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The Penn's Grove record., 1883-11-17
Hovey's Last Days.

"~Peek-a-boo, peeK-a-ooo; | see you
hiding there, you rascal said a pris on
er in the Tombs, playing with a baby,
laughing and hiding behind a chair.
TIE baby had light golden hair and
rosy cheeks. 1t wore a white dress with
a red ribbon pinned to it. The prison
er had a smile on-his face, a smile that
quivered. He was under sentence of
death for killing his sister lu.law, and
was passing his last Sunday ID ths world.
He took the growing and cooling baby
in his arms and walked down the COR
ridor with it. The infant snngged it's
head up to its fathers head and let it
lie there.
One of the deputy sherlffs came and
patted the dimpled and smiling little
one on the cheek. He took out his
gold repeater to note the time of day.
The child stretched out its tiny arms
toward the watch that was ticking of
It's fathers life so fast. The condemned
man, Edward Hovey, turned and walked
down to the corner of the corridor
where his wife sat, her head resting on
her hand. She was q white faced wo-
man of modest ways. She wore a black
straw hat with a white ribbon, a black
cloak and a dark blue dress. She Is
very constant in her attentions to her
husband. She was in the Tombs early
in the morning and when it grew dark
in the prison she was still there.
Albany special. 18th.
"What is that old man talking to the
Governor so earnestly for?" was asked
ID the Executive Chamber.
"He Is pleading for the life of his
son, wa the reply.
Old MIR. Hovey. with clasped hands
and careworn face, was pleading with
the Governor to commute the sentence
Of Edward HoYey to imprisonment foI
life. The old man was accompanied
by Counsellor KNITTING and the Rev.
DIR. Guilbert. Hs begged for his sons
life to save the family from further dis
grace. He told pathetically the story
of the death of the boys mother from
the shock of his crime, and feared that
other evils would follow.
sit is true" said the Governor, ''that
these evils fall upon the innocent when
crime is committed"
Mr.. Kintzlng made an argument OF
considerable length on the evidence.
The Rev. DIR. Guilbe-t said he was the
the prisoners spirit IA adviser.
But it is no use sdvising him, Gov
ernor," he said. HE still hopes that
yon will pardon him. He does not real.
lie that ne is to die On Friday, and he
is not yet prepared"
"But, sir" said the Governor, stern
ly, lit was your duty to adinonish him
against hoping"
The Governor dismissed the hearing,
saying that he would consider the mat.
tor to the exclusion Of all else and IN.
form the counsl.
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The swallow, swift and night hawk are
the guardians OF the atmosphere, They
check the Increase of insects that would
otherwise overload 1t. Woodpeckers,
creepers anil chickadees are the guardians
Of the trunks Of trees. Warblers and fly
catchers protect the foliage. Blackbirds,
crows, thrushes and larks protect the sur
face of the soil. Snipe n woodcock pro
tect the soil under the surface. Each
tribe has its respective duties to perform
In the economy of nature, and it is an I'M
doubted fact that II the birds were all swept
off the face of the earth, man could not
live upon it; vegetation would wither and
die; insects would become so numerous
that no living thing could withstand their
attacks. The wholesale distructi1n occa-
stoned by grasshoppers Is undoubtedly
caused by the thinning of the birds, such
as grouse, prairie hens, ETC.. which feed
upon them. The great and mestimable
service done the farmer, gardener and
florist is only becoming known by sad
experience. Spare the birds and save your
fruit; the little hill OF corn aud fruit taken
by them Is more than compensated by the
quantities of noxious insects they destroy.
The long-persecuted crow has been found
by actual experience to do more good by
the vast quantities OF grubs and other
~iasects he devours than the harm he does
in the few grains Of corn he pulls up. He
is one OF the farmers best friends.
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Tho LltsIs Ola Laav T-av,l.,'

We stop at a luiet country side that
has recently achieved station and a little
old grandmother comes among us. A
farm wagon Ii at a respectful distance
with a careful old man holding the bits
of the lat and sleepy horses. who do not
even dream of being frightened, The
old lady calls out something to the dis.
tant Old man. who smiles In the dcubt-
full way of one who doesn't understand
a word, and she would like to Ilnger on
the platform and say more parting words
TO the elderly daughter who has come to
see her of, but the brakeman gently as
sists her within and slams the door.
She gives a little stagger as the train
moves on, sinks into the first vacant seat
AMI turning TO the window mods to her
daughter, who smiles back reassuringly.
A kindly gentleman leans forward and
tells her of a better seat farther down,
and carries her large covered basket for
her, and partly lowers the blind where
the sun is streaming 10. People are al
ways kind to the very old and the very
young, it Is the forlorn middle. aged
rho ere permitted to care for them
selves.
Oar grandmother sits down with a
chirping ''thank ye'-she is not of the
age that says ''thanks'-aud looks curl
ously about her. Possibly she mad
never rode IN the cars, for her old eyes
are full of childIIke wonder and surprise;
and she has gut e a long explanation
from the conductor before she yields her
ticket to him, and she watches him tear
off a part of it as ii he were dong a
great mischief, She ven appeals to a
fellow passenger-after the smiling off
cial had passed on to know If everything
is all right, and Gained by his cheerful
assurance, sue smiles too, aud admits
that she amt used to travelin'."
A quaint picture she isl-her shirred
black SILK bonnet is twenty years old if
a day. but it has q fresh ruche Inside
and glossy new strings, the black silk
shawl pinned across her breast with a
round gold brooch Is of the kind you
remember seeing in your childhood, and
her dress If a soft silken alpaca that can
be an old lady's best dress for many
years and give little sign of wear.
People sitting neal her, if given to no.
ticlng tribes, can detect q faint homely,
clean odor as of dried mint and lavender.
lamps, the pretty transparencies IN the
upper windows, and passes her hand
gently over the velvet upholstery-smll-
lag a little retrospective sort of smile.
Perhaps she Is thinking of the old stage
days, OF OF the time years and years ago
when she and her husband travelled by
canal and lake and river and possibly
by ox-cart into these far Western wilds
and set up their humble new home with
little capital but strong hands and brave
hearts.
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central Africa.

Mr.. Stanley, the African explorer
says: Since | arrived at the Congo, last
December, | have been up as far as the
equator and bvae established two more
stations, and, beside discovering an
other Lake, Mantumba, have explored
for a hundred miles or thereabouts,, he
river known on my map as the Ike
lembu, but which is really the Ma
lumnda. 1t is not as large as l stated
| N my book, but is a stream of the size
of the Arkansas, and is deep, broad
and very navigable. The big stream
which, | expect must drain the largest
part of the South Congo basin, must be
higher up. Having become better ac-
quainted with the country, L am really
struck with the dense population of
the equatorial part of the basin, which,
if it was uniform throughout, would
give 100000 The number of pro-
ducts and the character of the people
are likewise remarkable. The gums.
rubber, ivory, camphor, wood and a
host of other things would repay trans
portation, even by the very expensive
mode at present in use The people
are born traders, and are, for Africans,
ye~y' enterprising and Industrious"
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ssFllm Fiaun."

A reporter, while talking to a gentle
man in New York one evening, heard
that he had Just been s'done up" through
the manipulation of a crooked device
that has never until recently been at
tempted in that city, and the chances
are that 1t will not succeed very well
unless it succeeds in landing the party
who attempts it in the ~penitentiary.
The scheme is known IN thieves par
lance as ''him fam."
The experience Of the gentleman re-
ferred to is about as follows: He was
standing lii front of a gambling saloon
when a man came up in a hurry with a
$40 bill in his hand and asked the gentle
man whether he could change it, a he
wanted to get 80 cents out OF it. He
was answered in the affirmative, and
the victim took out a $40 bill and u
handful of silver, amounting IN al to
$40, and handed it to the crook. The
fellow was all the time feeling In his
vest pocket, when all at once he ex-
claimed: "By Georgel I've got 80 cents
right here that l DIDN'T know lhad, and
/ don't ARE to have SO much silver.
tust give me back my $40 BILL" which
he gentleman did, and received IN re-
urn, as he supposed, the $40 bill and
the silver he had given the thief, which
he put in his pocket. The crook thanked
him for his kindness and apologized for
the trouble he had put the gentleman
to, and the pair separated. The victim
did not know he was a victim till some
time afterward, when he put mis- band
in his pocket for the $40 bill. On
pulling it out and looking at it he dis
covered thai it was only a 81 bill. He
thought the matter over, and could
think Of no other way III which he came
into possession OF the 81 bill then from
the fellow who wanted to get the $50
bill changed. He had heard OF
such a thing being played. but on ask
ing some of the posted ones around
to gn he learned that heg game OF which
he had been the victim was beng played
around town, and that he was doubtless
one OF the sufferers.
The manner in which it is worked is
about as follows: The thief, or Slim
FAM" as he is called, goes up to the
party that he has picked out, and has a
| 81 bill concealed in lis hand, which by
cons.an practice he manages to change
for the $40 that is given him. and which
he returns to the party from whom he
gets the SO bill, in place Of the latter:
II is done 70 dexterously that it Is said
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Jamie's Old Watch.

On Brush street, near Jefferson I'VE
nue., Detroit, for an hour the other day
a bruised and battered dumb watch and
chain lay in the gutter, where some
foot had kicked it from the walk. Ii
was to realize that some child had lost
on flung 1t away. The case was battered,
the face scratched and SCARED, and no
body would turn aside to pick it up.
By and by a curious procession came
up from the Brush street depot, 1t
was composed of a man and his wife,
both past 80 years of age, aud four
children, the youngest of whom seemed
to be about II. They were spread out
on walk and street, heads down and
moving slowly, and there was a look of
anxiety on every face. Some one asked
the man if he had lost his wallet, and
he replied:
mo, not that. Somewhere as we
came along we lost our Jamie's watch"
very valuable?"
"Well, sir, not so far as money goes,
but it's a relic of the dead, and, sir
and"
son, 1t was an old dumb watch, ehp'
les, SlfI
ssYoull find it in the gutter up by
that post"
The entire family made a rush for the
spot, and the watch had no sooner been
lifted han the mother kissed it and the
children shouted their exultaticn,
III may seem foolish to you, sir,
explained the husband, as he sIyly wiped
at something like a tear III the corner
of his eye, .'but it's a long twelve years
since jamie died. That watch was the
first toy / ever bought him. We've
been burned out of house and home
twice since he died and that 8 the only
scrap Of relic lett us OF the little one.
You see it's old and bent but money
couldn't buy it. Every time We look at
it we can cali up his blue eyes and
chubby face, and the thought that he
is waiting for us up there almost answers
for a meal with mother"
"Are you gong away?",
"Yes--across the ocean to u old
home in England. We must leave the
dead behind. Had We lost the watch /
believe the mother would have broken
her heart. So long as we have it the
boys face comes up to us. We can
almost hear his | augh again, and it
seems more like we had laid HIM away
to sleep for an hour or two. Thank
Heaven that we have It'll It's JAMES,
sir, aud we are never to see his grave
again.
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aEEYEa HIND"

Whats the use Of always fretting
At the trials we shall ind
Ever strewn along our pathway
Travel on aud "never mind.
Travel onward, working, hoping;
Cast no lingering glance behind
At the trials once encountered.
Look ahead and never mind
What Is past IS past forever
Let all frettiug be resigned,
1t will never help the matter
Do your best and never mind.
And if those whe might befriesd YOU
Whom the ties of nature bind,
Should refuse 70 DO their duty,
Look TO heaven and never mind.
Friendly words are often spoken
When the feelings are unkind;
T. Ike them for their real value,
Pass them by and never mind,
Fate nay threaten, clouds may lower,
Enemies may be combinedi
If your trust in God is steadfast,
He will help you. "never mind,
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The First Steamboat Whistle.

The story of the first steam whistle
on the Missouri river Is amusing. Its
introduction dates back to 1884. At
that time the settlers of the Missouri
river were in the habit of making re-
gular yearly visits to st. Louis to do
their trading for themselves and their
friends. They We're not provided with
daily intercourse with the outside
world, and many who lived back from
the river, seldom, if ever, saw a steam
boat more than once a year. 1t hap
pened that during the fall of 1884 the
steamboat Lexington started up the
Missouri river, loaded down to the
guards with freight.
The steamer was provided with a
steam whistle-the first used ON the
Missouri river and as it happened no
n knew about it except Warner, who
was a wag and a lover of a joke. The
night after leaving st. Louis the pas
sengers were collected together playing
cards (for fun in the cabin, when the
talk turned upon steamboat explosions,
then very common.
II feel perfectly safe in this boat y
said Warner as he dealt the cards.
'Why?" inquired Yocum the plan
ter.
"WB?" echoed the rest of the CON-
pany.
II will tell you why" said the wag,
carefully studying his cards. This
boat is provided with a new patent
safety valve, which notifies passengers
on board when it is about to blow up.
1t is a concern which makes a most
unearthly noise, and when you hear it,
it is time to get back aft or jump over
board.
Notwithstanding the fact that War.
ner told his story with the most solemn
and earnest countenance, some Were
skeptical. Not SO, however, with the
planter. Next morning, when the
Lexington was steaming up the long
straight stretch OF river just below
Washington. No., the passengers were
at breakfast. The meal had been cal
led, and all were busily engaged in do
ing justice to the kind of meal they
were accustomed to serve on steamboats,
in those days. Suddenly the whistle
commenced to blow, the first time OF
the trip. The passengers looked al
each other a moment, and horror and
dIsmay spread oyer their faces. The
first man to realize the situation and
act, was Yocum, the planter, who,
with hair erect and blanched face
jumped up, cfying as he pulled ovel
one after another of the passengers
run. run for your lives; the darn
thing is going to bust. CONE with Inc,
and let's save ourselves
OF course there was a stampede fol
the rear of the boat, and it was only b,
the exertions of some of the crew that
the more excited were restrained from
jumping into the river.
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The boiler of a threshing machine
burst OH the 8th on a farm in 1uscarauwas
county, Ohio. Mrs. Geottje and two men
were injured, the woman perhaps fatally.
"A Pan Handle freight tram was run
into by a Baltimore and Ohio train at
r export, near Newark, Ohio, on the 6.h.
ii freight train had just taken-a siding,
but the switch was left open. Engineer
Matthews and fireman Kennedy, of the
passenger train were killed, and David
Wilson, baggage man, was severely in-
jured. Davis, the engineer, and Powell,
the fireman of the freight train, were
dangerously, if not fatally, injured.
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the worker rarely gets caught in the
act II he understands his business.
Generally the game is played on shop
keepers. The '.hInfiam" goes in and
buys 80 cents worth OF something aud
gives the clerk the S20, receiving back
the change, generally containing a $40
bill. AL at once be discovers that he
has 90 cents in change, aud as he does
not want to carry SO much silver, he
asks the oDligIDg cashier to return hin
his $50 and he viii give him the 50
cents. Instead OF giving him hack the
$40 he has received in change, he puts
a 81 bill in its place and keeps the $40,
thereby making a profit of SO on the in
vestment.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-11-17

BY no process of discipline or educa-
ton, by nothing that can act upon our
outer conduct, or that can reach us
only through our senses, can impurity
be transformed into purity. AS the
power OF sin is inward, roofing itself
IN the very substance of the soul, so
the power of sanctihcation, that is to
extirpate it, must also be inward, and
mingle with the secret fountains from
which our beng issues.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-11-17

Everything lives, lourlshes and de-
Gays, everything dies, but nothing is
lost, for the great principle in this life
only changes its form, and the destruc-
ton of one generation is the yiyihca-
ton of the next.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-11-17

All other knowledge is hurtful to
him who has not the science Of hon
ssty and good nature,
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-10-05
iIEc0fE COUNTY.


UHatUNFffus
In order TO prevent partial friend
from writing my epiiaph report thi'
morning.
ID. spillman Carpenter has bought 3
Q. PowelI's hotel property, for which h,
pays g, 400. Possession given In 10 days
On Wednesday morning, young man
Caleb Dresden, fell on wagon loaded with
gravel, which passed over his ANGLE. lie i
severely injured, but no bones broken.
Robert Green, Of this place, while
coupling cars at Danville Junction one day
last week, had his left hand terribly lacera.
ted. Two fingers we're broken. Patient
doing we'll.
We got goodly portion Of the rain
Of Sunday evening and a fair showing on
Monday. Nearly every we'll in town is
dry and cisterns have generally refused 70
liquIdate. The supply Of whisky, howev-
err, IL eaid 10 hold out encouragingly.
[By 7siephons.l
John w. Greenwood and wife have sold
their farm Of so acres TO J. X. Napier for
$40 per scre-cssh. Mr.. q. and family
will go West.
j. w. Reid made an assignment We'd
nesdsy TO f. L. Woods for the benefit Of
his creditors. Assets in stock and accounts,
500 or $500; liabilities about $1,000
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RELIGIOUS


Rev. I. 8. McElroy will preach al COT.
feys School. House Sunday afternoon al
$3.50 O'Clock.
"A Scott county puier frmaias recently
bought SIS Bible each for his family Of
thirteen.
Calvary Church, Clifton, (Cincinnati)
having tried the congregation plan Of sing.
ing, has gone back to the quartet choir.
Six branches Of the Baptist Church "a
voring open communion, but differing on
minor point, are holding a convention at
Minneapolis, MINI.
Eds. stephen Collier and J. q Mont
gomery, have just closed a meeting at Mt.
Olive, In this county with the glorious re-
suit Of 60 added TO the Shurch.
"A new History ofMeihodism in Amer
lea states that the first Sunday school in
America was founded in 1856 by Bishop
Asbury in Hanover county, Va.
Rev. Moses Acorn is holding q pro-
tracted meeting in Nelson county. He is
seveniy-eight years old and weighs 30s lbs,
and breaches in sitting position.
The brick work on the new Baptist
church will be completed to dsy and Mr..
Nevius tells US that the calculation Is 70
have il ready for worship the frs: Sunday
in December.
Squire L. b. Caldwell, clerk Of the
Cumberland River Association, reports a
membership Of 1920 in its IL churches.
During the year 10 members were receiv-
ed by baptism and 20 by letter.
The seventy-fourih annual meeting Of
the American Board Of Foreign Missions Is
in progress at Detroit, with 1000 attend.
ants The receipts for the year we're
s59O,996 and the expenditures in carrying
on direct mission work were $557, 245.
The records OF the ten lost tribes Of
Israel are now about 10 be searched for in
the Hill Of Tara, ireland, company hav.
ing been organized in England to search
there for the deeds given TO the prophet
Jeremiah when he bought Palestine. The
work is delayed by the arrest Of the mana
ger Of the Tara Trust Company for debt.
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Bancroft, the historian, celebrated his
SD birthday at Newport, r. l., Wednes-
day. In the evening he gave dinner
party.
Secretary Folger is OF the opinion that
two per cent. long bond could be aoated
at par and he may recommend the Issuing
Of such bond to Congress
Col w. c. p. Bfeckinridge delivered
an eloquent address at the reunion OF Com.
pany A of the First Kentucky Regiment Of
Cavalry, near Owensboro, last week,
Brewer and Harrison Woods engaged
in row with y negro named Pete Proctor,
at Shakerlown, and while Brewer held him
down Harrison stabbed him to death.
AT Trenton, N. ], Mrs. Henry Kern
and Mrs. Conrad Best, seventy 'ei ght and
seventY-fve years Of age, were killed by a
railroad train while walking on the track.
WIN. France, brakeman on the G &
o. r. r., was killed at Triplett Tunnel
He was at his brake on the front car, when
bis head came in contact with stone at
the mouth Of the tunnel. MASKING il into a
jelly.
The Chesapeake a Ohio Railroad Go.
has about completed arrangement, by
which immigrants will be brought directly
FROM Europe, and settled along the line Of
the road in Virginia, Kentucky and Ten
nessee.
Judge Hines, Of the Court Of Appeals
has afr msd the sentence Of VIM. Shackle-
ford, who was sent 10 the penitentiAry for
life from Harlan county for killing John
q. Howard.
WIN. Meyers gave a dance at his house
in Berlin, KY, and during the evening bad
occasion to put four young men out for
misbehayioE They burst open the door,
and one Of them, named Weaver, shot
Meyers dead. The next day Weaver hung
himself
The insults offered King Alfonso by a
Par isisn mob continue 10 be the sensation
Of Europe. There are reports that the
Spanish Cabinet will demand that the
French Government make a public apollo
Ky for what occurred. The Kings pres
tige at home has been heightened BY the
occurrence. He does not himself think
the action Of he rabble in the streets rep
resents the true feeling Of the French peO-
pie.
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DEANS

--Stsphsn Stephenson. son Of Mr.
ID. l.. Stephenson, aged about 20 years,
died Wednesday Of typhoid fever.
Mrs. Lizzie Beazley, after long illness
Of consumption, died at her home in Lou
isville. Wednesday night, aged 40 years,
She Was formerly resident Of this place,
having moved from darrard county, with.
sr her remains we're brought yesterday for
interments A member Of the Christian
Church from an early age, she fought the
good 6ght Of faith and in triumph has gone
10 claim the crown Of life promised the q
nally faithful She leaves five children to
mourn a mothers love, besides many rela.
lives and friends, who will grieve 10 know
that she Il no mole. The remains will be
taken from here TO day and al 1890 o'clock,
after a short sermon by Ed. Lowber, will
be consigned 10 their mother earth.