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jreasincr O'ircuiauou T H Ti 7" fT .M " TTT -TT-sl TTl A1 O, TTTn Tv TT T X TTs "TTT "T7" ' ran LGE3- V":: PAPER Published in. Clio JOHN V. HlCItG, Editor and Proprietor, adve rtisino mediu m -g"7"Rates Reasonable. DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OP HERTFORD AND LlDJOININa COUNTIES. Ol .CO Por Annum Lying between theRoanoko and Mo'. rin rivers, embracing the three cojr.t; of Hertford, Northampton and Bertie. VOL. IV. MURFREESBORO, N. ;C, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1889. NO. 38. ", T-.i-. :;-;.;v:.:.; ' - , . . , . - .... !-.:-. .!.. .... ' ... . :.r'y.---- - ' ; 1 INDEX .- TO . ' ' HERTFORD COUNTY. AREA 310 SQUARE MILES. POPU LATIO N 11,843. WHITE" 5,121; COLORED 6.722. Hertford County was formed in 17-39, from Chowan, Bertie and North a npton counties. It was named in com n itnent to the 'Marquis of Hertford, an .English nobleman, a friend ol liberty, an elder brother of Lord Conway, who, in 175 , moved in the House of J-iirds the repeal of the Stamp Act. Hertford U a namVof Saxon origin "and signifies the "Red Ford." ' ' Wintost. the county-seat, was named after the Wj nasi family; it is situated 15.Xjniles- nortli-east from-Raleigh, on the Chowan river, and has a population of about 500. - , '."Surface Level and sandy, soil good; watered by the Meherrin and Chowan rivers. ' - Staphs Cotton, corn, naval stores and fish. Being near the Norfolk market, trucking is also profitable. FruitsyApp ej, peaches, pears, melons Ecuppernong grapes, and thesmall fruits. Timbers Juniper, cypres?, pine, oak, ash. the gum3 and the usual eastern i growth. ; ' Post Officeb Anneta, Bethlehem, Cono, Harreljsville, Lotta, Mapleton; Menola, Murfreesboro, Riddicisvidle, Sr. John, Tunis, Union, Winton. Codntv Officers--Superior Court Clerk, T. D. Boone; Sheriff and Treas urer, J. S. Mitchell; Register of Deeds, W. L. Daniel; Surveyor, J. W. Jessup; Coroner, J. J. Purvis, Standard Keeper, John M. Jonc3. Commissioners J. N. Harrell, chair man, J. D. Riddick, J. P. Freeman, J. F. Newsome, and W. E. Cullens. At torney for County, B. B; Winborne. Board of Education G. A. Brett, R. P.' Thomas, and J. M. Wynn. Supt. Public Schools, George Cow per. TOWNSIiri'S AND MAGISTRATES. Maney's Neck S. P. Winb )rne, J. D. Riddick, E. G. Sear3, L. F. Lee and II. T. Brett. Murfreesboro - VV. T. Browne, II. C. Maddrey, J. C. Vinson, L. W. Rolfe, J. T. Chitty, A, M. Darden, and. Oris Parker. , St. Johns' G. JWY Beverly, G. A. Brown, II. D. Godwin, E. H. Joyner, C. W. Mitchell, C. W. Parker, and L. R. Tyler. Winton J. L. Anderson, J. B. Cham blee, J. B. Hare, A. I. Parker, W. H. Jernigan, J. F; Newsome, G. II. Mitchell and Robt. Hollomon. Harrellb villi: S. M. Aumack,J. P. Howell, J. M. Jones, C, N-. Pruden and W. D. Scull. : . - Law Firms Murfreesboro, Winborne & Bro., and D. A. Barnes; Winton, P. B. Picot, G. V. Cowper and J.i E. Vann. Superior Courts Meet3 sixth Mon day after the lirst Monday ;in March and September, and sixteenth Monday after first Monday in March. J. H. Blount, Solicitor. Inferior Courts Meets on the 4th Monday in February, and the second Monday in August. Judges, D. A. Barnes, II. C. Maddrey," and G. W. Beverly. B. B. Winborne, Solicitor. Notary Puplic -L. W. Rolfe, and E. L. C. . Ward, Murfreesboro; P. B. Picot, Winton; W. D. Scull, Harrells villc. 1 : Incorporated Towns MurfreesborOj Winton and Ilarrellsviile. Practicing i PnvsiciAKs- J. T. EI dridge, WCw Freeman, Murfreesboro; T. 1. Burbagej Como; J. T. Shubrick, A. II. Askeiv, H trrellsville ; J. H. Mitchell, J. W. Tayloe, R. H. Gary, Union ; S. S. Daniel, Winton. Incorporated Companies Roanoke and Albemarle Agricultural Fair, Mur freesboro; B. B. Winborne. President E L. C. Ward, Treasurer; W. B. Spencer Secretary. United Telegraph Company. Line from Winton via Murfreesboro to Boy kins, Va. J. M. Wyan, President. InCoLLEQEsChowan Baptise Female Prstitute, Murfreesboro, J. B. Brewer, President. i Wesley an Female College, Murfrees boro, E.J), Parham, President. Bankers Ward & Co., Murfreesboro. County Farmers Alliance Meets in the Court House, at Winton. once every month. T. E. Vann, President; G. A. Brown, Secretary; J. F. Newsome, Business Agent ; W. T. Brown, Treasurer. Steamboat: Lines Steamer Cliowan Capt.. Withy, from Franklin, , Va., via Winton to Edenton and Plymouth three times a week. . Steamer 'Lota, Capt. J. R. Williams via Winton to Murfreesboro arriving at Murfreesboro, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; leaving Mondays, Wednes days and Fridays; Steamer Pohatcong, Capt. A. L. Jones, from Murfreesboro to Montrose and return, daily. Railroad The Norfolk and Carolna, R. R., from Norfolk, Va., viaTunistoi Tarboro and Raleigh. District Officers Judge, Geo. H. Brown, Jr., Beaufort Co. Congressman, T. G. Skinner, Perquimans Co. ; State" Senators, W. P. Shaw, Hertford Co., and J. K. Abbott, Camden Co. ; Repre sentative for Hertford, J. L. Anderson. town fomurfreesorob. Murfreesboro is situated in the north western part of the County, at the head f'f navigation on th 3 Meherrin River, an I has a pop ilation" of 1,233. It was in corporated in 1 787, and nanasd-in honor of William ,Murfrc3, a Revolutionary hero and patriot, who resided here. Mayor B. B. Winborne, " Commissi.iners E. C. Worrell, G. W. Grimes, C. T. Vaughan, J. L. Harrell, 1st Ward; J. M. Wynn, 2d Ward. Constable, J. E. Evan3. . -cnuacn directory. Methodist Services every Sunday porting at 11 o'clock, and at night at 8 o'clock. Praver-mseting every Wed neaday night.-"Rev, R. J. Moorma, Pastor, Sunday School everv -Sunday afternoon. E. E Parham, Supt. , Baptist Services every 1st and 3d ondays, morning and night. Prayer meeting every. Thursday night; Rev; l- G VVood, Pastor. Sunday School very Suaday morning. J. B. Brewer, Superintendent. Episcopal Services evtry 3d' Sunday eTeniDg, Rov? y. -N, Skinrr, Rector. ' A MESSAGE. . O'er the great gray breast of the restless tea, A breeze is sighing; Not the breeze should sigh, "for the breeze is free Free o'er the ocean flying. 'Tis I should sigh by the great gray sea While the day's a-waning. - . - - Will the breeze not carry a sigh for me Soft as it goes complaining? If a breath crept close and then kissed your - face - " v ; ,; " . ' As with tender" greeting, ' . Would you guess and know, through the wide ' fresh space- ... , Whence came the voice entreating? Would you hear over there by your great gray What the -wind was saying. Understand the tale in that whisp'ring plea, Know what the prayer was praying? ' Ah, the breeze comes back with the fair gray dawn '. . -' O'er gray sea stealing, And the sun greets sea with a fire new born Strong for my faint heart's healing. And I know you said some word to the breeze. Some word love-meaning," For it kissed me a kiss from the cool soft seas Sweet as their tender sheening. - Alice Comyns Carr. WHAT CAME OF IT. BY DINAH STTJRGIS. "A very foolish piece of business," the neighbors said it was, when it became noised about that Belle Outhet was going to Boston. The Outhets lived on what is known the country found as the Back Road, but which is entitled to be called North Kings ton. It lies along the foot of the North mountain, in the beautiful Annapolis val ley, a mile or'so'back of the post road, over which the coaches rumbled along with their mail-bags and passengers be fore the day of railroads. Belle's great grandfather was an English squire, who in his day owned half the country round about, but much of the land had never been improved, and the estate had dwindled in value, until, in Belle's time, only the Outhet pride and a good-for-little farm remained to the family. At Acadia Seminary, where Belle was sent to school when she was old enough to go away from home, she was in the midst of the poetic Evangeline land. It would have seemed natural enough if she had fallen to dreaming under the spirit of quiet that pervades the place, or had taken to versifying or to weaving stories out of the legends with which the country teems. But she did none of these. It was not, . however, . until after graduation day, -with 'its showers of "congratulations -showers that never dampen the spirits of graduates or guestsT had come and. gone and Belle was at home again, that the plans that she had been brewing for the future came to light. They were far from being dream like or legendary in character. 4 'I hear the squire's daughter's goin' to Boston to study at th' Instoot of Techno lagy, whatever that is," said Farmer Har ris to his wife, shortly afterward. This was more 'than equivalent to putting it in the Weekly 6ossiperr hec&Mse Mrs. Harris made seven visits to the Crossiper's one. The gossips said : 4 'It does beat all how people that hevn't an extra sheep in their fields kin spend so much on ed jura tion, now don't it?" And they confessed to each other that; they 4,shud think Belle Outhet 'd been to;school long 'nough." The squire was perhaps no less aston ished than some of the wives and maid ens in the Village when his daughter made known her desire to go on study ing, with a view to fitting herself to fake up some one of the sciences professional ly. He was surely a good deal more per plexed. At first there seemed nothing but objections to! the scheme. For one thing, he did not see his way clear to af fording the cost of lessons and living in a big city, and even if he could, what good would scientific studies do Belle, he reasoned. . Perhaps good, old Doctor Pierce, Belle's godfather, and the squire's counselor upon every occasion, talked him . over. At any rate, the doctor thought Belle's idea a brilliant one, and said if she could make herself proficient in sanitary science, for example, she could revolutionize the country. And very likely the squire's naturally gener ous heart prompted him ; to make an ex tra effort; at least, it was soon settled that Belle was to j go to Boston, to study for something nobody seemed to know , just what, but something wonderful, no doubt, as she was; going to that remark able place. ' cj The day came when she had to say good-by to father and mother, to her brothers Ernest and Tremaine, who were still mere children, to friends and to the dear,1 old home, to the valley and to the j mountains. The good wishes of the crowd, gathered about the ugly, wooden ! box that did duty as a station, followed her as the cars moved off, and Widow Mills nearly lost her bonnet through the car window in saying: 4 'The Lord love you, Miss Belle, and don't you learn so much you'll forget your ole friends, now will you, dearie?" Through letters to the ! Woman's Ex change, the squire had secured a home for Belle, and a bachelor uncle in New York had promised to meet her when she got to Boston, to see her safely set tled, and to visit her from time to time. But the best laid plans "gang aft agley," in. all truth. Illness kept Uncle Outhet in New York, and when Belle arrived at her journey's end there was no one to meet her. To make matters worse, the steamer, in which the last part of the voyage had been ' made, was late in get ting into the harbor, and when the pas sengers were set Ion shore it was after dark, in a driving rain storm. The voy age had been a rough one, and sea-sickness had, reduced Belle to a state of utter wretchedness, and to find herself friend less in a strange land was hot calculated to raise her spirits. . But the mere act of stepping off the tilting ship upon mother earth was a joy in itself, and her natural presence of mind stood her in good stead now. Tn TD-rit.i-nrr Virim a olmiit. the exDeriences of that first night, she said she came to J the conclusion there was no need of being nervous, for there were official in uni form standing about on every hand with apparently nothing to do in the world but answer questions for just such novices as she was. She knew where she Wanted to go, and they could tell her how to get there. The good-natured custom-house officer examined her luggage in what he called quick metre, and an obliging policeman picked out a hackman, whom he knew to be an honest fellow, for her. And that was all. - Belle said it was not much of an emergency after all, when one had eyes and ears and a tongue, and knew enough not to ask questions ofany bodyv who did not wear somejrin'd of a badge to show who he was. ' . f Mrs. Outhet groaned in spirit 'when she got this letter, at the idea of a girl driv ing about a strange city after dark, quite unprotected, but the doctor said: 'Trust to Belle s common-sense, my dear Mrs. Outhet. A bright, level-headed girl like she is can take care of herself." ; The excitement of, getting established at home and at school occupied the first few days, without leaving a loop-hole for homesickness to creep in. Belle had argued with herself that she could not afford to indulge in it at any time, and if it laid pretty desperate siege to her peace of mind during the next winter, she never confessed it in her letters home, though, if the truth must be told, it sometimes needed a deal of courage to keep from capitulating. - ; : Matters did not always go smoothly. In what walk in life do they, pray?- But there was the pure delight of study that nothing could lessen. To offset minor perplexities that one never gets wholly away from, - there were f the agreeable courtesies shown her by new friends. To one particular circle of people Belle always felt especially gratefuli This was a club of musicians who held fortnightly 'at homes," to which they made a point of inviting students who were strangers or alone in the city, r To these delightful musical evenings Belle owed many agree able hours and pleasant friendships. With various long-goings and short comings the school years wore away. The first summer vacation Belle spent at home; the second year she worked right on through the summer, devoting the vaca tion season to additional studies.. Commencement came: at last, and, as might be surmised,- when obstacles had been encountered as a matter of course and had.neverbeen turned into bugbears, Belle had good reason to be . happy over her years of hard work. The ink on her thesis was barely dry when a request from the college at Halifax to the Institute of Technology to recommend a . teacher of sanitary science to -them, was formally presented to Miss Outhet. ' , . Surely, steamer never sailed so .slowly as the one that bore her home, but then it was heavily freighted with hopes and ambitions. The chance to at once step into useful and remunerative professional work was held a precious secret until she reached home. The pride she felt in it was surely of an honest sort, for was it not a proof that she had ; not been mis taken in thinking she could be of some use in the world? But there was no com mendation of school and college that compared in value with the pride in Squire Outhet's '.'to think of this being my Belle?" With a long summer vacation on her hands, the active little woman cast about for something to do that would be relax ation from study and still keep her out of mischief. ; There it was, acres of it, spread out on every ; side, and Belle quite took her father's breath away by suggest ing that they should go to work, he and her, to improve the. estate. No wonder the squire was dumbfounded at the idea of a young woman attempting to do what generations of men had undone, but Belle was very much in earnest, and turn the matter over as he would, he could see no good reason for refusing to let her try the experiment I I . Before long the neighbors were greatly exercised over the spectacle. of the squire and his daughter 44 trampin' up an' down the mountain, across back lots an' low lands, a surveyin an goin' on a great rate." " The women said they "sud think she'd better be a spinnin' or doin somethin' useful," but the men said : 4 'Let her alone an' see what she kin do. There's no better place in th' country than th' squire's, if 'twuz only looked after, but he don't know anything about f armin ; wuz always in politics, same's all his fam ily when he wuz younger. ' An now he won't sell a foot of his land; won't do nothin' with't himself, ner let any -one hev it thet could." . t . Soon after this fences began to go up on the Outhet placed and then it was re ported through the village that the squire had 4 'actually got a stumpin' machine." This, in face of his prejudice against "new f angled notions," was certainly re markable. But the new machine was nothing more nor less than a home made contrivance, the product of circum stancesand a little wood and iron.. The men on the place had said they could "do nothin with them fields west o' th old orchard s'long's ther's nothin to root out th stumps with," and Belle had said : 'Well, we will have something to root them out with," Simple laws of physics furnished the plan ;'. Belle explained the principles to Jim , and Dana men who had grown up in the squire's family and knew less about managing affairs . on an estate.than the squire, himself, "which was needless,'' as the gossips were fond of saying and in the end, the stump problem was solved. . . Belle, soon found, out that the dilapidated state of affairs was due to the habit of letting everything drift irom .an indifferent state to bad, f rom-bad to worse. : Merely locating the trouble helped to rout it. ; It was not long beforethe squire could see that science was useful in other places than schools! It did not stop with making stump . machines. It helped to make dressing for the stumpless fields, it shed light upon the economy of keep ing the live stock warmly housed and clean through' cold weather,, it traced Tremaine's illness to the old well be tween the stable and the house, closed it up," and brought , water to the house in pipes from the living spring east of the j garden. Its powei, at least with so able an exponent as Belle proved to be, seemed limitless. It showed how easily they might have ice through the summer by utilizing the pond that hitherto had been given to the ducks and to the skaters by turn, and a little! ice-house on the north side of the hollow went up almost by magic. The squire's-latent vigor began to show itself. Ho wondered no one had ever thought of turning v the lowland be low the road into a- cranberry bog until Belle suggested it, and then he astonished himself by deciding there was nothing to prevent two ycung orchards being set out. ; .. , . ,-'; ' The neighbors said they "never see the beat uv it," and Belle. .'ws even a good deal surprised herself to see what knowl edge could do in the place of heedlessness and ignorance. The spell of decay once broken, its power was gone - The evil work of years was not undone in a sum mer or in two, but it wasfeffaced'as it had grown, in time, that curffi all ills. Last summer Hester Pierqp, a former classmate, , who has succeeded to her uncle's practice in Kingston and Upper Aylesford, asked me to visit hr. While I was there I had the pleasure f meeting the squire and Jlrs. Outhet, ana of going all over the fine, old Onthit estate. There is nothing like it, it is said, in this country, and it is not hard tobdieve that this is so. Art and nature together have combined to produce results that seemed little Ishort of marvelous in sonle places. Hester had already told me sofne of the. story of the place, and the squirt told me much more that there is not tone to set down here. He pointed witi especial pride to the immense cranberry bog that we could see just beyond the old French burying ground, and told me it had paid the expenses of both his boys through college, and that his daughter hd estab lished a cranburyfund, as she called it, now, so the proceeds yearly shall go to help some poor student. :I wasyrry not to meet the accomplished daughter of the good, squire and his lady, as I had hoped to do, but she was away from home, lecturing. Dr. Hester - said it was astonishing to see what improvements sanitary , science jiad brought about through the dominion,,, and all primarily due to the pioneer teaching and writing and lecturing of Professor Outhet, as Belle is called. The , oldest son is associated with his sister now, and the second boy is proud to call himself a scientific farmer. Ladies1 Home Com panton. Balloon Adventures in the Clouds. To some extent rain retards upward progress, but, says Professor S. A. King, in the Nashville (Tenn.) American, I have made a number of ascensions in the face of storms. Snow, "however, is much more of an obstacle, and in a short time will accumulate upon the top of the balloon sufficiently to drive it to the earth. " ' ' . The clouds are sometimes as much as . 3000 feet from top to bottom when the j sky is entirely oveccast. Often even above j such a body of cloud may be seen smaller clouds with clear spaces in between. When within one of these spaces the; sensation is that of being in a vault, j With the solid snowy clouds below you and the smaller clouds around you being by perspective brought close around, it appears as if you were in a cavern. I have been above the clouds during a snowstorm, and the light of the moon shining so brightly through the rarified air produced an illumination rather super natural. I have very frequently passed through frozen clouds. This is where vapor has fallen below the freezing point and been congealed into a substance re sembling flour in appearance. This falls, and in doing so reaches a higher tempera ture, where the . small r particles are aggregated into flakes of snow. Some clouds, however, present very much the appearance of a veil, and ob jects on the earth can be distinctly dis cerned from a position above them. I have never known of an . in stance in which a balloon was hit by lightning. The thunder does not make a perceptibly greater noise than whed you are on the ground. The sound pro-; ceeds from the upper layers of clouds, as; does also the rain; and in many cases,; when the lower strata appear very violent,' perfect quiet there reigns except for such motion as is produced by the rain falling! through from above, The upper currents! are most active, and a cyclone or a wild storm is perhaps , produced according as those upper currents descend to or remain above the earth. Samoan Gunboats. Samoan gunboals are built in the most primitive style. Two long war canoes are lashed firmly together, side by side, and cross pieces of neavy timber are placed over the ton as a foundation for the "cabin," which is situated amidships. This cabin, also serves as a magazine, storeroom, and all of the other useful compartments in a ship combined. Its slanting roof is covered with mats and grass, and the whole structure is of the most inflammable nature. These boats xe built for Mataafa by the3Iononq peo plethe nautical tribe of the Samoans. They are armed with a superannuated cannon, wnicn is liable to be as aisas trous in its effects when discharged, upon the gunners who handle it, as upon the enemy against whom it is directed. The small arms of the natives are, however, j good, being generally of Tecent design and manufacture. Most Samoans are good marksmen, aS was illustrated in their recent collision with the Germans.! The gunboats have been seldom brought into action during the war. While Tamasese was besieged so closely in his fort and all efforts made to dislodge him seemed abortive, Mataafa assailed him from the water with a fleet of more than a hundred war canoes and four of tn 'gunboats. Some of them .were fully two miles to seaward of the fort harmlessly blazing away, their shots falll ing about midway .the desired distance; while the fort kept up a desultory answer ing fire with about the same effect. For war purposes they are, of course, almost useless, unless in close contact with - the enemy when the small arms Could- be made effective. Washington Star, . ; THE NEWS, The new gunboat Yorktown was put tn commission, ana tas ouicers took coarse, at Philadel Iplua, Saturday. Mrs. A. H. Lucas, her two daughters and a hired man, who attempted to ford a swollen creek, near Car thage, Ma, were drowned. Lieutenant Louis Ripley and twenty -nine injured men, of the United Statas steamers Trenton and VandaEa, arrived, at Sxn Francisco, and were transferred to the hospital at Mare island ijf a vy Yard. 5arah Jane White-ling-, sentenced to be hanged for murdering ner children in Philadelphia, has been . re ipited to June 25. 7. N. Burger, of Nat ural Bridgs, the largest marchant ia Rxjk bridge county, Va., his failed ! for $10,000. t Frank Hancock, a fireman at Blue Run, Pa., haojged himself after killing his four cMldrenj- "E Idy & Browne,' dealers in' hardware .and. builders' materials, or Bir- - I - mingham, Ala., made an. assignment. The wages of the min3r3 and coke-workers at the Standard mines, Mount Pleasant, Pa., will bo reduced fiftesn and a-half per cent. May 1. U-CMonel EJiott F. Shepard gave Whitelaw Reid, minister to Franc?, a fare well, dinner at hi3 home, in the Vanderb li mansion! New York city.- Simon Houtz" jot Attica, Ind., in a jealous raga s!jot and killed his wife, and then committed suicide. Flvel brothers named Arnold, who lived near Fort Smith, Ark., while on their way to Oklahoma, got into a difficulty with other boomers on the road, and three of the broth- ers were! killed. Fire in Atlanta, Ga. t caused panic in loss "S aggregating f 150,000 and a 1st. Phillip's Episcopal Church. V Five men were drowned by their boat cap aizing while crossing the Chattahoochie river at Baint ridge, Ga. In a dispute over a claim in Oklahoma, George Kramer was shot and instantly killed by Charles He id lie. -Sidney TjValters, of Cleveland, O., committed suicide in a Chicago hotel John H. Swift, twenty-four years old, was hanged at Hart ford, CtJ, for wife murder. -if ichael Early. and Hugh Reilly, engaged in removing tele graph wjires in New York city, were drawn out of a hotel window by a rope attached to a falling pole. Early was instantly killed, and Reilly injured.- The locomotive of an express train on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railway! jumped the track at Coropolis, Fa. , and plunged down an embankment, dragging sevel al cars after it. The mail agent and several passengers were injured. J. Man day accidentally fell from the new suspen sion bridge, Niagara; -A package contain ing $15,C00 in gold mysteriously disappeared from the office of the Northern- Pacific Ex press Co tnpany at Brainerd, Minn.- Forty one cowboys from the ranches in Kansas are to take t be places of striking street car men in Minneapolis. y:-- v " Josephj King, a wealthy man residing near Springfield, .Mass., was murdered by his son And his home burned. . The' murderer sub. sequently committed suicide. A boiler in the tannery of Henry Hallinger at Columbia, Pa., exploded, wrecking the tannery. An ore mine near Reading, Pa., caved in, and Richard j Ettinger was crushed to death. York county farmers are still holding their winter fattened cattle, the markets being too overstocked for them to obtain a fair price. j-Tbe Standard Oil Company has bought out the Ohio Oil Company, and added another great works to its gigantic monoply Thieves blew open a large safe in Ray mond Bros. store at Franklin, Pa., wrecking the building, but not obtaining much booty. Warrants have been issued for Captain E. R. Sewell, First Mate Ryan and Second Mate Robbinsj of the ship Solitaire, arrived at Philadel; ?hia, on the charge of brutality to seamen. Fred HcMasters, a stenographer, found in the New York Postoffice $30,375, which he returned to tha owner. All the men on the Trans Ohio Division of the Baltimore and Ohio have, with exceptions, accepted the new insurance system. Matilda, the four-teen-ye4r-old daughter of James Williams, put rough-on-rati in her parents' tea and nearly killed them. Ministers Grant and Porter sailed from New York for Bremen. Small-pox is spreading at Nanticoke, Pa, The street-car strike in Minneapolis is as far from settlement as ever. Trouble is apprehended.- Edward E. Little, of Cass county! Michigan, a veteran of the war of 1812, celebrated his one'hundredth birthday. A. W.Edens, a Boston real estate agent, was arrested on the charge of uttering forged deeds of land in Florida.- Mrs. France Carmichael, charged with poisoning her husband, in Hillsdale, Mich., was acquitted Patrick McAtamney a switchman em ployed py the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, lpst his life while saving that of a ten-year-old-boy. -Wm. Gould,, a speculator in oil, committed suicide in New York. The ferryboat New Brunswick, plying be tween ifew Yorkand Jersey City was de stroyed by fire. James Fields, of Butler, Pa., ws shot and killed by his wife.- The Great American Tea Company, in Ne- braska sheriff. City, Neb. , is in the hands of the - Governor Francis, of Missouri, has respited John Matthews and Wm. Meker the bald knobbers, sentenced to be hung.- Francis Ebbs, the colored mistress of the late James M. Roman, of Louisville, has been awarded her lover's property. The chal lenge cijip offered by General Payne, for an international yacht race, has been accepted. MARKETS. Baltimore Flour City Mills, extra, $5.20 r$5.40: Wheat Southern Fultz, 9?atl.07; Corn Southern White, 41a4Jcts, xeuow d,9.?AWttsi. Oatia Southern and Penusvlvania 31a34cts. ; Rye Maryland & Pennsylvania 56a57ctsL? Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania 16 50af 1,7 00 ;Straw-Wbeat,7.00af8.O0; Butter, Eastern Creamery ,2 SaJets. , near-by receipts 17al9ctsV Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream. 11 al2cts.,i Western. WM al2cts; Eggs 12a 12W; Tobacco Leaf Inferior, la?2.00, Good Common, 3 00a $4 00, Middling, 5a 6. 00 Good to fine rjad,7af 10; Fancy, 9a? 12. New ITork Flour Southern Common to fair extra,2.85a3.30; Wheat-No.l Whit?, 99 alOO ; Rye State, 54a56 ; Corn Southern Yellow,43a44Xcts. Oats White, State 33a34 cts. ; Butter State, 18a26cts. ; Cheese State, 9allJctk ; Eggs 12al2 cts. FhiladeLphia Flour Pennsylvania fancy, 425a4.75; Wheat Pennsylvania and Southerii Reel, 91 Ja92; Rye-Pennsylvania 52a58cts. ; Corn-Southern Yellow, 42a42cts. Oats 33a33X cts.; Butter State, 30a31 cts.; Cheese N. Y. Factory, 11a 13 cts. Eggs State, 12al2 cts. ' .. CATTLE. - Baltimore Beef, 3a4; Sheep 3a5f; Hogs a6J. N ew -Yobk Beef 5i7; Sheep 5a5 85; Hogs $5 15a5 40 East Liberty Bf 4Ka5; Sheep 3a Hogs $5 X5a5 0 THOMAS W. PALMER, THE SEW MINISTER to 'Spain. ::v - Thoma3 Witherell Palmer, of Detroit, tba new Minister to Spain, was born at Detroit, Micb., Jan. 25, lb3J; was educated in the public schools, at Thompson's Academy at Palmer (now St. CI ir), Mich., and at the Michigan University ; is, and has been a manufacturer and farmer ; has served on the Board of Estimates of Detriot an 1 as State Senator in 1879-80; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, upon the eighty-first joint ballot of tho L-gislature to succeed the Hon. Thomas W. Ferry, Repub lican, and took his seat Dc. 3, 18S3. His term of service expired March 3, IS&U. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. Louis F?igelmas39y, 12 yean of age, was drowned in tne Susquehanna river, at Mar ietta, Pa., whilo trying to swim ashore from a boat, J. Ulrich Alton was killod and Joseph Legros was fatally injured while attempting to driv across the railroad track in Fitch burg, Mass. Craf i'i saw mill, near J unction City, Ky., was wrecked by a boiler explosion. Ches er Hughes, Jack Sheets, Albert Hurley and Samuel Morris were killed. The house of W. P. Ward, in Robin county, Ga., was burned, an 1 his wife and five chflden , were burned to death. The house was a small one, Willi the chimney and door at on end.. At New Philadelphia, Ohio, Emms Haney, a young woman, attempted to kindle a fire with coal oil and was burned to death. Her "father was severely burned while trying to extinguish the flames. The Signal Service telegraph cable, cross ing Bregou Inlet; N. C, was swept away during the recent storm.- Telegraphic com munication with Caps Hatteras is thus cut off until a new cable is laid. A tornado struck a settlement at Long Lake, British Nofthwest Territory, on the night of the 3lst ult. Its path was thirty yards wide, and it tore up trees by the roots and blew down houses and barns. No loss of life is reported. Four Children of S3bastian Merdam, a farmer, near St. Josaph, Minn., picked irp roots of wild parsnip from furrows in a plowed field, and ate the rootp. Three of tbe children died in great agony, the other is expected to recover. -. While pouring a 40?0-pound casting in tbe foundry of William Tod & Cj., in Youngs tewu, Ohio, it exploded, hurling the molten metel in every direction. George Bryant, Frank Anderson, Nick Carroll aud William Kurz were badly burned. A freight train on the York River Branch of the Richmond and Danville Riilroad, ran into a wash-out near West Point, Va., and was wrecked. Two men, a colored brake man and the fireman, a young man named Durvin, were killed. Eagiueor Lynch was tsrribly scalded A despatch from Newport, 11 I., says that Henry Lewis, an old man seventy yeara of age, while returning from fishing in a small skiff, fell overboard in tbe Uarbor near Lime Rock Lighthouse, of which Mrs. Wilson, his niece, widely known by h?r maidm nam 3, Ida Lewie, is keeper. She saw the accident and put out in her boat and rescued her uncle. Charles Hodges, a fire boss, and Evan Madden, a pump runner, were passing through an abandoned work in Grand Tun nel mine, in Wilkesbarre, Pa., when their lights ignited a large atnount-of accumu lated gas, and both men were blown to pieces. . Eddie Gallery, II years old, was accident ally killed at bis home in Chicago. While overhauling the drawers of a bureau the lad found his father's pistol. Thj mother grasped the weapon, unfortunately catching hold of the trigger. An explosion followed. The ball lodged just undar Eddie's right eye and he died in half an hour. A freight train ran into the rear of a pas senger train on tho Chicago, Santa Fe and California Railroad, near Joliet, 111., and a special car was demolished, Henry R. Hart, Miss Alice Winslow, Thomas Smith and a porter named Harry was killed, and John L. Hart and his wife, Henry Lamb and E. L. Palmer were badly injured. Henry Bachman was crushed between the cross beam of tbe elevator and t!ie heavy cross bar through which a rope worked over head, in tbe establishment of Smith, Jame son. & Keyser, in Baltimore, Md. He was oiling the works on top of the elevator while it was going up and neglected to stop it in time. The people of Tyler county, W. Va., ev pecially along the railroad are very much excited over-the apppearance of dozens of mad dogs. A lirge dog owned by Captain Henderson, of Long Beach, went mad and attacked and bit every animal within its reach. A general hunt is in progress and every animal thought to have been bitten .will be killed. A street car in Jersey City, N. J., was struck by a drill engine while crossing the Pennsylvania ' Railroad. Henry Back and Thomas' II. Spun were dangerously and Charles Ericksen and Frederick Seeger badly hurt. Several other passengers received trifling injuries. John Daly, the ga tern an at the railroad, was arrested. ' Two passenger trains on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad collided near Peach Springs, Arizona. They ran into each other at a sharp curve on a high embankment. Both engines and three cars fell down the bank Into a stream below. The engineer was fatally injured and a laborer stealing a ride was killed. The passengers were badly shaken up, but escaped dangerous injuries. A defective switch derailed the four rear coaches of a Baltimore aud Ohio passenger train, near South Chicago. James Ilanna, of Smith Basin, N. Y., was killed, and Henry Houk, of Adamsville, Iowa, injured internally. Amon those who were bruise i and cut were: Frank She! ton. Smith's Basin, N. Y.; John H. Macdonald. Anti gonish. Nova Scotia; B. O. Itanibo, Shelby, Ohio; O. xl. Ktraley, Uievelanf , uaio; Mr. ana Airs. r. r. v ooa, oaon, x Alex- ander Wood, Cuba, Xi Cleveland. Ohio. Y.-: A. Bershig; Mrs. Febiger, the wife of Rear Admiral Febiger. was dangerously, if not fatally, injured, in. Washington, by being thrown from her carriage. As tbe vehicle was turn ing F. street the pole broke and the borsea becoming frightened dashed madly up the street. Mrs. Febiger's son jumped from th3 carriage and tried to stop the horses, but was thrown to one side. The hores dashed on, in spite of the efforts of the driver, and near the Ebbic House one of them slipped and fell, upsetting the vehicle.? This stopped the runaway, and Mrs. Febiger was picked up and carried into the hotel. One arm was found to be broken in two places, her leg was injured and her face badly cut. Mrs. J. F. Hert, of Brookline, Mass., who was so badly scalded in th) accident on the SantaFe and California Railroad, near Joliet, IU., died ia the hospital in Chicago. Th3 other wounded are recovering. i YT 1 Tr New York Lard Refineries in Flames. Many Workmen Suppose! to H.-wt Perished in t lie llourin Furnace. - The biggest and fiercest firo Nuw York - r; have witnessed ia this gvneration swept t ' east bank of the North river clear, fr i Fifty-ninth street to what woul i t.s t:..x:y flfth , street if the street ran to tUo riv-. i there. It destroyed more thnn a millinn nn i a- 'l Of property belonging to the New York ( i tral Railroad and at least half a mi!',.. :i d lars worth of stores of lard, fl jur as I th l. belonging to other persons, noUMy, N. IC Fairbanks, the great Chicago lard m rch u t dettroyed the two big Elevators A an 1 li u the Vandarbilt system, a big brick bu i t z. stretching from Fifty-ninth ttrt ti s. tieth 8631, and occupied jointly by th? I'air bank lard refinery and the Rositter r--and wipes out the property oi" tho v York Central system from Fifty-ninth to ii Sixty-fifth street. O ia mux wa? killed ia hit h v llo:i; H 1 1 from th3 fire at th-a nr.t ouSore k. A num ber was iojarjl ja.np:ng fro ti . win l.r.va ol the burning butlJm, but in tii j wil l terror of the tremendous eonll i;atio;i no necjui, was kept of tiiem. Tliq police h tvo a rec r I of the following casualties: Henry Banning, a workman in Fuirt ank'j refinery, killed by jamin from u third story window. John Johnson, a workman in Fairbanks'! severly injured on the baclc by jumping fruit a window. Charles Brown, severe iujuries about lis: bead from tbe same sourca. William J. Noble, lirem in of Eagtu 3 No. "J, pro3lratii by tbe haat while at woi k at the loot of Fifty-ainth street. . Edward II. Tobiu, fireman, likewise j roi. trated by the heat. Rumors were llyin arounl th it a nuinLji of workman h i I Imiii ciuht and tjumo I i;i the Fairbanks refin ?ry, bus it waa im: j.h!i1 to acertain the truth of tujm. The fire broka out in the s outhaast corner of ' the Fairbanks refinery, whoro woi kni 'n were busy at the time putting the new liil cooling apparatus, how no one kn?v an i probably no one ever will know. So.ikt i in grease as the old building was, it was all im in an instant. From the ground floor tbe tin swept upward to the root with the speed of o race-horse. The mon at work in every story dropp.-d their tools aud ran for life. Ttie tt iir li A-. was a giowiug chimney, spewing out tiro. The windows were the only way out. Tn ' flung themselves out by scores head ong an J behind them burst out the dimes. How imnj were there no one could tell. - Tho33 who catni ou5 w3ro picked up an J carried away by their friends, shu i ienn g to think that soma might have b3:i left. L'ry ing wives aud mothers crowddlthe p oi i e i lines, shouting for thair buibinl an i s ns. or begging-for news of them. Tuey Wfre turned back and bidden to lojk in the throng for those they sought. The fire swept on through Fairbanks re finery to the old establishment of th-j Y. J. Wilcox Company upon the water front be tween Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth btre-ts occu pying a budding, 2)3 by 2 JJ feet, that liila I out the block. The reliuery was on th j south half, and thj Ro3iiter stores for general merchandise oa th3 norta 6iie. A ttrou brick wall divid-ad the building in tho mid dle. Upon this brick wall thj iitvmeu bun; their hops for - a half-hour of de.-pjrute effort. The flames beat against it, hiatel it red hot; other .brick walls and the roof fell inupni it; it stood like a reck. Anything but such t fire it would havd resisted, shut our. 1! i flimas fed by molten lard burn fiercely uui leap high. They leapel above and 'around it, an 1 reached across Sixtieth street an I the blip. Offer there stool the tlrt and lh3 bigger of tie enormous grain elevators of the New Vork Central Railroid. Io wis elevator A. It stood presenting it3 gable end to the 11 uri 'i tnat were blown towards it. Ouco that caught fire there would be nosaving elevat or B, 500 feet further up the river, and no t l! i&g where the fire wouli 6top, for beyoud were freight sheds innumerable. Chief -Shay saw it, aud led his mon to a fight for very life to gave tho elevators, lit knew that even if they did get their engine into the railroad grounds they wouli bo at little use, for there was only a small six-inh water pip3 there, and that was as goo 1 as none at all. At the first intimation of danger to tho elevator Captain Killilea had sent polirenwri into it to warn tho firemen out of hirm" way. They ft d, leaving their apparatus and were none too early. A bun iro 1 r i.k of ale that had been rescued from th? iron shed on tbe river beyond th-? refinery bvforo it went to the bottom with the pier it st--l upon, in a common wreck, and rolled un 1 r the eaves of the elevator, and it was thought, far out of harm' way, were burned tLcro where they lay. No one any longer cared for anything Lut flight. Complete demoralization had s iz;l upon everybody near the fire. There was nothing to be done. Tho firemen them.-el v y were powerless. Tho streams their hoit-j and their couple of engines persisted i;i throwing against the threatened elevttor was no longer A butB, the next big buil ; inline, were worse than useless. It was 7 o'clock when tbe second elev.it r caught fire. It went like the first. In lift - i minutes from tbe first flickering about one of the upper windows the whole big mmird roof was a roaring mass of fiimes. i'ror.i that time on it was the same Etory over again. But the line of half a mile of burning buildings, burning aa buil lingt never burn ri before, the lurid blaz leaping skyward a hundred feet and more, was iuexprelUy . grand. The losses: Elevator A contained 10o i bushels of grain, chiefly oats, worth prob ably 43 cants a bushel. The greater p irt l the small quantity in elevator B was b irl y. The two elevators, with a capacity of J,'-; J, 000 bushels, had barely loo.OO) bush. ! them, worth less than 100,0'JJ. Elevator A was worth $753,003. It was built thirt.-ri years ago. B is worth foOO.OJd. They w.-ro of brick to the third story B was b uir. three years after A. A lrge iirt of th- expense was in the solid foundation, whica may be saved. The New York Central a!o owned the building at the foot of Fity-:;L:,!U street in which the fire broke out. It leased to Fairbanks a year ago. It wa six stories high, 230 by 2X, and built of Lric k. A hundred thousand dollars may cover t!.j los3 upon that. What are the Fail b inks t j Rossiter stores is conjectural, l'utting t'. former's Iosj at 'JJJ.WJC), Ilossiter Co. 1- individually little or nothing. The, r.:?r cbants who used these store-rooms had oo Is there, chiefly flour and lard, worth i JV V . Tbe building was full to the ro f. The railroad los is at least $1.1133,0 JO, cov ered by iusurance, it is said. Another account gives losses as follows; The Rossiter stores' contents, iOW.O M; tk Wilcox Company's stock, $45J,00!J; Elevator A, $S30,000; Elevator B. $753,OOt); D . c I) (contents), $330,000; Dock A, t o Wilcox Building, $223,030.. Total, i'J K . . The police estimate the damage at i 1, ', 000. No official statement could beobtni:; I from the.Railroad officials of the l.-.i.i cr insurance. Dukixo tho water famine in 2Tc r leans Mr. Lorio was tho envy f J. neighbors because ho LaJ a big c i 1 r One morning he discovered that il the night some one had bro!:e:i oj;c:i t! cistern and stolen from 1," . j to 2,( gallons of water, inLLiis wm
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