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Cremation Growing In E,aror.

The movement in favor of cremation as against earth burial is growing in England The other day MT. William Rathbone, ex M. P, stated in public that he had made provision for crema. ton in his own case on principle and with view to promoting the reform. At this moment new crematorium IS almost ready for use at Liverpool. It is neat building of red sandstone, simple and chaste i'll design. The main door opens into a small chapel From this room the coffin will be carried after the burial service Is read into small apart ment beyond and there placed upon an iron frame running on wheels and rails ii line with the furnace and pushed uoiselessly into the abode of flames.
 From the chapel the clergyman, fol lowed by the relatives of the deceased, will ascend stair on the opposite side from the door by which the coffin has been removed into small gallery over looking the door of the furnace. From this gallery the service prescribed for the grave will be read and the mourn CTS will take the last look of the coffin as it disappears within the furnace. The situation of the crematorium at An field is wisely chosen, being in the heart of pretty suburban neighborhood and accessible from all parts of the city. There is an office, with a cottage for the oaretaker attached, at the entrance gate, The crematorium will be opened for Dublic use not later than April l. Westminster Gazette
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Gray's "Elegy" or "stone Riyer,s

During RosecfanS campaign i'll len nessee the question arose as to whether he would rather be poet or a victor. MT. J. R. Gilmore relates the incident in the Louisville Courier Journal:
 On the following day I rode out with Rosecrans, General Garfield, then his chief of staff, several others officers and squad of about 100 men to Grantlands, the birthplace and home of Miss Mur- free, the we'll known author, but then occupied by General Sheridan as his headquarters.
 As we entered the forest inclosing the town Garfield broke out with Lowell's poem, T do believe in freedom s cause, " his words being echoed back from the great spreading trees and set to the mu- sic of 100 horses heels. He had scarcely ended when General Rosecrans told how
 zekle crep' up, quite ulfs:known,
 And peeked in thru the winder,
 While there sot Huldy all alone
 'Ith no one nigh to hinder
 ''What would you give to have writ ten that?" he asked as he finished the recitation.
 All the castles I ever built in the clouds, I replied.
 "So would I, said Rosecrans. "You know what Wolfe said before his great victory?"
 ''That he would rather have written Gray's 'Elegy than take Quebec. Would you have said that before Stone River?"
 He hesitated moment, then answer ed, "No, for we need victories more than poems. ''
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The Mascot Worked.

Otto Feudner has been buying lottery tickets for years and has never won so much as all approximation prize. He concluded that he would have to get a mascot, so on the advice of colored friend he set box trap out in the eeme- tery to catch graveyard rabbit.
 Feudner caught great big fellow the first night and put him in big dry goods box 1t was the day before the drawing. so to make sure that the mas cot would work all right Feudner put $25 worth of tickets in the box with the rabbit, After the drawing he went to see what he had won.
 The mascot had worked. It had eaten up all the lottery tickets. San Fran cisco Post.
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CRANKY GUESTS.

Experience of Hotel Clerks In Dealing
 With Some of Them.
 ''I cannot sleep in that room, said a guest at hotel in this city last evening as he walked to the desk ill the office and threw the key upon it.
 "What is the matter with it?'' asked the clerk.
 "There is nothing the matter with it except that the bed is in the wrong place, the guest replied. For more than 20 years I have slept in bed with the head toward the north, and it has become such a habit with me that it would be actually impossible for me to sleep with the head in any other direo- tion. l"
 s'It will be impossible for me to give you room containing bed with the head in that direetion," said the clerk. "The hotel is we'll filled tonight, and have only two vacant rooms, but will have the bed turned for you. .'' Calling a porter, the clerk instructed him to turn the bed in the gentleman s room so that the head would be to the north. The guest followed the porter up stairs, and as nothing further was heard from him it is presumed that he retired and slept peacefully.
 There is no accounting for tastes, - said the clerk, turning to the reporter, land the funny experiences we have in the hotel business would fill volume. Before the night is over we may have calls for beds with their heads turned to every point of the compass, and of course we are obliged to accommodate every one.
 ''I remember an instance like this several years ago. 4 man slightly in- ebriated came into the hotel one night, and producing pocket compass said that he wished q room where the head of the bed should be placed to the northeast We sent two boys with him. and they turned the bed as requested. The joke was that the compass was furnished with little stop, which held the indicator in certain position. It so happened that the gentleman's 8 bed, which had been carefully placed north east according to the compass, was in reality placed with the head to the south. The man discovered his mistake the next morning and was cured of the fad. "-Philadelphia Bulletin.
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paasants, sunerstitIons.

Now and then, not often, ghostly ap- pearances or sounds are explained to the peasant s satisfaction. Thus in the conn- ty of Durham 'Gabriel's hounds were for long, long years believed to shriek and howl through the air on dark nights and to forebode death to him who heard and saw them. But prosaie modern re- search has proved them to be nothing but fiocks of wild geese migrating south ward on the approach of winter and choosing dark nights for their journeys. Similarly the ghost of Irbydale, in the Lincolnshire wolds. a goblin who terri fled travellers at night with its heart rending cries, and who was said to be a witch who had been worried to death by dogs in long past age, has been shown to be nothing but an owl On the other hand, no true Cornishman will ever be induced to relinquish the be- lief that the spirit of King Arthur still haunts the ruins of Tintagel i'll the shape of white enough, and assuredly the many English families who possess a white bird of omen, such as that which Mir. John 0xenham saw in West ward, Ho'' cling firmly to the tradition if not to the belief in it.
 And so, ghosts or no ghosts, the posi- tion is just the same at the end of the nineteenth century as at the end of the eighteenth-all argument is against them, and if all belief is not for them | very great deal more is than people like to acknowledge. Chambers Journal.
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HER FAN.
Flutter of feathers and perfume of Iaoes.

FIutter of feathers and perfume of aces, Carved sticks of ivory, daintily white; Plump little Cupids with mischiovoua faces An, could but read your expression arighti Say do you know. are you wholly unfeeling, As you pelt one anetheT with roses so sweeti Do you not know that my heart she is stealing To trample it under her pearly shod feet2 Almost think you exult in the glances Your owner bestows when she seeks to en-
 slave.
 Know you no cure for wounds from love's
 lances2
 Have you no power her victims to saver Swiftly she whirls in the maze of the dances; Slyly you laugh as you peep from each fold And thus one more victim of coquetry s fanoies Questions in vain--his fate is untold.
 Lucy Mayo Warner in Boston Budget
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 How He Worked It,

One Rev. W. A. Giboney called at the GRAPHIC yesterday, wrote out a puff" for himself and asked us to put it in our paper free of charge. We did so. Now this gentleman went to printing office in this town and had 5000 circulars printed in an office that could not give him space in a newspaper, and for these the printer was paid. h all candor, we ask is this iustic or in any sense fair to the newspaper :?
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Unidentified Rivers.

The first rivers mentioned in authentic history are alluded to in Genesis. They are the Pison, the Gihon, the Hiddekel and the Euphrates, which are said to have flowed from the garden of Eden. Various attempts have been made to identify these streams, but no agreement has been reached among the authorities save in the case of the last. Q
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1t is said that the Athletic Associa- tion will endeayor, at an early day. to arrange match between Layton and Maber.
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RIardI Gras.

New Orleans, La, February IS. 1896. For the above occasion the Cotton Belt Railway will sell round trip tickets to New Orleans at one fare. For further information, etc., call on or address, E. H. WILSON,
 Agent.
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At the meeting of Juliet Lodge, K. of P., held last night, Mir. George B. Moore was elected representative to the Grand Lodge and Mir. James 4. Langford alternate. Messrs. Fl. C. McGaughy, A. ". Mills and F. M. Hudson were appointed Board of Trustees for tha ensuing year.
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Why suffer with Coughs, Colds and LaGrippe when LAXATIVE PROMO QUININE will cure you in one day. Does not produce ringing in he head like Sulphate of Quinine. Put up in tablets convenient for taking. Guar anteed to cure or money refunded. Price 25 cents. For sale by G. N. Hart Drug Company II 10d4m
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The beautiful new carpet for the Main Street Methodist Church will be put down this week. Eugene Fies secured the contract for carpet ing the church.
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Misses Emily and Alice Favre, of Pennington, Miss, are visiting their sister, Mrs. F. l.. Dilley, on South Cherry street.
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America, 7 the spectacular extrav- agHnza will be presented at Opera house Thursday, February 6th
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MT. Thomas A. Eaton came down from his plantation, near Pastoria, this morning.
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The lack of sidewalks in some DOT tions of the city causes pedestrians much annoyance and discomfort during weather like. the present.
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America" arranged and directed by Miss Harriet NJ. Bogardus of Michigan, for the benefit of Young Ladies Guild of Trinity Church promises to be q grand snccess.
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Sometime during the month of February the Bluff City Club will entertain it's members and friends with a minstrel performance.
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The Elks requests the GRAPHIC to return thanks to Mrs. H. A. Mccoy for fine dish of delicious salad furnished at the banquet Tuesday night.
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 Temperance Shoes.

Customer--I notice some shoes in the window that you have labeled "Teln- perance shoes. What kind are they?
 Dealer-They are warranted not to be ht.-London Tit-B Bits.
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Misses Eva and Maud Larkin, of Shreveport, are in the city, guests of their cousin, Miss Kate Larkin.
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 For Sale.

Jefferson, Lincoln and Cleveland county scrip in amounts to suit. Call or wIite for my prices before buying l2 2ld&w4m K. NJ. ROSENBERG.
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North Dakota, though still young. em- ploys l, SAT hands in her factories and sends out every year 8, ,028, TOT worth of product.
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Superintendent j. A. Edson, of the St. Louis Southwestern, was Pine Bluff visitor today
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Work of construction on two more engines has been begun in the Cotton Belt shops at this place.
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Dou't fail to witness Anne rica. Over 100 of Pine Bluffs most beauti- ful young people will appear in it.
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Little Rock is to have a irst-class base ball club for the coming season. Pine Bluff should also make ar engagements to obtain a good nine
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Mr. F. Kendall. the saw mill man of Kedron. was in the city last night and took in the glove contest.
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Will Hoskins, colored individual, was on trial before Magistrate Alex ander's court this afternoon.
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Fresh oysters received daily. Three dozen for 25 cents. +. Pierotti, op- posite Great Red Store. l0l2tf
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Reserved seats of America" will be on sale Monday morning at Alt sehul's.
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MT. Joe Walker, of Cornerstone, is ill the city today.
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Now is the time to pay your taxes, if you wish to avoid the rush.
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Don't fail to send your sweetheart nice Valentine on February 14th. We have them; lots of 'em.
 If MITCHELL, the Confectioner
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The DAsha Circuit Court will be convened at Dumas next Monday.
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Mir. J. A. Bain, popular young merchant of Redfeld, is in the city.
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$5 50 and $500 Shoes this $3. .85. Lades shoes reduced as $ 30 pair No old stock in this duCon $ Ladies warranted satisfaction We recommend them the best Shoe offered by
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The Bluff City Club will give fuil dress german next Tuesday night.
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Mrs. Nj. J. Panther is visiting friends iii Little Rock this week.
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How About Your Corn and Bunion?

How About Your Corn and Bunion?
 It is allowable by the rnles ofetiquette to keep posted on the condition of customers, feet. If they have corns they should use Sure Corn Cure Only 10 eentB. Each bottle will cure a large crop ofcorns. Easy to apply and sure winner.
 ANDERSON MEYER.
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Rain fell last night and is falling today.
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WANTED-To sell County and State rights in the new adjustable Post hole Auger, '.Post-hole a minute;' a good seller. For particulars ad- dress postoftice box 113, Pine Bluff, Ark. l 27d7t
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Morning Joy" Java and Mocha coffee. Every drop drop of comfort. This coffee took first premium at the Atlanta Exposition. For sale by ROBINSON x Co.
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CITY ITEMS.

Comic and fancy valentines at Mitchell's. 1 26dtf
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kTONEY TO LOAN-On improved city or INi country property, for years, at from to per cent, ROBERTS & JOHNSON.
 l22d1m
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Mir. Vim. Terry, of Camden is in the city.
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THE FARMERS AND SAVINGS BUILD
 ING AND LOAN ASSOCIATlON-Mone to loan on good farm lands, and city property W. D. Johnson Local Agent. 176
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AIANTED-Tow neat appearing ladies or w gentlemen for one or two months salary S1. per day. Address E. LaBaf. General Delivery.
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The DAILY GRAPHICaccepts ad- nsrtasing on the distinct and uneQuiuocal guarantee that it has c dai2y circulo- tion larger than aay other datly aesos- paper published in Pine Bluf.
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The U. s. Gov't Reports show Royal Baking Powder superior IU all others.
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VAIANTFD--The services of an energetic
 w man or lady for General Agency work, no travelling, no eanYassinR, permanent posi- tion. Can be handled ill connection with other uties. Salary, $50 per month. commits sion and expenses No scheme or fake. Ad- dress with stamp, National Mfg. Co., St, Louis, Mo, 1266
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 >OLUI1N.~
 Advertise Your Wants.

DOARDERS WANTED 629 Texas street D Apply by 1st Mrs, J. H Dellman.
 1 29 d6t
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-09-30
Which Story il True2

NEW ORLEANS, September o.
Tuesday night last a negro named
Hawkins was boiling some pitch in
Gretna and was annoyed by number
of children. He told them TO 60 away,
and as they did not obey quickly he
slapped one of them. This child hap
pened to be a nephew of one of the
Gretna police force. This man on be-
ing informed of the occurrence raised
a great hue and cry and went after
Hawkins who made his escape. Two
innocent negroesin whose house Haw-
kins took refuge were shot and badly
wounded by the crowd in pursuit of
Hawkins, who had left the house some
time before. Last night Hawkins was
caught in Algiers and carried to Gret
ma, where he was locked up in what is
called the little Jail, 4 small frame
building in a neighborhood where
there are but few houses. The door
was secured by a paddock and no one
was on guard. About 1 o'clock this
morning a mob broke open the house,
took Hawkins out, carried him about
a mile away and hanged him. After
life was extinct the body was cut down
and thrown into the river. Today the
authorities of GretEa profess ignorance
of the affair and the chief of police OF
that village claims that Hawkins
broke Jail and exhibits the broken
paddock rs proof.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-09-30
More massacres.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, Sept. 21.-Advices
received here regarding massacres at
Egin, in the Cavillayaet of Kahrput,
show that they occurred on the 18th
and 10th of the present month. The
Kurds attacked the Armenian quarter,
killed large numbers of its inhabitants
and pillaged and burned their houses.
Many Armenians escaped to the noun,
tains. According to the accounts Of
the Turkish government, 600 Armen-
ians were killed at Egin, and these
adyices also state that the outrage was
provoked by the Armenians firing into
the Turkish quarter. No authentic
details of the massacre have yet been
received.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-09-30
Two Children Murdered.

LAMAR, Sept. 22.-Albert Thomas
and wife, colored, left their home two
miles from Lamar, to attend church
near there last Sunday evening.
Their two little children, both girls,
aged five and four respe ctively, were
sent before the departure for church,
to the children's grand parents, a quar-:
ter of mile away. On the parents
return home late in the evening, the
children were not on the premises as
expected. Some one was sent over
across a narrow strip of woods to the
grand parents for them, and they were
not there. 1t was learned that the
children had left the latter place for
home sometime before sun down. Al
ter a search of an hour they were
found beaten and bruised and both
apparently dead in the woods about
one hundred yards from the path.
The elder died in six or seven hours,
the younger regained consciousness
about that time and began exclaiming
Ellie did it. Ellie beat u.s." Ellie
Pompy is young negro of 13 years
cousin to the two children, and was
living with his and the children's
grand parents. He was arrested and
confessed the deed. He says in an in
terview that he met his cousins in the
woods, ''began to play tag, he got
mad, lost thought of himself, and hit
them too hard with a stick" He en-
ticed them away into the woods, 100
yards or more from the path where
themurder was..committed. He was ask
ed why did he take them there9 He was
confused here and uttered conflicting
statements. Many think rape was at
tempted upon the older girl. There were
threats of lynching by some whites as
we'll as blacks, and the sheriff fearing
violence, did not 60 back to Darling
ton, as he came by private convey.
ance, but returned by rail last night t
with the prisoner. The younger child
is not expected to live-State.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-09-30
Preparing Seed Corn.

An experienced farmer, writing on
this subject, says: ''Some ten years
ago I planted an ear of corn to test
the difference between the product OF
the kernels of both ends and the mid
die of the same ear and will give you
the result. The soil was just alike, the
cultivation the same, and the crop
very different. I planted the first two
rows from the tip or small end, and
planted all the same morning. The
large end produced fair sized ears.
The middle kernels produced ears
mostly straight and fair. The tips
brought forth nubbins only. There
was not fair ear on the two rows OF
corn. have raised corn more or less,
for 40 years, and now plant only two.
thirds of the kernels on each ear OF
corn, and generally raise good crops"
If the crop can be got into the ground
early, it is not advisable to soak the
seed for the purpose of fastening its
growth. If the weather comes unfav-
orable for planting while the corn IS
soaking, the sprouts are apt to get SO
long that they will be broken OF
while carried in the planting bag, and
besides sprouted seed cannot be put
into the hand planter, the use OF
which very much facilitates the labor,
and if the ground is dry, makes the
growth of the seed doubly certain.
Two or three weeks ago we com
menced planting field of corn with
the hoe, the ground was dry, and the
labor so great to obtain moist earth to
cover the seed, that we gave up the
task when the field was about half
planted and took a hand planter to
finish the work. The result was that
the last half came up perfectly, and
the first had to be more than two
thirds replanted. The grain covered
with the loose dirt from the hoe ger
minated, but by the atmosphere dry
ing up the loose soil, the sprouts with
cred and died.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-09-30
THE CHILD'S MOTHER.
A Dangerous Disease.

Seeing in the papers statement
that North Carolina cattle are shipped
into this State, particularly this neigh
borhood, causes me to ask you to give
publicity to the following:
TO THE PUBLIC.
Since North Carolina cattle, accord
ing to the statements of the papers,
are shipped into this State and since
anthrax "a formidable, highly contag-
lous disease to man or beasD has made
its appearance near Charlotte, N. @.
l wish to draw the attention of our
people to the visible symptoms and
post mortem changes accompanying
this disease If anybody knows of a
living or dead animal showing the
following symptoms or changes on be-
ing opened after death, he will please
at once communicate with the veteri.
nary division of Clemson College, s.
c., sending also, if possible, an ear or
foot of an animal recently dead, with
supposed anthrax.
Symptoms-General weakness, the
animal is stupid, rises with difficulty
eyes staring, unste ady wabbling gait,
trembling Of the skin and twitching of
the superficial muscles of the shoul'
ders, neck, flank. Animals do not eat
nor chew the cud. Cows stop giving
milk, breathing hurried and often ac'
companied with a groan. Swelling
IN the skin of the inside of the thigh,
belly, forearm, windpipe, lower jaw
These are at Srst rather small enlarge
rapidly, being fairly hard in a few days.
Animals die either very quickly, at
times they appear all right and are
dead one half hour later, others live
some fifty hours while those cases
where the swellings predominant live
occasionally for two five or days.
Post mortem changes: On opening
the body, which must be done with
utmost care to avoid infection, the fol-
lowing is found: The body is bloated,
decay setting in rapidly, blood is seen
to ooze from the natural openings of
the body. The blood in the veins is
liquid and of tarry consistency. The
spleen (mils) Is four or five times as
large as normally, blackish red in color,
and if cut into a tar like material
flows from the cut part. The mucous
membrane of the stomach and small
intestines is swollen and dark red.
The heart is full of blood OF dark
liquid nature. The lungs are filled
with blood, wind pipe showing frothy
blood. w. Il. A. WYMAN, V. S.