The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, January 04, 1888, Image 4
A BIG LIIJKL SUIT.
An Aciion for Ten Thousand Dollars
Damages for Alleged Defamation of
Character.
The papers have already stated that
Gen. Edward I\!cCrady, Jr., of Charleston,
has sued Dr. T. C. Bobertson, of
Columbia, for ten thousand dollars damages,
for libeL The document on which i
the suit is founded is the ioliovricg letter
written by Dr. Robertson to Gen. ->Ic
w
"I have freely stated to parties in Columbia
and elsewhere tha? in the conduct
of the suit of Mary F. ilcCrady vs. i
Allen Jones et al. you have been guilty :
of falsehood, treachery and scoundrelism,
and as I desire to' say nothing behind
yortr back that I would not say to j
your face, I write this that you may
know exactly what I have said.
"You have sworn falsely under oath
when, at Chester, on 2d of August last,
you testified you had paid $600 for certain
judgments.
"You uttered a falsehood when, in I
your argument before Judge Wallace on j
Wednesday last, you said you had been
enticed into the arbitration, knowing, as
you did, that you had proposed and
named both arbitrators.
"You acted treacherously and in bad
faith when you prepared and signed the
papers binding ail parties to iaitniimy
abide the award, and -when it was against
yon refusing to de so, and openly and
shamefully before Judge Yvallace claiming
that the agreement so prepared by
you was illegal, that you knew it to be
such, and would not abide the award of
Judge Wallace's decree if it sustained it.
"You acted both rascally and dishonestly
when you bought a mortgage for a
nominal sum and brought suit on it,
when as our attorney in 1881 you had
advised us it was worthless.
"You acted the scoundrel when you
proposed to us to accept the award of
the arbitration in part, provided we
would consent to let this mortgage,
known to you to be worthless and for
which you only paid $20, take precedence
of a good one given Pelzer,
Bodgers & Co.
"Yon acted the knave when, failing in
this, you proposed to Mr. Pelzer, who
was ignorant of the facts, to prorate
your worthless paper with his good
mnrtoKic^
"You acted the scoundrel when you
threatened us with three years' litigation
if -we would not accept from you ?2,000,
for the same interest we offered you
$1,000. Power and property may be
dear to you, but obtained at such sacrifice
can benefit you little. You may
waste the estate in litigation. You may
keep us in law three years, or twenty, as
you claim to have kept a case, but in
doing so you have associated the name
Edward McCrady, Jr., with all that is
dishonorable.
"Yours, respectfully,
r, Rorhstsox."
THE DEFENSE.
The answer of the defendant in the libel
suit of Edward McCrady, Jr., against T.
C. Robertson has been filed, in the office of
the Clerk of Court. Robbed of the usual
legal phrases the answer is substantially as
follows:
The defendant, by John T. Sloan, Jr.,
and Lyles & Haynesworth, his attorneys,
denies that his-letter set forth in the complaint
is falsa or was maliciously written,
out alleges that each and every charge confined
therein is true
1. TLe answer states that in 1S78 Mary F.
3IcCrady. Win. R. Davie, John 31. Davie,
Alien J. Davie and Mary F. Woolf were
tenants in common of a tract of land in
Che-ter county, known as "Tivoir' and
containing acrcs, i>isry ?-.
being the aunt of the the other persons
named, who were brothers and sisters.
2. In 1SS0 Jones & Robertson purchased
the interest of John 31. Davie and 3Iary F.
Woolf in the said tract of land.
3. A number of other transfers are cited.
The death of Allen Davie is mentioned
and certain other transactions bearing upon
the land.
, 4. Jones <5: Robertson state that they entered
into a cojxiract to purchase from John
H. Davie and 3Iary F. Wooif their interest
in the tract acquired by the death of Allen
-? Davie- ?
5. They look ihe professional advice of
the plaintiff, Gen. 3IcCrady, to ascertain
the proper method of carrying out the intentions
of the parties in interest and as to
hotv they might obtain a good title, and
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C&pCUiUllJ ao w.<uv iviw v- ~ ? ?
mortgage of William R. Davie then held
by the Rock Hill Manufacturing and Industrial
Association.
0. That the plaintiff advised them (Jones
& Robertson) that said mortgage was
worthless, * * - w hereupon ;hey consummated
the arrangements uiey had entered
int_\
7. That other arrangements were made,
resulting in a loan of .$2,000 on the bond of
Henrietta C. Davie, guaranteed by Jones &
Robertson ?nd secured by a mortgage of
her interest in ?he tract of 2,500 acres, part
of "Tivoli." Joses & Robertson afterwards
morgaged the ozie-fifth irterest, derived
by them from the cci^ie of Allen J.
Davie, to Pelzer, Rodgers & Co. to secure
a bona-fide debt due the last-named ?rm.
8. Then follows this statement: "Thai
*" matters proceeded thus, all parties being
upon the most friendly terms, until the latter
parr, of the year 1886, when this de
iCuuau t auu jlho ociiv*
come involved in financial difficulties, said
plaintiff, as this defendant now charges,
conceived the design of forcing said lands
to a public sale, so that he miqht purchase
4 the interest of said Jones & iiubertson
' therein at an inadequate price, and. notwithstanding
every effort of said Jones &
Robertson to effcct a partition and division
.of said lands without litigation, commenced
sad for a while prosecuted an action entir
"? ? " t #
tied s:f\xy- Jieuraav vs. .auen jones ei
ai.,ior the partition of sa?'i lands, but finding
that said Jones & Robertson were not
so helpless as be bad supposed, and that
on account of bis f.?J>J2ve to make certain
money arrangements v>4ich be bad expected
to make, bis sci*enite flight react j
upon tbe interests which be was endeavor- j
ing to advance, be adopted tbe policy of I
delaying tbe progress of said cause by all
means in bis power, but said .Jones & Robertson,
by tbeir counsel, were vigorously
pushing said cause to a conclusion."
9. Tne answer further alleges that an
arbitration was agreed to, with the understanding
that was to be "final and conclusive
upon all the parties concerned/"
and tha: by common consent the task of
preparing tbe "articles for submission" was
confided to the plaintiff (Gen. McCrady),
who undertook ths same, well-knowing
the *erms of agreement, and that full confidence
was placed in his fidelity and skill.
10. That at the session of tbe Board of
Arbitration in Chester, in August, IS?",
the plaintiff, Gen. McCrady, as a witness,
testified that he, the witness, bad paid
$000 for certain judgments against W. 11.
Davie, which had been bought by Jones k
Robertson, which testimony was wholly
untrue.
it mi?* j: _ i
JLA. j. um. peuumg ui uumuoii -me i
plaintiff, Gen. JIcL'rady, purchased "for
$20 the mortgage "which he in 1SS1 reported
to said Jones Robertson as worthless,
and brought his action to foreclose the
same."
12. That the board of arbitration having
filed their award in favor of Jones <fc Robertson,
the plaintiff (Gen. HeCradv) "refused
to abide thereby, and opposed the
execution of the same; but proposed to :
assent ihereto upon condition, amoegst :
other things, that said Jones & Robertson
should consent that the mortgage bought i <
by him as alleged in the preceding para- j'
graph of this answer should be given pri-1
ority ss a valid mortgage held by said Pel- v
zer, Rodgers & Co., and this "proposition j j
oeiag refused, he secretly proposed to F. J. :
Pelzer, of the llrni of Fclzev. Rodgers &
Co., to consent that said mortgage should ,
be prorated with that held by said firm." ,
IS. -That the phintiff in argument be- ;
fore Judge Wallace claimed "that the
agreement prepared by him was illegal; .
tbsx he knew it to be so. and would not
abide i-y ir- or the decree of Judge Wallace, ;
if it afiirmed said award, ardt" urtl.er st ated !
in argument that be had been enticed into ;
Slid arbitration, when- be well knew that
it was at the instance o: himself and thparties
he represented that sni.l agreement j}
had beta catered imo." _ j j
14 That peadisg the litigation the plscn-' 1
tiff "threatened to protract the litigation in I:
said cause for three years unless the defend- j'
ant and Alien Jonts af-vie^aid would sell to i
him their intercut in suid properly at $2,000
psr onc-lifiii share, wheu he well knew the !
same to be worth ->4.000 per share, and this j
defendant and said Alien Jcneshad oCered j
to buy the Interest- he represented at that j
rate." i
GENERAL SEWS XOTE8.
item* of !n:?*rri)! Gathered from Varloun ;
Quarter*.
The post office safe at Ashcville, X. C., ]
has bec-n robbed of -SSOO.
The Prohibiiionis'.s say they are going
to start a papor in Atlanta.
At Minneapolis, Minn., yesterday, the
thermometer was twenty degrees below
zero at 7 A. 31.
There has been serious trouble in sending
and receiving cablegrams and telegrams at
and from New York.
The Government receipts for December
amount to $27,2Go,259, and the surplus for
the month will rcach $13,000,000.
I At Rockland, Me., a gale raged Wednes*
; day night with unparalelled fury, doiDg
grea" damage to shipping in the harbor.
The Catholics of Richmond, Ya., last
night held a mass meeting in the Cathedral
hall in celebration of the Pope's jubilee.
At Halifax, X. S., a terrific gale prevailed
on Wednesday night, causing extensive
damage to shipping in the harbor.
Roland Taylor, a colored prisoner, set
fire to theToccoa, Ga., jail Monday night
and was burned up in it.
A fierce northwest blizzard has prevailed
throughout the upper Michigan peninsula
on Wednesday, and bad blockades are anticipated.
Fire at Moss Point, Miss., on Wednesday
night, destroyed ten houses, including J.
H. Kribbe's store, new hotel and glass fac
tory. Loss $21,000.
At San Francisco yesterday Judge Hoffman
rendered a decision in the United
States District Court sustaining the right
of Chinese to import opium.
The British steamer Lord Gcugh. "which
! ieft.Philadelphia. December 15, for Queens
i town and Liverpool, hss not yet arrived,
j Considerable anxiety is felt.
! Mr. Geo. II. ingraham, Sr., died at his
home in Chatlestou last night at a quarterj
past 12 o'clock. He was in the S-lth year of
j his age.
The Morgan Woolen Mills near Winches|
tcr, Va., were entirely burned on Monday
: night. Icsu ranee ?5S,000; loss much
i greater.
The gift of Queen Victoria to the Pope
j consists of a gold ewer and basin. These
i the Pope^intends to use in celebrating the
i Jubilee Mass.
The Czarina has given an audience to
Lord Randolph Churchill, -who presented
to her letters from the Princess of Wales
j and Duchess of Edinburgh.
| The steamer Oceanic arrived at San Franj
cisco from China and Japan yesterday and
! was piiceaia quarantine, us my wxs ^
j smallpox were 'discovered among the Chii
nese steerage passengers.
A Michigan man has bought 1,000 acres
; of Tennessee bog lands, near Chattanooga,
! which he proposes to drain and raise celery.
| He thinks "there's millions in it."
The Pope yesterday received King Leo
i pold's representative, who presented his
i Holiness with jubilee gifts and an auto.
graph letter. .
i Sullivan has challenged Smith to fight
i for ?1,000 a side, the aft'air to come ell a
; fortnight after Sullivan's match with
! Mitchell has bec-n fought. Sullivan has
I deposited ?500 forfeit.
The State Convention of the Kansas
Prohibitionists was held in Topeka Tues|
day. It was decided to begin a vigorous
: campaign duiing the coming year, and to
j put a full State ticket in the held.
! The post office safe in Charleston, W.
. Ya., was blown open between 1 and '6
I o'clock yesterday morning by burglars,
! who obtained ?400 in money and $110 in
i stamps.
! II. Pider Haggard says thai, next to the
j Bible. Shakespeare's works and those of
! Cervantes and John Bunyan are the best
: for ayoungm-in just eateries upoa acuve
j life.
Two printers, named Coylc and Gallatin,
f were vmlii.li!g on the Pennsylvania Rail!
road track, near Downington, Pa., oa Sun.
day evening, when they were struck by a
; train and both fatally injured,
j "W. W. Gorco.ran, of Washington, is
j again reported serioussy ill. He attended
I Communion service in St. John's Episcopal
} Episcopal Church Sunday, and was obliged
to be carried from church after service.
Mr. "W. W. Corcoran, the well-known
' philanthropist of Washington, has just
j celebrated his eighty-ninth birthday. Many
| letters of congratulation and tokens of re!
gard were received by the veaerable philj
aathropist.
Calvin Govan, colored, get on a spree in
! A.ar.,m'n,rrn. Col SinH (TA1 n<- tow.
; j>- o o ?
; aras home, stopped on the road. The next
! morning he "was found dead. It is thought
; lie died from, exposure.
; The Rev. D. R. "WmSeld, editc-r of the
I Arkansas Methodist, and one of the most
: widely known Methodist divines in the
| South, died at Little Rock, Ark., on Mon.
day night, of pneumonia.
} The Prussian and German Departments
j of Justice have commissioned Judge Asch|
ertolt to study and rvfoft upon the American
penal system, with the viusr of making
it tii6 basis of a new system in Germany.
"R". K. Yanderbilt, it is stated, will take
! up his permanent abode in Europe, probaI
biy in England, visiting Amcrica only at
; occasional periods as his interests or pleasj
ure may dictate.
j Ben. Butler has not sent in his bill yet to
the Chicago Anarchists. Lawyer Tucker
' -wants $500, ;mr] his bill is still unsettled.
; All the money has been spent giving the:
I martyrs xunerais.
i The Government official at Cork who is j
; charged with criminally" assaulting three
| young girls is Major Bishop, governor of5
the county jail. The police authorities re
fuse to prosecute Bishop.
Geo. W. Meacte &, Co. of^San Frauelsco,
one of the largest exporting firms on the
Pacific coast, made tin assignment yesterday.
Tig firm has shipped fully $2,000,000
worth or to the East this year.
At Kansas City, Mo.; on Wednesday
night, ;here was a grand jubilee of saloonkeepers
vrhin it became generally known
tJ:f.T. Reorder Davenoort had deciared the ]
Sunday closing ordinance unconstitutional.
Tom Woolfolk. the murderc;1. *vbo has
been coniued in the Atlanta jail since Ids)
conviction, has bees taken back to Macon.
It ;* believed ti;e officials thought the Atlanta
jail insecure and feared. iii3 njimlerer
would escape therefrom. ,
The friends cf Mi?s Bessie Hilljer of ]
Washington, "ho vras engaged to the son |
of Comptroller Trenhoim, but suddenly
married Grassie Bulkley, ssy the marriage j
v/as illegal and void.
The inhabitants 01 z.eia v alley, iiocie- ]
grn. c suffering from famine.
Vvilliac: Finchum, the fraticide, was
hanged at Hanricouburg, Va , yesterday.
McNaily. the kidnapper cf Blackwood,
died Thursday afternoon.
E. B. I>oc^!d, postmaster at VTillkuas
ton, has decamped, leaving a shortage oI
about $600.
Albert Peters v:as hanged at llariauna,
Ark., yesterday for a murder committed in
Peters had twice escaped.
The fisheries of Alaska last year amount.
1 r.-ir .i.?
ru U; UiitriMtil ivuu oivvuui/ j>a^u ivi (
that Territory.
The >-;sb ar;(l blind factory of N. Paries .
5c Co.. at Yvalnut Cove, X. C, was burned j
iast night. Loss $23,000; insurance $3,30o. <
fire accidental.
Don Carlos has issued a manifesto de- \
daring that it is his duty to reserve his t
rights, as head of the house of Bourbon. )
:6 both the French and Spanish thrones. 5
Laura Webster of San Francisco, aged (
L8, has been asleep for seventy days. Her t
physicians administer liquid food to her
hreugfc a tube. She is wasting away. The c
ong slumber v?as preceded by chronic ner- 't
rous derangement. " s
Mr. H. Mortimer Black of New York c
resterday thrashed J. Creighton Davis of 1
13 :i' lira ore with a whip on the street in the r
leart of Baltimore city. Mr. Black is en- I
caged to a young widow, to whom Davis i
bad written offensive letters.
A Constantinople dispatch says that Yon
Radowirz, German ambassador, has officially
informed Kiamii Pasha, President of
the Council ot Ministers, that Germany
will give Austria active military support if I
Russia should provoke war with Austria.
A negro named Johnston died near
Orangeburg on Wednesday?his death i
being"suppposed to have resulted by a blow j
zriven him some days back by a -Mr. Byrd. j
The instrument of death was a tob icco ,
knife.
Among 2CG steerage passengers on the ;
steamer Rhaetia which has jusf arrived a*
y.'sw York from Hamburg, there were j
three cases of smallpox. The patients I
were detained at quarantine and the vessel
was fumigated.
Gladstone has left for Kawarden,en route
for the Continer.t. lie received an euthu-1
siastic welcome from 5,000 persons on his
arrival at Chester. He was greeted with \
mingled cheers snd groans when he passed :
through London.
In Lee County, Ga., last Sunday night,
a man named Nathan Reid, vrho did not i
live happily with his wife and whose dis- i
position hud become sullen and morose, :
brutaily murdered his whole family and
ihen committed suicide.
The steamer Australian arrived at San
Francisco from Honolulu yesterday and
brought advices to December 20, which
confirm the reports received by the steamer
Mariposa on Saturday in regard to the convict
between King Kalakaua and the Legsilature.
It is stated on reliable authority that the
Pope has instructed Archbishop Walsh and
other visiting Irish prelates to adopt a conciliatory
attitude toward the Government
in Ireland. The Pope has received Queen
Victoria's jubilee gift, which was presented
by the Duke of Norfolk.
Dr. Mackenzie says he is greatly pleased
with the Crown Prince'3 condition. The
small growth in the Prince's throat is
aim'.st gone. There remains a slight tumefaction
in the left vernacular gland. The
doctor ssys that time alone can determine
ii;t; exact nature of the disease.
The best part of Wakefield, Wis., is in
ashes. The loss will reach ?100,000. There
was scarcely any insurance, and many
families have been rendered homeless and
penniless. The fire was started in the C'oiiteum
Theatre, where a monkey overturned
a lamp.
At a meeting of the representatives of
the Union Labor party of Iudiana in Indianapolis
Tuesday night it was decided to
hold a convention there on 3Iarch 1 to
Dominate a tickct. It was also determined
that the party should nominate Congressional
candidates.
The Cherokces have set up a claim to
Ino Man's Land. It is based on treaties of
18:28 and 1830, and pa'cnt of 1829, signed
by President Van Buren. It is alleged
that the title has never lapsed, ard that it
is as clear as that which holds the territory
around T&lequah.
The election in Greenville county yesterday,
ou tbe question of subscribing to the
Oireiiua, Knoxville and Western ltailroad,
resulted by a large majority in favor of
subscription. The contract to build the
r-;ad has been given the Georgia Construction
Company.
3I?s3 Annie Cane, of Dallas, Texas, was
burned to death at Ward's seminary in
Xusiirilie, Tenn., on Sunday. She was in
her^room, partially dressed, and climbed
up in a chair to arrange a picture over the
mantel, when her clothes caught fire from
tJ?A Tr:itO
Ernst B. Mayer and Henry Bohr, dr3r
goods and novelty firm in Washington,
doing business under the tide of. the "Bon
Marcne," have made an assignment. Their
ii.-ibiiiiies are estimated at $40,000, of which
about one-half is. due to Xew York merchants.
The assets are not knowu.
A fire which started Thursday afternoon
has destroyed one-half of the town of
Ili/unmu, in Terrebonne Parish, La. The
burned buildicg9 include 28 business houses
and 100 dwellings. The loss will probably
exceed ?100,000. One hundred homeless
families are being cared for b}r their more
fortunate neighbors.
M. I). Babcock, inventor of tbe 5re extinguishing
apparatus bearing Lis name,
died in au alms house in San Francisco on
Saturday, in his 71st year. At one time he
wss in rccpir-t of A 10,000 a month royalty
on his njajJ.:n.es; but he disposed of his
patent rights, soou sppjjt his money and at
Ims-i sought refuge in the aline hou*e.
The heaviest gale and sea that has prevailed
in years at Coney Island visited that
desolate resort last light. Many small
buildings were swept out to sea and workmen
were S?t to work strengthening the
foundations of ihe Hotel Brighton, which
building was in danger of being carried
away.
Advices from Rector, Ark., reports a
terrlL-Ie affray there oa Monday night, in
which A. il. Boice, marshal of liector.
was killed, and W. P. Love joy mortally
wounded. A man named Davis is altc
reported killed. 2so further particulars
i have been received, but it is said that the
I tragedy grew out of an old feud.
I Yesterday afternoon a passenger Irain on
the Cieartield and Jefferson Railroad
jumped the track, near Great Bend. Pav
and one car, containing twenty passengers,
went over the bank, turning over three
times. Only four persons in the car escaped
unhurt, but John Ivelley, a railroad
contractor, was the only cue seriously injured.
A broken rail caused the accidcnt.
A new Mammoth Cave has been discov
ered near Bloomfleld, K3*., believed to hare
been ^r.'-e inhabited by human beings. A
sepulchre v^as slso discovered in a large
niche or -avenue at righi angles with the
main avenue, and in it are numerous pum;
nsjlied bodies. Three of them have been
1 * " ??wl r?v^?5tp nron* rMirinsifv
I ULiJU V Uv\ iU ?v u, ck.iu wj . j .
The formations in the cave are beautiful in
the EigLest'degree.
Daniel Stilwell, aged seventy ye*te, a
highly respected citizen of South Pittsburg,
fro;:e to death Konday night, lie was i:ttempting
tc make his w&y home from the j
Ah.bama State line, seven n.iiea distant, |
; and in il>e face of the first snow storm of j
the season. He pandered from the road j
and perished in a field wiikiu calling dis- !
taiice of his owa hcuse.
In reply (o a communication from tlie !
Buck-ye Club of Springfield, ()., protest- j
Tng against the confirmation of L. (} C.
Lamar as Associate Justice of the United
State* S'upreme Court, Senator Sherman,
in iefer. says; "I take thj same, view of
;be nomination of Lamar as stated by your
r'luh Vmi hft sure I shall
do iiii I canto p:-c;.?nt his confirmation. I
regret to say, however. .7jy efforts will
be uasucces-fui.7'
President Cleveland and the members of
the Cabinet, except Secretaries Whitney
and ?nd;eott, arrived ii? Albany yesterday
morniD^ and were driven to Governor
Hiii's rcsjdence, where they bre;rkfasted. j
A; 12.30 the psrty were received at the i
residence of 3Ir. Mat nine's son, where the
ex-Secretary died. Subsequently private
funeral services for the family were held
una were followed by public services in St.
Paul's Church.
Albany girls stand no fooling. One of j
:hcm was to have been married a day or i
two since, and the eirl was all ready, the j
minister on hand, and the fe&st spread, but j
" " ~ A X _ ^ L! 1
stiii no bridegroom, - j. a wait j.<jr oiui
just ten minutes," said the girl, "and then
Vzi opt'a to proposals." Ten minutes tiew [
like Uie wipd. and a little red haired fellow
with a paper Gclisr and his trousers all
frilled at the bottom, stepped up, proposed,
?25 accepted, married and scooped fn the
banquet. <
Thursday thu Harlaam Democratic j 1
Club of IS'ew York dty a grand ban- j (
jstst ITS great lights of the party, The {,
iifair 1? with much interest, as it j
is looked upon as Jus first gun in the Pre- !
sidentia! campaign of ISoa. alany speeehes j 3
ivcre made by distinguished men, among j?
:hem Senators Vance and Gorman. Sena- i
:or Zeb. B. Vanee responded to '"'Thei
L'nion of the States, indivisible forever," i
md the Eon. Arthur P. Gorman to "Gov:rnmeni
by party is ess* ntial to free instiutions."
" " {
IIow often is the light ci' the household }
:louded by signs of melancholy or irrua-' c
iilitj- on the part of the ladies. Yet they j s
ire not to be blamed, for they are the result {
>f ailments peculiar to that sex, which men *
mow not of. But the cause may be renoved
and joy restored by the use of Dr. r
force's "Favorite Prescription/' which, r
e
is a tonic and nervine for debilitated j
women, is certain, safe and pleasant. It is i
beyond all compare the great healer or j
women i ,
A pupil in one of the public schools of this j
city complied recently in the following j
manner with a request to write a compo- j,
sition on the subject of a physiological ,
lecture to which the school had just listened: j
' The human body is made up of the he^d, j
thorax aod the abdomen. The head con-!
tains the brains, when there is any. The ;
thorax contains the heart and the lungs, i
The abdomen contains the bowels, of which i
there are five. A, E, J, 0, and U, and !
sometimes W and Y."
On Sunday Charles House, foreman of j
the Richmond and Danville Railroad Com- i
panv's printing office in Washington, was :
w:. iking on the railroad near Alexandria j
with his little daughter. While standing !
between the north and south tracks, ab-1
sorted in amusing the child, the south-!
bound limited express struck him, knocked
him on the track and crushed him so that
his remains were hardly recognizable as a
human body. The child was unhurt.
Policeman Wooten of Roanoke, Ya.,
shot and killed William Gilbert, colored,
while the latter was resisting arrest on Sunday
night. Gilbert was engaged in a row
at the time, and when he was killed, all
j the other negroes made common cause
i against Woolen. The Mayor ordered all
; the police to the scene and sent Wooten to
| jail, and this quelled the disturbance. The
j coroner's jury rendered a verdict that . Woo
i ten killed Gilbert in the discharge of his
] duty as an officer.
Yesterday was generally observed as
j Christmas by the business and working
j people oi New York and 3rookiyn. All
I the city and Federal building were closed.
I Snow began to fall towards night. The
i inmates of the jails and charitable institu:
tions of the city were feasted at the ex|
pense of the kindly disposed. The newsj
boys were royally feasted as usual. By
I charity in the public institutions alone over
I "1A AAA r>ormlo "fprl
Letters received at Austin, Texas, by tie,
i State Department of Education from Sen|
ator Reagan indicate that be is preparing
j. to make a vigorous fight against the Blui:
: educational bill. Some of the statistics to
j be furnished him, however, will not be
i very powerful arguments in opposition to
j the bill. For example: Texas is now bej
hind in the payment of her school teachI
ers nearly a million dollars, and they are
! compelled to dispose of their vouchers at a
j big Miscount.
j Wiilie Baxter of Clearwater, Minn., died
' of diphtheria on Monday. Ou Tuesday
I his body was made ready for the coffin and
' the family retired from the room. Half an
i hour afterward some one returned to the
I apartment and found the boy up and
| dressed in his cvery-day clothes. He in
sisted that he was not dead and was not
; going te die. However, in about an hour,
I during which time he talked cheerfully to
i those around him and seemed to be geiting
! better, be suddenly fell over and was stone
dead in an instant.
H. A. Savage, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., has
just lost two children from some strange
disease. The youngest, two years of aqe,
appeared slightly sick on Monday night,
and before it was known than his illness
was serious he died. Another.boy, four
years of age, was taken sick yesterday
morning and within a few hours he died.
Shortly before death ensued their bodies
turned black. The local physicians are
unable to name the disease.
A desperate fight between Catholics and
Orangemen occurred on Monday in the
village of Killybearn, near 2fookstown.
Stones, bricks, revolvers, &c? were freely
i used. The l.ouse of a priest was corn;
pletely wrecked and the windows of other
; houses were smashed. The Orangemen
| were reinforced and the struggle was be|
coming serious when the police stopped the
j fight. Several arrests have been made,
i Advices from Massowah say that great
| activity prevails among the Italian troops
; tin re. Every preparation is being made
| to meet the advancing Abyssinian forces,
j It is reported that Has Aluila overrated the
| Italian movements in order to induce King
: John to advance. One column of the
: Abyssinian troops, commanded by the son
I of the King, has arrived at Adowa, and an;
other column, under Ras Mikiel, has
i reached Adrigat. Xews from Rome says
I it is reported that in consequence of the
j news from Massowah, the Government has
I decided to dispatcli remtorcemcnts
: early in January.
An Interesting War Relic.
| The Charleston Sunday Budget says:
j "Among the many souvenirs of the late
j war in the collection of Jlr. A. Baron
j Holmes, of this city, is a piece of the first
I Yankee flag captured duriDg the war. on
I board the steamer St. Nicholas, by Zarrona
; Thomas. It consists of small pieces of
! red and white bunting cut from a United
i States flag, and its history is thus described
; in a letter of the well known Dr. R W.
i Gibbes to Mesdames Howe, Fisher and
! Brice. It is dated May 10,1864, and reads:
] " "I .send you a piece of the first United
| States flag captured aDd taken in the war.
I It was captured by Zarrona Thomas and
j Commodore Hollins"on the steamer St.
; Nicholas. Gen. Beauregard allowed Maj.
: Audsrson to carry away the flag of Sum!
ter, which has since been recaptured, but
i the flag of the St. Jfiphotys Tvas the first;
i taken possession of. I happened to be at |
j Fredericksburg a day or two after the ves-:
| sel was carried there, and the fragment I j
| se:<d you was givei} me by a yofith who
' cut it from the flag on board. As a relic
it may be made use of in your fete for the
soldiers. Very respectfully yours,
" 'R. W. GrjjiiEs, M. D.'
''The fragment was sold at the Soldiers'
TJo'/onv tr\ \fy T? T. ~Wo-rricrk-n -frvr *&*\()
j he gave it to the present owner, Mr. A.
] Baron Holmes."
McIVaUy Mortally Wounded.
| John P. McNally, of Augusta, -who pari
ticipited in the kidnapping of Blackwood
: some months ago, nvas fatally shot b}'
.Charles Colvin in August Tuesday, 27th
ult. Colvin had sent an insulting message
to McNaily, and the latter declared he
would whip Cojvin on sight. When they
did meet each drew his ;>?>-calibre revolver
and each emptied his weapon. .Calyin re !
ceived two ballets in his right ieg, below j
the kaee, while McXally was shot in the
left lung immediately above the heart', also
in the right side and in the left arm. The j
lung wound p:$ved mortal.
Immediately after being shot McNally j
said Colvin shot at kirn twice before he I
drew his revolver. Colvin says JJcNajly 1
hirn onn n rpvnlvpr I
he drew his and they both fired together.
Chief of Police Twiggs sei t to have Oolvin
arrested, but Dr. Ford gave a certifi
cate ilia; gur<rical fever was apt to set in
and it would'be d^prous to move him. j
He was, however, placed undcF cr-est, and |:
a policeman was placed on duty In his
i'CO^. i
"Conatitu^iic-z ?n.re"
Would be a truthful name to give to Dr. '
PieiWs "golden Medical Discovery,'-' the J
most efficacious medicine yet discovered
for arresting the early development of pul-1 s
monary diseases. But "consumption cure" j *
would not sufficiently indicate the scope of j <
infl-iAnrxi *-> w A ylcrxfn Inoco Tr? oil i ^
UOOi UiLJVCO. A.J-4 (Mi ?<UV | .
man}'' diseases "which spring from a der | ]
pangenient of the liver and blood this "Dis-! >
eoverv'; is a safe and sure specific. Of all j (
druggists. | i
??? h
Pianos and Organs. j T
All of the bast makes. $25 cash and r
balance K07.Kg.ber 1, at spot cash prices j ?
dh a Piano. $10 cash &zul balance No- i j;
rember 1, at spot cash prices on aa ' Delivered,
freight free, at your ?
nearest depot, J'jfteea days test trial
md freight both ways ii lioi eG-fesfactory. ?
Write for circulars. ?
N. W. TRUMP, 53
* Columbia, S. C. 2
?-r )^-rr i ^
J. E. Petisioc's Merchant Tailor Es- ^
- . . . - . _ r
ablishment, Columbia, S. C., is in full j ~
?3ast. Only a look will convince any , c
;nc. All that want a first-class fitting j v
nit fey him. L full line of the best 11]
joods on hand. i ^
Books have their use as furniture for the i e:
dind. It is quite common, however, to I 11
egard them as furniture for the library. 1 tl
THE BLACKS DYING OFF. ?
i
j
THE XKXT CENSUS WILL SHOW A j
LAKGE DECREASE IX XU3ICEKS.
T7ie Country Negroes of tlie Soutl* a Very j '
Shiftless Set?Plantations that Were |
Formerly Swarm ins: Willi Tliem Xow !
Almost Depopulated.
(Special to the Philadelphia Times)
Augusta, Ga., December 2G.?"So far
as the negro race is concerned, the
coming census will be an exceedingly interesting
one, inasmuch as it mil unquestionably
dispel the popular delusion
that the colored man is progressing and
increasing; and hence it may probably
set people thinking as to ho ? the condition
of this people may be really improved.
As to their progress we who
live in the very midst of the negro population
know tbat it is decidedly more
retrograde- than otherwise; while the
mortuary reports published in the newspapers
show that the death rate is
double, treble and often even still larger,
than of the whites. The census of 18G0
was to a great extent speculative, on account
of the chaotic condition of affairs
at that period; but the strength of the
race was undoubtedly underestimated.
Hence the apparent increase in the fol,
lowing census, and henc2 also the fallacy
that the negro population is largely "increasing."
The gentleman whose remarks are
quoted above has been, ever since the
close of the civil war, a large planter in
Screven county, Georgia, and in support
of his statement as an undoubted decrease
in population among the negroes,
he continued:
"Here, on my place, there were former1_f/>-^oT7
+licm r\nl"T7
OU ilCijiUCC L'uvi-v
two! My neighbor, Major Giobons, a
Massachusetts gentleman, had some 400;
the Wades and the Joneses had some 300
each; the Herringtons, 100; the Bosticks,
over the Savannah river, some 700,
and the Martins about 500. Where are
they all to-day? Why, on the plantations
referred to there is hardly to be
found a negro to hitch up one's horse.
Many wandered off into other States
after freedom, but numbers of them returned,
broken down by hardships, to
die within sight of the wrecks of the
homes they deseited. In place of our
old-time negroes we have wandering
tribes of thriftless women and young
men, who will rather endure hunger for
j days than do an hour's honest work to
* earn a good square meal. This state of
i affair is not confined to this neighbor|
hood. It obtains to a greater or less
' extent, almost everywhere in this and
I other negro States. But what can be
| done? There seems to be no remedy
| for it. If I hire a negro to do a day's
work for me in nine out of ten cases he
will ask me for his 'rations' in advance
or money to buy food with on the plea
I of desperate poverty. If I give him this
j food or money the chances are nine to
S one'that the man will never turn up to
' ax 4-l-*o+ T o Via 11 r\f Iiiq '
UU l/JLiC nuia JL ouliVMi V/*. *^10
working in somebody else's field who
was not quite so easy with him as I was.
And yet we have not thp shadow of a
i law by which I can hold such a rascal
| responsible. Oar statutes do not
recognize that this species of trickery is
| obtaining either money, food or goods
i under false pretenccs."
Even to one who visits this part of the
| world after many years of absence it is
| patent that the negro population is
; changed and decimated?more than
decimated. In place of the respectful,
unsophisticated old "uncles" and
"aunties" are to be found a few darkie3,
whose main object appears to be to victimize,
in some manner or another, the
white man. Give a negro man a job of
hoeing, for instance, and you must
literally stand by him the greater part of
the time he is doing it, in order to insure
its being done anything like properly,
or often done at all. Give a negro wo:
man a job of washing, and if you fail to
i look after her sharply she will spoil what
! of the clothing she does not steal. Rascaiity
seems to be a component part of
j the nature of the country negro of to-day
I ?if not of his city brethren; while his
j roaming, unsettled manner oi life would
i almost indicate that Numidian blood
; runs in the- veins of -the West African
darky, or that they servilely and faith:
fully imitate the nomadic trait of the
!-people of Numidia, for a country darky
is here to-day and miles oft to-morrow?
at least many of them.
There are, of course, some reliable
negroes remaining in this quarter of the
world; but these are few and they are
scattered over a wide area. They are
mostly farming on their account, and by
no means object to making the admission
that their success in life is due to
having been kept in strict discipline by
the white man. The negroes of Western
and Southern Africa, the writer knows,
from actual observation among them,
are fairly honest and moral?the direct
antitheses of the average negro of the
present generation. This would seem
to indicate that our civilization does not
agree with them. The religion of the
negro of to-day is h} steria. It has no
more beneficial effect on their mode of
life than has the hooting of an owl,
What seems to be needed badly by this
peculiar race is the discovery of some
unknown system of moral ethics which
would enforce honesty upon the males
1^ AV* n T-? J A ft4"i j'ty
auu i-iwucobj auu yju.aovi.vj tuc
females. Until this shill have been
found they will remain unprofitable servants.
Their notions of morality are
such as cannot be contemplated without
a shudder. Their religious rites are a
farce and too often a filthy a ^ blasphe-.mons
burlesque upon upon tne rites of
which they are odious imitations. Such,
however, is their condition here, but
with city congregations the ease may be
slightly different.
It is evident to all who live among the ;
negroes of the country that those labor ;
and other organizations whose agents :
are visiting the South and enrolling ;
negro members are committing a grave 1
error, although such societies may firmly !
believe that they are doing good work.
The negroes regard this proceeding with !
actual contempt, for they abhor, in their |
heart of hearts, every attempt at fratern- :
TTT-?f^ 1 f n*r? no rtnyrliollxr op '
*. VJ >T?UI I;JUL7 VTJXJli/O JUACd.U. ao \j\JX\AJUMIAJ <*o j
they despise the authors of such attempts.
Nature has given them little ia '
2omtnon with us, and they ask for as 1
little as possible. Some intelligent, in- J
ilustrious negroes rise to certain degrees '
rA eminence as police court lawyers. *
ihey can talk and are usually shrewd at snbt;
rfuges and sharp points. Bat it ^
;eems an absolute impossibility to make :
iven fair mechanics or artisans of them,
rhey are admirably good Gibeonihs? ;
:ewers of wocd and drawers of water? ,
ffhen they are made to wo :k, but it is !
ilear that the curse on Canaan still (
;overs over them, impeding their pro- I;
If ess to be other than servants of ser
rants to their brethren. j p
A movement is going on among the ! a
iegroes of Southeastern Georgia and j p
? - IT- /"I - 1 * i? - T 1 1 ~
50UUI v>aronna xor a waoiesaie emigre;- u
ion to Florida ana no reasoning can be R'
> rought to bear against it. Several <1
earb s*?.z Jsr^e numbers went to Kansas, b
dost of them returned, iicwevpr, nearly h
carved. Then Texas was their objee- tl
ive point for expedition number two. Ie
.omp T7I10 went there are still in the m
lutches of the kw 0? the Lone Star to
itate; the others who are not dead are sc
iack again. Last year there was a great tb
ash for Arkansas, the poor deluded
reatnres selling their corn, often for ten
en is a bushel, to pay their way thither- g
ard. In time the bottom fell out of >it
ills bucket; still none of their past ex- " ^
erience can deter them from their pres- ^
at movement on Florida. Their Nu- ^
liaian blood is perhaps the oacie. Be ftr
lis as it may, these poor stones are
iver rolling, gathering no moss the;
neanvhile. This roaming disposition !
is not confined to one or more counties
in Georgia; it is general throughout the ;
South, and its attendant hardships may |
bare much to do trith the average short ;
life of ana frightfully high rate of mor-1
tality among the negroes. An exodus!
rjr/>it ipavfts a localitv without friends \
remaining at home being, in a very short
while, informed of a death or two among
the "exodusters." Take the weekly
mortuary reports published in the newspapers
of cities in which the white population
far exceeds the black, and, as the
gentleman above qcoteu said, the death
rate among the blocks ii stupendously
greater than that among the whites.
Among children especially is this large
mortality noticeable. A negro may run |
to a city and soon find work as a porter, j
barber, waiter, or the like. He may do .
well for a while, but his excesses and j
other failings oft m take him to j ail, an
insane asylum, or a premature grave.
Under the most favorable circumstances
his success would appear fleeting, for
negroes long established in business are
rarely met with. In a short time their
places know them no more. They are
gone. Where? Quieu sa'oe? These
flights generally take place :n summer,
when a negro's are few, by reason of
the fruit crop and nights w?rm enough
for sleeping in the open air. Thi*
nomadic disposition is large)y responsible
for the negro's non increase and lack
of progress.
Will the negro race reform and live,
or will it, by its own faul*-, decrease and
die out altogether? This is the problem
that stares in the face all thoughtful
men, white and black alike. In slavery
rlavK this riwnV. increased as fast as they
now decrease.
With the Lorulon linsmen.
"Seventeen hours a (lav! One hundred
and nineteen hours a week! That's
my time. I left the yard last night at
five-and-twonty minules to 2, and 1 was
on my bus again this mornin' at 'alfj
past 8. It's these long hours that tell!"
"But you get a holiday sometimes?"
"If we like to pay for" it. Whenever
we are off duty we don't get paid.
Whoa, there!"
And the speaker, a smart "whip"
among the London omnibus-drivel's,
ceases his conversation concerning- his
long hours of labor to pull up his horses
and sing out loudly the destination of
his omnibus.
They are quaint and curious men,
some of these London busmen, with a
rich fund of drollery all their own.
"You see,- sir," said one, "1 don't
much care for a holiday; I've been so
long on this 'ere bus that thing3 look
quite different like when I'm in the
street oeiow. jl snoutun t snow iuy
own children in the street."
"Oh, come, that's too strong."
"Fact, I tell ye, sir; I'm always away
in the mornin' afore they're up, and
not home till they're in bed at night,
and I shouldn't know my little gal if I
was to meet her out, especially if I was
to^ee her off my bus."
Truly a significant remark for a man
to make in This latter half of the wonderful
nineteen ih' century?a remark
not without a touch of satire and of
pathos, too; and we find ourselves asking
if it is a necessity of our advanced
civilization that men must work so long
and so continuously, day after day, thai
tJiey never see their chiidren except
asleep? No sweet, simple prattle about
the father's knee, no little fat, dimpled
arms around the father's neck, none of
the loving, softening influences which
little people know so well how to exert
over even the most stony-hearted of
mc-n! Surely, 0 Christian civilization,
these things arc not necessities of thy
development!
But *yct the bus-driver rarely comWlnimc
m- nnimlilnj Wo nnoc Tlrtf
VI ^iUlU AAV \?VVW "WV *** ?
or congregate in mass-meetings, or
commit acts of riot, but lie works patiently
on, day by day, steering his
horses marvelously well through the
crowded London street, and surveying
life with a philosophic ca'lm l'rom the
altitude of his box, "except when a child
strays in the way of his horses, ami
then his lauguage is. perhaps, rougher
than are his real feelings.?The Quiver*
- ?p-? x '
Soldiers' Panics.
In South Africa, the disaster of Isndlhwana
gave the soldiers1 nerves a
severe shaking, and it often happened
that false alarms at night led to the
rousing of whole camps, and sometimes
even to a reckless discharge of firearms.
In some cases friendly natives, or even
comrades, were taken by the excited
imagination of a sentry for enemies; in
others, unoffending cattle, even a bush
or a shrub, became the innocent cause
of a fnslladc sufficient to have dealt
widespread destruction to a host of j
Zulus. An odd incident illustrative of |
the slightness of the cause?or even. I
perhaps, of the absence of any cause at i
all?that gives rise to a panic, occurred j
on the night of Tel-el-Keoir, amid a !
small cornej of the force that was |
bivouacking on the battlefield. The j
narrator had crawled into a marquee in j
which, with other commissariat stores,
were the rum casks from which tlie
troops had received their liquor ration
after the fatigues and excitement of the
day's fighl; and previous night march.
Besides one or two commissariat issuers
in charge of the stores, several "odds
and ends" of other corps had found
their way 5.nto the marquee, preferring
to rest under its shelter amid' the casks
and biscuit bores than under the open
sky with the sand for a bed. Suddenly,
in the middle of the night when all
were sleeping, a noise and commotion
began in a bivouac outside. Before the
inhabitants of the tent were sufficiently
a waive iu uuueibiauu 1 w cause ine cur- 1
tains were thrust aside by a red-coated !
soldier, who shouted to us to get up:
"The Arabs are in the camp ?they are
upon us!" Then he disappeared as
rapidly as he had come. Every one
sprang to his arms, and probably experienced
that especially uncomfortable
sensation that is caused bv a vague ;
feeling of an unseen though" imminent
danger against which one is ignorant i
bow to guard. Outside every one <
wound was aroused and up, eagerly j ]
striving to discover from what quarter |
attack was to be expected. Nothing, !
liowever, more unpleasant occurred than j
:ho advent of a staff officer asking the j,
jausc of the confusion. Probably the ! .
:ruth never did reach headquarters, jj
ifterward, however, a report gained '
ground?no other or better reason was ! *
;vw AUJ-HiliUiiililg lUitL IUU ii.iUi.lLl LiiUSU j
rom ihe screams of a sleeping soldier, :
vho, overwrought perhaps by the hor- ^
ors of the day, had been fighting his
jattle over again in his dreams!?
Chambers's Journal.
One of the reasons given by Canon
now Archdeacon) Farrarfor his pledgig
himself to total abstinence, was that $
in England 20,000 inhabitants of our t
risous, accustomed to it all their lives, s;
nd the majority of them brought into ^
rison directly or indirectly by the use k
f it, could be, and were, from the mo
lent of their imprisonment, absolutely $
cprived cf it, not only without loss, v
ut with entire gain to their personal
tiiLVJl tt.UU
lighted, are deprived of drink, and
ave prison strong and kale: and v/o- 4
len who, when incarcerated, are hideous
look upon, after being made compui- ?
irily sober by act of parliament, recover T
:e bloom of health and almost of ~
The geological survey proves that the
oosac mountain, Massachusetts, is as
;tle understood by scientific men as
iy other range in the country. Five
Cerent specimens of rock arc found
ere, and their formation is complex
id ii trie ate, so the surveyors say. i
*
A.<Jvimages of the Scientific Meth- I
od.
Give me a fulcrum," cried the an- j
cient sage?"give me a fulcrum, and I j
sliall move the world." '"Grant me a J
few postulates," says the modern reasoner,
"and I shall read you the riddle
of the universe." An unchallengeable
postulate, however, is almost as difficult
to find as a stable extra-terrestial fulcrum.
The scientific "spirit of the age"
walks by sight and not by faith. It
revels in/acts. It numbers, and weighs,
and measures, it catalogues and" describes;
it compares and classifies. To
make progress among the secrets of Nature
its highways is experiment, and its
watchword is "demonstration. For an?
interpretation of a natural phenomenon
it demands proofs that can appeal to
if Tcith tuhoiPSomfe
liiu ccuovjo, auu xv iuvuc?
suspicion, if not contempt, on mere
"arm-chair" speculation.
The marvelous success in advancing
knowledge, and in gaining power over
the forces of Nature that has resulted
from its use, is convincing evidence that
the scientific method of interrogation is
sound, and that it should always be
adopted wherever possible. But it is
not always possible to apply the method.
The nearer we approach the region of
subjective phenomena, the more difficult
it becomes to test particular interpretations
by an appeal to experiment
The galvanometer may reveal agitation
in a sensory surface, but it tells nothing
about sensation. - The convolutions of a
dog's brain may be tampered with, bat
he'will not describe to us his feelings.
Consciousness alone can discriminate
the facts of consciousness; and the character,
or succession, or relation of these
can only be described m terms 01 metaphysic.
Theories of physical relationship
here must at first be tentative, and
at the best they will require to be stated
in very general terms. The argument
must consist in the application of general
principles; and; in choosing these,
analogy balanced by common sense
must be our guide. In drawing our
conclusions, we maybe satisfied if these
can be held with some moderate degree
of probability.? James C apple, M. D.f
in Fopular Science, Monthly.
The Haughty "Wife.
In one of the cities that lie over
against Boston there lives a family
whose masculine head is a man who
has won considerable wealth from humble
beginnings not unlike those of Commodore
Yanderbilt, with the difference
that while he, like Yanderbilt, began as
* ^ - a. j
a boat man, ue iias expaaueu mio illo
banking business instead of into the
railroad business. Ever since he became
a banker his excellent wife has
been smitten with the great importance
of her husband's new occupation, and
has advertised it on every possible occasion.
The horse-car conductors on
the line which runs into her city all
know her, and smile when she enters
the car and grandly utters her command:
"Conductor, let me off at my husband's
bank!"
One day lately a trampish-looking old
fellow with a red nose got on the car
just as the bankers wife delivered her
usual order to the conductor. The old
man watched her performance curiously,
and then arose, pulled himself together,
and called out with a magnilij
cent air that was inimitable:
"Conductor, let me off at my old wo
man's peanut stand!"
A roar went through the car, and
; "my husband's bank" has been alluded
| to more than ever since that time.
Blaine's Captivating 8av!ng* to R- nortcrs.
Some years ago Mr. Biaine, when interviewed
by a Sun reporter, said with unction
that he "would prefer ten lines of favorable
comment in the Sun to hundreds of columns
in other papers." His listener continued to
appreciate the discriminating compliment
for some weeks, until he heard a member of
the Tribune's staff boasting of a remark of
Mr Blaine's that he "would pjefer ten lines
of favorable comment in the Tribune to
hundreds of columnsmsll the oilier New
York papers." This was a damperer for a.
moment to the Sun man. Bu' his dampened
condition was turned in'o u state of levity
when, after long investigation, he ascertained
that Brother Blaine had repealed his
original remark, with the necessary variations,
to the reporters of every paper within
his reach in the United States. Mr. Blaine's
discrimination was less touching to the Sun
reporter after this discovery "than it had
previously been.?Xew York Sun.
A TONGUE 1ST KNOTS.
I contracted ma-ark in the swamps of
JLomsiana wmie wornng lor me telegraph
company, and used every kind of
medicine I could hear of ^Tifchout relief.
I at last succeeded in breaking the fever,
but it cost me over ?100.00, and then my
system was prostrated and saturated with
malarial poison and I became almost
helpless. I finally came here, my mouth
so filled with sores that I could scarcely i
eat, and my tongue raw and fi led withj
little knots. Various remedies were re-j
sorted to without effect. I bought two j
bottles of B. B. B. and it has cured and j
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Jackson, Tenn., April 20, 1886.
A F. BRITTOK.
STIFF JOINTS.
A HOST KEHABKAinE CASE OF SCBOFCIiA
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I have a little boy twelve years old
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Unitia, Tenn., I??arch 2, ioS6. !
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