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, being, in case of trouble, to show by hei
letters that she was alive on the 18th when
he would be in King William county. He
gave her the false name under which to
register, in order to hide her identity after
her disappearance. For the same purpose
he scattered her gloves, hat, and travelling
bag after killing her. He was criminal
lawyer by profession and as far as his
foresight could extend carried out every
thing we'll. During the long walk with
her on the last day of her life he had in
spected Belle Isle, on the river, as place
to be visited that night. He believed in
the agency of water where human body
would sink out Of sight at once and BIZ
beyond Identification when it reappeared.
Had the reservoir wall been perpendicular
instead of inclined, the victim would have
remained at the bottom until no scrutiny
could have recognized and identified her;
nor would there have been any proof that
such person as the victim, when her
friends came to hunt for her, had been at
| The American Hotel. or that the prisoner
| had even seen her in Richmond. Lillian
| MadIson's fate would have been one Of
those mysterious disappearance which
sometimes happen and of which no solu
ton is ever given, and Cluverius, save the
burden of his awful secret, would have
been to-day as free and untroubled as
other men. His plans were laid with pa
thence, cunning, and unfaltering cruelty,
and nothing but the floating of his victim,
! and the fact that the coroner was an in
telligent physician who knew his business,
prevented their being carried out to sue
cessful end.
1t is probable that in this case, as in
Jeter Philips, the true story of the crime
will never be known until told by the
criminal few days before his execution.
1t may be depended on, that there will be
no confession from Cluverius until the
very eve of the execution; for it is a re-
markable fact that an Intelligent criminal
rarely goes to death without having made
clean breast of it, though he will put it
off to the last moment; while an ignorant
criminal will die asserting his innocence;
still hoping up to the fall of the trap, Tor
the Intervention of a saving hand. The
intelligent criminal knows enough of the
routine of legal affairs to understand when
the day of possible grace is certainly past.
The story will be told in due time, brutal
as it is, plteous as it is. it will yet be told
under the awful Shadow of Death.
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Senator Warner Miller. of New York

Senator Warner Miller. of New York,
recently paid visit to Senator Malone
at his home in Petersburg. 'Persons
very close to Gen. MahOne," on being
questioned as to the object of Miller's
visit. and what he and the General talked
about, answered Cheese This is term
in politics, the equivalent, we presume. of
sSoap." The closing of the National
Administration Cheese Factory at WASH
ington, and the dissolution of the firm of
Arthur Il Malone will construct, If not
strangulate the stream of cheese into
Virginia from that quarter this fall
Such as is used on the Republican side
will have to come out of the General 3
private pantry. We would not underrate
that source, however, for Malone never
yet spared his own nor his Office holders
pockets, state or Federal, when a cam
paign was going on. 1t is tradition
with us here that when the campaign of
'S3 was in progress, the officials OF the two
State institutions here contributed nearly
$4,000. This is the final cast Of the polit-
ical die with Gen. Malone; if he goes
under now he goes forever, and he will
not be parsimonious in putting down the
cheese. The Democrats of the State must
prepare to put down dollar for dollar with
him, as they did in the year Of Liberty
1888. This year is tighter one financial
ly than the year of Liberty was, and those
Democrats who can, must pay for those
who can't. Every cake of Republican
cheese that is out this fall must have a
Democratic cake on top of it.
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1t is to be remarked that while Miss
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland is an intellectual
and active worker in the Women Chris
tian Temperance Union, her brother, the
President, has proved himself to be the
first thoroughly American President in his
beverage. by eschewing champagne and
setting old Bourbon whiskey on his table.
The ''house divided against itself" in this
instance is likely to secure both the Bour-
bon and Cold Water influence for second
term.
1t is impossible to "Turn the Rascals
out" The Republican postmstress at
Napoleon, Michigan, has married the
Democrat who had gotten the promise of
her place from his congressman. No
party on earth could make a fight against
this sort of odds.
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edith and Col. Aylett had been warmly
congratulated and complimented for the
parts they had taken.
A week before the verdict was brought
in, counsel for the defence had warned the
prisoner TO be prepared for the worst.
That probably enabled him to nerve him
self for the verdict, and that was proba-
bly, the reason his brother dared not be in
court to hear the result. He feared. nav
almost knew, what was coming. His
poor brother, fearful OF what was coming.
and doubling if he could stand unmoved
in the dread event, absented himself from
the courtroom, and sat In carriage out
side for Two hours. He wept when he
heard the verdict, as he had often wept
before. He went from the courtroom to
the Jail with the prisoner, but was SEEM
Ingly more needful OF comfort than was
his convicted brother.
On going down to Jail the prisoner re-
marked as he was crested with shout by
a crowd that had waited to see him get
into the carriage, s'They shout as if they
were listening to John W. Daniel speak,"
The carriage wheeled rapidly away to-
wards the Jail, where there was another
crowd on the outside waiting to catch a
glimpse of the prisoner as he entered the
prison. AS soon as Cluverius stepped out
of the carriage a voice exclaimed:
GOOD NIGHT, COUSIN ToMMIE."
At this Cluverius turned around, threw a
sickly smile at the jeering crowd and then
walked to the murderer's cell near the
prison gate.
The prisoner Cluverius. Friday morning,
ate three rolls and two eggs for breakfast
with good relish and appeared to be as
cheerful as usual. He bad had good
nights sleep and did not rise until 7
o'clock.
Mrs. Tunstall, the aunt with whom he
has lived for seven or eight years, visited
him Friday morning.
IN HIS PRISON CELL.
Cluverius has for some time back been
confined III strong iron-lined cell in the
Jail, and to it he was carried Thursday
| night.
When the prisoners were all let out OF
their cells into the yard Friday morning
/ the other fellows were all anxious to hear
the result of the trial, and several OF them
| having gathered about him. one asked,
"Well, how did you come out last nigbtP''
He said, "They found me guilty of MUIR
der iE the first degree" There was no
show of emotion.
THE COURTROOM AGAIN.
Cluver;us was brought up to the court
room as usual Friday. There was the
customary crowd there anxious to see
| him, but the excitement that marked the
last days of the trial. and which had be-
come painfully intense as the end closely
| neared, was gone.
The verdict undoubtedly gives popular
| satisfaction.
Thursday the evidence for the defence
turned out to be much weaker than was
anticipated. After all their talk; after
all their berating and belittling the news
| paper publications; after all that they
| pro missed, what was the outcome?
The prisoner did not expect to he in
| Jail "a week. So he said such was the
air of confidence exhibited by him that
| many persons otherwise strong in opinion
of his guilt had doubts raised.
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The jury in the Cluverius murder case
in Richmond, Va, yesterday returned a
verdict Of guilty after elaboration Of
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OEEiGE OF CITY TREASURER.

StauntOn, Va, June lst 1885
NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF STAUNTON cry
~ BONDS,-By resolution of the CITY Conn.
Gil. passed May 18TH 1885, am directed to notify
holders Of Staltnton City Bonds. .SERfEy D'h
due January 1st, 1885 that they will be raid in f3iu
upon presentation at THIS office, on OF dfter the ISt
day OF Juzy, 1885 and that Interest on said bonds
agU cease after that date.
JOHN M. CARROLL,
une 5-3t City Treasurer:
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An Augusta county farmer of vida OBJ
servation informed US last week that the
Augusta wheat crop this season will
stand about this way:-only two-thirds
of the usual acreage was planted and even
on that, but half a crop will be realized.
The turner's Reuieoo of Chicago, which
has received reports from every Western
and Southern wheat State, sums up its
information thus 1.-The gloomiest views
which have been advanced concerning the
winter wheat outlook for 1885 must now
be accepted as the most accurate. The
promising conditions of 1884 have, this
season, been completely reversed. The
absolute uniformity of the returns indi-
Gates that the outlook for winter-soWn
wheat, this year, ls the worst in ten years,
and it may be now set down as positive
that under the most favoring conditions,
the total winter and spring wheat yield is
to fall considerably under the short crop
of 1881, when the total product was $50,
0O0.0 600.
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Douglass Lincoln Story.

Senator Douglas, who served IN the
Black Hawk war with President Lincoln,
used to tell a good story about "Old
Abe's military exploits. He enlisted in
a cavalry company, which started oil in
fine spirits to engage in the deadly fray.
Arriving at a point on the prairie about
two hundred miles from the Indian lines
the party bivouacked tor the night,
picketed their horses and slept on their
arms. The method of picketing their
horses was that in common use-fasten-
ing a huge rope, some eighty feet in
length, to a stake firmly planted, and
then using smaller lines OF considerable
length, one end attached to the animals
neck, and the other to the main rope.
During the night the sentinel imagined
he saw the Indians and Immediately dis
charged his old fusce. The camp was
aroused in OIL instant and each sp!ang to
his saddle. "Old Abe" shot out in the
darkness on his charger, until the ropes
"hove taut," when over he went, horse
and himself, headlong. Thinking him
self caught in an Indian ambush, he
gathered up, mounted, and putting spurs
to his horse took the opposite shute, but
soon brought up as before, horse and
rider tumbling neadlong. "old Abe"
got up, thinking he was surrounded.
and shouted: "Gentlcmen Indians, l
surrender without a word. have not a
word to offer. All want IS quarter"
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A Curious Superstiti0n.

Since the days Of the first Lord Chat
ham probably nc public man in Great
Britain has been so afflicted with govt
rs the Rev. Charles II. Sturgeon. Ac-
cording to all accounts it amounts to an
almost continuous torture. 1t is wonder
full how such q man, suffering as he does,
manages to preside with such success
over IN institution like the Metropolitan
Tabernacle. Mr.. Surgeons only inter
val of comfort, it would seem. is during
his brief winter s%oiourn OF Mentonc. A
sympathetic friend in Germany has just
sent the reverend gentleman a peculiar
prescription. He recommends him TO
keep in his room il pair of turtle doves
or two young pigeons and he encourages
him to hope for the happicst results. In
some parts of South Germany, it APP
pears, it was at one time q common be-
lief that govt could be cured by such
means; and to this day in that part OF
Europe turtle doves are called "gout
pigeons" Mr.. Spurgeon has ne faith in
the cure, but recommends the keeping OF
doves i in the house metaphorically, as q
cure for many a plague in the family.
MAY the voice of the turtle" he says,
''be heard in our land.'-Nc@ York
HcruH
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Dutch Sign.B Boards.

The Dutch have the reputation of
being commonplace and wholly i'm
mcrsed in business. Yet Holland has
produced learned scholars, great painters
and noble champions of human rights.
a traveller found ever the signs on Dutch
streets interesting, because indicative of
the originality of the people. lie says:
1t was some time before | understood
what was meant when l read 'tire and
water for sale. 1t seems the poorer peo-
pie make no fires, but buy boiling water
nd red hot turf with which to prepare
a cir tea and coffee.
tn q baby is born a small placard OF
II hitc lacci is hung upon the
red satin and W lis sick, his symptoms
d dc" daily ii ;0 reeo @dded on o1 "a little 4h1s bulletin ]saS;n"
board affixed to the h oublc Of making
those interested the tr
and replying to inquiries. decorated with
The country houses are ntlcman seems
legends. The retired &c should know
anxious that all the worldaints in huge
of hs content. So he pouse such sen
letters on the front of his ht Care" "Bie
timents as these: ''Withou MY Pleas.
Enough" ''My Satisfaction and Friend.
ure and Life" "~Sociability Companion,
ship Within" ctc.-Youth's
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TRAIN DISASTERS,
Six II abroad Accidents in Ono Day
Loss OF Life.

LOSy OF Ltfes
At3A.M NJ. q passenger train, dra"n ny
three engines, bound west, Oh the West Shore
railroad, ran into a freight train at CanaJo-
harie, N. Y. The three locomotives wers de-
molished, and Engineer Andrew Sinner and
Fireman Grover Penny were instantly killed
Other train hands were severely In
iured. The freight train bound east
stood on the main track arouu d q
curve out of the village, when tho passenger
train was seen coming at speed or tnlrty
miles All hour and onlya short distance away.
The whistles Of both head engines blew
fierccly, but in an instant the crash came.
The pecuniary damage inflicted by the smash
up il estimated at Sl25, ONO. ,
A west-bound and an %east-bound train col
lided at Toll Gate, W. Va, with such terrific
effect that the two trains were piled on each
| other and many Of tho cars completely
wrecked. Engineer Lloyd 1. Barron, Fire
man John Manstreet, and Brakeman j. n.
Mcintyre, Of one train, were killed. j. ).
Bartlett, fireman, and Anthony Cannon, en-
gineer of the other train, were fatally injured.
The loss to the railroad company IS heavy.
The accident was caused by disobeying orders.
By an accident on the Lake Erie and West.
ern railroad near Arrowsmith, ILL.,, several
, passenger cars of n train were ditched and q
number of passengers injured.
Four cars of a stock train in Illinois were
dcrailed by tho breaking of Il lange on one
of the wheels. About POO head of sheep and
! eighty head of cattle were in the cars, and
! over half of them were killed. ,
An express train ran into q way train at
Delhi, twelve miles from Cincinnati, and sew
eral Of the passengers were hurt by jumping
At about the same hour another express
train ran over a broken rail thirteen miles
north of Cincinnati, and two slecpers and q
passenger coach left tho track. Three pas
sengers were seriously injured and a number
Of others badly bruised.
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LATER NEWS

STRIKING weavers and about 200 Philadel
phia policemen came into collision with the
result that several Of the former received
broken heads and seven were arrested, while
of the latter O number were knocked down.
GEORGE D. NoREMAC,'a professional pc
d~estrian, has finished a long tramp in New
York city, having covered 300 miles in 100
days on a wager of $4,000.
A Ri among the employees of the Wa
bash railroad was inaugurated at Springfield,
ILL.,, and extended to other cities.
REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT LOGAN, a Re.
publican member of tho Illinois legislature,
dropped dead Of heart disease while on his
way to the house chamber at the capitol in
Springfield. 1t will be remembered the ILL
nois legislature has been a tie in joint conven-
ton, and in consequence Of tho death Of Mr.
Logan it will be necessary for the Republi
cans to refrain from voting if they wish to
prevent the election of a Democratic United
States Senator.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND wrote a reply to a
letter sent him by n number of members of
the outgoing Congress respecting legislation
repeating the coinage Of the silver dollar. The
President is understood in the letter to have
expressed himself in favor Of such legislation.
THE National theatre, the most prominent
place Of amusement in Washington, has been
destroyed b." fire. The loss on the building
and contents is put at $4,000.
In the British house of lords the Marquis
of Salisbury moved q vote Of censure on the
governments Egyptian policy. The motion
was greeted with loud applause.
A NUMBER OF artillery officers and scicn'
lists were testing a now patent fuse at the
Royal School Of Gunnery at Shoeburyncss,
England, when a t:rrible explosion occurred.
Three men were killed outright and several
others were fatally wounded. Among the
latter were some of the most prominent Off
Gals of the government laboratory at Wool,
witch. The scene of the explosion presented
a sickening sight. Some of the wounded had
their faces carried away, others had their
legs torn off, and men were lying about in
every direction grooming in their dying az
onies.
AT Abbeyfeale, a village in Limerick coun-
ty, ireland, eleven farmers, with their
families, were evicted for ~non-payment Of
rent.
THE marriage of Princess Beatrice, Queer
Victoria's youngest daughter, to Prince Hen
ry of Battenberg, will take place on the Isle
of Wight in July.
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MORE FIGHTING,
Details of a Fierce Battle Near
the City of Kassala.
Five Cities in the Soudan Holding
Out Against Ell Mahdi

The following particulars of the battle
near Kassala have been received from Sua-
kim: "The Hadendowas attacked the Kas-
sala garrison, which, under the commandant,
had sailed out to cover the entry Of a
convoy of grain. The garrison made hasty de-
fence works on IN open plain west of the city,
and received the onslaught of the Hadendo-
fell back in confusion, with heavy loss. The
friendly Shukoorie tribe, who brought the
grain for Kassala, thSn attacked the Haden'
dowas OH the flank and rear, while the garri-
! son troops advanced to attack their front.
The Hadendowas became panic stricken, and
| fled in all directions. Their chief, 1saeltilatti,
was killed. The Shukoories occupied and
destroyed Phillik, the headquarters of Mussa,
second chief of the Hadendowas.
The difficulty of the garrison ct Kassala
has been increased by the appearance of
the Italians at Massowah. This interferes
with the authority of Major Chermside,
who was preparing an immense convoy OF
provisions, munitions and money for kasSala.
These measures of relief for the beleaguered
second city in the Soudan. 1t contains 10000
inhabitants, and has a garrison Of 5000 men.
1t is the keystone in the line of frontier
s%trongholds which are holding out against
the Mahdi. Kassaln, Sanheit, Amdib, Ghira
and Gullabat are all resisting the False
Prophet. Kassala has already been beseiged
for a whole year. Major Chermside has Of
fered to send re-enforcements, but the com
mander has refused to accept any, as he is
England or Italy sends speedy relief Kassala
will share the fate of Berber and khartoum.
Dispatches from Korti say: 'The mudir of
Dongola has been informed that the Mahdi
has gone on q steamer to Elbeh. Genera
Brackenbury destroyed the village of Habed
Suleiman, with 500 men, women and children
passed through that village on the 18th, fly.
' SEEie' n'''A"ara i'0" the '''' 0"nN Of 'n'
The war office has adopted a plan to supply
General Graham's army with water in its adj
vance across the desert from Suaklm to Ber-
Der. by laying pipes in sections.
THE British army estimates for the year
1856 are announced. They amount to G1f,-
$40, 100. This SUN includes the expenditures
of the Soudan expedition.
Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley, in an interview,
thought that the reason why General Gordon
did not make his escape from Khartoum by
steamer was the fact that he was a fatalist.
His death is moro serious than the fall
of Khartoum. Had he managed to escape,
his life and presence would in the end have
secured victory for the cause he represented.
A letter has been received at korti from q
nun who was taken prisoner when khartoum
fell into the hands Of the Arabs, and who is
now kept in captivity in Ell Mahdi's camp at
Omdurman, a few miles below khaftoum.
She confirms the statement that FL Mahdfs
troops massacred the soldiers of the garrison
and many peaceable citizens, and she say:
that the number of persons slaughtered wa'
fully q. 600.
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House.

Mr.. 3urnes submitted the conference report
or the consular and diplomatic appropriation
bill and it was agreed GA bill was passed
granting q pension Of $50 a month to the
widow Of Major ~Thornburg, but when Mr..
Hewitt, of New York, called up a Senate bill
widow Of Commodore Cravens it was re-
jected. AT its evening session the House
passed fifty pension bills.
Mr.. Mexican, of New Jersey, called up the
bill appropriating $4,000 for the improve.
ment of Washington's headquarters ct Nor.
ristown, but it was objected 20 ....On motion
of Mr.. Payson, of Illinois, the Senate amend
ments were concurred in to House bill for
feiting the Texas Pacific land grant. ION
motion Of Mr.. Hopkins, of Pennsylvania,
Senate amendments were concurred in to
House bill prohibiting the importation of
contract labor. Mr.. Perkins, Of Kansas,
introduced a bill to open up the Oklahoma
lands for homestead settlement. 1.-The sun
dry civil appropriation bill was reported. 1t
appropriated $222, POO, 1T, a reduction Of the
estimate Of $40, 12G, 225. A section Of the bill
authorized the secretary Of the treasury to
suspend in whole or in part the coinage of
silver dollars from July 1. 1885, to June 30,
1856.
Mr.. Buckner called up the Senate bill
authorizing the Commercial National bank
of Chicago to increase its capital stock to
ST. 0 ,OOO. In opposing the bill, Mr.. Weller,
of Iowa, attacked the national banking
system, declaring that it was the
duty Of every patriot to strike it
q death blow. The bill was passed. 90.
Discussion on tho river and harbor bill was
resumed. Mr.. Holman offered an amend
ment providing that the money appropriated
for the improvement Of the Mississippi river
shall be expended under the direction Of the
secretary Of war and in accordance with the
plans approved by him. After a short and
noisy discussion the amendment was adopted.
The Speaker laid before the House a CON-
manication from the secretary Of the treas
ury recommending the appropriation Of
81, 900 for the revenue marine service in
Alaska. 80. The deficiency appropriation bill
was passed with amendments. Another
the river and harbor bill. White,
of Kentucky. secured the floor on a
motion connected with the call of the
House. His presence was the signal for cries
of "louder," 'leave to print" 'vote," etc,
and general shouts and confusion, while Mr..
Weaver. Of Nebraska, in the guise Of a par
liamentary inquiry, asked whether the man
with the most mouth was entitled to all the
time of the House. There was an interchange
of remarks between Mr.. White and other
members, and q scene Of noisy con.
fusion followed. Finally Mr.. Browne, OF
Indiana, moved that in the judgment of the
House language used by Mr.. Gibson, of West
Virginia, was supplementary and in viola
ton of it's rules. and that he is subject to the
ccnsure of the House. The motion was tabled
by 132 yeas to GG nays.