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u The Only W o o U I PAPER Published in the Territory Lym between the Roanoke run! ! :.' i risers, embracing the three courdie-. Hertford, Northampton and Bertie. A D Y E R T I S I NO 31 E D IUJ gF Kates Reasonable.. ! i " " " " : ; JOHN W,HICKS, Editor and THE INTEREST OF HERTFORD A1TD ADJOINING COUNTIES. SI.50 Por Annum VOL. II. MURFREESBORO, N. C, FRIDAY APRIL 29, 1887 NO. 37. ncroasinc: .uirouiauon '- MREllSBRG . - At-X'S WELL , .. . , Propheti? hop3, thy fine discourse ". 'Foretold not half life's good tomej Thy painter, fancy, hath not forca - To bhow how sweet it is tp bo I , ; Thy witching dream . : And pictured scheme.- ,-. j To matehjthe fact still want the power V ; ' Thy pjromise bravo From earth to gravo Life's bloom may beggar in an hour.. Ask and receive, 'tis sweetlysaid; Yet what to plead for I know not; For .wish is worsted, hope o'ersped And ayo to thanks returns my thought. If I would pray Tve naught to say : But this, that God may be Go J stilL For II im to live " ' .Is fctill to give. .' And sweeter than my wish His' will. . 0 wealth of life beyoiid all bound I Eternity raeh moment given! What plummet rr.ay t ho present sound Who premises a future heaven! Or glad, or grieved, ' Oppressed, relieved, In blacke:d night, or brightest daj St ill pours the flood Of golden good, And more than heartful fills me aye., My wealth is common; I possess No petty province, but the" wholo; What's mine alone is mine far leziS Than treasures shared by every soUb . - "-".. Talk not of store, .. Millions or more, Or values wlre'i ihi p.irs3 may lujli 'Hut this divine, - '. , I ov.it tlw miirt AY hose gj aire; outweigh a planet's" gold, 1 have a f tike in over y star, InevtVy Ixram thofills the day"! All hearts of men my coifers nr1, My on s arterial tides convey The fields, the skies, . 1 he s we'-? t replies' Of thought to thought, are my goid -dilst The oaks, the brooks, . And s j oak n g looks ' Of Jovr-i 'i faith and friendship's trtfcfc, I ;feVyou ago.it, tides, joy brirnming, fldw j-For him who lives above all yeaW, Whoi.a'I-irri?nortal makes the noffi ; And is not taon in time's arreara' J lis life's a hymn The j-cratfalm - I Might hark to heir or help tosiih-fj'" And t o his soul The boundless wholi Tts-l-ounty all doth daily bring: ""All muni is thine,"' the sky-soul saithf ' The wealth I am must thou become I ither aiid richer, Breath byDi:ean ; Immortal gain, immortal rolu'" An 1 since all. his Mine fdsois, - Life's gil t outruns my fancy. far' . . And drowns the drcaid - In larger stream, As morning" drinks the morning star. David A. Wasson, in the Index. ATTACKED BY PIEATES. Albeit I have read a hundred books cf adventure iu wh'eh the sea and sailor fig ured liberally, J ani never tired of hcar 4ii those "wlif .go down to sea in ships spr.afc oT their perils and -adventures.- A l)iqnzed old Jack Tar, who was anchored .'.alongside of me for a couple of hours the other day, and who answered to the name, of John Scott, gave me the follow ing thrilling incident, which I believe to be true in every detail: ! "It was in. the spring of 1872," said - fjcott, as lie made i;eady, "that I Tan away from , the American bark Twin .. bisters at lloiig Kong, being thoroughly dssgustcd with the tyranny and cruelty of the; Captaih and mate. There was a 'I'jenehman there who kept: a sort, of hidintr place for runaways, and. althcracrh wc wore pretty sharply-looked after for a few da'vs, we "were not discovereel, and the' bark went on up the coast. "We knocked about for a few days without turning up anything, and then I shipped aboard a small brig which traded between I long Kong and the' Philippine Islands V to the cist. ; b:ie was cancel the i'xplorer, and her Captain i and .-part owner was .ah Englighman nn'ed (hirnsev. The jiiate Avas also an Englishman, and of the six men of us - before the mast,; two were Americans, one a Lascar, one a negro, and the other k two were Norwegians. AVe'"- were - all runaways', and glad enough to get a job, and when we found Captain and mate . pretty good, fellow?, and. the brig tight .'and. well found, we turned with a will, and showed a full measure of gratitude. The cargo, as I remember it, was made up of a little of everything' for general trading. The brig had made three or four voyages along the west side of the: islands, and this time, as we left Hong Ko'ng behind us, we steered to the east, that we. miglit go down on that coast of Luzon Isl:ind," which is by all odds the largest of the hundred or more islands dotting-' the Pacific from opposjte Hong Kong but 300 miles away, down to New Juinea and Borneo. "Wq had the best of w;eather and a fii'st run while going to the eastward, nor did we meet with a mishap of any sort until working down the" coast to Luzon. Then the -winds were light and baffling for several successive days, and we mad(e, but slow progress' to repay us for our hard work. The "ivinds were still head ing us when the Captain was taken sick. Some tort of fever seized him all of a sudden, and it must have had a stout hand to keep him down, for he was in the prime of , life, and a strong man. . It " wfis on the third day of his illness, and the mate had reported him as no better, when, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, as we . were about four miles off the coast of Luzon, and w ell toward its southern end, ; a junk put out from a bay and sailed on a line to intercept us. There was no port there, and we were not flying a trad ing signal, and the mate had not -taken more than a glance at the junk through the glass when-he exclaimed: "May I be called a marine if that fel low isn't lip -to mischief V ' -"I was acting as mate at the time,1 ard he handed mc the glass,, and asked me to go aloft and ,take a good squint at the junk. I hadn't the glass on. him over a m'nute before I was satisfied that he was a pirate. He had as many as thirty men fvboard, and I thought I could make out two howitzew on his deck. He had no signal or flag flying,as would have been the ease had he wanted to speak or salute us. There was but little wind, and we scarcely had steeragewayV and the junk was also moving slowly. Before descend ing to the' deck I. looked around the horizon, and down in the; northeast I noted indications of a change :of ""weather. My report on the ijunk was eagerly awaited, and when I had finished it v Mr. Reynolds 6atd : . . 1 " 'Look you, Scott, that fellow is after us, and-if he takes the brig, none of us will be spared. Will the men fight?' " 'Why, sir, .what have we to fight, with?' ! - ' " 'Muskets a dozen of 'em and plenty of ammunition. Here, men, come aft.' "It needed only a few words of ex planation, for the men had made up their minds what sort of a customer was creep ing up on our starboard bow. The muskets were brought up, and with them five or six old cutlasses covered with rust, without the Captain being the wiser for it. Indeed, he was' out of, his headl and could not have been made to under stand the situation anyhow. When we had made such preparations as we could, the junk had crept up to within three quarters of a mile of us, nnd the mate called us around him and said : " 'Ncy, men, we all know what that fellow is after. f If he gets possession of the brig, not one of us will be spared. We are few in numbers,' but if. we make a stout fight perhaps we can drive him off. At least we might as well die fight ing as to surrender, and have our throats cut afterward.' .j "He then went down and locked the door of the Captain's stateroom, so that -he could not get out' when the row began, and as he returned on deck it wa plain that the junk meant to lay us aboard without stopping to use herf cannon. Whether she argued that we were weak handed and could be easily finished off, or that, the sound of her guns might bring us help, I know not, but she made no preparations to ue; them She w;as al most within "musket shot when we lost our wind entirely, and, as I looked astern, I saw a dark cloud' creeping up the hori ,zon, and knew that something more than a capful of .wind was getting ready for us. A streak of jwind from offshore brought the junk slqwly along while we stood still.- The mate whispered his or ders, and each of us: took a musket and advanced to the starboard rail. We had orders not to fire until they wrere near enough to make every bullet count. X)n their side we could see from thirty to thirty -five half naked and villainous looking fellows, with cutlasses in hand "ready for boarding, j Not a shout was was raiied nor a loud word uttered on either side. They floated down to us as silently as death, and in grim despair we waited their coming They meant to lay us aboard on the starboard bow, find had men ready .with grappling irons. The junk was not more than pistol shot away when we fired ourj volley, and three of the pirates were toppled over; then the others began to yell and, brandish their naked blades, but we had neither eyes nor cars for them. Our mate was shout ing: . .': ! ). . "Load, boj-s, land give it to them again, and then stand foy with the cutlasses.' "We got in afciother volley, killing two more and wounding one or two, -and then the" junk struck us, the grapnels were thrown, and with frightful yells the pi rates boafdeel'us. We cut down the first two or three, but they droppeel over our 'rail so fast that we retreated off in a body and presently the whole pack! of them were on our decks. I A few had pistols, but the majority had only Japanese cut lasses. . We" rallied at the mainmast, and for two or three minutes there wras hard fighting, during which one of our men was shot dead, and another received a bad wound from a cutlass. We should have been forced back or exterminated right there in two or three minutes more but for an unexpected diversion. Oui Captain had been aroused,; broken his' way out,- and he suddenly appeared be hind us armed with a large American bowie knife, which no one knew he pos sessessed. The only garment he had on was bis shirt. His hair was on end, his eyes blazing fire, and there was no doubt of his being dead crazy. He uttered a terrific jell as he came to our rescue, and, he forced his way past us and attacked the pirates single! 'handed. I saw him kill two while you could count ten, and the yells he uttered were alone jeuough to scare a man out of his boots. The pirates raised cries of alarm and retreated j before him, and the way we cut 'em up was awful. . Such as could get there got j aboard the junk as fast as possible, and, while two of us were casting off the' grapnels; our Cap tain broke away from the m ate and sprang aboard the junk, just as a strong puff of wind hit and 'separated the two craft. We had to stand-by our sails, for the breeze had come at a gallop; but we were not over 300 feet from the junk, which was broaching to, wThen there was a dull explosidn, and the air was filled with a thousand fragments of "the pirati cal craft. Ahead and an arm were blown aboard of us, as also pieces of boards and timbers. "As soon as wc j could get the brig under control we made a couple of tacks to fetch the spot of the explosion, but the only vestige of her fate consisted of a few shattered planks and a mast. There was no one to save and not a corpse in sight. ' Wc certainly killed five before being laid aboard. On our own decks were eight more, making a total of thirteen out of about thirty-five. All others perished in the explosion, and per haps it was better that our Captain died that Way. Our loss, including him, was only two, and the three wounded men were not laid off duty;" New York Sun. Troublesome Indians For some time past the Indians "have been giving considerable trouble to the cattlemen on Red Rock and vicinity, and it has become the general impression that the agent of the Lemhi reservation should keep them at home j They have about 1,000 head of horses up there, and they are damaging the range a great ilea', but that is not the worst; of it. At this time of the year the trains kill a great many cattle, and in order that the owners shall get their pay it is necessary that the sec tion bosses see the dead .stock. These rbdians, having no provisions, watch the trains, and just as soon as an animal has been knocked off the track they skin and carry it away and the owner gets no pay. Dillon (Montana) Examiner, "-. j V -lELEGRAFrflC SUMMARY. Eastern and, middle States. I About fifty New York'groxryrnen and restaurant dealers have just been fined $ 100 ' each for selling oleomargarine as butter. A. mysterious explosion on the schooner George S. Marts killed Mate Nute and a col ored seaman and badly bume-1 another sail or. The rest of the crew took -to the yawl and were picked up by a passing-'steamship and brought to New : York. . : .r A heavy snow storm in April is a'weaSier phenomenon with which many .sections of the North Atlantic States havo beenlvisitcL In some places sleighing was resumed. ; A New York local Asmly, tuf L, containing 1,500 workers in tin ijnd shet iron, has rebelled - again: the District Assembly, beea suspended, i . threatens to ave the Order entirely. , T ; A wagon conaumig Jolm Becjter. his wif' Catharin?, Mrs. E rma Becker and her tw year-old daughtervas strasifeif bjfcfwi tfxpesa train-tit Lancaster ,"Penn. Mari and wife were instantly kifled,Mrs.Emma Becker was fatal ly injured and the child was found unhurt on the platform in front of the locomotive; Memorial, services for President Arthur were held hi the Assembly Chamber at Al bany.; Governor Hill pres.ded, and impres sive addresses were mad by ex-Attorney General Brewster a id Chauncey M. Depe w. The Massachusetts Ho se passed the High License bill to its third reading by ! a vote of 188 to Si), j : Six New York firms doing nearly all the silver manufacturing in the country have combined in opposition to the Knights ot Labor? and have locked out their silversiair j about 1,300 skilled mechanics. There are only about 2,000 silversmiths in the whole country. j . ; - : A land slide at Fuller Station, Penn., caused the wreck of, a coke train, and the death of two train hands. ; Captain Y. W. Bush, the first Union vol unteer in the war, was buried the other day with civic and military honors at Lockport, N. Y. .. -; r The Delaware Legislature has adjourned i sine die. Among the closing acts of theses- sion was the defeat . by the , Ken at of the House High License bill. , - ' Archbishop Corrigan, of Neu York, de nounces recent utterances of tho Catholic Herald, a staunch friend of Rev. Dr.; Mc- Glynn,' as "shockingly scandalous,- and . warns its editor not to let any such appear in iurare. - i South and West. Br the -burning of a house in Seven Mils Ford, Va., two girls lost their lives and thres . i i i persons were ssvereiy Durnea. . The Socialist element has gained entir control of the .Labor jiarty in Chicago, and i spui is tnreaienea. F. W. , Flo w'derdon, a Nebraska farmer, had a fierce fight lasting half an hour with a mi rlned steer. Both man and brute wert kill . v .. : .'. i In a storhi at Pikeville, N. C, Farmei Eastman and his son were struck by bghtnini and instantly killed. ; , A cyclone in Nansemond county, Va. prostrated many houses, barns and fences and killed several persons. . ." . TnE pohce of South Bend, Ind., have had e pitched battle with a gang of thieving tramp;;, One of the tramps was shot dead and elever were captured. J Two neighbors John Bay and Williaic Carson quarreled about some' land neai Chattanooga, Tenn., and shot each othei dead. : ; ; ; L I A large number of Illinois cities have bee c holding municipal elections, the principf.3. feature being the license question. ! The mn jority of cities declared for license,: but in tl smaller places the anti-license ticket was un i formly successful. i. , . Major John E. Blaine, paymaster (broth er of the Hon. James G. Blaine), died .a fe v days ago at Hot Springs, Ark. A fire at Meridian, Miss., destroyed twa colored churches. . . . Seven men were injured, three of theio fatally, by! a dynamite explosion at Murphy & Sons' camp in Upper Michigan. ' Three men were killed and two fatally injured by the partial wreck of a construction train near Taswell, Ind. , j In the Florida Legislature a vot3 cast f c r United States Senator was distributed among cnirty-iwo names. i Washington. Appoint iiENTS by the President: I William Ot bprincrlield. 111., to be '-United rict J udge for the southern distri of that State; Colonel Wesley Merritt, of the v iitn cavalry, to be a lirigadier-ueneral.- a xnew x ork grenius iias invented a " vact uum car," with which he asserts his ahaJity to navigate the air at a high speed and drop explosives with precision upon the decks c f war vessels or in fortified places. The Navy Yard will investigate the invention.! Sigourney Butler," of Massachusetts , has been appointed Second Comptroller qf the Treasury, and E. A." Mosely, I also cjf Massachusetts, has been chosen Secretary of the Inter-State. Commerce Commission. Additional appointments by the Presi dent: Samuel F. Bigelow, of New Jersey, t5 be Attorney of the United States i f or New Jersey. Consuls: H. L. Merritt, - of Illinois, at Chemnitz; L. A. Spalding," of New Yorkj, at Aix La Chapelle. ; j Commissioner Sparks, of the General Land Office, has ordered ' a re-survey of an immense tract of land in New Mexico, con taining about 500,000 acres, and said to be heljd by fraud. ; : . ' j A Washington correspondent telegrapl s to the St. Louis Republican that President Cleveland recently stated in emphatic terms to a prominent Democratic Senator that lie neither wishes nor will accept a renominatioii. Mr. Cleveland f is reported to have said that he was counting the days that remain until his release from office. '"" - , The President has appointed Edward I '. Bingham, of Ohio, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia,, to fill the vacancy caused by the deaths of Chief Justice Cartter. ; j About 5,500,000 trade dollars have been re deemed up to date. ; l Commissioner Miller estimates that the Internal Revenue receipts for the present fiscal year will aggregate 1 1S,000,000, as against $116,y02,8Gy for the last fiscal year. The Interstate Commerce Commission have been receiving: petitions from railroads all over the country requesting the suspension of the long and short haul. clause. of the law, f Foreijrn. The second reading of the Irish Coercion bill was agreed to in the British House of Commons, after a sharp debate, without di vision.; , .;. I.; Ex-Marshal Bazaine. the note-i French exile, was stabbed in Madrid by a French man, supposed to be crazy. Bazaine, - who is 3eventy-six years o?d, was not believed to be seriously injured. : J , The London Times has created a sensation by printing what purported to be a letter from Mr. Parnell to Patrick Egan indorsing the assassination of Burke and Cavendish, in Phoenix Park, Dubhn, in 1883. The letter was given in fac simile, but only the signa ture of Parnell professed to be that gentle -man's handwriting. Mr. Parnell vigorously denounces the letter as a base forgery. Numerous evictions are taking place daily n Ireland. In many instances the evictee tenants are resist ing with all their might. The Ameer's troops in Afghanistan havt "en defeated by rebels. ; : t ; The various Central American Republics havo agreed upon a treaty of unification by which a citizen of one can become a citizen of all without naturalization. ; The tealing vessels have nearly all re turned to St. John's, N. F. The fishery tthis year nas oeeu a comparavive lauwe- OF A BAY. ISTI'It STTNG SEWS 31 ATTERS TllOA i . YABI0US QUABT1ES. - Lieutenant Danenhower, of Arctic Fame, -"f Commits Suicide. Lieutenant John W. Danenhower, of Arctic fame, was discovered at 10 a. m. ' the other morning dead in his quarters at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. t with a Tiullet hole in his right temple. He was found lying on J the rug .in front of hi3 fireplace' with a tag tied to : liis button hole, saying: "Send to my brother at 'Washington." Although he had mental troubles since he .returned fr-n theArctie regions, what immeliafeely led V tire suicide is thought tf have been the recent ground ing of th3 United States, ship ConstSlatioii, oa its way to Norfolk, which he had 'charge of, . and for which it is snppoted he ; had a fear of being court-martialed. Furthermore, he was very intimate with young Robert W. Gatewood, who re cently committed suicide on the Carolina, and whom he saw in death. It ft supposed that this death suggested the mode to him. His wife, formerly Miss Sloan, of New York 4 was away with her parents. Lieutenant Danenhower leaves two children. He was about thirty-five years old and an intelligent and polished officer. ; The suicide of Lieutenant Danenhower at Annapolis caused considerable commotion and great regret in Washington. Danen hower had not been a well man since his return from the ill-fated Jeannette polar expedition. His s-ght was almost gone and he was permanently weakened in other ways by the exposure he had endured on that I trip. He was not con sidered insane, however, but ho was always and constitutionally despondent and morbidly sensitive. He was born in 1841, and -was a fine officer and a man of high character. In 1879 he joined the ill-fated Jeannette exixs dition, being second in command - under Lieutenant De Long, and escaped the fate of most of his companions after great sufferings. Lord Salisbury's Ofier to Settle the : Fisheries Dispute. It is officially announced in London that Lord Salisbury, in a dispatch sent to Wash ington on March 24, says that the British Government, .understanding : the action of the United States in denouncing the fishery art icles of the Treaty of Washington to be in a great degree the result of disappointment at being called upon to pay 1,100,000 under the Halilax fisheries award, offers to revert to the old condition of affairs without pecuniary in deirriity, which offer, it trusts, will commend itself to the American Government as being upon that spirit oE good will and generosity which should animate two great and kindred nations, whose common origin, language, and institutions constitute so many bonds of amity and concord. ! The Secretary of State at Washington de clines to either affirm or deny that Lord Sails bury has sent such a despatch. The subject matter of the despatch is not exactly news in Washington diplomatic circles, the same prop -osition having emanated from a Canadian source some time agoi Well-informed persons incline to the opinion that the offer has been indirectly and unofficially made as a 'feeler," to ascertain in advance of an actual tender how such a proposition would be received by the American people! A Leper in Louisville. Louisville physicians are much interested oyer the discovery of a genuine case of lep rosy in that city, j The patient is 'John Hastings, who lives with his parents on Wilson street. He contracted the terrible disease in1 Honolulu1 about three j ears ago, and Ids entire body is covered with the eruptions peculiar, to lepers. Hastings is thirty years of age. i He left home about five years ago and went to 'Hawaii, where he con tracted the terrible I disease. The st?amer City of Peking brought him back to San Francisco, and he was sent home to his rela tives. He succeeded in keeping from his parents all knowledge of th disease, and it was not uitil a few days ago that' they knew of their son's ailment. During the last two years he had bce i treating himself. Two of the best physicians in Louisville 20 w have his case in hand. 1 ; Evictinjin Ireland. Nino tenants on Lord Lansdowne's Lugga curren estate in Ireland, were evicted the other day. Th3 onldokers groaned, but 'no resistance was offered. The same evening Iplacards bearing repre sentations of crossbpnes and coffins were posted in Lis towel, threatening with violence any man who should take a farm from which the tenant had been evicted. s At Mayo Bridge a Woman resisted eviction by barricading her house and throwing boil ing water on the evictors, who retired de feated. .'-.-'- Six Nihilists Sentenced to Death. :" Six of the men arrested in St. Petersburg for complicity in the plot to assassinate the Czar, which was to have been carried out oa March 13, have , been sentenced to death. The other conspirators have been sentenced to imprisonment for life. ? A Landowner Fails For $1,000,000.. George Clarke, the largest landowner and hop dealer in Montgomery county, N. YM and also in New York State, has assigned, with liabilities placed at $1,000,030. lie owned vast tracts of land in Oneida, Otsego, Madi son, Chenango and adjoining counties. A CLEVER SWINDLE. A Wealthy New Yorker Purchases Bogus Gold Bricks. New York. What bids fair to develop into a big gold-brick swindle came to light at the United States Assay Office. A well known and wealthy gentleman of this cf ty deposited four large bars, supposed to be gold, with the assaver, to be refined and made into standard ' gold bars. The gentleman said that the bars were from California, and were estimated to be worth about $10,000 each, or $40,000 for the four, and that an as say which he had made before showed the bars to be about 72 per cent, fine. The bars were received and receipted for in the usual form, ajjd the gentleman departed in full confidence that he had $40,000 in gold in the hand of Uncle Sam. The suspicion of Mr. Graham, the receiver of deposits, was ex cited by the light weight of the bars their specific gravity being only about 8.S5, whereas the specific gravity of gold is 19.3. Samples were taken from the four bars and assayed, when it was found that the bars were of copper with a thin wash of gold on the outside. In short the four bars turned out to be worth $4, instead of $40,000. It is evident that a fraud has been perpetrated on the gentleman, and that he is numbered among tho victims of the gold-brick trick. FATAL ACCIDENT. Resulting in the Death of Two and Injury of One. : Pittsburg, Pa. A dispatch says: A heavy coke train on the Pittsburg, McKees port and Youghiogheny railroad, ran into a large boulder, which had fallen on the track near Fuller Station, fifty miles East of Pitts burgh Thursdav morning, and ws wrecked. The fireman, Charles Si k and a brakemen named Georga Lewis, were caught between the engine and cars and crushed to death. Engineer Samuel Ramsay was thrown from the cab into Youghiogheny river and severe ly hurt. He was rescued from the water by the remaining member? of the crew, who were not injured. " f EVENTS A TERRIBLE SHIPWRECK. Thirty-Three Lives Iost Off the Coast of Oregon. ' - A social from Victoria, British Columbia, gives an account of - a terrible shipwreck, ac companied by the loss of thirty three lives, which has occurred off the coast of Oregon, about thirty miles north of Cape Flattery Information was first brought in by four Kyuginot Indians, who arrived at Vic toria, having oceapiel tea; days in making the overland journey from the. scene, .of tho wreck. ' For tonic time past great Anxiety. had-been felt it-gar. ling the sf r" Active, having on board five Sw xii- j twenty-eight Cla3-acmete Indians, and . hich was long overdue. The schooner was owned by Guttman & Co., of Victoria, and was registered at 4 JO tons. The Active was engaged in general coast trade, and had a valuable cargo of assorted merchandise 0:1 board, which, however, wa not insured. The schooner appears to. have been caught in a ' storm, and to have been dashed on the shor?, where she speedily went to pieces, and all hands' 'undoubtedly perished. As, far as known, no one wit nessed the disaster, the. Indians having their attention first attracted by th3 large quantity of wreckage ' washed ashore. Bunks, Indian mats, bedding, etc., were all washed up, but nothing actuary bearing the name of the vessel. 'The general iescr, tion, however, with the nature of the articles reported to have been recovered, leave no doubt tnat the vessel was the Active. Among those who have perished are Mr. Jake Guttman, ore of " the ' owners; Captain CJntsc bamel, AlTa Jacobson, Charles Freder ick, and Billy Lessong, besides the twenty jight Indians., The latter belong to Chief Kil Jormat's tribe. Chief Kilsormat himself was on board, the other Indians bing hunters. The death of tho chief is tantamount to.thi ixtermiuation of tho tribe, and Kilsormat'j trib will b-joii b.3 extinct. According to a mstom of this tribe all the huts of the unfor runate man have been burned. MORE DEMON THAN HUSBAND. A Young Wife Beaten, Lo ked in a Room and Nearly Starved. A Philadelphia, Pa., dispatch says: 0."car Offenbach, a painter was arrested, charged with cruelty to his wife. Special officer IL-nry was passing down Poplar street, when a woman living in the neighborhood told him thjt Mrs. Offenbach had mysteriously dis appeared. She had not been seen for two weeks, although her husband had come to his lodging rooms on the third floor daily. The neighbors, moreover, had hoartl screams in that part of the house and had grown sus-' pieious that murder had been done. The offi cer, upo 1 ascending to the third story, found the door of the back room locked.' He knocked, but receive no answer. The door was battered down and a terrible scene of suffering was presented. Mrs. Offenbach, who two weeks before was a comely young woman, twenty-eight years of age, tottered, half -erased, half-stai ved, toward the officer. Her limbs were terribly bruised.; A terrible stench p:-rvaded the close atmosphere of the room, and a number of dirty rabbitts and guinea' pigs scampered about the floor. She told the officer, and afterward repeated the story to the magistrate, that her husband, who was jealous and cruel, had locked her in the room fourteen days before. She had told him that she had received avisit during the day from a man whom both knew, j ; Grabb ing a poker, he beat her-about the body, and, according to her statement rej)eate the punishment often diving her imprisonment. Once, when sh cried out, he placed a revol ver to her breast and threatened her with in stant death if she did not keep quiet. ( The Eoker, which was found by the police', was ent out of shape. i; MURDERED NEAR HOME. A Young Girl Choked to Dea h While Defending Her Virtue. A Cleveland Ohio dispatch says z The dead body of Alary McCarihv, a domestic in the employ of Bev. Wilton ."Merle Smith,, pastor of the'First Presbyterian Church, was found partly under the rear porch of the residence of C. D. Hatch, who lives at 355 Sibley street and next door to Mr. Smith. Mr. Hatch s family had been aroused a ssort time before midnight by cries for held from the back yard and tho startling discovery was made, when Mr. Hatch proceeded . o investigate the cause of the outcry. The police were called, and an examination of the surroundings con vinced them that the girl had been murdered. H, r hair and clothing were disarranged, her purs3, hat, and gloves lay in the front yard, and some of her undergarments had been torn from her person. The girl was respect able, and had been visiting her mother, who lives in another part of the city. In the hasty investigation the police were unable to find any marks of violence that would have caused death. The girl's nose had been bleeding, and there was a slight scratch on her face, and the first theory was that she had been assaulted by a man and had died from fright. The postmortem, however, demonstrated that death was caused by strangulation, and that an attempt had been made to violate her person. It is now believed that the girl was choked to dea' h while defending her virtue. There is not the slightest clue to the perpe trator of the outrage and murderer. ; A SAD DEATH. A Young Society Lady While Prae icing W ith a Pistol Kills Hersolf. Philadelphia, Ta., A dispatch iaysr A gloom was cast over Philadelphia soeiety by the news that Miss Annie C. Lesley; daughter of Mrs. James Lesley, residing at 315 South Fifteenth street, had beea acci dently sh6t and instantly killed at the house of a friend whom she was visiting in Brook lyn, New York. Some days ago Miss L'sley went to that city in fulfilment of a 1 romisa to visit the family of Mr. U m, H. Nichols. Miss Leslev was usually foad oftutloar soorts and had won quite a reputation for skill in such as lady could with propriety engage. She w. s noted as a player of lawn tennis, and was especially skilful in the use of fire-arms. During a sojourn in the Ad irondack she brought down a deer with her unerring rifle, a feat so rarely performed by a ladv that its successful achievement ren dered' Miss Lesley quite a heroine thr ugfc out that mountain region. With Mr. George Nicho s a son of the host, Miss Les ley bad been in the habit of practicing with a pistol, during a summer recently fepent at Saratoga. V hile visiting at his father's house she resumed her pistol practice: was bo engaged when the m lancholy accident occurred, which in an instant deprived her of life. The pistol she was handling went off suddenly, lodging a bullet in her brain. A REMARKABLE STORM. Hail Stones of Enormous Size. ItOLt.-TfG Fork, Miss. A dispatch 6ays: Thursday afternoon a hailstorm passed over this section, the like of which has never been witnessed here. "When the hail first began to fall the people thought , the roofs were being torn from their houses. It hailed steadily for thirteen minutes, and thousands of hail stones fell that were larger than, hens eggs. Several were picked - up that measured five and three-fourths inches in circumference, and two weighed four and one-haJf ounces. Holes were- knocked in roofs of houses, and trees, were partialjjr stripped of t-cir foliage, . - :- CYCLONE IN THE WEST. DEATH SWEEPS OF'THE WIND. Fifteen Uves lost, and Many Buildings Blown Dotrn- A dispatch from Nevado, Mo., says: VA terrific cyclone sw?pt over " ths'northern part of (Veraor.) county. The cyclone teemed to pome down the Marmadon river fro n ill? Kansas line. Tho f.rt place it touched was at Metz .township, pas-icg through Mets, Osare't.nd Bin Mound town- slurs. Over thirty bous?s were destroyed a d about fifteen per.ons ki.lei, our being "kil'vd outright and feveral so dangerously wouuded that they will probably die. Many of the 'hails ones which' fell at the time w ighed toun threito five ounces, ami, some of them measured nine inches in circumfer ence. The t a h of tho winds was from thfea hundred to four hundred yards wide, and the track was left de olate. The damages jnv p rted are a fo lows: Dwt-lling off. T., Whitfield blown down and his wife seriously injure!; "Lucien Hood's dwelling blown en tirely away v Th-3 family 'was' sleeping on the first floor and escaped with slight injuria. Thoaias Fopjitz's.' dwelling Iwdiy injim-d: Marion Br.mse-'s dwelling and burn badly in jured by hail: James Humble' dwelling de stroyed ; Jo!m Royee, dwelling carried away, and Benjamin Itoyce, slightly - ,-jirijurvJ. Lewis IIu mule's dwelling swept partially' away, the ortio.n remaining caught Fux and was consumed; the husband-and wife were bl wn some distance and . rreoived" some bruises. The Leithblothors house and barn was damaged by hail. Mrs. Curry's dwelling was badly damaged by ha 1. ' I. C. Shrout".s dwelling' was blown down and his wife n jured. A duelling owned by Frank i Vball was destroyed. A honso oecupu! by: Paschal Chanev was torn to fragment a. The occtrTl pants escaped u'.'inj'ired,, aside from -a" few; scratches. ; Georpc Chancy 's 'dwelling wa carried away. Mamie Stover, seven year; old was killed. S. Williams's dwelling was badly damage l.' The Bend sehoolhouse was' demolished.' F. M. Thornhiirsylwelling was blown down. The honu of John Miller was wrecked! Mr. Miller was killed. Mi's. Mil ler had a .leg broken ia two places. She su .taiiv.l other injuri s,"and it is thought sh will die. John Lemon's dwelling wa-i badly injured. Col. J. L. Nicholls's dwelling wiu destroyed. John Hait's residence was blown down." Mr. Hait was killed and his wife stunned. She will probably die. The. baby "was blown soma distance a,;d badly mutilat ed. Th dwelling of Robert Shall was blown away and that of Thomas Madison bully injured. The dwelling of Thomas Hawkins was blown away. Mr. Hawkins's wounds are considered fatal. "A 'great n any reports have been received of minor dam ages, and the escapes of thoso whose homes were ru nod are almost miraculous. "The heavy rain was attended by an inter esting phenomenon in the 'northern portion of the city. Bills of fire seemed to be fal ling at an a gle of forty-three degrees. They struck the ground, and bursting into myriads of 'fiery Hakes redounded several hundred feet toward the east and died -away.- The ex hibition ontinued for several minutes." Littlk Rock, 'Auk. A tornado, origina ting in the Indian Territory and moving al most due East, passed through the country four miles North and alog the-line of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad. It wax : between a quarter and a-half mile wide, and near Ozark, Franklin county, began doing great damage. Four miles from Clarksvdle this afternoon, Turner, John Read s child. r G I). Rowley's daughter, and a . hild of Mr. Pctlty, were killed. A man nam d Phillirs, near. Ozark, was severely inju ed by falling timber. The loss to farmers a-id buildings, feaices, stor ks and growing crops is very heavy, but it can not now be estimated. . Cincinnati, 0. A tornado swept through a portion of Kentucky, South of Cincinnati. At Paris, while a violent rain storm, with thunder and lightning, was in progress, a continuous rumbling sound was .heard, which proved to be a tornado, which passed in a few minutes, leaving a track four hun dred yards wide, in which trees were leveled and houses unroof d. At Saundcrsvilie, near Lexington, the. roof of the Commonwealth Comjxiny's distillery and warehousa was blown olf. Heavy. rain fell here nearly all day, as well as through out the Ohio alley. St. PAtX, Mixx. The stonn which started In Montana reached here, and is now general across Central Minnesota ns far West as Sioux Citv. Sno w and sleet, driven by a furious wind, has prevailed, and the temper ature has sharply declined. j i f BALD KNOBBERS QUAKING. One of the 31idnlght Raiders Coa fesses The Murder. of CJco. Ed ens. Oz KK, Mo. A dispatch says; The Bald Knobbcnr situation is becoming more serious each day, and the prLsoviers are beginning to show considerable uneasiness. Charlie Graves, a prominent member of the mid night raiders, entered the confessional, and, after a long story of the raids I13 had at tended, giving the names of the men who had accompanied him. 'he fixed -the murder of George Edens on John Matthews. On h first assault on Edens' house' George was shot down but not killed. After ransacking the house-the masked men retired, and George's mother was holding George's head while he, lay on the floor. A man appeared at the: door and took deliberate aim at the wounded ! man and put a bullet through his head, kib lin him. Graves says he met Jonn Mat thew's coming from the house and heard him say that he was mad, because he had leeil wounded in the back of the head, and h id returned to the house just as tho party were leaving and rlmshed the work begun oh Geerge EderW. Parsons Simons and Will Newton want to make confessions to save themselves, but the prosecution refuses to accept them, as they say they now have enourrh testimony." ' - 1 : : " i WHOLESALE SUFFOCATION, f x. Families AVithi i rn Inch of Their JLiivc from a Gas Main. Kf.w Yohk. A dispatch says: Through the leakage of the gas mains running throu h J the street at HWl and Viii ave. nae, number of persons had narrow es -, car53 of losing thHr. livea. I-fora mtl night, the twelve year" old vi of-lr man Grillis, was sent to the cellar of the big tenement house with a iad of a ies. ana when be struck a light ,an explw.o.a follow ed. He was severely burned, and not x; Iectel to recover. The g-ts vaa stdl escap ing, and no effort was made to ft ip the lea i. In the tenement, No. HKI, J..fcclnraro; e-rhv urns aroused t'V ing her Infant moaning heavily. She found it almost lnsensioie lrom hk 'u:"",v; She awoke her husband, and then fell insen sible to the Coor. The husband was , atso at fectel, but he eventually cami hs sue end child into the open air, 1 n 1 then went to the rescue of his neighbors, ljaac Meyer Mrs. Carrie MeGecry. The- door of the lat ter's room was hurst pen, and she was found almost safroate-L Her two children were in a worse condition tha their motber, and were taken to tho hospital for treats ment. Several hours later, it was discover ed that Ili-hryCadcr'sIc-pt in the larber shop, and whc;i th-5 tloors wei-e broken open, it ws impo.siMc to wake him up. iotn Bac'cr and Min. McKJeery ai-e at the Frcsuy teriau Hospital, and are in a critic Uc-iii-i-tiou. The children are p.ogresem fornr blj. .-'- - - 7 . keeps a store -n tnc groun i jw, " family lived in the rear of it Early tM : (.whr vac nrou-sed bv ticnr- THROW OUT SPIRITUALISM. A Judge's Instructions toa .Jury a?Ktt a Jledinm Who Played Phyi. ian. FHIL.APEt.rHf A. A di4h-h ays: Tf jury in thr.cas-; of Mrs. Si rah Pater- -"T. .0 a'legl m.vlium. chirg.'.l y i'i.v M.lical Society with praiicin m-1. ani surgery without -being re-- 1 a- phj-siclaa. roturn- 1 a verdict of c'i.1 v. The.d"fenv-- sot up bv d f n l :u' .- ;- ', Carrie B. iulor,'. ml hr !n. n!. Ii r. 1 Y. Kilgor.N w;v-5 thit Mr-?. V:f - a a i in-liu:n and uudr the coatiil f t - r .-. and w:h not.. therefore. r.,--:i;M-, f--sh-? had done in a tran v. l i.' :, i .; t couad -nrt lt:i pn n'U" ' i ; 1!;: t'. and th case has attiaotl ontd.-r?' U i-. -terest. tle curt rm t'!! cr'.w.il - -tho trial lxgani yt-j-tenlay lU'TPin. .f: -tlw verdict- was" ainouni!, Mr. IM.- , the lady lawyer, made a i1:ti-n fu trial and na nrre-t tf ju 1,'enu iif . i ; 4 -tliat they would filth-ir rcM-.-r.s v. .:'. , , i pncrib-l tim . "lli m. u ",1,.. and in - th- meantime the jul:r -!.;,! the defeiidant t renew h r b tii. ! ! t harge to t!ie jury Jiv!g' Am Id v i 1 . '1 ipies io;i' U fare you i a .siiiij-!- whether or no tl-defendant j ! 1 in '. iei: e, Kurg.ry or a ay of th ir bran--!; 1 -gain, an-l ri-vivt d or yco'ji!d t ! 1 m - from tlie two w itie -s-. If sin- !; 1 -1 guilty jn manner and form a -- .-,i '- dieted, tir.! vs VH ldie th:t - sun1, and not nsjwnsible fr !r a' t-. a:. 1 1. you aeijait U r on that grun l. -i rs t s.iy nit guilty, on th ground of iirr , , and' t'n wc ran -.pat- hf-r iii .n-i Sj'iU-it :M -m i; 1:0 leftn'e li;it-'MT. i ! r foil. tli:nt- all 3011 have hear-1 .. ualiin." THE NATIONAL GAME. "I'flK Mew VorU's ii v r.:t !;i r. aptK-ars hr l n-i vx-eliont bi- - 1 u.nu j TUJC bst Kt-1 HII'.HT il t ':. I 01:-,.: is t; reeijivo a goM i.te.ta -at ti.e en i s"a.-o?i. Jay Pa ats, of tho Toro.;; "man' in the ba.j-lad p: ot. -! thlXM' ineh s. TlIK new ru!.; nro n- they were expect ! to, t. f umpire's duti' - Kkkkk, of the N.-.v Yorks t . ; ' -1 a, n .tii : :; IMuv-. ; bet ti-r under ti" n-.v ru!.-. ihm ' l V Lreajue jjitehor. Fom of the t h.'-'. r t-n:n nr-' ; v in hei-ht. Th v are .n--ji. KiM.n. lins and .Sullivan. f t Syracuse has tho l-.onor of 1 club this soason to uhr.t a N '.t r ! e :..d I.- ciuo tne l'dtsuurfcN. A NasHvili.k do. tor !..: . i.:T.r cup'tothe T':m.s(M Int r .- . i.o i .1 r-.i Association as a prize, Thk mana.einent of th" AVah;n.-t,.M" ) lall Club has K 1 s-a-jii ti l-ts t , ! l'resident, nu tnb-j-s of l;sl'al.in t ;o. 1 n..: of the jtionihunt hizn-au olii-'ars. Thk IndianajKihs elnb i to i - ;o ;l 1 t i reason ik k t at a prn-e if ,., , . mentary tl ki ts w iil al-o b i.-i.-i t , the elerr- jis evince an intei e t u: t In - 1: i.n the ranks of .tie I Sulfa i ti:.-. fin'st colored Mt- n I ba--in ui 01 th" with few -.pudi ain..i- li s wl.jt.- -. . , ainl'Ja'-k lU-iwen, th.- . f-ran Mn- !, I At.. Sr,fl.it.v;.I President of the :; club, wa ; :the lir-t profexsjvnal t ; a i salary. Ho ,was called th" "four i -is-i dorfar pitehor," fHen g tling that f r St-aS!u's work. Ok the liifii who havo- led. th" .''"" hattht, sin isr., th" ' -.v Y,,ri-. I href, namely; lyiKHi r arid 'V. r, while Anson b l .i-rs to Chieao. i'.r-.it ! to iKtriot and Ivillv to r.o-;(n. THK hadall era.e In Ma- on." C: . gone so fa r th t the t.wh.-r:; in th" . h t-ntei tain.'il the j:.jjil w,t:i a; '- ! : -. Ejardin. the live-; of the iu i-: : f 1 l)etri't t' am d!iiin-- ib ir vi-.t t 1 South"rn tit y. This i.-. an aie'-ite f t. a coiTosppnde."at. ' The original Jh'. Four of ti e 1. - ! 'world were Spa 11 1 li i i.r, Itarnen. M. V. -jj. White. Of Iho.-e four preat i'i. ,. Spaulding is a pro:iii.iient a : I -w i t hy i tsess man : lloss lianv-s i a w-: toi i j ! of the C'iii-Mso Hoard .;" Trad : ;d. .M. s the owner f araie h in '..ii; ; ..i 1, . White, v. h has n i-jleLifd farm in ieo, -Jays ball in th-J Ileti-ats. 1 : I , : I i i ANARCHISTS DISBAND. They. "Finally' Rcaliw; .tlie JVi lirs of the AVorkiniiien Toftanb Them, j CllK'AOo, I j. Th$ D'tdj A' "" thi. m :; ing s-iysr: An event w'; i h a year a". a i have iKjon considered of startling ijoj ortaa---hapit'iu-l in Chicago.- The formi ' i ganization which liijel th" l.i-tory of ( ; ; eago for the year 1V5 with t -rror and ciU-ment drew its Int brelath and 1 un-f the Anarchistic groups of th" hit- n: -it . . d Working Peoples' A.s-K-iatioa di-I.a-i-j--l. Tliere was no partienlar; ex -item .-nt thin oecurrenee. None of theoiiee i f s -nt a I and powerful leaders at tend-1 th" fj.::-; -l The 1-urial of the Internatio.ml Woik.: ; Pe-pl-s' Association to k plaee t -'. 1 1 street in th'i presne3 of aliout titty r; : . who Mill rernainel in the various roi,;.-. Tlu'V were memU rsff the North":. k: a wtt and South side groujs of th" b.' tional Working I'cphV A-w-iati-- f ts general committee the central l oiy r t Internationalist and .of thelx hr and I Verein. ' 1 Jaoob G rune!-rg, who was di'-n 'hi r man, in a lengthv sjKh announced tli jeetof the mating. "I wojiM Mi;;vr t.. .'. we give a eoiwrvativf? frienl h;i -; s-t t . : - to Kiieak." The Veonservati ve friend, to whom Mr. Grun' berg alluded, was one r .f t: leaders of the Central I-'i1k.f bui-n. U Kpeech .made cjuite an irnpn-s-ion on t .. -M-ared rrowI. After he had lhiUh-l- ' nvmber rnovot that the organ i2.it ion - ljande.1. Several siw-tik-rs mad; ; a f attewpt to rfi..p05 tt motion. 'Ih !--rvative again mad en earne-t n . "You have no organ.' he cor.clnd.-l. " ' name is mentioned with horror and oy :. : even by wcrkingmen. If the liv s of - convicted - nv-n now in the c-our.ty jol ; dear to you disla nd an 1 k-t al 1 p -1 e r. 1 . -enees tie" forgotten forever." . The motion was finally submitted to a ' and canied without a disatntii:: e. MARKETS. B ALT -more -Hour Ci ty Milis. stra. ni,7a: Wheat -S.mth.-Tii Vu'.U. '.'! 1 Corn-vnithern White, 4'd-U, V oo .-. 47cts. ; Oat SnJth :rn and I'eii l.vv;i Slave's.; live Maryland and I Vim -viva ra.rsets. ; Ha v--Miry land and 1 bia?14; Straw Wheat, "a ".-"; b;" Eastern Creamery, , n.- ir bv j -- it r i " . i JHfA-icts. ; Cheese l Arn ran'-y r- 1 .1. aHJsCb., West-m. l-'JabV ts. ; !'.-' : ' t: Cattle 3.35a.i.ri; hwm t-.'i Kbeep and Lamt '23at!j : T.-l Leaf Inferior, lal.'-O, Gorl ( .'onini' -?. 31id lling,'j,G'Xl to fine red, 7a , I 1 v; la12. New York Flour Southern Con; ns .-i 1 fair extra. 3.40a.'i; Wheat N - 1 t : . alctt; live State, Wa-Vi; Corp--Sout;.. r Yellow, 47alcts.; Oats Wiiite Stat-. eta. ; Butter .State, 12 .37 cts. ; Chc-e Ilal4cts: ; Eggs loal'5 cts, - Philadelphia Flour Tcnny ivu fancy, 3..r!)a?4: Wheat Pennsylvania Southern ReI, l2a5 cts : Ry e IV a n -y 1 : u -r7a.-cts. ; Corn Southern Yellow . 1' 1 4 . Oats ia'i7 ets.: Butter State, 'J'-a:. et Chete N. Y. Factorv, Hal 2 cts.; F--. State. 12al3 ct. Ciiarlf-s Lux.who went frm Fulton M ket, New York city, to San Franei- o y, : ago, and w ho reecatlv diel there, ft af tuuo of ?:Jo,OM,(MJ, which will go to" tlie el -v children ef his brother 1'tter, an I Hi:: ':;- ' . mer. " i i. h
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