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ESTABLISHED IX 18<
A TALE OF BOODLE.
JAY GOULD'S HELP TO BLAINE AND
HOW IT GOT LOST.
How the Plumed Knight Expected to Buy
his Way to the White House-The Money
ForthconiingBut Stolen By his Agents.
What did John J. O'Brien and Robert
.G. McCord do with the $50,000 of Jay
Gould's money, which they received lo
help elect Elaine president m 1884? Is
the question that is now bothering the
local republican politicians. Men who
are iu a position to know sav that
O'Brien and McCord were handed that
sum of money,"but there is great doubt
about their having used it for the sdccess
of the grand old party. There have
been many stories told about the $50,000
which Gould contributed to bribe'yoters in
tins citynud Col. George Bliss has charg
ed that money was nut where it would tfo
the most good, and has insinuated that
O'Brien has not given an account cf the
manner in which the sum was spent and
that the result of the election does not
show that the money was used to any
beneficial extent.
The true story of Gould's $50,000, as
told by oue acquainted with the facts, is
as follows: "John J. O'Brien and his
side partner in the business of politics.
Bob McCord, went to Stephen B. El
kins, and engineered an introduction
to Gould. O'Bneu and McCord had a
consultation with Gould in the Western
Union building on the Saturday preced
' ing the election of 1884. O'Brien told
Gould that money was necessary to
elect Blaine ; that "the machine in the
city had barely enough funds to meet the
' routine expenses of the election ; that if
a big sum was not forthcoming Cleve
land would poll a heavier vote in New
York county than was anticipated.
O'Brien also told Gould that if lie could
have a good sized pile of greenbacks he
would scatter it among the district
leaders, who would use it to cut down
democratic majorities on the east and
west sides of the city, which would more
than make up for the losses lo the re
publican party fcom the independent
and mugwump vdte in the centre of the
island. O'Brien also gave Mr. Gould
to understand that a deal had beeu
made with Tammany hall. Under this
agreement Tammany hall was to give
Blaine 20,000 votes and in return Grant
for mayor was to be run out of the re
publican boxes in eight assembly dis
tricts. -O'Brien intimated that be and
John Kelly had formed the compact.
Tammany "hall, however, wanted $25,
000 to be used by the organization to
carry the deal into effect. Gould listen
ed to, O'Brien and told him lo call on
Monday. O'Brien and McCord did not
fail, to put ia an appearance.- They-came
To a &rtf&ge ?ufl iully prepared to "carry
away the boodle. They did not see Mr.
Gould this time, but met ins partner,
Connor. O'Brien and McCord had
$50,000 in bills in the carriage when
they drove away from thp Western
Union building.
They were at once driven to the Me
tropolitan hotel, where they hired a
room. The money was taken to the
room by O'Brien and McCord. After
they had remained there together an
hour O'Brien left McCord in possession
and in charge. O'Brien hurried to police
headquarters, where all the district
leaders had gathered in his ollicc?the
bureau ' of elections?at his request.
O'Brien told each one to go to the room
at the Metropolitan hotel, where they
would find McCord, who would give
them their share for their districts. The
leaders all knew that there was to be a
big sum distributed and most of them
knew it came from Gould. The amount
distributed at the Metropolitan hotel to
the leaders by O'Brien aud McCord did
not exceed $30,000. The average was
$1,250 a district. Some district got
more than others. No one know > to
this day what became of the difference
between $30,000 and $50,000. O'Brien
denies that lie ever received a cent from
Gould. One of the republican leaders
wishes to know if O'Brien will deny
that lie received $50,000 from Connor.
After the election the leaders, who
had got what O'Brien and McCord
chose to give them, began to talk about
the distribution. Several of them charged
that the entire amount of Gould's boodle
had not beeu distributed and they hinted
that O'Brien add McCord had not lost
anything in acting as bank the day be
fore the election. Gould became sus
picious of O'Brien and McCord, and
gave his opinion that the $50,000 was
not properly used. It was. his opinion
that if the money had all been used for
the purpose for which it was givcu,
Blame would have polled a larger vove
in the city and would have carried 'the
State and been elected. John Kelley
heard of the statement O'Brien bail
made to Gould about a deal with Tam
many hall, aud repudiated it. The elcc
tion proved that there was no deal with
Tammany hall, and that Gould had a
political confidence game played upon
him.
A few weeks alter the election the
republican executive committee held a
meeting. Gould's donation of $50,000
to O'Brien and McCord was brought up
for discussion. The charge was made
that O'Brien and McCord had received
that sum from Connor directly, and
from Gould indirectly. Wm. II. Town
ley was chairman of the meeting, and
Police Justice Smith secretary. State
ment? were made by several of the dis
trict leaders about the sums handed
them by O'Brien and McCord at
the Metropo?ton hotel the day before
the election. It was resolved to request
O'Brien t<> appear before the committee
to answer certain questions about the
distribution of f!.e money. The commit
tee held four sessions before O'Brien
appeared before them, lie was asked by
Police Justice Smith rf he had received
any money from Gould and he declined
to answer the question. He also de
clined to auswer how much money
59. C
he did distribute at the Metropolitan
hotel, from whence it came and other
important questions bearing on the
subject. O'Brien said that he received
the money in confidence and would not
tell the committee any particnlnrs.
The sessions of the committee were
brought to a close and the investigation
into O'Brien's and McCord's stcwart
ship of the $50,000 election boodle did
not amount to anything "?Xew York
Star.
MAY Vt/EDS DECEMBER.
A Connecticut Man Seventy-llvo Veniu
Old Marries a Girl of Fourteen.
New London, Conn.. June 20.?
Considerable of a' sensation has been
-carised by the marriage of Daddy Weeks,
aged seventy-five, to Sissy Brown, a
fourteen-year-old girl, who is wearing
her first long dress. The parents uf
the girl allege that they exerted proper
care aud showed their affection by re
jecting Week's suit two years ago.
When the marriage was first heard of.
the hoodlums turned out m force and
made a great racket with horns and
drums. (S^ptain Brown. Sissy's father,
was once in command of vessels plying
on the Sound, and was the skipper ol
the ill-fated steamer City of Xew Lon
don when she burnefl aud sunk in the
Thames River near Mootville. There
was a rumor that Captain Brown was
made agreeable to the marriage by a
pecuniary consideration and that old
Weeks promised Mrs. Brown $100 and
a piano to secure her good office's, but
had not made payment. Leonard Car
roll, the local agent of the Ilamanc So
ciety of Connecticut, beard this rumor,
and this afternoon he investigated the
story. Tic took the sense of the neigh
borhood on the matter and then sought
the young wife and questioned her uudei
oath. She denied that any compulsion
had been used aud insisted that Daddy
was the man of her choce. She thought
he was a kind old man and people said
he had property. ''Everything is all
light so far," she said, "aud people had
better keep their noses out of other
people's business." The girl is quite
attractive and fairly iulelligcnt for her
years. She hardly looks as old as she
is. The clergyman who married them
is himself an old man and much respect
ed in the town. Daddy and Sissy have
gone to housekeeping.
Effects of No License.
A most thoughtful and careful obser
ver, a citizen of Oconce County, says
1 that Bickens County certainly, is the
be3t example in the United States of the
good effects of no license system. He
kuew so many men in this county that
had quit the use of whi3kcy entirly,
since if* sale lind bfteu''faibidden by lajv",
and however great may have been che
trial to them as individuals, they no
doubt rejoiced iD the change.
We arc not so well prepered to speak
in regard to the other towns in this
county, but under the license law, the
streets of this town used to echo with
profanity from the lips of men who call
ed themselves gentlemen; but now if
I there is one such, it is said to his credit,
that he is heartily ashamed every time
he makes the mistake.
Those in the country who arc ?tili
obliged, from habit, to use a little
whisk'., gracefully submit to the incon
venience and trouble necessary to pro
cure it. for the sake of having snares and
pitfalls removed from the youthful and
the unwary. Viewed in a social, moral,
political or religious light, how infinitely
preferable is this, to what we mere
wont to endure.?Bickens Sentinel, 10th
instant.
"The Hermit of the Swamp."
Reading, Pa., June 10.?a strange
character was found dead in a swamp in
this County to-day. His name was
John J. Brcsscr, and he had lived the
life of a hermit there for a great many
years. He was evidently seized with a
fit, and, falling into the mud, was
smothered to death. Ho was very ec
centric in his ways, and frequently re
mained hidden in his but for many
weeks. He was looked upon as a miser,
and upon bis body was found 8840 in
gold, currency and notes, and it is be
lieved that a great deal more is buried in
out-of-the-way places in the swamp
where he had made bis home. He re
ceived a regular allowance to a consider
able amount, but never spent $15 a year
on himself. He never shaved nor had
his hair cut, aud was an unpleasant ob
ject to behold, his hair being several
feet long. He lied at the approach of
i females, and bad many eccentricities.
I lie was also a man of considerable edu
cation, but where he came from will
j probably never be known, lie was
I known all over Eastern Pcunvsylvnnin
as the "Hermit of the Swamp."
Dead Fish.
j Great multitudes ol fish have recently
j been found dead in the waters of Shal
; lottc river. Brunswick county. North
j Carolina. The river empties into Tubb's
! inlet from the ocean, about thirty miles
i southwest of Wilmington. The water
i is covered with an oily scum which ex
{tends far out into the ocean, and has
I been noticed five miles from the beach,
j Tins oily scum, which is supposed to
j have caused the mortality among the
; fish cannot be accounted for, though
some suppose that a vessel with a cargo
of oil had foundered in the neighbor
j hood. The wind seems to have no effect
; upon the oily water, and the surface is
' as smooth as glass. The dead fish are
drilling up on the shore by thousands
! of barrels, and are of all kinds ever seen
in the vicinity, except the whale, it is
supposed that there are no live fish left
in Shallot to river, or within ten miles of
its mouth. There is great excitement
over the affair, though uo one has ever
thought of the probability that there is
oil territory in the vicinity, and that an
unknown oi! spring lias found its way lo
the surface of the ground.
)KANGEBTTBG, S. C, TI
THE TOKENS HORROR.
CAUSE OF SIX DEATHS IN FAMILY
OF JOSEPH HARDIN.
Dr. W?hlte of Andereon Make? an Exami
nation as a Member of the State Board
! of Health?A -Sickening Story of Filth
and Neglect?The Neighbors Slmn the
Hardlns, Fearing They Had Cholera.
Dr. P. A Wilhite, who is a member of
the State Board of Health, received a
notice last Thursday from the Executive
Committee of the .Board, requesting him
to go to Pickens County and investigate
the cause of the sickness arfd mortality
in the family of Mr. Joseph Hardin, a
brief account of which appeard jn the
Intelligencer last week, copied from the
. Columbia Register and Greenville News.
Dr. Wilhite left the city Friday atter
noon and returned ou Monday. Sever
al .rumors in reference to the cause
[ of the deaths had been published, and
' with a view of eettiui: the truth of the
matter we sought Dr. Wilhite on Tues
day and asked him To tell us about the
family and the cause of the deaths. The
? following are the main facts of what he
related to us:
"When I reached Pickens C. H. I
procured the services of two citizens and
two physicians, one of whom was and
had been attending the family, and im
mediately proceeded to the bouse of Mr.
Hardin, who resides about four miles
North of the town. When we reached
the house we found a most deplorable
state or affairs. Mr. Hardin lay on a
bed in one corner of the room, a son
about twelve years of age on another
bed, Mrs. Hardir u a quilt on the floor,
and in two feet ol tier lay the corpse of a
\ daughter. This was the sixth death
that had occured in the family in a few
days' time." The atmosphere of the
room was almost intolerable. The
' bed clothing bad been soiled to that de
gree that a good portion of it had been
thrown out into the yard.
"Having heard the rumors about the
well beingpoisoned, and that snakes aud
, dead dogs had been found in it, I at once
proceeded to examine it. ? After no little
I trouble, I succeeded in hiring a mau to go
down into the well and carelully exam*
[ ine it. There was nothing in the well
but pure, clear water, and of course this
was not the cause of the sickness.
"Mr. Uardin attended the United
, States Court at Charleston this Spring
. as a witness. II* left that city on the
[ day of the washouts on the railroads and
was delayed at Alston for a day or two.
While at Alston he was attacked with
I the dysentery, and when he reached
home he was prostrated with the disease.
Soon after reaching Iiome_ Ids children,
eight in imoabor, who were just reCOVeT
lug Irom the measles, were, one after
anothei, stricken with the disentery un
til all were down, one not being able to
minister to the wants or comforts of the
other. Mrs. Hardin was also prostra
ted with the same disease. In this con
dition all of them lay m one room, which
? was about 18x20 feet square. There
were, only two beds in the room, and of
course some of the family had to he on
the floor. Three cl the children died in
a short time, and this alarmed the neigh
bors, who refused to go near the house
or assist in relieving the afflicted house
hold, as it had been reported through
the neighborhood tfjat Mr. Hardin had
returned from Charleston afflicted with
cholera or some other terrible disease.
As soon as the condition of the family
reached the ears of the citizens of Pick
ens C. H., Mr. Boggs, editor of the
..Sentinel, and a few others visited the
i house, and, after doing all they possi
bly could C > for the sufferers, made an
effort to hire some one to stay with the
family and wait on them, but their ef
forts were in vain.
"Mr. Hardin is a poor, hard-working
man, but is honest, upright and respect
able. Before I left there, I bad the
family moved into an old vacant house
which stood near by. The stcuch where
the sick lay was intolerable, and I knew
that if they remained there not one
would survive. All of them were afflic
ted with a malignant case of dysentery,
and, coming on them Immediately after
the measles, made it tenfold worse.
My opinion is that the deaths were
casued from neglcU, or the want of prop
er attention, though, it is possible, that
the disease would have proved fatal even
under the best treatment."
"Had the family had any attention
j from a physician, doctor?"
j "Ob, yes; Dr. Bramlett. a young phy
I sician residing in that section had attend
i ed the family, and had used every effort
to relievo the sufferers, but could do
nothing under the circumstances. .
"Have the citizens done nothing to
relieve'' family?"
"Yes, the citizens of Bickens Court
House have gone to work to relieve the
sufferings of the family, and will no
j doubt do everything possible lor them."
Dr. Wilhite is one of onr oldest and
I most prominent physicians, and has
1 been practicing medicine for years. He
! says he has never seen or heard of a
j faintly so badly afflicted.?From the
j Anderson Intelligencer. .June 21.
Starvation in Louisiana.
Au Alexandria. La.. Special says:
: "As reports come in the damage by the
j dchmc of last week is growing more and
; more serious throughout the parishes.
The people, now begin to sec the ter
rible calamity which has visited them,
and they shrink at the very thought of
it.
"To put the matter gently, they have
: been almost ruined and many see. star
! vation staring them in the face. At this
, time many places in the parish are still
,' luider water. The corn crop is a failure,
i Cotton is almost ruined and but little
j will be made. The hill people are die
greatest sufferers and they are too poor
to help themselves. Aid will have to
be furnished them."
EURSDAY, JULY 1, 1881
m A NATURAL HIGHWAY.
Onr Nurrow Gnuge to Go to
Ornngcburg.
Mekritt's Bridge, S. C, June
IC?I would like to have your say-so
about a Railroad from Johnston to
Orangeburg. Will the Greenville.
Ninety-Six and Johnston Narrow Gauge
extend the line to Orangeburg? There
never was a more perfect natural route
tha#'this one for building a Railroad.
From Edisto to Johnston, a distance of
16 psr 18 miles, not more than 2 or 3
miles would require grading?the bal
ance of the distance nothing to do but
bed the road. The 2 or 3 milfs of grad
ing'Vwould not be heavv work. The
River never gets more than 4'feet out
of the banks. From the river to the
Ninety-Six dirt-road?7 miles, which
could be shortened to G?there would be
grading, but not heavy grading. Along
the. Ninety-Six; dirt-road for 30 miles
there would be little to do but bed the
road. Two or three miles would cover
all the gradin? along this road to
Orangaburg. The Road would run
through the best farming country be
tween North and South Edistos, and
well timbered. I have no doubt the
Townships through which it would run,
would raise money enough by taxation
to grade and timber the Road through
theTespective Townships. I Jjave never
yet found a man that would not be will
ing .to do ids part. I have been a sur
veyor for over forty-five years, and
know all this country, and I would take
pleasure in showing an engineer what
the; God of Nature lias done to aid in
this work. Tiie Road would help your
to'.vn and our County. Please let me
hear - from you. If you think there is
anything iu this letter that would be of
any benefit to you in stirring up the
matter you are at liberty to do with it
as vou think best. Respectfully,
W. E. Sawyer.
We thought wc could make no better
disposition of our friend's letter than by
giving it a place in our columns for the
information and consideration of our
Railroad men, who are always on the
lookout', for new worlds to conquer in
that direction. But we would say for!
the Informntion of the writer above com
munication, who may not be aware of
the faet, that the Road to which he al
ludes is being extended to Augusta, the
survey between that city and Johnston
bemg^bout completed, and the grading
contracted For and already commenced.
Wc believe it was the original intention |
of -ihe^rojectors of this line to run from
Johnston to Orangeburg, or to some
point on? the other branch of the S. C. i
Railroad, or to some point on the' coast, I
?but ;.hc latter scheme seemed imprnc
t^lM^fe^r w"*-' "P^^?8e*4-*H*^"V~nrtd an I
JruI^'aTB -outlet'- ?f?W)me pnp^p^f^r,.
poiiit w'ns necessary to the success of 1
the enterprise. If the present survey is
built and successfully operated, a3 wc
believe it will be, the extension of the
fine through Mr. Sawyer's country is
only a question of time. And possibly
the time is not far distant.?Johnston
Monitor.
An Unnatural Mother.
Newberry, S. C, June 26.?A dead
baby was fouud in the well on a tene
ment house on Mr. J. P. Pool's place in
town this morning. Suspicion rested
on Worthy Williams, a negro girl who
lived in the neighborhood and was sup
posed to have given birth to a child
some days ago. The Coroner summoned
a jcry aud began the investigation,
which ended this afternoon with the
verdict that the infant came to its death
by drowning, at the hands of Worthy
Williams. The woman made a state
ment, saying tiiat on last Saturday eve
ning, about dark, she gave birth to a
child, that the child was dead, and that
one Lou Harris took it away in a cigar
box, and that was the last she saw of it.
Lou was arrested, but discharged. The
box was drawn from the same well in
which the child was found. Parties
have been using water regularly for
drinking* and cooking from Ibis well.
The woman was committed to jail to
await trial at our next Sessions Court.
Tom Ochlltrec'.s Opinion of Smalls,
The New York Star is guilty of this:
?kIIon. Timothy J. Campbell aud lion.
Tom Ochlltree (who. by the way, says
he proposes to run the next time for
Congress as a Democrat from one of
the city districts, instead of from his old
district in Texas,) were in a group of
j diners at the Carl ton Club last evening.
I After Tim had concluded the recital of
J his latest experience in Washington lite,
, the Congressman from the Eighth turn-1
l cd an inquiring glance upon Tom!
' Ochiltrcc, as he asked in the next
breath: "Do you know Smalls, of
; South Carolina?" "Yes," was thej
1 reply. "What sort of a fellow is he.
anyway ?" innocently asked Tim. "Oh,
j Smalls is worth about S1.S00 on the j
block any day," was the answer of |
Ochiltrcc. as the two statesmen fell to j
over a dish of deviled crabs unmindful
of the roars of laughter of the company."
A Terrible Fate,
Detroit, Minx.. June24.?William
Kclaher alias ' Reddy," who killed
Officer Convey yesterday while resisting '<
arrest, was taken from jail last night by
a large crowd of disguised men, escorted
to a neighboring grove, hung to the limb j
ol a tree and his body riddled with bid-;
lets. Sheriff Finncy attempted to de
fend his prisoner but was overpowered. ]
Kclaher was a gambler, and was known
m Miuneappolis where he lived for a1
time as a hard character.
1 *.u i Ifi '.H Kehiike of l'liillilj.
Says the New York World: During
the Senate debate yesterday in the Filz
.lohn Porter case. Senator I'lumb, of
Kansas, challenged the integrity and
bravery of the entire South. Senator
Butler, of South Carolina, pointedly
notified him that he was a coward. This
. a good deal nearer to scenes of
carnage than Plumb ever got before.
Ii.
PRIC
HAUNTED BY HIS DEAD WIFE.
The Terrible Hallucination Which Canned
the Heath of Edward Hebron.
Xew York, June 28.?When on her
I deathbed three nioutlis ago Eva Hebron
of Bound Brook, X. J., warned her hus
band Edwin not to marry again if he
valued his peace of mind. Before she
passed away Mrs. Hebron obtained her
sorrowful husband's solemn promise
that he would live and die a widower.
The wife died contented and was duly
buried.
A short time afterward Hebron mar
ried again, takiug unto himself a buxom
widow of forty Summers. Her name
, was Mary Chandlee, and sho was a Ro
man Catholic. Hebron immediately
renounced his faith in the Methodist
Episcopal Church and embraced Catho
licism. In many other ways he also en
deavored to show his affection for his
new wife. But the neighbors remarked
that he was restless and seemed unwell.
He said himself that he could not sleep.
One night he was awakened from an un
easy slumber by an alarm of fire. He
leaped out of bed, and going to the win
dow saw the Episcopal Church in flames.
He watched the darting flames for a mo
ment, then staggered back with an ex
pression of horror. His wife asked what
was the matter, but he did not appear
to hear her. A strange fascination
seemed to hold him. Suddenly he shrank
back again, placed his hands before his
eves as if to shut out an awful vision,
and trembled in every limb.
"Sec," he cried, "see, the spirit of my
dead wife comes back to haunt me! Ob.
Eva, why do you reproach me! 0
God!" he shrieked, "deliver me from
this awlul curse! See how she sneers
and mutters, 'As you loved me in life,
as you cherish my memory, as you value
your peace of mind, I charge you never
to marry again.' Don't look at me so,
Eva. Your eyes will kill me. Forgive
me, Eva. Do not scorn me. 0 God,
can the dead thus return to the world to
tantalize those who have wronged thein?
Heavens! She brings an army of ghast
ly creatures to end my life. Ten thous
and devils! How they jeer and gibe!
Merciful God!"
The terrified man fell prostrate to the
floor with a pitiful moan and fainted.
From that night Hebron believed he
was a doomed man. His dreams were
hideous, his wakeful moments frightful.
There always hovered about him, it
seemed to his imagination, the haunting
spirit of his buried wife. Darkness and
daylight were the same; the dismal sha
dow was ever present. The man be
came a monomaniac. One morning his
countenance looked more ghastly than
ever, and he told his friends' he' had a.
horrible dream. He thought. Eva's
Min^ntin I-;- Jiy his" side. The icjga
frenzied-him. He leaped from flic bed;
but the spectre followed. At length it
pinioned him to the wall with one long,
bony finger. He thought he felt his life
blood ooze from his pierced heart and
drip to the lloor. Then he tfiought his
departed wife licked up his fast-llowing
blood with ghoulish greed.
"So," she screamed, "I sup the vital
ity of my false husband !"
This story convinced Hebron's friends
that he was insane, then steps were about
to be taken to have him removed to an
asylum when one morning last week he
was found dead in bed. Xo one dis
puted that he died from sheer fright.
Iiis neighbors do not believe that?he
was insane, but they think that he was
over-superstitious. Hebron left a will,
recently made, dividing a few thousand
dollars' worth of property between his
wife and his sister. Mrs. Hebron has
decided to contest the will on the ground
that her late husband was insane when
he made it.
WENT TO WHIP AN EDITOR.
Thrown Down the Steps and Bounced Out
of tlie Building.
B?TTE, Mont., June 24.?Yester
day afternoon a man named Gco. Miller,
of Anaconda, couceiviug himself to be
wronged by the publication in the Daily
Miner of letters from that place con
cerning his daughter, who eloped and
was married here by a minister, with
six-shooter accompaniment, went iuto
the Miner office and asked to see the
editor, C. S. Ziegenfuss, in private. At
the head of the stairs Miller pulled his
pistol and, saying: "I'll fix you here,"
shot at Ziegcnluss. who threw up his
arm at the moment, and the bullet en
tered the wall over his shoulder. The
two clinched, and Ziegcnfuss threw his
would-be murderer down stairs, lulling on
I top of him and almost crushing the life
I out of the Anaconda man. Miller was
: hustled out of the ollicc and arrested,
but Ziegcnfuss will not prosecute.
Wholesale Poisoning.
B+iilabei.phi A.Junc 23.?A special
dispatch says: "Exactly 214 people
were poisoned at last Thursday's picnic,
near Flcminglon. X. J. Six of these
persons will probably die and twenty
are in a precarious condition. It is now
{ believed that the ice cream plentifully
! supplied and freely eaten caused the
trouble. Whether the inside of the
cream freezers was lined with sulphate
of zinc, or whether arsenic was put in
(lie cream purposely, still puzzles the
doctors. One of the doctors has been
doing some amateur detective work. In
I his capacity as physician he gives the
opinion that the poisonous substance
, was arsenic, and as a detective he ex
presses ' " belief that it was put in the
cream b, some murderously inclined
y >n. Many persons who ate of the
ti, m when first made suffered no in
convenience, while, all who ate alter the
rrcc/ers had been opened a short time
are sick. The victims dispersed to their
homes, and it was several hours bdorc
any of them came under medical treat
ment. They are widely scattered over
a district partly village aud partly farpii
ilig."
E 61.50 PER AXETTM.
WAKING UP THE FARMERS.
THE WORK OF THE LATE CONVEN
TION ONLY TENTATIVE.
An Interesting Letter from the Chair
man of the Committee on Organiza
tion?What i.t Deaired and Recom
mended. /
Wc clip the following letter from the
News and Couirer: .As chairman of the
committee on organization of the late
Farmers" Convention I am in receipt of
a number of letters in reference to the
future conduct of said organization, and
as another member of the committee is
in receipt of similar inquiries, I ask
space in your columns lor a short open
letter of answer and explanation, and
it is due both to the parties writing to
me and to myself to say that my delay
in answering was caused by severe per
sonal affliction.
The committee on organization is not
now charged with the duty of aiding in
the formation of clubs and county asso
ciations; the president of the .conven
tion appointed one man In each county
to aid in this work. It is expected that
the official statement of the i 'tventiou's
doings will be published in the June
bulletin of the department of agriculture
by reference to which it will be seen, '
who was appointed to the discharge of
that duty.
The organization is not "launched for
the campaign" nor is it expected "that
it will die out after the election." The
purpose of the convention'was to per
petuate the organization. It arranged
to form a State association next Novem
ber, which it Is hoped will be permanent.
The representation from the counties to
the Stale association next November is
to be on the basis of representation in
the General Assembly, and may be
elected by a county mass meeting. But
surely it is not necessary to argue the
advantages of organizing. Let there be
a club in every township or community,
and an association in every county in the
Stale; let there be a general discussion
of the convention's recommendations
and the farmers' interests, and all good
men may dismiss their fears, for before
the November, meeting of the State as
sociation they will have reached safe
conclusions as to the importance of adop
ting them or the necessity of rejecting
them.
It could scarcely be expected that so
large a body as the late Farmers' Con
vention, in attempting so much, in so
short a time, should fail to make mis- A
takes. Thq recommendations of the^|
convention ?rVfepbmiited to the consid^H
eration of the..'Farmers of the Stafcjfl
Let them organize, pass upon them anH
render. iheir'% erdict ^t the asso'eiatfiJ^M
next .November. ? mm'mmm ' ,mnr^
the convention's recommendations is
not sutlicient reason why he should not
identify himself with the movement un
less he thinks the organization of the
farmers is sufficiently dangerous, on
general principles, to justify its being
throttled. I submit that the better way
would be to join the movement and aid
in shaping the policy.
E. T. stackiiousk
Little Kock, S. (J., June 19, 1S86.
Murder and Suicide.
Baltimore, June 2C.?This morning
Mrs. Ella Forsythe. who is employed in
a printing office at 18 North street, went
to her work a3 usual, and when she was
ascending the stairs her husband, George
?. Forsythe, ran to the floor and fired
two shots from a pistol at her. As
soon as she fell her husband turned the
weapon against himself aud fired once,
the ball passing through his heart and
killing him instantly. Mrs. Forsythe
is dangerously wounded. She is re
presented as a very industrious woman,
and was working for the support of her
self and child, the father haying failed
to provide for them. He lias kept a
low groggcry since he abandoned his
family. Forsythe was 21 years old and
his wife 20. They had been married
two years. lie had expressed Ids de
termination to kill both her and him
self, and was accompanied by one of his
friends this morning on his mission of
death. Frank Van Sant was arrested
to-day as an accessory to the shooting
of Mrs. Forsythe. The party from
whom the pistol was bought this morn
ing recognized Vau Saut as the party
with Forsythe when the purchase was
made. _
The Diet Too Thin.
j Some eight years ago a community
was started at North Anaheim, the
I leading tenets of which were to hold all
j property in common and to confine their
j diet to fruit, vegetables and grains in
, their raw state. The experiment has
' been conducted with the utmost zeal
i and good faith, but whatever may be
j the financial result, concerning which
we have no data, it has proved a gas
'. tronomie disaster. The Los Angeles
. Hera hi says that one after another lias
1 left the society by resignation or starva
I tion, unlil only a few arc left hanging
on the verge of life. The. end of the
experiment is now not far oil". The
spiritual adviser of the society, Walter
Lockwood, is staled to he so nearly
starved to death that he is too weak to
; leave his bed. and Mrs. Ilinde, the wife
[of the founder of the community, is in
the last stages of inanition for want of
nourishment.
Kept Muh t Until M" Harried Another.
Louisville. Juue- 27.?Reason
Stamper ami Mrs. llallie Dinkms were
married last night at Ashland, Kv.
While the couple were being congratu
lated. Frances Files rushed in and al
temptcd to shoot the bridegroom, lie
look the pKtol away and the woman
j was arrested. Miss Piles said Stamper
had promised to marry her and deserted
. her. She charges him with having kill
j ed Charles Black, two years ago, and
I says that she washed the murderer's
i bloody shirt soon after the killing.

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