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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.”