Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 23, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 October 1895 — Page 2

CONSTANT FIGHTING, to Which the Iniurimu Se*m to «»l# the Adv»ut«s«>, I'houch Without Ucftnltc Ko* oulta— Morrow Kicapc or tiau. C»nell»»Mllltary Hospitals ■•'tiled with Soldiers thiffcriuc from Yellow Fever. Which Ueaorally l*r^m l atal. Santiago or Cuba, Oct 1. Via Key West, Fla., Oct 11.—Last week several encounters took place between Spaniards and Cubans in the Manzanillo and Guantanamo districts. In Guantanamo the Spanish columns of Colonels Zegura and Ruiz and Commanden&Garrido and Lopez met the insurgent! near Monte Libano, on the 29th ult They fought bravely, and the official report says that two officers ol the guerilllas were killed and forty soldiers wounded. The rebels had three men killed and two wounded,among the formerbeing Commander Gabino Vasquez. Ou the evening of September 23 Gen. Canellas uarrowly escaped drowniug while atteirtpting to cross the River Casisey (Guantanamo). On September 27 Gen. Gonzalos Munoz arrived at Manzanillo after being live days in tlw field. His force consists of 850 infantry. 150 mounted guerrillas, a company of artillery and another of engineers. This column met the rebells in different places between Veguita and llueycita. The Spaniards were carrying a large convoy, which they uearly lost. The insurgents attacked ‘ the Spaniards vigorously after filling the roads, where the column had to pass with trunks of large trees. It was with great difficulty that the Spaniards forced'their way to llyeycito. The coffee plantation of La Alegria was the scene of another attack ou the same column after it had delivered the couvoy. This rebel party was commanded by Juan Massa Parra. At Sabana de Tara, the attacks of the insurgents on the troops were so terrible that ttie Spaniards had to fight altogether, infantry, artillery and engineers. In this encounter, according to the official report, the Spaniards had fifteen killed and seveuty wounded. Private information is to the effect that there were many wounded. Gen. Garcia Guerrio, with 200 men, left to-day to attack La Granpiedra, fifteen miles from Daiguiri, where Jose Muceo has had his camp since the beginning of the war. This morning eighteen volunteers of the second bat all ion of this city were ordered to the field for active service. The sanitary condition here is very bad. The military hospital is filled with soldiery the greater utimber suffering from yellow fever, which generally proves fatal.

FOR CUBAN INDEPENDENCE. Celebration of the Auulveraary of the frlrat I'prUluK In Cuba. Jacksonvili.k, Fla., Oct. 11.^-A cablegram from Ivey West* Fla., says: Never iu the history of this city has there been such enthusiasm as was displayed yesterday, the twenty-ninth anniversary of the first attempt for Cubau .independence. From one end of the eity to the other business houses and private residences were gaily decorated with American and Cuban flags. Many vessels in the harbor were also decorated with all the buutiug available. Promptly at (5 o’clock in the morn* iug the boomiug of cannou began, and at the same hour the American and Cubau flags were hoisted over the city hall. Speeches were made from the balcouv by Messrs, lien McLendon and and Francisco Gonzales. The band played the national airs aud the spectators cheered themselves hoarse, ltut i American and Cuban flags were also hoisted over the county courthouse. The various Cuban clubs met at the San Carlos hall in the afternoon, and were joined by the several the companies. G. A. R. corps and Sons of Veterans. They formed a procession, beaded by the Key West cornet band, and marched to the cemetery, where patriotic speeches were delivered. The ceremonies finished, they marched back to the San Carlos hall, where they dispersed. Just as the procession arrived at the San Carlos and as the last gun was tired, it burst, instantly killing one colored man named Johu Frazier, literally tearing off the top of his head. SPANISH FEARS C»b»# Serious Complications In Uestlings vrliti Alleged filibusters. Washington, Oct. 11.—Secretary Carlisle called on Attorney-General Harmou yesterday and handed him several telegrams received by him from collectors of customs and others regarding the movement of0 alleged filibustering parties along the gulf coast. The two cabinet oflicers discussed the situation at some length. It was agreed that no proper means should he left untried to prevent the violation of the neutrality laws. The fact that so far all attempts to detain alleged filibustering expeditious have been thrown out of United States courts inclines the administration to be cautious and thus avoid the possibility of suits for damages. It is said that the Spanish agents along the Florida coast, in their zeal to secure information, seize upon rumors as facts and many of these alleged facts being forwarded to federal officials have been ascertained upon investigation to be unfounded and incorrect.

RESOLUTIONS •Adopted by the 1u<1>moh Trade* and Labor Uuteu. Fort YVayxk, Ind., Oct 11.—At the ^afternoon session of the Indiana Trades and Labor nnions yesterday, resolutions were adopted favoring the iree coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1; one declaring in favor of the Cuban insurgents, and another extending a vote of thanks to Ilou. John P. Altgeld. governor qf Illinois, for the ndhle, manly aud patriotic utterances receutly made on the tattle Se id of £h*uUumunga.

WAS WORTH \A MILLION. Dmt.h of mi tcwutrk 'JTUlow to Mmmohiuott*—Could Han Throw* Money nt Bird*—It Wu Bidden m VoeVele. BrleI’Bnc. I'lusete aud Kwrjr ConeeUable Location About the I'reMieee—Ouly On* Llvluc Hetatlve. Boston, Oct 11.—Mr*- Sarah Cco* iidge, a widow, aired 75, who had for years resided at 984 Massachusetts avenue,Cambridge, died Tuesday even* lug of apoplexy. She had been consid* ered eccentric, and was thought to be comfortably well off, but not wealthy. Four female servants, the only persons she would allow permanently around the house, were present when she was stricken, and she died before Dr. Chase, who had been summoned, arrived at her home. Immediately upon her death Alderman Cutter, who had for years been acting as her agent in her real estate transactions, was summoned. STARTLING DISCOVERIES. When the body was prepared for burial some startling discoveries were made. Secreted about her person and in pockets of other dresses, pieees of brie-"1 a-brac vases and closets, were found many thousand dollars in gold coin and bills of large denominations. In . fact, the money was placed in every ' conceivable location, and in almost every case where an ordinary person [ would not secret wealth. Twenty thousand dollars were thus found, aud ■ in one case a package of -bills amounting to ¥8,800 was fouud in a handbag. Then the searching party accidentally stumbled upon a number of deposit books in banks and savings institu- ! tions, which showed that she had many thousands of dollars on deposit. REAL ESTATE, TOO. Later it became known that she was I the owner„©f a vast amount of real estate, the major part of it located in Boston, which returns a big income. In additiou to the money it was found that she had a very extensive and eostly wardrobe. Elegant and valuable dresses that had never been worn were hung up in closets or laid on tables and dressers, while other articles of apparel equally costly were scattered about in various rooms. The servants themselves, who had ; lived in the house for years, were as- ; tonnded. Even they did not know of the wealth which surrounded them. | They had frequently found bills, gold coins and securities lying around the I roo*ms, aud had always returned them I to Mrs. Coolidge, who would tell them that she had mislaid them, but they were frequently found and as frei quently handed over to her.

nuniu uf r.A For over thirty years she had lived alone in this house with the exception of the servants, having about that time secured a divorce from her husband, James Coolidge, at one time connected with the Mount Auburn cemetery, who died many 3rears ago. She inherited some money from her parents, aud as it was judiciously invested, it grew until at her death it is estimated that she was worth over #1,000,000. Her only iiving relative, so j far as known, is a brother, J. P. C. Marshall, of 28 Beacon street,, and if she died intestate, all her property will revert to him. It isclaimed, however, that many yearn ago she mac^e a | will, but this is not known definitely. FRENCH IN MADAGASCAR. i . _ The Queen Makes Peace, and Gen. Di< ehesue Has Been Made n Member of the Legion of Honor. Paris, Oct 11.—The war office has received a dispatch from Andriba, under, the date of October 9, stating that Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, was taken by the French troops on September 30, and that the queen of Madagascar has made peace with the French, and Gen. Metzinger has been nominated as governor of Antananarivo. Congratulated Hr the President. Paris, Oct 11.—President Faure has wired an enthusiastic message of congratulation aud thanks to Gen. Duchesne commanding the French ex* pedition in Madagascar. Honors Fur Duchesne^ Paris, Oct )L—Gen. Duchesne has informed the war office by telegraph that Antananarivo was occupied s*by the French expedition under his command after a brilliant action. President Faure has responded to the telegram by appointing Gen. Duchesne a grand officer of the Legion of Honor. The government will strike a Madagascar medal for the troops who took part in the campuigu against tffie Hovas. What a French Newspaper Says. Paris, Oct 11.—The Autorite mentions rumors, which it says are traceable to the war office, where dispatches from Antananarivo are being withheld from the public, to the effect that Gen. Duchesne, commanding the French expedition in Madagascar, was compelled to treat with the Hova government in consequence of his having arrived before the capital totally without provisions, and paving learned that the natives would burn the city and ravage the country if the French did not come to terms.

iatal lupttlenoa Ada, <X,-Oct. 10.—W. S. Kitchen, of Findlay, 0., superintendent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. of Kew York, while here* waiting for an early morning train, became impatient and attempted to board a west-bound freight and fell under the wheels, lie was ground to pieces. CATTLE KILLED By the Stat»i§n»pectcr pecause Infected by '1 abercultxtta. OwEC+o, N. Y.. Oct. 11.—The state in* spector has killed twenty-three head of cattle belonging to by run Jenkins, a farmer .living near here. All the ani* mals were infected with tuberculosis. One week ago the inspector killed ten head of cattle owned by George Gris* wold. Butchers who saw the iufected cattle after they were kil led say that they have killed cattle having the same appearances aud that the ear* easaas have been sold for beef.

THE LONDON PRESS. C«a»»at Stimljr «a Lord l*wruphl«t-1-oolUh, lll.'linind, Ilt-Saw MWd RUit r«u of ThovKlitUitt Htttor- *»*»* l*it worthy or Reproduction —Mr. Bnyard lhf»udrd twl MM loan* M AmbMMdor to CncUuit Pratard. London, Oct. IS.—The Daily Telegraph, in an article commenting upon Lord Sack vi lie's issuance of the pamphlet in which he makes an attack upon United States Ambassador Bayard, says: “A Tery foolish.' ill-mannered, illtimed and ill-made pamphlet has been issued by Lord Saoicville with the purpose of injuring the reputation of Mr. Bayard, now the United States Ambassador, chargii* ltim with beiug a political trickster and consistent and determined enemy of England. The whole thing is so full of thoughtless bitterness that it is not worth while to reproduce any part of the brochure. We only hope that the com- j mon sense anil practical good judg- j ment of the English and American public will treat this uncalled-for at- ] tack with contemptuous disdain. I Those concerned with diplomatic history will be the first to j assure Mr. Bayard that uo effect what- j eTer is like to be produced by such a j series of charges, so utterly unworthy i of attention or consideration. Duriug j his sojourn here, Mr. Bayard has j earned golden opinions for his urban- | ity and his keen judgment of affairs, aud above all has made studious ef- ! forts to cultivate amicable feelipff be- j tween England and America. Through i him the English are learning a fuller appreciation of and a higher adrniratiou for the great republic.” Expected to Treat the Screed with Silent Contempt. London, Oct. 12.—The Chronicle to- ! day says it is expected when Ambassador Bayard returns to London that he will.deeline to be drawn into a controversy with Lord Sackville. The feeling existing in reference to the pamphlet is one of unqualified regret. This finds its stronget expression in diplomatic circles, where tlie incident is r matter of general comment.

SECRETARY OLNEY Devlin** to DUcusa the Alleged Notice la the SpMiileh Minister th*t the Cubau Rebellion Must he Soon Put Down. Boston, Oct. 12.—Secretary Olney, although several times questioned about the matter to-day. declined to discuss the question that the administration has notified Minister Dupuy de Lome “that there is a necessity that Spain should act promptly in her efforts to crush the insurrection m Cuba.” The fact that the report was published immediately following an interview between the secretary and minister yesterday seems to give color ol truth to the statement, but in view of the near approach of the date of the meeting of congress, and of the fact fact that President Cleveland must, almost necessarily, refer to the subject in his annual message to that body, it is more than -probable that there has been no communication made to Minister Dupuy de Lome importing any change of policy on the part of the administration to take effect before the meeting of congress. Mr. Dupuy de Lome makes weekly visits to Washington froin Bryn Mawr, where he is spending October with his family, to call upon Secretary Olney | on the regular diplomatic day at the state department, lie was seen Thursday by a representative of the United Press, to whom he stated that his presence in Washington at that time had no especial signifiance. lie returned to Philadelphi a yesterday morning. DUN'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW. | Indication* of the Price Marometer Not i Altogether Favorable. New York. Oct. 12.—R. G. Dun & ! Co. in their weekly review of trade issued to-day say; The price barometer gives indications. that are not entirely favorable. Cc^ton goods go up with increasing evidence that the crop of cotton is short. Prices of other manufactured products, of i$ool. hides and leather, all show some decline. Money markets are neither strained nor threatening, foreign exchange no longer raises apprehension, and all j fears about the great northern crops are passed.- There have been( few advances in wages of labor wfthin the past mouth and only a few works have been closed by strikes for an ad- j vaace. In woolen manufactures a demand i for dress goods and some specialties j keeps many mills and men fully •employed. It is too early for cotton movements to cast much light on the probable yield. At present prices, averaging 8>» cents in southern markets, against 5% cents a year ago, 7,000,000 bales would bring 813,000,000 more than 9.900,000 bales brought last year. Mr. Ellison, the financial European authority, ! shows that 2,977,000 were held Septeua- j ber l in ports and «at mills here and abroad. Wheat receipts have been 7,331,474 bushels, asrainst 4.690,181 last year; aud Atlantic exports only l,707,6i9 bushels, floor included, against 1,993,786 last year. Failures for t’ie week have included two banks and several concerns of some size, and have been 268 in the United States, against 231 last year, and 52 throughout Canada, against 41 last year.

PREAOFUL ACCIDENT. Poor Mm KI1I«kI tuid Mm.t lludljr Injured by the ColUpw of • Itutldinx. Cleveland, 0., Oct. 13.—Four men were killed ami seven others probably fatally injured as the result of an un* explainable accident at the Cleveland Rolling mills at 3 o'clock last night The furnaces were carrying heavy fires, and the casting department was working a full force. Without warn* ing, and in a manner wholly inex* plicable the casting house, the largest building of the plant, collapsed, burying several men in the debris.

HE CONFESSED. N* Seale* rail from the Cjw of mm Jkrtfenft ProtoctlonlstA correspondent says that the latest republican to testify that free trade does uot reduce wares, is prof, Robert Kills Thompson, of the university of Pennsylvania. Prof. Thompson haa the bad pre-eminence of being the fone* most protectionist in America who lays any claim to be considered an economist. For many years he has been railing against the advocates of free trade, and asserting that under a low tariff wages would be reduced. 'During the past summer he hits been traveling through England, and, as is frequently the case with loiterers in the Chinese policy, his experiences abroad have opened his eyes. Not wholly as yet, for in a series of letters to the Philadelphia American hci paints a gloomy picture of British industry, and predicts that England will soon go back to the vanished delusions of protection. He was grieved to find that the Englishmen only laughed at him when he tried to convince them that it woutd be wise for them to pot a heavy tax on the food of 3<X000,t»X) people, in order to raise the rents of less than S0,000 landlords, So he tries to show that free trade has not benefited British manufacturers, aud as proof of his unfounded assertions sa;rs: “Nor have wages gone down with 1 he cheapening of bread, much as the free traders desired that result. Thtptrades unions have been too much for the m, and have forced wages higher, even while commodities declined in price.” Here, then, is the testimony o'! a high tariff apostle, that instead of 'reducing wages, free trade has chenpened the bread of the English people, while wages have been increased. The statement that free traders wanted wages cut down is, of course, a gra.tuitieus falsehood. Apart from this sneer Prof. 'Thompson's admission as to the effect of free trade on wage-, is good, sound doctrine. Tariff reformers have always claimed that lower duties, on imports Avould cause a decline, in the price of commodities and an advance in real wages. This is exactly what Prof. Thompson says has happened in England, and ft is what is now happening in America. It will be noticed that Prof. Thompson credits the trades unions with the advance in wages in England. Bub he does not explain why the unions could not raise wages under protection, nor why trades unions in this country could not advance wages under >le* Kinlevism. The essential facts are that under free trade the English workingmen get higher pay, and buy bread and commodities far cheaper than under protection.

BE NOT DECEIVED. A Protection Organ Lets the Cat O at of the Bag. As a rule the protectionists are careul to avoid going' into details as to the changes they would make in the tariff if the people were to restore the republican party to power in 1896. Relieving in the Chinese policy of trade exclusion they naturally prefet to adopt Chinese methods of warfare, and so are trying to scant' the voters by beating on the, high tariff tomtom and holding up a stuffed bogey of free trade. The New York Press, however, in an incautious moment lays down its platform, which it declares to be the restoration of protective duties on coal, lumber, salt, sugar, iron ore, pottery, woolens and wool. Some of these articles the Wilson tariff placed on the free list, and on others the duties were reduced to a revenue basis. The result has been to decrease the cost of coal, lumber, salt, pottery and woolen goods, while the price of wool, has advanced several cents per pound siuce the Wilson tariff went into operation. The; Press says its party proposes to restore the high taxes on coal, lumber, salt, iron ores, pottery, wool and woolens, and to impose protection duties on sugar. As the last protective duty on sugar was 83 per cent., it is probable that that is what the Press wants. But do the farmers, who know that when that duty was in force sugar cost 8 and 10 cents per pound, want the present revenue duty, under which sugar sells for 5 cents per pound, changed to 83 per cent.? Dothey want to pay higher prices for their lumber, coal, salt, pottery and woolen goods in return for the doubtful benefit of a duty on wool?, Do they want a restoration of McKinleyism, under which in 1393 and 1S91 wool was lower than it is now? Do they want the McKinley panic, with its idle men unable to buy farm products at any price? If not, they should vote for low taxation and tariff reform.

Beaginnine to Hods*. Already the republican press isshow.ng its fears that the democratic good times will deprive tne calamity party of the support of those deluded voters who last year blamed the democrats for the two years of panic. The personal organ of the^recent republican candidate for vice president begins the erawlinir process by saying1: “It seems likely that republican majorities this year will be smaller than in ISM.” There used to be no question of “seems likely.” It is certain that the republican majority this year will be greatly reduced or wiped out altogether. And the fearful protectionists are well aware that each day of prosperity means more votes for the party of tariff reform.—Exchange. Farmers Benefited by Higher Wages. The benefits of the unexampled increase in wages of at least 1.500,000 workers during the past year is by no means confined to the men and women receiving the higher wages. With increased facilities to buy, the workers in the cities and towns will everywhere consume more of the farmers’ products, thus increasing the markets for nil kinds of agricultural produce. Idle men and women are not good customers, but with steady work and higher wages they will use much greater luantities of everything the farmer has to sell. So that in the long run better wages will benefit the farmer just as much as the workers.

CANNOT TELL THE TRUTH That 8mbh to Bo tbt rendition of Hl(h TortS Writoro. The fat a re historian of the tariff contest in this country will wonder how seemingly respectable citizens could in the nineteenth century be induced to make a business of lying about the conditions of trade, merely to serre the partisan ends of a political party. That the high, tariff organs should publish only such facts as might be twisted into support of their theories - is to be expected. But some latent sense of shame should at least prevent their deliberate falsehoods, for which they do not,even attempt to offer proof. In a recent issue of the Philadelphia Manufacturer that paper tries to make capital for protection out of the decreased duties on woolens, and boldly asserts: “The woolen mills have hardly any business to do.” As usual with protectiouist papers, it carefully avoid* giving any facts in support of its surprising statement. The truth about the woolen industry since the Wilson tariff has been told so frequently in the daily presa that the Manufacturer's assertion cau only be set down as a wilful falsehood. From the testimony of impartial trade journals devoted to the textile industry the woolen industries of this country are now in a more prosperous condition than for several years past. Hardly had the free wool olause of the new tariff taken effect than business began to improve, as most conclusively shown bv the numerous i wage advances in the woolen and worsted mills. The Reform club's I list of wage advances two months ago I gave the names of over forty such factories in which wages had been increased. with number of toen affected j and date of wage advance. Since that time all the woolen mills of Rhode Island have increased the wages of their employes, and *iu Philadelphia the workers in all the carpet mills hav* won a strike for more pays# The American Wool and Cotton Reporter has given a record of thirty-eight new woolen and worsted mills built during the past six months of this year, while many mills which had been idle during the year 1893 and ! first half of 1894, have within the past year started up again. In a late issue that paper, recognized as a leading journal of the textile trades, says: “Our manufacturers are busy, many of them running overtime on orders, and prices realized on the whole show an advance over last year.” Without the testimory of woolen trade papers the falsity of the Manufacturer's assertion could be ryadily seen; for mills which “have barely any business to do” do not increase wages. Nor do capitalists build new mills in an industry which is almost prostrate. Now as ever the high tariff advocates are depending for support on deliberate lies about the results of tho democratic tariff policy. B. W. U. ^ __:

ABOUT STRIKES. A Protectionist Tries to Manufacture Some on a High Tariff Principle. With the undeniable facts of business prosperity and higher wages under the Wilson tariff the despairing New York Tribune resorts to the device of deliberate falsehoods about the condition of trade. Looking teartully through blue ruin glasses at the country’s industries, that paper whines that perhaps thfcigs are not so very prosperous after all, and as proof of the sad state of affairs it refers to “the great strikes in woolen ahd carpet mills which have failed.” ' The Tribune does not give the names of the woolen and carpet mills where the great strikes have failed. And for tlifc very good reason that there were no such mills. Since the Wilson bill went in force there is not oue single instance of a strike in any important woolen or carpet mill which has faild to win substantial concessions from employers. Many of the j leading woolen mills volun- | tarily advanced wages from 5 to j 25 per cent., a noticeable instance be- j ing che woolen and worsted factories j of Rhode Island, which increased the j wages of all their employes 7% per j cent, on August I. In some parts of the country there have been strikes, ; but they have practically all been successful. The great strike in the carpet industry of Philadelphia, where 8,000 operatives demanded higher wages, was won by the strikers, the last of the mills signing the increased wage scale a short time ago. These facts were, of course, well known to the Tribune, but it would not have suited its partisan objects to ! have told the truth. But if that paper has any fair-minded readers they must be ashamed of its willful refusal to publish the truth when it hurts the republicans. B. W. H.

Forelern Markets for Oar Goods. The absolute necessity for wider mar* kets for our surpluis manufactured goods is pointed out in a recent issue of the Engineering: and Mining Journal, one of the leading trade papers of America. The Journal believes that the United States will ere long take an important part in supplying the world with the products of its mills and factories, as is now done with farm products Our great natural resources. Labor-saving, machinery and business enterprise count for more than rates of wages in the cost of production, and in *11 these things this country has nothing to fear from its industrial rivals. Urging the increasing of our export trade the Journal says: “The extern lion of our foreign markets is of high importance to nearly every manufacfcurej in this country, for a foreign outlet, at even low prices, not only relieves the home market of the pressure )f surplus stock and thus helps to maintain profitable prices here, but by increasing output it lessens the oost of what we sell at home.” The Preliminaries All Settled. Now that McKinley has recognised prosperity as a belligerent we can go right on with our good fortune.—Nash* •ilia American.

INTERNATIONAL commerce. Coxsvlar reports show that Spain sends yearly about $3,500,000 Worth of food products to the United States and that the Americans sell $18,000,000 worth of food products to Spain. The most rapid growth in the exports of Japan is in floor mattings, which now go to the United States and a Europe in lots of 100,000 bales at aH time. The second increase is in cotton rugs. Tapioca is not a grain like rice. It is a starchy substance obtained by washing and scraping the roots of the cas* sava plant. Most of it comes, we believe. from Brazil. The eassaYa plant does not grow in the United States. In spite of the profession that England is trying to keep liqpor out of Africa, the value of spirits imported into the Niger protectorate alone rose from $650,000 in 1893 to $1,170,000 in 1894, the duties imposed on liquor forming 95 per cent, of the revenues from customs. A Con8vi. General McIvor has sent to Pie department of state a comprehensive statement of the foreign trade of Japan for 1S94. Tt)e total exports ap* * pear to have been $57,539,011. and tho total imports $39,680,883. Of the exports, $32,008,306 worth were sent to the United States, for which this country s returned goods to the value of only 15,879,139. FROM DAYS OF OLD. In the famous Garden of Olives at Jerusalem there are eight flourishing olive trees that are known to be over one thousand years old. A petrified skeleton of a palceozotic saurian, thirty-three feet long, has just been discovered in a stalaetite cave at the Caumont quarries, between Rouen and Havre. ’■ ' J;, A Babylonia* tablet in the British musera which has jus| been deciphered has an account of the death of King Socnacherib, almost identical , with- that in the Bible (II. Kings, xix., 37). The first known coin is Chinese. It is copper, and specimens weighing from one to five pounds, and supposed to date from a period of at least two thousand years before Christ, are still in * existence. The discovery of the tusks and molars of several jrroat elephants (Elephaa primogenius and antiquus) in the Charente, France, are among the largest yet found in Europe. The biggest is nine feet. When the animal was alive Something over twelve feet might have been the size of the tusks.

GREAT TRUTHS IN FEW WORDS. He that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, doth twice endure the pains of evil des^ tiny.—Davenunt, Ir we steal from the moderns, it will be cried down nsplngairism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.—Colton. Those whg attain tp any excellence eomfhonly Spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained on easier terms. --Johnson. Oxe principal reason why men are so often useless is that - they divide and shift their attention amongst a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.—Emmons. When infinite wisdom established the rulo of right a^l honesty, he saw to it that justice should be always the highest expediency.—Wendell Phillips. ’ It is a poor and disgraceful thing not to be able to reply, with some degree of certainty, to the simple questions; “What will you be? What will you do?"—John Faster. V Fall Medicine Is fully as Important and as beneficial M Spring Medicine, for at this season there is great danger to health in the Tarring temperature, cold storms, malarial germs, prevalence of fevers and other diseases. All these may be avoided if the blood la kept pure, the digestion good, and bodily Health vigorous by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla The Ono True Blood Purifier. Hnnd ’ e Dillc cure all liver Ills, btliour I lUUil o r HI* ness, headaches. S£c. PROFITABLE DAIRY WORK Can only be accomplished with the Tery beet

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