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Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-04-02

We have been receiving,
marking and arranging our
new Spring stock during the
past two weeks. Two floors
packed with goods. Wehave
never been better prepared
to serve the people than now.
and we invite everybody to
come and see our goods and
learn our prices. We have
never advertised an article
that we did not have, and
never offered anything IA Il
bargain that was not really
and truly as represented, and
are always ready to refund
money where our goods are
not M represented. Come to
the Big Racket"
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-04-02
THE SUNNY SOUTH.


The Doncgan hotel at Huntsville, Ala.
4 has been destroyed by fire.
Harrisonburg, Va. reveled in eigh,
! inches of snow yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hight were drowned in
the James river in Virginia.
: George A. Hill, of the staff Of the Ricl,.
; ,nond, Va, Times, is dead
: Walterburg, S. c., will erect an i'm.
posing Y. NJ. c. A. building.
Hail that killed chickens is reported
from Birmingham, Alabama.
Beaufort and Port Royal. S. c.. are 70
be connected with shell road.
An English syndicate is after eight
Danville, Va. tobacco factories.
Aiken. the pleasant little resor. In
South Carolina, wants water works.
S. J. Smith was run over by the cars at
Birmingham, Alabama, and instantly
killed.
A negro named Irwin is in Jail at Knox
vile, Tenn, charged with raping littk
eolored girl.
The order at Richmond Of the Sons Of
Confederate Veterans is over ninety
strong.
Knoxville Is agitating the question Of
erecting n college for the education OF
| women.
The trial of David {. Ready, the lone
lyncher at Barnwell. 5. c., resulted in a
tnistrial.
T. J. Barry, u leading farmer Of Haw.
kins county, Tennessee. was shot and
killed by an unknown man.
John Griffin. twelve year old colored
boy at Norfolk. Va, killed his sister with
a Observation-Disclosures gun.
Miss Mary ]. Baldwin, Of the Augusta.
Va. Female Seminary. has donated 500
to the Y. NJ. c. A. library in Staunton.
The battle field Of Appomattox Court
House has been bought by a northern
syndicate and will be made into u side
show.
The second annual encampment Of the
Grand Army OF the Republic of the de-
partment of Alabama, is in session at
|
A little child of Mrs. Staubus, near Mt.
Solon, was blown from a log. ON which
she was crossing North river. INTO the
stream and drowned.
Judge p. f. Gleason and Bernard Boyd,
two prominent citizens OF Charleston, s.
G., died at the same hour in that city on
Saturday last.
G. James. Will Wood, Henry p. Sow.
ell and Matte MulliHan have been in.
dcted at birmingham. Ala, for the mur.
der Of Tom Mulligan.
". NJ. Brady. Captain Moore and
Mr.. Maulden were drowned in the wa.
tcrs OF Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee by the
capsizing of their boat.
II IL rumored that the available funds
for building the new city at Port Tampn
starts with 5000. 900. and as much more
as NAV be needed back oft.
The Indian Creek Coal Company or
ganizcd in Roanoke last week to pur
chase 1900 acres OF coal and mincra
land in Fayette county. ". Va.
A man giving his name as John Ora.
ham, but who is supposed to be Ed Muir.
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Price Smith. a tramp. stole ride on
an Alabama train and laid down on the
top of the cars and fell asleep. Near Sy.
lacouga he fell out Of bed aud broke his
neck.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
Success Due to Good Writing.


1t is singular fact that the famous
French dramatist, Sardou, owed his first
success on the boards to his excellent
handwriting. He had sent in his often
rejected play, 'La Taverne DIES Etudi-
ants" to the Odeon management for
consideration, and the manuscript was
thrown with some fifty others upon a
table. One day at rehearsal the charm
ing actress, Mile. Berengere, was at
tracted by the handwriting, and took up
the manuscript, crying, .'Oh, what an
exquisite handr' She read the play, and
recommended it so strongly to the direc-
tors that they were induced to read it.
and then accept it. At the time Sardou
now one of the richest literary men in
Europe-was starving. He had gone
through seven long years of terrible hard
ship and privation. London Tit-Bits.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
A Machine to Scale Fish.

A. c. Ware, of Brunswick, has invent
ed fish cleaner. He says the smallest
or the largest fish can be scaled rapidly
by the use of the machine. 1t consists
of two prongs and hooks, almost like a
pair of fire tongs, only the edges of the
prongs are rough and are slightly curved
forward One end of the machine is
fastened to table, while the two prongs
are clapped around the fish. and it is
showed through the rough edged knives,
taking off every scale.-Savannah News.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
Peoples State Ticket.

For chief justice, w. F. kightmire,
of Chase county.
For governor, J. F. Willets, of JEFF
fersOn county.
For lieutenant governor, Az .Shinn,
of Franklin county.
For secretary OF state, r. S. Osborn,
of Rocks county.
For state treasurer, w. II. Biddle,
of Butler county.
For attorney general, J. N. ives, Of
Rice county.
For state auditor, Rev. b. +. Foster,
of Shawnee county.
For superintendent of public in
struction, Miss F. Mccormick. Of
Barton county.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
The st. Louis Platform.

l. We demand the abolition of national
banks and the substitution of legal tender
treasury notes in lieu of national bank notes,
issued in sufficient volume 10 do the business OF
The country on "a cash system, regulating the
amount needed on "a per CAPITA basis as the Dus
mess interests of the country expand; ana tnat
all money issued by the government shall De
legal tender IN payment oil All depts, poth pun"
lie and private. . .
2. We demand the free and unlimited com
age of silver.
B. We demand that congress shall pass such
laws as shall effectualy prevent the dealing III
futures in all agricultural and mechanical pro-
ductions, preserving such stringent system OF
procedure in trials shall secure prompt con-
yiction and imposing such penalties rs snail Sc
cure the most perfect compliance with the law.
d. We demand the passage OF laws prohpit-
ing alien ownership of land and that congress
take early steps to devise some plan TO OBTAIN
All lands now owned by aliens and foreign
sypdicates; and that all lands now held by
railroads and other corporations IN excess OF
such as are actually used and needed by them,
he reclaimed by The government ana hei" io'
actual settlers only.
8 Relieving in the doctrine of equal rights
To all and special privileges to none,' we de-
mand that taxation. national or state snail not
be used to build up one interest or class at the
EXPENSE Of another. We believe that the mon
ey of the country should be kept as much as
possible in the hands of the people, and hence
we demand that all revenues, hatiohai, STATE OF
county shall he limited to the necessary ex.
neus,s of the government economically and
honestly administered.
g. We demand thatcongress provide for the
issue of "A sufficient amount of fractional paper
currency to facilitate exchange through the
medium of the United States mail.
Z We demand that the means of communl-
cation and transportation shall be owned ny
and oDerated in the interest of the people, as Is
the United States postal system.
The Kansas +. A. and i. U, add TO the ABOVE
these: -,
g. We demand such legislation as snail
eflectually prevent extoriion OF usurious inter-
est by and form of statutory provisions
g. We demand such legislation as VIII pro,
vide for a reasonable stay of execution In All
cases of foreclosure of mortgages on real estate
and "a reasonable extention OF time before the
confirmation of sheriff7s sales.
10 We demand such legislation as VIII ell
fectually prevent the organization or mantle
nance of trusts and combines tor purposes OF
speculation in any Of the products oil labor OF
necessities If life, or the transportation oil the
same.
II. We demand the adjustment OF salaries
of public officials TO correspond win existing
financial conditions. the wages PAID 10 other
forms of lalor. and the prevailing prices oil the
products of labor.
~. We demand the adoption OF the Aus
tralian system of voting and the Crawford sys-
TEN of primaries.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
And all is light.

A bow is none the worse for possessing
a little swagger and self assertiveness,
and any attempt on the part of parents
to break his temper is a step in the
wrong direction. 1t was said of the
mother of the Wesleys that she tried to
crush the self will of her son John, yet
any one who knows anything of the his
tory of John Wesley is ready to admit
that he was one of the most stubborn OF
men when once his opinion was formed
upon subject. Properly developed
boys self confidence may blossom into a
noble decision of character, which will
be of infinite service to him in the strug-
gle of life. In these days of keen COM
petition, when every year makes the
worlds prizes harder to get, the victo-
ries and rewards of life are for those
who, by indomitable pluck and energy,
are able to grasp and retain their own.
The child who grows to manhood with
a broken spirit must inevitably go to
the wall. l do not say that boy must
be allowed all his own way, and have
the privilege of riding rough shod over
the household rules and usages, or that
his tendency to overbearing and rude
ness should be encouraged. By all
means give him a taste of the birch
when the power of persuasion fails to
bring him to reason. Let him know
that he is under government; that he
has place in the home where he will
find a welcome and shelter as long as
the old nest remains; that his boyish ex-
uberances and frolicsomeness will, to an
extent, be tolerated.; but so far and no
farther must he go without experiencing
the weight of parental displeasure.-
Halls Journal of Health.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
BLIND.
Dark, dark, all darki

Dark, dark, all dark,
For me there is no spark,
No ray of light upon my lonely way;
But must all my life 60 stumbling, cropping.
feeling,
Always striving but never reaching the mark
For all is dark.
Past, past long past;
And vet it seems but yesterday that saw last.
Why am cursed with eyes that cannot see,
WHY must grope and stumble, who was ever
free
To wander where would, with head erect
And step as light as any! Why did it affect
Me- and none else but me?
And now wander lonely, and no helping hand
Is stretched to guide me to that far off land,
Where after striving, shall see at last
AS in long past.
Light. longed for light;
What is it makes the dreary way so bright?
1t is. that through the past, and through the
dark,
While was struggling like weary bark
Tossing for ever on an angry sea,
voice. loving voice, said unto me
81 help thee little pilgrim of the night
Mine is the hand Outstretched to aid thy sight.
saw thee wandering in this woful plight,
saw thee struggling in the weary fight,
care for watch DER, help and lead thee right,
give thee light
What care now for all the weary past
No longer tired, but content at last;
Thy love has made the darkened pathway
bright
And all is light.
Good Housekeeping.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
Severe but Successful.

/ remember being called to a case of
laudanum poisoning, when after failing
to produce vomiting in every other way,
the following method was successful: A
long whalebone was procured; around
one end of it rag was wound, and
string two feet long fastened thoroughly
to the rag. The rag was then pushed
gently down the esopaghus into the
stomach, and then the whalebone was
withdrawn, leaving the string extending
from the rag in the stomach out through
the mouth; gentle jerking of the
string few times secured the necessary
irritation and contraction brought up
the mixture of laudanum. the strong
coffee that had been given as an an
tidote to the laudanum, the mustard
and other portions that had failed to
provoke the vomiting, and of course the
woman recovered in due time.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
Poisonous Effect of Coffee.

DIR. Edward Smith, of England, made
a decoction of four ounces of coffee
which he and his assistant drank to-
gether. In fifteen minutes they fell upon
the floor unconscious and remained so
for thirty minutes. Probably If either
had had constitutional weakness of the
heart the dose would have been fatal
Exchange.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
Merit Wins.

We desire TO say to our citizens, that
for wears we hove zen selling DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
DR.. Kings New Life Pills. Bdcklen's
Arnca Salve and Electric Bitters. and
have never handled remedies that sell as
well, or that have given such universal
satisfaction. We do not hesitate to guar
antee them every time, and we stand
ready 10 refund the purchase price. il
satisfactory results do not follow their
use. These remedies have won their
popularity purely on their merits. Sold
by c. II. Lathen, Druggist.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25

A little girl who had been told that
she might take her choice between being
spanked and going to bed i'll the day
time replied, "Bedness is awful, hut
snanking is worse
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
Two Prescriptions.

A correspondent asks for reliable
remedy for blind staggers. In the case
of horse bleed the animal in the roof
of the mouth; in the case of man con-
fine the patient to simple diet and the
use of water. -DetrOit Free Press.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25

ONLY fifty cents for tifty-'wo solid
shots of the KANSAS AGITArOR.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
All n bout * ansas.

Send lOc. Silver for papers from variousparts
Of the state, circulars, etc. Address The NEWS
Greeley Anderson Co.. Kas.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25

ORGAhIzE aud stand together.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25

Get up Club and catch a Prize.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30

here was a thick bed of forget-me-nots.
there mass Of the same flower, but all
white; one grave grew a few roots of nch
dark ransS; appropriate fowers-ne
n oublIez pensees. | walked down the
path to the mausoleum of heroes. | came
first to an o5elisk erected to the memory
Of five hundred Bavarians who fell on this
field; beyond 1t Is Il stone crypt. to the
root OF which one can ascend by steps on
either side Then read an inscription
telling that three thousand men. French
and German. were buried under the turf
On which they died, and that now their
bones, exhumed and gathered together
lie exposed to view in this building
came down the steps and passed through
an iron gate. A passage of about a hu.-
dred feet IN length. airy and well-hghted.
runs from end to end; on either side. shut
IN by iron ratings. are compartments
where, on the stone floor, lie the bones of
the three thousand. A passage is left up
the middle of each compartment. and on
each side is a double row of skulls hanked
by the innumerable other bones once gov
erned by those ghastly skulls. l did not
count what have called the 'compart-
ments, but [ thirk there must be twelve
In all. On the right they are filed with
French remains; on the left with German
The corpses were left seven years beneath
the sod; then exhumed and consigned to
this crypt, where they lie in regular order;
first skulls, then arm-bones, leg-bones.
ribs, and all the unclothed frame work of
poor humanity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
How the Swauow-Tail Came.

Perhaps few men who wear the conven-
tlOnal clawhammered coat are aware of its
origin, Mr.. W. w. Story, in his delight
full Conversations in a Studio" saws:
The dress coat is the great product of the
French Revolution"
The old coat out of which it was created
was not beautiful in itself, but it had a
certain character and effect as a costume
1t was long In skirt and buttoned ACROSS
the chest. The sleeves were loose and
turned up, with facings from beneath;
while in full dress, lace ruffies depended
over the hand.
Also the coat was faced with a different
colored lining, which 1t showed when I'M
buttoned. In walking, the skirts, faced
also, were turned back and buttoned up to
two buttons on the back
Gradually it was Topped and reduced to
the thing it now is. The skirts in front
were cut away instead of being turned
back. But the two foolish buttons be-
hind were still kept after their use had
gone.
The front was permanently turned back,
the foolish cuts now remaining in the col
lar representing the old division of the
front lappets.
AS time went on more and more of the
skirts were cut away, until they were re-
duced to the ridiculous swallow-tail in
which Beau Brummel said there was safe
ty. The collar was pulled up behind the
lacings and colors were done away with.
and thus little by little grew up the gor-
ious thing called the dress coat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
WASHINGTON.

SECRETARY WINDOW says he will exc
cute the tariff law as he finds it. declaring
he has nothing to do IN the matter of ques-
tioning its legality.
THE secretary of the treasury has award
ed gold medals to the members of the
Evanston CHI. life saving crew for their
heroism In rescuing shipwrecked seamen
last year.
1T is understood that the war depart
ment intend to take no action in the vexed
question of allowing the use of the gov
eminent pier at Chicago to private par
ties. The act authorizing the secretary
of war to grant its use is not at all manda-
tory, and such rumpus has been kicked
up over it, and the conflicting interests
prove so great, that 1t has been determin-
ed to let it alone for the present at least.
The annual report of Inspector Cen
eral Dumont, of the steamboat inspec-
ton service, shows the total number
of vessels inspected during the
year 1,065; the total net tonnage of
vessels inspected, 1890, 1885; the total
number of officers licensed. 3S.237. Dur
ing the year there were 81 accidents. re-
suIting in loss of 245 lives. decrease of
year. Of the Pccidents, II resulted from
collisions and 102 of the lives lost were by
drowning. Of the number of lives lost, Is
were passengers and $50 officers or per-
sons employed on the steamers. Fully
1000, 900 passengers were carried on
steam vessels during the fiscal year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30

that that would be the last issue of
the Herald were the following scriptural
quotations:
LAS for man, his days are as grass;
as flower of the Geld SO he Rourisheth. "
For the wind passeth over it, and it is
gone; and the place thereof shall know it
no more"
Two days later the remainder of Mead
ow Lakes population, with Gagan at their
head. left the town. and when the Sacra-
mento valley was reached the members of
the party separated and went to the various
mining camps. Gagan went to San Fran
cisco and got employment as a printer.
He worked at his trade in the various
printing offices on the coast until 1877.
| when he died in the hospital at Sacra-
mento penniless.
Remarkable stories are told of Gagan s
extravaganza while he was IN the mines.
He was in the habit of standing on the
street corners in Meadow Lake in the
evening and throwing small sack of
gold dust into the roadway, to be fought
over by the young urchins of the town.
On one occasion, the fourth of July. he
printed a special edition of the Herald and
paved every street in Meadow Lake with
them. No teams were allowed on the
streets that day
The Herald plant was never removed
| from Meadow Lake, and today the press
and engine rust,eaten and worthless stand
| in the Herald Office just as they were left
nearl y forty Years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
EDISON'S AIR SHIP.

Mr.. Edison, it is announced, Will oulio
an air shin. There is nothing improbable
in the idea that he will do so, nor is 1t
unlikely that his air ship will be a sue
cess He has solved problems which
oo,,od on their face more difficult than
that Of aerial navigation, which is known
to he at least thing possible. 1t IS q
fact that he has for years held that the
+;,,o wound come when the air d fur
nish highways, and it may be that he Is
ready to grapple with the conundrum:
Some wears ago, in an interview Edison
said that the problem of navigating the
OH. was the same as that OF driving a
boat entirely under water, which has been
nroved feasible. and that as soon as GER
tain horsepower could be secured without
the accompanying heavyweight machln-
arv necessary in the past, dlthcu't-
los wouId vanish. His idea then seemed
to he a cigar-shaped balloon with Just
floating power enough to act as ballast to a
boat hanging beneath it. In the boat would
be powerful machinery driving screws IKE
those of propeller and beating Win
tremendous rapidity and corresponding
force against the atmosphere. The steer
inc apparatus, he thought could be easily
arranged for. All that was wanted was
some strong but light material for balloon
and boat and the great driving power aS
referred to. without much weight. Have
not these REQUISITES already been attalneo'
In aluminium, now a metal optalnaoie
Of one-fftieth of its former cost, Is the
strong and light material for balloon ana
boat. In electricity, as now stored ana
controlled. is the great driving force, With
ont accompanying weight of cumbrous ma
ebirerv. The air ship is in sight. 1t is
interesting to note in this connection d
comment of the great inventor IN reply TO
son,e one who said that, even were
nractical air-ship devised, people would
not travel in it because OF the attendant
dancer. The reply OF Edison was that the
a;r-sbin would afford the safest OF all
modes of travel. The idea that great
height need be sustained by such a con-
xevance was al surd. 1t might skim along
close to the ground and be so provided with
nendant coils of spring that, were Its ma
ebinery to give out it would aight easily
nb;Ie At tie sane time the danger OF col
Esion would be almost nil. Air-shlps
would rot be bound down on the same
t,atk like two railroad trains meeting. In
The event of a collision IN the ar OF TWO
sbi,s they would simply press each other
aside and 90 on their way unln1ureo.
ONLY a collision at nearly at right angles
y - be