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% VOL. VIII. TICK K I I ILL KIOT IN K < ) A N - j <>K 13. The Law Yttiintaimat At a FciirI'lil <'ost of I.i IV A>ul Limb. IJowoKK, \ a. September 20.? One of flic most dastardly crimes in the history of the city occurred about 10 o'clock this morning. Mrs. Ilcnrv O i>: .i i - i . ...'i I o. i usnop, ageu aouui ov years, ami a respectable white woman, from Cloverdule, eight miles from this | city, was enticed by a negro named ] Thomas Smith from the market, where she hail como to sell produce, into an empty saloon basement, whcr'jho beat her into insensibility and robbod her of her pocketbook, containing less than two dollars. The wonrin was left for dead, hut managed to revive a few minutes later and crawled up to the street, w here she told her story. The (iend had in the meantime escaped, but was detected from the description given by Mrs. Bishop, boarding an out going train. A colored man jumped on the car and grabbing the criminal the two fell to tin* ground. A crowd imine- I diatcly surrounded the prisoner and ; threats of lynching were loud and frequent. Detective Captain W. W. Baldwin sei/.ed the man and, holding the crowd at bay with bis revolver, started on horseback with the frightened negro behind him. lie rodo to tho saloon where tho wounded woman was removed and she positively identified him. He was then taken to jail. A crowd gathered around tho jail, and kept increasing as night approached. At 5 o'clock tho Roanoke Light Infantry marched to tho jail hy order of Mayor Trout. Hoards were posted and tho streets in the immediate vicinity wore cleared. About dark tho crowd was increased by a hundred men fiv-m the vicinity of the woman's home headed by Mrs Rishop's son, a fireman on the Nor folk and Western Railroad. At 8 oclock a portion of tho moh battered sit a side door of the jail, where the militia and Mayor Trout had retired. The shooting was commenced hy the mob. and tho mayor was shot in the foot. The malitia were then ordered to return tho lire, and a volley from about twenty live rifles was poured into the mob. It is thought that about live men were killed by this fire and sis many more wounded, some of them family. During the excitement caused by the volley the iiMcri'n wus taken from the iail bv an w _ " J ' J officer and secreted. The dead and wounded were removed to a drug store and to the offices of nearby physicians. The inalitia were then dispersed and left t he scene as quietly as possible. The excitement has not yet subsi ded. Several speeches were made after the inalitia retired. Judge Woods, of the Hustings Court, assured the n.ob that the negro Smith had been removed from the jail and accompanied two of the crowd through the jail to prove the truth of his statement. His statement and the speech of J. Allen Watts, the Democratic candidate for the State Senate, did much to pacify the crowd, but the hung around the jail and adjacent streets for several ho u raster wards, many dispersing to search for the secreted prisoner. At midnight the scene had quieted down and no further trouble is expected. The militia remain under the mayor's orders, although it is probable that they will not be called out again. Mayor Trout is linn in the position be has assumed, and do clares that lie will uphold the laws. The dead, which at midnight had increased by tin death of George Settles, were removed to the undertaking establishments and will bo vJ prepared for burial. Shocking Result of an Attempt to Enforce the Law and Pro t.ect. t.hfl T.ifo of a Neoro Brute. HoanokK) Va, September 21.? A squad of twenty men took the negro Smith from three policemen just before 5 o'clock this morning and hanged him to a hickory limb on Oth avenuo, southwest, in the resilience section of the city. Thry rid died the body with bullets and left a placard on his body reading: "This is Mayor Trout's friend." A coroner's jury of business men was summoned and viewed tlie body of the negro and rendered a verdict of death at tho hands of unknown men. Thousands of people visited the scene of the lynching between daylight and 8.50 o'clock when the body was cut down. After the jury had completed their work the body was placed in tho hands of officers, who were unable to keep back tho mob. Three hun dred men tried to drag tho body through the streets of the town, but the Itev. Dr. Campbell, of the First Presbyterian Church, and Capt. It. H. Moorman, with picas and main strong!h prevented them. Capt. Moorman hired a yvagon and had tho body put in it. It was then conveyed to the banks of the Itonnoke, about one mile from the scone of the lynching. The dead f 4 ( negro was dragged from the wngoi by a rope about two hundred yardi and was burned on a pile of dr lumber. The body was placed upoi this heap and more brushwood pilot upon it, leaving only the head bare The wh-xf was thou saturated witl coal oil oml a mutch applied. I Ik body <vas consumed within an hour The cremation was witnessed by sov oral thousand people. The mol threatened at one time to bury tin negro in Mayor Trout's yard. Threats of vengeance are inadt against the mayor and militia for at tempting to maintain the law. Capt Bird, commanding the militia, Inn left town. Mayor Trout has alst disappeared and President Buekner of the city council is acting mayor Incitement, is running high now There is talk of citizens holding ai indignation meeting, and it is rumor ed on streets that threats are beinj: made to bum tbo town unless satis faction of some sort is rendered Crowds tbrongs the streets and al public places. There is an immense crowd ii front of Oakley and Wool wine's un dcrtaker shops, where seven of tin dead bodies lie. The number ol dead was exaggerated last night, ant it is now found that only nine mei are dead. The revised list of casual ties is as follows: Dead?S. A. \ ink, proprietor o St. dames Hotel; William, a firemat of the Norfolk and Western Rail road; Chas Whitmver, conductor 01 the Norfolk and Western Rail toad J. 11. Tyler, of Blue Ridge, seclior master on the Norfolk and Westeri Railroad; (leo. W. Ilite,shot througl the leg and bled to death; \V. 30 Hall, Norfolk and Western lireman W. .Jones, engineer on the Norfolk and Western: John Mills, Black Creek, Roanoke County, farmer ane distiller; Ceo. Settles, of Vinton, shoi in the head. The wounded are: O. O. Fuller member of Friendship Fire Com pany, mortally wounded; W'll Eddy shot through groin; Ceo. O. Monroe shot in head; Frank Wills, shot it arm; Thomas Nelson, leg shot off I.eroy white, shot in hack; J. B McChee, shot in leg, llesh wound Shepurd, shot in log; F. C. Small, shot in stomach; .1. F. Rowel! shot through body; J. E. Way land clerk in postoflice, shot in log: Goo Leigh, clerk in I'once Do Leoi Hotel, llbsh wound in leg; Walter R 1 In IT, knocked down and ankh badly sprained; Mayor II. E. Trout shot in foot; ). 11. Campbell, Edgai Whalincr. C. W. Ficro-all. C. R North, O. B. Taylor, Hall, Davit Ruggles, N. E. Sparks, T. K. Nelina Charlie Notem, (colored,) a coloret woman, nanio unknown, shot ii hand; Win Berry, shot in leg. The military claim that the mot were repeatedly warned that then would be shooting, but received theii warnings with jeers, and final)] replied with a volley fired at Capt Bird, who then ordered the men t< lire at the mob, which was battering down the door of the jail. Troubh is feared. Every effort is being niadi to calm the the excited crowd. A Disappointed Visitor* "1 hop'* you have enjoyed you visit to the city," said a New Yorke to Uncle Jabez Sassafras, of Quo hosh. "Well, no; 1 can't say as I have" "What was the trouble?" "Well, for one thing, yon Nov Yorkers don't know how (o trea strangers. Leastwav, your newspa pers don't. ' "Don't they?" "No. Now, there wasn't a pape in this city that said I was in town.' "No?" "It's a fact. I looked in every on< of them ex pectin' to see a paragrapl that 'Mr. Sabe/. Sassfras, one of tin prominent citizens of Quohosh, i favoring our city with bis prosonce We understand that Mr. Sassafras i a justice of the peace in his town and ono of the solid men of thi place. Come again Mr. Sassafras." "Didn't any of the papers sa; that?" "No sir, not one. That is wha the Bugle would have said, if any o you New Yorkers had visited Quo hosli, but you don't appear to appro ciate the good good it does you town to have strangers come in it. shan't cflTne 110 more." And Uncle Jaoez Sassafras wen to the station and bought his ticke home, and the city editors when the; learned the fact forthwith hangei themselves on the sour apple tree most odjacent to their respective ofti cers. ? Jirooklyn Life. As a general rule, it is best not b correct costiveness by the use o saline or drastic medicines. Whei a purgative is needed, the mos prompt, effective, and beneficial i Ayer's Pills. Their tendency is t> restore, and not weaken, the norma action of the bowels. 4<Be True to ! JON WAY, ?[ C~ i ti.kkcll or ti-:\A8. B * lie Will I)olivt*r liCcliiresiiiTlils State During October. . j The indications just now are that >; the Hon. Hen Terrell, of Texas, will ' come to South Carolina in October and deliver a series of Alliance lec , tares to the Allianceinen of this ? State. He has been written u> ask- i ing that ho deliver a lecture in " Barnwell County, and his reply is as follows: s "Deau Sin and llito : Yours of > August 26th just to hand and contents noted. I will say in reply that 1 am just starting for Texas, and could not possibly come to South ! ^ no Knhten ( t *1??-?i* I tint nmtr ' | ^v/ui \/ii iki i/vivi v v./v/ivuv i mil iiv n . arranging through Mr. McLaurin, of r your Stn'o, to visit the State ami - gito you a month. I will he pleased . to como to your county and ntako | one or more speeches, as you may arrange. Write 1 h ot Iter Stokes and i make application for time. "The good cause is growing rapidly and I am greatly encouraged. f With best wishes for success, regards 1 to all the friends, I remain yours1 i fraternally. "Bun Tkkuhi.i..'' The Washington correspondent of f the Savannah Morning News sends the following interesting hit of news o r> to that paper: "A plan to turn South Carolina over to the Third Tarty developed here to day. A Texas Congressman stated that lien Terrell, National Alliance lecturer, was on his way to South Carolina to arrange with thci Reform leaders there, with the purpose of organizing the Third Tarty, Senator Irhv is now in South Car- I I olina to take part in the orgunizn-1 1 zation, so it is understood. This supposition is strengthened by the fact that tins is a critical time in the ) Senate, when every silver man is) needed. "No cause but a very urgent one would call him home at this time to South Carolina. Reform Congress-1 men here profess ignorance of this movement, but it is believed they know more than they will admit. A caucus of the South Carolina Congressmen, except Mr. Crawley, was recently held here. It was decided 1 to intiodttce into the next Legislature ' a hill to redistrict the State so as to 2 make a shoestring district of Braw> lev's and thus leave him out. The j i* other districts nre all TilImanites already. [ We do not feel that we are uiulu( ly optimisic in asserting that the active, healthy interest among all citizens of tho United States which the present state of affairs has called p forth, will he of vastly more worth to our future welfare than can he measured by our money losses Nev ' cr since our country became the groat nation that it is, have the far' mors and the wage-earners concerned themselves with public interests as they do to day. Never have the people sought the "true inwardness" of our legislative departments <>f government as at present. The farmer has learned that his prosperity r does not depend on his individual r efforts, and he must know the cause i. in order that it may be removed. Naturally he may follow false lights at first, but in the end his interest and his investigations will make him a bettor citizen. A nation of v of educated and unbiased people who t know their needs and have the manhood to demand them, is as near a democracy as.a government as great as ours can attain. This present campaign of education, induced by a r general discontent, will do more to y wards effecting ihe permanent welfare than an hundred years of unbounded nrftsnnrit.u wliinlt i?1iv?ivu i r~- 'V > ""j9 fosters apathy; and political apathy in this day is as near slavery us the American citizen can approach. Let e lis learn; let us know fwhat our true s interests are; let us he above the . senseless harangues of the demas let ua be above partisan ideas and sectional interests, and wo ' may rest assured that we compose e the true democracy, which, is our ultimate end.?lix. f No one can tell exactly who made t tho first piana for the reason that it j has gradually "evolved" from an instrument as much itself as one could well imagine. In the Twelfth * Century it appears to have been a r gigantic dulcimer, which was merely 1 an oblong box holding a series of strings arranged in triangular form * across its center. In the thirteenth 1 and fourteenth centuries the "clavf ichord," another musical monstrosi 1 ty, hed developed from it, and was 8 used well up in the Eighteenth Cent* ury. About 1711 Christofall of I'ailliti inuunfarl a I.nt !> m. mv? v*M KI * vii wu <% t veil iimiiUy uu t IV is said to remind one of a coal box 0 when compared with the elegato and f perfect toned instilment of to day. 1 ? ? t If the care of the hair were made 8 a part of a lady's education, we 0 should not see so many gray heads, 1 and the use of Hall's Hair Ilenewer would }>o unnecessary. **?**' Ullil J lllutr High Sell l,,stil four Word, Your Work, and THUUSDAY Keeping a V?'il'e Yonng. A curtain amount of social life is absolutely necessary to all of us to the old as well as to the young, writes Kdward \V. l?ok in a pertinent article on man's inability t<> see things as others sue them, in the Ladies' Homo Journal, A woman never grows so old that she ceases to enjoy the company of others, and generally the older she grows the more sue enjoys it. 11 is always a pity to seo a man fall into a state which he explains hy saying: "Oh, we're getting old, and don't earo for so much variety in our lives." In the pore unselfishness of his soul he always speaks of "us" and "we/' as if it naturally follows that because he is getting antiquated his wife must keep pace with him in Ids decline. Men all too often make their wives too old. It is a greater credit to a husband to keep Ins wife young than to make her grow old. His actions and his luibite necessarily influence those of his wife. Let him keep in touch with tho world, and both he and his wife will be tho ueilit uiiii inc vuuuger iur u. i iiku to sec a man proud of Ids wife because she keeps young. Old age is beautiful and lias its advantages, but a man makes a groat mistake when he rushes a woman unnecessarily toward it. And bo does it most perfectly when ho deprives her of tiioso enjoyments which every man should give his wife. No oeonomy is so false, so hollow and so misguided as tha' which tooks to withhold one pleasure from the life of a good woman, a true wife or a loving mother. The best homo a man can give a woman becomes "poky," as one woman I know expresses it, if she is asked to live in it three lutn dred and sixty live days out of every year. The good Lord knows tk/?' woman's life in this world is ; enough. She travels a path durance aim suffering, to wh bo he ever so heavily afflict0 ?p('.00. entire stranger. It, was -*8.00. man to make that path iJOOO inch as easy and as bright &triunont. Kvory dollar which a iv . < n \ f ,i .1 is now a I Inr t hi' n:itiimir>ss fit ii> his homo will come bacP a,u^ pupil; double, yea, in four folJN, as thov v Strychnine fn"xb'ml>taLi?nrin (>peu < U: The poi8onms mania. f ..., , . , *? , . r mformatioi prevailed in Charleston time past seems to have omiiii Georgetown, and in thi. hui parties concorned are nl Mr. L. S. Wing isJJte >inotnn j saw mill at Olivette, in ( '"o'J'town | County, and lias for soino time been boarding with a family near the mill. About a month ago ho was unwell for a few days. The pro prietor of the house had been espe ciallv attcnt'vc to Winer, but one dav | wont out of liis way to have some chicken soup made for his hoarder. The latter, remembering his past exi periences^was somewhat at a loss to | account for the sudden interest man ! ifested in his welfare. lie did not taste the soup, \ although the other man insisted on j his doing so. Wing kept a portion of j the soup, and shortly tried it on his dog. The animal ato it and died in , about ten minutes. He sent a sain] pie to Che.nist S. T. Donaldson, ol the Frost Laboratory in this citv, ! and a careful and thorough analysis disclosed the fact that the snip contained large quantities of strychnine, Mr. Donaldson has notified Wing of the result of his analysis, and th( rest of the proceedings will transpire in Georgetown County. A Mournful Meeting. The wind was tearing around i corner, sheding tears as it went. "Who are you,exclaimed a bela ted traveller, "and what are you do inrr Iiopp'-'" | - a t In reply there came only a sigh sc doleful that a street lump rattled ii ' sympathy. ' Are you a wandering on tens | spirit?" ' Don't you recognize me?" "No." "I am," replied the wind, "the re ! mainder of what the House of Uep j resentatives wanted to say on the li. nancial situation." And then several trees got so ner vous that they fell prostrate then aiu there. ? What Do Yon Take Medicine For?" Because you are sick, and want tc II C j get vruu, oi uourau. Then remember, that Hood's Snr sap* ri I In ('ures. All wo ask is, that in taking j Hood's Sarsaparilla you will do st with perseverance equalling or ap proacnilig tho tenacity with whicl your complaint has clung to you. Ii (takes lime and care to eradicate oli and deep-seated maladies, particu larlv when they have been so lotq hidden in the system that they hav< become chronic. Remember, thai all permanent and positive cures an j brought about with reasonabh moderation. Hood's Sarsaparilh attacks disease vigorously and ncvoi | leaves the tiehl until it lots conquer ed. MONTEI ueo nieMonks ?er jKsIlp Your 1 %?iint vy. SKI'TEMIJEK, Phillistino Records of the Hebrev Invasion. Science contains an interesting ho count of tlio rell-ol-Atnarna tablets from the pen of tho Rev. Thoma; Harrison, of Staplehurst, Kont I Tlincft,i.?i.i..o i u\ i u* v^'in/iviO) '/vv 'ii 11 n ui ?n i ? \V'"M discovered by a fellah woman ii 1887 Among the ruins of the pal act of Atnenophis IV., known as Kktton A ton, between Missieh and Assi out, about 1811 miles so.itli of (Jairo They havo !?oon found to contain i political correspondence of the vol1} greatest interest, dating from sonu 3,370 years hack. Many are fron Palestine, written by princes of tin Amoriles, Phenieians, Philistines etc., the burden of almost almost al being: "Send, I pray thee, chariots land Inen to keep the city of tlu : King my Lord." Among the cno : mies against whom help is thus inI vokod are the Ahiri, easily recognized as the Hebrews. The date tixo* that of the Ihhlc (1 1\i11lts vi. 11 <u accurate. Many names occur whicl are familiar in Scripture, as, foi example, Japhia, one ef the kingf killed by .Joshua (Josh. \. J); Adoniy.edok, King <>f .Jerusalem (ditto); and .labia, King of lla/or (Josh, xi.) Very pathetic are the letters of llibadd a, the brave and warlike King ol Ciobol, whose entreaties for aid art observed to grow gradually less ob scquious and more businesslike a; his enemies prevailed against him robbing him eventually of bis wift and children, whom ho was power ^protect. Hut the greatness o| p^.is wining under the nine Vlynasty; enemies were press r at home, and the chariot; V horsemen went not forth, iding il -? ? \, Biblical Curious. Strong prfmtal '-A" occurs 3,702 timet > will be tVxv' I nstamenl and 1 1,021 .ill not I,A1"' 1 /capital letter "()" will b< t Oth' 'MU ^w'?? xn ^,0 ( t esta 1 and tiireo times in tlie New. IP ./lie total mimherof capital letter ' whole Bible is 100,000; o r ^iall caps, 0,807, and of lower oas< Til,152,503; grand total of letters, in eluding one K, 3,500,481. There were no italics used in tin biblical translations until the time o the Kiii?r James version. 1011. Stephen Bangton, Archbishop o Canterbury, first tlirideil tho Bibh into chapters and verses, this abou I the close of tho Twelfth Century. The word "its" is not to he fount in the first edition of the Kin< i James version, Hill, hut has beoi substituted for ''his" in the *< 1 itioi of Kind. Tho shortest mimes mentioned i tho Bible are Ai, Ar, ftd, < )g, No, < )i So, I'rand 1/. Soo .for. xlix., '] i Num. xxi., 28; .losh. xxii., Jl; I** i exxxvi , 20; Jer. xlvi., 25; (Jen. xli 45; II. Kings xvii., 4; (Jen. xi., 2? and .fob i., 1. i The quotation, "He shall becalle ' Na/.arene/ used by Mathow in tli last verse of his second chapter, i not to be found in tho Old Tosh incut. Bebekah's brother's naino was Li ''ban, and the name of Abigail's bus band was Nabal, which is simpl l?!ibnn reversed. The nineteent chapter of 11. Kings and the thirl) , seventh chapter of Isa'ah are alik with the exception that verse 15 c . the former comprises versos 15 an 1 C of the latter. Neither tho word "(Jod" nor " I .on j is found in the book of Ksther. i Tho Kphriamites could not pro uounco the word "Shibboleth," l?i t! said "Sihholeth" instead. See proi ot this in .)udges, xii., 5. Tho quotation used by Matthew i . tho third verse of the third ohapt< 1 is not, .as is generally supposed, fro the < )ld Testament. The following words ore t.> 1; found hut once in tho Bible: As j atonement, immortal, millions an reverend. ? ? ? r Ciiuraiiieod Cure. \V authorise our advertised druggist seil l)r. King's New Discovery for Co .sumption, Coughs and Colds, upon tli } condition. It' yon arc allllcted with Cough, Cold or any hung,Throat, or Clu trouble, and will use this remedy as dire ted, giving it a fair trial, and experieni no benellt. you may return the bottle at > have your money refunded. We eon } not make this offer did we not know tli Dr. King's New Discovery could he roll j on. it never disappoints. Trial bottl I free at Dr. E. Norton's Drugstore. Cure lor 11oikIhvIio . As a remedy for all forms of lleadac > Electric Bitters has proved to be the ve i best. It effects a permanent cure and tl I most dreaded habitual sick headachesyie ^ to its intlucoce. We urge all who a ! atllicted to procure a bottle, and give t) 3 { remedy a fair trial. In ease of habltr ? constipation Electric Hitters curea by gi C : ing the needed tone to the bowels, ai . ' few cases long resist tlio use of tlds inr i eine. Try it once. Largo bottles on J *>0 cents at Dr. E. Norton's, Drug Sto I15Y. ; THE Oi.I nedy- 1845. fj BURROU TjIK PLACE TO K 28 1893, f Wells on Internal 'I'avrs. lion. David A. Wells, the veteran tariff reformer, has submitted a lengthy report to Secretary Carlisle ? in answer to his request for an opins ion as to o.xpedioncy, from a strictly ..r . ,.r # | >\;i in *' > IV >1 ? VI I ing or changing the present internal revenue taxes on distilled spirits, malt liquors and tobacco." Mr. Well's conclusions are given as follows: "The wisest fiscal policy for the Kedornl government, certainly for the immediate future, would soorn to ; ho to impose the maximum rates of taxation on distilled spirits, fermented liquors, and tobacco, that [will not create in face of cllicient adminj istration and severe penalties, undue I temptations for revenue evasions, in the case of distilled spirits, on I which the existing rate under the; 5 most favorable conditions of production is always in excess of 1300 per cent, on their lirst cost, or taxahlo 1 unit, this line seems to have been | absolutely ignored, but as the expo ricneo of icccnt vo.'ira ilml t h?? 11 I'cvtriilit.' from this .-oiuve is inerea--, I ing in ratio equal to or in excess of 11?4? increaso of population, and the ' | amount ot illicit product comparatively small, any change in the pros 5 out tax would seem clearly iuexpe. dicnt. '( )n the otln r hand, tu the case of fermented lienors and tohacco, tho 1 existing taxes are far below the safe lino of expediency, and might he advanced, e. c., to the extent of iH , per gallon or one llfth of a vent on the half pint in respect to tho former and in tho latter at least, to the rates ' imposed in 1S82, with great advan, tage to our national revenue and to * a greater simplification of our whole! fiscal system. Certainly, if addi ! tional revenues to inoet present ex^ isting and extraordinary requirement * for expenditures are needed, it woul I * be difficult to show where an imnn j I diate annual incomcnt ? with a cor- ; tain largo annual increase of tho same in the future? could ho obtained with loss of expense and popular friction than by the tax m< lili"j cations suggested. ''The existing custom duties on the imports of spirits, fermented Ii 3 j-{Mors, and tobacco arc exceedingly ' high and absurdly disproportionate I to the corresponding internal rcve s uue taxes on the same, and can mi f doubtedly he modi lied to some exJ tent to the advantage <>f ttie revenue. Thus, on imported spirits the duties i are $2 per proof gallon and the internal revenue tax 90 cents; on fer j. men ted liquors tho relative rates are j 2o cents and 3 2-5 cents per gallon, and on snuff, chewing and smoking r t ^ ' n o I j tobacco, 50 and 10 cents and (I cents, B i respectively. In the I'nitod KingII (loin, where the productivity of taxes has carefully studied, the custom { duties exceed the excise (internal r revenue) taxes upon boor h} 9 I. (12 ii cents) on thirty six gallons, and ii upon spirit Id. (8 cents) per proof gallon. ii! "One effect of tho maintenance of our excessively high duties on imporq ' ted spirits is that a greater opportu 1 nity is ottered to comuinations (trusts) of clomcbtic producers L<> advance $, tho price of domestic consumers; and another is that they encourage ^ . the domestic manufacture from 0 j cheaper materials of imitations of s j foreign spirits, whereby thef Amerienn consumer is induced to use a spurious in place of tho genuine article, and the (lovernment is defraud1 ed of the difference in relative tax a tiou, an amount belived to lie very ~ considerable'" Mr. Wells estimates that by the changes he proposes the internal P revenue from fermented liquors ' would he increased fnun ?33,000,000 ( I to ^Cl,000,000, and from tobacco from *33,000,000 to $00,001),000. 1 Alsc that the customs revenues from imported spirits, wines and beer i- ! would bo increased from *9,000,000 it ; to $10,000,000, and from tobacco of from *13,000,000 to $10,000,000. i Tho aggregate receipts from internal in revenue taxes and customs duties on Pi* these three commodities lie thus esti mates would bo incronsed from ; si80,000,000 to $3-15,000,000. He | concludes: I, ; "It is theieforo obvious that from j I taxes judicious'y imposed on only I t hrnt> coin iiirwl i t nf lit-n nr>)i<>u r?f in I ? " v* I (Illstry, tho rederul government can | at the present time certainly, eco! nomically, and with less burden am ,, disturbance to its people than by an) ils; other form of levy, collect an annu 11 h! revenue sufficient to defray all ol ("r i its ordinary expenditures, including ' interest on all its debts, and have it id i addition an annual surplus of $50, hi 000,000, leaving Its total revonut 1,1 [ from other sources i. import du i i .1 ii l r lies, ic.ss inose coiiociou ironi spirits bcor and tobacco, and receipts fron permanent miscollaneous sources, ag gregating about $9,000,00') avail b?* j able for the payment of pensions am ^ for other purposes." To eradicate the poisons whicl produce fever and ague, take Ayer" tat Ague Cure. It cures without leaving : any injurious effect upon the system | and is the only medicine in existence ly which may considered an absolute re | antidote for malaria. *r ~ V K'! > fikmJi|^^H GHS & CO'H| fio i^B^HHH WO will sell hc nHHB i> V y - ^BiS?i (iiTat \far lor .">4osijuifoes, "Mosquitoes:' Well, I should say so," exclaimed gonial Capt. Vcazey of the steamer Knoch t'ratt yestorday. llo had been asked if this was a good season for the birds. "Why, there are billions of them down in the tidewater counties of Maryland and Virginia. Wo caught it at Deal's islar.d Inst. Friday. There was a land breeze, and the mosquitoes swarmed about tho boat. Every one was loan and hungry and seemed to want a square meal, and from tho way we felt when we got away they must have gotten it. They arc bad in Somerset. I've got a farm four miles from I'rinccsg Anne, and wanted to go up and see if my wheat hal been harvested properly, but was afraid of the mosquitoes. I haven't been yet." Just why the mosquitoes are so numerous this year no ono seems to know. A great many persons attribute the increase to the warm, we spring, while others say tho mosquitoes aro just like peaches?after two or three years in which they are comparatively scarce thoro will he a tro incurious ci' p. i ins was ino view taken by a party of steamboat men who sut on one of tho wharves along Light Street yesterday and grumbled about the hot weather. A mosquito which had just arrived on one of the bay boats landed on the neck of one of the party, and was getting his, or rather her, dinner, when she was lolled by a vicious swipo of her victim. 4kTnere's anothdY 'skeeter' done for," remarked tho murderer, with satisfaction. "He won't bother anybody else in this here vale o' tears." "She, not he," corrected another. Don't vou know that a he 'skeeter' never bothers anybody? It's (lie females that make all the trouble in this world, 'vnd that applies to . 'shooters' just the same as it does to women. If all 1 'skcetors' were lies wo wouldn't have any trouble from them, just the same as if all human beings were meiL . we'd have things more quiet and peaceable like. A be 'skeeter' don't live long. Do lown along tho water I in the spring and you will see billions and billions of them, 'woolly heads,' wo call them. I bit you can got right in among them and have them so thick around you that you can't see through lliem and you will not ho bitten. Thoy only livo long enough to provide for next seasons crops and then they die, leaving the sho 'skeoters' to make mankind miserablo till cold weather comes."? Baltimoro Sun. o Four anil a (Quarter Miles Docp, rI'lie Hour of tho Atlantic ()ccan is now almost as well known to the ex. ' ports of the hydrographic bureaus j of the world as the surface is to the l most experienced navigators. Its I depths, currents, tides, etc., have boon carefully and systematically | studied from Greenland ami Spitzbergan to the great ice harries of the Antarctic circle. I recently wrote Prof. Forbes for some reliable data on ocean depths to use in "Notes for i the Curious" and quote below from !a portion of bis reply: "The general contour of the Atlantic's undula* : ting bed may now be regarded as pretty well determined. * "' * Scarcely any portion of its lloor has a depth exceeding 3,000 fathoms or about three and a quarter miles. There is a remarkable exception to this last statement, however in a wonderful sink or depression lying about 100 miles north of St. Thomas, an island off tho coast of Africa in the Gulf of Gttina. The outlines of this depression are similar to ' those of an old-time river bed. The Challenger expedition traced its 1 meandering* for upwards of 1,000 miles, finding portions of it to be more than a mile deeper than tho 'surrounding ocean, making the depth of the Atlantic at these points ' not less than four and a quarter miles, or about 3,875 fathoms. -\ r After Break fast i, To purify, vitalize and enrich the blood, and nivo nerve. bodilv and | "y. r> - . digestive strength, take I food's JSarsaparilla. Continuo the medicine . after every meal for a month or two ' i and you will feel "like a new man.'' The merit of Hood's tWsaparilln is proven by its thousands of wonderful i cures. Why don't you try it'/ Hood's l'ills cure constipation, j They are the best after dinner pill s i and family cathartic. J , Kvery man having a beard 3hould 3 keep it, an even and natural color, a and if it is not so already, use Duck| ogham's i>yo and appear tidy.