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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-06-27
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

We are authorized to Hon .
THOS. S. FORD. of Marion Z" county,
as a candidate for reelection to the
office of District Attorney of the
Seventh Judicial District, composed of
the counties of Kemper, Laiiderdale,
Clark, Wayne, Greene, Perry, Marion,
Hancock, Harrison and Jackson, subject
to the action of the democratic party.
Election November A.
We are authorized to announce MAI.
SAMUEL II. TERRELL, of Clark county,
as u candidate for District Attorney of
the Seventh Judicial District Election
November 4.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-06-27
METEOROLOGICAL Observations

al Dr.. MOore's office at the ScashOre, Pas
cag0ula, Miss, for the week ending June
%, 1879;
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08
4 Remarkable Conspiracy.

Mrs. Louisa Pierce, a white lady.
was yesterday arrested near this city,
brought here and lodged in Jail on a
warrant charging her with having muir
lerod her two infant children by burn
ing their bodies in the fireplace OF her
house. The preliminary trial held 10y
Justice tins morning resulted in the
discharge Of Mrs. Pierce and the send
ing on to the grand jury Of three Of the
principal witnesses. charged with con-
spiracy to deprive Mrs. Pierce OF liber-
w and with perjury. The facts are as
follows, and prove one OF the most dia-
bolical conspiracies on record: On the
3Oth Of May Mrs. Pierce gave prema-
ture birth 10 twins. The children were
born dead and we're placed in a small
box for burial, but before they were
buried neighborhood gossip had charR-
ed that the twins were born alive and
the mother had destroyed them 10y
burning. This coming TO the ears OF
the parents, the box containing the
bodies was kept aud at their request
number of persons inspected it. Last
Thursday, il being supposed the slan-
der was reiuted, the bodies were buried.
Yesterday a warrant was sworn out
by a negro woman charging Mrs.
Pierce with murder. A box was
brought here by the officer making the
sr.est which was supposed TO have con
tanned the bodies, but an examination
by medical experts developed the fact
that il contained the remains OF
chicken. One of the negro witnesses
produced charred bones. which she
swore was the carcass Of the children
and was taken from the fire in Pierce's
house. These bones were clearly
proven to be those Of a cat. From the
testimony IL was evident that the
bodies Of the children, as buried 10y
the father on Thursday. had been I'M
eartbed, the remains taken from the
box and replaced by those OF chicken.
Three of the conspirators, one negro
man and two women are IN jail, and IT
- believed that others are IN the con-
spiracy aud will he arrested. Mrs.
Pierce isa Northern woman, having
moved here from New York several
wears ago. and married William T..
Pierce. a citizen Of this county of good
sanding a graduate Of distinction OF
Yale College. Mrs. Pierce being n
Northern woman and unused TO negro
labor. has been unable 10 get along
with them "a servants; hence the ne
groes in her neigbborhood despise her,
and this is supposed 10 be the animus
Of the conspiracy. New York Herald.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08
NUMBER 17O5.
BETRAYED BY MUSIC.
How a scotch Detective Found HIS
Wan After a Two Years
search.


For nearly two years past young
man wearing the garb of a Highland
piper has been wandering about in the
coal regions OF Pennsylvania, playing
his pipe in the streets, attending pic
MICS and dances, and apparently de-
pending on his instrument TO make him
living. A few days since he was play
ing in a mining village on the out
skirts Of Scranton, Pa. A crowd had
gathered around him, among them a
mine laborer named Brady. Sudden
ly the piper ceased the music, and
stepping from the crowd seized Brady
by the shoulder and announced that
the laborer was his prisoner. At the
same time he produced papers which
he said were his authority for making
the arrest. Brady seemed entirely
overwhelmed by the arrest, and made
no opposition TO the authorities when
II was revealed that the piper was de-
tective. For two years he had been
on the track Of his prisoner, who is
charged with having murdered
wealthy man named Findlay, in
Scotland, in January, 1877. Brady
was In the employ of Findlay. Early
one morning the latter was found dead
by the roadside, his skull crushed with
a club. Brady had been discharged
the morning before for Drunkenness
He had been heard TO make a threat
that he would get even with Findlay.
He was nowhere to be found, but was
traced to Glasgow, where it was be-
lieyed he had taken vessel for Amer
lea. William Male, detective, was en-
ployed by the relatives of murdered
man 10 come TO this country and search
for Brady. who, il was thought, would
bring mp in the Pennsylvania coal re-
gions, where he had friends working.
One of Braidy's peculiarities was his
love for the bag-pipe, so the detective,
being a piper, adopted the disguise Of
a Scotch piper and played about in the
coal towns in the hope Of some day at
tracing the attention of the man he
was seeking, he being more sure from
information he had received that
Brady really was somewhere in the
coal regions. The Iuse succeeded after
two years of patient trial. Male is now
on his way to Scotland with the alleged
murderer.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08

An Incident OF Trush ne strange as
Fiction.

From the Leadyille Eclipse.
Five years ago young man
whom We shall call Smith, because
that is not his name, was married 10 a
beautiful girl in one OF the interior
towns Of Iowa. Smith was then only
% years old, aud, though intelligent.
well edusated and active, was only a
clerk in q dry goods store, depending
upon meager salary for subsistence.
Common prudence should have dictat-
ed to the young couple the propriety
OF waiting, but they loved each other
and laughed at the iuture. The father
OF the young lady was one OF the pio.
neers OF the town. rich, haughty and
purse proud. He was enraged at the
match, and coarsely told the young
lady that she had made hard bed for
herself and must lie on il.
With an amount of money ridicu-
lously small, considering his wealth,
he dismissed her finally. The couple
went to housekeeping, but with all
their love and economy failed to make
both ends meet. The money which
the young wife brought was expended
during the first year, and love, which
Laughed at locksmiths," flew out of
the window when poverty came in at
the door. Misunderstanding bicker-
ings and quarreis followed each other
in rapid succession, aud finally il seem
ell TO the unhappy pair it vas impossi-
BILE for them To live together, and after
a somewhat more violent scene than
usual, Mrs. Smith took her babe and
went TO her fathers, only TO have the
door shut in her face. Returning to
her own house she found that her hus-
band had left note stating that she
should never see him again. In fit of
desperation she sold the stock Of furni-
ture, placed her babe in charge of her
husbands parents, with enough money
to make il comfortable for a year. and
started for large city TO make n living
This was only little more than year
ago.
The old story Of young, refined
aud unprotected female in a large city
was re-enacted in her case. She fell,
and in three months had become reck-
less. Always fnding plenty of ad-
mirers, she drifted from city TO city,
occasionally sending little money for
the care of her babe, which she loved
with passionate tenderness. During
all time. however, she never forgot her
husband, having learned that her love
had been clouded, not extinguished.
Last week she arrived in Leadyille. As
she descended from the coach she no.
ticed in the throng Of bronzed faces
one that seemed strangely familiar,
though covered with an enormous
beard. IL disappeared and she went to
her lodgings with strange feeling OF
unrest aud isolation. The next day
walking down town she again encoun-
tered that face and met a glance that
caused her TO tremble. In another in
slant both her hands were seized and
she knew that her husband, whom she
had never ceased 10 love, stood before
her. He had come to Leadville imme-
diately after their separation. had pros
pered and supposing that she was still
at her fathers. was about starting for
home with sufficient means to establish
himself in business IN their native
town. She told him all, he forgave all
and the next day the strangely united
couple left 10 begin new and happier
life.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08
strange Finale of an Elopemeni.

We hear rumors Of n youthful run
away couple from 81. Clair county re-
Gently The young gent was aged
about IL aud the young lady about II
years. Fearing parental opposition
they took matters into their own hands
and started ont on foot for this county.
The fathers Of the runaways made pur-
suit and overlook them in the neigh
borhood Of Pelham on the second day
Of their fight. Procuring marriage
license and calling in the services Of a
mf gistrate the old gentlemen proceed
ed at once 10 have the young folks
united in marriage. They then took
them mp behind them on their horses,
each father taking his child. aud re-
turned home with the wanderers.--
Shelby. Ala, Sentinel.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08
The Credit System.

The credit system sometimes brings
results least anticipated by those who
trade in il. A Scotch farmer was dun
ned by a wagon-maker Of the ambitions
village OF Drayton, Ontario, to pay for
vehicle purchased from him; to
which the canny Scot pleaded inability
in consequence OF the scarcity of mon
ey. Being pressed for the debt by his
creditor, who said that he had a note
becoming due in few days, which the
amount Of the farmers debt would en-
able him to meet, he was told very
naively by the farmer that sooner than
see him stuck he would lend him the
amount from fund which he had ly-
ing by for note-shaviug, provided he
would get some substantial neighbors
TO back his note, and would only
charge him l2 per cent. for it. He no
doubt thought IL was poor system
that could not work both ways.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08

THE LADY NIHILIsTs OF RUssn.-La-
dies who move in the highest circles of
Russian society have joined the Nihi-
list conspirators. No fewer than three
young ladies of high birth took a lead
ing part in the late outbreak at Kieff.
The policeman who was killed during
the struggle fell by ball aimed at him
from n revolver fired by Olga Raffsw-
ska. Two preliminary meetings of Nj
hilists were held before the affray-one
composed exclusively of men, the 9TH
er of women. At the latter, according
to the same authority, appeared the
daughter of Gen. Gerstfeld, whose
father lives in st. Petersburg and be-
longs to the highest official classes of
the empire, and also the enthusiastic
Countess Panin. The name of the
young countess is inscribed on the
books OF the University of Kieff. She
is jealous student, and renowned for
her singular beauty: Her mother is
dead, but her mother-in-law is a court
dame OF the Russian Empress, and a
power in st. Petersburg society. Her
great-grandfather was favorite of the
Empress Catherine. and was the second
Imderial Chancellor of the Russian
empire.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08

Hydrophobis, we are told in Cassell's
Magazine, can be prevented. The fol.
lowing remedy, known a. the Goodman
remedy, has been tried with surprising
success. II is very simple. The first
dose is one and half ounces Of ele-
campane root. bruised, in a pint Of new
milk which has been reduced one-half
by boiling. This must be taken all az
one dose In the morning. fasting till
the afternoon. The second dose must
be two ounces of the elecampane root,
in milk as before; the third dose as the
second. Three doses are sufficient 20
remove all IN effects Of the bite. A
dose for n horse or COW should be
four times the above, and IN the doses
be administered any time before the
appearance OF the spasms they will be
efiicacious.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08
How the Chinese Fish.

A thousand years ago the Chinese
had the same ideas in regard 10 the
catching Of fish aud the working OF
nets as they have at the present. On
the coasts, however, the generally ac-
cepted system Of procuring fish is ia
vogue. The lakes and rivers of China,
especially those in the north, are so
abundantly stocked that the fish-catch-
ers make their living by actually seiz-
ing and drawing the fish out OF water
with their hands. The man goes into
the stream, half swimming, half-walk-
ing, raising his hands above his head
aud letting them drop, striking the
surface with his hands. Meanwhile
his feet are moving on the muddy bot
tom. BY rapid dive he brings Ip n
fish in his hands. Striking the surface
frightens the fish, who sink below, and
thereby are felt 10y the feet aud secur-
ed. Another curious method is some
times practiced on several of the great
rivers. A man sits at the stern OF a
long, narrow boat, steers her with a
paddle to the middle OF the river, a
narrow sheet of white canvass il
stretched along the side of the boat.
aud along the other side net rs las
tened so as 10 form barrier OF two or
three feet in height. the man keeps
perfectly still, while the fish attracted
by the white canvass, approach and are
caught in the net. The fishing cormo-
rant is often trained in this country to
catch fish, and are diliigent workers,
obeying promptly the call Of their
master. On the rivers and canals near
Ming Po, Shanghai. aud Foo-Chow-
Foo, the employment OF the birds is by
no means an uncommon sight, but
they are never 10 be seen in summer
months, their work being in the winter
beginning about October aud ending
in Nav. The birds have, OF course, "a
he trained, which is carried on in the
cormorant breeding and fishing estab
lishments, one Of which is at distanc,
of thirty or forty miles from Shanghai.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
Weston needs no suspenders; he
wears a belt.

Weston needs no suspenders; he
wears belt.
The arm-bearing Communists are the
ku-klux OF the North.
The German Empress has seen and
liked our Minister White.
General Sherman will spend most Of
the summer in inspecting our northern
frontier posts.
The cooling shade Of the Kentucky
Mammoth Cave is drawing excursion
lists thitherward.
The subscriptions to his relief are
not coming in as fast as Archbishop
Purcell could desire.
George Francis Train weeps TO see
his Newport cottage pass into the hands
of the Vanderbilts.
Prince Pierre Bonaparte is lying at
the point OF death in Versailles, This
is hard month for that family.
Sir Rowland Hill has the freedom of
the city of London for the part he tC OK
in bringing about cheap postage.
Texas is believed 10 possess within
it's borders more nnpunished crime
than any four States in the Union.
Hon. Henry w. Blair, the new sena-
tor from New Hampshire. says that he
does not believe in sentimental politics
Tl,o r.no,.o..so.ol Dooo.l - r.
quently doctored to suit the Hon ~
ables--expressions changed, grammar
corrected, etc.
Paymaster Bates OF the United States
Navy, stationed at Erie, is a nephew of
General Meade and grandson Of Ben
iamin Franklin.
We have mathematical conundrum
III a wife is the better half of husband
how many halves are there TO an aver
age Mormon elder?
As a prognosticator the Iowa State
Register beats Professor Tice. IL pre-
diets that within two years Bob Inger-
soil will be a radical Christian aud a
preacher.
IL was hoped that when dynamite
came into use the railway baggage
smasher would quit rolling trunks of
the top OF twenty foot pole, but the
reform has yet TO come.
Having redeemed himself and made
"A record OF 800 miles in less than six
days, the great American pedestrian
has walked a. long way into the aflec-
tions Of his couutrymen.
There is one thing which is greatly
TO the credit OF tailor, and which
places him in the foremost rank Of ma
ture's noblemrn, and that is, he minds
his SEWN business.
Chicago has its good races and its
bad races, including among the former
races on the course west OF the city,
and in the latter the races which bear
arms in the Sunday eer-gardens Of the
same locality
Garibaldi seeks 10 anuul his mar
riage. Madame Raimondi because the
pension Of 90, 900 francs annually grant
ed him and his heir would otherwise go
TO her child, though he is not its faith
er, while his own children would get
nothing.
Let's quit. It's too warm. The
machine is too machinery. The jokes
are quarried ont too square. The con-
undrums don't ft. The points are
too broad and too thick. Somehow or
other. nothing fits. 1t evidently ism Z
our day. Let's write politics. -l Bur
lington Hawkeye.
A man in Minnesota the other day to
win wager, pulyerzed the glass OF a
whisky flask ard swallowed tue whole.
Three days afterwards death relieved
him from excruciating torments. A
pos. mortem examination showed his
stomach and intestines to be literally
ground to pieces.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08
Two Valuable Lessons Taught at West
Point.

Two valuable lessons, not from text
books, are taught at West Point
strict honesty and truthfulness. A ca
det guilty of lying is expelled. There
is no hope for him, and there ought TO
be none. or all mean and detestable
vices falsehood is the meanest and most
detestable. A cadet guilty of dishon-
esty is expelled. Dishonesty and false
hood go hand in hand. They are twin
vices. No young man who should
show the faint of these vices goes
throggh West Point il the authorities
can help it. BY extreme circumspec-
ton a youth whose imagination is too
lively for his judgment may OCCASION
ally get through, and even rise to COM
paratively high command in the army
afterward; but he certainly must walk
with great care while passing through
West Point; and, as TO the honesty Of
its graduates, as a class, that, fortu-
nately, is beyond dispute.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08
Isaac Butt.

Of the last Isaac Butt lady writes:
zone day he ran in hurriedly TO see my
father, who was out nj the time. As
he was rushing away without leaving
any name, ventured to remark, Who
shall say cslled2' The Home Ruler
erimly replied, Tell your father the
nRliest devil lac knows called TO see
him. We all knew who IL was then.
Going homo late one night he wss ac-
costed by dcsperate-looking ruffian
in one OF the suburbs of Dublin and
asked what he was going 10 stand. -
well. replied Mr.. Butt, meekly. I'm
sorry that can't give You much, my
friend, but what I have I viii share
Here he continued, drawing a revol-
yer FROM his pocket, els weapon
which has six chambers. i will give
Won three and" Here Mr.. Butt
found himself alone.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08

NEsRo SUFERsTrrIoSs.-Atm midnight,
after the hanging OF Smith and Chris
tian, al New Kent Court House, Va,
for murder Tuesday, the negroes held
A ball, nj which a voudoo negross ap-
peared, selling pieces Of the rope with
winch the criminals we're hanged, and
which she had charmed. The negroes
fought 10 purchase the amulets and
then started to secure the clothes in
which the criminals had been buried,
20 cut them mp also for charms. They
were frightened of by two resurrection.
lists. whom they mistook for Smith and
Christian, the negroes declaring that
both had escaped from their graves.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08

Tux MIssIoS or CHARLEY Ross. go
Mr.. Christian Ross lately wrote con.
cerning his lost child: "Mrs. Ross and
myself would both be only too glad 10
know that our dear Charlie is safe in
Heaven than 10 be tortured by the
dread that he remains in charge Of
people who may lead him into life Of
misery aud crime. While we have
suffered beyond what any mortal can
understand, yet we have the com
fort 10 know that many a little fellow
has been rescued from want and mis-
cry through the search for our Charlie.
and we believe the public have reaped
largely the benefit OF the sacrifice We
made, for had compounded the crime
I feel certain we would have bad our
son long since; but declining 10 do so,
have suffered and the public have
been benefited. for I do not think a
child will be taken soon again for
ransom.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08

Sayl some Of you lawyers; we we Q
just wondering; how IL IL, II n mans
wife runs away with and marries an in
surance agent, and never comes back
90 him, what relation is the bereaved
man 10 his mother-in-law yet2 Az she
has not run away, is she still bus
mother-in-lawg Aud II so, Is she also
the insurance mans mother-in-law? In
what relation, in fact, does a man
stand 10 his wife's relatives when, as in
the instance just cited, his wife is not
dead, but gone before"7- Burdetts.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08

Adamant.
Adamant metal
Adamant PlOws.
Adamant hardest subtance known.
Adamant PlOws are not chilled.
Adamant Plows have lighiest draft
Adamant Plows are cheapest 10 nsc.
Adamant metal polishes like silver.
Adamant Plows have all the late improve
meuts.
Adamant Plows have self-sharpcning points
AdamaDt plow points cost less than any
other.
Adamant pIow points last twice as long a.
any other.
Adamant metal suspended, rirgs like a
bell.
Adamant metal cannot be filed or drilled.
Adamaut metal IL not brittle like chilled
iron.
Adamant metal is made by recently ais-
covered process.
Adamant metal mold.boards last three
times a. long a. steel.
Adamant Plows clear freely in wet. stick >
soils.
Adamani PlOws, clearing freely, makes II
easy for the team.
Adamant Plows are easier kept into hard
ground than Others.
Adamant Piows are made only by the New
York Plow Co, and will always he kept fol
sale In Hillsdale,
HENRY WILBUR, Agent In Michigan. No
Farnam's Block east side Of Court Hous,
square. (mylS
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08

A Bn or HmroRY. Richard C0ur
de Leon was the most stylish man in
England of his time. When he put on
his tin helmet and cast iron ulster, and
a pair Of laminated steel boots, aud
picked up a club with an iron knob and
steel spike in the end, aud set forth on
a cru aie, the fashionable society of
that day considered him just dressed
20 kill" And so he was. And one
day VII g was dressed mp that way
fe'l lied him havkeye.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08

Frederick Wstson, one OF the most
talented aud brilliant members OF tho
New York press, who recently died at
the Charity Hospital on Blackwell
Island, now fills pauper's grave 10 the
potter's field. He was a conviial fellow.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08

"Pompey, ] hear you are great
preacher" eyes; de Lord do help me
powerful sometimes. We'll, Pom
pey, don't you think tho negross
stea,?' Use mighty 'fraid The does"
"rhen. Pompey, preach ser
mon against stealing" lyon see. dat
wouldn't never DO, 'ciusc 'twould
lrow such a GOODNESS over de meetin'."
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08
TT WAYNE, JACKSON a SAGINAW

shot Lane - miles shortest 10 lndianapo-
liz. Louisville. and all points south. =
miles the shortest to 81 Louis. Kansas
Texas. aud an points west Direct route
to Baltimore. Washington. Philadelphia
and New York
Time card Ia Effect May -. 1879: