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AN AMERICAN Kill ED.
Havana, April 80,

Havana, April 80
The insurgents have been
gradually massing their forces in
the province of Havana for the
past thirty days. Now there are
about 10000 in that province,
commanded by the following Of
fcers:
Jose Maceo. with about 5000,
at Guira de Me,ena; Lacret, with
about 5000, in San Jose de las
Lajas, about eight miles from
Havana city; Pedro Diaz and
Castillo. with about 1000, near
Guines; Jose M. Aguirre, near
Bainva and Jaruco; Juan Masso,
near Quivican; Francisco Car
lilo, near Bejucal, and Callazo,
near Santiago de las Vegas.
Col. Pedro DIaz is the military
governor of the western division
of the province of Havana, and
has permanent headquarters in
that province. Jose M. Aguirre
has been in the province over
twenty days. Jose Maceo came
from near Cienfuegos by rapid
marches and has been in the pro-
vince about a week, and the
others have gradually moved in
from the positions which they
occupied. Gen. Gomez is in the
province of Puerto Principe,
grad dually moving westward with
his command, and Gen. Calixto
| Garcia is still further east at the
| head of a large force also NOV
ing westward.
Col. Jose M. Aguirrei has oc-
cupied the plantation called Lot
eria, near Bainoa, for consider
able time a portion of his forces.
Recently fifty fremen enlisted as
Spanish volunteers were sent to
dislodge the insurgents forces
from the plantation. After re-
| connoitering the comm ander of
| the Spaniards concluded that the
| inSurgent forces were too numer-
Gus for him to attack. He or
dered his men to return, but
thirty-eight of them refused and
went over to the insurgents with
their arms and ammunition.
Outside of the large cities the
fremen have all been enlisted as
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1t Is HERE.
Dear Joe ARGUS:

Dear Joe ARGUS:
Repeated calls have been made
for the ARGUS annual spring
poem. but we did not care to risk
frost bites. and preferred to wait
until the danger line was past
before we brought it out.
We think that time has now ar.
rived:
Winter has run its usual length,
And soon we may expect
Lingering in the lap OF spring to ceuse,
Or words to that effect.
Spring can now get down to wor{ k
Putting in its biggest ticks
Start up d crop of vegetab bles
And city politics.
Our city conventions are over now:
Our candidates are warranted to run;
We are betting on Hill for Mayor,
Offering odds Of sixteen to che.
Truckers are busy shipping their peas;
Strawberries are selling cheap:
Free silver coin is rather scarce,
But Il little of it buys a heap
That ''tired feeling is raging now,
Hot days will soon be here:
Will have to abandon our bittel then,
And arrange with II lEzer for beer
The farmers are planting much cotton,
And some tobacco and rice:
Next fall with cotton at : cents,
They'll curse old Grover and the
price. ] NJ. II.
GoIdsboro, April %, 1896
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How To Treat a Wife.

Fist, get a wife; second, be pa
tient. You may haYe great trials
and perplexlties in your business,
but do net therefore carry home
cloudy or contracted brow.
Your wife may have trials. which,
though of less magnitude, nay
be hard fer her to bear. A kind
word, a tender look. will do wons
ders 10 chasing from her brow all
clouds of gloom. TO this we
would add always keepp bottle
of Chamberfain's Cough Remedy
in the house, 1t is the best aud
is sure to be needed sooner or
later. Your wife will then know
you really care for her and wish
to protect her health. For sale
at 80 cents per bottle by M. e.
Robinson & Bro, druggists.
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Mr.. D. P. Davis, prominent

Mr.. d. p. Davis, a prominent
liveryman and merchant Of
Goshen, Va, has this to say on
the subject of rheumatism: Il
take pleasure in recommending
Cham berlain's Pain Balm for
rheumatism, as ] know from pers
sonal experience that it will do
all that is claimed for it. A year
ago this spring my brother was
laid up in bed with inflammatpry
rheumatism and suffered intense-
ly- The first application of Cham
berlain's Pain Balm eased
the pain and the use of one
bottle completely cured him.
For sale at 25 and SO cents per
bottle by M. E. Robinson & Bro,
druggists.
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THE FARMER AND WAGE
GARNER.

In his speech in the Senate on
january 24th, 1873, on the reso-
luton declaring that government
bonds are payable in silver, L. Q.
c. Lamar said many things which
are as applicable now as they were
at that time.
He agreed that the free coinage
of silver at the ratio Of Is to /
would drive gold out of circula
ton and cause FSa contraction of
the currency sharper and more
disastrous than anything that can
be anticipated from the present
condition Of affairs, =
1t was contended in 1873, as it
is now that the free coinage of
silver at Is to 1 would increase
the compensation of the laboring
classes. Mr.. Lamar described
the effect of free coinage on wage
earners and the farmers of the
South as follows:
First, let us see what the effect
will be upon laborers, even con-
ceding that it will produce high
prices. The two things which
are effected by change in prices
are labor and real estate. Every
thing rises or falls, as the case
may be, before they do. What,
then, is the situation of the Ia
borer who has been earning a dol
lar day, after the price of every
thing has risen ten cents on the
dollar-or, which is the same
thing, after the dollar has been
deprecated ten cents! The price
of his labor is the same. He re
ceives the same amount of pay
which he received before-that is
a dollar a day-but be receives it
in a dollar cheaper by ten cents,
while he has to pay for everything
he purchases a higher price; and
therefore the value of the money
he receives for labor is less, and
brings him fewer comforts than it
did before.
Look at the price of labor in
any of the tables that have been
published, and you will find it as
firmly fixed as any law, that the
prices of labor and real estate 90
up slower than anything else.
Therefore, any change which
brings higher prices to a country,
and unnaturally raises the prices,
as certainly brings oppression and
distress upon the laborer for the
time being. But more especially
will this policy fail to benefit the
farmers of the South and West.
They have nothing to pay their
debts with except the money which
they make over and above their
current expenses. They must
first pay the current expenses of
the Year and apply their surplus
to the debts which are now press
ing on them.
The Senator from Ohio. in re-
ply to question from the Senator
from Connecticut, Mr.. Eaton),
as to the price in gold in the mar
kets abroad, said: sWhat have
we to do with abroad. The great
production of the South has its
price fixed at Liverpool in gold
market, and that dominates the
/ price of the same product with
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For every quarter in mans
pocket there are a dozen uses land
to use each other in such a way
as to derive the greatest benefit
is question every one must solve
for himself We believe, however,
that no better use could be made
Of one of these quarters than to
exchange t for a bottle of Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera aud Diar.
rhoea Remedy, a medicine that
every family should be provided
with. For sale by M. b. Rob
inson & Bro, druggists.
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lH HOtherS

Anxiously watch declining health of
their daughters. So many are cut off
by consumption i'll early years that
there is real cause for anxiety. In
the earl y stages, when not beyond
the reach of medicine, Hoods Sarsa-
parilla will restore the quality and
quantity of the blood and thus give
good health. Read the following letter:
1t is but just to write about nv
daughter Cora, aged 10. She was COM
pietely run down, declining, had that tired
feeling, and friends said she would not
live over three months. She had a bad
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Cough

and nothing seemed to do her any good.
happened to read about Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla and had her give it a trial. From the
very first dose she began to get better.
After taking a few bottles she was COM
pletely cured and her health has been the
best ever SINCE" MRS. ADDIE PECK,
IL Railroad Place, Amsterdam, N. Y.
s'I will say that my mother has not
stated my case in as strong words as I
would have done. Hoods Sarsaparilla
has truly cured me and I am now we'll"
CORA PECK, Amsterdam, N. Y.
Be sure to get Hoods. because
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A Cure FOR muscular RhumatIsm.

Mrs. r. L. Lamsop. Of Fairs
mount, Illinois says: MY Sis.
ter used Chamberlain's Pain
Balm for muscular rheumatism
and it effected a complete cure.
kept it in the house at all times
and have always found it benef-
cial for aches and pain. It is the
quickest cule for rheumatism,
muscular pains and lameness ]
have ever seen.o For sale at 25
and so cents per bottle by M.
E. Robinson & Bro. Druggists.
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McKinley's capture of the IL
linois delegation seems to give
that enterprising boomer a reas>
enable assurance of success. The
delegates actually under instruc-
tions for Mckinley may no,
count up majority of the con-
vention, but the drift is so de,
cidedly in his direction that it is
likely to sweep in the stragglers
and he is much more likely to
gain than to lose in the time res
maining-unless some movement
can be started against him more
vigorous than anything now in
sight. The convention is still
some weeks off and the Ohio
man is not nominated yet. But
Republicans who do not take
kindly to his candidacy may as
we'll make up their minds that,
as things are going, he will be
very hard TO beat,
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Highest OF all in Leavening PoWenLse u. Report
>!::!l! q! Rskiies ! Es,sdssl!
ADSOEUTEa.Y pUEE

the manufacturers of the North.
Then with the proceeds of the sale
thus made at the price fixed at
Liverpool they are compelled to
ipay their expenses the necessaries
and comforts of life at the high
lprices ruled by a deprecated cur
rency. There is no people on
earth WI no can stand such a pro
cess long. Senators have dilated
on the evils Of d contracting cur
rency. They are too great under
some circumstances, but they are
not comparable to those of a peo-
pie who, having to sell what they
produce in a market of low prices,
are doomed by the laws of their
country to buy all they consume
in a market of high prices, They
are exceptions to the rule in refer
ence to contractions There was a
greater contraction of the cur
rency, far greater, between 1866
and 1870 than since 1878, and
that has been counted a period of
great prosperity. The pecuniary
distress which we have here is not
confined to the United States; it
extended to Europe and was just
as great. Bat there was one great
difference, The period of con
traction here was a period of un-
eNampled sexpansion of currency
there. So the rule does not seem
to be an invariable one, that ex-
pansion of currency brings pros
perity or that contraction brings
financial adversity. But it IS al
law to which there is no eXccp-
ton that people will sooner or
later come to hopeless insolvency
who, selling the product of tneir
annual toiling in a market of low
prices, are compelled to buy for
themselves their food and clothing
and shelter in a market of high
prices, Nothing can be more de-
structive, not even the ravages of
armies, or ''the outpourings of
floods or the withholding from the
parched and st.-..:,,sty earth the re
fres1ing rains of heaven.
Mr. President, we have two
great American products in this
country. One is the cotton pro-
duct. That product demands gold
everywhere on the globe with the
single exception Of the spot where
it is produced. Not a human
being handles this product of
Southern agriculture, the product
of American soil and American
labor, not one man touches
it beyond the confines of Amer
lea who cannot command gold
for it at its own price; but the
producer of it, he who digs and
delves and plows the earth. does
not obtain what the product of his
work will command over all the
world besides.
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Richard Brown, the Buggy and Car
riage Painter, will repaint your old
buggy and make it look like new.
Ali material furnished. All work guar
anteed. Forty years experience.
Orders left at Summertime repair shop
on John street, will receive prompt ats
tention,
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The free trade bogy is not be-
ing worked much by the organs.
They evidently think they have
more than the ghost of a chance
this year.
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Reasons exist for supposing
that Mckinley doesn't care how
the dark horses are harnessed in
the convention SO long as he's
the leader.
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IN WILLOW DALE.

Thoughts of The Argus Man in strollIn.
Through the City of the Dead
| The ARGUS man stroIIed leisurely
into Willow Dale cemetery re
Gently. 1t is beautiful place at
this season of the year. Nature
has donned her lovliest robes and
sits quiescent on her floral throne.
while gentle zephyrs impregnatcd
with the perfume of roses play
around her and fan her gay stream
ers. In beautiful contrast are the
| a5.e;,thed marble shafts that rear
their lofty heads from among the
green foliage and stand as silent
sentinels over the Getty of the
Dead.2
When the South winds blow
softly the dropping branches of the
willows vibrate and send forth the
plainitive, melancholy notes of
the dirge that are caught up by
the lesser growth and chanted
over the messy mounds of the
dead.
In passing through this lonely
but beautiful city of sleepers one
cannot resist the feelings of awe
and reverence and the halIowed
influences that seem to permeate
its deserted and shady thorough
fares.
Occasionally we pause as we
read some familiar name and can
but think how meagerly is the
noble life, whose body lies confined
in that earthly prison cell, repre-
sented in an epitaph chiseled in
cold marble.
Fresh flowers are seen placed
around some of the sunken mounds
and the surroundings bear marks
of being often visited, while
around others where even a part
of the red clay is still visible, the
weeds and grass have crept slowly
over that bosom that sleeps be-
meath those cold, clamy clods, and
nowhere are the traces of foot
prints to be seen. Are we so soon
forgotten!
This thought brings us to a pic
ture that we cannot contemplate
with any degree of pleasure. Will
the great luminary of this earth
when it seeks repose next Satur-
day evening on the bosom of the
Pacific cast a shadow from pine
slab over a newly made mound,
and a voice that is gleeful now be
hushed forever
In this silent city stands the
soldier sentinel to guard the last
resting place of his comrades who
fought and bled and died in de-
fense of their honor.
''It is a place where poets crowned
1t is a place where happy saints
May weep amid their praying
This Gray-clad patriot has
braved the winters blasts for
years and stands with countenance
as firm and resolute as did the
original thirty-fve years ago,
looking towards the sunrise, as we
look to the dawning Of the general
resurrection day, for the reunion
of hearts that were so sadly parted
in that ruthless human earthquake
of war.
Memorial Day is close at hand
and little has been said about com
memorating the heroic deeds of
those brave men. Shall the day
pass without any demonstration ?
God forbid. Let their children S
children fetch flowers of rarest
odor and scatter them over their
resting place. Silyer-tongued or
ators to extol their praises should
not be wanting. Instil in the minds
of the youth of the land the vir-
tues of the Confederate soldier.
ssNor ever shall he be in praise,
BY wise or good forsaken;
Named softly as the household name
OF one whom God hath taken"
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Whatever hidden meaning he
may haveM artin says he's behind
Mckinley and that he's going to
stick.
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At the latest calculation the adj
vance agent of prosperity was
credited with Ali delegates. Still
politics is a far different game
from all-fours.
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All that Mr. Lamar said against
the free coinage of silver in 1878
applies to present conditions with
four-fold force, for when he
spoke the bullion value of a silver
dollar was 80 cents, and now it is
but 81 cents. The evil effects OF
free coinage now would be i'm
measurably greater than they
would have been when L. Q. G.
Lamar and Benjamin II. Hill
made their great speeches against
that proposition.
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Weyler has posted another
proclamation. He is one OF those
fellows who run while they may
read.
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The big StockZ
S9&+6%S0Ss%osS9S<os
ON HAND OF DRY GOODS


NOTIONS, .HHTs, BOOTS
shoes, GrOC6Ii6S, Wood
and willow-ware, crockery and
glassware, that must be sold to
make room for spring stock. Cot
ton worsted only cents; Sea Island
domestic cents; yard-wide, heavy
checked to cents; pants cloth 10
to 10 0cents; wire buckle suspenders
10 cents: shirts and drawers 25 cts;
heavy socks 5 cents a pair; bed
ticking 10 to Is cents; good UNI
brella from so cts to S1.2s; hats 25
cents to best in town for 81; women
and mems solid shoes 81 per pair
big stock of shoes on hand; valises
80 cts, to 81; trunks 81 20 to So; to-
bacco, 10 kinds, for only 25 cents a
pound; snuff 80 cts. and up; coffee
log cts; soda 5 cts; pepper 10 cts;
cheap tobacco 12a to so cents. We
must make room, and guarantee to
save you big money. Continue to
trade with THE HUSTLER,
E. Is. EdntundsOf1.
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GOODFOR EVERYBODY

and everyone needs it at all times of the
year. Malaria is always about, and the
only pre- is to keep the
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ami the best helper is the Ok. Friend, SIM
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q Mr.. G. Himrod, of Lancaster, ~Ohio,
says: "SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR
broke a case of Malarial Fever of three
years standing for me, and less than
one bottle did the business. | shall use
it when in need, and recommend it.
Be sure that you get it. Always lookfor
the RED Z on the package. And don't
forget the word REGULATOR. 1t is SIM
MONS LIVER REGULATOR, and there is
only one, and every one who takes it is
sure to be benefited. THE BENEFIT is
ALL IN THE REMEDY. Take it also for
Biliousness and Sick Headache; both are
caused by sluggish Liver.
j. III. Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia.
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For some time Governor Mor>
ton has been altogether lost
sight of. Can it be he's buried
under the sawdust of the wooG
he's been saving.
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Successor to E. L. Edmundson & Bro.)
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Hoods
Sarsa apariIla

Isthe One True Blood Purifier. All druggists 81
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A. M. SHRAGO,

Walnut Street, near
Smith q Yelverton's.
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INSURGENTS ADVANCING.
TW ENTY THOUSAND NOW
IN HAVANA PROV
INCE.

Patriots Capture 389 Spanish
Troops and Take Their Uni
forms to Put on Their Own
Men-T Insurgents
Rescue Ship
wreck Crew
of 9.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-06

duty every day. The idea that they
would only be employed a part of The
time was erroneous In Wow Of these
facts . salary for which competent
and reliable men could be had should
attach TO the Office of the clerk
Judge Miner was also present and
spoke in the same strain. and both
took occasion to urge an appropriation
for the law library adequate % the
necessities Of the committee.
The house committee on municipal
corporations met. but did not consider
the fire and police commission bill
Another meeting was called for next
Wednesday evening. when all iu-er-
ested will be heard
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Or. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair HigheGt Award.
CITIZENS ARE PLEASED.
COUNCILS RETRENCHMENT PLAN
Is ENDORSED BY TAXPAYERS.
Some Criticism on the Cut in the
Police Departmental Talk With
Chief Pratt-Firemen RecOnciIed
TO Their Fate.

About the only thing discussed in
municipal circles yesterday was the
retrenchment ordinance passed on the
previous night by the city council. The
action met with general commentator
from the taxpayers in general though
some criticism was heard on the cut
in the police department. There was
abundant condemnation, however,
heaped on the finance committee for
passing the treasurer's department
without cutting the salary of a single
employees.
The effect on the police department
can only he determined after a trial
with the reduced force. Ten men is a
great cut in foTce consisting of only
twenty-eight patrolmen, and now it
remains to be seen whether eighteen
are sufficient for a proper protection of
the city.
Chief Pratt was seen and asked what
the effect would be on the department
He had no criticism to offer on the
action of the council, but believes that
the fire and police board should
ter. Instead the finance com.
mittee went straight ahead and
recommended a reduction in the force
without consulting even a single Of
1icial of the department.
We viii do the very best we can.
however" continued the chief. land
while we may not be able to make as
good a record in the future as we
have in the past trust the public will
not condemn the efficiency of the men.
Under the new ordinance there viii be
one chief one captain, three street
sergeants 10 have charge of the reliefs
eighteen patrolmen, two detectives
two desk scrgeants, two mounted men
and two patrol drivers. The change
will necessitate taking off the men at
the depots which are absolutely neces-
sary. The Liberty park men who have
been doing special duty has also beer.
cut off so that in reality we lost 25
per cent Of the whole force But. as ]
have already stated. we are determined
TO do the best we can under the cir
cumstances."
In this connection It may be stated
that there is considerable speculation
as TO the manner of cutting off the
men to make the number conform with
provisions of the new ordinance As
many suppose. the chief has not the
power TO discharge at his own sweet
will. Another ordinance will be in
troduced at the next meeting of the
council requiring the chief to furnish
the fire and police commission with
list OF such men as, in his opinion.
should be dropped from the list and
the board viii then take such action
as Il sees At.
The f5remen are reconciled to their
fate and accept the reduction of their
salaries philosophically
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From a letter written by Rev. J.
Gunderman of Dimondale. Mich. We
are permitted to make this extract.
L have no hesitation in recommend
ing DIT. Kings New Discovery. as tie
results were almost marvellous in the
case Of my wife. While / was pastor
of the Baptist church AT Rives juno
ton she was brought down with Pneu-
mOnia succeeding La Grippe. Terri
BILE parOXysms of coughing would lest
hours with little interruption. and it
seemed as if she could not survive
them. A friend recommended DR..
Kings New Discovery; it was quick
in it's work and highly satisfactory in
its results" Trial bottles free at y.
NJ. C. I. Drug dept. Regular size, SOC
and $1.OO