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III pam, and sometimes crying bitterly. He
saw the prosecuting witness, Clara Crum,
enter Cases house, and he waited until she
ieft the house q short time after. Clara was
sobblng and acting as if she was suffering.
The officer finally ELECTED statement from
the child. He accompanied the girl to the
Office of the board of health. DIR. johnson,
OF the board of health, swore that he treated
the girl on the day mentioned, and he
thought she had suffered violence. DIR.
James McClopton, whose office is located on
the corner of Eighth and Morgan streets,
said: "Ihere was a hole through which one
could look in and see Case. / looked
through this hole Git was large) and discoy-
cred enough to criminate Case" l.. 4.
Mitchell testified to seeing the girl lying in
the wooden machine spoken of. During the
examination Case sat by the side of his coun-
sci, and tried to manifest as little concern
as possible, but the intense interest he took
in the proceedings was eyinced by the nerv-
GUS twitching of his sensuous lips and the
involuntary moving to and fro of the fingers
of his right hand. With his left hand he
continually stroked his full gray side-whisk-
ers. The prisoner is rather good-looking
man, ara appears incapable of committing
such base and infamous crimes rs those with
which he is charged, but thus far the eyi-
dence has been straightforward, and entirely
against the defendant. Conviction is GER
tain on all the cases against the prisoner,
ard it is barely possible that he can escape
an aggregate sentence that will insure his in
generation IN the penitentiary for life.
Public feeling is so strong against him that
he will be lucky if he finally escapes being
mobbed,
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Pouttyy notes.


The small breeds of fowls are The most
profitable layers
Teach your hens to break eggs and cat
them Joy throwing shells to them when
ever opportunity offers. This is good
way to do i.
A poultry fancier has found that lice will
not venture near sitting hen in whoss nest
two or three tobacco leaves have been
placed.
A writer in the PoultYy World argues
that there is no foundation for the theory
that one breed OF domestic fowl Is more
tender and juicy than another; any f2wl
badly fed or cared for is necessarily poor,
"stingy' and uupatable, but, other
things equal, no difference can be discov-l
cred In the taste Of the fl,s h of the vari
ours breeds.
An old turkey raiser gives the follow l
| ing experiment: -Four turkeys were con.
! fined IN pen, and fed on meal, bnled
! potatoes and oats. Four others, OF the
! same brood, were also at the same time
confined ia another pen, and fed daily
on the same articles, but with one pint
! of very finely pulveiized charcoal mixed
with their iood--mixcd meal and boiled
potatoes. They had also plentiful sup
ply Of broken charcoal in their pen. The
eight were killed ON the same day, and
| there was difference of one and a half
pounds each in favor Of the fowls which
had been supplied with charcoal, they
being much the latest and the meat
greatly superior in ~ Mt OF tenderness
and flavor.
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INGENIOUS MATRT1NONY.

Benjamin Treat Mapes, if all the charges
alleged against him are true, is a very inge-
Nous marrying scoundrel. He married
Miss Harriet Flynn jenkins in New York
last August, and has already deserted her
and gone into retirement of single blessed
ness, where he cannot be traced. The de-
scription of his pereon calls wildly to mind
one r. b. Martin, who, in 1877, performed a
slippery matrimonial feat with great address
and dexterity, and Mapes and Martin are be-
lieyed to be one. Southern family
residing in New York were about to
remove and advertised for place
as a governess or companion for a
young girl who had been living with them
and in whom they had an interest. They
received letter from Hartford, purporting
to be from Mrs. Helen Kingsley, who
wanted a companion to travel with her to
help her take care of an invalid brother.
The girl accepted the position at salary
that was satisfactory. A place of meeting
Mrs. Kingsley was fixed upon, and the girl
had to travel some distance alone to get to
the place. When she got there she did not
find Mrs Kingsley but the invalid brother
in waiting. Mrs. Kingsley was somewhere
else awaiting them. The invalid brother and
the girl went by boat. On the boat the in
valid was seized with spasm and had to re-
tire to his state-room. IT becsme
the girls duty to PIT mustard
plasters upon him. This she did and
was early broken into her position as nurse.
At the place designated Mrs. Kingsley did
not appear, but the invalid brother got
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HOUSE AND FARMa
The Old Home


o little house lost in the heart of the lindeF,s
What would not give to behold you once
morei
To inhale once again the sweet breath OF y,
roses,
And the starry clematis that climbed round
your door
To see the neat windows thrown wide TO the
sunshine;
The porch where WIS sat at the close Of the
day,
Where the weary foot traveller was welcome
to rest him,
And the begger was never sent empty away;
The waistcotod walls, and the low raftcred
ceilings; nN@f0s
To hear the loud tick of the clock on the
stair;
And to Kiss the dear face bending over the
That always was laid by my grsndfather's
chair!
0 bright little garden beside the plantation
Where the tall 1eurs-de- lis their blue han
ners unfurled,
And the lawn was alive with the thrushes and
blackbirds,
| would you were all ] had known of the
world!
My sweet pink pea-clustersl My rare honey
My prim polyanthuses all of a rowl
In garden of dreams l still pass and caress
you,
But yonr beautiful selves are forever laid
low
For your walls, little house, long ago haye
been leveled;
Alien feet your smooth borders, o garden
have trod;
And those whom Low, are at rest from thcii
labors,
Reposing in peace on the bosom ofGod!
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A MYSTERIOUS RAIN or STONE.

Akron, O., Special to Cleveland Leader
On Tuesday last while Mrs. Michael
Metzler, living in the vicinity of the southern
corporation line of Akron, was husking corn
in field, she was struck by several stones,
which came from an unknown souice. Later
in the day her children were struck In the
same way, and fled in terror to the house.
On Wednesday evening" while Mrs. M. was
again in the field, she was again struck by
large Jumps of earth and several stones
in similar manner as before. Yesterday
morning, as Mrs. M. and her little daughter
were standing before the cellar door,
large pebble came up from tn cellar,
striking the little girl in the face. All this
is unaccountable, for the family reside In
rather ancient brick house, and on last
evening a party of eight gathered in the
main room, which contains two windows
and two doors. Father Brown, Catholic
priest of this city, was present, and about
10 o'clock offered prayer. Hardly had he
finished, however, before two largesized
stones fell at his feet, followed by dozen
or more pebbles, which came from the cell
ing and walls, striking the persons who were
IN the room.
All these stories have been circulated
through the city, and to get the bottom facts
of the affair, the Leader correspondent, to-
gether with companion, paid visit to the
house to-day shortly after dinner. The
Leader man found the lady of the house and
her family busy at work making apple but
ter, and after introducing himself to Mrs.
Metzler, began a conversation regarding the
strange freaks of the stones. At the time
both windows and doors were closed, and
the reporter and his companion we're sitting
in chairs near the door, where an excellent
view of the room could be obtained. Mrs.
Metzler, with tears in her eyes, declared it
was not ghosts or anything of the
kind, and said it must be a curse on the fam
lily. As she spoke she was standing in the
middle of the room, and had pointed out to
the reporter from whence the stones come,
when suddenly pebble, the size of hlck-
DRY nut, dropped from the ceiling and fell, |
striking Mrs. Metzler on the arm. The re-
porter witnessed all this, and picked up the
stone as it fell. Soon after this a neighbor
came to the front door. and inquired if any
thing more had transpired.
The reporter walked to the door and was
showing the stone which had just fell to the
neighbor, when larger pebble, four times
the size of the first one, struck the reporter |
on the shoulder and fell to the floor. His |
saw the stone come through the
ceiling about a yard from where the other
one had come from.
night the stones fell with a whistling noise. |
She showed to the reporter about twenty |
stones that had fallen during the afternoon.
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a HARD CASE,

[St. Louis Special (Oct. 16) to Chicago Tri-
One of the most horrible cases, or rather
series of cases, that has ever come up for
trial in this city, was commenced to-day in
the criminal court. Sullivan G. Cese, a
jeweler aged 60 years, is charged with raping
nine little girls, their ages ranging from to
IA years. Cases shop was on Morgan street,
and he had fitted up rear room for the
special purpose of carrying out his designs
upon such little girls as he could entice into
his den. He had arranged certain me-
chanical devices for securing his victims
when once within his grasp, making them
rowerless to resist his assaults. One day q
little girl was observed by the policeman on
the beat to emerge from Cases shop crying
bitterly. After some persuasion, she told
the officer that she had been enticed into the
back room, and there outraged. An ex-
animation showed her story to be correct
Case was Immediately arrested, and the
diabolical contrivances captured. Inc m
dignation against Case was so great at the
time that he came near being mobbed before
he could be securely lodged In jail. Inc oe-
yelopments that Immediately followed show
ed that Case had made regular business OF
enticing little girls into his room and out
raging them, nine appearing and confesslng
that they had been his victims. Inc rst
witness to-day was Officer William h-eln-
worth, who testified to seeing great many
little girls enter Cases residence, at No. oU2
Morgan street come out again acting as IT
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letter signed Mrs. Judge Kingsley, and ex-
cusing herself for not putting in an appear
ance on the plea of sickness, and charging
the new companion to take the best care of
her brother, who was subject to cramps, and
liable to be attacked by them at any mo-
ment. The girl could not leave a sick man
of whom she had taken charge, away from
home and friends, so she continued TO travel
with him and apply mustard plasters to his
cramps, which he had very frequently.
So they travelled to Buffalo, and
to jamestown, Ohio. where the
invalid said he had large estates.
He showed the girl his property and asked
her to marry him. This she refused to 10
until their return to New York, where the
invalid brother married his caretaker. Very
soon he left for Northampton, Mass, to re-
turn in three days and embark with his wife
for Europe. He did not return, and never
has returned. Then another Kingsley let
ter came stating that the absent husband
was very sick, and telling the deserted wife
that if she did not get another letter she
might know that he was dead. She did not
get another letter of course-and that is the
way r. ID. Martin got rid Of his wife. All
the circumstances point Mapes and Martin
being one.
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Farmers A,d.aad Enemies.

Hedgehog lives on mice, small rod ant
siugs and grubs--animals hurtful to ag
riculture Don't kill the hedgehog.
Toad--fa farm assistant; destroys from
twenty to thirty insects an hour. Don't
kill the toad.
Md.e is continually destroying grubs,
larva, palmer worms and insects iDiuri-
GUS to agriculture No trace of vege-
tation is ever found in its stomoch,
Does more good than harm. Don't kill
the mole.
Mag bug and its larve or grub, mortal
enemy OF agriculture; lays from seventy
TO eighty eggs. Kill the May Bug.
Birds--Eac department loses several
MILLIONS annually through insects. Birds
are the only enemies able to contend
against them VIGOROUSLY. They are the
great cateYpillar-k and agricultural
assistants. Children, don't disturb their
nests GoideR Rule.
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Ad0uais.
BY WILL WALLACE HARNEl


- "Thammus came next behind,
Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured
The Syrian damsels to lament his fate
In amorous ditties all summers day.
Milton.
Shall we meet no more, my love, at the bind
ing of the sheayes,
In the happy harvest fields as the sun sinks
low,
When the orchard paths are dim with the drift
of fallen leaves,
AS the reapers sing together in the mellow
misty eyess-
Oh, happy are the apples when the south
winds blowl
Love met us in the orchard ere the corn had
gathered plume
Oh, how happy are the apples when the
south winds blow
Sweet as summer days that die when the
months are in their bloom,
When the peaks are ripe with sunset, Ike the
tassels Of the broom
IN the happy harvest fields as the sun sinks
low.
Sweet as summer days that die, leafng sweet
err each to each
Oh, happy arc the apples when the south
winds blowi
All the heart was full Of feeling; Love had
rpened into speech,
Like the sap that turns to nectar in the velvet
Of the peach
In the happy harvest fields as the sun SINKS
low.
Sweet as summer days that die at the ripening
Of the corn
Oh, happy are the apples when the south
winds blowl
Sweet as lovers tickle oaths sworn TO faithless
maids forsworn
When the musky orchard breathes like mel
low drinking horn
Over happy harvest fields as the sun sinks
low
Love left us at the dying ofthe mellow autumn
ewes
Oh, happy are the apples when the south
winds blow!
1! When the skies are ripe and fading, ike the
colors of the leaves,
And the reapers kiss and part at the blndlne
of the sheaves
| In the happy harvest fields as the sun sinks
low.
| Then the reapes gather home from the gray
and misty meres-
oh, happy are the apples when the south
winds blowl
Then the reapers gather home, and they beal
| upon their spears
Love whose face is like the moons fallen pale
among the spheres
With the daylight's blight upon it as the sun
| sinks low.
Faint as far-off bugles blowing soft and low
the reapers sung
| Oh, happy are t5e apples when the soutf
winds blow
Sweet as summer in the blood when the hear
is ripe and young,
Love is sweetest in the dying, like the sheaveE
| he lies among
In the happy harvest fields as the sun sinks
low.
| -Harpe,'s Magazine for Octobe..
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YELLOW FEVER Rob ANG
memphis Appeal.

wedding took place on Adams street yes
terday afternoon under circumstances sur
rounded by romance. Several weeks ago
DIR. w. +. Besanchy, young physician hail
ing from Jamestown, Miss, offered his SER
vices to Medical Director Mitchell. His Gre
dentials were perfect, and coming at a time
when physicians were most needed, were
readily accepted. just as all the prelimina-
ries had been settled satisfactorily, mes
senger entered the office in great haste. in
search of a physician to attend Miss
ID. p. Rutter, young lady who had
been stricken with the fever at
her residence on Adams street. DIR. Mitchell
turned to the gallant young physician, and
remarked that he could Immediately be
placed on duty if he felt SO dis
posed DIR. Besanchy unhesitatingly &C
cepted the call, and at once ac-
companied the messenger to the young lady 8
residence, where he found her PROSTATE with
a bad case of the fever. 1t is unnecessary
to 60 through the details of the lingering
illness, but only to say that the young doc
tors attention was close and faithful, finally
resulting In the young lady's recovery
Soon after the doctor was stricken down
True to the instincts of her womanly nature,
doubly intensified by her self-acknowledged
Indebtedness 10 NIL lot HaVlng saFeu
her life, she went to his bedside, and there
remained, giving such attentions as only
woman can bestow upon the sick, until the
glad tidings was announced that he had
passed the crisis and bid fair to recover. He
passed through the tedious hours of conya-
lesence until entirely recovered. Nothing
more was known or thought of the matter
by the few intimate friends of the young lady
until yesterday afternoon, when the doctor,
accompanied bynIsquire Quigley and few
friends, drove he residence, and in less
time than it taH5l this paragraph,
the two were Jet der in the holy
bonds of wedloy q union, consum-
mated under sud tcnmstances, cannot fail
to abound with kPpiness.
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THE GREAT VICTORY.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 2I.-Hon. John f.
House was unanimously renominated as a can
didate for Congress for this, the Sixth Con-
gressional district, to-day by the Democrats.
In mis- speech acknowledging the compliment
he said: In the next scontesl tbetween the
grea5 parties they viii divide upon govern
mental policy, and without sectional animOs-
ity. Sectional hatred will be eliminated from
the contest. So far as the South is concerned
l am certain that such will be the case.
cannot, fellow citizens, find it
in my heart to indulge in
feelings of malice towards the people of the
North. When | witness their magnanimoGs
and generous conduct towards the Southern
people feel like pulling off my hat and stand
than the victory of the Appomattox is the vic
tory won by the people of the North in their
noble and generous contributions to the
stricken and suffering South. Upon that fatal
field the South surrendered her swords.
Within the shadow of the dark
wing of the pestilence, beside the
negs II ade grave of her heroic sons and daugh-
tiers with bowed head and fearful eyes she ex-
tends her hand and surrenders her heart to the
generous and magnaminous North. God own
hand has bridged the bloody chasm, but not
the ambition of man seek to reopen the
wo;,uds and to rekindle the embers of sectional
strife. Let us go into this great contest of
1880 without any of these elements of sectional
bitterness. Of course we viii be divided as to
questions of governmental policy, but with
that element eliminated from The contest the
of the South can stand
upon the floor of Congress as the peer of any
from the Northern States, and can look to the
material Development of els own section, to
the enlargement of their commercial relations,
and legislate to make the Southern people
more prosperous. With fraternity and har-
mony restored, this great country can march
on To more glorious and illustrious future
than has been seen in the past.
MISCELLANEOUS.
NEw YORK, Oct. 21.-The Democratic Con-
gress;onal convention of the Fourth district of
Brooklyn, nominated Archibald NJ. Bliss. for
the Fifth Congressional district. Tammany
Democratic convention nominated Nicholas
Mueller.
New YORK, Oct. 21.-Tsmmany hall made the
Congressional nominations: Sixth
district, S. S. Cox; Seventh, Anthony Eckhoff;
Eighth, Lawrence r. Jerome; Ninth, Fernando
Wood; Tenth Orlando b. Potter; Eleventh,
Benz. A. Willis.
The Blair Connolly Greenbaek Labor party
of the Ninth district nominated John Hardy
for Congress, and the Hanlon-0 Kelley branch
of the same party in the same d. / -iet nomi-
mated Patrick Il. Jones.
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A lady writes to an exchange rs fol-
lows: Think perhaps might add a
mite that would be of benefit 10 some of
the many readers Of this department, and
wishing foF recipe which would be of
great help to me, l have, for the first
time, taken up my pen to tell what
know To those that are troubled with
bed hugs; Remove all your furniture
from the rooms, after cleaning it of all
bugs and nits; then place pan Of Goals
in the room and pour good supply of
brims,ono on it; then close the room tight
and let it smoke; do not open until the
smoke has nil gone out through tn crew
ices; then take a wet cloth and wipe off
the WOO lwoIk, and, before placing your
furniture back, anoint all the cracks with
ungueatum have tried this way twice,
and have been very successful. Also, a
good way 70 get rid oil these little red
ants that ore so troublesome TO some.
Watch them, and when you find out
where they travel to, just turn kerosene
oil into their nests, and do not be afraid
to nse it. I think you will soon
be lid OF them. got rid of
them in that way, in house where l
could not keep anything out Of their
reach, up stairs and down; they never
troubled me afterward.
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A secptic, who was badgering simple
minded old man about miracle and
Balaam's ass, finally said: slow Is ii
possible for an ass to talk like a MANI"
WELL replied an honest old believer,
with meaning emphasis: don't see why
1t amt as easy for an ass to talk like
man, as it is for man to talk like an
ass"
''People who go into business by the
side of men who have large business
built up in constant advertising, and
never advertise dollar, but depend upon
the drippings from the neighboring sane
tuary, are like boys who 60 out to pig
con shoot, ana try to get enough birds Tor
mess from those that get away from the
regular sportsmen. Such is life, and the
pot hunters often go hungry.-Mil@au-
kee Sun.
We heard of a case the other day where
young man applied to his employer for
short leave of absence. The employer,
having his own views of his business,
suggested, for reason, that the young
man delay his vacation for few days.
Il would replied, the young man, "but
the fact is / am going to get married,
the day appointed, and rant to be there
solse,a 1t comes off, He was there on time.
Boston Transcript.
An item on its way around states that
DR.. Babcock, the inventor of the chemical
engine, is druken outcast in Oakland,
Cal. 1t seems that this statement is
slightly inc 1rrect in several trifing par
ticu.ars: /. Babcock is not a doctor.
2. He never was in California. 3. He is
professor of chemistery in a Boston Med
ical college. 4. He don't drink. 5,
-: but these facts are sufficient to
throw a tinge of suspicion on the item
from California.
Every now and then some chap writes
to newspaper for receipt to prevent
hair from coming out. Ii men would go
home from the lodge before midnight,
with their legs sober, their nair
wouldn't come out so rapidly. WeaI-
WAYS 60 home early, and we have mora
hair now than the 1av We were born.
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HowfoMaaecow.e Give M,Ik.

4 writer IN the Southern FdTnier says
that his COW gives all the milk that Ia
wanted in family of eight, and that
from it, after taking all that is required
for other purposes, 280 pounds Of butter
were made this year. This is in part his
treatment Of the COW:
IF you desire to get large yield of
rich milk, give your COW every day water
slightly sailed, in which bran has been
stirred a. the rate of one quart to two
gallons of water. You will find, If you
have not tried this daily practice, that
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your COW will give twenty-five per cent.
more milk Immediately under the eff ct
Of il, and she will become so attat he'd t.
the diet as 10 refuse to drink clear water
unless very thirsty. But this mess 81 o
will drink almost any time, and ask for
more. The amount of this drink neces
sary il an ordinary water pailful at
time, morning, noon and night"