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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-11-18
WM. u. MAIDEN, N. ID.

Physician, Surgeon, Gyn@coloGist, Etc.,
Late Asst Surgeon U. S. Army; Examining sur
geon for u S. Pensioners and all the princlpal LIE
Insurance Co.'s. Residence and Office on second
St., nearly opposite the Union House.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-11-18
ELY'S
CREAM BALM

C1eanses I he
Head. Allays
Inflammation,
Heals the Sores
Restores the
senses of taste
smell, , hearing
A quick relief
APOSTLE cure
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-11-18

A particle is applied into each nostriI and 4
agreeable TO Price 80 cents by mail or at drug
gists Send for circular. ELY BROTHERS, drug
gists, Owego, N. Y. 732yi
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-11-18
Advertising Eates.

Prices and Terms anKe to all.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-11-18

Special attention given 10 Abstracts OF Lands in
Alpena and Montmorency counties. 708
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-15
The Woman Candidate.

WAsH1NGroN, January 12.-Mrs. Bel.
va Ann Lockwood in her petition pre-
sented in the Senate this morning asks
that the votes cast for her in New York,
New Hampshire, indiana, Iowa, Michi-
gan, Illinois, Maryland and California be
counted, and that the electoral vote of
Indiana be given to her.
She charges that votes cast for her
were "fraudulently and illegally coun.
ted for the alleged majority candi-
date, the same being antagonistic
to the letter and spirit of the law and
subversive of every principle of equity
aud injustice" She also asks that the
Senate refuse to receive the electoral
returns of the State of New York, or
count them for the alleged majority
candidate, "for if the 1886 votes which
were polled in said State for your petit
toner had been counted for her, and not
for one Grover Cleveland, he would not
have been awarded the majority of all
the votes cast at said election in said
State" Her reason for asking that the
electoral vote of Indiana be cast for her,
she says, is "that after the Electoral
College of that State had cast its vote
for the aforesaid Grover Cleveland, it
changed its mind, as it had legal right
to, and did cast its united ballot for your
petitioner"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-15
Cleveland and his Cabinet.

WASHINGTON, January "a rumor
has been floating around the Senate
Chamber for several days past to the
effect that Senator Bayard does not desire
to 20 into Mr.. Cleveland's Cabinet, but is
using whatever influence he may have to
secure Cabinet appointment for Senator
Pendleton, of Ohio. Senator Bayard
refuses to either confirm or deny the ru.
NOR. An intimate friend of the Della.
ware Senator, stated to your correspon-
dent that he felt very certain that Mr..
Bayard is contented to remain in the
Senate. AS Cabinet officer, his official
and social duties would be far more great
er than those required Of Senator /;
besides he is now considered the Demo-
cratic leader in the Senate, which posi-.
tion gives him greater prominence than
he could obtain as the head of an execu.
tive department.
1t is we'll known that Senator Pendle.
ton would accept with pleasure an invi-
tation to cross his legs under the Cabinet
table. Senator Jonas, of Louisiana,
would also be pleased to have the privi.
lege of riding to the White House regu.
larly every Tuesday and Friday as Gus
todian of Cabinet portfolio. Both
Senators Pendleton and Jonas will prob.
ably be provided for by the Cleveland
Administration but there is no certainty
that they will be given Cabinet positions.
A majority of the New England Cabinet
makers agree that Mr.. w. @. Whitney,
of New York, is to be the next secretary
of the treasury.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-15
The Bank of Augusta Makes an AS
signnfent.

Yesterday morning quite sensation
was created in the city by notice on the
door of the Bank of Augusta, which
read: "Closed by order of the Board of
Directors" The news was soon the sub
ject of discussion on the street corners
and in counting rooms, and rumors were
numerous and varied. 1t was learned
that an assignment had been made, in
which the depositors were preferred, and
as it was claimed the amount realized on
assets would fully cover the amount of
deposits, the fears of depositors were
considerably allayed. The bank was a
State bank, chartered many years ago.
Its capital stock has been several times
reduced, and two years ago was reduced
from $3.50, 1000 to $4,000
The Chronicle interviewed Messrs.
Harper & Bro, the assignees, and in re:
sponse to question as to the cause Of
the suspension, they replied: "To state
the matter in nutshell, the failure was
caused by the entire exhaustion of the
capital stock. The capital was S15C, 900.
President w. S. Roberts had borrowed
$4,000 and Mr.. A. J. Twigga, President
of the Georgetown and Lanes Railroad
had borrowed $3.50, 900; that as collater-
al the bank held s25O,OO0 of bonds of
the Georgetown and Lanes Railroad of
South Carolina, upon which they were
unable to realize, and they had nothing
upon which to proceed" Chronicle and
Constiutionalst, 10M.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-15
An Interesting Operation.

A reporter for the Charleston Sunday
Ne,os witnessed yesterday practical
administration of the new anesthetic
cocain. The success of cocain as an
anesthetic has been satisfactorily demon
strated, and that its use in certain opera
tions possesses advantages over all other
angsthetics is shown by its almost uni.
versal adoption among the medical fra.
ternity. The operation in which it was
used yesterday was the extraction of
cataract from the eye of little colored
boy nine years old. 1t was performed
by one of the City Dispensary physicians.
About fifteen minutes before the COM
mencement of the operation three drops
of two per cent. solution of the muriate
of cocian were placed in the eye. This
application was repeated FIVE times at
intervals of three minutes until the eye
had become completely insensible to the
touch. The patient was then told 10 lie
down on table and the operation was
proceeded with. During the first stage,
which consists in making an incision in
the cornea and cutting what is known as
the flap, the little fellow did not move or
give the slightest indication of feeling
the delicate little steel blade. 1t was not
until making the iridectomy or cutting
out section of the iris, that be COM
planned of little pain. A fine delicate
steel hook was next used to break up the
capsule of the lens and the cataract was
treated by means of little pressure upon
the cornea. After the eye had been care.
fully bandaged so as to exclude the light
from it, the boy got up and walked home
as unconcernedly as if nothing had hap.
penel, whereas if chloroform or ether
had been administered it would have
been necessary for him to have been put
to bed Immediately and have staid there
until the ill effects had passed off, which
usually takes at least two days. The
reason cocain comes in so conveniently
for eye operations is that it has no effect
whatsoever except upon the part to which
it is applied, while most of the other
anasthetics produce vomiting and parox-
ysms, during which it is only with the
greatest care that the contents of the eye
are prevented from being forced out
through the incision and the eye ire.
trievably lost to the patient.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-15

The House of Representatives has
passed the Reagan bill to regulate inter.
State commerce. Itfixes the rate Of fare
on railroads for passengers at three cents
per mile, and prohibits discrimination in
freights. 1tprovides for no Commission,
but imposes heavy penalties for the vio-
lation of its provisions. The purposes of
the bill are good, and undoubtedly much
good will be accomplished by the bill,
should it become a law. It may at the
same time prove disastrous to the rail-
roads in many sections of the Union,
and thereby ipjure the people of those
sections. The more prosperous roads
will not be unreasonably interfered with
by the bill, but it may work disaster to
the roads in the less populous States.
We fear the bill has not sufficient dis.
elimination in its classification of rail-
roads. It's provisions which affect pas.
sage and freight rates between different
points in the same State are, in our opin-
ion, in conflict with the Constitution and
theory of our government. The general
government has no rightto interfere in
the internal policy of any State. The
bill has not yet passed the Senate, and
we apprehend that owing to the short
time remaining before the fourth Of
March, it will scarcely be brought to a
final vote in that body.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-15

A week or Gwo ago an Irishman
named Phelan had an interview with
newspaper in Kansas City, Neb., in which
he is supposed to have revealed many
secrets of the Irish dynamiters. He told
OF several attemptsto to blow up steamships,
etc., and of the alleged part taken by
man named Kearney. A few days ago
be- received a telegram from Kearney,
calling him to New York and, immedi-
ately obeyed it, reaching that city on
Friday. Kearney requested him to walk
with him to O'Donovan Rossa's Office
and be did 80. There PhelaD was sud-
denly assaulted with knife by man
named Parker, or Short, who stabbed
him twelve times. Phelan succeeded in
escaping to the street, bleeding profusely,
aud fell on the walk. A policeman cap
tured Short who rushed around a corner
aud pretended to be an Indifferent pedes.
trian. He had blood on his hands and
clothes, however, and was recognized by
the wounded man who rose on his elbow
and fired one shot from revolver at the
prisoner. Phelan will probably die.
One of his arms was almost cut from the
shoulder. Short is locked up.
In Bolton, England, there is club
of men composed entirely Of habitual
wife beatera. The object of the club is
mutual assistance and protection. When
a member beats his wife and benigbted
magistrate fines him, the fine is paid out
of the club funds, and the gentleman
goes home and gives his wife another
beating just for luck. The noble Briton
must have his fun.
= In reply to e. request from New
York publishing firm for information as
to the strength of the Mormon Church
in this country, the superintendent of
the census, through the secretary of The
interior, has prepared statement as
follows 1S50-number of church organ
izations, 16, sittings, 10,S0O 1S6o-24
churches, 13,5OO sittings. 1S70-189
churches, Al 1888 sittings. 1S00-267
churches, 65,262 sittings. The actual
membership, according to the census of
1880 was 1886. Only by the last cen.
sus was tie actual membership ascer-
tainel.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-15
: The subject of divorce is attracting

The subject of divorce is attracting
the attention of the governors of the
States. Gov. Bourn, Of Rhode Island,
puts his foot down in his message upon
the Philadelphia and New York people
who are temporarily abiding in that State
for the purpose of securing divorces. In
ten years 1884 applications for divorce
have been made in Rhode Island and
2,285 granted. This shows too much
domestic infelicity for such small State.
The Governor wants the laws amended 80
that none but bona ide residents will be
able to use the divorce courts. Gov.
Hoadly, Of Ohio, in his message calls at.
tention to the increase of divorces in that
State and insists upon the amendment of
the tax laws.
= There are fifteen Senators to be
elected in the next thirty days, with two
changes coming in favor of the Republic
cans and one doubtful case, that Of Illi.
nois, where they may lose. Farley, of
California, and Slater, of Oregon, will be
succeeded by Republicans the former
probably by ex.minister Sargent and the
latter by George 81. Williams or John
b. Mitchell, Jones, of Nevada, will try
to get another term and so will Hill, of
Colorado, but in the latter case the op-
posing candidates are many and the issue
is doubtful. IDgalls, of Kansas, will
probably be elected as will Cameron, of
Pennsylvania, and Platt, of Kentucky,
while Wisconsin will have contest with
Angus Cameron refusing to run.
= The grown-up Mormons are exceed
ingly hard to convert to anything like
orthodox Christianity. But the teachers
and missionaries who are trying to evan.
|'gelize Utah are at work on the children,
who are plenty in that country. Seventy
one school buildings have been built at
cost of nearly 100000, and dozen or
more schools arc held in rented buld-
ings. There are about $500 Mormon
children under anti.Mormon instruction,
and they are said to make good scholars.
= From single grain of wheat plant
ed in 1881, says the Grass Valley (Cal.)
Record, grew twenty-five stalks, each
bearing full head. These yielded $50
grains, 760 of which were planted the
1ySali Pio0o|ibS ooO-Ahsh va cNSAS.
of splendid wheat. This was planted
last Spring, yielding seventeen bushels,
making 1920 pounds Of wheat from one
grain in three years.
The last few weeks have furnished
some examples of the pleasures of life
in the West. In one instance the frozen
bodies of fourteen men were found; in
another seven, and in another case a
vehicle was drawn up by weary horse
to railway station, the two riders sit
ting bolt upright, frozen dead.
"A new clock has been invented and
coming into use in Europe, which is war
ranted by its manufacturers 10 run for
five years without either winding or reg
ulation. The Belgian Government
placed one in g railroad station in 1881,
sealed with the Government seal, and it
has kept perfect time ever since.
= The fire losses in the United States
for the last year are estimated at $685.
100000. This is about $3.50 for every
family in the country.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-15
Another Cyclone.

RALEIGH, N. G., January S.-News
has just been received here of terrible
gale in Sampson County, fifteen miles
from Clinton. John Jackson's house was
leveled to the ground. Two children
were struck by falling timbers and injur.
ed. A hog was carried several hundred
yards from its per- and killed. O. Jack.
sons houses were destroyed, including q
dwelling and two story substantial out
building, but no one was hurt. Thomas
Jackson's buildings were raised to the
ground. John Calvin lost a saw mill,
which was blown into the pond. Henry
Warren's dwelling was blown off its pill
lars and unroofed. A stackpole was taken
from a field of John Jackson and carried
eight miles. The path Of the cyclone
was narrow, but the destruction of prop.
erty was great. The Goshen Church was
entirely destroyed. So far as known no
one was hurt save the two children Of
MIR. Jackson.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-15
A Story Of Greenrille County at the
Close of the Civil War.

STONE HOUSE, GREENv1LLE COUNTY,
January 2.-Much excitement was
caused in this neighborhood recently by
the supposed discovery of long lost
treasure which was buried at the close Of
the war to keep it from the raiders.
Col. Joseph Choice at the close of the
war heard that gang of the marauders
was spread terror and devastation in
the upper part of the county, and as he
owned much valuable otock he had his
servants to hide them in the thick swamps
and hollows around the foot of Paris
Mountain, while he carried off his mon
ey and valuable papers, &c. On his re.
turn he remarked that he had hidden his
treasures where the sharpest, Yankee
rogue in the army could not EEtAs them,
but did not say where. :.
Three or four days paIst mud no
raiders were heard of, apdAC0l. Choice
decided to have his stock brought back;
home. This he did, and the next day,
while he was eating dinner, the servants
came rushing in, saying: 20, master,
the lot is full of.Yankees; and they arc
going to steal your mare"
Col. Choice jumped up from the table,
grabbed his rife and rushed out in the
back piazza just in time to see the raid
ers putting the saddle on this favorite
mare of his. He commanded them to
stop or he would shoot the first man that
attempted to steal his mare.
No attention was paid to him, but in
stead one of them mounted his mare
and started off. No sooner did be start
than Col. Choice took deliberate aim and
fired. The rider was killed instantly.
AS soon as the raiders realized the situa.
lion they all turned their weapons on
Col. Choice and fired. When the echo
died away headless corpse was stretched
out on the floor-all that remained of
Col. Choice.
The gang forbade any of the family to
move his body at the peril of their lives,
and after committing all the indignities
they could they rode of to Capt. VIM.
Choices and told him that they bad
killed his I'D - of brother"
Since the death of Col. Joseph Choice
many hunted for his hidden gold but
without success. The other day negro
while cutting wood noticed pile of fresh
dirt, and as it had been thrown up since
the day before, he was curious to know
what It meant. On examining the hole
closely he found that square box had
been taken from it, while on the ground
around were pieces of fine china, isinglass,
buttons and small pieces of walnut
box. He informed bis employer about
it, and as he knew of this story about
this hidden gold he at once came to the
conclusion that some one had found the
treasure.
1t is supposed that some one saw Col;
Choice when he buried it and has waited
till now in hopes of it being forgotten.
It is carefully estimated that the finder
did not get less than $1,000 in gold
besides other valnables.-From q letter to
the GreenviNe Neacs.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-15
Relieved of Neuralgia.

4 correspondent of the Me,ps and Cou-
rier, writing from Baltimore under date Of
January 5, says:
Through the happy medium of your
paper, the people of South Carolina, and
indeed of the neighboring States, will be
glad to learn that this morning Judge
Aldrich and his wife left here for South
Carolina with happy hearts. Three
weeks ago Judge Aldrich put himself
under the treatment of South Carolina's
able son, Prof. Frank T. Miles, M. D.,
a. specialist in nervous diseases, for neural.
gia of the face, from which he had been
suffering for some eighteen months, until
the excruciating paroxysms became
uncomfortable.
Prof. Miles, than whom there is no
better authority upon nervous diseases in
the United States, soon found that only
tie knife could give relief, and at his
instance and under his supervision Prof.
L. McLane Tiffany, NJ. D., with proven
bial skill, laid bare the offending nerve
and resected about one and half inches
of it. In the words of Judge Aldrich,
from the moment the ether took effect
until the surgeon dismissed the case he
had not had a twinge of pain and very
slight soreness from the healing wound.
There is every case for both the hope and
belief that the operation has been so
thorough and skilful that the relief will
be permanent.
The case is considered a peculiar one,
and the medical fraternity may hear oft
later though the medical journals. The
cause of pain was thought 10 be from the
enlargement tof the nerve just where it
4iassed through the bone of the face, thus
causing unnatural contraction of the
nerve, and consequently, excruciating
agony, the paroxysms being caused by
the nerves relieving itself by exhaustion
after each Daroxysm.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-15
$40 Z. 5-r
A DILEMMA.

Our neighbors in Greenville are sorely
troubled to know whether to give the
Greenville and Laurens Railroad to the
Midland Railroad or 10 the Augusta and
Knoxville. "One OF the People" writing
in the Greenyille News, says:
"The one (the Augusta and Knoxville,
with the great Central system behind it,
ia live corporation in successful opera
ton. with the inclination and ample
means to take US in. The other (the
Midland) has no organization, no road,
no money. It is rumored that the Au-
gusta and Knoxville proposes to lay the
iron on the track and put trains on In
ninety daye.
wait 20 see whether the Midland is
really to be built. They must have com.
petition in freight rates and be placed
upon an equality with their neighbors at
the earliest possible moment, and Ger.
taiuly before the next crop is ready to
be marketed, or Laurena, Spartanburg
and possibly Anderson will take large
part of the trade that legitimately be-
longs to us. If the Midland should
really be built, it will require two or
three years to do it, and from its freight
connections in the meantime Greenville
will be without competition in freights.
Her trade will seek other points where
goods can be sold cheaper and she will
as as consequence suffer irrepps:sble in.
Jury. 1t is only necessary to compare
the rates of. freight at other points on
the Greenyille aud Columbia Railroad
with those at Greenwood since the
Augusta and Knoxville was completed
to that point, to form some idee OF the
position Greenville will occupy in com,
parison with Laureus, Spartanburg, and
possibly Anderson, if she b no other
competition il freight rates than she has
at present" IA
The Columbia Register comforts our
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-15
The Atlanta Constitution.

In long article relating to the B.
B., Of that city, says:
The Blood Balm Company started one
year ago with 1852 90, but to-day the bus
mess cannot be bought for $50,000.00!
The demand and the satisfaction given
is said to be without parallel, as its ac-
ton is pronounced wonderful.
We are glad to announce that our drug
gists have already secured a supply, and
we hope our readers will supply them
selves at once.
1t is said to be Che only speedy and per-
manent blood poison remedy offered,
giving entire satisfaction in all cases be-
fore one bottle has been used. For Blood
Diseases. Kidney Troubles, Scrofula, Ca
tarrh, old Ulcers and Skin Diseases try
one bottle of B. e. B.