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* . • ,*'"fei i_, (5 " , " i THE SHALL BOT. THE BULLDOZER*. STATE NEW8L |H^|»w| gliwteilp j. VMtLVNi. McHENBT, ILLINOIS. AT a recent oonference of Tilden men in New York it TM agreed that R. P. Flower is the only man who can cany his State against Arthur. The name of Ex-Senator Eaton, of Connecticut, was mentioned as that a% tionally strong man. , f. i \ , A PAT illustration was that made by the Bey. S. J. McPherson, of Chicago, when he said that gambling is to steal­ ing what dueling is to assassination. The end of both gambling and stealing is to get something for nothing; tho purpose of both dueling and assassina­ tion is the killing of an enemy. The difference is the term*. CAXALS are receiving increased atten­ tion in Europe. It is now certain that the canal connecting/the Black Sea with the Baltic Sea will be completed with* in a few years. Supplementary to this is the ship canal between the Baltic Sea and the German Ocean, which will, it is estimated, save a journey of 600 miles for a vessel making A trip be­ tween either of these waters, as the •circumnavigation of the peninsula of Jutland will be unnecessary. In all, the proposed canal will be only some fifty miles--or about half that of the Suez canal -- extending from Gluck- «tadt to KieL M. Du SomosBABD, the founder of "the Clnny Museum in Paris, was one •day in a common public house in St Denis where, on the wall, he noticed a frying-pan of a somewhat uncommon shape. He took it down to examine it more particularly, and discovered some engraved letters under a thick crust of dirt and soot. Without saying anything about his discovery to the owner, he bought the pan from the astonished owner, and after a process of cleaning, it appeared that it was the plate from the coffin of Louis XTV. The three legs were taken out and the original shape restored, but the holes into which the legs had been fastened re­ main to this day. . It^ is pow i^, the Cluny Museum. A BOSTON letter to Press reports that a singular fraud has "been unearthed at Harvard. "It was found," said the correspondent, "that in the freshman class were two students who had hired some one to pass the ex ination for them. The particulars of one case was told me, and possibly, the second is only an addition made by ru­ mor to the truth. This young man's father, himself a Harvard graduate, hired a man, also an alumnus, to take his son's examination. The deception would seem to be so easy that it is strange that it has not been tried be­ fore, as, indeed, it may have been. In the present case the student could not be expelled, as not having passed his «xamination, he has never been a mem­ ber of the college." A WONDERFUL bedstead, made for an East Indian prince, is on show at Paris. It is made partly of silver. At each corner stands a beautifully-modelled female figure (life size), holding a deli­ cately constructed fan, and wearing a wig of real hair. This is to be regu­ larly dressed by the court barber once a week. On the great potentate get­ ting to bed the weight of his body sets certain machinery in motion, the effect of which is, that the silver maidens gently fan the sleeper. If the figures at the foot of the bed are required to exert themselves, in like manner this *»an be accomplished by the aid of a clock-like apparatus. Moreover, should the dusky owner of the bed wish to be lulled to slumber by the dulcet sounds of soft music, this can be done by touch­ ing a spring. The bottom of the bed contains a large music box. ; A ctrpioUB and novel idea, that of a spoken newspaper, has been carried in­ to practical effect in Paris, without, however, meeting with any great en couragement from the public. Properly speaking, the newspaper in question is no newspaper at all, the fact being that • number of journalists appeared be­ fore an audience at the Athenee Thea­ ter and delivered addresses similar in form to the different articles in a daily journal. One gave an account of the previous day's sitting in the Chamber of Deputies, another spoke of politics, a third gave the telegraphic news, and so on. The reading of a feuilleton in imitation of the style of Emile Zola •caused amusement, and some sketches by M. Le Petit, the well-known carica­ turist, which were added, were well received; but the serious articles or ad dresses fell quite flat, and the editor ac­ knowledged that his fixat essay had not jftoved successful. - LUKE CLABK. a veteran Fenian, died rntly at Dunmore, Pennsylvania the age of 82 years. He had been active in Irish revolu­ tionary affairs for more than half century, and was tried for treason and sentenced to death by the British government many years ago. He man­ aged to escape from prison, however, and came to this country. When the Fenian hgitation was at its height he was one of the trusted lieutenants of James Stephens, a fact which led to the arrest of the "head center." Clark de­ fended himself promptly against this charge and showed conclusively that it H»s unfounded. He lived in the region he died for sometime and often Walked to New Tork and Philadelphia If attend oonventioas. His principal . v" ..... . ...J possession was an old scrap-book, which carried about with him, and in which he kept bonds of the Irish repub­ lic and newspaper dippings. *Be died extreme poverty. in CBOWDS of sympathetic visiters are. surrounding the home of Little Nell in London, which is soon to be demolish­ ed. There is some doubt as to the au­ thenticity of this "Old Curiosity Shop," but that does not affect the sentimen­ talists, and especially the Americans. "They went there to worship," a neigh­ boring shop-keeper said, "took off their hats when they got through the door­ way, and asked questions about Quilp and the grandfather as if they had been actual persons. The ladies were the worst. I have known them to get down on their knees and burst out crying about Little Nell." Miss Mary Ander­ son might have been seen there more than once, with her heart full of ten­ derness for the little maiden; and so delighted was the fair American with the ancient dwelling and its overhang* ing story that the doors of the Lyceum were opened to the fortunate occuftant whenever he chose to go. ; '• "" AH INCIDENT OF THE WRECK OF THE COLUMBUS.--Among the confused mass who were struggling and screaming were noticed a middle aged man and his wife. Their conduct was in marked contrast with that of the other passen­ gers. The panic which had seized the others was not shared by them, but their blanched faces told that they realized the peril which surrounded them. The only movement of muscles or nerves was that produced by the chilling atmosphere. They stood close together, their hands clasped in each other, as if about to contemplate suicide together, and thus fulfill the marital vow of standing by each other in the varying tide of life's fortunes and mis­ fortunes. As the wreck careened with the gale from one side to the other, and while the spray and waves were drench­ ing them at every moment, the husband turned and imprinted a kiss upon the companion of his life, and while thus embraced a heavy sea broke over the wreck and both were washed away and not seen afterward. Mr. Cook says the scene was one which will remain indel­ ibly impressed upon his memory until his dying day. * EBASTUS WIMAN, the active man and directing spirit of the mercantile agency of B. G. Dun & Co., states that the failures of 1883 were 11,500 in number. Under ordinary circumstances this would be an omen of the worst descrip­ tion. In 1878, the year when the bank­ rupt law ended, the failures did not ex­ ceed 11,470 in number. And it is an interesting fact that, in spite of a few big failures this year, the vast majority of them are for small sums oply, and this is a symptom of the most cheering character. After a year of numerous large failures the wave of banbruptcy always goes on spreading for two or three years, increasing the number and aggregate liabilities of failure until it expends force on the small business firms throughout the country. The Tecord of 1883 shows that the recent wave of depression has nearly run its course, an inference which is corrobor­ ated by a thousand and one small facts hardly necessary to mention. Mr. Wi- man called attention to the enormous in­ crease of expenses since 1880 in every department of business and private life, with the consequence of an extremely great extent of business now carried on without profit. He believes that the true policy of the country for the next six months should be a rigid reduction of expenses and close attention to all the details of business. He lakes a cheerful view of the prospects of the coming year. What the Newly filch Do. One of Senator Tabor's partners, when he struck the first bonanza, was a German named Biche, who was past the middle age, had been a cobbling shoemaker all his life, and a $50 note was an engraving he had never inspect­ ed at nearer range than through the wicket of a bank counter. He got about $100,000. The first thing he did was to build a large brick house, red in color, and of square and hideous archi­ tectural design, about two miles distant from the camp or any other habitation. Then he got married and retired into this dwelling, as the knights and barons of mediaeval times retired into their castle keeps, and he only emerged at long intervals to lay in provisions and chewing tobacco. This was his concep­ tion of perfect rest, and consequently ecstatic happiness. He had a profound mistrust of banks, and kept his cash by him, where thieves could not break in nor moths corrupt. One would sup­ pose that this scheme was open to ob­ jections, on the ground of its lack of variety, but unkind rumor credited the capitalist's wife, who was a very voluble lady, with the ability to keep him en­ tertained and excited. -KantMM City Star.' • f Spinner's SifMtira Guest, from Rentnckv (excitedly). --"Got 'em again; got 'em again! Fire! Murder! Thieves! Help, somebody! Send for a doctor!" Host--"Good gracious, sir, what has happened?" Guest--"Oh! send for a doctor. Hold me. Lock me up. I've got 'em again." Host--"Got what?" Guest--"The jimjams, the tremens. Oh! where is the doctor?" Host--"You are all right There can't be anything the matter with you. This is a temperance hotel." Guest--"But look there; look there! I see a slimy serpent crawling all over the hotel register among the names of the guests. Oh, I've got 'em again! I " _ Host--"Calm your fears, my dear sir. That is only General Spinner's signature."--Philadelphia, Colt RAILROAD journals are discussing the distanoe the running of trains can be heard. Eighteen miles is the greatest distance claimed. Ipfdka Mm Torture Teat to a Tni«ll>| fe Han-Blood Cherokee. lOpie P. Bead.| _ I shall net soon forget a stage ooach ride from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Muskogee, Indian Territory. I had thought that I would be the only pas­ senger, but when a woman and a boy, and subsequently a half-Indian, enter­ ed, I very naturally revised my former impressions and decided that I would have company. The half Indian had been educated at an eastern school, and was a very intelligent man. He was. I understood him to say. a member of the Cherokee council, and was returning home from a visit to Washington, to at­ tend a session of that grave, if not potent, body of Indian legislators. When the boy learned that the man was an Indian he began to exhibit a restless­ ness which I soon discovered would re­ sult in the red man's annoyance. "Did yott ever kill anybody?" ha ask­ ed. "Tommy," said the woman, "dori^ be rude." • "I think not," replied the Cherokee. "Then what makes you be a Indian ?" "I am only a half Indian." "Which half?" "Thomas," exclaimed the woman, turning him around, unbuttoning his coat and buttoning it again. He re­ mained quiet for a few moments and then said: "Maw?" "What, dear?" 1 "A half Indian woma only half kill anybody, wouldn't he?" "If you don't hush I'll put you out." "Then I'd have to walk, wouldn't I!" "Yes." "An' the bears migSl get me, mightn't they?" "Yes, they woul "Would you "Yes." 4 "Then what makes you wanter put me out. Do the Indians Bcalp folks ?" again addressing the Cherokee council­ or, who exhibited the stoical side of his Indian nature, but then yielding to the white and of course the political half, replied: "The wild ones do." "But vou are not wild, an #opIS.*-, "No."' 1 "Why ain't you?* "My little man, I must say fnlltyou are asking too many questions," casting a reproachful glance at the woman. "If you don't hush I'll whip yon. Do you hear me?" taking his hat from the floor and puttiug it on his head. He remained quiet for a few moments, but dropping his hat on the floor, he reached down, took it up and said: "If you was a wild Indian you'd out pe with a knife when'^I stoop down wouldn't yea ?" The Cherokee looked far out over the land of his fathers but made no reply, "If I waster to hit you, you'd hurt me anyhow, wouldn't you?" "No," the red man replied. "Why wouldn't you?" "Another word out of you and I'll whip you. Nevermind; I'll tell your father," said the woman. It was impossible for him to keep quiet, and after awhile he asked: "Have you got any boys?" "Yes; two." ^ > "Are they Indian boysfS - "Their mother is a white woman." "As white as my maw ?" "Just another word out of you and 111 box you," said the woman, blushing. He had evidently tested lus indulgent mother on many an occasion, for after the shortest possible silence on his part, he asked: "Did vou ever see any scalps? "Yes, I think so." "Did they have blood on 'em ?' "No, they were dry," replied the Cherokee, plainly showing that his political readiness in answering questions had risen above his Indian stoicism. "Do they peel them like apples when they dry 'em?" "Hush your month." .The Indian nature was endeavoring to assert it­ self. "If you ask another question 111 whip you, you little rascal," said the woman. "Are you going to hush ?" "Yessum."' He twisted himself around, scratched the coacli door with a nail which he mysteriously produced, and asked : "Would you rather be an Indian than a white man ?" "Hold on," demanded the Cherokee, calling to the driver. "Let me ride outside." "It's goin' to rain, I think, colonel," the driver responded. "Makes no difference," and he got out and climbed on top of the coach. I then thought my time had come, but he was after better game; our red man of the forest was his affinity. He screwed himself around awhile, and then lean­ ing from the coach window, he called: "Say, does the Indian scalp niggers ?" "Whoa," said the Cherokee, "let me get down." "Want to get back inside ?" the driver asked. "No, I'm going to walk. Drive on and if I don't overtake you, all right. D d if I wouldn't rather be a witness in the United States Court." lavwUgHttai bf the Swale Com­ mittee of ilie Copiah Connty • Mutters. y.: the While Casting His Vote. Tke Reign ef Terror Preceding the Election--Cruelties Practteet hj I m l l M a k . T -Wi' A Lawyer on Change ef Names. "I have had three cases recently where the clients wanted their names doctor­ ed. One petitioner was a travelling agent, a Mr. Wintringham, I think. On the road and among his customers and friends he was known as "Smithy." This nickname he had carried so long that when he struck a town he regis­ tered as Smith. Letters sent to him as Wintringham were frequently not de­ livered, and finally as a matter of con­ venience as well as a matter of busi­ ness, he had his name legally changed from Wintringham to Smith." "Does John Smith ever get tired of his name?" "Often. There was one very irate old John Smith in Milwaukee who figured as a petitioner not long ago. The cir­ cumstances attending his case were these: He was in the clothing busi­ ness, and his most active competitor was his son, John Smith, who had a clothing store next door. Father and son had quarrelled, and the vendetta between them had been of long stand­ ing. The young man neglected busi­ ness, ran behind and two officials were sent from the sheriff's office to attach his stock and close up the place. The officers swooped down on the wrong John Smith. The old man was absent, his clerks were paralyzed, and when the venerable proprietor ap­ peared and pounded on the front door for admi tance he saw by the bill posted prominently in the window that the sheriff had possession. A madder old man never mutilated the English lan­ guage. He swore he would have his name changed, and the following day his petition was filed. He is now John **Do women occasionally petition fa* } anew title?" I "Indeed they do. The law permits a woman who has obtained a divorce to assume her maiden name, but some di­ vorced wives want brand-new names, and they are frequently accommodated. I recall a ]>etition once tiled by a wo­ man named Baggot. She was young and aspired a second time to matri- mfony. She deposed that certain wick­ ed acquaintances pronounced her name 'By--,' and that her peace of mind was greatly disturbed by tho profanity. She received a decree, and subsequently go|j, a new husband."--Chicago Herald. Mock-Water.nsr. The highest law court of Now York not long since gave a decision in a case which involved the legality of what is known as stock-watering. This pro­ cess in its simplest and, in tho popular opinion, most offensive form, is this: Suppose a company has a capital of $1,000,000; 10,000 shares at a par of $100 each. By vote of the company or of its directors, an additional share is issued for every four shares held by each stockholder. These shares are given awav. The mau who has 100 shares now has 1*25; the whole number of shares is 1*2,500; tho nominal capital of the company is $1,250,000. Something like this was dpne by the Western Union Telegraph Company, but it is not necessary to go into the de­ tails of the operation. A suit was brought to forbid the company to pay dividends on the new shares which hail been issued for nothing. The first conrt where the case was tried, issued an order, or injunction, forbidding the payment of dividends. The Court of Appeals of New York has now reversed the decision. _ This is equivalent to saying that in New York it is not illegal to "water" stock, or to issue shares and increase nominal capital of a company, when no additional capital has really been put into it. But what is legally right may sometimes be morally wrong, and it is worth while to examine the question in the broader light of justice and fair dealing. And it must be said, in the first place, that stock watering does not al­ ways, or even usually, inflict a wrong upon the community. Almost all the corporations have no restriction upon the amount of dividends they may pay. All honorable corporations make all the money they honestly can. Now take a manufacturing, a rail­ way, or a telegraph company. It is capable of making six, ten, or twenty per cent, upon the nominal capital, and this capital we will suppose has been actually paid in. If it can make twen­ ty per cent., it makes it, and distributes it in dividends. Now if issuing two shares of stock for one will enable tho company to charge more for its service, or for what it produces, than it could charge and collect before, then the act of doubling, th&tflock injures the com­ munity. But it does not, at least not ordina­ rily, confer any such power. People say that the Western Union Telegraph Company is a monopoly, and cau charge what it will for telegraph service. Not to discuss that point, it is very plain that increasing the number of shares does not make it more a monopoly than it was, or add to its greed of gam, or enlarge its power for dividends. Seven and a half per cent, dividends on one hundred shares are equal to Bix per cent, on one hundred and twenty- five shares. The company earned all it could before; it earns all it can now. It distributed all it earned then; it does the same now. Then it made larger dividends on a smaller number of shares than is the case at present. Suppose six per cent, to be a fair rate of dividend upon a railroad stock. Then the shares of a railroad whicli earns and pays nine per cent, dividends should be worth $150. If the company determines to water its stock one-half, ! .b"* tho , , , 0 ' | where arrests were made. Five negroes wnat Happens. had been whipped to make them give up elee- There are three shares where there tion tickets. Witness did not know person- were two before. The company earns | aHv about these matters. Witness had bearti as much as before, and no more. The r""'~ **"" ' The Senate Committee, of which Senator Hoar is Chairman, sent South to investigate the election riots in Co­ piah County, Mississippi, has been tak­ ing testimony at New Orleans. Leon H. Matthews was the first witness. He testified as follows: Is 88 years old, a resident of Copiah Coun­ ty, Mississippi, a native of the Hiatet and a merchant by profession. He was a candidate tor ottoe at the election last November. Was active in politics. Is the brother of J. P. Matthews, known as "Print" Matthews, who was killed at Haslehurst election day, Nor. 7. The white and colored voters ace nearly equal in numbers in the county; thinks the blacks are somewhat in a majority. In the last election the parties were Democrats and Independents. There were about 400 white voters In the Independent ranks. The election resulted in a majority of over 2,000 tor the Democrats. The election oanvess was conducted with much activity. There was an armed mob or organization of about one hundred and forty men that went through the oounty acting violently against the Independents. They shot, and whipped, •nd hung men, mostly colored men. Witness saw a negro man, Wallace, and his wife, who had been killed by the mob; witness saw this mob in Haslehurst, commanded by Maj. Park, marching around town the day before the election. They sent a threatening letter to his brother warning him not to go to the polls. Witness knew that the mob had burned a colored church where a political meeting had been held. The mob had a can­ non, which they fired into houses. Witness' brother was a merchant, selling goods to Democrats and Republicans, whites and blacks, and gave them supplies on credit. Brastus Wheeler, the man who killed him, had an opea account in the store, and wasappar- ently on frendly terms with him. Rleetion-day witness' brother came to witness' store and was weighing some cotton while witness went to a voting place to distribute some tickets. When witness got back his brother was dead. His brother was shot through the breast. Witness was told his brother was killed at the polls while depositing his vote, and was shot by Ross Wheeler. Witness saw many whites on election day with guns, but no negroes were armed that he saw. The armed men said they intended to carry the election. They had carried shotguns and pistols for a fortnight- This body of men were scattered over the county. Hoss Wheeler, John Me- Lemore, J. L. Mead, Chairman (Jt the County Democratic Committee and editor of the Copiah Signal, Kube Parser, John B. Mays, and others were among the men who were in the crowd riding around. Print Matthews had made speeches on the Independent side in the canvass. He was active politically. He had been e.ected to the ottioe of Alderman the year before and had also been elected Sheriff previously. He was not a quarrelsome man; had never had a quarrel with Wheeler, and was regarded as a ltepub- lloan It ader. Witness believed that the kill­ ing of his brother kept a great many people from voting the Independent ticket. Wheeler was Town Marshal of Hazlehurst at tho time he did the killing, and has been never tried for it. Ihe brother of witness had tried to get tho Sheriff to stop the raMs of the armed mobs referred to, and maae an affidavit against some of them before the Mayor, which led to an order for their arrest. The Sheriff, Hargraves, said he did not know whom he oould get to help him in making the arrests, and wanted Matthews to assist. Wit­ ness thought this was a job to get his brother killed. Witness received one threatening letter and bis brother got three. Witness was snown a paper which he said was a copy of one his brother had received. It was as follows: WHiaaAS, It is thought the public good will be subserved that Print Matthews should abstain from visiting the polls on election day. Resolved, By the citizens of this town, that the said Print Matthews be advised to remain within his inclosure on election day. Witness spoke of several persons who had been whipped and others who had been mal­ treated. Henry Fatten was whipped, and Frank Hayes' house had been burned. No­ body was ever brought to trial for these If the company i acts, although some parties had been ar- i « \ *a ' Kti* mattae «oa nnmnmmlattl away. She didn't _ After her husband was kBled she went to the and remains <1 there until after the eleo- dividend is reduced six per cent. Each of the three shares is worth $100. The dividend on the three shares is $18. tho same as that on the old two shares. Now in all this, who has been hurt ? It would be difficult to say that any­ body has been injured trations we have chosen show just when the evil of stock-watering, so far as the general public is concerned, may be felt. Whenever the possession of a larger nominal capital enables a corporation to charge more and collect more for its goods or service, stock-watering is in­ jurious. In all other oases it is merely a matter of convenience to the corpor­ ation itself, how it will divide its earn­ ings,--a little on many, or more on fewer. This, however, is a consideration of the subject only so far as the public at large is concerned. Stock-watering is, nevertheless, accompanied by evils of its own. It promotes stock speculation in more ways than one. It is usually resorted to by boards of directors who (peculate. Some of these directors, knowing that a "stock dividend," as it is called, is contemplated, buy more shares before the plan is made public, and thus "feather their own nests." The real evils of the Bystem therefore fall, not on the public, but on owners of shares who do not have inside information, and on speculators who get caught on the wrong side of the market.--Youth's Companion. Cheap Water Purifier. Frederick Guthrie, of the Science School at South Kensington, makes the following suggestions for a penny wa­ ter cleanser: Proceeding upon the prin­ ciple of aeration and the assumption that subtle as the disease germs in wa­ ter may be, they shall not escape the touch of oxygen. Mr. Guthrie argues that to thoroughly purify water it should be allowed to run over as large a surface as possible, and while so run­ ning it should be freely exposed to the air. To make the filter a flower-pot and a brick are required. Break the bottom out of the liower-pot in such a way as to leave edges enough to hold np'half a brick. Let one corner of the half brick stand out through the bot­ tom hole. Break up the rest of tho brick into bits about as big as a quar­ ter of a walnntand throw th<»m into the pot. Soak the whole over night in a pail of water and let it drain. The water which is to be purified should be allowed to drip upon the middle of the chips of brick, and after a few hours the watex which drops from the bottom will be perfectly pure and wholesome. This purifier, unlike most of those in general use, combines a rather coarse filtration with an effective aeration, and something of a specific chemical action as well. ____________ THERE are some names--like that of mother and wife--that are too sacred lor jest. k that Dave Bell, Solomon Smith, and Napoleon Demars had been attacked election day; had heard that other cases of cutting, shooting, and whipping had taken place, and the ne­ groes had been driven to the woods. Witness said there were only two or three, not more than four,-oolored Democrats in tho county. All the negroes voted the ltepubiican ticket if permitted. The threatening letters he re- AnVl tlio illnn- ! ceived and those his brother received were anonymous, having no names signed to them. They came through the postotbee. The Chairman read from the tables of the United States census for 1880 to show the population of the various beats of Copiah County. Mm Matthews, widow of J. P. Matthews, testified that herself and husband were born and raised In Copiah County. Will not re­ turn to Hazlehurst to live, though lier hus­ band's property Is there. The day before tha November election witness saw an armed mob pass her house, several of them remark­ ing that somebody had better get away. After passing, the mob halted. Mr. McCree came back to the house and presented a reso­ lution purporting to have been adopted by the people of the town, stating that the best interests would be subserved if her husband abstained from voting, and he htkd better do so. Matthews replied that be had as good a right to vote as any one, and intended to vote. Her husband had had dealings at his store with both Democrats and hepublicans alike. He was kind, generous, and charitable. He contributed liberally to thechurcbcs. No one ever came to him for assistance and went away without it. He always spoke kindly of his neighbors; kept open house, and entertained a great deal. Witness knew no reason for the killing other than politics. Paw a mob on election day after her husband had been murdered. Some came and stood about the yard. Others had a band playing. They were firing guns, and seemed to enjoy them­ selves. Never knew her husband toeadeavor to excite animosity among the peopie or stir up race prejudice. All liked him except his politics. Miss Mary Matthews, Miss Jessie Matthews, S. S. Matthews, aged respectively 18, 1#, and 20, children of the late J. F. Matthews, cor­ roborated substantially the testimony of their mother. Mary Matthews, further staled that on election day when she heard a gun fired she told her mother she knew her father had been killed. Miss Je.«sie Matthews testified further that they were expecting Mr. Burnett to return from Crystal Springs Tuesday evening. Heard the mob about the house threaten Burnett's life. Her brother notified him by letter and her sister tele­ graphed him not to return. David Bell (colored) testified that he was Chairman of tl-e itopublican Executive Com­ mittee of Copiah County. Saw armed men riding about. The night before the election his house was vMtcd by a pa ty of about twenty-five men. They tooK tho olect.on tickets he had for distribution away froui him and destroyed tiiom. They were mixed tlcke s, Republican and lndej enrfonr, and the name of Miller, a Democratic candidate, was on them. Witness was now Assistant Ser- geantratr Arms of the Mississippi Senate. He was given the position, he thought, t trough the influence of It. N. Miller, whose name was on bis ticket. Witness declined to give the names of the men who took the tickets away from him. He supposed them to be a lot of drinking fellows. He denied having offered to testify for the Democrats. Witness voted the Independent ticket on election day, as did mostof the colored men of his neigh­ borhood. Mri.Wallace (colored), the widow of Thomas Wallace, testified that on Friday night before the election, about 1 o'clock, a party of armed men oame to her house and asked who lived there. Her husband replied: "Thomas Wallace." They said they had a warrant for his arrest. A man outside eaid he was West Dunbar, the 8herlff of Osyky. Finally the Crowd pushed the door open and went through the house. They attempted to throw a rop^ over her husband's neok, when he threw up his hand and asked what they meant tefcdo. A man then shot him in the neck. B^rerai •lad, one eC the shota stifle Handy Imtaei (colored) testiSsd that he was the lot one the bulldasers came after. Two weeks before the election a crowd oame to his horns about 10 o'clock at night. One said be had a writ for hha for steeling a mule. "They oame in and Mined me, and said they had come for as. 9%ey made me cross my hands and .follow theca. Home of them were masked and some were painted. Ttiey took me out in the woods and made Pollard and West, colored men at my house, follow. Whoa they got to where a large crowd was they pulled down my breeches and stretched me out on the ground. Ifeey made Pollard sit on my head and West on my feet, and commenced lashing me. The pain was so great that Pollard and West oould not hold me still. Then the mob would lash them until they held me steady. There were sixteen men In the crowd, thir­ teen of whom took a hand in whipping me. They kept it up until my body had no feeling and I ceased hallooing. After this Joe Keeae struck me torty or Ufty licks with a strap. My baok was nothing but one bruised mass. The men ceased and threatened to shoot my brains out. I told them I was going to vote the Democratic ticket, and they said If I was within 100 miles of there the next day they would kill me. They said the same thing to Pollard and West. I then left my home and remained in the woods for about four weeks. My cows were destroyed and four bales of my cotton. Matthews sent hands who assisted In gathering the rest of the crop. 1 voted at Centennial on election day. The negroes all slept in the woods for some time after the election, as the mob con­ tinued its visits." To Mr. 8aulsbury the witness said be had sued a man named Thompson, of Claiborne County, and had beaten him In the suit, and thought this was the reason he was whipped by the mob. Isham Gllmore, Jack Thompson, and C. I». Oliver (colored) all testified, substantially corroborating the witnesses, regarding the reign of terror prevailing in Copiah County. T. W. Bondurant (white), Republioan, tes­ tified to the reign of terror in Copiah Oounty preceding the late election. Bondurant was at Bas Matthews' store, fifteen miles from Haslehurst, when a mob came there and fired through the door with pistols and guns sad shot off a cannon. Orman and Matthews were with him in the store. The mob Shouted that some one had tetter get away from there. They cursed them all the time they were around the store, and some of them said, "Let's string them up." Witness fre­ quently met those armed men, but they did not molest him. He related incidents attend­ ing the meeting at Hazlehurst. Part of the mob was there. liarkesdale said he was glad to see by the faces of the men riding about town that they were determined to carry the election regardless of the issue. Barkesdale advised them to hang I. M. Buf kin so high that the birds of prey oould not bury their beaks in his body. Joseph P. Jones, formerly an old line Whig, then a Democrat, and now an Independent, testified that he is President of the Board of Supervisors of Copiah County. Ho had a difficulty on election day with George B. Nel­ son, who cursed witness, telling him and Matthews that they had been running the precinct long enough. The crowd shouted for Nelson, and became so excited that friends advised the witness to go home, which he did. J. L. Matthews testified that he was at the Centennial precinct when he heard of his brother's death. Started at once for Hasle- hurt. On the road he met armed men, and was informed that he would be killed if he attempted to enter tho town. On entering the town he saw a crowd of armed men. They brought up their guns as though they were going to fire, but did not shoot. "A year ago we had ISO votes at the Centennial precinct, and our numbers had Increased. This year they gave us tweuty-fonr votes and counted the remainder for them* selves." Witness is a farmer. AH his hands had been run off by armed men. They were told that they would be killed if they did not leave. One man was slow in leaving, as he thought the trouble would be over after the election excitement subsided, but a mob went to his house and fired several shots through it. Witness said some of these men had been with him seventeen years. Seven of them went to Kansas, witness paying their way. He oould get others if the people would let them alone. This action against htm, ha said, was purely political. On cross-examination witness said that at the election in 1877, when h i brother was a candidate, he was a supervisor of election. Acting on legal advice, they threw out two boxes, which gave a Democratic majority. His brother gave up and did not take the oOee, but Harvey, the Republican candidate for Clerk of the Court, carried the case to the Circuit Court. He gained his suit, but wasklUed before he got the ottoe. The Helpless Democracy. Two months have passed gross assembled, and in that time not one of the appropriation bills has been passed, and barely one has been re­ ported from committee. The attitude of Congress might be considered one of apathy, wore not the belief well grounded that the party in majority is unequal to the task of national legisla­ tion. After all the bluster and thunder of the campaign, nothing is done, nor has any definite and reliable promise been made. Mr. Morrison has report­ ed an auger-hole lull on the tariff, which proposes that every item in the I list of dutiable things shall be shaved down by so much, without regard to the merits of the various eases. The father of this unique bill apologizes for it by saying that he had no idea that it would pass as drawn, but that it was better than no bill at all on the subject, in that it furnished a kind of chopping- block on which experimenting states­ men could cut and carve the tariff to order. Experience must give way to experiment, sad statecraft to am* piricism. But incompetency is not the only thing to be dreaded. The Democratic party has so often proved itself insin­ cere when not absolutely dishonest, that the public has learned to fear it whenever in position to do harm. Given a majority in the House on the most profound pledges of reform, the party has no conception of its duties and obligations. Having promised re­ form genetically it is at a dead loss what to do specifically; and while the public watches impatiently for some good to come out of the venture of a Democratic majority, and fearing that only evil will be the result, the party goes stumbling and blundering along, prom­ ising everything and performing noth­ ing. As for the tariff Dill they have no more ooherent ideas of how to handle it than a schoolboy would of how to break an elephant to harness. The average Democratic Congressman would use an adze to shave down a corn and a boat-hook to draw a tooth. The truth is, the present House of Representa­ tives is afraid to do anything lest cam­ paign capital be furnished the enemy. In short, the majority realize that in its present divided condition it can do ab­ solutely nothing that would not be a burlesque on statesmanship and a drawback before the people. Henoe the intention is to temporize, to juggle with the serious business of law-mak­ ing as the mountebank does with gilded balls. The session will be profitless, and if the party in control of the House shall only sue eed in doing nothing of any harinful nature, it will be content in accomplishing nothing good.--In­ dianapolis Journal. Ir we do not join hands to preserve our liberties the day is near when tyrants chosen by minorities will rule the majority, and our maimed pen. sioners, the widows and orphans of the dead Union soldiers, will be placed in the keeping of the men who made and maintained Andersonville and Libby. For this no decent man can vote, and against it every man should lift his voice and exert IUBISHII to the --'Fcrnon AHMMT. i <• ,.«• Kmnma Jomnos, a well-known living near Steward, killed ifaself double-barreled shotgun. THE residence of John R. near Banker Hill, was destroyed by fink The toes was about >1,600; insured. Th* wife of N^H. Paaren, Bute Yet. erinarlan of Illinois, has applied for divorce on the ground of cruelty and adultery. FATHER MCGRATH, who has been pi teat ta tha Catholic Church in Havana for same years, bas been called away by the Bishop Cor some other field of labor not yet known. MASON COCXTY has a 52-year-old hdese- doctor who proudly claims he ha3 "drank sixty-two barrels of whisky, not including the daily rations he gulps down in saloons." Bav. J. B. WARD, when just about to n- wove from St. Charles, had the misfortune to fall upon the Ice, breaking a leg and dis­ locating an ankle. The good people of that place tendered him a substantial donation. THK Grand Jury of Kane County has caused a panic among law-breakers by bringing in seventy-two Indictments against saloonista, buttor and oheese men who have violated what is known ari the new "Wood law," and others. Air agricultural Works In Springfield offers $150 in gold as premiums for the best five acres of corn raised this year, cultivated with either of their famous makes of corn plows. One hundred dollars is to be given to th? man over 18 years of age raising the best five acres, and >50 to the boy under IS years rais­ ing the best five acres. MB. HOWARD Bunoou>, of Springfield, seems to' be the victim of an organised band of fiends. For some time past his i been visited during the night by 1 rauders, who broke the windows, tore the doors from the stables, knocked his fenoes to pieces, and raised the mischief generally. The other night some one entet&l the gentle* man's barn and mutilated a valuable cow, by striking her repeated blows with a sharp hatchet. All attempts to discover the au­ thors of these outrages are unsuccessful. THOMAS, alias "8klnny" Hopkins, a noted young Chicago burglar, received a scorcher 'n the Will Couuty t o irt, the jury oonvtoting him of burglary under the new "habitual criminals law," and awarding him a sentence of twenty years. "Skinny" and two pala entered the residence of Edward Mclaughlin, living five miles east of Jollet, in October last, and tortured the family till they revealed the hiding-place of their money--some $800 (n gold. The burglars got away, but Chicago detectives captured Hopkins. Re is a brother of Eddie Hopkins, now in. tha CU> cago Jail. -- A mnuum and probable suicide, the result of improper intimacy and jealousy, occurred recently in Chicago. K. Will Feltges, ^ years old, who had been employed as a book­ keeper, shot and killed Elizabeth Josephine Aiken, wife of A. T. Aiken weighmaster of the Chicago, Clneinnatl and St. Louis Bail' road, and then sent two bullot) Into hit own body with such effect that he cannot recover. There were no witnesses to ths occurrence, and the tragedy was not discovered until ear­ ly evening, when the body of the woman was cold, and the perpetrator lay beside faerla- sensible. A prim on largely signed by the stockmen at 8pringfield has been sent to the Illinois Congressmen at Washington. It urges the passage of the bill now pending for the sup­ pression of pleuro-pneumonia, says it was prepared by large cattle owners, and ex­ presses the conviction that the protest ou the part of the Chicago cattle brokers is based upon misapprehension of the provisions of the bill The petitioners say the bill can te nowise interfere with the cattle traffic in States not affected with contagious pleuro­ pneumonia, and in infected Bsatee to a de­ gree no greater than is essential to the eradi­ cation of the disease. EDWAKD McCAtrunr, aged 19, a bell-boy at the Sherman House in Chicago^ was ordered by the night clerk to respond to a call from the top floor. A few minutes later he was found crushed between the floor of tha rrelghtelevator cab and the casing of tho door, or gateway, opening into the shaft from the porters' room on the first Sooo One arm and one leg were thrown over tba< edge of the oab floor as though he had leaped to catch the ascending cab, minad his foot­ ing, and held on until crushed from the base of the spine to the top of his head. The body was so firmly wedged in that It was fully an hour before it was released. The victim lived at Napervllle, and had been in Chi­ cago but a short time. The supposition is that, preferring tiding to climbing stairs, he slipped into the porters' room,- started the elevator, and met death in attempting tojat aboard. No one witnessed the aocldent. A PURCHASE important in itself and more Important in its objects was completed in Chicago recently. The property lies on Hal- sted street, south of Fifty-fifth street boule­ vard, and embraces thirty-five aores runi from Halstsd street to Wallace east and i and from Fifty-fifth to Fifty-seventh south. This was purchased of W. F. and F. J>. Gray. The purchasers also bought five acres on the northwest corner of Hatstsd and Fifty-seventh street, being a part of tho Holmes tract. The Suspension Car-Truck Manufacturing Company bought the above property for $85,000. Dr. J. W. Chisholm Is President of the company, S. Bancroft, Jr., Secretary, and D. B. Halstead Treasurer. Among the moneyed men interested are ex- Senator William H. Barnum, President of the Housatonic Railway Company, Lime Hock, Conn.; C. P. Huntington, President of the Central Pacific Railway, New York olty; Theodore Houston, Vice President of the New York, Ohio and Western Railway Company; James W. Chisholm, New York, snd others. The company will te> mediately begin the erection of its main coa- structlon shops on the property. Heretofore it has had its trucks mate by Ave of the largest factories of this country. Tha plant will eventually oover the entire tan acrea lying east of the Gray twenty acrea It will expend within a few months over and the entire construction will be in brisk, stone, and iron, with slate roofs. It is ex­ pected to hare the works completed and oot- cupied by Sept. 1. The tract is located oa th* Une of the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad, and a depot will be built at tha Junction of fifty-sixth and Wallace streets. Dr. Chisholm has been for fifteen moasha looking In the environs of Chicago for a site on which to locate this extensive and im­ portant enterprise. He bad previously looked the Eastern field over. In December last be Invited ex-Senator Barnum's attentive tothta tract, and Mr. Barnum came West to look at It, Dr. Chisholm, H. B. Boguev and Mr. Barnum made a personal visit tothe grounds* and the latter heartily agreed upon the chokm. The matter came before tha full Board of Directors at the offlceof theoomyany in Mttl^ Building, New York, and the President wan authorized to buy the ground and necessary contracts for the carrying snfcsft the company's purpose. The la* when all buildings aru complete^ laid, and machinery in, will repreaaafcalt 1 I&00.QM. A Moaxoi* missionary, as •tverktaSdwardsOouatf. f S#. V. •#:K' : jyi'-ii, • 'M _ v-V jjg J\ % . i . '**• » -rtX-j t»