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SUBBA8.D & BOTE. PulMeri- NO .23.
A Very Serious Situation Along the
Mississippi Riyer. ' '.'
NOTHING IN SIGHT BUT WATER,
Storms and Cyclones Add Terror to
tlio Situation One Hundred Miles
of Country Under Water.
- Memphis, Tenn., Marck 19. A fur-
tier half-inch rise in the Mississippi
uieana the devastation of, property and
robabJy a Ions of life unequaled in th
flood history of this section. The rise
is threatened, because rain is still fall
mgr. Seventeen persons are reported
drowned below Curruthersvillo, Mo. A
Mretch of land over 100 miles long,
from a point 70 miles north o Memphis
to a point 60 miles south of the Tennes
see metrojwiis, is submerged, in places
to a depth of 10 feet. 1 he, fertile val
leys ol Tennessee and Arkansas are
completely inundated and many.lives
l.ave been lost and stock drowned.
I'encings and dwellings have been
6Wertawayr:-and the inhabitants are
destitute and homeless, left to starve
or drown by -the remorselessly rising
tide. It eporta from tributary streams
show rains and rapidly rising rivers all
of which will help to swell the rising
waters. The floods now partake of tne
nature of a deluge. As far as the eye
vuu tco uoraiiig dui water meets ine
gaze.
tiix hundred people were rescued ves-
terday on the Arkansas side of the river
and taken to Memphis,, but there are
Hooded districts which relief boats can
not reach tho stricken ones. On island
tlO,.pne hundred sufferers and consider
able live stock were rescued by the
steamer Itasca. Neither man nor beast
Had tasted food for i4 hours. Human
beings and helpless brutes are huddled
together awaiting assistance all along
me iron mountain ana ivansas Uity,
X ort fccott and Uulf tracks. 1 ive.hun-
lrcd people were forced to flee from
tne floods ju .Dyer and Obion counties,
. Tenn. .... . ' .-.
OVEB 100 BOUSES DAMAGED.
Dallas, Tex., March 10. Speoial
raiegrams, received this morning, state
Al A .1 . .
mm uuruiorn iexas was swept by a
wmastorm last night, that at times de-
veiopea tne proportions of a cyolone.
The worst damage reported so far, oo
currea at Uonton, where over 100
Houses were struck by the Btorm and
on uwro or less aamaged. it is be
lieved that the storm in tha vioinif v nt
iJenton has-cauosd damage to the ex-
ient oi iuu,uuu.
&BOWKBD BY UPSSTTISO "DUO OCT."
vjBvm Arit., juarcn for many
uue wo tuuuu-y is nooacu. and tue
water is up on tue Iron Mountain
iracit. Hundreds of hands are trv
mg to keep it back with dirt bags. At
every station the negroes are gathering.
waiting to be taken away. Many get
b me trains and are carried without
- Pay. The list of fatalitios is said to be
Jong and probably never will he known.
teeral lives have Leon lost bv the ui-
setting of a "dug out," and many more
luiaiiuea are rviwtod. A mountain
of household goods is piled up at ev
ery stotiou. Whites and negroes beg
for helpfrom every train crew. Houses
along the roads are submerged to the
room, ami cattle are standing in tho
neiun wun only their beads above the
win;.
MB MOST SERIOUS 8IKCB 1833.
isew urleaim, March 19. A special
to me mates irom V ioksburg, Miss..
says the liver situation for the next
unity days promises to be more than
sciiois. inero is a higher stage at
vmiu huu jiciena, tne two main points
of observation, than since 1686. and bv
reported rain falls in the nast
their
twenty-four hours, both will score ex
treme high water marks. The pressure
is going to be excessive all along the
icvee lines, it win first appear between
Hulena and the mouth of. the Arkansas.
On that reach, levees have been put in
front of the White river basin since the
last high water, and the effect of this is
now to be tested. .From there down the
levees have been raised and. enlarged
greatly and onght to hold unless the
ilood is prolonged. Altogether,, it is
the most serious situation for the delta
since lrtfte.
A dispatch from Anniston, Ala., says
a strong wind storm did great damage
in this section, but no loss of life is re
lated. At Jackson, Miss.," and vicinity the
storm did great damage to property,
but no loss of life is reported at this
time. All telegraph wires are down.
. A dispatch from Memphis, Tenn., of
. March 18, says: The work of rescuing
the people in the flooded district is be
ing carriod on night and day and this
morning hulf a dozen steamers brought
w .ucwjjuM over i.uwreiugees. ihe
steamboat men tell some harrowing
stories of suffering und death.. One wo
man wno was rescued from an Indian
mound, 15 miles west of here, held in
her arms a dead infant that had perish
ed from cold and hunger. Another fam
ily of four when rescued, related that
io .man children were drowned in
6ight of their helpless parents.
Islands Nos. 4u, 86 and 84 in the Mis
sissippi river ire eomnloMv nkm
nd the inhabitants to the number of
auout ouu nave abandoned their homes.
15am began to f til here yesterday after
noon and at noon today there has been
i J cessation of the downpour.- The
river now marks 86.9. The levees are
standing the strain much better than
was expected, but a break is liable to
Occur at any moment
For Military Service.
Abont 700 Greeks, it is reported,
tailed from New lork Friday to their
native country to be enrolled and equip
ped for military service in her behalf in
the event she engages in an early war.
which is among the probabilities.
Refused to Fight Corbel t.
After the big pugilistio fight at Car
eon, .Nev., I' itzsimmons refused to fight
Corbtt again, and t orbett saiil he would
ranch itz's head on, sight, nd the
latter replied: "if you do X will kill
you."
FiFiy.plFTII COXGRES9.,
' ' (
Report of the Proceedings frorii Hay
to Day.
'"SENAtA V
Monday, sThS extraordinary sessiod
of th Fifty-fifth Congress was opened
by reading the President's proclamation
convening it. Sixty-eight Senators
answered to foil-call, and the galleries
were filled to overflowing. 'Mr. W. A;
Harris, of Kansas, was sworn in as suc
cessor to Mr. l'effer." After appoint
ment of a committee to notify the Presi
dent and the House that the Senate was
ready to begin its dntlBB, i recess was
taken until 2 ft til. At this.session the
President's message was read and'Ve-
ferred to committee, and on motion of
Mr. Allison, Republican, of Iowa, the
Senate at 3:35 p. m. adjourned until te
morrow at. roon,
Tei!nV. Many bills.: idrere- intro
duced and referred, among them bills
from Mr. Allen, Populist, of Nebraska,
directing the foreclosure of the erovern-
raent lien on the Union Pacific Bail
rood; to prevent over-capitalization of
companies doing an inter-State carry
ing trade: to prevent professional lob
bying;' to preserve the purity of nation
al legislation, and to increase the cir
culating medium. A bill to facilitate
the construction, working and main
tenance of telegraphic communication
between the United States, tho lift
waiian Island", Japan and Australia,
was introduced by Mr. Chandler. Also
a bill to provide for the twelfth and
subsequent censuses. A bill for a gov
eminent telegraph was introduced by
Air. Kyle, j'opuiist, of bontu
Dakota, and ono to amend the
immigration laws by Mr. Lodge,
republican, of Massachusetts,
A new Nicaragnan Canal bill was in
troduced by Mr. Morgan, Democrat, of
Alabama. Also a bill to create a board
of trustees of tho Union Pacilic and
Central Pacific Railroad Companies
to . fund thoir bonded indebtedness
Pankruntev hills were introduced bv
Senators Uoar. Republican, of Massa
chusetts, and Nelson, Pepublican, of
Minnesota. Altogether there wore 4.18
bills introduced and referred, most of
thom coming over from the last Con
grcss. After a short executive session,
at whicn today a nominations were re
ferred, the Sonate at half past 8 ad
lourned till Thursday next.
Thursday. After a two day's recess
tho Senate re-asnombled and a large
number of bills, mostof them survivors
of tho last Congress, were introduced
and referred. Clear, (Hep.) of Iowa,
frem tlie committee on Pacific rail
roaas, reported tue bill, wbicn was
pending last session, for the adjust
ment of the government debt through
a commission, to consist of the Secre
tary of the Treasury, the Secretary of
trie interior ana tne Attorney-uenerai
It was placed on the calendar.
I he constitutional amendment for
the populer election of United States
Senators was introduced and will be
debated Monday.
At the close of the morninsr business
tne senate proceeded to the considera
tion of exeoutive business the arbitra
tion treaty. Morgan made a speech
against it. A long debate is in prospect.
I rid at. The calendar of business in
the Senate this morning contained only
four items: The notice by Mr. Turpie
I Uera. ) of Indiana, of his intention to
address the Senate in favor of the pro
posed constitutional amendment to
make United States Senators elective
by the people. 1 be amendment itself,
which is on the table, and the two Pa
cific Railroad bills which were reported
inursday. i he number of bills intro
duced in the Senate since Monday Inst,
up to mis morning was im. jur. Uut-
ler, Populist, of North Carolina, to
establish a tostal telegraph system:
and one bv Mr. Chandler. Kenub-
i ican, oi Jew Hampshire, as to
first and second-class mail matter.
On motion of Davis, (Hep. ) of Minna
sot a, actingchairman of the committee
on foreign relations, the Senate at 12:50
p. m. proceeded to executive business.
and at 4 p. m. adjourned until Mon
day.
The Senate confirmed the following
nominations: unaries u. Uordon.
postmaster at Chicago; John Hay, of
the District of Columbia, ambassador
to Great Britain; Horace Porter, of
ew ioru, ambassador to- France;
Henry White, of Rhode Island, secre
tary oi embassy at .London: 1'errv n
Heath, of Indiana, to be First Assist
ant Postmaster General.
at 3:10 o'clock, but its third reading
4 try title) was ordered without a divis
ion, and the bill was then passed lili
ttt SO. .Oil minuta later the House ad'.
IStirned. The Deraooratio members of
the ways and means committee have
anthorlzed Mr. Bailey, of Texss, to
prepare the minority 'report on the
tariff bill. It will be laid before the
House on Monday next.
Satubdat. The first week of the ex
traordinary session of the Fifty-fifth
Congress closed with to-day's session
cf the Hour of Representatives. Tlx
reeord made is extraordinary) Tlie
tariff bill has been reported, and An or
der regulating its dmcussion adopted.
Four appropriation bills, whioh failed
to become laws in the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress necessury lor the prosecution tff
important parts of the tublio service).
carrying a total oi over sbveuty-two
niiiiiuua ui iiyijaiH, unve neon passea,
with ,tb exwption, of .pue paragraph, lis
they were finally agreed upon by the
last nouse. iwo oi tueBe, the agricul
tural and Indian,' wore considered and
disposed of. J he former, appropriat
ing 83, 182,950, was passed, as had been
the sundry civil and general defi
ciency bills Friday without change.
One feature of the Indian bill provoked
much opposition and was finally strick
en out, ly unanimous consent, before
the bill passed. This was the para
graph opening tuo gusonite or asphalt
lands in the Uncompaghre reservation,
Utah, to entry under the mineral laws,
wnicn tne senate aaaea to the bill
'1 be debute on the tariff bill will be,
Monday.
L
Extra
Session ' of ihd fifty-fifty
Congress Convenes.
BRIEF IN" RECOMMENDATIONS
Session Called' to Deal With Deficits
and Prevent Sariie In Future by
Passing a Tai llT Bill. '
Washington, TUarch 15.-Tue exfcra-
dinory session of the Fiff fifth Con
gress was opened by .reading-the Presi
dent's jrodamaUou convening it Sixty-:
ttgui iaeuators ansered.to.Tueroii-caii,
to' brer--
iin
COrrox farming.
HOUSE.
Monday The opouinor of tha Fiftv
fifth Congress in extraordinary session
was witnessed in the House . today
by an immense corwd. Alexander
McDowell, clerk of the last House,
called the House to order. The election
of Speaker was then - proceeded with.
the result beinc: For Mr. Read.
for Mr. Railey, 114; for Mr. Bell, 21;
for Mr. Kewlands, of Nevada, 1. The
President's message was read and re
ferred, on motion of Mr. Dinirlev. to
the committee on ways and means. Mr.
Dingley then introduced his tariff bill,
which was also referred to the commit
tee on ways and means. Permission
was given to the committee on wavs
and means to sit during the session of
the House and to have all necessary
the House adjourned nntil Thursday
next
Thursday. The Speaker laid before
the House the recommendations of th
L Postmaster ueneral for an appropria
tion of- 8300,000 to be immediately
available, to enable the government to
aejrav ine necessary expenses of the
postal congress which wilt assemble in
Washington in May next. The Depart
ment Unas itself in the embarrassing
jiuninuu oi uaving tne congress on its
hands, ; and with no means to provide
tnw. 1 .
"o inxuuu biiu entertainment.
Henderson (Rep.), of Ohio, stated the
committee on wavs and means would
not be ready to report nntil . Friday,
therefore he moved that the hbusd ad
journ nntil then. This -was agreed on
without division, and at' 12:16 the
House was declared adjourned by
Speaker Reed.
: Friday. The first exeontive day of
the Honse of the Fifty-fifth Congress
gave every indication of an unusually
lively session. Dingley, from the com
mittee on ways and means, returned
the tariff bill with the recommendation
that it do pass, which, with the ac-'
companying report, was placed on the
calendar, and the general debate will
begin Monday and end Thursday. The
vote on the passage of the sundry civil
bill was: leas, 157; nays, 73. The
Republicans only voted for it, all
others asrainst it. The readinar of . thn
general deficiency bill was completed
now Two to rone unlet Per Acre
Are Made On Very Poor Land.
We have not the slightest desire to
assist in any manner in bringing about
an increase in the number of balos
annually raised throughout the Sunny
South in general nor in Mississippi in
particular, but we do desire that
Southern farmers everywhere should
realize the fact that the same 6,000.000
to 10,000,000 bales that are now raised
annually may be just as easily, just as
surely and far more economically and
profitably raised on one-fourth the
area it is to-day, leaving the other
thrre-fonrths to be put in provision
crops, frn its or grass. We have had
the good fortune to see and walk over
many Georgia farms farms, too, that
were worn out and washed away many
years ago that are now made to pro
duce from one to fonr bales of cotton
per acre. This condition of things is
made possible and actually brought
abont by the "intensive" system of
culture and liberal vet economical
fertilization.
As early in the new year as the
weather will possible admit of, the old
cotton stalks are "knocked," or 2st,
the roots are then plowed up
with straight Shovel; green cotton
Beed are then strewn in this shovel
furrow at the rate of ten to twelve
bushels per acre; two half-shovel fur
rows are next thrown on the seed to
prevent the loss of ammonia; in a few
weeks this small bed is opened with a
long, narrow scooter and 200 to 300
pounds of some goodoommercial fertil
izer distributed in this furrow ; phos
phate aud potash being all sufficient,
the cotton seed . furnishing the
necessnry nitrogen; the land is then
bedded out aud out with straight
t-hovel and is now ready for the
reception of 'the seed. Under' tliis
plan, persistently followed. Georgia
farmers have tncoeeded in so in
creasing the fertility of the soil that
Willi a slight increase in amount of
fertilizer used and a favorable season
fonr bales per acre have rewarded
their efforts. -. '
A good heavy oow-pea stubble
turned nnder will be found to be fully
as becefloial to the coming cotton orop
as the cotton seed ; either one will
Bupply all the nitrogen needed ; but
in the absence oi a cow-pea stubble,
the col ton seed should by no means be
uegleoteil. Stable manure may be
nsed instead of- either of above, but
the fact should be kept in mind that
all three of above are "nitroirenona"
fertilizers, and are nsed mainly for the
amount of nitrogen they contain ; and
either one, or all tbreeneed the addition
of phosphates and potaau in liberal
Quantities (seventy-five pounds of Mu
riate of Potash or 800 pounds of Kainit,
with 200 pounds of Acid Thosphate)
per acre in order to make a oomplete
fertilizer that shall be at dnoe proper
ly balanced an'tf duly proportioned. II
tho peas have heen properly fertifizou
twitn auu to auo pounds Aoid Phos
phate and 200 to 800 ponndsof Iiainit),
which Uiey always should be when the
object io raising them is that may bf
turned under as fertilizer, it would be
fcardly necessary to apply any addi
tional fertilizer directly to the cotton.
Georgia farmers break their land,
deep (eight to ten or,: even twelve
inches) onbe about, eyry three years ;
the, say it does' not d sr to break them
deep auy oftener. In this deep break
ing, the land is broken with a twn.
horse turning plow, plowing about one
inch deeper than the surface soil, .thn
gradually deepening the soil. Jftrcrops
are planted here at aft witboni fertili
zer being applied, And in the sandiei
portions of the State the farmers seem
to be unanimous in the declaration
that "Potash 'is the element that is
most needed'' and that "any fertilizer
that does not contain as much as four
per cent, of it is not worth applying. "
uero is pianie In lour foot
rftwc, barred off wUhlbal(-shoyeJs and
cultivated - the entire season . "with;
cotton scrapes" t . "beel-sweeps.'
Burgess, Miss. G. H. TpRwita.
The late C. Jerome Cary, of Milwau
kee, directed that his body should be
burned,- that the ashes should be used
to nourish a certain rosebush, and that
the', blossoms should be distributee
iniorig his friends. His wishes were
carried out, and verses commemomtlng
the event were Written by 1?ben E. P.ea
ford. ' -. ' .
HIB MTMHOCS SOCL.
"She is a lovely woman."
"Lovely? Fhn'a KrtiiTfnl mnniiHiil
Why, her soul is to strong it shines through
her gloss cye...,' V v
and the galleries were
flowing;-: ir
Mr. W. A. Harris of ;Kansas,-was
sworn in .as. successor" to Mr. Peffer; r .
Aftep appointment of a committee to
notify'thePresidhnt and the House that
the Senate was ready to begin its du
ties, a recess was taken until 2 p. m.
Assistant Secretary Pruden announc
ed and presented the message, which
was read by the clerk, as follows:
To lii Congress of the United States:
Regrettinc the necessity which has
required me to call you together, I feel
that your assembling in extraordinary
session in indispensible, because of the
condition in which we find the reve
nues of the government. It is con
ceded that its current expenditures are
greater than its receipts, and that
such a condition has existed for now
more than four years , With unlimit
ed means at our command, we are pre
senting the remarkable spectacle of in-
creasing our public debt by borrowing
luoue j to meet the ordinary outlays in
cident upon an economical and prudent
administration of the government. An
examination of the subject discloses
this fact in every detail, and leads in
evitably to the conclusion that the rev
enue that allows it is unjustifiable and
should be corrected.
iVe rind by tho reports of the Secre
tary of tha ireasury that the revenues
for the fiscal year endinir June l0.
frorii all sources were 426, 808,200.22,
and the expenditures lor all purposes
were $115, uM, 806. 50. leaving an excess
of receipts over expenditures of Sii.914.-
4o3. 00. During that fiscal year $40,570,
407. 88 were paid upon the publio debt,
which had been reduced from March 1,
Ittvj 40U 07l4 fill! anrldi.onnnol ft.
est.cborges decreased jjll, 084,570. 00.
Therk-eipts of the government from all
sources durinsr the fiscal year endinsr
June SO, IS.tH, amounted to $401,710,501
and its expenditures to $450, 874, 887,
showing an excess of receipts over ex
penditures cf fry, if -II, lH 4. .Since that
time tue receipts of no fiscal year, and
but with few exceptions of no more of
any fiscal year, have exceeded the ex
penditures. The receipts of. the gov
ernment from all sources, during the
fiscal year euding June 80, 18U4, were
fciT'-'.buMilH aud its expenditures
$412,005,758, leaving a deficit, the first
siuce the resumption, of specie pay
ments, of 800, 8(W,a0O. Notwithstand
ing there was a decrease of $lU,70y,128,
in the ordinary expenses of tha govern
ment as compared with tho previous
fiscal its income was still not sufficient
to provide for its daily necessities and
the gold reserve in the Treasury for
the redemption of greenbacks was
drawn upon to inant them. Hut this
did not suffice, and the government
then resorted to loans to replenish the
reserve.
In February. 1894. $50,000,000 in
bonds were issued, and in November
following a second issue 'of $50,000,000
was deemed necessary. The sum of
$117,171,795 was realized by the sales of
these Donas, but the reserve was stead
Uv decreased nntil. on Fohrnarv 8.
1805. a third sale of $02.815. 400 in bonds
for $50, 110, 244 was-annoiinced to Con-,
gress: . .
The receipts of the ' government for
the fiscal year ending 'June 80, 1805,
were $00,878,208 and the expenditures
$483,178,420. shoving deficit of $42.
805,223. -A further loan of $100,000,000
was negotiated by the government in
February, J8U0, ..the sale netting $111,
160,240 and 'swelling the aggregate
of bonds issued within three years to
$202,815,400. For the fiscal year end-,
ing June.SO, 1800, the. revenues of the
goveruuLAbi from all sources amounted
to $409,475,408, while its expenditures
were $434,078,054. cr n excess of ex
penditures ovor receipts of $25,203,245.
In other words, the total receipts for
the three fiscal years ending June 80.
IdOu, were inaiiuiciobt oy 137,8 11,729
to meet tha total expenditures.
Nor haul this condition since im
proved. For the first half of the
present fiscal year, the receipts of the
government, exclusive of postal reve
nues "were $157,507,003, and its ex
penditures, exclusive of postal service,
$105,41U,000, or an excess of expen
ditures over receipts of . $37,002,
800. In January of this year the re
ceipts, exclusive of postal revenues,
were $24,81b,004 and the expenditures,
exclusive of postal service, $30,209,383
deficit of $0,502,8115 for the month. In
February of this year the receipts, ex
clusive of postal revenues, were $24.
400,007 and the expenditures exclusive
of postal service, $i,706,068 a deficit'
of 4, 305, 050, or a total deficiency of
$lo,oof,o80 for the three., years and
eight months ending March 1st, 18x7.
otpnly are we without a surplus in
the Treasury, Wt with an iheresfcein
the public debt there has been a corres
ponding increase in the annual interest
charge from $22,803,883 in 1802, the
lowest of any year since 1802. ' to- 484.-
887,207 in 1800, or an increase of $11,
408,414. It mav be ureed that
tne revence ol the government had
been' sufficient to meet all its ordinary
expenses during the past three years,
the gold reserve would have still been
insufficient to meet the demands upon
it, bnt be that as it may H is clearly
manifest without denying or confirm
ing the correctness of such a conclu
sion that the debt would have been
decreased in at least the amount of the
deficiency, and business confidence' im
measurably strengthened throughout
the country.
Congress should promptly correct the
existing conditions. Ample revenues
must be supplied not only for the ordi
nary expenr es of the government, bnt
for the prompt payment of liberal pen
sions and the liquidation of the princi
pal and interest of the publio debt. In
raising revenues, duties should be so
levied upon foreign product as to pre
serve the home market; so as to protect
our own producers; to revive and in
crease manufactures; to relieve and en
courage agriculture; increase our do
mestio and foreign commerce: to aid
and develop mining and building, and
to render to labor in every field of use
ful occupation the liberal wages And
adequate rewards to which skill and in
dustry are justly entitled, 'the neces
sity of a tariff law which shall provide
ample revenue, need not be further
urged. The imperative demand of the
hour is the prompt enactment of such a
he isure and to this object I earnestly
recommend that Congress shall make
every endeator. Before other business
is transacted, let us first provide suftt-, .
Dient revenue to faithfully administer
l'.e government without the contracting
of further debt;,, or the continued dis
turbance of our finances.
faigned..J . . Wit. HeKmitx, :.
, -'resident of the United States. ,
The message occupied the-tindlvided
attention ,rf the, Senators and. pf the-,
&uamnce in tue gauenes, but no demon
tratio(i followed its conclusion.1 -'--
CHAMPION FITZSIMMONS.
What is
He Puts Corbett to Sleep In the Four
teenth Bound by a Blow Under the'
Heart.: ,: : ;:' ...i ;;;i-'?,.;r
At Carson, .Nevada Wednesday
after fwo years pf doubl and yexatious
postponement, the heavyweiglit'chani
pionship of the world was decided be
yond cavil, when Robert' Fitz.simmons
sent James J. Corbett helpless to. his.
knees, with a left hand blow under the
heart, after one minute and 45 fleconds,
in the fourteenth round of their battle
in the arena. The great oontest was
won in the simplest manner, and the
knockout was the result of one unwary
move on the port of Corbett. The dis
patch says that the ex-champion is al
most crazed over his defeat, but says
that it was a fair fight and that he was
not satisfied and would have it over.
After tho result was declared Fitzsim
mon s wife stepped up and kissed the
bloody face of her victorious husband.
After the big mill there were two side
fights, which resulted: Hawkins pui
Flaherty out with a left swing in 40
seconds, and Green defeated Smith in
the thirteenth round. Large crowds
witnessed the fights, and it is impossible
to estimate the amount of money that
cnangea nanus on the above results.
COTTOV GROWERS.
i
Costorla is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for InUtnts -.
Arid Children. It contains neither Opioiri, Morphine nor -.
other Narcotic suhstanoe. '' It ' Is a harmless substitute
j for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor OIL
.4 .-It is Plcotant. Its guarantee Is thirty years' tue by
Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays - r
s feverishne'ss. Castoria 'prevents vomiting Sour Curd, -,
cures Diarrhoea and Wind" Coiic Castoria relieve -.;
teething: troubles, cures' constipation and "flatulency.'
Castoria assimilates tlie ' food, regulates thr ' Btomach' ' '
and bowels giving healthy and ' natural i$p.' CasV'
' toiia to the Children's Panacea the MdUUer's4 Friend.'
Castoria:
; v Castoria.'
Meeting of Their Protective Associa
tion in Augusta, Ga.
The meeting of the American Cotton
Growers' Frotective Association at Au
gusia, ija., was attended by a very
representative body of men. President
Hector D. Lane, of Alabama, presided
and addressed the Convention. An ad
dress was also made by ex-Senator
Patrick . Walsn. Resolutions were
adopted urging the farmers to first
.make the ?c--.tun States self-supporting,
and then the area devoted to cotton
will yield more profitable than if they
sougni to increase the number ot bales,
While the reduction of the acreage to
be planted in cotton for the 6ole pur
pose oi reduomg the size of the crop
may be impracticable, the increase of
area planted in food crops must inev
itably, bring prosperity to the cotton
growers, irrespective of the size of the
cotton crop. There has never been a
time in our history that a movement
looting to the increased production ol
corn, hoy, oats, hogs and other food
crops was also important and neces
eary. Illness of Gen. Hampton.
Gen. Wade Hampton, the famous
warrior-statesman of South Carolina, is
dangerously ill at his apartments in the
Metropolitan Hotel, Washington, and
his recovery is regarded by some of his
friends as doubtful. His health has
been failing him for several months
past, and in addition he has suffered
greatly from the never-healing wound
which followed the amputation of- his
right leg at the close of the war. His
vitality has been furthor taxed recently
by-a distressing cough, whioh appears
to have settled upon his lungs.- The
General is now nearly 80 years of age,
and. it is feared he has not sufficient re
cuperative power to withstand the latest
attack upon his already depleted syste u.
Short in His Accounts.
At Richmond, Va. , the board of di
rectors of the old Mutual- Assurance
Society of Virginia make publio a de
falcation of some Siiii.tHK) as the result
of the examination of. the books of the
association by an expert bookkeeper,
Mr. F. 1). Stegar, the assistant secre
tary, in whose account the defalcation
occurs, was sent tor to explain the mat
ter, but did not appear and is said -to
have left the city. - All the securities of
the corporation, which is one of the
oldest and strongest in the State, are
intact, the loss being on collections-
' "Cattorht it an excellent medicine for chil
dren. Mother have.Tepedfelypld me of its
good effect upon their children.''
ini'-O; fe-otooorv' '"
r -".J. ILowtU. Mom.
"Castoria is the bt-remedyTor thildren f
which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not
far dlatant when mothers wilt consider the
real Intereet of their children, and use Castoria
instead of the various quack nostrums which
are destroying their loved ones, by forcing
opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other,
hurtful agents down their- throats, thereby
sending th&n to premature graves."
DR. J. F. KlHCHBLOB,
Conway, Ark.
"Ca.oriaU-BOweI.adapteaiochUdraUM
I recommend It as superior t any prascriptlasi
known to mn "
:.; i wti.tf-.-'AC"". .
j . ill So. Oxiord St., Brooklyn, K. T.
J C'.rOut'plryslclaBS in.ths cblldrssi's dspatV
meat have spoken highly of thair experi
ence 111 their outside practice Vith Castoria
and although 'w? -poly have, amaog ;oa
medical supplies what 1 known as ragslsr
products, yet-we are- free to confess that tha -merits
of Castoria has won us to look witJj
favor upon it." "
UMiTED HoaprrAX. ans Otsrastsaav, ' -.
Boston, Haas,
Allbn C. Smith, Prtt.
The Centaur Company, 77 Murray Street, New York City.
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By the census Just completed. In
France, the population of that country
Is shown to be 38.517,975, which is an
increase of only 175,027 over the popu
lation it had In 18P1. : This is an omi
nous showing, but the Minister of the
Interior Is trying to minimize the alarm
It has produced by pointing out that of
late' years there has been a large emi
gration to the colonies, especially to
Algeria, and thi f.more troops are now
kept in remote possessions than form
erly. At the same time,- he is com
pelled to confess that there Is a marked
tendency in the population to remain
almost stationary, and that it does not
increase (n anything like the same pro
portions as Us neighbors. While In
twenty-four departments the lahabi
tants have Increased, there has be.r an
absolute diminution in . sixty-three.
Oddly enough, this census shows that
fewer foreigners are settled in France
than was the case In 1891. In that year
the number of the alien residents was
Klven as 1.101,798, while now It is 1,027,
191. This railing off is attributed to
the law on" nationality promulgated in
1889, and also to the efforts made to pro
tect the .Interests of the French work
man against forelm rivals.
T. A. Slocum. M. C, the Groat
Chemist and Scientist, will
Send Free, to the Afflicted,
Three Bottles of I113 Newly
Discovered Remedies to Cure
Consumption and All Lung
Troubles.
Nothing oouht be fairer, more phi
lanthropic or carry more joy to the af
flicted, than the offer of T. A. bJoonm,
M. O., of New York City. , .
Confident that he has discovered a
reliable euro for consumption and all
bronchial, throat and lung diseases, I
general decline and weakness, loss of
flesh and all conditions of wasting, aud
to make its great meats known, he will ' Leave Greensboro!
send free, three bottles to any reader
of the Elkin Times who niiiy be Buffering.
Already this "new soientino course
of medicine" Las permaneutly cured
thousands of apparently hopeless cases.:
The Doctor considers it his religious
duty a dnty whieh be owes to human
ityto donate bis infallible cure.
He has . proved the dreaded con
sumption to be a cnrable disease be
yond any doubt, and has on file in his
American and European laboratories'
testimonials of experience from those
benefited and cured in all . parts of the,
world. : -
Don't delay until it is too late. Con
sumption, uninterrupted, metns speedy
and certain death. -.-Address T. A. Slo
cum, M. C, 08 Pine street, New York,
and when writing the Dootpr, give ex
press and postoffice address, and please
mention reading this article in the'
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at Fayettevllle with Atlantic Coast Line for
all poinNorth aud East, nt Sanford with
the Soabusrd Air Line, at Greensboro -with '
the Southern Railway Company, at Walnut
Cove with the Norfolk & Western Railroad
for Winston-Salem.
SOUTHBOUND CONNECTIONS
at Walnut Cove with the Norfolk A West
ern Railroad for Roanoke vud points North
and West, at Greensboro with the Southern
Railway Company for Ruleh, Richmond
and all points north and east; at Fayettevllle
with the At(antlo Crast Line for ail points ;
South; at Maxton with the Seaboard Air Line "
for Charlotte, Atlanta mid all points south -and
southwest. W. E. KYLE,
J. W. FRY, Gen'l Tass. Agent
Gon'l Manager.
It la estimated that the present
wealth of the Cited States exceeds the
wealth of the whole world at any per
iod prior to the middle of the eighteenth
century.
The Porcupine's Quills, .
' The current opinion that a porcupine
throws ita quills at an enemy is not
supported by facts.- Says the Portland
Oregonian: -. . ' . A-;. -' -1
The spines of the. porcupine are very
innftiv attached to the body arid are
very uharp as sharp as a needle.- At
almost the slightest 'touch , they pene
trate the nose of a dog or the clothing
or the flesh of a person touching the
porcjpine. ' and stick there, coming
away from the animal without any pull
being required.
The facility of catching hold with
one end and letting go with the other
has sometimes caused people to think
thai the spines had been thrown at
them. The outer end of the sptoes,
for some dl.tance down, is covered with
small barbs. These barbs cauBe a
spine once Imbedded ln.a living animal
to keep working farther An with every
movement ot the muscle;
xpaitiorai.
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HIGH GRADE COTTON IARNS, WAETS,
mm, Ksnnxa cottg-,
ELKIN, fJeO.