THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, JULY 29, 1890.
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GENERAL STATE NEWS
Cream of the State Press.
from tne . Wf,Bt . n r p.. .,..,
0Iw d Cotton Seed from the South,
Charlotte will have another Building
and Loan.
Mr. J. F. "White's kitchen, at Oxford,
-was burned one night last week.
Charlotte gets $7,000 appropriation for
the completion of its public building. ;
All the prisoners in Halifax jail, six in
number, made their escape "Wednesday
night.
W. F. Robeson accideatly shot and
killed himself with a shot-gun in Harnett
coutty a few days ago.
Eighty-two miles of streets have been
laid out in Greensboro in the past few
weeks, says the Patriot.
Miss Mattie "Wilson, of Mecklenburg
county, committed suicide on account
of bad health, one day last week.
The city authorities of Greensboro
have passed an ordinance requiring the
removal of screens from bar-rooms.
The building craze has struck Burlington.-
Five buildings are in course of
construction, while three are in project.
Henry Stuart, a train hand on the rail
road, was thrown from cars Thursday at
Salisbury : in the fall his leg was broken.
Mount Airy News: Mt. Airy is build
ing and no mistake. Go anywhere you
may and you will see new houses
going up.
According to a re:ent statement of the
commissioners of agriculture corn, cotton
and tobacco is at least two weeks ahead
of last year.
Troy Carroll, of Johnston county, has
been convicted of illicit distilling and
sent to the Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary
for two years.
George "Wilson, the tegro who was in
jail at Graham for having committed rape
on his own daughter, made his escape
Monday night.
Tarboro Southerner: Dick Sessums, a
young man 22 years of age living on the
farm of Lee Staton, attempted to take his
own life Tuesday.
Espia Adams, a young white man, was
killed instantly while coupling cars at
Sanford one day last week. His home
was in Greensboro.
Mr. Herbert L. Finlyson, a drummer,
had his collar bone broken by" his horse
running away between Oxford and Hen
derson or e day last week.
Orphan's Friend: Our grapes are
rotting to some extent. "We hope they
will not be destroyed by the inst cts j
which are causing the rot.
A nugget of gold weighing nine pounds
was shipped from the Haile gold mine in
South Carolina. It was valued at $9,500,
says the Western Free Lance.
Two men, McKoy and Reed, engaged
in a pistol fight in Macon county in which
the former was instantly killed. Reed's
horse was shot from under him.
Rev. Elisha Holland, of Goldsboro, is
85 years of age; and a heavy coat of
black hair is beginning to grow on his
bald head. At 80 he cut a tooth.
Oscar Spencer, a small white boy liv
ing in Greensboro, was bitten by a dog
supposed to be mad a few days ago. A
mad stone was applied and stuck.
Charlotte News : The probabilities are
that Col. J. T. Anthony will resign, and
with him, as a matter of course, will be
tendered the resignation of his staff.
A cash prize has been offered by the
Cabarrus County Fair Association to any
couple who will get married publicly at
the grand stand during the exhibition.
"Warren Cummings, a deaf and dumb
negro living near Greensboro, fell dead
there one night last week. Heart disease
was supposed to have caused his death.
The Governor has offered a reward of
$200 for the apprehension of Robt. L.
McPeeters, who is charg&g with the
murder of L. "W. Moody in Madison
county.
Perhaps the youngest mother in the
country lives at Chapel Hill, N. C. She
is not quite 14 years of age and has been
married nearly a year. Her husband is
only 17.
Between "Wilmington, Morehead, ishe
ville, Mt. Airy and the Piedmont section,
North Carolina is independent of the
world as to summer resorts. Fayetteville
Observer.
Durham Globe: The election of DrJ
Dixon's successor as superintendent of
W lUOU Xi-OJr Will not
! place till after the encampment at
"Wrightsville.
iiic uoys ago tne Asneviiie people
paid the way of two boys who were sup
posed to have hydrophobia to have them
treated for a dog bite. They have come
back all right.
Carthage Blade: Crops are fine and
the farmers are expecting a bountiful
harvest. Died on the 12th inst., at
the residence of Mr. D. C. Barrett, his
son, in this county, Mr. Samuel Barrett;
aged 87 years.
r Tnmentine and Grains of Rice from the
JJP Vinrt4ji of Grapes and Totacco Stems
Est ' ,L North ; Stalks of Oon and Grains
'mill I lit- - - 5T
Miss Mollie Fletcher, who 4s employed
at the millinery store of Mrs. Ada Masten,'
bad tne misfortune to b eak a bone in
her f ,t yesterday by a tall, says the
Iwin- City Daily.
Wf biter' .s We-kly says thit. a voun?
chap named Maxwell ate 48 banannas
last Saturday. He must have a capacious
maw and a good appetite. What think
the public of him ?
The large steam saw mill of J. R.
Robots four miles from Mt. Airy was
totally destroyed by fire Sunday night.
The loss is estimated at $3,000, say the
Greensboro Patriot.
The largest real estate sale ever made
in this town was made too late to give an
account of. It amounted to $30,000
Look out for it next week, says the
Western Free Lance.
Monroe Register: Many farmers have
about finished cultivating their crops.
They have worked faithfully, their crops
are in good condition, and ti ey are look
ing forwa d to good crops -
Western Free Lance: Congressman
Ewart's house in Hendersonville, was
struck by lightning a short time ago. The
next election will knock him so high he
will think lightning struck him.
Capt. G. "W. Newell, yard-master of
the Richmond and Danville Railroad, was
insulted by a negro brakeman this morn
ing, and carved up the negro's physiog
nomy with a rock. Greensboro Patriot.
Dr. Geo. W. Sanderlin, the State Aud
itor, adds life and zest to the pleasures of
the guests of Cleveland Springs. He al
ways has a crowd around him, and never
fails to disperse it with a laugh all around.
Chadbourn News: At a meeting of
the members of the Baptist church of
t is place last Saturday afternoon, steps
were taken toward raising the funds for
the purpose of building a house of worship.
Troy Vidette: We regret to learn that
a vicious dog attacked the 12-year-old
son of Mr. Seth Andrews, of Pee Dee
township, last week, and threw the boy
down and severely bit him in several
places.
The Durham Globe says that a gentle
man of that city has a watch made of
gold dug in Chatham county less than
thirty miles from there, in 1825. Six
watches were made at that time, and his
is one of them.
E. S. Edwards, postmaster at Purgatory,
Onslow county, was arrested Friday and
carried to the New Birne jail. He is
charged with stealing a registered letter
containing $87.50, mailed by Dr. W. J.
Monteford, of Richlands.
Mt. Airy News: The farmers tell us
hat crops never looked better at this
season of the year. The town is
growing in every direction and in every
respect. A $10,000 Methodist Church is
the latest, and it is a certainty.
The Sanford Express says the folowing
losses, no insurance, resulted from a fire
at Mt. Gillead, last week : McRea and
Leach, 1,800 ; Ingram & Haywood, 2,000 ;
postofhee building, $600 ; cash and stamps
in postoffice, $80 ; total, $5,080.
Asheville Citizen: James Scott and
Thomas Corpening, the two boys sent on
to New Yofk through the medium of the
Citizen to be taated for mad dog bites,
have returned. They are now considered
to be out of all danger of hydrophobia.
Persons who came up from the Ham
mocks last night reported that Capt. Gilli
can, master of one of the sharpies there,
was attacked between Wrightsville and
Bradley's Creek about ten o'clock by a
strange negro, says the Wilmington Star.
Maxton Union: The "Eureka" rail
road south of Bennettsville is being rap
idly pushed through. The contractors
expect ; o have it ready for the trains by
December 1st, next This road will put
Maxton on another north and south line.
Nathan Fails, an aged and inoffensive
white man was murdered by some un
known person on the public highway,
near Wilmington, on Thursday. A re
ward of $250 has been offered by the
County Commissioner for the murderer's
arrest.
Greensboro Patriot : Jim Watlington,
who made his escape from the peniten
tiary sometime ago, wa3 captured yester
day near Re idsville. Chief of Police Hall,
of Reidsville, passed through last night on
his way to the penitentiary with Wat
lington. Soon after daylight yesterday morning,
Chas. Henderson, a negro from the
country, made a brutal assault upon a
colored woman, named Julia Hoskins,
who has been employed as a cook at the
Dodge House in this city, says the Char
lotte News.
Rofikino-bam Ftnirit nf the South: Dr.
Winston W. Covington died at 4 o'clock
p. m., July loth, in ins 4dd year.
Mrs. Col. Jesse Harsrrave died at
her
home, near Laurel Hill, in this county,
heart disease Mr Wm Sneed.
of
of
Laurel Hill township, died at his home
last Thursday evening after a lingering
illness. On last Saturday night a
man by the name of Levester, who keeps
Ang Prevatt's old stand, shot and severely
wounded a white man whose name we
were unable to learn,
Winston Daily : We are reliably in
formed that the capital has bjen subscribed
for the erection of a canning establish
ment and an ice factory in Win ton.
The plant is to cost between $20,000 and
825,000. It is to be in ru ning order by
next spring.
New Berne Journal: Gen. Robert
Ransom, who has recently nude atrip up
Neuse river as far as Fort Barnwell, says
that the crops are very fine indeed on the
plantations along the river. They are
well cultivated and very far advanced for
the time of year.
Saturday afternoon there was another
homicide in Pittsb ro. Mr. Chas. Harden
killed a negro by the name of Alex.
Moore. Harden had a preliminary exam
ination the same afternoon and his plea
was self-denfence. He was bound over
to court in a bond of $500.
The preleminary trial of W. A. Hyman
at Greenville for the murder of J. M.
King, was begun before G T. Evans, J.
P. on the ,10th and was finished Monday
following. It resulted ii simply binding
Hym-in over to cou t in the sum of
$500.00. Carolina Bmner.
Raleigh Chronicle : Mr. P M. Wilson,
Commissioner of Immigration for North
Carolina, has resigned. The office is now
vacant. The resignation was tendered at
the last meeting of the Agricultural Board.
His successor will doubtless be elected at
the next meeting of that body.
New Berne Journal: Last evening we
had an interview with the largest farmer
in this section, and among other facts he
gave us the following: From one acre
and a half he realized in the spring from
cabbages two hundred and twenty-five
dollars over and above expenses.
In the neighborhood of Rileys Cross
Road s, it is said that Mr Jas. Gay has
old cotton stalks that sprouted and are
now growing. The writer saw the same
thing, except it was tobacco instead of
cotton, between Louisburg and Spring
hope, a few days ago. Franklin Times.
Raleigh Visitor: The examination
yesterday afternoon, at Leonard Hospital,
of the body of Tempy Dishman, wife of
Joshua Dishman, ended in the discharge
of the latter, as nothing was elicited tend
ing to show that he ha I caused the death
of the deceased by "neglect or otherwise.
The conductor on the Wilkesboro road
informs us that there was a washout
between Rural Hall and Mt. Airy on the
C. F. & Y. V. Railroad yesterday. The
train from Mt. Airy had not passed down
the road when the Wilkesboro train
came down this morning. Twin-City
Uaiiy. .
A negro, William Rand has been lodged
in jail here, thought to be the one who
killed Abner Sanders at a festival last
winter. He was arrested in Dunn last
Monday by Deputy Sheriff Arnold Pa rrish
of Wake. Mr. Parrish had been on h s
track for some time, says the Smithfield
Herald.
Asheville Journal: The Loughran sala
was well attended this morning. The
Hickory band left the square at 11:30
and the sale began promptly at 11 o'clock.
Twenty-six lots were disposed of realiz
ing over $10,000, a profit of $6,000 on
the amount paid tor the property by Mr.
Loughran.
Raleigh Visitor: In Wake Forest
township, on Powell's creek, it is said
that there are a great many cases of sick
ness ; f ev- r of a malarial typhoid type. It
is becoming quite alarming; it is said
there are a dozen or more families that
have one or more cases in them in the
neighborhood
Two little darkies, Hasper and Will
Wall, aged about 12 and 14 years, of
Rockingham county, were arrested here
yesterday upon the charge of stealing
money from a trunk near Madison. Both
gave bond for their appearance before a
magistrate in Madison next Tuesday.
Twin- City Daily.
The Reporter says that J ack Hicks, a
young farmer living near Danbury went
into the bushes by the road side to cut a
switch. He stirred up a hornet's nest,
and in fighting them with the open knife
in his hand stuck the blade in his neck
and came near bleeding to death before
assistance arrived.
Henderson Tomahawk: "Peg Leg"
Williams may have carried 40,000 of the
colored population out of the State, but
from the number of them idling on our
streets one would hardly believe it.
It now seems a certainty the subscription
to the Nash county road will be carried
by quite a majority.
Wheat is now being thrashed and the
yield is reported to be remarkably small.
We are told that one farmer sewed twelve
bushels and realized therefrom the hand
some sum of fifteen ; another sewed thirty,
more or less, expecting to make at least
150 bushels, and instead got about fifty,
says the Sanford Express.
On Sunday afternoon while the family
of Mr. W. M. Sellers were at Sunday
school sme one entered his residence on
Hanover and Third sareets. His little
son who returned to get a b ok fright
ened the man out of the house. He was
colored, and had stolen several articles,
says the Wilmington Messenger.
Washington Ptagreis: While digging
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out the old Cellar on the Morton lot on
Main street, last week, they found six
bottles of huckleberries. The b .ttles were
old-fashned chunk bottle, quart size.
There wpr bjried there over fifty years
ago by the mother of our aged and es
teemed citizen. Mr. W. Z. Mort n, Sr.
Prof. H. E Van Deman, Pomologist of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture will
deliver an address at the State Grape
Fair at Mt. Holly, July 31st. Represent
ing as he does the scientific as well as the
practical side of the question, his coming
should add large numbers to the vis tors,
as they will be instructed as well as en
tertained. Elizabeth City Economist: At the
meeting of the Congressional Executive
Committee of the First district, in Wash
ington, on Thursday, July 10, for the
purpose of selecting the time and place of
holding the next convention to nominate
a candidate for Congress, the 12th day of
August, at 4 a. m., was the time and
Elizabeth City the place chosen.
Greenville Relector: Pitt county to
bacco crop this year is something won
derful. Quite a number of farmers have
cured barns of tobacco primings the past
week. This pla . of saving the under
leaves of the plant wh ch heretofore were
thrown away will make the crop more
profitable. Several planters will next
week be cutting the stalk f r curing.
Last night about twelve o'clock several
pistol shots were heard near the city
limit3, just beyond the Graded School.
No particular notice was taken of the
matter until this morning, when some
parties were passing up the old plank
road, near the location where the pistol
shots were herd, when it was discovered
near the road a pool of blood. Twin- City
Daily.
Deputy Sheriff Westley Westbrook, of
Pender county, arrested a supposed high
wayman a few days ago about twenty
miles frDiU the city on the H ,lly Shelter
road. He was a nesrro and was shot in
the face. This led the offi ;er to suspect
him nd upon being questioned the man
told several stories as to how. he received
his wound, says the Wilmington Mes
senger. Ashevil'e Democrat : The Black Moun
tain Iron and Alum Springs Company
has jus' been incorporated and consists of
Dr. J. S. Grant, Dr. S. W. Bittle and
Messrs. Moore, Sprague and Echols.
They have purchased the celebrate 1 iron
and alum springs near Black Mountain
station, and will enter at once upon the
development of the property and utiliza
tion cf the waters.
Asheville Citizen : Wm. Featherston,
who was arrested here some time ago for
stealing goods from a railroad camp in
Yancey county will be taken ' to that
county for trial in a short while, officers
are here now to take h m back. The
deed for the Garrett property in Victoria
involving $100,000 was filed for registra
tion to-day. This is the largest transac
tion ever closed in the county.
Greensboro Workman : A telegram
was received here to-day announcing the
death of Dr. Lambeth, of O e Hill.
Mr. E?pie Adams, a young man of this
city, who for a short time has been em
ployed on the C. F. & Y. V. railroad as
brakeman, was instantly killed this morn
ing about 3 o'clock at Sanford while
coupling cars. His head was caught
between two cars and crushed.
Raleigh News and Observer : The re
ports from our tobacco planters are most
promising. The crops this year will sur
pass any heretofore in this county, both
in quality and quantity. Yesterday
ex- Sheriff W. H. High shot a mad cat at
the residence of Mr. V. C. Royster on
Hillsboro street. The cat was taken with
a fit of some kind and ran all around the
lot biting at any and everything it could
find.
Durham Sun: The L & D. reached
the town this afternoon. The work of
finishing up will be completed to-morrow
and the Lynchburg & Durham railroad is
now a reality. News reached the
city late yesterday of the drowning of a
youth about 16 years of age, in Freeman's
pood, some time during the afternoon.
We have been unable to learn the name,
but he was a sen of Mr. Sid Ferrell, who
lives near the pond.
Wadesboro Messenger-Intelligencer: We
have in our office the greatest curiosity
in the way of a chicken we have ever
seen. It was handed to us by Frank
Little, colored, and was hatched by a hen
belonging to Ed. Little, colored, of
Wadesboro. The chicken in question
has four legs and four feet, four wings
and two well developed backs; in fact it
is a double chicken in evpry particular,
except that it has only one head.
Winston Sentinel: Thirteen years ago
an old lady, now living in a suburb of
this city, was unceremoniously deserted
by her worthy spouse. For some reason
of her own she has always since studiously
circulated the impression that her husband
had long since departed for that land
" from whose bourne no traveller returns,'
taking pains to explain the immediate
cacse of his death, etc., and her neighbors
had come to believe implicitly in this
explanation of his absence. But Tuesday
evening he suddenly turned up, the pic
ture of health, to the utter discomfiture,
no doubt, of the old lady.
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.
Sparks from the Wires.
. Extensive prairie fires are burning in
Texas.
The disturbance is over in Bainwtll
county.
It is reported that yellow fever is raging
in Hanava.
Ex-Ernpres-. Eigene is as much of a
recluse as though she were a nun.
Suits wili be brought in favor of the
mir ers killed in the Hill farm mine.
A Pennsylvania lawyer is indicted for
obtaining frauculent pension affidavits.
The town of Stillwater, Minn , was en
tirely destroyed by a cyclone last night.
It is said the French expedition to the
Upper Niger has been routed by the na
tives. -
There is a quarrel between the whites
and colored Grand Army posts of New
Orleas s.
Oscar Johuson, of Augusta, Ga., con
fesses the doable crime of criminal as
sault and murder.
At a meeting in an Iowa town the citi
zens determined to tar and feather any
perso nattempting to s ill spirituous
liquors.
The general manager of the Magazins
du Louvre in Paris gets a salary or $30,
000 a year, with a percentage on the
profits.
The betrothal of Princess Victori",
sister of Jimperor vv imam to Jrrinoe
Adolph, of Schaumburg, is officially an
nounced.
The Western Union Telegraph office,
in New York City, and other buildings
were burned a few days ago. Loss, about
$1,000,000.
An eye-witness gives an account of
the explosion at King's Mills. Ten per
sons at least, were killed and double that
number wounded.
The retired pensioned veterans who
fought under the great' Napoleon, who
now receive $10 year, put their number
at 112 instead of 180 as in 1888.
Marshall Pass, on the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad, 10,851 feet above the
sea level, is the highest point crossed by
a railroad inside the limits of the United
Statts.
St. Petersburg, July 22 The town of
Slonim has been partly wrecked by a
hurricane. A number of people were
buried in the ruins. Nineteen bodies
have been recovered.
Petersburg, Va., July 18. Eddie
Coma, a young man living at City Point,
nine miles from here, committed suicide
to day shooting himself in the breast. No
cause for the act is known.
Montgomery, Ala, July 21. Cottrell,
the desperado and fugitive Mayor of
Cedar Keys, Fla., surrendered to United
States Marshal Walker here last night.
He was released on $2,500 bail.
Petersburg, Va.. July 18. Eddie
Coma, a young man living at City Point,
nine miles from here committed suicide
to-day by shooting himself in the breast.
No cause for the act is known.
Boston, July 21. J. B. Johnson the
champion swimmer of Great Britain, has
made a match wkh Professor Donaldson
to swim ten miles for $1,000 a side over
an ocean course, probably off Coney
Island
London, July 21 3:30 p. m. Bar sil
ver is quoted at 50d. per ounce, an un
precedented price, due to the change
made in the value of the precious metal
throughout the world by the passage of
the silver bill.
A mad ox was killed at Daviston, Ga.,
last week. He broke through every bar
rier, and was hard to keep up with. The
men shot him twenty-seven times before
killing him. He was bitten by a mad
dog three weeks ago.
Wilmington, Del , July 21. Fire this
morning destroyed the cotton mills of
Edwin J. Cranston, at Stanton, near this
city. The fire originated in one of the
cards in the carding room. Loss, $20,
000; insurance unknown.
City of Mexico, July 21. It is re
ported that a battle has occurred between
the for es of Guatemala and San Salvador,
the former being defeated and sustaining
heavy loss, and their artillery being cap
tured by the San Salvadorians.
At the celebration of the fiftieth an
niversary of the invention of the postage
stamp, held recently in England, a stamp
was shown worth 100 guinas. It was
from the British Guinea collection and
showed a rude post-mark on pink paper.
Chicago, July 22. The coroner's jury
invesugating the Tioga explosion ren
dertd a verdict this afternoon recom
mending that J. C. Bright, of Buffalo,
president of the Genessee Oil Company ;
W. H. Bright, of Philadelphia, vice presi
dent, secretary and treasurer of the com
pany, be held for, the murder of the
twenty-four victims of the Tioga, on the
ground that they wilfully violated the
law, and in so doing caused the death of
the men.
Miss Winnie Davis is not, a is by some
r.rople s-upp sed, the only Kiuviving
laughter of the Confederate 'endr Miss
W-u'-ie hs H'. ..lriVrn ter, l rj who
is the wif? or J. A. Ilty:,. s oiiirn. illy a
M ssissiopian, but now a banker of Color
ado Springs.
Washington, July 18. Mr. Vnce in
troduced in the Senate to-dy a bill pro
riding for the repeal of the tax of ten
per tent, on the circulation of State banks,
and providing that n- hi hpr ra'o of tnx
shall be levied on such circulation than n
that of National banks.
Buenos Aykrs, July 20 Conflicting
reports are current of the discovery o: a
plot against the government. Semi
official papers declare that the reports
have no foundation. A national conven
tion will be convoked in January to des
ignate for the Presidency,
Cairo, 111., July 18. Eight prit-oners
confined in the Pulaski county jail, at
Mound City, seven miles above here,
escaped la-it nigh". Some outsMe party
s nuggled a rope to them aud they reached
the ground through the scuttle hole.
None of them ave been recaptured.
In overhauling the Czar's civil list with
a view to economy, recently, one of the
items . discovered was the payment of
$.750,ptr year for "lipsalve," which has
been made to one family ever since the
time of Empress Catharine, who is sup
posed once to have had chapped lips.
New York pick-pockets have invented
a new scheme for robbing people. It is
to pour kerosene or alcohol over the back
of a man's coat and touch a match there
to. Then while helping to extinguish
the flames they "lift" the victim's watch
and whatever money or valuables he may
have.
Chattanooga, Tenn., July 22. The
steamer M. H. Clif t took fire from a spark,
which was lodge i in a ba'e of hay this
morning, off Linnon's Lodge, on the
Tennessee river. About thirty passengers
on board were badly frightened, but were
sived without difficulty. The 'loss is
about $G,000.
Oshkosh, Wis., July 18. John War-poo-e,
an Indian from the Keshene reser
vation, who was found guilty in the U.
S. Court here of repeated assaults upon
his daughter, was sentenced to be hanged
September 30th, on the reservation. This
is the first death sentence ever passed in
the State of Wisconsin.
The Spanish mission, it is understood,
has been tendered to General Mahone, of
Virginia, but the probabilities are that he
will not accept it. The reason assigned
for his expected declination is that he
does not lik President Harrison, and will
not for that reason place himself under
obligation to that gentleman.
Birmingham, July 19. Bart Thrasher
is a notorious moonshiner and escaped
convict of Bibb county. Last night de
tectives Morgan and Patton undertook to
arrest Bart, and killed a man whom they
supposed to be the outlaw. It proved to
be Bart's father, however, who was
standing guard over the ranjhe.
Van Wert, Ohio, July 19. A bold at
tempt at train robbery was made here
late last night on the Cincinnati, Jackson
& Michigan Railway. Three men boarded
the engine of the r orth-bound passenger,
near Enterprise, Ohio, and attacked en
gineer Vandevender and his fireman with
hammers and coupling pins, knocking
both senseless.
J. W. Napier, a detective, better known
as u Kentucky Bui," armed with war
rants for the arrest of the Hatfield s,
starttd out from Charleston, W. Va , a
tew weeks ago with the declaration that
he would not return without them. It is
now learned that his body, with a bullet
in his heart, has been found near the
home of the Hatfields.
San Antonio, Texas, July 22. Small
pox is epidemic along the Mexican side
of the border. At Piedras Negras, 25
per cent, of the population has been
affected, and the per centage of fatalities
has been very high. In New Laredo
have been upwards of 200 people stricken
with the disease. The Mexicans have
taken no precau'ion against its sp ead
and in many of their smaller towns it is
raging unchecked.
Peorta, 111., 18. It was reported here
at 7 o'clock last night that the town of
Green Valley, on the line of Peoria, De
catur & Evansville line, and Morton, on
the Santa Fe, were swept away by a
cyclone. Telegraphic communication with
those places was shut off, as the wires are
badly demoralized b, V e storm. The
cyclone travelled toward Pekin, and mes
sages from there say it approached th i
outskirts of the city, and suddenly rose
to the clouds, disappearing from view.
Saratoga, N. Y., July 18. A bold
daylight robbery was committed in this
village yesterday. About noon, sneak
thieves entered the Bliss cottage, on North
Broadway, and got away with $10,000
worth of diamonds and jewelry. The
cottage is occupied by Mr. Mortoa, Vice
President of the United States, and. his
law partner, Mr. Bliss, with their wives.
It is impossible ti ascertain whether the
jewelry was the property of Mr. Morton
or Mrs. Bliss, as the parties interested de
cline to make any statement.