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FormatIon of Challk.

A French scientist. NJ Wafther. has
made some observations in the Mediter-
ranean sea OF the manner in which
chalk is formed by sea weeds. He par
ticularly studied the lithotamnia OF
the Bay of Naples, which grow at
depths of from 100 to 300 feet, class
of alg@ remarkably poor In organic
matter, but rich in mineral constitu-
ents, among which carbonate of lime is
preponderant They grow to be about
as large as the hand, and then die
without suffering change of form by
decomposition. Living plants attach
themselves to dead ones. and thus ex-
tensive deposits are formed. Beds of
pure, uncrystalized chalk remain after
.,gka3Nal disappearance on the or
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She Wa. Taking q bath.

In a pretty house up town a newly ar
rived Hibernian was installed as parlor
maid. is Mrs. s. at homer asked
a gentleman whose ring at the door she
had answered. "ShuTe, an it's out
the mistress is" said Biddy. "And
Miss s., is she out alsoT" asked the
visitor. No, sor; but she's in the tub
claiming herself" was the unexpected
and ready responsibility York Tib-
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sight Rertored At Nlnet1.fire.

The Welsh newspapers report a re-
markable event at the village of Llanon,
Cardiganshire, where the Rev. William
Herbert, late rector Of the parish, enter
tanned 500 of his parishioners at tea in
,compemoration of the restoration of his
eSSl his nipety-ffth year. The
eiergySanl e tHs priaci - '1S 9l1sss
the living of Llanon for half
Six years ago. however, he lost his at
and resigned the rectorship IN conse-
quence. During the last few months he
has been under the treatment OF an
eminent Manchester oculist, and the
cataracts being removed from his eyes,
his sight has been completely restored,
and he is now enabled to read the serv-
ice in church. Globe.
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A CnIf Win Eicht Feet.

Uncle Peter Ledsinger. cOlored, who
lives in the Fifth district, had calf born
on his place Friday with eight feet-two
On each leg The two surplus ones on
the hind legs were rather small. The
calf lived until Monday, when it died,
never being able TO stand up.-Dyers-
burg (Tenn.) State Gazette.
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swelteling Stranger-Phewl Seems as
il I'd melt. Thermometer must be about
hundred.
Oitizen-Nonsensel You go to the top
Of that forty story building, climb into
the tower and look up at the official
weather service thermometer and you'll
find it isn't over seventy-six.-New York
Weekly.
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A COW near Thompson, Ga. that got
her tail caught somehow in tree, made
trouble worse by going around the trunk
until she wound up like a clock. She
then became frightened, and giving a
lunge pulled the tail out by the roots.
Afterward the tail was found as de-
scribed by the animals owner.
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Sharpsighted observers can see on
moonless nights nearly three thousand
stars Jupiter is the brightest of them
all. The telescope brings out so, 10000
stars. Not one can compare with Jupi-
ter. Venus is his only rival, and she is
now hidden in the SUMS rays, SO that he
reigns alone.
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Railway Car Heating by Electricity.


1t is reassuring to know that the
deadly car stove" which has played
such q CHASTITY part in hundreds of TRACE
dies. will soon be seen no more, An adj
mirable system of electric heating fol-
cars has been invented, which is so cheap
and easily operated that its universal
adoption is simply matter of time.
The railway company on whose road
this system has been tested by course
Of practical work speaks of it in the
best terms, and the travelling public
lesssgratifed at the comfort and
is now assured After the
{ the dirty and gaseous
condi pa of tie 49, nal heated car,
the absolute cleanliness and saas Fl
odors, together with the even tempsr&
ture Of a car electrically heated, is a
revolution in modern car heating. New
York Telegram.
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Morid Do Just a, Wen.

Visitor-l have often wanted to visit
a lunatic asylum. but | suppose there
is none in the CRY.
Resident-No, but we've got board
of trade proudlyl. Come along. It's
in session. 1t will do just as well. ~
Chicago Tribune
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A few days -
be particulars Va q case ON

a rev days -
the particulars Vt CASE On,
Miami railroad wherein Mr.. Wa.
clined to pay his fare, having neglectec
10 place his commuters ticket within his
inside pocket for the convenient refer
ence Of the conductor. The train was
held for quite fifteen minutes for him to
get off. He did not get off and the train
men did not put him off. It is under
stood that the conductor has since been
discharged; but that is not all of it. The
commuters out along the line have been
talking about it ever since, and not long
after the occurrence two Camp Dennison
citizens became so excited in reviewing
it that they came to blows and had to be
drawn apart by mutual friends.-Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette.
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A cat in Chico, Cal, bounced upon a
sparrow and was about to make a meal
of it, when dozen other sparrows few
to the relief of its captured associate.
They 80 terrified the cat that the latter
hurriedly dropped the captive and ran
AWAY
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A Cincinnati rat, desiring comfortable
quarters, utterly regardless of expense,
fashioned its nOst out of $52J worth of
greenbacks which it found in a drawer.
The owner of the greenbacks has confs-
Gated the nest, and shows it to her Wis
itors
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The Merchants Gid of Moscow
has contributed 262,500 for the
relief of famine sufferers and has for
med committee to make a private
distribution of mercantile donations.
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A statue of Charlotte Cushrnan,
who was honorable for her purity
of life as well as for her excellence
in art, is TO be placed in the New
York Central Park.
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People who are subject to attacks
OF giddiness or faintness, and those
who suffer from pslpitation and
other sense of discomfort at the
heart should not battle.
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Nearly two bushels of unto pearls
were dug out of an ancient Indian
mound In the LittleAIiami valley
half a dozen years ago. They were
all so much decayed, however, as to
be of no commercial value.
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An Illinois man has just completed a
tramp from North Lawrence to Chicago,
a distance of 500 miles, and he is over
seventy years Of age.
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hob of fifty whitecaps beat a
d nearly to death in Dubois
y Ind. Her morals were often
% them.
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A recent invention used in factories
enables any person in any part of the
factory to stop the main engine BY sim
ply pushing an electric button.
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4 Patti is said to have a parrot
which cost her $4,000 and which
speaks the Welsh language "with
Landudno accent whatever that
may be.
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Recent orders received by the
Scarritt Furniture Company has
put their factory on extra time.
Over 200 men are employed on car
seats and chairs. This is one of the
substantial manufacturing enter
prises of st. Louis.
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bert GiffIn. a prominent British
cier, predicts that there will be
bney panic in the United States,
BED by our silver policy.
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Mrs. Harris, wife of uncle
Remus, is educated woman and does
literary work. besides being "busi.
ness manager of the firm" as Mr.
Harris designates her. She is
thirty-seven years Of age and has
had nine children.
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Robert Boyle, the great philoso-
pher of the Seventeenth century.
mentions an English soldier who
could eat stones and another who
could eat glass.
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The mail-carrier betwean New
castle and Forest City, Arkansas, a
distance of seventy miles, is a
woman. Having been torown and her
arm being broken on late trip, she
had the arm attended to and drove
nm
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Turner, in a sermon in
Idvised colored people to go
a and set up a nation of
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Thomas Lowry, the Minneapolis
railway king, gave his daughter a
draft for $260,000 on the day of her
recent marriage to Il. P. Robinson,
local newspaper editor.
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xas, wishes to have the
fees and shops of the
of the NJ. K. & T. located
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DR.. Nicholson, woman physician,
treated the wife of a Hamburg
merchant with such skill that he has
presented the city with half mil
lion dollars to form womans hospi-
tai.
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1t is said that Canada is in danger
of q great influx of Russian refugees
hundreds of them being broken in
Russia for interior points in the
Dominion.
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B to say just how the
Ter come to an end if it
go round and round
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STATE NEWS.

Midland wants an artesian well.
Gainesville is to have wooden
mill.
Ranger, Eastland county, needs
a bank,
Honey Grove is soon to have an
oil mill.
There is not vacant house in
Dimmitt.
Ducks are going south in great
quantities.
sherman is complaining for lack
of house room.
Mansfield, Tarrant county,
wants bank.
-Muldoon wants a competent
school teacher.
Cotton pickers are scarce.,in
Fannin county.
Two small fires occurred at
Greenville Tuesday.
"A new school house is to be
erected at Lubbock soon.
FIT. Worth city scrip is only
worth rs cents on the dollar
The mineral water of Fort
Worth is pronounced excellent.
-Palo Pinto county lis very dry
and stock water is gettidg scarce.
Ben Mullens was accidently
shot and killed at Waco Tuesday.
Red river is said to be level
with its banks and ferryiDg is dan
gerous.
The Boatman building a Abilene
now going up is SAID to be the finest
building west of Fort Worth.
Way back in the SOS Roswell P.
Flower was a clerk in a corner
grocery in a village in the upper
part of New York state.
The well-known firm of George
Sauer & Co., of Ell Paso has been
seized by the United States internal
revenue officers for allegea viola
tons of the internal revenue avs.
The seizure was made on the order
of the commissioner of internal rev.
enue at Washington, and was en-
forced by ". H. Kneisley, special
agent of internal revenue, who is
now in that city. The store is now
closed. This firm is also involved in
q suit for the amount of S24, 313.55
in the Federal court on eleven allega-
tons, charging violations of the GUS
toms laws The news of the seizure
caused excitement in business cir
la fzm is very popular. and
% the charges and diff
HiIl be successfully met.
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perindents of the railway
ee call for physical as well
] examination for appli-
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y-one deaths from malignant
fever occurred in the neigh
b Of Columbus, Ind, in eigh-
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IL Norway ths lREsforbid-
the marriage
E can prove
IN and knit 4la
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Western farmer needs
er acreage of clover
ess corn.
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Loring, ex-minis-
I'D ex-commissioner
dead.
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bal mines in the
hted, in value, to
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-02-12
y Battle to the Death

LEN INGTON, Ky, Jan. 29.-A battle
to the death took place in Mercer C0un-
ty between a valuable saddle stallion
and jackass belonging to William
Thomas, Il stock raiser. \ few days ago
mad dog bit Thomas's little boy and
horse. The horse went mad and kick
ing down the door of the iackass' stable
began biting him. The jack retaliated,
and for fifteen minutes they fought, us
ing Their teeth, heels and forefeet. Final.
ly the Jack tore loose the stations left
car with his teeth and the horse then bit
piece from the iackass' neck.
This seemed to make the jack more
ferocious than ever and, grabbing the
lower part of the horses neck in his
teeth, he tore out the windpipe, but the
high-mettled stallion did not give up
and before falling he kicked the Jack S
hind leg, breaking it just below the hook.
lie then fell dead. The jack uttered a
long loud bray and went into his stable
lie was covered with blood and so fear
fully wounded that his master killed
him to put him out of his misery.
The boy was treated with Il maidstone
The stone stuck three times and he
shows no sign of rabies. 1t is believed
that he Will recover.
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Poisoned ut boarding school.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-Miss Helen
Potts, daughter Of George II. Potts, a
wealthy railroad and mine owner, who
lives at Asbury Park, and has an Office
at 40 Wall street, died suddenly this
morning in the boarding school of Miss
Lydia Day, No 32, w 10th street from
morphine poison.
Miss Potts, who was beautiful and
accomplished girl, 20 years old, had
been an inmate of Miss Days school
for about year, finishing her educa-
tion. She had been troubled with ner-
vousness and insomnia for some time,
and had received a prescription from
Carlyle w. Harris, IL medical student.
and warm personal friend CT herself
and her family. This prescription
called for 25 grains Of quinine and one
grain Of morphine, to be made into six
capsules, one of which was to bc taken
nightly.
The prescription was put up at McIn-
tyres drug store, 992 9Th avenue. IIar-
rls kept two capsules, and gave the
others to Miss Potts, telling her to fol-
low directions. That day Harris left
town for Old Point Comfort, and while
there, he received letter from Miss
Potts, saying that the medicine had
given her severe headache.
On Thursday last Harris returned to
the city. and calling on Miss Potts told
her to continue taking the capsules.
Last evening the young lady took an
other capsule, and at II o'clock her
room mates were awakened by her
heavy breathing and they found her al
most unconscious. Medical aid was at
once summoned and the doctors pro-
nounced the patient suffering from
narcotic poisOning. They worked with
vigor and restored her by 6 o'clock in
the morning, leaving her at that time
out of danger. At 4 o'clock they were
again summoned to find her at the
point Of death, all their efforts were
unavailing and she died at II o'clocR
this morning.
The idea Of suicide in the case Is out
of the question, and there are sevcra
theories as to the cause of death.
The prescription may have been pu
up by an inexperienced druggist, Wht
substituted morphine for quinine ; tn,
whole grain of morphine might hav,
been put into one capsule, or the cir
may have had the prescription renewed
ard died of the cumulative action of
large number OF capsules. The coroner
Will make q thorough investigation.
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he is III rebellion against his own con-
stitucnts, who have rclcgatcd him to the
shades OF private life. | want to say
that he is in rebellion against the people
of Kansas, who have Just spoken and
whose voice has filled the cathedral OF
this hemisphere, but which has fallen
unheedcd on his deaf car.
Kelly said that he was not here to
traduce the character Of any man. lie
was defending the character of the Re-
publcans Of the South who had been
Killed because thew were Republicans.
lie was sorry that Mississippi could not
furnish man on this floor with enough
OF justice in him to save him (kelly) the
trouble Of doing SO.
Hooker said that he was getting a
little tired Of the broad cast accusations
made against She people of Mississippi
before tribunal which had not the
power TO try them. He protested against
the raising OF sectional luminosity.
Cannon attempted to put an end to
the political discussion by calling atten-
tlon to the absolute necessity of the
speedy passage OF the appropriation
bills, but his remarks had little effect,
the controversy being transferred from
Mississippi to Tennessee, Williams Of
Ohio crltIcising and Richardson defend
ing the conduct Of Senator Harris.
Alter rather stormy scene between
the chairman (McComas) and Breckn-
ridge of Arkansas pertaining to the
question Of recognition, the committee
rose and reported the bill to the House.
No quorum appearing the House with
out disposition Of the bill adjourned.
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THIRD PARTY MOVEMENT.
Activity Among Leaders Caused I,y Sen
atOr Ingalls, Dofeet

New York, Jan. 3l.-A short tim,
ago there was news that the action O
the third party boomers throughout tn,
country would be governed, in larg,
measure, by the result Of the grca
struggle over Ingalls, in Kansas. If tho
Farmers Alliance could not control tho
politics OF state in which it had :
heavy majority OF the voters, 1t would
have no prospect of success in nationa
movcmct; but If, Oh the other hand il
should win in its first serious campaign
III northwestern state. the fact would
be proof that the time had arrived fol
tho organization of a new party IN Tic
United States.
Kansas was the pivotal state, and
there the signal was to be hoisted. The
Alliance had shown itself to be all pow,
ertul IN several southern states; but
there was an imperative necessity that
it should WIN triumph in the north
Its success at Topeka this week is, there.
fore, an Incident ol(irst-class Importance
| to the third party boomers:
Even President McGrath, Of the Kan
sas Alliance, who was last year opposed
to the formation of n new party, has
changed his mind. The Alliance man
ayers in Nebraska and Minnesota are
| ready to follow ,he leadership of Kansas.
and several oe the Alliance leaders in
the south are dssirous Of cooperating
with their northern brethren in nation,
al political movement. II is believed
that the four states of Kansas, Nebraska
Minnesota and South Dakota arc sutli
| tn l.:
other states will yet rally.
| The Alliance boomers arc to take uI
the business Of preparing for the Nation.
al Union conference which Is to be
held in Cincinnati upon date that has
not vet been fixed. The call fer this
conference, which was issued in Dcccm.
Der last, bore the signatures OF Alliance
officials in seventeen northern an(
southern states, and all industrial or.
CARNATIONS were invited to take part il
| It,. The Knights Of Labor, will scn(
delegates to it, and half Il dozen ayrlcul-
tural associations, including the Color
cd Farmers Alliance, will be represent
cd at it. The greatest of all the trade
union bodies in this country, the Amcri
can Federation OF Labor, has given no
tlcc that 1t cannot take any part in Tho
conference Or in the formation of new
political party.
The experiment of bringing togcthc
the workers i'll the cities and the tillcr
OF the fields i'll order to gam poltica
ends was made in Washington last wee
at 4 conference held by the so-callcd In
duslrial Confederation. but the result c
the experiment was not encouraging t
those concerned IN it.
SO far as can be learned by the re
ports from various states, the platform
and the measures of the Kansas Farm
cas- Alliance are likely to find favor a
the Cincinnati conference, for Kansa
carries the flag.
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An Appeal From tho Poor.

HAMBURG, Jan. 3l.-Four thousand
unemployed workmen of tins city held
meeting Sunday to consider measures
looking to an amclioration OF their con-
ditiOr. 1t was resolved to send petl-
ton to the Senate asking that landlords
be prohibited on the next quarter day
from cvlcting tenants unable to pay their
rents also asking that loans of SO marks
be advanced to destitute workmen from
the state funds and that poor children
in public schools be supplied with hot
meals daily. The committee formed to
help relieve the distress of the unem-
ployed distribute over ten thousand free
meals daily.
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a National Alliance Ticket

OMAHA, Neb, Jan. 29.-The National
Farmers A lliance to-day decided to put
in nomination in 1890 a full national
ticket, headed by candidates FOR Presi-
dent and Vice President of the United
States. Resolutions were passed favor
ing the abolition of national banks,
loans from the government on landed
security, the foreclosure of railroad
mortgages, particularly that of the
Union Pacific, for the government con-
troll of railroads, for free silver, that the
currency shall be increased in amount
to $50 per capita of the population, all
with gold, Ill securities to be assessed at
their face values, and for the election Of
United States Senator by the people.
The Alliance also decided to have moth
ing to do with either of the old political
D1riipS
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Horrible Death.

FLORENCE, S. c., Jan. 20.-Cant.
lave DaVG Morecock' OF this place, was
knocked or OF the freight train a few
miles below Florence this mornino
lie was not missed until the next station
was reached, and having gone back in
search oi him, he was found suspended
OIL OF the bridge over Lynch's creek,
his shoes having caught on an iron pin .
lie IS supposed not to have known what
struck him, as his brain was knocked
out. lie leaves a yound wife here and
parents in North Carolina to mourn his
loss. The Knights of Pythias Will take
possession of his body.
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The Alliance Bank.

COLUMBIA. Jan. 28.-Thc trustee
stockholders of the State Alliance Ex-
change have been in session almost con-
tinuously today since 10 O'Clock this
morning until after midnight, trying to
arrange for a State alliance bank. The
bank has been organized, however, but
the members absolutely refused to give
one word for publication, keeping their
actor a stricet secret.
Inc stockholders elected the following
directors and adjourned: j. A. Sigh,
w. IL. Zimmerman, j. f. Tindall, j. w.
Stokes, j. II. and ID. p. Duncan.
The board of directors held a subse-
quent meeting, but did not elect officers,
as far as can be ascertained. They will
not say when they will meet again.