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Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

HUHGH J. LONG has been appointed post
master at Bible Hill, Tenn, vice W. P.
Davis resigned, and Joseph J. Adams at
Spring Hill Academy, vice A. II. Duncan
resigned.
A BILL was introduced in the Senate on
| the 18th authorizing the Pensacola and
Memphis railway to build its line over the
public lands in Tennessee, Alabama, Flor
ida and Mississippi.
JUDGE w. w. SMITH, Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, died at
Little Rock on the 18th.
HAGGIN, the turfman, has offered S25, 600
| for Bryant's Proctor Knott. Bryant holds
the horse at $50. 900.
THE report of the State Treasurer Of Ten
nessee show the receipts of 1887 were ST.
643,542, and in 1883 $2,051 AS. The dis
bursements were $1,554, LAG in 1887 and
| II, SD, GA in 1888.
A PARTY of New England capitalists
| from Hartford, Conn, and adjoining cities,
were in Chattanooga, Tenn, on the l'th.
They are travelling through the South on
prospecting tour.
| COMPTROLLER PICKARD has received ad-
vices from the New York banking house OF
A. Lanier & Co. that the sum OF S200,00o,
which the State requires to meet the Janu-
arv interest on the public debt, had been
passed on their books to the credit of the
State of Tennessee.
THERE is in this country twice as many
acres in corn as in wheat, and four Tunes
as many as in cotton.
| a SALE of 23I bales Of Allen cotton was
made at Memphis on the 10Th at 13 cents
per pound.
| THE question of an amendment to the
State Constitution making an educationa
qualification for suffrage, is being agitated
| in Arkansas.
! OVER two hundred deaths from diptheria
have occurred in the vicinity Of Albe-
oueroue, N. NJ, in the past two weeks
and the breaking out of small pox has
caused much additional alarm.
FULLY so per cent. of the corn crop in
Smith county, Tennessee, is badly dam
aged.
The people of the United States spend
more than s., 800, 900 every year for chew
ing gum.
JACKSON, La, is greatly exercised over
the mysterious disappearance of Rev. j.
V. Penn, pastor in charge Of the Methodist
| Church there. He has been missing fol
over a week, and fears are entertained that
he has been foully dealt with.
In Lamar county, Ala, on the night Of
the 14th, crowd of masked men took Mrs
lane Johnson from her home and admins
tered thirty nine lashes on her bareback
and then warned her to leave the county
within FIVE days.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER o. 1885,

BARON JOMINI, OF st. Petersburg, is
dead. He was friend and trusted ad-
wiser of the Gear and a strong Pan-Slav-
ist.
THE German Plantation Company Of
Zanzibar has decided to remove its plant
and staff to Borneo.
GENERAL BoULANGER denies that he is
plotting war, or a coup d. etat. He sees
corruption in the Chamber Of Deputies
and trouble in the Senate. The former he
would dissolve and the latter abolish.
Half OF France, he says, is at his back in
the movement to revise the French Con-
stitution.
MISS CLEVELAND went to Philadelphia,
on the 18th, to be the guestof Rev. DR.. and
Mrs. Wood, at Germantown. On the 18th
she dined with Mr.. and Mrs. George w .
Childs.
The Queen of Spain has written a letter
to M. De Lesseps expressing sympathy
with him in his troubles over the Panama
Canal scheme.
THE British steamer Jasper, from w ork
ington for Glasgow, foundered off the
Wigtown coast on the 10th. Her crew,
numbering eleven persons, were drowned.
NATHANIEL j. BRADLEY, a well-known
architect of Boston, died on railroad
train, on the 18th, while on his way to
Keene, N. II.
GENERAL BoULANGER strongly con-
demns the French Government for allow
ing honest people to think the Panama
canal was sure of official patronage, and
| now turning its back upon the enterprise.
THE great English ship-builder and
Member of Parliament for Govan, Sir
William Pearce, Bart, died, on the 18th,
in London.
REV. JOHN +. HOOPER, pastor of st.
Paul's Reformed Church at Morrisania,
n. ", has been suspended from the min
istry on account of the recent decision of
California court granting Hooper's wife
a divorce on account Of cruel and inhuman
treatment.
A CONTAGIOUS form of sore thro att
| may be called diphtheriar-has broken out
among the Mexican children of Bernalillo
County, N. NJ, and it is said that no less
than two hundred deaths have occurred in
the past few weeks.
A THROUGH freight on the Erie railroad
broke in two. on the 18th, while passing
| Friendship, n. Y. About three miles fur
! ther on the second section overlook the
| first and caused a serious wreck, several
cars being derailed and the tracks
| blocked. No one was hurt.
EX-SENATOR WARNER MILLER, of New
York, was on the floor of the Senate
| chamber, on the 18th, for the first time
since the. election. aud he held quite a
levee. In response to queries about the
Cabinet, he said: 81 know nothing about
any thing"
ATTORNEY GENERAL BAKER Of Iowa has
| begun twenty-four suits in the Distric1
| Court of Scott County upon informa-
| ton filed by Davenport merchants against
| the Rock Island railway, for alleged VIC.
| lation of the State law fixing a maximum
| schedule. The penalty for each violation
| is $1,000.
| HERR BLUMENTHAL, who was arrested
| in Paris, on the 10Th, on suspicion of being
| a German spy, is Major in the German
| Landwher. He had leased chalet il
| company with q supposed lady (but who
| was really German cade), and had
taken photographs of the various forts
his apparatus being concealed in aperam'
bulatOr.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22
EFFECTS OF COFFEE.
Useful Preventive Against Infection
and Epidemic Diseases.

USe1uI preventive Against IHIeCbiOuS
and Epidemic Diseases.
Coffee owes its stimuli ating and re-
freshing qualities to caffeine 1t also
contains gum and sugar, fat acids
casein and wood fiber. Like tea, it
powerfully increases the respiration;
but, unlike it, does not affect its depth.
BY its use the rate of the pulse is in
creased and the action of the skin di-
minished. 1t lessons the amount of
blood sent to the organs of the body,
distends the veins and contracts the
capillaries. thus preventing waste Of
tissue. 1t is a mental stimulus OF a
high order, and one that is liable to
great abuse. Carried to excess, it
produces abnormal wakefulness, indi-
gestion, acidity, heart burn, tremors,
debility, irratability Of temper,
trembling, irregular pulse, kind
of intoxication ending in de-
lirium and great injury to the
spinal functions. Unfortunately, there
are many coffee tipplers who depend
upon it as drunkard upon his dram.
On the other hand, coffee is of sover-
eign efficacy in tiding over the nerv-
GUS system in emergencies. Coffee is
also, in its place, au excellent medi-
cine. In typhoid fever its action is
frequently prompt and decisive 1t is
indicated in the early stages before
local complications arise. Coffee dis
pels stupor and lethargy, is an antidote
for many kinds Of poison, and is valu-
able in spasmodic asthma, whooping
cough, cholera infantum, and Asiatic
cholera. 1t is also excellent as pre-
ventive against infectious and epidemic
diseases. In districts rife with malaria
and fever, the drinking of hot coffee
before passing into the open air has
enabled persons living in such places
to escape contagion. Boston Journal
! Of Commsrc,.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22
FIFTlETH CONGRESS,

IN the Senate, on the 18th, the Tariff bill was
taken up, the pending question being the
amendment to admit "hoop and band IRON,
COTTON ties etc., free OF duty, instead OF taxing
It 2i0th per cent. per pound additional, but after
the entire day was spent in the discussion. the
Senate adjourned without action on the pro
posed amendment ..In the House, the River
and Haroor bill was reported and referred to
the committee OF the whole House. The SEN
ate amendments to the Department Of Agricul-
ture bill were non-concurred in, and confer
ence was ordered. The House then went into
committee Of the whole on the Direct-Tax BILL
which, after several amendments had been Of
fered and rejected, the committee rose and re-
ported to the House. The bill was then passed
yeas, 11S; nays, 9s
IN the Senate, on the 18th, the day was chief
ly devoted to consideration of the Tariff bill.
The discussion was enllvened by passage be-
tween MIR. Riddleberger and the presiding Off
Ger, in which the Virginia Senator was threat
ened with arrest for disorderly conduct. After
lengthy discussion of the Tariff bill, no action
being reached, the Senate went into executive
session, and soon after adjourned until the
nth. -. In the House, in his opening prayer,
the Chaplain said: Instruct the young men Of
the universities and colleges that the Lord hath
no delight in the legs OF man. but in sound
head, wise heart, pure life and noble
character" Several new bills were reported
and placed on the calendar. The Oklahoma
bill was then taken up, and occupied the re-
mainder Of the session
The Senate was not in session on the 18th
..... In the House, Mr.. Hooker of Massachu-
setts, introduced concurrent resolution pro-
viding for holiday recess from Friday, Decem-
Der 81, until Monday, January :, which was re-
ferred to the committee on ways and means.
The Nicaraguan Canal bill was then taken up,
but after an hour and half spent in vain ef-
fort to secure quorum upon proposition to
limit debate, the House took recess until
half-past seven o'clock, when brief session
was held without results.
IN the Senate, on the 18th, bills to establish
coinage mint at Denver, Col, and TO furnish
arms to the State of Oregon, were favorably re
ported. Mr.. Riddleberger spoke to his resolu-
ton to reorganze the Senate after the 1st of
January, which called forth enconiums OF the
presiding officers fairness and impartality.
The resolution was withdrawn. The Tariff
bill was then taken up and occu-
pied the remainder OF the days session.
After short secret session, the Senate ad-
journed ;. In the House, it was agreed to take
up the South Dakota bill and make it a special
order for the 18th and succeeding days until
disposed of. A bill Incorporating the American
Horticultural Association was passed. The
adjournment resolution as originally intro
duced was passed. Further effective legisla-
tion was prevented by t1libustering tactics.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22
FULL. OF FUN.


-'.rd Just like to go abroad and set
tie down in France" said Mrs. Sprig-
gins. THE life of Parasite is so
free fr m care and troubler -Harper's
Bazaar.
Political Orator (furiously y
'.Now, fellow-citizens, if this man is
elected what is the result?n A Voice
-a'His opponent will be defeated."-
All Sorts.
IL saw cool deed this morning"
remarked Fangle at the supper table.
What was it?" asked his wife, with
deep interest. 1.-The title to an ice
house" replied the wretch. .-Erchange.
Mistress Ito Bridget, who is clean
ing windows in the second story
Geraldine, man has just rung the
basement bell" Bridget-"Ask i'm
up to the parlor, and till him Oill be
down in a iiffy."-7fnae.
Little boy, do you understand
what is meant by energy and enter
prise?" mo, sir, don't think do"
well, will tell you. One of the rich
est men came here without shirt to
his back, and now he has got mill
ions" millions! How many does he
put on at a time?n
$50 you found the clock licked SO
loud that you couldn't sleep?" said the
ieweler to customer who returned a
clock. ''You ought not growl when
you have your folding-bed ticking un-
der you all night" The man took the
clock home again.-Lye.
my sould and body!" said old
Mrs. Evergreen, as she looked intently
at the indicator in the car, just as the
conductor rang up two fares. Il de-
clare if 'taint two o'clock, an it warn't
mort n a mint after / got on that it
struck one! These here city people do
live terrible fast. ."-JeUeLer'S Weekly.
Miss Wideawake Ito young agri-
culturist from Vermont)-'I fancy.
Mr. Sidehill, that you are very fond Of
husbandry?" Mr.. Sidehill with an
unutterable expression)-'1 s'pose 4
would be, Miss Wideawake, If could
uuu tip3 TiSnb hihu VI u BsA- 1870
SiftiEgs.
''Why is it.snat you don't
pay for that su1tP / have Called horo
repeatedly, and all can get out OF you
| is promises" Young Actor-''Well,
you know all the papers call me a
promising comedian" Tailor-"Yes;
but promises are not performances.
Young Actor-''Well,c come up to the
theater any night, and you will see my
| performance. "-An1ertca-
A small boy whose record for de-
pertinent at school had always stood al
hundred, came home one day recent
ly with his standing reduced TO ninety
eight. What have you been doing,
my son?" asked his dotlng mother.
Been doing?" replied the young hope
full. Been doing just as | have been
doing all along-only the teacher
caught me this time"
Old Mrs. Bently-''What are you
readin, Josiah?" Old Mr.. Bently-
'I'm readin' bout a prize fight atween
Hobokens Rat an Teddy the Flip. The
paper says that what-his-name put the
the other fellow to sleep in the fifth
round" Old Mrs. Neutrality-suspicious.,
Josiah, what dreadful thing to read
about, an sech dreadful names! Still,
he must have some kindness of heart
or he wouldn't put the other man to
| sleep. ."-E2Och.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

THE Comptroller of the Currency has
ssued cali for reports OF the condition
# National banks at the close of business
m December y.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

THE President, on the 18th, approved the
act making a deficiency appropriation for
the contingent expenses of the House of
representatives.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

STRIKES are reported from several
noints on the line of the Mexican
National railroad, owing to the non-pay-
ment of wages.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

THE press of Alabama, for the most
mart. strongly favor the proposltlon 70
establish an educational qualification 1or
voters.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

IT &c officially stated that the Pope does
~ iatnnd = e leave Rome, nor has he
|tbonrht of taking such step.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

DAKOTA is surpassed by only four
States Of the Union in the numper Ul SUI
dents attending her agricultural college,
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

REV. DR.. B. COSTA, rector Of the Church
Of st. John the Evangelist, New York, de-
nounces the Sunday newspaper as "the
nndern anti Christi
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

THERE is considerable excitement at
Glens Falls, n. Y, over the discovery Of
silver bearing ledges in the town. Claims
are being filed rapidly.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

MAXINE OUTREY, formerly Minister
from France to the United States, has re-
tired to his villa at Cannes, with Nine.
Outrey, who is an American.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

THE marked favor shown by the Gear
of Russia to the divorced wife Of King
Milan of Servia is taken as an indication
OF the early downfall of the latter.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

GENERAL BoULANGER says that General
Sheridan was his ideal of a cavalry Cen
eral He also speaks enthusiastically OF
Generals Sherman and Mcdowell, and of
the memories of his trip to the United
States in 1881.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

Hon. EDWIN SALrER, the first Free-Soil
member of the New Jersey Legislature for
Ocean County, died at Forked River, N.
j., on the 10Th. During the war he was
the Washington correspondent for several
Newspapers.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

THE New York Press says that Governor
GRAY Of Indiana refused to allow the re-
ception room of the Governor in the Capt.
tol at Indianapolis to be used for the re-
caption of Mr.. and Mrs. Morton on the
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

a DARING train robbery occurred near
y Duck Hill, Miss, on the night OF the lotn.
o~o masked robbers held up ah Illinois
central train, and secured 5000 from the
cypress car. A passenger named Charles
alghes, Of Jackson, Tenn, who attacked
tae robbers with Winchester rifle, was
tg9' BY them and killed,
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

E. L. HARPER, late vice president OF the
Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati, who
is confined in the Ohio State prison at
Columbus, gave unmistakable evidence
Of insanity, on the 18th, and was removed
10 The insane denart1nant
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

IN the primary election which has just
been held throughout Servia, the Radicals
and Liberals scored a great victory, the
Progressionists being totally defeated.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

FIVE applicants had already appeared
for appointment as Judge of the Federal
Court for the district Of Florada, made
vacant by the death of Judge Thomas Set
tie less than two weeks ago, up to the Nth.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

SEVERAL members Of the crew of
the oyster sloop Mahoney, sunk in Chesa-
peake bay in the recent engagement with
the State steamer McLane, were drowned.
Statements as to the actual number lost
vary from two or three to nine.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

OFFICIAL notice was sent, on the 18th,
to the passenger agents Of all railroads
in the West and Northwest that, at the ex-
piration of ten days, passenger rates will
be restored to the former basis.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

Gross frauds in the count of the vote
for mayor Of San Francisco, at the recent
election, are being unearthed by the re-
count demanded by the defeated anti
Chinese candidate.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

JAMES C. MoRFoRD, of Baltimore, aged
ninety-four, the last of the old defenders,
who repeled the British attack on Balti-
more in 1914, died in that city on the 17th.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

THE famous stallion Volunteer, the sire
of st. Julien and other noted trotters,
died at the Walnut Grove farm, in Orange
County, N. Y, on the 18th. He was thirty
f01r wears of age
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22

REPRESENTATIVE Catholics Of New York
Clty discredit the recent cable dispatch
stating that the Pope, in refusing to bless
certain medals intended for distribution
IN Ireland, said that the people OF Ire
ana T seemed to prefer the gospel OF
Dillon and O'Brien to the Gospel OF Jesus
Christi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-02
WHY he RETERED ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
POLITICAL SPEAKER WHO WAS ONCE A
SOLDIER AND OWED HIS LIFE TO


One night during the heat Of the campaign in this
city. plain man with soldier like bearing was adj
dressing an audience Of worBngmen I'm Of the
downtown wards The speaker said tina, he had al
ways been Democrat, but that this year he should
vote for HARRISON and as he grew earnest in
his appeal for protective policy he referred elO-
quenty, and almost reverentally, TO the memory Of
Abraham Lincoln. Some in the audience thought II
strange that lifelong Democrat should refer TO
Lincoln, but those who knew said in explanation that
the speaker the hero Of Of the most pathetic
stories told of the Civil War The story runs like
this:
Two young boys from one Of the towns in this
State had early enlisted in the Union Army. They
marched side by side, shared the same dangers ate
together and slept together One Of the boys was
not so strong the other, and often, after hard
days march. he would be quite exhausted At such
times the stronger would carry the knapsack Of
the weaker, and lend him his arm over rough places
One night, after particularly wearisome march,
sicuy lad exhausted than usual, and
was sinking heavily to tho ground when he was told
that IL was his turn that night TO serve on picket
duty. The stronger youth at once volunteered 10
take HIS place, and although he too was worn out
with the double load he had carried during the day,
he took his stand for the night with gun in hand
Toward morning the tired eyclds would no longer
stay open, and he found asleep at his post Then
the trial by court martial. and the sentence. to
be shot for sleeping while on duty.
In vain it pleaded that he slept but a moment
that he was taking the turn of a sick comradc-mil
itaIy rule memorable. The condemned lad tried
comfort his friend. and then wrote to his father
and mother, telling them why their son must die
At his home young sister, who after she had
heard the letter read set out for Washington
President Lincoln. She found the Pl esi1ent and
told him the story and after few inquiries had been
made Of the Secretary of War, the great man with
the kindly heart wrote the death sentence :
PardOned a. Lincoln" Go home,7 he said to
the trembling girl and tell your brother to be proud
that he has such sister, and you, my gill. have
reason 10 be proud that you have such a brother"
And those of the audience who heard the story ad
miitcd that the parlOncd soldier had right TO
erence the name OF Abraham Lincoln.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-02
FITTING SHOES TO PRETTY FEET
WHY MANY WOMEN PREFER MALE CLERKS

The Introduction OF women clerks in shoe stores
was begun experiment few years ago. and consid
cradle interest In tho Of the scheme
BY the shoe trade. The experiment may
be regarded as within limits It sp
pears equally that the female clerks will
entirely drive the men, even from the departments for
women's and childIenS shoes.
An experienced clerk In we'll known uptown establish
recently Tribune reporter tendency
among large dealers now is to employ both and
women and then let the choose for herself
tween the 1t Is purely matter Of TASTE" said
the clerk and l should say that 1t depended
customers whim Some profess be
shocked at the mmodesy Of having man put on their
for Them but the other hand many Of the
refined ladies' In the city always insist on having
them and there will always be this demand"
is the OF this preference n asked the
reporter
Simply that a man ht shoe to the foot better
than q woman can. The majority OF tiR hit
shoe, those who have claim to place in the
OF fashion, and IL takcs strong hand and
get tight shoe on a customers easily. Most women
the wrist for this OF and they
will toll and struggle over the task that many Gus
become completely Disguised and learn TO avoid
where there male clerks TO walt on them.
by superior strength and dexterty will force
shoe two small a womans foot with compare
and she will leave the store conscious OF hay
ing secured a small shoe that is perfect ht."
And how about the question OF T. odestyP
Well. a shoestore Is a good place TO study the
yagares OF prudes Unduy sensitive women do find IL
an ordeal have wait them and for such cases
the female clerk is business necessity Most women,
however sensitive and for the male clerks
themselves they would always rather wait a man
than on a woman, any time A very young clerk some
times feels that he has got preN near heaven when he
is directed to assist handsome young in getting
satisfactory footgcar. but the novelty of
Women much particular than men, especially
i'm the matter shoes, II Is by a
privilege walt them One annoyance TO which ladies'
are not subected the larger establishments
lmpudent staring OF dudes and other calow youth who
used always spend half hour trying shoes them
selves whenever they shoestore Just get
glimpse OF a pretty ankle and then Now separate
rooms provided for the ladies' but the male clerks
will never be entirely banished from these sacred pre-
clncts.n