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Little Falls transcript., 1878-08-22
A North Carolina Clergyman Kills His
.i,.2 y,..r ; S0,a-iss-La,U IN a Duel.
[Charlotte IN. C.) Special to Cincinnati En-

A North Carolina Clergyman, Kills His
.l,.2 ar J. SOss-iss-Lasc IL a Duel.
[Charlotte IN. C.) Special to Cincinnati En-
quirer.
= Information reaches this city tonight of
horrible tragedy which occurred yesterday in
Rutherford county, in the western part of
North Carolina, in which Rev. DR.. Wade
Hill shot and killed his son-in-law, Major
Andrew Scroggins. It appears that scrog-
gins, while in passion about week ago,
stripped and whipped DIR. Hills youngest
daughter. Scroggins' wife was present and
begged her husband not to hurt her sister,
but he paid no attention to the fearful en-
treaties, and inflicted painful chastisement
on the girl.
As soon as the father heard Of his son-in-
laws conduct he went to him and demanded
an explanation. Scroggins said he had acted
on the impulse of the moment, but Dr.. Hill
replied that he had no right to lay his hand
on the child, and the two gentlemen bec,,m
ing involved in . quarrel over the matter,
got to blows and had it rough and tumble,
the father coming out best. This 50
senraged Major Scroggins that he went home,
and, after consulting friends, sent chal-
lenge te the reverend gentleman, which was
promptly declined by the said gentleman.
The Major then vowed to his friends that he
would get the best Of the old man, even If
he had TO throw poison IN his coffee.
He armed himseH with a4f 8 s.. heavy
revolver and dirk, 50 as to be fully pre-
pared to lay his antagonist ont on SIGHT.
The reverend doctor also armed himself to
the teeth, IN case of an emergency, and went
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Another Fable db0ut T,c0 DoOs.

After old DR.. B. Ruptcy had told the two
not cure them, that the disease in both cases
had become the largest part of each dog,
they seemed to feel bad ,euntil he told them
also that he could fix it SO that nobody could
take from them or make them pay for the
mutton which they had already stolen, and
that the old idea that a leopard could not
change his spots was all CANNON that if a
leopard had mind to he could change his
spots each day, and he advised the dogs to
get|new spots-so the dogs began to cheer
up; but they misteok the doctors meaning,
he meaning that the dogs should go to a
new spot of country, where they we're not
known, but they thought he meant to paint
new colors on their lousy dog skins-so
they got some Granger revenue hair, dye,
and came out new dogs, that never
had stolen any mutton, and nobody
could claim pay for lost mutton of them
since their treatment by old DR.. B. Ruptcy.
This shows that they we're enterprising dogs,
and it did not take them long to lay their
plans. They soon found where very re-
spectacle, kind hearted and wealthy gentle
man with a great family lived, and they
jumped over into his front door yard, ran
about familiarly, barking, dancing, and
making themselves very much at home, as if
they had always belonged there all for the
pursose of compelling honest people to
notice them and believe that the rich man
with the large family owned the dogs. They
pretended to take care of his sheep and every
thing on the premises so we'll for time
that the rich man began to think that they
really were valuable dogs. They pretended
to take such great interest in all of the af-
fairs of the estate that strangers began to
wonder whether the dogs owned the family
or the family owned the dogs. Sometimes
when they were only looking at and listen
ingfo the dogs, it seemed as if the dogs
really manufactured or created the family
and all their surroundings from nothing and
owned everything
Soon the dogs concluded to
give Hs.great party upons the prem
ises, and in the name of their
newly selected master, for in such great
gathering as could easily be gotten together
In his honest name, great opportunities for
plunder would be presented, and il mutton
should be lost, it would be impossible in the
great tumble and crowd to trace it, and they
could leave some mutton on some mans
door step and make everyone believe him
the Thief, fan old trick, of these dogs). $50.
all the world was invited and came TO the
rich mans Entertainment. and while The
mirth and enjoyment were at the highest the
old degs slipped ont ana carried es oh great &
quantities of mutton and hid It In Two large
fields owned by two women who could claiin
it as their own, and where no one could find
or recover it, and they pinned a lambs tail
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! The SchOOlhOuse.

Yes, John, our district well may brag uf
u On this new schoolhouse. I brag too. ''~S
Pm for improvements. I don't lag asz-1s7z3ss2=
Behind when things want putting through.
But that old, battered, wooden shell
That stood on this spot fifty year
I'd learned to know its face SO well
- That somehoW-JOhn, it's mighty queer. 4
But when you pulled the old house down.
The time this new one was begun -
had to go to lower town; t.8
I couldn't stand tC see it done.
For there IstudiedsA, B,C, - ;,
Gotllcked, and learned, by hook and crook.
To read about the apple-tree
In Webster's old blue spelling book.
CTwas a field then) "a love sick fool
stood behind shock of corn
To see the schoolma' am come to school.
Her cheeks, as she the cornfield crossed,
We're redder than the scruboak leaves;
Her eyes were brighter than the frost
| That sparkled on the tassclled sheaves.
And in among the noisy throng
OF barefoot Youngsters she would co.
Antl as I watched her, l allowed
It wasn' strange they loved her so.
But when, just at the schoolhouse door,
Each urcnin claimed his kiss, ah! then
longed to go barefoot once more,
And read the spelling book again.
Sweet Lucy!g How came it to pass
| i can't exp1ain,-but any way,
I might as well have joined Glass,
| For hung round there half the day.
At noon I'd take her nuts, pear, go
Or apples,-my best grated fruit
| To trade for smiles, she traded fair,
And gave me NANNY thanks to boot.
And sometimes, after study hours,
| When Lucy led her merry throng
Into the woods for late wildhowers
And autumn leaves, I'd go along.
She had some dozen boys. half grown,
That loved her well. They shamed me
though,
For loved too, and alone
Had not the pluck to tell her so.
"You happy boys!'' 1 thought, you swap
WildGowers for kisses from her lips;
I'd harvest the whole flower crop
To kiss her very fnger-tips."
But winter came, and when the ground
| And the big hills with snow we're white,
I'd hitch my colt up and 60 round
To take her home from school at night.
One frosty evening, riding slow
Through Johnson's woods her rosy cheek
Lay close to mine and thrilled me so
That determined would speak,
"Lucy!" I said, "dear Lucy!'-Here
Her eyes met mine and fustered me
AS awkward as ayearlng steer
Ibacked and tried again. 'You see
II want to ask you"-a big lump
Came in my throat-'Whoa, Bill, you fool!
That's nothing but hemlock stump!
H-if you love-the boys in SCHOOL,
'Twant what meant; but, any way,
She dropped her eyes, and could see
She guessed what had tried to say.
| She said, "Of course. They all love me-"
Boldened by this, her hand pressed,
! And cried, "Dear Lucy couldn't you
Love me little with the rest?
For IL love the schoolma'am too"
Sec, yonder comes my schoolma'am wife;
Her cheeks are fresh and rosy yet;
And, for our happy married life,
We bless this spot where we first met.
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The robbing of graves for the use Of
medical colleges is becoming one Of the
most crying sins, as tits one of the most
heinous crimes Of modern times. The
developments of the past year, numerous
and many, have served to startle the pub
lie. Many college professor, whose
outside charactersis fair and honorable, is
butsa whited sepdicher, whose shelves are
full OF dead mems bones, for he connives
at body snatcing, bys s seoneealinrg s alir it,whilei
in moral t.lrpitpde thes medical 3i AL student
who robs grave is worthy of condign
punishment. zcs
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CASUALTIES,

At Cameron, Pa, two meR were killed
by a fall, August 18th.
A destructive fire occurred at Memphis,
Tenn, August 19th,.
A fire at Modind, St. Lawrance county,
N. y, August 10th, destroyed $4,000.
At Oswego. N. Y. August, 18th, three
men were killed by the caving in of gravel
bank.
The freight house of the Chicago and
Alton railroad at st. Louis, was burned
August 10th.
At Lemont, Pa, on Sunday night, Au-
gust 18th, block of buildings in the business
part Of the town, was destroyed by fire.
/ At St. Louis, August 17th. James Tells
fort, a fireman, while going to fire was run
over by truck, producing injuries which
caused his death
A Mackinaw City telegram Of August
10th, says the propeller Japan sank off Point
au Sable, Lake Michigan, and is total
loss. Crew all saved.
A Rome telegram SAYS, for the present
negotiations are dropped for the e-establish-
ment of diplomatic relations between the
Vatican and England. ;j4.$
An extensive and disastrous fire oc-
CURED at Columbus, Ohio, August 18th, in the
| large paper mill of Yeatman & Anderson
The damage was great.
In Biggs, Butte Co., CAL, on the 18th;
of August, 10 buildings, all business except
two, were destroyed by fire, the work of an in
cendiary. Loss about $4,000.
" The British bark Kedar was wrecked
near the Friendly Islands In April last. The
crew remained on board 50 days, and at last,
tamishing and weak. were rescued. g.
=, Fever prevails fearfully on the Island
of Cyprus One fourth of the white troops
| and two thirds of the doctors are sthicken
with the fever. So far the mortality is not
great.
A great fire occurred at Pittsburgh, Pa,
August 10th 1t broke out in the Pittsburgh
Wagon works. A large number of valuable
buildings were involved in the confagration.
Loss $4,000. zss
The scene ofthe Pottsville, Pa, powder
magazine explosion, caused by lightning, was
visited BY thousands on Sunday, the 18th inst.
Two Of the injured are dead, and two others
cannot survive. .s5 sss5ss,#5ss
a freight train on the Great Western
railway ran off the track, August 1sth, near
simcoe, Ontario, precipitating eleven cars
down an embankment, and the whole became
q complete wreck.
A fire occurred in the laundry of the
Windsor House, sc Paul Minnesota, on the
morning Of August 18th, but was promptly ex-1
tnguished by the fire Department. bnt i small
amount Of loss ensuing.
a heavy thunder storm passed over,
Madison, Wis, Sunday morning, Angust 18th
Lightning struck in several places IN the
county burning four 81. ave hapstacks and
fatal juring one small hoy.
~ Chicago telegram Of Aug. i4.ssays,
/ Mrs Sweet, widow Of the late General
Street, and mother of Niss Ads Sweet, pan,
sion agent here. was struck by the locomo-S
tive Of the train at Lombard, on the North
western railroad, thrown several feet and In
Little Falls transcript., 1878-08-22
CURRENT TOPICS

There is q prosprect that the South
Carolina issue with the federal govern
ment will be peacefully adjusted in the
courts, and that the notification State
will not again be brought in collision
with the union. ssss=
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MINNESOTA,s oMUNIFICENCE,
Tho Crops Of 1877--They Provo the North
ii III , Star State Carries tho Banner. Il -

xu0 VIOp0 u A06l"AASy 1xOV0 INC NOTtn
/" - Star State Carries tho Banner. Il =.
Tho crop reports for 1877 have all been re-
ceived from the various counties Of any i'm
portance, with the exception Of Renville. Al
that shire was situated in the district devasta-
ted by grasshoppers, the material result cannot
be changed by the presentation of its statistics
The tables herewith presented show some re-
markable results in the width of production
in any one serial. For instance, Polk county
leads the: list of wheat with an acreage in
wheat of 25.29 bushels per acre against liz
,nsectine ravages. the people of this State have
taken hope. aud have turned over land for
wheat for the current years crop, to the extent
IF 436, ,097 acres in excess of the present year.
The other cereals present equally favorable
results, wheat and its area of cultivation being
only especially alluded to because it Is the sta
pie OF the State =. r." -:
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The carbonate territory, IN the region
south of Pixies Peak, over the Arkansas
River, is lengthening out. Some of the
thoroughly-worked mines are turning
out rich beyond calculation. the ore prov.
ing thick chloride. Excellent hard
carbonates and high grade chloride ores
are brought to light every day. There
are crowds Of people In the region yet it,
is hard to get the right kind Of men to
work for good wages.
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: All the political parties, in the several
States are now engaged in making State, con-
gressional. and county nominations for the
fall elections a 9reab variety q nomif'ations
are being made by Democrats, Republicans,
Greenbackers, Working men, Temperance
men etc. ".-
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into the coat pocket of each of the guests,
leaving an end sticking out, SO that when
they went home each man thought the man
in front of him had mutton in hispocket.
This fable teaches that you cannot gather
stfips of thistlee. ''-Mat. vii: 16. -,
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Miss Mary Mosby, daughter of the
Confederate General, was crowned queen
by the triumphant knight at the recent
tournament at Orkney Springs, Va.
Miss Mosby is described as a blonde,
graceful and sylph-like.
Little Falls transcript., 1878-08-22

The tramps in Wooster, Ohio, have
met with just retribution. Nineteen of
them entered the town a few days ago and
were promptly offered work at good
wages by the farmers. They Of course
contemptuously refused, and now the
city of Wooster have risen in their wrath
and declare that each and every tramp
who turns up shall De ornamented with a
chain and set to work on the streets.
This'remedy has proven very effectual in
Massillon, where it has been in vogue for
some time
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Some students of the Columbus Medi
cal College were lately caught raising to
the fourth floor body just stolen from a
graveyard. The earth-auger, hooks, ropes
and other implements used in despoiling
the tomb were captuerd with them. Their
whispering was so loud that it attracted
the attention Of patrolman, who, by
some accident, was not asleep in an
areawa5. He called for assistance, and the
whole party were arrested. Next morn
ing the college Professors furnished the
students bail.
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Cosss

TOTAL AND AVERAGE YIELD PER ACRE AND AVER
AGE ron 1873. sssE'
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Total yield Of wheat in bushals 80 276,622
*The counties denoted by an asterisk those de-
sastated by grasshoppers.
COOPERATIVE ACREAGE.
c.,.-.,. / 1877. | 1878.
Acres. Acres.
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=. CslttuGted Hay.

Total acreage under hay in 1877. Ill, 1874
Total acreage under hay In 1878. .119 589
Increase for 1875. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1885
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stantly killed. She leaves family Of four
cAildren. The coronor's inquest exonerated
the railroad COMPANY
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The Empress Of Austria is now
graudmamma, and yet no one could with
justice give her more than thirty or thirty
two years at the outside. Her waist is
still as round and small as when she was
young princess, and not, as now, her
majesty. Sometimes her face wears a
most lovely color, and after galloping up
and down two or three times the long
avenue of the Prater, she looks younger
and prettier than ever. She leades a
strange life for an Empress, and avoids
society as much as possible.
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g.. During the late eclipse of the sun,
Prof. W Watsop'ot Ann Arbor took his sta
tion at Rawlins. Wyoming Territory, for
astronomical observations, where the to-
tai eclipse continued for q period Of two
minutes and fifty seconds. He discover.
ed an sintra Mercurial planet of the size
Of . four and . half magnitude star, about
two and q half degrees south west Of the
sun. It does not differ greatly ID size
from Mercury This hitherto theoreti-
cal member Of the planet family. though
its very history was matter Of
Controversy, had already been
named Vulcan. Mercury being only.
Sc, ,OOO, 900 miles from the sun,
Ffof. Proctor thinks must have q temper
atnrs equal 10 boiling water. But Vulcan.
moving ID ID orbit only Is, 900, 600 or 2o,-
OO0 600 miles from the sun, il ssclaimea
thatthe. rect rays Of the sun passing,
ulcah at ffhlaatt near distance must
give il . temperature not much cooler
than that Of red-hot iron.
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American girls are adopting the sensi-
bic fashions Of English girls at watering
places. They no longer wear long trail
ing morning dresses, which are too deli
cate for anything but piazza promenades.
They don the short cheviot suits, or fan
mel serge catching suits, and are ready
for arci1eiJ, j, tennis, croquet, or a noun
tain walk. ~ By the scashore, when storm
signals are out, they have Tweed ulster,
Tweed derby, thick boots and short
dress, and defy the weather. Simplicity
in dress is considered mark Of good
taste. ."'
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TOTAL AND AVERAGE YIELD.
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The newspapers of New York city are
announcing positively that the merchants
of the metropolis are looking forward to
the fall trade with greater confidence than
for long time. AS they have gagged
their expectations by reasonable stand
ard, it is quite probable that they will be
realized, especially as the proper steps
are being taken in that direction. They
are not looking for the rush and hustle of
five year, ago and previous, but for in
creased and healthy buoyancy and a
more general activity. Speed the good
time.
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Total acreage under wheat In 1877. 661
Total acreage under wheat in 1878. 1888
Increase for 1878. 70............-..........n - 536OT
The counties denoted by IN asterisk are those
devastated by grasshoupers.
1o4 1878.
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COL. Forney, writing from Paris, ,charac-
terises the continental railroads as de-
plorable and almost hopeless, arising
fromStbe immense cost Of their construc-
ton, and as being established in old
countries which have reached their
growth. This suggests one great advan-
tage American roads have for recupera-
ton. Our county is new, and in the
West and South especially there is al
most a perpetual and indefinite margin
for Improvement. The drain is from the
old to the new, and what tends to i'm
poverish the former adds strength to the
latter. These facts wall account for what
to many has seemed strange, the vast
amounts Of foreign capital have been in
vestedin our railroads, which. at the
time have been hugely in debt, and with
no immediate prospect OF dividends.
Little Falls transcript., 1878-08-22

Total yield Of In bushels 500
Total acreage under corn in 1877.......... 419s22
Total acreage under corn in 1878. 270,714
Decrease for 1878. 78................... 149,118
The counties denoted by asterisk are those
devastated by grasshoppers.
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Captain Bogardus has scored another
triumph by vanquishing Mr.. Aubrey
Coventry, who is beyond question the
most brilliant and steady wing. shot IN
England. The American champion was
evidently smarting under the wrong
which had been done him few weeks
previously, when he was forced into a
match under conditions that rendered
his defeat moral certainty. According
ly, he husbanded his energies for the de-
cisive contest, and had an ample revenge
on tte British sports who backed his RI
val at odds Of 100 to 80. An immense
amount of money changed hands on the
result, and our Yankee brethern in Lon
don who patriotically planked their cash
upon Bogardus. are naturally elated at
the success of their favorite and fellow
countryman.
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Barley.

Total yield in bushels. 2,156 755
Total acreage under barley in 1877. ......... 8328S
Total acreage under barley in 1878. ...,... 6O691
Decrease for 1878. s7s...................... 22,5s2
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Iota! yield IN bushes ::::::........4, 32O9A
Total acreage under potatoes in 1877. 3O934
Total acreage under potatoes in 1878. 33203
Increase for 1878. s........................ 2269
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Yes, John, our district well may brag ug]
u On this new schoolhouse. I brag too. ''~S
Pm for improvements. I don't lag .@z-47z5.e=
Behind when things want putting through.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-08-28

A TREMENDOUS personal call has
been issued to Ben Butler to be-
come the Peoples candid ite for
Governor of Massachusetts. There
are many things in Ben's earlier
and later career that we like; and,
If we edited newspaper in Massa-
chusetts, we should support him
with might and main. He was
originally Democrat-one,a as he
himself says. of the straitest sect.
Ia principle, as he re.affirms, he is
Democrat still. He has occasional.
ly wandered off after strange politi-
cal Gods, and he can't land in the
party of his early love without "a
sort of hop, skip and jump. Ben
will receive the enthusiastic sup
port of the majority of the Democ
racy in his Gubernatorial fight this
Fall. We think he will be elected
In spite of the "potatoes, prisms
and prunes'' element Of the old
Bay State, and we believe the
chances are imminent that, with
this intermediate vault, we shall
find him safely landed in the DEM
ocratic ranks in 1880. Between his
voting forty-seven times in success
sion for jeff Davis, in the Charles
ton Convention of 1860, and his al
legged appropriation of spoons dur
ing his military dominance in New
Orleans, even the most intense
Southern Democrat ia puzzled in
striking q balance as to Buffers
claims to cordial recognition from
the Democratic party. He will get
1t this year, at least in Massa-
chusstts.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-08-28

WE have been very unwilling to
accept the idea that the Southern
Pacific Railway propose to aban.
don the Santa Monica wharf, but
we are gradually coming to the be-
lief that they are about to do 1t.
Mr.. Brown, the "boss" bridge
builder of the road, has been down
at Santa Monica for some time
past. He critically examined the
wharf himself, aud then summon
ed to his aid an employe OF the
company specially skilled in all
developments of the terredo and
analogous ocean worms. AS the
result OF their joint examination,
the wharf, we learn, has been pro-
nounced insecure. A smaller
worm than the terredo has, we
have been informed, been doing its
work on the piles several feet
above the ocean bed, aud at much
less depth than that at which the
ravages of the terredo are recorded.
To make the wharf fit for service
an expenditure of fully $4,000
would be needed, and this outlay
would be necessitated at least every
three years. The Southern Pacific
Railway Company, we learn. will
continue to run its trains regularly
to Santa Monica, though, when
the winter season sets in, the
trains may be reduced to one day.
The wharf will be abandoned un-
willingly, and the railway COM
pany will do all in its power to ad-
vertise Santa Monica far and wide
as seaside resort. We heard the
rumor of the abandonment Of the
wharf some time before any news
paper mention had been made of
the matter, aud we gave it no
newspaper mention because we
hoped that it would prove to be
unauthenticated. We are sorry to
say that we no longer entertain
that hope, and that, while the
opinions expressed in this brief
article are purely speculative, we
have every reason to believe that
they will coincide with the result
to be shortly announced.