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St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-29
terrible Encounter with a Maniac.

OXFORD, Pa, August 21.-Robert H.
Hodgson, weIl-to-do farmer residing
near here, has two grown-up daughters
who live with the family. Thursday
night, at about midnight, VIM, Pearce,
lunatic living near by, escaped from his
keeper and went to the Hodgson man
sion. He climbed upon the portico and
entered the bed-chamber of the young
ladies through an open window. The
girls were sleeping soundly at the time.
Pearce seized one of them by the arms
and dragged her to the floor. She gave
a loud scream, and in n oment her sis.
ter, who was lying in the same room,
awoke and shrieked loudly for help. Mr..
Hodgson, who occupied an adjoining
room, heard the cries of his daughters
and hastened to their assistance. The
maniac, however, bolted the door on the
inside and for time prevented his en-.
tering. Mr.. Hodgson quickly forced
open. the door and entered the room.
The madman sprang at him like tiger
and a terrible struggle ensued. The
terror-stricken girls in the meantime es.
capped and gave the alarm. The neigh.
bors quickly responded and after severe
struggle the insane man was securely
bound. Pearce was taken to the asylum
Yesterday. Mr.. Hodson was sevtrel
cut and bruised in the encounter, and
when rescued was about being pitched
out of second-story window.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-29

THE Marine Hospital Bureau has,
through the Secretary of State, called on
the Canadian authorities for more detail
ed information concerning the character
and extent of smallpox at Montreal and
other cities near the border.
AT Widnes- the Mersey, England, on
the 20th, a girl seven years of age died Of
English cholera of the worst type.
THE American Export Association will
hereafter be known as the American
Spirit Company, and it is proposed to or
ganize chartered company under the
laws of Illinois for the purpose of regu-
lating production and prices by CONSOLE
dating the distilling interests more firmly.
Texas has quarantined against yellow
fever in Mexico.
WALTON & Co.'S, miners at Pitts burgh,
Pa, have resumed work.
A PANIC prevails on the Canary Islands,
caused by fear OF cholera.
TIE National conference for the protec.
tion of girls held meeting at st. James
Hall, London, on the 21st.
ZANZIBAR claims indemnity from Ger
many for the loss Of native troops in the
East African expedition.
THROUGHOUT Spain on the 2lth there
were ), 1P4 new cases of cholera and 1,644
deaths. At Marseilles there were twenty
five deaths during the night OF the 9th,
and on the 21st, between a. m. and p.
m, there were 100 deaths. The st. Loup
quarter is the center of the epidemic in
MarseilIes
DURING the seven days ended the 21st
there were 158 business failures in the
United States and nineteen in Canada,
making total of III.
The case of yellow fever reported in the
Pennsylvania Hospital at Philadelphia
| is pronounced a mild one.
RELATIONS are strained between Spain
and Germany on account of the latter's
| seizure of the Caroline Islands.
| AT a meeting in New York on the 2fst
Of the trunk-line passenger agents it was
agreed to advance passenger rates to Chi
cago and other western points.
| On the Afghan frontier recently there
came near being a collision between Rus
slams and Afghans. An officer OF the for :
mer was accidentally shot The Russians
were encroaching.
The Mill Creek Distilling Company re-
uuCeu bn6 pELCo VI "nlShy " P1tVO bO Si4
| cinnati on the 21st, on the rumor that Pc
| oria distillers were selling in Chicago at
$L08
The General Superintendent of the Life
| Saving Service has directed the Superin-
tendents of the several districts of the At
lantic and Gulf coasts to open and man all
their stations on September 1st. The sta
tions will remain in operation until May
21st, 1886.
THE firm who purchased the stock of
Smith, the Omaha absconder, discovered,
concealed about the store, valuables
amounting TO from $4,000 to $4,000.
THIRD AUDITOR WILLIAMS on the 21st
certified and passed the pension accounts
for the quarter of July, August and Sep
tember. The total amount of money to be
paid for pensions in this quarter amounts
to 81, ,73O, 900. OF this, $1,000 600 will go TO
the Chicago Office, s., ,O01, 900 to the Colum-
bus to- office, $1,0OO,0OO to Indianapolis,
500, 900 to Des Moines and 5000, 600 to Mil
waukee,
St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-29

A CHILD of Charles Sullivan, or Detroit,
after having been apparently dead for
fifteen hours, began crying in the coffin
and is now in good health.
Mr.. CLIFFORD LLOYD, late q special
British Magistrate in Ireland, publishes
a statement advocating local self-govern.
ment for Ireland, the establishment OF
elective county boards, the abolition OF
the whole system of Irish beaurocracy,
and the incorporation of Ireland as an In"
tegral part of the United Kingdom.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-29
MIsCELLANEOus.

A PROCLAMATION is to be issued to the
Arabs urging reconquest of the Soudan
for Egypt.
In Notre Dame Church, Montreal, on
the 18th, grand high mass was celebrated
at S.. Roch's altar, invoking the Almighty
to grant cessation of the smallpox epi-
demic prevailing in that city.
OvER-PRoDUcT1oN is said to be demoraI-
izing the anthracite coal tradein the East
The expulsion of Russians from Eastern
Germany continues.
The Egyptian relief expedition to Kas-
sala will march in October.
The strikers at Cleveland have decided
by an overwhelming vote to hold out for
the scale fixed by the eAmalgamated Assoc
citation.
A VALUABLE collection has been stolen
from the royal armory at Turin.
A REGULAR pitched battle occurred on
on the Goth between the miners at Shenan-
doah, Pa. and some Hungarians and
Poles, imported there to supplant them.
ON the 10Th there were A, 100 new cases
of cholera, and 1,541 deaths from that
disease in Spain, and three deaths in
Toulon; and on the Goth sixty i've
deaths were reported in Marseilles, and
fourteen in the Pharos Hospital. The
epidemic is spreading northward.
THE proposed alliance of Turkey with
England sgainst Russia is said to be op-
posed by the Sultan.
REPORTS have been received at Cairo
confirming recent reports of rebel sue
cesses in she Soudar.
ON the Goth the anniversary of the bat
tie of the Fallen Timbers, where "Mad
Anthony" Wayne broke the power of the
Indians in the Northwest, was celebrated
on the battle ground near Toledo, o.
The Mexican postal authorities have
informed the Superintendent of Foreign
Mails at Washington that reciprocal ex !
change of closed mails via New York
will shortly be put in operation between
Paso del Norte upon the northern border
Of Mexico and Spain.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-29
CRIMEs AND CASUALTIES.

INVESTIGATION of the recent steamboat
explosion at WlImin gton, Del, shows that
! dynamite was used.
| FIVE employees of A. H. Berland & Co.,
| at Pittsburgh, Pa, have been arrested for
! extensive robberies of goods from the
| firm.
| ON the 10th VIM. Smith, alias c. F..
Weibusch, uoted robber, was placed on
! trial at San Francisco, Cal, on charge
of robbing the mails.
JOHN CoURBEaTI has been arrested in
London under the new criminal law,for
abducting young girls,
| A COLLISION of coal cars on the Cabin
Creek Railroad, near Charleston, W. Va,
on the 10Th, killed four men, including the
| President of the road.
On the 10Th Hannah Stokes, who was in"
toxcated and abusive, was pushed down
stairs at Cleveland, O., by Lucy Robin
son, and her neck was broken.
FIRE destroyed the round house of the
Providence and Springfield Railroad at
Providence, r. l., the morning of the 18th;
loss, $45. 900.
ON the 18th fire IN lumber yard at
Minneapolis, Mimi, communicated to
Zesbaugh Bros picture-framew works, and
to the factory itself, which was partially
| destroyed. Loss about $4,000; insured
for $1,000.
ON the goth Kitty Williams, daughter Of
an ex-Mayor of Cedar Falls,- Ia, died
from burns. Her hair caught fire at a gas
| oline stove.
| THE Canadian Bank Note Company and
the Bell Telephone Company lost $50, 900
between them by the burning of the build
| ing jointly occupied by them at Mont
real, Can, on the Goth. Nathaniel Brad
ley, night watchman, was suffocated in
his bed.
On the Goth Joseph zttka and Charles
Black were drowned at Cleveland, o.,
and man named Cruskel committed sui
eide by drowning at the same place.
AT Iowa Station, Pa, on the Goth, Ja-
cob Group was fatally injured by his
horse running away and throwing him
down declivity. His wife. was also
wounded.
FIRE destroyed the spinning, drawing
and combing department of Richard VIII
Hanson & Co. IS worsted mill at Camden,
N. j., on the morning of the Goth. The
| loss is estimated between $4,000 and
800, 600.
The Standard Oil Company lost $40, 900
| by fire at Sharpsburgh, Pa, on the Goth !;
fully insured.
PATRICK CARROLL is charged at Chica-
GO with the murder, some time ago, of
Mrs. Walsh.
FRANZ JOSEPH PETMEKY was hanged on
the 21st at Auburn, N. Y, for the murder
| of woman.
AT Norbert, sixteen miles from New
Orleans, La, on the 21st, five rice har-
vesters were killed by lightning.
JACK BRADY, a brakeman, was killed,
and two other brakemen named Thomas
and Linde Sehned, seriously injured in a
railroad wreck near Shenango, Pa, on the
21st.
Two brothers named Colbert have been
arrested near Lincoln, I'LL, for a murder
committed at Shawneetown.
A FRE1GH ar train consisting of eighteen
cars, including six cars of oil, was burned
near Cleveland, O., on the 21st, and two
tramps are supposed to have perished in
i the flames.
THE report of the;wreck of the German
corvette, Augusta, is confirmed. Her crew
of 23S officers and sailors were lost. Her
value was 81, 100, 010 She was lost in a
/ cyclone in the Red Sea.
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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22
A SUMMER SONG.

o. lovely sunbeams, through the meadows
dancing,
On golden pinions. all the livelong day,
kissing young leaves, on crystal streamlets
Changing 70 living gold their silver spray.
wee amorous elves, coquetting with the
wooing the daisy in her grassy bed,
Til the shy flower uuconsciously uncloses
Her dew-gemmed leaves, and bushes rosy
red!
Gliding gray rocks, on rugged mountains
streaming,
Bidding the flowers in sheltered hooks
awake,
Calling young song birds from their happy
Waking the laughter Of the dimplinQ lakel
Playing "Bo-peep' amid the white buds
In pearey clusters on the hawthorn tree,
To the round eyes of wondering childhood
showing
The rapid 3ourneyings of the wandering
bee.
Shedding a halo bright on youthful tresses
Bidding young hearts for very rapture sing
f0uchlng thu crow Of care with kind caresses,
Or glinting lightly on the skylark's wingl
Ah, merry sunbeams, like sly cupds straying
In the glad footsteps of the rustic lass,
On suntanned cheeks and snow white ker-
chief playing,
Twinkline like frelies in the emerald grass
O,lovely sunbeams, like blest angels gliding
Through courts OF squaior, sickness, want
and gloom,
Telling of clouds like golden charIots riding
Proudly majestic DER a world of bloom
OF winding lanes, and milk-white homesteads
peeping
Like modest virgins from secluded bowers;
OF shallow pools, and baby streamlets leaping
In giddy gladncss meath down-drooping
flowers.
Dance, lovely sunbeams, through fair coun.
try meadows,
Battle bill and cottage in your holy light.
From city slums go chase the mournful
shadows
That fill poor homesteads with eternal
night
To those who pine in ignorance and sorrow
May all your tenderest, holest gifts be
given,
That sorrowing hearts one raw of hone NAV
may borrow
In the sweet knowledge that we come from
Heavenl
-FdnnU Forester, IN ArgOsu
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22
"HOW'S THINoSq"
A Senseless Question Which Excited tn
Ire of a Californian.

A Senseless Question Which Excited the
Ire of a Californian.
"You vos never shaved in de old
countryp" said the barber, as he lath-
cred away at customers chin. MOP
Veil dey hev way Of shaving dere dot
few in dis country know enything about.
They hev paste which is spread over
de face. 1t rest dere ten minutes, and
then a wooden spoon will tex Off de
peard.n
There were some in the shop who re-
membered this process, which, though
it sounds like yarn, is fact. The
paste if left too long on the face will
blister 1t, but if scraped off at the expi-
ration of ten or twelve minutes the hair
comes with it. At this stage of the sci
entific discussion on boards and paste,
Citizen Bob Tiffany entered. Some
thing had occurred to ruffle the usual
equanimity of Citizen Tiffany's DISPOSE
ton, and he pumped into chair with
an ominous and truculent thud.
"Halloo, Mr.. Tiffany" said a pert
young dude, who was getting his hair
clipped 'how's thingsP" Citizen Tiff
fanny glared at the too-fresh interlocutor.
''How's whatp" he growled.
Flows thingsP" chirped the youth,
blithely. you know what l mean;
how are youp how's thingsp'
20, mighty yet forbearing heavens,
hearken unto this IDIOT" cried Mr.. Tif-
fanny. dramatically. '.How's thingsp
What thingsP Things! A gentleman
can not walk into barber-shop and sit
quietly down to wait for shave with
out being asked by some lunatc 'How's
thingsp' What do you mean by this,
anyhow" and Citizen Tiffany marched
threateningly on the horror stricken and
now thoroughly-alarmed dude.
"Why. | only-you know" stam-
mered the quivering victim of the citi-
zen's wrath. II only-well I-how's
thingsp"
'Now, by the ghost of him whose re-
vered name bear" acclaimed Mr.. Tiff
fanny, '1'll make a haggis of you! Yet,
hold! How's things? It's too late too
late" and holding his cane before him,
rapier fashion, Mr.. Tiffany made an ex-
it which Lawrence Barrett in his best
days might have equaled. but meyer ex-
celled.-AHd California.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22
RAINBoW-HUED COFFiNs.


/
stste-Queer Colors.
While riding with friend through
town in Lincoln County not long ago.
we came upon small shop curiously
decorated with waves of paint of
different colors. The front looked as
though the occupant of the shop, when
ever he wished 10 test a newly mixed
color. dipped his brush into it and then
wiped the brush on the outside of the
building. In this way or some other he
had produced a rude rainbow. the hues
dissolving into each other where one
brushful OF paint encroached upon the
margin of its predecessor.
That is an undertaker's shop" said
my friend. land those are the colors in
which he paints his collins. He splashes
those samples on the outside of the
building in order that he may see how
they look himself, and also that the
friends of the departed may pick out
the color they want"
What"
Eyes. Nearly all the people in this
town who have died during the past ten
years have been buried in colored
collins. Light blue is the favorite tint
here for children, and orange the pre-
vailing shade for old people. You see
this is one of the most retired villages in
the State aud he is the only undertaken
anywhere near here. The people have
got used to his notions, and now they
rather like the painted collins. One old
fellow got disguised and took a solemn
oath that this undertaken should never
make coffin for him. So he drove to
Augusta, while he was yet in the land of
the living, and had himself measured
for nice collin. The coffin was made
and he carried it home. He tried his
best to induce his wife to have her coffin
made, too. She said it was ridiculous
the idea of having your coffin made
before you were dead and plumply re-
fused to be measured This made the
old man so mad that he threatened to
sue for divorce, and he and the old
lady had many jar after that, although
they had previously lived in peace and
content.
"The old man put his coffin in the
barn and used it to keep his yellow eyed
beans In. In the course of time he died
and was prepared for the grave. The
yellow-eyed beans were turned out of
the coffin, and an attempt was made to
put the old gentleman into it. They
found that his body had swollen so much
that it could not be squeezed into the
coffin. They had to patronize that I'M
dertaker, in spite of the enmity existing
between him and the late famented.
They tried to get him to swap one of
his cotfins for the old ranf lamon,o An
gusta purchase, but this the undertaken
positively refused to do. and insisted
upon being paid cash down for the
coffin.
Il think this is another good illustra-
ton of how the best laid plans of mice
and men come to grief, and of the folly
of thinking your head is bigger than
your wife's. "-Lewiston me. Journal
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22
LIFE IN HOLLAND,

How the Sabbath Is Observed in Dutch
Towns and Cities-A Dutch Chamber
maid.
In Holland the Sabbath is not openly
disregarded. as in France and some
parts of Germany, but it is not made SO
gloomy and embarrassing as in En-
gland. have seen the chambermaids
in Holland hotel openly engaged in
sewing-that is, making garments, on
Sunday, proceeding that would hor-
rify an English servant. But, l think,
could the prim chambermaids of Great
Britain, who were never known to make
a bed without given number of mo-
tions, see Dutch girl arranging bed
they would be struck dumb with amaze
ment. After the job is done in Holland
the bed-clothes have the appearance of
being dumped in a pile and counter
pane thrown over them. Get into it,
and your feet are out at the foot of the
bedstead in an instant, while you are
frantically clutching this side or that
for the blankets and sheets. To study
the real everyday life of Holland one
would have to leave the great cities and
visit the towns and villages. many of
which can not boast OF the modern
luxury of railway. Take such town
as Hoorn, and although its picturesque
ness has. think, been exaggerated by
some writers, it is undoubtedly with
Alkmaar close by. good section to
learn something of Dutch custom and
rural life. 1t is only within few
months that Hoorn could boast a rail-
road. This queer old town has stood
for centuries on the Zuyder Zee. For
miles before it is reached one sees the
high embankment. or seawall, that has
reclaimed and made land for the track
on which the locomotive runs. Genera
tons of sleepy. easy-going people have
passed in procession from the cradle to
the grave since the days when Hoorn
was known and felt in the world.
They have dwelt. to be sure. in the
same old houses, with narrow, steep
black oaken beams, and
gable roofs, that seem to nod and wink
and look tipsy and jolly and funny at
each other to this day. The doors aud
the window frames Of these houses are
painted to-day with the same colors as
in the days when the fleet of Hoorn
started to take the town of London. -
Cor. San Francisco Chronicie
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22
A GREAT POINT GAINED,
Why the French Dress Well-First Select
ing Pattern and Then Buying tn
Goods.

Why the French Dress Well--First Select
ing a Pattern and Then Buying the
Goods.
The French woman is acknowledged
to have learned the secret of dressing
well beyond all of other nationalities.
Isolated cases, exceptions to the rule,
prove the statement. Some American
women are these isolated cases, not all.
Foreigners say that Americans are
among the most captivating, and often
the best dressed women they meet, but
this comes of conglomerate clrcum-
stances for which the women as a nation
should take little credit. We are not
vet the best dressed women in the
world. But we are on the road to that
distinction. We have learned the Sc
cret of being ''bien chasse, 6ien gante."
That is one great point gained. An
other rule we are learning slowly, to
preserve the street costume plain, the
carriage or visiting toilet elaborate,
and all effulgence, so to speak,
of costume for the ball OF tot
lets of high ceremony. These rules
are being adhered to more and more
with us, but, withal, we need that APP
pearance of the ''fitness" of things that
is never absent from the toilet of the
French woman of fashion. And here is
the secret, an open one to all. The
American woman sees o material, is
caught by its beauty, its colors, Its
heavy folds, its filny lightness, any of
its attributes that please the eye, and
she buys it, Then she looks up the
styles. hunts for patterns, consults the
modiste and gets it made often without
knowing for what occasion she will
need it. The French woman is too
wise for this. She has made the SUBJ
ject of dress too serious matter of
study. She notes and analyses the
different kinds of treatment given by
artists to drapery on the female forms
of their canvas She studies her own
height, shape, color. carriage and nat
ural movements. She keeps a list of
the probable and possible times and oc-
casions which she thinks she will need
preparation for, and when the time ar
rives for her to have a new costume
made she has its general appearance
and minor details all familiar to her
mind, even to color and cost Then,
and not till then, she goes to the mart
and selects the material that comes
the nearest she can find or afford to
realize the conception of the costume
she wants. In other words, the Ameri- |
can woman purchases her goods, then
finds her pattern; the French woman
selects herpattern, then buys her goods.
Let some of our lady readers who have
never tested this matter see if our idea |
is not correct. If this French plan were
oftener followed there would be fewey |
and beautiful fabrics spoiled |
in the making, by no fault of the dress.
maker. The incongruity in the effect
of many of the most magnificent toilets |
is due to the fact that the Fitness Of
things has been lost sight sf."~ Cteus-
land Leader.
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EASTERN BEGGARS.
Mendicancy as Practiced i'm Northern p

Mendicancy as Practiced I'm Northern Per.
STA.
Here in rich and happy America we
know knothing of begging as it is prac-
ticed in less favored lands. To know
this disagreeable experience in all its
fulness, we must cross the ocean and
travel in Ireland, Spain, Italy, but more
especially Asia; then we shall be less
inclined to complain at our fe home
made mendicants.
Here is description of what a recent
traveller was forced to encounter from
professional beggars in Northern Persia:
ION leaving my caravanserai," he
says, II thought | was rid of the men
dicants and dervishes who had beset
me, but soon discovered my mistake.
Taking short cuts across the field, they
had posted themselves at different
points of vantage along the narrow
path, from which they had not only
recommended their opportunities, but
almost made use of physical force to ar
rest my horse. There were dervishes with
boards stained of fiery-red color, and
wearing queer conical hats, who. fthey
did not regularly belong to the bowling
sect of Constantinople, most decidedly
showed themselves qualified for admis-
sion to it by the fashion in which they
yelled, screamed and groaned, exhort-
ing me in the name of the blessed Ali
and the Imans Hassan and Hussein, not
forgetting Haziret Abass and many
other holyipeople, to give them charity.
Then there were the old, tho blind
and the lame-men. women and chill
dren-hanging on to my stirrup and
Selling my bride. Some we're horribly
deformed, and it seemed marvellous that
they should have undergone such APP
parently frightful disasters as were nec-
essary to reduce them to their then
present mutilated condition, and yet
continue to exist. They seemed to con-
slider that in my supposed quality of
hadji on my way to Meshed must be
bursting with the desire to distribute all
my worldly property to the first corners
who might think fit to ask me for it,
Youths Companion.