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THE HEART COUNTY TRULY. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO HOME RULE,TARIFF REFORM AND BOURBON DEMOCRACY. SI.OO CASH, $1.50 ON SPACE : AND WORTH IT. VOL. XIV. (II! IK FIX KtIUNRRY ANI) Machine Works. VtTe announce to t«hr Puhi* • that we «re » ? pvepnre«l to mu mi fact uro fLiirim* Poll ers ; will tuk« ostlers tor a-1 of Boil ers. We are prepar *1 to d«> ill kinds of repairing on Engines, Boilers :"•<! Machin ery, generally. We keep in stock Brass fittings of all kinds ; also Inspirators, In jectors, Safety Valves, Steam Ullages, Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass Castings of every Description. <>*HOU> A WALfOTT, pJI O Fi:ss [O XA L CA 11 PS. J 1 12 . P. C4MPlltX*a DENTIST. McDonough La. Adv one desiring work done can lie ac commodated either by calling on me in por tion or addressing me through the mails. Terms cash, unless special arrangements are otherwise made. Geo W. Bryan j W.T. Dickv.n. IIKVAAt & MCKIiN, attorneys at law. McDonough, La. Will practice in the counties composing Ihe Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Leorgia and the United States District Court. ' apr27-lv j AS. 11. TI RAUR, attorney at law, McDoKouon, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States District C ourt. marl6-ly Jt .». IfKAWAA, attorney at law. McDoncwgh, La. Will practice in all the Courts of Leorgia Special attention given to commercial and other collections. Will attend all the Courts at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over Thu Weekly office. J r. tv AM.. ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, La . Will practicein tlieuountiescomposingthe Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and District Courts of Leorgia. Prompt attention given to collections. octs-’79 ■yy A. II HOW*. ’ ATTORNEY AT LAW, * McDonough, La. Will practice in all the counties compos ing tlie Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Leorgia and the United States District Court. janl-ly lj A. IMIEPLES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, H AMI’TON, G a, Will practice in all the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Leorgia and the District Court ot the United States. Special and prompt atten tion given to Collections, Oct S, ffSH ,1 so. 1). Stewart. j R.T. Daniel. STEWART & I»AAIi:i., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Geiekin, La. j 1 1C. It. .1. AltWH.n. Hampton. La. I hereby lender my professional service to the people of Hampton and surrounding country. Will attend all cal's night and day. LA If CA 11I). 1 have opened a law office in Atlanta, but will continue my practice in Henry county, attending all Courts regtilar'y, as heretofore. Correspondence solicited. Will lie in Mc- Donough on all public days. Office—Room 26, Late City Bank Build ing, Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga. JOHN L. TYE. January Ist, ISBS. • ALL Notes anil accounts of I). KNOTT A: CO., must he settled now. Please call on me at tie old stand and find out your in ehred ness. We need the money and know that you cannot censure us for giving this, our last warning. M. 0, LOWE, IDionil Maine Works AND BRASS FOUNDRY \\fc announce to the public that we art 11 now *dv to do all kinds of Machine Repairi* as Nteaii* F.nglnes Cotton 4* in*. Kepiu iifnc and Mill Machin ery, s'il ngnnd 4>«iiiiiiiing; tain a Npecialiy, We keep constantly on hand all kinds of Brass Fittings, Insoirators (of any size). Iron Piping and Pipe Fittings ; Pipping Cut and Threaded any Size and Length. We art prepared to repair vour machinery cheaper than you can have it done in Atlanta. All work guaranteed to give satisfaction. J. J SMITH. May 24, 1888 FREE. \Y .r n .*IOO.OO. i.. *t watch in the wrld • Perfect timekeeper Warranted heavy, \SOUU GOLD hunting case*. 11l th ladies and gent * sizes, J with work* and cates of equal T*lne. OKB Ft*to* in *eh I’ockisijr can Heart ofit aluible Hue of House hwld e*. Tbtse san,plea, as well __ _ t.: ■ free. All the work yarn „,„1 4:, i, to ,»n,v „h«t o. ,tnd »ou to who t*U-yo«r Ml MinkbonnStkow ohoM rra-tktt.Hmjr.malM i» r.lttble tmit for tt, whirl, hold, for y«.tt «b-» o«r« K.rt.d, .od tho. *»• tte r,pai IW. pay .13 tr P lV aa. frti.kt, ate After von know .11, If joy *wld likn to r> “ ”“ rk f " M. Jon m SILCOTT FOUND living With His Paramour’s Parents in Canada. Interviewed by a New York Herald Reporter. He Say* the Charges of Forgery Are False —He Defies the Detectives an«l Says He Dou’% Fear TCxtraditton —Miss Thiehauls’* Parent* Evidently t'navare of Their Daughter’* Downfall York, Feb. 3.—A special to The Herald from Trrre Bonne, Quebec. says: &C. E. Silcott. the sergeant-at-arm*’ about $96,000, has bilcott. „ horn Silcott fled from Washington. The woman is also domiciled here. Miss Tliiobaults patents seem to be still unaware of their daughter's fall, and apparently believe that she is the wife of the man whom she is said to have lured to his ruin. In an interview Thursday’ night, Sil cott said: “The charge of forgery is bosh. When I left Washington for New York I 'a had not the re- Y motest idea of y <§■?’ leaving the United States. 6- "gy As proof of this L Ej I point to the fact that on the i*py Wednesday be- i in fore Thanksgiv- , Will ing I drew ' AJy Ln nlj • (K)0, and with 5 $14,000 of that I ' took up notes of l*cibk thikbaclt. | members which had been discounted in bank. As to the other money lam ac cused of decamping, with I assure you I had but very little when I left New York.” Silcott wanted it denied that lie was a big winner at the races. On the con trary lie lost heavily. He only went to the races to keep up and be hale fellow with the members who are running him down. He defies the detectives and says the best legal advice in Canada assures him that lie lias c immitted no extradita ble offense. He concluded: “The day will eome when I will not appear as black as lam now painted.” COSTA RICA’S PRESIDENT Interviewed in Chicago Concerning the Caunl. Chicago, Feb. 3.—President Bernard Soto, of Costa ltica, arrived in tbii city, Wednesday morning, and registered at the Palmer house. He is traveling in cognito, in company with his wife and his mother. President Soto left Costa Rica, i >ec. 24, and went by steamer di rectly to San Francisco. Since that time he lias visited several western cities, Omaha last. He is traveling as quiet as JKjssihle, as lie wants rest and better lealth. lie says there was no lighting in Costa Kiea in November, and there lias not tieen any since then. “The only revolution,” said he, “wag one provided for by law, and the objec tions which w ere then raisd were not backed by force of arms. The people are all happy and prosperous. The Nicaragua canal will do of the greatest benefit to the country. Now mahogany bound for New York, has to be shipped around South America, hut the con struction of the canal will cut off all that tremendous distance. All the people favor its construction, and the govern ment is disposed to lie very liberal to the canal coinpanv ” THROWN BY A COW. Di.HMstrou* AcdJeut on the Texan Pacific. Live* Loht ami Cwi Burned. Planoikmink, La.. Feb. 3.—Thurs day about 4 o’clock, as a westbound freiglil train on the Texas Pacific rail road was passing SeyinourviUe, a cow on the track which which was struck by the engine, wrecking thirteen cars, En gine Its, killing Conductor John P. Crilly, Engineer Barney Bliss, and seriously wounding Oscar Pennison, fireman and one brakeman name unknown. Almost immediately after the acci dent the wrecked cars took fire and were entirely consumed. The body of Conductor Crilly was pulled out from under the burning cars by a tramp who was stealing a ride at the time. It is supposed that the death of both Crilly and Bliss was instantaneous anil without pain. The body of Crilly was badly crushed and scarcely recognizable. The body of Bliss was finally located under the engine, with burniug cars surrounding it. To extricate it was impossible, and not un til the tire was somewhat extinguished could it be reached. By this time noth ing remained but the lower half of the trunk. SNOW BLOCKADE RAISED. Central Purllir Filial!}’ Opens and Start, Train, Westward. Sa. Francisco, Feb. 3.—The trains which have been blockaded in the Sierras seventeen days commenced U move Thursday afternoon. The pm . of early Thursday morning was not encouraging, as from three to ten inch’s of snow fell last night, at various points along the line of the blockade, but tlie tracks were cleared sufficiently before night to allow th_. trains to start. Tlie first train, consisting of six mail cars, drawn by five engines, left Truckee at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon. Tlie other trains started " from Peno and Wadsworth, Xev.. about the same time. There was considerable demonstration at Reno when the trains pulled out of that place. Fire crackers and Chinese bombs were exploded, and everybody took part in general rejoicing. The reg ular east bound passenger train over the Central Pacific left here Thnrsd.iv even ing. Nut Captured l»y Pirate*. San Francisco, Feb. 3 —Tlie schooner John Hancock, reported seized by piiates off tlie coast of Lower California, ar rived here safely Friday night. mcdonough, ga.. Friday. February?, i<sdo. A FEMALE MOONSHINER Route, A Deputy Marshal's I’oxso With N» Other Weapon Thau Her Tongue. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 5. A woman’s tongue whipped out a gang of deputy United States marshals in Murray county. Several days ago Deputy Mar slial Mauldin and his brothers, Tinsley and Pearce, located a distillery in Mur ray county. Next morning at sunrise the men went to the still, each armed with a double-barreled shotgun and pistols. They cut up the still and then hid themselves to await the arrival of the men who owned it. Presently the sound of a woman's voice singing e hymn was heard across the distant hilltops. It gradually came nearer, and finally tlie woman, a strap ping mountaineer, came into view. She was tall and muscular-looking and weighed about 200 pounds, while her fists looked as hard as two rocks. “Great Scott, fellows,” gasped Cnpt. Tinsley, “It’s old Miss Brackett," and he thought of the tongue-lashing ho had re ceived from her lips a short time before. It was. indeed. Mrs. Brackett, the giantess of Murray county. She was coming to feed her hogs at tlie still. She saw something was wrong before reaching the place, and the song died awuy upon her lips. She saw the men. and yelled out, “1 see ye; come out 'er thar,’ ye skulking varmints.” The men came out and removed their hats, while a volley of vituperation fell from the woman’s lips upon the ears of the astonished men, in words that would hardly make Sunday school pa pers more readable. She said it was her still, and they had no business to cut it up, and she intended to start another as soon as possible. Slip shook her fists at tlie men and dared them to arrest her. She siiid she was a little pulled down from hard work in the still or she would lick out the whole “kit an' bilin;” hut as it was she would mop up the face of the earth with every mother's son of them if they came one at a time. They de clined her offer with thanks, and con cluded not to arrest her. Tlie men be gan moving off, when Mrs. Brackett ran ahead of them to her house, and armed herself with a Winchester rifle, and stood guard on tlie front ) torch. As the men dodged down the hill bo-, tween the bushes they could hear her maledictions following close upon their heels, and as they looked back they could sue her vainly trying to get a sight on their fleeing forms. Deputy Marshal Tinsley lias since re signed ids place in tiie service. Mrs. Brackett will be brought to Atlanta if a deputy can be found who will arrest her. A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. Twenty People Injured at Lexington, Illinois. Bloomington, 111., Feb. I.—Twenty persons wvro injured at 2 o’clock Tues day afternoon in the high school at Lex ington, in this county, by a terrific ex plosion. which was heard all over the city. While Professor Jess, surrounded by pupils and teachers, was conducting an experiment in chemistry, in which oxygen was being generated iu a retort composed wholly or in part of iron, with iron connections, tlie retort sud denly flew to pieces, and nearly thirty persons were hurled ill all directions and twenty of them more or less mangled. To add to tlie terror of the scene a san of gasoline, through which a piece of hot iron had been blown, took tire, and for a few minutes it looked as though the building and some of the wounded victims might lie consumed. The burn ing gusolitie spread rapidly over tlie lloor and seats, but tlie names were ex tinguished after u hard fight, in which Beveral of the students were slightly scorched. Those most dangerously injured by the explosion are as follows: Professor Jess, terribly burned about the head, face, arms, hands and eyes, will probably lose his sight and may die. Bertie Far set, a youth of 20, compound fracture of leg and artery cut; hk<gy to die. Cora Kemp, aged MS, compound frac ture of leg. Hattie Barnard, aged 16, struck in breast with a piece of iron pipe*; danger ously hurt. Russell Stevenson, hurt on leg and terribly braised. 4 liam Dawson, badly cat and bruised, William Hatzenpillard, badly mangled. Asa Langstoff, seriously bruised and cut. A dozen others were bruised, cut and scorched, but those names aliove are the severest sufferers. It is believed that the explosion was caused by impure chemicals. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. Mia# Hfidand Arrive* at New York —Time, B«venty-B«ven Days. New York, Feb. I.—Miss Bisland, Sthe globe trotter, who has made a trip around the globe in the inter ests of The Cos mopolitan Maga zine, having left this city on the same day as Nel lie Bly, but going in the opjicsite di rection to that lady, arrived here Thursday morn ing on the Both- EUEABETH EIS LAND. n j f( J t j ier a little less than seventy-seven days. CHARGED WITH MURDER. Eight Men Who Lynched an Informer In th 9 Ihdian Territory. GatsesvlLle, Tex., Feb. I.—The eight men charged with lynching J. H. Keyes, near Healdtown, I. T., tlie 18th of November last, will he held without bail to answer a charge of murder. They are all farmers of good standing. The prosecuting witnesses are nearly all out laws and horse thieves. It is claimed by the defense that Keyes gave informa tion against them, and that the outlaws hanged the old man to keep him frdin appearing as a witness. Collision Canned By C»rfleiwiu?k» Memphis, Tenn., Feb. B.—A serious collision occurred on the Kansas City incline tracks Thursday, between two passenger trains of the Iron Mountain and the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis roads, caused by the careless ness of the train crew. The haggagecar of one train and the engine of the other were demolished. The passengers of both tram* were thrown from their scute and several were bruised. The most seriously injured were: L. Hetting, leg broken; Wesbay, hurt internally. Ills (HE TO STAY At IsfiLst So Says President 11a Fonseca, of lirazil, When Interviewed on the New Republic’s Prospects. • One Tiling Thu* Warned Him in Particu lar Was That Our Government lla«l Failed to UnudKiiiiu the New Heimhiio. Hut That is All flight Now, as It Has Since Been Done— Citlftenahip* New York, Feb. 1. —Tlie World prints a letter from its Rio oorrepondent. It tills swen columns. uu.Y a part of it is devoted to an Interview 3g* We-sid»u£ Da Fonseca, thus: _ "jL Gen. Fonseca sat on a lounge at ono. side of tlie room and motioned me to a ff seat close by . J:*- “V He wore a sack \ coatund vest Of yb gray mixed stuff , ftr'f black trousers and an ordinary , Ya 4 black necktie^ His attire show, ed not the least *33o>:' /Acjvvgt attempt at style. sMrfcajSß* l was immedi i»ipf ntely struck by the appearance —: —■kc/yAJKW’ of sickness and " suffering which , DA KONtSECA. j lie presented. He ' -* seemed to lie about 60 years of age, was rather aliove the medium height, of heavy build, and with a particularly sharp and searching eye. His hair and beard are very gray. It was his face, however, wliiofi led me to believe that he was a very sick man. His features we e drawn and his com plexion as yellow as parchment. Had 1 not known the nature of his disease, or rather what it is reputed to he, I should have felt convinced that he was just re covering from a severe attack of jaun dice. His malady is said liy some to be liver disease, while others assert that he is affected with angina pectoris. As he sat at my side i noticed his shoulders were bent as though with age and suffering, while at every inward respiration there was a sharp, rasping sound fimilur to persons afflicted with asthma. Ills general appearance did not by any means correspond ■ with his photographs, which Vepn -ent nmi us a fiery, vigorous, and generally active person, lie is in a much "worse physical condition than the people of tlie republic arc allowed to bel’eve and it is not at all unlikely that Brazil limy soon be in mourning for the chief of the gov ernment. Uresident Fonseca speaks no other language than Portuguese, and our conversation wms carried on through themedLui of the officer in waiting, who spoke French. “A particular matter of surprise anil disappointment to me," said the presi dent, “is the refusal of the United States government to recognize the republic of Brazil. We certainly expected i Hut our first recognition would come from tiicre, hut it would appear that such a desired event is not at all assured, and by a per son not fully acquainted with tlie facts tlie impression might lie obtained that the United States did not approve of our action in relieving ourselves of the burden of a monarchical form of gov ernment and assuming the more accepta ble republican system. "To one who did not know the glori ous and i sttriotic impulses of the noble people of your great country it would appear tiiat the united States regrets the establishment of a republic in Brazil and would see tlie luonarchy.ro-established here. “Of course, we believe that such feel ings are not entertained for one moment by the people of the United States, hut still the refusal of vour government to recognize this republic leads to such an inference." , “Do you anticipate that trouble may arise from the attempted enforcement of the naturalization law- recently estale lished'f” asked tlie correspondent. “I believe no trouble will result there from,” was the reply. “Some features of the law mav be modified if found to lie objectionable. Even if subjects of foreign countries do not register their nationality in the liooks provided for that purpose they will not lie forced to do either military or jury duty. “We intend doing everything possible to make citizenship desirable, giving all equal rights and justice. It is with this view that that we intend to shortly es tablish laws separating church and state and making civil marriages law ful.” ______ 1/.<><! at leant. Washington, Feb. I.—The comple tion of the formal recognition of the United States of Brazil, occurred at tlie executive mansion Wednesday after noon, when Dr. Valente, tlie new minister accredited by the provisional government, and Mr. Mendonca, _ en voy extraordinary and minister plenifietentiary to this country, called and presented their credentials to President Harrison. Secretary Blaine accompanied the two representatives of the new Brazilian re public, and presented them to the presi dent. The ceremonies took place in the blue room and were marked by great eordialty. MANY FLAGS IN BRAZIL. New 'jfroin tlie New Bcpublk—TldiiKff Not at Serioui an Home iVnplc Say, New York, Feb. 1. —The steamship La Placo, which left Rio Janeiro Jan. 6, has arrived at her docks at Martin's Stores. First Mute Chase said: There is no flag which is recognized through out the country, and the people* of each province have a flag of their own. In December last forty sailors employed on Brazilian men-of-war went ashore and shouted “Viva FEmperor,” and subse quently had their throats cut for their enthusiasm. There was an English vessel in port there loading coffee and tli ing a Brazil ian empire flag. Orders were issued to oull down the flag, but the coffee was leaded and tb<> old flag floated until she was ready to leave port. Tilings are not as serious there as some people say they are, said Mr. Chase. St-ainboat Hurtled. New Orleans, Feb. B.—The Timrs- Democrat’s Yazoo City, Miss., special jars: The saw mill steamboat Bill Nigh, valued at $lO,OllO, destroyed by fire at Belle Prairie, twenty miles above Yazoo ( v ity. She belonged to Ohio parties, and the insurance had just expirtxi. She caught fire by the upsetting of a lamp. A SLOW BLAST GOES OFF. Itrofl Kilted, i’’onr Fatuity Injured uid Eleven Otttei’M Seriously. St'NBCUY, l’a., Fell. 1.-r-A gang of Italian, Poles and Hungarians employed in it idening the road lied of tlie Shamo kiu, Sunbury and Lewisburg railroad, from a single to a double track road, were at work Tuesday in u cut near Paxinos, where blasting the rook was necessary. Shortly before noon Tues day blasts were set and the gang of nine men retired to await the explosion. Unknown to them only two of tlie blasts exploded, and the nine men had gone biles into the cut and were at \v,,rk shoveling away the dirt and broken rook when the third blast exploded, and the men were hurled iu all directions. One of them was picked up dead. An other had his chest crushed so rfevncely that death is u question of only, a short time Four wore dug from tlie me sof di iiWs'Avirti tlirdken arms dr legs, and two ofthe.se, it is thought, will die. The other three men escaped with ..light in juries. The injured were taken to the min. rs' hospital at Ashland. Following is a list of the persons in jured by the explosion near i'nxinos, and brought to the hospital for treat* meat: Antonio Pasguizie, injured internally, will die: a Fiulnh.ler, No. 27, chin blowy off and injured internally, will die:‘a Finlander, No. 139, back crushed and legs broken, will die: a Finlander, num ber not known, eyes blown out, head crushed and injured int rtiatly, will die; Joseph N. Gordon, pit boGH, skull crushed and injured internally, recovery doubt fill: Guavine Doric, head and Units cut and legs injure 1. will probably recover. Nine others, Italians and’ hinlanders, were badly cut and bruised. Three Italians are missing, and it is said are under tin* debris, although it lias lieeii almost cleared away without revealing their bodies. Two Almsi lie ml, ShaMOKIN, Pa., Fell. I.—Two more dead have been taken from the debris of the cxplmkm at I’nxinos. They wi-r> mutilated so badlj that they cannot tie identified. Hlown to Atom*. Pittsburg, Feb. 1. —By an explosion of nitre-glycerine near Alton, Bradford county, about noon Tuesday, William B. McHenry and "exander (tonner, two well known torpedo men, weie blown to atoms. The men were unloading 12a quarts of glycerine preparatory to shoot ing au oil well, when the explosion oc curred. The cause of tlie explosion iH not known. Both were married and leave large families. AGAINST NEGRO SUFFRAGE. IkUtliciil View* of IVofottaor l*taelp* in Ilr lulioti to the tJiioMtiniw Charleston, S. C., Feb. 1 Professor Austin Phelps, of Andover, Muss., writes Editor Hemphill, of The News and Courier, thanking him for (lie courtesy and candor of his criticisms upon some remarks by Professor Phelps in regard to Mr. Grady's Boston speech. Professor Phelps go'B on to sav tiiat he never be lieved in ltegro suff rage. He says Sen ator Sumner never committed a graver blunder tluia iu drawing the act which legalized it. It was not statesmanship, but desperation, it was a blow in tlie face of nature, and nature alway s re venges such blows. We are sure in such an encounter to get tlie worst of it. Wo are suffering from it now, and will suffer more. It limy cost more blood than tha late civil war did. The thinking men of the south have the si uipathy of aery manat tlie north. Fifty ve e s ago. Professor Moses Stuart, of Audio r seminary, a personal friend of Calhoun, foresaw tic prevent (lead-lock, mid told Professor Phelps lie saw no solution but the surrender of two or three states to the exclusive possesion of the colored race. “But,” concludes Professor Phelps, “I lmvn never hism able to see tiiat' 'hristianitveauuot make two eolorsin prolificra es live peacefully together, as nature adjusts colors in the rainbow.” BESPERADO D/ING. ,1 i in Starr, llimli.mil of t lie Notorious ft.- tie Starr, Wilt IsiTOmli to 111 Wmiiitti. Fort Smith, Ark., Feb. 3. Jim Starr, a noted Cherokee horse-thief and des perado, who was shot by a United States deputy marshal, near Ardmore, I. T., last week, is dying of his wounds in the jail hospital at this place. He was the husband of the famous female bandit, Belle Starr, who was assassinated a year ago, while riding along tlie road near her home. Starr was under indict ment in the United States court for home-stealing, and a clear case stood against him. He gave a bond and left ids bondsmen in the lurch. For eight months officers have watched for him, and last week they located him in a cabin, which they covered with Winchester rifles, leaving their horses back in the brash. Starr discovered them in time to mount Ins horse and get a start, leaning forward in his saddle and shooting bark with his pistol. The officers returned the fire with their Winchesters, one of the balls passing through tlie saddle-tree and lodg ing iu Starr's back, bringing him to the ground. His relation to'the Yonngers is not known to consist of more Ilian mar rying tlie woman who was known to be a runner with them the notorious Be* Starr. Trouble iii the Chlc*k»*avr Nation. Dennison, Tex., Feb. I.—Serious trouble is anticipated in the Ciriekasaxf nation as the time approaches for the collection of the per capita tax of $a levied ori white residents for the privilege of perfonuiug manual lalsir. This law has been the source of much contention, and on a number of occasions lias well nigh precipitated un vmed conflict. There arc in the nation fully 'to.two whites, who are ripe for revolt bc'-ause of the action of the legislature in disen franchising them after they hav* en joyed the rights ot citizen b p for so many yours, and it is believed that re sistance to the payment of the tax will lie encouraged, in which case M i ious re sults are apprehended. Itiarkiunilcr l'b*ti I* Guilty. Kansas City, Feb. 1. Arthur Blake, the alleged adopted son of Arthur Gor ham. the millionaire cattle dealer, of Kinsley, Kan., on trial at Kinsley for at tempting to blackmail Gorham, has pleaded guilty to the charge. Sentence was reserved. Family FoKonetl Four Deatl. Point Pleasant. W. Va., Feb. t.— A family of eight persons, named Har grave, living several miles south of here, have been poisoned by a colored woman. Four of the family are rejxirted dead. PHOSPHATES. Another Iki imt for {’tt» Iguitl of Oi tun'd Blossoms. Lively lntorost Taken in the New Diacoverloa. Tlmj l)u;M>ftit* Cover lliiudrml* of Ait•* anti iu Homo riiui '* Aro N»l«l to He Seventy Feet In- ThlokHtv**- Southern Florida Overrun With Speculator*, All Anxlonn to Huy Land. Jacksonvii.lk. Flu., FnU fl.—A corre sixmdet* of Tho Cincinnati Commercial Gazette gend* the following to his paper; teTbottrte-e i/tu vltvn’lfto aoufh Florida a few days ago to ascertain by personal inspection what there in in this phos phate craze. si l was inclined to cuff it. Groat crowds of fertilizer men, bankers, raff road directors, chemists and their camp followers, }iaV9 been rushing through- iviuf' u\Vnx from here to see for thomselvck. Lauds in curtail localities hfive he n tioiight at the asking price without iiiiv atrenifv! to jew tin seller, but snapping him iip and getf'ng his sigu aitd seal with the ntmost ha: te No Tron bis to Srtl Lull I. Everybody who has lands in curtain belt , was written er wired to, am t,.jl lie ranted a ligiije, was pretty sure fit-see "pmelxsl/ in it.day or two will, a dud to sign and casb to pay for it. "HiS'rail roails wife ridled on for deeds faster than U ivy-court! write them, and jumts on their Muse were suddenij' wiLidrawu from market. They were anioiri the list to realize the meaning of this sud den demand. One man wliorn 1 ki.ow was askwd what tie would take for a forty turn tract in Marion county. He answered that he would not sell at re tail -thai he owned 400 acres there. “What'll you take for it all?” "Ten dollars an in.ru.' “Draw up your deed!' Ho drew it, and was iKikl. The land cost him 81.2.1 four or five years ago. The forty sold tho 400. Through the Oi (trove*. I took the Grange Belt railroad at Mon roe, tieur tsmiford and ran down through groves wFion ■ leaves are so dark that they are blue, and whose goldim apples rival, yea, surpass those of the garden of I Icspcrides. Thu uxpre.-s liu tsenger was throwing out empty crates of strawberry boxes every low miles. At the stations boxes of oranges, berries and tomatoes were awaitlfig the' northbound. On tlie south shores of Lake A|Hipka thousands of acres are planted iu tomatoes. Hie AjMijika mountains are the coining win ter gardens of Florida -there may lie other lands as good, but those are cleared and being planted now. Aero* of Tfffth, Just beyond this backbono of the Ht ite, on the wesiern slope of tlie watershed, m tlie carlKiuiferoiis age, there must have been vast crowds of mastodons, saurians and winged creatures, and sharks on these life-teeming shores by tlie millions! Their teeth are found there acres of them feet, not inches, in thickness. Tin* Dupofiiti, But in some places are deposit* nearly ns white as chalk, a few ana often many feet below (he Hinfii’e, from a few incite- to many feet in thickness, the thickest said to lie several feet! It-'has been been k uteri’ in past year* and con sidered carbonate of lime. It i* phos phate of lime. It is worth $!5 a ton free on I * lard cars, and can lie put there for .jl or j 2 nt most; by inuclmiery for leu* than 81. There are thousands of tons to the a re. Tlie demand is now in excess ol supply. What wonder that such land sells at SI,OOO an acre! Augers are being bored day ami night by prospei tors. Men wh® can draw their checks lor *1(9,000 are waking round in old clothes and slouch hats to so- chat laud* are not salted. Their din guise is not thrown off until they iss ket ui’hjL. A great many thoiiHami dollars, p'xlaqip scvur J mill on. have gone into these phosphate laud* already, and the demand increases ( ▼•-% week. ft, Petersburg* St. Petersburg, tho end of the orange licit, will h ■ the shipping port lor much of this phoßpliate. 'liiey luive deep water, and ocelli bteainsliips ure now landing there. The richest of theeede posita a ill go ty Europe, the lower grade* will he used to make Florida the very “garden of the gods.” Down here iu January we have fresh strawberries, tomatoes, caWhige, beete, peas, and bananas, guavas and the flesh of tiie taiqsin, whose skin, with silver scales bigger thairthe dollar of the dad dies, will la ethe (lining room of the old honistead hereafter, the riidiest unil rarest of ornaments. Pheepliatc is a re.iHty, and its possi bilities arc incalculable, incredible. COONEY 'TH€ FOX’S” COUSIN SHOT. A dlluag.i Taltue Captain lnilului.s In h I nil- I’lstol l'anilivu, CiriC'Mio, I'eh. I.—Police Captain Behuettlcr, of the cential station, sliot end dtuigb I’b'i‘ly wounded Tliotnas flib- Ixjns. a . idoonkedper, and a cousin of Cooney "ihe Fox," in Vogelsang’s saloon, at Ia I Randolph itrist. The sliootin v, as the result of ill-feeling tsj tween the officer and G m begin and Aider man Mci 'orndek. TJie latter tried to provoki' a quarrel with Ischuettler, and faflin. in t! is Gihlsiu ; feted the captain to tlie floor w ith a terrific blow on the riglit rye. The two men clinched and fought sav agely for some title*, trying to gain poo -ion of Scheuttler's revolver. Sclicut th*r tinellv wrested the weapon from the saloon keeper and shot him in tie- shoul der. Gihl oiv> waa taken to his home and the alderman was arrested, hut sub sequeutly released on ban. ('(iiiiU-ruintl Miir4«»r«r Kurapfu. GitEENMioiui,, N. CL* Feb. s.—Lige Mooli’, is hwd, »din was to have banged here next Friday ter tlie murder of Lagra Hiatt, escaped from jail Friday. Ha pro.tired an iron bar with which he opened his celt and then fastem-d in tlie jailer, who was at work on tlie gallows on the third floor. The jailer raised an alarm, but did not attract attention un til Moor - had made good his escape. IlutKia mikl '-'lilna. St. Petersburg, Feb. 4.—Tlie de termination of tl-e Chinese government to construct a railway from Pekin to Girin, a town situated near tho Russian frontier, luu created considerable imeasi nc j> in official circles here, and as a set off against this it is contemplated to in crease the Russian fleet in tne Pacific, fA LEFT HANDED BEAR. And tIM Bkrd Look of Soma r*nu»jlrmala Him ton* Docs. “Guess you follows never tackled a left handed bear,” said an old Poeono hunter to a group of bird shooters the other evening. “I didn’tex.ictly tackle one myself," neadded, “but 1 saw one light two dogs over at the head of White Oak run last winter, and ho didn’t use his right paw once. Mo and Charley Petty put a white bulldog and a roan hound on the bear’s track in about three inohesof snow, and tho way they made the woods ring was music. The white dog took the load, and for all of twiyniles we couldn’t keep up. Then the yelping of the two grew louder and sharper. We hurried ahead and found that they had caught up to a large bear and were worrying him. Tho bear triod his tieat to gvt I away in tike scrub oakH, but the dogs firesscd him so hard and nipjM-d his lind legs nnd'flanks so often that he backed up ugainst a rock and got mad. He was ihijjhty mad, too, but tho dogs didn’t seein to care tr snap if he was, for they both kept pitching at him, and everv time they made a lunge he brought iiis left txiw down with force enough to break a cow’s kick. We might have plugged the kar with bul lets rigid there, hut tho dogs appeared to enjov teasing him, and pretty soon the bulldog made"a leap and tried to grab the bcur by the nose. Thou that old'left paw of his got in its lino work. Ho brought it aromid sideways this time.' IThe bulldog failed to grab his nose, and liefore he could get out of tho ‘*way that awful left paw struck him on the right jaw and tore thejxmo loose.* That used up Mr.* lad blog, but the other-dog was u-s brave- as u lipii,' and he* faced the hu ;e paw and got knocked into the brush, twenty feet off.' The bear didn't try to use his right' navy once, and. when he had cleaned both dogs out, bo waddled oil' as cool its you please anil we shot him dead.” . ... “I never met a lefflranded bear,” ■ said another old Monroe county hun-' ter, “but I run across u.i tough a killer as your left handed bear was. I was guiding a party of city deer shooters through the Knob mountain district at the time. On the third day one of city fellows got tired of standing on runaways, and sty he took his setter and shotgun and went olf by himself after rutted grouse. 1 fouuk a bear's truck in the snow near Knob pond that morning, anil the deer sluxitor; said they guessed they would just as soon liunt the bear for u change. Bo I got three dogs and put them on the track and stationed the city chaps here and there. The dogs hustled the bear into a swamp and tlicn out of it. On the edge of the swamp one of the dogs got in liis way and was killed, and be fore any of us could get a shot at him lie took the hack track and disabhxi another dog. The third dog was too sharp for tne bear, and hounded him into the swamp and out four or five times. Finally the bear gave up try ing to Hide in the Hwatnp and headed for a ravine half a mile off. Thu fun niest thing of it all was that the bear ran right into the neighborhood where the bird hunter was trying to find grouse. Before the bird shooter liad a chance to realize what all the crack ing in tht) brush meant, the bear crushed through the saplings close to him and appeared in sight. The grouse liuuter said his first thought was to leg it up the hill, but be was afraid tho bear would chase him. and so he faced tho music and fired two charges of No. C shot into tho bear's face and eyes. The bear couldn’t see to travel after that, and* wo killed him.” Jt One day the young sou of a man who lives on Tunldiatuiock creek went n mile or so from home to gather beechnuts. A large, jet black New foundland dog accompanied the lad, and while the boy was busy picking nuts from under u iree lie saw tlie dog prick up his ears, wag his tuii and Uvt off ns though he had spied another dog and was going to meet t)im. This surprised the boy, Imt he flidn’t call the dog back. lie watched him though, and lie quit kly saw that the dog was trotting toward a much larger animal and one ju t as black as the dog. When the dog hud got within a few yards of the other blaek creature he suddenly put his tail between his legs, whirled right about and ran past the boy as though lie was half scared to death. The moment tho dog did this the other animal, whieh the boy theu saw was a huge black bear, turned tail just as suddenly and wad dled off in the opposite direction os fast as he could go. Each had been very much frightened by the other, and the boy saw nothing more of the dog until he reached home. Not Jong ago two men who live near here took a beagle hound and went over to Bed Ridge to hunt rabbits. A large bulldog followed them and stay ed near them while the beagle scared tbe rabbits out of the brush. All at once a big rabbit scampered out of the underwood and dashed down the slope past the men. Its appearance excited the bulldog, und he gave chase at the top of his speed. When he was with in a few feet of the rabbit the dog got tripped in some running vines and was turned end for end like a flash. He didn’t realize that he had beeu re versed, and in bis eagerness to gef at the rabbit he ran straight up the hill tile moment lie got out of the tangle. By tliat time the rabbit was well to ward the foot of the slope, and after the confused dog had run several rods he.stopped all of a sudden, sat upon his haunches and howled fora minute or so, much to the amusement of the hunters. —Staufber’s Mill Cor. New York Tribune. Up a Stamp. The governor of Rhode Island found that Charles Baal had been convicted of a robbery of which he was inno cent, and had jerved two years on a term which he snould never have had. He, therefore, pai-doned him, and in side of tea days he discovered that Charles ought to have got other sentences for three other robberies he actually did commit A jury seldom puts an innocent man iu a hole.-—De troit Free Press. NO- 41.