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ESTABLISHED IX 18< A TALE OF BOODLE. JAY GOULD'S HELP TO BLAINE AND HOW IT GOT LOST. How the Plumed Knight Expected to Buy his Way to the White House-The Money ForthconiingBut Stolen By his Agents. What did John J. O'Brien and Robert .G. McCord do with the $50,000 of Jay Gould's money, which they received lo help elect Elaine president m 1884? Is the question that is now bothering the local republican politicians. Men who are iu a position to know sav that O'Brien and McCord were handed that sum of money,"but there is great doubt about their having used it for the sdccess of the grand old party. There have been many stories told about the $50,000 which Gould contributed to bribe'yoters in tins citynud Col. George Bliss has charg ed that money was nut where it would tfo the most good, and has insinuated that O'Brien has not given an account cf the manner in which the sum was spent and that the result of the election does not show that the money was used to any beneficial extent. The true story of Gould's $50,000, as told by oue acquainted with the facts, is as follows: "John J. O'Brien and his side partner in the business of politics. Bob McCord, went to Stephen B. El kins, and engineered an introduction to Gould. O'Bneu and McCord had a consultation with Gould in the Western Union building on the Saturday preced ' ing the election of 1884. O'Brien told Gould that money was necessary to elect Blaine ; that "the machine in the city had barely enough funds to meet the ' routine expenses of the election ; that if a big sum was not forthcoming Cleve land would poll a heavier vote in New York county than was anticipated. O'Brien also told Gould that if lie could have a good sized pile of greenbacks he would scatter it among the district leaders, who would use it to cut down democratic majorities on the east and west sides of the city, which would more than make up for the losses lo the re publican party fcom the independent and mugwump vdte in the centre of the island. O'Brien also gave Mr. Gould to understand that a deal had beeu made with Tammany hall. Under this agreement Tammany hall was to give Blaine 20,000 votes and in return Grant for mayor was to be run out of the re publican boxes in eight assembly dis tricts. -O'Brien intimated that be and John Kelly had formed the compact. Tammany "hall, however, wanted $25, 000 to be used by the organization to carry the deal into effect. Gould listen ed to, O'Brien and told him lo call on Monday. O'Brien and McCord did not fail, to put ia an appearance.- They-came To a &rtf&ge ?ufl iully prepared to "carry away the boodle. They did not see Mr. Gould this time, but met ins partner, Connor. O'Brien and McCord had $50,000 in bills in the carriage when they drove away from thp Western Union building. They were at once driven to the Me tropolitan hotel, where they hired a room. The money was taken to the room by O'Brien and McCord. After they had remained there together an hour O'Brien left McCord in possession and in charge. O'Brien hurried to police headquarters, where all the district leaders had gathered in his ollicc?the bureau ' of elections?at his request. O'Brien told each one to go to the room at the Metropolitan hotel, where they would find McCord, who would give them their share for their districts. The leaders all knew that there was to be a big sum distributed and most of them knew it came from Gould. The amount distributed at the Metropolitan hotel to the leaders by O'Brien aud McCord did not exceed $30,000. The average was $1,250 a district. Some district got more than others. No one know > to this day what became of the difference between $30,000 and $50,000. O'Brien denies that lie ever received a cent from Gould. One of the republican leaders wishes to know if O'Brien will deny that lie received $50,000 from Connor. After the election the leaders, who had got what O'Brien and McCord chose to give them, began to talk about the distribution. Several of them charged that the entire amount of Gould's boodle had not beeu distributed and they hinted that O'Brien add McCord had not lost anything in acting as bank the day be fore the election. Gould became sus picious of O'Brien and McCord, and gave his opinion that the $50,000 was not properly used. It was. his opinion that if the money had all been used for the purpose for which it was givcu, Blame would have polled a larger vove in the city and would have carried 'the State and been elected. John Kelley heard of the statement O'Brien bail made to Gould about a deal with Tam many hall, aud repudiated it. The elcc tion proved that there was no deal with Tammany hall, and that Gould had a political confidence game played upon him. A few weeks alter the election the republican executive committee held a meeting. Gould's donation of $50,000 to O'Brien and McCord was brought up for discussion. The charge was made that O'Brien and McCord had received that sum from Connor directly, and from Gould indirectly. Wm. II. Town ley was chairman of the meeting, and Police Justice Smith secretary. State ment? were made by several of the dis trict leaders about the sums handed them by O'Brien and McCord at the Metropo?ton hotel the day before the election. It was resolved to request O'Brien t<> appear before the committee to answer certain questions about the distribution of f!.e money. The commit tee held four sessions before O'Brien appeared before them, lie was asked by Police Justice Smith rf he had received any money from Gould and he declined to answer the question. He also de clined to auswer how much money 59. C he did distribute at the Metropolitan hotel, from whence it came and other important questions bearing on the subject. O'Brien said that he received the money in confidence and would not tell the committee any particnlnrs. The sessions of the committee were brought to a close and the investigation into O'Brien's and McCord's stcwart ship of the $50,000 election boodle did not amount to anything "?Xew York Star. MAY Vt/EDS DECEMBER. A Connecticut Man Seventy-llvo Veniu Old Marries a Girl of Fourteen. New London, Conn.. June 20.? Considerable of a' sensation has been -carised by the marriage of Daddy Weeks, aged seventy-five, to Sissy Brown, a fourteen-year-old girl, who is wearing her first long dress. The parents uf the girl allege that they exerted proper care aud showed their affection by re jecting Week's suit two years ago. When the marriage was first heard of. the hoodlums turned out m force and made a great racket with horns and drums. (S^ptain Brown. Sissy's father, was once in command of vessels plying on the Sound, and was the skipper ol the ill-fated steamer City of Xew Lon don when she burnefl aud sunk in the Thames River near Mootville. There was a rumor that Captain Brown was made agreeable to the marriage by a pecuniary consideration and that old Weeks promised Mrs. Brown $100 and a piano to secure her good office's, but had not made payment. Leonard Car roll, the local agent of the Ilamanc So ciety of Connecticut, beard this rumor, and this afternoon he investigated the story. Tic took the sense of the neigh borhood on the matter and then sought the young wife and questioned her uudei oath. She denied that any compulsion had been used aud insisted that Daddy was the man of her choce. She thought he was a kind old man and people said he had property. ''Everything is all light so far," she said, "aud people had better keep their noses out of other people's business." The girl is quite attractive and fairly iulelligcnt for her years. She hardly looks as old as she is. The clergyman who married them is himself an old man and much respect ed in the town. Daddy and Sissy have gone to housekeeping. Effects of No License. A most thoughtful and careful obser ver, a citizen of Oconce County, says 1 that Bickens County certainly, is the be3t example in the United States of the good effects of no license system. He kuew so many men in this county that had quit the use of whi3kcy entirly, since if* sale lind bfteu''faibidden by lajv", and however great may have been che trial to them as individuals, they no doubt rejoiced iD the change. We arc not so well prepered to speak in regard to the other towns in this county, but under the license law, the streets of this town used to echo with profanity from the lips of men who call ed themselves gentlemen; but now if I there is one such, it is said to his credit, that he is heartily ashamed every time he makes the mistake. Those in the country who arc ?tili obliged, from habit, to use a little whisk'., gracefully submit to the incon venience and trouble necessary to pro cure it. for the sake of having snares and pitfalls removed from the youthful and the unwary. Viewed in a social, moral, political or religious light, how infinitely preferable is this, to what we mere wont to endure.?Bickens Sentinel, 10th instant. "The Hermit of the Swamp." Reading, Pa., June 10.?a strange character was found dead in a swamp in this County to-day. His name was John J. Brcsscr, and he had lived the life of a hermit there for a great many years. He was evidently seized with a fit, and, falling into the mud, was smothered to death. Ho was very ec centric in his ways, and frequently re mained hidden in his but for many weeks. He was looked upon as a miser, and upon bis body was found 8840 in gold, currency and notes, and it is be lieved that a great deal more is buried in out-of-the-way places in the swamp where he had made bis home. He re ceived a regular allowance to a consider able amount, but never spent $15 a year on himself. He never shaved nor had his hair cut, aud was an unpleasant ob ject to behold, his hair being several feet long. He lied at the approach of i females, and bad many eccentricities. I lie was also a man of considerable edu cation, but where he came from will j probably never be known, lie was I known all over Eastern Pcunvsylvnnin as the "Hermit of the Swamp." Dead Fish. j Great multitudes ol fish have recently j been found dead in the waters of Shal ; lottc river. Brunswick county. North j Carolina. The river empties into Tubb's ! inlet from the ocean, about thirty miles i southwest of Wilmington. The water i is covered with an oily scum which ex {tends far out into the ocean, and has I been noticed five miles from the beach, j Tins oily scum, which is supposed to j have caused the mortality among the ; fish cannot be accounted for, though some suppose that a vessel with a cargo of oil had foundered in the neighbor j hood. The wind seems to have no effect ; upon the oily water, and the surface is ' as smooth as glass. The dead fish are drilling up on the shore by thousands ! of barrels, and are of all kinds ever seen in the vicinity, except the whale, it is supposed that there are no live fish left in Shallot to river, or within ten miles of its mouth. There is great excitement over the affair, though uo one has ever thought of the probability that there is oil territory in the vicinity, and that an unknown oi! spring lias found its way lo the surface of the ground. )KANGEBTTBG, S. C, TI THE TOKENS HORROR. CAUSE OF SIX DEATHS IN FAMILY OF JOSEPH HARDIN. Dr. W?hlte of Andereon Make? an Exami nation as a Member of the State Board ! of Health?A -Sickening Story of Filth and Neglect?The Neighbors Slmn the Hardlns, Fearing They Had Cholera. Dr. P. A Wilhite, who is a member of the State Board of Health, received a notice last Thursday from the Executive Committee of the .Board, requesting him to go to Pickens County and investigate the cause of the sickness arfd mortality in the family of Mr. Joseph Hardin, a brief account of which appeard jn the Intelligencer last week, copied from the . Columbia Register and Greenville News. Dr. Wilhite left the city Friday atter noon and returned ou Monday. Sever al .rumors in reference to the cause [ of the deaths had been published, and ' with a view of eettiui: the truth of the matter we sought Dr. Wilhite on Tues day and asked him To tell us about the family and the cause of the deaths. The ? following are the main facts of what he related to us: "When I reached Pickens C. H. I procured the services of two citizens and two physicians, one of whom was and had been attending the family, and im mediately proceeded to the bouse of Mr. Hardin, who resides about four miles North of the town. When we reached the house we found a most deplorable state or affairs. Mr. Hardin lay on a bed in one corner of the room, a son about twelve years of age on another bed, Mrs. Hardir u a quilt on the floor, and in two feet ol tier lay the corpse of a \ daughter. This was the sixth death that had occured in the family in a few days' time." The atmosphere of the room was almost intolerable. The ' bed clothing bad been soiled to that de gree that a good portion of it had been thrown out into the yard. "Having heard the rumors about the well beingpoisoned, and that snakes aud , dead dogs had been found in it, I at once proceeded to examine it. ? After no little I trouble, I succeeded in hiring a mau to go down into the well and carelully exam* [ ine it. There was nothing in the well but pure, clear water, and of course this was not the cause of the sickness. "Mr. Uardin attended the United , States Court at Charleston this Spring . as a witness. II* left that city on the [ day of the washouts on the railroads and was delayed at Alston for a day or two. While at Alston he was attacked with I the dysentery, and when he reached home he was prostrated with the disease. Soon after reaching Iiome_ Ids children, eight in imoabor, who were just reCOVeT lug Irom the measles, were, one after anothei, stricken with the disentery un til all were down, one not being able to minister to the wants or comforts of the other. Mrs. Hardin was also prostra ted with the same disease. In this con dition all of them lay m one room, which ? was about 18x20 feet square. There were, only two beds in the room, and of course some of the family had to he on the floor. Three cl the children died in a short time, and this alarmed the neigh bors, who refused to go near the house or assist in relieving the afflicted house hold, as it had been reported through the neighborhood tfjat Mr. Hardin had returned from Charleston afflicted with cholera or some other terrible disease. As soon as the condition of the family reached the ears of the citizens of Pick ens C. H., Mr. Boggs, editor of the ..Sentinel, and a few others visited the i house, and, after doing all they possi bly could C > for the sufferers, made an effort to hire some one to stay with the family and wait on them, but their ef forts were in vain. "Mr. Hardin is a poor, hard-working man, but is honest, upright and respect able. Before I left there, I bad the family moved into an old vacant house which stood near by. The stcuch where the sick lay was intolerable, and I knew that if they remained there not one would survive. All of them were afflic ted with a malignant case of dysentery, and, coming on them Immediately after the measles, made it tenfold worse. My opinion is that the deaths were casued from neglcU, or the want of prop er attention, though, it is possible, that the disease would have proved fatal even under the best treatment." "Had the family had any attention j from a physician, doctor?" j "Ob, yes; Dr. Bramlett. a young phy I sician residing in that section had attend i ed the family, and had used every effort to relievo the sufferers, but could do nothing under the circumstances. . "Have the citizens done nothing to relieve'' family?" "Yes, the citizens of Bickens Court House have gone to work to relieve the sufferings of the family, and will no j doubt do everything possible lor them." Dr. Wilhite is one of onr oldest and I most prominent physicians, and has 1 been practicing medicine for years. He ! says he has never seen or heard of a j faintly so badly afflicted.?From the j Anderson Intelligencer. .June 21. Starvation in Louisiana. Au Alexandria. La.. Special says: : "As reports come in the damage by the j dchmc of last week is growing more and ; more serious throughout the parishes. The people, now begin to sec the ter rible calamity which has visited them, and they shrink at the very thought of it. "To put the matter gently, they have : been almost ruined and many see. star ! vation staring them in the face. At this , time many places in the parish are still ,' luider water. The corn crop is a failure, i Cotton is almost ruined and but little j will be made. The hill people are die greatest sufferers and they are too poor to help themselves. Aid will have to be furnished them." EURSDAY, JULY 1, 1881 m A NATURAL HIGHWAY. Onr Nurrow Gnuge to Go to Ornngcburg. Mekritt's Bridge, S. C, June IC?I would like to have your say-so about a Railroad from Johnston to Orangeburg. Will the Greenville. Ninety-Six and Johnston Narrow Gauge extend the line to Orangeburg? There never was a more perfect natural route tha#'this one for building a Railroad. From Edisto to Johnston, a distance of 16 psr 18 miles, not more than 2 or 3 miles would require grading?the bal ance of the distance nothing to do but bed the road. The 2 or 3 milfs of grad ing'Vwould not be heavv work. The River never gets more than 4'feet out of the banks. From the river to the Ninety-Six dirt-road?7 miles, which could be shortened to G?there would be grading, but not heavy grading. Along the. Ninety-Six; dirt-road for 30 miles there would be little to do but bed the road. Two or three miles would cover all the gradin? along this road to Orangaburg. The Road would run through the best farming country be tween North and South Edistos, and well timbered. I have no doubt the Townships through which it would run, would raise money enough by taxation to grade and timber the Road through theTespective Townships. I Jjave never yet found a man that would not be will ing .to do ids part. I have been a sur veyor for over forty-five years, and know all this country, and I would take pleasure in showing an engineer what the; God of Nature lias done to aid in this work. Tiie Road would help your to'.vn and our County. Please let me hear - from you. If you think there is anything iu this letter that would be of any benefit to you in stirring up the matter you are at liberty to do with it as vou think best. Respectfully, W. E. Sawyer. We thought wc could make no better disposition of our friend's letter than by giving it a place in our columns for the information and consideration of our Railroad men, who are always on the lookout', for new worlds to conquer in that direction. But we would say for! the Informntion of the writer above com munication, who may not be aware of the faet, that the Road to which he al ludes is being extended to Augusta, the survey between that city and Johnston bemg^bout completed, and the grading contracted For and already commenced. Wc believe it was the original intention | of -ihe^rojectors of this line to run from Johnston to Orangeburg, or to some point on? the other branch of the S. C. i Railroad, or to some point on the' coast, I ?but ;.hc latter scheme seemed imprnc t^lM^fe^r w"*-' "P^^?8e*4-*H*^"V~nrtd an I JruI^'aTB -outlet'- ?f?W)me pnp^p^f^r,. poiiit w'ns necessary to the success of 1 the enterprise. If the present survey is built and successfully operated, a3 wc believe it will be, the extension of the fine through Mr. Sawyer's country is only a question of time. And possibly the time is not far distant.?Johnston Monitor. An Unnatural Mother. Newberry, S. C, June 26.?A dead baby was fouud in the well on a tene ment house on Mr. J. P. Pool's place in town this morning. Suspicion rested on Worthy Williams, a negro girl who lived in the neighborhood and was sup posed to have given birth to a child some days ago. The Coroner summoned a jcry aud began the investigation, which ended this afternoon with the verdict that the infant came to its death by drowning, at the hands of Worthy Williams. The woman made a state ment, saying tiiat on last Saturday eve ning, about dark, she gave birth to a child, that the child was dead, and that one Lou Harris took it away in a cigar box, and that was the last she saw of it. Lou was arrested, but discharged. The box was drawn from the same well in which the child was found. Parties have been using water regularly for drinking* and cooking from Ibis well. The woman was committed to jail to await trial at our next Sessions Court. Tom Ochlltrec'.s Opinion of Smalls, The New York Star is guilty of this: ?kIIon. Timothy J. Campbell aud lion. Tom Ochlltree (who. by the way, says he proposes to run the next time for Congress as a Democrat from one of the city districts, instead of from his old district in Texas,) were in a group of j diners at the Carl ton Club last evening. I After Tim had concluded the recital of J his latest experience in Washington lite, , the Congressman from the Eighth turn-1 l cd an inquiring glance upon Tom! ' Ochiltrcc, as he asked in the next breath: "Do you know Smalls, of ; South Carolina?" "Yes," was thej 1 reply. "What sort of a fellow is he. anyway ?" innocently asked Tim. "Oh, j Smalls is worth about S1.S00 on the j block any day," was the answer of | Ochiltrcc. as the two statesmen fell to j over a dish of deviled crabs unmindful of the roars of laughter of the company." A Terrible Fate, Detroit, Minx.. June24.?William Kclaher alias ' Reddy," who killed Officer Convey yesterday while resisting '< arrest, was taken from jail last night by a large crowd of disguised men, escorted to a neighboring grove, hung to the limb j ol a tree and his body riddled with bid-; lets. Sheriff Finncy attempted to de fend his prisoner but was overpowered. ] Kclaher was a gambler, and was known m Miuneappolis where he lived for a1 time as a hard character. 1 *.u i Ifi '.H Kehiike of l'liillilj. Says the New York World: During the Senate debate yesterday in the Filz .lohn Porter case. Senator I'lumb, of Kansas, challenged the integrity and bravery of the entire South. Senator Butler, of South Carolina, pointedly notified him that he was a coward. This . a good deal nearer to scenes of carnage than Plumb ever got before. Ii. PRIC HAUNTED BY HIS DEAD WIFE. The Terrible Hallucination Which Canned the Heath of Edward Hebron. Xew York, June 28.?When on her I deathbed three nioutlis ago Eva Hebron of Bound Brook, X. J., warned her hus band Edwin not to marry again if he valued his peace of mind. Before she passed away Mrs. Hebron obtained her sorrowful husband's solemn promise that he would live and die a widower. The wife died contented and was duly buried. A short time afterward Hebron mar ried again, takiug unto himself a buxom widow of forty Summers. Her name , was Mary Chandlee, and sho was a Ro man Catholic. Hebron immediately renounced his faith in the Methodist Episcopal Church and embraced Catho licism. In many other ways he also en deavored to show his affection for his new wife. But the neighbors remarked that he was restless and seemed unwell. He said himself that he could not sleep. One night he was awakened from an un easy slumber by an alarm of fire. He leaped out of bed, and going to the win dow saw the Episcopal Church in flames. He watched the darting flames for a mo ment, then staggered back with an ex pression of horror. His wife asked what was the matter, but he did not appear to hear her. A strange fascination seemed to hold him. Suddenly he shrank back again, placed his hands before his eves as if to shut out an awful vision, and trembled in every limb. "Sec," he cried, "see, the spirit of my dead wife comes back to haunt me! Ob. Eva, why do you reproach me! 0 God!" he shrieked, "deliver me from this awlul curse! See how she sneers and mutters, 'As you loved me in life, as you cherish my memory, as you value your peace of mind, I charge you never to marry again.' Don't look at me so, Eva. Your eyes will kill me. Forgive me, Eva. Do not scorn me. 0 God, can the dead thus return to the world to tantalize those who have wronged thein? Heavens! She brings an army of ghast ly creatures to end my life. Ten thous and devils! How they jeer and gibe! Merciful God!" The terrified man fell prostrate to the floor with a pitiful moan and fainted. From that night Hebron believed he was a doomed man. His dreams were hideous, his wakeful moments frightful. There always hovered about him, it seemed to his imagination, the haunting spirit of his buried wife. Darkness and daylight were the same; the dismal sha dow was ever present. The man be came a monomaniac. One morning his countenance looked more ghastly than ever, and he told his friends' he' had a. horrible dream. He thought. Eva's Min^ntin I-;- Jiy his" side. The icjga frenzied-him. He leaped from flic bed; but the spectre followed. At length it pinioned him to the wall with one long, bony finger. He thought he felt his life blood ooze from his pierced heart and drip to the lloor. Then he tfiought his departed wife licked up his fast-llowing blood with ghoulish greed. "So," she screamed, "I sup the vital ity of my false husband !" This story convinced Hebron's friends that he was insane, then steps were about to be taken to have him removed to an asylum when one morning last week he was found dead in bed. Xo one dis puted that he died from sheer fright. Iiis neighbors do not believe that?he was insane, but they think that he was over-superstitious. Hebron left a will, recently made, dividing a few thousand dollars' worth of property between his wife and his sister. Mrs. Hebron has decided to contest the will on the ground that her late husband was insane when he made it. WENT TO WHIP AN EDITOR. Thrown Down the Steps and Bounced Out of tlie Building. B?TTE, Mont., June 24.?Yester day afternoon a man named Gco. Miller, of Anaconda, couceiviug himself to be wronged by the publication in the Daily Miner of letters from that place con cerning his daughter, who eloped and was married here by a minister, with six-shooter accompaniment, went iuto the Miner office and asked to see the editor, C. S. Ziegenfuss, in private. At the head of the stairs Miller pulled his pistol and, saying: "I'll fix you here," shot at Ziegcnluss. who threw up his arm at the moment, and the bullet en tered the wall over his shoulder. The two clinched, and Ziegcnfuss threw his would-be murderer down stairs, lulling on I top of him and almost crushing the life I out of the Anaconda man. Miller was : hustled out of the ollicc and arrested, but Ziegcnfuss will not prosecute. Wholesale Poisoning. B+iilabei.phi A.Junc 23.?A special dispatch says: "Exactly 214 people were poisoned at last Thursday's picnic, near Flcminglon. X. J. Six of these persons will probably die and twenty are in a precarious condition. It is now { believed that the ice cream plentifully ! supplied and freely eaten caused the trouble. Whether the inside of the cream freezers was lined with sulphate of zinc, or whether arsenic was put in (lie cream purposely, still puzzles the doctors. One of the doctors has been doing some amateur detective work. In I his capacity as physician he gives the opinion that the poisonous substance , was arsenic, and as a detective he ex presses ' " belief that it was put in the cream b, some murderously inclined y >n. Many persons who ate of the ti, m when first made suffered no in convenience, while, all who ate alter the rrcc/ers had been opened a short time are sick. The victims dispersed to their homes, and it was several hours bdorc any of them came under medical treat ment. They are widely scattered over a district partly village aud partly farpii ilig." E 61.50 PER AXETTM. WAKING UP THE FARMERS. THE WORK OF THE LATE CONVEN TION ONLY TENTATIVE. An Interesting Letter from the Chair man of the Committee on Organiza tion?What i.t Deaired and Recom mended. / Wc clip the following letter from the News and Couirer: .As chairman of the committee on organization of the late Farmers" Convention I am in receipt of a number of letters in reference to the future conduct of said organization, and as another member of the committee is in receipt of similar inquiries, I ask space in your columns lor a short open letter of answer and explanation, and it is due both to the parties writing to me and to myself to say that my delay in answering was caused by severe per sonal affliction. The committee on organization is not now charged with the duty of aiding in the formation of clubs and county asso ciations; the president of the .conven tion appointed one man In each county to aid in this work. It is expected that the official statement of the i 'tventiou's doings will be published in the June bulletin of the department of agriculture by reference to which it will be seen, ' who was appointed to the discharge of that duty. The organization is not "launched for the campaign" nor is it expected "that it will die out after the election." The purpose of the convention'was to per petuate the organization. It arranged to form a State association next Novem ber, which it Is hoped will be permanent. The representation from the counties to the Stale association next November is to be on the basis of representation in the General Assembly, and may be elected by a county mass meeting. But surely it is not necessary to argue the advantages of organizing. Let there be a club in every township or community, and an association in every county in the Stale; let there be a general discussion of the convention's recommendations and the farmers' interests, and all good men may dismiss their fears, for before the November, meeting of the State as sociation they will have reached safe conclusions as to the importance of adop ting them or the necessity of rejecting them. It could scarcely be expected that so large a body as the late Farmers' Con vention, in attempting so much, in so short a time, should fail to make mis- A takes. Thq recommendations of the^| convention ?rVfepbmiited to the consid^H eration of the..'Farmers of the Stafcjfl Let them organize, pass upon them anH render. iheir'% erdict ^t the asso'eiatfiJ^M next .November. ? mm'mmm ' ,mnr^ the convention's recommendations is not sutlicient reason why he should not identify himself with the movement un less he thinks the organization of the farmers is sufficiently dangerous, on general principles, to justify its being throttled. I submit that the better way would be to join the movement and aid in shaping the policy. E. T. stackiiousk Little Kock, S. (J., June 19, 1S86. Murder and Suicide. Baltimore, June 2C.?This morning Mrs. Ella Forsythe. who is employed in a printing office at 18 North street, went to her work a3 usual, and when she was ascending the stairs her husband, George ?. Forsythe, ran to the floor and fired two shots from a pistol at her. As soon as she fell her husband turned the weapon against himself aud fired once, the ball passing through his heart and killing him instantly. Mrs. Forsythe is dangerously wounded. She is re presented as a very industrious woman, and was working for the support of her self and child, the father haying failed to provide for them. He lias kept a low groggcry since he abandoned his family. Forsythe was 21 years old and his wife 20. They had been married two years. lie had expressed Ids de termination to kill both her and him self, and was accompanied by one of his friends this morning on his mission of death. Frank Van Sant was arrested to-day as an accessory to the shooting of Mrs. Forsythe. The party from whom the pistol was bought this morn ing recognized Vau Saut as the party with Forsythe when the purchase was made. _ The Diet Too Thin. j Some eight years ago a community was started at North Anaheim, the I leading tenets of which were to hold all j property in common and to confine their j diet to fruit, vegetables and grains in , their raw state. The experiment has ' been conducted with the utmost zeal i and good faith, but whatever may be j the financial result, concerning which we have no data, it has proved a gas '. tronomie disaster. The Los Angeles . Hera hi says that one after another lias 1 left the society by resignation or starva I tion, unlil only a few arc left hanging on the verge of life. The. end of the experiment is now not far oil". The spiritual adviser of the society, Walter Lockwood, is staled to he so nearly starved to death that he is too weak to ; leave his bed. and Mrs. Ilinde, the wife [of the founder of the community, is in the last stages of inanition for want of nourishment. Kept Muh t Until M" Harried Another. Louisville. Juue- 27.?Reason Stamper ami Mrs. llallie Dinkms were married last night at Ashland, Kv. While the couple were being congratu lated. Frances Files rushed in and al temptcd to shoot the bridegroom, lie look the pKtol away and the woman j was arrested. Miss Piles said Stamper had promised to marry her and deserted . her. She charges him with having kill j ed Charles Black, two years ago, and I says that she washed the murderer's i bloody shirt soon after the killing.