Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1894 — Page 10

LOOK OUT ’ — H FOR YOUR b J OWN WELFARE <xJ. NIBLICK & SON/ 1 —AND SEE THE—- > ■ They have in store for you. Read these prices and be convinced, Good quality plain and figure Satteens ; 111 CARPET ' 33(1 CURTAINS at 10c. per yard, former price izc. i Good grade Ginghams Cc. per yard. | ©henelle Draperies at 82.50, $3.50, and Heavy Trilled Cmk Se. per yard. g» ** Heavy Trilled Colonial Serges for I (jurtains from 45 cts. to 85.00 per Shirtings at Bc. per yard. | j r Tela Vela Duck Suitings, extra width,; window Shades, with best Spring at 12L>c. per yard. i Rollers and Fringed, at 25c. a piece. Knock about Suitings for Boys Waists, ' Ladies’ Spring Capes and Jackets at a extra heavy, at 12' s c. per yard. j big reduction. Ask to see them. To all those who are in need of Carpets should not fail to see our line as we carry the largest stock in the county at the very lowest prices. JESSE NIBLICK & SON.

hotice of Meeting of travel Road • Viewers. Notice is hereby iriveii that at the June 1894, te. tu nt the beard of counaisMoners ol Adams county, liiili mi. Miirtrti Lauirblin. L. 11 . Lewt-nan'i Geo. 11. Martz, were appointed viewers ami John W. Tyndaii, engineer to view the location of ft propose i gravel road on the following route to twit: Comm- ncujg at a point about thirteen (13) rods wee-t ot the northwest quarter ot section two <2l m township twenty five (25) north, range fourteen (141 east In, Adams county tn the State ot Indiana, at the east end of the gravel road now on the township line, road running east and west between the townships of Monroe-and Wabash, and running from thence east on the township public highway, running east and west between the townships of Monroe, Wabash, Blue Creek and Jefferson townships in said county anti state aforesaid to the siate line ro--d on the state line running north ami south tietween the states of Onto and Indiana and there to terminate: and that the sa :ie be graveled to such depth and width as in your ju gement may seem best. Said viewers and engineer shall meet at the i bank of U.-rne ni Berne. Ind. on Tuesday, July 17, 1894. and then pioceyd to examine and | view said road as in their opinion pub.ic convenience and utility require. In witness whereof. 1 have hereunto set mv hand and affixed the sextet the Commissioners court al Decatur, this 19ib day of June. 1894 iv. H. 11. France, Auditor Adams County. Notice to Non Residents. The State ot Indiana. Adams county, ss. In the Adams tire dt Court, August term, 1894. The Farmers and Mer-1 chants Bank, a cor- ; . poratioa 1 vs. I No. 17(4. Charles P. Beston, ! Suit on notes, and to Ora Beston. his wife, | set aside fraudulent Katie Rhoads. Shanon | conveyance of real Rhoads, her husband. J estate. It appearing from affidavit, tiled in the above entitled cause, that Charles P.Beston and Ora Beston.hiswifeoi theabovenamed defendants are u-m-resideats of the State ot tndinna Notices therefore hereby given the sain Charles P.BestonandOra Beston,his wife,that they be and appear before the Hon. Judge of the Adams Circuit Court, on the I4th day of August, 1894. the same being the 2nd Juridical day of the text regular term thereof, to be hoiden at the Court House in the City of Decatur, commencing on Monday the 13th day of August, A. D 1894, and plead hv answer or demur to said complaint, or the lame will be heard and determinedin their absence. Witness, my name, and the seal of said court hereto affixed, this 2Cth day of June, A. D. 1894. John H. Lenhart. Clerk. By E. Burt Lenhart, Deputy. France & Merrj man. Atty's for plttt. 14-3 Notice to Teachers. Notice is hereby given that there will be a public examination of teachers at the office of the County Superintendent, in Decatur, Indiana, on the last Saturday of each month. Applicants for license must “present the proper trustee’s certificate or other evidence Os good moral character;” and. to be successful must pass a good examination in orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, English grammar, physiology, history of the United States, science of education and also answer a list of questions based on some standard work in literature. For March .and April, 1894, the list will be based on "Tbc American Commonwealth”—D. C. Heath—edition. For the six months beginning with the May examination, Shaksepeare’s Julius Caesar will be the basis for questions on literary work. Examinations lor primary license will be held on the last Sat urdays of March, April and May, respectively. Examinations will begin -promptly at 8:30 a m. No license will be granted to applicants under seventeen years of age. J. F. Snow, Co. Supt. sneriff’s Sale* The State of Indiana, Adams County, ss: . In the Adams Circuit Court, of Adams Coah ty, Indiana. —- The Debatur National 1 Bank, a corporation, | vs. ) No. 46821. Cornelius T. Dorwin, | Maggie J. Dorwin, etal. J By virtue es an order of sale to me directed by the Clerk of the Adams Circuit Court of said County and State, I have levied upon the real estate hereinafter mentioned and will ( tpose for sale at public auction at the east door of the Court House in the city of Decatu. Adams County, Indiana, between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and 4 o’clock p. m., on Monday, July 30, 1894, The rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following described real estate, situated in Adams County, Indiana, to-wit: In-lot number three hundred and fortyeight (348), In the City of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, except therefrom that part of said in-lot now owned by Elizabeth McGonagle, and the heirs at law of Joseph McGonagle, deceased: also the undivided onehalf part of the north twenty-two feet. of. inlot number sixty-seven (67). in the Citv of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana. And on failure to realize therefrom the full amount of judgment. Interest thereon and costs. I will at the same time and In the same manner aforesaid, offer tor sale the fee simple of the above described premises. Taken as the property of Cornelius T Dorwin, to satisfy said order of sale this sth day of July, 1894. Samuel Doak, Sheriff. 16-3 By Daniel N. Erwin, Deputy. APDomtment of Administrator. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed administrator of the estate of Margaret J. Bollman, late of State of Kansas, U.S. A., deceased. The estate is probably solvent. Clark J. Lutz, Administrator. Peterson & Lutz, Atty’s July 3,1894. 16-3

NOTICE. I Tin lion. Board of County Commissioners of Adams county. Indiana, will iniei ar the Court House on the Brh dny ot August. 1’94. io sell the construction of abuttuicnts tor a bridge ever the w abash river in 'Hartford town.-h p, and one in Piehle township. Bids will be leceivod i-y the Aud.tor up toi o'clock p. m.. of said - ay. Said plans mid stwifieutious can be seen at the County Surveyor's office. 16-:; W. H. 11. France. Auditor. NOTICE. The Board of K view of Adams county Indiana, will meet in regular session iu the commissioner’s room in the Court house on Monday the 9th day of July 1894, to transact such business as may come before said ooard. W. H. 11. France Auditor. SSiS . Heinous Crime Perpetrated Upon an Old Man In Ohio. HIS FEET TERRIBLY BURNED. Finally Forced to Give Up the Hiding Place of His Money, Which Was Only 850—Gagged and Left to His Fate—Another Member of the Dalton Gang Meets a Violent Death—Other Crimes. Middletown, 0., July country between this city and Le Sourdsville, a little town six miles south of here, is terribly excited over a crime_committed near the latter place which is likely to end in the death of Fred Snyder, an old and respected citizen. For years Snyder has lived alone in a comfortable home near the bank of the Miami and Erie canal. His children are all married and his wife is dead. JTe is somewhat eccentric about money matters, and for years it has been generally believed that the old man had fabulous sums concealed about his house. Broke the Door Down. He was aroused from his sleep by the noise of heavy pounding on his door. He called out to know what the matter was, and in reply heard a gruff demand for him to open the door. He attempted to parley with the voice on the outside, but to no avail, for the battering against the door continued with increased violence. Before Snyder could collect his senses and determine upon a course of action. the door gave way and three masked men sprang into the room, and soon had him at their mercy, which was pitiless. They demanded to know where he kept his money. He insisted that he had no cash about the place, but this the robbers refused to believe. They knocked him down and beat him unmercifully. Tortured With Lighted Candles. Being asked again to reveal the hiding place of his wealth, and meetting with a refusal, the villians gagged the old man and applied lighted candles to his bare feet. The agony of the sufferer was almost beyond endurance, and after suffering the torture until he felt his senses leaving him, Snyder signified by signs a willingness to talk. The gag was removed and the murderous thieves were told that all the money he possessed was in the drawer of an old dresser in the next room. This they quickly ransacked, securing but §SO. Going back into the room where the old man lay they tied him to the bed, gagged him again and left him to his fate. He was discovered by a neighbor in an unconscious condition. His injuries are likely to prove fatal. ONE MORE KILLED. • Friend of the Notorious BUI Dalton Die. With His Boots On. El Reno, O. T., July s.—“ Lit” Dalton, the surviving brother of the notorious Bill Dalton, with a Mexican, rode ♦into the city, tied their horses and entered a saloon. The Mexican emerged from the saloon and was mounting his horse when an officer approached him and commanded him to turn over his 6shooter, which order he resented by shooting at the officer. A fierce running fight ensued in which the Mexican was shot four times in the head and through the body and his horse was killed. He soon died. He was a frontier outlaw and desperate character. Dalton took no part in the affair.

WRITES IN A TRANCE. The Singular Case of a Kansas City Woman Who Is a Christian Scientist. The medical profession is much interested in the singular case of Mrs. Edith Morford, the wife of George Morford, a grain speculator who lives at 1208 I North,Twelfth street. Mrs. Morford [ went into a trunce Thursday evening, 11 and all efforts tonrouse her have failed. I Mrs. Morford has been studying Chris- ; tian science for about a year, and this mental exercise, the doctors say, probably produced a peculiar nervous condi- ) tion. Thursday evening Mrs. Morford, who had been at home nil day with her sister, Miss Bertha Erwin, went to hex room and retired. Her husband returned home about 10 o'clock. He attempted to awaken Mrs. Morford and failed, called in Dr. Richards and Dr. Martin, who remained all night working with the woman, who, while apparently sleeping like a child, could not bo aroused. All day yesterday, last night and today she has rcmainefd in the same condition. J The most peculiar feature of Mrs. Morford’s case is that she occasionally I ' rises from her bed and walks about the * house while in her prolonged sleep. Yesterday afternoon she went to the table and ate a fewjnorsels of food and , then drew a glass of water. -No heed ’ I was paid by her to members of t lie fain - | ily, and not a word has passed her lips. Last night Mrs. Morford and after arranging her hair attired hcfcself in a black dress and went to the parlor. She seated herself at hi r writing table, with a Bible open before her, and began writing, and. though her eyes remained < closed, the lines she penned were as ■ straight and the words as correctly formed as though written.by a good penman with both eyes open. , Dr. Richards and Dr. Martin are among the eldest practitioners in the : city, and the y assert that this is the . most singular pase of its nature that. . . has ever been brought to their notictl. 1 1 They express the belief that tho woman will soon come out of her trance or nrjlongetl sleep and do not think any harm . will come of it.—Kansas City Dispatch. PARDON CAME TOO LATE. A Young Woman Secures a Convict’s Release Only to See Him Die. An incident pathetic in the extreme and of interest in St. Louis because c.f the popularity of the heroine in that city has just come to light. Two years ago Sam J. Taylor, a prominent farmer near this city, became emljroiled in a quarrel with a neighbor. The fellow struck him, and in the heat of -passion Taylor drew his pistol and badly wounded bis assailant. Au overzealous jury convicted him and sent him to tho penitentiary for three years- During his confinement all of Taylor’s family died save a sister, who has been untiring in her efforts to secure his pardon. She has been unsuccessful, however. Taylor lost hope and fcr the past three months had been dying of a broken heart Last week Miss Clara Fowler,,a Kentucky belle of national fame, visited the penitentiary and in the course! of travel through the prison saw and became interested in Taylor. She proipisod Taylor when she left that she would secure his pardon. Miss Fowler at once set to work, and after securing the data covering Taylor’s trial and conviction called 1 on Governor Brown, and the result of her visit was that she secured Taylor’s > pardon. Immediately after leaving the chief executive she went to the prison . hospital, to which Taylor had been removed, and delivered the pardon. When the aged convict saw the paper which meant his restoration to liberty, his. eyes were turned to Miss Fowler with a look of ineffable gratitude, and suddenly he gave a gasp and expired. Taylor’s . only sister was notified, and he was. given a decent burial through money raised by Miss Fowler.—Lexington (Ky.) Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ' Not Verified. “Will—you,” he said timidly,“will . —you have some ice cream?” , “No,..thank you,” replied the young ; woman. “I very seldom eat it. ” ' He looked surprised. “Do you mind getting engaged to me? , I know that you have been engaged to several other young men this summer, / but that doesn’t count. ” “I was never engaged in my life,” she replied. : A slight pallor came over his facftT * “Pardo® me, but do you know that your hat is not on exactly straight?” “Isn’t it? Oh, well, I can fix it when I get homel” He looked at her with a ghastly stare. ‘ ‘Great Scott!’ ’he exclaimed, ‘‘have I 1 read the comic weeklies all these years 1 fordiothing?” 5 And he sankQto the pavement and ’ moaned. —Washington Star. J Vice President Stevenson. 1 Adlai Stevenson is working his presi- ’ dential boom to its utmost capacity. It j is noted that strangers go into his room 3 behind the senate chamber, perhaps a , little nervous at the prospect of meet- ) iug a vice president of the United States, I possibly the first they have ever seen, J and they come away so delighted with the man the/ have met that they have j almost forgotten that he is the vice president. He never fails to thank a stranger for honoring him with a call nor the friend who brings him for giv- , ing him the privilege of seeing him. — Chicago Tribune. Praised For a Kick. * Nothing so stirs up the indignation of the average adult as to see a little j child abused by a grown person, yet when Fireman Nelson kicked a 2-year-j old boy in Elkton, Md., a day or two _ ago, so hard that the mark of his boot j remained on the child’s forehead for ; hours he was praised by all who saw it i and warmly thanked by the little one’s 1 parents. Nelson was standing on the ’ 1 pilot of a swiftly moving locomotive r when he kicked the boy, and his kick c the child off the track and saved jHplifa —WhmhangSL

; — .. A-BEAUTIFUL HORSE THIEF. / She Is Muy Colvin, nu Omrk Girl of 18, fkixl as Pretty as a Picture. The female department of the penttentiary undoubtedly furnishes the most depraved tpyos of humanity. Primarily the partiality of courts and juries for women characterises every judical system of civilization, and so it must boa depraved and dangerous woman indeed whom a jury of Americans will sentence to penal servitude. Decidedly the most unique personality of the female population of the prison is May Col Vin. May is only 18 years old and is a rustic beauty. Dress her in the gorgeous paraphernalia of Lillian Russel land she would be a more brilliant beauty than that stage celebrity. She has great blue eyes and a mass of touseled blond hair of Titian tint. Her form is luscious —well rounded and plump—and her cheeks are red with tho vigorous life of the Ozarks, whence she came. Her mouth is one that an impressionable artist would go wild over, with its cherry red lips of sensuous curves, the whole forming the most perfect Cupid’s bow." And, withal, May is a her o thief and doesn’t deny it. Certainly the confinement in the penitentiary has brought out her native beauty, that must have been blurred or obscured by her exposure to all sorts of rough weatlirr while fleeing over the plains and mountains of the southwest from tho officers or else no jury could have ever been induced to give her n term in prison, especially for so common and plebeian an offense as stealing horses. But May is not only a horse thief, but a jail breaker as well by her own confession. Her in breaking from tho ‘ jail at Girard, Kan., where she- was ! confined abort two ye.irs ago for horse : stealing, her escape to Jasper county, : Mo., and her subsequent capture there and prosecution on an old charge will ; ho recalled by the readers of neyspa--1 pers. “Well, I have no hard luck story to tell,” was the way May greeted The Ri'pnllie representative. “They made no mistake in my case. Nearly everybody else in here is innocent, according to their own statement, but I’m not. I’m here for horse stealing. “When I heard you were hero and wanted t'o’sce me, I thought you were an officer from Girard, Kan., and wanted to take me back there for breaking out of jail. I’m glad you are not, but I guess they’ll come ii< me as soon as my term is out here, which will be in about 14 months if I behave myself. I’ve been a pretty ??oocl girl since I’ve been here. The reason for it, I guess, is that I haven’t had a chance to be bad. However, I’ve so managed to break the rules as to be put iu the' dark room two or three times. But I’m going to behave myself from now on so I can get the benefit of rhe three-fourths rule. “I don’t know why I’ve turned out so bad unless it is lhat it was just born in me. My mother is a good woman, only 35 years old now, a member of the Methodist church and- has been married three times. She raised me right, and my father, who is a dentist, was always kind and indulgent to me. I went to the public schools in Webb City until I was 16, and then the devilment began to crop out in me. I don’t know, why either. “Nobody ever taught me any wrong. I’m not like other women, either, in blaming my downfall on any man. ” — St. Louis Republic. A CHINESE PUZZLE. What Will the Treasury Department Do With the 3,000 Unregistered Orientals? A question that is causing the treasury department considerable bother just now is what to do with unregistered Chinamen. According to the official report made by Commissioner Miller, 107,000 had complied with the extended Geary law and registered. Official esti mates place the number of Chinese in this country at 110,000, so that it would appear that there are now in the United States 8,000 unregistered Chinese, every one of whom, according to the law, must be sent out of the country. There is no money appropriated for the purpose, and as it costs fully $75 per head to send Chinamen back to China from the United States the aggregate amount required for the purpose will be quite large. In the meantime, under circular instructions sent out by the treasury, any citizen can appear before a United States commissioner and make complaint against an unregistered Chinaman, and United States marshals and customs officers are by law directed to do so. Secretary Carlisle and Attorney General Olney have the vexed question under consideration and will probably make some official announcement on the subject shortly.—Washington Post. A Mezsenger Boy’s Scheme. A discharged messenger boy in Cleveland did a land office business by writing telegrams and addressing them “collect” to well known guests at hotels. The clerks would receive them and pay charges, but exposure has come. A theatrical manager received a message reading: “Why did you not answer my last telegram? Mother and the rest of us are all well.” For this he 46 cents. Another man, a bachelo< paid 89 cents for a message reading: “Baby has cut a new tooth and is doing well. Mary. ” The Western Union company has refunded a number of these payments and is investigating the case.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. English Army Sheets. A resolution was recently introduced In the house of commons of the British parliament by Mr. Hanbury to provide each private soldier with a pair of clean sheets fornightly instead of monthly. To this Mr. Campbell-Bannerman seriously protested upon the ground that It would involve an increased expenditure of £IO,OOO a year. He thought that the money might be spent to the greater advantage and comfort of the aoldier in other ways.

FIFTY 0. F FOR CASH. Application of tho Cheap John l*rlnclpl« In n „ I a Chicago I’ollcv Court. “Well, if you want to pay the fine, it will "bo ?5. If you don’t want to pay, it will be $lO. Now, which will you have?" ' ' . This is tho way in which justice is dispensed in the Desplaines street police court. A dicker is made, if possible, witli tho prisoner iu the dock, much on the same principle as goods are sold on the bargain counter of a Cheap John store. Last night Thomas Gibbons, a teamster, bought a chicken sandwich from a peddler at the corner of Dosplaines and Meridian streets, and after eating the Same refused to pay for it. Officer Ullmaebor felt called upon to arrest i him, and lio was arraigned before Justice Doyle in the Dosplaines street court I this morning. After telling>all tho de- i tails of tho transaction the officer saij: 1 “And when he was searched ut tho station ho had two $5 bills, your hone:-. ” , At this remark Justice Doyle bright- ; ened up, and grasping his pen said: > “Is that so? Did you have $10?” • i Gibbous pleaded guilty to the charge ( of having an unusual amount of mon- .[ ey for a Dosplaines street prisoner, and the court continued: “Well, I’ll make it $5 if you want to pay, but if not the fine wiil bo $lO. | Which will you have?” “If I have been guilty of any wrongdoing, 1 am willing, to pay, but”— — “Thatwill de. Takess, Mr. Clerk.” “But I don’t think 1 am guilty, and I don’t propose to pay a fine," remarked the prisoner “Oh, very well,” said Justito Doyle. “You can make it $lO, Ah’. Clerk. Take him down stairs,’’ and tho prisoner was l“d away to awr.it the arrival of tho bridewell bus. —Chicago Dispatch. AN EXPERT SWINDLER. A V.’oui.'n V.’ith n Remarkable I’.ceord Just Sent to I'rlfton In Uiglantl. Mrs. Annie Front, alias Mrs. Gordon Bailis, who was sentenced to prison in London the other day on a charge of fraud, has haik an extraordinary career as an adventuress. She is described as a woman of very pfepossessing appearance, having a good figure, pretty eyes and a pule complexion, although she is now past 40. She victimized people all over tho continent, tn Scotland, Australia mid New Zealand. She has assumed, at one time and another, over 40 different names. Her system usually consisted in renting some large house, living in an extravagant and lavish fashion and posuig as a woman of largo wealth and distinguished family. She would, while in Scotland, speak cf her immense possessions iu Australia. After becoming fixed iu a new place and her credit established she would proceed to run up bills, borrow money and get possession of everything of value possible. The place would become too hot to hold her, and ®ho wculd disappear aud seek uew fields for her peculiar talents. At one time she obtained assistance from an old baronet to the amount of £5,000. Mi’s. Graham was victimized for £B, GOO, and no less a personage than Professor Blackie of Edinburgh fell a victim to her guileless ways. She had just completed a five year sentence in prfson last October and apparently has lost no time in getting back there. For a time at least the tradesmen will be safe, as her sentence was for seven years. —London Truth. Scheme of the Boeftlan Government. The Russian government contemplates buying up the railways in the southwest of Russia, amounting altogether to about 3,000 miles. The question of constructing a railway to the Polar and White seas is to be considered by a special commission. The scheme of constructing a line across Finland from Uleaborg to Moorman coast, on the Arctic ocean, seems to have been abandoned. It is proposed, however, to construct a railway connecting St Petersburg with Kemi, on the extreme north of the gulf of Bothnia, via Ladeinoe Polje and Petrozavodsk, a distance of some 600 miles. This might be afterward extended to one of the open harbors on the Moorman coast, which would furnish Russian warships with a naval station. Another scheme is for a line from St. Petersburg to Vologda to place the capital in more direct connection with the Transsiberia railway and to develop the resources of the northern governments. — St. Petersburg Correspondence. Inevitable Army Service. Max Lebaudy, the French millionaire whose bills have won him much notoriety in Paris, finds that hisumall stature and palpitations of the'neart will not save him from having to serve three years in the army. The recruiting council before which he went decided that he was fit for a light cavalry regiment and might usefully serve as an eclaireur or a military cyclist He thought he had smoked himself into heart disease. Naturally, with a fortune of 25,000,000 francs to spend, he is disappointed at having to serve as a lancer, which involves cleaning a horse and other stable duties. As it is useless to kick against the inevitable, he intends to give une fete sportique at the Maisons Lafitte before going to be drafted into a regiwnt —Paris Letter. Tom Rced’» New Suit. Ex-Speaker Reed has set a new fashion. The other day he donned a suit of Kentucky tow, very cool, but very baggy. His trousers were beautifully creased, but—shades of Berry Wall*—they were creased on the sides instead of the front! The result was very funny. Mr. Reed’s capacious legs looked as if they had wings on them, for the creases in the sides stood out conspicuously and with generous expansion. And the worst of it was that everybody had something to say to Mr. Reed about the way he wore his trousers, so that by the time the housb adjourned he was a very tired man.—Washington Post

MURDERED BY REQUEST. I An Agteil Fivuchmiin, Tired of Life, Him* I Boy to Stab Him to Death. I A strange boy murderer is Francois I Bertholier, a lad of 16, who has been I tried before tho Aix aasizeH for killing I an old man named Blanchard ut the I latter’h request. In the dock he related I his crime with grim composure. He I said: ’1 “On Friday, Oct. 18 (mark the un- I canny day and date), tho day before the I arrival of the JlussianH, Blanchard and I I went to Toulon. Ho then spoke to me I for the first time of his intention of I putting an end to his life. He dwelt on I thia topic for several hours, telling me I about his lamentable physical condition I and entreating me to delivef him from I i his suffering. ” I “Did you ask him why ho heHitated I I to commit suicide?” I i “He told mo ho could not bring him- I self to the jioiut and that he had roli- I gious scruples. A couple of days later he I i came into try bedroom and woke me up. I He said: ‘Francois, I count on y<jj» for I j today. I wish i( to be all over by this I i evening. ’ I was very, astonished. Ho I I added: ‘I am going to sign a bill for I ■; 1,800 francs for you. You may cash it I , at my notary’s at Carpentt’as. ’ ” I j “This sum of 1,800 francs caused you I to make up your mind?” . I “It dirt. I bought a shoot of stamped I I puptu’ and made out the bill, which I Bhmehard signed. Then wo went to Jo- I liette (to Marseilles) to take the steam I tramway. Just before starting we went I to a case, where my friend made me I drink glasses of peppermint. He gave I me sixpence to buy a knife at a store. I In the tramway Blanchard told mo to I smoko a lot in order to deaden my feel- I ings. .. I “At L‘E.;taque we entered another I case, and 1 war. made to drink four or five I absinthes. We went along the highroad, I when Ehiuehard, stopping, said: ‘This I seems to me the right spot Wo shall be I very comfortable here. ’ I , “Wewcrt under the road bridge. My I friend rpidresscd and blindfolded his I eyes aud stretched himself on the flag- I stones. ” .1 “How many blows did you strike 1 with your knife?” I “Foc.r. On tho way he had recom- I mended me to strike several times—to I strike at the temples and the jugular I vein.” I “Indeed you followed out his advice. I You struck with a deftness which a pro- I fessiohal murderer would envy. Did I Blanchard die at once?” I “Yes. Ho leaned .forward a little, I heaved a sigh, and that’s all. ” I “What did you do next?” I “I had* a little blood on my fingers. I I washed them iu the sea. ” I “Did you feel no remorse, no terror’” I "A little, yes. ” I The jury brought in a verdict of not I guilty on the ground that Bertholier had I acted without knowledge of crime, but I the tribunal ordered that ho should be I sent to a house of correction until the I age of 20.—Paris Journal. I SEAGOING HOBOES. I Sliips Sailing From San Fhuiolhco Are Car- I rying a Full List of Stowaways. I Nearly every ship that has gone out I of port in the past two months has had I one or more stowaways on board. As a I rule, captains do not object to one or I two, but when it conies to half a dozen I or more it is a serious matter. The I coasters to northern ports have been I most patronized by stowaways, and now I it. is the usual thing for the captains of I the ships to make a tour through the hold of their vessels to make sure that they will not have more of a crew than they can feed. On the last trip of the Enoch Arden I north nine men were stowed away in her hold when she was towed out of port, and they did not show themselves until the tug was well out of hailing distance. When the vessel reached Seattle, she was nearly bare of provisions. The stowaways on ships north are all bound for the lumber regions of Washington or the mines of British Columbia, where they hope to get work. Those who manage to get away from San Francisco on ships bound elsewhere seem to have no definite end in view except to keep moving if it does not take too much exertion.—San Francisco Examiner. An English Nall Eater. | A remarkable sufgical operation was performed this week at the Lancaster County Lunatic asylum upon William Fitzpatrick, one of the inmates. This man some time ago took to swallowing I things, and on Monday morning he ate 192 flooring nails, which naturally'upset his digestion. An operation was decided upon without the remotest chance of saving the man’s life. During the operation, which lasted two hours, the surgeon took from his stomach the 192 nails aforesaid, varying from to 8 Inches in length, a half of a screw, a piece of wire, two buttons and a mass of matted hair. The nails alone weighed nearly two pounds. Fitzpatrick is expected to die.—London News. Private Letters Mode Public. There has been much speculation over the appearance in the auction mart recently of private letters to prominent persons still living. Thus nine letters from Motley, the American ' historian, to Bismarck were sold this week for S3OO. One was marked “private and confidential” and was addressed “Dear Old Bismarck. ” There is no doubt that these letters are genuine, but the natural query is, How did they get into the public market? —London Standard. His Apology. Editor Meacham delivered a speech at the banquet of the Kentucky Press club at Frankfort and published the thing in full in the next issue of his own newspaper. He thus apologised to his readers: “This is not done at anybody’* request nor to fill a long felt want. Im fact, we have no good excuse of any ! kind for publishing it But, as it is la--1 beled, those who wish to escape are not obliged to read it ” , ■ ■ V .