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The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-05-23

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end hal hardly ms dfafi casled when
/ Htwa Dispatch announcing hiH elnelipa
Az Cnnsfa ffum sguth tatnllna Dur
lnp iha ame wpfk mob aol hold u
tim IN Wyoming and hung him ~ .
telegraph tnlr fYr driving ~ some eat.
/ tla lpIGnrinY ~ another mhu bat be-
fore the Coroner could summon q Jury
ta lnduf Iutn hia death be- bad taken
the contract 10 build new jail IN 1na
/ lhe back counties u Indiana
John smith Il one n the most un.
steady mrn ever knew The lail he
had contracted 20 build could not have
been more than hail lone whom hr WIS
appointed postmaster VI a town ~
Northern ohio, and before he had quail
fled BY hling his bond and taking The
oath Mexican greasnr lassocd him
and dragged him over the prairlcs until
he was calm and harmless corpse,
whose bones were left TO bleach on tho
sandy plains Of Arizona
During the last month ho seems to
have done much better, however II
appears that he married rich widow
and her i've grown daughters In Ten
ncssec. and was on his way 10 Utah
where be- was TO be installed as one o.
the Apostles Of the Mormon Church
On hia way out. however, the train RAJ
oil the track and loft him q one.sistl
I, widowcr. having killed his wife an'
mother.In-law combined. lie Is NOV
probably safely arrived at Salt LAX
tity, Later This morning $ dispatch
es state that he was killed yesterday q
a lire In san Francisco. Still Later
, Tie evening papers say he was ARRESTED
: nj the New Orleans Exposition yestet
, day for dropping counterfeit money !
: the farc.box In the entrance. - ihr0a9
:, Mail.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-05-23
JOHN SMITH.
An Ubiquitous Parsonage Which fsrrl
One Has Known from Ills iioyhood.

An ublunitoua Parsonage which livery
One Has Known from Ills iioyhood.
John Smith Is one Of the most pecu-
liar men ever knew. aud ! have known
him from my infancy. lie has followed
me from the time first formed his ac-
auainlanee until this hour. When |
was married. over five hundred miles
from the place Of my birth, he was at
my wedding. having been acquainted
with my wife's people long before !
ever heard the name. When our first
babe was born. he oilolated rs master
of ceremonies. although when frst
knew him ,he was section hand on a
railroad, and at the time Of my marriage
was rising young sign-painter. He
wa my sohool-master for considerable
period between those two dates. aud
when | Joined the church he baptized
me into tho faith.
John Smith has never been hundred
miles away from mic In all my life.
When ! was praeticlng law at White
Hall, ILL.,. he ran farm less than four
miles from the village. When | wa.
principal Of the village school at Iuka.
i've III his boys reaped Of the harvest oi
knowledge was sowing.
Although John Smiths five sons were
my pupils nj fuka. three months before,
when John Smith sailed me down the
gulf coast " Florida IN an open boat.
H. was n bachelor. II Is strange how
soon he amassnd family. In about
nine weeks after found him sbaeheloI
In Florida he had been married mar
In Iuka for nearly nine yeurs. J could
not help looking upon him with sus
picion. but a year later, when J found
him In the Legislature at Springfield
with four blnshing daughters swarminl
around him, was astonishsL He ha
been where | could get at him on 81
hours notice for more than twentl
years. and In spite Of this fact am toll
that he has committed a large numb"
Of crimes and misdemeanors While
was in the gallery Of the Illinois Hous
Of Representatives listening to . speae
from him on the Harper High-licens
bin. he ran away with the wife 81
prominent, physician In Chicago Ho'
h. managed 10 do 50 without being di.
covered I more than can understand
While the Sheriff Of Macoupln Count
was looking for him with posse 4
horse-stealEng he was preaching In OF
Of The most prominent churches In III
county. and one day, while he and
were catching bass out Of Long LAX
over IN Green County, be fell from u
, top Of tie new postofiice building
St Louis and wss killed. and while }
funeral was In progress he robbed
bank and escaped 10 Cansda frp
Northern New York.
When | came 10 Bloomington be v
a passenger conductor on The Chieai
|. 4 Alton Railroad; but I had hardly Z
settled In business when be came 70 =
IN the rni.e Of = tramp printer. but
!, had heen In 70 many srrspes thAI 7
! elined in have anything % d with hh
} II sas les than Two weeks alter | q
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-05-23
JEALousY,s WORK.
Horrible Tragedy at Troy, n. ", attribut-
able to the Gr.sn-Eyed Monster.

Horrible Tragedy at Troy. ~ ", Attribut-
able to the Grsrn-Eyed Monster.
TnoY, n. Y, May ia terrible affair
occurred last evening on Jay street. Will
liam Mccormick, young man about
twenty-five years old, Gu, his young
wiies throat aud supplemented the terri
bic deed BY the cutting bis own throat
fatally. About ten o'clock officer Leiayre,
Of the second precinct, while passing Jay
street on horse car heard the
screams OF woman, 10 the
direction Of the river Jumping
from the car he, In company With Ollcer
Hoar, who had also been attracted by
the w0man's screams, ran down
.lay street. Near the last house on
the north side Of the street they saw a
woman leaning against the fence with
blood streaming from ghastly wound In
the throat.
In reply 70 the questions Of the officers
she said her husband had done II that
he had then cut bis own throat and run
toward the river. The woman was AZ.
sisted into the house, and officer Lefavre
started 20 hnd the man. Lying near the
west corner Of the house Mccormick was
discovered with blood pouring from !
wound similar TO the one Inflicted OF
bls wife. lie was assisted 10 th'
THIRD Precinct Station House by th'
officers aud Doctor prendergast wa
summoned. lie responded at once sns
made an examination Of the unfortunate
mans wound. lie at once pronounced !
fatal. aud said ihe man could not possl
bly, be relieved. Going 10 the scene Q
the tragedy he found the woman ly
Ing on the floor surrounded by horror
stricken nelghbors. An examination
showed that the iugular vein and carotl'
artery were severed. The wind.plpc wa
not cut, and after dressing the wound
which required eight stitches TO close, n
physician said, with proper care, sh
would recover. Jealousy was the caus
OF the tragedy.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-05-23

fHs memoirs N gsfliali hays isga a..
liet hHl ~ t4e fsla ~ fha f'silsa flHvs
sfnmHHt sill ~ r. pfIaffi HHiH ten Yeaf.
after ths Dat n hlf daHih
gHtu f&tG Ftasfff has Published In
q Fafs fsfff fhffsst n maH sahss.
tl9nallY fHtHialana character against
fllndslnnei sr Charles blss ani other
English pegpia n note, nat hesltetlns I,
strike ~ ihe Primes n Wales ani even ~,
0uean.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-05-23

fst Nv rashts tHasffWffsI ~ ffffis'
iHfis iHH#iii#Hfa
ramnV IN VI sal'a ahisrel hig
dath ofdft nd sandstone bIh eh.fh
,romei 'u nstie nls aao'hef In endle'
mliuaen bnd bme ~ IeuHtA W
stand M yalla " bore'bDa shape. I
afrrf thtn tho fpsi II vat nn afd /
nhotp.fanla place growing nothing /
but q NV dry rnrtus bushes Aeutiah
nan Rhmt ur ns We huitefl, nHd hap
pne avM laR ueighhoting ctftus, st
watching ua FROM behind hs friendly
shelter
The rrl sandstone Cllns positively
hIael iu iho sunlight The strong blue
as scented ~ come duwn and touch
thrIr mmmtt with burning fingers, and
where they met there wai ainaelnllllaiIng
simmer u pale pink iirr All around
nrnr tho skyline thesa clllIs were per
f.fnled with hundreds nf little black.
rnod holes. like 80 many swallows
nests In a sand hill These we're the
doors and windows Of the ellil-dwcllings.
Most nf them we're entirely Inaccessible,
being from two TO three hundred feet
/ M the sheer side Of tho elllf In few
Places great quantities Of debris had
fallen enough to allow o venturesome
climber 10 reach the apcrturcsi but
Bucksktn Joe, who knew the ways "
the place, led us 10 a stairway which
had been cut IN the rock by the prchis-
torc inhabitants.
Eleanor. who was the first to enter
one Of the little black doorways, reap
peared almost Immediately with q
shudder and little scream,
"Ohl YOU mustn't go IN there, she
cried. OTIS all full Of horrid things
Notwithstanding the earnest nature
OF the warning, ventured in, dislodg-
ing ~ did 80 two large lizards aud a
horned toad, which came scampoting
out. indignant at being disturbed.
Joe, who had meanwhile entered
. another doorway, came out, Offering q
human skull 10 one Of tho ladies. Then
ensucd general stampede In search o'
relies We found arrow.hcads, bits o
decorated pottery, small agates, ant
4, some broken bones. In one room W.
saw some frosh-looking corn cobs
which had been preserved, who coulC
: sag how many centuries, In this won
. doriul dry atmosphere In another w
I came upon millions Of butterflies
r wings. They strewcd the floor In ricl
9 layers wonderful carpet-and Hut
' tered like living things as we poye'
i about. We could find no spiders o
y other deadly insects TO account 70
n their presence. Why the beautiful III
l. Tie creatures had come away up there t
y die. none but the god Of butterilie
:, could tell. Some Of the rooms W
/ found in state Of perfect preservation
- ,he whltewash on the plastered walls .
n fresh as the day, centuries ago, that
" was laid on. The dwellings conslste
generally OF only one room, with doc
IA window, and chimney reaching u
{. 10 the top Of the cliils above. In OF
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-05-23

wasnisaros, D. C., May iT.--senstof
Don Cameron has virtually sold bis dns
house here, erected on Scott Circle, and
d. p. Morgan, formerly Of New York,
but nov . resident Of this city, l. said 70
be the purchaser. The residences vas
erected few Jssrs ago st eos, Of so.
600, exclusive of the KfoHnd on NhleH u
was built. The prica 10 be paid l. sss,.
600, a. property In that psrs oi The clty
has appreciated rapidly In value. Sen
afaF rsmrrpu's hesish rs he~n a~elirluTl
snd II u extremely doubtful II he VIII
ever assIn saka much Of hand In poll
lles. either in fsnnsyIsania Of In NJ
tioual senss.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-05-23

WASHINGTON, d. c., May is.-Up TO
within few days the Executive Mansion
stables sheltered eight horses. Only two
Of these, howeyer-the seal browns-be-
loneed TO President Cleveland, the re-
naming sl1 were the property Of x.Pres.
ldcnt Arthur and his son Allan. Last
Frlday two OF the ex.presldenps horses
we're shipped 10 New York, and the 9th,
ets were taken TO LIVERY stable on q
street. The proprietor has instructions
to dlsoose OF these 10 the best advantage
Allan Arthut's Black Hawk team 4
among the four now for sale and vii
no doubt bring q good price.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-05-23

EAsT SAGINAW, Mich, May ls.-Ihsre
has been but little rain here this spring.
aud the country Is very dry. Fires have
begun TO run 10 the woods, and unless
rain comes great damage will result.
In Glare County yesterday l.200,0oe
feet Of logs, belonging to =. Hailinoees
Of this city, were burned. fawcstp'
Mlll, near Cedar Lake, was also burned
There IL no insurance. Four hundred
thousand feet Of lumber belonging q
W. 4. Nelson was also burnedi Plefc'
BROS. mill, near the same place. wasals'
burned. loss, $4,000.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-05-23

Lospos, MAY lT.--From St. Peters
burg comes the news that the Russian
Gosernmen, has decided upon Russian.
lslng The German provinces along ths
baltic. To accomplish this The Car nas
issued 4 ukase that hereafter the Russian
language shall be taught 10 all schools In
these provinces, and shall entirely re-
ulare the German language IN those
schools wherein heretofore y has beet
taught.
4 similar edict has been Issued Il War
.ss IN The Official Journal. This edle
makes The Russian language TIE sols lsn
saass 10 be taught h all ths slemeuiaF'
schools throughout Hasslaa PalEnd.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-05-23

L.wRnscE, KAs., May i7.-four cor
respondent, returning las. night from
Oklahoma, left party Of boomers on the
STATE line awaiting news from the party
who entered the promised land soini'
DAYS ago. This body has been lost tracl
Of for couple Of days past, owing Y
the severe faIns impeding all travel. y
Il known that three companies oil troops
have been ordered 20 head Them on
They are reported 10 be an adventurous
set Of fellows, and tho talk among ths
boomers on the State line Is that the
will hghi.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-05-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Western Nail Association at their
meeting In Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th
made no change In tho card rate.
DISPATCHES from the Northwest on the
18th indicated that General Middleton had
won a decisive victory over the rebels,
driving them from Batouche.
on the 18th reduced copy OF the Bar
thodi statue was formally presented by
Americans 10 tho municipality Of Paris.
A MONSTER meeting was held In Trafal-
gar Square, London, on the 18th, TO pro-
test against increasing the tax on whisky
and beer. II resulted In riot, In which
many heads were hurt, but nobody killed.
TnE public at Cairo are indignant over
the declared intention ofEngland to With
draw from tho Soudan, US the Egyptian
Government considers II absolutely neces.
sary to hold the Province of Dongola.
SOCIETY In Baltimore Is ngitated over
the Belt divorce case.
Russo. EsGLisH negotiations are said to
be progressing satisfactorily"
THE Western Union wires are being put
under ground In Washington, ID. c.
TuE annual convention Of the Bishops ol
the NJ ethodist Episcopal Church began In
st. Louis, Mo-, on the i4th, Bishop bow
man presiding. All the Bishops were
present exccp. Bishops Hurst and Fowler
TS the Supervising Architscys office at
WASHINGTON six unnecessary clerks and
messenger have been dispensed with.
Foa the week ended the 18th considera'
bla reduction Is shown In the number o
hogs handled by Western packers, COM
pared with the preceding week, and also 10
comparison with the corresponding tim'
last year. Returns indicate total o.
1000 packed during the week, agaius
i7s.O01 the preceding week, and lsl,0O fol
corresponding time last year. This make
a total OF f.i5i,000 hogs since March lst
compared with $4,000 year ago, an In
crease Of 10000, istabutei as follows
Chicago. pp,O00; Kansas City. 1Is,tW
gt Louis, $4,000: Cincinnati, as,5Qli In
dlauapolIs, 1900; Milwaukee, GOO
Cedar Rapids, q 2s); Cleveland, 53,Bst
ARRANGEMENTS are being perfected 10
Turkish occupation Of the Soudan.
TuE Princeton College Alumni Assocla
lion held Its annual reunion aud dinner
the Planters House, 81 Louis, No, on th
:, 18th.
, , TnE promoters Of the American erhiei
: ton to be asld IN London In 1885 have Dc
termiued on a site for the buildings.
. Tur iron manufacturers and the Anal
eamatsd Association have given up tryin
T. cone TO terms and strike or lockou;
considered inevitable.
If now intimatsd that II England dos
M. svsnzs the defeat Of the Afghsns
y psnideh she will have 70 indemnify n
: Amer.
Arfsv In Nsv Tark Who furnished hS'
u az fnr the Grse,v relief expedition -
,hsv maid gsorr- n Cot, Of Wsshinsio'
I ssr securing them the contract, eight csnl
: !. an every pound o iaissr farnissra
rratoraus have bssn given 70 sixt
...sa ursatsrs and their assistants an
= fs-hs n rassrs Il shs BuresH q Ensfs'
- aaa rrlaslag na acrount d lassaseas'
sppssprIaiieaz.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-06-13

THE Nashville Union of last Tues
day, in the course of some editorial
comments upon a couple of recent
killing affairs at Tracy City, claims as
a fact that the people of Tracy City
take more newspapers and periodicals
than the people of either Winchester
or McMinnville. Tracy City is
mining town, and a little further
back in the mountains than either
McMinnville or Winchester, while
both of the latter places are school
towns and educational centerS to a
large extent. We do not know how
far right or wrong the Union is in
this claim, but we are fully persuaded
that so far as McMinnville and War
rem county are concerned, great
many more newspapers and periodi-
calls might be taken than at present,
to the very material advantage of our
people. There are doubtless hundreds
of people in Warren county who
never look into a newspaper, and we
venture the assertion that there is not
family in the county too poor to
take newspaper. Every man, wo-
man and child who can read should
have constant access to one or more
good newspapers and periodicals.
The reading of papers is the avenue
to a practical form of education which
can be secured in no other way.
There is matter-of-fact, tangible de-
gree of instruction and knowledge of
the everyday affairs of life gained
from reading which no amount of APP
plicatiOn to text books can impart.
There is degree of enlightenment
secured to reading people to which
those who deny themselves newspa-
perS and periodicals never attain.
One good newspaper in a family is
worth many times its cost as a COM
mon educator to every member Of the
family. A man had better stint his
family upon food and raiment, if nee
essary, than deny them the advan-
tages of good newspapers and periodi-
Gals. Reading Of current events and
literature extends the mental vision
to heights and breadths which school
books can never reach. Reading ia
cilitates ways and means, and enables
the mind to choose the best methods.
Reading stimulates thought, and inn
parts a broad and liberal form of edu-
ton which dignifies and ennobles la
Dor.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-06-13
HAY MAKING.

The time for making hay has be-
gun. Farmers do not always appre-
ciate the value and importance of the
hay season. Every pound of grass of
every kind that will make hay should
be saved. 1t should be cut at the
proper stage if possible, and well
stored away safely under shelter, or
well stacked with good caps to pro-
tect it from the rain. Those who
have to stack out should provide
good waterproof caps, one for each
stack, so as to prevent the rains from
injuring it. At a very small expense
heavy canvass made waterproof can
be provided for caps. 1t is a good
plan to use these on hay cocks in the
field before hauling and storing away
when weather is unfavorable. 1t is
very important to make good hay
and preserve it well until wanted fol-
use. Most of us are too careless in
this respect. These hay caps can be
taken care of and used for several
years.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-06-13
Amount Of Exercise Required.

DR.. Parkes has calculated that the
amount of exercise a man in health
should take regularly is equal to walks
ing nine miles day upon level ground.
The amount of walking done in walk
ing about the house and other domes-
tic duties may probably be put down
as three miles, which will leave only a
walk of six miles per diem on level
ground. If the ground is billy, this
will be still more reduced, so that it
certainly does not seem an excessive
amount to advise. The proper quan>
tity must, however, vary greatly with
circumstances. Females, for example,
will not take as much as men. In win.
ter more may be taken than in sum.
mer. In youth, when the body is un-
dergoing its most active development,
care must be taken that every muscle
is exercised in its turn. Hence the free
use of gymnastics, games, and sports
at this age is most beneficial. In ad-
vanced life the power and inclination
for exercise, both fail, but even then
every effort should be made to prevail
upon the individual to take some
amount of exercise, and to postpone
the evil day when he will become COM
pletely bedridden. Such an amount Of
exercise is in all cases necessary as well
keep the musles in good health, and
enable them to meet the physical re.
quirements of the rest of the body.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-06-13
The Dime Novel Cure.


A trustee of the Providence Public
Library has undertaken to cure the
small boy of his interest in the dime
novel, and can be said to have sue
ceeded. He has met the antecedent
with its consequent. He has gather
ed into scrapbook the adventures
of the boys who read dime novels
and has made it his business in a
quiet way to ask the boys one by one
who are interested in these stories to
spend an hour or two in reading, not
the imaginative story but the way in
which the small boy has attempted
to realize how boys ought to live and
what they ought to be allowed to do.
1t is said that the dime novel boy
usually reads the scrapboOk, which is
rapidly increasing in size as the fresh
exploits of the dime novel adventur-
ers are added to it, about two hours.
He then lays it down in disgust, and
nothing can induce him to return to
those stories again. He asks the per-
son in charge of the reading room for
better class of books. This cure of
a disease with its own poison has
been so effective in Providence that
the trustee in question is thinking of
taking out patent for the process,
lest other libraries and the heads OF
families and the guardians of the
small boy generally may appropriate
his invention without due credit.
This gentleman is the first among
moderns to give point to the old say
ing, "LOok on this picture and then
on that" and it is the other picture
that is powerful enough to wind up
the dime novel business. These are
the realism in literature, and this
man, going further than Mr.. HOwells
or Mr.. James, or even Mr.. lola, has
substituted the pastepot and scissors
for the imagination, gathering his
horrors and tragedies from actual
life, in the firm belief that if truth is
not stronger than fiction, it has 6
wonderful power at the right mo-
ment over an awakened mind
Boston Herald.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-06-13

is used in each days hour of leisure,
and readers find interest in reading its
advertisements as we'll as its news, be-
cause of the variety they present and
the information they convey respect
ing wide diversity Of interests. 1t
may be safely estimated that an an
nouncement made through the press is
noticed by fifty readers, where, made
in private way, it would reach but
one. If, therefore, the some amount
were expended in either case, the re-
suit would be ffty.fold better from the
former method than from the latter.
There are, undoubtedly, cases in which
the circular is a better medium than
the newspaper. Such, for instance, as
where the matter is necessarily lengthy
and the cost of newspaper space would
therefore be very large. But such
cases are quite exceptional; and the
sooner advertisers learn the folly Of
their present large expenditures in seek.
ing publicity through private means,
the better for their pockets and their
success.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-06-13
Points About Advertising.

The New York Commercial Bulle.
tin gives well timed article under the
head of Failures of Private Adver-
Using" meaning thereby cards, circu
lars, and such methods, which it con-
cludes as follows:
Men of business who resort to this
method of advertising cannot be ignor
ant of the fact that the people whom
they would reach have become nausea
ted with it. They must be aware that
they themselves disregard all such APP
peals for patronage; and what reasons
have they to suppose that others re-
ceive their applications with more
patience? Sagacious advertisers are
beginning to see this and are returning
to the old method of public announce
ment. The newspaper is, in every
sense, the best medium for advertising /;
and, for a given result, it is by much
the cheapest also. 1t reaches far
greater number of possible customers
than any private announcement can
and it is more certain to receive atten.
ton. The private circular is thrown
aside as thing which people have no
come to regard as a bore, and which is
neglected because its recipients have
time to attend to it. The newspaper