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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-23
Bags and Their Uses.

This is a season of bags, and the fash
ionable woman can not have too many
of them. The shopping bag is now
made of plush or the material used in
the suit worn, and lined with some gay
but harmonizing color. The strings are
finished with heavy tassels or metallic
bobs, and by way of decoration the
monogram, or, better and more stylish,
the initials which are put on the side Of
the bag in silver or gilt letters. The
opera or theater bag is some eight
inches square, usually made of bright
satin, lined with sheet wadding and
plush, perfumed to suit the fancy, and
closed with ribbon or cord for draw
strings. The lady carries it on her left
arm, and in the theater she hangs it on
the box rail or ties it on the back of the
chair before her. After the perform
ance the bag is opened, and in it are
tumbled fan, smelling bottle, bouquet,
handkerchief, glasses, programme. Ii
bretto and other adjuncts OF an opera
toilet which usually burden the escort.
In place of the old sofa-pillow is a
slumber bag, cut square in shape and
about 12x9 inches in size. The fashion
is to,make it of shaded yellowish satin,
though that is o matter of Taste. Tho
bag is filed with elder down or cotton
batting and perfumed with the sachet
powder. 1t is closed at one end with q
loose bow of ribbon and secured to one
side of the chair-back. When not 10
use it is allowed to bangle at the right
of the back,
Stocking bags made of opal-tinted
satin, with facing of amber plush, are
now hung in the family sitting room,
from some fancy nail or cabinet bracket.
When the washing comes I'D from the
laundry. all the hosiery is put in this
pretty satin bag and mamma or big
sister has an ivory egg, with her name
etched on the side, with which and q
ten-dollar gold thimble she darns holey
toes and heels in the family silk stock
ings.
Then there is the catchall for the
library or back parlor, made of en-
bossed velvet, brocaded silk, or some
equally rich fabric, which is dark
enough to shed the dust and stand plenty
of wear.
Newly married couples, and not over
abstemious young ladies, have little silk
bags lined with white linen, and made
Va oAooe any Aooiics uuuS III ooiuo Ouu
corner OF the room and filed with
crackers, fruit, licorice root, sassafras.
CONNECTIONS. or anything to MUNICH on
between meals Then thcre is the
creton bag. lined with white leather
and containing q sponge, cap. flesh
brush. bath mitten, vial Of hartshorn,
and cake of favorite toilet soap. When
the bathroom Is any distance from the
apartment Miss Fastidiousness takes her
bathing bag on her arm and directs her
steps TO the FURNISHED bath. Ladies
belonging to literary clubs who patron
lie the public library are seen going to
and from that institution with dozen
or more books squeezed into bag made
Of crash or Turkish towcling and gar
nished with strips of velvet or embroid-
cry in crewel work.-N. y Star,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-23
Our Young Readers.
a GOOD REsoLnTIoM.


like TO sit up late at night.
And get up late next day:
bul as can not think IL right,
Ill try the other way.
I'll or to bed in right good time,
AT once 10 seen I'll no:
Then, at the dawn. mi he I'm primo
For work or play, 1 know.
guess I'll tell what our folks say
About this other plan
They're always good, and ind some way
To help me II they can.
Early TO bed, early to rise,
PA says might I'LL my bank;
Then could buy q horse, full-siZe
OBJ, how I'd make him spank
Early to bed. carly to rise,
Ma says would help at school
I'm sure I'D rather grow up wise
Than be grown-up fool
Sis says 'twould help an aching head,
And might be death to pout-
I'd give my ball, my knife and sled
To bring all this about.
I'll go to bed as soon as dark
May be I'll go before
8 And I'll be up Just like a lark
What can promise more?
BY boys and girls it should be said.
Ill say it with a shout:
HiuT'os'I for carly into bed!
HuIydh for early out!
Chicago Standard.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-23
A Limited Liability Company.

do you insure people engaged in
dangerous occupations?" asked a man
with a sling over his eye. and who hob
Dled into the Office with q crutch.
Certainly" replied the life-insurance
agent, 1--WE insure men who work in
dynamite factories and powder mills.
''Then want my life insured for 3d.
000," said the man, hobbling to the
desk.
''What is your business?"
II am the official referee of polo
league"
Cant insure you."
''Why, 1 thought you just said that
you"
That's all right but we can't take
such heavy risk az yours. Views got
to draw the line somewhere. "-LoHis-
viIIe ConTier-JoHrnaI
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-23
Always Hedge.

When wheat went below IS cents per
bushel in Chicago, q speculator, who
had put $50, 900 into the cereal at 90
or better, rushed up the streetin search
Of a friend. Having found him, he
gasped ont:
"H- have you heard of ftp"
''Yes; wheat is down. That's all, !
presumed"
"Alll All! Why. I may be ruined
before three o'clockl For Heavens
sake advise met
"Oh, you want advice. Hedge, sir.
hedge"
"But how?'
why. mortgage your house and lot,
and either invest il in lottery tickets or
buck faro bankr'-- Val Street Ne,ps.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-23
Mrs. Edward Mix. a negress of To,

-Mrs. EoWaIu MIX. D negreSS OF lOr-
rington, Conn, isdead. Many claimed
to be healed in answer to her prayers.
Her correspondence was vast. There
is no doubt of two things" says the
Christian AdUocdte, ''that she was sim
cere, and that many recoveries took
place. Also, many for whom she
prayed did not recover. Also, many
who supposed themselves cured re-
lapsed and died. Facts are one thing;
their explanation is another. On the
latter, at this time, we say nothing"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-23

"A camel can carry a ton, and twen-
ty pounds OF hair. worth $3.50 pound.
may De sheared from his body every
year.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-23

OohobauI lteTaIlOn Win Wnlcn she QWelt
upon her title, and the amount of re-
spect 1t seemed to inspire in the minds
OF those who heard il, gave me the i'm
preston that II was the highest rank an
unmarried woman could attain in Amer
lea. 1 think the impression must be
well founded, too, as / noticed il pro.
duced quite an effect upon YOU"
Not the effect you imagine. Twas
startled for a moment, / confess. hut
simply because of n slight coincidence. y
'Coincidencel Do you know herpn
and hot blush and look of conster-
nation sat together upon the fresh
young face of Miss Elton.
'Never saw her; but there was n Mot
to make me cross the ocean with sncb
a person and n lot of other women
which defeated by running awav.
"Ohi you ran awayp" she broatbed
the words out in startled, half-whis.
per.
"Yes. they went in a Cunarder. and
my friend Drake and 1 slipped Off and
took the steamer at Havre.''
She looked at him with widely-onened
eyes Tor moment, during which he de-
cided for the fiftieth time that the ewes
were brown and not deep gray, as he
had decided the other fifty times.
why did you run awayP"- she
asked. after moments amused con-
sideration.
well. you see / was with my sister
and two or three others; Just = nice lit
tie party. all the ladies married; so a
fellow didn't have to be always on pa
rade. We had . jolly, comfortable
time until We got to Paris on our way
hDme. and there sister took il into her
head to join n woman who had been
roaming about the continent with lot
OF girls on an extensive husband-hunt-
one OF those womeU who never look nj
q single man without Picturing him to
herself walking up the aisle with
white tie. with half a dozen groomsmen
at his back. and who has always Just
tho girl on hand who will walk up the
other aisle in white satin and meet him
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-02
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On the 23d two men were suffocated
by gasoline fumes at Saratoga, N. Y.
On the 23d Adam Busch, fireman..
was fatally injured while rescuing child
from burning building at Wood Haven,
L. |.
On the night of the 22d newly mar
ried couple named Bodicker were murder
ed in their home, a log cabin, a few miles
south of Fenton, Jefferson County, Mo-,
and their bodies hacked to pieces. 1t is
supposed to have been the work of a tramp
and plunder the motive.
On the night of the 22d burglars blew
open safe in Ironton, Wis, and secured
81 800, but failed to discover 81 100 more in
currency which lay in the safe.
On the morning of the 23d the Ham
ilton CAM Spectator office burned. Loss,
| so 900; insured for $21 900.
On the oath two ruffians robbed
Chinese laundryman of 5000 at the point of
a revolver in Cleveland.
On the morning of the oath a large
number of miners were killed by an explo-
sion in the Colorado Coal and Iron Compa-
ny's mine at Crested Butte, CO..
A FALLING wall crushed in a wing of
the Hebrew Free School in New York in
which there We're fifty pupils on the oath.
A wildpanic resulted, but only half dozen
persons were injured
On the 25th the twin babes of Isaac
Martin of Liberty Mills, Ind, were frozen
to death in their crib.
On the 25th a mulatto made a muir
derous assault upon farmer .Sprague of
East Meadow, l.. l., and robbed his house
The whole neighborhood went in pursuit
and caught the scoundrel, who was iden-
titled by Mrs. Sprague.
On the 9th the Montreal (Can. fluid
beef factory burned; loss, Sl00,0OJ.
On the 27th Bremzer's Opera-house
at Marion, O., burned to the ground.
On the night of the 26th a terrible
hurricane ragged in England and France.
Great damage was done to property in
London and Paris and many lives were
lost.
On the morning of the 26th the Min
nesota Penitentlary at Saltwater burned.
One life was lost.
On the 26th a number of business
houses burned out at Xenia, Q, VIM. Pow
ers was killed by falling wall
On the-2Cth the ship Simla was sunk
in the English Channel by collision VITA
the ship City of Lucknow. Twenty ,wo
persons were missing.
On the 9th an explosion in mine in
Rhondda Valley, Wales, killed eleven
miners. A rescuing party of three, in
Guiding the manager of the mine, were also
killed.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-02
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 1884,

A CARD is published by John T..
Caine, Congressional delegate from Utah,
denouncing Governor Murray's 'misrepre
sentations and perversions Of fact" in his
recent message to the Legislature.
In his report Mr.. William Mather,
can technical schools for the Royal Com
mission, says our institutions for teaching
mining, civil and mechanical engineering
are equal to any similar schools in Eu-
rope.
EX-GOVERNOR LETCHER, of Virginia,
died on the morning of the 26th.
CAPTAIN A. S. KEYEs, Tenth Caval-
ry, is to be court-martiaIed for duplicating
his pay accounts.
On the 26th the mother of the late
Sultan Abdul Aziz was buried at Constan-
tinople with great pomp.
JOHN MUIR, Traffic Superintendent
of the Northern Pacific Railway, has re-
signed to become General Manager of the
Oregon Improvement Company.
Two suspended corn merchants, John
Heed and w. j. Mullins, OF Liverpool, Eng,
have been committed for trial. charged with
obtaining fl6,000 from bank under false
pretenses.
Ir is denied by Governor Murray, of
Utah, that any charges were ever filed
against him while he was United States
Marshal in Kentucky. He says the reports
are set af1oat by Mormon agents.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-02
A woRK1NGMAN who killed a detpu-

A woRKINGMAN who killed detcy-
tive in Vienna, was arrested on the 25th
and was found to have revolver q dyna-
mite bomb and poisoned dagger in his
pockets.
In the Mississippi River at St. Louis,
Mo-, the situation OF quite fleet of boats
and tugs looks exceedingly critical.
EX-MAYOR DANIEL MCAULEY, of In
dianapolis, Ind, has been arrested in New
York for violating the lottery laws.
On the 9th James Anderson and
Zach Snyder were hanged at Mount Yer
non, Ind, for the murder of James Van
Weyer.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has de-
cided that the city of Chicago has right
to tax occupations. The case had been ap-
pealed by livery-stable keeper.
SUIT for $25,000 damages has been
brought by Mr. Silkman, a well-to-do citi-
zen of Yonkers, N. Y, against his brother
in-law, Crosby, for having him locked up
in lunatic asylum to get possession of his
property.
The Capitol Commissioners in Geor-
gia have been unable to agree upon a de-
in an architect to assist them.
TIE now famous 'telectric girl'' of
Georgia has started for the North, where
her peculiar powers will be exhibited as
source of profit.
No more troops will be sent by the
Porte to the Soudan.
SAN DOMINGO wants a commercial
traotx n tba TTpitod States
For the year 1888 the total iron pro-
duction of the country was 5,146,972 net
tons.
THE production of BeSSemer steel in
the United States fell off $4,000 tons last
year.
DEFINITE arrangements have been
perfected for the extension of the Texas
Trunk Line to connect with the Texas q ST.
Louis Narrow-gauge Roads.
ACCORDING to the official list of
awards in the London Fisheries Exhibit
tion, the United States carried off more
valuable prizes than any other nation.
TWENTY participants in the Orange
riotin Newfoundland have been imprisoned
to await trial for murder.
ALARGE number of the English cot
ton-mills are curtailing production to avoid
overstocking the market.
On the 2Gth the Northern Pacific Rail
road people had hearing at Washington
in defense of their land grant.
The Government has confiscated the
distillery Of G.. II. Bush, at Westfeld,
Mass, on account of fraud.
On the Goth under a plea of guilty to
charge of murder IN the second degree,
Christ. Schneider was sentenced at ST.
Louis, Mo-, to thirteen years Imprisonment.
AT San Francisco the Federal Courts
are blocked with Chinese habeas corpus
cases. Judge Hoffman wants Congress to
appoint commission to dispose of these
cases.
The Cleveland Paper Company has
made an assignment with liabilities aggre-
eating $3.50, 900; assets largely in unmanu-
factured stock), 100000.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-02
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the Senate on the 2Sth the bill re-
Iating to the enforcement of the anti
lpolygamy law in Utah was reported for
passage. Both houses adjourned on
account of the death of Representative
Mackey of South Carolina.
CANADA is not yet ready for two-cent
letter postage.
| BUBEAR won the sculling match with
Elliott on the Thames, in England, on the
2Sth.
/ IHE bodies of the Jeannette victims
reached Moscow on the 2SGh.
REPRESENTATIVE MACKEY of South
Carolina died the morning of the 2S5n.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt at st.
Johns, N B., the night OF the 9th.
The United States Supreme Court will
take a recess from February.3 to March ..
The net earnings of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul Road last year were
50, ,sSl,7s5.
In addition to the dozen men lost in
the Welsh colliery explosion on the 9th
lsixty-eight, horses were also killed.
| The Supreme Court of Missouri has
granted a stay of execution in the case OF
Kate Douglass, sentenced to be hanged ON
February 1st for the murder of her para
mour, Joseph Miller, in st. Louis, An ef-
fort is being made to obtain communication
of her sentence.
The Chinese Government has. Or
dered the V.ceroys of the different pro-
vinces to report Immediately the number
of soldiers they can furnish.
THE Marquis of Lansdowne, Cover
nor-General oil Canada, has been appointed
Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of
ST. Michael and ST. George.
CITIZENS of San Francisco, Cal, have
ordered bronze statue Oh President Gar
field of Prof. Lenz, OF Nuremburg. 1t is to
be in civilians dress, ten feet high, sur
rounded by figures representing war tro-
phies and of the American eagle. In front,
under q star, is the word ''Garfield" in large
letters. -
/ The French Chamber on the 2Sth de-
feated the proposed measures tor relief Of
the laboring classes.
THERE is a long list of wrecks by the
recent great storm on the coasts of Great
Britain and France. u8 s.
In Russia it is proposed to create a
Ministry of imperial Poiice under General
ETchervoff, to deal especially with internal
politics.
/ FIFTEEN hundred men are given en-
ployment at Troy, n. Y, by the resump-
ton of work by the Albany Iron Works.
JAMES O'KELLY, Member Of Parlia-
ment for Roscommon, Ireland, has gone 10
the Soudan as correspondent of the Lon
don Neus, to take the place of Edmund
O'Do-ovan, killed with Hicks Pasha,
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-02
SHOCKING DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
Tragic Ending of Life of Marital Infelic-
ity-An Elgin QlI.) Woman's Story of How
it Happened-A Shadow of Doubt Envel-
Opiug the Affair.

ELGIN, ILL, Jan. %.
Shortly after noon to-day the family OF
b. r. Buzzell, living four miles west Of FL
gin, were Mortified at the appearance in
their midst of bloody apparition. This
proved to be Mrs. William Combs, the wife
of a neighbor. The woman had staggered
from her home, about 100 yards distant,
leaving bloody trail on the snow. She
was frightfully mutilated about the neck
and shoulders. The fingers of her left hand
were severed and her arms badly gashed.
In one of her mutilated hands the woman
carried butcher-knife with an eight-inch
blade and both edges sharpened. She was
exhausted and incoherent, but managed to
tell the Buzzells that her husband had as
saulted her, and when he supposed he had
succeeded in killing her had cut his own
throat Coombs was found lying on the
floor in chamber of his house with his
head nearly severed from his body. The
room gave evidence of a fearful struggle.
Tables and chairs were tipped over, shreds
of cloth were strewn about the walls, the
bed-clothing and furniture of the apart
ment bespatterrd with blood, and the en-
tire surroundings unusually horrifying.
William Coombs was well-to-do farmer
fortv-nine wears old. He was an English
man by birth and the father of seven chill
dren. He had been married three tlmes.
His first wife, by whom he had four chill
Aren, died in England. Coming to Ameri-
ca, he was shortly afterward married
again. Three children were the fruit of
this alliance. Three years ago Coombs was
divorced from his second wife. One year
ago of the present month, against the coun-
sci of his friends, deceased married wo-
man twenty nine years old, calling herself
Mrs. Green and claiming Chicago as her
home. The woman had child and was
looked upon by those coming in contact
with her as an adventures. The union
proved an unhappy one and there have
been chickering's for months, although no
open quarrel occurred until now. The
neighbors say that the tantalizing perse-
cutions of the woman drove Coombs mad,
and that he has been insane for two months
past. To-day while the children living at
home were at school the trouble that cul-
minated SO tragically transpired. The
woman's story is not credited by the neigh
bors, and several important circumstances
are at variance with it, which lead many
to suppose that the woman killed her has'
band.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Pittsburgh manufacturers are
said to be making overtures to the glass
blowers, who have been on a strike six
months.
The Coroner's jury in the case of Mr..
and Mrs. Bonecker, murdered recently
near st. Louis, Mo-, returned verdict on
the oath that deceased came to their deaths
at the hands-of some person or persons un-
known. The authorities have clue,
though slight, which it is thought may lead
to the capture of the murderer.
A COUNCIL of war has been called by
General Gordon in Cairo, Egypt.
On the 25th, Antonia Derita, on trial
for murder in St. Louis, Mo-, was acquitted.
BODIES continue to drift ashore from
the wrecked City of Columbus.
For the week ended the 25th the fail
ures in the United States and Canada num-
bered 317.
HOSTILE outbreaks against all for
eigners are reported in China.
On the 25th fifteen corpses were found
in one chamber of the coal mine at Crested
Butte, Col. Thirty -four bodies in all had
been recovered.
A RESOLUTION was adopted by the
Horticultural Convention at Kansas, City,
Mo-, calling on Congress to establish a
board of forestry.
ADDITIONAL evidence is reported to
have been discovered tending to throw
light on the Zura Burns tragedy. Carpen-
ter has been indicted and committed to
jail, bail being re- used.
The wife of Ike Buzzard and three
members of the gang of outlaws were ar
rested on the 18th near Lancaster, Pa.
A BLOCKADE has been established by
Admiral Courbet against the entry OF war
materials TO TonQuin,
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-02
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

a House Committee on Public
has summoned Commissioner Fink
tE
HE'PRESIDENT j. ?. GRIER of the
lFlyania Railroad Company made
a'at before the House Committee on
-''ce on the 9th, opposing bills to
ave Interstate commerce, and espec-
'lcl as would interfere with pooling
|Ah.es
~ resignation of Hon. John C.
4'- lis position IN the Treasury De-
fa' Is positively announced.
Is -ith Fred Douglass was mar
Washington to Miss Helen NJ. Pitts.
''man, formerly of Avon, N. Y,
a vas employed as copyist in Doug
+Ne while he was Marshal of the
'u Columbia. The groom is seven
~ 'le bride thirty-five years of
'aLsLNTATIvE HUMANS bill to
Uupncation of pay accounts of ar
MI navy officers and others will be re-
-''orally \ to Congress.
u -9tn the Marquis of Hertford
s- 'ne effects of all from his horse
| s,ss .oly OF Herr Lasker was landed
NJ, siha a Bremerhaven.
-- ISAAC K. HILL, of Ohio, has
y,' united assistant sergeant-at-arms
IilS,' ''ldl House of Representatives..
aG.i-I tAAER hEIFER's nephew, Ben
sr,a ,ISs' testified on the 18th before
Ss.5.e.,o!n eonmlttee on Accounts regard
r.,arl rsallssal and appointment of Off.
s,o.-. IN Miss Emily Faithful and
eiri,b i Miss Charlotte Robinson,
N !. Mormon President TAYLOR.
IA. '"n actor, JAS. f. Murdock.
pBs I va, d reception the night of the
is, academy of Fine Arts in Phil.
&rr Isnt Of the 25th J. Astheim.
III as% York dealer in brewers,
El-ns rsd in Russian bat9.
eaDs',,,ii'o iong a wealthy private
ec Ds II roit' NJ ch., fail d on the a5tb.
i eiria.n a-LnoNPsoN, Of Ohio, was re-
Ill at Columbus on the
..,,., Eth Dr.. John B. Wood. re.
@giIs59 u ~ the St. Louis tMo.) Chroai-
Ggs 4 / p y fall in New York.
ID, :. J.. hAsLIE, one of the most
It'd speia r+zsns of Winnipeg, Man,
tie sftb we On the 9th ty shooting.
I4yton man giving his name
,sl Pi,sst attempted suicide on >
r. I'd 5'.s0urgh, IS Pa. He seemed ID ta :
lopi, 'vsd ,'s about a double murder e
%ra s' Is. which led to the susnicion sudeuvp
' murderer of tue Boneck.