The Lincoln County herald., 1870-05-05

pllsned. And that tact is this, tnat the
love Of the radical for them is nothing
more than rorfession simple desire
to use them for his own political aggran
dizement, and that being accomplished
he is ready to leave them to any fate that
may betide them, not caring a particle
whether 1t bs good or bad. % che other
hand the Democrat neither Hatters uor
deceives them. On the contrary he deals
candidly and kindly with them and gives
the only course to be pursued by the ne.
gro, which will secure to him his rights as
feed IMAM Brunswicker. .
A Cape Girardeau paper gives the
particulars of o heat.rendiDg calamity
which occurred on Wednesday Of last
week in the vicinity of the neig ighboring
village of Benton, and by which little
child, five or six yeats old, cano very
near sending all Of its family into ctes.
nifty. On the morning of the day of the
terrible tragedy, MIR. John T. Lowry,
farmer, took bis shotgun and went to the
woods to shoot squirrel. On his return
in the evening he laid the weapon, hsav
lily charged with shot, on a bed 10 the
family room and rode OF to Benton.
His wife, an invalid, was lying on another
bed in the apartment aud bis three grown
daughters we're engaged in household
work in the room. The youngest child,
a boy Of five or six years, happened to
spy che gun, and, unnoticed by any Of
the family, began playing sithit Sud
denly the house shook with deafening
report, accompanied by screams of agony
aud alarm. On the subsidenoe of the
confusion, it was discovered that the lit
tie fellow had unconcously accomplished
a horrible work. Mary, one of the
daughters. was PROSTATE on the floor,
both eyes shot from her head and the
frontal bone terribly torn and lacerated.
Emily, another sister, received a large
portion Of the charge also in her head.
in6icting an ugly, and it is feared, NOR.
tai wound The elder sister. just sec.
ond before the gun was discharged, for.
tunately changed her position and escaped
uuharmed. The poos sick mother, wit.
Messing the horrible catastrophe, was
thrown into historical convultion, which
the attending physicians fear will result
fatally.-Jefferson City Tribune.
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The venerable DR.. White, of Lexing.
ton, Va, was thrown from his horse, q
few days ago, and seriously injured.
The fruit crop in Southern Illiaois has
been but slightly damaged. Prospects
are very good for heavy yield.
In Eve years the debt Of Philadelphia
has increased from sixteen to forty mil
lion dollarso-a result of Radical rule.
Tho only man in East Bay township,
Michigan, who voted for Seymour in
1868, has just got ovt Of bad company
by moving away.
Ex.President johnson is getting airy.
He recently bought three story brick
house for residence, in Greenvillc, East
| Tennessee.
A company Of negro soldiers who we're
stoned by some boys in Louisvills, on
Friday night, frod into the crowd, but
nobody was hurt. t.lar 7,daH d..
A Florida alligator's post mortem re-
vealed several buttons, IIarbles aud tor
in bis stomach, aud neigh boring family
thinks il knows where its missing little
boy went to. '" oaT'- D..
Nine Radical papers in tie State have
declared 10 favor Of the denomination Of
| McClurg for Governor. Their Chief
reason for supporting Joseph, is not that
he is On able man, but that he ,s honest.
This is such an extraordinary trait for Z
Radical Official to display, that they wisf
to reward him ,faa it. .-. b -
The county clerks in Californis have
refused to enroll colored men % voters,
and arc sustained in their course by tin
msmbers of the Legislature of that State
In Ciroleville, Ohio, the Democratic
> judges in the control of the polls refuse
TO- receive the votes Of eolored men, OF
the ground that tho ratification CT th'
Fifteenth Amendment was not decided L
be legal. lai nsust I
The new postage stamps ere now ready
for use. The l cent stamps are profile
bus. of Fras klin-color, blue. Q cents
Jackson profile bust--color, brown.
cents, Washington profile bust-oolor
green. 6 cents, Lincoln profile bust
0 color, cochineal. 10 cents, Jefferson pro
Ole bust-color, neutral tint purple. /!