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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-06
TERMS OF THE CALL.
Secretary Carlisle's Circular and His
Actuary's Calculations.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The call under
which the bids were received and opened
to-day was issued by Secretary Carlisle
JAM s, last. Bids were invited for the pur-
chase of S1cO,o0o.Oo0 United States 4 per
cent. thrty-year bonds. The bonds, which
are redeemable in coin, will be issued in
denominations OF $50 or multiples of that
sum, as may be desired by the bidders.
Only United States gold coin or gold cer-
tificates will be received in payment of the
bonds Under the terms of the Secretary's
circular calling for bids, the first payment
of per cent. and accrued interest must
be made on receipt of notice of acceptance
of the bid. The remainder of the amounts
bid may be paid in insta.lments of 10 per
cent each and accrued interest at the end
of fifteen days thereafter. Accepted bid
ders, however, are allowed to pay the whole
amount OF their bios at the time of the first
installment, or at any time previous to the
maturity of the last installment, provided
that all previous instalments have been
to run thirty years from that time. and
will. therefore, mature Feb. /, 1925.
According to the calculations OF the actu-
airy. OF the treasury, bidder. In order to
realize 2is per cent. interest on his invest
ment, should h I'VE offered $130S749 for each
Sl00 in bonds bid for. To realize higher rates
of interest bids should have been made as
s11sS22s; lie per cent. sll7s74s; ss per
cent, sii6e471; 8 3-16 per cent, Sis. .3s9i 3H
per cent, sl14.0506: 5-l6 per cent, sll2 1914:
3ss per cent. Sil1.5 $40; 3 7-ls per cent, slOs-
0S56; 5 9-l6 per cent, $107S900: 3ss per cent,
$105712l; 11-16 per cent, $l05.55l6; 3s4 per
cent, $l04 40S2: 3 1916 per cent, $lOS cS16;
35k per cent, sl02. .17ls: 3 15-l6 per cent, slOl-
OTIS: per cent, Sl00oOO.
For the per cent. loan of Feb. /. 1895.
there were, in all. 23s bids. representing
So, 292 $50. OF this amount $i2. 996S50 was
bid for at the upset price of sll7.223, and
So 295, 800 at a price in excess of that figure.
The amount awarded was $4,000 600 on
which the government realized premium
OF S. 633, 295. For the 5 per cent. loan of
Nov. l3, 1894, for which there was no upset
price. the government received 3g4 bids
amounting to SITS. .341, ,150. The amount of
the bids received at si16.Ss9S was $50. 600 600:
amount below that rate, S61, ,776 100: at rates
between sil6.sses and sll7.077. s5.62s 500. AT
s1i7.O77, $50. 90 eco. made by the Morgan
Belmont syndicate. The amount bid at rates
above Slf7O.7 was slG.935 $50 The syndicate
bid was accepted, the government rafizing
a premium of IS. ass, 500. The gold purchase
OF Feb S. 1885, was for 3,5o00o0 ounces. paw
able in United States per cent. bonds
The bid of the Morgan syndicate to furnish
the gold was accepted The government
under the terms OF this agreement. issued
bonds amounting to So. 81. .400 for which the
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1T WAS A GREAT SURPRISE.
Treasury Officials AstOnished at the
Great Number of BiaIx


WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-Four thousand
six hundred and forty bids for s55s. 2s9. SO
worth of bends Such is the tremendous
total Of the subscriptions opened at the
Treasury Department to-day in accordance
with the terms of the call issued a month
ago inviting proposals for 100000. 600 of
United States per cent. bonds. to
run for thirty years from Feb. /.
1885 These figures do not include
about s12O.00o,O0o crank" bids reject
ed as bogus. The immense offerings
astounded experts. The bids literally
swamped the Treasury Department, which
was so taken by surprise that at s o'clock
tonight, although extra clerks had been
hurriedly drafted, the work of tabulatinr
the bids was still in progress and it was i'm
possible to tell with defniteness how MANY
bids and for what aggregate had been re-
ceived at figures in advance of the unset
price or llo.6sH, at which a syndicate COM
posed Of J. p Morgan & Co. Harvey Fisk &.
co. and the Deutsche Bank, of Berlin, Of
fered TO take the whole loan
The bids ranged from par I'D TO a SINGLE
$50 bid at $50. 1t is impossible. therefore
say at this time how the awards will he
made. Treasury officials regard the loan as
q SoniPiS'o SeSNeSS' ooth as 10 the popular
subscription feature and the prices on
tanned. Bids came from several thousand
individuals and from hundreds of national
banks and other banking institutions
Nearly all the leading New York bankers
and big insurance companies were repre-
sented in the list of bidders. but with few
exceptions they were out-maneuvered by
the Morgan syndicate
Owing to the confusion caused by the
magnitude OF the offerings and the conse-
quent delay In classifying and scheduling the
bids any authorita tive statement of the
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The Supreme
Council OF the National Farmers Alliance
tonight disposed OF all the matters coming
before the annual meeting. Officers were
elected as follows: Mann Page, Virginia
president; II. G.. Snively. Pennsylvania vice
president: II. \. Southworth, Colorado Sec
retary and treasurer; II. L.. Louck South
Dakota, w. p. Bricker. Pennsylvania: J. r
Willets. Kansas. and w l.. Peake, Georgia
executive committee. Mr.. Page is said to
be a strong free silver advocate The
finance committee had n protrac,el hearing
before the House committee on banking am
cii-rf urv to-day
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KIDNAPPED by Eustlers.

ALBUQUERQUE, y. ". Feb 5-A J.
Fountain, one OF the best-known men in
New Mexico, was kidnapped on the road
thieves. and is supposed TO have been killed.
together with his little SON. who was his
only travelling companion. Fountain MAS
and had been pushing the rustlers vikor-
ously. He had just been at court in Lin
coin county. where he had indicted a large
when he was waylaid and doubtless killed
\ large party is securing the country for
the rustiers
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5 PER CENT. MONEY.

Weare prepared to make loans at 5 and
511 per cent. on good business property.
JOHN S. SPANN Il co.
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HAZELTON. Pa, Feb. 5.-Dr John Fruit
Was probably fatally injured. Robert Evan
son badly cut and bruised and Mrs Wiliia m
Kehoe suffered broken leg in a collision
tonight between two sleighs on Broad
street.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-29
The EireSide az n School.

1t may have occurred to many that
the fireside is really an educational in
stitution-a seminary of infinite impor-
tance. There are many parents who
would be glad to give their children
the benefit of college training, but find
it impossible, owning to straitened cir
cumstances. Yet every child who has
home is graduate of the hearth. So
woven in with the woof of childhood is
the education the fireside bestows, that
it gives color to the whole texture of
life. 1t is no uncommon thing to see
an aged man holding fresh in his
recollection the event of his childhood.
All the wide space between that and
the present hour is forgotten waste a;
but the impressions of his childhood
were so deep they have become lasting.
At your seminary of learning-the
family fireside-are you making your
instructors task an easy one?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-29
BRADLEY ITEMS.
Visitors and Other Items-Pretty
School Teacher.

Bradley, s. c., April %, 1896.
1t Is said thata "bad penny will come back,
so this scribbler Is here again. l would like
TO be death in that line.
might tell you, but will not, that Mr..
Smiths sons daughters husbands father and
sister paid delightful vsi. to the hospItable
home Of the Rev. Browns fathers third cous-
in also that the large Jones family paid an ex.
tended visit TO Mr.. and Mrs. job nson, and the
following week the Johnsons returned the
visit.
The writer attended service recently at Re.
hoooth (MethodisD church, where the pastor,
Rev. Mr.. Justus eXpounded the word Of truth.
He Is a close student and a young man of fine
promise, and we predict for him a high place
in the church some day.
The school In the same neighborhood gives
Miss Cason formerly Of your TOWN. a chance
ITO teach the young idea how 10 shoot" and to
pour the fresh instruction into the mind.
Sometimes | fear that our people are sending
the "young ideas" to school at too early an
age. | have frequently seen the little tots at
school not more than or years old and
without having learned a single letter OF the
alphabet. This humdrum exercise takes up
much OF the teachers time and Is O hard task
for the child. while 1t might be done at spare
moments by the parent, or an older brother
or sister. know little girl who learned her
ther or sat on his knee, while waiting for the
family to collect for morning worship. /
firmly believe there Is economy TO both parent
and chi lid In having 1t get the rudlments OF an
education at the home fireside. Again, be-
leve the age of eight TO be quite early enough
10 impose upon q child the restrictions of the
school room. l..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-29
Love In q Cottage.

The world does not believe in love in
a cottage very much; that is, the
world assumes not to believe in it. But
there are some things that stands
the wear and tear of time with tolers-
BILE success, and love in a cottage may
be one of them, the world ostensibly to
the contrary Notwithstanding. From
the pedestal of large experience the
world looks indulgently and plying
down upon the aspirants of happiness
in this particular line, and SCOTS mild
ly and prophecies with grim cynicism.
But love makes the world 60 round
Just the same, and there is no place
where love enjoys the manifestation
of his powers as he does in cottage.
with two young people who have just
gone from the altar to housekeeping.
Love is in his element there, and he
turns in and helps with the power
mightier than the combined force of q
dozen experts. He loves to help two
young people to select the pieces of
furniture which are to adorn the
cottage, and he suggests for the artistic
arrangement of them ; he helps to
lay carpets and to put up stoves, and to
hang pictures and adjust tides. Ah
love is a sly boy when he joins force
with two young people who have gone
from the altar to housekeeping. He
can teach a masculine novice how to
build q kitchen fire in no time, and
he can show clumsy fingers how to
dry dainty china cups and saucers
fresh from the dish-bowl. He can
inspire a mans heart with radiant
enthusiasm over a hundred foolish
little gimcracks with which women
know how to adorn home. He can
make the roaring of bright fire on
the hearth, and the singing of a new
tin tea-kettle to sound like a choir
of angel voices. And then he disports
himself gaily about, and writes on
every article, and emblazons in golden
letters on every wall the word "Home,"
and he is happy. Bless the boy! How
he brings out the beauties and secludes
the blemishes He makes the vines to
to grow on the outside, and, at his
bidding, they Chamber all over the
world-spurned cottage. How he teach
es patience and liberation, and how he
prompts good action, and brings to
being no end of virtues and graces
There is trite saying about Love to
the effect that when Want comes in
at the door, he flies out at the window.
You can scarce credit with fickleness
one possessed of so many virtues, and
while the evidence would seem to bear
out this cynical old time-honored
there are extenuating
circumstances. When Want came in
be led companion by the hand, and
that companion was named Selfish
ness. Love can keep Want at bay
when Want comes singlehanded.
Love can make one pound do the work
of ten, and he can garnish dry crusts
with q delectable sauce that makes
food fit for a king, but when Selfish
ness stalks in-oh, the change that
transpires This is the crisis the
old world watches for.
She peeps in at the window when
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-29
One of Natures Best Gifts.

The apple, declares a hygenic
journal, is of natures best gifts to
women. Aesthetically it clears and
beauties the complexion by exciting
the action of the liver. Hygienically,
it aids digestion, prevents calculous
growths by helping the kidney
secretions, and, as it thoroughly dis
infects the mouth, is one of the best
known preventives of throat diseases.
Apples are excellent brain food,
for more than any other food do they
contain phosphoric acid in an easily
digested state.
The best time to eat apples..is just
before going to bed, for they are sure to
promote sound and healthful sleep.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-29
Disease Turks in Easements.

Physicians aver that there are dis
ease and death in storing wooden
blocks from old pavements in cellars
for fuel. Several cases of typhoid and
diphtheria have been traced to this
cause. 1t is well to remember d single
decaying cabbage or bushel of turnips
in the basement has poisoned the air
of the entire house. Damp cellars
alone are sources of disease. Millions
of fungi grow in night upon damp
walls, ripen, and pass off in the air and
often are the direct source of fatal
epidemics. Fire that will dry the
walls of the house is the very best of
disinfectants.
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AlgarY, s. c., April q,

Algary, s. c., April q, 1896.
Some light showers Of rain fell here during
the past week. a good soaking rain would
be in order.
Most of our farmers have finished planting
and some of them have a good stand OF cot
ton.
Wheat and oats are look ing well. Oats were
not killed out as bad as was thought.
Everything bids fair TO good crop of fruit
this year.
And still some parties are turning out their
COWS and "think" 1t is right
Our new postofiice is In operation now !;
every one should patronize this office who
Is In reach of 1t. 1t will speak we'll of you
and your community.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. NJ. Cooper visited relatives
at EXON, Laurens county, recently.
The Jones school will close next Friday,
May first. There will be picnic on that day.
The orators of the day are the Rev. DR.. Nc
Bride and Rev. r. n. Pratt. There will be an
exhibition that night. Prof. Culbertson in
forms us that he has prepared q very interest
Ing program for the occasion. We hope to
give an account of the proceedings in our
next from Jones'. Johnnie James.
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LIT Us PUT YOU
On the Right Track.
COHEN
THE LEADER OF LOW PRICES
WILL DO 1T.

We don't expect any man to buy here who
can do better anywhere else, but he'll have a
fruitless hunt. We put our whole heart into
clothes-buying and selling. We employ
every talent, profit by experience, strive for
every perfection. and have got the art down
to a nicely. While some are shouting how
heap bey've got. we want to tell you how
fine we've got. Anybody can sell cheap
clothes-there's no knack about that. We've
got suits as low as IS, but at $3.50. S0 Sl3 TO SIS
and S20 Is where expertness counts, clever
ness Is taxed, where competition Is declared
out of the race, where its "neck and neck"
with the best of custom tailoring. And just
think OF what saving 1t Is. A little more
than Is asked for the cheap truck, but great
deal less than the tailors demand-about hall.
What worth have words when everybody
claims the largest stock? What weight have
published prices unless you can prove the
values? You've got standing invitation to
look US over and see II We are not showing
three times the variety OF suits that is to be
found anywhere else. You are assured sat-
isfaction in every purchase, not the "as good.
as-kind," but a guarantee that there can be
no better made. There's no chance Of our not
being able TO suit you. Such an immense
line must hold everybods size and every.
body's style. Some of the back .clothers"
advertise clothing In any shape as the FASH
ionable sort but their Idea Is like their clothes
ancient. The styles this season are OF the
moderate sort In length, both cutaways and
sacks. This way for the correct style at low
est prices that can be made for the best
clothes.
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CALHOUN FALLS.
Steps Looking to the Development Of
the Great Water Power.

The Calhoun Falls Water Power Company
have applied for charter, the capital stock TO
be two million dollars, divided In to twenty
thousand shares OF one hundred dollars each.
est water power in all this country, by which
electric power will be distributed over the ad-
jacent country for operating mills, machinery
and light plants. The development of that
water power would prove source OF profit 10
the company, and blessing to the country.
Abbeville would be delighted TO see that COM
pany organized and the water OF the Savan-
nah harnessed. We could then get electric
power for our cotton mill, and other indus
tries at greatly reduced cost OF steam from
coal.
The tract Of land contains sixteen thousand
acres. mostly In Abbaville county. The river
runs through the land, and 1T Is said that with
dams and canals We could get an indefinite
amount of power.
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He that hath slight thoughts of sin
never had great thoughts of God.
Vivacity in youth is often mistaken
for genius, and solidity for dullness.
The greater your real strength and
power, the quieter it will be exercised.
Happy the man who can endure
with equanimity the highest and the
lowest fortune.
Have I done aught of value to my
fellowmen? Then have I done much
for myself.
You can't live on amusement. 1t is
the froth on water-an inch deep, and
then the mud!
Trouble and perpleXity drive US to
prayer, and prayer driveth away trou-
BILE and perplexity.
Most of the faults women owe to US,
whilst we are indebted to them for
the most OF our better qualities.
Nothing in life is more remarkable
than the unnecessary anxiety when
we endure and generally occasion our
selves.
Keep your conduct abreast of your
conscience, and very soon your con-
science will be illuminated by the ra-
dance of God.
He who prays in his family does
well. He who reads the Scriptures
and prays does better. He who reads
the Scriptures and sings and prays
does best of all.
Some people have about the same
idea in joining the church that they
have in rushing to cyclone pit when
they see funnel shaped cloud, or
scaling fence when they meet mad
dog-escape from danger.
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Bicycle Ordinance.

DE 1T ORDAINED BY CITY COUNCIL
of Abbeville, s. c., and by authority Of the
same, that from and after the FIRST DAY
OF MAY, 1896. the riding of bicycles In the
city Of Abbevllle shall be subject to the fol-
lowing restrictions and regulations:
SECTION l. 1t shall be unlawful for any
person to ride bicycle on any sidewalk from
James Taggart's corner lot on South Main
street to j. r. Blake's corner lot on North
Main street, or on any sidewalk on any side
street within one block Of Main street within
the limits OF James Taggart's corner lot on
South Main street and j. r. Blake's corner
lot on North Main street.
SEC. .. Any violation of this ordinance or
any provision thereof shall be punished by
fine not exceeding five dollars or imprison-
ment not exceeding ten days.
Done in City Council this 2lst day OF April
In the year Of our Lord 1896.
r. NJ. HILL, Mayor.
JAMES CHALMERS, Clerk.
April 2lst, 1896, 2t.
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i. W.. WHITE.

troubles come, when the babies come,
and when the tax-collector comes, and
when she sees the fires blacken and
20 out she shakes her head till her cap
frills futter in veritable "I-told you
so" joy.
When selfishness become establish
ed on the family altar, Love hops down.
Their joint reign is never successful
one. Selfshness is as old as Time
itself age has never diminished his
vigor. If Love proves tickle, it is not
altogether Loves fault. There are
eXtenuating circumstances.
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Robert A. Grier-America, Past, Present
and Future.
William NJ. McElwell-Perpetuity of Our
Republic.
Richard q. tnut-Literature-The Glo-
ry OF Natlonality-Valedic
Degrees con ferred.
Recess.
A. q. Darlington, Esq.-Annervsary Grafton
before the Societies.
Music.
Allen Kerr. Printers. Abbeville. c. II.
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Order Of the day:
Procession.
Prayer.
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The tyrant, it has been said, is but
a slave turned inside out.
If you would not be forgotten as soon
as you are dead, either write things
worth reading or do things worth
writing.
When we get to heaven, we will
wonder, with the first taste of heavenly
Joy, that we ever had moments sad
ness, with all this blessedness in antici-
patton.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-29

Absolute sincerity is a matter of in
dispensable Importance in Christian
character.
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A man who tlatters q woman hopes
to either find her fool or to make her
one.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-14
Prohibition whiskey Sales.

MASON CITY, Ia, Jan. 1.-the
prohibition law of the State GER
tainly gets black eye in the re-
port secured from the auditors
office today. Cerro Gordo county is
recognized as one of the very
strongest prohibition counties in
the stbte. The report shows that
during 1895 a total of 612l gallons
of liquor were sold at valuation
Of $4,000. or an increase of 345 per
cent in the county in three years.
Only six gallons were used by the
doctors. II Cerro Gordo, county is
taken as the basis OF estimation, it
takes over 10000 barrels of liquor
and 5S,796 barrels Of beer to sup.
ply the Iowa trade, at a cost to
consumers of So, 100000. 1t is also
generally agreed that not one-halt
Of the liquor drank is reported to
the auditor.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-14
Postal. Box-Thieves Caught.

Boston, Mass, Jad. IA gang
of all-round crooks has been cap
tured by detectives. The names
given by the men are VIM. Smith,
Charles Drake, Oscar Burns, alias
VIM. E. Hill, and Richard d. Cole
man, alias Hawley. All except
Hill gave their residences as New
York city. Smith at first denied
his identity. He said if he was
returned to New York he would
be sure to get twenty years. He
admitted serving fifteen years. He
and another crook stole letters
from street boxes in a systematic
manner, by the aid of false keys.
In many cases, he said, he wore a
letter carriers uniforms which he
said was made for him by a tailor
in New York.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-14
Fired Into the Camp.

MISSISSIPPI CITY, Jan. A.
United States Deputy Marshal
Williamson has about 100 negroes
employed near Perkinston on the
line of the proposed Gulf and Ship
Island railroad twenty-eight miles
north Of here getting out ties for
the roads construction. There are
a few native white men employed
likewise, but by other contractors.
Friday night last a number Of
shots were fired into the camp Of
those in charge of the commissary
for Williamson by unknown par
ties, but fortunately no one was
injured. Williamson came here
today and insisted on Sheriff
Hewes going after the perpetra-
tors, but would neither make an
affidavit against any one, or offer
an opinion as to whom they might
be. Sheriff Hewes informed the
United States deputy that he had
a fearless deputy sheriff stationed
in that immediate vicinity, and
until 1t was shown he was power
less in the premises or apparently
Sinking his duty as an officer, he
would take no action in the mat
ter. Sheriff Hewes says that the
neighborhood is especially law
abiding, and thinks Mr.. William
son is unnecessarily alarmed.