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New-York tribune., 1869-04-01
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oTTIcK OF rHE MErRoPoLrrAs BOARD oy HsALrH}
Nc. 9gi Mottst March n, 1868. s
T n meeting of the Metropolitan Board of
N HEALTH held It's ONCE No. 9oi Mottst Eew.York, on the 2Sh
day Of March, 1863 the following resolution adopted;
oed hereby declared 10 be additional ordinance OF
t, Board That garbage ether material that
ahe 70 emit an offensive sIkAon adjacent the built
up portions village Of the Metropolitan Sanitary District
stirred about its removal in such a. to be Ia
'.......: ~ GEORGE B. LINCOLN Prssdsnt =
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washington News.


WASHINGTON, August 25.-The Secretary
Of War has returned to the city.
Governor Senter, of Tennessee, with q
party, has arrived here to see the Presi-
dent, and went northward in pursuit Of
him.
Secretary Boutwell, and General Butler
will visit Macon, Ga, to attend the Georgia
agricultural fair. :.
The Gettysburg Identification scheme is o
failure. Most of the letters from promi'
nent Generals deplore the movement as
tending to tear open half-healed sectional
wounds.
The revenue receipts to-day were $685.
900.
There is not Secretary of Department
in Washington.
John B. Read, of Tuscaloosa, Ala, ha:
obtained patent for making paper from
the cotton plant.
Admiral Poor has gone to New York, and
will thence leave in his flagship for Cubar
waters.
The Cubans have advices to the 10th in
slant. Neither Quesada nor Jordon hac
had any fighting.
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ANOTHER TRAGEDY IN PHILADELPHIA
4 FATHER KILLED BY HIS SoN.-Phila-
delphia, August 24.-Early this morning
Thomas l.. Evans, aged sixty-three years,
was killed by his son, Marshall II. Evans,
ut the house of Mrs. Belshaw, No. BOG
South Tenth street, occupied in part by
Evans. The family, with the exception of
Marshall, were taking breakfast, and had
entered into general discussion of the con-
duct of Marshall for some time past. They
had concluded that the father, after break
fast, should visit DR.. Duke, who had ex-
pressed the opinion that the son was insane,
and had better be sent to an insane asylum,
and obtain from him certificate of insa-
nifty, on which he could be removed to an
asylum.
Just as this had been concluded, and to
which it is thought Marshall had been q
listener, he stepped into the dining-room,
and MS he took his seat his father said
Good morning" He did not reply to this
salutation, but ate pretty heartily, and
while he was thus engaged the father left
the room to change his gown for a coat, and
procuring his hat, started down the front
stairway. Marshall had stepped into the
HULL, dIiu Ns LID lutACl Nub palGoIbS l1to
the yestibule he drew revolver and fired
three shots in rapid succession. The father
rctreated through the parlor to the hall
again, and back toward the dining-room.
Passing the pantry he clutched at the
door, and from that fell into the arms of
Mrs. Belshaw, who laid him on the floor.
Marshall followed his father all the way
back, and as the body was lying on the floor
he bent over it, but said nothing. Mrs.
Belshaw said to him, Marshall, see what
you've DONE" to which he did not answer.
The young ladies, on hearing shots and see
ing Marshall with a pistol in his hand, gave
the alarm, and he was taken into custody.
To questions asked he replied /" don't feel
right" The father died soon after.
Young Evans is twenty-six years old. He
has been afflicted with rheumatism for many
years. He behaved in frantic manner
recently to his wife, who was living at
Riverside, N. j., threatening her life. He
came to this city yesterday, and was fol-
lowed by his wife. On reaching his father S
house he behaved strangely, and during
the night threatened his father with knife.
After the father got up, the son got posses
sion of pistol formerly given by him to
his father, which he used in the tragedy.
The scene of the deed is very near that of
the Twitchell murder.
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The VIRTUE OF SOFT SoAP.-Yesterday
morning, shortly after the prisoners at the
county jail had been released from their
cells for a walk in the corridor, young
boy named James Duggan, aged ten years,
managed to make his escape from durance
vile. He had been locked up for commit
ting burglary in the store No. 55 Clark
street. The boy got out by first soaping
himself all over and then squeezing be-
tween the bar of the window and wall and
it seems incredible that so large body
could get through so small space. His
brother, Pat. Duggan, also endeayored to
escape, but his head was too large to admit
passage through the aperture. Several
boys have made successful endeavors to
escape from the same place and the youth
full vagabonds consider it grand achieve
ment to "break jail" in this manner
Chicago Post,
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Domest;c tIarkets--GBY TELEGRAPH.

NEW YORK. August 5.-Eoon.-Moncy'casy and
unchanged. Stcrlinr-LonG, 1925; short. 1l0a
Gold 1881. 5-2Os. 81. 1924. Tennessee G's, en-
coupons, GOT asked new. 533. Vrglnia 0s, 5ai
new SIS. North Carolina s's old, 55t new, so.
Flour, wheat, and corn dull and unchanged.
Pork quiet at S32.sTi. Lard dull. Cotton quiet at
S5c. Turpcntinc dropping ut 4l3c. Rosln firm
good common, S2.a2i strained, 81. 35QT2.37.
Ereniuq.-Cotton dull and &c. lower; sales $50
bales mt site. Flour closed shade easier. W heat
stcadier and more active; winter red western,
81 so: Michigan, sl.G0. Corn stcader. and more
doing ut 81. l0MSlla Oats--Ncw southern 5oR963c.
Pork dull ut S32.75. Lard steady. Whiskcy lower
ut S1.2lG3Sl.25. Sugar steady. Coffee quiet and
firm. Molasses quiet Turpentlnc, 4ls@Hc. Ro-
sin. $2.o56Ss. Fre!ghts more active.
Governments closed strong; 5-2O's, 'G2, l22t.
Southern securities firm. Money easy nj per
cent, with exceptions nj 5. Sterling, 10ol@lO9l.
Gold active and excited ut 1899.
BALTIMORE, August 25.-Cotton quiet at 345c.
Flour dull and favors buyers. Wheat dull and
heavy; prime to choice red. S1.dO6lSl.I. Corn
firm white and yellow, 81 l5 Oats dull 1t 53gD55c.
Rye Sl.0jFL$l.l5. Provisions quiet and firm.
Whiskey, $f25
Virginia 6's, DID, IS bid, 80, asked.
CISC1SNATI. August a5.-Proyisions very nrm
mess pork, S3iIIS3i.5O' shoulders lGtql6sc. SUI
gar-cured hams. 22c.; fancy. 285c.j lard, 2e5c.
Mhiskey steady at Sl.2OGlSL9l.
LOUISVILLE, August 25.-Whiskcy. Sl.2o. Pro-
visions quiet and unchanged with little demand.
NEW ORLEANS, August 25.-No sales Of cotton.
Sugar and tuolasscs unchanged. Gold 1899. New
York sight. &c. premium.
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SEIZURE OF RAILROADS By GOVERNMENT
Knoxville, August 24.-Colonel Folsom,
quartermaster United States army, is here
under orders from the Government to take
possession as receiver of the East Tennes.
see and Georgia and East Tennessee and
Virginia Railroad Companies for an indebt-
edness of 100000 due the Government for
engines and rolling stock purchased at the
close of the war.
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MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATIC STATE Con
yESTIoN Worcester, Mass
Augusta .-The Democratic State Conyen
ton to-day nominated the following ticket
For Governor, J. Q. Adams, Of Quincy
for Lieutenant Governor, S. G: Lamb, Of
Greenfield; for Secretary Of State, John
K. Tarbox of Lawrence; for Treasurer
Mr.. Haywood, of Gardiner for Attorney
General, j. G. Abbott, of Boston; Tor Au'
ditor, Phineas Allen, of Pittsfeld.
Resolutions were adopted denouncing the
prohibitory law, condemning the Legisla-
ture for not granting charters to certain la
Dor organizations, calling for economy in
the public expenditures, recognizing the
duty of acquiescing in results already ar
rived at in national affairs, expressing con-
fidence in the ultimate success OF the party
&c. The convention was harmonious.
Colonel Adams, in accepting the nomina-
ton, made speech which was much com
inended both by Democrats and Republi.
cans. He criticised the tariff system, and
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endeavored to support his argument in ga
vor Of free trade by quotations from Com
missioner n, Wells's report. In speaking of
the prohibition law, he recommended that
nm invitation be extended to Republicans to
JOIN the party and defeat the law.
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F1RE-PRIcE OF PAPER ADVANCED, &C.
Philadelphia, August 24.-At o'clock P.
NJ. a fire broke out in the large building
corner of Ninth and Wallace streets, occu-
pied by eight or ten different manufactu-
rers. No water was to be had on the spot,
and there is probability of large fire.
Owing to the stoppage Of the paper mills
at Manayunk, which were ali run by water
power, the price of paper has advanced p
as cents per pound. Some manufacturers
are arranging to put in steam-engines
which will turn out fifteen tons of paper
daily.
Two more small distilleries have been
closed by Government detectives, but con-
traband article is still manufactured and
sold.
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THE CANVASS OPENED IN MISSISSIPPI
jackson, August 24.--The canvass has
opened in Mississippi. J. E. Williams, O
weli=known colored orator from Tennessee,
and s: W: Mannaway tcolored), of Virgil
mia, are here Mt work for the Conservatives
Judge Jeffards and Williams to-day pub
lished list of appointments to address
the people.
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PRESIDENT GRANT ATTENDS THE RE-
UNION OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUB-
LIc.-Prouidence, r. l., August 24.-Pre-
sident Grant attended the reunion of the
Grand Army of the Republic to-day at
Ocean Cottage, on the bay, three miles be-
low this city. He came up from Newport
on the steamer Bay Queen, accompanied by
Mrs. Grant, Secretary Boutwell,, Senator
Morgan and wife, Senator Anthony, Gene
raj Porter, Judge Birdsall, Hon. Charles II.
Russell, L. P. Morton OF New York, and
others. Captain Douglass and Ex-Governor
DYER received him as committee of the
Grand Army.
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Tobacco Returns Case Decided.

BUFFALO, N. Y, August % The case OF
the United States Us. Kimball, for render
ing fraudulent returns of tobacco business
to the Revenue Department, has been de-
cided in favor of the Government. The de-
cision involves the forfeiture of the stock
and machinery, valued at $40, 900. A Grim
inal prosecution against Kimball commences
in October.
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NEW YORK.

NONDAY.-At the Communipaw cattlc-yards
there were about .. 900 BeeycS. Trade slow ut the
quotations of last week. small number OF iancy
IS lbs. ~ rs. gross weight. Several drovcrs who
had good common cattle stated that all they could
sell for was llTl3c. n b.. net weight. Smooth.
thrifty steers that had not been finished I'm fatten.
Ing with meal, sold ut lGQl5c. a. ID.
Dealers In Sheep declared that. at the present
condition of The market. sheep 1uotable Mt 33n
SC. q TO-, live weight. The top Of the market wa
Sc. for drovcs When few OF the best were Sc
Iected they were sold for 6f07c. II II.
Swine continue steady at 1O3c. fa ID. live weight
and 1oIIGi3;r dressed.
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The SCIENTIFIC AssoclATIoN.-Sale
Mass, August 24.-At session of the
American Science Association the PROPOSE
ton was adopted leaving the subject of the
next annual meeting in the hands of q COM
mittee, and authorizing them to select Nj
agara Falls as. the next place Of meeting
provided suitable accommodations can be
obtained, or if they deem the locality un-
suitable, to make the next best arrange
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VIRGINIA Il: NEWS.
Arrest for Illicit- Dis,i,lation.
Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.
CuLPEPER COUNTY, VA, August "a

CuLPEPER COUNTY, VA, August "a.
Isaac N. Wilson, citizen of Rappahan-
mock county Giving near the Culpeper ine) !,
was on Saturday last arrested and taken to
Richmond, charged with illicit distilling.
1t appears that several months past it
was rumored that Wilson was "making n
little on the sly" and that two young men
called upon him and told him that they had
understood he had been violating the laws
against distilling, and that they could get a
large sum from the Government for report
ing him however, as they needed ready
money, If he would pay them a good fee
they would say nothing. He declined pay
ing anything, denying the charges. On
Saturday one of the young gents, in COM
pany with officers or employees of the Gov
eminent, went to Wilson'S house and ar
rested him.
Wilson is m industrious, energetic man,
and good citizen, and was the main stay
Of large and helpless family, principally
daughters. B.
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The PHILADELPHIA WATER SUPPLY
The mooted question of whether steam fire.
engines could be made available in pump
ing water into the Fairmount reservoir from
the Paramount dam was put to practical
test on Monday afternoon. The CHIEF en-
gineer detailed a fre-engine to proceed to
Paramount and make the experiment. At
o'clock the steamer proceeded to the trial
in the presence Of number of members Of
Councils, city officials, engineers, and q
good gathering of spectators generally.
The Inquirer of yesterday says:
The hose was pulled up the steep ascent
in as direct line as the formation Of the
ground would allow, and when the nozzle
end was in close proximity to the reservoir
the engine got up steam and proceeded to
force water from the river. The first at
tempt was failure, in consequence of the
hose bursting in some weak point before
the water reached the reservoir. A second
and third attempt failed from similar
causes, but on the fourth trial, the line Of
hose being in perfectly sound condition, the
steamer got fairly to work, and in the course
of an hour, with q pressure of seventy
pounds of steam, water was forced into the
reservoir at the rate of about four hundred
gallons per minute.
This would make for one engine about
"a 900 gallons per hour, or 2SS, 900 gallons
in twelve hours. If tho entire fire depart
ment we're brought into requisition, consist
ing of forty-six steam-engines, the amount
of water pumped would be Is, 24S, 900 gal
! Ions Of water in twelve hours. During the
month of August about 25,000,00O gallons
is the average daily consumption, and sup
posing each engine of the fire department
capable of doing for twelve hours the work
performed by the Hope yesterday during
her short trial it follows that the steam
engines are capable of pumping into Fair
mount reservoir something less than half Of
the daily demand made on the Paramount
works.
The result of yesterdays trial proved
that steam fre-engines can force water
from the dam into the reservoir, and the
drawback of the bursting of the hose can
easily be obviated by using pipes of iron
or some other material that cannot burst,
at such points as ordinary hose is liable tc
| burst.
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AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
old DOMINION CIDER MILLS.

Up to this time we have been unable to fill
promptly our orders for this unequalled PORT
ABLE CIDER MILL on account of the demand
By increasing the force working on them we
shall from this time be able to ship promptly, and
are invited TO send for an OLD DOMINION. 1t
took the first premium at Stanton from the Au-
gusta County Society, and was also awarded last
Year the first premium by the Rockbridge gri-
cultural Society-the committees In both cases
being some of the best farmers and fruit-growers
In tue State. Every mill warranted.
Those to whom this Mill Is not known are invited
to write for catalogue, which gives cuts and full
description.
au q #. Box 8, Richmond, Va
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FERTILIZERS.

JAMES RIVER MANIPULATED
~ GUANO.-Thc undersigned again offers to the
farmers of Virginia and North Carolina these
well-known PREPARATIONS: and had anything been
wanting 10 establish their peculiar superiority as
the recent harvest-in many cases bringing up the
yield on thin lands to from fifteen to twenty-five
bushels per acre
They contain PERUVIAN and PHOSPHATE
(Nevassa) GUANO-the latter finely reduced on
burr millstones. and are combined In the follow
ton OF 1000 pounds Peruvian and 900 pounds
Nerassa to the ton of 1900 pounds; SPECIAL
of !, 333 pounds Peruvian and
COZ pounds of Ncvassa to the ton Of 900 pounds.
GROUND PERUVIAN GUANO made ready for
the drill by grinding, in It's drycst state, the pure
Peruvinn--to be procured, prepared in this man
ner, nowhere else in the United States
Orders solicited for the above.
au 27-w!w Z. B. BENTLEY, Agent.
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Cattle Markets.
PHILADELPHIA. PA.

MONDAY, AUGUST 23-5 p. M.-The Cattle mar
ket was very dull this week. and prices fully &c.
per pound lower. About 9. 100 head arrived and
sold at SlGi0c. for extra Pennsylvana and western
pound. gross. for common. as to quality. Sheep
were rather dull O. 800 head sold at different yards
at i6lGc. per pound gross. Us to condition. Hogs
were I'm fair demand ., 700 hend sold ut the differ
cnt yards ut Sl36JSl375 for sop and Sld@ld.5o per
100 nounts net, for cOrnfed including few choice
ut Sl!. 10 per 100 pounds.
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SUICIDE OF AN ALExASDRIAN.-Mr. B. c.
Major, formerly of this city, committed sui
eide in Baltimore yesterday by taking NOR
phine. Deceased was an apothecary in q
drug store at the corner of Pratt and Paca
streets, and leaves a wife and three chill
dren. Cause, mental depression and loss
of money.-dlerdndria Gazette.
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a DESERVED TRIBUTE.-On yes
terday we noticed at Gaddcss's Marble
Works neat, modest tombstone bearing
the following inscription:
"This stone is erected by the white peo-
pie of Salem, Va, in honor of George Wash
ington Thomas, who died July 18th, 1869,
aged thirtythree years. An honest, indus
trious colorcd man, who, in the day of Vir-
ginia's greatest trial, was willing to join
hands with his white neighbors in the bond
of mutual friendship and sympathy"
At the head of the stone are the words
" Peace to his ashes" and just below pair
of clasped hands. This is an appropriate
testimonial to the memory Of true, indie
pendent colored man who dared to vote the
whole Conservative ticket at the late cleo
ton, and who, unfortunately, died suddenly
on the day following. Whilst living he was
not afraid to proclaim his friendship for
his white friends, and over his cold, dead
body they are willing to do him honor
Lyachb,wg Ne,cS.
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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Sentenced to the Penitentiary.
Enecfai telegram to the Disnntch.

FARMv1LLE, VA, August Is, 1869.
Nat. Fl. Jackson was this morning con-
victed of murder in the second degree, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for FIVE years.
The trial has lasted eight days. A motion
for new trial was refused by Judge Boil
-.
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Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
Ratn-St0rm Barn Destroyed by
Lightning.
ROANOKE, August "a,

ROANOKE, august II, 1909.
On Monday night there was heavy fall
of rain in the region of Hollins Institute,
Roanoke county. The thunder and light
ming were terrific, and the windows of
heaven seemed to have been opened. How
far it extended we have not at this writing
the means of knowing, but from the indi-
cation of the clouds and the aspect of the
heavens to-day we judge large section of
our thirsty valley was we'll watered.
The barn of Mr.. Lewis Myers, of Roa-
noke, was struck by lightning and utterly
consumed. His loss is heavy 900 bush
els Of wheat, large quantity of oats and
hay, and the building itself, worth proba-
bly, sl,000-the aggregate amounting to
some $4,000 or $4,000.
Crops of corn here are very unpromising,
but these heavy rains may yet revive them.
Trust in the Lord and do good, and verify
thou shalt be fed.' x. Y. u.
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Death.

INDIANAPOLIS, August 25.-David Nc
Donald, Judge of the United States District
Court, is dead.
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Foreign Markets-[BY TELEGRAPH.

Foreign MarKctS-IBY IEIE|KAFHI.
LONDON August 25.-N0on.-The weather con-
tlnucs favorable. The crops are gathered, and In
good condition. Consols, 93l. United States
bonds 81. Sugar. anoat, buoyant.
LONDON, August IS. - Erening. - Turpentine,
2Gs. Cd.
LIVERPOOL. August Standardization quiet
uplands. l3s@l3id. Orleans, l35Nl!d. estimated
sales s. 900 bales.
JEernoOn-Cotton quiet. Breadstuffs quiet.
Ta!low AIS. Cd. Other articles unchanged.
LIVERPOOL, August IS. - ErentRJ. - Cotton
easier; uplands, l3id. Orleans, 1891. sales, 80Ot
bales, including 1000 bales for speculation ant
export.
PARIS, August 25.-Boursc steady rcntcs, 73f
use.
HAvRE, August 25.-Cotton opens heavy both OIL
the spot and afioat.
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MISSED THE FLooD.-A friend who came
up from Appomatto1 yesterday complains
that the grateful rain of Tuesday night did
not fall in that county, and he finds this
fact difficult to reconcile with the Scriptural
text that the rain falls alike on the just and
unjust. 1t may be proper to explain that
the Just" refers to the people of Lynch.
burg, and the "unjust" to their imperial
ghbors.-LyachJerg Republican.
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THE EPISCOPAL PARSONAGE at Charles
town, Jefferson county, was burned on FRI
day morning last-supposed to have been
fired by an incendiary. The Rector, Rev.
W. II. Meade, was absent at the time.
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The PRESIDENTS RELATIVES
F. I. Dent, in letter to Rensselaer,
county friend, answers those who have
charged General Grant with favoritism.
de says: NO one Of the name of Dent
holds an Office conferred by Grant. / am
the only one of four brothers who holds q
Federal office. am an officer of the army
a position I have held for twenty-six years
My brother, Judge Lewis Dent, is spoken of
for Governor of Mississippi, so hear. The
people of Mississippi have as much the pri-
rilege of choosing for themselves Governor
as the State of New York has, and are as
free from the dictation of General Grant in
their selection rs presume New York would
be-
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FATAL SHOOTING AFFAIR IN SOUTHLAND
TON CoUNTY.-On the 10th of this month,
as we are informed, Mr.. Samuel R. Davis
was shot and killed at his residence, in
Southampton, by Mr.. Sterling G. Sledge,
also resident Of the county. 1t appears
that q youth on the farm of Mr.. Sledge
made some communication to the latter in
regard to Mr.. Davis, which in time came to
Mr.. Davis's ears. On the 9th instant Mr..
Davis met the youth and n son of Mr..
Sledge on one of county roads, denounced
the statement about him as false, and told
the young man that if he ever repeated it
he would whip him. To this young Sledge
responded that Davis would have to whip
him too. Davis said he could do that g.; and
proposed to do it then and there, but Mr..
Sledge rode off, saying he would inform his
father.
On the following day 1.-THE 1Oth) Mr..
Sledge and his son rode over to Mr.. Davis's
house and called him out. AS he was ap-
preaching them the elder Sledge requested
his son to give him pistol which was
done, and he fired upon Mr.. Davis, almost
Immediately killing him.
The Messrs. Sledge were subsequently
arrested, and on Monday of last week were
committed to Jail by an examining court to
await trial at the regular quarterly court
of the county. The affair, we hear, caused
good deal of feeling in the county.
Mr.. Davis was poor man, and the cltl-
zcns have, at their own expense, engaged
eminent counsel to conduct the prosecution
against the party or parties charged with
his Misunderstanding mder Of WedneS-
dOu