El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-14

~ Us airs a pariEEa
AYERS PILLS Promote Good Digestion
The Sing Sing plan of putting con-
victs in military training in order to
relieve enforced idleness might ulti-
mately rebound to the public welfare
is generally developed. There are
many thousands OF idle cOnvicts in the
various state penitentiaries who are
neither required nor, permitted to work
and if Uncle Sam is to enter upon the
Don Quijote business of going to the
relief of all the distressed or oppressed
people of the earth an army of convicts
trained to the use of arms would make
handy lot of Sanch Panzas.
The seamstresses employed in the
manufacture of uniforms for the MeXi-
can army have addressed a letter to
the president OF the republic beseech-
ing the chief magistrate not to permit
the work to be executed abroad as is
feared will be the case in the future.
The reason advanced Is that it would
deprive upwards of 1000 women of
employment. The petition is the out
come of a contract that was recently
awarded TO an American house.
Ardmore, [. t, has a unique fire
alarm. The inhabitants are great be-
levers in the rOusing qualities of a
Colts 10 siX-shOoter, and on the first
intimatiOn of fire, every man pulls
his gun. OF course it sounds like
pitched battle for while, but it is said
to have the desired effect of getting out
the boys. which no end of church bell
ringing has hitherto been able to do.
The Chicago city council has passed
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any hats or head gear in the theatres
during performance. This will com
pell all the ladies to lay aside their
/ bOpnets at the theatre or any other
place of amusement. The managers or
prOprietOrs of amusement places who
violate this ordinance are subjected to
, fines for each OffeBSe.
The German are very much worked
! up over the increase and charge IN the
| French artillery and promise TO keep
| up with the procession. The Cologne
| Gazette says that it regrets that the
| French army increases like an endless
Germany with %, 600 600 poDula-
| tiOn the task is lighter than it is for
| France with 10000, 600.
| The Dodge City Globe Republican
| publishes an interview with Engineer
]
! made the run from Garden City TO
Dodge City, fifty miles. in fOrty-three
| minutes, and he considers that the pro-
posed fast run from La Junta TO Dodge
| City. 2U2 miles, at rate of seventy-two
miles an hour, a feat easily accom-
! plisbed.
The weekly operators of the Eddy
sugar factory, an account which is
secured from the Argus, now finds
space in the Weekly Statistical Sugar
Trade Journal, published by Willet &
Gray, 81 Wall street, New York,
recogn Zed as an utbOrity on market
! quotations of sugar in this and foreign
countries.
An appeal has been taken to the
! supreme court of the territory of New
Mexico in the Daniels murder case
which will come up for hearing before
| that tribunal at its next regular session
in July. Daniels was sentenced to be
hung on the 4th of January, at the last
term OF district court, by Judge Bantz.
Says the Ration Reporter: County
division schemes are assuming shape
ard viii be vigorously pushed with
every hope of success at the coming
session of the legislature. Bryan county
is down on the program and will be
erected out of the northern half Of Col
lax county.
The legislature of Sonora has passed
q law compelling owners of town lots to
build on them, and there never was
such building boom as has now struck
that progressive state. Texas town
boomers will now crawl into their dens,
and admit that they cum Der the earth,
Owing to the vast distance between
Kingman and Phoenix the editor Of the
Mineral Wealth calls the editor of the
republican mica cOlOred Hessian,' -
because the latter is not in favor of the
Cuban insurgents.
Cure for Headache
As remedy for ali forms of head
ache, Electric Bitters has proved to be
the very best. L affects permanent
cure and the most dreaded habitual
sick headaches yield to its influence.
cure q bottle and give this remedy a
fair trial. In case of habitnM consti- !
patton Electric Bjtters cures by giving
the needed tone to the bowels, and few
cases long resist the use of this medi- .
cine. Try it once. Fifty cents and 81 !
at w. A. Irwin. 81 Cos, wholesale and
retail drug store, Ell PasO.
Not 4 few who read what Nh Robert !
Rowls, OF Hollands, Va, has to say
below. Will rcmem Der their own eEper- .
fence under like circumstances: Last
winter l had la grippe which left me in !
Il 10 - state of health. | tried numerous
remedies, none OF which did me any
good, until | was induced to try Il bottle
of Cham beriain 5 Cough Remedy The /