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DAY.
FIVE MEN KILLED AT OPE-
LlKA, ALA.
Tragic Suicide at Sherman, Texas
An Editor Gets Of His Joke On
Highwaymen.

Special 10 the Star.
ATLANTA, Jan. 22-Near Opelika, Ala,
yesterday, Thomas Howard was superin.
tending the raising of bridge timbers at his
mill. While huge piece was being elevat.
ed the support gave way and the beam fell,
Four negroes were crushed horribly and
instantly killed. Howard was also caught
by the falling timber and killed.
The wife Of 8. H. johnson, a prominent
citizen of Opelika, while in fit of despon.
dency, shot herself fatally. The cause Of
her rash net is unknown. Two tragedies in
one day has excited the community to q
great degree.
DECK HAND DROWNED.
MADISON, IND, Jan. pa deck hand on
the steamer United States, by the name ol
John Thorp, residing in Louisville, fell from
the boat into the river late Tuesday night.
at Carrollton. KY, twelve miles above this
city. and was drowned. The body has not
been recovered.
THE AYREs BRUTE IDENTIFIED.
AYREs, MASS, Jan. 22.-From his photo
graph and from his hat and boots left at
Cambridge, the alleged tramp, who out
ragged and murdered Mrs. Crue, has been
identified as starrusk Abbot.
A BosTLERs FATAL SHOT.
GREEEcAsrLE, IND, Jan. 22.-Two host
lers, Ad. Heber, white boy only seventeen
years old, and Wilkes Mays, mulatto,
employed at Black Brothers livery.stable,
got into an alteration yesterday, when
Heoer drew pistol and shot Mays in the
breast, little to the left of the lower ex-
tremity Of the breast bone, inflicting NOR
tai wound. Heber fed.
PUT THAT EYE OUT.
GALENA. ILL, Jan. 22.-During an alter.
cation between Christopher Eve and Frank
Schwab, Of this city, yesterday, the former
cut the latter in the left arm with razor,
making frightful wound. fully an inch
deep. and extending from the elbow to the
wrist, causing lemorrhage, which, it Is
feared, will result in death.
THE EDITORS LITTLE JOKE.
MARSHALL. Texas, Jan. 22-W. l. Gibbs
editor Of the Coleman City Telegram was
met on the ROAD from Waco to Coleman by
bixhwaymen, who got the drop. and or
dered him to stand and deliver He did so,
and turned over all his cash, 50. which en-
ragged and disgnsted the robbers.
TRAGIC SUICIDE AT SHERMAN.
DALLAS, TEXAS, Jan. ga. H. Stevens,
aged 63 years, and formerly merchant Of
Baltimore, whose daughter married against
his wishes, suicided at Sherman. yesterday,
by shooting himself while standing in the
door Of his room. His aged wife fell on
the PROSTATE body and invoked heavens
curse on the cause of the suicide.
CHARLES HUNT KILLED BY CARS.
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. pat 1:3O this
morning Charles Hunt, clarionet player of
the Barracks Band, was struck by train
near the Union Depot and crushed to
death. Hunt was widower, aged fiftv,
and had been In the Government service
many years.
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Joseph Inman and james Conway, Of
Perry County, were bound over to the
Grand Jury by Commissioner Hooper to-
day, on the charge Of .counterfeiting. In
default Of $1,000 bail each, they went to
Jail. a.
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The Esher Brothers, late Of the New
Palace on Vine STREET, have skipped out of
the city for their old grounds in st. Louis.
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The February term Of the United
States Circuit Court will open next Tues
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cHIcAGo's DAILY SUICIDE,
EVIDENCES OF A MURDER.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 22.-The police are
considerably exercised over the discovery
OF q skull and some human bones, together
with Ratchet having matted hair adher-
ing to the blade and an old rusty pistol,
which were found in cess pool in the rear
of the premises No. 400 North Front street,
and which has every indication of murder
having been committed.
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MISCELLANEOUS
FOR RENT.

L,OR RENT--COTTAGEs-Two new brick ont
II tages, three rooins each, front and rear yards
side entrance; rent reasonable to prompt paying
tenant No. 81 and Is LDth street. ja21,3t
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REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURE,

AUGUSTA. Me-, Jan. 22-3P. M.-The or
der authorizing Secretary of State Chad
bourne to provide new State seal, r. .ceived
its final passage in the Republican Legisla.
ture to-day.
Mr.. Strout reported from the Judiciary
Committee bill to provide punishment
tor the otfense OF obtaining and using the
State seal or for the removal of any records
or documents from their place in the State
house.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

"ANTED-LADIES TO CALL-At MRS f.
w DAVIS for Zephyr, Saxpny, Shetland and
Gernant wn Yarns stamp ng and Hs Work to
order. Also Plating Machines for sale, s. East
Pe,ri street. Cincinnati, Ohio. ja2l,3s
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ILLUSTRATIONS
VIZ TED-SIrUATION--By a Young man A
w ciga- hacker; have had some exper ence.
Address CIGAR PACKER. this ofl-e ja2l-st
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He GAVE HIMsELP AWAY.
al Lac0niafnd procn IA fho t,Aaa

Neu0hai Associated fTesS 10 the Star.
CHICAGO. Jan. 22.-Janes B. Dixon, for
merly a lake Captain. was arrested yester-
day for the murder of Jacob Miller last
Friday morning. Dixon talked about the
murder in his sleep Monday night and
fired of his self-cocking revolver, frighten.
ing his roommate almost to death. He had
Dixon arrested. and it was found that one
other chamber Of the revolver was empty.
This and other circumstances point to him
as the murderer, but he strongly denies it.
FIRE AT FARGO.
FAReo, D. r., JAM PA fire in the
heart Of the business D rtion OF this city
DESTROYED three buildings last night The
Republican Office, owned by J. B Hall h
Son, the liquor house of C. H. Mitchell,
and the clothing store OF Geo. Hirschfeld,
were all burned. Loss, $4,000, partly in
sured.
CHIcAGo's DAILY SUICIDE.
CHICAGO, Jan. 22-Jules Methelor, a
Young German, until recently general man
ager of the large wine dealing firm OF Stern
& Rose, committed suicide this morning by
taking d Sc of arsenic. He had been
drinking heavily and thus lost his position,
and, 1t is said, was suffering with delirium
when he committed the deed.
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A Knapsack Drill.

Let me give you an anecdote OF some
of the iovial and lively boys whose pres
ence in company did more to promote
health and happiness than the hospital
ouinine and opium pills. In the old
Twelfth Indiana Regiment there were
four or five of these Kind of men, full of
life and fun. Here is one OF Enoch
Taylor's "Gouge games" as he called
it. If Taylor is living he knows it's true,
and hope he will forgive me for using
his name.
While at camp in Queenstown, Nd,
in 1861, an order was issued for KNAPP
sack drill every afternoon. The men
were required to pack their clothes, ETC.,
as if going on the march, and drill in
that shape for two hours. As the regi-
ment was forming, Col. w. H. Link,
riding down the line, observed few
straws protruding from the lap OF Tay-
lor's knapsack. The Colonel refined up
his horse with: s.What have you got in
your knapsack?"
ats straw" says Taylor. .
"What have you got it in there for?''
"Why, Colonel, it amt as heavy as
Clothes"
"Go to your quarters, and tomorrow
want you in ranks with every thing
you've got. Do you hearP"
"All right" says Taylor; Z" always
obey orders;'' and he walked to his tent
The next day he appeared in line with
knapsack well stuffed, his overcoat and
blankets forming roll about the size Of
a ten gallon key, and enough to extend
six inches beyond his shoulders, eacf
way causing him to occupy the space O.
two men in the ranks. The Colone
rode down the line, Taylor's appearance
caught his gaze, and he halted in from
of him.
"What in thunder is the matter will
youP''
Nothing at all, Colonel" says Tay
lor; "you told me yesterday to brin!
every thing had, and I've done So"
Colonel-"I should think you had.
Taylor" Jes' So"
Colonel" Do all them belong +
youP"
Taylor" Yes, but forgot my frying
pan; it's down to the TENT
: Colonel" For Gods sake 60 and &c
il, and when you do get it stay with il
Go to your quarters!"
"All right" says Taylor, 81 Away
, obey orders. III 60 and write to moth
er while you drill and I'll tell her a
about this, and hereafter don't aim
be imposed on. / can carry as big
:. bundle as any body and no straw in it.
Cor. Detroit Free Press.
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tent for his sins and reformed. IL
sides now near the old tavern On ~
worst 40 acres in Perry County. or NC =
it was aptly called, ssthe most Ca
forsaken spot in Ohio" He h..
been in the habit of voting there h.,s
at the last election the Judges tool =
into their heads to challenge bis yo,a
alleging that he had never received :
reprieve from The Wisconsin peniter
tiary. Old Shep. was not at all abashed
and reaching into an inner pocket H.
produced bundle of papers, which h.
threw upon the table, saying: "Them
are eight reprieves: you can take yonr
choice" 1t is needless to say his vote
was admitted. He is quite polished IN
manners and is well educated. It Is r..
lated that certain candidate, who was
likewise note-shaver, treated him for
a speech. Shep. rose and made speech
that completely destroyed the local can.
didate's chances of election. He IA,
memorized Milton, Shakespeare and
Homer and large portions of Bryon. Il,
delights much in the fame he has mad,
for himself. He claims that his gans
made away with 400 horses. On TN
whole he is as remarkable a man prob
ably, as can be found in Centeral Ohio
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gets in the world, there are two things
he can always get, somehow or other:
good advice and bad whisky.
No living man can produce one in
stance where mince-pie, eaten just be-
fore going to bed, made a man have
wild dreams. Men have laid it to mince-
pie, but it was their conscience.-Free
Press.
Last nights mail brought poem,
beginning:
why doth my Julia hide her face
Within her kerchief white?
What sorrow doth the tear drops SEND
To dim her eyes calm light!
OF course, we can't decide this question
until after writing to Julia, but the
chances are that she is going to sneeze
Chicago Tribune.
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Our Wool Interests.

The census of 1910 reported twenty
four wooden factories in this country
that spun yarn, and 9,258, 1863 yards Of
wooden cloth woven in families, valued
at S4,413,O0O. In 1850 there were ! 800
wooden establishments that employed
$4,000 persons and annually produced
goods of various textures valued at
S43 ,OOU, 900. In 1860 the wooden estab-
lishments had increased to 1920, em-
blowing 46, 900 males and females, and
producing goods to the value OF $751;
SOC, 900 annually. Owing to the great
demand of wooden goods to supply the
army with blankets, clothing, etc., in
the rebellion, the wooden factories in the
United States increased nearly one-hal1
in ten years, and the census of 1870 count
ed 81 900 persons as employed in wooden
factories, who annually produced goods
to the value of $177, 000, 900.
With the increase of population the
demand for wooden fabrics continues
about the same, and there are at the
present time about the same number Of
mills doing about the same amount Of
business as in 1872, just before the
financial panic commenced. But with
the natural facilities for the raising Of
sheep and the manufacture of woOler
goods, the demand for wool and wooler
goods in this country is far ahead of the
supply. In the past 46 years, or since
1888, the United States have imported
wool, either manufactured or unmanu
featured, to the value of S1,210, 000, 900
For the past four years this country hal
imported wool and wooden goods to thu
value Tin the aggregated Of SIC. 600 900
while the export is trifle. IN 1875 tn
total duties on wool and wooden texture
amounted to $50, 9l4, 0S6, and with tn
exception of four years prior to ls4s
was larger revenue than ever was pro
duced in any one year in this country, 0
within 50 COO, 900 of what was expende
in the eight years of Washington's ad
ministration.
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Odd Dinner Customs in Sweden.

The Swedes have a queer way Of 10.
comotiOn at their meals. They oftea
fit about like flies, from one table to an
other, and sometimes seem to turn the
menu topsy-turvy when they order 10
past. Ii Is no rare thing to see them
begin with cheese and biscuit, next pro.
coed to ham and salad, with q slice q
meat to follow, and then suddenly star
up in the middle of their dinner to swal.
low, while they walk about, . plateau
of pea soup. A habit which they have
of beginning each repast with what they
call q /" smorgos,' not merely leads .
much untidiness at meal-time, but make.
them seem contented to live on bits ana
scraps. The smorgos consists OF lltls
dishes, such as slices Of smoked rem
deer, and caviar, and sardines, win
pickles, cheese, and other whets provo
catiye of thirst. These are fished o.
with a fork of general utility, and ~
on thumb-pieces of rye cake, tnlc.y
smeared with butter, which serve y
way of plate. Then they are btu
into, regardless of the fragments wn'1
may fall on other dainties flor your ~
smorgos-eatcr seldom sits to
repast), and they are finally wssnsa
down with glass or two OF SPIN
which stand handy by their side. sue'
prelude to q meal is not merely ",
clearly, but must vitiate the palate, e. 9,
iniure the digestion. Indeed, l y
convinced that, were the smorgosoo,es
abolished, not merely would ne coz. ~
cry in Sweden soon improve Dui IN,
many of the people would DC grseu sy
weaned from their weakness tor ssf0n6
| drink.
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Hugh McGlinn, proprietor o. e
Rhode Island Livery Stable on ros
Street, died Tuesday afternoon, ~
wears. The deceased LETT benln eo "a
an estate valued at over 49,
McGlinn, it is stated, acquired ms -.
fortune by leading an extremely Pse -.
GUS existence, and denying hirsen ID =.
the common necessaries OF nie.
occupied himself in the mcss ~
empioyments about his estaDnsn ~
and he devoted himself to the -
and boarding of money. For e
occupied a loft in his stable, wne.v ~
died. He was unable to READ q sss.
and was obliged to intrust the 49, L
ment of his business to an ,,hvi.
his last illness he refused 70 psy sP rcr|d
clan to attend him unless - IN Is
guarantee a cure. He left : ~. = 6
9ueathing the whole OF ms 60: J. ,ss.,ninf
wife, who, with his daughter. = a e.a
a living in Rhode Island g ~ III
servant. He separated from ' n's 8
a number Of years ago, &c. 1870
bought q silk dress San
Chronicle.
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Feminine Patriotism in Peru.

A letter from Lima, dated Nov. Il,
says: "During the past few days some
scandalous scenes have been enacted
here and in Callao. A few months ago
a decree was issued ordering all persons
born in Chill to leave the country.
Large numbers left at once, but some
400 or 500 women remained. The
greater number of these were married,
many of them to gentlemen of fortune
and position, and the husbands, both
native and foreign, had anticipated
their wives would be allowed to remain
unmolested. Not word would have
been said on the subject, and probably
the matter would never have been no.
ticed, had not the women in Pisagua
been so scandalously abused! But on
receipt of the painful information, the
women of the lower class became fu-
rious, and demanded that all Chilians
should be expelled from the country.
They formed themselves into bands,
and proceeding to the houses in which
it was known that Chilians resided, de-
manded they should be taken to the po-
lice depots, to be sent thence to Chill.
In several instances the clothing was
torn from the backs of these victims to
patriotic fury, and in all eases they
were subjected to vituperation OF the
vilest description from the women most
active in the work. During two days
much agitation prevailed among all who
had relatives or connections here who
had been born in Chill, and to whom
the decree could by any means be con-
sidered to apply; but calmer counscls
soon prevailed, the disorders were sup.
pressed by the police, and all attempts
to renew them were promptly put down
Peruvians married to Chilians could
offer no excuse for retaining their wives
in the country contrary to the law, bu
foreigners have refused to comply with
it, on the ground that the wife takes the
nationality of the husband. As a rule
however, the fright these scoundreli
have caused among the community ha'
been so great that number of ladie'
born in Chill, although Of foreign
parentage, have determined to leave thu
country, and some take their departure
by the steamers which sail to-day ant
tomorrow. Much of the trouble woult
have been avoided had the polio,
acted theoretically from the first mo
| ment's
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An educational journal thus describes
the trouble Frenchman had with the
verb break"
81 begin to understand your Ian
guaee BETTER" said my French friend.
Mr.. Dubois, to me, "but your verbs
trouble me still; you mix them up 60
with propositions"
81 am sorry you find them trouble
some," was all / could say.
81 saw your friend, Mrs. Murkeson,
Just now," he continued. She says che
intends to break down housekeeping; am
1 right thereP"
"Break up housekeeping, she must
have said"
"Oh, yes, remember; break up
housekeeping"
"Why does she do thatp" / asked.
"Because her health is broken into.n
"Broken down."
"Broken down? Oh, yes. And, in
deed, since the smallpox has broken up
in our city"
" Broken out"
"She thinks she will leave it for . lev
weeks"
xviii she leave the house alonef"
"No, she is afraid it will be broken
broken-how do / say thatr'
Broken into"
Certainly, it is what I meant b
say"
ssIs her son to be married soonf"
"No that engagement is broken
broken -"
Broken Off"
"Yes, broken off,"
"Ah, L had not heard of that"
"She is very sorry about it. Her soz
only broke the news down to her las
week. Am rightp / am anxious q
speak English well.n
"He merely broke the news; y
proposition this time"
cit is hard to understand. TIM
young man, her son, is q fine lookinl
fellow; breaker, think"
"A broker, and very fine young fel
low. Good-day."
So much for the verb ito break"
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about whose welfare he is much con-
cerned.
Mr.. Blennerhasset, M. p. for Ker-
nv, Ireland, is to introduce next session
a bill to abolish the arbitrary marriage
regulations which compel marriages 10
be solemnized before noon. This mas
been great inconvenience, especially
to the working classes, and was intro
duced to prevent bibulOus bachelors
from presenting themselves at the altar
in an intoxicated state, a danger which
has passed away.
The Count de Grimbergen, one OF
the wealthiest noblemen of Belgium,
who died recently, had to invoke the in
Prevention of the authorities to be dis
embarrassed of relations who wanted to
compel him to die with the rites OF re-
ligion. The fortune left by him is esti-
mated at about 81, 100000. Among his
legacies is one of 500, 900 for the con-
struction of seaside residence for the
children of the public schools.
1t seems a great stride from simple
Mr.. to "his Grace the Duke" which
Mr.. Bentinck made lately on the death
of his cousin, the Duke of Portland.
He is young officer of the Guards,
aged 22, and gets about $500, 600 year
with his dukedom under the will OF the
late Dukes father. The great London
property around the Langham Hotel
deyolyes on the late Dukes nephew.
To be %, an English Duke, and have
S4OO, 900 year seems pretty good po-
sition in the world.
J The Emperor of Germany sends
every Christmas boar's head as pres
ent to Queen Victoria, and finer thing
in its way than genuine hure dc sang
Tier can not be conceived. For fourteen
Christmases, from 1887, it was the GUS
| tom of King Ernest of Hanover, known
and hated in England as the Duke o.
Cumberland, to send one to each OF ms
high Tory friends in England. His lis
was a long one when he left England
/ but when man abandoned the Greco
} of Toryism in England his name wa
) expunged. Among the latter were 81
, Robert Peel and the Duke of yelling
' ton, and in the end there were not abov'
two or three entitled to the boar's head
The King of Denmark is greatly be
t loved as monarch and man. He i
: more of "citizen king" than evel
$ Louis Philippe. He has some knowl
r edge of science, has cultivated tast
t for art, has the material interests OF hi
s subjects at heart, chats in friendl
!, manner with the citizen class on tn
: public promenade, and, it is said, SCI
+ dom declines to stand godfather to tn
s child of any Dane who makes the r.
y quest that he should do so. A Berli
paper, which gives number of detail
e about the life of the royal family in Ct
o penhagen, observes that "the King
n daughters won, as maidens, an unusus
J: degree of popularity in their fatherlant
n The good Danes were EXTRAORDINARY
e proud of the beauty of their princesse.
n and rejoiced heartily with them whe
e the Herr Papa whose civil list is
It very small dimensions, and who is con
It PEELED to be thrifty in his domestic e.
IT penses, bestowed upon either daught'
IS a new dress or gold ornament for
o birthday gift"
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Did you ever notice that If you go
into an Office where the man is on the
street talking politics all the time he
isn't in bed, you will always see a
framed chromo-motto hanging up over
the desk, Time is money?'-Burdettes
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For morning dress there is nothing
so pleasant to wear as the wooden Pc
kins in cameleon stripes, in which
greens, blues, and dark reds are so
blended that the result is very dark
style of coloring indeed-dark, but rich
and warm, and very pleasant to the
eve, while not apt to stain or fade.
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"MAMMA," said the little one, lido
You know what you are going to give
me for Christmasp" "Why, yes" said
the mother, ssof course ] know" "Weu,
for mercy's sake, don't tell me-" re-
sponded puss, with great vehemence.