Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?l>rn) of Fldor bloom, x i, ' ^^/Vipwili s iir'ght ?? itatiof ro!d, V I h Milkwt" d h i>ilik and orotigo mold A lieul of IIyo. a lioud of W'boft*. t-ome Clvv r'lilo-isoniB. pink and Bivoot 1 i hci'Bu to dook my study room. In v mniug through this life of ours, Wp l it I our dnilo t dnys nliglit W th O'oshI i;k uiddi n Imlf trout night. A ti ? \v ods of to 11 it I strifo A'1' lovlogd o Is that iirlghtos lifo, t'calloi od nfOTig our path 1 ko flowero. ALL IN A LIFE TIME. HY IK-KI'". KPRni'BII HANtrnRD. "All in ft iio limn," \* Imp -rod the maid. Am her hai d in the cla^p of her lm?r b ?l o Iftid, And Kft- ? him the wealth of ft lovo so truo. With h worshipful ghincc from horeyoe of hluo. "All in n life time," tlio young wife Hinhod, t>l;e could oi l / wo -p since hor liiishnnd diod, ' . All Imppinrftj from out of hor life had gone, - Her uiin hivI set, while it yot was ilmvn. J"~ Happy irRiili'ii, and r.orriiwing wifo. TIium it wi'l ho. torn' Una world of strifo, Tlio hiirvI of liftppiiiosa is HiHtnr to sorrow, "All in ii life time," continues to-morrow. TOM RRYiSOiWS CRIME. JJV "Tfll-; MAJOR." I CHAPTER XXI I'l'AI'H AMI OKI 1VEKANI K. Tluit ni;ht had found Randall Relmont comfortably domiciled at the widow's cottage. Mrs. Van Wyck had retire 1, tlio house had I ojii doted, and ho had gone to his room. 1"??*> liednuw lUn* lio noulJ uol daaii: , o, instead of going to_JLuB>L^o^fcJ^.... the open window. Tho night is mild, | aa well as still; it scorns to invito, thought. And ho thinks?of htr. llo Vk?an Hi in k of nothing else. I.ong had he .sat there, when he fo'.t ' N^t^Bmsolf urged by some powerful inor.i- i , j^r within. Voices seemed crying in ' his oars: "Fly to her! She is in dungea!" He ho.sitatrs; ho resists, lie says to i himself, "Did sho not, with her own I lips, tell me not to couio to her?" And 1 again and again tlioso mysterious ' promptings seemed to fill his ears: I "i'ly to her! Oh, deluy not! tSho is in i danger!" "Whatever the influence was, whether ' the yearnings of his own heart, or an angel messenger from above, it speedily be nnio too powerful to bo resisted. Quietly leaving the house, he waited j '*" ly to bridle his horse, and leaping upon 111$> bare b:W?k, he sped down the a ,r yoml Jikc tlio wind. The mysterioiu ' '-TQHyoB'Tir TTH onrs~seouicit ircrj, i ' He shook flie reins, and 5^w^jHiotlt6<IWir his licible steed; there was j V* an answering neigh, and such tromen- , * dous speed as would have unseated a loss expert rider. As ho tore along tho highway, a bright p'?i-o above the trees in the direct' '.of llrrson's house met Ins eye. . clung to the horse. and increasing its paoo with his _ I a 1 J ~ i)... 1 11 ; cries, lit' imneu nut) use luuc, uiuii- ; tiered thiough tho wood, and dasho/ j up (o tho flamo-wrapped house. tie , leaped to llio ground just as Tom i'ryBon, singed l>y tlie tiro and linlf b'imled by the sinoke, camo staggering out at the front door. "Jessica where is she?" I'.elmont ! cr;od. Tlio father shook his head, and pointed in si bewildered way up at tho j upper windows. Frantically did I'.elmont dash at the door; hut si thick volume of smoke and flame drove him hack. With distracted eye he marked t he window of her room; for once lie had stood in the hall above outside her chamber, and moro than onco since had he scanned the unsightly building, to nco irtiicli window was liers. The tiro had not yet penetrated beyond tho story abovo tho cellar. It was rushing out front tlio doors and windows below, but could the rooms abovo be reached at all, it could only be through enveloping smoke and tire. "In (tod's name is there no ladder hereV" I'.elmont. cried to some of tlio .veoplo who had come up. %,Oh, yes; here's otto that wo havo brought around irom tho back of Douse," replied one <>1 tlieill. " J tut '^P/nadnoss lo go up thoro now." 'Ileal* it up <piifk!" was the command ; iiii'l, impelled l>y stout ai ms, the upper end of the heavy ladder lay against tho sill of .lossiea's window, j^llio lover sprang up it, and burst ^fjy?.tv through glass and 8U*di. Tho tjMfv&ei' wua iUicd .with smoke, and it ' *** ?TW^minrtiTu:l\T"l?,iTt,' tilling his lungs with fre>h a r, he leaped in again, (iroping blindly about, his hands onconntered the water pitehor, with a towel over it. He shook out tho towel, plunged it in the water, and bound it over his faro. Able to breathe now though the floor was trembling under bis feet, he found the bed. llis hand rested on tho maiden's fate; but she neither spoke nor stiired. Taking tho wet towel from his own face, ho tied it over hers; and clasping her motionless form in his arms, ho made his way ' e window; ho emerged upon i . d holding his ileal* burden to ... I a itli ono arm, ho eame unsteadily i?. i.c round, where eager and willing Iiai?.i~",r4ja?.ed him of his ..A1"'0" '^'ow.i of roopi^#^ UN umc guinomd, and the attention of som>? of thoin was turned to tho ro- i susritat on of tho Batterers. 1 fry son | }ia?t n.Iialod smoko enough on liis way j out of (lie burning building to bowilder loin so Hint lie know not what hud , happened; b it when Ids ho?d and faeo had been bithed in Mater, and sofiio of I it foived down Ins throat, ho sat up and looked about him. The ciaekbng 1'amen were right before him. With a I startling seream lie leaped to liis feet, j and start d to run toward the house. Strong hands seized him and hold liiin j baok. Tool, where would you go?" 0110 ; kod him. 'To you want to throw , i Arself into destrnetion ?" H jet inn go! It's burning up! I 1 trill save it.!" he yeiled. Ilis eyes 1 \ r - HSS them nil, and rushed to tho h >n<e. A cry ot horror followed him as ho disappeare 1 from sight through the darning doorway. Tho eye oi man never hc'ield him again. '1 ho dames swept swiftly through tho house, and burst out at the roof. With a great crash it fell, sending up a volumo of sparks. The ruins were fiercely consumod, and ore morning nothing but Iho foundation s'ones, tho stone> of tbe collar, and a pile of gray ashes were left of the old Itrvson house. In time t ie spot, itself was lost to men's knowlodgo. The stones wero removed; now soil iep!aced tho ruins; ye r after year crops eovorod tho place; tho people's ic ollection of the ohl house grew dim; and now, almost sixty years after, the exact location of the |dtiou has passed from tho memory of tho few aged survi\ors of tho events which wo have been rocordiug. But over ami over again has tho truth of tho saying been proved, "Murder will out." In what way the secrots of the old house were brought to light, is 3'et to be relatotl. ( HAP*K S XXIL HOPES AM> I K IKK. The efforts of tho few women who had come to tho scone of tho con'agration to revive .lessiea mot with 1> it little success at the time. Tho cool broe/.o blowing across her face artcr sho was borne from the burning building and wrapped in shawls, gave her a little consciousness, so that sho was able to understand tho meaning of what was passing boforo her eves. .As she reclined upon tho grass, sho saw tho tlames !on>?'ng through tho roof, and hissing lino serpents. And she 'tffSie'ri she knows that her poor father was burned up alive?"v Tho unconsciousness that followed lasted for days. Llaudall Belmont revived sufficiently to direct that both Jessica and himself should ho convoyed to Mrs. Van Wye v's. II was done the same evening. 'J'hero was a week of severe sull'oring before him ere lie was able to'eavo bis bed, and not in all his after life did lie loao the scars of tho burns upon his arms. When lie was released from I ho doctor's care, and was able to leave bis bed and walk about tho houso, ho found himself weak and thin with his sickness; but he thought the sacrifice a cheap one, if by it he had preserved Jessica. It wa* long doubtful whether his heroic efforts and sufferings had saved her. Ho bogged tlio doctors,to be allowed to seo her. He met with a peremptory refusal. irr ~r win -Trot spcaK," n* urged. I only want to look at her face." "No," was tho firm reply. "Wo dare not allow it. Her condition is most critical. Tho least excitement might kill her. Should she happen to see your face, I know not wlint ofteet might l?o produced. While her poor brain is in its present condition, n ? one but her phvMie nus and Mrs. Y an Wyck must see her." "i'ut she'll live, won't sho?" the lover asked, with white face and trembling voce. "Doctor, save her, and you may ask mo for anything." "bhe is in the hands of ilod!" was | the solemn reply. "All that our skill and experience can accomplish shall bo done; and Mrs. San Wyck, beside* being devoted to Miss llryson, is the I best nurso anywhere about here. Set, 1 I must tell you candidly, no one bul j this poor girl's Mater can predict tin l issue." Belmont had protected Jessica fron: , the contact of 'he (lames, receiving ir ! this wny iTis own in juries; but thi sloop nn<lx\^TT^ngu killed Tier oil tin spot. All that night sho lay as ouo dead : and it was only when tlio next day ha< j worn on well toward noon that a fain1 ! sigh from her lips betokened that hei Muttering spirit bad returned to tin cares and trials of earth. For some days after life h ngdoubt fully in the balance, while the goof physicians and the widow wat lied in ?osKuntly beside her. Then, when lift had again assertod itself, a fever set in ! and the ravings of her delir.um wen ; pitiful to hear. Disjointed sentences I unintelligible to those who heard her : I?ut which rea'ly spoke of the sorrow! of her life, fell fast from her lips 1 A*, nin she knelt at the bedside of hei , dying mother, and her tearf d promise | was repeated, to bo faithful and true t< ; her father always, since there was non? other left to love him, Againsho gave j her reluctant consent to marry I'.dgai ! Van W\ck, beeauso hor father lirgoe it. Thou there was her appeal to an | other not to seek her, or her fat Inn i would do him harm; language whiel i the widow should have understood but. tho I in.I, anxious soul was lot t much o eupiod with the dangers of tin I sulleror to take much heed of her do lirious word*. (>fher broken sentence! , there were, which no one could hav< t I., t.,.1 U'l..,,, I I, iu ,.f I.... ?? ii* ii * ?? "* ,r* ,JU' 1 fever'had'passed si... lav perfectly .on 1 (mis of her surroundings, ami of al I (hat had happened hut weak oh l.ov I weak! For days she lay thus, lakiuf I little nourishment, too feoblo to. move I a linih, white as a snowdrift. I laud; u' oy "feared0 tbatTthii I ' l!ut youfcb*and previo is hodily healtl were on her side; and Time, the great plnsician, at last triumplied for her. There nunc a time when tlie leafage of that .lime was nil out, and tho birds were tilling the woods with their melody, that Jessica was permitted to leave her room and go out into the sunshine, handall helmont found her upon that perfect morning under the maple trees, drinking in all the wonderful beauty of nature. Ilo stood by the rustic seat, mute and anxious. Ho felt that after all that had occurred alio would wish to speak first. Nho smiled a little and held out her 'inn I. He kept it when sho would javo withdrawn it. I "You arc my prejerxor/'aho said. "I ( blessing, e.en 'uo!o the day of m death, ( od willing! Without it, ni own ouMence would he worthless; wit it, I ha o a heart for nay fate." His voice, his enrnest manner, in 1 res ;od her as a'ways before, wit s unetliing like a sense of fate. An st II she struggled, and would not mil mit. "It i< better that it should not bo si You w II not believe me; but 1 toll yc that von will bo happier without m (Jo your way; for et ino, while I prn lor the richest blessings of life to I w.t'i you." 'She spoke against tho swellii pro uptings of her heart; tears that si IJ - l I'l. Att. 1 I ruiim uuu iiiuu iiumi nor < nee more the music of itnndall I'c mom's voice, tho elo |uence of li words, were overted upon hor. A pa i lie drew a glow.ng picture of tho f turc that awaited hor ns his wife; < tho heautiful city home, and all then tractions that surrounded it. He ir plored her, now that every possible o stae'o had boon removed by the dea of her father, no longer to thwart tl happiness of both of them. Ilo had taken both her hands; si trembled; she was irresolute; her ey {^voided li's; she would liavo lied fro i in. but ho held her there. "I am weak yet," she said. "Y< j overcome me; 1 know not what to sn ljet me go back to my room." "lint an answer 1 must have." "You shall have it." " lieu ?" She was silent. 'Watching her fn with intenso anxiety, ho saw she w struggling with an intenso emoti powerful enough to slillo her spoech. Was sho about to yield? Ilis hopes soared joyously up; xiahleil licr hands, that she might V( un tardy lostore them. ^ * Tie was eruelly disappointed. "Yon slidl know?1 will tell 3-01 she murmured. "Ibit when?" " l'o-morrow." UIAPTKU XXIIL v FAItKWEI.t,! L-v.e did not leave her room agr that day. ltumlnll wished to talk wi her again, but she refused to aeo hi j In tho afternoon he sent up a note her room, asking to bo admitted, a hidden subject. Her sole reply, p< I ciloil upon tlio Bnmo paper, was: "1 j must wait till to-morrow.1' j Hy this time the sympathetic wldi ! had begun to sea the drift of atFaii I i nd oflored some advice to tho anxic . lover. "J'on't trouble lier any more to dn i Mr. Jlelmont," who said. "Yo i m I-T7 Sld8W*WSSIS*i fflreugtli yet. and she don't want a ^ love-making at present." "It is not that," he said. "She g \ me no hope; she never has. I ca ! understand her. At the same tihie j know she loves in "Sho'll feel differently, after a gc night's rest. You must wait till morrow." .\t ten o'clock tho w'dow loftly ca into her chamber with a 1 aiuy 'J girl lay motionless, with " e, closed. I "Poor dour!" said the former, as i ! went to. own room; "I hope i will rest all night."' ( i Hut .'cssiea win not asleep. Slio I , not boon. . ! ttho waited an hour longer. T1 she rose and lighted a lamp. : b dressod h rself, made lip a srr 3 bundle, and putting on her boni i placed her hand on the door-knob, i Thon came a momont of irresoluti i Hlio stoo.t for a moment in doep ? :i0,?. i j reflections were doop and distrossl I .She had thought, upon lying dc , ' that evening, that hIio hud sett I everything in her own mind, and t I tier courso was perfectly clear. J r now a now and troublesome suggest 3 came?now at tlio last moment. fSho did not find it easy to deci Hut at last her resolution was taken I "He has a right to know tlio reaso . she thought "It will ho painful; 3 it is o ily one more pang, tie ni , not think me ungrateful. And it is 3 only way to keep him from pursu , me.'' There were writing materials ir r. drawer <>f tlio hureau. She plat them on the tabie and hcgau to wri r j Slowly and as if restrained by d< > agitation slie at lirst wrote, lint > she proceeded her pen moved rapid ? and shoot after sheet was covered w 3 her firm, largo characters. The cc r pression of her lips showed that I task was indeed painful; hulsho pel vered until it was finished, r She gathered up the pages, plai i them in order, folded them, and wr on tlio outside, "r'ur Mr. Ilelm on > Then she placed the package in a c 3 spicuous place on the huroau. - | Tlio hour was past twclvo. * 1 Sho extinguished the light, noi 3 lossly went out into the hall, dose? r ed the stairs, and let herself out at front d or. 1 At the g.ito she turned and lool ' hack. ' | As one who throws lior past life 4 I behind lior, lmt turns for a farcu ' > glance at familiar rcanos and pla | which sliall never he seen again, * I she look hack at the cott go. gaining tlio road, sho wall away. 1 | [TO BE CONTINUED. | [ 'i NOKiisox?Yes, I have got an * fill cold, and the doctor says I must I go out. It's pluguny provoking, do j yon know, for I was engaged to attc a donkey parly to-night, l'*ogg? Wc ; you? but I wouldn't fret; they'll ^ I along, no don lit, l?y cutting one out 1 paper, /iostin Transcript. Dm: ugly nature is enough todistei i per an entire family; and on the olln hand, one light-spreading, joy-beariu nature is cno gh to restore tlio cquil hrium of a disturbed family. Great the powor of a human soul. y witlitmbezzlm^tv-^^F^Pto^wne trens urer of llie Order if T<Eitt, entered a ^ plea of guilt v.- JuUoKj. \\ |*rly, State Senator from the Fifth <K<itri< f Virginia, Is dead. The telephotflp c? my in Chi ,h cago removed a'l theiiB last u.'iita from kI municipal building* lKN|^J||a >y had not j- been paid for tbeir use.- -Ak Supremi Court of rennsylvauia decidjAat a railroad company can charge a p^jnger extra "1 fare when he fails to buy a tftcet.?Wil. c* liam Brady and Isaac Ix>ckn-<*|, tiro priniy ters, wore found uricon^iousKi a roaiu in } New York from inhabit e?aifg?s. Brady died, but LickwooJ lay recover. In to Washington, E I word II MeClellan, u carpenter, shot and kille lilenry Benton. ,J. The Boston lire nm s'/' .finds-that tbo big is fire was caused by Ih&n/niou la the Boston ill Electric Time Coslij^^'T/^frwsoqimends n- the need of \of. -diectrio of wir, s. Judge kn\, it- fined two newspijier puldWjrs and au edin" torflOJfor ciniiiioiifng on-A decision.? Unless there is an ifcprov*fl?ut In th* coal I trade, oil the Read it colltfrirs may shut 10 lown Jacob It. ftantaldlstore and tho |1Q , pott >fil.:e nt Mont Mao, Pa.'lwaro dettroyed os by fire. A roign ofterror exists in Hanm cock county, Id. Wd an mals that nro thought to have esa^-d fr m a menagerie r?u "re destroying cows Four men iV, were drowned neor Br in sbn, III., by the team which they w. Voiding a -king over ? hank. Thomas JJweon was instantly tilled in NewburA N. Y., by an electric diock. The luduftisl Iror Works in Kan' co us City, Kan., we adestro; ?d by fire. as The snow blockvlt?i the W st 'nnd Norlhon west is 0110 of tho nj5^oni lote 011 record. Fire coinphte^^^^Hed the Elliott Avenue LinptJ^H^^^^Hfelngfleld, 0j? Deputj^j cured from Oovartf^^^^H^Pw Kansa-, on tbo Governor the return of Jumes Fortner, treasurer. The accounts nf h Interc c_-iver of the United Sta? land ofllce in Tucson, Arizana, are vorj? ucli short. Tho property of tlio Coinmkiul Telegraph litt Company has been ro'.ii t^lie Postal. itli lioorge Fowler, of Hello Haw, Va., wassuf Jh focated hy gns ir. a I'hilndAhia hotd. Miss Laura Dixon,.? f Elzibti, N. J., com,u* tu it ted suicide. E.lu IVli'rman, who >r created a sensation in La Fp*. Iud., by osI snulling Mrs. Miuuie Lcedlof Michigan City, is dead. The Little gibash river is 3W out of its banks, and la led portion* rs? ?' *own Carmi, )l>on & Co. f iU8 sf?r? in Minneapolis, wa^sAied of f 2,00C worth of sea's'iin sacquoh/BEn St. Fioire, IV Montgomery county, i^UiolsrjK. Frnser wus otl beaten to death by a" ''UjMf whom bo rony LJrubb, of Phi Fanny Ford and Knti?t-?^J\\|R?. oSli colored ,'es wero ai ro-itod in Lynchburg on ae chargeol h't stealing ?1,500 froin a maq.?at*d Foote ir Now York. llenry M. J?cl?n, the de faulting assistant casbior ofcthe bb trensurj * in New York, has been c.ipturodr?Ex-Cou *?" gressman llaskin*, of New Yorj is charged by bis ward, Miss K>to Taylojwith frauc ?j)0 and gross mismanagement of b^ est a to.yes -An explosion occurred** taiEtna Uoll j ing Mill, at Pittsburg, in wlAi tbreo me die i -were terribly burned.??Six < the leadin die breweries of Cleveland, O , has been pui j chased by an English syndlcatfor $W3,0(K lfttl | Alderman W. 11. Porter, f Pdtsburj J was convicted of conspiracy al blackmai icn iiiiu soiiiciiceu KU'i^uvtou uiuutt lu ??v >bo itontiary and foOOflne.??Kui#, 0110 of tli "dl four convicted Croniu mar?icO?, has beo l?t? bailed out. John Webtf;<w> inado murderous ussault on Mr*. G*c<JjusIan on* in Duvonport^IowA to tb Towderly o ful tho warrant sworn out ?yjfCallashan ,wn He g ive bail. Callaghan tfflpo charge lod with malicious libel.-? Cdw|% in Shf bat niokin, Pa, operated by tl I'hiladelphi lint ' nod H ading, have shut din, tbrowin ion men out of employment?Eliza Tui | nor, colored, was caught bet ion two trail do. ! in Fredericksburg Vn., and ptantly killec w Thos. Crelian, father of Ma Rohan, tl n? | actress, and a confirmed drwnrd, droppe ilead in a New York pobcefourt. VVn tho ^t'hltney Seymour, prominefegentile rancl man was found dead in bod k Fort Ruche in' Dick Gardner, a SouwC'arolina coi j ft vict, was shot down while tteinpting 1 !Oil ; ert'"P'- The Standard Cl Company ito. I works nt Constablo Ilook,^'. ., were part 30i> I destroyed by lire. Fire br!;o out in tl I Stato Asvlnm for tho insntiAin Worc.'Ste 11 y, M ass. Q i;ck work for the r tendants pr itli ^-uto 1 lugs nf life.- ?sir ,?ve* Wfycr, e )ln" exhortor, fell dead in the p%>.t at Yor ^'lo I'ii. The now barn and Hint? s belongii so" to Mr. W. F. Hart, of BherwoJ Forest, < ^ , tin* Rappahannock river, werl ontirely d oto Ktlo>'cd ''y ''ro< "*110 ' oine d Hugh Fa j ? nier, of fctprlngtleld, Mo., was limed to tl on- P round, and its occupants perilled in tl tl tines. ltictinrd Bristol, a ^rse jocki in New York, stabbed Ida 8in{h, Cathe; iso- Mansell, and Joseph Reynolds. IN0110 of t ml- wounds are serious-?Kx-Postmaster Co Mio eral I) ckinsou is of the opinio! that the will bo 110 bankruptcy law pnsfcd by Co coil gross this session. Conrad 0. Waltz .t, letter-carrier, was detected stealing letti all In the E mira (N. Y.) postofflce. Solicit roll C.'neral of the United H'.ates Oflow W.Cta com man died suddenly in Wnshu)(ton, of cati did rhal affection of the kiclbeyil^afcr^vatod ! ,an attack of thogrip.?Windc C uoiAj1^ prepared aJ4H T?!Tcv.n^rp!M. Itnv*R?o H iod i'lfit und the C?b{. 1 ^ era havo conoluded ' .JBBWBI^^Bl worn killed camped near Fort D? g H in law, B, M. Iiiyes. ?to _^H^B re f'oM MiKsioNF.it Oi' At'f ;ct dor.oAN f-:i\ s Hi*. of )io nhi.M'ptio i of t!io into n< 1,u tn eiicnn u Thk onlv piivitcf^^^^^^Ke?kinA! p. is tlint, liko 1>n" tho right 1 image, A Sextuple Execution at Fort Smith, Arkansas. The Crimen Whlrli Kcaulteit In the 1 TrnKctlf Were All of the Mont Urulitl Kind. 1 Harris Austin, John Hilly, KaraGoin, Jamison Burrus, Thomas Willis ami Jamison Jones were hanged at noon at Fort Smith, Ark., for murders committed in the Indian i Territory. Alter religious services the culpits were , handcufTeJ, and at JO minutes beforo 12 j o'clock they began the march to the gallows. A great crowd bad gathered, hut no one was allowed to witness the execution except re- ; porters, guards and physicians. 1 The doomed men inarched flrraly, and were steady and quiet on the scalTold wbilethode- i tails were being arranged. As the noosoa 1 were adjusted all t( them confessed their crimes, ucUnowledge?l the justice of their | punishment and said they were ivady to die. ( The black cops were then drawn, on 1 just as the clock struck 12 the trap was sprung . a?-i the six men shot down and rebounded violently. TV deep groan, two or threo convulsions and all was still. Every neck had teen broken. < ? I Austin"s 4'rliitc. The murder far which Austin paid so dear- j ly was oils of n most uupardonablo nature, j Atrocious nnd unprovoked. On the 25th of May, 188."!, in the town of Tishomingo, Chickasaw Nation, he killed ( Thomas Elliott, a white, under the follow- , ing circumstances: Elliott had only been in tbo Indian country about two months, nnd ' was a stranger to Austin. Jonas l'onrson, n half brother of Austin, was under tho intlu- 1 ence of liquor en the day of the murder, and *' E liott accusal him of having stolen some 1 whisky front him. Ausifn approached them nnl tcolc Pear- ; son's pistol iroin him. Tho two walked oil a 1 short distance. They conversed a few mo* 1 inents in the Indian language, nnd then Austin turned, nml approaching Elliott, shot him 1 in the breast wit: out a word of warning. Throe I.|ve? lor Two. ' ^ John Billy. Thomas W^ * name was supposed to ho A. B. "William. Tho principal witness was another Indian named Graham, who saw iha murder committed. Graham test lied that Williams lell in with tho three condemned men end himself in the Kimicb Mountains and sold them some whisky, all getting drunk. Williams had 11.or-j whisky, but the Indians hid no more money, and lie refused to trivo them any. William llnully nccusod them of stealing sr mo of his whisky, uud Graham, anticipating trouble, induced hint to leave and started off with him. When a short distance away the defendants started after them, and when within ubout 75 yards of them Willis took ' deliberate aim and tired at Williams with a Winchester, shoo'.iug him through tho body. 1 Madison Julius' sentence wascommuted to 1 imprisoinent in tho p. liUentiary for a term . of 15 years. , Wlty tiiotii and Harris lllcd. I Sunt Goin and Jamison Burris, full blood Choctnws, wore tried in O.-tober hist, Jim 1 Gain uito being a defendant in tli" casi-, but 1 he was acquitted, w hile tho others were found guilty. The victim of those men was Houston . yUwtM rn l-'nuililnWrffi wi'V I 800*00 into. O.i tTT Ttfr of November, 1S88, I he was traveling tlirou.ch the Indian country I and stormed at tho limine of Jim flnin no undo ot Ham, iu Towson county, Choctaw Nation, for dinner. In paying for the same ho exposed his money. On leaving ho was put on n hi.ml trail hy J mi Harris, and alter lie got out of night Jim O Jin gave burns and Snm II mi his gun and pistol ami tohl tlieni to follow tho white man mi 1 kill him. They were soon in [ pursuit, and coining up with their victim muidered him in a lonely spot, took posse sion ot his horse and what money and other ' prop rty he had and left the body to the a meicy of tho will beasts of tho forest. K Hull-tiered mi Old tlan. I Jamison Jones, a full-blooded Choctaw, was ). I convicted on the llib of October of a most ,( j foul and dastardly murder, his victim being | mi old man, (ai years of ago, named Henry ! Wilson. On tho TJ.h of Maroh last tho old I" | man started on tool, fioui a point near Laie j flora, Cbcctuw Nation, his destination being ? Polk county, Ark., whore ho was to get a horse for a parly and return in one week. 14 The ca?o was reported to the United S ates d authorities hero und Deputy Marshal Darne hill was s> nt out to search for the missing nilll. li^f^u^dthacimga^i.'il by Wilson at | the bouse oi (1 Jorge Beamt-AM? PfO-ured the a arrestof Beams, who said JatmBon Jones had u killed the white man aud left the gun at his houso. Ja nison was arrested and ackuowltdgud tho wh.li thing. a ? DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. is ? |. Four men were killeJ and several others badly injured by the preina'ure explosion of ' a blast at a camp, near Johnson City, lon^ nessoc. Misses Iiiu Asbury and L:/.z e Howies, Wili" liaill ltose and Daniel Asbury were drowned while boating in a l ake about fourteen miles 5 | from Canal, Illinois. 11" I J. II. Murphy, a hoin stoader near Fit 10 | vieuu, forty miles (runt Ohippowa Falls, wts't> ! coniin, w is froz mi to death. lie is supposed iy . to have been druuk. )0 | Jlenr.v and Martin 11 -innis, section hands ; ontho .nsylvnnia Hai. road, were run dow n by a it locomotive near Wheeler Station, o* lndif. .1, and were instantly hi led. "i J'rof. Charles A. Clark, Principle of tho k, Altno i Academy, of Milton, W.s oiuiin, died ot what is In loived to have beon liy.lropbo** I bia lie was bitten by a cat in March inst. 111 Tho boiler of a steam shovel use 1 by tin ?* 1'iltsburg an I Lake K io Coinpany in excur vat.tig at F ?i 1st >a, Penna., burst, injuring 11 jj3 men, one of wham, Wesley Francis, > f PittsI ^ I org, died on ltic* way to the h ispitul. Several cars of a train oa tho Wyoming ^ Division of itio Union Pacilit Railroad woro rn thrown down an embankment at I lain} tin, l,? ! sixty miles cast of Kvanston, U all, and ^ | cloven persons were injured; nonelatally. | Tho broaking of a wheel i n one of thecars ro j of an empty coal train on tho Now Jersey at- j Central Railroad caused a wreck at tho (J. ant a t A Venn Station in I'lainliold. Twenty cars ' were wrecked and thirty oth* rs badly dam rB aged. A freight train on tho I hiladelphia an 1 lP" Reading ltiilroad ran into tho roar oJ tr- another freight train at Snyderlown. Con % i'rTj, ??<'? ?"tl ion oars were wr?&Jd. J(JC"'?>otiVo ik T, !,[::, Iiu-hl !' i' f i ..>. H j^w" ii frustrated tti 1 I^ikis Id ilk, a hotel proprietor, of Am ' i a 111 fl cling /.it 11 InJuries, and tli<i) conitnittc " ruicidc. Mrs. J,ink's aged mo.her, heart I.t oken over tno tragedy, Ultoinptcd stimuli Lut was prevented. I Three hundred persons at Carmi, Iliinoii have Le< u obliged 1 i leave their hoiii s on a< count of u sudden rise in the initio H ntins river. 'J'he river is out of its tiaiiks, and tl northern part of the town is II aided to I deptii ol ' !' f tot in koiii < places, and tram ' to luo houses are suoiiierged. I Three young children of Carl Ilogalinsk man of Erie, I'emin., wi-resulTo/nted by the Lur ficos '"?> l'"' r home, during Clioabsence of tue cur* parents. J'lio lire a as caused t-y the act ol . , urunken hrotlierof Mrs. Itogaluiski'-, hi la Wltu ing his lighted pip/ in a Led. Tno drunk in -t n escaped. The strike of the colliers In Western Bohemia is extending. Prinoe Bismarck is suffering from weakness and dejection. The condition of the young King of Spain is reported to t>-? encouraging. The influenza has o Jmnletely disappeared from St. Petersburg and Moscow. The eloctions for mam'?ers of t'ie Gorman Reichstag will be held February VK>. Kuropoan courts will go in mourning for 1 the Dowager E.n press Augu-t i of (S.'rmtiny. j It is reported that, the Queen of Kiigln-ul | will spend a month at Hotnburg, U .-rmany, , In tlio spring. Tho stateiumt of tho imperial Bank of j :*?rmany shows nil increase in specie of i I.asci.ooj marks. Tilo theatre mi l Bourse nl. Hrtisseli mid ?irt of tho Sims Inco factory at Nottingham, ' fi iglnnd, wore burned. The Marquis of Conyngham has reduced | >y twenty por o ?nt. the rents on his hinds in Munty Donegal, Irolnnd. Adviccsat Paris from Senegal state that 1 lovcrnor Va j ?l, of Southern Senegal, hus ! hk'u imprisoned by the King of Dahomey. An cflldnl decree promulgated in nrnr.ll epnratos the church and state mid oontinu s ho life stipends granted under the monarchy. It has now been definitely learned that six i if the crow of tho English yacht I ivn. which vns wrecked on tho Aceitorus rocks, wero Irowned. Tho s?mi-olllcial press nt Home says flint I lussin's nbj iction to H>? Italian treaty with thyssinia relate* to matters of form rather liau to ers.uiti lis. Sixtem American and Canadian engineer* nd iircliitcctshvo engaged In designing plans or the propos il tower on tho banks of tho 'lianit s river nl London. Tho French government is nhout to nogointo a loan of ICO.OOJ.OOO francs for the purio<o of constructing railways in Tonquin trl othor French colonies. I)r Doillinger, th i heal of tin Old Cathoic m >v mi nt in South Germ my an i ono of 'to fain )us oppo letits of tho doctrine of npal iiirallibllity, is dead. Mr. Unlerwood. foianorlv United States Hfgrdii ifn' m ???|.(i", eai'l fBWff lan greatness is to bo found in private life. It isdeniol that Princj Uisnnrck has had i dispute with llerr Furth over tho pr ipos.nl idditiou to the socialist law, giving the gov ruruent authority to expel .socialist) from i 10 empiro. The Foriugese cabinet, nfter a protracted tession, decided to yiold to the doinaud of Lord Salisbury for the withdrawal of l'or ,u;ose forces from the Shire district and Mashoaland in Africa. S.'cret sailing orders have bean given Itnir- | Adm rat Freeinaatlo's British squadron nt ; /..?i l>ir mid irrrat excitement ore vails in view ot tho trouble b-tweon England uud ! Portugal over African affairs. The Americans in London have tendered a banquet to Henry M. Stanley. at which the United States minist-r to Knglaud will pro. side >m 1 present tho explorer with an American (1 ig and a massive silver sliiel I. Ad.sjatehta tho Berlin Tagoblatt from 7, i-/.;bnr stit-'s that fears are entertained there that It Utah ri linsc intured Lieut .mailt Orav.'iireuth, o. Major Wissiiiinn's comhi,mil, and two oilier U Tiiiaii oilier*. A ukase has been issued at St. Petersburg avLoidiun until J .nuary 1. IhUj, tho law roanttwi offMw yrwa?n.? on I(hhUiiX grwlne and fl nir in foreign sacks to h? exi>orted from ports on llie Black sea and the Biitic. The ll'rlin Vossische Ejitung reports tlint S r Kiw.ird It ildwin Maiet, t ie British minister, his taken a villa at Homhurg for Q ieen Victoria, and that her duti'.htor, the e.\ Km press Victor! i, will join her there in March. It is officially announced Hut Qu >eri Victoria, while able to perform the ordinary ihitn s of her position, tins lately been suffering a great d jjiI with rheumatism, a id tlint it will be iiiioosiible for tier to undergo the fatigu a id exposure of opening Parliament in person. LATEST KENTUCKY TKAGEDY. III-. Oldliam >'?<nrly 14111s Victor Itond in a Family <ltiarret. Two country doctors, a county judge, his pret'y daughter, hisson-in-luw and u nephew of one oi tho doctors are the actors in what may prove a tragedy at Newcastle, ICy. \ ietor Bond, son-in-law of Judge S. Bruce, is lying at the point of death from a blow doait by Mac Oldham, who was (or years Judge Bruoe'stanally physician. Oidhamund Bruco quarreled some years ago-for soma reason which cannot Ik* lenriod, ami Oldham has opposed Bruce politically, tiut thoyoung pi ople Irivo boon trionds. 1, iHt Thursday Mss licrtio Bruce loft n not i with her brother-in-law (Bond) for .Mac O dh sin. This note was n it delivered, but fell into Ju Ige Brnce's hands. Mac Oldham by th s inis.se I meeting tlmo young ladies whom lie was to drive to a party in th? neighborhood, among whom was Bruce. Ho met Bond on tlio btreet soon nfter, ami, after n few words, struck hiin n heavy blow with a mrgicul instrument. Bond was taken home u I most lifeless and Oldham has II id. BURNED BY MOLTEN METAL. Hot Iron mill Water Cause l'.i|il<isloia In Two .Willi. An explosion occurred at the ICtria Halting Mill Newcastle, l'o., ill which three men were terribly burned. Oao of the buggies containing a ball of red-hot iron upset in a puddle of water. The moment the iron touched tho water th< explosion occurred, throwing bugh chunks ol iron about the mill and burning Ocorgo K Cox severely about tiie waist, chest and neck William Buyer and Kichard Wal en bam I were iiiso seriously burned about the w.iist face and hands, C >x will protiably die, bu the other two will recover. C'iiK'aoo. 1m,.?The bursting of a convor ter in th<> Illinois St j-l Company's works a S >uth Chicago killed 10 I ward Johnson ai.( badly injured four other workman. Half a dozen others received minor scald from tiie molten motnl that Hushed out of th broken receptacle. Tho accident is said t have boen caused by water coming in contie with the hot iron. MARKETS. Bat.timoius? Flour?City Mills,extra.$4.' a$4.50. Wheat?Southern Kultx, 78nfci Corn?Southern White, 1.'0j2S cts, Yollo 8Sa40c. Oats -Southern and I'eniisylvan 'J8adlcts.; Hyo?Maryland ft I'onnsylvan OOoVicU.; llay?Maryland ami i'eniisylvan ia .viiiu txiitiLraw-W boa t. 7. 5da &i. .*>0; B utU n??r-ojr rem p ? ftl.V. Tobacco" J/eaf?Inferior, lii#2.0,)fooi OoniiHon, 15 Wlafi 00, Middling, $.*>a7.00 Go to tine rod,? ?#'.?; Kancy, loaf 13. '* Nkw vohk?Flour?Houthern Common 'J fair extra, Wheat?No 1 Wh ll M?-'?a*7. Kve?State. ft7a6 ); Corn?South" 7 Y ei lo wJ a :w%. (>a la- W h i to, Htate'-JS^a-Ji ' ot-K. Mutter?State. I'fu'Zl eta. Choe<ie--Stn h'^alO.'j ct*.; Kggs?iMa'241^ eta. <, l'iiii,.\nKLPHIA ? Flour ? l'ennsylvnt ' fniicv, 4.'-i?a4.75; Wheat?i'emisylvnuia n li Houthern Hod, 81)?u82; Kyo?lVnnsvlva 10 ftHaOOc: Corn-Houtiiorr. Yellow,37}/?a37%< a Oats?28>4'MJ8k cts. ; Mutter--State, :cfta'.iOc ("6 Choose?A. Y. Factory, eta." Kgg HUito, cts. ;l, CATTFiK. n. Mai.timoiik?Hoof, 4 ft la i 7ft; Sheep?f.' ir aft 7ft. llogs?$1 75 i5 Of), a Akw York?Meof?$3 ftOnft Vl*?;Shoop-t v. r.O Hogs?*3.70:4 10. Kast Liiikiity ? Hoof?$4 Ufta4 50; Shoe |5 UOaft -.'ft; Hogs?*3 7ftu3 8ft. Railroad niisl Trlcgrititk i'ommnnkiw U?m Intirrnptcil. 1 ,? The snow blockade in the West and North* wipt is one of tho most complete on record. Not only has travel become an impossibility 0:1 tbo western divisions of tho Central a?;d Northern l'ncitic, but tho t-.*!o.;rnph oempv nios are 1 qu il sufferers, an I every through wire is down on both these routes. The only means of tdographic communication with the I'.scille oast now is by the nulireoL route or the Southern I'.tcitlc, and the volume of business transacted is necessarily limited. Washington and Oregon are shut oft from, communication with the t ntire world, with the exception of on > littlo rig / ig wire that still ticks leehly between San Francisco and' Portland. When this wirogo >sdown these two N r ii western states will lefurthrrn way from* New Ys?rk th 111 China, so far os telegraphic* communication is concerned, as the traiu* ttr> not running und the snow blockade render^ it impi ssiple for the telegraph force to reach the scene of the break, The Western Union' ^ repairers nro snowo I up at a hill dorm points > in tlie West, and there is Int o prospect of| renewed coinmuiiicat.oii until Ibo railroads bavo mastered the elements. Tho snow block auo 011 mo uenirni memo ivraa is in rmn?r?nt (1 ?j>, near tho sum nil of the Hierra*. light w< sit omul train4 are snowed in, ami ttio i to pert of the ron i being opened in ilio next forty-eight hours ir poor, as the mowplows c iimot work through the frocx.ng ice, and the lorci o' shovoiers is in ?Utq uite. There arc l,5:R) men at wo:-k, but as the snow is seven bet deep o i the level and fathom tear in the cuts, the work of e.earing the track while the snow falls is trcm-n .oiis labor. The Southern I'uciMo Rout h is been badly injured m the Tehach.-pi Muu itttins by washouts, and beyond ]< .s Angoh s the floods ln.v.i done nine i dmitigo. The only unobstructed road uow in the At I mtie and l\.e?tio, but as this d p ;nd* on t h > Soaibol 11 t'.ic lio connection bjtween tin Mohave l)?s? rt and 8an Franc sen, and on the washoloat Southern I'.iciHe lino between ix?i Angeles t.iici Siii Fran Cisco, travel on th.it may n'so be delayid at any moment, as it lias been raining heavily iti Southern California lor days pas1., while it is snowing in ttie north. Mnow is stilt fading throu ;hout the West, ?.t |imt ti n m m mm - WILD ANIMALS AT LARG". A It?t of Terror In IliiiiioeK t o., 111.-The Tlienrlt* Advanced. The farmers in h'outliorn Hancock county and many r<siding ill tho northern portion of Adams, Illinois, were terrified almost nightly by the screams of boiiio wild beasts about tilleo weeks ago. At llrat it wa? thought that some woman or child was in d stress, and s.':uc!i was made, but no one was round. A few mornings after the occurrencj 0110 farmer residing near the Hancock county lino found n cow and In r young calf lying in the b irn-lot dead and their todies mangled terribly. Bloody trails led Ironi the barn to tho pig-pell of another farmer, iiml here live goals were found with their throats cut. The discovery uroused tho farmers, and it was tho opinion of ail tl at a panther or some other wild aniinu! wuslurk; mg hi the neighborhood. Ear'y tbo next l day Abraham Johns went to Ins barn and .... j saw the straw and fodder moving. Just then ' a lingo nninial bounded out with a horrid j Tlio excitement now spread through the ' neighborhood, mid u baud of men wusorgnuizoi. A two days' search with dogs was ) iniile, but no trace of the animal could hi found. Tiie body of a lino horse was next j found in a pasture a few miles above Qulncy. ' The animal was not dead, but its entrails hn I 1 been tern out. The people nre thoroughly | alarmed, and many 01 them will not venture from their homes at night. A hand of df[ teriuinod men is now being organized, and they have resolved to cupturo tiro beast at all hazards. There can ho little duuht that one : or two panthers have had their hiding-place | in Adams and Hancock counties for sovrrnl I years. There are somo people who profess i to believe that animals more dangerous than panthers are loose. A TRAGEDY IN GEORGIA. ! Mr. I>e I'orcMt AI Ig noil li illetl by Or. J. It. S. lloliucMut Itomr, ?>iu Do Forest Ailgoo I, president of Tr.on Factory, one of the wealthiest instiluti x a of North Georgia, was shot an I instantly killed at h o'clock the other ev n n< hy Dr J. It. 8. Holmes, his brother in-law, and one of the most prominent and popular ol Georgia physician*. Air. AJJgood had long elierialied illwill towards I)r. Holmes for some business matters between them and lind frequently threatened his life. Dr. Holmes had a voided Mr. Allgood for years and wont oue of town to nv.iid mooting bim to day. Air. Allgood came down from Trion Fue! tory to It >me on an evening train and waited | for Dr. Ilolni '8 in liisolllcedoor. Dr. Ho mes, who had a vague warning, nought to reach I his oilic.? by the back streets. Winn tne party drew up in front of tho 1 r.flice Mr. Allgood advanced with drawn pistol on Dr. lioimes. Tne latter shot Mr. Allt ood twice with his double barreled shot-gun, loided with tird shot, both shots hiking elfrct, III lirst cutting the carotid artery and the Jo ular vein, anil the second breaking the ' | ii' c.k completely. Mr. Allgco.l tell at tho first shot, then half ; j rose, still trying to draw his pistol. When he , ' roce.vel the second shot ho leil on his fucs j and in t intiy expired. IJr. Holmes exclaimed: '"1 was forced to do | it tosivo my o.vn life. I inn sorry, an sorry, L.ilt lit hniiled uri down, and lor the sake of ? my wife unit my son I h id to kill litm." D f Holmes immediately surr-iidero.1 to olticers and is resting m liis own apart moats in . charge of a deputy sheriir, i Tho general smtirnenl agrees that tho kill? , ing was ch ar y in sslf-defence, and although t j both nu n were exc 'odingly pop il.-ir, the curI rentof sympathy is strongly with Dr. Holmes. ;l FATAL ELECTRIC CURRENT. ! ? s j Sauaiiii; Wires 4 m 11 n lento It to an o A w ii I iik-I'iisI Willi lien it I y IIIIVcl. o k At about nine o'clock tho other morning, a man stopped bis borso in front of F. W. 1'arson's shoe store, in Nowburg, N. Y., tied tho aniinil to an awning-post and went away. A few minutes lat^r tho home touched his .T* iiosi to an iron post and fell into the gutter w like a log, Thomas Dawson ran to help the ia horse, but no somer did he place his hands !? on the animal than ho (Dawson) fell dead. ia Thomas Hilts, who saw tmli, bustT, (iiivti to hi* *?ia(aiicfl and. tOOK bo.u of hllll '? to lift hiin up, butreceive 1 a terrible shock, /t and he, too, dropped to the ground as if deal* 11 An electric-light wire had sagged and lay upon an iron rod extending from an awniog^ post to the building, and the fud force of the ohctric current was passing down tho iron post into tho ground. The Insulating material had become thoroughly saturated rr> j by rain. Mr. Saltz was only stu ined. He got up, brushed his clothes and walked away. Neither was tho horse killed. It Mas cut lo 60 from tho post, lifted to its fo 't and tit driven otf. "d it seems that Dawson in assist ing the horse "ia took liobl of tho head gear and at oaco fell da. forward, his head striking against the iron b*.; awning post. An examination of tho body s? disclosed the fact that tho deadly current was received on tne left side of tho head, i winch had rested against tno awning i>ost. > 75 Tua neck wis blistered, tho bair singed anl the oar badly burnod. Drs Wiggins ami 150 llowolsuls ipiotiBly made a thorough examination of tb i wtio:? body. Tho mai.'.* ejos ?P? were open. His face boro no evidence tnat he bad suffered any pain.