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THE MONROE ADVERTISER,
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY
FORSYTH, - - GEORGIA
T enty years aero hardly any butter
v. i ::por‘ <1 into England; now ninety
j> , uf all that is used is imported,
and a gr <t d< tl of it i* manufactured in
t L-country. ' -
The largo check for $250,000, lately
•eat to Mrs. Grant by the publisher of the
general’s memoirs, is the largest sum of
money ever paid to an author or his rep
resentatives. Macaulay received SIOO,-
000 for hi- “History of England,” and
the largest sum ever received by Sir
Walter Scott from his publisher was
$200,000.
A remarkable, but by no means unpre
cedented, explosion occurred iu Germany
a short time ago. A sack of flour falling
down stairs opened and scattered the
contents in a cloud through the lower
room, w here a burning gas flame set fire
to the dust, causing an explosion which
lifted a part of the roof of the mill and
broke almost all the w indows.
A touching incident is related of a re
cent shipwreck on the New England
coast. The captain's w ife and children
were lost They had on board a few
tame doves. When the body of the wife
was found on the shore a dove was on
the body and flew to the house to which
the remains of the drowned woman were
conveyed, and peeking at. the window
gained admission.
A young business man of Detroit be
came interested in a young girl and edu
cated her with the intention of marrying
her. before the time for the wedding ar
rived the young man fell in love with an
other girl and refused to carry out his
contract with the first. A suit for $50,-
000 damages followed. The jury awarded
$4,500 and the supreme court affirmed
the decision. The young man will take
no more young ladies to bring up. He
finds $4,500 and the costs of an educa
tion too much for the amusement.
The Philadelphia Record insists that its
city is ahead of all others in the way of
new buildings erected in 1885, and gives
this comparative statement:
Philadelphia 5,03?
St. Paul ....•••• 3,451
Minneapolis ; 3,370
New York. 3,368
Chicago 3,133
But Philadelphia, it must be remem
bered, is justly famous for the number of
•mall dwellings, which make that city
an ideal home for men of moderate
means, but do not “count” like the large
structures that are so plenty here.
The United States government is the
greatest publishing house in the world.
By the side of its resources such an estab
lishment as the Harpers becomes quite
•mail. In the book of estimates for the
next fiscal year, just sent to Congress,
$1 ,380,231.68 is asked for wages alone.
There are on (lie pay-roll four hundred
compositors, beside a large force of su
perintendents, foremen, etc. Fifty proof
readers are steadily employed, and forty
five pressmen, 115 press-feeders and thir
ty-four ruling-machine feeders. The es
timate call for 100,000 reams of printing
paper, or 48.000,000 sheets, each sheet
making eight or sixteen pages.
The tabl* of bankrupts for Great
Britain aud Ireland for the year showg
great commercial depression. In 1884
the failures of retail dealers were 3,788,
iu 1885 4,508. They were as follows:
. Failures. ,
Retail Trades. In 1884. Iu 1885.
Bakers 83 102
Bricklayers and slaters... 48 73
Carpenters S7 98
Confectioners 23 36
Curiosity dealers 46 76
Drapers 139 178
Fishmongers 26 41
Grocers 369 438
Hatters 11 17
Jewelers 51 85
Milliners 17 81
Music dealers.... 12 27
Plumbers and pai liters... S3 99
Printers anil stationers... 55 76
Publicans 272 314
Shoemakers 123 141
Tailors 92 166
Tobacconists 29 43
Toy dealers 12 24
Isaac Walker, a New' York tailor, has
issued a little book of two hundred and
ten pages, handsomely bound, largely il
lustrated, and entitled, “Dress: As it
Has Been, Is, and Will Be.” In this
work Air. Walker combines much that i s
amusing with many sound reflections and
practical suggestions. Under the amus
ing falls the vindication of “his art." To
quote his own eloquent words: 1 'There
is a satisfaction greater than the compen
sating dollars to the cutter and fitter who
can point out a well-dressed man on the
avenue, and say, ‘That is my work.’ ’
He makes a little calculation that may
cause some surprise. “Itis a fact,” he
says, “that a SIOO suit of clothes sold at
retail iu New York actually costs the
tailor $75 outlay. The three garments
cost for the stitches alone s2l; for the
cloth, S2B; for cutting and trimming,
upward of $25. Often the alterations
will cost from $8 to $5." According to
the author, cutters in a first class house
often get salaries as high as $5,000 a
year, “considerably in excess of the salary
of the president of Yale college and the
highest professors in other celebrated in
stitutions of learning here and abroad."
The author does not admit the possibility
of gentlemanly existence without thepos-
Bessi ■ rcoats
seasons. And woe to the unlucky man
whose costume does not correspond with
his momentary occupation. There must
be morning suits and evening suits.after’
noon suits, mid-day suits, riding -uits
and shooting suits, tennis suits and
yachting suits. To prove that his theo
ries have already made progress in the
refitted circles of society, the author cites
the c ase of a young man, with a limited
bank account, who boasts of poss-ssing
250 suits of clothes.
According to a review of the industry
try of canned tomatoes by the Americar.
Grocer, there were packed in &90 only
1.434,006 cases of two dozen tire each, as
again-t 2.021.177 cases in 1884. La 1883
the amount packed wa 2,944,579 caac>.
In two years, therefore, the product has
fallen off one-half. There lias bom a de
crease in the cost of canning, a3'4 fib
quality of the goods, according u< l<<
Grocer , has deteriorated very much. * -
Scientists profess to be perplexed by
the phenomenon of a well begun nearly
sixty years ago at Yakutsh, Siberia. It
was dug down thirty feet through solidly
frozen ground and abandoned. Then the
Russian academy of sciences took up the
work and dug to a bottom of 382 feet, to
find the ground still frozen as hard as a
rock. It was too much of a bore to b
continued, but the academy decided from
the temperature taken at different depths
of the excavation that the freezing ex
tends to a depth of 612 feet. This war
rants the official report that “the pole of
the greatest cold in Siberia is in the
province of Yakutsh," though probably
the North Pole is a little bit more frigid.
In the little village of Mount Pleasant,
ia the potteries in Staffordshire, Eng-
Uik). is to be found a child whose extra
ordinary growth excites great wonder.
Little Alice, as she is humorously called,
is but four years of age, yet turns the
scale at 150 pounds, the circumference
of her waist being no less than five feet,
while her height is four feet, so that
literally she is broader than she is long.
She is bright, intelligent and remarkably
pretty, her head being crowned with a
mass of golden hair. Her size does not
interfere in the least w r ith her activity,
as she may often be seen playing with
the other children of the village or wan
dering iu their company through the
country lanes. Her appetite is enor
mous.
The Japanese have made their arrange
ments for bringing into use the Roman al
phabet. From the twenty-six letters they
will omit 1, q, v, and x. Heretofore the
Chinese ideographs have been employed
in writing on serious subjects, and the
Japanese syllabary of forty-eight sounds
for phonetic transliteration, for trivial
correspondence, story books, and such
literature as uneducated women
and children make use of.
Already the members of the
Roma-jikaio have begun to print a news
paper; prominent journals are devoting a
column a day to matter printed in
Roman letters, dictionaries, text books,
native literature, and the classic texts
are thus to be set forth.
The Burmese.
The inhabitants of Burmah, owing to
the excellence of the climate, are robust,
and healthy looking. They attain the
average length of human life, and chil
dren especially thrive in the country.
The registration returns show that in Bur
mah the deaths of children under five
years of age are in the proportion of twen
ty-seven to eighty-live of the total deaths
at all ages, whereas ir. England they are
forty per cent. Concerning the charac
teristics and peculiarities of the Burman,
much need not be said. His virtues,
w'hich are many, and his failings, which
are not a few', are much the same here as
in every part of his extensive country.
He here, as elsewhere, displays much
spasmodic energy and general laziness;
much love of feasts and shows; much
disregard of the sacredness of human life,
and much tenderness for the lives of in
ferior members of the animal kingdom;
much arrogance and inconsiderateness
when placed iu high position; and last,
though not least, much general truthful
ness, and, among unsophisticated vil
lagers, the very un-oriental trait of being
quite unable to tell a specious falsehood
—a trait which is as honorable to himself
as it is agreeable to those who have the
government of his country. His occupa
tions are cultivation on a small scale and
petty trading. Actual poverty is almost
unknown, but riches are never accumu
lated. The Burman is strongly distin
guished from the Indian races by his love
of sport and amusement, and his strong
turn for the ridiculous. The Burman is
in every way a marked contrast to the
Hindoo. Their women-folk mix freely in
all social gatherings on perfectly equal
terms, and form a very important factor
in society.
Feathered Butchers.
In California butcher birds catch &
large variety of lizards, including the
horned toad, mice, and kangaroo rats,
and one has been seen flying laboriously,
carrying a bluejay quite as large, if not
larger, than itself. Asa rule, game thus
captured is taken to some favorite spot
and impaled or hung up, and then torn
apart, so that in a locality frequented by
these birds quite a museum is often
found, composed of the dried remains of
various animals, the dismembered parts,
bits of bone, and other material. In
southern California the orange tree offers
every inducement to these butchers,
the thorns with which the branches are
armed being used for this singular pur
pose of laceration. Sitting perfectly im
movable on a twig, the bird suddenly es
pies a horned toad or lizard, and darting
down, before the frightened animal can
bury itself or seek shelter, it is seized in
the powerful beak and borne struggling
to the place of execution. At first the
victim is often held down with one claw,
after the manner practiced by hawks,
and so torn and lacerated; but generally
a sharp thorn or a pointed twig is selected,
and the body forced against it until it is
firmly impaled. This having been ac
complished successfully, the body ia
sometimes left, as often the capture is
seemingly made in wanton pleasure, foi
the mere sake of killing; the victim left
disembowled—a grim warning to others.
When the butcher is disposed to devout
its game, the thorn is used to help tear it
apart, the flesh being torn in both direc
tion-. So strong i< this habit that iu
confinement the bird still takes advan
tage of any sharp object. Thus a pointed
=tr: k. sharpened for the purpose, being
givt n a caged butcher bird, all its food,
consisting of raw meat, was immediately
placed upon it. and either left or de
voured.—Scitvt.idc American.
Americans are the third highest in
point of the number of foreigners resid
ing in Japan, according to stati-tics pub
lished in a native new-paper. Toe Chi
nese stand at the head of the list with
2.471 rc.-ideats. followed by the English
with CIS, the Americans numbering IS7.
tran; neav^.
Interest!! g Happenings Irom all Points.
KANTERM 4SII MIDDI.K STATUS.
Mk.s. Horatio Seymour died a fe.v days
tinee at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Ros
coe Conkling. in Utica. N. Y. She had been
very low since the death of her husband,
Governor Seymour.
A New York senate- special committee
which ha- been_ investigating the alleged
bril*ci y of New \ ork city aldermen in o ik
neetion with the granting of the Broadwav
surface railroad franchise has made a
long report. The report alleges that
tue investigation unearthed gross violation
of law. public plunder, briber}' and eorrup
tion. in which railroad speculators, aldermen
and others are implicated Swift and sum
mary justice, the report says, should be
meted out to the guilty ones, and the fran
chise wrongfully acquired should be restored
to its rightful owners—the people.
At the sale of the late Mrs. Morgan's art
treasure*, which followed the sale of her
paintings in New York, a porcelain vase
eight inches high, made in China about 300
years ago. brought the enormous sum of
SIB,OOO.
Ex-Senator Jerome B. Chaffee died a
few days since at the residence of his son-in
law, Ulysses S. Grant, Salem Centre. N. Y.,
aged sixty-one years. He was bora in
Niagara countv, N. Y,; went West iu his
youth: amassed a fortune in Colorado, where
he entered the legislature, becoming speaker
of the house; served two terms in Congress as
territorial delegate, and when Colorado be
came a State in 1876 was elected United
States Senator as a Republican. He lost
$500,000 by the Grant & Ward failure. His
son-in-law was General Grant'* voungest
son.
The wife of ex-Attorney-General Bee w.-t -r,
of Philadelphia, is dead.
The schooner Robert Byron, from Port
and, Me., for Cape de Verd, seven men on
board, has been given up as lost.
A tugboat s boiler exploded in Boston bav
and the crew of five men on board were all
killed.
Miss Belle Finch, residing near Ithaca,
N. Y., has been suffering from soma nervous
disorder for two years, and is said to have
gone without food for the last eighty-five
days or more.
At least 100 of the 105 inmates of the coun
ty poorhouse at Lebanon, Penn., were pois
oned the other morniug by partaking of cof
fee which contained Paris green. At night
twelve persons were reported in a dying con
dition.
Frank Murgatroyd, of Philadelphia,
suaezed so hard in bed the other morning
that he ruptured a blood vessel, and in a few
minutes was a corpse.
SOUTH ANO WEST.
Mardi Ghxs was celebrated this year at
New Orleans with the usual ceremonies.
There was a gaily costumed procession headed
by the King of the Carnival; the city was
profusely decorated; thousands of strangers
thronged the streets, and jollity ruled.
Nineteen men have been arrested within
two weeks near Portland, Ore., by United
States authorities on the charge of attacking
Chinamen.
M. E. Grace, a young lawyer, and J. M
Brou, a prominent business man, met in tin
clerk’s office of the United States distric
court at New Orleans, and quarreled about a
case which the former was conducting
against a friend of the latter. Pistols were
drawn and discharged. Grace was instantly
killed, and Brou mortally wounded.
The R. E. Lee Camp No. 1 of Confederate
veterans, Richmond, Va., has contributed
S7O to the fund for the late General Han
cock’s widow.
A colored boy of thirteen years, em
ployed by Mrs. Sauls, a widow living at
Ennis Cross Roads, S. C., attacked his
employer with an ax, knocking her senseless,
and then robbed the house. He was cap
tured and lodged in jail, but a crowd of citi
zens took him out and hanged him to a gate
post.
WASHINGTON.
, Nominations by the President: Samuel
E. Wheatley, of Washington, to be commis
sioner of the District of Columbia; V. o!
King, of Texas, to bo secretary of legation
and consul-general of the United States at
Bogota; Rule Letcher, of Missouri, to be con
sul of the United States at Rio Grande do
Sul. Postmasters—Jas. A. Wall at Methuen,
Ma s.; Chas. J. Porter at Bethel, Conn.;
Henry Van Scoy at Kingston, Penn.
Senator Vest, of Missouri, has made a
statement to the House committee of inves
tigation concerning his relations to the Pan
electric Telephone company. He states that
he purchased 100 shares of stock for SI,OOO,
as a regular business transaction, and has
received one dividend amounting to $lO or sls.
The President has vetoed the bill to quiet
title of settlers on the Dos Moines river lands
in lowa. He says that the point at issue in
this case was fully settled years ago, and if
reopened now it would produoe legal strife
and lawsuits.
FOUEIUN.
Fearful storms occurred during the last
voyage of the British steamer Acton, just
arrived at Queenstown from Baltimore, and
two sailors were washed overboard,* while
another was killed at the wheel.
A party of Apaches, supposed to bo some
of Geronimo’s band, are destroying lives and
property in Northern Mexico.
Several engineers and thirty workmen
employed on a Turkish railway near Yianja
were killed the other day by Arnauts.
Viscount DurPLix, heir of the Earl of
Kinnoull, died at Monte Carlo the other day,
and is supposed to have committed suicide od
account of losses at the gambling table.
I alparaiso, Chili, has lost an entire busi
ness block, including the city’s principal
shots, by tire; damage estimated at $1,090,-
It is announced from Rome that two
American cardinals are to be created —the
Archbishop of Quebec and the Archbishop of
Baltimore.
Five persons—three passengers and two
railroad employes—were killed and twenty
six passengers injured—thirteen of them
dangerously—in a collision between two
trains near Monte Carl >. the notorious Eu
ropean gambling report.
Extensive Strikes.
TWENTY THOUSAND 3IINEKS AND
RAII.DDADKKs QUIT WORK.
An extenslxe strike of the coal miners of
the soft coal districts of the East was inaugu
rated on the Bth for the uniform scale of
wages adopted at the Cumberland con
vention of February 19. The scale
involves a general advance of ten cents per
ton. In the district are 10,000 miners. Sec
retary Davis, of the Miners’ Amalgamate !
association, says: "The men may not come
out to a man at the start, but "the feeliru
is sufficiently strong to cause the strike to
become general in a few days.” The present
is especially noteworthy as being the first
general demand by all the districts com
peting in the Eastern market for an advance
of wages, an 1 also a; the first effort to carry
out the principle laid down by the joint con
ventions of operators and miners at Colum
bus. (Ohio, th- establishment of relatively
uniform rates n competing district-.
,- - L Irwins. Lena., the 2,20 j miners em
pmyed m tie mine-: of the Penn Gas and
v\ cstmoreland County Coal companies came
out tor the increase.
In compliance with the order of the execu
committee of the Federation of Miners
and Mine Laborers, which organization in
eludes all the employes in th? several bitu
mmous coal regions, thes.ooo miners an i la-
in the C umberland ;Md 1 region stru k
for an an advance from forty to fifty cents
per ton.
A St. Louis ui -patch says that the strike of
a part ot tne Knights • f Labor on the Gould
Southwestern sysr-.-m of railway* has been
m.owed by a general suspension of work bv
Knights until th? number reached between
bee*> and l-D-o and included shopmen,
switchmen, trainmen, brakemen and firemen.
Alauy ith r strike- and boycotts In vari
f? 1 * ■'K-'ttoas f they unt -y. generally under
J;e direction of th. KuLriits cf iuibor. are
& i--: announced.
ion TERRIBLE CRIME.
KILLING BIS FATHER. MOTH l-R
BROTHER AND SISTER.
TVr Youthful .Mirdrrrr Tell* th* RDrj o'
His Horrible Deed.
Particulars have just lieen receive 1 of the
murder of the Sells family by itsyounge-S
member, a lxy seventeen years of age. near
Osage mission. Neosho county, Kan. The
crime is one of the most horrible on record
Mr. Mendel, liviug thirteen miles northwest
of Osage mission, rt- awakenel about i
o'clock a. m. by a scream, shortly followed by
another coming from the road iu front of 1 .<
house. He went to the door aud was met by
Willie Sells, the son of J. W. Sell-, living
about a quarter of a mile up the read. The
boy cried out: “Mr. Mendel, a man is at our
house with a hatchet and has hurt father and
mother I don’t know how badly.” Mr.
Mendel went with the boy. arousing J. L
Rice, another neighbor, on the way. Upon
reaching Sells’ house a most horrible sight
J met their eyes.
In the bed iu the north room lay Walter,
Willie's eldest Ijrother and bedfellow, aged
nineteen, his throat cut and the entire top of
his head chopped off, exposing the brain.
Passing into the main room, where a light
was burning, they stumb’ed over the form of
Mr. Sells, his head crushed and almost sever
ed from his body. Near by lay Mrs. Sells,
: aged forty-three years, her head mashed and
a fearful gash in her throat. Ou the bed in
the southeast corner of this room lay lua,
Willie’s sister, aged fourteen, killed in the
same manner as the other three. Near Mr.
Sells’ head was a'oloody butcher knife and
on a chair a hatchet, matted with hair and
blood.
The boy said that he had been awakened by
something, and looking up, saw a low, heavy
set man with dark hair, cut close, standing in
the door. This man stepped in, aud reaching
over Willie, struck his brother, who lay in
the back of the bed. Willie jumped oas
and dressed while the man was still
j in the room. This operation. i *
claimed, took him just half a minute. The
man rushed out of one door, while Willie rail
out of the other, and started up the road ou
a run after him. A short distance off stood a
man on horseback, holding another horse,
upon which the man vaulted, and both made
•ff. Willie then went on to Mendel’s.
After the bodies had been discovered Rice
| took Willie home with him, where he slept
; soundly till morning. A coroner’s jury was
impanelled and an investigation begun. * Sus
picion rested upon the boy aud he was put on
the stand. He swore that he had not washed
his hands since the murder, but inspectioa
showed that while his hands aud wrists were
clean there was a water mark about his wrists,
and his forearms were deeply incrusted with
blood which appears to have spurted up his
sleeves. Around his finger nails, also, there
was blood, and upon removing his pants his
drawers were found to be saturated
with spattered blood and his bare feet were
also blood-stained. His feet fitted all the
bloody footmarks to be found.
The boy stoutly denied being the murderer,
aud throughout all the trying ordeal main!
tained a bold front. The boy was smuggled
into a buggy by Police Judge Lon Cambera
and Deputy Sheriff Lotke, and driven to jail
in Erie, for fear of lynching, which ap
peared imminent. On the way to Erie he
said to Mr. Cambera: “Those fellows
tried to get me to say that I did it, but I
thought it would be best not to admit it.”
There is hardly a doubt but that the boy com
mitted the dreadful crime, though no motive
is known. Mr. Sells had in his pocketbook
SIOO in gold and $l7O in bills, which were not
disturbed, beside three watches. John Hall,
of Erie, has been appointed guardian of the
boy.
The coroner* jury was in secret session all
day, and at 4 o’clock p. m. returned a verdict
charging young Sells with the crime. The
boy was remanded to jail, where he was
visited by a correspondent. He protested his
innocence and showed vconovz feeling than i r it.
had been so many hogs he had butchered. He
is five feet six inches high, weighing 145
pounds. He has a rather intelligent face, al
though it wei rs a stubborn expression. His
complexion is fair and his moderately high
forehead is crowned with a shock of light
hair. He has haz&eyes, a straight, welt
forirol nose and ms hands
md arms are large and muscular.
The Sells family were highly-respected
country people. They were all members of
the Methodist church. Mr. Sells was a school
teacher. Willie, the son, is undoubtedly the
murderer, and the only motive he could have
had was that his brother Walter had been at
tending school away from home, and he had
become jealous. Walter had just returned
from school and Willie, after murdering his
brother, probably thought it necessary to kill
the others to conceal his crime.
National Education.
THE BLAIR APPItOPRIATIO.N HIM.
PASSES THE SENATE.
What is known as the Blair educational
bill has passed the United States Senate in au
amended form after a long debate. The finaj
vote upon the bill’s passage was thirty-six
yeas to eleven nays. The vote in detail was
as follows:
Yeas—Berry, Blackburn, Blair, Bowen,
Call, Colquitt, Conger, Cullom, Dolph, Eustis,
Evarts, George, Gibson. Hoar, Jackson, Jones
(Ark.), Kenna, Logan, Mahone, Manderson,
Miller (N. Y.), Mitchell (Ore.), Morrill, Pal
mer, Payne, Pugh, Ransom, Riddleberger,
Sawyer, Spooner,-Teller, Vance, Van Wyck,
Voorhees, Walthall, Wilson (la.j—36.
Nays—Cockrell, Cooke, Frye, Gray, Hale,
Harris, Ingalls, Jones (Nev.), Maxey, Plumb,
Wilson (Md.) —11.
The educational bill provides that for eight
years after its passage there shall be annual
ly appropriated from the treasury the follow -
ing sums in aid of common school education
in the Statc-s and Territories and District of
Columbia and Alaska: The first year,
$7,000,000; the second year, $10,000,000; the
third rear, $15,000,000; the fourth year,
$13,000,000: the fifth year, $11,000,000; the
eivtli year,' 9,0Q0, rt Q9; the seventh year, $7,-
000.OOJ; the eighth year . $5,000,902-—making
$77,000,000, beside which there is a special
appropriation of $2,000,000 to aid in the erec
tion of school-houses in sparsely settled dis
tricts. making the total fund of $79,000,-
000. The money is given to the several
State; and Territories “in that proportion
which th? whole number of persons in each,
who, being of the age of ten years and over,
cannot write, bears to the whole number of
such persons in the United States,” according
to the census of 1880. until the census figures
of 1890 shall be obtained, an l then accord
ing to the latter figures. In States
having separate schools for white and colored
children the money shall be paid out in sup
port of such white and colored schools re
spectively. in the proportion that the white
and colored children between ten and
twenty-one years old in such State
bear ’to each other by the cen
sus. No State is to receive the
benefit of the act until its governor shall file
with the secretary of the interior a statement
giving full statistics of the school system, at
tendance of white and colored children,
amount of money expende 1, etc., number of
schools iu op-'ration, number and compensa
tion of tea h:-rs, etc.
No Stat ? or Territory shall receive in any
veil- from this fund more money than it has
paid out the previous year from its own rev
enues for common schools. If any State or
Territor y declines to take its share*of the na
tional fund, such share is to be distributed
among the Stat-s accepting the benefits of
the fund. If any State or Territory misap
plies the fund, or fails to comply with the
conditions, it loses all subsequent apportion
ments.
Samples of all school books in use in the
common schools of the States an l Territories
shall be filed with the secretary of the in
terior.
Anv Stat > or Territory accepting the pro
visions of the ad at th? first session of its
legislature after the passage of the act shall
itr~ Rs pro iata Ji.u-i af cU previous an
nual appropi'.ations.
Congv-s; reserves the right to alter or re
peal the a rt.
Th? bill has gone to the House of Repre
sentatives for action.
The word cannibal s'gniGe3 a brave oi
valiant man. and is derived from tin
name by which the Carribc-cs culles
the last lva.
HANGING FROM TREES.
THE KATE OF THREE DESPERA
DOES IN INDIANA.
End of Che Murderous Career of a Father,
(Son aud Brother.
Three leaders of a gaug of desperadoes la
Martin county, Ind.. have ju>t received sum
mary punishment at the bauds of a midnight
l>and of lyncher*. Details of theatfair are
as follows:
Precisely at 11:30 o'clock a vigilance com
mittee of about 100, composed of men from
Martin and Orange counties, surrounded th*
jnl at Shoals. The lynchers were very quiet
aud orderly, and the sheriff was first
aroused by the barking of his dog,
followed by a knock on the door.
He asked who was there, and the answer
was a crashing iu of the front door, fol
lowed by heavy blows which completely
demolished it. The mob theu went to the
jail door and knocked off the lock aud wer*
dismayed to find another which would
not yield to blows. After about
twenty minutes a man iu (ha
ciowd wa - found who understood opening
the cell door. It yielded to his efforts
and the lynch TANARUS! rushed in and grabbed
ail three of the intended victims, Thomas,
Martin, and John Archer, the latter th*
son of Thomas, the ringleaders of
what is known i:s the Archer gang.
The mob was provided with th > necessary
tools, both to get iu and to capture them if
they made any resistance. Several of them
had long iron hock; with which to grab th*
prisoners around the neck if they resisted
without endangering their own lives.
When the Arch?r gaug saw the lynchers
they offered no resistance, and when asked if
they had anything to say they refused to
speak. Their hands were tied behind their
backs, and they were taken over to the court
house yard. They were again asked if they
had any confession to make, and,
still no reply being given by any of them
they were unceremoniously strung
up to young maple trees. Tom Archer, th*
oldest one of the gang, about sixty years of
age. was hanged first. Martin Archer,
brother to Tom, aged about forty-five years,
was suspended next. John Archer, son of
Tom Archer, who was about thirty years old,
was hanged to a tree with his hands tied be
hind him, about thirty feet from his father.
The crimes for which the three men were
hanged comprise almost everything iu the
criminal calendar from murder to petty
thieving. For twenty-five years they had
been a reigning terror, both in Martin and
Orange counties, and had terrorized the
community in which they lived until the
people did not know when they went
to bed at night whether they would be mur
dered before morning or their houses burned
down. They never failed to visit vengeance
for a fancied slight, and many a farmer in
Orange and Martin counties has lost consider
able sums of money by daring robbery, the
theft of cattle, or the burning down of
bairns and houses. Martin Archer had
a family living in Southwest Town
ship, Orange county, who are
well thought of. Two of nis children are
young ladies teaching school in that section
of the country. Old Tom Archer, as he was
called, lived in Martin county, Columbia
township, and had a large family, every one
of whom are under indictments for larceny,
arson and murder, and bear a bad name
generally. John Archer formerly lived
In Columbia township, and in the past year
had been living seven miles east of Vincennes,
where he was captured two months
ago and brought to Shoals by Sheriff Padg
ett. The chief cause for their being hanged
was the confession of John Lynch, another
member of the gang, who is in the Washing
ton (Daviess county) jail. He made a con
fession and told where the bones of a mat
named Bunch, one of the vic
tims, were. They were found in two differ
ent graves, the body having been cut length
wise, and each piece being buried separate.
It seems that unkn iwn parties followed the
officials when they went to the place where
Bunch was buried and saw them exhume the
remains. Word was immediately spread
over the country, and the vigilants prepared
themselv es accordingly.
DEADLY FIRE DAMP. .
MIKEE TERRIBLE EXI> I.o*l OSS 1%
A PENNSYLVANIA COAL MINE.
Two Men Killed Instantly and Twelve
Others Serloasly Injured.
A series of explosions took place short!}
after noon a few days since, in the Union
dale mine, at Dunbar, Penn., by which twe
men were killed and twelve others received
injuries which will probably prove fatal ir
at least three ea c es. The cause of the ex.
plosion was tire damp. There were
twenty-thre3 men in the pit, nine I
of whom escaped uninjured. Th*
first explosion oc nrred at 12:30 in the after
uoon. It was a terrific shock, and was fol
lowed by two others in quick succession. The
first explosion caused the death of the twe
men and injured three. The others ran to
ward the mouth of the pit, but before they
reached it the other explosions occurred.
There was au upheaval of earth, coal
dust, and other debris. The lights
were blown out, the dust blin led the men,
and the passageways were blocked up and
cut off all escape. The pit was on fire and a
horrible death awaited the imprisoned
miners. Nine of them, who had be n work
ing in another entry, managed to make theii
way out before the mouth of the pit
was choked up. The force of the sho -k caused
by the explosion can be i iagincd,as it cause!
the men iu Morrell, vinan 1 Wheel *r, tha
adjoining nines, to dr . > their tco's and rush
panic-stricken to tlm t >p, imagining that
the pits were bein lilted heaven wind.
Tl:e ground rolled an l quaked so that
many men fell dowu an 1 three or four iu the
Morrell miue, which connects with tha
Uuiondale, were violently thrown
against the walls and seriously injured.
Everybody rushed t ward the Uniondak
mine. Columbus Shay, of the Mahoning
works, and James Henderson, of the
Calvin mine, headed a res ui lg [arty,
and went to work with picks and shovels to
force au enteran e to the r ill-fated com
panions. In a few minutes an opening was
made, and several persons rushed forward tc
enter the mine, but were repelled by a volume
of flame. It took several minutes for the
smoke aud fire to clear a.vav, and the
rescuers were compelled to wait.
The moans of the injured were
pitiable indeed. They were lying iu every
direction buried under masses of debris.
Several of them were horriblv burned. Their
sufferings were terrible. Twelve of them
were found seriously injured and two others
were .lead, mangled almost into an unrecog
nisable mass.
The men killed out ight were: John Wil
liams, trackman, age! forty-five years, mar
ried: he leaves a wife and four children.
Joseph Cope, miner, aged fifty years; he
leaves a widow and nine children.
The three injured fatally were Joseph Cope.
Jr., aged fifteen: Cal Martin, aged nineteen'
and William Starling (colored). Several of
the other injured men will be maimed for
life.
Islanders Starving.
WOEFUL DESTITUTION ON THE WEST.
ERN COAST Of IRELAND.
The British government has placed gun
boats at the service of Mr. Tuke to aid him
in his work of relieving the distress am mg
the inhabitants of the islands along the west
ern Irish coast. Indescribable distress has t>een
developed among the people inhabiting
the Arran Lsles, off Galway, who, beside
having hardly anything but* moss and sea
grass left to eat, are without fire and
often without clothing and shelter. It
is not rare to find girls of seventeen and
eighteen years of age kept in enforced
hiding during the daytime because
they are bereft of every thread of clothing,
which has long ago been bartered away for
seed potatoes or roots to feed the smaller
children with.
People are slowly dying of starvation by
the score, and measures of relief on a large
scale have been taken in Ireland. Money
has been sent from America to aid the suf
ferers.
1-oli I.OVKKS or |-l \.
HI'MOKOI'S SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURUHS.
Sadder than Death—A Mean Father
—.Vo Brains—Remembered His
Lesson—Romance of a
Coal Stove, Etc.
“Why is it, Hodson. that you will use
such extravagant comparisons? Don't
you know that it give- feebleness to your
meaning?”
“What’s the matter now?”
“Well, take the expression you have
just used, for instance—‘sadder than
death,’ Now don’t you know that noth
ing could be sadder than death?”
“Hold on. Timmons, I don't know so
well about that. Suppose you come over
to tea, try my wife’s biscuit, and judge
for yourself.— Chicago Ledger.
A Mean Father.
“Pa,” said a lazy little boy. as the old
man came into the woodshed, “haven’t
I sawed enough for to-day ? I'm getting
tired.”
“Tired? Why. I bet your mother ten
cents that you would have the whole pile
sawed before supper.”
“You did,” shouted the boy as he
grasped the saw and expectorated on
both hands. “You bet ten cents on
me? If the saw holds out I’ll win the
money?”
Some men are too mean to have chil
dren.-—Jtochestcr Un ion.
No Brains.
Gilhooly went into an Austin restau
rant, gave his order for some fried calf’s
brains, waited a long time for the waiter
to bring what he had ordered, but in
vain. At last he asked:
“Well, what about the calf’s brains?” ;
The waiter shook his head dismally,
and said :
“The outlook is pretty gloomy, judge.”
“What's the matter with my brains?”
“There ain’t any, that’s all.”
The story got out, and now, there is
some talk of running him for the legis
lature.— Texas Siftings.
Remembered His Lesson.
Scene— A primary class iu a public |
school in this city. Johnny, a six-year
old, is idling.
Teacher—“ Johnny, why are you not
writing on your slate?"
Johnny—“l hain’t got no pencil.”
Teacher —“Johnny, you must say, ‘I ,
have no pencil.’ ”
Johnny—“ Yes, ma’am.”
Teacher makes Johnny repeat the words
several times to impress them on his
memory.
It was a rule to pass water in a basin
twice a day for the children to wet the
sponges to clean their slates. A day or
two after the above occurrence the teach
er was occupied and she omitted to have
the water passed.
Johnny holding up his hand.
Teacher—“ What is it, Johnny?”
Johnny—“ There hain't been no water
passed.”
Teacher—“ Why, Johnny you know
that is not a correct manner of speak
ing.”
Johnny—“ Yes, ma’am."
Teacher—-“ Well, Johnny, what should
you say?”
Johnny—“l have no pencil.”— San
Francisco Call.
A Wolf.
Bill Ridly is a wolf,” said old Judge
Bicknell.
“Why do you think so?” someone
asked.
“Well, I will tell you. Some time ago
a roughly dressed man with bushy red
whiskers rode up to my house and wanted
to sell me a horse, a lean animal, but one
in w r hich I saw many fine points. The fel
low said he was in such need of money
that he would take twenty dollars for the
animal. I gave him the money and took
the horse. The animal fattened rapidly.
I found him equally serviceable in shafts
or under the saddle. One day, shortlv
after the animal had developed into as
fine a horse as I had ever seen, Bill Ridly
came along and claimed him. He brought
forward sufficient proof to establish his
claim and of course I gave up the horse,
thereby losing my twenty dollars beside
losing the time I had spent working
w T ith him.”
“I don’t see how you can blame Ridly."
“You don’t; then I will show you. The
scoundrel wanted his horse fattened, but
was too stingy to spend money for corn,
so he disguised himself, sold me his own
horse, then, after the horse was fat, came
back and claimed him. Yes, Billy is a
wolf. Arkansaw Traveler.
The Romance of a Coal Stove.
One day last fall, after talking until
his throat was sore, a Detroit stove dealer
succeeded in selling a widow a eoal stove,
but it was with the proviso that if every
thing didn’t work satisfactorily he was
to make it. Two days after delivering
the stove he got his first call. A boy en
tered the store and said:
“Mrs. —wants you to come up and
fix the stove. The house is full of
smoke.”
A man was sent up, and he found the
trouble to be with the chimney. Onlv
three or four days had passed when the
boy came in again and said:
"That stove is puffing and blowing and
scaring the widow to death. She wants
the same man to come up again.”
He was sent, and it was discovered
that she didn't know how to arrange the
dampers and drafts. Everything seemed
to run well fora week, and'then the boy
walked in to announce:
“ She sent me down to have you send
that man up again. The house is full of
coal gas.”
The man went up and applied the
remedy, but inside of the three days the
stove got to puffing; two days after that
the fire wouldn’t draw; then'it drew too
much; then gas escaped again. At length
the dealer went to the house and said:
“Madame, you gave me SBO for the
stove; how* much will you take for it ?”
“ I wouldn’t sell it.”
“ But I can t be sending my man up
here every two or three days all winter.”
“1 ou won t have to. I've concluded
to marry him in order to have someone
here in case of accident.”
And three days ago they were quietlv
and happily married.— Detroit Free Press.
He Was Emotional.
The company of scarred war veterans
had gathered in the town hall and were
enjoying a glorious reunion. Baked
beans and coffee were circulating brisklv •
reminiscences of the terrible war and
tales of glory and hardship were the
order of the day. All hearts grew ten
der and many voices were husky with
tender feelings as the old soldiers re
counted their experiences. Suddenly an
old, white-haired man, clad in tattered
garments, darted past the doorkeeper
into the hall and flung himself, sobbin
upon the commander’s neck.
‘‘Prison—down South— suffering—three
years !’’ he exclaimed iu a paroxysm of
emotion.
"What.” cried the commander, “an
other old veteran ? Welcome, comrade,
to our humble feast."
An eager group gathered about him
and a dozen questions w ere asked.
“ What year ?”
“ What company ?’’
“ Libby ?”
“ Andersonville
“ Castle Thunder ?’’
The old hero waved his hand majesti
cally and said, as distinctly as he could.
" How can 1 recall the awful tale ? M>
bleeding heart shrinks from reopenin'
its wounds. Let the benediction of pea, e
flood our weary souls with rest. lam m
emotional old man.”
“You are right," said the commander
deeply touched by the veteran's words
“Let joy rule this happy hour. Sit
down and partake with us."
They brought him refreshments,which
he seemed to appreciate immensely, and
treated him as their most honored guest
He adjusted himself around four plate
of beans, two pieces of pie and live cups
of coffee and then fell to work steadily
on the sandwiches.
“How sweet,” said he, at length, "tu
meet thus, linked by the indissoluble
bonds of fraternal love! Ah. how it fills
my heart—and stomach! Excuse me if
I w ipe away a happy tear. lam an emo
tional old man.”
All sat in reverent silence before th*
hero, until he began on his twenty-sev
enth sandwich. Then the
whose heart was over-flowing with
pathy, asked in pity:
“And did they treat you harshly in
those accursed prisons?”
“What prisons?” asked the veteran
“Did you not say that you were in a
Southern prison?”
“Oh, yes. I only got out last year. I
got three years down in Texas for bor
rowing a mule. It makes me tired now
to think of it. lam an emo—”
The corporal tried to strike him and
the commander tried to trip him and the
doorkeeper tried to grab him; but hr
slipped from the hall like a bullet from a
gun, and the thought of the way in which
lie had beguiled them rendered the entire
company emotional in the highest de
gree.— Boston 111 ii m inator.
The Mikado of IL-al Life.
The popular int< r-l in things Japan, ',■
lias been stimulated by tin- production of
Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado,” and our
readers may be glad to know what the
real mikado's life is like. Says one who
is informed:
“The mikado’s palace proper has only
twenty-six acres of ground within its
walls. The gateways to it are magniti
cent pieces of such architecture,the roof
timbers, gables, and eaves decorated
with gold chrysanthemums, and much
carved and gilded wood. One gate ou
each side is set apart for the mikado
They never swing open for any lesser per
sonage. nor are they ever desecrated by
any upstart foot. All of the building;
and there are about twenty of them rais
ing their lofty gables in a group—are
connected by walks or covered galleries.
Each has a low flight of steps leading
down to a sanded court on one side of it.
and each building is raised ou stone foun
dation joists, and surrounded by a tiny
moat or a ditch of pure running water.
The sanded courts are carefully scratched
over in wavy lines by a gardener’s rake,
that the mark of the intruding or
hostile foot may surely be detected.
The mats are all quite new', but
no liner or softer than are found in
the houses of wealthy Japanese, the only
palace mark about them being that they
are bound with purple silk woven with a
chrysanthemum pattern. In one care
fully' sanded court, a cherry tree and a
wild orange tree stand on either side of a
flight of eighteen broad steps leading to
the audience room of the older mikados
The members of the imperial family
stood on either side of the throne, and
on the eighteen steps were ranged the
kneeling nobles and officials of the eight
eon ranks, while prostrate on the sand
of the court were the lowest officials,
known as jige, or ‘down-to-the-earth
subjects. The throne before which they
knelt was not the gilded dias, canopy and
arm-chair of western sovereigns, hut
looked most like a large curtained bed.
A square frame-work, eight or ten feet
high, was hung all round with full,
-sweeping curtains of heavy white <ilk
Lifting the curtains reverently aside, tin
custodian let us look in upon a thick st raw
mat or platform about five feet square,
and five inches thick. On this wa- laid
a silk fukusa, or the small square cushion
used as a seat on ceremonial occasions in
Japanese life. The old mikados, whose
faces were never seen, whose persons were
sacred, and whose lives were wound up
in the most elaborate arrangement of eti
quette and red tape ever known of. -at
behind these curtains when they held
audience on New Year's day and other
rare occasions.”
A Little Girl’s Heroism.
Brave little ten-year-old Ethel Spoon*'
has received $20,000 in the Kings county
CX. Y.) court from the Delaware, La* ku
wanna and Western Railway Company.
Ethel is the daughter of Dr. Walter A
Spooner, of Brooklyn, and her story i;
worthy to find a place among the tales of
modern heroism. During the summer ol
1884, Dr. Spooner, with his wife and
family, went to pass his vacation at
Orange, N. J. They occupied a house
near the track of the Delaware, Lacka
wanna and Western Railroad, on which
, there are several unprotected crossing- at
that place. On November 19th I-the:
was out playing with two little
cousins, and the little chaps got on tb
track just as a train was approaching >
Kthel ran and got them out of the way.f
but just as she was to leave herself, he.
foot slipped down between the rail and
the wooden walk, and she could not
extricate it. She called to one of
the little boys to come and h p
her. and he, after tugging at his com
panion's leg, was about to unbutton
her boot when the train came da-lung
along and was upon them. The child,
with presence of mind, seeing it was im
possible to extricate her foot, threw
seif down on the wooden walk and al
lowed the two wheels of the locomotiv
to pass over her leg below the knee,
crunching it into a shapeless mass. 1
limb was amputated above tne knee '
same evening by a local surgeon. "
has recovered from the shock, but must
use crutches all her life. She sued for
$50,000 damages. It was shown during
the trial that at the Greenwood avenue
crossing where the accident took p • ?,
there were neither gates nor flagmen.
The defense tried to prove by several w.t
nesses that the child wasplaying on t::C
line, and the accident was due to negli
gence on her part. After a few moments’
absence the jury found a verdict f< -r tne
plaintiff. A demonstration on the part
of the audience was stopped by the curt
officers. After being discharged cach'd
the jurymen walked round and *
hands with Ethel, one of them saying
her, ‘‘You're a plucky little lady.”