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VOLUME V.
Fov the American.
THE MISERABLE BRIDE.
It vjns only u ;<**• to-dftjr
I stood by a voting man’s aide,
T was hnjpy, glad and gay,*
Yes, I was a blushing ’wide.
]ef : a m itlier f > id and proud,
A ru fiber whom I could trust,
Ji it u >w alia lies buried in a shroud—
She’s paid that debt, “dust to dust.”
Why did I leave that home ao bright,
A home that I loved so well?
Oh, that I’m sad and lone to-night
Dear reader, to you i’ll tell.
We met in the garden—l loved him dear,
VVnere the flowers were bathed in dew;
’ Twgw there he whispered in mv ear,
Aud 1. like mi ay, thought him true.
Kre many days my home was thronged,
And everything seem’d pare delight—
jMt I was tliero so cruelly wronged -
For ’twafl my wedding night.
’Twhh on a bleak November day
1 left my borne aud mother dear,
>Uie fondly kissed my tears away
Aud says. “1 leave you to his care.”
I thought him noble, brave aud true,
l think ho loved me well,
Hut ere long he sip and that fatal dew
That carried him to hell.
They became red and drunken eyes,
They pierced my woman’s soul,
O would to (toil I’d sympathize
That tli is tide could not be told.
His bloated form was once my pride,
For him I left, my friends,
lint now, alas ! I'm u miserable bride ;
With this my story ends.
t). I>. i 1 .
XUrtersville, Ga.
no aou.
One afternoon last summer while we
Were conversing with Judge l’eunybun
ker, he remarked;
l was once deputy warden of the Texas
penitentiary. We bad a great many
curious cases at, our boarding house.
Tuere was one convict, a burglar, in
whom T took p iticular interest. He
wom gentlemanly in Ins manners, always
cheerful, and very humorous. J don’t
Jchow lm name, probably he had several
but his uumber was 303. Oie day, diu’-
mg some conversation I had with him,
i remarked that l was surprised that, he
should be H burglar, that th* life • i
the Imrglir was so hard.
“Yes,* we pn tessioual l-urglaia do not
tinve an easy life of it,’ responeod No,
“We have our trouble pretty much
the same as other professional men.
We are liable to become suddenly trans
formed into lead mines, which is always
more or less annoying. If we don’t get
•hot fall of holes we are liable to drop
off roofs, or down air-shafts, and injure
ourselves internally. Such things are
not pleasant.”
“Hut as you say you should not com
every profession has Its Jnnv-
)*ack#, ” I remarked.
“I don’t complain. My lfie in this in
wtitntkci is very agreeable, fcui’t see
much of tho woihi while lam in here,
but traveling is a nuis nine, anyhow.
One lias so much worry with the Custom
House officers. Besides, traveling is ex
pensive.”
“While you was practicing you;' pro
fessiou you must have had some disa
greeable experience.”
“Lots of them. It is very sad to be
elifcwed up by a vicious dog after falling
off the roof of a house into an asli barrel,
having previously intercepted a load of
buckshot, lmt all that does not hurt as
much as to have all your plunder packed
up and have to leave it behind. That
happened to me once. To this day t
oau’t shake off the impression that I was
robbed. It seemed to me that, it was
equivalent to taking the bread out of my
children's mouth, that is, in case 1
should ever have any children.”
“Theu you were married*?"
“I have been very indiscreet and reck
less, but T never wen.t to such extremes.
I don’t think a professional burglar
should ever marry. Matrimony weans
him from his profession.’*
“If you have time T would like you to
tell me "how you were left on that par
ticular <cession to which yon refer.”
“Certainly, Long Joe was with me.
He was a natural born burglar. He was
devoted to hi.s profession, lb' was one
the ra r ost conscientious and pains- talu tg
cracksmen T ever knew. We had com
plete 1 Can- arangemeuts to go through a
hmwWmie villa on tiie outskirts if New
York. That’s where 1 used to practice.
It >vas one of the most favorably located
house# to burglarize that I ever saw. It
seemed as if it wni built there for the very
purpose. There vv.is ve**y little travel
on the street in front of the house. It
was a quiet retired neighborhood. There
wa a ui ante 1 p ilieem in, who could al
ways be relied on to pass the house at a
certain hour. He was so regular in his
habits that lie was utilized by the local
burglar as a kind of a clock. It was
trip* that the wealthy people living iu
the neighlxnho. and had hired a special
watchman.”
“I should think that might have inter
fered with your plans, but perhaps you
made a. compromise with him.”
“Not a bit of it. That would have
been unprofitable. The go6d people
did uot know that tiie old man was tight
when he weut ou duty and was in rjie
ha,bit of seeking some secluded spot and
dozing the happy bonis away, but wo
kuew ull about him. He could not have
slept more soundly if he had belonged o
the regular police force of New York,
“The iumates of the house consisted
ot au old geutlemau aud his daughter, a
bjantifnl girl. The c ok, who was old
and quite deaf, slept in the cellar. The
other servant had gone away. There
wore no visitors in the house, except
Long Jim and me.
There was not even a dog on the prim
ises to complicate matters. Long Jim
had visited the premises disguised as a
book agent. In my pri tension we :re
obliged to resort to such humiliating dis
gu’ser. He lu.d kept his eyes open
while he was in the house.
“He knew all about the doors and
windows. There was a good deal of old
silver in the sideboard in a room that
could be entered from the veranda.
“Everything seemed to favor us. The
garden gate was locked, but we scaled
the wall with ease and borrowed a step
ladder. Tt was a very dark night, hence
we could not, see our way very clear.
The special policeman was fast asleep,
thanks to the evils of intemperance, and
the vegular mount* and policeman will'd
not make bis rounds t>r two bouts.
Ah far as we were concerned, be
might have remained away altogether.
• • T ll a very short, tinte T was in the din
ing room where the side-board end the
silver wen*. Although not specially in
vited, 1 stepped up to the side-board
aud took something. Not, to put too
tine a point on it 1 took everything in
sight, that wain worth taking. By the
light (i my duk lantern 1 was able to
till a large bag with the plunder. I
waited for the signal from Long Jim,
who was on the outside, to notify me
that the coast was clear. No signal
came, but to my eausternaton, 1 heard
music aud then voices,
“1 was afraid that we had been diu
covered. Leaving the plunder on the
table, for I did not want to be caught with
it in mv posses?ion,as it might have made
me an object of suspicion, I opened the
door and stood on the vußpula Ji 'teaing.
“There was a m in singing and aaaoia
panying 1 imself on a guitar. We wove
not the only criminals in the neighbor
hood, it seemed.
“The musig stopped mddenly, and I
heard L mg a bn say in q, low voice^
“What are you doing here? i bojieyg
you are a thief.” t
“Tim answer *f the disturbed muni"
cians was;
‘Don’t interfere with h* f fib’
serenading u lady,’
“ ‘Now* you _cle.u- out. The p c o
pie in the house want to sleep and 1
don’t propose to have thtm disturbed.
Have you any license to give open a.r
concerts?'
• “ ‘No,’ wait the timid reply.-,
“ ‘Tiie i you get away from here as
fast as your legs will carry you or I’l
run you in. I’m a special policeman,
gaid Long Jim, indignantly.
“I luu.nl some grumbling aid the
sound of deputing footsteps:
“T was glad for i!, for j wa>* not jn th®
humor to l .sten to poor music just then,
I was about to go back h r the plunder
when the door gently opened a few
inches, and a genii*.- female voice whis
pered through the crack:
“ ‘Joluiie, dearest Johnie.”
• J had a half a dozen names but
Johnie was m.t oj.f f them, so she
couldn’t mean mcq Uressuce if mind
in such emergencies is my strong cud.
I did not betray myself by any sudden
exclamation. ! merely infitipred a few 7
indistinct words.
“ ‘You are too rash, Johnie; y*>n wil
get yourself into trouble.’
“It struck ipe that there was a vein cf
truth iuni.ii g tbit ugh the U iha?h, but I
! said nothing.
S “ *Ytn sht uld not bring me a sera
-1 mule, Father is awfully angry at you/
lie has heard acjne false rumors about
you, but I’ll tell yon all about it when
we meet at tiie old place, tomorrow at
3 o’clock. r
“I thought to in yso If that she had bel
ter not wait for me. T thought also thin
was about the right time to express
some emotion so I sighed heavily.
“*1 dare pot come out. How I would
like to you, Johnjy dpar.’
“I siged again. There was si mo gen
uineness in this last sigh if mine.
“It is so Kind iu you to bring me a
serenade. Here take this,’ said the
gentle female V- i-O, and something was
handed out through the partially p’.psed
door. I took it, not knowing what els*
to do. The next thing I took was my
leave. I took it hurriedly, f>rin a vo ce
trembling with emotion the voice said:
“ ‘Run as bird as you ci i, J dime.
Father is coming with the light. He is
coming down stairs with the revolver.
Run as fast as you cn, run f >r my sake.
Johnie.’
“1 can’t refuse anything to a lady, al
though ri hr, ilicit, in the fliumg room
waJs mv bag of silverware, my juv.mig,
my hfe preserver and other professional
instruments.
Lmg Jim was waitin '-. I told him
to run down a; and we vaujsiietl ov* r the
garden wall. Af er wo had run abojjt a
"pi irter fa nnle we stopped. Then 1
(~)d him how I had been obliged to leave
the valuables behind. Tiie w 7 ay lie
swore was pojitively sinful. If, however,
we had overtaken that seieuudei theie
would have been some impromptu-vocal
music in the midnight atmosphere.
“Aud what was it the young lady
gave youv ’ ,
“1 kept it i:i mv hand. Was
had mule by the iwl venture. Itddnt
repay ns h.r <nr bet lime aid profes
sional servic**.’
“Whut i:? rn
bunch of red roses. Texas Silt
ing*.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, M.W^’TBSfT
A HORRIBLE C RIMK.
Tle T*.*:-flle Retribution Received by the
M tirdei rr.
Torek TvAs., May 2.—Last Saturday
the wife of Jacob Freinmth was assault
ed and miudertd by Fril/. Rnpiu, a half
witted German, who had been for some
time enjoyi *g the hospitality if the Frei
mutliH. During the al sei.ee f Mr. j
Preimnlh, Rnpin assaulted his benefac
tress, then bound her hand aud foot aid
cut her throat-. He then took a rusty
hoe, aid, whiie the woman was dying,
disemboweled her with the blunt instru
ment. Mrs. Freinmth was enceinte, and
when discovered a till-born and mulilut
ed babe lay near the mother’s body.
M r . Freinmth retimped borne the next
day. On discovering the body of Iris
wife he becirue a raving m miac. A par
tv was organized and went to the scene ■
of tragedy. Tncy found Freimuth wel
tering in his own blood, having killed
himself with a sb it gu l. A grave wa*.
dug aud the remains of the u and >rtun ate
people were buried. The posse then j
scoured the con dry for the murderer,
and found him in a small ravine, several j
miles away from Freimuth’a place.
A fractious home was secured and sad- j
died. One end of a long lariat was f ts- J
tened around Rnpia’s neck and the other
attatched to the* prommel of the saddle.
The horse was then started, and amid
the pracking of revolvers and rifles the
frightened an : maj dashed away. Afiei
running nearly five miles the horse fell
exhausted arid the* lifeless body of the
muiderer was loosed. As *he men came
up his head was foil id almost severed
frog) his body. The carcass was loft be- |
liind on the podvie uup'-vered, for the
c ivotes to devour.
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WAS THK PARSON PAID?
He Eloped Will* a Xlillionaire’s Daughter
anil ilaiin'i a Cent of Cash.
St. Louts. May 8.---Society is agitated
to-night over tiie developments in tin* i
marriage of Miss Olive Harding, for the j
past few years a leading society hello, and |
N. Mulliken ot San Francisco. Miss
Baffling iji the daughter of Roger Hard
ing, the millionaire presicunt of the Yaljey
Distillery Company. She spent last Win
l-er in California, and there made the ac
qmflptfppe of Mr. MtiHiken. She is
petite atut pretty.
When she returned home Mr. Mulliken
followed, but the young lady's parents
froze Mr. Mulliken out in short order and
requested him not to call on Miss Olive.
This had not the desired effect, and the
girl was locked up. Mr. Mulliken a few
(lightp agp p)anpi-{j ;yi glppetnent, secured
a carriage, and at ten p i-10.-k at night th#
young lady succeeded in eluding the
vigilance of her parents and met him. Hi*
drove to Belleville, 111., where they arrived
at 3 a. m. and were married.
. The young bridegroom happened to be
ill Uh/t m,q jprtjniate condition which is
termed ‘‘dead broke, ’* aiut eon id not
the hotel bill. After a scene the landlady
accepted a check. Then the Lmilord of
his St. Louis hotel seized his baggage, and
>l*- jiljljiken found himself in his honey
moon without a change or tiie,. *iis j,*
per was protested on all sides, and, drhen
frantic by creditors, he sought refuge
with friends of his wife, whore the pair
are now M *ia4 fc ye,-]. The elopement
occured last week and was kept
pntil to day. No one knows who Mr
Mulliken L, hut lie has been successful in
b.irrowing money and giving cheek*.
A HO* Vi HARD I.OT.
Imnipijg 4 iJ ' From a Cruel Master and
Ui IMP WiWilh.
WmrKi.iNo, \Y. Ya, May 3. —A special
from Ritchie county says: Wesley .Tones,
fgn years of age, who was living with
John Cross, disappeared from home un
der circumstances such as to causg u c pi
pipn of foul play. Mrs. Cross had
whipped him brutally f;u running
and having him in the kitchen nakad,
aud seeing her husband coming, told him
that Cross would not only beat him, but
shoot him. This so. terrified the child
that U glbbpd his shirt, and springing
through a window ran oft with to-o/*
after him. From that time until yesterday
IPs whereabouts was a mystery.
Cross professed to . know nothing
of him, and half the country be
{*am imcosciy Rpop{e bgldly
j asserted that Cross iiad killed ldm. i’xi
! ties were organized and the country
scoured and livers dragged. Lute on
Saturday the child was found in a part of
the country, miles away-from Cross. He
f,4q zjept ip a fence corner for a night or
two, attired p nothing but bis ship;, J jR}
his dog*for his companion. The affection
of the animal for the boy was strong, and
he stayed with him day and night, lying
close to the child when he sDpt and
keeping liiifi w n F r;;;. Ha l it not been lor
the counsels of a few men C ross and his
wife would have been severely punished.
The summit of Kenuesaw mountain
has been oid *o s|"r, Joseph M. Brown,
by its former owner, Mr. fci ipi Hailing.
The amount paid was $6,9(H).
Mary Anderson ia said to bo nego
tiating for the purcha.se of a stock ranch
i,ear North Platte, Nebraska. Mary is
bent on making her .fortune.
Wjple a band was playing on a 1 al
(* >*>v ,*n in*j su>wei ; y ii ?4** ' \>>ik. a
few nights ago, a man \'h-> bad stopped
to listen to t’ue music fell cieud ou the
sidewalk.
A CRORGIA VOI.INTEKU.
Far up the lonely mountain side
My wandering footsteps led.
The moss lay thick beneath my feet,
The pine sighed overhead ;
The trace of a dismantled fort
Lay in the forest nave,
And in the shadow near my path
1 saw a soldier’s grave.
The bramble wrestled with the weed
Upon the lowly mound ;
The simple headboard, rudely writ,
Had rotted to the ground.
I raised it with a reverend hand.
From dust its words to clear,
But Time had blotted all but these:
“A Georgia Volunteer.”
1 heard the Shenandoah roll
Along the vale below,
I saw the Alleghanies rise
Toward the realms ofSnow ;
The valley campaign rose to mind.
Its leader’s name, and then
L knew the sleeper had been one
Of Stonewall Jackson s men.
He sleeps; what need to question now
If he were wrong or right?
He knows ere this whose cause is just
In God, the Father’s sight,
lie wields no warlike weapons now;
Returns no foeman’s thrust;
Who but a coward would revile
An honored soldier’s dust ?
Roll, Shenandoah, proudly roll
Adown the rocky glen •
Above thee lies the grave of one
Of Stonewall Jackson’s men.
Beneath the cedar and the pine
lu solitude austere,
Unknown, unnamed, forgotten lies
A Georgia Volunteer.
A CKJAIINAL’S DOnil K.
When Fann in Sheppard was district
attorney anil Janies Flaherty was a lieu
tenant of police, of Pail tdelphia, the
lattei one night, when aboard a Walnut
street car, noticed the furtive looks and
nervous movements if a fellow passen
ger. He eyed the man cl >sely until
suddenly the stranger arose and hur
riedly left the ear. Fldierty following
him. Tiie man ran, and when the
officer foil >sved in quick pursuit the
fiigiij g turned and fired at him with a
revolver. But Flaherty was always
plucky, aud soon he had his assailant a
prisoner iu his grasp. When taken to
the Central police station he was
recognized by means <fa daguerreo
type as an escaped convict from the
State pi j sou at Joliet, Til, The likeness
was a got and one. and an qgly t>car made
the identification popiplete. He was
taken into the quartpy sessions before
.Tquge Ludlow, where James H. Heverin
appeared as assistant district attorney.
The photograph was produced, aud
several ofiiciais from .Toilet jail swore
upon the witness stand that tiie prison
er and the man who had escaped then
custody one and the same.
Whgn it appeared tipß n,i possible
doubt to the m-m 1 * ideality existed he
m-ose in the dock and vigorously pro
claiming his im.i cm ec, declared that, he
had never been in J liet jail in his life
aid that Hie officers were mistaken.
The man’s ear:.osiness caused Judge
Lu llow t > p:uis**. “Gentlemeu,”
!.e said ad.hessing the p ison cfficials,
“have you no other way of identifying
this man? C m you produce no other
evidri ice to ostaMisii the truth of what
you snj?“
“Yes, your honor,” Raid one of the
men from J .diet ; “that man has been in
my charge for three years, and 1 know
pvery ip.-q'ji pjjon his person. On his
right arpi lie has, tattooed in tucßa ink
a figure of tlje Goddess of Lilierfcy find
on his ii ft arm a represeutution of tlie
ciucitixion.”
“Stand up,” said the Judge, address
ing the prisoner ii the dock. “Take off
your coat sad bare your arms.” When
this ha*) bqu'i hq.ip, tiw..n upon the right
; member appeared the Goddess of
LU eaty mi blazoned in line, aid on the
muscles a f the left the figure of the
[ Savior on the cross was indelibly im
pressed. When this indubitable evi
dei pe apppavd lu-fore the eyes t f the
court, and ere the jpan iia t j l-.iq Rip Ips
tipumv from sight, the judge said hastily
and impatiently, as though annoyed at
having made unneca ssary delay: “That
will do, ’ and instantly indorsed upon
the requisition the wold “remanded.”
The man wg inku-i b „k to Joliet and
there, upon a writ • f habeas cor j.us, bis
identity* became a matter of renewed
ad more i .vestiguiion. Fully 100 wit
nesses were ex unined, and liotwitb
stai.ding thp tegfjf)ioiiy Rep arms
t> re, mow than one tudf of tiioe who
took the witness stand swore that tie was
not the escaped prisoner. The evidence
was so coi.dieting, yet so evenly bal
anced, that finally the prm f of Lis iden
tity hinged upon tire simple question
that decided thp tumps park man and
Webster murder case in Massachusetts
—nothing more than the finding of a
tooth. The result if the investigation
wis the ie’ease * f the prisoner, and that
the decision \v jq-O one was proven a
few days later, when lie red fe'lon va
captured and lelurued to his c ...fi..o
meut. He l ore upon hi.s blow the
same scar, aid upon his arms the same
emblems that had so neaily placed
spioßipr in lua pejl.
Of c airse yoivil ask me why he ran
f inn Lieut. Flaherty and why he shot
at that officer. Well, the truth is lie
Was an escaped convict, but not the man.
they thought lie was, and another juris
diciion claimed him.—Philadelphia
News.
Great forest tires are prevailing on the
mouutaiu near Taauaqua, Pa.
AD A I US V I 1.1. K HOTS.
The protracted meeting ihat has been
in progress at the Baptist church here for
the past two weeks Inis been productive
of great good. \V< have had some of the
most able sermons that have ever been
listened to by our people. Rev. \7. C.
McCall lias been assisted this week by
Rev. Mr. Lofton, of Dalton and Allen
; city.
Considerable excitement prevailed in
our town last Monday morning was a
week ago. When Messrs. Earle A Me-
Collam weut down to open their store
they Found some one had been kind
enough to open it for thsm, hut at an
unusual hour, and in an unusual man
ner. They also found the safe of the
Southern Express Company open. The
store was opened at about eleven o’clock
Sunday night. The safe was boreal into,
but not blown open—showing that who
ever did the work knew how and where
to bore. Fortunately there was’no money
in the sate. The would-be thief received
for Ids' trouble a registered package, a
check on the merchants’ bank and some
bills for collection. The total loss will
amount to about six dollars. There is no
clue as to the thief.
Miss Mary Harlan, of Calhoun, visited
Mr.'G. M. Boyd’s family last week.
Mr. Will Combs and wife, of Ring
gold, spent last Sunday week with his
brother’s family here.
Mr. Frank Durham, of Cartersville,
was among the friends of his childhood
here last Monday.
Mrs. T. M. Fulton and daughter Berta,
have been to Cartersville. *
Mrs. Annie Joliuson, of Louisville, Ky.,
is the guest of tier cousin, Mrs. J. 11. King,
here.
Master Claud Anderson, of Atlanta,
visited relatives here this week.
Dr. J. W. Hambright left Monday for
Macon where he will be entertained by
the Dental Society of the State.
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NCVVS FROM I RON V11.1.K.
We have been blessed with frequent,
gentle rains during the past week. These
warm showers make cotton show its ten
der leaves, while the flowers seem more
lovely, and the grass puts on a fresh coat
after each shower.
lßlls and yalleys jook beautiful in
dipir new spring dress,
Some of the Ivonville boys attended the
Stilesboro picnic and name back quite
happy.
MisseS* Marion and Stella Smith are
visiting in Atlanta. We wish them a very
pleasant time.
Mrs. G. H. Aubrey and little girls have
been spending a few days with her mother
The Washington nqtps are a j ways much
enjoyed. W. •). N- seerm to put life into
hjs piices. It Lalmost like seeing Wash
jpgton to read them. '
Maj. Smith (Bill Arp) ison a lecturing
tour through North Carolina.
The Club met on Friday evening at
Bonnie Brook, the residence of Mr. G. R.
Gibbons. The attendance, was good, and
the evening was pleasantly spent. The
Misses Gibbons know how to make their
friends feel at hom\
John Rowland was called away on Sat
urday last to hold an inqupst o\v, a ruigro
who was killed on tiie railroad.
Porter Hale, of Chattanooga, spent Sun
day with relatives here.-
McfHNXIS 'EYETIMs.”
Ah, the ime vveaUu r for farming!
Everybody is taking advantage of the
golden opportunities.
The mosquitoes put the “quietus” on
the average fisherman.
Miss Mollie McGjnnjs 4-vm.v charming
yoyng judy qf Mrs. Rfames* school, is
vlining her parents.
Miss AUic Erwin, of Ctlptersviile, came
down to attend the Stilesboro picnic.
Miss Allic won quite a number who will
be lasting in the golden cl ain of friend
ship.
Mr. A. C. Auchmutey and y/ife,, toggtjier
with \jt.<s Raggm Sim?, of Cedr.vtowp, are
visiting relatives in this victnitv.
Rob McGlnnlr* says they break him all
up vt lien they talk about Lis getting left
on a Stilesboro picnic.
Messrs. Lanier & McGinnis have
moved their mill to hmcoln, Ala.*
where they are doing a successful busi
ness.
Farmers have a teirible case of the
blues, because their cotton lies tailed to
come up. :
yuiih an enjoyable dinner was served
at the residence of Mr. C. B. McCormick i
last Saturday. The occasion was in 1
honor of a meeting of the Farmer’s Club. !
On last Sunday morning Mr. W. E.
Whitehead had starte l tp chuyeh with j
Miss Kittle MeQlnnuu ju driving down
;,-t(,ev* bank Rie buggy made a quick
turn and both of them w ? ere throw’n out.
Miss Kittie was seriously injured.
At the residence of the bride’s father, |
Mr. S. T. McGinnis, Mr. It. K. Jolly and
Miss Emmie McGinnis were Upiled in
the bonds of wedlock. May life pass as
one long dream, and success be theirs, j
The groom is one of Bartow’s rising
young farmers, while the bride is adapted '
in everv respect to make home a paradise.
U V. M; " !
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Dyer emigrants have entered i
California within the past two weeks.
The city council of Red Bud, 111., ap- j
pointed each of the saloonkeepers a dep
uty marshal. Their salaries amount to j
8580.
Condensed wisdiin from thg Fh;ia- >
iteiphia Times * “Reiirton aud law must I
rule labor disputes and ull other dis- j
putea in the eud.”
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| New York
drifting into two-lines, writes a
j correspondent to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Democrats are busily engaged in
picking out Mr. Cleveland’s successor in
; Democratic favor. If Dan Manning had
retained his health there was a prospect
that he would have been brought forward
to unite the elements that are now center
ing about David B, Hill and William C.
Whitney. But Manning is out of the
question, and friends of the other two men
ore settling down to a long contest for
supremacy. They are both young men,
part of the vitalized young Democracy,
and their powers as politicians have al
ready been well attested. It will be a
great struggle, with all the fresh young
blood of the party engaged. In the mean
time the Republicans are watching two
men, James G. Blaine and Rosco Con
kling. It is generally conceded that Mr.
Blaine is the choice of his party for a re
nomination ; that predictions arc heard
on every side that there will be no can
didate in the convention against him.
The Mugwumps might present a name
if they should gain admission to the con
vention. But After their action at Chica
go it is not believed they will again ap
pear in a Republican national convention.
It is more likely they will be knocking at
the door a of Democratic convention and
asking tor Clevel ni l’s renom'nation. In
the evenly balanced con lition, as between
the parties in New Yoik St,t**, Rescoe
Conkling support or opposition may mean
the balance of power. He lu l<! it, before,
and threw it against Blaine. he Maine
leader played his cards to win the election
without Conkling. He did win it, but
lost it on a misplay. If Conkling had
been his partner there were cards enough
between them to have won anyway, ’l’he
situation is unchanged to-day, except that
Conkling lias more cards. When he saw
that Blaine could have won without him
but for Burchard he set himself about the
task of gathering up his scattered forces.
The Broadway surface investigation be
came his opportunity. When Ro went
recently to Albany fo make a speech be
fore The Senate committee the audience
chamber was filled to overflowing. His
address was postponed till another date.
When ho got up and left the hall four
fifths of the brilliant assemblage got up
and left also. Conkling was the magnet
that had attracted them. On the occasion
of the delivery of his argument, a few
days later, there was not standing-room
in tfie assembly chamber. The common
inquiry is as to his purposes in politics.
I went up to Albany the oher day and
spent several hours with the statesmen
there. I found a retnarkable sentiment
favorable to Conk ling’s return to public
hfe,but found it everywhere coupled with
expressions that he must get down off ids
high horse with Blaine, one of his old
henchmen, A 1\ Thornton ot St. Law
rence county, a young lawyer who is a
protege of the Field family, said to me:
“There is no doubt that Conkling want.*
to come back ir\tq active public life. I
thought differently fov a while, but I find
that he Is unbending. He used to be as
lordly as a king on the street and would
barely move his head in recognition ot gn
acquaintance. 1 ran across him on Broad
way flie Pthuv day, where he was talking
ia an acquaintance. He spoke warmly
to me as I passed, and after 1 had gone on
half a block 1 heard some one calling k>
me. I looked bark and w.u„ amazed to
find it was Cpy,’.,itng who was calling and
beckoning to me. If he should come into
the contest for United States Sep:,(or thb
fall wiHi the understanding that Ids
friends and he are for Blaine for President,
he would secure that prize and a vindica
tion at the same time. Stranger things
have happened in New York than that
Conkling should succe and Warner Miller,
who succeed (id hipp it would he impos
sible fpr- Conkling t> do anything if he
bucks*against the Blaine people, l’hey
arc too many in this State for him, or any
one else.” Thornton represents the aver
age talk of Albany and through the State
on this subject,
A AH 7 RDEIIOUS MEXICAN.
Itnrnii Ilimwlt I j> lo Escape Arrest.
Bio Springs, TKX- May 10 —Several
day? Juan Salles, a Mexican herder,
brutal!} 7 murdered a comrade named Mack
from Youngstown, Ohio. Salles tied to
ward the northwest, and was followed sev
eral hours later by Mack’s cowboy friends
Near YtHow Hoar® canyon, as tiie mur
derous Salles rode by the camp of J. R,
Jones & Cos., he opened fire, without warn*
ing, wounding two men. Upon reaching
the canyon, the now frenzied Mexican
burst into Spring'sstore and sought refuge.
His pursuers, upon reaching the store,
barricaded the house, when Salles, see
ing impossible, set fire to the
building and perished in the flames.
ANOTHER RESERVIOR MURDER.
Unrequited I.o\<* C;vq.'v* Mftiqler and Sui
cide.
Hamilton, 0., May 10.—Saturday even
ing Geo, 11. Weigel, a young mechanic,
and Annie Blakely, to whom he was en
gaged to be married, took a boat and went
out fora row in the reservoir. They were
found floating around the lake in the boat
and both dead, Mis?- Blakely having been
shpt through the Load and through the
breast, and Weigel shot through the head.
It was evident that he had done the shoot
ing. Unrequited love is supposed to have
been tae cause of the deed.
NUMBER 2
'TBfy: >iis-is<; m r< 111 r.
? wt •>>' " <t,
s>>< K- U> Join Hill)
avenue who suddenly left
ednesday last carrying with
him his small child, has been heard from.
He has not gone to Texas as incorrectly
reported by a morning paper, but to Geor
gia. He wrote to his wife yesterday from
t artereville asking her to join him there.
The Commercial’s informant who talked
wiih Mrs. Clayton says she will refuse to
go to ( artereville, but will employ every
possible means to secure possession of her
child. C lay ton has had three wives and
a child by each. His first two wives ob
tained divorces. It is an open question
what the third will do.—Chattanooga
Commercial.
NEGROES WARNER
Tliej :re Notified to Get Out Umler Pen
alty of Rough Treatment.
Galveston, May B.—A special to the
News from Drown wood says : Notice
was found posted in various parts of the
town to-day reading as follows :
“Notice—All negroes are to leave here
on short notice or they will be roughly
dealt with. All negroes seen on the
steeets of Brownwood Saturday evening
will be roughly treated. We mean busi
ness,
[Signed] Many Citizens.’’
Business men, without exception, de
nounce the threatened expulsion, and
say they will defend the negroes in their
rights as long as they behave themselves.
The railroad contractors here have receiv
ed written notic es warning them not ta
employ any more negroes.
CROPS IN OHIO, ILLINOIS, AND IN
DIANA.
Indianapolis, Ind., May 10, —Reports
from every county in Ohio, Illinois and
Indiana show that all crops are now two
weeks in advance of the average spring
season and are in a much better condition
than at the same date late last year. A
summary of the reports show that the
average per cent, of the wheat crop in
Ohio Is 95, Illinois 94 and Indiana 94;
oats in Ohio 90, Illinois 97, and Indiana
92.
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Miss Cleveland’s new book will be
spiced with incidents of hw Washington
life.
The negro ©2 in Georgia pay taxes on
$10,000,000. They own about 700,000
acres of land,
A Petaluma, Cal., chicken came into
the world with three eyes, two mouths
and one body.
Those who are quick to censure may
be very acute iu judgment, bat they are
as yet immature in heart.
The Mikado twist graces the head of
all the girls who can coax their hat into
that odd and pretty style.
The Princess cf Wales would dearly
l°"e to visit America, but she is terribly
afraid of our handsome girls.
The coal miners in Pennsylvania and
Ohio have voted, to the rnmber of 25,-
000, iu favor of an eight-hour day.
It is estimated that not less than 50,-
OQO trees were planted iu Berks county,
Pa., on Thursday last, Arbor Day.
We may know enough to satisfy our
selves, yet not be able to say enough to
sdftr.ee the cavils of a subtle adversary.
A man at Los Angeles has commenced
to manufacture perfumery out of Califor
nia flowers, and claims great success.
Cocaine, the receutly discovered drug,
is said by excellent authority to be a
certain and harmless cure for sea sick
ness.
The colored people are well represented
in Crittenden county, Ark. The county
judge, tax assessor, county clerk, coroner
and the State Representative are colored
men.
Cat parties are the latest. A young girl
gives a party and each friend invited
briug her cat along with a ribbon about
its neck corresponding to that worn by
its mistress. There’s lots ot fun at such
parties, especially when the felines come
in .collision.
Three dead women in Chicago are the
latest warning against filling a burning
lamp with petroleum. But the latest will
not avail any more than the earliest warn
ing did, for women especially have a
passion for tempting all the deviltry in
oil.
killed Hardeman at Athens
about a year ago, and a great many of the
shot went through the leaves and branch
es of a little oak tree in the rear ol where
Hardeman stood when the fatal shot was
fired. The tree has budded out again this
spring, and the new leaves are full of shot
holes, the same as last year.
A Baltimore housewife found a living
frog In a bottle of chow-chow the other
day. He was too big to get out through
the neck of the bottle and must have
grown considerable during his confine
ment in his air-tight prison. The tory is
vouched for by a Baltimore newspaper.
A gentleman, recently calling at a
boarding house, left his umbrella in the
hat-rack with a card, on which was the
following: “Belongs to a-rnan who strikes
a forty-pound blow. Will be back in five
minutes.” When he returned/ the um
brella was gone, but i# its place was a
scrap of paper bearing the words. “Taken
by a man who walks five miles an hour.
Won’t be back at all.”