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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16

An insane asylum building near
Dover, N. g., and forty-four of the
inmates were burned last Friday
morning.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16

Representative Mitchell is on
record as voting for the Malone
fee bill.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16

VIM. V. Allen was last week
elected United States Senator 10y
the Nebraska Legislature. Allen
was elected by the Populists and
Democrats.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16
Chancery Court.

A special term of the Chancery
Court in and for the County of
Hardin, State of Tennessee, is
hereby appointed to be held at
Savannah, in said county and
State, on the second Monday in
March 1893, it being the 18th day
of said month, for the dispatch of
the business in said Court.
ANDREW j. ALTERNATELY,
Chancellor.
Pulaski, Tenn, Jan. IA, 1898.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16

Gov. Turney has appointed A. w.
Brockway as Trustee of the West
Tennessee Asylum at Bolivar.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16

McDougal Bros. Savannah.
Harbor & Pitts Cerro Gordo Tenn.
Ricketts, & Lancaster Clifton Tenn.
j. K. Barlow, Savannah.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16
Pulaski, Tenn, Jan. IA, 1898.

Oh my poor back What pain {!
No excuse for it-PlantatiOn Anti
Pain Porous Plaster with capsi-
cum will cure it. Sold and guar
anteed satisfactory by
McDougal Bros. Savannah.
Harbor s. Pitts Cerro GordO Tenn.
Ricketts, s. Lancaster Clifton Tenn.
j. X. Barlow, Savannah.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16

Sprains, Bruises, Swelliugs.
rheumatism Neuralgia, Stiff
JOINTS, ETC., etc. They vanish like
magic when Plantation Arnica
Imminent is used. % and so
cents. Sold and guaranteed sat.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16

WI Attend Promptly to all Legal Business.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21
Plenty of Deer Left.


j. L. Dobbins, the former trapper
and deer hunter Of Reynolds County,
So, is spending week at the
Lacledc. Mr.. Dobbins has probably
killed more deer and black bear be-
tween the cast fork of Black River
and Marble Creek than any hunter in
Southwest Missouri. While his long.
silvery locks indicate his extreme age,
his eyesight is yet good and not less
than twenty deer have fallen before
his Winchester since November.
"lt's no trouble to kill them, boys,
but they are rather hard for stranger
to find,' remarked the old trapper to
group Of listeners at the st. James.
81 have iramped all over the famous
Bush Mountains, Cuford's Range, the
Shutin. the twin Hills, the banks of
the Big Black, Current River, Marble
Creek and other places in the SOUTH
east for thirty years, and 1 know
nearly every hill and rock in the
country. OF course, gamo is not as
plentiful now as it was then, but it is
all a mistaken idea about the deer
being exterminated; there are plenty
of them right now in the canebrakes
and mountains of Southern Mis-
souri,, but no hunting party from
the city can find them; it takes us old
managers to do that, and, us hunting
is our living, we are not very fast in
informing hunting parties where to
find them, but OH the other hand we
steer them just as far away from the
game as possible. While l don't pre-
sune one man out of ten from the
city could kill deer, they succeed in
frightening them out of the country.
These are the parties that are respon-
sible for the statement that there are
no deer in the state. They are in
structed by the hunters to 60 to this
place and that place until they. become
disgusted. shoot a few squirrels and
pull out for home with the impression
that there was not deer within 500
miles of where they We're hunting.
-TSt. Louis Posi-Dispatch.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21
Story Of an Altered Draft.

Within a few weeks the power of
chemistry to aid criminals has been
made manifest in the case of Buffalo
On. Y.) bank. This bank believed
that it was amply protected against
fraud by what is called the advice
system. Its habit hiss been at the
close of each days business to notify
its New York bank correspondent to
all the drafts it has issued that day,
and the numbers and amounts of each
of them. This it was supposed would
prevent the payment of any altered
draft when it reached the New York
bank. But this advice system cost
the bank S12, 900. A we'll dressed
man, well introduced apparently, with
the manner of an active business man,
bought two drafts of this bank, one
for S12, 900 and one for S120. This
transaction was reported Immediately
to the New York correspondent.
A day or two later draft for
$12, 900 was received by the New
York correspondent. Its number cor
responded with that indicated in the
letter of information sent from the
Buffalo bank, and it was, therefore,
paid. But when few days after
that another draft for 81, 900 of the
same number was received, it was
evident that fraud had been practiced.
The last draft was genuine. 1t had
been negotiated in distant city. The
first draft had been altered SO that its
number corresponded with that of the
genuine draft for S12, 900, and it had
been raised to $4,000. Yet the alter
ations were so perfect that it was al
most impossible for Mr. Siee to detect
them. AS the New York correspon-
dent had paid the forged draft, it was,
of course, compelled to pay the genu-
inc one, and the Buffalo bank lost its
money. Constitution.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21

81 had been working on from dawn,
and fairly familiar with the country,
avoiding the roads, had taken short
cuts across the woods. l made out
beyon clump of trees a man, some
what Napoleonesque in attitude, for
his hands were ciasped behind his
back. He was striding to and fro be-
fore some embers. Peering through
the thicket which screened me.
knew ii was General Beauregard. IA
never would have done TO have
bounced in on him. My arrival was
surprise. He wheeled quickly, as if
on a pivot, and faced me. l told him
that if he remained an hour more
where he was bivouacking, he stood a
fair chance of being captured.
'.He certainly did not know the
danger he was in. was probably
much more excited than was General
Beauregard, for he received the infors
nation l gave him with perfect sang
froid. Then he called to an officer
who was his aid, suppose who came
in. tottering under an armful of wood:
and addressed him in French. AS
was familiar with French. said,
General Beaurcgard, English az
nho In
if you do not wish me to understand
what you are saying, had better go
away l again explained conditions
to him, giving him fuller details. In
few minutes the mule was harnessed,
the wagon crashed through the brush,
and that was the last | saw of General
Beauregard.
"Wanting to learn whether he re-
membered the incident, | wrote him
in November, 1884, and tins is por-
ton of his courteous reply: 81 have
- recollection of the incident, l have
no doubt that you saw me much
troubled in mind. When you came
suddenly upon me on the road l was
still in doubt as to which route to fol-
low"
1.-Two hours afterwards five COM
panics of United States cavalry, four
hundred strong, were securing that
South Carolina wood. VI Harper's
Weekly.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21

Frenchman, known all over the world
in the early part Of the present cen-
tury as the "Living Skeleton" At
the timo of his birth, and for quite
period after that interesting event,
Claude was as plump and flcshy as
any of the little French cherubs of
his neighborhood, Troyes, France.
One account says that he was born in
1887, but half dozen others place it
ten years later, so that we may con-
clude that, had he lived to the present
day, he would only be three years
older than the century
AT the age of four Claude was al
most a perfect miniature mummy.
being mere skeleton clothed in a dry,
yellowish brown skin. Still lie con-
tinued to grow in height, the bones
enlarging just as though they were tine
framework intended to support their
quota of flesh. At the age of twenty
eight, when he was first exhibited in
London, he was a man in height and
general appearances, but weighed
only fifty-six pounds. He stood five
feet seven inches in height and is said
to have looked for all the world like
Il varnislred skeleton, the skin, which
was tightly st etched over the bones,
especially at the joints, being parch-
ment-like, both to the touch and TO
the sight. When he first began
wasting away in flesh (this during
the third and fourth years of his life)
the breast and sides retained their
plumpness long after the legs and
arms were literally "skin aud bones.
Finally, when the flesh wasted from
the breast, sides and shoulders, the
skin was so loose that it fell down and
dried between the ribs, making it pos
sible for person with the nerve to
do 80 to clasp the fingers around the
libs and touch the ends together, there
being nothing but the two thicknesses
of skin to interfere. A writer on the
London Times says of him: "He had
the appearance of a bag of hoops
covered with leather and set up OH
two rough, knotty sticks"
The great wonder of Leurats case
appears to lie, not in the fact of his
extreme emaciation, but in the fact
that such a degree of decay should be
compatible with human life.-[S
Louis ReDublic.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21
The Electrical Wonder.

There has been some misconception
as to the working Of the so-called
electrical WONDER" which is now
drawing large crowds in London. The
invention would probably be more
correctly described as Photographic
wonder, the electrical part of the ar
rangement consisting simply of the
motor, which gives the rapid motion
to the series of pictures, and an incan-
descent lamp in the interior of the
machine, both of which are operated
by coin falling in the slot. The ef-
fccts exhibited are truly wonderful.
Figures of men and animals seem in
stinct with life, and their animated
gestures are absolutely true to nature.
Notably an elephant and camel walk
and run respectively across the field
of vision, and not only is the charac-
teristic gait of each made manifest.
Lut the action of the various muscles
of the body and limbs is distinctly
seen.-CChicago News Record.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.


Hope is the wing by which the soul
ascends.
We easily forget our faults when
they are known only to ourselves.
A gentleman is one who is willing
to abato something from his right.
Every action becomes more certain
ly an eternal mother than an eternal
daughter.
No man convinces an audience who
is not willing to make a fool of him
self for his cause.
Degeneration begins when the point
i! is reached where one is thoroughly
satisfied with himself or his attain
ments.
To discover truth is the best happi-
ness of an individuals; TO communicate
it, the greatest blessing he can bestow
upon society.
Be not in too much haste 10 come
to determination of difficult or i'm
portant point. Think it worth your
waiting to find out the truth.
Men are tattooed with their special
beliefs like so many South Sea Island.
ers; but real human heart, with
divine love in it, beats with the same
glow under all the patterns of all
eartli's thousand tribes.
Times of general calamity and con,
fusion have ever been productive Of
the greatest minds. The purest ore
is produced from the hottest furnace,
aud the brightest thunderbolt is elected
from the darkest cloud.
A man that only translates will
never be a poet, nor painter that
only copies; nor swimmer that
swims with bladders; so peorle that
trust wholly to others charity, and
without industry of their own, will
always be poor.
Life is succession of lessons which
must be lived to be understood. All
is riddle, and the key to riddle is
another riddle. There are as many
pillows of illusion as flakes in snow
storm. We wake from one dream
'nto another dream.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21
Hair-Dressing i'm Central Africa.

During the hot hours of midday,
when all actual labor is suspended in
the village, the natives, urged by van
ity and national pride, devote great
deal of time to the arran cement of
their odd but elaborate toilets. Hair
dressing is one of the principal obi-
cations, and constitutes one of the
numerous domestic duties allotted to
the ssfalr" sex. On reed mat spread
out III some shady corner the woman
sits down, and the man upon whom
the operation Is to be performed re-
clines at full length, resting his head
in her lap. She begins at once to
unplait his hair, and soon has it all
ravelled, and then, with q coarse
wooden instrument resembling the
head of child's toy rake, she combs
it thoroughly until it is clear of all
entanglements, and stands out all
over the head in thick bushy mass
six or seven inches deep.
1t is now generously creased with
oil from the palm nut. The woman
then parts it off into sections, and
very soon the coarse bunch of hair,
cleverly manipulated by her nimble
fingers. is woven down closely to the
head. They display a good deal of
ingenuity in forming variety of de-
signs. Sometimes series Of little
plated strands, like rat tails, hang in
fringe all around the head. Often
solid plaits of hair about the size of a
goats horn are made to stand out
from the head in different styles. Two
of these will appear sprouting from
the top of the head, or one will drop
over the forehead and lie along the
nose. A very popular fashion is to
have roll of hair along each side of
the head, ending in two solid plaits,
which curl over each cheek like sleeps
horns. Both men and women have
the hair treated in the same way.
The plating operation is also ex-
tended to the mans beard. The mus
Iache is removed, and so are the eye
brows, with a razor, which is small
cheese cutter blade with a long slender
handle. This is used somewhat as we
hold pen, and the stubby hair is
really chiselled off the face. no small
amount of it being dragged out by the
roots. Tribal custom compels its re-
moval, and the African is SO insensible
to pain that the means employ cd do not
Inconvenience him in the least. Often
whom undergoing this treatment he
falls asleep, and never betrays any
Observation-Disclosures Young People.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21
Smoke Detrimental to Health.

A St. Louis physician says that there
is no doubt whatever that the adop-
ZION of some practical method that will
abate the smoke nuisance will greatly
add to the health of the city as well as
to the general comfort and cleanliness.
1t is a mistake to call the various de-
vices smoke consumers. You cannot
consume smoke, but there are several
plans by which the nuisance can be
greatly lessened by condensing the
SCOT, which is what makes the smoke
so unpleasant. Smoke thus free is
much lighter, and will readily rise in
the air and be carried away; but laden
with SCOT and ashes, it becomes heav-
ier than air. and naturally settles
toward the ground, where high build
ings prevent the wind sweeping it
away. This soot-laden smoke is the
cause of nearly all the throat and lung
diseases in the city.-[Detroit Eye
Press.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21
Anecdote of General Beauregard.

The death of General Beauregard re-
calls to an old contributor to Harper's
Weekly the unusual circumstances
under which his last interview with
Beauregard. took place. He writes:
"When in Confederate service l
was thrown in with General Beaure-
gard in fairly singular manner. and
the incident of my coming across him
would have made neat episode for
Archibald Forbes. 1t was two days
after the fall of Columbian, South
Carolina, and l had been ordered on
ticklish service, which was to scout as
near to Columbia as possible.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21
CHILDREN's COLUMN.
BEGINNINGS.

BEGINNINGS.
o mighty, mighty river. flowing down so
deep and calm,
With the mills upon thy fingers and the
ships upon thy palm!
Tell me why thou never failest, never grow
est weak and small
But with ever-swelling current bringest
down thy wealth to all?
Quickly then the river answered: "Praiss
the little mountain spring,
Ever sparkling, ever gushing for the precious
gifts 1 bring.
"Far away among the forests, where the
moss lies deep and cool,
There the mill huns in crevice, and the
ship swims in pool!"
-fJames Buckham, in Harper's Young Peo-
pie.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21
One Man in a Million.

"Hello, Rivers you have a bad
cold"
..Worst l ever had, Banks"
lam sorry for on, old fellow. Wish
l knew of something that would cure
you, but don't. (Wilh tears in his
eyes) "Give me your hand, Banks.
You're the only man I've seen for
three days that hadn't sure cure I"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21
"DoN'T LOOK AT THE CLOCK"

This is the motto Thomas A. Edi-
son, the "electric king" once gave to
boy who desired his advice on get
ting on in the world. The implica-
ton is obvious.
An employe who measures out the
time he gives to business by the min
ute. stopping in the midst of any work
on which he happens to be engaged
the instant the whistle blows, is not q
clerk to be depended on. just as he
watches the clock. so his employer
watches him, realizing that he needs
it. There is no heart in such working.
The boy who starts in on a business
career with no higher aim than to
make each day seem as short as possi-
BILE and to draw his salary on Satur-
day, is certain not to have his pockets
weighed down with an increase in his
pay.
DONE look at the clock, then. Time
Will pas no moro quickly because of
your doing so; the way to bring this
about is to throw such zeall and whole
heartcdness into the discharge of your
duties that you will forget such limi-
tations as time, which will then fly so
swiftly that you will not note It's pas
sage CArgosy.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21

The New Orleans Board of Trade
recommends the shipping ahd hand
ling of rice in bulk instead OF il bass
as at present
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21

THE THREE CARAvELs OF COLUMBUS.
In the days of Columbus yes els were
generally called ''caravels," and if of
considerable size for those times they
were called by the Spaniards naos.
When Queen Isabella determined to
help Columbus to make his voyage,
a royal order was sent to the city of
Palos to fit out three caravels and to
place them at the royal disposal. The
city made pretense of complying,
but it was SO we'll known that the
ships were for Columbus's hazardous
venture into the terrible western ocean
that neither money nor force could
get them equipped and manned. Over
and over again the people were as
sembled in the public square and the
order read with great pomp, but all
in vain.
Columbus, in his despair, begged
that the prisons be opened and the
convicts allowed to go with him.
Finally, a ship-owner of Palos, Martin
Alonzo Pinzon, was induced, by an
offer of large share of the rewards
in case of discoveries, to make an
active effort to fit out the expedition.
He was a popular sea-captain and a
vigorous man of business, and it was
entirely due to him that Columbus was
able to set sail from Palos on his ever
memorable voyage. Pinzon con-
demned two of the caravels given by
the town, and substituted two stanch
vessels of his own. One was
decked vessel of three hundred tons,
large enough to be called mao, and
the other was little thing with lateen
sails, which was chosen OH account of
her light draught, in case rivers had
to be ascended in the country they
expected TO discover. The mao was at
first named the "Gallega," but they
renamed her the "Santa Maria"
Columbus took her for his flag ship,
for he held an admiraPs commission
from Ferdinand and Isabella. The
little la,een-rigged cal avel was called
the sNina." OF the three caravels
offered by the town of Palos, the only
one which Pinzon considered seawor-
thy enough to accept was the "Pnta,,
boat about half as large as the Santa
Maria, and rugged like her. His
shrewdness in rejecting the others
was fully proved before the expcdi-
tion reached the Canaries; for it was
discovered that the Pinta had been
tampered with. and had been pur-
posely weakened. A long delay in
the islands was necessary to repair
her.
Such were the vessels in which Col
umbus discovered America; one as
large as small schooner, and the
other two about the size of lighters.
Hsd he suspected the length of his
jo Tney, or known OF the terrible
storms which can rage in the Atlantic
Ocean, he never would have dared TO
venture out in craft SO frai!.-TSt.
Nicholas.
The New Orleans Board of Trade
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21
Most Wonderful Living skeleton.

The most singular freak of nature
known to surgical or medical litera-
ture was Claude Ambrose Leurat, q
Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-10
VISITED THE RARBOR.
Merton F. Plants Yacht Anemon

Merton F. Plants Yacht Anemone.
 The new msin-eail yacht Anemone visit- ed New Haven harbor Saturday and lsy a. anchor in Morris Cove over night. He, owner, Morton F. Plant, who with his father, H. B. Plant. esq, is at the head of the Plant system, called on James Gal lagher, jr, who is summering at his fath- er's beautiful shore home, "The Farm D Mr. Gallagher spent the evening aboard the Anemone and reports her to be mar vel. MT. Plant is by experience and taste
 thorough going yachtsman. For several
 years past his hobby has been the develop.
 ment of speedy and comfortable cat-rigged
 cruising yachts. Last fall he sold craft
 of this type which in the races up at the
 head of the sound proved well nigh in,
 vincible, and although the new yacht is al
 most untried as yet. having only very re-
 gently been launched, she surely bids fair
 to be "a winner"
 The Anemone was built on Cape God not far from President Cleveland's summer home at Buzxard's Bay. Her dimensions are 31 feet over all, 24 feet incaes water line, 12 feet beam, drsught feet 8 inches and sail plan 39 feet hoist, containing 12e eousre yards, boom 39 feet inches. Her cabin Is wonderfully roomy, hand somely finished and furnished and com plete with every convenience for comfort MT, Plant sailed at sn early hour yesterday | morning for the westward. MT. Gallagher | says he expects MT. Plant will bring tn, Anemone here again soon and, too, tha she will sail in the fall regatta of the Nev Haven club.
Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-10
SHAM BATTLE AT NIGHT.

The Hibernian Rifles to Give { Unique Exhibition-An Important Meeting of the Company to be Held Tonight.
 There will be an important meeting oi Company H, Hibernian Rifles, in Clanna gael hall at o'clock this evening. Busi ness of importance will come before the meeting and it is expected that every mem Der will be present.
 Among the business which will be con. sidered fig the novel project which the com. psny have under consideration of giving @ sham battle at night. The project is de cidedly unique and will be unusually inter- esting. The fight will take place some where in the vicinity of Westville and will probably be about the fore part of next month.
 The company will take their provisions aud blankets and be divided into two platoons of equal strength and each pla- toon will be allowed the use of one search light. The plstoons will be drawn up in regular battle array, after which regular sham battle will bs fought. All the pre- liminaries will be arranged at the meeting tonight and the date will also be probably fixed upon.