Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1890 — Page 3

NATIONAL CONGRESS.

The Senate on the 25th considered fee Saunders Florida resolution and the Blair educational bill without making apparent progress in either case. The Hotfse on the 25th passed a number of unimportant bills. The Senate Oklahoma bill was considered. The bill to discoTrtiwMr' the coinage the—one "and three dollar gold pieces and the three cent nickle piece was passed. A bill was passed to permit the Director of the mint ' to make changes in the designs of- current coins. ’ In the Senate on the 26th Mr. Chandler presented a petition from Union county, Arkansas, representing that, at the State . election there in September, 1888. a system fctic reign of terror prevailed; that armed and reckless mobs paraded the county, day and night, terrorizing whites, and shooting and whipping colored voters; that schools and churches had been demoralized and ballot boxes carried off; and asking for the protection guaranteed by the Constitution. Mr. Berry called it a lot of rot and filth. Twenty-six pension and private bills were passed; also the following: Providing for a steam vessel for the use of the civil government of Alaska, appropriating 150,000 for the vessel and SII,OOO for annual expenses; appropriating SIOO,OOO for enlargement of the public building at Topeka, Kan.; to provide for the judicial determination of the controversy between the TTnitsti States and the State of Texas relating to a certain tract of land by them respectively claimed (Greer county]. The Blair educational bill was considered.

The House considered the AtkinsonPendleton contested election case. All the speeches were confined to analyses [of the evidence, and were dry and uninteresting. The only life infused into the debate was contributed by Mr. Groenhalge, of Massachusetts, who, while addressing himself to the evidence, did so with so and applause from both sides of the House. His quiet reference as to the “extreme leniency with which the Speaker treats the other side of the House” was thoroughly enjoyed; and his humorous dissection -of the minority report “highly entertained the House The Senate on the 27th had the antitrust bill before it. Mr. Sherman, who reported the bill from the committee on finance, said that he had been instructed by the committee to move to striko out the third section (which fixes penalties for the offense of entering into trusts or combinations.) Mr. George argued against the constitutionality of the hill. He also said that it would bo impossible to secure prosecutions under it,and that civil splits under it could not be successful. No action was taken on the measure. A bill appropriating $75,000 for a statute to Columbus at the Capital was passod.

The House on the 27th unseated Pendleton of West Virginia, and gave the Democrats the iong-sdught opportunity to test the constitutionality of Speaker Reed’s plan of “counting a quorum.” Mr. Pendleton spoke on the resolution unseating him. He said that he felt it his duty to speak in his own behalf, although he knew that he was addressing a jury prejudiced against him. He believed that he had carried the First district of West Virginia by means as fair, as honorable, as' upright, as had ever been used in any election in the history of the country. He reviewed the evidence in detail, and, in conclusion, reiterated his declaration that ho had been fairly and honestly elected. On tho motion to declare Pendleton entitled to retain his seat, no quorum voted. The vote then recurred on tiie majority resolution, seating Atkinson, The Democrats refrained from voting, their object being to have the contestant seated by less than a quorum, so that the question of the right of the Speaker to OOUSt a quorum may be taken before tho eourte. The vote resulted—yeas 162, nays aone (the Speaker counting a quorum.) Mr. O’Ferrall raised the point of no (piorum, but the Speaker ignored him; and the newly elected member appeared at the bar of the House and took the oath of office amid applause on the Republican side. Bills were introduced. Other bills were reported from committees. The urgency deficiency bill was considered. In the Senate on the 28th, Mr. Blair again called attention to the fact that the newspapers do not print his spoeches on the educational bill. The dependent pen •lon bill was considered. Adjourned until Monday. The House passed the urgency deficiency appropriation bill. As stated elsewhere it appropriates $23,650,000. At the night session forty-five private pension bills were passed.

WASHINGTON.

, Senator Paddook, Monday, introduced a bill to amend the interstate commerce act The amendment is intended to provide re lief for the farmers in the west who are Unable, at present, to market their crops On account of the high freight rates pre vailing on the long haul, which tue railtoads claim can not be reduced without demoralizing all short haul rates under the interstate- act. The bill provides that the long and short haul clause shall be amended so that in case of an investigation for an infraction of that section the commis Aion shall be obliged to consider the cost Of transportation and facts and ciroum stances bearing upon the market value of the product, and that, if it appears that the product is one of the necessaries o* life, such as grain or the products of graih, and that upon it a justly lower rate is indispensable in order td enable such product to bo transported to the market, that such transportation rate, so far as tie long and Short haul clause is concerned, shall he considered an exception to the genera rule indicated in Sec. 4 of the interstate commerce act, and that the commission shall make an order accordingly.

* The silver bill to be reported by the Senate Committee on Finance as a substitute for the several bills on that subject re Iferred to it, is understood to be in shape jfor action. It has been, drawn up after [consultation with the Senatorial advocates jof i free Coinage, and they have jagreed to accept and support it. The SeeIretary of the Treasury is authorized to inepwse the purchase of silver bullion from

two to four and a half millions a month The requirement in the present law, that the coinage of silver shall be at the rate of not less than two millions a month, is. stricken out. The Secretary is also authorized to purchase gold bullion in unrestricted quantities. Upon this gold [and silver bullion the Secretary shall issue treasury notes in such denomination as he shall see "Dtp tlTbe redeemable in lawful money.' "~ r ~ The urgent deficiency bill is completed. It makes a total appropriation of . $23,650,213, of which $711,629 is made up of appropriations to pay two and three years’ vol unteers bounty to volunteers, commutations of rations and horse and property claims. Other items of importance are: For public buildings, $26,000; internal revenue, $110,0Q0; house and, establishments, $14,799; Collecting 'custonjs revenues, $185,000; for soldiers’ homes, $70,609; Patent Office, $30,000; Land Office clerks, $28,000; surveys, $10,000; Indian supplies, $5,000; for survivors and widows of soldiers of the Mexican war and war of 1812, $21,595,834; artificial limbs, $60,000; United States courts witness fees, S2OO - 000. Senator Paddock on the 28th, introduced a bill for the establishment of a Bureau of Animal Industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide for the suppression and extirpation of pleuropneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals. This bill, which isinteadeel as a substitute for various measures on the same topic that have been before the Senate, provides that a Bureau of Animal Industry shall be established. The Secretary of Agriculture shall prepare and enforce rules for the suppression and extirpation of all diseases of cattle, es pecially of pleuro-pneumonia. Cattle so affected shall not be transported from one State to another. The bill further provides that in order to promote the exportation of live stock the Secretary shall make special.investigation as to the existence of pleuro-pneumonia along the dividing lines between the United States and Canada, and along the lines of transportation from all parts of the country to ports from which live stock are expected, and shall establish regulations concerning the exportation of such stock. No railroad company or steamship line shall receive for transportation, nor shall any person drive in a private conveyance any infeoted cattle. Fx President Cleveland has made a very handsome thing out of the sale of his counmiles out of Washington. He made the purchase in 1886, for $33,000, or about S9OO an acre, and sold it on the 28th for $140,000.* This will be a clear gain of SIOO,OOO, after paying for all the improvements.

JUST RETRIBUTION.

A Fiendish Wife Murderer Hanged—The Sensation of a Year Ago. Richard Hawes, the wife murderer, was hanged at 12:30 o’clock, at Birmingham, Ala , on the 28th ult. His neck was broken by the fall. The crime for which Richard Hawes paid the penalty 'with his life was the murder of his wife and two children, May and Irene. On Tuesday morning, December 4, ISBB, the body of May was found floating in an artificial lake at East Lake, a pleasure resort, six miles from Birmingham, but it was not identified until the next day. Tho discovery led to still further investigation, and tho residence of Hawes was visited by several persons, who found the place deserted and evidences that a horrible crime had been committed. There were blood stains on the floor and walls,and in a corner of one of the rooms a bloody club was found. On the same day it was learned that Hawes bad been married to Miss May Storey at Columbus, Miss. He was arrested the same night while passing through Birmingham on his way to Georgia to spend his honeymoon. He identified the body of his child, but stated that he had been divorced from his wife, and she had gone away. The children, he said, had been placed in a convent at Mobile, and he was at a loss to understand how May’s body came to be found whore it was. The palpable improbability of such a story convinced those who heard his statement that he had murdered the rest of the family. By the direction of the coroner the lake was drained, and the bodies of Mrs. Hawes and little Irene, heavily weighted with railroad iron, were found on the bottom. The finding of Mrs. Hawes’ corpse inflamed the public mind to a state of frenzy. All efforts of the press of tho South and the county authorities to allay the excitement were futile. The jail was stormed by 10,000 persons, determined to lynch tho murderer. The sheriff ordered them to halt, hut the mob replied with cries of derision and pressed forward. The order was |iveu to the guard to firo and a volley resulted in the ,killing of ten persons and the wounding of many more. The spirit of the mob was broken and it never returned to the attack, contrary to the ex pectation of the authorities, who had in tho meantime telegraphed to the governor for militia. The trial of Hawes began on April 26, and lasted eleven days. The jury returned a verdict of guilty with the death penalty after two hours’ deliberation.

MR. DWIPETZHKJOFFGK BADLY INJURED.

A man named Dwipotzhkjoffgk fell from a scaffold at Pierre S. Dak.,on the 25th,at electric light works,and broke both thighs He was at work repairing the smoko stack when he came in contact with an eleotric light wire and was stunned, falling a dis. tance of a hundred feet. Ho thought" he was about to die and made a confession. He is an exile from Russia, having been implicated in the plot to blow up the Czar, two years ago, and gave the names of several high Russian officials who were also concerned. He has important documents in his possession to substant ato his assertion, and promises furtner developments. . Bills before the New York Legislature call for the. •‘weekly payment payment to «w* penters 1 and to prohibit the sale ol prison made goods.

INDIANA'S CROPS.

Report of tho Bureau of Statistic* oa the State'* Crops in 1889. Wm. A. Peele, Chief of the Bureau of StatisticVfor Indiana, has completed that portion of his report relating to agriculture in the State during 1839, . together,,jb&Sl tables comparing that year with 1888. The wheat crop is always one of the first things inquired about by farmers. The tables show that in Indiana last year 2,773,883 acres were sown in wheat. In 1888 the acreage of wheat was 2,726,111, an increase in 1889 of 47,772 acres. In 1889 Sip total wheat crop of the State was 41,541.570 bushels, and in 18S8 it was 28,750,764 bushels. Thik makes the average yield in 1889, 14.9 bushels, and 1888, 10.5 bushels per acre. Here, for the first time, is the relative value of the last two years as wheat seasons, as shown by their actual results. The yield per acre varied greatly among the counties last year. Knox county takes the lead, with an average of 22 bushels per acre, but others follow close. Allen aver, aged 18 bushels; Elkhart, 21; Gibson, 21 Kosciusko, 19; Laporte, 20; Marshall, 19 Noble, 21; Posey, 18; Pulaski, 18; St. Joseph, 20; Sullivan, 20; Wabash, 18. This shows that the best wheat counties are not confined to any particular section of the State. The lowest yield was found ha Perry and Crawford counties, the average in each case being nine bushels. Gibion county maintains its reputation of being the leading wheat growing county in the State. Its wheat acreage in 1889 was the greatest, 69,998, and its total crop 1,469iSB bushels. Posey is a good second, with >6,305 acres and a total crop of 1,193,490 bushels. Benton county, with an average yield of fifteen bushels, raised only 15,050 bushels on its 1,670 acres of wheat. The figures are no less interesting, though less favorable, when they relate to Bom. In Indiana last year 3,418,051 acres were planted in corn, and the corn crop of the State amount to 105,542,161 . bushels. This was an average yield of 31 bushels per acre. Iu 1888 the acreage of corn was 5,419,377 ;the total yield 128,436,254 bushels, tnd the average per acre 37.6. Here Crawford County, which fell the lowest in the list of wheat growing localities, heads the list with a corn crop averaging 45 bushels per acre. Gibson county’s average was 40 bushels; that of Monroe county, 40; of Posey, 43; of Vanderburg, 40, and of Ver million, 40. The lowest average was that 9f White county, 20 bushels, and Benton’s iverage was but 21 bushels. Benton’s icreage, however, was the greatest, 82,850, »nd Tippecanoo was 81,914, Tippecanoo’s total crop was the largest, amounting to 8,457,420 bushels; Kosciusko ranked second with 2,179,580 bushels, and Knox third, with 2,0-12,511 bushels. Ohio county’s crop was the smallest, 205,663 bushels, whicn was perhaps natural, it being the smallest county. The acreage sown in oats in 1889 was 950,231; the total ettbp was 28,710,935 bushels,land the average yield per acre was 30.21 bushels. In 1888 the acreage was 937, 143, the total crop 27,493,551 bushols, and the average per acre 29.3 bushels. The greatest average yield was 43 bushels in Carroll county, and the smallest average was 13 bushels in Perry county. Here is where Benton county comes out strong, for it raised 1,420,402 bushels of oats, while Allen county, which ranks second, raised but 933,762 bushels. Ohio county is at the other extreme of the list with a total crop of 57,500 bushels. The number of acres of barley in 1889 was 19,825,-and the total crop 416,325 bushels'. The average yield per acre was 2[ bnshels. In 1888 the acreage was 18,913. the total crop 402,515 bushels and the aver )§ge yield 214 bushels. Dearborn county raised 34,056 bushels, which exceeded the crop of any other county, while Crawford’s crop of 208 bushels was the smallest. Rye was grown upon 54,451 acres in 1889, and the total crop was 871,116 bushels, and the average yield 16 bushels. This was a large increase in acreage and crop over 1888. The best average yield of rye was 40 bushels, reported from Spencer county. Buckwheat grew on 6,411 acres of Indiana soil last year, and tho crop amounted to 89,754 bushels. The clover seed crop of the State during the same period amounted to 253,728 bushels, and of timothy seed was 33,449 bushels. The crops of both in 1888 exceeded those of IB§9 by several thousand bushels. 1 In 1889, 2,349,528 tons of clover hay grew on 1,171, 764 acres, an average of two tons per acre. Of timothy hay 1,823,047 tons grew on 1,215,365 acres, an average of one and a half tons per acre. The average per acre was much larger than in 1888. The Irish potato crop last year amounted to 7,783,167 bushels raised on 79,213 acres. Of sweet potatoes the acreage was 2,772 and the crop 194,040 bushelsi. Last year 33,246,616 ponnds of butter and 519,838 pounds of cheese were produoed in the State, and Indiana cows gave 151,365,605 gallons of milk. There were raised 722,035 dozen chickens; 47,734 dozen turkeys; 19,845 dozen geese; 19,616 dozen ducks; while 21,730,638 dozen eggs were laid and 194,592 pounds of feathers plucked. During this same great year 2,384,667 rods of rail fence, 990,667 rods of bool'd fence and 1,311,316 rods of vrire feoce were built in the State.

A Story of Senator Sawyer. When Hon. Philetus Sawyer of Wisoonsin began to hew out his literary fortune in the pioey woods of the great lake region, says the Washington Post, he went to Boston to buy some pine land put up at auction. Eastern capitalists were rival bidders. They knew that Sawyer had bean over the ground and had accurate notions of what was valuable and what not Accordingly, whenever he hid they outbid him. He got nothing he bid for and returned with apparently blasted hopes. The Successful bidders later visited their purchases, and were dinel bv Mr. Sawyer. He did not even ttyen mention that he bid on nothing that was good, bat had on the other side of the Boston auction room do his bidding for him. i;hey learned, however, how baaly they h;ul been left when tney reached the woods. „

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Neglect and Carelessness Result in Loss S to The Farmer. Land Is Human in the Respect That It Heeds Best—A Mistake About Fermenting Seeds. -—Farm Notts, Choice and Other Interesting Fireside Reading. Neglect Breed. Lo<s. The average farmer loses more in the course of a year from neglect than he has any idea of. writes M. E. Bankard. One of the first losses is in not having a good fence on all land intended for pasture. Very often a few hours’ work in the spring repairing the fence around your pasture would save many dollars’ worth of grain and a good deal of vexation getting steek out oLcorn or wheat field early in the ; morning after a heavy dew. Cattle will very often eat enough green grain to render them almost ] worthless, if it does not kill them. ; Hogs are not inclined to do themselves \ any particular harm, but look out for the grain. They like to sample the whole field. A drove of twenty or thirty will destroy enough in one night to keep the fence in repair on the farm a whole year. A poor fence around a truck lot is the means of the year’s supply of sugar corn, and anything that was planted in it, being destroyed by hogs Or cattle. A few days repairing fences 1 will save a great deal of annoyance and loss. Farmers %re al ways condemning our public roads which generally deserve it, but,take a look at their own private road which lief use day after day and see if thaA cannot be improved considerably. You will not find one out of five but what can be. Some are not safe to travel. But that same farmer who condemns public roads, will travel day after day over this road until he breaks something, or perhaps, cripples a horse, which will cost him many dollars to replace. Had this same farmer spent one day with his farm hand and team, he could have made a good road without spending any cash. Careless feeding and handling brood mares very often will cause the death of both colt and mare. Careless feeding breeding animals of all kinds will cause loss in some way. Laud Needs Rest. The word “rest” has a great meaning in this busy, pushing, restless, age, says E. P. Smith in the American Cultivator. It does not mean inaction; but rather a change with the element of worry, anxiety and strain eliminated. YVhen applied to the land it is not robbed entirely of this new meaning. The land needs rest; it needs time to recuperate, and get back the elements and strength which years of successive cultivation have taken from it. But the kind of rest which the busy man most needs is change of occupation, and so with our soils, they need a change of plant growth. To grow one kind of crop, on the same soil year after year is such a heavy strain on it that it will shortly become barren and unproductive. If some crop had been sown and not harvested, but turned under, the land would be better for it. Or, again, if the land had been plowed in the spring and harrowed and cultivated to keep down the weeds and then prepared for winter wheat, this crop would have had a good chance to grow. The land would have been enriched by the action of the sun and moisture, which would give it the desired change. Summer fallowing, aa this process is called, should be practiced oftener, and then better crops would be obtained, and our soils would not continue to deteriorate, Give the land a rest occasionally, but do not be misled by the idea that simply a change of plants will bring about the desired result.

Fermenting the Weed Seed*. The idea that fermentation always or even generally kills weed seeds is a common error. Some kinds may be thus killed, but it is not much of a weed that is so easily gotten rid of. Soma kinds of weed seeds grow better after being gently heated in manure heaps. The fear of drawing out weed seeds is often given as the reason for not applying manure as made, but it is a mistaken one. Charcoal for Feeding. Grain-fed and especially corn-fed hogs relish a littie charcoal mixed with their rations. It corrects the aeidity which corn causes, and will often bring a cloyed animal back to its feed. Charcoal is also good for fowls. Iu winter, when snow is on the ground, it fills the gizzard and helps to grind the food. Slightly charring corn before feeding makes it better for producing eggs, though it is belter still to substitute a partial ration of whole wheat, which gives material for both the albumen and the shell of the eggs.

Household Notes. To freshen fish soak them in sour milk. A red hot iron passei ovdr old putty will soften it so it can be easily removed. The more even temperature in the cellar the better what is stored there will keep. A piece of sponge fastened to a stick is a good thing with which to clean lamp chimneys. Great improvement will be found in tea and cotfeo if kept in gl ss fruit jars instead of tin boxes. Beets should be boiled one hour in summer; one hour and a half, or even two hours, if large, in winter. The Department of Agriculture statistician says the total acreage in potatoes last year w a 2,500,000. and the average yield seventy-six bushels. The theory that when trees are grafted on whole roots they be harder than when grafted on the. young stock is claimed to be errone*otis and a delusion. - Kerosene applications lo the skin of animals, aim remedied for lice and skin, ailments, are too severe. Ope gill of kerosene added to. a (mart ofeottonseed Qil is "better. The money expended ou roads, if

properly applied, will* save wear and depreciation of Wagons. Many good horses are annually killed or foundered by bad roads. A road can not t>e made too good for travel. Carbolized sulphur is sure deith Ir the lice .that infests the uesta It. i»! prepared as follows: Flowers of sill-; phur, five pounds: fluid extract of jp. m-; mercial c>irJa.oiic,,.acid. one.-dxai,.ni^ thoroughly mix and it is ready lor l u.-e. We know this to be go<«i. The hog can be made to aU; in a' very large , size. A Vermont fai nr j killed a cow, 8 years old, that dn itc., 877 pounds, but a hog, only 2 j ears old, owned by another Vermont far n<*:\ dressed 663 pounds. Large hogs, how-j ever, are only desirable for producing lard. The best pork comes from h g- 1 that weigh about 150 pounds dressel

Recipe* Worth Saviosr. Mock Mince Pie.— One cup each ol sour milk.sugar, and raiaias cronped fine, one tablespoon 6f vinegar, two eggs, cinnamon, cloves and allspice. Bake between two crusts. Lemon Pie.— Roll three lemons till soft Take out the seeds and juice and chop up the peel very fine. To the juice and peel add two cups of chopped raisins, two cups of molasses and two rolled crackers. Stir it well, adding one cup of water. This will make.four pies. Macaroni with Cheese.—Prepare mac ironi with cream sauce and pour into a buttered scalloped dish. Have half a cup of grated cheese and half a cup of broad or cracker crumbs mixed; sprinkle over the macaroni and place in the oven to brown; it will take about twenty minutes. Fried Potatoes with Corn-meal. —Pare and slice potatoes. J inch thick; put 2 tablespoonfuls of meat fryings in spider and have hot. Turn iu a layerof potatoes over which sift 2 tablespoonfuls of corn-meal. Add salt and pepper and a little butter; another layer of potatoes, corn-meal, salt, popper and butter. Fry slow as they are apt to scorch, turn them carefully and let brown. 7 Log Cabin Cake. —ln a smoo th earthen crock lay 7 /tablespoonsful of light soft coffee sugar, 1 tablespoonfut butter; add to this i egg. Beat until smooth and light; add 5 tablespoonsful of cold water, tuix thoroughly. Add 5 drops of flavoring. Sift with 7 heaping tablespoonsful of flour. 1 teaspoonful baking powder and stir Vin lightly. Rub a little butter over a pan. sprinkle flour over, shake off loose flour.

Baked Halibdt.—Lay the piece in salt and water for two hours, wipe on a clean wet cloth and score the skin; sprinkle over it some dripping. Have the oven tolerably hot and bake about an hour. Melt a little butter in hot water to baste the fish with irom time ;to time. Stir into the gravy some boiling water, the juice of a lemon, and either walnut ketchup or Worcestershire sauce. Let it boil once and serve in a sauce boat. Baked Apple Sauce.—Core with a little tin implement as many juicy apples as will fill a large baking pan. Then' pare the apples. But two tablespoonfuls of cold water in the- bottom of the pan. Set in the apples, filling lin the core hollows with brown sugar | and grated lemon. Bake in a modhr- ] ate oven until the apples can be easily i mashed. This makes the be it apple j sauce. Rose water is a fine addition, I but it is best defer putting in the rose [ water until just before the apples aro mashed. —■

Boiled Codfish. —Put two pounds’ of codfish iu slightly salted boiling ! water; put in also a bit of lemon peel, ; a few peppers and cloves. When the fish is so tender that the fins may readily be pulled out, it is done; remove from the fire and arrange temptingly on a folded napkin and garnish with parsley. Make a sauce with a dozen oysters; scalcl them in their liquor, add salt; pepper, a piece of mace and tv/o tablespoon fuls of butter. Mix a teaspoonful of flour smoothly into half a cupful of milk, add to the liquor; simmer a moment; add to the oysters; pour into a sauce boat ana serve with the fish.

A Glance at Nature. Thq blades of com stalk to and fro As the green bull rushes by, And the grasses shoot as they see it go, And the sweet potatoes eye. Then the corn declares it would like to ear V. hat the cabbage bead to say; But the sbppery elm barn so clear That they raise it celery. The wheat is shocked and her feelings hurt, For it goes against the grain When a strawberry runner tries to flirt W ith a dandy sugar cane.

He Took no Risks.

“Charles, dear.” said a fond wife who was assisting her husband for a short journey, “what is this flask ol whisky for?' 1 “That,” said .her husband, suddenly looking from his v .lise. “O, that’s to be used exclusively in the case of suake bites.” "But. my dear,” remonstrated the little woman, “there are no snakes in the cars.” “O, yes there are, at times. You see, when they stop to wood up. or take water at some way station out in the woods—seme gloomy sw mp or bayou - the snakes board the train and crawl around the passengers’ legs. It’s mighty annoying, and dangerous, too. And then, too, I've seen men on cars with tbeirhoots full of a a axes — real serpents—none of your circus poster reptiles, but the genuine article. Yes, I shouldn’t consider my life worth ten *ents if I w-t-rs to leave that bottle of whisky behind.”

Outlines for a Novel.

A sensational piece oCiiews appear* in a Mobile paper. it «ls said that some two years sigo Mrs. Fanny Cole* man, a northern lady, went to John Moulton’s house in Baldwin county for the benefit of her health. Mr. Moulton found that h»s boarder had a large sum of money w th’hbr and some valuable a -curiUea. With the assist* ance ot a fepnale neighbor fie rocked Mrs. Coleman up and kept her a prisoner until a few d ya ago, when the authorities interfered. This is a bare putlifto of VUa-Shpposod dtwtam -ihtte ise. If there is any truth in the story it beats the average dime novel*

A GREAT DAY FOR GAME.

The Bemarkabls Bag of a True Savannah Sportsman. — . lkl '; All in the Fog, Reside Wild Beasts, Fowl and Creeping Things in Plenty Enough t> • Ary ■ ■T“Quick business ?” “You bet” The hunter rested a little, and throwing himself down in one of the market stalls, he began the story o> ins last day’s hunt on the river. “It was a very heavy fog and when the boys and I got out two hours before day we had a durn site of trouble to see our way along through the swamps. We were on our way to the bo.it at the river for ducks, it was a -Splendid morning and we wanted to get there about the time the ducks were getting out. We. blundered through the bushes, slipping in the mud till we got nearly U> the river bank. W hat did we see ? A big wildcat running on a log not twentyfive yards away* witn a squirrel in bis mouth. We stopped. The wildcat kept coming. When he got a littie closer he threw his heal up and began to scent" He stueLed us. and when he saw us he squatted on his haunches as a cat does when it is charming a bird. “I walked up slowly with my gun, sighted, and when i pulled the trigger •the 'eritber’ st rted to t*tm. It was a minute before the smoke cleared away. We went up to the place where the animal had been, but we couldn’t find anything. Missed -him? Must have; dnd we started on, the boys in front, and I stopped to reload my gun. Before I got loaded I heard a whoop, and the boys came running back. They said that a big bear had possession of the bout I had killed more bears than you can shake a stick at, and it was fun for me. We crept ~aloflg cautiously

back to the boat. 1 had my gun cocked, ready to blow a hole in bruin. The boat was swinging about in the water and the chain was ruttling. It sent cold chills coursing through the boys, but it only served to excite interest in me. W.e got down to the boat and what did we lind but the wild cat lying dead in the bottom with the squirrel in his mouth. In was fun for the boys, but it was a great disappointment to me. We threw the cat on the bank and washing the blood out of the boat started for the duck ground.” ' “How about the ducks?"

“It was the biggest day for ducks I ever knew. The flopping of the ducks’ wings made the boys fairly dance. The first flock we drove up made a terrible noise. We rowed along, and ducks kept flying up all around us. Finally we rowed by a small flock and they would not fly. That did mg good. That was the result of not firing into them. Around a swamp head I heard the quack of an English drake. It was thegame I was after. We rowed cautiously around the head, stopping behind a eiump of bushes in the water. The stream was full of ducks, and I thought the boys would have a Muck fit’ We paddled along up toward them, keeping the clump of trees between us until we got in good distance, and then we opened on thorn.”

“How many?” “Nineteen big English ducks. Killed them at one shot. If I could have seen to put in another shot I believe I could have killed half as many more with the second barrel. Never heard such a noise in my life as they got up out of the water and shook themselves and left for Florida. The flapping of their wings the qu icking and splashing of water made a loud row. We started buck, and as we were rounding the head, J saw a rippling in it w s a drove of summer ducks, but when it got nearer I saw it was three Otters. I stopped TEe boat, but the animal saw us and turned around the clump of trees.

••Whirling the boat around, we turned too. and all .that I could see in the bushes a black spot. I cut lose at it When the smoke cleared up we found all three otters dead. We lugged them in the boat and rowed back. Just as we got in sigh! of the bank we encountered a deer which the dogs had just run into the river. He came swimwith the tip end of his nose out gjj the water, i turned the boat and paddled Swiftly untH we got alongside of the »nirn 1, when we made a lasso of the boat chain and threw it over the horns of the buck. One of the boya held the chain to up the side of the boat and I reached down and cut the buck’s throat We carried him into camp. • It was the biggest haul I have ever known. Our camp was a very poorly built shanty, with boards stretched across pine poles for beds. We were provided with blankets which served as a mattress. Our coats served as pillows. The game was stowed away in the shanty, and toward midnight I was aroused by something under the blanket It was breathing, and at each breath it ra'sed mo up. That is. *t raised my hair up, for it was under my head. I confess that for the first time in my Vamp experience I was scared. I lay still without turning over or moving a muscle until day. I counted every breath thatthe thing drew. When the boys woke up and began to tumble and roll about I told them very easily to get up .ind open the door and pull the cover ofT of me and clear the way, that there was something the matter. I was mighty pale, they s od, and they suspected that I had a nightmare. They did s F directed and I made a triumphant leap, shouting to the boys to run for life, and we piled out of the ahaaty together. ’ r V_ . 1 _ _ “What was it under your head?" ••Wnat do you think? A monster a’tlesnake. We killed it and it had Ik-ee of the ducks and the Squirrel in ’« stomach.”—Savanna (Ga.) Mews.

Reform in Hindoostan.

A native movement to break up cep-‘-u'n Hindoo chstoms has been started in Bombay. By it no sons are permitted to mriiry under 16 and nc daughter under 10. No man is te marry a second wife duriDg the iif^ time- of-the'--ffnrtr-h< ,; 'ii' di-ink spirits save under medical advice. Marriage expanses are »lap la be greatiy reduced.