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Increasing THE LARGEST WEEKLY t Circulation. ITDLISUED IX THE TERRITORY Lying between the Roanoke an! llcberrln River, embracing the three counties c Hertford, Northampton and Bertie. JOHN V. HICKS, editor and Proprietor., ' devoted to the interest of Hertford and adjoining counties. GOOD . ADVERTISING ilEDIMI. rate's reasonable. SI.OO Por Annum VOL. VI. MURFREESBOROnN. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1891. NO. 45. TO HERTFORD COUNTY. AREA 340- SQUARE JULES. POPU H, AT I QN 11,843. WHITE 3.121; COLORED 6.722. TlERTyoBD Couxtt ' was formed in 1759, from Chowan, B -rtie and North ampton rounties.,4Jtwas.n.rned in com pliment to the Marquis of Hertford; an English nobleman, a friend of liberty, an elder brother of Lord Conway, vho, in 176 moved in the House of Iords the i repeal of the Stamp Act. Ilertford U a . name of Saxon origin and signiSes the 4 'Red Ford." - : - - "W inton. the county -seat, was named after the "Wju'is family; it " situated 1 53 miles north-east from Ralehrh, ou the Chowan river, and has a population of about 500. Surface Level nnd sandy, soil good; watered by the ileherrin and Chowan rivers. " ' Staples Cotton, corn, naval stores and fish.. Being near the Norfolk market, trucking is also profitable. Fruit- App e, peaches, pears, melons scuppeinong grapes, and the small fruits. Timhertt Juniper, cypress, pine, oak, ash. the gums and the usual eastcru growth. Post. Offices An net a, Bethlehem, Como. H.irrcllsvillt., Lotta, Mapleton, Menola, Murfrcesboro, liiddicksville, Br. Jhn, Tunis, Union, Wiuton. Countt Officers SiiDcrior Court Clerk, T. D. Boone; ; Sheriff and Trees unr, J. 8. Mitchel; Register of Peeds G. A. Brown; Surveyor, J. D. Parker; Coroner, J. H. Mitchell, Standard Keeper John M. Jones. Commissioners W. T. Brown, chair in in, B. Ferguson, C. W." MIttchell, J F. Ncwfome and "W. E. Cullens. At tor ey for County, B. B. Winborne. Board of Education P. B. Picot; R. P. Thomas, and J. P. Freeman ; Supt. Public Schools, George Cowper. TOWXSIIirS AND MAGISTRATES. Maney's Neck S. D. Winborne, G C. Picot, E. G. Sears and L. F. Lee. McRFiiifiKFBORo L. W. Bolfe, H. C. Maddrev, J. C. Vinson, U. Vnughan, J. E. Jones, W. S. Nekon, and Geo. T Darden. STvJoiin's G. W. Beverly, .T. II Mitchell, J. G. Moore, II. D. Godwin, C. W. Parker, L, R. Tyler, and E. II. Joyncr. "Winton J. L. A n lei son, Robert Hoi lomon, W. II. Jemiffan, A. I. Parker, J. B. Hare. G. H. "Mitchell and J. B. Chamblee. IIa.hrellhvilli5 S. M. Aumack, Jno. M. Jones, H. J. Baker, and C. N. Piuden Law Firms -Murfrcesboro. Winborne & 'Bro., D. A. Barnes, J. J. Yat s; Winton, P. B. Picot, G. V: Cowper ai d J. E. Vann. ScrKRioR Court. Meets sixth Mon day after the first Monday in M trch and September. J. II. Blount, Solicitor, Ikferior Courts Meets on the 4th Monday in February, and the second Monday in August. Judges. . G. W. Beverly, II C. Middrey and S. M. Aumack. R. W. Winborne. Solicitor. Notary Pcbi.ic" L. W. Bolfev Mur freesboro; P. B: Picot, Winton; W. D. Scull, Harrelhville. ; ' Incorporatbd Towns Murfrcesboro, Winton. Llarrellsville and Union. rRACTICINO miYsrciAKs- j. i jct dridge. W. G. Freeman, Murfrcesboro; T.I. Burbage, Como; J. T. Shubrick, A. H. Askew, ILw re llsville : J. fj. Mitchell. Ahoskee; J. W. Tayloe, W. II. Sears, UnioL.S. S. Daniel, Winton. Incorporated Companies Roanoke and Albemarle Agricultural Fair, Mur-frt'c-biro; "R. W. Winborne, Pre!' dt:t; J. M. Wynn, Treasurer; A .p, Iliues, Secretary.- , : United Telegraph Company, Line from Winton via Murfrcesboro to Boy kins, Va. J. M. Wynn, President. Colleges Chowan Biptisc Female Institute, Murfreesboro, J, B. Brewsr President. Wesleyan Female College, Murfr ccs boro, E. E. Parham, President. County Farmers' Alliance Meeti in the Court House at Winton, every three months. S. M. Aumack, President; G. A. Brown, Secretary; J. F. Newsome; Business Agent; J. J. Bn-wo, Treasurer. Steamboat Lines. Steamer Lota, Capt-Withy, from Franklin, Va., via Winton to Edenton, three times a week. Steamer Keystone, Capt, Smith, from Franklin, Va., via Winton to Murfrees boro, two times a week. , Railroad The Norfolk and Carolina It. H., from Norfolk, Va., via Tunis to Tarboro and Halriirh. District Officers -Judge, Geo.. H' Br.jwn, Jr., Beaufort Co. ; Congressman, W. A". B. Branch. Beaufort, Co. State Senators, P. H, Morgan, Currituck; Co., and J. Parker, Gates Co. ; Represen tative'for Hertford, J. L. Anderson. TOWN OF MURFREESBORO. Murfr-csboro is situated in th north western part of the County, at the head rf navigation on ths Mohcrrin River, and has a population of 1,200. It was in 3rporatfed in 1737, and named in honor of William Murfree, a Revolutionary hero and patriot, who resided here. Mayor B. B. Winborne. Commissioners- A. P. Ilines, A. N L a v re nee, J, R. Hall, and T. II. Nichol son, 1st Ward ; J. B. Bicwer, 2nd Wa' Constable, J. D. Babb. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Methodist -vScr ices every Sunday corning at 11 o'clock, and at night at elock. Picycr-meeting every Wed nesday night. Rev. F. M. Edwards. Paftor. Sunday School every Sunday afternoon. E. E. Parham, Supt. Baptist Services every 2nd and 4th Sand ays, morning and ni ght. - Prayej neetmg every Thnrsdiyi uight. Rev. 1 . G. Wood, Pastor. Sunday School svery fa iday morning; J. B. Brewer, 5:wnntendent. : , " vk!$7r MAcDOJf AJ:D. idoVof the Canadian miiu ' re.markable woman. She is tall Wed with energy and determination, and thVlwr talker omniverous reader g?aee ih?" of t extraordinary S A. SUMMER SONG. AM whither, sweet one, art thou fled My heart of May I Iq vain pursuing I am lei A weary way. The brook Is Jrv; its silver throat Kills song no more; And not a linnet lifts a note Along the shore. Will thou return? I ask the night, I ask the morn.- ; The doubt that wounds the old delight - Is like a thorn. Ob, come ! I lean my eager ear For laughter's ring; Bring back the love-light cool and clear . Bring back my Spring ! . ; , " Clinton Scollard, in the Century. How She Wore His Ring. BY MARY KYLE DALLAS. What is the matter with you, Frank ?', said I; 'I never saw you look so sulky before." Sulky 1" Frank repeated, "I'm in trouble, . and you have no sympathy for me. So much for friendship." "Good heavens, Frank I'M cried, div ing into my pocket and producing a well-filled pocket-book. "I had no idea tell me how much you'll have. If there's not enough hero I'll draw a check. Tbe idea of keeping it from me, when you know that if I had only a dollar , in the world I'd share it with the friend who saved my life and an ungrateful wretch I'd be, too, not to do it. " 'Oh, put up your pocket-book,Jack,M said Frank. "Can't! you think of any other trouble in life but want of money? Your ancestors have! rolled in gold' so long that I suppose you think the rest of us beggars. There,' I know you'ro a k;nd-hearted fellow and my friend, but I'm not out of cash," he laughed. But in a minute more his face was as gloomy as ever. ? "Tell me what it is?" I said. We were sitting on the bank of the Tiver fishing. Frank had come out to our place to visit me. We had been at school together, and just as wc were about to graduate, Frank saved my life. I sha'n't tell you bow, that would be anther story, and I want to talk about this affair just now, but he saved my life at the risk of his own; was laid up for six months, and always limped a little afterward, and I vowed eternal gratitude, 60 did my parents. We all adored him, and we had been very intimate ever since. He was twenty-five by this time, and an artist. I was twenty-four, and as Frank often said, "disgustingly rich." . He was usually the "merriest fellow alive. I don't want to convey the idea that Frank was a sickly cripple. He was a very unusually handsome joung man, and his little limp only made him wjjat the ladies call interesting. It was quite in his favor with them, and I noticed that when he was intent on making a conquest, he limped more than usual. -But as gracefully as possible, josi may be sure. f He made a great many conquests. For my part, my weakness was not the ten der passion, and I rather laughed at his affairs of the heart. " - "I suppose it is a girl," I said, after a pause. . He looked j up at. me with his long-lashed, gray eyes, for I sat on a rock some distance above him. "Jack, I don't believe you have ever .been in love, or ever; will be," he said. "Oh, I like the girls well enough," I said, "and no doubt when I am older I shall marry ; but I don't think there's any of the 'Amanda Rosamanda, the world would be a i desert void without thee' sort of thing about me." . "I don't believe there said he, in a tone that did not make the remark sound like a compliment. "But, Jack, that sort of thing, laugh at it as you may, is solid fact after all, and hearts can break, and lives be shattered, and fellows go to the dogs because a woman " He broke down. My arm was around his shoulder in a moment. ' I - "Why, Jack; old fellow,, all the wo men like you," said I. "You're sure to get her if you try hard enough. They're often like that; I'm told coquette with ft fellow till the last momeo" "Oh, she didn't," said Frank "She accepted me at. once yes, at once. It was love at first sight with us. I met her at a dinner. I j took her and her mother, or maiden taunt, or somebody in a cap and eye-glasses, to the opera. I met ler by accident, and walked with her. I asked her - if she could love me, and she said, 'Oh, yes.V We were en gaged. I almost ruined myself to buy a cluster diamond ring, and we had the happiest .winter that ever mortals lived through. Our wedding-day was fixed for October. Her father promised all sorts of amiable I things, and I was fool enough to kiss .'another girl. She rather dared me to do it you know the way some girls have and by the most dreadful ill luck Jennie saw me; and, look here." He took something from his pocket and held it out to me. It was a ring a cluster diamond. J "She sent that back last week," he said, "and I've wanted to die ever since." And he rolled over on the grass and hid his face. "Oh, go and make up with her, Frank said I. "I've tried," said Frank; ''she won"! speak to me she won't look 1 at me. She sends my letters back unopened. Nor it's over, - and I shall never be good for anything again." He seemed to mean it. She's gone to Washington," said he; ''and they say an old Senator is miking love to her. She'll marry him ; I know it is out of spite, but she'll do it." Go after her, and cut him out," said I. "I start ! to-morrow for Mexico a business' engagement, signed and con- rtracted for. I'm to do the sketches for a work on a certain part of the country, and I hope I'll never come back, said vVank. . - - - I; ; . '. - I never saw any one look so desperated "Frank,? I said ;if . you really are as mad about tbe girl as you say you are, I'll promise you to go after her myself, force her to be reasonable, and coax her to make up with you." . ... "It's impossible to do anything of the sort," he replied; "but if you could my God! if you could, I would lie down at you feet and worship you!" . " "As Im not a Japanese idol, or any thing of the sort, I shaVt ask you to do that," said I. ( "I owe you a little debt of gratitud e, remember. ; I'll go to morrow, and you can depend on bearing good news." ' - He shook his head. " - - " "You're. a dear, good fellow," he said. "I don't believe any other - fellow living would do so much for a - friend; I don't indeed.; And, Jack, look here, I shall be down ; in Mexico soon, you know. Write to me, but don't mention her un less you should perform a miracle. Then then 4oh, good heavens !; telegraph to me ; send "me- those words, She wears it,1 and I'll fly through fire and water, or, blood,' to her side I" -, ;K "Wears what,- Jack ?" I Asked. Hi "Oh;"" said he, "I felt as though you could read my ' thoughts. This ring ; take it with you. If she ever says, I'll forgive him, say; then put this ring on again And when she does- " All right," said I. And he kissed the diamond, and put it in a little box and transferred it to me. ; - , - - - : - - "And now her name and address?" "You don't even know what?" he cried. . ; ' . ( .. , ;- I did not tell him that he was desper ately in love with another girl when we last met. He was in real trouble and I did not think it right to joke with him, and he wrote the lady's name "Jean nette Donald," and the hotel! where her people were stopping on a card, and said againr: No use, Jack, no uae; she said she would never trust me again. She meant it." - A week from that ; time I was In Washington, and Frank on his way to Mexico, aud I had called on Mr. Donald on a business matter, concocted by my father to help me out. ; Dear old dad was as deeply in terested ai I, and I had thus beea regularly in troduced to Miss Jeannette. She was a beautiful blonde, with golden hair and violet eyes, and the sweetest smile, and a little, pensive way that made me fancy that she regretted Jack. But I was very artful I laughed and danced with her, and walked with her, and talked with her, and made : her ac quaintance very thoroughly before I ever mentioned Frank.! ; At last one day I said: : :'t ' " f" i ..." ' "'; V "You know Frank Ludwig, do you not, Miss Donald? I've heard him speak of you." "I was once slightly acquainted with Mr. Ludwig," she replied. Her tone prevented me from saying any more just then ; but as time went on, I was more and more determined to do what I had promised. ! The old senator had been in the field when I arrived, and I had, been obliged to- well, to appear to' be very much in love myself, iu order to drive him away, and he had said some very btter things about "young puppies'! before he van ished. But now he was paying his ad dresses to a young widow, who appeared on public occasions dressed principally in bugles, and kaning on his arnt in the tenderest fashion. In fact I worked hard for Frank's sake to keep other fellows away from Miss Donald, and to make her like me, and feel that I was a friend, and I had just got myself firmly into her gocd graces, when with a horror which I have no words to express, I suddenly discovered that I had fallen in love with her myself. Yes in love, and in what I had once laughed at as the "Amanda Rosamanda style." It was not a joke, but a serious truth that I felt that "the world would be a desert void" without Jeannette Donald. You see it was the first time 1 had been so much alone with a beautiful girl, and she had been so sweet' to me, and she was the realization of my ideal of womanly beauty, with her golden hair and heavenly eyes,T and a thousand other things. However, I was not a false rascal. All that made no difference, I had come to Washington to work for Frank, and I would do my best for him. Conscious as I was of my own feelings, I dared .delay no longer, and that very evening I took my way to Mr. Donald's house, determined to plead for Frank as though he were myself. She was alone at the piano, playing softly, when entered tneir private parior. ; . She held out her hand to me. I took it, and could not help holding it a little longer than I ought. "Miss Jeannette," I said, "I have a confession to make. ; My ? acquaintance with you seemed to come about almost accidentally; but i the ! truth is, that I came from New York on purpose to know you." ' V: .-'- - .-. ''; 4Is it possible ?" said she, blushing like a rose.":' - . l ; . ;, "- I 1 "Yes, indeed, Miss Donald," I said. "I asked you once if you knew my friend, Frank Ludwig. He who used to talk so much about you. : Oh, Miss Donald, you are so sweet, so fair, you look so gentle. . r How can you be so cruel?" "I cruel! I do not ; know what you mean, Mr. Leslie," Jeannette cried. " When a woman has won a man's heart; is it right' to cast him away to doom him to despair," I said. "3Iy pur pose in seeking you out was, from the first, to ask you to put this ring on your finger." " i . - - . ,: . I was about to say "once more,n when a hearty slap upon my shoulder startled me. - - "Come, come," said Mr. Donald he was a man with a loud ; voice and a Scotch accent 'come, . comej You've been very sly, young folk, but I was the same myself in my time, and I'm not sure I'll object." . ::bT ; . We've not been sly, papa ttW ''. Jeannette. r JackVhas r new said r. word to me before."- ' ? ; rPut it on, lad,! said the old gentle man , put it on her finger, and m blessing on j both,11 v r , - - - What could I do 1 I put the tin? on Jeanette's finger. Nothing else was possible. The oil gentleman left us together, her head sunk on my shoulder. I have often wondered since what she thought of me, lor 1 never uttered another word the whole eveninjrv As soon as I decently could I got away, l adored her ; 1 knew that I should be miserable without her, but I could not play, the part of a rascal. - Haling stolen Frank s diamond rins: and ; given it away might have been rather bad, from a detective s point of view, but I did not think of that. 1 It would seem to him that I had been false, cowardly; treacherous, and had von his Jennie after promising to make all right between, them. ' I could never tell Jennie the truth after all she., said, to- me that nightf things that would have made me the happiest of men, if I had dared to be, and as walked homeward I decided to shoot myself and end it all. I could write a letter of adieu, explaining , all to Frank, telling Jennie ho w I loved her, telling ny parents that without honor life was valueless. I had a pistol in my valise at the hotel. Well, the sooner it was over the better. I was in an undescribablo state of mind, for I loved life, and I saw it bright and glowing before me but for my lost honor. - V As I entered the hotel, I turned and gave a last look at the long, beautiful street Before morning my eyes would close on the world forever. "There's a message for you," said the clerk as I passed his office. I turned and took it. It was from the city of Mexico, from Frank," of course. I tore it open, these were tbe contents. 'Don't go further with that matter; I'm married." So I was when he next heard from me. Family Story Paper. V . Vegetable Leather. A new product of manufacture, and one capable of industrial a pplication in many ways, has been introduced by a Brussels inventor, who has discovered an improved mode of rendering vegeta ble parchment more adhesive than are the makes now in use. The material in question, as is well known, varies accor ding to the degree, of dampness in the air, and this defect, and also its want of adhesiveness, have hitherto precluded it from coming into very general use. By providing means for making it non hygrometric and adhesive a result is ob tained which makes it at once available for use in many ways, and manufacturers will speedily take advantage of the new conditions in utilizing the discovery to their profit. The invention consists in applying to either one or both -sides of the sheets of vegetable parchment or Oil color of var nish, so as to form a product susceptible neither to humidity nor draft. When the layers are dry theu surface may be ornamented by printing, embossing, stamping or otherwise producing decora tive designs thereon. It can then be varnished, glazed in an oven, or finished in other ways. For the purpose of giv ing the article the exact appearance and smell of leather, a mordant of varnish, capable of sustaining powdered leather which has been previously placed in tanner's ooze or scented with brick sap, is spread over it. This imitation leather retains, it is. said, all the desirable qual ities of the natural skin, forming its basis especially on its being absolutely proof against the action of ? fatty substances-while at the same time-it resists, the action of light acids. A remarkable feature of vegetable parchment is that when. used as a vehicle or support of oil color and varnish, it offers an important advantage over cloth," plush and the like, and can be dyed any color. New York Commercial Advertiser. A Remarkable River. The Saguenay, a large river in Canada, falling into the estuary of the St. Law rence, on the north side, about 115 miles below Quebec, is rightly reckoned as being the deepest and most remarkable stream in the" world. Excepting in a very few places, where, great ranges of hills seem to cross its bed, the average depth is 900 feet, the bottom at the spot where it joins the St. Lawrence being over 600 feet below the bottom of the last-named stream. Thus a low point j of rocks at the shore, or an island, is really the top of a moderate-sized mountain springing up from the mysterious depths of this deepest of all rivers. As the spring tides rise about eighteen feet, the current of the river Taie violent and eccentric; in some places the ebb stream runs four to six miles per hour; the eddies along the shore are like those of a rapid, the under current sometimes laying hold of a vessel to turn her about or to hold her in spito of all efforts to escape, r - Before the use of towboatsonthe Sag uenay, a vessel left helpless by a calm sometimes drifted against! some sub merged' mountain peak, and , when - the tide fell, capsized in deep water. An anchorage being very rarely found, large iron rings have : been set in the rocks which show themselves above the water, and vessels often tie up to these "hitch-ing-posta" and afrait a fair wind. The tide of the Saguenay, for some explained reason, advances with extraordinary rapidity, thus, notwithstanding the fact that the ebb current very rarely ceases to flow wit of the river, high:tide arrives at Chicontimi only forty-five minutes later than at Tadousac, seventy miles away. On the St. Lawrence the tide advances In the. same time only from Tadousac to Murray Bay, thirty-five miles distant. St. Louis Jcepublie. Cotton From Bokhara. V Three hundred bales of cotton have been sent from Bokhara to a Cotton factory in the south of France. .This is the first time that central Asiatic cotton has been put directly; in the market of western Europe. Four! thousand five hundred poods of Siberian wool have been sent to a French factory at -one - time.- Should' these enterprises - be successful, France will draw much larger quantities of these r products from the Russian provinces of t. central &lil,-?zAi229 .- : THE NEWa - Twenty persons were found guilty of illicit liquor Belling at Parkersburg, W. Va., and fined and imprisoned. The Typographical Union convention adjourned at Boston, to meet next year in Philadelphia.- Alien YouDg and wife, living near Scottboro, Ala., started to a field to plant corn. Nothing was heard of them until just before noon, when their ten-year-old daughter started to the field with dinner for her father. On the way she found the corpse of her mother lying by a path with a horrible gash on her forehead, seeming ly made by a rock. Her husband could nor where be found, the last seen of him being by a boy who saw him in the woods some time after the deed skinning bark from a hickory' sapling. ,He was .presumably prerjaring to hang himselfL He has been known to be un balanced meatallyv but it had ; never taken form ef enirfity toward his wife, with whom he lived on most pleasant terms. Jesse Rich ards, of Pbillipsburg, Pa., killed himself at Wheeling, by using a pistol and razor.- -Joseph Warren Jefferson, son of Joe Jefferson the actor, and Miss Blanche Bendler, an ac tress, were married in Brooklyn. Hon. J. M. Gilchrist, of Montgomery, Ala., committed suicide while on a spree. Special Treasury Agent Sheegen reports that Canadian and' other foreign goods are being smuggled across the Northwestern frontier. Carl Jockheck, an original package agent, was fined $1,500 in the Topeka, Kan., District Court, and sen tenced to ninety days in jail. Jas. Clarapitt of the Chick esaw nation, was arrested in St. Louis on a charge of murder. The grippe swept over the Chinese Empire last February and hundreds of thousands of natives died of the disease. Policeman Mulligan, at Chicago, shot and killed John Brown. About 700- squatters have gone on what is known as the Sweetzer tract, valuable property claimed by the Land and River Improvement Company, lying along Superior Bay in Superior. . The prop erty has been in litigation for several years. The drouth in the neighborhood of Nee nah, 111., is the worst ever experienced. Hardly anything whatever will be raised this year. The crop will amount to practically nothing. Winter wheat is but a few inches high, and many farmers in the vicinity are turning their cattle into the fields containing that cereal to let them feed off it. The mem hers of the diplomatic corps, who went from Washington to gather information with reference to the World's Fair, arrived at Chicago. The party was entertained by Mayor Washburne; President Palmer and Secretary Dickinson, of the National Commis sion; President Baker and other officers of the local directory and of the National Commis sion. Samuel Beekman, a negro, and Jenny Wiley, a young white woman, hie paramour, were arraigned in Union county, N. J., for trial on the charge of manslaughter in killing Pearl Beekman, a six-year-old child of Beekman. The defendants are alleged to have beaten the ehild with clubs and a strap because she stole food from the table while the couple were eating. The child was starved and neighbors testified that the woman took from it the food which they gave it. The couple lived together in a barn at Union.near Elizabeth.- The brig Sea Waif, whiqji left Apia (Samoan Islands) May l6t, brought the bodies of thirteen American sailors who were drowned in the hurricane in March, 1889. They will be buried at Mare Island. Hegiry Miller, convicted in the United States Courts at Florence, Arizona, of robbing the United States mail between Florence and Casagrande and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment at hard labor in San Quentin, Cab, escaped from his guards. In the Prohibition state convention of Iowa, Chairman D. B. Turney, in an address, de clared that with the liquor vote divided be tween the Democratic, Republican and Peo ple's parties, the Prohibitionists would unite the vote of the anti-liquor men and carry the state.-: A large new hotel at Eastlake, near Birmingham, Ala., was burned. Loss about $23,000. The widow of "Clock" Harrison, of Chicago, who had applied for a pension on account of her son who died recently, ex plained to the pension agent that she was not a sister-in-law to President Harrison, as had been reported, but that her husband was a 6on of a cousin to the grandfatherof the President. The annual convention of the American Protesiant Association, which has lodges in sixteen Northern and Western states and a total membership of 100,000, opened in Buf falo, N. Y. Eost-master General Wanamaker bas been a member of the order for twenty years. The state of Pennsylvania has 127 lodges, with a membership of nearly 60,000. Gen. George C. Tichenor, a general ap praiser of the Treasury Department,' had his foot badly injured by being caught in an ele vator at Chicago. The Osage river is reported, at Versailles, Mo., higher than for many years. Bottom farms are overflowed and wheat fields entirely under water. -Great loss must result from destruction of crops, and fences and rail road ties carried off by the high water. -J. W. Davis, who murdered B. C. Evans three months ago, has been sentenced, at Fort Worth, Texas, to hang on August 10, 1891. A con stable named Reed was killed . near Canton, Miss., by a man in an , ambush. Frank J el hick and Herman Bluttig, both of whom were awaiting trial at Manitowoc, Wis., for burglary, had a quarrel in the county jaiL Jelinek struck Bluttig on the throat with a pointed stickwhich entered his lung and kill ed him. Harvey McPherson and his wife, Mrs. Lucy Prosper, Charles "Singer and Ben and Elda Phelps, are in jail at Otto wa, 111., awaiting the result of the grand jury's investi gation of the death . of George Prosser, of Streator, who was found dead in his wagon on the morning of May 30. Lucy Prosser has made a full confession, implicating the Phelps brothers and Singer. It is believed that Prosser was murdered for money, as he was expeting to have secured a loan of $2,000 on his farm on the day on which the assault took place. - APPLIES TO ALL TERRITORIES. The Edmund Polygamy Act Places Them Under U. S. Jurisdiction. , Chief Justice Gooding, of Arizona, has just decided that the Edmund act and other acts of Coneress leveled at polygamy and unlawful ! co-habitation ' apply to Arizona and aU" the i - . ... . 1 I" At Territories, and place mem unuer me ex clusive jurisdiction of the United States, except the District of Columbia. ' , ; As the acts also concern the right of widows' dower the decision is considered important and far-reaehing,cspecially as many of the Territories have acts abolishing dower. " THE HAU VITA. Members Take the Oath With a Foot iZ the Tomb. Tlie Ringleaders of These Italian Cnt : throats Escape Punishment Scores of Thieves Brought to Trial. ADrflBM of th rnl whntftnlA mnrtMinn at Ban, Italy, of members of the Mala Vit J Society, charged with various crimes, the fol lowing article, taken from the IUustraxione Italians, of Milan, may be of interest: - v The Camorra of Naples and the Mafia ol j Sicily exist in Apulia (Adriatic provinces of Southern Italy) under the name of Mala Vita ( Evil Life). ;': It is an organized association, with iron rules- Its object is theft, robberies and assassinations." It has a council j of ad ministration which divides the profits of the Mala Vita Society from thefts, robberies, etc. . Fifty per cent, goes to the chiefs, twenty-five per cent, to those who execute their orders, and twenty-five per cent, to the reserve fund.' For eight- years this society, has kept the Southern Adriatic provinces of Italy under a reign of terror. It was only discovered in 18S9, after long and dangerous researches, and only a year afterwards were the authorities able to lay hands on a portion of its members aud associates. - Although one hundred and seventy-nine members of the society have been brought to trial by the Court of Assizes at Bari, the- au thorities have not been able to secure the chief ones among the guilty, and it is probable that they never will be canght. Applicants for membership must apply through a member to the chiefs. Members are divided into three classes novices, full members and chiefs, who are called Uncle. . , -- - WITH A FOOT IS THE TOMB. The head chief is called Wise Master. The candidate is initiated "with great formality, according to an established ritual, and is obliged to take the following oath, with one foot in a tomb, and the other in'chaics: "I swear to abandon father, mother, chil dren and relatives, to make war against in famy and to guarantee humility." Infamy is understood to be hunger, and humility the weak. The cardinal principal of the society is that the rich should maintain the poor, lis who possesses nothing has the riaht to live at the expense of him who has, is the foundation upon which the whole edifice is built. Mem bers of the socictv are subjected to severe dis cipline. Disobedience to orders is punished by the chief. If light, with razor gashes upon the face; if great, with death. For every revelation or betrayal, and for every testimony against a member, the punishment is death. 6Those who execute the sentence are selected by lot, and when designated are themselves put to death if they do not kill the member indicated. Furthermore, whatever the mem bers gain in play, a certain amount mutt be given to the society. MEMBERS TATTOOED. Among the members arrested at Bari many are tattooed with emblems peculiar to the society. The existence of the society was dis covered by the Chevalier Gaetane Redavid, the well-known Masonic chief at Bari, 'who, in 1884, obtained secret information of the ex istence of the society, and wrote about it in his newspapers, If Martello, for the purpose A - II . " J 1. . li Al C A J 1- . J I .' oi aiiracuug me aiiemiou oi me aumonuee. ) His efforts were successful, and he was able to ascertain all the particulars referred to in this, article. Immediately after his discovery, one of the members, who was suspected of divulg ing tbe secrets, was condemned to death by the society,but fortunatel y escaped a mortal wound when the razor stroke was delivered. He was, however, horribly disfigured. There are many disfigured members, becanse many have been denounced as traitors by their com- panions inecmet ot tnose wno were on trial is one Cocolipo Sabius, who is endowed with phenomenal importance. He is the center of thou: a ids of ferocious hatreds, of infinite ven geance, thus far repressed. lie was in prison at Bari for attacking the customs guards. One day a certain Eduardo Cabzolins, who was in his room in his prison ward, proposed to him to enter the Mala Vita Society as a no vice He accepted, and at once there came to the room a group of sixteen men, in the midst of whom Cabzolius took a post. Then the es tablished ritual was performed. We quote from the characteristic deposition of Cocolino: TREATED LIKE A SLAVE. "After the ritual, I kissed the hands of all the members present, and the foreheads of five others who I aft Twards discovered to be simply novices like myself. On the morrow, and for days afterwards, I was obliged, in my quality of young novices, to make the beds of the chiefs, wash the dishes which served for their table, and to give them whatsoever others ser vice they required. I began to grow tired of that slavery when the chief of the prison guards asked me to act as a room guard in an other ward. I accepted, and in payment for my work the prison administration gave me three lire (sixty cents) per month. "One day Cabzolaio sent word to me that the sixty cents did not belong to me, but to the chief of the society. I did not like it. and plainly refused to submit to this unjust claim. They then sought to persuade me with , fine manners, and with the same ritual as accom: panied my nomination as novice, I was pro claimed a full memb r. Their efforts were such that my three lire per month went to the society, for whose members were bought wine cisars and cakes, the maior society and the full members minor society. Tbe sign of recognition was these words: 'In the name ol humility, I belong to the branch of the Mala V ita Society.' "Amonsr the accused there is one Francesco de Palma, who, having withdrawn from the society and having given testimony against some of the members chargea with their, was condemned to have his eyes put out with quicklime.. He was afterwards stopped-on the road by several members, who said to him: 'You infamous traitor! we are looking fcr you.' They attemrted to despatch him r it t T it. i viia meir uiiives. xae, uuwercr, estajpeu, and for safety gave himself up to tbe authorit ies. - -" i-"- -- "- - -" " ; TO CONFEDERATE DEAD. The Monument in Their Memory Unveiled at Fredericksbarff. . Fsederick&burg, Va., was profusely deco rated with bunting and Confederate and Na tional flags in honor of Memorial Day andthe unveiling of the Confederate statue. Thou sands of visitors were In attendance, including a number of Confederate camps. The monument was erected by the Ladies' Memorial Association, and the ttone was taken from' the farm of Mrs. Downman. If is of gray granite and stands on a mound of 5 feet, and is 5 feet 6 inches high. There is a column on each corner of red granite, and with gray cranite and plynth base. About three o'clock the line of procession was formed and marched through the princi pal streets to the cemetery, where 3000 Con federates are buried. The services at the cemetery were opened with prayer by Rev. I, W. Canter, of the Methodist Chureh, and then. uenerai uraaiey i. jonnsxon, oi juammore, the orator of the day, delivered the unveiling address. . - The monument was then unveiled by Capt. John W. Barney amidst creat eheerinz. A bronze statue of a Confederate soldier. nine and a half feet 1ngh; crowns the apex of the monument. He is represented as standing at parade rest with a musket in hand and a blanket thrown over the leu shoulder. Un his bead rests the familiar slouch hat. , , Pkixcesss BismXCK is in such poor health " : ... ... a.- t r . z J I. a a ner recovery. - . . DISASTERS AND CASUALTIE3. Pomp Poixdexter, his sister and a .your man named albright, were drowned at Frailer Texas, llain bad been falling fcr several days.. FIFTY persons, mostly children, were mru! violently sick by eaiing ice cream at a church festival iu Bloomington, Illinois- tfome of them have not yet recovered. A CARRIAGE containing Mrs. A. G. Dow and Mrs. George Fox was ftruefc. by a train st Randolph, New York. Mrs. Dow was killed and Mrs. Fox was fatally injured. WHILE Wallace Corwin and Theodore Lar; were tearing down an abandoned glycerine manufactory at Corwin Ct-ntre, Pa.,8n ex plosion occurred and both men vere fatally injured. A elevator in the Gazette rrintin Com pany's building in Montreal tell to the bottom of tbe shaft, terribly injuring three men who were on it. One ot theui, Fnuieis lleret, can not recover. - In the accident to the Winnipeg eipress en the Canadian-Pacific Haihray, 'at Mrai.ht Lake, last week, IJ,uw which had Ken mailed from two banks in Ottawa to Winni peg were destroyed. A cave-IX cccurred at Waterloo Mine Calico, California. Edward Moran ami Thomas Eisler, were injured, ami Jame McGowanj a boy, is missing. He is either killed or imprisoned. A shaft is being sunk through the debris. E. D. Thayer, President of the Brandon National Bank, of Brandon, Vermont, after transacting some business in Omaha, left th city for Chicago with a small hanu 6atehel containing Wl) in notes and mortgages. While in the dining car, on the way. the tn disappeared, and he has been unable to get. any trace ot it ince. Refobts have been received at Ardmore, in the Indian Territory, giviug terrible accounts of the destruction of life aud property in the flooded valleys of tbe Bed river in Texas and the Territory. Dwellings business hoiuw tve btt swept away, crops destroyed and stocks of all kinds drowned. One ot a rescuing party was drowned near Fleetwood, by the capsizing of a boat. Many people are nnssing and it is feared they have been drowned. Mrs. Martha Waylaxp, 80 years of as disappeared from her home in Macomb, Illinois, on a recent morning. In the evening her grandson went into a pasture and there discovered a drove of hogs lighting over some object. An investigation showed that the brutes were feasting on the woman's body. Assistance was called, and the men were com pelled to beat the hogs away from the corpse with clubs. The Mohawk Valley aud other sections of Central New York are sulk-ring from con tinued drouth. The Mohawk river is lower than known for years, and the smaller streams are nearly, or quite, dry. Farmers say the grass crop will not be more than half the average, while grain and vegetables are stunted. It is propoM-d by the milkmen to raise the price ot milk. A WATER-SPOUT burst near JSan Luis Paz in the State of Guanajuato, the water from which 6wept away many houses and cattle, uprooted trees; in fact, for a paee of three miles, the width of the current, the country was completely devastated. It is not known how many lives have been lost. Hundreds of people are homeless and in a destitute con dition. As the train - on the Burlington and Mis souri Railroad was passing under a blufi', near St. Joseph, Missouri, an immense mass of dirt and rock crashed down the bank and knocked the engine and mail car off the track and wrecked them, w . A. v aamngton, engineer; J. S. Haddock, fireman, aud P. Mcilanus were injured, the first named fatally. URATES BEHEADED IN CHINA. One Who Wouldn't Hold Still .'Made to SnfTer Extra Torture. The steamer City of Rio de Janeiro arrived at San Francisco from Hong Kong and Yoka hama China, bringing the following advircs: The twelve Nanioa pirates werelx-headd at Kowloon City in the afternoon of May 11. Each man was warned by the executioner to keep steady when the axe was about to de scend. The fourth man did no't obey the injunction and was struck between the shoul ders. He was left suffering until the re mainder of the 12 were dispatched. Then the executioner went back aud finished number four. Fire in Foo Chow May 2, destroyed 2C0' worth of property. Fire at Yayormaehi destroyed nouses. Foreign railroad enzineers eniraiel on the Touijshau Railroad were attacked by the Cantonese and had to fly to Tuten lor safety. Thev were lured back bv means of falsi telegrams promising them protection, mil were airain couiieJlea to liy lor meirmes. The Russian minister has received several threatening letters from Japanese since th attempt on the lifeof the Czirewitoh. Sevtral directors of police have been dismissed ir carelessness in connection, with the assault upon the Czurewitch. fen thousand teleprains from different parts of Japan were received by the Czarewitch. The "Richisba" men who saved the life of the Czarewitch were sent fi-r by the Prince and presented with a poia medal and $2.o'H) in coin each, and were promised a pension of $1,Cm). A Japanese committed suicide because the Czarewitch left Japan without having seen the beauties of iokio. The steam launch Winer Sing was blown up at her wharf May 12, and the crew of six men were killed. Th minister of State for home aO.v'rs has. by direction of the Emperor, nolif;ed all papers that manuscript of all matter rc!atin to foreign polities in ten led for rnbheauon 6ha!l be presented for examination and its publication may te protmmea, anj vimsuw of this order is punishable with imprisonment of from one month to two years The Japanese authorities have decided to stop the emigration of low Japanese women to America by relusing to ivue paporu o them. THREE MEN KILLED. A Train Goes Over a Thirty-Foot Km- bank me nt. Shortly before one o'clock A. M., on Bell's Gap Railroad, near Altoona, Pa., the rear en gine broke from a train of 30 cars descending a very steep grade, and 20 cars ran away with the front engine. For five miles the train held the rails but finally, some distance above Bellwood tion, the engine and cars went over embankment. The following were killed: Conductor ri pheu Vancoyoc, Engineer John Simon and Fireman William Grozier. William Dunn. F. L. I lot rick and Aaron Woner, brakemen, were hurt internally and bruised. TROUBLE IN SAH0A. The Workings of the Berlin Treaty Unsat isfactory to the ative. Samoa advices by steamer Mariposi siat that there is considerable agitation going :i among the natives of some of the Samrm Islands with a view to unseating Malic ta, and putting Mataafa on the throne. TL working of the Berlin treaty is also stated to be a source of much dissatisfaction among tne islanders- -Another cause of complaint was tne aet.o.i of the Baron von Pilsach, prev.dent o t ie municipal council, in creating a d-zen new offices when he took control ol the laumcii affairs. .. . .. -
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