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VOLUME XXI 1 1.
. Far-Seeino'
People
Visit
Slot
es. -
' This is
Straw Hat Week
with us.
We are almost giv-.
ing. them away. We
do not intend to carry,
over one hat if the
price will move it.
New lot of Ladies
Oxford Ties - just re
ceived. Also Holland Shades
and Lacesi
The Cash Racket Stores,
J. M. LEATH,
Manager.
Nash and Goldsbpro Streets,
wilson; n: G. '
T11 ( IfiiiisK The S.vsiem.
".Ift ctually yet gently, when costive
or bilious, or when the Wo,od is im
pure r sluggish, to permanently cure
habitual constipation, - to awaken the
kidneys and liver to a healthy activity
without irritating or weakening them,
to dispel headaches, colds or fevers
use Syrup of Figs.
1 he A pM-al to MalUlio.
"1 am told, dear, thai Jack Rattle
pate spent 'most of his. Easter vaca
tion in your , back, parlor. Aren't
you giving him a dangerous amount
oi encouragement."
"Whv.no, dearest, he is merely a
boy. To be sure he is a year older
than I, but. I shall be outnext winter,
while Jack has two years-more in col
letje, arid "it will be six years alter
that before he can earn much of any
thing.- So practically he is six years
younger than I am, that., makes him
-twelve..' It is absurd to talk of en
couraging a boy so young as that.''
A IS.ul Cae of riux OiiK-il
Cjeorgkvh.i.k, Caha urus Co., N.'C
Mr. Allen ' Blockwillder had sent
after the doctor, but he was not at
home, having been called off on some
other case. The man who came for
the doctor said that Mr. Blockwillder,
was very sick, that he was prssing
blood and vomiting. We gave' hin'i
a small bottle of Chamberlain's Colic
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and
told him to go back and tell Mr. B.
to try it. After using three-quarters
tof the medicine he was well.
VlDNIIOUSE' oC SiUNX.- ;
Mess. Widenhousd S: Shinn are
prominent merchants and are widely
known in that part of the state. Their
statement can be relied upon. For
sale by A. . Hines Druggist.
'4liev;N'pxt Thinyr to ll. V.
Hotel Clerk ( to new. bell-bov).
)id vou Wake un No. a -t ?"'
Bell" boy "No, sah. Ciiddent
wake him up, sah, but I did the best
J could, sah." . '
Hotel Clerk '-What was that ?"
Hell-boy "I waked up No.
sah.";
45-
flu
Curl in Tnn Days. . ;
M akkngo, .Anson Co., N. C
We have used Chamberlain's Colic
Chojera and Diarrhoea Remedy in
two cases of flux,fand find it speedy
n effecting a cure. They were en-
ureiy well two days after taking the
HrSt ( (WP Wait A'' Xjurvr-CD
it dose
Wall & Spencer,
Merchants.
- For sale by A. J. Hines
'ruggist.
Th
Here is no trade so' tbfticult
S(i arduous as our own.
utvd his Wife and ( !i i 1.1 r n.
Purcepolis, Roberson Co., N, C.
We gave a bottle of Chamberlain's
Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem
edy t( a gentleman whose wile was
ad oft w:ili bowel complaint and two
doses of it cured her. His children
were also taken with bowel complaint
ttU It CI ren-lllHin ft w ciTtmnlw a
"d preparation Ai dkpman &
v. l j titi tu f 111. s 1 rn: 111 v h
lii-v:,, i 17 i iv
D
ru.ist.
Till'
Casli
Racket
DYSPEPSIA
Is that misery experienced when
suddenly made aware that you
possess a diabolical arrangement
called stomach. No two dyspep
tics have the same predominant
symptoms, but whatever - form
dyspepsia takes ,
The underlying cause i
in the LIVES,
and one thing is certain no one
will remain a dyspeptic who will
Xt will correct
Acidity of the
Stomach,
Expel foul gases.
Allay Irritation,
AwUt Digestion
'and at the same
time
Start the Liver working and
all bodily ailments
will disappear,
"For more than three year I suffered with
Dyspepsia in - its worst form. - I, tried several
doctors, but they afforded no relief. At last 1 tried
Simmons Liver Regulator, which cured me in a
short time. It is a good medicine. I would not
be without it." Jambs A. Roams, Philad'a, Pa.
See thai you get the Genuine,
with red 2 on front wrapper. .
PRKPAKKD OMT-Y BV . '
J. H. ZE1XIN CO., Philadelphia. Fa,
POETRY.
Advice to Mothers -
Winslow's Soothing Syrup
Mrs.
should
always be used for children ;
teething. It soothes the child, sof
tens the gums, allays all pain, cures
wind colic, and is the best remedy for
diarrhoe. Twenty five cents a bottle
BILl. ARP'S UHTER.
HIS AUVICIC TO WAN OK KINO 1YS.
I was ruminating upon the .presi
dents message and have come to the
conclusion that perhaps 1 am the
only reading man in all the country
who does not understand the ques
tion. The trouble is I read both
sides and have got all tangled up. If
a man wishes to preserve his peace
of mind and his self conceit he should
read only one side of politics or reli- i
gion. 1 his may make him wrong
in his path, but he is more contented,
and more zealous. He can just rip
around and raise Cain in politics and
he can go t blind lor his church and
his preacher. An intelligent friend
who is just from Washington told me
the other day that Mr. Cleveland
was the grand impersonation of -the
national government; that he was
greater than parties or platforms and
would run the machine independent
of all restraints. "If," said he,
"Grover Cleveland should die to
morrow the country would go to ruin
in thirty days." " Another friend said
the message was an abortion and Mr.
Cleveland was a huge mistake the
most overrated, nian in the nation.
But I am not going to worry
about it. If there are not enough
brains among the statesmen at Wash
ington to fix up this money business j
1 can't help it So let it rip. I read
the -messag on my way home from '
the poslofnce and when I reached the'
piazz 1 where Mrs. Arp was sitting I,
said : ' ' ' j
'Here is a letter, a message from
the president, would you like to read
itr ;
"No," she said. "Did you bring
me any letters fiom the boys ?" j
"No ic," said I.
"b am afraid they are sick," she j
said. "They haven't written for.
three or four w-eeks. They never i
write when they are sick."' j
There it is. : A letter from a son
pr daughter who is far away is a big- j
gef thing to a mother than Grover :
Cleveland's message. Everywhere
all over the land the "old folks at
home" are waiting for letters from
their absent children. I have seen
them sitting on the piazza or by the
fireside with a shadow . of sadness on
their faces and as they look dreamily
away I know what they are thinking
about. There is nothing sadder in
life than the separation of aged
parents from their children. Dr.
Samuel lohnson said : "I have always
looked upon it as the worst condition
ol man's destiny that most persons
' nappy 111 eacu oilier s stjptny. 1
i-j l i .
if this be true concerning the
friends and companions of our youth,
how much more touchingly does it
apply to the aged ones whose chil
dren have removed far away from the
old homestead. Love and money is
about all their earthly capital and
' from day to day and week to week
they look for letters kind letters,
loving letters from the absent ones
whom perhaps they will never see
again, but hope to meet yes, hope
to meet on the other side.
Letters from their children are the
next best thing to their presence, and
the children ought to write to them
r... :i I 1 ' tru:i- I
oneu -wiiLc icguiariy. vv 1111c x woo
''ruminating about
this I beard the
sweet strains, of that pretty song,
I
Sent a Letter to My Love." and then
ind , I got to thinking what a' blessed con
I trivance these letters were, the daily
- mail, the government post, the swift
messages that like Murcury speed
oyer sea and land to comiort us.
Memory went back to the time when
I was away from home for a long
long year and how happy I was when side slipped into the other and it was
a letter came a letter , from home, then sealed with a wafer or with seal
especially when there was money in mg wax. The poorer people sealed
it. Heard a college bov sav the
ntlipr rlav thai a Wtpr fmm linmp
t--
with a litt,e money in it was the best
Ipttpr ani thp.W mnnpv in ih
money
world. Parents are sure to write to
them and send a little money when
WILSON
t'ley can, and so when the parents
grow old and feeble the children
should pay them back and let no sad
memories make furrows- on their
brow. I would plead with the bovs
everywhere to comfort -V. their old
mothers with kind and loving letters'
the opd old mothers who have
nursed them and comforted tlrem,
and took Iheir part in all their trou
bles never let a mother feel the
truth of the proverb, " How sharper
than a serpent's tooth is it to have a
, thankless child." I have heard of
! boys going- away to the far west to
seek their fortune and not writing a
line back home for years. I have
seen aged parents who had not heard
from their boy so long'lh'ey had giv- ' -en
him up for dead. ' They had writ-
ten to where he was last but had re-t
t ceived no answer. But he was not
dead and in one case came homeaf
ter eleven years absence came hack
' and comforted them for he had sown
his wild oats ami reaped the crop
. and was tired. Hoys, don't do-that
way, please don't. Write letters,
i write from every place, your letters
are treasures, they are read and re
read. I know where is a bundle now,
; a 'big bundle tied around -with' tape,
and it gets bigger as the years roll
j on. If the writers should get killed
j or die from sickness the tape will be
j untied and the letters read again,
while a tear drops here and there on
the open leaf. :'.-'
Wiiting letters -regularly to kin
dred and friends reacts upon the wri
ter and makes him belter, gentler,
kinder. They take but; little time
and cost only two cents to send and
are really .the most valuable things
for the cost that can be found in the
world. A good loving home letter j
that costs only ten minutes in time
and 2 cents in money is worth ten
dollars to any mother who lives her.
child. I
The mails are a blessed privilege,
a,nd one that w-as almost unknown to
our fathers. One hundred years ago
there were but seventy-five postufhees
in the United States, now there near
er 75,000. It is not generally -known
that Ben Franklin was the first post
master general in this country, and
held his office for, twenty-one years
under the British trovernn.ent. One
mail a week was considered quite
enough between the large cities, 1 re-
member when one mail a week was
the allowance iu our country towns.'
By and by we got it twice a week,
and felt our consequence. ..Four times
a day we have it now in Cartersville.
I remember when the sound of the.
stacre horn :is the m;iil roach came
over the distant hill was the most in
spiring music that ever greeted the
small boys ears. "Oh, if I could
only drive that team and crack that
long lashed whip, and blow that bu
gle how happy I, would be." It was
the ultimatum of niv hopes, -and
my
ambition.. I remember when a book
came out that was: called "Ten Years
Among the Mail Boys" and it had
pictures representing the "Pony Ex
press" that Wells Fargo had estab
lished from St. Louis overland to
California.
They had hundreds of boys, tough,
haruy, light wood boys, weighing
from seventy-five to ninety pounds,
and each had to ride 100 miles in a
canter in twenty-fuur hours and carry
twenty pounds of letters in his saddle
bags. Every en miles his mount
ing was changed, but he was not re
lieved, nor was he rested "until he
had made half his journey. He had
to eat his lunch on the rly, and at the
stations he was lilttd from his pony
to a fresh 'one and was off with a
word and a bound. Those pictures.
nearly ran me wild and I longed to
go west- and ride the express and
have the Commanche Indians take a
crack at me and miss. :
What a change his come over the
world. The English postal system is
only 250 vears old. Before that the
kings had special messengers to carry
letters, but the people had nothing
save the passing travellers. Horses
had been substituted for footmen.
That was the only change since the
days when the prophet wrote, "How
beautilul upon the mountains. are the
feet of those who bring itlad:t!dings,"
and Solomon said : "As cold water
to a thirsty soul, so is good news
from a far country." If such rude
contrivances were lovely then how
ought we to prize our privileges now
Cheaper and cheaper is our mail
service made as civilization advances.
I remember w hen letters' cost us 6,
12, 184 and 25 cents, according
to the distance they had been carried.
A letter from Arkansas, or Texas, or
New York was 25 cents, and they
were never prepaid. Many a time
while I was the pastmaster's clerk a
poor lellow would enquire for a letter
and if there was one he would look
at it, and turn it over and hande .it
awhile, and say : "Well, it's from
Jack, I know, and, I would like to
take it home the best in the world,
but you will have to put it back and
kep it until I get the money."
Sometimes he would borrow it from
a neighbor and take it home, and
the next Sunday all would gather in
to hear what Jack said about "The
Arkansaw."
j There were no envelopes then and
no paper but foolscap. This was a
long paper and was called by that
name because the watermark was a
cap and bells. The letter was writ
ten on one side and then the sheet
was iblded in such a way that one
mem wun sou rosin irom me pine
When a letter was not sealed there
. . .
was no penalty if it was opened and
read by anv one. and hence, it is
said, came the word sincere (sine
cerum) without wax and having no
WILSON COUNTY. N. C; AUGUST 24, 1893.
secret nor anything that the writer
,1 : i . i- t . ; ....
-11 1 y i hc stricken down with his trcui
word and has a fitting origin. ! hie - As the disease advanced, he
My father was postmaster for 30; ,,,, , t() Sl)(-Clmh and rchu
years. He knew of my ambition to .- , , , . . ,
ride the pony express and so he pre
- - " 4 : u..
pared me for it by mounting me on a
big, long dromedary of. a horse and
made me ride the mail to Roswell
and back twice a week during a long,
hard winter. I had to make fifty
. 1 . .1 1 '1 T ".1
muesauayanasomeuaystnKeuu.
have frozen, for I was but a lad of,
twelve summers, but tins service
cured me and since then I have not
aspired any more to that business."
. . 1 Bill Arp.
V.. & O. Reduce the World's Pair lt:tl. s
The Chespeake and Ohio lias
placed on sale a World 's Fair ticket
which is sold daily at one fare for the
round trip, the rate being $19 from
Richmond and $17 from Lynchburg.
-These tickets are limited to fifteen
days from date sold and do not per
mit holders to occupy sleeping cars.
They are good, however, for first
class passage in the handsome vesti
bule coaches of that company.
For full information pertaining to
rates. World's Fair matter, &c, ad
dress John D. Potts, Division Passen
ger Agent, Chesapeake and Ohio
railway. Richmond, Va.
ANEW YORK MIRACLE.
A KKM AHKAHI.K AFFIDAVIT M O K
ItV A WKLL KNOWN BUSINESS M N.
Afflicted with Locomotor Ataxitt for tH'If
teu Yearn Did mot Walk a Step for -Five
Years Wan Given Up by the
Leading PhyHicimis of New York
City and LHitcliurged Front
The Manhattan Hospi
tal aa Incurable. -
(From the New York Tribune )
For some time there has been an
increasing number of stories published
in the newspapers of New York City,
telling of marvelous cures of various
diseases that have been made by dif
ferent medicine's and treatments. It
has long been the intention ot the
Tribune to investigate one of the most
interesting cases that could be found
and give the truh to the world as a
matter of news. Happening on the
case of Mr. Geo. L'Hommedieu, the
other day an investigation was made
with the following very happy result :
When the reporter called on Mr.
L'Hommedieu at the residence of his
cousin, Mr. Edward Houghtaling, 271
W. 13th St., he said r"I am 51 years
of age and was born .in Hudson, N.
Y. I " served . my time in the army,
being corporal of Company A, 21 N.
J. Volunteers. It has been about
fifteen years since I noticed the first
symptoms of my disease. I consult
ed Dr. Allen of Yorkville, and also
Dr. Pratt, since deceased. Dr.
Pratt exhausted his powers in my be
half and .finally told me that he could
do nothing more for me.
" .'Finally I was advised by Dr. Gill
to go to the well-known scientist, Dr.
Hamilton. He gave me a most thor
ough examination and did me no
good. I felt I was yrowiiig weaker
everv jaVf anj went lo the Manhat
tan Hospital, at 41st St. arid Park
Ave , and was under treatment by
Dr. Seguin. He treated me for
about three months, and then told
me that, I had locomotor ataxia and
was beyond the aid of med ical science.
I was then a complete physical wreck;
all power, feeling and color had left
my legs, and it was impossible for
me to feel the most severe pinch or
even the thrust of a needle.
a'Ifmy skin was scratched there
would be no flow of blood whatever,
and it would take it fully sirK .weeks
to heel up. In the night I would
have to feel around to find my legs.
My pains were excruciating and at
times "almost unbearable. I would
take ' large doses "of morphine to
deaden the pains.. About five years
ago Dr. Lewis A. Sayre of 285, 51!!,
Ave,, made a trial of the French
method of stretching the spine, Al
though I received no benefit from
this treatment I shall always feel
grateful to Dr. Sayre for his great in
terest and kindness. .
"So severe' had my case become
by this time that I could not walk
without assistance, and was almost
ready to give up life.
I began the use of Pink Pills for
Pale People in September last. I
took them , rather, irregularly at first
with the cold water treatment. In a
very short time I was convinced that
I was getting better and I began the
use of the ; pills in" . earnest, taking
one box every five days.
"The first v' sign of . improvement
was in November, 1892, when I had
a rush of blood to the head and feet
causing a stinging and prickling sen
sation. February 22nd, 1893, was
the first time in five years I had ever
seen any sign of blood in my feet.
From this time, on I began to im
prove. My strength and appetite
have gradually returned ; I now have
perfect control bf my bowels, and the
pains have gradually left me. I can
sit and write by the
hour and walk
up stairs by oalancmg mysell with
my hands. , Without doubt I am a
new man from the '; ground up, and I
have every reason to believe that I
will be haleand hearty in less than
six months. " I have taken about
twelve boxes of pills."
- Sworn to before me this , eleventh
day of March, 1893
' 'H. E. Melville,
' Commissioner of Deeds,
seal New York City.
The reporter,, next called on Mr.
Robert yVT" Smith, a : member" of the
firm of Marchal :& Smith, who said :
"I have, known Mr. Geo. L'Hom
medieu ? for Wehty years. He be
came connected with our firm as sec
retary in 1879, and attended strictly
to his" office duti s uulil 18S1 , lu n
know that he tried various niivt-.ioiuns
J 1 -...v.v. i
auo ineir treatments -wnnout Hie least
success, and, as htT states, he was
finally discharged., fr.ofii the Manhat
tan Hospital, and told that he was in
The last stages- of locomotor ataxia
.1 . - - - . , - .
ahdwas beyond lhe hope of human
Ahnilt ' , m--, ,
he was advised to try" Dr. Williams"
Pink Pills for- Pale People, with the
cold water treatment. The last time
I ''saw Mr. L'Hommedieu he had
gained the use of his leys to such an
extent that he. could. 'walk up -stairs
with the help of his wife, and Js now
doing much., important work for us
at his home. '
L Robt W. Smith."
Sworn to and subscribed before
(iie this Eleventh day of March,
1893.
SEAL. W. H. WOODHULL,
Notary Public, New York City.
An analysis of Dr. Williams' Pi.ik
Pills show that they contain, in a
condensed form, all the elements
necessary to give new life and rich
ness to the blocd and restore shat
tered nerves. They are an unfailing
specific for such diseases as locomo
tor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus'
dance, sciatica, neuralgia; rheuma
tisni, nervous headache, and after
effect of la grippe, palpitation ,of the
heart, pale and sallow complexions,
and nil forms of weakness either in
male or female. Pink Pills are sold
by all dealers, or will be sent post
paid on receipt of price, (50 cents a
box they are never sold in bulk or
by the hundred) by addressing Dr.
VYilliams' Medicine Co., Schenec
tady, N. Y., or Brockville, Ontario.
Elder S. S. Beaver, of McAllistei'
ville, Juniatta Co., Pa., says his wife
is subject to cramp in the stomach.
Last summer she tried Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Reme
dy for it, and was much pleased with
the speedy relief it afforded. She has
since used it whenever necessary aiid
found that it never fails. For sale by
A. J. Hines.
Jinks. "Don't you think that the
intentions of French duelists are
more honorable, than is generally
conceded ?" '
Filkins. "Oh, yes ; as a rule they
aim high."
TO THIS
WOliOD'S KAlii VIA
& O.
Going vitt Washington ur ISal t imoi-c
ii'l iiiiiiiiy; via Niacnnt Km IN.
:iihI
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
has placed on sale at its offices ex
cursion tickets to Chicago good go
ing via Washington or Baltimore via
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and re
turning via Niagara Falls, with the
privilege to stop over at each point.
These tickets are valid for return
journey until November I5th7 and
are not restricted to certain trains,
but are good on all B. ct O. trains.
Besides the opportunity of visiting
Washington, a privilege afforded 'by
no other route, tourists via the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad will traverse
the historic Potomac .valley, the
theatre of the war between the States.
At Cumberland they will be offered
a choice of roules, via Pittsburgh or
accross the Allegheny Mountains,
3,000 feet above; the level of the sea,
and via Deer Park and Oakland, the
famous summer resorts. The scenery
along the Baltimore and Ohio route
is the most picturesque in America.
Address for further information
Arthur G. Lewis, 'P
and
Ticket Agent, 76 Main
Va.
St., Norfolk,
A horse can draw on the worst
kind of earth road about four times
as much as he can carry 011 his back.
On a good macadamized road he can
pull ten times as much ; on a - plank
road twenty-five times as much and
on a street rail way fifty-eight limes
as much. -
Afck Vmir Kri-i)4N . 1
Who have taken Hood's Sarsapa
rilla what they think of it, and the
replies will be pisitive in its favor.
One- has been cured of indigestion
and dyspepsia, another finds it in-dispensable-for
sick headache, others
report remarkable cures of scrofula,
salt rheum and othir blood diseases,
still others will tell you that it over
comes "that tired felling," and so on.
Truly, the best advertising winch
I lood's Sarsaparilla receives is the
hearty endorsement of the army of
friends it has won by. its positive
medicinal merit.' . ,.
Walter Bridges, Athens, Tenn.
writes : "For six years I had been
afflicted with runninir sores, and an
enlargement of the bone in my leer
I tried everything I heard without
any permanent benefit until Botanic
Blood Balm was recommended to me.
After using six bottles the sores
healed, and I am now in better health
than I have ever been. I send this
testimonial unsolicited., because ? I
wanted others to be benefitted.
All lui;ral.'
Jack Ford. "Did you
see
that
giil cut me then ?"
P'rank Wilcox. "I : noticed
slie
didn't bow."
Jack Ford. "And yet I saved her
lifer
Frank Wilcox. "How ?"
Jack Ford.; "We were engaged,
and finally she raid she'd ratlier die
than marry me and I let her off."
iO OTKEfJ rarsaparii!a com
bines economy asd strenqth like
HOOD'S. It is tha-; only one of
which can truly be said ' i oo Doses
KILLED HIS CHILD;
Shot His Wife and Thon Blew Out.
His Own Brains.
LI0U01l: DEMON'S HORRIBLE WORK.
Sickening? Tragedy la Chicago An
Innocent Child the First Victim
The Sleeping Mother
Shot in the Head.
CmcAGO. Aufrust 21. Crazed by
liquor, Dong-las Curtis, a switch-throw-
ate and successful attempt' at murder
and suicide at his home in Auburn Park
today. .
He shot and instantly killed his
seven yearrold daughter, Leslie; proba
bly fatally wounded his wife, and sent
a bullet through his own brain.
Curtis had been on a spree for three
weeks and had spent all his money,
leaving- his family destitute. After
drinking- a great deal at a saloon, he
went home, letting himself into his
room, and after taking; off his coat and
shoes, wrote and left on the washstand
the following-note: -
Please notify. John F. Craig. No. 159 North
Fifth St., KeoUuk. Ia.: also, Myran Cilrtls, La
Harpe, Hancock county, IU. Cause, adversity. .
DOUGLAS CURTIS.
He then drew a revolver from hte
pocket and crept into the room where
his wife and daughter were sleeping.'
The crazed man reached across the
bed, and thrusting the Tnuzzle of the
revolver close to his' childs mouth he
pulled the trigger
The bullet went crashing into the
child's brain killing her instantly. -
Though slightly deaf, the stunning
report and the heavy weight of het
husband across her in the bed awok
the mother, and she struggled to gel
free. As she . turned from him in heV
efforts to get up, he placed the muzzl
of the pistol . to the back of her head
There' was a flash, a report and i
smothered groan and she fell back 6c
on the bed, unconscious, though , nol
dead. Then coeking-'the revolver with
his left hand, he placed the muzzle
close to his own head and pulled the
trigger. . Death was instantaneous.
It was . some minutes after the last
shot had been fired that Mrs. Curtis!
blindly staggering from her blood
.soaked bed, reached the door and, de
scending to the floor beneath, walked
into Mrs. Whitehouse's apartmenti
"Give me a drink', I am shot," gasped
the wounded woman. .
- Mrs. Whitehouse led Mrs. Curtis to
her own bedroom and' sent for a police
fliocer and a physician.- "yhen the
latter arrived they found Curtis and
his daughter dead and Mrs. Curtis un
conscious. - ' - . ;
THE NEWS GIVES HIGH PRAISE
Acknowledging That Dr.- Amlck'g Discov
ery Is All Tliat Is Claimed.
ClIAlITAXOOQA, Tk.VX.,: August 19.
The intense newspaper rivalry here re
sulted in The News sending-' a special
representative to Cincinnatti to in
vestigate the Amick treatment for con
sumption. -
The Times had reported sensational
cures through it, which The News as
sumed to question. ,
Today The News acknowledges that
AmieVs discovery is all it is claimed,
and admits the cures he is daily effect
ing are indisputable facts. It espec
ially commends his sending test medi
cines free to physicians, and physicians
only. '-
TOOK SEAT AN D ALL.
M;...-.. .1 Men Stop a Train and Take a Bad
Man Off.
Memphis,' Tenx., August 21. Six
misked men stopped a passenger train
on the Mississippi Valley branch of the
Illinois Central railroad this morning
and held up Deputy United States
Marshal Stockton. Then they took
his prisoner, Charles Tait, colored,
from the train and shot him to death,
lie was .chained to the seat, but thej
took scat and all. Tait had mur
dered his employer, a farmer named
II. C. Pete." last September and had just
been captured.
Virginia Farmers Alliance.
: Richmoxd, Va., August 18. The Vir
ginia Farmers'. Alliance was engaged
today in amending the constitution in
several minor ways after which thej
elected officers for the ensuing term at
follows: President, Dr. B. L. Winston,
of Hanover; vice president, -G. W. B.
Hakle,. of Franklin: state lecturer.
William II. Geyser, of Page; secretary
and treasur3r, J. J. Silvey; chairman oi
executive committee, J. V. Ruffin, oi
Hanover. C. II. Pearson was elected as
delegate to the national council, which
meets this fall in Ilarrisburg, Pa.
No 1'ever In Charleston.
Chari.f.stox, S. C, August 19. Dr.
liorlbeek, city health officer, says in
reg-ard to reported cases 'of yellow
fever on board a schooner at . Philadel
phia, that no ships of any descriptior
whatever had left this port with anj
'sickness on board. The list of the ves
seis sailing from Charleston since Au
gust 1st does not contain the name o:
the "Hetty Lester." There is evident
ly a mistake in the name of the pori
from which the vessel sailed.
Hard XI m s In Bolivia.
New York, August 21. The Herald'i
corresjondent in La Paz writes thai
irzre is a ' serious crisis in Bolivia or
account o:f the fall' in the price of sil
ver. Mine owners are threatening t
stop operations. In order to preveni
this the government will ask congress
to authorize the collection of import ,
duties iu gold hereafter and to remow j
the existing export duties on silver, (
Heat the Two .Mile Uic-ycU Race.
Loxb'ox, August 19. At the Horn
Hill track yesterday Ernest Osmonc
covered two miles on a safety bicycl
m 4:21 2-5.' This beats the best record
aver made anywhere. The British re
;ord fox that distance was previouslj
held by M. B. Fowler, who, on th
same track last year, covered twi
miles in 4:41) 4-3.
Mr. J. C. Bos well, one of the best
known and most respected citizens of
lirowhwood, Texas, suffered with,
diarrhfjea for a long time and tried;
many different remedies without
benefit, until Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was
used; that relieved him at once.
For sale by A. J. Hines.
Alcohol will effectually remove
grass stains.
Highest of all in Levenine
1
ABfifllSffECu PURE
Tuesday, Augnat 18.
The suhtreasury "balances today were
$55,027,000 in coin, and 89,326,000 in cur
rency. President Cleveland was burned in
effigy at a mixed mass meeting at Jo
nah, Texas.
Opelika, Ala., wants Governor Jones
to allow her to invite the Pensacola
refugees to that city.
The Senate hotel, at Chicago, was
burned. Seven people lost their lives,
and several were injured.
Ilenry Crommelin, a prominent and
wealthy citizen of .Montgomery, - Ala.,
died suddenly of heart disease.
The most notabl son t her bank fail
ure of the week was thatcrf iTinUk
Morris A Co., of lieatfomerj, 41.
The superintendent ot the Philadel
phia mint has been instrtMted to pnh
the small gold and subsidiary silver
coinage as rapidly as possible, and, if
need be, to hare the mint worked alter
hours to get the specie oat '
Wednesday. Aaffatt IS.
The Georgia State Prohibition Asso
ciation will meet in Macon, 0o, on the
23d instant. J
The Montgomery, Ala., hooks re
successfully floating clearing hoaso
certificates.
Thomas Carter, a widely known en
telegrapher and electrician, died in
Charleston, H. C
It is now said that W. L. Wilson and
not Bourke Cochran is to lead the ad
ministration forces in the bouse.
Col. Oaten, of Alabama, who was hurt
by falling from a cable car in Wash
ington, is reported to he seriously ill.
Secretary Carlisle, in view of the
emergency in the cotton crop, has ar
ranged that upon the deposit of cur
rency with the Sub-Treasury ia Sew
lorlr'the Sub-Treasury at New Or
leans will be ordered by telegraph to
pay a like sum in silver dollars. This
arrangement, it is said, will move the
crop.
Thursday, August IV.
The cholera is said to be spreading in
Austrian Galicia. ,
Chicago banks received $025,000 in
gold on import engagements.
Reports from the cotton croprin Texas
are favorable for a heavy yield.
The Total' Abstinence Life Insurance
Company, of Chicago, was declared to
be virtually insolvent.
The Union National bank of Racine,
Wis., closed its doors, and the Commer
cial and Savings bank posted a 30 days'
notice.
Seven persons were killed in an acci
dent on the Atlantic and Danville rail
road, caused by a def ectiveHsestle near
Milton.
Harvey Speck, a noted desperado,
Who two years ago murdered two men
in Georgia, was arrested at Russell
vine, Ala.
The Georgia State Farmers' Alliance,
in session at Griffin, decided to continue
the State Exchange and to purchase an
organ for the order.
Friday, August IS.
Albany, Ga., has received 500 bales' of
new cotton mis weeit. .
Wheat dropped 1-3 cent at Chicago,
notwithstanding the large shipments
from this country.
The Virginia State democratic con
vention nominated G. T. O'Farrell for
governor and R. C. Kent for lieutenant
governor.
The Oliver Iron and Steel Works, at
I Pittsburg, Pa., one of the largest in
the country, went into the hands, of a
receiver. . - '
The Atlanta, Ga., banks hare decided
to issue clearing house certificates
All leading business houses agree to
accept the certificates. .
It Is announced thai ttj Wkto
house of Joslah farts 4 Cx. of lfoa
gomery, Ala., has perfected trpaace
ments for the resumption of bftatneeo.
The Standard Wagpm Company, at
Cincinnati, one of the larffea concern
of the kind in the West, made an
6lgnment this morolng to Grant Bar
rows for the benefit of eredltors. . As
sets 81,200,000; liabllitlerOO.OOa
Saturday, Aagut lSw , !
TexarUana had a $40,000 fire last
night. A whole block, 'oocopied by
small firms, was destroyed.
Jeff Fleming, father of the outlaws,
Cal and Henan, died at Pound Gap, the
scene of the Mullins massacre.
Mr E. 0. Seifert, of Jfw York, has
bought out his partners, and is now
sole owner of the Macon, Ga., Tele
graph. ,
The John Brown fort, taken from
Harper's Ferry to the world's fair has
proven a financial failure, and a re
ceiver for the company is demanded.
A Mobile dispatch says the five re
maining .members of the Meachain
Beat gang of outlaws who were
thought last night to be safely sue
sounded, hav escaped in Mississippi,
A freight engine, east-bound, on the
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern rail
road, blew up near Rockabil last night,
instantly killing Engineer Baslm,
Fireman Roberts and Brakeman Quinn.
Monday, August 1:
fhe Texas popolists now boast that
they are certain to carry the next state
! election.
In New York some of the preachers
are discussing the financial problem In
their pulpits.
The number of visitors to the world's
fair last week was 790,476 an increase
of 110,378 over the previous week
Mayor Harrison favors the issue of
city warrants by Chicago to be used in
employing labor, on public improve
ments. '
I. E. Orchard, of Atlanta, fla., con-
1ntwl twain rama nf phpftf) ftlrnnl-
t.nciv .ra;nct tht munT chM nlav.
ers of Chicago, winning all but two of
the games.
Simmons Liver Regulator'cured me
of general debility and loss of appetite.
Mrs. Edmond Fitton, Frandford Pa.'
NUMBER 34
Power Latest U. S. Gov't Report
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CONGRESS AT WORK:
Seeking a Itemedy For The tils of
The Body Politic
FIGHT BETWEEN SILVER AND GOLD.
Ta Relief Measures Proposed The Great
Debate Proceeds A Remarkable
Speech by Representative
Bryan, of Nebraska.
Auoust 15. In the House, Mr. Hutch
inson, of Texas, concluded his remarks
began yesterday in favor of the free
coinage of silver. He attributed the
Ment business depression to--the
Wile and bears oi Wall street. The
real eoato-oversy was not gold versus
silver, but it was money against credit.
Dollars could not be obtained for ia
dnstrial enterprises because the dd
laxa were piled up in Wall street
' Mr. Blauokard, in speaking in favor
free coinage, reviewed the silver
legislation of the country and quoted
from both the democratic and republi
can platforms, and each expressed his
opinion that, if the republican plat
form meant anything,' not twenty re
publicans would vote for the Wilson.
MIL . . .
Mr. Orosvenor, of Ohio, said that it
was to be regretted that the president -in
his message to congress had not been
so void of partisanship as he had asked
the houses to be. It was unfortunate
that the executive of the country,
looking forward to the condition which
portended violent opposition to his
views, had seen fit to first appeal to
partisanship and to unjustly proclaim
to the people that the present
peril of the country grew out of the
legislation of the republican party.
, The difficulty in which the country
now found itself was attributable to
the fact that the people feared
the tinkering with the protective tariff
by the democratic party. He warned
the democrats that they must come to
gether on this .question. The republi
cans could be relied upon to do their
duty. This was their country, and
they could not afford to put it in a :
hole.
Mr. Hall, democrat, of Missouri,
spoke in favor of a greater volume of
currency and of the free coinage of
silver. The. present financial condi
tion put the people of the United
States absolutely at the'mercy of men
dealing in large financial transactions ,
in the United States or in any other
nation with which he held commercial
relations.
In the Senate, Mr. Voorhces, chair
man of the finance comraittee, report
ed back the " bill to enable national
banks to issue circulation to the
par value of the bonds deposited by
them. The bill, he said, had not only
the endorsement of the committee on
finance and of the secretary of the
treasury, but a- similar measure had
passed the senate unanimously last"
session. II Would authorize au in
crease of S19.0OO.0O0 of the circulation
of national banks on the bonds already
deposited; there was not a doubt that
it would result in an increase of from
forty to fifty, millions an increase of
currency that would be, at this time,
a solace and comfort to the people in
every quarter of the United Statec
An objection--from Mr. Cockrell sent
the bill over until tomorrow.
AvQVST 16. This has been one of
the most interesting days bf the extra
Besslon in the house rendered so by
the remarkably brilliant speech in
favor of free tJUver coinage, by Mr.
Bryan, of Nebraska. Though a new.
member, and only thirty-three years of
fa, his speech is' admitted on all
tides bo be tke greatest one heard in
congress fen Tears. The house was
crowded. bo4 for nearly three hours
the oalenee of law makers were spell
bound by his logic and eloquence.
In conclusion Mr. Bryan aald: "The
democratic party stands today between
two conflicting forces. On the one
aide stand the .corporate interests of
the United States, the moneyed inter-,
stt, aggregated wealth and capital
faaperioua, arrogant, com passionless.
They are able to subscribe magnifi
cently to campaign funds. They are
able to crush, with their all-pervading
influence, any who may dare oppose,
and to those who fawn and flatter they
ean bring ease and plenty. -These de
mand that the democratic party shall
become the agent to execute their
merciless decrees. On the other
hand we see standing an unnumbered
throng, those who save to the demo
cratic party a name, and for whom
it has assumed to speak. Work-worn
yvS dusty-begrimed, they make their
mute appeal and too often find their
cry for help beat in vain against the
ouierwalls, while others less deserving
gain eady access to legislative halls.
This army, vast and dally vaster grow.
Intf, pleads with the , democratic party
tobe its champion in this terrible con
0ioL It cannot, press its claims amid
sounds of revelry; It cannot march iU
phalanxes in grand parade. No gaudj
banners float on the breeze. Its battlt
hymn is 'Home,' Sweet Home;' its wal
cry, 2quality before the law.'
"Between these forces hesitating, in
doubt which side to turn, yet consciouj
that upon its decision must rest it$
fate, stands the democratic party, and
to It standing thus come the -words oi
Israel's second law giver, 'Choose y
this day whom ye will serve.' Thomai
Jefferson was called a demagogue.
His followers were called a mob, bu
dared to follow the best promptings ol
his heart. , He dared - to place man
above matter, humanity , above pover
ty. He dared to spurn the bribes ol
wealth and power and to plead th
cause of the common people, and be
cause of his devotion to their interest
the democratic party was imvincibl
whU he Uved, and because of that de
retkw his memory wiU be revered,
white history endures, -. -
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