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a Gigantic Octopus Captured.

It was known for some wees at pola,
on the Dalmation coc:S.ztt, that & large poly
pus (0:ttcp;i, sssiyarts) infested the neighbor-
ing waters, so that bathcrS had to be very
careful. \ few days ago some fishermen
succeeded in capturing the monster in the
Gulf of Mcdolino. He weighed 900 !.;Io
grams, or nearly $50 poraE.-b0nae1
Times.
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Fashion Notes for October.

Every thing japanese and East Indian is
in fashion.
Royal red" note paper, OF 9 very bril-
liant hue, is used By fashioaables, but IS IN
very bad taste.
Dude collars for young ladies are higher
than ever; they are not generally becoming.
This autumn al the browns are to shade
to yellow rather than rcd, which has so
long been fashionable.
Sash pins. and slides are made an eighth
of yard wide. They are dainty for chii-
dren.
Skirts Of crocheted silk are worn o:er
surah Of acontraSting color. This makes
work for busy fingers.
Birds wirgs and feathers ere used in
grea1 variety, although it vas hoped ihat
popular feeling was opposed 10 the slaugl-
Ter of he'ineccenss.
The class of furni!ilre NOS: in favor at
prcsca; IS the English and Colonial style OF
$50 years sgo.-Gocleys Log EgqA.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-09-29

Two VERY Ugly YwNs.-Tlicy 60
hand in hand, and lead their victim a
terrible trot down into the valley OF the
shadow Of death. One is neuralgia, the
o.Ler rheumatism. These generally pro-
coed from disordered blood. Browns
IRON Bitters ai.o:o,i...a ort these ugly twins
bv setting the blood arigilu sna i,lyisoc-
ating the system. Mr. ~ 4: Osborne,
Of CoXyille, !A.la, used Browns Iron Bit
ters tor rheumatism and neuralgia Wit:
most happy effect. It also cures tiys-
p:psia.
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AeEs. ese gsGsagSFEELD,S
E'9Il2I8 Regulator. .

THIS famous remedy most happily meets
liar and mu!:rfurm atllictions. 1t is a
remedy for WOMAN ONLY, and for one
SPECIAL CLASS OF diseases. 1t is q
specific fer certain diseased conditions Of
the wo!nb, and proposes 10 so control the
Menstrual Function - to regulate all the
arrangements a!lG Irregularities OF Wo-
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yyails rh re is Life There is Eope.

Many of :he diseases Of this season
OF the year can be averted by q small
amount OF care and 1T little cost, by
the timely use OF EWBANN,s TOPAZ
CINCiIoNA CORDIAL.
i cures Diarrhea, DyseEtcrv, Chol-
era AorGus and like complaints. No
t'Gre{cr should ue without q bottle, as
it viii prevent any disease that would
no doubt arise from the change Of
wafer, focd AID climate, without lis
use. Tic most valuable medicine in
the world, cout2:as a, the best and
most curative properties CT all other
Tonics, Bittcrs, etc, etc, being the
greatest Blood Purifier, Liver Resula-
ior and Lie and Health-RcStoring
Agent III existence. For Malaria,
Feyor and Ague, Chills AND Fever,
Dyspepsia, indigestion, Sick lead
ache, Nervous Headache, Chronic
Rheumatism, etc, ETC., It IS truly u
Lie:cule2n Remedy. 1t giTes new Life
and vigor TO the aged. For ladies Ii
delicate health, weak and sickly chill
dren, nursing mothers. See circulars
wrapped with bottle.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-09-29

Get pictures i you can. Nothing is
more melancholy, particularly to-; person
who las to pass much time il A:s .ooE.
than blank walls and no:bing o.! t.cm, for
pictures are lcop!io!c, u: escape io- the
soul. leading i to other scene and either
spheres. Ii is >Ich an iHcXprcssijlc rc!!cl
10 some persons engaged in writing. or
cvca reading. on ing Up. not 20 have
lis line OF vision stopped short by- al eiiiou%
bare wall, but 20 ind lis soul escaping, ;iS
it We're through i::e frame OF III exquisite
picture to other beautiful ;i:!a perhaps :dy!-
lie scenes, where the fancy OF 4 moment
may rcvel, refreshed and delighted.
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PEACE INSTITUTE
FOR YOUNG LADIES,
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA.

THE EALL TERM COMMENCES on
I the first Wednesday Of September,
1886, and closes corresponding time in June
following. Advantages for instruction in
all the branches, usually taught in fist
class Seminaries for Young Ladies, unsur-
passed. Building heated by steam, and in
every way o. &c equipment, etc, equal to
a".y IL she South. \ full corps of First
Glass Teachers engaged for session COM
mencing in September. Terms as reaScn-
able as any other institution Offering same
advantages. Correspondence solicited
For catalogue, contrasting fu!l particulars
as &C tupA.>, e;G-, a%tlreS;
REV. r. BJkWELL & son,
Augl1L3m Principals, Raleigh, y. C.
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The difference between the two famous
Fictorias is that one is sovereign while the
other is but q Schilling.
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Ca..1EsroS, S. c., Sept. /, 1885.


II. 3. EwgANx, ESQ, President of
The Topaz Cinchona Cordial Co.,
Spartanbrrg, S. c.: Dear Sir-l have
used : case Of your Topaz Cordial in
my family, AL as Tonic and Appe-
tizer can cheerfuiig recommend j, 10
eli who are suffering from Debility
and lack of appetite. Ny children,
especially, have aeen much benefited
b. IS use. EespectIu,,:,
HUTsox LEI,
Ask you, asugsist for EwgASK's
TOPAZ CIScHoSA tos2IAL and take
no other.
The TOPAZ CISciIoNA CORDIAL Co.;
Spartanbarg, S. c., Z. 5. y.
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n equal and none excel.

About 5000 Of the new one dollar silver
certificates, finished with the exception CT
the seal, which is printed in the Treasury
building, were delivered yesterday. Mere
will follow soon, and the handsome notes
will soon be in circulation. The plates for
the twos are not yet ready, and il is not
probable that any certificates Of that dc
nomination will be seen before the middle
OF October.
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\ Meadville, Pa. man Claims 10 lia"cTc-
discovered the secret Of tenlncriGg copper.
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In 1886 William Buckets, Of Holland,
saltod the first barrel of Eerrings, and now
his grateful countrymcn are about to cele-
brate the fifth century Of his simple vet
memorable discovery. But England long
since did honor to lis memory Charles
Y had statue erected to the herring saltcr
who became tie bcnefactor of his country.
Queen Mary Of Hungary. however, paid
him even greater honor During her resi-
dence in Holland she discovered his tCnlb.
and, seated upcn 1t, &c 4 saltcd harring
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Joe Jefferson, the grea. comedian, is coz
fined to his room ct the hotel iG ST. Paul,
Mimi, with sickness, and IS consequence
he failed to fill his engagements in That
city. For nearly 10 years he has played 10
delighted audiences; season after season Ec
essayed his various roles and never missed
an engagement urtil compelled tc do so
last week by illness. This is ii record that
few cHn oCuol ond Mono ryral
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Suffering Woman!

physician wj:osc speciality was WOMAN.
and whose IalTc hrcanc cITia5Ic and
Dount,irss because CT his wonderful sue
cess in Tie treatment and cure of female
complaints THE REGULATOR is the
GRANDEST REMEDY known, and rich
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Lately, in Tchcr;in, the ladies' sent q dep
utation to the Shah Of Persia complaining
of the cafes, on the ground that their aus
bands stayed in them too long. and that
family life was as consequence being dc
stroyed. Next day. by order Of his Mujcs
ty, every cafe in his kingdom was clcscd.
So much for patriarch&l monarch.
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There is q negro revival in progress at
Greer's Station. twenty niles from Spar
tarburg, on the Atlanta and Charlotte Rail
way. On the night Of the 10Th, when the
north bound passengert train passed through.
determination to cheat the road out OF a
ride. Conductor Mooney, in Charge OF the
train, had some trouble in ejcc;ins them.
When the train had made 4 start, afte. :he
negroes had been rnt OF. some onc in Tie
crowd fired 4 shot into tic back door of the
sleeper, but no enc was hurt. The railroad
aushorities are vrry quiet about the affair,
hoping 10 bag the whole gang.
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Secretary Bayard has appointed SeVel!on
Brown a jury Of one to have aUSol;,to cen.
troll over all press communications to the
public from his department Brown is an
inheritance from the grand old party,
whose subservent tool he has been fer a
dozen years. lie made himself chicay.
conspicuous as lackey for Blaine while
Secretary of State Brown will be of great
service to bis old Republican friends in this
new capacitv.-Neto Tord; World
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Precious Boon of Health.

FrccIONS Boon Of Aealths
It will relieve you Of nearly all tn. COM
plants peculiar To yorr sex. Rely upon it
as your Sa:esua~! ior health. happiness
and lcng lii2.
Sel:! ny all druggists. Send for our
treatisc or the Health and Happiness of
Woman, mailed free, which gives all par
ticularS.
TIE 2EADfIELD REGULATOR Co.,
Box IS, Atlanta, Ga.
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encounter.

nrcc brothers named Morgan were
drowned while bathing in the Chattanooga
river Saturday, near Chattanooga. Ono
was seized with cramps and the other two
went 10 Lis assistance, when all three went
down.
james Howe, founder Of the Now York
Spirit Of tic Times, died in Lafayette, Ind,
yesterday in his S0th year. Horace Gree
ley was employed by him on his paper as
printer, and they formed an intimate ac.
qualnlanee.
Governor Ir. land, of Texas, received nc
tice Tuesday that the attorney for the ARE.
surcs family had forwarded for his ap-
p7oval papers claiming $500, indemnity
from the Mexican government for the brutal
murder Of Arresures
Adviccs from M4ndalay state that at the
opoGins OF relief house there the rush to
obtain food was so great that II persons
were trampled to death Six thousand per-
sons who were ruined by the recent flood
were supplied with food.
Philadelphia wome;. aud girls employed
in :ha houacilold are agitating the question
OF q union with the Knights of Labor, so as
to increase ticir rights, convenicnccs and
privileges. They want fewer hours, greater
pay and more beauX.
Elementary education is now defined il
England as includi2G a,gebra, euclid, me
charics, chemistry, physics, physiology,
botany, sound, light, heat. magnetism,
electricity, Latin, French, German and He
brew. Alas. the poor children, what wise
acres they will be.
At the last pigeon race II II.anlon 800
bids were dispatched from Westminster
bridge Tor Brussels, and in less than two
minutes al but four were out of sight.
Although a storm delayed the birds, the
,rigr;n5 bird arrived il ) hours II minutes,
being an average OF thirty rallea per hour.
The Dutch Parliament was opened yes
.cr,lay. The speech from the Throne pro-
gounccd Holland $.forcign relations cordial,
tiNa2c@s satisfactory, requiring no increase
ID taXatioHs, the harvest good and the cat
tlc OF the country healthy.
II the grain field of c. H. Huffman, near
Nerced Cal, on Monday, the harvester
,'.ivingwhccl struck 4 boulder, producing
>;:lrsS which SCI fire to the standing grain.
.iboUt 2lO acres Of wheat, $50 acres Of
.rr.iss and 80 acres Of stubJle were burned.
4 band of 33S2 Warm Spring and Chircu-
hua Indians, bucks, sQuaws and papooses,
from the San Carlos reservation, arriycd
Sunday night in Jacksonville, Fla, guarded
~ two companies Of United States troops.
They left Immediately for St. Augustine,
where they will be placed on reservation.
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The Boston Gl0ba ssys that whatever VIC
have to endure OF business iethargy and IL
dus'rial disturbance is traccabla 10 The
malevo!cnt policy Of England and Germany
in seeking 10 force The rest Of the world 10
. gold standard, and thus, by wipins out
silver as an equal medium of exchange., 10
contract values, double national and al,
other debts; and rob the millions who labor
TO enrich the few thousands Ylo thrive by
usury.
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The Auburn On. ~ Axle Works.
which ere moving to Wl1kesbarre, Pa.
win employ about one thousand men.
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NOAH WEBSTER.

Dlmculties He Experienced in Securing
the Publication OF His Dictionary.
Lent B. Merriam, of the firm of
Hart, Merriam e. Co., of this city, has
in his possession an autograph letter
from Noah Webster, of which we give
q copy herewith. He has also. which
is very rare. an uncut set of two vol
umes of the original edition of Web
ster's Dictionary. The letter is as fol-
lows:
LONDON, April z, 1S25.-Dear Sir.
have been trying for some weeks to
find purchaser of my dictionary, but
without success One bookseller de-
clines without giving any reasons. an
other has too much capital embarked
in other publications to permit him to
undertake mine. and third says ex-
plicitly he is too much engaged in
Todd's, Johnson's and the Encyclope-
dia Metropolitana. know not what
shall ultimately do. The work is too
heavy for me to publish at my own ex-
pense, and besides an author should
never be his own publisher. 1 will
take upon myself part of an impress
sion and carry the books to the United
States. provided can get some book
seller or booksellers to take the remand
er. The gentlemen who have examined
q portion of the manuscript think well
ofit-and one bookseller says explicitly
the work will maintain its ground. But
how to get it published, do not know.
l may yet be compelled to quit En-
gland without being able to lay the
work before the public.
Please to make my respects to your
good lady, to the Mcssrs. Fosters, Mr..
Mandall, Mr.. Thaday, Mr.. Musgraye.
etc. / shall always remember them
and all my friends in Cambridge with
great kindness.
/ am, dear sir, with much esteem and
respect, your obedient servant.
N. WEBSTER.
No. New Ormond street, Queens
Square.
To w. G. ASHTON. Esq.
Hartford C0urant,
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/ have for two seasons practiced the
following plan for handling celery pre-
paratory for winter keeping: | take =
ball of strong cotton wick, and gather
ing up the stalks of the end plant of a
row. tie the wick around it. Then with
out cutting the wick, take turn around
the stalks Of the next and each succeed
ing plant without tying, and so con-
tinue till the ball is used up. When
the end Of the wick is reached either
tie it to the end of another ball Of wick,
or secure it around the plant. When
the celery is taken up the wick can be
unwound and preserved for future use.
To me this plan has been moro effectn-
ii in keeping the stalk together. and
easier to follow, than that of pulling
earth to the plant. Cor. Gdrdener's
Xonkkly. Z
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CHINESE sLowNEss.

Their Lingering and Pronounced Indispo-
sitlon to Welcome Foreigners.
That China did not receive Europeans
at first with much eagerness is scarcely
to be wondered at, nor is it strange
that she still at times shows desire to
revert to her former state of isolation.
China produces in abundance all that
its people require; the Chinese are of
an eminently conservative turn of
mind, and for some three thousand
years they had got on tolerably well
without us. Dynasties had been over
thrown and revolutions often at
tempted; Emperors had passed away
by the score, and rebellions past mum.
Der had swept over the face of the
country, but still their old institutions,
their moral codes. their language and
their habits of thought had scarcely
been affected all through the centuries.
All at once they found the European
trader obtruding himself with his 60,
ahead notions of material progress. and
saw looming up in the distance visions
of the steam engine, the electric tele-
graph and all the other accompani-
ments of modern civilization, All these
things Jared sorely with their ideas of
philosophic life. Confucius. who
lived five hundred years before Christ,
and whose teachings and precepts
form the Chinese Bible, held worldly
advancement of little account and
sought to attain rather the moral than
the material elevation of mankind.
Even now few Chinese will admit that
the European stan dard of morality is
equal to their own.
Christianity they consider to be
good enough religion in as far as, like
Buddhism and other native cults. it
teaches men to do good, but they can,
not see that in practice it has made
much impression upon the nations of;
Europe. Their own country has seldom
waged an offensive war. while all Eu-
rope appears to them an armed en-.
campment. England prides herself
upon her religion and her big ships of
war; France sends her missionaries far,
into the interior, and her torpedo boats
cruise round the coast and sink all the
unoffending junks that come in their
way. This is, of course, the unfavora-
BILE side of European character as it
presents itself to the ordinary China
man. He does not. however, fail to
discern our good as well as our bad
points. Though he does not altogether
accept our ideas of progress. still he is
willing to adopt some of our inven-
tons. Steamers are rapidly supplant-
ing the clumsy junks, and one very
large and fourishing line is entirely
supported by native capital and con-
Quoted by native talent.-Nineteenth
Century.
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horizon. The hoarse crow of q cock
sounded from farm-yard below. AT
last!'' said the poor beast, who only
waited for the daylight to die; and sha
stretched herself out on the ground in
her beautiful white fur that was all
dabbled with blood. Then the wolf
threw. himself upon the little goat and
ate her up.
Goodbye, Gringoire. The story l
have just told you is not tale of my
own invention. If you ever come to
Provence our householders will often
speak to you of ''the goat of Monsieur
Seguin. who fought all night long with
the wolf, and in the morning the wolf
devoured her."
You understand, Gringoire? "And
in the morning the wolf devoured her. !"
IN O. Times Democrat Translation
from the French.
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THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

1T is estimated that Is, 900. 900 pairs
of boots and shoes are annually manu-
featured in prisons.--M y, San.
Paper roofs. because oftheir light
ness and other advantages are recon-
mended by the Manufacturers Gazette
rs being superior to slate.
The total amount of track laid in
the United States from. January to
September l. 1886, is B. ATS miles, d.
yided between 1853 lines. During the
whole of 1885 only 3,131 miles were
built.-N Y. Post
-Rutland's marble quarries give
employment to more than 5000 men,
who were paid 81. 200, 600 last year,
when over 1900, 900 cubic feet of mar
BILE was produced. More than Sc, 000,-
600 is invested. Rutland Herald.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen is divided into 1856 lodges. To-
Gated in all parts of the United States
and in Canada and Mexico, and has q
total membership Of seventeen thou
sand Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Dure Car Company's Works
in Wilmington, DEL, have been sold to
the Pullman Car Company for S45, 900.
The Pullman Company intends making
its new shops the eastern headquarters
for repairs. and new work will also be
done there.-N. Y. Tribune.
Hired girls get very low wages in
Canada, judging from recent sermon
of a Kingston preacher, in which he
pleaded for more pay for domestics.
saying that many girls work hard,
early and late. for three dollars q
month, when they should receive ten
dollars.
Straw will soon be used for build
ing purposes. 1t is claimed that straw
NAV be closely pressed into bales 14x16
inches, or of any size desired, and the
bales be used for building walls. The
walls can be plastered over, or be ar
ranged to suit the convenience of tho
huilder.-Trou Times.
"A mammoth well is being dug On
Breaker Island, near Albany. N. Y. It
is over twenty feet in diameter and will
be sunk below the bed of the river a
distance of several hundred feet, so that
the water will be of the purest quality
that can be secured. About four mil
lion gallons will be consumed on the
island every day when the blast fur
naces are in operation. albany Jour.
nal.
The New York Lumber Trade Jour
nal predicts that cherry will hold its
own and continue to be favorite cabi-
net and finishing wood because there is
so little good cherry left; it will not have
a chance of becoming too common.
There is none worth mentioning north
of Pennsylvania. and in that State its
owners know its value. There is a good
deal left in West Virginia, Kentucky,
Tennessee. and North Carolina. but most
of it is where it will cost great deal to
get it to market.
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CARL DuNDER.

He Invests in . Chestnut Bell and Meets =
Blood-Thirsty Stranger.
''Well, what is it now?" queried Ser
geant Bendal at the Woodbridge street
station yesterday, as the old man Dun
der slipped softly in.
'.vhell, l like to hat you gaze on
me-"
Certainly. You've got black eye.
. puffed-up nose and other proofs of
being knocked down by a five-story
building"
my frendt you vhas wrong. Do
you know vhas dis article vhasp'T
II do. Those are the remains of .
'cheatnut' bell. /"
s'Shust so, Sergeant. Shake comea
to me der odder day and says: Fad
der. you must get some shesnut bell
and pin on your west. Eaferybody
who vhas sharp has q shestnut bell.
nnd when somebody says it vhas a hot
day he rings dot bell und vhalks off,
Well, Shake has one. und all der boys
hat one. und so / buys me a shestnut
bell"
II begin to see."
II practice awhile init der oldt
womans. If she says it vhas hot or
cold, or if she WANTS money or calls
me to get some coal. rings dot bell
on her. BY und by goes up to der
city hall to see II my taxes vhase due.
| meet man who says he likes to 90
oafe rto Canada by der ferry und rings
dot bell on him. y
1T was good joke
''Vhell, / dunno. If somebody calls
you names und knocks you down vhas
dot shoker He broke my headt und
my shestnut bell, und doan' get oudt
for three days. Say. Sergeant
yes"
II goes home TO ring dot bell on INV
son Shake. Ivhas going to feed him
shestnuts until he dOan' shoke me anv
more for twenty years, but he vhas
gone. S0mepody told him how come
oudt NIT dot stranger, und he doan'
like to see me. May be you see him.
If you do tell him to come home. Tell
him we let shestnuts 90 und begin an
oafer again. - Detroit Free Press. ;
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Prof. Forel Of Morges, in the Canton
of vaud, has discovered natural gal
lery which goes right across the lower
portion Of the glacier Of Aroila, in the
EringerthaE IN the valais. II consti-
tutes natural grotto in the heart Of the
glacier. and was explored to . distance
Of $50 metres (273 yards) by the pro-
lessor and some fellow members of the
Swiss Alpiae Club from Geneva, Neu-
chatel and the Canton of Vaud. The
average width was from six to ten
metres. broadening out here and there
to fully twenty-five metres; the height
varied from, two to three metres. At
the spot whore the party stopped, the
cavern divided into two galleries, the
exploration Of which they reserved for
another time. The glacier was found
to rest direct on the ground Berver
Bund.