The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-02-14
EARLY MonNrNa NEWS.

Trouble Threatened in North Carolina,
Trouble has been threatened for the past
few days in Wayne County, N. g., aud the
local military companies have been kept
ready for service. Every year there is more
or less Of an exodus of negroes
worked up by emigration agents, and this
causes serious trouble to the farmers, who
depend on the negroes to pick their cotton
and do farm work. This year the number
ofnegroes leaving has been greater than
ever, ,'and the farmers have decided to stand
the agents no longer. A telegram from
Wayne County brings the news that nearly
all OF the white citizens are armedand fully
determined To stop the negro emigration.
Increasing the English Militia.
THERE'S strong probability that the lot
of the lower class of Englishmen is not to
be so uneasy or uDevcDtful u one In the
future as 1t has been In the past. Lord
Wolseley, in his after dinner speech at Birm-
ingliam the other day, only stated whatmany
Z Epglishmen of high Intelligence have
thought for years--that II England Is to be
anything but convenient prey for the first
continental power that has, or fancies IL
has, a grievance against her, she must In
troduce compulsory military service, Her
farm laborers and town workingmen must
be taught tile use Of arms at as early an are
as feasible, and. they must grow up with
the knowledge that they are likely to be
called upon at any moment to defend their
home from foreign invasion.
1t VIII Probably be Fatal.
TwoItalians, named respectively Pran-
zero Pace and Jack Melia, quarreled over
game Of cards Tuesday night in Brook
lyn. They went out to the sidewalk to
fight. Pace drew revolver and shot Melia
: In the right leg, inilicting a painful wound.
Police officer Short came up, when Pars
fed He refused to stop at. -tne ufficers
call; when Short pnlieIi MS revolver and
fired two slotstit him, one Of which took
effect iaSnis right side, Pace then turned
ON Short, but another officer came to
Shorts assistance, and Pace was over.
( powered. and arrested. A pistol and a
razor were found in his possession. A sur
ge0n examined Pace,s wound, and said that
II would probably prove fatal, as the ball
could not be extracted Both Melia and
Pace were removed to the hospital r
. A Horrid Barreirul In Chicago.
On Butterfield street, between Twenty
third and Twenty-fourth, in a section Of
Chicago which is unpayed, two policemen
yesterday found in the middle of the road
barrel that had evidently fallen off a
wagon some time during the night. On ex-
amining II they found that 1t contained the
mutilated remains OF a woman in an ad-
yaneed stage of decomposition. The feet
had been severed from the legs. In an old
bloody apron or shawl were the yiscera
The long hairtof the woman was matted
with blood clots and lay in confusion over
the trunkless head. The trunk was all
chopped into pieces The fragments were
taken TO the Morguc, and ii was soon dis
covered that the body had been dlssected at
II medical college,
A Big Lumber Sale.
The first annual auction sale of hemlock
lumber by the Williamsport Lumber Com
pany took place at Williamsport, Pa, yes
terday, being the largest auction sale of
lumber ever made there Over $1,000, 900
feet were sold, going to dealers iu Phiadel-
phia, Baltimore, Washington and other
Easterncities. The prices for stock boards
Will Average $40 per thousand, which Is
equal to from 30 cents TO 81 above the rate
of last year, This sale having been adver-
tised largely through the Eastern States Is
expected to establish basis of prices for
the present year. The aggregate amount
Of the'sale Is over Sl50,OOO The sale was
upon the usual terms for selling lumber
A Curious Phenomenon.
A curious phenomenon has been dis
covered on the hills of Dry Run, near
Porthmouth, Iowa, by ire-clay digger
Tuesday he was digging, and when about
four or five feet below the surface stream
Of hot air broke out of the ground like a
spring. The heat impaired Is sufficient 10
produce steam from cold water, A thorough
investigation OF the phenomenon will be
made.
~ She May Get $4,000.
In the City Court In New York yester
day Judge McGown opened the sealed
verdict of the jury In the suit of Miss
Margaret Louise Williams against Butcher
David Kearr Of Washington Market, for
breach Of promise of MARRIAGE IL Kearr
pays, Miss Williams will get =, 500 and
costs. She sued for 100000,
Quietly Wedding Out the CoIOred Man.
Apecullar state Of affairs is brought 10
light among the farming communities about
Ripley, Ohio, produced by the now famous
"Arnett law Formerly farms had nu-
merous colored tenants, but since the pas
ageOf the Arnett bill which made mixed
schools the colored tenant farmer grad
ually Is being driven out. Whenever his
lease upon the land runs out, he Ia quietly
Informed by his white landlord that the
latter has another man for his place, and
upon applying TO other farms in the same
district he Is certain 10 be refused. In this
manner the white farmers gradually, With