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White House Autograph Hunters.

Every day the visitor at the White
House may see pile of letters upon the
desk of one of the private secretaries with
the abbreviation "auto." written upon
each envelope. It means that they con-
tain requests for autographs. Thousands
of these letters are received at the White
House in year.
Those that come now contain not only
q request for the Presidents autograph.
but some of them for that of his bride.
The latter requests are seldom complied
with, for, while the President has
thought it proper to yield to the demand
for accurate portraits of Mrs. Cleveland
and has consented to their sale under
certain restri tions, it has not been
thought advisable to encourage the pub
lie in a miscellaneous demand for auto
graphs. The President continues, how
ever, to give few minutes occasionally
to gratifying the requests Of the many
applicants for this class of favors.
Charles Letter, the Presidents usher, is
the autograph hunters friend. The let
ter; are turned over to him, and when
he can ca ch the President with mo-
ment of time 10 spare he lays bundle Of
cards b fore him, and he writes "Grover
Cleveland, Grover Cleveland, Grover
Cleveland" until his arm gets tired or
his her and more important duties
take his attention. Then Charles takes
the precious autographs and distributes
them by mail to the applicants. Often
there are personal applications by the
owners of autograph albums, and they
are generally directed to leave them with
harley. who presents them at the same
time he does the cards for the Presidents
sign manual Washington Letter.
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A Undue Wheat Deal.

Ira Hclmes has the reputation of being
the biggest trader on smallest margins
in the West. II have often had 9, 500
shares of stock for Ira," said a b: oker to
the writer yesterday, "with only $1,000
margins, and always came out whole. !"
Holmes is the man who made $780,
off $3.50 in ninety days. AS that is about
as rapid aggregation as is ever heard OF
his method oug ght to be made public. 1t
was Handy's wheat deal when Ira was
broke. He took $3.50 check to John
T. Lester and bought 25, 900 bushels Of
wheat. I don't suppose that Lester
would have bought 25, 900 bushels with
only cent margin for everybody; but
it is part of the courtesy of the life
that a great trader who pays in thou.
sands in commissions, when in bad luck
is entitled to attention on the thinnest
possible margins. Just as soon as the
price of that wheat advanced 14c. a
bushel Holmes took down his original
margin, gave Lester stop order at &c.
from the market, took the check to an.
other house, and bought $4,000 bushels
more wheat. That $3.50 check, it Is
said, went through twenty different
houses, the same procedure being fol-
lowed in every case. Wheat kept on
advancing. That was where Holmes
was lucky. There we're no halts and no
breaks. At each half-cent advance he
had 1000 more wheat bought. There
were, perhaps, few cases where he was
frozen out. That was to be expected.
After the price had gotten up FIVE cents
he had credit enough to double up. That
is the way Ira I'o,mes made S250,00O
out of a $3.50 cheek. 1t would have
made him famous if he had not been
famous before. Chicago Mail.
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LATER NEWS.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, Private Secretary
Lamont, and Secretaries Bayard and Whit
ney were the guests of Governor Hill at AL
bany on the ed. The President reviewed
the parade in honor of the city's 200th birth
day, took part in the bicentennial exercises
later on, and in the evening attended the cit
liens reception given in his honor at the
Capitol. Late at night he departed for Wash
ington.
THE Vermont Prohibitionists have nomi-
mated complete State ticket, headed by
Prof. H. NJ. Seely for Governor.
LEGAL resistance to the boycott has begun
in Massachusetts,, a Salem firm of boot and
shoe manufacturers having decided to prose-
cute the Knights Of Labor on the ground Of
conspiracy, etc.
SAMUEL 6. SMELLING, for twenty seven
years Treasurer Of the Lowell Bleachery
Corporation, a large and wealthy Boston m
Germ, has been removed, ire yuaritieS in his
accounts amounting to anywhere from 81 o.
010 to $500, 900 having been dis :overel. The
company can stand the loss, but has tenn
porari'y suspended paymen
A CALL has been issued for a National
Anti-Saloon Republican Conference to take
place in Chicago on ,ptember Is.
The emigrants who arrived in the United
States during June numbered 44,G43; in the
twelve months ended on June 81, 32S,9l7.
CANADA now has Cardinal, Archbishop
Taschereau having been in tailed into that
high Office of the Catholic Church on the 21st
at Quebec, with imposing civic and religious
ceremon 'es. A long procession and immelse
crowds were features Of the occasion.
AsIArIC cholera is extending in Itlly.
MASSACHUSETTS Knights Of Labor, at
their convention in Worcester, voted to sus-
tain the policy of Mr.. Powderly as opposed
to the faction favorable to combination
with trades unions
AN explosion of combustible malt dust in
George Ehrets big brewery, New York, re-
suited in a fire and damage Of about $40, 600.
THE feeling in favor of private retaliation
if our Government fails to grant public re-
taliatory measures in the fishery disputes
with Canada is increasing at Portland, Me-
GENERAL LOGAN left Washington on the
23d in a special car to attend the National
Encampment of the Grand Army of the Re-
public at San Francisco.
RICHARD, the four-year-old son of Captain
Simeon Tufts, of Long Beach, N. B., deliber-
ately threw the ten-months old child Of Enos
Scrat of bridge into running brook,
where the little fellow was drowned
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E1ectricity in Executions.

A Paris letter to the Boston Transcript
saws: At an execution which took place
few days since at Versailles the head
of the culprit escaped from the hands of
the executioner, who had seized it i'm
nediately after the fall of the steel tri-
angle, and rolled some distance on the
platform. The incident has been made
a great deal of in the press, and medi-
cal man has expressed in all seriousness
the opinion that the lead might have
Jumped out of the executioner's hands
by a nervous movement. The unpleas
ant occurrence has emboldened NJ. Char
ton to stir up public interest in his bill,
which is getting very dusty in one of the
pigeonholes of the Senate. In this bill
NJ. Charlton proposes TO abolish the use
of the guillotine and substitute for it an
electrical appara us. He is one o! those
who believe that it is the duty of society,
so long as it ad. ercs to the practice of
capital punishment, to divest executions
as far as possible of their revolving char
rcter and to take advantage of any SCI
cntifc discovery tending to minimize the
suffering of the condemned. He admits
that the guillotine was a great improve
ment on The older and crueller ways OF
putting criminals to death, but with the
advance of scientific knowledge it has,
in its turn, become balbarous engine.
He maintains that recent experiments
made upon the heads of the guillotined
have thrown considerable doubt upon the
opinion that has long prevailed to the
effect that the individual loses the power
Of sensation Immediately that his head is
severed from his body, and cites the au-
thority of scient fic men to show thot the
most instantaneous agent of death ID un-
doubtedly electricity. He therefore pro-
poses that instead of the guillotine an
electric apparatus shall be used, so con-
structed that the condemned person can
be made to st:nd on plaque represent
ing one pole of the machine, and that
when in this position suspended
plaque representing the other po!e shall
be allowed to descend until it touches
his head. The current beng united by
the medium of the culprit, the life prin-
ciple will be instantaneously annihl-
lated.
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The Pastor and the Leaden Pellet.

The Rev. E. Wells, pastor of the Bap-
tist Church at Mount Carroll, was
wounded in the left check at the battle
of Gettysburg by what he supposed to
be spent ball. Two teeth were knocked
out. The wound appeared 80 slight that
he did not have it examined by surgeon.
About month ago he felt pain in the
region of his old wound and went to q
dentist for relief. The dentist removed
the bullet, which had remained in the
wound and the presence of which had
never been suspected by Mr.. Wells
Chicago Neps.
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Hints to Consumptfyes.

Hints to Consumptfves.
Consumptives should use food as nourishing
as can be had, and In a shape that will best
agree with the stomach and taste of the pa
tient.
o ut-door exercise Is earnestly recommended.
If you arc unable to take such exercise on
horseback or on foot, that should furnish no
excuse for shutting yourself indoors, but you
should take exercise in a carriage, or in some
other way bring yourself in contact with the
open air.
Medicines which cause expectoration must
be avoided. For five hundred years ply
sicians have tried to cure Consumption by
u.ing them, and have failed. Where there Is
great arrangement Of the secretions, with
engagement Of air-cells, there is always
profuse expectoration. Now Piso's Cure re-
moves the engagement and the arrangement
Of the secretions, and consequently tand In
this way only diminishes the amount Of mat
ter eIpectorated. This medicine does not dry
ap cough, but removes the cause Of it.
When 1t Is impossible from debility or other
causes to exercise freely in the open air, apart
ments occupied by the patient should be so
ventilated as to ensure the constant accession
Of fresh air in abundance.
The surface of the body should be sponged
and a little soft-soap, CThis is preferable to
any other) After thoroughly drying, use
friction with the hand moistened with oil,
Cod.Liver or Olive Is the best. This keeps the
pores Of the skin in soft, pliable condition,
which contributes materially to the unloading
of waste matter from the system through this
organ. You will please recollecs we cure this
disease by enabling the organs Of the sys.em
to perform their functions in n rmal way,
or, in other words, we remove obstruction,
while the recuperative powers of the system
cure the disease.
We will here say word in regard to a cough
In the forming stage, where there is no con-
stitutional or noticeable disease. A cough
may or may not foreshadow serious evil; take
1t in its midest form, to say the least il is Q
nuisance, and should be abated.
A cough is unlike any other symptom OF dis
ease. It stands q conspirator. with threaten
ing voice, menacing the health and existence
of vital organ. Its first approach is in whis-
pers unintelligible, and at first too often un-
needed, but in time it never fails to ma itself
understood-never fails to claim the attention
Of those on whom it calls.
II you have a cough without disease OF the
lungs or serious constitutional isturbance, so
much the better, as a few do es Of Piso's Cure
will be all you may need, while II you re far
advanced in Consumption, several bottles may
be required to effect a permanent cure.
STRA1aHTEN your old boots and shoes with
Lyons Heel Stiffeners, and wear them again.
3 months treatment for 50c. Piso's Rene
dy for Catarrh. Sold by druggists.
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Tine Battle Of the Choir.
Half a bar, half a bar,
Half n hor onwordI

Half a bar, half a bar,
Half q bar onward
Into ali awful ditch,
Choir and preoentor hitch;
Into a mess of pitch,
They led the Old Hundred.
Trebles to right of them,
Tenors to left Of them,
Bases in front OF them,
Believe and thundered.
Oh, that precentor's look
When the sopranos took
Their own time and hook,
From the Old Hundred
Dire the precentor's glare,
Flashed his pitchfork in air.
Sounding fresh keys to bear
Out the Old Hundred.
Swiftly he turned his back,
Grabbed his hat off the rack,
Then from the screaming pack
Himself he sundered.
Oh! the wild howls they wrought
Quite to the end they fought!
Some time they sang, but not
Not the Old Hundred.
-Christian at Worh.
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16STH DAY.-The Speaker laid before the
House communication from the Secretary
of the Civil Service Commission in reply to
q resolution of the House calling for informa-
ton as to the authority for appointments to
tho civil service from the District Of Colum-
bia in excess of its proportion Referred....
The House then resumed the consideration Of
the conference report on the Legislative Ap-
preparation bill. and it was agreed to. thus
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PARIS is cleared Of rats by her municipal
council offering a premium for their skins.
Two years ago the premium was about 50 per
1000, in order to get the city cleared Of these
pests The skins when collected are sold to
glove makers for four cents each, and 10000
inc kid" gloves last year.
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This widely celebrated institution, located
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A leading citizen of Hagerstown, Md, Mr..
George W. Harris, had suffered for some time
with facial neuralgia and toothache, whom he
tried st. Jacobs Oil. He says: 1T gave me
instantaneous relief, and 1 consider 1t Won
derful remedy"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-08-04

THE recently discovered milestone mine
near Buffalo Gap, Dakota, is one Of the most
important and promising finds of the year.
The home rock is Of superior quality. SpecI-
mems have been sent to the principal hard
ware dealers Of the East, and such replies as
have been received are of the most encourag'
ing character.
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THE Government loses 81 900 600 year in Il
smuggling OF opium.
A Cure of Pnou IN onin.

Mr., D. II. Barnaby, Of Owego, N. Y, says
that his daughter was taken with violent
cold which terminated with pneumonia, and
all the best physicians gave the case up and
said she could live but q few hours at most. She
was in this condition when friend recomend-
al DIR. WIN. HALLS BAISAN FOR THE LUNGS,
Rid advised her to try it. She accepted it as
q lust resort, and was surprised to find that it
PRODUCED marked change for the better, and
BY persevering permanent cure was effected.
fhe purest, sweetest and best Cod Liver Oh
in the world, manufactured from fresh, healthy
iiyers. upon the seashore. It ts absolutely pure
and sweet Patients who have once taken it
prefer it to all others. Physicians have de-
cided 1t superior to any of tho other oils in
market. Made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New
York.
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Prof. Chas. P. Williams, Phi. D., of Philadel-
pfia, says there Is neither morphia, opium nor
minerals in Red Star Cough Cure. Price,
twenty-five cents a bottle.
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A BUFFALO herd at Stony Mountain, Man
itoba, now consists of eighteen bulls, twenty,
five cows and eighteen calves. 1t was started
with one bull and four heiferR
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No trouble to swallow DR.. Pierce's pellets.

THE discovery has been made that beetle,
common in Southern Europe. is a neyer-failing
antidote in cases of hydrophobia.
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5LorH makes all things difficult, but indus
try all easy; and he that rises late must trot
all day, and scarce oyertake his business at
night; while Laziness travels 80 slowly that
Poverty soon overtakes him.
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R.R.R.' '''s'|; '''{I g.,

In from one to twent, minutes, never falls to ~
ter how violent or eIcruciating the pain the Rheu
matte. Bedridden. Innrm, Crippled, Nervous, Ne1t
WHY'S READY RELIEF will AFFORD instant ease.
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Halls Hair Remover Is cooling to the scalp
and cures all itching eruptions.
For ague, bilious, intermittent, freak bone
and swamp fevers, use Ayers Agne Cure.
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. DR.. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" Is not
e1tolled as "cure-all" but admirably full
fills singleness Of purpose, being a most po-
tent specific in those chronic weaknesses Pc
culiar to women.
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THE TRUE RELIEF,

RAILWAYS READY RELIEF is the only remedial
agent in vogue that will instantly stop pain. Il In
stantly relieves and soon cures Headache. whether
sick or nervous, Toothache Neuralgia. Nervousness
and Sleeplessness rheumatism, Lumbago Paias
and Weakness in the Back, Spine or z dneys, Pains
around the Liver, Pleurisy. Swelling of the Joint1
sprains Bruises. Bites Of Insects and Palms of al
kinds, RAILWAYS READY RELIEF will AFFORD I'm
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THE area sown in wheat in Manitoba this
year is $50, 900 acres, which, it is estimated,
win produce II, ,250, 900 bushels of grain.
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THE SKIN.
DR.. RADWAY'S PILLS

Tho Great Liver and Stomach Ren3dy =
For the cure OF all disorders Of the Stomach Hvee,,
Appetite, Headache, Cosiveness, Indigestion, Bl
tousness, Fever, Inflammation Of the Bowels. Piles
y veg table, containing no mercury, minerals o.
deleterious drugs 9ff
Price rs cents per box. Sold by al druggists. S
CO., No. 80 Warren Street, Now York, fof
false and True" ~.
'..BE SURE TO GET RADwAYS.
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Hereafter English soldiers will not be
allowed to smoke in the streets in day
time.
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An Express Train Wrecked.

The other afternoon the Boston Express
on the New Haven road, which left New York
at IL A. N. and reached Bridgeport,
Conn, at 12:40 p. NJ, ran into O gravel
train OF fifteen heavily loaded cars
upon which a large number of Italian
laborerS were riding, instantly killing two
and seriously woundiug six others. There is
but one track ut the place where the acci-
dent occurred and signal is set on high
pole close by indicating which train has the
right of way. In this instance the gravel
train had the right of way over the express
and the signal was set accordingly. The engi-
neer of the express failed to observe the signal
and the two trains, running at the rate Of
six miles an hour, came together near Hurd's
elevator Six gravel cars were demolished,
as were the forward works of the engine,
and its iron work and the timbers of the
gravel train were so in.erlocked that power
full locomotives and jack-screws were neces-
sary to separate them.
Ephraim Slayback, engineer of the express,
seeing his danger, jumped to the ground and
head by the fall The fireman also jumped,
but escaped injury. Two Italians were killed
and mangled OF the six injured one had
portion Of his skull crushed in and was prob
ably fatally injured; another had his hand
mashed and several fingers pulled off; one
was injured in the back and head and
all were more or less hurt internally. One
man was caught beneath pile of debris fif-
teen feet high and the united efforts Of train
wreckers were required for the space Of an
hour to release him. Engineer Slayback was
arrested on charge OF manslaughter.
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CHAPPED HANDS, face, pimples and rough
skin cured By using Juniper Tar Soap made by
Caswell, Hazard & Co.. New York.
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SIX thousand volumes are added to the Yale
Library annually.
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II you have Cold, Cough, dry.hacking)
Group. Cankered-throat, Catarrh Dropping
causing cough--Dr. Kilmer's Indian Cough Cure
CONSUMPTION on will relieve instantly-heals
and cures. Price 25c., SOC. and 81.
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BOWEL COMPLAINTS,
DYSENTERY,
Diarrhea, Cholera Morbus.

It Will in few minutes, when taken internally,
sccording to directions. cure Cramps, Spasns. Sour
stomach, Heartburn, Sick Headache, SUMNER
COMPLAINT, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Collie Wind h
the Bowels, and all internal pains IT.
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MALARIA IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS.
FEVER AND ACuE.

There Is not remedial agent in the world that Win
cure Fever and Ague and all other Malarlous, BIZ
PILLS. 50 quick as RADWAY'S READY RELIRx.
Price Fifty Cents. Sold by DruRgista.
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DISASTERS ON THE RAIL.
Seven Men Killed by a Collision
in Tennessee.
Loss Of Life Through a Similar
Accident in Connecticut,

At G:15 o'clock the other night the Colum-
bia passenger accommodation train on the
Decatur Division of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad came in COLI
sion with wild" engine bound
north, ab; ut one mile from Duck River sta-
tion in Tennessee, killing seven persons and
wounding two Others The engineer Of the
wild engine failed to stop on siding, and
the rate of twenty-five miles an hour, dashed
into it with terrible force. The killed are:
Henry E. Lauman, engineer of the a"com-
dation train; R. p Brown, Jr.; fireman of
the accommodation train: T. D. Beach,
engineer of the "wiid' engine; Pat
rick King, fireman of the same engine;
Monroe w. Wilson. baggage masSer;
Mr.. Thomson, section loren. an on the
Nashville and Florence railroal, who was
riding on the "wild" engine; A. B. Robinson,
Travelling Passenger Agent of the Louisville,
Albany and Chicago railroad, who was
also riding on the wild engine.
There were only two passengers Injured.
Rev. Vim. M. Green, who was in the smok-
ing-car, was thrown against a seat, cutting 6
a cash over his right eye, not serious; the
other, a colored girl, name unknown, slightly
cut in the face.
The collision occurred in a deep cut, with a
sharp curve, making ~ ltnpoSSlple !or tne ell
gineers to see each other. The collision took
place while both trains were going at full
speed. A passenger on the accommodation
states that he was in the act Of looking at his
watch when the engines collided. He says
they had just three minutes to make Duck
River, showing that the accommodation was
on time
The sight was most horrible, the bodies be-
ing torn to pieces and scalded by the escap-
ing steam. Soon as the terrible news reached
Columbia every available conveyance that
could be secured was en- route to the accident.
There were between fifteen and twenty pas
sengei s in the ladies' coach who were unin-
juled
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3 months treatment for Soc. Piso's Rene
dy for Catarrh. Sold by druggists.