasury vaults of all the
"surplus" cash on hand, if the prevent
rate of increase, and payment of "ar
rearages," through the passage of bills
in Congress, is kept up. It does seem
that this sort of thing is never to have
an ending. ; 1 !
BELLICOSE BROOKLTNITES.
Representative Bliss is a Congressman
from Brooklyn, New York, and Jesse
Carman is a lobbyist from the land of
Bliss. Last Wednesday the constituent
while engaged in conversation with the
Congressman became very .angry and
abusive in his language, whereat Mr.
Bliss struck outrom the shoulder with
such force and effect as to lay the lob
byist prone upon tbe floor of the House
corridor. The trouble grew out of the
Prfessins f the Congressman that he
did not see the "benefits" tt be derived
from a scheme the constituent wanted
to get through Congress, and now the
latter is thoroughly satisfied that
"where ignorance is Bliss 'tis folly to be
wise.
: PENCIL PARINGS. V
Messrs. George McCorkle and W. IF.
Leak, of North Carolina, are in Wash
ington.
Ihe bankruptcy bill will be taken up
in the penate on the olst instant. ;
A vote on the Hurd-Romeis Ohio con
tested election case was taken yesterday
at a meeting of .the committee on elec
tions, resulting in Bomeis' favor by i
vote of 8 to 6. ' ; ; t
The bill which passed the Senate this
week, providing for ' the study of the
nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics,
and of their effects upon tbe human
system, by pupils in the public schools
of this District and the several Territo
ries, is an example that might well be
emulated by the State legislatures. '
The Washington - Evening btar re
commends, editorially, the civil service
bill, introduced by Gen. Cox, and ad
vances the opinion that it will pass both
houses of Congress an expression of
opinion in which investigation leads me
to concur.
Llewxam.
Death made no long separation be
tween the two venerable earls whose
records 4 in charity and religion were
complementary of one another. Lord
Shaftesbury died last October, and now
Lord Chichester has followed to the
tomb. Of them, as of Saul and Jona
than, it may be said, they "were lovely
and pleasant in their lives, , and in their
death they were not .divided. Each
had passed into his ninth decade. 'Lord
Shaftesbury was 84, and Lord Chiches
ter had reached his Szd year. This sad
coincidence of loss is carried farther by
the recent demise of Prince Torlonia,
the great Italian millionaire, -whose
charities were proportionate to his fort
une. Ihe world may well mourn the
triple bereavement, for it will,, we fear.
have to spin down many a ringing groove
of change before it sees another trio of
octogenarian noblemen with their titles
and nature so fitly matched.
-Representative J. S. Barbbur, of
Virginia, is expected . soon to issue a
card announcing his intention to retire
from public lite and giving his reasons
therefor. Randolph Tucker has already
said that he will not again be a oandi
date for congressional honors, and a new
man will be required to take the place
of Mr. John W. Daniel, who has been
elected to the United States Senate. Mr.
Goff, of West Virginia, and Mr. Collins,
of Massachusetts, it is said, will not
seek re-election, and now the bame of
Abram S. Hewitt is added to the xetir
ing list. '
A Kjud en tbe thineee
The massacre of a number of Chinese.
in Wyoming xerritory wui no doubt
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form the subject of a very strict inves
tigation by our government. Following
close upon the unfortunate affair comes
a threat of labor unions that they will
boycott Chinese laundries on the ground
that they interfere with White labor and
are in many cases connected wun opium
dens. Opium smoking is undoubtedly
on the increase amongst us and we
much fear that the taste for the drug is
being cultivated by the use of "popular
preparations for coughs and colds which
contain narcotics, ia mereiore grati
fying to know that such a popular and
effective domestic remedy as Red Star
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Cough Cure does not contain any opiates
whatever.
A bjg spread The sky.
JEFFERSON I.DAVIS
jalCEPTB AH KIVITATIOJI TO
TI RE AT HOkTVOHERV.
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Great Interest Manifested in tbe Ocra
kton and It Cerement.
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Montgomery, Ala. The monument
committee today received , from Jefferson
Davis, ex-President of ihh Confederacy,
a letter officially accepting the : invita
tion to lecture in Montgomery in behalf
of the monument to be erected on the
capital here in memory of the Alabama
soldiers who died in the civil war. Mr.
Davis will be here about the last of
April. His lecture win be delivered" in
a large warehouse," with j a seating'; ca
pacity of 5,000 people. 1 He will also
lay the corner-stone of the monument,
(which will cost $5,000,ef which 10
000 or enough to complete the pedestal
has already been raised', Hon. John
W. Daniel.of Virginia, has been invited "
to deliver an Address en . that occa
sion. All men who kore a : promi
nent part in the civil; "and military
seryice of the Confederate government
have been inviied to be present to meet
Mr. Davis; also many prominent 'men
North and ex-Union generals not now
in active service. All of the Alabama
State troops, some thirty companies
strong, will be here and invitations will
be sent the militia companies in all the
States North and South, i It will be so
timed that the companies going to the
Savannah drill Can stop at Montgomery.
Great interest in the occasion centres in
the fact that at the capitbl building here
Jefferson Davis took the oath of office
as President of the Confederacy and that
government was bete organized.
The Capacity for Thinking-.
TFrom Mr. Goschen's Lecture at
the
.Mansion House, London.
I hSve asked and it lis a good test
can you, on a long railway journey,
think out a problem on a great:. social
subject? Will you begin to think out
that problem, when you have before you
two hours in a railway j Carriage This
is simply a form of mental indolence ;
they cannot concentrate themselves and
bring their thoughts sumcienuy together
to do spontaneous work!.' It partly comes
from this, again, that they wifl not give
themselves time; from jthat they get out
of the habit of steady thought, and they
fill not dwell long upon one subject.
Both in reading and thinking you never .
get far unless you will have a long con
secutive tete-a-tete with your book or
with your problem, j People read and
think in the same way that they visit
their acquaintances and friends. They
bave an exciting conversation for a few
minutes, and then the! visit is over, if
you wish to see a landscape or explore a
character you must take time, and it '
must be done by steady, consistent, and
continuous thought. I bespeak, there
fore, for reading and for ; thinking,
greater deliberation, more careful choice -
of material, more consecutiveness and
eontinuity, and, above; all, that it should
never become necessary to hurry tnrougn
anything, whether it be lecture, or book,
or problem. j ;; ' ;
President Wright, I of the Board of
Trade, Louisville, Ky., used St. Jacobs
Oil for severe rheumatic pains in his
neck and shoulders. He says :, "Its ef
fects were marvelous. I was well in a
few hours." ,
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Fink Butter. Bi an arrangement
with Dr. Richard H.I Lewis, I will be
able to offer everyj week! a limited
quantity of the finest fresh butter, made
at his dairy farms. In addition to this
supply, I receive weekly consignments
of choice butter from; sundry makers of
high reputation near the city,; and from
Alamance county. Also the choicest
Northern creamery buttery, always in
stock. I E. JV Hardin.
Wi want to sell stoves. If you want
to buy, then call at the store of J. C.
Brewster & Co., for we are sellings
heating stoves at just above cost, toa
cash, to diminish. stock.
Grape Milk. -A fresh invoice of this
popular and healthful drink. Pure
grape juice, non-alcoholic, effervescent,
sparkling as champagne. Pint bottles
25 cents each; $2.75 per doeen; $5 per
case of two doien. ih. J. Hardin.
There were only seven wonders of the
world in ancient days. That was before
the dude was invented.
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