The Augusta herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1890-1908, November 29, 1898, Page 7, Image 7

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It would h* quite *a*T to the modern HoUfa* «« ,h « fruit. Ultra he apple. Ih* drseeni la *a*y. Youth Be* from one roajf rk**V u> another quu<* readily. Bd««*orib Bern* (harm* finished a hat ibf apple begin, and henr* Javk'k nil I mate dOWa fall. Kvan In lb* old repcrtoriol lan guage of lb* Calendar, hit famcua *•- rape give* on e a thrill. He la ehalned to ih* fioqr. With u nail he looaena the pad lt*li; h* breach a link of hla leg ,-hain. drama up hi* fetter*, make* them fa*t; he makes for the chimney, la slipped by an iron bar; pick* It out of the stonework with hla uall; and with hla bar break* from one rcout to an other till he la on -tbe lead*, and with hi* blanket Icwera himaelf onto the teada of a furrier'* house It happened that the door of tbe garret *« 'ipen.cn .vbirb be stole aoftly down two pairs cf *ta!ra. when he heard Mine com pany talking to a "tom. ,r ° n * (-linkin'- » wrman cried, "What nolae Ik (hatT" and n man answered, ' Per haps the cat or dog.” At laal he stole oct a* the Veil of Si. Sepulchre a struck t,we4v? Whac such a mnn ha* |)*r formrd a feat of th> aort aomeatrange rrnvtilg frr the cp'auae of W* ft lends seize* him. The medem fugitive I* sure to be raught. Just as .Ice., was. He gn; awfuly drunk In the company of Kdgcwcrth Bess, mired bs ..quors so that he was bcp*!**rty fuddled, was betrayed by a paltry votboy In Drury l.cne or Clare Market, and was duly banged at the age of 22 in tba year famous event took place in an older Newgate than -he one we know A Newgale h a stood on the present site for centuries: me was burnt In 186 c,; some say Wren had a hand tn another; the present building was erected In 1770. but was badly damaged !n the Gordon rio-ti. The beet descrip tion of the storming o* the prison, of course. Is to be found in Rudge.” We doubt if even the Old Bailey ever looked down on such a scene before or since, not even when ,be Mannings, or the Flowery Band nlrrtes were sus. per col. tr tbe pres ence of the bowling, brutalized mob. The curious will find Dioken’s famous picture in his collected letters, but we ourselves have rather a fancy for Thomas Ingcddsby rhyming story of Lord Tom Noddy* presence at a public execution. It is less thrilling, being presented in the genial, satiric vein, but Is nevertheless remarkably effec tive “The click strikes twelve—it Is dark - -midnight: Yet the Magpie end Stump is one blaze •km jgmtt.i## ### ■ ft« &##•»# | #sfft ft##* f 4.1# innl f*Ki# mm mmmm* mm \ 0 fud* [ m*m **** • *** •••»♦ *** • # . * # # • • rift* *t mm* m N«rimfiir Ik ftt* ~ _ _ > a mg*r fumy 1 ft# m#n ##*•# , mftla Ik «#t# nf V; : <»( lll*' t*> I* T (if (ft# |Pt . , , mm httir BO \lm «w prettur drr«*4 MUM M They My that *'*« •" King JotMi a 'evenla. In du*ty arehlve* It la ataled .(hat In l*i* H wm taken down, and rebuilt at the *tp*nee of Dirk Whit I Hugh n tMtrkeapenr* allcdre to It in Herry IV How row. lad" crt*a Fat |*:a*. In th* Boar * Head. Knat< b*«p. to jPtlac* Hat ‘How bow. lad? la the wind T tbe door. V faithT Mual we all Marehr ”Tm,“ ananre* Bar dolph. “two cod two, Newgal* faab loa " Kngtieh hlatory (wma with ref | ■ renra to It. la Catholic M;.ry a reign ■ Itcuacc #*nt reformer* to New gale by The doaraa. Nor did Pro'eatanl Kllaa |b*lb arrupl* to it** It when bet wish** were oppeacd. Fh* a*«it a Jcurnallat of the** day* to thl* particular quod ifor writihg agalnat her. The poor W j !u« bad beib bta band* rut off. ami he pri-suD'Hblj wrote no more. In Ihe Caviller an Roundhead (lay* Newgate waa kept pretty full Tltu* Oat** wa* an Inmate, and Dangerfleld William Penn apent at* mouth* within it* gat**. Defoe, the defiant, w»* nrtur ally familiar with Ha cell*. It was not until Howard's time In 1774. that, pub lic feeling wa* moved by the horrors which the philanthropist revealed. Hut even he could nit sweep clean. A re prrt road* to the House of Common* In ISH gives thl* drerrlptlon of the work done by the then chaplain: "Be yond hi* attendnuc* In rhcpel nnd on there who are sentenced to death. l»r. Korde fee-!* but few duties attaehad to his office. He knows nothing of the state cf morals !r the prison, he never see* anv nf the priaoner* in prlvste; though 14 bova and girl*, from nine to fourteen yettra rid. were in Newgate tn April laat. he does not consider at tention to them a point of hlB d,,ty - He never know* that any have heen slek till he gets * wrrntng to attend tfcelr funeral: and does not go to the infirmary, for It Is not in hi* tasfruc ticnh»" Thoß© were time# I mes present- endlea* Is the procession of the wretched, the wricked, the unfor tunate which has stalked across that glr: mv. blojdy stage! Haphazard, one thinks of Fauntleroy, Palmer. Grecnacre. Courvolaeur. Wainwnght. Muller he Mannings as amongst the most notorious. After the grm dock, 1 he sombre chapel, the execution shed, !t I* probable that the most terrible right In Newgate Is the eell which M chad Davitt calls “the waiting room of Fate," in which prisoners re main until the Jury has decided their case. Every available Inch of the , blackened mortar contains, in a very j few words, the name of the writer, where he belonged, the crime with I which he is charg'd, the dread certaln ! ty of conviction, the palpitating hopes | C f acquittal, cr the language of lr.- dlffcretlce or despair. Some who were Iwaiting that most horrible of ail sen ! fences —death —could yet thinks of tracing the outlines of a scaffold, with a "Farewell to Life” scrawled undcr , u-jrti). Giving way to the seeming in spiration of the p'ace, a dismal den, irto which the sun's rays never enter ed. lit only by ® noisv jet. sf gas, which 3eetned to sing tba death song of lib erty c.f all wbo entered the walls which l it had blackened—l stood upon the ifor.m which extended around the place, jand wrot" upon a uncovered -portion 1 ,f the low. sloping roof: THE HI WTTQTTS'T.A. HERALD | ”14 4 i«ft i mm* H* mm f*am%##M| IMM# <# o%g w **f 0 ftft- ' f imp*** 0 ift#t t *44# Pm* ' itv wit o%*# ft#Mßft§ mm mmm lift# mm ■. ’ tuft ft. #ll i fftMi% Aft- # ft## ftl HI • *» * m * *" * .... Tin*- ifWkfw-% n-v ft#* nr*t««f«Mk IttMrft mn4 } i iMmiM Util# , X#t\ Si —W. If i i »’ *4 #uilt« «»)4 mmm wplffir t.l l»n --«i*4 n«f mn# #4i ihr ifftl «( smiwm 1 11 Tftrmt. h»4i *4 tm Ift# Humtnc ms \ «#4 *# Will I*' rHir»l f*. t# ! T*«» HittMiv. ftlwi Sm, Si*—Tft#; lorr pvmmm, «*» Ur mm l# chi-, h||r rl' #i| f«#WIFt but not j -I*ittslii «n«in\ <i.««vt'-l |*m# hi*»f# 1 ki r|.»*i4. Minn * S*»v. t9.~4u<tßr IlilifiBl) of III# Rffktlilc NHlft, lull ft*#* it# ..iini n It* Ih*' mti((#r of th#i mo rlnim# »w*ntly fll**4 H# m##ton I'Hiatf. Th# «wirt *n»ni» Th#- j • tfor«> Bnyn*#') to #ttlk# 1 thr f»1.«4 th* < uini of ih# Milt- Ing ...myumy f-r Ili M) «k« uvrreulre '<k-or«* <1 Hlewarl a otipn lion to the uil.iwance <>f Mauriu Bros.* claim as alnal Ihr relate. I Haatlpg*. Minn.. Nov. 2*.—D. guraly, of Kagan, will content the elec- | Tlon of J. P. Jlan-on. a» county in **-j ’ uirr and MP haet Kyan will conteat the I . lection of John Itaeli. a* clerk of court I | -paiM-ra havlpuc alieady l*en Served. I Th«ma» IrV#.- of 111. Paul ha* l»-en ! appointed Admlnlaler of Yteen Vander-j j me*r, late of Kotplre. Ullle Falla, Minn., Nov. 2*. The | ~|ty council took decisive action on th>- I light and n ater qucatlon lam night ! December 5 wa* ad for receiving bids [on the bond* to tie leaned. A resolution 1 <v»* I aaaed empowering the light and • water committee of the council to pro cure plan* and ape, Ificatlon* of the pro- I posed plant, with other necessary data, ! Thief River Fall*. Minn., Nov. 2». Mrs. Jennie Reynold*, wife of M. Hey !holds, was found dead on the floor of her house almut noon today. A pbvst- I clan pronounces the cause of death as ‘ heart disease or paralysis, hs theie wa* no evidence of violence and no Inquest was deemed necessary. Hhe was 45 years old, Sharon. Minn., Nov. 29.—An Interest ing decision wa* banded down yester day. Two Minnesota towns got Into a Controversy over the residence of a de pendent poor person. The town of Lexington sues the tap n of Sharon to recover three month*' board for caring ror the dependent. The defendant towns contend that the ben eficiary was not a restd nt and there fore It had no liability. The evidence Is quite bulky and th» court gives * de rision that tt was “sufficient to fu*Mfy the verdict of the Jury, - ' which refltrn ed a verdict agalnft the defendant tcS.vn The case rested wholly upon the depen dent's residence. How to Look flood. Good looks are really more than skin deep, depending entirely on a healthy condition of the vital organ*. If the liver Is Inactive, you have a bilious look; if your stomach is disordered, you have a dyspeptic look; if your kidneys are affected, you have a pinched look. Secure good health nnd you will surely have good looks. "Electric Bitters" is a good alterative and tonic. Ads di rectly on the stomach, liver and kid neys. purifies the blood, cures pimples, blotches and boils and gives a good complexion. Every bottle guaranteed. Sold at Howard * Wtilet's drug store. 50 cents per bottle. Mayor Harrison will not permit a French ball. 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