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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-14
THE CROUCH TRAGEDY AGAIN.
Interest Revived by Acts of James Foy,
an Employe of Holoomb's.

al biuplVyo Va hoioonp
James Foy, who formerly worked
for Dan Holcomb, son-in-law of the
murdered Crouch, went to Union City,
Branch county, few days ago for the
purpose of revenging himself upon ID.
j. Eastor, editor of the Union City
Register, for an article published some
time before, referring to Foy as a disor-
derby person. He went to the
postofiice for the purpose of pur-
chasing some stamps. A short time
after Elmer Shuler, the assistant
postmaster, left the office for home and
upon reaching the corner was shot by
Foy, the bali striking Shuler on the
right side of the neck just under the
jaw, causing the blood to squirt freely,
but luckily escaping the jugular vein.
Three shots were fired but only the first
took effect. Foy left Union City at once
and walked home distance of 80 miles,
arriving at six o'clock in tie morning.
He was moody and refused to work or
eat. When the attempted murder was
spoken of he exclaimed, They'll never
take me alive" Just after dinner,
which he refused to partake of, he
stepped into the room just off the kitch-
en- and shot himself back of the right
ear, producing instant death. Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Holcomb, Edith Holcomb
and farm hand were present when
Foy died. The officers arrived 10 min
utes too late to take their man alive.
Foy has been under surveillance for
some time, as it was believed he knew
q good deal about the four-fold Crouch
tragedy. He was at Dan Holcomb's
on the night of the Crouch murder.
His testimony was somewhat conflict
ing and his numerous remarks were
noted by the detectives. He told sever
al stories as 10 how the great murder
was committed. He said two persons
did it; that Crouch was shot first and
Policy, who arose and went to the door.
was the second victim, and was carried
back to bed; while Mr.. and Mrs. White
were last. Foy was originally from
Pennsylvania and it is alleged ne was a
Mollie Mcclure.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-14
Mother and Babe Burned,

horrible burning OF a woman and her
child occurred on the farm of Jacob Blazer,
near GalliSolis, Ohio, q few days since. The
house occupied by Morgan Martin and his
wife and two children was entirely DESTROYED
by fire. Mrs. Martin and her two-year-old
daughter persisted in the flames. Martin was
absent on the farm half mile distant, and re-
turnel in time to see the roof Of the house
falling In. Only the half burned bones Of the
victims have been secured.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-14

PHIL. SHERIDAN AS A Bor.-"He was
always fine lad and good to his moth
err" she said with rich brogue that
bespoke her lineage. Il don't want to
be foolishly proud about him, but he's
been good son TO me. de was al
WAYS in mischief, and always used to
be teachin' the boys to be soldiers when
he was younger than any OF 'cm. But
ne would never would do anything
mean and his worst fault was his fight
In He never leaves year 60 round
that he doesn't come TO see me. and
he's very kind" -[Somerset CO., Cor
respondencs of philadelphia Press.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-14

A bill will be reported TO the House for the
exchange OF trade dollars for silver dollars at
par ~ January l, 1885.
Mis-. Porter, wife OF Robert Z. Porter, tx
secretary Of the tariff commission who sued
for divorce recently, gets with her divore /,
$40, alimony, which was paid In cash As
soon as the decree was entered.
The rebels lost 600 men In the last engage
ment with Baker fasha.
Secretary Teller says he never said the civil
service was a failure.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-14
Ell Mahdi's Might.

Advices from Cairo states that the khediye
has telegram from Baker Pasha, reporting
his defeat near rokar. HIS losses were 1000
men, four Krupp cannons and two eating
guns. The Turks and Europeans fought well.
Baker Pasha will return at once TO Suakim
with the remainder of his force.
Later dispatches reiterate the previous re-
ports that Baker Pasha met with serious de-
feat. He had with him 8, 5000 men, and was
advancing when attacked. His losses in killed
aud wounded amount to 1900 men. Baker
Pashs, with the remnant OF his force succeeded
in reaching Trinkitat. where the gunboat Rang
er Is lying. He intends to proceed immediate
y TO Suakim In the Ranger
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-14
A Garrison Massacred.

The garrison at SInkat, under command Of
Tewfk Bcy, becoming desperate from want OF
provisions and the long delay In receiving re-
lief, made a bold attempt to cut their way
through To suakinl, but were surrounded by
the ever watchful rebels, and the band. mum
bering 400 men, together with their gallant
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-14

Il see that an Ohio postmistress has
resigned her position in order to get
married. remarked an old benedict to
his wife. poor thing! l pity her."
said the helpmeet, Why SOP" Because,
after the honeymoon is over, she'll have
to sit mp nearly every night and wait
till the male comes in. Milwaukee Sem
tinel
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-14

lands whose fertility is equal TO the best
in the world, and located within easy
distance of we'll settled communities.
Prospecting is good here when it is
elsewhere in Michigan. -Montmorency
Times.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-14

AT the recent meeting of the Massa-
chusetts teachers one speaker advocat-
ed letter-wri.ins as a very good method
of teaching English composition.
..Once a week." she said, 81 have the
children write letters among themselves,
and provide lester-box for the pur-
pose. For correcting exercises, l use
a few of the signs used by proof-readers'
since they are as easily learned as arbi-
tary ones.'
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-14

SENATOR Vance, bearing in mind
that the first landing and settlement of
any people Of the Anglo-Saxon race up
on the shores of the United States oc-
Cured on or about the fourth day of Ju
ly, 1854 (old style), at Roanoke Island,
North Carolina, by company of Eng
lishmen sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh,
under the command of Capts. Phillip
Amadas and Arthur Barlow, has intro
duced joint resolution appropriating
$50, 900 for suitable column Or monu-
ment 10 be placed at the spot where
the expedition landed. The corner
stone of the monument is to be laid
next Fourth of July in the presence of
three Senator and five Representatives
to be selected by the presiding officers
of the two Houses, and $4,000 is apro-
priated to pay the actual expenses
OF the committee in arranging for the
celebration.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-14
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The most important measure to be
brought before Parliament at the APP
preaching session is bill extending the
elective franchise. Ireland as well as
England and Scotland, is included in
its provisions. The opinion seems to
prevail that it will pass.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-14

THE Committee appoiated last year
by the New Jersey legislature to in
vestigate the subject of convict labor
has prepared its report. The committee
recommends the adoption of the ''piece
system" and says that while no system
of convict labor can be devised which
will not to some extent intefere with
honest labor, the 'piece plan" is the
least prejudicial. Under the old contract
plan the contractor pays the state GER
tain sum for days labor, and the diff
ference between the price per day and
the value of the labor actually perform
cd goes to the contractor. Under the
"piece plan," the proper agent of the
state is authorized to contract for the
manufacturing of any article by the
quantity or measure, STIMULATING in all
cases that the price paid shall not be
less than the rate paid to laborers out
side the prison. The report recommends
that convicts be given two-thicds of
their earnings over seventy-five cents
day, and that all persons who have
portion of their sentences RENTED
shall report at certain periods TO the
tchief of police in whose jurisdiction
hey reside.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-14

AN earnest effort is being made in
England to secure funeral reform.
There is Church of England Funeral
and Mourning Reform Association,
headed by the Archbishops of Canter-
bury and York, and a recent circular
letter issued by it points out three rea-
sons for reform, viz: the growth of n
mistaken idea of death through the
long-established mourning and funeral
observances; the need of an organiza-
ton to give moral support 20 those who
otherwise could not withstand the
tyranny of custom or fashion; the ex-
.ravagance and waste occasioned among
the poorer classes by the ambition to
have pompous and costly funerals
All these reasons, it need hardly be
said, are as applicable in this country
as in England, aud funeral reform as
ISOLATION would be welcomed here by
all sensible people.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-14

The Arkansas people, or some OF
them, have hung two of their Supreme
Court Judges in effigy because they
granted an appeal in the case of two
Negroes sentenced to death for murder.
The case grew out of race riot, in
which there seems to have been wrong
on both sioes. But nobody believes
that the Judges would have been hung
in effigy had they granted h stay of pro-
ceedings in the case of two white men.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-14

Representative Edmund w. M.
Mackey, of South Carolina, who died
recently, was born in Charleston, S. c.,
in 1916; was appointed assistant assessor
of internal revenue in 1865, and studied
law at this time. He took prominent
part in the work of reconstruction; was
delegate to the constitutional conven-
ton; sheriff; alderman; and in 1878 was
sent to the legislature. He served two
years in congress, and in!1S76 was again
seat to the legislature and elected
speaker; was delegate to the national
republican conventions at Philadelphia
in 1872 and Chicago in 1880. He was
also United States district attorney from
1878 10 1881. He was elected to the
47th congress and his seat contested,
but he won and was seated in 1882, and
was reelected to the present congress.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-14

hope Ia revived The waters IN the rivers are
again within their banks, and tie worst Is
over. With the decreasing peris from water
come the lurking dangers from weakened foun-
datioDs, which may overthrow buildings, and
from streets aud pavemenis cayinR In where
they have been undermined. There Is great
cause OF apprehension from this, ani every
precauiion Will be taken to prevent disaster.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-11-12
The Road Question.

During one of the celebrated mud
blockades, " some years ago, man, in
order to call a doctor, went six miles to
town by means of a rail-fence. Not
only in Illinois, but in many other
Western States. the roads are practi-
cally impossible for three months in
nearly every year. The period of nom
communication has often extended to
half year The effect of stopping
commerce in this way has been lament,
able. There can be no settled or fair
condition OF things SO long as trans
pOrtatlOn on the country roads is q
question of chance. Not only the inn
mediate Inconvenience of mud embar-
goes, but the reacting effect of high
rates and over-crowded routes during
the season of good roads, should
prompt the States to some definite plan
OF action. A practicable scheme would
be to go to France and England and
get the record of their road building.
The Legislature should build experi-
mental roads at once. The cornerin q
of a market would be colossal UNDER
taking with good highways leading from
every eranary in the Western States.
The gilt edge would come off the price
OF butter, and the farmer would be
none the poorer, were the products of
dairy always within reach. The roads
Of Fran 9 did not grow. They were
bought and paid for. What we need to
know is how many The people were able
to build at first, and in what manner
those first roads were apportioncd. -
CHICAGO Current
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-11-12
The Tin Cans Mission.

The empty tin can at last has mis-
sion, and q profitable one at that. EmpLled
OF its contents of peaches or toma-
toes, discarded and thrown out at the
kitchen gate, tit may soon be sent in at
the front door or find an honored place
in the best room IN the house. Thou
sands of these cans are gathered in
Philadelphia every week and made into
shining sheets and used to decorate or
cover large travelling trunks, and thus
get a promotion from the back yard to
the boudoir On the outskirts of the
city, within short time, number OF
factories for the conversion of these old
buffeted and battered cans and other tin
refuse from the ash heaps have sprung
up; and the business is a growing one.
One of considerable size is on Moya-
mensing Avenue, below Miff1n Street,
where q large force of men is kept busy
day in and day out. The cans are col
lected in various ways, but principally
from the city's ash heaps and the hotels
and large boarding houses. At the
factory the soldered seams are subjected
to an intense heat in such . way that
the solder is allowed to run into re-
ceptacle, and is carefully saved and
sold, the profit from this source alone
almost paying for the expense of gath
ering and handling Of the cans. The
tops and bottoms OF the cans are melted
and turned into window sash weights.
The labels an the tin plates are easily
taken of, after having been thoroughly
soaked in water and. the plates them
selves rolled out flat by machinery. As
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-11-12
Outside Of ssHls Set. ;,

One cool Sunday morning, about :
dozen years ago, young man, whom
we shall here call Cabell, came out Of .
fashionable church, and avoiding tho
throng Of carriages and gayly-dressed
wo1ghipers, strolled down quiet street
with wearied, bored look on his hand
some face. Life had bored him good
deal lately. He had been born some
twenty odd years ago in that stately
house at the corner, where he still
lived. He had inherited good name
and large estates, and he knew nobody
who had not the same good fortune.
When he was baby, nurses and foot
men protected him from contact with
any children but those of his own rank;
when he was . boy, . private tutor pre-
pared him alone for college; at college
he was extremely careful to associate
only with his equals. When he travelled,
he found in New York, London, Paris
This own set living within infexible
barriers to keep off the ..canaille. He
had profession. bnt with such an in-
- come wuy snsaiin M Irasssee:: ne mao
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-11-12
Cutting Women's Noses.

~, :, 49,. -, !,
Inc horrlple crime OF mntllatlng W0-
men Dy cutung on their noses IS SO
common IN Bombay as to call for the
most stringent repression: and nothing
we imagine, Will repress 1t but the free
use OF the iash. In the sessions ending
yesterday MI. Justice Scott had TO hear
snree-we mlght say hve-9l these
cases, one "'ter cne oCher. ne post
Pone! nus sen1ences !or = Week ana we
were N hopes tnat ne would IN eacn
case ordor the criminals 10 % nogged
"ienln an ace ol tnelr i'ves'
Eventually, However, he sentenced
them severally to what he had ascer-
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-11-12
BarbarOus.

Nominally, imprisonment for debt is
abolished in this State by statute, butin
reality we continue to incarcerate hu.
man beings because they are unable to
meet their liabilities. One of the Curl
osities of the law on this point ha, Just
been unearthed in Monticello, Sullivan
County, N. Y. Four years ago man
was arrested there on an execution for
thirty dollars and sent to jail. He has
ever since remained q prisoner, and
seems to be quite content with his lot
and the care the law has bestowed
upon him. Special legislation has been
invoked in order to have the man liber-
ated, Senator Low having introduced q
bill in the Legislature empowering the
Sheriff to turn the insOlvent debtor out.
What is needed is general law cover
ing such cases. It is not in Ludlow
Street Jail alone that men have been kept
confined for years because they could
not pay their debts, but the practice to
imprison insolvent debtors seems to
have contributed fair share to the
inmates Of the jails all over the State.
The Legislature should make haste to
do away with this relic of barbarism.-
N. r. Sun.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-11-12
Thrift Defended and Commended.

Both the ability to make money and
the disposition to save it are highly
commendable. People say, every day:
IF were able, would do SO and SO. -
They then realize what they lose by not
being able. Few men have reached
middle age without having seen chances
to engage in promising enterprises ex-
cept for lack of capital-capital that
they would not stand in need of had
they been saving. Every right-mindcd
filings that are made at rich men, simply
because they are rich. 1t is rebuking
economy and thrift, for few men, how
ever large their income, become rich
unless they possess these qualities. Let
it be retained in mind. too, that the
profligacy of the many make the few
rich. If every man and woman would
save all that he or she could. there
would be less money to flow into the
Golfers Of the "blOated bondholders. y
There are dozen persons, who do not
practice the habit Of saving, to one who
does, consequently the money from the
dozen pockets is gradually going into
the one.
No matter how small q salary man
gets he should make an effort to save
portion of it, and, barring sickness or
other misfortune, he can usually do it.
The savings of one week may be small,
but the savings of many count up.
Saving may be an effort at first, but
finally it becomes easy. and not only
easy but pleasure. 1t does not call
for stinginess or meanness. It calls for
self-denial and thoughtfulness. Money
is the right hand assistant of the nobler
aspirations Of humanity. The rich good
man is Of more account in the world
than the poor good man. The former
is he who builds hospitals, schools,
churches and galleries of art. The
plans and desires of the other stop
short Of fruition. It is discredit to
man to spend his money foolishly.
Many young man thinks it gives him
an elevated standing in the eyes of So
ciety if he scatters his money with .
lavish hand. 1t does not, except in the
eyes of the poorest part Of society. 1t
is evidence that he is not rightly
balanced. That for which we give our
strength and youth we should retain, If
possible. Money is the recompense for
labor, and labor demands our strength
and consumes our youth. The result
should not be frittered away Chicago
Current
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-11-12
A Hindu's Death.

Mr.. Dali, the American Unitarian
missionary to Calcutta, who loved Mr..
Sen and wrote q touching obituary of
him, told me that the scene st his death
was very painful. When he (Mr. DAILY
entered the room q devotee sat at his
head crying in mournful voice,
.'Hari, Hari!'' name Of the god Of an old
Salvation Army that followed Chaita-
nya, said to have been born Of virgin
and to have disappeared" four CEN
turtles ago. The dying mans son,
weeping, continually called ..Baba!
Baba!' Mr.. Sens mother asked
mournfully: ssWhat have done that
thou shpuldst suffer such agonyP''
TIE dying man said that this agony
was the apparently stern face of his Di-
vine Mother, and that he saw her coun-
tenance full of love and beauty. A
Singing Apostle sang in the room
hymns that are thus translated: l. II
possible. oh Beloved, remove this cup!
Yet not my will but Thine be done! In
this dire distress body, mind and life
are Thine. Do Thou with them as
Thou wilt, only, with clasped hands, l
ask for this blessing: Grant unto me
peace, patlence anu Strengtn. IL. In
the darkness of peril, Mother, what a
frightful look is Thine! The body
trembles at that terrible countenance.
In the midst of the dismal ground OF
cAemation Thou seemest to be dancing
in The armor of battle. Thy intelligent
form, deep in its immensely, appears
tinged with blood. But, Mother, in
Thy inward nature there is q deep ocean
Of love that snrges constantly. What
fear, then, Mother! have found Thee
out Thou art that Merciful, Infinite
Ocean of Love. = N. d. Conway, IN
Philadelphia Times.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-11-12


celis are rnp!ured ana the fiesn Is madc
more aagesnDle. Baked aud steWods
OF even maze INTO pies, they are indls-
pensaDle to the full enjoyment OF
rural NE.
Some disposal, too, should be made
Of the great quantity of waste fruit
which cover tho ground at this season.
1t is not q waste really, but discharge
Of a burden, because the trees could not
possibly mature all the fruit which has
been set this year. and the fallen apples
contain good many Of the larv.e Of
the apple moth. This insect is not
really deserving of all the blame cast
upon it. It brings down GOOD many
apples, but these are relief to the tree.