Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — BOUND TO HAVE THE BOUNTY. [ARTICLE]

BOUND TO HAVE THE BOUNTY.

Sugar Growers of the Country File Suits Against the United States. The controversy between the sugar growers of the country and the United States Government growing out of the repeal of the sugar bounty clause in the McKinley bill by the new tariff act and the subsequent refusal of the Treasury Department to pay bounties upon sugar grown in the present year, reached the first stage in its progress to a definite legal settlement Saturday. J. Fairchild Murray, an attorney of New York, has filed in the court of claims three suils, identical in character, and all seeking to recover from the Government sums of money alleged to be legally due complainants as a bounty upon sugar raised by them in the year 1894. The Chino Valley Beet Sugar Company of New’ Jersey, sues for $48,121, the Norfolk Beet Sugar Company, of New Jersey, for $3,093, and the Oxford Beet Sugar Company, for $11,782. The complaints are based upon the allegation that the United States by an act of Congress granting a bounty of one-half cent per pound upon all sugar grown in the United States and the Territories, entered into a legal contract with complainants, ns well as other sugar growers, and led them by its terms to undertake the cultivation of beets and other plants from which sugar is obtained, but which could not have been profitably pursued without the benefits of such contract. . The claim is further made that the crops of complainants were growing nnd the sugar resulting from them in process of manufacture long before the passage by Congress of the measure repealing the provisions of the act granting a bounty, and the Government has no right to withhold the payment of bounties alleged to be due. The cases will probably be pushed to an early hearing in the court of claims and will then be taken to the United States Court for final settlement. It is understood the suits are brought as test cases, and will be vigorously contested, as an amount reaching some $11,000,000 is at stake in the controversy.

Sparks from the Wires. Almost the entire business portion of Marion, N. C.. was burned. The loss is estimated at $125,000. Professor Jean Victor Duruy, the French historian and an ex-minister of public instruction, is dead. Three citizens of Brookside, Ala., were probably tfatally shot by moonshiners, who took them for officers. Officers tried to arrest Claude Moss at a church near Carrollton, Miss., and killed him when he resisted arrest. Two men entered the Erie station at Bloomfield, N. J., and after binding the agent robbed the cash drawer. Seven business houses and one dwelling were destroyed at Swayzee, Ind. It is feared a woman lost her life. Robert E. Harvey, the noted forger, who escaped from jail at Bel Air, Md., was captured in Lansing, Mich. A railway construction gang attempted to lay tracks on a Delaware. Ohio, street, but repented on being placed in jail. Fire caused by a defective flue destroyed a block of dwellings in Kansas City. The loss will reach SIOO,OOO. Japanese loss in the assault on Port Arthur was but 250,in killed and wounded. Many vauable stores were captured. According to Superintendent Stump, of the Immigration Bureau, more foreigners are leaving the country than are coming in. Trading on the Chicago Stock Exchange last week was the largest in its history, nearly 60,000 shares changing hands. Isaac Taylor and wife and Miss Kidwell were run down and killed on a bridge at South Branch, Md., while on their way to church. Chicago Russian-Americans in massmeeting petitioned the Czar to grant his people freedom of speech and religion and the right of assemblage. Three fires broke out at about the same time in Zanesville, Ohio, and led to the impression that a systematic attempt was being made to destroy the town. In his annual report the Postmaster General recommends the extension of the free-delivery system, quickening of railway transportation, and revision of the law as to second-class matter.

The Tongue in Health and Sickness. The perfectly healthy tongue is clean, moist, lies loosely in the mouth, is round at the edge, and has no prominent pa illae. Thr- tongue may be furred from local causes, or from sympathy with the stomach, intestines, or liver. The dry t ngue occurs most frequently in ever and ind cates a nervous prostration or depression. A while tongue is diagnost c simply of the feverish condition, with perhaps a disordered stomach When it is moist and yellowish-brown, it snows disordered digestion. Dry and brown indicate* a low state of t> e system. \a hen the tongue is dry and red and smooth, look out lor inflammation, g. stric or intestinal. When the papillae on the end of the tongue are raised and very red we call it a strawberry tong, e, and that may mean scarlet fever. A sharp, pointed red tongue will noint to brain irritation or inflammation. and a ye i low coating indicates liver derangement-