Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-12-05
GENERAL NEWS.

near R0llin. Mich.
Coroner Aydelott of Parke county,
Ind, wears an 81 hat.
Nodaway county. Mo, has horse
dealer named Goodpasture.
In the Louisville City Court the
other day there was a negress with red
hair
AT NARROW. n. H., snow owl with
a five-foot spread OF wing was shot re-
Gently.
An indianapolis physician, after an
hours lively chase, caught 'possum
in his back yard.
Mayor Murphy of Trenton. Mo-,
issued Thanksgiving proclamation
on his own responsibility.
Stella, Wahkiakum county, Wash,
was shaken one night by a ten ton
boulder that rolled down from cliff
and plunged into a warehouse.
II is said that because he did not
understand how to mark his ballot
properly, saloon keeper of Milan,
Mich, voted n Prohibition ticket.
In crossing the tracks at a railway
station at Augusta, Me-, man got
his foot caught in the frog Of switch
and had Just time to loosen the string
and pull his foot out of the shoe before
train passed.
Anxious to bet on election, a Craw-
louisville, Ind, girl agreed to marry
her lover, a bridge carpenter, if Bryan
was elected, or TO give him $40 il
Mckinley won. Now thev are puzzled
TO determine who benefits by the
issue.
An eleven-year-old negro was found
asleep in the morning in an Atlanta
tea store, which he and a small CON-
panion had robbed during the night.
He gave no excuse TOR his escapade
nor for his carelessness in going to
sleep.
Two girl friends of fifteen-year-oll
Flora Gleich Of Detroit disguised
themselves as men, and when she
answered their ring at the door bell
attempted TO drag her outside. They
threw her into fright, from which
she suffered for several days.
At kokomo, Ind, the amputated
leg of drayman, who had chilblains
and corns. is TO be disinterred under
his doctors orders and buried below
the frost line in order to relieve the
mans present sufierings from the old
complaint.
In New Orleans theatre the au.
dience one evening took up with
avidity the cry of small urchin, who
on seeing long-haired usher selling
librettos, iis,laine,l 10 Use any Of the
well-worn expressions applicable, but
yelled, pointing at the same time,
Sic EN-, scissors, sic EN-"
At Moonlight, Dickinson county,
Kan, seventy-seven relatives attended
the funeral of aged Mrs. Katherine
Bert and spent most of the day in the
ceremonies, pausing at noon to par.
take of feast and lingering at the
grave after the lowering Of the coffin
TO witness the filling in.
This has been a fall Of new diseases
in various parts Of the country. In
Florida new ailment among horses
kept the veterinarians busy, in New
York the dwelers in mansions have
been afflicted. and now word from
Winchester, Ind, tells of a strange
disease among hogs which causes them
to swell, refuse food, and die.
a whole family affected with re
ligious mania, is reported II first
broke out in the eldest son, near tho
Long Sault in Oklahoma. He called
himself the prince of the Sand Hill,
and declared that Christ had selected
him to reform the world After fall
ing victims TO the maIady, his parent.
concluded that he was possessed of a
devil and they beat him TO insensibili
ty, after which they sacrificed the
youngest of their fifteen children as a
pascal lamb. This being told Of as a
mere incident by another child TO a
neighboring clergyman, led to the in
generation OF the violent members oil
the family in the Kingston insane
asylum.