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The Worthington advance., 1883-05-03
A FEARFUL CYCLONE.
Its Horrors In Mississtppi-LOss OF q
Great Many Lives-DestructiOn Of
Towns.

Its Horrors In b1ississippi-Loss OF q
Great Many Lives-DestructiOn vi
Towns.
Jackson, Miss, Special: At4 o'clock Sun.
day evening fearful cyclone passed owe,
Beauregard and Wesson, contiguous towns
'orty miles below here on the New Orleans
railroad. The wind had been blowing a
gale for three days. A rumbling sound and
violent shaking Of houses, heralded the ap.
proach of the cyclone, and caused intelligent
people to believe it was an earthquake.
Then thunder. )ightnin-, wind and rain
came with terrific force, sweeping every:
thing in their path. In the western parl OF
Wesson fences .were tore down. Trees that
had stood storms for ages were uprooted
and hurled 100 yards. Houses on Peach
Orchard street, where operatives of Missis-
sippf mills domiciled, were demolished. A
pine forest adjacent to town was blown out
OF exisen At this hour thirteen ars
known to be killed and wounded; estimated
nuM'er seventy-f1ve. Several are missing.
Fifteen or twenty dwellings we're blown
down in the eastern portion, but not
much damaged. As soon as 1the storm had
somewhat abated and people began to look
about, loud peals from the church bells rang
out, and people were seen running in all d.
rections toward West Wesson. The rain
meantime was pouring in torrents. Reach
ing Peach Orchard street, an indescribable
scene was witnessed. Pere the greatest de-.
struc!ion occurre People were seen on
all sides sobbing, and the yroans OF the
wounded beneath the runs were perfectly
appalling. The work of removing the dead
and extricattng the wounded from
the ruins then began. The wounded were re-.
moved as fast as possible to houses which
escaped injury. Several of the dead lay out
In the violent rain for more than an hour
after the catastrophe One little boy was
found In the woods. He had been blown
several hundred yards unhurt. Beauregard,
2 mile north OF We<son, has about 600 III.
The destruction to life aud property is In.
describably appalling. Not house of any
kind is lett standing. Large brick build
ipgs were blown down; frame houses torn
to atoms; trees swept away like straws;
loaded freight cars lifted from the track and
carried 200 yards; and trees timber from
houses were scattered for miles around.
Aside from the losses in the towns men.
toned the devastation of of the country in
the path of the hurricane was very great
crops, farm houses and stock, with come
loss of life.
A special reports the passage of cyclone
through the lower part of Georgia with de-
structive results, also very general wind
and heavy rains all over the State. At q
negro church short distance from Stark
Vile, Miss, negro man was taken bodily
up: The last seen of him he was high up,
wildly beating the air ~ If seeking some
thing to stay his progress.
The extreme southern portion of the city
Of Aberdeen, Miss, commonly known a.
treedman's town was almost entirely de-
or ten negroes were killed and fifty wounded,
some of whom will probably dia.
The Worthington advance., 1883-05-03
Death OF Hon. Ebenezer Ayers

Ebenezer Ayers, an old resident of Wood
bury. Washington county, Minnesota, died
at his mothers residence In Dixon, Illinois,
ON Tuesday last. He went to Chicago two
months ago to the Homeopathic hospital
for surgical treatment, and had two op-
eratiops for the removal of humorous can
Ger fperfOrmed. Failing rapidly he was
taken to Dixon on the llth of April, where
he died. The deceased occupied a prom
inent position a. representative OF the peo-
pie OF his own locality, and was recognized
as q leader among the farmers and the
Greenback party, serving as a representative
of Washington county during the ninth and
fourteenth Legislature. He was prominent
anti-monopoly man, and though not fgnr-
Ing largely In republican or democratic
conventions, was ct one time during the
Greenback craze, candidate for lieutenant
governor on the ticket, and afterwards
candidate for congress on the Greenback
ticket, but was defeated in both instan-
ces.
The Worthington advance., 1883-05-03
A New York Broker Murders HIS
Wife, His Boy and Himself.

New York, April 2I.-Early last Friday
morning William MacDuE, financial
broker, dong business At 70 Nassau street,
shot and killed his wife, his six -year-ol son
and himself. The pistol shots were heard
by tenant on the upper floor, who sup
posed them to have been discharged in the
street, and it was two hours later before the
tragedy became known. Mrs. MacDuff was
found lying face downward, with bullet
wound in the back OF the head. She was
dressed and preparing breakfast when
shot. The boy Willie was in his crib, shot
while asleep. MacDuff himself was lying
partly dressed on bed in the room in
which the crib stood. He had shot himself
through the mouth. No reason for the
doubls murder and suicide is known. Mr..
and Mrs. MacDnff had been married eight
years, and were supposed to live happily
together. The following letter, addressed to
Macdud's brother, was found: Dear broth.
er Jack--If anything happens to ME. want
yon to have whatever I may leave. Put
Willie and ME in your plot. This is my
last request.
Your Unfortunate Brother, William.
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=. aozso sst Of prs,..d ~brlo1, and cost

= !. Z {. 8!
vas lozeo feet Of pressed brick, and cost
During quarrel at OAKLAND, Ohio. rs.
Gently L. Ward shot and killed T. Harrison
and It ID supposed mortally wounded his
brothaf, 0eofgs Harrison. Ward was az
rested and lynching Is threatened.
A Miles City murderer tried to save the
county the cost Of OF IN execution by sui
eide between conviction and sentence. but
Q reckless doctor who probably isn't tax.
payer, jumped him ont.
AcKeever and Edwards. who held up
Conductor Laughlin and Express Messenger
Clark at Billings last fall, have been con-
victed ofhighway robbery.
At Norfolk. Va, United States claim and
pension agent Ward. . negro. ha, been ar
rested on q charge Of misappropriation Of
funds.
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Miscellaneous Matters.

.
The Henry Willard Syndicate Milling
company, OF Bozsmsn, Montana, capitalists
for 81, ESQ, 900, has recorded articles of in
corporation, filed upon the claim of the
well.kn0Wn Emigrant Gulch mining dis
tltct, secured the water OF Mil creek and
propose to work these mines In systema-
tic manner. The old claim has never been
taken and worked, for the reason tha: the
necessary capital has been lacking.
An army officer, in letter, by inference,
places the responsibility of the Indian law
lessness in the Southwest upon Gen. o. O.
Howard, who interrupted Gen. Crooks sub.
jugatiOn of the murandiEg Indians by max
Ing treaty which prohibited United States
troops going on their reservation in South
eastern Arizona.
Thomas Smith, son OF wealthy Brook
lyn man, has sued for q divorce from bis
wife Kate. While under eighteen and q
student ct Montreal, he married servant
in the house where he boarded and the
marriage was not discovered by his parents
until after the birth of child. Adultery
is the alleged cause.
The Thomas iron works, Gore, Ohio,
have closed on account OF q strike of the
coal haulers against a reduction of wages.
The Bessemer works ut Straitsville have
closed for the same reason.
When Rev. Joseph Richter was consecra-
ted bishop of the Catholic diocese of Grand
Rapids, Mich. the seats in the church were
sold and the proceeds given to charitable
purposes.
The faculty OF the college of medicines
connected With the University Of Minneso-
"a held their initial meeting the 23d and or
ganized as board of examiners under to-
law.
In the Tewksbnry examination ut Boston,
one witness testified to!tanning human skins
which he received FROM various doctors, and
two cases of fatal cruelty which he witnessed
Col. Ilges, writing of the In lian uneasi-
ness on the Canadian border, indicates that
more trouble Is imminent from thievipg
raids Of Piegans.
The sfxty-fonrth anniversary of the estab-
blishment Of Odd Fellowship was loyalty
observed by lodges in all parts of the Uni
on on the 26th.
The tOal vote cast for governor in Geor-
gia at the recent election, Is estimated at 25,-
600 to 10000.
Tie New York board of alderman con-
template statue of Peter Cooper in front
OF Cooper Union.
The Calumet Il Hecla (Mioh) mine has
declared its quarterly dividend Of $500, 600.
The small pox patients at Winnebegosish
are all convalescent and improving rapidly.
The Worthington advance., 1883-05-03

Mr. Robert c. Winthrop has been re-
elected president of the Massachusetts,
Historical society for the twenty-sixth
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-11-03
General Jackson and the Sabbath
Day.

During the latter part of General Jack
sons life he was in the habit of coming
down to New Orleans to see his old friends
and comrades in arms and participate in
the celebration of the glorious eighth of
January 1t happened on one of these
visits that the eighth occurred on Sunday.
General Plauche called upon the old hero
and requested him to accompany the mill
tary to the battle ground on the anniversary
of the great day II am going to church
tomorrow" mildly observed the General.
The military preparations for the celebration
went on, and Sunday morning dawned
bright and beautiful At 10 o'clock Gen
eral Plauche called at the St Charles and
informed General jackson that the military
and civic professions were ready to accom-
pany him to the scene of his glory. Gen
eral Plauche," responded Old Hickory,
turning upon him the glance Of his kindling
eye, II told you was going to church to-
day" General Plauche withdrew, mutter
ing to himself, ~ might have known better"
The celebration was postponed till the next
day, and General Jackson listened on that
day to one of the most eloquent discourses,
in the church on Lafayette Square, from
DIR. Scott, ever pronounced in the pulpit.
N. o. Democrat
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-11-03
A New Metal.

Not new metal, either, but new and
cheap method of getting a valuable old
metal. [ stepped into the Office of the
poet broker, Z. G. Stedman, down on Pine
street. There's "piece of aluminium, " he
said, handing to me what seemed piece of
a silver bar. l had never seen any before,
and was surprised to find it apparently no
heavier than so much white pine, Sud
denly l recalled Stedman's article in the
Century on ballooning, and his remark that
the science of aerostatics would make great
progress if mass of aluminium could be
found, thereby putting into our hands the
Gghtest and strongest of metals. 1t is only
one-fourth as heavy as silver, but has been
found in a mass nowhere on the earth, be-
ing obtained only from the powder found
in clay and granite. ''They have discover
ed process in Sheffield" said Mr.. Sted-
man, "of producing it easily, so that what
has cost 81 or even 50 an ounce may fall
to twenty cents an ounce or less. Now
that will be an important element in sue
cessful navigation of the air. As an alloy
of copper it results in metal thirty-seven
times stronger than steel. That's what we
have been looking for. 1t is very ductile.
1t will not rust Don't you see how in
dispensable it is to flying? And then, if it
is produced cheaply, precious metal that
has been costlier and scarcer than silver
will be introduced into the arts. No more
plated spoons, you see, but aluminium spoons
wear the same all through. So of count
less other articles of necessity and luxury.
The jeweler will be again reinforced.
Lighter than glass and seven times stronger
than steel That's it l'-Neto York Letter.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-11-03
Payment of Debts.

A large number of people seem to fancy,
when paying bill, that they are confer
ring great favor upon the man who has
entrusted his goods to their home for
weeks and even months They act as if
they had received actually nothing in re-
turn, and were simply doing a work of
charity. The man who buys commodities
of any kind usually does so of his own ac-
cord; ordinarily there is nothing compul-
sorry about the transaction. He makes his
purchase and gets the worth of his money,
presumably, in goods of whatever kind.
This places buyer and seller on an equali-
ty If the buyer could make better bar
gain elsewhere, very likely he would do it
for in trade, when dollars and cents are
involved, friendship doesn't count for
much, People go where they can get the
most for their money. Having done so,
the seller copfers favor upon the buyer,
at least equal to that which the former re-
ceives in payment of his bill. Then why
should a collector be subjected to so much
discourtesy? A well-hred man, one who
has proper appreciation of what is due to
others, is never guilty ofsuch impoliteness.
The collector who calls for his money is
treated with as much respect and consider
alton as is shown the buyer when he makes
purchases. This department should be
universal, and the man who departs from
it, and who pays the money he honestly
owes grudgingly and with all marked ex-
pressions of i'll will toward the receiving
party, is lacking in one of the most i'm
portant essentials of fair and square manli-
ness, and more than that, in business tact.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-11-03
Newspaper Honor.

Said Col G.. A. Pierce in an address at
Fort Wayne, Ind: A short time ago dis
cussion arose in Chicago as to the relative
duty of lawyers and newspapers, and the
following query occurred to me: What
would be said of any respectable journal
that would take fee for trying to make
black appear whitehall should undertake
the defence of a notorious murderer, for
instance? Not secretly, and while pretend
ing to be impartial that, of course, would
be intensely hypocritical and dishonorable
but openly and notoriously? The accused
party would say: ~ want defenders, will
hire lawyer Such-a-one and newspaper So
and-so." What an outcry would go up,
and yet what is it that makes such an act
highly dishonorable on the part of an at
torney? Is newspaper honor held too high,
or is legal honor too low? believe the
time will come when lawyers duties will
be confined to seeing that murderers and
highway robbers have fair and just trial
according to law, and when no amount Of
money will be allowed to convert them into
paid eulogists of dangerous men.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-11-03
An Educated Hog.

The San Antonio Texas Light says: :
"Jack, young wild hog, was found in the
woods near Lyttle station and presented to
Mr.. Z. S. Bellamy. He is supposed to
have been about three weeks old when
caught. Mr.. Bellamy began patiently to
train him. After few lessons Jack had
learned his name, and began to follow his
master. When Mr.. Bellamy is seated at
his desk Jack lies down at his feet and will
allow no one to touch him, and at night he
follows his master to his bedside, and If
he cannot stealthily get into the bed he
will lie down at the side of it and sleep
until morning. If an intruder steps into
the room he will dart at him with all the
ferocity of his wild nature. At the table
he stands at his masters side and gets a
part of anything he eats.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-11-03
Our Bodies After Death.

Within very near approach to truth,
the human family inhabiting the earth
has been estimated at 1,O00,O00,0O0 the
annual loss by death is 18,OOO,OOO. Now,
the weight of the animal matter of this
immense body cast into the grave is no
less than $4,000 tons, and its decompo-
sition produces 5000, 1000, 100000 cubic
feet of matter. The vegetable productions
of the earth clear away from the earth
the gases thus generated, decomposing
and assimilating them for their own increase.
This circle of changes has been going on
ever since man became an occupier of the
earth. He feeds on the lower animals
and on the seeds of plants, which in due
time become part of himself. The lower
animals feed upon the herbs and grasses,
which, in their turn, become the animal !;
then, by its death, again pass into the at
mosphere, and are ready to once more be
assimilated by plants, the earth or bone
substance alone remaining where it is de-
posted.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-11-03

the measure of it which may suffice for
daily necessities. as, practically, to make no
provision for coming days. He will be
entitled to no deferred pay. His later
years may indeed be secured from want;
perhaps, through no effort of his own, he
may even have an abundance; but the rap
ture of achievement, the satisfaction arising
from a task well done, will not be his to
possess.
All perseverance of patient effort for the
highest ends, all the "taking of infinite
pain" s"-which we are told is the best de-
fnition of genius-is but the deferred pay
ment system adopted in daily life, being
the storing of present available resources,
including those of patience and endurance,
for the securing of future benefit. And
when the end is once accomplished, the eff
forts expended will not be grudged nor
mourned over--will scarcely beremembered
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-11-03
For Young Ladies Only.

Notwithstanding the fact that voun"
men are continually lectured, they are not
the only cause of earthly misery. To be
sure they sometimes give the moral peace
of the family twist but the young ladies
very often give the moral peace shaking
up. Parents are, to a certain extent. as
much to blame for this state of affairs as
their children. They do not teach them,
especially the girls, cultivate spirit of
self-reliance and Independence. They don't
teach them what it means to be thrown on
their own resources, and what it is to earn
an honest living IF there is anything in
this world that is to be pitied it is house
plant of woman. She is of no earthly
good. Her listless, affected airs make her
anything but ornamental, and beyond that,
she is no earthly good. Too great num-
Der of young women are brought up to
believe that they are to be taken care of
all their lives. Not three in eight of the
young women in this country are taught
to make good wholesome batch of bread,
to keep the house tidy; they leave that to
Bridget" to cut, fit and make a dress,
but nearly all of them can sing little, play
the piano little and those who can't paint
pictures can their cheeks, so this includes
painting. But the happiest moments of
their lives are when they are eating sweat
meats purchased with some foolish young
mans money. Too many aspire to nothing
greater than spending money and looking
sweet. The latter part of their ambition
requires hours of patient study and free
use of paint and powder to accomplish, and
then many fail, but don't know it. There
may be some qualification in this, that
some young man is getting terribly fooled!
There are, however, hundreds of sensible
young women in the country. Women
who have common sense mothers, mothers
who know and appreciate the duties of
woman. Who teach their daughters self
reliance and independence, thus giving to
them that which is far more valuable than
gold and putting them in positions to meet
any emergency. We know not what the
morrow may have in store. Riches and all
worldly possessions may vanish, but with
true independence to fall back ON the young
woman is fully prepared to meet it and not
drift to the bad or give up, discouraged.
Young woman, you who have never thought
of these things, remember that the true
man more highly values the friendship of
a woman of self-reliance and independence
than the butterfly of fashion. The neat,
tidy, refined and intelligent woman draws
the prize every time To be self-reliant
and posted ON thingt of benefit to you
through life, does not cut off, but adds to
passing pleasures. Think of these points
and look about you for the evidence.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-11-03
How Diamonds Are Cut.

"There are three processes necessary to
be gone through with between the rough
stone and the diamond as you see it here, "
replied the jeweler "First, piece of stone
the required size must be cut off, To do
this we use a circular saw made of sheet
iron and without teeth. 1t is worked like
woodworker's saw, and two men stand at
the treadle One man holds the stone to
be cut tightly against the edge of the saw,
while the other, using a small leather dipped
in oil, applies diamond dust to the edge Of
the saw. The saw is made of very ductile
metal, and the particles of diamond dust
becoming firmly set in it, soon wear through
the hardest stone. Now the piece of dia-
mond passes to the cutting table, upon which
is strapped wheel running PARALLEL to the
top of the table. The stone is fastened by
cement to the end of stick six inches long.
The lapidary takes the stick in his right
hand and holds the stone firmly against
the wheel until one facet is ground down.
Diamond dust and water are constantly
applied to the wheel. The table and upper
facets of the stone are cut this way and
the stone is then removed from and read
justed to the stick before the lapidary cuts
the under sides, callets and remaining facets,
The stone is manipulated the same in the
third or polishing process as in the cutting
process. The wheel, however is composed
mainly of tin, and tripoli and rotten stone
are used in the polishing process, ~ -CTece-
land Herald.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-11-03

Alberton, the Chicago cattle dealer, de-
MES that there is pleuro-pneumonia among
cattle in the United States: He says
''They have been locking up cattle in native
yards or fields formerly occupied by tick
covered Texas steers When Texas cattle
are shipped to the East many of them are
covered with little nests of ticks, or bugs
and these insects fall off to the ground and
crawl over the grass. If the herds are
changed, as they usually are, it often hap
pens that the native cattle get into the
Texas pastures. The native cattle eat the
grass covered with these poisonous green
ticks, and in short time get sick and show
SYMPTOMS of what is termed pleuro-pneumo'
MIA. But it is not pleuro-pneumonia' II
it is easily cured. Give steer lot OF
green corn, and see how quickly this dread
full thing they talk about will disappear
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-11-03

A boy was brought one day to General
Salem Towne, labelled as an iDcorrigible
Ounce. No master had been able to make
him learn, and if Mr.. Towne couldn't he
should be apprenticed to trade. Mr.
Towne proceeded to examine him. The boy
soon made mistake and instantly lodged,
as if frightened.
"Why do you do that ?" asked the
master.
because was fraid you were going
to strike me"
"Why should you think so p
"Because | have always been struck,
whenever | made mistake"
"You need never fear being struck by
me-" said Mr.. Towne 'That is not my
way of treating boys who do as well as
they can." Under this judicious encourage
ment, the boy showed so much intelligence
that he was sent TO college. In after years
he became lawyer, an editor, a governor,
United States Senator, and Secretary of
War and of State, That boy was William
L, Marcy, of New Yrok.