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Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-26
CONFESSED THE CRIME.
Tho wife aud Nephew Of a n Bruialiy
Murder Him andQHids His Body In
Mamma Ham.

Tho wife aud Nephew Of n Man Bruiaiiy
Murder Him andUHIds HIS BODY In
% Manure Heap.
CHARLEDtX, MfCH., Feb. 20. --Excitemrnt IN
the Higgins murder case, since the discOy, ~ Of
the body In a manure heap, has been Increased
By Mrs. Higgins COnfPssing how the horrible
deed was committed. To the sheriff she admit
ted that she and her husbands nephew were
the murderers. Higgins had been suspicious
OF undue intimacy between his wife and nephew,
and had frequently ordered him to leave the
place.. The nephew continued to remain, how
ever, at the solicitation Of Mrs. Higgins,
who seemed TO have had influence over
her husband. Saturday, February 18th, Higgins
returned from Br0wnstOwn, where he had been
trading. Since then he was not seen or heard
from. The wife and nephew declared he had
gone away TO stay. but the neighbO's, becoming
suspicious, organized a searching party Mon
day and found the Ody Of Higgins buried In a
manure pile behind his barn. The skull was
crushed and tine body mutilated. Yesterday
Mrs. Higgins made a confession to Prosecuting
Attorney Hudson, saying her husband was kill
cd shortly after bis return home, and that the
crime was committed in the house by George
Higgins, the instrument used being a hammer.
The body was taken to the barn and hidden in a
hay stack TILL Sunday night, when they buried it
IN the manure: Higgins. when inter iewed,
by Hudson and the sheriff and shown Mrs.
Higgins confession and the hammer, broke
down and c0rrOborated the Woman's statement,
adding that his uncle was thrown down, chOked
and hammered till dead. Threats of lynchmg
are freely made, and fearing an attempt would
pc made the prisoner was removed to the Bel
ialre jail. Both we're bound oyer for trial.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-26
Making Preparations for a Lively
Rate War,

New YORK, Feb. 2O.-The difficulties growing
OuG of the disruption of the Trans continental
association are increasing and the cutting of
rates, it is said, will be something phenomenal.
There has been no important change in the
situation, though G. b. SimonsOn OF the
Atchison, Topeka Il Santa Fe road said
to-day that Tuesday would be a lively day in re-
gard to a reduction of freight rates Whatever
reduction that road may make will doubtless be
promptly met by the other roads,.
The SuDSet Route will put on more cars and
convey passengers to New Orleans at a minimum
rate, in order 70 divert traffic from the Atchison
road: which conveys its passengers to that point,
via Kansas City.
At the Union Pacific, Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, Miss, uri Pacific and Chicago and North
western companies offices, nothing new was
developed.
A scalper on Broadway is selling tickets
to San Francisco, via the Baltimore g. ohio and
the Atchi on, Topeka & Santa Fe road for $50,
SCI and S44, the trip on the Cther roads costing
SS7, 49, 30 and $50 respectively, according to
class, The tickets are issued to Kansas ity. at
which point the passenger Is given an order for
the remainder OF the trip. The Scalper, it is
said, has made special arrangements with the
AtchisOn roads. The cut on freight has not yet
began, but as soon as the Pacific mail steamers
take freight at a low rate, and that certainly
win lie in less than a month, then the war on
freights will be prosecuted with earnestneSs.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-26

Senator Evarts, Of New York. must BE-
careful what be is about and mind his ps and
qs better. In q late speech be said that
when a man made a failure in everything
else. being a politician included, there was
nothing left for him but to go to q better
world or come down to farming.
Senator Evarts should understand that no
man comes down to farming Il Is ut
once the most useful and most exalted Of al
occupations. Any numbskull who has money
can get into the United States senate. A
good many men who are there now bear witt
ness to it. But to become well-to-do at
farming requires brains, Judgment. industry
and practical intelligence of the highest
order. Not only have farmers to contend
against drouths, wet seasons. rot, INSECT pests
and all the evil forces Of nature, but they
have also to bear up against the annual
eruption Of idiocy Of the average congress-
man.
The farmers task Is indeed q difficult one.
To perform it thoroughly requires qualities
that partake Of the heroic. But the Ameri-
can farmer, fortunately, has strong, alert
mental faculties. A good memory ID one Of
them, for one thing. he will probably not
forget Senator Evarts' idea Of the farmer,
how when a man was too utterly q blessed
fool for anything else he had to coma
down to farming.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-26
killing sheen.

A sheep improves In flavor with age, and
they are never too old as long as they are
healthy and fat In fact, they must be- two
years old or moro before they make what is
called ''red mutton" that is, mutton which
when cooked done has red gravy. It is best
before killing to let the sheep remain twelve
hours without food, having plenty Of water.
Then, everything being ready, cut tho
sleeps throat close to the jaw and head to
the bone, inserting the knife into the spinal
column OF the neck to insure quick death.
The hind quarters should then be skinned,
as they are easily reached; q ~gammonstick
is then inserted into the sinews at the
hook, when the sheep is suspended
and the skinning completed, Next the
intestines should be quickly taken out,
which prevents the wool taste so often men
toned by haters Of mutton. This tastc
comes from an infusion of the excretions in
to the circulation after the vital powers no
longer prevent it, as the sheep has the long
est intestines of ruminants. In killing game
experts always take out the intestines ct
once for the sam reason. The carcass OF
mutton may then be wrapped in the woody
side Of the sheepskin without harm, as g x
pertinent will show. The sheep may be
hung up at once by Irvine around the hooks
and the gamma stick, and the same opera
ton gone through, but the first process is
the best. Toronto Globe.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-26
The Blair Bill.
N. o. Times Democrat

n. o.. Times-Democrat
The vote in the Senate leaves little
doubt of the passage of the Blair ed
u~cational bill. The matter has been
very thoroughly discussed in the Sen
ate without a division either on party
or sectional lines, and the views Of the
Senators as well as of their States have
been very generally obtained.
There can be no doubt that in the
debate the friends Of education and
of the bill have sustained a signal
victory. Mr.. Morgan, Of Alabama,
who made himself the chief spokes-
man of the opposition, was offset by
his colleague, Mr.. Pugh, who made
two very good p~oints-frst, that the
people of Alabama desired the bill,
having so declared through their Leg
islature and mass meetings; and Sec
ondly. in reference too the constitu-
tional question, that it was strange, if
Congress had the right to make an ap-
preparation to stop the ravages of the
cotton worm in the South, yet found
itself hampered and its hands tied when
it was brought face to face with the
far more serious matter of illiteracy.
Next to Mr.. Morgan, the most earn.
est opposition to the bill came from
the Texas Senators. We can.easily ap-
preciate the reason of this, and yet this
reason is a very strong argument why
the other Senators should support the
bill. BY a fortuitous circumstance,
the State of Texas finds itself in a DO
sition to educate its children without
aid or assistance from the Federal
Government, and ultimately with
out any local taxation. The
fact that Texas came into this country
a full ledged State, owner of all its
vast public domain of 10000, 900
acres, has enabled it to set aside the
greater portion of that domain for its
public schools. Through the sale and
lease of its State land Texas has al
ready a large public school fund and a
handsome income, which enables it to
educate its youth without too heavy a
burden on its resources Its good for
tune in this respect, which is shared
by no other Southern State, should, we
think, induce the Texas Senators to
favor rather than oppose this measure
for the benefit of those States that
need the assistance given by this bill.
While there remains now little doubt
of the passage Of the bill by the Sen
ate, it still has strong opposition to en-
counter in the House, and mainly from
such Southern Representatives as have
been induced to believe that some gi-
gaDtic attack on the Constitution is
hidden under the proposition to aid
the aus of education. The South
ern people should give their aid and
assistance if they are really and earn
estly in favor of this measure.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-26

Mr.. Bland to Present a Minority Re-
port on the Silver Question, Etc,

Mr.. Bland to Present a Minority Re-
port on the Silver Question, Etc.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. -Chairman Bland, of
the house committee on coinage, weights and
measures, has prepared a minority report on
the bill to provide for the free coinage Of silver,
which was reported adversely from the commit,
tee, and which is now on the house calendar,
The report is sigUed by Messrs. Bland, Lanham
and Bynum and starts off with the declaration
that the volume of metallic money Is not sub
tect to the control Of tlfe legislature, but is regu-
lated by nature. RecOgnZing the principle that
nature should supply the volume Of money, the
duty that devOlveS upon the legislature is to IS
tabliSh by law the ratio Of value for the coinage
OF the two metals, aud to provide for the lnlim-
tied or free coinage OF both at the ratio eStaD.
lished.
The secretary of the treasury has issued a
call for ten million three per cent bonds, the
principal and accrued Interest of which will be
paid April first next.
The treasury has paid out about $4,000, 900 so
iarthtS nor Ii on account Of pensions. 1t is be-
lleVed, however, that this heavy payment will
not have II very serious effect on the public debt,
us the revenues OF the government have been
unusually large this month. A special increase
has occurred in the receipts from customs.
The Judiciary committee of the house of Rep
resentatiVes gave a hearing to the officers and
delegates OF the national woman suffrage asso-
citation in their committee room at 10 80 this
morning.
The aides presented an appeal for the sub
mission OF u sixteenth amendment to the State
legislatures, The committee seemed exceed
ingly interested and gave the ladies a very re-
spect!nl hearinr; Miss Anthony presented the
committee with a copy of the Woman
Suffrage history from its inception up to
The present time, aud told them
She should continue to make history out OF their
%actio4s on the w0man's suffrage QUESTION until
Ihe sixteenth amendment is passed. Mr..
Tuek.r. OF Virginia, chairman of the COM
mittee, asked ii She should record for posterlty
''every idle word we say" and Miss Anthony
assured him she should do so. WIZ
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-26
A Conference of Employers Con-
cludes to Yield to the Strikers.

MOUNT PLEASANT, PA, Feb. 2O.-This after
noon HE board vi Cancellation on the part of the
strikers met with tue syndicate representatives,
composed Of II. U. Frisk Coke Company; Col.
j. M. Shoemaker, and his brother, Of Schoo.
maker " Co.; s. f. rafferty,, OF Mcclure q Co. (;
Secretary AtcnisOn, of the Coke Producers AS.
ISOLATION, and Syndicate Agent Stricken, at
Sc0ttdale. The conference was strictly confiden-
tial, but the negotiations were of Such a charaC-
ter that notices have been posted at all the
WORKS, Stating that work will be resumed on
Monday next at the wages paid before the re-
ducti0n OF December, 1881, which means the
grant of the 10 per cent advance asked by the
strikers. The English speaking labOrerS are
iubilant and are painting the community red in
this vicinity, The AungarianS, though, main
tain a snllen silence, especially at MOorewoOd,
where they say they will not return to work
until all the prisoners are libera' ed from Jail.
PITTSBUhG, Feb 20-A COnneilsville dispatch
says notices nave been posted up IN every one of
the works to resume Monday at IN advance OF
ten per cent. This is what the strike was for.
The former wages were twenty-sevsR cents per
wa o n or mining, and fifly-iVe cents per oven
for drawing coke. The wages will De tblrty and
sixty cents. The strike lasted five weeks, and
the tot loss to operators and wOrkmen is over
a half million dollars.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-26
FIJI CHINESE RroTs.
Claims for over 100000 Filled Win the
STATE Department for Damages Growing
Out Of the Chinese Riots on the P clio.

Claims for over 100000 Filsd Win the
STATE Department for Damages Growing
Out Of the chinese Riots on the p clio.
CHICAGO. Feb. 2O.-A special dispatch from
san francisco saysi II the damage claims,
which the Chinese representatives have pre-
ferred can be brought 10 bear, AEti-MOngOlian
rl0t and expulsion are likely TO cost the people
OF the United States u round -um. On calling
at the Chinese consulate yesterday, Young
Ming, the Chinese consul general, made the
following statement; 1.-THE first claim fled with
the state department for damages was taken for
$6.JOh, which grew out OF tue Denver riots OF
October 10, 1850. II is still unsettled. Every
thing was quiet then until the expulsion Of the
Chinese from Eureka. Humboldt county, CalifOr-
ma, ID February, 1885. For The damages SUI
tered by my people, there are suits being
Drought N the circuit court to the amount OF
nearly SlO0,000. | look not h0pelessly for sue
cess there. however, and the claims will pr0bab y
De nled with the secretary of State.
ION September I'd a riot occurred at Rock
Springs, wyoming. when twenty-nine China
men were killed and a large amount OF property
destroyed. For the lost property claims have
been hled for STAT 700. Indemnity for the killed
has not been considered.
Five days after three hop-pickers were killed
and several wounded in Squak valley, Washing
ton Territory. Their homes we're then burned.
claims to the amount Of $4,000 have or will be
filed for the episode.
sept nth much Chinese property was de-
Stroyed at Coal Creek mine, In King county,
for Si,O54
"The chief damage at Tacoma was done on
Nov. Sd, and partial claims have been Onward
ed to the amount of sos, 75O."
"Wha about the Seattle diStUrbances?"
claims for damages will not be presented in
that Instance II the authorities show a DISPOSE
tlon to punish the Offenders"
IN addition to what the consul general has
told n ~ q .Vh M DAa 10 --- ~ -
$4,000 has been filed for the premises burned
in SparJ , cou ty, California, in the first part of
last year, while 'laims or suits will be filed or
brought for over 100000 more for injuries and
damages at Redding, Truekee, Builder creek
and Bloomgeld and Nichols, all in this state.
Young Ming tapped the ends of his fingers to-
gether, and said nothing while the correspond
ent, on adding up the amount of claims and
suits, found that the financial aspect of anti
Chinese movement involved the consideration
OF something over $5O0,OO0.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-26

Two New York Aldermen Tell the story
Of Jake shaFp's Railway stenl-A New
Tilden ON Hand,

Two New York Aldermen Tell the story
Of Jake sharp's Hallway steal-A New
Tllden on Hand.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20.-The World this morn
ing SAYS: The World Is to day able TO slate, upon
information from the most trustworthy and
various sources. that " Of the aldermen. who
voted for The Broadway railway franc ise steal,
have discovered The whole Infamous conspiracy.
They have not only told all that relates 10 their
important evidence against all, or nearly all OF
the other parties to 10. The extraordinary dis
closures thus made, however, are less significant
now than they Nould have been afew days ago,
for the senate committee has unearthed and
woven together an unbTOken chain Of
evidence which would have proved beyond any
doubt the facts contained In the confessions Of
the two aldermen. The committee was in a pO-
sition 70 crush the ring aud punish the culprits
before these disclosures were made. There are
in existence proofs so clear and strong that all
the cunning OF the counsel, backed up by whole
sale and trained perjury, cannot overthrow
them; In other words, the great ring is com
pletely surrounded both collectively and indi-
viduslly. Flight is now impossible, for a move,
ment to leave the State would
probably, be met by instant arrest.
That Jacob Sharp and his friends
are now in an iron cage is a realized
TACT. The two al eTmen, who have unboSomed
themselves, we're led to do so in order that they
might claim the immunity and safety which the
state filings around its own accepted witnesses.
The evidence now in the hands of the senate
committee shows the big ring. The railway
ring has qualifications aud connections OF the
most startling nature. The aldermen seem ODE
the least important persoDages implicated. New
York Is now upon the threshold OF another
tremendous Tweed earthquake that will
shake the city TO its centre. Nothing, it
Is believed, can swerve the 5 nate committee
from the course it has chosen to take, and with
Ro coe Conkling as the new Tllden, the COM
plete punishment OF a crime, as broad and black
as the Tweed conspiracy, Is athand.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-26
irving to Make 1t a Murder.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 20-There being a strong
cab. KY, that the death of Mrs. Lucy Grimes
Boyd, which took place here a week ago, was
the result of murotr, rather than suicide, Chief
of Police Gray, Of Paducah, came here to-day
gan gave him ali the information in his posses.
Sion ard assigned a detective to ASST t him. He
then visited the coroner, examined the records
of that officials office, and a number of letters
were found in Mrs. Boyd'S room, and before he
leaves he will make a thorough investigation of
the whole case. There is no doubt here but that
Mrs Boyd cOmm'tted suicide, but every facility
will be given to MIR Gray to ascertain all the
facts in the case, and to reach his own conclu.
SiOnS therefrom.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-26
Comb anna rrtrnOtnd Hnnnr.

Mr. 9. 7. Muth, talking OF honey raising,
thought that Florida might be the Eldorado
of the beekeeper working for extracted
honey, but that a popularity of the climate
in the mangrove country-dampness-made
the raising Of comb honey impracticablC.
This led to the subject Of what kind Of
honey, comb or extracted, was Of greatest
demand and the most profitable to the pro
ducer, The facts on this subject would indi-
cate that there was a very great difference
in the kind of honey demanded, depending
on locality. Extracted honey could be pro-
duced at less than half the cost Of comb
honey, but b%eekeepers should produce both
kinds, being governed by the demand in
their W markets as to which kind they
should produce the most of.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-26
Things to DO and to KNOW.

Young chickens Matched v as late as
March ring fifteen to twenty cents a pound
Hatched in January and February in east
ern cities they sell for seventy five cents a
pound. Ducks bring 50 apiece. The incuba-
tor can be used to good advantage for win
ter Matching.
Bulls can DO easily kept in a lot fenced
with barbed wire.
An Ohio man had a hen that laid a double
yelked egg every other day, and on the be-.
tween days she laid two eggs, one Of which
lad a shell while the other had none.
Owe + GOO coo miles of barbed wire fencing
we're made in this country in 1885. 1t has
been decided in the courts that where it is
used for the roadside fencing the owner can
not be held responsible for injuries done TO
animals along the road.
A bushel Of beans, rich in the heterogeneous.
elements for which beef is purchased. az
any reasonable price will do more to sun
port life and labor in the family Of a labor
ing man than will four times, or ten times.
the same amount expended in beef. Lei
those to whom economy il an object note
this well.
The cost of cultivating a farm. and tAa
cost of sickness in the family, can be greatly
reduced by drainage.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-26
Select Farmers, Clubs.

The Iowa Register says that o dozen
people is enough to form a farmers club
They should be men and women both. They
should meet at one another's homes, where
nobody will come who is not specially in.
vited. Once a month, the year around, the
meetings should be held, and regularly at
tended. Those at whose homes the club
meets for the month will take care to have
the house and farm in the best order to be
looked at by critical eyes. The next month
the next farmer will try to rival the last
one, and go Improvement will be steady and
constant. The Register editor adds:
Besides the improvements In house, farm
and stock, the select club systems bring to-
gether persons who have confidence in each
other, and there is more freedom of express
sion and action. The men and women soon
begin to feel the same freedom to talk and
act that they do in their W family circle.
One of the greatest drawbacks to the farmer
and his public efforts is his backwardness in
communicating his ideas before public as.
semblies. He soon loses all this embarass-
ment in the seclusion of his select club. We
have known intelligent farmers, who could
not be induced to say a word before a pro
m%iscuous audience, who were soon ready and
anxious to talk freely and to the purpose
before the club. And soon the public be-
came astonished at his freedom and famiI-
iarty in conducting public meetings Of his
party, or for temperance, agriculture, or
anything SO frequently demanding active
and clear-headed men The private club is
the place to educate farmers for such posi-.
lions.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-26
GROUND PLAN.

The house is divided into four compart-
ments, for different breeds of fowls, if they
are wanted. This suits the purpose of
poultry fanciers we'll. But ordinary farm
people who raise chickens for profit will not
care to keep breeds separate. The four
separate rooms will be a matter of con-
venience even then, however. enabling one
to get at the nests without tramping in
among the roosts, and to put sitting hens by
themselves For farm purposes the Ply
mouth Rocks and brown Leghorns are the
best breeds to get. A cross between the
two would probably be of exceptional ex-
cellence. The partitions between the apart
ments are boarded up to the bottom of the
windows From there on they are con-
tinued with wire netting. to let light all
through. The window stills are two feet six
inches high.
The ground plan explains itself. The
nests, it will be observed, all range along the
center passageway. At the rear of each Isl
little slide door in the partition to admit the
hand to collect eggs or catch the hens. Or
this may be trap door to let down. Each
compartment has a single door near the
ground, at the top Of the stone foundation,
for the fowls to pass in and out. This can
be shut at night and in cold weather. The
earth floor is the best for the compartments.
1t is the natural thing. The manure should
be cleared away from time to time, sufficient
ly to leave the floor a dust-wallow for the
hens. A pile of fine gravel should
be thrown upon each floor, too. In winter
the house can be heated by hot water pipes
buried just below the surface of the ground.
The water is heated by a kerosene lamp,
which will burn all night without replenish-
ing. By means Of this warm house eggs can
be had p~lentilully in winter. Chicks can be
Matched in midwinter also, ready to make
spring broi!ers. The separate Compartments
will make it easy to rear them. They should
be allowed outdoors of warm days, after
the first two weeks.