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MURFREESBORO, N)., FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 18do.
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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
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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
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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.
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