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/Sfc: ^feted to Agriculture. Horticulture,. Domestic Economy, tWp^MjM^fts^MSMlalBMBw^TOft^S^ ? 4 - ' ' &? '<* jJjSg- ii A?ffr iiamj>~i.-" ?" ' ' '"' r^-. , ~~ , T r i>l "* 't ~ ^ "^^IV?'?'? ^'^v'*jitelvft^.,i?vT- ' li^vi i}> "< 4 * iSrP&^iv^ ' " -. ' -r ~ * ' * t^^ia TlEm mm; The Straop Mystery Sorrcendini Its Disappearance. A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST. # i EY FRANK BARRBTT. . CHAPTER III. ^ ^ .'J Un nt oiiv*> litroom.and had j UH served *fl i ^ ho could give. fBI# ^CT?ptj3e^L^ggu It was a ret ?arBMjj^?HBaM past to rocV ompenso u s V 'V^B H| r<>r our long pr 1V a 11 on s, we famished ^ wrotchoB for' ?- got our trees- I | uro in the keen animal ploasure of satisfying tho craving of hunger. Sir Edmund sat at tho table with us. directing tlie servants, who eurely > hod never before waited upon such strange company. One could see that it was a real delight to this large-hearted man to sco us eat and drink. Miss Lascelles herself waited upon Van Iloeck, attending to bis wants with feminine tact and delicacy; his affliction appealed to her womanly sympathy, Sho was a tall and graceful girl, with her i father's fair complexion, brignt. mirthful eyes, that added to the happy expression of 7 face, and beautiful, soft brown hair, < llftTl'v- u* * **! oViontiiuf uh iifK . ows in its undulation. 4>lio looked you in tho faco with a fearlessness ' only possible j We left tlie hid there, leaning agains to those who are perfectly healthy and per- i fectl.v honest. To the ehnrm of physical ! beauty was added a faultless manner?the < complete self-command and unfailing grace ( inseparable froni a lady of birth and educa- i tlon. Site was as courteous to us. who i must have seemed the veriest outea.sts of ' society, as though we \v>*ie her equal. A iruu itiuj can i??j Jlor presence liml an indescribable effect upon my sens's?tlx; effect of flno music niter discord. I whs conscious of n return from savagery to civilization. l!ut it was not until my gross appetite was satisfied that I became susceptible to the new de^ light. r The baronet spoke not. one word abotit * tho diamond during dinner, but when it was all over ho said: "Well, now we will go back to the library, and you shall come with us, Edith, if our cigars will not be disagreeable to you, for wo have a marvelous matter to talk about." In tho library. Miss Eascelles seated herself beside hor lather, whilo wo threo men sat facing them on the other side of a small round table, on which I placed the diamond. At a little distance from us thero was a lion skin on tho floor, and on this the Kid threw herself, and as she lny thero looking toward us. with tier chin resting in tho palms of hor hands and her elbows planted in the fur. we saw scarcely anything of her but her great, lustrous eyes, because of the shadow thrown by the lamp-shade. "Now. lot us understand the position of things to begin with." said Sir Edmund, taking a cigar, after handing the box to us. "This will explain h good deal." said I. putting in his hand the copy of our agreement. f. , . ' '*,V < /> } ' mi V t tfis/jvL, In-. /A,.. W 7 T.M "'"J1"" " ~ 'r~r~'/ - $ '* ;?" -/i : J/? ;<?' *.? /-JVrt /a </?,.. //+(, ^ tM x/* f.-t .rr-n.<LMt ,/*/. ,/A< t/, /.+ /rt/A, 4 /-?. *3- **U/ A<4~? r,, /../.?< ./ /} 0Kl y A*C*/ir\/, i *++?*& /? < s Q - <Jaa*/Jt.A^0A < V* jt/J m/t r> #/??? +**+< '/*, tx^y 4/4 jt+j* .. J^.4(4sfi1 Guu/jf ? .**? lie held it so thnt Ids daughter might read I It with him, and having eoni? to iho end. said: : "May I ask whi<-h is the JudgeV" 1 "That's me." said isrneo. with sumo pride ?"appinted by Iho l.ong I'iko Vlgitftneo < Committee in "5??." "You are an American V" 1 "Located ns such f?-r twenty years; born 1 In Cornwall." < "And Jan Van Hnaek?" ] "That's Israel." rosp >nd<>d the Judgo. in- 1 (Heating Van Jfoeck; "and darkness fell upon 1 Tfci . . "V. % !tjm ? 'em." ho lidded, explanatively.*' in, During a short space of his eventful oa- dl reor Brace had earned a precarious exist- ui once as a traveling preaehsr. a j nen you are Bernard Thome, the Dar- jrc onot said to ma. "and Lola Is??" ce "The Kid," said Brace; "her mother was a froaaer?r. Mexican." he explained to Miss th nacelles. The dinner had warmed his spirits and loosened his tonguo, and ho ooh- Wj tinned: "We were draWed together at Cape th Town by an advertisement in the paper. 8j, Our uffllctcd brother wanted to stako his 0f little pile upon a mining venture. He hod u, studied the thing soioutillc'llv; he had luid out a kinder chart in his head. pricked down ?pi whore the great llnds hod been mude, sorter ^ reasoned out the cuuso thereof, end sot his cc mind Ilrm as a big And was to bo made In a1 certain spot known only unto himself. Wo ye conversed, and ho perceived without much ot difficulty as ho hod found the right sorter ttC partner in mo.end he kinder left it with me to And a third party to jinn in the venture. afl I spotted out Gentleman Thorne here among a dozen. 1 liked tho shape of his chest and a| shoulders; I liked the look of his face; I sco jjj that, though he was outer luck, ho was a W( gentleman, every inch of him; and 1 tell t|, von. miss." he said, addressing Miss Las- fn celles, 'that though 1 aln I no gunnem.?. 5,7 myself, I back blood and hreedln' ag'in all creation. A man like Gentleman Thorne. cll who has been kep' clean In his infancy, fed c? wholesome, trained up in a public school, fti and been learnt to respect hissclf and God ja Almighty, has better temper, more endue- ^ ance, more pluck and fight iu' power to over- w] come and win, than a dozen of the muckars pr thnt bounce about bein' workln' inon." He n( fiaused a moment to lot his words make due qt mpression. and then continuod: "Gentleman Thorne had no experience, but he had m a hunderd pound to put inter ther concern, m and that fetched Israel jest as much as his looks fetched mo. Israol had three hunderd. -p. I hod nothing In the shapo of dollars, but I u, threw in the Kid. which, being a female, was vj cnlc'latod to be useful untcr Us in tho nat'ral nt order of things. What wo hed we lumpt in. and by written ugreement. drawed up mu- ? tual. wo undertook to play it out to the hottorn dollar and the n'int of starvation. Wo worked, sir. through thick and thin, through 5 the measliest streak of luck mortal mau j ^ ever struck. h, "I rael was first to funk it. 'My calc'lations nro wrong; it's a hopeless venture. In let in chuck it,' he says; to which Gentlemun Thome replies: 'No,' he says, 'we'll stick to our ruiu?o ?..a a^ut it out.' says he; end he did his level best to cheer us oh. you t the bureau, her unfathomable eyes look <hould have hoerrd him thare n-whlatlln' vj iko a blackbud, sincin" sonRS. drnwin' us dr [>ut of ourselves. and mukin' a pleasant joke at of our bad luck. Ast tho Kid down .... mere who was her host, friend in that ^ (rouble. She'll toll you it was Gentleman , Thorne, not her father. Sho had a bit of a fever?it was him mado up a bed for her. P? built a screen to keep tho sua off. walked fifteen mile in tho night to p" get things from the store, set up night ''A after night to give her water, end used for to sing out about the sleopin' beauty and Cincralla, while he Wtis pegg.n' away at the fttl ilm ned stones. I will allow, miss, I were ashamed to let him see I was Ins in' heart, ex und when I felt like hl&sphemin' at things in an gen'al, I used to taken shot (walk and let hi off all my swenrin' where he couldn't hear wi me. Well, it did look as of wo had hooked N< on to the everlastin'fish-kittle. Then Israel of funked it a second time. "Wo hev still a few he pounds loft.' he says to Gentlemen Thorne, pii 'let's throw up tho cards." which they might ou hev done without going from our written word, they two formiu' a majority. But tjfl Gentleman Thorne wouldn't agree to it. It ja( wouldn't ho fair to the Judge, ho said, and then he promised that if we failed in the CH end he'd stlek by Israel, and keep him like co tiis own flesh and blood until he found the 11. means of keeping hissolf, which was more va than I'd hev promised him, I will allow, Welh wo played on till the last cent was spent tn stores, and the stores had got down un to half a tin of beef, and a screw of shag, and .then 1 lighted on a two-carat stone. The very next day Gentleman Thorno found the Great ilesper. We couldn't allow it was on renl, yet we sorter thought it was. Any- or how, we didn't sleep till we got to Natal and 00 had It tested. We sola the littler stone, and un scraped enough together to pay our passage ] to Southampton by the next boat. Ill eorn- be mittco we agreed to go to a bank and raise qu money on the diamond as Boon's we landed, tri but no one wouldn't take us on. end if tho sic police hadn't put us on this track I'm durnod sti if I know what partie'ler 'oh* we should hev pr been stiekin' in at the present moment." Va During ttiis recital, which I have abbre- ha viated consiilerably. Van lloock, who bu despised the Judge anil abominated nil he he said, sat with his eyes closely shut, his ] nostrils pinched, and his bfnek brows creased together, so thnt thoy almost mot, jj,', Miss I,aerobes listened with intense inter- S(p| est, hor pretty lips just par ed, and I ?fl thought she looken more kindly upon 1110 w, for the glowing culogium?of which I have omitted a grout part?paid to me by llraee. ,j|( 'the Kid changed her position, seeming je, to catch some of hor fathor's enthusiasm, and sitting upon her heels with her hand6 elaspod before her, turned her flashing eyes sometimes upon me. hut more often upon Miss Laseelles, as if to watch the effect of this narrative. "One thing is obvious," said Sir F.dmund yo cheerfully; "you won't want to leave mo to- * night." "Neory one on us. sir, you bet!" replied the Judge, while Van Hoec'kand I expressed PO the same sentiments in oilier words. The baronet spoke in a low tone to his th: laughter, who rose and left the room. "The next tiling to consider is." ho then , mid. "how can I bo of service to you in this iffuir. To purchase your treasure is of course altogether cut of the question. But ju< [ should like to buy a small?a very, very * ' small?share in it, paying down a certain turn for your present convenience, and tftk- *1 o- ; g it baok wbon the diamond is ultimately BDosed of. with a reasonable percentage >on the outlay. I make this suggestion aa matter of business. Hint, you may feel lurseives free from any restraint In aepting my offer." It took us but a few moments to agree to iB proposal. "In that case," he proceeded. "I should Ish to have a voioe in the management ol is business, and (ha first suggestion 1 lould make is. that the ilnost artist in work this kind be engaged to cut the diamond ider this roof, and tlint during the operam you should take up your rosidctico nore. lis precaution is necessary for the safeleping of the treasure, and for our own immon security." This arrangement was too obviously adintngcous to us to require argument; we insulted together, arid quickly agreed to icopt the oondition. 8ir Edmund read the agreement through ;uin, and then said: "Wo must consult a lawyer with regard to legal form of agrooment. Hero thoro is n nd of tontine urrnngemunt by which one auid receive an enormous advantage by A HphHi r\t hlu narlnnra H ift ah nnnnm. rtabto^AflHkand I do not boo the neces1J ,vl "v/?? 41^?4 4l?/? pltCUTTl* ances which culled for Its being male ore landed. A lawyor may provide for our *eirlty withdtit exposing us lo ugly posslbtliOs. That, however, can all bo settled tor on. Thero is no hurry. It will be no enough to make the lezul arrangement ben wo have ascertained the value of the operty to be arranged, and thnt we can >t know before the stone is cut. We will lostion the best llrms in London with reird to a lapidary, and* take our time, oanwhile, I will supply you with what onoy you want upon your I O U. and th? amond shall remain in your keeping, ilk it over among yourselves at your lels e.and any modification youmay think adsable I have no douht I shall bo able tc icopt." Miss Laseelles returned to the room and K)ke to her futher. Then she went to Lola ho had curled herself up on the skin, and lelt beside her. 'J he girl was uul iisieep 10 started up into a sitting attitude as Misi asculles approached, and flung off th( ind that was laid tenderly on her arm. ' You don't dislike me. Lola?" tho young dv asked, smiling. "Yes. I do," the girl replied, savagely. "But I want to be your friend." "Wo shan't never be friends." I lost Miss Laseelles' responso. for a sor ing around her in finllen curiosity. ,nt entered tho room and Sir Edmund nde-sod us: "Your rooms are ready," ho said: "Johnn will show you lo them if you feel you )uld like to turn in." The prospect of sleeping once moro in n od bed brought us to our feet at once. Miss Lnseelles, undaunted by the first retT. had got Lola's hand in hers, and was Iking in n low. endearing tone to her. The d snatched her hand away, started to her it. and came to my side, seeing wo were out lo go. "A little cuss," said tho Judge; "you must cuso her. miss. Her mother was a greaser, d she's never had any kindness shown tr, except by Gentleman Thome. A lick th the strap is what she understands host. 3, miss." he added, when Miss I.ascellce Tered to take Lola to her room; "leave r to me. There ain't nothing but disnpntrnont. nnd vexation of spirit to bo got tor tho ungrateful lit lie varmint." Tito room given to the Kid was tho protest imaginable. with hangings of white o over blue silk, and everywhere the eye is pleased with somo pretty evidence ol re and taste. Tho bed was suggestive ol xiness and fresh virgin purity nt tho snme ne. I might havo taxed my ingonuity in in to havo invonted such a room in the ^rios I have told to Lola. Wo loft the d there, loaning against tho burcnu. her fathomable eyes looking around her in lien curiosity. In tho morning I ho room was found ipty, the bed untouched, the floor coved with shreds of the clothing Miss Laslles had laid out for Lola's use. which. II.. 11.11- I?? . iuviiuu;ui,t, iiik nine nnviign mm iorp up? Poor little Lola! She and 1 had nlwaya en the host of friends, except when n estion of cooking or washing occurred to niblo us. She would yield to my persua>11 when nothing else would bend her ibborn spirits. She feared my silent reonch more than the scathing sarcasm in Hoeck treated her with, or the heavy ml of Iter father. She respected no one t me. probably because 1 nlono rcspoetcd r feelings. Had I foreseen Hint night the course she is about to take. I might, with a littlo pant persuasion, havo brought her to iean. My spirit is weighed down with reit when I tliink how perhaps a dozen >rds from me at that time would have mod aside tho fearful consequences of it act?an a t so slight, yet followed by ror upon terror, by crime upon crime. [TO BE CONTINUE!).] A Hitter Experience. Wife (to husband)?"What makes u look so stupid ?" | Husband makes no reply.] Wife "I asked what made yon look stupid ?" Husband '"1 have just passed rough a bitter experience." Wife?"Not financial trouble, I pe ?" Husband?"Worso than that. I have it read a collection of 'anecdotes' in Enstem magazino."?Arkansaw avcler. THE NEWS, I ' A 1 Tbe dead bo lies of a man named Holmes, < 'hU wife and two children, were fosnd near Ki Sbawuee, L T., and it Is supposed the whole (family were rour lerod by the outlaws thafr Snfest that locality. Frank McOowan, 'who rsked bis life in tbe interest of science v I ito find s rare lib-r of bamboo in South 'America for Elison, h'is disappears 1 from ? "his home in Orange, N. J. ?j?Whiteops whipped tbreo women and tw mon near cj11 Rockingham, N. C. President Chauncey -j , Djpew, of the New York Central Railroad, wa denies the report that hs will resign his po- jin s tion, in Tiewof his possible nomination by wjj the Republicans for the presidency.??Tbe g > Wbittier memorial building, on the Hamp- epo * ton Normal Sohool grounds, Fott Monroe, sho ? .. ML nil Va., was burne-l.?? I be ruDber'*ioe manufaclurers' combine propow to adY^nce the tam price ll'teyi r^r e*ji^*-^rThe lox^of life by ?4 ui" uicaMiig of t f'SL,, nrr "tW Arizona, is not so greatafflrs# reported, la I all thirty-nine bodies hare been^eoovsred. 1 ? Frank Formenicb, manager, and W. 8. '?Jj Smith, superintendent of 4be Formenioh p;l, J Glucoso Work*, near Marshalltown, Iowa, der I have been indicted for pouting the Iowa I river and maintaining a Durance. Fire at ^ Kensingt jii, 111., dostroyed the hotel and a BOr > number of bul'din 8. Lose, $10,000. The ide Kanawha aud Western Railroad Company has been incorporated at Columbus, Ohio, to B,u i conduct a line ninety miles from London,O., del on the little Miami, into the Hocking Val- mi ley co ?1 fields, connecting with the Kanawha [ nud Ohio near Athens Fr Mayor Carter ilu: Harrison, of Chicago, has distinguished 1,111 J himself by capturing a burglar. James J. ^ liroJchair, of Schenectady, N.^Y. ,^was suffo- {>.1 f cated in trying tosavo some proporly in hie tiQ burning house. A combination of the metal rooting and smelting companies of the |j?c United States has b en formed, with head- he quarters at Denver. ??Ex-Governor James b<x KI ward KnglUh, ot-vJX>ndeoUout, died at New llsveo, aged seventy eight years.? he Sam Meson, a notorious Pittsburg gambler* dir attempted suicido on a railroad train. ?ni Gill & Forrest's roller mills at Hillsboro, ^ Minn.,w;ro burned. Loss, $500,030. F.rst Mr hoavy frost of tbo season in Southern Florida ,ni a >d freez ng weather in Savannah. A man supposed to be Uev. Peter Herbert Feron, vv., [ of baltimore, died in a Philadelphia borpitil mi i under suspicious circumstances.?August ori Groth, of Stillwater, Minn , murdered h'a wife and then committed suicide, having a am no'.o stating that his wife had confessed to Pei him that she had b;en soduced by a police- _T I - - uo Iran in Germany in 1883. Miss LU- tb? | lion Moore was shot three times in the street In I in Washington by Hurry Franklin, who, it Jjj is s II, was a rejicted lover. Noyes. Nor' man & Co.'a wholesale boot and shoe houie wi at St. Joseph, Mo., was burned. Loss $158,- >ilj 000. At A blizzard prevailed in Kansas and Mis- i souri. Jamlfe^a^dthw^ltft a Cbloago hrb'/ir-owd^nft.j)e.?^nJ3?rt ArmSCflMyj'.d ">o ;n negro who murdered Policeman Lowell,, in uU Jacksonville, Flo., haq been capturtyl.?? The Mississippi and Ohio rivers are still ris- < ing, and in many places have ovei fl >wed their wa I banks. Win, H. Furstman, charged with hei committing forgery to the extent of $200,- 8{^ 0i.0, was arrested in Now Orleans. The ga freestone contractors of Boston have deter- he mined to Jock out their cutters. Thomas J"1 O'Brien, the murderer of Bettie Shea, was ^ hanged in Lexington, Ky. Uncle Joo yei Johnson is the last victim of the Hatflolds. 1,11 He wus shot down before his house. The J^j town of Ingalls and Cimarron, in Gruy ma county, Ks., aro again at war. The rubber ue< goods manufacturers have decided to ad" ^ vunoe the prices of rubber boots, shoes and )iv< goods ten per cent. Robert A. Smith, a w" New Market, Out., merchant, was murdered jti his bouse by unknown parties. The j<0, steamer Enterprise, bearing Mr. George H. ing FenJleton's body, has arrived In New York. ^ ??The Governor,of Jbwa in his message wo advocated a license law governing the liquor olh law ia that 8tate. The Massachusetts U"J legislative committee reported against a ^ straight prohibitory law, and in favor of tie > maintaifilng a high license.?Abram Mont- cot gorovry was arrestod in Martinsburg, W. i Va., charged with having two wives. la n(t > New York Mrs. Margaret Bienoustien was wh terribly mutilated by her husband, Jacob, who poured carbolic acid over her faco. Ati unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck noi i the limited express on the B. & O. near Inde- |ra pendence, O. Mark A. Buron, a Chicago gambler, was shot and dangerously wounded ( 1 by Charles Hatfield, of Henderson, Ky., | whom he was fleecing in a "skin" gamo of poker. ^ ' It is th? opinion oT leading lawyers in y ! Congress tlint a bill can bo pasred which will jJa1 nullify tlio r di-itrictin 4luwi passed by the 0( ( Maryland and Ohio legislatures. Senator | Blair objec s greutly^l ecnuso his speeches 6to are not more fuli^roport d in the news- u?a pnp rs. lix Congre.-snian Taull.ee wns I dangerously wounded by Charles Klncaid, a Kentucky journalist. D.ok Ilawes was i the hanged at Birmingham, Ala , for the murder , oik of his wifo and children. Brown Wash- ! inglon, colored, was lynched at Atlanta, On., nia forthe outrage and murder of a nine-year- wet old white girl. Dr. E. A. Kilbourne, an exjx rt on tlio treatment of insanity diseases, j died at Elgin Ills, Malcolm Cumpston, | aged five years, while playing with a pistol : at bts home, in Chicago, accidentally shot I oud kiled his three-year-old brothor. ?? Miss ' Lizzio Cowan, aged twenty years, a school 1 J* teacher of Mid iluburg, Ct., was murderously assaulted by Dan el Webiter.?it. J. Boy1.111. Jr.. observer At Ihn United Stales S <r. 27a unl Station, St Vincent, Minn., has lad (or parts unknown, leaving many creiiitors'.?? ifitu A wonderful slroim of oil is spouting on the 11a farm of Andrew Toottiuinn, near the little Kanawha r.ver, in West Virginia.?There were i&7 Lusines? Jgpuccs in the Uuitod to f States, and 44 in -Auaila the'past week.? flistiop WoavoiT'Q lho United lirethron Con- ?*jj feronco at Cfauiborshurg, l'a., stated that in yel six conferences under his direction there cts. wero forty-two thousand members, and that but fifteen preachers and two hundred morn- |i|n bers had seceded.?Heavy snow falls In Hoi Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. During a Rh shooting match on Kobcrt Stewart's farm, near Mooreslown, N. J., Joseph Kunble w.is yta i.ccideutully shot uml fatally wcuudel by W illiarn liispSam. V report from l'ort- J\ land, Ore., siato* that Silcott, the d-faulting cashier of the Sergeant alarms of the aC i House ol K-presenUmvoi, has I $en erre->t.'4 * near Tp coma. *' \ j . I )ICK HAffES HINGED. lied His Wife and Children for Another Woman. i Conft'dlon ou (he Callows ? HI*. torjr of n Notable Crime and Its Horrlb e Result*. lick Hawes was handed at Birmingham, i, for tho murder of his wife and two Idren. 'be drop fell at 13.47 o'clock. Hii neck ? broken an 1 death waspasy. The little -yard was packed to suffocation and many o hod tickets failed to get in. lifore the black cap was ndjuttel Hawes ks briellf. He called a newspaper man, ok q inds with him and forgave him for false statements nzainst him. He then tiled an A>jc Harold man a written con dust following in bis roRKSpK If. Parser, offers 1 a prayer. The drop I and all was over. ["be crime for whioh Richard A: Hawea d tbe penalty witb his life, was the uiur of hie wife and two children, May and ne. O.i Tuesday morning, December 4, 8, the body of May was found floating in artificial lake at E ist Lake, a pleasure rotsix miles from Birmingham, it was not ntitte 1 uutil the next day. The disco very to'still furtnor investigation and th s rosnoe of Hi woe w.is visited by several poris, who found tbe plaoe deserted and cv loes that a horrible crime had be?n comited. There were blood stain' on the fl >or 1 walls, an 1 in a oorner of o o of the ?ms a bloody club wasfoun i. On tbe same f it was learned that Hawes hid been Tried to Miss May Btorey at Columbia, ss. lie was arreted the same night while sing through Biruiiug.iain on his way to orgia, to spend his honeymoon. He idened the Loly of his cbi.d, but s nted that had been divorced from bis wife and sho i gone away. The children, lie said, Lai in placed in the convent at Mob le, nnd was at a loss to understand how May's iy came to be found where it was. The Ipable improbability of eucb a story oonioe.t those who heard hie Sot.'tneni teat had murdered the rest of the family. By -ectiou of the coroner the lake was drained 1 tbo holies of Mrs. llawes ami little nic, hoivily weighted witb railroil Iron, re found on tbe bottom. Toeliulfn; of *. H.wes' corpse inlltrnei the public ndtoa frenzy. All efforts of the pre*s the city and the county authorities to ay the excitement were futile. The j ill rt stormed by ten thousand persons d.-terneJ to lynch the murderer, The sheriff lered th in to halt, but tbe mob replied th cries of derision, aud pressed forward, e order was given to the gu trd to lire, da volley resulted in too killing of ten rsons and the wounding of many more, e spirit of tae mob was broken, and it eer returned to the ntiao*, contrary to i expectation of the au'.borlti s, who had the mean tune telegraphed to th; govlor for military assistance. Th; tiialof iwes began ou April 2d, and lasted eleven ys. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, th the death psualty, after two hours' doe ration. Kentucky Wile Murileior Hang*, rbomoa O'Brien tTifiefpotest ing1 m he was declared dead. Hia neck was ilooatod by the fall. The crime for which Thomas O'Brien, Jr., s hanged was tbe inurder of his wife and1 r unborn babe on the night of March 31, 19. 0'Brhnwas28 years of age, and lor' 'ernl years his chief occupation had been mbling. One night while in this business shot and killed young Henry Metcalf, t for that killing he was acquitted. Short-' after beiog adjudged free ue met Bettie ea, a bouutifui girl about twenty-throe; irs old. Sbo wns employed ns a domestic! tbe family of Mr. John S. Woolfolk. He! isuaded me girl to marry him clandes-i ely. Tbey went to C ncmnati and were) med under assumed names. He contin-) 1 to v.sit her as usual after their return Lexington. In the meantime O'Brien w.is| fsged to marry Miss Mattie Louglilin, who' ed in liicbltiud, Ind., uu l at the same time; s intimate with a in'lm urom.n nam h', :zia A>lann, with whom ha spent muobi te. During March it b camo evident to ttie Suen, that tho time was fast appt oaoh-1 ; when her marriago mint bo made puplic. I 0 besought O'Brien time and time again; acknowledge her as bis wifo before iho rid, but be put her oif on same pretext or ler. The time be had set to marry Miss ugblin was drawing noar. Ho was also, ipiy attache i to the Adams wo uan. On! 1 morning of April 1 last, toe body ot B_-tShea, clad in lier night-clothes. was dis-1 rered lying in her room by Mr. Woolfolk'Si' oolorcil cook. She bal b.en beateu to' itb with a heavy piece of lead, which was1 er war d found at the Ik use of Lizzio Adams ere O'Brien was arrested. Alt turough trial O'Brien maintained a stolid indit'-j euce. The circumstances pointed to him itrongly that neither the Court of Appals the United States Supreme Court would nit a writ of error. WOMEN AS HIGHWAYMEN. Mrriis of Kobbrrlcs Traced to tlio Wives of Two Farmers. ^ series of sensational highway robberies re lately been committed in a remote part Jackson county, VV. Va. Tho other night B. Mitchell, a well-to-do farmer, was pped on the roid near hfs borne by two sited men, who presented revolvers and nanded bis money. Vliilo the robbers were searching Mitchell arty of friends arrived unexpectedly, and i highwaymen Q?d. Tuey were pursued, 1 took reiugo in a house, but were finally itured. 'he pursuers were amazed to find when the " ?iwiu man iuutia init in-iy ro two woman, tho wive# ot oatim ihle larrs iu the oorauiuoity named Mitchell and ies. The women broke-down ami confessed t largo uuuibcr of bold robberies. MARKETS. tAt/riMonE?Flour?City Mills, ox trn, $4.-J 1.87. Wheat?Southern Kultr., Mat-; ;n?Southern Whito, 8b,'4'u!J7 eta, Yellow Oats?Southern uud Pennsylvania HUcia.: live?Maryland Ac Pennsylvania 57ci?.. Hay?Aim y land and Pennsylvania Vua#13 5J;Straw-VV heut,7.50atb.50;tiutter, item Croainory, "OatMo., uear-Oy rocoipts 13cta; Cheese?Eastern Fancy Cream. 11 % eta. ?Western, O^'alO cts; Eggs?13 ) ?; Tobacco Loaf?inferior, f> la3. (XI, Good moon, 8 00a 41 op. Middling, #5a7.00 Good I no red,8af0; Fancy, 10a*l3. 'kw York?Flour?Southern Common to p extra, #i. 50a #4.85: Wheat?No I White ltye-State. 57a00; Corn-Southern Llow,h6^rto5X. Oats?White, State HSr-D bettor?State, bal7^ cts. Cheese?State, ilo>< cts; Eggs?Half % cts. HiL.abkt.ruiA ? Kiour ? Pennsylvania ay, 4 '?>*4 75; Wheat?Pennsylvania and them Hod, 85ai4); Itye? I'eniHyivania liOc; Corn?Southern Yellow, PJ5 cte. a?31%a8i cts; Sutter -State, eta.; mm?N. Y. Factory, UaU>? ots. Eggs? to, 14al4>{ eta. CATTLE. altimork?Beef, 4 50a 1 75; Sheep?$3 00 15, iiogs? ?4 75a5 00. i KW Y ore?Beef?i5 00a7 00; Sheep-M 75 40; Hoge?|3.80a4 40. Iast Lidkrtv?Beef-94 25a4 00; Sheep? boaO 90; Hog*?#4 3a % ? 0 r CABLE SPARKSL Otto of Bmrla Is in the last stags* of general paralysis. Ccunt Napoleon Daru, tba French states- ( in .11, died at Paris. ' I Many lire* were lost by an explosion in a c colliery nsar Decix?, Frane*. t The Law Courts building at Alkmaar, Hoi- } land, has been destroyed by fire. ^ Italy will svnd representatives to the labor t conference to bo held at Berne. ( The Sultan's government bas determined i to construct shipyards and arsenals at Jed- c dab in Tripoli. - 1 Luxemburg bas appointed delezates to at- * tend the labor conference to be b-ldat Berne, own zenana. Advices from the Cape are that tho Trans- ' vaal government has forbidden the Boer expetition into Mashonaland. One hundred and twenty tenants on the i I'oi.SJnby estate in Ireland will be summoned |, to surrender possession of their holdings. . I k Tbe King of Portugal has signed an am- ! f> -nasty decree Hon. Joseph Oillis Biggnr, thf well-Vhbwn i !" bome-rulemember of the HouWof Commons, | ) d ed suJdeniy at Ciapham, a suburb of Lon- | don. An order bos been issued at Berln prohibiting tho circulation in Germany of tbe . Vo ks-Anwalt, a paper published in Cinoin- [ nati, Ohio. The Congo Free St ite l.ns empowered the % Bt usse s Anti-Siavery Society to send an ex- . pedition to Africa to aid in suppressing tbe j slave trade. j Russia has doraandei'iibf tbe gbVemmmt | 'J of Bulgaria the pnym-nt of 8,000,000 roubles , t arriorsof money dun on nccOtlnt of the Rax- t siau occupation during 1878 and 1879. t A fire broke out in tbo Communal Theatre ' in Amsterdam, Holland, and before the , ' flames could be extinguished tho interior of ( the Luildiug was completely destroyed. 1 The French cabinet couno 1 decided to set aside the senierc? of two years pissed upon ' tbe Duke of Orleans, but subsequently voted * to postpone his release for tho present. .' Threo memlK-rs of the Cretan council have J been sentenced to seven years imprisonment ( each for resigning their posts under threats . mads by tbe Cn-tan commiUce at Athens. j ~Tb e rahls Mattn eayw that M. HwUr, minister of finance, will ask tbe Chamber of Deputies for a vote of 700,000,000 francs for tbepurposoof bringing about a balance in I tbo t u Iget. | Tho polico of Tragus bave seis3d an issue I of the newspaper Nnrodni Listy, containing a manifesto ot the you.ig Cz ciis against the 1 understanding ogrevd upou with the Germans. The Unit?d States squadron of evolution was handsomely entertained at Toulon, | France, tut the officers were hurried through the French arsenals and warships so that they could see iittlo of French progress in natal warfare. Mr. Evans, liberal, #as elected without opposition to the vacancy in the Jiritish House oi Commons caused by tne death of Mr. Talbot, liberal, who reprcrentcd the middle divUiou ot Glamorganshire. The elections for members of the Portuguese Cham b?r ot D.-puties have beeu llxe.1 for March '27, Major JSerpa Pinto and other Po'tu.uesa African explorers uro favorite candidates of the progressist party. The list of the persons summoned to take part iu the council to cunnitfotfrjj^e condition istier, ft director of iron works, an owner of a factory, and llei r llitze, a member ot the Reichstag. | DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.! , The dwelling of Hunt Head, in Augusta,. . Georgia, was burned a tow days ago, and his! threo children, aged, six, four and twoyeirs,! perished iu the flames. It is reported-dcom Wood River. O.e;on,' that cattle and norsts aro dying in largej numbers in that section, and that "many! ' bunds will be wiped out outiroly unless a I thaw comes," ' 1 Martin Starrow j mimed a bar into a bolo containing a dynamite cartfi.tgs at the' Lackawanna Iron (Company's fctone quarry, at SScrantou, Pa. He was idotrn high iuto1 the air and decapitato i. During a runaway accident, near Newark. New Jeney, Miss Alary E. Tyler was killed, and Lottie Tyler, her sister, was iojured in" tenia lv. Turn mh?f ...... . -L ....UV.I nilVKCIOIIIiai), carriage were slightly injured. ' Stockdale Jackson, a wealthy resident of Gust Liverpool, 0 ?io, while sufferuna from nu attack of la grippie, took a large uose of corrosive suhliinute in mistake for his tnedicine, lie died in a short time.. A despatch from Prescott, Arizona, siys that the death list bus grown until now it is i known that no less than 150 persons lo?t their lives in th-j dam disasters. Wickenburg was ' destroyed, ev.ry building falling before the ; awful assault. fcPytnour, 12 miles further on, j was also ? recked. Charles Hnnley and William Dodson were i asphyxiated in a street crossing watch box 1 of tbe Vandalia Railroad, in 'IVrru ilauti, | Indiana. Ilanloy was dead when foun I, and i Hudson is thought to be beyond recovery. I They ontered the watch box during a heavy rain. A train on the Evansville andTerre Hants Railroad went through a bri< go at Kelso creek, near Vino?nnes, Indiani a. Engineer A. Lyons and fireman Louis i Of den are missing, and are supposed to be under tbo engine, which was totally wrecked. Sivcral j passengers were injured, but not fatally. Michaol McDonough, aged 50 years, discovered that a railroad rail had been placed across a track just outside Akron, Ohio. A train being in sight, he had only timo to take one end o( the obstruction and drug it from the track when the engine struck the other end and the rail was dashed agair 9 his bead, crushing his skull like an egg shah. The en- j ffinA Anil OHro rii.l nnf ? * ? ' ? ?uo WWK, George Dowell set a shot gun trap for a thief in his barn in Spring Hill, Missouri.' The trap was so sat that the gun would be discharged when tho barn door was opened. Mrs. Dowell did not know the trap had b>en < set and when sbo went to the barivaHd opened the door the trap was sprung and she received the whole charge mil in the breast. ' She died instantly. Mr. and Mrs. Djwell bad < been married only two month*. , Mail advloes from Hong Kong and Yoko- j hams, received in Han Francisco, report that the storm along the Bashu coast on January 24th was very disastrous. About 1 ?X) fishing ' boats, with between 2">00 and 3000 flihermeu, ' j drifted out to sea. Nine hundred of tht-re ' h iats, with all the men aboard, were lost, j ' Most of the bodies driited up on the beach. | ' Tho same day 11 boats were wrecked in the | 1 sea off Tobisham, and 50 fishermen were drowned. On January 25th 33 fish rmenwere 1 drowned on the coast of Mascb tea. KANSAS TOWNS AT WAR. j rintnrron nnrt Ingnlla Asaln at Od.ls , Oirr Sugar ,11111 Bonds. I Tho towns of Ingalls and Cimarron, Jo ' Gray County, Kansas, late rivals io a county , ?al war, are again fighting. Bonds for a i sugar mill wore recently voted in the county. < Ai IngoUs is t> derive all the benefit, an in- ' junction onanist the issuing of ths bond* Wat 1 obtained by Cimarron, represented by Cbaa. Grogory. Gregory was In Ingalls, and wai 1 forced by tbrcn's against bis life to withdraw 1 the suit. A party of Cimarron men attacked aom? ( of tho leaders of th# mob that bulldozed j Gregory, and wot^Tin turu hunted* out ol town, two of th^iomhcr being woundsde*## Both side* aro nAtd, and an outbreak is ex-* f ? pec ted at an|(rwm?, ? | ' FTFf r-FIRST COnMT^I Hcanlc Amltu. 4oTH Day.?The resolution offered by Mr. Chandler lenstfTing Mr. Cell (or Interpol*** ug in the otllcial report of the prooeedlnge if the Senate a paragraph that had not been poken, and that was unparliamentary and wrsonally offeusive, was taken up and reerred to the Committee on Privilege* and Slection* The Blair filucational bill svae aken up as "unfluisbed business," and Mr. >>ke addressed the Senate in oppoiition to t. Mr. Stanford addressed the Senate in idvocacy of tbo bill. Ua motion or Mr. (V ilaon of Iowa,tbe ameudineuta ofthe Hou<w o tbo Senate bill to amend the not for a i sridge across the Mississippi rlrar at Clinton, Iowa, were ooncurred in. After a brief exicutire eeeelon the Senate adjourned. 46-rn Day.?tlr. Chandler presented a elition from Union county .Arkansas, allegig a r -iRn of terror there at the State eieoon in 18VJ. After a tilt between Mr. Cuandir, and Messrs. Harris and Berry, tbe Aransas Senators, tbe resolution was referred. lr. Evarts calied'up tbn resolution declaring be competency ot tberia oetll Vilson of Maryland, w re prwenteS^wr * i.ed. Tbe Blair E luoational bill was dieus >ed. After an executive session tbe Benit* adjourned. 47tu Day.?A bill was parsed for the ereoion, at tlie Western entrance to tbe Capitol,* ii Washington, of o bronu statue of Coria'o her Co uuibus, and the le novil of the Naral Monunt'iiL ton now she. The bill approbates 175,000. A bill was ulso passed makug the sal try of tbe Burgeon General of tbe dnrlne llos;?ital Service #0J0J per annum. I'he Anti-Trust bill was discu s hI, Mr. S-ierimu saying be bad been instructed by tl?? JouiuilUee on Fmanoe to more to strike out ,110 llliru tUCbiUU, WU.UU Jiu|iu3rs {ivuninKB or tho oflenso of entering into trusts or sonibmatione. Tbe bi>l went over witboul iciio'1* After on < x.cutive fession the Ssnito adjourn'd. 4Stii Day?Mr. Blair called the attention tue Sou-no once more to the dereliction >( tbe press of the country in notgmo^ ?uf11c cnt attention to proceedings in tbe Benito, und particularly to tbe important facta spread by biui before tbe Senate, in bla ipo<.ch on the Elucitional bit. lie charged particularly that too Associated Brest and llie reporter failed to perform tbclr duties in tbe matter. The Sou a to then proceeded to tbe consideration of tbe bill reported from the Committee on Pensions ou tbs 15tb of January, granting pens.ous to ex-soldiers and saiiors who arc incapacitated for tho performance of manual labor, mid providing tor po.Moi.s to dopondeut relatives of deceased so.d ors auil sailors. Tne bid went over without action. Alter an exjcutive session, the Senate, at 4.55, adjourned till Monday. 11 oil so Nessicss. 40th Day.?The House, In committee of tho wnole, r< sinned the consideration of tho Oklahoma bilL Mr. Hook-r, of Mississippi, moved to strike out the first section of the House bi.l, which is a substitute to the Senate bill, fixing tbe boundaries of the new territory so as to incluie the Cherokee Outlet. After a lung discussion a voto was taken on the motion, and resulted?15 to 53. Mr. Barnes of Georgia, raised the point of no quorum, and tac cboinuan (Mr. Payson of Illinois) counted tbs ooiuimttoe, out could find only ninety 3Jven members present? three less than a quorum. Ac.dl of thscammittee was directed and disclosed tbe preson ? u l -^l s r ciiuo vi tu meiijuciB, nu en met wns.ior-, xnally annouueed to the House, and the er's motion wus then defeated?-2t Feuding lartber aotiGU, the lixusu , 5jtu Da v.?The entire session v^'.' .House was occupied with debate on the e. tested case of Atkinson vs. IVudletou, frik ' (the First District of West Virginia. Fending discussion the House adjourned. I 61st Day.?The contested election cose of (Atkinson vs. Pendleton, from West Virginia, was considered, and the minority report declaring Pendleton elected was rejected? (yeas, 142; nays, 159?by a strict party vole. The question recurred on the majority report, seating Atkinson, and tlio Democrats refrained from voting. The vote resulted? 162 yeas, to 0 nays, and the Speaker counted a quorum. Mr. O'Ferrall raised the point of no quorum, but the spsakor ignored him, and Atkinson was sworn in. The Democrats refrained from voting in order that the question of the right of the Sp -aker to couut a quorum may be taken before the courts. Pending consideration of the Urgent Deficiency bill the House adjourned. 5-nd Day.?After tbo reading of the journal, Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, moved that thj House go into committee of the whole ou the Urgent Deiicioin-y Appropriation bill. The . vote rc-sulto l 'Jo to 2L. Mr. Bland, of Missouri, raised tho point of no quorum. The Speaker could count but 155 members present, and a rail of tho Hou*e was ordered. Two hundred and thirty ei_ lit members responded to tlie.r names, and then Mr. Hendursou's motion was agreed to. After three hours and a half consumed in the discussion ot points of order, tho commiit'e rose, and the bill was passed. It approprial s #2oC50,000?(ho largest item being an appropriation of #21,000,000 for the payment ol pensioners of the War of 1312 and ibo Mexican war. 53nD Day.?After tho passage of a few private pension bibs Mr. Cutcbomi, of Michigan, called up tho .Senate bill providing for an Assistant (Secretary of War. Passed?yoas 126, nays 100. Mr. liouk called up the contested election osse of Featherstone vs. Cate from the first district of Arkansas. The opening speech in favor of the claims of the contestant was made bv Mr. llaugen. A| the conclusion of Mr. Uaagen's speech Mr. Outhwaite, of Ohio, took tbe Uxor, bat in view of tbe small attendance of members, moved an adjournment, which motion was agreed to?yeas 111, nays 107, ANOTHER HATFIELD VICTIM. The .Man Who Previ nied (ho Gang's Escape Mit ilcreil in Cold lllood. "Uncle" Joe Johnson, an inoffensive old man, was shot down at bis home a mile East of Pikevilic. Kv. Th? ia? , ?, .w.uiu* citizens of th.s comiuuuity hoped that the Jeatli of the member of the Hatfield outlaw baud on (hi scaffold would have the etfeot A preventing further outrages from tbie source, but ft appo irsalroady to have lost its intuuiJating ii fljcncs. Murder had been threatened, and frlonds D? ti>o gray-haired victim bad warned him of Ins danger, l>ut true to the instincts of the ivir.igo mountain nr of thisouuntry, "Uncle Joe" had relumed to leave h.8 Isolated farm uid seek B.ifei v among his friend* of Pikerille. Shortly after supper?tho wifo informed ihe authorities?here husband was summoned :o the stile in front of the bouse by a man's iroicc. lie besitatoi to respond, but thought io recognized the voice wbic.i hailed him a* hAt of n in.iivKlirtr a ? - .. .. <i> ? ui?vwr 01 pric.ni;ion be picked up a double barrel riot gun^ is be steppod from lha house. A men was titling uairide a horse in the road near tbo bouse. Suddenly Iho wife heard tho report oi a heavy gu t nod saw her husband fail [orwnr.i on bis face. The horseman distied >tf at a furloua rote of speed. The husband snd f?th r tvas carried in.o the bouse, but ,-n cue glares at the terrible wound in bis tide iniiica<od that medical aid was useless, [death was ii stantaueou*. When the news of the dastardly crime iras reoeived ait Pikevilie, li.O hundred m.?n mere ready in an hour to take up the hunt 'or the uw.miri, Sheriff Maynard beaded ,bn band of av.-ngem, and the citizens >!cdged a reward of $.V>J for the capturo of Uncle JoeV murderer. The men are doipuiiKM to follow the nssa-sin oven if the ran leads into the conf! ies of West Virginia mdthe lair Qf the onwderou# Hattlolda.