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Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

THREE negroes were arrested at
Chicago on the 25th who have worked
the entire eastern country for pennies,
the sum total of which amounts to
800.
A TERRIFIC gale is raging along the
east and west coast of Florida. Orange
men are afraid that the results to their
crop will be more disastrous than were
those of the great storm of October,
1898.
FL. A. WIDEMAN has arrived at San
Francisco on his way from Honolulu to
Washington, where it is stated he will
institute a damage suit against the
United States on behalf of ex-Queen
Kilioukalani for 100000.
JOHN L. koNANTZ, a general mer-
chant and farmer at Arcadia, Kansas,
was fatally shot on the 25th hy a gun
which he had set for burglars in his
store. He set the trap at night and open
ing his store next morning caused the
gun to discharge the ball, killing him
almost instantly.
The boiler of threshing engine on a
farm near Crystal, N. d., exploded on
the 25th and four men were killed out
right, one fatally hurt and others badly
injured.
AT Sherman. Texas, on the o5th be-
tween the hours of 12 and l o'clock,
County Treasurer William Scott was
sand-bagged in his Office in the court
house and the county safe robbed OF
several hundred dollars.
AT christening party at Patapsco
Neck, Nd, on the gath John Bond took
up an old army musket supposed to be
unloaded and proceeded to explain how
1t was used during the war. The gun
exploded, killing child named Charles
Riegelhoefer and dangerously wounded
the mother.
A MOST deplorable killing took place
at Newport, Ark. on the oath when DIR.
R. p. Watson was shot three times by
Bob Simmons. city marshal, and died
in about twenty minutes.
A YOUNG farmer named Raleigh Conk-
ling rode to the rear door of the banking
house of Mount Sterling, Illinois, on
the oath, dismounted. entered and with
double-barrel shotgun held up Cashier
Mllsted and Assistant Cashier Allison.
He then gathered up S411 in money and
attempted to get taway, but was captured
and the money recovered after little
fight.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

OVER 400 Hawaiian voters had reg
istered on Oahu island up to Septem-
Der Is. Most of the natives still be-
lieve that the queen will be restored,
and will hang them if they register.
On the 22d the Brazilian minister of
finance cabled to London denial of
the report that the Brazilian govern
ment intends to issue g.. 900, 900 loan.
On the 22d the new revenue cutter
Calumet, which is intended for duty in
and about Chicago harbor. started on
her trial trip from Buffalo, N. Y, the
course being down the river and around
Grand island. The officials appeared
to be satisfied with the action of the
boat.
BRAZILIAN rebels, according to re-
ports received in Montevideo, have
made further advance. Motto
Groso, it is said. will soon be in open
revolt and the San Mateo garrison de-
serted to the rebels after killing the
officers.
On the oath the steamer City of Rio
de Janeiro arrived at San Francisco
from the orient with Chinese advices
up to August 30 and Japanese to Sep
tember 9.
On the gath the committee in charge
of the inspection of the various routes
for the proposed ship canal from Pitts
burgh, Pa, to Lake Erie, left Pitts
burgh for the performance of that duty
The United States army is being con-
centrated near the great railway cen
ters, to be ready for prompt use in
case of internal disorders in the thickly-
populated portions of the country.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29
HUNTSVILLE. ALA. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1894.
on the eed Daniel NJ. Robertson, Of

ON Cne S2Q daniel NJ. RODertSOn, OF
New Bedford, Mass, was sentenced in
the supreme court to be hanged on De-
cember IA for the murder of his wife in
1893.
AT Pomeroy, o., on the 22d, eight
negro men started across the Ohio river
in a boat rowed by white man. When
in mid-river the boat sank and six of
the negroes were drowned.
EARLY on the morning of the 22d the
towboat Comet, belonging to the Comet
Towboat Co., was mysteriously fired at
her moorings at Cincinnati and burned
to the waters edge. A watchman was
the only person on board and he es-
capped. The fire was undou btedly in
cendiary.
ON the gath Maj. Bowen Moore, pen
sion claims agent at Buffalo, n Y, in
dicted for collecting illegal fees, was
found guilty on all five counts of the
indictment.
The rumored murder of over fifty
japanese, engaged in camphor gath
ing at Taiwan, Formosa, is confirmed.
They were assassinated by Chinese
before the declaration of war, and all
property belonging to them was appro-
priated by the murderers.
On the 23d the schooner Col Cook,
stone laden. from Kelley's island, was
abandoned in Lake Erie in sinking
condition. 1t was the Col. Cook which
about thirty-four years ago run down
and sunk the excursion steamer Lady
Elgin, causing a loss of nearly 30c
lives.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29
A Big Enterprise.

There is a project on foot and pro-
position pending to transport the hor-
ticultural hall from the Worlds fair
grounds to Dallas, Tex, where it will
be converted into markethouse. 1t
can be done for s35, 900 Horticultural
hall was one of the architectural gems
of the Worlds fair. 1t covers an area
of fully two blocks of ground, and cost
$3.50, 900. The dome is 13o feet high,
and constructed exclusively of glass
and steel. The dome section has a
seating capacity for 10, 600 persons.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29
A Wanton killing.

There was an atrocious murder com
mitted in Selma, Ala, the other day.
Louis Williams walked out of drug
store, drew his pistol and, without ut
tering a word, shot William Lewis.
The unfortunate man lived just twenty
minutes. There is no cause known
why the murder was committed. Will
liams was arrested and locked up. He
now claims the shooting accidental,
but eye-witnesses to the affair pro-
nounce it cold-blooded murder
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

E~It seems to be Mr.. Cleveland's
studied purpose to break down and
sweep away everything which has
been established beyond the seas for
the protection Of American interests
in foreign parts. We are building
great and expensive navy, not because
there is danger Of collision with other
powers, but because American trade
Is expanding and American inter
ests are springing up all over the
world. But the Cleveland admins
tration discourages everything which
tends to sustain a wise foreign policy
Mr.. Cleveland truckled to England in
the Behring sea matter, as he is now
trucking to Germany in the Samoan
matter. 1t places the country in a hui
initiating light before the rest Of the
world. Albany Journal
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

. AHf young khedive of Egypt believes
.noV the American agricultural ma
VI N.n!nery is the best in the world He
INKS that the farmers of Egypt should
~ longer depend upon the uncertain
u0ods OF the River Nile for irrigation;
I, he IS studying the methods of the
lotinons, who settled in Utah and
~. le an arid. unproductive region a
peffect flower garden by means of
'e'entifc irrigation.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29
Texas Crop Report.

Crop conditions throughout Texas are
as follows; Cloudy and showery wealth
er retarded cotton picking generally.
Boll-worms and sharp-shooters have
damaged cotton considerably over the
northern portion of central Texas, and
the western portion of north Texas.
Cotton was damaged to some extent
over the central portion Of eastern
Texas by heavy rains.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29
xThe figures from Maine are

NThe figures from Maine are sig
niicant This is an ''off year, year
in which, under ordinary cirvun-
stances, the vote would have been
light. Yet the republican majority
seems destined to reach 10000 iE GRILL
presidential year Of 1892 II was brt
$500. The greatest majority hereto
fore achieved was 27.e9o. The ma iOri-
ties are phenomenal also when coaAid-
cred in relation TO congressional else
tions. Reeds plurality is estima bed a
10, 600 lie has been the stalwart cham
pion of protection against tbs OF.
slaRghts " the democratic frce-trad-
majority In the Fifty-thirti congress
he has his eward--Chic4go ilF;
Ocean.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29
4 Pioneer LAWYER.

Judge Jesse G. Gilbert. Of Paducah,
Ky, died at Longview. Tex, where he
had gone on legal business. He had
served in both houes of the general as
sembly and was one of the pioneer
lawyers of the jackson purchase.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29
On Account of His Landlady.

The death by suicide Of Benjamin J.
Smith, an engineer on the Southern
railway, at Atlanta, Ga, was given a
curious turn in the coroners inquest.
1t seems that Engineer Smith asked
his landlady, Mrs. Ida Davis, to accom-
pany him to the circus. As she had
another engagement, she could not do
SO. He .told her that he would sleep in
a better world than this before morn
ing. He was found unconscious in his
room that night, two empty laudanum
vials by his side. He died an hour later
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29
Shot a Good Samaritan.

At Dorchester, Va, Chief of Police
Harry Walling killed a friendly Italian,
who was taking the officers drunken
brother home. The Italian and a friend
found the man too drunk to get out of
the gutter, and started home with him,
when the policeman, thinking they in
tended to rob him, commanded them to
release him. When they started tornn
for the other side Of an embankment
the chief opened fire.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

WITH horses and bicycles reducing
speed records, electrical inventions
and other contrivances which will in
crease the speed of railroad trains
considerably, we are growing to be
very rapid race. 1t is not question
if, after all, there was not more real
comfort in the old stage-cOach days.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

a AFEAruRE of the Atlanta exposition
will be an exhibit by the colored peo-
pie Of the state and of the south. The
colored population of Georgia has ac-
cumulated nearly 20,000, 600 worth of
property since the war, and they can
any industrial exhibition.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

ROBERT G. INGERsoLL is preparing
another lecture, in which, if he is cor
'ec'ly quoted, he purposes to destroy
what portions of the Bible remained
intact after he was through pointing
oul the Mistakes of Moses" Mr.. In
gersoll is quoted as saying that his
new effort will inaugurate the golden
age of agnosticism.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

FRENCH statesmen, notably NJ. Lee
vile, are endeavoring to extend to
France the benefits Of the American
homestead, and as there is no word in
the French tongue which is proper
equivalent for it, the word itself,
homestead" is retained in bill that
has been introduced in the chamber of
dapo+;oe
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

AZ English lady carries about with
her the urn that contains her husbands
ashes. This practice. however, will
not be generally adopted by widows.
The average widow, while showing
proper respect for the departed, be-
comes gradually inclined to let by
rOnes be hv-pOnaS
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

oF the two hundred and thirty weight
men In the graduating class at Yale,
doout fifty have done something to-
ward paying their way through col
iege and ten have received nothing at
~ rom home. Money has been earned
\ al sorts Of ways, from tending door
= me state legislature to shoveling
SNOW and caring for furnaces.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

y COMMITTEE of women has been or
senlzed at Berlin to visit other coun-
Hies Tor the purpose of studying the
"oman question. Two of the women
aie IN London and report themselves
= delighted with the progressive ut
.eIdnces Of representative English
"omen- Just let them wait until they
''dcn America, before they gush.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

PROF. ELY, of Wisconsin state uni
verslty' who was charged by the state
superintendent of education with hav-
ing promulgated socialistic doctrines,
mas been fully exonerated by the board
ol regents, which has approved his
books and declared that his teachings
are commendable. SO happily ends one
hereSy hunt.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

SCIENTISTS long ago estimated that
our wood supply would, before many
centuries, be entirely consumed. 1t
the forest fires continue in other years
as they have this their prediction will
come true much earlier than expected.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29
For Loss OF a Husba nd.

The case of Mrs. Ella Spence, of Jack.
son, Tenn, against the Illinois Central
Railroad Co. for s25, 900 damages for
killing her husband in wreck in 1891,
was decided in favor OF the plaintiff
The jury gave her $4,000 damages.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

THE Missouri man who was placed in
;.n for stealing wheat is not likely
ever to reform. The man who steals
wheat at it's present price must be
,odlv devoid of moral sense.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

NEW religious society in Indiana
refuses to ride on railroad trains.
These good people should be assured
that Mr.. Pullman does not own all the
railroads, and that there are rumors OF
onoosition slum ber-car shops.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29
Dragged to Death.

Near Irene, Tex. as I. o. Smith and
wife were returning from church in
cart the horse became frightened and
ran away. They were thrown out.
Mr.. Smiths foot caught over one Of the
shafts and he was dragged to death.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

THOUGH immigration has fallen oft
more than one-half, the arrivals this
year are averaging more than twenty
thousand a month. Such an army of
new citizens is large enough in any
ease. and too large if not of good ma
tarial
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

The New Jersey mother-in-law who
horse-whipped her sons wife and his
mothcr-in-law at the same time has set
disastrous example. We may i'm
apine the state of the country if it is
10 be followed by the other mothers-ln-
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

Il Is mean trick for Sioux City, Ia,
palm OF jerked horse meat for dried
mo- On the New Jersey people. 1t
- 10y oe profitable way of getting rid
MI condemned army and street-car
III, Nes and decrepit stock generally,
''' y j. debasing trade.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

SEVENTEEN states have made be-
cuning in legislation for good roads.
nis pleasant in an unsatisfactory year
nrun across an encouraging fact that
tos been overlooked.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29

THE Buda-Pesth Hygienic congress
declared that the birthplace OF cholera
was in the valley of the Ganges, but it
rerlected to add that it has taken out
Capitalization papers all over Europe
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS
The Georgia Magnetic woman.

Several distinguished members of the
medical profession of New York city.
including DIR. Thomas 81. Bailey, DIR.
Lewis A. Sayre and DR.. Reginald Sayre,
made critical examination recently of
Mrs. Annie Abbott, Georgia woman.
Mrs. Abbott possesses the faculty
of increasing her avoirdupois with
out the addition of material
weight and to such an extent that an
ordinarily strong man can not lift her
from her feet. She becomes an inert,
dead weight and can not be moved an
inch unless the experimenter permits
his hands to come in contact with each
other. This, Mr.. Abbott says, breaks
the electrical current which guides her
feet to terra frma and she can be
lifted easily. There is another
condition, and a still more re
markable one, which the ply
sicians viii investigate with interest.
An ordinary tumbler is placed against
Mrs. Abbott's head and the investiga-
tor places his own ear at the open end
of the glass, when he hears noise
which sounds like the singing Of sea
shell, accompanied by explosions.
Mrs. Abbott says these noises come
from the inside of her head and give
her the most exquisite pain. She is
unable to account,for the phenomenon.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29
New Hotel for Birmingham.

deal is on foot at birmingham.
Ala, to build a half million dollar
hotel to replace the Caldwell house
burned laet July Northern capital is
interested.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29
VOLUME XIV.

THr summers drought cost the farm
~ the country about $3.50, 200. 900 in
,be corn crop alone. Such items lend
soculiar interest to the subject of irri-
cation.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29
Value of Cotton Seed.

Says the Baltimore Sun: Cotton seed
brings in the Birmingham (Ala.)
market 25 cents bushel. There are
81 pounds to the bushel and 81 bushels
to the ton. This makes the market
price of cotton seed S15. so ton. Not
many years ago the planter thought
the seed of cotton were a nuisance,
and would have been glad to raise cot
ton without seed Then it was found
that oil could be made of cotton seed,
and now the price of the seed reduces
to a large extent the cost of raising
cotton
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10
WHY HORSES ARE SWIFT.
Their Speed Was Developed in Trying to
Escape Their Enemies.

~"o "peoo WIS developed IN Trying to
Escape Their Enemies.
We're it not for the wolves that noble
creature, the horse, would not be the
leet-footed animal that it is TODAY.
Thus writes DR.. Louis Robinson in the
current Nortn American Review. The
wolves n the wild horses, he saws.
ere constantly at war and moreover
the wolf was the only predatory beast
existing in ancient times which was
able - pursue the horse and hunt it
down On the open steppe. The gallop-
ing power OF the horse was thus de-
veloped to enable it to escape these
gaunt and persistent foes.
Even now after many centuries of
training some Of the habits Of The horse
IN a wild state crop out. "Shying" is
undoubtedly a relic Of an ancestral in
stinct. The wild horse, swift of foot
and keen of vision, feared few enemies
when GU on the open plain, but every
bush and tuft of g as might and often
did contain a fierce Zoe lying in am
bush. Many a time must the wild
horse have saved his life by a sudden
swerve and leap in the opposite direc.
tion the moment he heard the rustic OF
leaves or deserted some strange and
dimly outlined object amid the under.
wood To-day many no SEES tremble
with terror ON hearing the rustic of
reeds by a river bank. Their lanic
tells Us a tale CT many a tragic incident
OF the remote past, when the herds OF
wild desert steeds, parched with thirst,
sought the water courses, where wa
"gi ass with reeds and rushes," and
were there pounced upon by leopards,
or tigers, crOnching. concealed, on the
watch for prey.
On account Of the close association of
d p end horses the latter have not
now any dread Of the former, but there
ate insta' ces when young horse; went
almost wild with fright when surround.
Cd for the first time By packs of fox
hounds. In hunting coyotes On the
prairies hor. es enter the sport with
enthusiasm, straining every nerve tc
catch the wolves and striking at them
with their no f.. 1t is as though they
we're having eve 81 for the persecu-
ton Of their anc stlr5.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10
COO soldier.

A fellow campaigner with the late
Gen. Curetcn, who died at Kearnsey,
lear Doyer. lately told the following
story illustrative of the gallant officers
sang froid when on active service.
Durinp the Katfir war Gen. Curet n
md three other officers were sitting in
= he'll tent aging whist by the light
tory fire was kept up by the enemy,
but of this no note wa taken, although
several shCt5 passed clean rou a
lent, Presently. however. the bullet
struck the bottle candlestick, putting
the lie I out. The cards were care
tnllv aid face downward, and, calling
nut the guard. Gen. Cureton ordered
them to pour a yolley in the direction
o'ber bott G. relit the candle. and tie
pame was quietly finished, Gen; Cure
Ton and his partner winning the rub
Der.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10
Fruit.R in Oklahoma.

The attention that is given to fruit.
raising in Oklahoma, considering the
short time that cOAntry has been
settled, is really wonderful. Late
statistics show the young territory ha,
now 6S3.0 0 growing apple trees, 64s,-
go reach trees, $3.50 cherry trees,
$1,000 pear trees and a great variety of
other fruit trees and vines Of every
descl iptior. The profits on this varied
investment have not begun to come in
yet so that their value can be esti-
mated, but the trees, when in bearing.
will undoubtedly be one of Oklahoma's
most prolific sou ces of wealth.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10
MANS CONSERVATISM.
How Whiskers BecOine a Part of an In
dividual's Life.


The conservatism in a mans nature
is conspicuous in his face. He carries
it about with him and faults it in the
eyes Of the re t of the world all his
lie. Women poor weak creatures
change with the seasons, wearing
their La.r down on their neck, up on
the top of the head, in putfs, co.'s,
curls or ponpadour, as fashion de-
mands: but man. having passed his
younger days. never changes. II SIDE
whiskers were in at the particular
pericd when his habits became fixed
he sticks to side whiskers. If chin
whiskers were the rule at that time in
his cir, le thon 1t Is chin whlskors Tor
the re Il of his life. if he wore a full
beard at - or ~ then it is full beard
to the grave. If he shaved his upper
lip CT wore an imperial he Will e. on
shaw n! his upper lip or wearing an
imperial Tor the rest OF his days. Inc
mustache era is rot o plainly
stamped upon society than the chin
whisker era typified in h tradlt!onai
Uncle sam. The whlsker habit be-
comes fixed when a man is between -
and 30. Whatever he wears during
that rcriod viii in all probability be-
come a part OF MS uono
bee )mes remembered by his whlskers.
They are art OF his l~ndlVldualllH
Nobody thinks OF him save through
his viii kers. Should he attempt L
break down the rule by HAVING MS
wniskers cut OF or adopt some ne"
fashion. he will be remembered as e
was. MOI. as he is, Just as the newspaper
portraits of Senator N(ornees continue
TO give h N his billy-goat adjournment
long alter the latter had disapf cared.
Who could think of Blaine, Grant,
Harrison, Hayes. etc, and not the
beard? How would oil Father Time
look S. ayed clean and wearing a waxed
m stache? The beard habit is .n5t
now struggling with the mustacSe
habi. There will be lots OF gray,
boards when the midd Gagged men q
to-day become Old.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10
one Of Private Aliens Tales,

ongressman Allen. of Mississippi.
elIs this story: Down in my neigh
there was bad feeling between
'"o lawyers, and it was decided that
blood could wipe out the enmity
lllch existed. A challenge was sent
lad duly acknowledge d. The hour
vas appointed and the Two men met in
'ecIuded spot. One of them was a
yea, sufferer from st. Vitus' dance,
.tv otner Vas ccol and collected. AS
,"eI laced each other the afflicted
he-an to tremble from head to
1o,' while his pistol described an arc
IlA varying up ard down strokes.
'ts oppo:ent stood firm as a rock.
",'''Ag for the signal to fire. Before
y SHe' however, he laid his pistol
" I4e gro ma, walked into the woods,
~ eat & limb of a tree with a fork in
.' 'hd Of it. This he brought back
~, >'Nck in the ground in front OF his
zionist. Then turning to the sec
'.'' ne sand: i must request you to
- to'r principal to rest his pistol in
Wat for::' asked his opponents
vel, replied the other. 4 have
~o'.ectlen to running the risk of one
Aut | G tainly do decline having
! puIIet make a honeycomp of me
mat man was to shoot while his
%n0 Is Shaking the way it i, now he
~ q Ill ne full of holes at his first
1AlS wa too much for the Sec
-'>' anu by mutual agreement. a
.yo va patched up and no shots
ere exchanged"
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-10
No Iibr. rian Needed

In the heart of London is a public
news without a librarian or any,
L to look after the papers. They
are chaine and Ia%dlocked so they can
not be carried OF. Little damage is
done and the room is usual y quiet and
orderly.