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Sharp County record., 1880-12-30
Other Counties.
BOONE.

A thief entered the residence of Rev. j.
NJ. Longcoy, recently, during the familys
absence, ard carried off watch and vari-
Gus articles Of dress goods, all amounting
10 $3.50. The Harrison Times contends
faithfully for peace and sobriety in that
town, and wants all offenders jerked up
and punished. Correct.
MARION.
The people of Yellville and vicinity are
entertained during the holidays by their
"home musical claes."
BAXTER.
DR.. NJ. Mcclure, of Butesyille, narrowly
escaped drowning while crossing White
river, near the mouth of North Fork, re:
Gently. lie was thrown from his horse
into The water, and only escaped drowning
by the assistance Of friend c.. D.
Churchill (of Independence county and
Miss C. D. Linn, W. F. Mabey and Mis-
Mary Treece were Married at MC Home,
on the 10th inst Mrs. Elizabeth Dear
more died on the 18th int, aged "a
years. A daughter of Mary Phillips,
aged about u years, was fatally burned
on tie 2lSt inst, by her clothing catching
FIRE; Mrs. Parlee Bolton, aged 81, wss
also fatally burned, in like manner, re
Gently. ,
FULTON.
c. W. Culp and Joanna Sharp, T. j,
Russell and NJ. j. Williams were married
recently. -. "A young man named FranA
Ransom was robbed Of nine,y-three Col
lars by four men whom be met in the
road, one night recently. The robbers
fred several shots al him, soma Of whici
pierced his clothing Petitions for and
against a special act to prohihs tn"
sale of liquors within three miles of thr
Salem academy, will be presented to the
next general assembly.
I2ARD.
Prof. Hagardd has opened school
Melbourne. . The Melbourne ,heatricu
club will give an exhibition at Melbourn1
on Friday night, the 3lSt inst .Ths
wife cf 4. House, near Melbourne, dig.y
last Se7Sa .11i'55ca Strip ~!5.o .esiaa. +
near Melbourne died on the 18Th inst.
Andrew Manning, who lived near Calico
Rock. has been arrested and committed
to Jail on a charge of ste&ling his neigh
boris cotton.
INDEPENDENCE.
". NJ. Steel, county aud probate Judge
for Independence, died on the 2lat inst,
az Searcy, where he had gone for the
benefit of his health "A child of Theo.
Lane died recently, eyed two years.
JACKSON.
A Mr.. lowers ha, recently imported a
lot of negro farm laborers from Tennessee
and Mississippi. 80. Marriage licenses to
the number of III have been issued by
the clerk Of jackson county since the Is.
Of last July.
Sharp County record., 1880-12-30

For all chronic female weaknesses and
irregllariti IS. ENGLISH FEMALE BITTERs
stands at Tho bead of the liss. IL is a never
failing iron and yoge able TOME, givin! I'M
mediate strength and ylgOr to the system.
Sharp County record., 1880-12-30

The Indian population of the
United States, not including Alaska,
is sbout a quarter of million,
Sharp County record., 1880-12-30
SHARP COTNTY
EVENING SHADE.

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ALDERdEN.
JP C0cbran, j h NetcaH IL G WaiaprWht,
j N ShQrer, j B Green.
Sharp County record., 1880-12-30

wears, aud duriag at lcast one-half of tuat
time had been a s1ferer from the effect, Of
lrucorrhOea or whites aud is many attend
ants. She wGs very much reduced in
strength and fcsh hcing unable to take
any active exercise. DR.. L. advised the
Ua5 of DE-. DrOmGuole's ENGLISH FEMALE
BITTERs. as he knew 10 composition With
many doubts, she cOmmenc0d lts use, but
nft9r the use of six bottles. costing only
S5. she was restored t. perfect b, alrh.
Sharp County record., 1880-12-30

How the boys love TO gather nuts in
the pleasant antunn wea her. In after
years the recollection of this pas'imc is
tire most agreeable of all their happy
memories of "Auli Lang Syne.' Gather
ing the buckley is NV source of profit
as well as pleasure to them, So the mann
iaaturcrs of Tablets Buckeye Pile Oint-
ment buy the buckeyes ia I4rgequantites
to make their celebrated Pile Ointment,
which is a never failing cure for Piles.
Try il. Price 50 c.S. Whites Cream
White Yermifuga is toe bs,t worm killer.
Ear.sala- by NJ ~ -Wrirht. I
Sharp County record., 1880-12-30

LOCAL ITEW1E: 6, :
Sharp County record., 1880-12-30
JACKSON.

A Mr.. lowers has recently imported a
lot of negro farm labOrers from Tennessee
and Mississippi 80. Marriage licenses to
the number of III have been issued by
the clerk Of jackson county since the Isl
Of last July.
Sharp County record., 1880-12-30
INDEPENDENCE.

", NJ. Steel, county aud probate judge
for Independence, died on the 2lst inst,
at Searcy, where he had gone Gor the
benefit Of his health. a child of Theo.
Lane died recently, egsd two years,
Sharp County record., 1880-12-30

The people of Yellville and vicinity are
entertained during the holidays by their
"holne musical class
Sharp County record., 1880-12-30
E0wlR and County.

Thermometer eight degrees balow
zero Tuesday morning last
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-02-26
Cannibalism.

Cannibalism has lately pressed its
claims on public attention in variety
of shapes, says the New York Sun In
the first place came the war of King
Amachree, with a powerful vassal, VIII
Broid, on the west coast of Africa, near
the equator, at the delta of the Niger.
There, after battle, the survivors
.feasted on the killed, and the prisoners,
to the number Of about two hundred, it
being the most profuse banquet of the
sort known in that region fir years
Then came the case of the Indian canni-
bal, Swift Runner, executed the other
day at Fort Saskatchewan, after having
killed and eaten successfully his mother,
his wife and his seven children. Then
occurred the mention by Mr.. Bell, OF
the eannibal witch in the East Indies,
who deveured her son, assisted in the
task by two osher members Of Ter sex.
Finally we have the three natives of the
Marquesas islands who lately visited
San Francisco as q part of the crew OF
the French gunboat Lamothe Piquet.
They were of large stature, with reg2-
lar features, finely tattooed, and with
full, soft, expressive eyes; they were
man eaters. The crew OF this gunboat
had yeaf before discovered the bodies
of twelve captured Frenchmen prepared
for eating, on the island Of New Gale
donia This is the description which
the San Francisco Call gave ofthe affair
They effected a landing at point
where the train Lad been captured, and
surprised the savagcs while about to
feast upon the bodies of the captured
Frenchmen. The weuld-be banqueters
fled at their approach, but were pur-
sued, and fifteen of them killed. The
scene upon the beach, Captain Bienaime
says, where they landed, was sickening G
in the extreme% ufyf e
: But while there has been Of late, by a
singular coincidence, rather run of
Gambia istic news. these bad practices
are, in general, rapidly running out. Be
fore long they will cease altogether, for
civilization is extending, and in civil
lied life, though men devour each other,
they do not do so physically and liter
allv s-a sstt @+A- q $50 ~ asttfssF
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-02-26
rhe minister's Whiskers.

f. =
An Annesville On. Y Clergyman en-
tered q Utica barber shop and asked to
have his whiskers trimmed. They were
quite gray, and the barber, who was
talking politics or scandal, like the
guild in general, andneglecting his busi-
ness, supposed the. minister wanted
them dyed He accordingly got cnt his
dye estnffs, and in twenty minutes the
veteran preacher was transformed into
a young and festive-looking representa-
tive Of the cloth. Throughout the en-
tire operation the minister's mind was
absorbed with heavenly things, and he
did net once notice the operation or the
change in his appearance when it was
finished Meeting friends in the street
they did not recognize him, and finally,
when he chanced to look into mirror,
he waited for an introduction to his re-
Election before he dared to speak When
he reslized the situation he lost no
time in returning to the shopand having
his face shaved clean. 1t took some
time TO get acquainted with his wife
upon his return home, but the joke was
too good to keep. and his friends are en-
joying IL. Sec g tss1s
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-02-26
A Curious Monomania.

A remarkable person, sort of mono
maniac, such as might have delighted
Balzac, was brought up for trial the
other day before the judges of assize in
Paris. His name is Verdellet; lie is by
trade an optician, and was said to be in
an excellent way of business. On every
subject but one Verdellet appears to be
a person OF sense and Judgment, but on
law and lawsuits he is very much the
reverse. For three -and-twenty years he
has been at loggerheads with the de-
partment of the Seine ct Disc, with
which he has fought actions in all posi-.
BILE courts and on all imaginable points,
the subject matter of the dispute being a
triiing sum in which he is alleged to be
indebted to the department. AppM-
emily, the original case was decided
against him, for he has become man
with grievance, the terror of barris-
tiers and solicitors, and the sworn foe of
all legal emlssaries. As was to be ex-
pected, he has pleaded his own cause
very frequently indeed. Some of his
expedients are remarkable enough to
deserve notice. On one occasion, to
elude the consequences of a Judgment,
he declared himself bankrupt; the
declaration was quashed. as not a single
creditor appeared, either to protest
against or take advantage of it, On
another occasion, to get himself talked
about and direct attention to his case, he
discharged pistol within the precincts
of the Palais de Justice. On another,
he attacked with firearms the innocent
hats of the councillors of state, as they
hung on the several pegs in the robing
room. Presently he was arrested, after
a scene in court, and examined by sew
eral mad doctors of repute, who pro
nounced him sane on every question
but the question of his wrongs. He
was not set at liberty. 1t was believed
that he had been guilty of forgery. and
as forger be was tried at the assizes.
He had taken the precaution, however,
to secure the services of Maitre La
chaud, the eminent advocate, and was
acquitted. 1t is added that Maitre
Lachaud not only won Verdellet's cause
for him, but made Verdellet hold his
tongue, and even declare that there was
nothing more to say for him than had
been said by his counsel. Marie La
chaud's triumph over his clients Judges
is;as nothing when compared with bis
triumph over the client himself.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-02-26
Eighty Years Of the GuiIIotine vinr
.e France

The number of criminals brought to
the scaffold in Paris has never been anv-
thing like large, says the London Glohe,
and il has manifested in late years, not Z.
withstanding the extraordinary pre-
yalence of atrocious murders, a tendency
Ito decrease still further. The statistics
show that in seventy mine years there
have been only 263 executions. so that o.
Partisan who had constantly assisted at
each such scene since the first Of January.
1901, would on an average have seen the
guillotine in operation rather more than
three times in every year. The Begin
ming of the century was, however, COM
siderabIy more fertile in capital punish
ments than the latter part, and itap-
pears that in the first fifteen years there
were seventy-one executions, giving an
average of nearly five each year. The
least sanguinary period was the twenty
years from 1860 to 1880, when the yearly
return was Q 06, and the next in order isR
the period from 1880 to 1860, when IL
amounted to 2T5. "a curious feature III
this dismal record is the extreme rarity
of cases in which more than one offender
has been put to death at the same time
and for the same crime. Such execu=a
tions have occurred, in fact, at Paris
only four times within the century. 1hes
first occasion WAS IN rAoU4s Whenf the
famous Chouan conspirator, Georges
Cadoudal. who was absurdly supposed
to have been bribed by William Pitt,
was guillotined with e.even companions
in the place de Greve. "a wear Aater
three coiners Of false money were exc
cuted together. and then there was no
double execution until the year le2sy
when four men known generally IN the
annals of crime as the " Sergants de Ia
Rochellee ascended the scaffold 40
gsther.s The last spectacle Of the kind
was afforded in 1886, when. Fieschi, the
inventor Of the internal machines.
attempted the assassination of Louis
Philippe. and. having killed eleven per
sons ii his abOrtive endeavOr, was put
to death BY decapiSatiOn with his two
accomplices, Pepfn and Money Thee
executions of women have decreased
also Ia notable manner Six ieznaie
murderesses were guillotined undef the
| fjrst empire, three during the isastoxNp
| tion. and only one in the period ek folfzr
fresyears that hare Just elalfsas
zs4 setf{ ~
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-02-26


Paul Dubois paced his studio i'm
patiently. Lady sitters were getting to
be nuisance to him. In his youth he
had been glad to add fame to his two
rich gifts of wealth and manly beauty,
and he had always painted more or less I;
but with advancing years he felt it
more of a task than a pleasure, and the
habitual unpunctuality of women was
his constant theme of discourse.
g The very last woman | will paint!"
he growled, sending q footstool out of
his way with great violence. Suddenly
he paused before covered easel, and,
removing the cloth, stood wrapped in
thought before Linette as we first saw
her-half crying, entreating, with her
yellow hair all tumbled curls, her eyes
wide and fearful, and looking the in
carnation of spoiled childish loveliness
caught in some naughtiness, and divided
between dismay, remorse and desire
to laugh.
A slight sound caused him to turn.
Two ladies stood near him-one his re-
creant sitter, the other the original of
the picture-color, pose AMI expression.
But the pictured face did not change
and brighten as did the one on which
fathers kisses fell warm and fast.
Blanche Carlson looked long at the pic
ture. and recalled the attic-room where
first she had seen that look. She was
thinking of the wonderful change from
Linette the waiting-maid to Linette
Dubois, mistress of a lovely home and
a fathers doting afection.-Brooklyn
MIOnziyze
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-02-26

Mrs. Carlson resumed her chair and
listened intently to the story Linette so
eagerly related: - 49, .4s Z
my mother has been dead for many
years. / had. spent nearly all my life
in a convent home. in France until two
years since. when my father came for
me and brought me to America. With
us came nephew of his, Edouard Mo-
quin, who, although very attractive
and greatly beloved by my father, / be-
leved utterly unprincipled. He was
determined to marry me, not for myself
but for my fortune. My father favored
his suit. l was growing to love my
father, who in, all but name had been
total stranger to me when left France;
but every advance was met by attempts
to induce me to marry Edouard. Irri-
tated finally by my continued resist
ance, he used threats, and finally did
attempt to confine me to my room. /
loathed EdCuard. His every word and
look / viewed with distrust, and my
indignation at my treatment was un-
bounded. do not, looking at the mat
ter as sorrow and much thought have
made me see it, blame my father as I
did. You know in France children's
wishes are little thought of in these
matters, and he considered me bound
to abide by his decision. 1t was hard to
see the cherished scheme of years frus-
trated by what he called girlish OBJ
stinaey; but Twas hasty and passion
ate, and fled at the first chance, seeking
refuge with a sometime servant, who
had won my confidence in the few times
he had come to visit his old masters
daughter. have known much of want
and distress, but have never once
dreamed of returning to brave my
fathers indignation and Edouard's re-
newed addresses"
Something of this have heard from
Mr.. Dubois himself, " said Mrs. Carlson,
when she had concluded. You were
too hasty, Linette. Very soon after you
disappeared, and while your father was
searching for you in every direction,
Edouard went back to France, effect
ually curing Mr.. Dubois Of all liking for
him by taking everything he could in
any way convert into cash, your
mothers jewels included. Every time
| go to him he speaks of you-often with
find you. Well, Guy. what wrath
have you seen p"-for Mr.. Carlson had
entered the room and was standing trans
fixed with amazement at seeing his wife
standing with one arm thrown around
the waist Of her waiting-maid, whose
face bore traces of tears. This amaze
ment was not lessened by Blanche, with
elaborate courtesy. introducing:
T" Mr.. Paul Dubois runaway daugh-
ter"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-02-26
Old MEMS Energy.

"Their energy" says the London
Spectator, is at least as great as that Of
the young. Not to go further back than
the memory of this generation, we have
seen Radetsky at eighty-tbree conquer
Piedmont, and Palmerston at eighty-one
dictator of England, and Earl Russell at
fifty-nine expel Palmerston, and Lynd-
hurst at eighty-eight discomfit oppo-
nents by his oratory (on the paper duty),
and King w lillian, of Prussia, at seventy
three invade and conquer France, and
Pho Mono at seventy -eig hit call a council
of Christendom to change the Catholic
church from cooperative aristocracy
into monarchy, and Theirs at seventy
four stand forward the one man with
energy sufficient to control the parties.
and revive the energy Of defeated
France. Lord Beaconsfield began to dis
turb the world at seventy, and at seventy
his opponent, by feats of popular ora-
tory without parallel in English history
seeks to call public opinion to arms
against the disturber. At seventy Mr..
Gladstone pronounces the speeches
which might have been made by q whole
cabinet, and the first objection raised
against each one of them is. that it is
too vehement, too energetic, marks a
disposition to depart too widely from
the heaccustomed groove"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-02-26
PeriIs OF the Rail.

+ The following story was told during
an Interview held by New York World
reporter with two old Erie engineers,
now dead: Did you.ever hear Hughey
Williamson tell of his adventure at
Washingtonyille on the Newburg
branchP" asked Carpenter. William
son is another know-no danger runner,
and is now on the road. Fisk selected
him because of his courage to run the
Chicago relief train. "Well," he went
on to say, that was a rarity, one that
seldom occurs. Williamson was in
Newburg when he was teIegraphed to
run to Greycourt to assist in pulling a
big six-wheeler on the track, that. had
run off switch and could not get back
herself, as they sometimes do. you
know. OfcOurse time was an import
ant thing, as the engine that was off
blocked up the westward bound track.
He started from Newburg with nothing
but his engine and a clear road; you
can just bet he few. He left the rails
echoing behind like a never ending
waterfall. The station agent rushed to
the door wild with fright, thinking it
was a runaway engine, and nobody on
it. AtSalisbury Mills, the population
of which village is but few feetsfrom
the track, the people. rushed out of the
houses utterly dismayed and unable to
believe their own eyes. They thought
it was specter, which they could not
describe, so suddenly did it appear and
as quickl ly vanish from sight. Over the
Washingtonville flats the gait was so
rapid the telegraph poles looked like
blades of grass, they were so thin.
After turning the curve at the Washing
tOnville station Hughey espied a hand
car full of track-hands, rails, etc. They
had no sign OF a flag out, and did not
expect anything along. He immedi-
ately concluded that ne could not stop
in time, so he only blew his whistle to
warn the men to jump off. There were
a dozen of 'em and they had wonder
fully narrow escape lie picked up
that hand-car, and sent 'em fiyin' IN
the air in all directions. A low hand
car with rails on it pointing right at you
is the most dangerous thing that you can
possibly hit, but the rails this time in
stead of piercing the boiler and engine
swerved off and did little injury. The
dinner-kettles of the laborers few like
popcorn on frying g-pan, and crowbars,
shOvels, pickaxes, tamping bars and
spikes made complete kaleid doscope in
the air. One of the axles of the car, to
which was attached one wheel, bounded
over the smokestack and came crashing
through the cab window on the fire.
mans side, who was nearly killed in his
great hurry to get out of the way. The
most of the car landed on the front of
the engine, and before Hughey could
stop ke had carried it through one. of
those old-fashioned covered wooden
bridges nearly a quarter of mile on.
In all my experience, concluded Car
penter, . don't think l ever heard tell
of such a miraculous escape as Hughey
had. He must have been going through
the air like an electric current when he
couldn't stop an empty engine before
hitting such a dangerous thing.n
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-02-26

The woman he left lay back in her
chair, content to be quiet and alone with
her happy thoughts. The idolized sweet
heart of a loving husband, with youth,
beauty and wealth all her own, she
literally knew neither sorrow nor trou-
Bile. The opening door reused her; and
Linette came to the fire, replenishing it,
drawing the curtains yet closer and ar
ranging the dainty supper table at her
mistress j right hand. y RF TUg.
DO not go, -Linette. Mr. Carlson
will not be here for tea for an hour vet. -
Again there was silence in the room
Linette, with her hands loosely clasped
before her, looked down into the hot
Goals. Again Blanche noticed the CON
trast between the naughty poise of her
head. and the tiny lace cap betokening
servitude. Her hands, too, were
strangely white and shapely for work
ingwoman's. just as she had reached
this thought a man servant entered,
bearing card.
"Mr. Paul Dubois-Linette, go to
him. and say that beg to be excused
this evening, but will go to his studio
tomorrow. Why, what is the mat
terp" for the girl stood flushing and
paling, and, for the first time since she
had entered the house, her composure
entirely gone. At sign the man with
drew, and Mrs. Carlson turned again to
Linette.
why do you not gop"
-"Oh, madam. -I-cannot James take
the messagep i beg"
"And If insist?'' ea .4AssE
"I-must refuse.''a--
Mrs Carlson rang the tiny bell on the
tea-table; and, when the man reap
peared, repeated her message to him.
When the door closed after him, Linette
spoke with forced calmness:
a'' You wish me. to leave, supposePn
II do not quite know what want,
Linette. 1 am angry, and in most cases
would dismiss servant at once who
disobeyed me. You are yonng, alone,
and, l own, beautiful. / cannot send
you away without chance to explain
what seems to me utterly inexplicable.
give it to you now" l
Because-he is my father!' And as
she spoke the attitude of humility
dropped from her, as folding-wrap
loosed from beautiful woman discloses
charms of form and carriage before un.
dreamt of. She raised her head proudly
and met the eyes whose changing ex-
preston betrayed doubt, distrust and
admiration in quick succession.
Nov that have spoken it is due to
him. as well as to myself, that | should
tell youalL q . ksA4
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-02-26

ing. If this is help to me. dear Joe,
you will be the first who shall know OF
it. Ifeyer I am myself again, you shall
live with me, joe" S'fFf5 a Il
Long after she had left him Joe kept
nodding solemnly, evidently keeping
time with his thoughts, and ever and
again staring at the bit of money. He
had even fewer words than usual for his
customers; and finally one, less gloomy
to him as he buttoned his coat and pre-
pared to face the bitter wind :aM-a
Did you steal that quarter. Joe? or
are you thinking of saving it for your
girl? ?" and Joe heard his gruff laugh as
he stumbled up the stairs. +
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-02-26

There are no barrooms at Cornell,
ILL.,, but the place abounds in drug
stores, in which the traffic is almost en-
tirely in liquor, each having a business
connection with q physician, who writes
alcoholic prescriptions on demand.