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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-02-17
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The coming year Will be crowded
with big Eews events and happenings.
the details of which everyone inter
estcd in national and foreign affairs
will want to read The best Western
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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-02-17

Spun glass bonnets are being turned
out by the thousand by Venetian
firm. The Infanta Mercedes of SPAN
has received from Venice white ball
dress of glass, US soft and plIable as
ALL
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-02-17

Senator George was sufficiently re-
covered on Monday to leave Washing
ton for his home in Mississippi. 1t is
hoped that bis life may be spared for
many wears
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-02-17

over jn Okhhomq last week u Ms.
Nesel married a Mr. Dollar That
wa-aratiO Of 100 10 Newton Coun-
is Progress.
Outside Of the family no one 5 In.
fcrPsted 10 the ratio, but il is almost
certain that tie couple favor county
superintendent OF education, free aud
unlimited coinage, aud there is every
reason 20 believe that there Will be an
increase in lhe circulating MEDIUM
Cur Coast Progress.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-02-17
RAILROAD TINE TABLE,
Yaaao ala Mi..iaaIrpI vallay 3. Z
MAINS arrive and pass Green

Connections maze at Memphis With
all lines for the North and East and
West; at New Orleans for the Gull
coast resorts and Southern Texas and
California,
Through tickets to all points now
ON sale at the Y. & NJ. V. r. r.. de-
pot office baggage checked through,
For Information Ms to rates, routes &c
write or Upply to
T.. NJ. MIDDLETON, Agt.
JOHN SCoTT, Div, Pass Agt.,
Memphis, Tenn,
W KeLLoND, A. &, p, Agt, New Orleans
4 II HASsoH q p. Art Chicago
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-02-17

H. Scott, Wholesale Liquor,
carries the largest stock in the
state.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-02-17

ABSTRACTS
Abstracts promptly and accurately
prepared. Address
II. w. BALL.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-02-17

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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-02-17

LAS NEGUs, A BLUM, Nce-Pres,,
ALEXANDER, General Manager HENRY cI1TENDEN SiAW
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30
A Wonderful Pump.

A pump built for the stamp mills OF
the Calumet & Hecla Company is con-
sidered one of the most marvellous
pieces of mechanism ever put together
Without crowding in the least and witt
as much apparent ease as one would
work an ordinary cistern pump, this
great engine delivers $500, 900 gallons
of water in twentyfour consecutive
hours, and does this continuously. II
is almost noiseless, so perfect is the
adjustment indeed, persons standing
Just outside ofthe building can scarcely
hear its beating. Standing inside by
the great pit from which the water Is
drawn almost the only sound is the in
rush of the water as the pump lifts
more than thousand gallons at every
stroke. This immense piece of ma
chinery is engaged in supplying water
to the works, where 5000 tons pei
day of conglomerate rock are pulver'
lied into sand, fine enough to be swept
away by the rush of water. The nicely
of adjustment may be imagined from
the fact that the current of water lifts
and sweeps away the sand, but does
not disturb the copper that settles te
the bottom of the pans.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30
A Cow With a Wooden lep.

Director-General E. C. Lewis, of the
Tennessee Centennial, who owns g
farm at Sycamore, Tenn, had very
valuable Jersey COW that in some way
or other broke her left hind leg. Be.
cause of certain feelings of sentiment
he was very loath to shoot her if il
could possibly be avoided.
Major Lewis called in surgeon and
had the leg amputated, and then car.
penter carefully fitted wooden leg to
the stump. 1t healed readily, and in a
very short time the COW could get
around as we'll as any animal on the
place.
Peggy lived for several years after
losing her leg and died only month
ago. She would, when things did not
go just right, stand on her three good
legs and kick everything within reach
with her artificial member.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30
The Chilkoot Indian Packers.

Sat Dyea is small trading post,
kept by white man, around which is
gathered village of Indians or ST
wash, belonging to the Chilkoot tribe.
They are by no means Unlocking peo'
pie. The men are strong and we'll
formed the women naturally, when
one considers their mode of life are
inferior to the men in good looks
These women have habit of painting
their faces uniformally black with 8
mixture of SCOT and grease, a cover.
ing which is said to prevent snow
blindness in the winter and to be a
protection in summer against the
mosquitoes. Some have only the up.
per part of their faces painted, and the
black part terminates in a straight
line, giving the effect of half mask.
At the time of our arrival the Indians
were engaged very busily in catching
and drying small fish. This fish is
very oily, and when dried can be
lighted atone end and used as can
die; and for this purpose it is stored
away against the long winter night. "
Outing.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30
The Last 6ugIe.CaIL

the st. Louis Globe-Democrat mas
discovered that the last summons "
hattie in the Civil War was bugie-
call to charge, given by Nathanlei DIS
son on the field of Appomattox.
Mr.. Sisson enlisted when the war
broke out, and at its close was pueier
under Custer. His regiment was IN the
saddle before day on the eventiui
eighth day of April, and began to Skin
mish with the enemy. An hour later
they reached the position from which
the memorable call to charge was
blown.
The next moment two of General
Gordon's aids rode out in advance OF
the column. One of them carried
towel fastened to musket. General
Gordon stated afterward that the tower
was soiled and ragged; but, old anu
torn as it was, it carried message OF
peace to the whole country.
General Custer, seeing this flag Oh
truce. halted his charging column, ana
rode alone to the tent of the Confeder-
ate General. When he came out ne
said to General Kapehart, uncoverinS
his head, General Lee is treating for
capitulation
The war was over.
The men nearest TO him caught the
quiet words and burst into frenzied
cheer. They were men who had fought
bravely, but who thanked God now
that the war was ended. The cheer
swept down the valley, and the hills
shook with the shout-which meant
peace.
Let us hope that Nathaniel Sisson's
bugle-call to battle on that April
morning was the last that shall ever
summon brother to charge against
brother in this land of ours.-Youth'
Companion.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30
immigration Figures.

The highest immigration record, ex
Guiding the arrivals of aliens not S,
classed, is that of 1882, when the pro
digious number of 7SS, 992 came, fol
lowing the previous years 669, 431, till
then unprecedented. In 1888 there was
a heavy falling off to Cos, 322, and the
decrease went on until 334 ,2O3 was
reached in 1856. Then the tide again
turned, and with some variations an.
other climax was reached in 1892
when the figures were 623, 0S4, the third
highest mark. and not far behind that
of 1891. But then began another ebb
with 502, 917 in 1893, followed by 314,,
467, then 279,94S, then by 81, 267, and
now this year by an astonishing reduc.
ton to 230,S32, as shown by a special
bulletin of the Treasury Department.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30
Giving Away Brides.

Among the novel means by which
some people of London subsist is that
of giving away brides at the altar The
custom has grown to considerable pro-
portions of late, and Il member OF q
firm of fashionable costumers, In speak
ing of 1t recently, said: You, of
course, recognize the fact that in this
great city are scores of Woodworking
girls who are miles away from their
relations and who have always been
100 busy to cultivate many friends.
Well. when these girls are about to
marry yong fellows who are similar
ly circumstanced the question arises as
to who shall give away the bride.
81 can answer that question for them
at once, for | have connected with my
business an ex-major in the army, a
member of an ancient family and q
man, too, of unimpeachable character.
He is poor but he dresses well, has
beautiful white hair and looks the
kindly father to perfection. l intro
duce him to the bride and bridegroom,
and he, for a moderate fee, gives the
former away. Sometimes he takes the
whole arrangements Of breakfast and
so on upon himself, and he is a fine
speaker ON occasion, He is always a
welcome guest with these people after
ward
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30

papa Crunley-"I Judge a rnan, SIT
NV the company he keeps" Mr.. Suitor
Eyes. sir. hope you will bear In
mind that rye been keeping company
with your daughter for over two
wears. Philadelphia North American.
Pokeleigh-"I met an old scientist to-
aav who claims to be able to square a
circle" Brokeleigh-"Pshaw, can do
that myself Just loan me a round
dollar and see how quick I'll turn IT
into a square meal."-New York Jour-
ual.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30
500 Reward. SIoo.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis
ease that science has been able to cure in all
its stages, and thatis CataITh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con-
stitutional disease, requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces Of the system, thereby destroy
ing' the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the con-
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The propretors have so much faith in
its curative powers that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials. Address
f. J, CHENEY q CO., Toledo, o.
sold by Druggists, I5c.
Hall'S Family Pills are the best
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30
couldn't Help II.

Deacon Blodgett injecting Farmer
Jones in market, with a load of prod
uce)-Well John, prices looking up
some this week, Ell?
Farmer Jones (dryly)-Lookin' up?
guess they bel Can't help 1t very well,
seein' they're fiat on their back.-Har-
per'S Bazaar.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30

Attention is respectfully directed to the ad-
minsham, Ala. which appears in this issue.
This firm manufactures the Enterprise Cotton
Mil, which is claimed to be the cheapest sim
plest and most practical on the market If
you are thinking of buying mill, it will no
doubt pay you to send for n copy OF their de-
scrintiXe catalngue.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30
SWitzerland's Army.

Switzerland, though she spends onl,
half million dollars yearly ON hei
army, can turn out 100000 trained mer
in two days in case of need, and ha,
a reserve of 100000 men and Land
strum of 100000.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30
Fallinn Of fbo Womb.

The cases OF uterine displacement . arS
very rgnsrcss aud s9 n s,tssa an f}sping.
Its symptoms are bearing down OF afsggiIg
sometimes a sense OF goneness at the pit OF
the stomach. 1t may result from 700 t tbet
SSow,nrcsa the waist and abdomen, over,
lifting, standing on the feet too long, anu
We would strongly. urge the use OF DTi
Simmons Squaw Vine WINE wn ,ono and
Strength to the muscles Of the uterus i,s SO
that L will be kept in place. TO lacllalaro
a quick and complete recovery, we Ieoohs
mend as an injection our Mexican a o
Remedy, which will produce tne happie's
results,
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30

Why is a foreign nobleman who
marries an American heiress like a
sailor? Because he's mariner for
money.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30
USE YOUR REASON
And Profit by the Experience of Other
People.

There are thousands OF people who have
been cured of nervous trouble, scrofula
sores, rheumatism, dyspepsia, catarrh and
other diseases by purifying their blood
With Hoods Sarsaparilla. This great
. medicine will do the same good work for
you if you will give it the opportunity,
1t will tone up your system, create an ap-
petite and give sweet, refreshing sleep.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30

After physicians had given me up, I was
saved by Piso's Cure. R ALPH ERIEG, Will
Transport. Pa. Nov. y. 1893.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30
TIL. Literature of the Day.

Inc Literature OF INC Jay
D Prison Librarian-What sort OF book
would you like to have?
Convict-Got any bicycle cataloguess
.- Exchange.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30

If afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye-water, Druggists sell at 25c.
per bottle.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30
SOUTH CAROLINA LADIES
IS DON'T LIE.
fH,..mMrAssv.s1

Inman, 8. O., says: I have
used Or. NJ. A. simmons
Liver BI Q dicine for
years, with the best Of re-
suits for Sleep1essness,
Nervousness, Indiges-
tion and swollen Feet.
IA cured Miss 3, Hammett
Of q complication of dis.
eases; she saysit saved her
life. / think It far excei :
s'Zeilin's" and the "Black
nra1lehtn medicine.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-09-30

AnG for tracing or locating Gold or Silver
KUHN Ore, lost or burie treasures ", ID
wv ~ Fowler, Box $50, Southington Com
The Mena weekly star., 1897-10-13
eAn eoRM lN MEXICO
Light on aFexisrn Manners Comes fo
 Q Polff. Anaerfcne.

Light on 8Eexie-n Manners Comes to
 Polite Amerfcar.
 The man who had been down in Mex ieo trying to buy up a cyrload of silver dollars made for the American market and guaranteed worth their weight in sterling silver was in town the other day looking for customers. Incidental ly be ran across a Star reporter and offered to sell him ton or two of dol lars. Then the man asked for light, and the reporter, Hopping the ashes from his cigar, handed it over to the returped traveller
 'T,here is such q difference in GUS toms" said the man, taking his light from the borrowed cigar. NOW you notice how politely and thoughtfully --for thoughtfulness is the true polite ness-you knocked the ashes off your cigar when you handed it to me to light mine"
 Reporters are always polite" sug- gested the reporter.
 ''As was saying" continued the man, unheeding, there is such difference in customs. Now, when I went to Mex ico the first time I didn't know the Mexican code of manners, and about the first thing I did when l landed was to ask man for a light. He handed me a cigar with the ashes on. l thought 1t was bad manners, but Tipped them off and kindled my weed. l did that four or five times, and ] always got it the same way Then began to hope some of them would ask me for Q light so 1 could show Mexico what real manners were. got a chance one day, and when a man asked me for a light I Tipped off the ashes, and, with q salaam at least two yards across in it's widest sweep, I extended him the blazing stump. He took it, of course, because he was too polite to treat a stranger otherwise, but he did it in way that showed me some thing was wrong, and began asking a question or two.
 "The result was that I discovered what the true form was and what an ass had been making of myself trying to teach those castillo soaparoons what the code cigarro was. My instructor told me that the thing to do was to leave the ashes on at their full and to daintily touch the unlighted cigar or cigarette 1 just about the fire line between the ash and the tobacco. After that, being no longer in ignorance, to avoid bloodshed or international complications, never again was flip with the ashes of my cigar. Washington Star.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-10-13
"eRAvEYARD OF EuRoPEANs.'

Almost Incredible Mortality of Ba-
 taviu, on the Island of Java.
 EIiza Ruha4nah Seidrnore author of .Jinrikisha Days," contributes to the Century an article on Down to Java"
 No Europeans live at Tandjon Priok nor in the old city of Batavia, which from the frightful mortality during two centuries was known as the grave yard of Europeans" The banks and business houses, the Chinese and Arab quarters, are in the ''old town," but Europeans desert that quarter before sundown and betaSe themselves 10 the new town" suburbs, where every house is in park of it's own and the avenues are broad and straight, and all the distances are magnificent. The city of Batavia, literally flair meadows v grandiloquently "the queen of the east" and without exaggeration "the gridiron of the east" dates from 1621, when the Dutch removed from Bantam, where quarrels between Portuguese, Jayanese and the East India company had been disturbing to trade for IS years, and built Fort Jacatra at the mouth of a river off which cluster of islands sheltered fine harbor.
 Its position in the midst of swamps was unhealthy and the mortality was so appalling as to seem incredible. Dutch records tell of 87,O00 soldiers and sailors dying in the government hos pital between 1714 and 1776, and that more than 100000 people died within the city walls between 173O and 1752, the place at no time claiming over 40,- GOO inhabitants all told. The people were long in learning that those who went away to the higher suburbs to sleep and who built houses of the most open construction, to admit of the fullest sweep of air, were free from the fever of the walled town surround- ed by swamps, cut by stagnant canals and facing harbor the mud banks of which were exposed at low tide. The city walls were destroyed in this cen tury, the quaint old air-tight Dutch buildings were torn down and streets were widened: and there is now a great outspreadj town of red-roofed, white washed houses, with no special features or picturesqueness to make its street scenes either distinctively Dutch or tropical. Modern Batavia has 100000 inhabitants, less than tenth of whom are Europeans. While the last century Stadhuis might have been brought from Holland entire, steam tramway starts from its door and thence shTieLs its way to the farthest suburb, the tele- phone helloes from center to suburb and modern inventions make tropical living possible
The Mena weekly star., 1897-10-13
PERsoMAL AND MpERsoNAL.

-Denman Thompson is living on his farm in New Hampshire and says he has no notion of acting any more.
 -Daniel Webster was extraordinar- ilH fond of oxen, and all those on his farm knew him by sight and would7aol- low him like dogs.
 George Eliot wrote for eight years with the same pen, and when she lost it bewailed her misfortune as almost too hard to bear
 -Patti has a weakness for Mexican sDaniels, and wherever she goes carries two or more with her, usually wrapped up in silk shawls.
 Hon. Winston Churchill, eldest son of the late Lord Randolph Churchill, will stand for parliament in the con- servatiTe interest at the next oppor- tunity. Lord Randolph's younger son, Jehn Henry Churchill, now F years Of age, will study for the bar.
 -Ex-Dean Allen, who has just died { in his 95th year, was the oldest clergy mar of the church in Wales. He re- stored St. David's cathedral. He was grnduated at Trinity college, Cam bridge, no less than 72 years ago. and ten years later was ordained priest.
 Daniel O'Connell, youngest and last Surviving son of the Liberator, has just died at Bedford, England, aged s1 wears. He accepted the office of income tax commissioner from Palmerston 46 years ago, and subscribed regularly to the unionist fund to fight home rule.
 President Mckinley doffed his black silk tile to the Washington sum- mer and appeared in remarkably high white 'stoye-pipe." Nothing like 1t could be found in the Washington hat stores, and there are apprehensions that, like the inauguration suit, it is of Canton manufacture.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-10-13
ALASKAN NATIVES.
They Are Proud nnd Intelligent, in Spite of Rnggedness and SQuaIor.

They Are Proud nnd Intelligent, i'm
 Spite of Rnggedness and squaIor.
 John Muir, the California naturalist and discoverer of the great Muir glacier, writes of 'The Alaska Trip"
 On the arrival of the steamer most of the passengers make haste to go ashore to see the curious totem-poles ill Front of the massive timber houses of the Indians, and to buy curiosities, chiefly silver bracelets hammered from dollars and half-dollars and tnstefully engraved by Indian worlSmen; blankets better than those of civilization, woven from the wool of wild goats and sheep; carved spoons from the horns of these animals; Shanan rattles, miniature totem-poles, canoes, paddles, stone hatchets, pipes, baskets, etc. The traders in these curious wares are mostly women and children, who gather on the front platforms of tlsc half dozen stores, sitting on their blankets, seemingly careless whether they sell anything or not, every other face blaclened hideously, a naked circle about the eyes and on the tip of tho nose, where the smut has been wealth cred off, The larger girls and the young women are brilliantly arrayed in ribbons and calico, and shine among the blackened and blanketed old crones like scarlet tanagers in flock of blacl0birds. Besides curiosities, most of them have berries to sell, red, vel low and blue, fresh and dewy, and look ing wondrous clean as compared with the people. These Indians are proud and intelligent, nevertheless, and main tain an air of self-respect which no amount of raggedness and squalor can wholly subdue.
 Many conoes may be seen along the shore, all fashioned alike. with long and beak-like sterns and prows, the largest carrying 20 or 30 people. What the mustang is to the Mexican vaquero the canoe is to the Indian of the Alaska coast. They skim over the glassy, shel- tered waters far and near to fish and hunt and trade, or merely to visit their neighbors. Wonder goes u whole fam fly, grandparents and all, the prov of their canoe blithely decorated with nanu1ulS or pufpie epliODluiE- lncy are going to gather berries, as the baskets show. Nowhere else in my travels, north or south, have 1 seen so many berries The woods and meadows and open spaces along the shores are full of them-huekleberries of many species, salmon-berries. rasp' berries, blackberries, currants and gooseberries, with fragrant strawber- ries and service-berries on the driel grounds, and cranberries in the bogs sufficient for every worm, bird and human being in the territory, and thousands of tons to spare. The In dians at certain seasons, rowing ir merry bands, gather large quantities beat them into paste, and then press the paste into square cakes and dry them for winter use, to be eaten as . kind of bread with their oily salmon Berries alone, with the lavish bloom that belongs to them, are enough tc show how fine and rich this northern wilderness must be-Centurv.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-10-13
To He Congratulated.

'.Yes," said the man from the west, The was very lucky Hewent to new ly discovered gold country, and in less than three weeks came home with a thousand dollars!"
 That paid him well for his time"
 .'N-no. I won't go so far as to say that. You see. he had the thousand dollars when he started. But he was mighty fortunate to be able to hold on to Washington Star
The Mena weekly star., 1897-10-13
JustffiabIe Homicide.

Good day for the race" said Able. What racer" said Cain.
 Human race" said Abel.
 'Darned if I haven't bitten at that thing again." said Cain, and then he used his club to prove that Abel was a Iiar.-N. Y. Truth.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-10-13
ways of a Swedish Bride.

The Swedish bride fills her pockets with bread, which she dispenses to everyone she meets on her way to the church, every piece she disposes of averting, as sine believes, misfortune. Chicago Chronicle.