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—PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT—
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
The crop possibilities of this country
aro far from having roached their maxi¬
mum.
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The American electric light is the
only light in use in England and in
France. The Germans have an unsatis¬
factory light, but they koop it ia pref¬
erence to patronizing the Americans.
The five great Continental powers of
Europo now have 12,000.000 men un¬
der arms, not to montioa the naval
armaments, almost double in size the
whole sea fighting forco of the world
twenty years ago.
Some doctors say improved methods
ftf treatment aro to bo credited with the
light death list of 8 per cent, from yel¬
low fever at Jacksonville, Fla., hut
that it woii'd roquite another epidemic
to prove this c’aim.
The cannery proprietors of British
Columbia hnvo arranged to introduce a
largo number of crofter fishermen from
England next season to take the plneo
of Indians and Chinese. Thero will bo
120 families or about (100 souls ia all.
French women are agitating for tho
right to voto for judges who sit in
judgment on cases which they bring
against mon, and who, they declare,
are olton influenced by the fact that the
malo defendants are voters wliilo they
aro not.__
It is tho opinion of Chief Graves of
tho National Bureau of Eigraving and
Printing, that tho American woman
cannot w - ork, that she cannot stand tho
con tin nous toil which would be con¬
sidered light and pleasant by women
ot other countries.
An American merchant who has boen
in business ia China for several yonrs
says that the nverago fortune brought
liotr.o by a Chinaman ou his return to
China from tho United Stylos is about
$300. On this small turn ho is nblo to
livo in comfort tree Irom tho toil of
earning his livin ’.
A pound of brea 1, which in Germany
costs twonty-ono pftmnigo, can bo had
at a few minutes journey over tho Swiss
bordor for soventeon pfonuigo. And of
course everybody within easy distaaco
patronizes tho Swiss bakors, carrying
back only tho exact amount of import
allowed to pass duty free.
Tho wealth of church mom hors in tho
United State*, ns given in the consul of
1886, was niuo billions of dollar*. Their
contributions annually for missions was
au nverago of ono -dx too nth of a cent
for every dollar, or one dollar in every
fifteen hundred and ei ’hty-six.
A visitor to Japan no (iced fho pro
por.d ran on of German inflmnee in that
country. Many of tho Yokohama shops
“had their Japanese signs translated
into Gorman only, while in all notice,
which appeared in foreign languages,
German held the first pin ex Next iu
frequency, nnd not far behind, came
Russian. Engli’U an i French followed
niter a long interval,” ai.d Portuguese
brought «■> the rear.
Richard Marion Jackson, tho Ameri¬
can member of tho cabinet of the king
oi Wurtenburg, is au Ohio man. He
wont to Stuttgart to study music, and
oao day was so fortuuato ns to rescue
tho king from a party of drunken stu
dents who were snow-balling him. In
a short time Jackson was made a privy
couiirillor, ... , ,U I...* to.k T k
fancy to him th it his subjects sneering
ly said that he was m love with tho
American. Juit at present J ickson is
i.„« h, .a,
coma out oi top.
A custom is in v.> »n on tho Penn
sylvan is railroa 1 by which all engineers
aud firemen arc al.owe l a premium for
tho ‘ coal they save from dav to day. J
t.;ch ^ engine is auowel a certain num
ber of pounds per trip, and each en
giaocr turns ia a slip at tho end of a
iu i which «hows how nv.tch coal ho has
received and how - much has been saved.
A Strict account is kept and a statement
rendered monthly by which each en¬
gineer and fireman show a how much he
has made during that p ried. If more
coal than the allowance bo used, the
engineer pays tho pcua.ty of having his
percentage wiped out. Some men
as high as $25 a month by the ar¬
\ ks nt.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
HAPPENINGS BRIEFED AND
STRUNG TOGETHER.
kovements of alliance mbs — rail
HOAD CASUALTIES—THE LABOR FIELD.
ACCIDENTS—CROP RETURNS.
ALABAMA.
General G. T. Anderson, ex-chief ot
police of Atlunta, Ga., was unanimously
elected to a similar office at Anniston,
by ilio new municipal administration of
that city. He was the best chief oi po¬
lice Atlanta ever had.
On Thursday, while standing before
(lie fire, the dress of Little Willie Allen,
aged two years, of ‘Selma, caught fire,
and before assistance could reach him he
was horribly burned, from the effects of
which he died, after suffering for two
hours.
At Lincoln, on Sunday, Marion Davis,
colored, bad a quarrel, and Davis apolo
gized for his conduct and asked bis wife
to take a walk with him. She consented,
und they walked out into . the woods, a
short distance from town. Suddenly
wif'^‘exclaiming: her “You throat can’t from fool me
again,” " and cut ear to
ear. The woman lived only J a few hours.
n . .
uavis escapea.
Robert Raines was arrested at Moul¬
ton on Sunday, charged with the murder
of his brother, Rev. Benjamin Raines.
The prisoner denies all knowledge of the
crime, but the circumstantial evidence
against him is very strong. Two broth¬
ers and a son-in-law of Robert Raines,
named Sims, left Moulton together
Thursday afternoon, just before dark.
The three men were seen in the road a
few miles from town engaged in a quar
ret Next morning the dead body of the
minister was found near the spot with a
knife blade in his breast.
At the Pratt mines on Monday night,
George Meadows, u negro, was held entire pris
oner oy a mob in defiance of the
civil and military authority of the
county The negro is believed to be the
murdcrous assailant of Mrs. Kellurn and
hor son. Mrs. J. S. Kellum, who was
assaulted by a negro at, Pratt miuei Sat
uvday, did not die ns first reported. She
regained consciousness, and is still liv
ing, but little hope is entertained of her
recovery. George Meadows was arrested
ivnd taken to Mrs. Kellum. She was
barely conscious, and asked that the
negro be brought back later in the day.
The coroner began an inquest who on the
body of Mrs. Kellum’s son, was
killed by the negro. After much wrong
iing and speech-making, it was finally
agreed to let the negro live one day
longer. lie was placed guards in charge promised of
armed men, and these
the crowd that if any effort was made by
the sheriff to get possession of the negro,
they would shoot or hang him.
akKANSAS.
James A. Smith, one of the lending
and most entertaining citizens of Arkau
sas, died at Smitliton. He went to Ar
knnsas only a few years since, compare,
tively a poor man, but. at the time of his
death was one of the wealthiest in the
state, being the individual owner of the
Smitliton & Okalona Railroad and quite
a number of saw-mills.
MISSOURI.
At Clmllows, a village in Johnson
county, two physicians dispute quarreled until over a
small bill. Tho grew each
armed himself, and when they met, Dr.
Starke shot and killed Dr. Pister.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The North Carolina instructions Legislature
adopted a resolution of to
members of Congress on the question of
internal revenue and the reduction of the
tariff. It urges tho immediate abolition
of the internal revenue and such a rc
dhetion of the tariff as will lesseu the.
taxes on neeess iries and implements of
farmin'’, and retain the taxes on luxuries,
At Durham just before time to
work on Saturday, the roof of the exten
Sion of the works of the Durham “
door and blind factory f. 11, carrying six
carpenters with it. Strange fatally to say, injured. none
of the workman were sheathing
The carpenters were engaged the in accident,
the roof at the time of
which was caused by the spreading of
the rafters.
V mob of men who live in a place
called Scuffletown, and are locally known
„ 8 •‘Scuffs.” made an assault on the
house of a man named Harp, two miles
from Redbanks. The assailants had for
some time shown feeling against They Harp, be
All of them were white men.
gan a fusilade, and bullets entering the
.ioors 2'“*“ and windows ’ wounded „,„„.„,Xa, several per
Tbofc
ftud the combat tK!oame general. A bul
Kt struck Harp’s wife, aged sixty-five,
aud killed her instantly.
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J. C. ltoksiush o v 11 ‘ *
The shooting occurred abou £ -j
south of Prosperity in a section where , a
e “" 6
l i f ^ lui ^IVbnnn l P C Gaillard in
Charleston nu ration , of was the kin themostimposingdemon- witnessed there.
8t . ever
The immense throng overflowed from
tho chuich building into the
8tr0l ‘ ts wlueh rc P :u>kotl - Among the
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organizations lr attendance, were
mayor and city conned The
Carolina Society, the Confederate •
' Ivors’ Ass- nation, the Ancient Ami
lory, the Con.ederate Home School, and
*».*“ f.'dcril, couat, and
VIUtilNt A- of
City Gobec-i - . • r Woodson,
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R chmond. died ! a.-t A P “• ’
TENNESSEE.
Josephine Fullenwriter was arrested on
Monday in Chattanooga on the charge of
murdering her mother-in-law, the war¬
rant having been sworn out by her hus
j band, Rov Fullenwriter. The husband
| I claims that for two weeks, pobon was
administered to bis mother by Mrs. Ful
lenwriter, who placed it in her coffee,
and while the old lady did not die sud¬
denly, her death occurred in just aboul
two weeks from the time the deadly drug
was administered.
THE WORLD OVER.
j ITEMS BOILED DOWN IN A
READABLE STYLE.
THE FIF.LD OF LABOR—SEETHING CAUL¬
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE—FIRES,
SUICIDES, ETC.—NOTED DEAD.
IIon Jobn g.^ise, of Virginia, lunched
with. President-elect Harrison, at Jndian
apo p s i nd> Mr. Harrison expects to
visit Virginia shortly after his inaugura
tion, to see some of bis kinsfolk,
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Jobn Brown the abolitionist, and last
Burv "*" of the Harper’s Ferry tragedy, Ca
was held on Sunday at Passadena, L
An number of people .
immense were iu
attendance.
Alexander T. McGill, D. D. LL. D.,
emeritus professor of ecclesiastical, bomi
j lectio and pastoral theology at Princeton
seminary, died at Pridcetou, N. J., Sun¬
day morning in the 82d year of his age,
I after a lingering illness.
j The Kennebec, Me., river is open for
! navigation from Augusta to the sea, the
ice having gone out. The condition of
,
I the river is unprecedented. Ice men are
the greatest sufferers, not a pound of ice
l having been harvested up to this time,
President Carnot of Fiance has issued
a decree authorizing the construction in
; private ship yards of two iroa-clad
| cruisers, oue of which will be of 4,000
tons burthen and the other 5,000 tons,
The decree also authorizes the constrnc
tion of 15 torpedo boats for the coast de¬
' tense.
j A party of men and boys, of Stony
j Point, Pa., went to serenade Charles
j I Cressier, A quarrel who took had place recently been married, of the
among some
j serenaders, named Rhone and one waylaid of the young bis men
was on way
j home by Charles Meredith. After Mere
ditk had knocked Rhone down, he
| tramped and kicked him almost to
a jolly. The crowd interfered, and j
Rhone was carried to his home, where
ho died soon after.
Mrs. j ay Q 00 i<i d j e d „t her home on
Fifth avenue, in New York on Sunday
n i g ht. The entire fumilv was at the
, bedside. Dr. Baldwin said that any at
tempt to prolong life would be uot only
useless, but alf«o»t cruel. There was
nothing to do, but watch and wait.
Mrs. Gould was too feeble to converse,
nn d answered the anxious inquiries of
i oved ones about her with a simple
i>y CS " 0 r “no.” Her mother is still liv
; n g t bu (; being feeble and over eighty
y ear3 of age, was not notified of the
doatb
A FLAGMAN'S BLUNDERS,
Passenger train No. 8, bound for New
Ohio ^ i°- k \r, Railroad tlH i’ SI while 'J ■? " running fifty fi'ftv^miles - ml"
uti hour on Monday, struck: ■.freight
Roth 1 engineers' “ both firemen,\?nd eight
passengers were 1 L f .
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,
passengers badly injuii.
ttcml ,7 ' ' *o failed to
a :i<i lia( sent oU “ ‘
signal . the . passenger t,am lbevvreckis ck is
raoic si nous than c
'' du>I l tbc (,varul - 1’“-' f 1 .‘ l ‘
1 ho front end of tie a • 1 t on a
-ae track and a flagman was kft .it lal
™Jt*»und, then nearly heard due. whistled Tho" signal flag
mjm iuva gi acd he a train.
from his en«inc to return to the
^ ^ uot pcv ( orm t he duty required of
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FIENDISH OUTRAGE.
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Mashing- .
Passengers who arrived at
ton, D. O., on the Piedmont Air Bine
from tho South report a deliberate ai
tempt to wreck a train on Sunday nigns |
near the southern border of bou i j
linn. While coming down ft niouma n
side nt great speed sudden between b reuaia _
Westminster, it y ci ue
an obstruetiorb «>rowina; tae .
out of their seats and badly -in. 0 „
,he car, Vpo. tu.n K ™
’ found that an oak tie had been placed
upright on a high trestle over a iu ,
and that, too, arge s oues ‘
{
however, broke the tie m anJ
ground the stones to atoms. The pas
“ * n „ ll]r8S: , r that the high speed of the
r ‘ 1>iUS
2 reat dlsaster ‘
HUSS QR K EELY?
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( Eustace Wyszinski, that a map John engraver \\ Keely, ot
Chica ,, 0 ^ m., says .
famous inventor of £ he mysterious
|notor , wag known in Louisville twenty
three ye4rs ago as John Adam Huss, aud
tbat he had then, as now, a motor mys
J f capita hlvtouUc ii sts to invest m. He or
izfd . M,
Mr. \? D r'wdl!uki's Wy.zmMs ’’eon sen ic-la* ■ * Nicholas
Semos, was oue of the investors. _ Th
stockholders s \ were to hare an exhibition
^ working of the machiue, but Huss
WASHINGTON NEWS.
WHAT THE OFFICIALS ARE
SAYING AND DOING
CONGRESS.
Senator Hoar introduced a concurrent
resolution in the Senate on Monday, for
the counting of votes for President and
the Vice-President, which was referred to
committee on privileges and elec
tiona. The Senate then proceeded to
the consideration of the tariff bill, and
Mr. Allison, on the part of the finance
committee, reported two new sections,
wliich he proposed to offer as amend
ments. They rela*e to the bounty on
sugar. After furiher discussion, the bill
was laid aside without action on the
pending lroduced amendment. Mr. Chandler in
a bill reviving the grade of
lieutenant general of tiie United States
appoint Army, and authorizing the President posi- to
tion... any major-general to the
In the House, immediately after
the reading of the journal, Mr. Randall,
from the committee on rules, reported a
resolution rescinding rules requiring
daily adjournment at 5 o’clock. The
resolution rescinding the 5 o’clock ad¬
journment rule was agreed to—yeas 155,
the nays 85—and the House proceeded business. to
consideration of routine
Mr. Brower, of North Carolina, intro¬
duced a bill to repeal the tax on tobacco,
and moved its reference to the committee
on war claims. Lost-yeas 102, nays
117—and the bill was referred to the
ways and means committee.
NOTES.
The President has approved the act tc
construct a road from Florence, S. C., tc
the National Cemetery.
Parsed Assistant Surgeon Presley M.
Rixey, of Virginia, was nominated by
the President to be a surgeon in the navy.
The President on Monday nominated
Henry S. Nunn, of North Carolina, to
be collector of customs for the district of
Pamlico.
Rev. Frederick E. Knapp, Secretary of
the Sanitary Commission during the War,
was stricken with paralysis at Plymouth,
Mass., and died shortly thereafter.
Justice L. Q. C. Lamar has purchased
a magnificent house ou Massachusetts
avenue, for which he paid $23,000. Sen¬
ator Butler, of South Carolina, also
bought a handsome residence on N
street.
J. W. Rickman, who was the general
manager tion, of the Augusta, Ga., Exposi
and was connected with the A t
lanta Cotton Exposition, has accepted a
position on the Washington Post under
its new management,
Senator Plumb introduced a bill to
provide for the organization of regi
mental bands for the army. The chief
musician is to be appointed by the See¬
retary of War, and will hold office dur
ing good behavior.
Marcus J. Wright, Jr., eon of ex-Con
federate Gen. A\ right, formerly of Mem
phis, Tenu., but more recently engaged
upon the compilation of the War records,
has been assigned to Savannah as ob¬
server ip the signal service.
The inauguration of Gen. Harrison a3
President, on the 4th of March, will be
an interesting visitors occasion, expected and at least 200,
000 are in Washington
to witness the ceremony, which will be
far ahead of any ever held in Washing¬
ton.
The Secretary / of the Navy has issued
instrU(?tions t llear Admiral Kimberly, / ’_
commanding the Pacific 8tationf t0 p 0
ceed in the United States steamer Tren
ton, to Samoa for the purpose of pro
tecting American interests ou that island,
The Trenton was at Panama, at last ac
counts, wa’ching the progress of events
on the isthmus. She will be relieved at
Panama hy the Vanda i ia and probably
Francisco, Mohican, and now fitting out at San
the United States steam
ship » Atlanta, now fitting out at New
yo k> wjU proba bly be ordered to take
station on the Atlantic side, near Aspm
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The December report of , the ^ Depart
meut of Agriculture, makes the product
of corn 1,987,700,000 bushels grown on
75,672,562,703 acres, valued on farm at
$677,561,580 or 34.1 cents per uushel,
against 44.4 for the crop of 1887, being
27 per cent less in volume thau that of
^88. The Atlantic coast south of the
p ut0 mac averages 11.3 bushels, of com
pnratively poor quality. The wheat
average is 414,868,000 bushels, grown
on 37,336,138 acres, valued at $3S4,248.
03Q _ A comparison of the aggregate
values shows that the present corn crop
is worth $31,000,000 more than the
$a,000,l>00; 0005 ° at *
oats jo, 000,000 less.
The of ,hc spot upon ‘ which
she ;. ;d:tn is buiied at Ar i ingtont
cau hardly be imagined. Arlington is
the m'>st beautiful national cemetery iu
property is about as follows: In 1857
^ Geor e r c „ e e WashiDtrton W ashington Park l ,rx Curtis uurtis left icit the tne
death it was to revert to his children,
L The land was taken possession of dur
IpLlrd n,* w»r hv the United VlioOOwas Af
the s-mi of cont-ifned uffid
. j The j original e estate
^ 10( ^ Shortly after the
„ t OQ0 a re , were ; et a f t for
intermen“ f ; f Eodies
0 f the of
8oldiors w ho itSw fell on th- battlefields of
Yp .. . * containsabout 16 ’and 000
f , di colorei refugees “
Postal changes have been made as fol
lown- '* 4 J D-doffice has been established ' ‘
at Heath , Spring, Lancaster r __ county, b. -
C., and P. T. Cauthen appointed post
Postmasters appointed: South
Carolina—John D. Johnson, jr., at
Goethe, Hampton County, vice Thomas
J. McKatlin, resigned; A. J. Todd, at
Hand, Horry County, vice A. C.
Georgia-E. T.
Lsyrd, at Amc, Warren County, vice
5*““ * Blackwell Jr ^f s, ig ^ Cobb t ’ l i , ne j, County, igib ! e; B vice . Ub C John 5° t ffc -
Growuer, Yf' Gunter, Troup resigned; County, 1 bom George as G. A.
vice
SnaUh, resigned; Eltzie T. Southern,
k ake Greek, Polk County, vice T. C.
resi-ned ; W . 0 . Eat0 n Mel
” lle < Chattooga County vice John A.
Mostelier, resigned; L. M. Hendon,
^ Horton, ea * 0 ’ ^ resignec. a . °°ga county, vice Emma L.
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
Lieut. Miles, of the United States
steamer Yantie, recently arrived fiom
Port-au Prince, H^.yti, with yellow York, fever
on board, died on Monday in New
A duel was fought on Monday between
Henri .Rochefort, editor of the Paris
L’Intrunsigeant , and M. Lissagary, edi
tor of LaHartaiUe. Swords were U3ed.
Both combatants were wounded,
Miss Gale, a jiassenger on the Inman
line steamer, City of Berlin, which ar¬
rived at Queenstown Monday from New
York, committed suicide the day after
the steamer left New York, by taking rat
poison.
A . Port-au-Prince, „ , . Hayti, TT .* special . , says,
that idemmty asked for by the own
era of the Haytian Republic steamer has
at last been settled. The amount is
$120,000. Of this, $30,000 was paid on
Monday, in cash, $30,000 is due March
1st and $40,000 June 1st.
The London Chronicle asserts, that the
government will be informed of Henry
M. Stanley’s safety long before the expe¬
dition led by Thomas A. Stevens can
reach the east coast of Africa, and that
in the meantime recent letters from Stan¬
ley will be published in London. There
are certain reasons, the Chronicle says,
for keeping secret at present the where*
abouts of the explorer.
GREAT BRITAIN ANGRY.
A blue book on the Sackville affair
has just been published by the British
government. Interest in the book cen¬
ters in the dispatch dated October 24th,
to Mr. Phelps, in which, observing that
in the judgment of the government,
Lord Sackville’s conduct has ceased to
be of importance, President Cleveland
having Lord already sent him his passport. that the
Salisbury scouts the idea
acceptance or retention of a minister is a
question to be determined solely with or
without reasons assigned by the govern¬
ment to which he is accredited. In this
matter Lord Salisbury say9, general prin¬
ciples particular are of more under importance discussion. than The _the
case
London Post, commenting on the subject,
says: “Lord Salisbury acted with due
regard for the national dignity. Lord
Sackville’s indiscretion does not condone
Mr. Bayard’s neglect of decent interna¬
tional observance.”
FIRM AS THE HILLS.
Hon. Jefferson Davis arrived at Vicks¬
burg, Miss., ou Monday niirht. A l.irge
number of citizens, mostly young men,
headed by the Volunteer Southern cornet
band, marched to the Porterfield man¬
sion, where Mr. Davis appeared on the
balcony and returned thanks for the
courtesy extended him. lie spoke in a
strong voice, and feelingly referred to
the Mississippi boys whom he bad lived
for and suffered for, and detailed their
unflinching responses to duty in peace or
war. He also referred to the pride, prosperity and
of the country and city with
closed his short address as follows:
“Here, as I stand before you, my love is
as firm as the hills behind you. It is
probably the last time . I , will r11 .
see you, l
1 wl *| die, when I do die, wi
thought ana feeling that I have not lived
J^msseA underSding.”' 8 " 1 ^ 1 ^ 1
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0NE COUNTRY; ONE FLAG.
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Major William Warner, commander
in-chief of the Grand Army of theRe
public having been urged to take official
action’looking to the Grand the Army inaugu- of
th c Republic taking part in
ration ceremonies and parade at Wash
Won, D. C., says that it is proper for
ihe members of the Grand Army of the
Republic, either as individuals, posts or
departments, to participate in the inaug
uration ceremonies, none will question, partisan
“It is a time,” h e says, “when
aud sectarianism disappear; a time when
citizens of the republic meet on a com
mon id plane, oie having des.inV” but one country, one
ia
A DANDY.
uvius, called “a commerce destroyer,”
was made ovef the new government
S;a, Delaware Breakwater. The
, h .»„ ? ,succ.,, t u,cn ! ,eth K e,
the vessel attaining a rate of 2 64 kno s
per hour, while the contract calls for but
twenty knots. '1 he speed attained lacks
but 6-10 of a rate of twenty-five statute
miles per hour and places the Vesuvius
in the front rank of ocean greyhounds,
having attained the fastest indicated speed of any,
steamship afloat. The horse'
P^’er developed by the main engine,
was 4,295, (contract 3,200) and estimat
iu ® auxiliaries, 150 collective indicated
horse power; the total horse power was
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E. I. 5 Iatthews. of Walcnt Shade. Art.*
shot at a buck m the White River Bottoms.
A man named Strong tired at the animal, too.
i n the dispute over the possession of the car
cass. Strong brained Mat-.bews with his rifle
and Sed th the woods.