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Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
Texas Crops.
GALVESTON. TEX, Jun

GALVESTON, TEX, June Is.
After careful analysis of crop reports
as published here lately, covering seventy
SIX counties and embracing 1856 official re-
ports, the following summary is obtained
OF the condition and prospects of Texas
crops: The yield of corn and grain is re-
ported as above the average in 46 cases, an
average in 2G cases, and below the aver
age in 81 cases. The acreage OF corn and
grain is above tho average in 63 cases, an
average in % cases, and below the
average in 13 cases. The general
Condition is reported as good in II
cases, fair in 80 cases, and bad in % cases.
In nearly all cases the crops are late,
and in many places have had to be re-
planted, owing to heavy rains. The COM
PARSONS above are made in all cases
with the great crop year of 1928.
The cotton crop, similarly compared
with the great crop year of 1882 -S3, is
reported as good in sixty cases, fair
in ffty-one cases and bad in twenty
five cases, having been replanted in
thirty-eight cases, and as late in seventy
three cases. There is an increased acre.
age returned in fifty-four reports and de-
crease in fourteen. Taking it altogether,
the report as to wheat and corn is most
favorable and encouraging. AS to cotton
it is not quite as good, but the prospects
seem to be fair.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28
TIE RIO GRANDE FLOOD.
The Water the Highest in Fifty Years, and
No Abatement in PrOspect-Encalculable
Damage TO Crops and Other Property.

The Water the Highest in Fifty Years, and
No Abatement in Prospect-IncalculabIe
Damage TO Crops and Other Property.
SANTA FE, n. NJ, June g.
For more than thirty days past the
high waters have swept through the Rio
Grande Valley, and every hour the course
Of the river has changed AS yet there is
no promise of Abatement and at Alamiho
and other points the river was as high
yesterday as it has been for fifty years.
The results are growing daily
more appalling, as can be readily
understood when 1t is considered
that the long overflow has turned almost
all the earth into quicksands. Wagon
roads are entirely abandoned and by the
most persistent efforts only has the At
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad been
able to support track on their main
lnet At Rincon the course of the river.
and the entire country is SO much changed
as to be really unrecognizable. Where
the round-house stood is now the main
current of the stream, which turns itself
and flows north considerable distance.
From Riacon to Dora Ana there is moth
ing to suggest railroad. No attempt
has been made to rebuild.
The towns OF Tome, Los Pinos, Valencia
and Peralto in Valencia County, are
swept away and five hundred families are:
destitute on the mesa. The San Marcialsl
is flooded, boats being used to pass from
house to house. The waters form an
ocean, and the iron railroad bridge at
that point was saved only by throwing
into the river several loads of cut stone
| worth $3.50 car.
Socarro has four or five feet of water
on Manzeares avenue, beginning at the
depot and extending to the Chieftotn Of
| fee.
The old town of Albuquerque Is flood
ed and there is water in the new town.
More than two-thirds of the crops in
the valley are a loss. Wheat, nearly ripe,
has fallen, and in many places THE care
fully cultivated fields are only sheet Of
water. Mosquitoes, frogs and sand-flles
and other pests render day and night
hideous to the people. The cost of la
borers, who are worked almost con-
| tinuously by the railroad company and
are allowed double ply for night work, Is
| immense. Last week the majority of the
men put in eighteen days time. Train
men have been doing extra duty and are
worn out.
TIE Rio Grande has been rising at Al
| buquerque for two days. On Thursday
afternoon the stream broke through the
| dixie five miles above the new town, OPP
posite Las Ranches, but 200 men and
women, working day and night, finally
succeeded in repairing. the break. This
stare of affairs is expected to remain un-
changed thirty days longer, as the SHOWS
| in the mountains of Southern Colorado
are yet ten to forty feet deep and heavy
rains fall in New Mexico almost daily,
Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

THE Mormon press and prominent
Mormons consider the House bill re-
Gently passed by the Senate as a crueI
measure. harsh, unjust tyrannical and
in some respects revolutionary and un-
constitutional and designed to rekindle
the fires of persecution. Many of its pro-
visions, they think, will not stand the
test of the examination.
A MAN supposed to be the dynamiter
Surany, implicated in the plot to ex-
plode the Imperial train, has been ar
rested at Gratz. Further arrests of An
achists are being made.
The Commissioners of Licking Coun-
ty, Ohio, have resolved to offer stand
ing reward of S75 for the arrest and
conviction of any person. or persons
charged with stealing horse, mare or
gelding owned in that county.
The boiler in Fields & Co.'S, brick
yard st Albany, Ca, exploded on the
23d, killing four negroes.
Isaac BISHOP, prominent politi-
clan of Wyandotte, Kas., committed
suicide on the 22d by shooting himself.
Ill health was the cause.
JASPER WHARTON, formerly of Louis
vile, Ky, died at Dallas, Tex, on the
oath from the effects of poison. Foul
play is suspected, and Frank Connell
and Elma Mansfield, intimate friends
of Wharton, have been arrested.
Miss ALICE WELLS, of Boston, while
viewing the machinery of a grain eleva-
tor in Chicago on the 23d, was caught
in the machinery and crushed to death.
JOHN BURRIs, recently sent to the
Arkansas penitentiary for safe blowing
from Miller County, Ark, was shot
dead on the oath while attempting to
escape. Burris was formerly con-
tractor on the Texas Pacific Railroad.
MAR Stockton, Cal, five hundred
feet of levee on the lower division OF
of Roberts Island broke on the 23d. A
tract consisting of ten thousand acres is
inundated.
CAPT DRIsKo. of the American
schooner. A. " Drisko, plying between
Cardinas and Philadelphia, reports that
his vessel was fired upon by a Spanish
gunboat while he was entering the Car
dinas harbor. The attack was unex-
pected and ,unwarranted. The facts
have been forwarded to.Washington.
THE paper warehouse of Chatfield 4
Woods, at Cincinnati, was damaged By
fire to the extent Of $40, 900 On the 24th
Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28
Al TEAAS TRAGEDY.
The Mysterious Death of Jasper Wharton
at DaIlas-A Woman in the Case--Was II q
Murder or Simply a Sucide?-We Shall

See.
DALLAS, TEY.,. June g
A murder or suicide occurred here
yesterday that is creating a great
deal of interest. Jasper Wharton, a
native of Louisville, Ky, and who
had resided at Dallas and Corsicana
for several years past, came from the
latter place to Dallas last Saturday. lie
spent most Of his time with Frank Con
nell and Miss Emma Mansfield, at the st.
George Hotel. Early in the morning he
died from the effects Of poison. lie had,
it seems, been intimate with young
lady at Corsicana, whom he had betrayed.
He is said to have brought her to Dallas
and sent her north with considerable
money to get her out of the way. He had
been anxious to marry Emma Mansfield,
and went so far as to secure q marriage
license 1t now appears that Frank
Connell married this. woman a6E16r9 the
assumed name Of Frank ,MaDsffnlS al, Sap
Antonio two years Ago, III orCfefr that they
could live together without epr0se9dt1oii
by law When Wharton desired TO marry
her two days ago.. lawyers were consult
ed and pronounced the San. "A ritonio mar
riage legal A sensational scene pccurred
in Coroner KendalPs Court. ConneiI is
suspected of having poisoned Wharton,
and when County Attorney Clint exam
ined him on the point he tainted away
and had to be given stimulants when
he revived. Emma Mansfield, while being
examined in the same strain, broke down
and wept bitterly. ConnelPs. examina-
ton was broken off, as he demanded
lawyer and refused to testify any fu rther
until he had secured one. Connell will
be placed in jail when the Court ad,
jourpS.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28
A TEXAS TRAGEDY.
The Mysterious Death of Jasper Wharton
ut DaIlas-A Woman in the Case-Was it 4
Murder Simply a Suicide?-We Shall

w e- DALLAS, TEY., June q.
A murder or suicide occurred here
yesterday that Is creating a great
deal of interest. Jasper Wharton, a
native of Louisville, Ky, and who
had resided at Dallas and Corsicana
for several years past, came from the
latter place to Dallas last Saturday. He
spent most of his time with Frank Con-
nell and Miss Emma Mansfield, at the st.
George Hotel. Early In the morning he
died from the effects OF poison. He had,
it seems, been intimate with young
lady at Corsicana, whom he had betrayed.
lie is said to have brought her to Dallas
and sent her north with considerable
money to get her out of the way. He had
been anxious to marry Emma Mansfield,
and went SO far as to secure marriage
license. 1t now appears that Frank
ConnclI married this woman under the
assumed name of Frank Mansfield at San
Antonio two years ago, in order that they
could live together without prosecution
by law. When Wharton desired to marry
her two days ago, lawyers were consult
cd and pronounced the San Antonio mar
riage legal A sensational scene occurred
in Coroner KendalIs Court. Connell is
suspected of having poisoned Wharton,
and when County Attorney Clint exam
ined him on the point he tainted away
and had to be given stimulants when
he revived. Emma Mansfield, while being
examined in the same strain, broke down
and wept bitterly. ConnelPs examina-
ton was broken off, as he demanded a
LAWYER and refused to testify any further
until he had secured one. Connell will
be placed in jail when the Court ad-
iOuruS
Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28
Hoaxing the Police.

CORK, JUNE %.
The alleged internal machine found in
Patrick Joyce's trunk, has been found to
contain only common oil. Joyce was be
fore the magistrate this morning, put
upon above information was discharged.
The detectives believe that Joyce wanted
by being arrested to gain notorlety. lie
had accordingly carefully slowed sus-
picious looking brass tube in this trunk
and then had his friends advise the police
to look out for suspicious person on
the steamer Illinois.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28
VINCENNEs, IND, June "a.

NINCENNES, IND, june "a.
Garfield was taken from the Jail by 8
mob of masked men at one O'Clock this
morning and hanged. The mob met with
no opposition from the Sheriff or his
deputies except that he re-
fused to deliver the key to the
Jail. In consequence of this the mob
had to break down the jail doors. This
occupied at least forty minutes. Garfield
was found covering in his cell and made
an attempt at prayer. He was fastened
out to the street, where several hun
dred of the best citizens were wait
ing to see what would be done. 1t
near the jail, but he requested that he
be hung in sight of the house where he
killed his sweetheart. This proposition
was met with deafening yells from the
crowd, and he was hurried up to a con-
venient telegraph pole within a stones
throw of the scene of the murder. Be-
fore the rope was drawn Garfield
was asked if he had anything to
say. He was weak ard fainting
and could scarcely talk. The most he
COulu say was that ne WAS guilty. anu tnaI
he was sorry he killed the girl; that if it
was to do over he would not do
luce nv 10 ].
that his mother be told
that he had tried to be reconciled to
heaven but that he did not believe he
would ever get there. He was given one
minute to say prayers, but he had by this
time sank SO low he could scarcely
be aroused The rope was soon adjusted
around his neck and, amid the applause
of the crowd, he was drawn to height of
ten feet and then left to hang. There
was scarcely struggle visible, but the
victim probably lived thirty minutes.
card was pinned to his coat requesting
the Coroner to let the body hang until
twelve O'Clock to-day. The mob did not
disperse until daylight.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28

RECENTLY in New ork City, Prof j.
c. Herman, M. d., of Chicago, read an
interesting paper before the Society Of
Medical Jurisprudence on panetic
dementia, or what is commonly but in
correctly called 'softening ofthe brain,
| n connection with the celebrated
Dwight insurance case involving CLAIM
for S300,000. Prof. Herman thought
that insurance companies should en-
ploy examiners who could recognize
this sort of insanity, and that, if the
companies employed examiners 50 un-
skillful as not to detect it they should
take the risk, bear the loss and pay the
insurance.
SENATOR FAIR positively denies that
he has any intention Of remarrying the
wife from whom he was separated a
year ago. A singular feature of the
case, says the Washington Capitol, and
one not generally known to the public,
is that in addition to the "a, 1000, GOO de-
manded by Mrs. Fair upon that occa-
sion, the Senator voluntarily added a
fifth. At the conclusion of the legal
proceedings Mrs. Fair found herself
utterly at loss as to how to invest her
large fortune, and in her dilemma ap-
piled for help to her former husband.
10 this appeal he at once responded,
and now, though separated from Mrs.
Fair, yet has entire charge of her money
affairs, investing her large capital en-
tirely according to his own judgment.
NJ. VIRoN DEs LAURIERs, the very
intelligent and clever Frenchman who
has founded in Moore county, N. c.,
near Keysers, q colony of Frenchman
skilled in silk culture, is now there, and
will make North Carolina his home.
He will in two months have thirty fami-
lies in the colony. He and the colonists
are alike pleased at the location and at
their success thus far. M. des Lauriers
has purch sed 100000 young mulberry
trees to plant. The leaves of these are
to feed the millions of silk worms to be
grown by the colonists. M. des Lauriers
has for years supplied the United States
Department of Agriculture with all the
silk worm eggs and mulberry trees it
uses. Hereafter he will supply these
from North Carolina His success here
has induced Mr.. Williams, practical
silk culturist, Of New York, to purchase
1000 acres of land near Manly. He has
paid cash for this, and will soon place
a colony of Frenchmen upon it.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28
POPULAR JUSTICE.

Oliver Garfield, the murderer OF mOine
GherlSin ut Vincennes, Indiana, Taken
from Jail by Indignant Citizens and Hung
Within Sight of the Scene Of His Crime
A Heartless Wretch.
VINOENNES, IND, June g. Y
To-day Oliver Cantield, who murdered
MollicGherkin, told Officer Runner that he
would like to see the girl, and was grant
ed the privilege. When he entered the
room where she was lying, he looked at
her and laughed. Officer Runner took
him out of the room and asked him what
he thought about It,. 81 would like to
finish her." said Canfeld, with fiendish
grin, and then burst out laughing. The
city was excited during the afternoon,
and the officers of the law claimed
that they expected Garfield would
be mobDed tonight. There is no
question about there being two mobs or
ganized. Nearly all the officers claim
that they will hardly. dare to make
any resistance. Canfeld's crime Is the
most fiendish ever recorded here. He
took his victim in his arms, and instead
of kissing or embracing her, he shot at
her five times, two shots taking effect In
her brain. She had been conscious but
once since she was shot Her case was
most remarkable one, and has attracted
wide attention from physicians.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28

THE Detroit Free Press says a family
man never realizes the vast amount of
this worlds goods of which he is pos
.esscd until he gets ready to move.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
SEVERAL fashionable pleasure-seek-
or, have new and delightful scheme.
It is to spend the summer at home.

pRopRIEToRs of some of tho large re-
.,a stores in New York are said to en-
nIov detectives to point out to clerks
nricers VINO never buy.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28

A ACHINEsE doctor has just been. en-
rolled as practicing physician in New
York City, who goes beyond the ''con-
,ultation fres'' of the quack, and ad-
vertises that he will receive pay only
in case of the recovery of his patient.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28

number of people who have strong con-
victions on that subject and petition
was gotten up asking for the passage of
the Bennett bill. This bill was favorably
reported last week by the House District
Committee and will doubtless pass. 1t
provides heavy penalties against white
and colored people who intermarry.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28

A CALL has been issued in Georgia
fora grand State temperance conven-
tion to meet in Atlanta on Thursday,
July a, and continue in session two
dsy.. II will be composed. the call
SAYS, Of all sort. of temperance people.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28

SOME time ago Mr.. Ellis Lover, of
Manchester, England, offered a prize of
$500 for the best safety lamp for use
in mines. Over ninety lamps have
been sent in, many com nc, from the
United States and others from the Con-
tiDent.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28

ofCohnNTG. white citizens of the District
ing ali ia a.' nave recently been bring
Conc "'a'lable influence to bear on
niseo,,o.n o' N behalf OF q law prohibiting
Douoissal aa'lon- The marriage of Fred
'''ss 70 white woman aroused a
Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28

TIE Indian school at Carlisle, Pa. /,
now has 455 pupils, 1926 boys and 13O
girls. Nearly half of these work on
the farm and the rest In the shops. A
lot of things manufactured there were
sent to the Rosebud agency, including
seven good, solid wagons, two for the
agency and five for chiefs.
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is impossible to say. The policy of the Liberal
ministry now in power. at the least claims to be
conciliatory toward Ireland. There is no ques-
ton of the fact in which every friend of Ireland
must rejoice, that the present condition of the
country is better as regards order and the state
of business, agricultural and other, than it has
been during the last few years.
Mr. Campbell Zimmerman has assumed the
Office of Chief Secretary for Ireland, therefore,
under comparatively favorable conditions. He
is a Scotchman. was born IN the year 1886, and
is the second son of the late Sir James Campbell,
of Stratheathro, Forfarshire. His mothers name
was Baunerman, which, twelve years ago, he
added TO his patronymio. After being at Glasgow
University he was entered a student of Trinity
College, Cambridge where he graduated Is. A.
in 1888, and NJ. A. three years later. He mar
ried a daughter of Major-general Sir Charles
Bruce, K c. B., in the year lS60. In 1868 he
was elected member of Parliament for Stirling.
Mr. Campbell Zimmerman held the post of
Financial Secretary to the War Office during the
first Gladstone administration, from November,
1871 to February, 1874 and when Mr.. Glad
stone became Prime Minister the second time.
in April 1880, he received the same appoint
ment Subsequently he was made Secretary to
the Admiralty. His administrative skill and
ability and discretion in the conduct of parlia-
mentary business receive recognition in the i'm
portant Office to which he has been lately called
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-23
THE CITY IN BRIEF.

The second entertainment of the Indianapolis
lecture course will be given at Plymouth Church
on Tuesday evening
Mrs. L. o. Robinson will begin a series of
evangelistic meetings this evening, in the new
chapel on Hill avenue
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to
Zadock L. jackson and Susannah Francis Pc
ter Conway and Mamie Thornton, William Ly-
ons and Laura Warren.
George Doran a boy twelve years old while
running over the freight cars in the c., l., st, L.
& G. yards, yesterday afternoon, fell from the
top of car and broke an arm.
The damage suit of Esther Borenstein against
Sheriff Hess and others for false arrest
which has occupied the attention of Judge Tay-
day, in a verdict for the defendants.
The lady managers Of the Colored Orphan
Asylum will be in attendance at No. "a North
Pennsylvania street, in the room of the Domestic
Sewing Machine Company, to receive Thanks
giving donations, on Tuesday, Nov. 25.
The Hepburn Rife Club will give a grand
north part of the city, on Thanksgiving Day.
The committee have SO arranged it that the
poorest shots will be sure of turkey.
Judge Ayres yesterday made an allowance to
Frederick Rand, receiver of the Indiana Bank
ing Company, of $780, l42 so against the estate OF
the late William II. Morrison, that being the
amount of his indebtedness to the trust.
The ladies of the board of managers of the In
dianapolis Orphan Asylum call public attention
to the fact that they will be at the When
clothing store on Tuesday to receive such do
nations for Thanksgiving as the benevolently in
clined may feel disposed to bestow.
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Bates House: t. J. Barber and wife, DIN,
IL; A. y. Merriam, S, Long, George A. Turner,
sted, Chicago; j. r. Smiley, Piqua, O.; Amos
Burns, N. I. Carr, Columbus; F. A. Gledden, R.
B. Fountain, Cleveland; Miss Cedora Lieuellen,
Miss Cora Campbell, Danville; NJ. Cutsinger,
Edinburg; T. H. Wilson. @ A. Myers, Logans-
port; A. D. Lockridge, Greeneastle; G, S. Spen-
Ger, Buffalo; c. E. Irwin, Springfield, O.; VIM. H.
McClave, jr., Newark, N. j.; Miss Nora Badger,
Spencer.
Grand Hotel: VIM. H. Danielson, Boston; J..
7. Stahl, Chicago; F. A. Yard w. W. Watson,
New York; w. Il. Donlevy, Philadelphia; j. B.
Rogers, Grand Rapids W. w. Ferrier, Angola;
A, H. Moore, Richmond; F. D, Jones, Michigan
City; h. D, McMqllen, Aurora; l. G. Mowry,
Cleveland W. F. Lane, Rome; A. A. Kevan,
Chicago; W. Engeman, Toledo; E. N. Lessey,
Chicago.
Hotel English: James J, Walsh, Greenfield;
G. B. Dickson, Chicago; Charles Dering, Troy,
n " F. B. Lewis and wife, Thornville; NJ.
Ringead, Madison; A. G. Wood Marion; w. G.
Allen, Rochester; H, H, Bowman, Milwaukee,
]. r. Watts, Battle Creek; W. R. Harrington,
Silver Greek; w, P Heule, Sheboygan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-23
Railway onices OH Fire.
surance.

ST. PAUL, MINI, Nov. 22-About IL o'clock
tonight fire broke out in the large brick build
ing used as the general Offices of the Manitoba
railway, and it is now burning furiously. A
high wind, almost blizzard, is blowing, which
is scattering ffrebrands in all directions.
12:40 A. BL-The fire is now under control and
confined to the Luilding in which it originated.
The building burned was five stories
high, and was owned by John Wann
and occupied by E. F. Osborne steam
filter and H. Winter, saloon. Osbornes
loss is $25, 900; insurance $4,000 Winters loss
is not known. The Manitoba general railroad
Offices are damaged only by water, nothing be-
ing burned The loss is about 81 00n When the
fire department reached the scene the flames
were issuing from every story, and the wind
drove them in a fiery sheet across
Fourth street The intense heat broke
the heavy plate glass windows in Powers,
Durkee & Cos wholesale dry goods house, and
for a time threatened to consume that building
and its contents The latter firms loss is S., 900,
which is covered by insurance. Total loss on
buildings and contents is $75, 600; insurance,
$50 600
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Fire and Loss of Life.

FARGO Oak, Nov. 22.-At a fire in Lisbon,
to-day, twenty horses and Samuel McGreeor,
formerly of Neenah, Wis, were burned
to death. The fire had made too
much Roadway when discovered to
be extinguished. MeGregor was sleep
ing with a man named Gray, who jumped
from window, severely injuring himself He
remained unconscious some time. McGregor,
although awake, must have been suffo-
Gated, as he failed to escape. The loss on the
barn amounts to 81 600; insurance, 81, 900. The
barn contained twenty tons of hay, two mowers,
a large quantity of harness, ropes, etc. Grays
loss will be about s. 600. The residence of John
Wood near the barn, was also destroyed, but
nearly all the contents were removed. Loss,
800; insured for $500.