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VOLUME I. HERTFORD; PERQUIMAN'S CO., N. 0., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1890. . NUMBER 2.
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1MMORTAL1TV.
Whatever begin moat end. 60 say
Philosopher both old and new.
And nature's round, birth, fruit, decay,
Doth prore the adage true.
SungHn the unripe acorn's coat
A fallen oak tree slumbereth;
The new-born infant's lusty throat
Must rattle soon m death.
And so, whatever hath no end,
Kevter began and ne'er was born;
Its origin and finished blenl
As night fades into morn.
Infinity wis by a ring
In former ages signed and taught,
Surely a plain and simple thing.
Yet food for grandest thought.
God is the end and final cause,
The Alpha and Omega he,
Before beginnings, more than law.?,
He wan and is to be. -;''
And if our souls are , plumed to flit .
Through being's circle, near and far,
They lived before the sun was lit
Or heaven had a star.
Oh listen, brothers, listen well!
It was a cheerful thing to bear
An angel harp or shriek from hell
To rid us from this fear.
For we are brutes or prisoned god.
And there is none of us can guess
' What life we passed before these clods,
' This vile forgetful ness!
George Horton, in Chicago Hrald.
THE END OF THE FEUD.
BY JOHN P. BJOLANDfiu.
"As far back as the oldest resident could
remember there had been a feud between
the Jasbns and the Spratts. It had nevor
been a deadly one, but it had been very
bitter for all thtt, and had caused a great
deal of ill-feeling, net between the two
families alone, but among many others
who through alliance with either had
been dragged into the quarrel.
There were people, too, in and about
Tomsburg who took special delight, it
seemed, in keeping the two families con
stantly in hot water by carrying tales be
tween the two houses".: Of ten these tales
were flimsy fabrications, woven from the
imaginations of the tellers, which could
have been readily detected as fiction by
people less prejudiced against one an
other than the Jasons and the Spratts
but as it was the busy-bodies and mis
chief-makers had an open and Iree field
wherein to exercise ;heir more or less in
genious art of story telling-.
At the time of the ending of the feud
o"" V ' Uvea' "tarr . V "
Dim Jason was the representative of one
side and Jay Spratt of, the other. They
were both young men, unmarried, and
. intelligent in Everything save the oncf:deg of the horizon
- buujt-ci ui uie inmiiy icua, an exception
. not to be wondered at, since they had
j imbibed prejudice against each other
with their mother's milk.
But time, the resistless, that under
mines empires and causes tbetn to tumble
in a night, brings changes every when
1
Sooner or later everything succumbs an
is no more. The Tomsburg feud ended
j in a night, and that, too when it
eeeraed to have grown more bitter and
more deadly than jC had ever been be
fore. 4j .
Tomsburg is situated on the shore of
one of the many bays on the Texas coast,
:. where nine out of ten of the inhabitants
own a sailing craft of some kind, the
greater number being what are commonly
" called cat-boats, tn which they make
weekly trips to the adjacent cities, carry-
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1 Sim Jason owned one of these boats, a
- trim Kttle craft, and one of the swiftest
that plowed the waters of the bay. The
little vessel had been named the "Annie"
after his sister.. Like every other boat
man, Sim was touchy on the subject of
' being beaten. by any other craft, but his
particular sore spot was a banter .from
the Spratt adherents that Jay's boit, the
"Lily,'' could outsail him under any and
all conditions. '
The "Lily,"j like the "Annie," had
becaiiamed for the sister of its owner. It
-was a new boat, understood to, have been
built expressly toi beat the Jason boat.
Boast and banter ran high 'in conse
quence, and high words were exchanged
daily between the backers of the two
crafts.
One evening Jay and Sim met down
by the shore, where, they had come to
look after their boats.. , Both men were
accompanied by friends. ' .
r"If I owned an old tub like that one
yonder," said Jay Spratt to his compan
ions, pointing to the "Annie" and speak
ing in tones loud enough to be heard by
the Jason crowd, "I'd leave her to the
mercy of the wind and weather, and let
her take care of herself."
"That tub, as you call her, can outsail
that box of yours," retorted Sim, stop
ping and looking around de5antly. -
"I don't believe it."
l ctidn t ask you to take m'y word for
it, Jay Spratt. Rut if you have the
Ul en, i can prove 1; to you
this very night.'
4,How!" asked Juy, affecting
sur-
.prise.
"I'll sail you a race to lieidih light
. . . . 1
uouse ana back. J"rom the looks or the
sky we are likely to have all sorts . of
"weather winds, and calms and squalls
and our boats wiU?tavaa equal cliance."
Jay considered a few moments. The
sky looked threatening, , and the nigkt
would be dark. The distance was
twenty miles, and to go out on the bay
with, every indication for a stormy night
was a risky business; but Jay knew he
must either accept the banter or back
down in disgrace, tacitly acknowledging
theinferiority of his boat, and incurring
besides the , reputation of a coward.
These thoughts flashed through his brain,
and in a moment his mind was made up.
Aye, h would outbrave Sim in accepting
the challenge. f
"I accept your proposition, Sim,'' he
cried. Then he added : "And to make
the race more even for you I will only
take sister Lily along to help me sail the
boat."
A wild yell of approval went up from
his companions, for all knew that Lily
Spratt was as plucky a girl as there was
in Tomsburg, and that her skill in hand
ling a boat was second only to that "of
the most expert boatmen in the village.
- Just then Annie Jason came upon the
scene, and joining her brother, asked the
cause for the uproar. Sim told her'in a
hurried whisper. '
The Sprats shan't crow over its,
Sim," she said resolutely, stamping her
small foot upon the sand, 4tYl go with
you." ;". ; V - -
When Sim had made known what his
sister had said, another shout, more wild
and more prolonged than the first, rent
the air.
In a short time the news of the pro
posed race spread through Tomsburg,;
and in le3s than half an hour's time men,
women and children Were congregated
upon the shore, all taking a lively inter
est in the preparations being made there.
The sun was just , going down behind
a dark mass of clouds when Jay and
Sim, accompanied by their sisters, came
down to the landing, where their re-
spective friends had hoisted sail on the
two b03ts, and made everything -ready
for a start.
The young men made hasty survey to
see that their crafts were in ship-shape,
and having satisfied themselves that
everything had! been properly attended
to grasped the tillers, gave the signal to
cast ofE and darted away from the shore,
like birds on snowy wings, amid lusty
chec s from 1 those left behind.
The sky looked rent and threateaing.
There were distant thunder and frequent
flashes of lishtning. Dark towering
masses of clouds rose slowly udou all
The wind was due
east, blowinsy a stiff breeze. The two
boats were close hauled on the wind,
barely making their course. The water
was rough and the waves ran pretty high,
casting a drenching spray over every
thing as the. little crafts were forced
straight through them; The crews of
the two boats the girls as well as the
boys were well protected, however, by
long oilskin coats, reaching" . down to
their feet, and south wester hats.
For the fir it ten miles it was a pretty
even race; then the wind died out com
pletely. Night had-set in. The thunder
sounded louder and closer,and the light
ning came in blinding flashes The
clouds rolled upward from every side un
til they met overhead. For a few min
utes the thunder stopped its. loud can
nonadf; Athe ' lightning ceased ; the
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1 1 j liiil broke tne silence Demg
Li. 1. ...irt 'mnrmiir of n. hreakinoi,wftVR
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J o ' o
id the gentle swash of the water against
the sides of the boats.
The darkness was intense ; the air was
hot aud stifling. Then an omnious sound
came from; a distance a sound that the
occupants of the boats'" had often heard
before a - low murmur at first, increas
ing gradually in volume, until at last, as
it drew nearer, it sounded like a roar of
wrath' mingled with shrill shrieks of
agony and despair-
Sim and Jay hastily lowered their sails
and furled them snug and fast; and just
as the first chilly breath of the squall
touched their sweat-beaded cheeks and
foreh ;ads they threw the ; anchors over
board. ''. .
Then the storm broke loose m all its
fury. The thunder roared more deafea
ingly, the lightning flashed more blind
ingiy than before.' Thi phosphorescent
water gleamed as an ocean of fire lashed
and driven before the gale. The, two,
sail boats" were tossed like corks upon
the angry: sea, but their anchors held
them head to the wind, while strong,
nervous hands grasped the tillers and
steadied them as they plunged up and
down among the .furious; waves.! ?;ci
The two boats seemed to be riding the
gale safely, until suddenly the "Annie's"
cable snapped. "The Annie was. to the
windward of ths Lily, and when the
cable parted shi drifted straight down
. upon the latter. : They came together
with a fearful crash;. Then came a wave
higher cresteJ and more lurious than us
! fellows. It
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they were yet side by side, seeping their
decks from fore to aft, at the same time
tearing them apart and carrying one fax
astern of the other-
Jay looked around for his sister. A:
u his feet, in the small cockpit La which he
1 wftS sitting, now half filled with; water.
he saw a motionless figure, -which he
thought to be hers'. He reached down
his hand and dragged her toward him.
; A long and vivid flash lighted tip
everything around him, revealing instead
of the expected face of his sister that of
Annie Jason. :'r'
At that moment a woman's piercing
cry rang out above the voice of the
storm. Jay beard it tmd sprang to his
feet.
"It is Lily, and she ia drowning," he
cried. cut the cable and drift down
with the wind. " I may save her , yet."
lie started forward, but just then the
topping-lift broke and the boom came
down with all its weight upon his head.
With a moan upon his lips he sank down.
Unconscious. : . .
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T
It was a week after the night of the
squall on the bay when Jay Spratt awoke
to consciousness again. He was at his
home in Tomsburg. Two sweet tfaces
were bending over - him, while the arms
belonging to the possessors of the faces
were wound lovingly around each other's
waists. " ;
"Where am I?"
"You are at home; Jay, and all is
well," said Lily with a smile.
. "And you didn't drown?"
"No, dear ; thanks to Sim Jason, who
risked his own life to save mine."
"How did I get home?"
: "Annie " ;
But here the blushing Annie placed
her disengaged hand over Lily's mouth,
"Did you sail the boat and take me
home, Miss Jason?"' asked Jay looking
up into her face; " '' "
"Yes," she whispered," "but be quiet
now, and try to go to sleep."
The great majority of the people in
Tomsburg are Well pleased to know that
the feud between the Jasons and the
Spratts is at an end, A double wedding
is announced there to take place in early
autumn.. Timet-Democrat. .
The Prince and the Sentinel.
The Paris Petite Press tells a funny story
about the young Prince Royal of Greece.
A year ago this young man was engaged
to the Princess Imperial of Germany and
immediately set out on his sparking ex
pedition. The young lady lived in the
Palace of Potsdam,andthe Prince used to
go there frequently '" from- Berlin. At
fist he made stated visits and -was taken
in a carriage from the railway station to
the palace. But one day he took it into
his head to pay an informal visit.
Dressed in plain civilian clothes he
boarded the train, and on arriving at the
railway station took the first, vehielc he
could hire. When he reached the palace
a sentinel was of course at the gate.
"Wer da?" growled the big Prussian.
"Tis I," said the Prince, "the Crown
Prince of Greece and the fiance of the
Princess. . Let me pass."
'You are a nice looking Prince Royal,
you are! And a Princess masher, eh?
Getaway!" ' . 1
The Prince insisted and got angry.
The soldier thought he was a poor
crank, and tried to bring " him to his
senses. "Now, my fine fellow," said
he, "don't make a fuss. You can talk ,
as much as you please,-but I know my
business. A Prince, my boy, always has
fine uniform, with a cocked hat and
feathers and a bushel of decorations.
Oh, I saw our Fritz, and you can't fool
me. Now, go awayt"
Noticing a lackey, the Prince beckoned
to him, and, after scribbling a few lines
on the back of the card, told him to
take it to the Empress. The lackey
went off on his errand. ., The sentinel
grinned. A crazy man might fool a
lackey, but an old soldier wasn't to be
taken in. But what , was his astonish
ment when he saw the Princess coming'
to meet the poor crank and welcoming
him in the most affectionate -manner.
Then she took him into the palace.
"Well, I swan!" exclaimed the senti
nel. "If a beggar man comes up to me
the next time I'm on guard and tells me
he's the Pope I'll kneel down and get his
blessing."
Hot Milk ais m Soporific
A physician recommends a cup of hot
bouillon or hot milk, sipped sltwly, but
while still hot, before going to bed, as a
better sleep inducer than all the opiates
on the pharmacopoeia as better even
than a clear conscience, which isn't very
good ethics, you know, but which may
be very good medical doctrine notwith
standing. At any rate, his explanation therefor
lis
a solid one. The hot fluid taken into
t
the stomach brings about an increased
j activity of the blood vessels of the stom
jach a slight temporary . congestion,
j which relieves the overcharged blood
vest els in the brain, and so induces a
i natoral and refreshing sleep. To give
j thJ medy its utmost potency, however.
i no ;ioott suouiu iw uulcu mu ifc, uut
4 a tiny -wafer,' and the liquid should
j sippcd as hot as it can, be borne.
! Daroit Free Pre.
The price of cotton in New York ia
1SG4 was from seventy-two cents to f 1.90
upound.
THE NEWS,
Three men robbeJ the passengers on the
Pullman sleeper on a Santa Fe train. Con
doctor W. C Dana was killed near Zanes-
ville, O. -Tha euitora-house officers of San
Francisco seized diamonds and rabies said to
have been smuggled by two merchants from
Ceylon. The Stallioa Superior, valued i
$75,000, was accidentally killed .at Pueblo,
CoL Prospectors report rich grade of
silver on Scoville's Island; in Wisconsin.
A serious conflict between the Union Pacifio
and its eastern connection is about to he in
aagurated.- The Indians in British Colum
bia threaten to exterminate the whites.
Ed. Stephen, a notorious counterfeiter, was
arrested at Oklahoma. Thomas McCiffrey,
a Chicago bartender, shot and killed Thomas
O'Brian W.D. Ushers, who cut his wife's
throat at Lebanon, Teniu, committed suicide.
Fire destroyed a number of buildings in
East Pepperell,-Sfiua! The damage is esti
mated at $300,000. A. R. Bancroft, at one
time sheriff of Lyon county, Kg., committed
suicide in Concordia, Ks. At the state fair
in Birmingham, Ala a young couple was
married and sailed off on a bridal tour In a
balloon. General Williams, a negro boy,
shot and killed a five-year-old boy, and was
himself riddled with bullets soon after.-
During a quarrel in Wilmington, Del., John
Farrar struck James Devine a blow which
broke his neck. Six men are in custody,
charged with the murder of Michael Brazill,
near Chicago. At the extra session of the
Ohio legislature a bill was passed providing
for a non-partisan board of improvements for
Cincinnati. Apache Indians killed two
fheep herders near Silver City, New Mexico,
knd lost two men. The American Institute
"of Architects, in session at Washington, ad
journed. Fire at Norfolk destroyed the drying kilns
of the Atlantic saw mill. Loss $15,001
Fire at Durham, N. C, did $25,000 damage
-A quarrel over land near Waycross, Ga.
used for turpentine purposes, resulted in the
fatal shooting of several men. The flash of
& mighty meteor with a report like that of a
cannon caused excitement at Claremont, N.
II. W. J. Birch, station master at the Phil
adelphia, Pa., Depot of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railway, was arrested on a charge'
of embezzling $2,000 from the company,
United States Senator Joseph Blackburn wat
seriously injured in a driving accident near
Versailles, Ky. Fonr persons employed in
the Quaker City Dye Works of Philadelphia,
were poisoned. The mills of the Tampa
Lumber Company, at Tampa, Fla., were
BtrnejtstT.ing-and burned. Loss $30,000,
--:he-easterly sor"oTitiiLfonsiderable
damage to the Jersey coast summer re6ortpijnoment nine men were struggling with
Engineer Goodale, of Hinton.Va received
fatal injuries in a railroad accident on the
Chesakeake and Ohio road.- I. Blakely
Creighton, a New York banker, committed
suicide. -Michael Brazill, living near Chi
cago, was murdered and robbed by tramps.
Wm. GaloW, of Oshkosh, Wisl, kitted his
wife and himself. George Baker was killed
by an explosion in the fulminate 'department
of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company in
Bridgeport, CL- George Elliot, of Perry,
Texas, murdered Mr. Abb. Rice without
cause. The First National Bank of Dur
ham. N. C., was consumed by fire.
0. is. Wilkert, an old man, was robbed ant.
killed at Chicago, and his body put on the
railroad track. Isaac Weiss, a deserter
from the United Stales Army, shot and killed
Mrs. Margaret Mehlin, whom he mistook for
his wife, at San Antonio, Texas, and then
killed himself. A remarkable cave has
been discovered near Pilot Knob, 111. David
Grubb, a farmer living near Granville, III ,
was Bhot and killed by Arch Wick, his step
son. Grubb was maltreating his wife when
shot. Fires are reported on vhe Sioux
reservation. Gold-bearing quartz has been
discovered in Indian iTeritory.- -Natural
gas has been discovered near Florence, Ala.
Thomas Bowers, of Wichita, Kansas, tried
to take his life by shooting himself in the left
breast. His physicians'say he will die. lie
had been jilted twice. ; Jerome Sweet was
found guilty of murdering his wife at Provi
dence, R. I., and sentenced to prison for life.
Fire damaged the Davis-Chambers White
Lead Works, at Pittsburg, $20,000. Two fire-
men were hurt. Property insured. M. C
.Beardsley was arrested at Troy, Pa., charged
with operating for Dun's Commercial Agency,
and obtaining money under false pretenses.
Firei destroyed the Mission Soap and'
Candle Works, the Pacific Mattress Factory
and other houses in San Francisco. Loss
$80,000. Two men were killed and a num
ber wounded by a railroad collision on the
Ivansa s Ci ty, M emph is a nd Bi 'mi ngham Road,
two miles from Birmingham, Ala. A Rock
Island train ran into a Pullman sleeper near
Kansas City, and eight people were injured,
two or three supposed fatally. It has been
decided to fill in sixty acres of the Lake front
at Chicago for the World's Fair. Four
Chinese who had been smuggled across the
Northern border were arrested at Fort Benton,
Montana, and sent back to British Columbia.
The rapidly increasing influence of the
Chicago Lodge, Brotherhood of Telegraphers,
has led the Western Union Company to dis
charge several of the leaders, in the hope of
discouraging the movement J. IT. Wither
spoon, in a quarrel over shares ia a cotton
crop, shot and killed his uncle, J. G. Rainer,
at Charleston, S. C. Albert LuJemyer, of
Kewaunee county. Wis., quarreled with bis
bride about the quantity of potatoes-to be laid
in for the winter and shot her dtad, and then
committed suicide. V ,
"ORIGINAL PACKAGES."
lowm To was Threatened Witts mu Irrwp
' lion of alMDi.
A systematic scheme on the part of the
liquor men of Iowa to bring back the "original
packate" to legal life has been discovered ia.
Fort Dodge. A number of the men who were
openly engaged in the "original package"
business last Summer received circulars par
porting to come front the secretary of the
State "Original Package Dealers Associa
tion, signed by a prominent Council Blnfls
liquor dealer. -
In the name of the newly formed aoei
tion, every saloon keeper was nrged to con
tribute liberally to a fund to be used in an
attempt to secure an . injunction restraining
Iowa courts, from prosecuting original pack
age dealers under the old prohibition law.
It is claimed that the recent Kansas de
cision gives good grounds for each an act ion -
Mrs. CoRXELirg Tasdekbilt has the
best fair of carriage horses now ia New York,
hbe first saw the horses in Paris last Jane,
when they wr re the property of a rich banker.
He refused to part with them when lira. Yan
i!erb'iltV a?ents first a&pPed, bat he finally
relented when hejearned how she longed for
their, and he sold the pair for 112.000.
BIBi IFIRE INI GALE.
Nine of the Crew Take to a Lifeboat,
but are Drowned.
Terrible Experience of Sailors en a Vn-
Ml eaLakt Ilaron Itrscaed at
Critical Moment
The Anchor Line steam barge Annie Young
was burned to the water's edge off Lexington,
in Lake Huron, Mich. Nine members of her
crew, who tried .0 escape thu flames in a l.fe
boat were lost. - v- - -
The remainiip, after being driven-clear
into the fore peak, where they stood until
their clothes caught Ere and their faces and
h a V were blistereJ b"ythe heat, were res
cued by the steam barge Edward Smith. The
latter bore down on the buring vessel from
windward, and despite the heavy wind and
sea ran so close that the endangered sailor
were enabled to leap from her rails and es
cape what had seemed certain death.
The Annie Yonng parsed out of the St.
Clair River into Lake Huron at 7 o'clock.
The wind was blowings rattling gale from
the northward. A heavy aa was running,
aud when she got beyond the iheltcr of the
point she made little or no headway. Just as
she wsa abreast of the Lexington Lighthouse
smoke was seen issuing from the main batch.
The hatch cover was removed, the crew sent
to fire quarters, and ever preparation made to
extinguish the flames, but the latter had
gained such headway in ithe highly inflam
mable cargo that it was impossible to check
them.
The firemen, engineer, and stewards had
to run for their lives, and it was onlv ftr
they had all been-severely burned that they
reacnea a spot amidships where the rest of
tne crew, under the leadership of Captain
Miller, was making a gallant but hopeless
ngni 10 save me vessel. .
She fell off into the trough of the sea. where
she roiled and plunged in a way that threat
ened to send her to the bottom. Sea after ea
swept over her decks, tons of water poured
into the open hutches, but the ore. seemed to
burn more fiercely than ever. As it
proached the foremast, driven out by th,c gale,
it ignited a lot of oil barrels stowd on the
main deck.
Barrel after barrel of the blazing oil ex
ploded, with such force as to tear the deck
planks from under the feet of the men. The
nre spread all through the hold with tho
rapidity of lighting. Fiatues shot out of the
forcastle hatch and enveloped everything
about it.
When the danger to the boats first became
apparent, Captain Miller ordered the !cr
board boat cleared away nnl lowered. , Kiiie
men took their places in it before the falls
were cast adrift. t They pushed away froiii
the burning vessel, maimed their oars and
made a gallant attempt to bring the frail
craft head iuto the sea. Just as they were
rounding to uuder the vessel's quarter a ter
rific sea caught the boat, and, seemingly lift
ing it clear off the water, threw it end over
end.
the waves'for" their lives. One rwtor fellow
reached the cSjrsiied boat aud was working
with the energy of uesgtiir to get astride of
the 'keel, when he wns tor. Va.way by another
sea and tent to the bottom, '.fvsa catastrophe
to the boat happened in lull vie'w"Jf Captain
"Miller and the twelve brave fellowS'irho re
mained with him aboard of 1I10 Imrninr'Wv 1
Thev watched the drowning meiiiiTr
one bv one. all the time slioutinir fci- yK
encouragement to those who were tkvi H
swim to the doomed vessel-, and so intense was
their interest in the sccirethat they momen
tarily forgot their own dange
The men on the Annie Youug could not
reach the only remaining Iifv-l)oat, for it was
already ablaze, and a barrier of 5re flashed in
their way. It looked as if they must all share
the fate of the poor fellows who went oil in
the first boat, for inch by inch the tire drove
them forward, until they were all huddled
together in the forepeak. It seemed but a
choice of death between fire and water.
The men could not see the Smith as she
bore down ov- the burning steamer, on account
of the blind! g smoke, and they did not know
rescue was t near at hand until they heard
the cheering bhouts of the Smith's crew. It
required the most skilful kind ol manoeuvcr
ing to keep the big lumb -rsoinc boat headed
into the seas, so she would drift down on the
Young, and thus give the latter's crew a
chance to leap for their lives. Just as thetwj
barges came together Captain Mil er's coat
caught fire; the clothes of other officers were
also burning and all hands were suffering so
fearfully from the heat that they were about
ready to plunge into the lak".
As the ve sels came together with a crash
the crew of the Young jumped for the rail
like tigers and scrambled over to the deck of
the rescuing vesse'. To eet the latter beyond
the reach of the flame? repi r ! but a turn of
the wheel, and the Annie Yonng was left to
burn and m''"'- . .
The reeue(jf!Sai!or3 are un.ible to give anv
clear idea as to how the fire originated, but it
is the opinion that it was the result of linn 1
ling a light iucauliotm' vnruonjr thecil barrels.
RIOT AT A TURPENTINE STILL
BcVeral Men Fatally Shot In the Georgia
Bickwoodk
I B. Vnrne leased a lot of land from ths
Waycross Lumber Company just over ths
Ware line in Coffee county, and who recently
commenced preparations for working it foi
turpentine. The same lot of land was sold by
II.M.IIitt to Tom Searsand the timber leased
to F. M. Stokes for turpentine purposes. A
week or ten days ago Tom Sears ordered
Varne's hands off the land with his gnn. The
first of the week Vsrne had the work resumed,
notifying the parties that he would submit to
legs! process; otherwise, he should work the
lot, but cautioned his hand against trouble,
and ordered them to act strictly on the defen
sive. Tuesday Tom Sears waylaid Varne's
wagon and shot his teamster, who is not ex
pected to live.
Wednesday afternoon Tom Sears, his father,
Frank Sears, Bryan McLendon, James Hen
dricks and others eame over into Ware, abont
one and one-half miles from the lot of land
in dispute, to the house of Robert Knight,
where Welcome Golden and other employees
of Yarn were stopping out of the rain, and
commenced firing into the house. - The hands
all ran except Knieht and Golden, who re.
turned the fire, killing McLendon and Ilend
rick. woodsmen of Stokes, and wounding
Frank Sears. Mr. Varne was six miles away
at his still, and knew nothing of the trouble
until afterwards.
The sheriff, coronerand the Waycross Rifle,
under command of Captain Farrar, proceeded
to the scene, and further trouble is not appre
hended. POISONED HIS CHILDREN.
A German Farmer Harder Ills Little
Ones and IlloaselC
Another tragedy has been added to the list
of horrors which have recently occurred in
Berlin and vicinity. The community was
shocked by the discovery of the fiendish work
of a poisoner which is al-nost without parallel
in the history of crime in Germany. A retired
farmer named Gat gave to hi children some
sweetmeats in which he hail previously placed
a quantity of poison. He then pirtook of the
poisonous confection himself. Ator suffering
great agony for some time, the mnrderer and
three of the children were reliefed by death
from their sufferings. Two others of the
rhildren, who alo ate of the sweetmeats are
in a dying condition, and the physicians say
there is no possible chance of savin then.
Xo reason is known for ths crime. ,
Michigan's newest millionaire, James 1L
Ashley, started out twelve years ago without
a (U. liar, aid in that time Las built and
cquij r-d 4u miles of railroad, which he now
controls, aad is worth Q.0O0L
Of I
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SOUTHERN ITEIS.
nrrEUiMTKfa sews compiled
FROJI HAXV SOCRCES.
Triplet born in Newman, Gs-, hart been
samed Red, White and Biue.
Dealers report a big rush of tobacco in
Danville, Ya at the present time.
There are abont two hundered Undents en
rolled at the West Yirjrinia University at
Uorgantown, W. Va.
Montgomery county, Va-, boasts of saving
the best tobacco rron that has been made in
that, country for many years.
The seniors of. Harvard University have
elected Hugh MeCu Hough, Jr., of Howards-
vuie, an poet of ths class-day exercises.
By actual count there are now thirty4wo
annual county fairs held in North Carolina
under the auspices of permanent local organi
sations. .
Mrs. Ella M. Giflord.of New England, has
presented 130,000 to the Richmond Retreat
lor t i Kirlr ,lO 4!Vinf whirh h.- ten a'.rradv
received. - -I
By resolution of the Council, Lynchburg,
Va., will present t- each of her policemen
nd firemen a winter overcoat, to cost not
more than 3X
The home of Mary Washington, in Frede f
icksburg, Va, has been purchased by the So
ciety for the Preservation of Virginia Anti
quities for 14,000. ,
At Estill ville, Scott county, Van Pat Dig
non, while intoxicated, got iuto a fire built by
him one mile from town, and -was sj badly
burned that he died. ;
A. S. Asbury, postmaster at Roanoke, Va
fell from the second story to the basement of
s fine residence he is erecting, and sutained
serious, bat not fatal injuries.
Farmers from Bedford, Amherst, Halifax.
Appomattox and Campbell, Vs., report the
tobacco crops just housed as unusually fine,
Hid all has oeen saved iu nice condition.
Harry Christian, the negro desperado who
murdered Detective Crow on Elk Horn, Sep
tembcr 2, has been captured in Logan county,
W. Va. A purte of $200 was made up for his
captor.
The lltrmon, Parsons and R twlsburg Itail
' road Company, organized for the purpose of
cont-tructine a railway from Harmon. Ran
dolph county, to Rowlsburg, Preston county,
W. Vs, has been incorporated.
A corporation, under the style of the
"Burgwiu Bros. Tobacco Co," has been
chartered in Oxford, N.C- with a capital of
tJoO.OOO, with tne privilege ot increasing to
fX)0,000. Colonel W. II. S. Bnrgwin is presi
dent. . ... 1
M. II. Danhart, a Baltimore and Ohio
brakeman, from Great Cacapon. Morgan
county, residing in Msrtinsburg W. Yan was
run over and instantly killed by a freight car
backing over him and cutting him completely,
in two.
Three young sons of W. B. Bardin, of Grant
Township, Wayne county, N. Ct recently
picked out in one day, twelve hundred and
thirty-three pounds of cotton. This bats the
record of even the most experienced in this
section.
Capt. A- G. McAbee, of Roanoke, a freight
conductor on the Norfolk and Western litil
road, was killed at Radford, Vs., by an engine
running into his caboose. Henry Weller and
Andy ' Dawson, brakemen, were . probably
fatally injured. ' 1
A silver knee-buckle, set with liamonds,
was found a snort time ago in b wi.t nan Gap,
Va,
woman natneu oailie
train on the Oxford
& Ciarksville road, three miles Leyond Dur
ham, N. C She was about seventy years o'.d
and very deaf. The engineer gave the usual
warning and no blame attaches to him. .
The iron bridge over Principio Creek has
been opened for public use, and it is the first
iron bridge in Cecil county, 11 d. It was built
by Mr.- McQuilkin, of that county, and was
awarded to him in competition with a num
ber of prominent bridge builders.
A wonderful balsam apple was plucked at
the residence of Mrs. J. W. Shatter, of Cum
berland, Md its peculiarity being that it is in
the shape of a perfect birdr-except ths. it has
neither feathers nor legs on it wilh beak,
eyes and tail complete, and looks as if dressed
game grew on trees.
Front Royal and River ton, Va., have raised
$67,000 and a site valued at $35,000 lor the
Randolph-Macon College to establish there a
great academy, similar to that lately opened
at Bedford City. President W. W Smith, of
the college, assumed $10,M) in addition, task
ing the money contributions in all 177,000. r
-"-Henry Belcher has been arrested on the
charge of murdering a small boy named' Rid
ley, near Waverly Station, Va., on the Nor
folk aud Western Railroad, a few days ago,
and committed to the county jaiL of Sns.cx.
Ridley was suffocated to death aud then
thrown into a marl pit
Within the past week trees and shrubbery
in the vicinity of Ellicott City, Md, have been
blooming. A pear tree on the estate known
as "Tipton," managed by Mr. John J. Ver
nay, although denuded of leaves, has shown
blossoms and incipient trait. From var'.on
sources come, reports of blosio ning cherry
trees and rose-bushes.
Mr. Theo. Mitchell, of Ilazerstown. MdL,
has a squash with the initials ' J. II. B' on it
in letters two inches in length, which look as
if made of thread, worked after the manner of
a buttonhole. The letters were scratchedon
Jit when about the size of a hen's egg, and the
wounds healed so that the letters were raised
at least an eighth of an inch above the sur
face of the squash.
W-J. Hampton Hoge. of Christiansburg, Va,
. has purchased of A- E. Humphreys, of Cnarlw
ton, VV. Vsw, the celebrated tract known as
Mountain Lake, situated in Craig and Giles
counties. Va- and Monroe county. W. Va.
' The tract comprises 103.000 acres, some of it
-the finest timber land in the Sooth. It
abounds in rich deposits f iron ore and man- i
'ganese. The price paid was $200,000.
AT terrific tornado passed through the
.northern section of Robeson county, & C.
Much damage was done to property and
several persons are reported killed. At Floral
College the belfry of the Presbyterian Church
blown down severally injuring two p
sons. - Several barns, saw mills, Ac, were
demolished.
Recently a citizen of Monroe, Union county.
N. C, received an anonymous letter, contain
ing $25, which the writer says was in payment
for certain confectioneriea stolen by him from
the store of the citizen (a merchant) many
tyears ago. The sender ol the money declares
jhat bis conscience bad lashed him into mak
ing the. return. The receiver of the money
turned it over to the Methodist church at
Monroe- ; ' : ,
Mr. David A. Fries, a cattle dealer of sear
Winchester, Va-, who was drugged and robbed
at the fair st Ilagerstown, Md, and incorrectly
(e ported as dead, has recovered. He says
bree men fell ia with him and pretended to
want to buy some of his cattle. lie drank
some beer with them and shortly afterward
became nnconscioua. The robbers only gvt
ten dollars from Mr. Fries. They overlooked
a pocket containing thirty dollars.
The other day a while man sat down on the
steps of a siore near the corn-bouse ia Amer
icas, Ga-, and west to ticej . While asleep be
fell off the steps and cut hf heaJqufte badly.
Strange to ay, the man didn't wake at all,
and he didn't know anything of his injuries
until a patrolman woke hint. An artery was
'rut, ant the mm nmhthave bled to death
jbad he kept on sleeping. The man was not
drank. :J '-v.,,' - :
. QrCEXABOHElu fA,ofItaly,haaapasioa
fwr i-aru. She wears MriiiM upon strings oi
tl(4-m around Lrr neck. JlaJiciotis tongues
ahi-i-er tl-ftt ! cram tl-tm to blue a goitre,
A Torso taan in Savannah. Ga-, tried to
py li.nret tear tare with a SlOObilL Ths
eofVliKtor. ior-r-ing the car. went into a store-
a -d the bill changed, giving theyoang
iati a hut-bag fail of stiver amounting to
jO--ernijtfood in his famous expe- fu mmmt. tnTr, "W"
.fonUinA History. J!jZJ
I V i. anrrnxiatawl that Tr W 1 tHtwf- t J-JU J u.. i . m
RELIGIOUS READING.
TBK CtlBlSTlAX LIFE.-
I hold him great who, for love'rs ake .
Can give with generous, earnest wid;
Tet lie ho take for love's sweet sake,
1 thiuk I hold more generous still.
I bow before the noble mind
That freely some great wrong forgives;
Yet nob:er Is the one fpivc n
Who bears that burdviT well and urea.
It may be hard to gain, and till "
To keep a lowly, steadfast heart;
Yet ho who loses hu to fill
A harder and a truer part. " '- -'
i - .
G Jorlotrs It Is to wear the crown . ' r
Of t deserved aud pur succe ; , : -
He who knows how to fail has won
A crown w hose lutter is not leas. -
Great mar le he who can command
And rule wrUh just and tender sway j :"
xet Is 4l iner wisdom tauxhl
Better by him who cau obey. , - ;
Blessed are they who die for God"
And earn the martyr's crown of light ;
Yet he who lives for God may be. -: '
: A greater conqueror in Li sight. : ?
-Ide al Je Proctor.
HOTHEBS,rm low.,- .
I know some houses, well built and hand
somely fumUhcd, where it U vt pleasant to
be even a visitor. Sharp, angry tones re-'
sound through - them , from morning tilH
night; and the influence Is as contagious as
intaslts, and much more to be drradi-d Ins
household. The children catch It, jnl it
lu for life, an Incurable dleae. - A frit-nd
had such a neighbor within bearing of her -home
when doors and windows wire open, -and
even Poll Parrot has caught "tho tune
and delights in tcrraming and scolding until
he hss been sent Into the country to. Ira
prove her habit. ; - --i 1 " - -
Children cmtch cross tones quicker, than
parrots. Where mother sets the example,
you will scarcely hear a pleasant .word .
among the children In their plays with cacti
other.- Yet the discipline of inrh a family
is always weak and Irmru'ar. The children,
expect just no rnurh scolding before they do '
an) thing they are bid, while in many a home
where the low, firm tone of the mot her or a
derided look of her steady eye, I law, the
children never think of disobedience either ,.
In or out of her slf ht.
Oh, mothers, it Is worth a great deal to ;
cultivate that "excellent thing In a woman,"
a low, sweet voice. If yni are evrr so much
t:reil by the mischievous or willful, pranks
of the little one," apeak low. It w til lea
great help to you to even, try to be patient
and cheerful, if you cannot wholly succeed.
Anger makes you wretched and your ehlM-
ren also. ImpatW'nt. angry . tone never did .;
the heart any good, but plenty of evil. You
cau not bate the excuse for them thst they i
lighten your burdena any; they make theru
onlv ten times heavier. "For your ewn, as ;
weft as your children's sake; learn to ippeak
low. Tliey will remember that tone when
your head, is under the willows. "So, too,
would they remember a harsh and angry
voice. Which legacy wIU you leave to yote -children?
New York Chronicle. , H
BYMrATHY wrrn AxrstAU.
I fay that all noble natures the rice
through have been filled with this so great
sympathy with all these lower beings wlioc
ie:i 10
his 'Treatise oft-Kdtr.'atlon "VTiuld
taught among children lessons of compas
sion for the inferior creatures both at a duty
toward them and as developing In the chil
dren the best uohilitie of their nature. - .
One of the profouudfat pkc s of human
reasoning is Bishop Butler's "Analogy of
Religion." In it be refers to tho 'la(ent
powers and capacities of the lowt r animals,
and fees no reason why they should not be V
developed in a future life.' Sir Walter
Scott bad alwaya about him a family of dogs
larger than his own. How . he mounud
tbcra when they died! Who has J
ever gazed , at that magnificent mono- ;
ment at Edinburgh, and rot been touched in .
the tctiderest fpot in -bis heart at seeing
there at the very feet of the statue of the
great man the beautiful form of bis favorite '
dog, Maidal u - ; - v
I think I shall always renumber the tally
ho coach ride one Fourth of July front Dnb
lin to Bray. Four horses of perfect form". .
ibtnlng like silk, leaping like deer over their
six-mile course, and then four more .fieU ;
for their run; thirty-six horses in all. sprcl
Ing with unwearied pace up the smooth hil,-.
through village and hamlet, bors and girls
breaking loose from school, tilling the air
with their echoes of our tootlsig born, and,
yet in that wild ride from Dublin to the sea
and from the sea to Dublin, not a lash fell
upon a single horse, -f . t
Only its sharp crack in the air, and the
low voice of that tujierb driver, the r'cbeist
tea merchant in the JrUh capital, to keep
Vhe eager horses firm and i vett to their work.
And b through old . Eugland, among -tho
majestic dray horaes, wilh their monumental
legs ; among the bua and . handsome borw. ,
so endless in their, procion through the
vtrceti and strands of London :.araonx th .
young pacing cobs and on the country roads; .
among the tall but stocky hunters in lield "
and moor; among the racers, so elegant in;
every part, with high pasttrns, devp flanks f
and chests, and long thin necks, ret!eas for
tbe signal for the raee among them all I
saw not in a month so many beiring sbcut '
In overwrought, starved, whipped bodies 1
the marks of man's cruelty- as f see in a
mg'e dav here in tbe streets of Syracuse.
lcv. br. Spaulding. " .
. TUT. rREJtcnc AB TtlT, '
In rn luterenMng volume, "The Wsy tb
Lord Hath Led Me." Cnarlea Stanley relatc-s
tbe foltowing lnident illurtrating the im
portance of byklng ta the Lord every day
for tbe guidance of tle Holy fpfril. a w
never know when and where He may um
us in aoverelgn grcr. .
"I was crowing tbe cotintry one dsy, fmra
Bristol, where 1 bad feen preaching, to TrV
bcry. I bail never ben In that part 6f the
cooutrv before. On arriving at AVotton-under-r!dge,
I bad some time to spare be
fore going on.. It was about fire o'clock oo
a hot day ia tbe midt of harvest.
TDere was acareely a peron to be Men In
tbe lit-le town. I was very diitlnci.'y im
pressed from tbe Lord that I muit preach
the gospel there that afternoon," yet th-re
1 - - lAA 1 ' a a .-ill rm - r I nt A f ty a, m mw. m
appeaml to i-e no tx.-of 1- to preacu : U. ,
Nearly all seenici to le out in the harvest
field. Yfttbe conviction deepeccl tb&t I
nmtprewb. 1 took a few trarts tul gave
them where I eould ftinl any jne. I jws
standing ia a htU yliw, speakipg to a
woman about itr soufl when a iuai time
running tip the road, tbe r-ernpirstwni ..
streaming off hU fice. He turned into the
shop and aald. 'Pk ae ir, sre you a preavb
cr of tbs'gopir Vt,' 1 a! I. l srn,
through the L-rds nrcy, hut why dr you
askr He replied, l aw the bellman, and if .
yoo wWJ preach today I lrlij try It.
fWell. 1 aid. 'it was very much laid on
my heart to preach the gopt t Iiere tlay,
but I do not are any to preach to. TU inc.
sow Is it yoti cams in such bsfte. and aked '
rn the queotionf He replle!, 'I jras work- -ing
in the field, and a woman came pat and
told me some one was distributing trscw in ;
Wot ton. and it wa Ju-t a if a voice bat
said to me. You mutt run, and there muH
be ireaehing in Wotton today. That ia why
1 left my work, and came iinmlHfe , " - '.
A be wa the bellnwu, I jovolqnf ari-'y
put my baud ta my iok-t t give him a,
tfa!!in?. fJIt, desr ho, tsr,' ht said, 'I don't . ;
want the money, I want ou' to te aTrd;
and tbe earnestness and aolenjnity of the
man confirmed his words. I u ha'. an hour .
be bad washed himself, cried the prtacbiue.
and we were on the way to the Chipping to . -preach.
".'
It reqnires a bold man to say that these
colnddpc were the rrnult fcf an ackiiL ;
And tt win nnlre eternity to reveal the
rol wrought throujrh mera, who are tha
kd by the fciHxit of jCod."
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