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TIE TLLEPHU)N E YRANNY A TAX or TE M.LIONS A YEAIt LET lED oS TiE rk:OrLE'. Figures showing the Uxtortijovtte Pro&1s of the eu rc.Coo-mli .a - ( th*% -uit to b r~cte yn M" (From the Sew Yvrk & L The figures given ill an articLe col Ceriig the American 1>ll Teklph.ne Comwpai-y. pullish d b- the Ne York Wor/d so~ dayvo a, i only to the bu-iness of the imem cor paration. 'I here ;;re sub-compsu C ail over the Unitd S te and it is bf thee lat tihe at inal ide A service of the country i, i-trfo-m , and it is through themn that 1hw peoplek pay the enormou. ~ now extortett by that service. Thle parent company, as stated, i:- a Massachusetts corporaunti with iih ,entral office at No. 95, MIk 6:reet, Boston, with an authorized callatal of $10,000,000. Ti is is the great con trolling and absorbing h.ad of a vast systecs that extends ot to every city, town and considerable village gath eriU in every year a gross aicomte alnust as great as that of the We-:'rnz Union Teiescraph Comipany. TIw authorized capital of the patent coma pat is no index of its whealth und future aspiratious, and it is onty kept at $10,000,000 because of a reiual if the Legislature of %la'sa&chu-etts to grant the company's aplIicaion f r an increase to $3o,00,000. The parent coipany anu. the sub-companies are really one ttupendous concern, the profitableness ot which probably ex ceeds that of any considerable propertty known to this age of profitab!e ven tures. As soon as the practicability and usefulness of the telephone had been established there was a great rush in all directions to ,ecure territory and form sub-companies. These sul companies have since been lar'gel% consolidated, and in May, 1S5, there were thirty-six in existence ini the Uzdted States. The one holdin2 sway over the city of New Yurk i, knowrn as the Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Comi.any, which itselt has four Zub-companies or sub-licenses -The Domestic Telegraph and Tele phone Company, of New York and New Jersey Telephone Company, the Westchester Telephone Company and the Staten Island Telephone Company. In the thirty-six sub-coupanies relfer red to above no account is taken of the sub-licenses. In New York the Metropolitan stands for all, and the dealiogs of the parent company are with it solely. - The parent cowpany has an interest in all the thirty-six stib-companies of the United States. The aggregate capital ofthese sub-companies anount ed to $53,000,O00 on t:e 1,St day of March, 1885. If we add to t hat the .$W,000,C00 authorizad capital of tie parent company it makes a grand total of $63,000,000. If the parent ompany were to be granted the addi tional $20,000,000 of aut borized capi tal stock they have asked for, the grand total would foot up $83,000,4A0o, which is $3,000,000 more iln the capital stock .f the Western Union Telegraph Compuny. Without, a check ot some sort it will soon reach that and even still greater propirtions THE GR ASP OF THE PARENT coltPANY. * The interest of the parent company ju the variotus sub-cotmpanies is very ai-ge rangwg all the way from 33 to 51 per cent. On the 31st of March, -.ti85.itsbholdings in the, variou< comn *pasides amounted in round numibers to 24O,000 shares, the value ot which was estimated at- $23,000,000), so that, of the aggregate S53,000,000) ot' stock held by all the sub- companies comn binsed, the parent company held almost half. Its holings in the'Metropoliian Telephone Company of this city at to. 8,000 shares, its holdings in e ew England Telephone and rele' ~ ~raph Company to 62,156 shares, and itslholdings in the Central Union Tele b. one Company to about twenty-four thonandshaes.These shares in sub companies were obtainedin two ways; one by so-called purchase,the other by franciuise, the latter term meaning simply a gift for the right to exhi, whiletbe purchases made are nao mnore --than certain transfer of properties upon which there may be placed a fic titions rate. Ona the 31st of March 1885, the par value of the shares. ob tained-by franciseamounted to 15,500. Bls'te'phone stock is rarely to be estimated on the basis of a par valua tion. 'the present company's stock has sold as high as 250 and is now worth about 300. The stock of neariy all the subcomnpanics is wort h equally as much. Very little of it is on the market at all, it being too valuable for speculation purposes. WEA LTH OF TH E SUB-CO31PA NIES. *The combined wealth of the sub companies may be ascertained, att least approximately, by calculations based ont the last report ot the pareri.t cotri pansy, issued to i:s stockholdrs Marchl 32st, 1885. Itris there stated that the average number of exchange connaee tiens'in the United St ates w as 697,96 per day, or 251,267,760 p'er y ear. An enhange connection is what is coin 4uonly 'designated a call. Elsew here i.he report states that the sub-crit a pay front three cents to five cents ler colneCt-ion. Suippose we fiX the aver eenreat ttour eeis per. e -toi ct ion. ntirthe numnbetr of c'nnection's a year, 351,297,795 by fantr e~ian~, w obtain a grand tot of $10,000n,71i0 40), whict, is a hair mimiate~ of the gro inc.Au-. Thi~s is 6 er cen' . oft ah, .n: $175,000t,000O. Mlair:g arasb rt-eation for e-xpense5-, i; z, :.tnproh able that the- subz-c'mnpanies the country receive a aet incsome of le thant 6 ter centt. in a comin ted valua? tion of $150,000,000O Thn.- lil T phone '"pro."wrty " of iih-- U,,:'d S res may bie safel:. la~ced iat th :t h'g. fignate. Tihe actutal capti a: izationt, - e-iding the piaret csompansy, s53, (;00,t000, ats -hiwin by . 111ial rep ort, and it is v*e- ceainit thai the ::ner:e re-al valine of the stock i. $t00 per share on a liar vahiatiuon of $00. The-e tirures, whieb are certhi'iv dlcate the fitanucial streongth of the Bell Telephone Company and all its allied corporations and to show wvhat a powerful hold it has upon the country and the danger that is thrv:ee'ids through its continued~ growth. No railroad corporation is so powerfiul; no telegraph company is so powerfulh; no corporation of any kind is so lts w erftul as this single initerest represenited by the Bell Telephone. EXTORTIONATE RATES. This thbrows into bolder re-lief than ever the extortionate rater chargedl sub-tcribers by the sut>-cmsspatnies Ott the parenit c* 'tuany and under rental tO t''ii''US ~225,Z,74 t 'n O :ir. .1's Vu-cipaa , we A iXi . . ' re-4 th 0 : i'- -il.! ee e.at :s~ [.. it, the ,nb-~m palsis iout $15608a 'eat. -'Inh, $:90, :id eveln h!'r i. e a-e (tI prwvat due17:) , t : oa - .,I u be s Ii t w Iic2 u8e inn 'r ai*. 12 500 ih i. t. x ; t c t nil .air, We . vit t 11:/,000. O elir i.10v 00 l dt- i 'l' (-: to the ;;tor cnia ' co- ae n lols IT tekta:s, the rei-ue, del-eitig eX p:.Les, & .,g~: as tvie!ds tt ,ttkhshtlir, Ithe parenitC cOiinpas it-el! beingt :a S-ockboatier iot the exteit ot t,000 .hares. The tota! cost ot : telephtone inist rnment i- -:Z.42, so thit itt NeW York the parent cinpany re ceives every % ear as rentaIs over four times the value of rite instrument iented, while the sub-company re ceives from uibert a stim still inre out of proportion to the first cost of the -ervice rendtered. There i. not a sub-company i mrc ht a not inore thaft paid for it, platl inl the tir-t ' ear tot its existence. 'fThe n hl of I he 325,000 telephone inlsi I uonents inl u-e in Ie Unaitedt Siates cot only a little over $1,000,000, so that what we se of the telephone repre.-ents ill actual dol:r. aid cents than one timidredih part of the net value of the "propert% " it repretelts. MEANING OF THE GovERN1ENT'S SCIT. N. account is here made of the Bell Telephone lin-re.ts il f inreigi couII tries. It is sufhveient to kiow what they have attained to in the United St.ates, 'o far as tie importance of the suit about to be instimnted by the gov ertiment is concerned If the BeIl patent shail be invalidated a fatal blow will be struck al the most stupeidus ingle notied power of the contiltr. If it should be susaiied, there is no gues,iltgsthe propo:tivns to w hich it may eventually grow. THE COTTON CROP. Estimated to be Six and a Half Million Bales. The special cotton returns of the epartmetnt of Agricu.ture estimate Cotton remTaining on plantations on the l-t Februatry, the proportion of lint to seed quality average date of close of picki:g and price of coton seed. Date of closing varies fromt November 25 to December 11, but averages for the cotton belt about nine days later than las.t year: Florida, November 25; Alabama, November 2; South Carohina, No vember 30; Ntrth Carolita, Decemb er 2; Georgia mid Texas, Deccuer 3; Arkantsaw, De-cember 4; Missisi ippi, December 8; Louisiana a id Tennessee, Deeember 1U. Tihe quality is poorer han ia.t iear on the Atlantic coast, with muhei discolored and trash. tibre. The staple is horter th'in usual, ex rept in favored locations west of the Mi-issippi and the yield of lint, which sould averaze at least 32 per ceit., is only about 31 per ceit. from Virginia to Alabama arid Tennessee, it is 32 in' M!ssis4ippi aid about 32 to 32i in Sa.es west of Mis.siippi. The qtan tity on platlatins February 1 is ap naently about oiie--ixth of the crop, ivesxths having gone forward, ap. itcarinig at thet port% about February at The percettge of a le crop markete<d is as foiiow~ s: Virginia, 82; bort h Sarolina, 82; South Caroliia, 84; Georgia, 85: Florida, 87; Alabam. 84: Mississippi, 834: Louisiaan, M.3; Texa-, 83; Arkansas, 83; Teznnessee, 82. The general average is nearly 83. Indications thtus ptoint to the crtop, approximnating the Novemriber estimates f the vield per acre which looked to te product of about six and a half million bales. TIIE ST. LOUIS T RUNK 31URDER. The Corpse Identified by a Dentist who Filled the Murdered Man's Teeth. ( Oakland (UCal.) Tribun~e.) The sol vihng of the St. Louis murder mystery is about to take place. It hias been disputed by the ins~uratnce comnpa nies, with whom Prellar, the alleged victim of the above mnurder, was in sured, that the dead body was tat of Prelhar. The clarits of the ina-ur ance mo~ney, to verity their clairns, have had rthe boidv disiniterred and the head severed, wirh a view to prove by the teeth, which had at some rime beent tiled, that they potssessedt Pieliar's head and that Prellair was dead. This method of' protof was suggested by thre ~tding amont~ra Prettar's efl'-ete of a rec-ined bill htearinzr tate of Marchi 29, i878, serring forth that certain teeth in Prellar's .pws had been tilled kv. Dr. E. T. B~urnaeite, of Oakltand, at tre tine when Prellar was visiting this State. A few days ago, Dr. Bur nete received at letter from the claitui ait'- lawy ers, askin~ lhim whether he p"-rformed certai n 'dental worik tfor Prellar at the time mientioned and wle' ter hie could idientify hi. w ork. I )ar. Briette in~ referringtt to his book lt tat date toad the ent ry, ail-oa t*eher~iin of tihe work pei'rried andit tetinony andl he espcts to ate smo m.t.tned( to St Li.t, to te-ti.y a- an x W y'tt'a. . aner I iaeb ttaku~ ic a. , . B. fo s s --b w~Is oar- li Somet:-in i e i~ e .1~ ft m n ml-:: e dU1ited Satek- Cou: T H - Fort io ver ,ed I, rfr t1 any we-a tnt f criin, in J.ic al the teM no Wa . ter we o gi-.pneb, wetconimI te H ' 1we jur nott Otn tlihat anrin tiat ha exa t e pu l~iie. theyv w ne -.e 'si it e~n- mrorer pe~b ama anye rt-m-iv.c t h. tcOurt 11)y s-ae.Gr upnce ti tds~ beauste thme anidene thal th -In 'ratia he Unite tae ot a rt t Dt.odgie, Iowa sirece 1tla as aeing ti'.e a catse in Swhich all ti teIstunoy on ith~e sidleutas idb attoney. W11HI TILDE.NS GIAsp. covlIv 03 E us? ( U1.i:.:1 \ C, Fe b. aryG;.- A re ee'c.hxeune o:11 veter*.,s! of 167 wEn . eCt a en 1 rt ab e: e,11i3: ,i:li iriel: h;..: harn ito7. A-. tiwt- 11 auer$ mied a ctloui. of i buee dmke froml11 hisitu, .I:d senft it t.obelil nang-, re Iti -:Id: "1 1 %oiu .-ve hea h,)- :ear -I inb, It cmn o re-I' tte,-vs~ ihe i h-eld vote oif~ lSoult b Catrii:11a?" Ili- triendsi h:;lI hle.1rd SCui-thing (1on 'lis sub:* jkfset, but tihe ad lahinll nw to olenoeya. would be gelad to ji-tenl. "Well. g-entivenn" hie proceeded, "Tilden was a itin one hour of being Pre-ienut of thes lUied IStates The soutth Carolinlle bi cl ail bu elec e for seo but, they cte ih. Thet Deimocra wtei d thatnhowever, athou- te rca pric Was a little exCih biant. Th SNitae comin tee has i a pist i ofition to dIpiuichae their votes .an had ittle inl terest inl o dsir to do o, a" llmp toi had been elec:ed Gev verlor, t tie ieople Were so rejoitedl over t 0 liis that N.itional miatter s were rea!.arld as of s-mall con-vequence,. The _N:ttional Committ e had informeaion othOeo co dition of the electoral tickct, and was somtwht iore incliled to ivet. ble d E T:nh, however, was that the Rllublbeank electorst were such conl ummiiiat scoundrel, that Io reianc could be piaced onl the-ir protni.-es. l i was llecas: Ur\ tltl to seCtir-e a thIrri pa rt to Conlduct neg"-otiationl:. A broken Colonhia banker, whom wye wvill call liardy, who had received a1 part of the pinnder of the Radical crowd, was stet-eted. lie sooni per fected at r.Aweinntsm; fo- a transler of the voiew trom ilayes to 'I ilden for the sum of $GO,000. 'I he Demuocrutic representative ac-eded to the prO)Oai and directed Hardy to gro immedhiatel to Barn uins Hotel ilk 13attI imore and cal I at room 47, whereI he would tind a party waitilig who would pay over the atriouit agreed upon. Hardy arrived promptly at Bar- ttl's amid exmtinitiilng lie none on lhe htiel register oIp;-os;te room 47, lie imid that it was so badiy writtcni that he was tifnable to r- ad -t. iF- caled the cetk to hi -istance, but this gentleian; also aiiti '0 tei pher the signatuiire. Hardy wa. Red iul) to, 47 and knoekedi, but receiviag noi ai-wer retired. lit .-trouled tut oil the strcct, and while wa!kn; aiOng eisuIlV a straner phwed hi- l;ad )n his siouUlder amd said: "You .e %iratied at room 47." Iardy imme diately returned, opened te dool anld, as he s!epped into the room, toe door closed with a snap atnd he f 11umd him Aolf locked in. lie awaited a short while, when a gertleman entemed uaid at once proceeded to discuss the sub ject that had broutilt thema oget her. lie terms were quiekly arranged, but the straiger intorned hlardy raiiiky that he wa- u;nwitlinmg to pay over so large a sutm to him tuntii the vote had beer east. To this llartdv replied that he had promised 0not to telegraph the e.eetors'to su tender until he had teL. mfoney ini hand. Time was getting -hurt. It was thle day~ for the Vote to) bie cast anud ntearly the hour. Ini this einmerg'iwy- the stranger a-ked ilardyv if he would be w illinig to accept the pledge of a certain privte imerchat that the amiountt would be paid, anid senid the telegram. llirdv agreed to this, and they went in greait haste to see the merchmant, odly to find that lhe had left the tw one hour before and could not be reachwd. The telegram was never sent, the vote of the a!.e waw given to llayes, and that is how filde-n camte itihin sixty tuinmutes of being President," "T'hat's a goo.1yarti,"said an ex-Sen ator, "but did .r ou ever* hear the real reason why the the fighmt in the dutal Legislaturte faiiled to taa~e place? i'ue others had heard somec caues assined, but were niot sure that hey were correct. "'Well,'" the ex Sedttor continued, "I cani give vOU the factzs. Thle Republicans had laid th:eir plans well. '1 hey had thme coloredl lin kidori Club, fromn Charhe-rtn, as you will remnemtber, composed of the tmost brutal and dating class of low cuntry neg~roes, stationed ini the s;ate Hlouse, near the Representtatise& hall, well aii tmed~ and ready to responid to anyv call. The United States troops were on thme lower floor, wit hin easy reach if needed. The liepuohicans only had tiiv-ninte mneimbers, not a oast i it tiut'il quorumitt. anid theyV c.uid ntot aford to Iuo~e ai .tinle lIepre-etaivie. Tne'se mnb~aers wvere <tirected, oin a certainI ight, lt'evioJusly irgtedi uplit, to retire one at a I itue from thbe hail and have. their places takeni by menct rmt the Ilunikidunls. ITie Unneden St ates Lieutenan t u hno n as to c*'m mad hea iguard Ithat night was a bit tkr itepublia part isan:, and had a:.:reed to give all time asistanuce nieeed to destr->v the Demitocraw . Tw'e i iht arrived antd arranigemients to exette tile pia were heguni whmen to Ie astnitisiimen~t if th e It-put ian they i tuttdc that the cellieer in commandi otfli the trooaps n'it not the'i imlu, ad fttheru.ore a ht he i iusd ti tim ; a p.i ruv to ally suchttn i rurrtt, dci [.e eaimc Wkv l, bh eki ed, an.d b) lore it -qrder to aCvoid biokh k i I 1 ti~,e a o 10, Thee aci- :ae .-a.d to hive beeni fari-h~ eal-EE ' L 'y ear- ain--r w.~e 1E, by . W. .\l. M iaey, wo~e waLi Spaku-r ofth i i onfi ip II i-i, andi Iu lenier 11 thle Ilipuik-..a. "'iiTt ukal ab . ve ti." observed thlau other e x Semor "iil nmd it ma~kes my bood iiiua cuid nltE ye .!s atterni ,t-d, t-I lLear thet -ubjeci diseni- t tin tha: war. It 31? p tlme toi thmi ~ winatl . i . tat out: b. 't p~eomEe m iht tuE. daed statte il.,t-e, lnot unt:;ixedl li..i bhi wvitt the bloodl ofi sitme ofi Euri l'e t e biliti' aatne ad wv.o,. WI ret'fredl with. ut jtte cause andI shout~ld have- w a-ted until we were put out at the pinit oft the bayenel."' By this time lie cigars were stiioked ott, the cauctu, adjourned to meet ain and doen--s the catses leadingz to the Demo.rat ic desertiotn if the State ilouse andi by1 whose ads';ee it was done. ItCULAND). ADvtCE~ TO MoTHE~Ws. ?i)t wVnti. .w- SEormSO Svar sheonta al ways be useti roi elitijici ei iui 1t SO0Ches .; e. ., - - .ien- a r ia .un I-, y n d pn ti. i:Wt....ni .. .... - .n ; .- t- r. medy f.ar 'arrueiTlt 'iwemfy.uti t us a bottte. LOND0N'S FOOLMLU PANIC. :nL Accun LoLh so-Calued Eiot an' :n C )us:o the Fronzy. t Laub heria the -%*So York Tiraea. L..:;I tii:$ it difflkiait to lay hold t,: w 1 It, r'1. n.u..l .; charaei er iz:-1 41pA h i ow hL C t. Seea rh ! - 1,w ta; :In-;e !..I, bveen io pr-e-. v,,tu- tiut-brea k OL p~i1nag!~ yInI Lonidom e u- I. G-1 dom i iot - a hundred and ,X -sVal's :go. It n:eeds oit exaUlinia iin of the records to form a belhf h~ . in ini Europe ha- go4ne in114 n.hariin initr ofi pm:ic asi w. *v vv IcIlly had on sue. rsieliler .ounds ;or at ltIL twic thatft period. ood.a' riot was merell soue G.v i'' f rli-iinin on a !:g 'alh, With :4e t--i, (t a few thicV.-N ad.eli. Fo-r or live hutiidi r.oughs futil d theiim-elv'e- togtether, aid the eforts ot the Sociali-ts and the breaking up of thllorimn icig in'lpired ticim % ilt the it-a of tu bu:e; cc. The% :,.1 tejd Yli aiImle.siy to .out, tirow -IMIC- and create a racket, utimil they were -stopped. The iieli gent poli c i-ijplv rmaincd behiid in order to guard the sqtare where the meetings had been held, insitead of following the gang. The roughis and thieves hu, gIot a free reinl and grewv bolder as they made progress, until they reIached a point whi-re they vere ill senlsate with a de.ire for deitruction anid whllel pillahging. Finialh, t y1,1 iIv policeein met and disper-?ed them, as tIhe- might have doie at an' stage of the so-called riot. This is absolitelv all there was of it; but all Lendon, int a ridticulus tiremor of agi tatiol, leapedt to the conclu-ion that I here was a dilect coniect ion between the win-dy haranigutes of the Sociali-t aitators~and the sub-tequent action of the inob, and strrelnldered itself to a panic. On Tuesday the dcteiicst fog of the wieir prtevailed. and everybod saw rioters inl ever-y flitting foru that Was entvVloped in the darkie-ss, and suspected a conflagration in eve-rv kliht reflection upon a smoky wall. (h Wedie-day there was the same f and the excitenent grew until people were wild with trenzy. !Seinible men becamie lunatics, anid hontest citizen turned into puriveyors of false news. At nioon the towilI was mg''g witth stories of battles waging on the T witnes biidges, of the city being ban icad -d, and of bodies of rioters convergi ng fromn all the outlying of slums. The papei-s canie out with Daiiring reports that an army of rioters was inarcl-ing o0n London from Greenwich. The police ut terly lost their hit-ads anid wr abom wairning the shopnen to put up lieir .lti'ters. At the dinner hour itizens waited for the wtorst as if in a lown inl the latst extretmities of a siege. Conceive of the police of New York or!ering the stores on Broadway and i Union Squaie to be closed on tihe st rength of a rmt or that a gang of i ogt-r, were smaebilng windows In Widiambug and Non will hare a, faint idea of the situatioi, only here there were sixty mile, of shops closed. Busin1es amotiiting in the aggretacv to millious wa- stslpeided. On Thurs day tile f,.g litted and people begani to compare note.q. They found that there had been no iot and no attempt at a riot. Four millions of people had No)Ie into hysterics ever the shieerest cococtiions of fancy that ever scared a boy paing agraveyarId in the dark. Of course Cottinental opinion rushed to the conviction that the outbreak was the o'rganized work of the Socialists, and t he organs o despotism wag.ged ieir ihenads in sati-ifact ion at ihe thought that E-ghanid, which is an asylumtz for all the refugee~s from t heir ty ratnni was reapmig thle reward of its tol eranace. Thiese ungenierous and unii telietnt critiismf were telegraphedi OVe:i.to Lilotdo by columnlts, and by their ludhicrous exaggerationis they helped to bring~ Londoniers to their senses. The P'aris Anarchists. 01 omrse, weuit into a delirium of Ire joicig, anid it is feared that they may indl lhere an inicenltive to imore daniier OUS riotinig on their own hook. Thle French authorities are taking great precaultionis againlst. ani outbreak on Sund~av, wheii many mneetings are advertised to be held int Belleville antd Mlotmartre. hlowever mutchi mis chief 31ondav's out break may thus ini diretly do, the outbreak is not to be takeii seriou-lv in itself save as a wringli to Ionidoni to reform her efete and clumsv system at Scotland Yarud. The rioting at Liecester, however, is a really gtave sign of the existinlg di tress. It is to be noted that there onliy thetories t'ndi their ownters were as piheed. There wa:s nio plunidering w hat ever, which shows that the work was duec to grudlge< oin the part of the uneplored. There is a fe'ar that thi tav spiretad to Nottinghiam, Biri'nt hin and Lainca-hiire. There are enogh of these unempuloy ed here to sack the town ii they chose to do s-i, hati Iheir p *ssibtle~il nievemeite ar nt* ot to tic conibl(uiiled with the operationi of lawles-s criminial-, much less with the professional atgitationt of a handful A MogO~t N CANNON IN LIMBIO. His Attempt to Escape Proves Calamitous ---Hie is Escorted by a Young Army. The train wvith George Q. Cannon on bord reaheed Salt Lake C ity hlast Wednetisdty. Cannonui was promplljtly taken before Judge Zane, aind gave hin ,in~ i the sumu or S45.00)0. Ani e-cort~ of two mu~ itar otV(fficrs andit Iwenn' -inte en lisredl lieni accompilaiedt ie slenIl t rain. The court room wa~s ezi-ely packed . imtt ni demon-tra i- n1 wa, tm:uc I. 31arsh i :d C:land' expre-Ss he pro h UiI hadz' Ci co-aderaltes, bm11 lri-td te byInli nt juminait. tromn the trin at lth. righlt pliee. Whlen Canl i.'i wai- recalp tred iie Was somei dis tance tfrmli ine~ tr.;ck with two loaves ebi cad andt -U bottle of water in his p 'cketS. IL': fell On his~ face and sl.U nider. II is niiie wia- broken and~ le wa, C conidlerabhly brui-ed, but was not serit'u-lV hurt. 1airsha.l Irelanda c- 'irm s hih-'rep- rt that Can non 'tleredl $ 1,)10 to a Ne. ad]a Sht'riiff to, let huno g'. A rnol'd, wb.', wa- n' ithI Catinoni, ired thle Sh.riiff to acceplt thle oairi ald tnriseid him a piishionl for- life at a gotd salary if he woul d,> so. The Driver Rob'bed the~ Stage. Thoimas 11. Casey, a stage driver frome Chiadront t-) Fort Robinson, Neb., ha- ben urrested on a charge of comn miitntg the robbiery of the express treasury box atbout two montus ago. e was the only person on the stage an' chtimeid thatt a miasked robber with a doub!e bairreled gun compelled hiuni to give up the treasure box, coin-. taiinig over S7,000. CLseiy hiad been bhl 'nder cliose espionage by the exreSs companytl since the robbery. -Why is a winter storm like a child with a ndLi cl~.d.' It. bilows, it s nows uit blows it:, ose~~). Curc it with T y or sa herokee It..-ie. of ---e Gm and Muttain. * THEY CUU3ED GOD. The To:-rl'e Fate of a Party of Lenplous BReveilers. (pealto thte Cincinenati Enquirer.) The aewipapers la't week gave a thrdhn: e acet U1t of tihe <ireIdful fte of Sante! Wetr. f liarrisontI:rj, Pa.,: hadt anl imni.ali-on oft thle Lo.rd's Sapper', with bread anl beer. 1:I the nUti..t of tile iiuckerv "an imlinene il-fortned and toui bea-t, with1 toven icet, poit Cd hal [I. ald eyes Ihat fI lned tire," aimard. es0 .1--11 :1 tlvliae. 4:e; tice:.-ring he hat sveco !!h Evil Gae, amiwas 1o.,: Erie tas .t ca:e some .wihat t1im1ilar, iy :blat la live .ves were lile peat fbanninstead of' n'. Aithiouh i he tragic eve.nt on evried haIlf a century Ugo, they have Iever appeared il thte press, n n i stahnding that the older inhabitants t --tber tliin distinc tly. i nc cor re'Joiideiit was -.'4own all old hoilee ill Greeiitield Towilipl, east ot Eric, Peni., to which is a:.tachied a hiigly dramatic story. It it a large Structure three Stories high, and of quainit architecture. It was erected in uie early days of that county, has been untenanted more than a generation and, it is said, n2o atnount of iioney could induce a Greenfield citizen to stav in it over tiight. In 1836, when the house was in an untinished state, but nearly ready for occupancy, a par.y of tive mnl, bent on <teviltr, took possessioii and held high revelry until uriiing. They were shockingly iipiou-, and, deadeniug their coal -detces with libations of whiskev, brandy amt ruin, they cursed God inl (urn. A Bible was torn up, huried. and the ashes iixed with the aerv beverage. Then the men, lifting high their cups, dranik to the confusion of thie Christian God arid success to the Prince of Darknies and Ruler of Hellj During the dreadhul ttia'4 a terrible sorin sprang up. Lightning blazed from the daik clouds, and a fierce clap of thunder shook the house to its foundation, making the blasphieners pause. Three days later oe of tuiem told the other tour he had had a fright tul dream. In the visiou lie aw him self arid rouirades as they were three nights before. lie saw the Sacred Book blazing aid reduced to carbon and mingledi with the liquor, and he recognized in the clap of thunder the voice ot God telling tne live that pun ishteiit was to be visite.1 on each. It is a singular and well-attested fact that a tearful late betell the partici ..ants, and the .uperztitious of Gree ii :d regard it as the vengeance of fleaveti in fulillment of that visionl. Adan zchober was the irt to die. His end was made horrible by delirium tremjetis, and hte raved about everlast ing torments aid hideous demons with ,ears. Josepli Neil went next, being drowned in a stagia't pond. The third, George Hood, perished by the nand of an unknown assassinl, who liunged a d gger into hi. body in the tark. Jonas Larkin was -,truck dead on a waoti and his boraes drew the body borne. The doom of Peter Ful ier was stuggestive of his pledge to Satan in that blasphemous bowl. He was imprisoned in a bur'ning btilding aid roasted alive, and his charred bunes were gathered frotm the ruiis. For miany years the place was be iieved-to be haunted by the spiiiti of the "Fcarful Five" as they were call ed. It was insistrd that upon every anniversar'y of the uiiholy orgie their slectrtes entered the house and went 'lhrough the 13ible bur'niing and driink -ceneo again, afteri whiich each was seized with the agonies peculiar to the death a hieh overtook him. T wenu - ive ',ears ago,~ when the evil repuma ion of the house was at its height, Noah WV. Lowell, now the Erie agent of' the Atmeiicanl Expa ess comipainy, wirh a party of' youtng and ghost proof companions, dletermrinled to dispel the tear's of the people by having a dani ce in the place. fThey assembled against the advice of the oldest ghost ,eers, and in the middle of a waltz a mighty trush of cold air extingutishe~d lie ighits. The deneers shriieked anrd idi, each fearl'ul or being seized by the sirits of the dead men. hiost proba biv a gust of wind putt out the lights, otit mnanly still believe they hadl a sup ernat ural warning. -A panoradma of the battle of Bull Ru, which e'xhibits the Federal sol iirs ini a demorabized condition, is aout to be uiirolled in Washinigton. Upon learninug this tact, the posts oh te Grand Army of1 the Ropublic held a meeting andI adopted a iresolution, that the sohlier's of' the Gratnd Army of' ie Republic sho~uld dliscourage the patr'onatge of satid exhibition, because it is designed to gratify (lie spirit of teasont and per'pettuate in the memttory of the peoplle the trittmiph of' the r'e ocellion and oiie of the mos5t humiiliat ig defeats sunffered by the Guion: arni) durtingt~ the late war'. -There is niuch excitemnent in Ber' lini over' app~arently wvell aiutlient icated r'eorts that Bismar'ck is prepainig to kild enitijrely to the Vatican in thle Ieligious di-pte waged byv Pru-cia :ginsit the Papar for' the past tifteen s ar's. A b)11 has beeni deposited by le G ;over'nment wit" the upper ho..use oft thei Laud ag, rev. kin g most of' the Mtv laws whlichu hue~ beeni so) odious o t he Catholics of' Germlany . ---Sam ,Jonue pr'eachied to an audience .,t 8,0)00 peo)ple iin Mu-ie Ha4lh, Cinem- ii a ti, omn t he nighi of' thie 13thI the ituiin b i eintg craJntned,. and it i - e - iaaed that niear'ly 40),000 per'Iansi un'ts haist righit, as. he goes houw for111 a forighiilt's re-t, befo:-h le laps I hicatgo. ---A Ketitucky Judg.e has improved ont Solomioni. or at ieet niade a v'aria in on1 that wiseacre's tamoci~~ut dcisioni. Two mrothier'erecenutly camei betfoure imn 1o clai i a bab'', wat he settled thie d spU e by' declar-nig that ie'itheri or ew'inna wa- riut to take the elhil, and then sent it to ani otrphan asvhlon. Eug:i-d to a -,ngle fim was t-oni dy goo d, buonice. The muovemenl~t oh ci Ionu go od= i:, incre.ing, a::d I le proseci itr thie co~ning year' is better tha a e::r' ago. - M. A. Grier,' living neair A tlanuta, dopped his wallet, containitng $250, while feedinug his hogs. lHe tissed the moneyv soont after'wat d-, andt auis pectiig wlat had become of it, butch ered the ainials and ireovered a tmas-s ofgeeback pulhp, wvhich he ill send t) thle Treasiury D)'s- rmenit fort ex change. SALESMEN WANTED IN every neighborhood~i, either to travel I r sell at hiomte, Dickey's Indtian. munt W~ood and Liven Pills. A pply now, givmng zef'rence. JNO. lR. DICKEY, Femi~ B ribdol. TenD. FOR COUGHS AND CROUP US-' WEE Rn ET Q Trhe sweet gn, as gathered fromt a tree of the same rimo, growing along the small streabns In the Southern Seates, contains a stinslating ezpectorant principla that lao-ena the phlegm producing the early morning rough. and stim lates the child to thrnw ojf the false membraut In croup and irbooping-counih. When combined with the heallne muci. te t the n=llin plant of the old felds. pre seats i arte-a Cpnorm Rzseorop Swzr Gc-4 ain Me.="ZnE the 0net known remedy for Coughs. Croup,. Whooing.Cough and Consnmpilon : and so pasitabl. an? child 1*plesed tntakei Ask To.,? 'Itr Ie t far It. prI: 25c.and$1. WATER A. TAYLOR, Atlanh, G Use DR. IGGERS- Hte-ELEBERRY CORDIAL: Diarrhea. Dysentery and Children Teething. For sak. iruggista. A rSTATEENT F FACTS FOR TIE PUBLIC: TO CONSIDER. ATLANTA, GA., Janu-ry l', 1555. Eineruing from a severe al l1I.n- .1 if typhoid fever, I iscver*t th. 0h fever had settis-Il in my ricbt -:we !aused it to swell to Itinlnru. , remiainin ig lso ( qiteI t Lre'e ye.ar., rs.i tInI a1 tleatmelillt. A bIli iler tinaly n:a its appeakrtrante, a litiIe albove t!:c:;.kie which refused to heal to any and ail t-xir ial appl:ieatioll all the us- of ti I t noted bi oil po.isoi: r.-niedis. The u'eer Conh1tiiud n t enlargo. lrt quettly discharging, peri.tS, aS Wn1'1 a eupful (if puS Or inaiter ier thy , I it ize of the icer was about IWoI '- 1, diameter, extendling to a rpth Ii i 11: bone. At one tiine It apiearedi Ith ii flesh in all centiuous Iart, wonl su-ey become a running sore, is its re'iaU 1y flabby, spotted and unhelidthy -codition clearly idicated, and it wa l. in;ntal that I might lose my leg. My co.nli:i.n ecominig so critical, ant the uler en. I' ng so rapldiy, we sent for lr. J. P. D n ^oole, who made a throug:. examiid in. ad[ said that the flsih ons my L-g f.ori saI in-lies'arounil the sore wolild so *u off if not reeiU.-d: that I III -t have I.y leg bandattet daily and conience , uste 0 o46 l1. 11. 11. I acted accordiln_ to his in-ll:t:ltios, :d aft-r usuing the sec'ndi bott'. :i:w -' looiked fresh alit lwairbv au-! von n.. -1 healing. I conItinul'l~-d 1 usI of '.G.B Mnd to the grate-;atonishm--l..!,t andI sat. fht-tin o.1(f myvelf amnlred h e continueld to "heal rapi'lly .1nd: is nows~ WI tirIv well, aw1l 1 am :itttmdinto m buh.+ uesS, at W. I1. (rter10-,soe.Id not hle.-itate to rieo)nltn .G.G wlli-ltul, speedy aid e .:tud blood purifie'r, far superior to any!.hi -: I ever used. I rerer t.V. 11. Brttliert-n, W.. B. ron-. Maj r D. A. I.,I).k, Dr. J. L. 'Pi..-s I u.. oters of Atlanta W. 'M.CEHI' A Clear Skin is only a part of beauty; but it is a part. Every lady rmay have it ; at 1kast, what looks like it. Magnolia Balm both freshens and beautifies. FOR SALF. FIRlST-CL.ASS JIACKA, JENNETS, s.\ I;DLE ANi)~ sT1ALLIONS. We claim to hi..y.: t.t ken more 1-r.'miums with our Jacks, Jenns'ts and Saddle---t'ck than any breeders in Tennes:-ee. h'uar Ground.~Namshvilie. Tenn. Dit. L. W. KNIGilT, SON & ('o. Mention this paper. FehI~a.St M* wrsr m a>ne fSHLEY )oL1 The Solubl-. (Gunno is a hi~~rlW'y concenltrt (rade Fertilizer for all eropa. AiIL EY CI TT{ N A ND) 4 oi:!N C(' twot erops 11nal al--olarg'ely as d by the' Tru AH' l.EY ASH l.L M I.NT.-A very v l/i Ior G~ottoln, Corni aid Smai G l.J V aI( Vines. etce. (.raes-or' use loneli nal in Ci.-ompo-t h'ar Fr Tferms, DIrI'et:ins, Test:as:ias andt pubi~a:ions of the Comnpm .. a1re Ii THLE ASHLEY~ iOS! No-'2>:.Iy PRSON hsenessl. Inerena, Codefl dis co pin. Colh olievomnner of disease. The information arout :ile. Find out about them and you wtai always b l. Sold ve--vwhere. orenutby mail for 25c. in stair Sheridan's COnitite Powder is absolutely netraed. O nnc ay othr kind. It in crictly a medicine to Bol e oryhr osent by mail for 25 ccnts in st.a canab rees, proeant for $5.0% 7 for hcrsc.? I i3 or nflamma Lion o al ch. SMore err Lortns i~t t., ( Iboth \-othe o. C- I Not nly !ot)es -, dhto orn gum.. . tie is it)'4 w orlt~ t f I th y ifa ..':: to he 9FHP ~ ~ rei:_ tiy rfte Sr les * i- sviI' a -nidties A. y tln of i t l or pu r. I Tafety ,tt n ,' vi fi a n - et .-n _cnd tibe r I e the li- ;.n ies of t' cen-y mii r'Ty tt -n - s c -, i'. ........- svriers I. e .-r s~d i be :: r. :.L12ec O OD-Cttr,2d t i - - - lu ssi l t. r-v -ita. - -~ t - n'edive th -- a yt iri -4-4-. - --. . - e2r lly.h e - - -v r - - d.m:TY 4 ' - ;. i..e irdi al - - ~c--T---'-a h ARKm. - - - - .tr roe, BLO - ersl ithema. are n.r.d ....into.apur -- * - hrom. n - ent C-lic, -*1z -/ddsess