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to precedent, and the President decided
that the question be adjudicated by Sec
rotary Lamar. His decision is awaited
by the whole country with eager anxiety.
as the issues involved are of great i'm
portsnce. Indeed, a question of deeper
concern was never before an American
tribunal. A decision adverse to the Bell
telephone patent would revolutiouize the
whole telephone system of the world,
especially in the United States. 1t
would reduce the expense of telephon-
ing to less than onc-half, and of the va
rious patents and improvements the fit
test would survive and be universally
adopted, and this would no doubt be
Rodgers's Pan Electric. patent, as it
is superior to all others. Secretary
Lamar is giving this question a patient
investigation. The arguments of the at
torneys on both sides have been most ex-
baustive; the telephone system has been
traced back to its original source; the
first instruments have bcen exhibited on
trial, and if it should be decided that
| Bells patent is an innovation, or rather
| a palpable theft of the property of some
dead discoverer, there will be an end tC
| the telephone monopoly which is now en-
| riching itselfa at the expense of the people,
| Secretary Lamar's decision may not end
all litigation on this question, but il
will have an important bearing on the
merits of the patents. The head Of the
Interior Department is a constitutions
lawyer, the basis on which is constructed
his reputation as a national statesman
his Judgment is just and wise, and his de
cision will be accepted as the law. /
adverse to the Bell Telephone, it ma!
induce the various contestants to poo
their issues and thus perpetuate the mo
~nopoly which burdens the people. Ii
spite of the exactions upon his time, Sec
rotary Lamar is giving this question
patient hearing. He has a national repu
tation as a scholar, orator and statesman
and now he has shown great bushes
capacity in his new field of labor. l.. Q
G. Lamar is one of the greatest men o.
the American continent.
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Cocaine as a Poison.

NEW fofK, November Ia.-At a meet
ing OF the Medico-Legal Society last night
various speakers held that cocaine is q
poison and should be SO labeled and sold
Prof. Doremus knew a woman who was
poisoned to death by cocaine used on an
aching tooth. DR.. Holcomb said he had
heard that s fatal case of cocaine poisoning
had occurred in one of the city hospitals
within the past two or three days. II
would be of value to hear from DR.. Doug
las on the result of his experience of ap.
plying nearly every day Tor many monthf
a spray OF cocaine to Gen. Grants throat.
4 friend of his from Peru had told him
that in that country, where the people
have the cocaine habit, and where tAey
keep up on it for days without food,
deaths were not uncommon.
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THE NEXT CONGRESS
The Amendment of the House Rules the
First Business to Be Considered
on Assembling.
Speaker Carlisle Seriously Indisposed-
The GuillOtine at Work in The Treas
ury Department.
Higgins Likely to Be SOon Superseded
Senator Berry Of Arkansas at
the Capital.
ESPECIAL TO THE AprRAL.I

ESPECIAL TO THE APPRAL.l
WASHINGTON, November 19.-It is gen.
orally believed that the only House CON-
mittee which will be appointed immedi-
ately after the election of Speaker will be
that on rules, and that the question of
modification will be considered by. that
committee prior to he selection of the re-
mainder of the committees. Mr.. Carlisle
has not yet made known his intention in
regard to the matter, but the agitation OF
the subject will naturally bring about the
plan indicated.
SECRETARY MANNING
hes again detailed George W. Albright OF
Albany to set as assistant to Higgins, and
it is limited that he is to succeed the latter
| as appointment clerk. Albright has been
chief of division in the Sixth Auditors
office, and his transfer to bis present posi-
ton is looked upon as significant, especial
ly if Higgins should enter the field as a
candidate for Doorkeeper or Sergeant-at-
Arms of the House.
CHIEF CLERK
| has asked for the designations OF a number
| of employees of the Treasury for negligence
| and violation Of the rules of the depart.
| ment.
NAT ERR OF ARKANSAS
arrived to-day. He had nothing to say or
| politicsl matters, and will pass the mex
three weeks attending to routine depart
ment matters.
POSTAL
Star service discontinued from Kosciuskt
to Thrailkill, Miss.
PERSONAL.
I'D. Marks and wife of Memphis are a
the Riggs House.
H. L McCliDg, jr., of Knoxville, Tenn.
| arriuad tn-dnr
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Ger. H.ucock ar Ge.,ysburx,

G~ETTYsBuRa, Pa, November 1a-Al'
though the weather vas incle1nent, Gen.
Hancock, attended by Gen. Walker OF his
staff, historian of the Second Corps; Col,
Wilson, Maj. Miller, Col. Batchelder, gov
eminent historian Of the battlefield; Col.
Nicholson, recorder of the Grand Com
mandery Loyal Legion, and otherf, visited
the battlefield to-day. Gen. Hancock gave
particular attention 10 the positions of the
left center, where he commanded, identi-
flying every point of interest,
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did not produce two-thirds as much corn in 1880
as in 1860, that they produced but little more than
half as many sweet potatoes in 1880 as they did in
1850, and Just the same quantity of cotton. All
this, too, with the advantages of improved sgri-
cultural implements and machinery and fertil-
izers.
The Lesson taught by this is that there is some
fundamental defect in our labor. | am aware
that matters are improving since 1880. but that
Improvement will be found, on examination, to
be due to the increase Of white labor.
By the year 1900 all the trained negro labor Of
1850 and 1860 viii have passed away, and no sane
man need be told that the labor now.taking its
place is becoming more and more unreliable
every year. Ever since the late civil war was
ended l have anxiously looked for an influx of
that Industrious, energetic. Intelligent, thrifty
population from Norway, Sweden, Denmark,
Germany and France, which has so yitalized the
States north of the old Mason and Dixon's line.
with such a stream pouring down upon us, either
from Europe or from their descendants in the
North, the South would soon become the garden
agricultural region of the world.
Until we have an abundance of such population
the resources of this section of the Union will
never be developed. Respectfully.
j.. I. IRRELEVANT.
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Po.tomee Inspec.ion Service.

WASHINGTON, November 19.-From the
annual report OF Chief Inspector West oil
the Postofice Department, it appears that
$50 arrests were made by postofice inspec.
tors during the year. Convictions were
obtained in 179 cases in the United States
Court, in twenty four cases in the State
courts, and 232 persons arrested await trial
and the other cases were dismissed or moi
prosecuted. During the year 4s9 post,
offices we're robbed and 250 burned. Thirty.
three postal cars were destroyed by fire.
Complaints OF loss of mails to the number
of 1853 We're investigated, and actual loss
was found to have occurred in 500 cases
The inspector recovered S15,203 of missing
funds, and $4,000 was restored to the
owners. From Delinquent postmasters the
sum OF S5S,352 was recovered and turned
into the Treasury
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RAW MATERIAL AND MANUFACT
TRES

AS business is beginning to improve,
and as our railroad connections are ex-
tending, it would be we'll for our people
to turn attention to the subject of In
creasing manufactures in Memphis. As
our commerce increases from improving
trade and increased facilities of cOmmu-
nication, our wants increase, and in
proportion as those wants can be supplied
within the city itself, it grows prosperous
and wealthy by preserving within itself a
large portion of the profits arising from
the trade our railroads and the river
bring us. With the facilities We have
for inter-communicatioD, with the forests
and streams around us, aud the readiness
with which coal, iron, stone, marble and
other products can be brought here and
our W products carried away, we have a
central position that gives especial ad
vantages for our entering earnestly and
extensively into manufactures. To at
tain the eminencc that lies within it,
grasp, the South must manufacture fol-
itself. 1t is poor policy for it to sen(
away its raw material, of which it ha.
such abundance, and then buy from
others the manufactured articles o
which that material is the chief com
ponent. The Chattanooga TrodcSmon
in its last issue, speaking of the iroI
product of the South. well remarks
What the South much more urgentl
needs than places to market her pig-irol
abroad, is means of putting it in form
of utility for home consumers We wan
more rOlling-mills, foundries, macbin
shops, wagon-works, plow and vince
foundries, car-works, nail-mills, pipe
works, wire-works and so on. 1t is no
much to brag Of that we sell 100000 ton
to the East, and as much more to tn
Northwest of crude metal, and buy tn
most of it back, paying two lreights o
it and several profits to foreign ioundric'
millmen, wrought and cast pipe makers
stove manufacturers, pl0w-works an
other makers of agricultural implement
and machines"
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STABBED BY A BURGLAR.
A wOman's Experience with a House.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis, November I9.-John
Thompson, a desperate character, entered
he house of Mr.. P. Phillips at an early
hour Tuesday morning, and while ram
sacking the sleeping apartment of Mrs.
Phillips, aroused that lady, who gave a
slight scream. The fellow at once rushed
upon her and stabbed her Just above the
left breast, infiictiIg q slight wound. Mrs.
Phillips is a ssoutly built woman, and at
once grappled with the intruder, st the
same time shrieking for help. In the
struggle the roman was cut severely on
one hand and slightly on the other. The
noise awakened two little girls, who were
sleeping with their mother. They added
their voices to hers. On this, the man
turned and struck ~viciously at the elder,
just missing her temple. He then reached
over the bed and attacked the Younger
child, after which he turned and fed down
stairs. Mr.. Phillips met him there, but
did not succeed 10 stopping him. Thomp-
son then visited the residence of Mr.. Rufus
Davis and after knocking Mrs. Davis
down, decamped with what ne could find,
n made his way to the house OF a Mr..
Raul, where he attempted the same gsme.
Mr.. Kaul was at home, however, and after
q desperate struggle succeeded in over
towering Thompson, who ia now in Jail.
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Played the Mortgage Game

CHICAGO, November l9.-Wm. Walter,
a Riverdsle dairy farmer, is missing. Since
his departure -four mortgages on his prop.
erty and promissory notes sggregaling $50.
900 hava come to light. Each of the mort.
gagees thought that he held q first mort.
gage, and the holders of the other paper
felt well secured. Herman Heinbzugh
was the latest victim. He accepted what
proves to be a fourth mortgage for $1,000
The entire property is not worth more
than 5000. Efforts are being made to find
Walter, who, it is thought, has gone tc
Tnuo
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LOUISVILLE, KY, November ia stove
exploded in the City Hospital at 2:20
o'clock this afternoon, and started a FIRE in
the elevator way between the third and
fourth floor. The fire burned fisrcely, and
there was much excitement, as there were
many helpless patients in the adjoining
wards. These were, however, removed,
and the fire, which had been COMMUNE
Gated to the roof, was soon under control.
The loss will not be heavy. All the pa
tents escaned uuhur:.
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covered that a gang of forgers have been
swindling q number of hay dealers in
New York and New England by forged
bills of lading. The firm OF Don Leferre &
Co. of st. Johns, Quebec, have been in the
habit of shipping large quantities of hay to
the United States, and would draw on their
agents without any advice notes being
sent. 1t now sppears that within the last
few weeks forged bills of lading purporting
to be drawn by this firm, representing be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000, have been is
sued, accepted and Endorsed by their Bos-
ton and New York agents, and advances to
a large amount paid on them to the parties
uork inc tha suindlo
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smnunox I'm New York

NV YoRK, November 1.-Two cases
of smallpox wers found in the city yes
terday.
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TOLEDO, o November 19-Willism ELL
wood, tina noted burglar who successfully
worked many Western cities, and who was
recently brought here from New York and
committed to the county Jail, has been dis
covered eating soap. His fellow-prisoners
say that lie has eaten two cakes g day for a
month in order to reduce his weight and
give him q con=umptive appearance.
When searched, tobacco was found in his
e-mpits. Physicians say that this will re-
duce weight. Ellwood ia awaiting trial for
burglary and for shooting a policeman.
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The Reported Capture Or wiadin.

LONDON, November 19.-British Consul
Laseilles, who is at Belgrade and who
keeps Lord Salisbury informed Of every
thing that transpires in connection with
the war, makes no mention CT the capture
Of Widdin by the Servians. 1t is there
fore believed that the Bulgarians. still hold
Wi6din. 1t is noteworthy that almost all
the war accounts SO far have emanated
from Servian sources, the Servian authori-
ties forbidding war correspondents to &C.
company the Servian forces.
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81 Orm0n Arrested for Illegal Cohabita-

SALT LAKE, UTAH, November ia
special to the Tribune from franklin, Idaho,
dated November 18th, says: deputy Mar
shals Bennett, Greene and Stalker made .
raid here last night, and arrested Thomas
Lowe for illegal cohsbitation. After the
arrest a mob ~endeavored to rescue the
prisoner and to drive the msrshals from
town. During the melee which followed,
Robinson, one Of the ringlesders, was shot,
but managed to escape. J.. l.. Webster
and others were arrested, and will be
taken to Oxford for examination before
the United States Commissioner"
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Bra.a.Iy Assaulted Hts sister.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL November 19.-Quinn
Harrison, e grandson Of the Rev. Peter
Csrtright, a pioneer Methodist minister,
assaulted his sister, Mrs. a. Ely o. Chicago,
to-day, breaking one of her ribs and infict-
ing, it is feared, fatal injuries. Rarrison'e
father, one OF the richest farmers in Sanga-
attack grew out OF a dispute over the dead
mans property, the family not having been
able to find a will which they believed be
made. Harrison is held to await the re-
suit OF 1rs. Eiy's injuries.
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S~HERBRocKs, QuEBEc, November 10
Last night several bundled persons as.
sembled here with the avowed intention
| donald, but Lieut-Col. Ibbothon appeared
| on the scene and defied tie crowd to carry
out their design. Others came to his as
distance and they succeeded in putting Out
the fire. The disturbance soon became
known, and the Orapgemen, who were
then in their hall, appeared on the scene
and succeeded in carrying the rescued
efiigy to their hall, where it was followed
by the excited participants. Quiet was
not restored until midnight. Several ar.
rests were made.
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MURDERED HER CHILD.
A Mother Driven 40 Desperation by
Starvation and Want.

NEW YoRK, November ia poorly
clad woman, with two small children, pre-
scented herself at the Brooklyn Nursery
yesterday, and begged to be taken in, as
she and her children were in a starving
condition. She WAS admitted, and gave
the name of Mrs. Johnson. This morning,
when one Of the attendants looked into
Mrs. Johnson's room, she saw her in the
act of suffocating her eldest child. The
attendant seized her and took the pillows
from off the little one, who had become
unconscious. Doctors were sent for, who
restored the child to consciousness. Mrs
Johnson had stuffed the child's mouth
with rags, held her nose and plsced pill
lows over her head. The baby was lying
dead on the bed, having been suffocated
in the same way. Mrs. johnson is thought
to be out of her head.
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brought by Grove, the notorious body
snatcher, sgainst Dr.. Tyler, demonstration
of the Georgetown Medical College, to
recover on an account for anatomical
material" furnished the college, was de
cided in favor of the defendant yesterday.
Grove was asked whether he was the
owner of the anatomical material" He
refused to answer, and the justice decided
that he could not claim payment for prop
erty that he would not swear was his own
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yne por,,and aesurrectIon story.

New York, November ia spec;a, t2
the SUI from Portland, Me, says: Invee-
tigation OF the resurrection story tele-
grsphed hence last week has resulted in
the discovery that it is all a mistake.
Blanche Edwards, who told the story, has
made an inteyssting confession. She loyed
oue Charles Archibald, and tor some I'M
known reason he courted her under the
name of Joseph j. Dyer, the person said
to have died and returned from the grave.
1t seems she adhered to the story in her
own interest until concealment of the facts
was 60 longer possible, and so, after fabri-
eating the sensational narrative, was forced
at lssi to admit she inyente9 the story.
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The Uaised -tates aad Mexico.

ard, Secretary of State, and Mr.. Romero,
the Mexican Minister, are about to ex'
change the notifications of an additional.
article to the commercial treaty between
the United States and Mexico OF January
20, 1888, extending the time to May 20,
1886, for the approval Of TIE necessary
laws TO carry into effect the operations Of
tho sa;I oornpnorcial fraafu
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CHICAGO. Ill, November l9-About 500
short-horn. cattle breeders Of all pant OF
the country were in attendance at the fifth
annual meeting of their association last
night. An invitation from the Cattle
Growers Convention for the short-horn
breeders to connect themselves with that
organization was accepted, and the secre-
tary was instructed to forward the men,
bership fees for the entire body. 1t was
resolved to send representatives to the st.
Louis convention of the National Cattle
and HOrge-G Association on the 23d.
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NEW York, November 19.-The grand
jury of Monmouth county, N. J., recently
found ffty-thTee indictments against per
sons, who sold pools lsst summer on the
races at Monmouth Park. Yesterday Phil.
lip DAILY was fined $3.50 and costs, which
he paid. The judge win inf1ict the same
penalty in the other cases.
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The Brsx,I,an Counterfei,ers

special from Waco to the Neqvs says: In
the United States District Court Judge
Mccormick yesterday rendered an opinion
surrendering Joseph Fl. White, the alleged
Brs sDian counterfeiter, for trial at st.
Louis. The court declared in its opinion
that the evidence made Joseph II. the
principal, and that Lucius White ignor-
autly and blindly obeyed Joseph's instruc-
tons. Joseph will be removed to st.
Louis mex SATURDAY..
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GENERAL WASHINGTON NEWS

WASHINGTON, November 19.-The At
torney-Genersl has given an opinion to
the Secretary of the Treasury to the effect
that the Court of Commissioners of Ala
bama Claims is a legally constructed body
as at present organized. The opinion ap-
plies only to the appointments of the
judges, and does not touch on the general
question of the legality of the appoint
meut5 OF the other officers of the court,
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Presiden. Horihway,s Case,

CLEVELAND, o., November ia sensa-
ton was created here to-day when the
United States District Court referred the
case against the Hon. a. s.. Forthway, the
alleged embezzling president of the Jeffsr-
son (O.) National Bank to the Supreme
Court of the United States. There were
errors in the drafting OF the indictment
which made such a course necessary.
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Western Architects.

ST. LOUIS, Mo, November 19.-The
Western Association of Architects began
their second days session this morning
The president was authorized to appoint
committee consisting Of \ delegate from
each State not represented by a State ssso-
cia.ion TO organize State associations in
those States.
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FOREIGN

Growing Movement Ia Favor of Home
Rule in Ireland.
Cork, November 1S.-The, e is a grow
ing movement among young Protestant
men here in favor OF Home Rule. AT a
crowded meeting yesterday a manifesto
wss adopted which deprecates the decision
of the Loyalists to contest every Parnellite
district on the ground that such a course
will intensity the present irritation in Ire
the land laws in order TO enable farmers
and laborers to derive benefit therefrcm
and to develop the resources Of the couR-
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HAVANA, November I9.-The Governor.
General has been officially notified Of the
XII ling OF the three bandits-Mendc "a,
Roman Hernandez and Andres Yera-dur-
ing an encounter with Capt. Vargas and
six volunteers in tie woods of La Cienaga,
province of Santa Clara. One of the vel
unteers was so severely wounded in the
fight that he has since died.
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KiIIea NV His Nenheu
nThs lsDTOu: distilmen,, whose effect

The lepTous distilmelt, whose effect
Holds such an enmity with blood of N
That, swift as quicksilver, il courses through
Ihs natural gates and alleys of the body"
and causes the skin TO become ''barked
about. most lszar-like, with sile and loath-
some crust" Such are the effects of dis
eased and morbid bile, the only antidote
for which "a to cleanse and regulate the
liver-an Office admirably performed by
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discoyery,"
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Wonderful. Cure of Paralysis of the Mus.

MACON MEDICINE Co., MACON, GAL am, a car
pentgr by trade, snd for four months had been
deprived of work by reason OF a lame arm and
hand. The muscles of my arm refused to work,
and my fingers were so stiff that | could not
straighten them by forcs. Three weeks ago l pro-
cured from your company a supply of GUINN's
PIONEER BLOOD REVIEWER, and IN one week was
able TO resume my trad, and am now able to sup
port my family. 1t has been a godsend to me, and
/ believe wi be to all others suffering likewise.
Macon, Ga. JOHN A.
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astonishing
Thirty Years of RheamattsEn Relieved.
The Case of an Aged Man IA SeRrsl.

MACON MEDICINE Col have been a great suf-
ferer RON R~heumatisn foc the past thirty years,
and having been induced to try your VuGSS's
PIONEER BLOOD REVIEWER, have experienced grea II
relief after taking only six bottles of the Medi-
cine. This, considering my advanced age. being
row in my 18th year, proves the Medicine to be a
great and wonderful remedial agent. When |
commenced taking the Blood Remover, L could
not raise my arm, nor put on my coat, nor bend
my knees, now | can do all these things, and am
forced to exclaim-lt is the thing 1 long have
sought! WI.
Macon, Ga. At Guernsey's Store, Second st.