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3 TT HE LARGEST WEEKLY 2 -JCa k PUBLISH ED lit THE TERRITORY Lying between the Roanoke anl Lro;rr: Rivers, embracing the three coun!i-s c Hertford, Nortbaraptou and C.rtic. JOHfJ V.H1CK3. Editor and Proprietor. DEVOTED TO TUE INTEREST OP HERTFORD AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. 500D . ADVERTISING . HEDIUH. RATFS REASONABLE. SI.SO Por Annum VOL.! VI. MURFREESBORO, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1891. NO. 18. Increasing . i Circulation, . 1 WlaW. 1 W 1 I 1 V-MMa" ' 1 l"7 H ERTFORD COUNTY. AREA 340 SQUA.UE jSILE. IP O P ULAT ION 11,843. WHITS 5.121; COLOK CD 6.722. H En-rronn Coukt y va form ed In 1750, from Chow in, B.Tlic and North ampton counties. It was mmcd in com pliment to the Marquis of Hertford an English "noblcnian, a friend of liberty, an elder brother of Lord Conway, who. in 176 V moved in tho Mouse of : fordU the repeal of the Stamp Acf. Hertford U a name of Saxon origiu and sirni5cs the "Red Ford." Wintox. the couuty -seat, was named aflcr the Wyuns family; it is situated 153 mile3 north-east from Raleigh, on the Chowan river, and has a population of about 500. " . , i; Surface-?-Level and sandy, soil tjood.; watered by the ileherrin and Chowan rivers. ,' : . Stajticn-t-Cofion, corn, naval stores and fish. Dc:ng rear the Norfolk market, trucking s also profitable. "Frulli- t e?f peaches, pears, melons acuppcrnon"; grapes, and the small fruits. Timlers Juniper, cypress, pine, oak, ash. the gums and the usual eastern growth. Fosr Offices Anncta, Bethlehem, Como, H;irrc'Isv411fc, Lotta. JIapleton, Menola, Murfreesboro. Kicldicksvillc, St. John. Tunis. Union.--Wintou. nrd Alioskic. County Clerk, T. urer, J. S. Officers SuDerior Court, D. B one: Sheriff and Treas- Mitc-hel; Register of Deeds O. A. Brown; Surveyor, J.D. Parker; Coroner, J. II. Mitchell, Standard Keeper W. A. Perry. Commissioners W: T. Biown, chair man, B. Ferguson, ,C. W. Mittche'.l, J. F Ncwsome and W. E, Collcns. At torney for (bounty, J. J Ye lies. Board of Edccvtion- S. M Au-nack, W. P. Sw hw1 C. W. Sctrboro.iirh, Bupt. Public Schools, George Cowper. TOWN8HIPS AND MAGISTRATE8.- Maxey's Neck P. Winborne, G. C. Picot, E. G. Sears, L. F. Lee, J. B. Vaughan. MuaFKSKfuono L. W. Rlfe, n. C. Maddrer, J. C. Vinson. U. Yaughan. Ji E. Jones, W . S. Nelson, and Geo. T Darden. St. Jonji's G. XV. Beverly, J. 11. Mitihell, Lee Tavloe, III D. Godwir, C. W. Parker, L. R. Tyler, and E. II. Joyner. "NVint n J. L Anderson, Robert IIol loruon, W. U. Jernigan, A. I. Parker, J. IJ. Matt'iews. Haubi l'.svillk S. M. Atimsck, "W. .7. Lloyd. R. J. Baker, E. D. Scull and C. Nl Pruden. Law Firms Murfreesboro, Winborne & Bro., D. A. Barnes, J. J. Yf ates; Winton, P. B. Picot, G. V. Cowper and J. E. Vann. Superior Court. Meets sixth Mo n day after the first. Monday in M irch and Beptember. J. II. Blount, Solicitor. Criminal Court Meets on the 4th Monday in February, and the second Mondty in Augtut. Judge. B. B. Winborne; P. B. Picot, Solicito-. ' Notary Public L. W. BoIfe7 Mur freesboro; P. B. Picot, Winton; W. D. Scull1, IlHrrelUville. iNonRroKAiKD Towks Murfrceaboro, Winton. Hanellsville and Union . ITlACriCINO 1-IITSTCIAV8- J - r. jct- ridge, W. G. Freeman, Murfreesboro; T. 1. Burbage, Como; J. T. Shubrick, A. II. Askew. II urellsville: J. IL Mit. heli. Ahofkee; J. W. Tayloe, W. II. Sears, Union, S. S. Daniel, Winton. Incorpo3atkd Companies Roanoke and Albemarle Agricultural Fair. Mur fnesboro; B. B Winborne, Presi dent v J- M. Wynn, Treasurer; A. .P, Hines, Secretary. United Telegraph Company. Line from Winton via Murfreesboro to Boy kins, Va. J. M- Wynn, Prosideut. iCoTLKQ es Cliowui Biptisc Fem:de' Institute, Murfreesboro, J. B. Brew3r President. Wesleyan Female College, Murfr ecs boro, E. E. Parham, President. CouTY Farmers' Alliance -Meets in thj Court House at Winton, every three months. S. M. Aumack. President ; G. A. Brown, Secretary; J. F. Newome; Bjsiness Agent ; J. J. Brow 1, Treasur r. Stsamboat Lines. - Stcamei Lota. Capt- Withy, from Franklin, Va., via . AVinton to Edenton, three times a week. Steamer Keyntone, Capt, Smith from Franklin, Va., via Winton to Murfrees boro, two times a week. Railroad The Norfolk and Carolina R. R., from No-folk, Va., via Tunis to Taiboro and Raleiuh. Distr.'ct Oi fic srs Ju Ige, Geo. II, Br.)yn, Jr.. Bca itort C j. ; Congre?sm?n. W. A, B. Branch, Beaufort, Co, Btater Senator. P. II.M rgan, Currituck Co., and J. barker. Gates Co. ; Represen tativefor Hertford, J. L. Andersm. TOWN OF MURFREESBORO. RIui Ir.csboro is situated in the:north westt rh part of the (flinty, at the head f navigation on lh ; Mehcrrin River, and has a population of 1,200. It . was in 2rporated in 17S7, and named in honor ol Willian Jurfree, a Revolutionary tfero and patriot, who resided herev M a Yoa Lr W. Rolfe. - Commissioners B B. Winbo ne, U. Vaughm. D A. Day. an i T. II. Nie iol Ron, 1st Ward; L C. Liwrcnce, 2nd AVar l ; C instable, J. D. B i'ib; CI jrk. J . P. Ilinef, CHURCn DIRECTORY. - MEm )Dist Ser ices every Sunday nooning at 11 o'clock, and at night at s o clock. Piayer-meetinr every Wed . neuUj nighr. Rev. F. M. Edwards P 't. r. ssundiiy School every Sun lav afc riooi. E. IJ. Parham, Supt. - " B prisT - Sovires every 2nd and 4tH Sundays, morning and ni got. Prayej neeting every Thursday uight. Rev. T. G. V Wood, Pastor. Sunday School ;vcry fn iday mor aiug. J. B. Brewer, 3i.per;iitendent- The strike of the Chicago longshoremen has spread until it includes 800 men. The only line not involved is that of Leopold & Austrian. The company granted the demands of the men and the vessels arc moving,on time. On the great freight lines little or no work is being done except on the Lehigh Valley line. A. MYSTERY. " . Our baby boy one day , Folded his violet eye. And from his waxsn clay His white soul flew away To far off Paradise . His little hands so fair.-j - r We crowed u'pou bis breast, And standins- by him thra We gave him to the care Of one who doetti best. And when to final sleep ; TVe laid him soft and low. We could not help but heap Upon hiai lilies deep And roses pure as snow. '" ' ' ' ' - -: " " ". ' ' " -And then, with courage great, His mother faced tho years; : But oft, whan it was late, - Among his toys she sate And fondled than with tears. But now another child, With wondrous violet eyes, Rests on her bosom miIV And smiles as be had smiled - To-day, In Paradise. , And something sesaas to 6ay -To her, so sad before; "The soul that flew away . Is back again to-day; Sweet mother, weep no more f George Borton. in Chicago Herald. Cleaning Out Pirates. During the three trading vessels fitted out at Singa pore for traffic in the Java Sea mysteri ously disappeared, and no trace of them could be discovered. Two more were added to the list early in 1869,and about July 1 it was whispered around that a nest of piratc3 had been discovered on an island off; the north coast of Java. If the news was true the chieftain of the gang must be a bold fellow indeed, and needed looking after at once. The merchants at Singapore were talk ing of fitting out a ship to investigate when H. M. cruiser The SHarfc arrived. She was one of the old-fashioned tea gun brigs once so numerous, and at that time was engaged in a survejr of the south coast of Borneo, or about to be. As I was one of her crew . I can relate what happened during the next two weeks firstihanded. It seemed that the stcry of the pirate was accepted as a fact, for we over hauled our armament, tooK in a lot of ammunition and strengthened our crew by fourteen men before sailing. These men were drafted out of a crew belong ing to a man-of-war which had been wrtcked on I the Malay coast, and all were old hands. The captain got his bearings from some source unknown to us, and when' we left Singapore the brig was headed to tno east. We jogged along down the coast of Sumatra for a week without finding any unusual inci dent, and though we spoke a score of crafts none of them had any information about the pirate. The crew had begun to ridicule the idea when something oc curred to open our eyes very wide. One morning, about an hour after day light, we came up with a Dutoh trader, which was taking care of herself. All her sails had been cut away, iopes were flying in every direction and she was so low in the water that we wondered why she didn't go down. When a boat pulled oil to her it was to find the cap tain mortally wounded and his wife and two sailors stiff and dead and horribly mutilated on the deck beside him. We got him off, but had no time to give the bodies burial before the little craft went down. ' The captain was a man about forty years of age, and though hardly alive when we found him he rallied enough to tell hi3 story. . The trader had been trafficking along the Java coast and had finally complete t his cargo and headed for .Singapore Just at sunset on the previous e?ening he had been overhauled by a native craft carrying about forty men. He was then about ten miles off the coast and about five miles south of an island known as "Queen's Bower." He had no suspicion whatever of the natives, and the first thing he knew they boarded his craft and began to cut and slash. When they had finished the crew they began to plunder and strip the vessel, and were with her until midnight. Before leaving they bored her full of holes, and we had reached her just in time to rescue the captain. The first craft was joined by two others later on, and the three car ried at least a hundred desperate fellows.. The captain heard and understood enough ' to satisfy him that they were an organ ized gang of pirates and that they were also well equipped, for their bloody busi ness. - f . i v.-": ; y The island mentioned was not over twenty miles I away, and as the Java Sea was and is a j great high way, it did not seem possible that men would take such a risk as those pirates had. The trader said that no less than three friendly sails were in sight when he was attacked, but all too far away to signal, even . if he had been warned in time to do some thing. Owing to the shoals surround ing the island our craft could not approach-near enough to use her guns and shell the i ellows out, and we were not strong enough to land f rom our boats and deal with them. " The sight of an armed vessel nosing ; around would rput pirates on their guard, and so it was re solved to play them a Yankee trick. We ran into a bay on the coast and set to -work. . i -. v , : :.. You are probably aware of the fact that an English ; man-of-war, no matter how large or how small, is a pattern ol neatness and regulation, and the cut of her sails will, alone establish her iden tity while her hull is yet below the water line. We had, therefore, to un do and overhaul a great deal. We put everything in : seeming confusion aloft, disguised herjhull as much as possible, and when we" left the bay .The Shark had the look ! of a merchantman which Jiad been . through a typhooa and was too short-handed to maifc repairs. Tos Dutch captain died on the day alter we found him,' and his Hast words wer a prajer that ; we l might fall in -with and punish the pirates. It was just at daylight that we ap peared off the north coast of the island and anchored on a bank about three miles from the beach.;" Men were ant aloft as if engaged in repairs, a boat wa got down as if to work on the hull, and the bulk of the crew remained in hidin? below. No doubt the fellows ashore had a lookout in some trees, and provided ' With' a good glass ha could see every thing going on aboard. It was hardly sunrise when a small native craft with four men in her came out to within pistol shot of us to make an investigation. Our captain hailed them and they replied with gestures of signify that they would return I to : the. shore for help. They evidently took U3 for what we pretended to be and we were piped to breakfast feeling that our ruse would succeed. - About eight o'clock, with" the wind breezing up lively, three native sail-craft put out for us. A man aloft with a glass reported that each cr.ift was crowded with .natives, and it was now our plan to weigbf anchor and make a little ' sail, and pretend to be standing away from theai as if alarmed. .The object was to draw them at far away from shore as possible, and we had added a mile or more to the distance when the i-foremost boat came witnin hail. She hadn't a gun of any sort in - sight, but she had forty-eight desperate-lookmg villains in plain view, and every one of them had a cutlass and pistol. ; While her captain was hailing us in a language no one could understand, she was slowly edging along down upon our starboard quarter. At the same time a second craft was drawing ahead oa the port side, and I the third kept in, our wake. 1 Only seven or eight men were in sight on our decks, and the natives saaoied to have no suspicions - of a trick. The breeze was a littfe bit too strong for their manoeuvring at first, but after we were about six miles off shore the two sudden ly closed in to board u?. Oar captain had been closely watching them and waiting for this move, and of a sudden the drum beat to quarters and our decks vere alive with men. I was captain of No. 3 gun crew and had the honor of firing the first shot. It was a solid ball, and it struck the craft on her port bow and went clean through her and dropped into the sea beyond. This opened the fight; thie natives instantly realized that they had caught a Tartar, and they saw, too, that their only means of escape lay, in capturing the ship. Therefore, in stead of running away, as we had looked for, each craft' bore down on us to board. They were handled as easily a an Indian manoeuvres a canoe, and it wasn't five minutes after the first- gun was fired ere they were on our - quarters like wolves seeking to hamstring a . deer. J. fired another solid shot and then loaded with grape, and this last charge was fired right into a mass of natives waiting to clamber up the j side. The gun next to nie fired a solid shot, which tore through her bottom, and two minutes later she foundered right along side of us. The second 3raft got near enough to grapple, but the irons were thrown off, and two guns played solid shot into her hull un til she went down stern foremost, leav ing thirty men struggling in the wave?. . The third craft had forged ahead, sailing five feet to our one, and would have boarded us at the bows but for the sudden destruction of the others. Their fate frightened her off, but she had scarcely laid her head for the island than it was brought aiound as if the crew had made some desperate resolve. Now decured a curious thing. She had about thirty men on board, and she came down on us with every one of theax. shouting and screaming and tried to lay us aboard. We could have sunk her with one gun even, or we could have picked off the whole crew with our muskets before they had crossed the rail. Word was passed to give her a full broadside at the word, and when the smoke cleared away she was not to be seen. There were over twenty of the pirates hanging to the wreckage around us, however, and a boat was lowered to pick them up. You can judge of their j desperation when I tell you that every one of them fought like a tiger against being picked up, and that we got only five out of the lot. The others we had to kill as they floated about with the sharks snapping at them. Two of the five leaped out of the boat after Seing pulled in and were seen no more, and the others gave us so much trouble that the captain swung them up to the yard-arm. Thus not one -single man of the hundred or more who came out to attack us escaped with his life. I was in one of the two boats afterwards sent ashore to see what sort of a lair the pirates had made for themselves. The only human beings ashore were an old native woman, a one-armed Japanese, and a white boy about fourteen years of age. This boy was off an English trader, cap tured the year before, and had been held prisoners ever since. He said they were 107 men in the gang, and we found enough plunder on the island to load our ship, i They had captured about a dozen different vessels, large and small, and in every case had plundered and sunk them. They did not! always kill aH the crew. Soon after the boy was captured they brought in an American sailor off a spice trader. The boy knew him only by the name of William, but remembered that his home was in Boston. It turned out that they had spared his life to make use of ; him as a blacksmith, but when they found that he had no knowledge of that work he J was put to death. By order of the chief he was hung in chains on a tree about a quarter of a mile away, and was eleven days in dying, The boy went with us and showed, us his bones still hanging. : The one-armed man and the old wo man, assisted by the boy, were the cooks for the gang. They at fir3t seemed Very much alarmed, "and protested their innocence of any complicity in the crimes of- the pirates, . but when, they came to understand that all the villains had met their fate, and that we had come ashore to clear the island of its last bale of plunder, they suddenly ran-into a , rude store- house, blocked up : the - doorway with boxes, and and opened fire on ui with pistols.. We had two men wounded before we could dislodge them, and fee were then hanged to the same limb and their bodies left to " the birds. What plunder we could not bring off we burned on th9 island, and before leaving we set the forest on fire in a dozen places, and the flames did not die out until the whole length and breadth had been swept clean of vegetation. -AW York World. . : , Engraving With Dynamite. Among the many new uses to whwu gunpowder and other high explosives have been applied recently is that of en graving. . By means I of the (force gen erated by the detonation of these article the lines of delicate leaves, grass and insects have been impressed on; the sur face of the hardest iron procurable in the space of half a second. By old processes hours ; were consumed where machinery was used and any attempt was made to to secure artistic result!, and days where manufacturers restored to hard: work. Many recent experiments have been made, mostly by officers of the army and navy, "which have demonstrated the efficiency of the methods. At Newport a few weeks ago a heavy charge of dynamite was exploded by several officers" who were delegated by the Government to test a new method of electricity in fuse. j Somehow a small dried leaf without the knowledge of the officers had slipped in between the dynamite cartri4ge and the iron block from which the! charge had been fired. When the experiment had been com pleted the officers were surprised to find the perfect imprint of a leaf in the iron. The most delicate lines were reproduced with startling distinctness. j A series of experiments, which were attended with remarkable success, fol lowed. ( One of the officers who made the first experiments is now in the city,! aad he gave me an account of his discoveries when I saw him at an uptownihotel the other night. ,. 'I was rather surprised to find that it was "possible to reproduce the outlines of perishable articles upon the sqrfaci of iron by means of explosives, "said he, "and was at fir3t sceptical, although I had often heard that a candle could be fired through an oak plank. ''When we "found the imprint of tho leaf we make several similar tests. ; "They took place at the torpe4o sta tion in Newport. We placed Several leaves and flowers between two plates of boi'er iron and then fired a moderate charge of dynamite on the upper. jilate. Tho exact outlines with eten the veins in the petals of the flowers tero re produced in the hard metal. j "Other and more extended (experi ments were attended with similar re sults. "Another singular fact is that when exploded under water the imprints are much finer than those produced in the open air. Frequently when a wad of gun cotton is exploded, beneath the sur face of the water the explosive will sink into the iron foundation so deep that the sunken words and figures will be repro duced in raised characters on the iron." Several manufacturers have followed the example set by the officers and some day probably dynamite will be in practi cal use as an engraver. New York Herald. "Admiral of the Bine." When we read that the Hon. John By ng, Esq., Admiral of the Blue, was shot on his own quarterdeck by sentence of a court-martial, we think, after the first feeling of pity, that his rank was a queer one Admiral of the Blue! What did it mean? It was 130 years ago that he was executed. Of course the rank doesn't exist now, and anyway, it was an English rank; history will explain it. But the rank does exist now, and, what is more, it exists in the United States Navy. The senior rear-admiral flie3 the blue flag with two stars, the next in rank the red, the third the white flag. Ad miral Kimberly is rear-admiral of the blue in our Navy, Admiral Gherardi is admiral of the red, and their juniors are admirals of the white. When only junior admirals are together the senior of them flies the blue ; but let Admiral Gherardi's ship appear, and down goes the blue, to be succeeded by the red, while Admiral Gherardi's vessel flaunts the blue. - And then let Admiral Kimberly happen along. Down comes the blue and the red, to be succeeded by the red and the white; and behold,"it is Admiral Kimberly's craft that displays the white starred blue en sign. Just this happened at the Wash ington Centennial two years ago, when the junior admiral was first on the ground, and had, unwillingly, it seemed, to go down one peg every time a senior appeared and r broke his ensign at his (ore. Philadelphia Telegraph. , Batter in California. Butter is made in a peculiar way in California, but it is sold, in still more eccentric fashion. The butter-maker always turns it out in round rolls, about a halffoot in length,' supposed to weigh two pounds. The dealer sells it by the roll and charges for two pounds, but the roll always lacks from six to eight ounces of full weight. This thing has been going on for years to the loss of the con sumer, and without profit to : any oae except the middleman. The latter buys butter by the pound and sells it by the roll, so he makes a clear profit on the. short weight. When a man handles several tons of butter a day this makes a large item, for on each roll he will make from eight to ten cents, or at 'least $100 on every ton. The dairyman caa'f pre vent this, as if they made butter in good two-pound rolls no commission man would handle it. What the butter maker proposes to do is to establish an honest mould for the rolls and then sell their butter themselves In a co-operative market. This will also run out the oleomargarine . which . is sold ;T by many dealers as second-class butter. it. Louis Globe-Democrat. Omaha, Neb., has been selected as the place of meeting of the Methodist Epis copal generaPconierence of 1892. THE NEWa A coach filled with, young members of St Aloysius, Catholic Church, of Newark, N. J., was struck by a railroad train, and one youn man killed and a number of others injured. - -An Indian sent out to explore the new salt lake in the Colorado desert discovered that it has its source in the Colorado river. Smith Paul Chickasaw, aged eighty, was divorced from his sixth wife, and his son and grandson were ' also divorced from their re spective wives. While a ferryman named Mickey was rowing a party of eight across the Monongahela river at Braddock, the boat was upset and Mickey and two unknown men were drowned. The party had been attending a. picnic Dr. John Baptiete, of Chicago, who claimed to be a fcpiritulist, was committed by a New York police-justice for examination as to his sanity. He rushed excitedly into a -station-house and stated that he had been robbed of $300 and a valuable gold watch and chain while he was in a trance at a boarding house. He was' uuable to locate the house when detectives were sent out to investigate. He talked8o wildly of having converted over a thousand souls and told so many contradic tory statements that the detectives decided he was mentally unbalanced and took hira to court. On his person was found a big dirk knife, the presence of which he explained by saying that he had carried it ever since his life was threatened by Chicago's anarchists. Ex-President Hannibal Hamlin died sud denly while playing a game of pedro at the Terra tine Club in Bangor, -Me. Uncle -Jimmy Layton celebrated his one hundred Mid fourth birthday nearMay'sLandine. N.J. Last Monday Running Eigle, a Pawnee In. d ian policem an, was k i 1 1 cd ou the Pa w n ee reservat'on, near Arkansas City, Ark. Run niug Eagle's slayer was a suspicious charac ter, name unknown, whom the policeman was attempting to disarm.- At Newcastle, Pa., a traction engine drawing, a shanty on wheels went through a bridge in Wcyne township. .Tobn Byron, Charles Newton and Chalmer Shaffer were caught in the wreck, and so badly scalde 1 by the escaping stream that they will hardly recover. G. M. Low- rey, who has been taken to San Antonio, Tex., on a requisition, from Oakland, Cal., proves to be an extensive embezzler. The indict ment against him was for defrauding the New York Life Insurance Company, of which lie was local agent, of $2,000. It now appears that the shortage will reach $20,003. -A horse attached to a buggy,in which were John Smitb,a fa"rmer,and Miss Dawson, was fright ened by boys near Franklin. Ky., and ran away. Smith's neck was broken, and Miss Dawson fatally hurt.- The National Youths' "World's Fair Association has been organized in Philadelphia. George W. Stevens has been promoted from general superintendent to general manager of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Judge Wallace, of Charleston, S. C, in a registration case, decided that the governor of the state can neither appoint nor remove a supervisor of registration without the consent or advice of the state senate. The lake forming in the Colorado desert is extending dangerously near the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. Old residents in the vicinity of Salton say the desert lake is not a new thing, but that the water is higher this time than ever before. John Lund, a Swede, was killed during a quarrel at Newberry, Mich. John Rausch killed his sweetheart, Maria Buruhet, and himself at Lawrence, Mass.' Richard John son.district attorney of Allegheny county.Pa., and one of the brightest young lawyers in Western Pennsylvania, died of heart failure, aged thirty-five years, and single. J. H. J. Doane, a well-known clothing dealer of New Bedford, Mass., has left town, and is said to be a forger to the extent of $15,000. Mrs. F. L. Phillip, the handsome blonde who leaped from a train on the Chicago and North western Railroad at Ashton, 111., while being conveyed to Denver by Detective Reno, was captured at Aurora by Sheriff" Stainbrooke, of Lee county. She was badly bruised about the head and one arm was broken. She was placed in Detective Reno's keeping and was chained to him. Thus they started for Denver. She declares she will never go there alive. The Florence, Ala,,Tripoli Works will shortly . commence operations. It is theonly works of the kind in the United States, and the pro prietors are certain that they have a bonanza. The tripoli is found in large quantities in Law rence county, Tenn. It is said to be the only deposit of tripoli on this side of the Atlantic. It makes an excellent paint for inside work, and is unexcelled for polishing purposes. E. T. Mann, manager of the Shelley planta tion, near Shelley Station, Bolivar county, Miss., was murdered. He was eating supper, and the assassin shot him through a window. A negro tenant with whom Mann had quarrel ed is suspected. The negro has run away. The Railroad Commission issued a circular to all express companies doing business in Texas, notifying them that on the 13th of July they would begin the work of classifying and sub dividing express freight and fixing a schedule of charges on the same.-; Storms about Karf- eas City, Ark V have done great damage. Water is very high about Salton, Arizona. The thermometer was 135 in the sun. William McGuire, fifty years old, and his daughter, eighteen, were severely whipped by -Whitecaps in Crawford county, Ind., because, it is charged.they were living in an unnatural relation. MARKETS. Baltimore Flour City Mills, snper,$3.60 3.75. Wheat Southern Fultz, $1.C61 .08. Corn Southern White, ' 7273c., Yellow, 6S69c. Oats Southern ana Pennsylvania 50te52c Hye Maryland and Pennsylvania 9798c. Hay. Maryland and Pennsylvania 11.0011.50. Straw Wheat, $8.009.00. Butter Eastern Creamery, 17 18c, near-by receipt 1415c. Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream, 9i10c. Western. 89Jc. Eggs-r-17 ITic.Tobacco, Leaf-Intenor$T.()01.5UGood Common. $4.005.00, Middling, $6.00a8.00, Good to fine red, $9.0011.00. Taney, 112.00 13.00. New York Flour Southern Good to choice extra, $4.255.85. Wheat No. 1 White $1.064 I. 08. Rye State 5860c. Corn t Southern Yellow, 66Y&67c. -Oats White. State 4243c Butter State, 2 l22c. CheeseState, 79c. EggT 1718c. Philadelphia Flour -Pennsylvnnia Fancy, $4.'2o4.$Q. Wheat, Pennsylvania and Southern Red, $1.081.00. Rye Pennsyl vania, 5o57c. Corn Southern Yellow, 68 &69c. Oats 4242Jc. Bntter State, 19 20e. Cheese New York Factory, 1010ic Eggs Stafcy 17lSc. . CATTLE. Baltimore Beef $5.505. Go. Sheep $3.00(0,4.75. IIogs-44.754.90. New York Beef 17.008.00. Sheep- .25a.25. Hogs 4.30(a)d.2o. East Liberty Beef $5.606.-50. Sheen H2&(g5.d0. Hogs-4.gO84.90, A STOBII Houses Wracked and tb.8 0ccnpant3 Killed in Germany. Hailstones Break 100,090 Panes of Class aud Cut Grain to Pieces A Hall Lifted from Its Foundations. A terrible storm of thunder, hail and rain passed over a large part of Germany, causing immense damage to property and loss of life in the villages of Suehtelon, near Dusseldorf, Rade and Sittard. In the Crefeld district, als near Dnsseldorf, the -storm" was especially severe and the thunder and lightning terrific- Many houses were completely wrecked and the inmates buried in the ruins. Thirteen bodies have already been re- . covered. Army pioneers have been sent to the scene of disaster to aid in the work of rescue. It is vet too soon to form any estimate ot the total tram ber of Ji ves lost The storm caused terrible destruction . throughout the lower Rhine district, where it appeared as a tornado. The Riflemen's Hall, at Crefeld. was lifted frem its foundations and carried clean away.' The circus was blown over, and pavilions were damaged and their contents were shattered. Several attaches . sustained injuries. The effects of the storm were 6till worse in the neighborhood of Suechtein, on the roads Viersen and Sittard. Bouses were overthrown, trees were uprooted and many cattle were killed, and besides much damage was done to minor chimneys and roofs. The total damage is estimated at $250,000. The inhabitants, who took shelter in basements or in open, escaped with slight injuries, as did workmen buried in kilns. At the village of Aurath scarcely a house was spared, forty being destroyed totally and a man being killed. The damage there Is esti mated at $175,000. A fund has been started for the relief of the homeless. Volunteers are searching the debris for possible victims. At Brunswick the 6torm assumed the pro portions of a cyclone, and the inhabitants re port it as being one of the most terrible in their experience. The streets are filled with wreckage. Houses were demolished and others badly damaged, while many thoroughfares were turned into miniature rivers. The hail-stones were unusually large, and, as a consequence, it is estimated that 100,000 panes of glass have been broken. The old' churches, that form a marked feature of this ancient city, seem to have been singled out by the elements upon which to wreak their fury. While not seriously damaged, the Dom kirche, or Church of St. Blaize, the patron saint of Brunswick, St. Martin's, St. Ulrich's, St. Andrew's and St. Catherine's are all more or less injured , in various portions of their fabric. : In the neighborhood of Sprottau, in Prus sian Silesia, the hail was so large that the grain in the field was literally cut to pieces. At Sanct Ruprecht, near Gratz, the capital of Styria, in Austria, a water-spout burst over the town with fearful force, sweeping away the cabins of two peasants. Nine were drowned. Every hour is adding to the story of disas ter, and but few places on the path ot the 6torni seem to have escaped. - A'ienxa. A water-spout in the vicinity of Murau, Styria, destroyed twe villages and caused the loss of twelve lives. CABLE SPARKS. Smallpox is raging in Witlen, a flourish ing manufacturing town of Westphalia, and also in Herne and Hocrdt. Earthquakes occurred at Verona, Italy. Buildjngs were shaken and cracked, and the inhabitants rushed to the fields. The strike of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company's stokers and coalers has ended, the company partly conceding the strikers' demands. The drought in the province of Madras con tinues. The poorer classes are already suffer ing acutely from famine and from the scarcity of drinking water. A SCnEME is on foot in Rome to establish in the European capitals Catholic banks, An effort will be made in New York to obtain support to the scheme. ' The Central Statistical Society of St. Pet ersburg announces that in December last the inhabitants of the empire numbered 1 10,009, 000, an annual increase of 15 J,000. La6y Macdonald,widowof the late premier of Canada, Sir John Macdonald, has leen raised to the peerage as an acknowledgement of her husband's long and distinguished pub lic service. The Brazilian government, by a decree which goes into effect on the 1st of January next, includes consular invoices among the documents required to effect a clearance at Brazilian custom-houses. - The Standard Oil Company of the United State?, having purchased the interet-t in lead ing German producers, is now seeking to buy or combine with the men who control the pro duction of Russian coal oil, and if successful will control the world's supply of oil. The complete election returns in New South Wales show that the opposition has elected 57 members, the ministerialists 61, the labor party 2G and the independents 3. Grouped according to tariff policy, the repre sentatives of New South Wales will number 75 for protection and C2 for free trade. It appears that the exhumation of the body of James MeHenry, the Erie Railway liticant with a view to exauiuation fr poison, was done lor the reason that McIIenry's life was insured for over one million pounds in various companies in England and America, and the companies, or some of them, suspect suicide by poison, which would void the policies. A dispatch to the London Standard from Bangkok says that French troops have occu pied the Province of Luang Probang, east of theMekoag river, beinga vassal State of Siam. This action-is regarded as an attempt by France to annex Sian;, with the object possi bly of assisting Russian designs in Eastern Asia. . ':- . : BRUTAL WHITECAPS. A Helpless Tonng Girl and an Old Man Whipped Almost to Death. There was another brutal whipping by Whitecaps in Crawford connty,Ind., in which a young woman of 18 years was one of the vic tims. William McGuire and his 18-year-old stepdaughter live near Leavenworth, the county-seat of Crawford county. They were reported to be living in adultery, but there was no proof of this charge. About 10 o'clock in the morning 20 masked Whitecaps, all armed with revolvers, went to the McGuire residence, broke down the door, and seizing McGuire, who is about SO years old, and the stepdaughter, they dragged them to the woods and tied them face loremost to trt es. Then the e o hing of both victims was lowered to the hips, and the Whitecaps com menced the cruel work of switching them on the bare backs, flaying them from the should ers to the hips. The young woman shrieked for merry at every bloWj but her appeals were vain, nntil she sank fainting from the pain. She received over 50 lashes, and her shoulders, back and hips are frightfully lacerated. Old man Mc Guire was given about 74 lashes, he also faint ng under the savage punishment. Afier the whipping the Whitecaps notified them that if they were found in the county 20 days later they would behnngup by the necks and left for buzzards to pick. This infamous whipping of the helpless girl has created the most intense excitement at Leavenworth and in the neigh bar hood of that town, ac'l Is denounced with great bittcr-new. SOUTHERN ITEIia SOME INTBRESTISOSEWS CO'iril.t FROM MAJTY SOlTtCF.H. A fine lithia sprinc has been disrov err lr.' WythevUle, Va. Joseph Fout, of Frederick county, coin nut ted suicide by hanging. The newly-elected city oSlcers of Alexan dria, Va., mere installed. E. L. Clarke, of Alexandria, Vs., wrs kill 1 on the Washington and Ohi o l:oaI, near I.f burg. A movement is on foot in Norfolk, V., f r the establishment of a naval militia corj Norfolk. Kanawha county, W. Vs., will enrt - franite court house in Charleston, t c i 100,000. The wheat crop in Roanoke county, Vr. . this year is pronounced to be the lar t har vested since 187tf. Ozark, Ala., is gettins rich. She oxa i money and has over -$1,500 of hard cnh in her town treasury. Gen. Jubal A. Early will be tho ornt r the unveiling of the Jackson monument Lexington, July 21. ! t The Roanoks (Va- Machine Workv 1 just booked one order lor ten engine flnltV. r - nundred freight cars. Hudson Young, aped 21 year, of r.ottt"Ui t county, Va., was thrown from a wspn n Buehanon and instantly killed. In Putnam county, W. Va., James Haw- kins was shot and killed by two masked men. Luther Glenn and Joseph' Locket have tcv arrested. The Bales of leaf tobacco in Lynchburjr.Vj-., since October 1st aggregate l!,5 .t,.VX) poun-.N, an increase of 670,!HMl pounds over months of last year. The remains of Lieutenant-Genernl A. P. Hill were removed from Hollywood iVnirterv, Richmond, Va., and placed in the rcceptael prepared for them in the Hill monument. Frank A. Parsons, a civil engineer, n f Colonel Parsons, chief engineer of the V ( Virgina Central Railroad, had his riht h:w blown off" by dynamite near Beverly, W. Vn. A large cotton syndicate has been formed in Charlotte, N. C, and ineorporHtrd umler tli name of lleath Cotton Company. The shill v5 ing points will be Norfolk and West Point, a. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has purchased for $1,600 an eliijihl' lot at t h crossing of Piccadilly street, AVinehestr r, Vm, on which it w ill erect a handsome passer.; r station. The Alleghany Mining and IevelopmMtt Company of Clifton Forue, Va., Iihs author ized its executive committee to close cnntniot for the erection ofa rolling mill and nail null in Clifton Forge. Near Crockett's Hpriiigs Montgoim-ry en.. Va., a few days ago Flournoy Jewell slmi and killed George Hall. The difficulty nvjis tin result of an old grudge, and it ic nu Jewell acted in self-defence. A flouring mill, with a capacity of I V) hir rels a day, is to be erect ed at Gaithershurg, Md. The capital stock of oao has been subscribed by business men in Baltimore, Frederick, and Washington, 1. C Mr. Mark Manns and his child worr strm k by lightning at their home, three miles f rom Matthewp, N. (.'., and both were instantly killed. Mr. Manns's wife escaped. The family were sitting around the implaer nt the time. Lewis Shipley, of Gam h-r,' Carroll county, Md., has .1,032 peach trees five years old tha; have never borne until this season, and. ar(p now so full that they are in danger of brenking down. The peaches are now as large n hvilb d walnuts.; In Albemarle county, Va., Major George X. Ferueyhough and John Crickenbergcr quar reled about some cattle, the ontcom- bincr that Ferueyhough shot Crickcnbcrgr-r through the neck with a pistol. The wound is regarded as a serious one. Peter Flater. of Carroll county, Md., win badly injured by attempting to unhitch hi horses from a mowing machine, when they started forward, and parts of the machinery struck him about the head, legs and arm, lacerating and bruiting him severely. Mrs. Holland, an aged lady living nt tlx home of her nephew, Mr. Spier Cochran, nt Scotland Neck, N. C, was killed by a horse. She saw the horse about to pass through a gnt and went to drive him away. The licrv turned suddenly and kicked her, striking h r on the side of her head. Right Rev. Ethclburt Talbot, now Mission ary Bishop of Western Idaho and Wyoming, wffs elected Bishop of Georgia by the I )k esa n Convention. The new bishopis in the prime of life and is thought to combine those qualities most necessary to his success aft head of tha Church in this diocese. Riley Greenlcaf, a well-to-do farmer of Roane county, W. Va., committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope to a tree. No cause for the act was assigned, but he hns been subjected to temporary spells of insanity ( r some months and it is supposed while under one of these he committed the rash net. The survey for the connection of the Nor folk and Western with the Virginia Midland Railroad at Front Royal has been compb ted, and the building of necessary mile ot thatrori 1 will soon be commenced and speedily finished. The impression is that the Norfolk nod West ern will make its connection with Washing ton by the Virginia Midland via Alexandria. One of the results of the growth of Salem, Va., is likely to be the selection of a new sif for Roanoke College. The present site of nearly twenty acres at the head of the 'oil. v avenue has become very valuable, and cs a larger and better site can be secured on i i vantageous terras the question of making thi important change is being seriously con sidered. Charles L. Stern, of Hagerstown, Md., I,n on exhibition a queer old bicycle, which i probably the oldest in America. It was mod by the Heyser boys about twenty-four y nrs ago, and is known as the old Heyser mac, inf. It consists of two wooden wheels, a little hi J. er than the safety; the pedals are of wood, a reaper seat answers for a saddle, and a strHi . ' ', iron rod docs the service of a handle bar. Al though old, it can be ridden rapidly. -At BrierfioM, Ala., Dr. G. B. Crowe s! t and perhaps fatally wounded B. F. (il The difficulty grew out of something (ilsn had f&id which Crowe desired hirn to tike back. Glass fired tm Crowe with a Winches ter rifle, Crowe answered with a pistol. man fired several shots within fifteen f- t of each other. Finally Glass fell and Crowe walked away. It is believed by the d ! r that the wound is fatal nn one of the bull t entered the abdomen. Glass is an old, i ' -ly-knowii, and much mrceted citizen a: 1 Crowe is a young man only '27 years of eg". A NOTED MOONSHINER . T I-" IT""' Havre Mullins, I'nder Indictment In Tu n States for Slurder, Arrested. Harve Mullins, the leader of the notorir: Mullins gang of moonshiners, who have t making whisky and committing murders r.: 3 other crimes in McDowell Comity, W.Va.,f r 6ven years, has Wen arrested together wit'j P. C Copes, one of the gan. Numerous ;) 1 blooded murders have been committed in th vieinity, all attributed to this- gang, and cirLt of their number are now under indictment ! r murder. : Mullins himself is said to have killed f,vr men, although a mere boy, and is under in dictment for -murder both in West Virgin; and Virginia. He is also under indictment in both States for moonshiuing, and his cap ture is one of the most important n? well .- ; one of the most daring pieces of work en t', part of officers in twenty years. Mullins' cap ture was made by Deputy Internal Pleven ;s Collector N. T. Keadle. and a posse. vVllXlTM'iiEXXErr, a brakeman, wr killed in Des Moines by touching a guy wir which was crossed by an electric lnhtnn f and received the charge ot an altcrnrm : current.
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