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. James M, Allen, et aL.
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. V , .: , . NOTICE OF SAIA -
-By-virtue of -a decree of the Superior
Court of Anson county, made at Mav Term
- 1887 thereof, and also an order made at the
r November Term, 1889. of said Court, in the
- eaiue entitled as above, the undersigned, as
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. , the highest bidder, for cash, at the court
-: - bouse door, in the town of Wadesboro, on
Monday, the th day of January, 1800, it
being Jonday, of the January Term, 1890,
-of said Court, the following real, estate, situ
ate m tne village oi AnBonvuie, insaia coun
tv. to wit: All the real estate conveyed to
tne said James M. Allen as trustee by the
, .sail H. ti. McLendon and wire, by a
, deed of Mortgage, dated Sept. 29th, 1885, and
registered in the Registers Office of said
County in Trust cook no. iv. pages stj etc.,
.- iconsistintf of three tracts or lots of land 1st.
A lot of 15 acres on which are situated the
i k Ansonville Female College buildings, presi-
dents house, and out-buildings, together
with ali buildings and improvements tbere
on, savuur end excepting the Methodist
" church lot of one acre, the Bapsist church of
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veyed to said James M. Allen by said de-
f endanfcs. 2nd. A lot of 4 acres adjoining
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NOT ASHAMED OV IllS COLOR.
A Witty and Sensible Negro Urges
,: Self-Improvement Upon His Race. ,
j A ; Charleston ; special to the New
York Herald says: Dr. J. C. Price,
president of the colored college at
Salisbury, N. C, and one of the fore
most orators of his race, had just de
livered at Chester a speech that is
attracting great : attention. ' He puts
himself squarely against the increas
ing current in favor of emigration.
In his sreech he sava : ' "
1 'I have no faith in the doctrine ll
assimilation. The ancestral pride of
the white man, the growing pride of
Ihe negro, forbid that, this amalgama
tion . take place save on the high
ground of matrimony, and there iB
only one intermarriage out of every
200,000. Some blacks want this.
They say that their color is against
them. ' If that could only be changed
all "would be well.- I believe that
color has nothing to do with the
question. ; ' Black is a favorable color.
A black horse we all admire. A
black silk dress is a gem. A black
broadcloth suit is a daisy. Black
only loses its prestige, its dignity,
when applied to a human.
"It is not because of his color, but
because of his condition, that the
black man is in disfavor. Whenever
a black face appears it suggests a
poverty stricken, an ignorant race.
Change your, conditions; exchange
immorality for morality, ignorance
for intelligence, poverty for prosper
ity, and. the prejudice against our
race will disappear like the morning
dewdrop before the rising sun.
"Others would have us disappear
by emigration. Your distinguished
Senator has juat introduced in Con
gress a measure intended to help us
away. As for me I don't want to go.
("No, No!" from the audience.) Tbis
sunny Southland, where lie the
bleaching bones of my ' fathers, is
dear to me, and I, too, feel to the
manor born. -This soil is consecrated
by the labor, the tears, and the pray
ers of my ancestors. Talk about
Ethiopia, talk of Africa, but I be
lieve that God intends the negro race
to work out here in the South the
highest status he has ever attained. ;
If anybody wants to go to Mexico or
Kansas or anywhere else, let him
pack his trunk and go of his own free
will. Let Congress appropriate if it
wants.' I will respectfully ask it to
take baclc my part.
"It may be that God means us to
go some day, but that is net the way
and, this is not the time. Remember,
friends, that longago two little barks
came to America. One landed at
Plymouth her load of freemen, the
other came to Jamestown with a
freight of bondmen. Two separate
civilizations sprang into being from
these two ships; but we are away
from home. The red man alone is at
home hire, and be won't be much
longer if they keep on pushing him
westward into the Pacific When
Congress legislates the black man to
Africa it would be just as wise to
legislate the white man back to Eu
rope. When one goes the other
ought to go. too. I am hers to stay.
I have an . unbounded confidence in
the future of the Southland. Her
broad rivers, her rich fields and well
stored mines will one day produce
the richest harvest of prosperity the
world ever saw, and I want to help
reap it and enjoy it.
"What though a man be killed now
and thont He who would try to
crush us deserves the pity not the
crushed! Though a hundred men
fall around me, I will stand firm on
the rock of my faith with an ua.
shaken hope.
"The negro is an imitative creature,
and this is a sign of much hope. The
Indian always does the opposite from
what he sees - the white man do.
Hence he has gone down. It is just
the reverse with the negro. A white
man gets a house painted white with
green blinds; the negro does the
same. The white man rides in a
buggy; the negro gets one too. The
white man drives a horse; the negro
buys him a horse. The white man
buys a house; the negro does the
same. It may be built in the Gothic
order, with rafters in view, buit's.a
house. This promises well. Borne
imitated Greece; England imitated
Rome; America imitated England.
It's a help eyery time, and the negro
is following right on in the white
man's steps." '
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The Use of Anv Enemy. - ;
Rev. Dr. Deems. ' -
Always keep an enemy in hand a
brisk, hearty, active enemy. '
Remark the use of an enemy: ,
1. The having one is proof that you
are somebody. Wishey-washy.empty,
worthless people never have enemies.
Men who never move never run
against anything; and when a man
is thoroughly dead and utterly
buried, nothing ever ' runs against
him. To be run against is proof of
existence and position ; to run against
something ia proof of motion.
2, An enemy is, to say the least,
not partial to you. He will not flat
ter. He will not exaggerate your
virtues. 1c is very probable that he
will slightly magnify your faults.
The benefit of that is twofold it
permits you to know that you have
faults, and are, therefore, not a "mon
ster, and it makes them of such size
as to be visible and manageable. Of
course, if you have a fault you desire
to know it; when you become aware
that you have a fault you desire to
correct it. Your enemy does for you
this valuable work which your friend
cannot perform.
5. In addition, your enemy keeps
you wide awake. He does not let
you sleep at your po3t. There are
two that always keep watch, namely,
the lover and the hater. Your lover
watches that you may sleep. He
keeps off noises, excludes light, ad
justs surroundings, that nothing may
disturb you. Your hater watches
that you may not sleep. He stirs
you up when ytu are napping.- He
keeps your . faculties on the alert,
Even when he does nothing he will
have put you in such a state of mind
that you cannot tell what he will do
next, and this mental qui yive must
be worth something.
4. He is a detective among your
friends. You need to know who
your friends are, and who are not,
and who are your enemies. The last
of these three will discriminate the
other two. When your enemy goes
to one who is neither friend nor ene
my, and assails you, the indifferent
one will have nothing to say or chine
in, not because he is your enemy.but
because it is so much easier to assert
than to oppose, and especially than
to ref uter. But your friends will take
.up cudgels foa you on the instant.
He will deny everything and insist
on proof, and proving is very hard-
work. There is scarcely a truthful
man in the world that could afford
to undertake to prove one-tenth of
all his truthful assertions. Your
friend will call your enemy to the
proof, and if the indifferent person.
through carelessness, repeats the as
sertions of your eDemy, he is soon
made to feel the inconvenience there
of by the z"eal your friends manifest.
Follow your enemy aroun'd and you
will find your friends, for he will
have developed them so that they
cannot be mistaken.
The next best thing to having a
hundred real riends is to have one
open enemy. But let us Ipray to be
delivered from secret foes.
Country Koads.
Durham Sun.
College professors, civil engineers
and magazine writers are directing
public attention to the subject of
country highways, and the Vander-
but University, Tennessee, has gone
so far as to provide for .the free in
struction in road engineering of one
person in each county in the State.
The Baltimore Sun, which is agitat
ing the question in Maryland, points
out that the power required to draw
a wagon weighing with its load one
ton on a level macadamized road of
broken stones is 65 pounds which is
increased to 200 pounds on a common
dirt road. Prof. Ely, of John Hop
kins University, estimates that poor
roads cost the farmer on an average
$15 per horse; and Prof. Jenks, of
Knox College, HI., argues that with
good permanent roads freight could
often be hauled ten miles on wagons
cheaper than it can of ten be taken
one mile on a dirt road to a railroad
station, . unloaded, put on the cars,
and carried to its destination. Of
the social influences of good roads he
says that a large part of the mental
inspiration of the farmers depends
on their ability to attend church,
lectures, concerts and social cathftr-'
knga at a distance; and really good
roads, by enabling them to go so
much more easily, would doubtless
raise the whole intellectual tone of
the farming community, besides
keeping within the healthful influence
of the farm many who are now forced
into the towns.
Not Deaf Enough for the Occasion.
A , short while ago . while -Judge
Marshal J. Clarke was swearing in
petit jurors, one man stepped up
and, with his hand to his ear,
said: . " .
"Your Honor, I ara very deaf and
cannot serve as a juror."
"You say you cannot hear well,"
asked the judge. ; ' 1 "
"Eh?"
"You say you are deaf," asked the
judge in a loud voice.
"Eh?" ;
- "You can go," said the judge, in a
low tone of voice.
"Thank, you, sir," replied the fel
low, as be started toward the door,
Stop!" cried the judge; "I guess
you had better eervo." y. .
DECLARATION OF PURPOSES
Of the National Farmers'. Alliance and
Industrial Union Adopted at Saint
Loaia.
Whereas, The general condition of
our country 'imperatively demands
unity of action on the report of the
laboring classes, reformation inecon
omy, and the dissemation of princi
ples best calculated to encourage and
foster agricultural and mechanical
pursuits, encouraging the toiling mas
ses leading them in the road to
prosperity, and providing a just and
fair remuneration for labor, a just
exchange for our commodities and the
beat means of securing to the laboring
classes the greatest amount of good ;
we hold to the principle that all mo
nopolies are dangerous to the best
interests of our country, . tending to
enslave a free people and subvert and
finally overthrow the great principles
purchased to the fathers of American
liberty. We therefore adopt the fol
lowing as our declaration of princi
ple: 1. To labor for the education of the
agricultural classes in the science of
economical government, in a strictly
non-partisan spirit,and to bring about
a more perfect union of said classes.
2. That we demand equal rights to
all and special favors to none.
3. To indorse the motto "In things
essential, unity; and in all things,
charity."
4. To develop a better state men
tally, morally, socially and financi
ally.
5. To constantly strive to secure
entire harmony and good will to all
mankind and brotherly love among
ourselves.
6. Te suppress personal, local sec
tional and national prejudices: all
unnealthful rivalry and all selfish
ambition.
7. The brightest- jewels which it
garners are the tears of the widows
and orphans, and its imperative com
mands are to visit the homes where
lacerated hearts are bleeding: to as
suage the sufferings of a brother or
sister; bury the dead, care for the
widows and educate the orphans; to
exercise charity toward offenders; to
construe words and deeds in their
most favorable light, granting hones
ty of purpose and good intentions to
others, and to protect the principles
of the Farmers Alliance and Indus
trial Union until death. Its laws are
reason and equity, its cardinal doc
trines inspire purity of thought and
life, its intention is, "On earth, peace,
and good will to man."
What Makes This Kind of Weather.
Washington Post.
"Don't use my name and I will give
you my theory of tha present unu
sual weather," said a mariner of fifty
five year's experience, who was pre
paring to leave the city last evening
on a sea voyage. "I am not ashamed
of my theory.uuderstand.but I dislike
to have it appear that I am coinp
about seeking newspaper notoriety."
lue desired promise was made and
the old sea-dog explained as follows:
"We have really undergone a
change of seasons, to a certain ex
tent, and all this is caused by the
chage in the Gulf stream. The Gulf
stream is now running 100 miles
nearer the eastern shore than it was
one year ago. My idea Is. this change
is caused by some unusual upheaval
in the bottom of the ocean, but be
that as it may, we have such a con
dition of affairs as I describe. This
unusual change has effected our
weather and to it is due the frequent
and disastrous rains of last summer,
and it is this which caused such un
seasonable weather as we are now
having. The scientist may laugh at
this theory, but if you will ask anv
old sailor he will tell you that what
I state is true, and it would not be a
bad idea for the Weather Bureau to
take this into consideration in making
its predictions. At any rate I think
they will agree with me that there is
something badly out of joint."
The Day's Length.
St. Louis Republic
At Stockholm, Sweeden, it is 18 1 2
hours in length.
Al Spitzbergen the longest day is
three and a half months.
At London, England, and Bre
men, Prussia, the longest day has 16
1-2 hours.
At Hamburg, in Germany, and
Dantzic, in Prussia, the longest day
has 17 hours.
At Wardbury, Norway, the longest
day lasts from May 21 to July 22,
without interruption.
At St. Petersburg, Russia, and To
bolsk, Siberia, the longest day Is 19
hours and the shortest 5 hours
AtTornea, Finland. June 21 brings
a day nearly 23 hours long and
Christmas one less than three hours
in length.
At St. Louis the longest day is some
what less than 15 hours, and at Mon
treal, Canada, it is 16. -
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Oar Colored Brother.
Louisville Courier-JournaL
Yes, he is in hard luck. Whatever
happens, he is sure to get the butt
end of it. . Ho is the only perpetual
hewer of wood, who is always crowd
ed away from the fire; the only sys
tematic drawer of water, who never
gejs a drink. Yet, as patient as a
camel, he goes on voting the Repub
lican ticket from year to year; and,
if one of his' race takes a notion to
protest, he is straightway bounced
for traitor, and ' driven out with
staves and stones, lucky if he es
capes with his life. How long, oh
Lord how long? '
It is none of our funeral. We know
that. But it does stick inourgizzard
to see the colored brother so set
upon. - It was bad enough to he ig
nored by the Administration. That,
however, was to be expected. Mr.
Harrison is an aristocrat. He hates
a poor man only one degree less than
he hates a nigger. But there was a
hope that Congress would, when it
met, do something to make things
even. Now, what do we seel We
see all the black contested election
cases in the House except one, put
down at the foot of the calendar,
where they will never be reached.
and that one exception placed sixth
on the lisfof seventeen, not by the
Republicans, but by the Democrats.
It is just as Abram Jasper said in
his speech to the colored picnic at
Shantytown, in the late Virginia
campaign ; "Feller freemen. says he.
"you all know me. I am Abram
Jasper, a Republican from way back:
When there have been any work t
do, I has done it. When there have
been any votin' to do, I has voted,
early and often. When there have
been any Ugh tin' to do. I has been in
the thick of it. I are above proof,
old line and tax paid. And I has
seed many changes too. I has seed
the Republicans up. I bas seed the
Democrats up. But I is y it to see the
nigger up. Tother right 1 had a
dream. I dreamt that I died and
went to heaven. When I got to de
pearly gate, ole Salt Peter, he says:
"Who s darf" says he.
"Abram Jasper," says I.
"Is you mounted, or isyoua-foot!"
says he.
"I is a-foot," says I.
"Well you can't git in here " save
he. "Nobody's 'lowed in here 'cept
them as comes mounted," says he.
"Dat s hard on me," says I, "arter
comin' all dis distance." "But he
neber says nothin' mo', amd so 1
starts back, an' about half way down
de hill who does I meet but Gen'l
Willom Mahone. "Whar is you
gwine, Gen'l?"' says I.
"I is gwine to heaven," says he.
"Why, Gen'l," Bays I, "taint no
use. I'ze just been up dar, an' no
body s 'lowed to get in 'cept dev
comes mounted, an' you's a-foot.'' -
"Is dat sot" says he.
"Yes, it is," says I.
"Well, de Gen'l sorter scratched
his head, an' arter awhile he says,
says he: "Abram, I tell you what
let's do. You is a likely lad. Sup
pose you git dewnon all fours, an'
I'll mount and ride you, and dat way
we kin both git in."
"Genl," says I, "do you think you
could work it?"
"I know I kin," says be.
"So, down I gits on my all fours,
and de Genl gits a-st raddle, an' we
ambles up the hill agin, an' prances
up to the gate, an' ole Salt Peter, he
say 8:
"Who's dar?"
"Gen'l Willom Mahone, of Vir
giney," says he.
"Is you mounted, oris youafootP
says Peter.
"I is mounted," says de Genl.
"All right," says Peter, "all right,
jest hitch your hoes outside, Genl
'an come right in."
And so it goes. Shunned by the
Republicans In this world, the col
ored brother will be, if they have
their way, shut out from heaven
itself in the world to come. How
long, oh, Lord, how long?
Where the Noun Came In. .
In a recent examination, in one of
our public schools, a class was re
quired to write a sentence containing
a noun in the objective case. One of
the boys wrote the following sen
tence: "The cow does not like to be
licked." - ,
"What noun there is in the ob
jective case?" asked the teacher.
"Cowl" said the boy.
"Why is cow In the db jective
case?"
'.'Because the cow objects to being
licked I"
Mercurial Poison.
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A. F. Britton Jackson, Tenn., writes: "I
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Wm. Richmond, Atlanta, Ga., writes:
"Mv wife cnnld hardlw coo
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pain in her joints and bones. Her kidneys
were deranged also, and no one thought she
could be cured. Dr. Gillam recommended
B. B. B., which she used until her health was
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K. P. B. Jones. Atlanta, Ga., writes: "I
was troubled with copper colored eruptions,
loss of appetite, pain in back, aching joints,
debility, emaciation, loss of hair, sore throat,
and great nervousness. B. B. &. put my
system in fine condition.
HIS EYES WENT BACK ON HIM.
The Remedy for a. Man Who Saw a
Woods Fall Of Coons.
From the Chicago Herald.
"Doctor," said a red-faced and
water-eyed man from Wayne town
ehip as he came Into Dr. Babcock's
office, in Hammondsport, the other
day, "I'm afraid my eyes is goin
back on me, and I dropped in te kind
0 800 if I can find out where they're
lame." -
"Ahr said the doctor. "What
seems to be the matter with your
eyes?"
"That's what I dont know," re
plied the man, "but they played me
a trick t'othor day that don't leave
no room for doubt but what there's
somethin1 out o' gear with 'em, some
how. Ill give you the symptoms.
Maybe you don't know that I'm quite
a coon hunter, but I am. T'other
day my boy bought one o' these
britchloadin'and repeatin' shotguns,
and I told him I'd go out and see
how it'd work on a coon. I went
out and hadn't gone more than a
mile up the hill before I seen a 'big
coon pop on to the limb of a chestnut
tree. He came so sudden that I
couldn't get it'through me where he
had come from or how he got there.
But I didn't stop to ask no questions
but up and blazed away. Now, I've got
the name over my way, Doc, of never
missin' any thing I shoot at, and, of
course, when I pulled up and whang
ed away at that coon I expected to
see him tumble, but be didn't. When
the smoke cleared away he sot there
just as he was when I seen him first.
1 was surprised, now, I tell you. I
thought it was tha gun's fault, but
blazed away again. The coon never
moved. I happened to look, some
how or other, at a tree off to the right
of the one the coon was in, and there
sot another coon on a limb. I
thought I'd try my luck on him, and
so let him have a shot. He never
stirred. I begua to git mad by this
time, and durin'. a little conversation
I was havin' with myself about the
gun I happened to glance at a tree to
the left of the first tree, and there on
a limb was another coon. I tried
my luck on the third coon and didn't
hit him no more than I did t'other
two. I looked at the first tree ; there
was that coon settin' right where he
was when I first seen him. I looked
at the second tree and there was that
'coon still on the limb. I turned my
head toward another tree and there
I seen a fourth coon, and lookin'
around me whichever way I might
every tree I seen had a coon in it,
and all as fat as coons could be. I
got wild.
" 'Thunder 1' I hollered, 'here's the
woods full o' coon, and I hain't got
nothin' but this new-fangled gun
that won't hit a barn.'
"But I begun to blaze away as fast
as the gun could spit a cartridge,
fust at one coon and then at another,
until every darn load was emptied
out o' the gun, and I hadn't dropped
a coon. I was jist agoin' to slat that
gun to Sinners against a tree when I
happened to rub my eye, and when
I took my hand down there on niy
finger was a nice, jolly, " fat wood
louse. I looked up, but every coon
was gone. The fact o' the matter is.
Doc, that wood louse had been hang
in' on to one of my eye-winkers all
the time, and I thought I was seeing
coona. Be I gittin' near-sighted, or
is the optic nerve doublia up on
me?" ,
"Neither one," said the doctor.
"Have the hind pocket in your hunt
ing pants cut down from quart size
to half pint and youll be all right."
The man went out shaking his head,
and said he'd think about it.
JUDGE COOLER'S NERVE-
His Tact in Dealing with an Insane
Negro Coachman.
Detroit, Jan. 10. Early last even
ing, Judge Thos. II. Cooley, of Ann
Arbor,' chairman of the Inter-Stale
Commerce Commission, was sitting
reading in his library when his ne
gro coachman, armed with a double
barrelled shot gun entered. The
Judge was satisfied from his appear
ance that he had become insane, but
betraying no alarm he asked him
what was the matter. The negro re
plied that he had decided to kill the
whole family, as they talked too
much, and left no time to think. The
Judge betrayed no alarm, and told
him he agreed with him, and that he
would attend to it. By the use of
consumate tact, tho Judge succeeded
in mollifying the madman until heat
last laid down his gun, and at the
Judge's suggestion left the room. As
soon as be w as out of hearing, the
Judge telephoned to neighbors, and
in a short time a deputy sheriff plac
ed the coachman under arrest.
Doubtless a wholesale and most
frightful tragedy was averted by the
nerve and coolness which the distiu -guished
jurist exhibited.
He Knew.
Commercial Traveller.
Little Susie Mamma, this morn
ing the minister spoke of the worm
that dielh not. What did he mean
Little Charley (scornfully) Why,
you little goose, you.don't you know
It s the apple worm, of course
the spring it's in the green apples and
in the winter ia the dried oues. :. I
should think any one would Iqio
that.
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TW1NKS.
. Kate Field says that humanity is
divided into three kinds men,
women and cranks.
Guest You have got your finger
in my soup.
Waiter Oh, that's all right; it isn't
hot. N. Y. Sun.
: When a woman fancies to herself
the husband she would like to have,
he is generally different in important
respects from the husband that she
has already. Somerville Journal.
Jolliboy Good morning, sir I
Bilious Why. sir, I do not know
you.
Jolliboy I didn't say you did, sir.
Good morning, sir 1 Boston Herald.
Jaggs (funny streak on) Do you
keep good cigars?
Cigar Man Certainly, we do.
Jaggs You're foolish you ought to
sell them. PhiL Inquirer.
American girls chewed up seven tons
of gum last year. One-half of " it can
be found to-day sticking under man
tel shelves. The other half was carried
away by the young men who go court
ing and lost.
Nahum Spawlding- Yo' won't flgbt,
beh 1 Den youss a mis'rble sneakin'
coward, yo is.
Hezekiah Thomas Dat's all rite;
ef yo hadn't knowd dat, yo'd bin
askeered tor affah to fight me.
Adorer (after a rebuke by the old
lady) I didn't kiss you. I only pre
tended I was going to. Why did you
call on your mother?
Sweet -Girl (repentantly) I I
didn't know she was in the house.
Now York Weekly.
Paterfamilias (from the "head of
the stairs at 1 a. m.) Fanny will you
ask that young man to step into the
hall a moment?
Young man (friendly) W-well,
sir?
I just want to ask you where you
wanted your trunk put when it
comes. Lawrence American.
A sick dude called on a doctor.
"What he neds," advised the phy
sician, "is absolute, seclusion and
solitude, with nothing whatever to
excite him."
"Leave him alone with his
thought?," promptly said his friends,
as they withdrew from the room.
Chicago Globe.
Rescuer (to beautiful rescued) I
see you are fair and bewitching, but
I cannot woo and win you. I am
married.
Rescued But, George, it is I, youri
own wife.-
George Pshaw 1 I never did have
a real romance in my life. Memphis
Avalanche.
Old Lawyer I cannot take your
case. Circumstantial evidence is so
strong against you that it will be im
possible to prove your innocence.
Prisoner But I am not innocent. I
am guilty.
"Oh ! Then maybe I can clear you."
N. Y. Weekly.
The Rev. Mrs. Poorlypaid If you
want me to fix your trousers, my
dear, you'll have to go down stairs
and get some buttons.
The Rev. Mr. PoOrlypaid O, that's
a needless expense, my darling. I
am going to take up a collection for
foreign missions to-morrow. N. Y.
Sun.
"Have you a quarter you can give
me, sir?" asked a tattered-looking
individual of a citizen. "My wife
and children have had nothing to eat
for two days."
"Oh, that won't do," replied the
gentleman. "I gave you 58 cents
yesterday. What did you do with
thatr
"I had to buy meat for the dog."
Harper's Bazar.
Fifty Years In Pri.on.
Richmond.Dispatoh.
There will be released on Monday
next from the Indiana penitentiary,
at Jeffersonville, a convict who has
probably served a longer time in pris
on than any man now living. His
name is John Hicks. He was born
in Montgomery county, Va., in 1806,
and moved to Leesburg, Ind., when
a young man. He has six times been
sentenced to the Penitentiary in Indi
ana twico for at tempted rape, three
times for grand larceny and once for
housebreaking. He has spent in all
forty years within that State's prison
walls. In addition to .this record in
Indiana he has served two terras in
the Ohio penitentiary and is believed
to have served terms in the other
States. In round numbers he may
be said to have spent half a century
in prison. When his term expires
next Monday he will go to Indianap
olis, where the State Board of Char
ities have promised to provide for
him and secure an honest livelihood
for the worn out old felon. -
If you wish to make sure of send
ing some boy straight' to the evil one,
foster iu his mind a conceit of his
smartness, encourage the feehug, that
he ought to have whatever he lakes
a fancy to desire, fill bis pockets with
spending money, and let him loose
to spend his evenings wherever incli
nation takes him. The recipe is short,
but the result is long.and more hearts
than one will ache over tho foregone
conclusion. -
SHORT NEWS NOTPJ.
An official report shows that five
hundred thousand persons in Vienna
have suffered from the influenza,
about forty-two per cent, of the population.-
Raleigh, N. C. Jan. 10. J. Claud .
Parrish, (white) 42 years of age, was
banged in the jail yard here just af
ter tone o'clock this evening.
His crime was that of outraging his
own daughter, about IS years ef age. -
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A taxidermist of Asheville, N. CL.
made a proposal to Richmond par
ties to prepare the body of Jeffersoa
Davis so as to permit of its use as a
statue, guaranteeing it to last, ex
posed to ths elements at least 3.000
years. The proposal was not accepted. -
The volcano of Shiranesan near
Nickao Japan, broke out November
5th. A sound like thundercamefrom
the mountain. At the hot springs, at
the foot of the mountain, jets of ,
muddy water were thrown up. Fire
and ashes were thrown and scattered
over many miles, but no one was
killed. . The volcano had been quiet
for 18 years.
The illness of the young King of
Spain has assumed a most alarmiag
phase, and his death is expected at '
any moment; he is not yet four years
old, and was proclaimed King on the
day of his birth, with his mother as
Queen Regent; his father, Alphonse
XXL, died before tbe birth of the
young King.
An appalliag disaster occurred la."
Brooklyn early Thursday morning;
heavy winds blew down the walls of
a church, which fell upon" a three
story frame building, crushing it into
a mass, and killing five of tbe sleep
ing inmates, and fatally injuring
two others; the scene is described as
of a most fearful character.
The increased mortality due to the
influenza has kept the New York
undertakers, busy day and night, and
the coffin factories of the city are
working all their men -overtime to
fill the large orders that are received
daily. Some of them are even run
ning Ihe whole twenty-four hoars.
This is usually the dullest season of
the year for coffin manufacturers,
so that the present large business is
all the more remarkable.
With "the . Czar almost scared to
death by the Nihilists, ' the Czarina
prostrated by nervousness, the Sultan,
in daily dread of the bowstring.
Queen Victoria laid up with the
rheumatism, the Prince of Wales
fretting over the London scandals,
Rou mania's Prince tottering on his
throne and the infant King of Spain
in the shadow of death, royalty m
Europe is having its share of the ills
and tribulations of humanity.
One woman has made the silk
gowns of the Justices of the United
States Supreme Court for .the past
forty years and she gets $100 for each
one of them. They tire all made
alike, ths only difference being in the
material, the Chief Jkatice wearing
black Chinese satin, while his associ
ates are robed in black silk. The
Chief Justice always wears a new
gown when ho swears in a Pres
ident. New YoRK,:Jan. 9. An appalling
disaster occurred' in Brooklyn this
morning. The heavy winds of last
night shook the new Presbyterian
cbureh at 596 Throop avenue to its
foundation, and at 4 :30 this morning
one of the walls with a crash fell oa a
three story . frame . building
adjoining, and brought with it death
and destruction. The ruined build
ing was tenanted by, the Holt and
Purdy families. They numbered nine
persons. . Five of them are reported
dead. Two were carried out of ihe
ruius so seriously injured that their
deaths is only a question of a few
CRUSHED TO DEATH.
Fourteen Men Killed In a Bridge Cais
son at LonisviHe, Ky.
Louisville, Ky.. Jan. 9. A cais
son within which was being built a x
pier for tbe Louisville and Jefferson
ville bridge, collapsed about 6 o'clock
this evening, and fourteen workmen '
in It were crushed to death.
Louisville, Ky., Jan . 10. At 12 :20
this morning bodies of three of tho
unfortunate victims of the caissons
air accident were recovered by the
workmen. The positions in which
they were found showed that a des
perate struggle had taken place at
tbe narrow door of escape. One ne-
Igro) had Buoceeded in pulling bis body.
riiiMt.Ak i. A i l i 1 1 .
overtaken him. Another negro had
crawled partly through. His hands
were fastened by death in the cloth- v
ing of the negro in front of him.
showing that be bad died in a des
perate endeavor to escape. Between
two negroes was the body of a white
man. It appeared from his position
that he was trying lo push back some,
ono who was clinging lo his legs
Tne sound accumulating at tho door
by the sudden sinking oi the caisson '
bad wedged in the body of whita
man in uuch a manuer that it could
not be removed. At 12:30 a. in.,
work was discontinued... in order to
allow the workmen to rest and rt
Ireuh themselves. Alter a frv!i
force was put oa duty work reiie- '
ed. -
Further investigation ts'-'v two
more men to have lost
Hamilton Morna 'and
making tho total IS.