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800, 600, 900 TO MOVE Ne
GROES.
A Petition Before Congress Ask
inc Provision For a Huge
Scheme OF Colonization.

Topeka, Dec. ll-As part OF
the movement started here for
the colonization OF 1000, 900
Negroes In Cuba, Porto Rico and
Hawaii, congress will he petition
ed to appropriate 500, 900, 900
to carry out the scheme.
The Rev. W. l.. Grant, Ne
70, says 200, ZOO, 900 of his peo-
pie in tho United States arc anx,
ious to leave the country and To-
cate in the recently acquired ter
ritorv. He has been conferring
with the leaders for months, and
the result i. the following petl
tion, which will be forwarded to
Washington tomorrow:
"The economic, social, political
and civil conditions of the country
oppose the admission of the Ne
gro As potent factor along all
lines in this country, thus de-
priving the 1000, 600 of bows
and girls from entering the pur-
suits " industry and profit. The
fu'nrs prosperity of the Negro
race in tho United States is
seriouttY threatened by proba-
bic dangerous unprecedented leg
isIatlnn against them, thus adding
CALLING chains to their already
fettered limbs and provoking 4
di-lAalrful sentiment between the
LEADERS, OF the -epublican and
democratic parties, which would
ultimately disturb tho peace sad
Tranquility of the Anglo Saxon
people.
I'VE petition the president and
congress, in pursuance of the
foregoing preamble, to appro-
priste 800, 0,0O0,O 900 to assist in
transportation xnd maintenance
for \ given time OF those who de-
sire to leave the United States
for Porto Rico and Cuoa and
that those islands be reserved, as
far ~ practicable, for those of
tho colored people who desire to
90 there; that military schools,
normal and industrial colleges be
built in those countries for the
inhabitants thereof; that Ameri-
can capitalists who now or hore.
after may inaugurate large mer
camille or manufacturing eatab
lishmonts in those islands be
urged t. employ, 30 far rs is ex-
pedient, American eolored peo.
pie
The Rev. Mr.. Grant SAWS that
the factory, the shop and the
mercantile houses are closed
against Negro boys and girls, snd
that they should be assisted by
the government to get to cOun-
try where they may enjoy greater
privileges.
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$3.50 Pr r ANNUM
Local M affairs ,

Rev. Mr.. Funderburk will
preach at Spring Hill Baptist
church at II o'clock "a. NJ, on
Christmas day.
The infant child Of DR. and Mrs
S j Welsh, of Monroe, n. c.,
died last Monday afternoon of
Group.
Mi.s Martha Bind, aged about
As years, died at her home near
Dixie, last Friday, of dropsy.
Her rimains were inferred at
nopewell church ou Saturday.
The Camp Creek school,
taught by Miss Annie Young,
will have a Christmas tree nj the
school house next Friday night,
23d inst. The public is invited.
Contractor Bird has about com.
pleted the new residence of Mr..
M + Jordan on Cemetery street,
and Mr.. Jordan expects to move
in next Tuesday,
The ladies of Tabernacle church
will give a hot supper on Satur-
day night, 23th instant. The
proceeds will go to the benefit of
the church. Everybody is invited.
Mr.. Ed. Flynn of Newcut, who
met with the misfortune Of stick
ing thorn in his left eye ball on
Thursday of last week, and who
it WAS feared would lose his eve.
is getting along very will. The
Indications now are that the sight
will not be injured.
We will pay highest market
price for all Turkeys and Geese
delivered TO us on next Monday.
10Th inst.
Ii. M. johnson & Co.
Mrs. DR.. Gill Wylie, Of New
York, arrived in the city last
week on visit to the family of
Mr.. f. p. Moore. re.-Chester Lam
tern.
j r n, writing in the News and
Courier of the most disting-
uished of the delegates to the
Baptist church convention which
recently met in Darlington, hiss
the following to SAY of one of
Lancaster county's most promi-
nent ministers
"lhe Rev. j : Croxton, mod
orator ,,f tho M,,;,b ,..o,;.;>
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DIX HILk'S MEDICAL 90 RtkhArt, Ina.
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There of all
did the work. and WE HAD 1T goods REAP TIL
would like December 10TH but inst INN
will take andg ARRANGED
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'IRNI2\' DI\kI|I ( DERCI|IlL "a,


Having H0ih out our mercantile
bustn's - I" the Fsrner-' Barking an
Nrr"h tIlc 20 ~, art g. that owe
~ must COM forward and settle up.
aS w" i"'Si lv"iy ca. car, ov"r any
accounts 'his not &c applies to al who
owe US
r. VI. FITZPATRICK & BRO.
| month
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Money to Loan

HAVE NJ A DE arrangements i,h
4 brokers H. New York iIy through
whom ! am abe u uiace loaus secur-
ed 10y fit NOR gage "n improved
cotton fai m, for SIX years time DAY
Dl- In lusjHImcIrts a. the rate OF per
cent per at,num TIE brokerage ann
tie charg" for ABSTRACT and iuspectlOd
are sma anu at the cXueusr Of the
borrower, X f. WYLIE,
Atty. AZ Law.
NOY.4 Am
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MM r. EDWARD HARDY. the jolly man
AVE ager OF Sheppard Cos. great store at
Braceville, H.. writes: II had never
been sick a day In my life until in 1890.
got so bad wish nervous prostration that 7
had to give up and commence TO doctor. 7
tried our local physicians and one in Joliet.
Dut none gave me any relief and l thought
was going to die. l became despondont
ana suffered untold agony. could not eat,
sleep nor rest, and it seemed as IL could
not exist. At the end OF six months was
reduced TO but a shadow OF myself and at
last my heart became affected and | waa
truly miserable. took six or eight bottles
OF DR., Miles Nervine. 1t gave me relief
from the start, and at last a cure, the creat-
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REGITRATION NOTICE.

ENE T. PU @LIC WILL TAKE not ice
that the Registration Bouks will
reg strstion Of parties entitled TO reg
lister under the Constitution, on the
lat Monday in each month, until 30
days preceding tue next general cleo
ton
w G. A PORTER.
Charm IN Board Regist,ation /, q
sc .s
Dee 1898.
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est blessing OF my life.'
DR.. Miles Remedies
are sold By all drug
gists under a positive
guarantee, first bottle
benefits or money re-
funded. Book on dis.
eases OF the heart and
nerves free Address.
DIR. AILL,S AEDIOA
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AN INTERESTING COMPARI-
son.
Tax Lcvies and Assessments
Previous to 1890 and Now.
Greenville News.

IbrcenVllle News.
The Columbis correspondent of
The News and Courier sends that
newspaper an instructive table of
taxation and assessments in this
state during the last Is years.
From this We are reminded that
from 1878 to 1890, under the
sold ring, "ststo tax levics ranged
from + mills, the lowest, which
wss in 1856, to s., the highest,
which WAS in 1889. In tho same
period the total assessment of
property in the state ran from
S14l, 900, 900, the lowest, in
1886, to $3.50, 900, 900, the high,
est in 1890.
Some people may remember
that person known as B. R
Tillman, and calling himself a
Reformer and tho "Moses" who
was to lead the people from the
bondage of high taxes and tho
wilderness Of debt, frequently de-
scribed these taxes as burden
some and grievous, and said they
were caused by wssteful, e1trsvs-
CANT and corrupt administrations,
and bamboozled and dsbauched
legislatures. We agreed with
him that taxes were too high and
heavy, and that there was waste
and extravaganza.
He was elected governor in
1890. The tablc shows that in
eight years since that time the
lowest state levy has been 1 ]
mills, three wears, and tho hirh
est, i'll 1892, ;! mills. In the
same period assessments have
ranged from $50, 900, 900, the
lowest, in 1890, &c $l73, 600. 900.
the present figures. In other
words, the figures prove that in
the eight years Of "reform" more
money has hoen collected from
the people and spent than IN any
eight years under "the old ring. "
We 60 further and say tha, the
present taxes represent far more
bales or cotton, bushels Of corn
and pounds OF meat than they
did in tho widest days of Radical
robbery.
Mr.. Tlllman says nothing now
of sxtravagance and waste, of
debsuchery or oamboozling. We
have not changed our opinion.
We yet believe that there is ex-
travsgance and waste, that after
eight years of full power, after
the constitutional convention and
all, the people arc being bu"dened
more heavily than they ought to
he burdcned. 1t makes no pr.cti
cal difference to tho taxpayer
whether the money taken from
him is stolen or squandered. He
loses it just the same.
The GreenvilIe News demanded
ref)rm from 1883 to 1890, and
is vet demanding it. Mr.. Till
man and his friends have tried
their hands at it and seemed TO
have failed misersbIy, except that
they have landed themselves
numerouoIy in fat jobs obtained
by false accnsations, false prom =
ses. We would like to see the
people, the first chance they get,
make a clean sweep Of the whole
present management, and try .
new one which will bs more rea-
sonshle aud definite in its under
takings, which will appeal to sense
rather than passion, and which
will make campaign and build =
government on some foundat-
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Lieut.. Hoskinson, adjutant of
the 18th Penn. Regt., was thrown
from his horse at Macon, Ga. g.
Tuesday and instantly killed.
-b<rv tGtt-
! A negro, named Dock Davis,
was killed .by4s train near Fsirest
Forest station last Monday.
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Let the Glad Fidings be proclaimed in every
nook and Coz ner OF Oil Lancaster County. that
The Farmers *>ankine and Mercantile Co.
are giving $i 90 for every 80 cents you bring
Them - his is no bombaStic assertion but the
naked truth. we will give out of this Bankrupt
stock So cents worth of goods that would cost
you $I 90 any where else. Don't forget the date
SATURDAY KDsGC .NEasEE 10TH.
- Remember OUR MOTTO: Underb,.u.
UnderseN OFF The People, FOR the Peopie
FIRST, f0st, N,,d .4LL the Time
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-21
SULPHUR SENTIMENT.

Special Correspondence.
Sulphur, Sept. 20.-A couple of
little strangers found admittance
to the home of our recorder, D. HI.
Colbert, who is the happiest man
in town. 1t is a girl and boy.
DR.. G. l.. Ryan has been on the
sick list for over a week. We are
all glad he is improving.
Elder Carpenter bought a store
building at the mines with the in
tention of locating there and open
ing up a grocery business.
Drew May, who has a good po-
sition at the mines, and Miss Julia,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. c. l..
Thompson, were married last Sun
day, Rev. Bullard officiating.
Hugh Kerr, the son of W. Kerr
and wife who is teaching at the
mines, died suddenly last Tuesday.
He had been sick only two days.
He was buried Wednesday.
Mr.. Duncan, our enterprising
photographer, has been at the
mines taking several views.
w. II. Bernhard has been lee
turing at the mines several days
Good audiences as well as good at.
tention was given him.
School opened Monday will
Prof. Bewley as teacher. He IS
graduate of Normal College, Dan
vile, Ind, and a teacher OF grea
experience.
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We Invite you to Call,

700 aHT 10 - 8an -. .i5a1
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TALK FROM TussY.

Special Correspondence.
Tussy, Sept. 20.-The heaviest
rain of the season fell Saturday
evening.
Coppenbarger & Coulter ginned
thirty bales of cotton last week.
Mr.. Winters has proven up his
right as Chickasaw. sfs.ts3
Jacob Riley went to Pauls Val
ley to-day on business. rf2,-a
A dance at Tom Anderson's last
Friday night.
Jim Vampool came home Satur-
day from Hope where he has been
visiting relatives.
Prof. Fowler is at DIR. Threl-
keld's down with malarial fever.
DIR. Threlkeld's team ran away
Saturday evening damaging the
buggy. The doctor and his wife
had just returned from pleasure
drive.
The academy will be completed,
ready for school the first Monday
in October.
At an entertainment given at
the school house last Saturday
night for the benefit of the Bel
and clock fund for the academy.
Miss Emma Listen was awarded {
premium for being the handsomes
young lady present. Miss Dori
Tussy received the prize for gath
ering and putting fifty marbles IL
' a box with greatest speed,
r Byron Gates received prize fo
rapid pie eating.
: Hennegan Anderson receive
: two prizes, one for best marbl
shooting and one for best
Il ''blinnfold."
Parson Smith breaches the fir
e sermon in the academy next SUI
a day.
?. Tussy is on boom.
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Tussy is on a boom.
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DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve has
the largest sale of any salve in the
world. This fact and its merit has
led dishonest people to attempt to
counterfeit it. Look. out for the man
who attempts to deceive you when
you call for DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve the gteat pile cure. City Drug
Store
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The ARDMoRErrE has good
Campbell press for sale cheap
Tt cost six hundred dollars and has
only been run three years. 1t is
in good condition and can be
bought for half what it cos..
Come and see us or write US al
once.
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E. G. Blanks, of Lewisville. Texas,
write that one box of DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve was worth 5000 to him.
1t cured his piles of ten years stand
ing. He advises others to try it.
II also cures eczema, skin diseases
and obstinate sores. City Drug
Store.
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If your child has thin, pale
cheeks uncertain appetite and un3
restful sleep. it has worms, and
curing with strong medicines only
makes conditions worse, by irritat-
ing its delicate stomach. Whites
Crc an Vermifuge is mild in effect,
and IS a superior tonic, as well as
a positive worm DESTROYER.
Sold by T. n. Coleman.
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GLENN GOSSIP.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Glenn, Sept. 20.-Cotton pick
ing is the order of the day.
Some have begun sowing wheat
although it is real dry, yet dry
weather does not keep down our
prosperous business farmers.
W. R. Holt's new gin is in per-
feet running order, all the ma
chinery is new.
DR.. Higgins has placed material
on his lot for a new residence.
The patrons of the school are
using their best efforts to make q
success of the school this winter
Ike Harmon, of Elk, was herr
last Saturday buying cattle. We
are informed that he bought
bunch of steer calves from Z. Ell
Rice at $11 per head.
There is considerable sickness IL
our community but none fatal.
The low price of wheat does no
appear to discourage our farmers
in the least who are preparing t.
another large crop.
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Backache, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts,
Rheumatism, Catarrh, Diarrhoea,
Cramp Collie, all aches and pains
speedily cured with Hunts Light
ming Oil. Failing, money refunded.
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Beggs' German Salve is used in
every house, writes one man from a
town. Entire neighborhood use 1t,
for piles, cuts, burns, bruises and all
skin diseases. The fame of its cures
necessarily spread from town to
town; friends tell friends what
Beggs' German Save has done, and
the whole people acknowledge its
merit, its healing qualities and its
power of allaying pain.
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No use running around asking
Smith, Brown and Jones what to do
for your chills, Cheatham's Tasteless
Chill Tonic will cure you-cure you
quickly and completely. Give it q
trial. Guaranteed. Price 30 cents.
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Live at home.

From one year to another the
people of Texas think, We'll,
this yerr has been a monumental
failure IN the way of a cotton crop.
We made a good crop, but the
price is low" Do you know how
to remedy that? Simply cut down
the acreage. Raise corn, oats,
sorgum, vegetables, fruit, hogs,
COWS and the like and live at home.
When that is done the cotton ques-
ton will take care of itself. If
everybody raises cotton each farm
er putting in a full crop believes
that his neighbor will not put in q
large crop, the cotton will always
bring a low price and the farmers
will be simply trading dollars yeal
in and year out.-Denison Herald
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The Veterans Should Have Been Accepted.

Luke Behe, Co. F, 2sth Pa, Saint Au-
gustine, Pa, thinks it was a mistake to
refuse the offer made by so many veter-
ans of the civil war to go to the front in
the present conflict. He writes: IL have
more faith in our volunteers than have
some of the officials at Washington.
Could our troops have been promptly
pushed to the front the enemy would
certainly have had less, time for fortifying.
/ am opposed to fighting man for man
when one side is intrenched.
"It was a mistake to refuse the old
veterans. If ever an invincible army is to
be found, it is among the old soldiers, who
chafed under the refusal of the Govern
ment to accept their services. | do not
mean that our young men are inferior to
the veterans, but if the old boys were on
the ground with the young men, does any
man think the troops would be less
brave? No man has greater faith in the
American soldier than /.
Eve are coming to know our power as a
Nation. The late war taught us self
reliance. The present will show the
Powers of the Old World that we stand in
the front rank of fighting Nations, not
desiring war, yet not afraid of a conflict
of armSO
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of them applied electric batteries, but none
OF the doctors treatment gave any lasting
benefit. 1t was then that my husbands
opportune visit to drug store brought Us
the means which led to the cure of our
child. While there he learned of the won-
derful power of DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People, and decided to buy some for
our daughters benefit
We tried them, and the hopes which we
had fixed regarding their merits were much
more than realized before one box of the pills
had been used.
Busy in my kitchen one afternoon, I
was startled with the cry of Mamma
from little Beatrice, who was creeping
towards me. l had placed her on an impro-
vised bed IN the parlor comfortably close to-
the freside and given her some books and
playthings. She became tired Of waiting
for me to come back and made up her mind
to go to me, so her story. My Pink Pills
made me walk which she tells everyone
who comes to our house, was then for the
first time verified. She has walked ever
since. She has DOW taken about nine boxes
OF the pills, and her pale and pinehed face
has been growing rosy, and her limbs gained
strength day by day. She sleeps all night
long now, while before taking the pills she
could rest but few hours at time.
=" shall be glad if anything that I can
say for DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People may be of benefit to those i'll pain.
There must be many children who suffer as
Beatrice did, and L hope that my story will
be noticed by their parents"
A specific for all forms of weakness is
obtained in DIR. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People. The blood is vitallzsd and
becomes pregnant with the elements of life.
The nervous system is reorganized, all IL
Irregularities are corrected, strength returns
and disease disappears. So remarkable have
been the cures performed by these pills that
their fame has spread to the far ends OF
civilization. Wherever you go you will
find the most important article in every
drug store to be Dr. Williams Pink Pills.
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GEORGIA WADE MCCLELLAN.

Untiring zeal and ardent devotion to the
work of the Order has won for Mrs. Georgia
Wade Mcclellan, Of Denison, Iowa. the ex-
ceptional honor of reelection as President of
the Department of Iowa. Sister Mcclellan
has especially endeared herself to the men,
bers of the Department by her untiring efforts
to establish a home for the aged at the Iowa
Soldiers Home. 1t was her arguments before
the Senate and House Committee which
turned the tide in favor of the institution, and
largely influenced the SIS, 600 appropriation
which was finally secured. Sister McClel-
Ian was born at Gettysburg, Pa. Her eldest
son was also born at that town, and was but
week old when the famous battle was waged
about her home on Cemetery Ridge. Her
sister was the only woman killed during the
engagement; she fell while busily engaged
in baking bread for the Union soldiers. At
that time Sister McClellan's husband was in
the Union army in Virginia. During the
year following she was nurse in the field
hospitals and afterward entered the Emory
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whip-hand once-had ever got the English
feet agoing, as they say in the ring, il
would have been world without end. One
such victory at sea would have been in
the eyes of France the grandest of all
events in her annals. To the French
imagination and in French pride il would
have sunk Valmy, Jemmappes and
FleuTus out of memory. The man who
had gained it would have had a sacred
name in France for all time. That such
an event, or such conjecture of events,
must have tremendously altered the face
of history seems self-evident.
But it was not TO be.
But it is worth while to remark in con-
clusion that the 18th of September, 1892
was sad day for France, and conversely
one of the greatest of days for England ;
because il removed from her path of con
quest and of glory the only man in all
earth's millions whom she had reason to
fear at seattle only man since the
Vikings of the North who had ever made
her coasts tremble and her flag trail!
ITO be confinued.l
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her mother

The rest of the happening is best told in
the mothers own words. She said:
ION the 2Sth of Sept, 1896, while in the
bloom of health, Beatrice was suddenly and
severely afflicted with spinal meningitis.
Strong and vigorous before, in five weeks
she became feeble and suffered from para
lytic stroke which twisted her head back to
the side and made it impossible for her to
move limb. Her speech however was not
affected. We called in our family doctor.
one Of the most experienced and successful
practitioners in the city. He considered
the case very grave one
" The child's body was bandaged to keep
her in position. Soon it was seen that other
means must be adopted. Little Beatrice,
much against her will. Vas housed up in a
plaster paris jacket, which she wore for sew
eral months.
In the hope of receiving some help for
the child we consulted in turn nine of the
most prominent physicians of Freeport. Two
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CAROLINE Fl. BELL.

Hospital at Washington. She moved to
Iowa in 1866. She has been prominent in
W.R.C. circles since 1886, and prior to as
Stunning the Office of Department President
had held many important offices in the Order
Wisconsin has Endorsed for National Treas
urer Mrs. Caroline II. Bell, of Milwaukee,
an energetic worker and well known W.R.C.
woman. Mrs. Bell is a charter member of
+. b. Walcott Corps. She served as Corps
Chaplain and then as President until elected
Department President, which office she held
during the National Convention at Milwau-
kee. Her work in arranging for the comfort
and entertainment of the many visiting Sis
tiers brought her into National prominence
She has since served on the National Execu-
tive Board, the Committee of Veterans
Home, and was recently selected by Gov.
Scofeld as one of the members of the Wis
consin Commission of the Omaha EXPOSE
ton. She has many friends in every De-
partment, and will receive large vote at
the Convention.