Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-08-01

club there from twenty
~ eight birds raised ], 600
M% u which were turned out
and, finding plenty o
good food, thrived won
derfully. The club has sent to England
for 100 more hen birds, and hopes tC
raise 5000 pheasants this season. TIL,
eggs are set under common barnyarC
fowls, the pheasant being proverbially
improvident mother. The island bid,
fair to be the finest game preserve in the
United Sta es. The California quail
turned ont there have increased won.
derfully, and so have deer and wild tur-
key. Indeed, deer have become so mum.
erous as TO injure the crops raised on
the island.
The cleverness of an English rascal
has excited the envy of all the rascals
in Paris, who, with typical Partisan
egotism, have long claimed to be the
cleverest rascals in the world. The
English rascal in question was a pro
fessional London pick-pocket. Shortly
before the French Exposition opened,
he bought small hotel in Paris on the
installment plan. The purchase price
of the hotel was So, 900, and the first
and only installment which the English
man paid was $1,000. The Englishman
bought few pieces of cheap English
furniture for his new house, equipped
an English bar, and then advertised far
and wide for English boarders during
the exposition. His prices were so low
that he soon filed his house. Every
one of his dodgers was warned by a
placard over his bed that the landlord
would not be responsible for the loss of
any valuables which had not been de-
posted in the hotel safe OF course the
safe deposits increased with the popu-
larity of the hotel, and both reached
high water mark two days before the
second installment of 50, 900 on the pur
chase price of the hotel fell due There
was then $1,000 in British iewelry and
bank-notes in the safe. The pick-pock-
ct landlord stole every sou OF it. He
concealed his plumber in his quarters IN
another part of Paris, dyed his hair,
shaved his beard, put ON French suit
of clothes, and began picking pockets
at the exposition. He was caught by
the police with his hand in the pocket
of an English member of Parliament,
and was locked up. A police investiga-
ton led to revelation of his history,
and the recovery Of the iewelry and
money which had been given him for
safe keeping.
Nor long ago a man named James
Hoover died in the Colorado State |
Prison. He had been sentenced for 1
life for killing a man named George |
Simpson, who had once been his part /
ner in various mining ventures. The
difficulty which brought about the fatal 4
meeting was due to the fact that Hoover
had run away with his partners earn
ings-gold nuggets, valued at So, 900.
Before killing Simpson, Hoover had
gone to his old home in HUNTINGDON
county, Pennsylvania, in search Of h S
parents. Being unsuccessful in his
search, and fearing to carry the stolen
treasure about with him any longer,
and it was also very heavy, lie buried
it on a farm under the roots of a white
oak tree belonging to a man named
Brenneman. Then he went West. and
as stated, got into prison. This was in
1878. just before his death he made a
will leaving the buried money to War
den Hoyt, Of the penitentiary, in the
advent that he (Hoovers) father, whom
he suspected might be still living, was
not dead. He also gave the warden a
detailed plan of the spot where the gold
was buried, with an accurate description
Of the surroundings Thus equipped,
Warden Hoyt. about ten days ago, went
East, where he discovered that Hoover's
father was still alive, and together they
proceeded TO the Brenneman farm in
Pennsylvania, where they found no diff
iculty in locating the spot and securing
the long-hidden treasure.
Mrs. ]. ]. MURPHY, of Birmingham,
Ala, died from a disease which had been
ouzzling physicians for eight years. A
iozen of physicians had treated her, but
lone of them were able to say what was
he matter. For two years past she h;.
constantly suffered the most intense
pain and said she felt something grow
ng in her stomach. The doctors could
eel hard substance in her stomach,
tut could not determine what it was.
The woman was too weak for an opera
ion, and physicians from all over the
State puzzled over the case until she
he'd. An autopsy was made, and in
Ter stomach the doctors found two
POUNDS of wood. For twenty years
'1rs. Murphy had been addicted to the
Iabit of dipping snuff She had small /
Eooden brushes, and would often bite /.
fl and swallow small pieces of the
rush. These small particles OF wood i,
lad formed solid mass in herstomaeh, ,
nd the block weighed just two pounds.
The physicians say this was the cause
{ her death. 1t is the first case OF the /,
ind on record.
JAKE MORRIS, who was ianitor of the
lily Hall, and who belonged to every
ecret order in Atlanta, Ca, laughed j
imsef to death recently. He attended
be Masonic Lodge, of which he was a !;
MEMBER, that night. When he left the !;
odge room he was accompanied by Prof.
tito Spalir, who had in some way lost !,
is hat. He was. therefore conn elled 1