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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
The Meaning of Free Coinage.

The National Stockman and
Farmer, having been frequently
asked to define "free coinage of sill
yer. wrote to the Treasury depart
ment at Washington and got this an
swer from the director Of the mint:
THE term free and unlimited coin
age of silver means the comforting
of the right upon individuals to take
silver of any kind to the minis and
have every 81 IA pure grains of it
stamped, free of charge, into dollar,
which dollar is full legal tender for
its face value in the payments Of
debts and obligations of all kinds in
the United States" In other words,
an ounce OF silver (48o grains) which
can be bought in the open market
for % cents, is to pass, under the
kind of free coinage now proposed,
for 12o cents A Spectator who
paid Sos for 100 ounces would get
of the treasury $I2o in national cur
rency, making SCI by the transaction.
Or, to put it differently, with the sill
yer at % cents per ounce he could
get 100 silver dollars, or silver GER
tihcates for silver bullion costing
him $3.50. The average cost of
producing silver per ounce in the
United States in 1886 was Sill cents
per ounce. In Montana the average
cost was 43 8 cents per ounce. The
Granite Mountain mine in that State,
according TO the official statement of
the Granite Mountain company to
the directors of the mint in 1886,
produced 2,o87,745 ounces of silver
at a cost of II 5 4 cents per ounce
In Mexico the cost is "A 3 8 cents;
South America. "a S 8 cents; in Aus
trialia, at the Broken Hill mine. 70
cents. Very large quantities of sill
yer are produced at these figures.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
The Rockford Races.

From August 10th to 18th, inclu-
sive, the Chicago & North Western
R'v Co. will sell excursion tickets to
Rockford and return at very low
rates for the accommodation of
those who desire to attend the races
at that point. For tickets and fur
Their information apply to Agents c.
& NV. R'y.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
CALIFORNIA Flc SYRUP co.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
< GF89 We Ky. NEW YORK. N.Y.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
Floating Chestnuts.
To tell the age of horse-rake ex-
anime it's teeth.-Bufalo Times.

To tell the age of horse-rake ex-
anime it's teeth.-Bufalo Times.
She-"So you loved and lost, did
you" He-"No, she returned all
my presents. Epoch.
You've got to raise the wind if
you want to be heavy swell at the
seashore. Washington Star.
The music of drum is always on
tap, usually with stick in it =
Binghamton Republican.
The prettiest thing in summer
gloves is the pretty hand OF a pretty
girl.-New York Recorder.
The ladies man is SO called be-
cause he usually isn't good for any
thing else.-Somerville Journal.
Man wants but little here below.
But woman wants something all the
time.-Richmond Recorder.
The man who goes to church
much hears a great deal of preach
ing that hits other people.-Ram's
Horn.
ooh, Mr.. Bulfnsh, you are SO
odd" "The remedy, Miss Smilax,
lies entirely with you. Boston
Courier
"Though Ispeak but one language
l am familiar with many tongues. :
said the physician--Buffalo Enqulr-
err.
Lieut.. Snow. Skookum,
measure the tree with this rule and
see how thick it is" Skookum Jim
-"Me can't; it no long 'nough. =
American Field.
She-"His marriage mercenary.
Why, the girl had little or nothing {
He-"Yes, but he owed her father,
Life.
The vain belle with cheek like
the red side of luscious peach IS
devoted to naughty culture.--Dallas
News.
The older a man grows the wiser
he usually becomes, unless he hap
pens to marry young wlfe.--NeW
York Recorder
When the young minister is
caught kissing the Glands of the
flock" he usually looks "sheepish
New York Herald.
The surplus would make a great
model for Chicago leaning tower.
1t has the right leanness.-Philadel-
phia Recorder.
The man who loves lingering
kiss should marry Philadelphia
girl. A slow town produces many
good things.-Puck.
Miss Languish-"Were you ever
disappointed in love, Mr.. Hearty?'
Mr.. Heartv-"Yes, indeed, every
time. New York Truth.
About the nearest to perpetual
motion that anybody has yet come
is the old fashioned debating society.
Buffalo Express.
Sticky (supe)-"1 want me tree
dollars, seer" Manager-"Tell
Props that l said he should give you
the stage diamonds = Jewellers Cir
cular.
The new kind of tableware is
called The Record" The new
servant girl will probably break it at
the first opportunity. -Yonkers
| Statesman.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06

"Oh, if had only taken this medicine
earlier in life, what years of suffering it
would have saved mer' was the touching
exclamation of one who had been cured Of
rheumatism by the use of Ayers Sarsap
arilla. Scores of other such cases are on
record.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-04
The Fair and the Force Bill.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator
German charactcrizes as fiction the re-
port that deal has been arranged by
which the Democratic members of the
Kansas LEGISLATURE are to vote for Sena-
tor Ingalls, in return for his opposition to
the force bill.
This same story was circulated sever
al weeks ago, and it was then said that
Senator German, as leader of the De-
mocracv in the Senate. was authorized
to pledge certain Democratic votes in
the Kansas Legislature to Ingalls, if he
would openly oppose the force bill:
When Senator German was interviewed
on the subject tonight he said he could
not undertake to assume the response
bility for all the ingenious statements
sent out from Washington at this time.
The opponents CT the force bill are
greatly encouraged in their fight by the
general drift OF public sentiment in their
favor. The action Of several States in
refusing assistance to the Worlds Far
unless the bill is beaten causes alarm in
Administration circles. The promoters
of the Fair now tear that the Legisla-
lures of New York and New jersey
will follow the example Of those States.
AS the force bill is said to be aimed dir
ectly at New York and New jersey as
well as the Southern States, the Demo-
cratic Legislatures in the North should
not hesitate to JOIN with their Southern
brethren in any scheme calculated to
preserve the rights Of their people.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-04
BctwoeN Cotton Bales.

NEW YORK. Jan. 2S.-The Clark
Thread company has. managed to In
duce Sixty-seven men to so to Newark
to take the places Of the strikers, but
at 40 time since the strike mas the
number at work exceeded twenty -four,
and the others have refused to stay
upon learning that their liberty was to
be curtailed, and that they would have
to eat and sleep in ths hose house
of the. Newark mill. Those who re-
main have unlimited beer. and musical
entertainments are furnished for them
almost every night. They are guarded
from intrusion or attack by corps OF
special officers employed by the COM
pany, and all the fresh air they catch
while crossing the yard to the mill.
The manner of getting the new spin
ners into the mill has been puzzle to
the strikers until it leaked out that
they were taken in between bales OF
cotton on one OF the company's trucks.
The bales are built up on the truck so
that a space for the men is left in the
centre, and the load go5s through the
streets to the mill yard without any
body suspecting that the men are con-
cealsd in it.
The spinners who are on astrike say
thatit is necessary to keep the new
men in ignorance OF the true condition
Of affairs, because the strikers, when
they can get a few minutes conVersa-
ton with the newcomers, can always
influence them to turn back.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-04
Shcds His Skin ETery Year.

CHICAGO, Jan. lS.-In one of the
Office rooms of st. Elizabcth's hospital
hangs frame containing four photo
graphs representing a man in the act Of
shedding his skin. One Of the photo
graphs shows this strange human phe-
nomcnon with his arms outstretched.
the old skin peeling of and hanging
from hi. body in shreds like a tattered
shirt. while the new skin can be detected
BY the whiteness Of the photograph.
Last July he left his home at Phillips
burg, Mont. and arrived in Chicago the
latter part of the month, and as his skin
peeling spell CT sickness always begins
July % Of each year, he decided to use
letter Of introduction from 4 Montana
riend to DR.. Jacob Frank, Of No. II
Lincoln avenue. He informed the doc
tor what he expected would happen to
him shortly and applied for room in
the hospital. DR.. Frank suspected that
the man was insane, but he nevertheless
gave the patient a room. At the e1-
pecled time the skin shedding began, and
in two weeks he was covered with the
SKIN which is to last him another year.
He is the second oldest child of a family
Of thirteen, all Of whom are living. His
grandmother is 81 years old. He de-
cllnes to have his name published.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-04
Ee Loved His Native Land.

MEMPHIS. Tenn. Jan. "A Grim
ipal with rather a remarkable history
has b,cn lodged in jail at Lexington,
Miss. At the December term ct the Cir
cult Court of that County Eugene Story
wasconvicted ofmurdering Barney Cleln-
felde and sentenced to be hanged. Hisat-
attorneys appealed to the Supreme Court.
and while the appeal was pending Story
was forcibly released by his friends.
He made his way to Central America,
but did not like the country and return
ed to the United States, saying he would
rather be hanged here than hive there.
He wandered over the South and was
finally trailed to Gallatain, La. we re
last Thursday detective and q sheriff
walked in on him while ic was dining.
lie drew revolver and fatally shot the
detective and wounded the sheriff, and
was himself wounded in the cheek.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-04
Three Wrecks in the GULF.

MOBILE, ALA, Jan. 28.-Capt. Os-
borne, OF the schooner Georgiana. re-
ports three shipwrecks in the lower
part OF the Gulf Of Mexico during the
last days of December. The first was
the fouaderlng OF bark at Cayman
Brae, on December 25, name unknown; !;
six of the crew were drowned, others
dritted ashore on the ships house. The
second disaster was the going ashore
of the American schooner Maggie =
Gray, of Baltimore, on the northwest
end Of Little Cayman Island. Capt.
Osborne offered to try to pull her off,
and also offered to saye portion Of her
cargo, but he was warned off 10y e..
Henry Williams, agent Of the phos-
phate company where the vessel lay.
The schooner soon went to pieces and
proved a total loss. The third Case was
the capsiZing at sea, fifty miles east OF
Bianote, on December %, Of the schoon-
er Contest, OF Ruatan. The vessel had
set sail the day before for jamaica with
thirteen persons, including the wife Of
the captain, Kirk Connell. Only three
persons escsp ped, making their way in &
skifT with an oar for mast and a shirt
for sail to the mainland, reaching
there on ths Goth. One Of these was 4
colored man nsmeG l.. johnson, who
gave Capt. Osborne information OF 1t.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-04
The Fated Seventh Cavalry.

TOPEKA KAN, January 29-The par
ticulars of a bad collision between >
passenger train and special bearing
troops from Pine Ridge, which occur
red last evening on the Union Pacific
Railroad at Florence, a small station
near Irving. Kansas, have been received
here.
The special was carrying about four
hundred soldiers, part Of the 1th cav
airy, and Battery Il, light artillery,
bound for Fort Riley The train con-
sisted of seven passenger and twenty
four freight cars loaded with horses
and several pieces of artillery and am.
unition, hauled by two large engines
and several cars are complete wreck.
Many Of the soldiers were seriously
and at least two fatally injured. The
dead so far as can be ascartained are
Sergt Scharsbalt Battery Z, artillery,
cut all to pieces, and Private Neil,
Troop G, 7th cavalry, left leg cut OF
and head mashed.
Among the wounded are Capt. God
frey, Troop D. 7th cavalry, and ten en-
listed men. None OF the passengers on
the other train were injured. a brake
man was hurt.
The conductor of the military train
is held responsible for the accident, as
he was running on the express trains
time. lie has disappeared. y large
number of cavalry horses were killed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-04
Secretary Window Dies suddenly.

NEw YORK. Jan. 29.-)ust as Secre-
tary Window concluded his speech at
the Board Of Trade dinner tonight, he
grew dcadl. pale, his eyes shut and
opened spssTEodiealls and hefell on his
chair, thence he slipped to the floor,
where he lay unconscious. The most
iDtsnse excitement immediately en-
sued.
Judge Amor, e1-Sec,etary Bayard
and Captain snow We're the first OF
several who ran to Mr. WINDOWS aiG.
They found h'm apparently uncon-
sciou.. They lifted him gently and
carried him into an ante-room, where
several physicians proceeded at once to
his assistance.
\ later dispatch from New York than
the previous one says Secretary Win
doui's attack resulted in death. Mr..
Window left here to-day in apparent
good health to attend the banquet of
his New York Board of Trade. where
he was to respond to the toast: Our
Country's Prosperity Dependent Upon
its instruments Of Commerce" His
address was prepared IN advance and
embraced about 5000 words.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-04
The Force Bill.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-It 5asa mat
ter OF talk about the Capitol to-day
that several Republican Senators-suf-
fcient in number to meet the needs OF
the Democrats-had assured the Demo
cratic managers in the Senate that un-
der no circumstances would they vote
again to take up the election bill this
session. An inquiry shows that there
lis basis of truth in the report. 1t
cannot be learned that anything like
formal pledges on the subject have
passed, but it is certainly a matter OF
assurance among the Democratic Sena-
tors that the bill is not to arise again
to trouble them, and they haye notified
thsir party friends in the Hsuse that
there is no longer any necessity to let
the possibility OF the return of the elec-
ton bill to the House enter into their
calculation when considering the order
OF business iu that body. So, too, 1t is
learned on the Repubiican side OF the
Senate chamber that any effort to re-
sumo the consideration of the bill Will
be resisted by certain Republicans
Western Rapunlcans.-:hough these
Senator'S 90 not care 10 be quoted IN
the matter.
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once and with much emphasis, particu-
larly sentence that ''the previous que:'
ton aud every device to cut OFT debate
was unknown TO Senate proceedings.
Senator Dawes, who seemed TO be &
close and interested listener, rose and
said that in the absence of his Colleague
Why, your colleague is right here, "
Senator Cockrell remarked, looking to-
wards Senator lIoar, who was sitting Oh
the Democratic side.
II am here, and never enjoyed my
self so much in my li!e," said Senator
Hoar.
The inquiry l wish to make was, "
said Senator Dawes. III the Senator
from Missouri does not draw distinc-
ton between freedom of debate and an
eternity of talk" Laughter.
Senator Hoar defended himself from
the imputation OF inconsistency. There
is nothing in the article, he said. that
saws that by reason freedom Of debate It
shall be in order for the minority Of the
Senate to spend days and nights and
weeks in talking about something else
than the subject before the Senate, and
thereby overthrow,ng the great con-
stitutional functions Of the Senste as a
legislative body. There is not phrase
in ii which I do not stand upon and will
not defend. It's notorious fact that
the Senator form Rhode Island has been
told that if his amendment were brought
in as it was originally proposed amead-
menls enough would be offered on the
Democratic side of the chamber to con-
sumo the entire time till the 18th Of March
next. The attempt to defeat the will Of
the people expressed through by Con-
gress the process oflong debate and TAX
ing up time Gas we have seen it this very
session. is as much conspiracy against
the Constitution and national authority
as was the Rebel congress that met ia
Richmond. Applause in the CALLER
les.
Senator Gray: WAS that true IN
1879 when that side Of the chamber Iili-
bustere0:"
Notices Of amendments to the pro-
posed rule were given by Senators Stew
art and Gibson.
Senator Stewards amendment looks 10
allowing other than pending amendments
to the measure to be offered and voted on,
also to allow motions to recommit and
lay On the table, and Senator Gibson's
requires the demand for closure debate
to be seconded by two-thirds, instead OF
majorsty. of the Senators present.
Without concluding his remarks Sen
ator Cockrell yielded to Senator Aidrich,
on whose motion at P. N. the Senate
took recess till II \. NJ. to morrow.
The object of taking recess instead
Of adiourning is supposed to be to avoid
questions being raised as to the correc-
ton OF the Journal, as there will be no
Journal until the legislative day of the
222d is finished, which may not be until
the pending question is finally disposed
of.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-04
sts.1j,o A,othor State.

HARTFORD. Jan. 23.-Ths House met
and received the report OF the commit,
tee appointed to canvass the vote fol
State officers. The committee finds
that 1889 ballots were rejected Tor In
sufficient cause and that in many towns
the number of votes returned exceeds
the total number Of votes cast. The
committee state. that it is unable to
determine thas any person was Legally
chosen to fill any Of the State offices
except the Comptroller's, to which the
face of the returns indicate that Mich
olas Straub, Democrat, was elected.
This House accepted the report and
adopted resolutions offering to JOIN
with the Senate in general recount OF
the vote Of the State. The Senate,
without important action, took re-
cess at ? o'clock. In the House, after
the presentation OF the reports, general
debate was opened, which bids fair to
continue for day or Two.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-04

Something had been said about the
betrayal of party pledges. He knew of
no such betrayal SO far as this end Of the
capitol was concerned. The gentlemen
on the other side who had betrayed their
party pledges (tthey had been betrayeO
were responsible to their constituents.
If there was any betrayal it came from
those men who had been instructed by
their State Legislatures to vote for a
certain bill. and who had turned around
and voted against it. He had no doubt
that the person who killed young
Matthews OF Mississlpp: could take the
news as good news.
Lewis declared that the killing Of
Matthews grew out ofno political causes.
The causes were purely personal.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-04
Victorious Crusaders.

MARr1NsvILLE, Ind, Jan. 29.-The
town OF Mitchell, one of the most law
less places in the State. has been
changed 90 a peaceful community by q
crusade Of women. The numerous sa-
looms say they are doing no business,
and a .comic opera company playing
there WAS forced to s,isbaud. As re-
suit, Fred Brown placed his stock o.
liquors III shanty boat and started
down White River 70 Williams, a few
miles be!on; whrTe the boat Was anch-
ored. he did a thriving business for
a few DAYS. The ladies had Brown
sent toiail an;i o!c Simpson tined. One
OF the wonleu'S husbands, named Bol-
ton, who hal been getting drunk on
the shanty boat, WAS hauled ashore
with rope and told 10 promise to car e
for his family or he would be hanged.
He promised. Ike shanty boat and
liquors were DESTROYED, and now the Ia
dies are masters OF the situation.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-04
Imagination Killed Her.

C1NCINATTI, Jan. 28.-A remarkable
instance of the hold superstition has
upon the mind OF even the educated
and religious was recently exhibited in
the case of Mrs. Rebecca Byrnes. OF
Helena, Ark, lady noted for her in
tellectual attainments and pious life.
One morning, arising in what seemed
her usual health aud spirits, she sum-
moned heI children to come to her:
One son was esiding in Topeka, Kan,
one in New Orleans, two daughters
we're married and living in Sadall2,
Mo-, but obedlent to their mothers call,
they came at once, Though ignorant OF
the reason OF their summons. When
al were about her the lady informed
them that she had a dream, in which
her husband, who had been dead for
nearly fifteen years, had warned her
that she had only ton days more OF life.
She sent for her children to bid them
goodbye, which she proceeded to do
with much caimness, but with the air
CT one who had not the slightest doubt
that she was already dying.
Her friends attempted to reason with
her and to point out The folly Of placing
such perfect confidence in dream, but
all TO no purpose, for the lady persisted
in asserting that She would dspsrt
from earth on such g day and exactly
at certain hour.
Her pastor demonstrated with her,
and even brought the severest censure
to bear on her superstitious credullty,
and at last Mrs. Byrnes ceased to speak
Of the matter. so that her family had
begun to think that she had conquer.
ed her fancy. She continued IN good
health and pursued her usual daily
life. but just before the hour she mad
predicted would he that OF her death
She sought her children and bade them
goodbye, than, seating herself quietly
N an arm chair, expired just rs the
hour VAS struck. The physicians declare
that her death WAS due solely to her
sination.-InQuirer
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-04
4 Romance Of the War.

PlTTsBURG. JAN, 25.-Mils CASTOR
and his bride arrived here last night from
Georgia, and they are spending their
honeymoon with MIR. AcLain. Castor s
brother-in-lsv. McIain tells this ro-
mantle story:
In 1862 CASTOR. who is native OF
New Hampshire, ioineda regiment from
that State and went to the front. He
was captured, and while on his way to
Andersonville prison escaped. He wan
dered about through woods and swamps
for nearly three weeks. When famished
with hunger and crazed by what he be-
lieved to be continued pursuit he decided
to give himself up. One evening he
scrambled out Of the thicket and made
his way to large old-tashioned south
ern home. A cold rain had set in. and
caring little whether he lived or died, he
walked boldly up the driveway and
knocked.
The place seemed deserted. a few
minutes later he became conscious that
some one was scrutinizing him from a
window a few getaway. He was finally
admitted by young woman who car
ried a revolver in her hand. She got
him some supper and said she was alone
in the house, but expected her father,
who wa. home from the confederate
army on sick leave, TO return al any
time.
''She seemed to take an interest in
CASTOR. and laid him in dark corner of
the garret. There she fed hin tor two
weeks and showed him how to get in
and out at night without areusing her
parents, till he finally escaped.
After the war he returned to Elber-
ton and heard that Ills benetactress had
CASTOR is now a railroad con-
tractor. Last summer he was building
a branch on the Georgia Pacific when he
learned that his old love was a widow
and had q family Of five children. He
went to the old home near
Elbcrton, made himself known. and the
result was marriage. which took place
yesterday. The pair will soon leave for
Mr.. Gaston's home in New York"