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Life Saved by Dogs Barking.

The inmates of the house of Mr.. w.
H. French, of Woodbridge, which was
destroyed by fire Monday evening, have
q dog to thank for their lives. The fire
started in the carriage barn or wood
house, which are all connected with the
farmhouse by an L, and by the time that
the occupants were awakened to their
danger, which was about 1 o'clock in
the morning, all the buildings seemed to
be enveloped in flames, and there was
need of hurry to escape. The discovery
was first made by Mr.. French's daughter,
a young lady about eighteen years of age,
who was awakened by the vigorous bark
ing and whines>of the pet dog of lady
who was visiting them for the time.
Miss French perceived in a moment from
actions of the animal that something was
wrong, and then hearing the cracking Of
the flames knew what it all meant, and
that prompt action was necessary. 1t
was but the work of a moment for her to
give the alarm to the rest of the house.
hold, consisting besides herself of MIR.
and Mrs. French, lady and her little
child visiting them and hired mau.
The startling news was not given any too
soon, but fortunately no lives were lost.
Help came from the neighboring houses,
but by this time the buildings were
pretty we'll destroyed.-Nelo Hoosn
(C0nn.) Courier.
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WORK AND WORKERS.

THERE is much dissatisfaction among the
lockers at Southampton, England, ana Il
great strike is imminent.
C.S. WHEATON, President of the indie
pendent order Of Railway Conductors, has
resigned his position. lIeis to cngage in other
business
TIE Executive Board of the Knights of
Labor decided 10 call ont every mnn OH the
New York Central Railroad who owed ale
glance TO the Order.
NEARLY all the yardmen employed by the
Delaware and Hudson Railroad Company, ut
Green Island. New York, have gone on strike.
The men refused to handle New York Cen
trail freight at that point.
TIE liremcn and engineers Of the Union
Stockyards Switching Association, IN chicago,
have modified their demand for an advance
in wages. They now ask 20 cents an hour Tor
engineers and eighteen cents for fremen.
The demand is under consideration by the
ronds
a DELEGATION of Illinois Central trainmen
called upon General Manager Beck with the
new schedule of wages they asked. Mr..
Beck promised to give them an answer
ten days hence. The scale provides for an
increase OF. wages MI along the line OF IRON
live TO thirty per cent.
AMONG the passengers on the steamer City
of Picking, which sailed from San Francisco
was an attorney "who goes to China to secure
5000 Chinese laboreys, who will be employed
in the construction of railroad across the
lsthmus of Tehuantcpec. The road is to be
built by English capital, and work has been
let to Mexican contractors"
a PAPER is being circulated among the
mill men in Fall Run, Massachusetts, bind
ing those who sign it to sell no print cloths
under 5-l6 cents during September. Over
three fourth Of the mill MEN have signed it.
This was considered the only chance for bet
tering the market except by cut down or
shut down.
P. M.AHTHUR, Chief Engineer Of the Broth
crhood of Locomotive Engineers has written
IL letter in which he sgys that when the pres
cnt trouble OH the New York Central first
occurred he ordered the engineers ~ abstain
from all participation in il, and to attend
strictly to their own business. He holds that
they are justified in occupying Il neutral po.
sition when others are engaged i'll conflict
win their employers
The joint conference ofihe Mine Workers
Association, representing l2,OUG miners Of
Blair, Cambria, Clearield, Centre, Hunting.
don, Jefferson and Carbon counties, and the
operators in those counties, held in Altoona,
Pa, adjourned without agreement. The OPP
orators claim that the scale WAS unreasonable
hlnd they could not accept without loss. The
miners are firm and general strike may be
The final result. Another meeting eM3ll be
held on September II.
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TWO MURDERERS HANGED.
Ono of Them u Boy of srventeen-Hls
Terrible Crime.

Ono of Them Boy of Srventeen-fils
Terrible Crime.
Otto Leuth, the boy murderer of Maggie
Thompson, was hanged in the annex of the
penitentary in Columbus Ohio, shortly after
midnight. The drop fell at 1905 A. NJ. His
neck was broken; pronounced dead at 1922.
beuth left statement giving history of
his case, admitting the crime and denying
TINT the object was Inst. Lcuth was hanged
first. He died in seventeen minutes without
struggle. The body was removed, and In
less than twenty-five minutes Smith was on
the trap. lie admitted his crime, expressed
regrets at the same. 1t WIS twenty minutes
of one when he dropped. The executions were
neat pitce of work.
John, alias Brocky Smith, of Cincinnati,
was also executed Leuth and Smith bore
themselves with great courage during the en-
tire evening, and were nervy and game up to
the time the trap was sprung. The death war
rants were read to the men st Il Z. NJ, when
the spiritual advisers took leave OF the DOOM
ed men.
The crime for which Leuth was executed
was for the murder of Maggie Thompson, the
eight-year-old daughter Of Jacob Thompson,
of Cleveland, May g. 1882 lie enticed her
into his home, attempted to ravish her, met
with resistance, and crushed her skull by
several blows witha Ratchet. The body after
some days he hid beneath the floor, where it
WAS finally discovered. He wasarrested, con-
fessed the crime, and was convicted Decem-
Der 2Sth.
On the night of December S, 1889, Brocky
Smith killed Mrs. Bridget Byron, an aged
widow, at Cincinnati. He stabbed her in the
face and neck, and she died a few minutes
afterward. Mrs Byron had accumulated some
money and bonds, which WIS known 20 Smith,
and which were the motive for the crime. lie
was speedily convicted and sentenced, and his
case run the usual course without any inter
ference. Smith attributed his crime TO drink
and being crazy.
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CABLE SPARKS.
ERE destroyed the town of rokay, in H

FIRE destroyed the town of Tokay, in Hun
gary.
CHOLERA is spreading in the city of Toledo
Spain.
HENRY VI. STANLEY, the explorer, is re.
s.orted as far from being restored to pertcc'
health.
TIE strike OF coal miners in the Borinasc
district of Belgium continues to spread, 4,5JO
rlore men having quit work.
PRoGIESslsT newspapers in Lisbon say
that the Anglo-por,ugc>c agreement will ruin
Poriugal'> colonial interests.
Mr.. LINCOLN, the Uui,cd States minister
to Great Britain, strongly denies the report
that he is about 10 resign his office.
MoUsSA BEY, lately Governor of Armenia,
who was baniShed to Mecca by the Sultan vi
Turkey, has disappeared from Constantinoplc.
OWING to the increase of cholera, the Egyp-
Ian government has established sccoid
quarantine station at Rusmallag, on the Cult
Ut SueZ.
Is THE province of Pcrnambuco, Brazil,
f,pu0 CASES Of smallpox are reported, and
there is an average OF twenty deaths daily
irum the disease.
The Duke of Cambridge unveiled the me-
mortal crested in the Eycrc Cemetery Brus-
selS to the British soldiers who were slain at
The battle OF Waterloo.
LILLE Emin relief committee has formally
thanked DR.. Peters for the devUtiOn, perscycr-
ance, courage and foresight shown by him us
head Of the rciet expedition.
AT a meeting of the Irish National League,
at Dublin, Timuthy lleaIy, referring to the
potato blight in that country, said that Moth
ing stood between the people and starvation
the coming winter.
DURING hcmaneuvers ofthc Italian army
at Monticheari, SmokcleSs powder was used,
and SO successful were the experiments with
it that the batteries OF artillery fired half an
hour without their presence being discovered.
THE Russian government is about 10 APP
point commission to prepare scheme 10
open trade routes 10 Central Asia by connect
ing the Amu-Daria river with the Caspian
sca, or by q railway from Orenburg to Iush-
kend.
The Mombasa and Nyanza Hallway in
British and other foreign consuls, Admiral
Fremantle, of the British navy, and large
number of other Europeans.
DURING storm at NASSAU, Austria, light
ming struck twenty freight cars on The Franz
Joseph Railway, throwing them down an en-
bankment and smashing them. The guards
on the train were knocked sensclcss by the
shock.
THE Vienna Tagcblatt says that the Gar
has refused TO give his consent 10 the proposal
made by Emperor William that the forces of
Russia, Austria and Germany stationed along
the boundary lines between the three couii-
tries be withdrawn.
IL THE ocean race from New York to
Queenstown, Ireland, between the Inman Line
steamship City of New \ DIRK and the White
ha of
York was the first to arrive on the other side
of the Atlantic.
THE Moniteur de Rome, one of the official
organs of the Vatican. says that if the rate ut
which converts have been made for the last
half century to the Catholic Church in Eng
land is maintained that religion will be DOM
inant in England century hence.
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NJ. 10.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
1f ro,, w,nt to feel rioht. do right.

If you want to feel right, 90 right.
Everybody gains when bad man
dies.
The higher men rise the more depend
ent they become.
A fool thinks he is right because he
can't see very far.
The blinded man is the one who
thinks he has no faults.
A short sighted man is q money
maker for other people.
If you want to know the truth you
must take off your glasses.
The truth always gives life to those
who take it to their hearts.
A man who knows great deal knows
better than to try to tell it.
A hypocrites mouth has more death
in it than that of mad dog.
The less man knows the more he
finds fault with other people.
A contented spirit is better than a
bank account of seven figures.
If you want to keep on thinking we'll
of man, don't go his security.
The surest way to become poor In
earnest is to try to keep all you get.
To be slow to anger is better than to
own the best kind of seven shooter.
The man who is bully to his wife or
child is coward in the presence of
men.
When man is in the mud up to his
neck it is poor time to put on clean
shirt.
A man who hates to find out that he
is wrong, has good deal OF the mule
in him.
A pig with gold ring in its nose
will squeal for swill whenever it gets
hungry.
The fellow who looks at the sun
through smoked glass can't see any
brightness. =.
If man fires a gun in his own hen
house and knocks off your thumb, who
is to blame for ita
The man who thinks he knows it all
can never walk arm in arm with know
ledge of any kind.
Blessed arc the merciful. Don't for
I get it when you have mortgage on the
property of q widow.
a bad man digs pit for others and
then shuts his eyes and falls into it.
Give any rogue rope enough and he will
hang himself.
To be Jealous Of good works doesn't
mean to hold down store box and
white while your wife is at home hard
at work trying to make a living.
The man with the latest pocketoook
doesn't always smoke the best cigars nor
wear the finest clothes. It's the man
who can least afford the cost who wears
the reddest nose. Indianapolis (Lnd.)
Ram' sR0rn.
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Frog Flesh VS.. Human Flesh.

An interesting operation of flesh graft,
ing, which was one of the discoveries Of
NJ. Paul Bert, has just been performed at
the great gun works in Paris, France, by
a surgeon named Dubousquet- Labordiere.
A workman had his foot badly burned by
molten iron, destroying the skin over a
surface of about eight inches by four.
The surgeon took four strips offesh from
the thigh of young man and as many
from four different frogs, transferring
them to the, wounded mans foot. By
great care the wound healed in eleven
days. The cicatrice obtained from the
frogs skin was soft, clastict, and inodor-
Gus; that from the human flesh was much
harder, producing irritation at many
points. The result of the operation is of
great Importance, showing the superiority
of frog skin and flesh for serious wounds
where both skin and flesh have been torn
or burned away.--ICommercial Adver-
ticer
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TIE KENTUCKY FEUDS.
French-Eversole Fac ions May Make
Lively Times In Jail.

Frem CHI Eversole Factions May Make
Lively Times In jail.
p. F. French and Ex-Judsc George Ever
sole, the leaders of the two factions, whose
fcuds have resulted so fatally, are both be.
hind the bars They both have money, but
Judge Lilly will not permit bail bond in
either case. Notwithstanding the fact that
several criminals have been sent away to the
peniteniiary, thirty.two prisoners still occupy
the Jail. They are about evenly divided, half
being French men and half Eversole men.
If they open up the fight in Jail there will be
serious results.
Sheriff Fields with apossc of fifteen men,
is securing the country far and near, hunting
for Joe Atkins Tom Smith, Bob Propitt, and
If they are apprehended it is believed the war
will end
Commonwealth Attorney Marcy is vigor-
ously prosecuting the law breakers. There is
considerable activity among the friends of the
men i'll Jail and they ask that they be released
on $1,000 bail, but the superstition is that
Judge Lilly will not allow bail in the MUIR
der cases, which most of them are
The governor ordered tiiteeu additional
soldiers TO Hazard i'll charge of Lieutenant
Noel Gains, of Frankfort. The reason for
this is explained by the department of Frank
fort They fear On attack from ambush,
when it is attempted to take the prisoners
from Perry to Clark County, towhich county
Judge Lilly has ordered the cases, under the
recent act of the Kentucky Legislature which
allows change of venue in criminal cases to
any court in the State.
Kentucky is in fair way to recover from
her outlawry. The recent law seems to have
furnished key to the situation. There will
be seventy-threc soldiers in Perry when the
detachment just ordered to the scene reaches
there.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.


Attorney-Geheral Miller mas returned 10
/" asning'oh iro,N slort v.s'' 70 as'ufs iafA
The cruiser San francisco lett the city OF
that name for Santa Barbara to begin her Of
fetal trial.
Secretary Window has returned to Wash.
ington and resumed his duties at the Treasury
Department.
Acting Admiral James II. ellis has been
detached from the CONT and of the South At
lentic Station and nIoced ON waiting orders.
M. r. o,,.,a,.oo. IS .,,o ce.,o,r .
me lellH1e elnplosee ., .ne uo Nv,
Prlnung once sent petltlon 10 me e. senate
asking that they oe palo not less IMAM % u"y.
Assistant Secretary Batchellcr has resumed
his duties at the Treasury department, after
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Life in n Curious Stone.

Bernard Zimmerman, of Topeka,
Kan, has in his possession singular
stone, which he found a few years ago
on the banks of the South Platte, in
Colorado. 1t is small, lrregular-shapcd
pebble of q grayish blue tint, dull and
faint, like smoke, but which, if held
tightly in the hand for a few minutes
will communicate a series of distinct
shocks like that of an electric battery,
slight but powerful enough to be felt all
over the body. When thus grasped, OBJ
serves correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Times, the pebble seems to be pulls
ing and tkrobbing as if endowed with
Life and produ es an unmistakablc exhil-
iration of the holders physical and men
tai organizations, very pleasant sensa-
ton. resembling that following
draught of wine.
This contact with the stone quickens
the pulse and if continued increases the
heart beats to an alarming extent, but
without any apparent ill-effect. The
pebble on being held tightly for some
minutes loses its gray hue and warns to
a very pale rose color, growing translu-
cent, when innumerabc fire veins of a
golden red can be seen running through
It, glowing as if filed with living fluid.
When placed in water the stone turns to
sickly green splotched with white and
cream.
Mr.. Zimmerman says he has had his
singular find examined by the finest
biologists in the country, but all declare
their ignorance of its nature, which
seems to be that of mineral, though
possessed of kind Of life of an electrl-
cal character.
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CONDITION OF COTTON.
Growth of the Crop In Tennessee, Mis-
sissippi, Arkansas and Alabama.

Growth Of the Crop In Tennessee, MIS-
sissippi, Arkansas and Alabama.
The regular monthly cotton report for the
Memphis district, which embraces West Ten.
ncssee, Northern Mississippi, Northern Ar
kansas, and Northern Alabama just publish
ed says:
"Thc weather during the month has in the
mnin been favorable, aud 52S of our 3SS cor
respondents report it much more favorable
than lust year for the same period;
"Thcrc are some complaints of drought pre-
vaiing in sections OF Arkansas, while portions
of Alabama and Tennessee report excessive
rains The plant us rule is fruiting vel ana
retaining its squares and bolls, and though IN
a few localities of Arkansas report is made OF
shedding due 10 the drought, the present con-
dition of the crop is encouraging anu gives
brighter promise of Il fuller yield than has
been our province to chronicle for the past
three years. Although reports are made OF
danger to the crop from sections in all OF i, tne
four States, due to rust, drought and other
causes. and vet the percentage is very small,
and in none of the States will 1t exceed per
cent. In Mississippi it only amounts to per
cent"
"Piclzing willnot become general through
out the district until about September 2Cth
The rains of the past four days may possibly
have added TO the damage from this cause IN
Tennessee and Alabama, but they have beer
general in their nature and in many Localities
will prove beneficial.
"The condition Of corn throughout the dis
trict has improved since our lust report, anc
indications now point to yield OF fully q
pcr cent. of fair average crop of this cereal. ;
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AcooMAc G. H. VA SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5eo.sUPpLEMENT
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
FORTY houses were washed away in Jaurez
Texas, by cloudburst,~ Two persons wer'
drowned.

FORTY houses were washed away in Jaure1,
Texas, by n cloudburst,~ Two persons were
drowned.
SMALLPOX prevails 10 al alarming extent
in Wuco, Texas. Sanitary guards are taking
charge of the patients.
Mrs. j. H.WILsoN and Mrs. Charles jacobs
were injured by II runaway accident at koc1
lslund, Illinois, the former 50 badly that she
lied in few hours.
A BoILERinL L. c. Whites Touring and saw
mill mt Pixies Peak, Indiana, exploded fatally
njuring Thomas Miller, Homer White Frank
Long and Frank Maytield Seven others were
badly hurt.
CONSERVATIVE railroad men estimate the
prospective loss to the Old Colony Railroad
Company by the Quincy accident, aside from
the damage to rolling stock, at hall million
dollars.
JOHN LAKE and James Dorsey were struck
by New York Central train at POughkeep-
sic, New York, and thrown Assistance Of thirty
teet Lake was killed, but Dorsey escaped
with slight injuries.
TIE Canadian Deputy Minister of Agri-
! culture declares that Asutic cholera Will GER
lainly visit Canada next year, and that in
ordcrto check its advance he proposes to estab-
lished quarantine stations in British Column
Oiui VII tbS otiiHS y slCiii 90 buN g. @e'"N -'
JOHN P SMITH, aged II years, and Il boy
named Hutchins died in Knoxville, Tennes.
sec ftom dose of morphine. Three other
children were made sick by an overdose. The
drug was administered in mistake forqulnine.
The mistake was made by druggist in filling
the bottle.
II. A. SMITH, farmer was killed by mad
horse near Mulvaney, Kansas: He was tying
up the animal when it turned Oh him, seized
HIM by the shoulder and threw him down.
Just then the barn door closed, shutting off all
means oil escape and the horse attacked the
man, biting paving and kicking, until Smith
seized club and with it killed the animal.
Hcwas so badIy exhausted that he died shortly
after being discovered, when he had just
strength enough TO tell Of the fight.
A DISPATCH from Lynchburg Va, says a
wreck occurred on the N. and W. Railroad,
near Browns Siding. An extra freight train
struck Il COW nnd derailed the engine and ten
der, killing Engineer Cook instantly. The car
next the engine was thrown down an EN-.
bankment on top of an Italian slanty, pin:
ming the occupants to the floor. One escaped
from the building only to be killed by fall
ing gontlola ear. One of those pinned TO the
floor was killed. one injured internally and
will probably die, while seven received only
| Sliyht injuries.
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A Dukes Vast Domain.

The Duke of Northumberland 10 one OF
the largest landed proprietors in Great
Britain. To say nothing of his ownings
in London, his possessicss in Surrey,
Middlesex and Northumberland aggregate
200, 900 acres, with rent roll of $780,
600 per annum. In Northumberland
alone he owns five castles, but it is said
that the larger part of his enormous in
come is derived from his proprietary in
forest in Drummond's bank. The Marquis
of Salisbury, Premier at present, owns
20. 900 acres, aud as much of his real
estate lies in London he is very, very
rich Chicago Meas:
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KILLED BY ELECTRICITY.
Live Wires Play Havoc I'm a West vir-
ginin Town.

Live Wires PIay Havoc I'm West vir-
Sinin Town.
About seven o'clock in the evening two
men-one James Sullivan and the other an
Italian-were instantly killed by electricity
in the south heading jof the Wheeling Bridge
and Terminal Company's tunnel, under con-
struction in Wheeling, w. Va.
AS far as can be gathered from workmen
who were in the immediate vicinity, at the
time, the two unfortunatcs, together with half
dozen others, were standing in q group on
one side of the tunnel talking, when dang
ling wire, from the electric light system light
ing the tunnel, came in contact with Sullivan.
The man fell dead at once, as did also his
Italian neighbor standing next to him. -Four
others were badly shocked by the current, but
recovered in short time. A similar accident
occurred at Martins Ferry an hour later.
Albert Areson, George Appelbach, Mrs. Wal
son and boy being severely and dangerously
shocked by guy-wire of derrick which Yves
charged with electricity from coming IN con-
tact with an electric light wire. Albert vii.
son got hold of the guy line and could not let
60 His son ran to his aid, and gotin the same
fix, and so on with Appelbach and Mrs. Will
son,
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FOUND WITH HER THROAT CUT.
An Illinois Scandal Ends In Double
Tragedy.

An Illinois Scandal Ends In Oo""i'
Tragedy.
A sensation was caused at Decatur, His, by
the murder of a married woman and the at
tempted suicide of the fleeing murderer. l ne
body of Mrs. Lena Matthias, wife of Colonel
Adam Matthias, was found with her throat cnt
from car to ear About the place there was
every appearance of struggle. One stroke
of razor or sharp knife killed the woman,
She had evidently been dead eight or nine
hours. There were evidences OF criminal
outrage Because of Mrs. Matthias supposed
intimacy with William Crawford, aged q,
son of W. H. Crawford, of Decatur, 1t was ne
lieved that he had committed the horrible
crime and officers were sent eight miles III lile
country to run him down. lIewas discovered
and the officers gave chase through the TIM.
Der. AS they gained on him, Crawford CUT
his own throat. He cannot live. Crawford
had worked for Colonel Matthias, who IS IN
the hay and lightning rod business, and fIyc
years ago became acquainted with MIS-
Matthias, whose age was twcnty.siX, and whose
maiden name WINS Lena Culver. She was born
and reared at Rochester, Ind. What the r 1r,I
tons of the couple were is not known. Inc
husband was jealous of Crawford and let nm
co. Since his discharge the woman had at
tempted 10 get Crawford TO 30 away, as she
foo rod a fro na1y