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Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-18
A TARDY CONFESSION.
A Husband Confesses Manslaughter FO
which His Wife was being Sentenced.

a HuSDAnd COhfesseS ManSIaugHCBF FOr
which His Wife was being Sentenced.
NAPA, Cal, June 17.-Today was set
for the sentencing of Mrs. Margaret Mer-
kle, convicted of manslaughter for kill
ing Joseph Won Wyle. Her attorney
asked for a new trial, and in support
offered an affidavit by her husband,
Christian Merkle, that he, and not his
wife, killed Won Wyle. He alleges that
it was done in self-defence, during row
in which they were all engaged, and says
the reason for not making it known be-
fore was that he thought his wife would
surely escape conviction. The court re-
served decision until tomorrow morning.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-18
New Trial Denied.

SAN Francisco, June 1.-THE su-
preme court today denied the applica-
ton for new trial by Andrew Clark,
who shot and killed Garret Fitzgerald, a
year ago, in the mountains of Mendo-
cino county, and who was convicted OF
murder in the second degree. The
shooting was prompted by a trouble be-
tween the two men over some cattle.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-18
Fire Got the Start.

MARYsvILLE, CAL, June 17.-While
the section foreman on the Oroville rail-
roadw was burning weeds eight miles north
of here, yesterday, the fire got the start
of him, spreading into an adjacent field,
and destroyed seven hundred sacks of
grain belonging to S. S. Mitchell.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-18
Cooked Himself.

OAKLAND, CAL, June 17.-William H.
Smith, teamster, went to the Oakland
sanitarium today to take bath. Sew
eral hours later his body was found in
tub of boiling water completely cooked.
1t Is believed that he committed
suicide, as he had been laboring under
temporary alteration of mind recently.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-18
Death Penalty COMMITTED,

ALIEN, Ore, June 17.-Governor Pen
mayer today commuted the death SEN
tence of Clinton Pennington, convicted
at Baker City, Of the murder OF Charles
Balcom, to imprisonment in the peni
tentiary for life.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-18
GrainfieIds Burned.

MERGED, June 17.-Fires today ragged
near Plainsburg, this county, burning
grainfields and barns. Loss, $4,000; in
surance light,
Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-18
PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.

EVERY STOVE GUARANTEED |!
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-22
HORTICULTURAL NOTES.

ONION seed, says the Michigan Farm
or, may be sown this fall late on we'll
prepared ground, to start and begin
profit-making with the late winter I'M
shine and long before severe frosts are
over or weeds awake to business. Selecta
piece of warm, light soil protected by
woods, walls or fences; pillow into it a
covering of three or four inches of horse
manure After turning each fur
row stand in it a row of s~cullion
onions, not more than one inch apart;
they will make bottom all winter and
sell rapidly as n relish weeks before
other truck is ready.
The Country Gentleman says: "There
are some advantages in training cur.
rant bushes to u single stem at the
the ground. They are more easily cul-
tivated and kept clean and they have a
neater appearance, Such bushes are
easily raised by rubbing off all the buds
from the lower part of the cutting when
it is planted, or all of which will be be-
low the surface Of the earth. But as
good crops of fine fruit may be had
from bushes which have several stems,
provided they are pruned, kept sutli.
GENTLY clear of old wood, and are we'll
MANFRED and cultivated and kept
Clean
The failure of the apple crop is a ca
lamity which affects many lines of bust
ness, says the Michigan Farmer. Not
only must fruit-growers stand a heavy
loss, but canning and evaporating es-
adjustments will stand idle, and thou
sands of men, women and children will
miss the employment which these insti-
buttons would have given them. There
will be no call for fruit barrels and
many other fruit packages, and the men
who make them will have no trade. In
short there will be u s%tlgnancy in tho
fruit trade such as has not been expert.
enced in a long time, if ever. The en-
port business also must of course cease.
b. +. ENGEL claims that burning over
old strawberry beds saves half the hoe
ing; the plants on a burnt bed grow
with more vigor; leaf-blight or rust will
be prevented, at least to some extent;
insects and their eggs will be destroyed
and the clearing oil of the mulch and
weeds by fire is alone benefit enough, in
his opinion, to make it the best plan he
knows of. lie adds: In heavy soils
the ground gets very hard from being
tramped over by the pickers, and burn
ing the mulch will make such soils
mellow up" easily under tho cultivation
and retain moisture much longer if moi
so treated. Why it is so | can not say
but | know from experience that this is
the fact
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-22
THE FARMING WORLD.
SELLING TO ADVANTAGE.

-
II often Consists in the Tasty and At
t~ractive Way an Article Is Put Up.
In October of last year | passed by
rail through the State of New YORK.
The night train ON which | travelled
reached Syracuse in time for breakfast
for which purpose a halt of twenty min
utes was made. At the station there
was exposed on the fruit stand to tempt
the eyes of passengers a large stock oil
grapes done up in packages more at
tractively than any thing in this line |
ever before had met.
The grapes were of several kinds in
Guiding dark and light ones, OF which
the latter were beautiful golden Mag
aras. They were done up in light, white
wooden boxes of the style and size shown
in the sketch, and which had conven-
lent wire handles for carrying. The
lid slid in from one side, and on this
was pasted the white paper label, which
| removed from a box there purchased,
and this | mail to you engraving an
neyedl. The box itself was lined with
white paper, the parts that Tapped over
the top of the fruit being ornamentally
perforated, like the papers often used
in boxes of confectionery.
As the description on the label indi-
Gates the fruit was of the choicest quail.
ity, and, being done.ups so handsomely, it
was a sight to tempt many buyers.
Dozens of the boxes were sold at seven
five cents apiece, and as they held,
mink, five pounds of fruit each, 1T Is
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-22

the design of going to India in par.
t%icular, but in my then state of mind l
cared not whittier ! went One resolu'
ton | formed, that | would prove by my
conduct that your a~pprehensions were
ill-founded, lgot into a profitable busi-
ness. In time | married-not that |
had forgotten you, but that was soli-
tary and needed companionship. | had
ceased to hope for yours. by and by a
daughter was born. True to my old
love | named her Hetty, and pleased
myself with the thought that she bore
some resemblance to you, Since then,
my wife rs died, miSGortunes have
come upon me, and | found myself de-
prived of all my property. Then came
warnings for my native soil. | have
returned, as you see, not as departed,
but poor and careworn.'
While Nicholas was speaking, Hetty's
mind was filled with conflicting emo
tions. At length, extending her hand
frankly, she said:
Il feel that | was too hasty, Nicholas.
/ should have tried you longer. But,
at least, | may repair my injustice. |
have enough for us all, You shall come
and live with me-"
81 can only accept your generous offer
on one condition. said Nicholas.
"And what is that?'
''That you will become my Wife"
A vivid flush came over Miss Hetty's
c|ountenance. She couldn't think Of
such a thing, she said. Nevertheless,
an hour afterwards the two united
lovers had fixed upon the wedding day.
The house does not look so prim as it
used to. The yard is redolent with
many fragrant flowers; the front door
is half open, revealing alittle girl play.
ing with a kitten.
'Hetty," said a matronly lady, "yon
have got the ball Of yarn all over the
floor. What would your father say if he
should see til"
"Never mind, mother: it was only
kitty did it."
Marriage has filled up a void in the
heart of Miss lIetty. Though not so
prim, or perhaps careful as she used to
be, she is a good deal happier. Three
hearts are filed with thankfulness at
every return Of Miss llenderson's
Thanksgiving day.-Yankee Blade.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-22
THE WORLDS ADVANCE.
Some of the Benciccnt Features oil N'"'
teeuth Century Lille

Some oil the bentlt't"t
teenth Century Lille
"Imnossible. " as the term is here em-
ployed, means that which is supp's'u 70
lie beyond the boundaries oil t"' poSS'
lilo. The inventor is steadily, persist
entity and greatly charging the area OF
the possible, as thus understood io 10
conouering the dark andduhious domain
of the impossible" Tho world oil le'o
would be a world full of miracles lonon
who left in 1890, could they revisit tn'ir
old terrestrial home, Such visitors
would find the changes so vast anu 50
radical that an entire recast oil 'uo''
habits of life would be acondltion preco-
dent to anything like enjoyment II We
90 back to the days beyond tho s'ca'i'
shin and railroads, to the days oil llht'
steel and finder box, to the era oil talio"
candles and huge wood fires; to the ti"io
when the plumber took little or no par'
in the construction Of houses; wheh
tho shoemaker and the tailor ltineratou
and the schoolmaster boarded rouhu'
when there were no daily and but lew
weekly papers; when the telegraph h"u
not been dreamed of; when the art OF
printing was comparatively in its in
fancy; when Europe was forty days dis
tant; when only a few of the most
wealthy citizens could afford a piano
and such a piano-when factories were
unknown and simplicity ruled IN all
things-in short, If We 90 back to the
days of our great-grandfathers
we are able to understand now
much Of tho impossible" has
surrendered to tho assaults OF
invention. cold things are done away
and all things arc new" The homes
| the business houses, the Offices, all the
employments and surroundings of life;
all that we do and all the ways of doing
have been changed past recognition by
the magic of invention. And yet we
| often hear regrets that "the good old
days" are gone. There are those VINO
seem to lament the progress of the nine
Jetlllu CollGuFy liooc WIN E"Ho '''S''b
ly, lovingly backward, protesting to re-
gard tho old as better than the new,
But these unhappy pessimists are ms
taken. The advancement to which we
refer as due to invention has not been
achieved at the sacrifice of any thing
worth retaining. Intellectually and
morally our nation and the human race
have kept pace with scientific and in
%ventivo progress. Human sympathy
flows with a broader and deeper current
with every passing year, More work
has been accomplished in the fields OF
charity and b~oneyolonce in our century
than had been attempted in tho five
centuries next preceding ours. Reforms
Of every kind calculated to alleviate
suffering, spread knowledge, promote
virtue and to oxalt and purify have beer
and are the great features of tho nine
tcenth-century life. In all these works
invention is the chiefhelper, Inventive
~
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-22
WOODEN Box UsEpIN MARKETING GRAPES

WOODEN BOX UsEDIN MARKETING GRAPES
clear that it made handsome returns to
the grower and the enterprising COM
pany that hit upon this excellent plan
of ~disposing Of fruit, The display OF
fruit was as pretty and tempting a sight
as weary travellers could desire to meet,
and it touched tho pocket-book quickly.
| have no doubt that to train-load after
train-load of people, the sale Of these
boxes day by day, at the Syracuse sta
ton was very large.
Why is not this method of putting up
choice fruit to attract buyers most COM
mendable? 1t appeals to the sense OF
sight as well as to the palate and this
is proper. The public pay the florists
hundreds of thousands of dollars in the
larger cities every year for cut flowers
for beauty chiefly. Fine fruit combines
both beauty and usefulness as food,
The salesman who so presents his pro-
duct that both Of these qualities have
due weight in influencing buyers, will
be greatly the gamer thereby. -Popu-
lar Gardening.
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A DOCTORS CONFESSION.
He Doesn't Take Much Medicine and Al
v.ses the Reporter Not To

He Doesn't Take Much Medicine and Adj
v'ses the Reporter Not To
"Humbugl or course it is. The so-called
science OF medicine is a humbug and has
been from the time of Hippocrates to the
present. Why the biggest crank in the In
dian tribes is the medicine man.
"Very frank was the admission, especially
so when it came from one of the biggest
young physicians of the city, one whose
practice is among the thousands, though he
has been graduated but a few years. says
the Buffalo Courier. "Vcry coy was his
office too, with its cheerful CRATE fire, its
Queen Anne furniture, and its many lounges
and easy-chairs. He stirred the fire lazily,
lighted a fresh cigar, and went ON
Take the prescriptions laid down in tho
books and what do you tindi Poisons
mainly, and nauseating stufrs that would
make a healthy man an invalid. Why in the
world science should so to p%oisons for its
remedies | cannot tell, nor can find any
one who can"
"How does doctor know the effect Of his
medicineln he asked He calls, prcscribcs,
and goes away. The only way TO Judge
would be to stand over the bed aud watch
the patient. This cannot be done So,
really, | don't know how he is to tell what
good or hurt he does. Sometime ago, you
remember, the Boston Globe sent out a re,
porter with a stated set of symptoms. He
went to eleven prominent physicians and
brought back eleven different prescriptions.
This just shows how much science there is
in medicine"
There are local diseases of various char
acters for which nature provides positive
remedies. They may not be included in tho
regular physicians list, perhaps, becauscof
their simplicity, but the evidence of their
curative power is beyond dispute, Kidney
disease is cured by Warmers Safe Cure, a
strictly herbal remedy. Thousands Of per.
sons, every year, write as does II j, Gardi-
ncr, of Pontiac, II, l., August 7, 1890;
"A few years ago | suffered more thar
probably ever will be known outside of my
self, with kidney aud liver complaint Iii.
the old s%tory-I visited doctor after doctor
but to no avail. was at Newport, and DR.
Blackman recommended Warmers Safe
Cure. lcommenced the use of it, and founG
relief Immediately. Altogether l took
three bottles, and | truthfully state that i
cured mo-"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-22
wn.rInrinn and OREGON.

This ncy, empire of the North West is ar
trirtir~ universal attention and the reason
Tor nus is the almost unlimited resources
tbat have recently been opened ana the sur
nrisiug growth Of this region Large agrl-
@rr,liural areas: vast forests aud immense
drnnsils of precious metals are TO % Iounu
i'm OREGON and Washington, and by reason
of tbey varied natural resources oil the coun-
try This section offers unequaled opportuhl-
tbs FOR The Investment of capital ana loca'
lion of industries that are not surpassed ny
The Older sections of the United States The
IISIoY PAclrIc on account OF ITS last Tune,
tbrnurh Pullman Slcopcrs and dlnlng cars,
EREE RcrIining Chair ears and FREE Col
nnist Sleeners from the Missouri RIVER is
conceded 10 be the favor te route lor per-
sons going to either " aShlngton or oregon.
For pamphlets fully descriptive OF the
above named States, OF Tor rates, time oil
trains or any information pertaining TO inc
JIStoY Pacific call on or address Your near
est ticket agent or the undersigned, VINO
win most chccrfully furnish any inlorma-
tion hat may be desired. }. ID welsh,
Genl Agt U. p, Sys,, q W. Fourth street,
Cincinnati, o.
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Its W came fully freighted both in
side and out. There were children and
children's children, who, in the pursuit
of fortune, had straycd away from the
homes where they first saw the light,
but who were now returning to revive
around the old familiar hearth the as
sociations and recollections of their
carly days.
Great were tho preparations among
the housewives of Castleton Hollow.
That must indeed be a poor household
which, on this occasion, could not boast
its turkey and plum pudding, those
well-cstablishcd dishes, not to mention
its long row Of pies-apple, mince and
pumpkin-wherewith the Thanksgiving
board is wont to be garnished.
But it is not of the households gem
orally that ! propose to speak. Let the
reader accompany me in Imagination to
a rather prim-looking brick mansion
situated on the principal street, but at
some distance back, being separated
from it by a front yard. Between this
yard and the fence ran a prim looking
hedge of very formal cut, being cropped
in the most careful manner, lest one
twig should by chance have the pre-
sumption TO grow higher than its kin
dred. Ii was a two-story house, con
tanning on each story II room on either
side Of the front door, making, OF
course, four in all.
If we 30 in we shall find the outward
primnoss well supported by the appear.
ance Of things within. In the front
parlor--wc may peep through the door,
but it would be high treason, in the
present moistened state of our boots, tC
step within its sacred precincts-thert
are tx high-backed chairs standing II
state, two at each window. One car
easily see from the general arrangement
of the furniture that from romping chill
drcn, unccremonious kittens and unhal
lowed intruders generally this room il
most sacredly guarded.
Without speaking particularly of tn,
other rooms, which, though not fur
nished in SO stately a manner, bear
family resemblance to ''the restroom,
we will usher the reader into the oppo
site room, where we will find the own
er and occupant of this prim-lookin,
/, residence.
Miss lletty Henderson is a maiden o
some t~hirty-five summers, attired in
sober-lookins dress of ~irrcproachabl
neatless but most formal cut. She |
the only occupanto of the house, of whicl
likewise she is the proprietor. Her faith
er, who was the village physician, die
/ some ten years since, leaving to Hetty
, or perl APPS ] should give her full NAM
Henrietta, his only child, the house |
which he lived, and some four thousan
dollars in bank stock, on tho income
: which she lived comfortably.
Somehow Miss Hetty had never mai
ried, though, such is the mercenary nj
ture of man, the rumor of her inner
lance brought to her feet several suitor'
But Miss Hetty had resolved never I
marry-at least, this was her invariabl
answer to matrimonial offers, and s
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Somehow, too, the appealing expresslo

IL Na0 hNtftfh n NV Eli Nll0AllDN.
of the little girls face touched her, 50
she threw the door wide open and babe
them enter.
Miss Hletty went on preparing the
table for dinner. A most delightful
odor issued from the oven, one door of
which was open, les. the turkey should
overdo. Miss Hctty could not help OBJ.
serving tho Tistful glances cast by the
little girl toward the tempting dish as
she placed it on the table.
"Poor little creature" thought she,
81 suppose it is a long time since she
had a good dinner"
Then tho thought struck her: "Here
l am alono to eat all this. There is
plenty enough for half a dozen. How
much these poor people would relish it"
BY this time the table was arranged.
''Sir," said she, turning to the trav-
eler, ''you look as il you were hungry
as we'll as cold. If you and your little
daughter would like to sit up, l would
be happy to have you"
'Thank you, madam" was the CRATE.
full reply. "We are hungry, and shall
be much indebted to you for your kind
ness"
1t ives rather q novel situation for
Miss Hetty, sitting at the head of the
table, dispensing food to others beside
herself. There was something rather
agreeable about it.
"Will you have some Of the dressing,
little GIRL have to call you that, for
don't know your name," she added, in
an inquiring tone.
'IIer name is Henrietta, but | gener-
ally call her Hctty," said the traveller.
"What?" said Miss Hetty, dropping
the spoon in surprise.
'She was named after q very dear
friend Of mine," said he, signing.
MAY l ask" said Miss Hetty, with
excusable curiosity, "what was the
name of this friend? l begin to fee
quito an interest in your little GIRL
she added.
Her name was Henrietta Hender'
son." said the stranger,
why, that Is my NAME" CALCULATED
the lady.
"And she was named after YOU" SAID
tho stranger, composedly.
"Why, who in the world are youP'
she asked, her heart beginning to bea
unwontedly fast.
Then you don't remember me?" sale
he, rising, and looking steadily at Mis-
Hetty. "Yet you knew mo we'll in by
. gone d%ays-nono better. And 1t was a
one time thought you would have joined
I your destiny to mine"
mick Anderson" said she, rising Il
confusion. 3,
: you are right. You rejected me, be
: cause you did not feel secure Of m,
Y principles. Tho next day, in dcspai
! at your REFUSAL left tho house, and
l before forty-eight hours had passed, wa
on my way to India had no. ,orme'
% nL4 ANu
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by local applications, as they can not reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure Deafness, and that Is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by IN intiamed condition of the mu-
cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube gets inilaned You have a rumbling
soundo or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed Deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal condi-
ton, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nino eases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inilamed condition
Of the mucous surfaces.
WcWill give One fluudred Dollars for any
case Of Deafness Caused by Catarrhl that
we cannot cure by taking Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
+. }. CHENEY a Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 15c.
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after q time it came to DO understood
that she was fixed for life an old maid.
What reasons impelled her to this course
were not known, but possibly the reader
will be furnished with q clue before he
finishes this narrative.
Meanwhile, the invariable effect Of q
single and solitary life combined at
tended Hetty. She grew precise, prim
and methodical to a painful degree. II
would have been quite a relish II one
could have detected a stray thread even
upon her wellswept carpet but such
was never the case.
On this particular day-this Thanks.
giving day Of which we are speaking
Miss Hetty had completed her culinary
preparations. that Is, she had stuffed
her turkey and put 1t in the oven, and
J S.esded her pudding. for. though bul
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-22
DITCH PLOW.
I Is Practical and Does the Work Rapid
H.. ..I xv.tl

1t Is Practical and Does the Work Rapid
ly and Well.
After the years of patient experiment,
one of my townsmen, Mr.. Dubois, has
perfected tho ditching pillow. 1t does
away with tho tedious job of opening
by hand trenches in stony soil, horse
power being successfully employed in
stead. 1t a be made by all black
smiths. Tho beam is movable, and hung
on a hinge between the side pieces near
the point. As tho ditch doepens, the
beam rises automatically, as shown by
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-22

OF all the numerous prophylactics
against cholera recommended during
the recent epidemic of that disease in
Spain the most uncanny is certainly
that put forth by a wcll-known and pop
ular London physician. According to
his theory tho best way Of escaping the
infection is to take internally every four
hours u teaspoonful of sulphurouS acid
in strip and water 'till the skin smells
of sulphur" The Turks, however, ap,
pear to regard as irreligious the adop-
ton of precautions bearing so great a
SAVIOR of tho internal regions, for the
Sultan, on receiving information of tho
outbreak of the cholera at the Red Sea
port of Joddah, photographed to his gov
crnor general of tho Yemen the follow
ing consoling message: "lf it be Allah's
will that our blessed city of jcddah is tc
be destroyed by disease, let it be So
Chicago Herald.