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The progress Of the south in material

The progress of the south in material
prosperity has been 10 rapid and solid
of late asto become one ofthe marvels
Z OF the time. The P~ostofice report
showed us the other day that in the ex-
tension OF the postal service the south
sern states excelled even those of the
rapidly growing west. This growth rep
sresents and springs from the remark
able development of late years ofthe in
sdnstrial and mineral wealth Of that sec
ton. Nature has been kind there from
1.-THE beginning, and now that labor is no
longer branded with dishonora and know
ledge regarded with suspicion, We may
look for notable progress. Indeed, the
advance within the last five years is
truly wonderful. Careful semi-oHcial
statements prepared by the governors
Of the several states show an increase in
taxable property upon the assessment
rolls Of thirty-three per cent. since the
1ast taken and yet unpublished Ger.
aus. Within four years, Arkansas,
Florida, Louisiana and Texas have
doubledtheir railroad mileage. Since
1880 Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina
and South Carolina have increased their
cotton spindles and looms sixty per
cent. and with a profit of from Is to 20
par cent, annually to the manufacturers.
Alabama is looming up as ore of the
great coal fields Of the future, its store
iof tEat precious mineral being estimated
Atthe uncomfortable total of seven hun
dred billion tons. The iron deposits of
Alabama are also large, and oftina quail
ity. 30 that its inhabitants are justified
In achieving that their state is destined
to becomet the Pennsylvania ofthe south.
Arkansas is one of the great lumber
states Of the union, and has moreover
enormous deposits Of coal and iron.
Even in Mississippi, that stronghold of
conservatism, manufacturers lave doub-
led in five years. Reports from all over
the south tell the same tale Of thrift and
enterprise In this prosperity the whole
country has q commo interest, and N
81 rather than in legal restrictions all
classes will find protection and hapn-
jness.
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1be WASHINGTON monument

The masons stopped WORK on The oath
on the Washington monument. leaving the
shalt tor the winter vt a height OF 40 Get.
AT this elevation it is the 10 test artificial
structure on the continent, aud with very
few exceptions, III the world. Col. Casey is
o preparing his report covering the years
w0rk. AT this time he cannot give the re-
suits in detail from an engineering stand
point. AT the conclusion of the work last
fall, when the had risen to u
height of $40 feet, the toiai pressure borne
by the bed of the foundation was "a ST.
tons. The settlement up to December,
1882. was on an average about one inca
and a quarter for the structure.
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Ex-senator Spencer Under Bonds.

Washington, Special:-Ex-Senator George
E. SpeEcer's case is attracting sufficient in
terest to crowd the criminal court room to
suff,cation. He has been released on a
$500 bond. 1t is understood that in his
interview in Chicago Spencer omitted to
state lhe most pertinent part Of his agree.
ment with james and Garfield, which was
not only that he was not to be brought it,
to the scandal personally, but be ives to be
app 'lnted first assistant postmaster general.
tie position now held Ky Ha,ton. There
was a sensational scene in court during the
proceedings on account of an alteration that
came near blow between Lawyer Merrick
and u. Painter, whom Spencer offered as
security but who was declined.
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Sergeant Mason Interviewed.

ALBANY n. Y, Specia! Telegram. Nov. GO
Sergeant Mason was released this Afternoon
from the peniten'iary, and left for hi
home in Virginia. In a conversation h
sad: Il ai in II great measure indebte.
Tor my pardon TO the press. l have had a friend il
Them from the time ] was sauteuced.
iai lost hope that my release won,
come before the eyriIation OF my term, and I ust
TO thing OF the injustice Of III sentence. Wua
had | done? Simply fired aud scar"t
the wretch who bad murdered our pres
ueht, and any othrr man would hay,
done the same thing. II l had been tried hy a iury
| would have been acquitted. If l h.d killed Coz,
can that would bave been murder, and
thitk then if L would have had a tria
by jury that / would have beer
acquitted Being asEed if this would end hi,
s-rvice 'uthe army, he replied. 'ou, yes! N
more army for me. j can maze more money ru J.
baby are"
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Girl XII led for Jealousv

Chicago Special: The town OF Lake was
the scene of a horrible tragedy recently.
For some time Emma Lafebra, q young
German girl, has been annoyed by the at
tentions OF Frilz Wormley, a butcher who
wanted her 10 become his wife, but whose
proposal sh rejected for another man.
Wormley went to the house where the girl
WAS employed. and asked her if she would
marry him The girl rehuked him and de
clared that abe wonld not become his wife.
Quick as a flash he drew q revolver, ard
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"A special xgent OF the General Land
ONCE hiss found that nearly one-half Of
athe publicslands dis. osed of in any one
year are irresu'arly taken. The lands
hus obtained, he says, eventually fall
INTO tn. hands Of the settlers, u they
are obliged to pay sweat money" in
order to get them, and this puts the poor
man alta disadvantage and retards settle
ment. This winter the matter will be
! Submitted to and il is not inn
probable that the presumption law may
be repealed, or made much more stri IL
gent for the purpose Of preventing fraud
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Poor Anna Diskinuon's company has
strnnsied Mt Detroit and soon after df 3
persed, Miss Dies msob coingto Chics go.
John Mccullough, thu trsgedian &c .ner.
ouoly loaned her SJan in her extremity.
Strange it is, but true, that Anns. thinks
public taste aud not herself is a. fault for
her numerous fAilt,es on the stage.
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Sergeant Mason pardoneu.

Washington, Special. The president to.
day pardoned Sergeant John a. NJ ,son. OF
Battery II, Second artillery, U S a., SEN
fenced to imprisonment tor eioht years in
the Albany penitentiary for attempting to
murder the assassin Guiteau. Mason was
tried before a general court martial at the
arsenal in this city in November. 1881, the
president of the court being Lleui. Col
Mizner. of the Tenth infantry, AMI was
sentenced to be d~ishonolably discharged
from the service, with forfeiture OF ali pay
and allowance dne or to become due, n
Imprisonment as above stated. With large
subscriptions for the benefit of his family
We're united numerous petitions to the pres-
laent for the complete pardon of NJ son
and bis restoration To the army. These pc
titlons were brought in large ut bers from
every section of the country.
The whole number OF signatures to the
petitions was more than 2 zoo, $50. Mason's
family, comprising ''Beity and lie baby"
are now living in Glendale. Orange county.
Va, in comparative il dependence from The
amouats that were subscribed throughout
the country for their maintenance after
M .son was sent to prison. While Masou's
oifense is looked upon as one OF Il e highest
of military crimes, that of a sworn guard
attacking q deteaseless prisoner, most mill
tAry men sympathize wit. him, and leel
that he has had sufficient punishment for
his crime
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Recentletters from Hon. William Win iom
and wife say that they expect to leave Lon
don tor Paris about Christmas time and the
first OF mex year will go TO Rome. and there
spend the rest OF the winter They do not
Exp ct to return to the UHited States untii
spring.
Lawrence Weldon, who was appointed
judge of the United States con- of claims
recently. has been David Davis attorney for
many years, and owes1h- place to him He
is al ohiosn, nearly sixty years old.
Proctor Knots successor in congress.
Thomas A. Robertson, has a very red mus
tache and satee. He, too, il a funny man,
and II better atory.teller, it is said, than
Proctor.
William P. Snyder of Allentown, Pa.
has resigned al assistant United States
attorneyship to prosecute South Car
olina election fraads, because OF poor
pay.
Gen. Charles Hamilton of Milwaukee,, 8
class mate 81 West Poiut of G n. Grant, and
a noted man in the Badger STATE, il danger.
ously i'll with congestion of the lungs.
Joseph H. Blackfan, superintendent Of
foreign mats, who died on the gath, was
"Ppoihted by POSTMASTER General Campbell
oil New Jersey, in 1858.
Joseph A. Biackfan, chief of the foreign
mail service, died at Washir gton recently OF
pneumonia. He created the bureau OF for
eign mails.
Judge Ward Hunt, retired from the Jul
ted States supreme court as a hopeless par
alytic, is improving in health.
The pope knighted Capt Dawson of Char
lesion, for opposing the duel in the News
and Courier.
Had DR.. Marion Sims lived "A fortnight
longer he would have drawn an endowment
OF $50, 600.
Capt. King, IN Coleman county, Tex.
has $50 600 acres nearly fenced in.
Ex-Gov. Stevenson of West Virginia is
| diving at Parkershurg.
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General News items.

In making improvements OF Coles hill,
Plymouth, Mass, the graves OF pilgrims
who came over in the May A over. and were
buried du, ing the winter, have been discov-
cred. One opened contained the skeleton OF
e middle-sged man, five feet nj e inches / in
height. Ia another grave the skeleton of an
elderly man was discovered These are the
f, only graves of the first settlers positively
identified Tablets will be placed to mark
the exact location.
DR.. @. T. Gillett, a prominent physician,
aud Prof. Freeman, of the high school of
Aurora, ILL.,, are in Chicago hunting for the
formers daughter, Matte Gillett, q comely
girl of sixteen, who disappeared from
school there on the Goth. II seems to be
another Mary Churchill case. Matte was
eisinclined 10 go to school. and often ex-
pressed a desire to 20 on the stage.
The Boston Globe publiskei the account
of q cock fight in the halls of Hartford col
lege. The walls and do.rs ofthe dormitory
were padded to slitle the noise. TIL. cocks
were known by Dandy and "Jim," and
numerous beis were made on the result.
The fight last. d thirty-s K minutes and was
won by Dandy.
The creditors Of @. w. Copeland & Co., the
failed boot aud shoe dealers of Boston, re-.
Gently voted to accept 10 per cent. cash and
10 per cent. in SIX mon hs, exclusive oil
claim of s617, 600 on Shaw & Tate, which
will be he,ii by trustses Tor the creditors.
In the United States court at Little Rock,
Ark, recently, James Evans and Julius
Horser, on trial for in%tim,dating Uuited
States W theses in Monroe county, deemed
a felo y by the revised statutes, were con.
victed.
Van SICKLE, the democratic LAWYER, and
politician who on the 2st shot Mr.. Cheese.
man, the editor of the Bri geton, N. j., Pa
the wounded man, is ia a very low condi-
ton.
The funeral of Phoebe Paulin, the girl
found murdered, took place at Newark. N.
j.. on the 18th inst. The citizens of Orange
offer q reward OF $500 and the governor
one OF $500 for the murderer.
Fraastreet's agency has received advices
from Carlisle, Mimi, that e. Falstad, gen.
ersl dealer in a small way, has made an as.
slgnment. The amount Of liabilities is not
stated, but they are small.
New York politicians claim that $25, COO,
which Vanderbilt subfcribed for ex.Goy.
Cornelrs canvass last year, went into the
governors pocket whole.
Chtcago's proposed obscene paper, the
Police Reporter, was nipped in the bud at-
ter an outlay of 5000 on me first irsue.
Karl Fangenberg, wanted in Germany as
heir to $685. 900, turns up a hickman in
Sacramento.
Flu Mrs. Frey's old trunk In Philadelphia
her heirs found IS, 0so-mostly in gold.
Allegan county. Michigan, shipped 1877
900, bushels of peaches this season.
Lii Pc Tai, San Francisco's Chinese doc.
tor, makes SIZE. 600 A wear.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-07

placing the muszle CT it Mt the back of her
Nea1 seat a nall crushing throu h her stuil
M.rmley ea 3ed n moment up the bleeding,
wrnbipg torn, Of bis victim. AT then sh Ut
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-07

Professor Newton says that the earth
1ecasyef about 3,O0D, O61, 600 Of meteors
every year, hut they only increase the
aizs q Jtle earth o1s inch in lUo,oUo,0U0
yeaik
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-07

induced Hood to 20 with him. He was
step-fa father to William f. Fitch, late su-
~perintendent of the Central Dakota di-
vision OF the Northeastern road.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-07

me 'enioetitts Vi Virginia are raisino
a lund with which to buy IL carnage and
nurses lor presentations to The. Hon
.ohh >. Barbour, Chairman Of their.
State Committee. =" 'neif'
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Doings of CRIMINALS.

Ar'bbery under somewhat peculiar cir.
cumstances took place at Cedar Fails. Iowa
Mrs. Cavish Ritter drew ST., $50 from the
bank, representing that she wanted to pu1.
chase some land. Her husband fnally per.
suaded her no to open the money, and
she promised to put it in the banR. 8. ortly
alter noon, having occasion to leave the
mousse, she was met on returning by a fellow
coming ouu of the house with q revolver in
his hand. Investigation showed that he
had AIKEN the money and made good his
escape, and although officers nave been
searching for him ever since. no clue to his
whereabouts have been 0 tanned. The Rit.
tiers are u roor family, and the money was
obtained BY 8 recent sale of the place.
detective W. H. Owen OF Louisville re.
turned to Nashville with Mrs. A. F. Lincks.
alias Rose Miller, Alas Myers, alias Flincks.
and expert diamond snapper and sne, (
thief, who Victlmized jewellers in all the
principal cities of he south, especially Lou.
%lsville, Nashville, Atlanta aud Charleston,
Her lame hiss been to examine a tray of
costly solitaire dismond rings, on the pre-
One Of the most horrible murders that
ever occurred in New Hamsphire was com
mitted at Laconia about 4 O'Clock on the
morning of the 25th. The names OF the
victims are as follows: James Rudy. Mrs
John Ford and Frank Ruddy, infant child
Of James AND Rosa Ruddy. A man named
Thomas Sampson has been arrAted.
Milton P. Church committed suicide at
Helena. Mont, by shooting himself through
the head with a revolver, in his room at
the International hotel. Until recently he
had been employed in the Northern Pacific
land office. No reaso is assigned for the
deed, except that Church was subject to fits
of dependency.
Aid. and School Trustee Will ]. Davis is
said to hsve skipped out from Bozeman,
Lon. Attachments amounting to 81. 600
have been filed against his property, and
more to hear from. Davis was married to
an elegant lady there three months ago. Hi
departure crertes a marked sens ton.
At Currytown, N. z. Mrs. John Diedeb-
dorf, awoke in the night to find a rope about
her neck and that her husband wa trying to
stfangle her.
Cincinnati's court house stationery cost
sS, $50 this year, when for FIVE years it had
been. $20,476 owing to piitering.
Mrs. Long coniesses to the murder o
Harvey Whittemore at Princeton, Wis.
She says she did it alone.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1883-06-16
Political.

The Ohio republicans on the 9th at
Columbus in convention proceeded to
the nomination Of state ticket, Hon,
Ben. Butterworth presenting the name
Of J. b. Foraker, Cincinnati. J. Nj.
Dalzell offered the name Of Sherman,
and the convention became wild
and could only be quieted by Sherman
rapping for order vigorously. Then he
stated that he had not been insensible
to the preference Of large number of
delegates, but he would say frankly and
firmly that he could not be a candidate.
He could not surrender his duties in the
senate in justice to the people Of Ohio
and the country. Aside from this he
could not accept nomination without
feelings of personal dishonor. Judge
Foraker was then nominated by accla-
nation unanimously. Foraker appear
ed later and made a speech of thanks,
pledsna his best efforts to the cause and
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1883-06-16
An Era of Reform.

The necessity for reform is not confin-
ed to politics. Household management
as we'll as public sentiment demands
urgent reform in the interest of econo-
my. The time has gone when sensible
people endure long treatment for an all
ment that can be cured at one-fourth
the cost. Nowadays when a man is at
tackled with the piles he wants to be
cured economically and speedily. He's
had experience; he merely invests a
small amount in Swayne's Ointment,
firm in the knowledge Of an early cure.
All soreness, pain and itching is stopped
in manner equaled by no other RENE
L.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1883-06-16
Advice TO Mothers.

Are you disturbed at night and brok.
en- of your rest by sick child suffering
and crying with pain of cutting teeth I?
If SO, send at once and get a bottle Of
Mrs. WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP roR
CHILDREN TEETHrNo. Its value is incal-
culable. 1t will relieve the poor little
sufferer Immediately. Depend upon it,
mothers, there is no mistake about it.. Il
cures dysentery and diarrhoea, regulates
the stomach and bowels, cures wind
collie, softens the gums. reduces inflam-
nation, and gives tone and energy to
the whole system. Mrs. WINsLow'a
SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TRErHINo
is pleasant to the taste, and is the pre-.
scription of one Of the oldest and best
female physicians and nurses in the
United States, and is for sale by al
druggists throughout the world. Price
25 cents bottle.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1883-06-16
the importance Of the cam

outlining the Importance Of the cam
paign.
William Grove OF Cleveland was
nominated for lieutenat governor.
A Washington dispatch referring to
the ticket says, there is some disappoint-
ment among certain Ohio republicans
here tonight over the failure of the con.
vention at Columbus to-day to nominate
Mr.. Sherman for governor. 1t is believ-
ed among these republicans that his
nomination would have given the can
vass national character, and have buri-
ed out of sight the local temperance is
sue, which did the party SO much harm
last fall and may do the same thing this
year.
The Iowa democrats on the 9th at
DcsMoines nominated Judge l.. &. Kline
Of Tawa county for governor, and Justin
c. &. Clark for lieutenant governor.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-02-10

THE Directors of the Providence
Life Association, of this city, met
in annual session at their office on
Martin st, Tuesday of this week. The
following officers were elected for
the ensuing year
John Fitz, President Rev. j. f.
Moner, Vice-President !; G. A. Bush
man, Sec, j. N. Thatcher, Treas. !;
Rev. III. V. Mohn, general manager;
w. FL. III. Flick, legal adviser, and
DR.. S. N. Myers. medical examiner.
This society has done a good bust
mes during the past year, having es-
tablished agencies in nearly all parts
of the Union and effected a large
amount of insurance. It's endow,
ment plan, which is copyrighted, is
said to be the best in use, affording
the double advantage of realizing
the amount insured for in ten years,
or at death, if prior. In this CON-
pany you need not "die to win. {"
Policies are worth their face value.
The society does not pay as many
dollars as an assessment will bring,
but, pays all amounts in full accord.
ing to contract.
Many of our best citizens are al
ready insured in this company. We
bespeak for it liberal patronage by
the people of our town, and wish
them year of great success in their
business.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-02-10

AN OLD CAsE.-The case of
Herman, &c, VS.. Minghini, pending
since 1919, in the county and circuit
courts of Berkeley county, and
twice appealed to the Supreme Court
of Virginia, and once resurrected
by an act of the Legislature of that
State, was argued during the late
term of our circuit court. Gen.
Boyd, John r. Cooke, the Messrs.
Conrad, Judge Pendleton and Ben
jamin Stanton, number among the
eminent counsel who have been en-
gagged in and have died during its
progress, and still the old suit sur
wives Those participating in the
recent argument were, Mr.. George
Baylor, of Charlestown, who lead off
with motion to set aside the COM
missioners' report, and dismiss the
proceeding. He was followed by
Hon. g. j. Faulkner, in opposition
thereto, and with a request that the
court decree another reference, who
was followed by Mr.. j. n. Wisner,
associated with Mr.. Baylor. Judge
Faulkner denied reference,
but announced that he would per.
NIT the taking of additional testi-
mony, and would continue the case
until the next term, when at the re /.
quest of either party he would take
it up for final adjudication.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-02-10
Inc Handel and Haydn
Concert.

MISS SUE RIDDLES EFFORTS CROWNED
t'h NICtESS-A GOOD CoMBINA-
VN or MUSICAL TALENr-~SwEEp-
ING ENDORSEMENT BY TUE PUBLIC.
The community had been ON the oul-
VlNe of expectation for several weeks
IN regard to the concert of home talent.
(Which always includes Prof. Carroll
and Mr.. ii. A. Riddle, at Feller's Hall.
After one postponement, il was held on
friday night, I'd INST. That queen of
Martinsburg warblers, Miss Sue Rid
die, originated the enterprise, and sue
ceeded in obtaining the aid OF the mem-
bers of the Handel and Haydn Associa-
ton, together with other valuable as
sistance from members of the ehoirs of
our churches, and then the master and
preceptor of the association, Prof. j. 5.
Carroll, was sought, and his invaluable
services obtained, free OF charge. to
conduct and keep in musical harmony
the rendition of the complicated cho-
russes, &c. The object is we'll known
and needs no comment. To say that
the success, in point Of appreciation
and numbers, was sweeping and I'M
precedented, is iustiiiable and truthful.
To say that the exercises, in point of
selection, execution, harmony, nodes
ty and management was the perfection
of amateur performance, is but fair
and not overdrawn commentator
thereof. Every participant is we'll wor-
thy of tribute of praise, but the num-
Der forbids such special notice. Every
thing connected with the concert is
gratifying, even to the receipts, which
amounted, in gross, to about one hun
dred and fifteen dollars. -Four young
ladies, yet pupils, who also aided, viz:
Misses Lorena Flick, Belle Stewart,
Minnie Frazer and Anna Il. Wisner,
showed fair skill, and gave great prom
Use of musical attainments.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-02-10

DELIGHTFUL.-One of the most
int eresting social events of the sea-
son came off on the evening of last
Monday, at the residence of Misses
Mamie, Annie and Rosie Cunning
ham, of John street. The occasion
was one OF much enjoyment. The
company commenced arriving short
ly before s O'Clock, and soon the
several large rooms were filled with
guests. Preparations were made for
dancing, in which the lovers of the
"Art Terpsichore' INDUCED with
brief intermissions until IL o'clock.
They then repaired to the dining
room, where refreshments and sub
stantials awaited them, served in the
best style. Having been sufficiently
refreshed, the company returned to
the parlor, where a short time was
spent in musical exercises. This
over, the exhilarating pastime of the
dance was once more INDUCED in.
1t was not until the wee sma' hours
of the next morning when those
present began leaving for their re-
spective homes, after spending an
evening of enjoyment that will not
soon be forgotten.