I VOL. X. NO. 28. ' -.' " . MURFREESBORO, N)., FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 18do. a S1.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. -5 i i I . . , . i INDEX TO HERTFORD COUNTY. AREA 340 SQUARE MILES. PO PULATIONt 13 851 . Hkrttobd County was formed In 1759, from Chowan, Bertie and North" ampton counties. It was named in com pliment to the Marquis of Hertford, an English nobleman, a friend of liberty, an elder brother of Lord Conway, who, in 176'5, moved in the Ilouse of Lords the repeal of the Stamp Act. Hertford is a. name of Saxon origin and signifies the Ited Ford.' Wiktos, the county-seat, is situated 155 miles north-cast from Iialeigu, on the Chowan river, and has a population of about 500. Surface LrvcI and sandy, soil good; r,-itcred by the Meherrin and Chowen rivers. Staph--Cotton, corn, naval stores and fish. ' Being near the Norfolk market, trucking is also profitable. Fruits- A pp'es, peaches, pears, melons scuppcrnong grapes, and the small f raits. Timhers Juniper, cypress, pine, oak, ah. the gum3 And the usual eastern growth. Post Offices Anneta, Bethlehem, Como, Harrellaville, Lotta, Mapleton, ilenola, Murfreecboro. Riddicksville. St J Tun.isohn. Union, Wintoa Ahoskie aud Agate. County Officers. Superior Court, Cc;k, T. D, Boone; Sheriff and Treas urer . E. Cullens; Register of Deeds, G. A. Brown; Surveyor, J. D. Parker; Coroner, J. W. Taylop, Standard Keeper, W. J. Tioyette. Commissioners W. T. Brown, chair man ; T. E. Vann, A. I. Parker, J. N llolloman and J. T. William". Board of Education J. P. Frermin, P. Shaw and C. TV. Scarborough, Hilpt. Public Schools, S. M. Aumack, townships and magistrates. Maney's Neck S. P. Winborne, B Fersjuson, E. G. Sears. L. F. Lee. MuRFiiffiEnoRo W. W. Stephens E. Hi-ifM, J. C. Vinson. U. Vaughan W. S. Nelson, and Geo. T. Darden. . St. John's T. II. Mitchell, J. P. Freeman, W. II. Ta hc- C. W. Par ker. L. U. Tyler, and E. II. Jojner. "Wimton 1. Tj. Anderson. Uobert ITo-' mon, "V. TI. Jernigan, J. H. 'Matthews. J. A. Copeland and J. E. Brtt. H aruellsvtl'lk ?. M. Atimack, A. B. Adkins, Edmond Jones. E. D. Scull and C. N. PruNien. Superior Court. Meets sixth Mon day after the first Monday in March and September. V. J. L?arv. Solicitor. Outmtnatj Court Meets on the 4th Monday in February, and the second Monday in August. Judge, B. B. Winborne; George Cowper, Solicitor." District Officers Judge, 'Geo. 11 Brown, Jr., Beaufort Co.; Congressman W. A. B. Branch. Beaufort. Co, State Senators, E. T. Snipes, nertferd. Co.; Thco. Whites, Perquimans Board Representative for Hertford, B. B. Winb orne. TOWN OF MURFRBESBOKO. Murfreesboro Is situated in the north western part of the County, at the head f navigation on the Meherrin River, and has a population of 1,200. It was in corporated in 1787, aud named in honor of William Murfree, a Revolutionary aero and Dutrior. who resided here. Mayor L. J. Lawrence. Commissioners II. T. Lassitcr, U. Vaughan, J. N. Lawrence and J. yy. Hicks, 1st Ward; L. C. Lawrence, 2nd Ward; Constable, J. E. Evans ; Clerk. A V. Ilincs. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Methodist Set" ices every Sunday norning at 11 o'clock, and at night at I o'clock. urayer-mceti ng every YVcd- esday night. Rev. J. C. McCall, Pastor. Sunday School everySunday afternoon. U. Vaughan, Sunt. Baptist Services every 2nd and 4th Sundays, morning and night. Prayer, meeting every Thursday, night. Hev. amual Saunders, Pasloi . Sundaj' chool every Sunday morning. J. B. Brewer. Superintendent TRAIN WRECKED IN GEORGIA. A Mother and Daughter Killed, and Others Kurt. The F.oridevetitu e train goi ig south nt the rate of nity uil.es an hour s rack a tam pered swito'a aud was wrecked nt Scotland, fia. Th 3 train comiste I of tare Pullinaa 2ars, first a ad saooal-clasi coac'aes, mail a id 3xpro3s c ir. Every one of ;hese w.n derailed. Tie Putlmia and first and secanl-oass ?oaches were thrown on their si les. One . f tha coaches wera occupied by the Ro!iinl Reed theatrical company aad the other had a full complement of pas e lifers. Mrs. C. W. Sutnr, of PickiQS. JI13., w tQ ticket tj Ojala. Fa, anl her flve-yearold daughter ware killed. Roland Ro3d had hU lepj and ba ;k injured, Miss Mary My?r. Nw York, wai severely wrenched ia the back aa J s'aoulder. N i.har was severely hurt. Roland Reed distlagu shel hims3lf by res cuing, at a great risk, three of the ladies from the upturned car. The switch had been turned and nailed down by unknown par ies. WRECKED BY GAS. Sapply Pip 3 CutinaKanja3 City Housa bj an Incendiary. - An explosion of v as. said to be deliberate ly planned by a i inoiadlirf, wrecked tha two-story brick buildin? of Lewis H Day, In Lydia avenue, Ktnsa3 City, and caused tht death of three firemen. The exp'oaion wai caused by a gas pipe leading from the base ment being cut and letting the gas flo through the house, which had apparentlj been set on Are. Soon after the firemen ar rived the whole side of the housa was blow out and the remainder of ihe structure shat. j tei ed. Ir Germany sGouiO Vner; as the export bounty on sugar France wiil adpt re.a.la tory measures to protect her own snar growers, 1 . ' TWO VIEWS. The Pessicalst's Tier. JJfeJ a bubble pricked at that 5-4. Substance vanished all away. 6tufHn'a out collapsed, sir, flat! Little wonder, then, I say, " " " " Men should sigh, -; : '. Weep an' die. All the world's a fraud a cheat, Bitter mingle3 with each sweet. , Stones are ours in place of breacy Ilea are fools, and hope is dead. Oh my, oh I told you so! Boo-hool hoo! don't you see? That's the way it looks to me i ' The Optimist's View. Everybody can't be clever, , . Anybody can be jolly ; ' , Sheddin' tears won't help it, ttevej 7 eepin' seems such awful folly, Be a man! That's my plan. Best world ever I was in Keeps a body on the grin! Rain to-day? what do I cnr3, ext day's certain to be fair. Sun shines every day some place Bless his kindly, good old face! Life's replete With all things sweet. j Ila! ha! ha! don't you see? n That's the way it looks o msv ij Elizabeth A. Vose, in Youth's Companion. CINDERELLA'S ' SLIPPER, fiE first going away from home is a tre mendous event in a girl's life-; and Marion Leslie's ex istence had been so narrowly bounded by the Southern town where her father had hjis par ish that when she realized thit she was really j going away from home, that she'was going to see New York and take part, in the wonderful city life, it Baemed to her a3 momentous a step a3 going tdf I-dia or the Antipodes. : ! There was a large family of children packed into the low rooms of the rec tory, and Marion, as the eldest, had had her hauds almost too fojl o give much thought to dreams. If now and then she had longed to see a little more of the world there was always some little brother to be amused or some mending to do, and with her hands occupied her thoughts J would soon come back to a normal channel. Mrs. Leslie, who was a Northern woman, had kept in touch with sev eral of the friends of her girlhood by monthly letters, the answers to which were one of the events of th$ quiet rectory life. Perhaps the most de lightful of these correspondents was a Mrs. Harkness, a woman who had married a rich New York merchant, and who had a daughter about Marion's own age. Her letters were looked forward to ; aud you can imagine the excitement that reigned in Marion's mind when her mother told her that Mrs. Harkness had written for her to come to New York and pay a two months' visit. ; Marion's first feeling was too tumul tuous to be described; her second was that she must not Jthink of going, that the expense of the journey was far too great, and that she could not leave her mother with the care of ail the children. Mrs. Leslie, however, soon showed her that this feeling! was a very wrong one, rising from oyercon scientiousness; and the rectory was soon in a great whirl of cutting, sew ing and planning for Marion's modest wardrobe. Everything was finally finished, neat half-dozens of white garments, a tailor-made dress, some pretty morning frocks, and, best of all, one evening dress the pale pink silk in which Mrs. Leslie had been married years before, and which she had1 put away lovingly, thinking to keep it to show her children and her grandchildren. She felt that Marion must have an evening dress, and she brought out the wedding dress and spoke of refashioning it so calmly that Marion could only guess at the sacri fice that her mother was making for her. There was an abundance of silk in the full, old-fashioned skirt to make a very modish gown according to modern styles, and, with the aid of the fashion paperp, which occasionally found their way to the rectory, they made a very charming evening gown ; very simple it is true, but it fitted well and hunv well, and the bertha of old lace about the shoulders ! would have carried off a much worse gown and adorned a rauch plainsr face thta Marion's. j Mrs. Leslie was xnoe worried aoout the details of Marion's toilet, than her daughter who was yet in ignorance of the encrmous value of shoes, gloves, handkerchiefs and fans in a well dressed woman's outfit. One of the family treasures ; was a - littlei ivory fan, painted a la Watteau, which had belonged to some long dead Southern beauty. " This priceless treasure was added to the girl's scant colIecion of adornings. The question of . a pair of evening clippers? seemed to be the only one which it was impossible to solve adequately. Thero was a pair of beautiful little bronze slippers in a shop in the town, but they we:e! five dollars, and the rector's narrow, purse had been stretched to thefurthest ex tent; it seemed las though Marion-s journey would have to be given up, when an idea struck the girl'simind; she said nothing to any one fpr fear of being unable to carry out her plan. Every spare moment she could, get she would; ran .off to her. room and work away at a mysterious something which was wrapped, carefully! in a white towel ; ' after many, discourage-" ments and failures she finally ap peared before her mother, holding in i her nand tho daintiest pair of little pink silk shoes ; she had taken an old pair of slippers, arid h&d covered them with scraps of silk like r he r dress ; the toes were ornamented with big pink bows and a pair of old paste buckles. In fact, they were as pretty and dainty a pair of shoes as a girl could desire I and if they did shoT on close inspection traces of their home manufacture as Marion and : her mother agreed wild was going to in--spect them? i '" v We Will pass ovef Marion's ar rival in New York and she warm welcome which Mrs. Harkness gave her. Marion was tod Well-bred to feel out of place in the beautiful city house although there was much that excited her admiration and surprise. In a . few-days-h a feli thoroughly at home, and she seemed to have so many thoughts and tastes in common with Mary Harkness, that the two girls bid fair to establish a friendship which would rival their mothers'. The dictator of New York Society was once heard to say that if a girl was sufficiently beautiful and had the proper people to introdnce her, she might go triumphantly through the season, an acknowledged belle, though she had not a penny nf her own and but one evening gown to her back I and he cited iu support of his theory several notable ladies, now million airesses and members of titled Eng lish families, who in their girlhood's days Could highten their charms with little more than the one black lace dress of genteel poverty. Marion's richf statuesque beauty, her freshness and her perfect simplici ty, made her a favorite at once; and although her appearance at the Horse Show was scarcely greeted by that 3torm of applause with which the popular novelist is wont to announce the appearanoa of his heroine as a reigning beauty, she did not pass un noticed. As the winter festivities ad vanced, Marion felt that she was liv ing in a perfect whirl of gayety, and the rectory at home was kept on the qui vive of excitement over long let ters concerning her wonderful doings. Yet to many a New York girl Mary and Marion would have scarcely been going out at all ; for Mrs. Harkness was a judicious woman, and would not allow them to undertake six or seven engagements, as so many girls do all through the winter. Then there were distinct visiting and sew ing classes and other things to be done during the morning, so that Marion in many ways was quite as busy with doinsr for others as thouga she wei e still at home. wnen ner visit was aoout nait over, JUrs. tiarkness s only son Jack came back from a trip abroad. Although never much of a society man, he did not seem averse to sharing tho girls' pleasures. The night of the first Pa triarch'a ball came, to both of the girls an important event, as being their first ball. Mrs. Harkness, with ready kindness, was anxious to pro viae Jjiarion witn a beautiiui new toilet as handsome as her own daugh ter's: but it had been Mrs. Leslie's one stipulation that Marion should ac cept nothing more than the love and kindness that made her visit so de lightful. There was a pang, such a pang in .aiarion s nearc wnen ene saw JMary beautiful tulle dress; her own silk seemed old and shabby, and the little phok shoes she had been so proud of at home seemed shapeless and ugly be side the tiny white one's that her friend wore. She stifled her covetous longings very quickly, however, and took herself well to task for finding one 'thing amiss when she had so much ; and by the time they reached Sherry's she had quite forgotten all ner bad reelings, ana ner lace was bright with anticipation of the pleas use before her. When the Harkness party entered the ballroom Marion was observed frorn every side ; there were plenty of tulle dresses and plenty of pretty girls there, but Marion s beauty was of such a remarkable style and was so heightened by the rich simplicity of her gown that she soon found herself surrounded by a court of admirers, and, indeed, had the greatest difficulty in saving the two dances which she had promised Jack Harkness. How late it was in the morning be fore thev returned home I will not say city people keep very strange hours; and Marion was terribly shooked to find how late or shall I sav. how earlv it was. It took her some time to get over her excitement sufficiently .to go to sleep, and it seemed as though she had scarcely closed her eyes when 6he awoke to find the sunshine streaming into her room and Mrs. Harkness standing be side her bed. Sne folded Marion ten derly in her motherly arms; there was something so gentle in ner voice that the girl felt at once that some thing was wrong. We will draw a veil over the next few minutes- the saddest and most terrible of the girl's life. A telegram had come the evening before while they were at the ball, and had lain unnoticed on the table until themorn- incr Mr. Leslie had had a shock of paralysis. Everything that kindness could do was done to hasten Marion's departure for home, and to save her every anxiety and strain. She scarcely remembered her parting with her kind friends- -home, home, home, was her lone thought, that she might reach there in time to ' be with her mother before the end came, if such should be the termination of her father's sickness. j f Her prayers were heard ; Mr. Leslie lingered for several days, and. Marion was the stay and prop of the afflicted family. When the last sad rites were over, she took entire charge of the little brothers and sisters, that her mother might have rest to . recover herself. What was to become of the family she could not see. Of course the rectory passed into other -hands, aid Mr. Leslie's life insurance would barely put bread into their mouths. Marion felt that : she most go out ini .the world and work, and sho was too sensible not - I to kdw that in these days of . skilled fenale labor it would be difficult for hr to get any employment. She wrote toMrst Harkness and awaited her an sifer impatiently The Northern mail c&me in, there was no letter for herj she wondered if even those kind friends had f of gotten her The day was rainy and dreary If her hands had not been so fall she would have lojst courage ; but all the children had to be kept in the house, and with an aching heart she had to devise some means to keep them quiet and content. Tje children .werefinaHy happily set ill the attic at a wonderful new game wfiich Marion had invented on the sur of the moment. She was seated in the midst of the noisy group, when she heard the front , doorbell ring. She went down just as she was carry ing her little two-year-old brother, who had fallen asleep, in her arms. Jack Harkhe33 came toward her as se entered the bare, low parlor. He h&d seen her last with the radiant beauty of a belle, glowing in the ex citement of her first ball ; now she was wan and hollow-eyed, her shabby black wn intensified her pallor.she stooped er the weight of the heavy child aj$d yet to him she was many, many ttjoies more beautiful than sho had eer seen before. 11 have come to answer mother's letter," he said. Months after, when Marion was alpin in New York, not this time as a giiesr, but as the young mistress of the beautiful home that Jack Hark ness had prepared for her, she was very much surprised to find, tucked in among her husband's collars and neckties, a pink silk shoe. She looked at dt surely it was one of the shoes tiat she had worn at the Patriarch's bdl, that she had made with her own lrp.nds to match her dress. Her hus band entered jthe room ; she held it out to him inquiringly. fe'I stole it, (clear, v he said. "Like (Mnderella, tou flew away suddenly d leit one or your 6noes oenina :4u." 'And the, Prince found it, she iiid. at Mary's table, and I happened to pick it up, thinking that they were hers then I noticed the little stitches q3id how neatly the lining was pasted ij ; it seemed marvelous to me that a girl should be able to make such a thing herself; for of course I knew ypHi had made them yourself no one else could possibly be so clever ; and I just put one of them in my pocket. Of course I'd been dreadfully in love with you from the very, very first, but I'd never quite realized what it yas until then ; and then I knew that if I went all over the world and saw 4ll the most beautiful -and wonderful omen, there would be rnly one wo ian in the world for me the one that that little shoe fitted." New ork Independent. Terrible Struggle With a Liom The British Central Africa Gazette tdves particulars of the death of Dr. l-I'Kay, surgeon on board her Majes ty's ship Pioneer, who was killed by a ifon on October 20. It appears that ie doctor was left by the Pioneer for ij few days' shooting at a village near (he southwest corner of Nyasa. Two tjays later he started with three boys Co shoot elephants. After walking for ome hours they came to a pool of prater, and, seeing a lion and lioness j$ few yards distaut, Dr. M'Kay fired tvice at the lion. He wounded it, and oth animals made off for the jungle. Two of Dr. M'Kay's native attendants ran away, but the doctor and his Zan zibari boy Mnsa went in search of the wounded liou. They espied the beast crouching down fifteen yards away, and M'Kay fired at the lion's head. At that instant the lion sprang upon the doctor with a terrific roar, and a deadly struggle took place. Dr. M'-Kay lost hold of his rifle in en deavoring to keep the lion off his throat. The bea;jt seized his left arm in its jaws and clawed his right. The djoctor kicked at the lion, which threw him down and began to tear his flesh. He then called to Musa, "Musa, my af'm is-broken; my leg is broken; bring the rifle." Musa took it, and M'Kay, unable to hold it up, made Musa sit down, and, resting the rifle on his shoulder, shot the lion dead. A rough stretcher wa3 made and Dr. M'Kay was cairied into camp. He suffered much, and died on the 26th at 4 p. m. On the same day, a little later, the Pioneer returned, to find him dead. Hewas taken to the Uni versities' Mission Station at Likoma, and buried in the cemetery there. j Why Physicians Use an B." b A woman of an investigating turn cf mind started out the other day to scover wny pnysicians Dag in tneir prescriptions with the letter "R." ijrell, she found out, but it took tima id caused her some trouble. It ems that during the middle ages, hen astrology wa3 in fashion, a h i't. jharacter very much like oar iH was he sign of J upiter. the preserver of alth. The physicians,- being then Siually devoted to the science of med- pine and astrology, invariably began their prescriptions with the following ords : 'In the name of Jupiter take le following doses in the order set gown hereinafter.' In the 'course .of ume this formula was abbreviated, at present only the letter; "JR remains to teach us that the medical art was - once associated ?.with i the science of the stars. Boston Travel ler. - - . Some men write poetry but a good many more wrong it. -xtoc&iana xn- Jaune. THE I Tho contract; was given to the Pennsyl vania Steel Works for ihe Boston subway, intended for the use ofj electric cars. The subway will eol aboiit t30,(0',00a In a fire in a mine near White Oaks, N. JL. five of eight imprisonedj miners were suffo cated. Pauline, daughter of Chief Jus tice Fuller, Hied a bil in Chicago for a divorce from her husband, James 1L Anbrey, with whom she eloped six years Charles I M. Sterns made an agc-Jadge unsuccessful attempt to; commit suicide. Mrs. Julia Flowers, ol ij anting 1 on, W. Ta. , while temporarily insane, attempted to kill her Children.; -It was announced in Green ville, Hiss., that. Unfed State 1 Senator George would not be at candidate for re- election. - -The inmates of the. .. UllaiU State Home j lor Female Offacders, in Chicago, rebelled, andlcompelled the ma tron and attendants to! lock themselves up. . William Curry andjjcha Crawford were seriously injured in a fight with a panther, which unexpectedly attacked them. The Order of the Ccnjradcs af the Battle fields will hold its annual meeting at the Chlckamaaga Tark 04 iep:ember 19 the time 6f the dedication. -j The three-masted schooner Joel jL. Shepphrd, of -East Brain tree, Mass., which ha 1 b en given up foe lost, was towed into NeW York harbor in a bad condition,1 and withf her crew exhausted. W. A. Snyder and liarry Stone were ar rested at Braddock, Faj , for swindling la borers, for whdm they advertised to go to work in gold mines. -Rev. Dr.-Parkhurst will engago in Sunday jroform work in St. Louis. John- Heinzj aged twenty-one years, fired throe shots it Moll e TJnold, aged nine'een years, on a crokvded ttreet in New York city. The couple had been living to gether at the home of the girl's mother. The young woman's right breast was pierced by a bullet. Miss MolliejcarrutbeH, of Box ton, Texas, gave her three children large doses of morphia, killing the two younger ones. J. E. Elmer, a real estate dealer of San Diego, CaL, was arjrested, charged with attempting to sell some I property which he did not own, by meana pt a forged deed. Ho was admitted to bail aad committed suicide by taking strychnine, j The oil and coal flqldsin Mexico will be worked by the International Oil Beaning Company or Chicago. An upheaval of tho earth in the Pacific Oce4n March 2nd, was reported by vessels at San Francisco. At Ran Jose, Cal. , the Barron will contest for the two million jjlollar estate of Ed ward Birron was closed wiih a ver dict in favor of th contestee, George Barron, who was disinherited by his father, he property being bequeathed to Edward Barron's second wife, Eva Bjs9 Barrou. The four-story buildinglat 255 South Second street, Philadelphia, occupied by G. Walker Kelly and Co., furniture agente, and Al Zugsmith, manufacture of jewalry boxe?, was gutted by lire loss; about $ 12,0 jO. Ii is ru nored that Dr. Ottb van Mu-slier, for merly of Kansas City, hsus murdered hU wife at Crocow, Poland, andj has been arrested. Smallpox prevails in part3 of Missouri and Kentucky.- Bev Elijah Telier was torn to pieces by wi animals in Logan county, W. Va. M. Q. Sullivan, a postal clerk, was arrested in Philadelphia, charged with rifling letters. At Nashville the Supreme Court sentenced Matthew Call; tvay, coloroJ, to be hanged on April 20th, at Columbia, for the murder oi James Waters, colored Mary Wat r$, wife of the victim, who wa of aiding and abetting ndicted on the charge n the crime, was sen tenced to imprisonment ior life. At Mala- mazoo, Mich.,- Lleutenpnt Governor Milne-5 was nominated by the Bypublicans to succ ed in tho Ilouse. of representatives Ju ius C Currows, lately eiectedjto the United State., Senate. Three firemen were fatally injured by a train at De'roitJ if Mrs. Eliza Cowen and her three oliildrep, of Northfleld, O., were poisoned b eating fried beef. M. B Waldo, who was cashier or tho People's Bank at Fostoria, O., up to the lime of its failu o was arrested, charged jwith being short $3,- 000 in his accaunts. iFire broke out on the Un. ted Sta'es transporp Fein, off Cape C-d at night. "Within a few f et of the fire were stored four hundred -'pound of tmoke ois powder. The hero:c eflorts of the crew, how ever, paved the ship. Th'i long sena oria! contest in Idaho flnalljj terminated in the re election of Senator George L. Shoup. Near Beveriy, W. Va., Charles Slavin shot and killed Ham Collins la i fight The steam ship Istrian arrived &i Kewport News from Bermuda, after , rough voyage. At Lex ington, Va., the, grand jury indictei CM. Flggatt, late cashier of tho Bank of Lexing ton, for embezzlement, an 1 a'so R. K. Good win, bookkeeper, for making fa'se entries, and C W. Irvine for receiving money, know ing his bank account Xj be overdue. ' The Rsv. J. Boffjaan Bitten, publisner of a religious paper in Asbury Park, was ar res ed on the charge oc libeling the mayor of the town. 0 P. Wilklns, released a few days ago from the Mtanesota penitentiary, and Charles W. Crawford, a yonth of nine teen years, entered the State Btnk at Adeb Iowa, shot S. M. Leach, the cashier, secured a few hundred dollars and escaped from the town, punned by a Crowd. Wilkins took refuge in a bairn, which was fired. He was forced out and a fight ; olio wed in which he. was shot dead. The other robber was cap tured. Several men w re wounded. Mrs. Bllington Both, ot the Salvation Army, was granted penniis'oa by Jadg Ferris, of Cincinnati, to "perform, the marriage cere mony. The trial of Perry Coffey at Winston, N. C, for the murder of his brother, was port r one 1 because Joseph BoLerts, the most im State, was fouad dead. port ant witness for the -The first annual meeting of the Nationai Wholesale Lumber Dealer's Association, was hell in Philadelphia. -j A strike involving 'from twelve to seventeen thousand miners is on in the Pittsburg district, the operators 'having refuse 1 the sixty-nine cent rate de manded br the men. . i The Tffex'can "bana l Gaisi, lor w?:c? capture the Mexioan gnveraaoea; has offered a reward of t3,03O; tbr ftns to invade Boca? del Toro, on the Itbm n of Panama, where a rebellion has broken out aaJnst he Co inmbian au.hbriliea. r ' rs Thb British Army estimates for J893 show a decrease of X21i,00jfrom last year's ap propriation. The government - expects tJ withdraw a battalion Of troops from Ejypt soon. ' -.... SHOT AND KILLED. Ham Collins Toe notorious Yirginia Hoonshiner. BROKE JAIL SEVEH TIMES. Two Bullets from Charles Slaven's Winchester Put An End to Ham Collin's Career of Crime and Bloodshed; A special despitca from lUchmond gives the details of tho killiar recently in the monnta ns of Virginia aad Wert Virginia of the notorious dejpera lo, Ham Oollin, by Charles Slav-sn. Col. in 3, his son, and Peter Kramer, had been to Bivery, W.Vo., where they purchaiei a ke of whisiey. AH three draa c freslr of tae liqmr and wjra intoxicated when they arrived at the lumber camp at the summit of Cheat Mountain. They wera joined at the camp by Jasper Varner,-who had bjeu wrk ng there. AH went well until thi party nearad the home of Gratz Slaves, on tne Staunton and Parkersburg pike. Without apparent prv ocatioa Cjllinj felled Viraer aii bit him unm3reifully. G.atz Slavaa was aileop aad did not near the disturbance, but hi brother Char ei, who lives a short distance up ?ho road, vfm awakened Ly the disturbanoj, and thinking tha". his brotaer was belnj attack ed, seized his Wiachei'r and started toward bis brother's house. When near the scere of disorder he mit Varner, covered with bood, and so terrib'y injured that be was uniblo to spaak. Col lins thought that Slavtn would ta'ie sids with Varner against him, aad tri-i 1 to get possession of the rifle, but bulnr foiled, the veteran moonshiner, ii a freaz of ra;, drew a knife, and, advancing toward Slavea swore to kill him. S'aven sprang over thj bank of the road, and instantly turning,seit two balls through the body of the most fearless man who ever inhabited the moun'aln State. After the coroner's inquest was held, Slaven wai taken to Pocahontas, ths county seat, where he is held for trial. Collins was an all-round desperate char acter, and lived In deflaace of any and all laws. Almost the entire category of crimj bad been laid to his door. He had broken jail seven times. ABOUT NOTED PEOPIjE. The Ameer of Afghanistan Is 50 years old ts built like a giant, has a broad and ma fdvo face, and sparkling black eyes. Collector of Internal Revenue Mze, of Chicago, sayi that the income tax from Chi-; cago will not exceed $1,000,000 and may fall tele w 1 500,000. . President Faure i fond of the American game of poker. 3hre are a good many parisinns who know the game, -and M. Faure learned its fascinations during his career as aDeputy. Ex-Ccn.ressrcnn Hatch said " in Washing ton the other day : I am going home to live on my farm in M'ss- uri among the thorough-: bred horses, tborcughbrod cattle and thor oughbred people. 1 hat is what I am going to do." Eaip-ror Francis Joseph, of Aas'ria, It is said, intends to change the order of succes td n eat a billed by the Pragmatic Sanction ( 1723, by which Marie Theresa tecame Q jeen, and to have the crown transferred to his only grandson, the child of hLsyounge t daughter, Valerie, and the Archduke Francis Salvator. "Pr nce" Williams, the best-known gypsy in this coun ry, and be'ieved to b3 tho bead of the Bymaay gypsies iu America, died at his home in Eait Hartford, Conn., the o'.her day. WMiams was born in Devonshire, Eng" land, in 1830. When he was 16 years old he married a girl of 14. They have had four teen ch ldren, many of w om are living. Senator Teller, oi Colorado, has received from Willard Morse, a constituent in Den ver, a paper weight, which the Senator eays he will take to the International Monetary Conference as an object lesson to demon strate the platform of the silver men It is a block of s lver, stand trd fineness, weighlog and in cribed "sixteen ounces Colorado sil" ver," superimposed on which is a block o gold, fnsc i ed "one onde Arizona gold. WORK AND WORKERS. A new blast furnace with a capacity of over 2C0 tons daily was put into operation at B -11-aire, Ohio. Ihe Mule Spinners' Association and the Carder' Union of Fall River; Massachusetts, have agreed upon an affiliation. A numLer of New York architects made an unsuccessful effort to persuade the e ectricaJ contractors to arbitrate the troub'e w.th their employes. ' Commis ioner General Stump has prepa ed statistics showing that during the pst seven months immigration to this country has de-Veas-'d 40 per cent, A despatch from New London. Connec i iut, fcays ttat th Stan lard Ke stone Tar ret Company's works a etobe removed to Baltimore.' The concern Is to be reorganized vith $100,000 capi aL t The oontrnctp's for the con-trnction of the South Shore Riiiroa 1, in Nora Scotiat returned to -Yarmouth and mad a par tial settlement with the r employe. The laborers were given free tranpor ation back to Bostcn . "A prominent rai'roa I man in Ciuclnna,i was quoted as haviag aid tha the boyovt -placed on the Ame rcan Railway Union by ihe General Manager A s.clation during the Debs rrhe of last Jul-, will te declared ff April 1st and the old employes reinstated. The American Board of Directors of the Telegraph Union Bet la New York aad put on record their appreciation of M he signal 'services renderd to humanity and the great cause of labor i y FrcslCeo. Eucu - V. Deb his assoc'ate Ditcctors and the men ot the American Railway Union. ! Their example and their deeds have inspired the bear s o wage-ea n-rs everywher e with an unfalti ing d'rtermlnallon to steadily pfrsis In the go d flght, and with renewed strength and courage to maintain It until It rracb&i a triumj han end in concuslre victory for the right. UOUHTATIOHS FAILED. Twenty-erne AppolntnenU thfit VTero Confirmed by th Senate. Out of a totaKor nearly fO nominatics sent to this sevion of Coagress the Seca's failed to act opjtwen y-on at follows: Arthur P. rfely, of New Hampshire, as 1 John n, BrCkenstlne, of Pennsylvania, to La principal i'xamtners in the Patent OSce. David O. Browne, to be collector of cus toms for tho "district of Montana and Idaho a reee'a appointment . r '" t Albert B. Sterns, appraiser of mrchandUo tor the district of Boston and Chat lest on. : lYllllam L. JIarbury to be Uafted SJatej attorney for the dls tictof Marjland. Tha Senate failed to aot on thl at the latt section, 'and the nominee wa again appointed dur ing the last recess. ; Joseph IT. Herod, oX Indiana, now second secretary of legation la Japan, to bo Crs". secretary. , . ' - Postmasters: Pennsylvania I. K, Deci:. arJ, MUdletown, and lticma P. IXeAa drewv Whitehaven. Maine Sous a a a. Stephenson, Togu. Massachusetts George W. Wa'.e, K in dolph, Charles F, B oodgott, Stoneha-n; Al fred D. Holtt, Arlington;, anl Thomas II. Mann, F.tchburg. Maryland Daniel E. Keane, Cumberland. Nevada Luther Clark, Eureka. Nebraska M. M. Huok, Schuyler. Minnesota Clinton C. Tobey, i&uk Cea ter. , . ; - :;j Kansas Robert Kennedy, Pleisanton. Montana Willie E. Dowell, MhHOula, Kentucky Frank W. Jopin, Elizateth town. - '. Illinois John Beard, Danvill. A rccesf appointment. The rejections were as follow?: W. M. CampbaU, district attorn for tha district ot iiinnesota. A. Augustus Healy, collector of Internal Revenue for the first dlstriot of New York. 1L p. KitflelJ, collector of ci'toms f jt tho district of Gloucester, MaJs. PoitmaUers--J. W. V. Woodward, Cen terville, Md.; James WaUIog, Victor, N. Y., and A. D. Tlnsjey, Sioux, Fall.. & D. , saved by u. s. sailors. Port of Spain Wearly WipAd Cat By a Ore: Fire Estimated Loss 4,000,003. A despatch from Port of Spain, Trinidad, says: - t This city narrowly m'sed total destruc tion Ly a great fire which will cause a loss oj 14,000,00, the chief business section having been ihe centre of the conflagration. Noar'y 20,000 people would have been horaelesj ii It bad not been for the asilstanco given by the sallon from the Unite 1 Stato Nrth At lantic Sq mdron and 1L M. 8. UuzzarA iu ex tinguishing the flames. , Soon after the flames began to get h ad. way In the town Rear Admiral Meado sig naled from the New York to the Raleigh and the Cincinnati to land as many men as could be: spared, and simultaneously tho flagship's boats went into the water. Thero was a lively rivalry nmong the men from each ship to reach the scene of the fire first, especially as the British cruiser Buzzard,, having a nearer anchorage, was also bestir ring herself to land a party. From the Unit ed 8tates vessels more than 100 men wore sent a3hore, while the Buzzard landed nbou fifty. . j . - Each boat's crew was supplied with fire buckets, axes and ropes; chains of bucket passers were formed and a steady stroim of water was thus conveyed to the leo side o! the Are to prevent its spread a much aj pa sible ! . Several of the American seamen had car row escape j Everything is in confu'ior. and it will take several days to determlm whether there will Le any lois of life araoui the citizen. The blow to the elly is over whelming, and It will ba many j ears bef it recovers from It, DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES A Are truck was struck by a Lake Shore locomotive at a crossing In Detroit, and tho driver was fatally injured. Andrew Dilhay and W. E. Warren were killed and two other men were Injured by the explosion of a boiler In a saw mill in Piedmont, South Dakota. Pabt of a I passenger train oa the Iadlan apolis and Vlacennes Railway was detatched between Marco an i Saabora, Indiana, aid Ave passangers were injured. Axjiie Bohax, twenty-nine yeari of a ;e, a stonograpner, su n?r emor, su.., uo-- twenty-two, a dressmaker, were found dead in bed in their rooms in Chicago, Uavi! been asphyxiated by gas escaping from a defective meter. A three-year-old daughter of Cbarle Gates, living hear Harrliburg, Summit ounty, Ohio; wa attacked by a largo hawk, which la?lened iti talons la her neck and face." Mr. Gates drbve the bird away with n o ubr but the oWld Was shock n?ly lacerated. It Is believed in St. Louis that tho pro gress of the : small pox epidemic lz Lem checked. The health authorities have per mitted the re-ODenIng of two schools whlc 1 were closed two wseks ago on accouit of small-pox among the pupin. A Ice boat containing a party cf nino per sons IromMenom nee, Minnesota, ran in o an air bole ! and the party hid a narrow e cap3 from drowning. The boa, tank and the meawcre all more or less Jrozen in reachlnr shor. One of thera 13 in a critica condition. AMERICAN, BUILT HOUSES. Karnfacturers May Find a Marketer Then in Sicily and Cita'onia. United States Consul Bruhl, at Catania, Italy, has found a fine markot for rea ly tull)t American frame houses of from two to five rooms, well braced, of low pric?. Th rocejut and I frequent earthquakes in Sici'y and Ca a'onla have destroyed or damaged many buildings poorly braced, to begin witb, and after making inquiries be Is convinced that the people would ra Illy adopt the American Structures as tetter calculated to resist shock. A member of the Royal Earthquake Com mission has InteresteJ himself In tha suljoc and the Consul is anxloui to obtala iiiu trated catalogues from American manufaa turers to lay before the oommlaslon. t t , . 4 -