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Hanged with Blanket Strips.

ST. LOUIS, February s.-Charles Miller,
who was sentenced Monday last to be
hanged at Benton, Scott county, Mo-, on
March 10Th, for the murder of franklin
Hamilton, committed suicide in his cell last
night by hanging himself with blanket
which he had torn in strips for the pur-
nose.
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JACKSONVILLE JOTTINGS.
ANOTHER PURCHASE By SIR
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Mica frnrn HIaxInn-

MEXICO, February s.-Senor Romero
finally accepts the mission to Washington.
He leaves next week. The President to-
day resumes his executive duties, being en-
tirely recovered from his recent illness,
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No matter what your aIlment is, Browns
Iron Bitters will certainly do you good by
assisting nature In strengthening every part
Of the body. This remedy is soothing and
refreshing, and cannot possibly do the most
delicate invalid any injury.
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MADRID, February 8.-H Liberal says:
"The Papsl Nuncio has arrived. A dispatch
from the Vatican instrUcting him to recon-
mend Senor Noeedot to continue organizing
the pilgrimage to Rome"
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Kennedy's rancho, in Texas, comprising
two hundred aud forty thousand acres of
land, with buildings, 1--we stock, etc. was
sold at Corpus Christi recently for $46S, ,465
10 Kansas City parties, and Immediately
resold to the Texas Land and Cattle Com
panY of Dundee, Scotland.
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LONDON, February The firm OF Bull IL
Wilson, cloth merchants, at No SO st. Mar
tins Lane, W. t., has failed. Its liabilities
are stated at 4124 600.
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The RevSlt In Yemen.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, February S.-The in
surgents IN Yt men, Arabia, have proclaimed
a descendant of the Prophet as Caliph.
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Ask druggists for "Rough on Rats.n II
clears out rats, mice, bed bugs, reaches,
vernin, flies, ants insects. 16c. per box.
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Captain Jacob Schmidt, of TompkiusvilIe.

Staten Island, New York, suffered with
severe rheumatism for many years. He used
st. Jacobs Oil with splendid effect, and
adopted it as family medicine.
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Female diseases, brought on by tmpru-
dence, exposure, or the use of improper
medicines, are quickly relieved with Browns
Iron Bitters,
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DUBLIN, February S.-Dr. Kenney has
been released from imprisonment,
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Georgia Affairs.

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a second Glass Matter.
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St. Landry democrat., 1882-05-13

ton in any district Of the United States into
which such vessel may enter or in which she
may be found.
SEC H. That any person who shall knowing
lv bring into or cause to be brought into, OF
shall aid or abet the bringing coming into
the United States. by land or who shall land OF
aid or abet the landing in the United States
from any vessel of any Chinese not authorized
by law to enter the United States, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. and shall,
for each person so brought or aided to come
into the United States, or so landed, be fined
in the sum Of 500. and imprisoned for term
not exceeding one year
SEC. Il. That no Chinese shall be permitted
to enter the United States by land without pro.
ducng to the proper officer of customs the Ger.
t:ficate herein required of Chinese seeking to
land from vessel, and any Chinese unlawful
" entering within the United States, or who
shall have unlawfully entered the United
States in any wav. either by land or by water,
shall be removed therefrOm to the place from
VIII Snh they came by the Collector of Customs
of any collection district in which such Chinese
NAV be found, at the cost Of the United States
under such regulations as the Secretary OF the
Treasury may prescribe.
SEC. Is. That this act shall not apply to dip
lomatic and other officers of the Chinese Gov.
eminent travelling upon the business OF that
Government, whose credentials, in the usual
form, shall be taken as equivalent to the pass.
them and their body and household servants
from the provisions of this act as to other
Chinese.
SEC. II. That hereafter no State court or
court of the United States shall admit Chinese
to citizenship, and all laws in conflict with this
act are hereby repealed.
SEC. Is. That the words "Chinese laborers,"'
wherever used in this act, shall be construed
to mean both skilled and unskilled laborers
and Chinese employed in mining.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-05-13
Remarkable Display of Northern Lights.

The heavens were brilliantly Illuminated
last night by the aurora boreaiis, or Northern
lights. The phenomenon was first seen about
an hour and half after shutdown, and then
the heavy masses of clouds piled against the
northern horizon were suddenly swept away,
giving place to countless avenues of varied.
colored light of most dazzling brilliancy. The
display lasted until an early hour this morning,
the lights meanwhile having shifted from thelI
original position to point in the center OF the
heavens. The phenomenon was admired
by all who witnessed its manifestations,
and these, in the general opinion, exceeded
in duration and brilliancy the well-remem'
bered aurora borealis of 1878.
While thousands were lost in their admira'
ton of this fascinating scene the atmospheric
conditions were the occasion of considerable
trouble and no little danger. The electric
storm last night was the most severe ever
known in the history of the country. 1t prac-
tically rendered useless all telegraph wires
from New York to Ogden. The air was sur
charged with electricity to a terrible extent,
which was shown in the brilliancy of the dis
play of the aurora borealis previously men,
toned. From ten o'clock very little of the
ordinarily large amount of matter, either news
or messages coulL be sent over the lines, and
such as it was deemed absolutely necessary to
send was done with the greatest danger to the
operators in charge of the transmitters. wire
was worked between Chicago and st. Paul
without any battery, the wire being grounded
at both ends.
The Oldest telegraph operator failed to re-
call any similar instance Of the wonderful
power of the electricity in the air. Attempts
we're made to carry on some experiments in
the Offices Of the Western Union Telegraph
Company during this condition Of affairs, on
wires used without batteries, and the opera
tors repeatedly suffered from burnt fingers.
Such was the force of the element that sew
eral wires were burned off entirely, and the
"switch board" upon which connections are
made, caught fire on several occasions.
The night manager of the Western Union
Telegraph Office was seen and questioned
on the subject. He said such storms
are experienced five or six times
year, and there is little dissimilarity
between them except in point of intensity.
The storm last night, which was unusually
severe, was first noticed as affecting the tele-
graph service in this city about ten clock.
BY two o'clock this morning it had lost much
of its intensity. Is is always the case in
electrical storms, the chief and steady currents
are in the direction of north and south. On
account of this fact the north and south wires
can be used during a storm without batteries,
the earth serving instead. The east and west
wires are often rendered welEnigh useless.
Fitful gusts in the electrical current at times
will oyerpower the battery currents and melt
the wires. The observations Of the storm last
night were carefully made, and the data will
be submitted to skilled electricians, whose
conclusions therefrom may be of great scien-
tific vaIue.-Chicdgo Herald, Aprl II.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-05-13
A Husbands Wretchel Experience.

Tt is not often that Il more remarkable story
is heard in a courtroom than was told last weak
bv LAWYER c. +. Lansing of Eureka. New, on
trial for the killing of his wife. When he took
the witness-stand the grief in his face hushed
tn, bar and the spectators into plying
silence. He began by declaring that he con-
scented to say what he would have to say about
the dead only upon the urgent requirement of
his counsel and for the sake Of his daughter.
Then he gave the jury the history of his mar
ried life Ever since 1864 it had been, he said,
wretchei in all ways His wife took to liquor.
She was powerful woman-fully his equal in
strength When drunk she was violent, ferO-
cious She repeatedly attacked him, threaten
tnr TO kill him, and, rs he believed at the time,
meaning to carry out her threat. She threw
rocks at his head, poured boiling water on him,
tried on several occasions to stab him with the
carving knife, once at least drawing blood.
She followed him into court, making such
disturbance that the police had to remove her
By force. She burst into his Office and beat
him over the head with a rawhide till the
blood streamed down his face. She beat his
little daughter with an iron poker. 6 / felt
like letting loose all holds" he said, land
7 drank heavily, too" Once or twice he de-
cided to leave her; once he bought poison,
and was on the point of swallowing it when
he thought Of his daughter and threw it away.
Last year matters grew worse, until a night
came when he did not dare to sleep under the
same roof with her, and called in a neighbor.
They tied her wrists and ankles with silk hand
kerchiefs. "Ill kill you for this, sure she
screamed. At daylight she promised to be-
have and they unbound her. At her request
he sent out for two bottles of champagne for
81 - 10 won1prni q bn11t oil
day. stunning his acquaintance, trying to
Strengthen himself up 81 could not be still in
INV place. he said. q could neither stand
I'D nor sit down-had to walk all the time" At
dusk he went home. The Chinaman had fin
ished his work and gone for the night. His
wife came through the kitchen and went down
cellar-as he supposed to get whisky; she
often hid a bottle down there When
she came up he spoke of going down
town. "You wretch" she said. I'm fixed
for YOU, and you shan't leave this house"
He tried the door: it was locked. He turned
around; his wife was right in front of him,
her hand pressed to her hip. I'm kill you,
I'll kill YOU" she screamed. In a frenzy of
utter nervousness and terror he caught up
somcthing-it was kitchen chair-and
struck her. He saw her lying at his feet.
Then he found himself out in the street.-the
has no remembrance of how he got there
looking up at the dark windows of his neigh
bor's house and deciding not to wake him up.
Then all is blank again in his mind until
later hour, when he was standing in front of
the Sheriff and uttcrng the words: u have
killed my wife,
The jury were out twenty minutes. When
they came back it was with verdict Of mot
guilty. Hdrtiord COurant.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-05-13
John Potts Reward.

Thirty years ago yesterday poor girl
named Carrie Roper, in garments tattered and
torn, wandered to the home of John Potts,
village blacksmith, in what is now known as
Brooklyn, Pa, a few miles from this city. Mr..
Potts took the girl in, and suggested to his
wife that they adopt her, they having no chill
dren of their own. Mrs. Potts objected, feel
ing it her duty to take one of four of her sis
ter's daughters, if it was deemed expedient to
adopt daughter. Mr.. Potts would not listen
to his wife's suggestions, and determined to
support the girl. He sent her to a school in
Bucks County, where she took up the study Of
music with her academic course, and grad
uated with high honOrs. Two years after
she graduated Potts failed to learn
of her whereabouts. His inquiries did
not bring any tiding5 of the girl, and
he gave her up as dead. His wife died in the
spring of lS17, and he lived alone. He still
continued his business as blacksmith, though
unable to save anything from his earnings with
which to pay off a few mortgages on his
property. Two weeks ago strange lady ap-
peared at the post-office in Brooklyn, and intro
duced herself as Mrs. James Rutledge, OF Pitts
burgh, wife of millionaire. She inquired for
John Potts, and was escorted to his home. Tho
old gentleman recognized her at sight, and was
overcome with joy at her appearance. The
lady had come to take Potts to her home, where
he was to enjoy the freedom of her homo
during his remaining days. She paid eff the
mortgages On the Potts property, purchased
handsome monument for the grave of
Mrs Potts, and started with her old friend
for her home in Pittsburgh. Soon after their
arrival she made Potts gift of $4,000 in
United States bonds.-Carborddle PI.) Cor. ".
y Sim
St. Landry democrat., 1882-05-13
A Musical Tournament.

At Milan, Italy, they have recently
had Musical Industrial Exhibition and
Competition. under royal patronage, at
which were collected and compared,
during period of several months, the
largest number and greatest variety OF
musical instruments, old and new, ever
brought together. America was hon
ored in the award to the Mason & Ham
lin Organ Company of the highest medal,
and the only one in this department.
Considering that $50 awards were given,
altogether, this distinction was very
marked. 1t is continuation OF the
triumphs of these famous organ makers
at every one of the Worlds Fairs for
fourteen years; to which there has been
no exception. Manhattan.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-05-13

The New York fremen are kept too
busy and the streets are too crowded for
proper training of the department
horses. A school has been established
at Manhattanville, outside the city.
Here they are put through all the ma
neuvers necessary to accustom them to
the noise and excitement caused by the
alarm, the engines and other tumults.
Screen" horses are in this way more
quickly and economically turned into
the knowing ones that intelligent fire
horses become.-N. Y. Post.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-05-13
Description of the Loss Of the Jeanette.

SAN FRANCISCO, April &c.
The Cal tomorrow will publish letter from
Or. H. C. Ledyard, an American now in ST.
IBERIA, to friend in this city. At 1rkoutsk
Ledyard met Lieutenant Danenhower, who
gave him interesting details Of the loss Of the
Jeanette, from which the following extracts
are made: mag "a
Since the first fall, when they were caught
by the ice in trying to reach Herald Island,
they have never taken a course, but were
held rs in the jaws of death, squeezed till
every timber quivered, turned this way and
that, thrown floating and then caught again,
and every hour in suspense, never knowing
when the ice would close upon them. A
little more and the deck would have sunk
beneath them. Throughout this strain they
were well, and trying to be cheerful, working
very hard. for the engine and men were barely
able to keep the water out. They had to
pump for year and half June II, 1881,
the crisis came. The ship showed greater
straining than before, the deck quivered, and
inexplicable movements warned them.
They prepared their boats and made their
camp beside the vessel. She rose and turned
in her cradle till the yards touched the ice, and
then the rigging gave way, and the masts lay
PROSTATE At four o'clock In the morning the
foe parted, and all went down. The cry of
alarm called.all to escape from the crevice in
the ice. It opened just through the Captains
tent.
Then began the retreat. For twenty-nine
days they struggled southwark, Three hum
bred miles of broken ice were thus passed
over. Four miles day was thought good
fortune. After one series Of fourteen days
they were twenty-seven miles further north
than at frst While working over the ice,
dragging three boats, they discovered Bennett
Island, to explore which they spent three
weeks of their precious days, and expended
much of their limited supply of food. To this
detour those who survived attribute most Of
their suffering and the death Of Tho com.
mander with nineteen men.
After three months Of this perilous and ex.
hausting work they came to blue water, and
then with fair winds took their course for the
mouth of the Lena River Melville's boat was
stove against block Of ice. The Captains
boat lost her mast and sail. The Captain land.
ed with all WELL but abandoned the boat as the
water was shallow, and it would not make the
channel of the river.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-05-13
A Renaissance of Guiteau.

A gentleman now residing in Chicago
yesterday gave to NeWs reporter the
following "Reminiscences of Guiteau, the
assassin: 81 was in Minneapolis last
summer, soon after the assassina-
ton, and called on Mrs. Mary Sam
mis-, a widow residing on First street,
who had been member of the Guiteau
family in Sackett's Harbor, q small
town in New York State, on Lake On
tario. Mary and Guiteau were about of
an age, and both attended the same
school. She told me all about the boys
home-life, his passionate nature, and the
fear in which he was held by the school
children. lie was constantly writing
religious essays and preaching, and time
and again declared he could walk on
the water as Christ did. At last Guiteau
appointed time, after school hours,
when he would demonstrate his faith on
the waters of Ontario. All the school
children and many of the grown people
of the town assembled on the shore, and
Guiteau speedily put in an appearance.
He passed through the crowd without a
word, and stood by the water on a small
dock. After waving his hands about
several times and mumbling an unintel-
ligible prayer he stepped off the dock
into the water, and, Of course, went
down. The crowd hooted and yelled,
and made merry over the failure. 1t
was only by the greatest exertions the
boy-then aged about eighteen years
was saved from drowning. The next
day he explained his failure by saying
that among the crowd were number
of unbelievers, and he could do nothing
in their presence. This incident was
but one of many similar sensations
Guiteau created in Sackett's Harbor,
and no attention was paid to it until he
earned world wide notoriety by shooting
President Garfield. Chicago Neaos.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-05-13
How a Landlord Got Rid of Tenant.

A sharp landlord in Pittsburgh got rid of an
unwelcome tenant a few days ago in a manner
not laid down in the statutes and stands
chance of being called on to bear portion OF
the expense of testing the legality of the meas
ure. He told the tenant he wanted the house.
but would give him q better one, at the same
time giving the number and street of the
house. The tenant, tlated ct the prospect of
lettering his condition, procured wagons and
loaded UP his furniture at once but on driving
to the new location hs found it occupied. and
also learned that his lite landlord had nothing
to do with 1t whatever. The tenant had to seek
other quarters, and now threatens to bring
suit for damage, based on charge Of false
pretenses.-Lancdster pa NeW Era.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-05-13
A Desperate Race for Life.

A desperate and exciting race for life was
made across part of San Francisco Bay re-
Gently, by the ocean steamship Columbia In
approaching the city: IN a dense fog the ship
grounded in the straits, but in few moments
glidcd off into deep water. Suddenly it was
discovered that the vessel was leaking badly,
and the Captain determined to steer for safe
Bleaching ground. Under full head of steam,
and followed by feet of tugs, which endeav-
ored to keep near her, to render help if it were
needed, the ship rushad toward the mud flats
Her firemen stood wa st-deep in water. and she
was slowly sinking, but there was just time to
save her, and amid a chorus of shrieks from a
hundred steam whistles she ran high upon the
soft shore near her wharf.-N. Y. Tribune.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-05-13
The Arctic Whaling Fleet.

The twenty or more whale ships
which came down from the Arctic last
autumn have mostly started again for
the same destination. These vessels
will not arrive in the Arctic before some
time in May. They fish by the way,
making long stretches out of direct
course, sometimes getting well over
toward Japan, and sometimes nosing
about the Okhotsk Sea, for any chance
to strike a few whales in this latitude.
Besides the fleet of sailing ships, there
will be three steamers in the Arctic this
season-viz.: The Belvedere and North
Star, of New Bedford, and the new
steamer now on the stocks at this port,
which will be completed inside of the
next two months. The sailing ships are
all old-fashioned, short, oak-built ships,
which have done good service in other
business before they were sent around
to the Arctic. Some of them were pack
cts fifty years ago. They are still strong,
weatherly ships, and seem to be indie
pendent of all decay. The cold weather
of the Arctic and the saturation of oil
have tendency to preserve ships. Un-
less these old vessels get nipped in the
ice, they may be good for at least quar-
ter of a century more of good service.
BY that time there will probably
be no use for anything but the screw
steamships in whaling Even now an
other use of steam in whaling has been
introduced-the steam tender, or small
boat with steam, strong enough to tow
a dead whale a lone diStanoa ond tow
the whaleboats to the fishing grounds.
Steam can not be used in following
whales, on account of the noise. But
it can be used as an auxiliary in the
ways suggested, and, it is said, with
substantial advantage. A great many
whales are struck and lost. But steam
tender to hitch on and tow thirty or
forty miles is the latest improvement in
whaling. The old sailing vessels will
wear out in the business. They do not
represent a great deal Of capital. Now
and then an old ship worth five or six
thousand dollars, and twice that sum in
the matter of outfit, will come into port
with a thousand barrels of oil, and as
much bone as can be stored away. The
interest on capital is small. The profits
are large. That is why these old bluff
towed ships soaked with whale-oil are
so dear to the hearts of their owners.
The steam whalers, with outfit, cost any
where from $4,000 to $4,000, &C
cording to size. These must come into
port with large fares, Or the venture
would be a losing business.-Sa,s Fran
cisco Bulletin.