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Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
Liverpool Futures.

ton barly steady Spot 1-l6c. Sales
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
Yesterdays Chicago and Hew York
Markers.

Receipts Of grain-Wheat 80 car loads;
corn, 210 car loads; oats, 134 car loads.
Hogs 900 head.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
The opening ana closing quotations Of cotton
4 4 irar
Chicago Market.

eak. Spots-middling uplands, 45sd.
receipts 3,00O.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

The Russian government was expel1-
ing all the Jews living beyond the
Caspian sea- !
In China the Catholic mission and
several dwelling houses belonging to
European residents were attacked and
burned by natives of Woo Hoo.
AT Havana, Cuba, a workman rode a
horse into the bay to give him a bath,
when shark seized the man, pulled
him from the horses back and de-
,, voured him.
PREMIER RUD1N1 said in the Italian
chamber of deputies that the New Or
leans affair was simply legal ques-
ton, and that the departure of Fava
from Washington had been ordered as
a protest against the action of the
United States.
JOHN ST1NsoN, his two sons. his
hired man and his housekeeper have
been found guilty at Rochester. Ont,
of counterfeiting American silver CON-
In Terni, Italy, sixteen anarchists
were arrested who had in their possess
sion plans to pillage and destroy with
dynamite banks, factories and other
property.
IN Russia nineteen workingmen were
drowned in the Dnieper river, the boat
in which they were embarked being
run into by a steamer. g.. i -
LoCUsTs were again devastating Al
geria- A caravan of Morocco traversed
through swarms of locusts for thirty
two days.
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Syrup

Here is an incident from the South
mississippi, written in April, 1890,
just after the Grippe had visited that
country. (" I am a farmer, one of
those who have to rise early and
work late. At the beginning of1ast
Winter l was on trip to the City
of Vicksburg, Miss, where I got well
dreuched in a shower of rain. I
went home and was soon after seized
with a dry, hacking cough. This
grew worse every day, until I had
to seek relief Iconsu1ted DR.. Dixon
who has since died, and he told me
to get a bottle of Boschee's German
Syrup. Meantime my cough grew
worse and worse and then the Grippe
came along and I caught that also
very severely. My condition then
compelled me to do something. I
got two bottlesof German Syrup. I
began using them, and before taking
much of the second bottle, was
entirely clear of the Cough that had
hung to me: so long, the Grippe, and
all its bad effects. Ifelt tip-top and
have felt that way ever since"
PETER J. BK1A1s, Jr., Cayuga, Hines
Co., Miss. =, .
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ONE DRUNK CURED hin.

Tho Squirrel Inbibed Too Auch BeeF and
1t Made Him Sick.
There is said to be in Philadelphia 3
depraved rabbit TINT eats meat and
cooked vegetables, and enjoys its beer
like confirmed topper.
The story may be true, but it is not
sustained by my own experience with
a pet squirrel which, having once in
dulged in the flowing bowl, could new
er be induced to get befuddled a second
time. =
Benny was big gray squirrel that
we raised since he was q couple of
weeks old-s=>He became famous Pet
in the family and was allowed to roam
at will nearly all day. On Thursday
nights a whist party used to assemble
at my house, and Benny enjoyed moth
ing better than to sit in the breast
pocket of my coat with his bright, mis-
chievous eyes watching every move
ment of the players. One night as we
were drinking some ale Benny was
seized with the thirst of the desert and,
jumping suddenly out, imbibed freely
from my glass. Soon thereafter he went
to sleep. -es.9 .s-s...
! Next morning the sybarite squirrel
did not awake in his cage until aroused
by earnest calls. He lay languidly at
full length, yawned, stretched out his
forepaws, rubbed his heavy eyelids,
and behaved precisely as human bipeds
are said to behave who indulge not
wisely but too we'll. From that day
forth, no matter how thirsty he might
be, Benny could never be tempted to
touch any beverage except plain water.
IN Y. TELEGRAM.
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HOUSEHOLD AUCTIONS,
A Trying Ordeal Which Brings Sorrow t
the Heart.

A Trying Ordeal Which Brings Sorrow to
the Heart.
Among the minor calamities of life.
that of being compelled to break up
housekeeping and sell off the conven-
fences and embellishments of a we'll
ordered home, is one of the most trying.
When family submits its portable
property to the tender mercies of the
public at an auction fight, the sacrifice,
however cxpcdient, involves thousand
regrets. 1t is impossible to discard and
turn out of doors chairs, tables and sofas
with which one has been ON terms of
the closest intimacy for years, and that
are associated with delightful recollec-
tons of domestic comfort and hospita-
BILE reunions, without something like
remorse. Household chattels that one
has known, perhaps, for half lifetime
and which are hallowed by the daily
touch of those one loves, seem to have
an almost human claim to consideration
and affection.
-. When the auctioneer steps in to shat
ter with his hammer these agreeable
associations, it is impossible not to re-
gard him as an enemy. He is con-
spirator against our peace, and his au-
dience are his accomplices. He lays ir-
reverent hands upon things very dear
to us. They are mere 'leather and
Prunella'' to him. He would sell
throne from under king without the
slightest conjunction. The thuds of
his mallet, as he scatters our most
cherished motions hither and thither
among the heartlcss crowd, sound like
the blows of an undertakers hammer
Rtving the finishing touches to the last
] piece of furniture that humanity re-
quires. "
X Woman, as rule, are
hut they never take their tenderness
with them to public vendue. They pass
the most valued heir-looms from hand
to hand with horrible Indifference, and
when the excitement of competition is
upon them, they bid for our treasures
with ferocity that is truly appalling.
Some OF the qnack medicine vendors
advertise TO cure an ''all-gone'' sensa-
ton at the pit Of the stomach; but, alas!
art can devise no remedy for the '.all-
gOncncss" that q man feels at his heart
when the auctioneer's gavel knocks
down the last of his household goods,
loaving him chattelless outcast at the
mercy ct the boarding house INTEREST,"
II. 7. Ledger
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soYooTTlNo ~ 'pic1iJG1N

\ Dystem q Tofrorism ExistlnG AneAg tie
Ireoeh Enrnn1rsY s
The landlord Il, in fact, the owner Of
the soil only in name. Unless he him
self turns gentleman farmer, he can not
determine tho tenancy; he can not1e
fuse the renewal of the lease; he has NO.
voice in the selection of his toDaptzy;
he can not raise the rent or enforce q
new condition.; he often does not even
know the name Of the person who pays
him his rent, HIS intrades,, or his Pota1o
vim; if the farm changes hands, the new
tenent is not his ownsnominee, but the
representative of the preceding occu-
pier; he can not even sell his land in the
open market What makes the 'sstab-
lishment of the droit de marche more
remarkable is, that its principle is =
violation of the principles Of French
law which, since 1890, has set its face
against perpetuitiea Yet though this
tenant right is not only unrecognized,
but prescribed by the law, the tenant
farmer sells this illegal right by public
auction, disposes of it by will, divides
it among his children, and makes it the
subject of contracts which notaries en-
body in legal language. And, as , curl
Gus result of it's legal prescription, it es-
capes taxation, for, sooner than appear
to sanction its legality, the state prefers
to lose source of revenue. ;, L5~ss-r = !:
The system thus described has been
maintained for centuries in the teeth Of
the landlords backed by all the power OF
. despotic government It holds its
groun by combination, secrecy and ter
rorism. Suppose that a landlord wishes to
extinguish the droit, and convert his land
into terre Gbre. He takes the opportu-
nifty of the expiration of the lease to re-
fuse its renewal, to enforce new condi-
tions, to raise the rent, or to evict the
tenant in order to introduce his own
nominee. The occupier goes to the vii
lage cabaret, and among his neighbors
utters the formula: "Je mai jamaisde
monte personne; j'espere que personne
ne me demontera." 1t is the proclama-
ton of an interdict. The farm is boy
cotted. The holding is thrown up; il
can not be let; the land falls out of cul.
tivation. If new tenant is brought in
from . distance, or neighbor bids for
the farm, he is denounced as depoin.
teux or land-grabber. From passive re-
sistence to open violence is short step.
The depointeux is unable to hire labor.
ers, his sons can obtain no employ ment,
his daughters no husbands. Hi: neigh
bors refuse to hold intercourse with
him or his family, or to render them
any assistance. Any ono who brcaki
this interdict falls under its ban. Men
with masks or blackened faces SOW tarea
among his crops, break up his imple-
ments, burn his farm buildings, ricks,
and stables, mutilate his cattle, MAIN
his horses, or fire shots into his house.
Finally, if these gentler hints fail to
take effect, the depointeux is found with
. bullet through his head or drowned in
q weu-Thc Nineteenth Century. =,
Dox'r hatter yourself that 1t can't get
away just because you have boiled your
food at sea.-Elmira Gazette. -v
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ONE ENJOYS

ONE ENJOYS
Both tho method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
ite action and truly beneficial In its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA re syrup co.
.. SAW FRANCISCO. CAL.
lCUNSHlLE. Ky. NEW yORK. 49,
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL
FROM WASHINGTON.

/ +
In tho United States the visible sup
ply Of grain on the 18th was: Wheat,
2O,s53, 800 bushels; corn. SITS, OsS bush
els: oats, 1925, 1868 bushels.
SINCE May 1 the issue Of standard
silver dollars from the minis amount
to S3ss, 173. The issue during the CORE
spending period of last year was
$34S, 1913.
DURING April the breadstuff exports
were $12,S7s,s27, against SIS, 54s, 9l9 in
April, 1890. ~
CoTToN exports from the United
States during April aggregated 417.17l
bales, valued at $50, 58",e7 against
20s, 1879 bales, valued at $40, 1858, in
April, 1890 -.
A DECISION by Attorney General
Miller says that foreign exhibitors at
the worlds fair at Chicago can bring
skilled laborers to set up and operate
machinery or exhibits.
THE statistician of the department of
agriculture shows in his report an in
crease since April of last year of more
than 100 per cent. in the price of corn
and oats, and 80 per cent. and more in
wheat.
THE total value of the exports of
domestic mineral oils from the United
States during the month of April was
s., sos, $50. The value of beef and hog
exports for April was SO, 300, 7sl.
AFTER twenty-three years of life the
Evening Critic, of Washington, has sus-
pended.
TN,r,, h,,e;xo,e fo;1,,.os =, +ho YY~:%ol
States during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered 237 against 242 the
preceding week and 212 for the CORE.
spending week last year.
A WRIT of error has been issued by
Justice Brewer, of the United States
supreme court, in the Nebraska contest
ed governorship case.
IT was estimated by the internal
revenue department that the amount
of whisky manufactured in the United
States during the present year will be
120, 900, 900 gallons, being 5,O0O,O 600 gal
Ions more than was produced in the
United States in any previous year of
it's history.
THE design for the new two-dollar
certificates prepared to prevent repe-
tition in counterfeiting the old has been
approved by Secretary Foster. The
vignette of the late Secretary Window
adorns the center of the note.
PRESIDENT HARRISON and his party,
who left Washington April IA, reached
home again at $50 p. m. on the 18th.
The party travelled over 10000 miles
and the president delivered 40 speeches
during the tour.
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LATER.
The Charleston on Again.


WASHINGTON, May 1s.-The navy de-
partment to-day received a dispatch
that the Charleston sailed southwark
from Acapulco last evening, leaving the
Esmerelda in port.
There was no word of the Itata. The
presumption is that the Charleston
commander was satisfied that the Itata
had passed Acapulco either before his
arrival there, or while he lay in port,
and that he had resumed the long
chase. It is estimated that the Itata
has been stealing along at about seven
knots, and as she was ten. days. out last
Friday night, she should at that time
have been just at Acapulco, where it is
reported from that place thatshe met
the Esmerelda. e
She is much smaller vessel than the
Esmeralda and burns much less coal.
1t is regarded as within the probabili-
ties that the latter vessel might have
supplied her with this necessary arti-
Gle, which would account for the strait
the war ship is now in respecting fur
Their supply of coal. ,as -~..--5. .,
IT it be true that the Itata was off
Acapulco Friday night, she had two
full days start of the Charleston when
the latter started again in pursuit last
night. This is about the same lead
that she had when she started from San
Francisco, SO that it does not appear
that the case is any nearer o conclu-
sion. But if the two vessels now fol-
low the same course, the Charleston,
steaming at fourteen knots, should
come up with the Itata by tomorrow
night. This event, of course, is based
upon the assumption, which is not
founded upon a strong probability, that
the two vessels are steering exactly the
same course. it,.
1T the Charleston passes the Itata, the
next port which they are likely TO be
heard from is Panama, about 200
miles from Acapulco, or Payta, Peru,
still further down the coast. AS it is,
the vessels have probably covered less
than half the distance to Iquiqne, the
nearest Gillian port. 81 a.-.=. I'D.
N. HERcuLA1s, president Of the
French chronological society while in
vestigating the locust plague in Algiers
was overcome with fatigue and fell
asleep on the ground and was attack
ed by swarms of the insect. When the
locusts left his corpse was found.
THE animal national convention of
the benevolent Order Of Elks began at
Louisville, KY, on the 18th. !
COMPLETE mail service with Alaska
has been authorized TO begin on July 1.
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Mrs. JOHN b. COUGH. whose death
was announced recently, was the sec
ond wife of the great temperance apos-
tic. They were married at Worcester
November "A, 1S43. She was a woman
OF strong New England character. In
his carly struggles it was her faith and
struggles that held Mr.. Cough up, and
lii later years her constant care and
Wifcly devotion had much to do with
MS ability to perform his work. In the
town Of Boylston, the home of the fam
;ly for the last thirty or more years,
Ms Cough was held in the highest es-
tccm. In the church and social life Of
t:,e town she welded great influence.
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THIS story shows what Barnum
thought of children: Three years ago,
says the New York Times, when the
show was about to open at the garden,
most pathetic letter, addressed to
Mr.. Barnum, came from little nine
year-old boy, and is given here verba-
tim: ''Dere Mr.. Barnum: am a little
boy an am very sic in bed hav ben
waiting long time for yure circus to
come an now its come can not go the
doctur sails. Dere Mr.. Barnum please
let the peraid go by my hous.'' Mr..
Barnum at once ordered the parade to
conform its route to that sick bows
wish.
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THE internal revenue receipts of the
United States for the first nine
months of the current fiscal year are
greater by $4,000 900 than for the same
time twelve months previously, and
considerably in excess of the estimates.
If the same rate be kept up to the end
the receipts of the fiscal year will cx-
coed $3.50, 900, 900 for the first time in two
decades. For the year ended with last
June the total was S142, SOC, 900, against
$3.50, 800, 900 for 1889.
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AN American girl in Paris, writing
to friend in this country, says: 'We
generally managed to make our French
understood enough to order what we
wanted. But the rub came when papa
wanted some mustard We asked for
it in French, Italian and Spanish, but
oil to no purpose till mamma said:
Mustard, you IDIOT oh, mustard
said the waiter in utter contempt; why
didn't you say so before?'''
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ALCOHOLIC HEREplTY.
Tho Thirst for Liquor Handed Do,
Through Generations.

Tho Thirst for Liquor Handed Down
Through Generations.
Somewhere in 1860. commodore in
the French navy while intoxicated
married q woman at Charleston, S. C.
After few weeks he sailed away and
never returned. He supported the
woman and educated boy which was
born of his marriage. The boy became
q cotton planter, and drank wine
freely. His daughter, an only child,
ran away and married tutor ON q
neighboring plantation who was from
Massachusetts. She was driven from
home, and the father drank severely
the latter part of his life. The tutor
.ufacturer. He had three sons, who all
followed him in this business. Four
children of these three sons were in
ebriates In the third generation from
the tutor five inebriates appeared. In
the fourth generation, two inebriates
and one insane and one epileptic were
present. In the fifth generation there
is one excessive drinker and six mod
crate drinkers. Every generation has
had inebriates and neurotics of various
degrees. Several women were eccen-
trio and never married. Many. of the
men have been miserly, and only drank
late in life. Three of them attained
great wealth, and all of them were fond
of rnusic and dancing and travel. In the
third and fourth generations several
members of the family followed the sea.
Two very curious facts appear. The
inebriety of the French ancestor seems
to have made a permanent Impression
on all the descendants. The tutors
father was Yorkshire wooden manu-
facturer who came to New England in
1850, and pursued the same business
In every generation several members
of the family followed this business,
showing persistence of similar occu-
patton. In the fifth generation seven
descendants are engaged in the wooden
manufacture, either as proprietors or
workmen. Marriage with other race
stocks seems not to have ncutralized or
changed these hereditary traits to any
great extent. The families have not
been large, but as q rule they have
lived long lives. The statistics are not
full enough to sustain positive conclu-
sions, yet the general facts point to q
distinct alcoholic heredity, and an In.
herited predisposition to follow the
Weoaen trade. Journal Of Inobyiety,
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AN interesting incident in connection
with President Harrison's visit to At
lanta was his meeting with Mr. George
Cook, an elderly gentleman and a we'll
known piano manufacturer of Boston.
The grandfather of Mr.. Cook was the
Capt. Cook who saved the life of Gen.
William Henry Harrison from the In.
dams at the battle of Tippecanoe. Mr..
Cook and Mrs. Cook had been spending
a few days with Gov. Bullock, and on
invitation of Mayor Hemphil went up
the road to meet the president. The
meeting of the two gray-haired grand.
sons was very cordial, and they en-
joyed q pleasant chat.
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Ir is not surprising to find that man
OF such kind impulses as Bishop-elect
Brooks should become the victim of
misplaced benevolence. While walk
ing up Beacon street in Boston one
evening he was attracted to a boy who
was trying in vain to pull the door-bell
OF house. Advancing to the door, Dr.
Brooks seized the bellknob. The ur-
chin, whose eyes followed the move
ncnts of the "big man, retreated
meanwhile to the bottom of the steps.
Giving the bell vigorous pull, the en-
Trent divine turned to the urchin, who
shouted: "Now scootr' and ran, leaving
him to make his escape as best he could.
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TIE entire production of the precious,
scmi-precious stones and ornamental
minerals in the United States during
the year 1889 was S1SS,Sl7. Of this
amount $53,175 was agatized and jas
perized wood, S2S,675 turquois stones,
and $4,000 quartz. Diamonds to the
value of $1,000, 716 were cut during the
year in the lapidary works in NewYork
and Massachusetts,
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MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
III s. IS 49, 3@
MID soR,esaEM


a. til Of Omssrs.
At the annual meeting In Red Wing
81 the Ancient Order United Workmen
the following officers were chosen:
|. Grand master Workman, George d: Laing OF
Window; grand foreman, E. Southwosth, OF
|shakcpse Syrnd eyenSer d =. Porter, Of
mar; grand receiver, J. J. McCafdy Of ST..
POM; i grand guide ~. b. Mccormick. Of
Minneapolis; grand inside wstchman, J. D.
Gillespie, Of Norris; grand outside watchman
Alfred Anderson. Of Red Wing.
The financial exhibit of the. order
showedsthat the receipts Of the bene-
ficfSzy fund during the year were $09,-
CTS and Of the general fund $113,-
III. 80. The disbursements in the bene-
ficiary fund were sos, 319. Is and in the
general fund l3,77l.5s. a total of $112,-
O9l.S1. The membership of the order
on April i, 1891, was given at Z, 72s, an
increase otl,7ae during the year.
s,LvEa y 7HE 1usneL.
do. Wsrth sss.ooo Ton Being Dug ID,
Minnesota Mines.
Assistant State Geologist H. v.
Winch arrived in Duluth on his way
back to the Thunder Bay silver district
where he has lately spent several
months and where he expects to STAY
several moro. ''The mines up there
are doing remarkably well,'' said he.
Eat the Porcupine, which is only down
about 100 feet, they are taking out
native silver in chunks as big as d
bushel basket-silver that goes with
what impurities it carries we'll up to
$40, 900 ton. don't know how much
Of this kind, of bonanza they will be
able to strike. but they shipped away
over twenty barrels of it the other
day, md there was money enough in
the twenty barrels to pay for good
Edeaf of work. NJ. 81 ~ aa5a.&&, q H.
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In house in Lawrence, Mass. are a
number of interesting relics of an old
time Bostonian, with several years
records of the Boston post office. The
latter date back to 1902, and show the
curious fact that then ten letters re-
ceived in single day was good mail,
while on some days but one incoming
letter was recorded
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SOMETHING like 200, 600 oil wells have
been drilled in the United States since
the discovery of petroleum, which at
an average cost of $4,000, which is very
low, gives total expenditure of $780,