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Mullen pardoned ont of the peni

Mullen pardoned ont of the Peni-
Tertiary by President Cleveland was
given his liberty just in time to be
appointed a delegate from Cincin-
natl to the Democratic State
Convention Of Ohio, to vote for
Hoadley as the nominee of that
party for Governor. Mullen was
tried, convicted, sentenced to the
Penitentiary for IL months for flag
rant and brutal violation of the
election laws. The jury that found
him guilty was composed of Demo-
Gratis and Republicans. He con-
fessed his guilt, and yet "a Demo-
cratic Reform President promptly
pardons him upon the strength of a
petition of Democrats, some of the
names to which were forgeries, and
so pronounced by the persons re-
presented. AS soon as Mullen had
thrown off his striped clothes and put
on citizens dress, he was taken up
by his party in Cincinnati and sent
as q delegate to Columbus to vote
for Hoadley. Hoadley was one of
the petitioners, an Mullen paid him
for his influence by helping to NOM
mate him for Governor. Yet this is
a reform administration, run by
reform party, IN the interest of this
kind CT REFORM Valley Virgimian.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29


AUSTIN, Tex, Aug. GA gen.
tleman from johnson City, Blanco
county, gives the details of a terri
BILE tragedy which occurred at that
place Tuesday. AL. Locke, an old
citizen of extensive connection, had
a step daughter living with him
whom, it is alleged, he seduced sew
eral years ago. Lately his own
daughter was apparently pregnant,
and this had been disturbing his
mind, as his relations had attributed
to him the crime of seducng her.
Tuesday afternoon he went to John
Green's place and took Green's
Winchester and returned to the res
ldence OF his brother, Berry Locke.
A neighbor named John Nicholson
rode up just then. He forced Mich.
olson to go with him to Mr.. Stokes's
place. He then shot and killed Mr..
Stokes. Then Nicholson was lost
sight of. His horse was tied there
when found, and it was supposed he
was also killed. From there Locke
went to his own, house and cut the
throat of Mrs. Henry Locke, of
Liano county, wife of his step-son,
who was on a visit to him. He also
shetland killed there Mrs. Stokes, wife
of the Stokes he had killed just pre-
vious to the killing of Mrs. Henry
Locke. Then he killed his daugh.
ter, Miss Locke, the one said to be
pregnant by him. He then attempt.
ed to kill his wife, but his cartridges
being exhausted he could not fire
another shot aad she escaped. Hav.
ing failed to catch and kill his wife
he cut his own throat, mounted his
horse and started in the direction of
johnson City. After riding a few
yards he met Thomas Brunswick.
whom he attacked and into whom
he plunged knife, inflicting fatal
wounds. The murderer then rode
toward johnson City, but was ar
rested within two miles of it. He
was still alive at three o'clock this
morning. With the exception, per
haps, of the murder and cremation
ofthe Lynch family, near Hampstead. |
some years ago, this is the most hor.
rlble set of crimes ever committed
in this State. By it about twenty
children are left orphans.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29

Tho building is about twenty-five years
old. 1t was built by the board of super
visors of New York. A gray sandstone
tablet set in the wall over the door an
nounces that fact The names of the super
visors are craven upon the tablet. Among
them are names of politicians famous in
New York city a quarter of century gone
The visitor will notice the name of William
M. Tweed among them. Without knowing it
Tweed was building house for himself when
be helped construct Ludlow Street jail. Lit
tie the overgrown fraud knew what was to
come in those days at the beginning OF his
power and riches. Yet ii did come. Here
William NJ. Tweed was brought and con-
fined when retribution overlook him. Here,
by mysterious power TO this day known
only TO Tweed's family and his keepers, his
dungeon opened and he walked out. There
is an instance of prison doors opening by
magic, recorded in the New Testament But
that was white magic. Tweed got out by
black magic
But here, too, In course of time, he was
brought again. The mills of the gods grind
slowly, but they don't let up Tweed was
brought back to Ludlow Street JAIL a broken
down, miserable old man, all his jolly ro-
tundity gone, his face showing out in all its
animal ugliness. And here at length, when
his time came, he died. May his soul rest in
such peace as it can. Behind tie door above
which his name was inscribed as builder he
died wicked, dishonored man, with scarce
lv friend in the world
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29
NEW YORK LETTER.
PICTURES OF LUDLOW STREET JAIL,
THE DEBTORS PRISON.
Built by Boss Tweed. it Became His
Prison-Ferdinand Ward, Who Ruined
Grant, Living LuxuriousIy There.
Becky Jones' Cell.
Especial Correspondence

New York, Aug. 2o.-Ludlow Street Jail,
in New York city, is name as familiar to
the reader as that of Talmage, or the Tombs,
or Grants doctors. 1t is in the low-lying,
old, dirty part of the town on the east side.
Here are detained the poor wretches who
are unfortunate enough to owe money to
somebody. If all the people who owe money
in New York city were to be put into Jail,
however, there would not be enough lawyers
and judges left to try their cases, or police
men to guard them. And especially there
wouldn't be enough abls journalists left to
make report of them. Yea, verilyl Don't
we newspaper men know thatl
Ludlow Street Jail is massive brick
structure. On the outside it might be
taken for hospital or for O. schoolhouse,
and it might be taken for church. The
gratings over its windows are slim and
aesthetic looking, as though only meant for
flytine or something of that sort. 1t is
only when you come quite near to them
that you perceive they are massive enough
to turn anybody but desperate burglar or
murderer with a file.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29

But the most notorious prisoner now in
Ludlow Street Jail is Ferdinand Ward, the
minister's son, of the old firm of Grant g.
Ward Only for him Gen. Grant might
have been yet alive. Cancer attacks the
unfortunate, the unhappy and those broken
by financial disaster and family troubles, an
eminent medical authority declares. If on
the days Immediately following Gen. Grants
death the Grand Army men could have got
at Ferdinand Ward they would have torn
him asunder, 1t is said And small wonder.
They recall with execration the man who
dragged the honored name of their old COM
mander in the dust There were gray
bearded men who shed tears silently at sight
of the impressive funeral pageant that
attended to the grave the remains of
the old man, as they still affectionately
call him. But not many tears does young
Mr. Ferdinand Ward shed. Not he He
is quite cheerful, jolly indeed. He lives
luxuriously in the rooms occupied by his il
lustrious predecessor Tweed. If the spook
of the lats Tweed haunts the place that
doesn't trouble him. Everything that
money can buy is his to command. And
Gen. Grant died of cancer, broken-hearted
man. His rooms are separated by an arch
In the center, quite the fashionable thing.
His wife and child come to visit him, and
one friend. Besides these he will see mo-
body but his lawyers, and will not open his
mouth. Not even reporter can get to see
him, although one newspaper correspondent
declares that he obtained the privilege re-
Gently. The keepers told him that the
prisoner could not be got at. But then he
says he tipped" one of them. This person
was open to argument, if not to conviction.
Conviction is not pretty word to use in
this connection.)
Thereupon the enterprising correspondent
was permitted to enter suite of roo rs
which, on the outside, bore the leg !l,:
Warden's Room. No Admittance.n T.,
apartment was neatly fitted up with Blus.
sells carpet and well furnished Ward Sc.
there reading newspaper and "lool,ine ex-
ceedlngly bored" So says the newspaper
letter. But then nobody knows. New York
journalists are, many of them, the ab.est
writers OF fiction In the universal world.
Wards trial will come off in October. it is
said. de gets out occasionally on court
business, as witness etc. He is guarded
on such occasions and brought back by the
warden Rumor also declares he gets out
at other times, to tax IS drives in the park and
go on little larks. But, again, nobody
knows. One thing is certain His LAWYERS
Will not permit him to be tried till the feel
ings wrought up by the death of Gen. Grant
have in some measure died away. 1t is be-
heved he has some of the lost millions snugly
tucked away At all events, he has plenty
OF money. Beside captives confined in
Ludlow Street jail on account of money
matters, United States prisoners are brought
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29
A WORD TO OUR FARMERS.

The low price of wheat and the
recent failure in the crops, should be
inducement enough for farmers
to give their occupation little more
study. Farmers of all men pursue
too much of a regular course from
year to year, without considering
the changes that are going on in
everything that directly or indirect
ly bears upon them. They are OPP
posed to shook learning" on the
farm, and do not profit enough by
experience and close observation.
They do not place sufficient impor-
tance upon the rotation of crops in
any regular order, giving the soil
that rest and replenishment which
is needed to insure a good system of
farming with satisfactory results.
There is too much of a forcing sys-
TEN in vogue, which exhausts the
land so much that all the fertilizers
they can put on will not keep it up.
In drainage, too, there is great de-
ficiency and much land wasted that
might be reclaimed. AS land be-
comes more valuable, the necessity
to clear out and drain every vacant
spot becomes greater. Then the
various farming interests must be
considered according to their profit
ableness, such as cattle raising and
feeding, wool growing, and the diff
ferent crops and products which are
found to pay best. Ifs farmers would
convert all their straw and iced into
manureand lime and manure one field
every year until the farm is gone over,
theresults would be seen for ten years
Too much straw is left
go to waste. Everything taken off
of a farm should be returned, and a !
little lime added each year would
work wonders.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29

All this is old, to be sure. But it natur-
ally comes back to one who visits the cid
prison and sees that name.
Ludlow Street jail is known as the Debt
ors' prison, though there is popular super
stition that nobody can be imprisoned for
debt in the United States. That is true in
one sense, not in another. If it can be
proved that the debt was contracted with
intent to defraud, then the guilty person
can be arrested and shut up in Ludlow
Street Jail till he either pays up or swears
he hasn't anything to pay with. He is al
lowed to do that, in case of small sums
after being held prisoner three months and
fourteen days. He is set free on what is
called an order to vacate. The condition,
'intent to defraud," however, can be
stretched as thin as politicians conscience
One curious feature Of the inmates is the
large number of Hebrews among them.
They are given to having. Sidney Rosen-
field, the enterprising manager who pro-
duced the comic opera of the "Mkado'
without leave, as was alleged, is in there
now. He is tall, thin, rather good looking
man, with long nose and a melancholy
face. He PAGES the corridor back and forth
as if he was about tired of this thing.
The prisoners are allowed considerable
time every day in the interior courtyard.
A great brilliant bed of crocuses and flow
ering plants is set in the center. 1t lights UP
the place in a dazzling way. Several we'll
dressed gentlemen of leisure hung over the
benches in hstless way in the yard. They
weren't very wicked-looking men in the
main, and were clean and fashionably
dressed. The fact is if you had passed these
gentlemen out and free upon Wall street, or
Broadway, or Fifth avenue, you would never
have known but they were bankers and
stockholders and millionaire importers, tho
very pillars of society, in short. l hope to
be forgiven for saying it, but such is the
truth. 1t makes difference which side of
the bars you are on. And sometimes that's
the only difference.
The building itself is sort of house within
house There is an outer wall OF shell Of
brick work nearly two feet thick. 1t is
pierced with many grated windows. Inside,
at distanca of about thres feet apotbar
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29

The rayages of the smallpox con.
t;nue in Montreal.
Sulliyan's Island, Sc, was swept
by cyclone that did great damage,
Tuesday.
The bishop of Quinhon AMMAN
reports 10000 starving Christian re-
fugees.
Mrs. Henry Lyles died in Wash
inton from a scratch on Der hand,
caused by handling patent filter.
Rev. DR.. John Foley is mentioned
as the successor of Bishop Becker,
of Wilmington, DEL, Bishop Becker
going to Savannah, Ga.
A terrible storm passed over Tit
usville, Pa, last week, the lightning
killed Mrs. Chambers and badly
burning her infant. Severe storms
were reported from other parts o.
Pennsylvania.
The body of the beautiful young
woman found floating in the river
at Louisville, KY, has been identl'
fed as that of Mrs. Armine johnson,
Of Madison, Indiana. Her death
remains mystery.
Forty thousand persons assembled
in Madrid Sunday to protest against
the seizure of the Caroline Islands
by Germany.-Since the outbreak
of cholera in Spain there have been
156,077 cases and 81 ,521 deaths.
The report from MarseIlles is more
favorable.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29

Ex-senator Henry G.. Davis, of
West Virginia, has been at Saratoga
for several days. He, ex-senator
Stockton, ex-senator Stevenson and
Senator Salisbury make up group
nearly every afternoon for the pur.
pose of talking over old times. DIR.
Davis is the richest man of them all.
He retired from the Senate for the
sole purpose Of giving his undivided
attention to the enormous properties
under his control in the state OF
West Virginia.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29

While at work at the Pennsylvania
Steel Works at Harrisburg on Sat.
urday evening, Paul Suslieskie at.
tempted to drive the pins too close
the bell which shut the furnace. He
had hardly stepped upon the bell
when it sank, and he was dropped
into the molten metal. The bell
came back into its proper shape, but
before 1t could be opened, Suslieskie
had been almost entirely creniated.
The peor man had received his
months wages, and the money was
also consumed.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29
NEAT JOB WORK

Competitive examinations for one
Peabody Scholarship from the State
at large and one from the
Third and Fourth Congressional
Districts, will be held at the follow.
ing times and places: For the
State at large, Saturday, September
9Th, at Wheeling; for the Third Con
gressional District the same time, at
Charleston for the Fourth Congress
sional District, Thursday, Septem.
Der 9th, a Point Pleasant.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29
FIsH's CELL.

A year and half ago, and who so high or
SO swell as he2 Very grand society he
moved in. Now he is learning the shoe
makers trade at Auburn penitentiary, with
a cropped head and striped suit Grimm
ais occasionally do get punished in the last
year or two, you Will observe, in New York.
Fifty-six years old is well on in life to be
learning trade, but it is never too late to
mend. An honest cobbler is good deal
more respectable than dishonest bank
president.
While Fish was In Jail last spring his
beautiful and gifted young wife, Sallie Re
Der, died in mysterious manner in an OBJ
scure and shabby little house in New Jersey
One fact in connection with her death is not
generally known. That was that when her
corpse was brought to Jersey City to be
shipped west for burial it was almost with
out clothing. There was only single I'M
dergarment upon the body, and that torn
and soiled, and so coarse in fabric that she
would never have been apt to wear such.
Z Their she was nearly destitute of clothing
or her dead body had been robbed ami
stripped Of its garments
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-Details
OF the destruction in Canton, China.
and vicinity by the recent great rain
storm there have been received by
private parties in this city. The
nood was the most serious which
mas visited Canton in thirty years.
More than 10000 persons lost their
lives, and far greater number are
ieiI IN starving condition. Entire
villages were engulied, and the rice
ana SILK crops in the vicinity were
almost ruined.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29

Strikers on the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad attempted to wreck
a train near Denver, COL, by plac.
ing dynamite on the track, which
was fortunately discovered IN time.
Marquis de Mores, the millionaire
cattieman in Dakota, has been indict-
ed for the murder Of a cowboy.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29
An Answer Wanted.

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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29
MONTGOMERY. A. Auo

MONTGOMERY, ALA, Aug. a.
In Talladega county, J.H.McGow
killed and dressed a pig for a bar
becue last Friday. His three child
ren-aged eleven, nine and four
saw the process of butchcring the
pig. The next day McGowman left
home, and the children agreed to re.
peat the process of the day before.
Having no pig, the two older child
rem proceeded to butcher the young
er. They cut its throat and hung it
up by the heels, as the pig had hung,
aud were proceeding to disemboweI
1t, when their mother discovered the
horrible tragedy.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29

strip OF wall, beginning at the Top were
pasted large figures, commencing at !.
Becky had pasted a number there for every
week she had been kept in durance. The
last number was 45. She was there nearly
a year, To every attempt to make her tell
what she knew she would only answer:
.sMr. Hamersley said to me on his DEATH
bed, Becky, hold your tongue And I'm
going to do it.
Do 1t she did At last she worried the OPP
position out, and everybody else, and one
morning quiet order released her, and in
flash Becky was missing. She has never
turned up since, although it is said she is at
Ballston Spa living in very handsome style,
which goes to indicate that silence is truly
golden. Becky's room was decorated by
herself in the most fantastic manner. Pic
lures, chromos, steel and wood engravings
and fashion patterns are pasted over nearly
every square inch of the dark walls, from
high to low. She mounted ladder when
she got above her head with this FASTING
work, and went on up. The room is a Gu
rious sight. Crazy quilt pictures were q
favorite design with Becky.
There are few women prisoners in Lud-
low They were skipping about over the
broiling hot range cooking and doing the
homework. There is no reason why the
men prisoners should not have been helping,
too, If there was the right to make any of
them labor But we saw no men at work
Women always have it the toughest. you
will observe
There was one prisoner whose crime was
puzzled to place exactly. am uncertain
shout it still. A woman had sued another
woman for heavy damages for alternating
the affections of her husband She had
clapped the offending rival in Ludlow Street
jail One thought if woman who was as I'M
progressing as this one could ALLEVIATE the
affections of any wife's husband, then what
must the wife have bsens She was great
rawboned, fop-eared woman, who was
drowning her grief by pairing potatoes, or
something of that sort. A man who would
allow his affections to be alienated by a
woman who looked like that ought to be
shut up in Ludlow Street Jail himself.
ELIZA ARCHARD.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29

One of the relics treasured in the
library at Norland's, in Rhode Island,
Is homely pineboard cradle, in
which we're rocked the seven Wash
Durne brothers. Four congressman.
two ministers plenipotentiary, two
governors and a secretary of state
were successfully lulled to sleep be-
tween the implanted pine boards.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29
An Enterprising, Reliable House.

p. G. Williams & Bro. can always be
reiled upon, not only to carry in stock
the best of everything, but to secure the
Agency for such articles as have we'll
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people, thereby sustaining the reputation
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29

WILKEsBARRE, Pa, August 90
from early morning yesterday until
late last night there was a heavy
downpour OF rain in this county. At
Harvey's Lake, ten miles from here.
snow fell this morning, and contin.
ued until noon with slight intervals.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29

Senator John Sherman opened the
Ohio campaign this week by rat
ting speech at Mt. Gilead. The
Republicans will make an earnest
effort in Ohio and Virginia, and
with a fair field they will win.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29
EniPnla.

The whole is the name of delicious fruit.
1t contains six letters.
Five of them spell an article of kitchen
furniture
Four spell violent anger.
Three spell a generation.
Two spell one of the Oldest cities Of the
world.
One is an intersection.
Five of them spell mournful sound.
-Four spell departed
Four spell girls name
Two spell a conjunction.
One is an article
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29

The cyclone which swept over
Charleston on Tuesday dlsmantled
churches and houses, wrecked the
wharves and shipping, inundated
the streets, and caused damage to
the extent of S1,123,000.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29

Conrad B. Day was nominated for
State treasurer by the Pennsylvania
Democratic Convention and strong
anti-monopoly resolutions were
adopted.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29

There were 4,7O1 fresh cases Of
cholera in Spain on Monday, and
l,F33 deaths. A panic prevails
among all classes in Marseilles, and
the disease is rapidly spreading to
other parts of France.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29

Spain is lnfamed with war fever
against Germany. The latter pow
er denies that she has refused arbi-
tration in the Caroline matter.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29

All soldiers who have had an am
putation performed so near the ell
bow, knee or hip joint as to render
the remaining bone useless, accord
ing to the ruling of Commissioner
Black are entitled to pension of
$3.50 per month.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-29
SATURDAY, AUG. 2sth, 1885.

THE HERALD has the largest bona
eide circulation of any paper published
I'm the eastern end of this State, and a
town circulation equal to that Of the
other two papers combined. Printed
lists always open to the public.