Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-08-29

~ '.anI. finding plenty of
~ good Flood, thrived wor.
derfully. The club has sent to England
for 100 more hen birds, and hopes to
raise 5000 pheasants this season. The
eggs are set under common BARNARD
fowls, the pheasant being a proverbiallv
improvident mother. The island bids
lar to be the:finest game preserve in the
United STATES. The California quail
turned ont. there. haye increased Won
derfulbE .andso have deer and wild tur-
key. Indeed, deer have become SO num-
erous as to injure the crops raised on
the island.
THE'cleverness of an English rascal
has excited the envy of.all the roscals
IN Paris. who, with typical Partisan
egotism, have long claimed to be the
oleverest rascals in the world. The
English rascal in question was pro
fessional London pick-pocket. Shortly
before the French Exposition opened.
ne bought a small hotel in Paris on the
installment plan. The purchase price
OF the hotel was $4,000, and the first
and only installment which the English
man paid was'$2, 900. The Englishman
boughta few pieces of cheap English
furniture for his new house, equipped
an English bah, and then advertised far
and wide for. English boarders during
the exposition. His prices were SO low
that he soon filled his house. Every
one OF his lNdgers 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
iarlty OF the hotel, and both reached
hlgh-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 jewelry and
bank-notes in the safe. The pick pock-
ct landlord stole every sou Of it. He
concealed his plundet in BIS 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 loclNeaup. A police investiga-
ton led to revelation of his history,
and the recovesys of tile iewelry and
money which had been given him for
safe keeping. =
Nor long ago d; man named James
Hoover died in -the Colorado State
Prison. He had been sentenced for
life for killing a man named George
Simpson, who had once been his part
ner in various milling ventures. The
difficulty which brought about the fatal
meeting was due to the, fact that Hoover
had ri phattay with his. partners earn
ings-gold nuggets, valued at $12, 900.
Before killing Simpson, Hoover had
gone to his old home in Huntingdon
county 4snnsYlvania, an. search of his
parents. Being unsuccessful in his
search, and fearing to carry the stolen
treasure about with him any longer,
and it was also very heavy, he buried
it on sfep. llhder the roots of white
oak Neb befskging to man named
Brenneman. Then he went West, and
as statedEsttt f1tp prison. This was in
1878. Just before his death he made a
will leayinSthe Buried money to War
den Hoys Of ithe penitentiary, in the
advent that he tHoover's) father, whom
he suspected might be still living, was
not dead. He also gave the warden
detailed plan of the spot where the gold
was buried, with ON 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
Pennglaesnia, where they, found no diff
ficulty in. locating the gr1at and securing
the long-hiddei treass
Mrs. J, }. Murphy, "a Birmingham,
Ala, Odd from disease which had been
puzzlinat physicians foi>pjght years. A
dozen 81 physicians had Neated her, but
none of them were able to say what was
the matter. FaDtwo years past she has
constantly suffered the most intense
pain and said she felt something grow
ing in her stomach. The doctors could
feel hard substance in her stomach,
but COULD not slletennine what it was.
The worhan' was too weak for an opera
tion. and physicians from all over the
State puzzled over the case until she
died. An autopsy was made, and i'll
her stewech the, doctors found two
pounds OhsWODM = VI V"Shey ySuiS
Mrs. Murphy had ksen addicted to the
habit of dipping snuff, She had small
wooden brushes, anl- would often bite
off aidfd swallow small pieces of the
brush. JrSbAese. ,tmah PARTICLES of wood
had fo1&Ada sakd mass in herstomach,
and the block weighed just two pounds.
The Enthusiastically this was the cause
Of her death. 1t is the first case OF the
kind on record.
JANE MoRRIs, who was janitor OF the
Cfty Hall, and who belonged to every
secret s,6fder in Atlanta, Ga, laughed
himself to death recently. He attended
The Masonic Lodge, of which he was a
member, that night. When he left the
lodge room he was accompanied by Prof.
ono Spahr, who had in some way lost
his hat. He was, therefore, compelled
20 90 bareheaded until he reached
4 room where he was furnished
With o. new hat, and left Tor
home about $50 o'clock. Prof;
Spahr noticed that Ills friend laughed
immoderately,. a thing which he seldom
Ala. This was the only thing unusual
n Ills actions. That morning ne was
5onnd By the servant in the same place
dead. The theory is that he laughed SO
immoderately as to bring on paipita-