Barbour County index., 1884-01-25

NOOi anu shoO himself Twice, one Dali pene-
trating the heart
In recent executive session of the Sen
ate, the Reciprocity Treaty with Mexico
came up for consideration. The only vote
taken was one TO recommit. The purpose
of that motion, IL being understood. was tc
defeat the treaty by referringit IL back where
it would be pigeon -holed until the expIra.
ton OF the limit for its consideration. Thi,
was In the interest of the suge- producers
OF Louisiana, who were foremost I'm oppos.
Ing the treaty. The .=5tiion T.. ,,y,nnu.;t
was defeated.
CYRUS Grow, of leading, Pa, wen.
home the other day complaining of not
feeling well. He was soon seized with -
spasn from an attack CT hydrophobia. II
took seven men 70 hold him and he begged
to he shackled, as he had been bitten by >
dog several years ago and he knew wha,
was coming. His wish was complied with.
but when attacked by another spasm r.
broke away and leaped from second-story
window, when he commenced hacking Si-~
self with a knife in a fatal manner.
ID. PELL, merchant at High Bridge, -.
j., was recently shot by three masked men.
SIcKNEss led the wife OF John Carr, OF
Middleport, o., to drown herself in a els
tern the other day.
GREAT fears were entertained i'm Buenos
Ayres OF tidal waves.
BREWSTER CAMERON appeared before the
House Committee on Expenditures i'm the
Department Of Justice recently, and gave
a list OF all persons discharged from ser.
vice In the department the past few years
on account Of fraudulent action on their
part. He nlso said It was probable that an
Investigation would soon be made of nine.
teen United States officials in South Caro-
lima charged with official misconduct.
THE wife OF Charles T.. Stickney was re.
Gently burned to death Mt Fall River, Mass.
by her clothes taking fire while she was
saturating her carpets with naptha to kin
moths. Mr.. Stickney in endeavoring 20
save his wife was horribly burned.
BECH's brewery at Fon du Lac, Wis.
burned recently, and a young man was
supposed to have perished.
LAURA KINNARD was found dead about
ten days ago, in her fathers house, at
Prosperity, s. c. She had apparently been
sitting in front Of the fireplace and had
fallen forward on her face into the fire,
and the upper portion Of her body burned
to crisp. The father refused TO permit
the Coroner to enter the house, which
aroused suspicion. Laura was Kinnard's
only child, and she was expected TO soon
come In possession of large sum of money,
and foul play was suspected.
AT late meeting of the Senate Commit.
tee on Publ ic Lands, Senator Van Wyck's
bill for the relief of settlers on the public
domain in Nebraska and Kansas was or
dered reported favorably.
The San Francisco Chamber of Com.
merce recently adopted resolutions me-
Congress to provide efficient
defenses for the Pacific Coast.
DIR. j. ID. STOCKING, Postmaster at Law.
renee, Tex, small station between Dallas
and Terrell, was arrested recently on the
charge OF unlawfully breaking open letters,
and the detectives were after Mrs. Carr,
whose Office 1t was to carry the mails from
the depot to the post-office. on the charge
Of deserving the mails. Mrs. Carr was also
telegraph operator at Lawrence. She 90.
wind that the officers were after her and
skipped.
WHILE resisting arrest w. II. Alexander.
n cowboy and noted desperado, was shct
and killed on the reservation at Pena Col.
orado, Tex, the other day, by a detach.
ment of soldiers under command Of Lieu.
tenant Eggleston. Alexander had been
the neihborhood and threatened
to wipe out the military. One soldier.
named Ross, was killed and two Others
slightly wounded before Alexander's Win.
chester was silenced. Lieutenant Eggle-
ston was fired at by the desperado, but
jumped aside, the ball grazing his blouse.
BREWSTER CAMERON, who had been be-
fore the House Committee on Expenditures
in the Department of Justice, was again be.
fore the committee and gave i'm addition to
those already stated list of twenty-five
more names of persons whose official con.
duet had been investigated on account of
alleged Irregularities and rendering fraud.
ulent accounts. Some of these men, Cam.
erOn said, have been convicted. Ralph
Bolin, Special Examiner, who will
be sent to South Carolina to present the
cases of sixteen United States Deputy
Marshals to the Grand Jury, also appeared
before the committee to give his experience
as Examiner in Georgia, South Carolina,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida,
New York and Pennsylvania. He began
with the experience of Georgia in the fall
of 1881 and spring of 1882, by the examina.
tion Of the accounts OF United
States Marshal Fitzsimmons, pre-.
decessor OF General Longstreet.
Bolin said that a shortage Of $4,000 was
found. The official has never been prose
cuted. nor had anything been recovered
from Fitzsimmons or his bondsmen. The
erroneous charges on the part of Deputy
Marshals under Longstreet, amounting to
5000 or 5000. had been settled through
Longstreet. He, however, was not blamed
by Bolin, as the overcharges were made by
Deputy Marshals, who were punished.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
1T was reported that Sheikh Senoussi