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Else pril 14.-St. apid-, this State, terribly destructive t 5:30 o'clock this after 'he first knowledge of the ter was contained in a telegran ent to Mayor Ames from St. Cloud, reporting tMe disaster and asking that a special be sent with physicians. A samilar dispatch was received from Sank Rapids. Innediately upon re ceipt of these messages preparations were made to respond to the call for help. A train for St. Cloud left at 6 o'clock. Information at hand is very meagre, and setisational reports are current that one hundred people were killed. It is believed that at least forty persons have been killed and about seventy-five wounded, but it is impossible to get much information as yet. All is excitement and the streets are Uiled with men and frightened wohien and children. The disaster is certainly appalling. As nearly as can be learned scores of houses have been entirely wrecked. Twelve physicians were aboard the relief train -yhich left for St. Cloud. ST. PAUL, April 14.-Private advices say the storm struck the railroad be tween the round house and depot, and swept a path 600 yards wide through the city, levelling between 1.50 and 200 houss. H1. M. Clark, a well-known lumberman who lives in St. Cloud, sayaininety persons were killed and more 4than 100 injured, many very seriously. Superintendent Wakeman of tt Manitoba Road says that be twee4fthirty and forty persons were killed-at Sank Rapids, a Iiew miles southesit of St. Cloud, and nearly doubli that number injured. M., April 14.-Reports of the C t St. Cloud, Sank Rapids, -Rye Station and other points in the vicinity, last night and early this morning, were not .xaggerated. At 3 o'clock this morning in the places .pfe-there were forty nine dead and nearl 'two hundred injured, with many still missing, whose bodies will probably be recovered. Just enough house-: are left ih Sank Rapids to form a fringe around the village limits. The debris is not piled in heaps, but scat tered far and wide. The sign "Sank RapidsC"on the Manitoba depot, and a basket full of school books were found in Ryeftation,. fifteen miles distant. This ihows the terrible power of the storm. - The merysed estimates of the killed and wtounded are: St. Cloud, 15 killed 40 injured; Sank Rapids, 30 killed, 10Jigjored; Rye Station, 22 killed, number of woundea as yet unknown. S'. 9LQCD, MXns, April 15.- A few mitmtes after 4 o'clock yesterday after noon the skies became overcast with a dark cloud, and a great black mass rose ovr the hills sonthwest of the city, arutcoming with terrible velocity to the western outskirts in a direct line fob-the Manitoba freight vards. The cloudi b "Io*t, and rolled over and o'enak amokeover a battle field, and were a~companied by a loud roaring sound~'that resemblid a conflagration irimh fdiff. The cloud was funnel tah~d, and..he point dragged alongr the .. und like the tail of a huge arial beast, shig -everything thiat came in its patl'o atoms. The citizens had hardly 6Ietofee to their cellars and seek . ~nsof refuge before a whirl~ 4on them and the air filled aving -boards, shingles, bricks b ~ther dutbris; that was strvwn '~ the country and piled in promilei bhaps. It came from the southes&* and 'thoved in a northerly directioagriutil it reached the river, where its'curse was diverted and f ol 1owed the river banks until it reached Sank Rapids, where it diverged to the leWi,- passing directly throught the cen tre a1 that town. The utmost excitement prevailed. Women and children fled from their houees and rushed aimlessly about in thr midst of the dark cloud of dust and an avalance of boards and brick. Men 1 'presence of mind and stood in 'c and inactivity in the presence ot~ id demon. *It was hardly ndiy&before it was on the city in all its %ney, .and' the people were not warned of their danger before it was a abn and they fell like grain sta are the reaper's sickle. "'rgooof St. Cloud struck by t ~ is the southwestern sec tiong anif was the residence portion ociopied by the laboring class of people, the majosity of them being foreigners employed on the railroads. Thefr ~:dwellings were light built houdes and became easy prey to the monster that had so viciously pounced upon them. They were like cockle shells in the grasp of the whirlwind, and were picked up and tossed in the air and rent into a thousand pieces. The earth was plowed up in the line of the-cyclone, and the path over which it passed, to a width of nearly a quar ter of a mile, looks as though it had been upheaved by a terrible volcanic eruption. It hid hardly begun its terribte work before it was finished, and the scene that greeted the eyes of those who had escaped its fury was one that caused the stoutest heart to shaddir. The cries and shrieks of the wounded rent the air, and the ground was strewn with the bodies of the dead. Among them were stalwart men, weak women, and weaker child ren. The .citizens almost to a man rushed to the demolished districts, and summoning physicians began their work o rescuing hoewho were still livin'g~from benet the piles of dirt and talen buildings. SAUK RAPIDS, Mrs., April 15.---The cyclonestruck this city shortly after 4 o'ceek--yesterday afternoon, and in just six minutes the best portion of the town was in ruins. Not a single busi rass house was left standing on Main str~is IMany residences were dlemol i~i A'he wind camne from the 0enthwest and swept everything be fore it for a width of about blocks. The court-house is now a heap of ruins, and several county ofhxcers are killed. The Union school-house, the Presby terian and Congregational churches, the postoffice, a flour mill and a large muchine shop were all converted into kindling wood in less time than it takes to tell it. What was once the centre of the town is now covered with debris--timber, doors, pieces of furni tvre, etc. Only the City Hotel re mains intact. The Northern Pacific depot is lIterally blown away and a large number of freight cars over turned upon the tracks. Scarcely a vestige of any of the wrecked structures remained intact. The gronnd is covered with all kinds moziscuously tangled to is estimatel that 400 struc ali frame) were bluwn dowin the neat and costly Manitoba epor was unr6ofed and wrecked, tlhu alm-,st entirely cutting off teierraphic communication. The only huilding of any consequenee a-ide froa the depo, injmdU was ine brewery, and thi; :vas badly warpL-d and twisted. The .medli residencs were m;!ostiv occuptid by foreigner-, whose tames it has b..C impossible to secure with any de-ree of accuracy. The monev loss is di proportionately siall. It, is estimatedI that $60,000 will replace the buildings destroyed. The'force of the storm was such az to wrench off the door of the ,afe in the postolfice and carry it some dis tance from the building. A church bell weighing 1,000 pou)nds was found among the debris lour hundred feet away from any buildiig. The re mains of the dead are almost unrecog nizable, being completely crushied and blackened. There are a remarkable number injured about the hips and spine. Many of the survivors will be disabled for life. Thirty-one persons are already dead. The list will be swelled to forty. Dr. Ames, of Minneapolis, who is on duty at St. Cloud, informed Dr. Dolliver that at least tLirty deaths can but re sult from the visitation there. At Sank Rapids a man named Van Etton, who weighs 2f50 pounds, was carried 400 feet through the air and fatahiy in jured. A dead baby was found in the street. No owner for it can be found. At St. Cloud in the track of the storm stood the Manitoba freight house and cars filled with freight. The heavy cars were lifted from the tracks and cast in a shapeless mass. iron raiis were torn from ties and twisted like the smallest wires. Tele graph poles were torn up and the wires twisted into curious masses. The freight house was totally wrecked. The roof was lifted aid blown several bundred feet. The sides next -uc cumbed, and over $3,000 worth of freight was scattered piecemeai over a quarter of amile. Fifteen freight cars were demolished. The operators in the telegraph office and the emp'oy&! at the freight depots saw the cyclone coming and fled into the cellar and they escaped. BLIND CHAPLAIN MILBURN. Soei of the Characteristics of the 1arson Whose Public Prayers Please the Fe. p)ie. (1mn the Thukbiiton Post.) The Rev. Dr. Milburn, the blind Chaptain of the H[ouse of Representa tives, whose prayers are inst now creating a sensation, is a remarkable man in more than one respect. Forty three years ago he was told by emi neut doctors tsat he would be dead within six months, and since that time he has traveled, by actual computation, a million and a half miles in his voca tion. le is now physically, although i his sixty-fourth year, as .trong and robust as most men of thirty, and his intellect is of more than common power. He can give more accurate descriptions of Westminster Abbey, Cologne Cathedral, Nctre Dame and the other Old Word monuments than can the majority of those persons who have not been deoendent on otlher people's eyes and on their sense of touch. He can describe the rocky outlines and mountainous declivities of the Sierras and of th'e Rocky Motuntains and of the picturesque beauties of the Blue Ridge with a force and vigror combined with accuracy, rarely equaLl ed, even by writers who still retain their sight, white he has beein blind since he was five years old. It is his wonderful power of thus describing in simple language the concrete things of lite that renders his sermons and prayers so forceful and attracts to themi such widespread attention. llis tirst invocation to attract notice in the House was a vigorous denumnciation~ of stock gambling, but recently he cast all previous utterances in the s.hade by referring to the present labor troubles in such a manner as to call fort h from a Representative the remark that it was "an incendiary ap~ee:hi." A reporter of th~e P~at found Dr. Milburn enjoying the delight of a long-stemmed pipe. A t the reporter's entrance the Doctor arose, and, in a hearty voice, said he was "hIad to sce" him. The reverend gentleinan is of tall and commanding peenece. Broad chested and inclined to stotnetiW, he is the picture of health. A full, tun trimmed gray beard floats way~ down his v'est, while his black hair, streaked with silver, is bruthed back trom his bigh forehead and hana~s in brushy laxuriance Upon the collar of his cler Ical coat. Ilis strongly-tmarked feat ures bear a kindly expression, and are every now and then lit up by a pleas ant smile. While talkina- he fixes his eyes upon the pertson whom he is addressing, and the sightless orbs appear to look straight into the soul of his listener, lie is a most entertain inig talker, and onte of his favorite hobbies is the subject of health antd its promotion. ile is a very Jew in his selectionl of tood, po-itively eschew ing all hog mneats, and he treats him self to a regular course of curry-comb-, and rough towel, cold water, oil and sun-baths every morning. As lhe himself says, he -is one of the best groomed meni in the country. Giladstone's Scheme for Ireland. The second reading of Gladstone's home rule bill in the Hlouse of Com mons has beeni postponed till May 10th. The Conservatives have concluded to postpone until after the Easter holi dys the question ->' deciding whether or not to force a division on the second reading of the bill. Gladstone has sent the following reply to the congratt ulatory cablegram received by him from the Mayor of Boston: "I have received your telegram. I thank yotu for your courtesy in inform i ; meof the p'roceedings ~of the mass .. ing held in Boston to take actioni on rne subjoct of the proposals of a g overnment for Ireland. 1 feel that American opinion, allied as it is with regard to an aff'ection for~ the old coun - try, aff'ords Her Majesty's government a powerful moral support. I remain. dear worshipful Mavor, faithfully yours, -W. E. G1..Dsvon:." Like an Old Cregky Window shutter. That is the way a manm's rheumatic joints sometimes are. Ihinges ohd, rusty anid worn, and badly need oiling. The trouble is in the blood. A man who is of any account is worth re pairing. The~ repairing can be done by means of Brown's Iron Bitters. Emices and purifies the blood, dives out the pamis, and wvorks conplete re storation. Thousands testify to it Ifrom hap;)y exp~erienlce. Mr. C. 11. Huntley, 918~ North Sixteenth st., St. Ljui's, sava: "I uised Brown's Iron for. rheumati-m, ireneral debility and prstan wihn the besreuls."* LLTTER FROM ARKANSAS. Thle Fine Crop Prospect---hamitrants I front the South 31oving Largely !-.to Ar. kausa. Pr1m Dr.z-r, Anu., April 12.-The pat winter, which was one of unmsual se-verity in this part of the country, after ingering long in the "lap of sprig'',ut last !. i give place to w.11rmii, i.1aiti ng sun--hintie, silnging- birds ald bloomigI flowvers, Which herald tihe near approach of summer. The we-ather continued changeable and un ceriain and very discou raginig to plan teri up to the Sih5 isiait, when there ,wa- a heavy fill] (if snow, but it not being cold enouglh to freeze, after a few hours of suns hilne all traces of the snow disappeared, leaving no visible sign of damage either to the fruit crop or to vegetation. Since then the weather has been such as to cause everything to put on a new aspect of life and vigor. The fariers throughout the country are very busy :ziakizn preparations, as usual, for a large crop of cotton. This is a gooc corn country, but cotton is made the leading crop. There is very little small --rain raised bere, and what is, is generally sown late in the spring, as the abundance of rain aid the hard freezes during lhe winter almost in variably prove destructive to fIall sow There has been the greatest demand on the pamrL of farmiers this spring for supplies I ever heard of. This is partly owing to the fact. that the inilux of imnmigrat ion during tie past winter was unusually large, tuost of the new comers being negroes who had just enough, or but little more ioney than it took to defray their expenises liere, and Owing to certain hanges. made in the mnortg'age aw by out- last Legisla ture, a mortgage on crop without itock or some kind of real estate is not valid security. Ience tany have experi etteed considerable difficult v in obtain ing supplies. Blut the new-comers are not alone inl this respect. There is a class of farmers here, as there is every whecre, I suppose, who, from a lack of foresight and proper ecotnomy, or from other causes, have gotten behind, and depend altogether on the credit ;ystemn for supplies during til the summtetr, and they live hard, they pay :tulch enor mous prices for what they cotnsutne, that when thev sell their crops in the ftll it takes Aont al] they have made to square tip with tlheii- merchant, and tlts it goes "The little bee sucks the ntd And the big bee sucks the honey: The poor man makes the crop But thle rich man gets the money". I mt- a gr-eat many iegroes-. here, who came from Newberry, Lexington and Richland counties, last December and Januarv. They seem greatly pleased with their new bomnes, and are expecting manv of their friends in the old State to join them here next win ter. The negroes are Tdready itn the majority here, and their numbers are nier:tlv doubled every year. The leading topic of c3nversation hiere for several ree-ks past has been the :-trikes, the bad etfects of which have been so ;riously felt in St. Louis. Little Rock and other neighbotring ities. Siuce they have ended, the talk has turned to the overflow of the Missisisippi and the expected rise of :I.e At-kansas. I will write of this tise when it comes. 1-:. J. C. THE IRISH PARLIA3MENT. The Text of 3Ir. Glads~tone's Famous Bill for tthe Future Government of Ireland 3lade Public. The I louse of Commons having voted permission to Mr. Gladstone to intr-o duce his hill for the bete governtmett of Ireclanid, the official text of thte meas tre is tnow made public. It debamrs the Irish Parliament fr-omt legislating con cernitng the status, dignty ot- succes siont of the Crown, ftrm passinmg laws affecting peace or wat- the at-ty or navy, miilitia or v-oluntceers, or- the defencee of the realm. amid ft-om takmng anty action concer-ning te thr-eign or. colonial relationms of the Emapire. Among othetr subjects placed beyonud tile power of the Irish Governmnetnt to deal with are digntities, titles and hion ors5, pr-izes and booties of war-, offences agaittst the law of tnationis, tteasont atnd aienaige, usvigationt, co)pyight, pat ents, mautils, telegr-aphs, coinamgc, weights and meastures. The bill turthi eri pr-ohibits Ir-elanid from doing atny thing to establish oi- endow ny r ligion, or to disturitb or confer anyv piivileges otn account of r-eligious be lief, and also forbids it to impose cus toms or- excise duties. The Queen is given tile same prer-ogative to sutmmton, rrto-ogue atnd dissolve the Ir-i~h Legis latui-e as she has with mespect to the Imperial Par-liametnt. To her Majesty is also given the power to er-ect fot-ts, asetals, magazines anid dock yatrds. The Ir-ish Legislature is permtiitted to impose taxes to be paid into the comn solidated fund to detr-ay the expetnses of the public service in Irelanid, sub ject to the provisions of the lIrish land putchase bili, but is not to either r-aise or rspp oprmiate revenues without the recotfmendationi of the Queenm, made through the lor-d lieutenanttt. Chut-ch popertyt ini Irelanid is to belong to the Iish people, subject to existotg chatges. The executive govermnr.ent of Ir 1.ind is vested by the Queen in a lord lieutetnat, who will gover-n withi the aid of such officers and counicils as the Queen may appoint, and will give or withhold the Queen's assentt to such bills ats the Irish Legislat ure mtay pass. The absetnce of modification of the home r-ule bill dishear-tens the Liber-als, and a~tnovemtent is on foot to obtaini Gladstone's assentt to the itroduction of a mnotiomn asking thte Hlouse of Comn mon~ts, before the seconid r-eaditng of the bill, to adopt a r-esolutiotn simply afiming tile inecessity of establishing a Legislature at Dublitn. A Prxohibition Victory in Rhoude Islacnd. Thie election itt Rhode I~landl on Tuesday- resulted in a decided pr-ohi bitiont victory. G4overnaor Westmtore, Rpu~tblicant, is i-c-elected by less than 2,800 major-ity, while Edwin Metcalf, the Democratic and Prohibition candi date fot- attotrney-general, has a majo itv of 1,781. Thet prohibitomry liquor law i-eceived over omne-fifth of all time vots east. The liquoi dealem-s are dumbfounded amid can scarcely realize Ithat their occupaititi is gomne. Oni the other- hanmd, masts amnd pi-ayer-meetimgst wre held all over- the State on Thurs day nighit for the purpose of givinig thanks and reoicing over the r-esult of the mnoqtimetmorable political contest ttat ever took place ini the State. ADVICE To MOTIHEas. M::s wissUw's Soorims~ $Ynor should al Way.3 t2e used :ar clinitrer: tueta:ng. It soothes] the chi!. sonenis the gums, allays all pain, emes wInd colic, and is ti- y remedy for darrha. Twenty-ave cents a bottle. .tin41.tyl GEXNEfAL NEWS ITMLST. acts of Interet, Oath ered from V1r.oum Quarters. - -ecretarv Latuar is off on a ten lays' vacation. -Mexico iS to have al noI y of (.,t ln, 100 Chinamen at an early day. --The ninth death grwing oat of he East St. Louis riot has occurred. -Ex-President Arthur is stili quite 'eble and has not been out since Feb uary. -When a modern newspaper man >rt'onnces a story i. g. he mieanq that Scolttajtis noJ gore. -A mass meeting was held in Lon Ion on Thursday for the purpose of :ensuring Gladstone's Irish bill. -North Carolina, formerly called south Virginia, was once sold to the iing's agent for a house and E200. -The schocl bovsin Troy and Green ?oint, N. Y., have struck for "shorter iours." -$22,000, the forfeited bail of Geo. 2. Cannon, the Mormon Elder, has yen paid. -The upper House of the Prussian )iet has adopted bills for Germanizing "land. -Thad. Fairbanks, the scales manu acturer, died in St. Johnsbury, Vt., iged ninety years. -A New Zealand coasting steamer as recently wrecked and twenty-nine ersosis were drowned. -The tactics used against Virginia ire to be tried in North Carolina wuing the State turough its ofieers. - The Boston biock, in Vtinneapolis, Mitn., was gntted by tire on Monda. loss about $75,000, full-; insu red. -Mail bag.s from the lost steamer 0 regon continue to be picked lp: 25 t the 59 on board have been recov ered. -The arrests of New York Alder men of 1884 continue. Eleven were gobbled up on Wednesday. -John M. Rountree, an aged law yer and sperting man of Chicago, coin initted suicide with A pistol in a gun tore. --Two individuals who were alout to leave for Bolivia with large quanti ties of well executed counterteit money have been overhauled in New York. -If General Lord Wolselev has no better success in fighting Mr. Glad stone than in smashing the Mahdi, home rule has nothing to fear. -There has been a reduction of 2137 in the clerical force of the United States Treasury Department under the present administration. -The Democratic State Executive Committee of North Carolina met last week and called the State Convention to meet at Raleigh on August 25. -Grand Master Powderly has called upon tile Knights of Labor all over the montry to sihscribe to the fund for maintaining the strike in the West. -John Wagner, a farmer in Liu oln, Wis., -hot and killed Jatmes Moe in a dispute about land, gml, fearng lynehing, shot himself dead. -The convicted Cluverius is iaking some narrow escapes from the gallows. The htest theory is that the nurdered girl was the victim of malpractice. -The Liberal Association of New Castle, Sunderland, Tynesiut h, Liv e~pool and many other bodies in Eng land have resolved to support Glad stor.e. -The East St. Louis Deputy Shier ifs are good sa:nples of United States Marshals heretofore employed by Re publicans to guard eletions in the West. -R. 11. H~arris, Superintendent of thes Methodist Sunday School at Sag Harbor, N. Y., and Treasurer of the Savings Banik, is $8,000 short in his accounts. -The Earl of Shaftesbury killed himself in a cab in London on Wedntes day. lHe succeeded last year to the title ot his fatther, the nioted philan thropist. -A paralytic named Frank Keever, who keeps a hotel at Hickory, N. C., attempted to cross the railroad track in frotnt of a train, fell, was run over and killed. ---The military have entirelyv stup presed the rioting in East St. Lotuis, and otn Monday every thing was quiet. Business has beent partially resutted and railvay trainis are runnng. --The Paris .foring Kews re port s that Mr. Thorndike ltice, the. proprie tor attd editor of the Sorth Amncrcan Review, woni 160,00) franes the ottw'r day in two sittitngs at Monte Cur~u. -The ears of the Capital City Itail wav of MIonigomery, Ala., couiunienced ~uning last week by electricity. The rp are regularly made and every-. thing works perfectly. -One of the barbers who was ar~ reted ini Washingutotn the ot her day for keepin;g his shop open ''n Suni dlay had employed a part of the day of rest in shaving President Cleveland. - Last year the explenses of In Ii a excedecd the revetnues by. $53,t000,000, owiig miaiinly to the wvar in Unrmah. They figutre out a surplus of $400,000 for the tiext liscal year. -According to Commissioner Poer tr~ about one per centt. of the piopula tion of New York city is in the institai tions under the care of the commis sioners oh chtatrities aund cortection. -'The New York hlouse of Rtepre enatives has passed complimentary resolutions on Gladstone anid Irish home rule. A public meeting in Faeuil Ilall, Boston, adopted similar resolutions. -President Watsot Van Uenthuysen testified before the Telephone Invesi atinmg Conutnittee otn Monday. The intvestiation was lively at times auct "the liar" and "scoundrel" were ap plied lavishly. -The sensational ;tory about the :onteplted umarria1e of Miss Cal loun to, the Minmiiter of Persia, .3lr. [red. 11. Witnstoni, is flatly denied by ~e lady, who is visitiing in W'ashiing -Tihe London Pall Mall Gazelle tas beetn fined $7,500 for libelling sintzett hv publishing a statement that e had whipped children, whom I.e svs trainting as :aerobats, until thev yere covered with blood. - Capt. Eli Fry, condtuctor on the estrtn North Curoihn Railroad, had iis arm so badly crushed while at empting to stop his trait. near a dani eros trestle, as to necessitate ampu-~ ationt. -Quen Victoria has placed a large Irass tablet in the room which John rown occupied at the time of his let h, which bears an insecription re atig! the many virtues he possessed id the manner of his dheath. -There is a targe American colony ., the it o eico .The Ameri cans do the big business of the coun try. They are the pushers in grepat enterprises, while tc Eng1i.sh and Germans have the stores and shops. -McCornick, the weHl kuown reaper manufacturer of Chicago, refunes to reinstate the 61i men disharged dur ing the recent strik:. The committee of :t* e Kiiigihts of L.Lbor who waited npon himl will recommend boycotting the e!abhlihmen~t. -The majority and minority repojris on the Payne bribery caze are before the Ohio Legislature. The majority being Republicans their re-port is ag:Linst ':% ne, awl the minority being Demnocrats thir r(1port is in favor of Payne. -M. de#, Les-eps -ays that the build ing of t lie Pyramids, which occupied thirty thousand men ten years, was boys' play to building the Panama Canal. Ife estimates the power of the machines employed as equal to the labor ot five hund-ed thousand men. -Amos J. (uumnings, of the New York Sun, and one of the strongest men of Tanmmiany Hall, wiil in all probability succeed Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World, in Congress. Caumings is said to be the only man upol whom the Democratic factions of New York city can unite. -Daring a fight in Harlan county, Ky., between about a dozen desperate characters with rifles, sheltered behind trees, Sol Burkhart was killed, Jacob Burkhart seriously wouonded and Silas Boig shot in the head. The parties w ere all arrested and lodged in jil. --The iaret str'ike ever known in Milwaiukee ha1 Ien iniaugurated by the Shop Taimors Union. It i. :e-ert ed that four thousand operatives are affected, althoulig a large iin"rity ot these have no interes in th! - rike, ant are,( inl r.w i, opp.),ed it) it. Th .trike is to secure the adoption of a new soale Of prices. -Mi. lemphiii's bill directing the Secretary of the Tr-n!ury to d-liver to the proper claimants and owners cer !ain silverware Welry, etc., ca) tured during the war and depoiited in the Treasnrv, has passed the louse. The Senate wil, doubtlesS, pas it at once, as a bill of a similar nature pas-ed that body last session. -The use of cocoainle iv saiti to be alariniuly prev:lent in Detroit, and the most extraordinarv (IIUi-ms have been cau-ed by it. Persons knowing little ur nothin ofits properties began taking it to allay pain, u:ed it inja diciouslv and have become mentally innlpaciitated from taking care ot themselves. --In Russia the Czar ha enforced the decree of the Holy Synod forbid ding wreaths and seculir emblems in funeral processions, on the ground that of late the prie4t and the holy pictures have been wholly hidden by the wreaths, flowers, secular banners .nd flag, thus giving the solemn cere mion a worldly ,ignlificance. -Thirty-two men and 140 women are busy in the agricultural depart ment at Washington, supplying the Congres sional demand for seed - 6,000 pack ages of vegetable seed, 500 of flower seed, :00 of tobacco, 20 quarts sor ghum, 20 of corn, .50 of grass, 28 of sugar beet and :32 of cotton seed is the allowance of each niember of Con gress. - The committee on putbic lands will, dluring the presenit sessi, call upi for consideration bills reported from t hat commtittee for the forfeituire of land grants to railways and other corporations, t-> prevent speculation, in public land, and for the reservanion of public laind- for t he benefit ot a~ctunal bona-fide settlers. -The Norfolk (Va.) papers tell of a colored mian: in that cityv who, previous to, the war,agreed with his ma-ier to par case hik freedom for 81,100). Whetn liberated by Presidenit Lincol 's priocla mation he had paid 5800, but teelinmg bound by his ptomise he has lahored all thle years since to cart' the rem:inm i g $550, and lie has just suceceeded in paying the last inistahznent. llis nutne is Joseph Billups. ....A flunotus "mnadtone," owned byx Mrs. 1l. L. Stilam, at Waterford, Miss., and which she calls the "Clinma s:make stoe,"' is said to have been :applied to 1278 persons bitten by eats, 1nakes. dogs, spiders antd horses withloun a tailure ini any case, though thle .kim over~ healed wvomt d, hadI to be scaritlied in someC of -- lie caises. She refers, among others, to physicianis, nmemibers of1 Congress Secetry Lama'r anad others. s umt L sHOT FOlt A TURKEY. *he sadl Deathu of Mr. W. W.. W1itonii, of Georgetown County. Mr. W. Wilson, a citizeni of George town county, was accidentally shot and killed by Mr-. William Lanmbert, o1 the s.une cou'nty, on Thursday mort ig last ina the ineighorhiood of Cedar Cree: , ja--t across the Williamsburg line. On Wednesday evening these gen temen madean engagemrent to g o turkey hunting~ the not morning and were to meet at a -esiated phleeC. They reached there front diierent directions. Aout davii . hat Mr. Lambert heard the <robblinig of a tur key oad approached as near as he coutld, but Lefor-e he could get ati oppor~tuniity .to shoot, it flew downm ini the opposite mnrectiomn fromt :a tree- which Mr. Lamobert was nearing, ie followed~ it amnd saw an object through the bushies, which lhe t~oghlt wasa :tIurkey, liut it was his comrade, Mr. Wilson, crawling on the round tr-yinog toaMioot the same turi ke. As'sooi as the sinoke cleared away from his gnun lie looked to see if he h'ad killed thie turkey, but to his great horror Mr-. Wilson rose up -and pproached him saying~, "'You have killed me--take care of ny wite and children.' le had been struck in the neck and in the side of the bodly with large shot, and the blood was spuring from mthe wounds. Assisted by Mir. Lamtbert lie walked somne dis sta:, but soon sounk the gron d. M. Lamtbert hi; -edl14 to thea ne:west hose for assiit anice, butt on ret urnaing found Mr. Wilson dead. ie wa~s a young muon and leaves a wifet andl sev eral children. HLT SHOCAE Men Think they know all rabout Mustang Ln jiment. Fe :vo. ~.~ot to know A vot to have. FL_ ___ K ID- 1 EASY. khis: ;vry rv e: porio-I in a A ditingM~c: ;-!y:leail,whlo pas t he I r st pairtion of his ir f~et-mur years) in 1ti i . i: t:; ie. left to :I . w tip i !:l ,- . " i -l -' TImi two F1~ ~ ~ ~~. iF EN "1::).-h hr iN.o v 1 I !. r.:ial. ft tpr . vgi :. i. - in l, - o. L nw s - t '-' w -- - We ean ~TR.~DE ~ ARK. -E!m vnca - -~~eitt ap :r h an Sr - . dd~~pvnictI IRAD;2A ARK. icheq are irarcainto a-purea reo edds c:hre nd pfrevnive of nbriens"l. eatealei' A ~w~e-!a:f o etrns . dD . Soid bya-tre11ei ad- denryC~eal Iy. DeJ!o , k A-e :-re nrmed frLve C__:_in__n ilacaith________ wii-hut a ivah a s d'r ivijras rLedin ate nlions. ein yst'r erno-bis, u vn tcrua lll A salh bo inas fort -to :ti :Z te toimes a doa. SoaldaI bye al uis a:d destaes genely Tp..I.OP CINCONAO. CRDIA St..Btn Jaf .&atitor Mcmiko h-sla E sZjc-raxavn coa sac Pr ceper Botiscss.00 ahes D. . . JO2R-r-O.Bstn A QUESTYWv AB 0U Brownm's A'on' A NS WERLE) The Question has 70':-.'!.' been .o i'' of timesg"How c,.n Br lr'n!Bt ---i thing?'. oel, it does~ti.:t it dx for hicharoputable pbyai - t.i - - Physi.:ians recognize rca :ts the 1-. agent known to the profession. au iusy nr leading chemical firm will substantiatu o .S. -:uJ: that there smaroe preparations of iron :na: . other substance used inmadicine This sh: clusively that iron is acknowledgid to be the mox important factor in mnceful modie:1 past -e. 1 w. however. a remarkable fact. that prior t th .. Iytisftoiron combination d .:t. a. . headacho, or produce constion 2- o mcdicinesdo. UOWN'S I N 'T ensreslndigestion,Bihliousnes-Wenn s Dyspepsia, Malaria, Chills atrd e. Tired Feeling,General DebilityPain in Side, Back orLimbs,Hlcaanch -No::rn' - gia-for all these ailments Ironi prc 'c.bd dily. BROWN'SIRONBiTTR.2 minuto. Mie all other thorort adere it n~ci spowly. When taken by 1,-1 thec 1ir-t S-;mept-on c: beneit isrenewedenergy. T be hen bee'ne firmer, the digestion improves. the honeis arc acat iv-. Intromen theeffectisusually more rapid andmarked. Tho eyes begin at once to brighten: the si:in cletrs up: heslthy color comes to the cheeks: nerousnocr dsappears; functional derangnments become regm lar. and if a nursing mother. abundant s.mtenme is supplied for the child. Remember Bron. Iran Bitters isthe ONLY ir.,n medicino th-. it ::.t in jurious. Physicim ami Druggi.t re e l i:. The Genuine has Trade Mark and crwed red lieu on wrapper. TAKE NO OTHER. FOR COUCHS AND CROUP USS TATI"WOEit? / 0'jC x:11 WEE fl CY /D 4&U-XxM' E6" T6C The sweet gum. as gathered from a tree of the same name, gawing along the smal streams in the Southern State, contains a stimulating expectorant principle that ,oose-s the phlegm producing the early morning cough. and atima. sles the child to throw off the false membrate In croup and whooping-couxb. When combined with the healing mutc laginous principle In the mull-In plant of the old fields. pre sects in T oytoa-a Cuezzo Rzmzoy or Swzzr GUM AYD MeLrst the fnest known remedy for Conths. Crop, Whooptu-Cough and Consumption; and so palatable. zcy child Is pleased to take It. Ask vourdru. ist for It. Pric., 25c. and $1. WAITERA. TAYLOR, Atlanta, Ga. Use DR. BIGGERS' HUCKTEERRY CORDIAL for Diarrha. Dysentery and Children TethLg. For sav bi Mdruggists. AURANTIIi r Meetof the diseeses which afflictinarked arc origin ally causedby a disordered condition of the L IV ER. For all complaints of this kind, such as Torpidity of the Liver, Biliousness. Nervous Dyspepsia, Ind igos tion, Irregularity of the Boweba. Constipation. Flate lency. Ernctations arnd Berning of the Stomach (sometimes called Hearttarr.), Miasma. Malaria, Bloody Flux. Chills and Fever. Brenkbone Fever, Exhaustion before or after Fevers. Chronic Diar rhwa. Loss of Appetite, Headache. Foul Breath, Irregularities incidental to Females. Bearing-down leg;STA D I GER'S A URAN Ti is Invalua ble. It is not a panacea for all diseases, bu aCU dsessRfEh LIVER, It changes the cotreplexion feom a waxy. yellow tinge, to a ruddy. he-dlthy color. It entirdly removes low. gloomy spirits. It is one of the- B EST A L TERATIVES and PURIFlERS OF THE BLOOD, and Is A VALUABLE TONiC. STADCER'S AUR ANTH 340 30. FRONdT ST.. Philn.iehia, Pa. Many a Lady is beautiful, all but her skin ; and nobody has ever told her how easy it is to put beauty on the skin. Beauty on the skin is Magnolia Balm. .Sti.SIli HI I L ASIL EY :AOL. For 1Tr"?~ rto: T. ni i ln ub)l~ic ti io the Gia. any, Md l -:, THlE ASHLE~ PHOS g CtlRES-Diphtheria,. Croup, Asthma. Bronehitit Hoarseness. Ir.Iiuonza, Haecing Congh,Whooping Cc Darrhccn, Kidney Troubles, and Spinal DiseasesPa: PARSON These pills were a wonderful discnory. N~o othet relieve all manner of disease. The information arou: ils idotabout them and you w:.11 alvways hi ree.Sol eveywhroor sent by mall for 2L5c. in star: Sheridan's Conditton Powdr is absolutely s wrth a pound ofI any other kcind. It Is strictly a medicine to be given with flood. Sold everywhere, or sent by mall for 25 cents in aa Si m.n b we press nranaid. for i5.00l.