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SI. T. TV. T. F- S. i sjTT T. T. T. 1 458780 10 3345678 11 IS 13 14 15 16 17j 0 lO 11 18 13 14 13 10 19 SO 31 S3 S3 34 16 17 18 10 SO SI S3 35 SO 37 S8 SO 30 31 33 34 S5 30 37 SSISS JUNE. DECEMBER. P. SI. T. W. T. K. J S. S. SI. T. TV. T. F. 3. 1 2 3 4 5J C 7 1 2 3 4 5 8 0 lO 11 12'l3Jl4 7 8 0 lO 11 18 15 1G 17J18 lO SO;Sl'14 15 16 17 18 19S( S5'235J S3 Sfi arsa'si 33 sa 5-t S3 20 a. iiy'SO -- JS8 33SOS1 -- -- - HOME, FARM OD GARDEN. Plums thrive Lest on a soil wider, is rich nntl naturally moistr but whict has also been well drained. Chicaqi Tribune. Veal should be white. Cue and fat. The kidneys should be full of fat. Wher. veal is red or yellowish it is no pood. Good veal must be two mouths old: ii younger than this the meat is insipic and liabby; if older than two month: the meat becomes hard. La Cuisine. Apple-ice is made of grated apples The ci rrect proportions, for water-ice are one pound of sugar to one quart ol water; to this may be added any frail to llavor it grated apples or canned peaches, pears, etc. Some novelty-loving cooks put in some whole Malagi grapes. If. Y.'Poit. If vou forget as many a woman . has and will to put the flavoring ex tract in your cake, it is not too late to remedy the matter, if you think of il while the cake is hot, for if you wel your clean hand with the extract and rub it over the top of the cake it will penetrate the cake, and will give a vert delicate flavor. Loss may dc ga:n ii you wish to flavor the cake with vanilla, "for less of this extract will answer, and vanilla is to a great extent destroyed in baking or boiling. Boston Post. A farmer who has tested live differ ent varieties of peas, according to the catalogue from which he made his se lections last spring, now finds that there is not the slightest difference in any ol them. In carliness, manner of growth, height of plant, length of pods, numbni T)f peas in a pod in fact, in every par ticular, the alleged different vaiieties proved to be oneand the same. The larnier thus victimized pertinently asks "Have secdmen the right to give new and catching names to old varieties ant to bewilder and mislead the public b offering the same article under five different names?1' Ar. I? Examiner. ii usually Happens mat in every Iranian there are some cabbages which have not formed solid heads in the falL I5y planting these in a trench, and giv ing then: a proper covering, they will form good heads by spring, l'lo a trench by throwing out three or four furrows like a wide dead furrow; set the unheaded cabbages in a close double row in this tineh; insert an upright stake at each end and at proper dis tances between to hold rails or poles for the peak, of the roof. Lean short pieces of board against the poles, like s roof, and cover first with straw and then with a few inches of earth, with ventilation at each end. It is well tt partly close the holes in coldest weather. Detroit Post. The Thirsty Eucalyptus. Where there is surplus moisture tc dispose of as, for example, a eesspno- to keep dry, a large eucalyptus will ac complish not a little, and a group ol them will dispose of a vast amount house-sewerage. But if you have wa which you do not wish to exhaust, as ic a good well, itwould be wise to put the eucalyptus very far away. Daniel Sweet, of Bay Island farm, Almeda County, recently found a curious root formation of the eucalyptus in the bot tom of his well, about sixteen feet be low the surface. The trees to which the roots belong stand fifty feet from the well. Two shoots pierced through the brick wall of the well, and, sending off millions of fibers, formed a dense mat that completely covered the bottom of the well. Most of these fibers are nc larger than threads, and are so woven and intertwisted as to form a mat as impenetrable and strong as though reg ularly woven in a loom. The mat when first taken out of the well was. water soaked and 'covered with mud, and nearly all a man could lift, but when dryit-was nearly as soft to touch as wool, and weighed only a few ounces. This is a good illustration "C how the eucalyptus absorbs moisten:, its roots going so far to find water, pushing themselves through a brick wall, and then developing enormously after the .water is reached!. .Mr. Sweet thinks one of the causes of the drying up of wellg is the insatiable thirst of these vegetable monsters. Pacific liural lYess. The Damage Done by Sheep Hogs. The damage tlone by dogs, always of the most worthless character, in all districts where wool growing is carried on to any extent, is only known to those who directly suffer from them. The feeling in such districts against dogs as a rule is very bitter, ana man' val uable animals," guiltless of harm, aro frequently destroyed There is scarce ly a Legislature in any -State, where wool growing is prosecuted to any ex tent, which is not applied to for laws to protect sheep against the depreda tions of dogs, by imposing a dog-tax, and creating a fund out of which the damages shall be paid to those suffer ing from dogs where the owners of theso midnight prowlers may be unknown. In maiy regions where sheep farming is almost the exclusive line pursued, and on the successful prosecution of which farmers rely almost entirely for their income, the ravages of scalawag dogs, which nobody is willing to own when these charges are brought against them, will sometimes in a smgle"night ot two sweep awaj- the profits of a year. We are not surprised that peo ple, especially farmers who live, in the main, isolated lives, should value the protection which a good dog will afford to their premises. This, no one can deny is more or less valuable, though it is" a well-known fact that burglars care little for dogs. They know how to "fix" them, if they are likely tostand in the way of their operations; and upon the whole the lo-s suffered from sheep dogs a:e hundreds of times over greater than any protection afforded by them ag.'.init thieves. We know it to be a fact that many farmers have sold off their sheep simply for the reason of the damage suffered from the most valueless sort of mongrel dogs. No matter h'v numerous these sheep killing dogs abound in a neigh borhood, nobody owns them nor pays taxes for them. "though they are found to be fixtures upon their farms. But there is one sure nod of discovering the guilty parties. That is by examin ing their mouths and bodies for the evi dence of their ciime. They are sure to have plenty of blood-stains about them, and it traced to them by this unques tioned sign, no opposite n should save them from death and their owners from being mulcted in round damages. The loss of so much valuable Models enough to excite the indignation of every farm er suffering in "ldi;s way; and there should be nothing short of a penal stat ute as perhaps ti.e most icrtain remedy against these villainous depredators. It will, if anything is calculated to do so, put the owners of such dogs in a very unpleasant position. It is needless to say that we have a great love for reputa ble dogs. No animal shows so deep an attachment to their owners, and tliero arc many breeds of these. The value of manyof these are placed side by side with a two-forty horse; biib while we freely make this statement, we as frcelv repeat that there is no greater evil, arising far above a nuisance, than a ma jority of the dogs everywhere existing. Ucrmantown Telegraph. Ringworm. One of the medical names of this ail ment is herpes circinata, which is near ly the same as our familiar term. They each refer to the way in which it moves like a creeping circle, a ring constant ly enlarging itself outward from its a. 3 O cen'er. The disease is caused by a parasitic plant microscopic of course lodging on the skin and then getting down into its substance. It then propagates its kind. Each new biood develops a lit tle further from (he centerof the circle. The first things not ced ate an itch'ug, a. burning, a slight 1 edness. These are soon fo.lowed'bya small number of ve.-icles -minute elevation-; filled with a watery liuid. Some of these vesicle are constantly drying up, while others arc forming. Among other animals, sheep are sub ject to this ailment. The plant, or its spores (seeds), may adhere to the wool in spite of the washing, and the disease may be thus communicated to persons employed in woolen mills. It is now believed that many of the contagious diseases tire due to microscopic plants, but these do not take root and grow and ripen their spores unless they find a congenial soil. The congenial soil for ringwomis is a low state of the human system. Mill girls are peculiar ly exposed, be ause the are seldom in vigorous health. The ringworm may be upon the body or upon the Lead, iu the latter case its appearance is different, and it bears n somewhat different medical name herpes tonsurans. The Litter term is from a Latin word signifying to shave. Yet whether on the body or head, it is the same disease, and due to the same parasite. On the head it works down to the hair bulb, and tiierc plants itself. The hair loses its vitality, and is easiLy broken off. The eyebrows and lashes may wholly drop out. The patches are circular. They show repuls.ve-looking sores, with a red, raw appearance. Some have a crust-liko formation. The slight discharge from the vesicles mats the surrounding hair. Both varieties are contagious. Children with ring worms should not be allowed to play with other children. Dr. Weir, Professor of Dermatology in the Philadelphia Medical and Chirur gical College, who has been long ex perimenting on curative applications for the disease we repeat it for the benefit of the medical profession says he has never known the oleate of cop per to fail in a single case. The gener al health usually needs invigorating. Youth's Companion. A few days ago Homer Moore, of Greensboro, Ga., was driving a yoke of oxen along the road, wheu they became frightened and dashed off through the woods near by. They ran into a tree and a horn on one of. the oxen was knocked completely off. Hying' a dis tance of ten or twelve feet from the tree. Homer hurriedly grabbed up the horn and soused it in its socket. It took hold and grew into its former place, and is now as solid as ever. The only objec tion is that Homer in his haste put the horn on bottom upwanl and it has a tendency to be lop-sided. Save this little fault the horn is all right and the ox prances around and hooks things with his old-time, energy. Chicaqo Times. Hott a Ilalr-PIn Made Trouble for Mr. Jones. " Jeptha, what is this?" 'asked Mrs. Jones, suddenly confronting that gen tleman as he sat reading. "That is a hair-pin," answered Jones, quietly, apparently absorbed in his book. "Is it, indeed?" retorted Mrs. Jones, "and not one of mine, either! A twist ed hair-pin! May Iask what has become of the rest of the woman?" "Maria," exclaimed Jones, looking up with the fearlessness of conscious guilt, "why these unnecessary and elisagreeable questions? What is that hair-pin tome?" "That is just what I would like to know what I am trying to find out," said his wife, turning white around the mouth, and leaning faintly against the mantel. "Where did you find it?" asked Jones, looking at it as if it were a Gat ling gun directeel toward him. "I f-f-found it in your overcoat pocket,' sobbed Mrs. Jones, "that's where!" "Then you put it there!" suggested Jones, carrying the war into the en emy's camp. "I don't use hair-pins! What ilo you suppose I want ot the thing?" anil he assumed an obstinately virtuous look that might have deceived even a woman. But it didn't deceive Mrs. Jones, who suddenly changed her tactics. "Jeptha," she said, in a soft, per suasive, seal-skin-cloak tone, "if you ever loved me in the s-s-sweet days that are past if if you have the least re gard for me now, tell me tell me where you got that hair-pin!" t She "could not have chosen a more forcible way of appealing to his feel ings. Thewretdied man twined his fingers in his gray hair, dug his toes in to the Amsterdam rug. and gritted his teeth as he nerved himself to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth "s' help me M'ria!" He began, with his eyes cast down, and in a low. troubled voice, that trem bled with canned and condensed mis ery. "It was only yesterday," he said, feeling as if it 'might have been a cent ur before; "I had been to the restau rant " "Oh! oh! oh! you told me you never ate a mouthful all day," interrupted Mrs. Jones. " to collect a bill owing me," con tinued Jones in hollow speech, and "as I came out E saw something glittering on the walk. I thought of what my good m-m-mothcr had told me years before: "To see a pin and let it lie You'll come to want before you die To see a pin and pick it up. You'll be sure to liavc pood luck." "Maria, 1 had no thought of evil when I stooped down to pick up the pin, as I supposed, but it was that mis erable hair-pin. I I wasn't it, An thony? and I picked it up a thing any man might do with perfect impunity." "Is that all?" asked Mrs.. Jones, calmly. "That is all," asserted Jones, with a truthful smile. "Then where did this blonde hair come from?" inquired his wife, holding it up for his inspection. "Did you find this on the sidewalk?" Then Jones realized that the way of the transgressor is hard, and he owned up, and really did tell the truth; how that he stepped into a dry-goods store on the avenue to get a pair of new kid gloves; how a pretty girl buttoned them for him with a hair-pin; how she gave it to him because it was more conven ient than a glove-buttoner, and that he hoped to die if he'd know her again from a side of sole-leather a story that any reasonable woman would see car rie'd truth on the face of it. Did Mrs. Jones believe it? A-hem! The neighbors complained next morn ing of the racket, and said if Jones was going to rehearse private theatri cals again this winter they'll compel him to move see it they wouldn't Vetroit Free Press. Hunting Buffalo. Those of the readers of the Sun who have ever met Mr. Thomas Dunbar, lessee of the Milwaukee Driving Park, have seen a rather small man, but they have scim a man who is as full of busi ness as any man in tlie world. He is chain lightning in anything he under takes, and enthusiastic to the last de gree. At the time the Buffalo Bill party was here at the driving park, Mr. Dunbar watched the proceedings with much interest. He was particularly struck with the Buffalo hunt on the track, where the cow-boT-s chased the tame buffaloes around and shot blank cartridges at them, after which the buffaloes would go and lay down and chew Mr. Dunbar's hay. He became wild on the subject of" hunting buffa loes, and even had a sort of liking for the business of robbing stage coaches, though he considered the latter hardLy the correct thing. But hunting buffa loes he glorietl in. and, for a week or two after the buffalo show went away, Mr. Dunbar could be seen, early in the morning, mounted on a brood mare in his pasture, chasing cows around the inclosure. The brood marc fell down with Mr. Dunbar a dozen times or so, and rolled over on him, but he would get up with a wild warwhoop, remount the animal, and chase after a cow in a manner that showed! him to be a thor oughbred. For several days he wore an arm in a sling, and he had" a doctor em plG5?3 by tne season, to plaster up feat ures iLtJt became demoralized by his frequent fails, nut he persisted in his fighting cows until he sighed for wilder game. His friends will remember that he suddenly disappeared, and was not seen in the city for several weeks. It was rumored that he had been abduct ed, and was held for a ransom, but his reappearance here last week put a stop to all fears. He has not told where he put in the time, but a paper from Da kota gives the whole story. It seems that Mr. Dunbar's desire" to kill wild buffalo became so intense that he could not be content to chase cows, so he armed himself with several different kinds of shooting utensils and went to Dakota in search of wild game. He remained at Aberdeen several days, watching for buffalo, but none came into the city limits, so he took passage on a stage, and when between Swan Lake and Le Beau, a herd of seven buf faioi were seen grazing in the distance. The stage was stopped, and Mr. Dun bar bribed the driver to allow him to take one of the stage horses for a buf falo hunt. The driver said that it was against the rules, but a sum of money sufficient to overcome his scruples was forthcoming, and the lead horse was saddled and with a regular Comanche yell, Dunbar charged towards the buffaloes. The animals heard the noise and started West on a pretty fair trot and the horse took the rider within shooting distance in going a mile. He rode along side ot a buffalo cow, that was going a pretty good eight liiinute gait, and prepared to shoot, when he found that in his hur ry he had forgotten to lake his gun out of the stage, and all the arms he had with him were the ones nature had pro vided him with. For half a mile lie rode along beside the wild game, call ing himself names for forgetting his gun. He looked at the buffaloes, and the buffaloes looked at him. and as they got on a slight elevation, a ranch was seen a short distance ahead, and a man on horseback. The buffaloes trot ted right along towards the ranch, and suddenly it occurrid to Dunbar that the buffaloes were tame ones. The animals slacked up and walked, as they came near the ranch, and one of them -went tip to a trough under a windmill, ami began drinking. Dunbar is a man who iloes not require a year or eighteen months to get anything through his head, so he" rode" up to the man and said: "I have brought; your buffaloes home." The man looked at Dunbar curiously, and asked him why he didn't walk them instead of run ning them across the prairie, and Dun bar said he was in a hurry, lie said the fact was he was going along in the stage, looking for tame buffaloes to organize a wild West show, and the driver told him those buffaloes belonged to a man about three miles west, an 1 he thought they could be hough t, so he got the driver to sor,thc stag's and lend him a hcrsa to go to the ranch, and !i thought as he was coining right along he would drive the butfaloe-. That seemed satisfactory, and Mr. Dunbar soon bargained for the herd, at a certain price, to be called for withiw ten days, and he gave the man a dollar to bind the bargain, and went back to the stage. wr.cre the driver and passengers were laughing at him for chasing tame buf faloes, but when he showed that he knew they Vvere tame, and had gone to the ranch" to buy them, the hr;gh was On the other side. Dunbar will never take those tame buffaloes, but he will always thank his stars that he did not have his gun along, for if he had killed one of them the owner would have salted him about two hundred dollars. We understand that Dunbar gives a dif ferent version of his buTalo experience, claiming to nave killed millions of them, but wo would rather take the statement of the Dakota paper, whk'h is unbiased. Peek's Stin. A raid's Opinion of flic Mahtli. The Constantinople correspondent of the Morning Post states that he has had the opportunity of talking at some length with a gentleman recently ar rived from Ceylon, and who during the last few mouths had many and contin uous opportunities of seeing and con ferring with Arabi Pasha. This gentle man said: "The victory of the Mah.di would cause no surprise whatever to Arabi Pasha, who over and over again repeated to me that his influence was very great, and that England ought to be prepared to see him march some day or other on Cairo. Arabi Pasha told my friend that nothing had struck him so much as the complete ignorance ol Europeans as to the power of Moham medanism. What Europeans were pleased to call fanaticism was a spirit of self-sacrifice and devotion comb ned with courage and organization, which must make Europe tremble. It was that sentiment, and uot his personal am bition, which had made him in the space of a few weeks master of the situation in Egypt. His name had be come popular all over the Mohamme dan world, and as a proof of this Aral); Pasha showed my friend piles of vol umes which during his exile in Ceylon had been filled by the most influential personages in India, who still continue going to" Ceylon as on a pilgrimage, tc confer with the promoter of the Egyp tian rebellion and write their namei and words expressing hope in the speedy triumph in books which are pur posely kept in the house occupied by Arabi. Ever since his arrival in Cevlon Arabi Pasha expressed the opinion that the Mahdi would triumph, as he knew better than Europeans ap peared to do the spirit of the popula tions, whose dread of being overpow ered bv Christian nations is indescriba ble." Pall-Mull Gazette. A Hair-Raising Episode. A young man was ushered into the parlor where at his adored one. She was gazing soulfully into the fire, think ing of him, no doubt, but not dreaming of his presence. He tiptoed his ap proach, and slyly seizing a straggling hair which was coyly nestled in it blonde beauty on the scruff of her rounded neck, gently twitched it and waited for the sudden start and maid enly blush, a pleased surprise. But not a start, not a surprise. Again he drew it towards him, and again did the fair one continue to gaze thoughtfully in the fire, "Dear girl, she knows not of my presence," he murmured to him self. " "How glad she will be to discover her Charles so close behind her! I will end this surprise; " and gently lifting an auburn curl from the sloping shoul ders he gave it a gentle tweak, and, gentle reader, you may believe us or not, but truly, as sure as o live, he scalped her. The whole business came off, and then she knew that Charles was there. Shall we draw a veil over the picture? B' no meaus. Charles knew that she wore false hair, and he knew that she knew that he knew it. Besides, the girl was turning thirty and worth mill ions. Charles was poor, but madly in love. A poor young man, madly in Jove with a girl "worth a million, is nev er particular. Baltimore Every Satur day. Asa Barker, of Lynn, Mass., sui cided the other night. He was the heac and front of the concert-giving Barkei family of a quarter of a century ago. He liung himself in tho woods whil despondent. Boston Post. Krs. Matthews Story of Her Husband's Murder. The statement of the tvidow of the unfortunate man who wss murdered at Hazlehurst, Miss., simply because he dared to be a Republican, is herewith given. The shooting of Matthews takes its place in the long ami terrible record of blood-guiltiness heaped up against the South, that must some day culmi nate in some terrible punishment. Com munities and individuals alike, sooner or later, must pay the penalty for out raging Divine laws: and though at present political intolerance may con done the shedding of innocent "blood and reward its red-handed authors, retribution will surely come: Mrs. Matthews, in reply to my request that she would favor the Aitf ''onrtl ikVpufiVvin with a recital of the circumstance leudinjf up to and associated with the Huzlchun-t trasredy, said that she had no disposition to parade lu-r borrows before the public, nor to conceal them, if their publication would have a ten dency to save others from a similar desola tion. She had received from journalist and others repeatol requests for a statement, but she had written nothing. So many horrible things had been done in Mississippi since the war. which for a time seemed to arouse the whole Nation, and then be ronrwtten. that she had little hope that her sad story would bene fit any one. Mrs. Matthews went on to say that she nnd her husband had known eacli other from childhood, and were married about the le Kinninjr of the war. Mr. Matthews always entertained the political opinions for which he was murdered. In ISCO.when n mere boy. he made u Union spec-h. which excited tlie hostility of the Dcmoeruts, who were as intol erant then as now. He was firm in maliitaiu Injr his conviction, cenerally succc-sTiil in whatever he undertook, and aside from his politics, as popular as any man in the coun ty, and more prosperous in hi business than most of his neighbors. For many year- he had believed his HSassinut:oii poible a any time, as has been stated by the Copiah ounlu Sumo!, and that fact had caused her to watch his course more closely, un.l take more interest in politics than she otherwise would. "As far back as lt-73." she said, "an armed and anjfry mob of Democrats marched in pro-ee.-sion in front of our house, carrying a life sized collin. with my hu-band's name upon it. tolling a bell as they marched, nnd wo had ninny such warnings of what limdly hotel ii. "At the late flection 1113- husband was Chair man of the Kcpuhliciii County Committee, and Amos ISurn.-tt was Chairman of the In dep'mdent Committee. They and their triends ricewd it hott to nrikr up the ticket mainly of independents and liberil Democrats. A brother of Mr. Matthews, who wa- nominate I for Sheriff, was the only Itcpuhlican placed upon it. When this ticket was llrst put out everyboly. iucliidiux Democratic c unity papers said it was an e.tcjlient and unex ceptionable one: but when they saw that it would certainly be elected the l!ourions en tf red on their canipa'trn of blood. Siv weeks before tlie election Mr. lhirnctt. Independent Chiiruian. was shot down by a Democrat, He was carried to our hou-c to be nu-cd. where lie linjrere'l until two days before tiie election, when threats of further violence forced him tolcae. A week belorc the election band- of armed men commenced nisht-r.tidinir. whipping: and murdering nejrroes. and driv ing them from their homes and to sleep in the wood. One excellent old man, who was seveniyyears out, ami wtio mul carmeu no one, was called out ot his house at midnight ftnd shot to death, and his wire seriotly wounded. His only crime was that he had ex pressed 11 preference for the anti-ltourbon ticket. Several others were killed in a simi lar manner. The house of Eni?tus Matthews was llred into by the mob, and the houses of many other Independ'-nts and Republicans were visited and threats of violence freely induced, and. in several cases, the men se verely whipped. "Hy the Satuiday before the election the rehMi ofterror had become so jrreat that Dr. Ilarlowand others brought to HaIchurst a petition directed to the Sheriff and sixned by sixty wnue men, nsKiu;? ior protection, or or ders to protect themselves, and they made affidavit lor the arrest of the rioters, but no attention was paid to the demand. Oa the same day my husband received in the mail a letter, sijrned by authority of the Democratic Club, threatening his life. and. latex in the day. a reliable person came to my lni.-band and informed him tliHt he had overheard a conversation between Sheriff Ilurvravcs. Mead, tin; Chairman of the Democratic Com mittee, and others, in which it was nmnosed to deputize him to jro out and arrest the riot ers. Mnne of them remarking that it would be a jrood way of havinjr him killed." "At first we thought our informant must have misunderstood the conversation: but as we were sitting down to tea on Saturday c ven insr Sheriff Harjr raves, hi Deputy. X.owe, and Mead eame to our gate, and on beiiur invited in to make known their business they stated that they wished to deputize my husband to tfo out and arrest the persons against whom allidavit had been made. This was iu my presence, and my husband replied that they well knew he was not the proper man to make tlie arrest, and that their wautinirhim to undertake it verified what he had heard a few hours before that they had iiirrced on that plan of havinsr him assasM'nated. They of course denied it, but there is no doubt of its trutii. On Saturday nhjht we kept liirht burnlnprnll nisht, expecting; the effort to as sassinate, and you can well imagine tlie terri ble suspense. On Sunday armed bodies of men were ridimr through the streets, as on Saturday. On Monday the excitement had increased. "Consrresman Darksdale was to speak to the mob in the day and again in the evening, atnl he did make the two speeches. Five hun drl men armed with gun were in line. My husband was nt home with a sick daughter, and the mob threatened to go to ttie umist: after him. Our family phy.-ician went tothem ami informed them of th- criti al condition of our daughter, and pleaded with them not to go to the house, but Lite in the afternon ubiiut a hundred ol them, with Chairman Mead at their head, rode up near our houe and sent John Mcr.cmore with a not- to .Mr. Matthews, which you may copy if you choose. "That note was written on a half sheet or note paper in a uuines hand, but with ap parent haste. It isin the following word: "WiiKKEAS, It is thought that the public in terest will be subserved by Print Matthews absenting bimtclf troin the polls on election day: therefore be it ".'cwfo. That Print Matthews be ordered to keep within his own enc!ouros to-morrow. Adopted by citizens or Copiah County this the 3th day or November. lSS"f. "Arter reading the note my husband told McLemore that he was a free man. and had as much right to 'ote a any or them, and that he would exercise the right. "Mr. Uarsdalo's sneeche. especially the one ut night, wcr: well calculated to encour age violence. He told them nmomr other things to carry the election if they had to do it nt the muzzle of their guns. This was heard by all and fully talked about. 1 have r-ad a denial of it by some one for him, but Mr. Rarksdalc Is too bold and too truthful a man to d:ny it himseir. "On the morning of the election we wero all in deep trouble. Mr. Matthews ate no breakfast, but after It was over, replying to his brother. Leon, be said: 'Yes, I will vote," and went to his store, situated near the polls. I never saw him again in lire, but faithful and truthful friends have told me the horrors that followed. "The room in which thi election was held is about a hundred yards from our house. It has a cellar, which Is entered by a trap-door from the inside. When the polls were opened my husband went to them with a handful of tickets, where he found Wheeler, who was to act as Democratic challenger, and the officers or the election. Very few others were any where visible. He saw no gun. but it was there, setting in a gun-box. As my husband came into the room he and Wheeler met and had a conversation: and all say they wcreD not only friendly, but pleasant. In a few moments my husband said: 'Well. I have always voted last, but this time I will vote first;" and Wheeler said: "Print, I would not vote if I was you. The reply was: 'I have a right to vote as much right as any of you and I intend to do 60:' and, taaing a ticket in .hi- right hand, b ap proached the polls. One or the oflicen re ceived the ticket, dropped it In the box, called hi name, and said: -Voted.' and as my hus band turned from the box Wheeler tired both barrels or his gun, the charges striking him in the neck and breast, and killing him Instantly. As he sank to the floor a pistol he had in hi pocket was driven out by the rail and Tell on tho Boor. In a moment a number or armed teen came into the room throueh the trap door in the cellar and surrounded w heeler, lie front door was then locked and Wheeler aud his rriends passed out at the back door. My daughter heard the report or the gun and. realizing its import, ran to thu place. His brother Leon reached there about the same lime, and. finding the door locked, broke it down to reach his murdered brother. "The tool or the Democratic leaders, ap pointed to do this work in blood. Immediatcly becamc a lion, and wa placed In command of tho mob. The news was sent in hot haste to 11 the vouds places in the country, which, with threats and demonstrations of violence, had the effect shown by the return of thu cljfctlin. And. lUthou'-'h no Independent or It-publican had omm-ttcd or threatened any violence a: any time. Sheriff HnrgravtS telegraphed (Sovernor Lnwry for troops. In stead ot sending them he sent arm and am munition for distribution among the infuri ated moll, which wa done tin ler the direction or the murderer. Wheeler. Xhi sheriff and thN (Sovernor were iiiioealed to onlv the I day b.-fore by law-abiding citizen to intcr- n-re nun protect me people in taeir rignis. anil they turned a deaf ear to the appeal: but when the lawless mob that had been tor weeks a terror to all good people, applied to them for protection against the vengeance ot outraged iicojile, u-Mch they expected and de served, the (Sovernor u-cd the tirst train coming that way to send arms and ammu nition to the mob. and hu numcd lil share of the responsibility :f his party fo the terrible crme committed. "What roltowed h&s beu pi.'lshadthat is. the Democratic meeting and "ts action, placing me and my childien out-ide he pair or the raw." and forbidding, under penalty ol death, unv opposition to the Uourbou party: and now I am here a a temporary reruire i"oi my children. As early as I can, I will select a home among strangers, where mv children can enjoy the right to which they were born, nnd where I can enjoy whatever peace and quiet may remu'n to me." Xone of the iiifiiiunti political murderers of Mississippi have ever been punished, and not all or them even indicted, but all have been rewarded for their party service. ISarksdale. who murdered Dixon, ha been chancery clerk. and i now a mc mber-elett of the Mis sissippi Legis.aMire. (Sullv. the leader or the mob that nssassinat.'d Chisholm and his chil dren, has since been a member of the Legis lature; and Wheeler, at the municipal election following the killing of Matthew, enme with in three votes or the nomination of hi part v ror Mayor, and would have Mfcceded but tor thc efforts or a tew men who labored to save their town such a scandal: I ut the iirt act ot the new board wa? to make Wh. eler Town Mar-hal. and his claim to proir.o'h.n can not be denied. While Governors. Sluiffs. Demo cratic Chairmen. .In Ije and June show by their nets that they are in svtupjthv with their great crime, it iilin-to th-'o-oj I-tosavthat such men do not h dd ohW by the populai vote, but by tie-counting r the o itlaws wh control the lallot-boxe. Orfonl (Jis-O dr. at joint' J:epn:h,a 1. n 9 - The ISHit-I Yell. "Do you hear the rebel yell?'' said one Randall Democrat to another. when the Democratic caucus had nominated Carlisle for Speaker and hi friends were cheering lustily over their stte-e-s. The triumph" of a "Southern man fot Speaker, and the S' lection of a Jlis soiirian for Chief Clerk and of a Texan for Doorkeeper, three of thehet pla-es in tiie gift of Ihe Ilo-ie. w.'t so many straws showing the drift of the political wind from the South. U w::-nt exactly a 111 Id Hourbon zephyr from that sec tion, but a perfe t "hurri.-aiip. which swept everything before i'. and indicat ed most unmi-talcabSy that the rebel brigadiers had ta';en po-e-:on of one branch of Congress at least "Tlie old rebel yell' is a term of reproach not often heard from Democratic lips, and. in fact. Democratic ears have been quite indifferent to it: but thebittcrcon tcst over the Speakership and it sectional result and bear.r.g-. have seemed to sharpen the average I'ottrbon intelligence jui a little. Tin' "gns are everywhere apparent in "::s lington that the election of Carlis'e " ha frightened many Northern Demo crat, and some of .them openly ascrt that the choice of a Southern Speaker and the consequences that will Mirely and naturally follow it, will make it impossible lor them tc carry New York and the other doubtful Northern Staie-un the net Presidential election. "The election of Carlisle." said a prominent Democrat in Washing ton on Monday, "mean that the Demo crats in the South, through the folly and greediness of their fr'end in Congress intend to make a present of New York. New Jersey and Connecticut to tho Republicans in 18!." It .seem that even the Carlisle men in the hour ol victory were a little frighten-d them selves, and hence the really. mild and conservative speech of the Speaker elect upon tak'iigth" chair. We think that, in the iigurntivc sense in which the Randall Demo.-rats used the term, the country i destined to hear " "the rebel vP"' a number of times before the present s"sion of Con gress comes to an end. Tne Democrats are in the a-cend -ney in the House, and the South rules the Dcmneratic part-. Why should it not :i ert its power and dictate the action and policy of the party, as it did of yore? Chuuujo Journal. A JitiHdozcr: lea. Tlie Democratic State Committee of Virginia has issued an addic-s. ostensi bly totife pe ple of that Stat'-, but evi dently intended for eliect elsewhere, which is paraded as a full defense of the liourfcons against charges of violence, int initiation and curmpt con duct in connection with the re exit oleo tion. It is claimed that iu several counties the Readltiaters east nu.re votes this Tear than they did last y.-ai. and several affrays in various places are mentioned, which the Committee i-ays had no relation to .polities and "iu others the negroes are accused of hav ing been the aggressors. Ail these statements might be true without in the least impugning the justice of Senator MahonoV arraign ment of the Rourbon bulldozers. The fact remains that in Tariotts localities the colored Readjuster vote fell far short of the registration, in some caes an almost total absence from the polls of all except Rourbon Democrats being noticeable. It may be true also thsit there were collL-ions betwe -n individu als which did not originate in politics, and there is a possibility that in some instances negroes were to blame; but admitting all this, what is to be said of the troubles that were caused by polit ical animosity, and which the Rourbons themselves made a basis for reports, circulated in remote districts, of neo-ro insurrections instigated by the Read juster leaders? Such stories were used to create prejudice against the Read justee, and had the en'ect of reducing their strength materially. As to the Danville massacre, the Com mittee substantially repeats the version given by the blood-stained Bourbons who participated in it, which is sslf convicing. The negroes, and the ne groes only, were victims, not a single white man having been killed and only two slightly wounded, one of whom re ceived his injury at the hands of an as sociate. The Committee has evid nth taken great pains to make out a plausi ble defense, but the story told is vulner able in many respects, and will fail to command confidence in view of the facts previously brought to light. It is now the turn of the Deiu: crats of Copiah County. Miss., to explain away the cold - blooded assassination of Matthews. Troy (A. I") 'Times. A New York florist claims to sell twenty thousand rosebuds every day. t it iSgfiiL-i' t&tfk&'fcQ;. . if V & J :tv- - . , s