Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1883 — Page 2

The Republican.RENSSELAER, INDIANA. G. R MARSHALL, - Pububheb.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. i The extensive works of the Howe Sewing-Machine Company, at Bridgeport, Ct, were nearly destroyed by fire. The -company employ about 400 hands, and were turning out about 110 machines per day. The loss on bnildings, machinery and stock is about *850,000; insurance, *275,00(1... Oil sand has been struck by a party of prospectors in Pine Creek Valley, a few miles north of Pittsburgh, and it is believed a new oil-field has been discovered....A dispatch from the Crawford House, in the White Mountains, states that there was a heavy frost there the other night. Sadler & New Han, wholesale dealers in clothing, Philadelphia, have made an assignment liabilities, 022,000.... D. Boilers A Co., manufacturers of shoes in Philadelphia, otter to compromise with creditors at & cents on the dollar. Liabilities, *88,000; assets, *53,000... .Gilbert Brothers & McFadden, lumber dealers, Portland, Me. , have failed. Liabilities*Bo,ooo;assets, *100,000.... Under a special law of New Jersey, thirtysix young Italian bootblacks, belonging to a padrone, were arrested at Atlantic City and ordered to change their vocation, as none of them are 18 years of age... .On account of having granted the telegraphers 10 per cent, more wages, the American Rapid Company of New York has raised it rates 800 per cent.... An express train approaching Mount Joy, Pa., killed a man and - two women who attempted to drive across the track after the engineer had blown the whistle to warn them... .Suits have been instituted against the patrons of a private-letter express company at New York for violation of the United States Postal law. A frightful railroad disaster happened on the , Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg railroad, near Carlton Station, N. Y. The accident occurred west of Rochester, in Orleans county. Twenty-two persons were killed and thirty wounded The train was carrying a party of excursionists to the Thousand Islands, and was running fast to make up lost time. A gale prevailing at the moment had blown a freight-car on the main track. Notwithstanding the passenger train had two locotnotlves, it failed to hold the track against the obstruction, and a great heap of ruins was made in an instant. The crash Was heard three miles away. Hon. Thomas Hoyne, one of the foremost citizens of Chicago, was among the Victims. Prof. CL W. Stone, of Battle (Seek, Mich., was also killed. The persons kil ed belonged to classes having a wide circle of business and social acquaintance. The body of' Capt. Webb was found floating in the river near Lewiston, N. Y.‘ There was a cut on his head, evidently caused by a rook at the entrance to the whirlpool, which was in itself sufficient to have caused his death. The remains were sent to Boston, where Mrs. Webb is at present residing.... Senor Francisco Barca, the Spanish Minister to Washington, shot himself through the Sead in his room ’at the Albermarle Hotel, ew York. Financial troubles led to the terrible act Senor Barca was appointed American Minister in 1881.... Several cloudbursts in the region of the headwaters of the Allegheny river produced a sudden rise in the stream that proved more disastrous than any flood since 1861. Eleven acres of boards and timber were sent adrift down the Ohio, causing a loss of fully *1,000,06a

THE WEST. A recent telegram from Denver Bays of the county-seat war In Grand county: “Information has been received here that F. J. Dean, the County Clerk, who was wounded in tne late fight between masked men and the officers of Grand county, is dead. This makes a total of live lives that have gone out of the dreadful feud. Commissioners Webber, Mills and Day killed in the struggle, and Deputy Sheriff Redmond. Sheriff Keyer committed suicide, presumably because of his inability to apprehend the assassins and the adverse criticisms of the press, and Deputy Sheriff Redmond, one of the masked murderers, is supposed to have been mortally wounded. It is still feared that the list of the dead is not complete. There remains a bitter feeling between the factions contending for political supremacy in the county, and despite the accepted appointment of Commissioners by Gov. Grant, the result of their introduction to official duties is uncertain.”,.,. The exciting hunt for the Polk county (Iowa) murderers ended in a lynching after all A recent dispatch from Harlan, Shelby county, says that “between 1 and 2 o’clock a. m, a body of men estimated all the way from thirty to 100 in number, went to Harlan from the southeast and quietly tied their teams on the bank of the river. The men were led by some one of military experience, as could readily be seen by their formation and the precision with which everything was dona Marching directly to the jail, and in the meantime posting outguards, they called upon Deputy Watkins for the keys He made some objections, when they seized him, secured the keys, ahd proceeded to the cell where Hardy was secured, without trouble He met his executioners calmly at the door, not a muscle or tremor showing that he had the least fear. A rope was quickly placed around his neck, and his hands tied behind. The cell doors were then unlocked and the men quickly formed in line, without disturbance, thfe prisoner being placed under a strong guard. The fire-alarm soon woke the whole town, and at the same time rang out William Hardy ’B death warrant Volley after volley of shots were heard in the direction of Chatwin’s mill, and the crowd which followe'd the lynchers, after some search, found the dead body of the victim in the river, just below the bridge, riddled with.bullets, and the marks of a rope upon his neck The supposition is that he was thrown from the bridge and at the same time shot” The village of Onondaga, Mich., suffered great damage by a cyclone. Near Leslie a Mrs. Hartley was killed. Limbs of trees were carried ten miles. Near Eaton Rapids the house of Eugene Henry was blown down, three children being found dead forty rods away, and the father being fatally injured. The Sioux held their annual sundance at Rosebud agency, 10,000 being present from all parts of the reservation. The Government had given orders to suppress the barbarous jractide, but the agents were powerless. Seven passengers in a mixed train on the Wabash railway were killed near Lawson, Ma The passenger oar ran off the rails and turned completely over. It then broke intq pieces, crushing the persona When the ruins were removed no less than seven dead bodies were found Several other passengers were seriously injured

A Miler City (Montana) dispatch says a party of masked men proceeded to the county jail, overpowered the jailer and locked him in one of the cells, and then seized a man named Rigney, whom they took about a mile out of town and hanged to the projecting end of a tree over a culvert on the railread track. Rigney had been jailed the day before for disorderly conduct, and bore the reputation of being a hard citizen, being accused of robbery and other crimes. The Ward Iron Company, of Niles, Ohio, has tailed for about *250,000. The broken firm was the whole life of the town, and did general rolling-mill and furnace work, employing several hundred men. The cause! s said to be the reduction of orders and inability to sell stock at advantage on a low malrket....Bank of Leadville, Col, failed for nearly *590,000 Mrs. F. A. Seageb, of Cleveland, once a popular teacher in the public schools, was killed while passing under a railroadcar at the foot of Hanover street, in that city. Her leg was completely severed at the hip, and rolled into the river through a hole in the dock... .The Hon James Wilson, who has recently traveled extensively through lowa, gives a glowing account of the crops in that State. I The first Sunday of the enforcement of the Downing law in St Louis did not operate satisfactorily. Some 900 saloon-keep-ers were reported, as also were all the newspapers, street-car officials, cigar stands, newsboys, etc... .Prof. Aughey, of the University of Nebraska, who has hitherto borne an enviable reputation, is shown to have perpetrated forgeries amounting to *5,000. The victims are a National bank and half a dozen dealers in chattel mortgages. It is feared that he is not of sound mind.... A *850,000 ffre at Minneapolis, Minn., damaged Syndicate block to the extent of *IOO,OUO, beside destroying the crockery stock of Drenner, Starr & Everett, and the dry-goods stock of Felds & Griffitn, the former valued at 3150*0!',0 and the latter *85,000... .A fire at Lincoln. Neb., destroyed the wholesale drug house of Leighton & Brown and adjoining buildings,causing a lossjof nearly *200,000..... Mr. Malmrosa, Commissioner of Statistics in Minnesota, reports an increase of 146,904 acres in wheat, and predicts a crop of at least 82,000,000 bushels, as the yield in the southern counties wiM more than make up for drought in the Red River Valley.

THE SOUTH. Ex-Gov. Thomas Swann, of Maryland, died at his estate, near Leesburg, Va The Governor was a Representative from Baltimore in the Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses, and during the latter.was Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. He was at one time President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.... A carriage containing the dead bodies of three grown persons and two children was recently found under a lightning-struck tree in a secluded locality in Texas. They are supposed to have been a party of English tourists who took refuge under the tree during a thun-der-storm, and were killed by lightning.... Memphis, Tenn., was visited by a destructive fire Property to the amount of $200,000 was destroyed. Insurance, $159,000. A Richmond (Va.) dispatch says that a boat containing eight men and two yo'ung girls, all colored, who were crossing the James river at Claremont, Va, to attend a prayer-meeting at Sandy Point, upset and eight of the party were drowned. Marsh T. Polk, the recreant official who robbed the Tennessee State treasury of several hundred thousands of dollars, was convicted at Nashville for embezzlement, and the sentence fixed at twenty years in the penitentiary, the full extent of the law, and the fine assessed was $366. MO.IO, the amount of his stealings. A vessel eluded the authorities at Baltimore and entered the port with four cases of yellow fever on board and with a log showing four deaths at sea. The vessel was at once towed out of the harbor. A panic succeeded the discovery... .Ex-Treas-urer Polk, of Tennessee, was sentenced at Nashville to twenty years in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of $360,000. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court under bond of $450,000, a motion for a new trial being overruled.

POLITICAL. Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, sent a letter to the St Louis Police Board declaring that as the Downing High License law had been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court, the law must and snail be’ enforced.. .-.Sunset Cox makes the announcement that he will retire from politics if he is beaten for Speaker of the next House. The Georgia House of Representatives has unseated D. P. Proctor (white) from Camden county and seated Anthony Wilson (colored) in his place by a vote of 87 to 61. Wilson has been in two previous Legislatures There are two other negroes in the House. While in the East, recently, Gov. Foster, of Ohio, was interviewed to the effect that Judge Hoadley’s nomination for Governor had cost him $50,000, and on this subject quite a correspondence has since been.carried on. Judge Hoadlev addressed a note to Gov. Foster, asking him to give his authority for the* statement Foster replied that he said it was alleged that Hoadley had so admitted, half the sum being paid during the convention. Foster added that the delegates from Cincinnati openly sold tbeir votes, and it would be well for Hoadley to state what the nomination cost him. Hoadley then telegraphed to Foster: “Irepeat the statement is false on all its parts. Now produce your informant and let me confront him”

The Massachusetts Senate accepted the report of the majority of the committee on the Tewksbury Almshouse affairs without a word of debate, by a strong party vote. It refused, a so, by a party vote, to admit the House bill to regulate the disposal of bodies of paupers. This finishes all the Tewksbury business as far as the Legislature is concerned. The Democrats of Minnehaha county, D. T., have passed resolutions opposing a division of the Territory, but favoring Its admission as a State at the earliest date it can be legally accomplished.... The Massachusetts Legislature has adjourned sine die, after, the longest session on record—2o6 days. A special correspondent of the Chicago Henald, sent out to New Mexico to Interview Stephen W. Dorsey, telegraphs from Chico Springs, that Dorsey denies that he wrote or inspired the recent long statement wh.ch appeared in the New York Nun, and attributes the authorship of the statement to Dana’s Washington correspondent Dorsey told the correspondent that If he were to expose the campaign of 1880 something more substantial than the allegations which appeared in the Nun wou d be furnished the public. He avowed that Indiana was carried by the lavish use of money, that Senator Platt and Whitelaw Reid know all about the matter, and expressed the opinion that

Garfield was more the fool of his fears than the knave of his desires. WASHINGTON. M. A. Dauphin, of the Louisiana Lottery Company, has entered suit in the District of Columbia courts, through his attorneys, against Walter Q. Gresham, Postmaster General, for *IOO,OOO damages, sustained by his order forbidding the use of the mails to them.... The distillers who have not been able to escape the payment of tax by the exportation of distilled spirits are understood to be making another formidable combination to endeavor to induce the next Congress to enact a law extending the bonded period. Secretary Folger has called in the remainder of the 8%-per-cent. bonds, the amount being about *31,000,000 Interest will cease Nov. 1 next. Secretary Folger has issued strin-gent-regulations, addressed to the Collectors of Ports, showing that be, at least, is awake to the responsibilities now devolving on officers of the Government in the hour of the country’s danger from outside infection Cargoes which are considered dangerous to the public health are to be kept away from American wharves at all hazards,...Col O. M. Poe, an aid to Gen Sherman, has been ordered to Detroit to succeed the late Maj. .Farquhar, in charge of harbor improvements. GENERAL. Chief Justice Waite has gone to Syracuse. Ct, to spend the summer. One of his ribs was broken by the accident in Montana.

The situation of the great telegraph operators’strike was about as follows on the 26th of July: The American Rapid Telegraph Companv agreed with the Brotherhood of Telegraphers to advance salaries 10 per cent, make eight hours in the daytime or seven hours at night a day’s work, and pay extra for Sunday service. The Board of Directors of the Merchants’ Exchange of St Louis passed resolutions requesting the telegraph companies to provide better facilities for the transaction of business. Emile Hertz, of London, brought suit in Chicago against the Western Union Company, claiming *IO,OOO damages for a refusal to accept a cable message without conditions as to delay. The strikers at Boston resolved to ask the Executive Committee to order out the operators employed by the Associated Press At Philadelphia, C. E. Fuller began five civil suits against the Western Union Telegraph Company for refusing to transmit messages for him under the ordinary printed conditions Similar suits were brought in several cities against the same company. Another army scandal, it is said, will soon be uncovered to the public view. A Mr. Norton, of Wheeling, W. Va, claims that an officer high in rank has duplicated his accounts to the extent of *9,0t0, and that he holds *3,000 of the paper. He has tried to get something at the department for his papers, but will probably get nothing.

The spectacle of the daughter of a former Vice President of the United States and wife of a Minister to Russia begging assistance of strangers in an endeavor to reach the National capital with a view to entering a charitable institution, is a somewhat unusual one, but such an event occurred in Wheeling, Va., the other day. There were 168 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreets during the week ending July 28, six more than the proceeding week, and forty-six more than the corresponding week of 1882... .Hon. Montgomery Blair died last week at Silver Springs, Md, aged 70 years. He graduated at West Point, but soon resigned to practice Iqw in St. Louis, where he rose to a Judgeshin He removed to Maryland in 1852, and ana was Postmaster General under Lincoln. President Arthur, in company with Secretaries Folger and Lincoln and Postmaster General Gresham, left Washington for Louisville on the morning of the 30th inst. After participating in the opening ceremonies of the Louisville Exhibition, the party visited Chicago. The disputed boundary ground at the Lake of the Woods is culminating into a war between the provinces of Ontario and' Manitoba, and hot work is expected unless the Dominion Government interferes..... Thomas L Harti&an, of the Senior class of West Point Academy, has been summarily dismissed, by order of the Secretary of War, for “hazing.” Hartigan was appointed to Kb Point by Congressman Davis, of the d district of Illinois. FOREIGN. Dr. Zuputlitz, Professor of Political Economy in the Berlin University, committed suicide... .Cetewayo, it is reported, has been killed in Zululand. Advices from Durban relative to the death of Cetewayo state that all his wives and many of his chiefs were also killed.... Information has been received at the Vatican that the Catholic clergy of America will follow the recent instructions of the Pope in regard to Parnell and his followers. It is reported by telegraph from Constantinople that Germany has refused to conclude a treaty admitting Turkey to the triple alliance, but has promised assistance should the Porte appeal for aid or protection. ... .It is stated in a dispatch from Zanzibar that the Royal Geographical Society’s expedition to Lake Victoria was compelled to retreat when in latitude 3:05 north, longitude 39 east, in consequence of the hostile demonstrations of the natives The expedition is now making another attempt to continue explorations..... Sir Charles Dilke stated in the British House of Commons that there is no Asiatic cholera in Europe, and that three suspicious cases in England 'proved to be simple cholera, of which this year there had not been tire ordinary average....ln the Jmvish trial at Nyireghyhaza, Hungary, the Public Prosecutor said there was no ground for further criminal proceeding against the prisoners.

An appalling catastrophe occurred at Casamaccia, a town in the Island of Ischia, in the Bay of Naples, on the night of July 28. The town was almost -wholly destroyed by an earthquake, and 8,000 people killed outright and 800 injured. The place is noted for its thermal springs, and is visited by people from all parts of the world. Neighboring towns were also much damaged. The Island of Ischia is of volcanic origin. The population is about 24,000.... A dispatch to the French Ministry of Marine says that CoL Badens with a force of 500 French troops made a sortie from Hanoi, capturing seven pieces of artillery and killing I,ooj of the enemy. The French lost but eleven men... .Three thousand carbines have recently been sent from Liverpool to Henry M Stanley, the explorer, who is now m the western portion of Africa.... A man named Terry crossed the English channel on a floating tricvcle, goingfrom Dover to Calais in eight hours ... .Considerable ill-feeling exists between England and France, growing out of the Suez canal and other foreign affairs in wh ch both countries are interested.... Chris tian Krueger, the Austrian Consul at Lima, is dead.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

« Pbof. Aughey, of the University of Nebraska, states that the indorsements on his notes were forged by a man named Viegenham. The Professor claims to 6e the victim of suspicious circumstances, and promises to pay every dollar of the false paper Miss Ellen Baker, daughter of Sir Samuel Baker, the explorer, committed suicide at her father's residence at Devonshire, England. The young lady had joined the Order of Sisters of Mercy, and so overtaxed her strength in ministering to the poor in ; London that her health broke d >wn 1 and her mind gave way. She first ‘ attempted to destroy her life by opening . r the veins of her arm with the blade Of a pair of scissors. Failing in this she struggled across the floor dripping with blood to the mirror, and there with a penknife cut her throat from ear to ear. Impatient at the slow approach of dea h, she disemboweled herself with a Japanese sword.... China, it is said, made the first proposal to negotiate for a formal treaty with fiance, and France assented readily. This at least deferred hostilities which were then threatening an outbreak at any moment.... James Carey, the Irish informer, was shot dead while landing from a steamer at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, by a fellow passenger named O’Donnell....Protracted wet ; weather in Great Britain has had an un- I favorable effect on the crops. C. W. Copeland & Co., shoe manufacturers, of Boston, with liabilities of *750,000, suspended. They had factories in Brocton, Natick, Medway and North Abington. Their branch house in New York, under the name of Stedmaq & Co., has also closed ito doors. Hoffheimer 4 Son, of Norfolk, Va., and W. N. Teller & Co. of Baltimore, both engaged in the shoe trade, were involved with Copeland &, Co., and were forced to suspend. Next came the collapse of F. Shaw & Brothers, the heaviest tannners in the world, owning a dozen or more leather factories and millions of acres of land. Copeland &, Co., owed them *40,000. The liabilities of the Sbaws are *3,500,000. Joseph Pratt, a wholesale dealer In leather at Chicago, was also caught in the wreck, and went down, owing *6O.- : 000.

The Director of the Meteorological Observatory on Mount Vesuvius states that the appalling disaster on the Island of Ischia was not caused by an earthquake, but by the caving in of the ground. A Naples dispatch of the Ist inst says the scenes occasioned by the accident were heartrending. The hospitals were crowded with the wounded survivors, and the dead-houses were filled with the bodies of the victims. Cries for help could be heard coming from the ruins, and sappers were hard at work endeavoring to rescue the persons still alive. Most of the corpses recovered were so discolored by dirt that even after they had been washed the features were unrecognizable. A.l the members of the police force at Casamicciola were killed. Only five houses in the city were left standing. The stench from the dead bodies of human being and animals was almost unbearable, and a pestilence was feared. The loss of life by the accident was believed would not fall short of 4,Co6t* The dead at Forio number 300; at Laocoanmeno, 509; at Fontana Serrarra, 200. Twentyfour children perished in the Misericordia Asylum The King and Queen of Italy have subscribed 100 CO J lire and the Pope 25,000 lire for the relief of the sufferers. Horace S. Shepard, a shipping clerk for a New York firm, and his wife were found dead in a furnished room in that city, both shot through the head. In a letter written by Shephard, .he declared the purpose of himself and wife to die together.... Two thieves on Saturday attempted to take SIO,OOO from a bank cashier at Jersey City. They were arrested on Sunday, and on Monday were tried, convicted and sentenced to ten years each in State prison One of them was formerly a policeman. In the investigation into the’acts of Supervising Architect Hill, at Washington, R. T. Crane, of Chicago, testified that his company was given no opportunity to bid on hydraulic elevators for the Chicago Custom House, and that Mr. Hill paid for those furnished twice what those used in the Court House cost. A posse ini Arkansas pursuing the outlaws from Montgomery, Yell and Garland counties, came up with the Daniels brothers in the mountains of Berry county. In the fight which ensued, two of' the pursuers were killed and the desperadoes escaped.

THE MARKET.

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A DEATH TRAP.

Eight Men Killed by the Fall of a Blast Furnace Near Syracuse, New York. The Unfortunates Buried Beneath Sixty Tons’ Weight of Brick and Iron. (Dispatch from Syracuse, N. Y.J A terrible accident occurred at the Ododi dagalron Company’s blast furnace a milei west of this city, in Geddes. For several : weeks the furnace has been unused, it being . out of repair. Joseph Dawson, wnn a gang , of men, has been engaged for several days in removing the inner and fire-bricks frdm the arch, leaving only the outer course standing The foreman considered this course entirely secure. Without the sb'ghtest warning the arch caved in, burying the workmen beneath it in a mass of bricks, mortar, soot and ashes. An alarm was at once given, and the men at the mill set at work with a will Ito remove the victims. In less than an hour eight bodies were token from the ruins. ' Several hundred people were at the scene. ■ Sons, daughters, arfd wives wept frantically 1 as the bodies were removed. People gath- ' ered in knots in the village of Geddes or. hurried to the scene of the casualty. Business was almost entirely suspended in the village, and the place looked as if stricken by a panic. It was fully five minutes after the collapse before the dust cleared* away sufficiently so that the debris could be viewed. The weight of the falling bricks was so great that they were forced out of the openings in the furnace and crowded several feet into the space around it. The gang of eight men were lining the inside of the furnace, which is sixteen feet in diameter and sixty feet high. A small scaffold was across the furnace at hight of eight feet from the ground. It was said by Mr. Gere, manager of the compaily, that it was known that the lining of tne upper part was in a dangerous condition, and that he warned the men before they went in The 1 fellow-workmen of the dead men said that i it was not known that the lining was in a j dangerous state. Without warning the linI ing of the upper part gave way, and sixty tons of brick fell upon the men The sound ; of the falling mass was muffled by the iron walls and there was no crash. A great cloud of dust blew out from the doors of the furnace, tilling the factory. Men knew their fellows were inside that iron tomb, but their eyes were blinded by the clouds of dust, and it was several minutes before they could grope their way inside the furnace. With hoes and shovels they began work, and after digging near half an hour and throwing out a mass of bricks about four feet deep, they found the bodies They we e crushed and broken Their faces were covered with dust, which had settled into the cuts and wounds made by the falling bricks, and their hair and beards were filled with the yellow powder. While the men Were busy throwing < ut the debris they were frequently importuned by their friends to leave the p ace at once, as they were working in imminent danger every minute. They paid no heed, but worked on with a will More bricks were liable to fall at any moment The fall of one brick from such a height would kill a man outright The news of the tragedy spread from the blast furnace to the homes of the men-who were killed. Women and children wailing and crying hastened to .the furnace. The limp, shattered bodies were carried out by men whose faces were stern and set and laid on the bare ground. Sobs filled the air as, litre so many sacks, the bodies were lifted into wagons and driven through the village. At the little cottages women stood with aprons to their eves, and even the little children stopped playing. The excitement) among the employes and many outside laboring men was intense. The loudest' and most open threats were heard to shoot both: Manager Gere and the general foreman, who were both present. The impression pre-, vailed among these excited men that they were criminally negligent in allowing the men to go into the furnace to work in the condition in which it was. The police were called in to quell any disturbance.

MOB VENGEANCE.

A Brutal Convict Driver and One of His Tools Shot to Death. [Telegram from Arkansas City, Ark.] A mob of several hundred men fired on the steamer Ida Darragh, near Burnett’* Landing, wounded an obnoxious convict) boss fatally, and killed a negro convict Two Weeks ago a young machinist from Clinton, HL, came to this section hunting odd jobs. He secured work repairing ginhouses on a farm near Red Forks. ’ While living there he boarded with a Mrs. King. He fell behind in his board, and told the woman that he would send her the sum a* soon as he could raise it. I (Just as he was preparing to leave for the North he was arrested, taken before a magistrate, and sentenced to work in the field* for attempting to defraud his 1 mdlady. Not working to suit Werner, the man who had charge of the convicts, the young man was whipped by three negro convicts at the boss orders He died from the effects of the beating. The Sheriff of Desha county arrested Werner ahd the three negroes, and was taking them to Arkansas City when the mob fired upon them. Oho of the negroes jumped into the river and was killed by tne mob as he wai swimming for the shore. Werner fell on the deck with a bullet in his chest A perfect f usilade was kept up by the men, who followed the Steamer down the river for some distance. The lives of the passengers and crew were in great danger. The Sheriff, with the wounded man Werner and two of the negroes, were finally placed aboard the Anchor Line steamer City of New Orleans and brought here

POINTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

An Ohio man, aroused out of his slumber* by a burglar, pursued the fellow with a shotgun, but did not succeed in shooting him. Soon the burglar came to a rivpr and plunged in, but, not being a swimmer, he sank and was drowned. And now the Grand Jury has indicted the household for murder in the first degree for not going to the assistance of the drowning man. This is strange, in view of the fact that had he previously shot the burglar nothing would have been done to him. Bessie Colby, 8 years old, a lineal de.scendant of Isabel, sister of Gen. John Stark, of the Revolution, living in Fryeburg, Ma, encountered near the house a poisonou* adder four feet long. Seizing the snake in her hands she carried it alive to the 'house,* where her step-mother killed it, though so frightened that she nearly fainted, ana wa* ill for two days afterward. Several person* in that vicinity are said to have died from the bite of this species of serpent, and why this mammoth specimen did not bite th* child is a mystery. Bessie says, “When h* tried to bite * tuck a tick in his mouf." ,7-