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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-12-02

Five dollars can be saved every year in
boots and shoes by usihg LYONS Heel Stiff
teners: cost only 25c.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-12-02

II is proposed in Canada to render
all debts under 500 uncollectable by
law.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-12-02
Y iNEeAR Buffers

Is a Q BLOOD purifier aud Life-giyinr
Principle; a Gentle Purgatiyc and Tonic; q perfect
Renosator and 1nyigorator OF the system.
In vinegar Bfttcrs there Is vitality but
no alcoholic or mineral poison.
Diseases Of the Skin, Of whatever name
or nature, are literally dug up and carried out OF
thesystem In short time by the useof the Bitters.
vinegar n1ttcrs allays feverishnees. II re-
ueyeA, and In time cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
0out,a and similar painful diseases.
vinegar nlttcrs cures Constipation and
prevents Narrhna.
Never before has q medicine been com.
pounded possessing tho power Of vMEeAR Brr-
fEHs to heal the sick.
send for either Of our valuable re6erence
books for ladies, for farmers, for merchants, our
Medical Treatise IN Diseases, or our Catechism
On l~ntemperanco and Tobacco, which last should
esread By every child and youth In the land.
feceipe Of four cents for registration tees.
AH. NcDonadDrug Co. $50 washingtoass, ny.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-12-02

The latest gastronomic novelty in
Paris is roast monkey.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-12-02

The best cough medicine is Piso's Cure for
consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-12-02
Official Count in Dakota.

The official canvass of the vote east in
Dakota ut the election held Nov. 3 shows
the following r~esulfs.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
The Mind Cure.

A correspondent of the Providence
Journal in recent letter from Boston
says: 1t is rather curious thing that the
mlnd-cure craze should be almost wholly
confined to Boston, and that it should
have SO captivated the cratic Boston
fancy. Here it sprung into existence
some years ago under the auspices of
DR.. Cullis, whose faith cure had in it the
germ of this later system. Here it made
for itself footing, and slowly, quietly
gained many a convert and accomplished
many an astonishing cure, until it has
become firmly established institution,
with theory, practice, a church, and
a school-the Massachusetts NIetaphysi-
cal college, OH Columbus avenue-where
its tenets are taught and which numbers
among the faculty such men as DR.. Bar
tol.
There seems to be something weird
and mysterious about it, though the
treatment is simple enough with no
medicine, no quackery of any sort to
raise doubt. The patient visits the
mind -curer or Christian scientist,
sits in a comfortable chair
and is requested to follow Bun
thorne's advice and think of nothing at
all, while the operator, sitting opposite
with closed eyes, puts her vigorous mind
to work for half an hour. And this is
all. Science or no science, argument pro
and con Notwithstanding, there remains
the stubborn fact that hundreds of peo-
pie have received good care at the hands
of these new doctors, and that remark
able cures are every day reported and
duly attested.
Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett, the
novelist, who came from New York with
nervous prostration, was persuaded to
try little Christian science and returned
in high glee, restored to health, and
warm believer in the theory. and Miss
Louisa Alcott, who spends her winters in
Boston, and who has been quite i'll, is
now under the care of Mrs. Newmex, one
of the most successful operators, md is
rapidly recovering her health and spirits.
These are two out of a thousand instan
ces of the wonders worked under our
own eyes, and we are prepar "a to accept
any startling intelligence 18th compla-
cency. 1t IS necessity of the age we
live in. this indifference to miracles, and
ere long we shall be so steeled to sur
prises that the skies might fall and no
one lift startled eyebrow.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
Nankin's Porcelain Tower.

The City of Nankin, the capital o
China, has for centuries been famous to
the ''barbarians" of the outer world for
its porcelain tower-a relic of the splen-
dor Of its ancient days before Peking
usurped its dignity as the seat of the
empire. The place is now, to great
extent, a city of ruins, and the city
proper has shrunk to one fourth of its
former dimensions. The porcelain tower
was built quite early in the fifteenth cen
tury, by the order of the Emperor 1uug
Lob, ana as work of filial piety. 1t
was monument to the memory of his
mother, and he determined that its
beauty should as far outshine that of any
similar memorial as the transcendent
virtues Of the parent, in her sons eyes,
surpassed those of the rest of her sex.
No expense was spared in its erection,
and its total cost is estima ed at more
than three-fourths of million of our
own money. The work was com
menced at noon on a certain day in
1413, and occupied nearly twenty
years IN It's completion. The total height
of the porcelain tower was more than 300
feet, or about equal to that of the monu-
ment Of London, and it was faced from
top to bottom with the finest porcelain,
glazed and colored. 1t consisted of nine
stories. surmounted by spire, on the
summit of which was ball of brass,
richly gilt. From this ball eight iron
chains extended to as many projecting
points of the roof, and from each chain
was suspended bell which hung over
the face of the tower. The same arrange
ment was carried out in every story. The
bells added much to the graceful appear
ance of the tower, breaking its otherwise
formal and monotonous outline. Round
the outer face of each story were several
apertures for lanterns, and when these
were all illuminated, we are told. in the
magniloquent language of the Chinese
historian, that "their light illuminated
the entire heavens, shining into the
hearts of men, and eternally removing
human misery" 1t is not difficult to
imagine, however, that the appearance
of the tower on such an occasion must
have been beautiful in the extreme On
the top of the tower were placed two
large brazen vessels and bowl, which
together contained various costly arti-
cles in the nature of an offering and (
charm to avert evil influences. Among
these were several pearls of various colors,
each supposed to possess miraculous
properties, together with other precious
stones and quantity of gold and silver
In this connection, designed to repre-
sent the best treasures of the state, were
also placed box of tea, some pieces of
silk, and copies of some ancient Chinese
writings. The tower was demolished by
the Taeping rebels in 1853.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30

the truth. 1 trust to you to keep it sa.
cred, for don't want to retire yet for o
voyage or two
g l am sure l don't know how | gt
from his cabin to my own, but once in
the latter, bolted the door, and never
came out till the next morning. can't
tell if the captain ever contided to his
wife what took place in his cabin, but
sometimes fancied could see in her face
when her eyes fell on me, an expression
of mingled pity and amusement that I
never noticed there before. One thing
was sure of, however, and that was that
when became more familiar with her
did not think her quite so pretty as 1 did
at first.
"When the Winchester touched at St.
Helena, arranged with Captain Smith
that l should go ashore there, and wait
for the next vessel of Greene's line We
made ill health and the need of land air
the excuse.
THAT time in the captains cabin was
the most awk ward moment [ ever knew.
l suppose l am the only fellow who ever
asked man to marry him to his own
wife. At any rate, if there is another,
he has my sympathy. ."--Julian Mdgnus,
IN HaaTers Weekly.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
The Richest Cabinet Lady.

The richeat lady in Washington. says
a correspondent, probably is Mrs. Whit
ney. whose husband is secretary of the
navy and whose father is the millionaire
Senator Payne, of Ohio. It is said one
of her brothers gave her cool million
within a year or two, and as a trlning
Christmas gift gave her $40, 600 orna-
ment of rubies. The diamonds she wore
at. her first Wednesday reception IN
Washington were very large and bril-
liant. Her earrings of solitaire diamonds
and the three soltaires which were set IN
a bar breast pin are unusually large and
oure.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
VOLUME I.
AN AMAZONIAN FAREWELL

Well. we have threaded through and through
The cleaning forests. Fairy Isles,
Begirt in Gods eternal smiles
As fallen stars in fields of blue;
Some futile wars with subtle love
That mortal never vanquished yet
Some symphonies by angels set
In wave below, in bough above
We're YOURS and mine; but here adieu.
We. if it come to pass some days
That you grow weary, sad, and you
Lift up deep eyes from dusty ways
Of mart and moneys to the blue
And pure, cool waters, isle and vine,
And battle yon there, and then arise
Refreshed by one fresh thought of mine,
rest content; l kiss your eyes,
kiss your hair in my delight,
kiss my hand to say "Good-night."
May love be thine by sun or moon;
May peace be thine by stormy way,
Through all the darling days of May,
Through all the genial days of June,
To golden days that die in smiles
Of sunset on the blessed isles.
Joaquin Miller.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
NUMBER %.
AFTERGLOw.

It is not altogether dark,
1t is not altogether lonely,
That the sky to-day holds shadows only;
If some bygone year to us was fair,
Its light still fingers on the air,
AS the flush in the west is fair to see
When the sun long since has dropped under
the sea-
1t is not altogether dark,
1t is not alto 5ether lonely,
If the friend be owed was once ours only;
The leaf of verbena, when we look
Through leaves of some long since opened
book,
Is haunted, we find with the scent to-day
That it held the morning when laid away.
1t is not altogether dark,
1t is not altogether lonely,
If the scented leaf remains to us only;
little grave flower, though it be
Linked with our loved ones destiny,
That grew in the light of that by gone year,
That saddened and sweetened and left life
dear.
Jennie Mdr,UeU Paine.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
Church Membership.

The following table, says the Inter
Ocean, gives the membership of the diff
ferent churches according to the most
reliable authorities. The Roman Catho-
lie church claims to have $3.50, 85S ad-
herents in this country, but their actual
church membership is not reported:
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30

The forests of the United States CON-
prise 412 species of trees, belonging to
15s genera. Of these, forty-sight ge:.-
era and sixty aces:fa are 2c9.kiiaf e
Florida.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30

The southern part of Africa has TO-
900 tame ostriches, producing So, ,000, 900
worth of feathers annually.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Portugal has seized two French stations
on the Gulf of Guinea.
Judge Foraker has accepted an invitation
by the republican State committee to stump
the State Of New York for Davenport and
Carr.
Turkish troops have been ordered to adj
vance, and battle with tho Servians is i'm
minent. The latter are advancing on Sofia.
The Porte will not recognize the Bulgarian
union, no matter how the conferences re.
suit.
Canon Farrar delivered his lecture on
Dante at the Congregational Church in
Washington last night, 10 large and dis
tiDguished audience. He was introduced
by Secretary Bayard. Among those present
were the President and Secretaries Endicott
and Lamar.
Several monstrous frauds, it is alleged,
have been discovered in land entries in New
Mexico, and tho name Of ex Senator Ste.
phen W. Dorsey is connected with some of
the transactions. 1t is said that the prop.
erty on which Robert G. IDgersoll's famous
Lighthouse is located is also in dispute, and
it is stated that through the influence of
Congressman Springer, of Illinois, and At
torney General Garland, Vincent, the lately
deposed chief justice of New Mexico, was
appointed, and that the President is very
indignant about it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-17

THE ARMED STRENGTH OF Europe.-A
we'll informed correspondent, who is said to
be officially connected with the German
general staff, has during the past two
months contributed to the Berliner Tage-
6lmt a series of articles on the armed
strength of Europe. In the event of war
the disciplined soldiers that could within
three months be sent into the field by these
countries may be numbered as follows:
R0umania, 102, COO; servia, $1,000; Bulga.
ria, 1000 Greece Gl,000; Eastern Rou.
me'ia % GOO; Montenegro. "a 600; Turkey,
2Sl 900. The same authority estimates that
the maximum available strength of the
great lowers for warlile operations in Eu-
iopran Turkey within three months of the
outbreak Of hosiiities would be: Russia,
$4,000; Germany, 100000; France, 100000;
Austria Hungary, 100000; Italy, 207,000;
and Great Britain, 50 900.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-17
Cardinal McCloskey's Successor

MONTREAL, Que, Oct. lit is Stated
here that the vacancy in the college Of Gar.
dina!s, created by the death ofCardinal Ne
Closkey, will be tilr'l by Archbishop Tnsch
ereau, of Quebec. When one of the Cana
dian bishops went TO Rome some time ago
in connection with tho matter Of the tlivis-
ion Of the diocese of Three Rivers, Cardiua!
Simeoni pledged him his word that in case
of a vacancy occurring in the college lie
would use all possible means to nave il filled
BY Archbishop Taschereau.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-17

1T IS REPORTED from Danvile, that
of the nine hundred white voters there,
only ono will vote the Malone ticket
next month, for the good and sufficient
reason that the General, by maliciously
abusing and maligniug the people OF
that town, has done all it was possible
for him to do to keep settlers and capital
away from it, and has thus attempted to
injure the material prosperity Of every man
who lives there. Because Mr.. John Wise,
by bandying words with some of his audi
ence here, and then insulting them, was
Kissed and hooted, The General, through
the republican papers that continue to sup
port him, unpublished Alexandria through.
out the entire North as another Southern
city in which free speech is prohibited;
thereby trying to retard her prosperity also.
Such malignancy can not be punished as it
deserves; but tho white voters of AleXan-
dria should show their dctestation of it by
making their vote against the General next
month as solid as that of their fellow cti-
zens of Danville.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-17

WITH single solitary exception, every
body who knows DR.. Curry, and he is
known as we'll in the North as in the South
speaks of his recent appointment as Minis
ter to Spain as eminently fiji aud proper,
and as one tina, will reflect credit abroad
upon tho country he represents. The ex.
ception referred to is General Malone, from
whose State DR.. Curry halls, who, through
his newspaper, says:
"Dr. ]. l.. NJ. Curry, mself, although minis.
ter of the Gospel and agent of the Peabody Fund
was not appointed because Of any fitness for the
position of Minister to Catholic SPAIN for, not to
speak of his personal devotion to Bayard, he was
not only q flre-eater before the war, but men,
her of the Confederate Congress; and when our
liberal movement began in this State no although
parson) took the field against it as bourbon.
funder canvasser."
But abuse from the General is equivalent
to praise from reputable men.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-17

SHOOTING AT A CoSDUcToE.-While train on
the Richmond and Dsnville railroad, which
reached Richmond yesterday morning, was at
Lexington, n. C., man got aboard. The con.
ductor, Capt. James Lowell, asked him for his fare
but the rough-for such he turned out to he
said he had Ito ticket and that he got aboard to
see friend and the train started before he cou Id
get off. Conductor Lowell again demanded the
fare, and politely informed the rough that unless
he paid his fare he would be put Off the train.
Inc fellow declining to pay, the conductor stop
ped the train and put him off, Wbcn the train,
started the man pulled pistol from his pocket
ana fired Mt the conductor. The ball did not tako
effect however, but it came near striking brake
man.-Richm0nd Sute
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-17
THE SHOOTING AFFAIR AT STANTON.


STAUNToN, Va, Oct. 15.-The visitors to
the Baldwin Augusta Fair were thrown into
CONSERVATION to-day by shooting ARRAY,
which resulted in the death of Mr.. w. NJ
Brown, who was fatally shot in the side by
Stewart Koiner. The shooting took place
in the rolunda, which was, as usual, greatly
far as is known ut present no quarrel had
taken place. though it is rumored that the
parties were not on good terms, and it is
thought koiner deliberately drew his pistol
and fired ut Brown, who was at very close
range, and vas accompanied by his wife
and TWO little children. The ball entered
'he body Just below the lower rib and pass
ed entirely through and struck window in
The building some distance away Mr..
Brown lived about thirty minutes, and was
conscious most Of the time, though the doc
tors say lie had no pulse at ALL 1t
is rumored kuiner attempted to shoot
the second time, but was prevented
from 50 doing, by Mrs. Brown, who caught
his hair and pulled him back, and it is said Brown
caught the pistol himself before he fell all of which
shows they must have been very close together
The widest excitement followed and it is feared
Koincr may be summarily dealt with before the
night is over. He was Immediately taken to Jail
by Chief Of Police Waters. Mr.. koiner is young
man of ID years, and has inherited considerable
wealth from his father Harvey koiner deceased
and his victim is well to do farmer and neigh
Dor with whom he joins farms. The affair is
greatly dcrlorcd by every one and no one seems
abe TO account for this unfortunate young mans
taking the life Of his ncighbor without provoca-
ton. ''SCRTPToE'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-17
Homes CT Peaceful Settlement

BERLIN, Oct. 1.-THE North Germau Ga.
zette to-day, commenting en- the situation in
the Balkans, says: 1.-THE hope that diplo
macy will succeed in peacefully settling tie
Roumelian difficulty has increased in view
of the fact that the Bulgarian authcrilirs
have arrested the leaders of several bands
Of Servian emiG:nnts who had been cndeay-
oring to stir up revolt against King Milan,
thus depriving Servia Of her pretext for re-
elimination.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-17

LIE REPUBLICAN mugwumps show the
manner of men they are and the insincerity
of their professions by rejoicing over the
republican victory in Ohio, though that was
victory for Mr.. Sherman, the man who
prostituted his position in the service of the
Government to the acquisition of an i'm
mense fortune, whose malfeasance is estab-
lished by the report of an investigating
committee of the body of which he is a
member, who swore he did not know
whether or not he had written the famous
Weber letter, and who was the chief of the
thieves who stole the vote of Louisiana in
the Hayes fraud-a fraud now denounced
even by the party in whose interest it was
perpetrated.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-17
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES
Attempted Suicide.

JERSEY CITY, n. j.. Oct. IA double
tragedy was very nearly enacted in the ri,v
prison at Hoboken this morning. Yesler.
day dispatch was received ~ Hoi.p. .r
police headquarters from Chief Thomas If
Bangor, Pa, asking for the arrest OF T,?c.sn
Descar, an Italian, who had eopea, taxing
with her her two children. Durna the
afternoon the woman, with her two chilirfn
was arrested in company with Two la.ian
men-Laurenzi SPERM and Joseph Puhe.
nelli. At midnight the woman's husband
arrived and was granted permission to see
her. AT 2:l5 q. II. Sergeant Kathleen wcr,
into the corridor to separate the couple.
He found Liberato, the husband, hanging
from the top of the cell door by strap. On
the inside of the cell his wife was also sus.
pended by the neck with rope. Both
were apparently dead. The Sereeau, en-,
them down and dispatched messenger for
physician. 1t was with great difficulty
that they Were resuScitated. At o'clock
this morning Teresa made sccoli,, A.
tempt TO take her lie by s,rangiug. She
was discovered, however, in time to IRE
vent the accomplishment Of her nurro>e.
She said she was tired of life and wanted 10
die. At 10 O'Clock she and her husband
became reconciled and were permitted to
return home together. The two Italiun.;
who were arrested with the woman were
discharged with reprimand
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-17

THE NEW YORK Herald, which now on.
poses Malone and his methods as strenu.
ously as it once supported them, says its
former course was inspired by the fact that
General Malone broke down the color line
the General for, from the time he deserted
the democrats, his chief reliance has been
on the maintenance of the solid colored
vote. And it is strange that the Herald
should be so much in error, for at the very
time it speaks of, the General, in its own
city, said, 'if he could only divide the white
vote, he had one hundred and twenty thou.
sand negroes from whom he could get any
majority he might want"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-17

HE NEGROES of Lancaster county have
just whipped one of their race on suspicion
of being democrat, and those of Lynch
burg have bid the two who rode in General
Lees cavalcade there good bye" In the
present, "a in all the Generals previous cam.
paigns, the negroes, under instructions from
their boss, will attempt to make it hot" for
all of their own race who may evince dis.
position to vote the democratic ticket. And
yet the Generals Northern friends say it is
the democrats who prevent a free vote in
Virginia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-17
The Ohio Election.

CINCINNATI O., Oct. 17.-Threo demo.
cratic clubs held meetings last night and
adopted resolutions charging gross frauds by
the republicans in the recent election in
Hamilton county, in debauching judges and
clerks and in purchasing votes. They de
clareed in favor OF the prompt prosecution
OF oil offenders. To this end the Jefferson
club appropriated $500; the Duckworth
club So 500, and the West End club 81 800.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-17
Cholera.

MADRID, Oct. 17.-There were 1873 ncw
cases of cholera and 76 deaths from The
disease in Spain yesterday. A cholera panic
prevails at Seville and the PEOPLE are flee
ing from the city.
ROME, Oct. T.--There were 81 new cases
Of cholera and 80 deaths from the disease
reported Yesterday in Palermo.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-17
TrageaY.

kEoKUE, Iowa, Oct. IA dispatch to
the Constitution from Lancaster, Mo, says
In Oh alteration yesterday afternoon Geo.
Lehr stabbed and killed John w. Barnes,
one Of his tenants. He claims 10 have acted
in self defense. Lehr is prominent citizen
of The county, and is highly esteemed.