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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 See? 1 to oV- £t*VvJv 7vVwvwv Q* WvVww* Ivw ; \Ww With a New Stook of Hats from New York aad Baltimore of the la’fßt styles, troro thefinesfto the cheapest. Also flue Dress Goods, Ribbons an t Laces, Kid Gloves, Embroideries, Corsets *f a.l kind*. In tact a CVrnpGe stock ol fancy notions. Shoes, jdate and Clothing. Tjbac o, Staple Gi Ci-i --ies, and Harness and Leather. All Hinds of Drugs and Patent Medicines, COMER’S GUARANTEE CHICKEN CHOLER i CURE, Standard and Pacific Kerocene, Machine and Castor Oils, bv 'V-> bo*tie < gallon. Agent for Athens Factory goods, and many more. A I). D Georgia Test and Acid Work’s Pure Bona, Feiman’s SoluG* I> .ao-.i- i K-tn ieal Guano. The best line of guanos in the united states, pne sa* cheap a-j the cheapest. Breeder of fifteen varieties ot fancy Ducks. Chickens ad Geese. Eggs for sale. 44. Gunnels' Power & Cos., a —J-lARMON7 - GROVE,—-*— , DEALERS IN *. a Plantation Supplies. w? wv'Jq We Keep in stock a full supply of good and fresh goods. We can not be surpassed in Quality and Durauility. We buy at lowest market figures; we defy competition in prices. We want only a living profit on cur sales. We do not claim to be Vanderbilts, nor do we wish to accumulate their fortunes. We are receiving daily, a full supply of our Customers every day wants, jgflf Country Produce Taken in Exchange at Highest Market Prices. Hardman & Comp’ny, HarMONy GrOVE DEALERS IN HardwarE & Cutl’rY. Our Line of Stoves, Tinware, Agricultural Implements, Etc., can not be toued in better Quality aad Durability, Else where. We also keep a good line ot guu for the fall trade. Cali and examine our stock and pnoes. 10