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Eyes, Sir. I'd Shoot Him."

Detroit Free Press.
Six or eight congenial spirits sat
around stove in Grand River gro
Gerry the other night, and after several
other subjects had been exhausted.
some one introduced that of panics in
churches, theaters and halls. This
gave Mr.. HOpewell chance to remark !:
Gentlemen, just long to be there"
"Where?"
why, in one OF those panics. Yes.
sir, I'd give new twenty. dollar bill to
be in the theater one night when there
was an occasion for panic"
"Why?'
why, because one good, level
headed man could stop the thing as
easily as you could end up that barrel
of -four"
"Well, dunno about that" observed
one of the sitters. "There is something.
awful in the cry of fireI and hear it
where and when you may it startles
and frightens. What would you do in
theater in case there was a CRY of
fire and rush ?"
I'D stand upon my seat. pull a re-
volyer from my pocket, and shout out
that I'd shoot the first man who at
tempted to crowd or rush. One cool
man would check the panic in ten Sec
Onds."
While the subject was being continued
the grocer withdrew to the rear end of
the store, poured little powder on a
board, and gave three or four men the
wink. Directly there was a bright
fash, yelIs OF 'lirep and "powderl"
and syary man sprang up and rushed.
IIopeweIl didn't spring up and talk of
shooting. On the contrary, he fell over
lot of baskets piled up between him
and the door, got up to plow his way
over rack Of brooms, and when he
reached the sidewalk he was ON all
fourS, white as ghost, and 80 fright
ened that he never looked back until
he reached the opposite side Of the
street.
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Being Blown Up.

How it feels to be blown up with
nitro glycerine is described by John
McCleary, the torpedo shooter, who
made such . remarkable escape from
death by glycerine explosion near
Haymaker, Pa, recently, and who has
described the sensation he experienced
to a reporter of the Eldred Eagle. II
will be remembered that McCleary's
coat-tail was blown off and he was
hurled distance of seventy-five feet.
"Did you realize what was going on
Immediately after the explosion oc-
CURED ?" asked the scribe.
"Well, yes, knew what all the fuss
was about, but didn't know whether
was dead or alive. When 1 ran from
the derrick I never expected to live
more than half minute, but I wanted
to occupy the time in some way, so !
did it in running. All at once it
seemed as if had jumped into deep
water and was going down. Irealized
that the explosion had taken place,
though did not hear it. Everything
about me looked blue, and / thought
at first that was dead, and wondered
if the change from life to death was SO
quickly and easily made. By this time
L was lying on the ground about $50
feet down the hill from where the ex-
plosion occurred, and while trying to
make out whether / was in this world
or the other, saw the burning oil and
gas above. It seemed at first as it
were the James of the slower region
coming down to devour me, and
could almost see his Satanic
Majesty smiling in their midst.
made up my mind that didn't want
to go that way, and accordingly made
extra exertions to escape. 1t was then
that arose to my feet and realized
more fully where I was. Yes, it was
a strange experience, and no one can
know just how it seems, for I can't
fully explain it, and think L am the
only one who ever went through ii
SUCCESSFULLY.
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The CurcuIio,

The curculio, or plum weevil, is one
Of the aborigines of America. DIR.
Fitch, formerly Entomologist for New
York, says it is unknown in Europe.
Before the era of cultivated fruits, 1t
subsisted on wild plums, crabs and
thorn apples, but now it attacks nearly
all tree fruits, and in addition, makes
them depository for its eggs, where
its young are bred. The wound il
makes for feeding purposes will heal
ON most fruits, when the fruit is small
but when approaching maturity it
causes the tenderer sorts to rot, piums
particularly, and where plums touch
each other this rot is infectious. This
explains why some fruits rot so rapidly
when nearly ripe.
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ITEMS OF INDUSTRY.

Camel coal has been found in Mari
on county, Iowa,
Cork wood has been found in great
abundance in Jasper county, Texas.
A ranchman lately sold a stock of
$4,000 cattle on the Pecos river, Texas,
for &225,000.
The annual production Of honey in
the United States amounts to over lOO.-
100000 pounds.
Large quantities of railroad ties are
being shipped from Florida to Mexico
and South America for railroads in
course Of construction.
There were sold in North Carolina
last year eighty-hve thousand tons of
commercial fertilizers, but this year
the sales will be much smaller.
Tobacco culture is becoming quite
an industry in Marion, Alachua, Put
nam, Bradford and several other coun-
ties In Florida. the seed having been
brought from Cuba.
Tobacco is advancing in price. The
Lynchburg, Va, News, of March 26th,
says an old dealer Informed the editor
that be never saw il sell higher than
it did two days before.
Several farmers in Gadsden county,
Fla, are rejoicing over corn Eve feet
and a half high, planted last month,
and now as fresh and green as could
be expected in midsummer.
If reports be true, the wheat fields of
West Tennessee and North Mississippi
were never in better condition than
at the present time. The farmers are
delighted with their crop prospects.
The Beekeeper's Magazine reports
that a Mr.. G. j. Quinby has discovered
a method of producing wine from pure
honey, which rivals the most desirable
qualities of imported wines. The best
of experts pronounce it excellent.
The crop of spring chickens through
out the country is unusually large
and promising. The earlier birds are
finding ready sale at fifteen to twenty
cents. The mild winter and enlarged
grain area have both contributed to
the advancement of this industry.
III AOAlud OllCIc dIc bdiu 10 Dc LIZ
100000 acres of United States lands,
of various qualities, and 100000 of
acres il the state are good timber
lands, principally pine. 1t was estima-
ted two years ago that there were
standing 6,615,000,000 feet (board
measure), of pine lumber, and that
there had been cut, for the year ending
May, 1881, 208,054, 900 feet. The pro-
duction Of this lumber is rapidly on
the increase. There is great activity
also in the resin and turpentine bust.
ness.
In there were 1897, 791 horned
cattle in the United States, estimated
at $500 head; these would repre-
sent value of 1896, 943,775, an in
crease over the figures of 1870 of so
per cent. The census showed that in
1880 there were 12,442, 137 mich cows
the country, which will probably be
increased in 1882 to 100000. Cal
culating the value of the milk at
$4,000 per cow per year, it would be
worth $520,000.000. An increase of
10 per cent during the next year means
an addition Of 100000 per week to
the wealth of the country.
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A new kind of bomb has been inyente
at the Krupp cannon foundry. The ex-
plosien Of these new missiles. it is said.
owing to their mechanical arrangements
and the materials which they coat in,
Will be equal to torpedoes. At the sam.
works now cannon has been tested. IL
b mounted on pivot provided with ma.
chinery which absolutely does away with
the rebound or Kicking The cannon.
moreover, is so fashioned that notwith-
standing its heavy calibre, it can be mount
ed upon the smallest gunboats.
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The Earth as a Sort of Champagne
Bottle.

Nature.
No theory of the earth's crust can
be complete which does not provide
the machinery for earthquakes and
volcanoes. Mr.. Fisher, for this pur
pose, supposes his subterranean fluid
10 contain, in intimate union with it.
self, vapor in considerable quantities.
This vapor is to be retained in the Auid
by the superintendent pressure, as gas
is in the liquid of soda water bottle.
and will, If such pressure be removed. be
disengaged from the molten matter as
the gas disengages itself when the cork
Is drawn, though much more slowly,
by reason Of the viscescity of the fluid.
This agrees with the view taken by
Professor Judd in his recent volume
on volcanoes. 1t will be a novel idea
for many Of US to imagine the earth
like a globular bottle Of effervescent
liquid, and its crust like ice covering a
lake Of aerated water. But such q con-
stitution would account for many of
the phenomena of eruptions. The
earthquakes which usually herald
them, the rise of molten material in a
assure, the existence of permanently
liquid lava like that in Kilauea, the
growth, death and revival Of q volcano,
all follow as natural consequences.
The difference in the lavas elected from
adjacent craters, and the supposed or
der OF succession in the products
erupted are also accounted for. but not
satisfactorily. The theory is a very
important one. aud appears on the
whole the most satisfactory that has
yet been propounded.
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The Coming Comet.

Lae vegas IN MI Opuc
Everybody who can command the
use of telescope ought to get at least
one look at the new comet before it
becomes visible to the naked eye. 1t
is a sight to be remembered, especially
| if the comet should make as great a
display within two months as the as
tronomers predict it will.
Late in the evening, say about IL
o'clock, you will see pretty well up in
the northeastern heavens the bright
star Vega in the Harp. It may be
certainly recognized by means of two
faint stars close by it, with which it
makes beautiful little triangle. The
comet is almost op a line drawn from
Vega to the Pole star, and you can see
its place by Eoting that it is below and
little to the left of the head of the
dragon, which is marked by lozenge-
shaped figure lying few degrees north
west of Vega.
Remembering that this gives prom.
ise of being one of the grandest comets
ever seen, it is interesting to look at it
in its babyhood. 1t is far from possess
ing anything imposing in its appear
ance. The inexperienced observer has
to look twice before seeing it at all,
especially if the telescope he is using
be of small aperture. Yet anybody
can see that it is an infant Hercules.
1t has head like a star, compact and
brilliant, and it trails behind it in it's
million-mile-a day fight little,
straight bright tail, bigger already
away out there in space than most
comets are able to display at their
perihelion. Looking at this little COM
ct in the telescope, it is difficult to
realize its power and possibilities or
comprehend the speed with which it is
darling toward the sun.
The latter measures confirm the first
calculations that the comet will GO *
traoIdinarily close to the sun. No as.
tronomer has succeeded in identifying
it with any previous comet, and it is
probable that this is its first visit to
the solar system, at least since men
have made records of celestial phe.
nomena. 1t is not impossible that
it last exhibited the glories of its train
to the inhabitants of the worlds revolv-
| ing around some distant fixed star.
The question is frequently asked" how
large will the comet be?" 1t is impos-
sible to say more than that, judging
from the brightness of its nucleus and
the present rate of increase in the size
of its tail, it ought to be a more bril-
liant comet than that of last summer.
But nobody can promise that it will be,
because the nature of comets and the
laws that govern the development of
their tails are not well enough under.
stood to enable astronomers to make
positive predictions concerning their
appearance.
This comets position when nearing
the sun will not be such as to give us
the best view of its tail. The comet
of 1853, like this one, was watched
from the time that it appeared as a
a faint object in the telescope until,
hanging in the western heavens, it
seemed to span half the arch of the
sky, making the autumn evenings bril-
liant with its light. By the 1st of May
this comet should be conspicuous to the
naked eye.
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Rubbing IL Out.

The editor of the Courier, Mr.. w
F. Cook, was seized a few mornings
ago by terrible pain in the left shoul-
der and neck. Having been favorably
impressed for some time with the
virtue of an article recommended for
all sudden pains, and especially rheu.
matism, we rubbed the offending part,
and in less time than we write it, relief
came. That article is st. Jacobs OIL
Cdn0johdTie Nv. " Courier.
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81 believe St Jacobs Oil to be the
very best remedy known to mankind"
asys Mr.. Roberts, business manager of
his paper.-NilsoGukee (Wis.) Sentinel.
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IL the bowels ara torpid. II piles torment,
IL the back Is full ct y ain, get a package
Of Kidney-Wort. and be cured without
more suffering. IL can be bought OF All
druggists In either dry or liquid FORM
Repaiblicdn-
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And Slain Just as They Had Entered
Upon Their Mission of Peace.
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The greatest factor of eIOQuence is sim
certify.
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Predictions and Comments of the
Press--Denunciation of the
Butchers.
ASSASSINATED

DUBLIN, May 6.-LOrd FredericE
Cavendish and Under Secretary Burke
were shot dead this evening in Pheni1
park.
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CHICAGO, May GA number of In
terviews held with prominent Irish
men tonight developes the fact that
they agree in regarding the assassina.
ZION OF CAvendish and Burke as an un-
called for and astonishing piece OF
folly. They would not have been sur.
prised or dismayed if Forster had been
murdered, but Cavendish, being a
coloriess man, and having done moth
ing injurious to the Irish cause, the
act is inexplicable.
Theories are advanced that some
fanatic Of the Guiteau stripe or some
adherent Of Forster, disappointed at
losing an Office, has committed the deed,
One theorist even declares that it must
have been done by
A zEALor OF TILE LANDLORD PARTY
who took this insane method Of arous-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-05
(seneraI Trade.

The grain and breadstuff market
abroad is dull and depressed. Yes
tsrday's cable from London reports
ten vessels arrived of the English
coast last week. of which three we're
sold, seven Withdrawn from the mar
ket, eighty, all American, remain, and
fourteen wheat cargoes due. Flour is
in liberal supply, and the stock Of
corn is nearly cleared out. At Chi.
cago the panic 10 corn caused another
firm to succumb yesterday, that OF 4.
=, and @. W. Richards. The market
for corn is weak and unsettled. Cut
meats continue dill and droopy
Coffee and sugar coptinle dGll. In
this market but little animation pre-
walls, except in a general jobbing way,
and trade has been reduced during
the past two days by bad weather,
muddy roads, and tho general depres-
sion in values.
FLOUR AND MEAL-Jobbers quote
single Dbl lots ut So 80a4 90 for common,
81 fba5 so for good 10 fancy family, and
Soc higher for patents; round lots, Csc
cheaper. C0rnmeal at the mills in dray-
loads, 81 10, and in single bbls from store
l0c higher, with q droGpy tendency.
FEEDSTUFFS-Corn quiet a. Ng57c
per bu 10 lots, add higher at retail. Cats,
4Sa4jc per hu in lots, and higher by the
dray load; retailers charge 46ai8c, Bran,
| 6b0per ton aud Sja9Oc per cwt corn bran,
bl5 per ton, Hay, s8 90 per ton and 5Oc
per cwt for Southern, $lbal6 per ton for
prime to choice Western timothy, and
Sl2 0Oal4 0 for clover and mi4od red top
Per cwt, Wcasl 90.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. In good
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-05

Sales yesterday were 42O0 bales,
$500 to exporters. l4OO to spinners,
and 200 to Spectators, closing easier
but not quotably lower, az follows:
Ordinary, 10; good ordinary, &c;
low middling, 9ic; middling, 9sc; good
middliDg, 9Ic; middling fair, Toto.
The New York market closed Lice
lower, the decline occurring during
the afternoon; middling, 1Olc. Sales,
474 bales. Stock, 1889 bales. Flu.
lures steady at l to 2 points below
Saturdays closing figures.
The Liverpool market closed easier
but not quotably lower: uplands,
3 15'l6d; orleans, GID.
The New Orleans market closed
easy but not lower; middling, $50.
Sales, 1000 bales.
The receipts of cotton at all U. s..
ports ior the past three days sum up
S2,52S bales, and 54l3 bales less than
for the same period last year. Total
for the present season, 2,5O5, 977 bales.
Increase over last year 95,41O bales, and
ll3,487 less than the year before for
the same time. Total exports this
season 1,42O.92G bales; last season, l.
l01 ,225; season before, 1888, 906. Total
stock, 800, 500 bales, against 500, 4O6
and 9l9.44S bales last year and the
year before at the same date. The
worlds visible supply last Saturday,
2,475, 243 bales; decrease, sO,329 bales
from last year; increase, lO4,65S over
1880, and 224,623 over 1879 at the
same date.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-05
OUR UNIQUE TRACK.
Col. N. Lewis CIark's Latest In
prOvemsnt at the Jockey
Club Grounds.
Something that Will Make Louis.
ville's Course Unequaled.
A Straight Course for the Flyers.
cOurisr,JourpaI. 4


The indefatigable President Of the
Louisville Jockey Club seems deter
mined that the Club grounds, although
now the finest in the world, shall DOS.
sess features not possessed by apy
other. Colonel Clark's latest is upioue
and novel, aud, though at first
flush seemingly not feasible.
will doubtless prove the u
ess that his former depart-
ures have done. His plan is to have
a straight three quarter mile track.
every part of which will show the
flyers to excellent advantage from all
observing points on the ground stand.
That this is not an air castle fancy 10
be talked Of and never realized. il
proven by the fact hat Colonel Clark
has now a large detail Of workmen
actively engaged upon the construc.
ton of the new track. The course
taken is a little south Of west from the
grand stand, and the work has bro.
crossed sufficiently to give an idea of
what the result will be.
In company with Colonel Clark a
Courier-Journa reporter drove over
the grounds yesterday afternoon and
viewed the budding improvement from
all points Except a very slight curve
coming into the quarter stretch home
the new track will be straight from
start to string From the start for
the first quarter the slope is lust
enough down grade to place that part
~ the contemplated track in full view
Of the grand stand, and not a motion
OF the runner will be lost. The ground
lies excellently, and with very little
dlling, which is being made at the
intersection Of the new track with the
old at the quarter poles, this will be
'econd to no course in the world. as
70 sodding and dead level. Colonel
contemplates extending the
track to the length Of one and a quar-
ter miles, but to do this will probably
nave to make a curve beyond the
three quarter mile post, so that the
'traight track will not probably ex.
end ovor three quarters of a mile.
The advantage Of extending this
course to the length Of one and a
quarter miles will be chat BY SO doing
nearly all the dashes a be run upon
it. The additional beauties of a race
run upon the straight course can be
'ttener presented, as every race will
ne on a straight line from the three
quarter pole home. Many other i'm
Jrovements are progressing aud others
vet to be entered upon will be noticed
hereafter; The upiqueness OF this
'ew track makes it deserving of this
mention.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-05
COMMERCIAL
PusLIo LEDsnR orEIcl

MEMPHIS, TKHE., Docemberb. lSo2.l
The volume Of clearings last week
which only included FIVE business
days was 81, 39l, ,5S2 in tw~enty-si1
leading cities of the country, and O
the amount 81, 100 ,OS5, 1896 was in New
York, the remainder, 1921, Az, 6S6
being the share Of the other twenty
1--we cities. It is a good showing on the
whole, though not equal in amount Ia
the same week last year, when there is
one more day for business. OF the
cities reporting ten show a smaller
volume Of financial business than
Memphis while Boston ranks second,
Philadelphia third, Chicago fourth.
Cincinnati fifth, st. Louis sixth
Pittsburg seventh, Baltimore eighth,
New Orleans ninth, and San Fran
cisco tenth. The other cities ahead
of us r Milwaukee, Louisville,
Kansas City, Providence, Cleveland
and Indianapolis. Kansas City is,
two and One.half fold greater than
Memphis and nearly one third as
great as St. Louis.
Tennessee State Is are quoted in
New York at 42Ia42s and the com.
promise 345.6 bonds are 5OIa52;
Arkansaw levee bonds are Gallo; Aid
do 10 Central railroad lOal5 and
other ISSUES l5a25; Government As
are 1901; AIS, 1924; extended IS, lOla
and Ss, 1925. Memphis and Charles
ton railroad shares a; Mobile and
49,; Missouri Pacific, 1901;
Louisville and Nashville, 5O1; Nash
vile and Chattanooga, so; Chesapeake
and Ohio, 22i; Chicago, St, Louis and
New Orleans, IS.
Local finances are quiet with inter
rates at 8 per cent. Exchange is
Cotton bills are purcha, ed
BY the banks at 20 so per thousand
for sight on New York and demand
on New England; sight on the latter
is 80 IS off. On New Orleans rates
IRE to of buying aud par selling.
on New York and Western
are sold by the banks at par.
The following are ruling quotations
Tor local securities:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-05
NOn.ResidenT NOiice.

No. HI6In the Chareery Court of O.
County, Tennessee-Weayer s. banioy
kdith Bingham. D"am vs.
l sppeaTtng from affidavit and the retu,n
4 OF inc Sheriff on the subpanain This cans
tnat the deiengant. Eoith Bingham, is moi fo
Sta iSu ns M " ini, county put ls residing in tho
ine make her appearance herein, al the conrt.
nouse q shelby county, In siemphis, Tenn
~ or before The first Monday In JannaTv
1883 and plead answer or demrr to compIaiS,,
an gili, Or the same viii DO taken for
pafte, and that a copy Of this ordss 1b *
kpoiished once a week, for four SuecssstSo
weeks, In the Public Ledger. S''e
rms ath day Of December. 1882.
Nv !. NJ \ u BLACK Clerk and Master.
80 IS 90 50 . complainant
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-05
Issn-R Resident IlOuso.

-
No. 4554-In the Chauoerv Cour, 81 o.
county, Tenn.-The state Of Toppessea ~.
" use, etc. vs.. Kate G. Bell CT al. ~
appearing from Sherif's return in thls
4 eau e, that the defendants, II. Korireebtt'
AHgusia hottrecht, ANNE Carroll. II Nitrh'
sii n NJ. Mitchell, arc not to be 6nn6 IN
ms county, II is therefore ordered that tbev
S mSSe ven appearance herein, At tie court
house Of SHELBY county, in Memphis' Tam
or before the first Monday In lama
lSos' and plead, answer or demur To ocmnisiy'
s sSsIb nlii ahd petition Of Ia ing District Of
oleioy county, or the same will Be tasan co.
confessed as to then and set for hearinS s ~
Rsstej ana tnat q copy Of this order be- pnb-
nsnSo once . week for four successive vesFs
This 18th day Of Noyemker 1899
a ~copy-Attest:
R.; BLACK, Clerk and Mss,s,.
~ n Bradley D, C.&M.
WIN NJ Smith, z II Heiskep, W r Gfiss.u
and CWHeiskell, SOrrs fsr eomplsinsbGisnS SOn
So go ~ II