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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

D. L. MOODY. the revivalist, is about 10
begin work in the South.
FRED DOUGLASS and wife are attracting
much attertion in England.
SIMON CAMERON is the only survivor OF
the Senate Of Folks Administration.
ADIRONDACK MURRAY has swung around
the circle and is back in Boston again, not as
a Clergyman, but US reader.
IT is announced that ex-Empress Eugene
will spend the coming winter IN Malta. der
health is said to be declining.
MICHAEL DAvITT, tho Home Rule leader,
has started a fund to build boats for suffer-
ing fishermen on the coast OF Ireland.
TIE weak minded King Otto of Bavaria is
still kept in confinement. He asks tor news
papers occasionally, but throws them away
without reading.
JOHN TYLER COOPER, the anti-Prohibi-
zionist candidate for Mayor of Atlanta, is
grandson of both President Tyler and James
t'enimore Cooper.
CIVIL SSERvIcE COMMISSIONER OBERLY
] garb, and at homo he is known famillarly
among his friends as The Bishop"
ALAKAUA, King of the Sandwich Islands,
celebrates his fifteth birthday on Nov. 10th
He has offered valuable prizes to winners Oh
Yacht 10 es from San Francisco to Honolulu.
The White House is enlivened by the pres.
ence of little child May Cadman, cousin
of Mrs. Cleveland, is attending one of the
public s:hools of Washington and living at
the Executive Mansion.
GENERAL JOHN C.. Fremont is seventy
four years old, but is said to look young
enough to pass for a man Of sixty. he lives
in commodiolrs house near the British
Legation in Washington.
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Floating Island.

The phenomenon of floating islands is
produced by accumulations Of drift
wood, among which drifting sands and
cart collect and form soil, in which
plans take root and flourish. In lake
of Fast Prussia such islands have an ex-
tent sufficient to pasture 100 cattle; and
in Lake ko,m, near Osnabruck, is float
ing island bearing many fine elms. Masses
of this nature arc detached from the
great crafts" of some American rivers,
and reach these through the Missls,
s'ppi. Such islands from the Gangcs
have been found 1G0 miles from land.
They ure abundant in South American
rivers, carrying great var;e y OF animal
and vegetable life, in the distribution OF
which-espccia ly by conveying large
species of the South Pacific Islands
they may have played vc:y important
pant. Remarkable tlo ating islands are
found in the Malay archipelago. In
Mexico the pri tive Aztecs formed arti-
fetal ones, reaching a length of 200 or
300 feet, upon which fine flower and
vegetable gardens were cultivated.
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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The colored vote in this country NUM-
bers about ], 900, 600 ballots.

The colored vote in this country num-
bers about 10000 ballots.
The Emperor Caligulus had costly
pearl collar made for his horse.
Painting in oil was not discovered
until 1850. Before this the colors were
mixed with kind of glue.
The stranger in Pekin is at first most
struck with the river life. 1t is calcu-
lated that $500 people live in boats.
Half century ago in Turkey it was
considered shame for woman to read.
To- day two schools for girls in Constan-
tinoplc have been established by the
Sultan himself.
The ancient Roman boys carried case
divided into several compartments Tor
holding their books, writing materials
and other II, cessaries for school. 1t was
called loculus.
On James Groves farm, few miles
north of Yankton, ID. T., large lake,
we'll stocked with fish, appeared in one
night. Several acres of land, in the CEN
tire OF which were grain and hay stacks,
sank several feet and water filed the
hollow.
A committee of Partisan doctors has
challenged Succi, the Italian faster, TO
fast forty days in Wrench hospital for
stake of 81, 900, on condition that he re-
vcals the secret of his elixir, for which q
patent is guaranteed, and that the ex-
pertinent be repeated by two other per-
sons.
When the D mes invaded East Anglia
in the ninth century. King Edmund was
taken prisoner, and led before the hea-
then chiefs. They offered him his life
and liberty if lie would give up Chris
tianity and r.ign under them. He re-
fused. "Cannot we kill you2" they
cried "Cannot I die!" answered he.
So they bound him to tree and shot
him to death with arrows.
The statue of tine Emperor Marcus
Aurelius, which has been standing in tho
piazza in front of the Capitol at Rome,
has been taken in out of the weather, to
which it has been exposed for 1,5OC
years without il ,ury. 1t is now IN the
capitol museum, and copy of it stands
where it stood in the piazza. The En-
peror for long time had position In
front of the Church of st. John Lateran,
where it was SUI p ,sed to be the portrait
of Constantine, the first Christian En-,
pcror. This mistake doubtless saved the
Statue from destruction through the mid
die ages, when the anti-pagan zeal of the
people caused the demolition of almost
every visible statue of ancient god OF
hero,
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

BARTHoLDIS statue of liberty is lighted
by 30, 600 candle power.
AN underground railway system is being
projected in Philadelphia.
VIENNA, with its 100000 souls, hasn't a
single free public library.
IT will cost William K. Vanderbilt $500 i
month to run his new steam yacht.
MORE than 20o,O 900 veterans have visited
Gettysburg during the last three years.
A TWO HEADED, earless and eyeleSs pig is
much talked-of wonder of McHairy, Tenn.
FoRTY-rwo new ice factories have been
started in the south during the past nine
mouths.
THERE are in the employ of this govern
ment $50 Smiths, $50 Browns, $50 JohnSons
and go Joneses
The King of Holland heats his Amsterdam
palace with base-burning coal stoves OF
American make.
SEVENTEEN missionaries were on a recent
Saturday shipped from Boston to India by
the Baptist Missionary Society.
GERMANY has ordered the construction of
1000 railway carriages, and they are mag
ined to be for military purposes
Mrs. RgBFccA TITUS, mother Of the man
recently convicted of killing Tillie Smith at
Hackettstown, n. j., has become inSine.
WILLIAM KEARNE, of Bethel, Penn, who
is the father of twenty-eight children, re-
Gently celebrated his ninety-secoud birthday.
THERE isan artesian well 200 feet deep in
Aberdeen, Neb., that throws out numbers Of
fish that look like the ordinary brook min
now.
TrtERE are at present $50 men employed
in the various departments at the Brooklyn
navy yard, the largest number in several
years.
lr cost fashionable lady who was sojourn-
ing ut Saratoga last summer $500 for doc
tors bills for attendance on pet dog, which
was taken sick.
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Rapidity of Prairie Fires.

A prairie fire that originated on the
line between Hughes and Sully counties.
Dakota, about noon some OF the time
Travelled at the rate of twenty miles an
hour before fierce southern gale. A
farmer who had put off his shoes saw it
ap; arently two miles distant. and before
he could clothe his feet the flames were
upon his fields, and all he could do with
the utmost Ea,te was TO get as many of
the horses and household goods as pos
sible upon garden patch covered with
green vegetation, whittier his family had
fed, and see his houses, stables and over
twenty sta ks OF hay and grain burn,
without the power to save anything. In
seven hours it had crossed six town.
shil 8, and by midnight twelve hours it
had gone seventy miles against every ef-
fort to check it. 1t passed over por-
tions of about thirty towns hips. In its
devastating course it did not probably
find the grass over twelve inches high in
any cont nuous tract of twenty acres.
Plowcd fire guards from ten to thirty
three feet wide were leared, roads Of
fered no obstruction to it, while the
drought that had prevailed for months
made the beds of streams its most dam
gerous allies. Three OF these fires de-
nudrd the counties of two thirds of the
range for cattle, and swept away prop
erty the value Of which can hardly be
guessed. The infammable character of
the grass is such that fire d C; not end
with the destruction of the crop. The
file destroys the very roots of the grass,
parches and burns the soil and leaves it
in no condition to bear a crop the sue
cccding year.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MIR. MYRoN WHITNEY, the favorite singer
las bought fine home at Watertown, Mass.
MRS. KENDAL, the leading actress of Eng
land, is said to pride herself on her homeli-
ness.
In December Emma Abbott will dedicate
the s75,UOO Opera House at San Antonla,
Texas.
HERR WAcHrEL, the once famous German
tenor, is suffering from enlargement OF the
heart and dropSy.
THE Violet Cameron English combination,
including the manager, Lord Lonsdale, mas
not been success in New York.
NINE MINNIE HAUK refused to sing at Ne
brasaa City recently on account of the dnap-
idated condition Of the opera house.
WILSON BARRETT, the English actor, has
been successful iu his presentation OF "Claud'
IAN at the Star Theatre, New York.
ALFRED J. MUTT, the nurse who attended
John Mccullough, is shortly to play "Rirhe-
lieun in au amatenr entertainment In fhlla'
deli hia.
A DISPATCH from London states tht.t
Madame Christine Nilsson is seriously i'll
with bronchitis. Her concert tour has been
abandoned.
NILE. RHEA introduces in new play OF
hers, called The Widow" q pug dog done up
in mourning to correspond with her own as
sumed weeds
MISS HELEN DAUvRAY has captured the
theatre-goers of Philadelphia with her lnl-
personation of Kate Shipley III lone or Our
Girls which she is playing there to crowded
and fashionable hous.s.
THE annual cost Of maintaining the two
royal theatres at Berlin is one million dol
lars. Nearly one-fifth Of this sum is annually
contributed by the Emperor. All the men,
bers of tbe German royal family pay for
their boxes.
HENRI RocHEFoRT's new drama, "a
Daughter Of Ireland" was performed at the
Standard Theatre in New York, the other
night. The general opinion seems to be that
the play is "unutterably bad and superlative
ly ridiculous"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-11-10
Life In India.

A writer on India states that in winter
the climate is pleasant-somcthing like
n tolerably hot English summer. But in
summer the one object of life is to keep
cool. The best means of cftecting this
is with the punkaa-a short curtain hung
on rods fixed through the wall. A man
sitting outside pulls string attached to
these rods, and thus keeps up q breeze
night and day. Travelling is generally
done at night. Everybody gets up early
and does his work before the heat be-
comes too great. Servants are so cheap
that most families have half-a-do en- of
them. Earthquakes are not uncommon.
Night is constantly made hideous by the
bowling of jackals. An Indian lady
does not make much m re fuss on dis
covering a snake in her room than a
European lady does when she sees q
mouse. The Government reward for every
snake killed has induced some of tho ma
tives to start snake breeding establish
ments as q good source Of income. Wild
animals TO. day rare v approach inhabited
places in the day time, though at night
they arc apt to prowl about favorite
walks. The best protection against them
is light. They cannot understand it. A
man may saf,ly pass through jungle
with all sorts of animals lurking about,
provided he has lantern in his hand.
The boldest will not attack him then.
Tigers have become so rare in some parts
that the shooting of one is considered
sufficiently interesting to be noted in the
papers. Some animals are very tame,
being held sacred. Pigeons are in some
streets numerous enough to darken the
air. In the towr on the sacred Ganges
River the bathing pl,ces are crowded
every morning, superstition, not the de-
sire for cleanliness, Icing the motive
power. Formerly dead bodies were
thrown in the sacred river, causing dead
ly diseases. The Government tdict for
bidding this ha, caus:d much grum-
bling.
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AN INDIAN FIGHT.
Sanguinary Battle Between Sioux
ana Crows.

Sanguinary Battle Between Sioux
and Crows.
The following patti 'uiars regarding the
fight on the Crow Reservation, in Montana,
between n party OF Crow and Sioux
Indians in Which five of the
Indians wee killed and soalped. have been
reported: The expedition left thu Yankton
Agency n short time a,e with the avowed
intention of rnili,ig t:,c Crow camp Oh the
Little Rosebud. Coucca.iug their horses
in a ravinr, they wc:t iuto the timber
to recounoitrc lheit horses were found
by the Crows aud identified. A
search was made and resulted in the kill
ing of two Sioux aG'l three Grows and the
wounliug OF three OF the later. The re-
maiuipg Sioux escaped 10 Fort Custer and
reported the fight. The Grows hal q war
dance over tlr. dead lr"licI o. the Sioux,
shot their holieS full of holes. and cut
of the h al Of one with an axe. The report
says the Grows are putting on laint and are
preparing for war. IL is purely m Indian
quarrel and not dang, lnnS t, whites.
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A CITY IN ASHES.
The Greater Part of Farmincton,
Me-, Destroyed.

The Greater Part of Pennington,
Me-, Destroyed.
A fire which ragged steadily for twelve
hours has destroyed the principal part of
Pennington, Ne. A recapitulation of the
losses is as follows: Thrty-thr dwelling
houses, nineteen stores, taree churches,
two hotels, two news paper Offices (the
Chronicle and the .JournuD, three law.
yers' Offices two insurance Offices, the coun-
ty Jail, Town house and postoaice, one saw
ings bank, one art studio, bakery, plow
factory, the Municipal Court room and a
blacksmith shop. The loss is estimated at
more than a quarter of q million dollars.
The insurance is not large.
Pennington is the terminus Of the Maine
Central and southern terminus Of the Sandy
River Railroad. 1t is about ninety-five
miles from Portland. 1t was settled about
l716, and incorporated a town February l.,
1874. 1t has a population of 3,::iijj3. 1t is
the seat of the Western State Normal
School. the Wendell Institute and Little
Blue School
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For long time we steadily refused to pub
lish Testimonials, believing that, in the opinion
of the public generally. the great majority
were manufactured to order by unprincipled
parties as means Of d:sposing Of their worth
less preparations.
That this view of the case is to . certain ex-
tent true, there can be no doubt.
At last, several years agot we came to the
conclusion that every intelligent person can
readily discriminate between spurious and
bona fldc testimonials, and determined to use
as advertisements a few Of the many hundreds
Of unsolicited certificates In our posses
sion.
possible in the exact language used by our cor
respondents, only changing the phraaeoogy,
smaller space than they would otherw .se occu-
py, but without in the least exaggeratingor or de-
stroying the meaning Of the writer's.
Weare glad to say that our final conclusion
was a correct one-that q letter recommending
an article having true merit finds favor with
The original Of every testimonial published
by us Is on file In our office, an inspection OF
% "a tS on the raes
are given Us they appear therein, is true.
But as IL would be very inconyenfent II not
impossible, for all of our friends to call on US
for that purpose, we invite those who doubt
III there be such), to correspond with any Of
The parties whose names are signed to our tes-
timonials, and ask them II we have made any,
misstatemeuts, so far as their knowledge cx-
tends, in this article. In other words, If We
have not published their letters as nearly YER
batim as possible.
Very respectfully,
L. T. HAZELTINE,
Proprietor Piso's Cure for Consumption
and Pizo's Remedy for Catar:h.
We append o recent letter, which came to
us entirely unsolicited, with permission to
publish it: ,o,,
You may add my testimony as 10 the merits
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about rs many physicians prescriptions
Piso's Cure for Consumption has never failed
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AnoflInr Life On Nnd

Mrs. Harriet Cummings OF Cincinnati, Ohio, writes
early last win:er my daughter was attacked with
severe cold which Sc tiled on her lungs. We tried
several medicines. Of which &C. mel to do hel
any geod but she continued to get worse, and nEaly
raised large amounts CT blood from her lungs We
called in family physician, but he failed to do hel
any good. At this TIME friend who had been cured
by DR.. WM. HALLS BALsAM FOR TIE LuSes, advised
to give It trial. We got bottle and she began
to improve and by the Of three bottles was en-
tirelY cured.n
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A naturalist has satisfied himself
beyond a doubt that the average cat
travels distance of eighty miles every
night. Then it must be the other cat
that sits on the back fence several hours
every night, loudly complaining of the
high taxes or something.
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Lieut. David Brainard. one of the six
survivors of the Arctic expedition, says
he expects to start on another search al
Ter the North Pole in the spring of 1890.
The money to defray the cost of the cy-
pedition will be contributed by private
individuals.
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A ST. THOMAS tCanada> veterinary surgeon
RECENTLY null d the unsound touth Of dog
The dog "a: up in n chair and acted very
human. opening his mouth readily: yelling
when the doctor pulled. and fainting dead
AWAY when The tooth came out.
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JUSTICE STANLEY MATTHEWS delivered
the memorial address at the final burial OF
the remains Of Chief Justice Chase, which
have just been conveyed from Washington te
Columbus, Ohio.
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Mr.. F. Rentschler. San Frsnc:sco, Cal, con-
tractcd n severe cold. and became so hoarse
he could not SPEAK. He tried number OF
remedies without benefit, and even the efforts
Of two physicians failed TO give the slightest
relief He was induced to try Red Star Cough
Cure, one bottle of which entirely cured him.
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ONE of the curious features of the fruit cul
ture along the Hudson this fall is that ripe
Strawberries were gathered at thirteen diff.
ferent points between Marlborough and
Catskill
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Two bulls met in an Arkansas town and
fought so tiercely that no one could separate
them. The duellastcd one hour and forty min.
utes, and then one fell. over dead.
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For producing a vigorous growth of hair up
ON bald heads, use Halls Hair Remover.
Every druggist will recommend Ayers Ague
Cure for IL IL warranted to cure.
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The fa;nlyof Hon. w. B. Hoke, Judge Of the
jefferson County, Ky, Court, use st. Jacobs
Oil will signnl SncceSS.
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Stop that cough, that tickling in the throat
op that Coasumptive Condition!
You can be cured, You can't afford to wait!
Dr.. kilmer's Cough Cure Consumption Oil
will do it quickly and permanently. p cents
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LYONS Patent Metallic Heel Stiffeners Keep
new boots and shoes from running over. Sold
by shoe and hardware dealers.
8 months treatment for Soc. Pisos Rene
dy for Catarrh. Sold by druggists.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1886-10-20
Representative Convention.

At the Union Representative con-
vention, held this evening in the
parlor of the Mansard House, A. j
Simmons, of Alpena, was chosen chair
man and G. E. Strunk, sec'y.
Opinions were called for and given
by most of the gentlemen present
A. j. Simmons, David Bruneau, A.
II. Gaffhey, VIM. Henry, all of Al
pena w. III. Millar, DR.. j. Robinson
and f. A. Baldwin, of this city-after
which it was moved, supported and
carried that Frank A. Baldwin, of
this city, be the unanimous nominee for
Representative in the State Lcgisla-
ture for this the Alpena district.
Mr.. Baldwin accepted the nomina-
ton in a few appropriate remarks,
and said that he was going to win,
and We think he will.
A. j. Simmons was elected per-
manent chairman Of the Democratic
Representative committee, and F. A.
Baldwin and +. j. Putnam, members.
VIM. Henry was chosen permanent
chairman of the Greenback Represen-
tative committee, and w. H. Millar
and p. M. Beckett, members.
There being no further business to
transact. convention adjourned sine
die.-Gaylord Independent.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1886-10-20

Every Democrat should make an
especial effort to see that James Nc
Namara receives large majority for
the Office of Prosecuting Attorney.
The Democrats and Grcenbackers
owe him their cordial support for the
sacrifice he made to them, when, at
the earnest requests of the Fusion
party, he accepted the nomination for
State Senator two years ago. The
district was then about 1000 Rcpub-
lican majority, and no person but
Mr.. Mcnamara could be found who
would lead the Fusion forces. The
magnificent canvass make by Mr..
Mcnamara is well known, but proved
costly for him. The little sum of
money he had saved to pay his ex-
penses at the university, was used
up, and to enable him to complete
his education he was obliged to borrow
money from a relative. That expense
and trouble was placed upon him by
the Fusionists, and now the time has
come when they can repay the debt.
He is well qualified to fill the Office
of Prosecuting Attorney. Give him
warm support. Mr.. Mcnamara
has been a citizen of this county for
the last six years.