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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, December 15, 1888. 
Some years ago Richard Hawes, a railroad 
engineer, married a daughter of Col. Pettis, of 
Atlanta, Ga., by whom he had three children. 
Recently he moved to East Lake near Birm¬ 
ingham Ala., where he courted a daughter of 
Col. J. I. Story," of Columbus Miss., falsely 
stating that he had obtained a divorce from 
his first wife. They were married the other 
afternoon at Columbus and started at once 
for Birmingham. The body of one of his 
daughters was taken from East Lake the day 
after the wedding, and last Friday the 
body of his legal wife was found in a small 
lake half a mile from the cottage where they 
had lived. Her head was crushed in by a 
heavy blow with an ax and pieces of iron 
were fastened round her neck. Hawes was 
at once arrested for the double murder and 
put in jail at Birmingham. Last Saturday 
night a large mob advanced to the jail to 
lynch him. Sheriff Smith backed, up by the 
police, swore in 50 additional men to defend 
the place, and begged the mob to retire. On 
their firing into the jail, he ordered his men to 
fire, and three of the mob were instantly 
killed, seven more mortally and 30 seriouslv 
wounded, and a great many more or less in¬ 
jured. Among the killed and wounded are 
some of the most prominent citizens, the 
postmaster being among the former. The 
people are mad at Smith, and five warrents 
for murder have been sworn against him. 
After a short imprisonment he has been re¬ 
leased on giving bonds aggregating $125,000. 
Gov. Seay sent 13 companies of State troops 
to keep order in the city. Hawes was found 
guilty of the double murder by the coroner’s 
jury on Wednesday. Peace is now restored 
and most of the troops have left. The Gover¬ 
nor and the general public everywhere com¬ 
mend the Sheriff’s resolute conduct. 
..The late Mrs. Rebecca E. Robertson, the 
childless widow of Gilbert E. Robiuson. a pay¬ 
master in the U. S. Navy, has left $200,000 
for a summer home near this city for poor 
mothers and their children..Sena¬ 
tor Matt Quay declined most gifts and tokens 
of congratulations over bis campaign manage¬ 
ment of the Republican National Committee, 
but concludes to keep a fine span of horses 
sent by an organization of Republicans in East 
Tennessee.. A constitution has been 
adopted at Indianapolis, Ind,, for an organi¬ 
zation to be composed exclusively of Demo¬ 
cratic ex-soldiers.A stir was aroused 
at Yankton. Dak., over reports of a volcano 
having broken loose in Charles Mix county, 
60 miles from Yankton. It turns out to be a 
geyser, which is throwing hot mud over the 
surrounding prairie. Neighboring settlers 
are somewhat uneasy over the situation. 
.... A substitute for type setting has been suc¬ 
cessfully tried in Boston and is now on exhibi¬ 
tion in this city. The device saves type-set¬ 
ting, justifying, distributing and correcting 
proof and other manifold operations in the 
“composing room.” It is called the “Electric 
Matrix Machine.” It does away altogether 
with type. It works on dry card-board such 
as is now used wet for the matrix of a stereo¬ 
typed plate. It stamps upon this card-board 
a perfect matrix for casting a plate and no 
sooner is the sheet withdrawn from the ma¬ 
chine than the type-metal may be cast into 
it. Thus the operation of stereotyping is 
shortened one-half both in labor and time. 
It is worked by one person somewhat like a 
type-writer; does more work than four fast 
compositors, and machines will soon be let 
out at 10 cents per 1.000 ems. It is expected 
to revolutionize printing, and do away 
with the type sticker’s trade. 
One of the latest presents received by Gen. 
Harrison is a barrel of apples sent by the far- 
mere of Barton County, Mo Each farmer 
contributed one apple, and all varieties are 
represented. The barrel is painted red, white 
and blue. Judge Bacb has rendered 
a decree at Helena, Mont., for $750,000, with 
interest, against the North Montana Cattle 
Company in the foreclosure suit brought by 
the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of 
New York as trustee for the bondholders. 
.The United States has entered suit 
against various corporations and individuals 
of Eureka. Nev., aggregating about $13,000,- 
000, for cutting wood and lumber off unsur¬ 
veyed government land. General 
Master Workman Powderly appeals for 
$1,000,000 to be used in employing lecturers to 
go about instructing Knights of Labor on im¬ 
portant subjects . John Jacob Astor 
has given $i50,000 to erect an additional build¬ 
ing to the New York Cancer Hospital. Mr. 
Astor’s gifts to the institution thus far exceed 
$300,000.Judge Cooley’s decision 
at Chicago that the railroads must stop rate 
cutting under guise of giving commissions <o 
scalpers, will, it is said, cause a loss of mil¬ 
lions of dollars to ticket brokers, and compel 
hundreds of them to go out of business. 
.The Privy Council in England has decid¬ 
ed that the Ontario Government, and not the 
Canadian Government, has jurisdiction over 
certain large tracts of land in dispute north 
of Lake Superior. This decision over¬ 
throws leases granted by the Dominion 
Government valued at $50,000,000. Many 
Americans are losers. 
The “Cherokee Cattle and Live Stock Asso¬ 
ciation” has just "leased the Cherokee Strip 
pasturage in the Indian 1 'Territory for five 
years at $200,000 per_ annum rent., The.Gov- 
ernment has very emphatically informed all 
parties concerned that the Indians have ab¬ 
solutely no right to lease the land. 
“Old Hutch ” is very sick.Mrs. Jay 
Gould, contrary to all expectations, is steadily 
improving.Senator Herst, of Cal¬ 
ifornia, is reported to have paid $85,000 for the 
famous race-horse Ormonde, a Derby winner, 
that has never been beaten in any race. His 
engagements will keep him in England till next 
July. He is a “roarer” but tbe unsoundness 
doesn’t appear to injure him. The owner, the 
Duke of Westminster, would not sell him to an 
Englishman for fear some of his get might 
beat his offsprings already in the Duke’s pos¬ 
session. He is considered the best race-horse 
ever foaled, and is now seven years 
old.. The report of the Com 
missioner of Navigation for the year ended 
June 30, 1888, shows that our merchant 
marine is second only to tha f of Great Britain; 
that our tonnage probably exceeds the aggre¬ 
gate tonnage of Italy, France and Russia, and 
equals that of the whole world, excluding 
a few of the principal countries. The most of 
our tonnage, however, is made up of domestic 
or coastwise vessels, and this domestic ton¬ 
nage is increasing. Our foreign tonnage is 
decreasing; nor is it likely to exhibit 
any considerable increase while the navi¬ 
gation laws shall remain as at present. 
The Rev. Dr. Cyrus F. Knight, of Lancaster, 
Penn., was elected Bishop of Milwaukee, by 
the Episcopal Council in session in this citv, 
Thursday.The coward Iv vV hite Caps 
have beaten several persons in Northwestern 
Ohio.A Southern Immigration Bureau 
has been organized in Montgomery, Ala. 
.The skating season opens gloomily. At 
Ithaca. N. Y., a too venturesome lady teacher 
broke through tbe ice on Thursday. A Cor¬ 
nell student bravely rushed to the rescue. 
Result: two lives lost and several others put 
in jeopardy. A cold wave spread all 
over the country last Thursdav and Friday. 
On Thursday in Northern Minnesota and 
Manitoba the thermometer registed 10 degrees 
below zero; but it did that a month ago in 
Montana. The American Federation 
of Labor, embracing over 600.000 members, is 
in convention at St. Louis. . . 
An English syndicate has just paid $1,650,000 
for the famous Henry Clay cigar factory at 
Havana. Another vigorous rate war 
is making things lively among Western rail¬ 
roads.The bursting of a water main 
flooded the streets of Cleveland, Ohio, Wed¬ 
nesday, doing $50,000 worth of damages 
Old Colorow, the White River Indian Chief, 
died of pneumonia Tuesday last at his camp 
at the mouth of the White River, near the 
Ouray Indian Agency, Col. He was a brave 
Indian and a great thief who hated the 
whites and loved fire-water...The 
Courts lately decided that the instruments of 
the Crescent City and New Orleans Telephone 
companies infringed on the patents of tbe 
Bell Telephone company, and ordered them to 
be banded over to the latter company. This 
was done, and the Bell cremated them all— 
950 telephones—Wednesday.at New Orleans... 
Much sickness is reported among N. Y. State 
prison inmates: 2,600 are now daily locked 
up, having nothing to do because of the bill 
passed last winter forbidding convict labor. 
Under the labor system the New York prisons 
considerably more than paid for them¬ 
selves; under the “ no labor” rule they will cost 
the State considerably over $100,000 this year. 
.Tickets for Harrison’s inaugural ball at 
Washington on March 4 next will b° $5 each 
....The new dynamite-gun cruiser, Vesuvius, 
on her trial trip in the Delaware the other 
day. went at the rate 'of 21 47 knots or 24% 
English miles per hour. This is 1.47 knot 
more than the contract called for. 
The President has extended the Civil Service 
rules to the railway mail service—no going 
back in this matter on account of the results 
of the late election.Axworthy, 
Cleveland’s defaulting treasurer, now in Lon¬ 
don, says he will return $100,000at once to the 
city and in two years pay the balance of his 
indebtedness if prosecution is dropped and he 
is permitted to return to America His whole 
indebtedness is $438,000. He has $100,000 in 
property in Cleveland, and a large interest 
in the Colorado Cattle Company, and is likely 
ere long to be able to pay it up in full. A set¬ 
tlement is probable.The Welland 
Canal was officially closed at midnight last 
Saturday.Lsst Sunday the Chicago 
Anarchists were going to hold several great 
public meetings to ventilate their principles: 
but the whole police force of about 1,500 men 
were held in readiness; meetings of any kind 
were forbidden, and the Anarchists submitted 
quietly. No more Anarchistic “Sunday 
Schools” which have been held in rum-shops 
and at which Anarchism was taught to child¬ 
ren, will be tolerated.There is a 
co-operative colony growing up in California 
at Kaweah, on the river of that name. It holds 
20,000 acres of land, one-third of it timbered 
and the rest fit for fruit-raising and grazing 
purposes. It has about 200 members, includ¬ 
ing farmers and skilled workers at the various 
trades. They are organized in divisions, 
departments, bureaus and sections. The latest 
report of the Treasurer is very favorable, and 
the colony has gone successfully thus far. 
. .The “ Congregation of the Holy Roman and 
Universal Inquisition” at Rome, the Catholic 
Churcbs’ highest tribunal, says that the order 
of the K. of L. may be tolerated for tbe pres¬ 
ent, provided some amendments are made in 
its statutes; but it condemns Henry George- 
ism emphatically_There are forty eight na¬ 
tional societies of women in this country,with 
a direct membership of 500,000 members. The 
largest is the Women’s Christian Temperance 
Union, with a membership of 210,000 Then 
follow the Missionary, the Peace, the Suffrage 
organizations, and philanthropic and educa¬ 
tional societies. Twelve of these national or¬ 
ganizations have joined with the National 
Council, which was formed to unite all the 
women societies of the nation into one great 
and powerful league_Gov. Taylor has signed 
the certificate of election, to Congress, of Mr. 
Evans, Republican, for theyThird"'Congres¬ 
sional District of Tenn., but Secretary of 
State Allison refuses to affix the Seal of the 
State to it. Evans, however, “ will get there 
all the same.”.The strike of the en¬ 
gineers on the Chicago, Burlington and 
Quincy Railroad took place as long ago as 
February ^‘the places of the strikers were 
filled in a short time, and for months the 
business of tbe company has been going for¬ 
ward just as though there had been no inter¬ 
ruption. The unemployed strikers now want 
the strike to be declared “off” and to get on 
the road again; but the company says they 
can’t get on as a body nor individually except 
in competing with others for vacancies .... 
Investigations by Interstate Commerce Com¬ 
missioners Cooley and Morrison prove that tbe 
Western railroads have been guilty of “will¬ 
ful violation of the law and illegal and illegi¬ 
timate means to secure advantages over each 
other.” “The revelations of crookedness are 
simply astounding,” says Judge Cooley, “and 
warrant criminal prosecutions against several 
railroad officials.” The worst feature was 
that every official examined, admitted the 
facts, but said he had to do it because others 
were doing it....... E. L. Harper, vice-presi¬ 
dent of the late Fidelity bank of Cincinnati, 
which he bankrupted, and who was sent to 
the penitentiary, has become suddenly a rav¬ 
ing maniac and was on Thursday removed to 
the prison asylum and locked up. 
. The Senate has confirmed Perry Belmont’s 
nomination as Minister to Spain.Ameri¬ 
can actors are asking Congress to so amend 
the Contract Labor Law as to make it apply 
to the increasing army of foreign actors who 
are ruining their business.The Demo¬ 
crats seem determined to forestall the Repub¬ 
licans by admitting a number of new States 
during the present session of Congress. A 
House Democratic caucus on Thursday resolv- 
to admit Dakota as one or two States as the 
people of the Territory may decide, and also 
to admit Washington, Montana and New 
Mexico. These are to be admitted by 
one bill, and Utah by a separate one, 
at the earliest day practicable. 
A very liberal pension bill has been intro¬ 
duced in the Senate by Senator Hiscock, of 
New York.At present the eight Associate 
Justices of the U. S Supreme Court get $10, 
000 a year and the Chief Justice $10,500. Sen¬ 
ator Farwell, of Illnois, has introduced a bill 
giving the Chief Justice $20,500, and 
each of the Associate Justices $20,000 a 
year.... Both Houses have passed bills for the 
construction of a telescope with a 60-inch ap¬ 
erture in the District of Columbia. This would 
be the largest in existence. Tbe House 
has agreod to a favorable report on the Senate 
bill giving Mrs. Irene Rucker Sheridan, wife 
of Gen. Sheridan, a pension of $3,500 a 
year.The President has nom¬ 
inated Walter L. Bragg, of Ala¬ 
bama, as Interstate Commissioner. 
The Senate Committee on General Laws, 
closed its session, Thursday, the Chairman 
intimating that restrictive legislation would 
be recommended as the result of their investi¬ 
gation on Trusts. Wednesday the House 
passed the bill returning the $20,000,000 of 
direct taxation levied in ’61. The Senate is 
pretty sure to pass it also, as it will reduce the 
surplus; but the President is expected to veto it. 
.A River and Harbor bill asking for 
$12,000,000, has been “perfected.” It was only 
the other day that a bill appropriating 
$20,000,000 for the same purpose was signed. 
How much of this enormous sum re¬ 
mains unexpended?. Senator Blair wants 
Bureaus of Information in sections of 
2,000,000 population, to enable Congress to re¬ 
lieve distress and to answer all sorts of inquir¬ 
ies with regard to the respective districts. 
His proposition is considered one of the craziest 
ever promulgated.The movement 
in favor of chartering the Nicaragua Intero- 
ceanic Canal is growing in Congress. 
Senator Beck, of Kentucky, is so ill that he 
may never return to Congress. 
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A Good Reputation. 
‘ ‘Brown's Bronchial Troches” have been 
before the public many years, and are every, 
where acknowledged to be the best remedy 
for all throat troubles. They quickly relieve 
Coughs, Sore Throat, and Bronchial Affec¬ 
tions. Price, 25 cents. For sale everywhere, 
and only in boxes.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, December, 15,1888. 
The New York State Horticultural Society 
will hold its annual meeting at Rochester, 
beginning Wednesday, Jan. 23, P. C. Rey¬ 
nolds, Secretary.On Jan. 22, the Penn¬ 
sylvania State Board of Agriculture will 
hold at Harrisburg, a convention of the man¬ 
agers of agricultural shows in that State for 
the purpose of discussing the existing regula¬ 
tions and suggesting improvements. Every 
agricultural society and farmers’club in the 
State is entitled to send three delegates—a fine 
opportunity to get rid of gambling, intoxica¬ 
tion and swindling at agricultural fairs: 
isn’t it? .Last Saturday Mr. Fes- 
ner, of Habersham, near Atlanta, Ga., bought 
202% acres of fair land of Major David Cook, 
of Atlanta, for 250 ’possums to be paid in five 
years at the rate of 50 a year, this year in¬ 
cluded. Fesner made a “cash payment” of 
22 ’possums and has to hustle about for 28 
more before January 1. The contract was 
properly drawn up by a good Atlanta lawyer. 
... One of the largest single'butter sales ever 
known took place in New York recently, that 
of the Delaware Valley Creamery, 500 firkins 
and 000 tubs, about 83,000 pounds, bringing 
over $20,000 in cash.A farmer near 
Middletown, Conn., was robbed of $10,000 
which he kept in a tin box in a closet. On 
an average we hear of such robberies once a 
week in different parts of the country. Fre¬ 
quently the people robbed’or tortured to ex¬ 
tract from them confessions as to where their 
hoards are hidden, and sometimes they are 
killed. Is it'prudent to "keep much money in 
isolated country houses? ...Thirty-one States 
and Territories now observe Arbor Day.... 
At Taylorsville. Ill., Tuesday last, Charles W. 
Henderson, veterinary surgeon, was sentenced 
to 28 years in the penitentiary for torturing 
40 horses with sulphuric acid and croton oil 
during the progress of a political meeting 
held there on November 3. The scoundrel 
thought it such a splendid practical joke 
that he couldn’t keep it secret. Now 
he has lots of time for penitentiary re¬ 
pentance, and serves him right too . 
All European wool markets are firm with an 
upward tendency.One night recently 
all tbe flocks of sheep in a territory covering 
60 square miles near Reading, England, be¬ 
came frightened at the same time, broke loose 
from their folds and scattered all over the 
country. There were tens of thousands of the 
scattered sheep, and no satisfactory explana¬ 
tion of their flight has been arrived at. It is 
supposed, though, that some natural phenome¬ 
non brought about this strange result. 
Jay-Eye See is on a fair road to recovery_ 
... .Guy, the fastest trotter of this season, has 
taken the fourth place among flyers, having 
made a record of 2.12. Maud S., Jay-Eye-See 
and St. Julien alone have better marks. 
A movement to prevent the docking of horses’ 
tails is spreading rapidly in New England, 
and is likely to extend all over the country. 
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals is at the head of it.It is re¬ 
ported that there is a considerable reduction 
in the area seeded to wheat this fall. 
Last Thursday a deputation representing the 
Canadian Pork Packers’ Association waited 
on tbe Minister of Customs at Ottawa. They 
want the Government to adopt measures to 
prevent the importation of American adulter¬ 
ated lard, which is at present brought into 
competition with the pure Canadian article. 
They are also seeking to‘have the duty on 
American pork fixed at two cents per pound 
for barrel pork. At present the duty is one 
cent, and the duty on American hams and 
shoulders is two cents. The Minister 
promised to consider the matter. 
Barnum’s well-known educated pig “Jumbo,” 
has been slaughtered at South Framing¬ 
ham. Tbe animal was 3% years old and 
weighed 598 pounds.The total 
product of the Maine corn-canning industry 
for the season is about one third the usual 
amount. There will not be more than 
500,000 cases or 12,000,000 cans... 
Encouragement. 
Napoleon, O., February 19,1888. 
“ My entire family are using the Compound 
Oxj gen more or less, and I consider it to be 
a wonderful remedy for all chronic troubles.” 
Mrs. L L Orwig. 
West Point., N. Y., March 1, 1888. 
“ I shall never let another winter come upon 
me without a home treatment to counteract 
its evil effects. Elizabeth H. Rowan. 
Crafton, Wise Co.. Tex. May 7, 1888. 
“ Iwant to tell you how your Texas asth¬ 
matic is getting along. I am just as well at 
this date as I was when I gave vou my testi¬ 
monial in 1886.” Mrs. Mary Hargrove. 
We publish a brochure of 200 pages, regard¬ 
ing the effect of Compound Oxygen on inva¬ 
lids suffering from consumption, asthma, bron¬ 
chitis, dyspepsia, catarrh, hay fever, headache, 
debility, rheumatism, neuralgia; all chronic 
and nervous disorders. It will be sent, free of 
charge, to any one addressing DRS. Starkey 
& Palen, 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa., or 
331 Montgomery St.,San Francisco, Cal. —Adv. 
Saturday, December 15,1888. 
The Department of Agriculture’s grain 
report, issued this week, says of grain: The 
returns of farm prices to the Department of 
Agriculture emphasize the year’s averages in 
production, notably by the heavy decline in 
corn and large advance in wheat. Oats have 
slightly declined, in sympathy with corn, but 
other small grains have advanced. The aver¬ 
age reduction in value of corn exceeds 20 per 
cent, from 44.4 cents per bushel in 1887 to 34 3 
cents, a difference not greater than the dispar¬ 
ity in the size of the two crops. The reduction 
in the seven corn surplus States is proportion¬ 
ately larger, from an approximate average of 
39 cents last year to 28 cents. These averages 
are: Ohio, 35; Indiana, 31; Illinois, 29; Iowa, 
24; Missouri, 32; Kansas, 26; Nebraska,'22. 
The range in the Eastern States is from 65 to 
75; in New York, 57; Pennsylvania, 51; and 
in the South from 41 in Texas to 64 in South 
Carolina. The advance in wheat from 68 last 
year to 92, is due less to the reduction in home 
product than to foreign deficiency. The aver¬ 
ages of prominent wheat-growing States as 
compared with those of last December, are ad¬ 
vanced as follows: Ohio, 75 to97 cents; Mich¬ 
igan, 74 to 88 cents; Indiana, 72 to 94: Illinois, 
70 to 93; Minnesota. 59 to 90; Iowa, 61 to 85; 
Missouri, 62 to 88; Kansas, 61 to88; Nebraska, 
63 to 83; Dakota, 52 to 91. The average price 
of oats is reduced from 30 cents last year to 28. 
Barley has advanced from 52 to 59 cents. 
Rye from 52 to 59 cents. Buckwheat from 56 
to 63 cents. The decline in potatoes from 68 
to 40 cents, marks the lowest average recent¬ 
ly recorded, while the highest was 90.9 cents 
in 1881, when the product was only 100,000,000 
bushels. _ 
