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'■> -t i n,ill village in
~.u county, Ky., suit, was
I) ’ought by Mrs. James l’oynter to
recover damages from Mrs. Ware
ibr the slaughter of a gray goose
belonging to the former. The kill
ing occurred litre® years ago. r J'h3
places upon which the two women
live adjoin, Mrs,. Poynter owned
••• 11 n k ol geese which she priz
c i highly, i'ho geese frequently
got into Mrs, Ware’s yard and ate
all the grass. It is said that ono
'. cose ate as much as three horses.
Mrs. Ware frequently warned her
neighbor to keep her geese in her
own yard. Mrs. Peynter promised
to do so, 'out Ihe geese were too
much for her. When they found
o it that they were net wanted in
Mrs. Ware’s yard they made that
enclosure their favorite stamping
ground.
0::e day Mrs. Ware discovered
the geese in her yard, and she said
“she guessed, she wouldn’t be both
ered with fhem dratted geese any
longer.” She gave chase with a
good-sized billet of wood. She
struck one goose on the head and
killed her. The others escaped.
Mrs I’oynfer demanded that
Mrs. Ware pay her forty cents for
the dead goose. She said that her
neighbor would have driven the
geese out of her yard without re
sorting to violence. Mrs. Ware re
plied that that was the only reme
dy she had teund effective, and re
fused to pay.
Mr.-' I’oyster brought suit in the
jusiice’.' court to recover the forty
cents She employed a good law
yer. So did Mrs. Ware. Both wo
men were widows, and each vowed
she would spend her last cent in
the case before sue would give in.
Alter many mistrials and contin
uances, prolonged through three
years,’Squire Grinsteadhas at last
given his decision. It is in favor
of the defendant The costs on each
side arc about $ 150, and Mrs. Poyn
fer has to pay all unless she appeals
to a higher court and receives a re
versal of the magistate’s decision.
Why all Men are Equal.
In the course of his eulogy on the
late Representative Barnes of Mis
souri, Senator Ingalls ot Kansas,
said “In the democracy of death
all men at least are equal. There
is neither rank nor station n >r pre
rogative in the republic of the grave
At that fatal threshold the philoso
pher ceases to be wise and the song
oflho poet is silent. At that fatal
threshold Dives relinquishes his
wealth and Lazarus his rags. The
poor man is as rich as the richest
and the rich man is as poor as the
pauper. The creditor loses his us
ury and the debtor is acquitted of
his obligafion. The proud man
surrenders his dignity, the politi
cian his honors, the worldling his
pleasures. Here the invalid needs
no physician and the labarer rests
from unrequifed toil. Here at least
is Nature’s final decree in equity.
The irony of fate is reluted. The
wrongs of time are redressed and
injustice expiated. Ihe unequal
distribution of wealth, ot honor, ca
pacity. pleasure and opportunity.
which make life so cruel and inex
plicable a .Iragedy, ceases ia the
realm ot death. The strongest has
there no supremacy and the vveak
c- i needs no defense. The might
iest captain succumbs to that* in
vincible adversary who disarms
alike the victor and the vanquish
ed”
A Noted Court,
The United Slates District Court
at Forth Smith, Ark., is one of the
most noted in the world, chieilv be
cause of the large number of crim
inal cases that stain its dockets.
Not less than 1,500 criminals are
brought before it for trial every
year, aad an average of fifty of
them are charged with murder.
Judge Parker, who has presided
over the court for fifteen years has,
during that time disposed of 817
murder cases. He has pronounced
Ihedealh sentence on 100 convict
ed murderers, 71 of whom were
hanged outside hi3 court room, the
others being plrdoned by the presi
dent or receiving commutation of
sentence. There promises to be
an unusually large number of hang
ings this year. There are nowin
tlie Federal prison 47 prisoners
awaiting trial for murder, and de
puties are on their way here with
fifteen or twenty more,
The court has almost exclusive
jurisdiction over the Indian Terri
tory, and is the only terror that the
desperaloes of that crime-infested
country know. Take it away and
crime would run rampanf, As it
is, forty mounted deputy marshals
are kept busy the year round mak
ing arrests, and the court grinds
without cessation from ona year’s
end to the other. The docket is nev
er cleared. One term runs into the
next, and sessions are often held
until midnight, There are no va
cations. Most of the trials are for
criminal offences ranging all the
way from selling liquor to mur
der, and the punishment is severe
For merely taken a bottle of whisky
into the Territory area ate sent to pris
on ior three months. A horse thief
generally gets ten years in the peni
tentiary, ani hanging is almost invari
ably the verdict in the case of a con
victed muiderer. ledge Parker, per
sonally a pleasant and gecial gentle
man, and not at all the stern magis
trate one might expect, says that a se
vere punishment is absolutely necessa
ry to hold the criminals of the Indian
country in check, and as so many es
cape through lack of evidence, he al
most invariably, incase of conviction,
pronounces the extreme sentence al
lowed by law. At the the time he
was assigned to the court murders in
the Territory averaged nearly one a
day, and in order to check them he be
gan his first term by pronouncing the
death sentence on every convicted mur
derer that came before him. At the
e ! ose of the year he had sentenced 15
men to be hinged, and had sent about
200 of them to the penitentiary, many
of them for life. The desperadoes be
came terror stricken, and some of them,
rather than come before him tor trial,
killed themselves.
■
The room in which Judge Parker
holds his coart is located in the bar
racks ot old Fort Smith, which was
abandoned as a militaiy post ia 1873.
The Fort hal quite a history. It was
established ia 1820, aid was the scene
of numerous tfc idling engagement
with mdiaas. At the beginning of ;h
late war the Federal troops we:o driv
en out by the Confederates, hut th<
fort was recaptured in 1362, and was
htldr.cf.il finally evacuated by the
government tbteen years ago. The
barracks or ecwrt house as it is now
called, ia surrounded by a high stone
wall, now in a state of decay, bat the
battered portholes tell the story of
many hard fought bathes. The west
ern wall runs almost up totho bound
ary line of the Indian Territory, and
one eun stand upon it and throw a
stone into the nation of either the
Choctaw cr Cherokeo tribe. Adjoin
ing the court house is the Federal pris
on, a massive structure of brick and
i on that is at all times crowded to ov
erflowing with enminals. ft now con
ains 18G prisoners, some ef whom are
among the most listed desperadoes of
the Indian country. Most of them are
whites, the average being seven white*
and two negroes to one Indian. This
is partly aeccunted for by the fact that
an Indian who commits a crime against
another Indian, is tried boforc a court
in his own country, the United States
erurt here only having jurisdiction ov
er Indians who commit crimes against
white int’B or negroes. Judge Parker
says, however, that the Indians ate
generally pretty good citizens, and
crime in Indian Territory would be
comparatively unknown if the white
rene£adeß were driven out.
A Ping 3 500 Years Old.
The Smithsonian institute has a gift
of great antiquity from the Chinese
Minister. It is a “jade” ring akeut
ten inehes in diameter and one-eighth
of an inch in thickness, with a hollow
center aboat four inches in diameter.
It is a pale hue.
The ring is known os the “Han
Pek” jewel cf the dynasty of Han, an
old time of monarch of 8,500 years
ago. Court officials of that day, when
an audience was accorded them by the
Emperor, held tha ling with both
hands and thrust their fingers into the
opening to guard against moving their
hands while addressing the throne, the
emphasizing of their remark) by flouris
es of the hands, presumably being con
trary to official etiquette. The ring
was used as an emblem of submission
or respect for the sovereign. It was
receutly unearthed from a sepulcher,
having been buried with the owner.
There are among the Bormans and
also the Shans many fervent believers
and adepts in tho alchemieal art. As
in Europe during tha middle age*,
there may now be found in Burmah
men of better education than their fel
lows wasting time, health, and for
tune in these visionary and absorbing
pursuits. They may be laughed at by
their neighbors for their individual
want of success, but there is no Bur
man who does not firmly believe in the
possibility of obtaining the grand se
cret of the philosopher’s stone; though
indeed, ho only believes what Sir Ham
pbrey Davy himself said was possible
Of course this credulous spirit is con
stantly taken advantage of by clever
rogues, and the courts afford frequent
instances of the most surprising km
plicity.
Sjwaneo, Tenn., Jdsy J2i.—The sev
enteen year locusts, although they do
not come often, make a decided im
pression when they do come. Every
I bush and tree is laden with the pests,
i and they are succeeding in makia j
i themselves lieatd. The noise which
they create mijht be aetcribed as a
cross between & frog pond chorus and
a tic-tinabulation in oue’s ears of an
overdose of
Hew Millinery Store,
James T. Comer,
MAYSVILLE, . :::::: GEOrGIA
Has Employed A First Class
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Drugs and Patent Medicines,
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Eggs for sale. 44.
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