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+.ý ' - '"' ,J r", ý '" `'ý`s!i y d . `ri," i;; ,· .s ý;ý i ý~ ?4C-~ 4 -' T -. VO 1.UINROE LA NAye ,f4 2S ,88,':,", I u I fct Iit . ·' 18 145 I ;X A 91b~:~· . 1·I(f~ ii t, V. *TsIt,. ito, I Publi.kr r nad Ie u iiesea i*rim*r.+ A Foreiga nhtrike. RAIns a.l, April 24.--Prn stri.kd. italugurltd hby- the watchmakers of I 'Gmram u,t, In Eist Flandeis, is spreadt, f tng and becoming serious. Peinforep. a mt nta of ginlarPnes have bea'n sunI,. , Raid On Silver mimes. ANx AraNIO, Tex,, April 26- E isfre.utallun Is r(eelvFd of a raid ol In the D.rree Silver rhlntac at gallecIljo, d` in the State of Nuovo Leogi. These mfines are "ownld ty New York esapi as talits. The attack was smade at 1 fl o'clook Saturday morning. The men la were istastly in arm,, under the lead lel ot, ft. J. Bogaush, superintendent of be the mines, prepared to defend their Pu lives and p;roperly. 41pild furIg was kept up for at least an hour. Pifty aM eCl f ti4 rlecieI, uled tth charge wI .off oane oarst , the £ da rusbed fn from the village to the -ines arthne le with rifle and routed the marauders. There were on the side of the bandits gl four killed. sad sevrl supposer to have received wounds, as the grounud met mreeg Was v~3r btOidy. None of the miners were killed,. Advanee Is Prices ofsuagar. NEW Yot, April 26.-The strike Shi of the Workme ain the Willamsburg, N. Y., sugar refineriee has boomed psrim,And4 the coneuams of sugar are $10 PlAyi the iddler for the dance of the strikers,. T OQanulaled sugar was qu at at 8Sturday last. SaturdayjAx 1 71c. It aidtthat prioris Thet4*ri nd re amostra topratiaelly nolk negipaust Slack and d bent hIi~ asugar In quautieq.tp ( ii ulmeeant to supply the demand, thra Now that the oountry demand has con, inoresed, the strike has caused prices to advance out of proportion to the A naltral course of trade, lew sugar was quoted at 5 11-10 on o April 1I, and yesterday it was 5 7-8. This shows a slight advance in the cost Kar of raw huateril whlich Is not accounted TI for by the present strike, but which will eoou8t for nothing of the advance dry Sof refoed sugar. The havi tended very much to streng. wort ram* d *am ' a The Sentitled t iboye ballot. E oetb, silk ., April 24.-The ploy This Court is not I village are still In ned lnog, but the grand ju citefet over the w -lected and empanelled the four Smith way mother Sat. ties I posed as follows: od and father Tb J. B. Puckette, foreman;o ad wndfther Th las, (col.,) John Johnson eld whed he mins TDow ' I. Joho, fe t the sos Cormick, Daniel Muse, (col.,) ~. i. he trs, . Normend, L. A. 8heilds, Pink n w tre mond, (col.,) Julius Lemle; W* to the Smith, Nat Blanchard, (col.); ~ to t i ladmition; J . N. Wlnnh3ger and ter L. Leyeos. I a. - eyes obset H and frickled down his cheeks as t be cried. "Famnle, what made ill t.t swered, eatlm1i: ; i roe .J t wia told by God to do so, and I obey, 'id commando." Then getting upon her knees and looking up into his sor rowful husbands face, she Paid : I knew I did wrong but it was the only thing to be done to save them from lhefr" By this Mrs. Smith meant that she was afraid that the old homestead, kd. which had been in the family for of generations, was to be taken away K ad. from them in which cas the children 'c. wotuld be thrown upoaf the street; and a" lshe feared that they would become dis. dolute. In one room lay the body of little - Ella, cQid In de'ath. In another one oil ay Bes-ie, 1theI prtlly rl. that got lo, down and begged for her life. h Is One of her eyes was cut where ttl I, ax hit her uplifted head. Three of the Sfaingers of her left hand are also miss Slang. Her skull was fractured on thre d left side. Rufus, the thirteen-year-old of boy, was lying beside his sister in a tir pool of blood. Ills head, like that f - siser, was split open. He half ly awoke from a sort of stupor, and ask.l 7t what was the matter. Two of his SAfaOgers are cut off. Allda, the remain D daughter, was lying in another es . ti ed , where she appeared to have been t asleep when she received the blows to frem the ax. NBWS IN BRIEF. The Mobile police are raiding gamnb. ling dens The new government building at :e Shreveport is nearly completed. fa Montgomery has organized a coke d and coal company with a capital of e S10,000. e The negro, who assaulted Mrs. H4 Id at the Pratt mines, near Birm, Ala., has been caught and To th Front Street Ice Factory, was damaged $15,000 by day. -- eo, 'jMattthewS, a Birmingham : I p (ie ,ultee molder, cut his Wife's tb l lt ~trday, She is in a critical a condition. No cause assigned. A new through line from Chicago to Newport News has been formed by a combination of the Chicago and Atlantic, Chesapeake and Ohio and Kanawha and Ohio Roads. The employees of the National Foun. dry and Tube Works, at Scottdale, Pa., .havestruck for Increased wages. The D. al works have been closed. The Knights of Labor have declared a boycott against Wm. Skinner & Sons' silk mill, Holyoke, Mass., whose em ployees struck because the' firm dcells ned to arbitrate. The Wheeling and Lake Erie Rail way has been sold to New York par ties for $505,000. Thos. W, Eilis, editor of the Bir mighbam, Ala., Hornet, Saturday shot and killed one Clara Morris, alias BRosa Perryman, probably his mis Aso trss, of whom he was Jealous. iHe thben unsuccessfully attempted suicide. al. Is in Jail, waiting examalion. H is already under $1000 bonds, bayIng been Indicted for sending obsence matter through the-mails, l kill • , " GENE RAL MRK' o n l y ' 2rL a i she ead, (LENDP w STOCK YET CQOP pETEr and DEPARTMEN .T" die. t .ne' n 1if got .es-. FALL AND IN H regardless of COST or VAL ITE. Ala of h, pa ehasers are oweda Bai rno meii'rBefore hear ofin theo histry of the Dry os ti rdes co anunfry,, This Great Closing-out le will commence on Jaýnuary all 7th,s and will ontinue Far Tr Days Only Trhe attention of the L DIE, to an legant of 1fr especially invited. GRAND ST., MONROE. LA. SUBLET1 BIROs. of DEALER IN HARDWARI, BLADK SMITNH' & MAOHINISyPS d Tools, Cooking and Heating Stoves, Iron, Ste, Timbers, Belting, Guns, istols Sporting Goods au House rijn Hardware. s MON Ep , LA. SFOR BARPAINS ERNEST FUDICKAR SoI)UTIH GRAND LTREET OMONWO .- DEALE KIN - Choice Family Grocerioi,tWineP, Llqnors, Cigars, Tubacc Genera Assorted Merchandslee. M's f le ITh T