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CHAPTER IV.

It was a sultry noon, and Jeffersonflrille was brisk. As Jeffersonville is V« brisk only during the court week, when the lawyers from Macon ride down to 'rr look after the warehousemen's mortgages, and the leading attorneys from 4^ the adjoining counties run over to look after the Macon lawyers and attend to the criminal docket, it may be inferred that court was in session.

About the large, white, square frame building, with its green blinds and three entrances, little groups of farmers were gathered and many unhitched teams were visible. Within the one great room that takes up the whole of the first floor, and from which ascend steps to the various county offices above, were the usu«1 courthouse habitues—jurors who hope In vain to "get off," and citizens of Jimited income who yet hope to "get on." In front of the door was the dge's elevated desk, with the clerk er down, whose feet rested in a chair while his month twisted a toothpick. ,fEhe midday meal had just ended, and the conrt had not re-entered. To the right and left were the jnry benches. The front half of the room was devoted to the bar,, whick Jbv courtesy, included

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Slowly the court assembled. The prisoner's counsel had introduced no testimony. A man had been stabbed by his client, had fallen dead, his hand clasped over the wound, and from beneath this hand when convulsively loosened a knife had dropped, which the defendant'3 wife seized and concealed. This had been proved by the state's witnesses.

The prisoner took the stand to make his statement. He declared emphatically that the deceased, knife in hand, had assaulted him, and that "he had killed him in self defense that the knife which fell from the relaxing hand was the dead man's. He told the story simply, and as he began it a tall, thickset gentleman in a gray su*t, with iron gray hair and walking with the aid of a stout stick, entered the room and stood silent by the doc—heard him through, losing never a word. As the prisoner resumed his seat the newcomer entered within the rail. He shook hands gravely with several of the older lawyers and took the hand that the court extendad over the desk. Then he turned, and to the astonishment of every one shook bands with the defendant, into whose !ace alight had snddenly dawned which

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ly and searched the courthouse with his eye, as if daring contradiction. "Why do I say this?" he continued, turning to the court. "Because I know he is as brave a man as ever faced death a faithful man, a powerful man and conscious of his power. Such men do not use weapons upon unarmed assailants. "Why do I say he is brave? Every man on this jury shouldered his musket during the war. Most of you followed the lamented Pickett. Some perhaps were at Gettysburg." Two or three beads nodded assent. ''I was there too.'' A murmur of applause ran round the room—the old man's war record was a household legend. It is even e&id that the court joined in. "I and the only brother God ever gave me." The veteran bowed his*head. His voice sank to a whianar A •port n# him in there vet

—his hand' sHook slIghtly as he Sndved his cane farther on the desk and rested upon the code—"a part of him, but not all, for, God be praised, we picked up whatever was left of him and brought it back to Georgia. "I well remember that fight. The enemy stood brave and determined and met our charges with a courage and grit that could not be shaken. Line after line melted away during those days, and at last came Pickett's charge. When that magnificent command went in, a negro man, a humble African, a captain's body servant, stood behind it, shading his eyes with his hand, waiting. You know the result. Out of that vortex of flame and that storm of lead and iron a handful drifted back. From one to another this man of black skin ran, then turned and followed in the track of the charge. On, on, he went, under my very glass, for it was my misfortune to stay behind on through the smoke and flame, gone one moment and in sight the next, on up to the flaming cannon themselves. There he bent and lifted a form from the ground. Together they fell and rose, and this three times, until, meeting them half way, I took the burden from the hero and myself bore it on to safety. That burden was the senseless form of my brother"— here he turned and walked rapidly to the prisoner, his hand lifted on high, his yoica ringing like a trumpet— "gashed and bleeding and mangled, bnt alive, thank .God! And the man who bore him out, wjho came to me with him in his arms as a mother would carry a sick child, himself shot with the fragment of a shell until his great heart was almost dropping from his breast, that man, O my friends, sits here under my hand. See if I speak not the truth!" He tore open the prisoner's shirt and laid bare his breaiit, on which the silent splendor of the afternoon sun streamed in like a smile from heaven. A great ragged seam marked it from left to right. "Look!" he cried, "and bless the sight, for th.^t scar was won by a slave in an hour that tried the souls of freemen and put to its highest test the best manhood of the south. No man who wins such wounds can thrust a knife into an unarmed assailant. I have come 70 miles in iliy old age and my sorrow to say it."

It may have boen contrary to the evidence, but the jury, without leaving their seats, returned a verdict of "not guilty," and the solicitor, who bore a scar on his own face, smiled as he received it. "The prisoner," said the court, rapping for order, "is discharged." "Yes, saL," said Ben, rising and flashing a set of dazzling ivories at the judge. "I knov?ed hit uz all right soon es I laid eyes on Marse Bob's ole gray head.''

He went over and clasped the old colonel's hand in both of his, giving expression also to a loud laugh. "One mo' time—me an you, Marse Bob, one mo' time! How ole miss gittin on?" The old man's reply was inaudible he spoke very gently, and with his chin upon his breast. Ben started back, changed at once. "Dead!" he exclaim-

A man rests his hand upon the woman's head. ed. "Diedlas'week! Nobody never tole ole Ben." His words were heard by all present, who were sharing in his joy, and silence fell upon the crowd. He regarded his friend mutely for a few moments, then with his hand over his eyes went back to his seat. "Young marster," he said to a lawyer there, "gimme dat hat down deir on de flo', pleas'!" At the gateway to the inner court he turned once more and made a rude gesture inclusive of all present. "Judge," he said simply, "an gemmen, I'm ve'y much 'bliged ter yer all. Yer stood up ter ole Marse Bob, an yer done me er good turn too." He went with his face averted.

The evening shadows gather over Black Ankle. A young woman with a baby at her breast sits, weary of eye and limb, under the spreading gum tiee by the spring. Slowly the yellow rooster leads his followers up the rail to the I shed, and the lean cow at the picket gate I lows for entrance. Suddenly out of the valley of the shadow—of death itself-— a man comes and rests his hand upon the woman's head. Then the twilight deepens, and we see them no more.

THE BNO.

Murder in Manitoba.

WINNIPEG, April 1.—A special from Holland says: Hannah Hatton, aged 23, unmarried, was murdered here Monday night while on her way home. Her body was found, with throat cut, yesterday morning. There is no clew to the murderer.

Result of a Dam Giving Away. WILKESBARRE, Pa., April 1.—The

high water in the Lehigh river yesterday burst a dam at Whitehaven, and property to the extent of $65,000 was destroyed. The dam supplied the town with its water. Lust night there was no water to run the electric plant and the town was in darkness^ .. 'J.

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BLIZZARD IN APRIL.

March Went Out With a Mighty Roar.

RAIN, SLEET AND SNOWSTORMS.

Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Colorado and South Dakota Visited by Heavy Snowstorms Traffic and Wire Service

Badly Crippled and Business at Many Places Entirely Snspended. ST. PAUL, April 1.—The month of

March went out with a roar last night that was heard and felt all over the northwest. Specials indicate that the weather all over the state was similar to that experienced in this immediate vicinity, which was most peculiar. With a steady and rapidly dropping thermometer there was, in the earlier part of the day, a heavy, wet snow, melting almost as fast as it fell. This was followed by sleet and, in the evening, hard little pellets of snow were being driven before a howling gale, while heavy thunder and lightning accompanied the blizzard.

All streetcar traffic was suspended at West Superior on account of the bliztsard in that city drifts six feet high are reported.

At Dassel, Minn., 12 inches of finow is on the ground and the storm still rages.

The same amount of snow is reported at Sauk Rapids, where also there have been thunder and lightning and the streetcars are blockaded.

At Faribault there was a heavy rainstorm, followed by an electric storm, and that followed later by a heavy snowstorm.

At St. Cloud the snow is now two feet deep on the level. All traffic and wire service is crippled. Business is entirely suspended and the schools are aU closed.

Blizzard in Nebraska.

OMAHA, April 1.—A severe blizzard prevails all over Nebraska. The mercury has fallen rapidly since yesterday noon and snow and sleet is being driven with a terrible gale. No apprehension is felt by agriculturists for wheat, on account of the excellent condition of the winter article. No damage of consequence has been reported as a result of the storm.

In Colorado.

DENVER, April 1.—Over eight inches of snow fell throughout the greatest part of Colorado last night. The storm continues with increasing severity, and the snowfall promises to be greater than any during the winter. The snow is accompanied by a high wind, but fortunately it is not very cold.

In South Dakota.

YANKTON, S. D., April 1.—The worst snowstorm of the winter is in progress here and throughout the state. Rain fell for several hours, which turned to snow, followed by a blizzard. The storm is raging with increased violence.

Snowstorm in Wisconsin.

CUMBERLAND, Wis., April 1.—A terrific snowstorm is sweeping Northern Wisconsin. Eighteen inches of damp snow has fallen and business is practically suspended. It is the worst snowstorm of the year.

THREATS OF LYNCHING.

Souie Damaging Circumstantial Evidence Against Anson 1$. Strong. AKRON, O., April 1.—A crowd of 1,000

men and boys surrounded the city prison last night and many threats were made against Anson B. Strong, the suspected murderer of the Stones at Tallmadge. The militia is still under arms at the armory, which adjoins the prison, and a force of police is ready for action. It is not believed, however, that an outbreak will occur.

Strong continues to deny all knowl edge of the crime, but the police claim that the chain of circumstantial evidence is tightening around him.

Alvin Stone, one of the victims, last fall told J. T. Flowers of this city that he feared Strong that he was his only enemy.

Ira Stillson, Stone's nephew, is still living, bnt is in a very critical condition.

Detective Dunn yesterday measured the shoes found in Strong's room at Ravenna, They exactly fit the tracks found about the Stone residence.

M. E CONFERENCE.

Women Favored as Delegates to the General Conference. RICHMOND, Ind., April 1.—The north

Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church has voted unanimously in favor of admitting women as delegates to the general conference.

The work of establishing the Ameri* can university at Washington city was approved and a memorial passed asking the general conference, which meets at Cleveland in May, to ordain deaconnesses both at home and in the foreign fields.

The general conference was also requested not to abolish the "black list" on which are placed those who violate the rules of the church along the line of popular amusements.

Apportionment Act Decision. INDIANAPOLIS, April 1.—The supreme

court yesterday, in the suit to set aside the legislative apportionment act of 1885, ordered the attorneys for the Democratic «tate committee to file within 10 ilays a brief on their motion to dismiss the suit. The petition of the attorneys for the Republican state committee that (tlio motion to dismiss be argued orally nt the same time the main case is argued was denied.

Death From lllood Poisoning:. MEKIDEN, Conn., April 1.—William

Hills Yale, aged 85, died yesterday of blood poisoning. He was the pioneer manufacturer of tinned ware in New England. He retired from business several years ago, having amassed a fortune.

Five People Drowned.

BRISTOL, Tenn., April 1. Charlie Holt and child and John Jenkins and •wo children were drowned in a swollen Stream in Rusself county, Va., ,„last light.

WOT ON ELLIS ISLAND. Make

Italians Held For Deportation Attempt to Escape. NEW YORK, April 1.—It was one con

tinuous ronad of excitement on Ellis island yesterday. Twice a large body of Italians, held for deportation, made desperate attempts to escape from their place of imprisonment, and but for the courage and alertness of the few keepers and inspectors who had them in charge, riot and bloodshed might have resulted.

It was shortly after 10 o'clock when the first outbreak occurred. There were 250 savage looking customers, mostly Italians, shut inside the to be deported pen, on the second floor of the main building. Suddenly there was a murmur among them. It increased to a growl and to a howl of defiance and rage. Hundreds of sunburt, dirty hands tried to tear open the wirework of the pen. It began to bend and in a moment more would have given way had not the keepers rushed up and down outside pounding protruding fingers.

Dr. Senner early in the day realized the gravity of the situation. He telegraped to Washington that he must haw more help. The reply was favorable and 20 more men are now at work. It is also said, on good authority, that the commissioner requested General Miles to hold a small detachment of troops in readiness,

Just when all seemed peace, the Arizona, the -steamer which takes the immigrants from Ellis island to the hattery steamed in. As the released immigrants ran to board her, some of them shouted to the throng of "Detained." In a moment all was excitement again. A fierce rush was made. Savage blows were struck at the officials and more than one knife was drawn in the crowd. The officials went at the undisiciplined mob fiercely and after a few minutes fighting the little knot of breathless officers had the crowd subdued.

CLOUDBURST IN KENTUCKY.

Two People Drowned and a Vast Amonnt of Property Destroyed. BOONVILLE, Ky., April 1. D. L.

Walker, a log merchant from Clay county, has just arrived here and reports that a cloudburst yesterday laid waste a strip of country about five miles wide along Little Sexton creek and the south fork of the Kentucky river in Owsley and Clay counties.

The residence of Wade Marders, on Little Sexton creek was washed down and his wife and little girl drowned. Marders and several log hands escaped, talcing shelter under a large rock on the hills. Three other houses were swept away, but it is not yet known what became of the occupants. Fences and barns were destroyed for miles up and down the creek, and the people rendered destitute by the loss of their property and provisions.

"Knockout" Thieves Identified. WASHINGTON, April 1.—The two men

giving their names as Fred Nelson and Frank Lewis, who were arrested here several days ago by local detectives for administering "knockout" drops, have been identified. Nelson is Mike Lyons, alias James McGcrald, alias Stevens, alias Gallagher, and is well known by the San Francisco authorities. Lewis is Harry Armstead, alias Mansfield, and has operated in New York, San Francisco, Louisville, Pittsburg and Baltimore. He is said to be one of the most clever "knockout" thieves in the country.

Ransom Demanded of Italy. LONDON, April 1.—A Rome dispatch

to The Chronicle says that its correspondent learns from an official source that the Negus ot Abyssinia demands a large ransom for the Italian prisoners he holds and for the Aclriga garrison. The dispatch adds that the Italian government is disposed to accept the terms.

Dervishes Advancing.

WADY H^LFA, Nubia, April 1.—Confirmation has been received here of the news from Suakim that Osman Digna, with a large force, is threatening Sinkat, which is only a little over 50 miles from Suakiu. The dervishes are advancing northward in force and an attack is expected in a short time.

Sixth Trial For Edward Jones. GEORGETOWN, O., April 1.—The de

fense in the Jones murder case are preparing to ask for another trial in the next term of circuit court at that place. This is a great surprise after getting a life sentence and after five trials in the common pleas court, which it was thought would be satisfactory.

Saw Mill Boiler Explodes.

DANGERFIELD, Tex., April 1.—The boiler in a saw mill belonging to J. C. Connolly, eight miles south of here, exploded yesterday, instantly killing W. Peliter, fatally injuring Tom Souall, seriously injuring Bob Banks and his 10-year-old boy and scalding John McGary.

The Gold Reserve.

WASHINGTON, April 1.—The treasury yesterday lost $177,000 in gold coin and $8,200 in bars, which leaves the true amount of the reserve $128,305,090.

Indications.

Cloudy and threatening weather probably with rain warmer fresh southeasterly winds, increasing in force.

THE MARKETS.

Review of the Grain and Livestock Markets For April 1.

Pittsburg.

Cattle—Prime, $4 25@4 00 good butchers, $3 8J@3 90 bulla, stags and cows, 1 75@3 00 rough fat, $3 Uu@3 75 fresh cows and springers, $i5^§45. Hogs—Prime light, |4 15@4 20 heavy, $4 00@4 10 common to uur, $3 0U(gl!J 75. Sheep—Extra, $6 9U@4 00 good, |3 8JgJ3 85 common, 4o spring lambs, $3 25® 4 40 veal caives, £5 00@G 00.

Cincinnati.

W heat.—73® 73'Ac. Corn—31@33c. Cattle—selected ouiciicrs, $3 65@3 90 fair to medium, $3 locii3 (50 common, 50@ 00. Hogs—Selected and pmne butchers, |3 85(i|3 90 packing, *3 75($3 85 common to rough, $3 i25®3 75. Sheep—$2 76(^4 00. Lambs—13 85(^4 75

-ii'- Chicago.

Hogs—Selected butchers, $3 55@3 85 mixed, $3 70(313 81. Cattle Poor to choice steors, 13 10(^4 30 others, $3 50® 4 10 cows and Dull*, $l 7o@3 35. Sneep— 25^3 70: lambs, fo 75@4 70. 5 A. V«r «««',*•

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Cattle—$8 75(^4 60. tohcep—$3 76@4 50 lambs, $4 o0@j 75.

SIDNEY L. WALKER,

Attorney-at- Law.

(Office with E. W. Felt.)

Special attention given to collections, word done.

Notarial 4-1-96

J. E. MACK, TEACHEK OF

Piolin, Piano, Cornet,

Residence, North Street, next to New ^Christian Jhurch. d&wau

DR. J. M. LOCHHEAD,

90ME0PA1HIC PHYSICIAN atd SURGEON.

Office and residence 42 N. Penn. street., west side, and 2nd door north of Walnut street.

Prompt attention to calls In city or aountry. Special attention to Childrens.Womena' *nd Chronic Diseases. Late resident physician St. Louis Children* Hospital. 89tly

DR. C. A. BARNES,

Physician and Sergeon.

Does a general practice.. Office and residence, 83 West Main Street. wld Telephone 75.

THE CLEVER WOMAN.

Two Kinds of Cleverness, bnt Only One That Realljr Pays.

"I wish I were clever." The woman was charmingly dimpled, wore a Felix'gown, was the mistress of a luxurious establishment, and was dispensing tea to afternoon callers in cups of priceless faience. "Women who write" had been the subject on the tapis, and the remark was a delicate compliment to the woman to whom she handed the tea. She was a successful writer—successful to the extent of making a good income as the fruit of unwearied industry. She had never known the delights of diamonds or her own carriage or a box at the opera. She sometimes spent a hard earned $5 for a drive, but there was neither luxury in the carriage nor swiftness in the steeds, and she was coi?scious all through the drive that when she went back to the office she would write something about the country in spring or the flotsam of fall foliage and flowers with which the suburban resident could decorate his house and table.

If she took a $2 seat in the opera house, she rarely lost herself completely in the music, as she would have liked to do, because skeletons of paragraphs on theater hats and theater manners, on lovers who make love in the stalls as well as on the stage, and a thousand other things for the next day's paper flitted through her mind. She never had a Felix gown on the contrary, she walked ten blocks and climbed seven stories to find a dressmaker who would make, though at the same time mar, her one gown for $10. Her modest house was pretty, and she was even quite famous for her petites soupers, at which one sometimes met eminent and always delightful people, but only herself and her one maid knew at what cost of perspiring brow and smutched fingers and aching back those dainty little dishes were evolved.

So there was almost reverence in her tones as she replied: "My dear, you are the clever woman you are far more clever than George Eliot. The really smart woman is not the one who makes her own daily bread, even though there be a Nesselrode pudding thrown in now and then. It is she who, without raising her hand, can cause all this luxury to be laid at her pretty satin shod feet. It is like eating a Delmonico dinner and lamenting that you are not the chef who cooked it. Not the woman who works, but she who gets all. there is in life without working, is the really clever woman." "May there not be two kinds of cleverness?" said the woman who came to make her adieus.—New York Herald.

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WITH POOR MEMORIES.

Names of Friends and Even Servants Suddenly Forgotten.

An amusing instance of aphasia was that of an old country gentleman, who retained in his employ a large number of servants, most of whom he had known since childhood.

Wishing one day to suddenly summon his butler, he found that the man's name had for the moment, as he thought, escaped him. He determined to call his footman, but to his surprise he discovered that he could no more remember the man's name than the butler's.

He was all the more astonished when he found that he had entirely forgotten the names of every man and woman in his service.

He had also forgotten the names of his most intimate acquaintances, and so set about providing substitutes. Every man was known by his peculiarities certain persons of rank in the neighborhood he called the "king" or the "que.en" or the "grand vizier his butler and footman were respectively "old waiter" and "young waiter." .•

Another curious instance of aphasia was that of a famous Berlin physician. He was sitting in his study one morning, writing a receipt for a bill, when suddenly, after having written two words, he lost all sense of their meaning.

Hq tried to write on, but found be conld think of no word. He threw down his pen in despair, and attempted to speak, but was equally unsuccessful.

This was one of those cases, however, which soon pass off, and in a short time he waB able to finish the receipt.—Oddsand Ends.

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