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SOUTHERN TENNESSEE SATURDAY, JAN n

after my business entirely. About
year age was advised by friend to
take Swift's Specific Is. S. S. With
the FIRST bottle my health began to i'm"
prove. The Swift's Specific drove out
the poisoned blood which the potash
mixtures had driven into my system.
| broke out in pimples and blotches
when the poison was coming out.
These soon passed away. The medi-
cine at once gave me new hope, my
spirits rose, my general health i'm
proved in every way. My digestion,
which had been so injured by the use
of the potash mixtures, was rapidly
improved by Swift's Specific, and for
the first time i'll years enjoyed my
food. My appetite increased, and |
continued to gain strength and flesh
until / weigh more than | haye in
forty years; and feel as hale and hearty
as did when | was boy. The Swift's
Specific has benefited me in every
way, and | know it has added several
years to my life. While lam 70 years
old, and therefore living on borrowed
time, | feel that new career is before
me. No amount of money could pur>
chase from me the. years that have
beer added to my life by this valuable
medicine. l hope you will publish
this that others, and particularly old
people, may know the value of this
remedy DR.. M. M. Carr, druggist,
and Messrs. Swift Bros, merchants, at
Elberton, know me well and are IA
miliar with my sickness, and the won>
derful relief have had from the use
Of Switt's Specific"
Our treatise on Blood and Skin Dis,
eases mailed free to applicants.
SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Drawer 3,
Atlanta, Ga. N. Y. Office, 159 w.
Odd st. Philadelphia Office, 1905
Chestnut street.
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st. Anthony's Fire.

Mr.. w. S. Jones, well>to.do far.
mer who lives four miles from Elber.
ton, Ga, is highly esteemed by all
who know him. He Is 73 years old,
and is conservative mans by no
means an enthusiast on any subject,
yet he says to reporter 81 amasat>
isfed that would not be alive today
had it not been for Swift's Specific.
About thirty years ago / broke out
with what the doctors called st. An
thongs Fire. Under medical treat.
ment | got temporary relief, but soon
the same disease or a similar one broke
out i'll more aggravated form. The
doctors gave it another name and
treated me so that the eruption disap.
peared for a time, but the effects of the
medicine were worse than the disease
itself (the effect of potash and mercury
mixtures is always bad), when shortly
atterward much worse type of the
same disease broke out. became sat
is6ed that the potash mixtures had
taken had merely driven the disease
further snto my system and blood
making almost wreck of me. l re
peatedly changed medical advisers; al
to no purpose. | continued to grow
worse and weaker. At regular inter
walls this dreadful skin disease would
break out afresh, each time in NOR,
Intensified form. For a year l wa
bedudden and had to give up looking
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-01-10
Judge Williams 'Possum Hunt.

Nashville World.
Speaking of 'possums," remarked
Col. ]. II. Moore, II and several
other boys once played the best joke
on Judge j. j. Williams, of WincheS-
ter. You know Judge Jack he is
distinguished, among othe things, for
having granted the injunction in the
100 3 suit?"
"Of course we know Judge Jack.
And who doesn't?"
"When several years younger than
| am now" continued Col. Moore, "a
company of us went one night on an
old>tashion possum hunt, but the pos
sum fate (perhaps you might say the
postum fat was not propitious, for af-
ter various false starts we caught moth
ing. We separated finally, Judge
Jack Williams going with one squad
and | with the another, and our squad
succeeded in catching little possum
about as big as your fist. l took the
infant industry and climbing a tree
tied his tail hard and fast to a limb,
head down having been in the navy,
was first>rate climber in those days.
When Judge Jack came up the pcssum
was pointed out to him. Getting his
gun ready, Now amt that just like a
possum,' smiled the Judge, 'to hang
himself by the tail But stand aside
boys, I'll bring him down.
Bang-bang--bangl But the pos
sum swung to and fro like pendulum,
and refused to come down.
He loaded and loaded and reloaded,
and fired away and again and again
until he had broken every bone in the
possum's body, and hardly left him an
inch of hide. We all expressed aston
ishment that any animal could hold on
after a dozen lives had been shot out
of him. 'Humph,' grunted Judge
Jack, that's nothing-Pve known a
possum to hang by the tail two hours
after death many time. I'll climb
up and knock the tail>holt loose.
Reaching the limb he saw through the
joke. But pshaw,' muttered the
Judge as he slipped to the ground, q
knew you boys were fOoling me all
along"
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Money of the World.

Southern Lumberman.
A statement just made by the direc-
tor of the minis gives some interesting
facts about the money circulation of
the world. 1t makes an interesting
showing, indicating, MS it does, that but
one country in the world has as much
money ip active circulation as this,
and that the average amount per head
of population in this country is nearly
two and a half times as great as
throughout the civilized world gener-
ally. In other words, the amount of
paper and metallic circulating medium
in this country is S1,745, 900, 000,, or
more than double the total amount in
great Britain and Ireland, though not
quite so much as France has, the total
there being $1,9O0,OOO,0OO. France
certainly has a wonderful ability to
make money and to keep it at home.
Not only has she paid her immense war
indemnity within the past few years,
but she has now larger amount of
money in circulation than any other
country in the world, and larger sum
per head of population. The average
amount of money in actual circulation
!, per head in France is $42. 55, while in
the United States it is but $24.16. Yet
as this is nearly two and half times
the average total for the civilized
world, it ought to be quite satisfactory.
The average for the world is about $40
per head of population. This does not
represent the amount of money value
distributed in property but the actual
amount of money in circulation in the
civilized world. The total in the thirty.
nine countries given in the table is
about $1O,OO0,O0O,OOO, though for
some inscrutable reason, China is omit.
ted from the list. Five countries have
a larger average of circulating medium
per head than this. They are France,
|
1926; Cuba, 1921; Cape of Good
Hope colony, $3.50; Belgium, $50. 40
Netherlands S26.27. In many Of
these cases, however, the amount Of
coin is quite small, and the paper
large. In France, however, the amount
of paper is smaller than the gold, anC
less than half of the gold and silver
, while in this country the amount O.
paper is more than the gold and silvel
together, The only countries hav
ing no gold circulation are Ceylon an(
: British India, having each a small
amount of paper and the remainde
silver. British India'has over 81, 900,
, 100000 of circulating medium in sill
yer, which, however, is only s4.10 pc
| head, while the paper is but 81 cent
' per head.
T. The total amount of circulating me
dunn in this country, whether in activ
e circulation or in banks and nationa
S treasures is $50. 40 per head a sum ii
: excess Of that per head by the popula
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-01-10
What a Missouri Father Found.

My name is Anthony Hunt. am
a drover, and live nine miles away
upon the Western prairie. There
wasn't a house in sight when | first
moved there, my wife and l, and
now we have not many neighbOrs,
though those we have are good
ones.
One day, about ten years ago, l
went away from home to sell about
fifty head of cattle. l was to buy
some groceries and dry-goods before
came back, and, above all, a doll
for our youngest, Dolly. She had
never had a store doll Of her own
only rag babiesI her mother made
her.
Dolly could talk nothing else, and
went down to the very gate to call
after me to get a big one. l found a
large one with eyes that would open
and shut when you pulled a wire,
and had lit wrapped up in paper
and tucked under my arm while l
had the parcels of calico and delaine
and tea and sugar put up. Then,
late as it was, | started for home.
Night set in before | was a mile
from town, and settled down as dark
as pitch while | was in the middle
of the darkest bit of road / know Of.
could have felt my way, though l
remembered it so well ; and when the
storm that been brewing broke and
pelted the rain in torrents, l was five
miles, or maybe six miles, from
home.
rode as fast as | could, but all of
a sudden / heard a little cry like a
child's voice. Pm not timid, but l
was known to be a drover, and to
have money about me. 1t might be
trap to catch me unawareS and rob
and murder me. | am not supersti-
tious, not very, but how could real
child be out on the prairie on such a
night at such an hour? But once
more l heard the cry, and said /:
"If any mans child is hereabouts,
Anthony Hunt is not the man to lei
it die"
Sure enough | found a little drip.
ping thing that moaned and sobbed
rs | took it in my arms. | called
my horse and the beast came to me
and | mounted and tucked the little
soaked thing under my coat as wei
as / could, promising to take il
home to mamma. 1t seemed ST
tired, and pretty soon cried itself tC
sleep on my bosom.
1t had slept there over an hOul
when | saw my own windows.
saw the room full Of neighbors, apC
my wife amid them weeping. WheI
she saw me she hid her face.
80, don't tell him." she cried. 81
will kill him."
"What is it, neighbors" | cried
Nothing now, | hope. What
that you have in your arm~
"a poor lost child" said | "
found it on the road. Take it, viii
you? T've turned faint" And
lifted the sleeping thing and saw tn
face of my own child, my Dolly.
1t was my own darling, and non
other, that l had picked up on tn
drenched road. My little child ha
wandered out to meet papa and tn
doll while mother was at work
and they were lamenting her as on
dead.
1t is not much of story, neigh
bors, but that's Dolly yonder wit
her mother in the meadow-a gil
worth saving, think.
ST AnthonvS Fira
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Catarrhal Throat Affections.

Hacking, irritating Coughs, Colds, Sore
Throat, cured by "Rough on Coughs"
TrOches, l5c. Liquid, Csc.
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Pretty Women.

Ladies who would retain freshness and
vivacity, don't fail to try "Wells Health
Remover"
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ton of any country except France.
There the total is $52.85 per head, In
Ceylon the paper circulation is 81
cents per head and the silver % cents.
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Rough on Pain, POrOused Plaster;

Strengthening, improved, the best for
backache, pains in chest or side, rheuma-
tism, neuralgia.
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Thin PeODle.

"Wells, Health Remover" restores health
and yigor, cures Dyspepsia, Headache,
Nervousness, Debility. 81.
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AS the bee gathers honey even
from poisonous flowers, so a good
man gains knowledge and even COM
fort from the most adverse circum-
stances.
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Life PreserVer.

If you are losing your grip on life, try
"Wells' Health Remover" Goes direct to
weak spots.
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Wide Awake

three or four hours every night coughing.
Get immediate relief and sound rest by
using Wells Trough on Coughs" Troches
loo. Balsam, Csc
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Rough on ToOthache.

Instant relief for Neuralgia, ToOthache,
Faceache, Ask for Trough on Toothache."
Is and % cents.
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Mothers.

If you are failing, broken, worn out and
nervous, use Wells Health Remover. 81.
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"ROugh Oh Coughs"

Ask for Trough on Coughs" for Coughs,
Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness. TrOches l5c,
T,inuid 05c
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-01-10

Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dizziness
Indigestion, Headache, Sleeplessness cured
"Wells' Health Remover"
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Rough on Itch.

"ROugh on Itch" cures humors, eruptions,
ring wCrm, letter. salt rheum, frosted feet,
chillblains.
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The Hope of the Nation.

Children, slow in development, puny,
scrawny, and delicate, use "Wells' Health
Remover"
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XhOOping Cough.

and the many Throat affections of children,
promptly, pleasantly and safely relieved by
Trough on Coughs" Troches, l5c, Balsam,
Zoe.
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"ROugh ON COrns.

Ask for Wells "Rough on COrns." loo.
Quick, complete cure. Hard or soft corns,
warts, buniOns.
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'ROugh on Pain PorOused Plaster.

Strengthening, improved, the best for
backache, pains in the chest or side, rheu-
matism, neuralgia.
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"ROugh on Rats"
Heart Pains.

Clears out rats, mice, reaches, flies, ants,
bed-bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. 15c.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-01-10

HII- Smithnight's Asthma and
OTnIm0 Hay Fever Remedy, Sold
HOIIIiIu under positive guaranty.
Sample Free. L. Smithnight, Cleveland,
Ohio. 50 6m
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DAILY AND WEEKLY.

A splendid SPACE family paper brim full of
news. Latest dispatches by telegraph to
hour of going to press from all parts of the
world.
The farmer wants it for its weekly reviews
of the Nashville home market aud crop re-
ports, and price forhis products.
The merchant wants it for its telegraphic
quotations of the eastern and foreign mar.
kets.
The politician wants it for its full reports
of proceedings of Congress and Tennessee
Legislature, and political news and editorials.
The wife wants it for its household de-
partment, fashion articles, society gossip
and miscellaneous reading.
The children want il for its short stories
and sketches and general information, fur
nishing a liberal education.
Everybody wants it because there is no
better paper and no cheaper paper in the
South, and it can get to you quicker with
the latest news than any Otherpaper, if your
postoffice is in Tennessee, Southern Ken
lucky, North Alabama or Georgia.
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TERMS

An extra copy sent free with every club
of ten subscribers. Address,
THE AMERICAN,
Nashville, Tenn.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-05
AGlorious EVENING.

Last evening the exercises of the conven-
ton were brought to close by social
gathering at the Ryan, the management of
which was under the care of the st. Paul
people. A mighty social time it proved, too,
before the guests went home. A platform
had been built in the rotunda near the main
stair case, and the Great Western band fur
nished music at intervals during all the
evening. There were probably about 800
people present during the evening, about
every delegate who was in the city was
present, and considerable number of st.
Paul gentlemen, not members of the con-
vention, came in during the evening to pay
their respects to the governor and other dis
tinguished gentlemen who did the honors.
A good-siZed committee of introduction,
with blue badges, looked after the line that
filed up to shake hands with the acting
hosts. These were Gov. Hubbard, Mayor
Rice and Ex-Govs. Ramsey and Marshall,
who stood in one of the parlors for couple
of hours and to whom nearly the entire list
of those present were introduced. The ey-
ercises from the start were wholly informal,
and the longer they lasted the more in
formal they grew. The affair was generally
spoken of as a
''sTAND AROUND BANQUET WITH WINES, !"
and it was about draw game whether the
stand around or the wines had the best of it,
and still gaining by II o'clock.
The tables in the dining room, which had
not been given up to the regular supper
the guests taking this in the ordinary
were arrayed in the form Of
a hollow square extending the
whole length of the dining room, and
the guests were admitted to this room
shortly after 6 o'clock. The tables were
loaded with cold dishes, and squad Of
walters were On hand to draw the corks Of
champagne bottles.
1t is very seldom that gathering made
of such distinguished guests assemblies
around one common board, and it is very
seldom, too, that any one crowd gets away
with as much champagne as did this same
crowd. 1t was one of the wettest
times that ever occ urred in the
| Northwest. They drank champagne out Of
large goblets, and the popping of corks was
as when bunch Of fire crackers is set off.
Everything went.
| Shortly before 10 o'clock the speech-mak-
| ing began, and though the majority of those
who spoke had withstood the attacks OF the
bibulous god, the large proportion of the
hearers had not fought him so coyly as to
be critical in their appreciation of what was
said. 1t only needed one call of ''Donnelly''
from City Attorney Murray, to
bring a dozen more requests,
and in three minutes the sage Of Nininger
was on table, within the hollow squall,
making speech. 1t would be incorrect to
say that he was listened to with attention.
He was not. And yet it was apparent that
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with very white moustache and a very
red face moved that everything be laid on
the table until the convention
had heard from Gen. Crooks
and Gen. Walker" The motion
was taken by the chair as laying Mr.. DON
nelly on the table. 1t prevailed and the
convention was failure from Nininger
point of view. While this was going on
Mr.. Cole of Faribault, thinking he would
sit on Mr.. Donnelly some more, attempted
to burlesque him by moving that the con-
vention approve the revised edition of the
Old Testament.
The Chair-That motion is not necessary,
as the chair takes it for granted that no
member has read the revised edition.
Mr. Donnelly-There is one text, in it
we approve, however, and that is, "the
OK knoweth his owner, and the ass his
masters crib"
Mr.. Cole did not join in the burst of
hilarity that followed this sally.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-05
To Take it to Congress.

The delegates from the various states
held meetings Immediately ON the adjourn
ment of the convention and elected COM
mittees, in accordance with the resolution
of the convention, before lay the action of
the convention to congress. The following
were selected from the different states:
Minnesota-Hon. J. S. Pillsbury, Hon. NJ.
Fl. Dunnen.
Wisconsin-Hon. W. T. Price, Joseph Ran
kin.
Illinois-Hon. L. B. Ray, w. J. Hines.
Missouri-Henry G. Haarstick, Edward Fl.
Allen.
Kansas-Dr. John Arthur, Wyandotte;
Capt. o. e. Clifford, Clay Centre
Montana-Hon. Martin Maginnis, Hon.
John S. Tooker.
Dakota-D. NJ. Inman, Vermillion; John D.
Benton, Fargo.
Nebraska-John NJ. Thurston, E. NJ. Cor
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what he said was appreciated, for there
were sometimes great bursts Of applause,
that made things rattle. Mr.. Donnelly
paid glowing tribute to the state in which
he lived, and extended greeting to all
present. He closed by making the motion
of which the privilege had been denied him
in the convention that the committee be
discharged
ID. G. Plummer of Dakota next mounted
the table, and was introduced as the
squatter governor Of Dakota. He, too,
spoke Of the territory in which he lived, and
waxed very eloquently over it's growth and
resources. He favored transportation by
water, and said because the railroads had
been largely the means of building up tha
Northwest they should not insist on
L SYSTEMATICALLY ROBBING 1T.
COL Crooks spoke next, urging the i'm
portance OF 1mpressing on the representa-
t1veS IN congress the action of the conven-
ton, which he believed had been success.
He was followed by Mr.. Chase of Omaha.
who said in opening that IF the spirit of
Demosthenes should come down from
heaven this crowd would not listen to him.'i
The general lay Of land about the speaker
indicated that he was correct, for there
were no less than fifty distinguished gentle.
men trying to sing and laugh at once, while
wanted the next river convention, and if il
came there Nebraska would send 700 dele
gates.
DR.. Murphy then occupied the time while
several OF the younger of those present went
out on a Skirmish for Mart Maginnis. Mr.,
Maglnnls made a most flowing speech,
picturing in lurid coIors the glor-
les of Montana and it's possibilities.
He characterized his territory as land
whose rock-ribbed hills, pointing their
handicapped heads beyond the Jagged
clouds, teemed with rills of gold A land
where the Genius of America would make
her nome, and in the coming vistas sit upon
the lofty peaks that lift their heads into
the azure sky, and in the light of sunset
from the golden shore drink inspiration
from the eternal God.
Senator Sabin was forced to mount the
table, and, while the crowd cheered. he
emphasized Mr.. Durant's invitation to visit
Saltwater to-day. AS he climbed down
three cheers were given for ''Minnesota's
chief"
MI. McClung, as the organizer of the con-
vention, made short speech in which he
said he was satisfied with it's results, and
he was followed by Fl. L. Gordon, who
spoke for Minneapolis. He said the two
cities are no longer separate, they are one,
les" said Mr. McClung, '.and St. Paul
is the one."
Hon. E. W. Durant spoke briefly, after
Which an attempt was made to induce Hon.
M. Fry of Florida to speak, but he posi-
lively declined. There were one or two
other speakers among the number being
Lieut.. Gov. Gilman. The guests, however,
mad begun to go away and the exercises
were brought to close half hour before
midnight.
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The Nrinnesota NremoriaI.

The following memorial was included in
the papers submitted by Col Crooks, and is
practically recapitulation of all the papers
so submitted and ordered printed:
We, the people inhabiting the upper Missis-
sippi and Missouri river valleys, in conven-
tion assembled, do most earnestly petition
the congress of the United States, when as
sembled, at the earliest possible moment, to
consider and act:upon this our memorial, in
reference to the waterways.
These two valleys comprise the states of
Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,
Wisconsin, Minnesota and the terrific ries of
Dakota and Montana, containing an aggre-
gate area of 744,s0S square mile, or one
fourth of the area of all the states and terri
tories outside of Alaska; that the population
of these states and territories, by the census
of 1880, was 10, $50, ,970, and now approximates
14.000,000, or one-fourth of the people OF this
country; that this people are devoted princi-
pally to agriculture, mining, stock raising
and numbering, producing the following ag-
gregates;
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Convention Notes.

Minneapolis delegates were PARTICULAR!
happy after the resolutions had passed thu
convention, owing to the recognition of thu
river below st. Anthony falls. Said ont
of them: ''We got all we asked and more
too. Gov. Pillsbury must have understood
his business in the committee room. 1t il
lucky that st. Anthony falls was recog,
nized or all Minneapolis would have jumpeS
on Judge Atwater for his remarks to thu
ST. Paul gentleman, that were quoted in
their meeting the other day."
During the interim yesterday mornings
while the convention was awaiting the re-
port of the committee on credentials, thS
Minnesota delegation seized the opportunity
to fortify its already impregnabie frontiet
by securing the admission Of two more