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Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-01
Kansas LabOrites.

WICHITA, Kan, Aug Sl-The Union
Labor state convention nominated the fol-
lowing ticket Wednesday, and adopted a
platform and adjourned: For governor, P.
P Elder Of Franklin county; for lieutenant
governor, s. B. Todd, of Marshall county;
for secretary of state. M. J. Albright, OF
Kingman county: for treasurer Samuel
Mutt. OF Sumner county; for auditor, J. II.
Lathrop, of Decatur county; for attorney
general, w. 7. Wrightmire, of Chase
county; for superintendent of schools II. M.
Hickson, Of Labette county; for supreme
judge, A. j. White, of Augusta county.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-01

AFTER all as the smoke clears from
the field of the late August election
in Alabama solid chunks Of comfort
to Republicans loom up here and
there in many counties. The g. o.p
is alive and kicking even in Alaba-
ma.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-01
Orders From the State Board.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug. 3l.-The state
board of health Of Mississippi has ordered
that no persons be allowed to enter that
state unless they possess certificate Of the
health officer that they have not been
exposed to yellow fever.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-01

STILL there are no tidings from
the Freedman's Bank relief bill IN
the House. Will Gen. Wheeler call
it up for passage? 1t has the advan-
tage off a favorable report from the
committee on Banking and Carrency.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-01

"MERcHANT," our versatile cor
respondent of Decatur, speaks plain
ly on the political situation in and
about Decatur and in the Eighth
District.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-01
Only Took One Ballot.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Aug. 3l.-The
Fifth congressional Republican convention
held here nominated ex-Aayor Charles E.
Balknap, OF this city, on the drst ballot n
Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-01
Hamilton County, Ohio, Democrats.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 3l.-The Democratic
county convention assembled at the High
land House and nominated the following
ticket: For congress, First district, Otway
). Cosgrave; Second district, Clinton w.
Gerard; for common pleas judges, Charles
u. Robertson, Samuel r. Matthews; for
clerk, John B. Peaslee; for sheriff, John H
Frey; for recorder, John Hagerty; for
prosecuting attorney, James d. Ermston ::
for commissioner, James Julien; for cor
oner, Dr. Benjamin B. Keller; for member
board of control, John Miller; for infirmary
director, Jacob Peak; for magistrate Gin
cinnati township. Richard J, Manning.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-01

LOOK to it, young man, II you
would be happy, keep a clean con-
siences
Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-01
In Missouri.

ST LOUIS. Aug. 3L-John w. Hannah
was nominated for congress by the Repub-
licans Of the Twelfth district
Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-01

1T is becoming more and more ev-
ident teat Gen. Wheeler will not
have a walk over in this District.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-01
Trains Not Delayed.

New ORLEANS, La, Aug. 3:.-The Louisi-
ana board of health has placed inspectors on
all Queen & Crescent passenger trains via
Vicksburg and Shreveport and trains are not
DELAYED
Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-01
SATURDAY, SEPT. 1st 1888.

WITH the approach of the ides OF
NoVembercomes the total Democratic
eclipse.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-01
indiana First COpRressiopal District.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. Aug, 8l.-The Reppb-
licans of the First congressional district.
nominated Mr.. Frank B. Posey, of Pike
county for congress
Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-01
A Long Deadlock.

SELMA, Ala. Aug. 3l.-The Democratic
congressional convention of the Fourth Ala
bama district has been in session three DAYS
and 5S3 ballots have been taken. The dead.
lock is between s. W. St John, of Dallas,
b. D. jones. of Wilcox, Lewis W. Turpin,
of Hale, A. G. Davidson, Of Perry and J. II.
Gibson, OF Loundes. Davidson is the present
member
Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-01
Renominated far con~r.

EVANSVILLE, Wis, Aug. 3l.-Ths Rspub-
lcans OF the First district have rsuomiustsd
l. B. Caswen for congrssS
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An Indian Builds q Chnrch.

Civilization is progressing rapidly in
the Indian Territory" writes a CORE
spondent of the New York Graphic.
1.-THE Christian schools, which are well
planted and we'll supported, being the
powerful agencies in the work. l have
heard Crsar read in Latin by Indians in
one Of these schools, where in the Collie
giate Department they teach mental and
moral philosophy, physical geography,
rhetoric and English, chemistry, astron-
omy, French literature, civil govern
ment, zoology, Greek literature, political
economy and the German language.
Students completing successfully the
prescribed coulse of study in the Collie
giate Department are graduated with the
degree of NJ. s. (AIaster or Mistress of
Sciences.
81 was told to-day of wealthy In
dian at Muskogee, Indian Territory, who,
upon witnessing some difficulty in rails.
ing money for building church, went
to the builders and inquired what they
would charge for the work, and upon be-
ing told, said: GO ahead and build it
and 1 will pay it ALL How is that for
'Lo, the poor indiana They own large
numbers of cattle which it costs them
nothing to feed, and they have no taxes
to pay on their lands"
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midst of q tbicl urowth the difficulty of

midst of thick growth: the difficulty Of
getting out the wood of such trees with
out cutting roads in every direction
through the woodland, which would de-
stroy more thrifty trees than the dead
wood is worth: and lastly, there is no
end to this practice, for there will be
more or less of dead wood to cut out
every year, and where the dead or crooked
trees are cut there will spring up rew
growth which will not be large enough
to cut when the surrounding trees are
ready to clear away. "A far better way
is to cut everything clean, with the en-
ception mentioned above. The trees
will not then be in the way of each
other in falling: teams can pass over the
lot in any direction without obstruction
in hauling off the wood, and the new
growth will come up even and uniform
over the whole tract. Supposlng q
farmer begins upon this system, cutting
off each year from gwen tract what ne
wishes to use or to sell. In the course
of few years he will have his wood
land in separate lots of different stages
of growth, and when he gets over the
whole in twenty-five or thirty years he
(or his chiIdren) can begin again where
he commenced at first, and this time he
can take off such Of the valuable timber
as is matured and ready to remove.
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Charity in China.

On the first day of the tenth moon
15th of Novembcr) the winter charities
are opened in Pclling for the dispensing
of food. When the cold season is fur
thcr advanced the distribution of cloth
ing is made and the almshouses become
filled. Two members of the staff of the
Chinese Times recently made a tour of
inspection among the charities in the
south city of Peking. All the institu.
tions visited were supported by imperial
bounty. The first one reached was
porridge kitchen, a little east of the
great central city gate Ch'ien Men. The
''granary rice" was already cooked and
waiting hot in the great wooden tubs
usually found in such places; but al
though it was 9 o'clock none of the poor
people had arrived The explanation of
this unusual latcness is that at a place
half mile away they were drawing the
rations of good millet porridge first. The
granary rice is of bad quality, and the
people much prefer the millet. The sec.
ond place visited was one where sound
millet porridge was served, and there
men, women and children to the number
of 200 were waiting in great rooms
or barracoons the distribution Of
the food. 1t was soon begun. Two files
marched out simultaneously, men on
one side, women and children on the
other, each person carrying a vessel of
some kind into which with great expedi-
tion dipper of hot millet porridge was
ladled. Most of the recipients returned
to their homes to eat, but many homeless
ones found quiet places in wood-yards
and sunny corners of the streets to
finish up the millet while hot, and then
60 to the place where the rice already
mentioned was waiting for them. At
the third place visited the dispensing
was already over, only five hundred ap.
plicants having presented themselves
to-day, most of them, as usual, being
women and children.
This was one Of the departments or
branches of large and expansive charity
under the title, Hundred Goodnesses." :"
The functionary in charge informed US
that several thousand sometimes were
fed. A few steps further on were the
free schools of this same charity, and
still further to the west at short dis
lance the winters lodgings known as
1.-THE Warm Quarters. This is appro-
priated for women and children, fifty or
sixty Of whom had already arrived. They
receive porridge of millet and granary
rice twice a day, on which they suhsist
during the winter. The "warm quar-
ters," number eight in the south city,
and were opened about ten years ago in
addition to the regular official aims
houses. The administration of the
charity leaves little to be desired, many
thousands of poor people being housed,
fed, and clothed during the winter in a
perfectly efficient manner.
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Strange Discoveries.

So often have toads been found in
closed in solid bodies that it is not sur
prising to read in n Scottish paper that
a servant, while breaking q large pi ecc
of coal for the fire, was startled to find
in the centre of the block full-grown
toad, which appeared to be in excellent
health and spirits. A less tommon DIS
covcry was made in Eirkenh cad. A
gentleman there was presented with II
cows tongue, which appeared to be
perfect in every respect. After the
tongue was boiled, he d scovered piece
of sandstone imbedded in it about three
quarters of an inch in lenth, half an inch
in width and a quarter OF an inch in
thickness. -L9ngman's magazine.
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The Noisy Stamn Mill.

The rush and roar of the elevated
roads is music in the ears Of many of the
mining men from the West. They say
it is the only thing in the world that
sounds like stamp mill. For the ben
eft of the people who have never seen
siiver-bcaring quartz crushed by stump
mill into powder, which is afterw ard
made into paste from which the pre-.
cious metal is separated by means Of
quicksilver, 1t may be stated that stamp
is cylinder of iron about SIX inches in
diameter, shod with steel, and oper-
ated by steam. The stamps work in
rows, five constituting a battery, and
they are raised and lowered s;multane-
ously. When forty or fifty of them do
come down on the ore, the crash that
fellows is thrilling, and Rocky Noun
taineers say, musical as the orchestration
of the "Gotterdammerung." The roar
of a stamp mill is often compared by the
mining camp pocs to that OF the sea.
1t has peculiar resonance which is not
unmusical, and in the solitude of vast
snowy mountains is very effective. Nee
YUrE Sun,
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Ostriches i'm California.

One of the first places to which the
sightseer repairs in Los Angeles, says a
correspondent of the New York World,
is Washington Garden. Last autumn
about forty fine, large ostriches were
brought here, and they form the chief
attraction of the garden In spite of the
injunction, "Do not feed the birds, "
painted in large letters on the fence out
side the inclosure in which they are kept,
the temptation to disregard it seems to
be great, for little attention is paid to
the prohibition. When the writer had the
pleasure of looking at these birds they
had been placked only few days before,
and a more awkward, clumsy, ungainly
set of creatures would be hard to imagine.
1t was rare sport to feed them with or
anges; to see them come to the fence,
look at you with their curious, snake
like, expressionless eyes, and then, curv-
ing their long necks, dextrously snatch
an orange from the fingers or umbrella
tips of the more timid Of their would-be
benefactors The interesting part now
comes, as the progress of the orange
(Which has been swallowed whole can
be traced all the way down the three
feet or more o. neck that intervenes be-
tween the throat and the body of the
bird. Round and round goes the orange,
in true corkscrew style, until it finally
disappears beneath the bunch Of
feathers which grows on the chest of the
bird.
There is no end to the ostrich capacity.
One man, curious to zee how much a
bird would eat, selected one, and after
gathering from the surrounding trees a
number Of oranges, proceeded to feed his
bird. He gave him thirty six oranges,
nearly filling the long, slender throat, so
that the animal finally looked as if his
neck was composed of succession of
tumors. In short time, however, the
oranges had worked and screwed them
selves down, and there stood the bird, his
long neck stretched out, his whole atti-
tude one of expectancy, and, like Oliver
Twist, he wanted more.
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On Hangman's Day.

A Philadelphia job printer who began
business on Friday mas circulated the fol-
lowing card bearing list of interesting
events that have occurred on that day:
Washington born on Friday.
Queen Victoria married on Friday.
Napoleon Bonaparte born on Friday.
Battle of Bunker Hill fought on
Friday.
America discovered on Friday.
Joan Of Arc burned at the stake on
Friday.
Battle of Waterloo fought on Friday.
Bastile destroyed on Friday.
Declaration Of Independence signed on
Friday.
Battle of Marengo fought on Friday.
julius Caesar assassinated on Friday.
Lee surrendered on Friday.
Fort SuDter bombarded on Friday.
Moscow burned on Friday.
Shakespeare born on Friday.
King Charles |. beheaded on Friday.
Richmond evacuated on Friday.
Battle of New Orleans fought on Fri
day.
--Dctroit Free Press.
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Domestic Things Made Musical.

There is a store on Broadway where
almost everything tnat enters into the
household economy of people keeping
houses or living in apartments is sub
iected through Swiss inventive genius
into supplying musical ais.
The very chairs people sit on in par
lors and dining rooms are made. alter
two seconds manipulation, to give forth
an air from the latest opera that will
keep on filling the room with melody
from eight to fifteen minutes.
The teapot or cotfeepot on the break
fast-table is rendered musical without
interfering with its customary duty to
fill the cup. The bird suspended by the
window resembling robin red'breast
perchcd in a beautiful gilt cage will,
though not a native of the wild woods.
sing quite as we'll and accurately, inspired
by the musical machinery within its tiny
anatomy.
Plates and dishes can be made to play
tunes during meal hours and the bou-
quet of flowers on the centre Of the table
can have a bird precisely like one i'm.
ported from the Hartz Mountains, called
4 canary, which will sing with sweet and
dulcet notes.
Billiard balls, painted red, white, and
blue, are turned into fountains Of music.
Ladies' toilet cases are converted into
music. boxes without in the last degree
encroaching on the space required for
perfume and powder-holdcrs and the
other requisites of lady's dressing-casc.
In glass inside the store is pair of
imitation greyhounds, and pair of ele-
plants true to life, and these are simply
music-boxes in disguise, and so is the
monkey who smokes cigarette while he
also plays the latest air from one of the
minstrel shows.
The smallest music.box is about the
size of mans average-sized timepiccc,
and plays an air as clearly and accurately
as one ten times as big. The price of
this is 35 cents, and the next largest,
playing two tunes, $1.S5.
The large boxes, which wind up by a
lever and are kept in motion by power
full springs, range. in price from $l5 to
$50. Those with bells in sight from $50
to 800, according to size; with bells,
drums and castanets in sight, $50 to
$125.
In addition to all the rest of the things
made musical are water and milk pitch
ers, cuspidors, frames of paintings hang
ing on the walls, dolls, saucers, and
stands for teapots and dishes.-NeW York
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A Novel Lawsuit.

Inthe United States Circuit Court at
Springfield, Ill, Judgment has been
rendered for the defendant in the eject
mcnt case of John Fl. Decker against
Roderick E. Rambour. The defendant
has been for twenty years the occupant
of picc of land of 700 acres known as
Cobb Island, in the Mississippi river
near East st. Louis 1t shifted its posi-
ton in the changes of the stream and
lodged against the land of the plaintiff,
who claimed it as natural accretion and
brought this suit for possession, with the
result stated. Chicago Tribune.
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"After You"

He was such pleasant fellow,
SO polite. so polished. too:
Every where we went together,
He would mlumnr: After you"
Did we reach door together,
He would never first 90 through,
But wonld wait to let me pass him,
Saying softly: "After you"
Was there anything we wanted,
And was not enough for two,
He would always let ME have it,
Always muttering: After you!"
So it was on each occasion.
Whatsoe'er the case might be,
He would never be the leader,
But was always after me.
He has borrowed fifty dollars,
Maybe tis passing whim,
But be has not since bean heard OF,
And now am after him.
-Haruard Lampoon
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A Genaihle Man

Would use Kemp's Ialsam for the Throat and
Lungs. II Is curing more cases Of Coughs
Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Group and all
Throat and Lung Troubles, than any other
medicine. The proprietor has authorized any
druggist to give you Sample Bottle Free to
convin you of the merit of this great remedy.
Large bottles, 80 cents and 81.
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II uInbug.

Barnum said The American People like to
humbugged." This MAJ he true in the line Of
entertainment. but not where life is at stake.
A man with consumption,or any lingering dis
ease, looking Death in the face and se"king to
life with. So with confidence we place be-
fore our readers Natures great remedy, DIR.
Pierce's Go den Medical Discovery. a sure re-
lief for that long train of diseases resulting
from imnure blood, such as Consumption,
Chronic Nasal Catarrh, Live r Complaint, Kid
ney Disorder, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, ,Scrof-
ula and General Debility. iTime-tricd and
thoroughly tested, it stands W thout an equal !
Amy druggist.
IT is estimated that there arc about 8, ,0O0,-
100000 worth of diamonds now in use.
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s SCIATI A

Mlsery.-It is instructive to note from ths
catalogue of diseases that nine-tenths Of
fatal cases reach their chronic stage through
stupid Indifference to correct treatment
when the system is first assailed. 1t is easily
shown that thousands OLIVES could be saved.
NERVOUS PAINS.
T0rture.-For instance: ScIAT1cA, which %
sorely aftlicts the human family, and which
is defined to be neuralgia Of the sciatio
nerve, rheumatism of the hip-joint, or parts
adjoining it, hip gout, pains in the loins and
hips, even in its nildeSt form never seixes
its prey without due warning.
SYMPTOMS.
Acute.-Sudden and acute pains in the hin
and loins; redness, swelling tenderness
soreness, fever, laIncncss and sometimes ex.
cruciating pains. The disease rapidly devel-
ops into chronic or intiammatory stage.
TREATMENT.
Cure.-Rub the parts affected thoroughly and
vigorously with ST. JACOBS OIL; create Q
burning sensation by the friction Of rubbing
on the Oil; apply warmth; tannels wrun9
out in hot water.
Sold By Drug0ids and Dealers Erery1rhere
rYE CHARLES A. yOGEL Err CO.. BaftImors. ~
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The Way to Clear Woodland.

John F. Fits writes, as follows, to
the New York Tribune. An impression
prevails among farmers that their grow
ing wood needs no attention, and when
they find it desirable TO cut off a portion
it is usually done without plan or con-
sideration. offer hint toward more
regular system in the older States, to be
varied, of course, according to size and
peculiarly of the tract, and the cilcum-
stances of the proprietor. Mot of our
wood at present is what is called Second
growth; much of it has been cut over
several times; little of the original forest
is left, and thare are few tracts contain
ing old or very large timber. The g:n-
eral use of coal leaves little induccment
for the farmcr TO cut off wood to sell for
fuel. 1t shou'd be his principle object,
therefore, where his wood is of suitable
kinds. to let it stand until large enough
for timber, for which there is q good
present market, and likely to be an even
better and more remunerative ore in the
future. For more than thirty years,
when cutting of tract Of woodland for
fuel, it Las heen my practice to let all
the straight and thrifty timber trees
stand, such as white oak, white pine,
hickory and chestnut. AS wood for fuel
is most prof ably cut off once in twenty
five or thirty years, at the second cut
ting these reserved trees will have be-
come large enough for timber uses, and
can lie cut and worked up into lumber.
With this exception it is decidedly best
in clearing off woodlot TO cut every
thing clean.
But it is often recommended in agri-
cultural papers to cut out for fuel only
the dead. crooked and unthrifty trees,
while the rest is allowed to stand. The
OF. ,ections to this practice are: The
danger ofinirring the surrounding trees
while telling such dead wood in the
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is the way Western man put it in expressing
to a friend his complete satisfaction in the use
small and yet 50 effectual. they bid fair to sup
plant entirely the old style pill. An ever-ready
remedy for Sick and Bilious Headache, Bill
iOusness, Constipation and all blood disorders.
Mild in action, wonderful in effect! Put up in
vials conven ent 10 carry. Their use attended
witt no discomfort! These sterling merits ac-
count for their great popularity.
MAINE is not the only spruce gum field. A
large quantity is obtainedin the Adirondacks.
Counties thousands mourn" because they
have not sent for free pamphlet on Taylors
Hospital Cure for Catarrh, 2G4 B'way, New
York.
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She scolds and frets,
She's full of pets,
She's rarely bright and tender;
The thorn Of life
I..l ,..sf

1wonder what will mend her?
Try DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Ten
to one, your " fe is cross and fretful because
she is sick and suffering, and cannot control
her nervousness when thing; 90 wrong. Make
yon will make a cheerful and pleasant one.
"Favorite Prescription is the only remedy for
woman's peculiar ailments, sold by druggists,
under posit We guarantee from the manuiac-
turers, that it will give satisfaction in every
case or money will be refunded. See guaran-
tee on bottle wrapper. Large bottles, 81. Six
for s..
CHINA sends to this country each year 20,-
nm dog. n of eggs
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"Not Bulk, but Business!"

In Turkey when a man is caught in lie an
official is sent around to paint the front OF his
house black.