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Hew York Post Office.
UETTERS FOR “MRS. ASTOR” PUT
IN THE GENERAL DELIVERY.
I They Lie, Side by Side with the
■age* of Patrick and Gretchen,
II Sent to the Dead Letter Office,
i Blind Department.
Hera fa another one of the ume nature
wherein the writer of the letter which
wan answered had injected a postscript
between her name and address. The en
velope to the reply which she received
wub inscribed as follows:
Mrs. Minnie Reed
Good Ry By
i hope i see you
wants more
farewell
New York.
A little lad of Greefiock, Pa., recently
made a personal appeal to the postmaster
MRS. WILLIAM ASTOR.
In the A box of the funeral delivery of
fa New York postoffice, side by sidb
With letters addressed to Miss Annie j
Aageeen, Miss Bridget Anthon and oth-
an of that honest and plebeian ilk, re
posed one day recently eighteen mis-
riraa, most of them inclosed in perfumed
and monograined envelopes, and all ad-
flnwiril to “Mrs. Astor.New York City.”
their presence in that public receptacle
WM due to the fact that for some time a
difference of opinion has existed between
the elderly Mrs. William Astor and the |
much younger Mrs. William Waldorf '
Aetor as to which, under the rules of so-
dety and custom, is entitled to recogni
tion as the fennile head of the family and
the consequent distinction of being ad
dressed and written to as “Mrs. Astor.”
Now, it chances that the United States
Is • plain, everyday republican country,
and as yet the postoffice regulations have
not been so modified as to recognize the
distinctions of birth and rank which ob
tain in England and other conntries of
Anope. Therefore when the ebb wave
the conflict between the two hearers
ad a noted name reached the |>ostal de
partment the authorities of that branch
«d the public service cruelly declined to
pam judgment on the mooted point and
{mated the daintily inscribed messages
to “Mrs. Astor” precisely jis they have
always treated the unsatisfactorily ad
dressed communications to “Mrs. Jones.”
They claimed and still claim, with a
plausibility of reasoning that presents
m> flaw to the mind of the average citi-
aan, that they have no means of deter
mining for what Astor these letters are
Intended, and so, as they arrive from
SUPERINTENDENT MORGAN AT WORK,
day to day, the missives take their place
In humble contiguity to those which
Patrick sends his sweetheart or Gretchen
to Hans. There they remain,
these aristocratic notes to “Mrs. Astor,”
util the law’s limit of delay is reached,
and then they go with other unclaimed
matter to the dead letter office.
This Astor episode, however, is but a
minor problem in the great and daily
puzzle of mail service at the big post-
office in New York city. I had jui inter
acting and highly instructive chat the
other day with Mr. E. M. Morgan, the
general superintendent of the city de
livery. This stalwart and efficient gen
tleman has under his control what can
he termed without exaggeration an army
of employes. But the view either of the
carriers’ or the distributors’ rooms,
where hundreds of men are engaged
night and day in the multifarious duties
of the service, impressed me less than
did my visit to what is known as the
•‘blind department.” There, in a little
room hardly more than 30 by 30 in size,
fix men, who possess almost an unlimit
ed knowledge of geography, languages
and local information ;is it applies to
afcreets in cities the world over and coun
try houses wherever they have a specific
designation, sit and puzzle over imper
fectly directed letters which pour in on
them at the rate of 3,000 i»er day. The
chief of this so called “blind depart
ment” is a small sized, spectacled, full
whiskered, mild mannered old gentle
man named Vv*. W. Stone, who has been
engaged in shunting wrongly directed
letters upon their rightful pathway for
thirty years. It is the easiest of all his
tasks to send the “Mrs. Astor” letters
to the general delivery window, but in
many other respects the labors of him
self and his assistants demand and de
velop intelligence and ingenuity of the
highest order. Who, for example, not
skilled in deciphering the hieroglyphics
of the ignorant could properly forward
z letter addressed like this:
Al signore Antonio Paradise
Celia 30 New Yorck
toompes.
Yet that missive reached its destination
without delay. The man to whom it
was written occupies cell 36 at the
Tombs prison, New York city.
Here are some more of the puzzling
directions which are daily scrutinized
and solved:
Bor Angelo Phillips
Laborers Furnished For railways
United States of America.
Mr. Phillips has an office on tha
Bowery, and received his letter all right.
Messrs. Howard & Crosby,
New York.
This letter was intended for and waa
delivered to Miguel Aleo, agent of tha
French Plate Glass company. comer of
Howard and Crosby streets. -
The message addressed as below duly
raaohed its owner at Philadelphia, Pa.,
after only a short defay.
Mrs. H. S. Glick
Midwife
Graduated in Russia
Kieeff
15 years experience
, Located at 1337 A 13th st
America Telephone 58«
The good woman’s Russian corre-
apoodent, in her ignorance of English,
had copied the printed letter head, with
fhgjlboye results.
VETERAN STONE SOLVING LETTER PUZZLES,
of that town in addressing a letter to
his father, which appears on the enve
lope as follows:
moritz cross prufiok Pa.
mister Hirschl send that there
New yurk city My Dear Pear
Moritz Gross’ “dear papa” got his
son's missive with hut little delay.
It is, however, in deciphering the ad
dresses of letters sent by colored people
that the able clerks of the blind depart
ment lose most of their sleep and part of
the little hair still remaining on their
heads. Here is the inscription on one of
the missives which recently reached its
proper destination:
Miss Garg Anner
Ford New York
178 ta Misn
This was intended for Miss Georgiana
Ford, 178 Thompson street.
Still another letter was directed to
Mr. Richard Fichjerls
No. 18 Ander St. <
New York.
This was discovered to be intended for
Messrs. Dick & Fitzgerald, the publish
ers, of No. 18 Ann street. An ordinarily
intelligent merchant of Bridgeport,
Conn i sent a communication to Mrs.
Lord & Flannel. The letter was intend
ed for Messrs. Lord & Taylor, from
whom he had ordered a line of flannel
goods. The Messrs. Dick & Fitzgerald
mentioned above also received the other
day a letter belonging to them which
was written by a North Carolina corre
spondent, and addressed to Mr. Dick P.
Phiggel.
But the gentlemen in the blind de
partment have still other problems with
which to contend. An enormous num
ber of missent foreign letters come un
der their supervision. I saw, for ex
ample, on my recent visit at least a score
of missives properly belonging to resi
dents of the Argentine Republic; a let
ter postmarked London and directed to
certain noble lord summering in the
A VIEW OF THE BLIND DEPARTMENT.
isle of Jersey, which had wandered
across the water because some careless
postal clerk had mistaken the island for
the state.
These were promptly re-addressed and
returned to their r<wl destinations be
yond the seas. But the queerest mistake
of all, probably, had been made by a
clerk in the English Foreign Office.
Printed on the envelope were the words
“On Her Majesty’s Service,” and the
address read: “John Graham, British
Consul, Progreso, New York.” A clerk
of the blind department scratched out
the New York, substituted Mexico and
sent the letter to its proper destination.
Fred C. Dayton.
Strange Experience of a Young
Southern Actress.
OT long since, a beautiful
young Southerner, the
petted daughter of one of
the beet families in New
Orleans, arrived of New
York, and took rooms in
a fashionable boarding
bouse, not far from Flftl
Avenue. Her home
been one of comfort, and
even of elegance, but be
coming stage-struok, she
had tha courage to leave
all tha charms of social
life in her native city, to
try her fortune as’an actress. Her grace,
bsanty and sparkling vivacity won her
immediate success In the South, but her
ambition was not satisfied with provin
clal popularity, and she determined to
secure metropolitan recognition of her
talents. Her wardrobe was large and
magnificent. Four trunks were filled
with costly dresses, exquisite laces and
rich jewels, and when she made herde
bnt at a well-known up town theatre,
she was received with a flattering ova
t on. She was the sue. ess of the season,
—a success due more to her charming
slDgingthan to her talents aa an ac
tress.
Being as gencrons as she was pretty
and gifted,'she spent her money ss fast
as‘she made it,Iso at the end of the sea
son, she had scarcely enough to take her
tbrongh the summer without calling op-
on _ her~family for a remittance, which
she disliked to do. A trip to LoDg Branch
exhausted her funds, and when she re
turned to New York about the middle of
August, sbe had only ten dollars in ber
pocket, and her next engagement would
not begin for three weeks. At the end of
the first, week, ber landlady presented
the bill witi prompt punctuality, but was
persuaded to wait until the new season
pened
one afternoon, toward the close of
August, she left her boarding house to
take an hour’s stroll on Fifth Avenoe.
She was not feeling well; she had
overtaxed ber strength during the pre
vlons season, and her present fluan
clal troubles had preyed upon her
mind, filling her with great anxiety.
She waa friendless and alone in the
great, heartless city. Thinking over
ber affairs, sbe wandered off from
the Avenue without noticing where sbe
was going, suddenly she found herself
growing d'zzy and faint. Sbe knew
nothing more until sbe awoke In a pri
vate room of a public hospital. Soe was
told that, three days before sbe had been
picked np on tbe street In an unconscious
condition, and ber dress and appearance
showing that she was a lady, sbe had
been brought to the hospital In a carri
age, and placed in the room where sbe
found herself. Tbe physician in attend
ance bad enjoined tbe utmost quiet, as
sbe was threatened with brain fever, and
the least excitement might prove fataL
She gave ber address to the superin
tendent of the hospital, and requested
that a few necessary articles of clothing
should be brought to her. With the
satchel came a peremptory demand for
two weeks board. Toe next day came
another demand, followed by a third,
until the doctor sent word to the land
lady that if she did not stop dunning the
sick womsn. train fever might set In and
she (the landlady) would be responsible
for tne consequencer.
At the end of two weeks the young sc
tress was allowed to leave the hospital
She went to her former lodgings, but was
told that her rooms were rented to an
other lady. She then asked for her
trunks, and was infoimed that they had
been taken care of, and great sympathy
was expressed for her. Not dreaming
there was anything wrong, she engaged
rooms nextdoor, and made arrangements
to take her meals with her former land
lady. In the meantime she unexpectedly
received some mon.y which she had
loaned to a friend. W ith this she settled
with her landlady, Inducing two weeks
while she was at the hospital.
In the meantime cur heroine had made
repeated demands for her trunks, but
bad always been put off with one excuse
or another. One evening at dinner, she
noticed that the landlady’s daughter
wore a watch which she recognized as
her own. Sne demanded possession of
it and got it. Tbe same evening she
took a handsome breastpin from one of
the servants, and saw the laundress
wearing one of her costly d reset s. 7 he
young actress’ eyes were now wide open,
and upon questioning the servants, sbe
found that while she was ill at the hoepi
tal, her landlady had broken into ner
trunks and distributed her effects with
profuse generosity among her own
daughters and the domestics. Biddies
were sdorned with rare finery and un
wonted jewels; big feet were squeezed
into pink satin slippers, and No. 6 gloves
were made to do uuty on a No. 8 hand.
Further investigai ion revealed the fact
that the land lady,In her generous distrl
bution of property which did not belong
to her, had not forgotten herself. Sue
had reserved for heiseif a small bus
choice collection of books belonging to
the young actress, together with well
selected pictures. She found these and
other articles belonging to her In the
landlady’s private parlor, which present
ed a very bate appearance when stripped
of i;s newly acquired ornaments. Call
ing in a detective to assist her in finding
ber property, she discovered that a beau
tlful necklace, compcsed of sparkling
gems, had been broken up and distrlb
uted piece by piece; that her desk bad
been lined or its contents and valuable
letters, manuscripts and other important
papers been destroyed. The matter has
been placed in the hands of a lawyer, and
a racy aEd Interesting case will probably
be added to the criminal annals of New
York. This Is but one phase of metro
polltan life. Other things, equally
strange and just as tiue, are taking piace
up aboat five hoars afterwards at a
dspth oT thirty feet, ,
And now cornea tha extremely sad dr-
cnmiuuioefl with All Its crushing fores
upon the kind father, brothers and sis-
tors of Miss Nettle McMillan, as her body
cannot be found. For tha past week,
night and day, tha entire community has
been making every effort to find tae body
without success.
An expert diver has been employed
who explored every part of the sine that
was possible; then a large number of dy
namite cartridges were exploded at gi eat
depth, but to no avail.
As a last resort, a fire engine was
brought from Pensacola to pomp ont the
water, and after running eight or ten
Tfth hours, raising 20.000 gallons per boor, it
' 2* was found that it baa no effect upon the
water, which goes to show that there fa
~ an under current, or subterranean pas
sage into which the body must have been
drawn.
This, of course, makes it more sad and
heartrending than if herrelatlvesa d
friends could have obtained the body and
decently and lovingly burled it. May the
Lord sustain them
Binceonr last letter we have visited
several places, among them Milligan
where we preached twicj to a very large
and appreciative andience. Also Pensa
cola, where we had the pleasure of spend
ing several hours, and dining with our
noble and generous friend, Col. W. D.
Hanging of Raiders.
[Continued from Firet Page.]
had given him the camp nickname of
‘Death on the pale horse.’ After he had
gotten inside of the hollow square ho
pointed to the prisoners and said in his
broken German:
“ ‘Brizners, I bring dese men back to
yon so goot as I gotdtm. Yon baf tritd
dem yourselves and found dem guilty.
You baf sentenced dem, and now do mit
dem as you bleeze, and
I Wash My Hands
of the whole biz ness. May Gott baf
mercy on yon and on dem! Garts, about
foot! Forward, march!” and with that
he left ns.
“The prisoners looked up at the dang
ling ropes, and several of them slmulta
neously exciaimec:‘My God, boys, you're
not going to really hang us!’ Key, who
was standing by the scaffold with several
of bfa aids, answered: ‘Boys, that’s just
the size of it!’ and the murderers then
began to appeal to the crowd that was
packed about them.
“One of them asked the rest to be still
and let the priest speak, and the pries-t
Japanese Unitarians.
“Buddhism in its highest state and
Unitarianism are just the same,” says , _ - .
„ _ „ , ic .i. every day, but they do not a*wsys reach
Mr. Kentaro Kaneko, a member of the tars of even the most vide awake
Japanese privy council. Whether this journalist.—No Name Magazine, lor Au
utes Vue p-aied >pon the Alter
of Masonry. May tbe Craftsmen heed it.
His talks to the teachers in their Insti
tute and to the children waa lively, en
tertaining, instructive and highly im
proving and his presence seem d to im
part new life and inspiiation to the
causes be represented. We have failed
to take up DeFoniak and Bagdad. Broth
er * June” goes ont in his full strength,IC5
In the shade E. S. TYNER.
June, 28, 1890.
Note—Thfa letter waa Written in June
and has been delayed for several weeks.
is a compliment to Buddhism or Uni-
tariauism we leave the reader to decide.
But it shows how easily and gracefully
the amiable Jap's religion sits upon him
when it is mentioned that many of the
most cultured of the Japanese, both in
official and private life, actually propose
to “flop,” so to speak, over from Bud
dhism to Unitarianism, just for the pur
pose of being in harmony with the west
ern world, whose customs they are adopt
ing. They do not do this from any pro
found convictions either of conscience or
spirituality, hut because it is the proper
thing. Unitarianism is the form of
Christianity that will make the transfor
mation most easy; therefore, say the ad
vanced thinkers of Japan, let us adopt
Unitarianism as %ve adopt trousers and
French millinbry.
The Unitarians are to be congratulated
on this accession of millions of converts
to their ranks, but how will the rest of
the Christian world, who have spent a
thousand dollars for converting the
heathen where the Unitarians have spent
one, regard this kind of a change in re
ligion?
Mr. Fukuzawa, an eminent Japanese
author, advises his countrymen to make
the leap from Buddhism to Unitarian
Christianity in these words:
Let us take it, not because it is true, but because
It la the creed of the most highly civilized nations,
and Japan should wear the same dress as her
neighbors with whom she desires to staud well.
In her speech the queen congratu
lates parliament on the steps it has
taken to promote technical and pri
mary education. This is the trend of
modern education, toward mechanical
and technical training and away from
book stuffing. The educators of the
United States, those in government em
ploy and elsewhere must recognize thfa
and prepare for it. Otherwise the na
tions of Europe will go so far ahead of
ns in the trades and industrial arts that
we shall never catch ud to them.
gust.
BONIFAY, FLA.
A Delayed Letter, •
Editor Sunny South: The most im
portent event which has transpired in
this section sincemur last letter, was the
very sad occurrence which happen, d at
Cbipley, our sister town, on the 17th
inst. in which two nice young girls were
drowned, and the third one being res
cued in a drowning condition. Never
did the pen of friendship dwell upon a
more melancholy event than the sud
den and unexpected deatn of these
dear girls. Mlts Nettie McMillian, daugh
ter oi Capt. Angus McMillian, and Miss
Nanle Calloway, daughter of Mr. J. M.
Calloway. It seems that they with oth
ers wire in «be habit of visiting a large
lime sink near Capt. McMillian’s reBi
cence for bathing. On this occasion
there were four at the sink. Miss Grey
moie Prlgion and little Mits Powell with
tbe two that were drowned. .....
Miss Frigeon joined in tne bath but
Miss Powell refused to go in, which was
very fortunate, as in all probability all
would have drowned had there not been
one to give the alarm.
It appears that there was a narrow
space on the aide of the sink in which
those who could not swim could bathe
without danger, but it seems on this oc
casion tbe three girls got to playing try
ing to duck each other and got beyond
their depth, as the sink was very deep in
^Little Miss Powell* seeing them sink
ing and struggling, screamed for help,
whichattractedlitUe Jeff Mc-MlUian a
ton year old boy who hastened to the
pisce just in time to rescue little Miss
Prigeon who had broken loose from the
other two, and was sinking to rise no
"rnis little boy being a swimmer, plunged
in and caught her by tbe head and alter
being sunk twice himself by the drown
ing girl, he sueoeeded in getting her ont
before life was extinct.
A committee has been appointed to
raise funds to purchase for thfa heroic
boy u medal. asAhfa fa tha second life he
hu saved from drowning. The other
two girls never rose after they first went
down#
la a few minutes the sink was lined
with anxlooa Mends, bnt too late to save
A few days ago I noticed in our Kicker
Kolumn where a negroes had ill treated
a little boy whom she was nursing. It
brought to my mind a story that I heard
not long ago.
A leading pfayslcan of thfa city ob
served that a neigh box’s child waa often
“shook” and slapped by it nurse, and
thinking to do the mother and child a fa
vor, he wrote the former a note, not
knowing her personally, and set forth
the facts as he had seen them, The re
ply came
“Thank yon. I think I am anite cap
able of sell ctlng a nurse, and my present
one is entirely satisfactory.”
There are many mothers who know
very little of their nurse s true disposi
tlou, and this Is very unfortunate for the
child.
There is a dear little baby in this city-a
serapn looking child—who is now in a
critical concition from the nse of mcr
phlne, given by the first nurse, whose
duty it was to care for it religiously. For
weeks the bHby thrived and slept and
grew under tbe nurse's handling!, but
when the s'x weeks were up and the
nurse was dismissed, the cbi.d b vjanto
sutler. No one knew the reason, and it
was not until the next mother who bad
engaged the nurse discovered with her
own eyes the nurse adininiiteiicg mor
phlne, which she kept In her bosom, did
tbe first woman know that her baby
was suffering from morphine poison.
The second child died, and many whom
the woman has nursed have died, pir-
hsps, from the t fleets of the morpniue
r-'ven them during their first month of
ife.
Unless you have a competent nurse it
is dangerouB to trust your baby out of
sight, and yet bow are we to know when
one is competent? A woman needs help,
especially with a child, and y: t she runs
a risk in taking “any cnance help.”
If there could be started a klndergar
teu for young negro girls, I believe it
would prepare the nurses to better fill
the positions for which they apply. And
if mothers would eng.go out their other
work and give more personal care to their
little ones the little ones would fare bet
ter—Lottie Belle Wylie in the Evening
Journal.
The body of Miss Calloway was hooked
UVVIv WUU piwlloJvU3 ISIuUUt Wl. VV . Aw. — vasw |raavov u|rvaa| reaiaa tuv pilv. V
Chipley, V. P.. of the L. & N. R. R. Yon/ Ibegan to make an appeal for them. As
will always find his liberal hand and * ' *
heart open to the relief of the distressed,
and his noble aool bounding with eager
ness to serve s fritnd, and his fine conn
tenance beaming with honest pleaanre at
the success of worth and virtue, and
frowning with Indignation at the schemes
of meanness. We nope to see him soon
taking part In the National ConnciL To
Col. W. D. Chipley, does the people of
the state and West Fla., in particular
owe an inexpressible debt of gratitude
for his Indefatigable perseverance in
overcoming the many difficulties and
embarrassments, than were placed In his
way while trying to open and complete
the P. & A. H. R , wh.cn has developed a
comparative wilderness into one of the
moat delightful and promising sections
in tbe South. For to Col. Chlpley’s un
tiring energy, and skillful management,
waa this grand enterprise put in opera
tlon from the Chattahoochee River on
the east to Pensacola on the west.
We have recently made two visits to
tbe State Insane Asylum. This institu
tion 1s under the supervision of Dr. J. N.
Smith, Bartow, Florida. After oar close
scrutiny and observation among its
mournful vicissitudes of sorrow, we are
fully persuaded that Dr. Smith makes it
truly a piace of refuge for receiving and
ameliorating the condition of the poor
unfortunates, and we can congratulate
the State in getting such a judicious and
systematic gentleman.
We found all the grounds in the most
cleanly and sanitary condition, an d all
the buildings, with tne feniing, thor
oughly whitn-wasbed. The patients
looked nest and well cared for. But we
saw quite a number of persons in the
Asylum which we think the State should
not tend there, such as those persons
laboring under bodily defects and peri
odical fits and apoplexy.
There are about 250 patients in the in
stitution, which fa about all that can be
cared lor; and this number, Dr. Smith
informed me, has been kept up very rt g
ular for quite a while and many applica
tions rejected for a ant of room.
We called to Bee our friend Mrs. Great-
house, of PlaDt City, Florida, who has
been there quite a while, but found her
mental derangement in each a condition
that made it very unpleasant to be in her
presence. We fear her mental maladies
are permanently fixed. May ber two
little boys be special objects of God's
favor.
Las'ly, we have a'so just had the pleas
ure of attending the Masonic Celebration
and the Teacher’s Institute of Washing
ton connty st Chipley. Maj. A. J. Russel,
State Supt., was on hand, and “killed two
birds with one stone,” by delivering the
Masonic address and participating in the
business of the Institute. We have been
hearing Maj. Russel speak quite ofien
for the past twenty years, and he always
swings clear. But on this occasion, his
MaaoDic address resembled a column of
unblemished marble, where all is finish
td, faultless and beautiful. To the
thoughtufi Craftsman, it was heart awak
ening and sonl subduing eloquence that
afforded exquisite pleasure, as itengen
dered thought, invigorated fancy and
plunged us into those de icious reveries,
which entrance the soul and “lap it In
soon as his drift was understood a terri
ble cry went up from all parts of that
vast crowd: 'No, nt! Hang them! Hang
them!’ Just at this moment one of the
condemned standing nearest me threw
his broad brimmed bat on the ground
and yelled out: ‘By God! I’ll try for it or
I’ll die for it!’ and throwing his arms
over his face to protect his eyes, he bent
his head down and came like a battering
ram against oar company.
“We struck at him with our clubs and
knocked him to his knees. He got up
and forced himself through the crowd. A
scene of the wildest confusion followed
Every one was txpectingthe cannon and
infantry to open upon ns, and the fifteen
thousand men stampeded in every direc -
tlon away from the stockade.
“Toere had been a number of wells dug
and some of the men fell in these end
broke their legs, otners were trampled
upon, and Wirz, who waa watening tbe
scene from tbe prison headquarters, lost
his head and yelled to the guoid, ‘Fuel
lire!’ The captain of the guards, how
ever, bad more sense and did not give
tbe order.”
'Two of the boys of my company ran
after the prisoner who had escaped. They
followed him through a quagmire which
was thigh deep and knocked him down.
Key in the meantime ordered the other
men on to tbe scaffold, and as they stood
there%hls man was brought In almost
fainting. He drank about a backetful of
water, and all of tha prisoners partook
ol water freely.
‘Father Mahoney then resumed the
reading of the service, but was constant
ly interrupted by a fallow named Delaney,
was constantly shouting ont messages to
his pals in the crows as to what to do
with the booty be had left. The priest
reproved him at one time.
At last Key said:
1 ‘Only two minutes and one half more
for talk.’ He then stepped back and
raised his band, whereupon Delaney
yeiled oat:
‘■‘Uoodhy, boys. If I’ve hurted any of
yon, forgive me.’
At Key’s signal tbe six regulators ae
lected for handmen then tied tbe hands
and feet of the condemned, pat tbe ropes
around their nt ck s and pulled meal sacks
down over their faces. Two men stood
on the ground below and held the ropeB
which fastened the board which upheld
the drop upon which tbe prisoners stood.
‘ Key dropped his hand, the hangmen
jumped from the scaffold and tbe men on
the ground jerked away the hoard. The
men all fell and span around on the eud
of tbe ropes. There was one exception.
This was a tall, raw boned, strong necked
man, named Moshy, who was second
from tbe end of the line. His rope broke
and he fell insensible to the ground. A
couple of the regulators ran to him,
threw water in his face and brought him
to. He thought at first he was in the
other world, but he was taken to the
scaffold and huog.
“At the end of a short time the hospital
steward pronounced the men dead, and
they were cut down. The whole camp
passed around and looked at their bodies,
and they were buried in a separate part
of the cemetery from the rest of the
prisoners. The graves are, 1 am told,
there to this aay.
‘Tqe hanging of them broke up their
band, and after this we had a police or
ganization inside of the pi ison. We had
our fixed punishment, and we were as
far as possible a community of law and
order. Frank G. Carpenter.
Carolina’s Rice Crop.
Charleston, S. C., Aug. 25.—News has
been received here from Georgetown of
the almost unprecedented good condition
of the rice crop in the upper Pedee sec
tion. One planter, R. E. Frazor, com
menced harvesting on Friday last a 70
acre field. Tbe writer of the letter, an
experienced planter, says he haa no re col
lecton of any rice ever being cot in that
section to early as thfa. He thinks that
harvesting will generally commence thla
week. The news from the rice fields
lower down the coast is equally cheering.
Everything points to an unprecedented
rice crop in Booth Carolina.
Died at Nacogdoches, Texas, July 5 th 1890,
Mrs. Addie 1‘. B. Martiu wife of Dr. Carlisle P.
B. Martiu, at the age of 52 years. Mrs. Martin
was born aud raised In Augusta Ga .She leaves
a husband aud three children to moutu her loss
aud they have the heartfelt sympathy of the eu
lire people here.
She eau,c to Nacogdoches in August, 1889 and
during her short stay among us made many
warm friends, 8be was a true Christian, an un
selfish friend, agent e. loving wife, and devoted
mother, aud her loss is keenly felt by all.
Mia. Geo. H. Matthew
Th< re is an old colored man in Sanders
vi le who is known all over tbe county as
“Lum.” He Is nearly eighty years old,
and has been blind almost all his life.
He runs tbe printing preBS for a Wash,
ington county psper, and can mend or
arrange any part of the machine. Ho
can find anything as easily as if his vis
ion was not affected. His lull name is
Christopher Columbus Choctaw Jordan,
which he delights iu repeating.
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Address TH SMITH, A. M., President,
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The fast new cruiser Philadelphia is
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a notable part in American naval his
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captured by the Tripolitans. They
turned her into a first class war ship of
their kind and placed her in the harbor
with a Turkish crew aboard. In the
dead of night, Feb. 16, 1803, Lieut. De
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on board the Intrepid, a captured and
remodeled Turkish war vessel, stole
alongside the Philadelphia under pre
tense of being a friendly vessel in dis
tress. They got near enough to the
Philadelphia to set fire to her and blow
her up, destroying her completely with
a large number of the piratical force on
board, and then sailed away safely. This
exploit helped to make the fame of the
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The Heat of the Moan.
An English scientist has produced an
apparatus for registering the heat of the
moon. By it it fa shown that the warmth
received from the moon fa equal to that
felt from a candle at a distance of twenty-
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nine cases ont of ten are caused by
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We will give One Hundred Dollars, for
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STANFORD, -° KENTUCKY.
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The Annual Session begin* October 1st. Rest
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762-2m
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ipily. Special attention to wedding outfits.
> reasonable. Samples and estimates fur-
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clean the most delicate shades and col >rs we
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F Hi SALE:—My entire stock of Silver Laced
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lock Reason for selling, change of business.
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M IDDLE-AGED widower with children, ot
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clean, dye and repair. They pay the freight,
write for catalogue. McEweus Steam Dye
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that we dye your goods and guarantee them
•it to smut, save money we will make your old
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for catalogue. Agents wanted. McEwen Dye-
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L EARN bow to repair watches It is pleasant,
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privilege of examination) a sample lot of 15C
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winding watch, accompanied by the «• anufac-
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W ANTED—'Yen to know that McEwtns
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718-
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