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St. Landry democrat., 1885-03-28
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A CoLoRED MAN named John fairfield
fell into the slack of furnace No. 2, of the
Woodstock Iron Company, of Admission,
Ala, on the night of the Goth, and was in
stantly burned to death.
ALLEN HUBBARD, who stabbed Henry
Everett to death in Wilkinson county,
Tenn, on the 10Th, was captured on the
21st, and is now in jail.
BURGLARS blew open tie safe OF Thomas
N. King & Co., of Nashville, Tenn, on the
21st, and got SIS. Powder, cold chisels and
circular bits were used.
April 18th is Mexican War Veteran Day
at the New Orleans Exposition. Col. j. b.
Deason, President of the Mississippi Asso-
citation of Mexican War Veterans, has call
ed meeting of the Association at jackson
April Sd, to arrange for the above day.
MRS. KREUMER, the wife of German
farmer living near Pacific, Mo-, murdered
her little child on the evening of the 18th
by nearly severing it's head from the body
with butchers knife; she also attempted
to kill her two other children, but they es-
capped and alarmed their father, who had
great difficulty in overpowering his wife,
who was violently insane and claimed she
had been ordered to sacrifice all her chill
dren.
TIE R. E. Lee Camp Of Confederate
Veterans, of Richmond, Va, adopted
preamble and resolutions on the 2lst ten
dering to Gen. Grant their heartfelt sympa-
thies in his severe affection, and hope that
he may, by the aid of Divine Providence,
soon be permitted to regain his health and
to pass the remaining years in peace and
happiness.
THE Langham hotel at Chicago was
burned on the 21st. An elderly lady jump
ed from fourth story window of the burn
ing building and was killed. Six fremen
were killed by falling wall.
The boiler in saw-mill, near Pine Bluff,
Ark, belonging to Ed Montgomery, explod-
ed on the 21st, fatally wounding Montgom-
cry, killing Engineer C. Morris, and break
ing the leg Of Amos Even. Several others
of the mill hands were severely scalded.
MRS. BRIDGET DURBY, Of New Orleans,
coal vender, aged xty-three, was found
dead in her shanty on the morning OF the
21st. She had been strangled, evidently
for the purpose of robbery, as she was
known to have over 800 in cash.
GEN. HATCH telegraphed the War De-
partment on the 21st, that about 5000 Okla
homa boomers were congregated at Coffee
vile, KS, on the southern border line, with
the intention of moving into the Territory
THE London United Service Gazette
states that the British Admiralty has COM
pleted every preparation to send, il neces.
sary, powerful feet to the Baltic within
few days.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-03-28
SMALL coUNTERFEITsRs.

| Two Polish Jews, Who Have Been Doing
a Thriving Business Counter!eiting
| Small Coins, Captu:ed in New York
With Their Outfit.
NEW YORK, March 21.-There has been
much complaint in this city few months
past on account of the existence of large
quantities of counterfeit small coin, in
Guiding pennies, three, five, ten and
twenty-five cent pieces, all cleverly exc
cuted. The pennies, in fact, are made
of purer copper than the genuine. Chief
Drummond af the Secret Service Depart
ment has been working up the case for
some time, and yesterday arrested the
counterfeiters, two Polish jews named
Rodonsky and Kalpon, at No. 60
Essex street. Rodonsky was os-
tensibly a jeWeler, and kept
small store at No. 81 Edridge street.
Suspicion was directed to him by COM
plants of workman that he had re-
ceiyed number of the spurious coins
from Rodensky in change for bill ten
dered in payment for repairs to watch.
Inspector caves went to RodonskY's'
place and left his watch to be repaired.
On calling for it afterward he received
among his change several spurious coins.
Chief Drummond then sent q clock to the
place with like result.
Feeling sure that they were now on the
right track, the officers secured the as
sistance of United States Marshal Brooks
and four of his deputies and went to
Rodonsky's house, 60 Essex street,
where they arrested RodonSky and his
assistant Kalpon.
In a dark back room they found presses,
dies, stamps, punches, milling machines,
hammers, crucibles and other ma chinerY
for making coins. They also found an
oblong, Wrought-iron press about two
feet long, with q lateral movement, which
worked absolutely without noise. Ex-
perts say it is one of the cleverest in
struments ever devised by counterfeiters.
A model of the press was also found, in
dicating that the machine was made by
the men themselves on the premises.
Several rolls of German silver and
sheets Of copper were also seized,
together with 5000 counterfeit coins.
Rodonsky said he was forty years old
and had been in this country thirty years.
Both men are swarthy and full bearded.
Their clothing was extremely dirty and
ragged, and the rooms We're filthy.
An official at the sub-Treasury, on be-
ing being shown some of the counterfeit
coins, said they were almost indistin-
guishable from the genuine. Cashier
Floyd added that 100 of the pence could
be punched from sheet of copper cost
ing only twelve cents.
The prisoners were locked up in Lud-
low Street Jail, and will be arraigned be-
fore United States Commissioner Shields
to-day.
Rodonsky says that Kalpon invented
the machinery, though he admits that he
himself used it.
The penalty for counterfeiting one and
three cent. pieces is three years impris-
onment or 81, 900 fine, or both; and for
making dimes ten years or $4,000 fine,
or both
St. Landry democrat., 1885-03-28
CHARGED WITH MURDER.


A Young Society Man of Richmond, Vir-
ginia Charged with the Murder of Fam
ny NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Point to
Him as the Guilty Party.
RICHMOND, Va, March 20.-The police
were busy all day yesterday working up
clews and fitting together the links in the
chain of circumstances surrounding the
death of Miss Fanny Lillian Madison, the
pretty young girl whose dead body was
found in the reservoir last Saturday. The
latest development was the arrest of Mr..
T. j. Cluverius, young lawyer OF King
Queen County, charged with the MUIR
der of the lady. The officers arrived here
last evening with their prisoner. They ar
rested him at the house of Mrs. Samuel
Tunstall, near Little Plymouth, III that
county.
He was at the supper table when the
officers were announced. He admitted
that he knew of the discovery OF the dead
body of Miss Madison in this city. He
had lust obtained the Richmond papers
with that information. He also admits
he was in Richmond on Friday last, the
day on which the unhappy girl must have
come to her death. Cluverius denies that
he saw her during his stay here, or that
he had any communication with the girl,
either written or otherwise. He can, he
says, account for every hour of his stay
here, from the time of his arrival On
Thursday until his departure for his home
on Saturday morning.
Mr.. CIuverius is about twenty-three
years old, and is well connected. His
family is possessed of plenty OF means,
and will spare no expense to defend him.
All who know him say that the accused is
q man of irreproachable character and
incapable of committing crime, much
less such a cold-blooded murder as he
stands charged with.
When arrested by the police young Gu
verius had with him package containing
fifteen or twenty letters, most of which
were from ladies. It appears from these
missives that CIuverius is quite a fayorite
with the fair sex. There are some very
spicy letters in the batch, SO the police
say.
The bitter cold weather did not deter
crowds from visiting the reservoir and
looking in the basin where the pretty girl
met her death. The keeper has been
compelled to lock the gates.
The betrayed girls career, up to this
one slip, which caused her sad end,
has been pro nounced unblemished by
all who knew her. She was q member
of the Baptist Church, as is also Thos.
J. Cluverius, the young man charged
with her murder.
The poor girl was buried yesterday.
To avoid increasing the excitement there
was no ceremony, either at the church or
the grave. Her remains were followed by
her aged fatherand nearest relatives, who
wept bitterly when the body was con.
signed to lakewood Cemetery.
Citizens are talking of getting up
purse to employ additional counsel to
aid the Commemorative attorney in fer
reting out and prosecuting the murderer,
as the crime is considered a reflection
upon the city.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-03-28
HOME AT LAST.

Arrival of Mrs. Nellie Sartoris-An Affect
ing Meeting Between General Grant and
His Loved Daughter.
NEW YORK, March 21.-There was no
material change in General Grants con-
dition yesterday. He worked considera-
bly, on his book, and appeared more ac-
tive than for several days past. Mrs.
Sartoris, who arrived from Europe
In the steamship Baltic in COM
pany with Fred. Grant, called
last night at her fathers residence at
$3.50 O'Clock. The meeting between the
General and his daughter was very affect
ing. During the afternoon the General
received calls from several of his intimate
friends, and IN the evening the General
appeared more comfortable than for sew
eral days past.
NEW YORK, March 21.-When Mrs. Sar-
toris arrived at the Grant residence she
did not want to remove her wraps, but
went at once upstairs. The General
and Mrs. Grant were in their
bedroom. If the General was
nervous ne did not show 1t.
He returned his daughters caresses af-
tectionateIy, and IN answer to her anx-
ious inquiry said that he felt very we'll.
DR.. Douglas was there, and he would not
allow the General to have a long talk,
but sent him off to bed. Soon afterward
he seemed to be asleep and the Doctor
went away.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-03-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

LA LIBERTE states that France is will
ing to abandon her claims to indemnity
if China will execute the Tien Tsin
treaty.
A GENERAL forward movement of Rus
sian troops is repor ted behind the line of
outposts. General Kamarof is said to be
encamped opposite the Afghan outposts of
Aktepeh.
A FORWARD movement from Suakim
was commenced by the British troops on
the 10Th, and fighting was expected any
moment.
RUSSIAN officers, at recent council of
war, urged an immediate advance upon
Herat.
The night force of the Bankers & Mer-
chants Telegraph Company at Boston,
Mass, are on strike for pack pay.
A YOUNG clipping couple from Buffalo,
N. Y, en- route to st. Louis, were arrested
at Cleveland on the 10Th and placed in the
lookup.
The adnerents Of Ell Mahdi declare til at
before heeS-;amer is far advanced Gem
eral Nitolseley' army will be cut of from
Cairo.
ADvICES frQrU the Souoan OF the 18th
report a * EC engagement between the
British s9a The rebels, with small losses on
esSgs si6n
4. SEMI OFFICIAL reports from Paris state
tlst Bismarck of ersd to arbitrate for the
settlement of the dispute between Russia
asa England.
arHE event of the day at the New Or
le4ns Exposition ON the 18th was d balloon
ascess by Prof. Van Tassel, OF. Califors
St. Landry democrat., 1885-03-28

Mr.. MILLER, the newly appointed Ccm-
missioner of Internal Revenue, entered
upon the discharge of his duties on the
26t1. He was the recipient of many con-
CALCULATIONS from callers and by mail, and
during the day received all the principal
officers of the bureau.
THE President has accepted the invita-
ton of the veterans of the FIRST and other
corps to visit the battlefield of Gettysburg
when they make their historical visit there
on the 4th and oh of May, unless prevent
ed by some urgent necessitysof public SER
vice.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-03-28

ONE of the young men who competed in
the recent six day roller skating contest in
New York has died from the Inflammation
of the brain, cold and exhaustion, supposed
to have been the results of his exertton il
the contest.
DISPATCHES to the War Department
from General Hatch, at Arkansas City,
say: "The Couch Colony, about 500 in
number, continue in camp, and soy they
do not intend to disband. I do not be-
lieve they will attempt to enter the Terri
tory"
The Secretary of the Navy has declined
to take action upon the report recommend.
ing the acceptance of the new dispatch
boat Dolphin until he has had an oppor-
tunity to examine the contract and all the
details of the vessels construction.
In the British House of Commons on the
10th it was stated that the regular army
numbers 1S4,250 men and the volunteer
force 2U8,6O0. The newspapers are pleased
with the statement.
On the 10th the Connecticut Senate, by
vote of y to 5, rejected the House bill
giving women suffrage in school districts.
A SCHEME is being agitated by the Can
adian Pacific Railway Company to secure
the land grant of the Winnipeg & South
western, to build branch to the Turtle
Mountain country in Dakota.
THE Schoharie IN. " National Bank
suspended on the 10th.
Ell MAHDI's followers are reported to be
deserving him in large numbers, and he
is now encamped at Omdurman with
about 1900 men.
The st. James Gazette believes that
peace between France and China can only
be brought about by complete cession of
Tonquin to the French.
In fight on the Goth, lasting five hours,
between the British and Osman Digna's
forces in the Soudan, the latter's position
was captured, and the Arabs sustained
great loss.
THE Spaulding Iron Works at Steuben-
vile, o., had to shut down because of the
coal miners strike, and $50 men are thrown
out of employment
A BLUE BOOK has just been issued at
London, containing correspondence be-
tween the French and English Govern
ments in reference to rice being declared q
contraband of war by the French.
ANOTHER coal mining company in Penn
sylvania employing 1000 men will shut
down rather than pay the advance de-
manded. This will make 10000 miners =
that State out of employment.
IN executive session en- the 2)th the SEN
ate ratified the additional article of the
Mexican treaty, extending until May Goth,
1886, the time for the approval of the laws
necessary to carry into operation the COM
mercial convention between the two Gov
ernments, concluded at Washington, Jam
uary 18th, 1888.
On the Goth the Vice President laid be-
fore the Senate memorial of the Mon
tana Legislature, stating that nearly all
the public domain in Montana is desert
land, and protesting against the repeal of
the desert land act.
DURING the seven days ended the Goth
there were 247 failures in the United States
reported to Bradstreet's, against 25O in the
preceding week, and 1872 and 1875 in the
corresponding weeks Of 1884 and 1888.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-07
The Antelope of New Mexico.

Even in his most graceful movements
there is something Of gross materially
about the deer, from which his bright
cousin of the plains is entirely free.
Whether, in clear outline against the
sky, he stands on a distant swell watch
ing you, or, like a stilted ghost, looms
altar through the mirage OF the heated
plain. or, far out Of shot, circles round
you with legs filmy with speed, the an
telope is ali spiiritueAe, and seems like
to vanquish space. The deer loves the
crowded woods and cramped up hills;
but the antelope is happy only on the
boundless open. When troubles arise
the deer steers for the haven OF brush;
but the antelope steers for the open sea
of the plain. To the antelope the
deer's swiftest pace is only play, and a
run that may be death to a fat deer IL
only a pleasure stroll for this gay
rover.- Outing.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-07
THE POPPY IN PERSIA.
How the Plant Is Grown and How the Pm
l., duct is Secured. =

How the Plant Is Grown and How the Pro-
b; duct is Secured. ~
From time immemorial opium has
been grown in Persia in the neighbour
hood of Yezd, and enough was always
produced there to supply the demands
of the native market. Nine out of TEN
of the aged in Persia take from one to-
five grains of the drug daily; it ID
largely used by the native physicians,
and a considerable export kept up to-
central Asia. During the cotton FAM
inc caused by the American war;. the
attention of the Persian ryot was
turned to the cultivation of cotton /; but
Persian cotton soon became hardly
worth growing, save the small amount
required for home manufacture, and
the villages throughout the center and
south gradually turned their attention
to the cultivation of the poppy. Year
by year this crop has become a more
favorite one and the result has BEEN
that grain-growing has been %mucrnegg-.
lected, with the effect of raising the
price in some districts. In the neigh-I
borhood of Ispahan, as far as the eye
can reach, nothing but fields of peoples!
are to be seen, with a small patch here
and there of wheat Or barley, which
the cultivator produces for his own use1
or to give some rest to his land. Tie
white variety of the poppy is the one
that is grown. 1t is sown broadcast
and very thickly, and when it first
comes up resembles a very abundant
crop of dandelions. This redundance
is soon reduced by the ryot, who
with a short, curved knife hacks.
away %superfuous plants till those
that are left stand some six,
inches from each other. This reducing,
process has to be gone through many
times, and the ground kept clear Of
weeds until the plant is six inches high.
The fields are also irrigated once q
week until the buds are about to burst
into bloom. 1t is this irrigation prob
ably, that accounts for the inferiority
in the per centage of morphia in Pers-
ian opium. And now that the peoples
are in flower and the petals are about
to fall, the roots, under the direction Of
men from the neighborhood of Yezd,
who travel all over Persia to superin-
tend the gathering of the crop and its
subsequent preparation, begin to col
feet the opium from the plant This il
done by scoring the ~seed-vessels with a
small three-bladed knife, which makes
three gashes an eighth of an inch long,
The operation is performed in the af-
ternoon. From these gashes the opium
exudes in tears. which are collected at
early dawn by scraping with a piece Of
glass or a knife. If, unfortunately, a
heavy shower of rain should fall, a
large proportion of or even all the
opium may be lost. This gashing and
scraping is repeated a second and even
a third time. The peoples, after the
opium is extracted, are used as fodder.
The ryot often has advances Cat heavy
interest) made to him upon his crop.
and at times the %speculator is severely
bitten.-Cor. London NeWs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-07
A FABLE.
1t Takes a Smart MAJ to Get Ahead of q
XOmaN.

1t Takes a Smart Man to Get Ahead of q
Woman
Once upon a time, many hundred
years ago, when the world was not as
enlightened as it now is, and divorce
courts had not blossomed into their
full beauty and usefulness, there lived
a man who had a wife. Now at times
the wife was obstreperous, and the man
was won't to caress her tenderly with a
club. One day she had been more ag-
gravating than usual, and the man, in
his Jealous desire to perfect her in
good works. became SO vigorous with
the club that she fell to the floor.
Fearing the law, he procured a shot
gun, which, being already loaded to
the muzzle for tramps, he placed be-
meath his chin, and, pulling the trigger,
all of the available portion of his head
was blown up against the ceiling, in
sanguinary ~frescoes. The explosion
reused the woman, and she forthwith
arose, and observing the damage done
to the ceiling, called for the patrol
wagon. The man was permanently
dead, but the woman lived to marry
again.-Merchoat Traveller.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-07
H ~coNsIsToRY.

Meaning of tie Term and It's Ancient Sig.
nification.
The word is q term which was orig
inally applied to an ante-chamber or
outer room of the palace 81 the En-
perors of Rome, where the petitioners
for justice assembled and awaited the
presence of the Emperor, and the phe-
nomena of which have formed the
motive of ancient and realistic poetry,
no less than the inspiration of modern
recreative or imaginative art. The
Emperor, upon his entrance into the.
consistory, took his seat upon q tri-.
bunal, while the others stood, consiste-
bamt, around him. The word consist,
DRY, as a term of ecclesiastical law, in,
which sense it is for the most part en-
ployed in the usage of to-day, came to.
be used first Of all to denote certain
ecclesiastical councils, in which the!
bishop was seated, while the presbyters'
and other clergy stood around him.,
1t proceeded by degrees to be referred!
generally to all ecclesiastical councils,
in which a bishop presided, and in
which matters Of order rather than of,
doctrine We're discussed and decided
The term "consistory," as used in the
Latin Church, is applied at Rome
to denote a meeting of the
College of Cardinals convoked,
by the Pope and held un-;
der his Presidency, the presence of his
holiness being a necessary condition
to constitute the assembly Of Cardinals!
a consistory. Consistories are either
public or private. A public consistory
is now rarely summoned, and is, in
fact, an extraordinary assembly of
Cardinals, at which other prelates and
ecclesiastical magnates are present,
and over which the Pope presides in
his pontifical robes of state. 1t was
customary for the Pope to receive for
eign sovereigns and their Ambassadors
in a public consistory, and the has
used to be conferred on newly created
Cardinals in such an assembly. The
private or secret consistory is the
ordinary court in which the Cardinals
attend on the Pope, and in which the
latter formally transacts certain ec-
clesiastical matters which are of suf1i-
GENTLY high Importance to be deemed
conSlStOrlal, Sucn as Ine 10
all consistorial benefices, the creation
of Cardinals, the confirmation of the
election of Bishops and their DISPOSE
ton, the appointment to vacant Sees,
the sending of the pallium to Arch
bishops, and the granting of extraordi-
nary dispensations. This ordinary
consistory Of the Pope is for the most
part held in a chamber of the Papal
Palace at Rome, known as the camera
papagali, or Painted Chamber, as the
Star Chamber at Westminster came to
be so called from the painting or
tapestry on its walls.-London Society.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-07
TROvE.
The valuables Boston Boys Find in the
Sawdust Circus Ring.

SaWuus circus King.
sHurry up, Jimmy, an get yer
shovel, or we'll get left"
So shouted a ragged, bare-footed
little urchin, as he stood, early yester-
day morning, in an alleyway leading
off of Dartmouth street. He was evi-
IDENTIFY much excited, and brandished
an old and nearly toothless short
handed rake. Jimmy" 500 ap-
peared from a neighboring yard, armed
with a small coal-shovel and starch
box, and the couple started up the
Alleyway on the run.
.'Where are you going?" called a
shrill voice, and a disheveled female
head appeared over the fence. The
boys stopped.
"We's goin' to the circus grounds"
replied Jimmy, "to rake over the saw
dust"
.'What for?"
ooh! we find pennies, an peanuts,
an whole lots OBJ things. Come along,
Patsey, or de udder fellers III get ahead
of u.s." and the boys were out of sight
in an instant. The disheveled female
head vanished, and the writer followed
the boys to the circus ground, which
was already occupied by numerous
small boys, busily engaged in raking
over the sawdust. One had found a
dollar in currency, and still another a
set of false teeth! The other articles
found were too numerous to mention;
and, though most of them were such
as would delight only youthful hearts,
their aggregate value was consider
able. The peanut crop was n~oticeably
large, one small boy having nearly
filled his cap with sound nuts.-Boston
Globe.