The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 28, 1893, Image 1
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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.
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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.
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WO will sell hc nHHB
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(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.
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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.