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Yours respectfully,
Sayan'
-
IS Orange ST., Savannah,
Senator Pritchard's Future

The insistence Of officcseekers has
driven some worthy men from public
life. 1t is known here that the i'm
possibility OF gratifying 80 many IN
fiicting claims for office has caused
Senator Pritchari to decide 10 resign
five years OF his term and take refuge
on the federal bench. For some ime
it has been understood that Judge
:. '-rt p. Dick, Of the district court
che western district Of North Caro-
lima, would resign his seat, and 1t has
been long suspected that Senator
Pritchard desired TO escape the i'm
portunities Of oficeseeking friends ny
securing me vacancy thus created.
The thief trouble in the way appears
to be the risk that through some pos
Sible political change the legislature
to be elected this fan, which viii have
the choice Of his successor. the COVER
nors right 70 appoint extending only
until the legislature in Janu-
airy. 1899, may not be republican, or
rather, as parties are aligned in North
Carolina, repubiican-populist. Tt Is be-
lieved that Governor Russell would find
no difficulty in appointing for the in
a "a who would give
satisfaction to the party. OF the presi-
NFAlA - "a W aDAgAAAL
lat Pritchard, while regretting his
withdrawal from tire senate. there can
be no doubt: for the senator has bong
been n OF the closest friends Major
Mckinley has had in the south. The
political consideration is therefore the
only one that could make him reluc-
tant to grant the desired favor. North
Carolina is a state which il desirable
10 have represented in the senate by a
friend OF the protective system. The
field there Is inviting Mr.. pritchard
IL not only a protectiofIfst Of a decided
stamp, but he IS a straight-out repub-
hcan and has always been a member
or n party. He Is, moreover. a
sturdy and upright politician. consfd-
erably above the average in intelligence
and character. His retirement at this
5urcture might be a misfortune, ard
as he il a particular friend OF the presi-
dent the latter naturally desires TO re-
tain him I'm a place where his services
to the party are Of high n increasing
value.-New York Tribune.
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l. Hung Chang Gives .Chfna's Side to the
West

The New York Herald recently
prints a striking interview with Ii Hung
Chang. the great Chinese statesmen. on
~Germany's forcible occupation Of Kiao
Chou.
Chang's statement of the alleged
of Germany'S grievance and the condition
of affairs in China will be read with in
tereSt on two h~emiSpheres The Herald
copyright on its exclusive story expired
today.
The interview was cabled from Pekin
and was as follows:
The great statesman received The Her.
AIDS correspondent very courteously. and
replied that China was anxious that the
western people should understand thor
oughly matters as they are, and that he
could not wish for a better medium for
presenting China's case, both to America
and Europe than that offered him by The
Herald. His eXcellency's views are given
herewith in the following interview,
which he has approved.
The forcible occupation of kiao Chou
by Germany is a direct violation of ex-
listing treaties and of international law.
The pretext made for this act of war
was the murder of two missionaries by
robbers in the interior of the province of
Shan-tung. The Chinese government Of
fered immediate and full redress for this
Observation-Disclosures of the criminals.
dismissal of the local officials and large
compensation for all losses.
"Anxiou to avoid hostile acts, the
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Il

Washington Messenger: The Watch
Tower. the property OF the late ]. l..
Winfield, was sold by Mrs. Winfield
Thursday TO the Rev. ]. f. Coss. Of
Pennsylvania, who entered upon his ed
itorial duties this morning in the inter-
est of that journal. Rev. NJ. Pittman has
been the supply editor since the death OF
Mr.. Winfield.
Hillsboro Observers: Mr.. Walter NJ.
Reeves. a well known horse raider who
lived three miles west of town. froZe to
death within a half mile of his home on
the night of December 31st. Mr.. Reeves
came to town with a load of wood in
the afternoon of that day, and after dis
posing of the wood he drank pretty free
ly, and before he left town he was intox-
icated.
Raleigh Post: Mr.. J. H. Hardin. chair
ricultural and Mechanical college, says
that the statement to the effect that
Professor Butler, the bursar of the col
lege, was short in his does
that gentleman an injustice. Mr.. Har-
din says as a matter of fact a discrepan-
cy of only $500 was shown. and not $500
as tate. This $500 discrepancy was in
Mr.. Buffers favor.
A bicyclist was fined $3.50 at Wilson
for riding over a pedestrian. Cheap that,
Wilson Advance: At the last meeting
Of the directors of the First National
bank. held on Thursday evening. De-
cember Both, on going over the accounts
of the bank the directors found that the
business had prospered wonderfully dur
ing the past year and decided that a div
idend of Z per cent. be declared and in
addition thereto 1000 be added to the
surplus fund.
Fayetteville Observers: There was four
feet of water in the Cape Fear this morn
ing. The Hurt arrived from Wilmington
this afternoon.-A little more than q
month interveneS between the holding
of the last criminal court and the next
regular term on the Sth of February, yet
SiXty-seven cases are already on the
docket for trial.-We regret to learn
that Mrs. j. A. Worth is dangerously
i'll at her residence on Haymount. Little
hope is entertained for her recovery.
Reidsville Weekly: The F. r. Penn To-
bacco Company began the new year in
fine shape, making a shipment of 30, 00
pounds of manufactured tobacco last Sat.
urday. 1t was the biggest shipment ever
made by any firm in the towns history
Mr.. John Lee was cut on the back
with a knife in the hands of a colored
man Christmas day. Though the assault
was made on one of the principal streets
in broad daylight, it is not known for
certain who the guilty party was. The
wound was a very painful one and cam
near being serious.
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The Interstate Poultry Show

Mr. c.. M. Steinmetz, of Rose Hill, who
was here yesterday, attended the exhibit
tion held at Asheville, N. c., January
4th to It'll, by the Interstate Poultry,
Pigeon and Pet Stock Association. He
exhibited some fine leghorn chickens
and took first premium with his birds.
Mr.. Steinmetz tells us that there were
1,SOO fowls on exhibition and that 5000
people attended the exhibition. About
$500 or $4,000 was distributed in premi-
ums. Some of the finest poultry in Amer
lea was on exhibition, including a fine
exhibit from Mr.. George Vanderbilt's
place at Biltmore. The judges of the
show were Messrs. w. IS. Ball, of Shews-
bury, Mass; Mr.. S. T. Lea, of Hodges, S.
c.; and Mr.. T. E. Hege, of Raleigh, N. c..
The principal officers of the association
elected for this years are as follows: Mr..
George F. Weston, of Biltmire, N. c.,
president; Mr.. F. E. Hege, of Raleigh,
N. c., general secretary; Mr.. 1. M. Proc
tor, of Raleigh, assistant secretary; Mr..
w. B. Williamson, of Asheville, treasunr-
er; Mr.. w. F. Randolph, of the Asheville
Citizen, city secretary. There are six
vice presidents from as many states, and
a board of eighteen directors.
Mr.. George f. Weston, manage for Mr..
Vanderbilt, showed the visitors over
Biltmore, and Mr.. Steinmetz said he had
the opportunity of observing that the
recent newspaper story about affairs at
Biltmore was a miserable and abortive
fake.
The visitors wound up their stay tc
Asheville at a splendid banquet at the
Swannanoa Hotel.
Mr.. Steinmetz says it is proposed tC
hold the next exhibition in Wilmington
and he thinks the association will hold
it in our city next January if our citi-
Zens will offer liberal premiums.
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The ardent KlOndikers who are fit
ting out expeditions of all sorts for the
Alaskan trade, paused in their wild
career a short time ago, when stories
in the daily papers met their eyes that
gold was to be had by extracting it
from the salt water OF old ocean, with
out the trouble of sailing thousands OF
leagues over it for the sake Of mining
it out of the mud on the lonely banks
of an inhOspitable river. 1t was stated
that a syndicate of men had erected a
plant somewhere near the mouth Of the
Bay of Fundy, Under the management
OF "A B.. Ryan, and that they were able
to get a grain of pure gold out of every
ton of sea water. This grain" The
New York Herald writer asserted, was
worth about forty-three cents, and
therefore it would be an easy matter
for the syndicate with the necessary
plant for extracting it without great
cost, to speedily win their everlasting
fortunes.
The Klondikers merely took time to
satisfy themselves that a grain Of pure
gold is worth only one twenty-fourth
part of a dollar, instead OF forty-three
cents, before resuming preparations
on their expeditions, but as every mari
ner, whether he has had experience in
SOAN AAiAAAAA5 vi " - I'd
know what salt water consists Of, we
may give the statement of DR.. Cyrus
Edison, of this city, in regard to the
matter. He says that the rnoun OF
silver and gold in - water has never
been accurately estimated. There are
traces of them, just as there are traces
of every other element, and simply
because Of that trace there have been
at least a hundred different processes
devised for extracting gold from sea
water, but he Toes not believe it Is a
physical possibility to extract that
trace on account Of the enormous bulk
Of water necessary to be handled in
order to get a grain of gold, and the
fact that n precious metals in sea
water are held suspended in the form
Of chlorideS.
DR.. Edison gave the following anafy-
sis, which it is interesting to preserve:
In one thousand grains of sea water
there are twenty-seven grains of chic
ride of sodium, or common salt: potas-
SUM chloride, magnesium chloride,
bromide and s~ulphate, traces OF iodine
and a~mmonaaca1 salts and traces of
h precious metals, but the trace IS SO
bromide ard sulphate. calcium car
donate and sulphate, races of iodine
and the a-gnmonfacal salts IN compari-
son. the word trace even signifies a
quantity too large ID be applied. and
we Should have TO invent another
word.
This thing has been tried in Eng
Ian and France. though / have not
the dates and occasions at my tongues
end An eminent authority, however,
ha S1Own that there is nearly one
grain Of gold in a ton Of water. and
il a be separated so as to be recog-
nized from the bulk or water of a VOL
ume Of $50 cubic centimeters. But 1t Is
ridiculous to suppose hat it can be
got out, considering THE other things
in VI water. I should a the
chances were nine hundred and ninety
nine out OF one Thousand that 81 could
not be dome.-Aarine Journal
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There Is a waster in a Dearborn-st.
restaurant who has discovered the
science Of reading a mans occupatbon
by his nanner Of eating. He a look
into the calm eye of q customer en-
gagged in disarriculating a 'fnam-and'
and determine with wonderful accuracy
whether h man Is a scissors-gr!nder
or a Safest. merchant.
OF course. one must be a close OBJ
server to do all this. and IL isn't every
body that is afforded a lunch counter
for a field OF study. Yet il the student
viii avail himself OF opportunities
while seated at the mahogany board.
ne Will find that when the business
man is a the table some habit ac-
qulrsd in the daily OF his
profession viii De sure - Show Itself.
For an instance. the banker may
c11oe in and order wheat cakes. II ne
does the waiter declares. he WIFI sn-
variably dip his fingers IN the water
and run over the cakes Ia scelf there
- a missouri.
The gambler viii look around 10 see
II any n Is watching. and then palm
a slice OF bread. II he orders flapjacks
49, @Ast AA@As 'hAN - yin
from h bottom as NJ eats them The
clothing s~alenra will hold his fiaptacks
up 70 THE light and feel the texture:
while The keen observer will notice
that the 1USeller. upon ordering pie,
Will hold 1t oo HRS ear. shake II. ami
then listen. after whiCh ne VIII lift of
the top with the point ~ lis
knife and examine the insldes.
During an interview the other lay
the waiter stated that he called his
new science 'eatistry."
Il have not mastered my science
yet" said he. and seldom a day pass
Is but what i learn some new DIN
Oh, it's a great study. and i think in
time it will take its place a~longwfth
palnistry and phrenology n other
kindred sciences"
Have you ever made a mistake In
judging a mans occupation?'
Only once. And that could hardly
be called a mistake, for / mad no de-
cision as 10 the mans business. / CON-
fess l was stumped. The fellow came
in and ordered his dinner. or cours.
/ gave him a glass Of water. He look
ed at it with some surprise. and said.
i didnft order that
" 1t costs you nothing said /. and
You don't need 10 drink it unless You
want to-
He thanked me. and. what do You
think He broke his bread INTO 1t. and
then ate il With a spoon. i didn't
know what to make OF il. and for tho
life of me ] couldn't determine what
his business was. When he was leav-
ing l tapped him on the shoulder AMI
asked him outright what he did for
a living.
Why says he, I'm a milkman.'" -
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
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LAST YEAH:s RECORD
Number of Fire Alarm Senf In During
ise7-o.her Interesting Worth Not
ing Facts ~

OF Fire Alarm IRnI IN During
1S97-Other Interesting worth Not
ing Facts ~
During last year therA 49, $50
alarms of fire, % more thahyTe
vious year and 81 more than M
last years alarms "a were false
z Were caused to be sent in o n acc$At
of fires of incendiary origin. DuriAg
THE month of February there were IS
alarms of fire, and during that month
and the month following on an aver
age of 1 alarm every twenty hours was
sent in. The incendiary fires occurred
during the months of February, March,
April and May, and were as follows:
February %, alarm sent in at 1
O'Clock a. M, from box 43, fire in cabin
of a Tighter anchored in the r.. r foot
of Orange street; March 3, aiGlm sent
in from boxes AZ and As All 2:25 O'Clock
a. m, naval stores warehouse of Mr..
William Calder and Messrs. Murchi-
son & Co., on Water street, near Nun;
March y, alarm sent in from box 46
at 3 o'clock a. m, residence of Mrs.
w. II. Daggett, on Front street, be-
tween Nun and Church; March IA,
alarm sent i'm from box SO at 1:45
O'Clock a. m. residence of Mr.. D. Nc
Eachern, on Seventh street, between
Dock and Orange; March IA, alarm
sent in from box SO ait 1886 o'clock a.
an, grocery store of j. Durham, COL
ored, corner Ninth and Orange streets;
April l., alarm sent in from box % at
1870 O'Clock p. M, residence of Messrs.
80, alarm sent in from boxes % and 80
AIT 1:55 O'Clock a. m, Hemenway school
building.
THE disastrous fire, corner Front and
Grace streets, which laid waste many
buildings, occurred on the evening of
February 18th, and exactly a week
later the dry goods store of Mr.. C. w.
Polvogt was destroyed by fire. The at
Shrier, corner Front and Princess
streets, occurred early on the morning
of February 27th.
"A plurality of the alarms of last year
were sent in from box 80, and from
boxes AZ and 10 next.
For much of the above information
we are indebted to Mr.. job Sweeney,
of the Clarendon Water Works Com
pany, who keeps a model record of
the fires that occur.
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PUBLIC OPINION

There is every indication, as conveyed
in the signs of the past six months and
the suspicious opening of the new year,
tina 1893 will be a period of substantial
commercial and industrial revival. There
will scarcely be a boom in any line. A
boom is not wanted, because the after
effects are generally disastrous. But con-
ditiOnS have worked around to the point
where it would seem almost impossible
to prevent a continuation on a constantly
charging scale of the solid growth OF
business which set III last summer after
congress ceased to tinker with the tariff.
Birmingham News.
Is Massachusetts going to take a back
ward step in relation to her labor avs?
Is the state which has led all the rest in
labor legislation going to be frightened
by an over-production of cotton cloths
into the abandonment of a policy delib-
erately adopted and adhered to in spite
of panic and depression? Can the present
legislators of Massachusetts be stamped
ed from the firm base on which their
predecessors have stood for many years?
These questions are suggested by the an
nouncement by the representatives OF the
largest manufacturing industry in the
state to repeal the factory restriction
laws relating to the hours of labor. 1t is
stated that this demand will be made on
the plea that such action is necessary
to save the industry from Instruction.
Washington Post.
The anxiety of the president over Han
ma S election increases DIS the udy LOT inc
meeting Of the Ohio legislature APP
proaches. For two weeks the working
force of the p~ostoffice department has
been weakened by the absence in Ohio
of an army of its employees who have
been doing ann spy work under the
direction of First Assistant Postmaster
General Perry Heath. Night and day
during these two weeks they have been
logging the footsteps of every man Of
prominence suspected of unfriendliness to
Hanna. Even their travelling expenses
will be paid by the government while
they are engaged in this nefariouS busi-
ness for they dare not confess that they
were not pursuing their official duties
while touring the Buckeye state.-St.
Louis Republic.
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be her husband-this sign Is a sure
one
As a form Of child's oath" Mr.. L.
M~cCorkinGale says: When I was a
boy and my mother wished to know
whether / was telling the truth, s5=
would ask me 10 hold OUT my finger
and say: May I never bend IL Il / am
not telling the truth Toronto On
rari1 Globe
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. Bucklen's Arnica Salve

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pay required. It Is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction of money refunded.
Price rs cents per box. For sale by
R. r. Bell y.
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Can't do without the Messenger

A Winston subscriber 20 The Messen-
ger in making US a remittance. says:
Continue my daily. / just can't do
without The Messenger. It's part of
my daily life. II grows better and
brighter to me-"
We thank our good friend for hfs
kind words. We appreciate very high
ly what he says. "a
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Having used three bottles IL p. p. =.
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and having derived great benefit from
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fortunate like
Yours truly.
JOHN NORRIS.
Office of j.. n. McElroy. Druggist.
Orlando, Fla, April 20. 1891.
Messrs. Lippman Bros. Savannah, Ca.
Dear Sirs:-I sold three bottles OF p.
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tie small size today.
The p. p. p. cured my wife OF rheu-
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bottle, 81 size, relieved her again, and
she has not had a symptom since.
/ sold a bottle OF =. II. T.. TO a friend
Of mine, one OF the turkies, a small one,
took sick and his wife gave 1t Q tea
spoonful, that was in the evenir and
the little fellow turned over like h was
dead, but next morning he was hollow
ing and well.
Yours respectfully,
j. n. McELROY.
Savannah, Ga, March II. 1891.
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ELIZA JONES.
&c Orange ST., Savannah. Ga.
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Liver Ills.

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veteran Of the Ord N. Y. Artillery and
~ for thirty years OF the Babcock &
Munse1 Carriage Co., Of Auburn, says: I
write to express my gratitude FOR the mirac-
lous benefit received from DR.. Miles Heart
Cure. suffered for years, as result ofarmy
life, from sciatica which affected my heart
in the worst form, my limbs swelled from
the ankles up. I bloated until I was unable
to button my clothing; had sharp pains
about the heart, s~nothering spells and
shortness Of breath. For three months I
was unable to lie down, and all the sleep I
got was in an arm chair. I was treated by
the best doctors but gradually grew worse.
About q year ago I commenced taking DR..
Miles, New Heart Cure and it saved my life
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as If by a miracle"
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Price S1.00 per large bottle.
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Every day it becomes more evident
that We really have something that is
purely Canadian apart from Indian)
in the way OF belief in luck" mingled
with our imported superstitions. One
wonders what the schoolmaster has
been about all these years, or whether,
despite all ne has been able 10 do.
spells, charms and the like are bound
to survive.
Mrs. Nina E. Bacon and Miss N. B..
Hodges of Orilla send a capital budget,
which, although written in the first per-
son. is evidently the work of both
ladies. Here it is: When I was at
tending a high schoo I was disturbed
by a mourning sound in my room one
day. Being mystiied by it, 1 spoke of
il at the table. My landylady's hus-
band, asked me whether there was a
death sign in my family. l replied
that / had never heard Of one. There
upon he informed me that the sound
a sign of death in it. He told me
that all his family had a warning
whicl was the sOund of a heavy weight
falling His wife told me that he had
come h0Qe from work one day, say
ing, JChn rs dead. L nave mad the
sign While\ sitting at dinner after
ward a telegraR arrived telling of his
brother Johns death. However, l
found the sound "a my room was
caused by a tiny crackin the wall pa
per over a pipe hole, leteing a current
of air through.
! "A friend of mine believes that a
death in her family is heralded by
three raps Half the people one~meets
believe that a visitor Will come If a
dishclpth falls to the floor. If it makes
a wet mark, the visitor will be a man..
Other sure CD signs of a visitor are
a cock craving at the door, and going
in one door and cut of the other to
and from the same apartment. When
| starting on a Journey, if you wish to
have luck, you must not meet a cross
| eyed person, a red-haired woman or
a White horse. o must not turn
| back; if forced to do so, you should go
in the house and sit down and count
seven!
When being married, the bride, to
have fortune, must wear: