Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^ * ^^p' ^*W"' **^ *^*1^ *~~ i 1 HPIWWB^^EW M^kKs. rNIONfPl., SOUTH CAROLINA,- FRIDAY. MARCH, ti, I8i>l. NUMBER 10. ! Tie tramp is a product of o?r dvffla* tfon, asserts the New York World. There are about 2,000,000 of them in thiaooun The criminal statistics of several civilized nations, cited bj the New York Voioe, prove that in new colonies the frequency of murder is apt to increase, while theft and suicide decrease. In other words, peril, insecurity and sudden changes of fortune all constitute a leas potent temptation to self-destruction than the tedium of settled communities alone. The amount ofmonev nairi hif firrrt Britain for meat from foreign countries has been increased of late years. In 1889 it was larger than it had been in any other corresponding period. But in 1890 the amount of tho preceding year was far exceeded. Up to December the amount paid in excess of that of the first eleven months of 1889 was neailj $15,. 000,000. V A San Franciscan says: "There is a itrong sentiment on the coast, and is gaining in strength, that will demand the repeal of the anti-Chinese laws in tho near future. If it had not been foa Chinese cheap labor California and th? whole Pacific coast would have been at . least twenty-five years behind the time, - and tho people are beginning to realiaa ? that fact." Some feloa of the l^nense transports tion facilities of the United States can be 4|h gained by the fact that the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia turned out on an average three locomotives per day during last year. These engines are worth $18,000 each, and represent tho output of but one among a flyiAva aL. r\t>Aminnnf etiAna wnrv amoll (7VW1U UWUIUUUUUUV DUUJMj ?? T Vt J OIUOII percentage ^tho machines manufactured going to foreign countries. Large families are at a premium in Quebec, Canada. In that province, chronicles the Chicago Herald, the happy father of a family of twolve living chil. dren is entitled to 100 acres of crown lend and 1009 heads of families last yaar ? wujcj POglM are ai a^dis*4 bid queuci. ' To marry in haste and repent at leisure has been a common fault in most fault in most communities. It is satisfactory to find that it is becoming less common in tCngland. The proof of this, which is found in the registrar-general's annual report, is about the most wolcome piece of news the document contains. There has been a steady rise, it appears, in the average age at which men an^f women take upon themselves the responsibility of contracting matrimony cvor since 1873' A municipal youngster of marvelous growth, thinks the New York Telegram, is Fairhaven in the State of Washington. Its population in the month of September, 1889, was 750. Exactly one year later it had 7000 residents, with handsome hotels, churches, factoH??, railroads, steamships and newspapers. It is situated in the angle where the waters nt the. Gui i ot,Ueorgia and'the Strait of.Juan do Fuca meet and its hustling citizens feel that they are endowed with a "manifest destiny" of very large dimensions. 0^ Says the Now York Press: "On the rear end of a big empty truck that went rumbling up the Bowery the other cold morning there perched a ragged, bright eyed bootblack. lie had his diminutive "kit" under his arm, and as he jolted along he knocked his dangling foet together to keep them from freezing in the frosty air. Also he made disrespectful and unbecoming gestures at his less fortunate fellows who were trudging along the sidewalks or standing shivering on \ the corners. At Grand street there was a Br?w?ry "jarn.'' Teams, wagons and 4 street cars got themselves tangled together with much alacrity and dispatch, while their drivers swore at each othor calmly and delighted small boys volunfcv tecrod shrill advice from the outside. The bootblack's truck was in the midst of the "jam." Another truck pushed up closely in its rear. The end of the pole struck the bootblack savagely in the side and ho fell to tho pavement. They picked him up and took htm to a nearby drug Ktyro. Even as they laid him down again he gasped onco and died. Except * rvrsr-lrnf a wnrA IUT a 1UW 1/UppUl^HUU | .. v.? empty. No one kw^nnything of him, k . and there was absolutely no method of identification. Ho had dropped out ol the city's life as suddenly and with as little stir as a starred sparrow that is hit with a stone and falls into the gutter. Had ho paronts or friends? No ont (knew. Apparently, in this city of a thousand costly churches, no one cared, v The boy had not been so far wrong when, mounted on his truck, ho had crowed over his less fortunate comMdes on foot. For he had ridden strsfeht into a land where there is neither cold nor huuger nor raggodness nor weeping. And thes.ajo with .us. etlll." v k THE POPE DISPLEASED With the Laat Nomination* of Bisl ops In the United States. A cablegram from Rome says: Tl pope baa informed the propaganda thi he is exceedingly displeased with t* last nominations for bishops made h the United States and sent here for th approval of his holiness. This explait the delay in making the appointment) which, according to previous announce ment, were to be made on Thursday February 12th. The pope was to hav held a consistory on that day, when h was to have created two cardinals, Moe signor Piavi, i?**i"rrli nf ilgntnlirsr* . ^III J Ui louse, who have recently been resident of Rome. Upon the same occasion his holinc* was to have appointed some Brasilia and some American bishops. Upon th representation made by some of th American Bishops as to the sad religion condition of the Italian immigrants wh landed in the United States, the propagac da, which is making an exhaustive stud of the question under the pope's ordci has issued a pastoral letter addressed t the Italian bishops upon this subject The letter states that the pope is greatb shocked at learning of the neglect whicl the immigrants are subjected to, and an uounces that his holiness is resolved fc take energetic measures to remedy thi evil. REV. SAM P. JONES' HEALTH He Writes to a Texas Friend Tha He Is Physically Broken Down. A sprecial from Sherman, Tex., says A letter has been received by a prominen Methodist of this city, from Rev. Ran 1*. Jones, the Georgia evangelist. The letter was in reply to an expressioi of approval of Mr. Jones's part in th recent rlinching match in Palestine The writer is very despondent, and as sures his Texas friend that he is now physical wreck, and never hopes to re gain perfect health. The arduous labor of the past few years have brought hit] suddenly face to face with a physics collapse, which he dreads. There is much sympathy expressed fo Mr. Jones here. The South Can Produce Tea. A special from Baltimore, Md.. says: When, under the administrat on of Pros ident Hayes, General Le Due, Commis sioner of Agriculture, made his euthusi astir, expensive, hill? 4aihllwHWHWWI^n!lTlpu^^^or* ?ty/*T ftoc hsTP cared to give this matter any'con sideration. Meanwhile, Owen A. Gillet of the tea house of Martin Gillet & Co. Baltimore, with a valuable experience de rived from a life-loug training in the tei business has been making the subject i study and says that "some sections of tin South can ea-ily become tea producers and there is reason to hope that befon many years ten may become one of its an nualiv profitable crops." Two Prospectively Important Events. The Gouhl-Inmnn combination in tin South puts the strong Kansas City, Mem phis & Birmingham on the defensive and will probably result in a triple alliance which will unite that company, the Ma con lines, including the Macon ?fc Bir minghaui, Macon A Atlantic and Gcorgin Southern, and the Seaboard Air Linesys tern. Should these-arrangements he perfected, they will he of great benefit tr the prospective seaport city of Colleton, S. C. Calvin S. Brice, who has been in th< South with a party 0f capitalists, said flu other day: "We * trportf ?Brunswick and Mobile?and we expect to establish sf stctUueis iroin them to i>orts in Central aud South A morion and Mexico. We are looking over tin South with reference 10 a supply of coa for these lines." This Fellow's Sins Found Him Out Savannah. Ga.. ISuecial.l?Afte twenty years continued swindling, b; which he lias managed to defraud firm: in Georgia and other states of amount aggregating $50,ft0, A. J. Dickson, o Merchon, is now on trial in the IT niter States court for using mails for fraudu lent purposes. According to the test: mony he would send for a small bill o goods and refer to fictitious firms at Met chon, where he served as postmaster When letters of inquiry came, ho wouh answer them, giving himself first-clas business rating. The first bill he wouh f?ay as bait, then he would order anothe ot of goods for which tho money neve Foster Enters Upon His Duties. Washinuton, I). ('., [Special.]?Ser retarv Charles Foster arrived at th Treasury department Thursday mornin and entered upon his duties as secretar of treasury. He received the chiefs e division and spent the day in receivin friends w ho called to extend their con gratulations. Secretary Foster took tli oath of office Wednesday evening t he executive mansion. Ohloans in Georgia. Atlanta, Qa., March l.?The 8ai dusky, Ohio, party, eighty-five stronj in three special sleepers, arrived hereth morning. They arc farmers, fruit grov ers and business men. who will make tour of Georgia for the purpose of tho oughly in vest gating its resources and a< ventages. Tliero ari no ladies in tl party. Does He Know the War's OverP At an eviniii: it i >n of candidal for positions on thi Biooklyn po!i< 1 force, one < f them was rejected becau! j he said that James (J. Blaine was ['res dent of (lie I'nited States, and Grovi Hill. Governor of New York. ^ President Signs Throe Bills. Washington, D. C., [Special.]- Tl ' President has signed the fortincatie 1 ippropriation bill, the army appropri , .ion and the bill to erect a public buih .ng at Kicliuioud, Ky. MARCH A LIVELY Mtfl&H. ?? * V l* Strong Breezes Waft These News Ie Notes To Us. ie From Many Point* in the ProgreaaiTe '? Southland, Interesting We e Are Sure, is ? VIRGINIA. r? Dr. Francis Drake, of Leesburg, died e Wednesday in his ninety-fourth year. A young white man named Arwood waa I hillril hr r - n 1 I ml,.., [? A party of Massachusetts capitalists embracing many meml>ers of the the Legis islaturr of that State .visited Alexandria Fridav. ie Col. A. 8. Buford, President of the te Virginia 8tate Agricultural and Mechani18 cal Society, Thursday appointed Major A. o R? Vcnable as Secretary of the Society, i- and he has accepted the position. J The Farmers' Alliance of Pittsylvania r? county will establish a cigarette factory ? in opposition to the American Tobacco Compauy. .1. M. McLaughlin has received the appointment as postmaster at Lynchburg. 0 A party of men digging on Day street 8 at Roanoke Thursday found a tilm resembling oil on the water. The depth was seven feet. The smell of gas soon became so strong that the men were forced to the surface for fresh air. A lump of dirt from the pool has a greasy ap1 pearance and smells strong of petroleum. This is taken as an evidence of petroleum or natural ga6, or both. t The mortuary report for Norfolk dura ing January is most gratifying, showing only tifty deaths during that period, n Eighteen of Ill's number were over sixty 0 years of age, while two were over ninety, i. The Masons will build a handsome Mai sonic temple in Wythoville this summer, a The building will contain two large store rooms, a town hall and a Masonic s hall. Earnings of the Norfolk and Western for the third week in February, 1891. $157,180; 1890, $145,488; increase, $11.r 508. Three weeks in February, 1801, $450,620; 1800. $428,710; increase, $7,80i. NORTH CAROLINA. Capt. W. Poldam has been unanimously recommend by the Wilmington public as a suitable man X?L_LUlrtwA "tfft: JP '?n> *>f Oorernar Raleigh offers $5,000:for the retention ? of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and Thoraasville 100 acres of land. These places are the only bidders so far. Harriet KcKesson, a colored woman living on John's river whose husband was in the Federal army, drew $1500 back pension last week. A part of this she immediately invested in real estate near Morgnnton. The solicitors' salnry bill has been dofnA^wl ? J-l-1 J 1? naiKi in liic uuginitiiure itnu me mate's attorneys will hereafter be paid as heretofore, by four dollars contributed bjr each person convicted, or by two d^Mnv I by the county in each case where the > four dollars cannot be made out of the convict. The Charlotte Consolidated Construei tion Company has given out the contract for making brick and building a handsome pavilion in their new park, and ? awarded the contract for the power station and entire electrical equipment (or their electrical railroad to the Edtoon* 5 company. . , .. > ...fr.u.?uiir tins at last located the Agricultural and Mocfcan;?.?l College ' al Louisburg, that town having offered 1 $<?,500 in cash and lands stated to be 1 worth $10,000 and the necessary bnild: ings. The college is to remain at bhaw ' University here until the builds- gs at Louisburg are ready for occupancy. SOUTH CAROLINA. The report is verified that Chew ?feCo., of New Yoik, are in treaty to plai e a ^ 1,100.000 mill on the "Island," near the soulliern terminus of the Columbia Canal. 3 r ..f ll.o T! ... I ? I i iviutj "i mv ?JI?UV i iumui a|l|Ml|llirU 1 .Ins. M. Cooper, of Sumter, as assistant agent of public lands. The appointment was confirmed bv the commission, f In the Circuit Court at Clintleston Wednesday an order was signed, appointj ing Ex-Governor I). II. Chamberlain per3 maneut receiver for the Three C's Road, j which will now he operated in connecr tion with the South Carolina ltd!way, of ,j which Gov. I'hnmherlain is also receiver. W. .1. Redding, of Charleston, has purchased the Anderson granite quarries in Fairfield county for $21,610 and will develop them, e The executive committee of the Rtatc g v Teachers' Association, of which Prof. D. R. Johnson is chairman, is now considering the time and place fo. the uextaunual meeting of the Association. ie In the United States court at Chatlosit ton judgment was rendered in favor of P. P. Dickcrson. of New York, for $0,762 against the York township, in York county. The suit was brought to force the payment of the coupons of bonds is, stiea in aid of the Charleston, Cincinatti and Chicago railroad. v. A merchant in Columbia last Friday a found a live cat packed in a crate of r. crockery that ho was opening. The |. crockery was shipped from New Jersey ,e eleveu days previous. Miss Ella Davidson, of Yorkville, has offered herself as a foreign missionary, i>s And she may he sent by her church to Ja e pan at an early day. <c A special from Orocnvillo says: Shcr i- iff Griffith early Tuesday morning caper tured Little Bill Howard, a picturesque mountain character, who escaped jail last November in his wife's clothes. Howard was convicted here last summer of th4 murder of Ren Hoss, in the mountains of ie this county, in February, 1888, ami was >n sentenced to hang. " GEORGIA. 1 The town of Wadley boasts six artesian '.Veils. Two boles of cotfcoa were soli la Bondrrsville test week at 1 coot and }/% cento q per pouod, respectively. But it wee cotton of e very inferior grade. Truck hondlers around Savannah soy a that the crop this year promisee to be unusually fine, hut that it is auoh smaller than last year's crop. Papers in a $1,000 damage suit were a served against |he Central road at Amcri- A cus Wednesday. F. A. Johnson, who wan put off the train at that plact several weeks ago, wanta that amount. The new Merchants' and Farmers' Q| Bank was organized at Quitman Wednes"lifcii an occupant It and there A is n remirmHnro ni aJ ? i?gt? - irr.fr? " v* vuwuuni? t<? l>e the first ten?nt.5S " A Claude Hampton Leach, as next friend of his daughter, Margaret L. Leach, has filed a suit for $15,000 igniast the city of Atlanta on account of injuries received by the child in falling on a pile of acwer piping Y W. F. Hurge, town marshal of Alpharcttn, went to Atlanta last Tuesday and G regained until Saturday. Saturday night the council made a case against him for jg going away and negiMttag his duty with- * out leave, and imposed on him a tine ol $5. Mr.. Rurge then made a case against ' Mr. G. D. Itucker, one o^the council men, for neglect of duty as a member of the committee on streets. He evidently wants T! to even up with them. The high water in the rivers around " Rome has done some damage in the country districts. Sunday morning a sawmill tloatcd down the, Oostiuiaiila and whs caught by two CoVo. ed fishermen. Dur ing tne any a part of tha ginhouse came down, and with it a lot of seed cotton. This wan also rescued by the same men. c] TENNESSEE. u cl The Lookout Mountain Guards, a new ^ military company, was mustered at Chat- , tanooga Saturday night by the election of . officers, J. P. Tyffe, captain; Roster and Bcrryman, lieutenants. * There arc even T 100 members. ^ A bill whs passed by the Legislature Isst week makiug it a felony to burn cot- *1 ton or other agricultural products. r' C. K. James, J. R. Whitman, H. II. * Webster Hnd oUiers haTe chartered the ChattHiioogn, frentucky A Chicago Rail- ' road Co. to bn?!d a railroad from Chatta- ' uooga to Bowling Green, Ky. , The state encampment t>1f\he grand ' army of ^^^^^^c^WHened at John- . V&K :t?j j^^enra^ I rag and with It is leafned thai ?, d. railroad company will trick their ^ system from KnoxvilH^^r Morristowu, . from Knoxville to Cail MBr. and from Ooltewah to Chattanooga^/- Also that an .Ttanoinn ...111 I... iJt- " ? " vowiiuiuu "111 ire miiiv inn rVOgerSVIlIC Junction to Big Stona Hap, Virginia. 11 The extension to Big BtoH Gap will pass through a country rich 4n mineral re- w sources and it will quickly become a rich *' feeder to the system. , fc Citixens and taxpayers of Memphis, ^ says the Appeal-A valanohp, look with open-eyed amazement at Jfbe miserable w street cars going up and down the streets and ask one another when will the relief Jt and assistance promised come. Probably w when the railroad magnates get things h< "fixed" to suit themselves. Not before. rc FLORIDA. st The Early Bird Phosphate Co., at l)uu- ?' ellon, will at once develop phosphate ? mines. , fj t CaiTic laws, says the Jacksonville Times- ? I Union. If the wholesale destruction goc? on n?> st prc&vui, i'uc state will cease to be ra a sportsman's paradiso inside of two I years. m Three years ago II. F. Nuckols purchased the Boykin grove, near Micanony, " of F. O. Sampson for $3,500 Monday c< Mr. Nuckolls sold this grove to Mrs. A. pi F. Miller for $6.0< 0. Duiine the time ci that Mr. Nuckols owned the grove it tc paid expenses and a net profit besides. at O. K. Paxtou, coovieted of conspiracy in the White Springs postoffice case, was ni sentenced at Jacksonville Wednesday to fr pay a line of $1,000 and costs. Amotion $i for a new trial was overruled. The trial Si of the alleged conspirators was postponed. A John O. Matthews, of Citra, has sold 8' his one hundred acre orange grove on je Orange Lake to Charles W. White for 4 $104,000. This is the third large sale of I productive groves on the lake this season, and second in imp^^ Iiase of the James A. g>uv?t>y Colgate, 11 liya ami others. c< q The Kirmess was a splendid success. It was the grandest spectacular production al ever presented in Jacksonville. The 11 (piecn of the Iviimcss was followed by K twenty-four Egyptian ntt ndaolsin white * dresses trimmed with in>I<1 TIiav tatr- bt ried ostrich tips and waved them grace- I fully over the fair queen's head. n OTHER STATES. The Toinbigbee river is on a "tear," * and the whole country for many miles on * each aide of the river is flooded. ' fi Hugh Mnokay is incorporating a $100,- " 000 stock company for the purpose of 1 erecting a tannery at El Paso, Texas. v A Confederate Monument in Chicago. ^ At a special meeting of the committee on cerefnouies of the World's Columbian , Exhibition at Chicago, a grand project ( from the United Confederate Veterans of the United States was considered. The members of that or^atfWfttfon, through f Leo Francis, sav that If is the wish of South that feelings of loyalty be more f firmly established by having a great Con- ] federate reunion in connection with the ( (Irand Army of the Republic at the ded- | icatory exercises. At the same time it is proposed to erect a costly monument j in honor of the 6,000 Confederate dead lying iu Oakwood Cemetery. The idea is favorably received by the committee. II * Z~L < De Fonseca Elected President. , Rio Jan if. no, [Cablegram.!?The clce tion of (feu. Ucndoro Fonseca as 1'reu- 1 dent ?>f the Si :.'es of Brazil took ^ place iu ledei.d congress. lie received i majority of 23 votes, A \ ' ft " J LI FB , \ _ old glow of noon, and gloom of attar night Blank, bitter day* of winter storm am stress, ml bland, bright hour* of rummer blood I nd light ; A voice that speak* range secret* nop may guess, n anxious<|iiet>tioninj{ without reply; win<l that come* and goes?a aotig, a sigh dim. mysterious dusk of ancient trees. That ever stir with wild and wander in, tone \ r laughter, strife, old twins and propheoim Piiiki Irr'h ii' " gtuetied moan, nnrrnti' alismlr <if utmli# **atW Kaf ? n?i?? .... - >?- " J* bird's brief note, high, dear and keen I mossrtgo written in the shifting sands, Cloud forms Jhat drift athwart the twi light gleams, tray waifs, far blown from un imagine lauds; Karon that laugh or leer in fevered dreams outb, flushed with flame of longing ami de sire; aunt age, chill-Angered, crouching bj th Are! it a masque of mingled tears and mirthA shallow scene, a painted puppet-play, ado for the gods who sit above the earth And dose away the years? Ah, who shaL aay? tie fruit grows ripe and falls; men oom< and go; lie end is death and silence?this we know ?Charles L. HiUtrsth, in BsifordL. A PECULIAR CASE. I haven't a bit of patience with the lass of men who are always shaking ieir heads in a solemn way and dt taring that many an innocent man ha een sent to State Prison on circum tantial evidence. Such instanoes hav< eon known, of course, but they &r cry rare, and it is then the fault of thi ccused. I am about to narrate tho par culars of a case which excited wide ire&d interest in 1863, and I ask th< :ader to follow the siiuations closely, ad to see what curious combination! in arise through circumstancos. James Stowe was a merchant in th< lllage of G , Illinois. Ho ha< een there fifteen years. Ha was i hurch member, had no vices, and whil; cconnted rather cioae-fisted, he was sai< > be strictly honest. A year before th I was a boy of Bob's age, and we cam< > be chums. It thos came about that 1 earned the cause of certain welts ant raises on his logs and body. His uncle hile pretending to fool a great interes i his welfare, and while speaking t< im in the kindest manner before others as beating him on tho slightest excuse, id seeking to make"the place so warn >r him that he would run away. Somt ays would have gone, but Bob hadn't io courage to get up and face the world ithout a shilling in his pocket. Ou the afternoon of the 23(1 day ol inc. 1863, as was sworn to in court, ] as in tbo alley back of tho store, and I wwno ** f A>uu 111 iiie store om. I heard him charge Bob with ealing some money, but the boy vigorisly denied it. After tho whipping towo told three different customers that Puhiulcaught IvtiK 'w* brrtppcc lm. I saw Bob about an bo'.tr zfiv, ihc *u:r, auu ne made his denial in such a anncr that I felt sure of his innocence, then advised him to run away, but as ] id no money to give him, and as h< id not a penny of his own, he did not link it best to go. He wanted me t< )me and sharo his bed with him thai ight, as I had often done before, but t ircumstance prevented. Stowe saw ui >gether, and ordered mo away from the ore. At seven o'clock thafr evening a mar imed Chadwick arrived in the village om Chicago to visit a sister. He had 2000 in money with him, and ho asked towo to keep it in his safe over night, t eight o'clock the store was closed and towe went home. At nine o'clock ] ift home to go to the store, calculating ? call Bob up by throwing pebble gainst his window, a signal often mad< efore. As ! passed the alley I saw i tan skulk away. I afterward swore ii Durt that I believed this man to b towo. The sight of him frightened me nd I returned home at once. Nez torning "the mystery" opened with i rand blast of trumpets. Bob Lisle hat isappeared during the night, and th ifc had been robbed of Chadwick' 2000. Investigation heightened tb lyetery. There was blood on Bob's pillow. J rail of blood led from his bedside t> he back door of the store. The saf tad been opened in the regular way,nut itowe claimed that $400 of bis mons; tad gone with Chadwick's. Tho towi ras at once alive, and the villago con tame proven nis eninusuutm huh worn >y arresting two sti angers One soo dentifled himself as an honest mar irbile the other admitted that he was lescrter from the army and a tramp ">n searching him $120 in greenback vas found in one of his pockets. I! leclared that he found this money i ho alley in the rear of Rtowe's atoi .hat morning about daylight, he bavin passed the nfght in a store shed furthi lown the alley. If he expected any or o believe such a thin story as that 1 vas sadly taken book. It was believ >y all that the right man had bee irrestcd, and the constable at once h 'amc the hero of the hour. A Chicng letective, who happened in the tow that samo day, looked tho ground ov< md declared the trrest to be a alick jol There had not only been a robber >ut murder bad been done, and thei was no doubt that both deeds had bet iccompliehed by the same hand. Ever; i>ody turned out to look for Bob Lisle ,, body, ud every epot who* it could htn ben concealed within a radius of thro I miles was carefully examined. It coulc not be found, but thia fact only strength ened the general belief in the deaerter'i guilt. He had, by the by, given hii name aa William Davie, and had vigorouslv and mntlnuallv '-J t>l> I*. nocenoe of any orima whatever. A war I rant bad boon issued, charging him will robbory and murder, and inside of i week be bad been examined and held fc f the higher court, without bail. On the eery day that this oourred i ^ in town, andi heard all about Che mystery, to every body's surprise he declared Davit inno cent, and argued as follows ; "How was the store entered! As th< I. doors and windows were all right, 1 must have been entered by one of th< 4 doors, with a key. How was the safe robbed! By some one who know the i; combinatio* and opened it. Tno boy was upstairs?the safe down stairs. What need to meddle with the boy at s oil!" While the heroic constables and othe n , were digesting the above, the Yankoo was turning things over in his mind and preparing to add; I "What object to kill tbo boy, or avei to arouse him! And, if killed, where !r , the body I Why should the robber have carried it away at all! If Davit is the robber, there must have been blood spots on hit clothing. What did he do with the ? "*l a Where did he get his key to enter! How did he learn the combination of the safe!" . This line of reasoning upset everybody, and it no sooner reached the cars oi I 0to we than he suggested the arrest ol tho Yankee as an accessory. It was nol 1 done, but the latter heard of it and re l" plied: "Investigate Stowe. He knows mor< 6 about this than tho doscrtcr does I" 0 His suggestion turned public attention and suspicion in another direction, and ' I it was not long before some curious ro. suits were forthcoming. I giro out the ' information that I saw him in the alley 1 at about nine o'clock of tho night of th< crime. The Tillage blacksmith then ' came forward and Mid he saw him on the street half an hour later, and thai 1 Stowe dodged past hiui ana did not rc| turn his salutation. The hired girl a * Stowe** house declared that he went rfb a lust before ni&e o'clock and did not re feSSSSSS j leased, Stowe was arrested. Ilia story wru j that he had caught Bob pilfering from I tho money drawer on aevernl occasions, and that on the day of the murder and J robbery he had laid a trap for him and 3 caught him taking $fi. He said ho had a fcoling whew he got home that ho had ' neglected to close thoMfe door, and thai | he had returned to make certain on this j point. After finding that everything t was all right ho had stoppod to put up I some goods left on the counter, and had then returned homo. He denied being , in tbe alley at the hour I thought I saw , him, or of meeting tho blacksmith. A new and more rigorous search was mado for tho body, but no trace of it could bo found. During this time a citi| zen picked up a ten-dollar bill in the ? rear of the atore, and ererybody At once . declared that the deserter must have told r, ths tsuth .Whan- ?"> ' . fuust hare lost his grip on the money, and the wind had scattered some of it. Tho case against Davis was dropped [ when called before the highor court, and , Stowe was put on trial for robbery. ' ? * t. .it 3 1.1 tii- ~a [ IworyDoay now oeucvcu mm guiii; ui y tbo murder of the boy, but as tho body t could not be found this chArge was not k included. Bearch was made high and , low for the money, but it could not he i found. The general idea was that he buried the body somewhere in the vil. lage, and concealed all traces, j Just previous to tho trial Mrs. Btowe | admitted that when her husband cumo I home his coat was covered with dust; he was pale and nervous; one of his fluI gerj was bleeding from a cut, and that I ho sat up for an hour after sho had retired. It was further discovered that E his business affairs had gone wrong, and ? that two creditors were pressing him for 9 payment of debts. AU in all, a pretty 1 good case was made out against him, bul 0 he had a surprise in store for the public. 0 When called upon to plead he answored '' "Not guilty" to the charge of robbery, but desired to plead guilty to the accusa J tion of having murdered the boy. Thii took everybody aback, of course, and w 0 they had no more proofs in the ono cast 8 than in the other, tho charge of robberj 6 was dropped and he was arraigned oi the other. On the stand ho told th< story as follows: "I had discovered that Bob was i " thief, and had punished him severs * times for stealing. I had punished bin ? on this day. When I returned to th< a store in the evening I went up to hii " room to have a talk with him. lie wai impudent, and I struck him a blow ant Q broke his neck. I then carried the bod; '? to the river and flung it in, and the rea a son vou didn't find it was because i ' floated away with the current. I an 8 very sorry. I had no malice and ni e thought of hurting him. I struck th< n blow on the impulse of the moment." 0 When he came to trial a plea of "no V guilty" was, of course, entered, but hi w lawyer made little or no effect, and h ie was pronounoed guilty and got a sentenc ie >f fifteen yean. After it was over pub d lie opinion whipped about.as it generall in does, and every person felt sorry for th s- man. He went to prison, saying that i [O was a just punishment, and it was a yen n and a half before the real climax came sr One morning Bob Lisle walked into tow f>. as cool as you please, and when he ha f, satisfied us that he was no ghost be tol re his story as follows: in On the night of tho murder he ha f- hardly got to bed when he had nost >' bleed. He was down etaire to look fc 8 water when bis omU qum b Ml 8 openod tl? db did rwonl thmoMfJ I He did not no Bob at al>, b?t after - hanging arouhd for apell hftjf tha back door, falling,oat of il aa Hb wwC I In tfrla way ha got, tin dw* Qo.hl<ooet; > and at tha aava tima lot go of,ooa*w Of ' the money. hob featiadl that it raft a ? robbery,and impacting that it waan puti up job to got him aont CbjpriNo, ho do> k torminad to ran away. He took two or > three dollar* left in tha monay dfhwer, bundled up oiaetjjjna ii iatjjaHil wheat a aaoeatag eametrta taliaa away. FOr up* b -f"-^ at a i>w biftiftboak tuoobg oa a I steamboat. One day BO had heard two passenger* talking of the oaae, and when he discovered that he waa oppoaed to have been murdered ha at onoa started r^. a?.-.. i " lUi |NWVU W VIVHI UW UVV WM 1 in State Prison, m you know. When ' told that the boy had returned elite and, 1 well, he was all broken up. When Bob > was taken to the prison hU unole had nothing to sayWell, as a matter of course, steps were taken to secure Stowe's pardon, and il was soon granted. Then canto the question i of trying him for the robbery, but various i delays occurred, and his lawyers ad?l vanced various tochnioal objections, and the caso finally petered out. He disap> I pearod, going to Australia, and It was I two or thrco years later when tho final' | particulars came to light. He had beOia hoarding his cash for three or fbur years, calculating to skip out. Re had robbed j the safe and Imricd ?-! of the criino. lie suspocted that Bob had run away, and therefore accused himself I of the alleged murder to cover up tho othor crime. After he had Skipped, <J leaving his family without a dollar, a !> great many of his dishonest transactions ti caraoto light, and It became plain to . everybody that ho was a rascal In dis? guise. > While I do not deny, m I told you tliai a man mifirplv itinn* Ill* IUU UU13CI, nmv i cent of n certain crime may be sent to I prison as guilty of it, it c?u scarcely hap. j>en if ho is an honest man and abovs i Huspiciou. Hi* conduct must bo against him as an innocent man. Circumstance* i ?such as being seen near the place of i crime, betraying guilt when aocosted, i being unable to make satisfactory anI swers, etc.?go a long ways whore direct proof is lacking, and I think I am safe in I saying that tho man who has bn?a found t ianoceui 01 the crime for which lie wee Buffering is always a consecration. It > brightens und purities. ! It is always our own fcoling that illu| minutes tho objects around us. L No one is useless in this world who I lightens the burdens of it for any one else. Woman possesses in good, as well as . evil, au energy which surpasses that of man. Borne persons have tho iuok of perceiving stupidities only after having committed them. Every sorrow has its limits, and the most violont outbursts cxhflUit most quickly tho fouutaiu of pain. A cynic has written: The hearts of most men are like the grates in inns, where the siflilo of anv vGuiaa is cnc-gh io set it in a blase. ?JHAJUA, to dc aamiroa, to be loved, is in some way the cause of all hsrOlc, selfdenying and sublime actions. Bulwer had said that" when a lie once gets into the world, itis astonishing how. hard it is to get it out. You may beat it about the heed until it ^cemrto have given up the ghost, and then the next tiny meet u on me street as ucnuuj a? ever." Those who are truly married are neither mastors or servants. The idea of obedionce is idlt in the deaire for the happineaa of each. Love Is not a con* vict, to bo detuined-witli bolta and cliaina. Love in the higheat ezpreaaion gf liberty. Love noither commands nor obeys. Selfishness may be said to bo at the root of moat of the sin of this world, but vanity is a form of selfishness that doos an intolersbls Amount of harm, and usually works woe to all wdio come in contact with it, on well as eventually to 1 its possessor, undermining character, til' the wliolo bcingislike tlioso timbers that, I perforated and honoy-combed by decay, ? suddenly one day full in powder.? Ohi* ctvjo {Saturday Herald. ? " s 3 Don't Wear Tight Collars. f A chapter might be written on the ? deleterious effects of tight collars, and ) especially that variety which projectl slnlly beneath the neck, to the manifest * discomfort of the wearer and the amuse' incut of beholders. By compressing the 1 veins they of course interfere with the re. " ' * ?.? luiu/l nn/1 tllAI'AAV * * IVII'JI Ul UlUUU I I V/iii l/iav tivuvi | uuu * promote red uoscs and pimpled faces, 1 agnin<<t which all the cosmetic lotions in 1 the world are of no avail so long as ths y mechanical cause is allowed to remain. Tight collars are even accused?and with t souie show of reason?of causing serious a defects of the visual apparatus, duo to ? heightened blood pressure, arising from b the artificial impediment to the blood flow at the root of the neck. "We should not t bo surprised to liud that those execrable * contrivances were also responsible for e watery eyes, pendant lips and tho general o vncuousuess of expression which usual* ?- lv characterizes the physiognomy of their y wearers.?Hotpital Uautte. o it ir A Queer Block of lee. ' Alexander Loucks, while outting leu n recently, discovered a spider frozen in m d solid block of ice. He ingeniously cut d into the ice, when the spider stepped out and hopped about, The ice was some d seven inches thick and was frozen about I* two weeks ago.?Sam FramUem 2ly? >r amiiur. v I