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Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
MRS. DAVIS IN TROUBLE.
Her Publishing House Failed With
Her Money Tied I'm


A dispatch from New York saws:
The friends of Mrs. jefferson Davis
everywhere, and southern people in
particular, will regret to learn that she
is probably in very Strengthened cir
cumstances on account of tho failure
OF the Bedford Publ shing company
and her inability to collect the royal-
ties on her husbands memoirs due
her.
Mrs. Davis, through her attorney,
Ex-Governor Hoadley, has brought
suit against Robert Bedford, of the
Bedford company and Edward LANCE
for $4,000. That amount is due her
IN royalties on the book, but it is
doubtful if she ever receives one-haIf
Of it.
When Mr.. Davis died his widow I'M
dertook the work of completing his
memoirs. 1t was expected thai the
volume would meet with a large sale
and the Belfords were anxious to pub
lish it. just why Mrs. Davis selected
comparatively new publishing house
the financial standing of which was
never the highest, has never been made
public. March 4, 1890, Mrs. Davis
entered into contract with Robert
Bedford for the publication of the
memoirs of her husband. The con-
tract was for period of six wears and
the royalties on all books sold were to
be paid to her every three months.
Robert Belford assigned the contract
to the Belford company and it was
guaranteed by Edward LANCE, the
manager of the company.
There was considerable DELAY in
getting out the book. The fact was
the company did not have the facili-
ties nor the capital to properly handle
such a work.
Mrs. Davis spent large part of last
winter and spring in this city revising
the proof and looking after the publi-
cation of the book. The volume was
finally issued, and for time sold very
rapidly. Mrs. Davis's royalties ror
the first three months are said to have
amounted to $4,000, of which she has
never received one penny.
The Belford company got into finan-
clal difficulties and not only failed to
pay Mrs. Davis her royalties, but were
unable to advertise and push the sale
OF the book. The sales have recently
fallen off greatly with no prospect for
Improvement in the present condition
OF the Belford company. These still
have the contract and Mrs. Davis is
unable to put the book in the hands of
any other publishing house.
Governor Hoadley says the company
admits that Mrs. Davis claim for S1O.-
600 is correct, but that they plead ina
bility to pay. 1t looks as if she will
realize very little if any money from
the work of which she expected SO
much. Her income is said to be very
small, and she is sorely in need of the
royalties for which she has begun suit,
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24

tute must produce certificates showing
that they have completed the full courses
in the ordinary ladies gymnasia or in the
provincial colleges for the daughters OF
the nobility. In the new establishment
the curriculum will extend over two years
and includes instruction by qualified
teachers and professors in financial and
commercial calculation, the routine du-
ties of the counting house, commercial
correspondence, commercial law, gen
eral knowledge of the national products,
commercial geography political economy,
thorough knowledge of English, French
and German and regulation style on
plain caligraphy. There are, it is stated
already a surprisingly large number OF
fair aspirants seeking admission to the
new establishment, which will beyopened
very shortly. - Chicago Post.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
THE WIVES or GREAT MEN.

An item is going the rounds stating
that the wife of Joel Chandler Harris is
a pretty brunette, with beautiful teeth,
sparkling eyes, winning smile and en-
gaging manners. This is no doubt true,
and what is true of Joels domestic
existence is true of that of every man of
prominence. None of this class of citi
zens has yet been discovered with plain
or disagreeable wife. The homely woman
has no show in this world evidently. II
she has got a husband and he become
prominent, at once she is transformed
into perfect beauty. That's the way
of the world. indianapolis San.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
W0MAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
A MANS HEROINE ,

A MAN . hEhOANh.
Some girls are extolled for their beauty
And some for their knowledge and Wit,
And others for doing duty,
OF hardship and courage and grit,
And some for composing d sonnet
Or acting and filling a hall,
But the girl who can trim her own bonnt
And makes her own dress beats all.
Miss Patti more music II ny warble,
Rose Bonheur excel her with paint,
Miss Hosmer carve better on marble,
She may not be half of a saint
But if she can make her own dresses
And trim her own bonnet, we hold
She is-for the husband she plesses
Worth more than the others, all told
A girl who can make her head pretty
And, also. her figure look sweet,
Is, eithefin country or city,
A prize which no genius can beat;
And when in addition she's able
To care for the babies and cook
We set her right up on the table
And call on creation to look.
Hurrah for this girl and no other
We shout her unlimited praise;
To win her away from her mother
And wed her we're trying always;
She makes man happy forever
BY helping-as Nature ordains--
While those who, alas, are too clever.
But add to his troubles and pains.
H. c. Dodge, in GoodaFs Sun.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
BALMACEDA's SUICIDE.
Pursued and Hopeless Of Escape
His Friends Talked of
Surrendering.

The New York Herald prints a
special from Valparaiso, Chill, stating
that Balmaceda committed suicide yes
terday at the Argentine legation in
Santiago by shooting himself in the
head with revolver.
The dispatch says: Balmaceda left
Santiago August goth, in the hope of
making his escape; but seeing every
avenue of retreat cut of, returned
September I'd and went direct to the
Argentine legation. His intention be-
ing to go aboard the vessel Condsll
which he expected to ind i'm san An
tonic baY.--I1Fen arriving there he
fou..a-rne vessel had sailed.
Since his return to the Argentine
legation in Santiago Balmaceda has
been IN an extremely nervous con-
dition, no one with the exception of
the Argentine minister and one other
man who was devoted to the ex-presi-
dent were permitted to talk with or
even see him. All the different
schemes of fight were considered by
the hunted ex-president.
Senior Umburia had long talk with
balmaceda Frida night relative to the
iatters ideas about the ACCESSIBILITY of
giving himself up to the Junta. Bal
maceda and Senior Umburia went TO
bed at midnight.
Senorita Umburia about a. m.
heard pistol shot in the bed room
assigned to Balmaceda. She notified
her husband. Before going to Balma-
ceda's room he ran around to the
house of Carlos Walker Martinez and
brought him back to the legation
Breaking open the Goor of Balma-
ceda's room it was found that he had
shot himself. The body was still
warm. There was gaping wound in
the temple. The body was undressed
and lay on the bed. A revolver war
still held in his right hand.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
LAUNDRY WORK IS UNHEALTHY

Official records of public hospitals
show that in almost every case the lauu-
dry woman's case was phthis, or con,
sumption OF. the lungs; the few excep.
lions were bronchitis and heart disease.
AS to the connection between phthisis
and laundry work, the resident medical
officer expressed an emphatic opinion
that any woman with predisposition to
phthisis who undertook laundry work.
either as washer or ironer, would in 4
comparatively short time become serious.
~ affected, owing to the bad ventilation
and the sudden changes of the temper
allure. The same causes might generate
bronchitis in healthy subject, and
added the courteous physician, s.if any
one wanted to make out case against
the laundries they might plausibly argue
that the heart disease is also due to laun.
dry work. For the most frequent cameo
OF heart disease is rheumatic fever. and
that might easily be induced by the con.
slant moisture in laundry. --Nep Yoy1
World. I"
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24

London has hospital for women
which was established by woman
and is now differed by women and
maintained by them. There is an out
patients reception room, numerous
wards for in-patients, rooms for pay
ing patients and there are prettily fur.
nished suites for women doctors. The
hospital was established through the
indefatigable exertions Of one woman,
Mrs. Garrett Anderson.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
CHILEAN AFFAIRS.
The Latest News From the Disturbed
Republic.

htpuDiiCs
The New York Herald's VALPARAISO
dispatch says the provisional Govern
ment issued orders Saturday for the
arrest of all robbers, pillagers and
slayers of congressionalists. The
sympathizers of the murderers of Isad-
ore, Ossa, Cummings and the forty
two students slain August 18th, are
especially sought after. In an inter-
view with two of Balmaceda's officers,
now in prison here, it was learned that
both of Balmaceda's Generals. Barbosa
and Alzerra, were utt erly incapable
officers.
They fagrantly disobeyed Balma.
ceda's orders, thus causing the over
throw of the government. His ex-
pllcit instructions to then.-s~crc not to
engage the Jnnso's troops with less
than 400 men, but to draw the enemy
inland. Barbosa acted exactly to the
contrary. The result was his disas.
trous defeat.
The murder of Ex-Minister Album
ate on September 18th is deeply deplored
by the new Government. Alldunate
was travelling toward Santiago under
the escort of some Government troops.
who murdered him and took $50 900
from him. The body was terribly
mutilated.
No trace of Balmaceda has been
found. Advices from Buenos Ayres
have not YET reached this city. The
opinion is general that ha 10 hid;no,
somewhere in Chill.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
ROYALTY AT WORK.

The daughters of the Princess of
Wales, says Lady Elizabeth Hilary in
the Ladies Home. Journal, are sensibly
educated. They know how to sew SO
well that they can make their own
gowns, and their knowledge of every art
taught them is thorough. They can go
into the kitchen~and cookbook we'll;
theyunderstand the art of bread making,
and if they were thrown upon their own
resources would be able to take care of
themselves. Sweet-faced, healthy-loo
ing girls, they are always gowned in
the most simple manner, and work at
their books and with pencil and needle
IN way that would shame the daughter
OF many tradesman, who ought to
thoroughly understand everything that
Is really woman's work.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
GREAT YEAR FOR PRINTS.
ROBBED THE TRAIN.
Red Masked Men Deliberately Gath
er in the Money and Leave.

er in the Money and Leave.
A dispatch from Muskogee, l. 7,
says the Missouri, Kansss and Texas
southbound passenger train was held
up and the express car was robbed at
$3.50 Tuesday night, four miles north
of Wagner.
The robbers covered the train Off
Gals with pistols and two of their
number entered the express car. They
ordered the expressman to open the
large steel safe, which he was unable
to do, and it took considerable arguing
before he could convince the robbers
of his utter inability to comply. They
thereupon dumped the small iron chest
which contained 81. 900. out of the
express car do9k and, breaking it open
took the entire amount. They made
no attempt to rob the passengers, and
there was but one shot fired.
The robbers wore masks of red
flannel, and after completing the job,
took to the woods with their booty.
Officers have left Muscogee in pur.
suit of the robbers.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
FASHION NOTES.

| Sailor hats of white felt are revived. s
Beaded sets of girdle and collar end IN
rain" fringe.
Tiny wraps of lace have deep v al
lace, back and front.
Rustic ecru hats are trimmed with
cherries and red ribbon.
Many gray suede Oxford ties,are worn
with silk stockings to match.
A new wooden Grape is striped like
corduroy, and is exceedingly effective.
Velvet ribbon for millinery trimmings
is on the list of to-be's for next season. !
There is lack OF the reddish-browu
shades in brocades, satin, bengaline, etcs
Some novelties show egg-shaped balls
IN place OF the perfectly round polka
dot.
Clear, dark-green shades will be ID
demand to combine with wooden dress
goods.
A novelty in individual salts are canoe
shaped ones, with tiny silver paddles fo1
spoons.
For bedrooms and boudoir there ard
silver futed twisted candlesticks with
carved standardn
SCISSORS with silver handles that fold
over and protect the sharp points are
made for carrying in ones pocket.
Silver boxes beautifully chased ana
decorated with medallion portraits Of
historical persons are greatly admiredj
The fashion OF wearing handsome Cost
bodices OF material distinct from that "a
the accompanying dress skirt is gainipd
ground
Jewel boxes of rock crystal mountx
In silver are counted among other hicH
srt articles that find a place il th9
boudoir.
Inc abnormally high sleeve 4 rasse,
ana a lew very new French tailor eovna
snow close coat sleeve lightly trimmed
on tne top OF the arm, with the core
sponding trimming at the wrists.
Dainty French dresses have moat =
the skirts faced with silk and withomf
binding and instead Of tho lace bolSy|
clse' the modiste now puts pinkod lrII
q 1ne SILK inside the facing, which c151i
a tasteful finish at the foot 81 tha S|ri5
when seen BY accident. g.
me new silk crepons are really g.
tliul' and great use il made ii lSsS
trllls and hshus' Entire toiiof6 81 SI2;s
MAC, cream. and gray chiffon ~ 4
ported. The fabric falls ii nIoat
folds, and while resembling 6renu |ISr
are altogether devoid 81 AZ = "a
&C. q ~ he'las n a,oV'
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
4 FAMOUS WOMAN ASTRONOMER.

One of the first American women to-
obtain celebrity as an astronomer was
Maria Mitchell, who was born in Nan
tucket, Mass, August /, 1918. She was
the daughter of William Mitchell, an as
tronomer, by whom she was taught, ands
after receiving her education, aided him
in his work. At the age of eighteen She
became librarian of the Nantucket Athe-
naum, remaining there for twenty years,
devoting her leisure to her favorite
science. She made a specially OF the
study of nebule, made careful observaJ
lions and searched for comets. She dis
covered several nebule and found q
comet on October /, 1874, which disy
covery was confirmed by her father
Professor W. G. Bond, OF Harvard, and
several Italian astronomers.
The King of Denmark presented her
with gold medal for this, aud the Re-
public of San Marine, i'll Italy, had q
copper medal struck in her honor. Dur
ing the rest of her life she discovered
seven other comets. She made a trip to-
Europe in 1858, and visited the family
of Sir John Herschel, and was enter-
tanned by the distinguished English as
tronomer, Sir George B. Airy. She was
received by Leverrier in Paris, and by
Humboldt in Berlin, where she also met
Encke, whose name is associated with q
wonderful comet. Detroit Free Press.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24

The New York cooking school had
1000 pupils in the year just ended,
half Of whom were taught free. The
school gives free instruction in plain
cookery to the children of working
people, and teaches them how to pre-
pare their food in wholesome way and
how to market advantageously and
economically. Instruction in higher
cookery is given to those who pay for
Il
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
HIRED GARMENTS.

"When in doubt-hire" will be the
watchword of future brides of humble
means, for the Partisan custom OF loan
ing for triaing consideration not only
the wedding garment but all possible
accoutrements of the occasion is fast
taking root here. OF course the idea
will not appeal to women Of refinement,
but all brides cannot lay claim to cul-
ture, and sentiment, like everything
rare, is expensive. York Times.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
ENCOURAGING PROSPECTS.
The Great Wheat Crop Makes the
Outlook Promising.

Dun's weekly review of trade says:
The hot weather at the West is worth
to the country many millions every
day. Each clear and cloudless dav
places millions of bushels of corn be-
yond the possibility of harm from the
frost and great part of the antici-
pated crop is already safe. Large
crops mean that the farmers will be
enabled to purchase more freely of the
products of other industries, and will
pay this fall vast amount of indebt-
edness. In the four months ending
September l, about &c 1-2 per cent of
the mortgage debts on farms in Kan
sas, or about S10,000,000. had been
paid. Several hundred millions will
thus be returned to the lenders, who
will powerfully affect all markets by
their efforts to find new use for
their money. In the meantime gold is
also coming from Europe, ana though
the foreign banking institutions are
doing what they can in self-defense to
! restrain the movement, they fail to
prevent the active buying of Ameri-
can securities by foreign investors.
With the money coming for stocks
and bonds as well as for wheat and
cotton and with the liquidation of the
farming Indebtedness, the prospects
for business this fall are unusually
bright.
DECIDED IMPROVEMENT THIS WEEK.
Actual Improvement is seen in
nearly all cities this week. At Phila-
delphia business is more active and
the iron markets are stronger, as well
as trade in jewelry, paints and glass,
though the demand for dry goods is
not felt by the manufacturers. 1t is
especially noteworthy that collections
are improving at most points, and that
the money markets are, on The whole,
comparatively easy, although the crops
to be moved are enormous and the
actual movement unprecedented. 1t
Is surprising fact that, notwith-
standing that the output of pig iron
is almost equal to the largest ever
known, the price grows more steady
and stiff and decidedly better tone is
oCoohNOo III oil inpoItdut l1dfkeCS.
This has been noticed for month or
more, as q sure indication of very
large and healthy consumption of
iron, but during the paste~eek there
has been rumors of warlike tone
from Europe, which has affected the
iron markets of the United States.
The more obvious cause of the JIM
provement is that stocks and bonds
are stronger, and consequently the
railroads have more money for the
purchase of rails, and there is better
prospect for the building of new rail
roads and for extensions.
GREAT YEAR FOR PRINTS.
Wooden manufacture is doing re-
markedly well, particularly worsteds
and dress goods, and the demand for
dress goods notably exceeds the pres
ent supply. Print cloths have ad-
vanced little and it is believed that
this has been the largest season ever
known in prints.
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during the
past seven days number 210.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
no Help Mrs. Maybrlck.

A telegram from London says: A
committee formed with the purpose of
leaving no stone unturned to bring
aDout release of Mrs. Maybrick
from prison has retained the services
OF sir Charles Russell and Sir Horace
Davey, in order to test the legality of
Mrs. Maybriok's detention in prison.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
A SILK FARM.

Miss Carrie Douglass, of Volusia
County, Florida, is experimenting in the
raising of silk worms. This spring she
raised three crops of worms, the third num-
berlng some 10000 individuals, feeding
all on the leaves of the mulberry tree
She has about two acres planted in
young trees, which fully grown will ba
capable of supporting an immense number
of the rapacious little worms, whose
whole existence is nothing but one un-
ceasing meal. The cocoonery which
Miss Douglas uses is about thirty feet
by twenty, and has provision for artificial
heat, very necessary thing even in this
climate, as the least chill or dampness ID
fatal to the health of the worms and,
consequently to the quality of the silk
they produce. Alter they have attained
their full growth, which is in about sin
weeks from the time they are Matched,
they stop eating, and commence to spin
their shrouds of silk, which are no sooner
completed than the cocoon is taken and
subjected to some generally
that of steaming-by which the worm il
destroyed in the cocoon, as it would
otherwise eventually cut its way out as d
moth, and ruin all the silk so carefully
spun. Miss Douglass ships this year as
the result of her labors, about one huns
dred and fifty pounds of cocoons, which
will average about one dollar per poundS
--Atlanta Constitution.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24

Pomona Valley, California, expects
to have the biggest fig orchard in the
world. Over 700 acres will be planted
with $4,000 trees, imported from
Syria The projectors expect to pro-
duce fruit equal to the best Smyrna
varieties. At vacaville fruit raiser
reports profit of 1925 an acre from
apricots on an orchard of forty
aoras.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
One Place where they struck

a special from Charleston, S. e.,
says; The president of the colored
aliiance IN Florence county says that
Humphreys circular has been received
ana distributed to his alliance, and
that members Of the Cotton Pickers,
Z IN that county stopped work
Saturday last. ~
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
FINE TOBACCO CROPS.
Ohio Farmers Smiling Broadly If
Frost Doesn't Catch Them.

a telegram from Dayton, o =, says:
II killing frost does not come before
the goth instant, growers will have in
sheds the greatest tobacco crop that
the Mama valley ever produced, and
OF excellent quality. The lowest esti-
mate is $4,000 cases of Spanish, 90
o0O cases of seed leaf and 10, 900 cases
OF Dutch that will bring an average
OF 9 cents per pound, $25 per case, a
total OF 81 10000 to tie farmers of
Darke and Miami, Greer, Montgom-
cry, Preble and Warren counties The
Spanish tobacco is all i'll the shed and
curing satisfactorily. Dutch and seed
leaf tobacco are in the field and still
growing.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
-FOUR BABIES AT ONCE.
Born % : Birmingham, Ala, Mother
Three Boys and One Girl.

Born 70 Birmingham, Ala, Mother
Three Boys and One Girl.
-Four babies-three boys and one
girl, were born to one Birmingham
mother at one time the other day.
They are her first.
The mother and the children are all
doing well.
She is Mrs. Bellen. Her husband is
james Bellen, foreman in the Alabama
Great Southern railroad shops; man
well known and highly respected in
Thu city.
The extraordinary event attracted
great interest amongst Mr.. Bellen's
fFiends.
Foreman Bellen Is hearty, good
Haturof, energetic fellow of medium
5|6eS He wife, the happy mother. is
a 6Vorage size and i mot far past
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
cHAuTAuauA WOMEN.

Four "Cnautauqua women are said
to be famous. Mrs. G. r. Alden, who
writes religious stories over the nom de
plume of "Pansy;" Mrs. McClintock,
who teaches matin class in Beowulf
and Chaucer; Miss Laura Fry, who
carved the organ screen in the Cincin-
natl Music Hall, and Mrs. Emma P.
Ewing, who has taught cooking in
Kansas for years. Chicago Post.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
THIRTY DEATHS.

From Diptheria Within Forty.Eieht
Hours.
a special from Shelbyville, Ind,
says diptheria is epidemic in this city.
The public schools have closed and a
general quarantine established. Thirty
deaths have occurred within the past
rorty-eight hours, and adults are being
attacked as well as children. The
disease is now in every portion of the
city and the physicians are alarmed at
its malignity.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
On Account or a WITS Faishlessness

Martin Muller, we'll known citizen
Of st. Mary, q, committed suicide by
throwing himself in front Of freight
train The q minal intimacy Of Mrs.
MpAer with D mar named Baker was the
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24

It Is announced from ST. Petersbur .
that Nine. T. Q. Ivaschintzeff has OBJ s.
tanned ministerial permission to establish
. iauies commercial school ia the liz
capital: Ledies and young girls seekinc
admission " the new commercial mar;