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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

An unfailing specific for cholera NOR,
bus, cholera infantum. diarrhoea and ~
those other dangerous diseases inciden-
To the summer season. is found in Ii.
Fowler's Ext of Wild Strawberry.
mon. wed fri&Wky
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

In one house in Thomaston lives q
ldmiiy OF five generations. a great grea'
Sfdntemotner. great grundnotner'
sran'tmothcr. n mother and her chiiu.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

The Boston & Maine people We're not
prepared for the crowds that went from
Biideford and Saco to the Portland
celebration. They sent 500 special tick
cts to each of these cities, but 1871 were
sold at Biddeford and 800 at Saco, the
extra ones being at regular rates which
resulted in kicks loud and long.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

A Newport man who celebrated the
Fourth with seven sticks Of dynamite
all at once has been spending the week
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

The small boys zeal to ring the bells
the night before the Fourth made lots
drove them away with shots from :,
revolver, and in Bucksport they stormed
the churches in true military style, dis
lodged the janitors with rough treat =
ment, and held the belfreys against all
Corners.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

The Maine game laws are pretty
strict but they say nothing about chas-
ing deer with railroad locomotive SO
county tragedy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

The pride and pet of the Bildeford
Pool Life Saving Station is a cat which
regularly accompanies the beach patrol
each night over its wearlsome beat.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

Biddeford's real estate boom con-
Monday nearly 100 house lots We're sold
on Highland park, prices ranging from
500 to 5000 Bddeford people will not
sink any more of their spare cash in
the far West.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

Between the druggists, ,le tpworth
Leaguers and the Knights Of Pythias,
Portland is having a great week of it,
ard so soon after its glorious Fourth,
too.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

The O'Halloran brothers, the bad
men Of the upper Penobscot region, Will
not attempt just at present to clean
out any more dance halls
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

a Pittsfield apple tree agent who was
taken for a highwayman because he
hailed passing team one evening and
rogucs in the world now that honest
and harmless people like apple tree
agents, book agents and insurance
agents kave no show.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

The Bath Times was right on hand
and it's edition on July 5th reflected the
spirit of the occasion in manner and
TO a degree highly creditable to it's en-
terprising staff. If the people of Bath
had displayed the same energy as her
newspapers the celebration would have
been even more glorious than it was.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

Rockland complains that the new
woman movement in that city resulted
on the Fourth in the early rising of tho
young ladies who joined the boys in
shooting off crackers and pistols ana
ringing the bells.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

An Onawa correspondent walls that
as this xear.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

The ice men OF the Kennebec haven'l
word of fault to find with the hot
wave.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

A bull moose calmly feeding on the
campus of the University Of Maine IS
the Orono sensation, this week. The
animal evidently appreciates the hos
pitalty and liberal policy of Presiden.
Harris.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

The pond lily and the BURBERRY are
now on tap.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

Harp1WeH has been stormed and
captured. 1t is in the possession for
the next week of the Portland High
School Cadets and they are having a
fine old time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

Lewiston estimates that $1,000 was
paid out on the Fourth for excursion
transportation from that city and
Auburn to Portland and Bath, and de
cides il could have had a good siZsol
celebration at home for half that sum
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

nexed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

Machias Republican,: "Oh, Pa, how
love to maui him," That's what the
boy said who was found maltrea ting "a
woodchuck some one had killed. The
Shore Line Railroad is now catching .
like post mortem flagellation. De-
mortuis, etc, also Requiscat Eft cetra
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-09-15
"The Baltimore and Ohio Railroa

..Tbe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
loaded steamship the other day aud
this is wha. it took to Gil her: Sixty
six cars Of iun be7. four Of starch, oiDe.
:eeo of oil cake. SIX of provisions, one
Of grain. ore Of -four. twcnty-'wo of
wire. three of sugar, thirteen of fresh
meat. twenty Of sheep, or .699 head !;
forty-6ve OF cattle. or SSS head: three
of lard. one of copper, foa7 Of uer-
chandise and 16l Of gram. making a
tosa! of 81 carloads This is tql4i to
ten long freight .a:rs. which, j: placed
in a row. would cover distance of
about ,wo miles And all their freight
went into one tramp steamboat.
Which is Why something more than
talk and reeoiu:ions is required to es-
tat;ish new and regular steamship lines,
transatlantic and otherwise News aud
Courier.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-09-15
THE wATcHMAN AND sourHRoN, SEPTEMBER 15 1897.
To Capture a Town.
Georgia May Take Chat
tanooga From Tennessee.

Atlanta Sept ga question has
been sprung here which may result
in Chattanooga, which has long beer
known as one Of the leading cities OF
Tennessee, becoming Geogia town.
Doubt has been thrown upon the &C.
curacy of the survey of the boundary
line between this State and Ten,es
see, and if the theory Of eminent
legal authorities here is confirmed it
may be found that Chattanooga is on
Georgia's soil
This view is shared by Col ". A.
Wimbish, special commissioners fthe
State for the Wes, .rn and Atlantic
railroad. who has looked into the
question in his official capacity and
to day expressed his strong belief
that correct survey would bring the
city of Chattanooga within the con.
fines of this State. The publication
of this fact has aroused much inter
esl here and it is not unlikely that it
may result in the next Legislature pro.
viding for resurvey of the boun
daly
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-09-15
Joi1nson's Chill and Fe-
YER Tonic is a ONE-DAY
Cure. 1t cures the most
stubborn case of Fever ia
"a Hours.
As TO HOLDING COTTON.
From the Savannah News.

From the Savannah News.
About this time every season farm
ers are advised to hold their cotton
We note from day to day the head
line over editorial articles in Georgia
newspapers: "Hold Your Cotton''
We doubt the wisdom of the advice
There is not farmer in the state of
any considerable experience but has
at some time or other paid attention
to such advice and held his cotton,
only to sell for lower price than be
would have obtained had be followed
his own better judgment.
The current cotton crop has been
raised and will be harvested upon a
basis of cost calculated to make
present prices remunerative If the
crop were all sold at ruling prices
there would be nothing like the
,'Dutchman's one per cent" "ofprofits.
to be sure, but the producers would
take fair profits upon their invest
ments of capital and labor. 1t would
be better, of couose, if the farmers
could force the market higher by
holding back part of their crop !;
we would ali like to see cotton go to
10 cents pound. But the chances
of success in movement of the
kind are not greater than one in a
hundred, as has been demonstrated
over and often Prices are based
upon the size of the crop and the
demand 1t is not practicable to
keep the size of the crop secret
The government agricultural depart
ment and dozens of cotton firms have
systematized sources of information
for the collection Of data with regard
to tie crop BY ;he time the actual
cotton has reached the port or count
ing point it's effect upon the market
has long since been felt one way or
the other In holding cotton, there
fore, the farmer most often not only
fails to assist in strengthening the
present market, but weakens that of
the future by carrying over staple to
be counted in the stock on hand at
the end of the season
At ruling prices there is some profit
in cotton to farmers. This being the
case, to hold the cotton back, it seems
to us, would be like risking tie sub
stance to grasp a. the shadow of the
possibility of higher prices.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-09-15
Yellow Jack, Sure Enough.
The Disease at Ocean Springs so
Declared by DR.. Gulteras.

New Orleans, Sept 9-Up TO
nigh,fall there had been no change in
the fever situation. Two or three
suspicious cases had been reported
10 the board of health-a material
falling off from yesterday, when
there were 81. These were ;nvesti
gated, with the usual results This
evening DR. Oliphant and his corps
realize that they have but one battle
to night-tbat of preventing any
more importatiens from the coast
towns. Biloxi aud Ocean Springs
The news from the Mississippi
Sound was satisfactory and disap
pointing-sstisfactory in that Dr..
Guieteras and the other government
experts had declared that yellow
fever existed at Ocean Springs and
Biloxi. confirming. the judgment Of
Or OIiphant aud his associates, and
Disappointing because the fears Of
the public have been realized Of
course the decision of Dr. Guiteras
has set at rest all doubt here that yel.
low fever exists at Ocean Springs
But the people there frd some con
ISOLATION in the fact that peculiar con-
ditioas surround the death Of Sherry
Seymour. He was in bad health be-
fore ne was stricken. was dissipated
aud unnecessarily exposed himself
He was first treated with primitive
methods by his family, no physician
was called for four days, and when
he showed temporary recovery, he
oyerate himself and died Or Cutie
ras, DIR. Murray, and all who partici
pated in the autopsy, declared, how
ever, that there was no question that
the man had died of yellow fever.
One of Dr.. Guiteras' doubtful pa
tients, child, died to day.
In Dr.. Guietras' opinion the pre-
valling fever is not yellow fever, but
there are isolated cases of that dread
disease
This evening DR. Guiteras pro
nouncea the case Of Earnest Benges,
now sick. as yellow fever
Late this evening the three cases
heretofore reported as existing at
Biloxi were confirmed as yellow
fever by Drs Murray and Cant, after
careful investigation They are
thoroughly isolated and it is conf
IDENTIFY predicted that spread Of the
contagion will be prevented
Mayor Flower of New Orleans was
asked to day if the fever would have
the effect of inducing the authorities
to give the city cleaning up He
replied in the negative, but added,
however, that if President Oliphant
believed thorough cleaning was re
qdiEed to keep the fever out, it would
be done Throughout the city 20 day
plugs were opened that the cutters
might be flushed
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-09-15
A POSSIBLE TRIBUTE

We. find the following in the York
vile Enquirer Of Wednesday
Editor Gonzales of the Columbia
State, must take off his hat to Sena-
tor Tillman. He is not obliged to
render this obeisance /; but if the
story here told is correct, it looks
like he ought 70.
We will say in advance that we
are not going 10 vouch for the story.
|, came to the reporter second hand,
and may be little mixed But, all
the same. it came so straight that un-
less tits denied, we are inclined TO
believe it is true
The incident occurred several
weeks ago, and the scene was laid on
tue southbound 0 Z & G passenger
train. on its way to the Tirzab camp
meeting Senator TiIlman was on
board, and so also was quite mum
Der of the senator enthusiastic
friends, gathered from various neigh
borhoods in the western part of the
county
One of the friends referred to, an
enthusiastic Tillmaaite from away
back. struck up a conversation with
the senator about the condition of
Reform" and presently the discus
sion drifted on to the newspapers,
when the senator asked
"What paper are you reading any
way ?"
"Tbe Register. replied the other.
"Well," said the senator, "you
drop that right now and take The
State y
The State J" exclaimed the other
"What do you mean 2"
FL mean just what | say replied
Senator Tillman "Take The State.
The Register is so unreliable that
you can never tell where it stands,
aud while Gonzales is as bitter as
gall. you can always tell just where
to put your finger on him y
The good "Reformer" to whom the
senator was talking, pondered, Sc lhe
reporter is informed. Other Re.
formers" who overheard the conver-
sation pondered, and from the best
information obtainable. some of them
are pondering yet.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-09-15
DOUBLE TRAGEDY
IN SALUDA. COUNTY
Special TO The State.

Special TO The State.
Saluda. S. c., Sept. 8-News has
just reached here Of shooting and
outing ARRAY in the Nays Cross Roads
section Of our county yesterday after
noon between H. Q CogburD aud Sam
ter Gillian, in which the formers
brother was fatally shot, while Gillian
received several ugly cuts and sta5s
which may also prove fatal.
The origin of the trouble is not
koovn, unless it was the result of ru-
mored ionepens i'll feeling between the
participates
From what could be learned, 90"
Cogburo. as be is .famiiiarly called. and
Gillian, along With several Others,
we're a. Bnruett's store and bad been
drinking cider Gillian was 10 his
buggy preparing 20 leave and before be
knew it, Cog barn ran upon him from
the rear and slashing at his throat,
bucg the knife in Gillian s mouth. cut.
ting nim across the face to the ear.
He theu stabbed hin 10 the shoulder
aud reashiog around, plugged the blade
into his abdomen, almost emptying bis
bowels in the buggy.
Gillian, although in an almost help
less condition. staggered some distance
to Magistrate 0. L. Still and getting
bis pistol. came back to Ccgburu aud
was 10 the act of firing when 90"
jumped behind his brother Julian. who
received the fatal bullet !ell in bis
abdomen.
90" escaped unhur'. out his oro'h-
er and Gillian are said to be In hope
less condition.
Gillian ia constable for Magistrate
Still 10 the Enlala section of our coua-
~. No arrest mas yet been reported.
I, is regarded as most deplorable
and 1ucalled 70. affair
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-09-15

*Dally. fDaily e4repl ouuuay
No 81 runs through to Chsrle: Ion, S O.
sIs Central r. r., srriv!ng Msrr,rg 10 y.
q. +, Lanes 7 ze p NJ, chsr'es:on 9 IS p. u
bourn 10 40 g. n, srr:;c > Co..way
way 90 p. NJ, returning !e"ye Conway 81
245 =. e., I'VE Chgdbonrn S Is Z. q
!ea:e Cbsdnc3rn as m., arrive at but at
s IS 2. "a, returnl :. leave Ero 90 q C
arrive 2: Chsdbcu7n els s. Z. Daily e1
sept Sunday
JOHN +. DIVINE, Gen'l snpr
j. kGNLY, Gen'l Manager.
p y EMERSOM, Traffic HansY..
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-09-15
BEAUTY HATH CHARMS

and all the charms which beau
ty likes best to don are shown
in our grand display Of fash
ionable jewelry for this season.
Jewels like these would en-
hance the charms Of the most
fascinating belle, and surely no
fair one would despise such
brilliant aids to her beauty.
Like personal loveliness, they
conquer admiration on sight
they score new victories at ev-
cry inspection. Those who
look over our stock do not
willingly stop with examina-
ton. Beauty may now be
made easily irresistible by a
few judicious purchases from
our display Of up to date Jew
elry.
l.. w. FOLSOM,
Jeweler and Opticlan,
SIGN OF THE BIG .WATcH,
Oct. Is.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-09-15

No 50 runs shrougt from charleston y,s
t'entrai R. e. lesvire Charleston I a N
Lanea 8 26 10. var oing 05 8. 70.
TRAINS GONG NORTH.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-09-15

The State, in answer to an editorial
of the Yorkville Enquirer, on the
latest compliment from Senator Till
man. VIZ that "while Gonzales is as
bitter as gall, you can always tell
just where to put your finger on
him." etc, says:
eve do not quote these statements
in egotism, but
only to illustrate a point we have
made before for the guidance of GER
tain of our contemporaries-to wit,
that there is nothing 50 valuable to
newspaper as the respect of its read
ers. The State has never cared for
mere popularity-that ebbs aud flows
year by year, as minds and issues
change-but it has always sought to
be respected for honesty, courage
and truthfulness. That is worth all
the rest. It is an endowment that no
change can take away Profit may
not follow it, but confidence does,
and with that confidence comes the
power of usefulness and the satisfac-
;ion Of honorable ambition .
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-09-15

and Rake? There money saving your hay ana can
Mower laround ma
The the McCnnck
certainly the durable simplest and the
the
Mccormick Mower will last longer than two IN
rmade C descriptive
catalogue dmce lis mailed
at Emons Stables
s.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-09-15
MOTHERS FRIEND

is the remedy which relieves
women of the great pain and suf-
fering incident to maternity; this
hour which is dreaded as woman's
severest trial is not only made
painless, but all the danger is re-
moved by its use. Those who use
this remedy are no longer de-
spondent or gloomy; nervousness
nausea and other distressing con-
ditions are avoided, the system is
made ready for the coming event,
and the serious accidents so COM
mon to the critical hour are
obviated by the use of Mother's
Friend. II IS a blessing 10 7y0n1an.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-12-01
WHILE the Dingley bill was under


WHILE the Dingley bill was under
discussion in congress, democratic
leaders were jubilant over the fact
that dozen or more countries
threatened to pass retaliatory meas
ures, prohibiting the importation of
American products, if the bill be-
came a law. The jubilee is now
turned to mourning, as the statistics
of the treasury department show a
very substantial increase of exports
since the Dingley law went into
effect, and not only an increase in
our total exports, but an increase as
we'll to the very countries that
threatened retaliation. The threats
were a gigantic bluff, and they didn't
accomplish the defeat of the will of
the American people. Right along
in this line, it is pertinent to state
that the prospects for utility in the
reciprocity features of the new law
are very bright. Already number
of countries are negotiating for recip-
rocal relations with the United
States, and it looks as though the
reciprocity idea would come into
even more satisfactory operation than
it did under the Mckinley law.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-12-01

WHAT wall will GO up from the
silverites of the United States, if
Mexico and China adopt the gold
standard, as it is rumored they are
quite likely to do. 1t is an open
secret that the statesmen and fnan-
ciers of Mexico are seriously consid-
ering the ACCESSIBILITY of adopting
the gold standard, and a growing
disposition is reported among the
Chinese rulers to follow the example
of Japan. We believe that, within
the next few years, one monetary
standard will be universally used
among all the nations of the world.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-12-01
Among the MAGAZINES.

The Christmas Ladies' Home journal
tells how the German emperor, with
the empress and the royal family, spend
Christmas day with their children. The
article is written by Mr. Maggie Won
Brave, an attache of the court, who
was permitted to be present at the
celebration last Christmas in order to
write this article. The pictures were
made ION the spot" and approved by
the emperor.
The western powers are beginning
to view Japans activity in navy build
ing with amazement. A generation
ago she had literally no navy. Even at
the beginning of the last war with China,
her modern equipment was confined
almost exclusively TO half dozen un-
armored cruisers-the best of their
class, to be sure-and fifteen gunboats.
The war brought many substantial adj
ditions to her navy, and now she has no
less than forty-eight sea-going vessels
in commission, including two tirst-class
battle ships of IL, 800 tons each. These
figures are not so imposing, absolutely
considered, except as an evidence of
quick growth; but the additional mod
ern war vessels that Japan is building
in England, Germany and the United
States are of such magnitude and excel
lent construction that Mr.. Charles A.
Cramp, our own famous ship builder,
pronounces Japan's progress TO be more
notable than that of any other country
in the world, except England.-From
about the World, in the Christmas
Number Deeember) of Scribner's.
Scholars differ in opinion as TO the
date at which the books now found in
the New Testament were completed,
but il Is probable that this was accom-
plished not later than 1870. Many cen
turtles had passed in the formation of
the Old Testament, but the new was all
written within a single hundred years.
The decision as to which books should
be received into the new canon was not
so quickly reached, for the earliest
fathers of the church frequently quote
from other gospels, such as one "ac-
cording to the Egyptians" or according
to the Hebrews" and the Syrian church
accepted some books not received by
that of North Africa or the Western
church, and vice versa. There is a
legend that at the first ecumenical coun-
Gil of Nicea. 325, copies of all the Chris
tian literature then current were laid
leaped out of the mass and ranged them
selves on the altar. 1t probably con-
tains germ of the truth-that at this
convocation it was decided that the
books now received were apostolic or
written under apostolic direction and
the others were spurious BE this at it
may, the judgment of several genera
tions of Christians certainly decided
upon the value of these books as distin-
guished from many others written at
about that time or later, and the coun-
Gil of Carthage (39O is said to have fixed
the canon. The word canon was first
used by Athanasius, in the fourth cen
fury, in the sense of accepted" or Tau
thorized," and Jerome and Augustine
held the New Testament as canonical.
From "How the Bible Came Down to
U.s." by Clifton Hardy Levy, in Ameri-
can Monthly Review of Reviews for
December.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-12-01

THAT self-appointed commission"
of silver men who went to Japan in
August to find out the real cause of
the adoption of the gold standard by
that country doesn't seem to be in
any hurry about reporting. Can it
be possible that the japanese gold
standard statesmen have converted
them? Or did they find the facts
against them?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-12-01

A PANAMA dispatch says that
Guatemala is likely to adopt the gold
standard, plans for currency reform
on that basis being now under dis
cussion by President Barrios and his
cabinet.