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MURFREESBORO, N; C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1887.
NO. 16.
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INDEX.
" THANKSGIVING.
"Ili ve you cut the wheat in the Wowing
ii.-I.ls,
The barley, the oats, and tha rye?
Tl " Hen corn and the pearly rice?
Fr the winter days and nigh,"
-Y hive reaped them all from 6hore to
shore,
And tli1 grain is safe on the threshing floor."
Iae you gathered the berries from the
vines,
And the fruit from the orchard trees?
The invalid tha scent from the rose and
thyme
In the hive of the honey bees."1
"Tlie p; ach and the plum and the apples are
1 ur.s, .
And the honeycomb from the scented flow
er." - :
"Tha irntlth of the anowy cot ton-field
And the gift of tho sugar-cane,
Tie savory herb and the nourishing root,
There ha nothing lieen given in vain.
IVe have gathered the harvest from shore to
s-hoie,
And the measure is full and running o'er."
Then lift up the head with a song!
And lift up the hands with a giftl
To tli- ancient giver of all '
The s-pirit in gratitude lift!
'r the joy an 1 the promise of spring,
1". ir the hay and the clover sweet,
1 Fid barley, the rye, and the 01 ts,
The rice and the corn anl the wheat,
Tli cotton and sugar and fruit,
The flowers arid the fine honeycomb
The country, so fair and so free,
The bless'ng and glory of home.
'Thanksgiving! thanksgiving! thanksgiv
irig'"' ..
Joyfully, gratefully call
To .od, the " Pre rvor of men,'
The b mntiful Father of all.
Amelia E. Barr.
AUNT HANNAH'S WAT.
"What is. lane doing now?" asked Mrs.
Harding-, looking up, from the pie-crust
he was crimping.
" Lauhm;. " replied Aunt. Hannah,
(intly, she always is lauhin now-
ii' lays. Ahat does make that girHaugh
s-o mm h :"
' I had-n't notice I it," said Mrs. Hard-
o, in nii, 1 ii.nu uuk.11 w uusy laieiy
1 haven't had time to notice. But I'm
l;ul if the is any happier. A week or
two noo she seemed very sad, and I found
1 er a number of times just at nightfall
.standing out under the willow treesnear
the water-drain, crying."
lust then h'ninantha Heath, the hired
prl. gave a queer little cry, lialf between
a cough and a sneeze, and as Mrs. Hard
ing turned around, she caught her maid-of-all
-work with an unmistakable grin on
her broad face.
"Well. iNiiHantlui ." she nucxtioned.
rather sharply, "didn't.I remark to you
at the time about Jane's low spirits:""
'Yes'rn," replied Samanlha, with the
corners of her mouth drawing up, aud
the corners of her eyes drawing down, as
she kept on chopping her mince -pie
meat.
"Well, then:"
"Oh nothing,' said amanthn, "only
.Tane- is mostly merry or sa 1, as the old
song goes, according to the mood of the
irl in the story she is reading. The one
now is a girl with very red lips arid white
teeth. It seems to suit Jane, for her lips
are amazing red, and her teeth are as
white as a dog's teeth. Of course she
overdoes it, but that is natural, I sun-o-e."
. 1
Mrs. Harding looked at Samantha with
ominous little red spots showing them
selves on her yet fair face.
" Do you mean to tell me that my only
daughter is so simple
"Nothing simple about it, I'm sure,"
interrupted the hired girl. 44 It's the
fa. t. Jane tells me about it every day
when I go up to do the chamber-work;
the girl must have something to occupy
her mind, and she don't have any work
to do."
" That's just it," said Aunt Hannah,
interrupting in her turn, 44 just the secret.
!-he dou't have anything to do, and the
girls ought to be busy. Now she might
just as well be chopping that mince-meat,
or paring those apples, or crimping those
pies, as any one else."
" ,!ane never has been very well, you
know, Aunt Hannah."
"fthchas alw ays been made to think
fhe wasn't," replied Aunt Hannah.
"What Jane needs now is exercise. If
she wnsa iomp, I could stand it; but for
a great, ta'.l, healthy and hearty girl like
her to sit in her chamber hour after hour,
and 'rock and read novels "
"'Susettc' in the 4 Sweet Swans of
nvoy' always sat in her chamber," said
SamathV,."and most all the story-book
girls do. They always 4 go to their own
rooms.' "
"They'd go to the kitchen 'were they
my girls," muttered Aunt Hannah.
"lam sure Janey is not in her room
now," said Mrs. Harding triumphantly.
" You just said she was laughing."
"No; of course she was not in her
room then," replied Samantha. "The
girl in the last book she got from the
library goes out and takes a 'quiet walk
with a happy smile on her lips.' "
i Good .Mrs. Harding was really angry
now. The red spots on her cheeks deep
uicd to carmine, as Jane came slowly
and steadily up the walk, with a book in
her hand.
"hook at that girl's stilted, unnatural
-walk!" exclaimed Aunt Hannah. "At
her age she ought to come with a skip
and a jump, as unconcious of her feet as
a bird is of its wings. What book have
you there, Jane? Let me see, it please,"
"went on Aunt Hannah, as the young girl
entered the large, neat kitchen.
Jane unwillingly handed it over, with
a sickly smile.
"Humph!" said Aunt Hannah.
"W here are you going, dear?"
"To my room," replied Jane, with a
smile broader and sicklier than the first
one, "when you are through with my
hook," and she leaned her shoulder
languidly against the door, clasped her
plim, white hands in front of her, and
looked through the window away to the
russet hills, with a smile that showed her
hite, even teeth, still resting upon her
face.
Aunt Hannah and Samantha exchanged
glances and smiles. Mrs. Harding saw
, and said, in a peremptory tone :
" Jane, go up stairs, braid up your
hair, take off that riu'.eulous bo.v from
the top of your head, put oa your' every-
day, boots and an apron, and then com
down into the kitchen and wash up tbt
baking dishes."
Jane slowlv turned amnnrl rrava Tim
-J t
lonu mother a most I withering : look
which was copied as nearly as possible
from a character in the story she had
read a fewjdays before, and returned, in
a scornful tone: !
4Wrash the baking dishes ! Mel Wh j
cannot Samantha do it? I never washed
baking dishes in my life!"
44Time you had," said Aunt Hannah,
who had tucked the book under hei
apron and gone on with her apple-paring.
Jane went up stairs to her room, but
quite forgot to come down again; and
Samantha washed up the dishes.
"Just as I told you," said the hired
girl to Aunt Hannah, f "She won't do
anything but read those foolish storiet
from the circulating library at the drug
store, and then act out the character
they tell about."
It was Thanksgiving time. Guest!
had been invited, and s there was every,
thing to do. There had always been
just such times at the farmhouse evei
since Jane could remember; but she had
never assisted. She was the only daugh
ter, and had been brought up in the use
less way that many of the only daughters
are brought up in, in the homes of far
mers, even, where mistaken mother!
often say: : i ;
"My girli shall have the easy time?
that I have missed in my life."
The next morning Aunt Hannah said !
to Samantha, privately:
"Don't you want to go home tc
Thanksgiving, my good girl?"
4 4 Yes, ma'am, the very worst way,
ciuickly said the faithful domestic. "Mi
brother s lolks have writen for me,
there's to be a big family gathering;
I can't go." . j
"You shall .'go, and what's more
and
but
you
shall sray two weeks," said Aunt Han
nah, resolutely, "and your wages shall
go on all the same. Say to Mrs. Hardinq
to-night that you must go. Jane shail
do your work." j
"Oh, she can't!" j
4,She can and she shall," said Aunt
Hannah. "I will put my shoulder to the
wheel. Don't you worry now; just give
out that you must go home this year
bo, just after the mail came
a-
mantha said to her mistress :
"I want to go home to Thanksgiving
awfully." J -
4 4 You ought to go," put in Aunt Han
nah. 4 'You shall go to-morrow, and be
gone a fortnight. I will pay your rail
road fare." j
"Jlut what shall we do?" said Mr3.
Harding, looking really appalled. "It
is impossible to hire help at this season;
and there's no time to look for any;
cither." j "
4 'I am here, dear sister," said Aunt
Hannah as if that covered all grounds
of ob jection "and Jane shall help. I
will hire her as my assistant, and pay her
three dollars a week and the work will
do her good." ; f " . -
Jane was not consulted ; to be sure;
but she did not dare rebel against good,
whole-souled Aunt Hannah, who was a
person oi consequence in the family,
being a childless widow with consid
erable means at her own disposal. Sa
mantha went, and Jane I took her place.
"Oh, I am to be dish washer," said
Aunt Hannah, as Jane j reluctantly went
toward the sink the morning of the hired
girl's departure. 4 4 You know how to
wash dishes well enough, I dare say, al
though there is a - tight way as well as a
wrong wray to wash dishes, but you will
learn by seeing me. 1 can wash dishes
and at the same time j give directions
about the work you are to do. Now you
will mix the bread firsti"
"I don't know how. "i
4 'Time you did, and I will tell you all
about it, dear. Sister Harding, put the
rooms to rights, make the beds, and see
to the milk; you are the 'second girl, 're
member. Jane and I are the cooks. I
intend that on Thanksgiving Day every
article of food that goes on to the table
shall have been prepared by our Jane."
Jane opened her eyes in unaccustomed
surprise, and her lips for wondering
speech. Iiut Aunt Hannah, with smiles
and good nature, talked so fast that the
young girl found no chance to reply.
4 ' Y ou are an intelligent and a pretty con
scientious girl," wenton the good aunt;
4 'you are a3 storig as many girls it your
position; your appetite j is good, and you
are capable " Jane opened her lips
again, but Aunt Hannah reiterated
"you are young, capable and hearty. No
matter what station in' life you may be
called to fill, you want! to know how to
cook and how to do all kinds of house
work in the best way."
Aunt Hannah, who was very entertain
ing, and who knew a great many people,
went on telliug of this one and that one,
and gave Mrs. A.'s. rule for making
bread, and Mrs. B.'s recipe for a certain
kind of cake, until Jane found that even
women of culture and wealth took charge
of their own households.
When, that night, iFarmer Harding
complimented his daughter's first ginger
bread, she was agreeably surprised to find
how much more real satisfaction there
was in making it than in rocking idly in
her chair, or standing out under the wil
lows in the attitude of a heroine, with a
handkerchief pressed to her dewy eyes.
Jane was often tired at first, of course,
but she persevered under Aunt Hannah's
direction and treatment. Her mother
grew rested and young, and was told so
by her friends with whom she now had
time to visit. 1
On Thanksgiving Day, when every
thing was being praised, Aunt Hannah
took great satisfaction in saying:
"My pupil, Janey, prepared every dish
set before you." j
"I declare," saSHhe Western uncle,
"I declare, that's the way to bringup a
girl, be she a merchant's, a lawyer's, or a
farmer's." I
Before he left the old homestead he
gave a bountiful sum of money to his
brother with which to refurnish and
paint the house, embellish the parlor,
build a new front fence, and last, but
not least, to pay off an old mortgage on
the farm. , !
"Such a capable, ! industrious and
amiable girl as Janey,? this uncle went
on, "deserves a house as fine , as any in
the village. She makes the old Harding
homestead a pleasant place to come to ;
and besides, she saves her mother a great
deal of labor and trouble."
So Jane Harding, instead of only read
ing about lovely, well-kept homes and
their presiding angels, j became the light
and stay of her own mother's household,
chiefly through Aunt Hannah's judicious
instructions. Annie A. Preston. .
FLAYED HIS BOY ALIVE;
Inhuman Crime of a Chicago Step
father Ending in Murder.
A neighbor who had wanted to adopt little
Max Gilman, the eleven-year-old stepson of
August Ilatzka, sat by his corpse at Chicago
and sobbel as if her heart would break. The
child had been beaten to death by Hatzka
His poor, frail little body was ; literally
.flayed. The boy was the son of Hatzka's first
wife whom he married in Germany and who
died there about live ye) rs ago. He married
again within tbree months after her death
and his second wife died Juno 15'last, in
Chicago. Since then it appears the poor lit
tle waif of a step-soa haa received more
kicks than crusts and was half-starved all
the time. The neighbors say tha boy was a
nice little fellow. He could not stay at home
to be beaten and starved, but Tuesday night
he returned when t'atzka was out. -Hatzka
went up to the boy's bed when he returned,
and, taking a leather strap, to which was
attac-ed a buckle, simply flayed tho helpless
boy alive. This was about 10 o'clock- The
neighbors heard th3 screams of the boy tben
and later, about midnigh', they were awak
ened by a fresh attack of the insensate bru'?.
Nothing further was heard until the morn
ing, when the sound of blows and groaning
could be heard once mor. i
About 9 o'clock in the morning Hatzka
told oje of the neighbors that the boy had
died suddenly, and they sent word to the
coroner and notified the police. 1 Detectives
found the body, yet warm, at 10 o'clock,
showing that he had died after what was at
least the third beating. The body, of the
little victim is a mass of lacerations where
the sharp buekle ploughed up the qu vering
fleshr On the back of the head are f requent
imprints of the buckle, and it is ".tpposel
that concussion of the brain from the blows
there caused the boy's death. Examination
of the premises show e l that Hatzka had
wiped the blood off the bleeding body of the
boy and burned tho rags with which ,he did
it. The shirt the boy wore when he was
whipped was found hidden away in a sued
back of the house. It is all caked with dried
blood, and the clean shirt which Hatzka put
on the poor little fellow is almost as bloody.
Hatzka is thirty-eight years old, and was
employed in a furniture factory.' He has
two little sons of his own, aged four and
three years respectfully. Hatzka obtained
an unenviable reputation in the neighbor
hood sometime last summer by his treatment
of a young woman whom jj he engaged as
housekeeper, i e made propo.ials of marriage
to her alter she had been working for hiin
four days, and was very much enraged at
her because she was already betrothed to
another man aud declined the honor of being
his wife. It is related that he charged her
with stealing half a shawl of his lata wife
and some table linen, but she not only
proved her innocence, but showed that he
i ad cut the shawl himself ani hidden away
the linen. j .
When the officers arrived at Hatzka's
house they found him seated in the kitchen
smoking. He was promptly arrested. The
man had evidently been drinking, but
whether before or after tne tragedy was not
apparent. He was very reticent, and pre
tended not to understand English.
WALKED OFF WITH $250,000.
A Thief Easily Captures a Valsia-ble
Valisa, but is Arrested.
Col. Andrew J. Rogers, of Brunswick, Gi
left a traveling bag in tho Old Colony Depo
while he bought a newspaper, and when he
returned the bag was missing, It contained
many valuable pnpors and ,000 of the
15r unswiek Land Improvement and Coloniz
i tion Company. Of this company Col.
Rogers is President, John M Olmstead is
Vice-President, and its lievv York o3i33 is
at No. 2:1') Broadway. Col. Rogers, who was
one of Jefferson Davis's right-hani una
during the war, came to Boston to engage
local apital in his enterprise. Ha left his
lodgings in Boston to go to New York by
the Fall River line. He arrived i t th Old
Colony station sometime bef re 6 o'clock in
the i f ternoon and, having to wait for the
train, he left his valise on a settee while he
went over to the fruit stand iu the station.
While making tha purchase Ii3 looked around
towards the settee and saw that the valisa
.was goue. H -. saw a m m going through the
entrance with it.
cJol Rogers was shot f. t ; appomattox, in
consequence of which he has to wear a sole
several incnes thick on one of his feet. For
this reason he could not rnn, and the man
Rad escaped befo' e he could interest anybo ly
sufficiently enough to give chase. He report
ed his loss at police headquarters. List
Sunday night a stranger at : the Parker
house came to his room and gave him a letter
addressed" t . himself. It had. been in the
missing valise. The stranger- was 8. M.
Kopchovsky, who said a young man named
Robert Wald had probably stolen the valise,
A valise answering the description of tho
one lost was in Wald's bedroom. The valise
was found where Kopchovsky said it was,
but there remained in it o aly 15 7,003. of the
stock. All that had been indorsed by Col.
Rogeis was gone, likewise ai important
contract with englishmen, Wald has been
arrested and has a Doiice record. :
A PANTHER STOPPED.
Too Near Civ ilizatiori lie Meets His
Fate on the Hail.
Engineer Markhan and his fireman had a
thrilling encounter with a panther on the
Burlington and Misspuri River Railroad,
between Minden and Axtll, Neb. Between
the two places named the engine slipped an
eccentric and came to a standstill. Mark
ham and the fireman got out to sot matters
to l ights and had about completed the job
when both htard a yell that made their
blood run cold, arid before either -could turn
a arge panther sprang upon the engineer
and buried his claws in his shoulder. The
fireman had a heavy wrench in his hand and
with this struck the brute on; the head.
This partia ly stunned "tha animal a id he
loosened his hold on the engineer, but before
either could take advantage of the" situation
he make a vicious leap for the fireman and
buried one of his claws in his left hip.
Engineer Markli m by this time had
drawn his revolver aud by a lucky shot
struck the brute between the eyes, killing
him instantly. Both men were ba lly hurt
aud will be laid tip for some time. The
panther me .sured nearly G feet from the end
of his nose to the tip of his t-iil aud weighed
nearly 200 pounds.
BLOWN UP. BY FLOUR DUST:
Destruction of a Mill Incendiaries
Active in an Ohio Town. ;
A heated journal caused an ; explosion of
dust in the large flouring mill of T. Anlt &
Son, at Bellaire, Ohio, and the mill was
nearly destroyed with all the machinery,
grain and flour; loss $15,003, p.irtly insured.
An incendiary fire, the fifth in a week,
b: oke out in Ross's livery stable, at the same
place. The horses were saved. The fire de
partment labored under great disadvantage,
its hose having recently been cut while at a
fire. i he Disciples CBurch, C. & P. depot
and" B. & O. round house were fired during
the past week and a panic has been creattxi
by the activity of the incendiaries.
INVOLVING MILLIONS
Itevival of an Old Suit on Mississippi
Iliver Improvement Bonds.
Detroit parties and Detroit lawyers are
about to figure in a law suit involving near-'y
$2,000,000, before the Supreme Court cf
DUinois. It will be a revival of th9 some
what celebrated litigatio j over bonds issued
to drain Mississippi river flats. The suit is
to be pushed to a conclusion, with, such able
legal talent as United States : Sena or
Edmunds, ex-Gov. Palmer, of Illinois, and
James Capias and Henry M. Duflield, cf
Detroit, as counsel. In 1871 the people own
ing land along tho bank of the Mississippi
river, in Adams, Pike and Calhoun counties,
111., secured an act of tho Legislature for the
isse of $ 650,000 of 10 per cent, bonds for tho
purpose of constructing a J?vee to protect
these lands from the overflow. The lands
comprised an area cf about one hundred
thousand acres, extending fifty-four miles
along the river. The bonds were readily
floated, the late Francis Palms, of this city,'
talking about half of the issue and other
Detroiters taking smaller amounts.
The lease was completed, and its value was
evident from the fact that the improved'
lands jumped from $5 to $75 per acre. But
having secured tho improvement the land
owners undertook to raise a technical objec
tion to the value of the bonds, and when the
fourth instalment of interest became due
payment was refused. In 1876 Mr. Palms
employed ex-Senator Trumbull and ex-Gov.
Palmer, of Illinois," to collect tho bonds.
The suit had varying fortunes. Judge
Drummond, of the Federal Court, finally
held that the landholders, having asked for
the improvements, were estopped from at
tacking the bonds which secured it. "
A master in chancery was appointed to
compute the amount due from the various
landowners. He made his report, but hero
the matter rested. The trustees of the Palms
estate and most of the other bondholders
now propose to take up the case. The lands
are estimated to be worth $10,000,000 and
the claims against them now amount to
$ 1 ,700,000. The Palms attorneys will at once
proceed under the decree of Judge Drummond
ts file supplemental bill in chancery to com
pel the landowners to pay the amounts due
or surrender their lands to the bondholders.
SUFFERING ON THE LAKES.
The Sailors Ijost Their Way Almost
Frozen to Death A Crew Kescued
bv Ldfe Savors ;
Tho schooner Alice Craig, laden with camp
supplies was driven ashore near Bayfield,
Wis., and went to pieces. Tne crew escaped
in a yawl and landed in a dense forest. A
blinding snowstorm was raging and the crew
lost; their way. After wandering about in
the woods for hours with the r clothing
covered with ice and almost perishing from
cold and hunger, tho crew, with the excep
tion of - Captain Bunker, reached Bayfield
and reported that the eaptiin h id lain down
in the snow to die. A rescuing party after a
long search found the captain J He was
insensible and his limbs were badly frozen.
The schooner HalsteadT coal laden, for
Chicago, wet.t ashore in the fog off Glencoe,
111. She was discovered a .d thd Evanaton
life-saving crow were smt for. Tne life
savers reached the scene of the wreck and
the surf boat was launched when a tremend
ous breaker struch her, knocking overboard
Captain Lawsoa and carrying away two oars.
Captain Lawson disappeared under the boat
and came up on the other side. He was pull
ed into the boat again with considerable
difficulty, uniujured, Th3 boat, half full of
water, was headed for the beach, where she
was pulled up and baded out. Captain
Lawsoa, although benumbed with the cold,
entered the boat, launched a second time.
Again tho boat battled with the huge break
ers, reaching the schooner without further
accident excapting Jw breaking of the steer
ing oar. Two trips were mado in the surf
boat and the crew of the schooner were safe
ly landed on i ho beach. The Halstead left
Buffalo November 12 and has encountered
heavy weather ever since. She ; was com
i! anded by Captiin John Pollock and had a
cargo of 950 tons of coal,
The schooner E. Stevenson, of Chicago,
left Lu liugto-i for Chicago, loaded with
lumber. The storm struck her near Kenosha
-and she was driven in the gale until she
struck the liar, near South Chicago. The
waves dashed over the vessel and the captain
and crew climbed into the rigging and
signaller! for help. The life-saving crew
reached the sceue of the wreci and rescued
Captain Chapin and a crew of three men.
FORTUNES IN MILEAGE.
Larffe Sums Paid to Lucky Congress
men Who Live Far Away from
Washington. ;
The clerks in the office of the Sergeant at
Arms of Congress are busily engaged in
revising the mileage accounts of the Repre
sentatives in the next Congress. Undrr tho
law each Representative is entitled to
mileage to and from Washingto i at the rate
of twenty cents a mile.
In the case of Mr. M. A Smith, the new
Delegate from Arizona, the sum of 1,(XX)
will be paid to reimburse him for his expenses
from Tombstone and back again. Mr
Herman, of Oregon, who comes next on the
list, will be paid $1,310. The two San Fran
cisco members, Messrs Morrow and Felton,
who will travel 6,:3K5 miles each, wid receive
$1,1260. :
Mr. Grain, of Texas, who lives 2,000 miles
from Washington, will be allowed $hH).
Mr. Milliken, of Maine, whose home is 7o:j
miles east of Washington, will receive $281,
and Mr. Dougherty, of Florida, $456.
The New York city members will receive
$92 each, enough to pay their traveling ex
penses half a dozen times or more. Major
Farquhar, of Buffalo, exceeds this sum
by $86.
The smallest mileage credit will be t Mr.
Le-, of Alexandria, Va,, who will succeed
Mr. Barbour, of that place. Alexandria is
eight miles distant from Washington, ac
cording to the Sergeaut-at-Arms' computa
tion, Mr. Lee will therefor receive the
sum of $3 20.
Mr. Ilalman will diaw the resectable sura
of $254; Mr. Carlisle, $220, and Mr. Randa 1,
who lives in Washington, but who represents
a Philadelphia d;strict, $55. .
WHY HE TOOK HH LIFE.
Approaching1 Exposure of Forgeries
Drove a Lawyer to Suicide.
Charles Albert Kebler, a leading attorney
of Cincinnati, committed suicide. He was
driven to the deed by the approaching revel
ation of heavy forgeries committed by him
ii: the management of estates and of trust
fund. It is estimated that bis liabilities
amount to about $175,000, while the property
left will not exceed $60,000. The persons
most s rJously a ected are his own family
and friends.
T e astonishing revelation discloses his
motive to have been uoth ng more than to
keep up a styla of luxurious living b.yond
his means. Tha use of trust funds having
been begun, the continuance became an ap
parent nee siity. An instance is "given
where $10,030 was invested for a client and
all tha papers relating to it, including tin
mortgage, were forgeries. Friends believe
that insanity must have led him iuto such a
course. - . :
HANGED BY A MOB.
A Negro Taken From Jail in Frederick
City, Maryland, and Lynched.
John H. Bigus, a nego, on Friday night
attacked Mrs. Yeakle, a w idow, on a street
in Frederick City. He was rot found until
Sunday. Mrs. Yeakle . recognizxl him as
Ler assailant. The Sheriff, to protect the
prisoner, put him in chains in the strongest
cell in the county jail and doubled tho guards.
Fifteen minutes after midnight a mob of
over one hundred men wearing white muslin
masks, and the foremost of them armed with
picks aud axes, marched from the suburbs
of the town to the jaiL The mob. at a signal,
rushed at the jail-door, and a long heavy
pole, used as a battering-ram, in a few min
utes splintered the door... The guards about
Bigus s cell were overpowed, thtt looks
broken. The terrified negro was found
couche I in a corner, his hands held beseeching-
toward them for mercy. A rope was
placed about his neck, He cried out that he
was innocent, but he w.s ordered to come
on, and w.th the rope tied around his nock
was led to a tree iu front of the housj of
George H. Rider, on JetXerson Heights. He
persisted in declaring his innocence, until he
was swung up and ne .ry strangled. Then
he mado a confess on, in which he implicated
"Joe" Hull, another negro. He was thpi
given three minutes to pray. The leader of
the lynchers held a dark lantern so that the
light would fall on his opened watch. When
the three minutes expired, he remarked,
"Time's up," and th next instant
the negro was swinging in the air. Tho
death seemed rather-too slow, for one of the
lymchf rs drew a revolver and mptied three
chambers of it into the suspended body.
MISSED A RICH HAUL.
Frightenc I Burglars Flee Leaving
Valuable Booty behind Them.
About two milesfrom Warwich, Conn,, iu
the town of Ledyard, live Peter Williams,
seventy-seven years old, and his aged wife.
The house is in a lonely aud dismal spot.
Mr. Williams is a wealthy retired farmer
and was reputed to have some $75,000 hidden
in his house, having no faith in banks or
bankers. He is a vigorous man, noted for
his tempo:-, a'rd when he was awakened by a
noise which resembled that of a cat he hastily
rose, lighted a c -ndle and went through the
house. ,
As ho opened the kitchen door two masked
burglars, revolvers in hand, sprang upon
him and demanded his money or his life.
Mr. Williams dropped the candle, clinched
wit h one of the men and a struggle followed.
Airs. "Williams was powerless to render her
husband any assistance. Finally the seco.id
robber succeeded in.dealing Mr. V iiliams a
heavy blow on tho head, knocking him
senseless.
The thieves then tuvn.jd their attention to
Mrs. "Williams, aud she besought them to
have mercy and promised them all tho mon
ey their was in the house. She opened a
chest where the coveted treasure was sup
posed to lie and the two men took the con
tents iuto another room. While they were
out Mrs. Williams secreted herself in a closet
and when they 1-eturned and found her ab
sent tiiey liecame frightened, thinki. g sho
had gone to arouse the neighbors and they
departed in hot haste, carrying with them
but $20 in their flight Mr. Williams
injuries, although painful are not dangerous
There is no clue to the robbers.
A WOMAN'S CRIME.
She is Arrested for Aiding a Gang of
Counterfeiters and is Locked Up.
Mrs. Edna Perriu, a young and pretty
woman, styl;shly dressed and holding a baby
in her arms, was before court in New York
city, ch rgod with entrapping people to buy
counterfeit mopey.
For many years Mrs. Perrin was a cus
tomer of David Hynes, butter merchant,
and, when two months ago she requested
letters that came directed to Wm. J. Jones
might be kept for her, he cheerfully as
sented. Half a dozen letters came almost
every day, and finally Mr. Hynes, thinking
something was wrong, notified the police.
Detectives then opened one of the letters.
It proved to be a reply from a victim who
wished to purchase $5,000 in bad money for
$4tX) good money.
The officers shadowed Mrs Perrin in the
hope of catching those in league with her,
but without success. She was arrested just
after receiving a batch of letters. At her
house, 201 East Seventeenth street, were
found thousands of circulars advertising the
bogus money, and addresses of persons all
over the country. The woman refused to
tell where her husband was, and w.th her
infant she was locked up in Ludlow street
jail.
A NOVEL PUNISHMENT.
One Woman and Four Men Compelled,
to Whip Each Other.
A bungling attempt at Forgery was made
in Lancaster, S. C, by a woman named
Henrietta Brooks, who had for her accomp
lices four colored men. An order for $500
to bearer, urporf ing to be from a respect
abli and well-to-do farmer, was presented to
Messrs. Heath, Springs & Co., of Lancaster,
by a negro. The bad spelling and unusual
wording of the order caused an investigation
to be made. One of the men became fright
ened and confessed the whole thing. The
woman had devised the scheme and drawn
the forged order. All the parties were
arrested and brought together in a room.
They grew angry with each other and it
was decided, instead of prosecuting them, to
make them, inflict proper punishment upon
each other. Keen whalebone whips were
procured and each was mide to administer
twenty lashes upon the other, making 10C
for each, or a lash for every dollar thev
expected to get by the forgery, When th
500 lashes ha I been inflicted the Ave victims
were allowed to dexart.
MARKETS.
Baltimore Flour City Mills, extra,$3.0J
JUa-'15cts. : Rve Marvland and Pennsylvania
t'-0a62cts. ; Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania
it 00a$1200; Straw Wheat, 7.50a$8; Butter,
Eastern Creamery, 30a32cts., near-by receipts
19a20cts; Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream, 12J
alScts., Western, llal2ets.; Eggs 2-'a2;
Cattle $2.75a4.O0; Swine 0VinXct.;
Sheep and Lamb 2a4'cts; To?xceo
Xeaf Inferior, la$2.50, Good Common, : 50a
$4 50, Mid Uing, 5a6.0J Good to fine red, 7x?J
Fancy, 10a 1.
New York Flour Southern Common to
fair extra, 3.25a$4JJ0; Wheat No. 1 Whit ,88
aSWcts.; Rye State, 54a5.i; Corn Southern
Yellow, 54a55cts. ; Oats White State, :al
cts. ; Butter State, 17a20 cts. ; Cheo-s State.
lOalOJcts. ; Eggs r0a20 cts. .
Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania,
fancy, 3.50a4; Wheat Pennsylvania an 1
.Southern Red, boaSS cts; Rye Peunsyl vania
57a58cts.; Corn Southern Yellow, 53a54 ets.
Oatfc 0:r7 cts. ; Butter State, 18aU ct;.;
Cheese N. Y. Factory, llal i cts.; Eggs -State,
17alS cts.
a$3.62; WheatJSouthern f ultz, iv8er3;
forn Southern White, 52a5:5cts, Yellow, 51a
2 cts. : Oats Southern and Pen sylvania
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
IN A FEW UIUICF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condemned
from Many Ilctlundant Columns.
A eoal miners rtriVe, involving ,,13
men, with a strong probability of extend
ing to 1,000 men, onjhe lino of ih Sheruuisro
and Allefihany ruilroad, lias b cn inangarat
ed in the shafts at Stonelv-ro, Grove City and
the Carver mine Tlie men are employed by
a half dozen tirnw, and demanded an advance
or 'J cent per ton, whk-h would, if granted,
make what is known as tho C4nnbus scale.
At Englewnod. N J., the Athena um build
ing wa burned. Loss $100 000.
Mr. Boavor-TYYbb. tho English varht
builder, was inarri -d in Vaki niton to Mins
Alice Mar, daughter of Dr. John F. May.
1 hey will live in New York.
A new railroad is announced as unrely to
be built from Orange, N. J., to connect with a
railroad entering New York city.
Tlie largest elephant in this conntry was
among those burned at Bridgeport. Hi name
was S;minnn. and he waa about 50 years old.
Only five horses were burned.
A piece of incandescent cSrbon, falling
from an electric street lijdit in New York city,
set firo to gome cotton bale.
St. Loni is much exercised over the for
est fi.es. News from Arkansas, Texas, and
as far west as Fort Worth a distant of 800
mites,- indicate no abatement of the fires. In
sections n moto from telegraph and railway
stations it is feart-d that torrihle loss to hu
man an I animal life his occurred. South:
west .Missouri timber regions aro all ablaze.
-Sumj of the Chicago employing printers
have Htvcpted a compromise olttivd by the
men of nine hours' work for nine hours iay.
V startling report .comes from Fisher's
Station, Ind.. a small village. Since the open
ing of a mammoth natural gas well at that
pla.-e, a few days ago, there has lx en a w-tt le
nient of the earth of (several inch s, and the
whole population are terrified lteyoud descrip
tion. - - .
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.
Russia ha 1egun work with great vigor
on tho vast Silurian trnuk railway sehoin,
which was outlined in these dispatches some
time. ago. Eleven engineers have just started
for Vladivostoek to survey tho line from that
port to the best port on the Usnri River, fi5
miles distant, and the contracts for that sec
tion have already been mado. Work on tho
European side will bo begun the moment the
snow is off the ground.
Michael Davit t's speeches in Ireland seem
to indicate that he may soon give the. British
Government a chance to provide him a con
vict's suit and cell.
Two thousand crofters on the Isle of
Lewis, Scotland, supplied with rifles, tents,
.Ve., have begun a campaign to exterminate
tho deer in the forests. Thy allege that 0,000
crofters are starving who ought to be living
on tho land now given up to deer, and they
deciaro that in adopting their prcsont course
they are actuated by sheer neeessi y.
The Cologne Guz lte lias caused a wnsi
tion by the statement that the Czar, iu his re
c nt interview with Prince Bismarck. learned
that he had lcen d.-ceived in regard to (Jer
man3T8 politics by a forged letter purporting to
le from Prince Bismarck. On the Char's ar
rival at tho frontier station of Wirballen all
approaclkis were closed, even to pMoslriaiiH
Tho route thence to St. Petersburg was guard
ed by 80,000 men, and the Czar changed sev
eral times on the journey.
SUGAIi FllOM SORGHUM.
Successful Fxperiments Carried out
by the New Process.
Detroit, Mich., Nov. 22. Commissioner of
Agriculture N. J. Cohnan, in attendance upon
the sessions of the National Grange at Lans
ing, stated that ho had received a telegram
from Chief Chemist Wiley, of the Agricul
tural Department, announcing that experi
menting at Magnolia plantation, Louisiana,
iu producing sugar from sorghmi by the ne v
process, which is just at present a pet project
of the Commissioner's, had produced the. best
results at the first trial. Mr. Colman is con
fident that his method will revolutionize tho
Bugar industry of the United States. Tho
roller process of extracting sugar sorghum
which Mas in use when he became Commis
sioner three and a half years ago, pressed out
only about half the juice, or 40 pound of
sugar to tho ton of cane, while every ton of
sugar contained over tl;ree times that amount.
He at once sent a special agent to Euroie to
study the system of beet-sugar making,
known as the diffusion or saturation process.
The agent brought home plans and drawings
of the entire appara'ns required, and from
these tho battery of cells that has done such
excellent work at tho experiment station at
Fort Scott, Kan., during tho last year was
made.
Overcoming many difficulties, tho station
firodueed over 235,000 pounds of fine sugar
rom sorghum, over 140 ixmnds of sugar be
ing turned out from each tou of caue. "Bo
sides this amount," said the Commissioner,
"many more th' ivand pounds will bo mado
from the seconds, which' is the -molasses re
boilcd. Aside from the sugir, there aro many
thousands of gallons of molasses and about
the same number of bushels of seed of sorg
hum are grown to the acre that there are of
corn, and it i3 jubt as valuable for feeding all
kinds of stock, and re diy paya for the raising
of the crop. A fair average yield is twelvo
tons of cane to the acre. Tlie Louisiana ex
periment has produced 08 per cent, of the
sugar from the oane, while the o'd milling
process obtains only W) per cent."
Mr. Colman says the pr -Hpect is that "in a
few years America will make all the sugar fdie
can use. and the $100,000,000 annually sent
out of the country for that item will lo kepi
at home. The new indnstry ha come t stay.
It will draw followers from other branches of
farming and give great relief to other indus
tries in which tliere is an overproduction, and
the sorghum sugar can bo made just as good
as tbat from Southern cane.
ITWAS A BILLY GOAT.
Fear of Kscapeil AViltl An imaN Makes
Ijvcn Policemen Quake
Sinw the big Barnum menagerie fir. iu
Bridgeport on Hun lay night very many ioo
ple iu New Haven have b?n much scared by
what they believed to be prowling wild
beasts. Soon after midnight Tuesday morn
ing Policeman Riley while passing Mer will's
Facking house heard a great howling in o.io
of the alleyways, ami when ho
turned the glare of his lantern
.into tho darkness he saw som-3 strange sort
"of sjKtted animal crouching .against th side
of the building as though ready for a spring.
He at once came to the conclusion that it
was one of the escaped animals and huriod
to the precinct office for help.
A sxuad of five jol icemen then hurried t
the packing house, obtained an entrance to
the building and fired a round from their
revolvers at the animal in the darkness.
The howiing ceased and the policemen then
went down and made an examination. They
discoveroa a uiuy goat wim u sjwi m
browsing on some stubble. Thw wjw tHj
animal they hal.b'e:i tiring on. He was un
disturbed by the" bullvts.
Insane Tby the Faith Cnre,
Mrs. Margaret Jvidder, of Chicago, was men
tally sound to si weeks ago. when she
went to see Mrs- Johnson, a faith cure doc
tress. She first visited Mrs. Johnson out of
curiositr, was fascinated with the doctrines of
faith cure, and then went repeatedly to be
treated for some stomach disorder. She took
lessons in the art and talked of nothing else at
her home. A few days ago sho wu take n with
acuU dementia, and she is now in an asylum.
PANIC IN MIX NCI STOCKS.
The Bottom Knoekcil Out of tho
Gogebic Iron Mine.
A panic has seized the h lfors of whit ars
known a G gcvd -. iron mining nuriti- Ti.-
Gogebic imn range iA strip of lajsd rnniiw
some twentr miles through tho n r!h ru j-r-tion
of Mudgan and Yion(in, iu; t :it
milts llow the shore of Ike Superior. 1:
develotncnt was N-un alut tw yeara a ; -
and during the pn-aent y-;r something
1, 25M, txn tons of hih gr.d hematic ore trs
shipped f rom tin. re. thw is tLe that i
nscvl for tlie Becne jtx.vm of ir"n Dik
ing, and is valuable lx-au it hu hi:hr;-
been scarce. Quantities of it have l:i im
ported annnallf. The tin ling of tLi o;,
started np a speculation in th- minmg pr.p
erty and thi has Uvii followed by tuo ;
kind of wi dcat o;xrtion.
Some fifty mining companies l ave l en r
ganized on the range, though tin re are n t
atoye fifteen shipping iuiu-. Tl
panien are none of them orani?.-.! on a U a
capitalization than a tniUiou dollar, an I -mo
of them aro capitalize! at tvo million, an 1
fvtn more. The totid capitalization of t'. o
several companies will reach $70. .(.' .
Many of the mines exist n: n ly on pap r.
Others wire organize 1 under l.-ao of pr--;'-crty
or on tho jromied pnvim nt of rou'ry
f or ore pnvlncc I. Tlie nominal value of t
shares were made low, in some instances elr
fl, and ramrimr from that up toV. With
sucli a fcmall par value it was eay to w. ik T
large quantities of t!io M-.vk up-n .-mall m
vesrors at oM 50 j r cut. for ra-h. Thou
sands of dollar worth of this tvk fund H
way into tht hands of inr-ehani-s and trvli -nu
n in Milwaukee, Chicago, Clevelati I, and
in the small t.ovn surrounding tlu - ntu-s.
' One year ago Moore, Ueiij.inun .V Co., tho
heaviest firm of Hicittator and j-r -.n-.o r- o i
the rang cpein-d a branch office in Nov Yoi k
ami through heavy adertiiug latge ri'.-
were ina.l - to ier in there and throughout
out New England, om.-e for ti e n.v'.e of tho
stocks were ojviiod in 1 ion al-ut th
time. Atfout S-s.m . m to $n Mo .f
stocks wero sold iu New York and N. r.n!
It was a!s a!ut this time that the j.!;b'ic 1 - -pan
to hear of a great scln nn- f rt lo-1 -on l; -Virion
of mine on tin range. llt-S. i!.t ; S:. ; -, -en
YV. Horsey was iho principal figure in
manipulation. It wa given out that thr i
Moore, Benjamin Co.. be and' a r-yn 1. r.t
of wealthy gentlemen pur-'ha-cd or s.-an- I
an option to purchase fourteen of the ! .-;
niinrs on tho range, which were to l,-,.i,i-ated
by one company K-Se i t.n v Will. .v. l
YVindom, of Minnesota, eho -;. u !iur
man of the company, and ,!-;-. 11. tlunt m
Secretary. The Lake Sup rior Consolidate J,
as it was known, held an agreement to pur
chase proH-i fics nt certain pi i for t!i j
stock which were then ruling in the inii!. t.
Almost immediately the price-; ln-gan to de
cline. They can now ! l-on-hi T r a third of
tho prices-then qu ted. The Lake Su s t i i T
Consolidated peoj.le under these' ctrcu:.i-: m
ces declared themselves unable to y on v. itU
their option, and rceoimyed ttie mini s t
their original purchasers.
5hore, I'.eiij.uuiti ,v Co. have made an r---signnient
which. taken in connect ion v. .1 1, . t 1., r
depressing causes, has knocked the lth" i
all out of the tJogeb'c sl-K-k market, and i.t
holders of tliere securities re.-iiin ap'und t t
realize on them at any price.
BUSS I'AKGO KCi:S.
Says Her Share oT tho Instate I
Withheld.
(leorgia Fargo, tho daughter of Y il'.iam C
Fargo, ths late Piesident of tho W Us-Far:-
Express, has ju.d brought mi it agaii.-t ! r
uncle, James C. Kargo, and Charles I s rg and
Franklin D. Loeke, to compel them, as exe
cutors cf her father's estate, to pay over t
her alxjiit $10.0. which she c'ani; is due t
her as one of the heirs. President Fargo d . 1
in August, 1SS1, and by will, aft-r pmvi li: g
for his wife, left hi trust for ra-'h of hi two
laughters a third of the income of I. U . ,
payable semi-annually. The other d.m-rht i ,
who has since died, was the wife ci I..- '.:.
S'p-iircsof tha S-jYJ-ntii Lnite-i States ( av-
alry.
Georgia Fargo, through her conn j 1, -
II. Fester, declares t'nit the income fr"::i tho
money in tiu.-t witli theevcutoniatnour.ls.it
this time to more than K,oo.), and that h r
share thereof is more than $:7,.V0, but that
the executors never paid Ik r anything ni.nl
l.vt Jamiarv, when tie y give her $1",'"' "'i
account. Sho asset ts that they have wr
fully withheld the rest f rom h r when
needed it for her onftrtabld supp rt.
that meanwhile they have drawn fr-'in th
Clg
st:i Slid
tate $:j,(0 a year eaeh, making ? .( .... u !, 1
told, nearly double wliat they paid o r t
Tho executors m t rp the f n e that
r.
th. y
in-
are paying the pUint iiT her whan of th
coi;e of tlie e.it;t as rat i l!v and a fu.lv
the condition cf tie- estate will i-ermi. 'I i-;v
deny any intention to wrongfully ithhl
anything that lK-longs to the plaintiff.
A HEAVY FAILURE.
Rumored Collap-e of a Farm Mori
gafi Company IIv it Work'- I.
The Western Farm Mortgng Couipn:, y, of
Lawrence, Kansas, is reurted to !nv. i a i 1 1
with lialulities which, it U b ii v 1, w.'.l
reach $1,0 I ,.
Case after ca in Klk, Urcciiw 1, Li u
c ln, W-lon and lAoett cotmti-s is rep-Tied
where farmers have pi ice 1 niortg te. j;i
this company's had anl Inv.- r.e.rid t'.
s;.in ex;-cting to g-t th.-ir m n-y at on
and have be n waiting from thr-j to six.
months an 1 have never r.o -iod a -1 'I'lr,
although in mkiia cas -s th- farm-.-rs bavo
Uvn notified tint in'u-ret is lu- on the , i.:e
mortgages which th y gav- to th o..?np my,
clearly showing th.it th.; rn Ttga-s h tvo
ln-en sold an l the money us- i for "di-r p ir
ix. csthau paying th.-v; farni. r-, w ii n v
Iiave a mortgage on their prop rty but lnv
never got a dollnr for tli .vitri".
The company has a lnutt "-1 that it w-ts in
slraitene-l circumstancM i:i I tint el .wnn
amount b ."?17,tMi. A commit!- is t !"
atpointed to inv stigaW th couc -rn.
Jolm Briht I'xeited.
A letter is published from Mr. Pright x f- r
ring to his proioal to fend Iri.-h bills to a
grand committee c nij.'ed of Irinh rn. ml rs.
In the b iter Mr. lirigi.t ayS: Th- rt ! 1
n..lt. .rill tl.f I .Tl .1 M i-'i.! ."L-! t!.C7
are rctls, if with then 1-1 In-di ii'.Ti.d-r
in the House of Commotis th- j.lati t. ou! 1 n--t
e allowd to work. Mr. tlhcJ-totic I.j.
hobby in which the rcU 1 ! a h rs fnr a t in
liave agreol to join him. lie is eoinnu'.b-d t
that hobby and cannot c-nd. -Mt-nd to eoiir; ; r
apian Us pretentious but more rtasna'-b'
than hLs. Nothing can 1; il"iiu urtd -Mr.
Gladstone's bills have !: n litir- ly pt rid f
and the o.itioii hoi! v changed. Mr. (ilel
fctoiie ft ops the way. Ib; insists npon irrj---i-Jle
legifilation for Ireland to the excluMoa cf
lf-eislatiou for the whole kingdom.
Glasgow's "World's Fair.
The prosfwetn f the iuteruasion-il el
lion that Queen Victoria has authoi ;-. to
bcld net summer in Glasgow has arrived "ti
this side of the water. It given n-any rti n
lars atxut the propoffl industrial, r- i. i t;:. i
ud art dl.lay. and announces that a gvnran
iee fund of $ljTflJ) l:a- Ken raix-d t . -.; i!-
:he exhibition. The exhibition ni'd inc! u !
ixhibits from the United Kingdom, India a:. I
;he colonic, and Am -rica. Sp.-ial f- at'ir-is
5f the exhibition are to be the "Women's In
Instric Station" and the "Artisan S- ti :i."
Hie exhibition buildings will coT r alont t. u
icren, and the surronndiag prouads are ff;y
acres. Tlie river Kelvin, which in r cts th i
proposed grrnnds, will le usel for the ehit i
tion of naval, fchip-bnilding and life avir.g
apparatus.
Another new cotton-picking machine U
attracting attention. This is the inv-t ti :i
of a Mr. Graves and is iepc-rt-d to hivj
given sat'sfaction in experiments triolwitU
it round about Galveston, Texas.