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f j - : -. ' ,'1 A- . - - I Tf - r AXTON A DEMOCRATIC JOCBXAL THE PEOPLE AND TIIEIB INTEREST. VOL. V. NO. 2. M AXTON. N. C TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1890. $1.00 A YEAR 7 Tm M Union. TOWN DIRECTORY. B. F. McLEAN Mayor. H W McNATT O. II. BLOCKER, W. S. BYRNES, W. J. CURRIE. I Commia sioners. A J BURCK, Town Marshal. LODGES. KNIGHTS OT HONOR, No. 1,720 meets on second and fourth Wednesday's at 7.30 P. M. J. B. WEATIIERLY, Dic tator B. F. McLEAN, Reporter. Y. M. C. A., meets every Sunday at 7.30 P. M. WM. BLACK, President, MAXTON GUARDS, WM. BLACK. Captain, meets first Thursday nights of each month at 8 P. M. CHOSEN FRIENDS meet on second and fourth Monday in each month. Argus Shaw, Chief Counselor; S. W. Parham, Secretary and Treasurer. MAXTON LODGE, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIYS, meets every Friday niht, except first in eac h month, at 8 o'clock, j 1 ROBESON COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY I Ittrv J A Smith, 1'resident: E K Vnx-tor. Jr., 1st Y. c Pre ; I)r J IJ ('room, 2nd V P.; A 1 Brown. See'y ; Win Blrk, Treas. nd Ijositaiy; Ex Com. Kev H G HiU. 1) I), L S Townsenc), 1) P MeE chf-n., J O Gough, H MrKoehrn; Auditing Com., E F McRae, O H Bicker and B I) Caldwtdl. EXKCI'TIVE COMMITTEE. Rev Jot-eph Evans, Kev H G Hill, I) I), Rev J S Black, Kev M P Meek?, He v J FFinlayKon, Js McCollurn, .7 PSmiih, Duncan McKav, Sr. N B Brown, Dr J L McMillan. At' 1 1 IT I NO COMMITTKK. J P Smith, I) H McNeill, J A Humphrey Plareof next mwtinjf I.umberton, N. C. Time of next meeting Thursday, May th, Lv, at 11 ::',() oVlock a. in. Bible anJ 7'estainents c an be purchased of Win. Bluck, Depository, Max ton, N. C, t Oht. All churchoH and Bible Societies in the wunty invited to send delegates. Forward all collections to Wm Black, 7'reasurer, Maxton. N (,'. CH INCHES. PRESBYTERIAN, REV. DR. II. O HILL, Pastor. Services each Sabbath sit 4 1. M. Sunday School at 10 A. M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday afternoon at o o'clock . mktiioixist, rev: j. w. jones Pastor. Services each Sunday at 11 A. M. Sun day School at 0 30 A. M. MASONIC. MAXTON LODGE A. F. & A. M. meets 1st Friday night in each month at y i m. GENERAL DIRECTORY OF Roheson 'County. Senator. .T. F. Payne. Representatives, T. M. Watson. D. C. Regan. E. F. McRfre. j W. p. Moore, lyo'intv Commissioners, . B. Stancil. ' T. McBrvde. I J. S. Oliver, C. S. C, C . B. Townsend. BherifT. II. McEachen. Reg'r Deeds, J. II. Morrison, Treasurer, W. W. McDairmd. J. A. McAllister Board of Education J. S. Black, J. S. McQueen. Bupt. Pub. Iustr'n, J. A. McAlister. Coroner Supt. of Health. Dr. F Lis R The railroads of this country have killed only 5S23 persons during the past twelve months and injured 26,309. 'The business tact ot women has again been demonstrated," says the New York "in the matter of taking the cen sus. Women who were appointed as enumerators are said to have done their work better and moie carefully than the males. When another census comes to be taken the women will have a better chance." The Hartford (Cona,) Times remarks: Horses don't lat long in New York city. The pavements are very trying to their feet. Some give out in six months, while others last as many years. The average life of a street-car horse is about two years. Many partially disabled ani mals find their way into the country, and often recover and become of good service on farms. A craze for flowers suddenly struck a gang of Chicago street railway laborers while at work the other day, and one by one they bought at a ne:ghboring flower etand nutil every man had some sort of lloral decoratiou either in his hat-band or in his coarse shirt front. "It was a bit f sentiment." says the Chicago Tribune, "that didn't mean much, perhaps, but it was a picture in the busy and restless push of a. great city, and it attracted the attention of thousands." The San Francisco Ckronkle believe? "there is no danger that the hunting of big game in East Africa will lecome a fad among New York swells, despite the s access of the party that has just reached home with many trophies of the chase. Sport in Africa is attended with many drawhru-ks, chief of which are fever and mosquitoes. The man who can hold out agaiust these two evils must have an irou codtkutiou and a genuine passion for hunting." NEWS SUMMARY. FBOlf ALL OYER THE EOUTHLAITD. Accidents Calamities Flesamt Kewi and Hotel of Industry. Major Thomas W. Daswell, the oldest turfman in the United States died at Richmond on July 17. His stock farm at Bullfield near the Virginia capital wait one of the most noted in the county. Superviser Young has added up the census returns of Richmond and they foot up between 80,300 and 80,500. ' Thomas Truxton, the thirteen-year-old son of the late Commodore Truxton, United Stites navy, by his second marriage. wa9 drowned Wednefdav afternoon while bathing at Foit Monroe with two young companions, who both made gillsnt attempt to save Truxton BurwHl nearly losing his own life ir doing so. Payne had Truxton's head out of waUr, bul the fort, jumped forcing Pane's h but a dog, which was on into the water anr yne s nead under compelled him to lose his hold on Truxton, wht sank and was seen no more. In the Chesterfield county court, the grand jury indicted four white men famed Goul-J, Archer, Bennett & d Smith and a ncgio named Jeinsa Baugh, for throwing rotten! eggs at Mr. Walte Lundy, his mother, Mrs. Ann 'Lundy and bis sister, Miss Lundy, about two weeks ago, while they were ' patsins aloLg the road on their way to church,.. The indictment is, perhaps, the first cm ever found in Virginia for the offense. The population of Petersburg is 2;. i 050. t w Col. John L. Preston, for forty-three years professor of languages and rhetoric in the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, died there Tuesday night in the 80th year of his age. The Natural Bridge property has be i .old to a Massachusetts and Virgini syndicate for $200,000. It was pur chased from Colonel II. A. Parson and ; Hon. James G. BHinJ who have ornud ; it (or a number of years. During a thunder storm, Ben .Brook ing, a negro, who wis sittiDg in lhe fron! door of his house, in James county, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Several other people were in the housi at the time, but none of them were hurl it all. ; NORTH CAROLINA. The Ninth District Judicial Ccnven tion, at Elkin, nominated W. W. Bar ker for Solicitor, on; the eleventh bal lot. ; The Seventh District Convention Laurinburg nominated Capt. James D Mclver, of Moore county, for Judge, anci Frank McNeill for Solcitor. The Republican , Cotgressional Con tention for the Ninth District will beheld on August 20th, at Waynesville. The Iynhburg and Durham Rail road has teen completed to Durham. A sixteen -year-old son of Sid Ferrell, was drowned while bathiDg in a poundt near Durham Tuesday. A syndicate of Philadelphia capital ists has purchased the D. F. Kirkpat rick lands just north Of the city limit . of Greensboro. The price will re; c.i something in the neighborhood of f40, 000. The following losses, no insurance, -esulted from a fire at Mt. Gilead !ast week: McRae & Leacb, 2.800; Irg am $: Hay wood, $2,600 ; postoffice building. $600; cash and Ut imps in pobtolfice, 80; total, f 5,080. Another terrible tragedy has beer ! enacted in Mitchell, that one lawles county of the old North State. Stoke-: Burlison was fatally stabbedt on July; 10th by Mitchell Green. The wounded ; man lived but a short while. The kill ing occurred five miles from Bakerrville A number of men were quairelling about some hogs. Green was fighting wiih another man when Burlison attempted to pull him off and the former turned ; and stabbed him in the heart. Greer is in jiil. A meeting of the' Bee Keepers As sociation was held in the room of the Cfcamber'of Commerce, Charlott-. 1 huri day. Tne honey industry of Mecklen burg Is growing into tne of considerable importance. SOUTH 0AR0LLUA. A shooting bee was one of the pleas ent diversions at Greenville last Wed nesday. Major Duie Williams, : liwyer ami Rudolph Liggon, a sVo keeper, got into an atteica'ion and drew their luius ' Fjur shits tre fired but no one was hurt. A commissi, n was issued at Columbia for the organiznion of the Morgan Iron Work, of Spartanburg, with a capitnl stook of $25.00 m shares of $100 tach. The company will manufacture products of iron and wood.nake brick and supply builders' material. A chsrter was granted to the Cham pion Canning Company, of Darlingion. Fifty per cent, of the capital stock has been paid in. A resident of Lexington County, who came to Columbia for a cotlin, repoits tht duriue a thunder storm a white farmer named James Coogler, while i!oUhing in his field in Lexington County, a few m'des from Columbia, was with the mule attached to his plough instantly killed by lightning. A boy and horse who were alongside of him escajed uninjured Greenville city couucil has accepted the bid ! the American Pipe Manufic tuiiug Com pa uj for; building a water works svisttiu in that city. One hun dred hydrants are to be su piled at $40 each; over one hundred at $30 each. The work is to be commenced in tixtr days, and the system is to be completed in one year. The State Teachers' Association met at Greenville, one hundred and fifty to two hundred tehchcrj being present. Addresses of welcome were made by citizens and responded to by Dr. W. M. Grier, of Due West. Charleston will have a new census after all. Mr. Porter has sent Jno. D. Lcland, special agent of the census office to conduct the new enumera tion. The Y. M. C. A. of Charleston has organized a school of shorthand. 6EQBGIA The county court house, and other buildings on the property in the public ?quare, of La Grange are offered for Sile. The ?mallest cewspaper in the world is published at Arp, Banks county. It is seven and one-half bv five inches, and is called "The Boss." One hundred and fifty men are now actively &i work in the burned district of Brunswick preparing the grourjd for icw Luildings. Nearly all of the in surance has been adjusted. A negro named "Willis Grant was founa lead in a gully near Jetlerson, As soon ts he was found Coroner Woreham was ent for and he. empaneled a jury. Their rrdict was that he had fallen in the yully while out getting wood, and the fall broke his neck. At the public library at Macon is . arometer made simply of a thin strip f cedar and a thin strip of white inv placed together and stuck I' ll i i n rp noucuiariy in a Dae resi o: Aooa. When it is going to rain the trips bend down with dampnes", and v!imi it is dry weather they stand rigidl t IT and fctraight. It is said to indicate otning storms uofailingly. The device as made by C. C. Miller, master me Innic of the Central hops in Savanntth a 1380, ami was presented to the libra! y D-iu M Gu el. After two days of impiisonment in the '.ugusta jail on suspicion of having lurdered Lucinda" Sims, his sister in aw, O-car Johnson, colored, confessed ' 'e crime. He exonerated the white uai wh'j had been living with Lucinda. nd ( n whom he tried to cast suspicion (Ie admitted thtt he first assaulted Lu iuila and then cut her -throat with his 'rand father's lazor, which he threw away to hide his crime. He sajs he did o deposit the body in the river until Jie night after, and said that on the fol lowing morning he went to the fatal spot .nd swam out in the river to the dead ;irl, tore off her dress and got his room Key, which she had in her pocket. Johnson's alleged motive for putting Lucinda out of the way was because he believed his wife, her sister, who had left him, would return to him, as he thought Lucinda's stories .caused bis wife to leave him. TENNESSEE The County Bjnrd of Equihzation cf Itmphis. Team, has finished its annua, ivork an-f reports an increase of $12, 000 000 in the taxable valuation oi viemphis property over last year. Tne total va'uation this year is $39,000, 000. The Rev. David C. Kelly, D. D.. T.ho was recently nominated for Gere; nor by the SUte Convention of the Prohibitkn party, has decided to vith draw from the canvass. The Memphis Home Insurance has .:e;lare 1 a divided of 5 per cent; the Pbrje iix Fire & Matine Insurance Co.. a dividend of 4 per cent., the Bluff City Insurance Co., a dividend of 4 per cent. A special from Dyersburg, says loseph Griffin, a farmer, shot and killeo one L geit on his tarm. Leggett ar- ived in 'ijixsago, and was to work for Griffin Grittin in the summer month, had been in the habit of leaving all the (foo-s i.ti'l windows of his house open. Leget. whose room was next to that of Ciiffin daughter, misconsued this as an iuvitalion from her and entered, her loom, making an indecent proposal. The daughter infoimtu her father the ntxt dy and he at once ordered Leggett to leave. X t compliug with the re quest, Grilhn emptied both barrels of a Miotun into Li'nett. killing him in stantly. Gnflin gave himself up. Eit Ten t.essee is promised another new industrial tjwn, which according to one of the promoters, means the investment o a couple of million or more of foreign cipital. The report statts T. M. Allen, of Johnson City, and associate? have secured large tracts of in u, maranse, limber and town site land at Hampton, on the East Ten nessee & Western North Carolina Rail road. 4 mibs from Johnson City, and propose developing nnd building one or more ivke iion furnaces; also charcoal furnaces The town site is to be laid off nt once, hi d the name of the town will probably be changed to Allentown. The scheme -p said to be bscked by letdinij capitalists. The Yalne of Life. The statistics of the official Life 7aiur aice Gazette show that Saxony leads the world in the percentage of suicides, her annual average being 337 per 1000 in habitants. Next comes Denmark with 290; France, 150; Bavaria, 127; Turkey stands at the bottom of the list, with thirty-two self-destroyers to every mil lion of inhabitants, but in neighboring Croatia that rate already rises forty;, and in Hungaria to fifty-two. Measured by that criterion, over population would seem to be a ten times greater evil than despotism. AVr York Yvict. Lithographic stone and lead are being llouiid ajlU Fallj, Texas. 1,000,000 GONE. 1 A LARGE Hi Y. PITY OOHTLAGRATIOH SeTfiial Lives MirtcnloQily Sired From tie Burning WesUrn Union Telegraph Building on Lower Broadway. The Western Union Telegraph build ing in New York city caught fire at 7 o'olock Friday morning. The dis tributing room on the flfth fiaor, the operating room on the floor above and 4 f he restaurant on the seventh floor were ompletely destroyed and seven lives niraculously saved . A lew minutes before seven o'olock, the operators began to arrive to go to work. About fifty men and young women had reached the operating room when a messenger boy or the name of Matthews saw a puff of some under a table in the distributing room, on the floor below the operating room. The fire spread with lightning rapidity and he rushed up stairs and panic was the result of the messenger's information, and the youn women screamed, while the men rushed pell mell down stairs to esc ipe the flames, which in less than two ininHtes had spread almost, over the en tire distributing nom, burning up wires, instruments and tables as if they were io much tinder. The entire room, when the panic--tncken crowd passed through it, was filled with a dense, stifling smoke. They fell over each other in their efforts to reach a place of safety. By the time the flames bad reache i t'ie ceiliDg of the distributing room, :md were eating their way through to the operating room, where the instra nents that connect with the wires that I tribute news throughout the country w-ie located, in less time than it taks ro tell it, this entire floor was ablaze. and the fliraes were eating their way to i be fl jor above, where the Western Union Company's restaurant was lo cat. d. It now flashed upon the minds of the f ighfened persons who had escaped th it there were seven others, four men iud three women, on the restaurant floor. Kxit had by this time been cut off whtre y these persons could escape, and they wyre not warned of their danger until the smoke rushed up the stairway lead ing to the operating room, in volumes. S.-eing escape cut off from every quar ter, there was an awful panic. The women rushed around the restanraut, creaming and wringing their hands. A trap door overhead was pushed open and the prisoners climbed to the roof. Ihjstreats surrounding the building v re a perfect sea of faces of persons on heir way to work. Flames were shoot xr out of the front windows, and vol i'iies of smoke puffed heavenward, under the eaves of the building the ii imes were shooting, and the building seemed to be crowned with fire. When the great crowds on the streets saw the men and women rush out on the roof, a cry of honor went up, for it did not seem possible that they could be res f.ued. The women on the roof screamed and wrung their hands, and the men yelled "For God's take, do something to save us." The first engine had arrived before the terrifying scene was presented on the roof, and a volume of water was pouring into the burning building, which cracked and hissed p!utte.e h The second alarm was tent out, followed immediately by a third. In a fe minutes there were fourteen engine- vnd h")ok and hdder companies and wter throwers on the ground. Watr poured in through the Aiming window ' iod beat down upon the roof, but the dames were stubborn in spite of the toes af watr poured upon them, flowin ; oack from the ro f to the sidewalk like i catarac, fro n all sides. A long ladder was eventually raiser upon the roof from Dey street and disced against the burning building. It lid not reach within fifty feet of the i oof. Uodaunted, however, two fire men scale i the ladder. Leaving it a: he toj), the? threw a rope to the roof. U wis caught aud tied by one of the b avgir s, who seemed not to loee htr nrve. The firemen pulled themselves ,ip, han f over hand until they reached '.hi top, nd amid cbeir from the thous nds of thro t below, they let the seven down to places of sifety. It was accomplished just in time, for the flimes burn up through the cornice, and soon enveloped the roof. The building was entirely gutted with tire. Adjoining structures sustained but little damagr. The building of the Western Union Telegraph Company bed been for a score or more of year one of the great and imposing landmarks of lower Broadway. Facing East, on the ground floor were the recewin2T offices of the company, together with the American District Messenger Company, with en trances on Broadway and Dey streets. Eight lofty stories were eunaounUd by cupola. " Running up from toe cupol is a staff, on which htngs the time oall which drops and tells the standard time. The building wa ill U d with offices on the five lower fimr, which ;were occu pied by some cf the greatest railroads and raiUoid magnates in the world. The vt&: sisteui of tie Pacific railroad was operated tbro.igh instructions given from the WtiUm Union build in, and the private ofike o.r Jay Gould, Sidney I Dillon, Dr. N"rris Green and others. who are famous rogh the length aad . breadth of the land were there. The Assocou-d Ictes its inatru - j menu, type wjk r-, furniture and all of its books, pap", acd records, dat- I ing from ISi.i, and a ralube reference library. 'Jhia ls is irreparable. All of the mteritl f r the history of the growth of the pr-M in America, con tained in let'er books aad filer, is de stroyed, and can never be replaced. The money value i estimated at $15,000. There is no inrwricce. Investigtion shows that the loss will be far greater thin earlier estimates. It is now stated that the lo?s will ex ceed $1,000 000. The great switch board in the operating room was aloat worth $50,000. HEABLY 200 BROWNED An Excursion Boat Capsizes on a Minn esota Lake, Lake City, Minn., July 10.-a dis sstrous cyclone bore down upon this community, and in a few minutes nearly 200 people were killed. What appeared to be an ordinary electric storm was noticed coming from the west, but in half an hour the whole heavens had been converted into a lightning-lined black canopy of death. A little before dark a terrific wind struck the village, every one being io doors. Trees were uprooted, buildings wrecked, and much damaze done in the short time that the storm lasted. In a few minutes, the news wss abroad that an excursion boat, with over 200 people on it, was capsi7.i in the middle of Lake Peppin, apd it was the Steamer Sea Wing, which came down the lake from Diamond Bluff, a small place about 17 miles north of here, on en excursion to the encampment of the first Regiment, N G. S. M., which was being held a mile below the city. The steamer started back on the home ward trip about 8 o'clock, and although there were signs of the approaching storm, it was not considered in any way serious, and no danger was anticipated. The boat was crowded to its fullest ca pacity, about 1.10 men, womn, and children from Bed Wing and Diamond loard. and about 50 peo ple on a barge which was attached to ( the side or tne steamer Those on the barge remained there until they drifted near the shore, and they were all rescued and swam ashore. Among them were two ladies who were brought to the beach by strong and willing swimmers. As soon as the storm bean to affect the progress of the boat, Capt. Weath ern gave instructions to run the boat in to the Wisconsin shore, but it was too late. The waves were running too high to permit the helmsman to operate the rudder, and the boat was at the complete mercy of the storm A fear moments after the barge was cut away, the steamer was carried to the centre of the lake, and the offorts of the boat's crew and the more cool-headed passen gers were devoted to preparations for the worst. A dozen or more secured the few life presevers that were to le found, and jumed into the water, pre ferring to take their chances. In five minutes waves began to wash into the boat, and fill the lower deck, and while hail-stones as large as hrVs eggs came down on the heads of the poor and helpless creatures who were huddled together on the top, a huge wave struck the craft on the side at the same moment that a terrific blast of wind, more horribly forcible than the others come up and carried the boat over. All of the people on board, 150 or more, were thrown into the water, some being caught underneath and others thrown into the waves. The boat turned bottom upwards, and only about 25 people were observed floating on the surface. Kentucky Bill Killed. Charleston, W. Va., When the life les bodv D. E, Stratton, one of the famois McOrea trang of outlaws, was found near the railroad tiack at Brown 1 town several weeks ago. the public irenerallv supposed that he had been run over by a train and killed. Some ereon. however suspected the Hatfield crowd of murdering him. Araong-thee was .T. W, Napier, a deUctive, better known us "Kentucky Bill who, armed with warrants for the arrest of certain of the Hatfields, started out a few weks8go. with the declaration thathewoud not return without them. Since that tin e nis friends have anx-ously, but vainly waited for him. Not a word has ln receiv-d from him, but yeaU-rday word cause that his body, cold in death, with a bullet in his heart, bfcd ln found ntar the home of the Hatfield. It is im possible to verify the report, but is b lieved to be true, as his friends would otherwise have heard from him. A DaDgerons Trick A party of young negro- fimdicg John Robinson, a flfieen year old boy, asleep on a bridL'e ner the oukirt of Columb'a. S. C , they determined to play a trick on b'm. A quantity of heavy pape'" ws procured and s-.uated with keroen oil, and ?ecurely tied around the naked legs of th leeper . A fight ws then applied. Thr boy prrg up and flames ran up his leg. '. screamed for aitatice, and a whie man living near by, with hi bands. "re the burning paper and clothes off. The bor i very d ncrrmialj injured, and Mi r-c-uT HjmI h jhnd wriulj !mro-l. The population of Chili on the firit of January was 3,165,299. This includes 50.000 Indiins, HELIGOLAND. The Utile Island Which F!ua land II a Ceded to Germany. A Berlin dispatch tat that Admiral Reiohold Werner declare that th pcwmaloa of Heligoland U more valuable than Urri tory in Africa, because it renders a blockade of the German North Sea alruo-t Impraaible, and spares Germany tt he keeping or a fleet thn. Speaking of th little island which Great Britain has just tvdd ta Germany, reoeiv ing in return extensive territory in Africa, a writer in Harper's W'rekly say: "The relative vnhie of national po-w-on is curiously illustrated by the fact that Kott; land, with her 9.mr.fw square mile of the -earth's surface, receive for ttm little island, which is not a large as Central Park, an in demnity representing atout I alf a million . square mile of Africa soil. Even tbi may t f HEUUOLASP. prove less than profitable, for Heligoland yields an annual rvvrnue ot 510,000, wnile ha would be a bold prophet, to assert that any European iower will make both ends meet in the administration of the Black Confluent. But though a a mercantile exchange th British Lave received a questionable property trqp Germany, still it is a matter of con gratulatiop for the civiiizl world that the two greatest Protc-staut nations of Kurope, both belong ing to the same Germanic race, and both rivals in the same industrial field, should Lave removed from between tbem the cause of what iniht nt any time pro voke a war. "Heligoland t?came English after the do feat of Napoleon and his exile. 4o Klba. At that time no one but Gneisenau dreamed of such a thing as a mighty German Empire. 6tretching from the. ocean to the Rnwlan frontier, and England had little difficulty in holding it bv treaty." "it lies adjacent to Uerjnany's greatest sea port, and commands the approach to the second in importance as well. If a foreign power should claim possession of Block Isl and or Fisher's Island, we could realize bow Germans regard Heligoland in British hands Or if we could imagine an island off the mouth of the Mis-sissijrpi, or U'tweeu4 Handy Hook and Fire Island, the cases would w somewhat analogous, provided the British flag floated over them. Fortunately Heligo land has long since ceased to lie considered valuable toT'England, while to Germany it has risen in importance with every increase in the German navy, every addition to Ger many's merchant nutriii", uud, above nit, every indication of having to reckon witli Russian or French i ui.-rs." Ilaiy's Big Cattle. The hills of Tuscany and the Roman Campagn.i arc the homes of immense herds .of cattle which "range' over the country much as do the cattle of the Texas ranchers. The Italian steers look very much like those one sees in the Southwest too. Their horns arc enormous, sometimes over three feet in length, and they have a color jeculiarly their own a sort of bark grey which is sometimes varied by black leg and markings. They have large muscular bodies which will fatten up fairly well and arc magnificient for draft purposes when the animals are A ITALIAN TEAM. well enough trained for use. Tbey are the favorite draft animals with most Italian farmers, probably because, like their owners, they are never in a hurry. They are uually yoked together, (a in the cut) and driveu with a rope harneM, thouyh we have seen some in Northern Italy in heavy leather x-ollars instead of a yoke. For teaming in the cities the Italians often hitch up several yoke tan dem. Your correondent saw eight the other day in Naples each with its driver and his lonj; nake whip. The Italian cowboy are fine horse men and lovers of hors. Our illustri ous countryman, "Buffalo Bill" ha caued great excitement this spring and drawn crowd to see his "how'' by chal lenging the native horsemen to trial of kill. The American . cowboy bare already come out ahead although the Italians hare shown thcmielre no mean opponents. Farm, FUld and Stockman. Lyochicp Wcad Hare Bea Jartifiib1 Hufu i Bennett, a white man forty-fi years of age, wt arretted at Danviif for an outra2rous a&sau't tpn hiadsugL ter A!e. aeed eighteen, and to silence her cr if s for help drew a knife and cot ber aero the throat. The ts-ouod, while erion is not believed to be dat groof. The general opinion is that tie nnatnral oarent should be lytched. but lhe hTifT ill thwart any anehatumpt, The fastest time made by an American train is calculated to be 107 miles in nicety-three minutes net for 107 miles in ninety-seven minutes, including four min utes stoppage for water) oa the Canadian division of th Olichigma Central Rail road, St. Cisir Junction to Viador, No vember 16, 1SS0, and of 69.3 mile a hour. ..
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