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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-01-13

En- el BoLHT1N MHRcANTIL, de A.
Lynn Sucesora de Morris, sc venden
tinta especial y de superior calidad
para selos de gonna, y almohadillas
permanentes de todos tamailos y CO.
leres. Con ell u3o de dicha tinta Sc
conserva la elasticidad de lo seIlos,
que sc hacen ilatacables por los insec
toS.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-01-13
Las Raf0raaS dol ST Naula

H2TUDxO CRxTI&0
::O0N IGNACl0 DlAZ GANEJA.
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- director del B0LEFIN kERCANTn
OE PUERTO ROO
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-18

Old Dr. Hewson was distinguished
for pbi;anthrorhy Or one occasion
the doctor had case of ma,igoaus ty-
phoid fever He prescribed rest aud
ncurishneos for bis pa:ieot.
''Give Dan pieots of chicken. He
must bave mere nou7isbuens y
..Sball xiii chicken %
'.Yes. you'd better kilt young
rooster; broil it veil, aud add plenty
of butter Patients with typhoid fever
like plenty Of gravy y
Dams wife killed. dressed aud cock
ed fue chicken.
That's about right. said the doc
tor, who was experimenting the job, as
be enviously eyed the chicken.
'Dan, how are you feeling 2
First rate, doctor first rate'
"Let me feel your pulse
Dan extended his hand
'.You are more feverish than usual.
I just ordered your wife to broil a
chicken. but you cant eat it; you're
too feverish "
"What shall we do, doctor?" in
quired the wife.
II see no may ont Of the difficulty
but 70 eat the chicken ourselves |
once suffered from typhoid fever my
self. madam.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-18
McLaurln's Illness More Sc
rions Than Supposed.

Yesterday afternoon about 4 o clock
Gov. Ellerbe received dispatch
FROM Bennet,svilIe, signed by Mr..
George III. Croslaud, Senator McLau.
rms private secretary, stating, "sen-
ator McLaurin's illness more serious
than at first supposed, " aud asking
the governor, who is warm person
al friend of the senator. to come
down ON the afternoon train. Sena-
tor hcLsurin left the city the after
noon previous. after spending the
day with the governor at the man
sion, looking pretty well recovered
Gov Ellerbe was somewhat alarmed
by the dispatch calling him to Ben
nettsville and left the city for that
point at SIS O'Clock
4 later telegram from Mr. CEos-
land made the same statement as that
above as to the senator's sickness
and stated further that Mr. McLau-
rms physician had forbidden him
making any attempt TO resume his
csmpaigD work for the present.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-18
Bloody Race Riot.
A Negro Was Charged With
Murders
He Shot the Deputy Who Went to
.A.rrest Him.

Cincinnati, Aug. ia special to
The Commercial Tribune from Little
Rock, Ark, says: The blood,ess race
riot thai has occurred in Arkansas iu
months took place at Palarm station.
80 miles frou, Little Rock, late last
evening. Three mep are dead. ano'h-
er fatally wounded and two others bad
" injured. The dead are !: Harrison
Kerr. colored; Charles Peters. colored !,
Charles Aodry, white.
The seriously injured are: J. 7,
Clark. white, telegraph operator.
shoulder shot, probably fatal. A. E.
Ovens. white. deputy sheriff Of Perry
county, shot through the groin.
Ovens had warrant for Harrison
Kerr, charging him With murder
When be attempted to make the arrest
Kerr opened fred on the officer. The
first shot struck Ovens in the groio
(the bullet striking silver in the
trousers pecket). glanced and iudic'e. d
serious wound. The money 10
Owens pocket probably saved his life.
Apdry aud Clark went to Owens as
sistauce and Eve or six negroes joined
in With Kerr. A pitched battle en-
sued. 10 which over so shots we're fired !.
When the shooting was over Andry and
Peters lay dead, Clark had staggered
into bis Office and fallen upon the floor.
Ovens vas lying in ditch near the
station aud Kerr and the remainder of
bis companions bad disappeared. The
entire towo was at the scene of the
shooting aud posse started in pursuit
of the fleeing negroes.
Harrison Kerr was found dead in the
road a mile away. literally shot to
pieces. blood ruouiug from FIVE wounds
10 his body. The other negroes who
participated in the bloody afalr contiD-
ued their flight and have not yet been
captured TIE whole couatry is in a
fever of excitement aud should Kerr's
associates be captured they will never
come to trial.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-18
Johnson's Chill and Fe-
yer Tonic is a ONE-DAY
Cure. 1t cures the most
stubborn case of Fever ia
n Hours.

Washington. Aug. l3.-Mr. Pom
Kwim Sob. president of tie privy
couucil Of Korea and ex-mlnister to
this country, died at his rssiaeoce here
at 3 30 o'clock this afternoon Of acate
consumption. ageravased by over exsr-
else. lie was IS years old Ai:. Sob
had been 70 poor health for snas? years
and ia the pas. year or Two i frequen;.
~ gave rise tc serious concern. Last
autumo. wnen be vas appointed TO the
head of toe kings privg council. post
rauking uext TO the throne. he was un-
shle to proceed to his country owiag TO
il! health and deferred bis departure
from tirc &c tins. With the sr?Feach
of the jubilee of Queen Victoria, the
kiog appointed hin special commission
er to re2resen, hin on that occasion
The journey ouly aggravated bis com
plant, however. and the acute attack
which FASTENED bis demise was brought
on by violent exercise in riding bicy-
Gle last Saturday night.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-18
The Greatest Crop Ever Made
Now in Sight.

New Orleans, 15.-Mr. II. N.
Neill, the we'll known satistician, has
issued circular on the growing
crop. After referring to the correct
ness of his estimate made in July,
1894, of the crop of the season, Mr..
Neill says:
"At this moment for this year. the
promise is equal to any previous
year in every State but Texas. and
ON the present acreage, even allowing
that Texas should fall short of her
maximum production per acre by
1000, 900 bales, the outlook now is
for crop of at least 9,750,0O0 with
500, 900 to 100000 more within
the range of possibilities. This
figure of 9,750,0O0 is really very con
servative. for product per acre out
side of Texas equal to 1894 95 would
give 1885, 900 bales and maximum
for Texas would be 3,650,000 bales
from which, allowing 100000 eff,
you would have crop of 10000 900
bales.
The crop is now SO far advanced
from recent rains and heat that it will
reach maturity and be independent
of frost at sn unusually early date
Should we soon have good rains in
Texas her crop also would be near
perfection ADD the possibilities for to
tai crop would then Oe something
enormous"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-18
Death of Senator George.

Washington, Aug. 14.-Ssuato'
George of Mississippi died here to-day
Senator George vas not native o.
Mississippi. but had resided 10 thai
State since his eighth year. He was
born in Monroe county. Georgia, ou
the 26sh of October. 1926. After the
death of his father, which occurred in
| the senator's early infancy. be removed
| With his mother in 1924 60 Noxubee
county. Mississippi. remaining there
for only two years, and then going to
Carroll county, where be maintained
his legal residence until bis death.
Senator George obtained his educa-
ton 10 the common schools aud did not
begin bis professional career uutil after
the close of the Mexican war, in which
he served as private 10 the regimens
commanded by Jefferson Davis.
He afterwards took an active part 10
the civil war, casting his lot With the
south. He left the convention hall to
become captain 10 the 20sh regiment
of the Mississippi; volunteers. He rose
to the rank Of brigaaier general of State
troops before the close Of the war.
When the war closed. Mr.. George re-
turued to Carroll county, resumiug the
practice @of his professiou and later
entered politics. In 1879 be was ap-
pointed to the supreme bench and soon
afterwards elected chief justice. io
which capacity he was serving his State
when 6rst elected to the United States
Senate io 1881. Had he been permitted
to serve his entired term, ca the 4th of
March. 1899, be would have completed
his 18th year in the senate He had
declined reelection more than a year
ago on aecouns of his health. and Ho-.
a D. Money has been chosen as his
successor for the term begsnniog 10
1896.
Senator George was weil1liked 10 the
senate Notwithstanding rather brusque
maoner. Those who knew him realiz-
ed folly that beneath the outward crust
was hidden kindly and gentle dispo-
sition. He was also universally re-
spected for his great erudision on legal
aud constitutional questions. Probably
there has been no man in the senate dur
ing the present generation who bad
made greater research into constitution
al questions OF could discourse more
profoundly upon the Instruments of
government.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-18
A Farmer Indeed.

We had the pleasure of meeting
yesterday s1r. j. Il. Naming. of
Little Rock, Marion county, S. G.
lie was on his way home from the
convention of the Cotton Growers
Association, which held two days
session at Galveston The attend
ance of delegates was small, only
four states being represented.
Mr.. Manning is fine specimen OF
manhood, and of the independent
farmer He was born and reared on
the farm. His father was killed DUR
ing the war, when he was only eight
years of age. He is now forty years
old and be has been working on the
farm all of his life. He has never
failed in twenty years to improve his
condition. When he began farming.
he planted fifty acres in cotton. This
year, be has FIVE hundred and fifty
sores in cotton and two hundred and
fifty in coin, oats and peas He nev
er fails to raise meat for his family
and to have a surplus.
Mr. Manning contends from his
own personal experience. that any
farmer who devo,es himself to his
business can do we'll. In twenty
years, he says, have never failed to
make money at farming. | can make
both ends meet with scents cotton,
but | can make money at I cents a
pound
His land is not different from the
ordinary farming lands in South Car.
oIina and Georgia. lie uses from
500 to 500 pounds Of fertilizers per
acre at cost of from So to IS. His
farm is four miles from Florence on a
branch of the Atlantic Coast Line.
There are fewer mortgages IN his
county than at any time within twen-
ty years and all the farmers who
attend to their business are doing
we'll All farmers Go not always
farm
We take great pleasure iu having
tie testimony and the practical ex
perience OF such farmer IS .'ir-
Manning TO demonstrate concluslvely
that the farmers OF the South car
uaake money by planting cotton and
raisit.s their osyn fooG crops -An
gusta Chronicle
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-18
Mills Starting Up.
Condition of the Cloth Mar
ket Much Improved.

Fall River. Msss., Aug. 16.-Most o.
the cotton mills which have been stopped
temporarily started on full time to-day
The improved condition of the clott
market aud the reported advancement
Of the cotton crop served to restore q
measure Of confidence among manufac.
surers. The curtailment has amounted
to about quarter Of a million pieces
The Eddy woolen mill opened its doors
day after four months curtailmert
It is planned to start cbly the dye
house at present, other departments
being opened as the work progresses
The factory employs about 300 hands
Provideoce, R. [, Aug. 16.-The
Lousdale company's cotton mills to-day
started, af'er shut down, giving en-
p!oymens to abou: 5000 operatives. L
is stated here that the demand for wool
en- aud cotton goods is OF the increase
Lawrence. Mass, Aug. 16.-Thc
repairs in progress at the Methueo cot.
ton mills at Metbuen are being pushed
toward rapidly and it is excepted opera.
tions will be resumed in some
Of the departments next Monday
The mills shut down Aug. {, at which
time it was stated they would beidle
three weeke. The mills employ about
500 bands.
Salem. Mass, Aug. 16.-The Naum
keae cotton mills resumed operations
today after shut down of l6 days.
The mills will run 42 beurs week for
the present. The plant employs l l.40C
people.
Chester. Pa, Aug. l6-The en-
plcves of George G Haltzel & Co..
manufacturers of worsted goods, have
been uoti6ed tia, the wages paid IN
1892 would be restored ou Sept. Oh
next. The uotice was sur
prise, as the restoration vas
grated by the fcm without soli-
citation 90 the part Of the hands.
Haltzei & c.. employ several hundred
people. Since 1892 two reductions Of
wages have been made. aggrega'ing
about 20 per cent, and until three
weeks ago fae mill has been running
on half time. The firm has Of late re-
ceived many Few orders and the en-
ployes are working full time.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-18
THE KLONDIKE CRAZE.
Something About the Situa-
ton From q. S. Commfs-
sioner Jones

Washington. Aug l6.-Willam j.
Jones, United States commissioner
to Alaska, assigned to St. MichaePs,
has seut to the interior department
the following report on the gold rush
in letter dated at Dyea, Alaska,
Aug. 4.
"Tnere are nearly 1900 people in
Dyea aud Skaguay routes and beth
trails are blocked People are throw
ing away their packs and provisions
and rushing headlong to the mines.
Great distress. hardship and suffer-
ing and possible death from hunger
and exposure is sure to follow next
winter, an opinion that is entertained
by all old Alaska prospectors who
have visited that part of the world
in late years and know the situa-
tion.''
London, Aug. 16 MIR. Louis Fl
Davies, Canadian minister of marine,
addressed the London chamber of
commerce to day. Mr.. Davies warn
ed intending immigrants against the
tremendous difficulties Of the Klon-
dixie, saying they would go there at
their own risk and that the Canadian
government had not advised it..
Hundreds and thousands. he insisted,
were going there ill-provisioned with
money or supplies and they would
die in the passes before reaching the
KIondike.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-18
MEXICO IS ALARMED.
The Government Confront
ing a Serious Situation.

City of Mexico, Aug. 16 -Ex-
change on New York rose to day on
the fresh drop in silver to l3l and in
some cases 140 was asked. Bankers
were in doubt as to what rate to
make in view of the condition of the
silver market Dealings were nor
nal. Exchange on London went to
81 IA pence, the lowest on rec
ord, and implying for this govern
ment in meeting the interest on its
sterling debt loss at the rate of ST.
600, 900 per anpum. The govern
ment can meet this by economies
and using It's surplus fund. but bank.
ers here say the tipe has come when
something must be done. 1t is not
to be denied very anxious ssnti-
ment prevails. as the people have
come to expect still further decline
in the value Of silver and many pre-
dict it will be forced to point where
the dollar will be worth less than one
third of gold.
AS commercial crisis is hardly ex-
pected as merchants are net as rule
owing heavily abroad. The govern
ment and the country are confronting
a serious situation, which ls the
worst in many years.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-18

At IL o'clock last night, Gov. Ell.
lerbe. in response to a request from
The State, wired from Bennettsville
ssSenator McLaurin resting well
No immediate danger
This leaves the campaign meetings
to be attended by Evans and lrby,
unless Duncan sees fit to go through
the Pee Dee country with them
Mr.. McLaurin's friends are not
very uneasy about his condition, al
though they feel that he has collapsed
under the heavy campaign work he
has been doing. They hope for HE
early recovery The State, August
15
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-18

By October next it is expected
Japan will have gold currency A
circular issued by the Specie Bank at
Yokohama announces that from that
date gold Will be paid for Bank OF
Japan notes. At the present time
the mint at Osaka is busy mintlng
new gold coins, the twenty-yen coin
being struck first. 1t is expected 70
mint 10. 0eo. goo yen worth OF snbsi
diary coins including ffiv.yen coins
within the year The usua! summe.
vacation OF officials at The mint mas
been dispensed with il order to ex.
pedite the issuance Of tie new coins
1t is learned t!a; the japanese gov
eminent has decided to totally abolish
the export duty from the commence
ment of the thirty first financial year
that is, from April l next-snd
this in spite of the fact that the /,
Get for the year shows deficit Of
revenue This decision has been
taken with the view of encouraging
the export trade.-Bradstreets.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-18

Mrs. Kate Gallagher, school teach
er of Galres,oc. Texas. was found
dead yesterday with her throat cut and
her body burped almost beyond recog-
pition Her 20 year Old son and only
child, has confessed thar be murdered
her to oh,s!n insurance mobey 10 spea q
on variety actress
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-18

Pioneer Ladue, owner Of Dawson
City tells the New York Word if this
rusb OF the t>Iondykc is not stopped
people Will die like l.:is next winter,
from starvation, as they cannot eat
gold and cannot buy food with 1t
when there is none to buy.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-18

The striking miners il West Virgin
ia are going back to work. The say
they have los, faith iu the leaders,.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-18

:l;a;,r u; hers;law
CQ.sSSs,?E'ffGNNa
" ;.ss sc.ascs:ca w!,a Ice Ches;sc s
i.ei o:c s;-i.et.,.l; ., sori3viie S. c.. h the
;,s.e1;.sc.t s.ss..r-s 81 ..ocS iiIll, s. c., with
;t,s ;-4.,.s.rd a. i-;pe q, Cata,gba Jurctica,
:. G., :. ~ ;ae Lapcas;er & Chester Railroad
$, Lancaster, $. c., and VITA the South Car
oiira sad Georgia Railway g: Camden, S. G
No SO North ocund train bus same couuec
;ocs as No. 80.
SAMUEL HUNT, President.
S. LU4PkIN. Gen. Pass.Ag
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-18

Washington. Aag 16-The Gaaa-
Gian goverualent las saamiited toFnsl
proposals to this government 70 es7ab-
,ish communicated with The kcaa;kc
region in .Alasss 65 tho cops'luc;ioa Of
a telegraph Iiue from she mead Of via
ter navigation on the Lynn canal ipt's
tl.a ceatre of the hiend;ke d's;r'c'
The proposals have beer uader advise
r.ent They have been approved by
the British secretary of state for fo'-
eign affairs and we're forwarded by the
governor general CT Capads. through
the British embassy to the state depart
aud referred to the interior department.
The papers are locked up pending COZ
sideration
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-03
After Barracoutn

My first acquaintance with tho bar
racouta was made one sultry afternoon
OIL the Mexican coast, near Guaymas. [
went out with new tarpon Tickle and an
lndolcnt greaser to sec to what live
stock could make fast The first mullet
cast out had scarcely submerged him
self before there came two fierce vanks
and whiz. and my entire line vanished
i'll the direction of Honolulu. | looked
inquiringly ut the greascr, who would
have taken but Il languid interest III any
phenomenon short of bolt of lightning
gliding down his spine, and asked him
to name me that which had ylnkcd.
whizzcd and vanished He shrugged his
shoulders, rolled cigarette and said
that he 'picnzad" that it was baira-
couta, but 'quicn sabe?" | bent on an
other line and cast again. This time
there was but one yank and Il whiz.
tried to check the process by braking
with Il thumb stall, with the sole result
that, i'll addition TO losing my line. [
lost my rod and acquired II redhot bis
ter ON the ball of my thumb, which got
mo unusually deep i'll the recording an
gels books. Inserting my painful thumb
Ill my mouth, l again glanced inquir-
lnSly at the greascr, and he ''pienzad"
it WAS another barracuda but keen
sawed, as he hadn't seen it.-Outing.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-03
The Bis Hat In Church.

This is what happens to the man be
hind the hat. The preacher disappears
until nothing remains but voice And
with the hat standing up against the
spot where the voice is, and the modu-
lated sentences breaking against it, how
is attention to be fixed upon the sermon?
The mind grows lax, the quiet and
sweetness of the sanctuary tend TO dis
traction, the hat fills the whole visible
universe, and involuntarily ones
thoughts center upon it. 1t is n wonder
full construction. There is q yellow rose
trembling on n long stem with every
movement of the wearer's head, and one
begins to calculate the extent of its arc.
There are punches Of feathers, disposed,
apparently, with Il view to preventing
anything from being seen between them
Whichever way the hat is turned And
there are stalactitcs of ribbon, upright
;aad immovablc, which still further OBJ
scurc the horizon. Occasionally one gets
Il momcntary glimpse of the hand of the
preacher rs it is stretched out in gcsticu-
lation, but 1T seems II mere detached
fragment uselcssly beating the air. Tho
preacher himself has disappeared as if
he had never been The only thing visi-
bic when the hat is turned fora moment
Is another hat of the same kind farther
on, Observer
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-03
ROANOKE'S REAL ESTATE HTJSTLERS
FOR RENT.
RESIDENCES.

No SCI ~, R%rcr avenue 8. W. per mouth. ss
NO. 10Y Washington avenue =. W, per
NJ month ont sl1.s
r mont L.. .:....... $3.50
per IN month, each. ................, ..... 80
10 ,n n Tampceli avenue 8. c., per moth, SS.C
W w w ioiiua' street =. C., per mouth... IS
20 ~, Hn,luay street g. c., per month";. Ss.C
re. !tls liolioay street d. c., per month St.t
NO. lt6@ Holiday street =. C.. per month SiC
avcnnc' per month. ................. slo.C
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-03


French astronomer Is OF opinion
that the red glow of the planet Mars is
caused by crimson vegetation Ho
thinks. that the grass and foliage there
are red, 10, green, as they are on earth.
The so called father of cats is ono
of the most important pcrsonagcs III IL
Mohammcdan cavern. This cat shiek
carries on his camel about dozen has
kcts filled with the uglicst specimens Of
the feline race.
Thirteen years ago Egypt was insol
vent and its securities almost unsuitable
at one half or two-thir,ls their face val
uc as II consequence of ISlnail's prodi-
gality, while today the country is in IA
condition which comparatively might
be called financial prosperity.