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THE STANDARD. WE DO ALL KINDS OF job -woirik: ix the X EAT EST JLIXXEE AND AT mi: LOWEST HATES. MIC, mokki Aqi iTTi:i. A Sketch of the I' ,!,", ,nt' Tr,,,, Stale Chronicle. The readers of the Chronicle were shocked in August last to read that Mr. 1. E. Morris, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Keidsville of high standing, and a member of the Meth odist church, had been found dead in hij bead, and that suspieiou of the murder rested upon his wife Cora May Morris, a niece of Ex Governor .Scales. Mrs. Morris is only 21 years of age, of small figure, a full Monde- with regular features, full of vivacity and grace. She had the ve'-y best advantages and had wealthy and influential relatives and friends. The following is condensed from the full accounts mi the Atlan ta Constitution: .Since Cora was a child and frol lced about his store at Beidsville, Mr. Morris had loved her. As the girl new older, his infatuation for her rrew stronger, But Mr. Morris was not Cora's ideal of a man. He was t.f a very unlet, easy disposition, pious and very careless in his dress. For a long time Cora regarded him as a friend, but when he proposed to In r, she was greatly surprised, and scorned the idea of ever becoming his wife. Hut he h:sd secured the influence of her relatives and contin i.rd in hope. At the beginning of lsss Mr. Morris took up his abode at Mr. Scale's home, and heaven and eath wire moved to win Cora over to the rich bachelor. At last the girl yielded to the pressure and the marriage was an nounced. It took place at the bride's residence on the 12th of December, lSS, and congratulations and gifts showered in upon the supposed hap py couple. Fut it was not a happy marriage. Cora had told Mr. Morris that she did not love him, and never could, and she would only marry him to satisfy her relatives. -But Mr. Morris only laughed at this, and told her that he knew she would love him some day. "But I wont,", the pretty young woman replied, "I can't, and I never will love yuii." After tlio marriage ceremony had ln'.-!i performed, the bride broke down, crying bitterly. She refused mo.-t emphatically to go on a bridal tour, :i ml spoke but a few words to 1;. r newly made husband. When the hour t retire for the night ar rival, Mr. Morris was shown into the bed chamber, and as he entered hi wife screamed for him to "go 1 a;k." and as lie declined to do this, she jumped out of the bed and went to another loom, where she remained during the night, and at the break, fast table the next morning, she de manded that they occupy entirely separate apartments, and in that manner they lived up to the time of her husband's death. Mr. and Mrs. Morris were never seen together on the streets or at any sort of gather ing, and although twice every Sab bath Mr. Morris ofcupied his seat in the Methodist church his wife was never seen by h'13 side. On August 9, ISS'J, Mrs. Morris told her husband that if he would make his will and place all Improp erly in her favor, and in mi re his life for si 0,000, that, beginning with September 1, 1SS0, she would begin i new life, and be to him a loving and faithful wife. Mr. Mor ris at o: ce made his will as requested, and took out the required policy with the Mutual Benefit Life Insur ance Company of Newark, N. J., and on Friday, August lGth, he de livered to her the policy. Three days later, Monday morning, August Kill, Mr. Morris was found dead in his bed with a handkerchief thor oughly saturated with chloroform over his face. Liddy Williams, the cook, was the first to discover that Mr. Morris was dead and w hen sh: to'.d Mrs. Morris, she told htr to go on about her business. Liddy, how ever, told Sain Walls and lie wen I and spread the news around town. Several warm friends of Mr. Morris went to impure about the report, but his wife told them it was false and her husband was only resting. The coroner returned a ve: diet that the deceased came to his death from chlo lofonn administered by his wife, and she was then placed under arrest. The trial commenced at Wcnt worth on Friday, Judge J. II. Mer rimon presiding. She was defended by Messrs. W. N. Mebane, Hugh 11. Scott and It. IJ. Ghni 1h prose cution was conducted by Solicitor Settle, and Reid & Reid, and Boyd and Johnson. The defense offered no evidence and the prosecution ex amined only five witnesses. The de fense held that the evidence was wholly circumstantial and of too weak a nature to convict. In this opinion the Chrouicle hears Judge Dillard concurs. VOL. III. NO. 3. Martha Williamson, the colored cook, was the first witness examined She testified that on the morning of August 19, she went to Mr. Mor ris's room and that ho was lying on the bed with his hands folded across his breast as if dead. A handker chief was spread over his face, and an empty chloroform bottle was near the bed. She told Mrs. Mor ris that her husband was dead, and she told her to go on about her business. Said she was u fool. Charlts Fetzer, a Beidsville drug gist, testified that he received a note on Sunday night, the 18th of Au gust, 1SS9, saying: "Send two ounces of chlorororni and charge to Mr. Morris," Mr. Fetzer sent the chloroform as re quested. C. M. Goode, who was the first w hite person to go into Mr. Morris's room after his death, was put on the witness stand. He said Mrs. Morris did not want him to go into Mr. Morris's room, saying he was not dead, but sleeping. Twenty witnesses who had been summoned were not examined. Mrs. Morris did not make any statement as it was expected she would do. Court adjourned at a late hour Sat urday night, and the case was fin ished Monday. Mrs. Morris spent Sunday at her home in Beidsville and it is said went to the cemetery where her husband is buried and wept over his grave. She was car ried to the Court House in a phae ton drawn by two black horses. She w as accompanied by some of her rel atives and her attorney. She looks like she enjoys robust health, and apparently was composed through out. Mr. It. B. Glenn's appeals in be half of his client were pathetic in the extrpme, and tears trickled down the cheeks of three jurors besides many in the court house. Mr Glenn declared that the State had failed in its effort to make out any case at all, saying that even the evidence that was introduced was only cir cumstantial, which never should convict any woman, lie appealed to the manhood of the jury, and pictured to them the hidiousness of convicting a poor defenseless girl on so weak evidence, which might, when too late, prove no evidence at all. Mr. Glenn closed his speech at twen ty minutes to four, and Judge Mer rimon at once begaii his charge to the jury. At ten minutes to four the jury retired. Mrs. Morris during the entire ev ening occupied a seat by her counsel and when the jury retired she kept her seat. The judge, lawyers and others chatted awav, and until it was announced that the jury had agreed, the court room was in a con siderable roar. Several friends went across aud spoke encouraging words to M.-s. Morris, who seemed inclined to grow nervous. She was seen to smile hopefully once or twice. It was just twenty minutes past four by the court house clock w hen the jury entered the courtroom. There was a death like stillness as the voice of the clerk rang out: "Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed on a verdict?" "We have," answered Foreman Sanders. Addressing Mrs. Morris, the clerk saik: 'i Prisoner, look upon the jury," aud then turning, "Gentlemen of the jury, lodk upon the prisoner." Mrs. Morris cast a half hopeful and half despairing look at the nun who held her life in their hands. "What do you say gentlemen, guil ty or not guilt)?" "Not guilty," answered Foreman Sanders, aud the others nodded their heads in assent. Mrs. Morris at once left the court room, accompanied by her father and other relatives and friends. Many rushed up and extended her congrat ulations. At the court house door stocd a tw o-horse phaeton. wShe w as assisted into this, aud atoncedriven to her home in Beidsville, w here she will enjoy a good night's rest, per haps the first in many months. A special from Beidsville to the Atlanta Constitution dated January 28th, says : As was well known, there was ! more at stake in the trial of Mrs. Cora Morris, charged with causing i tlrj death of her husband by chloro iorm, just eioseu, man tne mere con viction or acquittal of the prisoner. There is the large estate of Mr, Morris, bequeathed in his will to his wife, and a ten thousand dollar insurance policy on his life, also payable to Mrs. Morris. The acquittal of the prisoner, of course, throws all this into her hands, whereas, if she had been convicted the will of her husband would have been null and void. This 1HE is the home of Mrs. Morris, and it is in this thriving town where is located most of the property men tioned in the will of Mr. Morris. It is learned to-night that there will yet be more lawsuits over the matter, and there is more unrest in store for pretty Mr?. Morris. The relatives of the dead man will contest his will on the charge of the infidel ity of Mrs. Morris and overpersua sion on her part in inducing her husband to make its provisions in her favor. The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, of Newark, N. J., announce that they will fight tjie case till judgment day before they will pay over the ten thousand dollars policy. The Printer's Towel. When I think of the towel, the old-fashioned towel, that used to hang up by the printing house door, I think that nobody iu these days of shoddy can hammer out iron as it wore. The tramp who abused it, the devil who used it, when these two were gone; the make-up and the foreman, the editor, poor man, each rubbed some grime off while thev put a heap on. In over, an undei, 'twas blacker than thunder, 'twas harder than poverty, rougher than sin; from the roller suspended, it never was blended, and it Happed on the wall like a banner of tin. It grew thicker and rougher, and hard er and tougher, aud daily p at on s. more inkier hue, until one windy morning, without any warning, it fell to the floor and was broken in two. Bob Burdette. Itncl Woman. An uuusual and shocking domes tic tragedy occurred in Abbeville county, S. C, oa the 22d instant. A. N. Nelson was shot and killed by his wife, who then attempted to shoot herself. Xo one wa3 present at the time but their little cnildren, the oldest being five years old. Xel son was in Abbeville city on Wed nesday, bought his wife a pair of shoes, and got drunk. He lost the shoes on the way home and his wife sent him back to lmnt for them Returning again without them, she seized a shot gun and fired ouo bar rel at him, striking him in the shoulder and side of the head, kill ing him instantly. She then placed the other barrel to her forehead and fired, tearing up the scalp and frac turing the skull. She is still alive, but in a critical condition. This is the fi.st installment of liquor license in Abbeville. About l lucer nils. A white mark on the nail bespeaks misfortune. Bale or lead colored nails indicate melancholy people. Broad nails indicate a gentle, timid, and bashful nature. Lovers of knowledge and liberal sentiment have round nails. People with narrow nails are am bitious and quarrelsome. Small nails indicates littlenes of mind, and obstinacy, and conceit. Choleric, martial men, delighting in war, have red and spotted nails. Nails growing into the flesh at the points or sides indicate luxurious tastes. People with very pale nails are subject to much infirmity of the flesh, and persecution by neighbors and friends. Medical Classics. A herokee Mail With Six nivrN. The Raleigh Call says: Passengers who came in Saturday from the W. N. C. road report that a United States Marshal had a pretty tough case in tow on a train that day. The prisoner was a 70 year old man, and claimed Cherokee countv as his home. He also claims to be a doc tor. He is arrested upon (he charge of having defrauded the government through false pension claims. There is also a charge against him of having six living wives. The marshal took him to KnoxviPe, Tenn. On the way lie swallowtd a big dose of morphine, but a$ Hound Knob they pumjfel it out of him, and got him on his feet again. Each State can manage its edu cational interests better than the United States can do it for them. Interference by the Federal Gov ernment would do more harm than good. The Blair bill should be dropped. Xew York Star. All the thousands of specimens in the State Museum are being re-arranged and re-labeled so as to show the common name, the scientific name, and the components. The museum, with its geological speci mens, has been worth a great deal to the State. Ex. CONCORD, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7. A Great Engineering 1'eat The Pro posed Light Hotine Oir Cape Jlatleraa. Bids will be opened in theofficeof the lighthouse board July 1st for the erection of a light house on the Outer DLmond shoal, off Cape Hat teras, N. C. The total cost of the structure is limited by act of Con gress to half a million dollars. The Diamond shoals, which lie southeas terly of Cape Hatteras, have always been dreaded by mariners as the most exposed and dangerous locality on the entire Atlantic coast, and a large number of vessels have been wrecked there annually, involving enormous losses of life and property. A light house on the outer shoal would have undoubtedly saved many of these vessels, as the nearest light on Capa llatteras is invisible in bad weather. A light has never been erected on this shoal before on ac count of the extraordinary engineer ing difficulties in the way, and the work now contemplated will be the greatest undertaking m the line of 'lighthouse building in the world. There are but two lighthouses in the world that can be at all compared with it. These are the Rothersand light at the mouth of the Weser river, Holland, in the North sea, and the Fourteen Foot light at the mouth of the Delaware bay. The tower is to be 150 feet high from low water mark to the light in the lantern. It will have to be of great strength to withstand the action of the sea, and wiil have to rest on solid rock be neath the ever shifting sands of the shoal. To obtain this solid founda tion and get the structure to such a height that the first rough weather will not destroy it utterly is the great problem the builders - will have to solve. The lighthouse board does not specify what method shall be adopted but it is generally understood that an immense caission, eighty or one hundred feet in diameter, with a hol low iron cylinder projecting from its centre, w ill be built at the most con venient port. This will resemble a gigantic iron pan turned upside down with a tube running from its1 centre. This caission will have to j be towed out to the site, being lifted on the way over a bar where there is but eight feet of water at high tide. When it is finally at the site it will be sunk rapidly until its cutting edges rests on the sands of the shoal. Then the work of excavation will be begun and carried on as fast as the most modern appliances will admit. As the sand beneath the caission is j excavated and carried up through the lube the sharp edges will sink lower until finally bed-rock is reach ed. When all the edges rest firmly on the rock the entire caisson and tube will be filled with concrete to a height of thirty feet above the sea level, converting it into a solid block and column of stone almost as firm as a granite monolith. The action of the seas and the constant scouring of the sand might soon wear away the iron shell, but the concrete will be practically indestructible. It will be protected, however, by a riprap packing of granite blocks weighing not less than two tons each. Above this solid structure will rise an iron and steel tower divided into ten sto ries, including the watch-room and the lantern. After getting the caisson towed out to its final resting place the contractors will have to work uight and day, without a moment's intermission, until it rests on its foundation and the concrete is filled in, for if a storm should arise before th's work was done everything would be destroyed. At the Rothersand light, which was built on this prin ciple, the first caisson was thus de stroyed and the contractor was finan ciatly ruined by the less. In this lighthouse the first floor be devoted tc stores; the second to the fog sig nal machinery. The third floor will be a fire-proof storehouse for oil for the lamps. The next four floors will contain the living rooms for the keeper and his assistants. The eighth floor will be the service room, and above it will rise the watch room and the lantern. Work is to be com menced within one month from the date of the approval of the contract and the contractor is to fix the time within which it is to be completed. Xo payment is to be made until the lighthouse has been in successful operation a year. Xotwithstanding the unusual difficulties in the way of carrying out this work, a number of large engineering firms will prob ably bid, and it is thought there will be no difficulty in entering into con tract. In a recent interview, Emperor Williaain of Germany said: "Political parties are sheer frippery. I only know two the one that is for me and the one that is against me." AND ARB. A Letter From Lic Below we give a letter appearing in the Greensboro Daily Workman, and said to have been written by a condemned man, Lige Moore, who escaped jail in Greensboro last Fri day, in broad day light. Lige was to have been hanged to day, the Governor having refused to pardon him, and everything was in readiness. The Workman speaks in no doubtful words about the careless neglect that permitted Moore to escape. The sheriff was warned of this, but paid no atten tion to if, hence the feeling in the matter. From the tone of the Workman one would think that somebody was anxious for a hanging, and we hope that a subject can be found. But Moore may be caught and we believe he will be. It seems strange that a fleeing murderer would stop long enough to write the letter, but here is the letter and it reads well. F'ds. Lv the woods, Jan. 31, 1890. To the Sheriff and Jailer: Dear Fkiexps: I am loose again after long confinement, and am enjoying myself as well as could be expected. I am almost amazeu w hen I think how long I remained in prison when I might have gone out almost any time since the first of December, had I made the effort. I am truly grateful to you. for your leniency in allowing my friends to come in and bring me such things as were necessary to health, happi ness and liberty. Especially am I grateful to you for having turned a deaf ear to those meddlesome persons in the community, who suggested that I might requite your kindness by taking French leave. Many a time I feared that you might be influ enced by the things that were said about the danger of my getting away, and might be more strict in keeping watch over me, but when I found that you poopooed all such warnings, and gave me the same liberty as before, I felt almost sure of some time being a free man again. It was this assurance that 'Kept up my spirits when I heard that the rope had come that was to hang me, otherwise 1 should have felt quite gloomy. Had the citizens of Greensboro known how things were situated in the jail, they would not have been surprised at my taking leave so suddenly this evening. A man who has such a good opportunity to get away and doesn't go, ought to be hung. I am verv sorry to have been the cause of so much disappointment in the community, and especially to have given trouble to the Sheriff and jailer, who have been so kind to me at all times. Yon will pardon the little joke I played about half an hour before I left, by sending to the newspapers a copy of my farewell to the world. That document will be all the better understood in the light of my late departure from the jail. I am now travelling for my health, and will change location as circum stances shall seem to suggest. Plen ty of exercise in the open air always agreed with me. My course will be northward. It is not that I am tired of Greensboro,but my health requires a change, and health is one of the greatest of blessings, and one that 1 highly prize never more so than at present. If my trip shall prove successful it is my purpose not to return soon. You will excuse me for having taken away with me the three pis tols that I found in the lower room of the jail as I came out. It always appeared strange to me that suc'i jolly kind fellows as I found about the jail should, want anything of the sort. The fact that they were lying in that careless way shows that they might accidentally have hurt somebody had I not removed them. I may find use for them in my travels. As I went through, the Fisher woods toward North Buffalo, I was struck with the signs of improve ment that appeared here and there. On the limb of a tree I saw a little bird of the air, and the little bird said to me, "Lige, when it was found that you had stepped aver the jail lot fence, and were gone off, every body about court house square was paralyzed, and the jail looked to be about the size of a snow bird trap, with the triggers gone, and you have bought the whole thing for fifteen cents. If you left any thing in the jail that vou will need, go back and fret it. There's no dan ger." But I was too tired to go back, and I always heard it was bad luck to turn back, anyway. So 1 kept on, crossed Buffalo just below the cemetery grounds, on a log, and moved on up to where I am now and where a sense of gratitude moves me to write the&e lines, which you will please reisd in connection with my farewell address. Yours forever, , Elijah Moore. 1890. rorxD ix his diaky. John Willie Itoofh'a Reasons for Killing Lincoln. From the Baltimore American.! The American received from its Washington correspondent the fol lowing extracts from J. Wilkes Booth's diary, found in his clothing after his death. It is now in the possession of the Department of Justice : "April 14. Friday the Ides. " Until today nothing was ever thojght of sacrificing to our coun try's wrongs. For six months we have worked to capture, but our cause being almost lost, something decisive and great must be done. But its failure was owing to others, who did not strike for their country with a heart. I struck boldly and not as the papers say. I wal ked with a firm step through a thousand of his friends, who stopped me, but pushed on. A colonel wa3 at his side. I shouted 'sic semper' before I fired. In jumping broke my leg. I passed all his pickets. Rode sixty miles that night with the bone of my leg tearing the flesh at every jump. I can never " repent it. Though we hated to kill, our coun try owed all her trouble to him, and God simply made mc the instrument of his punishment. " The country is not what it was. This forced union is not what I have loved. I care not what becomes of me. I have no desire to outlive my country. The night before the deed I wrote a long article and left it with one of the editors of the Xational Intelligencer, in which I fully set out the reasons for our proceeding. He or the South. " Friday, 21. "After being hunted like a dog through swamps, woods, and last night being chased until I was forced to return, weary, ccld and starving, with every man's hand against me, I am here in despair; and for why? For doing what Brutus was honored for, what made Tell a hero; and yet I, for striking down a greater tyrant than they ever knew, am looked upon as a common cut-throat. My act was purer than either of theirs. One hoped to be great himself; the other had not only his country's but his own wrongs to avenge. I hoped for no gain. I knew no private wrong. I struck for my country, and that alone a country ground beneath this tyrranny and prayed for this end. And yet, now behind the cold hand they extend to me. "God cannot pardon me if I have done wrong. Yet I cannot see any wrong, except in serving a degener ate people. The little, the very lit tle, I left behind to clear my name, the Government will not allow to be printed. So ends all. For my country I have given up all that makes life sweet and holy, brought misery npon my family, and am sure there is no pardon iu heaven for me, since man condemns me so. " I have only heard what has been done (except what I did myself), and it fills me with horror. God try and forgive me, and bless my mother. To-night I will once more try the river with the intention to cross, though I have a greater desire and almost a mind to return to Wash ton and in a measure clear my name, which I feel I can do. I do not repent the blow I struck. I may before my God, but not to man. I think I have done well, though I am abandoned, with the curse of Cain upon me, when, if the world knew my heart, that one blow would have made me great, though I did desire no greatness. "To-night I will try to escape these bloodhounds once more. Who can read his'fate? God's will be done. I have too great a soul to die like a criminal. Oh, may He, may He, spare me that, and let me die bravely. I bless the entire world. I have never hated or wronged any one. This is not a wrong unless God deenud it so, aud it is with Him to damu or bless me. " And for this brave boy, Harold, with me, who'of ten prays (yes before and since) with a true, sincere heart was it a crime in him ? If so, why, can he pray the same? I do not wih to shed a drop of blood, but I must fight the course. 'Tis all .that's left me." These are the last words in the diary, and probably the last he ever wrote, as be was shot very shortly afterward. Mr. R. L. Dooghton, of Alleghany county, who was in Raleigh last week, tells the Chronicle that the Republican party was never iu so demoralized a condition in his sec lion as now, and that the present out took is lor sweeping Democratic gains. WHOLE NO. 107. Four liabies in One liny. Kansas City Times.J The State of Texas, which carries the palm for Democratic majorities, large areas and other good things, varies the monotony of political off years by increasing its population in the most unexpected and surprising ways. The little town of I.igersoll, thirteen miles west of Texarkana, on the cotton-belt route, furnishes a story which for years to come will surely be the cap sheaf. The story related by the Time's special corres pondent at Texarkana, giving fuller particulars of a despatch published in the Times of January 12, is a daisy. It refutes the general theory that the negro race is populating the South so much more rapidly than the whites. It also shows the great possibili ties of the new South. Incidentally it is a terrible warning to young men who have married Texas widows. As narrated by the Times special correspondent's addendum to the despatch of the 12th inst, the story reads this way : On the morning of January 10, Mrs. E. T. Page, of Ingersoll, gave birth to a girl baby of six pound's weight. This happened at nine o'clock. The father was much delighted with the little youngster. At 11:30 a companion girl arrived. The second edition weighed four aud a half paunds. The father's joy was doubled. Two girls had arrived to bless the home circle. At 1 o'clock another girl arrived. The third edition weighed four pounds. The father, trembling and pale, remarked to the attendants that he was much pleased. At 2:10 a fourth girl, weighing five pounds, arrived to complete the family. The father fainted. After recovering consciousness he rushed to the telegraph office. Tak ing the operator aside he whispered between his set teeth : "I can lick any man in Texas to-day." " W'hat's the matter ?" gasped the astonished agent.' " My wife has just presented me with four girl babies." Without waiting to hear more the station agent, who was a newly mar ried man, escaped by a side door and has not yet returned. On January 18 the happy father visited Texarkana and took out to his home at Ingersoll four cradles, a case of soothing syrup, half a dozen bottles of paregoric, sixteen dozen safety pins, eight nursing bottles and a Jersey cow. The mother of the quartet of Texas babies is a slight, pleasant-faced woman weigh in about one hundred and twenty five pounds. She was formerly a Miss Atwood, and is a native of Texas. About fifteen years ago she married a Mr. Lupton. After his death four years ago she was married to Mr. E. T. Page, of Iugersoll, Texas. Mr. Page is a small man, weighing about one hundred and ten or one hundred and fifteen pounds. In their three years of married lireMrs. Page has twice presented her husband with twins, going that two better with the quartet of girls, making eight in the three years. The fond husband and happy father expresses a belief that there will be six or more the next time. M Ice for the CiodM. Cincinnati Timcs.l It is said the city of Tacoma, Wash., is to have a flume connecting it with Mount Banier, on which is located an eternal glacier. From this glacier and via the flume, the city will derive its ice supply. As the bewitchiug and original school girl says, this will be perfectly splendid. No new " Lake Superior ice" gathered in a horse-pond or ice from an ammonia sweat-box will henceforth decorate Tacoma tables or clink in Tacoma glasses. The ice of this new Puget Sound metro polis will have on it, figuratively speaking, the dust of ages. Their ice, as a bartender would say, will be of the vintage of the glacier pe riod. It will have on it the bouquet not of years, decade3, or centuries, but of cycles. A JIoiiHter Coffin. Chicago, Jan. 30. A coffin had to be made to order for the body of Peter Damm, a pioneer of the town of Lake, who died recently. Mr. Damm weighed 380 pound?, and none of the ready-made coffins would contain his body. The casket was thirty-two inches wide by twenty-six inches deep. l took ten men to carry the coffin and its bur den to the hearse. TH E ST&H DARD. LARGEST PAPER -PUBLISHED IN CONCORD- CONTAINS MORE READING MATTER THAN ANY OTHER PAPER IX THIS SECTION. Congressional Life. New York Star. A party of Congressmen were in Speaker Reed's room at the Shore, ham the other night, and the con versation drifted to the subject of Congressional life in Washington. It was remarked that a member of Congress from a wayback district could ccme to Washington, live well, go to evening receptions, and put on a certain amount of lugs without the fact being used to defeat him on the ground of extravagance. In short, a member, no matter how moral the constituency he represent ed, was now expected to keep up his end at the Capital. .. " It's quite different from what it used to be," said Major Bntterworth, who was one of the party. "When Ben Leferve came to Congress as the Granger statesman from Ohio, it was his great dread that some of his constituents would discover his lux urious ways of enjoying life. One day I was in the House when a page brought me a scrap of paper soaked with moisture on which was scrawl ed in lead pencil, evidently by a dripping hand, this message : " Dear Butterworth: lam down in the bath room, and a lot of pump kin huskers from Anglaize county are hunting me. Steer them around until I can get dressed. Tell them I am over at the agricultural de partment to get more seeds for Ohio, and will be back soon. I don't want them to know that I bathe in a mar ble tub with perfumed soap. If it should get out that I bathed any place except in a creek, I could never get back to Congress. " Leferve." A Crop that Always Grows. The crops of the farmer grow only for three or four months. They are constantly liable to failure or disaster. But the man who holds a mortgage on the farmer's crops or land has a crop that grows steadily on and on, through all the days and nights and mouths and years. It is a crop that begins to yield him an income from the very day it is plant ed. Devastating flood or withering drought may come, but the mort gage crop grows on. Does the farmer's crop suffer and dwarf through f .is neglect or laziness or sickness? The mortgage crop still flourishes. And nowhere, on all the earth, does it seem to grow and llourish more vigorously than in our Southern clime. Brother farmer, have you allowed any one to plant his mortgage crop on your farm ? Your crop and his will not grow well together. His crop will have the advantage all the time. If you allow him the opportunity he will plant his crop largely in January. You cannot plant yours before March or April. His will grow through all kinds of weather grow and strengthen and gain every hour from the beginning to the end of the year. Have you a faithful and lov ing wife to care for and dear chil dren to feed and clothe and educate? Then you have no right to allow any man to plant his mortgage in your farm, for you are thus robbing these dear ones of their just rights. If you would prosper and be inde pendent and happy, dear brother, keep the mortgage off your farm. Progressive Farmer. OppoMetl to Kecro KntTrace. Jackson", Miss.. Jan. 29. The sensation of the day in the Legisla-. ture was the memorial presented by General A. M. West, member from Marshal. He is the senior member of the Ho'ise, he represented his county in both houses, and was nom inated on the Greenback ticket for Vice-President with Weaver. His memorial contains a long preamble covering negro suffrage from its in ception. Its history is reviewed comprehensively and declared to be a failure in every phase aud as de moralizing and harmful to the South in every way. The memorial ends with the following resolutions, which were referred to the Committee on Federal Relations, of which he is chairman : Resolved, By the Legislature of the State of Missippi, that it is the deliberate opinion of the said Legis lature that the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United State3- shall be abrogated, and the said Legislature does hereby petition the Cougress to take the necessary steps to that end. Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be, and they are hereby instructed, and onr Representatives in Congress be, and they are hereby requested, to present this memorial and petition to their respective Houses for consideration aud action. Resolved, That the Secretary of State forward certified copies of the above to our Senators and Represen tatives in the Congress of the United States and a certified copy to the Governor of each State in the Union, with a request to have them laid be fore their respectives legislature.
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