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The Man Who Kidnapped so Many Small
Boys Gets Life Sentence.

ATLANTA, GA. April 4.-Ogletree, the
man vino created widespread sensation
last spring by kidnapping small boys at a
wholesale rate, has been sentenced to the
Mississippi pententiary for life. Ogletree
first obtained notoriety 10y kidnapping Charles
Jiiden. q small newsboy, whose hSne is in
Atautd, One evening last July, ogletre6
was in Atlanta, where he met Charlie, whG
is bright little fellow, whom he in5nced
to go to West End with him In drive COW
back to the city. After Ogletrec had passed
the city limits Charlie refused tn go any
further. whereupOn Og!etree compelled him.
Ine child was taken to Ogletree's home.
which was near Dallas, where he remained
closely guarded for several days. He
shaved the hair off the boys head, cut
mole from lis body, and put earrings in his
ears. One day Charlie escaped, and when
his story became known in Dallas the
country became too warm for Ogletree and
he skipped. His first case OF kidnapping in
fatuated Ogletree and in the course OF tive
months he stole fully dozen boys. In
September he stole small boy named White
in Alabama. The boys father followed
Ogletree until ne left the State for Mis-
sissippi. During the early part of the win
ter Ogletree turned up in Neshoba County,
Mississippi, where he outraged an eight
year-old white child. This SINE he was
captured.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11

A DISPATCH from Rio Janeiro says
the merchants Of Rio JancirO and Santos
intend to maintain the price Of coffee.
They attribute the recent hcavy decline
IN Europe and the United States to the
mancuycrs Of spectators. Tho next
crop will amount to 5000, 600 bags.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11

TIE attention Of the United States
authorities having been called 20 the
decoying of Hungarian immigrants to
Cuba where they aru treated ss slaves,
the announcement is made that here
after the personal rights Of these immi-
grants will be fully recognized.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11

A RiLL has been introduced In the
New York Senate making il a misde-
meanOr to sell or exhibit indecent pub
LEGATIONS devoted to criminal and police
news. and tending to corrupt the morals
81 youth.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11
HoosIer Idiot?

VNCENSEs, IND, April "A crank got
of the west-bound Ohio & Mississippi
train at the Union Depot, and wandered
around in an aimless fashion, threatening to
burn the town. He stated that he had spe-
cial orders from the Queen to bum down
Vincennes- and he intended to do it. The
police took the dangerous lunatic in. He
came from Martin County, and his name is
Richard Stile- He was under arrest there
for incendiarism.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11

HERR SCHwABE, wealthy German
resident Of London. who died recently.
bequcathcd his collection of pictures,
valued ut $780, 200. TO his native city of
Hamburg. and $500 for the erection
Of an art gallery there.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11

The name of Suakim, the seaport
OF the Soudan, is said 70 mean "bu It by
the devil" and hitherto Suakim has
been chiefly famous for its connection
with n traffic that justifies its diabolical
appellation !" Suakin il the chief port
on the Red Sea from which African
slaves are carried across to Arabia
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11
An enterprising citizen of Colorado

"a Mr.. Taylor-has undertaken an en-
terprise from which he anticipates a
rich return. He is enclosing three
hundred acres of land near Greeley with
a fence sixteen feet high. and into this
secure retreat he hopes to eDtice elk
and deer as they leave the mountains
next fall, his object being to breed these
animals for sale to Eastern parks and
geological gardens Paul Press.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11

Two euterpriStng sugar manufacture
Sig firms Of Philadelphia have resorted
20 underground pipe lines for conveying
nolaSses from their wharves on thu
river front to their respective works.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11
Suicide OF a Detected Celestial.

CHICAGO, April 3.-Chin Tong. Chinese
lauDdryman at No. 355 Milwaukee avenue,
was found In bed by his partner. Win
Ching, with his throat cut from ear to ear,
though life was not extinct. The police
Were summoned, but no aid could be rem
dered, and the victim died. His partner
sa'd that Chin Tong had been acting very
strangely for some time. and that he thought
It was the result of too much opium smok-
lug together with slack business.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11

Over two hundred wild ducks were
trapped in a warehouse near Chico.
Cal. recently. one of the doors having
been left open long enough for the
ducks togo inside for grain. The ware
house owners make a big haul of game
in this manner every year.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11
FREAKS OF A CRANK.
Elijah CLIFFORD, of New Bedford. Mass, Ar
fords . curioas Spectacle OF Meanncss
and Eccenrricitys

Elijah clifford, of New Bedford, Mass.s AZ
fords n Curfons Spectacle OF Meanness
and Eccentricitys
= NEW BEDFORD, MASS, April s.-The
tragic death OF Elijah Clifford, who walked
on a wharf 1t Warren and was drowned
at three o'clock Sunday morning, ends the
career of a very rich man, remarkable for
his many eecentrieities. By careful invest
ments in real estate in early life he amasSed
a fortune, and for years has been regarded
as a millionaire. lie was sl~ays extremely
penurious and miSerly A few Yeats ago,
when he was seventy-five years old, he mar
ried in second nuptials young and pretty
wife. Before their union he offered to place
upon her marriage settlement of twenty
Thousand dollars. but objected to paying a
LAWYER fee of one dollar for drawing up
the necessary papers. She finally sug-
gested that she might copy her Sis
ter's settlement papers and did so.
He never tired of telling her the story, al
was beginning it with give got the most
economical wife in the world; she saved me
one dollar once" In appearance the old
man was the perfect picture of Mansfield,
Baron De Cheyrial, with the addition of a
thin line of struggling whiskers beneath the
chin He always appeared on the street
wrapped in an old well-worh gray shawl.
Several months ago he bought for forty
thousand dollars whaling ship, which he
named the Mermaid, and fitted out as if for
a whaling voyage at cost of five thousand
dollars. Everybody supposed she would
start for the Afctics. Then he put his SON
in-law and his wife on board of her and
ordered them to TIE South Sea Islands on
missionary voyage. This act like all his
other insane freaks, he said was in accor-
dance with the Lords command. Il
am the Prophet Eiijah," he would say,
'sent to redeem these people, I know more
than Jesus did when he was on earth.
don't say but that he knows more than do
now, for lie has been in Heaven a long time
and has had a chance to learn good deal"
Clifford was member bf the Second Advent
Church. He lived in what was once q
magnificent residence, but for twenty years
he has refused to spend dollar on the
place Of late years it has been no uncom-
mon thing to see a cIw standing on the
front piazza, looking in at The parlor
window. Since last fall Mr.. Clifford
has shown signs of real insanity. A
petition that a guardian be appointed for
him was pending in the courts. He became
a fanatic on the subject OF temperance, and
thought the laws were not enforced. Sun.
day, despite all opposition, he started f0t
Boston TO see Governor Robinson about it.
He was stark mad. He had no money. His
wife begged Nathan Clifford to go with him.
The crazy man led Clifford a wild chase to
Boston and then TO Providence, where he
| hired team and started at midnight for Fall
River. On the toad ne escaped from his at
tendant wandered about aiuilcSslv, walked
off wharf in the darkness, and was LOST i'll
the icy water His body has not been found.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11

-''Uncle Jimmy" Woods is a mih-
ionaire householder Of Harlem. He 10
seventy years old. Forty years ago he
was digging cellars in the Seventh Ward
for livelihood, but now he takes his
ease, being tee owner Of hundreds Of
houses.-M y. San.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11
Storm in the East-Loss of Life.

NEW YORK, March 31.-The gale here
Saturday night was very heavy. In Brook,
Ign an unfinished four-stOry tenement VIVA
blown down. On the Hudson River q
schooner capsized, and Captain Crank aud
Prank Baker were lost
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11

Austin (Texas) boys amuse them
selves by dropping cats from The Colo
RADIO Bridge into the water forty feet
below. Some are killed by the fall.
but the most of them survive to fur.
nish the next days sport.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11

Twenty-nlne United States prisoners. con-
victed of various crime committed In the In
iian Territory, weEe sent to the House Of
Correction at Detroit, Mich.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11

Five prisoners escaped from the jail a
Lexington, Ga, Thursday morning. bv
knocking the jaiIer down when he was civ.
Ing them their breakfast.
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Public Debt Statement.

WASHINGTON, April 3 The folOwii G
5 the public debt statement for March:
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-02-09
Tobacco Inspections.

On Tuesday last committee of tobacco
dealers of Baltimore, representing twenty-One
firms, who handle about $4,000 of the $4,000
hogshends of tobacco handled in Baltimore,
went to Annapolis to protest against any
change in the inspection laws. They say
that if compulsory inspection he abolished
and with it free storage, the tobacco trade
of Southern Maryland will go to Alex
andria, Virginia, where it formerly went; and
as planters deal where they sell, their trade,
worth several millions of dollars annually,
would be lost to Baltimore, besides great in
Jury would result to the tobacco trade. Ger
tain spectators and dealers in Baltimore
would like the state system abolished. in
that Gaze free storage would be denied, and
growers would be obliged to sell at rates fixed
by dealers, or haze profits eaten up by storage.
At present if the price of tobacco is not re-
munerative, dealer can store bis tobacco free
of cost in the state warehouses until prices
improve. The warehouses pay a revenue into
the state, and as there has to be an arbiter be-
tween buyer and seller, sworn state officer,
as at the cattle AS, is the best and most
satisfactory. The planters do not want the
system abolished, and it now seems that the
genuine large dealers do not either. This
ought to settle the matter, and the Legisla
ture should have no difficulty in disposing o.
the tobacco question.
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A Proposed Injustice.

To encourage home industries, a bill was
introduced into the House of Representatives
on Monday by Mr.. Robinson Of New York,
to put an export tax upon cotton. In other
words, by taxing cotton going out OF the
country he would make the price so high that
American cotton could not compete with
other cotton in the markets Of Europe 1t
would thus be kept at home and the price be
regulated by the demand As the market for
American manufactures is confined to this
country by high protective tariffs, 1t is now
proposcd to limit the market for American
grown cotton to the same area by high export
tax. This, no doubt, would be good for the
manufacturers, but it would be death to the
cotton growing interest.
1t is the natural right of man to buy where
he can purchase the cheapest and to sell
where he can get the best price. No one
doubts this. The manufacturer, himself,
would admit it, yet for selfish purposes he
would deny the right by tariffs laid for pro
lection. The objection of the Leoplc OF the
United States to direct taxation makes tariff
necessary. but that tariff should be limited to
the actual wants of an economically admins
tered government. Any tariff for protection
of manufacturers is an abridgement OF the
natural rights of the people. and an export
tax is still greater injustice To force peo-
pie to buy at home is arbitrary enough, but 1t
is doubly so when the law eompelS people to
sell at home also.
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Death of Col. Milton Y. Kidd.

Col Milton Y. Kidd, journal clerk of the
Maryland House of Delegates, died Saturday
morning at No. IS North Paea street, Bal
timore, aged 81 years. About four weeks
ago he caught severe cold, and was shortly
afterYard attacked with quinsey, which was
followed by infammatory rheumatism, which
caused his death:
Col. Kidd was noticeable figure in State
politics. He was born in Cecil county, near
Port Deposit, on the old Kidd farm, and was
educated at West Nottingham Academy, Nd,
and at Princeton College, N. j. His parents
intended to make o clergyman Of him, but
his inoinations were toward politics. He
took deep interest in all political affairs,
and made his first appearance in the arena in
1859 az chief clerk Of the House, succeeding
James w. Clayton. Afterward he was elect
ed member of the same body, but he showed
to better advantage as recorder of legisla-
ton than as legislator. For the last twenty
five years he had not missed being present at
| the sessions of the House, most of which time
he was its chief clerk, While acting In that
capacity In 1861 he was arrested by order OF
Gen. Banks, of the Union army, as Southern
sympathizer A number of the members of the
Legislature were arrested at the same time, also
Mr.. Thomas H. Moore, who was then reading
clerk of the House, but who is now its chief
clerk. In 1867 Mr.. Kidd was the secretary
ofthe constitutional convention and Mr.. Thos.
H. Moore was the assistant secretary.
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Business Locals.

Smoke the Talent Cigar, at l.. c. Trumbo' S.
30 Rolls of Carpet hav. been received and
still more coming. Prices lower than ever
before, at j. Z. Orndorff' S Double store. ii
For Sale SO Acres of land, located on the
Washington road miles from Westminster.
Improved. Wampler & Manning.
"a cent is good for clay pipe and %
cents for bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
Large Sow and Nine Pigs for sale. Apply
to Emanuel Yeiser, Union Mills.
Clover Seed is Wanted by N. Gorsuch &
Son. Highest'prices paid, sm
Valentines and Valentines and Valentines,
at Shellman's, Advocate Building, Westmin-
ster, Nd.
''Peaoeahle if you cam" but antler all cir.
eianstaHees keep DIR, Bulls Cough Syrup in
the house,
Bran, Shorts, Cotton Seed and Flax Seed
Meals, constantly on hand, N. |. Gorsuch &
Son. SIN
The police force of Baltimore, in efficiency
and discipline are second to none in the land.
Whether that is due TO the fact of so many of
them using j. NJ. Laroque's Anti Bilious Bit
tiers, we will not say, but they themselves Tor
rather large number of them do say that it
is the best medicine in the world keeping the
system in that healthy condition which fits
them so well for duty. If you feel bad, try
it. All druggists sell it. Is cents paper,
or 81 bottle. w. +. Thornton, proprietor,
Baltimore, Md.
DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup positively cures
Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, etc. Only %
cents bottle.
Sale Notes for sale at the ApvopATe Office
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The Tariff Bill.

Chairman Morrison of the Ways and Means
Committee of the House of Representatives
on Monday introduced the bill on the tariff
which he has been preparing for several
weeks past. 1t will meet with opposition
from those who believe in tariff for prOtee-
ton, but it will also remove all doubts as to
sweeping reductions and the unsettling of
business as the high tariff advocates pretend
ed to fear when Carlisle was chosen Speaker.
The full text of the bill is not yet known, but
it reduces all tariffs laid by the bill of last
year twenty per cent, and enlarges the free
list 1t also provides that no tariff shall be
less than that of the Morrill, tariifpf 1861.
As it bases reductions upon the bill Of last
year, it will probably eomplicate matters, yet
the Ways and Means Committee, to which it
hi been committed ,.may simplify it before it
e ra,,ortad
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The Fitz-John Porter Bill.

The bill reinstating Gen. Fitz-John Porter
passed the House of Representatives last
Friday by an overwhelming vote, and was sent
to the Senate on Monday. 1t was debated in
the House for week or more, and it will
create much. discussion in the Senate also,
though it is probable that it will pass that
body by good majority. Gen. Porter was
cashiered and dismissed from the army in 1868
for not obeying an order of Gen. Pope, he
who had his headquarters in the saddle and
was the worst defeated man that led the Army
of the Potomac Ever since Porter was dis
graced he has been asking for justice. A
military board a few years ago re-examined
the case and acquitted him, and the bill now
before the Senate is to reinstate him i'll the
army, and then place him on the retired list.
The military court that first tried Porter were
prejudiced against him. He was an officer of
merit and destined to rise, and he had to be
removed to make way for others. Besides,
Porter was a Democrat, and every one knows
that Democrats had but little chance for pro-
motion or fair treatment in the army.
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Good Feeding,

Mr.. John N. Socks, Cumberland township,
is fattening thirty three cattle on the farm of
Hon. Edw. Mcpherson, and weighs them on
the first day of each month. They are weighed
at noon, not having had water for twenty four
hours. The total gain in weight in the month
of January was 2,2l2 lbs, or an average of
81 lbs. to each steer One steer gained 106
lbs; two gained over 90lbs.; four gained over
so lbs; nine gained over 20 lbs; and eight
gained over SO lbs. The gain of the remain
ing nine were from %, the lowest, TO 4s. the
highest.
As January was a severe month and the
second of their sailing, this result is interest
ing to feeders. Frequent weighing Of stock
enables feeders to ascertain definitely what
progress they are making. The gain in De-
eember was ZAP; that of January exceeded
it by 47G lbs.- Gettysburg Star and Sentinel.
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DIED..

At Union Mills. this county, January &c,
1884, Christian Yingling. aged 81 years, 5
months and days.
At Silver Run, this county, February 1st
1884, Jacob Hesson, aged 70 years, 2 months,
and IL days.
Near Winfield, this county, on February
4th, 1884, Mrs. Annie W, wife of Mr. John
L. Goodwin, aged 90 years, IL months and 4
days.
On February a, 1884, ut Cross Keys, Balti
more county, Nd, John P. Norris, in the 59th
year of his age.
On February l, 1884, Mrs. Catharine Zepp,
aged 70 years, 4 months and Is days.
At New Orleans, La, February 9Th, 1884,
Herman Stuart Cottman, aged 80 years, the
eldest son Of the late james s. ana E. M.
Cottman, Of Baltimore, formerly of Westlnin-
stcr,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-02-09

The Democratic caucus of the Kentucky
Legislature on Monday night selected Hon.
]. S. C. Blackburn for United States Senator.
Mr.. Blackburn is the gentleman who spoke
at the court house here few years ago and
gave such graphic picture of Joe Bradley
and his connection with the Electoral Com
mission fraud of 1876, by which Hon. Samuel
j. Tilden and the Democratic party were de-
frauded out of the Presidency. He will make
a strong and able Senator, and will be an
acquisition to the Democrats in that body.
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1t is now announced from Washington that
President Arthur will soon make public his
desire for q denomination. Gov. Foster S
plain talk upon Arthur's inability to carry
Ohio in the event of, his denomination has
stirred up considerable controversy, anu Ar
thur has gotten boom from the Buckeye
state, every Republican congressman and
Senator Sherman declaring that Arthur can
carry Ohio. 1t was not expected that good
party Republicans would admit that Arthur
or any other Republican could not carry Ohio,
but it is quite probable that Gov. Foster, in
his declaration, was more truthful than dis
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-02-09

The New York Times regards the Morrison
Tariff bill as "a moderate and conservative at
tempt 70 deal with the actual and pressing
wants of the business of the country and
warns the Republicans 10 Congress, as they
value their own interests and those of their
party. to treat it fairly aud igtelligently,
instead of blindly adberipg to, the exorbi-
tant and oppressive tariff as i is. In
other words, It Ia fresh, clear, Intelligent
look ahead, and as such too closely identified
with the welfare of the whole people to be
denounced as partisan measure or opposed
in q. partisan spirit.
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Destructive Floods.

Owing to continued heavy rains and the
melting of snow and ice, the Schuylkill, Del
aware, Susquehanna, Potomac, Allegany,
Monongahela, Ohio, Mississippi and smaller
rivers have risen rapidly and disastrous floods
prevail along their course. The damage in
the East is small, while in the West the floods
are likely to exceed those of last year and be
equally as destructive, notwithstanding the
warning then given. At Pittsburg, Pa, the
rivers are higher than since 1859, miles of
property are submerged and five Thousand
families have been compelled to vacate their
houses. Railroad business there, is al
most suspended. The damage to property
is estimated at 81, 091, 900, and will probably
exceed that figure before the floods subside.
In AllegaGy City 1900 houses are inundated.
At Cincinnati the wafer is higher than last
year, and is about sixty-two feet. The bust
ness establishments and other buildings along
the river are flooded and railroad traffic is
seriously impeded, The loss of property will
be very great, Along some Of the tributaries
of the Ohio, houses and other buildings have
been carried away, and farming lands have
been damaged.
At Wheeling, W. Va, mills and factories
have been stopped, railroad tracks are sub
merged, and all buildings IN exposed parts Of
CITY have been vacated. Part Of the city is the
submerged, and the food threatens the heart
of the city.
Shipping Port and Portland, near Louis
vile, Kentucky, are submerged and 800 fami-
lies have been driven from their homes, and
loss of life and property are feared.
The water is very high in the sasquehanna,
and flood as disastrous as that OF 1863 is
feared There is an immense amount Of ice
in the river.
The LATEsT.-At Pittsbnrg and Allegany
CITIES on Thursday night, between 5000 and
1000 houses were flooded, and over 10000
people are without shelter; $4,000 men are
thrown out of work. At Wheeling, w. Va,
and at Belair, Ohio, opposite, great loss has
been sustained, the water being higher THAI in
1884, which was the highest ever known.
Wheeling loses over $1,000,00O At Havre
de Grace, Nd, two men were drowned.
Damage is feared at Port Deposit, Nd, the
water being II feet above low water mark.
/ In Ohio, Kentucky and other parts of he
west, great losses are reported.