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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15

lected as the person best fitted by so-
cial position and managerial ability for
the difficult task of interesting the la
dies of Atlanta and of the south
in the great enterprise. The wisdom
of the choice was SO apparent that
the ladies who became associated
with Mrs. Thompson in the work
elected her president without de-
bate. Among the other prominent Off
GERS are Mrs. w. G. Lanier, first vice
PRESIDENT; Mrs. s. M. Inman, second
vice president; Mrs. A. B. Steele, secre-
tary; Mrs. A. e. Thornton, treasurer,
and Mrs. w. H. FELTON,, chairman Of
the executive committee. This COM
mittee is very strong body, and its
membership includes many of the most
capable women of the south.
A reasonable portion of the EXPOSE
tons funds were allotted for a wom-
ans building upon condition that the
ladies should raise money for a proper
exhibit. For such purpose large sum
was needed, but the ladies were un-
daunted. Every fair attache of the
woman's department Immediately be-
gan scheming, and many excellent
plans for securing money have been
and are being carried out. The gay
world of Atlanta has turned it's entire
attention to boarding up the American
dollar, and the proceeds of about every
entertainment that Is held are devoted
to the woman's exhibit fund. AS re-
suit, money is coming in at rapid rate,
and the success of the woman's depart
nanf seems assured
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
THE GOLD SYNDICATE.
A Question for American Debtors to Figure
and Ponder Upon.

A Question for American Debtors to Figure
and Ponder Upon.
The productive capital and labor of
the world is under bonds to pay SO, 000,-
600, 600 per year for interest on bor-
rowed money.
If compelled to pay that huge noun
tain of interest in gold, it cannot pay
over two weeks interest with the total
availa BILE product of the gold mines for
a whole year.
After paying all that can be got from
the mines about 500, 900, OOO, how is
the debtor world to pay the other So
900, OOO, 900 of annual interest?
There is only one way, and that is by
giving up to the gold redemption"
syndicates the cream of the earth's
products from the fields, mines and
workshops throughout the world. And
these products In default of gold pay
ments must be rendered up to them at
such low prices as the bond brokers'
ring may dictate. For they can dictate
terms and prices and they are doing it..
That is exactly why our cotton,
wheat and all our great staples are be-
ing shipped and sold in Europe at prices
that mean bankruptcy and beggary to
our American farmers.
And when the American farmers are
being beggared 1t is impossible for the
rest of the American people to prosper,
for 1t is on the farmers shoulders that
we all stand.-N. Y. Recorder.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15

easily shown that under free coinage
there can be no difference between the
value of bullion and the coin made
from 1t, and that consequently there
can be no direct profit to the miner, or
profit of any kind not shared in by the
general public through the influence
on prices and business of an ample
supply of primary money, both by the
measure proposed by the secretary of
the treasury and the Baltimore plan
give forever profit to issuers of paper,
as often as il is loaned out. Both plans
virtually make banks paper mints,
with the right to coin money out of
paper, and to have all they can make
out of it, without cost of production
and without limit as to amount.
1t is admitted that four-ffths of the
gold of the world is now gathered into
few great treasury boards, and con-
trolled by few hundred men at most.
With this control over gold, give to
banks entire control over the paper
currency, on a gold basis, as is now
proposed, and what safety is there for
the worlds industries or for the worlds
Can a people be enslaved so easily or
so ceartainly in any other way? No
poverty and servitude for the great
mass of the people are the necessary
consequences of this system of money.
We therefore earnestly recommend
that before it is too late to resist this
new attempt to subjugate them abso-
lutely to the money power, the people
everywhere hold meetings, and, by
resolutions and petitions, protest to
their representatives and senators
against the passage of the proposed
bill or of any measure that puts in the
hands of banking associations the alb
solute control of the money of the peo-
pie. A. j. WARNER.
Since the issuing of this address the
Carlisle bill has received a check in
congress which insures it's defeat, but
other currency schemes are being pre-
pared that are equally Objectionable
to the people, and against which
Gen. Warmers arguments will apply
with equal force.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15

A TALKING match between two So
ciety women was feature at a recent
church social at Brazil, Ind No
stenographer could begin to keep up
with the winner, little alto-voiced
woman.
AS AN example of the extent to which
betting is carried Rev. Mr.. Baker as
serted that one woman in Philadelphia
had won six thousand dollars upon the
result of one of last falls football
games.
Col. SEWARD CARY, the Buffalo mil
honairc and amateur whip who bought
the coach Vivid, exhibited at the worlds
fair, has arranged to run it between
Buffalo and Niagara Falls next sum--
mer as public coach.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
WONDERFUL OLD MAN.
Hon. C. p. villiers, Father of the British
House OF Commons,

Hon. C. p. villiers, Father of the British
House OF Commons.
G. P. Villiers, the wonderful father
of the house of commons" celebrated
his ninety-third birthday recently.
Whatever may be the effect of the
house of commons atmosphere upon
some constitutions it evidently agrees
with Mr.. Villiers, who has sat uninter-
ruptedly for the same constituency for
period of sixty years.
What marvellous kaleidoscope of
constant change must be the memory
of a man who has been continuously in
public life ever since the days when the
''sailor king" sat upon the throne, and
all the amazing products of the Vic
torian era were still unknown and un-
dreamt of The venerable member for
Wolverhampton must have felt Mr..
Gladstone's retirement keenly, for with
the departure of the ex-premier disap-
peared the last of his brother members
who was also his brother member in
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15

frigate Saranac, of the Pacific squad
ron, and the sloop of war Cyane, On
the outbreak of the civil war Lieut..
Meade applied at once for duty against
the public enemy on the Atlantic coast.
Returning when yet i'll of fever con-
tracted In Mexican harbor, he was
assigned to duty as instructor in gun
merry to volunteer officers on board the
United States receiving ship Ohio, at
Boston. During the three months that
he held this position he had as MEM
bers of his class of fifty Acting Master
James r. Wheeler and Eben M. Stoo.
dard. These were the men who command
ed the 11-inch pivot guns of the Kear-
sarge when she sunk the Alabama
Active service followed the second year
in the war on the steam sloop Dacotah,
of the North Atlantic blockading squad
ron, as executive officer of the United
States steamer Conemaugh for three
months during the summer. He was
commissioned lieutenant commander
in July of the same year. During this
period he participated in several affairs
with the confederate batteries on the
Vernon river. In the fall of 1862 Com
mander Meade was appointed to
the command of the ironclad
Louisville, of the Mississippi squad
rdn (under Rear Admiral G. H..
Davis, and afterward under Rear Adj
nairal Porter, and was active in the
events on the river between Memphis,
Tenn, and Helena, Ark. Highly com
mended in official dispatches, he was
invalided home late in the winter, and
assumed the duties of an inspector Of
ordnaGce in the ports of New York and
Boston.~ With health restored, he was
ordered to the command of the steamer
United States, and afterwards COM
manded the naval battc1iie22sK'p New
York during the July RI ppomted
to the command of the steam gunboat
Marblehead, he was commended for
gallantry In the affairs on the Stone
river, and from that time to tie close
of the war he was actively in command,
and served with bravery and distinc-
ton in the gulf and along the Atlantic
seaboard. Since the war Admiral
Meade's sea service has been great. de
made a cruise of 431 days at sea in the
United States steamer Narragansett,
covering nearly 10000 miles, and a
cruise Of thirty-nine months as captain
of the Yapdalia. His services at An
napolis Ms commanslant of the navy
ward at Washington were of great Inn
portance to the rebuilding of the, navy.
During this latter period the steel plant
and gun foundry were begun and
finished. The great brick ship Illinois
at the Columbian exposition was ADD
rniral Meade's idea, and he is to be
credited for it's successful completion.
On May 5, 1892, he was commissioned
commodore, and September Z, 1894, was
promoted TO be rear admiral. Admiral
Meade has been eighteen years actually
= st sea, and In command for twelve years
<h3n ror{f,d -
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15

those far-off days when he sat in par
lament convened by King William the
Fourth.
Mr.. Gladstone-who, by the way, Is
quite boy compared with Mr.. Villiers,
being no less than eight years his
junior-seems to be still as prone to
awkward little adventures as he was
before his retirement. His heavy fall
at Hawarden the other day might easily
have been attended with very serious
results; but the wonderful veteran
seems specially fortunate in such es-
capades. 1t is no doubt his mental alb
sorption that renders him so prone to
como to physical grief. When he was
constantly walking about in town there
was seldom day In which he did not
place himself in more or less serious
danger of being run over, though only
two or three of his narrower escapes
found their way into the PAPERS
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
ATLANTA EXPOSITION.
Mrs. Thompson, the Charming President
of the Ladies, Board.

Mrs. Thompson, the Charming President
of the Ladies' Board.
The women of the south are working
with will to make the Woman's build
ing and it's exhibit one of the most sue
cessful features of the proposed Cotton
States and International exposition.
The president of the board of women
managers is Mrs. Joseph Thompson,
one of the social leaders of Atlanta.
She is a daughter of Maj. Livingston
Minis, who was member of the staff
of Gen. Joseph e. Johnston during the
war, and her husband is one of the
prominent business men of the south.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson have beauti-
full country home not far from Atlanta,
which has 'become famous for its typical
southern hospitality.
When the exposition management
decided upon an exhibit for the fair
sex, Mrs. Thompson was promptly Sc
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
A NATIONAL BASTILE.
Such the Bank of England Is characterized
Shall This Country Follow?

Such the Bank of England Is characterized
Shall This Country Follow?
In criticising and dissenting from
the proposed currency reform scheme
the New York Recorder says:
1.-THE bullion purchasing department
(of the Bank of England) is another
unique feature of the worlds biggest
bank. There the gold is brought in
bars of about eight inches long, three
wide and one inch thick. A bar of gold
of these dimensions will weigh about
two hundred ounces, and is worth, if
pure, about $4,000 Each bar, when
brought in, has it's weight tested by a
wonderful pair of scales, in which the
weight of postage stamp will turn
the balance. The question Of its quail
ity Is determined by the assaying pro-
cess.
THE Bank of England's stock of gold
bullion varies in value from IS, 900, 900
to SIS, 200, 900. The bars are laid side
by side on small fiat trucks, or bar
rows, carrying one hundred bars each.
1.-THE safeguards against robbery
either by force or fraud are many and
elaborate At night the bank is guard
ed at all accessible points by an ample
military force. l think it was Andrew
Jackson who likened all national
banks to national battles.
"The simile was appropriate. The
Bank of England is veritable bastile,
built to be defended as grim fort.
There are sliding galleries, which can
be thrust out from it's roof and enable
a body of sharpshooters to rake the
streets of London in all directions.
Part of it's defensive works includes a
graveyard. The Gordon riots in 1850,
during which the bank was attacked
by mob, called attention to the neces-
sity for strengthening its defenses.
Military experts announced that an
adjoining church, bearing the name OF
ST. stopher-le-Stoc5s, was, in 9
military sense, source of danger
Thereupon an act of parliament was
passed to enable the directors to pur
chase the church an its appurtenances
The old church yard, tastefully laiC
out, now forms what is known as the
Bank garden, the handsome court
ROOM or bank parlor, abutting on one
of its sides,
From that court room of the Lon
don bastile the English people, fancy
ing themselves free, are really ruled
by despotism of organized usury.
1.-THE American people are invited to
erect a banking bastile in this country
and submit themselves to like des-
potism."
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15

or common mucilage to one side OF the
disk and stick it in the center of a plate,
leaving margin between its circum-
ference and the inner rim of the plate.
Place a billiard ball on the intervening
space at any point, and propose to any
one present to send the ball, without
touching it, in to the center of the plate,
SO that it will rest in the hole in the
cardboard. While watching the efforts
of the operator to accomplish this APP
parently simple feat, the reason for
calling the game patience" becomes
apparent The ball goes round and
round, but will not be coaxed into the
center. To succeed, you must have re-
course to simple trick. Let the ball
rest near the edge of the disk, by inclin-
ing the plate slightly, then suddenly
lower the plate, as If you were about to
drop it, and hastily raise it again, plac-
ing the center under the ball, which,
not having fallen as quickly as the
plate, clears the edge of the disk without
touching it and is for a moment in the
air. Having received no momentum in
lateral sense, the ball will remain
stationary in the center of the disk once
you succeed In introducing it there in
the manner here described. The trick
Is pretty and ingenious, and the game
will afford much amusement to the
curious
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
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AN AMUSING TRICK.

The New Game of Patience Calls for Con-
siderable Manual Skill.
Games that call for manual adroit-
ness are much in vogue at the present
moment, says Once a Week, and the
time is therefore propitious for present
ing the new game of patience illus
trated here.
Cut out a disk of pasteboard of about
the thickness of penny, and cut a
round hole through it's center of about
the-siae of a penny. Apply gum arabic
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
RussIAs cHAncELLoa.
Esaron de Staai. tho Amiabie Successor OF
M. de Giers-


M. de Giers-
Baron de Staal, who has Just been
designated by the new car to succeed
the late M. de Giers as chancellor of
the Muscovite empire, is the beau
ideal of foreign diplomat, with his
long, flowing. white whiskers and his
dipnified but suave manner, which con-
veys the impression that if he is as hard
and tenacious as his name implies, in
his case the steel is sheathed in velvet.
No man has more friends, and the fact
that, although the representative of
Russia ot the court of st. James for the
last ten years, he should have succeeded
in winning not only the confidence but
also the amity of the English, who are
always SO suspicious with regard to
Russia, speaks volumes for his amiabil-
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
Chinese idea of Telegraphy,

The Chinese believed when teleg-
raphy was introduced In this country
that foreigners cut out the tongues Of
children and suspended them on the
insulators to transmit the message from
pole to pole.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
u.,r. trom Mohammed,s heard.

The treasure of treasures In the new
mosque at Tripoli, Syria, is q magnif-
cent gold casket In which are placed
three hairs from the Prophet Moham-
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
I.o.. Of aus,ps.s.

A Loss of Business.
The fixed law of currency is that to
expand the volume Of circulation is to
imnrove business. and tn shrink II Is 70
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-12-25
A Panic on Wall Street.
Stocks Raided by Bears.
Money Becomes Tight and
Jumps From 2 to 80
Per Cent or Call.

New York, Dec. 81 The Times TO-
day gives the following accountofyes,
terday in Wall street. Collision be-
tween bear operators in stocks and
foreign trading houses smashed prices
in Wall street to-day, ran money rates
up to go per cent withdraw $780,
900 from the gold reserve, and caused
several financial failures Declines in
stocks affected the entire trading list.
Losses ran ss high as 10 points at one
time in several substantial securities
The bond market sympathized so act
lively with stocks that the good temper
and moderation by the banks and the
confidence of the Central Trust COM
pauy in placing s1,50o,o00 in the
las: hour of trading to be loaned at
normal rates, turned the downward
course of prices. Recovery was
rapid and general, bnt at the end of
the day quotations showed material
net losses The shock of attack left
the marked feverlsh.
Accustomed as is the financial
district to wicked work in the securi-
ty market, to.day's performance sur
passed in malicious design and mani
pulations, cunning and boldness, any
thing ever before attempted Its
success was complete, and that it
should have been so was amazing
since those we'll informed know how
it had been brought about The men
who engineered the raid used the
Venezuela incident as a pretext in
the market, They had been in high
feather since the Presidents message
came out and issued from the begin
ming the most gloomy predictions of
it's financial results. How far they
may have Influenced in inducing
their allies in Europe to bring about
a condition by Wednesday which as
sured the export of gold by tomor-
rows steamers has not been exam
ined. Financial timidity had not
been reused by yesterday to the
point Of slaughter in prices. That
move was reversed to a special pro-
pelling agency which the bears fur
nished The worst apprehensions
had not expressed fear of anything
approaching to days happening in
intesity or scope.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-12-25
Masters Sale.
By j. E. Jerney, Auctioneer.
State of South Carolina,
COUNTY OF SUMTER,
COUNTY OF SUMTER,

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
In the case Of Pauline S Hsyvara, Plaintiff
against CaIuin W Chandler, 4. S. BroUa,
Marion Noise, Richard D. Lee and Marion
Noise co-partners, as Lee & Noise; Will'am
B. WAazsy and John M Riusrs, co.partners,
as Whaley & Rirers; Caroline E. Winn: as
.Executrix Of the last aciU and testament q
D. j. Vim, deceased; R. +, Jackson, -Aoul-
trie r Wizson, as assignee Of AI6ertus S
Brown and W. Alston Brown, late CO.
partners as 4. S. q W 4. Brown; and
Walter e. Lea, Defendants
FINDER AND By VIRTURE of a decree
the above case, dated Nov. 4th, 1895.
| Will offer for sale in front Of the Court
House in the County Of Sumter and State
aforesaid during the legal hours of sale on
the frs; Monday in January next the follow
Jog described lanGs in the County Of Sumter
and State of South Carolina
All of that parcel conveyed bc Calsin
W Chandler TO Alnertus s. Brown, contain
ing FIVE hundred ard seventy-eight end one
fourth (57S4) acress, bounded on the north
By lands now, or formerly, of l.. l.. jennings
and n Bradford east, by lands OF n. Brad
ford and Cen E W Noise south, by lands
of H. A. Rafield and west, by lands Of Gen.
E. ". Noise and by the Sumter aud ProVi-
dence road.
Terms of Sale-One half cash; the balance
on credit of one year from December !,
1895. the deferred portion to be evidenced oy
the bond or bonds of the purchaser or pur-
chasers, and mortgage of the premises
sold the same to bear interest from The day
of sale, and the papers taken to provide for
the payment of attorneys fees in case of de-
fault of pay yment, with the option TO the pu:-
chaser or purchasers to pay all cash.
Purchaser to pay for papers.
W. H. INGRAM,
Dec. Il. Master for Sumter County.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-12-25
TREED HIM AT LAST.
James Dunbar Arrested by
Two Dispensary
COnstableS.

Newberry, s. c., Dec. 2o.-Disper-
sary consta bles have treed MIR. james
Dunbar, the celebrated Newbefryian
who has figured SO extensively 10 the
Federal Courts in endeavors to have
preserved his sacred right to import
as much liquor as he plcases for bis
own consumption.
Coustables Gardner aud S. NJ. Dun.
can and Mr.. Bradburn watched his
dwelling last night until 1 o'clock this
morning. They saw Mr.. Dunbar come
out following a negro with ten gallon
keg of wbiskey on bis shoulder
Another man came behind them rolling
a half barrel of whiskey. The COO
stables arrested Dunbar and Sam Price,
colored, but the man who was rolling
the barreled liquor escaped.
It is supposed Dunbar vas moving
his liquor to a more secure place, a:
it was reported that the constables
we're fixing to make move of some
kind gainst bin.
Thirty-two gallons of corn wblskey
we're captured. The whiskey was I'd
stamped. aud the coostables therefore
turned it over to Deputy Marsha
Baxter for shipment to Collector
Townes .-Colunsbia Register.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-12-25
Cure for Diphtherla.

Prof. L. |. Black. of Kansas Uoi-
versity. discovered what be believes to
be sure cure, as we'll as sure preven-
tative, of diphtheria He has expert
mented with it in a theoretical way
until be and the physicians with whom
he has consulted are satisfied that it
will be success. The mixture is salt
and water, about one.half to two-thirds
of salt by weight; through this is sent
a current of electricity from a battery.
The decomposition produces. chloride,
oxygen and probably czone, all ln an
active state. The throat should be
swabbed or gargle used frequently.
Tests have been made sufficient to show
conolusively that the mixture is a
powerful germicide Prof. Blake Sc
cured the dirtiest water be could get
from the sewers of Kansas City, Leav-
enwor,h and Lawrence, and a micro7
scopic investigation showed them to bal
reeking with bacteria. The water was
submitted to his test, and the most
powerful analysis afterward failed to
discover living germ. No organic
matter Of auy kind remained in the
water.