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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
i Lour) Salisbury will take charge of
the English Government after all. To
the Queen is given much credit for
bringing about a truce between the two
contending parties.
Between 1842 and 1869 England
lost from qontagious lung plague, ( it is
est imated, .*>,548,680 head of cattle worth
$4,000,000. During the following nine
years she lost about $1,000,000 more.
In the X’eadjustment of salaries among
the Presidential postollices a general
reduction of from SIOO to S2OO has
been ordered. This comes from the re
duction of letter postage from three to
two cents.
The coke product' of the United
States for 1884, according to the chief
of mining statistics at Washington, was
590,916 tons less than in 1883, and the
value was $878,729 less.
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Since the United States Government
has no navy to speak of, it is in good
shape to take advantage of every
modern invention to supply itself with
the necessary improved appliances of
.attack and defense in naval warfare.
It was proven in court that Budden
seick, the tenement death-trap builder,
of New Yoi'k, actually put some sand
in his mortar, which probably saved
him from receiving the full extent of the
law. lie received a sentence of only
ten, years in the penitentiary.
The problem of placing underground
telephone and telegraph wires, in which
much interest has been taken, is rapidly
approaching solution in New York. The
Western Union Company now admits
that it thinks it can comply with the
law. The imperative requirements of
the law have stimulated invention to a
successful result.
' The Nashville American says: “While
ithc experts in Spain are cudgelling their
drains over the problem of inoceulation
with the qpmabacillus the average Cas
tillian is interested in knowing what will
destroy coma bacillii. We can think of
nothing better than to cut off the tail of
the coma and put a period to its exist
ence.
| Mason Campbell, a second-class
•clerk in the Second Comptroller’s of
fice, who died the other day, was one
of the oldest clerks in the Treasury.
He was in the Second Comptroller’s
office for thirty-eight years, and was
eighty-seven years old. Up to the time
of his death he performed his duties as
’■well as ever in his life, and was looked
tupon as the best penman in-the office.
Since the resignation of Gladstone
the Queen has consulted with the Prince
of Wales concerning the formation of a
new Ministry. This is the first time she
has been known to advise with her royal
.•son on matters of State. His very
prompt counsel to adhere to precedent
at this critical juncture seems to indicate
that Edward VU. will prove a thor
oughly constitutional sovereign.
By the middle of July every iron and
.steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pa., and vicin
ity, with one exception, will be using
natural gas as a fuel. This will re
duce the consumption of coal there 38,-
250,000 bushels per annum, one-seventh
of the yearly output of the region trib
utary to Pittsburgh. It will also throw
out of employment thousands of fire
men. coal-heavers and ash-haulers em
ployed in the mills.
! Ollagagha, an African prince, who
claims to be a Christian, caused to be
killed and eaten nine unoffending citi
zens of a village in which he recently
received an injury. It appears that all
princes have their little eccentricities.
No Christian potentate can be expected
to see his household suffer for food with
a lot of well conditioned heathens with
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in easy reach.
Tip; Board of Agriculture of Massa
chusetts gives ti e instance of a livery
man who spread the stable refuse from
lifteen horses on one and a half acres of
meadows seyeral years in succession,
and harvested three crops each season,
aggregating seven and a half tons each
season of good hay, as much as he
would have secured if the manure had
been scattered over three times as much
land.
The people of Madrid seem to think
the proper way to escape the cholera is
to ignore its presence. They obstinately
refuse to permit the authorities to disin
fect their dwellings or do anything else
of a preventive nature because the pres
ence of the epidemic would thereby be
advertised. The merchants have added
their opposition and closed their stores
because the government reports the
number of cases.
‘ A CHURCH RIOT.
Mttempt to Blow up a Priest’s House
and an Arrest.
Mob Vio’enee at Toledo, O.—Two Men
Killed and Ten Wounded.
Toledo, 0., June 28. —About three o’clock
this afternoon a riot took place at the
Polish settlement in this city between two
opposing factions of the St. Hedwig’s
(Polish Catholic) ■ Church, wherein about
one hundred men, women and children
participated. About a week ago an at
tempt was made to blow up the house
of the Rev. Lewankowski, pastor of the
church, and a member of the congrega
tion by the name of Dalkowski was
arrested for so doing and placed under
bonds. A saloon-keeper, named Peter S.
Zelaszkiewicz, went his bail, and he was re
leased. This afternoon a crowd gathered
in Zelaszkiewicz’s saloon and denounced
the saloon-keeper for going Dalkowski’s
bail'. 'A little scrimmage followed, and
while the men were ripe for riot they at
tacked the priest’s house, which
was * near the saloon. In a
few minutes the crowd, now thor
oughly maddened, soon demolished the
house, and destroyed the furniture and
badly bruised the inmates. Dalkowski was
horribly beaten with clubs and died shortly
after. The crowd, which had been increas
ing in numbers, then attacked Zelaszkie
wiez’s saloon, completely wrecking it. A
looker-on by, the name of Dobrowolczki
, was - shot through the forehead and
instantly killed. A number of the
deceased man’s friends were also badly
used, two men sustaining seri
ous injuries. Mrs. Dalkowski and
another woman were injured, but not dan
gerously. At the police station to-night
there is no less than ten cots in use for the
wounded and homeless ones. Thirty Po
landers, who took partin the bloody affray,
have been arrested. The names of the
murderers can not be ascertained to-night.
The congregation has for a long time been
at variance, on a question whether the
priest, Father Lewankowski, should be re
moved or not. On account of this state of
affairs there has been bad blood existing
between the priest’s friends and his on
posers.
Toi'pcdo Experiment.
Cincinnati, June 28.— This afternoon
Captain Paul Boyton, in order to illustrate
the practicability of the torpedo service,
blew up a good-sized thre -mast ship at
anchor in the Ohio River, below Anderson’s
Ferry. About one thousand persons wit
nessedthe nrooe'adill's. Tt>« Captain pa.il
dlod out toward the anchored ship, towing
the torpedo." it was fixed in place
and the fuse lighted, he then paddled
away. Then everybody held ther breath.
I n a few moments, with a heavy report, a
huge column of Abater, spray and debris
shot up many feet into the air, and the big
ship, seventy-five feet from stem to stern,
was a total wreck. Two of the three
masts had disappeared, and a portion of
the hull was blown to pieces. What was
left of her’still floated, and was immedi
ately boarded by the “wreckers,” who had
been hovering around in skiffs. The
.charge was forty pounds of what is known
as glycerine dynamite, enough to have shot
a large vessel skyward, but the ship had
been built from an old flat-bottomed boat,
and the explosion tore through her without
blowing her to pieces. Had she been a
keel boat the destruction would have been
more but it was enough to illus
trate the mighty power of dynamite in na
val warfare.
Indian Warfare.
Ft. Keogh, Mont., June 28.—Word has
been received Here that a war party of
Blood Indians, numbering between two
hundred and three hundred bucks, have
left their reservation in Northern Montana,
and are traveling south to join the South
Piegans, for the purpose of making war on
the Crows • antt Gros Ventres. These In
dians are probably the same ones who have
been raiding ranchmen on the Upper Mis
souri, during the present spring, and on
one or two, occasions have come into con
tack with cowboys, when the Indians
were generally routed, and some of them
killed. Last year the Bloods and Piegans
made continuouswaids on the Crows, cap
turing from the latter about two thousand
horses during the season. The enmity
between the Piegans and Crows, is of long
standing, but in these mutual raids, peace
able ranchmen living along the
route traveled,generally suffer more than
either of the tribes.
Death from Excitement.
Indianapolis, Ind., June 28.—Early this
morning, Thomas Armstrong, a substan
tial farmer residing near the city, saw two
horses in his cornfield, and he called a
negro boy to assist him in driving them
out. After accomplishing this, one of the
horses again jumped into the field, where
upon Armstrong got very much excited,
and again went to it drive out. While cross
ing the field the colored lad saw Armstrong
suddenly stop, placd his hand upon his
heart, and fall forward. The boy went to
him end found life extinct, the result of
heart disease, brought on by the exertion
and the inffcnse’heat.
Damage by Storm in Dakota.
Redeield, Dak., June 27.—1 n the severest
rain-stonn ever kndwn here, beginning
about 1 a. m. to-daj*, a building belonging
to an old man named Hadley was blown
down. An old woman was killed, a son
fatally, a wife and two smaller children
severely injured. More or less damage
was done to crops, fences and buildings.
Charles Francis Adams 111.
Boston, June 28. —Hon. Charles Francis
Adams is seriously ill at his residence in
Quincy. He has been in very poor health
for the past two or three years, and has
now, it is said, lost contiol of
his mental faculties. His condition to-day
is reported as quite critical.
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY. GA.. THURSDAY, JULY 2. 1885.
NEW CRUISERS.
Four New Naval Vessels to be Built at
Once.
Washington, June 26.—A number of
plans and specifications for the new naval
vessels provided for at the last session of
Congress, have been received at the Navy
Department. In the circular enliing for the
plans and proposals Secretary Whitney
specified that they should be submitted by
July 15. The circular called for plans for
four vessels. The Bureau of Construction
and the Bureau of Steam Engineering of the
Navy Department will submit plans for
them all, the former for the hulls and the
latter for the machinery and engines. It
is not known that any other source will
offer plans for the entire number. Several
plans for a single vessel will be submitted
by naval officers, and it is expected that
plans will he received from sliip-builders.
Naval Constructor Hintonye, of the Brook
lyn Yards, will furnish plans for three ves
sels. The first is to cost about $1,500,000,
to be 356 feet by 48, and to run eighteen
knots per hour. Her armament
will consist of twenty-seven guns,
and she will carry about 400
men and officers. The second vessel will
be 325 feet by forty-six feet, and her bat
tery will consist of ten guns. The third
vessel will be 225 feet by thirty feet, carry
ing an armament of fourteen guns. The
vessels are modeled after the English
cruisers. The enterprising but imaginative
individual has also been submitting propo
sitions. One offers a plan for a vessel that
will float on “top of water, beneath it, and
in midair. The sails will be wings, and it
will make greater speed than any bird,
or anything man has invented.” Others
are submitting similar impracticable
schemes for parts of vesse's. Secretary
Whitney is not ’desirous of experimenting
with new schemes. He rather favors the
adoption of the models of the best cruisers
built by foreign Powers, with such im
provements as can be added by American
shipbuilders. Under the general
invitation of Secretary Whitney
to officers of the navy and ‘ others
to submit plans to him for the construction
of new steel cruisers, Admiral Porter has |
for some time past been engaged in plan
ning a vessel which he hopes will prove a
model in her class. She is'to be 250 feet
long, and at the same time, a ram, a torpe
do boat and a gunboat, will go forward or
backward with equal facility, and carry a
very heavy armament. It is expected that
she will attain great speed.
Targets for the Army.
Rock Islaxd, 111., June 2(5.—A new in
dustry has tieetf started at. the Rock JelevH
Armory and Arsenal. It is the manufac
ture of man targets for use in the regular
Army. These targets are made of steel
and as near the form of an average-sized
man as can be outlined with steel. They
are made in three positions—upright, at a
front, then in the position of firing with
arms raised as if holding a musket. Col
onel Flagler invented the machine that
works the steel to the proper shape. The
steel frame is covered with cloth in such a
manner that at a distance the resemblance of
a man is marked—and what is important,
it can be told just in what part the “man”
is hit—arm, leg, breast, stomach, neck,
shoulder or head. Four hundred of these
steel targets are being made, requiring the
use of 108,000 pounds of steel. In the tar
get practice they will be placed in squads,
in platoons, in companies, and the various
other forms in which soldiers move in the
opening of an engagement. The practice
will comqience at a range of two hundred
and fifty to three hundred yards
and then be gradually increased to
long distances. The targets will
be sent to military posts at which
such practice can be best carried on. The
only drawback to the effectiveness of this
practice is in the fact that the steel-man
targets can not fire back; if they could,
the soldiers who are firing at them might
not be so expert. When the war of the re
bellion opened the best weapon in the
world was the “Springfield musket,”
which was effective for a thousand yards,
but no soldier could load and fire that
musket once a minute even in a fight. The
soldiers carried but forty rounds in their
cartridge-boxes. Now, think of the dif
ference. The army musket of
to-day can be fired twenty
four times a minute, and is effective
for destruction of life at a distance of two
miles. That is the reason why they are
making the man-targets at the arsenal and
armory at Rock Island. The old style of
close work in a battle is at an end, and one
can be informed at the arsenal that artil
lery shields have become a necessity for
the protection of gunners. With the effec
tive muskets of the present day a battery
would be deprived of its men by the sharp
shooters of the enemy as far as they could
be seen, and be unable to do anything
in return, for the old methods of
supporting and protecting a battery by in
fantry, keeping back the infantry on the
other side, is at an end. The enemy
needen’t be within a mile of the battery,
and yet pick off its men with the new
weapons and the use of glasses. So
shields of steel, thick enough to be imper
vious to bullets, which can be placed before
a battery of Gattling guns, or a new steel
gun, light breech-loading, but of good
range, and thus protect the gunners from
long range infantry, have become a neces
sity.
A Famous Steamer to he Burned.
Boston, June 26.—The old United States
steamer Niagara was towed to Apple
Island to-day to be burned for her metal,
and will probably light up the harbor for
several nights to come. She has an eventful
history. She was built before the war,
helped to lay the first Atlantic cable, con
veyed Minister Anson Burlingame to
China, pursued the Alabama, and was
otherwise serviceable during the war.
She was originally of 5,000 tons burthen,
but was cut down. At one time she was
considered the swiftest steamer in the
United States Navy.
INDIANA’S HELLO.
The Way the Telephone Company Will Obey
the New Law, anti Still Maintain
Their Former Prices.
Chicago, June 26.—A meeting of the Su
perintendents of the Central Union Tele
phone Company was held in this city yes
terday, at which the policy of the company
concerning its action under the new
telephone law in Indiana was outlined and
explained. It will be remembered that this
company gave notice terminating on Jun®
30 the contracts of all its Indiana subscrib
ers. This was in order to protect itself un
der the new law. The rental law fixes the
price for the use of a telephone at $3 a
month as ainaximmn. The telephone com
pany takes the ground that this refers only
to the use of instruments, and that there
are, in addition, many other things which
go to make up telephone exchange
service, such as lines, batteries, bells,
central office apparatus and the
lalior of the agents and employes, which
the bill does not touch at all. A circular
has been prepared, which will be sent to
ali the subscribers of the compauy in In
diana, setting forth its view of the
case, and also giving many facts
concerning the business- which are of
interest to the public at largo. The
idea of the compauy seems to be to
abide by the provisions of the new law,
as they understand it. The gist of the
whole thing is that the telephone company
expects to receive from its subscribers for
the services rendered the same amount of
money which it is now getting. The law
will be complied with because] the com
pany’s construction of it is that it refers to
rental of instruments only.
A Confession in His Sleep.
Erie, Pa., June 26.—Developments this
evening in the terrible tragedy enacted
near Erie at an early hour yesterday morn
ing, or the night before, fix the murder of
Charles Dunn, the Pittsburgher, upon
Hughey Brown, the suspected murderer,
i<ej r ond a doubt. Brown’s pantaloons were
found hidden away under a stump in an
adjoining field. The sack of food which
he had purchased the evening before, and
which he had been seen with at a late hour
on the night of the murder, was found
spattered with fresh blood stains. Brown
raved in his sleep last night and talked
pleadingly with Dunn, whose bloody form
he imagined he saw before him, and
begged of him to leave him. Brown was
formally arraigned to-night for Dunn’s
murder.
A Girl Horribly Mangled.
“ 'mnv’VATi, 0,, .In-ip 25.- A y mmr
girl named Annie Murray, living with her
parents in Fulton, met with a horrible
death this morning. While playing at
Hinton’s saw-mill, the child got on a shaft
to ride, and in some manner her dress
caught in the cog-wheels, drawing her
body in the machinery. The cylinder was
running over one hundred revolutions per
minute, and the child was carried around
at a fearful speed. At each revolution the
little one’s head struck a joist, and w'hen
the machinery was stopped she was horri
bly mangled. She was carried to her home
iu an unconscious condition, but lived half
an hour. 0
A Long Separation, • •
Danville, Va., June 25.—Aunt Parphe
nia Jones, aged seventy-nine years, was
sold as a sl*ve from Parson County, North
Carolina, forty years ago. She was sepa
rated from her husband and two daughters
at that time. After her freedom she begftn
searching for them. She learned some
years ago that husband was dead. She
traced her dafkhters to this place and
reachedftere last night looking for them.
They wele found to-day and reunited, the
meetingßeing very touching. At the time
she was Taken from them one was eleven
years old aud the other six months. Her
eldest daughter is now the wife of a colored
Justice of the Pace of this city.
Battle of Santo Domingo.
La Libertad, via Galveston, June 27.
One thousand eight hundred Nicaraguans
embarked here last nighthomewanl bound.
At the battle of Santo Domingo five thou
sand of Menendista’s men hemmed in five
hundred Nicaraguans under Talavera, who
was wounded. They fought for thirty-two
hours, and then cut their way through
Meuendista’s lines, losiug three hqndred
killed and wounded and took the remain
ing two hundred into La Union in good
order.
A Heart-Broken Tramp.
Erie, Pa., June 28.—A young man of
aristocratic bearing applied for assistance
yesterday, and being treated as an ordinary
tramp by the hired girl, he was desired to
do some hoeing in advance for the bite and
sup requested. Taking the hoe, the aristo
cratic applicant went behind a hedge and
shot himself in the head. The wound is
not fatal, but he is still unconscious. A
card in his coat indicates that he is a
lawyer named Henry Davidson, of Brattle
boro, Vermont.
Cholera.
Madrid. June 28.—The cholera statistics
for Saturday, reported to-day, are as fol
lows: Murcia City, 52 new cases, 28
deaths; Murcia Province, 155 new cases, 76
deaths; Castellan de Laplanee, city, 6
cases, 6 deaths; province, 153 cases, 51
deaths; Valeucia, city, 63 cases, 43 deaths;
province, 614 cases, 306 deaths; Alicante,
143 cases, 41 deaths; other places, 70 cases,
28 deaths. Up to noon to-day there were
reported in Alicante 39 new cases and 27
deaths; in other places, 26 new cases and
22 deaths.
Two Women Drowned.
Roseberg, Ore., June 25.—Mrs. Phillip
de Sauzer and her mother, Mrs. Hill, while
attempting to ford the Umpqua River in a
single buggy two miles below the city,
were drowned. The horse got beyond its
depth, and the buggy was overturned,
MRS. DUDLEY IN COURT
The Peppery Female Nettles O’Dono
van.
4Ue Fires all Sorts of Tamils at Itossa
While He Tries to Test ify.
New York, June 29.—The trial of Mrs.
Yseult Dudley, the English woman, for as
sault in shooting Jeremiah O’Doiiovan
Rossa in February last, was begun here to
day. Assistant District Attorney Purdy
Dpened the case for the people, and detail
ad the facts bearing on the case prior to
xnd after the O’Donovan Rossa
■ was called as the first witness, and Mrs.
Dudley lent her voice in making things
lively. Being asked his name the witness
replied, “Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa.”
“That’s not his name,” called out Mrs.
Dudley. “Where did he get- the Rossa
from!'” “What is your business)” was
asked the witness. “Dynamiter!” shouted
Mrs. Dudley before Rossa could reply
“Journalist.” When relating the circum
stances of the shooting, witness said Mrs.
Dudley had asked him to sign a certain re
ceipt, which he had refused to do. Mrs.
Dudley laughed aloud as hard as she could.
“Oh, dear,” she said at last, dropping her
fan, “this is too rich. W T hat a dread
ful liar. Why, your object was to
get money from poor servant girls
to put in your pocket.” Rossa turned red
in the face. He went on to say that she
had S9OO that she could devote to freeing
Ireland. She made an appointment to
meet him on the afternoon of February 2.
They met as before, and she wanted him
to sign a receipt for thes9oo. “You lie!”
interposed Mrs. Dudley; “you never got as
far as that. Gentlemen of the jury, you
had better move away from that man.
He is perjuring himself. Oh! won’t
some one be kind enough to knock
that man out of the window)”
Rossa then described the shooting.
“How many times did she shoot)” A. —I
can’t say —Mrs. Dudley—l don’t think you
can, because you were so frightened,
Jeremiah. Then Rossa rose, at Judge
Gilder sleeve’s request, and, turning his
back to the jury, showed where the bullet
lodged. “It’s there yet, gentlemen,” he
added. “Of course it is, Jeremiah,” Mrs.
Dudley said, mockingly, “and I want it
back. It was only lent to you. Besides,
you forgot something, Jeremiah. You
forgot to tell these gentlemen, Jeremiah,
that you begged like a cur for your
life. You didn’t tell these gen
tlemen that you said ‘for God’s sake don’t
kill me!’” Rossa was unmistakably net
felod kijr.Mi ». Dudicj’o sr 11’Uout, -w a«»
Mr. Fullerton began his cross-examination
he shot out his answers as though they
were hot, and burned his mouth. He was
born in Ireland, he said. In 1865 he came
again to New York as a bearer of dispatches
from the Fenian Brotherhood in Ireland
to John O’Mahony. He spent a week
here. “What did you do in that week)”
“Ate, drank, slept and walked around.”
“And lied)” suggested Mrs. Dudley, with
a pleasing smile. When Rossa’s editorials
wore under discussion, “Ah, wretch!” she
burst out. “Coward! you showed the white
feather to me. If I were a coward I
wouldn’t have shown it.” Then she added,
in a tone of whining supplication, “For
God’s sake, don’t kill me!” Bhe laughed
again for a moment and said: “Oh, Jere
miah, I wish the women of England had hold
of you just for one instant. But, after
all, I remember it’s the Irish that ought to
hang you, for you’ve done them more
harm than you’ve done us.” And so it
continued throughout his testimony, the
prisoner breaking in at almost every an
swer and taunting Rossa with cowardice.
As O’Donovan stepped down from the wit
ness stand he passed the prisoner on his
way to the door. As he did so Mrs. Dudley
shouted in his face: “Down with dynami
ters; God save the Queen,” and then added
tauntingly: “Don’t kill me, for God’s
sake.” -
The Mahdi.
London, June 29. —It is reported that
Khalifa Fasha is now journeying toward
Cairo with letters from the Mahdi to the
Khedive. The Mahdi has also written to
the Emir of Shendy enclosing a sum of
money, which is to be augmented by ran
soms which the Mahdi expects for the
Christian missionaries and nuns whom he
holds as prisoners. The money is to be
used to establish a school of divinity
to accommodate two hundred and
fifty students of the new faith. The Mahdi
in a proclamation to the army promises im
mediate entrance to Elysium to the soldiers
who fall In battle against the infidels. At
all points the renewed activity of Mahdism
gives credence to the report that the Gov
ernment willgreoccupy Dongola, a point
much better suited for the military protec
tion of than the Wady Haifa, the
present frontier post. - v
Sudden Death.
Chicago, 111., June 20.—At ten o’clock
this morning A. H. Beach, Librarian of the
Illinois State Prison, dropped dead in the
Union Depot here as he was waiting to
take the train for Joliet. The cause of his
death was heart disease. Deceased was
thirty-five years old and unmarried. His
mother resides in Toledo, O.
Accidental Shooting.
Harvel, 111., June 29.—Jacob, a nine
year-old son of D. H. Sample, of this place,
accidentally shot his little brother, only a
year and a half old, to-day. They were
playing with a revolver, when it was dis
charged, the ball entering a little left of
the center of the forehead. The physicians
say the child cannot recover.
A Costly Drunk.
Brooklyn',’ June 29. —Thomas O’Shea
surrendered himself to the police this
morning, and stated that he had beaten
his wife’s brains out with a hatchet, and
that he was drunk at the time he commited
the deed. An investigation by the police
showed that O’Shea had told the truth,
VOL II.—NO. 18,
SOUTHERN NEWSGLEANINGS.
The other night near Gibson, in QJ or ’ *■
fork County, Ga., WarrenJW ilcher, jur
ierer and notorious outlaw w _»it to his
tvife’s home, shot her in the mouth, inflict
% fatal wound. Wilcher broke jail a
month ago, and this makes the second per
son he has shot since that time. Tho cili
sens are searching the woods for him.
At Barnesville, Ga., Rebecca Samuels, a
girl twelve years old, has been Convicted of
the murder of Lucy Graham, a six-weeks
aid infant whom she was nursing. Bhe
soaked the child in a pot of concentrated
lye. The only theory of the remarkable
srime is that the prisoner killed the child to
escape from the duty of nursing It. This is
second crime of the same kind she has
committed within the past two years. She
appeared to be totally unconscious of what
was going on during the trial, a id twice
went to sleep with her head resting on he,r
hands in the dock. She has an lunocent
looking face and is not apparently in the
slightest degree affected by the result of
tier trial.
Three negro men, Thomas Gee, Joe
Howard and Albert Lawrence, were
hanged on the 25th for murder, «ll from
she same scaffold and at the saniß time.
The same string was attached to each drop,
ind all three men fell dangling together.
3-ee murdered Mary Hughes, a white wo
man. Howard murdered C. F. Bloekman,
ind Lawrencejmurdered a negro. jTliis is
the first triple hanging that ever occurred
iu Fayetteville, N.C.,and that section of the
State, and the event created great excite
ment among the negro population. Only a
limited number were admitted to the jail
yard where the hanging took place
Anton Miller, the negro who Was to
have been hanged at Halifax, N. C., on the
:15th has been respited.
Lkece Sheppard, of • West Liberty,
West Virginia, was seriously shot in a
quarrel, by his cousin, Harris Shoppard.
Fire at Richmond, Texas, recently
destroyed property to the value of $90,000
or SIOO,OOO. Insurance aggregates $15,000.
At Marianna, Lee County, Ark., Rufus
Dortich, colored, was hanged for murder
ing another negro last winter.
Robert McCoy, colored, was hanged at
Sylvauia, Ga., for murdering James Miller,
a white Constable, on November 50, 1884.
John McKeever, colored, who shot and
killed \Vin. J. Trainor, four miles south of
Memphis, Tenn., on the 17th of last
her, was hanged on the 26th within the in
closure of the County Jail. The condemned
man attempted to commit suicide the night
before by cutting arteries of his arms and
leg with a rough piece of tin shapod like a
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box.
On Lookout Mountain two cattlemen
named Ellison and Taylor have had con
siderable trouble over the ownership of
cattle. They agreed to settle the feud
when they next met, if some amicable set
tlement could not be reached through a
friend. Ellison met Taylor, and a terrible
struggle ensued, which resulted in Ellison
stabbing Taylor to death. Both are well
known and wealthy.
Robert Dias, living near the Trousdale
County (Tenn.) line, who was bitten by a
mad dog some days ago, died on the 25th.
Shortly after being bitten Mr. Dias went to
Mr. Bratton, of Lafayette, Macon County,
who applied a small madstone that stuck
to a wound in Mr. Dias’ right cheek, show
ing that it worked well. It failing to stick
to his lip he determined to visit a Mr.
Fletcher, which he did, applying that gen
tleman’s madstone to his lip and cheek
several times, showing that is was working
all right. Dias, believing he would be cured,
returned home and whilo at work he be
came very thirsty, and walked to the house
for water, and could not drink it. He soou
realized his condition and was taken with
spasms, and suffering intensely, begging
piteously to be killed. Medical aid was
usmmoned but for some time no one would
venture in the room where the unfortunate
man was. Finally he was tied with ropes
to the wall and a large quantity of mor
phine injected in his arm, but without
effect. He tore his flesh horribly against
the walls, aud in this condition he died.
The deceased was a gentleman well con
nected, and had a large family.
Frank Graney, of Piedmont, W. Va., a
freight brakeman, was instantly killed
near Altamont a few days ago. He fell
from the top of a car and was horribly
mangled by his train passing over him.
He was? about fifty years of age, and leases
a family.
Two negro convicts named Warner
Stovall and Wm. Robertson are doing time
in the Georgia Penitentiary without war
rant of law, it is claimed. The prisoners
were convicted, and afterward granted a
new trial and change of venue, but pre
ferred the sentence already affixed to the
uncertainty of further litigation. Final
sentence was, therefore, never formally
passed. *
The celebrated case of Edward Bean for
the murder of Stevens, at Marshall, Tex.,
has come to a dramatic ending. On a
former trial he was found guilty and sen
tenced to be hanged. The case was taken
to the Court of Appeals, which granted a
new trial. On the 23d, when called upon
to plead, young Bean arose and said:
“Your Honor and gentlemen of the jury, I
plead guilty as an accomplice of the mur
der of Henry Stevens, and humbly appeal
to your humanity and mercy.” The scene
became tragically more intense when the
widow of the murdered man came forward
and pleaded that the prisoner’s life might
be spared. The District Attorney yielded
to these appeals. The court charged the
jury, who retired, and in fifteen minutes
returned with a verdict of guilty, and fix
ing his punishment at hard labor in the
penitentiary for life.
J. L. Langston, a white man at Macon,
Ga., attempted suicide for the third time
inside of thr.e months by stabbing himself
in the breast. Three months ago he was
married, and attempted suicide the next
night. H.a says he was disappointed, and
is determined to die